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rid Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston. Next packet due, the
Britannia steamer, on the 30th inst., at Liverpool.
" MADEIRA, BRAZILS, &c.—The next mails for Madeira,
Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the evening
of the 4th of August, to be forwarded rid Falmouth. Next
packet due, her 'Majesty's brig Express, August 28. (Prom.
August to January inclusive, the packet touches at Pernam-
buco and Bahia, on her outward passage to Rio Janeiro, and
the other six months on her homeward.)
" NEW SOUTH WALES, &c.—The next mails for Sydney,
New South Wales, South Australia, Port Philip, Van Die-
man's Land, and New Zealand, will be made up on the even-
ing of the 31st, to be forwarded rid Gravesend.
" NEW Yonx.—A ship letter bag for New York will be
made up on the evening of the 26th inst., to be forwarded by
the Great 'Western steamer from Liverpool on the 27th inst."

FOOT-RACE FOR FIFTY POUNDS.—Yesterday the
match between E. Smith, of London, and Brookson, of
Garrett, was decided at the Beehive-grounds, Walworth.
The distance was half a mile, and the stakes 25/. aside. At
the start Smith took the lead, which he maintained for six
hundred yards, when his opponent came up. A very splitting
race ensued ; ar.d, after desperate efforts on both sides, Brook-
son ran in the winner.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 20.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack at a
Quarter to Five o'Clock.
Messages from the Commons brought up several Bills,
Which were read a first time.
Lord REDESDALE presented 16 petitions, signed
by 900 persons, complaining of the break of gauge at
Gloucester.

GLASGOW TERMINI BILL.
Lord COLCHESTER moved that this Bill be read a
third time.
The Earl of RADNOR moved as an amendment that
the third reading be postponed for a few days.
After a few words from Lord COLCHESTER and the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
A conversation ensued, when a complaint being made
that there was nothing going on,
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY and Lord BEAUMONT
stated that there was a great deal going on.
Lord BROUGHAM thought the Rouse ought to be
satisfied.
Earl RADNOR and Lord. Bssexasossr explained that
there was a motion for the adjournment of the debate.
Lord BROUGHAM thought that there was no harm
in the adjournment.
On the motion being put the third reading was ad-
journed till Thursday night.
REFUSAL OF SITES FOR THE FREE
CHURCHES.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE gave notice that
he was entrusted with several petitions on this subject,
which he should present to-morrow.
BISHOPRIC OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR.
Earl PO WIS rose to present several petitions against
the consolidation of these two sees, and he begged leave
to move that the petitions lie on the table.
The NOBLE EARL then moved the second read-
ing of the St. Asaph and Bangor Bills. In snaking
:his motion, he should refrain from entering into very
long statements. He had addressed their Lordships
too often on this subject to pass any other subjects which
had immediate relevance to the matter in hand. Their
Lordships were aware that in 1834 a Commission was
issued for ascertaining the position of the Established
Church. In the report of that Commission there
was a proposition to found a bishopric of Manchester,
and this bishopric was to be supported by the consolida-
tion of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. But to effect
ihis it was necessary to hold out some inducement to
yield their rights. That inducement was the formation
of a bishopric in the rich and populous agricultural dis-
tricts of Lancashire. The Bishops of these sees were, in
the extreme, popular, and it was necessary to hold
out some bonus to the inhabitants of the princi-
pality, and that bonus was the advantage he
had just mentioned, that of providing spiritual juris-
diction for a district but very inefficiently supplied.
He was happy he had the opportunity of appealing to
the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) and the Noble and
Learned Lord on the Woolsack to do justice to the coun-
try in this matter. He appealed to the Noble Marquis
whether, if the present were a case in private lite, if
certain property had come into his power, he would
refuse to appropriate that property to the purpose for
which he had received it? He made a like appeal to the
Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack. He
hoped, that consichring the poverty of the country,
in which these two sees were, their Lordships would
allow the Bill to pass. His Lordship, in support of what
ho said, referred their Lordships to a petition presented
to their Lordships' House from people in one of the
dioceses. He would refer to the petitions which had been
presented against the union of these two sees in proof of
the feeling which prevailed in the principality on the
subject. He would refer also to those which had been
presented feom Gloucestershire, from Essex, and from
Kent, to show the general feeling of the country.
The next subject to which he was about to allude, because he
was opposed to a Noble Friend of his, who is an advocate f r
the Church, and who was ready to prescribe a course which
would be more efficient than his own for the support of that
Church—( Hear)—he felt that he ( Earl Powis) could not ob-
tain a fair hearing on this subject, for he knew how the cha •
racter of that Noble Lord and his influence would override any-
thine. which he had to assert. Yet, with deference to that
opinion, he still felt it necessary to urge the
principles which he held, and the opinions which
had been founded upon them. His Noble Friend had
cited the opinion of the Archbishop of York, the Lord Ha-
therton, and another Noble Friend, to whom he would not
allude; but he would venture to assert, that those Noble Lards
had never been more decidedly wrong than they were on the
present occasion. He had thought it necessary to say this
much, because, knowing the weight which attached to the opi-
nion of his Noble Friend, and the weight by which
it was to be supported, he was particularly anxious respect-
ing the opposition which was to be offered to this Bill. Yet, from
what had taken place, he believed that neither their Lordships
nor the other House of Parliament would be over tender on
the wording of an Act of Parliament. The Act to which he
alluded was one passed only forty-nine years ago, which was on
a subject of the greatest interest, and which had for its object
the preservation of the Church. But parties had materially
changed since that time. (From this point his Lordship
was so inaudible that it was perfectly impossible to
report his observations with anything like accuracy. )
The Noble Lord read a long extract from one of the petitions
presented by him at an early part of the evening, showing that
the efficient discharge of the duties of the diocesan must be
materially affected by the union of the two sees. His Lordship
concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE: said he would state the
reasons which induced him to resist the Noble Earl's motion.
At the same time he felt a difficulty, a difficulty however alto-
gether arising from the familiarity of their Lordships with the
subject. He would enter therefore upon it very briefly. The
Noble Earl had said it would be necessary for him to state the date
and origin of the Commission issued on this question. In
1835, under the administration of Sir Robert Peel and
the Noble Duke ( Wellington), a Commission was
issued to inquire into the state and condition of
the Established Church, with a view to its improvement.
The principles of that Commission were-Ist, That they were
not prepared to recommend any additional bishops for England.
2d, That those sees should be united where it was possible to
do so without disadvantage to the Church. 3J,
They recommended a new distribution of lands. When,
therefore, their Lordships gave their assent to that
report, they gave their assent to all its recommendations. The
chief bishop of England, and the metropolitan of that city,
gave their sanction to it, and, therefore, the term spoliation
was not at all applicable to its recommendation, for
if anything of this sort were contemplated, the
report never would have had the sanction of those high eccle-
siastical dignitaries, who, it would be admitted, had no desire
to curtail the usefulness or diminish the power of the
Established Church in this country. Their recommendations
were, to a certain extent, carried out since 1835,
and yet, up to the year 1843, his Noble Friend
(Earl Powis) had never thought proper to
bring the consideration of their recommendations before the
attention of their Lordships. The, principality of Wales
actualy gained by the recommendations of the comraissioo.
The principality of Wales had not objected to receive the bene-
fits conferred by the commission, and •he thought
it really too bad, that now they had receivei
the maximum of the gifts of the commission they should
refuse to be affected by the other reforms, which, though they
might appear to diminish the number of prelates in that prin-
cipality, would, in the opinion of a great number of prelates,
promote to a very great extent the general interests of the
church throughout the country. He maintained that the
recommendations of the Commission would tend to
add to the episcopal jurisdiction of the church. The
Commissioners saw great masses of the people
without any adequate assistance from the Church ; and, in
order to meet that state of things, measures like the one before
the consideration of the House were proposed to be adopted
so as to provide Bishops for Lancashire and Yorkshire.
The bishopric of Ripon has been created, and successfully
created. fhe parties put the wants and the revenues together
and they created a new bishopric. If any of their Lordships
had heard, as doubtless many of them had, the number of towns
which were to be thrown together, if they had contemplated
the population of those towns, they would be convinced
that the Commissioners had done their duty in consoli-
dating under one spiritual jurisdiction, the inhabi-
tants of this district, which combined the most
populous
districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. See-
eireumstan_ces, he thought that the Church
of
ing
England would do wisely in meeting the necessity
and provide for this district some safe means by which the
morality and the religion of the district might be secured.
He would rest his claims on this ground ; and allowing that, in
point of importance, this was a first-rate consideration, yet,
although he would admit, that it was an evil that these sees
should be suppressed, and yet still he must assert that the
establishment of the see of Manchester, calculated as it was
to supply a large constituency would be of immensely more
importance; but which was contained within the
range of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. But further than
this, it appeared by the returns which had been submitted to
Parliament, that the population of the neighbourhood of the
bishopric of Manchester had so increased, that the excess was
beyond that of the whole of the sees of North Wales
by b a considerable number. His Noble Friend would besur-
prised to hear that within fourteen days evidence had come into
his hands which rendered it necessary to consider whether
the question whether new bishops might be created who should
not have a seat in this House, Looking at alyl
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position of his Noble Friend, and he, therefore, pro
the Bill be read a second time this day three months.posed that
The Bishop of LONDON thought that he could adduce
reasons for the support of those sees which ha
put to their Lordships. His Lordvhipthoadughntotth3e,ett
some
longer time might better prepare them- fcr any change that was
necessary. As to what fell from the Noble Marquis(Lans-
downe) that they should lose no time in establishing the bishop-
ric at Manchester, he was sure their Lordships would all agree
with it. In thinking on this subject he was of opinion that
funds sufficient might be got for that previous to a vacancy in
the sees of North Wales. It was true that the funds in the
hands of the Commissioners were not more than 9301. a-year,
and if one of the sees in question were vacant, there would be
a surplus of about 2,000. But he thought that they might
apply the capital in the hands of the Commissioners to the
amount of 1,0001. a-year, and he was certain of another 1,0001.
being made available within two months of this time, so that
the new Bishop of Manchester might begin with about 5,0001.
He hoped that this suggestion might appear practicable with
the existence of the two sees separated.
The Bishop of BANGOR hoped, that if he lived so long,
he might yet see such arrangements made as would not make
his removal necessary from the country where he had spent so
many years. The only benefit, he said, his diocese had re.
ceived from the Commission was the appointment of two arch-
deacons and two trifling augmentations. The feeling through.
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