The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Mr. BANKES wished to know from the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs how it was
that the extract from the Spanish correspondence in
the Clamor Publico, that was promised by the Noble
Lord, was not among the papers that had been laid
on the table of the House. He also wished to
know whether the statements that had appeared in
in the French papers was derived from the Spanish
Government; and how it happened that the whole of
the correspondence had appeared in the daily papers
twenty-four hours before it was in the hands of
Members ?

Lord PALMERSTON said, in answer to the first
question of the Honourable Member, he could not
find among his papers the copy of the Clamor
Publico ; he had, however, since obtained an-
other copy which he had no objection
to lay on the table of the House. With
regard to the source from whence the French
newspaper had obtained its information, he had
no direct authority upon the subject, but this was
clear, it was not direct either from her Majesty's
Goverament or Madrid, but his firm conviction was
that it came from Spain. With respect to the last
question of the Honourable Member, he begged to
state that it was always usual to send contemporaneous
copies to the daily papers of all papers printed for the
House and the use of Members, a practice the utility
of which no one, he believed, would deny, and one
which he trusted would never be discontinued. The
probability was, therefore, that the papers had had
their copies early, and published them some hours be-
fore Hon. Members received them.
HEALTH OF TOWNS.

The Earl of LINCOLN stated that it was
his intention in Committee on the Health
of Towns Bill this evening, to move the
omission of the 4th and sth clauses, and if he suc-
ceeded in that he should propose in the 6th clause
to place the appointment of superintending inspec-
tors in the hands of the Secretary of State.

THE CUSTOMS.
Mr. M.ACGREGOR wished to ask the Noble Lord
at the head of the Government whether he was dis-
posed to make any arrangement with him for fixing a
day to bring on his motion relating to the Customs.
If not he should be compelled to bring it on when it
was proposed to go into a Cemmittee of Supply.
Mr. EWART said, before the Noble Lord answered
that question, he wished to say a word or two in
reference to it. If he was not mistaken, the Hon.
Gentleman's motion stood in the position of a dropped
notice; and he begged to inform the House that on
Tuesday last, when it stood on the paper, he stood
behind the Hon. Member in the lobby when the House
was being counted.—(Hear, and laughter.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not give the
Hon. Gentleman a day.
Mr. MACGREGOR begged leave to explain the
apparent inconsistency alluded to by the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman the Member for Newark.
When he came down on Tuesday afternoon about
half-past three o'clock, he found in the lobby about
twelve Members, but no member of the Govern-
ment was present. Soon afterwards the number
was increased a little, but still there was no
member of Government in attendance ; and, although

he endeavoured to beat up Members to mak', a
Hous bf, saw it wai nlt ,!., to tff,ct
that object. He, of course, was aware of the
number of Members in the llothe and the number in
the lobbies; but as it fell very far short of a House,
he saw no necessity for going into the House when it
was counted.—(Hear, hear.)

HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

In answer to a question from Sir R. H. INGLIS,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that it was in =
tended to make a material alteration in the Public
Health Bill. It was proposed to introduce a clause
to establish a Public Health Commission, consisting
of four members, two of whom should be paid and
two unpaid, one of the paid Commissioners having a
seat in that House.

Lord MORPETLI and Mr. BouvERIE presented peti-
tions in favour of the Bill.

On the motion for going into Committee on the
Bill,

Mr. SPOONER rose to resume the adjourned
debate. He said, although the Government had
made various alterations in the Bill, the principle
of it remained the same and he objected most de-
cidedly to the power which was proposed to be given
to a central board in London to control the affairs of
the different localities affected by the Bill. There
was, also, an unlimited power given to the
Lords of the Treasury to appoint officers and
officials under the Bill, which power he con-
sidered unwarranted and unconstitutional. He
admitted that some superintending body was ne-
cessary to see that proper sanitary measures were
adopted in the different localities ; but he pro-
tested against the interference of Government in the
local administration of the different towns such as was
proposed by the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble
Lord at the head of the Government would
find so many complicated interests affected
by the Bill that he would be unable to carry it
through the House, and he would suggest the pro-
priety of the Government withdrawing the Bill and
bringing in one which was more in accordance with
the opinions of the House and the country.
In the present state of distress which
prevailed in the country it was most absurd
to give unlimited power to the Government to increase
the expenses of the State. The retail dealers in most
of the large towns were quite unable to pay additional
taxes, and they would object to the Bill which so unne-
cessarily did so. He trusted the Government would,
therefore, bring in a Bill more likely to meet the ap-
probation of the House ; but if they endeavoured to
press the present measure through the House,
he for one should issue his protest against it.
The Honourable Gentleman the Member for Falkirk
had an important motion on the paper, which should
receive his hearty support—namely, that they should
proceed through and complete the details of the
Bill before they appointed Commissioners to
carry it out. The Government would do well
by adopting his suggestion. The result of the
principle of centralization sought to be introduced
by the Bill would lead to this :—local boards
would decline to act, assistant commissioners would
only act when they thought proper, and everything
would be left to the London board, who could not be
expected to manage satisfactorily purely local matters.
It was absurd to expect that men of independent
spirit would act when their proceedings were liable to
be quashed by an irresponsible board sitting in London,
Agricultural would be' mixed up by the
Bill with town parishes, which could not
fail to involve the management of the
Commissioners in inextricable contusion, because
all kinds of rates were collected for different pur-
poses. He would suggest that the Bill should be re-
ferred to a Committee up stairs, who would examine
witnesses, and point out from their evidence how
a practicable measure might be successfully
framed and carried into operation. II is
object for moving the adjournment of
the debate was to enable the Noble Lord to
take time to see whether he could not snake
some concessions to the opponents of the Bill.
Some concession he certainly had made, but it was
sof a very trifling character, and for the reasons he
had already urged he should vote for the amendment
of the Hon. Member for Stafford, if he determined to
carry it to a division. _

SLANEY said the Honourable Gentle-
man who had just sat down had spoken with a good
deal of fluency upon this subject, but he must
confess that nothing had fallen from him
to show that the measure ought to be defeated.
The time had arrived when it was the duty of the
House, not for their own sakes, but for the sake
of mitigating the sufferings of the great mass
of the people, to establish large and comprehensive
sanitary regulations. Ten years the subject had been
under consideration, and still nothing had been done,
and in that space of time the necessity for
passing such a measure as this had more than
doubled. Ten or fifteen years ago the great
mass of the people consisted of agricultural
labourers, but since then the populations of
towns had increased to such an enormous
extent that the agricultural labourers were
greatly in the minority, and such a measure as
this must of necessity be passed toim-
prove the social condition of the large bands
of men, women, and children, who were
congregated together in the extending manufacturing
districts of the north. Commission after commis-
sion had sat upon this subject and urged upon the
Legislature the necessity of passing such a measure as
this. With what grace then could the House re-
fuse this concession to the working classes ?
He hoped, however, that the Government would
persevere with the measure, and they
.might de-
pend upon ultimately carrying it through. Nay, they
had the support of the majority of the people out of
doors, and they would terribly lose cast if they
slackened in their exertions to carry the Bill. He
believed that if the opponents of the Bill had read the
rules and resolutions of the different Commissioners, who
had been appointed to investigate the condition of the
working classes throughout the country, and on which
the Bills of the Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) and the
Noble Lord (Lord Morpeth) were founded, they would
DO longer continue their unjust and unnecessary oppo-
sition. He knew those Commissions to have consisted
ot the ablest engineers of the country, and felt proud
to have the honour of being a fellow labourer with some
of those personages on one Commission. He then in-
vestigated the condition of sixteen towns, among which
eras Birmingham, and he should solemnly aver that a
w orse condition than that of the working classes, among
pigs and stench, could not be imagined. There was
great ignorance of the art of making drains amongst those
ts. whom the care of their construction was entrusted,
being made six feet high and three feet wide, when
much smaller and much cheaper ones would answer
every purpose. The consequence was, that the poor had
not the benefit of as extensive a system of drainage as
tiney deserve and were entitled to. Earthenware pipes
were much cheaper, and carried off filth much better
than brick channels. It was absolutely necessary also
that they should have an abundant supply of water in
the improved districts, and, therefore, the importance of
a measure to enforce all these provisions for the public
health could not be too greatly appreciated. The only
course that now lay before them, in their endeavour to
realize the practice of these principles, was to go into
Committee on the Public Health Bill, which had been
very properly entrusted to the Noble Lord the First
Commissioner of Woods and Forests, who had yielded a
great
point, viz., that he would consent to the Bill being
curried into practice by the Government, assisted by
tivo unpaid Commissioners. The Hon. Member for
xeter objected to the appointment of any Commis-
sioner, but he was sure that his anxiety for the
health and comfort of the poorer classes would not
allow that circumstance to remain an obstacle with
him. The reports on the state of certain portions of
the towns of Bristol, Bath, Frome, Merthyr, and other
places of the west, were of a nature to rouse the most
apathetic to a sense of the importance of a general
cleansing system. The mortality returns were a true
criterion of the wretched state of the population, and in
the places he had named, it varied from 25 to 3, the
general average throughout the country being 22 per
cent. In some other places it amounted to as much as
four, five, or even six per cent. After looking at the
state of all those towns, he had come to the conclusion,
that it was absolutely necessary for every class of society
that reforms of this description should' be carried out
immediately, and if this were refused, or defeated, or
impeded, the evil results of that line of conduct would
sooner or later become apparent, because it was clearly
the health of the poor that enabled them to render pro-
ductive the property of the rich. In Lancashire alone
there were 336,000 cases of disease attributable to the
want of measures of this sort, and that number would
speedily be increased or equalled in other parts of the
kingdom, and there was no knowing in what their neg-
ligence might terminate.

Mr. C. PEARSON observed that it was extremely
difficult to define the boundary line between the prin-
ciple and details of a Bill; as that which one Hon. Gen-
tleman might consider a principle, another might regard
only as a matter of detail. Hence the frequent reply to
objections against this Bill: " They are only matters of
detail—let us consider them in Committee. His idea
of the principle of this Bill was this—that so many cities,
towns, and boroughs in the country as the Government
should please to distinguish by an order in council were
to be taken out of the existing law, which vested the
power of making sanitary regulations in a local autho-
rity, and placed under the controul of a Government
Board—that was to say, that the time-honoured insti-
tutions of the country were, like ricketty children, to
be placed in the go-cart of Government centralisa-
tion. That was, in his estimation, the principle of
the Bill, and, being altogether opposed to it, he could
not consent to go into Committee for the purpose of
considering how it might best be carried out. The
Hon. Gentleman proceeded to combat the arguments of
the last and other speakers, that this Billoti:oonEu(r)lrfalntmheeeataerfli(
ally
peo-
ple,
improve
rt
ihnegsocial aensda
nphysical cs
toentnd i
of
wohlaiethunhdeersatihdatthsisysßteimll
ewasthe other continental
imitation, caonudn
showinb
w,
those countries were inferior to England in morality,
longevity, and physical comforts. The proportion of
Austria, 1 in 33; in Russia, 1-in 38;
deaths in France was 1 in 49; in Prussia,
andin Elnignla3nBdynl
in 45. The Hon. Gentleman did not state what returns
own
nquportieudnipfrioeconi but argued that in England, under her
lf•goverzent, there was less t,

mortality than in those countries e here the system of
c..,ntralisatton sruk,l-it. ,stablir,lad by (bib Dirt was
in operation. Ho also quoted largely from returns re-
specting early marriages, showing a great pi eponderarce
in favour of England, and particularly London, while the
number of illegitimate children was proportionately
small. He wholly acquitted the Noble Lord the Member
for London of having omitted that city from the Bill be-
cause of his political connexion, and must do him the
justice to say, that he believed there was not the
slightest foundation for any such imputation. He op-
posed this Bill not for the city of London. but as a
Member of Parliament speaking for the country at large;
and as such, he must say with regret that the grossest
misrepresentations had been palmed upon the country
respecting it. As the sample so was the sack. He
round it stated in a report of the subcommittee of the
Health of Towns Association—a body of propagandists
who were trying to infect the minds of the nation.--
" that since 1838 upwards of 58,000 children were
._
de-
stroyed in London who would not have been destroyed
the rate of mortality was the same as in the district (.1
Lewisham." If fairness were intended, a place having
only about 600 inhabitants widely separated would not
have been chosen as a comparison and placed in CO'
trast with a thickly populated city. This showed the
manner in which the public mind had been drugged by
the advocates of this measure. He would add that
though during the years stated the whole number of
children aged 5 years and under who had died in the
city of London was 5,125, the number was stated in the
publications put forth by these associations to be 58,000.
He (Mr. Pearson) should be ashamed to make these
charges here in the absence of those parties, unless he
had previously made them before a body of the members
of these associations, when the secretary of the Health
of Towns Association and the secretary of the Metro-
politan Association were both present; and yet when be
made the charge they stood mute monuments of detected
3
_.
impositions, which they had not the courage to defend
Hence, he had a right to charge against these men
publications and statements which were grossly
ru,
unt
and only put forth to influence votes in favour of this
measure. Still, however, he did not pretend to say that
there was not room for great sanitary improvements--
that admission he made as broadly as he could state.
it.—(Hear, hear.) He would naention one case stated
in a report published ley the Statistical Society, to
which Colonel Sykes, Dr. Guy, and Mr. Neeson were
parties. The case had reference to a particular
locality, to which presently he would give a name. I?
read it with shame and humiliation, to think that he
lived in a country were such scenes were permitted to„
take place. These gentlemen referred to the condition of
eighteen houses which had been visited coniecutivelici
Each of these contained a dense population closely packed
together to an extent which it was frightful toconteralio";
In these abodes the maximum amount of cubic feet cif.
air was 270 feet, but the average was 176 cubic feet ,e;
air for respiratory purposes. Why, any felon in the
country was allowed in his cell 1,000 cubic feet of air
for the purposes of his health, and yet these poor creit-
tures, thus huddled together, had an average of onli
176 feet. The report went on to state that in these
wretched abodes all ages and sexes were huddled toge-
ther—fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, brothers
and sisters, adult strangers male and female, and young
children—the sick and the dying—to a pressure tho
even brutes would resist ; and among them it was je3,l
possible to observe the ordinary decencies of life, and
hence immorality and vice grew with their growth firlso
strengthened with their strength. To put an end
ne
such a system lie would willingly join with any elas°,-ct
body of men. But where did all this take place, ',
under whose control and government ? Why, the
locality was Church-street, St. Giles's, and the authority
was that of the Woods and Forests.—(Hear, hear.) The
House was aware that an Act had been passed giv'eg.,
authority to the Woods and Forests to construct a nee
street through St. Giles's to connect Holborn with 01:
ford-street; and for the construction of the new street •
tax was imposed upon all coals imported into Loed°e;
This tax, it had been untruly charged, was managed ~
the corporation of London. On the contrary, th'ern;
itagement was placed in the Woods and Forests, wulei,
department had a fund from that source of 500,00..
with which to make the new street, to pull down half the
houses of the locality, and to make arrangements for tli;
better accommodation of the people who would thus ri
displaced from their habitations. And what hedbaee,
the result ? Why, the houses had been pulled u°se.
and the people were driven into the wretched abodes
of
scribed in the report he had quoted, the inr6i s
per
o
which had thus been increased to the extentr d, and
cent. So much for the management of the Vire°
Forests.
that the
Lord MORPETII intimated across the table care
new street and alterations alluded to had not beenc
red out by the Woods and Forests, but under the ,(:)ich
inissioners of Metropolitan Improvements, of w"
body the Lord Mayor was a member.—(Hear, hear.) te•
Mr. C. PEARSON resumed—He was aware of t 5
convenience of putting in the commission a few dual;
mien—(A
( hadA 1 a
beenugh included)a laugh)—and
d no
idnouthbet tchoemnarssLon give tt
an appearance of popularity; but no man could doubt
that the Lord Mayor, however respectable, would melt
into measureless insignificance in the presence of an in'
dividual of so high a position as the Noble Lord.--'
(Loud laughter.) If, therefore, the Woods and Forests
managed affairs so wretchedly so near home, what
could be calculated upon as the result of their core'
trolling power and supervision of works in distant
parts of the country under this Bill?—(Hear, hear')
In the course of this discussion the subject of the
visitation of the cholera in this country some years
;
ago had been alluded to. At that time—namely
1832, ho had been appointed chairman over 97
parishes, to administer a fund of 10,000 i. voted by the
Corporation. He entered on this point to show the
vantage of local government. The city of London de'
termined to act for themselves, despite the frightt
edict issued by the Privy Council at that time, at The
head of which was the Marquis of Lansdowne-,
citizens of London stood their ground, as had their 11-0;
decessors at the time of the plague. They forme" or,
their own cost a board of health, which dissented ire.,t
the views of Sir Henry Halford and the G-overnea,e,'s
medical men as to the contagious character of
,11,1's
disease. And what had been the consequence of
_lO
course pursued ? In Paris, where the disease :le
treated as contagious, the deaths were as 1 in 40; w"cle.
in London, whic had taken its ;own course of Pr°4oo
dure, the deaths had been in the proportion of lin Os
of the population. These were proofs that the neal'eg,
ment of local affairs ought to be left to local authorlirs,
whose exertions ought not to be permitted to be of
lysed or deadened by the influence or interference
Government commissioners.—(Hear, hear.) He di tty
think he should do service to the cause which heesoo,
cerely advocated if he said more than to express his ref
viction that if this Bill should pass, whatever the e°,liptee
might choose to submit to, the city of London anusare
metropolitan districts would not tolerate such a 03°-
being applied to them.—(llear, hear.)
Lord ASHLEY said he was very anxious to ingi4if
ress
upon the House the absolute and indispensable neeeeite
of commencing some measure calculated to remove gicog
vances which weighed so heavily upon the wern:ite
Hise
other
orbnlieForlFiterntihdeantdbtahodisP;trisetiair
(Lordcwlao
rs
ks ei
man's
classes.—(Hear, a 1
Morpeth),
nhadill. hear.)said
His No
he
uttered a truer thing. The measure was connected ”bie
the working man's whole existence. It began ut bed
home—it affected his capacity to go abroad—it toe° of
his health, and it increased or diminished his reee'lls" '
boi
obtaining a livelihood for his wife, his family, an'"„Oplef
self. This question, formerly unknown to the li'"ifeb'
was now well understood by them, and its accolnereert•
went was one of the dearest objects they had at you'
Hence it affected not merely the physical and neerillitical
dition of the working classes, but also their poll for
content or discontent, just as legislative meager'
sanitary improvement were adopted or nug'-alf6'
He did not deny that there were great aor
culties in the way of legislation on this subject' to
that it required great ingenuity and perseverance r fee
devise a measure which should be an antidote ibsted,
prodigious and intolerable evils which at present ell rod
But the greatness of these difficulties could not be,seng
ought not to be, any argument for stopping the Pr.eoo.,
measure at the very threshold of its due considerate bit
bit
namely, in Committee; and he (Lord Ashley) We! o°'
Noble Friend opposite (Lord Morpeth), and to tue:bieh
vernment, the highest praise for the manner in the
they had addressed themselves to this question, all lees'
mode in which they had encountered those diffien.rtee,
At the same time, he fairly told them that, in C 003133104
the Bill wits susceptible of great improvement; the
whether or not, he (Lord Ashley) implore-,,,,0r
House to let the Government have the eribe.
tunity of dealing with the Bill in Committee'ot se
cause it was a measure which had already gt
strong a hold upon the minds of the people, that t Rss
essentially necessary to prove to them in detail Whilf the
or was not feasible in respect to the removal et ee'
various abominations to which they were at prase!, 00
posed. It had been stated that the existing la to
sufficient to effect all purposes. The law was etrongo to
remove nuisances provided men had the means t°g the ~,
law; but still they were insufficient or unequal '0 the
institution of improvements, especially in reference '„ he
due and sufficient supply of water, and theren-0 go
repeated his hope that the Bill would be allowe;
lbr investigation in Committee. He (Lord
~,"
11 5 this
should not have ventured to address the House 050cIt°
subject, had it not been for the observations addees We'
the House the last night of the debate by the
toed
Member for West Surrey (Mr. Drummond), s loss
that a number of interested persons availing theni-oet
Up
of the feeling which prevailed in the country, hadlcrir
an agitation in order to carry a measure of this "i"„ em
tion. As he (Lord Ashley) had been most deeN loflg
barked in the whole of this movement—as he WI 140'
been actively engaged in the endeavour to obtainelie
Upon
lative measure on this subject, he was ready to take cos'
himself a share of as much blame as could 000'
upon the proceeding; but he would leave it to thaeieel3'
Member (Mr. Drummond) to show that he (1,0r„,3115P
ley) had exhibited a grain of selfishness in thee:Toper
—(Hear, hear.) And he would ask the Hem s sot
te
whether, in the opposition to the measure, titer rd
something of selfishness, and a low and mean regs Wee'
pecuniary interests?—(Hear, hear.) When the hi.
Member treated the subject with so much pats*? fef„.
must have forgotten, or never have known the ae7.
in g which existed through the country upon it.
tel/41
could not have known that in almost every larger
local boards had been formed to investigate I:Lidij to et:o°,
to make periodical reports which, from beginning
showed one and the same complaint of the tor_ nres%
quacy of the law for the removal of the great nuetriteoe:
, two Pbe e$
ins evils they denounced. There had been
to "' to,
from the city he represented—one prarmg_babita°to
empted from the Bill—the other from the in soy ,
calling upon their representatives not to giv,e e he gif
local influences, but to make it subservien!o_;l eirosi,
neral good. He (Lord Ashley), therefore, flikedtioj
at liberty to act as he liked, and, acting wee, eted
ee
should vote for the Bill going into Coree'ee sees"
there introduce such amendments as t° w

Surrey
n vessel-v. Yee ::.onourable. Member f:-•r l','" -'
bad asked what possible connexion there coeuldsthactsaboe;
tween typhus and crime. lie replied that thew
as
snc..,
things in the dwellings of the working elaiss"labourint,,
that fever and disease were engendered—
man was thereby rendered unable to pursuet.Q his honest
avocations. Distress and want came, andcwashsislitene,..
by theft and crime. as the only means rr,
urnott to be
This was shown in the report of Dr. Neil A'
the case in Glasgow, and here he mustreinrervisiol
remark that
of
1p?
regretted Scotland was not included in the provisions the Bill,
The LORD ADVOCATE—There will be a separate
Bill for Scotland.
Lord ASHLEY rejoiced to bear that annousrhicoewmielliito.
The connexion between disease and crime was s
ow . ,
the communications of Dr. Niel Arnett at Glasgow, b
the:reports of Mr. Francis Cooper, the surgeon of 3
South-
ampton, and by those of the Rev. Mr. chaplainClayl,itiwhiehbe
of the Preston House of Correction,
to
a (Mr. Drum-
invited the attention of the Hon.
122°114 Again he (Lord Ashh y), fMr(elmmbthrce(eamindaotuiohnt
Lie had personally made, had not the slightestf.
that far more than one-half of the habits c intoxication
which disgrace large towns arose from
at
r..,.01.
tfirY condition in which the people
were
htisPN(t)blet
compelled to live, and further, he would jolb .
Friend the Member for Plymouth (Lord E ringtoneo)pilrei
"Ying that all attempts a: the education oth7ihe
Present
rt, tu referees'rn
in
Were vain so long as they were left in
condition. He (Lord Ashley) couldtr add,p
in
neeg to the ragged schools, that the children, i
to their miserable homes, unlearnt in houroneeusted
lllere than it had taken weeks to teach them. He trusted
the House would allow the Bill to go into Committee,
making what amendments they thought proper, thereby
on the
taking one great step towards placing these poor people
proper level of humanity.—(Cheers.) .
M. MUNTZ did not oppose the Bill going into
Conernittee; he was quite aware that something neededhe
(I°ing; but there were many improvements which
should like to see in the Bill. He doubted whether any
saniterY measure would effect so much as the Noble
LordF who had last spoken was so sanguine as to expect
lirifiolornitileiTerhe(Lerngte towns
son was the great objection to
this
had their local governments; and
Placea had not, why should the corporate town.:
Let this vast additional machinery thrust upon them.
rate-pa-14 t the Bill
give the right of electing inspectors to the
bbe_estaaers, who must bear the charge ; otherwise the
most efficient men would refuse to act, as had
eta. the case in the board of guardians at Birmingham.
thlstlY people expected too much from such a measure as
•I- ers; the needle-pointers would never live to above 40
rrorld i.f. needle-
resided in the most healthful place in the
on , , and there were other trades little less destructive
grtellatitriru life.
He believed the medical officers had a
terest in over-stating the case, in order to prove
a neCeSSity for theirit? own employment. The salaries of
ite)ioffideyerws were to be fixed by Government. Whate
doubted whether the
submit to such dictation as this ?
•Iral.
proved as to render
the
able nation • perhaps
accepta eto the ,
the least trouble would be to withdraw it and introduce
a new Bill,
. Mr. J. STEWART said that before the House
into Committee thwent
Tiileciples by whiecyhOn_gebt thoroughly
be guided.
In Committee was to .
to understand the
b .aco.Pnrien.elples of centralisation, for instance, so far from
the subject"ssarY
; end
introduce 'and
the Bill to this Bill, would ruin any measure on
hll e
wouldhp ed thathe le thed t Nobleo
entertain Lord
thiswho
view.dhalnd
sh:,! tlio!t objectionable that any three men in Leonloekal
,Ula be invested with power to overrule all th
pauritve2rj...ties ia the kingdom. The power given to the-
ee_ / kjouncil of repealing Local Acts relating tohdratliwno-
. ~7g.,,e_
.was also highly objeetionable. These were tomem_t_
treuetnetn3
the'hich. prevented the House going into C l
uch for the
Noble Lord Bill prevented
and it was, therefore, too
these (Morpeth) to charge those whom. insisted on
b.
a.nePoints with aa intention to obstruct the public
it most
unfair
ss. He (Mr. Stewart) should think
),..oefair to be called
made
aol_ealth Bill ; earl in the session, he had
e_..
an opponent of the Public
`n offer to the Nobley Lord who conducted the. Bill
vi discuss its provisions in private ; and some inter-
teiviews had taken place, but they had split on the. two
nts he had alluded to. He believed Mr. Chadwick to
turnsan industrious and meritorious individual ; and much
hirtle,„dia on the degree of credence to be attached to
a e...eence. He had collected evidence on eleven points,
and
theali directed to the expediency of a central authority,
le inefficienc of local authority. One question asked
48' hoW far there were individuals in any tovrn
ori
Q'reat Britain fit to be entrusted with sanitarywwerosrk
were
letiith imposing and collecting rates; and thewis
Ven in a report of the sub-committee of the Health of
%,..wina Association.
bestt MORPETHt
tvhis I think I ought to say that,
eeci •-e of my belief, Mr. Chadwick has had no con-
''''rn whatever with that publication.
b. -Mr. STE WART believed the Noble Lordr he h
would find
efirnd.
- Was a little mistaken in that matter; fo
eeiYed the pamphlet from a Government E-i
officer, who had
at it to him to convince him of is error in opposing
centralisation. The answers to those question in 49
towns out of tee. sre " None"—in efect, that
awns, even intheCity of London itself, therein wasthose not
toir with th single individual fit to entrusted with sanitary work,
imposing and collecting of rates for the
Plerpoise.—(e Lao
er.) This was too absurd for argu-
Eent. It could not be supposed that the people of
ngland would ever submit to the extraordinary
Aowers proposed to be given to the central board and to
e Privy Council. All private Acts were to be placed
at the mercy of this board, and commissioners, he un-
ticratood, had already been appointed to make inquiry
i11,,a to. the operation of these Acts. He approved of such
nurry, but decidedly objected to the centralisation to
Ate , '
4e leu it was proposed to lead. Let Government con-
a nat to modify the objectionable centralisation clauses,
Is,, the House would go into Committee forthwith.
l'e Hon. Member for Oxfordshire (Mr. Henley) had
~,,l'Y properly suggested that the Bill should be modelled
k" the Inelosure Act of 1845 ; and against this no argu-
e4„erlA, Whatever had been offered. Unless some such
f "`"fication were consented to, it would be impossible
(cr the Bill to get through Committee in six months:—
(Laughter.) The Noble Lord the Member for Falkirk
iiTercl :.Lincoln), who was thoroughly master of the
Clleet had given notice randu amendment by the
tei`ssion of the fourth fifth clauses ; and
eIC would in a great measure destroy the centralis-
Powers, for the rest of the Bill would then becomeid
eettt°,st nugatory. He hoped the Government would
4," greedy of patronage, but would consent. to .
4 " Powers being exercised by some existing authority,.
lPs ttkine„ 8111 stood, the central board, and the host of in-
Neecals and sub-inspectors throughout the country,
ti strop" appointed by the Government; this had created
litie„g feeling of repugnance amongst the local autho-
hour,- ,ef every town in the kingdom, who were dee
itti liicints/ the Government for having contrived, out of
the lis", farnine, to create 10,000 pieces of patronage—
tieeke°_,ule Lord the Member for Lynn (Lord G. Ben-
Tti6 Bill fared the number was 16,000.—(Laughter.)
he e-„uilt created an immense amount of patronage, to
thoeseerei...,
„„,‘",l, if not by the Government directly, by
Thee,l4•e"o had imposed on them by their representations.
llerehe w which he entertained was this, that a sufficient
their ir °f respectable persons would be found in all
!Nue for towns who would be willing to adopt ade-
tettbiret ensures for the preservation of the health of the
441 bo ants. He would not object to a temporary cen-
eboulaard to see the measure set in motion, but they
feeeer cOt supersede the local authorities. He was in
hey w
th °t a Proper measure, but they should know before
.
Rein. 'iat Into Committee on what principle they were
444" to Proceed, otherwise they would fall into the
Cat union that they did last year.—(Hear, hear.)
%deo" PECLIELL admitted that the Government
the Objected°11 as far as they could to meet the views of
toeeasors to the measure. He admitted also that a
4etr"9 of
, this kind was necessary, but the principle of
it Insation which was enforced in the Bill rendered
e 'Otte ee .
4,5*
,?nOXlOlli to the people of the country.—(
Hear, took j lle thought they should be careful before they
of the°°t of the hands of the people the administration
telt), 11. local affairs. Ile would, however, vote for
as the 111,to Committee, but only with a view of paring,
of t 7 Aoble Lord the Member for Bath said, the talons
he u's formidable tieer.—(Laughter.) In Committee
unde °old resist all attempts to place the local boards
Air the authority of the central commission.--(Hear,)
gi,; r• W. MILES thought that the Government were
e dig to the central board more authority than was
"ccesaary to carry out the Bill. He considered the
Present Bill to be a great improvement on the measure
last year, and he would oe prepared to vote for going
Into Committee, if the Noble Lord opposite adopted
the reasonable suggestion of the Hon. Member for Ox-
fordshire. He thought the Government were wrong in
not including the metropolis in the Bill, because all the
sects showed that the mortality in the metropolis was
greater than in other parts of the country, and, con-
!equeetly, stood in greateeeneed if such, A measure. He
Ped some Member of the Government would give an
explanation of the construction of the central board of
commissioners, and in the meantime he would sus
his judgment as to the measure. p
Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the Bill would entirely
supersede all local boards, and in that respect it would
be very objectionable. The object which the Govern-
anent seemed to have in view was to centralise the whole
of the powers of the provincial towns and to place those
powers in the
board. That body of
the commissioners of the central
officers Was to have the power of appointing
local to any extent which gig be deemed fit.—
pl(P_lvide-) Ile , hoped, how that' the Noble Lord
orpeth) would not seek to exercise the powers sought
:•:(or under)he Bill to the disadvantagex of the local boards.
nDivide.) He hoped fur some assurance from the Go-
fr_ cement that such extraordinary powers as were con-
hid by the Bill would not bo accepted by them.
e Lllirv..rrLD, amidst great confusion, and cries of—
ee__
olvne, was understood to say that his constituents
calculated
of the Bill in so far as the central board was
releultireedlyto he
local Jobbing, and in their view
concurred. The large masses of the people
'llleWere favourable to the measure as a whole, though there
, parts of it which were objectionable.
e• ee gallery was then about to be cleared for a divi-
emu, „ben
Mr ej
11,,0_ • RQUHART withdrew his amendment—where-
Ie
preiaomushelewent into Committee on the Bill.
posed v T h t h
e
was postponed. Clause 1 being pro.
frtr:LBA.NKES objected to the exclusion of London
tai,,_ ills provons of the Bill. The metropolis con-
tor7sc; gas works, chemical works, and other rnanufac-
te44:'
regulations
noxious vapours, which rendered sani-
-14, regulations more necessary than in any other
tr'o
40f the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) He need not
truth rther than the college garden to prove the
head etas his assertion. In Westminster School the
atak,k"',lster was ill ; several of the scholars had been
and;
w"cle; the peen of Westminster was also affected—
to e,eiani n such a state of things was going on,
Of the te,L,el the metropolitan districts from the operation
atria '3" was a line of policy which he could not under-
Lie celled upon the Noble Lord $9 produce a

Treasure intended for the whole nation; or, at all events,
to begin with London, where the necessity for sanitary
regulations was most seriously fait. It was the feet,
without attributing. for a momen: undue attention on
the part of the Noble Lord to the interests of his con •
slituents, that the interests and wishes of London were
more immediately attended to in that House than those
of any other town in the kingdom. This was not right.
It London was to be excluded on account of the antiquity
of its corporation, there were many other towns in the
kingdom which might put in a similar plea. He moved
that all the words which went to exclude London and
Westminster from the Bill be omitted.
Lord MORPETH was free to admit that the exclu-
sio❑ of the metropolis was the main detect of the Bill.—
(Hear, hear.) But when it was remembered that there
were a hundred local Acts referring to the metropolis,
it would not be wondered at that it had been found
necessary to exclude it from the present Bill. He also
regretted the exclusion of Ireland and Scotland; but
his belief was that the sanitary condition of both
those countries would be better advanced by separate
measures than by incorporating them in one vast and un-
manageable Bill. The question was whether this mea-
sure was a boon to the districts contemplated or not. If
it was a boon, the exclusion of the metropolis was no
reason for depriving other cities of the advantages in-
tended.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that he should soon
be able to undertake the case of the metropolis, and he
congratulated himself with the prospect of having for an
able assistant the Hon. Member for Dorsetshire.
Colonel SIBTHORP objected to the Bill in tote. He
looked upon it as a Government job, concocted for the
purpose of providing places for some of the lean and
hungry followers of the Noble Lord and his colleagues.
However, if the Noble Lord would consent to include the
cities of London and Westminster it would remove one
of his main objections to the Bill.
Lord MORfETH said he had already given his
reasons for not including London.
Colonel SIBTHORP—Then I am delighted to oppose
3 ou.—(A laugh).
The Marquis ofGR ANBYstrongly objected to the exclu-
sion of the metropolitan districts; but further, the Bill
was objectionable on account of the odious and tue
English principle of centralisation which it contained.
Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the Noble Lord had
mentioned the one hundred local Acts of London as a
reason for excluding it from the Bill. He (Mr. Newde-
gate) wished to know how many country local Acts
would this Bill place at the mercy of Government?
Lord MORPETH admitted that there was an immense
number of local Acts scattered over the country. It was
the fact of the 100 local Acts being in a lump that con-
stituted the difficulty in the case of London.
Mr. HUDSON said that every town in England was
opposed to the centralising principle of the Bill. He
had just returned from the ancient city of York,
where the most determined opposition had been re-
solved on. He did not see why all the wisdom of Eng-
lish corporate bodies should be supposed to centre in
the city of London. What they complained of in York
was, that the corporation had no power to insist on
efficient drainage.—(Hear, hear.) He said "Hear, hear"
too. That was a reason for giving the necessary
power to the corporation, but not for centralisation.
Tho principle of government in this country was that
taxation and representation should go together, and he
and almost all the towns in the country objected to
giving powers to any central body to tax them. He hoped
the Noble Lord would abandon that part of the Bill
which placed the towns under the control of the central
board of London, and he might depend upon it that the
towns would themselves, if the necessary power was given
to them, do all that was required.
Lord J. RUSSELL remarked that nine-tenths of the
Bill was taken up in giving those powers to local bodies
which the Hon. Gentleman wished fir. It was true that
one part of the Bill referred to the establishment of a
central board.—(llear, hear.) But he thought it far
better that the attention of the Committee should be
directed to the question whether the plan proposed by the
Government, or that of the Noble Lord the Member for
Falkirk, should be preferred, rather than to discussing
the question of centralisation, &c.
Mr. BHOTHERTON supported the Bill. Tho Hon.
Member for Sunderland had admitted that the corpora-
tion of York, which had a local Act, hail not the power
necessary tor ensuring sanitary improvement ; if so, in
what position must those towns be which had no powers
under local Acts ?
After a few words from Mr. Hume and Mr. BANseES,
The Committee divided, when their appeared—
For the retention of the words 240
For the amendment
Majority —l69
Mr. URQUHART had presented a petition, signed
by all the medical men of Stafford, and a large number
of the inhabitants of the borough, against the Bill, and
he claimed, on;the part of his constituents, the same ex-
ception Government had admitted inthe case of London.
He would move that Stafford be exempted.
Colonel SIBTHORP said that the Hon. Gentleman
claimed an exemption in favour of Stafford ; he for his
part demanded an exemption in favour of Lincoln.
If the House was so anxious about cleaning, let them
set to work and scour the Treasury bench ; they
would find the job dirty to their heart's content.--
(Laughter.) He warmly vindicated the purity of the
city of Lincoln; he had represented it for more than
twenty years by the unbought suffrages of its inha-
bitants, and he asserted fur it as full a right to be left
to its own cleansing care as the city of London or the
city of Westminster, which the Noble Lord was intimi-
dated into exempting from the operation of his so crude
and mischievous a measure. The whole thing was a
miserable, sneaking, dirty job, got up as a mode of
feeding a pack of poverty-stricken Ministerial depen-
dents, who had no resource but the pockets of the people.
Viscount INGESTRE had a perfect knowledge of
Stafford, and he might almost say of all its population,
and he could bear his testimony that he knew no place
which, morally or physically, required a more thorough
cleansitig.—(Laughter.)
Mr. URQUHART withdrew his amendment.
Clause 1 was then agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again on Thursday.
The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.
11

,EPUBLICAN FRANCE.--We observe that a work
by Dr. Millengen is announced for publication, in which
he records his recollections of the first French Revolu•
tion. As the Doctor resided in Paris during that period,
under very peculiar circumstances, and lived in the same
house with the Deputies Albittes—the personal friends
and associates of Robespierre—he must have had con-
stant opportunities of making himself acquainted with
the many fearful occurrences of the time, and his per-
sonal acquaintance with the parties must therefore ren-
der his narrative more interesting than those of his-
torians who merely write from hearsay, and are more or
less prejudiced in their opinions. We understand that
Dr. Millengen's account of Robespierre differs widely
from the description given of him by M. Lamartine, in
his " History of the Girondins."

TULIP S'llow.—Mr. Groom's annual display of
tulips commenced yesterday at his establishment at
Claphatmrise. The day being as splendid as a summer
sun could make it, several visitors of distincton accepted
the invitation to the private view, for such it was. The
tulips again exhibited abundant proof of Mr. Groom's
skilful management of these dainty and evanescent pro-
ductions of nature. The bed was filled with the finest
specimens, many of them of the choicest class, and a
perspective glance up the middle of the tent disclosed a
surface of nodding flowers, strangely and capriciously
variegated—a floral ensemble, indeed, of singular rich-
ness and variety. We do not profess to belong to the
tulipomaniacs, and care little for the rarity which is so
much prized, in preference to the graceful combinations
of colour which characterise the common garden species,
but there is a style in the tulip, let it be marked as it
will, which always commands respect. It is the stateliest
and most dignified of Hewers, and holds up its head in a
sort of vainglorious stiffness that seems to repel intimacy.
The conditions which are laid down as the credentials
of perfection in the opinion of tulip amateurs are re-
ligiously complied with by Mr. Groom, and we hays the
straight stem, the capacious and well-formed bell, the
broad edge, the well defined and delicately feathered
stripe, and the velvetty cheek, in almost all the cases
submitted for inspection.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.,—The
Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday
' evening. In attendance on her Majesty and Prince
Albert were the Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline
Cocks, the Hon. Miss Paget, Lord Byron, Colonel Grey,
Captain Gordon. and Mrs. Ormsby Gore. There were
also present—the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, and
Lady Ernest Bruce, the Duke and Duchess of Northum-
berland, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis
of Titchfield, Earl Sidney, Earl and Countess of Egim-
ton, Earl and Countess of Morley, the Countess
Dowager of Essex, Miss Johnstone and Sir John and
Lady Walsh. the Countess of Jersey
Clementine Villiers, Viscount Templetown7
Viscount
Nevill, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Mor eth, Viscount
CarolineP Capel and
Exmouth, Viscount Villiers, Lady
party, Lord Lascelles, Lord Suffield, Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Miss Cotton. Lord Hothatn,
Lord and Lady Southampton, Lord and Lady Dun ar-
yon, Lady Ebrington, Lady Joddrell, Lady Petite,
Lady Shelley, Lady Dom ville, Lady Scott, Lady Mor-
gan, Lady Flint, Miss Burdett Coutts, Lady Beauvale
and Sir John and Lady Campbell, Baron and Baroness
Goldsmid, Hon. J. Fortescue, Hon. B. Lyon, llon. G.
Mules, lion. F. Scarlett, lion. Mr. and Mrs. Upton,
Hon. Mr. liarbord, Hon. Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Boyle,
Hon. Mrs. Charles Stanley, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer
Ponsonby, Hon. Lady Butler, Sir 11. Webb, Sir W.
Freemantle, Sir Robert Cullum, Sir W. Ball, Baron
and Baroness Rothschild, Sir Charles Marshall, Mrs.
Locke, Mrs. Henry Bainsbridge, the Miss Byrnes, the
Miss Temple Bowdiens, the Miss Richards, Mrs.
Charles Mills and the Miss Mills, Major-Gen. P.
Campbell, R.A., Colonel B. Knox, M.P., Col. Wingfield,
Col. Blane, Major and Mrs. Gage, Capt. Cuddy, Cept.
Lloyd, T. Baring. Esq., M.P., Mr. Collett, M.P., Mr.
Morris, M.P., H. B. Baring, 11P., Mr. Gregory, M.P.,
11. T. Hope, Eiq., &c. &c.
DOVER HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.—We have it
on good authority that the deepening of this harbour
will be commenced very shortly. The entrance is also
to be widened. A channel, six feet deep at low spring
tides, it is understood is to be cut from the entrance
right up to the Cross Wall ; so that with this and the
widening of the mouth of the harbour, our steamers
will be able to enter at all states of the tide ; and almost
in all weather when they can
put to sea. This will be
the greatest improvement our
old harbour'
under-
went, as it will render the spacious
accommodation we
already possess inside perfectly ever
o
available.—Canterbury
Journal.
We have reason to believe that a special reporter
was dispatched to Ireland by Frida
the p rcrt ne e s.- —L is erP 001
til-boat, to act
seditious speeches at the various
Public gmeetings held
subordinately to Mr. Hodges, in
notes of the
in Dublin and elsewhere in

PARLIAMENT IRI BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proccerlim: of the House of Commons,

- MONDAY, NAY s.
The following Resolution was reported from the above
Committee :

That in the case of the New Ross Port and Harbour
petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed
with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with
their Bill, on inserting Notices for two successive weeks
in some newspaper published in Dublin and in the
counties of Kilkenny. Carlow, and Wexford respectively,
and once in the Dublin Gazette, and :on the insertion of
a Clause restraining them from executing any work of
which the Plan and Section shall not have been deposited
with the clerks of the peace for the counties of Wexford
and Kilkenny, and in the Private Bill-office, on or before
the first day of the meeting of the Committee on the
Bill, and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in
the first place, how far such orders have been complied
with, and do report the same to the House on the report
of the Bill.—Resolution agreed to.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

( From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

MONDAY, MAY 8.
PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Clause one :—That this Act may from time to time be
applied in manner hereafter provided, by order of her Majesty
in Council, to any part of England and Wales, except the
parts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the city of
London, the parts within the limits mentioned in certain
Commissions of Sewers, &c. :—Amendment proposed, to
leaye out the words " except the parts next hereinafter
mentioned, that is to say, the city of London :"—Question
put, " That the ;words proposed to be left out stand part of
the Clause," The Committee divided:—
MAJORITY—AYES, 240.
Abdy, Thomas N. Foley, J. H. Owen, Sir J.
A land, Sir T. D. Fordyce, A. D. Paget, Lord A.
Adair, Hugh E. Forster, M. Paget, Lord Clarence
Anson, Colonel: Fortescue, J. W. Paget, Lord George
Armstrong, Sir A. Fox, Richard M. Palmer, 'Robert
Armstrong, R. B. Fox, W. J. Palmer, Roundell
Arundel, Earl of Glyn, George Carr Parker, John
Ashley, Lord Goddard, A. L. Patten, J. W.
Bagslia .v, John Godson, R. Pattison, James
Bailey, Joseph Granger, T. C. Pechell, Captain
Baines, 31. T. Greeuall, Gilbert Peel,;Sir Robert
Baring, Sir F. T. Greene, John Perfect, R.
Barnard, E. G. Greene, Thomas W Peto, Samuel M.
Barrington, Viscount Grey, Sir U.
~, Philips, Sir G. R.
Barron, Sir 11. Grey, Ralph W. Pigott, Francis
Beckett, W. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pilkingtou, James
Bell, John Hall, Sir B. Pinney, W.
Bellew, It. H. Hallyburton, Lord Plowden, W. li.
Benbow,!Jolin ' Hamilton, G. A. Power, Nicholas
Berkeley, Captain Hamner, Sir J. Powlett, Lord W.
Berkeley, 11. F. llardcastle, J. A, Pugh, David;
Blackall, S. W. Hawes, Benj. Rawdon, Colonel
Blake, M. J. Hay, Lord John Reid, Colonel
Bouveric, E. P. Hayes, Sir E. Rendlesham, Lord
Bowles, Admiral Ilayter, W. G.' Ricardo, Osman
Bowring, Dr. Headlam, T. E. Rice, E. It.
Boyle, Colonel Heathcoat, John Rich, Henry
Brand, Thomas Heatheote, O. J. Itobartes, T. J.
Bright, John Ileneage,.E. Romilly, John
Brotherton, J. Henry, Alexander Russell, Lord J.
Brown, W. Heywood, James Russell, E.
Browne, R. D. Hindley Charles Russell, F. C. IL
Buller, Charles Hobhousa, Sir J. Rutherford, A.
Sunbury, E, H. Hobhouse, T. B. Salwey, Colonel
Burroughes, H. Hodges, T. L. Sandars, George
Buxton, sir E. Hogg, Sir J. W. Scrope, G. P.
Cardwell, Edward Hollond, Robert Seynier, IL K.
Carew, W. P. Howard, C. W. Shar to, R. D.
Carter, J. B. Howard, E. G. Sheil, It.
Caulfeild, J. M. Hume, Joseph Simeon, John
Cavendish, C. C. Hutt, William Slaney, Robert A.
Cavendish, G. H. Inglis, Sir It. Smith, R. V.
Cavendish, W. G. Jackson, William Smith, J. A.
Chaplin,.W. J. Jervis, Sir John Smith, M. Tucker
Chartoris, Francis Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, J. Benjamin
Clay, James Keppel, G. T. Somerville, Sir W.
Clay, Sir W. Kershaw, James Stanley, E. J.
Clements, Charles Kildare, Marquis of Stanstield, W. R.
Clerk Sir G. King, Peter John Stanton, W. H.
Clifford, H. M. Labouchere, Henry Strickland, Sir G.
Cobden, Richard Langston, J. 11. Stuart, Lord D.
Cockburn, Alex. Lascelles, E. Stuart, 11.
Cocks, T. S. Lascelles, W. S. Sturt, H. G.
Courtenay, Lord ',MIA, G. C. Talbot, C. R.
Cowper, W. F. Lincoln, Earl of Talfourd, Sergeant
Craig, W. G. Lindsay, Colonel a hicknesse, R. A.
Crawford, W. S. Loch, James Thompson, Colonel
Currie, Henry Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, Alderman
Cartels, H. M. 11PNagliten, Sir E. ThornelY, T.
Dalrymple,lCaptain Macnamara, Major Tollemache, F. J.
Davie, Sir It Mahon, O'Gorman Tuwneley, Charles
Denison, W. J. Maitland, Thomas Towneley, John
Devereux, J. T. Mangles, R. D. Traill, George
Dodd, G. Marsh .11, J. G. Turner, E.
Douglas, Sir C. Marshall, IV. Tynte, Colonel
Druininond, Henry Martin, Samuel Vane, Lord H.
Duff; George S. Masterman, John Verney Sir 11.
Duncan, George Matheson, Colonel Vivian, J. IL
buncombe, A. Maule, Fox Waimslcy, air J.
Dundas, Admiral i%ielgund, Viscount Ward, 11. G.
Dundas, Sir D. Mitchell, A. T. Watkins, Colonel
East, Sir,J. B. Morpetli, Viscount West, F. R.
Ebrington, Viscount Morris, David Wilson, James
Elliot, John E. Mostyn, E. Wilson, Matthew
Estcourt, J. B. B. Mowatt, Francis Wood, Sir Charles
Euston, Earl Mulgrave, Earl Wood, W. I'.
Evans, John Newry, Viscount Wyld, James
Evans, William Norreya, Lord , Wyvill, Marinadnke
Ferguson, Sir R. Norreys, Sir D. TELLERS.
Filmer, Sir E. O'Connell, M. J. Tufnell, Henry
litawiMam, G. W Ogle, S. C. Hill, Lord Marcus

MINORITY—NOES, 71.
Adderley, C. B. Goring, Charles Parke, C. W.
Arkwright, George Granby, Marquis e Renton, J. C.
lialdock, E. H. Gwyn, Howel Repton, G. W. J.
Barkly, Henry Harris, Hon. Capt. Rushout, Captain
Bennet, Philip Henley, J. W. Scholefleld, William
Bentinck, Lord G. Hildyard, B.C. Sibthorp, Colonel
Bentinck, Lord 11. Hill, Lord E. Sidney, Alderman
Beresford, William Hodgson, W. N. Smyth, John G.
'Solder°, H. G. Hood, Sir Alexander Somerset, Captain
Brisco, 31.1 Hotham, Lord Spooner, Richard
Brooke, Lord Hudson, G. Stafford, Augustus
Buck, L. W. Ingestre, Visct. Stuart, J.
Coles, H. H. Jocelyn, Viscount Tollemache, John
Colvile, C. R. Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Townshend, Captain
Deedes, W. Knox, Colonel Tyrrell,:Sir J. T.
Dick, Quintin Locke, Joseph Urquhart, David
Divett, Edward Mackenzie, W. F. Waddington, H. S.
Duncan, Viscount Manners, Lord C. Walpole, Spencer
Egerton, W.J. Manners, Lord G. Walter, Jolla
Farrer, James Meux, Sir Henry Welby, G. E.
Fitzrsy, Henry Miles, P. W. S. Wjnn, Sir W.
Floyer, John Miles, 'William
Forbes, W. Morgan, 0. TELLERS.
Fuller, A. E.' 3lunta, G. F. Bankes, G.
Galway, Viscount Napier. Josenh 11.T.,...,-.1,,,,,, it.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday
afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court, Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King
of Bavaria, had an audience of her Majesty, and presented
his new credentials. His Excellency was introduced by
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies.
The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Messrs. Cubitt
and Hill, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had
an audience of the Queen, to learn her Majesty's plea-
sure relative to the reception of an address from the
Court of Aldermen and Common Council. The Queen
was graciously pleased to appoint Friday next, at half-
past three, for the reception of the address.
A deputation from the Court of Lieutenancy, consisting
of Mr. Bentley and Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, attended by Mr.
Henley Smith, had an audience of the Queen, to know
her Majesty's commands respecting the presentation of
an address from the Court of Lieutenancy of the city of
Lendon.

The Privy Council was attended !by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the First Lord
(,f the Treasury, the Secretaries of State fur the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Lord Steward,
the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
The Queen, in Council, was pleased to declare the
Right Hon. the Earl Granville Vice-President of the
Committee of Council appointed for consideration of all
matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. The
:Noble Earl had the honour to kiss hands on his appoint-
ment.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
waiting.

Her— Majesty gave an audience to the Marquis of
Lansdowne and Lord John Russell.

The Court was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-
Chamberlain, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in
Waiting.
his Royal Highness Prince Albert went yesterday
morning to the rehearsal of the Concert of Ancient
Music.

Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and tour.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester-
day evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse, his
Excellency Prince Caste'cicala, Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness do Speth, Earl Fortescue, Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess
Hardinge, Viscount Clifden, and Morish Colona. (in
waiting on his Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse).
The issue of orders for the admission of tho public to
view the state apartments in Windsor Castle is resumed.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duke
Bernhard and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar took a
drive in the parks yesterday in an open carriage and
four.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went yes-
terday to her residence, Frogmore House, -Windsor, re-
turning to town in the afternoon.
Prince Frederick of Hesse left the residence of the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kew yesterday, for
trio continent.
Prince Edward and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar,
attended by the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, Sir Andrew
Barnard, and Captain Taylor, rode on horseback in the
Parks yesterday.
The Mayor of Manchester and Mr. Brotherton had
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the
Horne-office.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the
Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Oxford, and Mr. W.
Page Wood, had an interview with the Lord President
of the Council yesterday.
Sir Edward Buxton had an interview with the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday at the office of the Board
of Trade.
Lord Monteagle and a deputation had an interview
with Lord John Russell
yesterday, at his official re-
sidence in Downing-street." Lord Ashley and a depu-
tation had also an interview yesterday with the Nuble
Lord.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
Committee meeting yesterday.
A deputation from the Buckinghamshire Railway
Company had an interview with the Commissioners of
Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of
Trade.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Yarborough
had interviews yesterday with Sir George Grey.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the
Mauritius, and New Zealand.

Madame Celeste, we perceive by the advertisement,
takes her annual benefit at the Adelphi Theatre to-
morrow, on which occasion Mr. Webster is to lend his
aid. An admirable bill of Lire is provided, so that there
will be large supplies of excellent amusement; and such
being the case, we doubt not that the talented directress
will have, what she well merits, a house " filled to the
ceiling."

FRANCE.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.—SeIernso OF YiAY 6.
The follossings ate fhe
reports presented to the
Assembly during the sitting of the 6th of May by
Citizens CREMIEUX and Louis BeeNc :
M. Creusieux, Minister of Justice —Citizens,had
on the
day of the great Revolution,
re-
duced the throne to dust, and made royalty a souvenir,
it felt, in the midst of its immortal victory, the necessity
of
t,ieeai A
order, the s
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would of
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gall;
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to be governed. Its wondeeful nature divined all that
a N
would regulate its force, how it would provide for its
moral interests, how it would fulfil the first duties of the
country towards its children, that is to say,
how it
would assure to each family the means of living, by
assuring to each citizen the instruments of labour—
labour, the sole legitimate source of an honourable for-
tune, whether it be obtained by the sweat of your brow,
or by the splendour of your intelligence.—(Hear, hear.)
But while awaiting the moment when an Assembly,
which should comprehend its whole mission, should
come in the bosom of the capital to fulfil its duty, the
people gave itself by proclamation a Provisionary Go-
vernment. Citizens, it was necessary to provide for the
administration of this country. We immediately as-
signed the ministries among us; we immediately re-
united in our council the executive and the administra-
tion; we concentrated in our hands all powers. The
ministry of justice was confided to me. In ordinary
times that ministry is the most peaceful and the most
calm. With the law for your guide, knowledge for your
support, virtue for your bases, modesty for your com-
pany, duty for your rule; what have humor passions,
what have egotistical and servile sentiments to do in the
midst of these grandeurs of justice ? Justice, which
rejoins earth to heaven—justice, which strikes and gua-
rantees—justice, which represses and protects—justice,
which pronounces on property, on right, on life, on
honour, how take away from it its essence of purity!
(Applause.) Citizens, the impiety of the fallen Govern-
ment had violated that sanctuary. How um,' high
pieces in the magistracy had become the recompense (.):,
the most servile devotion, the most revolting
Yes, the footstool for arriving at the highest honours,
even of the magistracy, was the tribune of the Chamber;
not a free, generous, indignant Chamber—but an obe-
dient, adulatory tribune, subject to a King. The speech
which one day supported an unpopular measure re-
ceived its reward the next; the more a man dis-
graced himself by the energy of his servility, the more
apostasy !
worthy he showed himself of the corrupting favours.
Thus it was that policy had invaded justice; thus it was
that an adulterous alliance had been formed between
justice and policy. Under the ancient monarchy, often
was the Parliament seen to hold, in the face of abso-
lute power, a firm and energetic language, to oppose
a strong and honurable resistance to ucjnist measures;
even under the restoration, the magistracy had its days of
popular opposition. On the one hand, history had
greatly extolled the courageous acts of the Parliament;
while on the other, by the means of the decrees
which the press had sometimes obtained, its im-
movability had rapidly glided into the Charter
of 1830. This great question, to which your
patriotic attention will soon be directed, had, so to say,
vanished in that singular revision made in the midst of
the barricades of July, of the pact granted in 1814.
But, during the ten last years of that reign of corrup-
tion, the laws of September dominated over that press
which they could not succeed in subduing. Invested,
contrary to the Charter itself, with the right of judging
a considerable portion of the crimes of the press, the
correctional tribunals punished the press without pity ;
the laws were draconian ; the repression corresponded
with the character of the laws. If the jnry, whose forma-
tion was a mystery to no one, declared a journal guilty,
the punishment was measured, not by the evil produced by
the writing itself, but by the (character) colour of the
journal. I say it with a painful regret ;notwithstanding
the eloquent efforts of the Procureur-General, who
had sustained the rights of the press—and which the an-
cient advocate of the press, become for a few days Minis-
ter of Justice, remembered well—the regulating court
had crushed, by a fatal jurisprudence, the last guarantees
of the citizen who proceeded against, at his own risk and
peril, the culpable acts of a functionary. The law on
judicial announcements presented, in its execution, the
most deplorable scandals. There was not a journal in
the departments whose devotion to public interests, or
the sacred cause of liberty, was pardoned ; the spoils
of them went to enrich the servility of the paid
journals ; its ruin and speedy downfal announced ti
all that the liberty of the press was but a by-word.
Such, citizens, were the sad results of the invasion of
policy into the precincts of justice ; for, excepting in
political matters, justice was wanting in none
of its devoirs! Careful of the private interests of citi-
zens arguing before her their respective pretensions—
careful of the liberty of citizens pursued for acts which
enter into the common law—justice fulfilled with zeal
and impartiality that so important a portion of her
attributions. Notwithstanding some imperfections which
our National Assemblies will endeavour to do away with,
no people has simpler laws, laws more clear than our
civil and criminal laws are. The judges make a wise
application of them; and the magistracy, in the fulfilment
of that duty, has certainly no reproach to undergo. The
conduct of the Minister of the Revolution was thence-
forward easily traceable. On the bench of magistrates
I displaced the men whose political lives were known to
us. I have especially done so in regard to those
in the higher positions. Except that, in the presence of
the customs of such long standing which gave to the
judges a character of inviolability, I have not revoked a
single one. Till now suspensions only have been pro•
nounced. A magistracy of more modest standing, but
whose importance has been revealed since its creation,
and which in the legislation which our National Assem-
justice, may be developed on a larger basis—l mean the
Assem-
blies will hexane(' ,w) to cAablihh for the organization of
d
justices of the peace—have specially attracted my atten-
tion. The recals have been numerous ; the late
Minister of Justice, and his predecessor in a still
greater degree, had placed in the offices of justices of
the peace men the most devoted and the most ardent in
their cause. It would be difficult to combine in a better
degree the continual necessities of a policy with the
entirely natural influences of that family magistracy.
Let us quit the question of persons, and permit me to
enter the domain itself of Justice. The duties of Minis-
ter of Justice have been very great during these last
nine weeks, in which each of tie, in the sphere of his
attributions, has been a rival in zeal and devotion. To
his direction were left a number of decrees, the con.
sideration of which would otherwise have appertained
to the whole Government. Ia criminal matters,
the abolition of the pain of death for political
offences, the abolition of the laws of September,
the abolition of public exposal in the pillory,
decrees which change the majority of the jury, which
restore to that jurisdiction the judgment of libels against
pnblic functionaries, which reverse the jurisprudence
Bourdean, which authorise temporary release without
giving bail in money, and which facilitate the restora-
tions of one's rights. In civil matters—abolition of poli-
tical oaths, abrogation of the law
suspension of writs of personal arrest, diminution of legal
expenses, naturalization of' foreigners.
iefemremeatteicoinfs a to
m bee astaiatrkeweno:fs.
especkally
on the Ist May that
A delegation of
the most pleasing and precious sovereignty—that of a
portion of the right of' pardon— °n judicial annonces,
was given to the Mi-
nister of Justice by the Provisionary Government imme-
diately after the revolution. While the Provisional Go-
vernment abolished the pain of death in political matters,
while it commuted that terrible
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to itself the right, the Minister caused the most useful
i
all the documents, and pre''hpxuaarmme
attach to the inauguration of the National Assembly.
Citizens, the late Government granted, on an average, 800
pt
Yo hnaoeeru sde favours were distribute
were
indivisible,pr oclaim i
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the doors
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es. to the repentant, or to the sufficient]° ' d
open d
y expiate
fault; and the pure air of liberty, bagni s and prisons
in reanimating almost
stifled existences, called down on the National
Assembly
gratitude and benedictiGeneral movement—ap
lause ) I would have wished ,citizens,
P .
place before you a reduction in the expenses of the budget
to be able to
of justice; for the moment they cannot be important.
In the ministry, the personnel in functionaries and em-
ployes hardly numbers a hundred pee,ons•
sous-directeur, two
I have sup-
M sinceali
Martin
beende this ministry the
salaries are lower than in any other; reduction
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would be difficult. As to the magistracy,
the people, under the precedence of my that it does not enrich those who
t hw
eh whom t haveizen you all know
devons themselves to
the administration of justice. But I '
yfrlen in them
am surrounded by
men of capability, of enlightenment, and of eminence,
Strasbourg;e lected
representatives
many
of
d of our col-
league,sembled in committee, and are engaged in drawing up a
constitutional law on the organization of justice. Their
discussions are animated their m and devotion
, patriotism
to the Republic, • ' and their
their knowledge of
th ey are aos
_f
law,
experience in affairs, r a warrant that
are to the Ministe .
their -work will d to the
Assembly. be worth of being submitted
Assembly. There will be
found the real economy, by
diminishing the number of magistrates, and properly re-
munerating those who remain' Such is, without doubt,
must the double object which .•
ed. The Council
of State, en service ordinaire, inauisrt be attained.
e ls.a,atscom
composed of thirty
members ; it has been reduced' to twenty-five. I have
suppressed the Council of State, en service exordinair ;
the ministers will delegate to it their general secretaries,
or chefs de division every time that the interest of the
service shall require it. Such is, gentlemen, as• stemeet
of the short administration of justice, in the modest
ministry which I have directed since the 25th of Fe-
bruary, with the love of duty, and the desire of giving to
public interests, as well as to private ones, the most solid
guarantees. The Republic desires honest and pure
magistrates, for the magistracy should give the best ex-
amle.—(Applauee.) lit concluding-, permit me to say
how I have to felicitate myself on the newly chosen,
who have entered since our revolution, into the
tribunals and into the courts. Yes, the choice
was good, and the proof is that they have been
consecrated by pub:ic opinion, by the people, who
have given you for colleagues a great many of the new
magistrates. Their zeal and devotion have not been for
a moment a cause of disappointment, and I feel pleasure
in rendering a tribute to their knowledge and their
patriotism .—(Applause.) A last observation, though a
very grave and important one, I have the pleasure of
submitting to you in this place, whence our words go
forth so widely. When the decree which remitted the
declaration of guilt to nine jurymen out of twelve ap-
peared, the fear of some impunity arose in some timid
minds : vain fear ! Never did the jury show so much
firmness united to so much wisdom. I say it with pride
in their regard, that the most important criminal cases
have been tried by them with independence and an ad-
mirable rectitude. The jury have comprehended the
whole extent of their mission ; they feel that in their
bands reposes public security ; they elevate themselves
to the level of their sublime t
'unctielle,—(Applause,)

cit:z-ns, the Republic will have good magistrates,
good jaries ; honest citiz:-:ns will be protected in their
rights; bad citizens will find justice ready to reprez.-,
them. Notbinv; will then be wantiag to tl:e dirties which
a Republican Government irnowes on us ; we will all,
citizens, we will all fulfil them with pleasure.—(Long
applause.)
M. Louis Blanc—Citizens, representatives of the
people—On the 29th of February those whom the course
of events had called into power (a power by no means
an enviable ono, certainly, for it was the government of
tempests), those, I say, found themselves assembled,
when, all of a sudden, they saw the Place de I'llotel de
Ville invaded by an ardent multitude. A flag floated
in the air, and on that flag this was what was written—
" Organization of Labour ; Creation of a Ministry of
Progress." Admirable result! It was thus, it was in
this capital, which still felt the quiverings of the combat,
on these pavements, on which the people had just
marked their route with their blood, it was thus that
they came to demand that which proved that their great
preoccupation was that of order.—(Applause.) For
what did they come to demand? They came to demand
peace, made prolific by labour; the creation of a minis-
try of progress, whose business it would be to prevent
violence by study, and to render revolutions for ever
impossible. What could the Provisional Government
do? What had it done? It had preserved the important
question for a special ministry to be created; but that
which it at, once granted was a commission of the Go-
vernment for the labourers, and that the Palace of the
Luxembourg should be the seat of its labours. Two men
mere chosen for that labour—the one my noble friend the
citizen ouvrier Albert, the other was myself. We directed
our
what attention to the present position of affairs, and
did see? On the one hand the ruin of the
rich becoming imminent, and, the other, the distress of the Perhaps'
inevitable. On
people becoming more
and more aggravated every day,and the impatience
of their desires violently irritat And what was our
mission? We went into that di, difficultult situation without
If,
a budget, without a soldier. by
chance, our words
were not listened to—if the agitation
which had been
suppressed for tho moment were renewed--we we should
o n
beenthe
have been rendered responsible for it.
If,
con-
trary,
it was appeased, might we not have
re-
proached with being dangerous innovators? (Cries of
" Yes, yes.") Did we not also run the risk too long prolonged a cry of distress? " S of
having
not necessary; we cannot wait, for we suffer, awr:
are hungry." These were the dangers we had' to run.
Yet we did not hesitate. On the day following revo-
lution such as ours, every citizen is a sold
when every citizen is a soldier, how should an ; and
shrink before peril P We have, then, been witnesyseosnoef
a sublime spectacle, which must remain in history as an
immortal proof of enlightenment and reason. We have
seen citizens running to us and exclaiming, " I have a
wife ; I have children ; give me bread." And when we
replied to them, ," Wait ;" and when we, besides, told
them of our want of power to assist them, these men
have retired, their hearts moved, and crying, " Vive la
Rieublique." We have seen passing one after the other
all the industries ; we have seen them passing bearing
11 signs of distress, claiming loudly the intervention of
the state ; so that the very force of affairs imposed
upon us a mission which had not been given to us—the
mission of interfering between the master and the
workmen, in order that they might go hand-in•hand
together. Well, we have obtained that result. It is in
oar archives, which we preserve with pride, for they are
the archives of concord and fraternity. But we had not
only conciliation to effect; we had associations to realise.
When workmen came to us to demand the means of as-
sociating together, you know what we did. At Clichy,
which in former times was only inhabited by prisoners,
what do you now see ? You only see labourers giving
each other their hand. Formerly you read over the gate
" Debtors' Prison." To-day every one will substitute
in his heart for these words, " There is a d dit which
every one owes to all—the social debt of bread and
labour."—(Hear, hear.) We have gathered on the ques-
tion of labour a great deal of information, which will be
communicated to you, and you will examine it in all its
details. Suffice it for me to say, that the two funda-
mental ideas of our work—whether it concerns com-
merce or agriculture, or the banks or the establishments
of customs—the two fundamental ideas are, association
and disinterested intervention, the pacific and tutelary
intervention of the state. We do not pretend that the
state should become the only industriel of the kingdom;
but we wish it to be understood, that the state has a
great duty to fulfil in what regards those who suffer.
What we wish is, that the state should be the tutor
of credit, giving credit not only to the rich,
but to the poor. What we have dematiaed
is, that the state should be the protector
of the poor, and their tutor. Ido not know, from the
bottom of my heart, if many of those who now hear me
would be disposed to contradict me. The cry has been
put forward of " Take care of the war of those who
possess nothing against those who possess." This is a
cry which has not issued from the hearts or mouths of
any one. Association is a noble and beautiful thing;
not because it will displace riches, but becau.se it will
make them universal, by making them fruitful ; and
because it will raise the level of the people and of
humanity.—(Cheers.)

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
A piece in two acts, called --1 Day at Docer, w as pro-
duced at this theatre last night, chiefly for the pui•poses
of Madame ho W.IG provid.„l
belonging to a class in which her peculiar fascinations
have plentiful scope for display. The plot is founded,
hypothetically, upon the return of Charles the Second
to this country after the dc ath of the great hero of the
Commonwealth, Oliver Crum:cll. Madame Anna
Thillon performs the part of a Pariskti milliner,
Henriette. who is induced by Count Carvallio, a Portu-
guese nobleman (Mr. Fisher), to impersonate the Queen
of the exiled Monarch; the objet hcing to with-
draw the attention of the people and the
functionaries of Dover from tip. real royalties, who
arrive, as is presumed, incog. Madame Anna Thillon
played the part of the " Queen for an hour" (the piece,
we believe, is founded upon a French drama, entitled La
Rcine d'un Jour), with a great deal of spirit and as-
surance, and sang several songs, the composition of Mr.
Loder, with considerable applause. In the end, how-
ever, she acknowledges her plebeian origin, and resigns
herself happily into the arms of her devoted lover,
Richard, a French sailor (Mr. Conway). Mr. Compton
had a tolerably good part, that of a tavern keeper at
Dover, where the soi•disant queen alights, and who
vacillated admirably between his republican principles
and his loyal inducements. The piece, however, having
little in it, hung very heavily till the final fall of the
curtain, which, on the announcement of the happy
" Resteration,"gave occasion for the performance of the
National Anthem by the orchestra, which was received
with enthusiasm.

THE COLOSSEUM.
As a spectacle the Colosseum in the Regent's
l Park continues to 1 e unrivalled. We say this sNitlicut
I in any manner depreciating the scientific advantag
iafforded by that more pretentious establishment,
the Polytechnic Institution, or the architectural
and panoramic • illusions of the Diorama, or tl:e
ingenious modellings of Madame Tussaud's Ex-
hibition, or any other, in fact, of the p :pu'ar
sights of the metropolis. As a spectacle, the Colos-
seum remains, we assert, unrivalled—whether as to
grandeur, variety, or cheapness.
Instead of the gigantic panorama of London as
viewed from the tower of St. Paul's Cathedral, we
have, this year, spread out before the eye a very ex-
traordinary work of art—a bird's eye view of the
great city of Paris, beheld, as it were, from the car of
a balloon suspended over the garden of the Tuileries.
Altogether the illusion is matchless. Looking down
from your apparent elevation you can almost deceive
yourself into the belief, that you are veritably gazing
upan that famous spot which one half of Christendom I
regards as the capital of pleasure, and the other half 1
as the capital of civilization. In every direction your
glance is arrested by the delineation of that most
remarkable metropolis. Here you see the prolonged
front of the Louvre, in whose vast galleries are stored
so many productions of genius. There you perceive
the famous Arc d'Etoile, under the span of which,
only a few days since, the Provisional Government of
the Republic stood to receive the homage of the armed
citizens. On one hand is the Palais Royale where
Egalite schemed against the Bourbon dynasty, where
Louis Philippe received the blessing of Voltaire, and
where the young Camille Desmoulins first mounted
the tri-color. On the other hand is the Madeleine, the
fane raised at the mandate of the Emperor, and over
the grand altar of which is represesented the apo •
theosis of Napoleon. Now your eye wanders along
the parapets of the different bridges on the Seine, now
it travels along the brilliant line of the Boulevards,
now it rests upon the Rue de la Paix, now upon the
Hotel de Ville, now upon Notre Dame, now upon
the National Institute, now upon the Place de la
Concorde, and row upon the Place Vendome, with
its superb pillar of commemoration. You gaze on in
breathless admiration, you breathe the very atmo-
sphere of Paris, you listen in imagination to the cries
in its streets, to the rumbling of its carriages, to the
striking of its church clocks, you watch the flickering
ots thousand lamps, and the lights which glitter in
f i
its windows—for the city is revealed to you as it
nishing
appearsby moonlight, and the beams of that beautiful
satellite'
, to ourb
are reflected in the river with such an asto-
vi7vioitdn_eshs that:you forget for the moment that
deception of a
you are
knowledge, ol beholding a
marvellousnever
vraisemblance itPsi
before
cetevthkeinvde—ryit tsheienmg s
sa I
are transported in imtaeolrfe. thain,oua
an instant
scene of revolutions across the Channel to the
retire from the spectacle
republicanism, and you
admiration. ethereathless, dizzy, and full of
Among
Colosseum must be other attractions of the
to the public—the mentionedcavern ,tithe,
those so long familiar
ture, the stalactite caverns, etflo, or museum of sculp-
Swiss cottage, the Gothic avia rner de glace with the
the conservatories. Of rninaorrye, Mount Blanc, and
abundance—foremost among vvhicuiliosities there are
two bunches of artificial flowers arevai certainly the
guineas. They are of inimitable delicacy
n and
perfume from the petals while you stoop ovex- ect 3
over them.
With all the cordiality of delight we Commend the
holiday million to the Colosseum.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 7.—A court of inquiry, compris-
ing Captains Yates, of the Illustrious, Dundas, of the
Powerful, and Eden, of the Victory, sat on board the
BAlerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, on Friday and Satur-
day, to investigate reports of a most extraordinary cha-
racter and variety, with regard to the wholesale desertion
from the ship (Bellerophon), and the great amount of
punishment which had been inflicted upon h'er crew
during the seven months she had been in commission.
In the course of this time about 1,600 lashes have been
administered, and 94 men were posted " run" upon the
books up to yesterday.
His royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, accom-
panied by a small retinue, arrived here at eleven o'clock
yesterday morning. The Prince's carriage was taken
into the Royal Clarence Victualling Establishment by
Mr. Saperintendent Stevens, of Gosport. Captain Eden,
of the Victory, was in waiting on his Royal Highness,
and showed him over the establishment, crossing to the
dockyard in Sir Charles Ogle's barge. Captain Eden
escorted the Royal party over the dockyard, on board the Victory :Ind Excellent. The Prince partook of lun-
clieon with Sir C. Ogle, and returned to London by the
thirty minutes past five afternoon train.
The Pluto steam-sloop, Lieutenant-Commander R.
Richardson, arrived at Limerick, from Dublin and Cork,
on the 30th ult.
Wind south, moderate breezes, and fine weather.
"- • MARINES
PROMOTIONS.
Second-Lieutenant A. F. Sutherland, of the Plymouth
division, to be First-Lieutenant, and appointed to the
same division, vice Winne, dismissed the service.
First-Lieutenant E. S. Browne, of the Chatham
divi-
sion, to be Captain at that division. vice Brevet-Major J.
Fynmore, retired on full pay.
Second-Lieutenant E. Richards. of the Chatham divi-
sion, to be First-Lieutenant at that division, vice
Brov.-ne, promoted.
Mr. Peter Rolt, the contractor for the enlargement
and repairs of the new marine barracks at Gosport, has
commenced the construction of a new practice battery
on an improved plan, suggested by Major Calamy,
gunnery instructor, immediately in rear of Forton
barracks.

The decision come to by the Admiralty at their
recent inspection of these barracks, to purchase all the
buildings abutting on the boundary wall on either side
of th 3 gate, has, we are told, caused considerable altera-
tions to be made in the plans of the proposed new
buildings; and as the experiment of keeping a portion
of this division on either side of the harbour under one
commandant, has proved to be highly inconvenient, and
in many respects prejudicial to the interests of the ser-
vice, it is now contemplated to increase these barracks
sufficiently to contain the whole division, including the
artillery companies, for whom a depot of practice and
instruction will be established at Fort Moncton, as was
the case some years since.

APPOINTMENTS.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 6.—A. L, Kaye, midshipman, to
the Gorgon; Lieutenant John Moffatt, to be agent for
the mails; Hon. A. K. Legge, naval cadet, to the Belle-
rophon ; `Wham H. Truscott, midshipman, to the
Thetis.

MAY 8.
ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD.— Quantities
of Indian corn and meal are being shipped from this
yard, to the north coast of Ireland, for the relief of the
poor in that country.
The Express 6 gun brig packet, and the Confianco
steam-tug, were taken into docks at Devonport to be
rapaired on Saturday.
Sir Charles Napier's squadron has refitted and is
ready for any orders. At present the St. Vincent,
Prince Regent. Amphion, and Dragon are at Cork and
Kingstown. The Canopus has been detached to Ply-
mouth to be paid off.
The Wolf, 18-gun sloop, haring been converted into
a floating pier for Kingstown, Dublin, left Plymouth for
that port on Sunday. in charge of Mr. Henderson, the
master-attendant of Devonport dockyard, who will with
his nav4,ating party proceed from Kingstown to Pem-
broke Dockyard, to jury-rig and navigate the newly-
launched 80-gun ship Colossus from that station to De-
vonport, to be completed. During Mr. Henderson's
absence, Mr. Stigant, the storekeeper, will perform the
duty of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Artillery Companies
of the dockyard brigade, and Mr. Truscott, clerk, will
act as a Captain of Mr. Peake's company on that gentle-
man removing- to Woolwich.

The BelleiSle, 72 gun troop-ship, arrived off Ports-
mouth to-day, from St. John's, New Brunswick, with
the 33d regiment on board, and sailed with them for a
Scotch port to disembark.
The frigate-built ship Herefordshire, 1,400 tons, ar-
rived at Portsmouth to-day, from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
with her Majesty's 49th regiment on board.
APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant John Moffat to be Admiralty agent for
mails. This of commission as Lieutenant in the
navy is dated the 13th of March, 1811. He was a mid-
shipman of l'Hercule in action with the Poursuivante
in
the West Indies in 1803; he was midshipman and mate
of the Amphion and Cerberus, and bore a part in nume-
rous boat enterprises in the Adriatic, particularly at the
capture of a convoy at Pesaro; and acting Lieutenant of
the Cerberus in the action off Lissa, 1811.
Nlidshipmen--A, L. Kaye to the Gorgon steam-sloop.
at Plymouth;
the Mediterranean.
W. 11. Truscott to the Thetis frigate, 111
Naval Cadet—The Hon. 11. Legge to the Bellerophon,
78, at Portsmouth.

ROYAL MARINE PROMOTIONS.
First Lieutenant E. S. Browne, of the Chatham
division, to be Captain of the same division, vice Brevet-
Nlajor Fynmore, retired on full pay.
Second Lieutenant A. F. Sutherland, of the Plymouth
division, to be First-Lieutenant of the same division, vice
Wynne, dismissed the service by court martial.
Second-Lieutenant E. Richards, of the Chatham divi-
sion, to be First-Lieutenant of the same division, vice
Browne, promoted.
WooLwrcrt, MAY B.—Rear-Admiral J. W.
Dundas, C. 8., Captain M. F. Fitzhardinge
Berkeley,
C. 8., Lords of the Admiralty, and MHenryer r. HG. Ward,Deans
e
First Secretary to the Admiralty, with a
officers and friends, embarked at Blackwnallm of naval
on Saturday
last in the Black Eagle steam vessel, and proceeded to
Woolwich, where their Lordships
board
Lordships, the
In-
vestigator, fitting under theC
direction of apt. Bird, for
the expedition to the Arctic regions.
went
Theiron
after remaining some
time on board the Investigator,
landed at Woolwich Dockyard, and went on board
the Carodoc, Holyhead mail steam•packet, lying
in the basin, and under orders to leave Woolwich to-
morrow in charge of Lieutenant Robertson, to take her
duties on the Liverpool station. Their Lordships also
visited several other vessels in a forward state, and again
embarked in the Black Eagle steam-vessel, and pro-
ceeded down the river to Greenhithe, to visit the Enter-
prise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross,at
present having
her compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson .
The Investigator, Captain Bird, is nearly ready for
leaving Woolwich, and the Monkey has had her steam
up this afternoon to tow her to Greenhithe, to have her j

KING'S COLLEGE.
On Saturday afternoon the annual meeting of the pro-
fessors of this institution took place in the usual hall of
meeting in Somerset House. His Grace the Archbishop
of Canterbury presided.
His Grace having stated the object of the meeting—
viz., to distribute rewards to such students of the college
as had distinguished themselves in the science of medical
knowledge—the following gentlemen were called I--..
SCIJOLARSHIPS.
Second Year—J. Wood. First Y—G. May, E.
Simpson, and C. Pardey. Daniell—F.ear Vaux.
ANATOMY.
Prize—G. A. K. Lake;• certificates—J. W. Wakem
and T. C. Beale.

PHYSIOLOGY.
Prize—R. C. R. Jordan; certificates—G. A. K. Lake.
CHEMISTRY.
Prize—J. F. Hardwick; certificate—W.. S. Kum.
CHEMICAL MANIPULATION.
Prize—J. Vaux.

MITERIA MEDIC L.
Prize—W. Hewett; certificates—R. Fowler, J. Wil-
kins, and W. Browne.

SURGERY.
Prize—J. D. Macdonald; certificates—J. Wood and
T. C. Beale.;

MEDICINE.
Prize—W. C. Lake; certificate—L. S. Beale.

MIDWIFERY.

- Prize—J. B. Ruck; certificates—W. C. Lake, D. Fer-
guson, and L. S. Beale.

BOTANY.
Prize—W. Hewitt; certificates—H. C. Turnour and
J. Wood.

PORENSIC MEDICINE.
Prize—T. Jeston ; certificates—C. J. Evans and T. C.
Beale.

MEDICAL CLINICAL.
Prizes—J. B. Ruck (Summer); J. B. Ruck (Winter).

SURGICAL CLINICAL.
Prizes—R. W. Broster (Winter); R. C. Davies,
:Summer.)

WARNEFORD.
First Prize, R. C. R. Jordan;LSecond Prize, J. N.
Coffin.

LE ATNE S.

First Prize, H. H. Salter; Second prize, G. A. F. Lake.

ASSOCIATES.

T. W. Nunn, J. J. Roughton, H. Stevens, E. Thomas.
and S. J. A. Salter. _ _

At the conclusion of the proceedings a vote of thanks
was proposed to his Grace, and after an eloquent reply
the meeting separated.

DERBY SWEEPS.

,uaollnerSs
Hero of Waterloo Tavern.
are held, took place at the
measures to
LpiceernbsyedswTeeilase•
aot
of
r thed a y afternoon
metropolis,
Waterloo-road, for the purpose of adopting
aat whosemeeti meeting
houses s
Derby for having
liensed victuallers of the metropolis, meet the threatened qui tarn actions which havestisethen
brought by a solicitor of the name of Moss age
of the Red Lion, Westminster-bridge-road, was ca
and other sweeps at their houses. Mr. A. Mackintosh,
of
the chair.
The endIRMAN said it was a matter of notoriety that
satisfied
themselvessifil b -u
a person of the name of Moss, who was a solicitor, had
issued writs to recover itoi, penalty from publicans who
that
tshwoanet
one feeling
sat
eeapiti
rnteghseeipnr
et housesry pervaded
emeetingd, t andhwe
was
st
meeting,Ned t o protect
unanimity, and a determination to resist the sysllttheeamtfeoolfft
teox tuonrittieo,nawndhitchheiw.eaws
oinutlednsdeeedn.
beAalnl tebnedy hofadthteogduoi
towaras
actions.
Mr. OKEY said that their Chairman bad alluded to
the qui tarn actions ; but were they aware that 1,400
notices of actions had been served, to recover in the
aggregate the enormous sum of 140,0001. Could there
be any doubt what was the object ? It was to frighten
the licensed victuallers into a compromise. It was,
however, to be hoped that every member in the trade
would have the firmness to resist every attempt at com-
promise. As far as he was concerned, he was determined
to defend the action which had been brought against
him to the last. He would sooner expend 5001. than
give Is. to tl, informer. If they were firm, he felt con-
vinced the :m: ping would be heard of these qui tam ac-
tions. Mt. Ukey proposed the following resolution:—
" That this meeting pledges itself to defend to the utmost
the qui tam actions which have been brought against
them individually, and not to agree or listen to any cone.
promise."

Mr. BENNETT seconded the resolution, which was put
and carried unanimously.
A desultory conversation ensued, in the course of
which it was observed that offers had been made to
withdraw the action if the sum of 251. was paid, and
...f,eibts had been drawn out and sent
round. It was, livirovui,
„t the
penalty could be recovered that the sanction of the
Attorney-General must be obtained, and when that was
got, then the informer would not be entitled to any part
of the penalty. The wisest course to adopt would be to
get the Attorney-General to move the Court of Ex-
chequer for a writ of prohibition to the plaintiff to stay
the proceedings, they not being for the public good, but
merely fur the purpose of putting money into the pocket
of the prosecutor. This suggestion was adopted, and,
after a vote of thanks to the chairman and Mr. Okey,
for their aid and co-operation, the meeting adjourned.—
IVeekly Dispatch.

ALLEGED MURDERS AT STONELEIGH ABBEY
THIRTY YEARS AGo.—lt may be recollected that some
years ago a long protracted claim was made by a person
named George Leigh, as the rightful owner of the es-
tates of Lord (then Mr. Chandos) Leigh, and the dis-
pute was brought to a close by the defeat of the former.
A new claimant in the person of John Leigh, whose
family resides in Lancashire, succeeded in effecting a
forcible entrance into Stoneleigh Abbey, during the ab-
sence of its noble owner in November, 1t44. The new
claimant, with his relations and friends, to the number
of thirty-two, some of whom wore alleged to have been
attracted to the spot from mere motives of curiosity,
were taken into custody, and tried before Mr. Justice
Patteson, at a special gaol delivery, shortly afterwards,
and defended by Mr. Temple. Twenty. eight of them were
found guilty. James Leigh was sentenced to eighteen
months' imprisonment with hard labour; Thomas Leigh
and two others to twelve months; and the remainder to
three months' imprisonment. It was at that time thought
that an end was entirely put to the claim to Stoneleigh
Abbey on the part of the Lancashire Leighs; but a
thlevitybe, before
a was llengthenedoked upon
investigation
four of the county magistrates, at Warwick, on Saturday
madechar g e
the
subject at
first
last, and which alleged that the present noble possessor
of the Abbey had been guilty of the heinous crime of
murder. The substance of the charge was, that his
Lordship had ordered two labourers, employed in the
construction of a bridge on his estate, to be killed and
buried beneath the abutment of the bridge, in the pre-
sence of himself, Lady Julia Leigh, and a large number
of other persons. The charge was supported by several
witnesses, who swore that they had been present on the
occasion. Eventually the magistrates refused to enter-
tain the charge.
DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—BRADFORD, FRIDAY.—
Yesterday, at the Court-house, George Hilton, a young
man, said to be respectably connected, was brought
before the magistrates, charged with having committed a
most despicable outrage on Miss Louisa Joanna Kings-
man, a highly accomplished young lady, about eighteen
years of age, the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Kingsman,
the vicar of Gilderstone. In order that the feelings of
the young lady and her relatives might not be further
distressed by detailing the facts in the public court, the
case was heard in tho magistrate's private room. The
fats are as follows :---On Friday afternoon, Miss Kings-
man left the parsonage for a brother-in-law's residence,
in Gilderstone•streef, a distance of about two miles. She
had to cross a field by a footpath, and on nearing the
end of it she was overtaken by the prisoner, who ad•
dressed her in the most indecent terms. As far as pos-
sible she endeavoured to avoid his unmanly conduct, and
r
as she was attempting to hasten frontihim, he seized
from the path, and
gravel-pit some four or five yards
he commenced an
having thrown her down into it,
by the arms and round the aist. He dragged her to a
and h •
the ruffian, having
Kingsman, resolutely fought with
in escaping from him.
regained her feet she succeeded
attack, which left little doubt of his intentions. Miss
' ner for trial,•but
the 'oung lady's
the Bench, with the consent
nt of
the
ri
3soner, and to find
rela-
tions, inflicted a fine of
51.
i boehaviopur.
It was at first intended to send the prisoner
good securities for his good
wARE,.—On Saturday evening
abnaydb otivhnee.
workmen and others, who voluntarily_
three hundred
constables in that ward on the 10th of
odgers, the
acted as special
igareeadtwith a substantial and bountiful re.
room of the Royal General Dis-
pensary
Reverend J. A •
'gentlemen of the ward. The room was ncpAtiaoepAntr:maioDnlnwEeßctrAshoeGiuerrlne.Tig-JiElimioenvna,Wha,onio,lidevmperraeennsyiddoeNtd\h;
jeisrhuvipemaining
taste-
fully decorated with banners, evergreens, &c. The usual
Tavern,
volunteered
loyal toasts were proposed and responded to with
great enthusiasm, and the party broke up highly de-
lighted Staples,
ofwith th e theA evening'sien
entertainment.eeredtheAulesse orsi
their establishment, and materially assisted in ail the
arrangements.

HISTORICAL LECTURE ON THE ACQUITTAL OF
THE SEVEN BISIIOPS.—The Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A.,
Honorary Canon of Chester, delivered a lecture upon
the above subject, in Exeter Hall, last evening, being
assisted in his illustrations by the celebrated picture
painted by J. R. Herbert, Esq., R.A., which was hung
for the occasion before the large organ. The chair was
occupied by Storey, Esq., who introduced the Rev.
Lecturer with a few complimentary words, after which
prayers having been said, the lecturer entered into an
historical account of the trial and acquittal referred to,
and also into various points connected with the Reforma-
tion. He was much applauded throughout his discourse.
By our letters from the Pacific we may announce
that her Majesty's brigantine, Spy, now on her way to
England, will not bring any freight. Her Majesty's
ship Collingwood, the flag-ship, Rill be the next ship of
the navy home from the Pacific, with freight to the
amount of between 1,000,000 dolls. and 2,000,000 dolls.
on merchants' account, and may be looked for about Au-
gust or September.

•••c-
-\e
f c,,mpassrs adjusted, and she will leave ibis even-.uj, or ,4141-
1 at four o'clock to-morrow morning at Latest.
Captain Lord Adolphus Fuzelarence, G.C.11., and 6ir
WombwellGc, rge arrived at Woolwich yesterday, and
went on board the Investigator, where they remained
^?
with with Captain Bird about an hour and a half, and mi-
nutely inspected the vessel.
The Llewellyn, intended for the Holyhead mail steam-
packet service, went down the river on Saturday on an
experimental trial; and the result was a speed of 15.53
knots or 17.89 miles per hour, the draught of water
being 9 feet aft and 8 feet 7i inches forward, and the
number of revolutions 27,62 per minute.

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