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London, England, 1850-06-27 00:00:00

TITE.. SUN, , LONDON, PtitrliSD AY

iiN/YERIAL 'PARLIAMENT,

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Earl 01 HARR° WBY presented a petition
PETITIONS.
against infringement on the hours of factory labour,
fix, d I'D bouts in 1847.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition with a similar
prayer.
Earl TALBOT presented a petition from Kensington
against the erection in Hyde Park of the building for
the Exposition of 1851.
Lord BROUGHAM complained of the unsightly brick
building erected in the open space near St. Margaret's
Church, which he hoped was only for a temporary pur-
pose, but in finding fault with this they were straining
at a gnat and swallowing a camel, while they were au-
thorising the erection of a huge brick building in Hyde
Park. He should.either to-morrow or Tuesday giv e notice
of his intention to draw the attention of their Lordships

to this subject.
IRISH FRANCHISE BILL.
Lord STANLEY wished to know whether it was
the intention of the Noble Marquis to postpone the mc-
don for the commitment of the Irish Franchibo Bill,

which stood for to-morrow,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to
postpone the Bill to Monday, if the Noble Earl opposite
would postpone the motion of which he had given notice

for Monday.
The Earl cf HARROWIIY would postpone his mo-
tion for Monday, if the Noble Marquis would secure
hilt, some other day.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE would accede to the

troposal.
AUSTRALIAN COLONIES BILL.
Earl GREY would propose-to bring up the report o
.his Bill to-morrow.
In reply to Lord STANLEY,
Earl GREY stated that he proposed to omit those
clauses which related to the formation of a federal Go-
vernment.
ABOLITION OF THE OFFICE OF LORD-LIEU-
TENANT OF IRELAND.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented peti-
tions from the Lord Mayor, corporatien, and trades of
Dublin against the proposed abolition of the office ot Lord •
Lieutenant of Ireland, which he desired might be read in
ezeenso by the clerk at the table.
The retitions having been read,
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, after regretting
that the petitions had not been placed in the hands of
some Noble Lord more adequate to do justice to the sub•
ject, and stating that a considerable difficulty had existed
in inducing any other Noble Lord to present these peti-
tions, as several of them had refused to do so, proceeded
to move the following resolutions:-1. That to abolish
the office of Lord Lieutenant is contrary to the ex-
pectations held out by the statesmen who carried the
legislative union between the two countries, and
who declared that though her Parliament was re-
moved Ireland should still retain her Court. 2. That
if ever a period were inauspicious for say great chime e
in the accustomed executive of Ireland, it is at a time
when three years of famine have reduced her to the
utmost verge of despair; when large numbers of the resi-
dent proprietors are ruined ; when the burden of ties. poor-
laws is in operation; when the forced sales of estates is
carrying on; when a rebellion has tern only recently sup-
pressed ; when agitations of lend questions excite to
violence and illegal proceedings; and when the
great controversy of free trade and protection con-
vulses the agricultural interests of the country. 3. That,
considering Dublin is one of the handsomest cities in
Europe. and justly the pride of all Irishmen, with a p,
lation 4300 000. atrade improving between 1833 and 1848
from 600 to 980,000, end a navigation augmenting from
1843 to 1848 by 92 803 registered tens; that it is the
head quarters of a large army; with law courts presided
over by twelve judges, a high court of equity adminis-
tered by a Lord Chancellor, a college of heralds, an opu-
lent university, and an archiepiscopal see, and abounding
itself in scientific, literary, and charitable institutions ;
and considering that it differs from Edinburgh by being
separated from the Imperial metropolis by a beis-
serous channel, while it possesses a Privy Council
prepared to take all steps which a public exigency may
require, it eppears that Dublin is a capital cempetent to
give the civil and military direction which a crisis may
requre—a crisis which, notwithstanding the increased
facilities of communication, may demand instant and local
interposition, and which the office of Lord-Lieutenant,
now existing for upwards of half a century, has label to
been found able successfully to cope with and control,
As the brother of the statesman who had negr,ciated the
Union he felt bound to draw the attention of their lord-
ships to this subject. He had carefully studied
the debates which had taken place elsewhere, but
he had not found in them any sufficient argu-
ments to authorize the abolition of the office of
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The case of
Ireland was by no means a parallel case to that e,f_Scot-
la, d. Ireland was separated from England by the sea,
and if they deprived Ireland of the local administt atune
they would find themselves involved in difficul-
ties, particularly in time of war. (Bear, hear.:
He should like to know what was the opinion
of the illustrious Duke, on this subject he considered him
a much higher authority than Lord Somers or George
who were the only authorities quoted in favour of
this measure. Be knew not what necessity there could
be for a fourth Secretary, seeing that at present the
Lord-Lieutenant was subjected entirely to the control ot
the Home Secretary. What would have been the state
of Dublin two years since ;f they had not bad Lord Cla-
rendon there as Lord-Lieuteniant to take immed a,e
measures to prevent the city ft, m oneule, in spite of the
opposition of the Lard Meyor of Dublin? Was it possible,
he would ask. that an Under Secretary in Dublin, octiog-
uuder a fourth secretary in Loudon, could have acted with
such energy, or would have taken upon himself the re-
sponsibility of so doing. He objected to experine.ital
legislation, and this was merely experiments)
Then with regard to jibbing, that was the act not of
the Lord-Lieutenant but of the Minister of the day, and
would continue under the rule of the fourth Secretary
as much as it had done under the Lord Lieutenant. It
had been said that tho people of Ireland were
indifferent to this subject. It was true the
provincial cities had nut made any great de-
monstration, but the citizens of Dublin had done all
they con d against the Bill; and surely the loyal citi-
zens cf Dublin had claim ear the Government
of the country. This was only the first step, if
they took away ~the Lord Lieutenancy, they would
soon take away the four Courts and the loyal
Hospital. Then they talked about the Queen's
visit ; but they were legislating for posterity, and
it was mere cajolery to hold forth these royal visits ae
a substitute fur the Lord-Lieutenant's Court. How was
her Majesty to be received at Phcen x Lodge when there
was no Lord-Lteuienant there? The place would be
uninhabited; it was in itself a miserable place. Who
was to receive her Mwjesty there? It was preposterous
to talk of these morning calls as a substitution for the
Court of the Lord-Lieutenant. He would urge upon the
Government the necessity of appointing a Commission
to take evidence on the subject before they determined
to abolish the office of Lord-Lieutenant.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)
as,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER t. ok the Chair at Four o'clock.
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time and passed
Prussian Minister's Rvsidenee.

Timber Preserving Company.
The following Bills, as amended, were considered and
agreed to:—:-
&larylebone and Finchley-Turnpike-Roads. ---
Rochdale. through Bamford and Birtle to Bury, and
other Turnpike Ri ads.
The Manchester Bonding Bill was read a second time.

Mr. LABOUCHERE dfolined to g-‘e any pledge of
that fort, but he could positively state tha. he hscl no
apprehension of any such vote be ng asked for.—(010)
Mr. ROEBUCK confidering, this answer unsati:fic-
tory, f.eve notice that on the earliest possible day, he
should take the sense of the House upon the propriety

of destroying the parks.
COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
Lord DUNCAN wished to ask the Noble Lord (Lord
Eliringoti), the chief minister of sewers,—(A h)—
whethfr the print. d ruinu'es of the Commission+ rs of
Sewers were proper records of th,,ir proceedings, the
minute-book not having been entered up since Fe-

bruary last?
Lord EBRINGTON said he had been informed by a
barrister thattheprinted minutes would be good evidence

in a court of justice.
TWO SICILIES.
Mr. B. COCHRANE, seeing the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government in his place, wished to
ask him whether any correspondence had passed be-
tween her Majesty's Government and the King of the
Two Sicilies, not the King of Naples, on the subject of
some extravagant and absurd demands made by British
mi rchants in Messina.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that communications
had passed betwecn the two Governments, but as the
last dispatch intimated that the matter in dispute had
teen referred to arbitration the time had not arrived
when the papers could be laid on the table.
Mr. B, COCHRANE asked if any threat had been
held out to the King that the British fleet would be sent

to Naples ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said no such threat whatever had
been held out, but be must decline answering any
more questions on this subject, as the commu-
nications were going on with a friendly Government
upon claims that now appeared to be tair and just, and
these questions would only have the Effect of impeding
their recovery.—(Cheers.)
TENANT RIGHT- (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD intimated that he
wished to postpone further proceedings on this Bill until
Tuesday next, in the hope that some arrangement might
be come to with the Government respecting it.
AFFAIRS OF GREECE--ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Sir JOHN WALSH rose to resume the debate. He
said one of the advantages he had in addressing the
House on this question at a late stage in' the debate
Was, that he should consider himself exempted from
troubling the House with a recapitulation of the facts
involved in the question, which he might fairly assume
were fresh in the recollection of Hon. Members. He
had had the advantage of listening to the speech
of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, from one end to the other, and he
would frankly say he entirely disapproved of the
whole foreign policy of the Noble Lord. At the same
time be hoped the Noble Lord would forgive him for
rendering his (Sir John Walsh's) sincere and unfeigned
admiration for that speech, considering it us an effort ot
Parliamentary eloquence of a very high order. The
Noble Lord had complained that no Hon. Member on
that (the Protectionist) side of the House, had thought
it to be his duty to meet the 'resolution in the other
House by a similar resolution in this House. Hon.
M. mbers on that (the Protectionist) side of
the House thought that two alternatives were
presented for the adopion cf her Majesty's Ministers.
These were, either to have tendered their resignation
on the vote of the other House, or to have justified them-
selves by a counter-resolution in this House emanating
trom th-mielves or from some known supporter
of their pi Hey. It had been imagined by Gentlemen on
that side of the House that one 01 these two alternatives
must be followed. bat a third course had ben iound eut,
which the Government hid ad rpted that of donee nothing
at all. They nau left it to a geetlemair
who was not always a supporter of their p iney,
but occasionally found fault with merry perte of their
foreign policy, but who was-now prepared to vote confi-
dence in their policy as a whole. But there was one
point which this present resolution would no'
meet, and that was how fir it was the duty of
a Government to protect its subjects abroad.
He contended that the Government of this country should
adopt and carry out that great maxim of political as it
was of Christian morality—" Do unto others as eou
would have others do unto you." That in respect to
Greece we had neglected to adhere to that wise
adage, and had done what we should have
resented in the highest degree it directed against this
country. How should we like to set aside our own or-
dinary courts of justice, and establish other tritunals for
the express purpose of giving cempeneetien to foreign
subjects who felt themselves aggrieved? Yet the Noble
Lord (Lord Palmerston), who was supposed to be the
champion of liberal principles, who wished to be con-
sidered in all the states of the world as the defender of
freedom, came forward in that Houee, and in glowing
terms announced his conquest over a dependent and weak
state. The LI .n. Baronet then referred to the uses of indi
vidual injury and oppression which the Greek Govern-
ment had commuted, observing that in point of fact
there were only two instances where the Greek Govern-
ment had been culpable, namely in the treatment of the
loniens and the capture of a boat belonging to the Fan-
tome. The conduct of the Greek Government in both,
he thought, was justitiable.ai With respect to the boatmen
at Saleina, the Noble Lord seemed to insinuate
that the Custom-house officers were accomplices of
the brigands; but as that seemed to be only an
insinuation, he (Sir John Walsh) thou: ht he was en-
titled to assume that it was without foundation. Ile con-
sidered that the Noble Lord had tiff riled a very unsatis-
factory explanation as to the not laying on the table of
the fluti.e the documents on the arbitration between
Mr. Finlay and the Greek Government. He thought
that the Members t f 112 e House of Commons had a right
to e °rept:sin ot the suppreseio veriin that ease. With i espect
to the case of M. Pacitioe, it had been so much au verted to
in this debate that he should not think of d eellaig upon i,.
The Pacifico case was the first origin of all the subse-
quent troubles ; these-claims were tee foundation e f all
the great character which these transactions had assumed.
The Noble Lord was bound to have sati,fied himself on
the justice of these claims, but, as the blue book
showed, Sir Edmund Lyons was directed at the
first outset to send in Pacifico's bill in the usual form,
and to leave it to tt e Greek Government to object to she
items as they chose. He would nut go into the details
of the French di-puce, but he would just allude to the
most unfounded assertion of the Hon. and Learned
Member who opened the debate, that the French Go-
ver.euent had been actuated throughout the whole mater
with th • utmost bad faith. Russia, in these transactions,
appeared to be the champion of the freedom and inde-
pendence of small states, as the protec tor of the week,
and the opponent of arbitrary power, as applied
to international relations; whereas England, on the
contrary, with her great power and undoubtel su-
periority was heralded firth to the world
as a nation which arrogated to itself the right to enforce
demands of a very questionable character, which might
be made upon foreign states. The Noble Lord (Lard
Palmerston) bad resorted to the most unscrupulous
means in order to carry out his particular policy in re-
gard to foreign nations, and he had by doing so sown the
seeds of disturbance and revolution in many parts of the
world. The Noble Lord had always laboured under this
error; he constantly imagined that in fostering what he
considered liberal principles in Europe, he was marling
out and promoting something analogous to the glorious
system of English liberty; but it they traced the
whole history of his foreign policy, they would
find that that policy hid encouraged Jacobinism and
anarchy, which in the end led to a reaction; and thus it
turned out that instead t f the Noble Lord promoting the
cause of liberty lie travelled through anarchy and blood-
shed to military Government.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

and 'the condemnation of Archbishop Franzoni,
which the cardinal had protested against in
his last note. The Marquis d'Azeglio declares
that in the facts complained of by the Holy See,
" the action of the cabinet and of the different
powers of the State has been rigorously restrained
within the limit of their respective rights and
duties," and that "no other way was open
to uphold the former and fulfil the latter." He
further expresses a hope that the conduct of
the Piedmontese clergy will be such as "to avoid
placing his Majesty's Government under the disagree-
able necessity of obeying their duty in this respect,
from the fulfilment of which alone depend the respect
of subjects towards the authorities, their obedience to
the laws, and the order and tranquillity of the state."
The general tenor of the note is temperate and
dignified.

~THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF

THE AGE."
W e find in an American newspaper an article under
the above title, on an alleged discovery of a new mode
of decomposing water, and of obtaining from it the
means of illumination and of betting, at a cost so
trifling as must put a stop to the use of coal! There
is frequently so much grave vtaggery in American
newspaper-, that we are never quite sure whether K e
are reading a serious narrative or a clever joke ; but
the following article certainly doe/ not look like a
jeu d esprit. As to the amount of truth contained in
it, we must leave our readers to judge for themselves,
merely remarking that, if it is true, the discovery is
indeed "the greatest of the age."
(From the Boston Daily Transcript of the Bth inst.)
It all that has recently been said of the discovery, by
Mr. Henry M. Pains) of_the.decomposition of water, and
the production of an inflaminabbp gas, that is cafe and
easily managed, and can be auplied to dumtsic uses, be
true, then this must attain par eminence the rank we
have assigned it at the head of this article. A
couple of gentleman of this city, a teg dais since,
addressed a letter to Mr. Paine, _ making in.

guided on the subject of this gas. In reply, be
with much courtesy, invited them to come to Worcester,
where he would be happy to show its operation, and
give them any intimation they might desire. On
Thursday evening, Viese gentlemen visited Worcester;
and their report is, that they were well repaid for their
journey. They learned from Mr. Paine that he bad dis-
posed of the right to use his invention in the United
States to parties of gentleiteti in Buston and New York.
lie was very courteous, and gave the gentlemen all the
information he could, without infringing on the rights
of the new proprietors.
A fortnight since, he would have been pleased to have
shown the entire instrument; but as the matter now
stands, he did nut feel at liberty to show it. We un-
derstand that steps have been taken to secure patents in
Europe; and when secured, the right of use will be
offered for sale at a cost within the means of all.
Mr. Paine does not claim the discovery of decom-
posing water, which was known 65 years ago; hut he
does claim the discovery of a new principle of elec-
tricity, by which the decomposition of water is very
rapidly produced at a merely nominal cost. An
hour was spent in hearing kin; discourse upon
the subject, and, if all he claims for the discovery is
verified, it cannot fail to revolutionise many departments
of modern commerce. To see the purest flame, so clear
that the faintest tints of blue arid green can be readily
distinguished, and of such a peaty, that the eye is not
pained in gazing on it, certainly speaks well for the su-
periority ot the light. It burns with an even and steady
consumption, about one cubic feot in three or four hours,
sufficient to light a comaion-sized room. There is no
swell or smoke to the gas. Tine flame is opaque, and
the power of the jet tremendous.
During the lase- winter, Mr. Paine erected a light-
house upon a hill in front of his house, from which he
decocted the rae s, by a reflector, to a village opposite
Worte.ter, and one mile and a sixth distant in an air
line. The light was so powerful, that persons in the
village could read by it.
Another illustration of the character of this light is
in the fact, that an excellent daguerreotype has been
taken by it.
Mr. Paine exhibited the stove which warmed big room.
It was about 14 inches in di Am-ter, composed of two
circular pieces of sheet iron, between which a flame
issues, and the cold air rushing in, it gives foi th a most
deligh ful heat. The stove may be used for cooking,
and in fiet for all purposes, where heat and light are
recoiled. The entire labour required to make a day's
supply of gas for a common dwelling-house does not
occupy two minutes in turning a crank; and the ma
chine takes up about as much room as a common mantel
clock.
Writing upon this subject, Elihu Burritt, the learned
blacksmith,sais;—"Taere is not only a saving of ei peuse,
but of work, and the inconvenience and care of wood,
coal, and ashes, and the danger from fire almost corn
pleiel) annihilated. This is not supposition; we saw
the lights, followed the pipes to the cellar, and saw the
apparatus employed for the decomposition of the water;
and must say we can hardly find words to express our
astonishment at the simplicity of the machine, %Olen at
the same time we think of the greatness and grandeur
of the discovery. This must rank, if not above, cere
tautly equal, with the greatest discoveries and iinveti-
lions of the age. Wood, and coal, and oil, and fluid,
may all be disi,ensni with, by the use of Mr. i'aine's
appulatus."
Mr. 13urritt further says :—" Two jets such as • were
burning in his house, would be sufficient to light a ino-
tierately siz .d had every nigh', at an expense of the in-
terest en tie cost of the mitchme (about six dollars per
annum). with only the little trouble ot occasioually fill-
ing the cistern."
It is understood that Mr. Paige has disposed of his
proprietory right to his discovery for a sum], which Ina)
at first seem incredible; but a inomerh's consideration
will show that the-purchasers will have got a good bur-
g tin if all that is said of the capabilities and cheapness
of the light can be established. l'he terms of purchase
are reported to be five millions of dollars, half a million

down.
Mr. Paine is expecting a visit from the committee on
gas of our ci:y government at Worcester, to look into
this mater.