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      •* " *~ INDIA AND CHINA . ] _jitters and parers m _anticipation of the overland _^ l __ _te beea received . The latest dates by this _? _rrival *«* - Ca , ca " ' J ™» 2 d ; Madras , June 9 th ; _^ d H one Kong , May 25 _^ _Rmnou--3 were in circulation at Madras of a fresh _rtUjreak in G _omsoor . lie stateotaiTairs in China is still veiy _onsatisfcctory ; we extract the following from the Friend of nina . ot May 24 : — Since the departure of the last _manthly mall Can ton has engrossed the attention of foreigners iu *__„ quarter . The results of Sir John Davis ' s expedition are being developed . The capitalists are _Jiving the vicinity of tbe factories , being _apprehennve of danger , either from their own _couutryn

      __ , jhonld disturbances take place , or from _forelga troops , shonld tire Governor of Hong King repeat iu _waaton _agi-Tession ! _- _^ Several of the native mer _* _5 . __ are insolvent , being unable to meet tbe _demands upon them , in consequence ofthe shroff , or _Jjankinrhou-Jes , having _clost-d . Foreign trade is in a _state _ofstagnatiaan . _alltheatatiles having fallen in p rice . Nor are foreigners free from _danger ; au _attack on the factories only being cht-cked by the j _ e « aice of a small body of _ r __ troops , A crisis is _approaching , the consequencesof which eanjjot be foreseen , but a rupture with China is all but m _ voidab ! e .

      The French eovernmeut has _reeeivajd a second telerrap hic despatch , dated Malta , the 1-ith ; accounts from Canina tn the 23 d : and lions Ko : > g , the 25 h of May . So business doing at Canton . _Kevins has been menaced by the mob that his palace should be burned if he granted the ground _promised to thc _English . Mr Pope , who had been sent to inspect the ground , had abandoned his purpose . Afresh expedition against Canton waa expected which wauld be more sanguinary than the last . The Pluto was stationed abreast thc factory . The _Srouthw been ordered to approach as mr Canton tu possible .

      FRANCE . Coxctcsros of _ te _Siate _Tsuts . —We announced in our last thc verdict ol Guilty recorded against M . Teste , General Cnbieres . and M . _Parmentic-. Oa Saturday the court gave judgment . M . Teste was condemned—1 st . To civii'degrad-iiion . Snd . To three rears imprisonment . 3 rd . To pav back th ? 9 _ . 000 f ., which sua is to be given to the hospitals of Paris . fah . ToafineoflO _. OOOf . General Cubieres and M . Parmentier are each condemned—1 st . To civil depradatinn . 2 nd . To a line of lO _. _OOOf . each .

      General Cubieres had a very narrow escape of having imprisonment added to tbis sentence , a majority of one only being in his favour . The following _extract from tbe penal code defines the _meaning of " civil degradation . " " Art . 31 . Civil degradation consit ? , first , infthe exclusion of the persons condemned from all public functions and employments ; second ' y , in being deprived ofthe right of vntin-r or being elected _, aud in general of all civil ar . d political ri ghts , and of the

      privilege of wearing any decoration . Thirdly , in being incapable to serve on a jury , or to serve as a witness ta * 1 . gal deed , or to give testimony on oath in a court of justice . Fourthly , in bein-j incapacitated from forming part ot any family c uncil , or of _beinjj guardian _, or _jndicial counsel , _unless for his _ wn children . Fifthly , in being deprived ofthe ri _» ht of carry in _ arms ef _serving in the national <* a . ird or the French army , of keeping a school or being employed in any establishment of public instruction , as Easter , profc * __ _* , _enr-her . "

      A _letterfrom Paris of Sunday ' s date , says : — ""Yes terday , when ihe sentence of the Court of Peers was announced to M . Teste , that portion of it which condemned hm to _imprirunment threw him into a violent _stata of frenzy , which prcduced congestion ef the brain , and his trcend threatened a dangerous *_ bc __ . To-day hia state is such as to _threaten serious consequences . A « _soon as the judgment was intimated to General Cubieres he paid the various sums in which he was mulcted , _amounting in the whole to 12 . 000 francs , and he was forthwith liberated . M . _ParmsctierwiUnotbe discharged until _ e h _ 3 in a similar manner paid the fine and Ills share of the costs .

      The rumour which was _ceneraHj- c * rc _ l _ te _ on Monday , ofthe return of M . Pellapra , is now officially confirmed . The 3 /_» t € ur oi Tuesday contains _ summons to the _membi-rs of tbe Court of Peers to assemble on Friday , forthe trial of that gentleman . The Debuts says that M . Pellapra arrived in Paris On Sunday evening , and on Monday surrendered _bimeelf a prisoner at the prif on of the Luxembourg . It is thought that the trial will not occupy t _ e , _court more than one day , as it is probablethatM . Pellapra will plead Entity .

      The Union Monarddque says that the _alarming zumenrs that bad been current as to the state of health of M . Teste are _confhmed . His health is injured to such . an extent that his family begin to entertain serious feus for his recovery . The trial _oftfc Communist Materialists cnncluded on Friday Ly the conviction o f ail the prisoners . They were sentenced to periods of imprisonment _Taryim ? from two to seven years . The _ e / or _* _, _ _c- _ tra * -t 3 the _stntenrea of these unfortunate , with these passed npon the _aristocratic _corruptioni-its . "In one case . ** says the Reforme ,

      "themaximum of punishment ( $ evenyears' imprisonment . ) is passed upoa six unfortcnate operatives convicted of a _p-ilittoal _conspiracy which had had no _regnlt . In another—where that hideous eriniecorruption—bad been committed by two illustrious ahd noble personages—the convicts are visited—one with civil degradation without imprisonment , and the other with a similar punishment , and three years ' imprisonment , so that he _willescaps with four years _les-t of confinement than the parties convicted of a seditious conspiracy tbat had led to no outrage . And this is called equal justice 1 "

      Emigration _ofFu-sch Co ___ nsis . —The French Communists _having lately suffered much persecution , are now proposing to emigrate , en masse , under the direction of M . Cabet , to found a Communist State , probably in America . M . Cabet was at one time a member of the French Chamber of Deputies , and is also known as _suthor of an History of France . Jib two chief Communist works are the Voyage en Jcerie . an Utopian romance , from _wh-nce _thoie who agree with his views have been called Icarians ; and Vrai Christiawsmc . in which hebasesC _;< mmunism upon the faith of Jesus . lie also is editor of the Populate _, in which paper he has developed the ne-• _ccssity r . f French Communist emigration . _Uisappeal to this effect has met with a willing _response from the Communists in France , and their cry , —anew version of "To our tents , 0 Israel !"—is Allonsen Jearie . Tbey will emigrate at least by hundreds .

      The Course Revolution . - —A . correspondent ofthe Edinburgh Weekly Register , writing irom Paris , avs : — " In a few days we shall have the usual celebration cfthe anniversary of the 'Three glorious dava * of Julv , 1830 . But for any real joy the people feel , the days might just as well be allowed to pass over without notice ; for there is no denying , that not one ct the things for which the revolution was made has "been _acer-mplkhed . Liberty ofthe press is a farce ; individual libertv exists not , since it can be violated at any time , with the most scandalous impunity ; the Chamber of Deputies 13 scarcely one whit more a representative of tbe peop le of France than ft _isol the inhabitants of _Timhttctoo , for it is elected by a miserable minority of the nation , and by means of the most infamous bribery and _-Mrr-iption . The fact is , that the revolution has been a gigantic

      disappointment to the whole nation . It has placed Lonis Philippe on the throne—but that is all . The people now are _becinning tube excessively indi _ _*_ _uitat having been doped so long . The food crisis , which still exists , and the depressed t-tate of commerce , laYelncreased their wrath , which has beenfurtter irritated by the recent scandalous disclosures . The < _sonsequence is , that a most uneasy feeling prevails Every one seems to expectthat mischief is brewing . Some people , indeed , pretend thattheycan distinctly hear the rumbling of a coming _Btorm . I know that alarmists are apt to be laughed at ; and I myself , for one , have a supreme contempt for them ; but , at the risk of being set down as one of the tribe , I will venture to say . that from all 1 see and hear , it will be fitrange , indeed , if the people of this country much longer refrain from an attempt to overthrow the

      government . The Journal __ _Dtlcts has fiercely assailed the _Re-P-blican _demoustration at tbe _Chatean-Rooge on the 3 th inst We give the admirable reply from the Hatiaael : — " Alible ** . Pab _& _OTd-TU compromised . Anarchy is rail—_ its hideetu head . * W _ are rolling from abjes to abyss to tbe follies of Coranrcnitm . The _qnsetien before ut relates to tbe ruin of society 3 It is the Journal ___ DtbsU which thia * " 3 or __ g utters this cry of alarmsot _eproptf of complaint—not with respect to the ______ ns trial—uot witb regard to tbe ie _ _jtile proceedings of the p 9 ven _ oent . So ; those are great , pare , and glorious ! Bat the Reformist banquet of _tbeCtutteat- - _"Kow-e Uiati » the deitrnctien of society ! That is ths O » . mm im Ta .. — •__ . J— IT de

      _conanraeraent ofthe abyss ! MM . Davergier Hanranne . LeoaM _ leviHe _Odilloa Barrot , and eighty-five of their colleagues , have t 6 « t guilty « f tfcf mtamy of _assist _iugat a _ u _ net at which the King * _a ted-, wat not _propoiea ! Can you figure to * yoa « el /» * _Ta " __^! Ih « Eng , the liviug au _ incarna te l « tv ! At that _zmcftepeotfaLdtteflwaiifta tion ! Tfae u __ -lared to utter ardeut w _^ . for fte Kform ofaligitalation which _ asgiveau 8 225 _satufied _^ putieF . comprising M . _Pagalle ! What _•**« _" _» * every _ooraKty ! Thty went further— thef speke of the _figlaU of those exclufieafrom political power , of the _«**" K _ agB and the merits cf nil those atizena Whore political laws pay _lafcosr by ingrctitads . _They appealed to the justice and the solicitude of public

      opinion _agiiast those odious iniquities of social organ * - *** tiou ia opposition to the most numerous aad ill-treated ¦ _** ** *•*«•' . Ia Out assembly ef Privileges , in the nuns of

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      the census , all sentiments were in accord . _« _ . the _nec _ _ t , formodi / _yingthe poKttoaS __ S _ 5 _SS ?" upporu , propagate ., and _iucreatt . ril S £ E ? _J't »» if aU these fiicU were not : ___|_ e ___ ffv J ™*' ftatinfernal _mating , those pn _ I __^ J | 5 ! _^ city to for ti to _propote a toast to \ h _^™ i _* _?**' did not _drinktotbeKtag ! " . _S '" - * _** _Hhenwetbinkofthat _isuomS _&" * _^ . ttC , ted p _ dine without drinkteg _A 7 Kin 5 , _T _^ . _*? _Bwrdepntie . bound under the _penSt _, „ f _^ ' * menceb , a mon _* _ ehic _^ _SL Cf to com happen to meet , in » ___ _JS _2 ___ . " 800 n f » _^ obliged to renew _ i _« . T _^ . ?* y « not , they are of

      a * _Li « t _, _«!! _. _!__ , _ _f _. * aaeUy » nd homage to his Uaieitv «»• . _« _„_ . > . _ uue " Bna nomage to ceiv 7 _ e _Jo _«_ _" _™ -, dtb , ; « P _* - » etbatM-. _ _ ty Ire . _" ouare __? tcom P _™ . The elect of the le _alnaiee _" Th _« " qUenUy ' re Jarded a « « flock of _fnncUonarciatewiSh C ° ? , I ' ™'' " became _tbeyas _. _o-Stto __? " ° 8 e , CCt cfth _« l _« _tow _rtParti 1 * 0 . th V _„ _? - - mea ' Wjsh fo accn _n _themtdves solely with A _-, _. 0 fttec 0 Untr _J ! _™ S _wewereawarethat _thepnde of upatarts was great , but we did not imagine tt rt i u _^ ghl U isa _PrfnC'P'" _« y tbey ! But we _re-P'J with th * _Chirter in onr hand , that the sole _principleof government is the _sovmi gnty of tho people . The national will it at once tho origin and the term of all govern .

      merits . it a _- one ma them i accor _^ . ng t 0 tiie _- ir neceg . _nties , as it pleases ; and anybody _xnustbaTcaihorttnemorj tO have forgotten alread y hon- that sovereign will destroy forms wbich are contrary to Ut expansion , and _cattt into solitude those ancient royal racts when they pretend to oppose their worn-out privileges to the _eiernal right of the people . Tbat Charles X . succeeding to his brotber L-ufo XVIII , who maintained that he had r _. _< i _ . nea ] Sal years avlaen a foreign steam boat cast him on our co _ t iu tho year 1814—tbat those persons shonld bare assume . ! to be principal ! might bave passed without tldicnle . And _nevertheless , when a meeting was held at the V- ndanees de Bourgogae without drinkinr the King ' s

      health nobody then thongbt of groaning and lamenting tbe conduct of deputies wbo bad at that period a dynastic surface . And you wish and require that deputies should at present drink the king ' s health ! Sot only deputies _, but tho electors of Paris—bnt tbe press of Paris , and that in the month of July , when the burning son hea _' _t tbe para-meat , whin from heights which command the capital wa * perceive the Louvre , where the people were victorious , and the Tuilltries , where tbey levelled a tbrone , and the dust of the Carrousel where the pedestrians trample- - * under their feet _thejieurs de Us broken to pieces ! Bat yonr _adoration becomes ridiculous by force or irapertiu ; _-nce . You . now style thc King the living incarnate law ! Good p . opk , you mistake your _, selves _foi Louis XIV . In vthat article ofthe charter

      have yon found tbat tbe King wat the law ! The law rules the King _a-t wdl ut tbe _httaibkst of citizens . lie contributes one-third to it—he executes it- re it bound to obey it—or , rather , ns he acts not without his Minister * _, in constitutional language ne mast thus explain your splendid phra _ : —The laving snd incarnate law is M . Jayr , M . Damon , M . Cnnin _Gridaiue , father , at Sedan ! A fine incarna ion , well worthy of adoration ! In truth , one is surprised to finJ to what a point tbe spirit ofthe Conn , tbe miserable spirit of subserviency , is perpetuated in this country , _notTtithstanding the terrible lessons of history . It might be said that tbe resideace of the mouarch was closed against the external air—that the movement of generations and the . . _ermantnt progress of ideas hid cot _bes felt there . It appears to

      be that an mtel . iga . nt . aciUe powerful , and energetic nation like ours sbonld halt _because a system has described i _: e parabole—that the _inunsvability of the upper part ought to paralyse the entire social body— that all Fiance should be condemned to drag Ut limbs like a decripit old man because it pleases all those who lead it to bt from 70 to 81 years of age ! Those are the men of the Left and the Left centre , to whoia tbey do the honour to attribnte tone { -nod sense . They perceive tbat tbe present policy degrades and corrupts all parties . They contend at the Chamber—their efforts are destroyed by a majority of satisfied members . They propose an electoral and Parliamentary refoi m—they are ridiculed and told that the country is laughing at them . They then

      address themselves to the elt-ctors—the latter reply and appeal to men of every party attached to tbe revolution of Jo _* y who desire a modification of the existing system . A common feeling unites different sections of the same p _*« y Bach brings Ms _followers axd maintains his _ttt ' g : A < _oy of anathema is _imtfisdiaMly _raiaetTbecause the _national sovereignty and the revolution of Jnly have beenin voked in plaee of the Kin ?! The _Harteiilaise was cbshted with enthusiasm , but Vies Henry IV . was neither played nor sung , and deputies were present ! What a scandal ! And it i « expected that this extraordinary manifestation of nhich the echo has been heard in London and in G-r . many , shall be imitate ! in France ! Wfcat an impruden expectation J Ah J' we aro well _a-rara of what grieves you . It is because no disturbances _interfered to derange

      tbis sincere and powerful expression of the Parisian electors . It is because in tbat _assembly of 1 , 209 persons the beat and excitement diminished in no respect the _diguified denuanour of tbe guests . Itis because that amongst the 5 , 01 * 0 or 6 , 089 persons who lesponded outside to the applause t'f tbe company , and to the music of the _SlarseUfmtc . yonr _police found no opportunity to interfere to repress tbe sJIgbtsst confu ? ion ; Tbis ren . _scionsnesi ot right , which is gradually penetrating everywhere , and which fortifies those amongst whom it penetrates , afflicts yon because it menaces your existence , aud it becomes the more alarming to yon as itis consolatory to society in general . Tou invite by your provocation agitation and riot . You would have cried

      less loudly if an opportunity had been afforded you to disperse the meeting as illegal . " Yoa woald not perhaps regret , crouched as j ou are in your filthy den , that some violence shonld bave assisted you iu creating alarm . Do not place any reliance on violence—that must come from you . We have waited patiently for your system to pro . duce its fruit . The _country has seen aud has tasted the poison . Yon ' are educating the nation . You are enlightening the most blind by the light of yonr policy _, _"forties have learned that bad governments are not destroyed - Toy their' _efijrt * . Bad governments commit suicide , and yoa will jot fail to succeed in consequenceo the care with which you charge jour weapons . Onr part will henceforth be governed by yours . You may act , we shall wait . " ¦' - '" ¦ ¦

      ' Dasiel O'Consell , E __ . M . P . forDundalk , and the Rev . 'Dr Miley , arrived iri Paris oh Tuesday , bringing _^ with them the body of the late . Mr . O'Connell in a _fourgon . They were to proceed on their journey the next day , intending to cross over from Havre to Southampton . The National gives currency to a rumour to the effect that Marshal Scult having again sent ia Mb resignation , tbe _Cot-neil of Ministers deliberated on it , and the offer was accepted . A letter , it was rumoured _, was , immediately written to . " Marshal Bugeaud to offer him the portfolio of war , and it was almost settled that M . _Guizat should assume the place of President cf the Council . It is added that the appointment oi Bugeaud as Minister of War will be fo : _h < wed by the immediate arming of the fortifications . Tbe Duke d'Aumale has been appointed Governor-General of Algeria .

      Apprehen _ onaare entertained in certain circles ef an outbreak oa the 29 th inst , the anniversary of one of *• tbe three glorious days . " The correspondentof the Times says , however , tbat such fears are not justified by facts , that the Republicans are held in hand by _. theirjehief _*? , who will not give the government such a chance of crashing tbem , and protecting the . present order of things by a premature and impotent insurrection . A banquet to be fiiven to Sf . De Lamartine hy his constituents at Mag . iu is looked forward to with some interest . Ilis " Girondina" has engaged the whole country in recollections ofthe Revolution of 1769 , of the omnipotence of the people , and especially of the integrity , probity , poverty , and patriotism of Robespierre , St . Just , Couihon , and others of the leaders in thai revolution . " These and tbe late _triaia . * ' _saya the _correspondent of the Times will probably predig-I pose the meeting to reflections and expressions which cannot fail to produce a _sensation .

      SPAIN . The Madrid journals dwell with the same alarm on the threatening appearance oi the Montemolinists . Tbe __ > del Comcrcio _, for example , rays : — "It is an indubitable fact that the _Montemolinista are organising themselves in a formal and terrible manner , and it is expected that from one day to another _, they will raise the cry of rebellion with an intensity which it will not be very easy soon to stifle . " The same journal publishes a letterfrom Valencia , stating that a Montemolinist band of sixty men had appeared at Maestrazgo Encounters , of no great importance as to their results , took place on the 5 th and 6 ih between the _Queen _' B troops and insurgents , at Valldara , in Catalonia , aud near the Aforade Ebro , in Tarragona . ... _ .. .., *•; . A Madrid letter of the 10 th states that the mail from that city to Barcelona had beea stopped by a body of men , who burnt the carriage and took the

      prisoner . A letter from our Bayonne corresponde _ t , under date July 16 th , gives the following account of the progress of the _Carlist bands : — . "A diligence which arrived here to-day was arrested near Burgos by a detachment ot * £ 1 Estudiante _' s guerilb , which appeared to be well armed and mounted . The insurgents offered no violence to the travellers , merely taking one ofthe horses , of _which they were in need . Two more Carlistsbave been shot at _finrgos , alter remaining twenty-four hours en capilla . The war on the Catalonian frontier is becoming characterised by acts of great ferocity , each party destroying the crops of their oppoents

      n . The Carlists have also burned several diligences . Colonel _Kozal , the officer arrested here tho day _Jtefore yesterday , was one of Zamalacarregni ' s vete _ ti . _*_ lie came here from Belgium , and was hearer t'f letters from London , in which he 1 m _ appointed i _' _oa commaudit . Navarre . " _ A teleg . _** aphicdespa _ hfrom Burgos , ofthe 11 th , is also pub ushed , stating that the hand of El Estudiante was come up with on the 10 th near Sedano , thathe lost a" captain killed , hia aide-de-camp taken prisoner , wit h four horses and some arms , and that he himself est ** ped with a wound in his head . The troops had two' soldiers wounded aud three _henes shot _'

      . __ SWITZERLAND . A letter from . _^ erne of the 9 tb , in the Cojw _« utioimel , aaya : m . . " What I said to _J ou J _»»» rday , respecting a note ofthe French cabin * . _% a _^ 1 confirmed ; and It _ -

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      here I can guarantee the correctness of thc followine details : —The day before yesterday , M . de _lioisle-Comte went to the President of tho Diet , and read to him a _s-iroewhat long despatch , dated ith July , by which M . Guizot not only fully ratified the language held by the ambassador in his fatuous < ft" _ _our- _ rit . but even strengthened thc expression of his idea by ascribing to the great continental powers , wiih respect to our country , more hostile intentions tban a simple examination of the complications whioh may arise in case the majority of tbe Swiss States should take collective measures against the minority . In a

      word , the written language of M . Guizot is in comp lete opposition with the declarations that he made in the Chamber of Deputies in the sitting in whicii the interpellations took place . After having read tbis despatch to M . Ochsenbein , tho Ambassador offered , according to usage , to leave him a copy . The President of the Vorort at first replied by a positive refusal , but afterwards consented to the formality , _declaring however , that as the despatch was not addressed to him as President , nor to theVivort , he could not communicate it officially cither to the Diet or the Directory . "

      ITALY . A letter from-Bologna of the 8 tb , in the Conititu-Uonnel , says : — ' * The law on the institution of the eivie guard for the entire state has just arrived Irom Rome . Cardinal Amati ordered _^ it to be immediately published _throughout the province . It is in consequence of a serious demonstration ofthe Roman peopl .- that the government hastened to pass this measure , so Ion * : expected . Couriers passed through Bologna last night from Rome . on their way lo Vienna , with _pressing despatches from the Austrian ambassadors

      residing at Rome and Naples . Armed bands are said to bave made their appearance in Calabria . Considerable agitation reigns in thc kingdom of the Two Sicilies . We understand that a collision , attended with bloodshed , has just taken place at Lucca , between the troops and the inhabitants . The irritation of the population continues at Parma . It is 8 aid that a body of Imperial troops are on their wav to occupy the duchy of that name . If each an act takes place , it will be the commencement of the Austrian intervention in Central Italy . "

      A letter from Naples , oi the 29 th ult . says : — " The government has just taken energetic measures against the brigands of the Calabria ** , whose numbers , according to accounts from Cosenza * ind its environs , have considerably increased . The gendarmerie and several battalions of chasseurs have been sent from Noi-era to the points which are most threatened . " Accounts received in Paris from Rome , under date ofthe 10 th , inform us tbat Cardinal Gizzi had re-• signed , and that Cardinal Ferretti . Legate of Pesaro and Urbino , had been appointed hia successor . Cardinal Ferretti , who belongs to a noble family of Ancona , is 52 years of age . lie is tho brother cf the Major Ferretti who , in the time of Napoleon was considered ono of the bravest officers of ths Italian army . The Pope convoked on the 8 th a congregation of cardinals , to take into _consideration the municipal law , end other urgent measures .

      POLAND . The Rreslau Gazette of thel 2 _tb _ _ ive ** thc following representation if the misery whieh afflicts the part of Poland which lies on tho banks of the Vistula : — " The working classes are obliged to eat the grass of the fields , which they dress as vegetables . The few who are so fortunate as t * procure employment earn no more than five _kreutrsrs ( 30 c . ) a day , and tnen they are able to buy only a small quantity of black or spoiled flour , which they mix with the grass . Every day people were found dead in the Street 8

      from starvation . In the town of Saysupnl tbere were found in one _morning nineteen persons lying on the pavement round a church , all of whom had _exoired trom want of food . _H'he principal disease caused by this famine is a nervous fever , attended with insanity . They stagger as they go , have a stupid air , and cannot speak without stammering . They are easily distinguished among the hundreds of beggars who besiege thc doors of all the houses . Children deserted by their fathers and mothers wander about the streets in _groupspiteously imploring charity . " " " ¦

      RUSSIA . ' According tn the last arrivals from St Petersburg , the Emperor Nicholas will not go into Gernvny this year , lie is said to have directed bis Minister of Foreign affairs to collect in August , at St Petersburg , all the diplomatic representatives of Russia to the great powers . The Emperor bas just taken an important decision in a strategic point of view , lie has adopted the project of a vast line of railways _uniting tbe three capitals , _Warsaw , Moscow , and St Petersburg . This line , of which tbe fete depontwiW be the fortress of Warsaw , will complete and strengthen the system of the old kingdom of P _. iland , snch as the Emperor Nicholas established it at the last insurrection ia 1830 . The country to _bs traversed by the line is generally flat , which will allow of the works being rapidly completed at an expense of about W , W 0 f . tlie _English mile .

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      THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . At a meeting of this society on Monday evenim * _. -7 Ridley , in the chair , the following new regulations were moved by Julian Harney : — 1 st . That henceforth tbe society '! meetings tnke place only monthly— Uie lirat Sloadoy in every month : the _s _** - _cretarits , however , to have the power to call special meetings whenever they deem necessary . The first of tbe regular monthly meetings to take place on the first Monday in August . _.- .-: _' ,.

      That as a number of members neglect to pny tho contribution of a halfpenny weekly , the present system be discontinued , and , _instead , that every member in town and country pay , on receipt of his card , one Shilling . The shilling to cons itate one year-payment . The year to date from the 22 nd ot * September . . If not paid on the 22 nd ( the society ' s anniversary ) , the town members to pay at the first monthly meetings following ( October ) Shonld it be inconvenient for any member to make _gooil his contribution in . one payment , he rosy pay the snma : by inttalments of _notluss than one penny weAly until the whole is paid . On any emergency additional monies to be raised by voluntary contributions . " -

      The above having been _seconded hy Geo . William Wheeler , the first regulation was unanimously adopted . On the second , Carl _Schapper moved , seconded by Charles Keen , that" tbat each member on receipt of his . card pay sixpence instead of one shilling . " On a division , the amendment was rejected , and th * original motion ( tbe shilling annually ) adopted . - , The following new members were elected : — Conrad Springall , of Norwich ; George Kondall _,

      of _Sutton-in-Ashfield ; Charles Rous , Thomas Major , John Dell , Henry Ellis , and Henry Lester , all of Reading ; John Rogers , of Bristol ; Thomas Gill , jun ., of WafceBeld ; David' Morrison , * , of Swindon ; Adam Cameron , of Paisley ; Charles ' Theobald , of Peterborough ; James Smith , of Accrington , Eilwnrd Burley , of Manchester ; John McCrae , James Graham , John hielntosh , Uohert Stiven John Dnw- ie , James Drummo-id , Thomas Wbitten _, George Young , Duncan Palmer , and Anthony Chappell , all of Dundee .

      — Broome ( Tower Hamlets ) waa elected town member . [ The abovo members will understand tbat the shilling regulation will not be enforced until the 22 nd . of September next . They must-then rencu their membership subject to tbe above regulation , when they wi'i be supplied with cards . ) ' After some other business had been transacted , and several spirited speeches delivered . ' the meeting aOjourned till Monday , evening . August 2 nd .

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      -( Fromthe 4 ___ -er . eeof" Tuesday , July 20 . ) . Sarah _Eovrring-, Pendleton _^ lahcashire , ' -plumber—Bobert John Bay , nnlsteati ; Essex , wiiie merchant - James Dodge , _Cumberltffld _. _rbw / 'Walwbrth ' . rpad , Hewing _, ton , ironmonger-Josep h Gardner , Nottingham , ' baker-John Hay , Bath , surgeon ., dentist—Diedrick Carsten Hermann Lomcr , London-street , City , merchant—Henry Monson , East _Manchestcr-square , builder— . Tpseph Sew man , Framptou CottereU , _Gloucestn-shire , catpentcr-Luke Nornfington , _te _&^™^ : * $ _^ _^*^ Price , Ludgat . _hUl , City , innkeeper- ttilhun Scott , Idveiiool , hardware dealer-Abraliarn . Smith , _ Botley , Hampshire . chairmaker-Henry -VPoodhouseand . Thojnns _Theakstone Woodhouse , Aldermanbury _. _waiicliousemcn .

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      Accn >__* _ r ths JIo __ op _LouDSi — A man named Michael Eogan was killed hereon Monday . Be fell a height of sixty feet from one of the towers , striking against several rafters as _ efcJJ , 3 nd trying in vain to catch hold of tbem . A rowing . match for £ 100 has 'been agreed upon _bettreen Coombes , of London , and his _^ brother , and _Cteper , and one of his brother *) . ¦' ¦ ' ¦¦ The highest honours at King Edward ' s School , Birmingham , hare this year been gained by a Jewish scholar . A gardener residing near Doncaster lately gathered 100 downs of apricots from a single tree , uppn wjjho left abont 200 dozens to grow to their fail-size , ch ' -- _PasseBgers may now leave Glasgow by an express railway train at twenty minutes past five o'clock « the merning _. and reach London at nirie o ' clock on the evening ofthe same day . In the year 1810 , the shortest time this distance could be performed hy fiWiDMy _WwWngiras _HYenty-eight Hours ..

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      _^*^ _^^ AA _^^ y . _« .- _^ -iW _> A >\* _aA > ' _«*^ _avV . A . , _^ lli # y ,. SATURDAY JetT , 17 . „ " _^• J _? ° _* L 0 RDS . ~ 0 ne o ' clock was tbe hourap . pointed for tha tmf _eting of the house ; but onto-- to an oocurrenceofan unusual nature , the cf . mmoncementof _buii . am was delayed until 8 o ' clock . At the _sppolnied time a snfficieat number of peers had asicmbled to constitute _ifv _^ ' . v nob / 8 bo P ' _* 1 P _««« nt to read prayers , an « 1 , tJr _, nhii . _t Pr aCti 08 ° f the ho ,, senot t 0 _Pwwed to trans . _TJjf _*; rofflaia iB 8 8 fate ° _' «< " . « .. « was , « adnrav « . » * tb _^ dUty 0 f thC BUho _* «» t Asaph to S _ Bfl __? _ 0 attU OCOtt 8 ! ° ' ' aflep _*» " > l 8 Pse «>' ? _T _ , " me . a m « "n _* _-er Was despatched to his residence

      . _ . ____ * Jr r 0 V * _PrCl"'e , hlt hiB Present ! e •*•» « - _tormedat the b ,. hop _* » house that tho right rev . prelate S _12 _ 5 r _„ ¦ ' _' clock Wlth tbe _~ »» _£ " _«•» s * neX _, _„/ T \ _^ ' ' _^ that he had not slneo been beard of . When this intelligence was com . _municated to their lordships , messengers wercTe _* it Tn various d . rtctions in search of bishops , with instruction _, _t' . request any one Of them to proceed forthwith ? _TZ 177 uV l l bi 8 hop W 84 * -fama . _w may ba doubted whether the lay peers ever before so _rr _ _* l _* mini 8 treti ° »<* f one of their _spiri . _ual brethren but it was not until threu o ' clock thst _^? _W _^? _ftt , _^ _V _^ ft « nd _- .. W _ h « tri . caUd their lordsb . p , from the " fix" in which they wore

      The business transacted wM exclusivel y of a routine SSS _ _a _^^* ,-, ' - _hi _«'^ « , _i ° , ? . ? f OOMM 0 _** _-ne _- * on .. met at _t-velvc . Soma _Mtisfactory explanations passed between Mr B . _Bscott and the chairman of committees , Mr Orcane as to the former moving the adjournment of the debate oa the Bishops' Bill on tho preceding evening in a somewhat irregular manner . He had no desire to embarrass the chairman but merely adopted that mode of _rsstorfBg order . Mr Green accepted thu apology . Tho Bouse then proceeded to dispose of several bills of a local character , and after a sitting of _abuut two hours separated .

      MONDAY . Joti 19 . HOUSE OF LOltDS . — _Ueiief of Ibish Distbfss . — E .: rl bRET laid on the table a despatch from the governor . general of the North American colonies , and stated that the subscriptions in those colonics for tbe relief of Irish distress amounted to £ 33 , 000 . New Zealand ( No . 2 ) Bill . —Thia bill passed through committee after a few-remarks from Earl Gset upon the increasing prosperity of the colony , and the _eratlfyinjar manner in _wlaich , be said , the natives of New _Zeulandnowcuine into our courts to settle their disputes . Tbeir lordships adjourned at 8 o ' clock ,

      HOUSE OF COMMOXS .--. _ r _TsE-. _* , wm wished t _* knotv from the ChauceUer of the' Exchequer whether htr Majesty ' s _( _-ovunment woul . d allow _rarliamentto separate without taking some step to protect factory labourers from the injury they were Hk „ y to receive in being deprived of au opportunity of earning wages for more than ten hours a-day by a bill which had become law during the present _n-iiion 1 The _CiiAKCEttoa ofthe Excbec . ce & said his honourable friend was aJreaa , ** aware tbat 1 _)}» opinion was against the measure alluded to , mainly on . the ground of its interfering ; 'with the interests of the * labouring classes themselves ; but cert . _tinly _, now that tho bill bad become law , he could not hold out any hope that government wonld _introduce a measure to _compsnsiito tbe labourers for any losa tbey wa ; suffer in consequence of a redaction from twelve to ten boars a-day in their labour .

      _Bisncraic of _MjaNcnESiEB Bat . —Lord J . _Rdsseu moved that the order of the day for going into committee on the above bill b * t read , Mr B . Escott hnd to thank Lord J . Bussell for the handsome manner in which , at the close of Friday night ' s debate , he had consented to postpone the further proceeding with tbis bill from Saturday ti Monday . He had felt on the noble lord ' s doing so that it would ba the duty ofthoss oppoadng the bill lo reconsider the position in which tbey were placed—to reflect on the responsibility attached to the position they occupied—to reconsider the nature of the bill itself—and to resolve whether it was their duty to givo up their opposition , and concede to the opinion of thc _mojority . At the same time he had considered it his duty to reflect whether anything had passed in the coarse of the debate tbat tended to upset tbe principle on which they had acted , in opposing a measure which they thought detrimental to tue interests of the piople , because detrimental to tlie interests of the church :

      and , having fairly considered thc matter , he had come to the . determination that nothing would be _sopuiillaniinous , nothing would be so base on their part , as any sign of shrinking from the great duty imposed upon them , ( Hear . ) An hon . gentleman sitting nuar Mm signified dissent _fraim that proposition ; and he called upon that hon . _ffentlcmsin to expreBB to the _hous « the reasons which induced hian Co support tbis bill , He had yet to learn that this was a ministerial measure . ( Hear , hear . ) The noble lord tho First Lord of tho Treasury , and the Secretary of State forthe Home Department had spoken in favour of the bill , but sparingly , and they had never attempted to grapple with the main question under dispute . { Hear , hear , ) He saw next to the noble lord at the head of the government the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests , and the representative of a great county , Ue wanted to know if Yorkshire was iu favour of this bill ! Qc would tell that noble lord ( Lord Morpeth ) that " not all tho blood of all the Howards" could cram four

      bishops down the throats of tbe people of tbis country . ( Laughter . ) He s-iw also the member for Sheffield in his place , nnd he asked him if the people of Sheffield were in favour ofthis bill ? [ Mr Ward , — " They havo not tM a _siogle word on tho subject . " ] But , if they bad said nothing , was he at liberty to assume that" silence gare consent ? " ( Laughter . ) He would ask , also , who was the author of tbe appropriation clause 1 ( Hear . ) Who was it that contended that all surplus funds of tbe Irish church _sbouldgo to the education ofthe people ! ( Hear . ) It was the member for Sheffield ; and yet ho now support-d a measure for raising- up four new _bishoprics out of the surplus funds that ought to go to a more necessary purpose . ( Hear . ) Instead of widening the base of the church , and thus adding to its usefulness and stability ,

      he was assisting to put _pondsrous pinnacles on its top tbat would make it top-heavy and endanger its fall . Then there was thi > member for Dungarvan , better known as member for _Dungarvan than as the Master of the Mint , where his office seemed to hang about him as a ponderous incumbrance—( laughter )—he asked him whether Ireland was in favour of four new bishops ? It was not for those who had cried for _justice to Ireland to join in the attempt to make four new bishops for England . ( lieur , hear . ) Where wero all those who had in former times expressed themselves in opposition to measures of this kind i They wero too much cowards to riie io . their places and oppose the present measure . He repeated that those who , contrary to their recorded opinions and avowed principles , did not stand up and

      oppose this bill were political cowards , and would be bo branded by tbe voice oi tbe people ot this country . ( Hear , bear . ) : But he saw in his place tho right hon , gentleman the member for Edinburgh , and he would now go from Ireland to Scotland . ( An hon . member— " I wish you wouVl . " Great laughter . ) The right hon . _gtntleman was famous not only for his eloquence in that house , but for deep research , varied learning , and philosophical acumen ; but in all the _Batches he had heard , and in all tbe essays he had read of tbc right hon , gentleman ' s , not oae paragraph bad erer beea expressed in favour of tbo necessity of four new bishops . ( Laughter . ) Perhaps he had reasons for supporting this bill . If so , let him state them , and he was ready to be convinced , if they were _sucta-as his reason could approve . But ns jet lie had

      beard no good : reason given for such a bill , ( Ie also called upon the . _'Attorm-y-GenerpI to come f . _irward and deliver liis ! sentiments , lie wanted lo know from the hbii . and learned-gentt . jnjnn if if was according to the principles of _Parliata ' entary and constitutional law to state in the preamble of _a'bilt'theopiiiions and contemplations ofthe Sovereign as tbo groundwork of an act of _j-airliament . ( Hear , bear . ) _Ho-Iiad said that lie doubted whether this , was a Ministerial measure . One thin ; - he was sure _ _, —that the measure would not be carried by the _tuppsrters of Ministers , but by the gentlemen on the opposition side of the house . ( Hear , hear . ) There were , however , honourable exceptions on the opposition side of tho house . There was a distinguished exception in the case of Sir J . Graham , ( Hear . ) The right hon .

      gentleman the member for Tamwairth , who was formerly at the head ef an administration , should have boon progent to express his opinions in that bouse . Ho would bo better employed expressing his viewB to that bouse on tbe bill now before it , than writing pamphlets to his constituents . ( Laughter . ) There wore also thoso who aspired to be leaders of the people . Where was the noble lord tbe member for Lynn t The noble lord was not in his place , or he would have told him , tbat if be thought the farmers of England , -who had-been called the country party , or any great portion of them , supported this question , he would find in tbat supposition be was cgregiously mis . taken . ( Hear . ) He asked ths noble lord if Bentinck came over with William from the Low Countries to give fournew bishops Brummagem mitres : ( A . laugh . ) Bid his ancestors come over with William to make these

      _Briimmagtm mitres , ond pot them on the heads of the successors of _LaHd 1 ( Laughter . ) And where , too , was the member for Shrewsbury ! He was canvassing the farmers not only of Buckinghamshire , bat of all England . Ho was-riding through all Buckinghamshire in John Hampden ' s saddle—( a laugh)—but he asked how it would tic the " popular principles" of the member for Shrewsbury to support this bill with its four bishoprics _f ( Rear , hear . ) In tbeir absence would any-of their friends tell why they bad beon _silmt ? He ( Mr Escott ) - knew why they had _besn silent , and he would tellthe people they represented why . The division upon this-question * .... . _ _....- ' _ _. \!_ i . _«'' _a __ wonldthc

      _ would uot be decisive with tbe country , nor speeches in favour of this bill recommend the speakers as representatives of great constituencies hi another Hoar * of Commons . After _cullln ;? the arguments' used in this debate , the only reason in favour of the bill appeared to be this - — they were told the bill did not originate in this house : it bad come down from the House ot Peers , and for thatreason they ought to pass it . The b . 1 , it was true bad come down from the other houso , and bo recollected another bill which had come d < mn from the House of Lords , the pressing of which bill la tb » bonM had turned out Sir _Rgtsrt feel ' s government . ( Bear , hw , hear . )

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      It had bteu said _ihntthemonfy of _tha-peaapla _* . v . _- _>* i . oi required for these new bishoprics ; but , _ibi'Uiih _theuiona-y did not come from tho consolidated fund , It was _tokni from a portion ofthe peoplo ; fiom a _-jieriforlnus , hard working portion of the people , —the parochial _cKtsy . It was not , indued , raised by tbe _Chancellor of tiie Exchequer , but it was takm from th _^ _harai-worklng _ck-rgy . _ ° _„ a ' lf , twa » _emplo _' . edln endowing four - new bishoprics . Suppose a ftmine , and that ... „¦ atopic _ _t _ , _wT _! 7 ' ° that * portion of our w ' _HWcrcy « i : _** t . 2 S T _^ ° ° , ana ' « " •¦ ¦ _™*™ B '• ' _« " ¦"' _Msfhl- _T in " _-omnHuton ; . uJ _* Ju she B _ _rio _» the close of the when V

      season , the __ i « 7 h A ' ln _^ 5 » _T _ __^^ ____ _*_ _lw __ B _* i __ l _ _5 _^ tbo country tolerate this ? W , ttt _^ _ _, _S 2 _ _^ assigned in favour of the measure , why * _., „ _,.. _, ni , ... . ( the opponents of thc bill ) , t . kta _^ _oi „ 7 a _^« ::. 5 upon this great question , persevere in their .. _ppo-. i . i ., „ * _ a bill which they believed the people * _ _roSL .. _a-iJ that belief bein g strengthen _^ by the fact that no r , _^ - _sentattve of a large constitusney came forward to _ •> ruin its favour ! He admitted that there bad been a in . _*' .. i " . nty in favour of the bill , but not _« _ iljl ) rl , y 0 ? ? ne House of Commons . Had one _ _* _i ! f of the Kavtf i

      of Commons voted for the bill ? No ; the M ' . i _ i majority in favour of the bill had been barely _om-StVn _o " T _^ Z ! t iT _T - ( Hsar hMr _' > Wlw « ' •*¦«••*<¦ he other , f If any kon . _timber would take tho _troubhto _analyzs the divisions , they would find that the bill , t > passed , would not he _cnrrl-d b y the ministerial _ rf « _,. f the house , hut by 87 members on the other side . ( H _» r , hear . ) Under these circumstances , he felt it to be his Tii \ rzzz \ bh ° ppo 9 iti ° * ° tb _» wu . ii . should be glad f he could suggest a reason why H _ _Majestjs ministers could , consistent ., wlu _ tl ! Cir ' own tion '

      sugges was necessary ; for if they bestowed a few trr _ w ouido e _? rv ° _^ _« : _ n 0 _ them it would be clear to them that ihe only safe _eoun * was to makeup their minds , _ . _* , __ . t 0 . „ i gilt orbXe na for ° ! v r _tV _^ _P Partwith «¦ » _™ _SLtlVk < _: iIe " ' i oa _** _- ) Let them look at _ ,,. _«• colleagues , _theht-ads of the Board of Trade , Neither the noble lord who _hadbeenat the head of that board , and who wns now _Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , nor the Vice-President of that board Mr M . Gibson who gave the additional influence of bis popular abilities to tho Administration in the country , had voted in favour of this measure And Lord Brougham , 1

      0 ! si _solit-o _quicquam _virtutis adessot !" how would he , at onetime , havo made his former colleagues in the Honso of Lords tremble at their own nudaeity ; However , he said , they ( the opponents of the Mil } were determined , they woreresolved that Ihey wouM debate this bill . "You may prorogue on _Thurdavs _, " said the hon . member , "baton Thursday you shall not carry it . ' He concluded with moving that tho other orders of thc day be now read . Sir W Moleswoktu seconded this amemdnitnt Mr Actional thought if this bill passed , it would he but the commencement of bishops' bills , as clearly appeared from the evidence of the Bishops of London and StAsapbon tho subject , both of whom thought there was greater need of bishops than of assistance tothe small or ill-paid _clergj _ _- ( iaughter ) -and both of whom said they were of opinion that tho best mode of providing for tho spiritual destitution of the people was to create nv . * re bishops . ( Great laughter . )

      Mr _Hche was sorry that the noblo lord st the head of the government persisted in forcing on this bill : he had hoped thathe IVOUld pogtponeiluntilnextae »_ on , andhe would put it to him whether it would not be wisd to do so , and whether it would no serve the liberal cause if he were now to postpone until the next parliament this most obnoxious and objectionable measuro ! ( Hear , hear . ) He implored the noble lord not to waste the time ofthe house any further , but at once to withdraw the biU . ( Hear , hear . ) Lord J .-11 _ussei _ could not but think , aftor hearing tbo speeches which bad been made against the bill , that the opposition to it arose mainly from a misapprehension both on the part of tbo _aranl ! _miaori . 'y who opposed it in that bouse as well as of many respectable persons in tbc country . It was said that everything was done for the hierarchy and nothing for the sure of souls , and it was also allvged tbat this measure tad more particularly tbe former object . He must , howev « r , vecaU to the recollection of tho house the state of the church somo

      years ago , beforo lord Grey ' s government _thought of reforming it , or the _oanmtssiori of Sir B . Feel was issued . The Bishop of Dai ham bad a rovchue of from £ -22 , 000 to £ 23 , 000 a year , and other bishops held benefices and livings of from £ 000 to £ 1 , 000 a year , in _commenthvi _, to eke out tlieir incomes . Another evil was , ' that several clergymen , held various dignities ond preferments : for _instataco , fifteen clergymvn held fi' _pieca-s of preferments . A commission , however , was appointed in 1831 to inquire into the evils existing in the church ; ana first oi all they applied themselves to the incomes of the bishops , when it appeared to them that it was desfr . able to do away with tho holding of benefices and livings in o mtnenuam to make up their incomes , and it further appeared that some of thc larger bishoprics _miftht

      be diminished , and afford better incomes tothe smaller ones , Tbey proposed that thi income of the Bishop of Durham should be reduced : to _ 8 _, ° 00 a year . Another abuBO ; liad . ueen pnt un end to , namely , the frequency of translation " .. Next , as to cathedrals , it appeared that a considerable diminution might be made in the number of _dt _ ns , ' cai * o * ic _t and other cathedral offices - _, aud hy the _reductjoiiamade a fund of _ I _; 000 a year bad fallen in , and the real amount on tbe expiration of existing lives and the . completion of other arrangements , ultimately _tvotlld / be _. lifctle less than £ 300 , 000 n year . They had very _greijqy dimiuifihed tbe patronage of the crown and tlio high dignitaries of tbe chnrch _. nnd bad not been , as it was said , utterly neglectful of tbe Working clergy , for this sum of _ 131 , 000 ( and which , as he had before

      said , would ultimately reach 800 , 000 , ) had been devoted tothe augmentation of small benefices . Then , ' as to pluralities , Ihey had been restricted , for a measure had been passed that no clerg . man should hold a second benefice more than ten miles from where he lived , ( Hear , bear , ) He really thought these things had been utterly lost sight of—( hear , hear )—and he was not now propoBingthat the whole surplus revenue of tha church should be devoted to the creation of four bishoprics , neither was he responsible for the _opiuions of the Bishops of London and St Asaph . What he wished to show was , that , in . pursonnco of a series of measures , ' he did not

      stand up alone solely for the purpose of _Insreasing the number of bishops , _llutlioughtthat , —making provision as they had for the reform of abuses , having done away with benefices held in commendam , having done away with tbo evils-attending the translating of bishops , having done away with sinecures , having made better provision for the euro of souls , having applied a remedy to the evils of pluralities , and those evils which many years ago BiBhop Watson thought so hurtful to the church , tbey were not—if they conceived the ministrations of the ehuroh _pould be made more useful b y putting more bishops in tbo dioceses hereafter to be created—to consider the church and the concerns of tbe church as fl .

      nally settled , but that they ought to leave to that body that principle of life and extension which belonged to all other bodies , whether lay or clerical , and which ho thought ought to hjlong to ecclesiastical bodies , ( Hear , hear . ) : i After what had passed en Friday night , lie thought he was not making an unreasonable request in asking the house to go iuto committee . Sir W . _Moleswoeiii said that the speech of the noble lord might be summed up in one sentence , namely , " we have done much good , therefore we are now entitled to do some evil . " ( Hear , hear . ) He heard no argument in favour of this bill from the noblo lord , and till he heard some argument in favour ef it he would give it

      every opposition . It was well known that _two-thlrdsof the liberal members who voted for the bill were really in favour of its postponement , and that was well . fcnown tothe noble lord . He dared hon . members oh his side of the bouse , to stand np and declare that there were iu favour ofthe measure . ( Hear , hear . ) He called on Mr Fox Maule—thc friend of tho free church of Scotland—to declare that he wiis in favour of the making of more bishops . He was not prepared without due consideration to give decided opinitn on this subject , ne therefore thought it ought to bo postponed till they , knew what was the opinion of the people of . England . - ( ifear , hear . ) Next session the state of the church generally could be brought under tbeir consideration .

      Mr Tbeia wnv said they seemed to be living In strange times . They saw _Free-trade measures carried by Tories , and Church extension measures about to bo carried by Whigs , He would oppose the hill iu its various stages , but he would not offer any factious opposition to its passing . He thought that at the present period of thc session it ought to be postponed . He did not think it worth while to excite the feelings of the Dissenters , for so 6 uiall a measure as this , and he _bslieved it would be productive of far more good if tho income of the Bishop of Manchester went to increase the number of tho working clergy . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr J . Co tUTT thought this measure discreditable and disgraceful to the noble lord . Though he considered himself a high churchman— ( loud laughter )—he felt compelled to continuo his opposition to thc bill . He thought ' the house had a right to know what had been alone with the £ 200 , 000 , which tho Bishop of London received from lessees of thc property on the other side of

      _BtayswateMoad . - After a few words from Mr Escott , consenting to withdraw his amendment _^ _the amendment was withdrawn , and tho house went into committee . ¦ MrM . PHH . irs was understood to say that a deputation of _personsbelouging to the cbnrch bad waited on him , and requested him to urge the postponement of tbis measure until next _se-sion of parliament , when it could be more lully considered and discussed . Ho felt grateful to the noble lord for being mainly instrumental in enabling Manchester to send him as its representative to that house . The first vote be gave in it was against the _goverament to which the noble lord belonged , on the Irish Coercion Bill , aud he should _regret if the last vote he recorded was also in opposition to him , He did not think the noble lord ought to force this bill on the people of Manchester . He would therefore move , that ibe words "forthwith establiahingabUhoprio of Manchester" be struck out of tbe preamble of the bill .

      Mr H . CHoiMoNDBtET waB anxUus that a calmer ana _wi-ior spirit should be introduced iuto this discussion . This debate had bten characterised u a riotous _debnif ,

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      . ml it well deserved tho appellation . Laughter had l ) n _uxriicd on a _subjeit of a most serious chara _ uS v Never wa » there a question In which it was less " appro _, priite . The spiritual interests of thousands wero in . voivcrt , anal those _interests were of importance to other ii _. _ta-risis in the proportion as eternity was moreimpor . _tiini than timi ! . He trusted , therefore , this bill _wouldno | . nuer be ma 'e the vehicle for rlbaW jest _. Aft t considerable _discussion , the committee divided—For the amendment ... , „ tii _j _$ _Ag _.-iii'st it — ... ... ... _86 _r-72 Mr V . Sunn snid that he had now to bring forward _rht : ania-na - _iuiriic <•( which he had given notice , relatival to . V . _ _'lm-v additional bishops referred to in the preamble of tlae hill . 'Mat * noble lord at the head of the

      gor-runiamt _ha-i sab ! 'hat he whs open to conviction , and would b « r _«* a _. iy to make any alteration in the raeasuro whicb _( ou ' _ii b- shown io him to be proptr . The prenmbU _r-ciwd , / hit * t ' ir _«* _ad-litlonalbishops were _tobecreatsd nn soon ae ¦• oiiveHieni . Now _tha-se words wero . quit * ct variance , with the rest of the preamble , and they coa « _Miar-ai - _{•' « _* •_ winch , to say the least , was _extremWy t _.-. camv _uatHt , mud one to which the noose of Commons ought not to st-atid committed . There was nothing iii » _a-t * al in the hi ! i upon these words in the preamble , an . _i _tlirri- ' mi : hr pressed on the noble lord the propriety o- _rxpiaiai .-i ! , them . The rigH hon . gentlemen con . clu u il hy _nayvii _, _) - that ail the words relating to tbe _crestioti ' ¦ ' _tiai _ new _bishoprics be omitted from tht _Urt'tttllli ' : .

      _Lot-ii J . _R-js £ r , i , is : aid that if the words objected to by the riv'ht _laa , _uoura . b ' ae _fli-titlaraian _coulal be made to bear t ' ae ¦¦ _"fititt . _if . _tti'u avhich he had put upon tlitm , and to ri < nve- ; , - .: _la-dg . _'« . hat the House of Commons would , at .-mi' - _aVcta f . s . . iaati _, proceed to create three new bishop . _rii- « . _H-hia : ' _, _cam-aaruction . _honatvcr , he did not think _thsy _casul-i in ¦ . _tv-nuvjs le math- _tobsar , then he most admit ti . a' ilit ! ' a ' .:.. . ,,- ! . Whicii the right hon . gentleman had _nrgad _ivfri- _ufuouie _weii-lit _, and tor that _reaion he waa di-posi > d to think tho words in question mijiht just aa well b _< om ; _taaai _, leaving the proposition for weatiug ; _ihrmnaiw _huhoprics _entiiely optn to a future purl ' s . m > nt . lie theM _' _-r _,- wouid agree to omit them from thc _pr . _tuiahiv . - . md \ _so « lrt also strike out that part of the ¦¦ _condcl'iua- _tff- _* rriug tothe future appointment of tliret : _tidi ' . i- . ianml bishops . StrJ . _Gn * n „ K , and _sevarnlothermt-mbers , _expressad their « _Kii » r _ _i- < i 1 i at _tUla u _.-aaareselon . -

      Mr DUNCaiunE said hu wished to know whether the words t _tlut _« v' t » thc cre . _' lhin of three new bishops hav . in * : _ht'tfii struck out aif the _pra-auible _, it would be nec _ _*> ssrj , if tier Majesty thought fit hereafter to found three n « w _»>•(•» , ! h _ t _moutst * should be bad to parliament for th " _purpose * Lord J . Ui 7 S . ELi , j _ ii it would bo necessary to ct _. mr _* - to _pArlinxcnt . Ti . c _sor-.-amble , as amended , was _th-.-n agree ! to . Ou the _ncstciauso being proposed , which _ropealsparts of _thftxci-. r _ i „ , _'t in the preamble , and extends to this act the p'H _' . _oi'ii uff-jrm-. tr acts . Mr Aa 3 t . iai . vBi e , tll « d mi tlie house to reject the latter _partajfihi * _cJntut ! on _liic . 'rounds taken by Lord O . _Beutiticli n _ ' ! nil- J . Stum in the Health of Towns Bill—that i , ii : _* _a-. j : ltic « d intq tho act of parliaments reference t \» _oiW-i' facts of _pariUment , and so _creutnl grea' « l _>> _ubtis t-. _i-ad _tmcevtatnties . More di . 'i-ussiun eD-. ui .-d : —•

      Th <' - toni , i : l ; _-. ; c then divided , wheu the numbetff were— 7 < _ti the _anjc-ndnient . „ . ... 85 _Agaui - t * - _* , it , lid

      Majority _a- _'ainstit ... 103 Th" first _cl-aticfi wat then passed . - On _p-tttiii _^ the _qiieition < m the second clauso , whioh a-nacu ti >; u ' . _{_ _aumuer of lords spiritual is not to * 0 » _increan ; - ! , _. Mr S . _WoaTitT observed , tbat the difflculty witk whicii Lonl i . Russell had to con'end in passing tbis ball ,. _di-1 _iitit _tif-. o won ibe nvr . _tSi-n of the Bishopric of Mi . uch' _k ' . r : r , hut ou his extending : further tbe number of

      those who . were entitled tn sit or the _episcopal bench Ia the Mouse of Li < _i-a _? ti . Thc question ,, -. then , whicb bt ) called on . e _ ci _- * ui * s ; ittfl ? tn _cons'dtr , was , whether , la creating tt _ilisha . p of M _ _m-he _ er , it ouKht to omit to in * vest _hltu _vaith ti : the righti and _privilt-ges of his episcopal br _> _t . _' _ifku , Il _» _c'jiita-nderi ih _« t without a violation of priticiplv , . ; _-. •! . );> viyiailou of the _coiistiintinn _, yoa enuld not atf _. pi ire . the Bishop or _Manchester of the privilegoof p-cra _^ e . t » _I' _-alei . hv _H-. cune entitled as soon as he was ifgiilly _elwtt'i . On _tliesc grounds he objected to the clause , iiti . _i _iin-veO _alnt il be expunged .

      . Th ** _AVTJt _, sv . v . _OEt ; iai \ i . _thwglit that this clause could . im ; _ . va _, ry _ivjiirious to the church , as tho Bench <>> _iJirhops iimi _ajlv _.-n their consent to it , Several im . - _ _!> _t-r 5 ad > _irsiBcd thc honse at length oa tills ainonduii tit . SirT , D , _AciaAND aoccpfed the _proposition of the noble lord , because it w ? . s the first attempt made by any government towards remedying » great want in regard to the most rev * rend bpc ' y , which was to b .- increased by the present bj . *! . _, ' ¦ . ' .-, .. Mr It •• _rupcK said the _iiohfis li _- . rd oaghc to _ncolhv . t bjwhom _bif bill waa praised una ! _aeca-paa-. i , . and from tho : i * prai ' _es to di _.- "rust , his own _procfit-din _* _:. The opy-jnincpRrry only _Mitt- 'iit to / ret the _weuw hi .-it io s _/ jar _;; i tu % and the _roa » t vvnutrt noon _MluaY . ' _111 _f . i ' _ioj'sji'ai _ . ; _f ; o ' . ! _l-a lord forbeii _;* - tho lirst minis if r _'Mw _Jj-. kI _< l « a < t vdth tin . spiritual _vi-.- _naei- bj a _leKislaii-a . . eiiucimeat _. ara-l _iruAtefl , that the firs ' . _** > _-p _Wa-uld uiti' *' . ' * 'vij ici vo _wrt _traliror _,.

      form of thp _wholta subj _. rct . Lot thc hair _., t : « _uUeuian _opposite _taki * tlii _< . t _^ . ' heart . The whole u * lbs » p _„* r « aJ body of _ta--e--. wet * about to t » Uc ; _-. r . " _--v pbstis _. and I * . have their . _tum-a in represent it : ** _tiicir ortl _ in the _H-Jiis * of Lords , The minister would henceforward have tbe _povvrof ri ! t . _uiat « i _^ _themAimer of admitting tha spiritual peer into the u ; . p _ house , and every tort of jobbing would ba- und Ih order to get the right sort of bishop _. Would any on-.- believe that all the Dissenters would not be in arms in consequence ef the first _sCep'f Ana those who were : ii out to support government , in the matter would find _th-. tr account in so dointr . It _wsb a very pretty quarrel , and he would leave it as it was . He advised the opponents of the bill not to interfere in the division . The committee divided , when thc numb : rs were—• For the amendment 07 Against it . ,,, in .., ... ... ,,, a * . Ill

      .. Majority against It „ _. M So the Sf . t _on-i clause stands part of tbe bill , although git or seven of t'te opponents of it left tbe house in obedience to tho _suggestion of Mr Roebuck . Lord J . _** _s _ i _ then withdrew the third and fourth clauses of the hill , because ha thought that they could very well aatimd over to the next session . These chuses refer , tho first , to the endowment of the Deans of York , Wells , and Salisbury , and the Inst to the endowmKiit of archdeaconries . Tbey _Va-erc accordingly struck our . Tlie aither clauses were agreed to , and the chairman was then directed to report the bill ; and on the house resuming the report was ordered , amid loud cheers , to he received on Tuesday . Poott Laws _Administbatioh Bill . — On the order of the day for considering tho lords' amendment to this bill ,

      Lord J . Rubsell proposed , in reference to the clause which precluded thc separation of man nnd wife above i sixty years of age in the _workhouseB , that the house i should _dicagroe with the lords' ameudment omitting that c clause , and that a conference should be requested with _t the lord ? on thc subject . Tbe amendment - __ s accordingly dia ; agre __ to . On the _consideration ofthe next amendment ( omif . . ting the clau-c for the admission of tbe public to the > meetings of _theBoards of Guardians ) , Lord J . _RussiiMi proposed to agree to the amend . . ment . Mr WiKttv moved the adjournment of the debate ; . but after a conversation tbis motion was withdrawn . Ur Etwall argued in favour of tho raj-introduction ef f the clause . Sir 0 ,. Gust opposed it , and said that he had thought t it objectionable when first proposed in thatjheuEe ; it was > B a clause that had occasioned great alarm .

      Mr Wjikiei observed that when the right hon . gentle- - man said rery great alarm had been excited he ( Mr r Wakley ) would ask in wbose minds was it excited ( "Was is it not in tbe minds of the guardians t They were not » t for tbo world knowing what their deeds were . H _thojr , y did not fear public opinion , why should they object to the ie presence of the ratepayers ! Only a small portion couW IH lie _n-lualtn-al ; _tiut H . v , » ... —i o" - * « _. _« _uaualHCO , HOW W were the ratepayers to know whether the electoral al guardians did their duty unless they had a right to be be present at their meetings 1 He attached the greatest ist Importance to this clause , and it ought not to be given en up by the government without discussion . However . „ , as tlie Poor Law commissioners were to take their seats its in the House of Commons , he was quite sure this was rap one of tho questions which would very early engage _ e _ e attention ofthe house . He should uot be content unless ess his hon . friend went to a division upon the _presented

      motion . Mr _BaoTUEBTOti said , this clause for the admission •_ _ l the ratepayers at tho meetings of the guardians bad oolymlji been argued in as far at it concerned thc _guardiansanfli themselves . Now , his experience taught him to kclievcievc : that it concerned thc poor a great deal more . They wo ___ d ! have the strongest repugnance to being brought up *_ be _., fore the guardians to expose all their private sfi ' airs irs in the pretence of a large body of ratepayers . { Laughter . ter . Upon that ground he should vote against tbe _clausastusa There would be a greater probability of the poor bein _ _tein __ properly attended to , if the guardians were left aloneloM ! tban if they were required to act iu the presence of -of tl public meeting . , _'_'_ . The house divided , when ths numbers were , foTKOrJtCj

      Btwall _' s amendment . ~ Ayes «•• • '" o _» Sots ... ... ... * " *" The _OoniiiiSsSS du _' not _insW on ft _£ olar __« uKB The oiher orders were then disposed of , and the _hmsaeue unif-ir * OF LORD _3- _-R £ V « w or _int 8 e _ io _»^ o _»^« i B 5 b » mmx «™ _« cell _ittention to the course tbae t _« a h _ i tarn _wmusato conducting the business ofthe sue em ti now so _**<»*• lts clos _* - n 9 _vrM . olamtd that hi _ t _hiJ ' „„ conduct proved hlmnotiohavo been actuated b _ d bi ¦ _« desire to _opposelhe government , but to _^ ve op _^ _- _ieipem _Kn measure ? solely from the belief that they woutwouH K . _ _lous to the country ; aad be , fteref _^ _atn _^ , _^ _crefcnee to tho _statnuat , that hs v » ****** _^ * _^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 24, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24071847/page/7/