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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1845.

46s 6d, good 47s to 49s 6d, fine 50s to 51s 6', very superior l The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman was clearly
54s 6d to 565; grey low to mid 40s to 435, and good to fine out of order in attempting to refer to petitions when there was
44s to 47s Gd per cwt. no debate.
FoIIEIGN.-Brazil has brought full rates, and a cargo of Mr. MANGLES said that if he were prevented from stat-
-300 tons of tine brown Pernambuco in bags at 19s 3d per cwt. ing the opinions of those for whom he had acted, he would beg
At auction 50 chests of Bahia were sold, good strong white to give notice that he should move certain amendments on the
at 255, good grey ditto 23s 6il to 04s, damaged 21s ; 50 chests Medical Reform Bill in Committee..
of brown, very fine 20s to 21s, fine 19s, good 18 Gd, middling MAYNOOTH.
17s, and damaged 17s Gd to 18s 6d per cwt. Business in yel- Mr. T. S. DUNCO3IBE presented two petitions against
low Havannah has been checked, in consequence of a further any increase in the grant to the College of
Staynooth. They
advance being insisted upon, Gnu is held for 23s to 245, good were numerously signed, and were untainted by any spirit cf
22s to 22s 6d, low to middling 20s 6d to 21s Gd, and brown exclusiveness; but they deemed that any ccoviastical esta-
19s Gd to 20s per cwt, none has again been offered at auction. blishment was an unconstitutional imposition, and they prayed
White fine quality is held for 33s 6(1 to 355, good 30s to 335, the House to modify or reduce the grant.
middling and low 273 to 29s per cwt. Portoßico fetched2Os , Mr. HINDLEY said he had presented several petitions
to 20s 6d per cwt. against the grant to Maynooth last night, rod he now had to
Moistssgs.-West India little wanted, and prices gave present seventy more. He would not trouble the House with
way ; at auction 402 puns of good Antigua were only partly reading the titles of these petitions, for he did not expect they
sold at 18s to 19s, and 16 puns of Barbadoes at 19s per cwt. would be of the smallest avail, but he conceived that it was
East India Treacle sold at 19s per cwt. , necessary to present them in order to put the House in pos.
EAsT Is:DIA.-This afternoon there wer offour public sales session of the feelings of the country. The parties who had
of Fengal Sugar, containing 4,772 bags; these 1802 bags signed these petitions were not induced by any disposition to
consisted of Bally Khal, these were taken in much above the the "No Popery " cry, but because they conscientiously be-
value, common syrupy grainy yellow at 35s 6d, middling lieved that any State support to ecclesiastical establishments
ditto, 42s to 435, good ditto 45s to 465, fine ditto 54s to 555, was bad in principle.
RAILWAY
drainage damaged 37s to 445, and washed 43s to 56s per cwt ;
,
there were buyers at fair market rates. Of other sorts the R
Mr. STUART WOTLEI , seeing the Honourable
chief part sold generally at former rates. Member for Oxford in his place, Irgged to ask him when they
TEA.-To-day the transactions in Congou was on a more might expect a notification of the selection of Committees for
extended scale, in consequence of 9d to 91d per lb having railways, and, in what order they meant to classify the Bills.
been accepted for common. Twankay sells more freely at .111 r. ESCOTT said that the day on which the House se-
Is 2(1 to is 21d per lb for common, but in other sorts there parated before the recess, the 20th of 'Mch, was the very
was little done. earliest day on which any decision could become to. It was of
0-WEI:E.-This afternoon there was a better demand for curse clear that some consideration was required after the House
Native Ceylon, and the rates paid were rather above those of met again before the result of that decision could
he declared.
yesterday, be declared.
yesterday, good ord fetching 46s 6d to 47s per cwt by private Rut h expected that the last would appear t to-
treaty, but there are few orders for Plantation-at public sale morrow morning. With regard to the second portion of the
653 Bags were offered ; Native all sold, good ord pale al Hon. Member's question, it was impossible to say in what way
46s 6d to 475, ord 45s Gd, and sea damaged 44s to 45s 64, the Bills would Le classified, for their order must depend on
the Plantation sorts were partly disposed of at the business of the House.
firm rates, viz.-good middling blue at 85s to 90s, RAILWAYS AND THE BOARD OF TRADE.
mid grey 803 to 82s, fine fine ord 68s to 70s, fine ord pale Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on Tuesday next he
54s to 565, very good ord 50$, pea berry 70s, superior 903 to would call attention to the Railway Department of the Board
935, Triage 37s to 49s per cwt. Mocha was purchased with of Trade, with a view of preventing their inflicting further
caution, and 185 bales at auction were only partly soip at the I injury on both public and private interests.
former value, viz.: mid brownish clean garbled at 58s, mid Mr. TUFN ELL moved for a return of the number of ap-
greenish 60s 6d to 61s, mid yellowish 59s 6d to 60s, mixed prentices who have attended at each of the schools established
peas 725, and sea damaged 37s to 59s per cwt. I in her Majesty's Dock. yards, during the year ending December
COCOA -This afternoon at public sale 30 bags of Bahia 31, 1644.
Cocoa were sold at 36s 6d per cwt for fine bright Red being
rather cheaper.
Rust, Bt: ANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-100 puns Jamaica sold
at 3s 4d for plain quality 32 to 34 per cent 0. P., and small
parcels at 3s 5d to 3s 811 for middling, good 3s 9d to 4s, and
tine 4s 2d to ss. For Leewards there are
not many buyers, only 120 puns at is 10d
proof. The nsurket is dull for Calcutta, and previous rates
with difficulty sustained; only 50 hhds sold at Is 8d proof
with certificate. Demerara 2s 6d to 2s 10d for 100 puns, 28
to 37 per cent O.P. There are not many buyers of Brandy.
Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 4s Bd, puns
45 6tl ; ditto 1839, libels 4s 54, puns 4s 3d ; ditto 1840, libels
4s 4d, puns 4s 2d ; ditto 1841 hhds 4s 44, puns 4s 24 ; ditto
1842 hhds 4s id, puns 3s lld ; ditto 1843, hhds 3s 114, puns
3s 94 ; ditto 1844, hhds 33 9d, puns 3s 7d ; middling and good
middling of tt e various vintages 2s 8d to 3s 74, low 2s 6d
to 2s Bd, and Bordeaux Os 6d to 2s 7d per gallon. Geneva
shipping sort is 94, and fine 2s 4d to 2s 104 per tsallen.
Rich:.-Bengal has been much inquired for, but the market
has been scantily supplied, and prices continue high ; low to
middling white lls 6d to 12s 6d per cut ; Madras yellow
9s Gd to lOs 6d per cwt; Java white at Its to 12s 64, and
yellow lOs to lOs 64 per cwt; Patna at 14s to 16s 6d, fine at
17s to 18s, and Carolina at 23s to 28s per cwt.
SiocEs.-This afternoon the market was better supplied
with Black Pepper, 1,037 bags of Sumatra, and 1,275 bags of
Penang were submitted to public competition ; the former
was sold at very full rates ; good light rather greyish free
from dust and stalks fetched 21id to, sea
damaged first class 2id to 2.1 d second class 2d
to 2,1 d, sea damaged and repacked 2/5d to 9V, good
light sound clean brownish 2.d to 21d, sea damaged
Ist class 21/t4, 2nd 21/8" d, ditto and repacked 24, good bold
black rather stalky and dusty 2%d to 214 d, sea damaged
first class 2144, second ditto 21Ad, inferior 24, dusty grey
21it, inferior 21,V, and sea damaged 24 to 210, the latter
was taken in at 25/sd for good light brown being rather above
the value ; there were purchasers at 9.1,,d per lb. An in-
creased desire was shown to buy Cassia Lignca.
T.tonow.-This afternoon at public sale 439 pkgs, 77 hhds,
7 boxes of South American Tallow, went at 30s Gd to 375,
and 149 casks of New South Wales at 35s 3d to 38s Gd
ser cwt.

NEW ZEALAND.
Mr. FOSTER asked the Honourable Gentleman the
Under Secretary for the Colonies if he had any objection to
lay on the table of the House the Government dispatches
received from New Zealand on the Ist inst. ?
Mr. HOPE thought the House would agree with him that
these dispatches were for the information of Govern-
ment and not for the information of Parliament. At the
same time, however, he could state that these dispatches were
all ready, and he had no objection to lay such parts of them cn
the table as the House might wish to gee.
RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION (SCOT-
LAND) BILL.
Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to call the attention of the
Lord Advocate t) a report which had gone abroid, to the effect
that the Learned Lord had allowed an Hon. Member to add a
clause to the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill of Scotland,
without giving any previous notice of its nature, and at a time
when the 13111 was in its last stage, and there was
necessarily but a small attendance of Members in the
House. When he mentioned what the clause was,
he thought the House would agree with him, that it was
one of considerable importance. The provision was no less
than this—that every future railway to be constructed in Scot-
land, should give an indemnity or guarantee to the landed pro-
prietors of Scotland for any loss they might sustain
through any turnpike• road being affected by the
construction of the line. It had created considerable
excitement in Scotland ; and he wished to know whether the
facts he hxd stated were correct?
The LORD ADVOCATE said the clause was similar to
one introduced into the Bill relating to England, and he did
not think the Committee bad sanctioned any unusual or unjus•
clause

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The House met at the usual hour.
IRISH CONSTABULARY.—SANATARY
REGULATIONS.
The Maquis of NORNIANBY gave notice that he would,
on Alonday next, move for a return of the appointment of the
constabulary from the lot of May, 1838, to the present time.
He would on the same day also present a petition from
the Mayor and town council of Kilkenny, in the county
of Leiniter on the subject of sanatory regulations in towns.
The Noble Marquis also gave notice that he would put a ques-
tion on the same day, in order to ascertain how semi the Go-
vernment Bill oa this subject would be introduced before the
House.

HILL COOLIES-SUNDAY TRADING-LOCAL

RATES.
The NOBLE MARQUIS also presented a petition, numerously
signed, from the town of Leeds against the introduction of bill
coolies into Jamaica ; also petitions from Yorkshire against
the opening of public-houses on Sunday ; also a petition from
the Mayor and Town• Counicil of Cork, praying that instead of
the grand jury, they should have some other tribunal for the
L settlement of local rates.

THE WELSH BISHOPRICS.:
The Bishop of BANGOR presented several petitions from
places in Wales praying for a repeal of the Act uniting the
biat.orritm of {2.n µ^r n,etd Ck- A ao,r6.
INCOME-TAX.—IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a house-
owner in the district of St. John's-wood, complaining of the
oppressive operation of certain parts of the Income-tax Bid.
The Noble Lord also presented a petition from tradesmen
against the administration of the Act passed last Sear abolish•
ing imprisonment for debts under 201. The petitioners eid tot
object to the abolition of imprisonment, but they complained
that creditors had not an adequate remedy.
PUNISHMENT OF PAUPERS FOR NON-PAYMENT

MR. MAZZINI.
Sir C. NAPIER ,aid that he
.perceived a statement in the
public newspaper declaring positively that Mr. Mazzini had
nothing at all to do with that order for the murder of Rodez,
which was alleged by the Right Hon. Secretary for the Home
Depo tment to have been signed by him. It appeared from
the statements in the paper that the order was a forgery, and
that Mr. Mazzini was not in France at the time the order was
made. He wished, therefore, to ask the Right Hon. Baronet
if he still maintained his charge, or whether he was prepared
to follow the example of the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury,
and make an apology to Mr. Mazzini ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said, that the Hon. and Gallant Officer
was not so obliging as to give him any notice of his intention
to put such a question. He should have thought that he would
have observed the ordinary rule of the House in such a matter.
But, as that rule had not been observed, he could scarcely be
expected to answer the question now. However, he would say
this, that he had seen letters written by Mr. Mazzini, to which
the question of the Hon. and Gallant Officer referred ; and he
(Sir J. Graham) last night laid upon the table of this House,
by command of her Majesty, certain papers which bore di-
rectly upon this question. The House would remember that,
when he was making his statement to it upon this question,
he said distinctly that part of the accusation against Mr. Maz-
zini did not rest on official information, but on certain letters
which he (Sir J. Graham) held in his hand.—( Hear, hear.)
He had heard that it was the intention of Mr. Mazzini to pro.
secute the Moniteur newspaper for an alleged libel contained in
that paper, but that he did not follow it up ; and he had also
heard that Mr. Mazzini did take an action against another
paper for the same, and that he had not succeeded in
proving the allegation. But he told the Hon. Member for
Finsbury that he had never seen those letters or papers, and,
therefore, could rot tell what the nature of the accusation was.
—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir J. Graham) really knew nothing
more of the subject than this and what he had already stated,
except that he had heard that the accusation in the Moniteur
was ill-founded ; and he should now say he was bound to state
that he did not intend to persevere in the accusation against
Mr. Mazzini, and had therefore withdrawn it.—(Hear, hear. )
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.
vintser.n n.„, a se ennyr " .........;--
of the R ght Hon. Baronet opposite to introduce the Bill for
the proposed increased grant to May nooth ? The reason he
asked the question was because he had been requested by a
large body of Dissentors to put off the second reading of the
Bill for a fortnight.
Sir R. PEEL said that, in consequence of the resolution of
the House in Committee last night, in favour of the Bill, Mr.
Greene had rec., ived directions to prepare it ; and the House
then fixed upon Friday next as the day upon which the second
reading of that Bill should take place, and it would, therefore,
receive a second reading on that day.—( Opposition cheers. )
Mr. rLumpTiu.: said he was requested to inquire whether
the time for the second reading of the Bill might not be ex-
tended beyond Friday next ?
LORD ASHBURTON AND LORD J. RUSSELL.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he wished to ask a question
of the Hon. Gentleman, the Under Secretary of the Colonies,
on a subject which was personal to himself. He had seen
within the last few hours a statement, purporting to have been
made by Lord Ashburton with regard to a speech made by him
(Lord John Russell) on a late occasion. He would say, in the
first place, that a friendship existed between him and Lord Ash-
burton, which friendship began when that Noble
Lord and himself were of the same opinion is
politics—( Hear, hear, and a laugh)—and that the difference
which had taken place in their political opinions had nor
interrupted the cordiality with which they always met to-
geti er whenever it was his good fortune to meet that Noble
Lord, and that nothing was further from his wish,
in the discharge of his public duty, than to
say any thine personally unkind of that Noble Lord.
—(Hear.) 'ln the coulee of the discussion on the navy
estimates a discussion, quire unexpected by him, arose with
regard to the treaty concluded by Lord, Ashburton evil:
America. That discuseien was introduced by Isis Nob:e Friend
near him, anti, in consequt nee of what had fallen front the
Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, he (Lord John Russell) had
referred to a matter which he conceived to be correctly stated,
as far as his recollection en the subject served. He had
said that he thought it was advisable there should be
some arrangement made by which the forces of Great
Britain and America should occupy a certain position, which
should be the boundary between the two States,
For that purpose he had instructed Lord Sydenham
to carry on negotiations with that object, with the con.
currence cif his Neble Friend the Member for Tiverton,
Lord Sydenham informed him in his answer, that he cou'd nor
obtain from Mr. Webster any terms other than terms by whi
that part of the Madawaska settlement ou the right bank of the
river St. John should be occupied by the two Powers. It wa•
clear that Lord Ashburton supposed he (Lord J. Russell) al-
luded to negotiations for a permanentsettlement of the boundary ,
whereas—and he thought it was sufficiently clear from what he
had said—he only alluded to a provisional arrangement to be
made between the two Governments. If it was the intention
of the Government to carry on any diplomatic negotiations,
they would, of course, be carried on by his Noble Friend,
and not himself, as the Noble Lord might have known.
All he wished to know was, if the Hon. Gentleman the Under.
Secretary for the Colonies, had received a copy of any
instructions which he (Lord John Russell) gave to
Lord Sydenham, and his answer to him. He
spoke at the moment from memory, and did not anticipate
a discussion on what he then stated ; but the Noble I.ord had
totally mistaken the whole transaction, for that Lord Syden-
ham could have made such observations seemed to him ( Lord
J. Russell) impossible. He wished to ask the Right Hon.
Gentleman to produce the documents he had in reference to
this subject.
Mr. HOPE said he was not aware that the Noble Lord in-
tended to put this question. He would, however, make every
search for the papers to which the Noble Lord referred.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL inquired if a correspondence had
taken place in respect to a provisional arrangement between
the Colonial-office and Lord Sydenham ?
Mr. HOPE said there had been a correspondence with
respect to the disputed territory.
Mr. HUME said that all dispatches connected with this
dispute ought to he laid on the table of the House.
S:r ROBERT PEEL said, if the documents could be pre-
sented without any injury to the public service, he had no ~b-objection
objection to their production ; but this matter having been
settled between this country and the United States, he did not
see why they should be produced. He did riot think any
public object would be answered by their product ion, but if the
Noble Lord wished for any particular papere which could be
produced without detriment he should have there.
BRAZILS.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON wished to ask a question of the
Right Hon. Baronet on the subject of the present state of our
relations with the Brazils. It was well-known that we
had had a commercial treaty with that country which
had expired in the month of November last. Under the
the provisions of the treaty British subjects residing in the
GRANTM,nr
ot Brazils weie entitled to certain privileges, which were not pos-
sessed by the Brazilians, in reference to the disposal of their
Mr. Parnell,property by will, the English Consul taking care that in the
TerOt 0 AMYr
.NOOT H. event of the death of a British subject his property went to his
Hamilton, Col. Acton,
heirs. That treaty expired. in November ; and it
.was the
Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Divett
Mr. Palmer, Dr. Bowring, and
presented
petitions from several other Hon. Members
British subjects had expired with it. A case had recently
grant to Maynooth. v ' Places, against any additional
arisen in which considerable alarm had been felt as to the disposal
CHURCH EDUCATION of the property of British subjects dying in the Brazils, or dying
Mr. BATESON presented a petition from in this country, and leaving property in the Brazils. He wished
Derry, in favour of the grant for Church education the county of
to ask the Right Hon. Baronet first, if the Government had
JEWISH DISABILITIES Bltss in Ireland. taken the matter into their consideration ? Secondly, if Mr.
Dr. BOW RING presented a petitien from the Unitarians Hamilton had made any con.munication to them on this sub-
Bolton in favour of this Bill, and praying the House not to ject? And thirdly, if he could hold out any hopes that the
throw impediments in its way, but to still further extend the same privileges would be
continued to British subjects in the
spirit of toleration which had dictated it. Brazils, which they had enjoyed previously to the expiration of
SAWYERS. the treaty ?
Mr. SPOONER presented a pet it ion from the sawyers of Mr- Sir. R. PEEL replied thet it often happened that the mer-
mirigham complaining of the present system of importing from chants of Liverpool and Manchester received earlier intelligence
America, into this country, ready-cut boards, free of duty, and of matters of this nature than was received by the Forairn-
praying the house to appoint a select committee to inquire office. The Goeernment had not received any account of the
into its operation upon the operative sawyers of the country. transaction to eeeich the Hon. Gentleman referred, but he
Mr. COLVILE presented several petitions from Derbyshire would make this general statement that by the treaty which ex-
against the grant to the College of Maynooth. pired in 1844, on the death of an British subject in the Brazils
The Stonechurch Road Bill was read a second time. the administration of his effects devolved upon the British
MEDICAL BILL. Consul and not upon the Brazilian authorities. Her Ma-
Mr. MANGLES said that he presented a petition last night jesty's Government had made • • t tl e Br. zilian
a proposition ( d
Government on the •
from a numerous body of medical practitioners in several towns ' subject of the treaty, and that stipulation
in Surrey. praying for some alteration in the Medical Reform was a part of the proposal which they had made.
Bill introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of T THE ASHBURTON TREATY.
State for the Home Department. He withed to put the House
w.
•cord
the Right Honourable Baronet had givc.n to his
HonourAble Friend the Member for Montrose on the sub-
actuated.

to nis wont. The other parts were all filled respectably,
and great credit is due to the management for the
manner in which they have placed Much Ado about
Aothing on the stage. Allen took the little part of Bal-
thazar, and sung the beautiful ballad, " Sigh no More,"
with exquisite taste and propriety, and was deservedly
honoured with an encore. Wallack and Miss Cushman
were honoured with the usual ovation at the fall of the
curtain, The house was very well attended.

ject of the extracts from the dispatches which had bee
read by Lord Asburton in another place was altogether
satisfactory. He did not know exactly the extracts to which
his Hon. Friend had alluded, but, from what he had heard, he
understood that Lord Ashburton had read elsewhere
seme extracts from certain dispatches for the pur-
pose of showing that some statement that had been
made by a member of that House (the Howe of Commons)
was erroneous. Now he would assume that to be the fact—
(" Hear, hear," from Mr. liume)—and he would ask where did
Lord Ashburton get these dispatches?—( Cheers.) He must
have procured them either as a negotiator, in which
case they would be his own dispatches, either written by him
ur sent to him, or they were dispatches which had been ob-
tained from the Foreign-office, or they were dispatches
which had been laid before Parliament. Ii they
were dispatches which had been laid before Parliament,
he had nothing more to say. The Noble Lord had a perfect
right to use them. If the dispatches were his own—were dis-
patches which had come into his power as a negotiator, having
been either written by him or to him—if these dispatches
had been furnished to him by the Government, then he would
say that, in the first case, he had no right to send his own dis-
patches without having obtained permission of the Government,
and if he had obtained that permission, or if they had been
furnished to him by the Foreign-office, then it was the inva-
riable practice of Parliament to lay those dispatches on the ta-
cle, in order that Parliament might know what they contained,
instead of b:ing only made acquainted merely with extracts
read in Parliament. The Right Hon. Baronet would see that
it was not sufficient to say that the dispatches merely 'elated
to a question which had been settled. The question was not in
reality as to anything that had passed in the negotiations between
the United States and this country, but it was to see if cer-
tain statements made in that House by persons formerly hold-
ing official situations, were or were not erroneous,
and whether or not these statements bad been
made fur the purposes of deceiving. He wished
to ask another question. On the 16th July, he
moved for a return of the number of negroes landed in each
year, 1815 downwards, on the coast of America. That return
the Right Hon. Baronet acceded to with the greatest rea-
diness, and he (Lord Palmerston) could only wish that the
same readiness had been shown in furnishing. The Right
Hon. Baronet had told him that he had presented it, but this
was not his (Lord Palmerston's) petition, but some other. He
trusted the Right lion. Baronet would make inquiries into the
subject, and see that the returns were presented.
ir It. REEL could not understand what dispatches the
Hon. Member for Montrose had alluded to. Of course, if it
were necessary, any dispatches which had been produced
in the other House of Parliament might be produced
to the House of Commons, (so we understood the Right Hon.
Baronet, but the low tone of voxe in which he spoke, and the
m iFe which prevailed in the House, we could scarcely hear
him.)
HUNIE said he had alluded to despatches which had
been referred to by a Noble Lord in another place, which had
not been laid before this House.
Sir R. PEEL, wish respect to the return alluded to by
he Noble Lord, could only say that it was very difficult to get
up such returns, but he would use every exertion to have this
one. made.

TARING THE VEIL.—On Monday a young lady
was invested with the holy habit and religious veil of a
Sister of Mercy, at the Convent of Mercy, Bermondsey.
The ceremony took place in the church of the Most Holy
Trinity, which adjoins the convent. The sacred edifice was
crowded with spectators of the highest class of society, who
appeared to take the deepest interest in the imposing pre-
ceedings. Miss Zimmer, the postulant, having communi-
cated in the morning, first appeared in her secular dress at
the ceremony. At the appointed hour (noon) all the reli-
gious assembled, put on their church cloaks, and lighted
their candles. The following divines officiated :—the Right
Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Revs G. Foley, North, Butler, Coiling-
ridge, Bowman, Cotter, Horrabin, Ringrove, Baunber, and
O'Neale. The postulant took her place between the Su-
perioress of the convent and an assistant, and on her knees
asked the blessing of the former and her own religions name.
At a given signal the choir sang the hymn Gloriosa Virginum.
The hymn finished, the celebrant Bishop repsated, " Ora pro
efy sancta Dei Genetrix." He then blessed a wax candle,
and placed it on the altar, and having put incense into the
thuribles and blessed it, he sprinkled the candle with holy
water, incensed it, and presented it lighted to the postulant,
saying—" Accipe, filia charissima, lumen corporale, in
signum luminis interioris, ad repellendas omnes tenebras
ignorantite, vel erroris." The Bishop next preached
a sermon suitable to the occasion from these words :—" Be-
hold, we have left all things, and have followed Thee."
The sermon ended, the Superioress and her assistant con-
ducted the postulant to the grate of the altar, when, kneel-
ing, she was interrogated as follows': —Celebrant—" My
child, what do you demand?" Postulant—" The mercy of
God and the holy habit of religion." Celebrant—" Is it
of your own free will that you demand the holy habit of
religion ?" Postulant—" Yes, my Lord." After some fur-
ther questions and answers and prayers, the parties arose,
made a genuflection, and retired, when the postulant
put off her secular dre'ss, and the religious habits having
been blessed by the bishop, she was clad in them, as well as
in the blessed veil. She then became a novice, and at the
conclusion of the initiatory rites the Bishop sprinkled her
with holy water ; the assistant directing her to rise, made
with her a genuflection to the Holy Sacrament, and con-
ducted her to the Superioress, to whom she kneeled. The
latter raising her embraced her. The novice then embraced
the other religious, to whom she bowed before and after the
embrace. The choir then sang the psalm, " Ecce quam
bonunt, et quam jucundam habitare fratres iii unum." The
psalm ended, the religious retired in the same order in which
they entered.
SHROPSHIRE IRON TRADE.--113 consequence of the
large advance in the price of iron which has recently taken
place, the Lilleshall Company have resolved on advancing the
wages of the numerous hands in their employ :—The men to
the amount of 6d., per day, and the women and boys in pro-
portion. The whole of the pits and furnaces belonging to the
company are in full operation, and the advance will take place
~mmediately. Worcestershire Chronicle.

BUENOS AYRES.
Mr. EWART rose. and was
FLEFT SPEAKING.]

GRANT to iviAYNOOTH COLLEGE

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—There is something quite ludicrous in the State con.
centrating all its sympathies and all its expenditure on the college
instead of the parish, in making priests instead of maintaining
them. Paying clergy when we find them, that is, because there
they are, and the people will have them, seems a far less departure
from principle than actually producing them, and sending them
into the country. l‘laynooth is, in fact, a missionary college. Sir
Robert Peel is a second St. Patrick, sending fresh and more accom.
plished emissaries to fight their own way in a barbarous country.
We feed the Protestant clergy, but teach and train the Catholic
student ; and then send the latter to usurp the former's
nominal kingdom. Of course the grant is fated. Even
if it had been contingent on the result of a debate, there
was nothing last night to damage its prospects. The
two University Members, Sir Robert Inglis and Mr.
Law, resisted it ex qfficio, and the former con amore, but with ar.
guments which have ceased to persuade the British Legislature.
Messrs. Gregory and Plumptre also protested in the name of their
several parties, the latter without any compromise of tone; and,
strange to say, Mr. T. Duncombe took the same line. Lord
Sandon, however, not having the fear of M`Neill before his eyes,
gave in his adhesion to the measure. Lord John Russell supplied
to Sir Robert that cordiality which he so painfully is in want of
from his own benches, and Mr. Ward and Mr. Sheil also brought
their quota of support. The Member for Sheffield goes farther than
the present Government measure, and also feels an objection, in
which we beg to express our entire sympathy, against giving good
English money to this doubtful purpose. Ireland ought at least to
maintain its own schools and clergy.
HERALD.—Our readers have now before them the provisions
of the Bill for the increase of the Maynooth fund. We can hardly
expect any who object to the measure upon principle will be recoil.
cited to it by a consideration of its details ; but we are of opinion
that few reasonable men will dispute the justice of Sir Robert
Peel's description of the three-fold alternative presented to the
country and to the Legis'ature, viz.—First, to break off all con.
flexion with the Maynooth establishment, and, after providing for
existing interests, discontinue the annual grant. Or, secondly, to
go on as we have been going on for fifty years. Or, thirdly, to
adopt the measure now proposed. Sir Robert Peel described,
without exaggeration, the penury and sordidness of the establish-
ment in which the religious teachers and political leaders of the
Irish Roman Catholics are prepared. Coining from such a place
could they be different from what they are? This is the
question to be answered by the opponents of the Minis-
terial Bill. But though such penury and sordidness of education
may, and perhaps do, justify rudeness and disaffection in the indi.
viduals who have suffered by them, they are no justification of
those who ought to have obviated them—the preceding race of Ro.
man Catholic clergymen and the Romanist agitators. They have
drawn (priests and agitators between them) from two millions and
a half to three millions annually from the people for many succes-
stve years; they have built gorgeous cathedrals, and given every
other proof of great wealth ; but to the college in which their
clergy are educated they have not contributed a single penny,
though a small per centage on their receipts would endow a college
as nen as till Ole colleges in cithcs c,Ailinitoge taxcn
together—far richer than the Irish University. They give to
Mr. O'Connell fifty-six thousand pounds a.yearl and they leave
their first theoiogical professor to subsist upon the public grant of
1201. per annum? Such an anomaly, so long continued, :cannot
be accidental. It is part of the system by which Romanism and
democracy—democracy of the lowest, rudest, and most violent
character—have been long allied in Ireland, to combat the religion
of England and the British connexion. To force a good education
urn the Irish priesthood, to let the intelligent Roman Catholic
lar y see that we wish their clergy well educated, and that we arc
ready to furnish the means, is to cut at the root of this alliance ;
and such is the necessary tendency of the Ministerial Bill, the
third and only safe branch of the alternative at our command.
ADVERTISER.—Great as is the es it of endowing Catholicism
in Ireland, the circumstaace is accompanied with no inconsiderable
good. It has opened the eyes of thousands of English Episcopalians
and Scottish Presbyterians to the evils of religious establishments,
and consequently made them converts to the views we have always
advocated. The former friends of establishments are compered to
relinquish the ground which tons have hitherto taken. They find
they can no longer, with any yistency or justice, plead for the
State endowment of one religion, and object to the some favour
being conferred en another. Either, as just remarked, all religions
ought to be endowed, or there ought to be no State religions at all.
To the latter conclusion they are at last driven. Within the last few
weeks a greater number oftroselytes have been made to the
anti State-Church principle, than were made for as many years
before. if it shall turn out, as we hope It will, that the
effect of the endowment of Catholicism in Ireland, will be to
create so powerful and universal a feeling against religious csta.
Wishments, as shall lead to their abolition altogether, the event
which we now so deeply deplore, will prove to have been one of
the happiest that could have occurred. Things cannot remain as
they will he after the passing of this Bill. It is not to be expected
they will not be content
that the Roman Catholics of Ireland will be content with the pit.
to their own degradation.
population of 500,000 Pro.
lance, inadequate to their rights, if the principle of endowment be
etehsae extent of one million and a
once admitted—given to them like a bone to a discontented dog.
of upwards. of seven millions of
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with a grant of some 26,000/.
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half sterling, while the great mass of the population—the Roman
people, cs
areof expectedireiad;
the crumbs from their masters' table. The insult to them of such
an expectation would be unpardonable,
. did not the conduct of
it .
their own leaders and their own press justify it.
(eh zn,saisttinged

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, April 3.
THE ASHBURTON TREATY.
Lord ASHBURTON (in continuation from our Third
Edition of last night) said—He had a most sincere and
unfeigned respect for Lord John Russell, and from a
long and intimate knowledge of the matter, he was
perfectly assured that his Noble Friend would not
make any statement which he knew to be unfounded.
Yet that statement of fact was so—whether it was that
the Noble Lord in going out of office dreamed of these
facts—(A laugh)—or took the statement upon some
light authority—(A laugh)—there was no founda-
tion for it. The negotiations between Mr. Fox and Mr.
Webster arose out of the disturbances which took place
between the irregular troops of the State of Maine and
our fencibles in New Brunswick. It had been settled
that there should be a treaty on the boundary in that
direction, and Mr. Wtbster and Mr. Fox agreed only to
fix upon a boundary, in the mean time, to put an end to
those disturbances, until the treaty should be settled. But
there could be no treaty on the boundary in the
Madawaska statement, without the consent of the States
of Maine and Massachusets ; and when he (Lord Ash-
burton) was in the republic, he had to wait for the
arrival of the Deputies from those States. He had felt
himself called upon to make this explanation, which he
did without any intention to cast imputations upon others.
The Companies' Clauses Bill was read a third time and
passed.
On the motion of the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the fol-
lowing Bills . were read a first time :—The Railway
Clauses Consolidation Bill, the Companies' Clauses
, Consolidation Bill, and the Lands Clauses Consolida-
tion Bill.

HER mAJESTV'S ROYAL RIVER
YACHT FAIRY.
This beautiful little vessel, built of iron in the strongest manner,
by Ditchhurn and Mare, 145 feet in length and 21 feet breadth of
beam, and 250 tons burthen, fitted with oscillating engines, by
John Penn and Son, was tried down the river yesterday for the
fourth time. The Fairy left Deptford about nine o'clock A.M.,
under the charge of Commander Smith of the Woolwich Dockyard,
with an officer and crew of the Black Eagle, amd the Royal Marines
of the William and Mary yacht. Mr. John Penn, engineer, and his
assistants, went on board at Deptford, and Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer
at Woolwich Dockyard, embarked at that port to ascertain the speed
of the vessel and the working of the machinery. This handsome
vessel, which distanced all the other steamers on the progress down
the river, is propelled with an astonishing degree of speed de-
cidedly far exceeding the greatest ever previously obtained by the
screw propeller, with which she had been fitted on Mr. F. P.
Smith's plan. The great speed of this vessel has been obtained by
a very ingenious, adaptation of the double slides to Mr. John
Penn and Son's engines, which renders them more eligible than
any other description of engines for screw propellers. When op.
posite the measured nautical mile in Long Reach, the speed of the
royal river yacht Fairy was calculated by Mr. Lloyd, and found to
be, after ten trials, above thirteen knots on the average reckoning,
and against wind and with the tide, upwards of fifteen statute
miles per hour. The vessel rides in the water remarkably easy,
notwithstanding her great velocity, and is 5.3 stiff and upright in a
breeze, or when the whole have moved to one side, as to show
scarcely any perceptible d.fference in her perpendicular position.
The engines,
bY Messrs. John Penn and Son, are two of 64-horse
Power, each making 48 strokes per minute, and causing, by the aid
of the cog.wheel attached to them, 240 revolutions of the screw
Propeller in the same period of time. The engines are very corn-
pact, and, owing to their oscillating
movements, only occupy a very
small space in the vessel, 14 feet by 4 feet ten inches, and the
connecting axle of the screw is entirely under the cabin floor,
near the keel of the vessel. Tne beauty of the workmanship, and
perfect adaptation of every part of the engines to each other, was
clearly shown during the trial, as not the slightest degree of heat-
ing took place, but every part worked with the greatest smoothness.
It is expec ed the vessel will be completed in a few weeks, and ex.
coed in speed the fastest paddle-wheel steamer in any service.
When opposite Charlton.pier en her return, the Fairy allowed No.
11 Waterman, fast boat, to get ahead, and, putting on her speed,
distanced that vessel before she got to Blackwall. The draught of
the Fairy is 4 feet 4 inches forward, and 5 feet 4 inches aft, and
the height of the principal cabin, ti feet 2 inches, and altogether
very commodious and suitable for the purpose for which she has
been built.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Miss Cushman has added another laurel to her wreath
by her performance of the character of Beatrice last
evening. Never has the lively, witty, warm-hearted
Beatrice been more delightfully represented than it was
by Mi:s Cushman last evening. We have seen many
ut,Ftes perform Beatrice well in some parts excellently •
well—but as a whole we have never seen a Beatrice to
equal Miss Cushman. Where others have merely in-
dicated Shakspere's meaning she has elaborated it—
where oth!rs gave a clever sketch she presents us with a
finished picture. Every gibe and jest, and sarcasm
told, and in the last seen-es 'where the warm-hearted
woman breaks out against the foul slanderer of the fair
fame of Her ; she was mairnificent. Wallack's Bole-
diet was admirable. 11, fe'lt that he had a Beatrice
worthy of him, and he acted accordingly. His Benedict
is far and away the best on the stage, and reminded us
not unfrequentls', nor, be it added, unpleasantly, of the
Benedict of Elliston, whose mantle has not un-
worthily fallen on the shoulders of James Wallack.
Compton's • Dogberry was a genuine bit of true
Shaksperian, and the Verges of Oxberry, although
inferior to that of Keeley, was very good. Mrs.
Brougham made a very interesting hero, while Mr..
Archer roared. through the past Leonatc, according

RAILWAYS.
The NOBLE EARL at the same time laid upon the
Sable of the House, by command of her Majesty, maps
relating to the proposed railway communications with
the northern districts of Ireland and Scotland, the re •
ports of the Board of Trade up,•n the scheme for supply-
ing Leeds and the West Riding of Yorkshire with rail-
way communications, upon the Portsmouth and South
Wales schemes, and upon the London and York and
South Wales projects.
The Duke of RICHMOND trusted that as the Court
of Quarter Sessions would be held next week the Rails ay
Clauses Consolidation Bill would not be pressed through
the House till the following week. There were other
parties interested in this hill besides those connected
:vial railways, and he hoped there would be no objection
to the course proposed.
The Earl of I)ALHOUSIE had no desire to press
these Bills more rapidly than was consistent to admit of
proper attention being paid to them ; but, at the same
time, it must be remembered that., to a certain extent,
the postponement of this Bill was checking the progress
of the numerous measures likely to come before Parlia-
ment, connected with railway legislation.
BASTARDY BILL.
Lord STANLEY said—the fact of the quarter
sessions coming on next week induced him to hope that
their Lordships would now sanction the second reading
of another measure. It was a Bill for amending the
existing law of bastardy, for which no day had yet been
fixed for the second reading. The Bill would not,
to any extent, alter the spirit of the present
law, but it was introduced into Parliament for the pur-
pose of removing certain technical difficulties which im
pedi d thet operation of the Act.of last year.
After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL and the
Duke of RICHMOND the Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
THE OREGON TERRITORY.

Lord CLARENI)ON gave notice that he would to
morrow call attention to the question of the Oregon ter
ritory.—Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. April 3.
GRANT TO MAYNOOTH.
Sir R. PEEL (in continuation) said—l need make no
apology, if I read the statements contained in it to the
House. It begins—" Your Excellency, we beg leave
humbly to state, that the College of Maynooth has hng
been struggling under great disadvantages for many
years, in consequence of the very inadequate accommo-
dation provided, and we beg to state that for the purpose
of carrying out the objects intended by the Government.,
we instituted an inquiry with the view of laying the
state of its affairs before your Excellency. We exa-
mined first into the internal adminis'.ration of the Col-
lege, and we find that not only are the salaries of the
professors lower than the usual allowances, but
that this reduction is so great as to interfere with
their comforts to a degree unbecoming a public
institution for the education of the youth of Ireland.
Thus they inflicted a great inconvenience in the removal
of that wholesome restraint which is so necessary to be
kept up during the short period of the student's proba-
tion, in order to render him a practically useful member
of society in that sphere in which it was destined he
should be placed. Notwithstanding every endeavour, a
debt of 4,6001. has been incurred. So insufficient was
the sum granted for the purposes of the College, that
during the term, the authorities were com
pelled to give an additional vacation of two
months for the purpose of saving some of the
expenses. We beg further to state, that the increased
expenses of the College has had the effect of closing
its doors against that class of society in which candi-
dates from the Roman Catholic priesthood had been
most frequently found. Those who support the scholars
at Maynooth now find the expenses of doing so so
heavy, that numbers of the latter are obliged to with-
draw before the term of their probation is completed.
Their departure has in consequence caused a
diminution of the profits arising to the Col-
lege from the number of students there.
To such embarrassments are they reduced, being fre-
queatly obliged to withdraw the students before they
have completed their ordinary ecclesiastical course of
study." I may state, in addition to chat, that there are
many cases in which, from the inability of the provisions
to defray the expanses of the College, the sum of 231..
the al!oveance for one student, is obliged to be divided
between two. Now, Sir, I have stated fully the state of
the College of Maynooth, and I ask whether I am not
right in saying that you can take no course that is not
preferable to the one now pursued ? It contained a
violation, if it be a violation, of a principle in under-
taking to instruct the priesthood of Ireland, from whose
doctrines you dissent, and to make an inadequate pro-
vision for the education of those for whose instruction
you make yourself responsible. Is it wise ? Would it
be prudent ? Shall we say to the Roman Catholic
subjects we are bound by an inconvenient obligation
contracted by ourselves, and that obligation we will
respect in a surly spirit. We will continue
to give you what you now have—there shall be no im-
provement—there shall be no increase to the grant. We
shall allow the amount to remain so much as the statute
permits—we will, in a surly spirit, give you 9,000/. a
year—and we tell you that we do it, though our con-
science is violated; because it is our intention to adhere
to the statute. When we come to the consideration of
another matter, shall we allow that our conscientious
scruples are violated ? and shall we resolve to discon-
tinue all connexion with the College of Maynooth ? and
shall the burthen of educating the priesthood be thrown
on the people themselves ? There are some, I know,
who consider that a desirable object.—(bear, hear.)
Are we, therefore, to adopt that course, and at the same
time must we tell the Roman Catholics that, on religious
grounds, we absolve ourselves from all further connexion
with the education of the priesthood 7 Before you
adopt that course, you should weigh and fully deliberate
upon the circumstances which attend that establishment.
I do not hesitate to say that, apart from the obligation
of payment, apart from the consideration of the mortified
and irritated fi,eling which might arise from such an
avowal on your part, namely, that you have conscientious
scruples against the contincance of that vote, I do not
hesitate to say that I believe the absolute discontinuance
of the vote would be better for all parties than a con-
tinuance of such a state of things as that which I have
described. But I think I can assign a reason why, if
you -Nil% as legizlatols, take into your account public