The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-07-20

frames, and, il may be, impaired constitutions
Many promising stateman has sickened and ex-
pred 10 the pursuit OF the reputation which only
\ De mad IN the House OF Commons. But so-potent Is
ambition, that men-eyen those destitute of all the
requirements OF legslators-will desert their 'happy
homes and affairs free" to luxurate for time the
unhealthy atmosphere OF the Commons. This year
the pressure OF railway business has been unprece-
dented and the worst feature is that it has not been
nan disposed or, nor can IT be, even i the session
4 were to continue until the end OF the year
Some plan might be readily effected, IT the House
were less tenacious OF Its privileges, to divide
the labors, with satisfaction to the large parties
mainly interested, and TO the country at large.
Local tribunals, properly constituted, and well ac-
quanted with the part OF the country TO which
| The proposed enactment refers, could readily be
formed, which would at once answer the purpose
and save the enormous expense which now attends
an application for parliamentary act. But the ON
Impotence OF their privileges sacred in the eyes
OF members, that rather than allow their drudgery
to be shared by others, they will continue to sweat
and tune under the infection until exhausted nature
can no longer sustain the tug Apropos OF privileges
the House has had solemn ''tak" on the oft moot
ed question arising out OF the collision with the Law
| Courts. In the lnterminable case between Howard
the tigons attorney, and the Sergeant-a-arms, Sir
William Gossett Lord Denman, and Judges Cole
ridge and Whlteman have advanced opinions which
strike at the root of that exclusive power over
| their own acts which the House Of Commons
have asserted with terrific. efect, in by-gone
days, and the retention of which they now
deem essential to their legislative Independence
The Commons thought proper in an evil hoar to
allow The Judges to adludlcate on their privileges,
and the result has been what every one, who has OBJ
served the peculiar formation of lawyers mind,
antlclpated-an adverse decision When the House
allowed its law officer to plead the action brought
against It's servant, 1t inflicted ga heavy blow and
great encouragement" on itself and, is usual in
such cases, false step is about be followed up
by Notwithstanding writ of error to set aside the
decision of the Judges. II the writ of error ail-as
fail lie all probability it will-the House talks of as
f1a nth n N urba
be seen. In the meantime, public opinion is against
the House, and in favor of the legal tribunals Of the
country. This is the more extraordinary, when it
is considered that popular body like the House of
Commons has right to expect support and sympa-
thy from the great public out OF doors-those whose
privileges, thus eopard sed is the question at issue
But popular sympathy has always been tickle. The
greatest men have felt its waywardness the meanest
men have been tattered by its existence
There is every reason to believe that the Irish
Collegiate Bill will prove failure in the working
The Irish members, headed by O'Connell, who have
come over to Parliament In connection with the
measure have not succeeded IN persuadng the GO
venment to accede to the requirements of the Irish
Catholic Bishops. On Monday, when the House
a strong letter from the Archbishop of Tuam, Dr.
M'Iac, condemnatory OF the bill The govern
men has made some concessions, but not enough
to satisfy the Irish eccesastics. The hone of con-
tenon is the religious education of the pupils. Mr.
OConnell requires the presence of the Epscopalian
Presbyterian and Catholic clergymen in the new
Colleges, so that the religious equality of all
may be unexceptionable. This seems fair
enough, but the government set out with de-
| termination to have nothing to do with the
religious education sof the pupils and to this view
they still adhere They willing TO allow the differ
ent religious communions to establish Professor
ships OF their creeds; but the Protesants are
| the most wealthy, and the Roman Catholics the
| poorest people, OConnell contends that the pro-
posed arrangement will not put the pupils of the lat
ter who will form the majority in the new colleges
on fair footing with the former. There may pos
siby he says, by private endowment, be six Proes-
tant clereymen, and only one Catholic. The mea-
sure is thus opposed in the House Of Commons by
the ultra-P roestants, headed by Sir Robert Inglis
the one hand, and by the ultra Catholics, lead by
| Mr.. O'Connell and his tail, the other. Lord
| John Russell, seeing that the measure will not be
| regarded in Ireland an olive branch' expressed
his doubts whether it ought not to be withdrawn on
the third reading But the Bill, in all probability
will pass-another painful record of the futility OF
attempting by acts of Parliament, TO harmonic a
people who distracted by the differences of race
and religion-whose organization is, as the phrase
/ goes, "wlde as the poles asunder."
| The House OF Commons, now that they have
brought the Irish members within the walls of St
Stephens, threaten to make them work on the rail
| way committees, and perform their portion of the
drudgery of legislation, like others. For this pur-
pose, notes, requiring their attendance next week
/ have been addressed to MIR. Smith O'Bren Mr.
| John O'Connell and others. These gentlemen have
declared their determination net to sit any com
| mtee whose duties are connected with, or relate
| to, England. The matter will probably engage the
attention of the House, when 1t is to give rise
| to ssscene."
| The SUGAR DuTIEs-CUBA AND PoRTo Rico
| The correspondence between Lord Aberdeen, the
| Foreign Secretary, and the Spanish Ambassador,
| the Duke de Sotonayor, relative to the admission
into England of the slave-grown sugars of Cuba and
Porto Rico, has been laid the tables of Parlia-
| ment. The correspondence is somewhat volumin-
uos the reply of the earl of Aberdeen filing more
than two closely-prnted columns of the daily papers,
but the substance may be briefly stated The Span
sh Minister rests his claim upon the treaty of l7l3,
subsequently renewed, that Spain should be. adj
mitted to trade with this country on the terms
of the, most favored nations; and he con-
ties extend to the colonial dependencies
of Spain. Lord Aberdeen takes two grounds of
objection to this caim-irst, that the treaties be-
| tween England and Spain excepted the West India
| Colonies OF both countrles and secondly, that the
subjects, not the produce of Spain, alone en-
| titled to what is called ''the most favored nation
clause" The grounds upon which the decision
rest are of less Importance than the decision itself
| When the question was first mooted, opinion SEEM
ed to be IN favor OF the admission OF the slave pro-
duce of Cuba and Porto Rico; butwhen the subject
IN all its bearings, had been analysed this view dis
| appeared under the growing conviction that how
ever the treaties might be held TO apply to Spain,
they did not extend to her colonies
| This result has greatly disappointed the Free
Trade party, and has elated, in the same degree,
| the West India interest. BY the former the ques
| ton was held to involve the admission of the pro-
duce of Brazil, an excellent English market-ior if
| the slave sugars of the Havana admitted upon
what ground of justice or expediency could we ex-
clude those of our best customers BY the latter
this decision is held to have taken out of the field
the most formidable competitor which the
British tropical colonsts could possibly encounter
No doubt exists that West Indian Sugar must have
receded in price If the two Spanish islands in ques
| .ion, which produce more than all of them put to-
| gether, were allowed to enter with diflerentla
duty of only ten shilngs per cwt. As it is, the
West Indians have little to fear from Louisiana or
kets, they seem likely to retain permanent posses
sion of the home trade.
Ireland.
| The social condition of Ireland is at the
present moment Observation-Disclosures de-
plorable., The physical destitution of the people
| impels them To crime. The disputes about land
| give rise to assassination A few DAYS back n