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THE -MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
(From the. Times.)
So Mr. Miles has carried his amendment upon the Govern-
ment proposal by a majority of 20. This is the fourth oc-
casion within the last three mouths' on which the Govern-
ment has been beaten by its usual supporters; and it be-
comes a grave question how,it will support these repeated
discomfitures. On the - Factory question it contrived to ex-
tricate itself with considerable loss of credit, both to itself
and its friends, by throwingits own existence into one of the
scales. It commanded the House to decide betweeri.accept-
ing its Bill and losing its somewhat imperious services. Sir
Robert Peel would not consent to hold offlei, if a measure
were passed destructive, as he declared it to be, to the very
existence of British trade. , This answered its purpose for
the nonce ; but such a menace, if at all capable of repetition,
is plainly inapplicable to the two questions by which he is at
present embarrassed. Deeply mistaken as we consider the
Premier's views oft he Factory question to have been, they at
least had the pretence of being "important if true." With the
convictions which' he professed on the question of industrial
freedom or slavery, ire can understand, though we grievously
lament, his having staked the being of his Government on his
ability to enforce them upon the Legislature. :Not so with
regard to Welch bishopricks or West Indian duties. We
have here a pair of questions, important indeed within their
sphere, deeply interesting to those who are immediately
concerned in theni, but obviously confined in their effect=--
obviously inoperative on the general course of Ministerial
policy. To constitute them matters of life and death would
be the mere undisguised despotism of office—would proclaim
a determination that what is called the Conservative party,
and every section of it, shall be allowed no word, or act, or
motion, but subject to the summary veto of the Prime-Minis-
ter. This might be pardonable in a man who had contrived
to unite half a nation in defence or development of a great
and overpowering principle. Mr. O'Connell may with some
plausibility require, as he does in fact obtain, such implicit
obedience from those who feel that his words and deeds are
the exponent of the one great idea in which their political
thoughts and aspirations are one and all centred. But
our. present Premier 1133, always cautiously shrunk
from committing himself to such a position as this.
The great problem which he has most ingeniously
solved has, been to weld together a mass of very heteroge-
neous material, without merging individual preferences, an-
tipathies, and theories in the absorbing pursuit of any one
great and common object. lie has succeeded in creating the
opinion that he is himself a good man of business, an inde-
fatigable, Minister, a respectable dispenser of patronage, a
dexterous Parliamentary leader, and' that a Cabinet formed
and guided by hitn-would be a valuable check and modifica-
tion of the tide of innovation which so many apprehend ;-but
he has not identified himself—he has never attempted to
identify himself—with the feelings or sympathies of his sup-
porters—he has used no arts of attraction —no efforts at. ap-
proximation. On almost all points he has cautiously avoided
declaring himself; and when lie has any measure to carry,
lie shrouds himself in iwenetrable mystery till the moment
when he lays it on the table of the House of Commons, and
tells his supporters that they must swallow it. From such a
position as this he has formed what is called the Conservative
party—a party united in the first instance by hostility to the
Whig Ministry and their Radical supporters, 'and kept toge-
ther we don't quite know how. He taught them to use their
strength in turning out their enemies. That purpose they
accomplished in 1841. lii that triumph the original principle
of union was exhausted ; and we find some difficulty in de-
fining the feeling or principle which, after nearly three years'
tenure of office, preserves to the party its present amount of
coherency. It does,. however, in some measure cohere; and
Sir R. Peel's Ministerial capacities constitute him (at least)
its most eminent member. We-do not mean this for praise
or blame. We apprehend that with some verbal alte-
rations, it would be admitted by the Premier himself as a
fair account of his own policy. But we say that a Minister
who has chosen to himself such a leadership -as this, has
no right to claim from his followers that sacrifice of indivi-
dual feeling and interestwhich is due to one who shares their
leading idea, or who has contrived to inspire them with
his. •We sacrifice our opinions to those who are more ex-
perienced, wiser; more influential than ourselves, only
when we know ourselves agreed with them in prin-
ciple, and because we trust their power and judgment more
thoroughly than our Own in carrying those principles out.
Sir Robert Peel does not teach—nay, does not allow, his
followers to assume such an agreement. He does not en-
courage them to rely on his sympathy—he shows none for
them—and he therefore must expect them to exercise their
own judgment. Men will not serve one who is himself un-
fettered. They will give him what he gives them—alliance
and co-operation, but not service. -The very necessities of
human nature require, that he should preserve their union
by showing in the details of his administration unusual ten-.
derness for their wishes, consideration for their opinions, re-
spect for their principles, and anxiety for their interests.
And now what has taken place in these two late instances of
'Parliamentary mischance ? Ministers, regardless of the
nature of their positibn and the composition of their party,
have in both attempted to ride over a body of their
supporters who had justice on their side. They seem
to have supposed that the malcontents were uninfluential,
and, right or wrong, could be put down. We cannot, indeed,
yet charge upon the Premier the full responsibility of what
has passed in the matter of Bangor and St. Asaph. " In-
discreet" things are, we know, sometimes said and done in the
Upper House, which he would scarcely adopt in full. Ob-
stinacy there has probably been somewhere among the heads
of Church or State ; but it cannot well be called consummate
till we have seen what happens in that Assembly which is,
after all, the moving force -of the nation, and where the
Premier will have to take the field in person. But the later
case of the sugar duties is embarrassed by no such ambiguity.
With this Sir R. Peel has made himself most distinctly
chargeable. The case has been brought before him clearly
—urgently—dispassionately. Men who may, if such a con-
sideration be allowed to weigh on a financial question, have
been the zealous and unvarying supporters of his party, and
(which is a more unimpeachable ground of argument) who
have been ruined by the legislation of the last few years,
have pleaded for justice to themselves—have petitioned
for no very extravagant modification of the blow which
he has announced his intention to inflict upon 'Omni ;
but Sir . Robert Peel, it seems, unlike Sir John
Falstaff, will concede nothing to his supporters,
except " upon compulsion"—he thinks it beneath the dignity
of a Prime Minister to withdraw'from:any fraction of a purpose
which has once been Ministerially promulgated. The dangers
to his own party—the dangers of division, alienation, and de•
feat—no inconsiderable addition to the fundamental argil•
ment from injustice—have been again and again brough
before him--

" Sed nulls ille movetur
Fletibus aut voces ullas tractabilis audit ;
Fata obstant, placidasque viriDeus obstruit aures."

Demanding, as he does, everything from them, he will
yield nothing to . their wishes. " The fates forbid." But in
this instance the fates have been unpropitious in their de-
crees. The experience of Lord Ashley's case has apparently
misled the Premier. He has been mistaken in supposing that
if he would not yield, his followers would. He has pushed the
question to a Parliamentary trial, and has been beaten—
fairly beaten. What may be the effect of this disaster we
cannot foretell. But it will not be useless to Sir Robert him-
self, if it teaches him that ho will sometimes provide better
even for his own dignity by consulting the feelings and
opinions of those on whom, after all, he is much more depen-
dent for support, than they on him for guidance.

(From the Chronicle.)
A great deal of excitement prevailed in political circles
througheut Saturday and yesterday, in conssquence of the
defeat of Ministers on the Sugar Duties Bill on Friday night.
A rumour was very current on Saturday that Sir Robert
Peel had determined to resign. And we believe at that time
there was some ground for this report. Two of the Minis-
ters,
however—Lord Lyndhurst and the Duke of Buccleuch
—were absent, and it was determined that they should be
summoned to town to attend a Cabinet Council, appointed
for yesterday. The Council met at four o'clock, and shortly
after its separation it was known that Ministers had deter-
mined not to resign. One of two other courses remained
for them to adopt. They might either propose to
rescind the vote of Friday night, or 'propose to re-
new the present sugar duties for another year. The
former was known to be hopeless. Even the threat of resig-
nation has lost its effect. ' " Let them resign and be Cob-
dened," is now the exclamation of the exasperated squire and
West India proprietor. There was no mistaking the cheer
that greeted Sir J. Rae Reid's honest denunciation at the
Downing-street meeting the other day. The only course
that remained was to propose the renewal of the present dit-
ties for another year. Against this Mr. Gladstone is said to
have warmly protested. It was only on Friday night he said
in his speech—" The Government might have ventured to
propose to Parliament again the renewal of the sugar duties
as they stood in the Bill of last year. Now, he did not think•
they could, in justice to the consumer, have made that pro-
position, and if they had done so, they would have taken a
very short-sighted view of colonial interests." In the face
of such a declaration, how could he support the proposition ?
We can easily fancy the derisive laugh with which his objec-
tion was met. It was unceremoniously overruled, and at the
Council last evening it was resolved to propose the renewal of
the duties for another year, and to accompany the proposi-
tion by a Ministerial explanation.
(From the Post.)
During the last eight-arid-forty hours the town has been
agitated with all sorts of rumours, for which we feel justified
in saying there is, up to the present moment, no other ground-
work than the fertile imagination of those who originated the
reports. Not only has it-been confidentially stated that Sir
Robert Peel has tendered his resignation to the Queen, but
that her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept it, and
to open communications with the nobleman destined to suc-
ceed the present Premier. Indeed, the imaginative portion
of the political world have been so industrious that we have
ourselves received more than one list of the new Cabinet.
We need hardly say that these stories are mere inventions--
mere experiments upon public credulity. We believe we
may state with some confidence that, at the late hour this
morning at which we now write, the Minister has not
tendered his resignation. The hostile division of Friday
night of course rendered Ministerial consultation neces-
sary ; and a Cabinet Council was therefore .held on Satur-
day at the Foreign-office, and remained in deliberation for -a
period of three hours. The Members present were Sir Robert
Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharneliffe,7 Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddiugton, Earl of Ripon, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and
Lord Granville Somerset.
It will not be expected that we should be enabled to say
what passed in the Council; but we have reason to believe
that during the evening of Saturday, a Cabinet Minister de-
clared the position of the Government to be "very serious."
That nothing definite was re-solved on up to that time may
not only be inferred from the declaration Just mentioned, but 1
from the fact that another meeting of the Ministers took
place yesterday at the house of the Earl of Aberdeen. It
would have been obviously premature to take decisive mea-
sures on Saturday or Sunday, when the whole of this day,
till the House of Commons shall meet, is still available for
consultation. The probability is, that the final determination
of the Cabinet will not be adopted until new deliberations
shall have taken place this forenoon, or after it shall have
been seen what course may be pursued in Parliament this"
evening upon the discussion of Mr. Miles's motion.
` (From the Advertiser.).
Ministers seem destined to defeals;and What is ektriordf-
nary, in every case of discomfiture, the opposition' proceeds
from their ova side of the House. The victory of Saturday

morning, which the supporters of Mr. Miles's motion
achieved over Sir Robert Peel, is one of very great import-
ance. The question was virtually made a Ministerial ques-
tion ; but the combined forces of the Liberals and of the
West India Planters—the latter influenced solely by per-
sonal considerations—proved more than a match fOr the
Government troops. It is supposed that Sir Robert Peel will
endeavour to persuade the Ilouse to rescind the vote of
Saturday meriting, and thus again stultify itself as it did OH
the Factory question. •Sir Robert had better not try this
game too often ; and above all, not in this ease. The present
is a question which touches the pockets of the entire country.
The result of the vote of Saturday morning will he to make
sugar a penny per pound cheaPer—which to the labouring
classes is a boon of -no inconsiderable magnitude. .To
attempt, therefore, to rescind the vote which the house has
come to, and thereby snatch that boon from their hands, the
Moment it was given them, would be one of the most inju-
dicious things which could be imagined. We are surprised
to find in the list of the minority the names of several free
traders. Every reduction of duty is a move in the right
direction, and consequently ought to be encouraged by the
free traders. .The more the amount of duties is diminished,
the nearer we approach the gaol of their entire extinction.
The debate and division of Saturday have given another
heavy blow to monopoly.

THE SPY *SYS' T En.
( From the Times.)
The conversation which took place on Friday evening, re-
lative to a petition presented by the Member for Finsbury,
has been described by some of our contemporaries as most
damaging to the character of the Ministry. It was so. It
was damaging to their character; and, as things have now
turned oitt, It maS'ilisole.ruirions to their 'Stability. If they
have determined on dissolving Parliament, this occurrence is
the most unfavourable by which their appeal to the hustings
could be preceded. When other taunts have been exhausted,
other accusations answered, and other recriminations ex-
changed, this reproach will still be urged against them, and
urged with effect—that they *ere the first Ministry of late
years that bad resorted to themeanness ofespionage, and con-
descended to pursue a policy at once unconstitutional, un-Eng-
lish, and ungenerous. Sir 1. Graham—the Minister solely im-
plicated in the transaction=did not affect to deny that he bad
issued a warrant by which the letters of a Mr. Mazzini were
detained at the Post-office. He pleaded guilty to this charge.
He avowed the issue of the warrant, but justified it by the
necessities of State policy and two statutes. His adherents
then attempted to suppress any further discussion of the
matter; but the House proceeded to express its general and
severe condemnation of such a system. And, truly, there
was cause for indignation. The Home-office was arraigned
for a treacherous breach of faith,which it was hardly credible
could be charged upon the English Executive. Hitherto, it
has been the peculiar boast of England that she is not as
other countries, that her citizens are not liable to the same
petty persecutions, the same rigorous police, the same insidi-
ous and incessant watching, the same dogging of their foot-
steps, opening of their letters, and prying into cabinets as
harass the subjects of continental States. But this boast
cannot now be uttered with justice. The _national prestige
has gone. The Home Secretary has not scrupled to order
that the letters of certain persons should be detained and
opened at the General Post-office. No man's correspon-
dence is safe. No man's confidence can be deemed secure ;
the secrets of no family, of no individual, can be
guaranteed from reaching the ear of a Cabinet Minis-
ter, and, worse than that, of a Minister's officials. The
apprehensions of commercial failures, the impending losses
in the share market, the anticipations of a rise or full in
prices—everything which to a mercantile community ren-
ders security, no less than facility ,of correspondence, a
matter of grave import—all these may at stated times be no-
tified to a Minister, and published to the world. But it is
said that great 'emergencies demand- the occasional exercise
of a power which, however despotic when carried to excess,
is nevertheless acknowledged by the statute law of the land.
True. It may happen that such emergencies require The
tension of executive authority. No one doubts it. And
when • such emergencies do arise, and are recognised by
public opinion, they justify the application of harsh mea-
sures. But this constitutes the very gist of our complaint..
No such emergency has been demonstrated. No case has
been stated. . The Home Secretary contented himself with
declaring, in general terms, that there were reasons for his
conduct. But the' House was not satisfied with this, nor
will the country be' so. We want facts and circumstances. '
We want such evidence as would' satisfy any reasonable
man or any set of men that the Home Secretary was morally
justified in the course which he pursued. The
whole question is' one of consitutional rights, and nothing
else. Mr. Mazzini's chlracter and habits and society are
nothing to the point, unless connected with some certain or
probable evidence of evil intentions or treasonable plots. We
know nothing, and care nothing about him. Ile may be
the most worthless and the most vicious creature in the
world. But this is no reason of itself why his letters should
be detained and opened. The only reason by which such a
harsh proceeding could be explained and defended—the be-
lief of some criminal design on .his part—was not assigned.
The Minister deprived Mazzini of his letters and his character
at once; but offered neither reparation nor explanation. The
world, therefore, is left to imagine every-Conceivable ground
of suspicion against a man who has been subjected to treat-
ment which nothing but the most extraordinary circum-
stances could palliate; and the most dangerous precedent has
been established of a Cabinet Minister stretching the prero-
gatives of his office even to the violation of honour and of
liberty, and then sheltering himself under an arbitrary con-
struction of a constitutional act. Such are the uses to which
responsible government may be turned. Sir J. Graham must
have been studying Vidocq and Fouche.
(From the Advertiser.)
The country is under no ordinary obligations to Mr. Dun-
combe for the spirited manner in which, on Friday night, he
brought the conduct of Sir James Graham, in authorising
the opening of private letters at the Post-office, under the
notice of the House of Commons. The parties complaining
of the opening and detention of their letters were only four
in number ; but it is not improbable that other similar cases
have occurred. The admission was wrung from the Home
Secretary, that in the case of Mr. Mazzini he had issued a
warrant to the Post-office authorities to open his letters..
Now, this individual being a foreigner, that circumstance
constitutes a material aggravation of the offence committed'
by the above-named functionary. It places this 'country in
the degrading position of playing the part of a spy and in-
former to a foreign Power. In this individual case the Home
Secretary appears in the enviable character of a police agent
to the Emperor of Russia. It is not pretended that the
letters of Mr. Mazzini were opened at the Post office in con-
sequence of a suspicion that something treasonable towards
this country would be found in them. The supposition was,
that they would be found to contain • treasonable matter in
reference to the Government of Russia. Sir James Graham
thus becomes the spy of Nicholas. It may be doubted whe:
timer Europe could produce .two more kindred spirits.
For the credit of our, country—for the honour of the
English name, let it be everywhere known that there
is not another man in her Majesty's dominions who would be
guilty of what Mr. Hume called the "disgraceful," and Mr.
Duncombe the "dirty" work, which the Home Secretary has
thus performed to the Emperor of Russia. It has always
been the boast of England, that the friends of freedom, when
driven from other countries by the bloodhounds of despotism
have ever found a refuge in England. Hence the exiles of
all countries flock in crowds to our shores. It the espionage
system introduced by Sir James Graham were to be sanc-
tioned or winked at by Parliament, this would be so no more.
We should no longer be able to boast of offering an asylum
to the proscribed patriots of other lauds. The only vindica-
tion which that functionary offered of his conduct was, that
lie had the authority of an Act of Parliament for what he
has done. The assertion is unfounded. No Act of Par-
liament Confers any such authority on the Home Secretary
or on any body else. It is true that, in the reign
of Queen Anne, an 'Act received the sanction of the Legis-
lature, empowering Government to cause any particular
letter to be opened by the Post-office authorities, pro-
vided Government were in possession of specific in-
formation which justified the belief that such letter contained
treasonable matter. But the present is not a case in point.
Sir James Graham did not, and could not, pretend that he
had in his possession any information respecting the letter of
Mr. Mazzini. It appears to have been a case of purely
gratuitous suspicion, and, consequently, an act of wanton
tyranny. To open any letter in the Post-office, is declared
by express statute to be, except in the particular circum-
stances to which we have alluded, a misdemeanour. It
would be a novel spectacle, and one as gratifying in this in-
stance as novel, to see a Home Secretary standing at the bar
of the Old Bailey. We should then have a practical proof
that Ministerial responsibility is something more than a
name—that it is not, as has hitherto been supposed, a mere
fiction, but an actual positive fact. That Sir James G senora
should have acte4 as he has done, can surprise no one
who has watched his career. There is not within the
confines of Europe a man in whose composition there is
more of the genuine despot. Our free institutions have
prevented the full development of -his real character.
In Russia he would have eclipsed Nicholas himself. He
would have been the prince of despots. As it is, he has gone
great lengths. What has his administration of affairs in the
Home Department been, but an uninterrupted series of ty-
rannical acts ? This last is the boldest of the series. It is so
gross and glaring, that not one solitary individual in the
House of Commons ventured a word in his favour. There
he stood like a criminal in the pillory, exposed to the pitiless
peltings of every Member who spoke. Nor is the matter
ended. He has but received a portion of his punishment.
Mr. Duncombe is to drag him a second time before the bar of
the House and the public, when the school-boy remark, " Hit
him hard—be has no friends," will, we doubt not, be again
strikingly illustrated. lie must be taught that the espionage
system of France and Russia cannot with impunity be at-
tempted to be introduced into this country. He must be
made to feel that the bare endeavour to engraft any of the
more odious features of the despotic systems which prevail
in foreign countries, on the free institutions of England, will
be to incur a responsibility of the gravest kind.

FATAL TERMINATION OF THE ACCIDENT AT THE
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, WAKEFIELD.—OR Sunday morning
last, Mrs. Haselgrave, the sister-in-law of the proprietor of
the gardens, whose injuries from the attack of a bear were de-
scribed in last week's Mercury, terminated her miseries in
death. The unfortunate female's recovery was thought all but
impossible from the first. Verdiet—Accidental death. Mrs.
Haselgrave, the wife of the proprietor, is recovering.—Leeds
Mercury.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday last, between
eleven and twelve o'clock, Mr. Webb, an independent gen-
tleman, residing at Langley, Bucks, entered the Uxbridge
Bank. He appeared in good health and spirits, and was con-
versing cheerfully with the cashier, when he suddenly fell to
the ground without an exclamation or groan. Mr.*Collins,
the cashier, was, unfortunately alone in the Bank at the time.
He immediately went round and endeavoured to raise and
re-animate the unfortunate gentleman, calling loudly for
assistance, but before he could get round the pay-table the
breath had departed. An inquest was held in the evening.
The deceased has left a widow and four or live children to
lament their sudden bereavement. The widow has been in
a most awfully frantic state ever since she heard of the
lamentable occurrence. She had walked a mile on her way
to meet Mr. Webb, who had promised to return in an hour,
when they were, in company, to proceed to Windsor to fetch
their sons from -nhool. -Every preparation had been made,
for a family festival on the occasion ; and after the unfortu-
nate lady had waited until her fears were becoming over-
whelming, the messengers of woe at last fell in with her.

THE MINISTERS.
MEETING AT THE CARLTON. H•
A meeting of Members of Parliament, who ordinarily vote
on the Ministerial side of the House, was held in the drawing
room of the Carlton Club, at four o'clock on Sunday afternoon,
pursuant to a requisition signed by five Members. Between
CO and 70 Members of Parliament were present, Sir John
Yarde Buller taking the chair.
Mr. D'IsRAEla inquired by what authority and for what pox-
pose the meeting had beets convened ?
Lord Isor.srnE replied that he, in conjunction with Mr-
Forbes Mackenzie and the other requisitionists, had thought
it advisable, after the vote of Friday night, that there
should he. a meeting, and had, accordingly, issued a notice '.
convening it.
- Mr. MACKENZIE added, that he was authorised to state.
that if the meeting then assembled would unanimously sign
a declaration of confidence in Sir R. Peel's Government,. ha
' would not resign office, but continue to conduct the affairs: of •
1 the country. , •
Mr. FERIIAND asked by whom the statement had
.been
authorised, and whether it was expected
.that the sixty
lConservatives who voted with Mr. Miles in opposition to the
1 Government on Friday night were expected to rescind their -
votes ? ,
Mr. MACKENZIE declined to answer these questions.
Mr. CuRISTOPHER, however, said that he was one of those - •
who had voted against Sir R. Peel on Friday; but hewas still
prepared to sign a declaration of confidence in the Govern.-
ment, rather than let in the Whigs.
Lord SANOON. prtifessed himself willing to simi a general
declaration of confidence, reserving to ,himself, 'however, a
right of private judgment. [ Such we presume as he exercised
on Friday.]
• it
HowAr.n DorGLAs was prepared to vote unlimited con- • .
fidence. _

Mr. I)I.ACKSTONM declined to support so extensive a.de-
clarstion.

Mr. Itt.AKENtonE said that the meeting was one of Con—
sets'atives, and he was surprised therefore at Mr. Perrang's
presence.
Mr. D'lstt.tmt challenged Mr. Blalemore to
of Conservatism, but Mr. Inakemore declined so embarrassing
a task.
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- Several members expressed their dread of a declaration of
" unlimited confidence,' as they were quite in the dark as
to the Minister's future measures, and knew not which inte-
rest might be next assailed.
The meeting, which was very noisy, and evidently, far
from unanimous, closed without coming to any decision, and
adjourned uutil 12 o'clock to-day. The question, how4cant
we meet our constituents ? was frequently and anxiously
repeated.

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• The principal Members of the corps operatique of.
Drury-lane Theatre—Miss Rainforth, Harrison, and Stretton
—proceed on a provincial tour early in the ensuing week,
commencing at Dublin.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. AND THE POLISH BALL.
—A misstatement on this subject having appeared last week
in the Standard, and been copied by several other papers, we
think proper to contradict it. It has been stated that the
Emperor of Russia offered a donation of 500/. to the Committee
of the Polish Ball, and that this donation was declined. Upon
inquiry we find that the story is without foundation. The
simple truth is, that the Russian Minister took tickets from
the Ladies Patronesses, as any other private individual might
have done, considering the Polish Ball as given merely for a
charitable purpose.—Post.
FRANCE AND Monocco.—Orders were received at
Woolwich Dockyard from the Admiralty, on the night of
Friday, requiring the Firefly steam. vessel, Captain Beech y,
to be got ready for immediate particular service. The Fircely
had not been reported ready for sea, and in the ordinary
course would not have been ready for a week ; but by dint of
great exertions of the officers, crew, and the dockyard men,
she was stored, provisioned, and actually sailed out of port
on Saturday noon. She is ordered to Spithead, at Which
place she will receive on board dispatches omitted to be sent
by the last mail-packet, instructing the British Consul at.
Tangiers what course to pursue in the rupture between France
and Morocco. After conveying them to Tangiers she is to
return home, or be otherwise disposed of, according to cir-
cumstances. Great credit is due to the Commodore Superin-
tendent of Woolwich Dockyard, Sir F. Collier, K.C.8., who
was on board the Firefly at four a.m. on Saturday, and per-
sonally superintended her preparations for sea.
Punuc PETITIONS.—The 29th Report of the Com-
mittee on Public Petitions has just made its appearance. We
find the gross total number of petitions to the House of
Commons on various important public measures to be as
follow, viz.:—Against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, 2,403
petitions,- signed by no less than 290,496 persons ; in favour
of the same Bill, 601 petitions, signed by 136,644 persons;
for an alteration of the measure, 864 petitioners; legalizing
marriages in Ireland by Presbyterian ministers, 412 peti-
tions, signed by 159,245 persons; against the union of the
episcopal dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph, 274 peti-
tions, signed by 15,613 persons; against a repeal of the
corn-laws, 1,878 petitions, signed by 128,093 persons; for
a repeal of the differential duties on sugar, four petitions,
signed by 66,434 persons; for the encouragement of art-
unions, 13 petitions, signed by 704 persons; in favour of the
County Courts Bills, 13 petitions, signed by 1,049 persona;
for an alteration of the l'oor-law Amendment Act, 70 peti-
tions, signed by 3,218 persons; for an alteration of the
Poor-law Amendment Bill, 30 petitions, signed by 10,392
persons.
SIR ROBERT AND LADY PEEL'S ENTERTAINMENT
TO THE KING OF SAXONY.--Sir Robert and Lads- Peel gave
a grand entertainment on Saturday evening to his Majesty
the King of Saxony. We believe the following is, an accu-
rate list of those persons eminent in science or literature who, .
Fogether with the inetueers of the corps dijilomatigue, had the
honour of meeting his Majesty :—The efarqyee of North-
ampton, l'resident of the Royal Society; MeeeMurchison,
President of the Geographical Society; Mr. Warburton, Pre-
sident of the Geological Societ v ;. Lord Prudhoe, President of
the Royal Institution; the Bishop of Norwich ; Rev. Dr.
Buckland, Professor of elineralegy and Geology, Oxford;
Her. Dr. Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge; Professor lle.nslow, Professor of Botany, Cam-
bridge; Dr. Daubenv, Professor of Chemistry, Oxford;
Mr. Airey, the AAronomer Royal ; Sir John Hers-
chell; Professor Owen, College of Surgeons; Professor Lind-
ley, Professors Braude and Faraday ; Dr. Paris, President of
the College of Physicians ; Sir B. Brodie ; Edward Forbes, Esq.,
Professor of Botany, King's College ; Dr. Royle, King's Col- • • s
lege ; Sir Wm. Hoeker; Sir M. A. Shee, President of the
Royal Academy ; Mr. Copley Fielding, Mr. Edwin Landseer,
Me Eastlake, Mr. Walker, President of Civil Engineers; Sir
John Rennie, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Henry de la
Beche, G. B. Greenough, Esq., F.R.S.; Sir Philip Egerton,
W. R. Hamilton, Esq, H. Hallam' ' Esq. F.R.S., Robert
Browne, Esq., F.R.S.; Sir Henry Ellis, Librarian of the
British Museum ; Rev. T. Forshall, Secretary of the British
Museum ; Edward Hawkins, Esq., Keeper of Antiquities in the
British Museum ; lir. Yarrel, Esq., C. Lyell, Esq. F.R.S., Mr.
Mantel!, C. Barry, Esq., R.A., W. Ilryon, Esq., C. R. Cocke-
rell, Esq. R.A., Dr. D. B. Reid, James Smith, Esq. of Dean-
ston, Samuel Rogers, Esq., Rev. Sydney SMith, Lord Mahon,
Sir I. Brunel, I. K. Brunel, Esq., Sir W. Symonds, J. R.
DPCulloch, Esq., J. M'Gregor, Esq., Sir R. H. Inglis.
FIRE AT RICHMOND.—SundAy morning, between
the hours of two and three, the neighbourhood of Richmond,
Surrey, was thrown into. a state of considerable excitement
and confusion, in consequence of a fire of a very destructive
character breaking out in the premises belonging to Mr. Ed-
wards, a pawnbroker, carrying on an extensive business in
George-street, Richmond. The police constable in going his
rounds, perceived a great body of smoke break thiough one
of the upper windows in the eastern portion of the building.
He raised an alarm, and succeeded in arousing the inmates,
consisting of Mr. Edwards and his shopboy. On the former
getting up, he found that the door of his bed-room was in
flames, and had but a few more minutes elapsed Mr. Ed-
wards would probably have perished. Engines of the neigh-
bouring parishes were early at the scene of conflagration,
and afterwards from London. The flames were eventually
so far subdued as to allay r.ll apprehension of further exten-
sion. The (image done is considerable. Nothing remains
of Mr. Edwards' premises save the bare outer walls, and
they are in a very dangerdus state. The premises of Mr.
Tolley, harness-maker to her Majesty, were partially injured.
THE
MEETING OF
TWOPENNY POSTMEN.—Oa
Sunday afternoon a meeting of the twopenny 'post •
men took place in the Assembly-rooms, Turnagain-lane,
Snow-hill, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of petitioning the Postmaster-General with respect
to the losses sustained since the alteration of the " extra"
duty, as also an increase in the amount of superannuation
money. There were nearly 400 persons present. Mr. Rich-
mond was called to the chair. Several of the body addressed
the meeting at great length, and a petition, it was agreed,
should be presented to the Earl of Lonsdale, to which will
be attached an abstract, showing the actual amount of pay
received by each person, before and since the extra deliveries.
REMOVAL OF DALMAS, THE CONVICTED MITE'.
DERER.—On Saturday, Mr; Cope, the Governor of Newgate,
accompanied by one of the principal turnkeys, conveyed 's
Dalmas, the convicted murderer, in a cab from Newgate to
Hors.emonger-lane goal, in pursuance of the directions re-
ceived by the Governor from Mr. Baron Gurney. • He was
delivered over to the custody of Mr. Keene. His execution
on the flat roof of Horsemonger-lane gaol will take place, it
is understood, on Monday fortnight.
THE GOWN OF PORTSOKEN WARD.—The name of
Thomas Johnson, Alderman of Portsoken Ward, having ap-
peared in the Gazette, in the list of bankrupts, the citizens of
London expect that the gown will be immediately resigned
into the hands of the constituency. They are led to this ex-
pectation by the fact that at the last election Alderman
Thomas Johnson promised, in the event of a failure in busi-
ness, or other incapacity, to retire from the duties of Alder-
man. The worthy old gentleman labours now, we regret to
say, under a double incapacity, for his bank at Romford will
not only be unable to pay two shillings in the pound of the
liabilities of the concern, but lie is unable himself, inconse-
quence of hardness of hearing, to perform the duties of Alder-
man with anything like efficiency. Already the following
gentlemen have declared their intention to offer themselves
for the office, in the event of the resignation of Alderman
Thomas Johnson :—Mr. David Salomon, Mr. Sheriff Moon,
Mr. Pitcher (one of the late Sheriffs), Mr. Bishop, of America-
square, and Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Commissioner
of the City police.
SYMFATHY FOR IRELAND. —ln the course of three
days thirty-three Aldermen and Councillors of the borough
of 'Birmingham signed a requisition to the Mayor, along with
acout 700 burgesses and other inhabitants, to call a town
meeting, to address the Crown in reference to the sentence of
Mr. O'Connell and his fellow martyrs in Ireland. This
spirited example will, we trust, be speedily followedthrongh-
out England. The meeting is to be held this day, under the
presidency of the Mayor.
THE MAILS.— SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 16.—The
Oriental Company's steam-ship, the Pacha, Captain Wilson,
arrived in the docks, from Gibraltar, yesterday, at noon, and
landed the Peninsula and Mediterranean mails, which were
transmitted to the General Post-office by train, so as to
enable those for the north of England to be forwarded by the
last night's mail from London. Her dates are—Gibraltar.
7th; Cadiz, Bth; Lisbon, 10th ; Oporto, 1 lth ; and Vigo,
12th. The Pacha has thirty-eight passengers, among whom
were the Duchess of Manchester and family, who proceeded
last evening to London by the six o'clock train. The Royal
West India mail-packet, the Tweed, Captain Sharp, will sail
on her outward voyage with the mails for the West Indies,
to-morrow, at three o'clock. She has about twenty-three
passengers, and an average number of parcels. The Avon,
Captain Sturtt, is due on the 20th, with the West India
mails ; she is expected to have a full cargo of passengers.
INAUGURATION OF THE WELLINGTON STATUE.
In consequence of the arrival of the splendid granite blocks,
some weighing upwards of two tons, and the marble base-
ment, for the equestrian statue of Field-Marshal his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, the chef d'reurre of our late tele-
brated sculptor Chantrey, a great number of men were hard
at work yesterday in preparing the pedestal to receive the ee
bronze cast of the Hero of Waterloo. It was very doubtful
whether it would be possible to have it erected by to-day,
the 29th anniversary of that glorious battle, which was e
the downfall of the ambitious and. immortal Napoleon, and eeeee
restored peace and commerce to Europe; but by the greatest ' eee)
exertions the statue will be placed up to-day, on the site s .
opposite the portico of the New Royal Ekehange, where once
stodd old Bank-buildings; end will be inaugurated with doe
ceremony, on Tuesday, the 18th institnt, by the Lord Ma,-or k 7
and-Corporation of the City of London, in- honour of the Feat
warrior of the age, who is the only one of the Holy Alliance
who now survives the scythe that has sent monarchs and
heroes to the tomb since June, 1815.—Sunday Times.

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The Blarqulis of CLANRICARDE said that the
letters which hafl olrened were the letters of a
foreigner, and he understood that they had been
opened at the auggestion of the Sardinian Minister in
this cotmtry.- If this
.;vere the case, he thought it
was an int(!rfarene2 which ought not to be tolerated.
lie thought they ought to know precisely what the
Itivs, Upon this subject is. •
• 'The Dulle of WELLINGTON said there WAS no
Found whatever for the rumour nhich the Noble
Marquis had advertel to.
ihe motion was then nqatived without a division.
PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the table a
Bill on the subject of Presbyterian marriages.
LIBEL BILL.
Lerd CAMPBELL postponed the second reading
n't the Libel Bill' till to-morrow (this day).
• POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
The Marquis -of CLA.NRICARDE postponed his
.motion, for Calling the attention of their Lordships to
the subject of Mr. Penethorn's report on workhouses.
in Irclanel, till Thursday.
.The Duke Of WELLINGTON said that Mr.
• renpthoru's report bad been referred to a Committee
a the other House of Parliainent in consequence of
946,3 letters haying been received, contradicting por-
--lions of the ,report ; and when the Committee had
zoneluded its labours, the Government would be pre-
pared to take sonic steps upon it.
6.',U.RCHARGES UNDER, THE COURSING

ACT.
'l'll, Dilke of RICHMOND moved for. the num-
,ber of surcharges. which hail taken place under the
Coursing Act.—Ordered.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.
The Etrl of MOUNTCASIIEL presented peti-
isms against this Bill.
Lord- LTURGAN presented a petition in favour of
eying power to the Poor-law Guardians in Ireland
to apprentice children who had been brought up in
workhou;,?s.
DEBTOR AND CREDITOR BILL.
• This Bill went through Committee, and was or-
dered to tic read a third time on Friday.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' FILL.
• • Lord I3RGUGII.AbI. moved the second reading of
this Bill, and proposed to take the discussion on the
'noxt 6tagO.
The. Bill was zllad „a sioond time.
PARISH CIJERKS' REGULATION BILL.
.• This Bill passed' through Committee.
The Hot;2o then ,udjourned. „ I

. I.IOUSE,OF %ommONS, June 17.
Spruiri; tools the chair at a few minutes to
Four o'cl(;ck.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.

-Petitions against this Bill were presented by Mr.
B. Smith, from Norwich; Ivlr.Dnncan,from Dundee;
Mr. Chute, from King's Lynn; Lord J. Stuart, and
Mr. fi. Berkley from Bristol.
Mr. 8.. SMITH presented a petition from the
printsellers of Norwich, praying for protection
, against art-unions.. :
Mr. HAMILTON presented 6 petition from Ireland
against the national system of education in Ireland.
Sir V."FILMER presented a petition from Kent
praying for protection to agriculture.
Mr. G. KNIGHT presented a petition from 1,800
inhabitants of. Port Philip, New South Wales, com-
plaining of the Governor- General having removed a
,!edge from the bench. and' praying for inquiry into
the circuiraitaik-es. • , .
Mr.. C. ROUND presented a petition from. S affoik,
against the. Book. Charter Bill.
Mr. YORKE presented a petition from Essex,
pray* thuffe!.ise-to take steps t+ crest the progress
of ineend:aristn in. that County.
Lord ELIOT presented a petition from Cornwall,
Praying Cid the owners nnu not the occupiers of
email tenements may bn rated to the poor.
KILAIkRNOCK ELECTION.
The SPEAKER. informed the House that he had
vamlved a letter froni the agents on the petition
against the, return of the. Kilmarnock burghs, stating
that it was :not . their intention to proceed with the
petit ion.—(Hetir,. hear,)
TUX STATE TRIALS. -
Mr. WYSE presented a petition from Pierce Ma-
honey and others, the solicitors to the traversers in
the late State trials; , complaining of the course par-
sue:d at the late. State trials in Dublin, and praying
the House to linslitiite some legal inquiry into the
!iyatem that hid" been adopted in: ecnpannelling the
Jury. The petitioners also expressed a hope that
that H 01133 would -be found, the guardian of trial by
jar .y The petition was ordered to-lie On the table.
Mr. HARDY presented petitions against the Dis-
flouters' Chapels Bill.
Lord ASHLEY
.presented several petitions to the
aame effect: . • •
I,..IDDELL PrcienteJ a petition from Durham,
signed by 4,000 persons, praying the House to con-
tinueprotection to agriculture.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from the
stage coach and carriage proprietors of the metro-
polis, complaining of the monopoly of railways.
her. HAWES presented petitions against the Dis.
50312tere Chapels'BilL

GREENWICH PARR;
131 r. HAWES said' he had a petition to present
from certain inhabitants of Greenwich, complaining
that thorn was an intention on the part of the Govern-
ment to make an eneroachment upoii:7Greenwich Park,
and to build ?lento residences therein. Seeing the
Inteori7l"...Chief: Commissioner of Woods and
tee°face,N..trusted he might waive cere-
AtZWuPon-tt**, -.occasion, and take the liberty of ask-
,llluln--,6l:tustlatepAon did exist ?
: L_kLIVCOLN was quite willing to ac-
T417.-s'77ll,iti‘i Hon. Member, and had great
that the.armiety of the peti-
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Julie 17.
Ttair Lordships Resembled at Five o'clock.
OPENING LETTERS AT THE POST-OFFICE.
The Earl of RADNOR, adverting to the petitions
talaieh wei'e presented. a few evenings ago in the House
of Commone, complaining that the parties who had
signed those petitions had had their letters opened at
the Peet-office, expreseed his surprise at this power
batting been so recently exercised, and contended
the.t no 4round existed for such a stretch of authority.
1-. Ta: was inclined to say that such a power ought not
.to exist; • 'out if it did exist, he thought it ought to
be exercised • under responsibility. He should take
that opportunity of ntormg for a return of the num,.
ber of letters which hod been opened at the Post-office
since January, 1844. He would also take that oppor-
tunity of Faking for some explanation as to the arrest
of the Contu Oetrowslic who had bc-en forcibly taken
. from his hxkings on a vague charge being made
against him. Ile (the Earl of Rednor) contended
thatthis arrest. had been made contrary to law, and if
this getitlerima had killed one of the parties who came
into his room be would have been perfectly exculpated
in law.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that if the
Noble Lord had looked into • the statute-book, he
would hare found that the power of opening letters
by the Secretary of State had been exercised since
the reign of Queen Anne ; and the warrant which
was necessary at the present time, was precisely in
the same form as that which was required in the time
of Queen Anne. If it should appear that the
Secretary -of State had abused this power,
net would be ground fur inquiry, but in
the present instance there was nothing of
the . sort, and, therefore, there was no ground
for the Noble Lord'e motion. With respect
to the other Mattee alluded to by the Noble Lord, to
. say the least of it the person alluded to had acted in
a moat indiscreet manner, and if there had been any
thing improper in his arrest he had his remedy. It
was a subject-for the consideration of a court of law,
and not for that House.
Lord CAMPBELL thought the question of open-
ing letters under a warrant from the Secretary of
State was a question requiring the earnest considera-
tion of their Lordships.—(Hear, hear.) lie con-
tended that the words of the Act of Parliament, which
Revs the Secretary Stets this power, prodded that
for every letter opened there should be a separate
warrant isued-lie the Secretary of State under his
hand and seal.
Lord BROUG HAM thought this was a matter well
we: of the consideration. of Parliament, but he
expressed his regret that the subject had been intro-
dueed without notice. He said it was impossible to
earry out the object of the provision in the Act of
Parliament for the issuing of a warrant for the open-
ing of such letter, inasmuch as to be enabled to do so
the Secretary of State would have to be acquainted
with all letters the person .whose letters were to be
examined was about to Le receive.
Lord DENMAN regeetted that the return of the
. Noble Earl wee resisted, as this was a subject
that ought to be fully ineuired hit°. Tt was a subject
of great importance, and was not at all connected
with party corsiderations, and he believed that the
only object of this motion WM to obtain information.
.If this motion wore re,;eeted, he trusted that the
Noble Earl would give notice, and bring the subject
forward at a future day, with a view to the considera-
tion of the dance in the Act Lich gave the Secretary
of State the power ()fee:et:thug letters, for, in his (Lord
Pecnmax's) opinion, such a power ought not to be
in ekistemo one hour.—(liear, hear.)
Lord 13301,70116 M and Lord CAMPBELL briefly ex.
p'ained. -
• The Marquis of NORMANDY said that it was
, only in cases where danger was apprehended to the
State that this: par; sr of opening letters by the Secre-
tart of State was exorcised. He did not think that
at present there was any ground • shown for the
production of the returns which had been moved for.
He belie-red that the Secretary of State would be very
Flad to have this power removed out of his hands, for
it eons a very unthankful and unpleesant power to
hold.