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London, England, 1861-06-06 00:00:00

nical defect that had been started by the railway com-
panies.
Mr. SCULLY said the previso was slipped in last year
in a very objectionable way. It was openly withdrawn in
the house, when the subject was under discussion, and it
was slipped in again when the bill was passing through its
final stage.

Mr. _IDY objected to the proviso, and expressed his
surprise that the former act contained a somewhat similar
enactment.

Sir M. VETO thought it perfectly futile and ridiculous
to imagine for a moment that tramways between two towns,
connected by railway, could successfully enter into compe-
tition with locomotive power.
After a short discussion, in which Mr. Beamish, Mr.
Butt, and other hon. members took part, the proviso was
agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reported.
THE GALWAY CONTRACT.

On the motion for going into committee of supply,
Col. FRENCH took the opportunity of denying the
statement which had been made on the eve of the division
on the budget, that the Irish members had asked the
noble lord the First Lord of the Treasury to receive a de-
putation of them in order to intimidate the Government.
The noble lord had stated that Father Daly told
him that he had no authority to make such a request, but
he seemed to have an impression that that gentleman had
some authority, and Lord John Russell had stated as much,
and that circumstances had influenced many gentlemen in
opposition, and caused more than 16 members to abstain
fro voting against the Government. He emphatically
denied that the Irish members had sought in any way to
indirectly influence the noble lord at the head of the
Government.

Lord PALMERSTON said that the statement of the
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mu
be tm that be,r
gallant member was unnecessary, afterflkorrr. Daly bad n o audio-
asiiimrifolar disclaimer
ing.had beTenhemreadoeoublyd thhee
n 0
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city to make any such offer.
Lord NA.AS said he felt great pleasure •
that this subject
was at an end. (Hear.) He, however, regretted that the
noble lord had not asked Mr. Daly whether he
had
any
authority to make the proposal. He would not
at that moment enter into the subject of the Galway con-
tract, because he felt certain that that subject must be
brought under discussion at the earliest possible opportu-
nity.
Col. DUNNE denied the statements that had appeared
in some of the daily journrls, that Irish members generally
were influenced in their conduct by corruption. He begged
to say that they were no more influences by those motives
than any other member of the house. He could not help
saying, with reference to the Galway contract, that if the
Government intended to open that contract to comFetition
it would never be completed. He thought that the parties
under the Galway contract had been very unjustly dealt
with. He did not complain of the Postmaster-General
withdrawing the contract; but what he did com-
plain of was the conduct of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, who, for sixteen months, so acted with
with respect to the subsidy in a manner that rendered a
breaci of contract inevitable.

Mr. GREGORY denied emphatically the statement
that the Irish members had determined to tamper with the
Prime Minister, and to make terms for their support on a
recent division. He believed that the indignation was
simulated by themselves for party purposes, and it was
to be regretted that the strategem had succeeded. He had
voted against the Government on national grounds, and
his vote was intended as a vote of want of confidence.
Sir G. LEWIS said he should not have risen had it not
been for the remarks of the hon. member to the, as he
called it, simulated indignation of his noble friend the Sec-
retary for Foreign Affairs. His noble friend's remarka
were dictated by an impression that prevailed, from a state-
ment that had appeared in the early part of the day, that
Government had entered into a compact relative to the
Galway contract. His noble friend's indignant denial
was not only not simulated, but indispensable to
the vindication of the personal honour of the members of
the Government.

Mr. V. SCULLY said the reports which the Govern-
ment complained of were circulat -_,sd by their own friends
for the purpose, in which they succefded, of securing votes
in the division that was to be taken in the evening.,
He must say that it appeared to him that the noble lord
thought it would be far more suitable to him, speaking of
his political sagacity, to remain in blissful ignorance of the
proceedings of Father Ds'y. The noble lord could easily
have ascertained whether or not Father Daly had any autho-
rity to make proposals, had he ask d him, but it did not suit
his pm pose to do so. With nsprct to the Galway con-
tract he could only say that before it was entered
into he, in company with his then colleague (Lord Fermoy),,
had repeatedly waited on Sir S. Cunard to induce him tr,
direct his vessels to touch at Cork, and it was only wh'Jn
the Galway contract was entered into that he d;d so.
After a few observations from Mr. O'DONOUP,HUE
the subject dropped.

CAPTAINS ON THE RESERVED LIST.
On the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair for the
purpose of going into committ:e of supply on the navy
estimates,
Mr. B. COCHRANE rose and moved the following re-
solution :—" That the captr;ns of the royal navy, who were
placed on a rNerved Fs distinguished from a retired
list, on account of the,: having E :Tv; I long and well,
in aLcordrrue wit'A orders in cor-icil, of the 25th
day of June, 1831, e 'd the COth day o 2 January, 1856,
have g_ eat rea, 3n t compla'n that the a, fan gement entered
into a ith the Board Admiralty hes not b:en fairly car-
i:ed out, and I."‘at the iniustie3 with which these officers
have hren tr:i' d ;g most prejudieal to the public service.
Admiral WALCOTT seconded the r; solution. ii
thought the reserv- I cap' &ns had full came to complain
of the injustice that had b -;:n done them, and ho trusted
that rremb3rs of the House of Commons would not allow
old and meril;ol:ous officers to be so treated.

Lord C. PAGET said he readily admitted the gi:evances
under which the officers laboured. The r( served list was
intended for commanders who had no prospects of active
employment, and it was intended to be raderstood that
officers accepting the reserve pay web not to rise in rank
simultaneously with those officlrs on fie active list.
After a few words from Major EDWARDS, the house
divided, when there appeared—
For the resolution
Against it
• • 27
Majority
—8
The house then went into committee of supply.
On the motion that £469,835 be granted for new works,
improvements, and repairs in yards,
Mr. HENLEY obj cted to the vote, because it had been
said it would lead to the outlay of £1,000,000 of money.
Lord C. PAGET rose to make certain explanations, but
the time for suspending debate has:ng arrived, the vote
was not proceeded with.
Some unopposed returns having been ordered, the house
adjourned at six o'clock.

TYRO WON AMERICAN INDEPEN-
DENCE, AND WHO WILL PREMFE IT?

Since the initiation of the American rebellion,
the leaders in the conspiracy have maintained
a system of such extravagant boasting that a
stranger might suppose that the " chivalry "
possess all the military skill and experience to
be found on the other side of the Atlantic, and.
that the United States Government was a
thing of Southern creation, existing only by the
kind indulgence of South Carolina and her
followers, A glance at a few facts and figures
will show how foundationless is the supposition.
At the time of declaring their independence,
the colonies contained a population of 3,247,000 ;
1,893,000 of whom were inhabitants of the sec-
tion now known as the New England and Middle
States, while 1,354,000 belonged to what are sow
the Southern or Slave-holding States. For
the War of the Revolution the New England and.
Middle States furnished 174,012 men, Massachu-
one out of
se t
sevensetts alone r supplyingo
p6u7l,a9toi
07n, giving. Thewhole :of the
Southern States furnished but 56,997 soldiers—a
less number than the Commonwealth (then colony)
of Massachusetts. During the whole of the revo-
lution South Carolina provided but 6,447 soldiers,
and Georgia, which, at that time, extended west-
ward to the Mississippi, but 2,097 Southern men.
The inhabitants of these States were so nearly
divided between their loyalty to the House of
Hanover and their support of the Continental
authorities, that had it not been for the enthu-
siasm of the Northern people, which led them
to make every sacrifice of blood and treasure,
the declaration that these " colonies are,
and of a right, ought to be independent," could
never have been maintained, and the signers of that
declaration, instead of being handed down to pos-
terity as the most unselfish of patriots would have
' been known and execrated in English history as
the blackest of traitors. Whatever may have been
thought at the time, of the ambitious colonies, it has
long been conceded that those communities justly
claimed a place among the nations of Christendom.
the commercial and manufacturing people
__
,os. the
That position was earned, for the most part, by
North, by the men whom the F. F... 1 e,a_ncdt
the " chivalrous" gentry of the Caro uu
and
traders"iwere pre-
served from the murderous scalping .
rifle or
t"odirateyspmiseechaansicsa," wrahniele tolleicalnow.ces ancestors
I Indian, and the more murderous ifs of the
the " tory"
the
_
marauders, by the fathers of the very men whom
1
they now look upon with
Having done but little i-,
with
h lofty contempt.
rearing the temple
of liberty, they
rash and sacrilegious
hands to overturn
sacred edifice, and to defile
the altar. Lightly ains e
they appreciated the benefit
these trying times, an inde-
pendent
ling into
or
of a free governmentbeing, and Wantonly
nation sprang
they now strive eto undo the successful labors of others,
sympathisers
continued faith ' •
in their cause, the
abroad, and no
instigators of the vile treason must go own,
it will continue to exist. Without
down to a sure but unenviable fate. As it was in
the days when
the colonies were struggling for
a noble birthright, and Won it in spite of the
domestic foes who found profit and support in the
swamps and on the savannahs of the South ; so will
it be in these perilous times, when freedom engages
in her second struggle for existence. The enemy is
of the same stock as was the worst foe then, and
fights with the same desperate and vindictive spirit.
And, as in the first instance, so in this—the enemy
of the American Republic must fall. Sooner or
later all those who have engaged to war against
free institutions on the Western Continent must
sink into ruin and disgrace. Apparent success
may attend their exploits at the first, but they
can never resist, with any chance of establishing
a firm foothold, a people who have a vow regis-
tered in heaven that the land that was purchased
by the blood of heroes shall not be polluted by
the feet of traitors.—London American.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT KENTISH-TOWN.
—Yesterday morning as a lahvarin g naan was passing
through Gaisford-street, Tz4ntish-town, in looking through
the carcases of 50u,....ew1y-built houses, he was asitonished
to gee the 1-19 of a man hanging between the joist is of one
Upper doors. He raised an alexm, and th e police
having cut the body down, Mr. Woolen, surgeollb seat
for, wlao pronounced life extinct.