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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 5,.1844.

A vast number of Bills received the Royal Assent
in the House of Lords, a very significant symptom of
the syeedytermination of the Session.
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The Earl of MINT° gave notice that he would ask
Lord ilannimGroN this evening whether it was the
intention of the Government to send a naval force to
the coast of Morocco to protect the interests of British
subje..ts.
The Marquis a CLANRICARDE gave notice for
Monday of a motion relative to the war pending in
the West of Africa.

The Earl of RAnNogiafter adverting at consider-
able length to the obnoxilus and anti-English prac-
tice of opening letters at tl-h; Post-office, moved for a
Select Committee to inquire into the system of open-
ing letters at the Post-office.
The Duke of WELLINGTON fully admitted that the
question had assumed a shape which required inquiry.
After defending the practice to a cettaio extent, and
exhibiting a number of bugbears to jus:ify it, he
moved as an amendment a Secret Committt e, to be
composed of the following Members—Earl Soners,
the Earl of Burlington, the Earl of Rosebery, Lord
Colchester, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, anti
the Bishop of London.

We regret to find from a few remarks made by
Lord NORMANDY, that the practice was not confined
to the Tories, and that the power had been
exercised in Ireland against suspected Ribbonmen.
It is a detestable power, and whether exercised by
Whigs or Tories, will be universally denounced. We
have never heard one disinterested man say a word in
support of such an un-English practice. Party feel-
ing is not mixed up in the question. Tories, Whigs,
and Radicals, if we except the Government hacks,
are unanimous in the opinion that the Post-office
shOu!d be sacred. Extreme cases may occur. In
times of danger, and more particularly when rebel-
lion prevails, the Habeas Corpus Act may be
suspended, but that can be done only by Act of
Parliament. Let the same rule apply- to opening
_letters. N othing but the safety of the State can
justify it, and the permission should not be given
without 4specific Act- of Parliament, which would
oa his guard. In that case no man

or woman would write to a friend, but in the belief
that their correspondence might be known to the
Grahamites, and that every family communication
might be read by the underlings of office. We agree,
however, with that consistent and honest lawyer and
statesman, Lord CAMPBELL, that in every instance it
would be better to put an end to this obnoxious

power.
The Earl of RADNOR withdrew his motion. The
Committee was appointed, and ordered to meet on
Thursday.
In the Commons, Mr. CHRISTIE presented a petition
from CHARLES HENRY RUSSELL, the plaintiff in cer-
tain actions against noblemen and gentlemen for gam-
bling, and gave notice that he would this day move
that the petitioner, according to his request, be heard
at the bar of the House.

Mr. SHELL gave notice of a motion for this day,
relative to the French possessions in Africa.
In answer to a question from Mr. WALLACE, Mr.
GLADSTONE said it was the firm determination of the
Government to go on with the Railways Bill.

STEWART asked Sir ROBERT PEEL,
whether the report was correct, that Government,
after having carried the Bank Charter Bill, intended
to interfere with the banking and currency of Scot-
land and Ireland. Sir ROBERT PEEL gave an answer
which would lead to the belief that he is about to make
an inroad upon the Scotch and Irish banks.
Mr. HUME denounced the practice of opening
letters at the Post-office, and said, if the House had
appointed him on the Committee, he would have
declined to attend it. He would have nothing to do
with Secret Committees.

The Bank Charter Bill, after some conversation
and several attempts at amendments, was read a third
time, and passed.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved that the House resolve
itself into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment
Bill.

An amendment was proposed by Mr. BORTHWICK,
the discussion on which, or rather on the general
principle of the Bill, occupied the House the re-
mainder of the night.
On a division the amendment was negatived by a
majority of 180.
The Bill was then committed pro forma. The
House immediately resumed, and adjourned at a
Quarter past Two.

The Irish Orangemen are again speaking out, in
heir usual unceremonious style, on the subject of Sir
Lt. PEEL and his Conservative Government. They
are always in a ferment about this period of the year,
when the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne
comes round, which• they seem to consider as the
most glorious military achievement recorded in
the annals of history, and it requires the utmost
efforts of their sober and mote provident leaders
to keep them within the bounds of pro-
priety. At a public meeting of these effervescing
Orangemen, which took place on Monday last at the
Rotunda in Dublin, for the purpose of commemo-
rating their great battle, their incorrigible party pre-
judices, which would appear to be engrained into
their very nature, and which can no more be rooted
out of them than an 2Ethiop can be washed white,
were manifested in the boldest manner passible, not
only by a host of bigoted orations, in which each
speaker, whether lay or clerical, vied with the other
in virulence of sentiment and expression ; but by
such flagrant party toasts as " Protestant Ascendancy'
—which every one knows is synonymous with the
ascendancy of despotism, corruption, and bigotry in
their most shameless form—" The Orange Societies of
Ireland," of which the illustrious ERNEST of Hanover
is, or was, the head; the " Ten Bishops Restored,"
which means that the Established Chnreh in the
sister-country should be rendered a still greater
nuisance than it is at present ; and lastly," Scriptural
education," which, however plausibly this toast may
sound, and however inoffensive it may appear, implies
neither more nor less than that the education of
all classes of Irishmen should be vested exclusively in
the hands of Protestant pastors and masters, in order
that another " heavy blow and great discourage-
ment"—as Lord MELBOURNE would say—may be in-
flicted on the long suffering millions in Ireland who
profess the Catholic faith. But if the toasts of these
desperate partisans of a worn-out system were offen-
sive and intolerant in their character, the appeals
made to their passions were, if possible, still
worse ; and one of the speakers, after abusing
ALoDEkci L'EEL, in terms borrowed from tne un-
savoury vocabulary of Billingsgate, went on to ob-
serve :—" the miserable and incompetent Government,
now reigning over them, after having supported
Popery in every other part of Europe, were now
about to put in force what Mr. Wysis calls the Orange
Procession Act. Oh, they little knew the force and
current of Protestant feeling, if they considered that
an Act of Parliament could extinguish the glorious
principle of its life. There were a hundred thousand
Protestants ready, if the tide of anarchy should con-
tinue to advance, and at length assail the
last bulwarks of the Church an•i Constitution, to raise
once more a Nassau, and prepare once more to cross
the Boyne." - The meaning of this passage—that is
to say, if any meaning can be extracted from it—is,
that if Government shall decide on making any fur-
ther concessions to the cause of liberal govern-
ment in Ireland, they, the Irish Protestants, will
assemble their thousands in arms, and resist all
such concessions by open, bare-faced violence ? As
this swaggering threat was an after-dinner one, its in-
spiration may easily be conjectured ; and indeed so
outrageously absurd is it, so faithful a copy of the
BOMBASTES FURIOSO style of bombast, that
we should scarcely have considered it worthy even
of a passing notice, had it not strictly illustrated
the character of the Irish Orangemen. Un-
taught by experience, untamed by the humiliat-
ing reverses they have encountered since the
passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, these men
are just as bigoted just as arbitrary and self-
opinionated as they were in the good old ELDON
times, when the game was in their own hands—the
ball at their feet—and Protestant Ascendancy was
the order of the day in Ireland. While the world
about them has been in progress, they alone have
either stood stock-still, gazing about them, like
STERNE'S scullion, " with a foolish fare of wonder,"
or else, when forced into reluctant motion by the irre-
sistible pressure of events, have taken two steps back-
ward for every one they have taken forward. Verily
your Irish Orangeman is a queer creature. He has
scarcely one sympathy or opinion in common with
the age in which he lives, and which he can-
not be brought to comprehend. His mind dwells
exclusively on the past, hating the present, and
filled with distrust of the future. It is vain to
tell him that it is his duty, not less than his interest,
to concede something to the altered character of the
age, and that other men, far more influential than
himself, have done the same ; such reasoning is
wholly lost on his obtuse, purblind faculties, and he
exhibits, in consequence, the humiliating spectacle of
bigotry without power, and perseverance • without
hope.

We entreat the public attention to a circular, which
will be found in another column, addressed, by the
Committee of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, to the Members of the House of Commons,
entreating their instant "attention to the consequences
which must ensue from the Bank of England Charter
Bill passing through Parliament in its present state." It
is a well-timed appeal to that House—in which we
fear, however, this fatal measure is destined to run

its full course, perhaps this very evening, for which
we see the third reading is fixed. But prier to the
Bill being carried up to the House of Lords-
-11 tribunal from whose greater sagacity in the conduct
and investigation of all measures immediately affect-
ing the monetary resources of the country, we look
forward with SO:1113 confidence to extensive modifica-
tions, if not the ultimate rejection of the scheme,—
it is well that Sir ROBERT PEEL should have been
afforded this last .opportunity of reconsidering the
enactments he is calling on the Legislature to pass. It
will not be in his power-to plead hereafter that the erro-
neous principle of his Bill, and its inevitably disastrous
operation, (if passed int O-a law), had not been suf-
ficiently or clearly brc ,ught under his consideration.
The " circular" before us is a most able papery
exhibiting, in a few slicet paragraphs, not only the
denrmstration of the errs irs of principle and the prac-
tical tendencies to which we allude ; but a rationale
of the whole theory of *iv. currency system since
1819 ; of its inherent elemtw is of disorganisation and
disturbance ever since ; and of their indefinite and
ruinous aggravation under this Bill of 1844. This
circular is signed by Mr. 'irorriswooD.E, the Chair-

man of the Society, and forms an honourable testi-
mony to the unremitting and intelligent exertions of
that gentleman to induce Parliament to discharge a
duty which it certainly has not hitherto performed--
in giving to the Bill in question a much more search.
ing, impartial, and dispassionate consideration than
it has found from the House of Commons, owing
either to the timidity of that assembly in dealing
with great administrative questions of this nature ;
or to the overwhelming influence which Sir ROBERT
has managed to enlist there in support of his scheme,
but without reference to its merits—if any could be
predicated of it !

Accounts have been received from Naples, dated
the 22d ult., announcing the total defeat of the Italian
emigrants, and the two brothers BANDEIRA, who left
Corfu on the 12th, and disembarked on the 16th on
the coast of Calabria. On the 19th, they were at-
tacked by a party of the Royal troops at Belvedere,
in the province of Cantajarra. The commander of
the municipal guard and a gensd'arme were killed.
After this success the insurgents continued their march
to St. Giovani-in-fiori, on the road to Cocenza. At
the distance of two leagues from St. Giovani they fell
in with another party of the Royalist troops, who at-
tacked them, and the result was that three of the in-
surgents were killed, two were wounded, and four-
teen were taken prisoners. The rest took to flight.
Their object was to release the political prisoners de-
tained at Cocenza.

The remarkable article in the Moniteur, advocating
the right of the younger branches of the Royal Family
to State pensions, has excited a painful sensation
throughout France. It forms a subject of comment
in every Paris. journal of Tuesday. Those of the
Opposition attack the Government, or more properly
speaking, the Sovereign, in terms much stronger
than any they have ventured to use since the passing
of the September Libel Laws; and even the Govern-
ment papers can say nothing in its defence. Never
was a measure so universally execrated. The Globe,
which is reckoned the organ of the Court, uses mere
generalities, which might refer to almost any subject
and the Journal des Dcbats all but condemns the
mode in which the proposal has been made. "We
will not deny," it says, " that the sudden appearance
of this manifesto has somewhat surprised us, and that
we have sought to discover its object with a certain
degree of solicitude. It is not that we are without
fixed opinions on the question itself—they still are
what they always have been. The justice and neces-
sity of providing portions for the Princes of the
Royal Family is, in our eyes, a legitimate conse-
quence, not only of this or that particular law, but
also of the monarchical principle. If we have any
regret, it is that the question of endowment was not
brought before the Chambers when it would have
come naturally into discussion of one of the most im-
portant laws the country was ever called upon to pass
—we mean the Regency Bill. If the Government
had no more to contend against than the permanent
prejudices of M. L'IIERBETTS, or even the occasional
scruples of M. DVPIN, we believe that it would be
but little disturbed by the one, and not too long
alarmed by the other. But there is something
which the Government respects much more than the
opinion of its adversaries—the opinion of its friends.
Now we are not ignorant, and shall not attempt to
conceal, that even in the ranks of the Conservative
party the question of endowments for the Princes of
the Royal Family meets with objections, which we
regret, but which we respect, because they are
sincert,

The following, from the National, is evidently di.
rected against Louis PHILIPPE himself:—

There are some men who are so completely blinded by
their love of gold, that they lose the most vulgar notions of
prudence. The effect produced on Monday by the admi-
rable speech of M. L'Heroette, will no doubt appear to them
to be a movement of the factious; and some words of good
sense pronounced by M. Dupin, wiil be regarded as an in-
sane attack against monarchical institutions. The law of
dotation will be incessantly brought forward, and we are glad
of it. Assured as we are of public opinion, which will rally
all good men against the stock-jobbers, we are not inclined
to be afflicted at the imprudence committed in the 3foniteur,
or elsewhere."

The Quotidiene attacks the Ministry for.the article
the ltionitenr, and, unlike the National, charges it

with falsehood, in stating that tne KING had only
received five millions under the head of indemnity.
The amount he received, it asserts, exceeded sixteen
millions. " Louis PHILIPPE asking for more," bids fair
to damage the Ministry more than any event whi :h
JIM occurred sinceiu.UrUlZOT became rnme aimister.
We see nothing else of interest in the papers.
On Tuesday the Three per Cents. closed at 81f. 90c.,
and the Fives at 122 f. 35c.
THE BOURSE—Timm:IT, JULY 2.