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London, England, 1849-06-07 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES, 55.

Adair, Hugh E. Dunne, F. P. Mackinnon, W."A.
Arkwright, G. Du Pre, C. G. Megan, W. u. -
lialdock, E. 11. Edwards, H. Mandeville, Viscount
Barrington, Vis. Farnham, E. Meux, Sir 11.
Bennet, Philip Floyer, John Mundy, William
Bentinck, Lord U. Foley, J. H. Napier, Joseph
Berestord, William Freestun, Colonel Packe, C. W.
Blair, Stephen Gaskell, J. M. Plowden, W. H.
Bouverie, E. P. Granby, Marquis of Plumptre, J. P.
Brooke, Lord Grogan, Edward Richards. Richard
Brooke, Sir Arthur Gwyn, Howel Rushout, Captain
Buller, Sir J. Y. Nalsey, T. P. Smyth, J. G.
Burke, Sir T. J. Harris, Captain Sotheron, T. H. S.
Cavendish, C. C. Hayes, Sir E. Spooner, Richard
Cocks, T. S. Heathcote, G. J. Stanley, E.
Codrington, Sir W. Heneage, G. H.
Deedes, W. Hill, Lord E. TELLERS.
Duncombe, A. Hood, Sir Alexander Tuiliell, IL
Duncombe, 0. Hornby, John Berkeley, C. L. G.
Dundas, G. Lowther, Colonel

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—His Royal Highness
Prince George honoured the performances at Her Ma-
jesty's Theatre on Tuesday evening with his presence.
His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Naples
(Count of Syracuse), attended by the Chevalier Colonna,
also honoured the theatre with his presence. Her Ma-
jesty's box was occupied by the Viscountess Maidstone,
Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Adelaide Paget, Lady Augusta
Hare, Lord William Lennox, and Mr. Cadogan. Her
Majesty the Queen Adelaide's box was occupied by the
Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, the Honourable
Mrs. Barrington and the Honourable Misses Barring-
ton, Lord Bloomfield, and party. Amongst the visitors
were—his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Ex-
cellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the
Neapolitan Minister, the Marquis of Huntley,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the
Marquis of Donegall. the Marquis and Marchioness
of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Malmes-
bury, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Belfast,
the Viscountess Bury, the Viscountess Neville, the
Count and Countess de Miremont, Lord George Lennox,
Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord Eddisbury, Lady Caro-
line Gore, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard and Miss
Howard, r Thomas and Lady Barrett Lennard, Lady
Flower, Sir William and Lady Clay, Lady Vernon, Lady
Charlotte and Miss Berkeley, Lady Burrell, Lady
Wetherell Warneford, Lady Neville, Dowager Lady
Monson, Sir Charles Shakerley, Sir George Wombwell,
the lion. Mr. and Alr. Dudley Ward, General the Hon.
H. Cavendish, the Hon. Mrs. Needham, the lion. A.
Upton, Sir William Freemantle, Sir Alexander, Lady,
and the Misses Woodford, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir
Cornwallis Ricketts, Baron de Gerlache, Captain Len-
nox, Mrs. and Miss Acton, Mr. and Mrs. Brett, Mr.
Bushe, Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., M. C. de Kou-
driafisky, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ewing, Mrs. Paul, Mr.
William Rose, Mrs. A. Thellusson, Mr. H. Boadley, M.P.,
Colonel Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. and Mrs. john
Sand,ord, Mr. Stacey, Mrs. Bayley, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
Thornton, Mrs. Claude Wilde, Captain Meynell,
Mr. Forde, &c.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, JUNE 6.
On Tuesday afternoon a detachment of the 11th Foot_
(North Devon), consisting of thirteen rank and fileloisrht
Quartermaster Gavin, arrived at tit. Invalid Dap t,
Pitt, under command of Captain J. J. Grant. 9 :s4titgheonie.
Regi-
ment, of the name of John Ceirnes,
woman and one child, also a private of the 9la
After medical inspection by Dr. Walter
hospital The above de •
wHheonri ey, a
sevenluna t i
oc f .
the soldiers were sent into the hospi .
taehment landed at Gravesendsailed
frfroommstyhdeness on ship Waterloo,
Captain Captain Nestley, which 1
of January last. During the pasiage M‘Gwyer,
()ft,.he Sergeant
11th ltegwi mheonht,asditehdus
ocno board.hom Thehome us completed
Quarter-
mater
thirty-I .ur years service, and previous to his leaving his
regiment in New South Wales, he was presented with
the annuity medal of 20L per year, and ou his discharge,
s hich will be in the course of the month, he will receive
a pension of 2s. 4d. per day. Orders have been received
at this garrison to prepare barrack quarters for 830 men;
it is expected that it is for the reception of the 17th
Regiment, from Canterbury.
ASCOT RACES.—FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.—..The
Commissioners of Inland Revenue have just adopted the most
efficient means for the prevention of frauds by the proprietors
of vans and other vehicles attending races. Bars have been
erected, by order of the Commissioners, on all the roads
leading to A scot, in the vicinity of the heath, where tickets
for horses let for hire are to be collected, and the exchange
tickets inspected; and where all coaches, omnibuses, SEC,
conveying passengers at separate fares, are also to be checked.
Orders have likewise been issued by the Commissioners for
the apprehension of all persons plying for hire without being
duly licensed, or " specially authorised;" and for the seizure
of all horses and carriages so employed. The adoption of
this plan will be an effectual means of putting a stop to the
calling of " the unlicensed," and of protecting the honest and
uly licensed tradesman.

Jr"
COURT OF AL
Yesterday a Court was held for ispatch of busine as.
Alderman WILSON said the rt would recollect that
on the Ist of May, in consequence of a communication
made by the Governor and Chaplain of Newgate, to the
efltct that Shaw, a Chartist prisoner, had abused the
privilege allowed him upon the suggestion of Baron Platt,
they made an order that in future the laws and regula-
tions established for the government of the _gaol be
strictly put in force. As Visiting Justice, it was his
duty to communicate the order to Shaw. Shaw hoped
that he would be allowed to petition the Queen and- the
House of Commons, to write to Baron Platt, and to be
removed. from the custody of the city magistrates to the
Queen's Prison. The petition to the Queen was sent to
the Home-office, and the petitioner wound up his het of
complaints by petitioning the Court of Aldermen, in. a
memorial in which he accused the Governor of cruelty
and tyranny, and of having disregarded Baron Platt's
order to allow him to see his -wife and family, and to
write to them. Now, an investigation had been the re-
sult of these complaints, and it was quite evident that
there did not exist the slightest ground for the charge of
oppression or ill treatment. He had been le.rmitted to
receive two or three letters a day, to write two cr three
times a week, and to see his friends three days in We
wee k; and no check had been given to this indulgence
until it was discovered that he had been wtwitting to and
receiving letters from Chartists, and visited by a woman
who pretended to be his sister, but who was pronounced
by.his wife to be an impostor.
here Alderman WILSON read several extracts from
the intercepted letters. In one of the letters, written by
the petitioner to a brother Chartist, was the following
paragraph, which might be considered as a specimen of
the mere family nature of the transmitted communica-
tions. After having spoken of the excellent state of his
health, although his petition to the Court of Aldermen.
described him' as suffering from many serious maladies,,
be proceeded:—"'Tis true I am subject to much up-
necessary tyranny, provocation, and annoyance, but I
am a Chartist, and do not expect a relaxation of the milt
rigorous rules for my comfort or accoMmodation, nor did.
I ever. I know my men, and I doubt not the restrictions
I am placed under are in accordance with instructions.
Yet as to these petty inconveniences I can afford to
laugh at them even under present circumstances, but I
can assure you, notnithstanding the utter contempt I
feel for such inflictions, a prison is not a bed of roses;
however, I am determined not to suffer unmerited seve-
rity very silently. You know I always had a fancy for
taking my own part, and, should I find the people out-
side will not fight my battles, I will wait patiently until
I can take the field myself, and, by the powers, I have
a long score to rub off with my foes. I know not what
is published in the newspapers, either local or metropo-.
litan, for we are (unlike. the Lancashire seditionists)
not allowed to see one under any conditions." To
allow this person to persevere in the course he had
thought necessary to adopt would be both absurd and
dangerous.--(Hear, hear.) The Alderman concluded by
moving that the petition should lie on the table.
Alderman Menus, as one of the sheriffs, well knew
that the complaints of the petitioner were wholly dead.;
Lute of foundation.
Alderman SIDNEY considered that the allegations in
the petition ought to be inquired into.
Ttie LORD MAYOR—Why, Alderman Wilson, as
visiting magistrate, has inquired into them.
Aid( rman SIDNEY said that, although he did not be-
lieve the statements made by the petitioners against the
Governor, still he should vote upon principle for an in-
quiry. The Judge in recommending a mild exercise of
discipline meant, certainly, that the letters the peti-
tioner should write and receive, and the visitors who
should be admitted to him, should be proper letters and
proper visitors; and, in order to ascertain that they were
so, it was most desirable to submit the whole subject to
the Gaol Gvmmittee, to which he accordingly moved, as
au amendment, that the matter should be referred.
Alderman SALOMONS seconded the amendment.
Alderm .n THOMPSON said it appeared to him that by
adopting the amendment the Court would be pursuing a
course the best of all calculated to give encouragement
to dissatisfied and discontented prisoners to complain of
the treatment they received, by leading them to suppose
that in order to be considered as martyrs it was cnly
necessary that they should accuse and vilify those
to whose safekeeping they were intrusted. The
visiting magistrate had adopted the recommendation
of the judge to an extent of indulgence towards the pe-
titioner altogether unparalleled, by allowing him to see
his friends three times a week, and to communicate by
letter with them daily. What was the consequence
Abuse of both privileges.—(Hear, hear.) Could any
man who heard the extracts read by Alderman Wilson
doubt that the indulgence had been most grossly vio-
lated? Under all the circumstances he called upon the
Court not to stultify itself by receiving such a petition,
and he suggested the propriety of adding a few words to
Alderman Wilson's motion, to the effect that "the Court,
having considered the petition, and heard Alderman
Wilson upon the subject, determines that it should lie on
the table."—(Hear, bear.)
Sir P. LAURIE approved highly of the suggestion of
Alderman Thompson, and said it was quite impossible
that the Court should give encouragement to complaints
of this kind.

Alderman Ginns said, if the Governor had not acted
as he had acted when the petitioner was discovered
violaling the pris(n regulations, he would have been
guilty ut, and must have been held responsible for, a
very serious infringement of the orders of the Court.
Tre question was then put, and two hands were held
up for Alderman Sidney's amendment, while all the
other memb,rs of the Court voted for the original ques-
tion as altered upon the proposition of Alderman
Thomp,:on.
We were given to understand that a discussion took
place while the doors of the Court were closed upon the
subjict of receiving a petition from Bezor, another Char-
ti r. imprisoned i❑ Newgate, and that that prtition met
wirli the fate of the former.
ALLEGED FALSE SERVITUDE-MR. INNEE'S PETITION.
This subject has excited much interest amongst the
various companies, it being known that it was usual to
admit into several companies upon the ground of servi-
tude persons who never had served, nor even seen the
masters to whom they were bound. I❑ the Vintners'
Company, however, the mischief of this practice has been
considered to be serious, for many of the infamous houses
at the west end of the town have been conducted upon
the authority of Free Vintners, purchased by the owners
for a sum of money.

Athe
gentlemancasef
from
the Government,omtheßoardof Excise
hisee consideredattende
d to
watch
it necessary to observe in the course of the proceedings
that upon all occasions on which the Excise authorities
thought it expedient to interfere, the Vintners' Company
gave them the readiest assistance to put a stop to a
practice by which the Queen was deprived of certain
duties, and the licensed victualler was injured by unfair
competition.
After several observations from Learned Counsel it
was shown that H. M. Plum had never made apOica-
tien to the Vintners' Company for his freedom, and it
was stated that if he should make such application, and
the non-servitude were proved, the company would ex.
ercise its power impartially. Under these circumstances
the petition of Mr. Innes was dismissed.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty's box was
occupied, on Tuesday evening, by the Earl of Cawdor,
the Countess of Desert, the Countess of Shannon, Vis-
count and Viscounps Brackley, Mr. and Lady Caroline
Duncombe. Among the visitors were, his Excellency
the Sardinian Minister, his Excellency the Greek Con-
sul-General and Madame Belli, his Grace the Duke. of
Devonshire, the Marquis of Douro, tho Marquis and
MarAioness of Douglas, the Princess Mary of Baden,
the Marquis of Winchester, the Countess of Kinnoull,
Viscount Dupplin and Lady Francis hay, the Countess
of Egremont, the Countess of Ashburnham, the Countess,
of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, Lady Howard
de Walden and the Honourable Miss Ellis, the Countess
of Malmesbury, the Earl of Bective, the Earl of Belfast,
the Earl of Durham, the Countess of Glengall, Lady
Margaret Butler and Captain Macdonald, the Countess
de Flahault and Mdlle. de Flahault, the Earl of Munster,
the Countess (Dowager) of Essex and Miss Johnstone,
Mr. H. Vincent and Miss Vincent, the Countess of Shel-
burne, the Countess Poulett, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Countess Brownlow, Viscount Alford and Lady Mar-
garet Compton, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Malden.
Viscountess Duncan Viscount Sidney, the Baroneis de
Clifford, the Hon. Misses Catharine and Mary Russell,
Viscount Templetown, the Earl and Countess Grey,
Lord Ward, Lady Huntmgfield, Lord Churchill, Lord
and Lady Ashburton, Lady Brougham, Lord and Lady
Poltimore, Lard Bateman, Hon. Frederick and Lady
Elizabeth Villiers, Lord and Lady Keane, Lord Robert
Taylour, Baron Knesebeck, Lady and Miss Beauclerh,
the Baroness Rothschild, Lady Eddisbury, Lady Char-
lotte Copley and Miss Copley, Sir Thomas Hare, Bart.,
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Henry Webb, Sir lasso
Lionel, Lady and the Misses Goldsmid, Sir Andrew.
Barnard, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir Philip Grey and Lady
Egerton, Sir 1
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SiradHyenHryarrSienagltee,
Harrington,
eivorgilelietrmayteargeLJ,
John
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Molesworth, Sir John and Miss Burgoyne, Sir
Welsh, Sir George and Lady Shee, Sir John, Lady, and
Missesthe
C. E. W. rey
Jervis, H
pJosla,
Hon.nF Edwardortescue, MaPp.t,o, Hon. C.
h
Hon.
Dudley Fortescue, Hon. Henry Coke, Hon. A. Neville,
in
g
le Chevalier and Madame de Ilorta, Mr.
H. T Hope,
my., Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., Mrs. Mountjoy Martyn,
Mr. Fitzwilliam Hume, Mr. H. Greville, Colonel
e,-,ld, Colonel Blane, Major and Mrs. Simpson, Captain
Bligh, Captain Egerton, Captain Gordon, Captain Dal-
rymple, Mr. and Mrs. Arabin, Mrs. Standish Standish,
Mr. W. Northage, Mr. H. Villebois, Mr. W. Jameson,
Major, Mr., and the Misses Pugh, Miss Richards, &c.
THE INcostE-TAN,—A return moved for by Mr.
sloffatt, M.P., gives some particulars relative to the
income and property-tax. It appears, that in the year
ending the sth of April, 1848, the number of persons of
all classes assessed to the income-tax under schedule
D amounted to 147,659, of whom 34,270 had incomes
under 1501. a year; 38,825 under 2001; 29 909 under
3001.; 15,043 under 400/.; 7,324 under 500/.; 5.532 under
600/.; 3.043 under 7004; 2,124 under 8001; 1.713 under
9001.; 875 under 1,0001; 5,234 under 2,0001.; 1,483 under
3,0001.; 703 under 4 000/.; 400 under 5,0001; 788 under
10,00 371 under 50,0001.; and 22 persons with in-
comes of 50,000/. and upwards. The number of persons
charged under schedule E in the year 1847-48, amounted
to 49,707, of whom 21,960 had incomes under 1501;
8,645 under 2001.; 8,702 under 300 L; 4,049 under 4004
2,244 under 5001.; 1,040 ndder 600 k; 694 under TOOL;
522 under 800/.; 276 under 9001.; 188 under' 1,0001;
838 under 1,5001.; 244 under 2,0001; 166 under 3,00014
55 under 4,0001.; 23 under 5,0001.; and 61 with incomes
io 5,00
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April, 1848, was 5,638,702 k; viz., 2,557,7931. under
schedule A ; 309,8901. under schedule B ; 744,273 k
under schedule C; 1.685,977/. under schedule D ; and
340 '769/. under schedule E.
We are requested to state that Colonel Sibthorp
has been ptavented from attending his Parliamentary
indisposition, though not of a
dseurtiioeussseinhcaeralboteorr.ecess by

AnTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Mdlles. Adelaide Hinnie, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeans
Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in a:flounc-
ing that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac-
quired for her the appellation ofEVE theNIN G Equestrian Enchantress.
T,
The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJEitAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs.
To rollowed by an inimitable display of SCENE:. IN THE
CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear.
To conclude with a favourite Melodrama.
:.,ox-ottee open from Eleven till Four.
stave Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Grand Holiday and National k'etes.

Engagement of Miss FRANCES MILDMAY.
In consequence of the un avourable state of the weather on Whit-
Monday the whole of the magnificent entertainments provided
for that occasion, will be repeated on
MONDAY, T :E:DAY, WEDNESDAY, AND TFIURSDAT.

Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND FORT
OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public opinion to be the
most perfect and I.fe-like exhibition ever presented—Splendid
Menagerie—Godfrey's unrivalled Band—Vocal and Instrumental
Concert—Several Favourite Songs and Ballads by Miss Frances
Mlldmay (her fourth appearance) Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. G.
Tedder.—Solos on the Elute by the celebrated Richardson—and
Violin and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins—Remington's
Magic Aerial Bridge—and other attractions, concluding with a vivid
representation of the Storming of Badajoz, pourtraying the advance
of the British army—bombardment and attack—gallant defence—
rush to the breach by real troops—and final ta'Jleaux in honour of
the " Hero of a hundred tights." _ _

Doors open at Nine o'Clock, A.m. ; feeding of the animals at Five ;
Pelicans and White Bears half-past I, lye ; Concert at Six ; Storming
of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling.
SECOND GRAND FLOWER SHOW of the Season on TUESDAY
WEER, June 12.

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LONDON, THURSDA Y, JUNE 7, 1849.

We alluded yesterday to the extraordinary dispro-
portion that exists between the extent and population
of the different constituencies which return Members
to the Imperial Parliament—a disproportion so strik-
ing that it must be at once obvious to every unpre-
judiced person that some measure calculated to pro-
duce a greater equalization of the electoral districts is
one of the reforms now most urgently required. It
will be found that in England there is one borough
Member for every 1,045 electors. But many of
these boroughs contain numerous inhabitants and
voters, which would entitle them to a far greater
number of representatives than aro at present per-
mitted. 'Thus we find the city of London with no
less than 19,064 registered electors, and containing a
greater amount of wealth and intelligence than
perhaps any portion of the civilised world, returning
only four Members, and thus having 3.721 electors
for each Member over and above the average number
represented by each borough Member in this country.
The metropolitan districts also exhibit an equally
arge proportion of registered electors to the repre-
sentatives they are enabled to return to
Parliament, there being no less than 83,062
voters electing sixteen Members, or nearly 5,191
electors for each Member; while the boroughs of
Bridgnorth, Honiton, Harwich, Thetford, Stafford,
Richmond (Yorkshire), Totnes, and Lymington, the
aggregate electoral body of which amiunts to but
3,766, also return among them 16 Members, the
average being one Member for every 235 voters. It
therefore follows that a single voter in any of these
latter boroughs po-sessea a much greater amount
of "political power, and. is equivalent in the electoral
scale to twenty-two of the merchants or traders
of this great metropolis. near this, ye chi-
ZerlS of London, and ask whether your
chosen Memb:,r, the hea 1 of her NN-sty's Govern-
ment,__ can tairly refuse to amend a system that gives
equal influence in the national legislation to the 252
erectors Harwieh and 1 hetford to that which is
accorded to 19 064 of yourselves !
But these tacts, strange as they may appear. by no
zieans exhibit this anomaly in the, strongest light or
the moat striking aspect. On a close examination
it will be Sound that of the 658 Members,
an absolute majority, or 330 Members, are re•
turned by a population of 3,127,000 persons, of
whom 180,000 only are entitled to the elective fran-
chise ; while the minority of 328 are returned by a
ppulation of '23,873,000 persons, of whom nearly
900,000 are registered electors. If, therefore, popu-
lation be taken as the test, the majority are chosen by
less than one eighth of the entire community ; or if
the number of voters be the point of comparison, by
little more than one-sixth of the entire num-
ber; and as the Honourable Member for
Montrose' justly remarke " that majority re-
presents all the smaller boroughs, and those
under the influence of I. ndlords—the minority, the
greater proportion of the counties and large cities." If
property be taken as the basis, the disparity will not
he less remarkable, for we find that the annual value
of the rateable property represented by the
"majority" is but 6,200,0001., while the value repre-
sented by the minority is 78,800,0001, or, in other
words, one-fourteenth of the whole rateable pro-
perty of the country can control and outvae
the remaining thirteen-fourteenths. Is there not
as great a necessity for a cotnprehensive
and extensive measure of reform to effect an equit-
able alteration of such a system as there was for the
disfranchisement of Gatton or Old Sarum, or the be-

* ."I he Question of the Irish Colleges sh,rtl) Stated;
with some Observations on the Validity of the R. scripts
relative to those Institutions. By Hunter Gordon, Esq.,
of Lincoln's Inn." Ridgway, Piccadilly : 1849.

there was nobbely to couuterwork his machinations: for
the Roman authorities pay no regard to the representa-
tions of Englishmen, considering Irish affairs to upper-
Lain to the Irish only.
Such were the reasons which induced Dr, McHale
to proceed to• Rome, to which the cause was now evoked.
To Rome he went ; and then there began a course of
artifice, misrepresentation, concealment, and direct false-
hood, which has certainly not been equalled in the annals
of the Apostolic See, since the time of the solicitations
addressed to Clement VII. for and against the disso-
lution of Henry the Eighth's marriage with Catherine of
Arragon. , In their appeal to the Cardinals, the first
suggestion of Dr. Mcliale and his colleague was
that to which a conclusive answer has already been
given, that the English Government, in instituting
these colleges, had a covert purpose of pro-
selytizing the Catholic mass, of erecting so
many colleges of Protestant Propaganda. They
affirmed that the principle of mixed education
was part of the same scheme, and contrived for the
same end; although they had never objected to it until
disappointed in their demands. They assured the Cardi-
nals that this RAS an attempt on the part of the English
Ministry to introduce into Ireland the same system of
public education which had filled France with scepticism,
Prussia with neology; well knowing all the white, that
no provision is made in the French and German schools
for the religious instruction of students, while one great
object of this measure is to afford them private and do-
mestic education in religion, according to their faith, and
that more effectually than could be supplied from the
academic chair. They were not content to represent
that portion of their brother prelates who support the
colleges as the firebrands who were scattering divisions
and anarchy in the Irish Church; they went so tar as to
describe the provinces and dieceses of these prelates as
the beats of civil war and rebellion; that the bishops thus
acting, had lost all control and authority over their flocks,
while the anti-collage dioceses remained submissive to
their bishops; this statement heir g made in the face of
the fact that Tipperary, which is within the Cashel Arch-
bishop's district (Dr. Slattery, a most intense anti-college
prelate) was the battle field of the late rebellion. They
studiously concealed the all-important fact that they
themselves had at first recognised the necessity of a
mixed system of education in the colleges, and that
that system had worked well, and in direct antagonism
to irreligion, in the national schools of Ireland during
their twenty years' existence, under far less vigilant and
'efficient guarantees for the protection- of faith and
morals, than are °tiered by the improved statutes of the
colleges.
" This mixed tissue of falsehood and absurdity was
indited in a pamphlet in choice Italian, which was dili-
gently circulated both among the ten or twelve Car-
dinals (the Council of Propaganda) the judges of the
case, and among all their advisers, the Irish officials at
Rome. Availing themselves of the panic which pre-
vailed at that period of the civil disorders of Rome, they
fastened on the fears of the Italian prelates, who were
then apprehensive lest the Mammiani faction's threats
to wrest or wring education from the Church constituted
authorities she uld be carried into effect; and thus the
domestic alarms of the Cardinali were easily converted
into a lively sympathy with Ireland threatened with a
like catastrophe! In order to decry mixed education,
which was (heir main cbject, Drs. McHale and O'Hig-
gins represented the measure of the colleges as a con-
templated experiment about to be made on the Irish
nation, instead of a legislative Act in certain pro-
gress of execution, thus leading the Cardinals to
suppiise that their adverse decisions would annihilate
that contingency. Again they assured the Cardinals that
the dioceses of the anti-college bishops were the abodes
of peace, that of the Archbishop Murray the scene of in -
surreotion. In vain did a deputation from the same part
of the 'Ash priesthood labour to disabuse the Council of
the Satin d College; in vain did they present to their
Eminences the statutes of the colleges, bearing on th,
face of them the refutation o' the Archbishop's averments.
The Roman mind, thus cajoled, and at such a crisis,
easily arrived at the conclusion desired by Dr. McHale.
The first t escript, condemnatory of the colleges, issued
le due form, signed by Franconi, the Cardinal Prefect of
Propaganda. And the Irish Archbishop returned from
the capital of the Christian woild to his own desolate
dome in, exulting in his victory not only over his brother
prelates, but over the English Government, and made
his triumphal entry into Titan, bearing aloft the rescript
which he knew to be the firebrand of discord to his
country.
" A second attempt was subsequently made to satisfy
the Cardinals of the glaring falsehood of some, and the
absolute impossibility of other allegations contained in
that most singular document, on which the rescript
against the colleges issu. d. They agreed to reconsider
their judgment. In so doing they again said, this is a
local matter; we must consult local autho:ities; they saw
nothing with their own eyes; they knew, and to this
hour they know, nothing of their own knowledge; they
never sought any better ground or rationale of decision
than the bare fact that there was a majority of seventeen
bishops to nine against the colleges. A second rescript
followed, adhering to their first judgment. And thus
the matter now stands."

Mr. HUNTER GORDON then goes into a lengthened
argument to prove that these rescripts, having been
obtained by deceit and fraud, by the assertion of di-
rect falsehood and the suppression of truth, are null
and void, according to the canons of the Roman

Catholic Church, and are, therefore, not binding on
Ro man Catholics ; and in our judgment he succeeds
completely in proving his case. With this we, as
Protestants, have nothing to do, but we quote
This case as a proof that these Cardinals are
either so stupidly prejudiced, and so utterly
wanting in discrimination, as to be unable to distin-
guish truth from 'falsehood, or so bigotted and so
corrupt as knowingly to accept falsehood as truth,
and decide in favour of that' which they know to be
false, if they think that such unjust decision will in
any manner tend to their cs‘n private advantage. In
either case they are unfit to be entrusted with power,
and yet it is to restore the rule of these men that the
Catholic Powers of Europe are in arms.

'TIDE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The delivery of the Message of the PRESIDENT has
be.n again postponed, and this postponement has
tended to induce persons to give credit to the rumours
which have been circulated oc a split in the Cabinet.
It is supposed that General CHANGARNIER, General
RummEßEs, and M. DE FALLOUX will go out of office.
In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, General
CAFAIG NAC elected to sit for the department of the
Lot, and M. DUFAURE for that of the Charente In-
ferieure, two add.tional vacancies are in consequence
created in the representation of Paris.
A discussion then arose on the validity of the
electi ;n for the department of the Yonne, in which
it was said the election had been influenced by M.
LEON FAUCHER'S di-patch which had been sent,
there countersigned by M. FERMI, the chef de
Cabinet of M. LEON FAUCHER, and who was himself
a candidate for•the representation. After MM. LEON
FAUCHER and CREMIEUX had spoken the debate was
adjourned.
N. DE LESSEPS arrived in Paris yesterday morning.
There is no doubt whatever as to the state of the
mind of the unfortunate gentleman.
It is said that orders have been sent to General
OUDINOT to enter Rome at all risks, and even to
bombard the city, should it be necessary. It is said
that as soon as he shall be in possession of the city
he is to appoint a Governmental Committee, composed
of Romans, but placed under the protection of France
(it is not said how the members are to be selected),
under whose auspices a Constituent Assembly, elected
by universal suffrage, will be convoked, which will
have to determine whether the Roman Government
is to be a republic or a monarchy, and whether the
POPE is to be recalled, and upon what terms. There
can be no doubt that an Assembly chosen under
French protection will adopt French views ; so that
this mode of leaving the affair to the choice of the
people is a mere deb sion.
We read in l' Ordre :—" A report was current yes-
,erday, and accredited that, in pursuance of recent
orders sent to General OUDINOT, the French troops
had made an assault upon Rome and entered the
city after a strong resistance. If this news had come
officially, as was :said, by a telegraph dispatch, the
Chamber would, nu doubt, have been made acquainted
with it. Although therefore, this news is by no
means improbable, we are not able to guarantee it.
Other reports as to the attitude which the Austrian
army was seeking to assume in Piedmont, and which
are alarming for us, were also propagated yesterday,
hut, we think, they should be listened to with extreme
mistrust. It appears, unfortunately, to be Inure
certain that our envoy at Rome, M. FERDINAND DE
L,ESSEPS, whether from fatigue, the influence of the
climate, or agitation of mind, has been attacked with
a brain fever in the midst of his efforts to fulfil his
arduous mission."

With respect to the hostileii attitude assumed by
Austria, the Assemblee Naohnao surprise, tNationalssays, that it has
learnt with sorrow, but wit
hat the
Cabinet of Vienna insists on the young
DINIA giving up to it the King of aAß-
the forts of
C.,lii, of Pas-de-Seze, and even of Genoa,ot:
pre-
text of a possible invasion of Italy b • the under_ 3
French. It
adds, "We do not know if the pretext be true, but
in any case France cannot suffer an occupation so near
to her frontiers."
It was considered among the best-informed in the
PoSsesylioounng ,,
political circles of Paris, that a war with Austria was
imminent and inevitable.
M. PIWUDLION was arrested on Tuesday evening
at eight o'clock, just after hi• arrival by the Northern
Railroad. He was recognised the moment he left the
carriage, and was followed by a police agent until he
camee . oppositeihe
o aithe e
rb atrhreaicl k
declaredin the Icaou bi‘oitt.
PROUDRON rg: Poisson
that he was his prisoner, and invited him to enter the
barrack quietly, in order to avoid an arrest in the
public street. M. Pi:tour/Hos, perceiving that all tee
would be useless, at once yielded, and a
hackney coach being called, he entered it, accom-
panied by the agent, an adjutant belonging to the
barrack, and two non-commissioned officers M.
PaoUDlioN was then taken to the Prefecture of Po-
lice, where he was placed in the hands of M. CARMEL
The Moniteur contains a decree from the Paw-