Great Britain.

of any settlement between the Commons and the Lords, as to what ought to be the provisions of the Irish Corporations Bill, he should not propose that the Reasons be taken into consideration. On the contrary, he moved that they be taken into consideration that day three months. His Lordship observed, that there were observations in the Lords' Reasons, which induced him to cherish a hope that at no distant period, perhaps within a few months, their Lordships would co-operate in the devising of measures for the improvement of local government in Ireland.-Sir R. Peel condemned the proposition now made, and thought that they ought to take into consideration the Lords' Reasons. After some discussion, the motion was carried without any division, by which decision the Commons have terminated the matter for the present session.--Sir J. Hanmer moved a resolution condemnatory of Members of Parliament receiving pay as the avowed advocates in the House of any set of men.—On a division, the resolution was negatived by 178 to 67.

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July 1.-Viscount Morpeth moved the Order of the Day for the Committee on the Church of Ireland Bill.-Mr. S. Crawford then brought forward his resolution, That it is expedient that tithes, and all compositions for tithes in Ireland, should cease, and be for ever extinguished."-The subject seemed to excite little if any interest; few Members were present, and the motion was opposed both by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Grattan, who recommended the resolution to be withdrawn. It was eventually negatived by 51 to 18.-The House went into Committee, and the clauses up to the 49th were agreed to, after a long but desultory discussion upon some of them.

July 4.-On the Order of the Day having been moved for the House going into Committee on the Church of Ireland Bill, Sir G. Sinclair expressed his belief that Ministers could not be sincere in their attachment to this measure, or they would have brought it forward at an earlier period of the session, when there must have been a greater probability of its passing.-The House then went into Committee; and Lord Mahon moved the omission of the 50th, or appropriation clause.--A debate of great length ensued.-Lord Stanley remarked, that the people of Ireland, if they now followed the advice of Mr. O'Connell, would, as in former instances, do so to their own detri ment. Mr. O'Connell replied, "It is untrue."--A scene of indescribable confusion ensued.-Lord Stormont rose to order, as did several other Hon. Members; and Mr. Bernal, the Chairman, declared Mr. O'Connell out of order, and stated that he would have sooner noticed his conduct, but that in the present House of Commons such matters were so frequent, that to remark upon them would be a serious interruption of the public business.— Lore J. Russell expressed his concurrence in what had fallen from the Chair, and expressed his hope that Lord Stanley would no longer charge Ministers with acting under an influence that they dared not resist.-Lord Stanley proceeded to reiterate his charge, and Lord J. Russell rose to order.-The Chairman began by talking about the difficulty of his position, but having been met by a tremendous cheer from the House, pronounced against the Noble Lord, by stating Lord Stanley to be in order.-Lord Stanley then concluded his speech, and Mr. O'Connell spoke for some time. Among other observations, he said-" The people of Ireland will not accept, next year, what you offer them this; I had almost said they shall not accept it." -Lord J. Russell closed the debate. In the course of his speech he said, if the division were less than it had been, or if he were left in a minority, then, as a Minister of the Crown, or as a Member of Parliament, he would not hold himself responsible for attempting the settlement of the question as regarded Ireland.-The House divided. The numbers were, for the clause, 290; against it, 264; majority in its favour, 26.

July 5.-Sir R. Peel inquired if the General Order published in the newspapers, as addressed to the British Legion in Spain by Brevet Lieut.-Col. Evans, was genuine or not?-Lord Palmerston said that, speaking as a Minister of the Crown, he knew nothing officially of the document in question; but that, as an individual, he believed it to be authentic.

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July 7. The House having gone into Committee on the Court of Sessions (Scotland) Bill, Sir W. Rae moved an amendment, by which 8007, a-year would be saved to the public. The House, however, negatived the motion by a majority of 53 to 34.

July 8.-Lord J. Russell moved the committal of the Established Church Bill. Mr. C. Lushington moved, as an amendment, that an address be presented to his Majetsy for the appointment of a commission to consider and report on the expediency of abolishing the existing system of translation of Bishops. After a debate, the House divided, when the amendment was negatived by 124 to 41.-Another amendment was proposed by Mr. Trevor, and negatived by 142 to 22.-The House then went into Committee on the Bill, and proceeded as far as the 8th clause.

July 11.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the Report of the Committee appointed to prepare reasons for the Lords for dissenting from some amendments made by their Lordships to the Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill.-The House then went into Committee on the Stamp Duties Bill, and several clauses were agreed to.

July 12.-On the Order of the Day having been read for going into Committee on the Established Church Bill, Mr. Jervis moved an instruction to the Committee, that a clause be introduced, providing that no clergyman should hereafter be qualified to hold a living in Wales, without having a competent knowledge of the Welsh language.-A debate of some length followed, and the instruction was agreed to by a majority of 74 to 64.

July 13.-Sir C. Burrell complained of a breach of privilege, he having been charged with receiving a compensation of 15,000l. for property worth only a few hundred pounds, by which he was induced to alter his opinion, and support Stephenson's Brighton line of Railway. He declared it to be false, and that he should deem himself unworthy of his seat if he could be guilty of any such conduct.-After a long conversation, in the course of which Lord J. Russell declared that the whole House could bear testimony to the character of the Honourable Baronet, it was ordered that Mr. Cundy should attend at the Bar of the House.

July 14.-The House discussed the Report on the Established Church Bill. The various clauses were considered, and several divisions took place. All were in favour of the Bill. The last was on a motion by Mr. C. Buller, to reduce still further than is provided for by the Bill the emoluments of the Bishops. It was lost by a large majority.

Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the

It appears from the above, that there is an increase on the year of no less

han 2,043,4567., and on the quarter of 1,306,6481. The principal increase nas been in the Customs' revenue, being mainly occasioned by the increased consumption of tea, in consequence of the fall in its price, growing out of the abolition of the monopoly. There has also been an increase of 834,9124, in the Excise, of which 713,0217. has been in the quarter now ended. This account bears, therefore, the most decisive testimony to the flourishing state of the country, and shows that our resources are not only unimpaired, but greater than at any former period.

FOREIGN STATES.

FRANCE.

Trial and Execution of Alibaud.-The trial of this criminal, for an attempt to assassinate the King of the French, commenced in the Court of Peers on the 8th July, and concluded on the afternoon of the following day. On being asked by the President to declare his motives for attempting to commit such an enormous crime, Alibaud said—“ that he had done it from conviction, and that he had already sufficiently explained his motives." The sang froid which the prisoner manifested at the time when the King's life was attempted, was equally apparent during the trial, and in his incoherent and intemperate defence, in which he declaimed violently in favour of republican institutions, and against the government of Louis Philippe; and that he had the same right over Louis Philippe as Brutus had over Cæsar: he was soon, however, stopped short in his bravado, and the Court retired to deliberate on its verdict. On their return Alibaud was condemned to the punishment of parricides, viz.:-to walk to the scaffold in his shirt and barefooted, his head covered with a black veil, and the sentence to be read to him on reaching the place of execution in the presence of the people, and then to be decapitated. He was condemned to pay the costs of the trial! and to be executed as soon as the Attorney-General should think proper. He was executed accordingly.

SPAIN.

The war in the North of Spain afflicts humanity, without seeming to bring one whit nearer the decision of any political question. General Cordova, the Queen's Commander-in-Chief, is paralyzed either by treachery or by absolute want of resources. General Evans, whose health has been impaired, is unable from want of support to undertake any great operation; and an attack made upon the fortress of Fontarabia by the British and Spanish troops, on the 11th and 12th ult., was defeated by the Carlists. Many of the British officers have quitted the Legion, and returned to England, being disgusted with the conduct of the Spanish Government. The Carlists carry on an active partisan warfare in the mountainous country which they occupy, and seem on the whole to have the advantage.

AMERICA.

The American Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to the following resolution, on the subject of slavery, with a view of putting an end to all discussion upon it in Congress :-Resolved, by a large majority,"That Congress possesses no constitutional authority to interfere in any way with the institution of slavery in any of the States of this Confederacy."-It was also resolved, as a means of allaying excitement, that all petitions, memorials, resolutions, or other papers, relating any way to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, should, without being referred to especially, be laid on the table, and that no further proceedings should be heard thereon.

BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS OF CELEBRATED
PERSONS, LATELY DECEASED.

VISCOUNT CLIFDEN.

Died, on the 15th ult., at his residence in Hanover-square, London, in the 79th year of his age, Viscount Clifden, Baron Mendip, in the Peerage of Great Britain. His Lordship had held the sinecure office of Clerk of the Privy Council in Ireland, and Recorder of Gowran, a corporate town on his estate in Kilkenny, of which he was the patron: it used to return two members to the Irish Parliament. His Lordship succeeded to the English title and privileges as a Peer of Parliament in 1802, on the death of his grandmother's brother, Welbore Ellis, the first Lord Mendip. He married, in 1792, Lady Caroline Spencer, eldest daughter of the fourth Duke of Marlborough, who died in 1813, by whom he had issue the late Lord Dover, and an only daughter, who died unmarried in 1814, at the age of twenty. The late Lord, though possessing considerable estates in Ireland, seldom resided in that country. He is succeeded in his titles and extensive estates by his youthful grandson, Henry Lord Dover, now Viscount Clifden, who is a minor, being only in his twelfth year, the eldest son of the late regretted Lord Dover, formerly the Honourable Agar Ellis. The present Peer is now Viscount Clifden, Baron Gowran, in the Peerage of Ireland; and Baron Mendip and Baron Dover (in all, four Peerages) in that of Great Britain.

MR. JAMES MILL.

Died, at Kensington, James Mill, Esq., the author of "The History of British India," the treatise on "The Elements of Political Economy," and also the treatise on "The Analysis of the Human Mind," which bear his name. He fell a victim to consumption, after nearly one year's illness, during which time he was disabled from attending to the duties of his most important office, that of chief examiner to the East India Company, which duties were those of preparing despatches and other state papers submitted to the consideration of the Court of Directors. The more important state papers, prepared under many disadvantages, in that department, by the agency of the distinguished men whom the Company honoured themselves by employing, have been declared by competent judges to be without exception the most comprehensive and masterly of any that have been issued from a public body. His relaxation after the hours of official business was, like that of Bacon, in the cultivation of the higher sciences, some of which he advanced by profound and original views. All which he studied he contributed to diffuse by the masterly expositions and applications of principles. In metaphysics he aided to extend the province of the school of Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hartley, Condillac, and the promoters of inductive science. In morals and legislation he was, with Priestley, Bentham and Paley, the advocate of the principle of the greatest happiness of mankind (considered in their totality), as the test of human action. Until the pressure of his official duties restricted his leisure, he was, next to Dumont, Bentham's most frequent companion and powerful auxiliary. In the science of political economy he was the ally of Adam Smith and Ricardo. He was for many years of his earlier life a contributor of articles of great power to the "Edinburgh Review." Until within the last four or five years he wrote the philosophical articles for the "Westminster Review." His articles on government, education, and jurisprudence, in the "Enclyclopædia Britannica," are amongst the most distinguished, and have been the subject of much controversy. He was retiring in his habits, and seldom took part in any public proceedings, though he took a lively interest in all proceedings for national and social improvèment. He has left a widow and nine children, five of whom are grown up. He was remarkable for his sedulous attention to their education, which was a duty he would never delegate to any one.-Globe.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES

IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.