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THE PRUSSIAN DIET . I Although . King Frederick William graciously infon formed the members ef the Diet that it was not their pro province to represent opinions ; and added his " royU wm word" that he won ? d not hare called them together if I if he had had the smallest suspicion that they would pis play the partof " whatare called representatives of 8 u thepeople , "—u ^ 'dear" Lords and Burghers seem te be be resolutely bentnpon running counter to the royal * i * B 1 and intentions . The " * f ^ ' % - * $£ tb the King ' sspeech , as presented to the Ihet in iteonri gmalforna . must have ^ "J *" / . ™ , «*« as s « i ale ^ w his Prussian Majesty . ; and , indeed , assnbm ^ qnently adopted , the pil is bat sugared oyer , to m enable his kingship to swallow the bolus with less of
3 a wry face than he would have shown if compelled to t > belt tbe do ^ in its undisguised for » . The original "Address" expressed pretty plainly t the dissatisfaction of the Diet with the ordinance of i iheSrd of Februarv , and demanded the convocation 0 of periodicailDKliaments . by reminding the King that i the financial laws of 1 S 20 and 1 S 23 rendered it rrai perative to submit to an annual assemblage of the S States an account of the finances of the kingdom . 3 Further , the " Address" refused toaeknowledge that 1 the United Diet could be replaced by other represeni tarrre bodies in the functions which belong to it as : an assembly ofthe States of the kingdom ; and that Ihe advice and concurrence of the Diet was
henceforth requisite for all the general laws having for their object changes in the rights of persons or propertv , or in levying taxes , and could not be supplied oythe op inions of provincial diets or united committees . Lastly , the " Address" contained hintof the grief the Diet felt at s » me portions of the royal s peech and the conscientious compulsion which induced the membe rs to declare their detenrination to uphold the righteof the States . . This' Address * was proposed by Count Jscnwenn . andsecendedby Beckerath , one of the Commons ' depnties fram the Rhine , If the "Address" spoke plainly , the s eeches in support of the address were Etill more significant . Foreign as well as home cnestionswTO discussed in a manner that must show
Frederick- William how little disposed soma of the deputies are to respect his admonition against repre-Eentins " opinions . " Hanseman , the parliamentary leader in tbe provincial state of Rhenish Prussia , " not content with confining himself to legal or constitutional argument ! :, launched into the great ocean cf European politics ; declared that Prussia , without sational nnity , menaced by two colossal empires , by Snsia and by Franca , cmld never successfully resist both or either , except by the creation of a free nationality , in which prince and people would join , ftassia . tree and united , dragged Germany after her , or rather represented Germany ; and he felt , when he spoke thus , that there were behind him , sot fifteen millions of Prussians , bat twenty-five millions of Germans . What they debated , therefore , wasnot merelvthefreedomand happiness of Prussia ,
bat tho « of Germany and of Europe ? The Marshal of the Biet'S ^ ove ia vain torepressthisnnlookedfor eloquence , which , strange to say , appears in full inihePrussianGosette . CountArnim , one ofthe Prussian Miubtrv . replied to the opposition , defended the K ng ' s speech , and proposed the omission of certain pmtions of tke "Address , " * and the substitntion ef words of less significanse . Baroa Auerswald . of Ronigsberg , proposed to preface Count Arnira ' s amendment by the declaration that the States deemed themselves possessed of all the rights allottei to the Imperial States , by the edicts of the late Kin ? , in 1 S 20 and 1823 . On being put to the vote Count Arnira ' s amenSment was rejected —390 for , U 03 against Baron Anerswald's amendment was carried by rising and sitting , by a large majority , finallv . for the " Address" thus modified , there appeared 484 votes , against 107 .
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Since the above was in type , intelligence froa Berlin to the 23 rd of April has come to hand . On ' tbat day , tbe Second Order of the States received the , Jung ' s replv to the " Address , " which had been presentedby the eight Marshals on the 21 st . The reply : 13 conciliatory in its tone . The discrepancies said te eri < t-between the intentions ofthe late King , and the . fulfilment of them by the present King , are denied to esist , and the remonstrance of the assembly , tbej King declare ? , he does notTeceive as a symptom tjf mistrust He promises to convoke the Diet agamj witninfour years , " even though none of the reasras ; enumerated " by the law for-calling them together ; ehould-exist , in order that the fruits of a iipened < £ -i perience may be turned to teconnt . "
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We subjoin someinteresting particulars respectfngj the present stafeofPrnssia . .-abridgedfroma ralnz- ' hie resume in the Daily Sews , of a work entitled Statktik dcs Preussbchen Stoats : —
STATISTICS OP PBCSSIA . TEEEITOCT . The most remarkable geonraphlcal feature of tucking * flora is it * frontier and relative jposirion to other states . Prussia consists of two parts , completely separateatyihB interposition of fordgn territories , la tbe eastern division , where tbe capital is situated , four-fifths of the whole Superficies of the territory are comprised ; the western division contains the remaining fifth . The eastern fitvisionhas « frontier ofabont 2 , 300 miles . of whicbabont 3 , « S 0 are a land frontier , and the rest maritime . On the north , east ; and south , this frontieris well-defined ; on fienorth is the Baltic for some 408 miles ; on the east , the Russian territories for about 704 , and- < 5 rakau ( now Austria ) for about 12 ; on tie south , Austria for 332 , and Saxony for about 140 miles . The western frontier , on the contrary , of 706 miles , is irregular and complicated in the extreme . Tbe frontier of the western division extends in all to some
3 , 044 miles , of which on ' y 91 touch upon non-Germanic territories-i 36 on Belgium , and 35 on France . The western frontier abuts , for 279 -miles of its length , on Xuxemberg and Lunberg ; the northern ( 176 miles ) en the kingdom of Hanover , the-souther ( 1 C 0 miles ) on Bavaria , Hesse , and an outlayicg portion of Oldenburg ; the eastern , which is entangled as tht western of the other division , and'has an extent of 33 € miles , on no less then eight states of the Germanic confederation . The shortest distance ( in a-direct line ) between these two disjointed portions of Prussian territory k about 30 miles ; the foreign territories lying between them belong principally to Hanover , Brunswick , Electoral © esse , and the Lippes . "With an area-of 78 . 790 square miles , Prussia has 3 , 3 * 4 railes of frontier . For no less thaa : 13-20 ths of this extent , however , 'Prussia touches upon states which , like itself ; are incorporated in the Germanic confederation ? for * MthsithasSuaUforaneighbenr , for 1-iQri France sad Belgium : the rest is sea-coast .
SOPDLATMff . —KACES . Of the inhabitants of the Prussian territory fully 8 S per cent , are Germans ; not , however , of pure High-German origin , fortte breed has been erteasiTelj crossed by the French race in the western provinces ; and the eastern have at various periods been colonised harnesses of French and Dutch immigrants . The descendants , however , of these colonists and mixed marriages are completely Germanised . At the clcse of 1843 the totel . population was estima-ed at 15 , 750 , 860 . The three and fi half milli ns of son ^ Germanic inhabitants consist of Setaxraiaus aud the
meariy related Lettish tribes resident in -Prussia , Pomeranh , Posen , and Silesia ; of about 75 , 030 towards France and Bslginm who speak » land of French patois , and a few Jews and gypsies . In Posen , about two-thirds of the population are Sclavonic . The Slavonians of the province constitute 1-lSth « f the total population of the Idngdcm ; tbe Sclavonic population of all the provinces is about IS per cent , of the whole . The rate at which the population of Prussia has increased of late is about 12 per c « nt . in 10 years . The ratio , however , varies in the different provinces . EEHGIOW SECTS .
Among the 14 907 , 091 inhabitants of Prussia in 1840 there were 9 , 054 , 481 Protestants ; 5 , 612 , 256 Homan Ca . tholics ; 1 ^ 57 members of tbe Greek Church ; 14 , 474 Mfcueonites ; and 194 , 323 Jews . ISDDSTBIAL PBOGBK 3 . —CUSSES . ^ Viih respect to the indosu island in tellectual development of the Prussian population , two entirely distinct classes of facts have been collected by our author to throw light upon it ;—the positive results ( in the creation of wealth and the accumulation of keowledge ) , and the amount of persistent activity indicated by tbe favourite pursuits of the people . In 1330 , the commercial movement of Prussia , with 13 , 000 . 000 of inhabitants , amounted to 13 , 080 , 000 cwts . ef manufactured goods , and 14 , 000 , 008 bushels of agriculturajpioduce . In Hifi , with 15 000 , 000 ;
the amounts had increased respective ^ ta 2 S , 000 . 000 of cwts . and 16 , Se 6 , 000 . « £ bushels . The pursuits ' of the principal classes of the people , however , throw a more trustworthy light apon this branch ef inqoay than dry tabular statements of produce and exchanges . With the exception of the Jews , all Prussian , citizens . are equal in tbe eye of the law . They xe foringinsben , howeter , into nobles , burghers , and chlMrators . The nobility in . cludtc the high nobility , or nobles of tbe empire who Jure been mediatised , and the egaestrian order ; these two classes possess between them by far tbe greater pro . po rtion of the land . By burghers are meant those who re &' ce is town , and pursue principslJy mercantile or mani"uactming avocations ; by cultivators , the non-proprietoi ' v rural classes , or the owners of what are called
loumirgjttr . The proportion of these classes to the total population arei—nobles , 56 per cent ; burghers / 261 per cent . ; culth "iters , 12 2-3 per cent . Classed aceordingto their avoeatioi . ** * * b * Prussians are considered as belonging to tbe class * blcb maintains { Kahr-stand , agriculturists , manufactu'ref < ^ merchants ); the educational class ( Zwir-a ^ . cIergy » professors , and schoolmasters ) ; the official eJ * M iBcamteuustand ) ¦ and the military ( TTear-itaad ) . Tfle nohlei devote themselves for the most part in nffl / - ; i tad military careers , or to the ^ cultural pursuits of the . Productive class , seldom to tbe profession of teachers and * never to the mercantile . Tbe sons of the cultivators ( or j Vasantry ) either fellow tteir fathers' occupation or enter ** axm Si some few become merchants or snanu & cru **»• Pe" ° ns ef bnrgbtr origiu are to bt ! wn dinallth . ' tfBr c * asses and
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constitute the most numerous , enterprising , intelligent andsuccessful sections of theni . HttrjA » T voaexs . In Prussia every man is trained to the use of arms ' , but there is also a class who embrace the military career as a profession for life . These are the members Ofthe standing army—the military teachers of the people . This class , weU 4 nstroeted and proud of its position , may amount to 80 , 000 men , of whom 9 , 500 are officers of all ranks . The number ef civil officiali is estimated at about four times that of the permanent army . This estimate , however , excludes all the provincial officials elected fur limited terms by their fellow-citizens . The rural population of Prussia is estimated to amount to 74 per cent , of the whole : the town population to 26
per cent , TBE PKOVI . VCJAL DIETS . With respect to the organisation of the Prussian state , the most interesting ' ins ' -Uution at this moment is the Provincial Lonisidnd . They owe their present constitution to the royal ordonnance ofthe 5 th of June , 1823 . These assemblies are composed of the high nobility of the province sitting in their own right , and of the representatives of the three orders—equestrian , burghers , and peasants . Ofthe eight provinces , only four have nobility of the bigh class among their members—Silesia , Saxony , West pbali a , and the Rhine Province . The composition of these provincial assemblies is as follows : — Prussia , 97 members- 47 representatives of the equestrian order , 28 of the " burghers , and 22 ofthe peasants . Posen , 48
members- 24 representatives of the equestrian order , 16 ofthe burghers , and 8 of the peasants . Brandenburgh , 70 membfis : 35 representatives ofthe equestrian order , 23 o ' the burghers , and 12 of the peasants . Pomerama , 59 members : 25 representatives of the equestrian order , 16 of the burghers , and 18 ofthe peasants . Suesia , 84 memba-s : 6 of the high nobility , 36 representatives of therqufsrrisnorder , 28 ofthe burghers , and 14 ofthe peasants . Saxony , 75 members : Csfthe high nobility , 30 representatives of the equestrian order , 24 of tbe burghers , and 13 ofthe peasants . Westphalia , 71 mem . hers : 11 of the high nobility , 20 representatives ofthe equestrian order , 20 ofthe burghers , and 20 of the peasants . Rhine Province , 79 members : 4 of the high nobility , 25 representatives of the equestrian order , 25 of the burghers , and 25 of the peasants . —By the
ordonnance of June 21 , 1842 , the permanent committees ofthe then provincial assemblies who may be convened for deliberation on matters of general interest , were created . The committees are elected by the Stande , and an absolute majority of votes is required for each member . The number ofthe committee is twelve in all the provinces : in Prussia , Posen , Brandenburgh , Pomerania , Silesia , and Saxony , the committees consist of six of the high nobility and representatives of the equestrian order , or of six ofthe latter , four of thehurgher , and two of the peasant representatives . Iu Saxony , Westphalia , and tbe R ine Province , there are four of the first and second class , four ofthe third , an 4 four of the fourth . It is upon these 96 members ofthe standing committees that the king hat conferred the right to assemble and deliberate in Berlin tra a limited range of public affairs , and to have their debates published .
THE GEHEBAL DIET . Our author remarks tbat hitherto there have been no political parties in Prussis . They vrll bs created by the Diet about to assemble in Berlin , if the king and it acree bug enough to admit of its striking root quietly . But the exact distribution of power under this constitution it is not easy to conjecture beforehand . The Equestrian order will have a leaning to the class ef nobles ; but every proprietor of a Sbter-gvt , whatever his birth , belongs to this order , fa the more commercial and manufacturing provinces there will be a consider able democratic admixture eves to this class : tbe tiori btobxz ofthe Equestrian orderwiUIean to the burghers . On the other hand , the high nobility , the greater part of the Equestrian order , and tbe peasants , will constitute an agricultural interest But the composition of tbe hiyhnobilityclassisnot uniform . In Silesia two princes and a dnke have each a vote ; nine of the mediatised
nobles only three votes among them . In Saxony three I nobles sit and vote ; two prebends ! chapters aie represented each hy one of their number elected for each meeting , and one sovereign prince names a representative ofthe Equestriaa order in virtue of property he possesses in the province . The eleven high nobles of Westphalia , and the focr-of the Rhine Province , each -sit and vote in person . The amount and kind 3 f influence exercised hy these parties must vary considerably . D'fference of race will tell in seme of thepro--vinces : the influence Of great ecclesiastical corporations - ' { as at Cologne ) : of enterprising merchants anuTBanufactnrers ( asin Westpfcslis ); of universities ( as at Sonigs'b erg ) , in others . Again , the committees will experience a-modification in theh--character from the circumstance -of the proportions ef the four classes being different in them from what they are in the Staide . Time alone can show to what extent this new Diet » qualified to be an organ of popular-sentiment and opinion . | :
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MOVEMENTS OF THE WEEK .
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The return of the Customs' revenue of France for the first quarter of the present year , published in the Mo ntteur of Friday , exhibits a serious falling -off in the receipts , as -compared with tae two'preceding years . Our readers will observes statement from the Steele , showing the corrupt and enormous expenditure of the-present Government With-an in * creasing expenditure and a decreasing revenue , Louis Philippe will not find his Government growing stronger as he . grows older . The famine , -although not yet" sore m = lhe land , " is likely to become so .
The probabilities are strong that the -general scarcity will not be banished by the ensuing harvest , in which case France is likely to be a severe sufferer . Should these fears . be . realised , convulsions will undoubtedly be caused thereby , which may threaten , and possibly overthrow the existing order of things i In another column , onr readers wild observe a rev-elation of the horrors of slavery in the French colonies made to the Chamber of Deputies an Monday last , and which excited an unanimous bmst of horror and
indignation . The esplosion of feeling was such ; that , despite the opposition ofthe Colonial Minister , M . 'Guizot deemed it prudent to permit the petitions ( against slavery ) , on which the debate had arisen , to be referred to the President of the Council , the Colonial Minister , and the Minister of Justice . M . L edru Rollin deserves the thanks of the human race for his courageous exposure of the miscreants who dishonour France and outrage humanity , by tie cruelties he has unseUed .
The new Spanish Ministry has brought forward a series of measures well calculated to speedily abridge their term of office . The new ministers were never very popular , but not content with damaging themselves , they seem determined to nip in the bud he new-born popularity of theunhappy Queen . Amongst the ministerial measures is a project of law on the press , rchich the Clamor Publico declares is a most infamous measure , "engendered by a spirit of fear , blindness , and fanaticism . " A second measure is a scheme of gigantic robbery , unequalled since
the alienation of the property of the Church . We are no friends to Churches , and least of all such Charabes as the Spanish Establishment ; nevertheless , a corrupt and lazy priest is , after all , less of a blood-sucker than is a scheming , bustling , grasping , money-juggling usurer . Now it was hot for the benefit of the Spanish nation , hut to gorge the ravenous maw of the stock-jobbing scoundrelocracy , that the property ofthe Spanish Church was some years ago alienated . The scheme of plunder now brought forward by Salamanca , the Minister of
Finance , is for the purpose of selling property belonging to poor-houses , colleges , towns , maestrasgos , commanderies ofthe Order of St John , and the other military orders , vacant , or that shall become vacant ; and of all other immoveable property belonging to the State not applied to the public service , of whatever origin , nature , and class it may be , and though its produce or revenue may have a special application . "The system adopted for the payment of such property by the Government will , " says the project of ! aw , " consist of the admission of three per cent , paper . The whole of the debt resulting from the operation will not he extinguished , a portion of the proceeds of the
property belonging to the towns will be converted into transferable scrip , and delivered to them for the successive receipt of income of greater amount than what they actually receive . " Thus says the project ; but this sort of compensation will not satisfy thc people , they having no confidence in the Government , believing its " paper" to he like itselfworthless . We have not space to comment on this measure as it deserves—an unblushing scheme of plunder , tfhich will fill to overflowing the cop of misery prepared for the Spanish people , by the crucifying usurers . A commission has been appointed to inquire into ths daims of the public erector , with a view to the settlement of the debt in accord * ance with the " natio ^ l honour . ' The foest way
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for the Spaniards toseltle ' the debTis torepud ^ it . The creditors , both domestic and . foreign , admeed their money for the , villanous purpose of sucking the Spanish people "to the end of time ;" and the Spanish people would be fully justified in defending themselves by an act of Repudiation . As for our own countrymen who advanced money " on the faith of Spanish credit , " they deserve never to receive a farthing ol principal or interest in return . The money they advanced was not their own—they mast have plundered their own toiling
countrymen to become possessed of it . Second ' y , instead of expending the money in their own country for the elevation of their own unhappy fellowcountrymen , which they mig ht have done with profit lo themselves , they " preferred to appropriate it towards enabling the wretches calling themselves Liberals , to erect a moneyjobbing despotism in Spain more cruel than the rule of the Inquisition . Thirdly , their
design was to become enrolled in the list of Spanish taxealers fattening on the labour of the Spanish people as our debt-robbers gorge themselves on the twenty-seven millions of " interest" they wring annually from the people of this country . We repeat that REPUDIATION both of debt and taxes , to which might be added the hanging up of the principal knaves within the reach of the Spanish people , would be the best "first step" in the way of " reform" the Spaniards could possible take .
A similar reform is sorely needed in Portugal , where our blessed protegee , Donna Maria , feigns over—apart of Lisbon , protected in her Government by the cannon of an English fleet , and the assurance that when the worst comes British soldiers and sailors will ensure her personal safety . The worst seems to be not far off , as , according to the latest accounts , Sa da Bandeira and Mfcllo were menacing
Lisbon with a force superior to that at the command of the Queen . The sound advice said to have been tendered by the British envoy has been rejected by her ridiculous "Majesty , " who will yield nothing until she is compelled , and will he sure , as soon after that as possible , to revoke all she may have previously yielded . " When the devil was sick , the devil a saint would be ; When the devil got well , the devil a saint was he !" This has been , and will be , the case with " her most faithful MajestyV' and if the Portuguese ever trust her again they will richly deserve the natural consequences of their folly-.
According to German papers , all the officers of the Austrian army who are members of societies against cruelty to animals , either in the Austrian dominions or in other countries , have received orders to withdraw immediately from those societies . Quite consistent . What a farce it would be , after Emperor Metternich organising the massacres in Gallicia , for him to allow his slaves to show sympathy for dogs , horses , & c . ! '
There is no change in the hostile attitude of the Turkish and Greek governments . Greece is in a wretched state ol disorganisation . A town in Peloponysiahas been totally destroyed in an election contest between two partisans of the present government . The military force supported the one , ' the naval force the other ; , between both the townspeople were massacred , and the town pillaged and reduced to ashes !
Gore andjGlory is the order of tbe da ; in Mexico , where the Americans are doing their best to imitate the crimes of the monarchies they affect to despise . Verily they shall have their reward i
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . Arrivals lave come to hand from Graham ' s Tows to the 23 rd of February , and Cape Town to the 3 rd of March . Sir H . Pnttmper landed at Elizabeth Town on theeveningof Friday , the 18 th of February . He was to leave for Graham ' s Town on Tuesday morning , "having been detained by . floods . An encomiastic address was presented by the inhabitants of Pert Elizabeth , and a somewhat -school-mastering reply returned . The new commander-in-chief accompanied the governor . Cape Town and its vicinity had been subjected to a long continuance of great
heat . The air , however , was perfectly pure , and nothing was « omplainedof but the heat . The high temperature and south-east winds continued at the time of the last despatches , when "the country was dreadfully parched , and the roads being composed of materials which require a great quantity of water te make them bind , stood as much in need ofr . rain as the gardens and fields ? < Heavy rains had . fallen ia the north-west and midland districts . . On the eastern frontier the Kaffir -outrages continned—numerous small parties had been seen all over 'Lower , Albany , and many valuable cattle had been driven away .
FSANCE ; It is stated that on the occasion of the Russian Autocrat ' s visit to Stetgardt , the Dukes of Nemours and Aumale will proceed thither to invite the Czar to Paris . , Tbe Steele states that the extraordinary credits demanded of the Chamber of D putiesbythe Ministers average daring ordinary years 139 , 400 f . This year they amount to the enormous sum of SSG . OQQf . "The famous mission to China , " adds the ¦ Stock , " cost the Treasury ^^ dO . dOlf . ; but the committee on the budget forgot to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs what advantage-has been derived from it . The mission -ef M . Sartigues to Persia had a tri p le object—political , - religions , and commercial—which
object has , been obtained in an admirable manner . In Persia our friends of the same religion with ourselves are persecuted , and our merchants are excelled . The absurd and ridiculous mission to La Plata figures for 333 , 028 f ., but as nothing is terminated , it remains open for the expenses of the new oegotiator . The journey of the Ambassador to Morocco cost hut 86 , 7 QiL The committee was astazed at the moderation of tbe account , which produced us , according to M . Gnizot , the eventual moral support of the powerful Abderrahman . The expenses relative to the conclave for the nomination
ofthe new Pope amount to 40 , 000 f . ; the journey , ol Ibrahim Pasha to 45 . 731 L The journey of the Bey of Tunis cost SG . GGOf . May the spleen of England not oblige ns to pay dearly for the visit of those two allies of France ! Our extraordinary success in Spain cost us 200 , 000 f . allowed to M . Bresson to defray the expensesof thematrimonialrejoicings . " On Tuesday the debate . opened the project of . law for granting an extraordinary credit of one million of francs for the secret service . The debate was of more than ordinary violence . The sum demaiided was , however , voted by an immense majority , —220 for , 56 against .
SPAIN . A decree in the Gazette of April loth , nominates a commission charged with drawing up a project of law for the settlement of the debt . New projects of law on the press , the sale of state property , and other matters , have been prepared by the government . These measures are not calculated to increase the popularity of the government . The Fumento , of Barcelona , announces the arrest of the celebrated cabecitta , Jose Boschy Blanch , called the Penitent of Finestras , and chief of one of the Carh ' st bands of 20 men . The unfortunate partisan was shot the next day . the National ( Paris paper ) has been prohibited in Spain .
PORTUGAL . The Civil War . —Accounts from Lisbon of the 20 th ult . have arrived . The whole of . the Queen ' s troops on the south of the Tagus , with the exception of 600 men , who , with General Schwalback , have shut themselves up in the fortress of Elvas , have recrossed to the north , and fairly abandoned all Alemtejo and Algarve to the Patnlea . The force of Count de Mello ( the insurgent General ) was joined on the l ? th by Viscount Sa da Bandeira with 1 . 500
men , and the two together now muster upwards of 5 , 000 well-drilled and well-armed volunteers , with nine field-pieces , and about three , hundred cavalry . The main body ofthe insurgents is at St Ubies , with an advanced post on the hill of Palraelia , which commands a ! the surrounding country , and tbe old castle of which they have victualled , and put in a formidable state of defence . The Patnlea have other forces at Evora , Fortalegre , Namo , Faro , and Lagos , ana , in fact , are masters ofthe whole country beyond the Tagus .
Saldanha ' s army , instead of taking Oporto , has been f eting the Queen ' s birth-day at Oiiveira de Azemis , as one of the officers records in the Diarir with this diverting bombast : — " In the whole world there does not exist a Sovereign so beloved and adored by his or her subjects as her Majesty the Queen of Portugal ! " This while half her kingdom has been in open rebellion for six months ! The warrior bard goes on to say , that "Nature rejoiced at the coming round of so joyful a day , and without doubt it was of itself the finest day of the present year . " . The weather in Portugal , then , is far more loyal than the people . The Queen ' s anniversary , he adds , was celebrated by a jwsjeio mililar ( military promenade ); and why did they , not walk in the direction of Oporto and take it ? Four hundred and forty officer * subsequentl y sat down together in a huge tent , and . Greatly ^ ring-dined Sensible jellowi , £ sc ;_ - _ -
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" GERMANY , •¦ . " ¦•'• ' v-- - FiMKE Biors—On the 21 st anemeute occurred at Berlin , occasioned by the high price of provisions . During the evening the markets and provision ahops indifferent parts of tbe town , and especially in Koenig-Strasse , were given up to pillage . Detachments of gendarmes and' cavalry were sent to the spots in which the disturbances were greatest , and several encounters took place between them and the people . It is stated that from twenty to thirty men , and forty horses were injured . The riots were renewed the next day and evening . Tbe military force on that day used their arms at once , and the number
of woimded was very considerable : Seventy-five to eighty of the rioters were arrested , and on the same day two persons were sentenced to twenty stripes and ten days' imprisonment on bread and water . On the 19 th a number of persons assembled together in the marketplace of the town of Halle , crying out for a supply of potatoes , and pillaged what quantity of that commodity they could find . The military was called ont to disperse the rioters . Excesses of the same kind took place at Eisleben , where several sacks of potatoes were carried off . Some disturbances also took place at the little town of Osterode , and it was found necessary to call out the military to disperse the rioters .
• ITALY . Flohbncb . —Letters from Florence have been received in Paris , announcing that the Grand Duke of Tuscany has granted the liberty ofthe press to his states , in spite of the remonstrances and opposition of Austria . : ,.
POLAND . Ckacow—All the measures for establishing Austrian law in Cracow have been taken , but have been suspended owing to a petition having been addressed to the Emperor by the greater portion of the inhabitants , demanding that tbe French code may be preserved which was introduced into Cracow at the time of the creation of the duchy of 'Warsaw , in 1509 .
RUSSIA . The German Journal of Brtitsels has the following from Berlin , dated the 18 th : — "The Russian embassy has just received despatches from St Petersburg , to the following effecti—The Emperor Nicholas is to arrive at Warsaw on the 22 nd inst ., to inakea stay of three days ; Poland is to have a'viceroy , in the person ofthe Grand Duke Michael ; the Grand Duchess Helen , his wife , sister of the King of Wurteraburg , is removing her household to Warsaw , where she must at this moment have arrived from Vienna . The Grand Duke , the Emperor ' s eldest son , remains at St Petersburg ; his brother Constantino , the Emperor ' s favourite , accompanies his father to Stutgardt , where the Czar will proceed on the 26 th from Warsaw . The voyai » eof the Autocrat to Paris is a matter resolved on . It has an important
political object : ' the Emperor counts on coming te some understanding with the King ofthe French on the questions ef the East , of Greece , aud above a !) , of Poland ; he wants to be at liberty as to the' East . It is the Duke de Mbhtpensier who is to receive the Emperor at Strasburg ; the Grand Duke Constantino will accompany his father to Paris * , autograph letters have already given the court positive assurances or the subject . A grand review is to take p lace in the Champ de Mars on this occasion . A general amnesty is to be accorded to the Poles : it will be signed by the Emperor at Paris . The confiscated property will be restored . It is intended to reestablish tte University of Warsaw , and two legions , altogether Polish , will be organised there . At this moment , on the contrary , the Poles are disseminated throughout the Russian army . " ¦ ""• UNITED STATES AND MEXICO .
THB WAR . "We have two arrivals from the United States . No further movement of importance had taken place . General Scott had been unable to land his heavy artillery , owing to the tempestuous state of the weather . The city was completely invested . Col . Harney arrived at Vera Cruz on the 16 th , with his dragoons , after having been cast away near Anton Lizirdo . The troops were saved with 'difficulty , but 140 horses belonging to them were lost . Three men belonging to the store-ship Relief lost / their lives in saving those of dragoons . Several other ships lost a good many horses in the same succession of gales , the vessels being overcrowded . The loss of horses at this time is felt with much severity . A note to the Loiusvilie Courier gives the following : — '" : . ; - : ' ¦ '" ;" '' Another great battle in Mexico—brilliant victory —overwhelming defeat of two thousand Mexicans .
" St Lows , March 29 , 1847 —We have this day received an express from Santa Fe . The Mexican insurrectionists , numbering : two thousand men , marched down on Santa Fe . ' They were met by Captain Morris ' s command in the valley ofthe More , and totally defeated . A great number of the enemy were killed and wounded , and the rest fled precipitately to tbe mountains . The news of the assassination of Governor Bent isfully confirmed : twenty-five other Americans fell at the same time . "
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY . Dreadful Accisbnc—On the evening of the 21 st , about twenty-five workmen employed on the railway between Tendu and Saint Marcel ,, in the Indre , on leaving work went to a boat waiting for them at the passage of La Bouzanne . The last comers . leaped suddenly into the boat , and thereby caused it to rock so violently , that the greater part of the men who had entered it were thrown into the water , and nine of them perished . Ths Bsab AlweI—The Counter de Lyon , relates that a few , days ago a female at La Croix Rouge , having been declared dead by the examining physician , was laid out preparatory to ; interment ; but after remaining in this state for twenty-four hours suddenly recovered and spoke aloud , to the great astonishment and terror of those who were watching what they believed to be her lifeless corpse . In only a few hours more she would have been carried to tbe
grave . Russian Winter . —According to the latest accounts the weather was still frightfully cold at St Petersburg , The temperature was twelve degrees of Reaumur below zero ( or down to five of the scale of Fahrenheit ) . It would be superfluous to say that the rivers remain frozen . Victoria Stock is tk « Men . —Gibson ' s statue of the Queen , which left Rome in a barachetto , for Cmta-Vecchia , to meet the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer for Southampton , inissed'arriving . The small barge , owing to the low water in the Tiber , and to the great weight of the ; marble , with its treble oak casing , stuck in the mud at Osfcia , and lies there .
; Takikg lire Veil in Bavabia . —By a late ordonnance of the King of Bavaria ; females are p : ohibited from pronouncing any ^ monastic vow until after having passed their thirty-third year . The ceremony must , always be performed in presence of a lay commissioner , entrusted with the power of interrogating the person about to withdraw from the world . Benevolence of Pops Pius IX , —The following new anecdote ofthe benevolence of the Pope is related in a letter from Rome ofthe 11 th , published by the Steele . A short time ago an inhabitant of Pisa died leaving by his will a sum of 6 , 000 Roman crowns to Pius IX . The Pope accepted the legacy , but gave orders that the money should not bs sent to Rome , as hewas desirous of laying it out in Pisa ,. He has just given half the legacy for the relief of the indigent inhabitants of Pisa ; and invested the other half tor wedding portions to the daughters of poor persons .
Thb Foundation of Rome . —A grand banquet is to be given on the 21 st , the anniversary of the foundation of Rome . It is t > beheld in the " Grotte delleTermed ! Tito . " Covers will be laid for seven hundred , and the she-wolf of Rome will be carried in triumph .. Thb Haiti of thb Prussian Diet . —The following is a brief description of the * ' White Hall , " in which the united diet , and after the members ofthe upper house have retired , the three other states hold their debates . The Weisse Saal is one of the noblest rooms in the royal palace , being 105 feet long , 51 broad , and 41 high ; it is adorned . with Corinthian columns of Carrara marble , bearing the marble statues ofthe twelve princes—electors of Brandenburg . The eight
provinces of the monarchy are also represented by eight colossal statues . The roof is richly painted , and the four corners : are adorned with allegorical bas-reliefs . The main colour of the saloon is white , blended with gold .: The floor is composed of ornamented wood . A marble figure of Victory , b y Ranch , is one ofthe chief attractions of the noble room . The king ' s throne is placed near the middle of one of the oblong . walls ; seats for the ministers are ranged on each side , and , further down , for the , members of the npper house , when the diet is in plena . Opposite the throne are the seats of the members of the eight provincial diets , each state being separate from the other .: The seats . at % numbered , covered with dark red . clc 4 h | jnd provided , with moveable desks . The respective members of the three states sit in rows one above the other , so that it frequently happens
that a mere tradesmen , the deputy Irom a town , sits alongside a member of the Ritterscraft , who is a prince or a count , although not entitled to be a member of the npper home . Each speaker addresses the diet from a species of pulpit , erected for that purpose near the throne . No member is allowed to read his ' speech . " j The members of the upper house hold their debates in another part of the royal palace . The united diet is composed of about 600 members . The ministers ma > speak , but they have no rotes . Americani Deserters . -- The Adjutant-General of the United States army offers , in the National Police Gazette , a reward of thirty thousand three hundred and thirty dollars , for the arrest of one thousand and eleven deserters from the United States army ! The names and particular descriptions of each soldier are contained in the advertisement .
New Sooth : Waiks . —The Gazette of last night ( Tuesday ) contains some chapters of rules issued by order of her Majesty in Council , for regulating henceforward , the occupation ofthe waste lands of . the woto in the colony of New South Wales , " ~*;
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MONDA . Y , Aran , 26 . HOUSE OF lORDS . -AaMr Sebvics But ,. —Earl Gas * moved the second rt-aaing ofthe Army Service Bill , in a speech of groat length , explanatory -of the past and present condition of the soldier , of what had been dons and what was doing for . the amelioration of his condition abroad and athome , referring particularly and in detail to the gradual , decrease of corporal punishments , and tho advantages resulting from the establishment of military prisons where they were most required , and the adoption of cells in barracks for the infliction of solitary confinement . He was afraid it would be premature to
part with the power of inflicting corporal punishment altogether ; but , under all circumstances , it was import , ant that an efficient substitute should be provided . He considered the best mode of getting rid of a bad soldier was . to make dismissal a punishment , and to let It be understood by toe public that it was a punishment , by which means tbe infliction of tbe lash might he got rid of . Corporal punishment did not exist in the police force , because misconduct was visited by dismissal , and it was felt to be a severe punishment , At present , the best soldier had tbe privilege of an early discharge ; this was a circumstance which ought to be reversed , and the bad soldier told that he should not have the benefit of
remaining in the army . The noble earl then referred to the advantage which woul £ . result from having in the country , after the limited period of enlistment had been completed , a numerous , force of trained soldiers , that could be called on for its defence in-any emergency ; a policy more necessary in continental nations , perhaps , but still he thought England had hitherto trusted too much for her safety to her insular position . Viscount Cohbeemebe moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months , on the ground that it would in no way Improve the condition of the army , and induce the old soldiers to leave it .
The Duke of Wellington said that if the measure were calculated to deprive the army of its eld soldiers , he should be the first to oppose it ; but having fully con . sidcr « dthe subject , his , opinion was that it would not have that effect . The army had carried on operations in all quarters ofthe globe to a success ' ul result , but that could not have been effected without the highest state of discipline and tbe best troops in the world , and , above all , by the braver ; of old soldiers . He trusted nothing would . deprive them of the services of old and experienced m « n , and thus expose the country to disgrace and loss ; but his opinion was , considering all the
circcmstanees which accompany the present meature , the ad . vantage which the soldier enjoys already , and that which it provides , it would not have that effect . All he could say was , tbat if parliament passed the bill , he should do his bestto carry it into execution ; and baipg convinced tbat it might be adopted without risk of losing the services of old soldiers , and being certain that it was the wish of the government , as well as his own , to retain those services , he earnestly recommended their lordships to pass it . With regard to corporal punishment , he sincerely hoped that circumstances , combined with tbe substitution of imprisonment , might enable them so to diminish it .
The bill was opposed by the Dnke of Richmond , Lord de Ros , the Duko of Cleveland , Lord Stanley , the Earl of Hardwicke , and Lord Brougham ; the last-named noble lord advising their lordships to let the British army alone , and insisting upon it that the Commander-in-chief would never have proposed such a measure , as wae manifest from the evidently reluctant support which he gave it . The Marquess of Lansdowne supported the bill , and after Earl Obei had replied , The home divided , when the numbers were—For the second reading ... ... 108 Against it 94 Majority for second reading ... —14 Their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes past 12 o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The second reading ofthe Westminster and Lambeth-bridge Bill was lost , ou division , by a majority of 15 .
Mr Wakxe * presented a petition from Mary Young , of Fincham , in Norfolk , complaining ofthe conduct of the committing magistrate towards her boy . The hon . member said , that on the 9 th of December , 1846 , the petitioner ' s husband sent his son , a boy of fifteen years of age , or a message to the superintendent of police . When the boy appeared there , the superintendent said , ' " . That ' s the boy that stole the spoons nine months ogo , " The boy was consequently charged before the magistrate notwithstanding that the charge was distinctly repudiated , and before the magistrate , when tbe petitioner stated that a witness , Small by name , in court , could prove that tbe bey was absent five miles from the place of the robbery at the time in question , but tbe magistrate
would not hear Small apon his oath . The boy was therefore remanded to Swaffaam gaol for nine days , and during that period both tbe silversmiths to whom the spoons . had been offered for sale were confronted with him , when both positively said the boy was not the same person . The boy was discharged ; but in consequence of tbe ill condition of the cell in which he had been confined for nine days , he had been seized , with inflammation in tbe hip joint , which would make him a cripple for life . . The petitioner's husband , in consequence of his anxiety and the exposure to which he was subjected , had become ill aud died .. The hon . Member hoped tbat the statement of the case would receive the attention of tbe Secretary for tbe Home Department ,
; Mr Hoe < 3 Son Hinde presented a petition from the ma . gistrate complained of , praying the House to receive with caution the statement contained in the petition of Mary Young , and denying the correctness ofthe assertions made therein . ¦ Sir G , Gbet said that , tvith regard to tbe petition pre . sented by the hon . gentleman , the facts had not as yet been brought under his notice . When he received an official intimation of the facts he should be better able to judge what course should be pursued . i The Lord Advocate , in answer to Sir A . L . Hay , stated that it was his intention to retain tbe clause in the Scotch Registration Bill which went to deprive schoolmasters ofthe power of holding the office of registrar or deputy-registrar under it . With regard to the Marriage Bill , he admitted tbat it imposed great restrictions , by
allowing marriages only in one or other of two ways , either by solemnisation in the presence of a clergyman or by registration ; and with respect to the latter mode , then that both or at least one of the contracting parties should have been resident iu the district in which the marriage was to be registered for a certain number of days , due notice having been given to the registrar of their intention to contract . One of the great objects of the bill was to put an end to Gretua-green marriages , whicbit would do , and if the operation of the measure should render it less likely taut parties should marry by registration than before a clergyman , he did not think
that such a result could bo considered as objectionable . Emigration to tbe Unites States , —Lord 6 . Ben . tinck was . desirous of drawing the attention of Lord J . Russell to a law which had been recently passed in the states of New York and Massachusetts , by which tbe captain of an emigrant ship was obliged to enter into a bond of 300 dollars , and the shipper into one of 1 , 000 dollars , that no emigrants should become chargeable as paupers for ten years , As these laws would have the effect of driving emigrant paupers to Canada and Newfoundland , he wished to know whether the government were cognisant of their passing , and , if so , whether any provision had been made to prevent such emigrants from being subjected to privations ,
Lord J , Russell was not aware tbat the bills had passed , though he knew they had been under consideration , and nrere strongly opposed by the shipping interest in America . The American minister , to whom he had applied , was of opinion that in New York and Boston , ' emigrants would only be subjected to the laws which bad hitherto applied to them . As regarded the increase of pauper emigration to Canada , which would undoubtedly be the result of such measures , the govu'ament had proposed an increase on the vote of last year for taking cure of emigrants in hospitals , and supplying the means of forwarding them on to their locations , but it might be found necessary to propose some further measures on the subject .
Education . —Lord J . Russell , in moving the order of tbe day for the . reception of the report of the resolution on education , availed himself of the opportunity to give a most satisfactory account of the circumstances under which he had refused the application made to him on the 17 th of April last by some Roman Catholic bishops , ' for a personal interview with him ot thc 19 th on tbe subject of the minutes of education , He hoped that in his former speeches he had made it distinctly understood that there was no intention on the part of the government to exclude the Roman Catholics from this grant , but that there was a necessity to frame a fresh minute respecting them , which must be considered very carefully before it was promulgated . As an instance of the care which would be requisite in framing such a minute , no person in holy orders of the Church of England was allowed to be a' schoolmaster in the schools of the Church of England assisted hy this grant , In order to prevent a notion irom getting abroad that what had been asked for
education was expended on the Church . Now , in framing a minute for the Roman Catholics , it would be necessary to provide tbat no person in holy orders of that Church , either as a secular or a regular priest should be paid as a schoolmaster in the Roman Catholic schools ; for it would net be right to grant ah indulgence to the Roman Catholic Church which we' refused to tha Church ef England . How , there was in the ' Roman Catholic Church an order called the Christian Brotherhood , which was said notto be in holy orders , but which took a very active part in the work of education . Their position would require very grave consideration in drawing up any minute affecting the Roman Catholic schools . Ministers would be ready to pay attention to this subject in a short time ; and he assured the house that , so far as they w « e concerned , they had never entertained any intention to exclude the Roman Catholics from the benefit of these minutes . He thought that the grants should be made as useful as possible to all classes of Her Majesty ' s subjects .
Sir O . Cleak put three questions relative to the employment of pupil teachers in Scotland , the increase of the small salaries paid to the parochial schoolmasters of that country , and to their right to claim the retiring penworn given to the schoolmasters in the schools under the Privy Council . ; ¦ Lord J . Russell replied , that as the subject to which Sir G . Clerk had referred had not been under the oonsideration of the Committee of Privy Council , any answer which be might bow give to his queries must fee consi-
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dered merely as bis own . t Aid was given by these mi . nutts only to voluntary schools and voluntary associations contributing funds of their own . " , The increase of the stipends of Vb « seboolmarteis lo whom Sir 6 . Clerk alluded , and tbe grant of retiring pensions to them , must be accomplished by some other measure than the present . - ¦ ;¦¦ :. ^ . ¦ - ¦ Sir W . MoLSswoarn ,: then rose and moved the following amendment : — " That any minutes of the Committee of the Privy Council en Education , or other regulations , which exclude Roman Catholics from participating in any grant of public money for purposes of education , by requiring in all schools which receive such grants of public monsy the use of the authorized version ofthe to be rescinded
Scriptures , are inexpedient and ought . " Ho contended that the government should come at once to the determination to admit the Roman Catholics to a participation in the benefits which it was proposed by this grant to confer upon their Protestant fellow-snb . jects , and the object of his amendment was to enable them , should they adopt it , to do so . There wasna class of her Majesty ' s subjects which stood more in need of education , and of assistance to promote it , than did the Catholics . The honourable baronet took a survey ofthe numbers and educational wants of the Catholic population of this country , Their number he believed to be about 800 , 000 . In Liverpool alono there were abont 6 , 000 Catholic children requiring education , and who could not receive it if the State withheld its aid .
He could not see , considering the important nature of tbe rights which had recently been extended to tbe Catholics , how the government could now deny them what might be regarded as minor rights and privileges . He disputed the alleged impartiality ef the present measure , which had been so emphatically asserted by Mr Macaulay , denying that pny educational scheme could be impartial which excluded 80 , 000 Catholics from the benefits of its operation . He would not press his amendment if Lord John Russell would pledge himself to bring the case of the Catholics before parliament during the present session , - and he relied upon the generous sentiments expressed a few evenings apo by Sir R . Peel and Sir J , Graham to secure the votes of those two right honourable gentlemen fur . his proposition , should he be obliged to pross the house to a division , v Mr B . Escott seconded the amendment >
Sir G . Gee ? had expected , after the declaration just made hy the noble lord , and after the views which had on previous occasions been expressed by other members of tbe Cabinet , that it would not have been thought necessary hy the hon . ban-net to press such a motion as he had just laid before the house , The government was not only desirous of , but pledged itself to an early consideration of the question , and to propose such minutes as might enable them to carry their intent'ons with regard to tbe Roman Catholics into effect . He could give no
distinct pledge at present to bring the matter . uader the consideration of Parliament during the present session . In sn electioneering point of view , he thought the government had every thing to gain , instead of to lose , from bringing tbe matter to as early a decision as possible , so that the charge made by some of postponing its consideration for such purpose was altogether unfounded , Tbe government would take tbe question into its consideration as early as pofsible , but could give no positive pledge that anything definite would be effected before the close of the present session , -
Lord H . Vane trusted that the declaration made by Lord J . Russell and several of his colleagues would be deemed satisfactory by the friends ofthe Catholics in thehouse , He would , therefore , recommend Sir W . Molesworth to withdraw his motion for the present , and to rest satisfied with the pledges which had been > gben . Sir R . H . Incus felt called upon to give his decided opposition to any measure , come from what quarter it might , which involved further concessions to the Roman Catholics , and charged Sir R . Peel with attempting to outbid Lord J . Russell for Catholic and liberal support , by the expression which he had recently used in reference to the Catholic body . To permit the Catholics to participate in a State grant for education would be the first step towards the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood .
Sir R . Peel had no object in outbidding the noble lord , in the sentiments which he had expressed toward the Catholics , for Catholic and Liberal support , as he was charged with having done . The honourable baronet set down the number of the Roman Catholics in England at 800 , 000 , and wh . it political object could he ( Sir R , Peel ) have , in view in conciliating about tbe orty-eighthpartot the population 1 Hehad no political object in view , but thought himself warranted in acting as he had acted , and in saying , what he had said . Considering the feelings which : seemed to actuate many parties in the country towards the Catholic body , be much doubted whether , in advocating at present the claims of tho Catholics , he would have promoted any political object , had he been actuated by any . Tbe right honourable gentleman then adverted , with some warmth , to the insinuation of infidelity which had been made some evenings ago by Mr Ptumptre , against those who wished to extend tke benefits of education to the
Roman Catholics , So gross a charge would not induce him to retort upon the honourable gentleman ; but he could not believe "that God , who was the author of peace and lover of concord , and who had given us the commandment to believe in the name of Christ , " and to love one another , could regard us as fulfilling that commandment by hating one another , and by leaving thousands and tens of thousands of children , who are commanded to believe in the name of Christ , to pass through life , and be ushered into eternity , without ever hearing of that name . " He then adverted to the differ , ence which existed between a Minister having the respon . sibility of a measure resting upon him , and a private member of the house . The form er might often have
to content himself with measures which fell far short of what bis conscience might dictate ,. He was surprised that Sir W . Moleswonh . had claimed his vote for his proposition . When he had stated his opinion in reference to the claims of the Catholics , he stated , at the same time , tbat he weuld not concur in any vote which would embarrass the present measures of government . He would give no vote which would act by way of compulsion upon the government , unless it manifested an . unwillingness to do what he was disposed to think right towards the Catholics . No such unwillingness having been manifested , the government bad done nothing to disentitle it to the confidence of the house , or to call upon them to compel it to do that which it had already promised to do .
Mr V . Smith urged the government to grant the Catholies their rights at once . MrM , J , O'Connell , after thanking SirW , Moles , worth , in the name of the . Catholics both of England and Ireland , and after declaring that the opinion delivered by Sir R . Peel and by various members of tbe cabinet were exceedingly valuable , regretted tbat the go . vernment , in framing its scheme for education ,-bad made the Roman Catholic body the only exception to it , He said this less in the spirit of complaint than of com . passion . Whatever injury the government had done to the Catholics in the matter , it had done far more to itself . If there were difficulties in the way of Ministers , they bad only aggravated those difficulties , Mr Low , MrLiddell , Mr More O'Ferrall , Mr M . Milnes , Mr Aglionby , Mr Newdegate , Mr Belletv , and Sir Walter James , on various and differing grounds supported the Minister , and recommended tbe withdrawal of the amendment ; . . . .
Mr S . Hebbbbt thought that tho noble lord would find the difficulties ef his position greatly aggravated by delay , Mr Roebuck observed , that if tha interpretation put upon the declarations of the noble lord by those who attributed to him a desire to bring the case of the Catholics this session under their consideration , and to include them in the vote of £ 100 , 000 , all difficulty would disappear ; but if such were Hot tho noble lord ' s intention , bo trusted Sir W . Molcsworth would , press bis ameadment . How came it that Mr Shell and Mr Wjge —both formerly so eloquent in behalf of the Catholics —were so silent on this important occasion ? After having voted eight millions , partly to conciliate the Irish people , the government was now insulting them by the
making paltry sum of one hundred thousand pounds thebattle-field of prejudice and bigotry . The Irish in our manufacturing towns were , of nil others , those who were most in want of the fostering care of education . He objected to thc principle of the whole scheme , The government said by it , " We'll give you money , if you give us money for the purpose of educating the people . " By such a principle the poorer districts would be the least aided , whereas the poorer districts should be the most assisted . The noble lord looked at him with a smile of triumph , aware as he was ofthe majority which he had in the house ; but he warned tbe noble lord that that majority might change . The noble lord and his colleagues had , without any merits of their own , been placed on the Treasury bench by a most" eccentrictor
tune , " without anything to support them but the " ex . travagant dissensions of their meet unwise opponents / Lord Jobn Russell was satisfied with the confidence which had been reposed by SirR Peel , Mr Sydney Her bert , Mr More O ' Ferrall , Mr Bellew , and others in the declarations and pledges of the government , and the desire which they had expressed that tho amendment before tbe house should be withdraw ) , and being also satisfied with the distrust expressed by Mr Roebuck , he wouw not enter into further explanations In reference to the- subject . The honourable and learned member , with his " known incapacity for finding any good motive for a good action , " had most erroWusly © barged the government with doing that which it never entered into their minds to do , voting eight'milllons to conciliate the Irish Catholics . 'He had also alluded to tbe govern .
ment as being composed of those who , without any merit of their own , had , by an eccentric freak of fortune , been elevated to places in which they were sustaiaed by the dissensions of their opponents . That might be so ; : but there were other freaks of fortune equally strange . A certain city in the West of Eng land might have a representative , who , without even producing a useful measure ef his own , might think it enough to carp and cavil at tbe measures of others , aud might attract to himself- ' a considerable degree of attention , because it that every party in that house was sure , in its come in for its abuse , expressed in epigrammatic guage . Such a member , 'it might be expectedjf imagine no better motive / or Sir B . Peel ' s these minutes than bis desire to outbid tbe present administration , 'and no better moHve money granted for the relief of Irish distress sire to conciliate the Roman Catholic party would be one characteristic by which he woujf known—and that was , that he would never ... , -...
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