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      , iA Anaire and hereui lie concurred with his . right Se s ^^ 'iwchancellor of Excheque r , inwishing to Jon . t « e ° " , „ A tv Upon the import of corn , because it gee a nwderate ^ aujy g . ^ ^^ and most effectual 8 Pp /*!^ ivW relief to classes who were now unduly sufin 0 - f rmaoir legislation . But he would repeat what he fonog ?|^ at this was a question upon which the country "hfltfl- D *" . f . _ 99 ' ¦ ^' ' -was by no means prepared to abandon Protection Aether , and seek some other mode of relief . If He t maiority , he should reimpose the corn-laws * Cn he concluded in these words : — « What was his intention , and the ( determination of the « I « mpnt was to direct their attention to the best mode Government «» i + \ f ! the of the whole of the

      , . _ , , ~ , u ? + ~ e , a ^ rUnia n . * , « , ai # ^ rnouTd devise for benefit difffiSrests of the country . . The extent of the reUtf I'U ttipv miffht be able to give to individual interests Tit noY be what they could desire , but to afford that ^ l ^ fhe declared now the intention of the Government 16 nld be directed , and that they held it to be their para-, r , f dntv in some shape or other to afford relief to those Set winch had been suffering for the good of the rest . ( Loud cheers . )" After a short Free-trade speech From the Duke of Asgyli * , the bill was read a second time , and the House adjourned .

      THE BRIBERY BIXL . lord John Russell ' s Bill to prevent Corrupt Practices at Elections , was read a third time , on Monday after an insignificant speaking opposition from a singular trio of members , to wit—Colonel Sibthobp , Mr . Geoe&e Httdsov , and Mr . Alderman Sidney ; and a still more insignificant division . The motion was , that the bill be read a tlnrd time that day six months . 6 onlv voted for the amendment , and 281 against it .

      Mr . Thomas DtrircoMBE moved the insertion of the words , "in any county or division , of any county . " Captain Haeeis brought the charge against the Freehold Land Societies , that the allottees were under the control of the directors . Mr . Hume and Mr . Bbight repudiated the charge , the latter retorting , that there was a Conservative Land Society , which might have adopted the plan to which the gallant captain alluded . A discussion arose as to the purity or corruption of county constituencies . Lord John RrrssEiiii had never

      heard complaints that they were corrupt . The Chast-CELLOE of the EXOHEQTTEB sincerely believed they were pure . Mr , Wakley , Lord Robert Geosvenob , Mr . W . Williams , Mr . Alderman Sidney , and Mr . Hobsman , asserted a contrary belief , instancing notably West Gloucester . When the House divided , there were 109 for the amendment , and 71 against it . Government were beaten , and the words inserted . The hill was read a third time , and after an absurd speech from Mr . Stanford , aud a similar reply from Mr . Wakley , the bill passed .

      MAYNOOTH . The adjourned debate was resumed on Tuesday , at 12 o ' clock , by Mr . Serjeant Murphy . He made a pungent speech , defending the Roman-catholics and deprecating inquiry . Towards the conclusion he indulged in some highly flavoured Milesian sallies on the involved and contradictory conduct of Ministers , whom he represented as playing a double game on this question , as on the question of Protection . The tone of the House was restored to gravity by a heavy reply from Mr . Napieb , who gave a long and elaborato history of the Maynooth grant . Ho was not prepared to advocate its abrogation , but he was prepared to

      advise inquiry . The whole discussion was felt to be fruitless ; doubly and provokingly so when the bright sunshine was seen and felb in the magnificent chamber of the Commons . Accordingly the debate lingered tediousl y , and after languid speeches from Mr . Fom-Tesoue and Mr . Henry Drummond , the adjournment of the debate was moved by Mr . Preshpield . A conversation arose as to whether it should be adjounVod «» e die , or until the other ordors of the day had been disposed of . Several members had notices on the paper and . refused to give way . Ultimately a division ensued , Md the proposition to rosumo , nftor disposing of the other ordors of the day , was agreed to by 278 to 58 .

      Following this , Lord Palmebston moved the adjournment of the House over the Derby day . This was opposed by Mr . Sharman Crawford and Mr . Anstjsy , who moved the adjournment of the debate until the other ordoi-B had been disposed of ; but on a division wore wore only 43 for and 212 against the motion , ^ iniaiy , the original motion was carried by 390 to 4 . 7 . Mr . FiTznoy then moved that the House adjourn till Thursday ; but this was lost'by 128 to 89 . Tho Speaker loft the chuir , but assumed it again at . 8 o ' clock , w » en 40 members not being present , tho House was counted out . Thus tho Maynooth dobate became a topped order , and we may not bo troubled with it any more . THE OA 8 I 3 OP MR . MURRAY . T * ? l ^ y a question from Lord Dudley Stuart , ** wl Stanley stilted tho casd of Mr . Murray , a British

      subject who has been imprisoned for two years and a half in the Papal States , without being . brought to trial . " Mr . Murray , who was the son of a British officer , entered the army of Rome under the Republican Government , and , having been for some time a military officer imder that Government , he was subsequently appointed to the office of inspector of police in the town of Ancona , still , of course , under the same Government . During Mr . Murray ' s tenure ^ Of that office very great disorder prevailed in Ancona , and murders took place very frequently , even in open day . These murders were of a political character , —that was to say , that he ( Lord Stanley ) believed in every case the parties murdered , or attempted to be

      murdered , were adherents of the old Papal Government ; and so openly were the murders committed that Mr . Murray himself fell under the suspicion , of having in some manner connived at them . The Foreign consuls and other residents at Ancona felt it their duty , in that state of affairs , to forward a remonstrance to the Republican Government at Rome . The Government at Rome took immediate steps on the subject ; several parties were arrested under suspicion of being privy to the assassinations committed , and among those arrested was Mr . Murray , who

      was sent first to Spoleto , and afterwards to Rome . The case having been inquired into , Mr . Murray was released by the Government . ( Hear , hear . ) He remained in Rome for a considerable period , and at the tiine of the overthrow of the Republican Government he retired again to Ancona , where , on the 15 th of July , 1849 , he was arrested by order of the Papal Government . He ( Lord Stanley ) was sorry to say it was perfectly true that from July . 1849 , to the present time Mr . Murray had been detained as a prisoner . ( Hear , hear . )"

      Communications on the subject had passed between the Consul at Ancona , the Consul General at Rome , and the home Government , but only within these few months . In fact , Mr . Murray had been imprisoned , and no notice taken of him at all by our agents abroad , until quite lately . He was tried at Rome , and sentenced to death ; but instructions had been given to Mr , Freeborn to procure his liberation if he thought him innocent , and a respite of the sentence if he thought him guilty . As a report bad reached the Government that Mr . Murray had been sent to Ancona to be executed , despatches had been received from Mr . Moore , Consul there , stating that he had prayed the Governor of Ancona to give him twenty-four hours notice , in case an order arrived from Rome for the execution of Mr . Murray .

      MISCEIiLANEOtrS . The proceedings in Parliament on Thursday were of a most miscellaneous character . In the Commons the Militia Bill , as amended , was agreed to , and ordered to be read a third time on Monday week . The Valuation ( Ireland ) Bill , which Mr . Sharman Crawford characterised as " the simplest and best valuation bill that had ever been introduced into the House , " was read a second time by 89 to 6 . The Patent Law Amendment Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be referred to a select committee . The Law of Wills Amendment Bill went through Committee .

      After tho orders of the day were disposed of , a small talk took place , about a quarter to two o ' clock , on the " dropped order" of the Maynooth debate . Mr . Freshfield wanted to fix twelve o ' clock on Friday for resuming the debate ; but it was opposed seriously by Mr . Walpole , and with ironical encouragement by some other members . The feeling was against continuing the farco ; and it was simply made an order of the day for Friday . In the House of Lords the Common Law Procedure Bill was read a third time ; and the Select Committee upp . ointed on tho Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill .

      Lord Derby stated , in an easy ofF-hnnd fashion , some private views on our representative system . Tho occasion for this display was tho presentation of a petition by Lord Harkowby , from the learned professions , praying that some provisions might bo matlo for tho distinct representation of tho " educated intelligence" of tho country . Lord Derby thought it desirable , but difficult to ereato distinct constituencies out of tho professions . Decidedly representation should not bo a mere question of numbers . Property must be represented . Numbers wore moat easily ascertained ; property less easily ; but intelligence proHontcd great of rotten

      difficulties . Ho seemed to rcgrot tho days boroughs , and to insinuate that places like Gntton and Old Surum wore set apart by tho benevolent boroughmongers for talonfc and geniun . Among other things , ho advocatod direct colonial representation ! nml ho thought if property , intelligence , and the colonies combined were represented , they would « neutralise that which appeared to bo at present prevailing , a tendency to throw all power , not into tho hands ottno most intelligent and enlightened , but of the most numorous , and ho fenred in many cosoh tho most easily misguided , portion of our population /' CoryiroLD ENPitANCiirsjJMKNr . —Lord Cran-worth moved tho second reading of tho bill on Tuesday , and aftor ontoring into a detail of tho » bmmlltia » and

      inconveniences of the existing system , concluded by stating that the object of the bill was to enable lords to compel tenants , and tenants to compel lords , to enfranchise under certain modifications , which would not operate with hardship upon either lord , er tenant . The Lobd Chattcexlor admitted the great inconyenienco resulting from the existing system , but thought the bill in its present shape could not with safety be allowed to pass , and" therefore proposed that if ? be referred to a select committee . Lord CampbelIi had hoped that the bill would have become law during the session , but feared the speech of the Lord Chancellor was fatal to it . After some further discussion , in which the Lord Chancellor assured the House that the Government had no

      intention , when they proposed that the bill should be referred to a select committee , of throwing it over for another session , the bill was read a second time , and ordered to be referred to a select committee . Poor Law Contintxance . —A debate was originated , on the order for the committal of the Poor Law Continuance Bill , by Lord Dudley Stuabt , who moved a proviso to the effect that the jurisdiction of the Poor Law Board should not extend to any parish the management of whose poor is regulated by a local act . His main reason was that the framers of the measure did not intend to include such parishes ; and he appealed for support to the gentlemen now in office , as they had previously denounced the

      oppressiveness of the Poor Law Board . This was met by Sir John" Trollope , on the ground that if one parish were exempted , all ought to be exempted . Mr . Baines urged similar reasons . The motion was supported by Mr . J . A . Smith , Mr . Hume , Mr . Wakley , Sir Benjamin Haxi < , Mr . Bell , and Sir De Lacy Evass ; and opposed by Mr . Henley and the Marquis of Granby . The last gentleman was particularly annoyed at the incidental inference in favour of Free-trade which some members drew from the state of the workhouses . On a division the proviso was lost b y 112 to 33 . Subsequently , Lord Dudley tried in committee to limit the continuance of the act to 1853 , but he was again beaten by 72 to 26 . The bill was reported , and the House resumed .

      The Florentine Outrage . —A correspondence appeared in yesterday ' s Times , between Mr . Mather , senior , and the Foreign Office , relative to the outrage on the son of the latter by an Austrian officer . As an " atonement for the unmerited and brutal treatment" Mr . Mather received at Florence , \ the Austrian government has agreed to pay the sum of 1000 Francesconi ! Mr . Mather , senior , justly and indignantly repudiates this , as a settlement of the case , or a vindication of British honour . The cowardly scoundrel , in a soldier ' s uniform , who cut down Mr . Mather in cold blood , is still at large , unpunished . Mr . Mather , senior , properly regards this as the Austrian

      an evidence of the " low estimate" held by authorities of " British honour and British power . " " The offer made by the Tuscan government , " he says , * would require of itself no notice from mo , but that it is an indication of the expeoted impunity with which an Austrian officer may outrage a British subject , and a precedent and encouragement to any one disposed to repeat such an offence ; in that it is a matter of some concern . " And he winds up by expressing the pain he feels that the crime should be " compromised" [ Lord Derby ' s principle—vide Mansion House speech , ] and the indignation , as far as he is concerned , with which he rejects the offer of the Tuscan government , and " any participation in such proceedings . "

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      ELECTION MATTERS . LONDON . City . —Lord John Russell has issued tho following address to the electors of tho City of London , from " Pembroke Lodge , " dated May 22 nd . Gentlemen , —Moro than ten yoars have elapsed since I was requested by a deputation of electors to relinquish tho seat which I then occupied and become a candidate for the city of London . I was at that time in the enjoymont of tho confiden ce of the electors of Stroud , and I had . reason to fear that I should lose that conlidenco at t | io ensuing election . But I was urged to quit that honourable position on tho ground that tho battle of free trado was to bo fought , and that tho host field for such a battle was tho metropolitan city of tho United Kingdom . I accepted your invitation , and after a closo contest was elected by a narrow majority . .., « - i Tho proposals which tho Administration of Lord Molbourno had laid boforo Parliament bore tho character of a marked but gradual advance to tho policy of free trade . Tho heavy tax on tho importation of corn was to bo exchanged for a fixed duty . Tho differential duties on tho imports of foreign sugar and foreign timber wore to bo greatly reduced . Those proposals woro virtually rejectod , and tho Ministry of Lord Melbourne- was at an end . Tho policy of Sir ltobort Pool from 1842 to 1845 was based on tho most onlurgod principles of commercial

      froodom . Tho articles of corn and sugar woro indeed hfctlo ail'cclod by that policy ; but at tho end of 1845 Sir Koborb Pool proposed to hia colleagues the total , though gradual repeal of tho duties on corn . Ho rocoivod tho support of tho wliolo Liberal party in carrying a bill for this purpono through both Hpusos of Parliament . In Juno , 1840 , Sir ltobort Pool , after accomplishing this groat moasuro , roeignocl oflieo . In announcing hia retirement ho expressed a hopt ) that his successors , would continuo his policy , namely , tho promotion of a free intorcourso with foroi ffn nations .

      Tho lato Ministry fulfilled this hopo . In 1840 wo introduced and carried a bill for tho gradual ropoal of the differential duties on sugar . Tho principle of that bill is still in vigour , and in July , 1854 , tho duties on foreign and colonial Biitfov will bo equal . In 1840 wo proposed and

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/3/