ly accede to it. But whatever may be my regret, whatever may be the affliction which I feel in refusing you my son, the strictness of the duties which I have to fulfil imposes upon me this painful obligation; and I must declare, that I do not accept for him the crown which you are commissioned to offer him. ***My first duty is to consult, above all things, the interest of France, and cousequently not to endanger that peace which I hope to preserve for its happiness, for that of Belgium, and for that of all the States of Europe to which it is so invaluable and so necessary: exempt myself from all ambition, my personal wishes agree with my duties. It will never be the thirst of conquest, or the honour of seeing a crown placed upon the head of my son, that will lead me to expose my country to the renewal of the evils which war brings in its train, and for which the advantages we might derive from it, however great they might otherwise be, caunot compensate. The example of Louis XIV. and Napoleon would suffice to preserve me from the fatal temptation of erecting thrones for my sons, and to make me prefer the happiness of having maintained peace, to all the splendour of the victories which in case of war French valour would not fail again to secure to our glorious standards. NATIONAL DFAITHUS The DUKE of BUCKINGHAM asked the Minister if it were still the intention of the Government to lay a tax ou the funds, as he should consider that a breach of national faith › LORD GREY was under the disagreeable necessity of at once announcing that the scheme as mooted by LORD ALTHORP in his budget-speech was abandoned, and of clearing his Ministry of the charge of dishonest intentions towards the "public creditor." LORD BROUGHAM had to do the same. LORD GREY said, that it appeared to "him both fair and equitable and just, that the fundholders should begin to contribute something to the relief of the burdens which pressed on their "fellow-subjects, and he could not agree that, in doing so, he was guilty of any breach of faith to one class more than to the other. It is The words curious to hear this, OF May Belgium be free and happy! Let it never forget that it is to the concert of France with other great powers of Europe that it owes the speedy acknowledgment of its nation al independence; and let it always rely with " equitable and just” sound monstrousconfidence on my support to preserve it from ly like "equitable adjustment" there every external attack, or from all foreign intervention; but let Belgium also secure itself only wants the ment; and we shall hear against the scourge of internal agitatious, and it before long, but not till it is much too let it preserve itself from them by the organ- late. LORD BROUGHAM"most posiization of a Constitutional Government, which" tively denied that the tax on the may maintain a good understanding with its transfer of stock would have been neighbours, and protect the rights of all by insuring the faithful and impartial execution any breach of public faith towards of the laws. May the Sovereign whom you "the fundholders, and it was not on shall elect consolidate your internal security, that ground that it was abandonand may the choice of him be, at the same ed." "Most positively denied!" Yes, time, a pledge to all the Powers of the con- but there required a reason, LORD tinuance of peace and general tranquillity! May he be fully sensible of all the duties that BROUGHAM; however, all I say, is, as he will have to perform! and may he never Lumpkin says, in Goldsmith's play, forget that public liberty will be the best foun-Stick to that, mother! Oh, how dation of his throne, as respect for your laws, the maintenance of your institutions, and fidelity in observing his engagements, will be the best means to preserve it against every attack, and to save you from the danger of new con vulsions. Tell your countrymen that such are the wishes I form for them, and that they may depend upon the entire affection which I bear to them. They will find me always eager to manifest it to them, and to maintain with them those relations of friendship a and good neighbourhood which are so necessary to the prosperity of the two States." 16 much gall would you have spared yourselves if you had abused" me less! Lords WINCHILSEA, LONDONDERRY, and FARNHAM, regretted t that the measure had been abandoned all thought that the fundholder should be compelled to contribute his share.'"' TITHES, LORD KING bids fair to become the real purifier of the church. Any disinterested and dispassionate man must be struck with the hypocrisy of those who charge LORD KING with manifesting irreligion in what he is now doing. That he shows a want of respect for religion in showing that parsons all over the country y have neg lected their religious duties, while that they have taken especial care not to abandon their tithes ! The scandalous neg-parishioners to 70l. a-year. These were cases lect of religion is one great cause of the people's hatred to the church parsons; and the only cause of the country being overrun by all sorts of sectarians. LORD KING rose to submit the motion of which he had given notice, for returns of the resident and non-resident clergy, with an account distinguishing between the living of non-residents in lay, and those in ecclesiastical patronage. Returns of such a kind had often been made to the Privy Council, and some times to parliament. His motion was for an abstract of the last returns made on this subject to the Privy Council, A Right Reverend Prelate had, on a former occasion, said that the great cause of non-residence was owing to the lay impropriators of tithes having the patronage of livings, because the incomes they allowed to the clergyman who did the duty was so small that he could not reside. That might be so if the non-residence had been confined to livings of small income. But the great cause was pluralities and he should say, that if there was a sincere desire to put an end to non-residence, the best plan would be to prevent livings above a certain value from being held in plurality. Inta certain book to which the bad been referred, he had t on an average the church tors. There was an Ecclesiastical Living in Yorkshire where the allowance to the officiat ing Clergyman was only thirty pounds a-year; and there was another in Oxfordshire where the allowance was only 301. a year, although that was made up by subscriptions among the Church. It still remained in the Ecclesiastiin which the property still remained in the cal Corporations, and had not been abstracted from the Church in the manner so much complained of by the right rev. Prelate. So that where the property still remained in the Church, the incomes of the officiating Ministers were sometimes worse than in livings where the property and patronage were in the hands of others. But as to the abstraction of property from the Church-the right of the Church to all the property which had ever belonged to the Church, had been put by the right rev. Prelate the other night on much higher ground than he had ever heard it placed before by any of the most high-flying of the High Church party. Even Bishop Horsley, who, it would be admitted, was a great stickler for the hierarchy and the property of the Church, had not placed the claim on such high grounds, as he saw from looking at a charge of that right rev. Prelate to his clergy. Bishop Horsley's views were moderate and reasonable, compared with those of the right rev. Prelate who spoke on the subject the other night. He concluded by moving for an Abstract from the last Returns made to the Privy Council of Resident and Non-resident Clergymen, with an Account distinguishing those Livings which were in the gift of lay-impropriators, and those which found it stated, the 3651. 88. 4d. each, But were in the gift of Ecclesiastical Corporations. livings were only 5,4231. The Bishop of LONDON did not mean to oppose the motion of the noble Baron. He rose merely for the purpose of saying a few words in reference to the gross misrepresentations which had been made on this subject in some of the public prints, and more particu in stated in a provincial publication of the 12th larly in a certain book which had been lately of the present month of February, that the published. When he spoke of lay impropriatigh living of Wisbeach, estimated to be worth tions as being a great cause of non-residence, the are given to a near relation of he did not mean the remotest allusion to the Ely-a Mr. Farriday-and it present lay impropriators. He spoke only of was stated that this rev. Gentleman was in the original lay impropriation-the effect of possession of several other ecclesiastical pre- which had been to make the income of many ferments It was also stated that the rev.livings so small that it formed a great obstacle Gentleman was to Bishop of Ely; but he would be held to be a complete explanation resign a living in favour of to residence. He hoped, therefore, that this a second sono did not see how all this could be done without once for all, and that he would have no occathe concurrence of the Lord Chancellor.sion to trouble, their Lordships further on the [Lord Chancellor Farriday had not been subject. There was point on which appointed to the living of Wisbeach. The he wished to say a few words. It had been bad not then taken place. The said that the average income of livings was appoin eman, however had five other ap-from 3501. to 3604. or 3657. a year, He had rev. Gent investigated the subject minutely since he had adverted to on a former occasion; and the noble Baron himself would probably be sur prised at the result; for, after all that bad been said about the enormous property of the Church, he had found that, taking every thing into account, the value of the livings, on an it at 8,000,000, and average, did not amount to more than 1857, a always calculated year. He had taken as the basis of his cal- I am confident that I am under the culation the Returns of 1841-a period of great mark. agricultural, prosperity. Besides the tithes, he bad taken into account the value of the glehe lands of Queen Anne's bounty, and the incomes of Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Corporations, and the incomes of livings did not amount, in the whole, to 2001. on an average. He stated this in answer to the gross and scandalous misrepresentations in some of the public prints, and particularly in the book to which he had alluded, in which there, was the grossest misrepresentation on this subject that could well be put forth. The incomes of Archdeacons, for the discharge of their important duties, were very small-so small that they could not perform them at all without the aid of livings held by them in addition to their Archdeaconries. Prelate had said as to his statement, he had HOUSE OF COMMONS. BREACH OF FAITH. A long debate on the proposed tax on the funds, in which Lord ALTHORP defends himself from the imputation of wishing to break the public faith. He is rated by some, and consoled by others; he will not resign his opinions," but he resigns his project. I knew that if I lived I should see this; and if I live but a little longer I shall see bitterer draughts than these swallowed by those who have abused me.. HOUSE OF LORDS. Feb. 15. REFORM. Several petitions in fa Birmingham, signed by 21,000 persons, and styled a "petition of right." Several petitions also against tithes, Lord KING. It would be easy to send the order to the Secretaries of the Bishops, and to the Deans and Chapters, who could, without difficulty, make out the account of such livings as were in lay, and such as were in ecclesias-vour of this, but particularly one from tical patronage. As to what the right reverend not had his information from the black book to which the right reverend Prelate alluded, but from a book called The Revenues of the Church no Burden on the Public-abook which was favourable to the Church Establishment rather than otherwise. He should feel great pain if the average income of livings were so low as 1851. each, as the right reverend Prelate had stated; and lie hoped that the right reverend Prelate had fallen into some mistake in his calculation. Earl GREY did not see how the Returns called for by his noble Friend could be procured in the manner which he had proposed. He should have no objection to such Returns being laid on their Lordships' table; but he requested his noble Friend to consider whe HOUSE OF COMMONS. ALDERMAN WAITHMAN'S motion about trade and manufactures-BUCKINGHAM PALACE and WINDSOR CASTLE! A pretty exposure of the manner of carrying on public works was made as to these two places, which have cost already. 639,000l., and are, before they are completed, to cost 121,000l. more'; in all, 760,000l. Be it observed that all this money is laid out for building that great unfinished thing in the corner of St. James's Park, which, on all hands, is declared to be an ugly, ill-shaped, and unfit thing, and for furnishing Windsor Castle; and the excuse given by the trades-people for the cost of this latter so far exceeding the estimate, is stated by Lord ALTHORP to be," that the furniture was so extraordinary and so un ther it would not be better to withdraw his motion for the present, in order to see whether it might not be afterwards brought forward in a shape more calculated to attain the object. His own belief was, that great inconvenience resulted from this mode of incidentally discussing particular parts of the subject, on occasion of presenting petitions. He did not mean to question his noble Friend's sincerity; but he did say, that the course which he had adopted was any-thing but favourable to the attainment of the object which his noble usual." No less than 203,9601. for furFriend himself had in view. He was fully nishing one Palace, while the country persuaded that there existed among the heads is in such a state of destitution, that of the Church a most sincere desire to remedy men, young working men, have been known to die of pure want, and with The "" Extraordinary Black Book" nothing inside of them but sour referred to by the BISHOP of LONDON Sorrel ! the abuses in the establishment. and Lord KING (the book is published GAME-LAWS. This terrible code by Mr. E. WILSON, Royal Exchange), is, it seems, to be repealed in great part; states the whole revenues of the but I remarked on this in my last Rechurch establishment at 9,459,5657. Igister, so I need not do it again. Quali fication is to be done away with; and a nected with Ambassadors, Consuls and Vice Consuls, from the year 1814 to 1830. Motion agreed to. A good deal of battling about the steam-boat tax followed this. All sorts of efforts to get the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give up his proposed tax; but he remained firm; fought the poor junketters of London, Gravesend, and Margate with 16th of February HOUSE OF COMMONS. REFORM. Many petitions on this subject; one in particular, from Devon.; presented by Lord EBRINGTON, and supported by Sir THOMAS ACLAND." force and arms," saying, "Some hon. This petition, like almost all others on "Gentleman seemed to think, that, be"cause he had consented to make some "alterations in his original plan, he POOR-LAWS. Mr. BRISCOE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the 59th of ought to submit to a change of the Geo. III., c. 12., as far as it relates to the let-, whole. He could assure hon. Genting and leasing of land to labourers. Mr. Sturges Bourne and Mr. J. Smith sup-tlemen that they would be mistaken”! ported the Motion. Bravo, who 'd have thought it! Sir J. SHELLEY was of opinion that parishes ought to take a quantity of land, in order to give employment to their own poor; and thus in some measure enable the pauper to contribute to his own support. February 19. HOUSE OF LORDS. Lord WINCHILSEA presented a petition from a parish in Kent for a repeal Mr. PORTMAN feared that such a plan of the Malt duty. He said that the would be impracticable with regard to parishes, but private individuals might thus let Beer Bill had caused many small beer out small portions of land to poor men, who shops in which the late outrages in the would thus be enabled to support themselves without entirely depending on parish assist-county had been determined on; and ance, and who would, consequently, raise thereupon he charged the Government themselves above the degraded state in which with being in some measure the cause. they now were. However, he must say, that The Duke of WELLINGTON reminded rather thaa see the present system patched up Lord W. that the Beer Bill did not in this manner, he should wish Parliament to come into operation till October, repeal most of the Acts on the subject till they got back to the Act of Elizabeth. This was whereas the disturbances began before. a subject which his Majesty's Ministers must speedily take into their consideration. They must come back to the Act of Elizabeth, sooner or later, and the sooner the better. STURGES BOURNE's Bill I shot at from Long Island; and I shall have to refer very shortly to the poor liitle hunted Register of that time. February 17. Lord HOUSE OF LORDS. Nothing of much consequence. ELLENBOROUGH moved for some returns concerning articles on which some change in duties is intended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Motion agreed to. REFORM. The Lord CHANCELLOR presented a petition from Edinburgh in favour of reform. His Lordship's words on presenting this petition, are remarked on in the former part of this Register. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. D. BROWNE came to ask the Government for a grant of money (200,000l.) to relieve the Irish in certain districts of Ireland now suffering the most appalling distress. He described the unfortunate people as 66 some utterly destitute: said they had "time since been obliged to have re"course to picking up wretched shellfish on the sea-shore, in order to delay, HOUSE OF COMMONS. "as long as possible, the consumption of EVESHAM. A good deal of talk" their stock of potatoes!" He went about this Borough; but nothing worth recording or commenting on. DIPLOMATIC EXPENSES. Mr. -HUME moved for returns of expenses con 66 on, after stating that the number of persons in the district that he spoke of amounted to about 200,000, to hope that the Government would grant a 66 sum "of 200,000l., and then he said" the linen trade being at an end, they there were many persons who objected" could only depend upon the soil, for to giving money to the people, and he" which they knew no means of comwas himself opposed to the principle of "pulsory production. pulsory production. Give us (said mere gifts; but in this case the Irish" the petitioners, in conclusion) but "did not ask for gifts, they only wanted" the means of maintaining our wives "the Government to grant the money "and our families we will be thank"as the means of paying for public" ful-we will be industrious—we "works, for these poor people wanted" will be happy.' Severe as were nothing more than the means of em- "the sufferings of the petitioners, their ployment. In what he had stated he representations of them to the House "had been guilty of no exaggeration; " did not contain a syllable of insubor"he had stated what he believed to be" dination, or even of discontent; and """ strictly true, and he had done so at " for this reason it was doubly deserving "this moment, because he thought it" the attention of Parliament." (Hear, "to be his duty to forget every-thing, in hear.) 66 a case like the present, but the abso- A long debate on the army estimates "lute necessity of bringing the case of followed. Nothing of great conse"these poor people before the House. quence. The estimate was raised by Objected to giving money TO 8000 more troops, on the ground that "THE PEOPLE!" Aye, do they. the internal state of the country requires But just turn to the Irish pension list; it. for, although this country is in a state of distress such as no country ever was known to be in before, though its inhabitants wander about naked, and subsist in great part upon shell-fish, picked up along the shore; though this actually now goes on, this country has a pension list, and I here give one little extract from it. Handfield, Catherine (a year) Handfield, Anne Margaret Handfield, Eliza Handfield, Jane Isabella Handfield, Mary Handfield, Julia Lucy £88 1 0 Feb. 20. HOUSE OF LORDS. TITHES.-Lord KING observed that he believed he had the precedence. He would bring under their notice the report made by the and Privy Council, in order to obtain their Archbishop of Dublin to the Lord Lieutenant sanction to the great union of Wicklow. He would not enter more fully into the abuses of the Irish unions than was necessary to make the practices of Ireland in this respect intelligible to an English audience. No one could 88 10 dispute that the union of many parishes into 88 10 one benefice was a great abuse; and ought 88 10 never to be unnecessarily allowed. In Ireland 88 10 the practice was peculiarly objectionable; be881 0 cause it increased the contrast between the extreme poverty of the people and the over88 10 grown wealth of the church establishment. There! thou " many who object to If any one were to ask why so large a portion give money to the people!" who these of the property of Ireland was applied to the people (the Handfields) are, God knows; small minority of the people, the only defence maintenance of a religion which was that of a but what WORK do they do? what that could be set up would be, that in the deare they willing to do?-STANLEY (Se- serted state of a country where so few lay cretary for Ireland) said, "He had persons of property resided, it was desirable to "himself received a Petition from the secure the residence of so many men of edacation. But when six, seven, eight, or ten barony of Tyrawley, which he in- benefices were joined in one Union, the num"tended to present to the House; and ber of resident gentlemen was curtailed, and "the subscribers to it set out their suf- the only defence of the large revenue of the "ferings in language at once most Established Church was destroyed. Looking to the account of the number of parishes and "simple and most forcible. They incumbents in Ireland, he found that 2450 "stated that they had been obliged to parishes were united in such a manner that "sell their moveables; that the scanty they possessed only 700 resident clergymen ; crop of grain had been sold to pay solidated in 517 unions. These may be called being not a third. 1701 parishes were con"rent; that the potatoe crop had, to a the Irish Consols. There were only 741 pa"considerable extent, failed; and that, rishes with single residents. The unions con |