The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

THE FALKLAND ISLANDS, CAPE HORN. These Islands which have long been a bone of warm contention between the United States of America and the Buenos Ayrian people, are now in the formal pos- session of the British Government and if no dispute arise as to the possession from prior claims by the French, or United States, or Buenos Ayrien Govern- ment, they may prove of very great value to British vessels bound either for whale or seal fishing, or for other purposes in the Pacific. In West Falkland there ate few if any inhabitants. The country in East Falkland is superior to that in the West. The Buenos Ayrien Government have had a settlement in the latter for about three years, but the visit of the United States ships for seal catching has occasioned such disputes and constant squabbles, that an American ship of war, some months back, carried the governor off with him. The harbour of Port Louis in East Falkland, which lies in lat. 51 32 S., Ion. 58 3 W., is a safe port, where refreshments can always be had. There are from 15 to 20 small houses, but at present only about 22 to 25 inhabitants, who are principally from Buenos Ayres. Upon East Falkland Island there may be about 7,000 head of cattle, the greater part of which are running wild. They have increased from about 20 or 30, which were put upon the island by the French, when they had an establishment there in 17G4. For the last three years the.Buenos Ayrean Government have been killing at the rate of from 1,000 to 1,200 head annually. This is, we believe, now put a stop to and it is probable that some competent British authority will be at no great distance of time settled there. Fine cattle of three hundred weight may be bought for about two guineas a head, and smaller at 25s. to 30s. Pigs, geese and ducks are very abundant, and easily to be obtained rabbits swarm there, and are very tame- the skins large and with good fur, which rabbits may be had for about twopence each. The sea is very productive of fine fish and if there were there a supply of Bour, tea and sug,r, (of which a depot might be easily made) meat, milk and butter being in such plenty, this place would be of high importance for the supply of refresh- ments to shipping. A beneficial trade might be carried on for cod fillh. to salt and dry for the Catholic countries, and of which many tons have been cureil recently and answered well at PlatA and Itio Janiero. A good supply of garden seeds and some better agri- cultural tools would soon make a very manifect improve- ment. Rye, barley, beans,^and hardy grains, would flourish with but little labour and but little risk. The wild cattle are caught there with the lassoe, which, when brought into practice, is far superior to the tedious ope- ration of bringing them down with the rifle. As the whalers always pass in sight of the islands, when outward bound, and as there is neither danger in the approach nor port charges when there, the ships should now look there for the refreshments they will find that they need after a voyage round the Cape, or in the prospect of it when they are fished and homeward bound.

MELA NCIIOLYCA TA S TJiO Pll E. As Captain Keats, R.N., nephew of Sir Richard Keats, Governor of Greenwich Hospital, was sailing in an open boat in Batticombe Bay, Exeter, on Saturday last, a squall off the land took her so suddenly, that be. fore the sheet could be cast off she capsized and sunk. There were Mrs. Keats and two of her sisters, Miss Di- lIa and Miss Louisa Pitman, and a boatman, also in the boat. Captain Keats instantly laid hold of Miss Louisa, and swam with her a considerable distance towards the shore, till a preventive service boat put off and rescued them both from their perilous situation, when he learnt the melancholy fact that lijo wife and her sister Diana were both lost, together with the boatman. The body of Mrs. Keats and that of her sister were found en. tangled in the gear of the boat, but the boatman has not yet been found. Both of these ill-fated ladies were young and accomplished they were the daughters of a very wealthy and active ma- gistrate of the neighbourhood, Major Pitman. Mrs. Keats had not long been married, and her sister was betrothed, it is understood, to a gentleman to whomihe was shortly to have been united. The affliction of the parents may be readily imagined. Capt. Keats is, as may be supposed, suffedng considerably from mental affliction, whilst the surviving sister has been attacked with brain fever, through the shock which the catastro. I phe has caused. Capfain Keats had been on a visit to Sir Juhn Yarde Bullet's, at Lupton, it is under- stood. His boat was observed by the Ciree, a yacht, belonging to Mr. Wake, of Heavitree, which was stand- ing aerols the hay at the time, about half a mile seaward of the boat. When the squall c,me on. the Circe felt its force and nearly filled, Mr. Wake luffed up and took in a couple of reefs in his mainsail, and changed his jib as soon as he had got all right, he turned round and not see- ing Captiin Keats's boat, exclaimed to his man-4-Well, I suppose, this has been too much for the ladies, and so they are gone ashore." He then held on his course, not suspecting that anything had happened to the boat, which being under the lee of the land was in compara- tively smooth water. Had Mr. Wake been at all awar« of the dreadful circumstances, he might in all probability have been instrumental in saving two, if not the whole 01 the unfoitunate sufferers.

FASHION AND LITERATURE. ThÛr Majesties arrived at a quarter before two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon at the Palace at St.James's from Windsor. The Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Brunswick, Prince Alexander, and Prince Charles of Salnis, received the King and Queen. The Duchess of Cumberland, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Duke of Sussex, afterwards joined the Royal party. His Majesty held a Court soon after his arrival. Vice- Admirals Sir John Harvey and Sir George Parker were introduced by Sir William Woods, when his Majesty was graciously pleased to invest them with the ensign of Knights Commanders of the Bath. The King afterwards held a levee.

THE FACTORY COMMISSION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) ™, Nerois alienis mobile lignum. L6 never was a list that wanted more correction than the present bat the reader must take it with all Jaults. Bad as it is, we would, that the fifteen trusty and well beloved" should be had in everlasting remem- brance; if it be only for the sake of their two hundred sovereigns a head, and the alacrity, with which their paw has been held out to clinch them. Never was batch more ready to do the errand of their master. rrancis Bisset Hawkins Thomas Tooke (a) Thos. South wood Smith (6) I.eonard Horner (c) Sir David Barry (d) John E. Drinkwater (e) Robert Mackintosh (f) James Stuart John Welsford Cowell Edward C. Tuffnell (h) Alfred Power (g) Edwin Chadwick Stephen Woolriche Johi-i Spencer, and Charles Loudon (i). (a) Tallow-melter, and greaser of the wheels to Ricardo and Mc Culloch. (b) Has undertaken to dissect, phlebotomize, and anatomize the evidence. (c) Just recovered from the effects of Pattison's floorer at Stinkomalee. (d) M ystificator General to the Cholera Board. (e) Has foresworn his name, and never lowers his lip to anything but Port or John Barleycorn. if) Mas inherited nothing but the name. (y h),The Castor and Pollux of foolscap. (i) The greatest adept in Europe at forcing tender frames and young plants. N.B. De cceleris, we know nothing nor any body else. Good luck bide with them and their immortality.

MARRIAGE OF TWO SLAVEs.-At St. George's Church, Barbados, by the Rev. Mr. Went, Robert Jordan, to Christian Griffith (slaves on Windsor plantation.)—The happy couple in a phreton and pair, accompanied by three gigst In which were several of their triebds, besides five 011 horseback, proceeded to the ehurch amidst the joyous salutations of the whole plantation gangs, and after the indissoluble knot was tied, returned to the house of the bridegroom in ths village yard of the plantation, where a tas'y dejeune wae in readiness for their refreshment. The early part of the day was spent in rural sports and innocent festivities until four o'clock, whe. the whole party, con- sisting of many additional guests, sat down to a sumptuous dinner, where the Well-crammed turkey, smoking roast beef, and home-fed pork, tempttd the ap- petite. A splendid bridal cake, floundering in all the brilliancy of gold and silver leaf, and well studded with sugar plums, graced the festive board and in addition to which and the other nick-nacks from the pantry, their master's orchard and well-stored cellar furnished great variety to gratify their palate. The festive dance closed the amusements of the guests, while the happy pair stole of to their cbatuber.-Barbados Papfr,

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. TEA.—A writer in the Salem Register when tea was first introduced into Salem the faslJlODb: mode of serving it up was, to boil the tea in an 'r° kettle, and after straining the liquor off, the boiled b*.r was put into a dish and buttered. This was eaten the liquid was drunk without sugar or milk to wash do the greens. GREAT DEARTH IN LONDOII; Towards the end of this year (1257), London was visited by a ful famine, chiefly occasioncd by too much rain, wheat was sold at the prodigious rate of one pound shillings the quarter. We are also informed by an anp,e writer, that at this period he saw a number of cit'ze fighting for carrion and dead dogs, and that they dj8 the wash which was usually given to swine. And another historian we are told that it occasioned the of about twenty thousand persons in London. And heighten their misfortunes, money was at the same tiflj exceedingly scarce, for by the grievous exactions ot 1 King on the one hand and the Pope on the other, ther with the prodigious sums of money carried 'I1. Germany by Richard, King of the Romans, and WhlCsJ amounted, according to the best authorities, to no >e than seven hundred thousand pounds, the nation drained to such a degree, was with the gre8.teel difficulty the most eminent citizens supported them6e' and their families.-New History of London. THE MOORS.-We have very favourable aC" counts from various parts of the country of the appear; ance of game in the moors this season. The early p3 of the spring was so very cold, as to throw the breedMf about three weeks later than last year, but the wea'^ has since been so dry and warm, that there can hafdV be a rotten or unhatched egg, ami accordingly the cove) of young grouse that have yet been seen are very >u There is now more to fear from severe drought than thing else, and, therefore, a few summer showers woU be highly acceptable, until the cheepers acquire sere*1#. I of wing to carry them from the dry patches of £ f nativity, to cool their 4' crappins" at the neighbOllrlØg I lochs and streams—Ayr Observer. § < HAY.—The following suggestions, derilea from experience, may not be unacceptable at this seas^ofl • —Be sure that the mower cut as close to the ground possible grass never thrives so well, nor produces t» quantity of after-pasture, as when it is mown quite cloSe» and the loss in the crop of hay is very considerable, | one inch at bottom (as upon the least observation will b j seen), weighs in the produce more than several inches f | top. Whatever part of the stem is left by the scythe t not only lost, but the after-growth is neither so vigor< j nor so weighty as when the first cutting is taken as low I possible. The time of mowing must indeed be d^ j mined by the growing of the plants but it is a comi10^ | error to let them stand too long. They should al*"?* k cut before the seeds are formed, that the juices may I as much as possible retained in the hay. When 'j! I stems i.ecome hard and sapless, by striding till the see j come towards maturity, they are of little more value I provender th in an equal quantity of the fine sort of 8tr» J t If successive rains come so that the hay is damaged, anjj [ you are fearful of its turning out unprofitably, bYO means strew salt over it in the process of stakln1 About a peck to a load of hay will be sufficient; il have a great cffect in sweetening, however bad it I even if it be to blackness and it has been found by e perience, that horses and horned cattle will eat daniqgcldt ) hay when salted, which they would not touch without. -Il,i-tfoi-d C01.nly Press. fit BOLTON-A RIGHT SORT OF DUEL.- f cons< quence of some dispute between two gentlemen he this town, at a respectable inn, one evening during 1 II week, an exchange of cards took place preparatory to exchange of shots, and a meeting was arranged held on a vacant spot of ground behind some houseS Bridge street. The combatants seemed to have made | their minds to the worst, and, with pistol in hand, ea<L f took his station at a gentlemanly distance, and bold? pres'ed the trigger with his finger. It seemed rather s,l\ guiar that both of tho deadly weapons missed tire *eVef.g times together, and on an investigation of their conte" it appeared that the seconds had charged them with but having a great regard lo the personal safety of j friends, and determined that neither of thein should j p ckled and sent home to the Abbey, they had omited the insertion of the powder. This discove brought on a parley, which ended satisfactorily 10 I parties. n t

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUKE 11. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a pe- tition from Canterbury praying for the reduction of infant labour in factories. The Ear! of SUFFIELD presented a petition from a person of the name of Trevor praying for the immediate abolition of slavery. The order of the day for the second reading of the Local Jurisdiction Bill being then read. The Lord CHANCELLOR sa d that, from some com- munications he had received from noble lords who were anxious to take a part in the discussion of this bill, it was arranged that no opposition should be given to the bill in its present stage; the discussion would be taken in another stage. He weald therefore move that it be read a second time. The bill was read a second time and ordered to be com- mitted on Monday. The house adjourned at a quarter to six. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Junb 11. The house having resolved itself into a Committee on the West India Slavery Bill, the fourth resolution was read,— 11 That a sum not exceeding 20,000,0001. be placed at the disposal of his Majesty towards a compensation to the We-r India prop'ietors, to be dealt with hereafter as Par- liament may think fit." Air. ROBINSON said that although he had no in- terest whatever in the affairs of the West Indies, he could not help saying a few words upon this subject. He fully concurrd in the resolutions that had already been agreed to by the house, and so far as they went he ap- provet.fottheplanofthe government, although he had r.ot hitherto expressed his sentiments upon it. With re- spect, however,to the resolution now before the committee, he must hesitate and consider a good deal before he voted away 20,000 0001. of the public moneywithout knowing or inquiring whence so large a sum was to be derived. He had not received from bit constituents any instructions upon tiiii subject, and he kne not how they felt upon it, but he felt tl)at, as the guardian of their interests, as well as of the public interests at large, he was justified in not agreeing to a resolution of this nature without ascer- taining how the interest of this large sum was to be paid. Lord ALTHORP saint that this was not the time for going into the qufstiGn ai to how the interest of this sum was to be raised but he would just observe, that if the hi-use should vote the sum proposed, the house would also have to supply the means of carrying the vote into effect. (A laugh.) He begged the committee to under- stand tt.at not one shilling of this money would be paid to the proprietors of West India property until the whole of the resolutions had been fully acted upon in the colo- nies, and the question of slavery set at rest for ever. ( []cur.) To accomplish this object he felt convinced that the people of England would not be slow to supply any pecuniary means that was consistent with justice, and indeed so they had repeatedly expressed themselves in th,ir petitions. (Hear.) 31 r. C. BULLER aaid that his Majesty's government seemed to be quite indifferent as to what sums of money they were called upon to pay out ofithe public resources. He did not, in saying this, wish to give any displeasure to his Majesty's ministers. (A laugh.) The sum now proposed to be given to the West India proprietors was exactly what they demanded through their orgnn the hon member for Lancaster (Mr. Stewart), the other nigh', and he "NilS sorry to witness the manner in which the propostion to vote away this sum was cheered by some lion, members, particularly the hon. member forMiddlesex (lir, Hume). It was a dangerous omen when the sh: pherd's dog deser!ed the flock. (Loud laughter.) He mean', that on this occasion the hon. member had deviated from his usual watchfulness over the public money. It seemed to be put out of sight altogether the man- ner in which the means to pay this large amount of reo muneration were to be derived. They could not certainly be supplied without an increased pressure on the people of this country, and he did not think the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself would say that the country was at present in a situation to be burdened with further taxa- tion. He considered that the sum proposed to be given to the West India proprietors as compensation for their slaves was far beyond the real amount of their losses; for it was evident that they were by the present plan of emancipation to lose only one-fourth of the slaves' labour, and this loss he considered to be much too highly paid for by the sum of twenty millions. He should propose as an amendment a much more simple plan of emancipation than that now before the house, and he. was sure it would be found more speedy, more cheap, and genaf tHy more satisfactory both to the owners and the sLves than any he had as yet heard of. It was no new discovei y of his, for it was simply the plan pursued in the Spanish colonies, where it was attended with the best re- sults. By the plan he meant to propose the slave would be free in about six >ears, and his freedom would be worked out gradually, and by his own labour. There was one objection, he admitted, to his plan, and that,was, that the slave would be made to pay for his own emanci- patii^n. This he admitted to be an evil; but what plan of reform or amelioration was there upon any subject that had not some attendant evil ? In the Irish church reform measure thst was proposed ten Bishops were to be swept awny, and it c< uld not be denied that in some re- spccis this would be attended with an evil, but was it therefore to be said that nothing should be done. He hoped he had not given any offence to hon. gentlemen opposite by the vigilance with which he was supposed to guard the public purse. (Hear.) He congratulated the house and the country at all events on the extinction of negro slavery. (Hear.) The fiat of Parliament had gon; forth, and slavery in the British colonies was lor ever crushed. (Hear.) He could not go along with those hon. members who saw nothing but visions of alarm and ruin to our colonies in the measure he felt that those fears were groundless, and that the emancipation of the slaves would be attended with happiness to themselves and safety to us. Mr. PRYME contended that the government were about to give to the West India proprietors considerably more than the market value of the slaves, allowing that the planters had even a right of property in those slaves. Major BEAUCLERK said that he highly approved of the manly and honourable manner in which his Al.. jesty's ministers had brought forward and grappled with this subject, a subject only less in importance to the great measure of reform, which they had so triumphantly caf- ried. Feeling thus towards his Majesty's ministers, it was with great reluctance that he felt himself compelled to differ from them on the present resolution. He could not agree to vote 20,000,0001. from the resources of the overtaxed people of this country to remunerate the West LùÍ.1 planters, until it should be clearly shown to him that this was not an over value of their property, and that the payment of it would be attended with the immediate emancipation of the slaves. He thought it only just that the planters should receive compensation, but that com- pensation should be in proportion to the value to be given for it. Lord SANDON said that it was necessary to satisfy the natural apprehensions of the planters, and he con- ceived that the vote of last night was calculated to effect that obj ct. He contended, that the actual loss to the planters in being deprived of the fourth amount o' the labours of the slaves would amount to seventeen millions Mid a half, which would leave a balance of two millions and a half only to compensate for other losses. Now this sum was entirely too small, and he conceived that twenty- five millions would be little enough to afford compensa- tion to the planters—The noble lord proceeded to show that the whole amount of gross produce imported from the West Indies was something more than ten millions. Mr. JERVIS said, that if the right hon. Secretary could advance no further reason for increasing the grant of 15 to 20 millions than his wish to conciliate the West India interest, he hoped the house would not accede to the additional five millions to conciliate any interest, for the purpose of carrying a measure which the country had a right to demand. (Hear, hear.) He con- ceived that the noble lord (Althorp) ought to state how the 20 rnillioii-i were to be raised, or in what way tie people were to 6e taxed to procure the amount proposed. ( Hear.) What reason, he would ask, had been given to the house and the people of England for changing a loan of 15 000,000 into a gift of 20,000 000? (Hear, hear.) The noble lord might as well give the additional 5 000,000 to that house as to the West India interest. (Hear. hear, and laughter.) In his opinion, instead of the country giving compensation to the planters, the planters ought to give a sum of money to the country for the increased profits which they would receive from the system of free labour. He contended that the plan ould be highly beneficial to the West India proprietors, not- withstanding- the clamour that had been raised against it. The hon. and learned gentleman concluded by protesting against the plan of compensation proposed by the right lion, secretary. Mr. STANLEY said that the hon gentleman who had just sat down appeared to concede the principle of com. pensation in the abstract, and yet he said that instead of giving compensation to the planters, the planters ought to compensate the country for the enormous profits they would receive. The honourable gentleman had accused Iiis illajest)'s government of legislating on this subject in the dark, but he (Mr. Stanley) could not help thinking that the speech of the honourable gentleman was not calculated to enlighten the house on the question (Hear, hear.) He contended that in order to secure the cooperation of the West India interest twenty millions -would not be too much, when it was considered that it would not only have the effect of securing unanimity on this great question, but it might prevent the effusion of blood which might be spilt if this measure should be de- lay.'Ct to an indefinite period. (Hear, hear.) The right how. gentictnan said that he knew of no measure of such gigantic importance as the present, and no question in which so many difficulties were presented or so many in. terests to be reeconciled. Was it then too much in-1 erease the claim of the planters by the addition ot five millions in order to secure the cooperation of the West India interest ? But he contended that regarding the sum of twenty millions in the light of a bargain it was not giving too much for the value of the slaves proposed to be emancipated. He admitted thet it was difficult to make any accurate estimate as to the value ef the slaves, because that value depended upon several considerations connected with the labour of the slaves, and the profits arising from it. He contended, however, that this was not a case in which a parsimonious economy ought to be pursued, and those who would indulge injthe low, pitiful economy of conceding three, four, or even five mil- lions, as a compensation to the West India interest, would have cause to regret the course they had pursued. (Hear, hear.) Mr. POTTER said a few words, which were nearly naudible in the gallery but the hon. member was, we believe, friendly to the resolution of the right hon. secretary. Mr. CLAY said, that it was but just that emancipa- tion should be accompanied by compensation, for the people of England had no right to indulge in the luxury of duing good, without at the same time bein prepared to do justice to those who had claims to be satisfied. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the precise quantum ot compensation to be granted, he felt that it wat a subject of some difficulty, but he was at the same time of opi- nion that it should not be dealt out with a niggard hand. Mr. BUXTON said that in addition to the twenty millions proposed, he would move that one-half of that sum should not be paid to the planters until the period of the apprenticeship of the slaves had expired. (Hear, hear.) He should cheerfully vote for the sum proposed on the condition he had stated. He considered that by not paying the whole of the sum proposed until the period of the negroes' apprenticeship had expired, the planters would see the propriety and expediency of cultivating the minds of the negroes, and inducing them to receive moral and religious instruction. Lord ALTHORP was sure that the opinion of the house was in opposition to that of the hon. member for Weymouth, regarding the propriety of probationary emancipation. He was sure that that was the wisest and safest course. He did not expect to hear the Beer Bill referred to as analogous to the present measure and yet the hon. gentleman who spoke last held the one measure to be analogous to the other. He (Lord Althorp), in re- ference to the arguments which had been urged for the abolition of the monopoly which the planters possessed, thought that the sugar refiners in this country ought to have the power of importing sugar from any market they chose. It was proper that this house, in order to gain the concurrence and cordial coo peration of the planters, should give such a sum as the circumstances of the country would permit; and the sum proposed as a grant he was sure cou!d not be considered as extravagant. The decision of the house he was sure would be in favour of the proposed grant. A contrary decision would prove in a measure fatal to the best interests of this country. It had been admitted hy the most strenuous advocates of emancipation with whom he (Lord Althorp) had con- versed, that the West India planters were entitled to com- pensation. He would sit down in the full confidence that the house would accede to the proposed grant. Lord HOWICK, though deeply sensible of the present adverse state of our finances, was still prepared not to oppose the grant of that sum which had been proposed l>y his Majesty's ministers. He thought it extremely desirable that the sum in qu stion should be properly applied. He concurred with the honourable member for Weymouth, that the one half of the sum ought only to be advanced, in the meantime leaving the other half to be given when the emancipation of the slaves (or in other words when the appicnticeship ceases) should be com- pleted. Sir R. INGLIS rose to support the motion for the proposed grant to the West India planters. To abo- lish slavery was to deprive that body of their property. Men might talk of justice as they pleased, but he (Sir R. Inglis) would never be just at the expense of his neigh. bour. Mr. BRISCOE, amidst loud cries of Question question opposed the motion. The House then divided on the amendment. For the Resolution 277 For the Amendment H2 Majority -135 Upon entering the house we found Mr. STANLEY pressing the fifth resolution upon the house, and he said, that it was necessary that he should do so, as the packet which was to convey the intelligence relating to these resolutions to the colonies was waiting for the result of this discussion. (Hear.) The resolution was to the effect that his Majesty be empowered to provide for paying the expense of a sti- pendiary magistracy in the West Indies, and for aiding the locdl legislatures to forward religious public instruc- tion. Alr. BUXTON suggested an amendment to the effect that the religious instiuction should be on liberal and comprehensive principles. lUr, STANLEY assented, and the amendment was agreed to. Mr. WASON moved as an amendment, that any money raised for the above purpose should be by means of a tax upon property in this country. This amendment was put and negatived. The resolution was ther. agreed to. The house having resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and the report was ordered to be received to- morrow. On the motion of Lord ALTHORP the house re- solved itself into a committee on the act relating to annuities. The noble lotd then moved a resolution to the effect that the commissioners of the national debt be authorised to apply t})g money issued to them for the reduction of the national debt, in the purchase of perpe- tual and terminable annuities.—Agreed to. Mr. TOOKE gave notice of his intention to move that an address be presented to his Majesty praying his Ma- jesty to grant a charter to the London University. (Hear, hear.) The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the house adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 12. The LORD-CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at half-past four o'clock. The Consolidated Fund Bill was read a third time; and, after some private bills being advanced a stage, the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUKE 12. Petitions were piesented by Mr. GILLON from the borough of Hamilton, fur an extension of the elective franchise from Paisley, against the established church in Ireland, praying its abolition. In presenting the last the hon. member said that the house was far in the rear of the intelligence and wishes of the country, but on none more than on that of the established church in Ireland. He believed if the legislature did not do something, the people would take it into their own hands and annihi- late it. AMENDMENT OF THE LAW BILL. Mr. LENNARD said he thought that upon every principle of humanity and justice this measure ought to be immediately passed into a law, and he should regret much if his Majesty's minis:ers should oppose a principle which they had advocu'ed throughout the whole of their political lives. He moved that the report upon the bill be received. Mr. LAMB said that he felt himself called upon to request the house to pause before they gave their assent to this bill. To carry this measure into effect would be to make a great inroad up"n the criminal law of the country, and he very much feared that any such alteration of the law would lead to the very worst consequences, and he in- stanced the great increase in forgery which had taken place since the passing of the bill by which the punish- ment of death was taken away from the commission of the crime of forgery. Those who expected that the crime of forgery would not be so frequent if the punishment were less severe than it had been, were much deceived, and he feared that the same consequences would follow if they passed the measure proposed by the hon. member for Maldon. The crime of horse-stealing was also more frequent since the punishment was less severe than it ori. ginally had been. Mr. BERNAL was informed on good authority that solitary confinement was attended with the best effects in the United States of America, and he thought the adop- tion of it here would be beneficial. Mr. LAMB said he understood not. Mr. SHAW said, that whatever alterations may be made in the criminal law, much must be left to the decision of those who have the administration of it; and he thought it would be, better not to make rash changes, and that on the whole it was more judicious to leave the law for the present as it stood, rather than run the hazard of a step which it would be difficult to retrace, if found to be injurious. Mr. AGLIONBY supported the bill. Mr. EWART said, that having removed the capital punishment from the greater crimes, we were now bound to remove it also from the smaller crimes. The report on the bill was then brought up. On the motion that the report be read, Mr. SHAW said that as the bill at present stood it would shut out all business from the Old Bailey, and render that Court altogether useless. Mr. LENNARD said that that part of the bill which would have had the effect complained of by the hon. gen- tleman was altered since the bill had been printed. He was rather surprised at the opposition made to the bill by his hon. friend the Under Secretary of State (Mr. Lamb), particularly when he recollected that such an amelioration of the law as that now proposed wag advo- cated by the late Sir Samuel Romilly, for whose opinions his hen. friend had expressed so much respect. He could show by returns that his hon. friend's arguments were totally groundless, and that his statements of the number of criminals in the varous cases he referred to 1 were not correct. His hon. friend had denied the efricacy of a mild system of law in America but it appeared by a report made by the French commissioners sent out to inquire into the state of the law in the United States, that his hon. friend was quite in error, and that nailu punishments were found in that country to have the best effect. After a few words from Mr. ROCHE and Mr. LLOYD. the report was read, and the bill ordered to be engrossed, and to be read a third time on Wednesday next. On Lord ALTiloRp's moving that the house resolve itself into a committee on the Irish Tithe Act, Mr. LAMBERT said that he felt himself in a state ot great embarrassment in laying before the house the state. ment which he was then about to submit to it, and the motion with which he should conclude; and in making this statement he begged to assure the noble Chancellor of the Exchequer, that towards him personally he meant not the slightest disrespect. It would bo recollected that he (Mr. Lambert) and many other members of that house had supported the Irish Coercion Bill, on the express understanding that the provisions of that bill should not be applied to the recovery of tithes upon this head the most positive and solemn pledges had been given by the noble lord (Althorp) that the bill should not m any way be so used. The honourable mem- her here read an extract from the spee.ch or the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which these pledes were given during the discussion on the Coerci.11 Bdl. The honourable member went on to say that his Ma- jesty's ministers had declared that the Coercion Bill could not be applied to the collection of tithes, because tithes themselves were to be altogether abolished. (Hear.) Was it to be believed that that house would have armed the government with the Irish Bill had it not the as- surance ot the government that it would not be suffered to be applied to the collection of tithes ? (Hear.) Would any body of English gen lemen have so armed the ministry without such a pledge ? and yet he should prove that this pledge had been most shamefully and scandalous- ly violated. (Hear.) On the very first night that the Coer- cion Bill came into operation notices were served on many of the inhabitants in his own immediate neighbourhood, desiring that they would put upon their doors a list of the inmates of the houses, and when called at night to answer to their nances under the provi- sions of the Coercion Bill, they were arrested when they came te their doors for arrears of tithes, and marched at the points of the police bayonets to prison. Some of the persons thus arrested were m<n of the age of 80 years. Similar scenes occurred in the county of Kilkenny, where a sergeant Shaw, of the police, had distinguished himself in the collection of tithes. It was true the police who had thus acted were called before the magistrates and told that they had acted injudiciously. Good God was such a proceeding as this to be merely called injudicious ? By what influence these scandalous measures were adopted he knew not, ror had he been able to discover whe- tlier it originated here or with the government in Ireland. He implored the noble lord (Althorp) not to allow the people of Ireland to be trampled upon through the me- dium of the Coercion Bill. He asked him to fulfil the solemn promise which he made, not to allow that b.11 to be used, in order to enforce the collection of tithes. He called upon his Majesty's government to do justice tl) Ire- land, and he appealed to the noble lord. by his high cha- racter as a straightforward and honourable s atesm<n, to fulfil his own solemn pledge. The honourable member conciudcd by moving a resolution to the effect, tint the Coercion Bill should not be used in the collection of tithes. Lord ALTHORP did not mean to deny that hit Ma- jesty's government pledged themselves that the Coercion Bill should not be applied to the collection of tithes. H could assure the house that his Majesty's ministers were determined to act up to6hat pledge. The proposition which he meant to make to the house was, that a sum of money shonld be advanced to the Irish clergy, in lieu of the arrears of tithes due to them in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833; and that the sum proposed to be advanced should be levied on those lands in Ireland wl:ich were liable to the payment of tithes. (Cheers.) The object of the proposition was to allay the irritation which at pre- sent prevailed in Ireland with regard to the collection of tithes. He would not agree in the amendment proposed by the honorable member for Wexford, because it implied ensure on the government, and in particular on himself. (Hear, hear.) Sir H. VYVY AN said that he hoped to see the day when tithes in Ireland would be completely extinct; and it was his firm conviction that until they were entirely and absolutely extinguished there would be no peace for Ireland. At present he believed that tithes might be abolished, with perfect safety to the established church and he could not see why tithes might not he redeemed in the same way as the land tax. (hear.) There were two words he would apply to Ireland, and those were, con. cede and coerce. (Oh, oh.) He did not mean the coer- cion of bullets and bayonets, but he contended that the evils of Ireland must be checked in order that concession might have its due effect. By uniting the power of the government with its mercy, Ireland might be made what she ought to be, the right arm of England. (Hear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL rose to address -he house, but was interrupted by very loud clamour which prevented his first expressions being heard. What have I done, continued the honourable and learned gentleman What has my country done that I should be thus inter- rupted in such a ruffianly manner? (Cheers, and lou cries of order, order.) I say, continued the hon. member, this ruffianly interruption. Mr. STANLEY rose to order. Such language as that used by the honourable and learned gentleman, he submitted, was, to say the least of it, most unubual in that house. Lord SANDON said if they were in a meeting of gen- tlemen such language could not be tolerated. He called for the interference of the Speikker. The SPEAKER said that there could be no doubt t at the language of the hon. and learned gentleman was dis- orderly, but it was equally certain that the interruption given to the hon. and learned gentleman was also disor- derly, and if one was deserving the censure of the house, so also was the other. Mr. O'CONNELL said that he regretted his lity to express in* adequate terms^ his sense of the proper manner in which he had been corrected by the chair, the justice of which he acknowledged. The honor- able and learned gentleman then went on to say, that he never could have supposed that by extinction of tittles was meant, that Misa O'Donnell should be dragged as she was from her bed to a prison, without time to dress herself, or that Sergeant Shaw should have the power of acting as he had done, and be only kubjeCL to a repri- mand. Would Sergeant Shaw have dared to act thus upon his own responsibility ? Oh, no, he would not; but he took the responsibility on himself, because he knew it would be agreeable that he should do so. There were 57 cases of abuse that were not denied, and the government now asked for the names of the aggres- tors. and that they should be punished. But what guarantee was there that they would be punished ''I, These 57 cases of abuse showed that there v\ as already a violation of faith and what hope was there that faith would not be broken as to bringing these men to runish. ment ? If the outrages committed by the police were not sanctioned by the law officers of the crown, they should at once be dismissed and punished, or if they were sanctioned by the law officers, then was the government alone culpable. Mr. SHA W denied that the military were unnecessarily called in for the collection of tithes, or indeed for that purpose at all, for the fact was, that they were only called in to protect the process servers when their lives were in danger. Lord ALTHORP said that it would certainly be the duty of the government to punish, all those persons who had acted in violation of the law, and the instructions they had received, either by their dismissal or in some other manner. Mr. LEFROY satd a tew words in opposition to the motion, and aftrr a short explanation from Lord ALTHORP the house divided, when there appeared— For tile at-nendrnent 45 against it 197 Majority 152 On our re-admission to the gallery, we found Lord ALTHORP proposing the following resolution, which, he said, was only intended to be a temporary measure That an advance of money shall be made to the clergy of the Established Church, in order to relieve the occupying tenants from the arrears of tithes due for the years 1831 and 1832, and that such advance shall be paid by a land tax in Ireland, on all land chargeable with tithes, the owner of which shall not have paid tithes for those years." After a few words from Sir R.Peel, Colonel Perceval, and Mr. O'Connell, the resolution was agreed to. The house then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, when the sum of 15,500,0001. was voted for exchequer bills for the present year. The other orders of the day were then disposed or, apd the house adjourned at three o clock.

Extract of a letter from Dublin, June 7 A most respectable Divine of our (English) church, whose distresses from withheld tithes and rents made him come to Dublin for safety, &c., told me that the effect of the Coercion Bill had induced several hundreds of persons to enter a certain office in Limerick, avowedly to pay both; when the denunciation of the Priest-threatening excommunication, and placing the consequent forfeiture of a heavenly crown in a sort of comparison with the temporary penalties of the martial law-induced them all to quit without paying, and getting a promise not to pay any in future." THE LAND. LITTLETON AND O'CONNELL. Our readers will recollect the outcry raised at the state- ment put forward by us that a negotiation had been opened between these two great men, and that the support ot the Secretary in his management of Irish affairs was to be purchased by the abandonment of the prosecution against the Pilot newspaper for the publication of Mr. o Connell's letter. We repeat, in the most emphatic terms in which language is capable of conveying the as- sertion of the fact, that such negotiation was entered into, that part of the stipulations are in progress of being carried into effect, and that the remaining portion will most assuredly be perfected. It is ttue, the prosecution against the Pilot will not be actually abandoned. There will be a mock trial, in which the court, the jury—and in justice to the Attorney Ge- neral, we do believe that official personage will be made unconscious parties—but we repeat it is all a sham, and our lives for it, the event will so turn out. Mr. speech in favour of Ministers on Thursday night—his arguments in supportof those "base nhigs" whom he affects to decry, whose measures he denounces, and whose places he pretends to be anxious 10 have filled by other persons, is in itself sufficient to prove that our assertion is correct. But we are in pos- session of other evidence, which the approximation of the trial, and our great disinclination to discuss any sub- ject as yet sub judice, prevents us from adverting to it at present. After Thursday—the day for which the trial is fixed-we shall be relieved from the restraint which for the present binds us to siler;ce.—Dublin Evening Mail of Monday. Two unfortunate men, who had been at the rescue of Cattle seized, we understand, for non-payment of rent in the barony of Tireragh, were shot in their unlawful at. tempt one of them died shortly after, and the other, named Cavenagh, expired in the county hospital on Tuesday—Sligo Journal.

A JVFUL DISASTERS AT SEA. The Lima, Captain Mardon, sailed from Newfound- land, May 11. On the morning of the 18th of May, in fat. 40, 20. It n. 45, 50, when about 400 miles from New- foundland, being completely surrounded with ice, their attention was aroused by hearing a gun fired, shortly after which they descried a boat at some distance. The captain instantly hove to, till the latter came alongside, when he took the individuals in her on board. They reported themselves to be the second mate and twelve of the crew of the Harvest Home, Captain Hall, of Newcastle, from London for Miramichi. They informed Captain-Mardon, that on the 9th of May, the Harvest Home was struck by a piece of ice, which stove in her bows. All hands were immediately put to the pumps, by which means they succeeded in keeping the vessel afloat for two days, at the expiration of which time the second mate and twelve of the crew quitted her in the long boat, the captain and first mate having refused to leave the vessel, saying, they would stick to her while a timber remained afloat." On the second day they became bewildered among masses of ice, and again fell in with their own vessel, which they had mistaken for another, ard found that the captain and mate had I,ft her, supposed in the jolly boat. Shortly after another boat, with thirty persons, came in an oppo- site direction, and boarded the vessel. They proved to be the captain and crew, and part of the passengers (in. cluiH g two females), of the L:dy of the Lake, of Aber- deen, bound from Belfast for Quebec, with upwards of 200 passengers on board. Those who had boarded the wreck of the Harvest Home, whfn they saw the state she was in, with her hold full of water, made a simultaneous rush to return to the boat, which was at that moment pushed off, and several of them were precipitated into the water. One of them, however, was fortunate enough to make good his leap into the boat which contained the crew of the Harvest Home, and he has nON arrived in Liverpool, in the Lima. He states that the Lady of the Lake struck upon the ice and immediately filled, when the captain and crew took to the boat, leaving the sinking vessel crowded with the remainder of the de- spairing and shrieking passengers, to the number of 1CO or 170. The crew of the Harvest Home state, that after they left their vessel the last time, they saw nothing more of the other boat. Several of the individua!s who hud fallen into the sea when the hUer was pushed off, were drowning, but it was impossible for them to render any assi stalice.- Live i-poot Advertiser.

LITERATURE. -8- Reply to the Two Letters of John Elliot Drinkwaler, J'sq., and Alfred Power, Esq., Factory Commis- sioners. By MICHAEL THOS. SADLER, F.R.s. We have read with great pleasure this very admirable reply of Mr. Sadler to the effusions of Messrs. Drink- water and Power. Though greatly pressed for space, we cannot refrain from submitting two or three short extracts to the consideration of our readers. Mr. Sadler intro- duces his subject most happily by the following appro- priate quotation I am solicited, not by a few, And those of true condition, that your subjects Are in great grievance. There have been COMMISSIONS Sent down among 'em, which have flaw'd the heart Of all their loyalties. The King our master, (Whose honour heav'n shield from all soil) escapes not Language unmannerly. "-SHAKS PEAR E. At page I I of the pamphlet we find the writer com- menting in the following terms upon the conduct of Mr. Commissioner Power:- But you, Mr. Power, who think it becoming to ap- pear thus well informed' respecting the movements of a private individual," and to call my communications with the humbler classes htti-allques let me put to the test, whether you 4 relish' (to use your own phrase) similar conduct even when it has been ptovoked, and is consequently more justifiable ? W hile I was attempting, to the best of my power, to serve the 'children's cause,' (and I am not ashamed to confess that the evening of last Sunday was so employed), were not you carousing (as courteous a term, I hope, as haranguing,') at the mansion of one of the greatest spinners in this part of England, and one of the most cool, persevering, and powerful, though unquestionably re- spectable, opponents of the Ten Hours' Bill ("r as Mr. Kirkman Finlay well calls it. the children's cause,') in the kingdom ? in other words, enjoying the marked at- tentions of a deeply-interested party m the very crisis o' the cause now at issue before God and the country ? I have been told so from several quarters, though I could hardly credit the fact, as you spoke so much of the con- duct of the judges being your model: but did ever any one hear of a jidgl,, or even of an arbitrator, pursuing this course regarding the pro- prominently interested* on either side in a pending suit ? Or, gentlemen, as a commission of inquiry, think you such are the places in which to learn the wrongs of the long neglectcd and cruelly maltreated factory children- that the doctrine is to distil as the dew,' from the lips of I pliilaiithropists,'econon, ists, or others, some of whom have perhaps only discovered, since the factory question has been agitated, that a few minutes' pause is necessary for the breakfast or afternoon meal of these miserable little brings, multi udes of whom have, at the price of health, liberty, and often life it,elf, incessantly laboured to fabri- cate these newly-acquired and enormous fortunes ? Infi- nitely less fortunate they, than the poor insect which dies when it has spun the cocoon which is to give splendour to fashion and decoration to beauty. The scenes where the glasses sparkle on the board, and the wine shines ruby bright,' are not exactly the arena for what Mr. Power calls his c struggles after truth." At page 13, Mr. Sadler says-" A commission, the ultimate object of whose inquiry is, orought to be, the protection of children, who are not legally or morally considered free agents, is perhaps the most closely analogous to a commission of lunatic inquiry, one ot the main objects of which is to as>ist in affording legal protection to those equally, though not similarly, itcapa- citated to protect them. And are not these inquiries open ? Indeed, if 1 understand (ard a mistake on a point of ju- risprudence, would in me be venal,) that in a Chancery commission to inquire, it has been declared a mis- demeanor to go apart into another room with either of the consult and I can hardly think it legal-fit I am sure it is not-tliat this commission should examine witnesses, many of whom are interested, in private much less call upon certain of them to answer a second or third time, upon fresh interrogatories sug- gested by parties in private to the Commission. Again did the late Boundari, s' Commission hold your docttine. or pursue your course ? With the exception of the other Commission which you have lately enjoyed (the Poor Law Commission), and which to use your own expression I I relish' almost as little as this, can you give an instance of any Commission having a genera) c public and permanent object, conducting its inquiries in secret ? As to those courts whose duty is the taking of evidence well and truly to try any cause or person, publi. city is essential. You will tit,d, air, and if I recollect right, on the authority of Clarendon, that even the Court of the Council Table, nay, that of the Star Chamber it. self, were open a sad mistake in the eye of cruelty and oppression in that time-but one into which you are resolved not to fall in this." Again, at page 22, alluding to the same subject, namely, the holding communication with the parties immediately interested, we have the following ob?erva- tions "You are in constant communication with the masters, who furnish 6uggestions for cross-examination, as I am assured by one of the witnesses, who has this instant called upon me, stating with deep, and 1 think jus indignation, that he has consequently betn subjected a second time to a rigorous cross-examination, 4 but w o, says he, will thus cross-examine again and again, the masters and those who appear against us, as we shall neither know who they are nor what they have said.' And yet this IS the plan, which your personal respect- ability is to recommend to us." We may perchance, at our earliest leisure, return again to this subject.