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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1851.

In the House of Lords last night,

The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, which was
brought up from the Commons, was read a first time,
and the motion for the second reading fixed for that day
fortnight.
Lord KINNAIRD moved the committal of the Farms
Buildings Bill.

The Earl of HARDWICKE opposed the Bill, which, on
a division, was rejected by a majority of 18; the num-
bers being for the Bill 18, against it 36.
A somewhat acrimonious discussion then took place
between the Earl of ELLENBOROUGEI and Lord
BROUGHTON, on the Case Of JOTEE PERSHAUD. It,
however, led to no result.
The Smithfield-market Removal Bill was, on the mo-
tion of Earl GRANVILLE, read a second time.
Lord MONTEAGLE, in moving for a copy of the ad-
dress of the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland to her
Majesty, expressed his opposition to the Ecclesiastical
Titles Assumption Bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE deprecated any discus-
aion on the subject, until the Bill should be regularly
before the House; and their Lordships adjourned.
In the Commons,
A new writ was ordered for Knareaborough to fill up
the vacancy occasioned by the decease of Mr. W. S.
LASCELLES.
The Inhabited House Duty Bill passed through COW*

mittee.
The Woods and Forests Bill 'passed through Com-
mittee.
Oa the order of the day for the House going into
Committee of Supply,
Sir D. NORREYS moved as an amendment that the
architect of the New Palace at Westminster be re-
quested to lay before the House forthwith a report in
detail on the manner in which he would recommend that
the interior decorations of the new House of Commons,
and of the halls and rooms connected with it, should be
completed; and that he be, directed to prepare his plans
with dtie attention to the style of decoration usually
adopted at the period to which the general architectural
character of the new palace is referable.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the
,motion. In the course of a fortnight the morning
sittings would be held in the new House of Commons.
Mr. Humz did not suppose he should live to see the
Houses finished.

The amendment of Sir D. NORREYS was ultimately
negatived without a division, and the House went into
Committee.
The remainder of the evening was chiefly occupied in
the discussion of the estimates.

The Bishop of LONDON has caught a tartar. Sir
BENJAMIN HALL has proved himself on more than
one occasion to be an exceedingly " awkward ens-

tamer," and the Hon. Baronet in the present instance
has by no means shown himself to be unworthy of his
ancient and well-established reputation. What he un-
dertakes he carries out to the fullest extent, and leaves
no loophole through which his opponent can escape.
The Right Rev. Prelate cannot hope either to frown
or to sneer down such an adversary, and he may Le
welliassured that any contemptuous disregard of, or re-
fusal to notice the unequivocal and straightforward

allegations of the • representative of Marylebone will I
inflict greater inquiry on the Bishop himself than on
any other person whatsoever. There is a very gene-
ral' opinion abroad that the episcopal revenues of the
see of London are very much more than the amount
which was considered to be amply sufficient to
maintain the dignity of the see, and, which Was
certainly not measured with any niggardliness. of
feeling or cheese-paring economy, a fact that will be
readily admitted, if the episcopal and judicial
salaries, and the nature of the services rendered
in return, be compared together. Thus,
for instance, we find that, in point of emolument, the
Bishopric of London is placed on the same footing
with the Lord Chancellorship of England—that the
occupant is to receive 2,0001. per annum more than
the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, 3,000/,
more than the Chief Judges of the other superior
courts of common law, and double the salary of the
First Lord of the Treasury, of each of her MaJesTr's
Principal Secretaries of State, of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, or of the
.Judges of the Queen's
Bench and Common Pleas, and the' Barons of the
Exchequer. Such a scale of payment would then be
at least quite sufficient for the labour imposed and
the qualifications required, which are certainly not
greater than those demanded from a Lord Chancellor
or Chief Justice, or, in fact, from any of the other
officers we have alluded to (except, perhaps, the Fi-
nancial Minister, who, judging: from recent events,
must have been taken at a very low estimate indeed).
But, notwithstanding this, we find that the Bishop of
LONDON has received (according to his own returns)
no less than 77,2591. beyond the amount considered
sufficient, or an average of 6,5181. per annum over
and above the sum specified, which, by the way,
makes no allowance whatever for the Palaces of Lon-
don And Fulham, which are certainly worth some-
thing to the Right. Reverend Prelate.
But the great 'question is not merely the amount
actually received, but whether the returns are strictly
accurate in every particular. We do not by any
means desire to be taken as charging the Bishop with
wilful and deliberate falsehood, but there is something

so very extraordinary in the circumstance that the
revenue of the see has not participated in the general
improvement that has taken place at Paddington, on
the episcopal estates, that it appears to us require ,
more copious explanation than any that has as yet
been vouchsafed to us. From public documents we
find that the assessment of Paddington, as stated by
Sir BENJAMIN HALL, had risen from 112,8681.,
which it was in 1827, to 191,1541. in 1843, and
343,066/. in 1850 ; that this enormous and almost
incredible increase had mainly arisen from the build-
ings erected on the see lands in that parish. When
the estate has so wonderfully improved in every re-
spect it certainly seems strange that the revenue of
the bishopric has not participated in the improvement
in a greater degree than the returns would appear
to show, and without imputing any want of veracity
to the Right Rev. Prelate, we are entitled to know
the nature of the management that has produced such
singular and untoward results.
The charge too, as Sir BENJAMIN HALL shows in
his able letter, a copy whereof will be found in an-
other part of this day's impression, does not originate
with the Hon. Baronet. It is a portion of the gene-
ral accusation put forward by Mr. MURRAY, the se-
cretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who, in
speaking of certain returns rendered by or on behalf
of certain Right Rev. Gentlemen, says " this is a
very fallacious return as the foundation of any in-
ference respecting the actual incomes of the Bishops.
It is a return made by the Bishops themselves—the
net is struck from the gross by themselves."
Under such circumstances, we think it due to the
Bishop of LONDON and all parties concerned, that a
full and searching investigation should take
place into the revenues of the diocese, and, indeed,
episcopal revenues merely, and the nature and ex-
penses of the line of management adopted in each
respectively. We have no hesitation in saying that
it would be greatly for the benefit of the Church
of England if its Prelates were exempted from
temporal cares, and the anxieties inseparable from the
management of large estates ; we should not then find
such odium cast upon Bishops as is now too fre-
quently the case. They would likewise have more
time to attend to the spiritual duties of their
offices than at present. The Bishop of LON-
DON, for instance, would, if such a reform
had taken place a year since, not have been com-
pelled to postpone for so long a period the per-
formance of a solemn promise given in February,
1850 ; and the , appropriation of the Horsfield
estate from Church purposes to the private use of the
Lord Bishop Of GLOUCESTER, might not have raised a
blush in the countenance of every disinterested mem-
ber of the Church of England by law established. We
trust that such an inquiry may be instituted as to the
best mode of carrying out these objects. The letters
of the Bishops of LONDON and GLOUCESTER, coupled
with
m em theber
forstatements
i‘iar; of the Honourable Gentleman the
lebone, are sufficient not merely to
justify such an investigation, but to render it impe-
rative, and that without a moment's unnecessary delay.

According to the progress made in the Committee
appointed by the 'French Legislature to consider bow
far it would be desirable to revise the Constitution,
the hopes of the various political factions experience

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the most .Extraordinary fluctue,nriv At anp-momeo
the Orleanists are sanguine 77f-a qt.i.). the Re-

gency. At another, the Legitimatists look forward
to a third, and yet more triumphant restoration.
Sometimes the aspiring dreams of the Imperialists
seem to be trembling on the verge of their realization.
Occasionally also the future appears to the more

Utopian democrats to promise an unexampled victory
to the leaders of the Mountain. Meanwhile the
moderate Republicans continue to regard all these
agitations of different sections of the community with
a serene and impassive quietude that almost amounts
to an aspect of indifference. Such, however, it is
not, the founders of the Republican insti-
tutions of 1848 regarding the efforts made
for their subversion, or at any rate, at the very least,
for their modification, with the most profound, though
at the same time suppressed solicitude. Anxious, in-
deed, they could not but be in reference to passing
events, no matter how secure they might, and, unques-
tionably do, feel of the ulterior attainment of their
aspirations. For they, more vividly perhaps than any
other class of individuals in Christendom, bear in re-
membran* the bitter and disastrous ordeal through
which their beloved country has had to pass repeatedly
from the commencement of her epoch of revolu-
tions. Above all men in Europe in patriotic enthu-
siasm, the fallen chieftains of the Provisional Govern-
ment—those Girondins of our generation—are equally
pre-eminent in their appreciation of the difficulties to be
encountered in organizing a democracy. To M. DE
LAMAETINE himself those difficulties, have become

familiar, not only by studying the records of the past
as their critic and annalist, but also, and more pecu-
liarly, by personally obtaining experience from the
present, as the champion of freedom and the anta-
gonist of anarchy. He remembers that morning of
February when he had to repel terrorism by an au-
dacity which placed his life in imminent danger of
assassination. He remembers, moreover, those re-

cords of a bygone age which be has himself traced
with a luminous pencil. To multitudes of his corn-

patriots, as well as to himself, the same ghastly re.
miniscences are as events of yesterday. The inexorable
ferocity of DANTON, however much glossed over by the
panegyrics of TIMES the sinister fanaticism of ST.
JUST, however idealized by the humanity of SMYTHE ;
the brutality of MARAT; the impiety of Ceocerz ;
the ribaldry of DUCHESNE ; the destroying suavity of
COUTHON ; and the desolating egotism of ROBES-
PIERRE, are memories that still crowd upon the
thoughts of the French population, and render them
cautious of permitting future excesses by reminding
them of the horrers of a past saturnalia. Even the
mementos, cherished with so much ardour, of the
gentle or noble characters engaged in the first and
greatest of the three French Revolutions, cannot by
possibility reconcile the moderate Republican of the
present day to adventure upon any course which might
seem calculated to bring back those periods
of sublime hope, it is true, but also, it must not be
forgotten, of dark and, disinal despair. The mistaken
but generous fanaticism of Desmoueres, the weak but
ennobling conduct of BAUBAROU x, the impassioned but
conscientious arguments of BRIM; the valiant but
sometimes vacillating career of the eloquent VERB..
NIARD, cannot but suffuse with compassion the
admiration felt towards them by the French multi-
tude ; shadowing their tombs with cypress as well as
with laurel. Against the revival of days such as
those in which the good as well as the bad were im-
molated, the patriot as well as the traitor, the benefi-
cent as well as the ferocious, the Girondins as
well as the Jacobins, the remembrance of his-
tory acts as a talisman such as cannot be broken
by the most specious 'and reiterated misrepresenta-
tions. Therefore it is that the moderate Republicans
of to-day, with all their anxiety as to the result of the
inquiries now pending in reference to the Constitu-
tion, rest confident that nothing can long interfere
with the efforts which have now been made for'
sixty or seventy • years with a view to establish per-
manently in France'a democratic form of government.
During the week which has just passed the preli-
minary discussions in the Committee of Revision
closed with the harangue of M. BERRYER. Together
with this should be remembered, moreover, the
election of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE. Apart from these
events, the politicians of France have been pre-
paring themselves in earnest for the struggle
fast approaching, the struggle which is to decide
whether the country will rest satisfied with a Re-
public, or will venture upon either a monarchical or
imperial restoration. The partizans of the different
bidders for the suffrages of the nation have long since
bestirred themselves, now in behalf of the Comte DE
CHAMBORD, now in behalf of the Comte DR PARIS,
now again in behalf of the Prince Lours NAPOLEON.
The latter personage has wisely refrained from com-
mitting himself to any particular line of policy in re-
gard to this subject, remaining faithful to his oaths,
and awaiting with honourable serenity the voluntary
decision of the French multitude. It is some satis-
faction for his well-wishers to observe that in his re-
cent reviews he has abstained from those eccentric
evidences of liberality which made his enemies shrug
their shoulders over the plates of cold turkey and the
glasses of sparkling champagne. Nothing could be
more thoroughly constitutional than •the: course
hitherto pursued by ‘the PRESIDENT ; it remains to
be seen whether France herself, either directly or
through her representatives, will remain equally true
to the Constitution.

MAHOMET'S PARADISE AT THE CRYSTAL

PALACE.

Mr. Kimmel, tho perfumer, of Gerrard street, gives us
some idea of the paradise promised by the " Great Pro-
phet" to the " true believers." A fountain shedding
around it a delicious fragrance, fl,Avers of everlasting
freshnc:s, and around and around it a host of fair houris,
seeking the cool and oderiferous waters. Besides those
allurements, Mr. Ricnmel offers us some very tempting
pro3uctions for the use of simple mortals, which, although
deemed articles of luxury, are absolute requisites for the
elegant and refined.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
RAY IifiAREETS.
bMITRFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 103 to 41 82; Clover,
31 103 to 41 los; and Straw, 11 is to 11 9s per load.
A full average supply, and a steady trade.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 41 10s;
Clover, 31103 to 4110 s; and Straw, 1 / 3s to 11 Ils per load.
Supply moderate, and trade firm.
WIIITECIIAPEL. Meadow Hay, 31 101 to 4/ 8s;
Clover, 31 10s to 4110 s; and Straw, 112 a to 1110 s per load.
Trade steady, at late rates.
Large quantities of new Meadow Hay were disposed
of in the above markets, at from 31. 3s. to 31. 12s. per
load.

COLONIAL..
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation was
quiet, and only 87 hhds were sold at the reduced duty,
which in this instance is equally divided between buyer
and seller; prices compared with this day week must be
quoted 6d lower. At auction 1.750 bags Bengal and
6,430 bags Madras mostly sold, the difference of duty
being generally in favour of the buyers, the former at
40s 6d to 42s 6d for good to fine white Benares, and 33s
to for lowgoo
good
o mid id o
fine, grainy
kind, the latter
yellow
t 39 136t0s
4
1a355 6d
for6d
to 38s 6d for low to mid yellow, and at
30s to 33s 6d for brown. Foreign 104 hhds,
and 113 barrels St. Croix, and 660 casks, 240
barrels Porto Rico, went very irregularly. The reduc-
tion of is 6d per cwt in the duty being occasionally in
favour of the sellers; prices ranged from 40s 6d to 44s 6d
for the former, and 33s 6d to 41s 6d for the Porto
Rico. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India Docks was 1,388 hhds,
181 tierces, 1,093 barrels, there were taken for home
153 tierces, 238 barrels. The
consumption 843 hhds,
stock in the same place is 13,753 hhds, 1,696 tierces,
5,246 barrels.
COFFEE.—At auction 260 casks 130 bags Plantation
Ceylon only partly sold-lit a further slight concession,
establishing a decline of is for the week; 400 bags good
ord native kind were taken in at 3Ss to 38s 6d.
Rem.—The quantity landed last week' at the East and
West India Docks was 433 puns 1 hhd; there were taken
for home consumption 113 puns, and exported 89 puns
84 hhds. The stock in the same places is 12,222 puns
1,522 hhds.
RICE.—Of 1,368 bags mid white Bengal offered, barely
one-half sold at 9s, being rather lower.
SALTPETRE.—The market is flat, and 1,400 bags
Bengal at auction were withdrawn, at nominal rates.
Some parcels are offering privately on comparatively
easier terms.
SPICES.-300 begs black Pepper sold steadily at 2jd
to 3d for dusty Penang, being rather dearer. 75 bags
Pimento brought 4jd to 5d per lb.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 37s 6d to 37s 9d per cwt on the
spot, and Town 38s.
TEA.—The market is steady.

The following noblemen and gentlemen visited Mr.
Wyld's Model of the Earth in Leicester-square :—Lord Mont-
eagle, Lord Stanhope, Countess Charlemont, Sir John Pa-
kington, nuke of Argyle, Sida Bey, Benjamin Hawes, Esq.,
Earl of Zetland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord
Broughton,
Pendarves, Esq., M.P., and lady, Sir Fitzroy
Kelly and lady.

M. JULLIEN'S BENEFIT.—This popular composer
had his benefit at the Surrey Zoological Gardens last even-
ing. The entertainments were, of that recherche character
which distinguishes all the grand maestro's efforts. The au-
dience was immense—we shouLt think from 12,000 to 14,000.
The programme was calculated to give every aatiafaction ;
the fireworks in particular were magnificent.

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