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uerilla fire was then kept up for

Mr. P. Scrope by Mr. T. IN
Mr. Stafford, and Mr. WaklE
O'Connor and Sir W. Somerville
The Poor Removal Bill was then read a second tim
The order of the day was then read for resuming
debate on Mr. Anstey's monster motion.

Egerton, Mr. S. O'Erier
y, and returned by Mr.

ferred against him, ford' PALMERSTON informed the
House, in reply to a question which had been put to him
in private by Mr. Wakley, that he had no reason to be-
lieve that any personal violence had been offered to any
British subjects resident in Paris during the late occur-
rencies in that capital. He then apologised to the House
for detaining it with a discussion on transactions 20 year'
old at atime when events of overwhei

_ interest were
succeeding each other with unexampled rapidity. The
topics to which Mr. Anstey had called the attention of
the House were 40 in number, had been the subject of
139 discussions in Parliament, and were contained in a
correspondence filling 2,775 folio volumes of official
papers. It would not be consistent with his duty to lay
before the House the secret papers for which Mr. Anstey
moved ' • but if the House should think it right to appoint
a secret committee to look into all those transactions. he

lie then proceeded to deny the truth of all the charg
Mr. Anstey had preferred against him, warning the how
that if there was any want of arrangement in his defend
nsequence of the want of arrange
attack

ment in Mr._Anst
sated himself from the covert insinuations, the direct
taunts, and the grossly calumnious accusations of Mr.
Anstey and Mr. Urquhart, in a masterly seech of great
I power, which occupied five hours and a half
_ His lordship was accompanied throughout
yawathies of the House. At the close of his

The noble lord t

loquence an

in delivery
by th

speech, - -
Lord D. STUART moved the adjournment of the debatf
amidst loud cries of " No, no," and " Divide, divide,'
but before any decision could be come to,
The SPEAKER informed the House that it was 6 o'clock.
and vacated the chair : and thus this " monster motion'

3 terminat

any result, for the

was not even adjourned

HOUSE OF LORDS
Petitions were presented against any alteration in t,__
navigation laws ; in favor of an alteration of the area of
taxation under the poor-law in Ireland ; against the cir-
culation of the bull In Crena Domini ; against any increase
of the property tax ; and for protection to the West
India Colonies.

THURSDAY

New Zealand Bill passed through committee,
consolidated fund bill was read a second time

HOUSE OF COMMONS

Petitions were presented in favour of the abolition of
the Income Tax, in favour of the Healt:i of Towns Bill,
against any increase in the army or navy, and against the

Mr. F. O'CONNOR gave notice that, on the 17th March
should ask leave to bring in a bill to amend the law:

relating to friendly societies

DAIR as

ed whether it was the intention of

the relief of casual poor in parishes in the country.
Mr. C. BULLER said the question was under the con-
sideration of goiernment, and he trusted that a bill
relating to it would be brought in during the present ses-

Mr. COCTIRANE then moved for copies of certain de-
spatches which have passed between Sir Edward Lyons
and the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in
in relation to the affairs of Greece, which was acceded to.

I. mixed conversational discussion followeihm a propo-
R. Inglis, for the appointment of a corn-
present state of the new Palace at West-
minster, which ended in consent being given to Lord
Morpethto appoint a commission on
to inquire into the matters referred

HOUSE 0 LORDS.—FRIDAY
Earl FITZWILLIA in -eferenee to the wo

maintained on the miserable pittance of fivepenco three
farthings a week ; it was therefore impossible to suppose
that the law would either be effectual there, or relieve this
country from the influx of Irish paupers, while the sum
paid for their subsistence would not maintain life, although
it might protract existence.
The occasion of Lord LYTTLETON'S presenting a peti-
tion from the Worcester Diocesan Board of Education, on
the subject of the management clauses required by the
committee of the privy council to be inserted in the trust-
deeds of schools receiving aid from parliamentary grants,
led to a discussion, the

Bishop of WORCP.STER complaining of the manner in
which the petition had been got u

p, notice n

given to all the members of the board in question.
Nothing was more reasonable than that laymen who con-
tributed towards these grants should have a share in their
management. The church would never be in danger so
long as she commanded the sympathies and affections of
the great mass of the people.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said it was only of late
that anything had been heard about the exclusion, of the
laity from a share in the management, and the aid given
to the National Society had been on the understanerng
that the clauses now complained of were to be the tel ins
of the union. lie could not admit the principle, there`c re,
that the clergy should have the power of overruling the
opinions of the lay managers

The Bishop of 'CHICHESTER s
the part of the clergy to exclude the laity frou
ing m th9_rnanagement.

id there was

) wish on

The Bishop of OXFORD considered the discussion a
untimely ; but as it had been introduced, he must say the
there was deep and wide-spread jealousy, alike among th
laity and the clerfy and the established church on th

hop ofST.,PAVID'S admitted that i

great fundamental error
fitude to a board so constituted

educational committee of the _
Hs arising from the working of t

to lie on the tabl

OP -COMMONS—FRIDAY.
nt. of the EXCHEQUER stated

the continuation •of t

constructing harbour

to 3 uttleil LQWt

The CHANCELLOR of the EXottettuEft having moved
the order of the day for going into committee of ways and
means, on the income tax resolutions,
Mr. IloßsmArt moved, that if the income tax be con-
tinued, it is expedient to amend the act, and not to impose
the same charge on incomes arising from professional and
precarious sources, as on those derived from real property.
The hon. member concluded a powerful speech illustra-
tive of the hardship and injustice of the present tax, by
announcing his plan to be to retain the same number of
schedules as in the present act, but to cast them differ-
ently. Incomes arising from professions he would take
from schedule D and place in schedule E, which referred
to incomes also of a precarious and terminable nature,
viz.. emoluments arising from public offices, leaving
"D" entirely for incomes arising fmm trade, com-
merce, and manufactures. And the scale of tax he would

then propose would be as follows :—On incomes included
in schedules A and C he proposed an addition of one penny
to the present rate of tax, making eightpence in the
pound. On incomes which-would be included in schedule
E, viz., professions and emoluments from public offices,
he proposed that the tax should be fourpence in the
pound ; and upon incomes included in schethile D, viz.,
trade, commerce, &c., he proposed the intermediate rate
of sixpence in the pound, leaving B as at present. By
this slight increase on schedule A, they would relieve
all the other classes, and raise a revenue more than equal
' from the tax, and without those vexatious

to that c 1(

objections to whict

This arrangement gave :a total, according to his calcula-
tion, of £5,581,000, instead of £5,600,000, which had
been the produce of the tax for the last year.; but minis-
ters calculated in their budget for the ensuing year that
the t- °rod- -Iv "" 000.

Lax wouiLL r. .e on, . His PrOposition
would at all events fall more equally on the several classes
of income than the present, and he believed the scale he
far just, that it made a difference between
s which were permanent, and which repre-
- '--I—thnce which represented

propo,ed was s
th

capitai

labour

I those which represented labour and

skill only. • It had also this recommendation, that it
would relieve those who were most oppressed by the tax,
as now imposed, while the only additional burden which
would be thrown upon any class was the extra penny in
the pound on permanent incomes—a burden which he
believed would be cheaply purchased by the large amount
of relief it would give to other classes, the satisfaction
with which the change would be received by the country
generally, and the ease with which the tax would be col-
lected. The hon. member was loudly cheered during,
and at the Aiwa lan A

oposition be'ing, of course, opposed by the
at the termination of which the house
Mr. Horsman's motion was negatived by

a majority of 316 to 141. The house then went into
committee yo forma', to sit again on Monday, Mr. HUME
intimating his intention of proposing that the duration of
the tax be limited to one year.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ITALY

6 from Italy is important. Martial law having
been proclaimed in Lombardy, by order of the Austrian
-,ent. It appears that the worst effects have been
• A. deplorable reign of terror has been in-
ordinary course of the law has been
,Jeople are not only prohibited from meet-
certain places, but they are forbidden to
colours ; they are not to applaud or hiss
-* allowed to collect money for the
The consternation through

gown-

caused I

'ear partici:

poor, c

_Jg
the whole of Lombardy is universal. Cannon are toa be
in the streets of the principal towns, which
-I,,.prted. it is also forbidden to ring the

it were

at the se

ively refused

Bergamo and Venicc

scenes of disturbances. It was said
)f the Austrian Legation at Pesaro had
At Palermo the provisional govern•
Sicilian parliament to prepare a project
e one offered by Naples having been

iccounts from Messina state that fighting re-com-
22nd ult., and that nothing could exceed

iolitans fired well, the overwhelming force of the people
endered their exertions useless. Many of the former
7ere killed ; of the latter the loss was not so great. At

ight o'clock Fort Reale fell by assault. At ten the Ar-
enal was taken, and an hour after Terra Nova: All the
lutworks of the other forts, except flirt of San Salvadore.
sere taken. Notice was given by the people to the corn-
nanders of the different ships of war, that at half-past 3

in. on that day the peoplwould make their attack on

1
troops

lefore the attack the Neapolitan steamer left the harbour.
'o judge, however, from former successes, the opinion
ras that the people would remain victors against the

Naples was quiet. Lord Minto was to leave imme-
diately for Palermo, to negociate matters with the com-
mittee of that city.

INDIA AND EGYPT,

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have advices
from Bombay to the Ist of February. The intelligence
is of no great moment, and there has been a sort of
interregnum in political affairs occasioneo by the entrance
into office of the new, and the retirement of the late
Governor-General.

Lord Hardinge left Calcutta on the 18th of January
Subscriptions for a statue to be erected at 11.1ciitt. Li,

it commencement, at a time of unexampled pre

AMERICA.—By the packet-ship Cambridge, Captain
Peabody, we have advices from New York to the
16th ultimo. —The royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Capt.
Shannon, was seen going into New York on the evening
of the 16th.—The town of Orizaba had been taken pos-
session of.

SPAlN.—Madrid mails of the 26th have arrived, andbring
a report of a formidable and unexpected Carlist move-
ment at Ignalada, the largest town of the Catalan princi-
pality, governed by 1600 men. It was successfully enter-
ed, on the night of the 21st, by 300 Matines, and at the
same times by two other parties of insurgents.
AUSTRlA.—lntelligence received from Vienna, states
that owing to the menetary and political crisis which is

now pending in Austria, the imperial family have, from
their private property, placed the sum of one hundred
million florins at the disposal of the minister of finance.
The house of Este alone advanced thirty millions of this
sum. Disturbances have taken place in Styria, and addi-
tional troops have been ordered there.

The Sydney papers received on Wednesday to the 30th
of October, give little intelligence of prominent interest.
An expectation seemed to be entertained that Sir Charles
Fitzroy might be induced to resign, on account of the in-
disposition of Lady Fitzroy, but nothing certain was
known at the date of these advices. The latest shipping
reports speak of several vessels being laid on with produce
for London. From the interior the news is tolerably sa-
tisfactory. At Moreton Bay the shearing season had
commenced. The price current among the masters was
per score with dry rations, and 4s. per day for wash-
" The fine weather," it is said, " si
"ers to

get through the shearing with expedition,
and there is no doubt should it continue favourable, that
the whole of tin year's clip will be secured two or three

this gratifying fact in our express edition last week. We
learn that the whole of the Kaffir chiefs had assembled at
King William's Town, where they were met by Sir H.
Smith, who addressed the chiefs and upwards of 2000
Kaffirs unarmed, on the 24th December, and having pro-
duced a staff and serjeant's halbert, he upbraided several
of the chiefs for their faithless conduct in the observances
of t 1

of peace or war,

ieir engagements, and then offered them their election
The staves were emblematical of war

and peace; they might choose which they pleased. The
chiefs accepted the staff of peace, and Sir H. Smith de-
clared himself Inkosi Enkulu, the great chief. Extra-
ordinary as it may appear—all, save Kreli, came unarmed
„ I
and crouching, kissed the foot of him who declared him-
" self to be their paramount chief. The aovernor then

n.oke the wand, symbolic of war, which had 13,

for their
declared

hoice, simultaneously with that of peace, and
" There is an end of war." The country now

Dragoon livarcts, 27th Inmskiliens, 91st, Ist battalion,
62nd and 90th Regiments will immediately return to
England in consequence of orders already received.

AMaRICA AND Ms xico.—A treaty of peace has been
concluded between Mr. lrist, the Envoy of the United
States of America in Mexico, and certain Commissioners
appointed to treat on behalf of the Mexican Republic.
This treaty, however, had not been laid by the President
before the Senate for ratification when our last advices
left Washington, and it is supposed that the terms on
which it has been concluded fall very short of the extra-
vagant pretensions of Mr. Polk and the democratic party.
The concessions of territory, however, to be made by
Mexico
_under this treaty are sufficiently extensive to

satisfy the ambition of more than an ordinary conqueror.
We understand that the proposed frontier line would