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the fends which terminated at the deaths of the reci-
pients, and whether the Government intended to
put an end as speedily a: possible to this absurd
system of taxing the people of this country for the
preaching of all sorts of religions in every part of the
world. In this vote he found for the Bishop of Montreal
1,000/.; for rent of Protestant barial-ground, 201. odd;
for the Rom to Catholic Bishop of Newfoundland, 300/.;
for foreign missionaries of the Society of the Propaea -
lion of the Gospel in Nova Scotia, 3,2021.; for the mi-
niseer of Prince E award's Island, 100/.; for the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Quebec, 1,0001.; various sums for
Presbyterian ministers, aed various similar items. He
would not move the rejection of the vote, because there
might be circumstances connected with particular items
rendering it impossible to abrogate the aggregate
amount; but he asked the Hon. Under-Secretary to
make a clear staeement to the Committee, that should
show how long these votes were to last, and whether
there was any chance of getting rid of them.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
when the Honourable Member had esked aim a question
the other night, he had explained the reasons for it
being impossible to make such a general statement.
With respect to the vote before the House, the arrange-
ment that had been made some time ago was, that the
votes should be continued during the time the existing
incumb-ance last d; and that when a person bolding
office died, no further demand should be made.
After a fey words from Mr. HUME,
Mr. BRIGH r said he wished the 'tight Hon. Gentle-
man would state when this bargain had been made, and
by whom. The conditions of such items as the rent of
the Protestant burial-ground and others had not been
explained, and he thought that if the Government were
to institute an inquiry, they would be able to g-t rid of
a great deal of tine expense. Nothing could be more
scandalous to us than that we should be paying this
money, or more humiliating to those who received it.
Mr. AGLIONBY said ho was not goiisg to oppose the
vote of 3,0621. to the foreign ministers of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel; but be should like to
know what had been done with the money, aed whether
the vote was likely to cease ?
The reply of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER was not audible.
Mr. BRIGHT would like to know if the Government
themselves received proper accounts of these claims, and
whether care had been taken that some of the grants
had not lapsed, and that no sons or relations of the same
name were receiving a dead man's allowance.
Alter a few words from Mr. MACGREGOR and Lord
J. MANNERS, the vote was agreed to.
The next vote proposed was 14002/. 16s. for the In-
dian department, Canada.
Mr. HUME objected to the vote, and said if the Com-
mittee would support him he would vote against it.
Mr. COBDEN observed that the late Mr. Charles
Buller—no person being inure competent to give infor-
mation of the truth—had more than once complained of
the evil effects of this vote.
Mr. MACGREGOR trusted the Government of Ca-
nada would put an end to these presents, but as the ar-
rangements had been made for making these presents
this 3ear, he would not object to it.
Mr. HAWES thought that those who objected to the
vote were not aware of the alterations that had recently
taken place; the money was given for schools. He hoped
the House would nut object to the vote.
Mr. BRIGH —There must be some unsatisfactory
matters in the back-ground of which they were not
aware, and hoped the vote would not be proposed on a
future occasion.
Mr. AGLIONBY observed that although it had been
said that the sums were devoted to schools, that did not
appear on the face of the vote, for it was put down under
the head of " Presents to Indians."
Mr. HUME hoped they would receive as assurance
from the Government that the vote would not again be
brought forward.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER quite
agreed that a great deal could be said against this vote.
—(Hear, hear.) He was not going to conceal it, but at
the same time he did not think the House ought to ex-
pect him to give a promise that no vote for the purpose
would be taken next year. They should remember that
it was to semi-barbarous tribes those presents were
given fur retiring from the hunting grounds. He pro-
mised, however, to make a representation to the Go-
vernor-General of Canada on the subject.
Mr. BRIGH r asked why the people of Canada would
not take this vote upon themselves? As the people of
Canada were enjoying the hunting-grounds of the
native Indians, they should make compensation to them.
After a few words from Lord D. SMART, the vote
was agreed to.
Mr. BRIGHT begged to know if it was the fact that
the same person was the Bishop of Montreal, at a salary
of 1,000/. a year, Archdeacon of Quebec at a salary of
5001. a year, and Rector of Quebec at a salary of 400/. a
year.—(Bear, hear.)
Mr. HAWES said that formerly the Bishop of Mon-
treal had 3,0001. a year, but the present Bishop only
received 1,9001. a year, which comprehended the 1,0001.
a year, and 500/. and 4001. for the deanery and rectory.
A sum of 290/. was voted far the charge of the Bahama
isles.
It was proposed that a sum of 18,0281. should be voted
for the salaries of governors and lieutenant-governors of
the West India islands.
Mr.'HUME proposed that the vote should be post-
poned. With the reforms now going on they should pay
their own expenses.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
that this was not the time for pressing too nardly on the
West Indies. _ _ .

Mr. BRIGHT thought it would not be difficult to
economise considerably with respect to thosa islands.
The islands might be so that they could have one go-
vernor for three or four islands.
The vote was agreed to.
It was propose i that a sum of 41,150 L should be voted
to defray the charge of salaries, allowances, and con
tingencies for the stipendiary justices in the West Indies.
Mr. HUME could not understand why this vote was
continued.
Mr. HAWD3 thought his Hon. Friend must be aware
that the vote had been annually agreed to sinco the
Emancipation Act. Under those valuable officers the
administration of the law was now on a satisfac-
tory footing, and the removal of those stipendiary
magistrates would be considered a loss by the colonists.
Mr. HUME said it was perfectly well known that
those magistrates were appointed on the passing of
emancipation, to see justice done between the newly
emancipated negroes and their employers; but now every
individual there was as much under the protection of
the law as if he were in England.—(Hear, hear.)
The vote was agreed to, the House resumed, and the
Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit
again.
The second reading of the Crime and Outrage Act
(Ireland) Bill was postponed till Monday.
The General Board of Health (No. 2) Bill was read a
second time. _ _

The Incorporation of Boroughs Confirmation (No. 2)
Bill was read a third timo.

The Appointment to Offices, &c., Bill was read a se-
cond time. _ _

The Bills of Exchange Bill was real a second time.
The Highways (South Wales) Bill went through Com-
mittee.

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The Weights and Measures Bill, as amended, was con-
sidered, and the amendments were agreed to.
The Attorneys' Certificates Bill was read a second
time.
The Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill was read a
third time, and passed.
THE WRIT FOR CHESTER.

On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was
ordered to be issued for the city of Chester, in the room
of Sir John Jervis who had accepted the office of steward
of the Chiltern Hundreds.
The House adjourned at a Quarter p ast One o'clock

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 12.
STOCK ERMA/MR.—The market was firm to-day, and
the principal business done was in Great Western and Taff
Vale lines. The only alterations in prices we have to notice
are—Great Western, :)8%—Taff Vale, 133—Ditto, New
Quarters, 5/6 p.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 12. _

STock Excrie;cl;.2-The share market was dull to-day
at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 363/—Ditto, Fifths, 9% dis.
—Ditto, Preference, 12%—London and North-Western, New
Quarters, S 4 p.— Midland, 34—Ditto, Erewash Valley, 5714
—North Union (A), 237—Shrewsbury and Chester, Pre-
ference. guaranteed 8 per cent., 12,8 York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (Original N. and B.), 14 13-16—Dublin and Bel-
fast Junction, 32% dis.
MANCE:TESTER, JULY 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day,
the amount of business being small, and chiefly confined to
local lines, without any material alteration in prices The
transactions were as follow : Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Ditto, 32/. (late Extension), 9% n. dis —Ditto ( West Riding
Union), 7 1-16 dis.--Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
15%—Ditto, Preference, 81/s dis. _ _ _

BIR6II-NdrilAM, JULY 12.
STOCK E ACHANGE. —Business in this share market stilt
continues inactive, but generally prices remain unaltered.

YRK, d'uior 11.
STOCK ExCRANGE.— OTlae transactions to-day were as
follow :—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, N. Div., guaran-
teed 5 per cent., 18—York and Newcastle Extension, 9%.

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looking exceedingly well, and that he took •
an active part in
the proceedings of the House.
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for years with a liver complaint. His medical attendants,
after trying all their skill, candidly gave their opinion that
his case was hopeless. In this situation, and when expecting
that every day would terminate his earthly career, a friend
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He adopted the advice and found a speedy relief from taking
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—Sold by all vendors of medicines and at Professor folio.
way's Establishment, 144, Strand, London.
THE DIRECT EXETER RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the
Master in Chancery Brougham granted his certificate to
enable the directors charged in this concern to procee' with
their case upon appeal, refusing for the present to disallow
the facts put in against the directors, or to grant payment of
costs. Mr. Bagsbawe, on behalf of Mr. Sharp and the four-
teen other directors, offered to pay the only proved debt
against the company of 71. 25., and contended that the official
manager had no locus stands to entitle him, under the Aet,
to bring any charge against the directors. His Honour over-
ruled this, and gave a certificate of the facts.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF DESIGN.—Last night
Mr. Wornutn delivered a highly instructive and interesting
lecture, iu the lecture room of the Government School of
l)esign, Somerset-house, on the ornamental arts of the eras of
Pallaio, Louis XIV., and Modern Munich. The room was
crowded by an attentive audience, who evinced throughout
the lecture the deep iziterest they took is it,

THE LITE SIR ROBERT PEEL.
Last evening a meeting was held in the gardens of
the Belvidere Hotel, Pentonville, of the subscribers to
the monument proposed to be erected by the working men
of England to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel.
In the absence of Mr. J. Home, M.P., who was to
have presided on the occasion, the chair was taken by
Sir Joshua %Valmsley, M.P. The meeting was com-
poled almost exclusively of mnhanics and working men,
in very numerous assemblage, who testified by earnest
and repeated bursts of feeling their admiration of the
services and their regret for the loss of the late lamented

statesman.
The CHAIRMAN, having apologised for the absence of
Mr. Hume, said that he had consented to take the place
of that gentleman for the purpose of expressing his
anxiety to do justice to the memory of that great de-
parted statesman, whom it was the desire of every
Englishman to honour—numerous acts of whose life had
made his name distinguished not only among English-
men, but among all the nations of the earth.
—(Elem., hear.) Amongst tire measures brought
fore and by the late Sir Robert Peel, almost all i f which
deserved the approbation and gratitude of his country,
there was one which more than any other merited their
best acknowledgments he alluded to the repeal
of the taxes on the food c-f the people. (Loud
cheers.) They must think well ef this groat act—(Ap-
plause, and cries of " We do")—which required for its
ace .mpliehment a nerve and it finitude such as few pos-
sessed, and which obliged the distinguished man who
carried it out to tear himself from friends and associates
with whom he was c inflected, and the political party
with which he was united for a long series of years, and
to take an adverse policy, which he saw to be absolutely
necessary for the interests of the great mass of the peo-
ple.—(Hear, hear.) He would not dwell further on
the political events of the life of Sir R. Peel, but he
would congratulate them on the feeling which seemed to
pervade the whole country, the desire that was manifested
from north to south and from east to west of raising some
testimonial to departed worth.—(Hear.) It was exceed-
ingly gratifying to know that this was not a movement
which was confined to the friends and political supporters
of the late Sir R. Peel, but that it was a great, extensive,
and national movement.—(Hear.) That day it was
proposed by the First Minister of the Crown to give a
public monument, emanating from the House of Com-
mons, to the memory of the departed statesman; but
that would not be the greatest memorial which the
nation could bestow. The pence of the great mass of
the people would form a prouder monument to his
worth; and he (Sir J. Walmsley) sincerely trusted that
they would send in their pence, not by hundreds, or by
hundreds of thousands, but by millions, and that the
result would be such as to present to other public men en
induce :sent to exert themselves as that great man had
done in advancing the interests of the working classes of
the peop'e.--(Loud cheers.)
The lion. Secretary, Mr. DOWNES, then read letters
from several noblemen and gentlemen, apologising for
their absence from the meeting and expressing their
willingness to become patrons or subscribers to the
fund. Amongst other names were those of Lord John
Russell, M.P., the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Dunferm-
line, the Marquis of Donegal, Lord Cornwallis, Sir J.
Graham, Mr. E. Gladstone, Sir J. Duke, Mr. T. Dun-
combo, M.P., Mr. Cubist, M.P., &c.
Mr. G. THOMPSON, M.P., said he had come to the
meeting without premeditation or preparation, but he
felt rejoiced to find himself among those who, sinking the
recollection of those odious lines of demarcation that too
often separate men by name between whom there was no
essential difference of principles, bad come there to pay
a generous and well-deserved tribute to the memory of a
devoted and exalted statesman.—(Hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) Within the last two days there had been laid
in the tomb, by the side of his father, without pomp,
without parade, ostentation, or vain glory, a man who,
he hesitated not to say, had accomplished, during the
brief period of bis life, as large an amount of good for
the people of this country and the world as ever was
effected by any man who aspired to be a benefactor of
mankind.—( Applause.) On that subject there was no
difference of opinion.—(Hear, hear.) To that great and
good man—good because privately virtuous, and great
because publicly useful—to that good man, now resting
in the chambers of death, might be applied the lines of
one of the best of English poets—
" So sleep the good who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to dress their hallowed mould,
She there shall deck a sweeter sod,
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod:
By fairy bands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
There Honour comes a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there."
There were two spectacles which to his (Mr. Thomp-
son's) mind were equally noble. The first was that of a
man abandoning ease and those inclinations which a
cultivated taste may have given him fur the purpose
of devoting himself to the great object of advancing
the real and permanent interests of the nation to
which he belonged. We had had many such men,
who had spurned ease when they might have enjoyed
it, who had not used their fortunes in self-indulgence
as they might have done, or revelled in those pleasures
which their wealth commanded, but had consecrated
their powers to the persevering endeavours to ad-
vance the prosperity of the people amongst whom they
lived. Sir Robert Peel was a man who exhibited this
noble spectacle.—(Bear, hear.) He bad tastes, refined
tastes, which he did not fail to gratify, but never at the
cost of neglecting his public duties. He loved retire-
ment and the society of those who were gifted and great
like himself, but he never, through the period of forty-
one ye as, exhibited a propensity to gratis), those tastes,
or indulge in those enjoyments, at the sacrifice of the
duties of his public station —(Hear, hear.) He (Mr.
Thompson) was not there as the apologist of all the
-acts of Sir Robert Peel—(Hear, hear)—or for the pur-
pose of eulogising his conduct at every stage of his long
political career; but if he committed errors, now that
they %ere standing upon his ashes, and had no object
to gain by his disparagement, and could not be accused
of doing him injustice, let them look at the circumstances
its which ho was placed.—(Hear, hear.) Granted that
he erred—that he chose a wrong side of politics in his
early life—that he attached himself to bad associates—
that he might have done better if he had joined the
Whigs in 1810—yet let them not forget what was
his parentage, who were his youthful associates, what
were the objects of ambition presented to him; and
his natural predilections as to the means by which he
could seize upon those objects of political aspiration.—
(Hear.) But in proportion as they censured those errors,
in the same proportion were they bound to give him
credit for quitting those paths, for shaking himself loose
from the trammels which confined him, and nobly re-
solving to be guided by no other princip'e than that of
the public good.—(Loud applause.) [The Chairman
here suggested to the speaker that he should avoid
making allusions to party politics.] He (Mr. Thomp-
son) thought he was avoiding politics. He was drawing
them away from questions of piny politics, and fixing
their attention upon those characteristics of Sir Robert
Peel which deserved the admiration of every political
creed.—(Hear.) Take him for all in all, Sir Robert
Peel had not left a man behind him worthy to fill his
place. He was a master, not an apprentice —ho
was a proficient, not a bungler.—(Applause.) Point to
any one of the measures he ever introduced—like a
statue of Phidias, it was perfect in itself, and any man
who took up his apprentice chisel to improve it, only
succeeded in marring it. He never introduced his mea-
sures without having fully matured them, or providing
machinery to carry them out, and without enforcing
them with arguments irresistibly operating in their fa-
vour. Unlike the measures of other statesmen, which,
when laid on the table, were like carrion which obscene
birds fixed on and tore to pieces, those of Sir Robert
Peel were either to be received or rejected as they were
—common men did not dare to call in question the wis-
dom which originated, or the talent which elaborated
them.—(Hear, hear.) His (Mr. Thompson's) friend in
the chair had alluded to that great measure of Sir
Robert Peel's for the liberation of the commerce of this
country from those unnatural and injurious restrictions
with which it had been previously fettered. Our chil-
dren and our children's children have yet to learn the
real worth of that measure. When the genius of history
should take up her pen in after times to inscribe the
names of those who have done most to unfetter industry
and to take off the dead weight from the springs of en-
terprise, she would place near the head of that illustrious
list the name of Sir Robert Peel.—(Applause.) But they
must not separate that measure from the circum-
stances under which it was brought forward, and
the sacrifices—he might almost say the sufferings—
which it entailed on the great man who originated
it. Sir Robert Peel, being of a reserved manner,
though of courteous demeanour, was not in the habit of
making known to those about him the state of his mind;
but having alienated a great party—having originated
feelings of almost hate, where feelings of professed
friendship previously existed—having converted into
open foes those who had been his warmest supporters—
and having found himself excluded from office by an act
which ought to have recommended him to his Queen as
her best and most faithful adviser, he must have suf-
fered to a degree which no man can adequately con-
ceive but one who like himself had climbed the ladder
of political favour, and who then, by some noble but
unappreciated act, had been cast to the bottom, and
found himself trampled on by men who were not worthy
to loose the latchet of his shoe.--(Loud cheers.)
He (Mr. Tbompsom) bad said that there were
two noble spectacles—one was that of a great
man with distinguished talents devoting himself
to the service of his country. The other noble spectacle
was this—when a nation, after having beheld the career
of a man like Sir Robert Peel, and bving participated
in the advantages of his acts, came forward to raise a
contribution to his name, and subscribe to a monument
to his virtues.—(Applause.) He (Mr. Thompson)
doubted not but that millions, hearing of what they had
done that night, would be prompt to follow their example,
and pour in a tribute of admiration to the public services
e;la:els:sprrurhsitvaaatiiaed Robert a
great
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private worth
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of Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Thompson
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than concluded, amidst loud applause, by moving the
following resolution:—
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the afflicted
Is yof the departed statesmen an expression of their
sympathy and condolence in the bereavement they have
sustained."
The motion was seconded by Dr. DROWNLESS, and
carried unttnina ouilY•
The next res elution was moved by Mr. HARRIS,
seconded by Mr. P. F. James, andG.
unanimously
" That it is t' ae opinion of this 'meetingarrte thenattonat:
large, in the I emented death of Sir Robert Peel, has lost
one of the firs t statesmen of the age and the man above
all others wh t,
at the personal sacrifice of the support
and esteem of many of his friends and associates, was
nerertheleo A 4ble and wiling to carry out large manna