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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1848.

is only let out upon parole. Woe to him if he returns
home a minute late! Ile is asked through the keyhole
"if he is not ashamed of himself ?" and before ho has
wiped his feet on the door-mat, he is told, loud enough
for all the servants to hear it, that " Julia is determined
not to endure his abominable profligacy any longer—the
poor thing is sinking fast into a premature grave, and
she is resolved upon having a separate establishment."
The next morning the mother-in--law and her daughter
leve with a hundred bandboxes, and the husband is left
alone without as much as the key of the tea-caddy to
console himself with. But he is not allowed to enjoy his
solitude long. A St. Swithin of letters from the
mother in the name of her injured daughter, keeps pour-
ing in upon him, reproaching him with everything short
of arson. He is visited at length by his dread enemy
even in person, and after an hydraulic scene, made more
terrible by the threat, that " she will never leave him
till she has brought him to a sense of the injuries he has
inflicted upon that sainted creature," he is obliged to
capitulate; he falls upon his knees before his wife, and
begs to be forgiven. The mother-in-law stands by, like
a stern Nemesis of the sex, and will not allow the poor
culprit to rise before he has confessed over and over
and over again how deeply he was in the wrong, and
" what an infamous wretch he must have been ever to
doubt such angelic goodness!" The husband's children
belong, properly speaking, to the Model Mother in-Law.
She superintends their education, dresses them, whips
them, physics them, and does whatever she pleases with
them. She begs " he'll not interfere in matters he can-
not possibly understand." It is at the advent of a new
baby, however,othat her tyrannic power is the most ab-
solute; the whole household then, from kitchen to garret,
is under her thumb, and the centre of a large circle of
Godfreys, Gawps, Prigs, and Dalbys, she administers
elixirs and commands alternately, which no one dares
disobey. The doctor even succumbs to her; and as for
the poor husband he sinks to the smallest possible point
of virile insignificance. He rings the bell—no one
answers it; he wanders about a miserable Peter Schlemhil
in his own house—a husband who has lost even the sha-
dow of authority. He asks for his dinner—not a soul
knows anything about it. A bed is fitted up for him
somewhere in a lumber room at the top of the house. He
asks to see his wife, but is met by the mother-in-law at
the door, and questioned if " the man really wishes to
kill his innocent babe and wife?" He is " the man."
The Model Mother-in-Law is essentially a " strong-
minded woman." She is always telling people ." a bit
of her mind." The husband .gets a bit every day. All
his relations, too, who dare " to put their noses into what
does not concern them," are favoured with " a bit "—a
good large bit—also. Her mind, like the bell of St.
Sepulchre, is never tolled, unless it is the prelude to some
dreadful execution. She dearly loves a quiet family.
The Model Mother-in-Law makes a principle of living
with her victims. When once in the house she is as
difficult to get out as the dry-rot, and if allowed her own
way soon undermines everything and brings the house
"in no time " about everybody's ears. She goes
out of town with them every year. She should
never forgive herself if anything happened when she
was away and she was not near her dearest Julia to aid
and comfort her. The husband's comfort is never con-
sidered. If ho does succeed in driving her out of his
house his torments -are by no means at an end,
for the chances are that she takes a lodging in the seine
street, and lives just opposite to him. Then she amuses
herself _by running' back-Wards and forwards all day,
dropping in to, dinner or luncheon about six times
a week, or else watching everything that takes place in
his house from over the window blinds of her " first pair
front." His only escape, then, is in e.tablishing a So-
ciety for the Promotion of Emigration from England of
all homeless mothers-in-law who have only one
daughter. If this.shonld be fruitless,this only hope is in
procuring a law to annul all marriages where the hus-
band can prove that he has married " a treasure of a
(laughter "Lpho has a " jewel of a mother," If this
remedy. eveu.. should ho had better take a couple
of Life Pills, for, there is "„uo rest but the grave" for
the _husband ..wlaO groans under a Model Mother-in-
Law.... • . .

131 PERI

AMEN T

i urn moved for on the 19th day of April last by Lord
George Bentinck, relative to the articles imported during
the first four months of the years 1845, 1846, 1847, and
tB4B respectively, which articles are not included in the
returns usually furnished by the Board of Trade, will be
presented to this House; and whether it is the intention
of her Majesty's Government to afford the whole of that
information to the House which has been sent to the
Treasury, under the above return, by the Custom-house
authorities, before or on the 13th day of the present
month.
Mr. PARKER said the returns had already been laid
upon the table. .
SUNDAY-TRADING BILL.
In answer to a question from Sir BENJAMIN HALL,
Mr. HINDLEY stated that he was reluctantly com-
plied to withdraw the Sunday-trading Bill for the pre-
sent session.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 17.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
APPEALS IN CIVIL BILLS (DUBLIN) BILL.
On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE,
this Bill was read a second titre.
Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions from
various lodges of Odd Fellows in favour of the Bill
legalizing their societies.
PROTECTION OF FEMALES.
Lord BROUGHAM, in answer to a question from
Lord Campbell, said be should not proceed with his Bill
on this subject during the present session.
IRELAND.

Lord BROUGHAM called the attention of the Go•
vernment to the recent field-day of the clubs in Ireland.
These clubs should be taught that it was useless to
wrestle with the law, and if the law was not sufficiently
strong to put them down, it should be made sufficiently
strong.
The answer of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE was
inaudible in the gallery.
RETURNS FRONI THE BOARD OF TRADE.
Lord BROUGHAM complained that a mernant had
applied to the Board of Trade for the usual monthly re-
turns, and had been informed that he could not obtain
them until the next day, yet that very day he had seen
them in a newspaper. He complained that the Govern-
ment acted unfairly in not giving their advertisements
and their information to all newspapers equally without
favouritism.

INDIAN COTTON. ;
Mr. BRIGHT brought up the report of the Select
Committee on Indian cotton.
SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. HUME said he • had a notice on the paper
to the effect that the Chamber of Commerce of
Jawaica be heard, by their agent, at the bar of this
I louse, against the Bill for admitting slave-grown sugar,
and against the breach of faith and the injuries inflicted
ttiereby on the island of Jamaica, as prayed for in their
petition, printed in the Appendix to the 55th Report on
Public Petitions, No. 1,153. Since giving the notice he
had ascertained that the parties ought to have petitioned
to have been heard against the Bill of 1846, and that
they could not be heard against the present measure.
The SPEAKER said the information the lion. Mem-
ber had received was quite correct. This was not a case
in which petitioners could be heard.
Mr. HUME said, under those circumstances he must
withdraw his motion.
DUTIES ON CORN.
Lord G. BENTENCK asked whether the Noble Lord
(Lord J. Russell) had any objection to lay on the table
of the ilt;use the minute ntider which the remission of
duties on corn had taken place. He also wished to
know, 'assuming that the: course taken by the Govern-
ment in remitting those duties was illegal and un-
constitutional, whether it was the intention of the
Noble Lord to ask the House to pass a Bill oflndemnity.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had no objection
to lay the minute in question before the House. He did
not consider that the course taken by the Government
was either illegal or unconstitutional, and, therefore, it
was not his intention to bring in any Bill of Indemnity.
THE SPIRIT DEALERS' WAREHOUSING BILL.
In reply to a question,.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated
that he proposed to take this Bill as it stood on the paper,
but merely pro forma, in order that the suggestions that
lisd been received from various _parts of the country, and
which had been embodied in it, might be printed ; the
Bill would then come before the douse in an amended
state, in which he hoped it would be adopted.
ARTERIAL DRAINAGE (IRELAND).

SPAIN.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY wished to know
whether the Government kept up any communication
with Spain, so as to remonstrate against the renewal of
such atrocities as the shooting of General Alzaa, and the
reprisals which had taken place on the part of the Car-
lists by the shooting of certain of the civic guard. He com-
plained that the whole of the recent correspondence with
the Spanish Government had not been published? He
wished to know in what state we were with respect to
our relations with Spain?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he would
not take upon himself to say that the Government was
in a state to answer all questions that might be put with
regard to Spain; but he could state, with regard to the
outrage alluded to, that one general had been put to
death by another general, both of those generals having
been formerly in the Carlist service; but this had oc-
' curred before there had been time for any diplomatic
• agent. of a foreign power to interfere.
The E 4.1 of MALMESBURY said the present Go-
vernment of this country had a very considerable advan-
tage over their predecessors who were in office during
the last civil war in Spain; and knowing well how
anxious the Noble Marquis and the other members of
her Majesty's Government would be to prevent the re-
currence of such deeds as disgraced the former civil war,
he begged to remind them that the pretender to the
crown of Spain was residing in London at the present
moment, and was, therefore, within reach of the advice
of her Majesty's Government. Den Carlos was not in
London during the former war, and could not, therefore.
have been communicated with. But he felt sure that if
her Majesty's Governtnent made any suggestion to a
party residing in this country, it would be attended to.
He was quite sure it would he attended to by the Spanish
pretender): and he hoped her Majesty's Government
would use there influence with him to induce him to re-
call those partisans of his whom they saw leaving this
country day by day, and going to lose their lives in Spain.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE reminded the Noble
Lord that the personage alluded to was living here as a
private gentleman; that the Government had no right to
interfere with him; that it did not appear that he
was holding himself forth as a Pretender to the Crown
of Spain, and that. if he did so hold himself,
the Government of this country could not recognise him
by holding any communication with him as such.
After a few words from the Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY, the subject dropped.
CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
The Criminal Law Administration Amendment Bill
was, on the motiou of Lord CAMPBELL, read a third
time and passed.. .• •
•.. scorns!' LAW OF ENTAIL BILL.
On .the order of the day being moved for going into
Committee on this Bill,
The Earl of HADDINGTON begged to state some
objections which he entertained ao certain parts of it. It
treated some vested rights with a lightness which it was
not becomine on the part of their Lordships' house to
sanction. TFieir, Lordships ought to hold those rights
scred. _ He did not conceive this Bill was called for by
the necessities of the case; he should therefore move that
the Bill be committed on this day three months..
Lord. CAMPBELL said that he did not consider that
the • Noble Earl was very consistent in the course which
he had taken, for he: objected to the present 'law of
entail in Scotland, yet he called upon their Lordships to
perpetuate the present entails in seculum seculorum. He
should therefore oppose the amendment.
Lord WII ARNCLIFFE entertained strong objections
to the piesentlaw of entail in Scotland, but he objected
to the present Bill, as it.was a most unnecessary interfe-
rence with private rights.
Lord BROUGHA NI felt great douht as to the retro-
spectiie operation of this Bill in the way proposed. He
did not yield without hesitation; but after the matter
had undergone so much consideration, he thought they
might go into Conimittee to see whether they could not
improve it in such a way as to meet the objections urged
against it.
The amendment was negatived without a division, and
the House having resolved itself into Committee, the
Bill passed without amendment, and was reported to be
read a third time to-morrow.
CANADA UNION ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion of Earl GREY, that this Bill be read a
third time,
Lord STANLEY said that he did not mean to object
to the third reading of the Bill. It must be iu the recol-
lection of the House that it was enacted by the Canada
Union Act !hat the English should be recognized as the
only legal language of that colony ; but by this Bill it
was proposed to go back and to allow the use of the
French language in certain cases in the lower part of the
coluny. He did not believe there was any necessity for
this change ; and he_ believed the ultimate result of it
would be to affect the validity of the union of the two
provinces. '
Earl GREY said the existing state of the law had
proved inconsistent with the welfare of the colonies, and
this Bill was considered necessary to introduce a better
state of things.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
The Officers Cl Courts of Justice (Ireland) Assimila-
tion of Appointments Bill and the Copyhold Enfran-
chisement Extension Bill went through Committee. .
Their Lordships then adjourned.

In reply to another question,
The RIGHT floss. BARONET stated that the whole of
the information on this subject would be contained in
the general report of the Board of Works. It was in the
hands of the printer, and would be laid before the House
with as little delay as possible.
BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.
Lord J: RUSSELL then rose and said—Mr. Speaker,
in answer to a question from the Right Hon. Baronet the
Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) I stated that
I would on this day follow in the usual course which
has been adopted of late years, and state to the
Muse what Bills the Government purpose pro-
ceeding with during the present session, and those
which they intend to abandon. I can only state
their intentions with respect to the principal
Bills, those only which' are of great importance; it is
not necessary, I think, for the Government to go into
any statement with respect to the Bills which are of
minor importance, with the details of which it is unneces-
sary for me to trouble the House. With regard to
these Bills, the first that I shall mention is the
Public Health Bill, which has passed through this
House. It has been read a second time in the
House of Lords, and now stands for a third read-
ing. With respect to that Bill, the Government in-
tend to press for the defiuite opinion of Parliament
upon it during the present session. We hope to place
that Bill in a position to enable it to receive the royal
assent during the present session. The next Bill I have
to mention is the Incumbered Estates (Ireland)
Bill. That Bill has come down froia the House
of Lords ; many amendments have been intro-
duced into it by this House, and it has gone
through Committee with the general assent of the House.
I shall press on that Bill, and endeavour to receive
the assent of the House of Lords to the amendments made,
in order that it may pass into- a law during the
present session: I think that is a Bill of the
greatest importance, and one which ought speedily to be
passed into a law. There is a Bill which I introduced
the other night, and which I propse shall be read a se-
cond time on Thursday next—l allude to the Bill
relating to corrupt practices at the elections for
boroughs.—(Hear.) That is a Bill likewise of great
importance, as it refers to inquiries into the practices,
into the conduct of the electors of such boroughs with
regard to which the House has heard much during the
present session. I think that that Bill is of too important
a character to allow that it should be postponed. I shall
therefore proceed with that Bill un Thursday next.
There is another Bill with respect to which many ques-
tions have been frequently asked—the Diplomatic Re-
lations with Rome Bill. That Bill has come
from the other House of Parliament ; it is in
the hands of the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affsirs, and he will, on the first open day,
move that it be read a second time, with the view of
proceeding with it in the present session. I come now,
Sir, to a Bill of the utmost importance, founded
on a recommendation of a Committee on the navi
gation-laws, and on which various - debates have
taken place. Owing to the debates that have taken
place on the propriety of increasing the force of the army
and navy. and on the expediency of the renewal of
the income-tax, we were prevented from intro•
ducing that measure early in the session—l mean
the resolutions on which we intended to frame a Bill for
an alteration of the navigation-laws. Since the mea-
sure was introduced in May, another measure has like-
wise been proposed with respect to sugar,
on which long debates have taken place. We
have, therefore, been disappointed in the hope which
we entertained that we should be enabled to go on con-
tinuously with that Bill as soon as it was introduced.
As matters stand now, considering the late period of the
session to which we have arrived, the great importance
of the question, and that it cannot for some time go up
to the House of Lords, we have come very reluctantly to
the opinion that we cannot proceed with that Bill
during the present session.—(Surprise.) Having stated
that we shall not proceed with this Bill during the pre-
sent session, I trust there will be no objection
on the part of the House to go into Corn
mittee on the Bill with the view of assenting
to propositions of my Right Honourable Friend,
so that the nature of its provisions, and the de-
bate upon them may be placed before the country
for, consideration before the ensuing session. Sir,
I feel that while this measure has been the sub-
ject of great discussion in this country, that the failure
of its passing in the present session will be a great
disappointment in some. of- our most important
colonies.—(Hear, hear.) I think it my duty, however,
to declare that, without blaming any one, or without im-
puting delay to any one, that the Government will pro-
pose to introduce the measure at the very earliest
period next session, and after the discussion it has
received, and the approbation of the principle exe
pressed by •a large majority of the House, that the
important province of Canada, and the foreign powers
to whom we have held out the prospect that the navigar
tion-laws would . be repealed, will feel confident
that next session a measure will be passed taking
away the restrictions on navigation—(Hear, hear)—and
that they will entertain no doubt that such a measure will
receive the assent of rarliatnent. It is also, as a conse-
quence upon that, the intention of the Government to
withdraw the Merchant Seamen's Service Bill. There
is another measure which I consider of very great im
portance with respect to Ireland, namely, the Bill with
respect to the Elective Franchise of Counties in
Ireland. That is a most important measure ; but I am
not.disposed at this time to begin a measure of such im-
portance, and I, therefore, propose to postpone that mea-
sure to another. session. There is another mea-
sure of great importance with regard to Ireland—
the Landlords and Tenants Bill—which we shall
endeavour to obtain the , assent of the House
to in the course of the present session. There are
various other Bills of minor importance in the long list
of to-day, many of which the Government have nor
thing to do with. I have, however, now stated
the intentions of the Government with regard to the
principal Bills, and I shall now conclude by proposing
that the order of the day for the second reading of the
Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill should be now read for
the purpose of its being discharged.
Mr. GOULBURN said the repeal of the navigation-
laws was held out to the House as being calculated to
confer immense bvnefit upon the. West India colonies,
and he therefore wished to ask the Noble Lord
whether, in abandoning the navigation-laws, he
had any other measure in contemplation to compensate
the West Indies for the loss of the benefit that would
have been conferred upon them by the repeal of the
navigation-laws.
Mr. HERRIES. entirely concurred in the course the
Noble Lord proposed to pursue with respect to the
navigation-laws, and he could state that his party would
offsr no obstacle to the preliminary step the Noble Lord
proposed to take this session'in reterence.to their repeal;
but it was not to be understood by this concession that
the *Protectionist party had at all changed their views
nisi.' the subject, or that they would not as strenuously
eppose the repeal next session as they had this.—(hear.)
Mr. BRIGHT considered this was" a fitting oppor-
tunity to make one or two observations with respect to the
progress of business this session, and with regard to what
his considered 'te be 'the unfortunate course Government
had pursued.—(Hear,_ hear.) kle was not going to
enter ,Into a discussion of the merits of the navigation-
laws, but he; was certain that they were mentioned
in the Queen's Speech, and the great raaniffacturing,
isimmerciel, and shipping towns were in favour of
their abolition.—(Cries of Hear, hear.") The
Noble . Lord bad introduced the Bill on the naviga-
tion-laws in May last, but he (Mr. Bright) confessed it
was his,opinion that the Government did not appear to
be very anxious to ,have it passed. He knew
not . what . was the, reason of postponing it, but no
doubt . they were afraid of the hostility which the
weasizire would encounter from Hon.p Gentlemen oppo-
site. Ile now thought it necessary to call the attentign

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RAILWAY SHARE iVIARKETS.
• , LIVERPOOL, JULY 17. .•
STOCK. EXCRANGE.—Out share 'inarßet continues steady,
but with "only' a limited business doing. The sales are—
Great Northern, 85,8 dis.--Lancashire and Yorkshire (late
M. and B.), Fifths, 1 dis.--:Ditto,.lol. Preference, Bs. 9d. p.
Ditto (late West Ridingliiion), Fifths, 31. 13s. 9d. dis.—
Ditto (Preston and Wyre, No. 1), 34LA-44ondon and North-
Western. 127—Ditto, New. Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto (Leeds
and Dewsbury), 384—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire. 'lOl. Preference; 101/87-Midland Stock, 106 c.—Ditto,
New Halves, 5% dis.—North StaffordShite, 2% dis.—Shrews-
bury and Hereford,' dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3,
dis.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, dis.— 'Mk; Newcastle,
and Berwick (G. isT. E. Purchase), p. '• '
• - MANCHESTER, JuLt 17..
Szocic ExcuANGE..—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction; 31/. Shares, 7 7-16 dis.—
East Lancashire, Preference,' Quartets, 14, p.—Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 42—Great Northern; 83/4 'dis. - Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fifths, Ic. diX.--;-:Ditto, Preference, 1,4 c. p.—
London and North-Western (Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal), 23L-Ditto, ditto (unpaid up), 7 dis.—
London and South-Western, 48!4—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, Preference 101(3—Ditto (Grimsby), 20/.
Shares, 8% dis.=Ditt6 (Slieffield and Lincolnshire), 9%
ois.—North Staffordshire,' dis.South-Eastern and '
Dover, No. 4,2% e. dis:"
• 'BIRMINGHAM, JULY 17.
Brock EzCILINGE.—The absolute liminess transacted to-
day was very' limited ; the 'only sales being Birmingham.
Wolverhampton, and • Dudley, 4 p.—and South Stafford-
shire, 275. Bd. dis.
YORK, JULY 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows : —Great Northern, 6% c.l—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N.E. Purchase), 9% c.

ELOPEMENT ERTRAoRDINARY.—An event of this
kind, attended with
.rather strong circumstances, and
which has 'furnihed a fertile subject for the gossip-
loving people' of Luton, near. Bedford, took place on
Saturday. A jolly landlord, enjoying the name of
Gregory, who also to some extent. carried on the bonnet-
trade, having a wife and seven children in one of nature's
unguarded moments contracted an intimacy with a well- ,
known woman, .possessing the expressive name of
Sharp, which 'ended in the matters about to' be re-
corded. On the morning in question the gay sprightly
youth of forty proceeded to London by one of
the early coaches, having previously forwarded a
considerable stock of bonnets ; the frail fair one fol-
lowed by a later conveyance. The amiable pair were
seen walking together along one of the streets in the
town just before the coach started. It must not be,
omitted to be mentioned that Gregory had told his wife)
that probably he might not return home for a day or two,
as the parties he expected to purchase the goods might
not arrive in London on the darappointed. Nothing?
wrong was suspected by his confiding better half until;
the evening, when, on the non-appearance of her!
husband, something induced her to ,take stock of his,
wardrobe. To her astonishment and grief, she found
that her disgraceful partner had not only taken the'
greater part of his clothes, but provoking cool-
ness had not forgotten his humble shaving ap-,
paratue. On the following, morning certain un-:
pleasant reports were circulated, which soon reached
the ears of Mrs. Gregory, and greatly increased'
her suspicions. Accordingly she started for London:
on Sunday morning in search of her runawar
husband, leaving the house and her children in the care
of her sister. Search appears to have been whollrfruit-
less, as no tidings of his whereabout could, ,be learnt.
Current report says he intends.proceeding to, Australia
With his worthless companion.—Somerset County Herald.'
BARR FORGERY AT •LREDs.—Yesterday a respect-
able lookino• man,, from twenty-eight to thirty years
of age, was brought up at the Leeds Court-house, before
the Mayor and two of the borough magistrates, charged
with having uttered five forged notes, each purporting
to be a 5/. promissory note of the bank of Messrs. Bec-
kett, the old and respectable banker§ in Leeds. The
name of the prisoner is Samuel Bettison. Holmes, and he
is said to be a solicitor, lately of London, but formerly of
Hull, where he has some relatives well connected. The'
evidence went to show that In the course of Friday, the
7th inst, the prisoner severally put off the five notes in
queition—one at a public-house, one at a beer-shop, one
at a linendraper's, one at a grocer's, and one at a provi=
sion'shop, in each case purchasing some trifling artiele,,,
'tendering a forged note iu payment, and receiving back
the chahge. He was apprehended at Ilunslet at an. early,
hour on Sunday morning, at the house of a relative (a
guard on the Leeds and Bradford Railway) Hedenied
the charge, and said he should be able to prove an alibi ;
but he admitted that, was in Leeds on the 7th of July,
the day the forged notes were paid. He was remanded
until Wednesday. The forged notes are tolerably well
executed,- being well engraved, and the, signatures
(always in writing in the genuine notes) being litho.
graphed. Several other forged notes of the same kind
have been successfully passed in Leeds and the neigh-
bourhood.-• Messrs. Beckett have offered rewards for the
discovery and conviction of the forger, and of any person
uttering or attempting to utter the same.
RACE ROUND IRELAND.—The Liverpool Albion
states that a novel match, for 2501., has been made by
Mr, Naylor, the banker, and Mr. Thomas Ripley. Mr:
Naylor has backed his cutter yacht, the Sultana,,of 100
tons,ao sail against Mr. Ripley's iron barque` Panic, 400
tons, round the coast of Ireland. On Saturday, about
noon,"the vessels started' on tbbir' novel cruise, the
starting point being the North-west Light-ship. There
was a large company on board each of the rivaarques;
and the start • was Made in' gallant style The. rival
vessels will each take the same course round, going by
the southern channel and returning by the northern.
The Dreadnought steam-tug, which took out on Satur-
day a party of gentlemen 'to witness the start, returned
about eight o'clock in the evening, and reported that, at
the time she 'left the rival' craft the cutter yacht wag
fully seven miles to the windward. of the barque. The
captain-of • the Nimrod, Cork steamer, -saw the yacht
about half past six on Sunday morning, and the barque
little before ten, the former being about four hours'.
sail in' advance of its opponent. The fineness of the
weather se far, of course, tells powerfully to thu ad •
vantages of ,the yacht. The match, from its novelty,
excites-considerable interest. The timo of return will
x ou ittheat
maye b
lt r eel yin e
twi
dependentt
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windst
Mitroitp.-;--Considerable activity prevails in the
import trade at Pembroke Yard. There are at Present
:-.everal vessels' discharging- timber there, the greater
proportion of which is intended for naval purposes.- The
toltowingure the-arrivals this week :—ltesolution, Gales;
and Emilia Searle, Ilescroff, from . Quebec; Faside,
Potts, from Savanaah Irvine, Doughty; 'and' Thomas,
Drapf-r, from Ancona ; Adrastus, Markham, from
Trieste.— Cumbrian.• • . •
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tirlh'ea feewortyasn'eler-in-Chief, and the members of the
L6ndon Staff.
Gin-drinking,' was first, brought into fashion by
William 111. fit" St. James's Palaee, where 'his "Wing?
Majesty sat drinking Schiedam till all was blue

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 17.
•
The SPEAKER -took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.
Mr. Sheriff HILL appeared at the bar, and pre-
sented u petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the city of London, praying for
leave to bring -in a Bill to amend the Recovery of
Small Debts Act, so far as it related to the city of Lon-
don.
CONSIDERATION OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Branches Bill.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Ash-

ton Canal Purchase) Bill.
Mid Lana Railway (branch to Ripley, &c.) BilL

Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill.
TEI IRD READINGS.

The followlifg—BillT we're read a third time and passed:
Herrick's (or Hale's) Estate Bill.
New Grand Canal Company (Ireland—No. 2) Bill.
Richmond. and Reeth Road Bill.
River Nene Ithprovement and Drainage Bill.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME.
Sir R. H. ING LIS presented a petition, signed by 3,000
clergymen and members of the Church of England,
praying the House not to pass into a law the Bill to esta-
blish diplomatic relations with Rome.

of the House to one or two facts which were calculated on going into Committee of Supply, by which the whole
t create in the minds of the people out of 1 state and condition of Ireland would be brought under
doors the conviction that during this session their discussion, he (Lord John Russell) thought the present
representatives had not attended to the duty which had was not the proper occasion on which to enter into
been committed to their charge. The House met before the general question of the state of Ireland; but as the
Christmas for the express purpose of considering the Hon. Member (Mr. Blight) had taken upon himself
1
Bank Charter Act, and also the afflicting state of Ireland; to represent the opinions of the Government, and .had
but the only measure of importance which was then stated that the Government had declined to go on with
passed was one avowedly for the protection of the rights tile 'lrish Franchise Bill because they understood it
of property in Ireland, but in reality to disarm would be opposed as being a new Reform Bill, be
a certain portion of the Irish people. Atter Christmas begged to tell the lion. Member that he was wholly
another Irish question was brought before the House misinformed on that matter. With respect to his state-
and -he begged to observe that Irish questions had always meat on the subject of the navigation-laws the Hon.
afforded a constant dish for discussion within the recol- Member was equally misinformed, because the Govern-
lection of the oldest Member.—(Laughter.) Measures went had been extremely anxious to carry forward their
had been passed, with the unanimous concurrence of views on that subject, but it was impossible to have in-,
the House, for the purpose of putting down apprehended troduced the measure at an earlier period than had
or existing disturbances in Ireland, and it was with refe- been the case unless they had allowed the Income-tax
rence to Ireland that his observations were chiefly intended and the Mutiny Acts to have expired. The Noble
to apply. There was also another Bill which had been Lord the Member for King's Lynn (Lord G. Bentinck)
introduc d, of great importance, for facilitating the sale had referred to the reply made to Lord Elgin by the
of incumbered estates in Ireland. The Bill for extend- Canadian people on the subject of the navigation-laws,,
ing the franchise in Ireland, and for improving the re- and had inquired why that document had not been.,
gietration, was not to be proceeded with this session. laid on the table. The simple answer was, that the GO--
The session was now about to terminate, and vernor-General of Canada had not transmitted it to the
the Government had given no information as Colonial-office. But, as a reply to the Noble Lord, he
to what they intended to do with that country. (Lord J. Russell) would refer him to the original me-
lt was the duty of the Government to have considered morial of the Canadians, in which they state (speaking
the question of the Church. The day V. as rapidly of the navigation-laws) that " they did not believe that
coining when the Irish Church must sink, and if he the repeal of those laws would destroy the relations
were an English Churchman ho should be one of the which existed between Canada and the mother country;"
first to get rid of the Irish Church question. If thus showing that they wished to maintain theconnexion,
they were to believe the newspapers, they were and that they believed the repeal of those laws would
ma the eve of .an insurrection in Ireland, and tend to that object. The lion. Gentleman opposite,
Government ought not to allow Parliament to (Mr. Forbes) had inquired with respect to the Scotch
separate till steps had been taken to convince the Irish Registration Bill, which was now in the other House. If
people, who were not anxious for insurrection, that there that Bill came down soon his Hon. and Learned Frieud
was some hope for the future. The Irish representation the Lord Advocate would proceed with it. •
was a fraud and a delusion, and having wanted the House Mr. FORBES—On what day?
of what his opinions were with regard to Ireland, he , Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not name the day
must wash his hands of all responsibility for the evils until the Bill came down from the other House. His
' that were coming on Ireland.—(Oh, oh.) Hon. Friend the Hon. Member for the University -:of
Atter a few words from Mr. J. YOUNG, Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis) had remarked that Ministers
Mr. VERNON SMITH said he did not think Govern- expected to prorogue Parliament in the second week in
' ment was open to the censure which the Honourable August. He (Lord John Russell) entertained no such
Member for Manchester had cast upon them for not expectation.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think it possible
proceeding more rapidly with the business of the session. that it could take place so early; but of course that
It had aways been the custom to bring in a would depend upon the time given to the discussion of
number of measures at the commencement of the session, those_Bills which were' intended to be proceeded with.
and to-throw over many of them towards the close of In speaking of Ireland and Irish measures, it had been
the session; but he confessed he thought there were alleged that, with respect to the Landlord and Tenant
less Bills thrown over this session than he remembered Bill, the Irish Members had not been consulted. Now,
to have been thrown over at former periods.—(Hear, that Bill had been referred to a Select Committee'.
hear.) He should, however, have been more satisfied of which a great majority were Irish Members;—'-and
with the termination had the poor-law settlement and that Committee had recommended the Bill in its pre-
the emigration questions been disposed of: He hoped sent form. The Hon. Member for Manchester
the Right lion. President of the Poor-law Board meant (Mr. Breght), in finding fault with the couduct
to proceed with the Bill he had brought in on the ques of the Government, had admitted that the Sale
tion of settlement.—(Yes.) For though that measure of Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill was an Act
did not go the length. he could wish, he hoped it might essential to the foundation of the improved social con!
lead to such a solution of -the difficulty as should be be- dition of Ireland; and he (Lord J. Russell) asked the
neticial to .the poor. With regard to emigration, he douse whether a greater compliment could be paidtd
thought it might be approached with more advantage the Government who introduced and pressed forward
now than at any former time. The colonies were most that measure than the admission made by an Hon. Mem-
anxious for our superabundant labour, and our unem- ber when indulging in attacks and invectives upon the
ployed labourers were anxious to emigrate. He hoped Government? - In reply to a question put by his Hon;
his Right lion. Friend would state whether he intended Friend the Member for the University of Oxford (Sir
to propose any vote or motion on this subject before the R. H. Inglis), he had to state, with respect to the mea-
session closed, which would probably give rise to discus.. sure for the alteration of the oaths required to be taken
sion. by Members, that public business had so much increased
Sir J. WALSH understood the Noble Lord to say • since he had given notice of that treasure, that it was
that he would ask the House to agree to the principle not his intention to make any motion on that subject
of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, but did not intend to during the present session; but, believing as he did that
press the details this session. He feared such an arrange- the oaths now taken were very unnecessary and almost
went-would be most inconvenient, and he hoped the drew ridicule on that which ought to be a solemnity; he
Noble Lord .would recotisider his determination. should, early next session, renew his notice, with a view
Lord J. RUSSELL had said that he would endeavour to their alteration. As to the Diplomatic Relations' with
to pass the measure, but that he attached more impor- Rome Bill, he believed there would be no great opposie
Lance to the principle of it than to any details it might tion to it, and he hoped Parliament would not refuse
contain, but that he should not therefore refrain from its assent to it before the present session was brought to
proceeding with the details if possible. a close.
Sir J. WALSH—But it was in the details that the Mr. B. OSBORNE said, though he agreed that dia..
real importance and efficacy of the measure consisted. cussions like the present were unfit to be entertained,
Sir R. INGLIS could not conceive with what hope still he was of opinion that at this moment the Ilduse
his Noble Friend proposed to proceed with the Diplce ought not to deceive itself or the country with respeCt. to
matic Relations with Rome Bill, against which he (Sir the real state of Ireland. That was a matter of far 'too
R. Inglis) had that day presented a petition signed by serious import to be dismissed in an easy off-hand man-
-3:500 clergymen of the Church of England. When the nor, as had been done by the Noble Lord at the bend of •
Hon. Member for Manchester told them in a tone of the Government, and by other Hon. Members who had
eloquence which he hoped not to imitate—(A laugh)— spoken on the point. He intended to make no attack on
that the Church of. Ireland must go down and the Church the Government with respect to their conduct towards
of England with it, he would say to that Hon. Gentle- Ireland, because on the principle that he would not
man that he hoped and was confident that the Church of speak ill of the dead, so he would say nothing against
Ireland and England would long survive his sect. With a dying and expiring Government.—(" Hear, hear,"
.regard to his Noble Friend at the head of the Govern- and a laugh.) Ile had resisted the cry for repeal,
iPhearrlifaomre mntallow but(sir h
D.
Mont, he must ask him what he intended to do with the because he had thought justice would be done to
theH nouorabpleer malena
eland
Bill of which he gave notice on the Ist of June, for al kln
tering the oaths to be taken by the Members of that joineds withbythe
Norreys) in saying, that if session after session wasal-
House,—(Loud cries of "Hear.")
- Mr. RICARDO said 'that it' the Noble Lord had lowed to pass—if promises made out of office were not
been sincere in the principles of free trade he had so fulfilled when in office, he would join the Irish Con-
often enunciated he - would net have abandoned his federation to get the management of their affairs into
measure for repealing, their own hands. He must say that the conduct of the
the navigation-laws, which was
towards Ireland had been a delusion, a stocker
in tact the key-stone of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) But, Whigs );
whether he was right in that opinion or not, certain he and a snare. They had induced their supporters to join
was thht it was deeply wrong and mischievous to delay them in a factious vote to turn out the Right Hon.
the settlement of a great question. In this case the Baronet the Member for Tatnworth ; and when they got
delay would leave the shipowners, merchants and ship- into office the first thing they had done was to pass a
builders of the country in a state of the utmost uncer- coercion Bill, and since November the only remedial
tainty, which must be productive of the greatest evil. measure was the Incumbered Estates Bill ; and even
Mr. HUME concurred in the Hon. Member's opinion, that would not have gone on but for the circumstance of
the Hon. and. Learned Member for Plymouth having
and called attention particularly to the effect of this
succeeded Sir D. Dundas in the office of Solicitor-
bGu et naenr
anarchy
rl
c. h
yT
ahne d coursebloodshed,
and
dy
hteh
for
rNoble c
cared
eo rddhnaeoriat slid
howoh i s,
• extraordinary announcement on the colonies, producing,
as in this country, the greatest uncertainty.—(Hear,
hear.) The conduct of the Government respecting Ire- colleagues with respect to Ireland could lead to nothing
soon they were out o:tirflielci.e. :2;;;;
land was still more extraordinary, for• after great pro-
be
taenautrre of
raises of measures of amelioration, their chief measure
was a gagging Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Baronet Government, of any party, would turn out the men° of
strawiren
Ireland
thiswere
country
now
the Member for the University of Oxford expressed a
hope that the Irish Church would last as long as the
Church in this country. He (Mr. Hume) greatly Mr. Ng W DEG ATE reminded Hon. Members-that
&edited it—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the when tie people of Ireland complained that more was
Irish Members)—for he looked at that Church as being not done for them, they forgot that they did not 'ap-
the root of the evil in Ireland. prosch either the Government or the House in a forum
Mr. LABOUCHERE felt as deeply as any Hon. or method that was at all calculated to conciliate. -He
Member the evil of deferring to another session the final was sure the Government and the Legislature had not
decision of Parliament on the question of the navigation- shown any indisposition to meet the physical wants of
laws. Indeed; he had, in an . early period of the present Ireland, and therefore he utterly repudiated the dne-
session, impressed on the House the necessity of settling trines held by the Hon. Member for Manchester(Mes,
that question, and all he would now say, after the state- Bright) as to the destruction of the Church of Ireland,
'relent of his Noble Friend, .was, that the decision of the and the hint that the Church of England must followethe
Government to postpone it had been arrived at most re-
same fate. Ic was right for the House to tell the Irish
luetantly. He was happy to think, however, that the People that while it was ready to meet and remedy any
discussion of the question had not been unattended with known grievances, sedition, conspiracies, and the--for-
advantage in Canada, and also in the West Indies, the mation of secret societies against the constituted autho-
papers relating to which, particularly from Canada, rities were not the means by which to conciliate ;this
would, he was sure; do much to convince the opponents country, so as to induce her to extend all her, privileges
of the measure submitted by Government of the absolute and advantages, to them. As to an extension of- the
franchise,hannttiht
nhfere whichf
oi t
r eh aowdne
trehbeenat
moregrerfouufisnet
ground Ireland
fined
ot
o Englandh receivead
i at aatnh
jdannS:lgor Ireland.
Government of a modification of the navigation-laws.
- Lord G. BENTINCK would not quarrel with the
Bill
umNhmeNadbdEiearpl
passed
sgeerardees
put
aeer dase
le
efetroohsrna.
dtbaesl
reading,s i the:id. Qanun ado 1
itsit ft 6 a, th :
prim'
Government for abandoning the repeal of the navigation-
laws ; but he heard with the deeest surprise the Right oowl
nfricctc
vrho,e)moalaotsspneeloreatsnlihneßDetri.unle
lion. Gentleman who had just spoken say that the cor-
chipelecobueresne tpheurresbuyedadboypttehde, itGwovaesrnnomtentot
wbeouipdroctee:etdo
respondence from Canada afforded matter for congratu-
lation, when he found it stated in a dispatch of Lord
Elgin, that if the river St. Lawrence should not continue
Colonel SIBTHORP did not rise to fire another volley
to be the high way .of commerce to Canada, the inevi-
table result would be to draw Canada closer to the
against her Majesty's Ministers, but simply to State that
* United States, and dissolve the ties' which connected her
with the mother country.—(Cheers.) Regarding the
West Indies, he should wait to see what they would say he should move, when it came on, that the Corrupt
in their petitions next year.. to a repeal of the naviga- Practices at Elections Bill be read a second time that
tuna-laws. But he must just observe that there were now day six months.: All those other measures the Govern.
no less than 31,600 tons of sugar in excess kept out of went were disposed to proceed with he should oppose.
this country by those laws.—(Hear, hear.) for there was not one good measure amongst them.
Mr. MACGREGOR expressed his deep regret that
sMagEteoSt.rStnAhmeGtEfhoel
lLoFyfoßrindOgaM statedaTiiiHs:E_t
hLaGtOl
Bills:—Glasgow,
theirSw.,
P Lordships
aisi
e y,
The order of the day was then read and discharged.
her Majesty's Government should have found themselves
hadA agreedm
in-a-position that- obliged -them to abandon their men- es
sure on the subject.
' ' Mr. S. CRAWFORD complained of the non-legisla- Kilmarnock, and Air Railway (Revision of Maximum of
, *lion for Ireland. 'rolls and Charges on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock,
Mr. FORBES inquired what the Government intended and Ayr Railways), without amendment—Manchester,
to do with the Bill for the registration of births, deaths, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station at Sheffield
and marriages in Scotland ? and Branch to the 1) Sheffield'Cana
. London and South'
After a few words from Mr. Slaney, Capt. Pechell, Western Railway Company and Southampton and Dors
' and-Mr. Henley, • chester Railway Company Amalgamation—London and
Mr.' W. FAGAN thanked the Hon. Member for Blankwall Railway (Improvement and Branches to St-
Manchester for the way in which be spoke of Ireland. Katharine's and London Docks), with amendments.
Two measures were passed for that country with the RUM DUTIES. •
rapidity of lightning—a coercion and a gagging Bill— On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the, la'
mull
but the Government had wholly failed in their promises CHEQUER the House resolved itselt into a C 'ttee
of measures of amelioration, excepting the Incumbered of the whole House on the Ram Duties,.
Mr. Bernal 10
Estates , Bill. Such a statement would not satisfy his the chair.
constituents, nor any portion of the Irish people. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be
With every respect for the House, he was of opinion, rose to propose the second of the measures which the
after-an attentive consideration of the manner in which its Government had announced for the benefit of the West
business was conducted, that it was utterly impossible for Indies by facilitating the introduction of their produce
the House to do justice to the affairs of Ireland—in fact into this country; and he was happy to think that by
it had not time to devote to the concerns of that coun- the measure he was about to propose, not merely d!
try. Every succeeding day convinced him the more of interests of the producer but those of the consumer had
absolute necessity, in order to maintain a connexion been consulted. The principle on which the Government
between the two countries, that the affairs of Ireland Proposed to legislate was, that as far as restriction went
should be transacted there, and that the laws by which the colonial producer should be allowed to bring hit/
she was governed ought to be passed by a Parliament articles into the market on the same terms as the pro-
ducer of the same commodity in this country. Last
of her own .—(Hear, hear.) ountry.
Sir D. NORREYS inquired what had become of the't would be remembered b
who's
1 . h l . y those Hon. Merano*
Bill (for the introduction of which leave had been given e
heaetnina teast Parliament, that his first propesitioe
on Friday night) for the conversion of leaseholds for had differential duty of 6d. per gallon, and that
he had not then been
lives renewable for ever into freehold tenures. He had
by the British injured to admit the claim made
been given to understand that this—another remedial
.distillers for a differential duty of 7d. per
measure for Ireland—would be proceeded with. At all gallon.. If then, in 1847, 6d. was a fair differentoi
duty,
events it had not been laid on the table. it was not in the slightest degree inconsistent
Sir G. GREY (handing a copy of the Bill to the with that --opinion that
,now, under the altered,
Position of circumstances, Hon. Member) observed that the Bill had not only P
be adequate. a less duty than 6d. would
been introduced, but, as he saw, was actually printed.
1 e slid. In the first place he wished to state, 010
Sir D. NORREYS said, he had not received a copy i. not think it possible to deduce any direct conclu-
until that moment, and the statement he had made sion from the mere consumption of spirits during the Isis
rested on the authority of one of the Hon. Members, )ear. No doubt that consumption was entirely to he
whose name was appended to the Bill. But, apart attributed to the circumstances of the year, partly arising,
from that measure, he must remark that the from short crops, and partly to the necessity of divertint,
the Government with respect to grain from the manufacture of spiritsthe °''
promises of to purposes
Ireland had been great, but their performances had food for the population. This was proved by the fella
been most miserable. Where were the promised altera- off in the quantity of malt brought into charge, and free'
mien of the grand jury laws, the amendments of the law the fact that corn imported for the purposes of distills.
affecting medical charities, and of the poor-law; and, tion had actually been re-exported to supply food 0
lastly, the measure for the extension of the elective fran- foreign countries. This accounted for the falling off, ie
chise in Ireland? In- every respect the people of Ireland the revenue from these sources, and proved that the.ftswe
had been deceived and disappointed by the Whigs, in ing off had not arisen from the introduction 0'
whose behalf he had struggled to retain his seat in that fore Len spirits. The whole amount of foreign star°
Howie as a friend to the legislative union, but if legis- entered for consumption in Scotland and Ireland We
lation proceeded as of late years, though he should riot shown by the evidence given by the Chair '0
become a repealer—for he was now too old to change his of the Board of Excise before the Select Peol"
politics—(Cries of " No, no")—yet he could not blame mittee. The quantity of spirits brought into chair
those who advocated the management by Ireland of her in Scotland iii 1846-7,
was 6,123,000 gallons, w
own affairs. For himself he would say he not care did the quantity of rum entered for consumption there h
how soon the Whigs changed places with the Honour- beets only 382,000 gallons; and in Ireland, of home ais#
able Gentlemen opposite, for the former were always tilled spirits there had been entered on charge 6,037,;
better in opposition than when they undertook to con- gallons, and only 176,000 gallons of rum entered fort! . Jew;
duct the affairs of this great nation.—(Hear, hear.) consumption during the same period. Therefore, new'
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had understood that his could say that any effect had been produced on the cote
lion. Friend had risen in order to put a question, but sumption of home-manufactured spirits by the introdli
although he had made many observations, he had omitted tion 0f so trifling a quantity of colonial spirits. Hew Or,
to put the question he had said he wished to ask.—(A now state why he thought the duty on rum might ber;
laugh.) If he understood his Honourable Friend right, duced to the point he was about to propose. He ,°;se
he wished to know whether it was likely that the Bill served that in the Committee on sugars great stress '',,,t,
for c inverting leasehold tenures in Ireland into tenures be-n laid upon a supposed difference in the case ofee.lt',,
in fee would be introdnced, and that question had been malt distillers and that of the distillers from raw gre.,,,,,-;
answered by the production of the Bill in a printed form. In that distinction he could not concur. It was deg '''"_,--
The Honourable Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) both competed with success with each other, and,theeqe
had also asked some questions with respect to the affairs fore both were entitled to equal protectioneand adeol;ar
of Ireland, but as notice had been given of two motions protection for the one would be adequate protectitgl' 7e
t the other. The malt distillers got WI additional Po