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      " THE REVOLUTION IN NAPLES AND SICILY . The full details of the events which , preceded and led to the grand result of the 29 . h ult ., which was communicated to the French government bv telegrapb , ha ? 6 at length arrived . A large collection of documents and papera are before us , including the fi les of a journal got up at Palermo on the spur of the moment , and printed and circulated amidst the { irono ' era of a tamtardment , and TfMle a storm of grape swept the principal thoroughfares of the city . Thisjournal entitled l £ CiTiADixo , may beconsidered S 3 the MosirsuBof the provisional government of Sicily .

      Oh the 31 st , it became apparent to the cora-Diander 3 of the royal force 3 , that with an entire population against them , the means at their disposal were inadequate to the reduction of the city . Negotiations were therefore attempted . General de Saaget , therefore , sent a Sicilian captain to the junta on the 22 nd , -with the following propositions : 1 . For a suspension of hostilities . —2 . For the supply of provisions to the prisons where criminals were confined , and which were still under the guard of the rovai troop ' s . —3 . To send a deputation of the junta to ' Naples , to lay before the King the demands of tie people , 4 . To publish a decree of general amnesty ; which decree was sent to the junta . These propositions , excepting the second , were rejected with the utmost disdain . The decree of amnesty which wa 3 seat , when delivered by the junta to the people , was publicly

      bnrned-On the 22 nd an obstinate conflict took place at the Treasury between the troops and the people , and a still more bloody one at the convent of Nnvizziate , which wa 3 occupied by the troops . These positions frere finally carried by the insurgents on that evening , and a great number of the military taken prisoners . The soldiers thus captured were treated with the greatest bamanitv , and afterwards employed by the insurgents to " point their guns . The Bank and the Palazzo Reale also fell into the poser of the insurgents . The Duke de Majo , who commanded one division Of the royal troops , fled for safety and gained the quarters " of General de Sanget . General Vial escaped on board a veree ! in the harbonr and went to Kaplea . _ . ....

      At Naples the new 3 from Palermo , which trans pired in spite of all the efforts of the police to intercept it , and the spectacle of steamer after steamer disembarking an the quay the wounded soldiera , produced a aost profound impression . The decrees granting reforms similar to those of Rome and Piedsnent , published on the 24 th ult ., were attended with no effect . The people showed an aspect of si ! enfc sad csld decision , and it became speedily evident tiat danger to the monarchy was imminent . Ciubs were organised in defiance of the police . Meanwhile the government was paralysed , and the King at the eleventh hour , bscame conscious of the peril into ¦ which his obstinacy had brought his dynasty- That ceri ! esterted from him aa order for the emulsion

      of the two individuals to whom hitherto he bad been most closely attached , and who , being known to ba the most ardent advisers of his despotic policy , were most odious ti the peeple . His confessor , M . Coele , ¦ was sent from Naples to a convent in the principality of Beneventum ; and Del Carretto , the atrocious minister of police , was conducted noder an escort on board the steamer Neptune—previously prepared for the purpose—and sent to Genoa . In the afternoon of the 28 th ult . the people , to the anmbst of upwards of 30 . 000 collected in the Via Toledo , the great main street of Naples . Shouts in favour of 3 constitution were everywhere heard to resound . SleaB ^ hile the numbers augmented , and all the

      streets leadinginto the Via Toledo presented dense Basses . The authorities now proceeded to execute the general orders given to them for case 3 of sericna emcutcs . The red flag was hoisted on the Castle of St E ' . mo and the Castell deU'TJoro . On this signal the drams beat and the troops of tho garrison were called out . They surrounded the palace and attempted -to clear the Via Toledo . Thst street , closely packed with a mass of 30 , 000 people , was Impenetrable . Cries for a constitution , meanwhile , were everywhere heard . Every wiBdow was filled ¦ with Indies , waving hankerchiefs , and wearing ribbons of the Italian tri-colour . The cavalry attempted one charge , in which they were immediately thrown from their horses .

      Such was the state of thing 3 on the evening of the 26 th . The King still hesitated , reluctant to give Tip the last hope of suppressing the revolt by the armed farce . He was however brought to a sense of his sitoation by the reports of the commanders of the troops themselves . The minis-. ers resigned , 2 nd the King called on the Duke de Serra Capriote , late ambassador at Paris , and a well-known libers ' , giving him unlimited power to act as he might think fit- A liberal cabinet wa 3 immediately formed , The result of their first cahin&t council was to sender their advice ta the King to proclaim at once a constitution for the kingdom of the Two Sicilies , to be

      founded on the tame principles as the Jiench charter of 1 S 30 , including two chamber ? , the royal in-Tlolability , the responsibility of ministers , the li-Erarty of the press , and the national guard . Religions f iteration alone is Trithkeld . No religion save the Hcman Catholic is to be permitted . News from Naples to the 31 st , states that the national guard hai been already brought into action , although armed only with fowling pieces and such weapaEs u could be improvised , in which cudcels wera included . The lazzaroni are turbulent . The liberal party , who Iat « ly had the government to contend against , had now , it seem 3 , the most ignorant and lowest class to coerce .

      The King was Tery popubr . On the 30 th he drove through the streets of Naples in an open carriage , accompanied by the Queen , and unattended by sny escort . "When on the 29 th the decree granting the constitution was posted np it is impossible to describe the scene that ensued . All business was suspended , and anxious groups surrounded every ' affiche / some one geeerally reading aloud for the benefit of all . The long and imposing Strada Toledo was soen filled with pedestrians , and about eleven o ' clock by reticles of all descriptions . Every sohI seemed ib a moment to have obtained a tri-coloarei coekado of white , green , asd red , and a hundred tri-coloured and the

      flass waved from the vehicles , the houses , crowd . I noticed among the latter Lord Napier , the British minister , with a tri-coloured cockade in his hat , and attended by his two secretaries . Among the inscriptions on the flags I noticed ' Viva Italian Independence / ' VivaawakenineItaly , ' ' Viva Italy independent / « Vivn Italia again arising . ' Patrols of the national guard only were to be seen , some without nniforms , and anaed with fowling-pieces . They were received continually with crie 3 of 'Viva la gaardia nazionale ; ' and I alsp heaid , ' Viva 1 Ing-Miterra . ' I noticed a certaia number of priests wearing cockades , and taking an active part , sheuting vociferonsly , one carrying a tri-celoured flag , but they were far fewer ib number than at Genoa . to be

      The last accounts from Palermo ( understood n ? tothe 29 thult . ) received in Naples , announced that a suspension of arms had been concluded between the insurgents and the troops , and that tne latter had retired to some distance from the city . An order for their immediate return to Naple 3 has been forwarded ts tbe Dake de Majo . An insurrectionary movement had also broken out at Messina , but no collision had taken place between the people and the garrison , which fcad retired into the forts and the citadel . Meanwhile trocp 3 are poured in , in censiderable numbers , by all the road 3 leading from Austria towards Central Italy ; and steamers are employed to transport them » cress the Adriatic , to various points oa the Italian coast . The rigour of the Austrian police at Milan is very great . The arrests increase in number , and several respectable citizens have been sent to Spielberg .

      The number of persons wounded m the massacre cf the 2 nd and 3 rd ult . proves to be 216 , and every day is marked bj the death of some among them . Thay have chiefly fallen under bayonet wounds . The insurrection in Sicily has caused an immense . sensation throughout Italy , mere especially at Genoa , where it gave rise to c , popular demonstration . A 2 c Deum was chaunted in the cathedral , and the ¦ words' God for tie victory of the people * were placed in large letters on the door . Great excitement prevailed in Piedmont , produced on the one hand by reports of aggressive military de . monstrations on the part of Austria in Lombardy , and on the other by the news of the proclamation of the ceastitHtion of Naples . Various regiments wers ordered to proceed from Tarin and Genoa to Alessandria by forced marches- will

      Rome , Jan . 25 th . —The news frem Palermo loBg since have reached you , but you can have no idea of the joj and exdtcmentthereanent here . People go onfc for miles to njeet the courier on the T 7 t * Appia , and extraordinary supplements are issued hourly by the newspapers . The grand feature of this outbreak is tie possession of artillery on tbe side of the patriots , over forty or fifty pieces of ordnance baviEg been secured by their leaders , and they made prisoners in the onset of over one hundred artillerysen , whom they have got to work their guns ; The Importance of this accessory in warfare is fully felt by the Romans , who hailed the other day with de . Eight the present gent them by the ladies of Genoa , a iffiall cadeau of two 12-poaader 3 in brass . At tbe re-7 iew of seven battalions of our civic guard on the iroad square of St John Lateran yesterday , with he erj &f' Long live the Pops ! ' snddedly arose / and a as re-echoed to the skies , the shout of * LeDg live he men of Palermo . '

      The students of the University assisted at asolemn ligh mass in their collegiate cbaoel for their brehren akin at the university town " of Pavia . They iad crape and eypres 3 branches . Some of the Towded assembly , observing the presence of Father jravazzi , acelebratedpreacher , surronr . dedhim , and larrying him on their shoulders up into the palpit , > rderedhin » to preach , a funeral senr . on forthe fallen . kVkereapon the orator broke forth , ' into ji East splen-

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      did improvisation , and stirred up the souls of his young auditory to a pitch of devotional as well as patriotic fervour . FRANCE . On Thursday a body of students assembled in the Place de PanthSon , and proceeded towards the Chamber of Deputies , with the intention of depositing a petition against the suspension of the lectures of M . Michelot . The column increased as it went till it amounted to about 2 OflO persons . On reaching the Quai d'Orsay they were met by Commisseries of police at a short distance from the Pont de la Concorde , who enjoined them to atop and disperse . After an exchange of a few words with M Cremieux , the Deputy , who came out to them , and received the petition , which he promised to present to the Chamber , the students went to the offices of the National and Refobhb , the Courrier Francais , and the DsuccRATis Pacifi ^ ue , whence they returned to the Place de Pantheon , and then separated . At each of the offices above named one of the students i delivered the following address , which wa 3 replied to with assurance of co-operation : —

      ' We have just carried to the Chamber of Deputies a petition demanding justice in tho name of freedom of discnsiion , always promised , always violated . The only voice which awakened in us sentiments of unity and patriotism—that voice which consoled us for the forced silence of M . Maekiewiez and M . Quiaet , has been stifled . We have exhausted all legal means to obtain a hearing , and nothing ; i 3 left for us but to protest . Will youthen . Mr Editor , bo our organ of appeal to public opinion ? Affirm for us in that wa have * preserved intact | the traditions of the schools of 1 SSO . and all the other great epochs , and being handed down to us from generation to genera * tion , that the ? ara still alive in the bottom of our heart ? . ' Thefollowing instance of the liberty allowed to foreigners resident in France is given by the CoKsnxn , tiomnel : —

      ' A yenn ? Prussian refugee at Paris , M . Engels , author of a work on the pauperism of Endand , has received au order to leave Paris , it is not known why in twenty-four hours , and France in three days , un . der s threat of being handed over by the gendarmerie to the Prussian police . ' The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the affairs of Switzerland was brought to a close on Thursday evening . The speech of M . Thiers caused a great sensation . The paragraph annually appended by the Chamber ofSeputies to its Address , in which 'France reminds Europe of the rights of Polish nationality , was the subject of discussion on Friday . The ministers were interrogated respecting the suppression of the Czsrtoriski dinner , and the expulsion of

      M . Bakounine . M . ( Juizot said , that tbe dinner to Czartoriski was stopped pur 3 lyfrom the great interest the government felt in the Polish cause . The government knew that the opinions of some of those who were to be present went further than those of others , and therefore it stopped it . With' regard to the expulsion of M . Bakounine , he merely stated that the person in question was not a Polish refugee , but a Russian , who had voluntarily taken up his residence in Paris , ; and whom the government had serum' reasons , for not allowing to remain any loager . M . Bakounine ' s offence was , that he had spokea disrespectfully of the head of a friendly government . He had in short treated the Emperor of RuBsia as an oppressor , an assassin , and an executioner , and that he was expelled at the request of the Russian government .

      On Monday and Taesday the Chamber was oecnpitd with the paragraph on the Reform banquets . The ministers werelfiercely denounced by several speakers . The debate on the Banquets was resumed on Wednesday . The speech ot M . Odillon Barrotconsidered one of the best he ever pronounceddelivered the preceeding day—had created a considerable sensation in Paris , particularly that part of it in which he expressed bis sorrow that a government originating in a revolution should resort to measures of repression , which the government overturned

      by that revolution bad never attempted . M . Boissel , Major of the 12 rh Municipal District of Paris , who had accepted tbe presidency of a banquet , which was prevented by the government , protested against that measure , and declared its subscribers were all municipal officers , respectablemerchants , and National Guard 3 , who could inspire the authorities with _ no apprehension . M . Hebert , the Minister of Justice , who followed , said , that those banquets had been evidently gotten np for the purpose of preparing some revolutionary movement . Tho government , in accord with the committee on the Address , had accordingly thought proper to condemn them .

      SWITZERLAND . . The Diet have adopted , by a majority of seventeen votes and a half , a decree by which its decision on the 3 rd of September last , concerning the expulsion ef the Jesuits , is confirmed in those terms which are adapted to pre > ep . t circumstances , as well as to the expulsion since effected by the four caatons in which thev had fixed their residence .

      DENMARK . On the 28 ! h ult ., the new King of Denmark , accomplishing the promise which he had given in the letter pateBt published on the 20 tb , signed an ordonnance , bv which be grants a constitution to his States . ' There are to be established CommonB States for the Kinfidom of Denmark and the duchies of Sleswiek and Holstein ; these Stateu are to assemble at fixed periods alternately in the Kingdom of Denmark and in the duchies . The new constitution consecrates the principle of voting the taxes by the S rates , and of their participation in the legislative power .

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      L 0 e 3 CF THE BRITISH SOVKEJIGH WHALING SHIP , aw > Mcdeb 9 F THE Crew . —Letters were received at Lloyd ' s on Saturday , 'dated Sydney , August 17- communicating the total loss of the barque British Sovereign , a whaling ship . Captain IV . H . Jones , master , on the eastern side of the Sandwich Islands , and the reported horrible massacre by the natives of nearly the whole of the ship ' s crew . The vessel left Sydney on the 8 th day of January last , for New Zealand , and thesce to tbe South Sea Islands . In the coarse of the passage she called at the island of Thanna , where she shipped about twenty of the natives , to assist in procuring sandal wood . The captain then determined to makefor Sandwich , first sending back the natives to Thanna ^ in the ship ' s

      boat , in charge of the chief mate , and several of the men . TheBhip left ErromaDga on the evening of the 23 rd of April , and at day-break the next morning , the 24 th , she was found to be close in upon the eastern coast of Sandwich . She was immediately hauled on a wind , and two boats were lowered for theparpose of keeping her off the land , but being within the influence of the ground swell the boats ha < l no effect upon her , and she soon struck on a rock , within a cable ' s length of the shore . She then fell on her broadside , and though her masts were cnt , ' and every means adopted to save the vessel , she in a few hours broke up and became a total wreck . For three days the crew remained near the wreck , in the hope of saving some of the stores , the

      natives behaving in the kindest manner . The captain and the crew , it should be observed , were rescued from the rock by the natives , who threw ropes to them frem the shore . They wished them to remain , bat it was considered expedient by the captain to make to the leeward harbour , to which vessels resort in visiting the island . After abont four days ' travelling they eame to a bay on the south aide of the island , where the natives appeared on the same friendly terms . They gave them sugar-canes and cocoa-nuts fo cat , and the chief to whom they were introduced took great liking to a child , a fine little boy , who was along with the captain . Amidst this apparent good feeling a tumult broke out among the natives , who fell npon the unfortunate crew , who

      were off their guard , and most of them were brutally slaughtered . The captain endeavoured to escape aad retreated into the water . They were , however , too < : lose upon him , and his skull was broken in . The man Weirand three others succeeded in getting dear by springing forward into tbe sea , and swimming to a canoe , with which they reached an adjacent island . The natives pursued them , and Weir ' s companions were overtaken , but their fates were unknown ; Weir contriving , to conceal himself in tbe bush , where he remained for several days . Fortunately , the first day he ventured out to the beach , the Isabella Anna hova in Bight , when he swam off , and was picked up . The numoer supposed to have been massacred is twenty-nine ,

      Ths National Defkkces . —On Monday evening , a public meeting , to record an expression of opinion with regard to the - ' . 'noosed probability of anginvasion , was held at the Lecture Hall , Greenwich . Mr Wade presided ; and having madesome introductory observations , Mr D . Payne moved the first resolution : — That thia meeting , believing the syitem and practice of war to be utterly at variance with the spirit and principle of Christianity and ths true interests of maBkind , deeply regrets the attempts which hare been made , and are still making , to excite in the public mind a belief that war and inva » ion are imminent , an 4 to ground upon this pretest an addition to the naval and military e » tablishmtnts of the country . The Rev . Mr Bubneii seconded the resolution . Tea resolation wa 3 carried unanimously , and was followed by a second , which was supported by the Rev . H- Richard and other gentlemen ; It was to

      That this meeting desires to record its deliberate con . viction that tie apprehension of war and invasion is uafppndea , snd that an increased the existing naval and military forces ef tbe empire , whether by the enlargement of toe standing army , the enrolment of the militia , or the establishment of additional fortresses , or by any means whatever , is not oaly uncalled for and unneces-Bary , but must inevitably tend to destroy rather than preserve pu » ce , to lower the tone of public morality , to impede the efforts making for the instruction and improvement of the people , to retard the great moral reforms now in progress , to burden more heaiily the present generatione or their posterity , and to aggravate the commercial difficulties of the nation ,

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      Monday , Febroaby 7 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —DirLOMiiic Relations with the Couet of Rome . —The MarquiB of LansdowHE begged to lay on the table of the house a bill for tbe purpose of enalfling her Majesty to estaWiaH diplomatic relatiens with the Court of Rome . He proposed that it be read a second time on Friday next , until which time he should best consult the wishes of their lordships by abstaining from entering into any particulars respecting tbe measure .

      Lord ST 4 HLEI would offer no opposition to the bringing in of tha bill , tut he would not bind himself totho course he should adopt on the second reading . It might bs desirable that diplomatic relations should exist between the sorerelgn of thia country and the Court of Rome , as temporal princes , but it must be subject to such restrictions as might be necessary for satisfying the scruples of the people of this country . He thoug ht , however , that it was precipitate to read a measure of so much importance a second time for the purpose of discussion OB so early a day unless there was some urgent necessity for it which he could Hot discover ; and he trusted the noble marquis would give to tbe house and the country time to consider " tha measure .

      The Marquis of Lansdowne had no desire to use an undue precipitation in urging forward the measure . It could not , however , come with surprise either upon their lordships or the country , inasmuch as many noble lords had adverted to the subject at different times , and before tbe recess he had stated a verj decided opinion upon it himself . When the lords had seen the bill , if it was then considered expedient he would flame a later day for t ^ e second reading .. The Duke of Richmond thought a bill of so much im . portance ought to be well considered . Tbe country would not be prepared for it ; and ho was surprised that it had not been intreduoed into tbe Queen ' s speech . A great portion of the people of England would thiDk that such a measure violated their religious feelings .

      Earl Fitzwiliiah had no djubt that come persons would think their religious feelings violated by such a measure ; but he was confident that tbe great mass nf the people would not even feel their religious prejudices offended by the introduction of a measure by which her Majesty was enabled to remova a doubt whether her ministers would not be liable to persecution and penalties if they entered into diplomatic relations with the Pope as a temporal prince . The Earl of Egmng ton was surprised at the baste with with which it was proposed to discuss ths merits of such a measure . It "as impossible that the people of Scotland rtsvUi have been able to read it before the discussion on it would be taken .

      Wsst Ihdu Colonies , —Lord Stanley , in presenting several petitions from the West Indies , complaining of the act of 1846 , and praying for relief , said it would . bo convenient , considering the interest ivliich the subject excited throughout the country , to state generally the views entertained by tbe petitioners of the state of the West India colonies , and the remedies which they suggested ; as also hovr far be was disposed to concur in their propositions . Although there were ( Afferent recommendations in the petitions , yet is thtir main allegations they all concurred . They all alleged that the sugar-planting interest was in a most depressed and alarming etate , which had been produced by the passing of the act of the session before the last , ( Hear . ) His lordship read documents to shotv the

      pecuniary distress - of the West India proprietors , and stated tbat he had been assured by one of those proprietors , that at this moment , neither in Jamaica , Demerara , nor Trinidad—our three great sugar-producing colonies—was it possible to raise £ 1 , 000 upon the security of any single properly in any of thoae islanJs . The Emancipation AeVhe observed , had been intended to be accompaaied by other measures , and nothing could be more usfounded than to say that by the pay . men t of the twenty millions the claims of the West In . dlan proprietors were extinguished , and that the question was closed . A modifiedslavery—the apprenticeship system—was an essential portion of the scheme of emancipation , and a great part of the object of the measure would have been frustrated if it canned a

      diminution of the pKdueiUm of sugar . Tha nobl * tard then showed the amount and cost of pr a due tion in the three periods , prior to emancipation , during the apprenticeship system , and since the introduction of absolutefree labour ; and be deduced from there data the conclusion tbat from an early period of our legielnthn upjn the aubj ° et of labour , in 1833 , practical difficulties and peculiar obstructions had been thrown in the way of tbe sugar planters in the Wtst Indie ? , for which they had a claim upon tbe consideration of Parliamont . His lordship then pointed out tbe injustice and inconsistency of our legislation in relation to the West India colonies , inasmuch as it had exposed their free labour to a competition with slava labour , whilst the discriminating duty was reduced from 123 , to 7 s ., which ope .

      rated as s be ' unty upon slavery ; and whilst we were wastiDg life aad treasure upon the pestiferous coast of Africa for an object confessed to be hopeless , we were paying mi'lions to the slaveholders of Cuba . His lordskip traced the enormous losses sustained last year upon sugar to the act of 13 id ; and noticed tbe remarkable fact that whilst there was a fall of 10 a ., lls ., and 13 a , per cwt . upon West India , Mauritius , and East India sugars , upon Cuba sugar there bad been not only no fall ai all , but an actual rise of 2 s . per cwt . His lordship vindicated tbe claim put forth by West Indian colonieB for a repeal of the Navigation Laws , on the ground that if their interests were to succumb fo tho doctrine of free trade , tbe interests of our seamen , as well as of our distillers and brewers , must in like manner give way : tbe Rubicon passed , everythingmust

      yield to the doctrine . Upon the subject of free labour , hi » lordskip' entertained some doubt ¦ whether a supply of free labour could be obtained from the coast of Africa sufficient to produce a material reduction of tbe price of labour in the West , whilst he very much feared that it might revive the slave-trade , or at least stimulate intestine wars in Africa , not for tbe purpose of making slaves , but to supply tbe dem . md for emigrants . Upon the whole , his opinion was , that , do what we woul 3 , it waB impossible tbat , in the present ttate of the West Indies and of our colonies in every part of the world , we could compete on equal terms with tbe slave colonies of other nations , and that tbe depression and distress of our sugar-growers could only be remedied by returning to the system of differential dutieB which exiBted in 1846 .

      Ea&l Gbet did not deny that much distress prevailed in our West India colonieB , but he dissented' from Lord Stanley ' s opinion that it bad beeu caused by our legislation in 1846 . Whilst the distress of these colonies was in some degree occasioned by circumstances special to tbe West Indies , yet in part also it had been greatly aggravated by tbe peculiar circumstances of the present time , which had affected all branches of trade . For several months after tho passing of tbe bill of 1 S 4 G tbe sugar market wai not in a worse atate tban before ; the great fall of priceg had been tbe result of the general paralysis of commerce , nnd their distress was traced by the Weat Indians themselves to a period long antece lent to 1816 . The real cause of tbe distress of tbe West India colonies was to be found in tbe mistake committed

      in 1833 ; the defective character- of the Emancipation Act was the true and original cause of the whole distress . That defect consisted in the abstnee of proper provisions for giving tbe emancipated negroes an adequate motive for labour , the Legislature having bem content to adjourn the diSculty for a few years by continuing a modified tlavery , as it had bern termed by tho noble lord . One great source of tbe difficulties of the planter was tbe existence in this country of that system of protection for his produce so much cherished by him , which amongst other evils , tended directly to limit the amount of labour available to tbe plauter . Tho higher the prices the planter obtained , tbe higher wages bis spirit of competition tempted him to offer , and the more the negro got for bit labour , the less time be found it

      necessary to work ; so tbat ( as appeared from documentary evidence ) the higher tbe wages given to tha labourers in tbe West Indies , tbe less was the amount of labour they performed . Was it just tbat the hard-working classes in England should pay £ 3 , 500 , 000 a year t 9 keep np wages in Demorara ? With regard to emigration from Africa , his opinion very much coincided with that of Lord Stanley ; but although he was aware that such a system of emigration was open to abuse , every precaution would be adopted to counteract it , and to make the returning Kroomen a means not only of reconciling their contrymen to tlie journey , but of improving tbo social habits of the Africana . The noble earl explained

      to their lordships the measures meditated by tbe government , acknowledging , at the same time , that he was not sanguine in believing that these measures would have any material tffeet in putting an end to colonial distress . But what had been proposed by Lord Stanley when at tbe head of the colonial department ? Tbe oaly measure he had adopted wSs that of 1844 which broke in npon the principle of protection against slavegrown sugar , Tbe noble lord's justification wbb tbat ef tha present government : slave labour , notwituJtaniJing tbe revival of an antiquated and obselete theory , was really dearer than free labour ; a moral wrong never could in the end be profitable . The noble earl showed that at this moment free labour in the West Indie 3 was

      cheaper than slave labour bad been prior to emancipation . But the syitem of cultivating and of manufacturing sugar in the West Indies by the intervention of agents ( the proprietors retiding in Englnnd ) must be abandened ; and where estates had been cnltivated by resident proprietors , they had been profitable . He believed th&t capital , if judiciously and skilfully applied , could not be invested anywhere with more advantage tban in Jamaica . The Bisbop of 0 xF 0 ED ,. in presenting a petition to tbe same effect from tbe conncil and assembly of Barbadees ,

      urged that the people of England could not possibly ihare in the profitB of Cuba nugar without incurring some share of the Cuba guilt , by which tbat . eugasf was produced ; aelther could they pariicipate in the guilt without incurring tbe chastisement which awaited it . If the principles of the government raeasvre were successful the abolition struggle would become a disgrace instead of an honour to this country , and the measures taken for the suppression of tbe » lave trade , while they would add to its l \ orrors , would be neither more nor less tban bb ras-altins and degrading hypocrisy .

      Lord ABH-BUfiTOH considered tbat unless protection werecontrauedtothe West India eolouies , as against slave larjOur , they would be consigned to utter and irreparab ) eruin . T ^ aeir lordftbips adjourned at tea o clocti

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . -Varlous . lection potltlons on the subject of irregularities 08 to the taking of rocognuanoea before the Exammer , were referred to the Cheltenham committoe , in which case the questioa was hrjt raiaod . . The presentation of petitions for and against tho Jewish JMsabUmeB B , U , tho former largely preponderating , oconpioa tha houoe for a couple ef hours . S On the motion for the swond resting of tho bill , Mr Sjtaffoed moved as an amoHdmtnt that it be rand a second time tbat day six months , Th » last of three great questions respecting religion mast now be answered Dj the home in tho affirmative or nosativo . The first v / at 'Should we persecuteV by which he understood Should we fine , imprison , and oxncute 5 ' That hud

      already been answored in the nogative . The nost was having ceased to p » Mecute , having , given to all sects toloranco and connirance , should wo consent to allow them to exerelsa the administration of the laws , which we had ourselves pasied ? That had been answered In th « affirmative , and , as ho thought , wis < Jy . The last question which the house had then to answer was , should \»» admit them to legislate for us and assist us in ths enactment of laws for the protection of Christianity ! It was no answer to those who creeled to sueh admission , toB » y that we first struggled for a Catholic , and then for » Protestant , and tbat wo were now struggling for a Christian Parliament ; for tha two first struggles wer » of

      only struggles degree , but the last struggle la astrugulo of kind . He called upon the house , whun it had removed what was new called ' tha Jjtst remsant of persecution , ' and wuen it had passed tbis bill and had admitted the J'iws info Pariiamonr , to determino what it would do with it < s ordinary forms . Its ordinary forms required that those who wished to secure their seats should write their names on printed corcla which bofl only tffO word * printed os them , ' At pmjera . ' A Wunk was lift for the name of the member . Now , could the namo Ltenel de Rothschild ever fill up that blank ? If it could , then the sooner such an absurdity was removed the better ; out if it could not , would not Lion * l de Rothschild hnvo a right to say , ' You told me , when I was eUctsd a member of

      Parliament , that religion had nothing to do with politics ; why , then , do you call upon mo to assist in the worship of one whom I deem an imposter ? Again , it bad been oaid ; hat we placed tha Jewish decalogueorer ournltara , and thsrofore we might safely admit tbe Jews into the legislature . But that observation led him to another ; wo bad changed the day of tbe Sabbath , and had compelled the Jew to shut his shop for traffic both on his Sabb . ith ami on our own . Now , it appeared to him to be a greater hardship , to compel the Jews to close their shops for fifty-two daye in tin year tban to exclude them from parliament . How , then , , could it be justly urged that this bill would remove ? the last remnant of persecution , ' when you would still compel the Jaws to close thtir shops for traffic for two months in tbe year , and tbat , too , in honour of one whom they declared to be an impostor ? The question , then , came to

      this' Was the house prepared to give up Sunday V II » then adverted , fcut , as he said , with deep pain , to another question which had been ankeA in the cnurse of this debate . It had been askod what was the great difference betwseu tha Christian and the Jew ? Hi » answer was this—A Jewiih peasant had changed the reli-ion of ths world . WhOB be was brought before the tribunals ot his country , his countrymen exclaimed that they w uld not have him as kin £ to reign over them . Since that tim » a cry had gone up to Heaven from country , after coun » ry , We will have this man to roiijn over us . We accept tho immenso array of yrophecy as tha proof of his glorious godhead . Strong in liis ruin we will live , and strong in bis faith wo hope to dlj . ' Ther » was therefore a difference immutable and eternal between thoso who look * d on the cross of Christ as the punUhment of a malefactor , and those who look « d upon it as the best hope of happiness bore , and the only hope of happiness hereafter .

      Lord BmGHiiET seconded tbe amendment , because it appeared to him that thia bill enacted that , if a man had money enough and influence enough to become a member of Parliament , it was no matter whether ho w&a a Christian or not . If it wore pasat d , every form of the constitution which gave us assurance of Christianity , must be abolished . jir W . P . Wood supported tbe bill on religious fat moro tban on political grounds ; / or be considered it pbeential that we should forthwith abolish those Iaw 3 which attached disgrace to the legislature of England , and rtflected it upon the church of England , which he believed to be the best form of Christianity , Religious opinions should not be used as & qualification or a . dis qualification for political office ; for he undertook to

      show that it was verj far from beinjf the principle of tbe Christian religion to mingle itself with the political administration of affairs . From the earliest times Chriatianity had kept itself distinct from politics ; and it was only coincident with the corruptions which crept into it that tbe Church was found , in union with tbe State . There was no positive precept to be found in Divine ¦ nritforthe union of ths Church and State , and the ab-96 DCB of such a precept following on the theocracy of the Jen « was a clear proof thai no such union was intended . Ho then entered into an able historical dis . quisition to prove tbat it was not till the reign of Theodosius tbat any question had arisen as to the interference of tlio State with religion , and contended , upon tbe authority of Protestant divine 9 , that it wao not till then

      that the corruptions of religion ware introduced . Then nrose tbat jystem of perssculicn which crtptinfo Europe , and which afterwards was adopted by our aacsstors , not founded im the truths of Christianity but on Pupal decrtes and rescripts . He then proceeded to deny tbai Christianity was part and parcel of tbe lair of the land , fo tar as regarded the queatisn then before the house . None of the Btatut » s which applied to heretics applied to ths Jens , and thus tbe dicta of Lord Hule , Lord Raymond , and Lord Htniwicke on the point that ' Christianity was part and parcel efthe English larr , ' could not b » justly applied so as to uepriv « the Jews of civil rights and privileges . He then uxumined tho position of Lord Coka , that the Jews were aliens , and joined with Lord Chief Justice Wills in holding it up to ridicule and contempt , In all tbe early Acts of Parliament , imposing testa and qualifications , the case of the Jews vwseasits omistus , and it was not till an act passed at tbe closo of tbe reign of Charles ]! ., they were excluded from any

      civil privileges . We bad admitted tbe Jews to exercise Parliamentary privileges in Jamaica and $ n Canada , aai if we bud thereby unctiristianiscd those colonies , hotr was it that tbe Imperial Parliament had sat quiet and allowed it to be done ? It was a mere play on words to talk of a ' Christian' legislature and a ' Christian ' country ; and the ejdihet 'Christian' was used in a different sense in each phraso . The legislature might bs called Christian at present , for none but Christians wero now numbers of It ; but the country was not Christian in tbe same sense , for many ptrsons not Christians now lired in it . Ho wished the house , when so much was said about Christinne , to act upon Christian principles ; nn . 4 the first Christian principle was , to do to others as you would have others do to you . It tvas on tjiat . principle he supported this bill . We allowed tho Jews to intermarry with us—wo compelled tin m to fill liiucicip . il offices—we forced them to pay tvxe«—and ba cpntttoed thatit was gross , moDstrows , tad unchristian to make use of the Jews for our awn

      purposes , and not to admit them , to ail the privileges of the State . itr B Cochrane and Lord Mahon opposed the bill , Mr R Miines supported it . Sie W JIcLEbWoBTH afttr looking at the question in a parlitmintory snd constilutional light , and 9 howing tbe position in which tho houao would place' itself by throwing out Baron Rothschild , concluded with the following eUqncnt remarks on tbe mischievous effects of pernecutiou : —I do not , however , mean to assert that the question under the consideration cf the bouso is to bo stttlid by mere precedents , for it is in fn&t , u question between two grtat principles , Umt have battlid against each otlitr since the cou . menctraent of civllisution . Oa the one side is the principle of religious tnuality , on the

      other the antagonirt principle that tbe state is competent to determine , and ought to determine , what religion is tin- trus religion . Now , this -Joctrine of thercligious infallibility of the state h&s bem in all ages und among all people the plea for tke crimes ef intolerance and per . secution . Under that plea Socrates was put to death , and the Saviour was crucified , Under tbat plea the Pagan Emperors immolated tfce early Christians ; the Albigenies wwe slaughtered , and our own fires wtra lig hted in Smithneld . Under that plea Catholics burnt Protestants ; Protestants burnt Catholies . Calvin kin . died tho faggot of Servetua with the approbation of Jlelanctbon ; and 6 * en the pilgrim fathers of Kevr . England were pem £ |» ors , flndjiung Qunk . rs on the gibbe : s of Ma ' ssactmse ' ta ^ j . ( Loud cheers . ) Under the same plea ,

      In modern times , we excluded Dissentira from our corporations , and . Catholic * from Parliament ; and for the same reason Jews are now refused a seat in the British House of Commons . Butraligious libert y has triumphed over the rude bigotry of antiquity and tlie cruel persecutions of our forefathers , and it will ultimately achieve a Yictory over the milder istoleraoce of hon * geDtlemen oppo site ; and the result will bo peace and goodwill among men of every faith who are subjects of tbe British empire . In legislating on thij question , lit us renumber that we are Bot merely the representatives of the pEople ef this small island , which is inhabited by men of one race , ono language , acd onu religion j ; but we are Has rulers ovt-r a mighty empire , over millions on . ' mil . lions of bumnn beings of every race , every language , aad every religion , and we are likewise the parent stock whence in future age 3 still mightier empires may npiing . In the eminent position that we have obtained through the energy of our fonfathcra and . of ourselves , famed ub

      we are throughout tho world for sagacity , prudence , and forethought , our practical decisions on tho great questions tbat affect tho interests of tbe human race tii'e watched with intense anxiety by all intelligent and reflecting men . Every onwa < d Btop that Englaud takes is a step iu the civilisation of the world ; and the policy of England will gradually become the policy of all enlightened nations . To Ihe principle of civil liberty and commercial freedom , let us join in tbe government of tbis empire the third peat principle— of religionb equality , ( Hear , hear . ) Now is tbe time , now that the electors of London , the wealthy and energstic citizens of this commercial metropolis ef the universe have chosen as their representative a gentleman professing tbe Jewish faitb ; and , let me remark that wherever Jews aro to be found , despised , per . secuted , and oppressed , in Qermany or Poland , in Russia or Asia Minor , tbe result ef this olection for the city , of London has been hailsd by them with joy and eiultation as elevating tb . tsi . i » tbe ass&Us&lo , and put-

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      ting them on an « quality with their fellow men ; for admission into the British House of Commons is justly considered to ba a mark of higaer distinction to tboir race than any title or honour that monurchs oan bestow . ( Cheerp . ) Now , let us confirm this decision of our foremost citizens . Now is th » timo to declare , that as Iegi 9-latora we have bo business with articles of faith ; that the laws should be silunt on all question : ) of religion and tbat as the adherents of every creed are to be found among tbe subjects of the British empire , adding to its wealth , augmenting its resources , and iocreusing its power , so they should all possess the same civil rights and privileges as citizens ; and thus let us sweep away tlie last relics ef the ancient reigu of imbecile bigotry and intolerance in its dotage . ( Loud cheers . )

      Mr WalpoIE contended that the reasons for admitting the Jew , who laboured under no practical grievance , into Parliament , did not predominate over those urged for excluding him frem it . The Lrgislatut-o must be Christian in order that tbe laws might be enacted and tho church governed on principles peculiarly Chthtian , This country always had been Christian ; Christianity was a fundamental law of it as a state ; und a fundamental law ought not to be altered , unless a majority of the people called for , and unloss the Legislature itself approved its alteration . In grappling with tho speech of Mr Wood , he entered iuto several logal details , to prove that from the time of the Conquest downwards it had always been considered to be an undeniable axiom tbat Christianity was part

      nnu pared of the law of England , He insisted that sufficient reason bad not beeu given for tha changes which it was now proposed to make i » tho law . He denied that , because we had given the Jows tho elective franchise , we ought also to give them the right i £ being elected , and instanced the cas »; cf tho clergy ( who could elect legislators , yet could not thoroselvcs be elected , The Jew was of a separate creed aad interest ^ be was not a c ' tizen of tbis country but ot tho world ; he bad no land which he coulJ call his own suve the land of promise , —and hew could it bo arftued that ho ought to be admitted within the walls of Parliament which even a naturalised alien could not enter 1 He next adverted to th < argument that tbe constitution of England was an expansive constitution , and tbat the Jew ougbt

      therefore to bo embraced within it » folds ; and in repl y , said that though Catholic and Dissentm wero admitted into Parliament , we were not divested thereby of our character as a Christian pooplo . If thero were on j people more than another to whom he would extend indulgence , that people were the Jen-inn people ; and it was not until he had considered tho subject well that he frit it incumbent to vote as ho proposed to vote , Vfben be rtfloctcdon tluir peculiar history—on all they had beoo , and on all they were , —rich in recollections of the past , and rioh also in their anticipations of the future—and nhen he bore in mind , as ho was bound to bear in mind , that this people had , as it were , tho premise that at somo period they would again be the favoured people of God ; when he considered these things , he owned that h « felt

      for the Jows so deep a sympathy , that he would extend for them every indulKence that n Christian member of a C'iristiun legislature could conscientiously extend . ( Cheers . ) But believing as fie did that Christianity was so interwoven with tha principles of the state , that they could not bo separated the one from tbe other ; and fearing , as he dU , the detrimental iffect of such u measure as that which was proposed , he would not consent to destroy or weaken tba > uationnl character , based a 3 it was upon Christian precept , which had bo greatly contributed to tbe moral and political elevation of thenation . The . hon . and learned member concluded with expressing his conviction that our national prosperity lay deep sunk in our national religion , any blow struck at our national religion would shake tha pillars of oar national prosperity .

      Mr Sii £ ii > said bad tho bon . and learnei gentleman been a member of the parliament in which the right lion , member for Tamworth brought forward his measure for Catholic Emancipation , the speech he had just delivered would have been alinoBt as opposite oa that as on this occasion . The hos . and learned gentleman , yyitU nl his habits of forenBle discrimination , could scarcely point out any arguments in his speech which might not have boon urged , with equal effect , on either occasion . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbe hoQ . and learned gentleman bad referred to that part of the ¦ writ calling them together , which bore especial reference to the Anglican church . He would ask whether this point was not as applicable to the Unitarian * , to , the Baptists , to the Independents , to the Roman Catholics ? ( Hear , hear . ) A great part of

      tbe bon . and learned gentleman's speech , Indeed , might hare been uaed vriih equal force against Lard Ljndhurst ' s proposition fir tho municipal enfranchisement of the Jews . The question for tho house , however , was whether , having gone so far , they ought not to go further , and efface from the statute-book the remnant of intolerance nhicb still disgraced it in relation to our Jewish fellow-suVjects . It appeared to him that from tho liability to duties tbe enjoyment of rights ou « ht not to be dissociated , and that as every Jew born in Eagland was bound to every duty appertaining to a British suiaecr , he wflB cf right entitled to every privilege that a British subject enjoyed . ( Hear , bear . ) He was aware that the disabilities imposed on Jews were simply called privations , but all privations resolved themselves into

      the character of penalties , and to the mind of the Jerr the privation now sought t » be removed presented itself in tho harshest aspect . He could speak as n quasi witness in the matter . Often , ere the act of' 2 !) was conceded , ha had sat und .-r the gallery of St Stephen's Chapel , anil witnessed the ogomis under which the great soul Tvhose energies had effected Catholic emancipation writhed , until that emancipation was obtained . O'Connell , the champion of tiuth and reason , was morally at the head of millions , writhing , like himself , under injustice . The Jews of this country numbered not their millions ; their force consisted , soldy in the arguments ¦ f truth and reason ; bu » with an Basorobly , representing , as that house did , nok nv » rely the intellect , but tbe treat miudedness aUo of the nation , those arguments

      could not but avail , lion , gentieincn opposite admitted that nothing but necessity could justify the exclusion ot Biitisbsubji'i'tB fr < m tbat house . Of this plea of necessity , so reailily misapplied , Jet the house take good heed . It whs a plea which had been used in justification of the most monstrous tjrannhs—of the grossest wrongs . What was it they fenred ? What was the aim—what the meaning , of this Hebrew-phobia ? ( Htar , bear , and a laugh . ) Did they Iremble for tbo cturch ? the church might , indeed , have some reason for fenr in our eight millions of Roman Catholics , our three millions of Methodists , our million and a half of New Catholics ; ehe might hiiTe something to fear from sectarianism assail . inglier without , and from spurious popery and mutiny within , —( hear , heir , )—but from the neutral , apathetic ,

      tranquil , unproselytiging sjnagogue , be assured that she bad nothing So fear . ( Hear , hear . ) It was said tbat the imroduction of tho Jews into the hcute nould uneliristionise the house . In his opinion , tbo Christianity of the hotino depended on the Christianity of the . country —bo meant by Christianity the belief in Christ ristn from the dead—was fited In , and inseparably iwtertwined with , the affections of the people , H « considered the Christianity of thess islands to be as stable as the islands themselves —( hear , hear , )—and that so long eb tlio constitution of England lasted , so long as parliament itself endured , so long would the house—the burnished asd unbroken mirror of the national mind—nflccc the religious tVelinj of tliu uution , ( Hear , hear , ) Herein be viewed the true security of the Christian faith of

      England , and not in a formal test , at which , ind . etl , the honest man would pause , but which the sardonic sceptic wohI'I contemptuously overleap , ( Hear , hear J Btferenci ! had been made to tbe illustrious namo of Gibboa ; a still higher name might have been adduced in illustration , that of Bulingbroke , a man who , rich in external accomplishment , full to oirrfloviing of intellectual endowment , trod down in scorn tho test wlmh would bavo excluded Hie Jeiv , and made of tbat bouSo lbs stoppingstone to the pinnacle of power . There was no warrant in Scripture , fur this imposition cf a temporal ui naltj with t ! ie view of propagating divine truth ; there was ne such dogma found iu the mouth of Him who laid down bis life for mankind , and whose last words wiro an invocation of mtrcy ou tboso who had sacrificed

      Him , seeing that 'they knew not what they did . ' But alas fer frril and fragile human nature , ho sooner bad the professors of Cluistianity become associated with temporal authority , than they turned tho severities which they thennelvss had suffered against their Jewish brethren . The Jew was selected as the special o > j < c : of infliction . Tbo history ot the Jows through centuries whs one track of blood , and one train of torture . Men of mercy occasionally aro ; e to intarposo on their bohalf . The grca * Si Bernard had taken their part , but the li ( , 'ht that appeared in the Abbey of' Clairveaux was faiwt and evanescent , and was followed by canturies of new darkness and new persecutions . The rofermation did nothing for the \? cW 6 , all were still apinst tliem—Lutherans , Calvinists , Protestants , Presbyterians—all

      who had torn to pieces the garments ot the Stmour had alike , terribly sinned iii their regard . But it was sonae eoufloLition to a Roman Catholic to know thatin llorunn Cmhi lie countries an exception nvis now inaiio in their favour . In Belgium and in Franco all distinction be . tween Chiistibn and Juw bad beea abolished . ( Haar ) He trusted that Protestant England would follow tbat bright example . ( Hear , bear . ) A great deal of the prejudice which had existed at one time in tbis country was bi ginning to disperse . London had made » noble manifestation of its feeling . ¦ Was the house prepared to throw back tbe Jew on London , in order that London might through back the Jew on tho house { Not only wax the disqualification of the Jew incos 6 istcnt with tbe sf irit of « be Christian religion , but those rery disabilities Impeded tbo yv&sress of Christianity , prevented the conversion ef the JmvR , and produced tff .: cts diametrically the reverse of those which they were intended to

      produce . The disabilities imposed upon the Jew were not sufficiently onerous to be compulsory ; but they were suffioifclilly VeXutiouS tr > wake < 5 OhVer ! , i 6 h a 8 > no&ome for nposticy , and to affix a stigma to uninterested con . formity with the established religion ; ( Cheers . ) We had struck off the master fetter , with which the Jew bad been bound by tbe neck and foot ; but the fetters remained , though apparently light , were , atrong enough to fasten the Jew to his faith , and to make it a matter of discredit to him should lie desert his crae 3 . ( Hear . ) Nothing effectual would be dono in tbis country towards the , extinction of JudaUm until a restitution of his birthright as an Englishman was made to every one , no matter what religion he professed . Some entertained the idea that there was no suoh thing as an English , a Spanish , or an Italian Jew ; thoy held that a Jew was a Jew , and nothing else j they supposed that hiB nationality was engrossed by the country of hiB hope and re-

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      collections , and tbat tbe house of Jacob must remain for ever in it state of isolation and restraint ., it ™ not wonderful , when tbe Jews were oppressed , irrltBtcd , and bran . iod , that they should have felt , on thi . bank * of tha Seine and Thames , as their f . refathtrs felt when weep , ing by the waters of B ^ by loa ; it was not wonderful tbat the psnlm of exile should * -: ave been found the language of their huariS . - ( Hear , lienr . ) Bat what had been already done had produced a most eigo-A alteration . In pioportion as the lnwa against tho Jew bad been mitigated the love of country had bsen revived ,

      British feeling had taken root in his heart , and nothing but pei' / f-et justice was required ior its full devtliipmsnt . ( Sear . ) LettheJew be emancipated , let all distinctions bettveon him and tho Christian be abolished , nnii > is heart would be filled with perfect attachment to his country ; bis exultations and his sorrows wou'd be the same as ours—his heart would beat with the same palpitation ut the news of British victory—nnd , if ever there should be need , his life-blood would be poured out for his country with tbe same prodigality as our own ; ( Loud cheers ) .

      After an ineffectual attempt to adjourn the house , Mr Nevvdegate made a speech against tha Bill , but tha fraction of the speech most worth y of notice , was Vn aesertion that money had heen plentifully distributer ! throughout themetropo'is , for the purpose of netting up petitions in favour ? i the Bill , the scale of prices being Is . G'L for the first hundred signatures , 3 j . ior the next , and 5 s . for every hundred tbat followed . The debate was then adjourned on tha motion of Mr Cu&uies Feabsoh . The West Indian committee was then appointed on the motion of Lord G . Bentisck , and tbe louso adjourned at half-past twelve . TUESDAY , FEiiaUAliT 8 .

      HOUSE OF LOIIDS . —MEBC 4 NTII . E Steam Navf . — A conversation ensued , at the instance of Lord Cot * cnESTEB , on the subject of the mercantile steam n . ivy , ou the occasion of his moving tor returns relative thortto , with tho view of aGeertainin ? whether tht-y could ba made available for the purposes of war if they should ba r . quired . His impression was , that there were sixty-three of such vessels having contracts with tho government , but which at present were not n ' t for war purposes . The Earl of Auckland could assure the noble lord tbat a report had been made as to the condition of , the contract vessels at tbe end of 181 U , and they would be placed at tbo disposal of the government on the event of a war .

      The Earl ofELUNueRoDCH asserted that this-eountry and tha government of India were payiag £ 300 , 000 a jeur more than was necessary for the conveyance of letters to India ; he thought , therefore , vcsucls , whoso proprietors possessed such advfiDtages , should be ready fo <* tha service of tbe country at any time -. then they might be rtquirtd . Relations with Rome . —Tho Marquis of LiNSDownb was understood to intimate tbat tbo sreor . d reading « f tha bill to enable her Majesty to establish diplomatic relations with Rome would be taken on Thuridny Be ' ni « ht . Lord Eqlinton thought that , should Bueh relation be established , care should ba taken that thuminister who represented the See of Homo at our Courc should not bo an ecclesiastic . Unless the bill contained some provision to this eff ct , be gave notice of his intention to move for tne insertion of one .

      Tbe MarquU of L&msdownb observed tbat , in his opinion , tbe interests oftbe Church in tbis country would not only be injured , but would bs benentted by the step meditated . If it could be shonn tbat such would not bo the case , her Muj ^ sty ' s government would Bot persevere with the measure . This voluntary pledge imparted to the Bisbop of Exatjir great tranquillity ofioind , and would , lie said , enable him to consider tho provisions of tbe bill with a calmer spirit tban ka could otherwise have pra-Berved . Thf-ir lordships tbpn ftdjourned-EOUSE OF COMMONS . —Canteens m Babbacks **> In reply to a question from Colonel Likdsat , Mr F ;} UuLB » ai-i that , though the government could not at once do away with canteens in barracks , they would , as the present leases txpire ( prohibit tpirituous liquors lo be nold in barracks .

      iBisn Registration Bill , —To a question from Mr S . O'Bbieu , Sir W . Soiiieville replied tbat it was the intentioa of the government to introduce n Registration Bill for Ireland , Leaye oe Ab 3 enci wasRrantedto Mr Ludlow Bruges for one month , and to Mr Thomas DaLCombo fer two moDths , both on account of illness . Tns Ntw Hodses of Parliament —Mr Hcme said , he wished to ask the Speaker of the bouse what ho was to do with regard to certain returns which had betn presented in consequence of their order , obtained at hia instance , relative to the expenses of the Sew House of C-mmons ? He had moved for an hc : ount showing what was the total amount voted , what had been paid

      and what was owing ; and , the ' crisiinal estimnto for the works haTisg been about £ 700 , 000 . r . e found by tfco return that up to the end of 1846 , £ S 13 , 0 Q 0 hud been expanded , and an estimate was given that about half a million more would be required , independent cf £ 150 , 000 votedla » ky » ar , and nottaUtn iuto account . It would seeiu , thtrciort * . that the total expenditure was not to be £ 700 . 000 , but . £ 1 , 400 , 800 ; but in this account he found tbat no estimates whatever were included as ts the cost of purchasing tbe buildings on tho south side of Bridgestreer , or as to other works and fillings , ine' -uding decorations , upholstvry , the cost of restoring St Stephen ' s chapel , &C .. &C , all of which , he believed , would cost

      half a million more at hast . ( Hear , hear . ) Such an account as this seemed to him calculated very much to confuse the house , and he thought it highly necessary that the auction cf tha government , of Parliament , and of tho country , shtmldbe cnlled to it . An hon . gentleman below him , howtvtr , had taken upon bimself to insist upon moving f ^ r the oppointmuit of a committee in thi » caae . If lie intended so to do , then would certainly ha tho most convenient tims for di 6 cusbing tho matter ; and in sueh case he would postpone hi 9 observations . VTbat h < would ask , therefore , was when that hon . gentleman proposed , if at all , to briag forward hia motion ?

      S ' . r U . H . Ingii * sai- \ tbat iq reply to this question , when , if at oil , he intended to bnug forward his motion . 'he had ODly to say thut although he did give notire of a motion on the subject , somewhere about tho 15 th of December last , jet he was so far from wishing to take it upon biiiself to mora the appointment nf such a committee , that he should be very unwilling to do so unless with the Keneral concurrence of the house . Even if he was likely to carry his motion only bj a very small majority , he should not bo at all iueiiried to press it . It wns one of no great public intirc » t—it involved no question of public principle . It '' weald involve a sacri . lice of time on his part that he was by no means ami . ous -to make , and h « had no personal interest in the matter whatever to gratify . If , however , it wero tho pleasure of the house to support him in tho appointment of a ceramittee , he would bring forward the measurehe could not sjy exaetly upon what day—it certainly would not be any day in the present week :

      Mr Osbobne ( after a pause ) said this matter assumed so very unsatisfactory a characur , that he thought he was justified in aiking the noble lord , the First Com . missioner of Woods nnd Forests , whether he would have any objection to lay upon tbe tublo a detailed estimate , showing that £ 1 . , 000 . would bo all that would barequired ? He would also ask if the Woods nnd For ests held themselves responsible for all that was ordered » Viscount Mobpkth . —Tho amount mfiuiop . ed by tho hon . gentleman is the amount of the architect's estiraate , and I can ODly say I hope he will bu able to bear it out . ( Loud laughter . J After another pause .

      Mr Osbosne said : Really , after this answer , and coaaiderinic that ( ve have a deficient and a ainkinu revenue , I thick I am entitled to put a question to tbe First Lord of the Treasury , mid I beg to ask that noble lord if hi ia prepared to check this enormous expense , and it' he nill give this house fisti the country some ussuravce that no more than the £ 1 , 400 , 000 , specified in tho estimate , 6 ball be spent ? ( Cries of ' Hear , hei-r . ' ) Lord J . Ri'Sseli .- His impossiblo for mo to say mere tban my noble friend has Baid . ( Oh . ) I mus . t dtdioe to be rs&ponsible for any architect ' s estimate . ( Laugh . ter . ) MrOsBORNE—Then , , I will call attention to the subject upon the first order of the day , {' Hear , hear / and cheering . ) Obder of Business—Mb Anstet ' s Motion . —Tuefdaybiing adayonnhich notices of motion bave precedence of orders of the day , the debate upon the

      Jtwi * h Disabilities Bill could not , in regular course , come on until after the motions bad betn disposed of . There w * re several ' notices of motion ' on the paper , tl-. e fwst being that of Mr Chisholm Anstey , relative to the foreign policy © t' theBOvirnment ; the time having arrived for tlie papgi to bo re « ularly goue through—Mr Hums rose to submit : o the hon . number for Youghal whether , considering tbat an important debase on a national questioE had bten adjourned to thatuigbt , ii was prudent in b . m to brint ; forward a motiwii , containing forty articles , every ona of which weald give rise to an ordinary ( lay ' s debato , w the interrup tion cf the adjourned debate . lie did cot make ttss rtqueat witb the view of shirking the questions likelj to be raised

      by tha hon gentleman ' s motion , because he waB most aciious that they should be debated , but the noiua having be , nbrcught to B eih « r .. n . i «»«*' " " £ public interest as tho question aiwiltiD * «« WOM 1 ° ?» " would urge upon the hon . gentlemen not to P « " « e' ' bringing forward another question . Sowing bow „„ . outupart- were to proceed with the adj ° u ned debato , he trusted tbe hon . mew * ' "ou d " * ° ™ * Z ' and await a more favourable opportunity for 4 »*«^ ¦ Mr A . Staffobd , as mover ot tbe ««« « nl ^ discussion , nklied , before the hon . mcmVw pom , to assure him thatituu the universal wish of ™ * " * . ™ that side . of the house to close the debate hat evemn .. * . ! .. _ .., .,, « ,, ™ momW did ovoceed , it UOUlQ 08

      , against tbe sense of the ^ ftw&ilk h 0 US < \ wn . Mr C . A * stes beglSff t ^ JB ^ CW ; WlTZ who had last spoken ^ 4 # i > J # ^^ r # ! . 1 ) fl I induced him to P 03 t % f ^ . ^^ C ^^ tf * quest ; tm » be i »»» t ^^ jii ^^| & PH # ^ 5 ^> ? , " ? , fairly treated in thi ^ p *{ jf )^ B » vim : airly dealt with . An appeSl fe ^ . b ^ a ^ ad 6 jo-. iajnj ^ P » 8 te ' and ho had glnna # Steb ^ y ^* pM | gxia that answer he had aowfe repeat / . i $ -jMP » IP ? g » . Lt 8 t ? & ; %$ fm * ' ¦ '"^ " Oy

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      Februaby 12 , 1848 , . ' THE NORTHERN STAR . 7

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 12, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1457/page/7/