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      fired . latttinsUnfcarasliwas madetobrttwiathe windows and doors of Ike lower story , whilst tna siSrfS ^^ ssis ??* 4 r «? fl Vnreher Guard mustered id considerable noretbe Burgher <> n ^ assembled , and medi . M&farthe SdSSi different quarters . beat the Se and aSr * ed them with the bayousr . or Sthlr with the sight of the bayonet , for they Bed Sont wrttSg tobe . atUcked . Itantarrf mm . w of tha people is not known , but . thirty five

      constables « e on the wounded and brmsedlist Towards midnisht the populace , « rather the Democratic leaders , thought it prudent to withdraw , and peace was Derfectly re-established . _ , . . On the 2 3 d ult , a measure was introduced into the Assembly , intended to prevent open-air meeting * and processions , nnlea previwsiy authorised by the police authorities . Vikxsa . Augugt 2 L—The working classes were in matte this morning , in consequence of a redaction of fivekreu ^ ra in their wages , namely , from twentyfive to twenty , paid to the workmen employed by the State . They repaired in a tody to the hotel of the Municipality to demand the re-estabhshraent of the formerrateof wagsa . At thismomem the > generate h besting , to call the National Gaards under arm * . The Academic Legion have resolved to adopi : acono-Batorj attitude , and to endeavour to calm the workmen . TheMinigterehaTeresolvednottogivein . The «»« « f « m inner cit ? are partially closed , ifce

      Committee of Security has dec'ared itae . f permanent . Towards noon strong picqaets of National Guards on fint and horseback , as we , l a 3 divisions of the Academic Legion , traversed the streets . The troops all remain quietly honsed in the barracks . On the 93 . -d nit . the disturbances wererenewed ; a collision took place ' between the workmen and the military , and lives were lost oa both sides . It emtinueJ till nightfall . A large body of insurgents , driven bsck by the oilitary , barricaded themselves oq one of the Islands foraed by the Danube . At ten

      at night six of the workman hod died of their wound ? , aad sixty-one were more or less severely wounded . Sixteen of the National Gaari were wounded . A Ifalional Guard was stabbed in the back and died immediately . Near the station of the Northern Railwav three 6 hots were fired from a house , whereupon the deors were forced by the gappere , and in tiie strode which ensued some lives , were lost . Aceruots frem Vienna up to the 24 ihult ., state that the city was restored to tranquillity , and that the ooVision between the working classes and Hitionil Gaards had end ed in the former giving

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      'ITALY . The Coscordia of Turin gives a letter from Milan of the 18 ; h ult , whichdescribes that city asaffordinga mo I gloomy aspect . The Austrian troops bivouack in the bastions , the public gardens , and the most f re * ^ ps ated places . The prisoners who have been libstat d are encouraged by the Austrians to pillage the bones , and they do thU with their prison dress still 8 a them . ' If diplomacy or the Piedmontese arms do sotuvens ( says the writer ) despair will induce an eSxt which may perhaos be the last- ' TbeOpisioKEofthe 22 dult , state 8 thatRade ( zkihas despoiled the numismatic museum , the public library , sod the picture galleries at Milan . Il Cosirruzios uu Sbbaipiho o ! the 23 rd nit , s \ aUs Cut Marshal Radef zki had left for Vienna with the English Ambassador , with a view to arrange a treaty of peace before the eonelasisn of the amisfee .

      HUNGARY . A Utter from P « 3 tb . of the 21 « ult . io the Bebs isva Zeitcsq . states that the Hungarian troops Sara been defeated by the insurgent forces at St Thomas . T he people of Pesth are in a state of the stmest excitement ; they accuse the ministers of being traitors to the cause of their country , and asaert that their generals carry oa negotiations aad endeavour to make terms with the insurgents and their p atron , the Banof Croatia .

      POLAND . 'Order reigns in Warsaw . ' Letters to the 22 nd Sit state that that city ' continued to erjov perfect tranquillity . ' For that ' effect' behold the * cause : '— ' The new fortress which already commands the city and pasiage of the river to Fraga , is biing strengthened by £ lunette . The report of a conspiracy having been discovered seems to be confirmed , bat measures have been taken to place Warsaw under the impossibility of rising , unless at tie risk of destruction . Great ia Nicholas is the art of preserving ' tranquillity . ' INDIA .

      There ib some tort of fighting , going on about eomsthtng , somewhere in India . But as oar readers lave praious lit'le interest in ' our Indian posses-Eons' it will suffice to gay that there have been toad ' ploripus victories '—on a email scale—gained by the ' Britishers . ' at the ' very trifling cost' of eorne few hundreds of English troops killed and Hounded .

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      SATURDAY , August 36 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Tnis house sat from twelve to two o ' clock , for the purpose of forwarding several measures a stage , and tans hastening the time for prorogation . A conversation wrote on the subject of tbe Horsbam election . The Attorney-General having been charged with being accessory t » bribiry to inpport hli ion , denied that he had feein Implicated ia tbe transaction in the way alleged , and gave an explanation of bis conduct , which Hr Aattey who raited the queittoa said was perfectly satlsfce'ory . The report on tke [ Cbancellor of the Exchequer ' s last budget was brought up , and a bill ordered to be founded thereon . The Poit-borse Licences , &c . Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed .

      The Pottage on New « papers ( Channel Islands , &o . ) Bill was read a second time and ordered to be com . mltted . Tha Westminster Improvements Bill was read third time and passed . The Slave-trade ( Unseat ) BJ 1 went through com . mlttee . The Taxing-master ' s , Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) Salaries Bill was reported . The Lock-up Homes Bill was read a second ttme aad ordered to be committed ; as was alto the Dr « iaage Certificate ) BUI , The Batttrsea Park BUI was reported . Mr Pikkeb brought op the Consolidated Fund Bill and th « ExohequerBill , which were severally rend a first time . MONDAY . August 38 .

      HOUSE ] OF LORDS . —Strain Ddiies . — Earl Garr , in an explanatory speech , moved the second reading of the Sugar Duties Bill , staling ita object to be to alter the existing duties as they are fixed by the act of 1846 , > y extending the period of protection , in oonseqneace ot the preieat condition of the West India colonies , beyond the period contemplated by that aot . The noble earl expressed his hope that tbe colonists would acoept the measare In the spirit in which , it was proposed , and that they would not be led away by those who were endeavour , iog to Impress them with the idea that their prosperity

      was not an object of interest to the name government , snd that they would rely on their « wn exertiens for success , and not look for farther protection , the principle of free trade being one to which parliament was finally and irrevocably pledged , and from which he believed they never would content to depart . Even those of their lordships who disagreed with him on this point , would , he was sure , concur in the opinion that even if this policy was to be changed it was not to be effected by the adoption of ill-advised measures cal . cnlsted to sow discontent and dissatisfaction ia the

      colonies . A diccassloa fallowed , in the coarse of which Lord Dehhah took an opportunity of replying to a very pow . erfol attack upon his speech oa the Slave Trade by the HosHiira Chronicle . The bill was read a second time , and the other bills forwarded a stsge . Their lordships adjourned at nine o ' clock . HOUSE OF COMMONS—The Speaker took the chair t twelve o ' clock . The West India Colonies and Mauritius Bill and the Savings Banks Bill were then read ¦ second time . The Post Horses Licences , * o ., Bill , the Postage oa Newspapers ( Channel Islands ) Bill , the Lock-up Houses Bill , and the Drainage Certificates BUI pasted through committee . The reports ' on the Royal Military Asylum Bill and the Taxing Masters' Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) Bill were brought up and agreed to .

      The Battersea Park , « c ., Bill was read a third time nd passed . At three o ' clock tbe morning sitting was suspended . In tbe evening sitting at fire o ' clock , Oa the motion of llr Fittn&T , a aew writ was ordered for the borough of Cheltenham , in the room of the Hon . Craven Berkeley , whote election had been declared to be void . Snail Dealibb But—The home having gone Into committee on the Spirit Dealers Bill , on clause twenty , five being put , proposieg to enact that a" penalty of £ 35 be imposed on any person carrying one gallon of spirits without a permit , and authorising a policeman tcTappre . bend and carry before a magistrate any one so efondlng , who on eonvlciioa should Impose the foregoing fine r six months' imprisonment with hard labour , Mr Huke moved that the penalty be fixed at £ 100 , bnt with liberty to the magistrate to reduce it at hit discretion :

      On a dlvitloa the amendment was negatived by a majority of eighteen , the numbers thirty-three to fifty . onr . The Chinchlok of the Exchequer having expressed his willingness to reduce the penalty to £ 10 , and three months' imprisonment , MrHcHE again moved that the magistrate be empowered to reduce the peaalty at hh diicvetion , when the committee divided , the amendment being negatived by a majority of twenty-fire , the numbers thirtj-one to filty-slx . Mr Hdhb was willing that the maximum of punishment should be retained , but thought the minimum theuld be struck out , as there might be cases ia which a magistrate might desire to dispense with puuishment altogether . Mr Fosbes moved that as a minimum of punishment imprisonment for one hour be inserted . This amendment , however , was not persevered in , and the remaining clauses were agreed to .

      On the motloa to go lata committee oa the British Spirits Warehousing Bill , Mr M . J . O'Corhell , in the absence of Mr Moffatt , took up his motion , and moved that it be anlastructten to the committee to extend the provisions of the bill so far as to apply to spirits distiUed in the united kingdom the privileges at present enjoyed by the owners of foreign and colonial spirit * , in respect of the mode and time of levying the duties chargeable thereoa . The motion was opposed by the Chahcellob of the SxcHEQcn , as involving a loss to the revenue of £ 118 , 000 per annum , which he could not rltk . After some dlscuuion , and oa & division , the instruction was negatived by a majority of thlrty . nlne , the numbers being thlrty . seveu to seventy . slx , and the bill passed through commutes . Copper abd Lead Dcxiki . —On the motion that the Copper aad Lead Duties Bill be read a second time ,

      Lord » . Bertikck , in the absence of Mr Wjld , moved the amendment oi which that gentleman had given notice—namely , that the bill be read a second time upon that day six months . He founded his motion partly on the impolicy ef reducing a revenue which was already incapable of meeting our expenditure , but principally on the injury which . It would inflict on the miners of Cora * wall , in that county 50 , 000 tons of copper were raised auanally , and 22 , 609 persons were engaged in raising It . The miners were paid ia proportion to the quantity of ore which they raited ; and as the reduction of the duty on foreign ore must reduce tha ptloe of Cornish eopper , It must reduce at the same time their wages and thsir profits . Ia that county the harvest was deficient an 4 the potatoes were universally diseased ; and If this measure wtre passed during such a dlspeatttion of Providence , its Inhabitants would be crushed under the miserable pellcy of government , and one of the largest

      counties of England would be placed in the same destitute and deiolate ooudltlonasthat in which the people of Ireland were now placed . He then arraigned in the strongest terms the conduct of the Board ef Trade , and more especially Impeached the accuraoy of its returns . Taste returns were always wrong , andwroBg , too , in the very way which corroborated the views of the fres traders . It had been said that tha importation of foreign copper had fallen off within the last six months , and a retuf a signed' A . W . Fonblanque , ' gave the importation of copper at 1 , 319 tons , when in point of fact it had amounted to 5 , 395 tons , and bad been greater than any previous impsrtation within the same time . Who Mr A , W . Fonblaoqne might be he neither knew nor ' cared , but he hopsd that he was not a pluralist who added the functions of the editor ef a newspaper to those of Assistant-secretary ot the Baard of Trade , and was thus incapable ofpayiag proper attention to the duties of his office .

      Mr Wild , who had catered tfathousi daring the speech of hit lordship , seconded the amendment , end spoke at some leagth in its support . Mr LiBtocHEiE dented that the iatroductlan of foreign copper ore into this country , daty free , wenld be detrimental to the Interests of the miners ot CernwaU , and farther added that this bUl which legalised that introduction , would not promote the monopoly ot a few smelters abroad . He had n » doubt whatever that this country would , after the pasting of this measure , continue to be what it was now . the great seat of the

      smelting trade of the world . He should be sorry , Indeed , to propose any Measure which was likely to In . flict Injury on the population of a county which , from its peaceful and loyal habits , was entitled to the Indulgent consideration of the home ; but he was coavinced tbat this bill would be advantageous both to the producers and consumers of eopper . He then defended the it&thtical department of the Board of Trade , and Mr Foablanque , from what he denosnlaated the discreditable and unwarrantable attack of Lord George Beatinok .

      Mr Hbnlet observed that it was net against Mr Fonblanqae , so much at against Mr Laeoaehere himself , that the noble lord had directed his observations ; and proceeded to analyse the return , with a view to show that , to say the least of it , that return had been made up la a clumsy way , t , nd did not indicate , asit purported to do , tbe real state of the case . As to tha bill before the house , it behoved the government to show that the revenue was naw in a better state , so as to admit of its proposal , than it had been in for several years past . So far as the revenue was concerned , the measure was most inopportune , and its effjet upon tha Industry sf Cornwall would be of the most injurious detoriptlon , whilst it would ds >' no good to may other interest in the country , at the some time that it would enoounge slave labour abroad .

      After some farther dlecuiilon , the house divided , a&a the numbers were : — For the amendment . , 21 Agointtit 77 Majority against —56 The bUl was then read a second time , and to be com . mltted on Tuesday . ~ Tbe other batlaess was then disposed of , and the house adjourned at two o ' clock .

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      TUESDAY , AcacsT 29 in . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Tbe business was almost entirely of a routine character ; ani , after several bills had been advanced a stage , amongst which was tho Sugar Duties Bill , which went through committee , their lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —At tbe morning sitting ; , The Pottage on Newspapers ( Channel Islands ) Bill , the Royal Military A «) lum Bill , and tbe Taxing Masters ' Court of Chancery ( Ireland ) BJ 1 , ware severally read a third lime and passed . The reports ou the Post-Homs Licences Bill and the Lock-up Housbb BUl were then brought up and received , Ou the motion that the Diplomatic Relations with thy Coart of Rome Bill be read a third time ,

      Mr Nanei moved , as an amendment , that tbe Bill ba read a third time that day three months . Tbe ho nourable and learned gentleman supported his amendmtnt with a brief speech , whloh originated a short discussion , ia whloh Mr S&ell , Mr A . ns « ey . Mr Urquhart , Mr Sergeant Talfonrd , Mr Henley , Mr Ncwdegate , and Mr J . O'Connell took part , after which the house divided and the numbers were—For the amendment .,..,, 25 Agalpitlt , 88 ' Majority Bgainst , _ G 3 The bill was read a third time and passed , The Consolidated Fund Bill tben went through committee , the Chancellor of the Etcbtquer moving tbe insertion of the appropriation clause , which was agreed to . At five o ' clock the sitting was suspended till half . past six . At the latter hour the house re . assemblod

      Tobaoo . —Lord Ot . Bentinck , who had a motion on the paper for printing tho pedtion from the Speaker and members of the House of Assembl y of Tobago , relative to captured negroes , drew attention to the ease of that colony . Eurl Grey had excluded tbat colony from the benefit o ( anj of the proposed loan ef £ 500 , 000 , and also from participating In the government scheme of immigration for Importing free labour into the colonies , although that Island was labouring under great financial difficulties , and was entitled to great consideration owing to the great attention they had devoted to edaoatlon and civilisation , there being in that imill colony no less than sixteen schools , eight of which

      were of the Church of England . Thero was more land cultivated In Tobago In proportion to its population than in either British Guiana , Trinidad , or Jamaica , and they were therefore justly entitled to proportionate share of tho asalttancd to be given to the colonies . Discover , ing tbat his wiihes bad been anticipated to a certain extent by the petition having been alread y printed in the ordinary way by the committee , ; and his purpose in moving that it be printed with tbe votes being served by his hailng beea thus enabled to make bis speech , the noble lord concluded by observing that he would not press bis motion . The motion was thereupon withdrawn .

      The Nsw Loam . —Oq the motion that the house re . solve Itself into committee on the Exchequer-bills Bill , Mr Hohe objected to the plan proposed whereby to meet the deficieacy , of borowlBg money In a time of peace , and would take the tense of the house upon the proposition , To permit expinditure to exceed income was tha act of spendthrifts , and unless tbe government turned over a new leaf in this respect , they would involve the country In all the ruin of a national bank . ruptcy . He bad urged upon the government at the

      commencement of the session the propriety of either reducing our expenditure by curtalliag our ettabliah . ro&nti , or of meeting the deficiency by fresh taxation ; but both the home end the government turned a deaf ear to his counsel , and that which he foresaw now came to pass—a proposition to meet the deficiency by an increase to the permanent debt of the country . He pro . tested against thriftless expenditure , against enormous establishment * , und against borrowing money in time of peace , and oonoluded by moving as an ameadmen * that the bill be committed that day three mouths . '

      Mr Mdhtz complained of tha conduot of the governmentin not having brought forward the measure at an earlier period of tbe session , for tbey had certainly given the house and the oeuntrr to understand from the spetcbes they bad made , that by one means or another they would do without either additional taxation or other astittance . ( Hear , hear . ) It seemed as if the government had postponed the matter until there were so few members present in the house that they oould oarry anything they liked . That system of meeting exigencies of expenditure by funding would lead a cauntry , as borrowing wa « sure to lead a private individual , to inevitable ruin . It led to every species of extravagance , by inducing reckletsnesf , as every government was but tOD ready to have recourse to such a simple

      mode of making both ends meet . When he ( Mr Maatz first entered the house , there was a state of thlags existing rery like that wbich waB befjre the country noir . There was a Whig government in office struggling in its latt agonies—( langhter )—the revenue fa an exhausted condition , trade languishing and alraoBt extinct ; the people in want of employment ; and discontent , as a matter of csurse , prevailing . The great physloian was sent for , and his fee was paid . ( A laugh . ) But for many months after he came into office matters were in the Bzme condition . At length be proposed hit income tax , which he ( MrMuniz ) supported , beoauie it removed some of the weight of taxation from tbe poor and placed it upon the shoulders ef the rich , and he had been gmtly abused for supporting it by those who , like the

      members and supporters of the present government , were opposed to It . However , & period of prosperity followed . They had a succession of good harvests ; trade revived , and the railway mania caused a display of great wealth and prosperity . Bat new th ? y seemed to be coming again to a period exactly similar to that at which he had first entered the house . They had again a Whig govern , aent in office . Ho would not venture to say whether their tenure of office would be long or short . ( A laugh . ) They found the reveaue reducing , expenditure increasing , trade falling off , and the people unemployed , and in a state of discontent almost bordering upon insurrection . And he saw no man , or men , who would ever be able to govern the country In quiet , unless tiuy could so manage publio affairs as that every honest , sober ,

      Industrious man would be able u find employment and earn a livlBg , Every administration tbat he had ever seen had been trying to produce a state of prosperity . But every one of them , whether Whig or Tory , had failed ; and he now asked the present government were they going to be obstinate ? Was the real good of the ceuntry to be lost sight of , became they would persist In putting faith in aad adhering to what they called political economy aad established theories ! If a man told them that their monetary arrangements were bad , their reply was ' Oh , that Is ell Bmmmsgem ! ' ( A laugh . ) But they should recollect they had done nothing better than Brummagem had done as yet . The state of the country would become , under their system , as it had been before , mott disgraceful . What could be more disgraceful than the state of English credit last year , when no London banker ' s bill would be cashed oa the continent of Europe ? He kaew a party who had been

      travelling In Italy last year , and tbe most unexceptionable bankers' bills were not negotiable . Was not that disgraceful to this country ? and was it not a state of things whloh afforded a significant comment on the Aot of 1814 ! ( Laud oheers . ) He ( Ur Monti ) never knew things in a good state ia this country when aixmencould Be got together to talk politics . No man , however evil his designs , or cunmlng hts inducements , could obtain a maating on any sabjeot when traie was good . He had In bis day assisted in agitations , and he knew how it could be dona and haw it could not ba done , ( Gtieers and laughter . ) If the government wished to draw the teeth of the people , let them make the people happy , ( Cheers . ) No people in the world were easier governed than the EQglish provided they rtoslved a just remuneration for their labour ; but if the government could not go on wlthouthaning and funding , they would flad the government o ' f the country a nj ») t difficult task , ( Cheers . )

      The Chakcellos of the ExcHEQOEa defended the proposition of the government , contending that , as his hon , friend ( Mr Hume ) contended , that the country could bsar no farther taxation , and as the house had decided by overwhelming majorities that the existiug establishments of the country should be kept up , he did not see what else the government could do but resort to a loan to meet the temporary excess of expenditure , whloh could be paid off by redudlng expenditure , Instead of resorting to taxation , which might become pormament . After some observations from Mr Cobbt , Mr Hexwabd Mr Wodehoube , and Str H , Wiilouqhbt , ' HrffMMT , Mr Newdeoate , and Mr Sfoonm said they had no alternative but to vote for the Caancellorof the Exchequer ' s BUl , as the Free-traders la the house had thought fir . to throw away taxation , and therefore Uf c only the choice of borrowing ,

      Mr Cobdeh denied that the Free-trade measures had reduced the revenue , and assorted that the net revenue of this year was larger thau any preceding star The hon . member Inveighed against our military ox ' pendltare , and declared that the cry raised aboutlu ' aslon was a wbked delation , Invented by ptofetsionsl men to frighten the country . Lord G . Bonnes thought Mr Cobden the last man who should charge any person with creating wicked de . lotions , for of all the delusion , ever pr . otl . edTon the country he . wa . the parent of the greatest . The asser . tloa nude

      by the hon . member that the Free-trade mea . sures of ate years had not dlmlnlthed the revenue was sufficiently contradicted byalookatthe > etr " enuesof thetwojears , 18 < 8 and 18 « . in the latter nameayear More a great part of thess Free-trade measure , came ^ h n « t t f *• " «»¦"«• two millions more than In tha present year . Had the government asked the housa to re . lmpose some of the Customs duttss whloh hadbeen thrown away for the benefit offoreigners ; and to the impoverithment of our countrymen , an ! had th « home adopted that proposition , there would have been no ntoenlty for a > loan .

      Lord J . Rositn defended the fintnoLl measures of The house then divided—For going into committee ... fiR Against it ;;; ; Majorltyagalnstthe smendment ' . " _ bi The house went Into committee on the bill ^ Mr Home proposed a . amendment , that the required money be raised on debentures at five per cent * &S ^ i Ziff £ & !^ dW 8 l 0 D - JoXuLS . c * onl * MiurltlM Blu ^

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      On the motion to go into oommlttae on the Saving ! Banks Bill . Some discussion arose , and Lord G . Behtinck moved , as an amendment , that tbe Bill be committed that day three months . Mr Momssll said that , unless tho depositors In the savings banks In Ireland should be protected , and tW the trutttas should be made to do thdr duty , the greotett apprehentloa and misoblef w » uld be created in that country . He recommended the government to confine the Bill to Ireland , and not to extend It to England or Scotland . The Chahceuoe of the Excheqoe * defended tbe Bill . For going lato committee .., . „ 49 Against it 21

      Majority >§ _ j 8 Tho Bill then pitted through committee . Some other bills were forwarded . Copper ahb Lead Doxies Bat , —The Chanceuob of tho Exchequer moved the order of the day for committee on this bill . Lord G . Bbntimck objteted at that late hour ( twenty minutes past three ) to take another stage of this bill . The Chancemor if ft ) Exchiqoeb then agreed to fix tbe committee for Wednesday and the house adjourned at three o ' olook having sat , with only an iaterval of an hour and a half , from twelve o ' olock the previous d » y . WEDNESDAY , Aoo . 30 HOUSE OF LORDS . —This house contrary to its utual custom tat on Wednesday , but the business wat purely routine , and confined to expediting the bills on the table .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS —The heuss met at twelve o ' clock . Rbview op the Sessiok . —Oa tha notion that the Distilling from Sugar Bill be read a third time . Mr Disbaeii ro ; e and took an elaborate review of the session about to close . It was a session of unexampled duration , and one the efficiency of whloh was by no meant commensurate with its length . It opened with agaady array of promise , aad would cloee with a miser , able sum total of performance , After a sitting of tea months' duration they were now about to separate having done little or nothing that was uioful to the country . For this there was blame tomewhere . To whom the Ministry thought It attached was evident from a paragraph , which had appeared in a Sunday

      paper , . which Attributed the postponement of the governmcBt ' fish dinner' to the quantity of talk with which the home was tauadated , and by which the progress of public business was obstructed . Assuming , then , the view of tbe government to be tbat the delays which had characterised the seitlon were to be attributed to tbe conduct of members , and the forms of the house , he proposed to Inquire how far tuoh views were correct ; and , if incorreot , who were In reality , the putlet to blame for the pretent natatlsfaotory state of tbingtt He utterly dented that the blame lay either with the forms of the houie , or with the cosduct of members , and prooeeded to maintain his denial by referring lerfaHm to the chief features of tee session . Parliament had been sammoned together at

      an early period , on account of the commercial distress whloh weighed upon the energies and eaterprite of the country . Had there been too much talk in tbe aoust upoa that subject ! He denied that there had beenall disoatstoa upon it having been stiflal by the opportune appointment of a committee to Is quire into the whole subject . Tha vacillation of the government In referenoa to this and other subjeott , was tbe chief cause of all the ddays which had taken place , He then adverted to the committees which had been appointed to examine iho estimates , a course which he denounced as unconstitutional , as tending to withdraw , more or lest , from the consideration of tbe houfle , to which appertained the exclusive control of matters of finance , questions relating to supply . Having dhpasod of this

      point , he made the heute exceedingly merry at the description which he gave of tbe financial policy of the government . Having traoed the three first bndgetB from the 18 th of February , when the first was made , t » ths 30 th at June , when the last was Introduced , aprepot to nothing , and baring alto shown up the referenoe of the estimates to two Select Committees , the hon . member thuB wittily , and , at the same time , truly , wound up his review of the financial policy ef the Ministry : — Well , sir , but those budgets hava beea discussed two committees , have sat , and six months and a half have been waited under this administration of men of business , who were to have made their financial exposition In February . This , air , is the state of affairs , when the First Minister of the Crows , with an almost sublime

      coolness , announce ) , late in July , tbat hit right hon , friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will take an opportunity—not even then , mind , a very early cne—but will take an opportunity before the house separates , of making hit financial statoment . ( Laud oheers . ) Well , tir , we have it at last . ( A lacgh . ) At last we have the budget , the fourth budget of the session . There has before this existed an administration called thB' govern , meat of all the talents '—bat we have now the govern , raent of all the budgets ( Loud oheers and laughter . ) Oh that we had a revenue bearing In extent the slighteat relatien to the frequency and voluminousness of oar financial statements , and we abould indeed be a

      flourishing country . ( Laughter . ) But the fourth budgetslat ! It came lat > , aad at a moment when we stood much in need of glad tidings . ( Langhter . ) Unhappily It was not characterised by any pecu iarly annoy aspeot . I shall not soon forget the icene of its advent—it was a dreary moment , and a thin house . ( Laughter , ) Yes , perhaps the thinnest house which evtr yet attended a ceremony so interesting to every oounrrf , and especially to a financial and commerotal oounlry like this . ( Cheers . ) I never saw a budget brought forward before an attea . dance so gloomy and so small , No ; I never Bhall for . get the aspeot of affairs . It reminded me Irresistibly of a celebrated character who , Hko the Caancellor of the

      Exchequer , had four trials , and whose latt was hts most unsuccessful one . I thought , etr , of the great hero of Cervantes —( a laugh)—when he oame back frym his fourth and final expedition , ( Renewed laughter . ) Hon . gentlemen will remember the ohapter . It is touched with a master pencil , The great spirit of Quixote had subsided . ( A laugh . ) The glory . of that financial ohlvalry which out us down In the beginning of the session , and trampled on us and cantered over us In the middle of the « a « iea—all this had fled . ( Oheors . ) It was past ; as , when losing his belief ia chivalry , or finaaos —( a laugh)—the hero of the tale returned crestfallen and weary . The villagers were drawn up to reoelve him , the villagers being In the present instance typified by the opposition —( thouts of laughter )—and

      even—so we are told—even though they wero aware of his weakaeBi , they troated him with respeot —( loud oheers and laughter ) -and these , too , were his immediate friends , the barber and the curate , aad the baohelor sWson Cairatco—let them , be repressnted by the First Lord of the Treasury , by the Seoretary of State for Foreign Affafrs , and by the President ot the Board of Trade ( shouts of hughter . ) Well , and the hero returned . There was the demure reverenoe and tho fnigned looks of symp « thy with which his friends greeted dim , broken as he was in spirit , and about for ever to renounce those delightful Illusions In whloh he had so long trimphantly sallied—and everything , though melancholy , was betomlag—though sad , was in the best tftste , when suddenly we hare the wife of Sancho Fanza

      ruihing forward , and orylng , ' Never mind your kicks or your cuffs so long as you have brought home some money . ' ( Shouts of laughter . ) That was the test of truth , and the finale of the expedition . The Caancellor of the Exchequer has been all the settlon bringing home barbers' basins Instead , of knightly helmets ; and at the last moment , true to nature , his vooation , and his career he fiads , ias'eadol a surplus , a deficiency , and Instead of reducing a tax , he commemorates his second year of fiaance by contracting a second loan . We had had tho Government of ' all tbe talents , ' bat we might now congratulate ourselves on having the government 'of all the budgets . ' If , under these olrcumstances , the present session was unproductive for good , the C * Wnet cosily tbrew ( be blame upon the cumbrous nature of

      the forms of the house , and the obstructive Icquaolty of its members . He again totally denied that the house wat justly chargeable with obstructing publio baslnett . The delay which had taken place In connexion with financial business was entirely attributable to the mis * management of tbe governnunt , and the protracted la . bours of its ^ constitutional committee * . Nor was the hoaie to blame for the tardiaets with whloh the Pabllo Health Bill had reaohed itt final stages . The history of that bill In both houses of parliament , was rcpleto with curious incidents and remarkable episodes , and but for the' fine talents and amiable charaotet' of LordMorpetfa , who had charge of it , it would not have eioaped the multitudinous porilt which threatened tt with an untimely fate , Nor could anything ba more monstrous oi extravagant than

      to obarge the house with th « failure of tbe measure for the repeal of the Navigation Laws . Fttr be it from him to regret or moan over that falluro ; but be could not avoid attributing it to the want ef firmness and of praotlcal capacity on the patt of the government . It should have been introduced at an earlier period ; but was postponed for other measures of far less Importance . When at latt Introduced , It was pushed boldly for a time , when its after-progress was interrupted by what he considered one of the mott remarkable episodes of tbe session—the attempt at legislation for the West India Colonies . Having thus introduced , la due turn , the Sagsr Outlet Bill , the honourable gentleman , much to the amuiement of the house , dwelt at considerable length upon the extraordinary incidents which had characterised Its passage through the boute , commencing with the offrrt . peated declaration of the Prime Mlaltter that no departure wat to take place from the act of 1846 , from which the bill was , in reality , after all , an aotual departure .

      and endlsg with tha' budget Of blund&it , ' the correction of whloh had oauted rauoh time to be watted . The progress of this bill had been d « lay « d by ttveral obstructive incidentt , tuoh at the third budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and the two days dlscustion whloh occurred en the 'mining dispatoh . ' It was to tbit bill , whieh ultimately passed only In the third shape ia which it bad been introduoed , that the measure for tbe repeal of the Navigation Laws was sacrificed . What ground then , w * b there for charging the premature fate of tha * measure , either to the conduot of members , or to inconveniences arising from the forms of the house i Another subjcot on which much time had been waited , wh'oh might hava been saved , ha <\ the house at tbe first adopted some definite prinoiple of notion , was the conduot of the delinquent boroughs , and tha measures which were to be tiken retpeotlng them . Dutv ' ng the session thero had . een sedition . In Eaglaud , lyturreotion ia Ireland , ud revolution in -Europe . &'& ** if the Whits had

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      bsen in opposition with such a combination ? Considering the magnitude and importance of these events bat little time bad been spent over them in the House , How much time would have been spent over them had the Whigs oocupled oher benches , he loft the house to determine . The time of the publlo , then , had not been wasted either by the conduct of members or by the forms of the house . ' But' said the hon , member , ' the tlm j has been wastod , and it now remains for me to tell yen what have been the consequanoes of that waste , I am nsw going to read the bills of mortality of the ees

      tUraofI 848 , ( Laughter . ) The obltuarj It now almost complete—balng drawa up to last Saturday night . This It what the country has lost—forty-seven bills , all upon important subjects , some upon most important , and many upon interesting subjects . More than two-thirds of these were govornmont measures , and therefore ought not to have been brought forward , ubUis they were demanded for the publio weal . I nay nothing of the Jewish Disabilities Bill or the repeal of the Navlgatton laws—they have oomecrated monuments of their own . Iu this list I fiad :

      Oa golng Tenants ( Ireland ) ; Borough EUctloas ; Elective Franchise and Registration of Electors ( Irelaad ; Polling Places ( Ireland ) ; Audit of Railway Ac eounts ; Schoolmasters ( Scotland ) ; Tenants at Will ( Ireland ); Metropolis Police ; Agricultural Tenantright ; Poor LawUnlon [ Oaarges ; Qualification of Mew . bers ; Tithe Rent Caarge , da , ( Ireland ); Borough Elections , ( Nj 2 ); HonhBm Borough ; Lunatic Asylums ( Scotland ); Qualification and Registration of Electors ( Ireland ); Electloaand Polling Places ( Icelaad ); Light Dues ; Selentlfio Societies ; Ri man Catholic Charitable Trastt ; Roman Catholic Relief ; Sale of Bread ; Highways ; Waste Lands ( Ireland ); Poor Law Officers Superannuation Allowances ; Landed Property ( Ireland ); Bakehouse ; Life Policies of Assurance ; Cruelty to

      A . n < malt Prevention ; Clerks ef the Pnaoe ( Dublin ); Appeals In Criminal Cases ; Smoke Prohibition ; Re . medies against the Hundred ; Registering Births , &o ., ( Scotland ); Marriage ( Sootland ); Landlord and Tenant ( Ireland ); Provident Associations Fraud Prevenien , Cxanocry Proceedings Regulation ; Charity Trusts Regulation ; Fees ( Cowt of Chancery ); Legacies to Charitable Institutions ; Officers of Courts of Jus . tlce ( Ireland ) Assimilation tt Appointments ; Poor Removal ( England and Scotland ); Renewable Leasehold Conversion ( Ireland ); Bills . Having endeavoured to vindicate the honss from the opprobrium of being the cause of what he termed thin great pnblio calamity ( the watte of time ) , he proceeded to show what he considered to be the real cause of It .

      That cause he found there ( pointing to the Ministerial bench , ) I see there a body of men who . Bccoded to power without a parliamentary najorily . I think that they were justified in accepting offioe under such cir . oumstances by the exigency of the cate — justified by more , by the praotlces of the British constitution . ( Hear , hear . ) But though they were , in the first lattaaee , justified in taking tbat course , they are nut , in my opinion , in persisting in it under the circumstances ; aad their psrsis'anoe ia that oourseocoasisas , it appears to me , two results , both of the moBt serious nature . In the first place we have a cabinet which in preparing their measurer , haw no conviction that those measures wlllba passed . ( Hear , hear . ) After all their dellbers . tion—sfcer all their foresight-after all their

      observations oi the times and their study of the Interests of the country , when \ thslr measure is launched from the cabinet to the honse , it is not received by a confiding majority , coofidiag from their belief la statesmanlike qualities and . from sympathy with tbe great political principles pressed by the members of the administration . ( Hear , ) On the contrary , the success of a measure when it enters thta house , depends upon parties whose aggregate exoeeds their influence . The temper ef one leader is to be watched — the indications of opinions in another are to be observed—the proposition ! of a thlrd . are to be studied , until at last the measure is so altered , remoulded , remodelled , patched , cobbled , painted , veneered , and varnltbed , as to bear ao aspeotjof its original form , intention , or circumstances—( cheers )

      or in dUguat it is withdrawn , after having undergone a prolonged and elaborate discussion , and been one great tource of the waste of that public time which Is not lets valueless than the publio treasure . ( Cheers , ) There Is another inconvenience attending this Btate of things , whloh Is in my opinion still more grave , although lets flsgrant . It Is thatyoa cannot expeet from ministers so situated , the matured , finished , and com . plele measure whlch , underotherolrcumstanoes , wesUould have a right to expi ot . Men will naturally say , what is the use of taking all these pains , what is the use of all this consideration , what is the ute of all this study or foresight , when the moment the measure Is out of our bands it oeases to be the measure of the cabinet , and becomes tho measure essentially of the House of

      Commons . ( Hear , hear . ) For these reasons measures are thrown before at with a foregone conclusioa that we are to save tbe administration muoh , of their care and trouble la preparing the legislation of the country . Thus , instead of being purely a legislative bad y we are evary day becoming morn and more an aimlalstratlve assembly . The House of Commons is now conducted as a great committee of state on publio affairs , In which every man speaks with the earns right , and most of us with the same weight , No more do we eee the disciplined array , the traditionary influence of hereditary opinion , the realised experience of ancient societies and ef races that for generations havo lived and flourished in the practloe of a high aud nebla sya > tern of self-government , ( Cheers , ) Nothing of this .

      You are to bo compeatated In future by other qualities . The conceits of the illiterate , the crotchets of the whimsical , the violent courses of vulgar imposition , that acknowledges no gratitude to antiquity , and to pas . terity no service , until at latt this free and proud parliament of England Is to subside to the low water . mark of those national assemblies and those provisional conventions which ate at the same time the terror and rldl . oul « of the werld . Sir , I trace all the evils la the disorganisation of party . I have known honourable gentleman makeobservatlens to depreciate party government . I am not now going to enter into tbe discussion of whether It is good or not ; but this I tell you and I have told you before , and it has not been disproved , tbat you cannot ohooso between party government and

      parliamentary government , that you cansot havo parlia mentary government without party , and that , therefore , when you deaounce the latter you are striking out the circumstances which has made this country , and which I hipe may keep It , great . The system whieh 1 b now pursued 1 b a system opposed to those old parly cond - tlons that have hitherto been the spirit and life blood of tbe House of Commons . I am not charging gentlemen opposite with departure from that spirit . I am charging them with a system of which they m « y be the unwilling administrators ; but no less is their responsibility for the consequences , I can focetee—that which I dare not contemplate—what those coatequences may be . In my opinion they are very weak words whloh should detcribe them as prejudicial to the realm aad perilous to

      parliament , fatal to that high leve of public life which hitherto has been onr best security for national grandeur . It it , I fear , more than that , the finis falorum of the great D « rdanlan house . This I am Bare of , that if we persist , the consequenoei will be such at ao revolution has succeeded la accomplishing—tuch as no conspirator in those midnight conclaves which you have disturbed hai had the audacity to devise . I know that nothing can long withstand Ub deleterious influence . ItseemB to me that the class of pnblio men which has so long been deemed glorious in publlo affairs will be swept from the scene . I protest against this system in the eleventh hour , and I call upon the country to brand It with indignant reprobation , But , sir , whatever may be those consequences ,

      whatever may be the fortunes of Individuals or the fate of institutions , at least I have had the satisfaction of calling publio attention to this political plague spot . I have had the duty of attempting to place ia its true aspect tbe oanseof this great national evil ; I bave had more I have had the consolation of justifying this great assembly , wherein it is my highest henour to hold a ee ? t , and of vlndicatiag In the face oi SagUnd the ohsraotcr and conduct of the HouBe of Commons . ' ( The hod . member resumed his teat amid loud aud general cheering . Lord JohnRussem . delivered a long speech in reply , defending the government from the imputations ot Mr Disraeli . Mr IIome then spoke , and was followed in a sarcastic speech by Mr Osbornb , directed against both Mr Disraeli and tbe government .

      After a few words from Mr Hodson , the bill was then road a third time and passed . At a quarter past four the sitting was suspended till a quarter past six . . At the latter hour the house re-assembled , and went into committee 0111 no Copper and Lead Duties Bill . The clauses of this bill having been agreed to , the house resumed , and after disposing of the other orders of the day , adjourned at the unusually early hour of half-past nine .

      ( from our Third Edition of last week ) FRIDAY , August 25 . H 0 U 3 E OF COMMONS . —The Chartist Pbisohebb . —Mr WaeIiEI said that he had presented a petition from certain persons , complaining of the treatment in the House of Correction of the polltioal prisoner re . cently convicted of misdemeanours ; and these petitioners stated that thoy believed that the Home Secretary had given directions these prisoners should be subjected to coercive treatment . Uader theso circumstances , they said that they considered It useleit to address the Home , offioe on the subjaot ; thoy , therefore , had resolved to petition the house . Ha ( Mr Wakley ) believed suoh a charge to be totally unfounded ( hear , hear ) , and was quite contrary to the character aad oonduct of the right honourable gentleman , and was therefore , most unjust , Whatever the patliloners might have supposed to tha

      contrary , be was satisfied that tbe right honourable gentleman was quite Inoapatle of tuoh coHduot as had been imputed to him . With a view , however , of satisfying he prisoner , he would bbU a question on the subjeot . Seeing , then , the honourable member far Matdstone ( Mr Dadd ) In his place , who was one of the visiting magistrates of the prison , he wished to Inquire of him whether or not any special Instructions had been sent from the Home . cmce as to the troatment of those prisoners with andue severity , and whether they were ordered to be treated not as mltdemeanantsbut as felons . He wUhed also to ask whether the facts stated in the petition as to their treatment were correct . He begged him also , attlie same time , to state what was the actual condition and treatment of those prisoners , and whether they had made complaints of their treatment to the visiting magistratea . Sir CI , Gbex . —Mbxe the hon , gentleman anawered

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      ™« r « ' . J " , to *" ' 0 M Bi » n «« . to the so K P " " * , " " "Sard tohlmself . Before doS so he begged to thank the hou . gentlemaa for the £ prestlons . which he had used , as to his ( Sir G Grej ' . i coquet , andhuvhiehhehaddonehlmjattoe Thew , ? nunofapubUemettlng , bat it did no ; state where the meetlBg was held . It is stated that the petitioner , be lleved that special lattruetlon . had been S from ^ ^^ V ^ rl ^ ^ ^ ' ^ »» " uadu , BeverityTo this assertion he

      , . gave the » o unquaS fled contradiction . H « had no power to aWe . nT . stations ; and if hehad done ^ mL&StS * have disregarded them . The arr . ngS , of lh ! ^ son wtre pUoed under the charge gfYhTvUui ! , rL trates by Act of Parliament . With wferli ' D 8 gil ' KararbSfi hadnodoubtasto their attention to it , ' he

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      «zssrr go ** « s ^ e five Chartist prisoners now undergoing sentence of in prlsonment . As a visiting wagls . rl . he ZSn Jw SSBS . " ^ . " * ^ " "P- ^ themsS frateful to tho magistrates , and more particularly to th& £ ffir Lieu , t nant h r ' for tha S-S-Sii : that th « n g ? . ? b 66 a canlad out « I * *» " ** onthfl . , 7 / T " u h 95 rhkd been cutolo ' ^ mediately on their . entetiQg the prison . This was not the case . B . Jones s hair was cut about a wtek after hlsentranoe at Ua 1 own request , and by the advice of the surgeon , owing ( 0 the weakness of his eyes . The others were cropped about the same time , exoept Ternon ' s , whase hair wasnot cat for a fortatght , and then not after the Dover

      « op , bat trimmed in the same maoaer at > any gen . tlemau la the house would have his dona . ( A laugh > The prisoners all stated they had no complaint to make I loT 0 f M , K ' , Dd- Tho ««« yof thehousewS haf lith W "' / ead wei Mn nearly a pound and a-SJ" i . f ? C 000 B ' >»»•«»•» , « , th a similar loafandapint of grael at supper . Four days In the week the , had for dinner six ounce , ot meaHnd eight ousces of potatoes making on these days tblrij . thre& ounces of 8 o , id food ; on theother three djTSSS a half of good soup In Ueu of meat . Futsell and Sharr > both said that if every working man lived nearly as we ? there would not bo discontent in ] the count t The , were permitted to have books

      sent ' them tubJeVt to the Wyd of thechaplaln ) , and when h . caffiE Lorn ! ing V ^ rnon was reading a scientific book , a , d JonL working a mathematical problem , u \ Ullh , £ o ° thfi 6 r y lDduI ce had "oen given . VernoYsUted to the governor that he wat accustomed to take bath .,, andtne governor immediatel y ordered be should hav& them two or three times a week . The sentence on these : Sril ^? i * reqU ' " lhdt thc y " ho « W t » put In prison dress , and everything furnished to them wat new . The dross they wore was that of misdemeanti , blue , differentfrom thatoffelons , which was of grey cloth with a number on the shoulder . He hoped he had given , such explanation respecting their treatment as woald .

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      IRELAND . LOUD JOHff RnSSSLt ' g VISIT TO IRELAND . —IHB CROPS . — THB 8 TATB PIUSCNKRS . { From our own Correspondent , ) m „ „ . Doblir , August 29 . We are all on the tip-tee of expectancy in Dublin ; Lord John Russell is coming to look at us , and the probable objeot of his visit to Ireland , and under suoh circumstances , constitutes the subject of inquiry amongst all parties . Every brain is on the rack , every tongue is on the wag . Some say he comeB to make arrangements for a periodical sitting of the Impeml Parliament in College-green , and for * periodical sojourn of the Queen and Royal household

      on Lork UtU . Others aver that he wants to see with his own two eyes' our rotten potatoes , and smell with his own veritable nose , the effluvia from onr blighted fields ! And furthermore , it is added , that if hia premiership discovers that the potatoes are really gone , ' and the wheat-cropB really blighted , and the tut nip crops really ' missed , ' and tho hay really swept off by inundations of our impatient Irish mountains streams , and onr peasantry really in the last stage of social existence , and Ireland really in a fair way of becoming a howlinr wilderness-then they say , if Lord John finds all these things coming to pass , he intends to turn his attention in good earnest to our situation , and seek counsel and d

      evise the best means of saying ourselves and our country from final destruction . This i 9 all very fine indeed , but as we Irish eay , when we have good cause to doubt the truth of certain propositions — ' we fear the news is too good to be true !' But whether or Dot , conjecture as to the object of Mr RuaseU ' s Irish teur does not end lere . It is affirmed in some quarters that his sole ) u siness ib to consult with Lord Clarendon and the Irish government on the propriety of granting a general amnesty to all the State prisoners ; to pardon thosewho are already convicted ; to release John Martin from Richmond Penitentiary ; and recall poor Mitchel from Bermuda ! Can this be passible ? Can those who think in this manner be serious 1

      Whatever may be the special object of the Premier ' s viBit . it must eventuate for the benefit of Ireland . ' 'Tie an ill wiad that blows nobody good ; »• and his lordship cannot have a drop of honest blood in his veins , nor a drop of the milk of human kindness in his heart , if he does not take cognisance of our miseries , and set about earnestly to work for our amelioration . He will see what certainly the most graphic descriptions , the most elaborate statistical evidence , or the moat earnest appeals from our intercessors , could neve ? convey to his impurtable conceptions . Talking over this to a flagafch friend of mine , an hour or two ago , he suggested the propriety of serving Lord John as the Munster peasantry were wont to do with excisemen and revenue officers in days paat—that is , to carry away his lordship , vi el amis , to some wild , half detect region of Cork , or Kerry , or Maye ; locate him for a week m one of the rudest mountain huts in the

      neighbourhood ; furnish him with a sop of stinking straw or half-decompo 3 ed heather , without sheet , blanket , quilt , or pillow to lie on ; give his lordship a spare meal a-day of semi-rotten potatoes , reliBhed with what we call a blind herring '—i . e ., a solution of a spoonful of salt in fo much spring water bb you like —give him this , taking care to deny him fire , candle-light , and good air , and then Lord John will be pretty fairly ' insinsed' into the actual condition of the Celtic peasant , and will probably cease to wonder why he should be a ' rebel' in grain , an enemy in heart to the Saxon , and disposed to give a . preference to Turk , or Jew , or ' Tom the Devil , 'anybody rather than a British Prime Minister . But , without advocating the adoption of my ' experimental ftiendV suggestion , 1 feel satisfied that Lord John Russell ' 8 visit will be beneficial , and I am happy that h ? has signified his intention of being in Dublin on next Friday or Saturday .

      The accounts from all parts of this island are still of the most gloomy hue . The potato blight still works inBidiously , and it is admitted that , even with favourable harvest weather , the loss will be equal to fully fifty per cent , of the entire orop . Tho wheat , too , ia thin , puny , aud now commencing to grow in the ear . This crop will be short by at least one * fourth , and far below the usual annual average * Barley , bero , oats , and rye , are pretty good , but much doubt exiBts as to whether it can be got safely into thej haggard . Turf ia represented as getting mouldy and rotten on the banks , and cannot be dried for the winter ' s fuel . Turnips will be short by ninety per cent , of the breadth bowd , whilst the hay is badly aved , andmoatof it lying by the rivers and in Ion * sitaations , has been swept away by the immense floods which arose during the late rainy weather . On the whole , tue prospeols oi the country were never so bad within the memory of any body now living , and if d John ell be

      L « Russ not convinced of the paramount necessities of the Irish people ; and if he does not either exert himself for their relief or resign the reigBB of government to some one who will , a curse will fall on himselt and Mb councils , and Britain will weep , in tears of blood , the day she committed herself into his keeping . The State prisoners in Kilmainham - Smith O Bnen and T . F . Meagher-are ' well . ' Poor C . G . IJutfy , who still pines in Newgate , is said to be very low , both 10 health and spirits . I am told ho is de > . ply involved by the correspondence and letters feund in that unlucky travelling-bag of Smith O'Brien . ltis pretty well ascertained now , that Mr Richard U borman has succeeded in escaping the ' spotters , ' and is now , with J . B . Dillon , Franois Morgan , and others , respiring beneath the sunny skies of Franca . . nero is no authentic account of Thomas D'Aroy L F ' , ? r e Nati £ v ° , l l 0 mM Devi * Reilly . oi the JWn . James F . Lalor , is still in Newgate , in & very dangerous state of health . ™*« >

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      Nohth LANOA 6 HIBS . —A district delegate moetinK wa be held in the Odd Fellows' Hall . VdSmToJ Sunday , September » ra , when the following plaoet are requested to send , delegates :-Pre » ton , ChoK Blackburn , Chtheroe , Padiham , Colne , Burnley , Aconngton , Bano * ford , and Omaldtwistlo . Chair to be taken at eleven o ' olock in the forenoon .

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      Wiawics . —The L 3 nd members are particularly ttqaesiei to attend a general meeting at Mr Donaldtan ' s , en Monday eveoing next , to consider the propositions of the Executive Committee . Halifax- —A district delegate meeting will be held in the Working man ' s Hall , on Sunday afternoon , September 3 rd , at two o ' clock , when all localities in tha distriot are expected to send a delegate . Those localities who have not paid their levies are reqaested to do so as soon as possible . Gribxwich . —A special general meeting of the land numbers will be held at Mr Parti ' s , Cold Bath , oa Monday , September 4 th , to consider the propositions of the directors for the fntoer management of the Company .

      Haschesxxb . —The Monthly meeting of Land members will ba held in the People ' s Institute on Sunday morning , September 3 rd . Membars are requested to king their levy cards . The directors , Mr Cullingham and Mr Silvester Ryan , will attend . Chair taken at nine o clock . None but members will be admitted . Saifokd . —The monthly meeting of Land memfcrs will bs held on Sunday afternoon next , at two r »* doek , at Mr Lea ' s , Temperance Hotel , Irwcll-. Bittefc , when tbe propositions of Mr O'Connor will r belaid before the meeting . Membsre are requested "to attend .

      Bhaofohd . — -The Land memtars are requested to attend a meeting in Butterworth's-baildiogs , on Sunfi * j afteraoon . at twd . o ' olock , to elect offijara for the assaing qaarter . The Cbartuts will msat at two eTcloek . WoLVERHAirpTOjr . —A special meeting oftheshareboHera of the Land Company , will be held on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , at Mr Livertley ' s , Bnekm&ken' Arms , near tbe New Inn , Honeleyfield , to take into consideration the proposition ! of He O'Connor . It is earnestly requested that all aestbera will attend . Bektol . —The monthly meeting of the Bristol bsnch ef the National Land Campany will be held oa Monday next , Saptembsr 4 th , at Mr C . Clark ' s , Qieen-street , Castle-street . It is requested that all ia arrears for local and general expenses will attend ani pay them .

      Iraros . —The members of this branch of tha land Company are requested to meet at Mr James Knley ' g , Bogls Hole , Stokesley Grove , near Iveaton , an Sunday afternoon , ( to-morrow ) at two o ' clock , whei the propositions of Mr O'Connor will bs con-¦ dared . Liverpool—A general meeting of the numbers of tins branch of the Land Company , will take place on Monday evening , September the 4 th , at Mr Farrell ' s , Bichraond-row . SouTHAMPraN . —The Land members of this branch are requested to attend a general meeting en Monjay , September 4 th , at seven o ' clock , at the London sirat house , Lower ; E » st-street , to take into consideration the different alterations proposed by the © rectors . Tillicdultby . —A meeting of Land members will beheld on Saturday evening . September 9 th at six o ' clock , in Goalsnaughten Hall , to consider Mr O'Connor ' s propositions .

      Babbicas . —Th 9 committee for the disposal of the gold Bed , are reqaested to attend next Wednesday evening , at eight o ' closk , at Cartwright ' s coffeeboose , Barbican . . ^ Oh .

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      ^^ i ^ i ^^^^—Suicide sr a Licesskd VicroiLLsa . —On Tuesday , Mr Wait Payae . the coroner , held an inquest at the King ' s Head , Newlngton Causeway , on the body of Mr Thomas Penfold , aged forty-five , proprietor of the Sake of Wellington public-home , York-street Southw * rk . The evidence taken proved that sometime baek the wife ef deceased left her husband and lived apoa a separate allowance , but lately she had taken lodgings immediately facing the deceased ' s place of hosiness . This eircumstanee preyed heavily on his aind , and when he saw her go oat er enter her lodgin g * he would frequently bant outcrying . A few sights since he told one of the witnesses that his wife

      pa tched him wherew he went . If he was ascending the stairs , he there met her ghost , and when he was ¦ f £ f ^ aua « tf of a ni ght , he found her standing * S Jus bedside . He deputed a person to go to his infe and ask her whether she would hare any objec ^^ m ^ W To this she replied that diashoald be delighted to return-back ; but when deceased was asked how long it would be before he teak her hack , he replied , 'Full six months , for he intended to geli his business and get a situation for himself as a waterman . ' On Sunday morning last , after his children had retired to rest , he committed anajde , by hanging himself to an irea stanchion in thabar . Verdiet— 'Temporary Insanity . ' Warned of the approaching cholera , the authorities as Manchester haveestablished cholera hospitals , with a medicil staff for the attendance of patients in their vwn homes , A good example .

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      • wet * , uaymarKet , iu the City of Westmi ster . attbf 25 ?^ J ? 8 ame St reet and Parish , forthrPronrletor FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P ., and pSw by WiiiUM Hewitt , of Ko . 18 , Charles ^ treet , Bran , don-street , Walworth , In the parish of St . Mary , Sew . iDgtoa , In the County of Surrey , at tba Office , No . 16 , Great Windmill-street , Haymorkef In the CityofW * nminster . —Saturday September 2 nd 1816 * -

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      $ THE , NORTHERN STAR , SBFimim j ^ jgjg .

      Fr . L "Te&Lt; * By Dougal M'Gowan , Of 16, Gre.T Windmill-

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1486/page/8/