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organization in its stead of a general system of extra-
mural interment, at least until the middle of the next
session. Such a delay it was intimated must prove
most detrimental to the interests of the population,
and most injurious to the health of the inhabitants
of the metropolis. Now, any reasoning of
this kind appears to us to be of a most
suspicious tendency. It strikes us as being
equivalent to saying, " Make haste with the present
measure, hurry through with it, no matter how ob-
jectionable its clauses, or how dubious the nature of
its provisions—better to blunder into a rapid altera-
tion of the existing arrangements than to tarry ano-
ther month, or it may be another year, in the work
of sanitary amelioration." Advice of this description
and to such advice the speeches of the Prime Minister
and of the Home Secretary necessarily re-
solve themselves, appears to our thinking
very discreditable both to the judgments
and to the principles of our Legislators.
Any delay, in short, is preferable to a precipitation
by which, according to the very judicious opinion of
Lord DUDLEY STUART, the dogmas of political eco-
nomy might be set at naught, and the laws of con-
stitutional freedom be, in several important instances,
abrogated. We appreciate to the full the wit of the
remark made by Sir ROBERT PEEL—to the effect
that the transmission of the Bill to a Select Commit-

tee, would be one of the most extraordinary cases
of extramural interment ever heard of—a humorous
phrase which naturally gave rise to a considerable
amount of laughter—but we cannot in the smallest
particular coincide with the Right Hon. Baronet in
the opinion that the House itself was the most com-
petent authority to decide upon the questionable
clauses of the proposed enactment. The extreme im-
patience evinced by the Members almost immediately,
after that assertion was made, by the ex-Premier suffi-
ciently indicated that, in the opinion of severel
of its Members, the arrival of the dinner hour
was, in their mind, of far greater importance than
the scrutiny of a Bill by which the popular privileges
might be very injuriously affected. In fact, the
readiness evinced late in the evening to hurry as
fast as possible over the most intolerable of all the
many intolerable clauses in the Ministerial measure
sufficiently showed that the mass of the representa-
tives present were not the best qualified persons to de-
cide upon a proceeding requiring so much earnest
attention and scrupulous deliberation. So hopeless
appeared the labour of opposition, in consequence of
this most culpable indifference, that even Mr. DUN-
comun, a man not very easily disheartened, was com-
pelled at the very outset to throw aside his series of
objections and amendments.
Petitions were presented prior to the commence-
ment of the discussion on Monday night, and speeches
in accordance with those petitions were delivered
strongly in condemnation of the centralizing tendency
of the Bill and of the shameful and shameless con-
cessions made in it to the clergy of the Establishment.
The measure was opposed by Lord DUDLEY STuAnT
and by Sir BENJAMIN HALL—those two Members
thus giving expression to the sentiments entertained

by their constituency of Marylebone. Mr. LUSLIING-
TON and Sir DE LACY EVANs, in the name of their
constituent 3 of Westminster, opposed it ; Mr.
BE3NAL O:4BDRNE, the Member for Middle-
sex, opposed it ; Mr. MASTERM AN, the Mem-
her for the city of London, opposed it ;
Mr. THOMAS DONCOMBE and Mr. TnomAs
WAIKLET, the Members for Finsbury, opposed it;
Mr. D'ErNcouaT, the Member for Lambeth, opposed
it—all of them energetically. Only Sir WILLIAM
CLAY, the representative of the Tower Hamlets, and
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, the Member for Mid-
dlesex, were found, amongst all the metropolitan
Members, to come forward with very qua-
lified commendations of the proposed enact-

meat. Disagreeing somewhat in the rather droll
opinion expressed by Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, to the
effect that the health of the people was a matter of
greater importance than their morality, we coincide
most thoroughly in all the other observations eon-

tamed in the speech delivered on Monday evening by
that Liberal and Gallant Representative. One part
of his observations, in short, appears to us to be de-
serving of a very attentive reconsideration, and cf a
very sedulous remembrance. It was where he
said—

He gave credit to the Government for the principle
of the measure, but he mus t object to most of the de-
tails ; and he would take the pre4ent opportunity at
stating that there was one man who had been treated
most intemously in connexion with this matter—a man
who had devoted fifteen years of his lire, and much of
his property, to the promotion of the object aiwtd at in
the Bi!t—he meant Mr. Walker.—(Hear, hear.) An-
other individual, Mr. Chadwick, got the whole credit,
while Mr. Walker, the original pioneer in this question,
was coolly thrown overboard.—(Hear, hear.) Ito would '
ray, however, that if they were to have a commission
at all, he did not see a man better fitted to serve upon it
than Mr. Walker; but he (Mr. Osborne) was fortified in
the view ho took of the Bill, by the fact that that gen-
tlemen regarded it as in many respects a very objection-
able measure.—(Elear, hear, and cheers.")
Nor would it seem that the disrelish of the pro-
jected enactment entertained by Mr. WALKER,
is without the cordial sympathy of that very
large and very influential portion of the coin-
munity—the Dissenters. Turning for informa—
tion upon this head to the able monthly organ of the
Dissenters; the Eclectic Review, we find in the cur-
rent number of that periodical a very careful

analysis of the Government Interments Bill, in which
the objectionable clauses (already so often referred to
and specified in our own columns),, are severally par-
ticularized and commented upon in terms of stern
and resolute indignation. So earnest indeed is this
indignation on the part of the organ of the Dissenters,
that the last article in the last number of the .E' clectic
Review is thus emphatically brought to a conclusion :
" The only mitigation of our disgust lies in the fact
that, while the Established Church meets us as a stolid
obstacle in Every path of moral, political, and spiritual
progress, so every subject on which thinking men
ponder, leads them, like CATO of old, to the monster
evil. Delenda et Carthago. The State Church
must be destroyed.' Such is the character of the
opposition roused by this most injudicious scheme of
the Administration; an injudicious scheme, as inju-
diciously approved by the Parliament. We have al-
ready explicitly revealed our own sentiments upon
the measure. We shall now watch for its conse-
quences.

It is by no means surprising that the landed pro-
prietors of Ireland should feel discontented and dis-
satisfied at the working of the several Acts for the
relief of the destitute poor in that country. How-
ever essential these just and salutary enactments
might be to the great body of the people, to the pre-
servation of the lives of the thousands and tens of
thousands, we fear we might add millions, who must
have perished miserably but for the assistance
to which they thereby became entitled, they un
questionably pressed with great severity upon
the owners of real estate. For three centuries they
had been exempted from the burden to which their
English brethren had been liable under the 43d
Elizabeth, c. 2. The aged and helpless pauper had
no claims to subsistence out of the land on which he
was born, and in the cultivation of which he had
been exclusively engaged while in the enjoyment of
health and strength.
He might linger out his
wretched existence, deriving a
precarious sub-
sistence from t
those whose
condition and pr
he
oslanehestristy weorfe but little
had no certain
esorhtisto Oiwnnhis übtumtoshts
extremity. There
shelter better
to thanr
hohnais andevanced could demand as a
years and declining
twheeraesnsiosntaen
cferowmhiel,
of
strength so urgently demanded. He
might
in a Christian country without anyman, or
body starve
men, being responsible for his melancholy fate.
In 1838 this blot upon the national character was
partially removed. An Act was passed for the relief
of helpless infancy and infirm age. But this enactment
FM of the most limited character ; it prohibited
assistance under any circumstances of suffering or of
sickness, however urgent, except within the walls of
the union workhouse. Although willing to give his
only capital—his labour—for the
ns scantiest
relief.
iie support,lvas
i
th© able-bodied pauper could receive
excluded from the benefit of the law, which, so far
as he was concerned, was practically a dead letter.
2d Victoria, c.
The rates collected under the let and
56, were, comparatively, not amounting to an average
of the country,
of 5,1. in the pound on the real property
one moiety of which fell upon the occupiers and the
other on .he r 1.7. Su,ll P. t, r';;;/-It
proved sufficient under ordinary circumstances, j
although many philanthropists protested from the

very outset against the stringent restrictions which
prevented the beneficial operation of the new law.
But when an extraordinary exigency arrived, when,
through the mysterious visitation of PROVIDENCE,
there was a failure of the potato—the staple produc-
tion of the country, which has been well described
as " at once the food and the currency of the people"—
the deficiency of the existing law became but too
painfully apparent. Under such circumstances the
Imperial Parliament and the inhabitants of this more
favoured island came nobly to the rescue. They did
not desert their afflicted and suffering brethren in the
dark hour of distress, but voted from the national
Exchequer, and collected by private subscriptions,
sums which nothing but the extent of the emer-
gency could justify. There was a total disregard
of self, a lavish prodigality, which, under other cir-
cumstances, might be censured, but which will render
the account of the proceedings during the " Irish
crisis" the brightest gaga in the history of Great
Britain.

When the first pressing difficulty was thus over-
come, it became manifest that sonic large and com-
prehensive measure should be carried sufficient to pre-
vent the probability of the recurrence of similar
events. The Poor-law Extension Act of 1847 was
alike demanded by justice and expediency. It was
happily described, we believe, by Mr. Ponlarr
SCROPE as " a just and righteous attempt to secure
a sufficient share of the land's produce for, at least, the
bare subsistence of the poorer classes of the popula-
tion." It declared that the " poverty of the country
should be a charge upon its property," that the poor
of Ireland should thereafterbe supported permanently
by the land. This salutary law had, as we have
stated, been in orwration for nearly three cen-
turies in this part of the United Kingdom,
and it still bore heavily on some parts of it,
but in Ireland it pressed with peculiar weight on
those who had for the first time to sustain an enor
mous burden, greatly aggravated by the peculiar
state of affairs. It increaged the difficulties with

which the owners and occupiers of land had to con-
tend, preventing the former from providing for the
heavy encumbrances fur which he was liable, and
dirniniihing the means of the latter to satisfy his
rent and ordinary rates and taxes. No adEquate
steps were taken to mitigate or diminish the burden,
and the New Poor-law was regarded by many as
the "last straw that broke the camel's back."

The Act of lnst year (12 and 13 Vie., c. 104) ef-

fected some slight improvernmtg, but its principal fea-
ture, that which limited the amount that could be
levied on any property, was unfortunately rejected by

the house of Lords, and in some localities—those

which era termed par excellence " the di,,tres3ed
unions"—the charge was still sufficiznt to absorb the
entire produce of the soil.
Under such circumstances, then, we cannot

fe-.4 astonished at the motion last night

brought forward by the Honourable G-,n-
tleman the Member for Roscommon, calling upo❑
the House to return to the principle of the A-;t of
183 S, and condemning some of the &tails of the
system under which what has been f:lt as a serious
grievance by the landlord class had occurred. The
motion was rejected—justly and properly rejectu,l,
but every allowance must be made for the irritation
of those who endeavoured to reduce the amount of
the burdens under which they are sinking. The
Poor-law Act in Ireland is, however, an im-
perative necessity. There can be no retrograde
movement. We ars no admirers of " out-door relief,"
but the power of affording it should be granted
whenever the exigencies of the case demand
such a step, and also the power of appointing
" vice-guardians" whenever the more constitutional
bodies, the elected and ex-qffic, io guardians, neglect or
refuse to discharge their important duties. Let the
friends of the Irish proprietors then exert themselves
in procuring for these parties the means
of enabling them to meet their responsibilities and
fulfil the obligations imposed on them by law. In
that attempt they will be sustained by the voice of '
public opinion, and receive the sympathy and assist-
ance of all classes of the people. But let them not
enter upon the hopeless task cf seeking to repudiate
a liability to which they are justly subjected by
Divine and human law, or of striving to induce the

Imperial Parliament to sanction a retrograde and re
action ary policy.

GRAND INSPECTION OF TEIB HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.
—An inspection of the Coldstrelm, Scats Fusilier, and Gre-
nadier Guards took place this morning on the Grand Parade
facing the Horse Guards. Shortly after ten o'clock the
ground was taken, and the tr 0133 were minutely in-
spected by the Colonels of the different regiments. The
inspection was ordered to afford the Nepaulese Princes an op-
portunity of witnessing the appearance of the British troops
in review order. His Highness the Nepaulese General was
delighted with the appearance of the Guards, and at the
conclusion of the inspection desired his thanks to be con-
veyed to the officers for their kindness, and his admiration
at the precision with which the men went through their
movements.

REVIEW OF THE 2D LIFE GUARDS IN HYDE-
rAruz.—(THis DAY.)—This morning, at eleven o'clock, the
2d regiment of Life Guards, three hundred strong, marched
from the Albany•stret t Barracks, to Hyde-park, fcr a field-
day. The Mirquis of Londonderry, the Colonel of the
regiment; accompanied by his Royal; Highness Prince
George of Cambridge, Major-General Brotherton, Inspector••
General of Cavalry; attended by his Aide-de-Camp, Captain
Ibbetson ; and many officers of the Household Brigade
mounted, arrived on the ground at half-past eleven, and the
Prince was received by the band playing the National
Anthem. The members of the Nepawlese Embassy, in full
uniform, were present in an open carriage, and attracted ge-
neral attention. Colonel McDouall then put the regiment
through the usual cavalry movements, which they executed
with great precision. One man in the first squadron was
thrown and slightly hurt. The review terminated at a
quarter to one, when the regiment returned to barracks.
The Marquis of Londonderry will give a grand dinner to the
officers this evening.

REPRESENTATION' OF CORK.—RETIREMENT OF MR.
FAGAN.—The Cork Examiner announces the intended re-
tirement of Mr. Fagan, the Member for Cork, from the re-
presentation of that city, as soon as the new Franchise Bill
shall become law. The cork _Examiner adds—" We think
that Mr. Fagan ought to be asked to reconsider the suffi.
ciency of the reasons which have led to the resolution in
question, and that such a demonstration of opinion should be
made upon the subject that, if be adhere to his determina-
tion, and withdraw from Parliament, it will not be for want
of an enthusiastic and honourable appreciation of his services
and independence. Mr. Fagan has proved, perhaps, the best
of all the Irish Members.

GRAND SWIMMING MATCII.—Last evening a grand
swimming match between two members of the Holborn
Swimming Club came off, in the presence of a numerous and
fashionable company, at the National Baths, High Holborn.
The race was six times the length of the bath, and for 351.
aside. At starting, owing to the betting being nearly even,
the greatest excitement prevailed. Of the two candidates,
however, Mr. David Young, who has been in training for
some time past, under Mr. George Pewtress, the champion
of England, was slightly preferred, and some of his backers
dared to bet sto 4 that he would come in winner. Mr.
Harold Kenworthy acted as umpire, assisted by Mr. Heclg-
man, the worthy proprietor of these excellent swimming
baths. The start being effected both set off in gallant style,
Mr. Davenport for the first two lengths slightly keeping the
lead. At the third turn, however, Mr. Young, amid loud
cheers, shot ahead, and came in an easy winner. Mr. George
Pewtress and Mr. H. Kenworthy then entered the water and
exhibited their extraordinary evolutions to a delighted as-
sembly.

LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS FOE CUBA VIA THE
UNITED STATES.—The following notice was issued yester-
day at the General Post-office :—" Information having been
received from the Postmaster-General of the United States
of the establishment of a regular communication by packet
between Charlestown and Havannah, letters and newspapers
for Cuba may be forwarded from this country to the United
States and thence to Havannah, by the United States
packets, if specially so addressed. The postage upon letters
sent via the United States to Cuba will be Is. 4d. when not
exceeding half an ounce is weight, 2s. 81. when above half
an ounce and not exceeding one ounce, and so on according
to the scale for charging inland letters, and newspapers will
be liable to a charge of 2d. each. The postage upon both
letters and newspapers must be paid in advance. All cor-
respondence for Cuba not specially addressed to be sent via
the United States will continue to be dispatched by the West
India packet of the 2d of each month."
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose embarked at
the St. Katharine's Wharf this morning, on board the Ge-
neral Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Triton, for
(Mend.

The Countess Borcbe and suite embarked at Lon-
don-bridge Wharf this morning, on board the General Steam
Navigation Company's steam-ship Seine, for Boulogne.

A MAN SUMMONED FOR NOT MAINTAINING A WIFE
AND SIX CHILDREN ON 7s. A WEEK.—A poor man, with
the appropriate name of Bones, was summoned for allowing
the guardians of the Wormingford union to maintain three
children of his wife by a former husband. In defence, the
man said that his earnings were only 7s. a week, and he
found it impossible to maintain eight people on that sum.
He had been nearly starved in the attempt, and at last took
three of the children to the union and left them there. The
workhouse had been offered to himself and family, but he
declined to go into it. The Rev. J. R. Smythies said that
the parishioners of Wormingford ought to pay better wages
than those of any other parish, because the land in it was so
superior. The fact of the man having it dislike to go
into the union was a proof to him (Mr. S.) that he was an
honest and industrious man; as to his supporting eight people
on 75. a week, it could net be done, and he would never sign
the loan's conviction except unon mandamus. The case was
then dismissed.—Essex Herald,

THE WEATHER.—The mean daily reading cf the
barometer at the Royal Obzervatorv, Greenwich, was above
in. on Wednesday, Friday, and -Saturday, on which last
(lay it was 30.179 in. ; the mean of the week was 29 895.
mean I,:m7ratnre in the '8 Oecr. 2 min,, rtt
higher thdu In the titine weeis oa all averdge 01 sevui years.
On Thursday it was lower than the average, and on the two
following days it was respectively 5 deg. and 2 dog. above it.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journala of yesterday.
M. Lourtroer, the Democratic Member for the.
Department of the Cher, has resigned his seat, for the
purpose of putting the new electoral law to the test.
The L?gitimat'ists have been, as we stated yester-
day, completely tricked by the Orleenists into giving
their support to this law. They at length perceive that
they have fallen into a trap, and are now as bitter
in their denunciations of the Orleanists as they ever
have been in their denunciations of the Socialists.
The Univers and Opinion Politique declare that
nothing but the restoration of legitimacy will bring
back peace, and denounce the revolution of July, 1830,
as a greater crime than that of February, 1848,
while the Gazette de France offers a bidding for
popular favour by declaring that HENIII V. will re-
store universal suffrage, which the Assembly has just
destroyed.
The Assemblee Nationale openly preaches civil war.
and boasts of the aid which, in such a case, the Roy-
alists would receive from Russia.:

It is said that the Assembly will be prorogued in
July.
A supplement of the Moniteur Algerien of the
25 th ult. gives details of the engagement in which
General DE BAERAL received the wound which re-
sulted in his death. On the 21st ult. the General,
after being delayed three days by torrents of rain,
marched from DjerrienAa el Biylik, near Trouna,
against the tribe of the Beni. Lime]. As he expected,
he found 3,000 Kabyles prepared for resistance ;
they were placed on a line of rocks, between which
and the General there were ravines, in which only
one man at a time could penetrate. The General
arranged his plan of attack, and himself marched at
the head of the troops against the enemy. As he was
proceeding he was struck in the breast by a bullet. He
was able to remain on horseback until Colonel DE
LOERMEL came up and received the command
from him. Colonel DB Lounmer. then proceeded with
the attack, and eventually the French, cavalry and
infantry, were able to rush on the Kabyles; and, not-
withstanding they were met by a discharge of mus-
ketry, they completely routed them, killed 200, pur •
sued the enemy for six hours, and finally set tire to
their villages. The French had only 13 men
wounded, and 2 horses killed. The next day the
Beni-Immels demanded the amen, and the Tifras anti
the Aid-Ainems,, who had been in insurrection for
two years, also made their submission. The bullet
was extracted from the wound of General DE BAItRAL,
and the General was conveyed to Bougie.
The illonitmr Alr,erien gives details of other
military movements in different places, but they
are not of general interest ; they are, however, on
the whole, ferourable to the French. This journal
announces the sudden death at Fez of Bou HAMEDI,
ex-Kalifa of ABD EL-ICADER ; it was said that he
had bee❑ poisoned. His decease had caused great
terror among the Algerine families established in
Morocco. A great number of them, comprising about
1,500 individuals, residing at Fez, or in the vicinity,
had applied to the French Consul at T►ngiers to be
allowed to return. Fifty families of the Beni-Amers,
who had emigrated to Ouchda, in Morocco, with the
add EL GuENNACEI, had, in consequence of this,
returned tc the French territory, where they were
divided air.orgst the different fractions of tile Beni
Amer Garabas.

The Assembly yesterday rEjPoted the proposition
for levying a stamp duty on the transfer of public
stock by 326 to 302. A proposition was laid on the
table for increasing the salary a the PRESIDENT of
the Republic.
A consieetabla quantity of husiners was trans-
:le...el at tn, Bourse, and a further risa took pllce
is the pried of Government Stock. The Five per Cents.
opened at 91f. 60c., and rose to 95f. 25e., at whieh
price they closed; the Three per Cents. closed at 59f.;
Orl-ans Railroad Shares. 762 f. 50c.; Rauen, 552 f. 50,,,.;
Havre, 2:10f.; Great Northern, 451 f. 25.%; Avignon,
180 f.; Vierz 3-18". 75e.; Basle, 107 f. 500.; Bordeaux,
390 f.; Paris and Strashurgh. 338 c. 75c.; Tours and
Nantes, 221 f. 25c.; the New Roman Loan, 78f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 4.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), l3%—llutch
Rhenish, 2%—Great Indian Peninsula, 51—Northern of
France, 137,(3 Orleans and Bordeaux, 2% —Paris and
Roma, 21 —Rouen and Havre, 0.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 30:h ult. have arrived.
They contain no news.
The Bolsa was closed on the 30,b.