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London, England, 1838-05-30 00:00:00

! to make, and of the provisioea which be was resolved to
insist upon, towards arcomplishing a legislative settle
anent of the Irish Church question. and of the Irish Cor-
w,ration question. The Poor-law 13111 being now in the hands
of the House of Lords, was scarcely referred to by the Right Hon. Baronet, save in the general expression of a hope that
the rates to be established by the Poor-law might serve as a
useful standard for determining the qualification of the political
as well as the municipal franchise. For the particulars enu-
merated by the Right Hon. Barcnet we refer to his speech as
reported. But we must unfeignedly congratulate the Conser-
vative party, the nation at large, and even the Queen's Minis-
ters, on the hope which may now be, not unnaturally, enter-
tained of a favourable result to these harassing and perni.
dons contests. The leading conditions demanded by Sir
Robert Peel were—l. A simple commutation of tithe
into rent-charge, unclogged by either any complex re-
dempticn clauses, which must have inflicted a cruel spoliation
upon the Church, or any principle of Church robbery, in the
shape of a diversion to secular purposes of her ecclesiastical
revenues. 2. His next demand was, that the qualification for
the municipal franchise should be the occupancy and payment
of rent for premises valued at 201. per annum. We are bound
to acknowledg,eethat Lord John Russell, to the s ,re exaspera-
tion of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, as those about him state, re-
(Tired in a liberal and conciliatory manner the proposals and
opinions of the Right Hon. Baronet, commencing hisreply with
as expression of almost confidence that the litigated questicns
might satiseactorily settled before the close of the session,
and only hinting, though neither angrily nor discouragingly,
at a very few points on which it was possible that difficulties
might arise in the course of their adjustment. One remark-
able circumstance adverted to by the Noble Lord was, that
during Lord Grey's Ministry he had repeatedly pressed upon
that Noble Earl the necessity of combining with any scheme
of arrangement for Irish tithe that of appropriating to other
than mere Church objects some poetion of the Church reve-
nues of Ireland ; but that Lord Grey, in admitting the ab-
stract justice of the principle, assured him of the impossibility
of carrying it into practice, for that the people of England
would refuse their assent Lord John now confesses that
Lord Grey's judgment of his countrymen WAS correct, and
that his own was erroneous. We must add, that without
any impeachment of his candour, the Secretary for the
Home Depattment might have been less slow in making
this acknowledgment. However, we are not of a temper
to rub the bloom off from this late fruit, or to dim by
any semblance of distrust the coulenr de rose which cha•
ractetized last night's proceedings, in so far as the Conser-
vative and Opposition leaders were concerned. The black
cloud of the scene sea Mr. Daniel O'Connell, who is repre-
sented to us as having sat there charged with hatred, boiling
with rage, bloated with venom, to some of which, in accents
of no common sweetness, he gave loose while Lord John
Russell was declaring his readiness to meet the Conservatives
half way on the road to peace. The subsequent speech of the
learned mischief-maker was a complaint, not of the terms
proffered by one party. or accepted by the other, hut, in dis-
tinct terms, that any Church at all should exist in Ireland
which was not the Church of those six millions four hundred
thousand Papists, of whom he himself was one. A pretty
chance, indeed, we ever had of tranquillizing by rational or
temperate policy the turbulence of Popish greediness and
malice !—Times.

Sir Robert Peel last night made a formal exposition to the
House of Commons of his intentions with respect to the po.
hey to be pursued with respect to Ireland. It was imme-
diately with reference to the Municipal Corporations Bill that
Sir Robert spoke, but his observations applied generally to
the Irish treasures at this moment under the consideration of
the Legislature, and were consequent on the abandonment by
her Majesty's Ministers of what is variously known by the
names of " appropriation" or " alienation" principle, as affect-
ing the property of the Established Church in Ireland. The
Right Hon. Baronet expressed his satisfaction that an oppor-
tunity would be afforded for discussing the tithe question be-
fore a final decision should be come to on that of Municipal
Corporations, because he considered the satisfactory settle-
ment of the former as a sine qua non in the adjustment
of the latter. The Poor-law Bill he considered, in-
deed, of vast importance, apart from its eleemosynary objects,
as affording in the clauses relating to assessment the only un-
objectionable guarantee for a really respectable municipal con-
stituency. Still, though he could not, even in argument, as-
sume that a Poor-law Bill would not pass, supposing no such
measure to be enacted, it might be possible to find a substitute
for those parts of it to which he had alluded. But it were
vain to attempt a settlement of the municipal question unless
that of Church property had been presiously,,mesimultancously
adopted. The point for the establishment orwhich Sir Robert
Peel relied on the Poor-law, as bearing on the other Irish
questions, was the controul imposed on the wish for the
franchise by the desire to avoid being rated too high ; and
perhaps it would be difficult to devise any other means so likely
to be efficient in ascertaining the bona fide qualification of a mu.
nicipal constituency. fir Robert incidentally observed that he
would vote for the conversion of tithe commutation into
rent-charge, in the manner p,oposed in the resolution pro-
posed by Government, because he much preferred to have
recourse to the great landholders, who were for the most part
Protestants, rather than to the occupying tenants, of whom
the large majority were Roman Catholics. With respect to
Corporations, the Right Hon. Baronet assented to the exist-
ence of them in all towns in Ireland containing a population
of more than fifteen thousand persons—on the distinct pro-
vision, however, that v,hatever franchise may ultimately be
fixed, it must be a bona fide one. As we have already said,
he is strongly in favour of a qualification founded on the rating
under the Poor-law Bill ; and thinks a ten pound franchise
should be universally exacted, as recommended in another
part of the kingdom, by the Scottish Municipal Commissioners,
in every town where the 10/. householders are above a hun-
dred in number; this qualification to arise out of twelve
months' possession and six months' occupancy of a house, or
a house and land conjointly, within the limits of the borough,
assessed at that value for the Poor-rate; the boundaries of bo-
roughs, and the division of them into wards, to be fixed in
conformity with the report of the boundary CornruisSioners in
1336. The Right Hon. Gentleman proposes that the ma-
' nagement of Corporate property be in all cases confided to the
Corporations, always with this restriction, that it can only be
made applicable to legitimate Corpora:e purposes. Tolls, if
possible, to be abolished, when they shall have ceased to be
the security for existing debts. An uniform system of police
to be established ; and if additional force be required in any
town the addition to be paid out of the Corporate funds. But
the whole police, whether for day or night service, to be under
the controul of the Crown. The nominations of Sheriffs in towns
to be absolutely vested in the Government; an uniform and
effective mode to be adopted for auditing the accounts
of the Corporation ; but with respect to charity trustees, Sir
Robert Peel proposes that time be allowed for consideration,
and that the present plan be continued till Parliament shall
otherwise determine. In the meantime all vacancies in exist-
ing trusts to be filled up by the Lord Chancellor ; and the
trustees, where Chureh purposes are concerned, to be Mem-
bers of the Established Church. Sir Robert considers it ad-
visable that separate provision be made for the administration
of justice in the city of Dublin ; but rather than give rise to
a suspicion that he is actwited by any party objects he will not
insist on this being peremptorily a portion of his plan. With
respect to the smaller town:, the Right Hon. Baronet does
not sec the necessity for forcing upon them the expensive es-
tablishment of Municipal Corporations, but thinks it would
answer every purpose if the corporate funds were administered
by authorities chosen by the public voice. If any of
these smaller towns should be desirous of corporate institu-
ticns a chaster may be granted, on an application to the Lord
Lieutenant, by a majority of the 10/. householders. This,
we believe, will be found a tolerably correct analysis of the
course proposed by Sir Robert Peel. That it is liberal, in the
truest and largest sense of the word—that it sacrifices party
prejudices at the shrine of public good—must be universally
admitted ; that it is founded on a statesmanlike view of domes-
tic policy, and offers the fairest prospect of domestic peace,
there can be no doubt. The statement was listened to by men
of all parties with the most respectful attention, and received
by all with such evident cordiality, as to give place to a confi-
dent hope that to the other titles of Sir Robert Peel to the
public gratitude we may, and at no distant time. and by uni-
versal consent, be enabled to add that of " Pacificator of I-e-
-land."—Morning Post.

On Saturday, the 2:3d of June, Sir Robert Peel
will entertain at dinner the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Duchess
of Gloucester, Prince George, Prince Esterhazy, Duke of Wellington,
Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Earl and Countess Brownlow, kc

The Iberia was detained at Lisbon by order of the
Admiral a day beyond her regular time, but for this the mails would
have been in yesterday, although the vessel had a strong easterly wind
to steam against. .

The most correct particulars of Epsom Races with
a portrait of the winner of the Derby, will appear in B.ll's Life iii
London, of Sunday, the 3d of June. The price of Bell's Life in London
is Five-pence. Office, 170, Strand, where can be had together or sepa-
rate for Three-pence each, Part 1, t 2, 3,4, 5, and 6. of the Gallery of
Comicalities. _ _ _

IRON STEAMER.—On Thursday last, her Ma-
jesty's birthday, an iron steam.yacht, the GlAv.worm, of nearly 400
tons measurement, was launched from North Birkenhead. The security
against fire in iron vessels, their great speed, with small proportionate
power, their strength, buoyancy, and great capacity for stowage having
been so saiistactorlly proved by the experience of the vessels already
built, have, we understand, already drawn to them the attention of the
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furmrd and forming for transatlantic
On Saturday a new East Indiamen, called the
Earl of llardwicke, the property of Mr. Richard Green, of the firm of
Green and Co., was launched from their docks at Blaekwall. The bur-
then of the new ship is 1,000 tons, her leng,h 170 feet, and her breadth
36 feet; the poop is 55 feet long and seven feet high ; and her gun
deck is also seven feet high. There are fifteen ports larboard and star-
board, so that her compact but roomy cabins can be at any time well sup-
plied with air. She is a fine specimen of improved naval architecture.
Mrs. Yorke, in the absence of the Countess of Hardwicke, who was pre.
vented by illness from attending to perform the ceremot.y of naming the
ship, threw the sponsorial bottle an act of violence, as one of the gen.
tlemen afterwards remarked, "she had never before committed on the
Earl of Hardwicke " The spzcious docks were thrown open to the
public, and soon crowded with several thousands of persons of both
sexes and of all ages, while every elevated spot in the distance, and the
various vessels and steam-boats lying in the river were resorted to by
others. Flags and strearre,s floated from the rigging of the Madagas-
car, the launch, and the neigt.bouring shipping
On Thursday afternoon, about five o'clock, a dread-
ful accident occurred at Devizes. A waggon-load of rakes were brought
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fright,lcy and in their progress upset an orange
attachedii o tlte Were about to be unloaded, the horses
stand near the Post .office, on which a girl was sitting, with an infant
mtoartkh
about five weeks old ; both were much injured by the trampling of the
horses on them, and the infant died during the night; the girl still re
mains in a very precarious state. One or two other persons were injured-
but not seriously.— Wilts Herald..
The bloom of plums and cherries is this year unu-
sually abundant ; but fears are entertained that much of the expected
Icrop will be cut off by the late unseasonable cold weather.