The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-29 00:00:00

Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN moved the second reading of
the Malt Drawback Bill.

After a short discussion, the HOB. Gentleman, on the
recommendation of Mr. MILES, withdrew the measure.
The adjourned debate on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reso-
lutions was then resumed by Mr. P. HOWARD, who
opposed both the resolutions and the amendment. The
House was subsequently addressed by Mr. ESCOTT, Sir
JOHN WALSH, Lord HOWICK• Sir J. HANMER, and Sir
R. PEEL, after which Lord JOHN RUSSELL briefly
replied.

The House then divided upon Mr. S. CRAWFORD'S
amendment, which beiug negatived by a large majority,
the original motion was put, which was also lost by a
majority of 78.

The opposition made by the Catholic prelates of Ire-
land to the Academies Bill is an unfortunate occurrence
at the present time, as it will be mixed up with the
Maynooth affair, and throw difficulties in the way of
the Government, which may tend very much to mar
their plans for restoring peace to that country. It ap-
pears to us that the Irish bishops attach too much
importance to the question of religious education in col-
leges. In England the practice of teaching divinity to all
the students at the two Universities has become obsolete,
and it never existed, as far as we are aware, at any of
the five collegiate institutions in Scotland. Our northern
neighboars, as all the world know, have not suffered
on that account. They have neither become in-
fidels, nor Roman Catholics, nor Episcopalians, but
adhere as religiously to the Kirk and the religious tenets
of listox, and the other fathers of the Calvinistic Church,
as they could have done, had they never heard of any
other system of belief. Why, therefore, should the Ca-
tholics be afraid ? If their religion cannot stand upon
its merits, there must be something in it radically
bad or defective, and it is rather disparaging to Irish-
men to insinuate that, it' they are not watched by their
priests and constantly steered in the right way, they will
become Protestants or infidels. There is not tha
slightest ground for such fears, and it would
be well, therefore, for the heads of the Church
to weigh all the circumstances well before
they make demands on the Government which
must be inconvenient, and may be ruinous to the best in-
terests of their country. The mixed education in the
National schools, they know, works well ; Catholic and
Potestant children learn the rudiments, and some of
the higher branches of instruction together in the
same classes, and we have not heard that
any proselytes have been the result on either side.
What fear can there be that attempts of the kind will be
made, or be successful, upon young men whose religious
feelings are already formed, who still may have daily
opportunities of attending their own churches, and
receiving religious instruction from their pastors ?
Besides, they ought to remember that in this world of
difficulties, mankind cannot obtain all that they may de-
sire, or that they believe really good. Parties who
differ in opinion must yield a little, allowance must be
made for prejudices, national as well as religious, and
mutual forbearance be cultivated, else civilised society
would become more intolerable than even the wildest bar-
barism. We have strong hopes, therefore, that the
Irish prelates will endeavour to meet the views of the
Government as far as they can with a conviction of
safety, and have no doubt that on the other side
every disposition to conciliate will be willingly shown.
It is a fortunate circumstance that the present Lord-
Lieutenant is one qualified for such a juncture, and pos-
sesses a knowledge of the world, and an amenity
of temper, joined to sterling abilities, which have already
surmounted great difficulties in important negotiations.
The reply which Lord HEYTESBURY made to the pre-
lates, on receiving the deputation, augurs well for
the cause. According to the Dublin Evening Po.,t,
his Excellency expressed his conviction that " the
Government would pay the utmost attention to opinions
and suggestions coming from such a source, and with
the best disposition to adopt those suggestions, so far as
they could do so consistently with their duty. The de-
cision upon those points would rest with the Govern-
ment, who, he felt assured, were most anxious to
provide for the moral guardianship of the pupils,
and to prevent any possible interference with the reli-
gion of any class. Looking to the various suggestions
in the memorial, his Excellency stated it as his ovi,
opinion, that no serious obstacle was likely to arise or. Wily
point but one, namely, the vesting the appointr,ent, in
a board of trustees, as the Government, he Thought,
would have a decided objection to such an
arrangemeat,
which could not. be expected to work sa'..,si„torily.,,

The dreadful catastrophe at liarGETT's Hotel on Mon-
day night, or rather the morr:ing of Tucsday last, was
one of the most distressing we have had to record since
Lae commencement of present year, prolific as that
has already proved in, domestic horrors. So distressing
a sacrifice of hurJan life, under circumstances so fear-
fully contraster.l, in some of their associations, with the
deplorable event that they resulted in, may well seem to
carry with it to all hearts its own impressive lesson on
the frailty of human existence, and the evanescence of
chose gifts of nature and fortune which all ranks of civi-
lized society so extravagantly prize. But we do not
affect to discharge the duty of moralists in adverting to
it. Our object is to claim once more the attention, not
of the municipal, not of the police authorities
of this great city, but of the Legislature itself,
to that scandalous deficiency of precautionary
and protective arrangements, in sudden and alarming
exigencies, that ought to be always available, at certain
known stations, in sufficiently numerousl districts,
for the purposes of succour and refuge. We have so
often, in common with other journalists, pressed upon
the police magistracy and the parochial authorities of
the metropolis the responsible duty that devolves upon
them of providing such means, and duly organising their
supply and application, that we should despair—were
we to renew our appeal to them—of doing so with any
greater degree of success than has attended our former
efforts. It is really high time that the Secretary of
State for the Home Department should introduce some
measure on this subject, with clauses of sufficient strin-
gency to ensure for its enactments a faithful and vigilant
execution. Fire-escapes ought to be, undoubtedly,
deposited in some permanent locality in each
of a given number of districts, into which
the city and liberties of Westminster and
their suburbs, for example, might be divided for such
a purpose, without delay. Every possible means should
be adopted for giving the most extensive publicity to all
these details. The deposit, and the prompt supply
of these escapes, should be made with, and required of,
responsible parties, paid for the discharge of these duties,
and amenable in heavy penalties for, any neglect of
them. To each of these district stations at least one
messenger should be attached, in order to ensure at all
hours instant communication with the nearest establish-
ment of the fire brigade. In this way there would be
no time lost on the outbreak of a fire—first, through the
absence of any party specially charged with the duty
of looking out for such accidents; secondly, by rea-
son of the distance of the point to be applied to ;
thirdly, by that uncertainty which often produces
irreparable delay with regard to the precise direc-
tion in which fire-engines and fire-escapes are to
be carried, even after the fact of a fire having broken
out is ascertained by the brave and active men who
know nut in what direction to hasten. It may be ob-
jected by some that an organised system of this kind,
simple as the plan would be, would entail on parties an
oljectionable expense. Such an objection would really
not be tenable, however ; for the expense would form
almost an imperceptible item in the general amount of
the parochial expenditure. But if it did—would pa-
rishioners hesitate to pay an insignificant increase of
rates to sleep in comparative security against the possi-
bility of casualties, fraught with such terrible extermi-
nation, as the calamitous fires occurring among them?
In the destruction of RecieETT's Hotel the lady of
a Member of Parliament has perished ; her daughter
escaped, but only by an almost miraculous fortune,
merited, w e may add, by the exhibition of a

most meritorious self-possession. An Earl and his
Countess narrowly escaped destruction ; the noble

father only just succeeds in snatching his infant heir
from the devouring flames, which had already began to
gather round his cot—and, horrible to relate, afterwards
consumed his faithful attendant. In a gallant effort to

rescue one of the inmates of that blazing house—(the ill-
fated lady of the Member for Maldon, who had arrived

in town only the day before, to be present at the QUEEN'S
Drawing-room on the following Tuesday),—the owner and
landlord of the devoted house perishes with her ; and
nothing has been found to attest cr to identify their
mortal remains, but blackened, burnt, and mutilated
.masses of undistinguishable humanity. The unfortu-
nate landlord's daughter perished by a fate almost
equally deplorable—falling to the ground before the
fire-escape could be properly applied to her chamber
window. The lady in whose bed-chamber the fire com-
menced is rescued with extreme difficulty, and five other
ladies, aroused from their beds, are saved from
the balconies of the drawing-room windows.
If a calamity so an ful in its destruction of human life
could be aggravated by the destruction of valuable pro-
perty, that incident of aggravation has not been wanting
in this case. The unfortunate Mrs. ROUND 15 supposed
to have had with her the jewels on which she fondly,
perhaps, and naturally looked forward to making her
obeisance to her SOVEREIGN, at the Court of Tuesday ;
and they are valued, it is said, at a considerably higher

amount than even those of the Countess of liurafx- G-

B.aears from the Paris papers that Marshal Bu-
GE''.6r, had commenced operations against ADD-EL-
Y
...A.DER and his adherents, and that several skirmishes
'had taken place, ending in favour of the French. The
Moniteur publishes two dispatches from the-Marshal to
the Minister at War, dated the-6th and 9th of May.
In the first he announces' his arrival is the Ouaren-
senis, and his preparatory movements. In the second
he gives an account of two affrays on the 14th, between
the rear-guard of a convoy and about 500 Kabyles, who
attacked it. The enemy were beaten off with the loss
of several killed and 20 prisoners. The French, who
had only eight killed and 15 wounded, captured 300
head of cattle, and made other booty. Another affair of
slight importance took place on the following day.
shal BuGEAUD states that, in the evening of tte 14th,
some tribes made their submission. The entire insurrec-
tion in the Ouarensenis was caused, t e says, by the
sane Scheriff, who raised the Dahra, and who presented
himself as a kind of prophet sent by GOD to delive Al-
geria from the Christians. T.lvo other impostors, how-
ever, are stated to have r„ppeared, one in the Mountain
and the other in the Dahra. Marshal BrronAtrro attri-
butes these revolts co ADD-EL-KADER, who was expected
in that quarter. Some additional particulars had been
received respecting the treaty with Morocco. The
Journal des Debats, in an article on the subject,
which probably speaks the opinions of the Govern-
ment, says-" Fresh intelligence leads us to believe
that this affair is far from having the ywhich has
been attributed to it, and that it is not ref a nature to
compromise the solution of the secondary difficulties
which still remain to be arranged with our neighbour in
Africa." It then gives the following ktt,,,7 from Tan-
giers, dated May 10 :-
" The circumstances which I:a,e.saddenly arrested theratifica-
tion of the convention lately cor,!loCed for fixing toe limits of the
frontiers, are clearing up mozo more, and this unexpected
obstacle appears to possess less g y than could be at first sup-
posed. The convention was intended to seek out and fix the
ancient limits of Algeria, such a 4 they existed when this possession
was under the domination of the Porte. But it would seem
that in the convention negotiated between the plenipoten-
tiaries of France and Morocco, tlie primitive object had
been exceeded, and that a large portion of territory belonging to
Morocco had been assigned to France. When the text of the
convention was sent to the Emperor, the chiefs of the Kabyles,
neighbouring to the frontiers, were in his presence, and he com-
municated to them what had been done. They all cried out
against it unanimously, declaring that the frontier marked
in the convention was very different from that recognised
before the French conquest, and that the new arrangement took
from them a portion of territory which had belonged to them
from generation to generation. In reply to their pressing corn-
plaints, the Emperor had to assure them that it was never in•
tended to encroach on their rights, but simply to fix the
ancient limits of the Turks. A fact which, besides, would
seem to prove that the designation of the frontier was still a
subject of doubt, is that the convention was only signed, it
is positively asserted, by one of the two Plenipotentiaries of
the Emperor, the Caid of Ouchda. The second Sid-
Ahmed-Elkadir, refused to affix his signature, for the rea-
sons which afterwards determined the Emperor himself."
That journal adds :-" At no period, and in no part of the world,
have questions of frontiers been easy to decide. We may point to
the frontiers of Belgium and Holland as an example, they having
been only recently fixed definitively. We may also mention the
frontiers of the English possession in North America, which were
in dispute for uwards of fifty years, and which were de-
cided only two years back. That did not, however, pre.
vent England and the United States from living in peace for thirty
years, as they do at present, although their limits are again con-
tested on another side. We do not see, therefore, why difficulties
which between two civilised nations are habitually resolved by
means of negotiations ought to be arranged otherwise when one of
the parties is what is called a barbarous nation."
Several of the journals advert to a letter said to have
been addn ssed by Queen POMARE to LOUIS PHILIPPE,
and published in some of the London papers, but it is
so evidently the work of missionaries that it requires no
particular notice. The Presse very correctly thus gives
its origin :-
" The hatred of the missionaries to the Catholic religion,
and to the French name, betrays itself in every line of this
long address. What is most striking and most characteristic
is, that the Queen has sent a copy of her letter to Kame-
hameha, third King of the Sandwich Islands, with a request
that he would insert it in the Polynesian, an English
journal, published in Honolulu. How probable that this
recourse to the press should be the act of a poor ignorant
woman ! Moreover, her letter is countersigned by a certain
George Platt, and its contents breathe from one end to the
other the perfume of the doctrines preached at Exeter-ball."
The Basle Gcnette states that Dr. STEIGER has re-
ceived his pardon ; but we find by a letter from Lucerne
of the 23d that the statement is unfounded. It appears,
however, that the Executive Council has been called
I upon to report, in the event of the life of Dr. STEIGER
being spared, what means can be adopted of preventing
his disturbing in future the tranquillity of the country.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Tues-
day, at 85f. 85c. ; the New Loan, at 861 20c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 80c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 E ;
Rouen, 1, 1151. ; Vierzon, 8301. ; Havre, &IO d 50c. • Avig-
non, 1,055 f. ; Basle, 2701. ; Spanish Actives, ;195/2 ; 'Spanish
Three per Cents., 413 A ; Spanish Passives,
The following are the quotations for I,ew lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2101. premium ; Lvalogne, 100 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Mont,:z.u, 47f. 50e. ; Paris stud
Lyons affitte), 181. 75c. ; ditto (Caton), If. ; ditto (Gan -
neron), 10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c.; ditto
(Rosamel), 81. 50c.; Tours c.m: _Nantes (Sla:•:-,enzie), 10f.;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto ,k_; till), 15f. ; o.tto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and (Leecilite), 181. 75e.;
ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto (',...'n.pagnio Ateridionale),
10f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (..LL-zenzie), 4f. 50c. ; ditto
and Cette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil St. Quentin, If.
.50c.
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 121. 50c. ;

STATE OP TRADE.—There was a steady market
yesterday, both for yarn and goods, and prices of both were very
firm, with a tendency to advance in several descriptions of yarn,
as well as in the best T 7 .inch printing cloth, and the inferior
qualities of 40-inch shirtings, which had been previously some-
what depressed as Compared with other fabrics. The Rochdale
Flannel Market —Monday, May 26.—There has been about an
average demand for flannels to-day, with little or no change in
prices. The wool market is much—)fanthefter GUlstc/fan, much the same as that of last week.