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The latest Market Intelligence.
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The Parliamentary Int-lligence of the Evening, being
a full Report of the proceedings in both Houses
up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock.

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ORDER. the THIRD EDITION, which contains
NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE.

Sun-ulfice. 112, Strand.

Now ready, in 2 vols. Svo., with Portraits, 28s. bound,
MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA. DOROTHEA,
CONSORT OF GEORGE 1.,

Elector of Hanover, and King of England.
Lucln•ling HER. DIARY; with Selections from her Correspend-
en .e, now first pa',lished from the Originals.
" With the exception of Mary, Qu.-en of Scots, ne illustrions per-
sonage has excited s m ch interest and sympathy as the subject of
this Memoir. Her whole life, as related in these pages, is a perfect
roma ce The true features of the drama are now for the first
time published. Independently of the interest these Memoirs must
excite, on account of the ill star e i Princess whose persecution
they set forth, a vast number of contemporary portraits are given.
which add great value to its pages. The politic, yet weak-minden
Elector of Hanover ; the Platens, those devl. in human shape;
Madam'. ~,ciinten..criz, and others of the ugly harem of George the
First; Fred•.r.ck Xugustus, the Sardanapalus of the north; and the
handsome and notorious Count Kenigsmark, figure most prominently
in this i;,te.,,sting history."—Weekly Chronicle.
Colbur , Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

r?ady, in one vol. Bvo., with illustrations,
1 ESno the SHORES of the CASPIAN
By W. R. HOLMES, Esq.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to tier Majesty.)

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed Mozart's celebrated Opera, COSI FAN TUTTE.
Floriddill, Madame Anaide Castellon ; Dorahella, Madame Rda
Both); 11A, Mad one Rossi Caccia ; Ferrando, Sig. Mario;
Giugl.eimo. sir. P' Lahlaohe ; and Don Alpbonso, sig. Lablache.
After the Opera (for the list time) the new PAS DE QLIATRE,
composed expressly, by M Perrot. for Mdlles. Taglionl, Cerito, Grahn,
and Carlotta Gris! (her last appearance).
To conclude with the Second Act fLA GISELLE. Giselle,
Mdlle. C. Grist.

Doors open at Seven ; The Opera to commence at half-past Seven.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Signor LABLAC FIE respectfUlly informs the Nobility, Subscribers
to the Opera, and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place
ON THURSDAY, JULY 24,
When will be performed (for the last time this Season) Donizetti's
Opera, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grisi ; Dr. Malatesta,
Fornasari ; Ernesto, Sig Mario ; Notary, Sig. Dai Fiori ; and Don
Pasquale, Sig. Lablache.
With other Entertainments, in which Madame Anaide Cestellan,
Madame Rita Bork), and sig. Mpriani will appear.
The Entertainments in the Ballet Department will include the
combined Talents of Mdlle. Taglioni (her last appearance but two),
Mdiles. Cerito, Lucile Grahn, M. Perrot, M. Gosselln, and M. St. Leon.
To conclude with a New Ballet Divertissement, in which Mdlle.
Taglioni will sustain the principal part.
applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex-
mrce, Opera Colonnade.
1.0 irs open a' Sere:, ,to comme il/4;e at Half-past Seven o.Clock.

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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be pert ,rmed MY LITTLE ADOPTED. John Dibba, Mr.
Buckstone ; Rose Mayburn, INII4s P. Horton.
To be follow,l (by Express Desire) the admired Drama of
GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr.
W. Farrell.
Al la which, USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Charles
Mathews ; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland ; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady
Cintterbuck, Miss Carre.
To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING
AND T. Period. 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. 11. Hell ; Burchell,
Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessie Donald,
Miss Juli Bennett.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and one Guinea and a-Hall each.
Tickets and laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office,
from Teti till Five o'clock.

THEAT.tE ROYAL, ADELPHI
N DER TM: DIRECTION OF MADAME CET.ET I
Tills EVENING
Will be repeated MARIE DI:CANOE. Edward Lascelles, Esq.,
Mr. Hudson ; John Rawdoa. Esq., Mr. 0. Smi h ; Charles Claude
Prong, Mr. sWright ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste.
After which, all Ori4inal Terpsich..rean Bt_rletta, called POWDER
AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr.
Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. tselby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ;
Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs,
Miss Woolgar.
To be folio ,ed by THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Prac-
tice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr.
Cullentord.

TFIEATRE IZOYAL, LYCEUM
TFIF KLANAGI.Mf NT OF NERs.
First Week of a New Farce -Itoars of laa4hter at Mrs. Caudle's

Curtxn Lectures.
Tti Is EVEN [NCI

Will he performed a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal
Character, bv Messrs. F. Vining, Diddcar, Keeley, Meadows, Kill-
ion, and urner Miss flicks. and Mrs. A. Wigan.
T. he followed by a Nev Farce, to 1.5 called AN OBJECT OF
INTEREST, in which Mrs. Keeley will perform.
.fitter which, an entirely New. Original, and Novel Grand Fairy
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les
Danseuses Anglaises wdl appear.
To hich will he added an apropos ,iagatelle, in One Act, entitled
MRS. CA CDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Mea-
dows, Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Keeley.
coi.clode with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic,Chivalric,
'a!ry, Romantic Buriet,que, entitled CIN D EREL LA. The Principal
Character; by Mr. Keel,/. Mr. A. Wigan. Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr.
J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs.
~ijgy Grove, Miss Howard. &c

riiEATRE, OXF()11D-STREET.
LE -st:F., MR. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE SYREN Scipio, Mr. C. Horn, Jun.;
Balbaya, Mr. T.effier ; Marco Tempesta, Mr. Allen; the Duke de
ropoll, r. Walton ; Zerlina, Miss Georgiana Smithson.
To which will h: added A COUR r BALL IN 1740. In which will
introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos-
tume, with the Original Music.
To be followod by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS.
C DI,E; or, Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs.
'audle, Ox berry.
yo conclude with the Farce of THE THREE CLERKS- Fudge,
Mr. Walter Lacy- ; Trudge, Mr. Oaherry ; Drudge, Mr. Granby;
'Miss Julia Snooks, Mrs. Brougham ; Mrs. Trudge, Miss Somers.
Ste„ Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack4 Stage Director, Mr. Emden;
rch rri E‘lmund Bradwell.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMI'IIITII' ATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Grand Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi-
litary Manceuvri :5, Dances, Combats, and highly powerful effects,
includ:ng the saga •1 us performance of the Dog Unto; and sur-
prising Leap of the Horse Beda over the 'Broken and Flaming Bridge,
calico IL DIAVOLO ABRUZZI; or, The Brigand Chief and the Dog
of the Chateau.
New and Elegant Scenes in the Circle, by the whole of the French
Eqn.st
coneatde with THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing
.the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em-
pt ror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this
oce.

Box-ofllee open from Eleven till Five.

HA VI HUE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Bitllisht Success of the New Opra Company—Second Week of
21adame Eugen:a Garcia's Engagement.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed the Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Count
Tiodoipbo, Mr. Weiss ; Elvino, Mr. D. W. King, Amine., Madame
(ramie ; Lisa, Miss Collett.
Atter which MRS. CAUI)LE WILL DELIVER HER LECTURES.
To convitule with a New Dr ima, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., called
FAITH, HOPE, A N 1) cHARITY. In which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks.
Horner, Cowtll, Johnson, Hesiop, Miss Martin, Mrs. R. Hornier;
, will perform.
,rivirre Boxes to he had (AM*. Kerschner, at the Box-
. ••••
Eicviin t. oilr.

I:,.)yA 1, SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEss.
A DIFFERE'N'T SUBJECT EACH SEASON
COMBINATION. OF ATTRACTIONS.
gaM ANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE.
RxTE,NSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE.
COLOSSAL WiI)ELLED REPRESENTATION. OF EDINBURGH,
- The Acme of Scenic Illusion.
The RO('K RMON ICON from Three till Eigq. -
Sand :on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS-
DAVY% GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and 3IAGNIFIL:ENT
DISPLAY of FIREWORKS.
Admission, One Shilling.
jr.wding the Caraivora at half-past Five . Pelicans and Polar Rears
et lia'r-past Six: Fireworks at flalf-past Nine
On wednetiday, Ju'y 23, a Grand Union Flower Show by the Royal
South London Florienitur4l -i,eiety, on which occasion a coiniiino-
tion of AtiractiVS Novelties will be presented, exclusive of the
Floral Fete.

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SATURPAY JULY i 9

Thr: T.or4ls met' at. Eight o'clock.
The report on the Wsst London Railway Extension
Eta was brought up by Lard BROUGHAM.
In the course of couversatio3 on the state of Ireland,
Lord STANLEY expressed the disappointment felt by the
Government at the course pursued by the Orangemen in
Jreland. The Noble Lord then introduced a Bill for re-
,dating the payment of costs in opposing Railway Bills,
whic
-h was read a first time.
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Lora' lIEATIMONT moved fur certain papers relating to
• affairs in
few words from the Earl of ABERDEEN the
After a
reed to.
motion was ag
The Australi, ln Waste Lands Bill, and the Brazilian
• Slave Trade Bill, were respectively read a second time.
Jr motion
r r• the third reading of the Foreign
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kr asked an assurance from the Go-
w should be strictly euforced on the
asiyertisement for a foreign lotteri►.

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Lord STANLEY gave the required assurance, and the
Bill was read a third time and passed,
The Field Gardens Bill was read a second time,
On the motion of the Earl of BESBOROUGH, the re-
port of the Select Committee on the petition of JOHN
FYN and others, against the Dublin and Galway Rail-
way, was ordered to be referred to the Committee on the
Bill, and their Lordships adjourned.
The Commons met at Twelve.
The Lunatics Bill was reported, as was the Dublin
Jury Presentments Bill, and the Drainage of Lands
Bill, and the Poor-law (Scotland) Bill.
The Jurors' Books Bill and the Highways Bill were
committed.
The House then went into Committee on the Valua-
tion (Ireland) Bill.

Notwithstandirg a vigorous opposition from Lord
CLEMENTS and Mr. S. CRAWFORD, the Bill passed
through Committee at the morning sitting.
At the evening sitting the Small Debts Bill, No. 3,
was read a second time, and committed, pro ferma, for the
purpose of introducing several amendments.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE then drew the attention of the
House to the cast• of Eliza Price, who had, while in cus-
tody on a charge of stealing a halfpennyworth of coals,
been chained for four days to a grate.

Sir J. GRAHAM promised to inquire into the matter.

Mr. SIDNEY 1-lERBERT. in answer to Mr. WAELLY,
admitted that the accounts which had appeared of the
flogging of the two soldiers at Windsor Iv,- re substn-
Molly correct. The men had been flogged for disobe-
dience to the orders of the officer in refusing to march
to the black-hole.

Captain BERKELEY then moved that the House do
resolve itself into Committee, to consider the propriety
of an address to her MAJESTY, humbly requesting that
she would he graciously yeased to grant a pecuniary
roeompencP to the officers, seamen, soldiers, and marines.
engaged in the operations against the Chine,e Empires
in the years 1840, 1841. and 1542.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the
motion on the ground that it was an infringement on
the power which had been always jealously reserved t‘
the Crown.
Sir C. NAprEa, who supported the motion, complained
of the special pleading of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, and of his denial of justice,
Mr. J. A. SMITH, Mr. H. BERKELEY, and Captain
PECHELL, also supported the motion.

Sir R. PEEL admitted the value of the services ren-
dered in China. It was a most disagreeable duty to re-
fuse these claims, but he felt bound to oppose the
motion.

Mr. WILLIAMS thought that ample remuneration for
the services in China bad been made already.
Lord PaLmEasTori quoted the case of Navarino as n
precedent for the present motion. He thought the
Government had made a very niggardly allowance to
the brave men who had been engaged in China, and he
hoped the matter would be taken into serious con-
sideration.

The motion, which was supported by Captain
HARRIS and Captain PLUMRIDGE, and opposed by Sir
JAMES DUKE, was negatived on a division. The num-
bers being, for the motion, 27 ; against it, 68 ; ma-
jority 41.
The House then went into Committee of Supply.

Upon every fresh occasion on which the affairs of
New Zealand—our settlements there, the proceedings of
the New Zealand Company, the acts of the New Zealand
Goverment—are brought under public notice, we find
new occasion for marvelling at the imbecility or the im-
prudence, the precipitancy or the infatuation, whichhave
marked the proceedings of all the actors in this " strange,
eventful history." And yet where the legislative and
executive organisation of a new colony was a stuperdous
blunder, ab ot'o, an original mistake, it is little matter
for wonder, that, with the lapse of time, it should have
become a matured, practical, and dangerous anomaly.
The latest accounts from New Zealand, in the afflicting
narrative they convey of the destruction of Kororaika
by the natives, and the expulsion of the British residents
from the beautiful shores of the Bay of Islands, after a
sanguinary conflict in which the Aborigines, makirg all
allowances for their great numerical superiority and
even their better fire-arms, must be allowed to have ex•
hihited the most undaunted irtrepidity and self-posses-
sion;—these accounts furnish nothing more than the
next catastrophe in the natural sequence of such calami-
ties as the massacre of Wairau. We have not been
backward to declare our opinion of the enormous re-
sponsibility which attaches, for past failures and disasters,
to the ill-digested plans of the New Zealand Company,
and the still more culpable manner of reducing them
into execution, to the follies of Captain FITZROY, and
the infatuation of those connected with him in the
Councils and the Executive Government of the island.
But we have never been t nabled to trace the true con.
nexieu of cause and effect, in their relation to events
that, in New Zealand, must always confer a melancholy
interest upon the. }llse ry of the last three years, with
the authority and certainty that we are now enabled to
do, after a careful perusal of the legal opinion re-
turned by Mr. BURGE, (a Queen's Counsel and a
juri,t, moreover, of very considerable eminence).
on certain queries that have been submitted
to him as to the construction of the New Zealand Go-
vernment Act, the 2d and 3d VICTORIA. c. 62. The im-
mediate cam e of the late outrage at Kororaika is said
to have been the gradual extinction of trade there—the
desertion of the whalers, and the consequent unpopularity
into which the local Government had fallen with the
chiefs. We fear that a cause still more effective and
deplorable has been the notorious dissatisfaction of our
British coloni. ts there with the strange freaks of Lerd
STANLEY'S nominee Governor, and the consequent apathy
with which they have regarded previous insults o❑ the
Briti-h flag. which, being passed over with impunity by
our authorities, appears to have invited, at the
hands of the savages, their original perpetrators, a re-
moval of them. It may be a very egregious absurdity
fur Europeans to permit their indignation at a Gover-
nor's absurdities to make them comparatively indifferent
to the development of the most unequivocal symptoms of
determined and persevering hostility towards them on
the part of the rude and turbulent people on why se
lands they have eats blis'ned themselves; hut when Eng-
lishmen imagine that they have been not only miserably
misgoverned, but also illegally taxed, they are quite as
apt to listen as much to the impulses of resentment as to
the dictatea of discretion or the suggestions of present
interest. Now the facts of misgovernment not having
been disputed, even by the thick and thin defenders of
Lord STANLEY'S measures in Parliament, we proceed at
once to the question of the illegal taxation, modified or
imposed, and levied in New Zealand by Governor FlTZ-
ROY—modified by his entire abolition of customs' dues
at certain ports ; imposed and levied in the shape of a
substituted income-tax on British settlers in the colony.
The two questions propounded to Mr. BURGE were
these :—(1.) Whether or not New Zealand is subject to
the provisions of the statute 21 and 3d Vic., c. 62 ? (2.)
Whether or not, by virtue of such statute, or of Acts
relating to the Government of New South Wales and its
denenden•ies, or otherwise, he Legislative Council of
New Zealand have power to impose taxes and to esta-
blish eu,tems ?

The Crown, Mr. BURGE remarks, possessed no
authority in right as of its prerogative, to grant that
form of government now existing in New Zealand, with
this power of taxing the inhabitants of the colony, which
has lately been exercised by it. An established prin-
ciple of constitutional law precludes the Crown from im-
posing on any colony acquired in the way that New
Zealand has been, any form of government invested with
Powers inconsistent with the rights enjoined by the sub-
jects of this realm, under the common law a England.
Adverting to the precedents of the Governments esta-
blished in our North American colonies and West India
islands, the Learned Gentleman shows that the Crown
did not attempt to introduce into the latter, of its own
prerogative, their constitution of Governors, Legislative
C,,imeil., and [louses of Assembly ; but these were pro-
vided under special Acts of Parliament, authorising the
Crown to make the necessary provisions for carrying
such establishments and enactments into effect. So
neither could 'he Crown attempt, of its own authority,
to estab'ish, in New Zealand, its present form of govern-
ment, giving it, at the same time, a power of imposing
taxes, without the express sanction to that effect, by
statute, of the Imperial Parliament. It is evident that
the Government in New Zealand has exercised such a
power. The question is, has any such power been con-
ferred on the
,Government of New Zealand by the 2d
and 3d Vic., c. 62 ? It is clear that thlt Act does extend
to New Zealand ; thi.ugh even this fact, but for an se_
cident, would still have been ambiguous. Until June,
1839, the Crown had not only not asserted, but had dis
claimed any title of prior discovery, and had actually
treated it as a foreign country.
Our readers will perceive that Mr. 13trnoz thus con-
firms the complaint we have so often urged, on this
score, against the last as well as the present Govern-
ment. New Zealand seems, from first to last, to have
been with them a colonial nondescript. They were
afraid to handle it. They knew not how to administer
this great legacy of the enterprise of TASMAN and of
Coosa to posterity. This noble island group was nei-
ther bird nor beast--reptile nor fish—to their bewildered
judgments. Now it was caught, how was It to be treated?
More perplexity was never caused to the astonished
council of a zoological society !
by the, arrival of the first
" ornithorynchus" or duck-billed 'animal, to determine
whether it should be classed with "1170," or " rn el*"

the otter or the duck. Mr. STEPHENS himself, in the ,
" memorandum" drawn up by him for the Colonial
Minister, had treated of it as of a foreign country, and
not as part aid parcel of the dominions of Great Britain.
But, subsequently, the letters patent of June, 1839, did
establish the sovereignty of the Crown over New Zea-
land, by including it within the commission of the Go-
vernment of New South Wales. Mr. BURGE is, there-
fore, clear on the first point, that New Zealand is subject I
to the provisions of the Ist and 2d VICTORIA, which au-
thorised the Crown to declare it a separate government 1
from that of New South Wales, and to appoint a council.
The second question—" What powers the Government,
so created by the Crown, under the authority of 2d and
3d VICTORIA, c. 62, possess or are entitled to exercise"—
derives an extraordinary importance from the
fact that the New Zealand Government
has assumed the power of imposing taxes.
Has the Act given to this local Government, under the
powers which it has conferred upon the Crown of creat-
ing it, any such power as this of taxation ? The Act
authorises the Lieutenant-Governor and six other indi- '
viduals to form a Legislative Council for a certain
deny—such individuals to be nominated by her Ma-
JEsTY, and hold office during her MAJESTY'S pleasure ;
and the terms are " it shall be lawful for such Legisla •
tive Council to make and ordain all such laws and ordi-
nances as may be required for the peace. order, and
good government of such colony." Do these terms in-
clude any p, iwer of imposing axes ? The cases of our
North American and West Indian Legislatures, which
do possess and exercise such a power, are not in point.
These legislative bodies are composed of the Governor, ii
Council, and a House of Assembly, elected by the free-
holders of the respective districts, counties, er towns fir
which they are returned. Such bodies, therefere, impose
taxes on that principle of our common law which makes
the imposition of the tax the act of the parties who
pay them, or of their representatives. For this
L7gislative Council of New Zealand to have been al,
thOriSed to impose taxes would have been, clearly, to
violate this great co .stitutional principle. Bat it is
obvious that the Crowe itself, not poss. ssing any such
taxing power, could not delegate it to its own nominees
(and the Legislative Council of New Zealand are no
other than its nominees). The difference between such
a body and the legislative bodies of Canada, of Jamaica,
of Newfoundland, and other of our colonies, is as broad
and marked as possible. Besides—as Mr. BURGE has
well argued—if the Legislature had intended to give any
such power to the Crown in the present instance, it would
have done so in express terms, not by implication merely;
and the rule of law is always to construe, strictly, any
statute empowering the inspisition of a tax. Mr. BUrtGE
finally concludes that neither in terms nor by implica-
tion do the enactment& of the Ist and 2d Vic., c. 62, or of
the other Acts of Parliament in reference to New South
Wales and its dependencies, give any such power
to the Government of New Zealand as it has been exer
cising, of imposing taxes on the QUEEN'S subjects.
If Mr. BuRGE's opinion be a sound one—and we shall
be curious to learn who will venture to impeach it—
how enormous have been the extent and the consequen-
tial mischief's of the illegal action of Captain FerzaoY's
government ? The colonists have been robbed, first, by
the colonial chiefs, and plundered afterwards by the
chiefs of the native tribes. The common-law rights of
English settlers have been trampled under foot, and
English settlers have lost much of the universal attach-
ment of Englishmen allover the world to their form of go-
vernment, and to institutions derived from their mother
country. What wonder? We are curious to see in
what shape the question will be addressed to-Lord
STANLEY how he came, as head of the Colonial Depart-
ment, to slumber over the unconstitutional and despotic
proceedings of his especially-recommended and accre-
dited selection of a Colonial Governor

The Bill honoured by the title of the Jewish Dis-
abilities Removal Bill, which actually proceeds to the
alarming and incredible extent of enabling Jews to be
mayors and aldermen in corporate towns, might not
unjustly be styled a " Bill introduced by a Conservative
Government in 1845 to remove certain disabilities im-
posed on the Jews by the Conservative party in 1829,
and deliberately and designedly continued by the same
Conservative party in 1841." The disabilities of the
Jews in corporations arise out of the words " on the
faith of a Christian," in the oath prescribed by the Act
which repealed the Test and Corp, ration Acts, which
words were introduced into the oath in the House of Lord.
on the motion of the present Bishop of LLANDAFF, not-
withstanding the remonstrance of Whig noblemen, and
especially of the late Lord HOLLAND, who eloquently
pointed out and reprobated the ‘ffect of these words o
the Jewish members of our community. The Bishop Of
LLANDAFF was silent in the House of Lords on the pend-
ing- Bill for undoing his own handiwork. In 1841.
shortly before the dissolution of the Whig Government,
Mr. DIVETT, the Member for Exeter, introduced a Bill
oxactly similar to the present Government measure ; it
passed the House of Commons, Mr. GOULBURN and Mr.
GLADSTONE vehemently opposing it, and was stranded in
the House of Lords. A similar Bill has now been proposed
by a Government of which Mr. GoULBURN is a leading
member, and Mr. GLADSTONE a principal auxiliary, has
passed the House of Lords without a division, and is
supported in the House of Commons by the same
" Goody " and the same " Gladdy" (as SYDNEY SMITH
dubbed this saintly pair) who, in 1841, saw the destruc-
tion of Christianity and our Constitution in the admis-
sion of Jews to only corporate offices.

Mr. Divierr's Bill of 1841 was confined to the admis-
sion to corporate offices only, because there was no hope
then of getting more from the House of Lords ; but Sir
ROBERT PEEL, who can do as he lists with that august
assembly, has not the same excuse for the imperfection
of his measure ; he would experience no more oppo.ii
Lion from his own party if he proposed to remove all the
civil disabilities of the Jews than he meets with to his pre-
sent measure, aid he would have from the Liberal party
on which he depends for the success of all his measures,
a more hearty and vigorous support. And consistency
is as much violated by the small measure as it would be
by the greater.
Is it meant by this Bill that a Jew is fit to be an
alderman, but not fit to be a Member of Parliament ?
The argument for the Bill is, that a Jew already possesses
privileges, which are inconsistent with the refusal to him
of aldermanic dignity. He may be a county magistrate,
and a deputy-lieutenant of a county, but he cannot under
the present law (the Bishop of LLANBAFP'S law) be an
alderman of London or Norwich. Inconsistent, doubt••
less ; but inconsistency will not be got rid of until all
civil disabilities alike are removed. The mere removal
of one disability only increases the inconsistency. The
more privileges you allow the weaker is your case for
withholding what you continue to withhold. Mark the
present state of Jewish rights and disabilities. We un-
derstand that Jews have lately entered the Indian civil
service ; and that when once they have entered
that service there is nothing to prevent them
from rising to its highest honours. On the
death, or sudden recal, of a Governor-General, a
member of the Council of Calcutta acts as Governor-
General till the arrival of his successor. A Jew may
do this ; but, on his return home, he cannot be a Member
of the British Parliament. He may run the race of the
MALCOLM; and ELPUTNSTONES in India, but in the land
of his birth he may not aspire to associations in fame
with the Bermes and the WYNDII %MS and the CAN-
NING& He must limit his ambition in England to the
mayoralty of his native town, or the honours of county
magistracy. Is wealth power ? A Jew may rule ti,
world on our Exchange, hut he cannot legislate for his
country in St. Stephen's. Sir ROBERT PEEL need not
go to the Secretary of the Order of Baronets to learn
that the Baronet on its first institution was not an empty
title. A Jew may be a Baronet ; the QUEEN has con-
ferred that honour on Sir ISAAC GOLDSMID, and never
was honour better deserved ; but he shill not, says Sir
ROBERT PEEL, be a Baron. But PEEL would not be PEEL
without half measures and arbitrary distinctions.

Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have arrived. The royal
decree limiting the freedom of the press had arrived in
Madrid from Barcelona, and was to appear in, the official
Gazette of the following day. The terms of it are said to be
very stringent. Madrid was quiet. but great anxiety was
expressed respecting the events passing in Catalonia. It
would appear, however, that CONCHA has completely sup-
pressed the insurrection in that province.
The Duke DE GLUCESBERG had not left Madrid for Bar-
celona, as has been announced in some of the French papers.
bat remained there to act as Chargé d'Affaires during the
absence of Count BRESSON. The Clamor Public() states, on
the authority of a letter trom Cadiz, that no amelioration of
the treatment of its two editors, who were prisoners in the
fort of Santa Catharina, had taken place. The Espanol
mentions that the roof of the celebrated Carmelite convent at
Seville, one of the most valued historical monuments in
Spain, had fallen in, with a large portion of the walls. These
journals quote a paragraph from the Gibraltar Chronicle of
the 2d, stating that the Governor, Sir ROBERT WILsoN, had
received official intelligence from Tangiers, of the ratification
of the boundary treaty between France and Morocco.
The Infante Don FRANC)SCO DE PAULA held, in the 10th,
a levee in the Palace of Buen Retiro, on the occasion of the
feast of his daughter Donna AKELLs. FELIPA. It was re-
marked that the Charges d'Affaires of France and Belgium
were among the first to present their homages to the Princess.
The Three per Cents. dosed at 28 5-16 for cash, and 28i
at 60 days; the Four per Cents. at 201 at 60 days , the Five
per Cents. at 21i at 60 days; the Coupons at 26; the Vales
at 10 ; and the Debt without Interest at 61 at 60 days.

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The Paris papers of Wednesday have arrived. On the die-
cussion of the budget of expenses in the Chamber of Peers on
the preceding day, Count liforrw raussirt drew the etten-