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      In the wath * KXcrasi 05 of Priace Albert , ia the J Eardens of Buckingham Palace , the other'day , the Quean is said to hare " «* an-ifested tbe greatest eo » - xage , and to hire acted with the most intrepid eoolrness . ' This , we think , is rendered self-evident by her -patting forth strength enough to " drag the Prince iothe shore , " tod as regard * her" ooolnew ¦ bo « ne can doubt ihat , "wb » re&ect 3 far one moment on tae half-frozen condition of Field Marshal ; His Boyal Highness the Prince Consort . " Oh , This Lots I—" LoreI" owerved Venerable Joe , sarcastically—"' lore's a himporikon . There i been more people imposed npon by that air rord than by aH the perfessionai swindlers in natnr . It s *

      gross , & nniwersalhimpositien j and it s on ' y werry wonderful to me that it ain ' t long ago been hexpuBged . AgaTsayB she lores yer . Werry well ;* nt are voa consequentially obligated for to mtke a fool 'yarself I No ; you ' ve only got her hipsy dix » y , » nd votfsthe good o' that ! Marry her , and joa'il warry soon see ' ' ow sweet ' s the lore as meets return . ' Bat aroat that , look ' ear on ' y jist for hinstanee : a gal loves a so * er— -rich they all do ; it '» reg ul ar : he ' i a private ; still she loves * im—oh ! hout an bout ! Werry well ; don ' t yer think she'd give 'im up ior an hofficer ? In course she vood ! And why ! Why , cos it ' ud be a better chance . Has for lore , it ' s ike vickedest , the swindlinest himposition as i 3 . The chances is vot gals look oot for . The on ' y question with them is , * Is it a good chance ! ' If it is , they'H have it ; if it ain't , they von't onlees they ean t get nothink better . It ' s the deadest take in is that love ever heered on ; a deader never voa hinweated . Yon take my adwice , and dont be fooiied

      "Venerer you ' ear the vord lore , always wiew it as a jgross himposition . Hif yer don ' t youll be done , and od ' j Sad out the difference ten it '« too late . - Look « t m * jist for hinstanee . I was sixty-two in J inner werry last ; look at that ! Sixty-two , and I ain ' t done yet . I ' m inwitedto all the parties . I'm never forgot ! There ' s the old unsas is single a-hoglin' on me rez'lar ; and the old un 3 as is married a-settin their barters upon me ; it'cd be sich a chance ! and all , in course , cos I'm single . Why , d ' yer think they d care about my company perwided I ro 3 married ' . Does it stand at all to reason they'd invite me a ? they do , hif they didn ' t believe I tos yet to be done \ Not a bit of it ' l not if I tos worth a matter o' fifty times as much as I ham . Bat , as it is—as I ' ve . iUos escaped the himposltlon—there am I , never misled , allua thought on , looked up to and respected : rich , let me tell you , is a werry great » d wantage . "—Stanley Thor 7 i , ' mBentIey ' sMitceilany for Odober .

      The accident which befel Prince Albert , the Other day , in the gardens of Buckingham Palace , in the presence of the Queen and Miss Murray , was an exemplification of the nursery ditty , commencing u Three children sliding on dry ground upon a Bummer ' s day , " for it amounted to nothing more -thin % " ducking" up to the middle ! How much can ometimes be made of nothing ; Tbk wns about the Court say that Prince Albert , when he fell into the water , was within an act of being drowned , but that luckily , the Queen was in kind , or his game would h&Te been lost ' . Ths adagb sats , " a great fortune is a great slavery , " Prince Albert did not think this before onvcg to this country .

      Not Lost . —A gentleman , whose house was repairing , went one day to see how the job was progressing , and , observing a quantity of nails lying about , said to the carpenter , Why don ' t you take eare . of these nails ! They'll certainly be lost . * No , " reolied the carpenter , " you'll find them all ia the bill . " Religious Waemixg-pak . —To pnt pions mottoes upon warming-pans is a device quaint enough . Charies the Seeoad , however , had it to dene to those that probably warmed the beds of hia mistresses , with this inscription : " Serve God , and live for wer . "— Walpole .

      Hot a * d Cold . —An Irishman discovered a part at the wood-work of a chimney-piece on fire , that endangered the whole house . He rashsd np-stairs to his master , and announced the alarming intelligence . Down he rushed with him . A large kettle of boiling water was on the fire . " "W ell , why don ' t yon put out the fire »"— " I can ' t , surr . " " Why , yon fool . ' pour the water upon it . "— " Sore it ' s hot wat-r , £ urr . " Odd Titles to Boots . —Among the French devotional piece * , burlesque has ever reijmed in tbe titles of their books of pie ; y ; as , The Snuffers of Divine Love ; " M The Spiritual Mustard-Pot , to make tbe Soul sneeze with Devotion ; " '' The Capu-• fain . tooted and spurred for Paradise . "

      Evils op Popclaiutt . —Isanias , that lie upon the . ground , are not easily set on fire by the torch of envy , but those quickly catch it which are raised up by fame , or wave to the breeze of posterity . Every one that passes is ready to give them a shake or a lip ; for , there are few either so busy or idle as not to lend & hand at undoing . Ctjuuus Adtebxisekext . — At the end of the K Ninth Co ' . lectioa of Papers relative to the present Juncture of Affairs in Esgland , quarto , 1 S 8 S , " there is this carious advertisement : — " Lately published

      the trial of Mr . Papiilion ; by which it is manifest that { the then ) Lord Chief Justice Jefferies had neither learning , law , nor good manners , but more impudence than ten carted wfcores , ( as was said of him by King Charles the second , ) in abasing all those worthy citizens who voted for Mr . Papillon and Mr . Dubeis , caLbg them a parcel of factious , pragmatical , sneaking , whoring , canting , snivelling , prick-eared , erop-eared , atheistical fellows , rascals and scoundrels , as in page nineteen of that trial may be seen . Sold by Michael Janeway , and most booksellers . "

      A VERDICT . Lord Cardigan shot Tcckett , it is true , Whose face in consequence look'd rather wanner ; Is Cardigan a felon , tiien ? " Pooh 1 pooh ! Koi gilsj—legally—upon my boneur !!" A Peek . The people , Polly , owe me a deep debt of gratade , " remarked her most gracious Majesty to the favourite parrot . " Indeed 1 " exclaimed the ' Poll , " I thought the credit was on the other side the book !" "Pollt , dear , " exclaimed Victoria , addressing the wonderful parrot , " do you know " " Verily I do , " lDierrupted tbe impudent bird , " that you are the dearest in the proportion of a million to one . " YieUna was silent .

      The Qceks , in the due exercise of her divine avttribu : e , immediately after the accident to Prince Albert , gave orders that ihe sheet of water in Buckingham Gardens must never again freeis !

      THE S 0 LEM 5 FABCK . Whilst only one had the slightest doubt In their lordships' House , and not one oxn ; Though conscience whispered to each Con the sly ) , As ** No : Guilty" he ? aid , my lord , you lie ! And they almost blushed at the farcical part Each noble lord played , with hi 3 hand on his heart . * It is a . kistake to assert that the water used at the baptismal font of the Princess Royal , was brought from the river Jordan . We are credibly informed it came from tbe " wandering Po . " Tas Fact of the Qaeen helping Prince Albert oot of the pond , by extending her hand to him , is only a repetition of & former act of kindness , when by giving him her hand , she helped him out of difficulties of tenfold danger to that he was in when he slipped through the ice in Buckingham Gardens !

      A Yankee , on bis return to his native country , iras questioned by an American as to the thickness and dangers of the London fog ; to wliich he replied , * Thick , I ' ve some how a notion they were thick ; Lor' ! you couldn ' t get th ' ro' ' em unless you first ent ' em ' thrpwitha knife , and then , I ' ve an idea , that if you didn ' t make nation good use o" vour legF , oouldn ' t much reckon on bp dily safety . Why bless you , 1 lost my best friend in a fog ! he was hacking away at It , but I calculave V > e was rather too slow in his movement , for afore he'd time to squeeze thro , ' it closed to again , and crushed his two sides as flat ae pancake I " SraiEXNG akd Usepul Kemabk . —After all , the great error in human judgment unot so mnch wilful possession , as that we judge according to situation , and always make that situation our own , while , the ehaaeea axe that we realiy have cot one thought , feeling , or habit , in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves qualified to decide . —Franceses Carraia .

      A tendeb-hxabted haugBian , when adjusting the noose on & young woroair ' s neck , observed her to shrink . " Don ' t T > d frightened , my dear , " said ihe fr ^ TignwPj " ill be as easy with yon as eT « I can . " A hekchast having ju 3 i concluded a letter addressed to one of his correspondents , suddenly dropped down dead . " "His partner , by way of postscript , » dded , " spee my letter was written I died thL « morning at left o ' clock . " Another merchant , the Benier partner In a firm , whose wife Tiad presented him w ' rh twins , wrote lo-isfoia his frieeds of the fact , aad signed the letter , " Smith , Tomkins &c Co . ! . '!

      * Vvht dok ' t you get married ! " mischievously asked a young lady of- rathe * an elderly bachelor friend , the other davj I h&Te for the last ten years fcoen srjiag to find some one who would be silly enough to have me , " was the reply . " I guess you haven ' t been- up oar way , " was the insinuating and keart-flattering Tejoincier . A coxrxr&ruis , seeing a ship Terr heavy laden , and scarcely above the water ' s ed ^ e , exclaimed , * My word ! if the river was but a bit higher , the ahip wonld go to the bottom . " - ¦

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Fkidat , Fa 10 . The £ arl of Sbaftesbdkt moved thai the-Xord Speaker do give orders for printing and publishing th « proceedings at the trial of tbe Earl « f Cardigan . -: ¦ Tbe £ arl of Eldok complainftd that tbe Miutw » in Chancery , wbo were coneide »« 4 the meaaaBgers of tbe House , bad beennfued admiitsioa on the 4 » y of tbf trUL He also adTertod to tbe Attaruej-General having stated that there was bo moral deUBquency in tbe oond * ct of tbe Earl of Cardigan . It opald . not be supposed that the Rifcbt Bev . Prelates , wbo bad retired before

      tbe proceedings bad commenced , would concur in such » statement , and be thought tbe high feeling * of the Attorney-General had carried him too far in making it . Tbe Bishop of Londos apprehended the Right Her . Prelates wonld not bare been implicated even bad they been present , as it was distinctly stated that they attended there merely as peers . He thought the Attoroey-Gensral was not justified in acqaitting the ntbie sari of all moral guilt , and he trusted something would be done to pat an end to a custom which bad originated in a barbarous age .

      Lord Ellsvbqbovgh said tbe Bishops were not obliged to leave the House , and although their attendance could be compelled , they could not be compelled to vote . The Earl of Rodem gave notice that on Monday he should move for copies of the correspondence that had taken place on tbe subject of recent transactions between that country and the court of Persia . The Earl of Mouhtcashel wished to kn » w if It was the intention of tbe Government to introduce any "measure for the more efiWctoal prevention of duelling ? ije could assure them that if they allowed the subject to remain as it at present was , they wonld become still more unpopular with the country . Lord Melbourne admitted the Importance of the subject , but said the Government was not prepared to introduce any measure with reference to duelling . Public opinion was fast putting dowa the practice . In answer to the Earl of Gtengall ,

      The Marquis of Kobha > bt said it was intended as an experiment to devolve nr > on the clerks of Unions in Ireland the

      number of appeals disposed of and for hearing before the Privy ConEcil be printed ; and in doing so wished to eorrect rery gross errors which had been fallen into in the other House , in stating the number of causes in arrear . The fact was , that on tbe 1 st of November last there were only eighteen appeals ready foT bearing , and all these had since bees disposed of . He thought that -statement was due to the Learned Judges wbo devoted bo large a portion of their time to the public service without tbe slightest remuneration . The Earl of Devos obtained leave to bring In a Bill for the speedy asd more effectual administration of justice , and the trial and conviction of minor offences . He should postpone any statement of the details of the measure tin the second reading on Thursday next Adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS-Friday , Feb . 18 . Colonel Clemk . vts took tbe oath * and his seat for Cavan . Several railway and other private Bills were advanced a stage . Petitions were presented against certain clauses in the Poor Law Amendment Act ; in favour of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill ; in favour of Chureh Extension -, and for the Release of all Political Offenders at present is con&Bems-nt . Mr . Hawks ( at the suggestion of the Speaker ) would , in co&sequt&ce of an informality in tbe Medical Practitioners Bill , withdraw it for th » present Mr . V . Smith said tbe Government had received no official information that the Bishop of Quebec had refused to allow a tablet to be placed in the Church to tbe memory of Lieut-Got Lester , because be bad not been a regular communicant

      Mr . Ewart gave notiee of » motion on Thursday sext , for the appsintment of a public prosecutor in criminal cases . Mr . fiCHB moved for returns fin continuation ) of the half-pay and superannuated allowances to officers in the military , naval , and civil services . —Ordertd .

      EEG 1 STBAT 10 X OP VOTERS ( E . NGLAJiD . ) On tbe motion for the second reading of this Bill , Sir Edwaud Sugds * said Hon . Members on his side of the House were equally anxious witii Vhe Noble L « rd ( J . Russell' and his supporter * to agree to the details of any measure which would prevent fraud , and facilitate the registration of dona Jide voters . There were certainly some things ia tbe present system which required amendment , more especially the publication of the lists , and the mode in whieb objections were made . With these exceptions , he thought the present pi an bad worked well , aad it was bis intention to move tbe introduction of certain clauses in committee , which would correct these defects . He should also move the rejection of tbe claase which conferred upon the Speaker of tbe House the power of appointing barristers , as it would be most injudicious to give him appointments in which political bias could hive any share .

      Mr . Gisbob . se denied that the present system had worked well , because so much uncertainty existed that it was not unusual to find revising barristers sitting UDder the same roof deciding in totally different ways . He was glad to find so UtUe objection raised to the Bill on the other side of the House . With respect to tbe objection that had been raised to the selection of karristera being Tested in tbe Speaker , the tame principle hid been adopted in the Right Hon . Bart ( Sir R . Peel ' s ) election committees , and no practical inconvenience had resulted therefrom . Mr . HiME thought they ought to assimilate the system in England to that in Ireland , and introduce a clause for defining the franchise , which would put an end to litigation on the subject . CoL Sibthorpb wished to know what the salaries of the barristers would be , ss he should take the sense of the House upon that point

      Lord J . Russkll could not state the precise amount of the salary till he went into committee ; but he might say generally that there would be a reduction of £ 15 , ^ 60 or £ 16 , 000 of the present expenditure . 'Hear , bear . ) It was his intention to introduce a modification of tbe present test of tbe payment of rates and tax&a , and also as to the change of occupation , as it had led to the disfranchiaement of a large number of voters who wer « otherwise fully entitled to the franchise . Tbe Bill was then read a second time , and ordered to be committed that day se ' nnight On the motion of Mr . Labouchere , the East India Rum Biil was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on Monday . The Tithe Composition ( Ireland ) Bill was read a third time and passed . On the motion of Mr . Beotherto : * tbe Committee on the exportation of machinery was appointed .

      Mr . Hlme irquiT&d wben the Noble Lord would lay on the table the papers relative to the Syrian war ? Lord Paihersto ^ sai d the delay was occasioned by the great mass of papers to be arranged and printed , but he hoped they would be ready in a week or ten days . In answer to questions from Sir R . Peel , Lard Palmebston said that no commission of survey hsd been appointed jointly by the English and American Governments . The survey of Mr . Featherstonhaugh was merely ex-parte , and could not be binding on the British Government With regard to the

      conventions that had taken place , propositions had been made by the respective governments which had been reciprocally rejected , but the government * bad now agreed upon a convention containing an arrange ment for an arbitration . The difference between them cow was not one of principle , but a « to the mode in wliich it was to be carried oat In answer to Mr . Hawes , Lord J . Russell said it was the intention of the Government to introduc * a measure for the regulation of Eccleaiastical CourU in the House of Lords . Adjourned ,

      Monday ^ Feb . 22 . The debate on the second reading of the Government Registration Bill for Ireland was begun by Lord Stanlet , who said that if the question had been merely on details , he should have exercised more forbearance to this Bill than had been extended t » his own ; bnt there was matter here which be should think that not a few even of the Ministerialists must oppose—matter which went wholly to break np the great settlement of the Reform Act Something had , indeed , been conceded by Government ; for instance , the , annual revision ; but they had tacked to it a quarterly registration , keeping up a fever throughout tbe year , and whenevar the ^ voter had once been registered , upon however fraudulent a qualification , this Bill precluded all proof of . that fraud . It proposed a tribunal of appeal , but it gave the constitution of

      that tribunal to the Speaker ; and his high respect for the Speaker now ia the ebalr , & » - » reii as his general consideration for justice , nsit determine him to object against granting a power -which , however impartially exercised in fact , would never be regarded by partisans as having been so exercised . After a few observations upon the authority to give costs on appeal , and upon the clause making certificates conclusive evidence fcr certain purposes , Lord Stanley passed on from tbe registry provisions to tht new feature , the sew tack now added' to th « BilL This , he said , was a repetition of a trick of the appropriate clause , which these same Ministers tacked to the Irish Tithe Bill , / or the purpose of displacing Sir R . PeeL They bad been obliged at but to abandon that tack , and had themselves , as Ministers , carried the Tithe Bill without it ; and be trusted that tbe same

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      result would attend their Registration BilL He had brought In his owm Registration Bill last year , on learning from tbe CrOTet&meat that they ( wbo In several preceding Sessions bad introduced registration bills of their own ) did not contemplate the Introduction of any such measure then . But , after bis Bill had been sanctioned by tbe House , the Ministers , in order to defeat it , bad now oome forward with a BUI of their « wn , containing a definition of tbe franchise . Was a definition of tbe franchise their present object t Instead of defining the franchise , their Bill went wholly , to change it He knew not how long Lord Morpetb had entertained this view . On a motion of Ht . O'Counell , in 1830 , for an extension of tbe franchise , Lord Morpeth bad opposed that Member—at first in a faltering voice , but , towards the end of his

      speech , as bis courage swelled , in a firm and decisive tone . A similar declaration had been repeated by Lord Morpetb In 1840 , and now , in 18 < 1 , that declaration was wholly repudiated . Mr . O'Connell's proposal bad been to lower tbe franchise both in Ireland and in England , Lord Stanley would not say that Mr . O'CoBHell ' s view bad influenced Lord Morpetb . ' s ; bat if each bad arrived at tbe same point by bis own separate reflection , it was still more alarmuig to see such a coincidence between Mr . O'Connell and ths Irish Minister . If Government now thought that enactment a unjust one , which at tbe time of the relief bill excluded tbe 40 s . freeholders , why was not that boldly avowed * But the leaseholders now proposed to be let in were a class of people far lower and far more liable to influence than those excluded , freeholders , a class very much lower than the lowest voters fot the English counties ; and be would be glad to know

      whether ths English counties were to be treated in tbe same way 7 There were disputable questions upon the requisite value , and the remedy proposed was , to require no value at all . Estimates as to poor-rate had been made , we were told , by two Irish barristers ; he would like to see their instructions—to see them , for of course such instructions could never have been merely oral . In all Ireland , these gentlemen bad visited ten unions , oat of 140—how selected did not appear ; but it did appear that their visit had been a most hasty one . On tbe reports of this visit , which had been delivered but with tbe Parliamentary papers of that very morning , the Bill of Lorii Morpeth was founded . He would admit that a correct valuation of property in Ireland might be a highly useful document ; but it should be impartial , legal , accurate , uniform , in all which particulars the valuation now in progress was defective . The Poor Law Bill had enormous difficulties to

      encounter ; if to those you Buperadied political partiality in the valuation , you would render it a curso indeed ; and this must be the necessary consequence of the course now pursued . As to legality , the law required that regard should be strictly bad to the letting value . But the report just published showed that the -valuators wholly departed from this criterion ; and to that effect the Noble Lord cited various passages from it Hitherto , perhaps , the fault of the valuation bad been 1 b assessing too low , and so far it would be said that the argument would be against him ; but he was not content with a valuation which was untrue , whether too high or too low : and if too low , he knew not whether too low by 50 or by 100 per cent . So much for tbe accuracy of

      these barristers ; and , as to their uniformity , it was to be found only in their systematic departure from the law . He could not understand the ground on which a small minority of the Irish judges bad raised a doubt about the construction of the beneficial Interest ; and , in order to elucidate the argument In favour of tbe " solvent tenant" test , he cited passages from the statutes in p * ri mcUeria for England and Scotland , and from speeches made by Mr . O'Connell while the Reform Bill was in discussion ; particularly some which exposed tbe absurdity of basing a man ' s franchise , as was now proposed , not on tbe profit which be received , bat on tbe rent which he bad to pay . If the value of the property fell , the rate-payer would not lose bis franchise ; the candidate would take core to keep him still on the register , and get the rate paid

      for him—thus baying votes by wholesale , at sixpence a year per vote . And now he wished to ask the ground on which Ministers thought themselves justified in proposing this great extension of the elective franchisefor a great extension they admitted it to be . Why , their argument was that of Mr . O'Connell , that tbe Irish counties had fewer electors than tbe English , in proportion to their respective populations . Would you say , then , that the franchise of St Giles ' s , in Westminster , ought to be lower than the franchise of St George ' s , because tbe former parish bad more poor ? It was true that in Ireland the proportion of voters was generally smaller , because there were fewer men of propei ty and solvency . The landholders in Ireland 'were nearly twice as numerous as in England , though they occupied an area of land amounting to only about two-fifths of the English area ; and about five-sixths of all the Iriah holders cultivated their land without the

      employment of labourers , simply by the work of themselves and their families . The number of enfranchised leaseholders was diminishing also , from the indisposition of the landlords to renew leases . In England it was otherwise ; tbe legitimate influence of tbe landlord was still prevalent . If it were otherwise—If a systematic and extraneous attack were made and kept up against bis influence and interest here , he would perhaps seek , not unnaturally , to get tenants of his own way of thinking ; but at all events ho would let his property from year to year , and grant no more of those leases which , by constituting a franchise , made a bone of contention . If such a system were to become so far prevalent in Ireland as to reduce the const :, tuency below the fair mark of the Reform Bill , he himself would be willing to discuss tha remedy for such a state of things . At the time of the Reform Bill , be had calculated the county constituency of Ireland at P 2 . 900 . Mr . O'Connell at that time had fixed his utmost wishes

      at 90 , 000 . Last yeaT ' s return showed it to be 39 , 127 . Th » borough constituencies exhibited a similar result . It might be said , these returns showed too large a constituency , by reason of tbe double entries and other errors in the registry ; but his answer was , amend the system of the registry , that you may know the real amount of the constituency , before you act en this snpposed necessity of iacreaiiDg it . Hia last objection would be , that even if all other arguments were cleared away , tke £ b proposed was too small an amount . In England and in Scetland , and , for municipal purposes , in Ireland too , the household qualification was £ 10 . Why was it to bs made £ 5 for the Irish Parliamentary franchise ? Every poor labourer , with a mud cottage and an acre or two of land , would be rated at £ 5 ; and you would have a class of voters greatly below tbe

      common day labourers in England . A farmer of 15 acres , at 20 s . or 20 s . an acre , which was about the usual amount and value of land farmed in Ireland , was in a miserable conditiou during the period from April to September , living on dry potatoes , txcept for a little milk from the cow . And yet this poor farmer was a person rated three times as high as the wretched labourer whom this Bill proposed to invest with the right of voting , and to whom it offered that right as a remedy for his distresses ! The 40 s . freeholders were disfranchised , not because they were Roman Catholics , but because they were not in a station of life to be independent . Those 40 s . freeholders , however , had rvally a beneficis ] interest ; the now proposed voters had none ; they could n-sist Deither tbe influence of tbe landlord nor the intimidation of the mob . A

      beneficial iease feives a property to the tenant ; but a lease at a rack rent gives him nothing at all . If this Bill could be carried f » r Ireland , it would be impossible to abstain from applying its principle to England and Scotland also . The next cry would be , " jastice to England . " Government would be bound to tell the House in this debate what their intention with respect to England was . Lord Morpeth might delay the redress of abuses a little longer—ha might again excite and unsettle a part of the publie—he might again throw the elements of discord , as Lord John Russell had said , into the political cauldron—but be trusted that the House would resist this measure , and he waa assured that in that resistance they would be supported by tbe people of England . He moved that the Bill be read a second time on that day six months .

      Mr . C . VV OOD desired to record his approval of the Bill , and of the course pur .-ued by the Government . There was no very wide difference as to the registration remedies between Lord Stanley's Bill and Lord Morpeth ' s ; but the latter was objected to , for that which was really its great merit , that it removed the whole evil , that of the franchise , as well as that of the registration . If the suggested amount of £ 5 were unsatisfactory , gentlemen migbt vote in committee for a larger sum . He then entered into some details of numbers and value ; and urged the necessity of a state of things under which a set of constituencies chiefly

      Catholic returned representatives chiefly Protestants ; especially when almost all the material questions of the day were questions connected with the religion of the people . He assumed an air of surprise at what Lord Stanley had said about the relations of landlord and tenant , and did not see , for his owa part , why the landlord should ever know what the politics of his tenant were . He was a friend to the great settlement of the Reform Bill ; but he would not tie himself down to every word of it , nor adhere to the letter in opposition to tbe spirit . The House should not try to legislate against the feeling of a whole nation .

      Mr . Litton said , be opposed tbe Bill , as being a repeal of the Reform Act He gave a succinct history of the former proceedings of Government respecting registration , into none of which had they thought it allowable to introduce a proposal like that of the £ 5 rating . Bat they now avowed that they would not consent to part with fraud and perjury in the registration , unless they got a quid pro quo tot themselves . If a rating were proposed on » value to be taken clew ot rent aad taxes , he should be glad to adopt such a test ; but it was idle to take a £ o rating as a test of beneficial interest , where the tenant might be paying twice that amount of rent fur the occupation . He condemned the conduct of tho Government , who , he was persuaded , had introduced this proposal of a £ 5 franchise by way of a new agitation in lieu of tbe agitations for tithe and for repeal : and be ridiculed the notion that England had anything to fear from acting firmly in Irish aftaira .

      Mr . Fitzpatsick was favourable to the seeond reading . Mr . Lucas explained tbe views by which he had been actuated last year , in advancing the principle of rating as a test for franchise . Hiryiew had been that the party should be rated for £ 8 5 s . over and abovt > hia rest . What resemblance bad that to tbe preseat Bill

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      whlcK re quired ft Jatfnfof only £ 6 la all , witnoutany redoettori wbatevrf * sr wntf The pw * nt BM pnt ntatten in t > m « ob won * tate than tbey w * re in < wh « & the 40 a , freenoldew had the fraMhiae ; fox tbosatree holders possessed sdmethinit , bat the mere rated occupier posseaiefnothing . ^ , ' » * ¦ — ' ;"' Lord MOSJPETH be # an by Atarttotf on fiord Stanley the charge of excitement and disturbance . lK » rd Stanley had said the rating clause w *« but a tack and' a postscript ; tor himself , he regarded 'it aft the preface , nay , as part of the text itself , a main part too , and onewfthout which the rest would ha Wtochance ot being brought to a satisfactory issue . Ministers were twitted with an excessive partiality for Ireland ; but it should be remembered that there the 46 . v freeholders

      could not vote . The 40 a , freeholders were disfranchised at the time of the Relief Bill , to the" amount x ) f lOi . voters . He insisted on the authority of Mr . £ . ueas and Sir D . J . Norreys , as favourable to the principle of the rating test : and as to tbe amount , that questioa was for the Committee . He should rather h » Te waited Withe experiment of the Poor Law had been fnrthe * ripened : bnt Lord Stanley * legislation had foreed Minister * forward . It bad become qaite necessary to take soote step ; for almost all the litigation , whether In the registration court * or before committees of this bouse , now turned upon this one question of value ; and the Irish bench themselves were divided in opinion . Lord Stanley ' s bill , while it would drive away disbonest claimants , would be still more likely to drive away

      quiet well-meaning persons . The Foot Law rating , on the contrary , combined most of the advantages of a test ; though certainly it would not ba an exact measure for each particular case . The question of amount belonged more properly to the - committee than to the second reading ; but he would not shrink from dealing with it now . Ministers , on looking into the facts , were satisfied that even a £ 5 net rating wonld exclude many voters of the kind which the Reform Bill meant to admit , and they considered that by fixing the amount at a £ 5 gross rating they were adopting a liberal test , but not an Inordinate one . The document which Lord Stanley had relied on , as showing a constituency of 91 , 000 voters , had been made out before tbe registration of last autumn , at which time all franchises registered in 1832 would have expired , unless previously renewed ; but , at all events , there would soon be a

      fresh return , giving the numbers now actually in existence . Towns as well as counties were included in this arrangement , for it was desirable to take the opportunity of settling the whole subject at the same time . He vindicated the provision for quarterly registration , and the restriction upon appeals touching matter of fact . He trusted that tbe House , in choosing between the two Bills before them , would act in tbe spirit of tbe Reform Bill—that they would shut out the many difficulties devised by Lord Stanley against the honest voter , and that they would rather adopt a measure conciliatory to the great body of our Irish fellow-subjects . He alluded mysteriously to the state of our foreign relations , as an inducement for keeping the Irish in good humour , and concluded with a peroration about the Repeal ot the Union . The debate was then adjourned till Tuesday .

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      The average rate of wages in Hants ia 15 s . a-week . There will be a great increase in the number of steamers on the Thames during the ensuing season . There is to be a regular line of sailing packets between Antwerp , Rio Janeiro , and Valparaiso . An Augmentation op the army will take place within a v « ry short period . The increase will not exceed from two to three thousand men . Measures are being taken by the Government to ascertain the number of Jesuits located throughout Ireland . A great number of horses are now weekly imported into Ireland from different parts of Wales . Formerly the importation was reversed . It is said that Mr , Barry is to receive the sum of £ 25 , 000 for designing , superintending , and completing the new Houses of Parliament .

      On Wednesday , the 17 th instant , the Coroner held no fewer than six inquests in the London Hospital . They were principally " acoident cases . " Precious Metals . —Silver coin and bullion shipped at Dover , from Feb . 1 st to 14 th—30 , 450 oa . of silver ; 380 oa . of gold . A letter from Treves eays that the King of Prussia has remitted the whole of the duty on wine for the year 10 J 0 . It is LirtLK advantage to the traveller that tbe sun sets not till very late , if the day has been all passed in clouds . Thb Tradk op MAift Ports in Scotland seems to be steadily advancing . An instance of this is seen in the shipping returns of Greenock and Glasgow . There are 35 , 400 Persons at Liverpool , and 15 , t 00 at Manchester , now living in ce llars of the most unhealthy description .

      At Bow-street , om Saturdat weelc , Jahn Harrington , a letter-carrier , was committed for trial for stealing a £ 10 note out of a letter . Br as awful Fire in a flax-mill , near Ktlmacrenan , in Ireland , two lives were lost , and several persons severely injured . The Archduke Frederick , who distinguished him . self in the campaign in Sjria , has just returned to Vienna . The Nkwcastle Commercial Banking Company , at their half-yearly meeting , declared a dividend after the rate of six per cent , per annum . Sir Jou . t Harvey , Governor of New Brunswick , has been recalled , and will be succeeded by Sir Wm . Colebrooke . Thk Sixty-bevehth Anniversary Festival of the Royal Humane Society was celebrated at the Freemasons' Hall by upwards of three-hundred gentlemen . ¦

      Typhus Fever is spreading among the poor in Edinburgh . The whole wards of tho Royal Infirmary have been throwu opeu , and almost every bed is occupied . Thk Roman Academy of St . Luke has conferred the title of honorary member on the Queen Dowager of Spain " who , it is well known , is a fine artist in oil colours . " A Marriage is contemplated between Prince Charles Ferdinand , son of the Archduke of Modena , and the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany . The Queen of the French has united with the Quoen Dowagor of Naples to effect a reconciliation between the King of Naples and his brother , the Prince of Capua .

      Some disorders occurred in the veterinary school at Alfert , near Paris , on Sunday week , which ended in the withdrawal of the 2 G 0 students who paid for their education . The British Legion . —The last remnant of the British Legion , numbering one hundred and fifty , arrived in Waterford on Wednesday , the 17 th instant , from Santander . The appointment of a Select Committee to investigate '' the present state of the Companies for effecting assurances on Urea , aad for granting anuuitiea , " will be proposed in Parliament . Floggin * at Ska . —In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Saturday , the master of the ship , Greyhound , was ordered to pay £ 100 damages , to his boatswain , for ill-usage of him , whilst at sea .

      The Marquise db St . Cyh , whoso husband died in the service of Charles X ., was found dead in her hotel at Cherbourg , on the 30 th uit ., having hung herself in a , fit of insanity . Among the intelligence recently brought from China , is a rumour that the crews of two American ships , the Panama and Kosciusko , had deserted and entered into the service of the Chinese . A RuesiAN , M . Weschniakoff , is said to have discovered a new material for heating steam-engines , which takes less space and produces a greater heat than the best sea coal . The inventor calls this substance carbolein . Sug / lR . —Papers to the 13 th of January , from Barbadoes , state that sugar-mating had commenced in the island . The crop was expected to be in -quantity about the same as 1 ast year . Ground provisions were everywhere scarce .

      A Letter from Rome states that the feast of languages was celebrated on the 12 th ult ., at the college of Propaganda . Cardinal Metzofcuitt presided at the solemnity , unique in its way . There seems to have been orations in every mentionable language . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on the 18 th instant , a verdict , with £ 200 damages , was given against Mr . Goldie , a distiller , for having driven his gig over an old womu in Whitechapel , by which her xhigh-bone was broken . We understand that the New Zealand Company intend to confide the command of the preliminary expedition of their Second Colony , and tbe duty of establishing the new settlement , to Captain Arthur Wakefield of the Navy . —Spectator .

      There is such a scarcity of hands to man thecodfiahing ships of Dieppe , whioh ought soon to be sailing for Newfoundland , that the traders have addressed two successive petitions to the Minister of Marine , praying for aid . Tub 1 W , Geo . G . Cookmam , of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America , and son of George Cookman , Esq . of Hull , bas been elected for tho second time , by a large majority , chaplain to the Senate of the United States . ; . The Property op Great Britain . —Ricardo estimates the whole property of Great Britain at £ 3 , 000 , 000 , 000 ; and , according to Sir G . R . Porter ' s tables of 1833 , the property of the empire is estimated at £ 3 , 663 , 0 * 0 , 000 , and the gross income at not less than £ 514 , 0 * 0 , 000 .

      Rotten Boroughs . —Nearly all the small places in Cornwall that were disfranchised have materially improved since they were placed in Schedule A ; but the most striking instance is Callington , which appears to improve in appearance and prosperity every day .

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      Thb Lobds Of the Admtnltty hare directed ih % i troop ships wear the colours worn by her Majenty ' s hips on the ktationB that they may ba from time to time employed . . ¦ : ¦ -. Am Empty Tbbabciit . —A Bill haa been introduced into the Virginia Legislature , to authorise the banks of that State to loan the commonwealth 100 , 000 dollars . It is stated that there U not enough money m the treasury to pay the Member' wages . Illness in the Army . —Illness to a great extent prevails amongst the privates and some of the noncommissioned officers in the 60 th Rifles . There are now upwards of seventy sick in the hospital , and mostly young men under twenty-two years of age . While in England coal and iron are always found together , in France no such coincidence occurs . The iron-masters of France are , in consequence , obliged to bring from a distance the coal necessary for their furnaces .

      Mr . O'Connell has written to the Belfast Chamber of . Commerce , advising them that the French Government are about to lay an import duty of twelve per cent , on linen yarn , which , as Belfast carries on an immense traffic with France , would lead to serious detriment . At ihb Court of Bankruptcy , on Saturday , a meeting of the creditors of Mr . C . J . Carter , the coroner for Kent , took place . The bankrupt's liabilities exceed £ 10 , 090 ; and amongst the creditors who proved were the whole of the servants , consisting of a footman , a gardener , cook , housemaid , needlewoman , nurserymaid , and governess . Charge of Violation . —At Guildhall ' , on Friday , Henry Bias , the keeper of a china and glass shop , in Farrmgdon-etreet , was held to bail , himself in £ 500 , and'three sureties in £ 5 * 0 more , on a charge of vioating his servant girl .

      The sea is receding so rapidly from the bay of Bourg Neufi that the remains of an English ship of war , mounting sixty-four guns , which was lost on an oyster-bank , whilst in pursuit of a French ship in 1752 , are now to be found in the midst of a cultivated plain . Effects of Cold on Old Persons . —The effect of cold on the aged is strikingly evinced by the tables of mortality for 1838 , as the following statement will show , of deaths in the metropolis : — Winter . Spring . Summer . Autumn . Total deaths 15 , 611 13 , 109 13 , 379 12 , 581 Old age . 1 , 383 960 778 981 Insane Mother l and Child . —On the first inst ., one Mrs . Mair , of Freedom , Ohio , in a fit of insanity , threw her own child into the fire and burnt it alive . —On the same day , six Iadians , while in a state of intoxication , were froaeu to death on Beattie ' a > rairie , in Arkansas .

      Dublin . —A great sensation has been created in the mercantile circles here by the euddeu flight of a member of the Board of Aldermen , leaving behind him defalcations to tho enormous amount of £ 60 , 000 . No reason has been as yet assigned as the cause of failure . A Case of considerable importance to sea captains was brought before the notice ef the Lord Mayor , on Saturday . A druggist had been employed to BUpply medicines for a ship on her voyage to the coast of Africa ; but the drugs were so much , adulterated as to be utterly worthless . The captain of the ship said , all his brew died on the voyage : they were so obstinate , they would take no other medicine but salts ; but if they had been so inclined , there were no medicines in the chest fit for them . The druggist had been summoned to attend , but he did not appear to answer the charge : his name was not mentioned .

      A Duel took place on Thursday morning , the 18 th instant , between Col . Patterson , of the East India Company's service , and Mr . Robert Marsden , of Park Lodge , Regent's Park . The parties met at daybreak , at the back of the Eyre Arms Tavern ; and at the second fire Colonel Patterson was severely wounded in the wrist . It is said that the misunderstanding arose from a political dispute between the parties ; the Colonel having asserted at a dinner party , in the presence of Mr . Marsden , that the supporters of Mr . O'Connell were "political scoundrels ; " and Mr . Marsden , who is a warm advocate of Mr . O'Connell , applying the term to himself , called upon the Colonel to apologise , which was refused .

      Suicide . —An inquest was held on the 18 th inst ., at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of Thomas Heomao , a compositor , who jumped from Blaoktriars Bridge on Monday . The deceased , when walking on the Bridge , tapped a gentleman on the shoulder , aud telling him to follow , ran across the road , got on to the balustrade , and threw himself iuto the river . He was taken out by a waterman , iu a state of insensibility ; but was restored to animation after all pulsation had ceased . It was found , however , that he had received severe contusions in his fall ; ho was taken to the Hospital , and died on Wednesday . The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . "

      A " respectable coal-merchant , " as he is termed by the reporter , named Margery , was charged , on Wednesday , at the Mansion-house , with cheating the poor by giving short weight . What made the matter worse was , that he was supplying coals in tho cause of charity , the inquest of the Billingsgate Ward having made arrangements with him to sell to the poor at a much lower rate than usual . He did accordingly sell to the poor , but the latter had no cause to congratulate themselves on their bargain , on finding a few pounds , more or l ess , deficient in each sack . The defence was of the usual" black diamond" order .

      The Longest Winter . —This is the longest winter that has been felt in the southern parts of England for many years past , and it has been only partially broken since the 12 th of December , by westerly winds and rain for eleven or twelve days in January . The brightest side of the picture ( says Dr . Burney , of the Royal Academy , Gosport ) , is the beneficial effect the snow , which lay long on the ground , will unquestionably have on the arable Jands , which fortunately were sown with wheat last autumn more extensively than for many years past . Be assured that the winter is not yet over , for the planetary aspects with the sun on the 19 th of February , the 11 th and 23 rd of March , indicate a remission of temperature , frost , and probably snow .

      Curious Consanguinity . —A short time since , at James ' s Church , Poole , a father married his son ' s wife's aunt . The eon married his father ' s wife ' s sister . Consequently one son is brother-in-law to his father , and the father brother-in-law to his son . The other eon is nephew and son-in-law to his father ' s wife , and his wife is nieco and daughter-inlaw to her husband ' s father , niece aud sister-in-law to her husband's brother , and niece and sister-in-law to her husband's brother ' s wife . It would be difficult to find a parallel instance of such intricate relationship . —Salisbury Herald .

      A few nights since , t wo English sailors , according to the Semaphore , of Marseilles , who had taken too much grog on board , picked a quarrel in that town with some Frenchmen . Words ran high , and blows soon ensued . In the conflict one of the tars caught the leg of an adversary in his teeth , and held Hasina vice , till obliged to relinquish his hold by the overwhelming power of numbers ; and not then , till so beaten that not a feature in his face could be recognised . His brother blue jacket , indignant at his unfair treatment , interposed , and , determining to display all his skill and strength in the sckneoot boxing , rushed into the centre of at least twenty of

      the assailants of his messmate , and delivered his blows with such force , that he soon made a circle round him , the diameter of which was at least the length of his own arms . Jack cleared his way out , and madetowardB the canal , but was followed by so many adversaries , that he was at last knocked down . He lay for some time , perhaps not stunned , but only to recover his breath , and then , suddenly springing up , fought his way through a whole phalanx , till some police-officers took him under their protection , and placed him in safety . The Semaphore concludes its account with blaming the conduct of its fellow-citiians .

      Dreadful Shipwreck . —tOne Hundred and Thirty-two Lives Lost . —Liverpool , Sunday . — It is our painful duty to record one of the most distressing accidents at sea ever remembered by the oldest navigators . The Governor Fenner , Captain Andrews , sailed from Liverpool for New York , on Friday last , with a full cargo of miscellaneous goods and 116 passengers : she arrived off Holyhead « n Saturday morning , and when about twenty miles west of that point of the Welsh coast ran foul of the steamer Nottingham , a vessel belonging to the City of Dublin Company , trading between Liverpool and Dublin . At the time of the melancholy accident the wind' was blowing fresh from the south-west , with a heavy swell , and weather very haxy . Upon the

      two vessels meeting ( two oolock , a . m . ) , it appears that the . Governor Fenner struck the Nottingham steamer on her starboard side , and in less than ten minutes the American ship had sunk , and 116 passengers and sixteen of her crew were almost instantly passed into eternity . The captain and mate were the only two l ives saved , the former by catching , hold of a rope belonging to the steamer , and the latter by jumping off the fore-yard of the ship on to the steamer » s the Governor fenner was going down . At the time this , melancholy catastrophe occurred all the passengers were in their berth . 3 asleep , and could not have any idea of their perilous situation . The steamer Nottingham

      sustained great damage , having , lost her chimney and starboard paddle-box , and being otherwise so disabled as to render it difficult for her to make her paafeage to Liverpool , during which Bhe threw overboard 200 head of cattle . T ^ a Governor Fenner is an American , vessel of 380 tons burden ; she was buih in Massachusetts ia 1827 , is therefore fourteen years old , and is considered here by experienced men quite ^ qualified to convey 116 souls to a distant land . Thes-3 unfortunate people consisted of emigrants of the better class from various parts of England , Ireland , and Scotland , whose names , it beiug Sunday , we are unable to obtain . —London Papgr .

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      Rotatory Stbam Enowr . —Messrs . Perry ifo . rett , and Exall , ir « nfonnders , Reading , baTe ^ I their manufactory , a working model of a rotator steam engine , on the wheelraoket principle , wu ?? will make a thousand revolutions in a minute A * engine , with sufficient power , on that priacinlf would progress on a railroad seven thoasand yatS in a minute , or two hundred and thirty-ei ght buTm an hour ; it appears from the simplicity of its ewT stTuction to be admirably adapted for agricaltawt purposes . »»•»

      Breach of Promise op Marriage . —In the Conn of Queen ' s Bench , on the 17 th , inst ., in the cantf Grunsted v . North ; the former the daughter of * widow who kept a public house- ^ the latter a j ^ om man surveyor to the eastern division of Sonthwirfr a verdict was found for plaintiff—damages £ im The plaintiff had had a child by defendant . ¦ Blasphemous Prosecutions . ——The proseestki against the great booksellers , Moxoa , Fraser , i » 5 Otley , for blasphemy , will be entered on next w ^ It will then be seen whether such works as Shelled —works accessible only to the rich , on account of their price—are to be openly sold , and Haslm ' . Penny Letters prohibited . The matter create great interest . The following extract from " QqmI Mab , " will be adduced to show the manner ShelW has alluded to the Deity : — J

      ——God , hell and heaven , A vengeful , pitiless , and almighty fiend , Whose mercy is a nickname for the rage Of tameless tigers , hungering for blood . And , again : — There is no God ; but human pride Is skilful to invent most serious names To hide its ignorance . Suicide . —On Friday , the body of a gentleam . named Smith , residing at 15 , St . Jamea ' s-pW Hampstead-road , was found by a man named Gift ! fiths , near the Meet water-bridge , whioh crosses Jb » Regent ' s Canal . The deceased must have wafted direct from his residence to the Canal and committed the rash act . Mr . Smith was of eccentric haiitg . and wealthy , but never betrayed the slightest gyan * toms of insanity . r

      A Great Brute . —At the Thames Police-ofW on Saturday , a fellow named Thomas HosemanTsa omnibus conductor , was charged with brutally j ]{ . treating his wife . It appeared that , while in a sUtt of drunkenness , he knocked the poor creature down , and swore he would do for , and as fast as she got up he then "floored" her again ; and , after uearl y exhausting the poor woman he forced her head through a pane of glass , which cut her face severel y , and then beat her about the ribs , to the tune of " Jin along Josey . " The magistrates fined thfl brute £ 5 . and in default of payment committed him to prison for two months .

      Illicit Still . —In the Court of Excise on Satmday , Patrick Laley was charged with working illicit still . The detection was made by Mr . Whisken , the officer , in King ' s-court , Old Bailey , ifo place was fitted up in an extensive way and upwards of thirty gallonB of spirits were found therein . Fined £ 100 . Benjamin Brittle , of Crown-street , St . Giles '? , was heard on a similar infornntioo , which was supported by Whiskon , and a fine of £ 109 was imposed .

      Brutality of a Husband towards his Wipe , — Oa Friday , at the Middlesex adjourned Sessions , James Ranis was indieted for assaulting Ann Elizabeth , his wife , on the 29 th of December , 1840 , It appeared the brute had broken two of his vifeY ribs on one occasion . He was fined 20 s . and ordered to enter into recognizances to keep the peace for twelvemonths , himself in £ 40 , and two sureties ia £ 20 each . Suicide of a Y » ung Lady at London-bridge . — On Sunday , the 14 th iust ,, st seven o ' clock , a lady , apparently seventeen years of age , fashionably attired in black satin , was seen standing upon one of the seats within a recess on London-bridge , her

      face being towards the water . Her strange titoi * tioa attracted the notice of the persons passing ; but before any measures were taken towards renor < ing her , she climbed over the wall on to the panpet . and : then plunged into the stream . The shouts or the persons who witnessed the occurrence , caused the boatmen to pull out to her assistance ; but u she had thrown herself off the centre arch , and consequently Borne distance from the shore , they were unable to reach her , and , after struggling for a fetr seconds , she sank , and was earried away bj thi tide .

      Separation of Man and Wife under thb Bastiu System . —At Union Hall Police Office , on Tueadij week , some very painful circumstances relating to the system of separation of man and wife were brought out . An elderly man named Gibson , in tbe workhouse for the parish of St . George the Martyr , Southwark , having heard that the parochial authorities intended to remove his wife , who was quite unfit for the journey , to Canterbury , determined to prevent it if he could , and endeavoured to scale tie workhouse wall , to apprise his friendi outside tb » house of his wife's removal . He scaled the wtL bat

      fell a great distance and very severely hurt himself . and was found there by some persons who carriea him to a place of shelter . The poor old man bad first endeavoured to communicate with the master of the workhouse , but that individual took no notioa of the note sent to him . At the instance of Mr . Day , formerly a guardian , the relieving officer , Carslake , undertook that Gibson should Be re-admitted into the workhouse , and that the suspended order , as to the removal of his wife , should not be carried into effect until she was pronounced to be sufficiently recovered to be passed to her uatiw settlement .

      Origin of Whig Antipathy to the Chinesb . — Much meditating , we have at last discovered , though more by accident than meditation , why the present Ministers of this country hate the Chinese . Confuciua is held in universal veneration throughout China , and shrines and temples are erected to his worship . Now , ia the Lun-yu , or conversations of Confucius , recorded by his disciples , he is represented to have said— "How can a mean man serve his prince ! When out of office , ' his sole object is to attain it ; and when he has attained it , his only anxiety is to keep it . In his unprincipled dread of losibg his place , he will readily go all lengths . How can the Melbourne Ministry be otherwise than hostilely disposed towards a people whose state religion is a standing impeachment of them!—Spectator .

      Another Affray with Poachers . —The ganw preserves of the Marquis of Hastings , about Castle Donington Park and Isley Walton , having of late been much intruded upon , by a gang of noted poachers , from the neighbourhood of Breedon and Wortnington , a watch has for some time been placed upon their steps ; and on Saturday evening the gamekeepers of the Marquis of Hastings ana Richard Cheslyn , Esq ., with one or two watchmen , came up with a gaug of four poachers , wneB J } desperate scuffle ensaed . The poachers were armed with loaded guns and bludgeons , and after uw

      example of their brethren at Bretby Park , I * s » week , seemed determined to resist uuto death . Ine gun , fortunately , was prevented from doing Mf injury ; but the bladgeon conflict was sharp &n « severe . The keepers , however , were ultimate ly successful , and secured three of the four poachers , who , we are led to understand , are now committeo to take their trials at the approaching adjourned sessions for Leicestershire . The poachers had * lurcher dog with them , and a game net eevfin'J yards loag 1 A very pretty instrument for clearings after a few nights' practice ,, the preserves of any gentleman . —Nottingham Review .

      Second Colony in New Zealand . —A second colony-is about to be formed in New Zealand , on a « m grander plan than that of the first colony . From * correspondence which has been published between Mr .- Bryan Duppa , one of the emigrants withi tne proposed colony , and the Secretary of the r » e « Zealand Company , it appears that the project oW ' nated with a body of gentlemen who mean w engage personally in the undertaking . Mr . wvv * sets out with explaining that , so far from ™ sun * to rival the first settlement , his coadjutors considerea that it would benefit by the establishment . of » second colony . The structure of the New Ze ~ sn r islands , without navitrable rivers , properly so caiiefl *

      but with a very extensive seabord , and numerous nno harbours , indicates that Us process of settlement must be , like that of Sicily , by separate towns ^ on the coast , with a maritime intercommunicatJon . An ° the advancement of Port Nicholson must depend w a great degree npon the popularity of New Zeaiaiw as an emigration-field , and the general emyjrawoB to that country , which will be promoted by everj thing that increases the importance of the wfcnas and their pointB of attraction . The scheme suggested in Mr . Dnppa ' s letter has been adopted . " some immaterial modification , by the . ^ ^ 7 i ' Highly practical in its construction , it may , « ° timebe called magnificent in its scope . £

      same , tract of land , comprising 221 , 000 acres , . «> { £ devoted to the purposes of the settlement , and w « p disposed of in the following manner : —lfiW auw . .. ments , of 201 acres each , are to be offered for par chase by the settlers , each allotment being buwu Tided into thr « a sections , consisting of 1 «> ««* " rural land , 50 acres of " accommodation" or st "" u ban land , and one acre of town land ;; and ! £ <{ £ acres will be reserved , like the tithe of land in w » first settlement , for the use and advantage « . » £ aborigines of the district . The p rice ^ WK" ? A each allotment of 201 aires will be £ 300 ; and W UOTsnnU snm voaiicori W fViA BilfiB . £ 3 vU , UVU > "V '

      be thus laid out :- £ 150 , 000 will be « P « j ^^ emigration to the new Settlement ; ^ 50 ' t ^ HiAto defray the expences of the Company in esj'f ' rr . ingthe . new colony ; £ 50 , 000 , together w *> * $ surplus from the previous item , ™ H Kent to public purposes , " for rendering the jf'ff " commodious and attractive , " namely , * ? ' ^ L jg , religions nses and endowments forall aenominw' ^ f £ 15 , 000 to the establishment of a < s olle . f' { £ : £ 20 , 000 to ' the encouragement of steam . navi ga ™^ and £ 50 , 008 will be set aside for the reimtars 611 *" and profit of the Company . —London Paper-

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 27, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct368/page/6/