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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.
Mutual explanations took place between the Marquis
of NoRMANBY and Lord STANLEY on the subject of the
Irish Constabulary.
The Sugar Duties Bill passed through Committee, and
after the presentation of a number of petitions, their
Lordships adjourned to Friday.
The House of Commons met at Four.

After the transaction of private business,
Mr. Herr gave notice that on Monday he should pre-
sent a petition from the Legislative Council of New South
Wales, praying that that colony might be put upon the
same footing as Canada, as regarded the importation of
corn into this country.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice of a motion respecting
the condition of tha labouring classes for that day
fortnight.

Mr. T. DUNCCOLBE moved for lawn to bring in a Bill
to secure the inviolability of letto:rs passing through the

Pos t- office.

The mown, which was seconded by Dr. Bowanto, was
opposed by Sir J. GRATIAIt, who, in the coarse of his
speech, stated that as yet he livid received no answer to

the inquiries which he had instituted, for the purpose of -
ascertaining the truth of the charges which bad been
brought against M. Kuzma, but that, as soon as those
inquiries were completed, he would state the result to
the House.

Lord J. Russral. was ready to impose restrictions on
the power possessed by Government of opening letters,
so as to prevent letters being opened at the request of a
Foreign Government, but he was not willing to do away
with the power altogether.
Mr. WARBURTON considered the continuance of the
power useless and unnecessary.
Lord Howzm supported the motion. The present
system was a system of falsehood countenanced, recog-
nised, and legalised by Government.
After a few words from Mr. HUME, in support of the
motion, and Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, the House divided, when
there appeared, for the motion, 78 ; against it, 161-
majority against it, 83.
Mr. MACKINNON then called the attention of the
House to the report of the Committee and of
the Commissioners on the Health of Towns, and moved
the following resolution :—" That it is the opinion of
this House that it is inexpedient that interments within
the precincts of this metropolis and large towns should
be continued, both as being injurious to the health of the
people, and as being contrary to public decency."
Mr. HUME seconded the motion, which was opposed
by Sir JeatEs GRAHAM, on the part of the Govern-
ment.

After a lengthened discussion, Mr. T. DUNCOXBE
proposed the following amendment, which was se-
conded by Dr. BOWEING, " That the practice of inter-
ments within the precincts of the metropolis and large
cities is injurious to the health of the population and
demazids the serious attention of Parliament."
Mr. MACKINNON was perfectly satisfied with this
amendment, and withdrew the original motion in its

favour.
Sir R. Nam hoped that in any alteration which might
be made, due regard would be had to the interests of
the Clergy.
After a f ew words frem Sir G. GREY,
Sir J. GRAHAM advised the House not to proceed in
this matter by resolution, and announced his intention
on the put of the Government of opposing Mr. T. Dux-
COMBE'S amendment, as well as the original motion.
The House then divided, when there appeared—for the
amendment, 66 ; against it, 49 ; majority against- the
Government, 17. Loud cheering followed the announce-
ment of the numbers.

Mr. M. GIBsoN moved, " That an humble address be
presented to her Alujesty, to the effect that it was the
opinion of the House that it was desirable to obtain in-
formation regarding the amount of acres in cultivation
in the United Kingdom—the amount of agricultural pro-
duce, with a specification of the various kinds, and such
other information as might enable the House to arrive
at a correct estimate of the capabilities of the United
Kingdom."
Sir G. CLERK was willing to give the information re-
quired, but he hoped that on the present occasion the
Hon. Gentleman would withdraw his motion.

A short discussion ensued, in which Mr. AGLIONBY

Mr. CHRISTOPHER, Mr. WARBURTON, Mr. DARBY, Mr.
F. BARING, Mr. GLADSTONE, Sir R. PEEL, and other
Hon. Members took part, all of whom admitted that the
subject was one of great importance.
Ultimately the motion was withdrawn, and the other
orders of the day having been disposed of, the House ad-
journed at Twelve o'clock.

The very brief interlude which was performed on
Monday night last in the House of Commons, entitled
" Scotch and Irish Banks," was confined to a single
scene. The whole " business" of that scene (we believe
we correctly employ the theatrical jargon of the day)
consisted of two questions to Sir ROBERT PEEL and
half an answer from that Minister, than whom no man
has ever contrived to compress more mystic meaning into
a shake of the head since the Lord Burleigh of the
play. Now the " nothing" which Sir ROBERT hail to
utter was most effectively insinuated. his dumb show is
really more eloquent than his declamation; but that dumb
show should now succeed to declamation so fierce, and
confident, and overbearing, as that in which the Premier
has up to this time indulged in denouncing the small-
note currency of Scotland and Ireland, is the most
striking part of the performance. Let us see bow this
affair came off. Mr. BOUTERIE requested the Premier
to have the goodness to state—first, when he meant to
bring forward his motion relative to the assimilation of
the Scotch and Irish currency to that established in
England? and, secondly, what the nature and details of
that measure would be? Sir ROBERT answered that,
from the pressure of other " and more important
business," it was impossible for him to name any
particular day on which he could undertake to bring
the subject under the considtration of the House."
Amazing ! Why, he has over and over again warned,
assured, and wearied the House by insisting that, in
effect, the permanency of public credit and the main-
tenance of the national prosperity and power were indis-
solubly connected with the concurrence of the Legis-
lature in this notable seheme of his for interfering with
the career of Scotland's prosperity and the reviving
hopes of Ireland's industry. He was loftily superior to
all intercessions—at the close of last session and the
commencement of this—for a little delay ; for recom-
sideration of his projects ; for better and fairer oppor-
tunities to the vast interests that would be compromised
by his perverse experiments on this small note circula-
tion of two integral portions of the empire, to devise
some means of mitigating, at least, if they could not
avert, the visitation he so pertinaciously threatened. He
replied with haughtiness,- almost with impatience, that
the question had been maturely considered by her Ma-
jesty's Ministers ; that they felt themselves pledged to
give this complement to the measures which
Parliament had passed in 1819, 1822, and 1844,
for the better regulation of the currency of
England. The measures they had prepared for Scotland,
and contemplated for Ireland, to carry out and assimilate
the currency in all three countries must be brought for-
ward without loss of time, and become law. What is
the " change" that has since " come o'er the spirit of
his dream?" Does MALAGROWTHER'S spirit still walk
the earth, and meet him at the witching hour, as he dis-
mounts from his carriage at the portal of his house in
Whitehall-gardens? Is it that he dreads the contagious
example of a " league" of the Scottish bankers, or the
great mercantile and trading community of England, who
are so turbulently averse to being any longer taxed to
the teeth by: his high currency tariff? Is he at last
awaking to the bitter remonstrances of that immense
, section of the people, our industrial classes, whomhis
monetary tamperings have mulcted on the one hand of
from thirty to forty per cent. of their just wages, and
burdened with from sixteen to seventeen millions of in-
direct taxation which it was the purpose and desire of
the Legislature that imposed it to raise from the
wealthier consumer, nut the needy artisan-producer, or
famishing husbandry labourer ? Better late than never,
even if all this be so ! If Sir R. PEEL be disposed to
listen, even at this twelfth hour, to the voice of
reason and the counsels of experience, and the protests
of practical intelligence and knowledge as to the baneful
operation of that scheme with which he has contrived
to work so vast an amount of mischief and misery to
England, if it should ever be extended to Ireland, and
especially to Scotland ; we can compound with him for
the offences he has persisted in daring all the other
eleven hours. But how is this ? Is there really " other
business and more important" to engross his attention ?
Has he brought himself to speak slightingly of the prior
and paramount claims of the currency upon all his facul-
ties and invention ? Why—this was the first love of his
public life ; the primal passion of his senatorial adJ-
lescence ; and now be turns round upon her (the same,
but no longer the darling, currency of his earlier career),
and snubs her with no more compunction than if she
were a mere Conservative agriculturist—a country pro-
tectionist—a discarded bore of a county supporter,
haunting him behind the Treasury Bench and at the
Carlton Club, in the unchanging consistency of a blue
coat, yellow buttons, and leather unmentionables. Does
he mean to " cut " currency ? If he do not, we predict
that ere long currency will cut him. The connexion be-
tween them cannot be maintained on the gold standard
footing upon which alone he is pledged to maintain it
one year after the friendly relations of Great Britain
with any of the more important foreign Powers shall
havecancel
moreprudent been disrupted. Let him in good time, then,
the
dee d of tetdlem stillen t" he has executed, and
preparesd.
another, ‘
faunrdtheer the
quitab,,led,eilnicaittes
inquiry" of Mr. BOUVERIE, by hinting that it might be
desirable for the Right Hon. Baronet to mention the
me"exutrreemheelye°dletesirtnaPbilaetedth.at Mr.the ScottishE"ICE
iia
nuragtuedretohf tbatite
was
people should be apprised, without loss of time, what
the Government really meant to do, in a matter which
t
all Scotland felt so profoundly interested in leaving un-
disturbed in its present condition. But Sir ROBERT WAS
dumb. Another question was gulled, and thus he broke
from his persecutors. Can the fact be, that he is con-
vinced of the fallacy of his golden balance scale of 1819,
and would gladly rectify it, but that not to extend its
mischievous application to Scotland and Ireland would
he to have invidiously and exclusively prejudiced Eng-
land by his act ? If this be the dilemma in which he
finds himself. there is an easy mode of extricating him-
self from it, and the more easy, because it is also the
only one he could adopt for such a purpose. Let him,
himself, propose the repeal of his Bill of 1819, and its

complement of the other day as to England and Wales,
and discharge his notice of nicition for leave to bring in
any similar measure at all for Scotland or Ireland. He
would find his hands strengthened, and his position con-
firmed by such a proceeding, It will be seen from
what occurred in the House last evening, that Sir
ROBERT PEEL has at last spoken on the subject, and
that he will give an answer in the course of a month.

Madrid journals, of the let have been received. On
that day the Bill for the restoration of unsold Church
property passed the Senate by a majority of 76 to 4.
The Clamor Publico states that the Duke DE RIARZARES
(husband of the QuISN-MOTHER had been created a
Grand Cross of the Order of Charles 111., and that he
has left Madrid for Tarancon, his native place, where he
is preparing to build a magnificent palace. Nearly all
the persons lately arrested for an alleged conspiracy had
been set at liberty. According to the Espectador, the
POPE proposes marrying Queen ISABELLA to the Prince
of Lucca, and her sister, the Infanta Donna LUISA, to
the Count DI TRAPANI.

The Three per Cents. closed at 344 at 60 days ; the
Five per Cents. at 25 7-16 at 60 days ; and the Debt
without Interest at 8* at 60 days.

The Paris papers give a brief outline of the speeches
in both Houses of Parliament on Friday, relative to the
Oregon question, but generally without comment. The
National of course could not let such an occurrence pass
without showing its hostility to England. "It is evi-
dent," says that paper, " that the formal declaration
made by Mr. POLE, to maintain the incontestable right
of the United States to the disputed territory seriously
alarms the English Ministers, and that they in turn wish
to frighten America by menacing language." The pro-
ceedings in the French Chambers on Monday possess
little interest.

The accounts from Switierlaad furnish some addi

tional particulars of the killed, wounded, and prisoners,
in the engagement before Lucerne. A Berne letter of
the 3d states that among the persons killed were the
commander-in-chief of the expedition, M. OCHSENBEIN.
of Berne, employed in the police, and member of the
Swiss Committee which directed the movement, and M
Pubis, brother of the President of the Appeal Court
of Berne, who took two cannon from Nidan, in spite
of the opposition of the Prefect and the Executive
Council, and many other officers. Among the prisoners
are Dr. STECER, President of the Committee of the
Lucerne refugees, and Colonel RoTHPIETZ, Commander
of the Zofinguen column. The auxiliaries of the canton
of Schwytz did not arrive at Lucerne till the evening of
the Ist, when it was too late for them to take any part
in the battle. They amounted to 2,000 men. The
Grand Council of Lucerne had assembled to bear the
report on the late events, and to take into consideration
a decree for granting an amnesty, which had been re-
ferred to a Committee. The Lucernese who were wounded
in the late conflicts have been conveyed to the civic
hospitals. The booty taken from the enemy had been
carried in triumph through the city of Lucerne.
According to a letter in the Constitutionnet, from
Zurich, of the 3d inst., the Liberal party have been
completely triumphant at the late election of Councillors.
" All the men that the re-action of 11'439 had placed
aside returned to power, which proves that the canton
of Zurich, in the critical circumstances in which the
country happens to be placed, will not separate from the
policy of Berne, which had no adversaries more intract-
able than the Conservatives of Zurich."
THE BOURSE--MONDAY. APRIL 7.
First ili;h•st Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. •• 117 65 •. 117 65 .. U 5 50 .. 117 30
Fours ..• ••••••• •• •• 107 50 •• 107 50 107 50 107 50
Three per Cents— 85 85 86 .. 85 85 .. 85 95
Loan .•••• • • 86 60 • • 86 60 • • 80 60 .. 86
60
Gouin Eank. I,ooof Shares ••1100 ..1112 50 ..1100 —lll2 50
Ite glen Fives, 840.. •• • . 10314 .. 1031,4
1842•••••••• 105!4 •• 10514 105,i4 10744
Four-and-a-Half . I‘l .. 101% .. 10114 .. 101%
Spanish Active .•.•• • . 4 .14 .. 401% .. 4!4 4oy,
Threes •• • • •. • • • 41% - • 411-4 • • 4 1Q .. 4I
Passive .•• -. •• •• 7% • • 7% .. .. 7
Portuguese Five per Cents•• G 6 •• 66 66 ••
Gti
Neaoohta.n.••• •••• •.... .. 102 .. 102 .• 101 102
Roman .•• •• •• •• •• .• •• •• 106 106 .. 106 106