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London, England, 1840-05-05 00:00:00

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NE--E 3 rnoi,r NEW ZEALAND. Cont2.iiling all the pro-:is:ons, which both Houses
A N EX II? A of the NEW'
had agreed to, of tha former Bills. He censured
CM_ ZEALAND AL i .w publishing, vrith of-
)i• us Ux•racts from theJoirnifis oi CoL Wakefield; Dr. Dief- ! the mode of appointing valuators under the Poor-
ach, the Naturalist ; Ca.„tain Chr.ffes, Commander of the
law in Ireland, who were essential to the Bill ; and
Tcry ; us• received by the New 7_.a.land Company.
Published by 11. Chambers, ZUG, Strand; and may be had he c.illed on their Lordships not to pass the Bill
of all New:lfien.
N.B. The Ira T-Ttlition will remain on sale ail the week, Unless they obtained an assurance that the law
and will b" f:rwartJed to Non-subseribyrs, oa receipt of Gd. in I we
uld be better carried into effect. If the Bill
repaid later.
were not amended to his satisfaction, he would say
" Not content" on the third reading.
The Earl of WINCHILSFA d.ffcred from the
Noble Duke with great pain ; but, being convinced
that passing the Bill would lead to the separation
of the two countries, and the establishment of a
democracy with the worst spirit of intolerance that
ever disgraced a civilized country, he moved that
the Bill be read a second time that day six months.
After a little; mutual crimination and explana-
tion between Viscount MELBOURNE and the
Duke of WELLINGTON, their Lonkhips divided,
and the Bill was read a second time by 131 to 32.
The Bill is to be committed on Thursday week.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
In the Commons, after the presentation of a
great number of petitions, Mr. HUME put
some questions to Lord PALMERSTON relative
to the policy of Government as to Turkey. Thu
Noble Lord replied that in July last a note was
presented to the SULTAN in the name of the Five
Powers, requesting him not to enter into negotia-
tions with MEHEMET ALI relative to anything
done with the concurrence of the Five Powers.
He admitted that two Greek ships, intended to carry
Albanians to recruit MEHEMET A Les armies, had
been stopped by Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS ; and
stated that no orders had been been given to Col.
HoDGES to grant passports to Turks.
In revly to Sir R. PEEL, the Noble Lord stated
that the mediation between Naples and England of the
French Government had been offered and ac-
cepted, that orders had been sent out to stop the
reprisals, but before they could he carried into
execution the King of NAPLES had laid an em-
bargo on all English vessels, and the reprisals had,
in cons, quence, not been suspended.
The House went into a Committee of Supply on
the Miscellaneous Estimates, several items oil
which, for Palaces, the new Houses of Parliament,

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Justice Woodcock, Mr. W. Farren; Young Meadov:s, Mr,
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Sze., were voted.

Some conversation took place about Kew Palace
and Gardens, which. Mr. HUME, with his usual
attention to the public, desired to have made more

accessible.

Some conversation also took place about the new
Houses of Parliament, which may cost, it appears,
2,000,0001., and will, after ail, as Mr. Harp:
said, be in a damp, dark /,lace.
On the vote of 67,C00/, for the Poor-law Com-
missioners, Mr. WILMA MS objected to the amount.
Lord G. SOM E its ET proposed that the sum
be reduced 11,744/. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated
that the Assistant Commissioners had been reduced
from 21 to 17, but he could not advise a further
,
reouction at present. After some conversation,
the Committee divided, and the original proposition
was carried by 57 to 21. The House subse-
quently resumed.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved for leave to
bring in a Bill to improve the Registration of
Voters, and explained at some length the nature of
the 13:11. The Noble Lord proposes to substitute
a permanent body of fifteen barristers for the revising
barristers now employed. He laid down as the
principle of the Bill that the registration should be
as simple as was possible, consistently with ascer-
taining the occupier or person entitled to vote. He
will keep a "name on a register after being there
for some time, and not admit of an annual objec-
' tion. He will do away with payment to the as-
sessed taxes altogether as a criterion of yoting; and
he means to require that the poor-rates be paid up
to within half a year of the time of fixing the vote.
Justly dtd the No!,ic Lord state that those who
passed the Reform Act were too much mistrustful
of having too many voters and too low a class of
voters. The Bill seemed to be generally approved
of, and leave was given.
The Noble Lord also obtained leave to bring in
a III! to regulate further the right of Voting.
At a Quarter-past Twe;ve the House adjourned.

We Linn from the Aorthent Whig that the great
Ulster meeting, held on Thursday last, at Belfast,
to opp3se Lord STANLEY'S Registration Bill, was
lof a must imposing description. " The place seas
tined from roof to floor, with public zeal, rank,
respectability, and independent spirit ; and, graced
by the presence of those who shed a softer lustre
upon the business of the day, it presented such a
spectacle as has seldom warmed the heart and
nerved the energies of men battling for their rights
and liberties." Never, since the days of the Volun-
teers, who were cradled in Belfast, has there been
any thing like a meeting for political purposes which
deserved the name of an Ulster meeting :
On Thursday." says the Northern Il'hiy, "some of
the Volunteer veterans acre present, taking pan in the
proceedings, and sanctioning, as if by right of a commis-
sion from the thus of bygone ;1 lory, the efforts of the men
of Ulster, in delence of their freedom. Then, there were
:he sons and daughters of Volun.cers ; and when Mr.
Haliday, in his brief and very eloquent address, called up
the memories of the past, when the illustrious Chief of the
Velunteers, the late Lord Charleitiont, attended by such
men as Colonel Sharman, stood ;at the head of the citizen
toidiors of the Prey:ace, in Belfast ; and when he spoke
of the presumption of those miserable and wretched fac-
tionists, nho would essay to represent as ' intruders' upon
the same ground a Gosford, a Cauffeild, and a Sharman
Crawford—the swelling burst of enthusiastic acclamation
which re-t elmed his appeal, proved, that the men and
women of the present day, in the North, are not deg,•-
nerated from the patriots, whose deeds remain to cast a
splendeur upon the page of Irish history."
Catholics and Protestants were united in a
common cause to declare their sentiments in direct
hostility to Lord STANLEY'S Bill. The Earl of
GOSFOIID was in the Chair, and the people of
Ulster have hardly any recollection of the time
when the aristocracy of that province have come
forward to join the people for the attainment of a
common good, and the security of general liberty.
We see, from a letter previously published by Mr.
SHARMAN CRAWFORD, and by the speeches at
the meeting, that this gentleman, who was present,
was chiefly instrumental in bringing about this
great public demonstration, and by his exertions
has added to the mane- claims he already possesses
to the enlightened gratitude of the whole empire.
When men of all classes so units—when patriots
of so decided a stamp and such a trustworthy cha-
racter take the lead in their several localities, and
unite with one another to attain a common end, it
is a hopeless struggle for such a puny whipster as
my
t Lord STANLEY,
STAN EY, hol:gh backed by the priests,
to pit himself against the moving and the mighty
mass.

The agitation, too, is not confined to Ireland.
Meetings have been held at Liverpool and other
places to back the Irish in their re.4istance to the
uncalled-for oppression of the Tories. If the Irish
cannot (11coinfit the Tories single-handed, and
should Lord STANLEY pctsist in acting on his
own self-will, many mure such meetings will be
held in England.

One of the resolutions at the Ulster meeting is
well calculated to promote them, and may be con-
sidered as an appeal to the English. As a speci-
men of the good feeling which prevails in Ireland,
and of a desire not to seek a repeal of the Union
if the II isit be only treated with common decency,
we will quote it
" That. we
ions, in England acrd Scotland, to join us on this
feel, that the liberties of the nation can
whip h
instutiti,,
only be effectually secured or defended by that moral power
ununimity produces, we call upon the friends of free
occasion. e call on them to reflect, that any successful
w