GENERAL SUMMARY. [From the Home News, July 24.] (Concluded from our last.)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 456, 15 December 1849, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY. [From the Home News, July 24.] (Concluded from our last.)

On Monday, the 9th instant, at noon, the Commons were occupied with the Scottish Marriage Bill ; it was shown that public opinion in Scotland was opposed to the bill, and a motion for its third reading on that day week was carried by no more than 73 to 68, a result which was cheered by its opponents. When the House resumed, the Attorney-Ge-neral moved a gran: of £500,000 for the ccmpletion of the line of railway from Dublin to Galway, on the security of the whole line. After some discussion the resolution was agreed to. The Poor Relief progressed in spite of numerous amendments, and finally passed the House. On the 10th, the sale of the Pavilion (at Brighton) Bill was read a second time. Mr. M. Milnes moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter the treatment of juvenile criminals,; it was urged that he ought at once to bring in his bill, and he agreed to do so during the session. Mr. Osborne then submitted a motion for a committee of the whole House to consider the present state of the Temporalities of the Irish Church, strongly censuring the Whigs foe breaking faith with the people upon that question. Sir G. Grey could not deny his agreement in the spirit of the motion, but would oppose it as impracticable, tiot by moving the previous question, but by simply voting against it. After very hard hitting at the church from many quarters, and very little defence, the motion was negatived by 170 to 103. On Wednesday, the lltb, Mr, D'EyaCQurt's bill for shortening the duration of Par*

filaments was thrown out by 132 to 57 votes after a discussion in tbe course of which Sir O. Grey said ihat'Lord J. Russell on a l»te I occasion had proved that there was no desire I in the country for such a measure, and moved I that the bill be read a. second time that day I three months. Mr. M. Gib3on spoke with ! keenness against the overflowing of the foun- | tain of the treasury into the lap of those who j nursed their boroughs. Mr. Bernal protested against such insinuations. Mr. Hume said '< resistance to treasury reduction was far from i the general rule. Mr. H. Drumraopd exclaimed, *• Mutiny in the camp!" Mr. Bright denied »hat his honourable colleague's "pull at the treasury," had any application to Mr. Bernal. Tbe only way to prevent men turning round on their hustings' promises was to appeal to the constituency more frequently. The Consumption of Smoke Bill was committed by 83 to 64 on the motion of Mr. Roebuck, and then ended in smoke. Mr. Spooners bill for the protection of women was proceeded with, and the House , adjourned. On the 12th Mr. Labouchere brought in a bill complimentary to the abolition of the Navigation laws, and one of a series. It was to afford practical relief to the shipping interest by greatly reducing the light dues, improving the condition of seamen, and relaxing the severity of the rules which enforced the employment of pilots. Lord John Russell withdrew' the Scottish Marriage Bill. Mr. Anstey then tried to draw attention to the conduct of the Governor of Van Diemen's Land in his attempts to intimidate the Judges. After a \ong debate the motion was negatived by 72 to 24. The remainder of the evening was occupied in disputing the vote for the pay of the ordnance military corps. Five times did Mr. Hume, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Mowatt divide the House in opposition to the vote, which, after a very severe struggle, was postponed to Monday, the liberal opposition triumphing over the liberal ministers. On Friday, the 13th, at the noon sitting, the Estates leasing Bill and the Judgments (Ireland) Bill, measures in furtherance of the Encumbered Estates Bill, were advanced a stage. At five o'clock Mr. John O'Connell delivered a very long speech, a rifarimento of addresses in Conciliation Hall and his own pamphlets, concluding by moving a committee to inquire into the fiscal relations between England and Ireland. The motion was withdrawn after the speech, and the House went into committee of supply,, when sums were voted for the British Museum and tie Houses of Parliament without division, and a vote for £12,000 for the purchase of books, instruments, and apparatus for the new Irish colleges, was granted by 106 to 28. At noon on the 16th, the Compensation to the Officers of the Palace Court was carried, and the Small Debts Amendment Act passed through committee. Mr. W. Miles withdrew Tits motion on education, and the Earl of Lincoln his on the grant of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson Bay Company, The House theu went into committee of supply, and Mr. Henley moved that" all official salaries be reduced by ten per cent.. He was supported by several of the Conservative members with a view to test the economy of the Liberals, and by the Liberals of Mr. Hume's section with earnestness ; the ministerial members strongly opposed the motion, and it was lost by 149 to 102. On the 17th, Major lieresford presented a petition from the City of London against the election of Baron Rothschild, as an undue return. The debate on the Palace Court Compensation was renewed, and the compensation, was agreed to. Sir H. Willoughby opposed ihe committee on the Stock in Trade NonRating Bill, but withdrew his opposition. The Customs Act went through committee, and leave was given to bring in a bill to amend the law with respect to several articles, among which were coffee roasted in Holland, and needle- work from India. Lord John Russell withdrew tbe Australian Colonies Bill. Lord Grosvenor introduced a bill to preveut journeyman bakers from working at uight. Mr. Cobden and others loudly opposed tbis interference with the rights of labour and trade, the proposition was one of communism.^ The bill was thrown out by 77 to 19 votess, Mr. Mackinnons modou for the removal of Smithfield market, was opposed by Mr. Osborne and Alderman Sidney, and withdrawn on the understanding that the Government would consider it. On the 18th, the House gavr way on every point in order to go into a committee of supply, and vote the ordinance estimates which it had so resolutely refused on Friday. The vote for the lonian Islands was strongly opposed. In -reply to Mr. Hume* Mr. Fox Maule said that " expensive nuisance," the Disembodied Militia, was gradually dying out. On Thursday the 19th, Sir W. Soraerville, in reply to Mr. Frewn, said he had not seen a warning in an Irish paper, to tbe effect that owners of houses' illuminating on the oc» casiou of the Queen's visit should be marked men, Mr. Cobden said the money granted

for an illnmination should be reserved for the distressed people. Mr. H. Drummond's motion for a change in the system of taxation was, after- a lengthened debate, agreed to. The outrage at Castlewallagh, in Armagh, where a regular fight between persons called Ribandraen and Orangemen took place on the 12th July, in presence of armed police and troops, was commented on, and the strictest inquiry insisted on at the hands of the Government. On Friday last, the House sat twelve hours, and transacted much business. It was ordered that Mr. Gore, head of an office in the Woods and Forests department, should be reexamined in order to account for certain alterations between his oral and his printed evidence before Lord Duncans committee. The Pilotage Bill was read a second time. Sir G. Grey promised for next session a bill to prevent all party processions in July. Mr. Herries moved for a fixed duty on corn* which the Chancellor of the Exchequer refused, remarking that the people, wojtld not tolerate such a duty. In committee of Ways and Means the residuary votes were granted. The House met again on Saturday at noon, and sat till 4 o'clock. The report on Ways and Means was brought up, when Mr. Osborne moved fot papers connected with the advance of the Russians upon Hungary, the basis of liberty in the land of despotism, and maintained the independence of that kingdom against the present Emperor, and usurping wearer of its crown. The motion for papers was supported by Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. Roebuck, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Mac Gregor, Lord Dudley Stuart, and Mr. Wild, Mr. Claude Hamilton alone opposed it. Lord Palmerston said there were no papers on the subject to produce. He had been' accused of unfriendly feelings to Austria, if such •charge was sincere it proceeded from ignorance and folly, if insincere he left others to characterise them. He paid a high tribute to Austria, but warned her that the war in Hungary •had enlisted the hearts of the people of England in favour of the nationality of Hungary, ■which was now to conquer or. become a province of Austria. England must be careful how she interfered, but she would make her •opinion prevail, and the Government would «ot lose an opportunity to mediate between ■the belligerents. In the House of Commons the bill to the Marriage of the Wife's Sister was given up. Mr. Horsraan moved resolutions to effect the recovery of Ireland from ■the gulph into which modern legislation and bad government had thrown her. The debate was then adjourned. ' Rumour has fixed the 15th day of August <ths birthday of the Emperor) for a grand coup d'etat no less than a change in the form of Government of France, by the proclamation of Louis Napoleon as Emperor. The National Assembly will then have been prorogued, the President of the Republic •will have appeared in person before regiments to present them with the new flags, and their individual members with decorations, and before Railway Companies to inaugurate the j opening of their lines in various parts of France. Of these occasions he is to avail himself, as opportunities arise, for feeling the pulse of the army, and if, as at Amiens, the the cry of Vive I'Empereur should be general, he will risk the approval of the people, satisfied that Any change must better their condition, Le Presse inquires of the uneasy politicians who propagate these reports, such questions *s the following :—: — "Did not the multitudes crowd around M. Arroand Marrast, when he also went to distribute colours in one (we forget which) «f the departments of the north ? Was it not •on this very railroad, either at Amiens or Abbeville, that, a very short time before the revolution of the 24th of February, the King Louis Phillippe, was on bis way to Ihe Chateau d'Eu, and was received with acclamations so enthusiastic that the very same night he wrote a most affecting letter to M. Guizot — one of illusion dnd gratitude — the concluJing words of which were these — * My dear Minister, heaven bless you !' Over noisy acclamations are always a sinister prognostic — they deafen, they blind, they paralyze, they prevent from hearing what one ought to bear, from seeing what one ought to see, from doing what one ought to do." Another rumour contemplates a different result, which, however, is made to depeud in some degree upon the previous accomplishment of that we have just explained. It is that an appeal will be made to tbe French people in the month of August by Henry V., and perhaps a demonstration in* his favour may be attempted. The two rumours, contradictory as they are, may be left to correct each other. It is not yet time to expect that "universal suffrage" will be put down by *' general acclamation." The Prince of Canino, son of Lucien Bonaparte, escaping from the convulsions of Rome and his responsibilities there, hat been

arrested at Orleans by order of his cousin, who is to send him to Ham, if his complicity in the affairs of the 13th June be proved, if not to America, but much more probably, he will come to England. M. Accursi, a Roman Envoy, has been arrested on the same charge, [ and it would appear that the ruling powers at Rome were somewhat deeply mixed up with the last attempt to change the state of things in France. The French appear to be at length quietly installed at Rome. The reception of the army was of course, at first, ungracious. The forsigners remained at Rome, quarrels arose, assassinations were frequent, but a very few days have sufficed to reconcile the Romans — as much as a town possessed by a foreign army can be conciliated — to the French. Garibaldi and his vagabonds have left Rome. A band of 5000 or 6000 of the brave fellows, under that very gallant and skilful soldier and partizan, left for the Neapolitan territory before the French entered Rome. At least as many more have left the city by various routes, chiefly under the protection of British passports, granted freely by our consul, Mr. Fairbairn. General Lamoriciere represents France in Russia. M. Drouyn de Lhuy:> is her ambassador in London. The Emperor of Rus- | sia sends to France the cousin of the President, the Duke de Leuchtenberg, as ambassador. General Magnan is to have the command of the army of the Rhine, an army of observation 10,000 strong, the head-quarters to be at Colmar. Ledru Rollin, Martin Bernard, Etienne Arago, and the renowned Sergeant Boichot, have joined Louis Blanc, Caussidiere, and their compatriots, in London. Ledru Rollin, as he entered the apartment in which his friends were assembled, sang with good spirit and voice, "AhJ $a iraf" France has signed a treaty of peace, commerce, and navigation, with the King of the Sandwich Islands. The return to Spain of the refugees of that country, liberal and Carlist, the removal of penalties from the press, and censorship, with some very liberal concessions in political matters, have proved that Narvaez, who knew how to be firm in a period of danger, knows as well how to relax his grasp when he has put his house in order. The news from Hungary is still contradictory. In one pla-ce (Eperies) we are told that Paskiewitch w«s received by girls carrying flowers; fortresses are passed by the Russians without exchanging a shot; the Ban Jellachich has conquered in three battles, &c On the other hand, the Russians are hated and loathed, and every inch of country is contested ; the Ban has been beaten in I every battle. Still, however, it is true that the circle narrows, and the stags are standing at bay. Bern has had a victory ; Georgey jis not, as reported, dead, Kossuth has pupI lished a magnificent appeal to the people, dated, however, two months since, in which he calls upon them to fight for " God and their country." The supposed policy of the Hungarians is to retreat before the gigantic armies of their enemies; but they retire "like broken waves, more awful to return."