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      . ruunoundedof the people u not known , but thirty five » nst » nstablesare on the wounded and bruisedlist Tolarfsarfs mWmgWthe populace , ot talher the Demontioatic leaders , thought it prudent to withdraw , and > iaee « ee was perfectly re-established . ^ m lOn On the 2 nd alt , a measure waa introduced into ie Ae Assembly , intended to prevent open-air meetings nd pid processions , unless previously authorised by the 'licelice authorities . VieVienha , August 21 . —The working classes were en assessse this morning , in consequence of a reduction of lefcekrenlMTsint ' ieir wages , namely , from twenty "etre to twenty , paid to the workmen employed by the

      aateate . They repaired in a body to the hotel of the raniunieipality to demand the re-establishment of the raraer rate of wages . At this moment the generate be ; beating , to call the National Guards underarms , ihe he Academic Legion have resolved to adopt aconciiitoatory attitude , and to endeavour to calm the work-, ien . en . The Ministers have resolved not to give in . The ateates of the inner city are partially dosed . The ( omommittee of Security has dec ' ared itself permanent . tov » bv » ards noon strong picqueis of National Guards on ? ot ot and horseback , as well as divisions of the Academic ic Legion , traversed the streets . The troops all reitaitain quietly housed in the barracks . renewed

      0 , On the 23 rd ult . the disturbances were ; a isllbllision took place between the workmen and the iiUiuUtary , and lives were lost oa both sides . It lOEtotinued till nightfall . A large body of insurgents , [ IrMveabackbytheisilitary , barricaded themselves : n < a one of the islands forrsed by the Danube . At ten lit it night six of the workmen hid died of their wounds , itndnd sixty-one were more or less rseverely wounded . iibSixteea of the National Guard were wounded . A IS & vationsl Guard was stabbed ia the back and died mimmeriiately . Near tho station of the Northern ilalailway three shots were fired from a house , whereitpcpoa the doors were forced by the eappere , and in hehe struggle which ensued some Uvea were lost - j- Accounts frem Vienna up to the 24 th ult ., state ihihst the city was restored to tranquillity , and that hthe collision between the working classes and 'Motional Guards had ended iu the former giving

      inaray . ITALY . ' The CoscoBDuef Turin aivea a letter from Milan ;) f ) f the ISih ult , which describes tfeat city as affording a moo tgloomy aspect . The Austrian troops bivouack nin the bastions , the public gardens , and the most f reiqusnted places . The prisoners who have beenliberarat d are encouraged by the Austrians to pillage the hihoases , and they do this with their prison dress still esn them . ' It diplomacy or the Piedoontese arms do noot save us ( says the writer ) despair will induce an eieffort which may perhaps be the last- ' TheOpifiiOKBofthe 22 duIt , 8 tatesthatRadetzkihas ddespoiled the numismatic museum , tke public library , aand the picture galleries at Milan . Il Costitdzios al Subalpmo of the 23 rd ult , s-atea tthat Marshal Radeliki hsd left for Vienna witb the

      EEnglish Ambassador , with a view to arrange , a fctreaty of peace before the conclusion of the armisttice .

      HUNGARY . AUtterfrom . Peathof the 2 Utult . iathe Brkszlavs Zmusa , states that the Hungarian troops chare been defeated by the insurgent forces at St TThomas . The people of Path are in a state of the tutmest excitement ; they accuse tho ministers of lbeing traitors to the causa of their country , and as-( Bert that their generals carry oa negotiations aad en-( deavour to make terms with the insurgents and tbeir 1 patron , the Banof Croatia .

      POLAND . ' Orderreigns in Warsaw . ' Letters to the 22 ad ult . state that that city ' continued to enjov perfect tranquillity . ' For that ' effict' behold the * ciuse : '— * The new fortress which already commands the city and postage of the river to Praga , is baing strengthened by a lunette . The report cf a conspiracy having been discovered seems to be confirmed , but measures have been taken to place Warsaw under the impossibility of rising , unless at the risk of destruction . Great is Nicholas in the art -. f preserving ' trnqwllity . ' INDIA .

      There is some sort of fighting , going ou about something , somewhere in India . But as our readers hare precious little interest in ' our Indian possesdons' it will suffice to say that there have been g ome * glorious victories' —on a small scale—gained by the ' Britishers . ' at the very trifling cost' of some few hundreds of English troops killed and wounded .

      LATEST FROM FRANCE . A Legitimist insurrection took place at Montpellier on Tuesday last but was almost immediately suppressed . The Prefect and two magistrates were wounded and a gendarme killed ; six of theinsnr . gents were wounded .

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      Warwick . — The Land members are particularly requested to attend a general meeting at Mr Donaldson ' s , on Monday evening next , to consider the propon lions of the Executive Committee . Halifax— A district delegate meeting will be held iu the Working man ' s Hall , on Sunday afternoon , September 3 rd , at two o'clock , when all localities in the district are expected to send a delegate . Those localities who have not paid their levies are requested to do so as soon as possible . MAKcassiia—The Moathly meetfeg of Land memben will be held in the People ' s Institute on Sunday morning , September Srd . Members are requested to bring their levy cards . The directors , Mr Cullingham and Mr Silvester Ryan , will attend . Chair taken at nine o ' clock . None but members will be admitted .

      Salfoed —The monthly meeting of Land members will be held on Sunday afternoon uexi , at two o ' clock , at Mr Lee ' s , Temperance Hotel , Irwellstreet , when tbe propositions of Mr O'Connor will be hid before the meeting . Members are requested to attend . Bhadfosd . —The Land members are requested to attend a meeting in Butterwarth ' a-butldiog 8 , on Sunday afternoon , attwe . o ' olock , to elect officers for the ensuing quarter . The Chartists will meet at two o ' cbck . Wolvkrhampiok . —A special meeting of the shareholders of the Land Company , will be held on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , at Mr Liversley ' s , Brickmakera' Arms , near the New Inn , Horseteyfield , to take into consideration the propositions of Mr O'Connor . It is earnestly requested that all merabsra will attend .

      Bristol . —The monthly meeting of the Bristol branch of the National Land Company will be held on Monday next , September 4 tb , at Mr 0 . Clark ' s , Qaein-street , Castle-street . It is requested that all in arrears for local and general expenses will attend and say thim . Ivesios . —The members of this branch of the Luni Company are requested to meet at Mr James Finhy's , Bogle Hsle , Stokesley Grove , near Ives Jon , on Sunday afternoon , ( to-morrow ) at two o'clock , wheithe propositions of Mr O'Connor will baconaide-ed . Liverpool . —a general meeting ofthemeTnbara of this branch of the Land Company , will tate place on MoaJay evening , September the 4 th , at MrFarreU ' e , Ritlnno & d-row .

      SotJiHAMprsN . —Tho Land members of this branch are requestad to attend a general meeting en Monday . . September 4 th , at seven o ' clock , as tbe London ato-. ie house , Lower , Ea » t-stse 8 t , to vake into consideration tbe different alterations proposed by the directors . TiLucoDxrar , —A meeting of Land membars will be hsd on Saturday evening , September Ota at six o ' clock , iu Coalscaughten Hal ) , to consider Mr O'Omnor ' s propositions . Baskicax . —The committee for the disposal of the yold seal , are requested to attend next Wednesday evening , at eight o ' clock , at Cartwrigat ' s coffeehotr ^ e , Barbican . Durham . —Mr Byrne ' s route for the next week —Crook , Monday , Sept . 4 th ; Tow Law , Tuesday 5 tb ; Walsingham , Wednesday 6 ih ; Bary Edge , Thursday 7 th ; Lsad Gate , Friday 8 ih .

      Dcbhau . —A district delegate meeting will beheld at OM Shildop , Chapel-row , on Sunday , 10 : h Sept . All branches in the district are requested to send a dekgats . aod all branches that hava not seat money to tbo lecture fund are requested to pay tho same to Mr R . H . R-ibinson , district treasurer . CoaoLBiQS . —An adjourned masting te consider the propositions of Mr O'Connor , will be held Tuaday evening , at half-past sevan , in their Meet-1 mQw » . Lion-street .

      F The Late Boh.Be Explosion At Prestok.—...

      f The late Boh . be Explosion at Prestok . — At the instance of the Crown , a bill , charging Mr Richard Fogg , manager of the factory of Messrs Cooper and Garrington , at Preston ( at which a boiler explosion recently took place , by which seven lives were lost , ) with manslaughter , was preferred before the Grand Jury . The jury found a true mil . On Wednesday August 23 rd , Mr Sergeant Wilkins allied , on behalf of Mr Fogg , that his trial might take place during the present assizes . Mr Crompton , for the Crown , opposed the application on the ground that the prosecution were not ready logs to trial . Eventually it was agreed that the 4 rial should not take place nntil nex March assizes .

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      Satb8dat, Aoaosr 36. House Of C0hh0k3 .—...

      SATB 8 DAT , Aoaosr 36 . HOUSE OF C 0 HH 0 K 3 . —This house sat from twelve to two o ' clock , for the purpose of forwarding several measures a ttaje , aad thus hastening the Urns for prorogation . A conversation arose on the subject of tbe Horsham election . The Attorney-General having been charged with being accessory te bribery te support bis son , denied that he had been Implicated in tbe transaction in the way alleged , and gave an explanation of his condacr , which Mr Aastey who raised the question iaid was perfectly satisfsc-ory . The report on tUeJCaancellor of the E « ohrquer ' s last budget wai brought up , and a bill ordered to ba founded thereon The Post-horse Lloencet , & o . BUI was read a second time and ordered to be committed . The Postage on Newspapers ( Channel Islands , & o . ) Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed .

      The Westminster Improvements Bill was read a third time and passed . Tho Siave-trade ( Unseat ) Bill went through committee . The Taiing . master ' s , Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) Salaries Bill was reported . The Lock-up Houses BUI was read a second time and ordered ta be committed ; as was also tbe Drainage Certificates BUI . Tbe Battersea Park Bill was reported . Mr Pabeeb b rought up the Consolidated Fund Bill and theJExoneqaer Bill , which wore severally read a first time . UOHDAY , AoonsT 28 .

      HOUSE JOF LORDS , —Sdoar Doius . — Earl Gait , in an explanatory speech , moved the second reading of the Sugar Duties Bill , staling its otjsct to be to alter the existing duties as they are fixed by the act of 1846 , bj extending tbe period of protection , in consequence of the present condition of the West India colonies , beyond the period contemplated by that aot . The noble earl expressed his hops that the colonists would accept the measure in tbe spirit In which it waa proposed , and that thry would not be led away by those who were endeavouring to impress them with the idea that their prosperity

      was not an object of interest to tbo name gorernnient , and that they would rely on tbeir own exertions for sueeess , and not look for farther protection , the principle of free trade being one to wbioh parliament was finally and irrevocably pledged , and from which he believed theynerer would consent to depart . Eves those of their lordships who disagreed with him on this point , would , he wea sure , concur ia the opinion that evea if this policy was to be changed it was not to be effected by the adoption of ill-advised measures calculated to sow discontent and dissatisfaction in the

      colonies . A discussion fallowed , ia tbe course of which Lord Denkav took an opportunity of replying to a very powerfal attack upon his spjeoh oa the Slave Trade by the Moewko Chbowcib . The bill was read a second time , and the other bUls forwarded a stage . Their lordships adjourned at nine o'clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The Speaker took ths chair at twelve o ' clock . The West India Coloniei and Mauritius Bill and the Savings BarJu Bill were then read a second time . The Post Horses Licences , & o ., Bill , the Postage oo Newspapsrs ( Channel Islands ) Bill . , the Lock-up Bouses Bill , sod the Drainage Certificates Bill posted through committee . The reports on the Royal Military Asylum Bill and tha Taxing Masters' Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) Bill were brought up and agreed to .

      The Battersea Pork , & o ., Bill was rjad a third time and passed . At three o ' clock tbe morning sitting was suspended , Ia the evening sitting at five o ' clock . On the motion of Mr Pitnrsr , s new writ was ordered for the borough of Cheltenham , in the room of the Hon . Craven Berkeley , whose election had been declared to be void . Sriaix Dealers Bill —Tho bouse having gone into committee on the Spirit Dealers Bill , on clause twenty , five being put , proposing to enact that a penalty of £ 25 be imposed on any parsju carrying one gallon of spirits without a permit , and authorising a policeman to apprehend and carry before a magistrate any one so eSVnding , who on conviotioa shoald impose the foregoing fine ar six months' imprisonment with hard labour , Mr Hdke moved that the penalty be fixed at £ 100 , but with liberty to the magistrate to reduce it at his discretion ;

      On a division the amendment was negatived by a majority of eighteen , the numb r » thirty-three to fifty-oar . The Chakcixlok of the Exchequer having expressed his willingness to reduce the penalty to £ 10 , and three months' imprisonment , Mr Hcme again moved that the magistrate be empowered to reduce the penalty at hit discretion , when the committee divided , ths amendment being negatived by a majority of twenry . fire , ths numbers thirty-one to fifty-sir . Mr Homb was willing that the maximum of punishment ahonld be retained , bat thought the minimum should be atrack oat , as there might be cases ia which a magistrate might desire to dispense with punishment altogether . MrFoiBEg moved that as a minimum of punishment ( 'imprisonment for one hour be inserted . This amendment , however , was aot persevered in , and the remaining clauses were agreed to .

      On the motloa to go into committee an the British Spirits Warehousing Bill , Mr M . J . O'CoiciixtL , ia the absence of Mr Moffatt , took np his motion , and moved that it be an instruction to tbe committee to extend tha provisions of the bill bo far as to apply to spirits distilled ia the united kingdom the privileges at present enjoyed by the owners of foreign and colonial spirits , ln respect of the mode and time of levying the duties chargeable thereon . The motion was opposed by the Chabcello * of the Exchique * , as involving a loss to the revenue of £ 118 , 000 per anaom , which be could not risk . After some discussion , and on a division , the instruction was negatived by a majority ef tbirty-nine , the numbers being thirty . sevea to stveuty . six , and tbe bill passed through committee . Corns , i » Lsad Donzs . —On the motion that tha Copper and Lead Duties Bill be read a second time ,

      LordG . Bemwck , in the absence of Mr Wjld , moved the amendment oi which that gentleman had given notice—namely , that the bill be read a second time npon that day six months . He founded his motion partly on the impolicy ef reducing a revenue which was already incapable of meeting our expenditure , but principally on the injury which it would inflict on the miners of Corawaif . In that county 50 , 000 tons of copper wera raised onsnilly , and 32 , 600 persons were engaged in raising it The miners were paid ia proportion to the quantity of ore which they raited ; and as the redaction of the da ' -y on foreign ore must reduce the price of Cornish copper , it mast reduce at the same time their wages and tbeir profits . In that county the harvest was deficient ana the potatoes were universally diseased ; and if this measure were pasted during sach a dispensation of Providence , its inhabitants would be crashed under the miserable policy of government , and one of the largest

      counties of England would be placed ia the earns destitute aad desolate condition al that ia which the people of Ireland were sow placed . He then arraigned in tbe strongest terms the conduct of the Board ef Trade , and more especially impeached the accuracy of its returns . Theie returns were always wrong , and wrong , too , in the very wty which corroborated the views of the free traders . It had been said that tha importation of foreign copper had fallen off within tbs last six months , and a rata ? a signed' A . W . Foablanque , ' gave the Importation of copper at 1 , 319 tons , when in point of fact it had ameaatei to 5 , 395 tons , aad had been greater than any previous impaitation within the sama time . Who Mr A . W . Fonblaoque might bo he neither knew uor cared , bat be hoped that he was not a pluralist who added the functions of the editor ef a newspaper to those of Atslstaat-secretary of tbe Board of Trade , and was that incipable ofpaylsg proper ' attention to the dalles of his office .

      MrWxxn , who bad entered tbe house darlngthespeeoh of hit lordship , seconded the amendment , and spoke at soma Ieegth ia Its support . Mr LABaooaaas denied that the iatrodaotiaaof foreign copper ore into this country , daty free , weald be detrimental to the interests of the miners of Cornwall , ond farther added that this bill which legalised that introduction , would not promote the monopoly of a few emelt « rs abroad . He had na doubt whatever that this country would , after the passing of this measure , con tinae to be what it was now , the great seat of the

      smelting trade of the world . He shoald be sorry , indeed , to propose any measure which was likely to inflict Injury on the population of a county which , from lis peaceful aad loyal habits , was entitled to the iadalgeatconsideration of the house ; but he wat coa * vinced tbat tttia bill woaJd be advantageous both to the producer * aad consumers of copper . He then defended the statistical department of ths Board of Trade , and Mr Foablanque , from what he denomlaated the discreditable and unwarrantable attack of Lord G ; orge Bentinck .

      Mr Uxwtrr observed that it was cot against Mr Fon-1 blanqae , eo much as against Mr Laboushere himself , that she noble lard bad directed his observations ; and proc » eded to analyse the return , with a view to show faatj-toeay the least of it , fhat return had been made up in a clumsy way , aad did not iadicats , as it purported to do , the real state of the case . Aa to the bill before the house , it behoved the government to show that the rsVcuue was njw ia a better state , so as to admit of its proposal , than it had beea in for s . veral years past . So far as tbe revenue was concerned , the measur was most Inopportune , and its effect upon the industry of Cornwall would be of the most injurious description , whilst it wauld do no good to aay oiher interest in the couatry , at the sama tta » that it would eawjatage alava labour abroad

      . After some further disouiaion , the house divided , a " the aumbers were : — For tha ameniment " ¦ Against it — - 71 Majority against — The bill waa then send a second time , and to be comsilted oa Taasuay . The other baslncss was then disposed of , and the ho' : e » adjourned at two o ' clock ,

      Satb8dat, Aoaosr 36. House Of C0hh0k3 .—...

      TUESDAY , Auoosr 29 tb . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Tho business was almost entirely ot a routine character ; and , after several bills had been advanced a stage , amongst which was the Sugar Duties Bill , which went through committee , their lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —At the mowing sitting , The Postage on Newspaper * ( Channel Islands ) Bill , the Royal Military Asjlam Bill , and the Taxing Masters ' Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) BUI , were severally read a third time and passed . The reports ou the PoBt . Hors . es Licences Bill and tbe Lock-up Houses Bill were then brought up and received . Oa the motion thst the Diplomatic Relations with the Coart of Rome Bill be read a third time ,

      Mr Nariia moved , as an amendment , that the bill he road a third time that day three months . The ho nourable and learned gentleman supported his amendment with a brief speech , which originated a short di « . cosslon , ia which Mr Shell , Mr Anstey , Mr Urquhart , Mr Sergeant Talfoord , Mr Henley , Mr Newdegate , and Mr 3 . O'Connell took part , after which the house divided and tbe numbers were—For tbe amendment ,,...,........, ,, „ 35 Against it 88 . Majority against ,.,...., _ 63 The bill was read a third time and passed . The Consolidated Fund Bill then went through committee , the Chancellor of tbe Exchequer moving the insertion of ths appropriation clause , which was agreed to . At five o ' clock the sitting was suspended till half-past six . At tho latter hour the boose re-assembled .

      Tobago . — Lord O . Bzntinck , who bad a motion on tho paper for printing the petition from the Speaker and members of tbe House of Assembly of Tobago , relative to captared negroes , drew attention to the case of that colony . Earl Ore ; had excluded that colony from the benefit of any of tbe proposed loan of £ 590 , 000 , and also from participating in the government scheme of immigration for importing free labour into the colonies , although that island was labouring under great financial difficulties , aad was entitled to great consideration owing to the great attention they had devoted to education and civilisation , there being in tbat email colony no less than sixteen schools , eight of which

      were ot the Church of England . There was more land cultivated in Tobago in proportion to its population than in either British Gatana , Trinidad , or Jamaica , and they were therefore justly entitled to a proportionate share of the aestttancd to be given to the colonies . Discover , ing that bis wishes had been anticipated to a certain extent by the petition having been already printed in tbe ordinary way by the committee , and his purpose in moving that It be printed with the votes being served by bis haling beea thus enabled to make bis speech , tbe noble lord concluded by observing that he would not press his motion . The motion was thereupon withdrawn .

      The New Loait . —Ou tbe motion that the house re . solve itself Into committee on the Eichequer-bllls Bill , Mr Hoxc objected to the plan proposed whereby to meet the defictescy , of borowieg moaey in a time of peace , aad would take the sense of the house upon the proposition . Te permit expenditure to exceed Income was the act of spendthrifts , and unless tbe government turned over a new leaf in this respect , they would involve the country in all the ruin of a national bankruptcy . He had urged npon the government at the

      commencement of tbe session tbe propriety of either redacing our expenditure by cartelling oar establish , ments , or of meeting 'he deficiency by freak taxation ; bat both the house and tbe government turned s deaf ear to hit counsel , aad that which he foresaw now came to pass—a proposition to meet the deficiency by an increase to tha permanent debt of tbe country . He protested agalntt thriftiest expenditure , against enormous establishments , and against borrowing money in time of peace , and concluded by moving as aa amendmea ' tbat the bill be committed that day time months .

      Mr McMia complained of the conduct of the government ia aot having brought forward the measure at an earlier period of the session , for tbey had certainly glvtn the house and the country to understand from the speeches they had made , that by one means or another they would do without either additional taxation or other assistance , ( Hear , hear . ) It seemed as if the government had postponed the matter until there were so few members present in the house that they could carry anything they liked , Tbat system of meeting exigencies of expenditure by funding would lead a country , as borrowing wa < sure to load a private individual , to inevitable tain . It led to every species of extravagance , by inducing recklessness , as every government was bnt too ready to have recourse to such a simple

      mode of making both ends m : et . Whra he ( Mr Muntz ) first entered tho house , there was a state of things existing very like that which was before the country dot . There was a Whig government in office struggling ia its last agonies—( laughter)—tho revenue ia an exhausted condition , trade languishing and almost extinct ; the people in want of employment ; and discontent , as a matter of ceurse , prevailing . The great physician wat sent for , and hie fee was paid . ( A laugh . ) But for man ; months after he came into office matters were in the same condition . At length he proposed his income tax , which he ( MrMuntz ) sapported , because it removed some of the weight of taxation from tiio poor and placed it upon the shoulders ef the rich , aad he had been gnatly abused for supporting it by those who , like tbe

      members aad supporters of the present government , were opposed to it . However , a period of prosperity followed . They had a succession of good harvests ; trade revived , aad the railway mania caused a display of graat wealth and prosperity . Bat new they seemed to be coming again to a period exactly similar to tbat at which ho had first entered the house . They had again a Whig government in office . He would not venture to say whether their tenure of office would be long or short . ( A laugh . ) They found the revenue reducing , expenditure increasing , trade falling off , and the people uaempbyes , and iu a state of discontent almost bordering apon insurrection . And he saw no man , or men , who would ever be able to govera the country in quiet , unlets they could to manage public affairs as tbat every honest , sober , in

      dastrlous man would be able t » find employment and earn a living . Every administration that he had ever seen had been trying to produce a state of prosperity . Bat every one of them , whether Whig or Tory , had failed ; and he now asked the present government were they going to be obstinate ? Was the reel good of the csuntry to be lost eight of , because they would persist in putting faith in aad adhering to what they called political economy aad established theories ! If a man told them that their monetary arrangements were bad , tbeir repiy was , ' Oh , that is all Brummagem ! ' ( A laugh . ) Bat \ hey should recollect they had done nothlag better than Brummagem had done as yet . The state of the country would become , under their system , as it bad beea before , most disgraceful . What could be more disgraceful thaa the state of Eng lish credit last year , when no London banker ' s bill would be cashed on the continent of Europe ? He kaew a party who had been

      travelling ia Italy last year , aad tha most nociception , able bankers' bill * were not negotiable . Was not that disgraceful to this country ? and wai it not a state of things which afforJed a significant comment oa the Aot of 18141 ( Load cheers . ) He ( Mr Muntz ) never knew things in a good ttato in this country when six men could be got together to talk politics . No mau , however evil his designs , or cunalng his inducements , could obtain a meeting on any subject when trale was good . He bad in bit day assisted ia agitations , and he kaew how it coald be done aad how it coald not be done . ( Cheers aad laughter . ) If the government wlihed to draw the teeth ef the people , let them make the people happy , ( Cheers . ) No people in the world were easier governed thaa the Eaglish provided they received a just remuneration for their labour ; but if the government could not go on without baning and funding , they would find the government of the country a reoit difficult task . ( Cheers . )

      The CHANCEUoa of the Excbeqceb def ; ntlud the proposition of the government , contending that , as his hon . friend ( Mr Hume ) contended , that tbe country could bear no farther taxation , and at tho bouse had decided by overwhelming majorities that the existing establishments of the country should be kept up , he did not tee what else the government could do bat resort to a lota to . meet tbs temporary excess of expenditure , which could bo paid off by reducing expenditure , instead of resorting to taxation , which might become permament . After soma observations from Mr Corby , Mr Heiwabd , Mr Wodehodse , and Sir H . WinoDonsr . Mr Henlet , Mr Newdxoate , and Mr Spoohsu said they had no alternative bat to vote for tbe Counsellor of tbe Exchequer ' s Bill , ss the Free-traders ia the house had thought fi ; to throw away taxation , and therefore lift only the choice of borrowing ,

      Mr Cobden denied tbat & o Free-trade measures bad reduced the revenue , and asserted that the net revenue of this year waa larger than any preceding year . The hon , member inveighed against our military expenditure , and declared that the cry raised about invasion was a wl -ked delusion , invented by professional men to frighten tho country . Lord G . Bkhtihck thought Mr Cobdeu the last man who should charge any person with creating wiokod deluslons , for of all the delusions ever practised on the country he was the parent of tho greatest . The

      osssrtlou . m » da by the hon . member that the Free-trade measures of late years bad not diminished tbe revenue was sufficiently contradicted by a look at the net revenues of the two years , 1818 and 1816 , In tha lattos n * med year , before fl great part of these Free-trade measures come into operation , the revenue was two millions more than ln tha present year . Had the government asked the house to ro-imposo some of the Customs duties wbioh bad been thrown away for the benefit of foreigners , and to the impoverishment of out countrymen , and had tha house adopted that proposition , there would bave'beeti no necessity for a loan .

      Lord J . Russell defended tho financial measures of the government . T he house , then divided—For going into committes 6 G Againstit 15 Majority against the amendment ... — Bl Tbe house went into committee on the bill . Mr Hoke proposed aa amendment , that the required money be raised on debentures at five per cent . The amendment waa negatived without a division , and tbe bill passed through commitreo . The West Iulia Colonies and Mwittua BUI wsrrt through committee ,

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      On tha motion to go into committee on the Savings ' Banks Bill , Some discussion arose , and Lord O . Behtihokmoved , at aa amendmea * , that tbe Bill bs committed tbat day three months , Mr Momsem , said that , unless the depositors la the savings banks in Ireland should be protected , and that the trustees should be made to do thtir duty , thsgreatett apprehensioa and miiobltf would be created in that country . He recommended-the government to confine the Bill ts Ireland , and not to extend It to England or Scotland . Tbs CflANCELioa of the Exchequu defended the

      Bill . Forgo ing intococamlttes ... ... 19 Agatnitlt ,.. ... ... ... 31 Majority —28 The Bill then pissed through committee . Some other bills were forwarded . Coppbb amd Lead Duties Bat —The Csahcsuob of tbe Excheqoeb moved tho order of the day for committee on tbit bill . LordG . BBtiTiKccobjeetedaUuat late hour ( twenty minutes past three ) to take another stage of tbit bill . Tbe CBAHCEiLoa ¦ f fch ) ExcniQCia then agreed to fix the committee for Weunetuay and the house adjourned at three o ' clock having sal , with only an interval of an boar and a half , from twelve o ' clock the previout day . WEDNESDAY . Ano . 30 .

      HOUSE OF LORDS — Tftis house contrary to its UJU & t custom tat on Wednesday , but the business was purely routine , and confined to expsditing tho bills on tbe table . BOUSE OF COMMONS , —The house met u \ twdve o ' clovk . Review or the Session—Oa ths motion tbat tbe Distilling from Sugar Bill be read a third time . Mr Disbaeli rose and took aa elaborate review of tbe session about to close . It was a session of unexampled duration , and one tbe efficiency of which was by no means commensurate with its length . It opened with a gaudy array of promise , and would olot » with amUsr . able sum total of performance . After a sitting of ten months' duration tbey were now about to separate ,

      having done little or nothing that was useful to the country . For tbit ( here was blame somewhere . To whom the Ministry thought it attached was evident from a paragraph , which hsd appeared in a Suudiy paper , which attributed the postponement of tbe government ' fish dinner' to the quantity of talk with which the house was inundated , and by which the progress of public business was obstructed . Assuming , then , the view of the government to be that the dtlaya which bad characterised the session were to be attri . bated to tbe conduct ot members , and the forms of tbe house , he proposed to inquire how far suoh views were comet ; and , if incorrtot , vtho were , in reality , ttu parties to blame for the present unsatisfactory state of things % He utterly denied that the blame lay

      either with the forms of the bouse , or with the conduct of members , and proceeded to maintain his denial by referring i « rio ( im to the chief features of the session . Parliament had been summoned together at an early period , on account of the commercial distress which weighed upon the energies and enterprise of the country . Had there been too much talk in tbe houst upon that subject t He denied that there had beenall discussion apoa it having been stifled by the opportune appointment of a committee to Inquire into the whole subject . Tha vacillation of the government in reference to this and other subjects , wat tbe chief cause of all the delays which bad taken place . Ho then adverted to tbe committees which bad been appointed to examine the « ttlmatet , a course which he denounced

      as unconstitutional , at tending to withdraw , more or less , from the consideration of tbe bouse , to which appertained tbe exclusive control of matters cf finance , questions relating to supply . Having dispesed of this point , he mads ths hsuse exceedingly merry at the description which be gave of tbs financial policy of the government . Having traced the three first budgets from the 18 : h of February , when the first wtt made , ta th ; 30 th ef June , when the last waa introduced , apre pos to nothing , and having also shown up the reference cf the tBtimatcti to two Select Committees , the hon . member thus wittily , and , at tbe same time , truly , wound up bis review of the financial policy of the Ministry : — Weil , sir , but those budgets havo bsea discussed ; two committees have eat , and six months and a half have

      b ' een wasted under tbit administration of men of business , wbo were to have made tbeir financial exposition ia February . This , sir , h the state of affairs , when the First Minister of the Crown , with an almost sublime coolness , announces , late ia July , tbat his right hon , friend the Chancellor of tba Exchtqaer will take aa opportuaity—not even then , mind , a very early cue—bnt will take an opportunity before the bouse separates , of making his financial statement . ( Laud cheers . ) Well , sir , we have it at last , ( A laugh , ) At last we have the budget , the fourth budget of the session . There has before this existed an administration called ths' governmeut of all the talents '—but we have now the govern , ment of all the budgets , ( Loud cheers aad laughter . ) Oh that we bad a revenue bearing in extent the

      slightest relation to the frequency aad voluminousness of our financial statements , and we should indeed be a flourishing country . ( Laughter . ) But the fourth budgetalas ! it came bt < , and at a moment when we stood much in need of glad tidings . ( Laughter . ) Unhappily it was not characterised by any peon iarly sunoy aspect . I shall not soon forget the scene of its advent—it was a dreary msment . andathluheuse , ( Liughttr . ) Yes . perhaps the thinnest houee which ev . r yet attended a ceremony so interesting to every countrr , and especially to a financial and commercial country like this . ( Cheers . ) I never saw a budget brought forward before an atteadaacs ao gloomy and so email . No ; I never shall forget the aspect of affairs . It reminded me irresistibly of a celebrated character who , like P > e Chancellor of the

      Exchequer , bad foar trials , and whose last was his most unsuccessful one . I thought , air , of the great hero of Cervantes —( a laugh )—when he came back frym his fourth and final expedition . ( Renewed laughter . ) Hon , gentlemen will remember the chapter . It la touched with a master pencil . The great spirit oi Quixote had subsided . ( A laugb . ) The glory of that financial chivalry which cut us dowa in the beginning of tbe session , and trampled on ut and cantered over as iathe middle of the session—all this had Aid . ( Cheers . ) It was past ; as , when losing his belief ln chivalry , or finance- (« laugb)—tho hero of tho tale returned crestfallen and weary . The villagers were drawn up to receive him , the villagers being la tbe present instance typified by the opposition —( shouts of laughter)—and

      even—to we are told—even though they were aware of big weakness , tbey treated him witb respect —( loud cheers aad laughter)—and thete , too , were hit immedl ate friends , the barber and tbe curate , aad the bachelor Sumson Cjrrasoo—lot thsm be represented by tbe First Lord of the Treetury , by the Secretary of Stats for Foreign Affairs , and by the President ot ths Board of Trade ( shouts of laughter . ) Well , uoi the hero returned . There was the demurs reverence and tbe feigned looks of sympathy with which his friends greeted kirn , breken at he was in spirit , and about for ever to renounce those delightful illusions In which he bad ao long trlmphantly sallied-and everything , though melancholy , wat beaomiag— -though tad , was in tbe best taste , when suddenly we have the wife of Sancho Panxa

      ruining forward , and crying , ' Never mind your kicks or your cuffs so long as yoa have brought home some moaoy , ' ( Shouts of laughter . ) That was tbe test of truth , and tbe finale of tbe expedition . The Chancellor of the Exchequer hat beea all tbe session bringing home barbers' basins iustead of knightly helmets ; and at the last moment , true to nature , hit vocation , and his career , he fiads , iasteadof a surplus , a deficiency , aud instead of reduci ng a tax , ha commemorates his 8-cond year of fiaanoe by contracting a second loan Wo bad had the Government of' all tbe talents , ' bat we might now congratulate ourselves on having the government ' of all the budgets , ' If , under these circumstances , the present session wat unproductive for good , tbs Cabinet cosily threw tbo blame upon the cumbrous nature of

      the forma of the house , ond the obstructive loquacity of its members . Ho again totally dealed that the house was justly chargeable with Abstracting public basines * . Tho delay which had taken place in connexion with Ana & oial business wat entirely attributable to the mlfmanagement of tbe government , and tbs protracted labours of its unconstitutional committees . Nor wat the bouse to blame for the tardiness with which the Public Health Bill had reached its final stages . Thohistory of that bill in both houses of patlUmeut , was r ; plate with curious incidents end remarkable episodes , and but for tbe ' fine talents aad amiable oborootei' of Lord Morpeth , who had charge of it , it would not have escaped tbe multitudinous perils which threatened it with an untimely fate . Nor could anything ba more monstrous oi extravagant than

      to charge tbe house with the failure of the measure for the repeal of the Navigotion Laws . Far ba it from him to regret or moan over that foilore ; bat he could not avoid oitributiug it to the want ef firmness and of practical capacity on the part of the government . It should havebren lotroflucfd at on earlier period ; hvti wat poat . poned for other measures of for less importonoc When at last introduced , it was pushed boldly for a time , when lis afcor-progrcae was interrupted by what ho considered one of the most remarkable episodes of the session—tho attempt at legislation for tbo West India Colonies . Having thus introduced , in due turu , the Sugar Duties Bill the honourable gentleman , much to the amusement of the house , dwelt at considerable length upon the extraordinary incidents which had characterised Its passiga through the bouse , commencing with tbe oft-r- > - p-: ated declaration of the Prima Miaister that no departure < V 00 to tak-j plaoa from the act of 1816 , from whicb the bill was , In reality , after all , an actual departure ,

      and ending with the' budget of blunders , ' the correction of which bad caused much time to be wasted . The progress of this bill had been delayed by several obstructive incidents , such as tho third bui ! g « t of the Chancellor of the Exiiheqwr , and the two dajs discussion wbioh oa oarred oa tbe ' missing dispatch , ' It was to this hill , which ultimately passed only iu the third shape in whlof it had bsea introduced , that the measure for the rep / 4 of tboNivigailon . Law * was sacrificed . What gt ' , Uni then , was there for chorging the premature fatoV f th . \ measure , tither to the conduct of numbers , or if , incon vomencos ori & lng from tho forms of the hou & fi t Anothc su \ j ot on which much tlmo had betn wasted , wU ' cl inishtissv ^ beea saved , had tbo house at t > . first adopts some definite principle of action , was irj 0 conduct of tb delinquent boroughs , end tho measur es which Were to b S tjken respecting them . During ^ ho session thera ha ba . n eeflii'on in England , l ' JgumcUon in Irelam : no . revolution in Jwopo . What if the Wbiga ha

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      been ia opposition with suoh a combination ! Considering tbe magnitude aad importance of these events but little time bad been spent over tbem in tbe House . How much time wonld have been spent ovir thtm had the Whigs occupied 0 her benches , he left tbs house to determine . Tbe tlmo of the public , then , had not been wasted either by the conduct of members or by the forms of the house . ' Bat' said ths hon . member , ' tbe time hat beea wasted , and it now remains for me to tell yea what bave beea the consequences of that waste , I am naw going to read the bills ot mortality of tbe set

      tlon of 1818 , ( Laughter . ) The obituary U now almost complete—being draw * up to last Saturday night . This it what tha country has lost—forty-sevtn bills , all upon Important subjects tome upon most important , and many upon Interesting subjects . More thaa two-thirds of these were government measures , and therefore ought aot to have been brought forward , unless they were demanded for the public weal . I aay nothing of the Jewish Disabilities Bill or the repeal of the Navigallon laws—they have consecrated monuments of their own . In this list I find :

      Outgoing Tenants ( Ireland ); Borough Elections ; Elective Franchise and Registration of Electors ( Ireland ; Polling Placet ( Ireland ); Aadit of Railway Accounts ; Schoolmasters ( Scotland ); Tenants at Will ( Ireland ); Metropolis Police ; Agricultural Tenantright ; Poor LawUaton ^ Caarges ; Qualification of M-. mbers ; Tithe Bent Charge , ka . ( Ireland ); Borough Elections , ( No 2 ); Horsham Borough ; Lunatic Asylums ( Scotland ); Qualifiaatlon and Registration of Electors ( Ireland ); Election and Polling Places ( Ireland ); Light Dues ; Scientific Societies ; It man Catholic Charitable Trusts ; Roman Catholic Relief ; Sale of Bread ; Highways ; Waste Lands ( Ireland ); Poor Law Officers Superannuation Allowances ; Landed Property ( Ireland ); Bakehouse ; Life Policies of Aseurancu ; Cruelty to An ' mali Prevention ; Clerks ef the Peace ( Dublin );

      Appeals in Criminal Cases ; Smoke Prohibition ; Remedies against tbe Hundred ; Registering Births , ba „ ( Scotland ); Marriage ( Scotland ); Landlord and Tenant ( Ireland ); Provident Associations Fraud Pre . ventien , Granary Proceedings Regulation ; Charity Trusts Regulation ; Fees ( Court of Chancery ); Legacies to Charitable Institutions ; Officers of Courts of Justice ( Ireland ) Assimilation « f Appointments ; poor Removal ( England and Scotland ); Renewable Leasehold Conversion ( Ireland ); Bills . Having endeavoured to vindicate tbe house from the opprobrium of being the cause of what he termed this great publio calamity ( the waste of time ) , he proceeded to show what he considered to be the real cause of it . That cause he found there ( pointing to the Ministerial bench , ) I see there a body of am who acceded to

      power without a parliamentary majority . I think that they were justified in accepting office under such clr . eumstances by the exigency of the case — justified by more , by the practices of tbs British , constitution . ( Hear , hear . ) But though they were , in the first instance , justified in taking that course , they are not , in my opinion , la persisting in it under the circumstances ; and thelrpsrsistanoeia that courseoccastsas , it appears to me , two results , both of the most serious nature . In the first place we have a cabinet which in preparing their measure * , have no conviction that those measures will be passed . ( Hear , hear . ) After all their dellbera . tion—after all their foresight—after all their observstlons of the timet and their study ef the interests of the country , when . their measure it launched from the cabinet to the bouse , it is not received by a confiding

      majority , confiding from their belief is statesmanlike qualities and from sympathy with the groat political principles pr , feosed by the members of the administra-Hon . ( Hear . ) On tbe contrary , the success of a meosure when it enters this house depends npon parties whose aggregate exceeds tbeir influence . The temper ef one leader is to be watched — the indications of opinions in another are to bo observed—the propositions of a third are to be studied , aatii at last the measure is eo altered , remoulded , remodelled , patched , cobbled , painted , veneered , and varnished , as to bear no aspectjef lte original form , intention , or circumstances— ( cheers ) or in disgust it is withdrawn , after having undergone a prolonged and elaborate discussion , and beea one great soarca of the waste of that public time which it not less valueless than tbe public treature . ( Cheers . )

      There is another inconvenience attending thlt stats of things , which is in my aplnioa still more grave , al . though lets flagrant . It is that you cannot expect from ministers so situated , the matured , finished , and com . ple ' . e measure wbicbgUaderotheroircamstances , we should have a right to expi ot . Men will naturally say , what is the use of taking all thess pains , what ia the use of all this consideration , what is the use cf all this study or foresight , when the moment the measure is oat of our hands it ceases to be the measure of the cabinet , and becomes tho measure essentially of the House of Commons , ( Hear , hear . ) For these reasons measures are thrown before us with a foregone conclusion that we are to save the administration much of their cars end trouble la preparing the legislation of the country . Thus , instead of being purely a legislative body

      we aro every day becoming more and mors aa administrative assembly . The House of Commons is now oondnottd as a great committee of state on public affairs , in which every man speaks with tbe sama right , and most of as with the same weight . Ns more do we see the disciplined array , the traditionary influence of hereditary opinion , tbe realised experience of ancient societies and af races that for generations bave lived and flourished in the practice of a blgh aad nsble system of self-government . ( Cheers . ) Nothing of this , You are to be compeasated la future by other qualities , Tbe conceits of the illiterate , the crotchets of the whimsical , the violent coarset of vulgar imposition , that acknowledges no gratitude to antiquity , and to posterity no service , anttl at last this free and proud parliament of England is 10 subside to the low water-mark of

      those national assemblies aad those provisional conventions wbich aro at ths tame time tbs terror and ridi . cals of tbe world , Sir , I trace all the evils In the disorganisation of party , I have known honourable gentlemen makeo btervatiens to depreciate party government , I am not now going to eater Into the discussion of whether it is good or not ; bat this I tell you , and I bave told you before , and it hat not been disproved , that yoa cannot choose between party government and parliamentary government , that yoa caap . ot havo parliamentary government without party , and tbat , therefore , when you denounce the latter you are striking out tbe circumstances which hat made this country , and which I hope may keep it , great . The system which is now pursued is a system opposed to those old party cond ' - tloas that bave hitherto been the spirit and life blood of

      the House of Commons , I am aot charging gantlenun opposite with departure from tbat spirit . I am charging them with a system of which they may be the unwilling administrators ; but no lets is their responsibility for the consequences . I can foresee—that which I dare not contemplate—what those consequences may be . In my opinion they are very weak words which should describe them as prejudicial to the realm and perilous to parliament , fatal to that high leva of public life which hitherto has been our beet security for national grandeur . It is , I foar , more than tbat , tbe finis fatorum of the greatDArdanian house . This I am ears of , that if we persist , the consequences will be suoh as ho revelation has succeeded is accomplishing—such as no conspirator in those midnight conclaves which yoa have disturbed hai had the audacity to devise . I knew that nothing caa long withstand its deleterious Influence . It seems

      to mo that the class of pnblio men which has so long been deemed gloriout in publio affairs will be snept from the scone . I protest against this system ia the eleventh hour , and I call apoa tho country to brand it with indignant reprobation . But , sir , whatever may be those consequences , whatever may be tbe fortunes ef individuals or the fate of institutions , at least I have had tbe satisfaction of calling publio attention to this political plague spot . I bave bad tho duty of attempting to place in its true aspect the cause oi this great national evil ; I bave bad more , I have had tho consolation of justifying ibis great assembly , wherein it is my highest honour to bold a seat , and ot vindicating la the face oi Eagland the character aad conduct of the House of Commons . ' ( The hon . member resumed bis seat amid loud and general cheering .

      Lord John Rosbell delivered a long speech in reply , defending the government from the imputations oi Mr Disraeli . Mr Hats then spoke , and was followed in a sarcastic speech by Mr Osbobme , directed against both Mr Disraeli and the government After a few words from MrHonsoR , the bill was then read a third time and passed . At a quarter past four the sitting was suspended till a quarter past six . . At tho latter hour the house re-assembled , and went into committee on tao Copper and Lead Duties Bill . The clauses of this bill having been agreed to , the house resumed , and after disposing of the other orders of the day , adjourned at the unusually early hour of half-past nine , ( from our Third Edition of last week . ) FRIDAY , AnotrsT 25 .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Tns . Chabtibt Faisoraas . —Mr Waklet said that he had presented a petition from certain persons , complaining of the treatment in tha House of CorrccUoa oi tho political prisoner ro . cently convicted of misdemeanoure ; aad those petitioners stated that thoj hr . lteved that tho Home Secretary had given directions theso prisoners should be subjected to coercive treatmr nt . Under theso clrcumstaaces , they said that they -consldtrod it useless to address tho Homeoffice on tha ^ nbj'ot ; they , therefore , had resolved to petition ths house . Ho ( Mr Wakloy ) beluved such n charge to be totally unfounded ( hear , heat ) , and was quite conf rary to the eharao . er and conduct of tbo right tiououW , ie gentleman , and was , therefore , moss unjust , ffhat a ' . or tho petitioners might have supposed to th « contrary ne mB satisfied that tho right honourable

      8 ' . lcmau was quite InoopaHo cf suoh conduct as had bf en imputed to him . With a view , hoffevcr , of satisfying ' ' no prisoners , ho would ash a question on tho subject . Seeing , then , the honourable member fer Maidstone ( Mr Dodd ) in his place , wbo was one cf the visiting magistrates of the prison , he wish « d to inquire oi him whether or not any special instructions bad been sent from tho Home-tines as to tho treatment of these prisoners with anduo severity , end whe ' . htr they were ordered to be treated not as misdemeananUbut as fiilans . v Ha wished also to ask whether tho facts atatod in tbe petition aa to their treatment were correct , Ho begged him also , attbo same time , to stata whit was tbo actual condition and treatment of thoseprlscnsrs , and whether they had made complalnta of tnolr treatment to th < j visiting magistrates , Sir Q , GasY . —Before ths hon , gentleman , answered

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      the quastlon , he wished to allude , for one minuts , to the petition prcstated with regard to himself . Before dote * so , be begged to tbank tha hon . gentleman for the expressions ; which he had used , at to bis ( Sir 0 . Grey'e ) conduct , and in which h « had done him justice . The po'i . tion was signed' Dan Cray , ' who was described as cbohv man of a public meetlag , but it did not stats where the meeting was held It is stated that the petitioner ! be . lleved that special instructions bed been seat from the Home . office to treat tbe Chartist prlsonora with undue severi

      ty . To thii assertion he gave the aott uuquali . fe & contradiction . He bad nopcrerto give such in . struotlons ; « dUb » btti done so , the magistrates would havs disregarded them . The arrangements of the nrf . son wtre placed under the charge gf the 7 j , itin . L . tratesby Act of Parliament . With referenos to another part of the subject , a memorial had been tent to him to some of the Chartist prisoners , expressing a hope that no unnecessary hardships would be Imposed upon tbem which he had sent to the visiting moglstrotes , and he bad no donbt at to their attention to it ,

      Mr 6 , Donn could fully corroborate tbs statemen t of the right bon . baronet tbs Stcretary of Stats for the Homo Department , thst be had not interfered in any way with the regulations of the House of Correction . Ths memoriolt tent to ths Home Office by two of ths Char , list prisoners were referred to the visiting magistrates fey the right hou . baronet , who had stated to him that he hoped no unnecessary restrictions woal-i be imposed . The sentences on tbo prisoners implied that they were to te subjected to certain rales framed for all bouses of correction when Lord Normanby wos ia iffi « , and had

      not since been departed from . The question put by tbe bon . member for Finebury showed tbat considerable misrepresentation had goae abroad with respect to ths five Chartist prisoners now undergoing sentence of int . prisonment . Asa visiting magistrate , he had seen these persons each wtek , and they all expressed themselves grateful to the magistrates , and more particularly to tho Governor , Lieutenant Tracy , for the lenient manner ia which the regulation * had bat » carried out . It was said that the prisoners' hair had been cut cloae immediately on their entering the prison . This was not the case . E . Jones ' s hsir was cut about a wtek after his entrance at

      his own request , and by the advice of tha surgeon , owing to the weakness of his eyes . Tbe others were cropped about the same time , except Vernon ' s , whose hair was not cat for a fortnight , and then not after the Dover crop , bit trimmed in the same manner ss any gentleman in the house would have hit dona . ( A laugh . ) The prisoners all stated they bad no complaint to make with respect to tbeir food . Tbe dietary of the house was a loaf of white bread weighing nearly a pound and a bolf , with a pint of cocoa , for breakfast , with a similar loafandapint of gruel at supper . Four days la tha week they bad for dinner six ounces oi meot and eight ouaces of potatoes , making on these days tbirty-tbrea ounces of solid food ; on tha other three days a pint and a half of good soup in lieu of meat . Passe !! ond Sharp bo h said that if

      every working man lived nearly as well thae would not be discontent in } the country . They were permitted to hove books stm" tbem ( subject to the oppravol of the chaplain ) , and when b » called that morn . Ing Ttfrnoa was reading a scientific book , a » d Jones working a mathematical prollem . ( A laugh . ) In fact , every indulgence had been given . Ycrnon stated to the governor that he was occasioned te take bathe , ond the governor immediately ordered be shoald have them two or three times a week . Tbe sentence on these prisoners made it requisite that tbey should be put in prisojs dress , ani everything furnished to them wat new . Tho dress they wore was tbat of misdemeants , blue , d ^ ffereut from that of felons , which wos of groy cloth with fl aamber on theehmliar . Ha hoped he had given such explonation respecting their treatment as woald

      Ireland. Mbd John Rvsszll'a V131t To Irs...

      IRELAND . MBD JOHN RVSSZll ' a V 131 T TO IRSMHD —THS CROPS . — THE PTATB PRISONERS . ( From our own Correspondent . ) Dublin , Avohst 29 . We nre all on the tip-tee cf expectancy in Dublin ; Lord John Russell is coming to look at us , and the probable object of his visit to Ireland , and under suoh circumstances , nonstitutestbe subject of inquiry amongst all parties . Every brain is on the rack , evflry tongue ia en the wag . Some say he comes to make arrangements for a periodical sitting of tho Imperial Parliament in College-areen , and for a periodical sojourn of the Queen and Royal household on Cork Hill , Others aver tbat he wants to see with

      his own ' two eyes' our rotten potatoe ? , and smell with his own veritable nose , the effluvia from our blighted fields ! And furthermore , it is added , that if his premiership discovers that the potatoes aro really ' gone / and the wheat-crops really blighted , and the tu r nip crops really ' missed , ' and the hay really ' swept fff' by inundations of our impatient Irish mountains streams , and our peasantry really in the last stage of social existence , and Ireland really in a fair way cf becoming a howling wilderness—then they say , if Lord John finds all these things coming to pas ? , he intends to turn hia attention in good earnest to our situation , and seek counsel and devise tbe best means of savice ourselves

      and our country from final destruction . This is all very fine indeed , but as we Irish aay , when we have good cause to doubt the truth of certain propositions — ' we fear the news is too good to be true V But whether or not , conjecture aa to the object of Mr RusEeh ' a Irish ttur does not end here . It is affirmed inenme quarters that his sole business is to consult with Lord Clarendon and the Irish government on the propriety of granting a general amnesty to all the State prisoners ; to pardon those who are already convicted ; to release John Martin from Richmond Penitentiary ; and recall poor Mitchel from Bermuda ! Can this be possible ? Can those who think in this manner be serious ?

      Whatever may ba the special object of the Premier ' s visit , it must eventuate for the benefit of Ireland . 'Tis an ill wind tbat blows nobody good ;' and his lordship cannot have a drop of honest blood in his veins , nor a drop of the milk of human kindness in his heart , if he does not take cognisance of our miseries , and set about earnestly to work for our amelioration . He will see what certainly the most graphic descriptions , the moat elaborate statistical evidence , or the moat earnest appeals from our intercessors , could never convey to hia imputable conceptions . Talking over this to a wag ? i ? h friend of mine , an hour or two ago , he suggested the pro * priety of serviag Loro John as the Monster peasantry were . wont to do wich excisemen aad revenue officers in days past—that is , to carry away his

      lordship , vi el amxis , to some wild , half desert region of Cork , or Kerry , or Mayo ; locate him for a week in one of tbe rudest mountain huts in the neighbourhood ; furnish him with a sop of stinking straw or half-decomposed heather , without sheet , blanket , quit , or pillow to lie on ; give his lordship a spare meal a-day of semi-rotten potatoes , relished with what we call a ' blind herring—1 . v ., a solution of a spoonful of salt in ho much spring water as you like —give him this , taking care to deny him fire , candle-light , and gocd air , and then Lord John will be pretty fairly ' insinsed' into the actual condition of the Celtic peasant , and will probably cease to wonder why he should be a ' rebel' in grain , an enemy in heart to the Saxon , and disposed to give a preference to Turk , or Jew , or Tom the Devil , '—

      anybody rather than a British Prima Minister . But , without advocating the adoption of my' expe * rimental friend ' s' suggestion , I feel satisfied that Lord John Russell ' s visit will be beneficial , and I am happy tbat h ? has signified his intention of being in Dublin on next Friday or Saturday . The accounts from all parts of this island are still of the most gloomy hue . The potato blight still works insidiously , and it is admitted that , even with favourable harvest weather , the lo-s will be equal to fully fifty per cent , of the entire crop . The wheat , too , is thin , puny , and now commencing to grow in the ear . This crop will be short by at leash one * fourth , and far below the usual annual average * Barley , bare , oats , and rye , are pretty good , but much doubt exists as to whether it ean be cot safely into tha

      haggard . Turf is represented as getting mouldy and rotten on the banks , and cannot be dried for the winter ' s fuel . Turnips will be short by ninety per cent , of the breadth sown , whilst the hay is badly saved , ano most of it lying by the rivera and in low situatieae , has been swept away by the immense floods which arose during the late rainy weather . On the whole , the prospects ot the country were never so bad within the memory of any body now living , and i £ Lard John Russell be not convinced of the para " mount necessities of the Irish people ; and if he does sot either exert himself for their relief or resign tke reigns of government to some one who will , a curse will fall on himseli and his councils , and Britain will lament the day she committed herself into au

      keeping . The State prisoners in Kilmainham — Smith 1 O'Brien and T . F . Meaghw-axe * wel \ . ' Poor C . G . . Duffy , who still pines iu Newgate , is said to be very r low , both in health and spirits . I am told he is deeply j involved by the correspondence and letter * found , ia \ that unlucky travcllisg-bag of Smith O'Brien . It is pretty woil ascertained now , that Mr Richard d 0 Gorman has succeeded in escaping tbe spotters , ' , ' and is now , with J . B . Dillon , Franow Morgan , and d others , respiring beneath the sunny skies ot France . 3 . There is no authentic account of Thomas D'Aroy > y M'Gee . ofthe Nation , or . Thomas Devin Reilly . of of tha b elon . Jaaes K . Ls / tor , is still in Newgate , in a . a very dangerous state of health . 1

      Aottth Lancabmtif,.—A District Delegate ...

      AottTH LANCAbMtiF ,. —A district delegate meetinj ? nj ? will be held in the Odd Fellows' Hall , Padiham , cn en Sunday , September , gtd , v , ata tho fallowing places aas are requested to . Hend delegates :-Preston , Chorley , . ey , Blackburn , Ciitheroe , Padibam , Colne , Burnley , ley , Aocrmglon , Barrojyford . aud Oawaldtffistle . Chair air to be taken at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon .

      Priute I By Dotjgal H'Gowan, Of Lti, Orem Windmill- Aiuktteot, Jlaymarket, In The City Of V/Estroi Iter, Aiil* Ale

      Priute i by DOTJGAL H'GOWAN , of lti , Orem Windmill- aiUktteot , Jlaymarket , in the City of V / estroi iter , aiil * ale

      \-Mee, V.I The Same Street And Parish, F...

      \ -mee , v . i the same Street and Parish , for th :. Proprietor itor fEAKGUS O'CO . N . TOH , Esq ., M . P ., and ' *> uh ! isSed sbed byVTiuun Hewitt , of ^' o . 18 , Ciuu-iijwtruei , Brant raxi don-stvect , Wahvort'i , in the parish of St . Mary , NtFiStFi ingtoH , in the County of Surrey , at tao Oflice , 3 o . U » . U ( Great Windmill-street . H . tymarkot' in th < QityovrV "¦»*« V " e »* i minster . —Saturday September 2 nd 1848 *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02091848/page/8/