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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY,

Mr. Bright (who was introduced by Dr. Bowring and
Mr. Brotherton) made the declaration required for
members of the Society of Friends, and took his seat for
the city of Durham.
The Speaker having attended the Royal Commission in
the other house,
Lord WORSLEY, in answer to a question from Mr.
Gibson, said he should introduce a clause into the
Coroners' Bill, preventing it from applying to the
coroners of boroughs.

During a short discussion on fixing the time of the first
and second readings of Lord Brougham's Slave Trade
Suppression Bill, of which Mr. V. Smith has the manage-
ment, Mr. GLADSTONE intimated, that the government
would give the measure " its most favourable considera-
tion," but not, apparently, its most efficient support, as
he added a fear that " legislative interference might
possibly do mischief."
On the order of the day for going into Committee of
Supply,
Loid J. RUSSELL rose to bring before the house the
general state of the country. He referred to the legisla-
tive failures of the session, and asked what had been the
result of the great majority possessed by the ministry ?
We might well ask what has been the result of that happy
state of things which the right hon. gentleman opposite
announced when he went to his election as a Minister of
the Crown, and told his constituents that the majority in
the House of Lords being now agreed, the constitutional
instrument would be in harmony. One might well ask,
now that this instrument is in such harmony, what is the
music which it plays? (Laughter.) What are the tunes
with which our ears have been delighted in this happy state
of musical concord? (Continued laughter.) It has not
been, I think, " Rule Britannia," (Loud cheers and
laughter.) The agricultural gentlemen would hardly say
that it has been "'The Roast Beef of Old England." The
Irish members are not agreed in saying that it is " St.
Patrick's Day in the Morning." I am not sure (as we
understood) that it has always been " God, save the
Queen !" The only tune which occurs to me is one which
we sometimes hear from the glee singers at public dinners,
" We're a' noddin". (Great laughter.) Such appears to
me to be the result of this admirable harmony which the
right hon. gentleman gave out as such a great advantage
to the country. With respect to the foreign relations of
the country, the noble lord alluded only to one question :
the war carried on against the Ameers of Scinde ; he de-
scribed the conduct of the Ministry in withholding the
papers referring to the origin of the dispute with them as
most extraordinary. He then reverted to domestic affairs,
and went into a minute examination of the state of
our manufactures and exports, reading a number of
tables to show that, in several important branches
of trade, there had been an alarming decrease. " It
is said," continued the noble lord, Magnum vecti-
yal parsimonia ;'—(laughter)---but I might say now,
Magnum vectigel sapientia. (Cheers and laughter.) If
you had only recourse to those principles of trade so ably
expounded by the right hon. gentleman the President of
the Board of Trade,—(hear)—you might have done some-
thing to make up the deficiency ; but, notwithstanding
your own incomparable skill,—(laughter)—and though
you taxed us with being miserable financiers,—(hear)—
you have not been able to overcome the difficulties with
which you are surrounded." (Cheers.) They had let
the time for retrenchment go by : they might have re-
duced their expenditure considerably at the close of the
Chinese war : could they do so now ? Was it now a state
of quietness and peace? Expensive establishments were
rendered still necessary because they had not adopted that
line of policy which tended to preserve peace, order, and
content. He alluded to Wales, and, at much greater
length, to Ireland.
Sir R. PEEL admitted the right of the noble lord to
attack the Government on a question of supply, without a
specific motion of condemnation. But if that Govern-
ment were as culpable as the noble lord had represented
it, he might well have concluded with a more practical
censure. And if he had really thought the prospects of
the nation to be so gloomy as he had painted them, he
would hardly have indulged in the levity with which he
began his speech. The Government had endeavoured to
improve the administration of the law, to extend the be-
nefits of education, and to carry other measures of general
benefit ; and why had they not succeeded in these en-
deavours. It was said that they were supported by a
large majority ; but what could a majority effect against
the opposition of a few, resolutely bent upon adjourning
debates from night to night, and so preventing the pro-
a''ress of public business ? On three questions, fifteen
nights bad been employed ; on the Indian question, three
nights ; and so on, upon minor matters. There had been
seventeen nights of discussions and divisions upon the
Arms Bill. Parliament had a strict eight, no doubt, to
occupy all this time in this way ; but after doing so, let
them not taunt the Government with not having em-
ployed those nights in other ways. The noble lord had
twitted them with abandoning the education measure.
They had long clung to the hope of accomplishing a sys-
tem of combined education, and at first the House seemed
almost unanimous in its favour. But it soon appeared
that there was not that generally favourable disposition
toward it which was indispensable to its useful working.
To have forced it on without the cordial concurrence of
the dissenters, would but have aggravated religious ani-
mosity. The noble lord had passed very lightly over the
subject of foreign policy. He might, when he alluded to
Scinde, have recollected in what situation other regions,
not very remote from it, had been left by the late admi-
nistration. The time would probably arrive when the po-
licy of the government respecting Scinde would be fully
stated to the house ; but in the existing position of that
subject, the government would not be justified in making
large communications. He much regretted the present
state of our commercial intercourse with the United
States ; but this commerce had always been subject to
great fluctuations. He should not think it prudent on
ileacy •L;eritunty the past expe-
riments had not been very encouraging. The late reduc-
tions of import duty on American produce had not been
so met by corresponding reductions on the part of the
United States as to justify any very sanguine hope in
that particular quarter ; on the contrary, they had been
followed by that high American tariff, which had
been the main cause of the decrease of English exports.
He had the satisfaction to think that in the last six months
there had been indications of improvement in some im-
portant branches of manufacturing industry—particularly
cotton, linen, and woollen; and this improvement ap-
peared progressive, being greatest in the last month.
Could it, then, be justly said that the measures of the
government respecting the corn law and the tariff had
been thus far unproductive of benefit to the country ?
The noble lord had talked of the Canada Corn Bill as if it
had been some new matter, originated in this year; but
in truth it bad been a mere performance of an engage-
ment made with Canada in the year preceding. Then, as
to finance, the cause of the imputed deficiency was, that
when the account was made up, a large proportion of the
proceeds of the income-tax had not come in. There had
not yet been time to ascertain the full results of the tariff;
but, as far as they were known, they were highly satis-
factory: Even the reduction of timber duty, large as was
the present sacrifice, would, he believed, be eventually
beneficial. On the subject of the Welsh insurrection,
be must say that the causes of it were not charge-
able upon the government. The noble lord might
recollect what had happened at Newport in his own
time, and the cordial aid by which he was then en-
abled to strengthen the hands of government with
5,000 additional troops. The present ministers, however,
had omitted no precaution ; and be hoped the same aid
which they had given when in opposition would be re-
turned to them by those who had then held office. Now,
as to Ireland, the course of the government had very lately
been explained in full. They had declared their resolve
to leave no means unemployed for preserving the union,
but to reserve to themselves the choice of the time when
they might deem it necessary to apply to parliament.
Meanwhile, their forbearance had met, he believed, with
very general approbation ; though the removal of the ma-
gistrates bad riot been equally well received. He briefly

defended that removal, but declined to enter into the de-
tails of Irish questions. He admitted that the govern-
ment had failed to conciliate one party, and had lost the
confidence of another ; but they had thought it their duty
to govern impartially, and without reference to party feel-
ings ; and he trusted that they would be_rewarded by the
final tranquillity of Ireland. The house would not have
forgotten the difficulties in which he and his colleagues
had found the country. In foreign affairs, in finance, in
commerce, the government had made every effort, and
their efforts were beginning to produce a good result. He
hoped they had not forfeited the confidence of their friends;
and with that hope they would persevere in their endea-
vours to secure to this country the proud position to which
she was entitled.

Lord HOWICK followed in a speech of some length, in
which he lamented that a long session was about to close
without one single important measure having been carried
for the benefit of the people.
Lord PALMERSTON made a speech; imputing the failure
of Ministerial measures, not to want of time, but to the
opposition of large classes of the community ; and con-
trasting the financial policy of the two governments, past
and present. As to long debates, an opposition weak in
numbers but strong in argument, had a right to avail
itself of its forte. He intimated that, if Ministers did
not improve, their supporters would receive hinti from
without which might enable the opposition to cope with
Government no less effectually in the lobby than in the
discussion. Touching upon foreign topics, be made good
use of the Spanish revolution, declaring that Espartero
fell for want of moral support from England.
Lord STANLEY doubted whether even the discussion of
that evening were a very useful employment of that time,
about the waste of which so much had been said. The
noble lord had assumed for his own side a vast superiority
in debate. If he meant in point of length, perhaps it was
so ; but the frequent failures in making or keeping a house,
chiefly on evenings not devoted to government business,
did look a little as if the house in general failed to appre-
ciate the oratorical powers of that party. The Ecclesi-
astical Courts Bill had indeed been postponed ; but the
same thing had repeatedly happened to the last govern.
ment. As to the County Courts Bill, there had never
been even an opportunity of bringing it to a second read-
ing. The fate of the Factory Bill he deeply lamented;
had it not been for the feeling out of doors, he believed
that this bill would have been temperately discussed in
the legislature, and passed. Lord Palmerston had re-
gretted the whig deficiency ; but all that the whigs ever
did was to regret it. They did nothing to repair it, whereas
this government had boldly, and at all risk of unpopularity,
imposed an income tax, the produce of which was only
half collected at the point of time at which the deficiency
was alleged by Lord Palmerston to exist, the uncollected
half being more than sufficient to cover that deficiency.
He controverted Lord Palmerston's statements respecting
the Affghan and Chinese wars, showing the insufficiency
of the arrangements and provisions made by the whig
ministry. It had been objected that the free trade prin-
ciple had not been followed out in full. No; and any
government which should attempt any such thing, in the
complicated state of our commercial affairs, would bring
the country into inextricable difficulties; but so far from
making prohibition their war cry, the present ministers
had brought in the largest measure of relaxation ever
passed. He explained, with reference to an allusion 9f
Lord Palmerston, the reason why the Scotch Church Bill
had not been earlier introduced ; and excused himself
from going into the question of Ireland and her church.
No doubt it was true, that when the whigs were in office
people asked, on every movement abroad, what England
was going to do; because no stir ever happened in any
corner of the world but Lord Palmerston must needs in-
terfere in it ; more especially he was always haunted with
a fear of French interference • France was absolutely his
bile noire. Lord Stanley then maintained that all possi-
ble support had been given to the Spanish Regent, with
whom he expressed his strong sympathy. And, lastly,
referring to Lord Palmerston's anticipation of political
changes, he assured him, that if it was founded, as it
seemed to be, on some notion of division in the Cabinet,
the hope had nothing to sustain it.
. Mr. HUME, Mr. V. SMITH, Mr. E. B. ROCHE, Mr.
LABOUCHERE, and other members followed, the majority
of the speakers being on the Liberal side.
The Committee of Supply was postponed till Wednes-
day, and the third reading of the Irish Arms Bill till
Monday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

DURHAM,

ORDINATION.—At a general Ordination held by the
Bishop of Chester, in the Cathedral, in this city, on Sun-
day, the 16th instant, the following gentlemen were or-
dained :

Priests.
Thomas Hugo, 8.A., Worcester College, Oxford.
Leonard Charles Wood, B.A. Jesus College, Oxford.
John Paul, S.C.L., Magdalene College, Oxford.
Francis Hind, A. 8., Lincoln College, Oxford.
Richard Charles Swan, A. 8., St. John's College, Cam-

bridge.
James Hool Sharpies, A. 8., St. John's College, Cam-

bridge.
David Henry Morice, A. 8., Trinity College, Cambridge.
Benedict Arthur, A. 8., Trinity College, Dublin.
George Grey Cashman, A. 8., Trinity College, Dublin.
Henry George Price, A. 8., Trinity College Dublin.
William Walker, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
Gustavus Barton, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
William Messenger, University College, Durham.
Edward Thomas Clarke, St. Bee's.
John Dalton, St. Bee's.
George Lancaster, St. Bee's.

Deacons.

William Fontaine Addison, B. A., Wadham College,
Oxford.
John Gorton, 8.A., Wadham College, Oxford.
Edward Pedder, 8.A., Brasenose College, Oxford.
John Booth, 8.A., Brasenose College, Oxford.
Joseph Afranius Burrowes, 8.A., Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge.
John Samuel Rage, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge.
John Dodd, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge.
Thomas Newman Farthing, 8.A., Catherine Hall, Cam•

. .
bridge. ...
Joseph Hollingsworth, 8.A., Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
Henry Jones, BA., Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
George Tatam, 8.A., Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
Joseph Brett Grant, B. A., Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge.
William Nlulleneux, 8.A., Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge.
John Royds, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge.
Simon Haughton Sherard, LL.B., Christ's College, Cam-

bridge.
James Cox, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
William Morris Colles, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
Abraham Hume, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
Benjamin Hayward Browne, St. Bee's.
Russell Cope, St. Bee's.
Thomas Ellerthorpe, St. Bee's.
Hugh Prichard Hughes, St. Bee's.
Ralph Kinder, St. Bee's.
William Henry Pochin, St. Bee's.
John Watson, St. Bee's.

The Lord Bishop of Norwich paid a visit to Chester
last week.— Chester Courant.

The Archbishop of Dublin has appointed Dr. Joseph
Radcliffe, son of the late Dr. Radcliffe, as the successor
to his father in the Judgeship of the Consistorial Court.
OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD'S DAY.—There is no
surer test of the spiritual state than the degree of esteem
in which the Sabbath is kept.—Bishop of Chester.
The new church recently erected in the parish of Ha_
warden, by the Glynne family was opened on Tuesday,
the celebrated Dr. Hook, vicar of Leeds, officiated. A
distinguished party were present.
A novel and interesting ceremonial was witnessed at
Leeds church, near Maidstone, on Sunday week—namely,
the baptism of seven children, four sons and three
daughters, of Mr. Saxby, a respectable farmer of the
parish, who, having joined the communion of the church
(being brought up as a dissenter), according to the
primitive and apostolic rule, took his household with him.
TRACTARIANISM.—Among the first signatures to the
address agreed to at Freemasons' Hall to the Chancellor
and Heads of Houses at Oxford, on the spread of
tractarianism, were those of Earl Grosvenor, Lord
Ashley, Lord Sandon, the Right Hon. Sir G. Rose, the
Right Hon. T. Frankland Lewis, the Hon. W. Ashley,
the Hon. Capt. Waldegrave, J. C. Colquhoun, Esq.,
M.P. ; and, subsequently, Lord Robert Grosvenor, John
Hardy, Esq., M.P., H. Sturt, Esq., M.P., J. P. Plump-
le.sq.`;' v Naitkea -aerf-azGALP x%nef W. RPekett.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH.

His Grace the Duke of Richmond has consented to
grant a site for a free church in the parish of Enzie.
The chaplain of the Edinburgh gaol has resigned his
situation, having gone over to the "Free Church." His
congregation had a conscientious desire to follow their
pastor, but the intolerant gaoler wouldn't allow them !

A tablet is:about to be placed in St. Peter's Church,
Colchester, to the memory of the Protestant martyrs who
were burned at the stake in that town during the reign of
Queen Mary.

It is now definitively arranged that his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge, shall proceed to the lonian
islands. His locale will be Corfu. His Royal Highness
will take his departure early in the ensuing month, and
will, it is expected, remain abroad about two years.

ROYAL VISIT TO THE THAMES TUNNEL—The
Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Saxe Gotha, the
Princess Clementine, and other distinguished personages
now on a visit to her Majesty, honoured the Thames
Tunnel with a visit on Wednesday.
A CONTRAST.—There are two little matters which we
wish our readers to see in juxta position. They are the
last words of Lord William Russell on the scaffold, and
tht I" last words " of Lord John Russell in the Irish
grievance debate. We have lived to see the descendent of
a Russell wish for the introduction of Roman Catholic
bishops in the House of Lords !
LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

" I did believe, and do "lam of opinion that we
still, that Popery is break- ought not to abolish the Es-
ing in upon this nation, and tablished Church of Ireland,
those who advance it will but I will say that we ought
STOP AT NOTHING to carry to raise the Catholic bishops
on their designs ; and lam and
,clergy to a footing of
heartily sorry that so many equality, and that principle
Protestants give their help- I SHALL BE PREPARED TO
ing hand to it." FOLLOW OUT TO ALL ITS

'CONSEQUENCES

—Kentisk Oberver.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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