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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1345.

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 pas zed 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. Hcrr 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 the labouring classes for that day
fortnight.
Mr. T. DuNc9NBE moved for Dace to bring in a Bill
to secure the inviolability of lett, rs passing through the.
Post-office. _ _

The motion, which Was seconded by Dr. BovritiNG, was
oppo;edhy Sir J...GBA.I4Amp who, in the course of his
raised; state-tiat as received no &115W,62' to.

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

Lord J. RUSSELL 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. WARECTRTON considered the continuance of the
power useless and unnecessary.

Lord Howica supported the motion. The present
system was a system of falsehood countenanced, recog-
nised, and legalised by Government.
After a few words from Mr. HustE, 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 f llowing 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 6ecouded the motion, which was opposed
by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, on the part of the Govern-
ment.

Atter a lengthened discussion, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE
proposed the following amendment, which was se-
conded by Dr. BOWFIN°, " That the practice of inter-
ments within the precincts of the metropolis and large
cities is injurious to the health of the population and
dematids the serious attention of Parliament."

Mr. MACKINNON was perfectl satisfied with this
amendment, and withdrew the original motion in its

favour.
Sir R. INGLIS hoped that in any alteration which might
be made, due regard would be had to the interests of
the Clergy.
After a few words frem Sir G. GREY,
Sir J. GRAHAM advised the House not to proceed in
this matter by resolution, and announcFd his intention
on the pat t of the Government of opposing Mr. T. DUN -
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 Majesty, to the effect that it was the
opinion of the House that it was desirable to obta.n 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 cap:tbilities 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
subj Pct 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 question 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 had to
utter was most effectively insinuated. His dumb show is
' really mere 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 how this
affair came off. Mr. BOUVERIE 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

:hat 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 consideration 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 arid the main-
tenance of the national prosperity and power were indis-
solubly connected with the concurrence of the Legii,
lature in this notable scheme of his for interferingwith
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 recon-
sideration of his projects ; for better and fairer oppor-
tunities the vast interests that would be compromise d

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 " came o'er the spirit of
his dream?" Does MALAGROWTHER'S spirit stil walk
the earth, and meet him at the witching hour, as he dis-
mounts from his carriage at the portal of his house
Whitehall-gardens? Is it that he dreads the contagious
example of a " league" of the Scottish hankers, or the
great mercantile and trading community of England, who
are so turbulently averse to being any longer text d 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, whona;.his
monetary tamperings have mulcted on the one hand of
from thitty to forty per cunt. 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, not the needy artisan-producer, or
latnishit.g husbandry labourer ? Better late than never,
even if all this be so If Sir R. PEEL be disposed to
lists n, 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
opt-ration 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 during 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 ad )-
lescence ; and now he turns round upon her (the same,
but no longer the darling, currency of his earlier career),
and snubs her with no mare 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
have been disrupted. Let him in good time, then,
cancel the " deed of settlement" he has executed, and
prepare another, more prudent and equitable, in its
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urged that it was extremely desirable that thec tt
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people should be apprised, without loss of time, what'
the Government really meant to do, in a matt-which.hat
all Scotland felt so profoundly interested in leaving
disturbed in its present condition. But Sir ROBERT
' dumb. Another question was called, 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
be to have invidiously and exclusively pr. judiced 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, becauss it is also the
only one he could adept for such a purpose. Let him,
14sai,-prc,pc%so the d h Dila 1619, and its

complement of the other day as to England and Wales,
and discharge his notice of motion for leave to bring in
any similar measure at, all for Scotland or Ireland. He
would find his bands 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 Ist have been received. On
that day the Bill for the restoration of unsold Church
property passed the Senate 1)37 a majority of 76 to 4.
The Clamor Public() states that the Duke DE RIANZARES
(husband of the QUEEN. 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 DE 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 8i at 60 days.

The Paris papers give a brief outline of the speeches
in both Houses of Parliament on Friday, relative to the
Oregon qu( stion, 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 paptr, " that the formal doclaration
made by Mr. POLK, to maintain the incontestable right
of the United States to the disputed territ Jry seriously
alarms the English Ministers, and that they in turn wish
to fright' n America by menacing language." The pro-
ceedings in the French Chambers on Monday possess

little interest.
The accounts from Sv.itzerlaad furnish some addi-
tional particulars of the killed, wounded, and prisoners,
in the engagement before Lucerne. A Berne letier of
the 3d states that among the persons killed were the
commander-in-chief of tt.e expedition, M. OCHSENBEIN.
of Berne, employed in the police, and member of toe
Swiss Committee which directed the movement, and M
Fumt, bother 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. STEGER, 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 hear the
report on the late events, and to take into consideration
a decree fur granting an amnesty, which had been rc-

['erred 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 Conaitutionnel, from
Zurich, of the 3d inst., the Liberal party have bden
completely- triumphant at the late election of Councillor=.
" All the men that the re-action of 1 -39 had placed
aside returned to power, which proves that the canton
of Zurich, in the critical eircumstaz.ces in which the
country happens to be placed, will not separate from the
p.,licy of Berne, which had no adversaries more intract-
able than the Conservatives of Zurich."
THE BOURSE--MONDAY. APRIL 7.

First HU, hst Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Fr,..ncli Five per Cents •..• 117 6.5 117 65 .. 1 5 50 .. 117 50
Fours ...•
Three per Cents 85 85 -. 86 • • 85 85 .. 85 9,
Loan •• - • •••• • •• 86 GO .. 86 60 .. GO .. 86 GO
Gouln Eank I,ooof Shares ••1100 ..1112 5J ..1100 ..1112 50
Be gian Fives, 840, ...... 1. 334 • 1039 10334 .. 10314
1842 •••••••• 10534 •• 10334 105!4 10514
Four and-a-Half ... 1. 134 .. 1, lsy •• 1004 ..
Spanish Active • .• • ... 4 !•‘', .. 4034 •• 4 1;1 • • 4',
Threes •• • . 4114 .. 4 34 4134
Passive 7% • . 7% .. 7y9 .. 7 6
Portuguese Five per Coats.. 66 .. 66 .. 66 .. 65
bleaoolitnn . ••• ••• • • • . 102 .. 102 .. 102 • • 109