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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five.

The LORD CHANCELLOR announced that Mr. O'Dais-
coLL had been dismissed from the commission of ti.e
peace in Ireland.
The Duke of WELLINGTON moved the second reading
of the Maynooth Bill.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE supported it as one of the
most conciliating measures that had ever been introduced
into the House.

The Earl of RODEN moved, as an amendment, the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the na-
ture of the instruction given at Maynooth.
A long and animated debate ensued, in the course of
which their Lordships were addressed by the Earl of St.
GERMANS, the Duke of MANCHESTER, Lord BEAUMONT,
and the Bishop of CASHEL, and eventually the debate
was adjourned at one o'clock.

The House of Commons met at Four o'Clock.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to
Mr. P. M. STEWART, said it was the intention of the
Government to commit the Scottish Banking Bill pro
forma, for the purpose of making some trifling altera-
tions, and to take the discussion on a future day.

The adjourned debate on the Academical Institutions

(Ireland) Bill was they resumed by Mr. MILNES, who
expressed his regret at the course pursued by the Roman
Catholic clergy of Ireland, and his approval of the Go-
vernment measure.

Lord J. RUSSELL also supported the measure,
although he believed it stood much in need of im-
provement ; but in the hope that it could be improved
in Committee, he should vote for the second reading.
The House was afterwards addressed by Mr. A.
HOPE, Mr. V. STEWART, Mr. HAMILTON, Captain B.
OSBORNE, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. WYSE, Mr. ACLAND,
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL, Sir R. PEEL, and Mr. M. J.
O'CONNELL. The House then divided when the motion
for the second reading was carried by a majority of 265.

It is truly astonishing to observe the morbid horror
which modern legislation entertains of general prin-
ciples. To deal with any engrossing question of public
interest, that occupies the attention while it excites the
hopes, or the fears, or the indignation of the million, on
the ordinary rules or tests which determine the lines of
demarcation between right and wrong, in the every-day
business of mankind, would be deemed in Parliament a
species of gaucheri?, similar to that innocence of things
as they are" and the practical mode of encountering
them, which, at our Universities, is reckoned the certain
characteristic of " freshmen."
The debate in the House of Lords on Lord RADNOR'S
motion, which we read with regret, afforded a curious ex-
emplification of this fact. We had the ci-devant intrepid
champion of popular rights and constitutional principles
—the quondam Lord FOLKESTONE, the denouncer of
Marquis WELLESLEY'S Indian Administration, the sup-
pressor of Colonel WARDLE'S memorable charges against
the late Duke of YORK, the ultra-friend of COBBETT'S
most ultra doctrines touching the necessity of upholding
the common law and charter-granted rights, and pre-
scription-sanctioned customs of the people against all
conflicting pretences of modern-made statutes—bringing
forward a measure to remedy the intolerable abuses of
our Post-office jurisdiction lately exposed in the tam-
perings of Sir JAMES GRAHAM and his colleagues in her
MAJESTY'S Government, with the inviolability of private
seals and correspondence. In what manner? Not by a
broad proposition to extinguish the power of such viola-
tion in any Government her MAJESTY may hereafter ap-
point, but by making it compulsory on the Secretary of
State for the Home Department to issue a warrant
giving such authority to break the seals and private
letters in the case of each and every such particular
letter so to be dealt with. This power, this odious
power, it is known, is derived under a clause in an ob-
solete Act of Parliament, passed in the reign of WILLIAM

III.; and such a power the Noble Earl and his friends
contend, to our astonishment, it would be injudicious to
withdraw alt ;gether from the employment, at its discre-
tion, of the Government. The absurdities into which

this compromising method of dealing with a broad and
distinct principle has thrown those very Peers of the
Liberal party by whom the outrages practised on M.
MAZZINI'S correspondence were at first most vehemently
denounced, are absolutely deplorable. The Lord Chief
Justice seems to think to quibble away his own proposi-
tions into safe, vague, and worthless generalities. He
is now of opinion that, inasmuch as the machinery by
which the Home-office has been brought to bear
on the administrative and executive departments of
the Post-office, would suffice to enable the Home Se-
cretary to grant a specific warrant in each separate case;
therefore there can be no objection that the Government
should retain the power which it has enjoyed for the
last century and a half, to be exercised as emergencies
may arise, but under the guarantee of issuing a sepa-
rate warrant for each letter. But it was well shown
that in practice the preparation of the separate warrants
would be impracticable. Then the other inconsistencies
to which this paltry modification of a great principle
would lead are as obvious as they are multitudinous.
Should the Government possess, or should it not, this
irresponsible power of violating at its own pleasure, and
on its own motion, the consecrated privacy of that cor-
respondence which passes through its posts ? If we are
answered in the affirmative, we ask why not to a greater,
if to this limited, extent ? If we are answered in the ne-
gative, we demand why will you concede the limited exer-
cise of a power to which you will not hear of permitting a
more extensive application? The power is in itself good
or bad, proper or improper, to be retained. If it be
wrong, it cannot be convertible into right on demand,
like Sir ROBERT PEEL'S currency notes. If it be right, it
cannot be transmuted into wrong by virtue of a Secre-
tary of State's warrant. Even the flimsy plea of expe-
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to by tho present, that Whig Lords, constitutional
trid Peers, whose proudest boas t.. 13. that in
tlhaweyrslleou,se of LorLig they resolutely uphold the rights,
and liberties of the Commons of England, rush in ad-
vance even of the unconstitutional Cabinet Ministers
whether Whig or Tory, who have insulted the spirit of
their age and country, by embarking in such un-English

courses to gratify the political resentments of foreign
Powers. Truly public principle and constitutional con-
sistency are fast becoming among us sonorous abstrac-
tions, without living representative or example.

We have intelligence from Constantinople to the 17th
of May, Athens the 19th, and Alexandria of the same
date. The Russian Embassy had officially announced
to the Porte the intention of the Imperial Prince of
RUSSIA, the Grand Duke, of visiting Constantinople in
the month of June, and the Courrier d' Athenes
contains a paragraph stating that the Russian
steamer Crimee, which entered the Pirmus
some days before from Constantinople, was
the bearer of orders to the commanders of Russian ships
of war in Greece, to sail immediately for the Darda-
nelles, there to await the arrival of the Imperial Cnows
PiuNcE, who, after visiting Constantinople, is to take a
tour through the Mediterranean. The accounts from
Lebanon are very unsatisfactory. Fresh disturbances
between the Druses and Maronites had broken out, in
which several lives had been lost, and it is said the
Maronites were ultimately defeated by Turkish
troops, who took part with their enemies. These
disturbances had attracted the notice of the Foreign Am-
bassadorg, who held a conference on the subject, and
drew up a note for the Divan, in which they blamed
the Turkish authorities at Ileyrout, and called upon
the Porte to adopt measures for restoring tran-
quillity. According to accounts from Alexandria,
MEHEMET Au enjoyed excellent health, and
was engaged in superintending the arming of the
fortifications of that place. An Egyptian frigate had
sailed for Constantinople, conveying 1,000,000 piastres
as a present from the PACHA to the SULTAN, on the
occasion of his sister's marriage. The Turkish fleet
under HALM PACHA, after a cruise off the coast of
Tenedos, reached the Dardanelles on the 15th of May.

We have received Madrid papers of the 25th of May.
On the previous day the QUEEN, her mother, and
sister, left Madrid. They were to arrive at Barcelona
on the sth instant, passing by Aranjuez and Valencia.
NARVAEZ was to join the Court at Aranjuez, and
MARTINEZ DE LA Ross would follow, if his health
should permit. The editors of the Clamor Pub-
lico were arrested on the 25th for a libel-
lous article on NARVAEZ, and were to be tried,
according to some accounts, by a Court-martial. No
public measures had been taken with respect to the dif-
ferences between the Government and his Holiness, but
it was understood that fresh instructions would be sent
from Barcelona to the Spanish Ambassador at Rome.
Barcelona is a destined place for intrigues and plots.
On the 24th the Three per Cents. closed at 341, at
60 days; the Five per Cents. 24 at 60 days; and the
Debt without Interest at 8 at 40 days.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the abdi-
cation of Don CARLOS and the probable results. Many
conjectures are formed by those of the Opposition,
the Government journals merely publishing the docu-
ments. The Presce, Queen CHRISTINA'S paper, infers
that an arrangement has taken place between the
different sections of the Carlist party, and that the
marriage of the QUEEN to the Prince of ASTURIAS, now
Count DE MONTEMOLIN, will be the consequence. That
journals says:—" The abdication of Don CARLOS is not
the work of a single day. It cost long and painful
efforts, and it crowns the negotiations which long
continued fruitless, but which were conducted
with great reserve and great skill. For many
years past Don CARLOS has lost all prestige and all in-
fluence. After having caused the ruin of his party in the
Basque provinces, he became at Bourges an obstacle to
every species of honourable compromise. The moment
however had arrived to adopt a decision, for there was
no possible medium between the abdication of Don
Catmos and that of the entire Carlist party. The mar-
riage of Queen ISABELLA. became every day more immi-
nent, and, right or wrong, the most influential men
amongst the Spanish emigrants regard this marriage as
a natural, legitimate, and honourable mode for all parties
to complete a reconciliation on a grand scale.
We are aware that the Progresista party and
a considerable fraction of the Moderate party
are opposed to every plan of a compromise
with the Carlists ; but, on the other hand, the
marriage of the QUEEN with the son of Don CARLOS is
supported by the party represented by the Marquis de
VILUMA and the Baron DE MEER, by the entire Spanish
clergy, all the officers who signed the convention of
Bergara, all the influential Carlists who have emigrated
to France ; and in Europe, all the northern Cabinets."
The National says :—" The abdication is the result of
an intrig,ue which has been a long time in prepara-
tion, and which Queen CHRISTINA. considers to
have arrived at maturity;" but it is needless to
quote further, for we believe the Presse is correctly in-
formed. This upshot of the affair has greatly discon-
certed the Court of Naples, and it is said the KING is
going to Paris to urge the promises made to his brother,
the Count DE TRAPANI, but he will arrive too late.
The Courrier Francais states that Prince JEROME
BONAPARTE has obtained permission from the French
Government to visit his cousin, the prisoner of Ham.
It is added, that the object of the Prince's visit to Ham
is to make a proposal to the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON,
on the part of the French Government, which, if ac-
ceded to, would set him at liberty. _

The proceedings before the Chambers on Saturday
possessed no interest. The Peers, as anticipated, had
rejected the Bill for the conversion of the Five per
Cents. OA a division the numbers for the Bill were only
28, and 118 voted against it.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Satur-
day, at 85f. 90c. ; the New Loan, rt 86/. 15c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 121 f. 60c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen,
1,102 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 830 f. ' • Havre, 887 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
1.042 f. 50c. ; Basle, 272 f. 50c ; Spanish Actives, 40f. ;
ditto, Three per Cents., 42f. ; Spanish Passives, 7%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 225 f. premium ; Boulogne, 120 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 50f. ; Paris and
Lyons (Laffitte), 17f. 50c. • ditto (Calon), If. 50c. ; ditto (Gan-
neron), 7f. 50c.; Northern line (Laffitte), 30f. ; ditto
(Rosamel), 9f. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto
(.Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 13f.
50c. ; ditto (Talabot), 37f. 50c. ' • ditto (Compagnie Meridio-
nale), 10f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 2f.
50c. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 11125 c. ; Creil and St. Quen-
tin, 12f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 11f.25c. ; Di-

jon and Mulhouse, 2f. 50c.
Lyoxs, MAY 28.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,026 f, end of
May; Paris and Orleans, 1,227 f. ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,110 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 816 f, ditto; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 705 f. ditto; Boulogne, 603 f. ditto; Monterau,
552 f., ditto.

SWEARING-IN OF PRINCE ALBERT AS ONE OF THE
GOVERNORS OF BLTRLEN HOSPITAL.—At half-past ten yesterday,
Prince Albert, accompanied by his Equerry and Secretary, arrived
at Bridewell Hospital, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, for the purpose
of being sworn in as one of the Governors of Bridewell and Bethlem
Hospitals, to which funds, about three months ago, he contributed
the munificent sum of 5001. His Royal Highness was received
by the President, Sir Peter Laurie, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and
the Acting Board of Governors, and conducted to the Board-
room, where he took and made the necessary qualifications. His
Royal Highness expressed his gratification at the honour which
had been conferred upon him, of his determination to maintain
the rights and charters of these Royal Hospitals, as well as his
anxiety for its prosperity. His Royal Highness then signed the
roll, and, amidst the congratulations of the Governors, departed
about twelve o'clock.

OPENING OF THE NORTHAMPTON AND PETER-
BOROUGH Raturar.—On Saturday another artery in the great system
of railway communication in England opened on the Northampton
and Peterborough Railway. This important work having been duly
Inspected by General Pasley, the Inspector-General of Railways, and
feuud to be in a tit condition for public traffic, the formality of open-
ing was gone through on Saturday afternoon, with all the " pomp and
circumstance" usually observed on such interesting occasions. A
special train left the Euston-square station at a quarter to ten
o'clock, containing many of the Directors and officers. The tram
proceeded to Northampton, where it was met by the mayor and civic
authorities, and proceeded towards Peterborough. llChey then re-
turned to Wolverton, where a collation was prepared for the com-
pany, and reached Euston-square about half-past ten, much pleased
with the day's excursion.
SMUGGLING.—A seizure has been recently made at
the port of Liverpool of a quantity of tobacco which the officers of
the Customs found concealed in deal-ends on board an American
vessel arrived from New York. The Commissioners have issued
directions to the collectors and comptrollers throughout the kingdom
to apprise the officers thereof at their respective ports, and to enjoin
them to usa their best endeavours to detect and prevent any smug-
gling which may be attempted by similar means, taking care to ac-
quaint the Board with any matter that may arise fit for their cog-
nisance. It appears that In this instance the tobacco was concealed
in the planks in a very dexterous manner, so as to evade the least
chance of suspicion or discovery, and that the tobacco would hare
escaped notice, but for the very acute rummaging on the part of the
revenue officers.

THE PRESS AND THE BAR.—A rumour prevails
that at their last meeting the benchers of tke Middle and Inner
Temples adopted a resolution by which a person having connexion
with a newspaper will be precluded from entering either of those
societies as a student. At present several reporters for the morning
papers are students in the Temple, and it is feared that the recent
regulation may interfere with their " call" at the conclusion of their
terms. It may not be out of place to remark that many of the best
lawyers this country ever produced were in their earlier life reporters
for the daily press, and that three learned judges who now grace the
judicial bench commenced their career in that capacity. It is under-
stood that Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn will not adopt the exclusive
system recommended by the Inner and Middle Temples.
OXFORD, WEDNESDAY.—We regiet to announce
the occurrence of a fatal accident on the river Cherwell last even.
ing. Last evening, James Frederick Ede, B. A., Seholar, and
Edward Harris, Commoner, both of Pembroke College, proceeded
in two light skiffs up the Cherwell, as far as Islip, where they were
to have met two fellow collegians, who proceeded to the same town
by the road; the latter returned without having seen their friends,
who, it appears, had been to a different inn. They waited up for
them in the common room of the College 1' II two o'clock this morn.
ing, when their anxiety for the safety of those who were to have
been their companions became so great, that they applied
for leave to go out of the College, and search for then. The
tutor, the Rev. R. P. Smith, immediately accompanied them
to Islip, where they ascertained that their friends had left
at a quarter past eight the previous evening, to return
home. They then returned by the river side, and near Mar.
son, a village about two miles from Oxnard, found the two boats,
one with the oar broken, and the other nearly doubled up against
a tree. It is supposed that one, having broken his oar, had
joined his companion in the other boat, and that, the night being
stormy, darkness fast closing around them, and the stream rapid,
they,
com-
panion trying
from some cause or other, being unable to avoid a tree pro.
iet.,!^a. partially across the river, were upset ; and the water being
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morning the body of Mr. Ede was discovered,and
wards that of Mr. Harris, about 100
time
after-
yards apart.