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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1847.

The Lords met at Five.

Lord BROUGHAM moved for the documents relating to
the commitment of a boy, five years and two months old,
to Tothill Fields' priscn on a charge of felony. Ile
moved for these papers with a view to the removal of
the committing magistrate.
Agreed to.

On the motion of the Earl of ELLENBOROUGU, certain
returns relating to the Navigation and, Export trade were
ordered to be made.

The Labouring Poor (Ireland) Bill passed through
Committee, and their Lordships adjourned.

The Commons met at four o'clock.
Mr. SPOONER, on behalf of Mr. ORNIIDY GORE, post-
poned the motion of which he had given notice, for the
removal of Smithfield market, to Thursday, the 18th, on
which day he would move for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the subject.
In answer to Sir A. L. HAY, the LORD•ADVOCATE
stated that the civil authorities were in no way to blame
for calling out the military during the late meal riots in
Scotland.

Mr. J. O'CONNELL gave notice that on the order of
the day for the House going into Committee of Supply
being read, he should move that those persons at present
employed on the public works in Ireland, be for the re-
mainder of their term employed in the tillage of the
land.

Mr. VERNON Slum then rose to move—" That, in
order to assist and encourage voluntary emigration to
the colonies, it is expedient to increase the importance
and authority of the Land and Emigration Board, to
add to their agency in Great Britain and Ireland, and
promote their vigilant superintendence of the passage
and future location of the emigrants."

Mr. MAcavxxoN seconded the motion.
Mr. LEFROY and Mr. KERR thanked the Hon. Gentle-
men for having attracted the attention of the Govern-
ment to the subject.
Mr. limas did not wish to offer any direct opposition
to the motion, but would content himself with moving
the previous question, as he thought it unadvisable to
interfere with the proceedings of the Emigration Board.
The House ss as subsequently addressed by Dr. BOWRING,
Mr. S. O'BRIEN, Lord J. RUSSELL, who was of opinion
that no assistance was required from Government, hut
that the subject should bo left to private enterprise, Mr.
liorE, Mr. C. BULLER, and several other Hon Members.
Ultimately the motion was withdrawn.
Mr. Huron then brought forward his resolutions with
respect to Cracow. The Hon. Member addressed
the House at great length, and was followed by Lord
SANDON, Lord J. RUSSELL, and other lion. Members.
The debate was, however, adjourned till Thursday next.
The report on the Factories Bill was then brought
up, and ordered to be further considered on March 18.
The other orders having been disposed of the House
adjourned at half-past Twelve o'clock.

Instead of dwindling away, the indignation which
the Austrian and Russian Governments have excited
against themselves by the occupation of Cracow is
rapidly increasing in energy, and promises in time to
become an irresistible means of revenging Poland and
of vindicating the sanctity of international treaties.
That indignation has been successively expressed in
the official protests forwarded to the Courts of
Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and Berlin, in the brief but
emphatic allusion to those protests contained in the
Speech from the Throne, in the enormous assembly
convened in the Freemasons' Tavern, on Tuesday
evening, and in the earnest and repeated commenta-
ries of an untramelled Press. It has now found a
' voice in the Parliament of Great Britain. To the
jealous and watchful Autocrat this repetition of con-
tumelious and wrathful accusations, both in regard to
the policy of his own Cabinet and in that of his ob-
sequious and sympathetic neighbour, must be serious
cause for trepidation. The might of justice, sus-
tained by the enthusiasm of unanimous nations,
and allied to the spirit of liberty and the genius of
patriotism, is irresistible when opposed to the selfish
and solitary sway of a detested despotism. It is be-
cause we are so thoroughly satisfied with the gigantic
power of those predominant forces, when combined
together, that we are watching with so much interest
the spread of the odium consequent upon the last
and most flagitious of the crimes which have been
perpetrated at the instigation of Russia, and under
the guidance of Prince METTERNICH. And it is
because of this sense of security and of our dormant
strength that we are morally convinced the present
agitation in respect to Polish freedom will, if con-
ducted with undiminished ardour, ultimately prove
victorious.

We are grateful therefore to the Honourable Mem-
ber for Montrose for the strenuous efforts he is
making to bring this important matter directly under
the consideration of Parliament. Although we are
ready to admit the force of Lord Jous RUSSELL'S ob-
jection to the third point in the motion brought for-
ward by Mr. Hume, namely,that the non-continuance
of the payment of the Russo-Dutch Loan is scarcely
a question coming directly under the cognizance of
the House of Commons, but is peculiarly a matter
requiring the previous interposition of the Executive,
we are still sufficiently satisfied that the introduction
of the subject to that Honourable House must
prove in effect beneficial, to express our obligation
and gratitude for the course pursued by the Honour-
able Gentleman the Member for Montrose.
It cannot be forgotten that the occupation of
Cracow by Austrian troops was the cause of certain
observations from the lips of Mr. HUME to-
wards the conclusion of last session. Remembering
the military possession which was taken of that
neutral republic in 1831, and subsequently in 1836,
the Honourable Member deemed this new inter-
ference with the arrangements of the Cracovian mu-
nicipality of sufficient importance to justify the
more rigid scrutiny of those passive Governments who
were parties to the treaty ensuring to Cracow its
independence. The result has significantly verified
the suspicions then expressed by the representative
of Montrose. Brooding over the contiguity of a free
state, however insignificant its dimensions, and con-
spiring the means for its extinction and oblitera-
tion during a period of more than thirty years,
Austria and Russia at length found a propitious
moment for the consummation of their unexa:npled
crimes. The preservation of a portion of that Poland
whose colossal debris were scattered along the fron-
tiers of their several territories, goaded on the crowned
robbers of the North to the commission of the deed
which they seemed to regard as the only means of re
moving from the face of Europe the otherwise damning
and everlastingtmonument of their common infamy.
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