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The privilege question was again brought be;One the
House by the adjourne I debate being renewed. Sir
EDWARD SuGDEN declared that the release of
the Sheriffs was on!), a question of time, and
they must be released when the Parliament was
prorogued, if not before. He censured the committal
of the Sheriffs, for it was punishing vicariously the
Sheriffs for the Judges, and commented at great length
on the law of the case, and on the previous proceedings
of the House of Commons.

The H: use was occupied through the whole even-
ing with this subject, several lawyers speaking, amongst
whom the LORD ADVOCATE and Sir FREDERICK PoL-
LOCK condemned the decision of the Judges, who seem
to be unsupported save and except by some few
briefless and beardless barristers. Finally, Mr.
DAREY'S motion to release the Sheriffs was lost by
94 to 165.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL subsequently Iw-wed that Mr.
HANSARD do not plead to the new action.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN moved that Mr. HANSARD ha
at liberty to defend the action. A brie: debate ensued,
which terminated by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion
being carried by 14S to .58.
The Noble Lord then moved that Mr. STOCKDALE,
by commencing a new action, had been guilty of a high
breach of privilege, and of contempt of that House,
which motion was carried, on a division—Mr. LAW
wishing to call Mr. STOCKDALE again to the Bar on a
future day—by 132 to 34.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave a❑ ex-
planation of the double vote of credit which was taken
last year, and which refered the mistake to the difficul-
ties of the financial year. Lord MONTEAGLE'S repu-
tation does not grow on the world with time.
The House sat till Two o'clock.

The Common Hall yesterday came to an almost
unanimous resolution to petition the House of
Commons to discharge the Sheriffs. A similar
petition from Wallingford was also presented to the
House of Commons last night. Undoubtedly the
attempts made by the present Ministry to reform
the Corporation of London, and their interference
with the City Police, have had considerable hiflu-
ence in throwing the popular feeling on the side of
the Sheriffs, and against the House of Commons
and privilege. But independently of that local
and temporary cause for the citizens, and for
the inhabitants of other Corporate towns, siding
against the Commons, the general popularity
of that House is, by some of our Liberal Contem-
poraries, very much overrated. It yet represents,
in truth, but a very small portion of the commu-
nity, and the considerable number of small boroughs
still under the power of a few Noblemen and Gen-
tlemen, together with the manner in which the great
landowners dispose of the representation of the coun-
ties, give it, even now, so much of the character of an
oligarchy that the people by no means think that their
liberties are safe in its keeping. To entrust such
an assembly with arbitrary power, would be most
dangerous. To keep it tolerably honest, moderate,
and prudent, a continual watchfulness on the part
of the public and the Press is necessary ; and,
contrary to same of our Liberal Contemporaries, we
believe that its claims will not be generally sup-
ported. Having the power to settle the question
by legislation, and, such being its duty, neglecting
to perform it, has not recommended it to the public.
If our Contemporaries forget the history of the
Reformed House, there is one part of it which we
believe the public remembers too well to wish to
see its power unbounded and not to be questioned.
Last Session that House was engaged for some
weeks in discussing a Bill for settling controverted
elections, and during that discussion the Members
gave each other and gave the House a very bad
character. It will be remembered, too, that this Bill
was mainly produced by the attack which Mr.
O'CoN NELL made on the character of Members,
which we might incur a penalty were we now
to repeat. The House was by no means
raised in public estimation by his success,
and by the accusations then mutually
hurled by the different parties against each
other. Nor will it be raised in public esteem by
the fact that amongst the gentlemen who were then
the loudest in depreciating the honour and good
faith of the Members of the House of Commons—
who loudly declated that in that House there was
no respect for an oath when party interests were
at stake—are now to be found the warmest sticklers
for the privileges of the House. When this fea-
ture of the Reformed House of Commons is re-
collected—when its oligarchical constitution is
taken inta account—when its past conflicts with
the people are remembered, it must be generally
concluded that any claims it makes to a power
above the law will not find favour in the country.
We must mention, howoyerritr its credit, that all
the lawyers of any celebrity who have spoken in
the House of Commons have admitted that the
judgment of the Queen's Bench was erroneous, and
contrary to law. The SOLICITOR-GENIERAL, on
T 0
Monday, following Sir W. FOLLETT and the AT-
NE RA L'
whomadet4had before delivered
point quite clear.
bast ItN
nEght Gsi-Y Sir E
E.SUGDEN,
a similar opinion, reiterated the assertion that the
judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench was wrong
in finding that the publications of the House of
Commons were not privileged. Sir F. POLLOCK
delivered a similar opinion. The Judges are,
therefore, generally condemned by the legal profes-
sion, while the House of Commons is by no means
supported by the country. It is nothing singular
that both parties to a :quarrel should be wrong,
that is generally the .case ; but it is sin-
gular that those parties should be nearly
the highest judicial and legislative authori-
ties of the empire. Mankind, it is generally sup-
posed, require some rules to steady their judgment
by, and that such rules are usefully made by these
high judicial and legislative authorities. But when
they are thus found in error, one depreciating the
other, the basis of all confidence in what they
decree is at once swept away, and mankind
are thrown back on their own passior-?, in-
stincts, and caprices, to find, if they can,
in them a more enlightened guide than
the one which is thus ruthlessly destroyed. At
another time the conflict between one of the high-
est Courts of Law and the House of Commons,
might be of comparatively little moment, though it
might then more excite the popular feeling than at
present. But now when there is everywhere a
disposition to cast off authority—when prescrip-
tion no longer lends its charms to any one of our
institutions—when the bulk of the nation are
looking out for new leaders, the conflict must be
considered as one of the important signs of the
times, and as hastening the moral revolution which
is now making a rapid progress.

PA LEY's deferiv.ofS Church Establishment is
founded on the-principle that the clergy are the
possessors and guarclistris'a .a great body of, truth,
which they hand. A* corruptedg bge to
age. The Tory writ of 111 present' day take a
different view, and 9114 r Church extension on the
principle that the clerg: constitute a great moral
police, which aids the criminal law, and ',,prevents,
in a great number el tices, the necessity-of
because,. it is useful to
its application. Thd..ChWich his on this plea to be
degivlature pro-
tthrcotioL,
the truth or
jof,. its doctrines is no longer
attain t supportedtheo i
tandsoelbtj..ee* toe nv,tid'el
poses .
worth an inquirr, aVe must confine, ourselves to in-
vestigate its utiAtY•
the falsehood
If it answer, like.the Metro-
politan Police,
the purpose of checking immo-
rality, it shoid4 be preserved ; if otherwise, it
ought not to by-'enlarged, but curtailed and de-
stroyed. 'under Looking at !lunder this aspect, it is perfectly
clear that it has 'Yar:'less hold of the people, and is
far less useful th;in either the Roman Catholic or
the Presbyterian Churches. The multitude have
no affection for it, as the Irish have for their
Priests, and have separated themselves en-
tirely from it. Between the Anglican Clergy,
who are nearly aft taken from the aris-
tocratic classes, and all bred up at aris-
tocratic schools, and the poorer classes, there is
no sym.
path)r nor communion. The Vicar or the
Rector is tot often on the bench, and too generally
the ally of the Squire, for the rustic to regard him
with other sentiments than those of awe and aver-
sion. Bishops, Prebendaries, and Deans never
come near the bulk of the people, and have no
communication with them whatever. Archbishops
are like little Kings, to be obeyed and respected.
The Irish priests, and the Presbyterian pastors
being in general taken from the middle or lower
classes, have some sympathy with their flocks,
and in general are beloved by them.
To make the Church of England the
moral police it is supposed to be in theory, the
class of men taken for clergymen should be dif-
ferent, their education should be different, their
emoluments should beklifferent, and their sympathies
should be not with-the-aristocracy but with the de-
mocracy. As a police the Church of England is
the most costly and least efficient establishment the

wit of man ever devised, and before it be extended
it should be remodelled. We therefore much
thank the Tory Journals for at length placing
the Church on its proper basis, and the whole com-
munity will now be able to judge of its utility, as it
would judge of a ship of the line or a regiment of
• foot. Its use as a police force, must be compared
to its cost, and it will be found that all the police
of Europe costs less than the Church of England,
while for the preservation of order and the preven-
tion of crimes, it is less useful than the old con-
stables.

Notwithstanding its inutility, however, it is a
source of patronage and power which is and would
be almost exclusively at the command of the Tories,
and be employed to promote their factious and
nefarious ends. Accordingly, they are making
great efforts throughout the country to get up pe-
titions to back Sir ROBERT INGLIS when he
brings forward his motion on the subject. Those
who do not wish to burden the country with the
extension of this new species of police, under
the name of religion, should meet the Tories
on this ground, and at once petition against
Church extension. The Times told us not many
months ago that we had too much Church ;
we have still too much Church, as the conduct of
the Bishops and other priests shows, and the ex-
tension of what is already too much should be im-
mediately and strenuously resisted by all the friends
of economy and of civil and religious liberty. The
scandalous, outrageous, exaggerated, and false
statements, which have of late been so industriously
put abroad about the Socialists, are designedly in-
tended to frighten the nation into increasing the
numbers, the emoluments, and the power of the
Priesthcod.

Letters from Constantinople announce that the SUI.-
TAN has appointed ACIIMET-FETIII-PACDA, a member
of the newly constituted Council of Justice, to be Mi-
nister of Commerce, and has given him his High-
ness's sister, the Sultana ATTICII, in marriage. SAID•
PACHA has likewise been elevated to the office of Mi-
nister of Marine, the duties of which cannot be very
onerous, while the ViCEIL9Y continues to keep the fleet
at Alexandria.

The French Papers of Thursday have all reached
us. The Commerce h•is a long article on the commer-
cial relations between England and France, into the
merits of which we have not space to enter. The Na-
tional notices the circulation of a rumour in Paris to the
effect that the Prussian Ambassador had noticed to the
French Cabinet the King of PRUSSIA'S approbation of
the Anglo-Russian Alliance, We suspect this to be
pure invention. The news contained in these Journals
will be found in the subjoined extracts :

The letters from Vienna of the 30th of January announce
the death of Count Clam Martinitz, Field Marshal and Ad-
jutant-General to the Emperor. Count Clam Martinitz
was the favourite of the Emperor. and the most declared
partizan of the Russian policy.— Constitutionnel.
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.

" BAYONNE, FEB. 5.
" The Sub-Prefect of Bayonne to the Minister of the
interior.

" According to the accounts from Madrid of the Ist in-
stant the Moderados have decidedly had an important ma-
jority in the general election."
According to the letters from Madrid of the 29th of Ja-
nuary, which cantain later news than the Journals of the
same date, the result of the elections then known at Madrid
was as follows

The Moderados had 144 elections, and the Exallados
71 ; the result of 33 was not known.—Le Moniteur.
Letters from Toulon say that orders have been received
there immediately to arm the Nestor and Couronne of the
line, and the frigates. It is believe lat Toulon, that
orders to arm all the disposable ships of the line have
been sent also to the Ports on the Ocean. It is said that
the Belle Ponta, the Amazone, and the Junon frigates,
will form part of the reserve squadron.
The return of part of the English fleet to Malta, which
is come to re-victual there, places the English and French
forces stationed near the entrance of the Bosphorus nearly
on an equality; and as the equipment of our reserve
squadmn is prosecuted with all diligence, it will be pos-
sible, when Admiral Stopford returns from Malta to the
Dardanelles, for Admiral Rosatnel to join him there.
It is said that the Minister of Marine intends to apply
to the Chambers for an increase of his budget, in order to
augment the cudre of the navy, in order to build ten steam
boats, each of 400 horse power, capable of carrying from
10 to 16 guns, when it may be necessary to fit them for
service in time of war. The number of naval officers
is sufficient ; it is the number of men registered that must
be augmented ; for its inadequacy is now too clearly de-
monstrated by the difficulties that are found in forming the
crews of the ships of the line which are fitting out.
It is true that complaints are.made likewise in England
of the difficulty of raising recruits for the royal navy.—
Le Commerce.

We entirely concur in the following notice given by
Mr. Brotherton last night. The humane and heroic
conduct of Captain Clegg and his crew, has elicited
universal approbation. Subscriptions hove been-raised
for them in almost every seaport town, and the country
at large would be highly gratified if the proposed address
were carried in the Commons, by general acclamation ;
" That an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously
pleased to confer upon Captain Clegg, Commander of
the merchant ship the Huddersfield, of Liverpool, some
mark or title of distinction suitable to that peculiar
heroism which braves danger in the rescue of human

life ; a spirit.of humanity so worthy of encouragement,
so congenial t o our nature, and so becoming the character
of a Female Sovereign to notice, and which was so nobly
exemplified towards the crew and passengers of the
steam ship William Huskisson, from the wreck of which
the Captain of the Huddersfield and his ship's com-
pany, saved ninety-three persons, including fifteen
women and some children, from inevitable death."

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON
GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, FEr. 7.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. S, 1840.

Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint his Royal
Highness Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel
Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha,
K.G., to be a Field Marshal in the Army. Commission
to be dated Bth February, 1840.
Saturday, Feb. 8, 1840.

THE APPROACHING MARRIAGE

OF HER MAJESTY.

PREPARATIONS IN THE CHAPEL ROYAL

In the course of yesterday afternoon, the Queen visited
the Chapel Royal. Her Majesty was atteiidQd by the
Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Charlemont, the Lord Cham-
berlain, and Lord Alfred Paget. After carefully viewing
the alterations which have been made, and the decorations
progressing in the interior, her Majesty was understood to
have graciously expressed her approbation. The chapel is
still in an unfinished state.

The Banqueting Hall is a noble and lofty apartment.
As many as 200 persons have been there entertained
by his late Majesty. The walls are covered with velvet
paper of imperial purple and gold. From the ceiling are
suspended three gilt candelabras of exquisite workmanship.
The banquet which is to be held here by the members of
the Royal Household on the evening of the Queen's bridal
day will be of the most sumptuous character. The whole
of the royal plate is ordered from Windior. This is of the
most costly description, and consists of heir looms of the
Royal Family, and presents from foreign potentates to the
Sovereigns of Great Britain. A splendid sideboard is in
preparation for its reception. The Lord Steward (Lord
Errol) will preside. At present no more than 150 invita-
tions have been issued.

The preparations for a general illlumination in honour
of the Queen's marriage on Monday are very general
throughout the metropolis. At all the public buildings in
the City and East-end operations have commenced, the
workmen throughout yesterday being employed at the
India-house, the Bank, the Mansion-house, Guildhall,
and the Post-office, in raising and affixing boarding to form
a ground for the devices ; these preparatory works are on
a most extensive scale, and it is said that the splendour of
the ensuing illlumination will be unequalled by anything
that has preceded it.
This feeling of loyalty is not confined to the metropolis;
for we learn from the various provincial journals that
similar festivities will be general over the kingdom. At
Hertford, Ware, St. Albans, and other principal towns in
the county of Herts, it is intended to give the poor a treat
in the day-time, by affording them a comfortable enter-
tainment ; and in the evening there are to be public balls,
at which most of the respectable inhabitants of the several
towns and districts have expressed their intention to be pre-
sent. Subscriptions have for some time been going on,
for the purpose of carrying into effect these objects. At
Liverpool also there will be similar proceedings, and the
Mayor has already issued above a thousand cards for a ball
and entertainment, to take place on that evening.
The
feeling, indeed, throughout the country is general. At
Hull there is to be a grand procession to the High
Church, and a religious service.
At Boston, the marriage is to have a double celebration,
a public, dinner being announced for Monday in the new
Assembly-rooms, and a ball and card assembly in the
same place the following Thursday. The proceeds are to
be given to the General Dispensary.—Lincoln Mercury.
In Glasgow there is to be a grand dress ball in the as-
sembly-rooms.
The fitting up of the ball-room and other
arrangements are to be quite of a novel character, and
whole affair will be conducted on a scale of grandeur and
' magnificence never before attempted on any other occa-
sion in that city. It is not yet known what the magis-
trates of Glasgow intend to recommend in the way of a ge-
neral rejoicing. In Edinburgh, at the Council meeting, the
magistrates got power to act as they thought proper, as re•
gerds an illumination, but it was understood that they
would not.

REMOVAL OF Mn. STOCKDALE TO NEW-
GATE.—This morning, a little after eight o'clock, Mr. John
Joseph Stockdale was removed from the prison of the House of
Commons by the officer of the Serjeant-at-Arms, to the gaol
of Newgate, upon the Speaker's warrant, and the Governor
(Mr. Cope) gave a certificate that he had received the prisoner
in his custody. The prisoner appeared to feel grateful that he
was removed from the miserable apartment in which he has
been confined, to a far better domicile.

WOODCOT-FRIDAy.

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(FROM A CORIZESUONDENT.)
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. —This afternoon, about two
o'clock, as the Hon. Charles Stonor, brother of Lord
Camoys, was watching the fall of a
.large beech tree in
his park at Holm wood, near Henley-on-Thames, from the
saturated state of the ground it suddenly fell on, cnd
so
seriously injured him that he survived the accident but a
few hours. Lord Camoys arrived by the Western
Railway at Henley, about four o'clock, where the fatal in-
telligence reached him, and his Lordship arrived at Holm-
wood about two hours before his brother's decease:
WOODCUT MURDER.—The ring of the unfortunate
Fanny Phillips was yesterday found in the cottage of
Morley, whose committal for the crime we stated a fort-
night since. When on board the hulks at Woolwich, he
told a person the old woman's ring was hidden in a razor
case at his house ; yesterday the premises were searched,
and the article long. sought for was found in the place and
manner described,- affording a still further evidence of the
guilt of the prisoner.