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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.
The LORD CHANCELLOR fixed the second reading of
the Charitable Trusts-Bill for Thursday.
Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that on Monday he
would introduce several Bills for remedying defects in
our system for civil and criminal jurisprudence.
The High Constables Bill was read a second time,
pro forma, preparatory to its being referred to a Select
Committee.

The Scottish Tolls Bill, prohibiting the licensing of
toll-houses in Scotland for the sale of spirituous
liquors, was, on the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND,
read a second time, Lord CAMPBELL, the Duke of
'MONTROSE, and the Earl of DALHOUSIE, expressing
their approbation of the measure, and the Earl of
ROSEBERY opposing it, as cf too sweeping a character.
Several other Bills were forwarded a stage, and their
Lordships adjourned.

The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.

Mr. S. WORTLEY moved the addition of the following
clause to the Act of last session, constituting the Rail-
Way Department of the Board of Trade :—" And be it
further enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be
deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this or
the said recited Acts authorised to be made from the
provisions of any general Act relating to railways, which
may hereafter pass during the present or any future
session of Parliament, and that the said resolution be a
standing order of this House."
Several Hon. Members complained that the motion
had been brought forward without sufficient notice, and
on the inggestion of Mr. GLADSTONE it was postponed
for a week.

On Sir R. PEEL movirtg that after the 2d of June Orders
of the Day should have precedence of motion,
Mr. H. BERKELEY and Mr. WAKLEY complained of
the House having been counted out on the preceding
evening.

On the motion that the House do resolve itself into
Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates,
Mr. TRELAWNEY brought forward the case of Mr.
SECCOMBE, mortgagee of the ship Velocity, seized for
smuggling, but of which smuggling Mr. SECCOMBE was
not cognisant.

Mr. CARDWELL admitted the hardship of the ease,
and regretted that no remedy could be given without
making & dangerous precedent.

Captain BERKELEY then called the attention of the
House to the present system of manning the Navy, and
designated the distinctions between sea complements,
warcomplements, and peace complements, as all nonsense,
—what the Navy required was a proper complement. It
was as great a fault to overman as it was to underman
a ship, and in all cases the crew should be proportioned
to the number of guns.

Sir G. COCEBURN assured the House that means had
been recently adopted for efficiently manning the ships
in service, and contended that seamen would enter the
navy in preference to the merchant service.
A long discussion ensued, in the course of which the
House was addressed by Mr. SOMES, Mr. H. LAMBTON,
Captain Rots, Captain PECHELL, Lord INCESTRE, Sir
C. NAPIER, Mr. WILLIAMS, Lord PALMERSTON, Sir
R. PEEL, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and
other lion. Members, after which the Rouse went into
Committee, and several votes for the public service were
agreed to without a division.
The House then resumed, and the Banking (Scotland)
Bill having passed through Committee, adjourned at
One &Clock.

Ireland has been so little accustomed to acts of kind-
ness on the part of the English Government, that every
favour now proffered is received with suspicion and die-
' trust, or with fear that a scheme is in progress for de-
. stroying national liberty and undermining the founda-
' tions of the Catholic faith. This is no new symptom in
. human nature, it is as ancient as the siege of Troy, and
' when statesmen—long hostile either from necessity or in-
clination to the Catholic population, suddenly change
their policy, and in place of Coercion Bills, Registration
Bills, Arms Bills, and fifty others of the same stamp—
bring forward measures of conciliation, and profess to
regard a proscribed race as friends and fellow-subjects,
we cannot be surprised that the Irish look well at the
Presents and the givers before they accept them with
gratitude. This may, therefore, be admitted as a pallia-
tion for the bitter hostility displayed by some- of the
Irish journals to the Acadamies Bill, but by no means
as a justification for unjust imputations and wicked
charges against the long-tried friends of Ireland as well
as the repentant Tory Administration. No men ever
made greater sacrifices for the sake of peace than the
Whigs and Liberal Members of the House of Commons.
They have displayed a moral courage above all
praise, and notwithstanding threats and promises, and
every possible means resorted to for the purpose of
conversion, these honourable representatives, with some
contemptible exceptions, have adhered to their convic-
tions. Are noble minded men like these to be in-
cluded in the same category with Lord STANLEY and Mr.
GC/ELEVEN, and accused of concurring in a plot for
demolishing public spirit in Ireland ? One of the Irish
provincial journals thus comments on the Education Bill
which received such general support from all parties in
the House :—" It is not a generous concession to Irish
wants, but a treacherous scheme to corrupt
the young mind and taint the young heart
of our country through Government patronage
and influence. Away with it ! It is directed chiefly
against repeal. No scholar will obtain a professorship
in any of the proposed collegiate institutions who be-
lieves that domestic legislation would be a blessing to
his country. He may be first of a hundred candidates,
but if he be a repealer, he will be requested to retire.
The Irish youth must not dare to think on Irish ques-
tions otherwise than as the English Government ap•
proves, or they will be excluded from the benefits of
academical education in their own country ! Away with
it again, it is an abomination ! We spurn with scorn
such a gift. We will do still more. If they dare to in-
sult our eyes with any of these stews of Government cor-
ruption, under the name of colleges, we will level them
with the ground." The same paper adds :—" It is not
learning we want at all. It is food and raiment. We
ask for bread, and you give us a book." Such wild de-
clamation would require little notice were not the same
view taken by many Englishmen. They also say, give
the Irish bread—give them employment—but they never
tll us how it is to be done ; and Englishmen who have
made the experiment, know, to their cost, the ruin
which has befallen many Speculations well calculated to
give bread to thousands. And what put an end to these
beneficent schemes ? Irish jealousy of England. The
ignorant multitude were excited by lying journals. They
rose against their best friends, literally carried into
effect the rabid injunction of the Kilkenny editor, and
levelled the English factories with the ground. We
have always said that Irish misrule has lasted so long
that an age will be required to redress grievances, and
place the population in a sound and civilised condition.
The work cannot be accomplished at once. Time, and
judicious treatment, are absolutely necessary, and a
wise Government will, therefore, turn a deaf ear to
such absurdities, propose measures which they believe
practicable, and persevere in them to the last, regard-
less alike of political bigotry and popular ignorance.
We have been looking with much anxiety to the view
which the Irish Catholic bishops and clergy take of this
Academies Bill, because, on their decision, will its
fate rest. Should they oppose it, the prospects
of that country will 'be gloomy indeed. The
Government cannot, if they would, allow them the
superintendence of any of the colleges. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, in vain, attempted to carry his Factories
Education Bill for England, and if the interference of
Protestant bishops is regarded with such horror, would
that of Catholic prelates be viewed in a less favour- -
able light ?

Madrid journals -of the Bth inst. have been received.
The discussion of the budget was still going on in the
Chamber of Deputies, and two important resolutions
had been adopted—one authorising the Government to
raise a loan for repairing and constructing roads, the
interest of which should not exceed 15,000,000 reals
(150,0001.), and the other fixing the amount of the an-
nual tax on landed property at 300,000,000 reals
(3,000,0001) The latter was adopted by a majority of
fig to 27. This certainly Is a very heavy tax for such a
country as Spain, and has produced a strong sensation
among the landed proprietors.
On the 7th the first horse-rafts for the season took

place at the Casa de Campo. The QUEEN and Royal
Family attended by NARVAEZ and MARTINEZ DE LA
Rosa, tbe French Ambassador, and many general officers,
were present on the occasion. Among the sports was a
hurdle race, which excited much interest.
The Three per Cents. were done at 341 for cash, and
35i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 25 for cash, and
251 at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 84 at
60 days.

The Paris journals are chiefly occupied with com-
ments on the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies
on the great northern line of railway, but they possess
little interest to the English reader. The Bill introduced
by 'the Government, it appears, will be adopted with
little alteration. On Wednesday, the Chamber had
adopted all the clauses up to the 47th, and rejected many
amendments. One of the amendments proposed by M.
E. BLANC was, that the third-class carriages should be
so constructed as to be closed, not with curtains, as pro-
posed in the Bill, but with glass or wood, like the other
carriages. The amendment was lost. The Deputies of
the Pas de Calais presented an amendment, proposing
a branch line from Fampaux, near Arras, toHazebrouck,
with a view to place Calais and Dunkirk on the same
footing as Boulogne in respect to communication
with the centre of France. This amendment was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Bill, who recommended
that it should be rejected. The accounts from Africa
are not favourable. ABD-EL-KADER is evidently deter-
mined that Marshal BIIGEAUD shall not enjoy his title
in peace. A letter from Algiers, of the 6th instant,
states that the insurrection is complete in the mountains
of the Ouarenserris, and that several of the Arab chiefs
who had received appointments from the Governor-
General have been sacrificed. It is also stated that
nearly 2,000 mounted Arabs appeared on the 28th ult.
before Orleanville, and menaced an attack, but withdrew
on a sortie being made by the garrison, supported by
the cannon of the camp. On the 30th a serious engage-
ment took place in sight of Orleanville, between the hos-
tile Arabs and a French detachment. The Arabs were
defeated, with a:loss of 20 killed. The French had only
two men killed and six wounded. The Journal
des Debats has a long article on the report of M.
GARELLA, who had been sent out by the Go-
vernment to examine the practicability of the
scheme for making a canal through the Isthmus of
Panama. He reports in favour of the measure, but one
of his plans is rather alarming for the success of such an
undertaking. He found the lowest elevation between
the two seas_to be about 500 feet, and as it is too great
an elevation for a ship canal, he proposes an enormous
tunnel, capable of allowing frigates to pass through. He
thinks, from an examination of the soil, that a tunnel of
100 feet in height above the surface of the canal would
be practicable, and might be made within a reasonable
outlay of money.
On the Paris Bourse on Wednesday the Three per Cents.
closed at 86f. 25c. • the New Loan at 86f. 55c. ; the Five per
Cents., at 121 f. 30c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,221 f. 25c. •
' Rouen I,oBBf. 75c. ; Vferzon, 822 f. 50c. ; Havre, Mi.
50c.. Avignon, 1,055 f. ; Basle, 271 f. 25c. ; Belgian Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., • 62f. ; Spanish Actives, 401%f. ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 42f. ; Spanish Passives, 814 f.
The following are the quotations in shares for the
new lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 220 f. prem. ; Boulogne, 170 f. ditto ;
Troyes, and Montereau, 75f. ; Paris and Lyons (Lafitte),
18f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), If. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 7f. 50c. ;
Northern Line (Lafitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 12f. 50c. ;
Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12E 50c. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), par; ditto (O'Neill),l2f.soc. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot),
35}.; ditto (Com pagnie Meridionale), 12f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), sf. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta),
16f. 25c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, If. 25c. ; Paris and Stras-
burg (Ganneron), 15f.;. Dijon and. Mulhausen, sf.

NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW
LEAGUE FREE-TRADE BAZAAR.

Notwithstanding- the price of admission to the Bazaar
has been raised to 2s. 6d., it still ccntinues to be
crowded. The doors yesterday morning, long before the
hour of opening, were besieged by crowds of well-dressed
ladies and gentlemen, anxious to secure an early admission.
Bow-street was thronged, with carriages, and the
exterior of the box entrance of Covent-garden
Theatre presented an appearance which reminded the
playgoer of times long gone by, when the Kembles were in
their glory. There were placards posted outside the theatre
announcing to visitors from the country that on their pre-
senting their return railway tickets at the box-office
they would be admitted once to the Bazaar
free. The sales have been, we believe, considerable ; for we
observe that in many of the standings all the articles which
were exhibited the first day have disappeared, and others
substituted in their stead. Indeed; it is announced that
every day there will be a change in the articles exhibited
at the standings. Contributions continue to arrive daily,
and so numerous are they that we believe, although the
Bazaar has now been open for more than a week, not one half
of the contributions have yet been exhibited. Amon the
recent arrivals is an elegant pony phaeton, manufactured
and presented by Mr. Richard Andrews, Southampton. It is
a beautifully built little carriage, under duty size. Its colour is
purple lake, with fine blue leather lining. It is marked at
404rtineas. There is also a cargo of coals sent to the Bazaar.
The band and the rock harmonicon are stationed in the
upper boxes. We mention this fact, because we have heard
many persons express a great anxiety to see the rock har-
monicon, but they have been unable to discover in what
part of the theatre it was stationed.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(Pom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
At a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town at the
Town-hall, on Tuesday, the following address to her Majesty
was unanimously agreed to, and the Chairman, the Rev. J.
B. Atkinson, was requested to sign it in the name of the
meeting, and forward it to Sir J. Graham for presentation :
"ADDRESS.
"TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, VICTORIA I.
" We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the inha-
bitants of Cowes, beg leave to approach your Majesty with
the most fervent assurances of our devoted attachment to
your august person.
"Next to these sentiments of loyalty, which, in common
with the rest of our fellow-subjects, we owe, and are happy
to profess, we entreat your Majesty will permit us to testify
our peculiar sense of joy and gratitude arising from the cir-
cumstance of your Majesty having been pleased to become
the proprietor of a residence in our favoured island.
"And we fervently hope that, under God's blessing, these
salubrious shores, which we have reason to think afforded so
much delight to your Majesty in the days of your childhood,
may likewise conduce to the health and enjoyment of your
royal offspring, who are, with your Majesty, the objects of a
nation's hearty prayers.
" At the same time that we deliver to your Majesty this
grateful testimony of our feelings, we should be deficient in
that respect which we owe to your illustrious Consort if we
did not add the assurance of his sharing in all those expressions
of loyalty and attachment which we have the satisfaction of
conveying to your Majesty."
Her Majesty and suite embarked .this day (Thursday) at
two o'clock, on board the Lightning steamer, under salutes
from the Castle and R.Y.S. battery. It is expected that the
royal party will return to Osborne in about three weeks.
During their stay the Queen and Prince Albert daily walked
out through Osborne Park and grounds, and also through
East Cowes Park—(it is surprising that none of the beautiful
houses lately erected there are neither let nor sold)—and took
drives to Carisbrook and its neighbourhood.
A project is on foot to form an atmospheric railway from
East Cowes to Ventnor ; from thence one branch is to be laid
along the shore to Black Gang Chine, and thence over the
cliffs to the Needles, and another to the eastward to Bern-
bridge-point, and under the Haven to Hyde! Next*we shall
have a bridge from the main to the island, or a tunnel under
the Solent.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—We are gratified in
being enabled to state Madame Thillon's indispositirm
has been but of a temporary nature, and that she posi-
tively re-appears in The Enchani-ess on Monday.
The Morning Chronicle, whether :actuated by an
ambition of toadying the Times, and abstract to the
Morning Herald, or a wish to puff off its friend Mr. Mazzini,
we cannot say ; but from one or other of these three motives,
which ever it was, the Morning Chronicle yesterday made a
most unjust and a perfectly unprovoked attack upon this
journal. The Morning Chronicle charged the Morning
Herald with having denounced the Times' scandalous con-
duct towards Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, solely as one mounte-
bank deprecates the drugs of another mountebank. The
writer of this insulting charge knew that he was writing a
falsehood when he wrote it—knew that the Morning
Herald never touched upon the disgraceful conduct
of the Times towards Mr. Talfourd until that dis-
graceful, conduct had led to consequences directly
affecting the whole newspaper press in its interest,' in
its character, and in its rank. Let not the Morning Chro-
nicle palliate its own timid truckling to the Times for twelve
days, by charging our different conduct to an unworthy mo-
tive. As to Mr. Mazzini, against whom we or the
Standard, it is not clearly stated which, is charged by the
Morning Chronicle to have ".concocted some villainy," we
deny that we have ever made any unauthorised charge against
him, or withheld any testimony in his favour. Our own opi-
nion of the individual is unaltered by anything that we have
seen, and we will not tell lies even to disarm his resentment
or the anger of the Morning Chronicle. If the party has been
wronged by us, let the wrong be shown, and we will repair it ;
if no wrong on our part can be shown, we are not going to
trump up a case for him.—Herald
WILL OF GENERAL ROBERTSON.—Probate of the
will and two codicils, as far as respects the property in Eng-
land, of James Robertson, formerly of Hill-side, but late of
Canaan-bank, near the City of Edinburgh, a General in
her Majesty's army, has just been granted to his nephew,
John Russell, Esq., one of the executors, a power being re-
served to Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson Macdonald,
the brother, and William Robertson, Esq., a nephew of the
deceased, to prove hereafter. The personal estate in Eng•
land, sworn under 4,0001., bequeaths annuities to his sisters,
legacies to his nieces, the Countess of Minto, Lady
Adam, and Lady Nicholson, and others, his relations;
leaves 1,0001. to his nephew, Lieut. James Robertson. East
India Company; also a legacy to his wife, and 1001. to each
of his children ; leaves to his own servant a legacy of 4001.,
and all his apparel, and legacies to all his other servants;
bequeaths all his property at Canaan-bank (including plate.
pictures, furniture, and moveables) to his nephew, John
Russell, and leaves him a moiety of the residue; the alio
moiety to his brother, Col. Macdonald, and his family. Thu
will is dated December 1, 1835, and the second codicil No
vember 9, 1842. The deceased, who was son of Principal
Robertson, the historian, died on the 29th of March last.
The will was approved in Edinburgh on the sth of April.
The Bishop of Exeter hss, in a letter to a gentle-
man of this diocese, declared his intention to join in a resist-
ance to the measure for the endowment of Maynooth College,
when the Bill shall reach the Lords.—Plymouth Journal.
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