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subject , said that , in Ins opinion , Jlr . Disraeli should have met the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer by a direct negative , and called on the opposition to go through the proposals in detail , to accept what they approved , and reject what they disliked . Jlr . S . Fitzgerald . said that the course proposed by Ministers differed from the precedent established by Jlr . Pitt , and that it would not give the house a failopportunity for discussion of the subject . Lord John Russell said it would be a monstrous proceeding for the house to go into consideration

of the whole treaty , article by article . Jlr . Horsman supported the amendment , and the debate was continued to a late hour , when the house divided , and the amendment was rejected by a majority of 293 to 230 . On the following evening Jlr . Ducane rose , amidst the cheers of the conservative party , to move the following resolution : — "That while the committee is desirous to relieve the trade of the country from all duties of customs which can safely be dispensed with , it does not think it expedient to add to the existing deficiency by diminishing the

ordinary revenue , and is not prepared to disappoint the just expectations of the country by rendering necessary a large increase of the income tax . " The hon . gentleman said that he came forward to oppose a scheme of taxation which he considered to be as unsound as it was unjust . The budget , in his opinion , did not grapple with the financial exigencies of the country , the reductions of taxation were singularly inopportune at a time when it was considered necessary to maintain the income tax at so hih a rateandabove allthe budget was based on a one-sided

comg ; , , mercial treaty with France . It had been recommended as a budget of peace , but it ought properly to be called a budget of war , and he thanked God that there was still a party in the House of Commons which would support an independent member in his attempts to confront injustice and to quell oppression . A long discussion followed , the motion being supported by Jlr . Dawson ancl Jlr . Heunessy , and opposed by Jlr . Crossley and Jlr . Duff . Sir S . Northcote then said that there was much sterling gold in the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequerbut that

, it was possible to buy even gold too clearly , and the price they were asked to pay for what was deserving of approval in the budget was more than it was really worth . The house then adjourned at a late hour . On AVednesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer said , in reply to Jlr . NewJegate , that the Treaty with France had no reference to anytbiug

except French productions . It had no reference to the productions oi other countries , and if the question was meant to raise the point as to what course Parliament might take with regard , for instance , to German silk , the answer was that the House of Commons was left at liberty to do what it might think proper . Sir Charles Bun-ell moved the second reading of the AViuclow Cleaning Bill , the object being to prevent accidents by the employment of persons other than window cleaners to standsitor kneelon the sill of a windowin order to cleanpaintor

, , , , , , perform any act thereon , or on the outside of a house . The bill was lost . A discussion then took place on the Election Petitions Act ( 1848 ) Amendment Bill ; and tho debate was adjourned . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —An important meeting has heen held at the Thatched House Tavern , St . James ' s Street . The object was to make the volunteer movement a permanent institution by establishing at our public schools the princile of elementary military drill . Lord Elcho

p presided . A committee has been formed , comprising , among other distinguished names , those of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham , to promote the very desirable object of furnishing from our public schools a perpetual supply of trained recruits to the volunteer corps . Jlr . Henry Drummond , M . P .. died on Sunday night , at his seat , Albury , near Guildford . Mr . H . Drummond was born in 1786 , ancl married in 1807 , Lady-Henrietta , eldest daughter of the ninth Earl of Kinnoul , who died iu since 1847 The in St

1854 . He hacl sat for AVest Surrey . rows . George-in-the-East it is hoped will be soon at an end . Last Sunday there were about fifty policemen present ; . and a congregation not over four hundred . The greatest quietness prevailed , and there was no

display of feeling whatever . In the evening there was a numerous attendance . The rector was present and read the prayers , ancl the sermon was preached by the Rev . Jlr . Maconoehie , Tho greatest order prevailed during the whole of the service . There were , inside ancl outside the church , and consequent upon the worship there , some 300 policemen , and in consequence , there was little , or no disturbance . The blackguards have therefore got the worst of it for the present , and MrYardley has expressed bis determination to use the most severe

. measures in case of another pickpockets' scramble . At the Isle of Ely quarter sessions , the chief constable called the attention of , the magistrates to the approaching prize fight between Sayers and Heenan , which , according to the arrangements made on the subject , is to take place at Littleport , on the 16 th of April . The chief constable said he should like to take steps to prevent thc belligerents visiting the isle . During the last five years the local police expenses incurred solely on account of and he that

prize fights hacl been £ 21 10 s . 5 d ., suggested ^ an official letter should be addressed to the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway , asking them to follow the example of the South Eastern Company , and to refuse a special train for the purpose of taking down the combatants and their friends . Thc court resolved to adopt this course . An inquest has been held on Mrs . Brunns , the wife of a publican the evidence showing that the poor creature owed her death

; to the brutality of some rascally bailiffs , employed by Jlessrs . Taylor and AA ' alker , brewers . She was the wife of the landlord of the Royal Sovereign public-house , Ratcliff-liighivay . The house had been closed for nearly a fortnight , ancl on the afternoon of the 13 th inst ., a broker , named John Davis Pilley , and his men made entry into the house to

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make a distraint for a debt ivhieh was due to the brewers . The men seized all the articles they could lay their hands upon , ancl at length reached the bed-room door of the deceased , who was in the pains of labour . The husband and the two female attendants remonstrated with them , but they demanded an entrance , and said , "Thev must take everything out of the bouse but the bed and bedstead upon wliich the deceased was lying . " The infant was born while they were outside the doorand the men said "They would have the things out ofthe if

, room they could . " Deceased became terribly alarmed when she saw the head of the broker . Dr . Tripe remained with the deceased , who became fearfully excited and died in a quarter of au hour after her confinement . The coroner said their conduct was very harsh and cruel . The whole of the jury concurred iu this opinion . -On Monday , a fearful accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway , near Tottenham , resulting in the death of four persons , and terrible injuries to many more . As far as be ascertained

can , the catastrophe appears to have arisen by the breaking of the tire of the left leading wheel of the engine , by which the train was upset . -Tivo fearful shipwrecks have to be recorded this week . On Sunday morning , before daylight , the American ship , Lima , from Havre to New-Orleans , was lost in the Channel ; she had on board 124 persons , of whom only two are at present known to have been saved . The steam ship , Ondinc , from Dublin to London , on the same day came into collision with another ship called the Heroine , the Oacf i-iie went down with the loss of fortv lives .

FOREICIN NEWS . —AVith regard to the great European question we find in the Prussian Qasette of Tuesday the following : — " AVe learn that a proposal of the Cabinet of St . Petersburg !! for the assembling of a conference of the five great powers has been forwarded to Paris , and that Prussia has joined in this proposal . " The contest between the Emperor and the clergy in France assumes formidable dimensions . JI . Billault , the Home Minister , publishes a circular , in which he says that the time has eome for putting an end to the attempt at agitation on the

Roman question . _ The prefects are instructed to prohibit , according to law , thc distribution of writings and pamphlets , unless duly authorised , and to report to the Council of State whenever the liberty of the pulpit is abused . They are . recommended to combine moderation with firmness , as the Emperor desires peace ancl libert y for religion . Tho Papal Government does not appear inclined to depart from the attitude of mad and ruinous obstinacy it has hitherto maintained . Twenty-five English Catholics have presented to the a protest

Pope from the faithful , which " has afforded great consolation to the Holy Father . " News from Bologna state that the peasants complain of the Papal regime . The army of the Romagna has received reinforcements . The Archduke Maximilian has sent to the Pope 2 , 000 great coats , a'battery , and some cavalry . Jlore Austrian soldiers and officers have arrived in the States of the Church . Letters from Venice report that tho state of oppression continued there , ancl that the , emigration of Venetians was he

increasing . J armaments in Piedmont are being accelerated . The most recent accounts from Madrid inform us that the press is unanimous for the further prosecution of the war against the Jloors . The small success of the capture of Tetuan appears to have thrown thc Spaniards into a state of wild enthusiasm . The treasury is rich , men aro not wanting , aud it is something , after so many years of helpless inactivity , to have made a stir in Europe . O'Donnell , now Duke of Tetuan

, is said to bo already wearied of the campaign , ancl to have no desire to march into the interior of Jlorocco . But having got thus far , it is not easy to see how he can recede . It is time , however , to ask how long the Spaniards are to be allowed to retain Tetuan in their possession . In the present condition of European affairs it is obvious that the interests of this country demand that the Spaniards should leave that seaport with all possible despatch . It would never do for a town at so short a distance from Gibraltar to be retained by a poiver connected by intimate ties with France .

INDIA ; CIIIXA ; AND JAPAN . —By extraordinary express has arrived this week thc Bombay mail of January 25 . Thc only matters of interest are the progress of the viceroy , the preparation of the force for China , and the submergence of the telegraphic wire between Kurrachee and Aden , of ivhieh perhaps , the last is the most important . On the 13 th inst ., at Kurrachee , tho shore end of the cable was hauled on shore . On the evening- of the 17 th instant , the intelligence was received iu Bombay that the cable had been successfully laid as far as Jluscat .

At Canton there has been a conflagration in the commissioners' yamnn , which destroyed a great part of it . At Japan trade has been suspended by the native authorities , with the approval of the British consul-general , on account of the improper conduct of some of the British residents there , and because of outrages committed on Japanese by drunken sailors .

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" S . AA ' . T . "—The pedestals may be made to represent the three principal orders in architecture . JIANCIU-STER LODCU : . NO . 209 . -AVe have received two accounts of tho recent proceedings in this Lodge , but hold it can do no goocl to record dissensions , the existence of ivhieh a } l good JIasons must deplore .