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eta of these acts; and said that it behoved the dodntry to ' the House.? -He -might turn to those fifth-rate men who i Noble Lord, which wai not very much to the point. He i ties whom they affected, and obtaining from them the in- ,
"quire whether the Noble Lord at thehead of the Cavern- • made themselves the lecturers out of that House of those I had now found out his difficulty, and he found that he. could ; formation necessary to vindicate their characters before the ',
,l'ut, by the course he had pursued, aria by exciting a feeling , whose opinions he entertained, but who, in that House, never I not deal with the matter without throwing Ireland over- ' House.
Protestants against Catholics, had not been playing into uttered aword—(Hear, and a laugh)—and he would ask them ! board. The Noble Lord oliPcted to? the Synod of nudes, - After some further discussion, the House divided, when
th peers
, e Pop hands, and whether the whole conduct of the Go- where would have been the cause of Parliamen; ary reform if ' but the Protestant bishops and clergy had been as meddle- there appeared— .
'erhment on this occasion had not been lamentable and dis- Catholic emancipation had not been carried? Where would some and troublesome; and more so, than the Catholics, - For the motion a ... 41
creditable. have been the cause of free trade, or where 'might it be, if when they dared. Then the Synod of Thurles
,had been
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t The gallery was these cleared for a division, but was almost - the Roman Catholic's: declared against it?--( Hear.) But he equally divided upon the question. and that was more than r- ' Majority against the motion ... —9O
1 at
sunewately re-opened. Upon our re-admission, was consoled on that part of the subject by reflecting that could -be said of the Protestant bishops and clergy upon ' Tti E NAVY.
~,141r. KEOGH was addressing the House. The' Noble Lord there was not one distinguished Free-trader—he did not re- similar questions.. When .the Noble Lord made his speech On the motion 'of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT the follow-
'" the head 'of the Government had not yet arrived at a fer to those gentlemen who shot theit small arrows at them, he could not point out the particular sin of .whip h the Pope ing returns evere ordered •: —. .
troPer jaerciption of the dangers with which this Bill threat- but who.never stood up against, them—but to those ,Free- had been guilty. but had bee obliged, to resort to what,law- ," Of the riumbet of- officers on the present admirals,esice-
;Liedthe,empire, and especially Irelanch—eHear, hear.). Did leaders whet-supported thecpiestion teeth ite that, liduse and yers .would call cumulative dene in seppeet of hescase, admirals. and rear-admirals' list respectively, who have not
" Noble Lord intend to put this act in force or not it Ire- Out of it-ithat there was not . one who was not againet this But the real offence was the importation of. this bull, yet he served a sufficient 'time as captains to anal* them to their
heir> •
1,. • He professed that it was necessary, and that it was Bill. The distinguished members of the late Sir R. Peel's piedicisect to do nothind to prevent the introduction of an. flag: .
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"18 intention to put it in force in Ireland. He said, too, Goternment Were against it ; the Hon. Member for Jelan- other bull. He (Mr. Bright) admitted that there bad been "Of the number of 'officers amongst the first 100 and the
eiliat it was a similar Act to that of 1829, to which the cheater, the Hone member for the West Riding, and the offensive language, but then he never found priests who did second 100 respectively on the captains' list, who have not
r hie►an Catholics of Ireland hadsubmitted. But he told the Hon. Member for Montrose were against it. —( Hear.) .He not use offensive language. The language of the Pope, yet rierveel a sufficient time
Noble Lord that it was a different Act from that of 1829, would ware the Noble Lord, then, before he put this Bill offensive as it was, was rather a forest than a substance, and their flag :
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led that the people of Ireland would not submit to it. In upon the table, that by it he miget arouse again in the people was not a sufficient justification for the Legislature of Eng-number of officers who, 'at lily time since- Sep.
theme
captains to entitle them to
'Bl6 the Charitable Bequests Act passed, the effect of which of Ireland, who were just emerging from the consequences of land to proceed to legislate upon the subject. The supre- temberelB46, have accepted the reterement ,as retired rear-
'"tis to repeal the offensive provisions of the Act of 1829, pestilence and famine, and just reaching perhaps the shore macy tif which the Noble Lord spoke was a mere fiction, and admirals or retired captains
led' to legalise that which was illegal before. He (Mr. on a frail plank, the fanatical ,spirit of sectarian animosity, it was so trom the time of James the Second. At the pre- "Of the 'number of flog-officers,
000) maintained, that after the passing of that Bill it was and perhaps involve them again in another twenty years' sent moment there was no supremacy bet that of the three and lieutenants respectively how on full pay
captains, commanders,
,e4t illegal foe the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops struggle. If indeed that struggle should conte,ehe result estates of the realm and of the law, andunless these late " And, similar return of the number holding employments,
7),assouPe the titles prohibited by the Act of 1829- and that would he, he was' convinced, as it had been betige, victo- proceedings had violated this, it Was abeerd to say that there but not on sea pay, under the Admiralty or the Board of
aiedi Penalties of that Act could not be successfully enforced. rious to the, people of Ireland, atid never would they sheathe had been any violatien of the law. .The making of bishops Customs respectively."
'ue Act. •of 1829 was a remedial measure, and the preamble the sword until they had deprived those who had oppressed by the only power that could make them was no violation of The other orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned
purported to remove restraints and restrictions thaf had there. them of the power of oppression.—(Cheers.) They won that the law, or invasion of the prerogatives of the Crown. The at a Quarter to Two o'clock., . • -
'c'ere been imposed. But the preamble of the present Bill struggle before, and they would win it again. 'The Noble Qu en did not pretend to make them. It was no ignoring of
declared in effect that the assumption of the prohibited Lord boasted, and, if he did not retract all he had done, it the Protestant Church, because the Pope had always. ignored
hues was inconsistent with the rights of the bishops and was the proudest beast he could make, that he assisted them the Protestant Church of England, and he took precisely the
ercebishons of the Established Church. That recital was in recovering and reclaiming religious liberty. If then by a same view of that Church which that Church took of the
eslrue. In the preamble of the present Bill it was stated, tyrannical majority in hat't House the Noble Lord struck Dissenters in this country. This was what one church al-
atul whereas it may be doubted whether the recited enact- down. their liberties that night, they would go forth from ways did to another. He was no friend to bishops of any
bishop
extends to the assumption of the title of archbishop or that House and would never cease until they had re-esta- class.—( Hear, hear.) A constituent of his bad pointed out
uisholi of a pretended province or diocese, he He asserted blished shem. They would never be intimidated by mo- that this change was really an , increase of iedependence in
that such a statement was not true, and that the allegation mentary defeat. They had braved scenes of persecution : respect of the people. Vicars apostolic were subject to the
'which it was said might be doubted was not doubted. The the avenging sword of Cromwell was upon them; the in- 'arbitrary will of the Pope, and those extraordinary statutes
'next assertion was, " that the attempt to establish under sidious treachery of the Stuarts beset them; el action
and which he might please from time to time to enforce.
',lour of authority from the see of Rome or otherwise such confications—he used the word openly, plainly, ad- The change from vicars apostolic to bishops in ordinary was
letended sees, provinces, or dioceses,: is illegal and void." visedly,—the confiscations in which the ancestors of the for the benefit of the Roman Catholics of this country.—
as (Mr. Keogh) denied that. The preamble then contained Noble Lord had taken so conspicuous a part, were upon (Hear, hear.) - 'The course taken Vales pe was calculated
three distinct falsehoods, for the next affirmation was that them. But they had triumphed over them, and would to relieve the Roman Catholics from much of that ultramone
;.,41.0e assumption of ecclesiastical titles in respect thereof is triumph again ; and they would do so, not forgetting their cane doctrine of which they had heard so much. The Noble
sem'consistent with the rights intended to be protected by the allegiance to their Sovereign ; but, while acknowledging the!, Lord said that a foreign he puwer
hole matt had attac
was one ked the in
dependence
aced enactment." Lord J. Russell also knew that that was allegiance, they would continue to assert, as the Constitution
. of this countryt whore
of.
'Dot true, and he had told the House so. He (Mr. Keogh) de- allowed them to do, their allegiance in spiritual matters to He would admit that the language was inselent and often.
daredsice, and he thanked the Noble Lord for not makihg this,Bill
hat, one clause of the Bill contained everything the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church. . it
that more offensive than was. The question now was not a
,ties . the omitted clauses would have enacted, and "Duet domes lEilem Capitol' immobile saxurn
sir
was not his opinion only, but the, opinion of • Accelet, imperiumque pater Romanus habebit." question of Protestantism, but of politics.. He would look'
'cir F. Kelly, Mr. Brodie, and Mr. Baddeley. The pre- Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the Hon. and Learned at it as such. And new who were the injured? The Pope
tent Bill made' no reference to the Charitable Bequests Gentleman had certainly a very difficult task to Perform, and and Cardinal Wiseman were unscathed. The true suf.
`,,Act. He .had warned the late Attorney-General (Sir J. he certainly had no hesitation in saying that he did so with feters were the Crown of England and the six or
it,mailly) that the present Bill would repeal the Charitable very great ability. He should own, however, that it ap- reven millions of its Roman Catholic subjecta: The'
`Bequests Act 7 and this opinion bad been borne out by the. petered to him the case was beyond even the powers.and talents gulf which had formerly separated Relate' from this
ethree eminenflewyers to whom he had just referred. The of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The statemeut he country was this session made wider than it had
eiharitable.Bequests Act provided that the voluntary endow- made on a former occasion, and alluded to by other. Mein- ever been before. This was an evil of great meg-
reent of the Roman Catholic Church should be legal, but if leers of the House, was, that with respect to Ireland, the nittele. The Noble Lord had adverted. to the proceeding •
this Bill passed the Roinan Catholic bishops and archbishops. titles taken from sees, was forbidden since 1829, and that at the Synod of Merles as one of the reasons for bringing
never could accept any endowment or emolument under the therefore Roman Catholic bishops were under the greatest forward this Bill. But .at that synod one of the bishops
Provisions of the Act of 1846. The "first"clause attached a . persecution from that time to this,or that the Present Bill was was in favour of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland e but the
Penalty to -any person who, not being authorised by law, dot one of pains and penalties. It appeared to- him"thet "that -Noble Lord's policy had united all the Roman Catholic
e'bould e assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop, proposition was undeniable, and the Hon. and Learned Gen- Bishops against these colleges. The missionary powers of
uishop, or dean of any city, town, or place, or of any terra- tleman endeavoured to evade it. He (Lord John Russell) the Roman Catholic Church had taken hope from the present. '
tory-or district (under, any designation or description what. would next refer to his observations with respect to the The Apostles put down paganism and established Christianity
soever) in the United Kingdom.. Then how was a Roman necessity of consulting the feelings of the people by the influence of their preaching and teaching. Luther,
Catholic bishop to be described? He could not discover any of England. He said no doubt it was necessary single-handed, wrested from the Church of Rome the power
language-that would lawfully describe a Roman Catholic to consult them, but he did not say it was ne- which it possessed. There they had Church identified with
auialeep if these words were left in the enactment.—(Cheers. ) cessary to consult the Protestant, and all he did was to the State, and supported by vast temporalities, and yet they
es be Noble Lord was playing fast and loose with the country consult the national feeling.—e Cheers.) He should way in were afraid that this Church would be overcome by the
et he did not intend to put the Act in force, and, if he did, the same way, that when the Pope attempted to ob- Roman Ca' holic Church, which had no power here. The
"hi strangled the religious liberties_ of the Roman Catholic tarn a complete dominion over France, that those who le- Church in Inlaid was in such a state that there was not a
,Church. The Noble Lord said that Ireland had not com• sited it were those whose feelings ought to have been con- man in the kingdom that would hold up his finger in sup
elicited of the prohibition of ecclesiastical titles by the suited as the people of France, and although the great majo- port of it, and it only required the Noble Lord to lift up his
Actof 18,29. The reason was, because it had been all a rity were Roman Catholics, they were not prepared to
bow finger against that Church" in this House to have it swept
sham." ,' He did not want to see other public men left to the knee to a sovereign not their own, and a foreign prince. away.—(Hear.) Yet this was. the Church which the Noble
'tsrrY out this Rill who might have as strong a desire (he —(Cheers.) It might well be iaid in that instance, that the Lord said was inviolate. It seemed to be a question be-
Would not say a stronger desire) as the Noble Lord to restrict feelings of the people of France ought to have been con- tween the Bishop in St. James's-square against the Arch-
the religious liberty of the people of Ireland. It was no suited, because they would not submit to decrees which bishop in Gol eenesquere. The Noble Loris said he had con-
dream or hallucination to suppose that at some remote came from Rome.—(Hear, hear.) It certainly was a mis- stilted the Lord , Bishop of London on this Bill, lie re-
Period during the next quarter of a century there might be tortune, as he said on a former occasion, that Catholic Eman- petted that this course had " been pursued. He had seen
;mother Administration in the country who :might attempt cipation was so long delayed, because, as it was truly, said by that the bishop at one meeting shed tears: It was rather
to put the Bill into force. He implored the Noble Lord to Mr. Grattan, the effect of it was perfectly to incorporate the a curious sight to behold a bishop
tort'o,oo/. a year sh
ed.
_,Withdraw the last remaining section of his Bill. He did not Roman Catholics with the See"
of Rome, amid he asked no ding tears. It reminded him of a r told of a monk of
this
what the Noble Lord had done for Ireland; but, if better evidence of the truth of that assertion, than the speech Cyprus, who could shed tears as natural as he could exhibit
tele Bill passed, it would upset everything he had ever done, of the Honourable Gentleman who just sat down.—(Cheers.) perspiration, and who subsequently teigoed madness to avoid
and place the millions of Roman Catholics In Ireland in a The Honourable and Learned ,eentleman said that he did being made a bishop.—(Hear, heat) The ,Noble Lord felt
Worse position than they were in before. (Cheers.) The not at all mind the Act of 18:9, because it was never he was in a quagmire. At least his colleagues did, and he
Noble Lord said that the feelings of the people of England enforced, and he called on him (Lord John Rudd)) to thought the better' course would be for the Government to
must be consulted. He admitted that the great majority of say would he now do so. That question had little to do withdiawe
NOb the Bil
Lord l, rathe
wasr
prathan proceed
heat upon the people
with it. The truth
the people of England were „Protestant ; but nine-tenths of with the present Bill, because if the provisions were never was,
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the people of Ireland were Catholic •, and was it be- enforced, or if it were our determination to enforce them of England. They wanted a Bill to put down what was
doming in a great Minister to talk of coercing 'the against all those who took their titles from existing sees, called Papal aggression, but the Bill before the House was
religious opinions of one section of the people to the present Act would have been qnite sufficient, and no not the measure that they desired.—(Hear,
hear.) The
alatisfy the religious prejudices of the other ?—(Cheers.) new Bill would have been required. Then the Honourable Hon. Member for Salford said that neither his Right. lion.
elle Nobee,Lord had said, over and over again, that the and Learned Gentleman asked, did they mean to enforce it Friend (Mr, M. Gibson) nor himself represented she feel-
roceeding of the See of Rome was a direct insult to the in the same sense as the provisions of the present Bill? ings of his constituents on this subject: This might
Protestant feeling of this country. Last Friday night 202 and quoted the opinion of a Learned Gen, lensan to show that be so, and the time would come whets that question could
saembers of that House were ready to vote fort motion of, the first clause did not apply to Ireland with the same be settled ,• but his Hon.
nil Fend "had pow obtained
the Hon., Member for Stafford. The form of that motion stringency as the • present law. If no spiritual functions the approval of a eve, parson his borough who had al-
lege that the act of the See of Rome had been encouraged by could be exercised, should the present -Bill become a law ? ways opposed him, but who now thanked Ged that he was
the proceedings of the Government, and that was the truth. How was it, that in spite of an Act of 1829, these functions represented by such a man. That Hoese was compoeed of
(Hear.) He helieved it; he,was ready to prove it ; and he wete exercised from that day to this, and nothing was done six handred arid fifty-six Members. They Were supported te
would give the House, before he sat down, greater evidence to prevent them? The Honourable and Learned Gentleman be the foremost men in the country, end ie eves their duty
Veenthe Noble Lord dreamt of on the subject.—(Hear.) said they did not enterce the present Act, but he should not to be the victim of a poeular cry. It Was their duty to
lee had before invited ,the Noble Load to a pleasing re, remember that before that was done an offence must be stem the cry rather than to be led away by it. Looking at
ntiniscence of his own speeches in that House, and would committed, and evidence given. The blame could not be England with her free press, her progress in in us ry and in
therefore not go over that ground agan ; but, invited by . attached to Governments with which he was connected ter morals, she would be ever able to resist any aggression,
the minority of 202 Members of that Hoese, who were dot enforcing the ,Act since i 829. It was not' alone to whether it clime from Lambeth or from Rome. Ile was one
ready to vote that the proceedings of the Government had Whig Governments, but to those of the Duke of Welling- of a sect which had invariably upheld the principles which he
encouraged the act of the See of Rome, he would tell them ton, and when Lord De Grey and Lord Haddington were had attempted to advocate—one ef a sect that had suffered
they might most safely come to that conclusion without the Lords-Lieutenant in Ireland, and the present Chief Jus- for principles wbich the Noble Lord had said he introduced
least injustice to the Government. The Noble Lord was Lice of the Queen's Bench in that country was Attorney- this Bill to uphold; but he felt it to be his duty as a citizen
afraid of that issue. He knew well there were many per- General. But, independently of that, the Roman Catholic to raise his voice to withdraw it.—(Hear, hear.)
eons who went with him into the Lobby who were of that ,prelates of Ireland changed the law, and did not in scarcely Mr. SCULLY moved the adjournment of the debate, one
opinion, and the . Hon. Baronet the Member for the Uni- ;an instance, use any assumption of sees or dioceses in Ireland. reason for Which
.was, that the legal advieer of the Govern-
•versity of Oxford had distinctly stated on a former occasion, , Well, then, if with an exception, a most reverend arch- ment for Ireland had not given his opinion on the subject.
'that the conduct of the See of Rome hat been encouraged bishop, who took a title to which he bad no claim, no public ' Mr. LAWLESS seconded the amendment.
by the Government in Ireland. The Noble Lord knew act of those prelates was signed by their titles, surely there The House then divided, when there appeared—
that if that were the issue tendered by the Hon, Member • was no necessity for enforcing a law which was not -violated. For the motion' .. ..... ... 54 ,
for Stafford he would have been in a minority, and most - ,—(Hear, hear.) If the Act was obeyed, what could they Against it ... ... ... ... ....365311
rightly would he have been so. The Noble Lord in 1844, expect further ? What was intended was to prevent the Majority against the motion a. ...a--
1845, and 1846; when he was in opposition— ostentatious assumption of those titles, and if that was An Hoist. Meainen having moved that the House should
Lord J. :RUSSELL—Not when - I was in opposition in obeyed the Government would be satisfied with that obe- now adjourn.
1846. dience ; so that the difficulty of the lion. and Learned Lord J. RUSSELL rose, and referring to the length of the
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Mr. KEOGH—WeII then in 1844 and 1845, made ter- Gentleman was no difficulty at all. What was done -in Ire- discussion which the subject had already undergone, raid,
fain observations on this subject; but in 1848 he said, land ? The Roman Catholics took titles from the ancient that in point of deliberation, they might very well be consi-
-4 I will set everything right. I withdraw what I said sees since a period forty years after the Reformation, and dared irf Committee.---(Heare hear.) After the divisions
before, I apologise to the country and the thing is settled They saw no reason to interfere with that. It ought 'not to which had already taken place, he was not disposed to detain
as it ought to have been ;" and the Noble Lord said, in be the business of this, or of any other Government, to make the House by further divisions. He would, therefore, pro-
answer to a question whether he would sanction the appoint- out cases agains, them by inquiry; but when a parson pose the debate ehould be adjourned till Thursday next.—
rnent of a British subject by the See of Rome to a bishopric comes forward and declares that the Pope has divided this (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.")
in this country with territorial jurisdiction, that he would country into districts for the establishment of dioceses, and The debate wasPRO adjournePEßTY-d accordinTAX BglyILL.
not consent to it. But in February, 1849, after Cardinal that by his
authority he has abolished the see of Canterbury,
Noble
had been gazetted as Bishop of Westminster, the then he must say that was not a question of exercising reli- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
Aohle Lord said— gious inactions—(Cheers)—but a daring defiance of the third reading of this Bill.
" But I own Ido not think that this is a matter of verY authority of she Crown, and, what might be pro- After a few words from Mr. COWAN, which were wholly
'' treat importance. It was very agreeable to the feelings of perly called an act of a gression to which the Parliament inaudible in consequence of the noise in the House,
the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops that they could not shut its eyes.— (Hear, hear.) This was an Mr. HERRIES expressed a hope that the Chancellor of
ahould be called by the titles by which they were usually offence against the nation, and they could not therefore the Exchequer would not in the present state of the
designated. They have received those titles; bat that does except Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom. What was House press the third reading of the Bill. -It appeared to
tot imply any legal claim to authority, and I cannot con- required by the Act of 1829 has been done, but if in Ireland him that the Committee on the tax, which had been
ceive, therefore, that it is necessary for this House to take and in England by assuming these titles, they should set up agreed to, should be appointed before the Bill was read a
any nroceediegs in the matter." - this authority against that of the Crown, in that case the third time. . ... . .
*--(ELear, hear.) Perhaps his Learned Friends on the other Crown ought to take steps to assert its authority.—(Cheers.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, understand-
aide would
.give some explanation, or, as the lawyers said, The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said the Act of 1829 was ing that the Bill was only.tb be passed for one-year,- consi-
ould out in a special demurrer to what the Noble Lord repealed by the Bequests Act, which had been brought in dered that there could be no objection to i being read a third'
said; but he found the Noble Lord's colleagues :more impe- by the Government of Sir Robert Peel. Was it likely that time. The of the Committee was wholly inde-
tuous and more anxious that no doubt should remain on the the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon should in- pendent of the passing of the present Bill. •
• rnind of the See of Rome as to what it ought to do. On the troduce a measure for the repeal of an important part of an The Bill was then read a third time.
27th of 'July, 1849, he found that in the House of Lords, Act which gave the right to Roman Catholics of sitting in On the question that the Bill do pass,
Lord Redesdale put a question to Earl Grey, and that Noble that House without ever adverting to such-an alteration in Mr, BERRIES inquired when the Committee was likely
Lard declining to answer, a colleague sitting beside him that measure. The words were, with regard to bequests, to be a pp o inted? .
thought he was acting injudiciously, and said that if any "in trust for any bishop or archbishop exercising functions The CHANCELLOR of the EYCHEQUER could not say
Cardinal came over to this country, everyone would call bim in certain districts ;" and with regard to priests, they were until he ascertained what lion, Members were willing to
" his Eminence." The Noble Lord who gave that answer described as persons "having pastoral care and superintend- serve on the Committee. He was in communication with
vita the Earl of Carlisle; and yet in face of those assertions once over cong:egtions of persons professing the Roman several gentlemen with a view of obtaining their services,
the Noble Lord spoke of the insult of the See of Rome, when Catholic religion." The next assertion of the Honourable but two or three gentlemen, who he had hoped would have
reading those declarations in the Houses of Parliament, it and Learned Gentleman was, that it was doubtful served, 'had declined to do so. He had no doubt that in a
appointed a bishop to preside over the spiritual interests of whether the
e preamble was borne
of out by the
that law. day or
table. two he would be able to lay a list of the Committee
Roman Catholics in this country.—(Hear.) It happened It was the general opinion lawyers, by on the , . .
that he (Mr. Keogh) was at Rome when all this mischief law they could not assume titles of any iloceses In reply to Colonel SIBTIIORP,
occurrei ; but a remarkable fact came to his notice there, in this country; but when the Attorney-General stated that The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he hid
and he did not know whether the Noble Lord the Foreign there was a doubt upon that point they were justified in before stated that the claims of parties assessed under
Secretary was in his plane, hut, if so, he had no doubt the acting on that opinion. The Honourable and Learned Gen- Schedule D would be fairly brought under the consideration
Noble Lord was aware of the fact. Cardinal Wiseman was tleman expressed an opinion that the law prohibiting the of the Committee. , , ..
created Archbishop of Westminster, and directly the matter assumption of titles was null and void. The Honourable The Bill was then passed.
Was published it wait a subject of great rejoicing in Rome. Now and Learned Member for Midhurst did not -act upon that The Apprentices to Sea Service (Ireland) Bill was read a
this country had a diplomatic representative at Rome. We impression, for he did not propose to insert the words ebe second time. .
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had a consul located there ; and over the doors of his man- it enacted." but the words "be it declared." He could see The report on the iesoletions relating to conferences with
Ilion were placed the British arms. He (Mr. Keogh) saw whether. the preamble was borne out by the law. The the Lords was considered and agreed to.
the dwelling of the British consulate brilliantly. illuminated Honourable wed Learned Gentleman next stated that this THE WOODS AND FORESTS.
in honour of the appointment.—(Hear, hear.) Was the Nee Bill was a violation of religious liberty, and in metaphorical Lord SEYMOUR moved for • leave to bring in a Bill to
of Rome, then, to be under the impression that nothing
would
language threatened them with the resistance they might make better provision for the management of the woods,
be so distasteful to the British Government as that appoint- expect to receive from the Roman Catholics of Ireland, when forests, and land revenues of the Crown. and for the direc
went for which the British consul had illuminated his man-
-
he said, they would never sheath their swords until they tion of public works . and buildings. , The measure was, he
sion? The Noble Lord had made a great deal of the subject had overcome their oppressors. He was sorry they should observed, the same in its general features as the Bill of last
of synod in Ireland; he said that all might have gone quietly regard the Bill in the light of persecution, but on that ac., year, though.there were some alterations in the details. -- -
but for that Synod of Thurles, which interfered with internal count they were not called upon to resign a tittle of the Lord DUNCAN hoped the Noble Lord wOuldefford an
affairs. The Noble Lord said the Catholics of Ireland had de- rights inherent in .the Crown.—(Hear, hear.) They must opportunity for discussing the measure on an early day. A
ceived him, but they had only returned a crnnViment. The preserve the sovereignty and independence of the nation. Bill of the same kind, was introduced last year; but -it was
Noble Lord when he came to deal with the Protestant eccle- He was not pdepared to exchange the religious liberty thrown over to the end 'of the session, and-was never die-
Elastics in Ireland by no means objected to -their interference which they enjoyed in this country, and which the Roman cus.ede
in the most violent manner with their flocks on the Fame Catholics would enjoy after .the passing of this Bill Sir W. JOLLIFFE suggested that the Government should
temporalp questiotav which he accuse? the Roman Catholic for the religious liberty in Rome.—(Cheers.) They were take the discussion on the principle of the measure upon the
bishops ot. improperly interfering with. The Noble Lord told that there was a person in prison in Rome for circu- second reading.
Would recollect that in 1832, 17 out of 20 Protestant
e. bishops lating a translation in Italian of the Sacred Scriptures.— Lord SEYMOUR would state,
when he brought in the
in Ireland, for they had 20 then, and I,7"",rrotestantdeergy, (Hear, hear.) It was not at Rome, but in another Italian- Bill upon what day the second aeading would take place.
protested against the system of national education.—(Hear.) state.—(Hear, hear, from Mr. Keogh.) The Hon. Gentle- Leave was then given to introduce the bill.
And the Noble Lord who led the party on his side of the man thought it a great triumph that the case had not oc- PETITION OF REV. PIERCE • CONELLY.
House, supported by the Noble Lord opposite, said those curred in Rome, but it was under the influence of Rome that The Earlof ARUNDEL and SURREY moved.—" That the
right rev. prelates and those members of the clergy had- a the occurrence had-taken place. Would the Hon. Gentle- order of the House (May 1), that the petition of the Rev.
right to say that, disapproving of the system, they would man say that Protestants would be allowed to build a church Pierce Conelly be printed for the use of members only, be
not allow the attendance at the schools of the children of at Rome, to go there publicly, and to defend their opinions read, for the purpose of being discharged."
their it icks.' It was perfectly competent. for • clergymen of as here? No such thing.—(Hear.) That was the sort of Mr. STAFFORD said, the circumstances of this case were
the Established Church to say that, but it was not religious liberty they would enjoy at Rome. He rejoiced somewhat peculiar. It had been decided by the Printing
competent to the Catholic clergy to say they would not that he could read " Whateley's Logic," and other works Committee that the petition to which the Neble Lord's reso-
disallowebut that. they would not recommend their flocks prohibited at Rome. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman pro- lution referred should not be printed in the ordinary way, so
• to send their children to the mixed schools (d. education in dosed an exconimunition pronounced by a bishop in Scot- as to be accessible to the public, and therefbre it'li. tid ieen
Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) Then the Noble Lord spoke of the land.--(Hear.) The title under which that bishop acted printed , for the wet of Members only. The- allegations of
synod, and was .enormously cheered, as if it had been a was not legal, the clergyman had therefore an • action the petitiOn were so extraordinary, and affected so many
monster that had never before been heard oe But there was against the bishop, and got a verdict, and the bishop was persons, and the circumstances of the case were likely to
—of the Presbyterian Church of Scot" obliged to compromise the action. He esteemed himself for- attract so much public-,attention at this. time, that without
the Synod of' Ulster,
of the United Presbyterian tunate that he could compare this country for the enjoyment in the least wishing to prejudice the case on the onesideor
land; there was • the Synod
Synod of of religious liberty with any other, where the Church pf Rome the other, he hoped the House would not be led by assenting
Church Synod—(A laugh)— and there
United Original Seceders He Must tell the Noble Lord that had the prevailing power. - The Hon. Gentleman displayed to the resolution, into the publication of a series of persona-
since his famous Durham letter no one would venture to an indignation which did him honour, against what hail lities.
say that the Catholic people of Ireland oughts to send their been done towards a Minist rof the King of Sardinia. Let - The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY said that, it was
Noble
children to those seminaries.—(He,ar.) Bd th him be sure if these doctrines of the See of Rome, not the the excitement prevailing at the present ene which in
doctrines of the Roman Catholic religion, but the political diked him to take notice of this_ petition; under ordinary
-
n have
ave Lord, there was a 'case in Sardinia. He thought itcwaot el
doctrines which they endeavoured to extend over Europe, circumstances he would not have done so. He happened to
been more apposite and cogent with the Rerna in4ln
Ireland, since the Reformation, if the Noble Lord could _ have were to prevail, he -would not enjoy half the liberty and enter the Committee on Public Petitions at the time that
said there was a case there in which religious independence half the power of expressing his opinions and defending them petition was under consideration, and when it had been pro-
in that House which he now did under a Protestant Sove- posed that it should be printed for the use of Members only.
was stifled by the hierarchy instead of travelling beyond___ the
reign.—( Hear, hear.) He repelled the statement of the Hon. He moved that it should be printed and published in the.
Alps. But, in sober seriousness, he said that this was the
Member that this was a persecuting measure. It was a 'usual way, but his motion was negatived. He disliked
worst part of the Bill. The cloven foot came out in
in all
political measure against a political encroachment, and he the half publicity which had been given to the petition,,
part of the Bill to which he had alluded more than i It
the letters and speeches of the Noble Lord and his colleagues• would not suffer the name of religious liberty to cover an and demanded from the justice of the- House that full üb.
aggression.—(Cheers.)
If there should be a question as to the religious liberty of the act of foreign licity should be given to it, in order that he might obtain
Episcopal Church of Scotland, no one would be more happy Mr. BRIGIIT said he was much struck with an observe- information which ' would enable him to disprove its alle-
than he would be to insert a clause in the Bill to preserve tion made by the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon, ' gations.
it; but could it have escaped the Noble Lord, when he was when he gave as a
reason that he could not consent to Mr. THORNELY said, that after much Consideration the
hurling his invectives against the Roman Catholic religion the Bill because the Government did not know what they Petitions Committee resolved to print the petition togrutesi
Tine the use
in Ireland, against- those sacred ceremonies which its mem- had to do,
.or how to do it. e Noble Lord commenced of Members, because it referred to an unimportant
with the letter, from which any one not ac- respecting which a Member had introduce a .Bill to theu
hers tevered, when talking of the Synolof Thurles, that he the fray
country This was on the 7th of
would suppose that some grieve House; but they refrained from printing it for general -cir-
had a case in Scotland mach stronger than any he could queinted wiwthasthdoehe.
have.thought of in Ireland? What would the House say of . ous injury November, culation because it contained imputations of a serious nature
excommunication in the orthodox Episcopal Church of • and within a week of that time, accompanied by the great on the character of individuals. .
Scotland, There was, however, a remarkable case of that ' Officers of State, the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Sir R. INGLIS apprehended that if the petition were
kind' before the Courts of Scotland; but in favour of the ' Chief Justice, assembled at the festive board of printed for general circulation the House would be involved IT
the vieit, to which he had referred, five Mr. AN 'T Y reminded . - ,; • .
Synod andahe establishment from which it had emanated the chief ruagistrate -of the city of London On in another Stoakdale and Hansard or Howard case.
many reale-
.o E the Hon. Baronet that by the ADVERTISEMENg.]—Another Important Cure by
the Noble Lord was willin to insert provisions to exempt the occasicn ofHolloway's Ointment and Pills of a Wound in the Leg.--mru
it from the operation of the Bill, which was aimed altogether minutes after the loving cup went round, speeches were de- provisions of - the Bill passed a few years ago no action for
Malcolm, wife oif the lighthouse-keeper at the 'entrance of the
with sectarian bigotry against the Roman Catholics.— livered calculated to excite discord amongst her Majesty's libel could be brought on account of anything contained in a river Teel, near Redcar, had been a sufferer for upwards of ten
(Hear, hear.), The Right Honourable Baronet the Home subjects. In. the aeitati°n which took place on this subject, paper published by order of the House. All the facts stated years with a severe wound in the leg, which, during the last
Secretary once .contradicted him for saying .he had there had been thirty county meetings, which would show iu the petition had been given in evidence before the Eccle- four years of that period, was so bad that it Made her quite in.
received a petition signed by the bishops of the Episcopal a strong feeling on the subject. Some of these meetings siastieal Court.
Church of Scotland, but, if it were not the petition of the were very insignificant. One of thernewas held in York. Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND had known the petitioner capable of walking' without crutches. To heal it
dies had been tried' in vain before Holloway's Ointment and
re-
episcopal bishops, it was a petition of the Society of Christian Special trains at half-price were
i ergage, LI., and_noblemen and for test.years, and had seen all the documents quoted-in the Pills were used, but these -excellent remedies being at last
Knowledge,signed by those episcopal bishops—( !leer, hear ) gentlemen announced to attend, but a'tumigu the meeting petitio sorted to; effectually healed the --wound in aldiut nine weeks,
and that petitiontwas received' although the Noble 1-43rd said took Place in a.town with appoulation between thirty and Mr. G. BERKELEY and Mr. KEOGH supported the motion.'.
er the atient is able to walk about, even without the support
he would not receive a petition so signed by the Roman forty thousand people, not more than 2,504 al tended, and a Sir G. GREY thought, that if the petition was such as it o a stick.--Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's
meetingsTheru as to discretion in printing it for the use of Members only. Establishment,.244, Strand, London.
Catholic bishopi of Ireland. But, he would 'read the terms great
a g r
e e mmeannt y o
displayedf them were
hy th e Romanswas-no
of the excommunication in the case in Scotland to which heRATHER STRANGE.--All individual in Letham,
eakCerasthatolitcshe.se
had referred e_.... We, William Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen ' the remedy for the injury, if there was one* From the Mr. AGLIONBT thought it absurd to attribute secrecy Fifeshire, the other day, found a piece of , bottle-glass -in a
aforesaid, with our clergy in synod assembled, do hereby this smallest of the country practitionersdo the greatest of them, to anything which had been circulated among upwards of duck's egg ; it. was somewhat eliptleal in form, and might
10th day of May, 1843, excommunicate the said Sir William there had not been found. the smallest thing that the Legis- 600 persons. Most of the petitions would find their way measure one-eighth of an inch the one way, and nearly One-
Dunbar, Rare, and solemnly e•arn all the faithful to hold no latureeould act upon. Then there was the celebrated Dr. into the waste-basket, .
and then they would go—no one knew fourth the other. This is an interesting' creestioa for natu-
oommunion with him in prayers or sacraments." Had that cuintning, who delivered a lecture at which Admiral Hare where:—(A Neale)ralists to solve.
.
escaped- the attention of the -Noble Lord? Was he aware of ' court presided. They made the proposition that the Cardinal Mr. HENLEY' said, if the object of the Noble Lard: was RECREATION.—.. H.e that 44),(3104' his time in- sports,
the existence of that excommunication when he proposed to should be at once put. on board ship and sent dad the country. ,to refute the statements contained ig
~ the petition, there t. find calls it recreation, 'alike him whose garment le all. made
. introduce an exceptional clause for Scotland lathe Bill before 1 After time months' deliberative, they bad the speech of the I waa nettling
. . Ise 'prevent LW], from repeatiog anal te..ott- i of,fruages, and his meat nothingtarsaucei. They are bomb.-
-,- r Teei chargeable, and owlet, —Jeremy Taylor.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

;From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Comtnons )

MONDAY, MAY 12.

ECCLESIASTICAL TII'LES ASSUMPTION BILL.
Order read for resuming adjou:ned Debate on Question
(9th May), "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Cnair."—
Quesion again proposed; Debate arising; Motion made, and
Question put, "That the Debate be now adjourned." The
House divided:—

MINORITY-AYES, 54.
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Armstrong, Sir A. Herbert, H. A. O'Connell, M. J:
Arundel, Earl of Higgins, George , O'Flaherty, Anthony
Barron, Sir d. Hobbouse, T. IL Ponsonby, C. F.
Blake, M. J. Hope, Alexander Power, Dr.
Blewitt, Reginald Howard, Sir R. Power, Nicholas
Bright, Joan Keating, Robert Reynolds, John
Castlereagh, Vise. Keogh, William Roche, E. B.
Clements, C. S. M`Cullagii, W. T. Sadleir, John
Corbally, M. E. Magan, W. H. Scholefield, William
Crawford, W. S. Maher, N. Somers, J. P.
Devereux, John T. Meagher, Thomas Sullivan, Michael
Fagan, James Manners, Lord J. . Talbot, J. H.
Fox, Richard M. Moore, G. H. Tenlson, Edward K.
Fox, W. J. Murphy, F. S. Tennent, , . J.
Gibson, T. M. Norreys, Sir D. Towneley, John
Goold, Wyndham Nugent, Sir Percy • ' Wegg-Prosser, F.
Grace, O. D. O'Brien, Joha TELLERS.
Grattan, Henry O'Connell, John Scully, Francis
Greene, John O'Brien, Sir T. Lawless, Cecil

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Adair, Hugh E; . Evans, William Mullings, J. R.
Adair, It. Shafto Evelyn, William J. Mundy, William
Adderley, C. B. . Ewart, William ' Muntz, G. F.
Aglionby, H. A. ' Ferrer, James Napier Joseph
Alcock, Thomas . Fellowes, E. -Medd, John
Anderson, Arthur , Fergus, J ehn - Neald, Joseph
Anson, Colonel
•Ferguson, Colonel Newdegate, N.
Anstey, Thomas Ferguson, Sir ft: Newport, Viscount
Arkwright, George Filmer, Sir E. ' - Nichol!, J.
Ashley, Lord , Fitzpatrick, J. W. ; • Noel, Gerald J.
Bagge, William' Fitzrsy, Henry : Ogle, S. C.
Bagshaw, john Vloyer, John , Ossuiston, Lord
Bailey, Joseph : Foley, J. IL Owen, Sir John
Baines, M. T. Forbes, William Macke, C. W.
Baird, James : Fordyce, A. D. Paget, Lord C.
Baldock, E. H. 'Forester, G. C. Paget, Lord G.
Bankes, G. • Forster, Matthew Paington, Sir J.
Baring, Henry B. Fortescue, J. W. Palmer, Robert
Baring. Sir F. Fox, S. L. Palmerston, Via.
Baring, Thomas. Freshfleki, J. W. Parker,, John
Barhig, Francis •., Frewen, C. Li. - ' Patten, J. W.
Barrow, W. H. Puller, A. E. - • Peel, Colonel
Bell,
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Thomas -
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Grosvenor. Lord it. Rendlesham, Lord
Guernsey, Lord . Renton, J. C.
Blair, Stephen Guest, Sir John 'Re Lon G. W. J.
Blakemore, R. Gwyn, Howe! Ricardo, Osman
111,unllord, Marquis Hale, IL B. Rice, E. It.
Booker, T. W. Hall, Sir B. Rich, Henry
Booth, Sir R. G. HallYblirtou, Lord Richards, Richard
Bouverie, E. P. : Halsey, T. P. Romilly, Colonel
'Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, G. A. ' RuMbold, C. E.
Boyle, Colonel ; ' Hamilton, J. H. Rushout, Captain
Bramston, T. W. Hamilton, Lord C. Russell, Lord John
Bremridge, Richard Hanmer, Sir John Russell, Edward S.
Brisco, M. , Ilardcastle, J, A. Russell, F. C.
.Brocklehurst, J. Harris, Captain Sanders, George
Brockman, E. D. Harris, Itiehard Seymer, H. K.
Brooke, Lord - Basile, Alexander Seymour, Lord
Brooke, Sir Arthur Rude, Archibald Shelburne, Earl of '
Brotherton, J. iiiitchelli, John •Sibthorp, Colonel
Brown, H. • Hawes, 'Benj. Smith, John Abel
Brown, W. Hayes, Sir E. Smith, M. T.
Bruce, Lord E. lieadlatiliT. E. - Smyth, J. G.
Buck, L. W. Heathcote, Sir G. J. Smollett, A.
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Cayley, E. S. Hodges, T. Twisden Stanton, W. H.
Chaplin, W. 3. • Holland, Robert. • Staunton, Slr.G.
Child, Smith HornbY, John ... - Stephenson; Robert
Childers, J. W. Bothell', Lord Stuart; Lord J.
Claolmeley, Sir M. Howard. C. Yr: G. --Stuart. John
Christopher, R. Howard, K. G. Start, H. G.
Christy, Samuel Hudson, G. Sutton, J. H.
Clay, J ames . Hughes, W. B. Talbot, C. R.
Clay, Sir W. ' Hutehint, E. J. Taylor, Thomas E.
Clerk Sir G. ! Hutt, William -Thesiger, Sir 1. •
Clifford, H. M.'' Inglis, Sir it. 1 hicluiesae, It. A.
Clive, H. B. . Jackson, William Thompson, Colonel
Cobbold, J. C. L Johnstone, Sir J. Thompson,' Alderman
Cockburn, Sir A. . _Jollirie. Sir W. 11. Thornely, T.
Cocks, T. S. ; Jones, Captain : .., Tollemache, F. J.
Codriugton, Sir W. Kerrisoh,.Sir E. i Tollemache, John
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Cotton, W. H. i Leinnn.,3ir C. . Tyrell, Sir J.
Cowan, Charles! Lennox, Lori A. Verner, Sir W. : •
Cowper, W. F. Lennox, Lord 11. G. VeseyThomaii '
Crowder, It. B. Leslie, C. P. Villiers, Vrsceount
Currie, Reikes Lewis, Sir 1,-. , Villiers, Charles
Deedes, W. Lewis, U. C.' . • Vivian, J. H. '
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lewlshini, Viscount -Vyvyan, Sir R.
Dick, Quintin Littleton, E. R. Waddington, H. S.
Disraeli, B. , Locke, Joseph Wakley, T.
Lod, J. W. . Lockhart, A. E. Walpole, S. H.
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Duff, James Mackie John Whiteside. James
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Duncan, Viscount • Macntghten, Sir E. Willcox, Brodie
Duncan, George M•Gregor, John Williams. John
Duncuft, John Mandeville, Viscount Williams, T. P.
Dundas, Admiral Mangles, R. D. -Williams, W.
Dundas, Sir D. Marstiaii, J. G. Willyams, H.
Dunne, Ccipnel Masternian, John Williamson, Sir H.
Du Pre, C. G. Matteson, t•ir J. Wilson, James
East, Sir J. B. , . MaLletion, Colonel Wilson, Matthew
Ebrington, Viscount Matte, Fox Wodehouse, E.
Edwards, Henry Malinsell, T. P. Wood, Sir Charles
Egerton, Sir P. liiles,,,P. W. A. Wood, Sir W. Y.
Egerton, W. T. Mitchell, T. A. Wortley, J. S.
Ellice, Edward Moffatt, George Yorke, E. T.
Elliot, John B. Idencreiff, James
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MAY

AIITERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF TH, AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The British and North American Royal m tit steam-
ship America has just entered our river. She brings
seven days later intelligence from the United States
and British North America, having sailed from Boston
on the 30th ult.. and called at Halifax to land uni.l re-
ceive mails and passengers on the 2d inst. The number
of plsseng,-,rs brought over is 111. She brings 26,0001.
in specie on freight.
The America spoke the Royal mail steamer Enrols
on thv 4 h inst.

The Royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Leitch, arrived
at Halifax ht 6 P.M. on the 29th ult., and was after-
wards passLd by the America oti Boston.
The United States steam-ship Ohio, Shenck, with

Havannah mails of the 19th ult., 200 passengers, and
140,0001. in gold dust and 20,000 dolls. specie on freight,
arrived at New York on the 24th ult.
Ttie new United States mail steam-ship Humboldt,
Lines commander, sister ship to the Franklin, would
leave on the ad inst. for Southampton.
Our miscellaneous accounts announce that a large
new steam-ship, of 1,200 tons, was being constructed at
New York, for a new steam line, to run between
Charleston and Liverpool. In Pittsburg Jenny Lind
Lad been grossly inoulted, stones having been thrown
into her carriage, and afterwards into her dressing-
room. She subsequently refused to sing again, and left
instantly for Baisimore. Great indignities had been
offered in South Carolina to the officer from Boston who
conveyed the fugitive slave Simms back to that state-
On the 23 1 ult. a grand entertainment was given at
Astor-house, New York, by the-St. George's Society,
at which Sir H. Bulwer, who had just recovered from
severe indisposition, was one of the principal gussts and
speakers. Dr. Beals presided, and the Swedish Minis
ter, Mr. Lytton, son of Sir E. B. Lytton, was also pre-
sent. Several of the orations, more especially those of
Sir H. Bulwer, were of a remarkable character. Cap-
tain Cooper responded for the British army, Sir H.
Bulwer for the Duke of Wellingtun, and Mr. Lytton for
his father, the great novelist.
A steam-boat had been seized at New York, charged
with having been intended for the" Cuban expedition.
Six persons had been arrested and held to bail. The
President has issued a proclamation against such expe-
di,ions. The particulars of the affair are thus re-
lated:— _
" The United States Marshal having received intelligence
,hat a vessel had been chartered by certain persons inte-
rested in the invasion of Cuba, and secretly fitted out with
implements of war, and tak .rt down the bay, where she was
anchored, awaiting the arrival of several hundred men, the
Marshal had the steamer Jacob Bell chartered and kept in
readiness at Pier No. 1, North River. In the mean time he
called upon the Chief of Police to furnish a force of his men
to aid and assist the United States authorities. All ar-
rangements being consummated, they boarded the steamer
Jacob Bell, which steamed towards Governor's Island, but
turned up the East River and went alongside of a United
States revenue cutter, and was made fast, and sailed down
the bay in search of the craft suspected. The Marshal and
his forces remained down the bay until Thursday morning,
to watch the vessel and such persons as were expected
to be conveyed to the craft at different hours of the night.
The suspected craft, however, was the steam-boat-Cleopatra,
which, during all his search, was lying quietly at the pier,
foot of North Moore-street. She is a large boat, about 14
years old, and was employed as a sound-boat, to which she
proved herself well adapted. She has a large quantity of
coal on board (we understand 250 tons were ordered), occu-
pying the forward cabin and hold, boiler-rooms, and a quan-
tity piled on the forward deck. She has also on board a
great number of large empty casks, which now stand on end,
the whole capable of containing, probably, some 7,000 gal-
lons of water. She looks rough, and not newly painted, nor
has anything been done to her to give her any different ap-
pearance from an ordinary sound or river boat. Tne water-
casks, &c., we understand, were ordered by Captain ,Wilson,
who claims to command her. She was alleged to be bound
to Galveston, Texas. There were some sugar-boxes, &c., on
board, such as fire-arms are usually packed in, but on exa-
mining them, they were found to contain hams and other arti-
cles. Application was made to the Navy-yard during Saturday
for some marines to take charge of the Cleopatra, which was
granted, and they now have her in custody. Mr. C. Rack-
lewitz, a young man, a native of Poland, one ot the deputy-
marshals, went to South Amboy on the same day, where it
was said some Germans and others had assembled with a
view to embarking in a Cuban expedition, disguised himself
as an emigrant, and conversing in German witu some of the
parties, obtained information which induced him to get five
of the parties to come with him to this city. Affidavits
were prepared charging William 'l'. Rogers,jun. (nephew of
Dr. J. K. Rogers), John L. O'Sullivan (son-in-law of Dr.R.),
Captain Lewis, formerly of the steam-boat Creole, engaged
in the former expedition (charged with being, in tact, Cap-
daiu of the Cleopatra), Major Louis - Schlesinger, k.ne of the
Hung. rian patriots, Pedro Sanches, a Spaniard, residing in
this city, and Dr. Daniel H. Burtnett, an old resident, with
preparing the means for a military. expedition against Cuba,
in possession of the Queen of Spain, contrary to the sixth
section of the Neutrality Act of the 20th of April, 1818.
The parties thus charged were arrested and held to bail in
3,000 dollars each to appear for examination."
The Erie Railroad was completed as far as Lake Erie.
Sir Henry Buiwer delivered a long address at the St.
George's Society on 23d April.
From Mexico dates *are to the 9th of April. The
financial condition of the Republic was deplorable. A
firmal complaint had been made by the Ministry to the
United States government as to the Indian outrages on
the frontier, Nhich by treaty the United States were
bound to protest. Mexico refuses to ratify the Tehuan-
tepec Treaty as yet. The correspondents of the New
York journals say that there will be a deficiency on the
year to meet the exigencies of the Government amount-
ing to 4,000,000 dolls. The Minister of Finance was
endeavouring to consolidate the interior debt, and to
raise a revenue. A loan of several millions was con-
templated.
Truzina and Co., Mexico, bad failed for 250,0001.
sterling.
Our latest advices from Hayti furnish a more con-
nected account of, the recent plot to overthrow the Im-
perial Government, and re-establish the Republic. The
conspirators, it would seem, were blacks, and not mulat-
toes. The discovery was made in consequence of the
arrest of a person who was suspected ot robbery. Five
of the conspirators had been shot.
New Orleans is again threatened with the !desolation
of water, owing to the flood in that river and the cre-
vasses in the levees, both above and below the city.
Butterfield's stables with fourteen horses, and several
adjoining buildings, have been destroyed by fire at
Utica, and the alleged incendiaries have been arrested.
Incendiaristo is the curse of American cities. At New
Orleans, last week, Charles Roussell and his wife agreed
to commit suicide. He mixed two tumblers of
poison and took one of them, but the lady changed her
mind immediately after her husband had swallowed the
fatal dose. He died. She lives, and has been dis-
charges from custody by the magistrate. The cause of
this romantic suicide is said to have been jealousy.
John Clines was hung at Freehold, New Jersey, on
Friday, for the murder of James' Shields. The night
before his execution he set fire to the prison, but the
flames were extinguished and his escape was prevented.
la few days since a terrible railroad riot, in which
six hundred Irishmen were engaged, took place at
Hornersville, New York. It arose out of a strike for
wages. Three were killed,
,and many wounded. The
military were called out, and the ringleaders arrested.
Another railroad riot took place on the Central-road,
near Greensburg, Pennsylvania—one killed, and several
wounded. Hazard's powder mill blew up at Enfield, on
Friday week—one killed and three wounded. A free
negro woman, named Barnes,'was murdered at Leonard-
town, a few days ago, and her husband is accused of
the foul deed. A curious affair recently took place at
Rushville,lllinois. A blacksmith, who was a notorious
drunkard, with a wife and family he did net support, was
convicted of inveterate intemperance, and sold by auc-
tion, for the term of four months' labour l • -- -
During March the New York Post-office received by
the European mail steamers 618,990 letters, and 293,264
newspapers; and forwarded 620,181 letters, and 366,916
newspapers.
Business throughout the States was in an excellent
condition. The export of specie from New York con-
tinued to be on a considerable scale, and seemed likely
to continue, as quotations for English exchange had not
given way. • The money market continued in a satisfac-
tory state. Money was by no means scarce. The de-
mand for stocks was firm, at former rates.
There was little doing in breadstuffs at receding
prices. Western canal flour, 4 dolls. 37i0.1t0 4 dolls. 50e.
per barrel; Gennessee prime wheat 1 doll. 12c. to 1 doll.
14c. per 601 b.; Indian corn, round yellow, 62c, to 64c.
per bushel, steady; Indian meal, 3 dolls. 12ic. to 3 dulls.
25c. per barrel.
The cotton market at New York continued in a de-
pressed condition; sales could not be made except at a
reduction, which holders generally bad submitted to.
New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, Ilia. to
12in. per lb.; Uplands and Florida, mid. fair to lair,
101 e. to 111 c. per lb. The current excess of receipts
was 200,000 bales over that of last year. Prices declined
on the arrival out of the Asia's news.
Provisions were in good demand, at firm prices.
Freights were inactive, and low in quotation.
Exchange on London -1101 to 1101 (good demand),
• •
Paris 5.10, Hamburgh 36 361, Bremen 794 79.
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BARREL ORGANS AND ADVERTISING VANS.—The
following is a re urn to an order of the Honourable the House
of Commons, dated April 14, 1851, for copy "of the instruc-
tions given by the Commissioners of the Police to the police
officers relative to the preventing obstructions and other
nuisances, ca .sed by the large travelling barrel organs and
advertising vans in and about the metropolis":
6' (11[EMORA.NDIJM. )
" March 21, 1851.
" The police would be justified in stopping music pliqin in
in the streets, and, if necessary, removing the parties g
cases where, from the load noise or other circumstan htenedces,
danger is caused to passengers in the streets, horses frig,
or the thoroughfares obstructed. Let instructions be given
accordingly for the guidance of the police.
EICITAI:D MAYNE.

"Whitehall-place, April 19, 1851.
" To the Superintendents."
" do instructions have been given to the police respecting
the advertising vans, there not being any law specially appli-
cable to them. In case of actual obstruction of a thorough- I
fare by these vans the police would interfere, as in other
cases of obstructions, and enforce the law 2d and 3d Vic.,
chap. 47, section 54 (6).. "RICHARD MAYNIE.
" Whitehall-place, April 19 , 1851."
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out
wholesome fragrance; reverie is the, same flower, when weak
and running to seed. Eliza Cooks Journal.
CORIRMSION IN STEAM BOILERS.--The following
experiment has been tried atOwlett Hall Colliery, Gilder-
ston, Yorksh ire, by the proprietors, Messrs. Mason and As-
gull 11... Ic appears that the two boilers used at this landsale
colliery are built in the oblong form, and are each 32 feet in
length and 5 feet in didmitter. From the hardness of the
water a corrosion had taken place. After trying a number
of experiments without,success, they put between 7lbs. and
81bs. of. leather curlers shavings into each boiler, and this
has suuroly proyeattd all further C9ITOIipII.