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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five &Clock.
On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER a copy of the
report of the Commissioners on Harbours of Refuge
was ordered to be laid on the table.
Lord BROUGUA.M postponed his motion on the sub-
ject of the law of divorce for a week.
A short conversation ensued -an the subjoct of the
two Bills for amending the low of process which hod
been introduced by Lord CAMPBELL. Ultimately the
two Bills were committed pro forma, and their fur-
ther consideration was postponed until after Easter.
The Ca:npanies Clauses Consolidation Bill, and the
Companies' Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill
were respectively read a first time.
_ The Constables (Scotland) Bill passed through
Committee, and their Lor 'ships adjourned.
The Rouse of Commons met at Twelve o'clock,
and immediately resolved itself into Committee on
the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill.
After a short discussion, clause 20, giving pow r
to Railway Companies to take temporary occupation
of land adjoining the Railway was postponed, as were
clauses up to 32.

Several other clauses were agreed to, After which PEEL threw it over.
the CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the House Let us hope that evil may come out of good. It is
adjourned to Five o'clock. no longer possible to vindicate our abstract principles
The House re-assembled at Five o'clock. of emancipation—wise, just,generous, and even politic
business, and the
After the transaction of private as they are—at the cost of highly taxing one of the
presentation of petitions, most essential comforts, if it he not of the necessaries,
Mr. BLEWETT gave notice of his intention to intro- ,of life, t) our own people, the largest of all con-
duce, after Easter, a Bill to repeal the law prohibiting sumers. We may, if the Legislature so pleased, con-
the growth and curing of tobacco in the United tinue our suppression treaties, our Board Commis-
Kingdom.
sioners, our exterminating pursuit of negro slave-
Sir R. PEEL stated, in answer to Mr. TRELAWNEY, trading on the high seas and in the estuaries of
that it was the intention of the Government, during rivers. But, on the legal maxim " cessante eau*
the present session, at a very early period, to intro- cessat effectus,"—tc, make sugar, once produce 3 for
duce a Bill for relieving the Jews from their civil the markets of the world, artificially dearer in our
disabilities, as far as Municipal offices were concerned. own, and infinitely more costly than it is necessary it
Lord J. RU3SAILL, in answer to Mr. BuRVIWICS, should be, with a view either to the reasonable pro-
91' the realising of extensive
announced his intention of proposing some legislative teotion of the comet,

resulting profits on the various stages of the trade in
this very valuable commodity—this is surely the most
puerile of fuliies. Here, then, chance has placed Sir

ROBERT rEEL'S Government witl.in the horns of a
dilemma. The only way in which it can extricate
itself is, t) seize with a rod grace this God -send ;
to stand upon it as its plea for at once opening this
trade, and at last benefiting the consumer to an ex-
tent which he can palpaMy feel; and to spring from
it, as its first great stepping-stone to that onward
march in the career of general FREE TRADE, to which
fortune—the times—their true policy—and the cheer-
ing encouragement of the whole empire all hail and
invite them.

Accounts from Madrid of the 26th ult. state that General
OlunE, who had been dismissed from the command of the
Basque provinces for not putting ZUBBA.NO'S son instantly
to death, according to general orders, had been tried by a
court-martial and honourably acquitted. The Cortes did not
meet on the 26th.

The following is the state of the Funds on that day :
Three per Cents., 37i Cash, 34j for the Account ; Five per
Cents., 25, at 60 days; Coupons, 27, at 60 days; Passive, 7a,
at 60 days. Exchange on London, 378. •

The proposed conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock forms
almost the only subject of discussion in the Paris papers.
As might be expected, it excites much interest throughout
France, for though expected and feared for some time, a gene
ral belief prevailed that years would elapse before it could be
carried into effect. Now, the conversion is regarded as cer-
tain, if not this session at the very latest the next. The sen-
sation created had caused a great depression of that stock.
But a few days ago it was quoted at 122 f., while on Tuesday
it had fallen to 119 f. 20c.—a fall of nearly three per cent.
The accounts from Zurich are to the 28th of February. On
that day, the debate on the Jesuits was resumed; and, after
much discussion, a vote was taken on the main question.
which was decided against the Jesuits. Ten cantons and
two half cantons voted for the expulsion of that body, while
eight cantons and two half cantons voted that the question
should be left for the decision of each individual canton-
The principal speaker on the 28th was Colonel Luvosa, Deputy
for the Italian canton of Tesino, who made an excellent
speech, and was loudly cheered. He said, " The Canton
which h e represented was entirely Catholic, and that the Ca-
tholic religion was there the religion of the State, but that the
canton had not hesitated to demand the expulsion of the Je-
suits. The people of his canton," he added, " did not regard
the question of the Jesuits as a religious one. On the contrary,
they felt that the Jesuits had more than once compromised the
Catholic religion by their absurd doctrines, and had excited
dangerous dissensions. This was so true, that a chief of the
Catholic Church had, by a remarkable bull, suppressed the
order, and proclaimed to the world that he did so entirely in
the interest of religion. He might be told, perhaps, that if one
Pope had suppressed the order, another had restored it, but it
should not be forgotten that when Pius VII. did this, he was
more than eighty years old, and in a debilitated state of mind,
from physical suffering as well as age. The question was
strictly a political one. The Society of Jesus, already power-
ful by the means that it possessed, and its extensive'rela-
tions, making war upon liberal institutions, whether mo-
narchical or republican, and already having a footing in
several parts of the territory of Switzerland, was desirous
of covering the whole of
.the cantons with its occult in-
fluence. The Jesuits were the declared enemies of civil
liberty, of the liberty of the press, and of the education
of the people at large, under the surveillance of the civil
authorities. They sought, by extending more and more
their dangerous power, to stifle the liberty which had been
acquired by the regenerated cantons. They were, in fact, the
most powerful auxiliaries of despotism, and, therefore, the
people of Switzerland had reason to fear them, and to demand
their expulsion from a country which was the centre of a wise
progressive liberty. The Jesuits had been invited to Lucerne
and if the way were deluged with blood and covered with
with dead—if the cries of desolation pursued them in their
course, still would they persevere, unless checked by the
strong hand of power. It had been said, indeed, that the
numbers of these bons pjres summoned to Lucerne was only
seven. But the Diet should not fmget that when LOYOLA
founded the order, he had at first only twelve disciples.
Fifty-eight years afterwards the number of Jesuits exceeded
10,000, and at the end of a century 19,000. They had 300
residences and 600 colleges; they had invested Europe, and
had obtained a footing in the new world. This was history,
and it should serve as a warning. If the Jesuits were allowed
to get into Lucerne, they would not stop at that point."
Three other deputies spoke on the same side. They were
replied to by the deputy of the Valais, who addressed the
following menace to the cantons which call for the expulsion
of the Jesuits :—" Only come to the Valais," said he, " and
we will receive you in arms. You wish to raise the Govern-
ments which are compromised, and you find no better means
than wishing to impose your will upon populations who know
how to resist yon."
After this speech the sitting was adjourned.
A correspondent of the Commerce announces as follows the
result of the subsequent sittings—

"We have this Instant received the news of the ♦ote of
the Helvetic Diet en the Jesuit question. Ten cantons and
two half cantons were of opinion that this question should
become federal, and that the Diet should pronounce the ex-
pulsion of the order, not only from Lucerne, but from the
whole of Switzerland. Eight cantons and two half cantons
voted in favour of the question remaining cantonal. Two can-
tons, St. Gall and Geneva, gave it as their opinion that
the cantons which had admitted the Jesuits should be recommended
to send them away, but they refused to come to a definitive reso.
lution on the question of declaring if the Diet ought itself to order

their expulsion. It is evident from what precedes that the cantons
which desire to keep the Jcsuits have not the majority, and that
they cannot hope to obtain it; for even if St. Gall and Geneva
should at last incline to that side, an equality of votes only could
be the result. It is probable, on the contrary, that the cantons
which desire to see the Jesuits explied by the Diet, will in the end
gain the advantage. The public mind is so violently agitated at
Present in Switzerland, and particularly in the cantons of St. Gall
and Geneva, that it is difficult to Imagine that the Grand Councils
of these cantons, which hare given the instructions that have been
just followed, shall not soon find themselves forced to act. But it
will be sufficient for one of these states to join those desirous of the
general expulsion of the order to gtre the latter the majority in the
Diet."

Great excitement prevailed in the Stock market at Paris
on Tuesday, and a large amount of business was done in the
Five per Cents. The mania for speculation in railway shares
is still on the increase.
The Five per Cents. closed at 119 f. 20c. ; the Four per
Cents. at 108 f. 50c. ; and the Threes at 85f. ; New Loan, 86f. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,290 f. ; Rouen. 1,162 f. 50c. ; Havre,
975 f.; Spanish Active, 35 ; Threes, 403/4 ; Belgian Five per
Cents., 104%.

MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.- 011 Saturday
last the election of Lord Rector of the Marischal College, Aberdeen,
for the ensuing year took place, when Mr. Sheriff Allison, of Lanark-
shire, was chosen by a considerable majority of all the nations over
the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P.

It is confidently reported that Mr. Gladstone will
7e!urti to the Cabinet, and hold an office in the Adrni-
niatratien yet higher than that from which he recently
receded. The Right Hon. Gentleman has, it seems, re-
considered the sub;ect of the increased grant to May-
notith College, and has intimated that he is prepared to
support both that grant and the other project-d educa-
tional institutions of a liberal constitution, in
Ireland.—
Evening Paper.
CITY OF LONDON Tnuss SOCIETY.—The anniver-
sary meeting of this most excAlent association was held
at the London Coffee-house, on Wednesday evening,
I.Ord Morpeth in the chair. A ftn the usu d toasts had
been drunk, his Lordship referred to the immense be•
nefits that had been con`'erred on the poorer clas,es by
the Society, not less than 128,290 persons having been
relieved since its commencement in 1808. The extent
to which ruptures exist among the labouring population,
rural as well as urban, is scarcely known. The Noble
Chairman expatiated with warmth upon the benefits con-
ferred upon the poor by this Society, and the result was,
that subscriptions, amountivg to rather over 800/., were
announc.d. The musical part of the entertainment was
under the guidance of Mr. G. F. Taylor, assisted by
Messrs. Rennie, G. Genge, and R. Smith.

REDUCTION OF DUTY ON TOBACCO.—Among the
petitions recently presented to the House of Commons
was one by Mr. •Sotheron, from manufacturers of tobac-
co arid snuff at Devizes, which set forth that " The pre-
sent enormous duty on tobacco offered a premium to the
smuggler and adulterator, whose prosperity is raised
upon the ruin of those manufacturers." Evidence has
been adduce,' before Parliament, showing that the griev-
ances of which the petitioners complain are distinctly
traced to the operation of a duty of nine hundred per
cent. They further state that a reduction to one shilling
per pound would destroy the smuggler's trade, and con-
tend that no restrictive law, however stringent. with the
duty of 900 per cent., either does or can prevent the sale
of smuggled or adulterated tobacco.
SEIZURE FOR CHURCR-RATES AT GREENWICH.—
On Tuesday this town exhibited a scene of great excite-
ment for some hours, owing to about twenty warrants
having been issued to make levies upon the property of
the defaulters for church-rates, most of whom are among
the principal tradesmen and residents. The scene com-
menced at Blackheath-hill, about eleven o'clock. The
(temporary) broker on this occasion started with a posse
of constables, and waggon and horses, to carry away the
goods seized. At several houses they could not gain
access, but where they did, property beyond the amount
of the obnoxious rate was carried oft At the house of
a tradesman named Rogers, ou Blackheath hill, they
made a dead stand ; but Mr. R. had closed his house
and shop, and barred it securely within. He then went
up to the first-floor window, from which he sprang a
large rattle, and called out lustily, " Thieves! thieves !"
This drew an immense body of persons to the spot, and
the obnoxious party were received with anything but
grateful acknowledgments. Having made all the cap-
tures they could in this vicinity, they proceeded, rein-
forced by the police, to London-street, Greenwich,
where they made further levies. They finished their
crusade about three o'clock in the afternoon, but without
succeeding in getting admi'sion into many houses.
ACCIDENT ON THE ROYAL CANAL.--FIVE LIVES
Lost—The passage-boat which was about leaving Longford for
Dublin, yesterday, had her second cabin filled with emigrants, th
friends of whom collected in great numbers to bid them fare-
well. Before leaving the harbour the boat was moved out
from the quay, to prevent any who were net passengers
from getting on board, and, having been moved towards the opposite
side, the crowd on the hank ran round to get to speak to their friends.
On perceiving this, the passengers simultaneously rushed to the
windows, and the weight being thus brought all on one side caused
the boat to lurch, the water rushed in at the windows, and, in the cam-
fusion to escape, we lammt to say that five persons were suffocated.
There can be no blame attached to any of the officers of the Canal
Company. The ca astrophe was purely accidental, and was owing
solely to the anxiety of those on board rushing to one side of the boat
whereby she was over- balawed.—Dublin Evening Poet.
ELECTION NEWS.—As a proof of the importance
which is attached to the Registration, we may mention that we saw
at the door of a marine storeshop, -all iron grate, having 011 it in large
itetters the word " Register. Poach.