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      INDIA AND CHINA . rtters and papers in antwipatiten 0 f the overland Jilh ave brCT received . The latest dates by this ^« lare- -C « lcutta . June 2 d ; Madras , June 8 th ; S Hcn gKong . May 2 ota . % ra ou « wereincircn'ation at Madras of a fresh - ntbreak in Gomsoor . tbe stat e ol affairs in China is still very unsafe fef torv ; we extract the following from the Friend of Si , i * ' * i May 24 :-•• Since the deparlnre of the last monthly mail rj nte-n has engrossed the attention of foreigners in j . ^ quarter . The results of Sir John Davis ' * expe * liim are **« developed . The capitalists are Jejving the vicinity of the factories , being

      appnhen-, : mi danger , either from their own couulrvnu-n , Luld disturbances take place , or from foreien truops . should the Governor of Hong Kong repeat his wanton aggressions . Several of tbe native nierjbsnts are insolvent , being unable to meet the demands upon them , in consequence of the shroffs or kujVtn g-fcnnses , having cW : d . Forei gn trade is in j state of stagnation , all the staples having fallen in -rice . ^ or are reigners free from danger ; an atj ^ jt on the factories only being checked by the « re = en ce of a small body of British troons . A ccd * is aP iroaching , the consequences of which Canute foreseen , but a rupture with China isali but onivoidable .

      TV French government has received a second telecraplrc de--patch , dated Malta , the 14 th ; accounts from Canton to the 23 d : and Huns Kong , the 25 : h of May . No business doing at Canton . Keying ha * been menaced by the mob that his palace ghnnld be burned if he granted the ground pflmised to _ the English . Mr Pope , who had been . sent to inspect the ground , had abandoned his pnrpn < e . A trpsh expedition against Canton was expected , ¥ hich w-n ! d be mote sanguinary than the last . Thv l'lsto was stationed abreast the factory . The Se-oat has been ordered to approach as near Canton ss possible .

      FRANCE . Coscixaoa of the State Trials . —We announced in our last the verdict of Guilty rec « rded against M . Teste , General Cubieres . and M Parmenticr . Ou Saturday the court gave judgment . M . Teste was condemned—1 st . To civil degradation . 2 « d . To three years imprisonment . 3 rd . To pay back lb * 9 i , 000 f ., which sun : is to be given to the hospitals of Paris . * h . ToaSneoflO . OOOf . General Cubieres and M . Parmentier are each condemned—I * t . To civil degradation . 2 nd . T . > a fine . of lO . OOOf . each . General Cubieres had a very narrow escape of bavin * imprisonment added to this sentence , a majority of one on ' y being in his favour .

      Tte following extract from the penal code defines the meaning of ' * civil degradation . " " Ar t . 34 . Civil degradation consits , first , in jthe isclusion > -f the persons condemned from all public functions and employments ; secondly , in being deprive ! of tbe ri ght of votim : or beinjr elected , and in general of all civil and political rights , and of the priviiefic of wearing any decoration Thirdly , in being incapable to serve ou a jury or to servo as a witness to a 1- gal deed , or to give testimony on oath in a court of justice . Fourthly , in being incapacitated from forming part , ot an ; family council , or of bans : guardian , or judicial counsel , aniens for Lis own chi . dren . Fifthly , in being deprived «> f the right of carryins : arms of serving in the national guard or the French army , of keeping a school or being emp loyed in any establishment- of public instruction , as suiter , professor , or usher . "

      A letter from Paris of Sunday ' s date , says : — "Yesten-ay . when the sentence of tbe Court of Peers to announced to M . Teste , that portion « if it which condemned h m to imprisonment threw him into a tu-lent state of fremy , which produced congestion of the brain , nnd his wound threatened a dangerous abscess . To-day his state is such as to thr = au-n serious consequence . * . A- soon as the judgment was intimated to General Cubieres he paid the various sums in which he was mulcted , amounting in the wh-. de to 12 000 francs , and he was forthwith liberated . 5 J . Parmentier will not be discharged ut : til i * has in a similar manner paid the fine and his share of th «* . c « sts .

      The rumour which was senerally circulated on Alwidav , of the return of M . Pellapra , is now officially conSroied . The Moniteur of Tuesday contains a summons to the meaibrrs of tbe Court of Per-rs to assemble on Friday , for the trial of that gentleman . The Debais says that M . Pellapra arrived in Paris on Sunday evening , and on Monday surrendered himself a prisoner at the prison of the Luxembourg . It is thought that the trial will not occupy the court more than one day , as it is probable that A ! . Pellapra will plead guilty . Tbe thiion Mmarchique says that the alarming rnmpurs that had been current as to the state of health of M . Tt > te :-re confirmed . His health is injured to such an extent that his family begin to entf rr * in serious fears for his recovery .

      The . trial « ifti ~ e Communist Materialists concluded on Friday by the conviction of all the prisoners . They were sentenced to periods of imprisonment varyinc frr-m two to seven years . The Reform * cantra > t > . the sentences of these unfortunate , with those passed upon the arist . eratie corroptiani-ts . ** In one case , " says the Iteforme , "themaximum of punishment ( sevonyears' imprisonment . ) is passed upon six unfortunate operatives convicted of a pi-litic . il con-piracy which bad had no result . Iu another—where that hideous crime*—corruption—had been committed by two illustrious ahd noble personages—the convicts are visited—one with civil degradation without imprisonment , and the other with a similar punishment , and three years * imprisonment , so that he will escape with four years les- of confinement thati the parties convicted « -f a seditious conspiracy that had led to no outrage . And this is called equal justice !"

      Emigration' ofFrbsch Commcxists . —The French Communists bavins lately suffered much persecution , are now proposing fc > emigrate , en masse , under the direction of M Caber , to found a Communist State , probably in America . M . Cabet wa- at one time a member of the French Chamber of Deputies asd is a ' .. * o kn » wn as author of an History of France , ilia two cli'ef Communist works are the Voyage en fecria . an Utopian romance . from wh-nce those wh > store ? with bis views have been called Icarians ; and VraiChristiaivime . in which hebases Communism npnnthe forth of Jesus . He also is editor of the T-ypiCmre . in which paper he has developed the necessity of French Communist emigration . Hisapi-cal tothis effect has met with a willing response from the Communists in France , and their cry , —anew version of "To our tents , 0 Israel !"—is AVons en Icirie . They will emisrate at least by hundreds .

      The Coming Rv . vottrn « x . —A correspondent of the Edinburgh . Weekly Register , ' writing irom Paris , savs : — In a few days we shall have the usual celebration of tie anniversary of the 'Three glr-rious davs' of Jnlv . 1830 . Bat for any real joy the people feel , the day :-might just aa well be allowed tnpassover without notice ; for there is no denying , that not one ot the thins * for which the revolution was made has been nrcmuH-hed . Liberty of the press is afarce ; individual libfrtv exists not , since it can be violated at any time , with the mort scandalous impunity ; the Chamber of Deputies is scarcely one whit pore a Tenres-.-iitative oithe people of France than i * . iaol the inhabitants of Timbuctoo , for it is elected by a miserable minority of the nation , and by means of the most infamous bribery and corruption . The fact is . that tha revolution has been a gigantic

      disappointment to the wh-de nation . It has placed Louis Philippe on the throne—but that is all . The people now are he-inning to be excessively indignant ^ having been duped sn long . The food crisis , which still exists , and the depressed state of commerce . havrineressid their wrath , which has beenfurfJier irritated by the recent scandalous disclosures . 1 he consequence is , that a most uneasy feeling prevails Ever ? oneictras to esp-: ctthat mischief is brewing . Some peopie , indeed , pretend that they can fiistinctJy hear the rumbling of a comiug storm . 1 know that a ' asmssts are apt to be laughed at ; and 1 myself , lor oae have a vuprenie contempt for them ; but , at the risk of being set down as one of the tribe , I will venture to say that from all lsee and hear , it will be sirange , indeed . if the people of this country much looser refrain from an attempt to overthrow the

      government . The Journal des Delate has fiercely assailed the Republican demor . stration at the Chateau-Rouge on tie 8 th inst . We give the admirable reply from the National : — * All is lost . Public order is compromised . Anarchy ;* raising its hideous head . We are rolling from abyss fr > abvss to the ful ifS of Communism . The quseti ^ n before us relates to the rain of society J It is the Journal dn Dchats which this morning utters tlii * cry of alarmnot oiwroi of comp laint—sot with respect to tlie «« md * loustrial—not with regard to theigioUe proceedings of the i-overnment . No ; those are great , pare , and -lions' B-it the Reformist banejue * ot the Chateauli * « &* tU the destrnetien of society ! That w the ew . ; tn « uier . tofthe abyss ! MM- Duvern . erde Hanraim , , Leon Mallcville , Odillon Barrot . «« « £$ *••/ of t

      tlrircoUeinitt , have t *«* guUty of the infamy asa ,, fag at a ballet at which the King ' s health was not Proposed ! Calyoufiiture to yoarsel a « mdarho ^ rort T :. eKin , the living and incarnate law At 4 at tn , pinnsineViiugit was preferred to toast » e sover « gntj -fthepeoplelendthe revolution of Jul , ! *»** % » t »«! The guests dared to utt « - ardent w ^ s forJh « reform of a legislation which has g iven us-a satisneei « t puties , comprising M . Dugalie ! What oblivion of eviiry morality ! They went further—they spwe of the ri « V . tsof thope etcluded from political power , of the saffcrings and the merits of all those citizens whose political laws pay labour by ingratitude . They appealed to the justice and the solicitude of public «* WDionag 8 iast those odious iniquities of social organisation in opposition to the most numerous and ill-treated , Masses jJm assembly offivHegra , «> *» BFD 1 C ° ]

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      ihs census , all sentiments were in accord to proclaim tbenecessityfer modifyingthepalitical instrument which supports , propagates , and increases all disorders *«* « if all these facts were not sufficient to charade that infernal meeting , those present carried their auda ! arj to fax as to propose a toast to the press i- * n x th « did uot drinktotheKlBg ! Our feeling become "Jfj ? wheuwethinkofthatMuomiuy ! How coTd M Da er per ^ e vnthout dri nking the King ' s health ! fiS elepuhes bound und « the penalty of outhTwrv to rnm meaceby . monarchical 6 eW ^ S ^ happen to meet , fc an officiaI 8 M £ mW ™ » « J ^ obiged to renew their oath of fidel t , mohomSTS fcs M-jesty . even should they expo * that Mnie . S to r " \ f « " tL coaa ^ wali r > yarded as a flock of functionar . I Z ' t ! ° COWards or P 0 ltr o ™« becau se they

      asso-. » -. ^ . ciateWJ , h , bemost selectcfthethctorg ofPar - i wh 0 i leaving aade men , wish to occupy themselves solely with the-insututums of tbecountrv ! Truly we were aware that the pride of upstarts was great , but we did not imagine It reached so high ! It is a principle say they ! But we reply with tha Charterinonr hand , that tbe sole principleof govwumcutistmi soverei gnty £ the people . The national will is at oace the origin and the term of all govern , ments . It alone creates them , according to their necessities , as it pleases ; » ud anybody must have a short memory to have forgotten already how that sovereign will destroy forms which are contrary to its expansion , and casts into solitude those ancient royal races whea they pretend to oppose their worn-out privileges to the eternal tight of the people . That Charles X . succeeding to his brother Lr . uu XVIII , who maintained that he had

      reigned SI years when a foreign steam boat cast him on our coast in the year 1814—that those persons should have assumed to be principals might have passed without ridicule . And nevertheless , when a meeting was held at tha V-. ndauges de Bourgogua without drinking the King ' s htalth nobody then thought of groaning and lamenting the conduct of deputies who bad at that period a dynastic snr . face . Aad joa wish and require that deputies should at present driuk the king ' s health ! Not only deputies , but tbe electors of Paris—but the press of Paris , and that in the month of July , when tba burning sun bea < s the pavement , when from heights which command the capiui wa perceive the Louvre , where the people were victorious , and the Tuilleriea , where they levelled a throne , and the dust of the Carrousel where the pedes .

      tnsns trampled under their 'ee-t the / fairs de Us broken to pieces ! Bat jonr adoration becomes ridiculous bjr force or impertincne-e . You now style the King the living incarnate law ! Good people , you mistake yourselves for Louis XIV . In what article of the charter have you found that the King was the law t The law rules the King as well as the humblest of citizens . lie contributes one-third to it he executes it- te is bound to obey it—or , rather , as he acts not without his Ministers , iu constitutional language we must thus explain your « plen < Iid phrase- : —The living » nd incarnate law is M . Jayr , II . Dumon . U , Cunin Gridaine . father , at Sedan ! A fine incarnation , well worthy of adoration Iu truth , one is surprised to find to what a point the spirit « f the Court , the miserable spirit of subserviency ,

      is perpetuated in this country , notwithstanding the terrible lessons of history . It might be said that the rtsidenes of the monarch was clos-d against the external air—that the movement ofgenerations and tbe i-ermanfnt progress of idvas had not bc « = felt there . It appears to be that au inteligent , active powerful , and energetic nation like ours should hah because a system has described is parabole—that the immovability ot tbe upper part mght to paralyse the entire social body—that all Fiance should ba condemned to drag its limbs liko a decripit old man , because it pleases all those who lead it to be from 70 to 81 years of age ! Those are the men of the Left and the Left centre , to whom they do tbe honour to attribute soma . good sense . They perratve that the present

      policy degrades and corrupts all parties . They contend at the Coamber their efforts are destroyed by a majority of satisfied members . They propose au electoral and Parliamentary refonn—they are ridiculed and told that the country is laughing at them . They then address themselves to thr . eK-ctorj—the latter reply and appeal to men of every party attached to the revolution of Jay who desire a modification of the existing system , A common feeling unites different sections of the same party Each brings his followers and maintains his fl . g . A cry of anathema is immediately raised because the na . ¦ i ml sovereignty and tbe revolution of July have beenin voiced in place of the Kins ! Tbe Marseillaise was chanted with enthusiasm , but Yite Henry IV , was neither played nor sung , and deputies were present ! What a scandal . '

      Aad it is expected that this extraordinary manifestation of which the echo has been * heard in London and i » G-rmany , shall be imitated in France ! " "bat an iuipruden expectation ! Ah ! we are « ell awara of what grieves yon . It is because no disturbances interfer-d to derange this sincere and powerful expression of the Parisian electors . It is because in that assembly of 1 200 persons the heat aud excitement diminished ia uo respect tho dhrnifird dem . anoar of the guests . It is because that aaiongjtthe 5 . 060 or C , 000 persons who tesponded outside to the applause <•{ the company , and to the music of the ManeiVaise . your polic - found no opportunity to interfere to repress tl : e sli g htest confusion . This ten-* ciouines- ot right , which is gradually penetrating everywhere , and which fortiGcs those amongst whom it psuet : ate-s . affl-cts you bee-ause it menaces your existence , and it bee-onus the u . ore alarming to you as it is

      consolatory to society in general , lou invite by your provocation agitation and riot . Ton would have cried less loudly if an opportunity bad been afforded you to disperse the meeting as illegal . You would not perhaps regret , crouched as you are in your filthy den , that some violence » tould have assisted you iu creating alarm . Do nit place any reliance on violence—that must come from you . We have waited patiently for your system to produce its fruit . The country has seen and has tasted the poison . You are educating tie * nation . You are enlightening the most blind by the lignt of your policy . Parties have learned that bad governments are not destroyed by their eff-rts . Bad governments commit suicide , aud you will jot fail to succeed in consequence o the care with which you charge your weapons . Our part will henceforth be governed by yours . You may act , we shall wait . "

      Damkl O'Cossbll , Etej . M . P . for Dundalk , and the ttev . Dr Miley , arrived in Paris on Tuesday bringing wish them the body of the late . Mr O'Conneil in a fourgon . ' 1 hey were to proceed on their journey the next day , intending to cress over from Havre to Southampton . The National gives currency to a rumour to the effect that Marshal Se . ult having a ^ ain sent in his resignation , tbe Council ot Ministers deliberated on it , and the offer was accepted . A letter , it was rumoured , was immediatey written to . Marshal Bugeaud to offer him the portfolio of war , and it was almost settled that M . Guiz it should assume the place of President of the Council . It is added that the appointment ot Bugeaud as Minister of War will be foll-iweei by the immediate arming of the fortifications . The Duke d'Aumale has been appointed Governor-General of Algeria .

      Apprehensions are entertained in certain circles of an outbreak on the 29 th inst , the anniversary of one of ' * the three glorious days . " The correspondent of the Times says , however , that such fears are not justified by facts , tout the Republicans are held iu band byitheir chte & , who will not give tbe government such a chance ot crashing them , and protecting the present order of things by a premature and impotent insurrection . A banquet to be given to M . De Laraartine by his constituents at Mac « is looked forward to with some interest . Ilis' * Giroudins" ha- engaged the whole country in recollections of the Revolution of 1769 , of tbe omnipotence < f the pvople , and especially of the integrity , probity , poverty , and patriotism of Robespierre , St . Just , Couthon . and others of the leaders in lhai revolution . " These and the late trials . " says the correspondent of the Times will probably predispose the meeing to reflections and expressions which cannot fail to produce a sensation .

      SPAIN . The Madrid journals dwell with tbe same alarm on the thrcatenine . appeaiance ot the Montcmoliniats . The Eco del Comercio , for example , says : — " It is an indubitable tact that the Montemolinists are organising theti ^ elves in a formal and terrible manner , and it is expected th . it from one day to another , they will raise the cry of rebellion with amintensity which it will not be very easy soon to stifle . " The same journal publishes a letter from Valencia , stating that a M ^ ntem'din'st band of sixty men had appeared at Macrtrazjio Encounters , of no great importance as to their results , took place on the 5 th andCch between the Queen ' s troops and insurgents , at Valldara , in Catatonia and near the Mora da Ebro , in Tarragona . A Madrid letter of the 10 th states that the mail from that city to Barcelona had been stopped by a body of men ' who burnt the carriage and took the

      courier prisoner . A letter from our Bayonne correspondent , under date July ICth , gives the following account of the progressofthe Carlist bands : — ** A diligence which arrived here to-day was arrested near Burgos by a detachment of £ 1 Estudiante ' s guerilla , which appeared to be well armed and mounted . The insurgents offered no violence to the travellers , merely taking one of the horses , of which they were in netd . Two more Carlists have been shot at Burgos , ailer remaining twenty-four hours en cai-illa . The war on the Catalonian frontier is becoming characterised by acts of great ferocity , each party destroy ing the crops of their opponents . The Carlists have also burned several diligences . Colonel Nozal , tho officer arrested here the day before yesterday , was one of Z-jmalacarregui ' u veterans . lie came here from Belgium , and was bearer of letters from London , iu which he has appointed to a command ia Navarre . "

      ¦ A telegraphic despatch from Burgos , of the 11 th , is also published , stating that the band of El Estudiacte was come up with on the 10 th near Sedano , that he lost a captain killed , his aide-de-camp taken prisoner , wilh four horses and some arms , and that he himself escaped with a wound in bis head . The troops had two soldiers wounded and three horses shot .

      SWITZERLAND . A letter from Berne , of the 9 th , in the Constilutionnel , says : — ** What I said to you yesterday , respecting a note of the French cobinet , is fully confirmed j and I be-

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      lieve I can guarantee the correctness of thee following details : —The diy before yesterday , M . de Boisle-Comte went to the President of the Diet , and read tohimasjmewhatlong despatch , dated 4 th July , by which M . Guizot not only fully ratified the latn-naye held , by the ambassador in his famoiw dijeours ecrit . but even strengthened the expression ot his idea hy assribiflg to the great continental powers , with respect to our country , more hostile intentions than a simple examination of the complications which mav arise in case the majority of the Swiss States sb-tild take collective measures against th « min-irity . In n

      word , the written language ef Vi . Guizot is in complete opposition with the declarations that he made in the Chamber of Deputies in the sitting in which the interpellatinns took place . After having rend this despatch to M . Ochsenbein , the Ambi > sador offered , accordine to usage , to leave him a cupv . The President of the Vorort at first replied by a positive refusal , but afterwards consented to the forniaiitv , declaring , however , thai as the despatch was not ad dressed to him as President , nor to the Vivort . he could not communicate it officially either to the Diet or the Directory , "

      ITALY . A letter from Bologna of the 8 tb , in the ConttttKtionnel , says : — " Tho law on the institution of the civic euard for the entire state has just arrived from Rome . Cardinal Aroati ordered it to be immediately published throughout , the province . It is iu consequence « f a serious demonstration of the Roman pi'eipl thattlie government hastened to pass this measure , so Ions expected . Couriers passed through Bologna hint night from Reime . on their way to Vienna , with

      pressing despatches from tbe Austrian ambassadors residing at Rome and Naples . Armed bunds are said to have msde their appearance in Calabria . Considerable agitation reigns in the kingdom of the Two Stci'ies . We understand that a collision , attended with bloodshed , has just taken place at Laces , between the troops and the inhabitants . The irritatim ° f the population continues at Parma . It is said that a bod y of Imperial troops are on their wav to occupy the duchy of that name . If such an act takes place , it will be the commencement- of the Austrian interven tion in Central Italy . "

      A letter from Naples , ot the 29 th ult . savs : — " The government has just taken energetic measures against the bricands of the Calabria- , whose miiu hers , according to accounts from Cosenzn and its environs , have considerably increased . The gendarmerie and several battalions of chasseurs have been sent from Nocera to the points which arc most threatened . " Accounts received in Paris from Rome , under da * e of the 10 th , inform us that Cardinal Gizzi had resigned , and that CardinalFerretti , Legate of Pesaro and Urbino , had been appointed his successor . Cardinal Ferretti , who belongs to a m . ble famil y ol Ancona , is 52 years of age . He is the bi other of the Major Ferretti who , in the time of Napoleon wax considered one of the bravest officers of tha Italian army . The Pope convoked on tbe 8 th a congregntion of cardinals , to take into consideration tlie municipal law , aad other urgent measures .

      POLAND . The Breslatt Gazette of the 12 th eive « the following representation of the misery which afflict * ihe part of Poland which lies on the banks of the Vistula : — " The working classes are obliged to cat the grasof the fields , which they dress as vegetables . The few who are so fortunate as to procure employment earn no more than five kreutzsrs ( 30 c . ) a day , and tnen tbey are able to buy only a small quantity ot black or spoiled flour , which tbey mix with the grass . Every day people were found dead in the streets

      Irom starvation- In the town of Saysupeil there were found in one morning nineteen persona lying on the pavement round a church , all of whom had exoired from want of food . The principal disease caused b y this famine is a nervous fever , attended with insanity . They stayger as they go , have a stupid air , and cannot speak without stammering . They are easily distinguished among the hundreds of bege . tr .-i who besiege the doors of all the houses . Children deserted by their fathers and mothers wander about the streets in groupspiteously imploring charity . "

      RUSSIA . According to the last arrivals from St Petersburg , the Emperor Nicholas will not go into Germany this year . _ lie is said to have directed his Minister ol Foreign affairs to collect in August , at St Petersburg , all the diplomatic representatives of Russia to the great power .- - . The Emperor has just taken an important decision in a strategic point of view , lie has adopted the project of a vast line of railways uniting the three capitals , Warsaw Moscow , and St Petersburg . This line , of which tbe teu depont will be the fortress of Warsaw , will complete and strengthen the system of the old kingdom of Poland , such as the Emperor Nicholas established it at the last insurrection in 1830 . Tho country to ba traversed by the line is generally flat , which will allow of the woiks being rapidly completed at aa expense of about lOO . OOOf . the English mile .

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      TI 1 E FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . At a meeting of this society on Monday evening , — Ridley , in the chair , the following new regulations were moved by Julian Harney : — 1 st . That henceforth the society ' s meetings take place only monthly—the first Monday in every month : the secretaries , however , to have the power to call $ pe : ial meettiu ; s whenever they deem necessary . The first of the regular monthl y meetings to take place on the first Monday in August . That as a number of members neglect to pay the contribution of a b ^ itpennr weekly , the present system he

      discontinued , and , instead , that every member in town and country pay , on receipt of his card , one shilling . The shilling to eons itute one year ' s payment . The year to date from the 22 nd of September . If not paid on the 22 nd ( the society ' s anniversary ) , the town members to pay at the first monthly meetings Mlowiag ( October ) Should it he inconvenient for any number to make good his contribution in one payment , he tn . y pay thesam-t b y in ' talm-nts of not less than one penny weekly until the whole is paid . On any emergency additional monies to ba raised by voluntary cntributions . "

      The above having been seconded b y Geo . William Wheeler , the first reguhtion was unanimously adopted . On tbe second , Carl Schapper moved ' , seconded by Charles Keen , that " that each member on receipt of his card pay sixpence instead of one shilling . " On a division , the amendment was rejected , and tha original motion ( the shilling annually ) adopted . The following new members were electee ! : — Conrad Sprinisall , of Norwich ; George Kendsll , of Sutlon-in-Ashfield ; Charles Rhus , Thomas Major , John Dell , Henry Ellis , and Henry Lester , all of Reading ; John Rogers , of Bristol ; Thomas Gill , jun ., of Wakefield : David Morrison , of Swindon ; Adam Camsron . of Paisley ; Charles Theobald , of Peterborough ; James Smith , of Accrington , Edward Burley , of Manchester ; John McCrae , James Graham , John Mcintosh , Robert Stiven , John Dow . ie , James Drumraoud , Thomas Wliitten , George Young , Duncan Palmer , and Anthony Chappell , all of Dundee .

      — Broome ( Tower Hamlets ) was elected town member . [ The above members will understand thai the shilling regulation will not be enforced until the * 22 nd of September next . They must then renew their membership subject to tbe above regulation , when they will be supplied with cards . ] After some other business had been transacted , and several spirited speeches delivered , the meeting adjourned till Monday eveniog , August 2 nd .

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      ( From the Gazette of Friday , July 16 . ) John Brittan , of Redlytich , Wiltslii < e , market gardner —John Snook , of Ledhury-road , r . -idiiujtem . builder—Stepnen Ilocken , of 2 , Cornwall-villas , Albion-road , Queen ' s-road , Dalston , builder—Henry Clark , of Hedcross-strcet , City , and-Pluinnier ' s-row , Whitechapel , oil merchant—Luke Langlcy , of Brad- ' ugv Isle of Wijrht , baiter—Thomas Green Crofts , of Leicester , draper—James Dolphin , of Uilston , grocer—John Wyatt Sugg , of Torquay , architect—William Bromley Cooke , of Burtonujion-Trent , tape manufacturer-John Fe-arne Gee , of Wakefield , manufacutring chemist—George Roberts , of Rod borough , Gloucestershire , miller— IVilliam Alsop Massey , lateof Kverton , but now of Liverpool , licensed victualler—Joseph Leadbeater Btittcrell , of Doncaster , grocer—Geo . Whitehead , Jno . Settle , . Ino . Smith , Juo . Hyde . Wm . Kelsall , Jas . Holduu , Thus . Barlow , Duncan Crightou , Jno . Jones , Thos . Mallinson , Win , Foster , David Crighton , and Jas . Ashwortli , of Hill's Croft Mill , Pendleton , cotton-spinners .

      ( . From the Gfotctteof Tuesday , July 20 ) Sarah Uowring , l ' endleton , Lancashire , plumber—Bobert John Day , ilalstead , Essex , wine merchant-James Dodge , Cumberland row , Walworth-road , Newington , ironmonger—Joseph Gardner , Nottingham , baker-John Hay , Bath , surgeon dentist—Diedrick Carsten Hermann Lomer , London-street . City , merchant—Henry Monson , East Manchester-square , builder—Joseph New man Fratnpton Cotterell , Gloucestershire , carpenter-Luke Moriuington , Bradford , worsted spinner —John Price , LudgatehiU , City , innkeeper - William Se-ott , Liverpool , hardware dealer-Abraham Stmtli , Botley , Hampshire , chai- -maker-Henry Woodhouseand 1 nomas Theakstone Woodhouse , Aldcrmanbury , warehousemen .

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      Accidkst at the House of Lords . — A man named Michael Ilogan was killed here on Monday . He fell a height of sixty feet fr <; m one of the towers , striking agaiust several rafters as ho fell , and trying in vain to catch hold of them . A rowing match for £ 100 has been agreed upon between Coombes , of London , and his ^ brother , and Clamper , and one of kis brothers . The highest honours at King Edward a Schoo , Birmingham , have this year beeajsained by a Jewish scholar . A gardener residing near Dcmcaster lately gathered 100 d-zans of apricots from , i \ single tree , upon whj he lett about 200 dozens to * grow to their full size . cu Passengers may now Ivsave Glasgow by an exp railway train at twent y tuinutes past fivo o ' clock In the morning , and Teich London at nine o ' clock on the evening of tb e same day . In tbe year 1810 , the shortest time t ' nis distance could be performed by tfdiaary eoao ' jjng wAs WTenty-eijjbt l » Uffi

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      SATURDAY . Jotr , 17 . HOUSE OF LQRDS . -One o ' clock was the hournppomted for the mooting of the house- ; but owing to an oerurr » i , ceof . m unu 8 ualnatare , thecr . mmenc mentofbn » iness was delayed until 3 o ' clock . At the appointed time a « ufflc . ent number of peers had assembled to constitute w- ? £ " ° ? - l 0 P WM P ' ment t 0 read Pra ? e » . anrt Mil h Pr ° ° lhe h ,, usenot l <> ?««••* * *« " r ^ f iT ' Until after P ^ Jer , their lordships IJ ^ lZt a « f a 8 tate of ina «! o « . * -i rirfn ™ ' " , " ? dutyof the Bishop of St Asaph to 2 £ E ' ° B thU ° CCaslon ' ond ' » fter the lapse of mm « me a mcsS 8 „« was despatched to bis residence ht ! th

      onS £ J ^'* •» " *«• »* his presence was re-^ Zl oV ^ ^^^^^ ' »««« *« ^ s inh , d lib ^ *** . ;«»« «» t the right rev . prelate M . ^ iT "f * ° u k With the aro ' «' * ^ t * on r iJTh T T f t 0 i h 0 Use * ann that he hod not sin ,.- been heard of . When this intelligence was commumca-od to their lordshlps , rae 98 enKers were sent ™ various d ict ion , m search of bishop , , with instruction ., t-Kque-Rtaayoneofthem to proceed forthwith to the htms ,- : hat rtil „ o bishop w 08 to be found . It mav be doubted whether the lay pfier 9 ever before so unomtyr derived ( he ministration of one of their spiri . tual brethren but it was not until three o ' clock that theinwrp . wtlon , fthe BUhopofBath and WelUextricated tl . eerlordsh . p , f . rom the - fix" j n whlch tlloy wcre

      The H u-dness transacted was exclusivel y of a routine chancier and , after sitting a half an hour their lordship * adj . iurncd . HOUSE OF COMMONS .- The house met at twelve . Semiei jstwfactory explanations passed between Mr B E- ^ eott and the chairman of committees , Mr Ore-mo , as to the former moving tliti adjournment of the debate oh the Bishop * ' Bill on tbe preceding evening ia a nomeuluit irreiiulur manner . Ho had no desire to embarraR » the cliairmaii but merely adopted that mode of restoring or- ^ er . Mr Green ace . pled the apology . The House tb-n proceeded to dispose of several bilb of a local char icier , and after a sitting of about two hours separated . MONDAY . Juti 19 . HOU < E OF LORDS —Reiiev oy Irish Distress . — Eirl btisv laid on the-table a despatch from the gnverr . or-Reneral of the North American colonies , anil sttucd that the subsciiptions in those colonies for the

      re-lu ' i ot Irii-ii distress amounted to £ 33 , 000 . New Zealand ( No , 2 ) But ,. —This bill passed tbrwu-b eon / BiitJee nhira few remarks tram Earl Gsei upon the increasing prosperity of the colony , and tht L'MtifyiUi manner in which , he said , the natives of New Zi-aliud now came into our courts to settle their disputes . 'ftieir lordships adjourned at 8 o ' clock , HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Mr Trelawney wished t <> know from the Ctiatie-elltr of the . Exchequer , whether le-r M < ej-Rtj ' s pe-vvrnment weral-t allow FiiTliaroent to s-. pntate without taking stime stap to protect factorylabourers from the injury they were lik-dy to receive in being deprived of - . en opportunity of eavning wages for more than tin hour- ; a day by a bill which had become laev during the present session ?

      The Cuanckllob yt ' tlie- Exciieqceb said his honourable fri .-ud was alrea- * i < aware that his opinion whs neainst the measure alluded to , maiuly on the ground of itt ; interfering with th « iiiterents of tbe labouring classes themselves ; but certainly , now that the bill bad become law , he ould not hold out any htipe that government would intro eic ^ a measure to compensate the labourers for an ; loss they may suffer In const quence »! a reduction f ¦ one twelve to ten hours a-daj in their labour . Bishopric of Manchester Bill . —Lord J . Russell moved that the order of the day for going into committee on the above bill bu read .

      Mr H . Escott had to thank Lord J . Rtisse-ll for the handsome manner in which , at the close of Frid » y night ' s debate , he had consented to postpone the furttier proceeding with this bill from Saturday to Monday . He had t ' olt on the uoole lord ' s dning so that it would be thu dut . v of those opposing tho bill to reconsider the position in which they were placid—to reflect on the responsibility attached to the position they occupied—to reconsider the nature of the hill itself—an J to resolve whether it was their duty to give up tlicir opposition , and concede to the opinion of the majority . At the same time he had cmisidered it hh duty to reflect whether anything had passed in the cows > » vf the di-bat * unit tended to upset *

      ptople , because detrimental to the interests ol tbechurcn : and , having fairly considered the matter , ha had ciiroe to the determination that nothing would bo so pusillanimous , nothing would be so buse on their part , as any sign of shiinkiiig from th .- great duty imposed upon tliein , ( Hear . ) An him . ijentlc-inHti sittimr nvar Mm signified dissent from that proposition ; and he culled upon that boo . gentleman to express to the house the reasons which in-iuced him to supp this bill , H-.- had yet to learn that this was a ministerial measure . ( Hear , hear . ) The nuble lord the Ftr =. t Lord of the Treasury , and the Secretary of State for the Home Department had spoken in favour of the bill , but spiringly , and they hud never attempted to grapple evith the main question under dispute . ( Hear , hear ) He saw next to the nol . d ; lord at the

      head of thegoverament the Chief Commissioner of woods and Foresis , and thn representative of a groat county . He wanted to know if Yorkshire was in favour of thi < bill I He woeifei tell that noble lord ( Lord M-rpctli ) that ' ti . it all the bloo-i of all the Howards" could cram four oUhnns down tha throats of the people of thi < country . ( Laughter . ) He saw als i the member for Slieth ' cid in his place , 'tnd he a-ked hitii if the people of Sheffield were in favour of this bill ? [ Mr Ward . — " They have nut said a simrie word on tha sul > j , ct . "J But , if tlecy had said nothing etas be at liberty to assume that" silence gave consent ? " ( Laughter ) He would ask , aUo , who was the author ot the appropriation e-laus ¦< . ? ( Hear . ) Who eras it that contended that all surplus funds of the Irish church should uo to the education of the people % ( Hear . )

      It was the member for Sh < flield ; and yet ho now support d a measure for raising up four new bishoprics out of the surplus funds that ought to go to a more necessary purpose . ( Hi'ar . ) Instead of widening the I'ase of the church , and thus adding to its use-fuin ss nnd stability , he was assifting » o put ponderous pinnacles on its top that would mtUe it top . he . ivy and etidanjte'r its fall . Thtii there was the member for Dun ^ arrau , better known as member for Dungarvan than as the- Mister of the Mint , where his oflice seemed to hang about him as a ponderous incumbrance— ( laughter )— he asked him whether Ireland was in f . ivour of four new bishops ? It was Hot for tbosd % vho had cried for ju-elec to Ireland to join in the attempt to make four new bishops for England . ( Hear , hear . ) Where were till those who had

      in former limes expressed themselves in opposition to measures of this kind ? They were too much cowards to rise in thoir places and oppose the present measure . He repeated tha ? those who , contrary to their recorded opinions tend avowtd principles , did not stand up and oppose this bill were political cowards , and would be so branded hy the voice of the people of this country . ( Hear , hear . ) But he saw in hi * place the right hon . gentleman the member for Edinburgh , and be would now go from Ireland to Scotland . ( An hon , member—'' I wish you wouU . " Great laughter . ) The right hon . gentleman was famous not only for his eloquence in that home , but for eleep research , varied learning , and philosophical acumen ; but in all the smmc / .-ci he had beard , an-J in all the essays he had r .-ad of the right hon , gentleman ' s , not

      one paragraph had ever been expressed in favour of the necessity of four new bishops . ( Laughter . ) Perhaps he had reasons for supporting this bill . If so let him state them , nnd ho was reaely to be convinced , if they were such as his reason could approve . But as yet he hud beard no good reason given for such a bill . Us also called upon the Attorney-General to come forward and deliver his sentiments . He wanted io know from tinhon . and learned gentl man if it was according to the principles of Parliamentary and constitutional law to stats iu the preamble of a bill the opinions and contemplations of the Sovereign as the ground work of an net of Parliament . ( Hear , hear . ) He had said that he doubted whether this was a Ministerial measure . One thing ho was sure uf , —that the measure would not be carried hy the

      supporters of Ministers , but hy the gentlemen on tlie opposition side of the house . ( Hear , hear . ) There were-, however , honourable exceptions on the opposition .-hk- of the house . There was a distinguished exception in the caso of Sir J . Graham . ( Hear . ) The right hon . gentleman the member tor Tarn worth , who was formerly at ( he head of an administration , should have been present to express lien opinions in th » t house . He would be better employed expressing his views to that house on the bill now before it , than writing p- * mplilets to his constituents . ( Laughter . ) There wcre also those who aspired to be leaders of tho people . Where was the noble lord the member for Lynn 1 The noblti lord was not in bis pinec , or he would have told him , that If ho thought the farmers of England , who had been called the country party ,

      ninny great portion of the ni , supported this question , he would find iu that supposition he was ucrc- ^ iously mistaken . ( Hear . ) He asked the noble lord if Benlinck came over with William from the Low Countries to give fournew bishops Brummagem mitres ? ( A laugh . ) Did his ancestors coine over with William to make thc ^ e Brummagem mitres , and put them on the heads of the successors of L : eud ? ( Laughter . ) And where , too , was the member for Shrewsbury ? He 'vas canvassing the farmers not only of Buckinghamshire , but of all England . He was ridini ; through all liuelcingbamshire in John Hampden ' s Buddie —( a laugh)—but he asked how it would fit tho " popular principles" of the member for Shrewsbury to support this bill with its four bishoprics ? ( Hear , hear . ) In their absence would any of their friends

      tell why they had been silvnt ? Ho ( MrE ? cott ) knew why they had been sileut , and ho would tell the people they represented why . The division upon this question would not be decisive with the country , nor would the speeches in favour of this bill recommend the * peake > rs as representatives of great constituencies i" another Houe-e of Commons . After culling the arguments used in this debate , the only reason iu favour of the bill appeared to be this : —they were told the bill did not originate in this bouse ; it had come down from the House of Peers , nnd for that reason they ought to pass it . The bill , it was true , had come down from the other house , and he recollected another bill which hud come down from the House of Lords , the pressing of which bill lu this house had turned out Sk Robert Peel ' * so * ernment < ( Hear , near hear . )

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      It had b . en said that the money of the people wis nut required for these newbitboprics ; but , though the money did not tome from the consolidated fund , it was taken from a portion of the people ; from a ' -erit . rious , bardworking portion of the people .-ths parochial « h-wy . It was not , indued , raised by the Chancellor of tho Ex . chequer but it wa , t » It ( nfrom thrbard-workimrcUrgy . who would lose it if it was e „ , p lo , e . Hn erid (> wing four TL . £ ' £ ? " hT a 1 > mU *> " «<* <«< " «* . *<» " * were starving , and that a iiro .-i „„ i rnv « ., r . t « Ji „ Portion nf our ar stocrcy came s , putz ^ sr r » r • ro ,, king a 8 r r Duke of Devonshire- , the Mrq , i Tr ' w ° , "P " se lh ? Baron IUth-scuild submitted 11 Lcl * ™ - a d large masses of the wphiZ . ?„ * , . " , cn ,, CB , 0 8 aV , ! . ! , « , !„»„„? ?! ,.. „„ . „ .. .. ?__? Bti , " »» "n ; suppose at tbe close of theseason when VV

      , -he fa „ Zi . U . a tmdthestarvation had subsided , JSmint f " ' » We will b « tow , h . surplus funTr ^ CoSc ' in supplying them with food , but w . W iu \ m » Kln endowing two additional Lords of the Treasury ? » Would tho country tolerate this ? If . ,,, „ , no TeJn [ J " ^ assigned in favour of the measure , wh y should not tbfV ( the opponents o * the bill ,, , akiIlg „ 00 Ilfa | r , d ™ " *» upon this great question persevere In tlu-ir opposition to a bill which they believed the p 80 pU wwe opposed tothat belief being strengthened b y the fact that no repr .-. sentative of a large constituency came forward to > « , in its favour ? He admitted that there had been a majority , „ favour of the bill , but not a majority of the House of Commons . Had one-half of the House of Commons voted for the bill ! Nl ) . tno ,,,- „ , „ majority in favour of the bill had been barely onc . fifth of he House of Commons . ( Hear hear . ) Where were the othei s « If any hon . member would take the trouble

      to analyze the divisions , they would find that tbo bill , if passed , would not be carried b y the ministerial side of he house , but b y 8 T members on the other side . ( Hear , hear . ) Under these circumstances , he frit it to be bis 1 ml . 1 Tr ^ t . " 1 hi 9 ° PP 08 iti 0 n t 0 « his ' > " > ' , le S ni , " " , ini 8 tt , r 8 C , ! . insistentl y with their own sa «« LIT ' ' gire UP the bil 1 - Bat ¦» ™ momen s ,, r ^ re , C 88 Br >'! f ° th - » » " » t »™* a ffcW w . Til ZT \ Zl ^ t , m t *• on , y »»«« ¦ •»»« . « was to makeup their ni ind , , eith , r t ( Mlj * orbllfore he prorogation on Thursday to part with \ his WH now nd for ever ( Hear , hear . ) Let them look at their colleagues , the head , of the Hoard of Trade . Neither the nobto lord Who had been at the head of that board , and who was now Lord-Lieutenan t of Ireland , nor tbe Vice-President of that board Mr M . Gibson who gave the aelduional influence of his p 0 pU ! ar < lbijitie 8 to the Administration m the country , had voted iu favour of

      t ' MS mensura And Lord Brougham , " 0 ! si solifae quicquam virtutis adesset ! » how would he , at onetime , have mado his former col . leagues in the House of Lords tremblo at their own an . iMity j Hvwsvcr , ho said , they ( tha opponents of the mil ) wcre determined , they were resolved that thee w 0 U . ( debate this bill . " You may prorogue „ n Thu ' rdays , " said the hon . member , " huton Thursday ynushall not carry it . He concluded with moving that the other orders of the day be now read , Sir W . Molesworxii seconded this amemdmenr .

      Mr Aomos b * thought if this bill passed , it would be but the commencement af bishops * bills , as clearly appeared iron , the evidence of the Bishops of London and st Asaph on tbe subject , both ef whom thought there was greater need of bishops than of assistance to the small or ill-paid clergy-daughter ) -and both of whom stud they were of opinion that the best mode of provid . mg for ihe spiritual destitution of the people was tu createm-n-e bishops . { Great laughter . ) Mr Hume was sorry ihat the noble lord at the bead of the gewernment persisted in forcing on this bill : he had hoped that liu would postponeituntiliiMtsDssion . andhe would put it to him whether it would not be wi » B to do so , and whether it would no serve the liberal cause if be were now to postpone until tho next parliament this most obnoxious and objectionable measure ? ( Hear , hear . ) Ho implored the noble ford not to waste tbe time of the house any further , but at once to withdraw the bill . ( Hear , hear )

      Lord J . KoasELt , could not but think , after hearing thu speeches which had been made against the bill , that the opposition to it arose mainly from a mUapprehcu . sion both on the part of the small iniaorl-y who opposed it in that house as well as of many respectable persons in the country . It was said that everything was done for the hierarchy and cotlting for the sare of souls , and it was also alleged ttut this measure lad more particularly tbe former object , fie must , howev » r , recall to the recollection of tho lious : the state of the church som « yeters aso , befores Lord Grey ' s govcrnuitnt thought of reforming it , or the c > aimissiou of Sir R . Peel wag issu-. il . Tho Bishop ot Duinain had a rev . nut-of from £ 22 . 000 to £ 23 , 000 a year , nnd other bishops held benefices and livings of from £ 500 to £ 1 500 a year , in

      commenchm , to eke out their incomes . Another evil was , that several clergymen held various dignities nnd prefer , ments .- tor instance , fifteen clcrt / yin-. n fit-id ( 54 pieces of preferments , A commission , however , was appointed in 1881 to inquire into the evils wis-. ing in the church ; and first of all they applied themselves to the incomes if trie bishops , when it appeared to them that it evas dtsir . able te > do away with the holding of benefices and livings in c jiHiieiiddiii to make up their incomes , and it further appeared that some of the larger bishoprics win lit be diminished , and afford better incomes to tho smaller one-:. They proposed that th-e income of the Bishop of Durham should be reduced to £ 8 000 a year . Another abuse had been put an end to , namely , thu frequency oi translation . Next , as to cathedrals , ' it appeared that a

      considerable diminutiin mi ght be made , in the number of deem , canons , and other cathedral offices ; and hy the reductions made a fund of £ IH 000 a year had fallen in , mil tho real amount on the expiration of existing lives and the completion of other nrrHiistiiii-iits , ultimately would belittle less than £ 300 , 000 a ye . ' ir . Th y had very greatly diminished iho patronage of the crown and the high dignitaries of the church , and had not been , as it was said , utterly neglectful of tho working clergy " , lor this sum of £ 131 000 ( and which , as hi had before said , would ultimately reach 300 , 000 , ) had been devoted to the augmentation of small benefices . Then , as to pluralities , they had been restricted , for a measure had been passed that no clergyman should hold a second benefice more than ten miles from where he lived . ( Hear

      , hear . ) He really thought these things bad been utterly lost sight of —( bear , hear)—and he evas not now propos " . ing that the whole surplus revenue e-f tha church should bi devoted to the creation of four bisbopricv , neither evas he responsible for tho opinions of the Bishops of Lon . on and St Asaph . What he wished to show was , that , in pursuance of a series of measures , he did not stand up alone solely for the purpose of increasing the number of bishops . Ho though t that , - making provision : t * they had for the reform of abuses , having done aevay ivlth beuefWs held «'» eonuKendam , buying done aivav with the evils attending the translating of bishops , havtug done away with sinecures , having made better

      provision for the cure of souls , having applied a remedy to tho evils of pluralities , and those evils which many years ago Hishop Watson thought so hurtful to the church , they were not—if they conceived the ministrations of the church could be made mure useful by putting inorf bishops iu the dioceses hereafter to be created—to consider tho church and the concerns of the church as finally settled , but that they ought to leave to that bodythat priaciple of life and extension which belonged to all other bodies , whether lay or clerical , and which he thought ought to belong to ecclesiastical bodies . ( Hear , lieiit ' . J After what hud pas . « ed mi Friday ni ^ lir , lie thought ho was not makin ;; an unreasonable request in askitii' the house to go into committee .

      Sir W . Moleswobtii said that the speech of tho noble lord mig ht be s- 'inmed up in one sentence , namely , " tro have done much pood , therefore we arc now entitled to do some evil . " ( Hear , hear . ) He herrd na anrumentin favour of this hill from the noble lord , and till lie heard some aretunioiit in favour of it ho would gire it cverv opposition . It was well known that two . thirds of tho liberal members who voted f .. r the bill were really in favour nf its postponement , and that was well-known to the noble lord . He dared hon . members on his side of the house , to stand up nnd declare that there were in favour of tbe measure . ' ( Hear , hear . ) lie called ou . Mr Fox Maule—the friend of tbe free church of Scotland—to declare that ' he was in fae-our of ' the making of more bishops . He was not prepared without due consideration to give decided e > pinien on thi ; subject . He therefore ilioui-lit it ought to be postponed till they knew what was the opinion of the people of England . ( Hear , hear . ) Next session the state of the c :-urch generally could bu brought under their consideration .

      Mr Tuelawst said they seemed to be living in strange times . They saw Free-trade measures eirricd by Tories , and Church extension measures about to be envtied by Whi g * would oppose the bill in its various stages , but lie would not oiler any factious opposition to ite passing . He thought that at the present period of the session it ought to be postponed . Ho did not think it worth while to excito the feeline . 8 of the Dissenters , for so small a measure as this , and he beliaved it would be productive of far more good if tho income of the Bishop of Manchester ivent to increase the number of the working clergy . ( Hear , hear . )

      Mr J . Collett thoug ht ( his moasuro discreditable and disgraceful to thu noble lord . Though he considered hints If a high churchman —( loud laughter)—he felt compelled to continue bis opposition to tie bill . He thought tho house bad arig ht to know what had been done with the £ 200 , 000 , which the Bishop of London received from lessees of tho property on the oilier side of Bj . yswa ! er-road . After a few words from Mr Escott , consenting to withdraw his amendment , the amendment was with , drawn and the house went into committee .

      Mr M . Philips was understood to say that a drputa tion of persons belonging to the church had waited on him , and requested him to urge the postponement of t ! .. is measure until next session of parliament , when it could be more fully considered and discussed . He felt grateful to the noble lord for being mainl y instrumental in enabling Manchester to send him as its representative to that house . Thu first vote he gave in it evas against the government to which the noble lord belonged , on tbe Irish Coercion Bill , and he should regret if the last vote he recorded was also in opposition to him , He did not think the noble lord ought to force this bill on tlie people of Manchester . He would therefore move , that the words " forthwith establishing a bishopric of Manohes . ter" be struck out of the preamble of the bill .

      Mr II . Cuolmondblbi was aniisus that a ealmer and wiser spirit should be introduced into this discussion-This debate had btea characterised " a riotous debate , "

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      ino it well deserved tne appellation . Laughter had bi'Hi excited on u surj .-Jt of a most serious eharaeteix . Never was there a question in which it was less appropriate ; " The spiritual interests of thousands were in . volvud , and those interests were of importance to other interests in the proportion as eternity was more irapor . tani than time . He trusted , therefore , this bill would & ii l .-iiiter be ma ' e the vehicle for ribald jest . Aftrr considerable discussion , the committee divided—For tbe amendment ... ,., . . 14 ¦

      Against it ... ... ... ... SO— f 2 Mr V . Smith said that he had noev ti bring forward the amendment of which l . e had given notice , relative to the three additional bidhops riferred to in the preamble of tne bill . The noble lord at tho head of the governincut bad said that he was oprn to conviction , and would be ready to make any alteration in the measure which could be shown tohiia to be proper . The preamble recited , that three additional bishops were to be created as soon as convenient . Kow these words were quite ut variance with the rest of the preamble , and they contained a pledao which , to say the least , was extremely inconvenient , and one to which the House of Commons ought not to stand committed . There was nothing ii . ii .-tcd in the bill upon these words in the preamble , and therefore he pressed on the noble lord the propriety o > expunging them . The right hon . gentleman concluded b y moving that , all thu words relating to the- creation of three new bishoprics be omitted from the preamble .

      Lord J . Russell said that if the words objected to by the right honourabl e gentleman could bo made to hear the ciinstruction which he had put upon them , and to convey a pledge that the Houx . of Commons would , at some future session , proceed to create three new bishoprics , which construction , however , ho did not think they could in strictness be made tob .-ar , then he must admit that ihe -bjeetions which the right hon . gentleman had urged were of some nei-sht . and tor that reaton be -was di-poscd to think the- words in question miirht just as well be omi-ted , leaving the proposition for « rcatlng three new bishoprics entirely op , n to a future phtUam-nt . He therefor would agree to omit them from tbe preamble , and would also strike out that part of the s cond clause referring to the future appointment of three additional bishops . Sir J . Ga * iuji , and several other members , expressed their satisfaction at the * concession

      Mr duncombe * aid he wished to know whether tho words relating to the creation of three urw bishops having been struck out of the preamble , it would be neees > sary , if her Majesty thougnt fit hereafter to found three n « w sees , that recourse should be had to parliament for th > - purpose ? Lord J . Kcstf it said It would be necessary to ooma to parliament . The preamble , ns amended , was then agreed to . On the first clauss being proposed , which repeals parts of the acts recited in U > e preamble , and uxtenils to this act the powers of formi-r acts , Mr Aolio . nbt called on the house to reject the latter psrt of this clause on the grounds taken by Lord G . lientlnck and Mr J . Smart in tho Health of Towns Bill—that it introduced into the act of parliament s reference to other acts of parliament , and so created great doubts and uncertainties . More uisrussion ensued : —

      Tha committee then divided , when the numbers were— For the amendment 25 Against it 1 S 3 Majority against It . „ 10 » The first clause was then pass « d . On putting the question on the second clause , which enacts that tbo numoe-r of lords spiritual is not to be increased , Mr S . Wobtlit obsirved , flint the difficulty with which Lot d J . Russell had to contend in passing this

      toll , did not use upon the erection of the Bi » h-prlc of Manchester , but on his extending further the number of those who were entitled to sit eir the episcopal bt-sch in thu House of Lords . The qut-stion , then , which ho calhd on the committee to cons di-r , was , whether , in creating a Bishop of Manchester , it ought to omit to invest him with all tbe rights and privileges of bis episcopal brethren . He contended that without a violation of principle , ond a violation of tbe constitution , you could not deprive rbe Bishop of Manchester of the privilege of p .-i-rnge , to which he became entitled as soon as he was legally elected . On these grounds ho objected to the clause , and moved fh . tt itbe expunged .

      The Attorney-Gekeual thought that this clanss could not bo very ii-jui'lous to the church , as the Bench of Bishops bad given their consent to it . Several members addressed the bouse at length en this amendment . Sir T . D . Aclakd accepted the proposition of thr noble lord , because it wus the first attempt made by any government towards remedying a great want in regard to the most reverend body , which was to bu increased by tha present hill . Mr R -educe said the noble lord ought to r ? colli ct by whom hit bill was praised and accepted , and from those prai-es to distrust liiso ' . Mi proceeding . Tbe opposing par ' y only ? ought to get the wedge in at its sharp end , and t ) i « rest wnuld soon follow . He eulogised thenobre lord for being the first minister who had dealt with the

      spiritual power by a legislative enactment , and trusted that the first step would ultimately lead to an entire reform of the whole subj . ct . Let the hon . gentleman opposite take this to heart . The whole of tbe sptrtual body of p-.-ers were about to take a new phasis , and to have their turns in representing their ordtr in the House of Lords . The minister would henceforward have the power of regulating ibemanner of admitting the spiritual peer into the upp-r bouse , and every sort of jobbing would be used in order to get the right sort of bishop . Would any one believe th'it all the Dissenters would not be in arms iii consequence *» f the first step ? And those who were about to support government in the matter would find thu ' r account in so doiner . It was a very pretty quarrel , and he would leave it as it was . He advised the opponents of the bill not to interfere in tht

      division . The committee divided , when the numbers were— . For the amendment 57 Against it ... ... ,,, ... ... ... ... tu Majority against it ... 51 So the second clause stands part of the hill , although sis or seven of the opponents of it left the house in obedience to the suggestion of Mr Roebuck . Lord J . Russell then withdrew the third ond fourth clauses of the bill , because bethought that they could vcr > well stand over to the next session . These cltuses refer , the first , to the endowment of tho Deans of York , Wells , nnd Salisbury , and the last to the endowment of archdeaconries . They were accordingly struck out . The other clauses wcre agreed to , ond the chairman was then directed to report the bill ; and on the house resuming the report was ordered , amid loud cheers , to be received on Tuesday .

      Pooa L & ws Administration Bill . — On the order of tho day for considering the lords' amendment to this bill , Lord J . Russell proposed , in r » ference to the clause which precluded the separation of man ond wife above sixty > ears of age in the workhouses , that the house should disagree with the lords ' amendment omitting that clause , and that a confcret-: ca should be rcqucjtedSrlth the lords on the subject . The amendment was accordingly disagreed to . On the consideration of the next amendment ( omit , ting the clause for . the admission of tbe public to tbo meetings of the Boards of G uardians ) , Lord J Russell proposed to agree to ihe amend .

      ment . Mr Wakley moved the adjournment of the debate ; but after a conversation this motion was withdrawn . Mr EiWALt argued in favour of the re-introduction of the clause . Sir O . Gbet opposed it , and said that he had thought it objectionable when first proposed in that house ; it was 1 a clause that had occasioned great alarm . Mr Waklet observed that when the right hon ; gentle- . man said very great alarm had been excited he ( Mr Wakley ) would ask in whose minds was it excited ? Was 1 it nut in the ratHcis of the guardians ? They were not t for tbo world knowing what their deeds were . If they r

      did not fear public opinion , why should they object Io tbe a presence of Ihe ratepayers ? Only a small portion could i be admitted ; but the press might be admitted . How v wcre the ratepayers to know whether the e-lccte > ral , 1 guardians did their duty unless they had n right to be e » present at their meetings t He attached the greatest it importance to this clause , and it ought not to be given n up by the government without discussion . However , r , as the Poor Law commissioners were to take their seats is in the House of Commons , he was quite sure this was is one of tho questions which would very early enjtnge the ie attention of the house . He should not bo content unless sa his hon . friend went to a division upon the present nt motion .

      Mr Brotuceton said , this clause for tbe admission of of the ratepayers at the meetings of the guardians bad only ily been argued iu as far as it concerned tbo guardians ins themselves . How , his experience taught hi-u ro W-llere ' sre that it concerned the poor a ereat deal more . They woulduld , bare tbe strongest repugnance to being brought up be-be-. fore tlie guardians to expose all their private iiffairs in ini the presence of a large body of ratepayers . ( Luug htcr . ) jr . ) Upon that ground ho should vote against ihet-lauiujiu ., There would be a greater probability of the poor beinf ing ; properly attended to , if the guardians wcre left alone . me ,, than if they were required to act in tho presence ot ad ai public meeting . The house divided , when the numbers were , for Mr Mr , ErwaLL ' s amendment , --Ayos aa

      Noes ... ... TO J ^ - ' ^ ffiRrs . Tr * HOUSE OF LOUDS . -REY 1 EW or the Sessioh .-h . — Lord Baooou AMrose to call attention to the course tha thai ind been pursued in conducting tbe business ot the ses sess sion now so near its close . Ho maintained that hit hiii own conduct proved him not to bare been actuated bjd bjj „ ... ire to oppose the government , bulto have opposeoosett certain measures solely from the belief that they malwalu ho injurious to the country , and he , therefore ^«•» ' »« ' »«< crcdwocfOT the statement , that ho wr . s actuated by n » y »<¦<

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 24, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24071847/page/7/