The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

MARKET IN TEL LIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current, March 25.)
SUGAR.—To-day West India Sugar was offered upon
rather lower terms, still the demand was small for all
sorts by private treaty. The purchases amounted only
to 410 hhds &c, including at auction 120 hhds crystalized
Demerara, which sold Is per cwt cheaper, aed went at
40s 6d to 42s 6d for mid and good yellow. There was
a further increase in supply of West India.
REFINED.—Today the demand was much better for
Refined Sugar from dealers, and prices are firm, Brown
lumps at 48s to 48s 6d per cwt. In crushed Sugar there
is yet little doing, with free sellers at former rates.
MaceiTrus.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was
dealt in with caution, and rather lower rates were ac-
ceded to, at auction 4,134 bags were obiefly sold, mid to
fine brown 333 6d to 365, fair 32s 335, grey 35s to 403,
mid and good mid grainy 38s to 39s 6d, mid to fine yel-
low at 37s 6d to 403 6d, inferior 36s to 373.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Madras Sugar met with
little notice, and of 1,439 bags at auction a part only said
at easier rates, mid and good grocery went at 37s 6d to
41s, and low brown was nearly all taken in at 28s per
cwt; the public sales of 1,893 bags Bengal went off quietly
at baroly former rates, mid and good white Benares 40s
6d, low dingy 38e 61 to 395, damp 31s to 423.
FoREICN.—Today there was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar, and privately only a cargo of brown Bahia was
sold at 203 per cwt.
MOLASSES.—There has been little business concluded
and a desire is evinced to sell, low to tine West India at
14s to 163 6d, Cubs and kola() Rica 143 to 14s 6d, Ben-
gal and Mauritius 12s to 13s per cwt.
COCOA.—British Plantation is not offered under for-
mer rates, and the supply at market is small. The value
of red Trinidad is 513 to 555, grey 45s to 503, and Gre-
nada 42s to 483. In Foreign the sales made have been
upon a small scale, Bahia and Para at 29s to 303, and
Guayaquil at 313 6d to 325.
COFFEE.—This afternoon there were few buyers of
Plantation Ceylon Coffee, and privately some parcels
were offered rather under previous rates. At auction
205 bags were taken in at 523 for fine fine ord.
The market for native Ceylon has a dull aspect
and 44s to 44s fid is the value of good ord. Other sorts
of Coffee met with little attention for home use or ex-
port, and prices declined 2s per cwt at a public sale of
1,513 bags Costa Rica; fine ord 46s to 47s 6d, good ord
44s to 455, one lot common 40s; damaged 31s to 44s
per cwt.
TEA.—Publie sales are declared for next Tuesday.
The middling and fine qualities of Congou are operated
in with caution, and holders appear disposed to sell at
from is id to Is 9d, but common has been in good de-
mand at 1 lid to Is, medium la Oid to is Oid, and the
market looks firm. For good and fine sorts of Gree❑
the market has a quiet appearance, with sellers rather
wader previous rates, and there is a more abundant sup-
ply, but in ord sorts a good deal bas been done at late
terms; Canton Gunpowder and Young Hyson have been
most in demand. Scented and Pekoe Teas have met
with little attention, and can easily be obtained at former
rates,

consequence of a further reduction having
been acceded to for white Bengal, a good business has been
concluded, and the purchases are 7000 bags, including
2853 bags at auction. The value of good and fine is now
gs 6d to lls, raid and good mid 8s 9d to 9s 3d, and low 8s
to 8s 6d. Prices have ceased to decline for Madras, and
there is an improved demand, 7s to 8s 6d have been paid
for several parcels of pinky. In cargo or pearl barley
there is yet little doing, and 7s to 8s is the value. In
Patna, sales have been to %limited extent at from 10s 6d to
17s for low to tine, town dressed Carolina 20s to 28s,
and American 16s 63 175 6d. Sago is wanted,
al rates tend upwards. At auction 525 boxes
re ized 19s 6d to 215 6d for mid to good small pearl, and
pit 4
21,
to
other
3d. sortsln
large sort 21s 6d to 235. For Arrow Root there are few
buyers; the value of Bermudaa is la
to
of West India 4d to 10d, and Fast
Tapioca sales are upon a more extended scale at 29d to
bid.
on
SPIkES.—In Black liepper transactions have been u
n
a limited scale by private treaty at rather lower rates. A.
auction 640 bags Penang were sold at 33 to 3id for c Dr,
mon light rather dusty. The value of Malabar is aid
to
sid, and clean Sumatra 3d. White is wanted at 6d
to Bd. Pod is yet dull of sale at 305 to 40s per cwt._or
Ginger met with little attention. Jamaica is held f
21 Ss to 91 for common to fine, African 349 to 379, and
East India export sort 17s to 20s. At public sale 160
cases Cochin went at 70s to 94s for middling to
tend, and mouldy 67s 6d to 19s. Cloves in
fair demand—Bourbon and Zaczibar at 6d to
6id, and Penang 9d to is 4d. Mace is wanted
Fine 2s 6d to 2s Bd, and other kinds 2s 2d to 2s sd. For
Nutmegs there are several buyers, fine and good brown is
3a 2d to 45, low and raid 2s 8d to 2s 11d, and limed of
first quality 2s Sd to 2s 10d. Some small parcels of
Cassia Lignea have been sold rt 94s to 102s—Cassia
Buds are held for 1085 to 1 los. To-day Pimento was in
better demand, and full rates were obtained. At auction
567 bags were sold at 41-1 to sd, bat chiefly at 4-id to 4id
per lb.
SPIRITS.—There are sellers of Leeward Island Rum

at a reduction; still operations have been upon a small
scale at Is 7d to is lid proof. East India has been
purchased with caution, and the rates taken are is sid
to is 6d. In consequence of a reduction of 2d per gallon
having been acceded to for Demerara a good business has
been transacted; and the purchases amount to 350 puns
at 2s 4d to 2s 61 for 33 to 39 per cent over proof. There
has been rather more doing in Jamaica. About 250
puns have been sold, fine and favourite marks at 3s 8d
to 4s 4d for 35 to 38 per cent over proof, mid to
good 2s 10d to 3s 8d for 30 to 34 over, and low
2s 6d to 2s 9d. Brandy is still purchased with
caution for all purposes. Cognac best brands
of the vintage of 1850 at 43 3d to 4s sd, 1849 ditto
4s 6d to 4s Bd, 18453 ditto 4s 9d to 4s I Id, 1847 ditto
5s 2d to 53 4d, and inferior sorts 3s to 4s per gallon.
Prices do not give for British made Spirit; but opera-
tions are upon a limited scale at 9s 8d to Os 9d; and Gin
at 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Geneva sells more
freely at is 7d to Is Bd, and fine is 9d to 2s per gallon.
INDIGO.—The demand for East India is improving,
and there are now no sellers under last sales' rates.
Spanish met with greater attention, and realized an ad-
vance of 2d; at auction 100 serons of Guatemala were
a:1 sold at from 2s 4d to 4s 9d for very low to good.
CCCHINEAL.-At public sale 160 bags were nearly all
sold—Honduras silvers, low to good mid 3s 4d to 3s 9d,
blacks 3s 7d to 4s 4d, Mexican silvers 3s 2d to 3s 3d,
and Teneriffe 3s 6d.

SALTPETRE.—British refined is cheaper, limited sales
having bean made at 29s to 303 per cwt. In Bengal the
business concluded privately has been small for all pur-
poses, and the parcels at public were taken in. Prices
incline downwards, and rulo at from 26s to 28s 6d for
low to fine Calcutta. For Nitrate of Soda the demand
is limited with sellers at 14s 6d to 14s 93 per cwt.
TALLOW.—The demand has fallen off for Russian on
the spot, during the last few days, and prices are not so
firm. There are sellers of fine new yellow Candle at 40s
to 40s 6d, and old at 393 to 39s 6d per cwt; but
only a limited business has been concluded.
For delivery in last three months of the year
there are sellers of new at 40s, and with few
buyers. In home melted a good deal has been done at
39s net cash for immediately delivery. Of Australian
700 casks at auction were chiefly sold at 34s to 38s 6d
for low to fine; but of 500 pkgs South American a part
only disposed of at 35s to 375; 48 casks Belgian 38s 3d
to 38s 6d; 318 skins Ibrail were taken in at 37s 3d; and
80 casks Odessa Sheep at 37s per cwt. Prices of Tallow
are 3s to 4s above this time last year.
Ons.—There is a further increase in the supply of
Cocoa Nut, and all parties evince little desire to operate.
At auction 600 casks Cochin were taken in at 28s to 32s
6d per cwt. Olive continued to be operated in with
caution; and sellers are willing to accept 41/ lOs to
42/ for Gallipoli; 40/ to 41/ for other sorts, and a
further reduction is anticipated. Linseed Oil is offered
at lower terms ; the value is 33s to 33s 3d per cwt.
There are few buyers for delivery, and with sellers at
33s 6d to 345. For Rape Seed Oil prices have be-
come firm ; pale realized 34s 61 to 355, brown 33s
to 33s 6d; and Foreign Refined 35s 6d to 365. Palm is
much wanted, and 29s to 30s is the price of fine, whilst
there is no increase of supply. There is an improving
demand for Seal Oil, and holders are less disposed to
press sales; pale has been selling at 331 to 34/, and
other sorts 301 to 321 lOs. Cod is not to be
obtained under 371 10s per tun; few transactions,
however, have taken place. Southern has been
eperated in with caution, at from 301 to 311 lOs for com-
mon to fine. In Sperm sales are upon a more extended
scale, and rates are firm at 841 lOs to 85/ 10s, with only
a moderate supply. Headmatter is in fair request at
901 to 94l per tun. For auction on Friday 44 tuns; and
400 packages Seed Oils are declared the chief part Rape
Seed, and Gingelly Oil.

COURSE OF EXCFL
Amsterdam 11 154

Ditto, three months 11 17—
Rotterdam .... • ... .. 11 17
Antwerp .. .... 25 2234
Brussels ...... 25
Ilamburgh .... • • 31.8. 13 7
Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 234

Ditto. 3 months .... 25 20
Marseilles 25 22%
.
Frankforton Mains.... 11914
Berlin • .. • • .•
Vienna, effec. tio• ••• • • 13 20
Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 13 20
Petersburgh,Sll.Rble.. 37
Ms.drid .............. 50
Cadiz . • • • ............ 60%
Barcelona
Seville.. •• •• .• •• •• ..

INGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar .. . • .. • • . • • • • .
Leghorn ........ • •• 30 50
Genoa .. •• • • ...... •• 25 50
Venice.. .. .. •• • • ....
Naples ...... ••
Palermo, peroz ........ 125
Messina .............. 125
Lisbon 53%
Oporto ................ 53%
Rio Janeiro •.........
Buenos Ayres .. • .....
New York,6o days'sight

Philadelphia .. :....:..

PRICES OF BULLION, FEZ OZ.
Foreign Geld in bars.. Xll 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

New Dollars .•...• 0 4 11%
Silver is bars ......•• 0 5 IN,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo]
sack at Five o'clock.

Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from a place
in Somersetshire favour of copyholds enfranchise-
ment, and several against Papal aggression.
THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES.—THE
MARRIAGE ACT.

The Bishop of OXFORD wished to direct the at-
tention of their Lordships to the state of the
Church in the colonies, and to know bow
the state of the Church had been:affected by recent
enactments, and whether the Noble Earl the Secretary
for the Colonies had received any remonstrances from
the clergy of the colonies on the subject of the celebra-
tion of marriages in the colonies.
Earl GREY said that there were many difficulties
affecting the question. He had laid it down as a
rule that it would be wrong in colonial matters
for the Imperial Legislature to interfere in any
matters in relatio❑ to which the colonial legislature
was competent to legislate. Now, he had not received
any complaints from the clergy of New South Wales
with regard to any matters in which it was not compe-
tent to the colonial legislature to legislate. He had
understood that there was to be a meeting of the
Bishops of Australia on the subject, to which the
Right Rev. Prelate had alluded, but the result
of that meeting had not yet been known; but he should
deprecate legislating on any subject on which the colo-
nial legislature was competent to legislate.
Lord MONTEAGLE thought the House ought to
legislate in this matter.

—Lord CAMPBELL thought the House ought to legis-
late on the subject of marriage in the colonies, so as to
make the legislation in regard to marriage in unison
with the law of this country.
Earl GREY reminded his Noble and Learned Friend
that the marriage law in England was different from that
in Scotland and from that in Ireland, and he thought in
Australia it ought to be left to the decision of the local
Legislature.
The Bishop of OXFORD declared that complaints
had arrived from the clergy of the colonies of the ope-
ration of the law of marriage in colonies, and contended
that the decision of the matter ought not to be left to
the Legislature, but should be left to the decision
of the Church. It was unjust to tie up the operation of
the Church of England in this manner in the colonies.
Earl GREY had never said that no complaints
had been brought under his notice by the Colonial
Church, but that no grievance had been
so brought under his notice which could not
be dealt with by the colonial legislature.
It had been suggested that the colonial legislature
would not deal with it, and in that case he thought it
was not a case calling for imperial legislation, inasmuch
as it was a mutter purely of colonial and domestic
concern.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-,

tralian colonists, complaining that Government had im-
properly neglected the subject of steam communication
with Australia, and praying the House to take the mat-
ter into consideration. The Noble Lord gave notice that
to-morrow he should move that the petition be printed
with the votes.

Sir DE LACY EVANS presented six petitions from
various parts of Westminster against the Sunday Trad-
ingßill._ _ _

Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the
Chamber of Commerce of Belfast praying for an altera-
tion of the patent-laws.

Mr. HUME presented a petition signed by 412 ma-
riners and others, at Seaham harbour, in favour of the
alteration of several clauses of the Mercantile Marine
Act; also four petitions from places in Norfolk and
-other places against the Bible monopoly.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition against the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.

Mr. ADDERLE Y. presented several petitions against
Papal aggression.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented petitions for the total re-
peal of the Excise duty on paper from the following
places, and persons connected with the following news-
papers:—" Tyrone Constitution," " Fermanagh Re-
porter," "Balling Chronicle," " Lurgan Chronicle,"
" Tipperary Vindicator," " Londonderry Sentinel,"
" Sligo Journal," " Tralee Chronicle," "Newry Tele-
graph," " Galway Vindicator," " Coleraine Chronicle,"
" Rosscommon Reporter," "Kerry Evening Post,"
" Ballyshannon Herald," " King's County Chronicle;"
and inhabitants of Ballyshannon.
Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from the
inhabitants of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis against
Papal aggression, and praying the House to pass such a
measure as will be effectual to prevent the assumption of
territorial titles, or the exercise of synodical action, on
the part of tlse Romish clergy, under colour of any
authority from the Bishop of Rome by bull or rescript.

century, when a good deal of excitement arose from the
fact of some of the Roman Catholic clergymen having
adopted titles, but then, es he hoped it e ould turn out
now, it was thought unadvisable to battle :with trifles,
and the excitement ultimately died away. Now if the
House followed that example on this cccasion, and no
longer frittered away its valuable time in wordy
debates about nothing, the Legislature would elevate
itself in the estimation of the country. Lofty
terms and large expressions had been applied
to Rome to stigmatize her for insulting
the Sovereign of these realms; but those lofty terms and
large sounding expressions were just as much applicable
to the Free Church of Scotland as to the Pope
of Rome, for they gave titles to their Church dig-
nitaries without consulting the Crown. Such, then,
were a few of the objections which he enter-
tained against this Bill. Ile had many others, indeed
their name was legion, but ho should be falling into the
same fault that he was condemning if he wasted the
time of the House by going over the whole of them.
He had stated enough, he thought, to show that the
measure was wholly uncalled for; and since be thought
it opposed to the spirit of the Reformation, as a staunch
and uncompromising Protestant be should assist his
Roman Catholic fellow-subjects in giving it his decided
and steady opposition. He maintained that it did not
belong to incorporated bodies of any kind to petition the
Crown on the subject of Church matters. As to the ar-
guments which had been used of the Pope's supremacy
over the consciences of his followers, he asserted that
the Roman Catholics of this country entirely repudiated
any interference on the part of the Pope in their
temporal concerns. No such power ever was conceded
to him by his most ardent supporters in this country.
The Hoch Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the
three questions which bad been submitted to six of the
Catholic universities of Europe—Louvain, Paris, Douay,
Alenca, Valladolid, and Salamanca: whether the Pope
could have any temporal jurisdiction in this country,
whether he could absolve Roman Catholics from
their allegiance to the sovereign, and whether
there was anything in the constitution of the
Roman Church which forbade its member& to keep faith
with heretics. All these questions were answered in
the negative by each of the universities, and more than
one of then expressed its surprise that such opinions
should
be entertained in a country so celebrated
forits intelligence and freedom of thought.—(Hear.)
He thought, therefore, he had fully succeeded in de-
monstrating that bishop in its original signification was
not a title et all, and that in this country we ought not
to be angry at the Pope interfering in spiritual
matters. wpm we knew that he had done so long ago.
They were gravely told that the Church was to be sub-
jected to the exercise and jurisdiction of this canon law.
Why, when he looked around and considered that law,
he was quite surprised that the people or the House
should in any way have been alarmed at such a bugbear
as this. Let them look only into the mature of this canon
and to its true position. If they did so they would find
that it was, it every case, subject to theri common law of
England. All the great writers by whom this country
had been adorned averred that such was the case;
and Blackstone himself, than whom no greater au-
thority could be adduced, had stated that the
canon law vas overridden by the common law
at all times dieing our history, as was remarkably evi-
dent by three great ensigns. It was in the first place
subject to the common law; it was in the second only
to be construed and explained by the statutes which
arose out of that common law; and thirdly the decisions
made under it were at all times liable to be reversed
on an appeal to the sovereign of the realm.
If, these, in them three great particulars it was liable to
be subject to the common law of the land, how could it
become the dangerous agent which so many persons had
represented.—(Hear, hear.) He was not surprised that
the Roman Catholic laity of the kingdom desired to
have the existence of this law more practically effi-
cient amongst them, for they desired the presence
of a body of eminent men, who would be able to settle
questions upon just and right grounds, which were now
too often decided only by prejudice or caprice.—(Hear.)
That was the real state of the case—(Hear)—but they
acted as if there was something improper or immoral in
this law. They knew that such was not the fact, and
he would ask the Noble Lord at the head of Govern-
ment, whether it was right—whether it was becoming—
whether it was decent to raise at this time of day a cry
of No Popery in the country.—(Loud cheers, and counter
cheers.) The canon law was at this time part of the
law of England, had been so, and would continue to be
so, without any question of the validity of its decisions,
until the Court of Queen's Bench should come
to any different result upon matters which
had been submitted to the operation both of the canon
and the common law.—(Hear, hear.) They talked of
the doctrines which this law would be likely to
strengthen. He believed that many honest and able
man in the Church of England were sincere believers in
many of those doctrines.—(Cheers and counter cheers.)
And they might talk of the effect of those doctrines; but
when he saw an eminent ministers of the Church of
England obliged to be protected from personal violence
by police when is the performance of his pastoral
duties; he thought the less they dwelt upon the
effect or those liberality of those doctrines the better.
He would call the attention of the House to an incident
which occurred to Bishop Butler. That Right Reverend
Prelate contended for external religion, and be was
branded as a Papist for it; mistakenly branded, of
course. Now, he thought the Tractarians could,
like the great author of the analogy, afford
to treat the opposition raised against them
with content, but 119 warned the Noble Lord at the head
of the Government, that this Bill would not set this
mutter at rest. As yet they were only on the threshold
of the excitement, and to him it seemed fearful to con-
template the results which would inevitably follow the
passing of the Bill. But it was said that the Church
of Rome was despotic and intolerant, and for
that reason it was necessary to have a law of this cha-
racter in this country than was ever before an argunten-
tum ad omniunt more absurd than that presented to the
House. Because tome was intolerant, the country
ought to be intolerant too. Such an argument
was so worthless that it hardly merited a reply.
and he had only referred to it for the purpose of
protesting against its introduction into this debate,
There was another topic upon which he wished to say
a few words. The Noble Lord the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs told them the other night that the Bill was a
compliment to the Catholic Emancipation Act. Now
he allowed that one of the clauses of that Act, to a
certain extent, prohibited the assumption of titles
but he denied most emphatically that it prohibited their
establishment of a hierarchy like that which the Pope
had recently created, and he hoped that argument,
like the other one he had just mentioned, would be
abandoned without delay. (Hear, hear.) Instead
of promoting animosities between the two churches,
the Legislature ought to strive to apply itself soothing the
angry feelings which prevailed out of doors, for he be-
lieved the Church of England had more to fear from
irreligion' than from the proceedings of Christian Rome,
and he therefore called upon the Government to retrace
its steps and rather assist the two Churches
in stemming the torrent of Atheistic principles
than strive to promote religious finaticism and discord
by a useless system of legislation. Tho church of
Rome ignored the existence with the Established
Church of this country, and he would recom-
mend the Government to return the compli-
ment and treat these bishops as phantoms
or nonentities which could not be grasped. That was
the only safe way of dealing with the
so called Papal aggression—and though the.
Noble Lord could not recede from this Bill
without injuring his own reputation, or proceed
with it without producing great mischief,
he recom-
mended the House to adopt the suggestion at once.
He hoped, in conclusion, that as the Noble Lord valued
the peace, security, welfare, and prosperity of this great
country, he would desist from proceeding with his fatal
Bill.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PORTAL, in rising to make his
maiden speech, begged the indulgence of the
House for a few moments while he stated
the reasons which induced him to vote against the second
reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He could not admit
that the Bill consisted of that judicious mixture of good
and evil alleged by those who supportid it; so far (from
it it was totally impotent for good, and all powerful
for evil, while it was calculated to foment
and excite religious controversy and dissension
throughout the country, the injurious effect of which
might remain for many years to come.—(Cheers.)
The Bill was just large enough to irritate the Roman
Catholics in Ireland, and not large enough to sa-
tisfy the Protestants of England.—(Hear.) He fully
shared is the indignation and resentment which
the act of the Pope had excited a spiritual
invasion which literally ignored the existence of our
own Church; but he disagreed with those who thought
the measure of the Government was a proper one to meet
the difficulty. The Bill was a mere mockery and delu-
sion, alike unworthy the deliberative wisdom of this as-
sembly and the dignity of this great country.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, in opposing the Bill, said
the Roman Catholic Members were ready to admit that
the Pope had no territorial power in this country,
and that the appointments which he bad
character.
bad made in
their Church were purely of a spiritual
In the course of the debate many insulting, unfounded,
and irritable allusions had been made to the Roman Ca-
tholics, but they had not retaliated by condemning the
principles
or character of the Established Church in this
country.

CONDITION OF IRELAND.
Mr. BROWNE gate notice of a motion for the ap.
pointnaent of a Select Committee to inquire into the con-
dition of Ireland, with the Viet?? of suggesting a remedy
for existing distress.

MARCH 25, 1851.

hospitals. 2 ; county meetings, 35 ; other public meet-
ings, 139 ; corporations, 46 ; associations or other
bodies, 20 ; city of London, 4 ; members of the English
bar, 1 ; attorneys, solicitors, and proctors of England
and Wales, 1; Isle of Man, 1 ; Society :for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, 1." This return proves that there
are few instances of " the honest and sensible people
of England" speaking out so plainly as they havo
done on the Papal aggression.—DerGyshire Courier.

JOSEPH 11. AND THE JESUITS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, ifarcit 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW - MEMBER.

Sin,—The following is from a work published a few
years since, on " Austria and the Austrians :"
" Of the evils of monachism Joseph the Second (of
Austria) was thoroughly convinced. Of all religious
societies, he considered the Jesuits the most dangerous
and the most objectionable. After their expulsion from
France, the Duke of Choiseul, then Secretary of State,
wrote Joseph on the subject of expelling them from the
Austrian dominions; but his mother (the celebrated
Maria Theresa) then exercised the whole power, and
Joseph could only give his opinions, as expressed in the
following letter to Choiseul:—
" • Sir,—l thank you for the confidence you give me.
If I were sovereign you might count on my ready co-
operation. As to the Jesuits, and the plan to abolish
their congregation, I am entirely of your opinion.
•' • Do not depend much upon my mother, for an at-
tachment to this order has become hereditary in the
house of Hapsburg. Clement XIV. himself has had
proof of this.
" • Meantime Kaunitz is your friend. He can do
much with the Empress, and he is perfectly of your opi-
nion in regard to expelling the Jesuits.

Sir WILLIAM GALLWAY, introduced by Mr. Henry
Herbert and Mr. A. Stafford, took the oaths and his seat
for Thirsk.

Colonel TYNTE presented petitions from Bridgewater
and other pieces ngainst the window-tax.

EXPENSES. OF PROSECUTIONS BILL.

" Choiseul, I know these gentry as well as any man.
I know all their projects, all their efforts to spread dark-
ness over the earth—to rule over Europo from Cape Fi-
nisterre to the Frozm Ocean.' "

At the request if Mr. DEEDES,

Sir G. GfiEY agreed to postpone the report of this
Bill from Wednesday to Wednesday week, as he thought
it advisable that the several alteracions proposed in the
clauses should be in the hands of Members some days
before they were considered in the House, and he should
therefore move that the report be brought up on Wed-
nesday week.—Motion agreed to.
THE EASTER RECESS.
Lord R. GROSVENOR said, that as they had now
reached the last week in March, it would be for the
convenience of the House to know what arrangement
the Noble Lord at the head of the Government proposed
as to the adjournment for the Easter recess. Last year,
when ho had asked a similar question of the Noble
Lord, he stated his reasons for proposing that the
House should adjourn on the Friday next before Good
Friday, and his conviction that by following that plan
the business of the House would be better proceeded
with. He was afraid that, from the state of public busi-
ness this year, the Noble Lord would not accede to his
proposition; but ho would ask the Noble Lord whether,
in deference to the wishes of many Members of the
House, and those whose leisure depended upon its sit-
tings, and in consideration of the small amount of busi-
ness it had been found practicable to transact in the
week immediately preceding Easter Sunday, commonly
called Passion Week, he would move the adjournment
of the House for the recess on Friday, the 11th of April
next.

At the present time, in the middle of the nineteenth
century, the Jesuits have, if I mistake not, the educa-
tion of the Austrian youth in a great measure in their
own hands. Let us beware of them.—l am, Sir, &c.
March 24, 1851. WATCHMAN.

Lord J. RUSSELL said that, looking to the present
state of the public business, he did not think he could
expect that the House should adjourn on Friday, the
11 th of April. At the same time, he did not think it
very desirable to keep the House sitting on the Thurs-
thy before Good Friday—(Hear, hear)—and he thought
therefore the House might adjourn on the Tuesday, or
Wednesday, until the following Monday se'nnight.—
(Hear, hear.) Ho should propose that after the 11th of
April the House on alternate Thursdays should take
orders of the day in precedence of notices of motion.
MERCANTILE MARINE BILL.

In reply to Mr. HUME,
Mr. LA BOUCHERE stated that he had never at any
time denied that he thought the details of this Bill were
susceptible of improvement; but at the same time he
must say that he intended to adhere firmly to the prin-
ciple of the Bill. Ho should, however, bring in the
amended Bill in such time as would enable Members to
duly consider its provisions with a view to its becoming
law before the House rose for the prorogation.
MISS TALBOT.
Mr. REYNOLDS said that there was a subject to
which he was exceedingly desirous of drawing the
attention of the House for a few moments, and this
request he made as a personal favour to himself.
It was to every man of honourable feeling an object
well worthy of regard to retain his standing in that
House by stating there that which he knew to be true.
—(Hear.) There, as well as elsewhere, be was always
particularly careful to say nothing of which he was not
perfectly cognizant. Feeling this responsibility, he was
particularly struck with the bold assertion of the Hon.
Member for the city of London, and with the still more
bold contradiction of the Hon. Member for Mary lebone
(Sir B. Hall), when he asserted that Miss Talbot was
not and never had been a postulant.—(Hear, hear.)
He now deliberately repeated that assertion—(Hear,
hear, cheers, and laughter)—that Miss Talbot was not,
and never had been, a postulant. He had it from the
bishop who superintended the convent in which it was
said Miss Talbot was immured, that she was not at the
present moment a postulant.—(Hear, hear.) He did not
mean to impugn the assertions of Mr. Craven Berkeley
or any of his friends in that House. He believed that
which they said they believed to be true,—(Loud cries
of " Hear, hear," and ironical cheers.) Nevertheless he
was wrong.—(Renewed laughter, and ironical cheers.)
He was bound to say that the Hon. Member for Oxford
had treated him with all courtesy, hut he had never re-
ceived the letter which bad been addressed to him, and
he should therefore content himself with again asserting
that Miss Talbot was not, and never had been, a postu-
lant.—(Hear, hear, and ironical cheers.)
Sir B. HALL said that it appeared from the speech of
the lion. Member for Dublin that one man had
said one thing and another that which was totally
opposite to the assertion of the first, and yet
that both might be perfectly right.—(Loud laughter and
cheers.) All he had to say was that what be (Sir B.
Hall) had asserted respecting Miss Talbot he had from
one of the Hon. Member's own bishops.—(Hear, hear,
and laughter.) He had believed the bishop in preference
to Mr. Reynolds, and he was sorry for it.—(Laughter.)
THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL.