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HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY, JULY 12. On the motion of Lord LANGDALE, the Court of Chancery Bill was read a third time and passed. The Metropolitan Interments Bill was also read a third time and passed with some amendments. The Railway Abandonments Bill, as amended in the Com- mons, was brought up for consideration, on the motion of Earl GRANVILLE. Some discussion ensued, introduced by Lord REDESDALE, who stated some objections to the amendments. Their lordships divided upon the question, {whether the Commons' amendments should be agreed to. Contents 34 Non-contents 38—4 On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, the Parlia- mentary Voters (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed, without debate, some unopposed amendments being made in some of the clauses. The House went into committee on the County Courts Ex- tension Bill. Lord BROUGHAM disclaimed any wish to frustrate or delay the measure, but observing that many of the provisions of the bill had been severely criticised by high professional authori- ties, recommended that it should be submitted to examination and improvement by a select committee. Some prolonged conversation occurred upon this motion. Ultimately the bill was referred to a select committee. The Municipal Corporation (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. Their lordships adjourned at seven o'clock.

FRANCE. The sitting of Saturday offered another of those zig-zag turns which have marked the progress of this strange law of the press through the Assembly. One of the most ob- jectionable features of the law, the tax on publications not periodical, was thrown out by a majority of nearly a hundred votes. The Government, heedless of the interests of civili- sation, laid great stress on this clause on account of its fiscal reach. The Moniteur of the army maintains that nothing has yet been settled about the camp, which is to be established at Varsailles, further than the general plan. The Patrie, on the other hand, communicates the closest details of this design. This is accepted as another indication of the dis- sensions between Changarnier and d'Hautpoul; and while a minister so repugnant to the commander-in-chief is main- tained in office, all the assurances given concerning the har- mony prevailing between the President and General Changarnier, or 0 between the President and the majority whose might is represented by Changarnier, must be re- garded as mere dust flung in the eyes of the public. The distinguished Italian refugees, Montanelli, Manin, Saiiceti, Pianciani, Mazzoni, Amari, and Aceursi, have ad- dressed a letter to the Presse, protesting against a calum- nious correspondence in the Patrie, which describes the features of an atrocious conspiracy, including plans for assassinating the lending ministers in Europe, and Attributes the chief part in these machinations to Mazzini and the chiefs of theltalian emigration in France and Eng- land. ————

SPAIN. ACCOUCHMENT OF THE QUEEN.-The French post re- ceived Monday morning a telegraphic despatch an- nouncing the accouchment of her Majesty the Queen of Spain of a male infant, which, however, did not live.

AUSTRIA. Telegraphic advices from Vienna to the afternoon of the 9th state that General Haynau had been suddenly deprived of all his powers, and dismissed from his military command, for disobedience to the orders of the Emperor. The insurrection in Bulgaria is becoming more important. The Turkish troops from Varna, Shumla, and Widdin have been concentrated for the purpose of mutual support. Two battalions and two commissioners have been sent from Constantinople. The Liid Slavische Zeitumj asserts that Widdin is surrounded by the insurgents. Russian agency is openly spoken of.

PORTUGAL. AMERICAN CLAIMS ON PORTUGAL.—The Peninsular mail packet Montrose, Captain Bowen, arrived at Southampton Sunday afternoon with the Peninsular mails, which were landed under the charge of Lieutenant Langton, R.N., Ad- miralty agent. The Montrose brings news from Lisbon up to the 9th instant. The Portuguese government, for the sake of peace, has admitted the American claims, except that of the privateer left to arbitration. The American ships of war were to sail in a couple of days. From Cadiz we leara that the civil governor has been dis- missed, and a note of his dismissal been placed upon the archives of that city, in consequence of his imprisoning Lieutenant Rainier, the Admiralty agent. The correspondent of the Daily News from Lisbon says, the American claims have much puzzled the government, and have caused great uneasiness to trade. Many councils of state have been convoked, and besides the councillors some other authorities were called. Ministers have been ques- tioned in the chambers on the subject; in the peers by Count de Lavradio, who being an inveterate enemy of the ministry, assailed them. The minister declined to enter into expla- nations, not to injure the pending negotiations,but vigorously repelled the attacks, and asked him if, having on several oc- casions formed part of the cabinet, he had heard of them? The Dukes de Palmella and Saldanha, both having at times formed part of several administrations, solemnly declared that such claims had been dormant. The government, after having maturely considered the subject, consulted the corps diplomatic and others proper to give advice on such a case for the good of peace, and without entering in the details of the more or less or no justice of some of the claims, agreed to them, except that of the privateer, it having reference to a third power. The government enters, I am told, in some very judicious remarks, in their reply; the two American ships of war are to sail with the answer in a couple of days the British squadron, Commodore Martin, is to sail on the same day to Gibraltar for provisions, and will be back in a few days. On the 29th ult. the Tagus was visited by the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, after the short passage of 64 hours and 20 minutes from the Breakwater to Belem Castle. The beauty of the vessel completely amazed the inhabitants crowds visited the yacht, and highly speak of the civility shown to them by the noble commander (Lord A. Fitz- eiarence) and the officers on board. The Duke of Saxe Weimar has been on board, and received with the greatest affability those who were presented to him. The duke and Lord A. Fitzclarence went to Cintra on the 1st instant, re- turned on the 2nd, and departed on the morning of the 3rd ior Gibraltar. The Stromboli had not such a fine passage, though she left on the same day. I am sorry to be under the necessity to report that fresh misunderstandings have taken place between some officers of the fleet and the inha- bitants of the south bank of the Tagus. The assault has not been on the part of the officers, some of whom received contusions. A law has passed imposing a duty of 1 per cent. upon all imports and exports in the island of St. Miguel, to be applied to the erection of a dock, and ordering the duty imposed the tonnage of vessels visiting the island for the support of the said dock, once made.

GERMANY. The protocol signed in London on the 4th, and containing n Z, a guarantee for the integrity of Denmark, has awakened the liveliest indignation and regret. All parties condemn its Unjust and arbitrary interference in the rights of German Sovereigns. The cause of the duchies is more generally favoured in Germany than seems to have been believed in England. It will lead to the reconstruction of the confeder- ation speedier than was anticipated. The negotiations with Austria are progressing very favourably. The duchies are glowing with enthusiasm for their country. They desire to be attacked by the Danes. It is expected that the Danes will enter Schleswig after the 16th Or 17th instant. t, A partial change of ministers is not unlikely. The sup- ()l'tel's of protection. Von der Heydt, Ladenberg, and ^-hleinitz, will retire.

THE BULGARIAN INSURRECTION. Letters have been received in Vienna from Semlin, to the 5th inst. Omer Pasqhahad not marched into Bosnia with jue Turkish army under his command, but with one division ,lad marched towards Nissa, with the two commissioners Constantinople, to inquire into the cause of the Bulgarian insurrection. It was believed that the insurrec- tion originated really in the tyranny and oppression of the *Ul'kish officials, but that when it had broken out Russian ^'aissaries had done all in their power to foment and in- Ir^ase the feeling against ihe Government. The fact of ^'ddin being surrounded by the insurgents was confirmed. insurgents were reported to have increased in number, flirty-five thousand men were reported under arms* Ihe points at which they were collected are Nissa, Sofia, <|!i(l Pilipopel. Communications are interrupted in all Actions.

PRUSSIA. At the meeting of the College of Princes, M. Von V^ileinitz announced that the late correspondence between t^stria and Prussia on the constitution of an Interior Central 'p,°Vern-ment of Germany had failed to produce any result. *e-hope of an understanding was not abandoned, and to give for the negotiations the present organization of the rjpssiaa. Bund is prolonged provisionally for three months, ^.secessio of the Elector of Hesse from the Bund was ^cially announced.

ENGLISH FOREIGN POLICY AND POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF GERMANY. We have before us a letter from a highly respectable fellow-countryman, residing in one of the principal German cities unaffected by the revolutions of 1848, in which the greatest anxiety is manifested for the success of Mr. Roe- buck's motion on the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston. The letter was written on the 1st iiist., before the news of the division in the House of Commons had reached the writer. Some portions, therefore, of his communication have lost their significance but the following extracts will be read with interest, as showing the opinion of a well- informed English observer that the political prospects of Germany are far from satisfactory, and that whether our Foreign Secretary can prudently recommend liberality to the Governments or not, the latter will act most unwisely for themselves if their policy be not guided by that principle. The writer says "If the foreign policy of our Government is to be reversed, Europe will be thrown back a whole century. The consti- tutional spirit which has been awakened throughout Ger- many, especially in the northern and Protestant portions of it, and which is the only fortunate legacy of the revolution of 1848, will be smothered, if not extinguished. Liberal ideas will have no soil to grow upon. The press will be lettered, — liberty of speech will be abridged or totally abolished,—the representative system will be cut off in the a bud, and Cabinet orders will again supersede the law Does any Englishman imagine that he has no direct interest —apart from abstract opinion—in staving off such a calamity abroad? If so he is wofully mistaken. Wars are much more likely to arise where those who have to pay for them have no voice in the question, where the spirit of aggression and aggrandisement is unchecked by the private interest and good sense of the nation, where ambition is allowed her full sway, and where might and right are confounded into synonymous terms. But, above all, there would be the risk, at no great distance of time, of another revolution, far more bloody, and still more disastrous in its effects than the last; and no one, whose attention is directed to the affairs of the Continent, can fail to be convinced that a return to military despotism must and will again cause a fearful European out- break, If the foreign policy of England is destined to re- gard all these events with indifference—if the British Minister is not to be permitted, in a spirit of friendly admonition, to counsel foreign Governments against a line of conduct fraught with all these evils, and to remonstrate where by treaty or other direct interest the law of nations confers a right to do so-if an act of injustice perpetrated against a British subject is to be henceforth decided alone by the tribunals of the country in which the act may be perpetrated, and the English Government is in no way to interfere, the office of Foreign Minister had better be abolished altogether. There are states in Europe in which British residents would, under some circumstances be compelled, by the laws of those states to serve as soldiers. Of what use would an application be to the ordinary tribunals of such state, for relief from such an infliction? and yet, if Lord Stanley's doctrine is to pre- vail, such might very easily be the lot of an English-born subject." In a private note our correspondent says:- "In expressing my opinion upon the state of politics abroad, especially Germany, I have exaggerated no facts and no dangers. The views I express of the lisk of a revived revolution are shared by the most conservative and even aristocratic of Germans, who have the gift of the power of thinking, and who make use of that gift. I was speaking on the subject of German politics last autumn with a Prince of the house of I shall not easily forget his declaration —' The worst that could befal Germany (said he) would be re-action, and a return to the old state of affairs. Nothing would save us. Two years would not elapse before the out- break of another revolution, and then it would go hard indeed with all us Princes.' Although a most amiable, estimable man, the speaker was as thorough an aristocrat as one could imagine; but he was an observer and a thinker." It would be well for Germany and her princes were such sentiments shared by her existing rulers.-I;eeds Mercury.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY, JULY 11. METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL. On the motion of the Earl of CARLISLE the report on this bill was brought up, and on the motion of Lord RKDESDALE certain clanses were added to it. The NEW CHANCELLOR.—Lord BROUGHAM regretted that the great seal was no longer to be in commission at the same time, it it must be taken out of commission, he knew no one more fitted to fill the office of Chancellor than Chief Justice Wilde. (General cheers.) The benefices in Plurality Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of CARLISLE then moved that the House resolve itself into Committee on the Inspection of Coal Mines Bill. After some opposition from the Earl of LONSDALE and the Marquess of LONDONDERRY, it was agreed that the Bill should pass through Committee pro forma, and then be reprinted, so as to afford time for the consideration of amendments. Some other Bills were then advanced a stage, after which their Lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY, JULY 11. THE CONVICT PRISONS BILL. At the morning sitting, on the order for the third reading, Lord MAIION, not opposing the bill, reviewed somewhat fully the subjects of transportation and convict discipline generally, and offered various suggestions to the Government. In conclusion he paid a high compliment to the ability and admirable spirit with which Sir G. Grey discharged the various functions of his ardous office, in none of which, he said, were these qualities more con- spicous than in his management of this most difficult and most important question. Sir G. Grey gave a short exposition of the objects of the bill, and intimated the views of the Government respecting the sug- gestions of Lord Mahon. The discussion of incidental topics was continued by Sir J. PAKINGTON, Mr. SLANEY, and other members. At the conclusion the bill was read a third time and passed POOR RELIEF BILL. On the order for going into Committee upon the Poor Relief Bill, in reply to a question by Sir J. Pakington. Mr. BAINES said, he hoped and believed that this would be the last of these annual bills, and that next session he intended to draw the attention of the House to the law of'settlement, which was closely connected with the area of rating—a subject to which the inquiries of a Committee of the House of Lords had been recently directed. The House then went into Committee upon the bill, and was occupied with its details until four o'clock, when an adjournment took place until five. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. When the House re-assembled, Mr. EWART moved for leave to bring in a bili to abolish the punishment of death. Upon this occasion he excluded from consideration the statistics of the question, which, he admitted, were conflicting but he essayed to show that capital punishments were inconsistent with the great object of all punishments-namely the certainty of the penalty, juries in many cases acquitting the criminal, not from any doubt of his guilt, but through an abhorrence of the severity of the punishment. Many of the judges, moreovsr, were opposed to the infliction of capital punish- ments. Uncertainty prevailed after conviction, for it was not easy to understand the distinctions between cases where the capital penalty was remitted and where it was exacted. Mr. Ewart then combatted the objections urged against his motion last year by Sir G. Grey, and contended that it would be far wiser to substitute for sanguinary executions minor penalties that should be carried into effect with certainty. The motion was seconded by Mr. Hume, who argued for the total abolition of capital punishments from the success which had attended the dimunition of their number, observing that the more people were accustomed to blood, the more sanguinary they would become. Sir G. GREY stated the grounds upon which he should resist this motion, as he had done on former occasions-namely, that he believed the continuance of capital punishments as a part of our penal law was indispensably necessary .for the interests of society, and imperatively demanded for the security of life. Capital punishment was now practically confined to the crime of wilful and deliberate murder, and was justifiable upon the prin- ciple which authorised a man to take the life of another for the preservation of his own. He denied that, as compared with other punishments, that of death was an uncertain penalty out of nine- teen convictions during the last year thare had been fifteen executions. He denied, too, that the punishment was not dreaded by criminals, and that public feeling was in favour of the abolition of capital punishment. Mr. BRIGHT, admitting for argument's sake that society had a right to inflict capital punishment, disputed its policy, which was disproved by the total abolition of the penalty in 239 out of the 240 cases in which it had been heretofore inflicted. There was no evidence that life was less secure in countries where capital punishment was abolished on the other hand, in Ireland, and even in England, the number of capital crimes was not diminish- ed by the penalty of death, which when once inflicted, unlike secondary punishment, was irrevocable. Mr. Bright dwelt at much length upon the uncertainty of capital punishments, upon the chance of innocence being sacrificed in them, and upon the revolting incidents attending these public spectacles, which in certain cases, stimulated crime. Mr. S. ADAIlt supported the motion, believing that the lives of the community might be secured by other means than the penalty of death, which he insisted was not regarded with terror by criminals. Upon a division, the motion was negatived by 46 against 40 THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Mr. O'CONNOR then renewed his motion, that the House should adopt the principles embodied in the People's Charter, namely, annual elections, universal suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, no property qualification, and payment of members. He contended that the people had no confidence in that House, and declared that his object in urging the Charter was to make the rich richer and the poor rich, by legislating according to national requirements, not political patronage. The House was at this moment counted, and there being only twenty-nine Members present, an adjournment took place at half-past eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FJRIDAY, JULY 12. At the noon sitting the Medical Charities (Ireland) Bill was considered in committee, and the clauses passed. On resuming at five o'clock, in reply to Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, Lord PALMERSTON stated that the British Government were doing all in their power to obtain an alteration in the 46 duty charged on every pipe of wine shipped from Oporto to Eng- land, sixpence being the whole amount of the duty on the same article upon its exportation to America. This vexatious impost was equally injurious to the commerce of Portugal and Eng- land, and the governments of the two countries were in cor- respondence upon the subject. In answer to a question from Mr. G. THOMPSON, Sir G. GREY admitted that he had noticed the observations made by the judge in passing sentence on Pate for the assault upon her Majesty, but added that he had not thought it neces- sary to communicate with the learned baron in consequence thereof. 1 I On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, new writs were moved for the boroughs of Southampton and Devonport, the present members, Mr. Cockburn, and Sir J. Romilly, having accepted the offices of Solicitor-General and Attorney-General re- spectively. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House should resolve itself into committee, for the purpose of voting an address to her Ma- jesty, praying for the erection of a monument to the late Sir R. Peel in Westminster Abbey, with a suitable inscription, com- memorative of the irreparable loss which the country had sustained in his death. In a brief address, delivered amid the breathless silence of the House, the noble lord referred to some former instances of similar honours paid to departed statesmen, and noticed with some emotion the coincidence that the erection of the monument to Chatham had been moved by Col. Barre, formerly an active member of the opposition against that minis- ter. The present occasion, like the one he had touched upon, invited every man to express in unanimity the pride which they all felt in the memory of a great man, who had devoted his life to the service of his country. The motion having been carried the House went, into com- mittee, and an address of the tenor stated by Lord J. Russell was put from the chair, and voted by acclamation. The House then resumed. On the motion of Mr. GOULBURN, a new writ was ordered to issue for the borough of Tamworth. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. SIIAHMAN CRAWFORD called attention to the petitions pre- sented on Lehalf of the depositors who had suffered less through the defalcation of the actuary of the Rochdale Savings Bank. The hou. member enforced the justice of reimbursing those losses out of the public purse; but, conscious of the inability of any private member to propose a vote for this purpose, lie left the matter with the Government. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER briefly declined to recog- nise on the part of the public a liability of a totally unprecedented character. Col. SIBTHORP inveighed against the proposed Exhibition of Industry, and hoped that something might happen to put a stop to it. Mr. HUME recapitulated the incidents attending the massacres of alleged pirates in the Bornean seas, and denounced the unjustifiable proceedings of Rajah Brooke and the British officers concerned in the affair. He moved an address to her Majesty for the appointment of a royal commission to inquire upon the spot into the causes and events that attended the military operations against the natives of Sarebas since the year 1841., Mr. COBDEN secoiided the motion. Mr. PLOWDEN declared that no measures had been instituted with regard to the Bornean pirates which they had not deserved by their atrocities. Calumnies, he added, were heaped up against Sir James Brooke, and all his proceedings misrepresented, to make out a plausible charge of misconduct aud cruelly. Mr. DRUMMOND traced the attacks upon the Rajali of Sarawak to a feeling of vindictiveness, because he would not join or aid a. trading company in the Eastern Archipelago. After some expIanationsTrom Mr. MACGREGOR, Sir. E. COLEBROOKE stated the question so as to include the future destiny of the Sarawak settlement. If that enterprise was to be maintained, we must exterminate its enemies. lie Low- ever, believed it. to be an incumbrance. On a division there appeared— For Mr. liume's- illotioll 29 Against. 169-140 The House then want into committee of bupply, and occupied a considerable interval in discussing the successive voted. Resuming at a quarter to one, the orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter-past one o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY JULY 15. The woolsack was occupied, for the first time, by the new Lord Chancellor, Sir T. Wilde, who takes his seat among the peers as Baron Truro. A large mass of bills, fifty-one in nnmber, received the royal assent by commission. The committal of the Factories Bill was moved by Earl GRANVILLE, who characterised the measure as a fair com- promise between the employers and the employed in factories. In anticipation of the amendment announced by the Duke of Richmond, the noble earl stated that if that proposition were carried the Government must give up the measure, which would then be probably sacrificed altogether for the presets c year. Several clauses having been passed, some discussion arose upon an amendment proposed by Lord HARROWBY, of the same tenor as that suggested by Lord Ashley, and nega- tived, in the Commons. Lord STANLEY opposed the amend- ment, which was carried to a division, when there appeared— Contents. 25 Non-Coutents. 58-33 The amendment was consequently lost. 0 The Duke of RICHMOND then moved the amendment, of which he had given notice, fixing half-past five for six p.m. as the hour of closing the factories in the evening. This change (one and a half hours being deducted for meals) would icavu exactly ten hours work in the day, beginning at six a.m., and render the bill in fact, what it was in name, a Ten Hours Act." The noble duke supported his motion upon the ground of good faith, insisting that no compromise ought to be accepted on behalf of the operatives, in deference to the quibbling ob- jections raised by the manufacturers to the Act of Parliament so recently passed, and founded upon an accidental flaw in its construction. Not feeling much alarm at the threat of the Government to abandon the bill, he promised to take care of its destinies in that case while passing through that House while Lord J. Manners would perform the 0 same friendiy office in the Commons. In the discussion which ensued, the amendment was sup- ported by Lord STANLEY and the Bishop of OXFORD and P S opposed by Earl GRANVILLE, the Bishop of MANCHESTER, the Earl of GALLOWAY, and the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. The committee then divided— For the amendment. 39 Against 52—13 Their lordships adjourned at ten o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, JULY 15. At the morning sitting the committal of the Mercantile r, Marine Bill was resumed, and a few clauses passed. SUNDAY POST-OFFICE DELIVERIES. On resuming in the afternoon, Lord MARCUS HILL brought up her Majesty's reply to the address of the Commons on the subject of the Sunday Post-oflice deliveries. In answer to a question by Mr, STANFORD, Lord PALMERSTON stated that some correspondence was in progress with the various German powers relative to the con- templated reconstruction of the Zollverein custom league. Some changes were understood to be contemplated by the com- bined powers but the nature of those changes, or their pro- bable effect upon the commerce of this country, was not yet ascertainable. In reply to Mr. B. COCHRANE, Lord PALMERSTON declared that no remonstrance had been addressed by the Government against the French occupation of Rome. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the second reading of the Attornies' Certificates Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the measure. Mr. MULLINGS supported, and Mr. BASS opposed the bill. Mr. MUNTZ disapproved of every tax upon trades and pro- fessions. Mr. GOULBURN deprecated the frequency of attacks upon minor branches of taxation, which tended to fritter away the public revenue. Mr. BRIGHT coincided in disapproving of all burdens upon employment-, but consented to vote against the biii on account of the advance of the session, and because he expected to have the whole system of license duties revised or abolished next year. Lord R. GROSVENOR having replied, the House divided i" or the second reading 139 Against 12-17 ihe House then went into committee on the Ecclesiasileal Commission Bill, which was resumed at the 15th clause. After C -1 8 some miscellaneous discussion the remaining clauses were gone through. Mr. GLADSTONE moved an additional clause, intended to pro- vide for the creation of a secondary class of bishoprics. His pro- position was, that in every town of more than 100,000 inhabitants, where a sum of £ 30,000 should be subscribed by way of endow- ment, the district should be placed under the charge of a suffragan bishop, specially appointed for the control of its spiritual and ecclesiastical affairs, provided always that the consent of the bishop of the see and the Crown should be first obtained. Lord J. RUSSELL could not consent to the creation of a class of episcopal dignitaries whose condition, appointment, and functions would be so entirely different from those at present existing. He promised, however, that the means of extending the number, or dividing the labours of the prelaiic body should be seriously con- sidered by the administration during the recess. After some remarks from Lord J. MANNERS, Ir. GLADSTONE withdrew his proposition. > ,<