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London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from St.
Alban's against free trade and in favour of retrenchment.
Ile did not agree with the petitioners. He was in favour
of all proper retrenchment, bat not of such retrench-
ment as the petitioners asked fcr, which was a reduction
in the salaries of the Poor-law Commissioners, of the
Ministers, and of great Officori of State. _

Th• Earl of WINCHILSEA presented soveral peti-
tions cocaplAining of the Papal aggre;sion.
EASTER HOLIDAYS.

Earl GREY gave notice that on Monday next be
should move that the House do adjourn to Thursday, the
let of May.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. GEACU took the oaths and his seat for the borough
of Coventry.

PETITIONS.

Mr. BERNAL presented a petition from' Stroud in
favour of a measure for the enfranchisement of copyholds.
A great number of petitions were presented against
Papal aggression; also petitions against the Ecclesiasti-
cal Titles Bill.

Mr. KEOGH presented a petition from the guardians
of the poor of the Athlone union praying for an altera-
tion in the Irish poor-law.
Mr. BEOTHERTON presented a petition from the
incumbent, churchwardens, and parishioners, of the
parish of Weeton against Papal aggression.
Mr. LOCKE: KING presented petitions from
Streatham and Clapham for more stringent measures
against Papal aggression.
Mr. MEAGHER presented a petition from the cor-
poration of Waterford, praying to be relieved from the
payment of the ministers' 'money tax.
Mr. G. HAMILTON presented a petition from the
resident and fellows of the College of Physicians, Dub-
lin, against withdrawing public aid from the hospital in
that city; also petitions from Skryne, Benmoro, Bal-
lengarry, Kilmarnag,h, Kilrusb, Portclere, Gringle,
Bathepark, and Tydarint, in favour of the Church
Education Society, Ireland.
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from the parish of
Kilbride, in the Island of Arran, Scotland. praying for
efficient measures for repeliing Papal aggression.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH • presented a petition from
Van Diemen's Land, praying for the abolition of tran-
sportation of convicts to that colony.
Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from Liver-
pool, praying for a revision of the income-tax.
Mr. G. C. GLYN presented a petition in favour of
secular education.
Lord ASHLEY presented a petition from a beneficed
clergyman of the diocese of ,Exeter, complaining of the
conduct of his diocesarein refusing to license a curate
whom he had engaged to perform his duty owing to his
own ill-health.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the trus-
tees and managers of the Literary Fund, stating that
they had a sum of 13 8331., and praying the House to
remit the legacy duty on th,t amount.
Sir R. INGLIS also presented a petition against the
duty cn carriages.
SAVINGS' BANKS (DUBLIN) DEFICIENCY.
Mr. REYNOLDS gave i tee that he should on an
geanfly day move for a return of the Kay in which the
—4OOl, Toted in 1850 for the relief of the depositors in
the savings' banks in Dublin, had been appropriated fur
the benetia of those who had suffered from the defalca-
tions.

POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
Mr. SCULLY gave notice that he intended to call the
at'etttion of the }LUSO to the operation of the poor-LsW
in Ireland.

ISM.
Sir B. HALL ga
teiriiPUSE ° ceY tt b hae should shortly after
Easter call the attention the House to the conduct of
the' archbishops and baits' hops with respect to the
Tractarianism which
hvortEngland.
clergymen in the Church sefbeela prevalent with many
BUSINESS
r'o•MORROW.
Mr. DISRAELI claimed t indulgence for a few
the
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consequence_o of what bad
move his amendment. In
Exchequer,tinourable Gentleman
fallen from the Right
the Chancellor of the
he was about
several gen-
tlemen were tinder the impressionthat
to propose his motion as an amendmentto
the proposal
would
of the Governurthe widow-tax;
nt far the repeal of
but it was not, his intention to do so, nor
ell:nation
port any amendment that might be offered to the he sup-
port hear.)
for the repeal of that tax.—
to-morrow
which would come before tine House to-
r in the form of a motion for going into a Committee
to consider the imposition of a house-tax, and under
tueetll e circumstances he bad thought that would be an ex.
House
opportunity for asking the opinion of the.
tinanslura the omission of an important body from the
statement of the country; bat in consequence
of the erroneous im •which be had just refe
impression to . . rred
it would be necessary to make a slight alteration in the
terms of his amend, „ ~ , Ea never intended
to submit it as an amendment.—(Hear.) uear-,
amendment to the repeal of the win-
dow-tax, and he should
motion Government
therefore be glad to know what
Lord JOHN RUSSELLwoud prop -.7se to-morrow?—(Hear.)
would propose to go into Committee
said to-morrow Government
of a hou4e- ax in lieu of
tiwo for the imposition
Mr. DISRAELI again stawtelkiw-tax.
dnd
that
he had no intention
to prppose an amendment to the repeal of the window-
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
a 4 intended to-morrow to go into Committee said it
V 7
the window tax and th- house-tax, both on
Mr. .lASWIELI ;Aid the amendment he should
propose to itik 1-It:er part of the motion
namely. " That b:,fore ii.Ly relit; is gr,n.eeidoeu.ld be this,
revision or an ajustment of taxation, due
regardher by a
by paid to the distressed condition of theo Should
occupiers of laud." The words be had 'n""nd
omitted from
his tuTmer notice were '`in tree instance."-Vicar.) first instance "
car.)

BEER SELLERS.
Sir J. PAKINGTON moved for a return showing the
number of persons in each of the several collections in
the United Kingdom licensed as brewers, victuallers, to
tell beer to be drunk on the premises, and to tell beer
not be drunk on the premiso:3, in each year from the
)(so 1832 to the year 1851.—Agreed to.
CASTLEBAR UNION.
Mr. HIGGINS wished to ask the Chief Secretary for
Irelan 1 whether it hed been reported to him that 78
person‘ have died in the Castlebar Workhouse during
three weeks of the last month; whether that mortality
had been attributed by the Poor-law inspector of the
union to the unwholesome quality of the food; and also,

whether it is the case, that between old and new rates a
c,nni. impirl by
t:t the otbr rsZep;..yer.i
havinv. in uitht ca,fa, paid tit,?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the report was not true.
VIOLATIoN OF THE TREATY OF VIENNA.

Mr. ANSTEY asked the Secretary of State for Fo-
reign
Affairs whether he had received any information
respecting the measures now being taken at Dresden by
the Courts of Vienna and Berlin, to secure the admission
into the Germanic Confederation of the non-German ter-
ritories possessed by those Courts, and the guarantee of
that Confederation forsuch possessions (including Austrian
and Prussian Poland, Austrian Italy, Hungary, and the
Free City of Cracow, &c.); whether any notification had
been made to these Courts of her Majesty's intention to
insist upon the maintenance of those stipulations of the
Treaty of Vienna, by which such an encroachment
upon the integrity of Germany and the liberties of
Europe is guarded against; and whether the Noble Lord
would lay on the table of the House the correspondence
on those subjects?
Lord PALMERSTON said a communication was
made to the Government some time ago with respect
to the intention on the part of Prussia and
Austria to propose the incorporation of territories
not hitherto belonging to the Germanic Confederation.
The House was aware that, by article 53 of the Treaty
of Vienna, it was stated that the Germanic Confederation
should consist of certain Sovereigns and Sovereign
Princes, and that the Confederation was to belong to the
the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia for such of
their possessions or all their possessions which belonged
to the ancient German Confederation. According to
that stipulation part of Wallachia, Hungary, Croatia,
and Dalmatia, were not included in the Germanic Con-
federation. The following article of the treaty dis-
tinctly stated that the object of the Confederation was
the maintenance of the internal and external safety of
Germany, and the inviolability of the states belonging
to the Confederation. Therefore, when her Majesty's
Government heard that it was the intention to incorpo-
rate these states, they were of opinion that that intention
could not b© carried into effect under the treaty, un-
less with the consent of all those Powers who
were parties to the treaty, and in accordance
with that opinion the Government did not
follow the example of France, as the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman stated, but anticipated the example of France,
and as early as the 3d of December last made a remon-
strance with Prussia and Austria on the subject. They
protested in a formal manner against theincor-
poration of those states, and renewed their re-
monstrances, not only at Vienna and Berlin, but
to each and all of the states, composing the
Germanic Confect( ration. But knowing, as they must
all do, in the first place the great value which Austria
and Peussia have always attached to the Treaty
of Vienea and to the strictness with which those
Governments ought in principle to obey their
engagements, and seeing, moreover, the great import-
ance it was, especially to those two powers,
that the Treaty of Viena, by which so many of the states
of Ear -p • held their present possessions, should be re-
spected, be cc-31,1 not himself' entertain a doubt, that in
the res..: t that tr. e,.y would be obeyei, and that those
intentions, wi•ich seemed to have been h3sti;y and lightly
adopted, probably without sufficient attention to the
stipulations which were contravened, would not be per-
sisted in or carried into effect.—(Hear.)
Mr. ANSTEY wished to know whether the Noble
Lord would have any objection to lay the papers before
the House.

Lord PALMERSTON said he was sure the House
would agree with him, that it would be inconvenient
and irjurious to the public service to lay the papers on
the table with rf•aatd to a pcbbing nugottatiun.—(llear: