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London, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

Caviling IATIL

LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1847.

Mr. ESCOTT, in answer to Sir R. INcus, said that the
Roman Catholic Relief Bill would be committed imme-
diately afttr Easter.

Lord Joni RUSSELL said that the grant for education
would be the same as last year.
Mr. RAMIE defended certain Highland proprietors
from the charges NI hich had been brought against them
of neglecting the poor.

Mr. ELLICE bore testimony to the great exertions of
the Government, who had done all that it was in the
power of any Government to do, to ward off the effects
of famine.
After a few words from Sir G. GREY and Mr. COL-
LETT, the subject dropped.
The House having resolved itself into a Committee
of Ways and Means.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER detailed the ne-
gotiations into which he had entered for the pupose of
raising the loan of 8,000,000/. The parties bidding for
the loan were to bid so much money for each 1001. Con-

solidated Stock. He had accepted one of 891. 10s. for
each 100/. The Right Honourable Gentleman con-

eluded by moving the usual resolutions authorising the
raising the loan, which, after a short conversation, was
agreed to.

The House then resumed.

On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the House went
into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, and
the Bill was ordered to be recommitted on Monday.
On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the Committee on
the Landed Property (Ireland) Bill, was, after a short
conversation, postponed to Monday next.
On the motion that the House go into Committee of
Supply on the army estimates,
Mr. HUME objected to the increase intended in these
estimates, for which he saw no reason whatever.
The House was then addressed by Sir DE LACY
EVANS, Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, Mr. WILLIAMS, and
Mr. BROTHERTON.

After which the House resolved itself into a Commit:
tee of Supply, when Mr. Fox MAULE proposed the army
estimates. Several votes were agreed to, and the House
resumed.

The Consolidated Fund Bill was read a second time.

The Bill for limiting. the period for enlistment in the

army was read a first lime.

The House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

A momentary retrospect as to the relative position
and complicated intrigues of the Continental Cabinets
cannot be altogether unprofitable. It may enable us
to accumulate some additional confirmation of our

original conjectures as to the motives which have
actuated the presiding geniuses of those Cabinets in
their nefarious and tortuous machinations. The time
which has elapsed since the first development and
final consummation of these occurrences is so far
advantageous, inasmuch as it will enable us to take
the matter into consideration in its totality. Our in-

tention is by no means to review the voluminous cor-
respondence laid upon the tables of the Legislative
Chambers of France and the Parliament of Great
Britain. The wrangling of hostile diplomatists has
no peculiar fascination for us at this moment; neither
are we disposed to make any further commen-
taries upon the kidnapping of a Spanish
Princess, or the larceny of an avaricious despotism.
Already there have been sufficient observations upon
the invasion of popular rights in the incorporation of

the Cracovian territories with the enormous do-
minions of Austria, and upon the adroit interference
with the constitutional privileges and national
liberties of the Spanish population. So much has,
indeed, been written upon those infamous infrac-
tions of the treaties of Utrecht and of Vienna, that
we should be loth to refer to them again, otherwise
than as the media through which we may estimate the
future fortunes of Continental. *Europe. It is simply
and exclusively upon the consequences of these mea-
sures, therefore, that we are induced to take a retro-
spect of such an unattractive character. With the
consideration of those consequences is intimately and
inextricably blended the consideration of the inten-
tions of the principal actors in these strange and al-
most unprecedented transactions.

It is impossible to divest the mind of the notion
that the marriage of the Infanta and the seizure of
Cracow are bound together by a secret animus—that
the former was the incitement to the latter ; that the
latter was the compensation of the former. When
Lisbon was engulphed by an earthquake, the subter-
.

ranean convulsion produced by that catastrophe tra-
velled noiselessly under the ocean and bubbled up in
the hot-springs of Clifton. The almost simultaneous
ebullition of these internal commotions of the globe tes-
tified that there was an immediate connexion between
the two occurrences, that they were either the simul-
taneous results of the same latent motor, or that the
oae
upon the was the exciting cause of the other. Precisely
same species of evidence it is obvious, as
we have just observed, that the seizure of Cracow
and the marriage of the Infanta were either correla-
tive or sequential.

Notwithstanding the solemn engagements of amity

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
Lord BROUGHAM brought in a Bill to amend the law
with respect to insolvent debtors, which was read a first
time.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in answer to the Earl
of RIPON, said that he would lay upon the table all the
papers relating to the affairs of the Punjaub.
After certain questions had been asked and answered,
The Marquis of CLANEICARDE moved the second rustl-
ing of the Labouring Poor (Ireland) Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM would not oppose this act of in-
demnity. but he thought it should have been proposed
earlier.

Lord MONTEAGLE WOUld not oppose the motion, but
ho thought the agreements for labour on farms should
be left to be voluntary between landlord and tenant.
After a few words from the Marquis of WESTMEATII
and the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH,
Earl FITZWILLIAM said that the people of England
did not properly understand this question, and their
present economy would turn out to be prospective ex-

travagance.
After a short speech from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
the Bill was read a second time.
Earl GREY brought in a Bill to amend the laws re-
specting transportation, and also a Bill to amend the
laws for the management of the Milbank and Park-
hurst Penitentiaries, which he proposed should be read
a second time on Friday.
Their Lordships then adji.urned.
The Commons met at Four.
The New Zealand Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that her MAJESTY had been
graciously pleased to order the Lords of the Council to
appoint a day of national fast and humiliation.
In answer to a question by Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, it
was stated by Mr. LABOUCHERE, that in certain instances
in Sligo, Bd. a day had been paid to labourers on the
public works, who, having taken task work, were unable
to complete it ; but it should be re membered that the
average daily wages of labourers in the county of Sligo
was only 6d. a day.