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      FRANCE . Tus Refoek B * 5 < iOKT .-The National of Saturda y says .- " 1 . 200 electors of Paris assembled yesterday ( Fnd » y ) afternoon at the Chateau Rogue to jaafce a remarkable demonstration in faTonr of electoral reform . The spectacle was magnificent . The m ost perfect order did not prevent the expression of tbe warmest sentiments . We confine ourselves at present to a description of the general impression , jt was most excellent . The assembly was constituted after the model of the central committee of electors , which organised and directed it with as much tea \ as intelligence . The great majority ot the Opposition deputies figured there beside the representatives of the Paris press and of that of the departments . The J / araitfaue hymn was executed by a full band , and was loudly applauded . We shall after to-morrow give a detailed

      account of the orators and their speeches . They were all applauded by an assembly animated by a patriotic fire such as will ever animate any meeting invoked in recollection of tha principles af the French revolution . M . Lasteyrie , the elder , a Teteran of ' 89 . and ever consistent in his principles pr esided . The Vice-Presidents were MM . Rectjrt » nd Paguerre . The assembly separated towards eleven o ' clock , after a manifestation which must prodo . ee a profound sensation throughout France . " The tickets were strictly personal ; no transfer was fl owed . Tba most rigid scrutiny was exercised to pitveat the intrusion of any but the person named on e » ch ticket . The police were consequently unrepresented at the banquet . The doors w « re opened at five , but dinner was not served till eight o ' clock . A band ef sixty musicians were in attendance , which when tbe company sat down to table struck up the JiirtdBawe .

      Oat of doors the first notes of the hymn put an end to the decorous silence of the 3 , 000 men wba jp rrflraaed the chateau . 1 say with surprise their tilence , for although they amounted to that number , and tUhough the request of the stewards to have , a < Bjnal at public entertainments , a few Municipal Guards present to preserve o-der was not complied with , the utmost decorum was observed by that immense crowd . " La Marseillaise * was , however , irresistible . The thousand men within and the three thousand without took up the strain , and chanted it with all their force .

      The Coaaurtt States that the following toasts ifere given at the banquet : —" The national Sovereignty , " byM . de Lasteyrie ; " The Revolution of Ja ' y , " bv MM . Recurt and Odillou Barrot ; " Electoral and Parliamentary Reform . " by MM . Pasuerre indDuverier de Hauranne ; "The city of Paris , " by MM . Serrard and Marie ; ' The improvement of the condition of the labouring classes , " by MM . Grwer and Gustave de Beaumont ; "The Press , " by MM Riglet Chamlwlle and F . Degeorge- 4 < The Deputies of the Opposition , " by MM . Uamelin and Leon de Malleville . M . Armand Marrast , the editor of the Xatitmal , was likewise to hare spoken , but le was compelled by sadden indisposition to withdraw before the conclusion of the banquet . The whole affair terminated at a quarter past eleven o ' clock without the occurrence of the slightest

      oisorder-The Counter Francois publishes the following statement of the financial position of the government : — " The budget has this year reached the almost incredible amount of 1 , < HM , < 3 W 000 ; taxes have wrong from France , rained by inundations and protective duties , 1 , 609 , 000 , 600—frem France , forced by the want of foresight of its government , to pay a premium of l , 2 G 0 . 000 , 0 W to have bread J But these 1 . <» 00 , « 09 . « CO have not been sufficient to pay all the expanses , to make up all the voids left by waste and peculation . There U an enormous deficit of 750 , 0 ea , tt # ! ; sd , « 09 , O 90 ! why , such used to be the whole budget of the empire , sufficient for the glory of AugterliU . Jeaa , Friedland , and Wagraml

      Oar cheap governmeat , with its nodest policy , had well accostomed ms to deficits ; for the last 10 years we hem kid . one regularly , hut what no one ever witnessed was a , deficit of ? 50 , 008 , flW . The government itself appears moved at the frightful cense quenoes ef Buch a dlawder . Meanwhile aU the sources of the public wealth are dried np , aad labour is generally saspended throughout the country ; yet the necessities of the tnonwot must be provided for , this deficit aC 75 % Q 09 < W 9 must te made up , not reekonins Uae < Jefielt of the next year . Tbo new Minister of Finance has for that purpose presented a bill for a first !(« a of 350 , 009 , 460 ; and as on the other hand the Chamber has lately augmented theamosntof the Treason ? Bondsiv 200 . 000 , ^ 098 . there remains

      only 299 . 800 , 608 ta be made up . The so-much boasted-of cleverness consisting « nly in living by expedients , it is exceedingly probable that the 200 . 0 &MXJ 9 in question will be obtained by a new emission of Treasury bands . It is so easy a mode of obtainteg money 2 It is true that it is the most certain » eans of raising oneself ; it is the great resource ef spendthrifts , who beforehand pledge tseir revenues , and—as the phrase goes—eat the horse ic the sUble . Why efeoaid it not be tfee resource of « ur great statesmen ! The amount of Treasury bonds will be augmented , or , in other words , the budget

      will bedevoured beforehand ! Such was the custom of the old regime , tbatgovermrent of great nobles , imitated by our epstart gentlemen . The former perished in the most frightful political tempest that history speaks of . Will their imitators be more clearsighted and more fortunate ?" OnTharsday the trial of General Cahieres , M . Teste , M . PeUaprat , a 8 dlL Panuatier , took . place beiore the Coart of Peers . We Have noticed this trial in another column . The principal journals of Paris were occupied on Monday by detailed reports of the speeebes delivered at the above festival .

      The Freaeh Government has antb « rised Prince Jerome Boaaparte to return to France , aad sent him his passports . SWITZERLAND . The Ami de Zx Cmutitutio * of Berne , of the 5 th inst ., publishes the speech of Colonel Ulrieh Ochsenibein . Pr esident of the Federal Diet , on the opening ¦ of that assembly at Berne oa the 5 th iost . The ( President commenced his speech by congratulating the members of the Diet on their fraternal meeting , ¦ and told them that never was a meeting held which commanded such general attention . " Confederates , " added toe President ,

      M We wish to regard thepresent situation of affaire with firmness and without alarm . The questions weiave to consider regard the most important rights of Immunity and the conditions iudispensable to a free , moral , and intellectual existence—a ehoice between progress and the ttatiu quo—and , conse quently , the issue of a eontest which is as ancient as thefeisSary of man—which has sometimes appeared under oce form and sometimes under another , but has nearer shakeu the feundation of intellectual Europe «» much as at present . It is true that the monetMyiesulteandtheeoarseofthat painful eontestareiEett various . Nevertheless , we cannot doubt that the tendency to progress is general . Whilst Poland still bleeds , whilst recently the significant d

      eatrueUooflf the independence of a sister of Helvetia —of the repcbJic of Cracow—has takenplace , against the law of aattongand in contempt of the civilised world , and whikfc on the banks of the Tague the j a . dependence of * nation has been trampled under Soot , —we see on the Scheldt and on the Isar facts which hitherto were considered as impossibilities , in this category we must place the essential consolidation of constitutional principles in the north of Germany—a star along time since announced and proposed , but whieh has disappeared . " The Preaidenjbaextalluded to the political constitution of the cantons , which , founded on the principle of the sovereignty of the people , has secured the happiness of all separately ; but he observed trat the cantons required to be united by a new pact , which , by maintaining as much as possible the independence of each ,

      should create a general-confederation , affording the best guarantee for their national independence , ihe President eoacludes by observing that , "if—what appears tobe probable—a foreign intervention should take place In the internal aiEurs of the confederation , the world stall know that Switzerland—strong in her right , great by the sympathy entertained for her by all free nations , and by all which expect to become free—will sacrifice the last drop of her blood to maintain the independence achieved by her fathers in so many sanguinary battles , and to transmit that most precious of all blessings intact , as she received it , and in aU its integrity , as a sacred legacy to her children . May God preserve the mother country I declare the Diet for the year 184 ? to be opened , and I invite you , dear confederates , to renew the federal oath after the custom of our fathers . "

      PORTUGAL . The Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s ship Madrid arrived at Southampton on Wednesday evening , bringing intelligence from Lisbon to the 9 th , and Oporto to the 10 th . Lisbon was quiet , all political prisoners given up from St Julian ' s , and the English , ships about to return to the anchorage in the Taguo . The Janta had ditsofced itself after issuing an address to the people , < fcc Coaeha with thirteen thousand men , and Saldanha with , about eight thousand troops , were in Oporto . The Junta ' s troops had dispersed into the interior , aad had formed guerilla bands in the neighbourhood . The British were unpopular , but no outages of any kind had occurred against them . The B ^ xt civil outbreak will be one of the knife and stiletto . A solemn TeDeum Had eorae off at Oporto , out the fires of aril war are but cofered orcr for a time .

      _ , GERMANY . tHiSRPOK , Jaij * __ protocol baa been issued by we Uermanic Diet , on the subject of Cracow . This Protocol states the reasons for the steps which were « by the courts of Austria , Prussia , and Russia , » itn regard to Cracow . It is their opinion that that republic was created under conditions calculated to iL * Prosperity , as well as the tranqnillityof the ^ powers , and that it , not having fulfilled those Wj flitions , fell into complete anarchy , and placed iv U inch a position at to preclude the powers ,

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      from prolongmg . or taking again into , consideration , without detriment to their subjects , the right which had been granted toit , an unconditional independence t waslherefore resolved that this republic should not te re established , but that the to » n and territory of Cracow should be replaced in the p 38 itton which it heldprenoBsto theyearl 809 . The totes of all the JhSSnS n Germ . anio . ^ federation follow SifSflS * * agreein ? the sentiment set /?» L ^ lfr ^ 0 Wet 8 t II " « f »« . resolved wiS £ Zit oL ft Germ ?? ' IC . ? « e » tion has heard with eratitnde the manifestation made by the courts Of Anstria . Prussia , and Russ 5 a OT - principles of ^ in-M ? b ] LTmt f ° ? treatie 8 « PrincipEhfch it i £ « HnhHi , ^ ia ^ l tlleir oonduct i a » d theconfejjwtamadliereg tothem with merewtisfaction , as ™ L 2 > T ?""? P letelv ^« h those npon which reposes the fundamental law of the confederation . POLAND from proloQgise . orUkini ! 'wain intacanudprarinn

      . JnSi , ^ ^ - /^ wto letters of this day inform ns that the Brand Po'ish processis postponed on account or preliminary preparations , from the 1 st of July to the 1 st of August . Added to the yet hig pneeofcorn , we hare received the moat distressiue accounts from Silesia and Peland of the devastating inundations of the Oder and the Weichsel , which are said to have caused irreparable damage in the neighbourhopd of the Galician frontiers . The prospect of affairs in Poland is in every respect , moral as well as material , melancholy beyond conception . May all Germans be deterred from emigrating to this cuuntry ! Berks , June 29 . —The act of accusation against the Poles accused of high treason has just appeared . The accused are 251 in number ; 98 noblemen , including the Counts Constantin and Signor Brinski , E . GrabnnskiandSeverin Mie ' zinski . This

      document is given in two parts : the first contains an historical account of the formation of the democratic association , of its acts , and the result of them . The second part indicates the participations of theaccused in the plot . As early as 1832 the association was founded at Paris : 3 , 000 persons joined it immediately ; it had for its aim to dispose the PolishVeople to a revolution in the name of liberty , fraternity , and equality ; and to restore to Poland the limits it had before 1772 . Emissaries were sent to Poland , to distribute revolutionary writings and form relations on all sides . Victor Qeltmann was the head emissary ; he succeeded in forming corresponding associations on all sides , bnt these associations were so divided in opinion , as to the execution of the

      project , that on the demand of ileltmann , the comiti central of Paris sent tu Posen Louis de Mieroslawski , an officer well versed ia military science . Mieroslawski found that both the preparations and money were wanting , and consequently , it was impossible to think of a revolution for 1839 . lie returned to Versailles , and was replaced by Jean Aliyafo , who endeavoured to procure money to buy fire-arms in France and England . The Poles expected 45 . 000 gnna . It was necessary to procure 15 . 00 ( 1 to complete the number . In the meantime , two parties were formed at Posen . Stefanski , a bookseller , placed himself at the head ot a commercial asaoeia

      tion , entirely independent of the democratic association . Stefanski , having been arrested , was replaced by the miller . Emmann . and the master locksmith , Lepniski . This association was principally composed of workmen , students , and excited peasants . They thought if they could once set Crscaw , Gallicia , Lithuania , the kinedora of Poland , the grand duch y of Posen , and West Prussia , into a state of insurrection ; if they ooald also suaeeed in taking possession of the fortresses , and bring to their side a part of the Polish soldiers ; they woald find ammunition-chiefs —and that tfee Polish people in general would join with them .

      ITALY . Thei (« aa 6 « ig Gaztue of the 7 th inst . publishes a letter from Rome of the 29 th ult containing a variety of strange reports . Ii was said that the Pope intended to abdicate , and that he had sent for his brother CeantMastai , of Sinigaglia , to consult him « n the subject . The sentiments ' of the public wete manifested in a very significant manner on the subject of the Jesuits , and other retre active influences , on several receut occasions . On the festival ofSt Louis deGonsa « n . e , his holiness was received with the utmost pomp by the reverend lathers . As he

      passed to and from the church , the holy father was greeted with the cries of" Viva Pie , nono solo ! " and billets of paper were flung into his carriage , bearing the inscription : " Qoly father ; have confidence in your people , who love yen sincerely , and distrust those by whom you are wirronMUd . " It will be remembered that Clement XIV .. according to common repute , was poisoned by the Jesuits . The portrait of this pontiff was distributed gratis among the peiple , on the steps of the church of the Jesuits , on the necasio : i just adverted to . This portrait Ib now in the hands of every one at Rome . The insinuation of the pnblic is not to be misunderstood .

      On the day of the festival of Peter and Paul a grand dinner was given to the members of the sacred college at the Austrian embassy . The populace , iudging that this was a meeting convened for purposes hostile to reform , and to intimidate the pontiff , assembled in large numbers , in front of the hotel , and made a register of the names of the guests who were present on the occasion . It seemed certain that some violence would ensae , and that the persons thus suspected were not safe , when a man of the people . Ciceronachia , by great courage and presence of mind interfered , and turned the people from their intended attackupon the " Iwly" conspirators . Letters from Cosenza , in Calabria , of the 23 rd pit ., ; state that serious disturbances had occurred in that province . Armed bands . were in considerable force throughout the country , and great apprehension was entertained of a general rising of the in . habitants .

      GBEECE . .. . , The Athens papers state that the election ! have terminated , and that At . Coletti , by the intimidation , bribery , and violence to which he gave such free scope , has contrived to get a large , majority in the Chamber ^ As an example of the means adopted bv M . Coletti io insure his triumph , the Athena . Cautitr states ; that . General Griziotti , who was a candidate , having come to Athens to complain of the conduct of the authorities to him , solicited an audience of the King , In order that he might lay bis complaint

      before his Majesty . The audience was granted , but en the morning ofthe day upon which it was to take place ( the 21 st' ult ) Griziotti was arrested and carried , under an escort of troops , to Chalcis , where be was cast into prison . Several instances are given by the Athens Courhj of similar treatment to candidates . Letters oi whet were issued by M . Coletti , which were placed in the hands of the authorities , and whenever an opposition candidate appeared to have a prospect of success , he was at once seized upon and thrown into pruon . ALGERIA .

      Letters from Algiers of the 2 nd inst . state that Abd-el-Kader , after his success over the troops of Abderrahman , had occupied various points on the Riff , in order to secure his communications by land with the interior of Morocco , and by sea with the exterior . The agitation in the country was very great . Abd-el-Kader bad received considerable reinforcements , and neither wanted arms nor ammunition . UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . There have been two arrivals frohi * the United StatesThe

      . news is not important . AP action had taken place near the National-bridge of JMexico , on the route from Vera Cruz to ' the capital , in which , with a loss of fifty men , the American trvopB defeated those of Mexico , the latter losiug about 100 . It is also announced that a proposition of pea&'e had been made to General Scott , but rejected by him as inadequate . In the capital itself affairs were totally unsettled . ¦ \ Tne expedition against Tobasco , under CommVdote Perry , sailed from Vera Cror on the 9 th nit . ' ¦ President Polk had visited New York .

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      Chbki ' 8 Hmfitil . —At a Court ofthe Governors of this institution on Tuesday , Alderman Thompson , M . P ., president , in the chair , C . E . Searie , one of the senior scholars , was admitted totheracaot " Times Scholarship , " having been declared the successful competitor , after au examination consistine equally of classics and mathematics ^ A Nrw Thick—Some thieves in Paris dress as servants , and visit the different tradesmen , requesting certain accounts ; they then dress as tradesmen , take the accounts to the parties , receive the money and bolt

      LuKAcr . —A commission de lunatic * inauirmdo , held in Carlisle , adjudged that Sir E . Marmaduke Vavasour , Bart ., of flaslewood Castle . Yorkshire , was of unsound mind ; being a furious lunatic , and fancying himself Julius Caspar , with other delusions . Frekch Navioaiiob . —In the year 1816 there entered the French ports 12 , 113 foreign Teasels , and 8 . l 84 French ; and left them 6 , 623 foreign , and 5 , 693 French . It has been calculated that there are 24 , 000 porea in a square inch of the under-surface of a pear

      The Bishop of Exeter has given notice of trial in an action against the editor ofthe Western limes for libel , u being a criminal prosecution , the Bishop will appear himself . The greatest interest is felt in theieau . lt .

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      ( Fronvthe Gazette of Tuesday , Jnlj 13 . ) James Edmund Pje , 4 , Berkeley-square , miliner—Geo . Harris , Giltspur-street , tailor—Joseph Worters , late oi long Melford , but now of Groton , Suffolk , butcher—Samuel Howard BUliogay , Commercial-road East , Whitechapel , ironmonger—Arnold Hill , Ipswich , last maker-Thomas Henry Holford , Dudley , grocer—Jacob Legasgick , 1 ' avistock , grocer—Joseph LeadbeatT Buttcrell , Doncaster . grocer—William Dosha , Snitterfield , licensed victu-,. ! - _ Anthony Machin , Manchester , [ grocer— Win . Guy Zl , . -on , now of Liverpool , hut late of Wellington , New S •«! , merchant-John Kinder , Birkenhead , painter . teda . ™ . " SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Allon Jteid , Glasgow , grocer—Alexander Lang , jun ., ; > - TV ibawl manufaciurer—William Smith , Barrliead , tenfrewfii ' **! coaJmafWr-QuentiH M'Gowan , Glasgow , rrigUt

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      .. FREEi TRADE in CO ^ Jui ^ ON OPpLY / ; ' TOTH « BDIT 0 » 0 FTHB rBMlUlTs JOUBIUl . Mr Patrick O' lliggins has published the following important letter in the Freeman ' s Journal : — Sib , —There were man ; person * , and mjielf amongst them , who entertained the opinion that a free trade in corn would not onlxact as an additional itimuWu to griping hard-hearted landlords to got tid of the tillage or corn-growing farmers , and torn those f * ims to pasturage ; bat that a repeal of the corn lawi , without an equitable adjustment of gll eiisting contracts , would give a complete monopoly to corn merchants , and thus enable them to raise the food of the people to famine priees . People are now beginning to see , and tofetl too , that the repeal of the corn laws has afforded the land .

      lords a pretext for driving the tillage farmers off their estates—that the repeal of the corn laws ha » not , nor will not make the loaf one penny cheaper than it * as before those laWs were repealed ; If corn could be bought in anj part of the world at balf the Average price it was daring the lastseren years , | and brought in free of duty , it would not make the four-pound loaf quite a penny cheaper to the working man . A quarter of Wheat wilt produce 166 loaves , of 41 bs each . Now 166 pence are ISs . 10 d . —the average duty , according to M'Culloch , for the last twenty-one jears , wa » 5 s . 34 . per quarter ; so that in order to reduce the price of the quartern loaf one penny the duty should not only be remitted , but wheat should be purchased 8 i .. psr quarter cheaper

      abroad than it ever was known'to have been purchased ; and even if It were to purchased the reduction of one penny in the price ef the quartern loaf presupposes that the merchant will sell without any profit , that the miller will grind without any charge , that the baker will not look for a profit , and that the huckster , who always cnpplies the working man wits bread , will sell without profit . At all events , the entire profits of all these parties must come out ofthe penny in the quartern loaf . Uuder these circumstances , I would be glad to know what benefit the poer man , whose well-being should be the first and paramount consideration with every statesman and patriot , is to derive , or has derived , from the boasted repeal ofthe corn laws .

      When Sir Robert Feel repealed the com laws , and when be saw that there wa « a vtob&bUUj of a scarcity « i food in Ireland , he said that the first duty of 4 he government was to take the moat effective means to throw such an abundance of food into Ireland that there should be no possibility of any human being dying of want . Lord John Russell , who was then out of office , supported this humsne proposition in a speech which was loudly and deservedly cheired by those who did not know his real character . Before Sir Robert Peel could carry bis humane intentions into effect , he was "jockied" out of office by as vile a coalition between Whigs and Tories as ever disgraced party proceedings even in the House of Commons .

      Lord J . Russell became prime minister at the time when there was no doubt of the famine in Ireland—when sorn might have been bought cheaper in America than ever it was before . Well , a body would think that Lord John would have even exceeded Sir Rsbert Peel in throwing a sufficient supply of food into Ireland . But when in office he began to recollect that his constituents were the great corn merchant * of Mark-lane , and thai to interfere with their anticipated monopoly in corn might , and no doubt would , cost him his seat for London . . K new light broke in upon him ; he turned' his back upon his own principles ; he knew that the London corn merchants held immense stocks of foreign wheat , and in

      order to secure Ms seat for London , - by enabling them to realite enormous profits , and " kill off * the superabundant population of Ireland , be said that the " government should not interfere with commercial enterprise ;" and thus the hardworking half-paid working classes of Ireland were left at the mercy of the corn merchants of London , the constituents of Lord John Russell , the result of which has been the death and destruction of millions ef the vsry best portion of the Irish people ; and this is the man whose policy and administration some political scoundrels have the daring , the unblushing audacity to call upon the citizens of Dublin- —nay , the people of Ireland , to support at the ensuing elections .

      A part ofthe baneful effects of this infamous policy may be seen by any one who will tajte the trouble of visiting the corn stores at the CuBtom-house . Corn hag been held over in the Queen ' s stores until it has heated , lest giving it out to a starving people should interfere with Lord John Russell ' s commercial . enterprise ; while commercial monopoly has held fast hold of the corn with a view to famine prices until it baa heated in the stores ofthe merchants , I have this day seen several tons of heated corn spread out on the quajs at the Custom-house Jocks , a sample of which I leave at your office with this letter , « o completely destroyed by beating in the stores , that it is not only wholly unfit for human food , but

      offensive to the smell ; while at the opposite side ofthe docks , the corn sent here for the use of the poor was also allowed to beat , and thus become useless , lest giving it out should interfere with commercial enterprise and monopoly . Part of this damaged corn , intended for the poor , has been sold at the low price ofthree shillings per cwt ., to some persons connected with the Custom-house . stores who have since seut it to a mill to be ground into meal , I fear with the guilty intention of telling it ftt a cljeap rate to the poor . Not being ajadgo of Indian curn myself , I took a part of , the sample which I left at your office to an American noW in this city , who assured . m <» that if the people use meal made of Indian corn such ai the sample , it will surely kill them .

      In addition to the foregoing facts I am in a position to prove that some of the flour merchants of this city have employed met b y night at 3 s Cd per night , to pound with weights and mallet * damaged oatmeal and flour , some of which was actually alive , aad then mix it with fresh bran , and sell it out as whole-meal . No wonder then that we have fever and dysentery in this city ; but this is the natural . consequence of not interfering with " commercial enterprise" in time of scarcity of food . I am well aware that our present Lord Mayor is an excellent ' citizen , a humane and a benevolent man , but

      were I , humble as I am , in the high and honourable office which " he fills , I would swear in a certain number of bakers , judg s of flour—take a sufficient police force , proceed to all the flour stores in the city , force my way into them in the event of refusal , seise aU damaged core , meal , and flour , confiscate it , and give to the poor all that was " not unwholesome , and take my chances in the ensuing parliament for an act of indemnity ; and thus save the lives of h ' undreds of my feUbw . c'Uizens . ' . ' . ,. r - - * .,-, ¦ • :. ' Patrick P'fliooiiw , " No . i 5 , North " iiniie . str ' eeti 25 th JTane , 1817

      Ib the above letter the editor ] of the \'' 'Freeman ' s Journal makes the following observation : — There appears in another column a letter from Mr O'Hijrgins on the aubjectof damaged meal and flour . He » tite » fact * a « d professes an ability to prove them . VTe respectfully call the attention of our worthy chief magistrate to the allegations made in this letter .

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      The funeral of Mr O'Connell was performed on tbe 27 th ult ., "grander under many aspects than the funeral of Constantino the Oread orCUwleuagae , "

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      - HOUSE OP COMMONS . —Tbis house sat lastSaturday , at twelve o cloek . Alter forwarding several bills a stage , the house resolved itself into s committee on the Recoveey of Ppblic Mokikb ( lBM . 4 N . fi ) BitL . —Lord CWM »« Tssaidhe objected altogether to this bill . Perhaps these were the last words he might utter in that house , and he must say that it was most unfair and unjust to ask for the repayment of those ionnn from a country which the government must know was in a state of bankruptcy at the present moment . He doubted whether it would be possible or practicable to get the money back under any circumstances . Th 9 whole coum of this legislation for Ireland was unfair and unjust in the last degree .

      Mr Home said that " if the Irish members acted the part which the noble lord appeared dinpoaed to do , they would shut up the eharlty of this country . Instead of expressing bis gratitude to the ministers for giving up half the loan , he abused them for not making them a present of the whole . Such a return uould only l « ad to the suspension of all assistance to Ireland . There was at present a very strong feeling In this country , that Ireland did not pay its proportion of taxation ; and in two or three months this feeling would probably Increase , seeing the returns that . were made for the assistance rendered to Ireland . '

      Mr P . Scbom had no doubt that all the jobbing and misconduct amongst relief committee * and at presentment ssssions had arisen from a belief that the money advanced would never be required trom them again . They had acted just as though they were squandering English money , and not their own . It was , therefore , most im . portant to make it clearly understood by the landlords in future what proportion of the loans ef advances would be required to be repaid . 'Sir J . Gbihah thought a clear understanding moot essential , both to the people of Great Britain and of

      Ireland . He understood that upwards of nine millions had been advanced in the last twelve or fourteen months , of which one-half was to be considered as a grant , and the other hnlf to be repaid In instalments extending over rotn five to ten years . With regard to this repayment , Uwas important that the utmost good faith should be observed ; still , however . abundant might be the next harvest , ' In many cases any repayment in the next year would . be ' imposBiUe . ' . To mtet these ca « es , he would give the government a discretion to defer the repayment ; butthere mutt be a commencement of the laying of ratos for that purpose . .

      Lord Clements said that Ireland owed & great d « bt of gratitude to the munificence of the English public ; but he spoke of the'legislature and the government when he said they had acted imprudently . They might as well require repayment of alms from a passing beggar in the street . Tho government should know that it was impossible to repay these advances . Not half the landwat cropped this year ; -in many caees the Btock had come to England ; and they ceuld not get their loan out of the bare land . He had said all along that this was an Im . practicable bill . He alluded to the provisions of the Irish Poor Law , which made tbe chairmen of boards of guardians responsible for their acts before the magistrate . Were such a thing attempted in England , the government would be hurled from their seats in twenty-four hours . , ¦' .

      The CtuNCEHoB of the Exchequer could not euffl clently express the regret and astonishment with which he had listened to the speeches of Lord CltmenU . When the pressure of the calamity was most severely felt , the landlords of Ireland said , — "Tax us as muoh as you will , but , for God ' s sake , save the people from starvation ' . " The government had responded to that call , and had saved the people . The very bill which Lord Clements now opposed was intro ' . uced for the purpose of freeing Ireland from tbe tncumbrance of one-half the loan granted by the legislature fer the relief of the distresses , of the people ; and , if it were rejected , Ireland would ' , in point of fact , be charged with the repayment of the whole . ' He concurred with Sir J . Graham in thinking that it was net too much to expect one-half of that

      loan should be repaid ; and he bow gave distinct notice , that the repayment of that sum would be enforced according to circumstances , and where it seemed just . The repayment , instead ot ' btmg demanded at once , was spread over a period of t « n yeers , and the first Instalment of it would not become due until this time next year . ' The government knew well that It wa » easy to spend money , easy to lend money , and still easier to give away money in Ireland ; but he trusted that tbe good feeling of the population of Ireland would render ^ the repayment of it much easier than Lord Clements supposed . " if the Irish proprietors were not willing to main * tain their own poor on the principles recognised in England and Scotland , it was not to be supposed that ' the people of Great Britain would continue to be taxed to support their pauperism .

      Mr Tbsiawni said it was absurd to suppose that the landlords could not make thiirepayment of four millions and a half , when the fee-simple of the land in Ireland was at least eleven millions . He believed it was tbe duty of the house to enforce the repayment , even if they sold the land and the landlords along with it . ( Laughter . ) Considering the great distress which had prevailed in tho westofSngUndia the last three months , there were good grounds for asking for a grant from Ireland to relieve it—at least , the same grounds for making a grant from the public funds aa existed in the case of Ireland . . Mr W . Patten observed , that if he could bring himself to believe that Lord Clements on tbis occasion

      represented tbe feeliBgi of any one class of tbe people of Ireland , he would offer the most strenuous opposition to this bill . Portions of this country , and especially Lan . casnire , were absolutely overwhelmed by aa inundation of Irish paupers cast upon our shores by the desertion ef the Irish landlords , who ought to have maintained them ; and was it to be supposed that the people of England would stand by and quietly see a grant of £ 4 500 , 060 made to Ireland without even the terms of common acknowledgment being offered in return by the Irish representatives ! He told Lord Clements that he had done great detriment to himself and his countrymen by the speeches which he had just delivered .

      Lord Clexentb now became more wild than ever , and observed , that if there was one part of the globe which deserved to be taxed for the relief of Ireland , It was Liverpeol , which profited immensely by the distresses of that country . Liverpool might be looked upon as the capital of Ireland , and was as much bound to contribute to the support of the Irish poor as any corner of Ireland . Mr Newdeoate could not conceive anything more unjust or irritating to tbe people of England than the speeches of Lord Clements upon this bill . In what way bad Liverpool profited by tbe distresses of Ireland ! Had not the rates of that town been trebled by the great influx of the unfortunate Irish poor 1 and hau . not its inhabitants perished in numbers from the contagion of their diseases ? Ho charged Lord Clements with endeavouring tu create in the bosoms of his crantrymen feelinga of hatred towards Great Britain which were perfectly unjustifiable .

      Mr BaoTHEBtoN concurred in the sentiments of Mr Patten . It was absurd to talk of Liverpool being in . debted to Ireland tbe Irish bad there found good customers for their agricultural product , ( Hear , hear . ) Lord Clemeuts had taken the worst mtians he could to serve his country ; should the distress continue there would be a strongfei ling against any further advances . Sir R . Jb ' ERGDSo * disclaimed the speeches erf Lord Clements as any index to the feelings of the Irish people . He doubted tot that the same regularity as had hitherto prevailed in tbe repayment of advances would ¦ continue with the exercise of a little discretion on the put of tbe Chancellor of the Etchequer . lie had thought of suggesting that tbe payments might be a little expedited . He much regretted tfee expression which Lord CltTit'Bts had used with regard to Liverpool , which bad doubtless suffered most severely in consequence of the influx of Irish poor . ( Hear , bear . )

      After a few words from the Earl of Arundel and Surrey , condemnatory of theceurse of Lord Clements , Mr W _ Bkown congratulated Lord Clements upou enjoying the undivided hoaoor of finding fault with the benevolence ofthe people of England , and the exertions of the'government . As to the benefits which Liverpool had , derived-from'the distress of the Irish poor , who would have starved by the roadside in their own country , it would be well to remember that 10 , 000 of its inhabitants Were at this moment reported to bo suffering from typhus fever , imported Into that town by those unfortunate and neglected wretches . ; Lord W . Paulett , Mr P . Ainsworth , and Mr P , Scrope followed on tbe same side : after which ( lie bouse resumed , aad tbe report wa g ordered to be received ou Monday . ' The house adjourned at hclf-past two . . . MONDAY , Jots 12 .

      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Bribery , and Cobrcption ai Elections . — Lord Bbouoiuh moved tho following resolution on this subject : — "That it is the bounden duty of both Houses of Parliament to adopt , at the beginning of the next session , whatever means may be most effectual for detecting and punishing acts of bribery and corruption which may be committed during the ensuing recess at the election of members of Parliament , and peers of Scotland and of Ireland ; such offences being altogether subversive of the freedom of election , destructive of tho independence and purity of the legislature , leading to the moral guilt of

      perjury in all cases , and the actual commission , in many , of that most foul and helnoue crime . ? h » t it is also the duty of both Houses of Parliament to inquire of and visit with punishment all acts which may be done during the recess for interfering with tbe free choice of members of Parliament , of peers of Scotland aad Ireland , bj intimidation or otherwise . That it is the duty of botb Houses of Parliament to inquire of all corrupt bargains , whether by compromise or otherwise , made during the recess , for the purpose of preventing and frustrating the inquiry into such corruption or intimidation at elections of members ef Parliament , or of Scotch or Irish peers . "

      N In supportingtheseresolutioBB . besaid : the R » form Ac * tad at least one effect , it enabled you at once to geteitt bribery and corruption , Btfore that act the legal ex tfonW" of a » election contest were so large that it was . J :. , ible to say whether a member or a candidate had beeVg . nending money on lawful or on illegal purposos . Thetrea . ' evil , that » f bringing up out-voters , was put down In thB contestin which he ( Lord Brougbam ) was ' L Werpool with Mr Canning , the expenses were £ 40 000 and ' vome eut-vaters were brought from the LanWend ariu' others from Scotland . The expenses there werealways £ 15 , 000 « " each side . Any one mi ght admit that he baa sv > eat £ 10 , 000 in an election , aud u " wu w ywethat li- * as not lawfully spent j bat now

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      p £ V > ° W wag gpent . it was known that it was unlawful , .. n , " . ? T ? ° £ 400 Witt " the utmost lawfal expense lookt / fnfn . thepeoplf aad ° fthelegislature , without ohareefwhS h A ° " ntrie 8 ' * ^ d seen , with sorrow hthf . 1 $ ft ^ VT- latel * made a 8 » in 8 men of the Mlt ^ tZ&SS ^ F '* ' " . I isgs re-pon-lents , to setourselvl , ZJ " '" f" hl 8 C ^ the Pharisee , "Thank God , 2 ^ P ^? ' T * "'* are , " and to hold that things we ? ed te LtrLTo wblchEngllshmen were incapable » Xw cSS ™ ( the , go on to say ) , despicable and loath ^ lT / Rt destructive of the character of those against whom it C proved , and almost destructive of the character of those against whom it was charged , was the only charge- and this greatest of all political offenceB was the receivin B a con . tderation for promoting persons to offices—a charge in which some of out statesmen were involved some time ago When he ( Lord Brougham ) answered that , then camethe point of th « argument , —that a man who receives a bribe may contaminate himself and the government who employed him ; but in what narrow limits

      wa « the injury done confined . But , said his correspondents , look at bribery at elections , and the buying and telling of men ' s consciences , and ask yourselves , as Englishmen , who look down on us , if you can compare the few offauces of the nature alluded to with tho whole'ale buying and selling of consciences by your legislators and depositaries ef power , and that habitually ? The arguments againBt this offence were so exuberant that he ( Lord Brougham ) disdained to enter on them , and he wouM havereeourse to but one of them . The man who bribed to promote the interests of his party would shudd . r and stand aghast , if he was told that he was eucouragtng perjury . . Let every man on a committee , and every candidate at an election and his supporters , no longer ^* . ft ? 2 l !? . u " *» to their souh that they were of the

      only guilty political office of bribery , and not of encouraging perjwy . lie ( Lord Brougham ) said , that in every net of bribery they ran the risk of causing moral perjury , and in many instances tho actual crime was committed . Of the 200 people in Hull , where the ystem of head-money prevailed , every one was exposed to the hazard of having the bribery-oath administered to him , and he went to the hustings knowing that the Oath may fce put , feeling that he has taken a bribe—and Uow many would refuse to take it ! not fi perdint ; not 10 out of the whole 300 . The mode in which the oath was taken was moU shocking ; and he had seen professionally the most rireudful spectacles of this kind . He considered the person who haii been bribed , and was prepared to swear that he had not been , as morally guilty of perjury

      as a burglar or a foot-pad would be of murder , who was resolved to kill anj person who recognised him . It tainted the character . of a man for life , and he was no longer an Innocent man , or incapable of wilful perjury , after hehad expwed himself to the certainty of committing it , if by accident the oath against bribery were tobe administered to him . He agreed with his French cor . respondent , that it not only tainted the purity of our le . ( , 'lslature , but . irreparably injured the morality of the English character , that this offence should be committed wholesale . What he would propose was this—that the maximum amount of expenses should be fixed , supposing at £ 800 or £ 1 ooo- ( al . though the halt of that ought to suffice)—ami that proof of wore than that sum hiving been expended by a candidate , should be deemed conriu .

      sive evidence of bribery . Let them adopt that plan , and they would at once annihilate the practice . The adoption of his resolutions might have a most salutary operation at thia time , Tbe approaching contests bad an aspect somewhat new , because there never wsib an occasion within our memory , when there was so great a dislocation of parties , so little regular discipline , and when what might ba called " the regulars " had so little chartce ; but , alas ! though this was a novelty , the prospect was not the less formidable . For what might beseen , in consequence of the watch-words df'Whlg and Tory , "" Liberal and Conservative , ' no longer being found as in the olden times to divide tho country ! Why , men were to be found coming forward , who were wholly unknown—probably well known , and

      as much trusted as known , in their own private , secluded , and exceedingly select circle , but wholly unknown to their country at large ; that , some might say , signified little—but , wholly unknown to the places for which thty were going to staud . and their addresses showing that they were unknown , and that his own ignorance of them did not " arguehimself unknown , "for they came forward , one andall , with an apology for soliciting suffrages in this predicament . He ( Lord Brougham ) had made Inquiry into about half-a-dozen of these cases , and he found that no human being in tbe places where these m « n were praying for the greatest trust that could be vested in mortal hands—that . of being lawgivers—knew anything about them , save , perhaps , some member of theprofession to which he ( Lord Brougham ) had the honour to

      belong , some attorney ; how long known to him was another question j but thoir intercourse possibly , though short , had been passing sweet— ( a laugh;)—and as the candidate had brought with him a letter of credit , there was no difficulty in quietly getting a resolution come to , — "We , the people "—( a laugh)— "we , the people of Andover "— " we , tho people of Barnstaple , ! ' or , as the caso might be , { ' are of opinion that Mr Sa-and-So is a fit and proper person to represent this place in parliament . " The attorney ran up a . bill , snd the intermediate agent had his commission ; and the representative mig ht be a fit man enough , but when better known , he might not happen to represent the place , havine bad a taste of the

      expense of the honour . It might be as with a worthy gentleman , who said , when returning thanks for being elected , "Gentlemen , I have bought you , but I , will not sell you , "—'• 'hear , hear , " said the electors , «' we hope you will come again . " "Ob , no , " he answered , "I can't come again ; it cost too much for that . " ( A laugh . ) These gentlemen might nominall y represent a borough , but really represented their own purse . Looking upon this election as a contest in which bribery was likely to represent a larger place than before—an election in which so many unknown men were coming forward , men only known ns wealthy—he thought it rigbt now to move formally the firei resolution .

      The Marquis of Lansdowne , although fully concurring with bis noble friend that the subject wbb most important , and that the moment was a fitting one for pointing out the gravity of the offence of bribery and corruption at elections , and the unbounded mischief-that never failed to flow from it > did not think tbe resolutions themselves expedient , because they only recorded an opinion which it was notorious their lordihips already entertained . ( Hear , hear . ) As their lordships' sentiments on the subjects of the resolutions were already well known , and as he doubted not they would willingly adopt any measure that might be sent up to them next session for punUhing such delinquencies and crime , in connection with bribery and corruption at elections , as the existing law was not able to reaoh , he should move the previous question .

      Lord Bbocobah , after what had fallen from tbe noble Marquis , would withdraw his resolutions , hoping , bowever , that whatever measure might be proposed next session would require from each member before being sworn a solemn declaration that no money had been expended , promises made , or gift . bestowed , by him or by any agent or friend of his on his behalf , to his kuowledge , in order to influence the vote of any person at his election . A provision to this effect had been struck out of a former measure . Resolutions withdrawn . laisn Ehiosation to Canada . —Earl Gbet , in answer to a question from Lord Emritkillen , admitted that the emigrants who had lately arrived in Canada from Ireland had endured deplorable Bufferings , but declared that every possible precaution had been taken to alleviate those sufferings , which had arisen solely from tbe distress which had prevailed in Ireland . The house then rose at a quarter to eight o ' clock .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The Speaker took tho chair at S o'clook . ' National Education . — Lord J . Manners wished to ask whether the new clause introduced into the trustdeeds ofthe national schools had the sanction of the government , and whether any applications for aid towards the building of schools wonld be refused unless the persons acting as trustees agreed to these terms of the trust t He also wished to know if the government had announced their intention . to give no preferment to any clergyman belonging to the established church o ( Ireland , unhtss he gave in his adhesion to the 80-called system of national education 1

      Lord J . KDS 8 EU stated , with regard to the first question , that the trust-deeds had been prepared in tbe Bame way as they had been for some years past , and that there had been no dispute or contention on this subject . Be fore the present government came into office , in May of last year , a' new proposition , and new conditions , had been made , in the trust-deeds . In order to prevent these new conditions being carried into effect , which tbe committee of Privy Council thought injurious , they had suggested four different forms of clauses which might be adopted by the trustees . This proposal had been laid before the Archbishop of Canterbury , who agreed in the objeotofthe clauses , but wished the local committoes should be at liberty to adopt them or not as they pleased . They also wished that , in the normal bcbools , the clergy , men should have the superintendence of the moral , as well as the religious , education . Tbe laBt proposal had bees token into consideration by tbe committee of

      council , who agreed to adopt it . But with regard to the clauses proposed as part of the trust-deeds , they had submitted those clauses to bis grace , as being neeessary , in order to the admission of some laymen to the trustee ship of the schools . As the committee of the National Society bad expressed no objection to them , he trusted they would be generally adopted ; Indeed , thej bad been adopted in almost all the schools which hai Bince received the aid of government . With respect to the second question , whether preferment in Ireland was onW to be given to clergymen who adopted the scheme of the national schools , tbero was . B 0 foundation for the rumour . ( Hear , bear . ) Of oourse , every government had » ts ownrnnni for preferring a certain clergyman but « L TZ , gr 6 Und ° »* herencc to the system of national schools tw no part of their scheme \ Uear , near , ) bin " \ y " ° ' - » r » . Obbobnb « ked whether any bill for the regulation of those employed in the trade oi silk-weavlng would be brought in this session ?

      Mr T . M . Gibson said it was not intended to intr » auce any new measure of flat description in the prtsen JMion ,

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      ] — . ' - ¦ - ^ ^ , The Wjsihnotoh Sxaxob . —Lord J . i ossBii aaiiJ- * , In moving the order of the day for the Committee Of Supply I wish to fulfil the promise which I made toth « noble lord opposite ( Lord G . Bentinck ) , to state to-day the intentions of the government with respect to the Wellington military memorial . ( Hear , ) Since the tima ; when I last addressed the house I have had coromunica * tion with Her Majesty on the Bubjeet , and with the illut * trious duke , in honour of whom the memorial has been erected , The substance of tta « noble duke ' s reply , in an . swer to my inquiries , was , that he considered it not » question for himself , but one to be considered entirely oa puWio grounds—( bear , bear , )—that many persons bad ] considered , and that the committee whe proposed to erect the statue had considered , that its removal from

      tboarnh would be regarded as a mark of disapprobation on the part of the crown towords the individual for whose honour it was intended —( hear , hear , )—that , for his owh part , he had had too many proof * of the regard and approbation of tbe crown tu think that such was the ) intention ; but that > ucb , in hij opinion , would have ) been tho general f . eling . He therefore deprecated , upon , public grounds , the removal of the statue . ( Hear . ) This statement had been communicated to Her Majesty ; and I bave the Queen ' s commands to say , that the govern * tnent do not intend to take any further steps towards tbo removal of the statuo . ( Loud cries of " Hear , hear . " ) After a short conversation as to the late intervention of the Treasury in the Greenock Election , Mr Baine witharew a notice on the subject .

      The Neww-bibcovebed Disihfecting Fluid . —Mr he » sal asked if it was the intention of the heads of any department of government to take any steps for testing the efficacy of h fluid rtcently brought into notice in this country ^ a Frenchman , which was said to possess the » « raordinary and valuable property of dmnfecting putrid anima and vegetable matter , and was also applicable to sanitary purposes ? Sir G . Gum said , that on receiving information inT S | ? l !! , | h 8 blUl « P «« ed a desire that its capabilities should be examined ; and with tbatview h 9 had caused information of its properties to be transmitted to the municipal authorities of several large towns , who might naturally be supposed to have the greatest interest In men a discovery . . INCBEASE OP EXPENDITDEE ON THE MlSCEUiNEOnB lTLMs . -0 n the question that the Speaker do leave tha . chair , to go into committee of supply ,

      Mr V . Shith called attention to the arrangement oi the miscellaneous estimates , wl » kh be was anxious ehould have been submitted to a select committee . He wishefl to know whether any alteration would be made in tha next session . In the present session there had been aa increase in all these estimates ; and , with the exception 0 ' last seBBinn , they had gone on increasing for sevi ral years . On public works and buildings there was an in . crease in 1847 , as « ompared with 1838 , of £ 346 , 000 . Thig might perhaps be accounted for by the erection of the new Houses of Parliament , In the salaries of publio officer * , the increase in the same period was upwards Of £ 240 , 000 . Doubtless many new officers had been appointed ; but the business of the country had so out * grown its institutions that an entire remodelling was tie * cessary . On the item of law and justice the increase wat £ 492 , 933 ; there was a proportionate increase in education and otlur items ; making a total increase o £ £ 1 , 328 , 886 Einct 1838 .

      Lord J . Russell said they had not proposed any select committee un the subject this year ,, because at the tima when the estimates were laid on tne table it would have been too late to proceed with the necessary inquiries . AHhe sama time , there was great room for inquiry into the subject , and if early in the session a committee was ) appointed , he had no doubt that it might be possible to have some general principles laid down for the guidance of government , and the house on the subject . ( Hear . ) Mr Hoke considered government pledged to an inquiry into the subject , though tho pressure of busintss thia session had prevented the carrying it into effect . H « hoped , however , that a new parliament—and new besoms swept dean—would search into all these estimates , which had been growing up so fast , and endeavour to provide some remedy , ( Hear , )

      The house went into Committee of Supply , and lord Clements took advantage of a vote of £ 60 . 000 for relief 0 * distress in Ireland to allude to su article in the Morning Chronicle , He had always looked upon the Cnronicbaa a respectable paper , aud believed it was an organ of the government . ( Great laughter from the treasury and ministerial benches . ) Well , he might be mistaken—( hear );—but at any rate he was sorry to see that paper trying to intimidate a member of the house . He had frequently said that the money advanced to Ireland COUlfl not be repaid , and he reiterated the statement on 3 atur « day hst . An hon , member had said that not only the property of Ireland should be sold to repay the money advanced , but he had mid the gentry of Ireland ought to bo sold for a similar purpose . ( Much laughter . ) It might be a matter of amusement to hon . members , as well as editors ; but he would repeat that be thought tha money bad been badly administered , and could not be repaid .

      The house then resumed , and tbe report was ordered to be brought up on Tuesday , ¦ The bo » se then went into committee of ways and means , und several votes having been agreed to , again resumed . Mr Ha WES then moved the second reading of the New Zealand ( No . 2 ) Bill . After briefly reviewing the history of the New Zealand Company , and recapitulating the transactions which had taken place between it and the govetTwnent , tne honourable gentleman adverted to the chief provisions of the bill . A special COmmissiontr was appointed to superintend tbe affairs ofthe company . The treasury was empowered to advance to the company the sum of £ 136 , 000 , in three years , out of the consolidated fundin addition to the

      , £ 100 , 000 already granted and on the security of the lands held b y the company in the eolony . For the repoyment of this advance the com . pany was to be empowered to dispose of all its lands . The company would also be enabled , if it thought fit , to relinquish i's undertaking within three months after the 6 th of April , 1850 ; the sum of £ 268 , 370 15 s . to bepaia to it in that case , in the way of compensation , for its property , being at the rate of 5 s , an acre on each of the 1 , 073 , 483 acres which it possessed in the colony . The security for the proposed advance he believed to bo ample . The advance being proposed for the encouragement of colonisation , was to be made for a national object , and on conditions which he regarded as affording the be&t security for its re-payment .

      Lori 6 . Bentinck did not intend to oppose the bill , but he could not let it pass without observing that its principle was not in accordance with the rule of action which the government bad laid down for itself at the commencement of the session , when it deprecated the idea of her Majesty's ministers becoming great money lenders , especially when tbe loans were to be made to "destitute shareholders . " Yet this was precisely whan tbe government now proposed to do . But this wa » noti the ouly instance in which the government propose J to do that at a lato period of the session , which was in direct contravention to the principles laid down by them atanoarly part of it . A discussion ensued , in which Sir B . Inglis , Mr T . Smith , Mr C . Buller , Mr Hume , Mr Williams , Sir Jamea Graham , Lord Ingestrie , Mr Aglionb y and Mr DUraeli , took part . The last . Bamed member observed , thafl though gentlemon opposite might be satisfied with thai

      arrangement that was made , it was , in his opinion , equally important that their constituents out of doors should equally understand the question . To whom waff this grant to be made % They had heard at the commencement 0 / the session of grants proposed to " deeti « tute shareholders . " Was this , he should like to know , a grant to " destitute shareholders V ( Hear , bear . ) Who wore these " destitute shareholders V Here was . a joint-stock company in distress . They wasted upwards of £ 600 , 000 . They added the common story of the insolvent court— "that it was not from their own fault " , ( Laughter ) . lie remembered when this company issueS a report-1 , 068 pages thick-charging their loss not upon their own bad management , but on the infamous con ™ duct of the Colomal-office . But when the question ww d , scus . ed what was the result ? Much they talked o « their m . sfDrtune « , but not one charge against the C 0 J 0 , aial Secretary was substantiated ! They retiredin ignominous defeat ! To-day they talked of - not deslrine to say one word which could be construed into a personal reflection" This ill-used company , Thisunfo Sto company ! How were they ill . used ? What were their miBfortunes ? They appeared to have had pretty pick ! ings out of the public purse , already . They were now offered more ofthe public money at 3 J per cent whilst every one was paying 5 . He had heard much of insults to Ireland , but the greatest insult ever offered was this ofthe Chancellor of the Exchequer getting up and de daring that the security of Ireland was inferiw to the oecwity of Mew Zealond . It . was only the other niX that they were told b , the hon . member for DoSSlI that they had to consider whether they should BSn an emptre hke pedants , or administer its resounS hke statesmen . But whilst so apt with his mn , h ., f right hon . gent . eman * W ^ SS £% * £ * condemnation , ^ giving another proo ofZvii ,, f protectionist principles . e value ° *

      The bill was then read a second time The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill " after iftm « * bate , was committed , when the jw 1 , 80 me do * ing the Court of R « vi « clau 8 e f <* abolii * - § irHSSS ?« ^^ SS ^ Sff ^^^^ HOUSE OF I ^^ L'SSJSL and Pmiitu-San ?' ., r ? " , '• , ^ lD 8 ° Pp 0 Be y I * rd . Bro . u h Pm , uenman , and Campbell , as calculated rather to « . ocou . rage than to suppress the evils it proposed to remedy , was withdrawn by tho Bishop of Norwich , who , in so doing , expressed his hope that tbe time would shortly arrive when an unobjectionable measure in reference to tbe subject would receive the sanction of the . l « i » laturo .

      Karl Gbii moved the Militia Ballot Suipemion Bill and ' The EerlofEiMHDOBonoH . in a speech of consider , able length , called the atteution of the house to the impolicy of continuing to suspend the ballot for the militia at a time when England was so far behind all her neighbours in her preparations fer defence . EarlflBET , in reply , denied that England was unpreparud forwar ; on tho contrary , the was belter prepared at the present moment than over , and ttiU t ' urthe * measure * would bs adopted ualculated to place tiie

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      TIIE LEEDS ELECTION . TO WILLIAM B 1 DSB . Sib , —On looking over the Star of July 10 th , I find you bare been attempting to n > aintain the opinion that you held respecting Joseph Sturge , and the Chartists of Leeds are to be looked upon as " gulls " if they give any support to Joseph Sturge . With respect to my letter which appeared in the Star of July 3 rd , you commence with an assertion , that it was no reply to what yon advanced . Now , sir , cunning men are tery often guilty of shirking justice by similar assertions . You ought to have let the Chartists of Leeds been the judges . You say I allude to yonr motives . Now , sir , I did no suoh

      gullhig the people with unmeaning jargon about "full , free , and fair representation "—about the " bill and nothing but the bill . ! " Now , sir , I am willing to t idmit th at there is no defined meaning in the above words , and that the people have many times been deco ded by such dap-trap schemes ; but Joseph Sturgt" told the electors of Leeds , ia unmiatakeible language how far he would extend the franchise , namely , Uf 2 & mate adults » nnconyicted by a jury of his country , C ni « f sane mind . But you say your reporter of the 1 : 2 * of June represents Joseph bturge to have said he was not favourable to the Ballot . You say , " Perhaps Joseph Sturge can harp on two Itis ' an old slying , V ^* 2 ™ WS ^ flLS ^ Charfriends

      thing ; and I hope the Chartists of Leeds will take the trouble of looking over my letter of July 3 rd , and judge for themselves . But you say you deem it rn act of consummate folly on the part of the Charriste of Leeds to sacrifice their energies on an almost defunct faction . Now , sir , I do not know that the Chartists of Leeds are supporting an ; faction ; I believe the ; are honestly supporting Joseph Sturge . Bat you say we are quite strong enough to fight our own battles . I ask . can the Chartists of Leeds return two sincere Chartists ? No ; but by attempting to do so , two Tories might be returned , and that ft-euld please some people . You allude to the tumult at the Black Bull , Woodhouse .. What had Joseph to a 0 with that ? But yon recollect the Baines' clique

      ^" wsTbutT ^ Kh . you my ^ at Leeds to look over thV « port of the LadsTxmu of June 5 th , which contain » SnWLZse ^ and I believe a correct one , > M ? nd I « aspwsent at the meeting alluded to ) «^*» ther ! ST ' page 8 , vol . ivf :- " Mr Sturge said , regarding the Ballot which was one of the S * ^ " if- but People ' s Charter , he had Biw" M «^ PP «* . J > rt . but at tne same time he had W . ^ KJtCoSS working men not to ao » pt the ballot OnW they couia get the franchise rendered universal . Di \ W * pared to go for Vote by BaUot ; but he &oou 4 « g ™" to see the day when every independent Bflg ^ nraw could come openly and boldly to the poll . " v x « £ "" , perhaps think that I am friendly to the Kim * , in" * am « ot ; and I can conscientieualy state that 1 flevi » in my life contributed ene farthing to any paper out the star . You sav that the editor of the Northern

      Star and yon may differ , or you may aereo about J . Sturge as a politician . Now , sir , I did not ask you that question ; but I asked you if you had forgot the noble stand that Joseph made at Birmingham , and for doing which he was lauded to the skies by the editor of the Star . Yours , truly , William Stsks , a sincere Chartist . Britain ' s Fold , Holbeck .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 17, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1427/page/7/