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      State Of Portugal. Every Mr'1 From Portu...

      STATE OF PORTUGAL . Every _mR _' from Portugal brings evidence in _support of the view we have all along taken of the Porta guese question . Every letter from Lisbon and Qporto exhibits the people utterly incredulous of the tood faith of Donna Maria ; exasperated against the _fojei _. n invaders ; and either continuing- the revolt __ , spite of the _ iuvaders , or giving unmlstakeable _ v _ oofs of their intention to renew the _strogcle at the _^ f avourable opportunity . We give in another column the " _Amnest _? " _prodsin _ted by the Portuguese Queen . Oa th _< s face of

      jtthe decree looks fair enough , but as anything like _giniple troth or plain dealing is utterly foreign to _titesoulot Donna Maria , tbe ink ofthe amnesty was _auareely dry when that worthy Queen took care to _jetber _' _sn'oects know that her words were all fudge , intended "To palter in a double sense , _Tokeepthe word of promise to tbe ear , Anal break it to the hope . " _ju the first place the decree of amnesty was accompanied by a proclamation , in which Donna Maria say--: — ¦ _____ __ . _ . . . _ to

      rortngoese!—Our country h »* presented Em-op * » bed ; p lorable spectacle of tbe efiosien of Portuguese _j , _j 00 _ ljtbe destrucnon ol property , the dissolution of _tocidl tie * , and •*¦• ilIs ** bat follow in the train of civil trar . The love © f their country and of liberty gave way , _jjjtbe minds of all the Portuguese , before the fatal ji ] 35 inr . t that ltd them to lake arms -against my _rnvJ authority and lie constitution of the kingdom . " TiLiis one _tissue nf insolent falsehoods . The _ingjr . _entsdid notttke arms against the "constitution , " but , on _thecontrary . in defence ofthe " conjtitation , " which the Queen and her _^ action _suspended and jut-posed to extinguish . Tiie Junta did V ot take arms againsther ** royal authority , ** though

      tbat is what the Junta oncht to have dona The «• di ssolution of » eial ties , " the ' 'destruction of _preperty , " and ** the effusion of Portuguese blood , " ja ve been brought about by the wicked attempts of the Court to rn * e despotically , and in defiance ofthe _nabSe voice . For every drop of _Portuguese blood sied Donna Maria and her faction must be held _igspposible . Ihave resolved , says the Queen , — jo convoke the Cortes , nnd to dnw * that the elections _itelliake place after submission shaK have been made , _ss _^ _pahlicOTder re-established in every part ofthe king _, _gesn . and thut the freedom -of _elertion , the unfettered exercise of aH rightf _, and the esrofalons and impartial ; _esecstion _asfthe _constitutional -daateT in ever _ , « ne -of fts prorations , shall be maintain _*^ .

      _-ffho wlUlielieTe her promises and protestations 1 _Badshe permitted tbe " freedom of election . " and the " scrupulous and _impartM-execution of the _constitution al charter , " the civil war wonld not _havedcfarrei . The palace conspii 3 c _ r-of tbe 6 th __ of October _Yasfa-raed for tbe purpose _ofdestroyiagthelast _Testiseoftbat constitutional-freedom she no * professes to hold in such deep respect . She next has a fling at the " chiefs" * of the-insurrection , who , she _ sys . had affected to doubt her " royal word" ! " " 3 « _Totwifistandine _which , she says , her " generous-feeJings still remain the same . " Jfo donbt of it , is _* w ill be . ere lang , fully manifested . She then _reminfls-the " Portoznese" that the first duty is " fidelity _= to * l 3 ie _eonrjt-i tion '" " Her Majesty" must be bless ? d with a m ore than "forty-parson power" of hypocrisy to ialk-tba ? . A little raoreimabus about her ** kindly Up _athn , " concludfsflKi-precious _procJamatiro .

      According tu the second-section ofthe first article of the decree of amnesty , " all individuals under arrest in virtue _ofswarrantfrom any authority whatever , whether their indictment has been examined or wit , shaUimmediately _bc-sOst liberty . " _Ofconr ? e . _according to the plain construction of tbis " _sanction , " tic _ionnmerable _prisoners in the dungeons of _Lkb-. n , tB __^ thH withthe prisonars at StJuliau ' s . i » ptnTedby the En _ ii > h , should _bavc-b : en immediately- % et at liberty . On the faith _of-this . most of the relu ° ees on banc of the _British ships abandoned the protection _afforded to _theai , as no longer necessary , and returned to their homes . But immediate _l y out came another decree , declaring that the amnesty was not to -take effect until " after _theeosplete submission ofthe

      revolutionary Junta of Oporto , and ot the arraedbodies who-sustain the revolt" On this , the unhappy persons wbo had incautiously left the protection of the British authorities were hunted out by thepolice , and most o f them thrown into prison . The decree of amnesty was published on the 9 th of June , but « p to tbeJeih . inclusive , tbe prisoners , who , according to " section 2 nd , article l . _" " -wcre to be immediately set at liberty , were still in the prisons of _"Uer-aooit _frnthfia Majesty . " Sa-little faith hare the ; good folks of Lisbon in anything their blessed Queen-say s or swears to , that , _Sijs the 3 _smes correspondent , '' the _patvjia or / mob , shortly after the proclamation was issued collected in crowds in the lower street ? , and amused themselves by insulting the loyal volunteers , and singing the revo _' . _utionsry * Hymn ofM & iadcJbnte . ' This led-toa

      fe _> _rb * Dwsfrom the volunteers and to some arrests , among others , the bellrin _* . er of St Paul ' s Church , who _amused himself by playing the hymn with-the church bells . " "In the evening some disorderly youths -were singing seditious hymns and uttering riotous cries , which led to their being seized . _One-ef them , -after some altercation , > was marched to the quarters at _Janellas Vendea , on arriving at the steps leidingl-to wbich he struck one o f his _conductors down , whereupon the others -fired at and killed him . It was an act of quite unnecessary violence , bnt I do ] not bear-of any other death . " According to the same : authority , _-fisnna Maria ' s man , "" the King , " was ' hissed in the streets by the Jegueias ( "jackets , the same by which the mob are di _' stin _^ a _' sbed . "" These ' raTekUoT _^ de £ . rly enough _indicatetiecourseof future - ; events .

      The prisoners at St Julian ' s cause considerable _ann ei j- to the- _^ ueeu and her aUiea . According to the correspondent _* f the _Ztinf * . —There has been a good deal of secret plotting for effecting tbeir liberation by _acoupefeiaaw , and tan attempt was . even made to convey a supply ef muskets to them . A reinforcement of British marines has _beea found necessary to strengthen the _guartl . "Not the _lezstriolent amongst the prisoners , ' * _* SFs the limes man , " ie the Englishman , Salter , _whoiled from tbe service ef the Queen of _Portugal to the insurgents , and now exceeds the most rabid of the Patulia in abuse of his late Royal mistress . Tbe Marquis of Louie and Salter are on _board the Tra ' a ' car . and the latter has been severely reprimanded fur his outrageous conduct . "

      Sa da . Bandeira and the Conde de Mello _, with three _f _omdrcStroops at St Ube ? _, have surrendered to the "British , bnt the night before the surrender _* _fe great itiiy of the insurgent forces ( 6 , 000 well armed troops , finf 1 , 000 followers ) _eaaivated the town , and taking & dr arms with ihea _tssde offin thedireciiono fEvora The previous arrival from Lisbon stated thst the Junta bad agreed toaecepi the terms proposed by the British government ; _wd now learn tbatthe Junia had refused to agree to the terms , and that ail se _^ _otiaison with them was atan end . Admir al Paiker had sailed from _Lisbnn to reduce the Junta , his squadron consisting of the Terrible , the Sidon ( flag ) , the _PLa-Eoix , the Bulldog , the Gladiator , the Geyser , steamers , end the Amazon corvette , two Spanish steamers , and the French steamer _Aeacron . Ae reearis * _indoperati ons , Spani 8 htroop stothe number

      of 12 < 9 GS menwere on their march towards Oporto oa the Ilth ; while _Saldanhas aod _Casal's division , more thaa 8 , 000 strong , were a few miles'distant to the south of the Doaro . Against _aueh odds by rand and sea , it _vould be useless to contend , and the Junta WW _pretoSlf succumb witbuut * _alrugglc . The spirit in Oporto is good for resistance , and " not all tbe ( . _aten ' s horses and all the Queen ' s men" conld have secured the conquest of the city , unaided by the brigands of Spain , and the pirates of Britain . _According to the latest accounts old Poroas bad ** _ni _« _t > d at Oporio _, and ihe forces nnder his com-* _aund would _immediately follow . Preparations were _oakingfor an obstinate resistance . Wie doubt , _how-^ tr , that the resoke to resist against such an _over-*^{ elmin _ - force ae wUl be brong ht against the city _'dlAeperseTered in . -

      Jrera a pr ' Tate letter published in the Post , dated _Lisbon Jane 15 th , we give the following extract : — At tlie moment when tbe most barefaced tyranny was **« it tofce pnt down ; wheo the _gtru-jgles of adversity ** _2 re on tbe point of being ssrmounted , and the gates & _aUsbon night almost be said to bare been creaking oia * S * _dr hinges ts admitted tbe liberators ot an oppressed *» l £ tricktii pe & ple—the veto of a nation , free in itself tod conscious of tbe blessings of _a _& at freedom , is _inter-•" ' _¦ red with . The enn stretcbed out io aid of iu country _*« been crippled , _faokea , sod paralysed , in a manner « once unpreceden * ted and _uaesp _***^ - T , "i English _" _- ¦ _fenwHioa _is _nniveraaUy _exetsai _^ , & id the more so now that Uie people see bow uttt _& _impossible it is far _*» government eftetaafJy to goarasiUe the

      _per"mance _«" any promises that mh . _' 0 t _»^ _' _«? _^ _"K froB _»«<««» Maria in her extremitj . _«* bas bap-* orf note the auspices of England hf _^ J * _momen-**! cheek , _, temporary _snspetuion , to t * e n » t 4 _onaI * 2 f _* " . _* _^»* the fle 6 tandU , esctner « _W » i _« i * _If - . J _^ e _msurrection mav be crushed , butth . * * _W _**™ _^» o it will continue to flourish until either * _&* n _r _^ 13 ¥ fn , Ta her throne , or thecon . 'J _Myw _TOnenOy _oaupied by foreign troops , li _*™« _« lt « alternative is adopted , Eng land will rival W _rffe _and crime tke destroyers of Poland . Englis' _*' _?** ' ** i « yon permit this ? Will you suffer Jtui ' _KWrnmeni ta rival the _Mus-covite miscreant ? Will » u _conseat io bear the stigma yorr aristocratic p _*** design to indelibly brand npon your name ? _-Member that They who permit oppression share tha crime !

      . Ie Assembly Of Jamaica Has Requested T...

      . Ie Assembly of Jamaica has requested that to gj * Coolie labourers be _stutfrom Calcutta to that

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      Warin China! An Extraordinary Express, I...

      WARIN CHINA ! An extraordinary express , in anticipation ef the Overland Mail , has brought files of papers from Bombay of May 13 ; Calcutta , May 1 ; China , April 25 . The news from India is unimportant . From China the intelligence is of an unexpected and startling character ; no less than a renewal of hostilities between the English and Chinese . Attacks upon the persons and property of Europeans is alleged as the justification of tke high-handed course pursued by the English . "We take the following details from the _Carina Mm' £ , published at Hong Kong : — On the 1 st of April General _D'Aguiiar issued an order directing the troops to embark that night , ( from _Uong Kon ? _, ) and _notwithstanding it was then past

      fonr o ' clock in the afternoon , the entire force available , somewhat ander a thousand men , together with their suns , material , and stores , were all on board shortly after midnight . The naval force consisted of H . M . S . Vulture and _Espiegle , the ILC . armed steamer Pluto , together with the Corsair , a small merchant steamer plying on the Canton river . Next morning , between two and three o ' clock , the three steamers were under weigh , the Vulture leading and towing the artillery lorcha , and two large Chinese boats , containing the Sappers with scaling ladders , Ac . About nine o clock the Vulture entered the Bocco Tigris . The seamen were at their guns , the troops told off for landing , and Captain _Macdongall , running his ship as near the shore as possible ,

      anchored within pistol-shot of the batteries on the _Anung-hoy bans , having the formidable forts on the north and south Wantong Islands , within range of the other side . As the anchor was let go the boats were lowered , and in almost shorter time than it can be described , a strong detachment under the command of Major Aldrich was landed with the general , and the three forts of Anung-hoy , mounting upwards op *" - *} guns , were in our possession . Tbe guna were spiked , and large quantities of ammunition des ' royed . In tbe meanwhile Col . Brereton . who had left tlie Vulture at the same time as the other force , proceeded with the troops under bis command to the forts on the north and south Wantongs , and having entered them without opposition , spiked

      more than 250 guns , and _destroyed their magazines . Thus , in the course of a few hours these five formidable -batteries , mounting upwards of 450 large guns , had been disarmed , and the safe communication of the expedition with Hung Kong so far secured - , and in _t-Sectingthese important objects , the utmost care _wss-obscrved toabstaja from offering personal injury to the Chinese in the various forts , and not even the most trifling article of property -was carried away or destroy ed by the troops . iu the course of the afternoon _thesteamers arrived at Whampoa . as _oid also the Espiegle during the night _. . The Vulture ' s draft of water x . revented her from ascending _iagher , his excellency Sir John Davis , the general , and bis staff , moved into the

      Pluto on the morning of _theSr-4 _^ -the troops-were transferred to tke two smaller _^ teamera nnd tbe boats ofthe Vulture , which were _to-ved by them , and the expedition ascending the river arrived about _half-psst _' nine o ' clock at tbe barrier , a strong row of stakes extending from bank te bank , with only one opening , and defended by four strong _iorts The forts to the left were simultaneously attacked . Tbe gates of both forts were blown open . b ? tbe engineers , their garrison-escaped by the rear , the guns were spiked , the magazines blowa up , and the boats , with the two _culemns under Colonel Brereton and Major Aldrich , supported by the steamers , pulled across to attack _theftrts on the other bank ( af the river . Here it was tvideat that the -Chinese "hnd determined to

      make a stand , and as tbe boats came within range , both forts opened a brisk fire-of . round shot , and , when they drew nearer , of grape . They were immediately replied to by tbe Pluto , _Corsair , and the aitillery gin-boat-the boats with-the troops pulling steadily towards the forts . The firing continued until the men landed , and then , seeing the force firmed on shore , the enemy abandoned their works by the rear . The guns , all of them of large size ( one of rapper , in particular , was 24 feet in . lengtb , witb an 8-inch-bore ) , were spiked , tbe _magazine blown up . but private property , aa before , rigidly respected . The expedition then _< continued its progress np tbe river , and the fort called . the "iFrench Folly , " situated at 4 lie -commencement of the south-eastern

      suburb of-Canton , was attacked ,: tae gate blown in , and thegans spiked . At A o ' clock , p . m . the steamers anchored in front of the factories , and four other forts , the-river defences of _tbe-city and . the suburbs of Canton , were disarmed , by blowing in their gates , spiking their gnus , and destroying the magazines ; making dtogether upwards of * aS _50 . pieces of heavy ordnance disabled since -9 o ' clock the preceding morning . * On the -arrival of the forces at Canton Sir John Davis intimated to Keying that he was ready to « onfer ] with him at the British Consulate . Nothing -eould more significantly mark the altered position ef the -representatives of the two nations than the fact that the high imperial commissioners attended the summons .

      When Seyiug _arfcngth arrived , -he was received at the landing-place by Captains Kennedy and Sargent only . Though Keying comported himself with his usual _dignity and composure , those who had seen him under happier circumstances could not fail to observe a mortified expression , beyond his power of concealment . Theconferencewasimmediatelyepened , and lasted nearly three hours , the Chinese taking their leave about two o ' clock . In tbe afternoon-it became known that Sir Jobs Davis had submitted to Keying the only conditions upon which he wonld suspend the operations ofthe forces , and had guren him until six

      o _' _caoek _^ p . m ., the follotring day , for consideration . A strong guard « f ihe 42 nd was stationed in the centre of the street leading from the Old to the New Danish Hong , and at night sentries were placed at eery access to the factories . The Consoo-house at the top of Old China-street _hadpreviously been taken possession of by a party of _tbetteyal Irish , and & he passage at Ilog-Iaoe wasBhut up . Next morning thsfort known a * the French Folly was destroyed by Colonel Philipotts and the armed boats of the Vulture . In the forenoon _aanauuitiou was served out to the troops , additional scaling ladders _wereeonstrncted , and esery preparation made for any service that might be tee . uired .

      In the evening , the associated volunteers , comprising nearly the whole of the _Britisheommunity , were inspected by Msjec-General D'Aguiiar . At night , Mawqua aud _Consoo-streets were barricaded . Keying , who in the _meanwhile was engaged in the _diScnlt task of persuading his councillors , requested and obtained an extension of the time specified for considering the conditions cf the British plenipotentiary . At day-break , Captain Clark Kennedy and Lieutenant Dacosto , of the Engineers , were sent to the city wall , which they succeeded in scaling at two places , the height being about 23 feet , and ascertained that it was of sufficient width for tbe proposed military operations . They returned before six o ' clock , when , as ao communication bad been received from Keying , and the _arrangemente for an _atsanlt were completed , an intimation of their nature was given in a general order issued & y Major-General D'Aguiiar .

      Shortly after the order was issued , the immediate bombardment of the eity of Canton , with a fearful sacrifice of life and property , waa averted by the receipt of Keyinjfs answer to everything demanded of him ; and this result was immediately-communicated in tbe government notification . In the course of the same forenoon tbe Sappers and Miners wereemployed in removing the . chop-house at llog-lane Creek , as well as the objectionable buildings erected against the garden walls , and in clearing tbe river front . While these operations were going on , tee governor , accompanied by the eonsul and Captain Macdougall along with two mandarins , crossed over to Honan to examine the ground to be selected in terms oi the 4 th article of the convention . Next day , towards

      evening _, orders were given to hold the Pluto in readiness to proceed to _Fuh-sban early next morning . It appeared tbat the Chinese were attempting to evade the stipulation for the punishment of the aggressors on Col . _Chesney ' s party at that place , and Sir John Davis therefore intimated to Keying that if the men then In custody for the offence were not produced at daybreak , the Pluto would be despatched to _Fultsbin for the purpo 3 eof seeking redress there . Towards midnight a message was ' received at the consulate acceding to the plenipotentiary ' s peremptory demand . Accordingly , ato o ' clock , three men were brought to the Conf _oo-house , a mandarin of high rank with other officials being present on the part of the Chinese , and the Hon . A . R . Johnston , Capt . Macdougall , E . N .,

      Capt . Bruce , Messrs _Gutzlaff and Meadows , and a number of others , on the part of the British . The men wereone after another bambooed by the Chinese officers of justice , and on leaving the Consoo-house , the mandarin , on being required to do so , explained to the people who crowded about the barriers why tbe men had been punished ; and it was added , tbat for a aim ilar offence they might themselves expect a like chastisement Ii tbe conrseoftbe morning ( the 8 tb ) a general order was issued for the embarkation oi the troops for Hong-Kong , and tiie . merchants , apprehensive

      of tbe consequences should they be suddenly left without military protection , met at eleven o ' clock to sign a remonstrance to Sir John Davis on the subject . Capt Bruce , tbe adjutant-genera ) , having by chance heard from a gentleman returning from tbe meeting oi the alarm of the merchants , hastened te the Chamber of Commerce , and Btatcd that it had been determined to leave the light company of the 18 th . The light company is still at Canton , and will probably remain there until the land on the Honan side is surveyed , the factory vails in some measure fortified , the remaining nuisances removed , and other minor arrangements completed .

      On the Gth of April Sir J . Davis issued the follow-_ _„„ _government notification : — _jjjg - . Excellency her Majesty ' s plenipotentiary , ate , has tbe ( atudketioa to announce that at the last moment , and wheL tacll , Mj , J * waiting the assault on their city , the Canton _au thorities hare assented to bis reasonable _demar-ds and * oe impending ruin of this populous place ha 8 beenbap _' pa , J amt € d - The fo J - " 8 " _Wefly *» heads of theM _« '' » « _e , Bent } - _* » At tbe £ sei P eri 011 of

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      two years from this day , the ( 5 th of April , the city of Canton shall be opened to British subjects , 2 , Her Majeity ' s subjects shall he at liberty to roam for _exerclie or _nmusemebt in the-ne ' ighbourln _ r ' country without molestation , returning the same day , as at Shanghai , and an ; person molesting them shall be _tevesel ; punished . 3 . The _aggressors on the two seamen in October last , and en Colon-: ! Cfacsney and others at Fustian on the 12 th March , shall be made examples of . The latter bain ? already apprehended , will be brought to Canton and punished in the presence of persons deputed by her _xoajest- _f'splenipotentiary , t . An adequate space on the Honan _slleet the river shall be wanted om lease to

      British merchants and others , for the erection of dwellings and warehouses ; and his Excellency will ascertain the site and extent before he quits Canton . 5 . A site for the erection of a church shall nlso be ' granted on lease in the neighbourhood ofthe space now occupier ! by the foreign factorial ; nud _spnecs for burial grounds shall also he allotted at Whampoa . 6 . Tha _fljhig bridge and another building between the two gardens ( ball be erected , as desired , and sheds shall not be permitted against the walls . 7 . For the better _preservation of order , and for the general convenience , the river front before the factories shall bu kept clear of boats , — By order , A . E . Johnston . British _Consulate , Canton , April 6 .

      COCHIN CHINA . The Cochin Chinese , like their kiudred and neighbours , the Chinese , have come into collision with a European power . Tbe French ship Victorieuse corvette , Captain Genouilley ; arrived at Uong-Kong from Cochin China , having been at Thouraine , with Commodore La Pierre , in the frigate La Gloire , of 52 guns , to demand redress for imprisoning the French Bishop . They were received apparently in a friendly manner , bat information . was given of some treachery , and of their hostile intentions , which was confirmed by the seizure of some papers , and great preparations in the forts , and five large

      Cochin China men-of-war being in readiness with a multitude of _srniid boats , which put the Admiral La Pierre on bis guard . The French Commodore , in self-defer ce , was compelled to attack them , and after an hour and a half _s hard lighting two men-ofwar were blown up , two abandoned and afterwards burnt , and the Cochin China Admiral ' s vessel was taken and barat also . The forts fired all tho time , but only a few shots bit After tbis event tho French frigate withdrew . From the multitude of troops on board the vessels , and in the forts , great slaughter must have been committed . Only two or three were killed and some wounded in tha French frigates .

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . Cape ef Good Hope papers tothe 21 stof April inclusive havebeen received , from which we learn that the Kaffir war is not yet aian end ; nor does it appear liTsely to be for sunt * treae to come at lemt . Although much subdued , tbe hostile tribes carry on a bold , desultory warfare , to tbe continual annoyance and pecuniary loss of the colonists . The new _governor'lSir H . Pottingerj ) is prompt in his plans , -and energetic in his movements : ; but the Kaffirs are not _cmly not "vanquished , but seem determined to maintain the struggle to the last .

      WESTfrNDIES . Tbe news irom onr own West Indian ishndscontinues favourable ; it is , _however , of no mark—especially from the Leeward and Windward groups . Two schooners belonging to Nassau had been "" fishing up" _articles belonging to tbe wreck * of the Tweed steam-ship , and , amongst other articles , had suoceedpd in recovering three _hundred bottles of quicksilver , ot which there was , it _wi'lberecollected , a largo quantity on board at the time this unfortunate ship was wrecked . The Trent "boarded the Brothers , of St Andrew ' s , "N . B ., with timber , -dismasted , ° water-logged , and deserted by the -crew . She was in 3 at . _-42 _" 60 N ., and long . 10 UW .

      "FRANCE . The Chamber-of Deputies have-sanctioned by a large majority the proceedings proposed to betaken against M . E ' mile de Girardin , editorof dia Presse , in the Court of Peers . The tumultuous debate which took place on this subject in the representative -chamber on Thursday , has only served to stimulate the public curiosity for the disclosures-of traffic in ministerial favours and patronage which are expected . M . de Girardin , _although giving some documents , was understood te -decline producing his ease prematurely .

      The Chamber of Deputies voted , on Saturday , the sum of 200 , 000 f . to defray the expenses attending the celebration ofthe anniversary of the revolution of July , 1 _. S 30 , by a majority of 225 to S . M . de Beaumont was the only member who spoke against the grant . He proposed tbat tbe . 2 O 9 . OG 0 f . be converted into bread-tickets and distributed to the indigent ot Paris ; " besides , * ' added he , * ' we are so far from tbe revolution of JhIv , and from the principles it established , that the celebration of its anniversary is a _tncre mockery . " Some popular movements ia favour -of the extension of suffrage and internal reforms of tiie Chamber

      are taking place . The central committee of the liberal opposition of the department of the Seine hare adopted a petition to the Chamber having this object . A great reform banquet is also announced to be held _ in the Italian opera house , at which six hundred citizens are to join . Among the prominent promoters of this are MM . Odilon Barrot , Gustave de Beaumont , Leon de Maleville , and Duvergier _d'llauianne . Similardemoustrations in the departments are contemplated . According to the existing laws these meetings cannot be held without the permission of the prefect of police—that is , of the government : an application for that purpose is about to be made .

      Paris akd ns Citadels . —According to an official return , when the whole of the citadels and fortifications round Paris are completed , the following will be the number of troops that will occupy that capital and its vicinity in the course of the present year : — Mont Valerian 3 , 000 men , of which two companies of engineers and one company of foot artillery . 2 Cbarenton , 2 , 500 men , one regiment of artillery and one company of engineers- S . Tory , 1 , 800 men , two companies of artillery and engineers . 4 . _Romainvillc , 2 , 000 men , two companies of engineers . 5 . _Issy , 1 , 000 men , one company of artillery and ono company OfenEineerg . 6 . Bieetre , 1 _. 2 C 0 men , one company of engineers . * l . Montrouge , 1 , 000 men . 8 . Vauves , 900 men , of which one company of engineers . 9 . The four forts of La Double Courouue , St Denis , de

      la Breche , and Stains , 3 , 200 men , one company of artillery . 10 . Fort de l'Est , S 00 men . 11 . Fort _d'Aubervilliers-les-vetuB , 1 , 160 men , one company of engineers . 12 . 1 Fort de Noi & sy , 1 , 300 men . 13 . De Rosny , 1 , 000 men . 14 . De Nogent , 1 . 500 men , one company of engineers . 15 . Citadel de Vincennes _, 3 . 200 men , of which four batteries are artillery and two companies of engineers . The Parisian citadels and forts will occupy an army of 24 , 800 men , which , with the garrison of Paris , will form a force of 60 . 000 men , cavalry , infantry , and artillery ; and 1 , 262 cannons , _80-pounders , mortars , he . The above force is exclusive ofthe National Guards . The population of Paris and tho _Fnobonrpa is upwards of 980 , 000 inhabitants , besides 70 , 000 foreigners , of whom the English _residenis are above

      [ 25 , 000 . On Tuesday , M . de Girardin was called before the Chamber of Peers , to present his explanations and defence . M . de Girardin repudiated the charge of intending or committing any offence or disrespect of the peerage , bnt admitted committing both against the ministry- The Chamber having heard this proteat , resolved itself into a secret committee to give judgment , when M . de Girardin was acquitted by 134 votes against 60—majority , 74 .

      SPAIN . The Gaceta publishes several royal decrees of a financial nature , which that notorious speculator , M . Jose Salamanca , has suggested and countersigned . One of them orders the commanderies or property of "the four military orders , and that of St John of Jerusalem , " to be sold by pnblic auction , it being officially valued at 142 , 560 , 247 reals . ' The property is to be paid for by tbe purchasers in three per cent _, titles , with the current coupons , at three periods , the last extending to two years . Another decree re-organises the department ofthe finances . Alt accounts agree in stating that General Serrano will be speedily appointed to the captain-generalshi p of Madrid * The ranks and grades granted during the regency of General _Espartero are about to be confirmed by the government .

      PORTUGAL . THB CIVIL WAR . The Nautilus propeller arrived on Tuesday morning at Liverpool . She left Lisbon on the ' 15 th , and when in the mouth ofthe Tagus received a despatch for government . She brings news that Sa _. da Bandiera and the insurgents of Setubal have submitted and acknowledged tbe Queen ' s authority . It was announced on the 14 th that they had surrendered their arms to _Vinhaes and the allies conjointly . The Jackal war-stearaer arrived same day from Oporto , with intelligence that the jonta positively refused to submit , and had rejected the complete amnesty . The receipt of this account of the junta ' s contumacy would quicken Admiral Parker's movements , and it

      was believed that there would be no real resistance , and that upon the first serious shot being fired against the town they will surrender . Admiral Parker , it appears , has strongly recommended the government to urge Saldanha to _hsten to no representations whatever proposine an armistice , but to use his utmost endeavour without delay to enter Oporto . General Concha ' s army of 12 , 000 men was close to Oporto , while Saldanha ' _s and Casal's divisions , more than 8 , 000 strong , were a few miles' distant to the south of the Donro . The second Spanish General , Mendes Vigo , was at Viana , 37 miles north of Oporto , having reinforced the other garrison of _Yalensa , which he haB left behind him , and the bar of the Douro was blockaded by the combined squadron _:. The folio-wing is a copy of the

      _DECREE OF AMNESTY . Seeing the necessity of putting an end to the calamities that desolate the kingdom , and of preventing < he evils tbat must be _occasioned by a continuance of the civil war : and _animated by a desire to fulfil tbe first and

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      mast imperious of my duties by employing all the meant in my power to terminate these fatal dissensions and to omcUiate the good will of all the Portuguese , who » _ince tbe foundation ofthe monarchy hareabvs / _sdist'B _' . nisheil ' themselves by their fidelity to their Kings , my august ascDators—Ihave resolved , after _oonjuHitig my Council of State , to decree as follows : — _Ast . I . There is hereby granted a fall and complete _amueity for all political offences committed since the 6 th of October , 18 * 6 , and every tbitig shall be buried in absolute and perpetual silence . ' _\ ' S 1 . All proceedings instituted on account of these offences , in whatever _stsgo they may be , are ' declared nulland . void , . ... - .- § 2 . AH persons who may hare been arrested by virt « e of any mandate or authority whatsoever , whether _h-gal process has been commenced or cot , shall be inline _diately set at liberty .

      $ 3 . All persons who , in _constquence of politieal events , or of th _« extraordinary _msuMivea adopted by the government , shall hare been obliged to quit tbe territories of the kingdom , shall immediately enjoy their liberty , with the power of returning to taVir country ; and to this end the government will furnish them'with the necessary means . AST II—All those who , since the _ahovenamed 6 th of October , shall have been deprived of the military rank to which they were legally entitled , or of any other function or employment that , according to the constitutional charter , or tbe express provisions of- the existing lawn , could not be taken from them except under tbe sentence of a competent tribunal , shall be immediately reinstated in all their title * , functions , and employments . ••' _¦ { 4 . All persons who , since the _saidGth October , shall have been deprived of their titles , or of any - other honorary _distinctions , shall also be restored to all their honours , titles , or decoration ? .

      My _Miniatws and Secretaries of State , in their respective departments , shall carry out and watch over the execution ofthe present decree in all its provisions . From the Palace de las Heeessiiades , this 23 rd April , 1817 . ( Signed ) The (" . seen . ( Countersigned ) _"Fa-aNcis-jo _Tayabeb se Almeida "Pboenza—Conoe DE ToUL—MiKOEL _DUARTE LSlTiOH—1 MB .

      _fokso _Lsoroino Batardo . , SWITZERLAND . , - Advices from _Switzerland report the progress of the liberal canse in most ofthe cantons . The grand council of _Tessino has pronounced against tbe Ultramontane League , and the deputies to lie sent by tbat canton to the Diet have received instructions to support ail measures directed towards its dissolution . The French ambassador , M . _Boislo Comte , has had an audience of the council . of state at Lugano , ' at which , however , nohing took place to influence the decision of the council against the league . The canton of St Gall has given a similar instruction to Ub deputies . ¦ The Swiss _tfatholie Gazette contains the following under date Lucerne , Hth instant : —

      The committee charged with preparing the instructions to be given to tbe Diet , agreed yesterday to propose the following resolution to the Grand Council : —" . The deputation-will declare to the Diet that the Canton of lucerne _is-opposed to all intervention on tho . part of a majcarity of 12 Cantons in the afiair of the Catholic League and the Jesuits , sad will resist witb , arms all attempts to enforce the execution of any decree the Diet may _issua on the subject . ' * The Augsburg _Gazetted tho 17 th instant states , on thecrcdit of a correspondence from the Rhine , that the three conservative powers ha ? e determined to prevent at any price , and even . by means of an armed intervention , tiie explosion of a . civil war in _Switzerland , wbich might be : brought about by the resolution ofthe Diet tending to expel the Jesuits , and dissolve the Jeagae of the Catholic cantons . ' -GERMANY . .

      Berlin . JunelC—About half-past four this morn * ing _,, the Curie decided the important question , with the ( majority of 226 _to 2 l 5 , that the Jews should be considered eligible for holding ail public offices whatsoever .- The Diet is prolonged , for an indefinite period , as much business still remains to be concluded . The decision of the Curie ofthe Nobles , as we have before stated , was not in favor of Jewish emancipation . The trial of the prisoners charged with _having taken a part in the late Polish insurrection is fixed for the 1 st of Julv .

      • Foon _DisroBBAKCBs at _IIamborq , June 11 . — The disturbances which had commenced her-e on the 15 th were renewed last night with increased vigour . The rawly-restored windows , which -were broken on the day before yesterday by a riotous mob , were again -smashed to pieces . The military were called oat about half-past nine , and were _assaulted with a shower of stone ? , - they were compelled at last to make use of their weapons , and many persons were wounded ; one soldier was killed and another had his leg broken . The Senate had an extraordinary meeting . This morning the policeforced the market dealers to seii the potatoes atareaaonable price .

      TURKEY . The Journal de Constantinople repeats its assurance of an arrangement being concluded between the Perte and Persia , and that , all that remained to be settled was the delimitation ' as regards the wandering tribes Of the frontier . ' The same journal states tbat favourable accounts had been received of tbe expedition against the rebels of Kurdistan . The rebel chief , Btdeihan Bey , is stated to have been abandoned by most of his partisans , and to . have shut himself up . in a fart , with only 200 to 300 men . . A fire broke oat the other day at Tatavala , one of the suburbs of Pera ; three hundred houses were burned . A subscription is being made for the sufferers .

      LA PLATA . The Minstrel , arrived at Plymouth , sailed from Monte Video on the 16 th of April : at that date , Oribe continued to invest the city . The blockade ol Buenos _Ayres was kept up by the French and English forces , but trade was nevertheless brisk there .

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      Ikobniocs _SwiKDUSOi—We read in the Gagetie de $ rrt & unaux ;•— " It is tbe usage of Parisian tradesmen te address to all _persons whose banns of marriage are officially published prospectuses and circulars , containing offers of merchandise of all descriptions from the humblest article of household furniture up to carriages and diamonds . A brace of clever swindlers have just contrived to take advantage of this custom to make a great many victims . - A short time since a notice was published at one of the Mairies of the marriage of the Vicomte Adrieh do J— -with the Countess ilermingarde de £ , and the same notice was repeated in the church by the cure of the lady ' s parish . Immediately the Parisian tradesmen obtained the address of the

      bridegroom and bride , and pressed on them their offers of service . The viscount lived in a splendid apartment in the Rue de Provence , and the fair countess occupied an apartment in an hotel of the Faubourg St Germain , where , she was under the tender care of an affectionate mother , After a great many entreaties the viscount graciously consented to purchase a splendid set of diamonds and a silver table-service from tradesmen in the Palais _Royale and the Place _VepdOme ; from other persons he accepted five horses , a coupe , one ofthe carriages called Amerieaines , household and personal linen , a complete wardrobe for himself and his domestic , and a splendid corbeille for his bride . The lady , on her part , also made several very extensive purchases .

      Neither , however , undertook to pay before the conclusion ofthe marriage , the viscount pleading that , having only a paltry income ef 20 _, 000 fr ., he first required to finger the l . OOO _. _OOOfr . fortune of bis future wife , and the 300 , 0001 * . which his parents were to advance him , towards the _expenso of setting up an establishment . Bills , however , were offered and accepted . A few days after the tradesmen were much surprised to discover that the viscount and the countess , and the mamma of the countess , had all suddenly vanished . Inquiries having been set on toot , it was discovered that the viscount is a Greek , who had been expulsed from a _waUriug-place for cheating at cards , aud tbat the countess is a simple actress , and was lately engaged at the Theatre des

      Variete 8 ., rhe worthy couple are , itis believed , at Baden-Baden or Homburg . " Spanish Robbers . — -The Valencia diligence was robbed a few days ago near _Cuenjja . The chief of the thieves seems to have been quite an orator . The passengers not having produced of theirown accord sufficient to satisfy his demands , he represented with tbe air of a man defrauded of his dues , and treated shabbily , that rally this was a small number of watches for so respectable a party ; and that , however much it went against his grain to commit anything in the shape of violence , the principles of duty would force him to proceed to commit a few little atrocities , unless the gentlemen pre ? ent consented to conduct themselves in a handsomer manner . This dignified

      appeal to the consciences of the passengers did not fail of producing an effect . They searched their trunks and pockets a second time with more diligence . . Some ounces of gold , some jewels that had escaped their attention at first , were drawn forth to light and handed over to the bandit , lie was contented with this supplementary addition to the spoils , aud refrained from the little atrocili 03 llO had re . Itictantly , been obli ged to throw out a hint of ; nevertheless , he could _nc-t . refrain from observing that it was always ' safer , as well as more becoming , upon these occasions to speak tlio truth at once . The Barcelona diligence has been robbed at the inn ol the Arengada , four or five miles from Cerrera , by a

      band of ten aimed men , supposed to be part of tho rebels that were proceeding to the Lower Scgarra . The Bayonne mail was stopped by brigades at the very gates of Madrid , and pillaged . The public _corresj-ondence was respected , as it always is by these gentlemen . LiMEiucK , — On Wednesday night eleven armed men attacked the house of David Ryan , of Bulgadin , tenant ol Lord Carbery , between Brufi ' and _Kilmallock ; having smashed the windows and sashes to pieces , they effected an entrance , and robbed the house of everything tbey could lay hands on . The Stamford Mercury says that two or three persons have taken up their abode on Brayford water , and live with iheir families in small covered fishing boats .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . [ tht importance ofthe question ot Public Health induces us to insert in this week's impression an abstract of the debate on tho Health of To «? ns' Bill , ou riday . the 19 th inst ., which our publishing arrangements prevented being * given at sueh length last week . ] Health of _Towks Bilt . . —Oa the ord < _-r of th « day being read for going into coinraittee on thin bill , Col . _Sibteorp mov « d thut the house should go into committee upon it that day six months . He object til to every clause in the bill , but _chioflr to the appointment of commissioners , and above all of two pnid commissioner . ; ( Laughter . ) Such _oppointma-ms would give great patronage to the government ; _aual ho limited witn jealousj on all governments . { Much laughter , ) He alio objected to the bill oh account of tbo expense it would ocoasion .

      Mr W . _WiwiiHS said that he would _opposr- thebil ) if it did not extend to tbo metropolis , where it was most called for . He did not think the noble lord would meat with any oppositionif he included London . That objection being removod , lie would support it . Mr NiwMQATX objected to the bill because it was introducing a new principle , which , ho _brtiiived , had _receivsd the namo of the _tcntitivo principle . He also objeoted to the large discretionary powers whioh it gave to the commissioners , and to tho power woieh it gave of taxing outlying districts which would receive no benefit thorefrem . The bill gave the orders in council the

      effeot of acts of Parliament , whieh _waBmostobjuctionable In principle . Itgave the inspectors who were to be _uppointed the power and the right of bfcing present atthe _me-itings of the _corporation ; thereby introducing a _system of government espionage which was _contmry to every priuoiple of the English constitution . He believed the object -was to break up the inetitutions of tho _country , and tO Introduce the continental system under _praatenaje Of providing sanitary regulations for towns . For these reasons ho called on the house not to permit the sharp endof the wedge to be introduced , and to resort to the introduction of a principle new to the British constitution . ¦

      Mr Horaces : always felt suspicious when appeals to the pocket or to the feelingB were made by gentlemen opposite . The present bill contained a very important principle , and deserved to be considered without ret « reacfl to clap-trap politics or party feelings . ( Hear , hear , ; Tbe hon . gentleman seemed to be very much afraidof the principle of centralisation , but that principle merely meant that the parties c irryiag the law into effect were to he immediately responsible to Parliament instead otto small sections of ihe community . The undigested and contradictory mass of things wbich it was the object of the present bill to reduce into something like order , arose from tbe circumstance of its being raised up piecemeal , and not on any certain plan founded on experience ; and the noble lord deserved the thanks of the

      community for his boldness in endeavouring to unite , concoct , and arrange , the scattered fragmi * nts . But the noble lord had omitted the place of all others whioh required his care—namely , that wbich bad St Paul ' s for its centre . He believed that if he took fifteen miles on each side of St Paul ' s , it would include 2 , 000 , 600 of people . Now , he was ready to join the noble lord in his crusade against "filth , stench , and the _death-stealing pestilence ; _' * but when the gallant knight came to _Limdon he seemed to be afraid of it as of a phantom . The noble lord was ready to deal with Gloucester , and no abominations in Birmingham were to resist his interference , but when he came to Loudon he struck bis nag and cut—An Emt . MEUBER . —His stick . ( Load laughter . )

      MrBoiBDCK . —Thophrase was so vernacular that it described with perfect accuracy the ignoble flig ht of ino noble lord . He would put it to the noble lord , what had he to he afraid of ? He took shame to himself tbat tbe abominations of the London corporation had not been put an end to long ago . When the Municipal Corporations Bill was before the house , it was shown that the corporation of London was more foul and corrupt than any other . ( Hear , hear . ) He was not afraid of Templebar , and why should the noble lord be ? He could not tell what tbe cause has , for . ha eould not suppose ' that one of tbe members for London had influenced him . H _<* did not shrink from dealing with his own constituency , with Huddersfield and Sheffield . What pestilent influence , then _. could prompthlm not to deal with the filth of

      London ? Why should not the inhabitant of London have fresh air ! Why should he not have an _bouwt person te inspect his sewer and to look to his gas-pipe ? If St Paul ' s and the four miles around it were in New Zealand he should say it was tattoo * , d . He would , tborefore , ask again why were the corruptions ot Loudon to be exempt ? ( Hear , hear . ) Let not the government be deterred by tho name of the City of _L-mdon . Time was when tbat . city was the centre of all that was good and noble , in this country—when , as in 1610 , it was _toremost in the fight of freedom ; but now it was nothing more than a mass of congregated individuals , bound together by trade and the ordinary mercantile transactions of life ; but which , from Its density and immensity , required the most sedulous and careful consideration of the Commons House of Parliament .

      Mr Hoisman regretted the delay which had _attendtd this measure . The noble lord ( Morpeth ) , in introducing it , . while he showed that it was a question of humanity , of economy , and o ! comfort , _showed , also , that it waB one of pressing necessity . 50 , 000 lives were , the noble lord told them , 6 acrificed every year this measure was delayed ; and in _Londou l years of life , and in Liverpool , 18 , were lost in the life of every individual from the want of proper sanitary regulations . This , then , was not a mere question of comfort , but of life ; and it was tbe duty of government to ineur any amount of labour—aDy amount of risk or responsibility , rather than havo consented to a change which so materially interfered with the object of tbe bill , What was the nature of the opposition to tho measure ! Tbere had been but 22 petitions against it , with 287 signatures ; for altering it , 16 petitions only had been received , having 836 signatures ; while , in favour ef the bill , 106 petitions had been presented , having 82 , 000

      signatures . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbat Loudon especially required some measure was proved by the evidence of Mr _Brqdle , Mr Walker , and others , wbo had told tbem , that in consequence of the overcrowded state of the graveyards , and of the neglect of sewerage , the air and the water were . poisoned , aud that the malaria thus gene _, rated was the cause of thousands of deaths . Notwith . standing tbat tbe necessity for such a measure had been for years apparent , and though the subject had been annually brought forward for the last seven years , some difficulty had always intervened to prevent its enactment . He wished to know fromthe noble lord what were the difficulties which now stood in the way of a bill for which the general necessity could not be denied ! The great fault ofthe Whig government was , ' that they _werealnrmed atthe appearance of every difficulty , In this , as in other matters , the country suffered from their vacillation and want of decision . What answer could

      their supporters return to their constituents when they wero asked what advantage had resulted from the trans _, fer of tbe reins of government from the bonds of Sir R . Peel to those of Lord J . Russell ? Tbey eonld not dony that . While Under the government of Sir It . Peel liberal principles had steadily progressed , under that of Lord 3 . Russell tbey bad as constantly receded . ( Hear , bear . ) Mr Bankes considered that thiB bill neither answered the large promises that had been made , nor the petitions that had been presonted on the subject ; and tbat it was not what'it professed to be—a great and general measure—since it omitted the metropolis of tbe country , and many other parts as well , unless specially included . Now , he contended that , if ic wore a good measure , it ought to be extended to all . The hon . member for Bath

      had so well pointed out the impropriety and the inconsistency of omitting London from the operation of tbe measure during , he regretted to say , tbe absence from tbo house of the noble lord ( Morpeth )—who , for aught be ( Mr Bankes ) knew , might have been dining with tbe Lord Mayor —( a laugh )—that he felt it to be his duty to inform tbe noble lord ofthe objections wbich were taken to the measure by tbat honourable member . ( Cries of " Ob . " ) The hon , gentleman ( _notnitbstanding tbis expression of _dijsent ) reiterated the sentiments ofthe hon . member for Bath , and expressed his concurrence in them generally * , excepting the _Btlgmas of moral corruption and incapacity wbich he Lad cast upon the corporation of London . Tbe only question regarding them _nas , whether or not they ought to be omitted from the bill }

      Why include York and omit London ! Was it because bis right bon . friend the Lord Mayor of York sat on that , and tbe Lord Mayor of London on the other , side of the h » _use , that York was to be freed from unwholesome smells and London to retain tbem ? ( Laughter . ) The first fewelauses ofthe bill _provided for the appointment of commissioners and inspectors , and for the payment ol their salaries . So with other bills before tbe house , which seemed to be drawn after one form , and the discussing of which in that house he thought a great waste of time .. If the bill should pass in its present form , it certainly would create a greai deal of jealousy in the country , . But he did not think tbe noble lord could carry it , exempting the metropolis , nhile he believed the noblo lord was pledged not to alter the measure in that respect . If not , let him get up and Bay so . ( Hear . )

      Lord _Mobpeth said , that although the government had not been treated in a very friendly or candid spirit in tbe course of that night's discussion , he confessed that his own anxiety was entirely wrapped op in the subjtct and the measure itself . ( Hear , hear . ) Since he proposed it he had been exposed to muuh attack , of which , however , he did not complain , for it was the natural consequonce of a measure affecting go many various interests , He had been attacked , iu tbe first plnce _. for including tbe metropolis ; and he was attacked more copiously now for excluding it . ( A laugh . ) He fully concurred in tbe assertion that the metropolis required sanitary improvement and legislation as niucb , at least , as any other part oi England , ( Hear , hear . ) If bis own inquiries could have

      left ony doubt upon his mind , all tha representations and even tbe reproaches he had since received upon that subject would have entirel y removed it . He was now asked if he was pledged to exclude the metropolis , fie bad already distinctly _deelartd that _hwnBbiB Intention to exclude it from the _prescut bill , and be could not therefore with good faith consent to its insertion . He was _aHo asked why he had excluded it . Why ? ( The noble lord ' s momentary hesitation in replying to the question called foith a burst of laughter from Colonel Slbtborp , which was joined in by a few others . ) He had enly to Bppeal to what bad taken place in that house duriug the session , to the _mtasure * that had btou introduced—none , he admitted , of great importance , although , gwlng to _tllfi cir *

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      uuuibiHticoa of Ireland , of a more pressing nature than the present—to justify him in having consented , reluctantly _comtented , he must gay , to the deferring of that portion of the bill wbich related to the metropolis , ( Crie » of-Oh . " ) He stated the simple truth . Hefelttbiit there was not time to deal with the extensive and im . _portant detail * which legislating for the metropolis-involved . He felt that he bad no option ; tbat there Wat not time f » r tbe consideration of all those tpeoial provisions , and that all he could hope to do was to pass tho measure in tbe present shape . ( Hear , hear . ) Th _» honourable member for _Cockcrmomth asked why he had not introduced provisions on the subject of intermural interment . _Independently of the circumstances he had" . already alluded to , the discussion of that evening ibowed hands

      bim that he had quite enough on bis - ( laugbter ) —and it -he _suauaeeded in carrying the bill in its preaaent Bhupe he should have accomplished no mean achievement _, ( _ilwir , hear . ) So ' for , then , from evading , he courted _reproaches , lor he hoped that public attention would thereby _eontlnue to be directed to the subject , so that next _yc-ir he , or whoever else should more worthily fill his place , would be compelled to follow op and _completo what was now left undone . ( Hear , hear . ) Those who considered that iu postponing apoitlon of _thotaskhe was consulting his _lv-lsurc and hi _» ease —( " ho" )—had littte idea ot the life he hnd led since last Easter—( a lough ) - * or of tho mass of communications which he had received since then , and which , he must say , bad fixed in his mind _n stesdy determination to do what he could ,

      whenever and by whatever means he could , to promote thb great work of salutary improvement . Those communications showed not merely a general apprehension , but the actual presence , to a great nnd increasing extent , of fever and disease ia its worst forms in almost every part of the country—Bg __* r ; tvated , when not wholly caused , by the deficiency of a > ui- tahit & ry regulations , which it was the object , as he hoped it would be result , of tbis measure to remedy ; and represented a waste of health , and stra-tigib , and btappanesa , and even life , at an accelerated / rate , not among the wealthierportiofl otseclety , butamoo _«_ _r those whose lot _wae cast amidst hardships and prlta ' . tions , _uard-workira ; mechanics and labourers , who : _«« dured most , _suffaripg und underwent _raoa _* . toil , _Vfiien he last ' addressed the bouse on this nihiict , lie

      quoted the _( _Juartevly returns of the n'p _, iMrair-g « rietttl relative to the health and mortality of ;' o « ' _coiinirYa They Included 117 districts , _nuii catm * ap ta Jb & _S'lst M _« rch . He then gave a very _yainful _plcvurc ot tiie * public health , but he regretted to say that tha ) _mistdS for thu last qiiartO _'' showed a considerfilile _increasa ia the mortality . Tut _regisiriir-geneml sti . teii that _* n tha summer quarter of I 8 _J 6 the mortality wm greater t _'* _sa ' it had been in the _nevc-n preceding _qnsrtert ' ; ubi * hit winter ' quarter , _b » _. \\ ji > , _"Mst March , V _&) _, it was mil greater . Tbe mimbi-r dying in the districts from which ' returns had been made , was 60 , 105 , being 6 , 030 above the average . On the ' whole , the health of London was ' below tho average ' , and , although that might be attributed in some degree to causes which were accidental and transitory , it was evident that the health of the conmry was _m least BtatiQriary , Qrpeih 8 ps . retrogra ( ling _« He did not mean to go , at length , into the clauses or

      special _provision ; _feui he trusted tbat when the proper time came he should be able te show that although the bill provided lei * central superintendence , it did not sec-k to supersede _lucal agency ; tbat its great object was to employ laical agency , not to fetter it , and to give it such advice and assistance as could only be afforded by central wisdom and experience . He should be ready , when they got into committee , to discuss all the special clauses and provisions , but he hoped and trusted that the house would uot obstruct the preliminary stages of the bill . He ownod he felt great anxiety on the subject , not grounded on party or personal consideration , or on a wish to procure credit for the government , or for himself ns an _iudiviaiual member of parliament , but on the afflicting accounts which he was daily receiving from _, every quarter of the country , and whieh he confessed bad proriured such nn _effuct on bis mind as to make him implore the house to consent to going into committee .

      __^_ lfr Mini gave the government enry credit for good intentions , but ihougbt tbat the bill bad better be hold over until next Hcs & iou . He objected to the exclusion of London , and put little faith iu tbe promise that the metropolis was to be made the Bubjoct of future legislation _, lie remembered that when the corporation reform bill passed , Lonaon was excluded with a promise that a special bill was io be brought in for itself . But from that time to the present nothing bad been done , and tberefure ho had little faith in tbe promises made on the present occasion , ( Hear , hear . )

      The Eail of Lincoln intended to vote for going into committee . With respect to the exclusion of the metropolis from the bill , he believed he was responsible for that exclusion as well as the noblo lord . 'Hit reason for wishing that London should be left out was , tbat the complicated machinery necessary for the metropolis would be ill-adapttd for the provincial towns . That objeotion npulied more to the measure which be ( Lord Lincoln ) Introduced than to this , because the machinery here was different with a greater central controlling power as well as compulsory powers , which obviated the inconvenience ot * local nets and of local _commit _sionei-s _, _wliicli complicated tbe question as regarded London . Hating urged on the noble lord to omit London from the bill before he saw it , he was hound to Bay now that ho bad seen it , that its provisions were

      applicable to that city , Still , he did not mean to Bay that , he approved of the machinery of the bill . The noble lord had gone far beyond the principle wbich he laid down in his speech , which was the maintenance of local authority and superintendence , assisted by central authority . But he ( Lord Lincoln ) feared he had ex . ceeded that principle , for tho proposed central authority would entirely control , and not merely _assiBt , tbat which was local , IVhen he urged the noble lord to exclude London from the bill , he did not mean to exclude it altogether irom sanitary regulations , for it stood more in m-ed of it tban any other city : and he gave a proof ofhis opinion on this point ; for although in the bill he had introduced , London was not included , yet , at the time that he left the Woods and Forests , he was preparing a bill tbat was to apply to London only _.

      Sir J . HJkKVER supported this bill , because he represented _^ town which was in the worst possible sanitary _conditioa * , and he hoped it would be practicable for the government to carry a measure ef sanitary reform this session . Mr _Hbmet should not vote for this bill , particularly as the _noMelori said that it did not apply to the rural districts , whereas it applied to everyplace where there were 300 inhabitants who presented a petition to be included in its provisienB . _Uuless all great towns were included in a bill , it was hopeless to expect any great measure of _eauitary reform . This measure was not _» judicious one , aod was so framed that nobody knew what it was about .

      Mr Hudson protested against the exemption accorded-1 in favour of London from the operation of the propose ! I measure . If the experiment were to be tried , let it be » - » national one . As to the people of _YoihsMte , though » they were favourable to improved sanitary regulations , , he did not believe that they would at all approve of the e present bill , which was an entirely new one , containing : _

      provisions of the most objectionable nature . He hope * % tOeineBBUre would not be pressed this session , but tbat t the noble lord opposite would , during the recess , devote e his mind to tbo preparation * of a measure of a compre . - _henslve and effectual nature , free from the spirit ef ceo . tralisatioD , of which the country was sick , and of all 1 taint of jobbery . He thought the towns might very well 1 be left to minage their own affairs . Mr B . D £ NisoN Baid that he could state that tbe whole e of the West Biding of Yorkshire was decidedly in favour r of the bill . Mr _Moniz , in the midst of the loud cries for a divi . ision , declared that , in his opinion , the bill now under _: r consideration was most vexatious iu its provisions , and d anomalous in its regulations . It was Impossible that nt _Chie bill , which was so full of difficulties and _inconsfs- stencies , could pass in tbe present session , and therefore e , if Colonel Sibthorpweut to a division , he ( Mr MunteJ ») should be obliged to vote with bim .

      The house tben divided—For tbe motion „ _ _- . i Por the amendment , „ , „ , „ * n HI The houBe then went into committee , pro forma , aod nd the further consideration of the bill was postponed till lii ! the following Thursday . MONDA *? , Johb 21 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Their lordBbipg sat for a short ort time , and went _threugh a considerable amount ofron . oH . tine business . The royal assent waa given by _commisBioa ioa to a great number of bills .

      HODSE _OiT COMMONS . —Mr _Cbsibtie _mtide a _shortiort statement in reply to that made by Mr C . P . Vi _]_ erg 0 BI on _, Friday night , charging him with having _p"At « __* ae _ tioni ton toi Sir P . Lewis , whilst under examination before theAn-An-. dover committee , whieh were not onl y _. itrevelan tto the the ) subject of inquiry , but whieh involved matters of a prk private obaracter , allusion to which was improper and und unwarrantable . In exculpating himself from _thischargeargfti Mr Christie read documents to show tbat Mr Ti * _lier « _iflrs _iei quoting them against him had wilfully suppressed thosithosii portions which were in his ( Mr Christie ' s ) favour . Lord _ConaTENAi , thechairaion of the Andover Com . Com . mittee , and Mr _Diseaeu paid a high compliment to th < o thu ability and temper shown by Mr Christie in that _commitomitt tee , and the matter dropped .

      IUawM _BiH . —Mr Strott tha Hallway _Commle » ml « i sioner tben made a two hours ' speech in explanation « lon eg the alterations introduced into this bill , and the _rtgultegulss tions contained in it , which he wound up in the folloWellowi ing manner . He had now gone _throegh this hill ; till ; hi had stated to the bouse its contents , and the _intentioentioii ofthoseby wbem it bad been framed , and the objecobjec : and intentions of tlie government with regard to thto thi measure . It had been exptcled that tbe bill would bald bin ' passed at an early period of this session , but cwiri g wing the unexpected pressure of business upon the house coise coo nccted with the state of Ireland , —th « emergency of tlf Of till not the

      country _edmittiug measures being delayed —ted — tt biil had been postponed from month to month . Ork Grci opposition was likewise offered to tha bill , and thei then vernment had received information that the parUesIrties !' posed to it were determined to oppose it b y all _meansneans » tlicirpower , and todelay it by Blithe expedients Which which i formsoftbehousewouldallow . Under _thesecircums taiiroBtaiiB it was clear , ' that at this period , it was scarcely _poBSijpossis hat such a _Ullcenld underg o consideration , andbeeodbcew law , without involving great delay and _great _' inwt _' intt vemenee at this period of the session , The _soverumveriim n therefore , thought that the , would act wj .. ) , _j » _SSbj not 1

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 26, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26061847/page/7/