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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1345,

The Lords met at Five o'clock, and sat only for a
few minutes.
On the motion of the Earl of CADOGAN, certain re-
turns relating to the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners were ordered to be laid on the table.
A petition on the subject of the Scotch Currency
was presented by the Earl of ROSEBERY.
The Stamp Duties Assimilation Bill was read a
second time. Several other Bills were forwarded a
stage, and their Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Twelve.
The Lands Clauses Consolidation Bill passed through
Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on
Thursday.
Mr. CARDWELL brought up the Sugar Duties Bill,
which was read a first time.
The House then resolved itself into Committee on the
t Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill.
On clause 66 being proposed, enforcing Companies to
use engines, &c., for the conveyance of passengers and
goods,
Mr. STANSFIELD proposed, as an amendment, that
the clause, instead of being merely permissive, should be
compulsory.
After a short discussion, the Committee divided,
when there appeared—For the amendment, 17; Against
it, 31 ; Majority for the clause, 14. Clauses up to
69, inclusive, were then agreed to, when the House re-
sumed, and the Chairman having reported progress,
asked leave to sit again on Thursday.
The House then adjourned to Five o'clock.
When the House re-assembled,
Sir R. PEEL gave notice that he would, on Thursday
next, move that the House do adjoarn from Thursday
the 20th instant, to the Monday week following. '
After a short conversation on the subject of the nego-
tiations of Mr. MANDEVILLE With the Governments of
Buenos Ayres and Monte Video,
Mr. HUME moved for certain returns relating to army
pensioners, which were granted.
Mr. LABOUCHERE then complained that the Sugar
Duties Bill had been forwarded a stage at the morning
sitting; a. d
Sir R. PEEL admitted that it occurred through inad-
vertence, and gave a pledge that, in future, no Money
Bill should be tkon at a morning sitting without notice.
Mr. SOMEi then moved for " Copies of all corre-
spondence between the Colonial-office and the Governor
of New Zealand respecting the issue of debentures,
and the rendering them a legal tender. Of all corm-
sp3ndence b, t ween the same respecting the taxes pro-
posed in the Legislative Council of that colony. Of all
correspondence between tho same respecting recent out-
rages by the natives in the Bay of Islands, and the
abolition of the custom-house of that district. Of
all corresp,ndence respecting the measures taken by
tl:e G irk-I-nor of Now Zealand to fulfil Lord
StPnley's ::greement ,if the 12th May, 1843, resirctii,g
the grant of a conditional title to the lands of the
New Zealand Company. Of all correspondence r,s-
-,pe-,•ting the disellowanee by the Governor t f New
Zealand of any awards made by the Commissioner of
Land Claims respecting the Company's lands. Of all
correspondence relating to a proclamation issued by the
Governor of New Zealand allowing the sale of lands
by the natives at a less price than that fixed by the
Aet of 5 and 6 Vic., c. 36."
Mr. AGLIONBY, in seconding the motion, entered into
a detail of the grievances under which the New Zea-
land colonists laboured, and stated that, in his opinion,
the Colonial-office, as at present constituted, was
utterly incompetent to attend properly to the affairs of
our numerous colonies.
Mr. G. W. HOPE complained of the conduct of the
Hon. Member for Cockermouth-, and said that all the
information which he required had been at his com-
mand a fortnight ago, and moved as an amendment that
the whole of the papers should be produced.
Mr. C. BULLEa said the ,House was in possession of
no information whatever on the suleject, and, therefore,
it WAS perfectly ludicrous fur the Under-Secretary for the
Colonies to say that the infm:mation might have been
obtained a fortnight ago. He complained, not only of
the ill-usage of New Zealand, but of all the colonies ; of
the utter ignorance—the gross, the utter ignorance of
every person connected with the Colonies—of the
colonists themselves, from the Governor up to
the very head of the colonial-office himself.
Governor Firznov had mismanaged the colony in such
a manner as to show his utter incompetency for the
onerous position which he held. He was not merely in-
competent, but was positively mischievous and dangerous.
The Government ought to have recalled that very foolish
man, Captain FITZROY, long since, and their duty
was to send out a keeper for Captain FITZROY, and to
send out his successor at the same time.
Colonel TREVOR said it was unjust to assail Captain
FITZROY in his absence. He should not have risen had
not Captain FITZROY been his relative.
Colonel WOOD, as a connection of Captain FITZROY,
felt bound to protest against the attack which had been
made upon him.
Sir W. JAMES also eulogized Captain FITZROY.

1 Sir CHARLES NAPIER admitted that Captain FITZ-
ROY was a very clever officer, but for all that
he might make a precious bad Governor. The
Government made a grand mistake when they sent
Captain FITZROY to govern New Zealand. He would
have made a much better Chancellor of the Exchequer
Nevertheless, he was a gallant officer; but instead of
shaking hands with the murderers of Captain WAKE-
FIELD, he ought to have executed them.
Sir R. PEEL besought the House to suspend its judg-
ment upon the conduct of Captain FITZROY until they.
had certain information on which to proceed. Captain
FITZROY had certainly omitted to forward them certain
information, but ho would ask the House whether it
was not within the range of pro), ability that this omis-
sion had been occasioned by some accident or other
Whenever a specific motion should be made on the sub-
ject, he should be prepared to vindicate the conduct of
the Government.

Mr. MANGLEs, in supporting the motion, said that he
had heard the eonduct of Captain FITZROY strongly up-
held by the Right Hon. Baronet on which
Sir B. PEEL said, across the table, in a very emphatic
manner, " Certainly not"
Mr. MANGLES continued to observe, that whatever
consideration Captain FITZROY ought to be entitled to
on account of his distance from the Government, the
colonists were entitled to the same consideration, and
they had suffered severely for his con-
duct. He had been sent out by Lord STANLEY
to explain away the agreement which had been
entered into between the colonists and Lord JOHN

RUSSELL, and to bring the colony under the iron-foot of
the Colonial-office. Had the Company been aware of
the instructions given by Lord STANLEY to Captain
FITZROY, they would at once have thrown up the affair,

and have resigned themselves to the inevitable loss en-
tailed upon them by those instructions.
Sir R. INaus defended the conduct of Capt. FITZROY.
The motion was then agreed to with a verbal amend-
mend *oved by Mr. HOPE.

Mr. S. CRAWFORD then rose to call the attention of the
House to the ptition from the rate-payers and inha-
bitants of Rochdale (presented February 25), against
the introduction of the new poor-lew into their district)

and moved, " That the petitioners be heard at the bar of
the House, in support of the allegations contained in that
petition."

Mr. FERRAND supported the motion, which was op-
posed by Sir J. GRAHAM. After some observations by
several Hon. Members, the House divided, when there
appeared, for the motion, 16; against it, 59; majority
against it, 43. The House then adjourned at One
o'clock.

The debate raised in the House of Commons, on
Monday night, by Mr. CHARLES BULLER'S declaratory
motion—" That the circumstances under which the re-
newal of the income-tax is at present proposed are such
as to render it extremely improbable that Parliament
will have the power of dispensing with its continuance at
the end of three years ; and that it is therefore the duty
of the House to take care that the tax be imposed in a
form in which its operation shall be less unequal and
inquisitorial than it now is "—was one of the most im-
portant which has yet been taken on this great question-
Thanks to the ability and ingenuity with which Mr•
BULLER introduced his motion, the true statement of
this case between the Premier and the public was fairly
brought before the House of Commons. The singular
hardihood with which Sir ROBERT PEEL has, over and
► again, attempted to persuade the people who are to pay
the income and property-tax that they lose no more by
its imposition than what is made up to them in what
they gain through his tariff, and this year's reductions of
duties, has often excited our astonishment. Mr. BULLER
may claim the merit of having so completely unmasked
and anatomized this pretext, that we suspect it will
scarcely be hazarded again this session. There is, in
truth, no more real equation between the burden of the
income-tax and the benefits of the tariff, than there is
between the total amount of anonymous remittances to
Chancellors of the Exchequer of 501. Bank of England
notes, "like angels' visits, few and far between," and the
stupendous capital of the national debt, towards the re-
duction of which they are expressly desired to be applied.
This was an absurdity palpable enough, and Mr.
BULLER made the most of it. But there was a better
joke behind. Some gentlemen on the Opposition
benches had designated the scheme, announced by the
Premier on the 14th of February, as the "poor man's
budget." There is nothing like a good set name to induce
people who have not closely looked into a given plan to
concur in your opinion of it. We have already borne
testimony to the intrinsic merits, and they were neither
few nor slight, of that financial statement. But as to its
being the " poor man's budget," Mr. BULLER, whose
views on this point were frankly and ably sustained by
Sir R. H. INGLas,has permanently demolished, we fear, its
every shadow of such a title. In testing the amountof be-
nefit which a poor couple, for example, would derive from
such fiscal reductions as that proposed on the duty on
raw cotton, Mr. BULLER was eminently effective and
amusing, without exceeding the fair limits of an argu-
ment raised, undoubtedly, on an extreme case. The
result of his calculation was to show, that while the man
might gain, say lid. on the cost of a complete fustian
suit, and the woman another I id. on the cost of two
cotton gowns, per annum, they would be paying, on a
moderate computation of their yearly consumption of
sugar, threepence per month to the West India pro-
prietor under the operation of the Premier's un-
fortunate scale of altered sugar duties. In
fine, he established a strong case to show that
the apprehensions suggested by the terms of his
motion were well warranted ; that there had been no
sufficient previous inquiry into the present con-
dition of our taxation, so as either to afford a
guarantee against the continuance of the income-
tax beyond this assumed period of three years, or to
render its operation less oppressive and inquisito-
rial than it now is. If the Hon. Member for Liskeard
was warranted in his view of the case, namely—that,
whilst the Premier proposed to remit a specific amount
of certain duties, his other proposition was virtually
to continue the income-tax for ever—we are compelled to
admit that they who ought to represent the interests of
their countrymen at large are making themselves parties
to a most scandalous and improvident bargain. If they who
vote with the Minister in his majorities on the income-tax
really consider that it is a tax which is to be apernictnent
one, or which is to endure even for the term of three
years doubled, they are dishonest trustees. They know
that the parties by whom they have been deputed to act
have never anticipated any such protraction of this war
impost. They know that the public would have in-
structed them to kiek the proposition out of the House
on the first evening of its introduction had it been ac-
companied by any such condition fairly stated ; and we
must reluctantly confess that our own fears are strongly
aroused by the tone assumed on both sides of the House
throughout the whole currant of the debate. It
was a statesmanlike objection which Mr. BULLER
took to the danger of adopting, in time of peace,
the extreme limit to which the principle
of direct taxation can be pushed in time of war—thus
proclaiming to the world the extent to which the extra-
ordinary resources of our taxation had been drawn upon
before the occurrence of that extraordinary exigency for
which they should have Leen sacredly reserved. But
we are more alarmed by the tacit assent which the
hypothesis of intended permanency, or, at any rate, of
protracted duration to the income tax, received in suc-
eessioefrom the speeches of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, Lord Howler, Sir R. Nous, Mr. HUME, and
Sir R. PEEL himself. We have not forgctten the
answer which the Premier gave on a former occasion to
Mr. WAHLEY'S very reasonable question, " Whether, at
the expiration of the three years the income-tax would be
further continued?" "•It would he time enough," quoth
Sir ROBERT, "to answer that question when the
three years had expired." Now we deny this
off hand assertion. The House has already had
abundant experience of this sort of tactics in the Pre-
mier's plans of fiscal operations. Whether it be a pro-
position connected with the Currency question, or the
Bank Charter, or the income• tax, his smartness is
shown in r ever allowirg those who are opposed to him
any opportunities of maturely considering the measures
be has propounded, or of preparing their objections, or
of organising their resistance to it.. This has been
made the subject of repeated and we'll-grounded cos •
plaint during the present session, es it was towards the
conclusion of the last. For the Chancellor of the Ex •
chequer, therefore, to have complained on Monday night
that Mr. BULLER was coming forward " at the eleventh
hour" with bis objections to theincome• tax, was a reproof
which came with singular bad grace on such a question
from any member of her MAJESTY'S Government. We
think that Sir It. PEEL is amenable to a charge of bad
faith for his mode of unfairly pressing on the decision—.
we mean the vote of his Ministerial majority—on the
continuance of this odious tax ; as well as to the impu
tation of extreme rashness and impolicy, in resorting at
all to the principle of an income-tax (our exception is
not to a property-tax), at so advanced a period of peace,
for supplementing a deficient revenue. After the inti-

mations elicited on Monday night as to the possible
perpetuity of this tax, and the cold discouragement
with which Sir R. 11. INGLIs's equitable proposition
in favour of small meomes was received, we can no
longer give to the Government proposal the benefit of
any doubts we might have formerly entertained upon it.
It is vicious in principle, cruelly and clumsily unequal in
apportionment, light upbn the rich, heavy upon the poor,
inquisitorial in its levy, irritating in its management,
wasteful in its anticipation of resources, and odious in all
its associations and precedents.

By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
' pany's steamer Pacha, we have accounts from Gibraltar
to thejst, and Lisbon to the:sth inst., and regret to state
that news bad been received at the former place of the
death of Mr. HAY, British Consul at Tangiers. He had
been ill for only a few days. At Lisbon a law
had been introduced into the Cortea for the re.
construction of the Council of State. The receipts
at the Custom-house for the month of February had
fallen off considerably. There is no news from the
other ports at which the steamer touched. The voyage
had been long and boisterous. From the time the
Pacha left Gibraltar till her arrival here, she experi-
enced nothing but the most tempestuous weather. On
the Bth and 9th. she :could not make more than three
miles an hour.

We have no accounts from Zurich later than the 6th
instant., but some details are given in the papers re-
specting the appointment of the Committee on the ques-
tion relative to tho Jesuits, and the views taken by the
different Deputies, which are not without interest. The
Committee has beea appointed, and consists of seven
members. Only thirteen out of the twenty-four Depu_
ties voted, viz., Zurich, Berne, Glaris, Soleure, Schaff.
hausen, St. Gall, Argau, Thurgau, Grisons, Vaud, Tes-
sino, Neuchatel, Geneva. The demi-cantons of Bale and
Appenzell neutralised each other. The rest of the can-
tons abstained from voting. All the Committee except
one were named at the first ballot. M. MOUBON, of Zu-
rich, had 11 votes ; M. NEUHAUS, of Berne, 11 ; M.
MUNTZIGER, of Soleure, 9;. M. KERN, of Thurgau, 8; M.
NEFF, of Saint Gall, 8 ; M. FREY, of Bale-Town, 7 ;
DRUEY, of Vaud, 10. From this it will be seen that the
majority of the Committee belongs to the Radical party.
After the nomination of the Committee the question of
the free corps was opened. Fourteen Deputies detailed
their instructions. Lucerne, Uri, Schwytz, Unterwald,
Zug, and Fribourg, fully approve of the repressive mea-
sures proposed by the Vorort ; Saint Gall, Grisons, and ,
Appenxell, do the same, with the exception of certain

provisions ; Berne, Soleure, and Bile Country will not
give any decisive opinion until after something has been
done against the Jesuits. Berne merely demanded that
the question should be referred to a Committee, without
entering into the merits of the question. The Deputy
for Lucerne made a long ard violent speech in support
of its decision in favour of the Jesuits and against the
free corps. The debate was adjourned to Monday, the
10th instant, to hear the Deputies of Argau, Thurgovia,
Vaud, Valais, Tessin°, Neadcbatel, Geneva, and Zurich'
Some of the Swiss journals state that the Provisional
Government of Vaud has demanded of that of the Valais
explanations on the subject of its having called out
three battalions. The Council of State of the Valais
has replied, that this armament was rendered necessary
by the provocations of the Valaisian refugees, who an-
nounced an attack, and by an erroneous account of con-
siderable armaments in the district of Aigle. It-is added,
that these troops will march through Martigny, and
that they will be disbanded as soon as circumstances
will permit.

Madrid journals of the 4th have been received. They
contain no fresh intelligence.

The ,Three per Cents. closed: on that day on the
Madrid Bourse at 34 9-16 (60 days) ; the Five per
Cents., 25i. (60 days); Coupons, 271 (60 days); and the
Debt without Interest at 1 (60 days), with premium.

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday tho
order of the day for passing the Pensions Bill was read,
when a ballot was called for, as on Saturday. On that
occasion there was a vast majority against the Bill, as
nearly all the Ministerial party had absented themselves,
but as the number present was not sufficient to make a
House, the vote fell to the ground. On Monday there
was a full attendance, and when the numbers were taken
there appeared for the Bill 188, and against it 201 ;
majority against the
-Bill, 13. The Bill was introduced
by the Government, but considerable alteration had
been made in Committee, and the Conservative party in
consequence, it was said, became indifferent on the
question, and some of them still kept away. It appears
the Cabinet did not attach much importance to the
Bill ; but still, says the Journal des Debats, before
the ballot of Monday had taken place, " it would
be deeply to be regretted if it were to be lost through a
negligence that would be totally inexcusable." The
National seizes the opportunity of pointing out the
powerless state of the Ministry. " The amendmend,"
says that journal, "relating to the length of service of
law functionaries, and their time of contributing to the
pension fund, having been adopted by the Chamber
against the wish of the Government, the Conservatives
found nothing better than to cause the Bill to fall to the
ground, by abstaining from voting, and rendering the
ballot null. The Chamber is divided into two nearly
equal parts. The number; of the Members pre-
sent scarcely exceeds 220, and 230 are ne-
cessary to render a ballot valid. It depends, there-
fore, on the minority, not to have good laws passed,
but to prevent the adoption of bad ones by the
Ministry. That would be, besides, the last and best
means of rendering apparent to all a truth which com-
mences to be pretty generally comprehended—that there
is no longer in reality amongst us any Government, any
regular authorities, and that we should be in a veritable
anarchy, if the good sense and love of order implanted
in the heart of the nation, did not hold the place of the
authority which is everywhere wanting." After this
Bill had been disposed of, M. REMUSAT brought forward
his motion for declaring certain public offices incompa-
tible with the functions of a Member of Parlia-
ment. M. G UIZOT opposed the motion, not only be-
cause the proposed measure was defective in itself,
but because it was contrary to the institutions and in-
terests of the country. He had no objection, however,
to the discussion of the motion, for he had no doubt that
discussion would open the eyes of Members and make
them reject it. M. Duns, who had previously voted
against a similar proposition, supported the motion, and
gave as a reason for changing his opinion, the recent
dismissal of public functionaries on account of their
votes. It was then resolved, without a division, that
the proposition should be taken into consideration.
The Montiteur contains a royal ordonnance on the re-
port of the Minister of Justice and Public Worship,
against the pastoral letter issued at Lyons on the 21st
November, 1844, by Cardinal DE BONALD, Archbishop
of Lyons. It is in these words :—" Our Council of State
having been heard, we have ordained and do ordain as
follows :—Art. 1. There is abus in the pastoral letter
issued at Lyons, on the 21st November, 1844, by the
Cardinal Archbishop of LYONS. The said pastoral letter
is and shall remain suppressed.—Art. 2. Our Keeper of
the Seals, Minister of Justice and Public Worship, is
charged with the execution of this present ordonnance,
which shall be inserted in the Bulletin des Lois. Given at
the Palace of the Tuileries, this 9th March, 1845." This
ordonnanca is signed by the KING, and counter-signed
by the Minister of Justice and Public Worship.•
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No business of consequence was done in the Funds on
Monday, but a great deal in railway shares, some of
vthich bad suddenly declined, owing to a wish on the
part of some to realise profits Tho fall had taken place
chiefly in Orleans, Rouen, Havre, and Avignon. Orleans
at first rose t) 1,435 f., and fell to 1,360?.; Rouen rose to
1,250?., and closed at 1,160 E; Havre, 1,002 f. 50c., and
closed at 965 f ; Avignon, 1,210 E, and closed at I,loof.
The Three per Cents. closed at 85f.; the New Loan at
66E 10c.; the Fire per Cents, at 117 f. 70c.; Spanish
Actives, 39 ; Belgian Two and-a-Half per Cents. 62 75.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day.
IN TUB CtiSE OF TIIE LTJDIAYIV CHARITIES.
The arguments in this part. heard case were resumed and
occupied the Court the whole morning.

THIS DAY.)
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The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed
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Mr. BETILELL replied, and
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(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
ELLICE v. GOODSON.
The arguments in this part heard case were concluded to-
day, with the exception of the reply; and, in consequence of
the absence of Sir Thomas Wilde, his Honour ordered the
case to stand over till the Saturday before the first day of
Easter Tenn, upon the understanding that on that day
either Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Bethell, or Mr. Heathfield,
would reply.
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
The further arguments in the part-heard case of Mayhew
v. Edmonds occupied his Honour the whole morning.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary Forum.)
CHURCHILL V. KING.
This was an action brought by Mr. Churchill, house. agent,
Castle-street, Holborn, against Mr. King, clerk to Mr.
Sylvester, attorney, Dover-road, Borough, to recover 101. 10s.,
on a bill of exchange, drawn by a Mr. ilyam, and alleged
to have been accepted by the defendant. The bill, on pre-
sentation for payment, being dishonoured, the holder insti-
tuted proceedings to recover the amount.
Mr. TEMPLE, who appeared for the plaintiff, called Mr.
Kinning, a respectable accountant, to prove the handwriting,
which the latter swore distinctly to.
Mr. King, who conducted his own case, advanced in
defence the plea that he had never accepted the bill in
question, and called a number of witnesses to prove that
the signature to the acceptance was not in his hand-writing.
After a short consultation the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff for the amount of the bill, with interest, 101. 138. 6d.
in all.
The defendant then asked if the officers of the Court would
be allowed to impound the bill in order to ensure its produc-
tion at the Central Criminal Court in a new trial ?
The SECONDARY intimated that he had no power to do so.
The defendant next wished to move for a new trial, on the
ground of the verdict being against evidence.
This the SECONDARY overruled, and said he was perfectly
satisfied with the verdict of the jury.
Mr. King then withdrew, expressing himself very much
displeased with the result.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE and a full Bench of Ma-
gistrates )
A powerful and athletic-looking man, named William
Gatehouse, was indicted for a most savage and brutal assault
upon a police-constable, named Thomas Cooke, by which his
life was seriously endangered.
It appeared that a person, named White, was given into the
constable's custody upon a charge of indecent assault, when
the prisoner, who is an acquaintance of his, attempted to
rescue him, and in so doing knocked him down and kicked
him about the lower part of his person, about his head, and
on the body so dreadfully, that he became totally insensible.
Medical evidence was adduced to show that owing to the
injuries he received he was for some time unable to attend to
his duty, indeed during part of this time his life was
despaired of.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and evidence was
brought forward to show that prisoner had been twice before
convicted of violent assaults upon the police.
Mr. Dots, who appeared as his counsel, raised a point
that the constable acted illegally in the first instance, and the
Learned Judge said he should respite judgment until the first
day of next session, in order that he might consider the ob-
jection.

The grand jury came into Court and announced that they
had got through all the indictments which had been preferred
at the present session, when the Learned Assistant Judge
discharged them after thanking them for their promptitude
and attention.

TIIE WOOD PAVEMENT. - The inhabitants of
Leadenhall-street have petitioned, and obtained leave, to
hate the wooden pavement removed and granite laid down.