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      The Prussian Diet, ^Though. King Frederi...

      THE PRUSSIAN DIET _, _^ though . King Frederick WiDiam graciously * intoned the members ef the Diet that it wa . «> t their _Lrincatorepresent opinions ; and added bis " royal EU" that he would not have called them together Hhe had had the smallest suspicion that they wonld S , y the part of " what are called representatives of _Rspeopla . "—hia"dear ** LordsandBurghera seem to _hTresoktely bent upon rimning counter to the royal Si and intentions . The " _^^' _- _^ _- _^ *? _^ _Bng-sspeech , as presented to the _Dirt , _injtowi-^ aTform , _iust have been _anyth-Ug but " cakes al ale _-whUPn-aian _JMi and , mdeed _, assubswuently adopted _, the pill is but sugared over , to whi _¦¦» ui

      _urMs his kingahip to _swauow ue » w * ui _»«« face than he would have shown if compelled to bolt the dose in its undfaguised form . ..... The ori"inal "Address" fflcpressedprettyplainly ? ie _ issatis 6 cfionof theDiet with the ordinanee of the _ t- of February , and demanded the _convention _a _f _^ _rio-icallQ-rU-ments , by remindwg theSing that _fiVfimwcial ' _lawaof 1820 and 1823 _rendoed it im-_ 3 _ tiTe to submit to an -usual assemblage of the _Itates an account of the finances ofthe kingdom _, further , the " Address" - erased to acknowledge that the United Diet conld be replaced by other repreae _ - ? Itive bodies in the functions which belong to it as aa assembly ofthe States of the kingdom ; and that h _<* advice and concnrrence of the Diet was

      hence-_ forth requisite for all the general laws having for r t ar object _changea in t _} ie rights of petsona or pro-«_ * t v or in levy ing taxes , and could not be supplied _Cthe opinions of proviucMdiefa or raited _cpm-Sttees- Lastly , the "Address" contained hint , _ f the mef the Diet felt at some portions ofthe royal Lech ! and the conscientious compulsion which _indeed the members to declare their detenruution to _npholdtherightsoftheStat-s . . This''Address * was proposed by Count Schwenn , _jad seccndedby Becfeerath . one of the Commons ' _fc _paties from the Rhine . K the '' Address '' spoke _ulwcly . the _steeches in support of the address were fell more significant . Foreign as well sa home - oesiions _ware _discnssed in a manner that _run-st shew

      _ftre-JCTiek-Wiffismhow little disposed some oi tne fen-ties are to respect bis admonition against _repregantinu " opinions . " Hanseman , the parliamentary _Jaderin the provincial state of Rhenish Prussia , « _ ot content with confining himself to legal or co _ - _i 5 fc _ -o __ l argument-, launched into the great ocean _o FK-ropean politics ; declared that Pnusia _, witaout _sitional unity , memujed by two colossal empires , by Ra-sia and bv _Franea . could never _succeafnlly resist jo » h or either , except by the creation of a free _iB-ona-ty , in which p rince and people would join . ? ra _* s & . tree and united , dragged Germany after _i _gr or rather represented Gfermany ; and ha felt , when he spoke _thtB , that there were behind him , m fifteen millions of Prussian-, but twenty-five _niiSonsofGermans . Whatthey debated , therefore , w « notmerely thefiraedomand happiness of _Prtissia ,

      bt _Uto-e of Germany and of J _. urope . - _^ -ne war . _Ajdof the Diet _ih-oYeioramtorepresstaisuloakedfereloqaence , which , strange tossy , appears in full i _ the Prussian Gazette . CouatAruim , one ofthe _Ppa-aa Mraist-y , replied to the opposition , de-&__»_ the K'tnfs speech , and proposed the omission cf certain _rott-on _** ofthe "Address , ' * and the _subsfafagoa of words of 1833 sugnifiC-nse . Baroa _Auersvald . of Koaigsben ? , proposed to prrface Count _Ar _. _im' 3 amendment by the declaration that the State deemed themselves possessed of all the rights i _ otie- to the Imperial States , by the _edicfa of the hie Ki __ . in 1 S 20 and 1 S 23 . On being put to _the rote Count Ainim _' _s amendment _vra rejected —290 for , 303 against . Baron _Auerswald _' _s amend-__ at was carried bv rising and sitting , by a large _iB _^ ority . fln ally . for the " Addre ? s" thus modifi-d , fiere appeared -34 votes , against 107 .

      S' Ium The Above Was In Type, Foteuigenc...

      S ' ium the above was in type , _foteUigenc . from ledin to the 33 rd of April has came to hand . On -that dav , the Second Order of the States _receiTed the long - reply to tha " _A-idres ? , " which had been pte-Kntediy the eig ht Marshals on the 21 st . The reply is coMiuatory in its tone . The discrepancies said to _eri-t between theintentions of the late King , and the f _ 5 _ nent of them by tiie present Sing , are denied to exist , and tho 'remonstrance of the assembly , the King declares , he does not recewe as a symptom of _aafru-t . He promises to convoke tbe Diet again vltlun four years , " eren though noneof tho reasons eumerated by the law for calling them together f _ oul- exbt , in order that the fruits of a ripened ex-P-ience may be turned to account . "

      We Subjoin Some Interesting Parhcuiar- R...

      _We subjoin some interesting _parHcuIar- respecting £ s present state of Prussia , abridged from a valuabls resume in the Daily News , of a work entitled ¦ ikilistih des Preussischen Stoats : —

      STATISTICS OF PRUSSIA . _X-BBITO-.. Th » most _r ___ . r __ M- _geosr-phical feature of the kingim is it * frontier and relative position to other states . _ - _ sia consists of two parts , completely separatedby the i _ _tetpos * . _ c _ of . foi __? nt _ - - n » _riea . 1 * the eastern _divieia , where the capital is situated , fonr-fifths of the whole - ¦ _jeraci-sof tho territory are comprised ; the western <_ r _ ~ c _ contains tha remaining fifth . Tha eastern divi-I _ _ah-i 3 a _ fontierof _ -on t 2 , 3 u . _ ules , ofw _ ichaboutl , _830 an a land frontier , and the rest maritime . On the north , _eait , and south , this frontieris well-defined ; on t-e north ii the Baltic for some . 03 miles ; on the east , the Russian taritories fer about 704 , and _Crakau ( now Austria ) for _a-sat 12 ; on tiie south , Austria for 332 , and Saxony for _ i » -t 140 miles . The western frontier , on the contrary , of 706 miles , is irregular and complicated in the extreme . I . e frontier of the western division extends in aO to some

      _Vlli miles , of which only 91 touch upon non-Germanic fcrritories—36 on Belgium , and 35 on Franca . The western frontier abuts , for 279 miles of its _lsagth , on I- _ -Q __ * g _ nd Limberg ; the northern ( 176 miles ) on tiie kingdom of Hanover , the souther ( 150 miles ) on B _. v _ ri _ , Hesse , and an outlaying portion of Oldenburg ; ti * eastern , which is entangled as the western of the otter _fo-ion , and has an extent of 333 miles , on no less than e _ -t states of the Germanic confederation . The shortest _fe ' _.-. ce lia a direct linel between these two dis * _oiuted _Krao-3 of Prussian territory is about 39 mites ; the _ferdga territories lying between them belong principally ta Hanover , Brunswick , Electoral Hesse , and the _Lippas _Vit _ an area of 73 , 790 square mile ** * , Prussia has 3 , 3 H _niiss of frontier . For no less than 13-20 ths of this extent , however , Prussia touches upon states which , like iSclf , are incorporated in the Germanic confederation ; & 430 t _ sith _ s Russia foraneighbonr _. for l-40 _ i France _tal Belgium : the rest is _sea-coast .

      _-POFO-ATIOV . —1 ACES . Ofthe inhabitant ! of the Prussian territory fully 80 _Jir cent , are Germans ; not _^ however , of pure High . _fi-r __ _iaao- -g _ i , fortiiebreed--sbeen extensively cro 3 sedby _&* : French race in the western provinces ; and the eastern lave _ t various periods been colonised by masses otFrench * ad Dutch immigrants . The descendants , bowever , of _thsie colonists and mixed marriages are completely Ger . ¦ _Qta-ise-. At the close of 1843 the total population wai estimated at 15 , 750 , 000 . The three and a half milli ms of a * a . G _ - _ -u __ inhabitants consist of S _ Uvonians and the

      _s-a-v related Lettish tribes resident in Prussia , Pomevvai . Poses , and Silesia ; of about 75 , 050 towards France aal Bilgi-jn who speak a kind of French patois , and a ft- " Jews and gypsies . In Posen , about two-thirds of tha P 3-. __ . tioa are Sclavonic The Scl avonian _. of fhe province constitute l-lSth of the total population of the "tiagcoin ; the Sclavomc population of aU the proTi-ce 3 is abont Hi per cent , of the whole . The rate at which the _rwp _ l __ -o-of Prussia has increased oflate is about 13 per tat . in io years . The ratio , however , varies in the different provinces .

      E-LlGIOUI SECTS . A-iong the 14 . 907 . 091 _inhabitant of Prussia in 1840 ttera were 9 . 084 . 481 Protestants ; 5 , 612 . 256 Roman _Caftalics ; 1 , 217 members of tiie Greek Church ; 14 , 4 ' * _Stnaonites ; and 194 , 323 Jews . _UTOCSTJU-X __ 0 GB £ SB _^_ . __ -SS-S . * V"iihrespec t to the industrial and inte _ ectu _ l _developaient ofthe Prussian population , two entirely distinct cl _; 5 s ; of facta have been collected by our author to throw light upon it : —the positive results ( in the creation of

      wraith and tiie accumulation of knowledge ) , and the amount of persistent activity indicated by the _Ctvourite pursuits of the people . In IS . ) , the commercial movement of Praia-, with 13 , 000 , 000 of inhabitants , amounted to 13 , 000 , 000 cwts . of manufactured goods , andl 4 . 000 . 000 . nibs * , of agriculturalpTO _ . ce . Iul 810 . with 15 , 000 , 000 the amounts had increased respective " j to 2 J , 00 _., 000 of cwts . and 16 , 300 , 000 of bushels . Tbe pursuits of the Principal classes of the people-, however , throw a more trustworthy light npon this branch « f inquiry than dry tabular statements of produce and exchanges . With

      the exception ofthe Jews , all Prussian _citzzens are equal in the eye of the law , They are distinguished , however , into ooales , _burgh-rs , and cultivators . The nobility in-< _-ln ' e 3 the high nobility , or nobles of tiie empire who hw . _ _» en mediatised , and the equestrian order ; these t » oc _ i 5 sespossess between them by far thegreater _pro-Portiaa of the land . By burghers are meant those who _"ffnas in town , and pursue principally mercantile or _HiKufactuiicg avocations ; by cultivators , the _non-prol-r i' _-to . -y rural classes , or the owners of what are called _fa _-rn-j-jita _* . tiie proportion of these classes to the total _Papalatioa are : —nobles , 5-6 per cent ; burghers , 26 | per _*"«¦* .: cultivators , 72 2-3 per cent . Classed according to U -ir - _vo-ao-ms , the Prusdsns are considered as _belong-*** _**; to _ite class which maintains { NSltr-sttmd , _agricul-** _" _•»¦_ , _manuf-cturers , and merchants ) ; the educations ! _< -us ( lahr-stand , clergy , professors , and scboola _ st _ _-g }; the official class { _Beamtem-stand ) ; and the ai _ 5 __ y ( frehr-stand ) . The nobles devote _tln-mselves far the most part to official and military , careers , or to the _*?' " cultural pursuits ofthe productive class , seldom to the _profession of teachers , and never to the _mtrcautile . Theso __ 3 of the cultivators ( or peasantry ) either _fettow tbeir fathers' occupation or enter the army ; somef « r become merchants or manufacturer ! , ( ergons _» _j _baijlierorWn are to bt'onn din all the four , _cltssav - * . -

      We Subjoin Some Interesting Parhcuiar- R...

      constitute the most numerous , enterprising , intelligent and successful sections of tbem . _ _- _ OT _ a _ i- « o _§ . Ia Prussia every man is trained tothe use of arms ; bnt there is also a class who embrace the military career as a profession for life . These arer the members of the . t . n-i __ g army—the military teachers of thepeople . This class , _weU-instraeted and proud of itt position , may amount to 80 , 000 men , of whom 9 , 500 are officers of all ranks . The number ef civil officials is estimated at about four times tbat of the permanent army . This estimate , however , occludes all tbe provincial officials elected for limited terms by their fellowicitizens . The rural population of Prussia is estimated to amount to 7 . per cent , of the whole ; the town population to 26 per cent .

      THK _PaoVX-CIA- DUSTS . With respect to the organisation of the Prussian state , ths most _interesting _' inititntion at ihismomentis the Provincial Land-stand . They owe their present constitution to the royal ordo . nance of the 5 th of June , 1823 . These assemblies are composed of the high nobility of the _pro-V-icaaittj-ginih-jrownrigh _^ and of _therepresenUtives cf tha three orders—equestrian , burghers , and peasants . Ofth e eight provinces , only four have nobility of the _"i _- h class among _tkeu * _members—Silrsia , Saxony , Westphali a , and the Bhine Province . The com _josition of these provincial assemblies is as follows : —Prussia , 97 members : 47 _reprasent-tives of the equestrian order , 28 of the burghers , aad 22 ofthe peasants . Posen , ( 8 members : 2 _. repwsentativesoftIie equestrian order _. K

      of the burghers , and 8 of the peasants . Brandenburgh , 70 memba-i : 35 representatives of the equestrian order , 23 _o'the burghers , and 12 of the peasants . _Pomerania , 59 _memb-rs : 25 _represen tatives of the equestrian order , 16 of tho burghers , and 18 ofthe peasants . Silesia , 84 _membars : 6 of the high nobility . 38 representatives of _tfte equestrian order , 28 of the burghers , and 14 ofthe peasants . Saxony , 7 S members : 6 afthe high nobility , 30 representatives of tha equestrian order , 2 t of the burghers , and 13 ofthe peasants . Westphalia , 71 mem . bers : U of the high nobility , 2 0- representatives ofthe equestrian order . 30 of the burghers , and 20 of tbe peasants . Bhine Province , 79 members : t of the high nobility , 23 representatives of the . equestrian order , 25 of the burghers , and 25 of tha peasants . —By the _or-onnance _ofJuna 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 of ths committee is twelve in all the provinces : in Prussia , Posen , Brandenburgh , Pomerania , Silesia , and Sa _. ony _. the committees consist of six of the high nobility and representatives of the equestrian order , or of sir of tha latter , four of the burgher , and two of the peasant representatives . In Saxony . Westphalia , and the B ' - ina Province , thera are four of the first and second civ * -, four ofthe third , and four oi the fourth . It is upon these 98 members ofthe standing committees that the king has conferred tha right to assemble aud deliberate in Berlin on a limited range of public affairs , aad to have their debates published .

      THE _O-H-BA _. DIET . Our author remarks tbat hitherto there have been no political parties in Prussia . They w _= ll ha created by the Diet about to assemble in Berlin , if the Hag and it a _^ rea long enough to admit of its striking root quietly . But tha exact distribution of power under this constitution it is not easy to conjecture beforehand . The Equestrian order will have a leaning to the class of nobles ; but every proprietor of a Rvter-gut , whatever his birth , belongs to this order . In the more commercial . nd manufacturing provinces there will be a consider _, able democratic admixture even in this class : the _novi komties ofthe Equestrian order trill lean to the burghers . On tba other hand , tha high nobility , the greater part of the Equestrian order , aad the peasants , will constitute an agricultural interest . But tha composition of tba bi-h nobility class is not uniform . In Silesia two princes aud a duke have each a vote ; nine of tbe mediatised

      nobles only three votes among them . In Saxony three 1 nobles sit and vote ; two prebendal chapters are represeated each by one of their number elected for each _tueeti-g , and one sovereign prince names _ representative of the Equestrian order ia virtue of property he possesses iu the province . The eleven high nobles of Westphalia , and the four ef the Bhine Province , each sit and vote in person . Tha amount and kind of influence exercised by thete parties must vary considerably . _DS-renca of race will tell in same of the provinces : the influence of great ecclesiastical corporations ( as at Cologne ); of enterprising merchants and manufacturers ( a 3 ia Westp _' aalia ); of _universitias ( as at Konigsberg ) . in others . Again , the committees will experience a modification in their character from the circumstance of the proportions of the four classes being different in them from what they are in the Stande . Time alone can show to what extent this new Diet is qualified to be an organ of popular sentiment and opinion .

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      Movements Of The Week. The Return Ofthe ...

      MOVEMENTS OF THE WEEK . The return ofthe Customs' revenue of France for the first quarter of the present vear , published in the Mbmteur of Friday , exhibits a serious falling off in the receipts , as compared with the two preceding ; years . Our readers will observe a statement from the Sie ' cle , showing the corrupt and enormous expenditure of the present Government . With an increasing expenditure and a decreasing revenue , Louis Philippe will not find his Government growing stronger as he grows older . The famine , although not vet " sore in the land , " is likely to become so .

      The probabilities are strong that tbe 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 ! In another column ,. onr readers will observe a revelation of the horrors of slavery in the French colonies made to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday last , and wbich excited an unanimous burst of horror and

      indignation . The explosion 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 . Ledru Rollin deserves the thanks of the human race for his courageous exposure of the miscreants who dishonour France and outrage humanity , by the cruelties he has unveiled .

      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 the unhappy Queen . Amongst the ministerial measures is a project of law on the press , which 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 snch Churches as the Spanish Establishment ; never _, theless , a cor nipt and lazy priest is , after all , lessof a blood-sucker than is a scheming , bustling , grasping , money-juggling usurer . Now it was not for the benefit of the Spanish nation , but to gorge fhe ravenous maw of the stock-jobbing scoimdrelocracy that the property of the 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-bouses , colleges , towns ,

      _rnaestrasgos , comraanderies of the Order of St John , and tbe other military orders , vacant , or that shall become vacant ; and of ali other immoveable property -e ) ongi _ g » to the State not applied to the public service , of whatever origin , nature , aud class it may be , and though Us 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 be 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 cf greater amount than what they actually receive . " Thus says the project ; but this sort of compensation will not satisfy the people , thej "_ _aro * g no confidence in the Government , beJ __ eving its " paper" to be like itselfworlhle ?_ . We have not space to comment on this _me-su _' ..- as it deserves—an unblushing scheme of plunder , which will fill to overflowing the cup of m / sery prepared for the Spanish people , by the _crucifying usurer .. A commission has been appointed to inquire into the claims of the public creditor , with a view to the settlement of the debt iu accordance _wth the _«¦ _naUo _^ al honour / The best way

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      for the Spanhirds to settle thedebt is to refua i aie it . The creditors , both domestic * and foreign , advanced 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 _ t _ p . _ iA . TioJ * . 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 must have plundered their own toiling countrymen to become possessed of it . . Secondly , instead of expending the money in their own country for the elevation of their own unhappy fellowcountrymen , which they might have done with

      profit to 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 , reigns 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 Mello 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 be sure , as soon after that as possible , to revoke all she may have previously yielded . " When the devil was sick , tha devil a saint would be ; When the devil got well , tha devil a saint was he !"

      This has been , and will be , the case with "her most faithful Majesty- ; " 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 iu Gallicia , for him to allow his slaves to show sympathy for dogs , horses , & c !

      There is no change iu the hostile attitude of the Turkish and Greek governments , Greece is in a wretched state of disorganisation . A town in _Peloponysiabas 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 , aud the town pillaged and reduced to ashes 1 .

      Gore and Glory is the order of the day 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 1

      Cape Of Good Hope. Arrivals Have Come To...

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . Arrivals have come to hand from Graham ' s Town to the 23 rd of February , and Cape Town to the 3 rd of March . Sir H . Pottinger landed at Eliiabeth Town on the evening of Friday , the 19 th of February . He was to leave for Graham . Town on Tuesday morning , having been detained by floods . An encomiastic address was presented by the inhabitants of Port Elizabeth , and a somewhat school-mastering reply returned . The new commander-in-chief accompanied the governor . Cape Town and its vicinity bad been subjected to a Ion . continuance of great

      heat . The air , however , was peifectly pure , and nothing was complained of but the heat . The high temperature and south-east winds continued at the time ofthe last despatches , when "the country was dreadfully parched , and the roads being composed of materials which require a great quantity of water to make them bind , stood as much in need of rain as the gardens and fields . " Heavy rains had fallen in the north-west and midland districts . On the eastern frontier the Kaffir outrages continued—numerous small parties had been seen all over Lower Albany , and many valuable cattle had been driven away .

      FRANCE . It is stated that on the occasion of the Russian Autocrat ' s visit to Stutgardt _, the Dukes of Nemours and Aumale will proceed thitherto invite the Czar to Paris . The Siecle states that the extraordinary credits demanded of the Chamber of D _.-puties by the Ministers _average during ordinary years 150 , 000 f . This year they amount to the enormous sum of 880 , 090 '' . " The famous mission to China , " adds the Siecle , " cost the Treasury o , 23 O _, 0 Olf . ; but the committee on the budget forgot to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs what advantage has been derived from it . The mission of M . Sartigues to Persia had a triple object—political , religious , and commercial—which object has ' been obtained in an admirable manner . In Persia our friends ofthe same religion with ourselves are persecuted , and our merchants are expelled . The absurd and ridiculous mission to La Plata figures for 338 , 028 f ., but as nothing is

      terminated , itremai _. Bopen for the expenses of the new negotiator . The journey of the Ambassador to Morocco cost but 8 G , 701 f . The committee was amazed at the moderation of the account , which produced us , according to M . Guizot , the eventual moral support of the powerful Abderrahman . The expenses relative to the conclave for the nomination of the new Pope amount to _ 0 , 000 f . ; the journey ot Ibrahim Pasha to 4 ., 731 f . The journey of the Bey of Tunis cost 30 _. 000 L May the spleen of England not oblige us to pay dearly for the visit of those two allies of France ! Our extraordinary success in Spain cost us 300 , 000 f . allowed to M . Bresson to defray _theespensesofthematrimonialrejoieings . " 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 demanded 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 otber matters , have been prepared by the government . These measures are not calculated to increase the popularity ofthe government . The Fomento , of Barcelona , announces the arrest of _thecelebratedcoo-ci-a , Jose Boschy B ! a _ cb , called the Penitent of Fmestras , and chief of one of the Carlist bands of 20 men . The unfortunate partisan was shot the next day . The National ( Paris paper ) has been prohibited in Spain . PORTUGAL .

      Thb Civil War . — -Accounts from Lisbon of the 20 th ult . have arrived . The whole of the Queen * b troops on the south of the Tagus , with the exception of 600 men , who , witk 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 Patulea . The force of Count de Mello ( the insurgent General ) was joined on the Itth 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 Ubcs , with an advanced post on the hill of Palmella , which commands all the surrounding country , and the old castle of which they have victualled , and put in a formidable state oi defence . The Patulea have other forces at Evora . Portalegre , Natvao , Faro , and Lagos , anu , in fact , are raastct . ofthe whole country beyond theTaeus .

      Saldanha ' _s army , instead of taking Oporto , has been feting thc Queen ' s birth * day at Oliveira 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 1 " This while half her kingdom has been in open rebellion for sis 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 , the / _t _, is far more loyal than the people . The Queen ' s _^ anniversary , he adds , was celcbraled by a pmsseiaviUUar ( military promenade ); and why did they no ? walk in the direction of Oporto and take it ? Four hundred and forty officers 8 _ubasq' _'_ ently sati down together in a huge tent , aud- _greatly _< tet « _, e- _ . ained _f Sensible fellowa , _ ,

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      ¦ i" ; ' - - ~ " * Q __ ig _ r _ str "" _* " _' "¦" - ' - *•"• _*• _ amine Riots . — On the 2 lst anemeute occurred at Berlin , occasioned by the high price of provisions . Durinij the evening the markets aud provision shops indifferent parts of the town , and especially in Kmnig-Stras-e , were given up to pillage . Detachments of gendarmes and cavalry were sent to the _Bpotsin 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 wounded was very considerable . Seventy-five to eighty of the rioters were arrested , and on the same day two persons were sentenced to twenty stripes aud ten days' imprisonment on bread and water . On the 19 th a number of persons assembled together in the market-place 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 out to disperse the rioters . _Excessa * ofthe 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 _^ military to disperse the rioters .

      . ITALY . _F- _Obbscb . —Letters from Florence hav . been received in Paris , announcin i ? that the Grand Duke of Tuscany has granted the liberty ofthe press to his states , in spite of the remonstrances and opposition of Au stria , POLAND . Cracow . —AU 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 _inbabitants , 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 1 S 09 . . . -

      RUSSIA . , The German Journal of Brussels has the following from Berlin , dated the 18 th : — " The Russian _embassy has just received despatches from St Petersburg , to the following effect : —The Emperor Nicholas is to arrive at Warsaw on ths 22 adinst ., to make a stay of three days ; Poland is to have a viceroy , in the person ofthe Grand Duke Michael ; the Grand Diicuess Helen , his wife , sister oftho King of Wurtemburg , 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 Constantine , the Emperor . favourite , accompanies his father to Stutgardt , where the Czar will proceed ou the 26 th from Warsaw . The voyage of the Autocrat to Paris is a matter resolved on . It has an important political object : the Emperor counts on coming to some understanding with the King of tho French ou the questions ofthe East , of Greece , aud above all , of Poland ; he wants to be at liberty as to tho East . It is the Duke dc Montpensier who is to receive the Emperor at Strasburg ; the Grand Duke

      Coustautine will accompany his father to Paris : autograph letters have already given the court positive assurances os the subject . A grind review is to take place 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 tbe 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 array . " UNITED STATES AND MEXICO .

      i THE WAR . We have two arrivals from the United States . No further movement- of importance had taken place . General Scott had beeu unable to land hia heavy artillery , owing to the tempestuous state of the weather . The city was completely invested . Col . Harney arrived at Vera Cruz on the 16 ch , with his dragoons , after having been ca 3 t away near Anton Lizir _. o . 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 _dragoon . Several other ships lost a good many horses in the same succession of _gak-3 _, the vessels being overcrowded . The loss of horses at this time i 3 felt with much severity . A note to the Louisville Courier gives the _following : —

      ** _An-tker great battle iu Mexico—brilliant victory —overwhelming defeat of two thousand Mexicans . ' Sr 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 iu the valley ofthe Moro , and totally defeated . A great number of the enemy were killed and wounded , and the rest fled precipitately to the mountains . The news of the assassination of Governor Bent is fully confirmed * . twenty-five other Americans fell at the same time . "

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      FOREIGN MISCELLANY . _Drs-df _.- Accidsnt . —On the evening ol tbe 21 _at , 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 then at the passage of La Bouz _. nne . The last comers leaped suddenly into the boat , and thereby caused it to reck bo violentlv . tbat the greater part ' of tlte men who

      had entered it were thrown into the water , and nine of tbem perished . Thk . Dead Alive!—The Courrier de Lyon relates that a few days ago a female at La Croix Rouge , having been declared dead by the examining physician , wa 3 laid out preparatory to interment ; but after remaining in tin ' s 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 tothe

      grave . Russian Winter . —Accordingtothelatest accounts the weather was ' still frightfuily 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 tho rivers remain frozen . Victoria Stuck is th . Mud . —Gibson ' s statue of the Queen , which left Rome in a barachetto , for _Civita-Vecchia , to meet the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer for Southampton , missed arriving . Tlie 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 Ostia , and lies there .

      Taking ihe Veil is Bavaria . —By a late ordonnance of the King of Bavaria , females arepto . ibited frora pronouncing auy monastic vow until after having passed their thir . r tliir _ 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 . _Besetol-sc _. oi ? Pop _ Pius IX . —The following new anecdote ofthe benevolence of the Pope is related in a letter from Rome of the 17 th , published by the Siecle . A short time ago au inhabitant of Pt 3 a 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 be sent to Rome , as he was 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 . '

      The 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 delle Terme di Tito . " Covers will be laid for seven hundred , and the she-wolf of Romo will be carried in triumph . Tub H a __ of __ e Prussian Dirt . —The following is a brief description of the ' * White Ilall , " in which the united diet , and after the members of the upper house hare retired , the three other states hold their debates . The Wehse 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 of the twelve princes—electors of Brandenburg . The eight

      provinces of the monarchy are also represented by eight colossal statues . The root'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 , by _Ruuch , is oae ofthe ohie . 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 upper house , when the diet is in plena . Opposite the throne are the'seate of tho members ofthe eight provincial diets , each state being _separate from tbo other . The seats are numbered , severed with dark red cloth , and provided with moveable desks . The respective members of the three states sit in rows _oneabo-O-the other , so that it frequently happens

      that ajmere tradesmen , the deputy trom a town , sits alongside a member of the Ritterseraft , who is a prince or a count , although not entitled to be a member o £ the upper houte . Each speaker addresses the diet from a species of pulpit , erected for that purpose near the throne . No member is allowed to read his ' ¦ - . pee-h . " The members of the upper liouse hold their debates in another part of the royal palace . The united diet is composed of about 600 members . The mini-ter _. _maj speak , but they have no votes . America ! - _Dkseri-BS . — 'L'he 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 thc United States army ! The name * and . particular descriptions of each soldier are contained in the advertisement .

      New Soma W- __ . s . —The Gazette of last , night ( Tuesday ) contain , some chapters of _rutes issued by order of her Majesty in Council , for regulating henceforward the occupation of the waste lands of the crown ia tho colony of New South Wales . " _^^

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      MONDAY , _Ar-ii , . s . HOUSE OP , _lORDS—Aas-r Sebvics Biu .-Earl Gbet moved the _seeondrtading of the Array Service Bill , in a speech of great length , explanatory of the past and _pressnt oondition of the soldier , of what had b -en don « and what was doing for the amelioration ofhis condition abroad and athome , referrin g particularly and in detail to the gradual decrease of corporal punishments , and the _advantages resulting from the establishment of military prisons where they were most required , and tha 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 punUhment altogether ; hat , under all circumstances , it was important that an efficient substitute should ba provided . Hu considered the best mode of getting rid ofa bad soldier was to make dismissal a punishment , and to let it be understood by tbe public that it was a punishment , by which means the infliction ofthe 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 the privilege of an early discharge ; thia was a circumstance which _ousht to be reversed , and the bad soldier told that he should nothavo thu benefit of

      remaining in the army . The noblo earl then referred to the advantage whieh would result from having in the country , after the limited period of enlistment had been completed , a numerous force of trained soldiers , that could bo called on for its defence in any emergency ; a policy more necessary in continental nations , perhaps , but still he thought England had hitherto _trust 3 d too much for her safety to her insular position . Viscount _Combkbj-ebe moved that the bill ba read a second timo 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 1 _. ive it . *

      The Duke of W _. _t _. t . Qtos sail that ifthe measure were calculated to deprive the army of its aid soldiers , be should be the first to oppose it ; but having fully consiilor * d the subject , his opinion was that it would nut have that effect .. The army had oarried oa operations in all quarters of the globe to a success ul result , but that could not have beon effected without the highest state of diseiplina and the best troops in tha world , and , abovo all , by the bravery of old _s-. _'ldiers . Ho trusted nothing would deprive tlicmof the services of old and experienced mm , and _thusespose the country to _disgrace and lohs ; but his opinion was , considering all tbe circ . _m-¦

      standi which accompany thc present _nieaiure _, the advantage which the soldier enjoys already , and that which it provides , it would nothave tbat effect . All he could say was , tbat if parliament _psaaed the bill , ho 3 hould do _hisbasttoeatry it into execution ; aud _ba ' rg convinced that it _migh' * bo adopted without risk of losing tbo ser- _> vices of old soldiers , and being certain that it _tvas the wish of the government , as well as his own , to retain those _serrices , he earnestly recommendod their lordships to _passit . With regard to corporal punishment , he sincerely hoped that circumstance ! ., conibiucd with the substitution of imprisonment , might enable them so to diminish it .

      The bill was opposed by the Dukjof Richmond , lord da Ros , the Duke of _Cleveland , Lord Stanley , the Earl of _Hai-wiclie _, and Lord Brougham ; the last-named noble loi-d ad vising their lordships tb let the British armj alone , and insisting upon it that the Commander-in-chief would never bave proposed such a measure , as waB manifest from the evidently reluctant support which ho _gava it . The Marquess of La . sdowvs supported the bill , aad after _E-irl 6 _aar had replied , The _. _ouiO divided , when tha numbers ware— . For the second reading 103 Against it 91 Majority for second read _' _tUj _} ... U Their lordship } adjourned as twenty minutes past 12 o ' clock . H 0 U 3 E 0 ? COitilONS . —The _secondreadiut- of the Westminster and _Lambeth-bridge Bill was tost , on division , by a majority of 15 .

      Mr W __ s _* . E- presented a petition from Mary Young , of _Fiacharn _. 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 _patitioner's husband sent his son , a boy of fifteen years of age , o . a message to the superintendent of police , When the boy appeared there , the superintendent said , " That's the boy that stola the spoons nine months ago . " Tho boy was consequently charged _before the magistrate notwithstanding that the charge was distinctly repudiated _, and before the magistrate , when the petitioner _staSed that a witness , Small by name , in court , could prove that the boy was absent five mile 3 from the place of the _robbiry at the time in question , but the magistrate

      would not hear Small upon his oath . The boy was therefore reanadid to Swaff _. am gaol for nine days , aa'l during that period both tha _silversmiths to whom the spoons had been offered for sale were confronted with ilia , when both positively said the boy was not the same person . The boy was discharged ; but In _cousequence of the ill condition of the cell in which he had beea confined for nine days , he had been seized with inflammation in the 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 _L'l and died . The hon . Member hoped that the statement of the case would receive the attention ofthe Secretary for the _Homj _Department .

      Mr Hodgson Hinde presented a petition from the magistrate complained of , praying tho House to receive with caution the statement contained in the petition of Mary Young , and _denying the correctness of the assertions made therein . Sir G G _. _sr said that , with regard to the petition _presented 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 sbould be better able to judge what course should be pursued . The Lord A _. _vocvtb , in answer to Sir A . L . Hay , stated that it was his intention to retain the clause in the Scotch _Btigistration Bill which went to deprive schoolmasters of the power of holding the ofiice of registrar or _depucy-registrar under it . With regard to the Marriage Bill , he admitted that 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 ut least one of tho contracting parties should have been resident in the district in whieh 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 ofthe great objects of the bill was to put an end to _Gretna-green marriages , whieh it would do , and if the operation of the measure should render it less likely that parties should marry by registration tban before a clergyman , he did not think tbat such a result could ba considered as objectionable _.

      _Emiob-Tion to the United States . —Lord 6 . Ben-¦ mc . was desirous of drawing the attention of Lord 3 . _Itussell to a law which had been recently passed in the states of New York and Massachusetts ,. by which the captain of an emigrant ship was obliged to enter into a bond of 500 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 bave 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 heen made to prevent such emigrants _fram being subjected to privations .

      Lord J . R _.. S 3- _ i . was not aware that the bills had passed , though he knew tiiey had been under consideration , and were strongly opposed by the shipping interest in America . The American minister , to whom he had applied , was ol opinion that iu New York and Bos . ton , emigrants would only te subjected to the laws wliich had hitherto applied to them . As regarded the increase of pauper emigration to Canada , which would undoubtedly be ths result of such measures , thegevern . ment had proposed an increase on the vote of last year for taking ' care of emigrants iii hospitals , arid supplying the means of fonvarding them on to their locations , but it might be found necessary to propose some further measures on the subject ,

      Education . —Lord J . _Rcsseu , in moving the order of the day far the reception ot 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 hira on the 17 th of April last by some Roman Catholic bishops , for a personal interview with him on the 19 th on the subject of the minutes of education . He hoped that in his former _speoehes he had made it distinctly _uuderstood that there was no intention on the part of the government to exclude the Roman Catholics from this grant , but tha _. _tliero was a _necessity to frame a fresh minute respecting them , whieh must be considered very carefully before it was promulgated . As nn instance of the care wbich would be _rti'ui-te in framing such a minute , no person in holy orders of the Church of England was allowed to be a schoolmaster in the schools ofthe Church of England assisted by this grant , in order to provent a no * tion from getting abroad that what had been asked for

      education was expended on the Church . Now , m frara . ing a minute fur the Roman Catholics , it would be necessary to provide that no person in holy order * of that Church , either as a secular or a regular priest should bo paid as a _schoolmaster in the Roman Catholic schools ; for it would net bo right to grant an indulgence to the Roman Catholic Church which wo refused to the Church of England . Now , there was in tho Roman Catholic Church an order called the Christian Brotherhood , wliich was said not to be in holy orders , but which took a very active part in the work , of education . Their po .-ition would require very grave consideration in drawing up any minute affecting tho Roman Catholic schools . . Ministers would be ready to p ; iy attention to this subject in a short time ; and he assured the house that , to far as they were concerned , they had never entertained any _intentiou to exclude the Roman Catholics from the benefit of these minutes . He thought that tho grants should be made as _ustfu ] as possible to all classes of Her Majesty ' s subjects .

      j Sir O . _Ciebk put three questions relative to the em-| ployment of pupil teachers in Scotland _; the increase of [ the email salaries paid to the parochial schoolmasters of | that eountry , and to their ri ght to claim tho retiring pen-! lions given to the schoolmasters in the schools under tke . Privy Council . J Lord J . _Uussk-I , replied , that as the subject to which | Sir O . Clerk bad referred had not been under the consi . j deration of tbo Committee of Vrivy Council , any answer which he might now give to his queries must be coasl

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      _dered _ ierely _" a . ' f his _* 'own _nutes only to voluutary schools and voluntary _associa ti _» n « contributing fuuds of their own . The increase of the stipends of the schoolmasters to whom Sir Q , Clerk alluded , and the grant of retiring pensions to tbem , must be accomplished by tome other measure than the present . Sir W . MoMSWOMn then rose and moved the following amendment : — " That any minutes of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education , or other regulation * , which exclude Roman Catholics from participating in any grant , of public money for purposes of education , by requiring iii all schools * which receive such grants of public money the use of the authorized version of tha Scriptures , are inexpedient and ought to be rescinded . " He contended that the government should come at once

      tothedetirmination to admit th 9 Roman Catholics to a participation in the benefits which jt was proposed by this grant t . confer upon their Protestant _fellow-subjects , and tho object of his amendment was to enable them , sbould they adnpt it , to do so . Thero was no class of her Majesty ' s subjects which stood more in need of education , and of assistance to promote it , than did tho Catholics , The honourable baronet took a survey of the numbers and educational wants of the Catholic population of this country , Their number he believed toba about 800 000 . In Liverpool alone there wera about 6 , 000 Catholic children requiring education , and who could not receive it if the State withheld its aid . He could uot see , considering the important nature of the rights which had recently been extended to the

      Catholics , how the government could now deny them what might be regarded as minor rights and _privileges . He disputed the alleged impartiality of the present measure , wbich had been so emphatically asserted by Mr Macaulay , denying that j > ny educational scheme could be impartial which excluded 80 , 000 Catholics from tho benefits of its operation . He would not press his amendment if Lord John Russell would pledge himself to bring the case ofthe Catholics before parliament during the present session , and he rclisd upon the generous sentiments expressed a few evenings a ? o by Sir R . Peel and Sir J . Graham to secure the votes of those two right honourable gentlemen for his proposition , should he bs obliged to press the house to a division . Mr B . Escott seconded the amendment .

      Sit O . Gbev had expected , afttr the declaration just made by tho noble lord , and after the views wbich bad on previous occasions been expressed by other members of tho Cabinet , that it would not hava been thought ne . _cess . iry by the hon . baronet 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 _consideratipu of the question , and to propose such minutes as might enable them to carry their intentions with regard to the _Romao Catholics into effect . He could give no distinct pledge at present to bring the matter under ths consideration of Parliament during the present session . In an electioneering point of view , be thought the government had every thing to gain , instead of to lose , from bringing the matter to as early a decision as possible , ao thatthe charge made by some of postponing its consideration for such _purpose was altogether unfounded . The government would take the question into its consideration as early as _possible , 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 3 . Russell and several of his colleagues would be deemed satisfactory by the fri < _nds of the Catholics iu tha honse . Ho would , therefore , recommend Sir W . Molesworth to withdraw his motion for tho present , and to rest satisfied with the pledges which had been gi _' _-en . Sir R . E . _Ino _. k felt called upon to givo 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 U 3 ed in reference to the Catholic body , To p _* rmit the Catholics to participate ia a State grant for education would ba the first step towards the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood .

      Sir R . Pee . had no object in outbidding the nobla lord , iu 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 what political object could he ( Sir R . Peel ) bave in view iu conciliating about the ¦ ' orty . fcighth part of the population He had no political _object in view , but thought himself warranted in acting as he had acted , and in saying what be had said . Considering the feelings which seemed to actuate many parties in the country towards the Catholic body , bo much doubted whether , in advocating , at present the claims ofthe Catholics , be would hare promoted any political object , had he besn actuated by any . The right honourable gentleman then adverted , with some warmth ,

      to the insinuation of-infidelity whicn had been made some evening } ago by Mr Plumptre , against those who wished to extend the benefits of education to the Roman Catholics , So gross a charge would not induce him to retort upon the honourable gentleman ; but ho could not believe "that God , who was tha 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 a * fulfilling that commandment by bating 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 tbat name . " He tben adverted to tbe differenee which existed between a Minister having the responsibility 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 his conscience might dictate . He was surprised that Sir W , _Moleswonh had claimed his vote for bis proposition . When ha had stated his opiuion in reference to tbe claims of the Catholics , he stated , at tha same time , that he would 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 had 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 Catho . lies their rights at once . Mr M . J . O'CoMNE _.., after thanking Sir W . Molesworth , in the name of the Catholics both of England nnd Ireland , and after declaring that the opinion de . livered by Sir R . Peel and by various members of the cabinet were exceedingly valuable , regretted that the government , in framing its scheme for education , had made the Roman Catholic body the only exception to it _. He said tbis less in the spirit of complaint tban of compassion . Whatever injury the government had done to the Catholics in the matter , it bad done far more to it . self . If there were difficulties in the way of Ministers , they had only aggravated those difficulties . Mr Low , Mr Liddell , Mr More O'Ferrall , Mr M . _Milnes , Mr Aglionby , Mr Newdegate , Mr Bellew , and Sir Walter James , on various and differing grounds supported the Minister , and recommended tbe withdrawal of the amendment _.

      Mr S . Hebbbbt thought that the noble lord would find I the difficulties ef bis position greatly aggravated by ' delay . Mr Roebuck observed , tbat if tha interpretation put t npon tho declarations of the noble lord by those who at- tributcd to him a desire to _brin ;* the case of the Catho- * lies this session under their consideration , and to in- elude thtm in the vote of £ 100 , 000 , all difficulty would I disappear ; but if such were not tbe noble lord ' s _inten . - tion , he trusted Sir W . _Molesworth would press his i amendment . How came it tbat Mr Sbeil and Mr Wyse b —both formerly ao eloquent in behalf of the Catholics s —were so . silent on this important occasion 1 After r having voted eight millions , partly co conciliate the Irish a people , the government was now insulting them by j making the paltry sum of one hundred thousand pounds s

      the battle-field of prejudice and bigotry . The Irish in i our manufacturing towns _wtre , of all others , those who o were most in want of the fostering care of education , i . Ho objected to the principle of the whole scheme . The e government said by it , " We'll give you money , if you give e us money for the purpose oi educating the people , " By iy such a principle the poorer districts would be the least st aided , whereas the poorer districts should be the most st assisted . The noble lord looked at him witk a smile of of : triumph , aware as he was of thi * majority wliich he hnd id in the house ; but he warned tho noble lord that that at majority might change . Tha noble lord and his col- ) lleagues had , without any merits of their own , been en . placed on the Treasury bench by a most" eccentric _for- _'rtune , " without anything to support them , but the " ek _^ k » travagant dissensions of their most unwise opponents , "} , '"

      Lord _Joun Russell was satisfied with the coniidencoic . whioh had been reposed by Sir R Peel , Mr Sydney Her . er . bert , Mr More O'Ferrall , Mr Bellew , and others in _theths declarations and pledges of the government , and the de . de _* sire which they had expressed tbat she amendment be . be fore the liouse should be withdrawn , and being also _s a . _s . a _* tlsfled with the distrust _exprtsseil by Mr Roebuck , in , in would not enter into further explanations in _referenced to the subject . The honourable- and learned memberben with his " known incapacity for finding any good motivttivi for a good action , " had most erioaeously charged tin th ' government with doing thai which it never- _entereerei into their minds to do , voting eight millions to _concilinttintl tbe Irish Catholics . He had also _ulluded to the governerni ment as being composed of those who , without an ; am merit of their own , had , by an eccentric freak of fortuneunn been elevated to places in which they were sustained b ; d to

      the dissensions of their- opponents , That might b . * so _i soi but there were other freaks of fortune _equally _strangengn A certain city in the West of England might hare a ra ra prese-tative , whe , without even producing a useful men _ eii sure ofhis onn , might think it enough to carp and _cavcaw at the measures of others , and wight attract to _himsemaa a considerable degree of attention , because it was knavwiaw that every party in that liouse was sure , in its turn , fn , come in for its abuse , expressed in epigrammatic la * - la _guaue . Suoh a member , it might be expected , wouwou imagine no better motive for Sir R . Peel ' s _supporterthese minutes than his desire io outbid tbo offers of t of fl present administration , and no better motives _fortforn money granted for the relit f of Irish distress than aaa sire to conciliate the Roman Catholic party . Thi Thi would be one characteristic by whioh he would ba * nba w known—and thst was , that he irould never b « _sblfablfl

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01051847/page/7/