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THE REVOLUTION IN NAPLES AND SICILY . The full details of the events which preceded and led to the grand result of the 20 b . ult ., which was communicated to the French goTemment by telegraph , have at length arrived . A large collection of documents and papers are before iv , including the files of ajoarnalgotup at Palermo on the spur of the moment , and printed and circulated amidst the thunders of a bBmbardment , and while a storm of grape swept the principal thoroughfares of the . city . This journal entitled II CiTTADi . \ o , may be considered as the MosiiEtjKof the provisional government of Sicily . . ..
On the 21 st , it became apparent to the commanders oUne royal forces , that with an entire population aeainst them , the means at their disposal Were inadequate to the reduction of the city . Ncgo tiations were therefore _ attempted . _ General de Saustt , therefore , sent a Sicilian captain to the junta on the 22-id , with the followins propositions : 1 . Fur a suspension of hostilities . —2 . For the supply of provisions to tha prisons where criminals were confine 1 , and which were still under the guard of the royal troops . —3- To send a deputation of the junta to ' Nap ' e ; . to lay before the Kins the demands of the peop e . i To > ubli < h a decree of general amnesty ; whi-h decree was sent to the junta . These proposition ? , excepting the seev-nd , were rejected with the tumo-t disdain . The decree of amnesty which was sent , when delivered by the junta to the people , was puhlic'y horned .
On the 22 nd an obstinate conflict took place at the Tre-i ^ urv between the troops and the people , and a Still more bloody one at the convent of N » vizziate , fi-bich was occup ied by the troops . These positions -Rere finally carried by tha insurgents on that evenin" and a great number of the military taken prisoner * The soldiers thus captured were treated Willi tlie Greatest humanity , and afterwards employed bv the insursents t » point their guns . The Bank and the Palazzo Reale also fell into the pora * of the in < urgents . ... The Duke de M * j <\ who commanded one division Of the roval troojs , fled for safety and gained the quarters " of General do Saneet . General Vial escaped on board a vessel in the harbour and went to Pastes .
. At Naples the news from Palermo , which transpired in s ? ite of all the t-ff » rts of tbe police to intercept it , an-i the sj . eciacle of steamer after steamer disemb . irkine on the quay the wounded soldiers , produced a toost profound impression . The decrees granting reforms similar to those of Rome and I'iedment . published on the 2-ith ult .. were attended with no effe -t . The people showe d an aspect of silent and cp ' . d decision , and it became ^ speedily evident that danger to the monarchy was imminent . Ciubs were organised in defiance of the police . Meanwhile the government was paralysed , and the King at tbe eleventh hour , became conscious of the peril into ? 7 hicb . h . s obstinacy had brought bis dynasty . That peril extorted from him an order for the expulsion of the two individuals to whom hitherto he had been
most closely attached , and who , being known to be the most ardent advisers of his despotic policy , were most odious ti the people . Ills confessor , M . Ceicle , was sent from Naples to a convent in the principality of B- * neventu * n ; nnd Del Carretto , the atrocious minister of police , was conducted urder an escort on board the steamer Neptune—previously prepared fe > r the purpose—and * ent to Genoa . In theartcnifionofthe 2 i 3 hult . the people , to the snmbsr of upwards of 30 000 collected in the Via Toledo , the great main street of Naples . Shouts in favour of a constitution were everywhere heard to resound UleaHwh'ie the number . ' * augmented , and all tbe
Etr . ets leading into the Via Toledo ' p resented dense masse : * . The authorities now proceeded to execute the senerrl eircers erven to them for cases of serirus vacuus . The red flas was hoisted on the Castle of St Elmo and the Ca ^ tell deli'Uovo . On this signal the drums beat and the troops of tbe garrison were called out . They surrounded the palace and attempted to clear the Via Toledo . That street , closely packed with a mass of o-3 , 000 people , was impenetrable . Cries for a constitution , meanwhile , cere everywhere heard . Every window was filled with ladies , waving hankerehiefs , and wearing iibbr . ns of the Italian tri-culour . Thecavalry attempted one charge , in which they were immediately thrown
from their horses . Su < h ** as the state of things on the evening of the 20 th . The K . ng still hesitated , reluctant to give up the last Lope of su ppressing the revolt by the armed f « rce . lie was however brought to a sense of his situation by the reports of the commanders of the trocps themselves . The minis ' ers resigned , and the Kins called on the Duke de Serra Ca-. riola , late ambassador at Purs , and a well-known li-era ' , giving him unlimited power to act as he might think fit- A liberal cabinet was immediately formed , The result of their fir > t cabinet council was to tender their advice ti the King to proclaim at once a constitution fnr the kingdom ot the Two Sicilies , to be founded on the same principles as the French charter of 1 S 30 , including two chamber- * , the royal inviolability , lhe responsibility of ministers , the liberty of the press , arid tbe national guard . Religions toleration alone is withkeld . No religion save the Soman Catholic ia to be permitted .
News Irom Naples to the 31 st , states that the national guard hai been already brought into action , although armed only with ftwling pieces and such weapons as could bs improvised , in which cudirels were included . The Iszzaroni are turbulent , Tbe liberal party , who lately had the government to contend against , had now / it seems , tha most ignorant and lowest class to coerce . The Kins ; was very popular . On the 30 th he drove through the streets of . "Naples ia an open carriage , accompanied by the Queen , and unattended by any escort .
When on the 29 th the decree granting the constitution was posted ug it Is impojaible to describe the scene that ensued . All business was suspended , and anxious groups surrounded every ' afnche . ' some one generally reading aloud for the benefit of all . The long and imposing Strada Toledo was soon filled witti pedes'rians , and about eleven o ' clock by vehicles of all descriptions . Every soul seemed its a moment to have obtained a tri-coloured epekada of white , green , and red , and a hundred tri-coloured flags wave-d from the vehicles , the houses , and the crowd . I noticed among the latter Lord Napier , the
British minister , with a tri-coloured cockade in his hat , and attended by his two secretaries . Among the inscriptions on the fl * £ 8 I noticed ' Viva Italian Independence , ' ' Viva awakening Italy , ' « Viva Italy indepencent , ' ' Viv * . Italia aasin arising . ' Pain is of tbe national guard only were to be seen , some withontuniforms , and araed with fowling-pieces . They were received continually with cries of'Viva la guardia nazionale ; ' and I also beard , 'Viva l'lnghilterra . ' I noticed a certain number of priests wearing cockades , and taking an active part , shouting vociferously , one carrying a tri-coloured fhf , but they were far fewer in number tl an at Genoa .
The last accounts from Palermo ( understood to be ap to the 20 th ult . ) received in Naples , announced that a suspension of arms had been conclude d between the insurgents and the troops , and that the latter hael retired to some distance from the eity . An order for their immediate return to Naples has been forwarded t ? the Dake de Majo . Aa insurrectionary movement had also broken out at Messina , but no collision had taken place between * he people and the garrison , which tad retired into the forts and the citadel . Meanwhile troops are ponrfd in , in censidf-rab ' e numbers , by all the roads leading from Austria towards Central Italy ; and steamers are employed to transport ihcrn acms the Adriatic , to various points on the Italian coast . 'Ihe rigour ot the Austrian police at Milan is very great . The arrests increase in number , and several respectable citizens have been sent to Spielberg .
The number of persons wounded in the massacre of the 2 nd and 3 rd nit . proves to be 216 , and evsiy day is marked by the death of some among them . They have chiefly fa'lsn under bayonet wounds . The insurrection in Sicily has eansed an immense sensation throughout Italy , mere especially at Genoa , where it gave rise to ft popular demonstration . A Te Ileum was chaunted in the cathedral , and the words God for the victory of the people' were placed in large l-. tters on the door . Great excitement prevailed in Piedmont , produced on the one hand by reports of aggressive militaiy demonstrations on the part of Austria in Lombard }* , and on the other by the news of the proclamation of the csBstitHtion ot Naples . Various regiments wore ordered to proceed from Turin and Genoa to Alessandria bv forced marches .
Rome , Jan . 25 th—The news from Palermo will long since have reached you , but you can have no ddea of the joy and excitement thereanent here . Peopie go out for miles to meet the courier on the Pit * A ' vpia , and extraordinary supplements are issued hu Mrly by the newspapers . Tbe grand feature of this outbreak is the possession of artillery on the side of the latriots , over forty or fifty pieces ef ordnance havin ' been secured by their leaders , and they made prisons *" = in the onset of over one hundred artillery , men , wh om they have got to work their guns ; The impo ' rtane * e of this accessory in warfare is fully felt by the Ro . "nans , who hailed the other day wi ; h delight the pi ^ s ent sent them by the ladies of Genoa , a Email eadeati . if two 12-pounders in brass . At the review of seven battalions of our civic guard on the broad square o . St John Lateran yesterdav , with the cry oi « Long ^ the Pope' . ' suddedly arose , and was re-echoed to i * he skies , the shout of ' Lang live the men of Palermo V
The students of the' University assisted at asolemn high mass in their t " * ll <* giate chapel for their brethren slain at tbe unh " ereity town of Pavia . They had crape and cvpre * ' e branches . Some cf the crowded assembl ** , obserx 'i" £ the presence of Father Gavszz-, a celebrated prea . lhfr - surrounded him , and carrying him on their shou x dera np into the pulpit , ordered him to preach a fune . ' & l sermon fort-befallen . ' ' thereupon the orator broke ie ^ i ° t ° a most splen-
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did improvisation , and stirred up the souls of his yotn ; auditory to a pitch of devotional aa well as patriotic fervour .
FRANCE . On Thursday a body of students assembled in the Place de Panthem , and proceeded towards the Chamber of Deputies , with the intention of depovltins a petition against the suspension of tho lectures of M . Michelo ' . The column increased as it went till itamou-ted < o about 2 030 persons- On reaching the Quai d'Orsay they were met by Cnramisstries of police at a short distance from the Pont de la Con- 'onle , who enjoir ed them to stop and disperse . After an exchange of a few words with M Cremieux , the Deputy , who came out to them , and received the petition , which he promised to present to the Chamber , the students went to the offices of tho National and Refobuk , the Coubrier Francais , and the Dem" ! CRatib Pacifiqoe . whence they returned to the Place ele Pajiheon , and then separated . At each of the offices above named one of the students delivered the following address , which was replied to with assurance of co-operation : —
' We have just carried to the Chamber of Deputies a petitiondemandine justice in the name of freedom of discussion , always promised , always violated . The only voice which awakened in us sentiments of unity and patriotism—that voice which consoled us for the forced silence of M . Mackiewicz and M , Quinet , has been stifled . We have exhausted all legal means to obtain a hearin g , and nothing is left for usbutto protest . Will you then . ' Mr Editor , he our organ of apneal to public op inion ? Affirm for us in that we have ' preserved intact ' . the traditions of tbe sck ol ^ of 1 S 30 . and all the other great epochs , and being handed down to us from generation to generation , that tber are still alive in tbe bottom of our heart ? . ' Thefollnwing instance of tie liberty allowed to foreigners resident in France is given by the Constitu ,
tioxnel : — ' A young Prussian refugee at Paris . M . Engcls , author of a work on the pauperism of En . land , has rece-ived an order to leave Paris , it is not kneiwn why in twenty-four hours , and France in three days , un . der a threat of be-ing handed over by the gendarmerie to tho Prussian police . ' The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the affairs of Switzerland was brought to a close on Thursday evening . The speech of M . Thiers caused a great sensation . The paragraph annually appended by the Chamber of Deputies to its Address , in -whi . h 'France reminds Europe of the rights of Polish nationality , was tbe subject of discussion on Friday . The ministers wero interrogated respecting the suppression oftbe Czartoriski dinner , and the expulsion of
M . Bakounine . M . tiu ' Zit saiii . that the dinner to Czirtoriski was stopped purely from the great interest the government felt in the Polish cau ? e . The government knew that the opinions of some of those who were t j be present went further than those of others , and therefore lis ' opped it . With regard to . the expulsion of M . _ Bakounine , he merely stated that the person in question was not a P-dlsk refugee , but a Russian , who had voluntarily taken up his residence in Paris , and whom the government had ' serious' reasons for not allowing to remain any logger . M . Bakiunine ' s eiffsnce was , that he had spoken disrespectfully of the head of a friendly government , lie had in short treated the Emperor of Russia as an oppressor , an assassin , and an executie . ner , and that he was expelled at the request of the Russian government .
On Monday and Tuesday the Chamber was occupi * d with the paragraph on the Reform banqueis . The m i nisters were ^ fiercely denounced by several apr ' : iVers . The debate on the Banquets was resumed on Wednesday . Tbe speech ol M . Odillon Barrotconsidered one of the best he ever pronounceddelivered the preceeding'day—had created a considerable sensation in Paris , particularly that part of it in which he expressed his sorrow that a government originating in a revolution should resort to measures of repression , which the government overturned
by that revolution had never attempted , M . Boisse ) , Major of the 12 th Municipal District of Paris , who bad accepted the presidercy oi a banquet , which was prevented by the government , protested against that measure , and declared its subscribers were al > municipal officers , respectable merchants , api National Guards , who could inspire the authorities with no apprehension . M . Hebert , the Ministei of Justice , who followed , said , that these banquets had been evidently gotten up for the purpose of preparing some rerolutionary movement . The government , in accord with the committee on the Address , had accordingly thought proper to condemn them .
SWITZERLAND . The Diet kave adopted , by a majority of seventeen votes and a half , a decree by which its decision on the 3 rd of September last , concerning the expulsion ef the Jesuits , is confirmed in those forms which are adapted to present circumstances , as well as to the expulsion since effected by the four cantons in which they had fixed their residence .
DENMARK . On the 2 Sih ult ., the new King of Denmark , accomplishing the promise which he had given in the letter patent published on the 20 eb , signed an ordonnance , by which he grants a constitution to bis States . There are to be established Commons States for the Kingdom of Denmark and the duchies of Sleswick and Holstein ; these States are to assemble at fixed periods alternately in the Kingdom of Denmark and in the duchies . The new constitution consecrates tho principle of voting tne taxes by the States , and of their participation in the legislative power .
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Lofs of thb British Sovereign Witalixg Ship , akb Mtjdbr eF the Crew . —Letters were received at Lloyd ' s on Saturday / dated Sydney , August 17 communicating the total loss of the barque British Sovereign , a whaling ship . Captain W . II . Jones , raasterj on the eastern side of the Sandwich Islands , and the reported horrible massacre by the natives of nearly the whole of the ship ' s crew . The vessel le't Sydney on the 8 th day of January Inst , for New Zealand , and thence to tbe South Sea Islands . Li the course of the passage she called at the islasd ol Thanna , where she shipprd about twenty of the natives , to assist in procuring sandal word . The captain then determined to make for Sandwich , first sending back the natives to Thanna ' . in the ship ' s boat , in charge oftbe chief mate , and several of the men . The ship left Erromanpa on the evening ol the 23 rd of April , and at day-break the next morning , the 2 itb , she was found to be close in upon the pa = tern coast of Sandwich . She was immediate-lv
hauled on a wind , and two boats were lowered for the purpose of keeping her off the land , but being within tbe influence of the ground swell the boats ha-l no effect upon her , and she soon struck on a rock , within a cable ' s length of the shore . She then fell on her broadside , and though her masts were cut , ' and every means adopted to save the vcs-el , she in a few hours broke up and became a total wrerk . For three dajs tbe crew remained near the wreck , in the hope of saving some of the stores , the natives behaving in the kindest manner . The captain and the crew , it should be observed , were rescued from the rock by tbe natives , who threw rrpes to tbera from the shore . They wished them to remain , but it was considered expedient by the captain to make to the leeward harbour , to which rca ? e ! s resort in visiting the island . After about four days ' travelling they came to a bay on the south side of the island , where the natives appeared on the same friendly term ? . They gave them sugar-canes and
cocoa-nuts to cat , and the chief to whom they were introduced took great liking to a child , a fine little boy , who was along with the captain . Amidst this apparent good feeling a tumult broke out among the natives , who fell upon the unfortunate crew , who were off their guard , and m' ; st of them were brutally slaughtered . The captain endeavoured to escape and retreated into the water . They were , however , toe close upon Mm , and his skull was broken in . Ihe man Weir and three others succeeded in getting clear by springing forward into tbe sea , and swimming to a canoe , with which they reached an adjacent island . The natives pursued them , and Weir ' s companions were overtaken , but their fates weie unknown ; Weir contriving to conceal himself in the bush , where he remained for several day ? . Fortunately , the first day he ventured out to the beach , the Isabella Anna hove in sight , when he swam off , and was picked up . The numoer supposed to have been mas-sacred is twenty-nine ,
The National Defences . —On Monday evening , a public meeting , to record an expression of opinion with regard to the supposed probability of anginvasion , was held at the Lecture Hall , Greenwich . Mr Wade presided ; and having madesome introductory observations , Mr D . Payne moved the first resolution : — Tbat this meeting , believing the oystem and practice of war to be utterly at variance with the spirit and principle of Christianity and tbe true interests of mankind , Seeplv regrets the attempts which hare been rnade , and are still maling , to excite in the public mtnd a belief tbat war and invasion are imminent , and to ground upon this pretext e . n addition to the naval and military esta . blishmtu's of the country , The Rev . Mr Burnett seconded the resolution . The resolution was carried unanimously , and was followed by a second , which was supported by the Rev . H- Richard and other gentlemen : It was to the effect
;—That this meeting desires to record its deliberate conviction that tbe apprehension of war and invasion is unfounded , and that an increase In the existing naval and military forces ef the empire , whether by the enlarge , ment of the standing army , the enrolment of the militia , or the establishment of additional fortresses , or by any means whatever , is not only uncalled for and unnecessary , but must inevitably tend to destroy rather than preserve peace , to lower the tone of public morality , to impede the efforts mating for the instruction and improvement of the people , to retard the great moral reforms now in progress , to burden more heavily tbe present generations or their posterity , ant ] ts j ^ gravate the commercial difficulties of tba nation ,
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Mosdat , Fedeoabt 7 . HOUSE OP LORDS . —DutoMiTie RELATIONS WITH the Court of Rome . —Tho Marquis of L-. sst > owke begged to lay on the table of the house a bill for the purpose of enabling her Mi-jeaty to establish diplomatic relations with the Court cf Rome . He proposed that it be read a second Urns on Friday nett , until which time he should best consult tbe wishrs of their lorlships by abstaining from entering into-any particulars respecting th- measure , Lord Stanley would offir no opposition to the
bringins in of the bill , but ho would not hind himself to the course he should adopt on the second reading . It might be desirable tbat diplomatic relations should exist between tbe sovereign of this country * iod the Court of Rome , as temporal princes , but it must be subject to such restrictions as might be necessary for satisfying the scruples of t ^ ie people of this country . He thought , however , that it was precipitate to read a measure of so much importance a second time for the purpose of discussion oa so early a day unless there was some nrjrent neeeseity for it which he could not discover ' , and ha trusted the noble marquis would give to the bouso and the country time to contider ' the measure .
The Marquis of La . ssdowne had no desire to use an undue precipitation in urging forward the measure . It could not , however , come with surprise cither tip ' -n tbeir lordships or the country , inasmuch oa mniiy noble lords had adverted to the subject at different time ? , and before the recess he had stated a very decided opinion upon it himself . When the lords had seen the bill , it it was then considered expsiJient he would name a later day for tbe second reading . The Duke of Richmond thought a bill of so much importanee ought to be well considered . The country would not be prepared fur it ; and he was surprised that it bad not been introduced into tbe Queen's epeech , A greit portion of the people of England would think tbat sue-h a measure violated their religious feelings .
32 arl Fitzwilliam had no d mht that pome persons would think their religious feelings violattd by audi a measure ; but be was confident that tbe great mass of the people would not even feel their rJfgious prejudices offended by the introduction of a measure by which her - \ f i * esty was enabled to remove a doubt whether her ministers would not be liable to persecution and penalties if they entered into diplomatic relations with the Pope as a temporal prince . TheE . ul of Egmngton was surprised at tbe baste with with which it was proposed to discuss the merits of such a measure . It was impossible that the people of Scotland w-mld have been able to read it before tho discu < siin on it would be taken . West India Colonies . —Lord Stanley , in presonting sever-il petitions from the West In . its , complsining of
the act of 184 G , and praying for relief , said it would bo convenient , conaiderin , ' the interest which tho subject excited throughout the country , to state generally tho views entertained by the petitioners of the state of the West India ro ' onies , ani the remedies which they sugpasted ; as alfo hoiv far he was disposed to concur in their propositions . Although there we-ra different r « - ci'mmendations in the petitions , ytt in th . ir main allegations tl . ey all corcuircd . Tbey all alleged that the sugar-plantinc interest wis in a mott depressed and ftlarming state , which had been produced by the passing of the act of the session before the last , ( Hear His lordship read documents to show tho pecuniary distress of the West India proprieters , and stated that he bad been assured by one of those proprietors , tl * nt at this moment , neither in Jamaica ,
Dcmcrara , nor Trinidad—our three great sugar-producing colonies—ivas it possible to raise ; £ I , 0 Q 0 upon the security of any single property in any of those ielanJa . The Emancipation Ac , he observed , had been intended to he accompanied by other measures , nnd nothing conid b ? more unfounded than to say that by the pay . ment of the tweEty millions the claims of the West In . dian proprietors were eitin ? uished , and tbat the ques . tion was closed . A modifiedslavery—the apprenticeship system—was an essential portion of the aubeme of rmancipation , and a great part of the obj- 'Ct of the measure would have been frustrated if it caused a diminution of the prduc" . ion < jf sugar . The nobla lord then showed the amount and cost of production in the three periods , prior to . emancipation , during the apprentice , ship system , and si ace the intoduet ' on of absolute free
labour ; and he deduced from thi-fe data the conclusion tbat from an early period of our legiplnti-n upon the subji'et of lab ur , in 1833 , praoiieil diffiouUics and p- - culiar obstructions had been thrown in the way of tl e su ^ nr planters in the West Indies , for which they had a claim upon the consideration of Parliament . His lordship then pointel out the injustice and inconsistency of Our legislation In relation to the West India colonies , inasmuch as it had exposed their free labour to a competition with slave labour , whilst the discriminating duty was reduced . from 12 s . to 7 s , which operated as a beunty upon slavery ; and whilst we were wasting life asd treasure npon ths pestiferous coast ot Africa for an object cenftBsco" to he boptdess , we were paying mi-lions to the slaveholders of Cuba , His lordship traced ihe ( normous losses sustaint d last year upon
sugar to the act of 1816 ; and noticed tbe remarkable fact that whilst there was a fall of 10 s ., lis ., and 13 s . per cwt . upon West India , Mauri tins , and East India sugars , upon Cuba sugar thi re had been not only no fall a ! all , but an actual rise of 2 s , per cwt . His lordship vindicated the claim put forth by West Indian colonies for a repeal of the Navigation Laws , on the ground that if their Interests were to succumb to the doctrine of free trade , the interests of our seamen , as well as of our distillers and brewers , must in like manner give way : the Rubicon passed , everythingmust yield to the doctrine . Upon the subject of free labour , his lordsfeip entcrtsine-d some doubt whether a suppl y
of free lnlioar comli be obtained from the coast of Africa , sufficient to produce a material reduction of tbe price of labonr in the West , whilst he very much feared that it might revive the slave-trade , or at least stimulate intestine wars in Africa , not for the purpose of making slaves , but to supply the demand for emigrants . Upon the whole , bis opinion was , that , do what we would , it was impossible that , in the present state of the West Indie * and of our colonies in every part of the world , we could compete on equal terms with the sl-ive colonies of other nations , and that tho depression and distress of our sugar-growers could only be remedied by returnine to the system of d . ffereutisl duties which existed in 1818 .
Earl Gkev < lid not deny that much disiress prevailed in our We :. t India colonies , but he dissented from Lord Stanley ' s opinion that it had been caused by our legislatioa in 1 M 6 . Whilst the distress of these colonies was in some degree occasioned by circumstances special to 'he Wrst Indies , yet in part also it had been greatl y aggravated by the peculiar circumstances oftbe present time , which bad affected all branches of trade . For several months after the passing of the bill of 184 C the sugar market was not in a worse state than before ; the great fall of prices had been the result of the general paralysis of commerce , nnd their distress was traced b y the West Indians themselves to a pi riod Jong antece lent to 1816 . The real cause of the distress of the West India colonies whs to be found in the mistake committed in 1833 ; the defective character of the Emancipation
Act wtisthe true-and enginal cause of the whole distress , Tbat defect c insisted in the absence of proper provisi-ins for filing tbe emancipated negroes an adequate motive for lahoir , the Legislature having been content to adjourn the difficulty for a few years by continuing a modified ( . lavery , as it had hem termed by the noble lurd . One great source of the difficulties oftbe planter was the existence in this country of that system of protection for his produce so much cherished by him , which amongst o ' -ber evils , tended directly to limit tie amount of labour available to the planter . The higher tho prices the planter obtained , tbe higher w « ges bis spirit of competition tempted him to offer , and the more the negro got for hi « labour , the less time he found it necis . sary to work ; so tbat ( as appeared from documentary evidence ) the higher the wsges given to the labourers
in the West Indies , the less was the amount of labour th >* y performed . Was it just tbat the hard-worhing clashes in England should pay £ 3 500 , 000 a y- ar ti keep up wai-es in Demerara ? With regard to emigration from Africa , his opinion very much coincided with that of Lord Stanley ; but although he was aware that such a system of emigration was open to abuse , every precaution would ba adopted to counteract it , and to make the returning Kroimen a means not only of reconciling tbeir contrymen to tbe journey , but of improving tie social habits of the Africans . The noble earl explained to their lordships the measures mtditated hy the government , acknowledging , at the same time , that he was not sanguine in believing that these measures would have any material effect in putting an end to coloaial distress . But what bad teen proposed by Lord Stanley when at the head of the colonial department ? Tbe
only measure he bad adopted was that of 18 W which broke in upon the principle of protection against slavegrown sugar . The -noble lord ' s justification was tbat of the present government : slave labour , notwithstanding the revival of on antiquated and obseleto theory , was really dearer than free labour ; a moral wrong never cnu'd In tbe end be profitable . Tho nnble earl showed that at this moment free labour in the West Indies was cheaper than slave labonr bed been prior to emancipa . tion . But the pystem of cultivating and of maRufac tu-ing sugar in tbe West Indies by the intervention of agtnts ( the proprietors redding in England ) rouEt be abandoned ; and where estates bad been cnltlvated by resident proptietors , they hael been profitable . He believed that capital , if judiciously and skilfully applied , couldnot be invested anywhere with more advantage than in Jamaica .
Tbe Bis ' ho ? of Oximd , in presenting a petition to the same effect from the council and assembly of Barbadoea , urged that the people of England could not possibly share in the profits of Cuba tugar without incurring some share of the Cuba guilt , by which tbat sugar was produced ; neither could tbey pariicipate in the guilt without incurring the chastisement which awaited it . If the principles of the government measure were successful tbe abolition struggle would become a disgrace instead of an honour to this country , and the measures taken for tbe suppression of tbe slave trade , while tbey would add to its horrors , would be neither more nor less than an insulting and degrading hypocrisy .
Lord AsnuoKTot * considered that unless protection were continued to the West India colonies , aa against stave labour , tbey would be consigned to utter and irreparable ruin . Their lordships adjourned at ten o ' clock .
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HODSB OP CO « . MO . VS . _ V- ,. rious election petitions on tbe subj ct of irregularities as to the taking of recognisances before tbe Examiner , were referred to the Cheltenham committee , in which case the question was firft raised . The presentation of petitions for and » gamst tho Jt wl » h Disabilities Bill , the former largely preponderating , occupied the house for a couple of hours . On the motion for the s » oond reading of the bill , M r STABFonn moved as an amoadment that it be road a second time that day six months . The ) last of tbrt-e great questions respecting religion must now be answtred by tbo home in the affirmative or negative . The first was 'Should wo persecute V by which h * understood , 'Should wo fine ., imprison , and osceute ? ' That had
already been onswored in the negative . Tho next was , having ceased to pt . r « cuto , having given to all sects tolerance and connivance , should wo consent to allow them to exercise the administration of the laws , which we had ounclvos pes ed ? Tbat had been answered ! Q tb . affirmative , and , as he thought , wisely . Tho last question which the houso had then to answer wan , should wa admit them to legislate for us and assist us in the enactment of laws for the protection of Christianity ? It was no answer to those who objected to such admission , to say that wo first struggled for a Catholic , and then for a Protestant , and that wo were now struggling for a Christian Parliament ; for the two first struggles were
only struggles of degree , but the last struggle is a BtrugRla of kind . He called upon the honse , when It had removed what was now called * the last remnant of persecution , * and when It bad passed this bill and hadedmittcd the J . jws into Parliament , to determine what It would do with its ordinary forms . Its ordinary forms required that those who wished to secure their seats should write their names on printed cords which bad only two words printed on them , ' At prnjers . ' A blunk was life for th ' u name of the member . Now , could tbe name Iiieoel de Roth'child ever iill up that blank ? If it oould , then the sooner such an abnurdity was removed the better ; but it it could not , would not Lion . l de Rothschild have a right to say , 'You told me , when I was elected a member of
Parliament , that religion bad nothing te do wiili politics ; why , then , do you call upo * mo to assist in the worship of one whom I deem an impostor ? Again , it had been said that we placed the Jewish drcalogueoierournltars , and therefore we might safely admit tbe Jows Into the legislature . But that observation ltd him to another ; we bad changed the day of the Sabbath , and had compelled tbe Jew to shut his shop for traffic both on his Sabbath and on our own . Now , it appeared to him to be n greater hardship to compel the Jews to close their shops for fifty-lwo days in th-s year tban to cxolude them from parliament . How . then , oauld it be justly urged thst this bill would ramovo ' the last remnant of persecution , ' when you would still compel the Jews to close their shops for traffic for two mouths in the year , and that , too , In hemour of ono whom they declared to be an impostor ? The question , then , came to
this' Was the house prepared to give up Sunday * ' H « then adverted , toit . as ho said , with de * p pain , to another qu'ttion which had been uskesl in the course of this debate . It had been asked what was the great difference betwGen the Christian and the Jew ? His answer was this—A Jewifh peasant had changed the religion of the world . When he was brought before the tribunals ot his couniry , his countrymen exclaimed that they w uld not have him as king to reign over them . Since that time a cry had gone up to Heaven from country after coun'ry , ' We will have this man to rei gn over us .. We accept tbo immense array of vropheey as tho proof of hie glorious godhead . Strong in bis ruio we will live , and strong in bis faith we hope to dis . ' Thesis was therefore a difference immutable and eternal between those who looked on the cross of Christ aa the punishment of a malefactor , and those who looked upoa it as the best hope of happiness here , and tho only hope of happiness hereafter .
Lord BraGBLEY seconded tba amendment , because it appeared to him that this bill enacted that , if a maii had money enough and influence enough to becoma a member of Parliament , it was no matter whether ho was a Christian or not . If it ware passed , every form of the constitution which gave us assurance of Christianity , must be abolished . Mr W . P . Wood supported the bill on religious fat more than on political grounds ; for he considered U e « . sential that we should forthwith abolish those laws which attached di « nrace to the legislature of England , and reflected it upon the church of England , which he believod to be the best form of Christianity , Religious opinions should not be used as a qualification or a dis guiliriintion tor political office : for be undertc ! - - (¦•
show that it was very far from biinir tho principle ci . he Christian religion to mingle itself with the political-. dministration of affairs . From the earliest times Christianity had kept itself distinct from politics ; and it was only coincident with tbe corruptions which crept into it that the Church was found in union with tbe State . There was no positive precept to be found in Divine writ for the union of tho Church and State , and the absence of such a precept following on the theocracy of the Jews was a clear proof that no such union was intended . He then entered into an ablo historical dis . quisitionto prove that it was not till the reign of Theo . dosius tbat any question had arisen ns to the iuterferenco of tho State with religion ; aad oonte-nded , upon the authority of Protestant divines , that it was not till thtn
tbat the corruptions of religion were introduced . Then arose that system of persecution which crcptinto Europe , and which afterwards was adopted by our ancestors , not founded en the truths of Christianity but on Papal decrees and rescripts . He then proceeded to deny that Christianity was part nnd parcel of tbe law of tbe land , fo far as regarded the question then before the houne . Noncof the statutes which applied to heretics applied to the Jews , and thus the dicta of Lord Halo , Lord Ray . rooiid , and Lord Hardwicke on the point that ' Christianity waa part and parcel at tho English law , ' could not b » just . 'y applied go as to deprive the Jews of civil rights and privileges . He then examined the position ( if Lord Coke , that tbe Jews were aliens , and joined with Lord Chief Justico Wills in holding it up to ridicule and
contempt , In nil tbe early Acts of Parliament , imposing tests and qualifications , the case of the Jews was easvs omissus , and it wag not till an act passed at the close ot the reign of Charles II ,, they were excluded from any civil privileges . We bad admitted the J & ws to exercise Parliamentary pii'vUeges in Jamaica and In Canada , and if we had thereby unebristianieed those colonies , how was it tbat tbe Imperial Parliament bad sat quiet nnd allowed it to be done ? It was a mere play on words to talk of a ' Christian' legislators and a ' Christian ' country ; and the epithet'Christian ' was used in a different sense in each phrase . The legislature might be called Christian at present , for none but
Christiana were now members of it ; but tbe country was not Christian in tbe same sense , for many persons not Christians now lived in it , He wished the house , when so much was said about Christians , to act upon Christian principles ; and the first Christian principle waa , to do to other * as you would have others do to you . It was on that principle he supported thia bill . Wo allowed the Jews to intermarry with u = —wo compelled thtm to All municipal oulccianwe forced them to pay tuxes—and he contctded tbat it was grosi , moBstrouB , and unchristian to me . ke use of the Jews for our own purposes , and not to admit them to all the privileges of the State .
Mr B Cochrane and Lord Mnhon opposed tbo bill , Mr R Mllnes supported it . Si a W MciEbWOBin after looking at the question in a parliamentary and constitutional light , and showing the position in which the house would place itself by throwing out Baron Rothschild , concluded with the foilowing- eh qnent remarks on the mischievous ifleets oi persetutiou : —I do not , however , mean to assert that the question under the consideration ef the house U * to be settled by mere precedents , for it is , in fact , a question between two great principles , that have battled against each other since tbe con . menctment of civilisation . On the one side is the principle of religious cquality , on the other the antagonist principle that tbe state is competent to determine , and ought to determine , what religion is
the true rellgh n . Now , this doctrine of thereligious infallibility of tbe state has been in all ages and among all ptopje the plea for the crimes of intolerance and persecution . Under that plea Socrates waa put fo death , and the Saviour was crucified . Under that plea the Pagan Emperors immolated the early Christians ; the Albigentes were slaughtered , and our ovrn fires wera lig hted la Smithfield . Under tbat plea Catholics burnt Protestants ; Protestants burnt Catholics . Calvin kindled tho faggot of Scrvetas with the approbation of Melanethon ; and even the pilgrim fathers of New Eng-Innd were persecutors , and hung Quakus on the gibbers of Massachusetts ! ( Loud cheers . ) Under the same plea , in modern times , wo excluded DisscRters from our corporations , and Catholics from Parliament-and fer the
same reason Jews are now refused a seat in tho British House of Commons . Butraligious liberty has triumphed over the rude bigotry of antiquity and the cruel persecutions of our forefathers , and it will ultimately achieve a victory over tbe milder intolerance of hon . gentlemen opposite ; and tho result will be peace and goodwill among men of every faith who aro subjects of the British empire . In' legislating on this question , let us remember that W 6 five Hot merel y the representatives of tbo people ef this small island , which is inhabited by men of one race , one language , and cne religion ; but we are the rulers over a mighty empire , over millions on ' mil . lions of human beings of every race , every language , and every religion , aud we are likewise the parent stock whence in futuro ages still mi ghtier empires may spring . In the eminent position tbat we havo obtained through the energy of our fon fathers ard . of ourselves , famed as we aro throughout tha world for sagacity , prudence ,
and fojuihougnt , our practical decisions on the great questions tbat ^ affect the interests of tbe human race ki-e watche- * with intense anxiety by all intelligent and reflecting men . Every onward step that England takes is n step in the civilisation of the world ; and the policy of England will gradually become the policy of all enlightened nations . To tho principle of civil liberty and commercial freedom , let ub join in tbe government of this empire the third great principle-of religioua equality . ( Hear , bear . ) Now is tbe time , now that the electors of London , the wealthy and energetic citizenrt of this commercial metro , polis of tho universe havo chosen as their representative a gentleman professing the Jewish faith ; and , let me rema ! k that wherever Je « ore to be found , despised , psrsecutc-d , and oppressed , In Germany or Poland , in Russia or Asia Minor , tbe result ef this election for the city of London has b « en haiUd by them with joy and ei . ultation as elevating thtm in the t-ocial scale , and put-
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ting them on an equality with their fellow men ; for admission into the British House of Commons is justly considered to bu a mark of higher distinction to the-ir race than any title or honour that monnrchs can bestow . ( Cbeerr . ) Now , lo-, us confirm this decision of our foremost citiB -ns . Now is the timo to declare , that aa legis . lators we have no business with articles of faith ; that the laws should be eil-ntonall questions of religion ; and that as tho adherents of every creed ore to be fouod among the subjects of tho British empire- , adding to its wealth , augmenting its resources , and increasing its power , so they sliou'd all possess the same civil " rights nnd privileges as citizens ; and thus let us sweep away the last relics isf the ancient reign of imbecile bigotry and intolerance in its dotitt * o . ( Laud cheers . )
Mr WjitpjiE contended that the reasons for admitting the Jew , who laboured under no practical grievance , into Parliament , did not predominate over those urgcel for excluding him from it . The Legislature must be Christian in order that tbo laws might bo enacted and the church governed on principles peculiarly Christian , This country always had been Christian ; Christianity was a fundamental law of it as a state ; and a fundamental law ought not to be altered , unless a majority of the p-oplo called for , nnd unless the Legislature itself approved its alteration . In grap . pling with the speech of Mr Wood , he entered into several legal details , to prove that from the time of the Conquest down wards it had always btvn considered to be an undeniable axiom that Christianity wai fart and parcel of the law of England . lie insisted that
sufficient reason bad not been given for the changes which it was now proposed to make ia the law . He denied that , because we had given the Jews the ol & eths franchise , we ought also to give tht-ra the right e f being elected , and instanced tho case of tho clergy , who could elect legislators , yet could not tboraselveB be elected . The Jtw was of a separate creed aad interest ; be was not a c ' Jizsn of this country but of tho world ; he had no land which he could call his own save the land of promise , —and hew could it be argued that he ought to bo Admitted within the wails of Parliament which even a naturalised alien could not enter i He next adverted to tlb ! argument that the constitution of England was an expansive constitution , and that the Jew ought tberofore to be embraced within its folds ; and in reply , said that though Catholic and Dissenters were admitted into
Parliament , we were not divested thereby of our charao ter as a Christian people . Iftlierewereon . tpeoplemure than another to whom he would extend indulgence , that people were the J .-wlsh people ; and it was not until he bad considered the subject well that he f .-lt it incumbent to vote as he proposed to vote . When he reflected on their peculiar history—on all they hiid been , and on nil they were , —rich in rccolle-etions of the past , and rich also in tbeir anticipations of the future—and ulieu ho bore in mind , as ho was bound to boar in mind , that this people had , as it were , the promise that at some period they would again be the favoured people of God ; when he considered these things , ho nwntd that ho felt for the Jews so deep a sympathy , that ho would extend
for them every indulgence thit a Christian member of a Christian legislature could eonscientiously extend . ( Cheers . ) But believing . is ho did that Christianity was so interwoven with thi' piiaciplea of the state , tbat they could not he separated t : ic one from the other;—and fearing , as he did , the detrimenial effect of such a measure as that which was proposed , he weuld not consent to destroy or weaken tl a ; eiatioanl character , based as it was upon Christian precept , which had so greatly con . trlbuted to the moral and political elevation of the nation . The hon . and learned member concludes ? with expres . sing his conviction tbat our national prosperi'y lay deep sunk in our national religion , any blow struck at our national religion weuld shake the pillars of our national prosperity .
Mr SnEii said had tho hon . and learno-I gentleman been a member of the parliament in which the right bote , member for Tamnorth brought forward his measure for Catholic Emancipation , the speech he had just delivered would have been almost ne opposite on tlist as on this occasion . The boa . nnd learned gentleman , with a * l bis habits of forensic discrimination , could scarcely point out any arguments iu his speech which might not have been urged , with equal effect , on either occasion , ( Henr , hear , ) The hon . and learned gentleman bad referred to that part of the writ calling them together which bore especial reference to the Anglican church . He would ask whether this point was not as applicable to the Unitarians , to , tho Bap ' tsts , to the Independents , to the Roman Catholics ? ( Hear , hear . ) A great part of the hon , and learued gentleman ' s speech , indeeel , might have been nsed with equal force against Lord Ljnrthurst ' s proposition fir the municipal enfranuhise-ment of the Jefvs , Tho question for tho house , however , was whether , having gone so far , they ought not to go further , and efface from the statute-book the remnant of
intolerance which Mill difgraced it in relation to our Jewish fellow-su ' -jects . It appeared to him that from i the liability to du i < s tbe enjoyment of rights out-ht not to be dissociated , and tbat as every Jew born in Eagland was bound to every duty appertaining to a British sufeje-ct , he was of rie ; bt entitled to every privileg ' e that a British subject enjoyed . ( Hear , hear . ) He was aware that the disabilities imposed on Jews were simply called privations , but all privations resolved themselves into the character of penalties , and to the mind of the Jew the privation now sought to be removed presented itself in the harshest aspect . He could speak as a gwasi wit . ness in the matter . Often , ere the act of' 29 was conceded , he had sat under the gallery of St Stephen ' s Chapel , and witnessed the agonies under which the great foul whose energies had effected Catholic emancipation
writhed , until that emancipation was obtained . O'Connell , the champion of truth aud reason , was morally at the head of millions , writhing , like him-elf , under Injustice . The Jews of this country numbered not their millions- their force consisted « ol »* y in tin arguments <> f truth tAud reftBQR ; but with an i > ss < r * M > b . represent . ing , aa that bouse did , no 6 merely eho inte' ; . . 'ct , but tbe (; reat minisdnesa also of the ii . etion , thon- arguments could not but avail . Hon . gentl .- 'nen oppos iu admitted that nothing but necessity could justify the exclusion of British subjects fnm that house . Of this plea of necessity , so readily misapplied , let the house take good heed . It was a plea which had been used in justification of the
most monstrous tyrannhs—of the grossest wrongs . What was it they ftored ? What was the aim—what tho meaning , of this Hehrew . phobia ! ( Hear , hour , and a laugh . ) Did they tremble for the church ! The church might , indeed , have some reason for fear in our eight millions of Roman Catholics , our three millions of Methodists , our million and a half of New Catholics ; she might have something to fear from sectarianism assail , ing ber without , and from spurious pepery and mutiny within , —( hear , he * r , )—but from tbe neutral , apathetic , tranquil , unproselytising synagogue , be assured that she bad nothing to fear . ( Hear , hear . ) It was said that the introduction of the Jews into the house would nn .
christianise tbe bouse . In bis opinion , tbe Christianity of tbe house depended on the Christianity of the country —ho meant by Christianity the belief in Christ risen from the dead—was fixed iu , and inseparably iatertwined with , the affections of the people . He considertd the Christianity of thes- islands to be as stable as the islands themselves —( hear , hear , )—and tbat so long as tbe con . stitution of England lasted , so long us parliament itself endured , so long would the house—the burnished aad unbroken mirror of tbe national mind—reflect the religious feeling of the nation , ( Hear , hear . ) Herein he viewed the true security of tho Christian faith of Englanel , and not in a formal test , at which , indeed , the honest man would pause , but which the sardonic sceptic would contemptuously overleap . ( Hear , hear . ) Reference had been made to the illustrious name of Gibbon ;
a still higher name might have been adduced in illustration , that of Bolingbroke , a man who , rich in external accomplishment , full to oreifloviiiig of intellectual en . dowment , trod down in scorn the test which would have excluded the Jew , and made of that house the steppingstone to the pinnacle of power , There was no warrant in Scripture for this impesition cf a temporal penalty with tbo view of propagating divine truth ; there was no such dogma found in tbe mouth of Him who laid down bis life for mankind , and whose last words were an invocation of mercy on those who had sacrificed Him , toeing that' tbey knew not what tiny did . ' Bui alas fer frcil and fragile human nature , ko sooner had the professors ot Ciiristianity became associated with
temporal authority , than they turned tho severitiis which they themselves had suffered against their Jewish brethren . The Jew was selected aa tho special oljcct of infliction . Tho history otthe Jews through centuries was one track of blood , and one train of torture . Men of mercy occasionally arose to interpose on their behalf . The grca ' . Si Bernard had taken their part , but the light that appeared in the Abbey of Clairveaux was faint and evanescent , and was followed by centuries of new darkness and new psraecu'loos . Tho reformation did nothing for the Jews , all were still against them—Lutherans , Calvinists , Protestants , Presbyterians—nil who bad torn to pieces the garmeu ' s of the Saviour had alike terribly sinned in their regard . But it was some consolation to a Roman Catholic to know that in Roman
Cathe lie countries an exception was now made in their favour . In Belgium and in France all distinction between Christian and Jew had been abolished . ( Hear ) He trusted that Protestant England would follow thnt bright example . ( Hear , bear , ; A great deal of the prejudice which bad existed at one time in this country wasbtginningtodibper . se . London had mado a noble manifestation of its feeling . Was the house prepared to throw back the Jew on London , in order that London might throug h back the J < -w- on the house t Not only was the disqualification of tho Jew inconsistent with the spirit of the Christian religion , but those very disabilities impeded tbo progress of Christianity , prevented the couvertion ef the Jews , and produced effects diametrically the reverse ot those vtbich tbey were intended to produce . The disabilities imposed upon the Jew were
not sufficiently onerous to be compulsory ; hut tbey were sufficiently vexatious to make comersion a synonome for apostaey , and to nthr . a stigma to uninterested eonformity with the established religion . ( Cheers , ) We had struck off the master fetter , with which the Jew bad been bound by the neck and foot ; but the fetten remained , though apparently light , were Strang enough to fasten the Jew to h ' s faith , and to make it a matter of discredit to him should he desert his creed , ( Hear . ) Nothing effectual would bd done in this country towards the extinction of Judaism until a restitution of his birthright as an Englishman was made to every one , no matter what religion he professed . Some entertained the idea that there was no such thing as nn English , a Spanish , or an Italian Jew ; they held that a Jew was a Jew , and nothing else ; they supposed that his nationality was engrossed by tho country of his hope and re-
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coUeotions , and tbat the house of Jacob must remain for ever in a state of isolation and restraint . It was not wonderful , when the Jews were opprexsed , irritated , antj bn / n . led , that tbey should have felt , on tho banks of the Seine and Tlnines , as their fer . fathers felt when weeping by tbe waters of l ^ byloiu ; it was not wonderful tbat the psalm of exile should have been found tho Ian . gunge of their hoaris . ( He . ir , hear . ) But what had been already done had produced a most signal alteration . In p r oportion as the laws against the Jcw ^ bad been mitL-atcd tbe love of country had been revived ,
British feeling had taken root in bis heart , and nothing but perfect justice was required for its full development . ( Hear . ) L .-ttheJew be emancipated , let all distinctions between him and the Christian ha .-. bolished , and iis heart would be filled with perfect attachment to his country ; his exultations and his sorrows would be tho same as ours—his heart wonl-i be > at witb the same palpitation nt th (> news of Britisii victory—and , if ever there should be need , hia life-blood would be penned out for his country with the same prodigality as our own . ( Loud cheers ) .
After an ineffectual attempt to adjourn the houso , Mr Newdf . gate mado a speech against the Bill , but the fraction of the speech most worthy of notice , was his assertion that money hnd been plentifully distributed throughout the metropo is , for tbepurpose ofgetting ' up petitions in favour of the Bill , the scale of pricrs being K 6 . 1 for the first hundred cUttalures , dh for the nest , and 5 s , for every hundred that followed . The debate was then adjourned on the motion of Mr Cuables Pearson . The West Indian committee was then appointed on the motion of Lord G . Bentinck , and the house adjournedat half-past twelve , TUESDAY , Feb * oa » T 8 .
HOUSE OF LORDS —Mercantile Steam Navv . — A conversation ensued , at tho instance of Lord Co £ - cnESTEJJ , on the subject of the mercantile steam navy , on the occasion of his moving for returns relative thereto , with the view of ascertaining whether they cou ' . el bu made available for tbe purposes of war if they tbould be n . quired . His impression was , that there were sixty-tbrce cf such vessels having contracts with ths government , but which at present were not fit for war purposes . The Earl of Auckland could assure the noble lord that a report bad been made as to tbe condition of tba contract vessels at the end of 1846 , and they would be placed at the disposal of tho govcrnmsnt on the event of a war .
The Earl ofEiLENimoucH asserted that this country : tnd eho government of India were paj-ing £ 500 . OCO a year more than was necessary for the conveyance of letters to India ; be thought , therefore , vessels , whose proprietors pesstssed such advsutagea , should be reatly fo » - the service of the country at any time when they might be required . Relations with Rome . —Tho Marquis of Lahsdovtne was understood to intimate that the second reading of tho bill to enable her Miijcaty to establish diplomatic relations with Roma would be taken on Thursday ss ' niuhfe . Lord Eolikton thought that , should such relrit ' oabe established , care should bo ukenthat tbe minister who represented the SeeofEomu at our Court should not bo an ecclesiastic . Unless tbe Mil contained some provision to this tff ct , be gave notice of his intention to move for tbe insertion of erne .
The Marquis of Lassdowne observed that , in bis opinion , the interests ofthe Church in this country would net only be injured , but would be benefitted by the step tneditated , If it could be thown that such wou ' . d not bo the ca « e , her Majesty's government would not persevere with the measure . This voluntary pledge imparted te the Bishop ot Exiteb great tranquillity ofmind , anel would , be said , tnuble him to consider the provisions of the bill with a calmer spirit than he eou d otherwise havo preserved . TIi . ii- lordships Hun sdjeurned-HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Canteens in BjSBEAcks ,-o In leply to a questiou irom Colonel Lindsay , Mr F . Maulesaid that , though the government could not at once do away with canteens in barracks , they would , as tha present leases expire , prohibit spirituous liquors to be fold in barracka . Iaisn Registbation Bat . —To a question from Mr Si O ' Bhibn ,
Sir W , fomiiviLLE replied that it was the intentioa of the government to introduce a Registration Bill for Ireland . Leate of Absekos wasgrantedto Mr Ludlow Bruges for one month , and to Mr Thomas Buncombe fer twomonths , both on account of illness . The Ntw Hodses of Pabliament . —Mr Hohe said ,, he wished to ask the Speaktr of the house what ho was to do with regard to certain returns which bad been presented in consequence of their order , obtained at his instance , relative to the expenses of the New House of Commons ? He had moved for an account showing what was the total amount voted , what had been paid , and what was owing ; and , tbe original estimate for the ? works having been about £ 700 , 000 , he found by the return that up to the end of 181 G , £ 813 , 000 had been expended , and . an estimate was given that about half a million mora would be required , independent of £ 150 , voted last year , and not taken into account . It would
seem , therefore , that tbe total expenditure was not to be £ 7 ( 10 , 000 , but £ 1 , 409 , 600 ; but in this account he found that no estimates whatever were included as te the cost of purchasing tbe buildings on tbe south side of Bridge-Street , or as to other works aud fittings , including dtcoration ' , upholstery , tbe cost of restoring St Stephen's chapel , etc ., etc ., all of which , he believed , would cost half a million more at least . ( Hear , hear . ) Such an account as this seemed to him calculated very much to confuse tbe bouse , and ho thought it highly necessary that the attention of the government , of Parliament , and of the country , should be called to it . An hon . gentleman below him , however , had taken upon himself to insist upon moving fer the appointment of a committee in this case . If he intended so to do , then would certainly be the most convenient time for discussing the matter ; and in such case he would postpone his observations . What he would ask , therefore , was when that bon . gentleman proposed , if at all , to bring forward bis motion ?
Sir R . H , Incus said , that in reply to this question ,. 1 when , if at all , he intended to bring forward his motion , ' he had only to say that although he did give notice of n motion on the subject , somewhere about the 15 th of December last , yet he was so far frem wishing to take it upon himself to move the appointment of such a com . mittee , tbat he should be Very unwilling to do so unless with the general concurrence of the house . Even if he was likely to carry his motion only by a very small majority , he should not be at all inclined to press it . It was one of no great public interest—it involved no question of public principle . It would involve a sacrifice of time on his part that he was by no means anxious to make , and he had no personal interest in tbe matter whatever to gratify . If , however , it were the plcusure of tbe bouse to support bim in tbe appointmr nt ofa cemmlttee , he would bring forward the . measurehe could not say exaetly upon what day—it certainly , would not he any day in the present week-.
Mr Osborne ( after a pause ) said this matter assumed so very unsatisfactory a character , that he thought he . was justified in asking the noble lord , the Eirat Commissioner of Woods and Forests , whether he would ? have any objection to lay upon the table a detailed estimate , showing that £ 1 , 100 , 000 . would be all tbat would be required ! He would also ask if the "Woods and Por . ests held themselves responsible for all that was ordered ! Viscount MoErETH . — -The amount mentioned by tbo hon . gentleman is the amount of the architect ' s estinsate , and I can only say I hope he will bu able to bear it out .. ( Loud laughter . *) After another pause , '
Mr Osbobne said : Really , after this answer and considering that we have a deficient nnd a sinking revenue , I think I am entitled to put a question to tbe First Lord of tbe Treasury , and I beg to ask that noble lord if h » is prepared to check this enormous expense , and if be will give this house nad the country some assurance tb .-. t no more than the £ 1 , 400 , 000 , specified in tbe estimate , shall be spent ? ( Cries of Hear , hear . ' ) Lord J . Rossell—It : s impossible for me to say mcro than my noble friend has said , ( Oh . ) I must decline to be responsible for any architect's estimate . ( Laughter . ) Mr Osboene—Then , sir , I will call attention to the subjoet upon the first order of the day . ( ' Hear , hear / and cheering . ) Ob . de *! or Business—Ma Anstet ' s Motion . — .
Tuesday being a day on which notices of motion bavo precedence of orders ol the day , tbe debate upon the Jewish Disabilities Bill could not , in regular course , come on . until after the motions had been disposed of . There wore several ' notices of motion ' on the paper , tbe first being ' tbat oi Mr Cbisbolm Anstey , relative to the foreign policy © f tbe government ; the time having arrived for tho paper to be regularly gone through—Mr Hume rose to submit to the hon . member for Toughol whether , considering tbat an important debate on a national question bad bren mijeurned to thatnigbt , it wds prudent in him to bring forward a motion , containiug forty articles , every ono of which would give rise to an ordinary day ' s debate , to the interruption i f the adjourned debate . He did not make this request
with tbe view of shirking the questions likel ; to be raised by the bon , gentleman ' s motion , because ho was most anxious that tbey should be debated , but the bouse having beta brought together on a matter of so muck public interest as the question awaiting : discussion no would urge npon the hon . gentlemen not to perflevcre inbringing forward another question . Seeing now atvious all parties were to proceed with ^ adjourned de bate , he trusted the hon . member would tofcc |* *» £ ^ YVSS g ^ E ^^ Ettr ^^^^^ fSSS ; If therefore , the hon . member did proceed , it would be ,
Mr 0 Anstes begged to assure tha hon fjentleman . who bad last spoken that if any thing personal could have induced him to postpone this motion it would be his tequeat ; but he must put it to the house that he was rot fairly ' treated in this matter , —that be was very unfairly dealt witb . An apptaA had been made- to him iuyriva tp and he had given a satisfactory answer to it , and that answer he had row to repeat , It waa simp ly this . Last
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 12, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12021848/page/7/
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