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The Neve Zealand Pensioners were to embark at Devonport in two line-of-battle-ships, which are to take home spars for the navy. Army. — Captain Greenwood, 31st foot, has been appointed Major of Brigade for New Zealand. The following officers had been appointed to the New Zealand Corps of Pensioners : — Brevet Major Grey, Captain Kenny, L. p. 64th foot ; Captain Smith, h. p. Ist West India Regiment ; Lieutenant Hickson, h. p. 31st foot. Affairs approach a crisis in Portugal through British interference. In Spain there are mouldering signs of inward fire which will break out too soon. In France the ministry have just obtained a new triumph, a slight one over their opponents on the question of parliamentary reform. There is not anything abroad, hdwever, to call our interest away from home, and especially from the parliamentary detail of the fortnight. The King of Prussia has opened his diet, and it prospers. Parliament re-assembled on the twelfth, and up to last night ten sittings intervened. The first day, Monday, was nearly all devoted to military matters. , . On Tuesday, Mr. Hume moved for several returns of gross and net amount of customs of the presidency of Bengal. On Wednesday, the subject of debate was the Catholic Relief Bill. The discussion arose upon the order of the day for going into committee, and the motion was opposed by Sir Robert Inglis, the member for Oxford. The Earl of Arundel and Surrey urged, that *' the only legitimate means of advancing religion were by argument and persuasion. — (Hear, hear.) His hon. friend who had just sat down (Sir R. H. Inglis) had said that tHe Church of Rome was antagonistic to Protestantism. He perfectly agreed with his hon. friend ; so it was, and so it would be as long as the world should last, or till Protestantism itself should be extinguished. — (Ironical cheers from the opposition.) — by the force," the noble lord added, "of civilization. On this. text much comment was expended, and the bill having been eloquently advocated by Mr. Shiel, Lord J. Manners, and Mr. Watson, and strongly opposed by Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Spooner, and Mr. Goulburn, was thrown out by 160 to 121 rotes — majority 39. Thus the law re-
mains in force, by which any person entering * religious order, or inducing others to do so, ii liable to transportation, while it is so inoperative that the Laity's Directory, especially for Ireland, absolutely teems with the names «f members, of religious orders. On Thursday the subject before the House was the Education grant. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Sir B. Hall asked what arrrangement had been come to between the minsters of the Grown and the leaders of the Wesleyan body, in order to buy off the objections of that body to the National Education Scheme? .Lord J. Russell acknowledged that a negotiation was on foot, but it had not, he said, 'taigidated with the Government — that Go- . vernment bad agreed to grant the Wesleyans * veto .on the appointment of inspectors. No grant had been made, as far as he was aware, to, any school exclusively Catholic. Ie would be time for to consider this wien $be Catholic bisnops came forward to express their views on the subject. There are difficulties, he said, as respects schools conducted by persons in holy orders. It was therefore resolved that no part of the grant of £100,000 should go to the Catholics. If, however, .the Ministers could frame a new minute on the subject, some additional grant may be proposed, or .the question may be reserved for future consideration. The noble lord then at great length defended his plan. He shewed the utter failure of the voluntary system, which had left the people in a state of the most disgraceful ignorance. Only one in forty of the parties married could read ; only one in thirty of these could write ; and there were whole distru ts where not letters only but religion — where the very names of God and Cnrist were utterly unknown ! It was time, then, for the State to take the matter in hand, and he had resolved, whatever were the result, to grapple with it. Mr. Duncombe then moved an amendment upon the motion of the noble lord. He described the compact between Ministers and the Wesleyans. He regretted to find Protestants left to fight Catholic battles, while Mr. Shiel, who could so ably advocate the cause of his countrymen and fellow-catholics, should go out into the lobby with the ministers, in order to fix a stain upon those of his own faith. He then considered the question in its several lights, and condemned the ministerial plan. Lord Duncan seconded the amendment. Sir. R. lnglis saicfahe error "of the plan was in not giving the whole power of education to the Church of England. On Tuesday the adjourned debate was again resumed. Lord Morpeth said, the present minutes exclude the Catholics, but new minutes may be formed, and for my own part I would not continue a member of any committee which should exclude any body of men from the benefit common to all. Mr. Bright opposed, and Sir G. Grey defended the plan, and the debate was again adjourned over Wednesday. On Thursday, when Sir William Clay, Sir W. Molesworth, Sir John Easthope, Sir James Graham, and Sir R. Peel, all agreed in censuring the exclusion of the Catholics, Lord J. Russell replied, and the House divided. For the ministerial measure 372. Against it 47. The week concluded as it began with debate and divisions. Last night Lord John Russell made explanations more favourable to the Catholics, and an amendment proposed by Sir William Clay, having been negatived, the grant of £100,000 was vottd. Immediately the Catholic Institute was made acquainted with this Ministerial Methocompact, they called a meeting, which was attended by the Catholic Bishops, on Wednesday, and by a remarkable portion of the Catholic body. The Ministerial measures were considered, and the Ministerial conduct denounced as an insult and an injury to the Catholic body. Dr. Wiseman, Dr. Ullathorn, and Dr. Briggs, as well as the Honorable Charles Langdale, spoke in very strong language on the treatment of the Bishops by the Ministry. Resolutions were agreed to, and a forcible agitation was commenced. South Sea Company. — It will be remembered that some few weeks back we announced the fact of the South Sea Company having made proposals to Mr. Enderby to carry out bis project for the revival of the southern whale fishery by establishing a station at the Auckland Islands. Anything more appropriate than such an employment of their means could hardly have been conceived, and we are therefore sorry to state that after causing Mr. Enderby to suspend for two months the necessary steps for raising the requisite capital in other quarters, during which time all the apprehended difficulties of the money market have augmented, the company now draw back and decline to complete the arrangement. '* In this determination," it is stated by their chairman, " they have not been influenced by •ny doubt of the profit which might reasonably be expected, but only by the consideration that the proprietors of South Sea Stock would not like to engage their capital in an qndertaking which must necessarily be of a
speculative nature," much of the stock being now held in trust for minors and others — a plea which the directors must have been just as well acquainted with when they volunteered to take up the matter as at the present moment. Without pausing to question whether the South Sea Company received their charter in order to constitute a national trust fund, and on that account to withhold capital from South Sea purposes, the cautiou exercised in this respect, just after the Court of Chancery have been urged to authorize the employment of trust funds in railway debentures, may be pointed out as a curious satire upon the prevailing spirit of the times. Mr. Enderby now proposes to resume forthwith proceedings which have been interrupted by this fruitless negotiation, and to carry out his plan by private capital. He will also send an agent to the island (of which he has received a grant from the Government) with as little delay as possibl e. — Times.
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