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upon the unmanly ruffians who are guilty of these
aggravated assaults upon their weaker helpmates,
upon those who should, on the contrary, have looked
up with confidence to them for protection. It is
because we conceive that Lord RAYNIIAM'S
bill attempts to do this, to our thinking,
injudiciously, that we regret the measure was
not thrown out yesterday, upon the motion for the
second reading, as we hardly conceive that, in its
present form, it admits of adequate emendation
in Committee. The difficulty of obtaining a con-
viction in these dreadful cases was urged yesterday
by Mr. WALTER, as of itself a reason sufficient to
make the house pause before adopting the proposed
emendation (?). " There was an instinctive ten-
derness and delicacy in the female mind," the hon.
gentleman well insisted, " which would lead a
woman of even the humblest rank to
shrink from coming forward to inflict a degrad-
ing punishment upon her husband, and
the object," he added, " would thereby be defeated."
Mr. WALTER argued, moreover, that although this
special objection had often been urged, it never yet,
to this moment, had been answered. It is, in fact,
one of the most touching peculiarities noticeable in
the majority of these aggravated assaults upon
women by their husbands or paramours. And it is
one which renders the treatment of these cases
fraught with difficulty. Well will it be for the un-
happy victims of these assaults if Lord RAYNHAM'S
no doubt generously intentioned bill do not mate-
rially tend to aggravate the brutalities that hardly
seemed before to admit of aggravation.

Church-rate abolition fell in their way but incident-
ally. Their business as a society was to enlighten the
nation on the injustice to half the citizens of Eng-
land, and on the injury done to religion, by Govern-
ment interference with it. The Society found the
Church-rate question in agitation ; it illustrates
very clearly, as they conceive, some of the evils of
State Churchism ; they have used it for that pur-
pose; and we must say that the meeting generally
seemed rather glad than the contrary that a topic
so useful to them for agitation was likely to be left
them yet awhile. Deprive them of a Church-rate
grievance and Church-rate contest in every parish,
and of their annual bill in the House of Commons, and
they weuld lose one of their best platforms for at-
tacking the State Church and making it hateful in
the eyes of the people.
The society is certainly right, and their opponents
wretched generals. It is the latter who have said
so loudly there that the State Church principle—
some have added, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL used to
do the House of Lords and the Crown—are bound
up with Church-rates. Be it so ; but as the
nuisance must be soon surrendered —as the
parishes themselves will get rid of it if
Parliament does not help them, and will eventually
oompel Parliament to complete their work, it was
hardly prudent to put the question in the form
which would enable abolitionists to say—" Now,
by your own confession, as you have abolished
Church-rates, you must, to be consistent, proceed to
abolish the Establishment itself." Till this session
the battle has been fought as one for the removal
of a practical grievance. Churchmen would have
done wisely to have kept to that ground. To them,
doubtless, the idea of universal voluntaryism appears
perfectly absurd; but they have to remember that the
abolition of every special privilege and monopoly has
seemed equally so to those who are interested in
maintaining it. We can:all of us remember how Par-
liamentary Reform, Negro Emancipation, Repeal
of the Corn-laws, Free•trade, and even Penny Post-
age were laughed at as visionary absurdities when
first proposed. We cannot doubt that Lord DERBY'S
Son was right when he declared that privilege in
regard to religion must vanish also—that Religious
Equality, a thing essentially incompatible with the
state patronage of one creed and sect, is the ruling
idea of the day, and that voluntaryism is certain to
be the creed of the next generation. We think so
•—because we know of no special privilege—which
—in this free country—has ever survived a steady
and persevering attack. And surely it is a privi-
lege indeed that all the emoluments and favour of
the State should go with the Prayer-book and the
Thirty-nine articles.

On the occasion of the last division on the
Church-rate Abolition Bill—its third reading by
the small majority of nine, after a majority in its
favour of seventy last year—we ventured to predict
that the the retrogression of the House would be
the advance of Parliamentary Reform. But a few
days before the petitions for abolition had so im-
mensely surpassed the petitions for retention or
compensation, that a more striking illustration
could hardly have been given of the House and the
country being at cross purposes. The demand for
Representative Reform, we felt confident, must be
strengthened by the retrograde division.
We had not at the ;time thought of another
effect which we see by the meeting of the Libera-
tion Society yesterday has been produced upon an
energetic class of persons. The reduced majo-
rities, it should be observed, were caused,
so far as arguments had any influence,
by the assertion that the abolition of
Church-rates was but one step on the part of
Nonconformists to the abolition of a national esta-
blishment of religion. The Lords, in their Com-
mittee, examined two leading Dissenters—Dr.
FOSTER, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee
of the Liberation Society, and Mr. SAMUEL MOR-
LEY, a well-known and highly-respected City
merchant. Their lordships deviated from the ob-
ject they were appointed to inquire into, and cate-
chised these gentlemen on the ultimate views of
Dissenters. They, of course, answered straight-
forwardly, though, had they been so inclined, the
Chairman could not have ruled that they
were bound to answer merely general questions.
Nothing, however, was further from their object,
than concealment. They wished it to be fully
understood, indeed probably thought their lordships
very ill-informed for not understanding, that con-
sistent Dissenters of necessity object to State sup-
port and patronage of religion. They would not
accept it for their own worship, and they know by
experience that Churchmen could, as richer than
themselves, do very well without it—do better, as
they doubtless honestly think.
The answers of these two gentlemen were made
use of all over the country to alarm all the clergy
great and small, and to rouse them to induce the
members whom they could influence to be in their
places and to vote against the bill. Thus, though
the Parliamentary supporters of Abolition have
not diminished, the opponents of it have
mustered in greater numbers and so dimi-
nished the majority of the Abolitionists that
the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, the Chairman of the
Lords' Committee, has already given notice of mov-
ing its rejection on the second reading. The House
of Lords, doubtless, feels very glad that the Com-
mons have enabled them to throw the odium of its
rejection in great part upon the latter.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.—May 2.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO THE ISLE OF
WIGHT.—The royal family are expected at Osborne
House on the 19th, but it is understood that her
Majesty only comes to spend her birthday here,
according to annual custom, and that immediately
after which she will proceed to Scotland.
The Marquis Conyngham has sold his beautiful
schooner yacht Cecile, of 190 tons, to the Marquis
of Drogheda.

NEW ISLE OF WIGHT STEAM PACKET COMPANY.
—A new steamboat company has been formed to
run boats between Cowes, Southampton, and Ports-
mouth. The vessels are guaranteed to steam 16
miles an hour. Between 600 and 700 shares have
been taken, and the shareholders had a meeting at
the Fountain Hotel, Cowes, on Monday last, and
elected seven directors, resident in Cowes, New-
port, and Southampton.

COWES AND NEW PORT RAILWAY.—Since the
change in the weather great activity has been dis-
played on the works of this railway, and a great
number of men having been put on, the tunnel is
being carried under the Newport-road, and a great
many bricklayers are employed turning the arches.
A shaft has been sunk in Miss Ward's grounds by
the side of Mill-hill road, and the excavation of the
tunnel is being carried on at both ends and in the
middle.

But we observe from the tone of the speakers
yesterday, that not only do they appear in no way
to be dismayed—they seem rather to be emboldened.
They say that notwithstanding the only plea which
had any effect against the bill was that it is an
attack on the principle of an establishment of re-
ligion—notwithstanding that the battle was thus
avowedly fought on the Establishment principle—
they yet had a majority, and had only to complain
of absences, and not of any of their supporters

turning against them.
But they go further—they regard the conduct of
their opponents as a challenge to resume the fight
on the broad principle of an establishment or no
establishment. Our readers will, however, best
understand Dissenters if we give them the very
words of perhaps their chief layman. Mr. S. MORLEY
thus quoted and commented on the words of
Mr. BINNEY, the celebrated preacher, at the Weigh-
house Chapel, and which were uttered twenty-
seven years age. "It is with me," said Mr.
BINNEY, " I confess, a matter of deep, serious, reli-
gious conviction, that the Established Church is a
great national evil ; that it is an obstacle to the
progress of truth and godliness in the land; that
it destroys more souls than it saves ; and that,
therefore, its end is most devoutly to be wished by
every lover of GOD and man." Mr. MORLEY adds
—" Right or wrong, this is my belief; and I
should feel not the slightest offence if a Church-
man were to express himself to me in pre-
cisely the same words with respect to Dissent.
We know very well that we do thus
actually differ in opinion, and it would be very
foolish for either to be offended because the other
expresses it. 'We are bound each of us to adopt
those principles which we conscientiously consider
to be true, and we are equally bound, in proportion
to our ability, to defend and diffuse them. It is at
present universally felt, that the time is at
hand when the Establishment must undergo
a thorough sifting ; the abstract principle on
which it rests be discussed in Parliament ; and
the absolute dissolution of Church and
State sought, and perhaps obtained. Dissent
and the Establishment will then die together—
die on the same day. The terms and things are
relative ; the end of one will be the termina-
tion of both. The day that witnesses this will be
a bright and blessed one. Episcopalians, Presby-
terians, Independents, Methodists, may remain ;
but Churchmen and Dissenters will exist no more.
All denominations, placed on a perfect equality,
with a thousand sources of jealousy and animosity
removed, each possessed of the power of advancing
towards and admitting the approaches of the rest
—such movements would ultimately be seen ; the
spirit of peace, and love, and unity would return ;
the real communion of saints' would be practised ;
and GOD himself, on the throne of His glory, would
rejoice over His once divided and broken,
but then happy and harmonising ' household."
All the speakers concurred in the view that

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MAYENCE, MAY 3.

Minister of War
Minister of Marine
Minister of Finance and
Foreign Affairs

AUSTRIA.

NEWS.

The following telegrams were received at Mr.

The ,Veetis, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at six this morning. Mails leave for
London at 10 a.m.

The llioniteur of this morning publishes a note
of M. Thouvenel, dated April 16, proving that the
annexation of the neutralised districts of Savoy to
France will not change the situation of Switzer-
land.

The Moniteur also announces that the project of
law concerning the tariff for wools, cottons, and
raw materials was yesterday adopted by the legisla-
tive body by 249 against 4 votes.
The Constitutionnel states that the only condition
attached to the general amnesty in Spain is, that
parties wishing to avail themselves of it must take
the oath of allegiance to Queen Isabella.

The Mainzer Journal announces that the chief
command of all Austrian corps d'armee in Italy has
been entrusted to Prince Alexander of Hesse.

MARSEILLES, MAY 2,

Advices from Messina to the 28th ult. state that
perfect tranquillity, but general discouragement,
prevailed.
The number of persons who had been arrested
was considerable. The Citadel and prisons were
crowded to excess. The transportation of a num-
ber of individuals was spoken of.
Contradictory rumours were in circulation. It
was said that a Neapolitan general had been cap-
tured by the insurgents; that the seat of Govern-
ment was about to be transferred to Messina ; that
the disembarkation of several insurgents had re-
stored courage to the others; and that the garrison
of Palermo, although numbering nearly 20,000
men, apparently feared to proceed into the interior.

MADRID, MAY 2.

A decree granting a general amnesty has been
published. Count Montemolin and his brother
Ferdinand will take their departure from Spain.

The Cortes have been convoked for the 25th o:
May.

THE NEW PORTUGUESE MINISTRY.
LISBON, MAY 2.
The new Ministry has been formed as follows :
President of the Council .. Senor Aguilar.

Viscount da Luz.
Senor Vargaz.

Senor Cazal Ribiero.

A letter from Vienna, dated April 30, says :—ln I
a letter of the 27th inst., which contained the official
account of the circumstances connected with Baron
Bruck's death, attention was specially directed to
that part of it in which it was the question of the
probability of a speedy confrontation of the deceased
Minister " with other witnesses and persons
accused." Those persons whose education enabled
them to form an opinion on the subject understood
the official writer to say that Baron Bruck had been
at one and the same time a witness and a person
accused, but the Wiener Zeitung now informs the
public that the compositor committed a blunder
when he united the preposition "2/tit" with the sub-
stantive " Beschuldigte." In the manuscript the
passage run thus :—" It appeared probable
that Baron Bruck would soon be confronted
with other witnesses and with persons ac-
cused (mit Beschuldigten)." The inhabitants
of this city are now divided into two parties,
the one of which believes that the late Minister of
Finances was guilty of embezzlement to a very large
amount, the other that no heavier charge can justly
be made against him than that he was too good
natured—too ready to oblige the men with whom
he had been on intimate terms while a merchant at
Trieste. Although a man of rare energy, Baron
Bruck was totally unable to say nay to animportu -
nate suitor, and this weakness was taken advantage
of by many of his designing and greedy acquain-
tances and hangers on. Another of his charac-
teristics was want of due consideration ; in fact,
the inconsiderateness of the Minister of Finances
was almost proverbial. In financial circles it is
related that the value of the property left by
Baron Bruck does not exceed 600,00011. One or
two of the local papers yesterday asserted that
the analysis of the contents of the stomach of the
deceased statesman had already begun ; the state-
ment was incorrect.. The chemists commenced
their operations this morning, and it is pro-
bable that the rosult will be communicated
to the Court ofJusti,:te to-morrow. By the Medical
Gazette of yesterday we learn that Baron Bruck
suffered greatly on the 23d inst. from spasms,
violent pains in the abdomen, frequent sickness, and
great difficulty of respiration. During the greater
part of the day the u nhappy man gave short though
collected replies to the questions put to him by the
members of his fat oily. To one of them he even
expressed his regret that he had laid violent hands
on himself.

General von Bened ek is doing all in his power to
place himself on a friendly footing with his fellow-
countrymen and to win their confidence. Soon after
his arrival at Pestat he called on Baron Gabriel
Pronay, the acknowledged leader of the Lutherans,
and the day befor. yesterday he paid a visit to
Countess Antonia IBatthyany, the widow of the
President of the H angarian Cabinet in 1848. On
his first arrival in the Hungarian capital the Com-
manding General es .pressed a wish to become per-
sonally acquainted m ith all the civil enzployes with
whom he was likely to be brought in contact, and
they, as a matter ,af course, waited on him. To
the German emplopes he said but little, but he
spoke in Hungarian.., and at some length, to several
of the Magyars. Itt his address to his subordinates
General von Bened ek said he loved his native
country and its inhabitants with all his heart, but
that in his capacity of Commanding-General in
Hungary he should recognise but two classes of men
—the class that was loyal and obedient to the Em-
peror, and the class that was not. The gallant com-
mander then said that he would, if necessary,
" break the neck' of any of his subordinates
who neglected the it duties. The Hungarians
know that Benedell: is an extremely resolute man,
and they believe tl tat he will execute to the very
letter any orders he may receive from Vienna.
While the Government is trying to come to an
amicable understanding with the Hungarian
nation, the inferL pr authorities in Hungary are
doing all in their pi nver to widen the breach between
the Protestants and their Sovereign. M. Zsedenyi
is treated like a common malefactor at Caschau.
He is allowed lib. of bread a-day, and meat once
a-week. If he can manage to make friends with the
physician it may per haps be ordered " for sake of his
health," that he shF .11 have meat every second, and
breakfast every dal!; bat at present the spokesman
of the K arsmark 13:,:otestants is in some little danger
of dying of starvation. A person who has just come
from Caschau states that the Roman Catholic bishop
and the chapter wished to visit Zsedenyi in prison,
but were unable to obtain admission; M. Maday, the
clergyman, has not surrendered himself to the
authorities, but lie has sent to say that they can
" drag" him to prison whenever they please. M.
Maday has been deprived of his living by the Impe-
rial authorities. "M. Daroczy, the Calvanist clergy-
man in Kaba, has been sentenced to pay a fine of 50f1.
or to be imprisoned for a fortnight. The flock have
offered to pay the money for their shepherd, but the
latter appears to have made up his mind to suffer
imprisonment for conscience sake.