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division, he could not help making an earnest ap-
peal to his Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) that he
would save them from the inconvenience of the course
he proposed to follow. If they were to have divisions on the
order of their proceedings, he thought it would greatly conduce
to the convenience of the House if those divisions were not to
take piace, then while the Noble Lord did not say that his Bill
should Ow precedence except under circumstances which
would at all events make it fair and reasonable, that his propo-
sal should be taken into consideration. He thought they should
not then determine on what the Orders of the Day
might be on Monday. Divisions on such subjects could,
in his opinion, lead to no possible good results. He
had,. on the _recent division given his vote in support
of the amendment of his Noble Friend, but he had not done so
he would confess without some reluctance—(lronical cheers
on the... Opposition Benches)—feeling that though he concurred
with his Noble Friend in his objections to the investigation of
the claims of voters, when once fairly settled, the mode in which
that amendment had been brought under their consideration
was highly inconvenient and calculated to obstruct 'the business
of the House. That, however, had not prevented him from
acting on the opinion he had expressed at a preceding period of
their discussions. But if his Noble Friend would then divide
the House on his amendment he could not support him.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that if the question were to be de-
cided it might as well be decided then as at any other time.—
( Hear, hear.) He would not, however, then divide the House
on the subjeet, as his Noble Friend had objected to that
course.—(lronical cheers on the Opposition benches.) It did
not appear, he was sorry to say, that he would at any time have
the support of his Noble Friend on the question, but he owned
that it appeared to him that the Government, having brought
forward a Bill, they were entitled to submit it to the House on
one of those days for which Government Orders stood. He
would not, however, then persevere with his amendment.
Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that whenever the motion
was made for going again into Committee on the Bill, he
should move an instruction to that Committee.—(,‘ Hear,
hear," and, " Oh, oh," from the Opposition benches).

The Rated Inhabitants Evidence 'Bill then passed'through
Committee.

The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at One o'Clock to Monday.

THE ATTACK ON THE QUEEN.

Mr. O'Connell has issued an address to his fellow-country-
men on the diabolical attempt made on the life of the Queen.
It cannot fail to make a strong impression in Ireland, where the
great body of the people are horrified at the very idea of the
accession of the heir presumptive. We regret we cannot at
present give it at length, but a few passages will afford our
readers an idea what excitement it must; cause amongst Irish-
men, so long oppressed by the party that for a time would have
beer. triumphant, had the ball of the miscreant assassin taken
effect. The fol:owing are a few extracts:—
" England is disgraced by the commission of one of the most
enormous crimes that ever affrighted humanity : unsuccessful
. .

—blessed be God ! in its results, but not the less atrocious
upon that account. The failure was providential; the guilt is
not diminished by the hand of God averting the designed blow.
" Never did crime combine such circumstances of diabolical
aggravation. If SHE had been in the humblest walk of life,
the crime would have been satanic. The young wife, enjoy-
ing the sweet and innocent delight of the conversation of her
chosen and wedded love ; shutting out the world and its con-
cerns, and being all the world to each other. A communion of
all that life has of delicious happiness, presenting a picture of
almost angelic enjoyment, which, angels indeed might look on
with delight, and the heart of man venerate for its sacred
sweetness. .

" Yes ; if she had been the lowliest born of all her own sub-
jects, she ought to have been sacred and secure; but in her
youth, in her beauty, in her innocence, and in her love, SHE
—the enthroned Monarch of a mighty nation.—Yes! at
such a moment, and against such a person—shielded, one
might even think, by the weakness of her sex—was the assassin's
arm twice deliberately raised; at HER was the murderous aim
twice deliberately taken, and the weapons of death twice deli-
berately discharged ; but, oh ! Gracious Providence! blessed
be thy holy name ! the deliverance, oh God, was thine !"
After stating that he does not mean to accuse Prince or
Peer, or great man of a participation in the crime, he says, the
wretched youth has been encouraged to perpetrate the act by
the vile attacks made on the Sovereign by the Tory press.
" There is," he adds, " one portion of that faction, to which we
can without difficulty trace all the moral guilt of being acces-
saries before the fact to this murderous treason. I mean the
organs of the Tory press—the trebly-dyed villains of the
Times, the maudlin miscreants of the Morning Post,
the drivelling malignants of the 2tlorning Herald, and the
blood-dripping monsters of the Standard." He then
turns to the .tate of Ireland; and the contemptuous man-
ner in which he is treated by the British Legislature. We
grieve to say there is too much truth in this' stirring appeal.
" Understand, fellow-countrymen, distinctly, the position you
are in. The hope of corporate reform from the Imperial Le-
gislature is a vain dream. Some trick, some dexterity, some
paltry excuse will be found to postpone it from year to year.
And then it will be utterly refused upon such hideously insult-
ing a ground as that which is attributed by the public papers
to the Duke of Wellington—namely, ' That the Irish people
are unworthy of belief upon their oaths
" PERJURERS !' stand forward ! You, crouohing and
crawling creatures, who, forsooth, will acquiesce in the Union,
recollect that you are refused corporate reform upon an allega-
tion that you are perjurers! •
" PERJURERS,' again stand forward. Recollect that
the very ground-work and reasoning upon which Lord Stan-
ley'a—Bill is 'founded, is the proneness to commit perjury
among the Irish people. Abject slaves ! recollect that the
dart of political death is barbed with the disgrace of double
perjury
" There never was a nation on the face of the earth treated
.as the people of Ireland -are by the English Tory faction.
Never was moral degradation' so mixed up with political op-
pression. The worst despots have, in general, been con-
tent with trampling to the dust the liberties of a nation.
But they have spared them the bitterness of individual and
general insult." • .
Looking forward to the effects that such ungenerous treat-
ment may in time produee,,he makes the following melancholy
reflection

Whilst I live and 'preserve influence, I think I shall be able
to prevent any attempt ineobsiatent with the l urest allegiance
to the'Crown of Great Britain and Ireland. I know that any
such attempt I will ever resist; and, I believe, that during my
time it would be successfully resisted. But my day is now
short, and my jaurney to the grave must take place within a
few revolving years."

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 16, 1840.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Brevet Major Sir
Alexander Burnes, Knt., of the East India Company's 21st
Bombay Native Infantry, to be a Companion of the Must
Ilonourable Military Order of the Bath.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 19.

The Queen, has been pleased to appoint Robert Langslow,
Esq., to be one of the Judges of the District Court of Colombo,
in the island of Ceylon.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Ictrat 19.

Orders for the Court going into mourning, on Sunday next,
the 21st instant, for his late Majesty the King of Prussia, viz.
—The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white
gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and
tippets. The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed
or plain linen, black swords and buckles. The Court to
change the mourning on Sunday the sth of July next, viz..—
The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons,
fans; and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white
and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The Gentlemen to wear
black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or
white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords
and buckles. And 'on Sunday, the 12th of July next, the
Court to go ont of rhourning.

The following places have been duly registered for solemniz-
ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of the 6th and 7th
William IV., Chap. 'B5 :
Charmouth Chapel, Charmouth, Dorsetehire.
General Baptist Chapel, Boston.