THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
this country. He deprecated such a controversy, and referred to 
the great Christian text, ‘that ye love one another ;’? but he 
while he begged it might be 
Dissenters were the foremost to aid it, both with their exertions 
and with their contributions. And yet he understood that one 
Church was at this day treating those Dissenters 
with suspicion and obloquy ; and under that sort of reproach it 
matter of surprise if the education clauses in this 
He considered the altera- 
tions now proposed as being a more efficacious fulfilment of the 
original design of the Government rather than as any departure 
tdesign ; but for the presenthe must observe upon them, 
i having the schoolmaster @ 
Church would, as to all the masters, li 
fication and thatthe principle of election just announced would still 
Jeave the Dissenting trustees in a ut 
though, as was the case in some of the manufacturing di: 
their constituents might be alarge majority of the rate-pay: 
however, consider this bill with a hope of effectually 
accomplishing its objects, which were matter of much more 
importance to the poor of this country than to any political party. 
ir R. H. [vents abstained from pronouncing any opinion at the 
present stage of the proceedings.— rine declared that the 
f the Dissenters would not be removed by the con- 
cessions already announced. Nothing short of the Government’s 
ii g religion to the people 
Hawes, Mr, 
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printed; the further consideration to be taken on the 22d inst. 
The House went into a committee of supply, and the vote for 
the expenses of the late special commission, which had been post- 
poned until the return was made, was taken.—The House having 
resolution was passed, on the motion of the CHANCELLOR O! 
Excneguer, giving the Government power to advance from the 
discussed, contending that the treaty was conducive to 
interests of the two nations, and honourable to the negotiator.— 
Bowarine seconded the motion, remarking on the violence 
ailed, and arguing: 
the want of upholding the dignity of Britain, He was not dis- 
posed to censure with severity the expression of Lord Ashburton 
in terming Boston the ‘cradle of American liberty.” He rather 
rejoiced that the Americans appreciated the noble struggles of their 
forefathers ; but while he wished to see the bonds strengthened 
etween the two countries, he did not think the treaty had done so, 
$ s Palmerston and 
Russell, and their friends, in endeavouring to ruin the character 
of Lord Ashburton, who, actuated by the purest m i 
undertaken this difficult negotiation, Mr. Hume’s support had 
not always been so indifferent to the late Government. Was it 
creditable to public men to pursue the course which had been 
foilowed by the noble Lords? The Government was taunted 
with violating precedent by adopting the motion; but when Mr. 
Canning’s policy with respect to Spain was questioned, he refused, 
contrary to his original intention, to permit the motion to be with- 
drawn without a definite expression of the opinion of the House. 
The question was not, on the present occasion, about the giving 
up of a Madawaska settlement, or of a particular boundary ; if 
was one involving peace and war, on an irritating dispute which 
in spite of negotiation had lasted for half a century, 
right of search, Lord Palmerston had authorized the capture of 
American vessels, which had produced so much 
the United States, and had rendered the question a difficu 
and theconvention in the treaty secured for five years the 
co-operation of a joint squadron on the coast of Africa for the 
suppression of the slave trade. He believed that the Oregon 
dispute would be settled ere Jong, as well as that of the right of 
search; and, notwithstanding the efforts of individuals to excite 
animosities, he was satisfied that the treaty of Washington would 
d to relations of amity and good-will between the two coun- 
tries. He called on the House, therefore, viewing the difficulties 
which Lord Ashburton had reome, t 
ordinary precedent in passing the vote of thanks to thenoble Lord, 
Lord PaumErston remarked that the present Government 
intention of insulting the American flag by using the phrase 
bi ing,” which had reference not to the flag of the 
Union, but to piratical and fraudulent attempts to sail under it; 
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not prove effectual for checking the slave trade. 
ment had not stood up very manfully for their negotiator, in 
leaving him’ to the attentions of Mr. Hume; the principle on 
which he had proceeded, of concession for the sake of peace, had 
been repudiated by so great a lover of peace as Mr. Fox. 
admitting that the treaty of Washington was advantageous to 
the country, it remained to be shown that the merit was due to 
the negotiator, and there w: 
‘0a diplomatist, which would lower the character of the House, 
by dragging a majority through the dirt, in approbation of an 
unwise and disadvantageous treat; 
words in reply, He did not think that 
conded the dis- 
o cast censure on Lord Ashburton, but not 
‘ing him entitled to thanks.—Mr. E! 
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. BULLER, Mr. 
Virwon Smits, and Sir Joan Hanmer, opposed the motion, and 
‘o countries, every 
In a few months Lord Ash- 
pute which Lord 
y protracted; even 
the Madawaska settlement, about which so much was now said, 
was one of the objects which the noble Lord, when in office, had 
vainly offered, in order to induce the United States to accept the 
award of the King of the Netherlands. Lord Ashburton had 
ny y f his would have so stirred up the noble lords ; 
and the spirit now evinced convinced him that, had they been in 
office, we have been embroiled with America, On a 
i otion was carried by 238 against 96. 
lay. — After the presentation of a great number of 
they were submitted to the House.—Mr. Jervis gave notice of 
motion for a select committee to inquire into the operation of 
the New Bankruptcy Act; and also, that he would move for 
jeave to bring in a bill for the more easy recovery of small debts. 
—Ssir James Granam, in reply to Mr. Surrm O’Brien, who 
inquired whether the Government would enforce the ese 
reland, 
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for their production, but the returns were most voluminous, and 
had not been yet completed. 
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but they agreed that it might be exercised under certain 
conditions of remedy for injury. 
subject in the Ashburton Treaty was similar to @ proposi 
made by Lord Palmerston in 1839, yet he now turned round, and 
said it was a step in the wrong direction! The case of M‘Leod, 
ment, on entering office, had found to 
be so imminent and dangerous, had been succe: fully settled, and 
i i Lord Ashburton had, in fact, 
obtained a better military boundary than under the award of the 
he made no concession dishonourable or disadvantageous to the 
ouse would mark its 
sense of his high merits, and of the party attack which had been 
i Mr. Hume, 
Lord Joun Russe was surprised that the Government never 
thought of coming to the rescue of Lord Ashburton’s reputation 
and honour, until a geritleman’ came to their aid, who was so 
Hume for his 
very apposite; and it would appear as if the 
y, on the former 
that they could only be met by slutions passed without pre- 
cedent by both Houses of Parliament, The right of search, 
asserted by this country and denied by America, had not been 
e very convention on the 
ff repressing the slave-trade, which that treaty con- 
France, which it required all the p' 
Without going into all the complicated details of the boundary 
question, he declared his conviction that the tone adopted in the 
Hegotiations was not only cal 
tion, 
not calculated to sustain the honour of this country. Lord Ash- 
A i ketield,” whose 
ed in a case of shagreen spectacles. One 
moved, and Mr. Ewarr seconded the second 
nd Divorce Bill, which was opposed 
ision there appeared—Yor the second 
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deferred his motiou on the Repeal 
agitation until Mr. O’Connell should be present.—The House 
lous places ; and proceeded to show,(from authentic reports, the 
lamentable deficiency of church accommodati 
care, under which many populous districts suffered, and then 
explained the remedy he proposed. He did not intend to ask for 
any parliamentary grant, but he 
from the ecclesiasti 
ical revenues to the removal of this destitu- 
ion. The jplan he proposed was to'enable the commissioners 
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are certain to derive from 
reduced canonries, 
chiefly of new livings. 
annual payments of 
endowments. At ii 
exhausted in seventeen years, and, consequently, in the year 
1860, the whole of this sum would be applied to the endow- 
ment of new livings in populous manufacturing districts. 
0 what would be raised by 
voluntary subscriptions, would suffice for the purpose, and wi 
do more to promote the real welfare of the Church than if he had 
asked for a large grant of public money, After a long discussion 
the resolution was agreed to, and leave given.to pring in a bil 
founded on it.—The Irish Poor-law Amendment Bill was then 
read a second time, 
CITY. 
Money Market, Friday.—Consols left off at 963 to 
% for money, and 963 for account; Three per Cent, 
Reduced Stock, 953 to 6; Three-and-half per Cent. 
Reduced, 1014 to Z ; Bank Stock, 180 to 1; India Bonds, 
74s, to 76s. prem. 3 Exchequer Bills, 65s. to 67s. prem. 
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4. 
Metropolis and its Pictity. 
Church Missionary Sociely.—The annual meeting of 
this society was held at Exeter Hall, on Tuesday, the Warl 
of Chichester in the chair, supported by the Bishops of 
Winchester, Chester, and Norwich, the Dean of Salisbury, 
and other dignitaries of the Church ; Lord Sandon, MP, ; 
and alarge number of gentlemen. The 43d annual report 
stated that the committee entered on their duties at the 
beginning of the year shackled by a heavy debt. It be- 
came their pleasing task to announce that the society had 
now been all but relieved from financial embarrassment. 
Tbe annual income had exceeded 115,000/.,—a sum un- 
precedented in the history of any religious society in this 
or any other country. The Bishops of Barbadoes and 
of Guiana had become vice-presidents, and the King of 
Prussia a member of the society; His Majesty had con- 
tributed the sum of 100/. as a donation, and had become an 
annual subscriber of 25/, ‘The missionary institution at 
Islington, under the superintendence of the Rev. C.F, 
Childe, was progressing prosperously. The students were 
evidently still more attached than ever to the constitution 
and formularies of the Church. In New Zealand, the 
number of converts to Christianity had increased from 
2,000 to 35,000, and the Bishop had rendered a highly 
satisfactory account of the extension of religion in that 
distant colony. In Eastern and Western Africa, Greece, 
India, and elsewhere, the missions were increasing. The 
call for missionary clergymen was more earnest than ever, 
and in a short time the society would turn its attention to 
China, towards a mission in which country an individual, 
who wished to be unknown, had presented the munificent 
sum of 6,000. On the motion of the Bishop of Win- 
chester, the report was adopted, 
Wesleyan Missionary Society.—One of the largest 
meetings ever witnessed in Exeter Hall was held there on 
Monday, on the occasion of the annual meeting of this 
society. The Right Hon. Sir George Rose was to have 
presided, but a domestic affliction prevented his attend- 
ance ; the chair was, therefore, taken by Mr. Plumptre, 
M.P., who was supported by numerous ministers of differ- 
ent denominations. The chairman having briefly addressed 
the meeting, the Rev. W. Beecham read the report, 
which was very voluminous; it spoke of the success of 
the society’s missions in India, Ceylon, Wirtemberg, 
France, Gibraltar, Australia, Van Diemen’s Land, New 
Zealand, Feejee, Western Africa, British North America, 
Canada, and Hudson’s Bay. The effect produced by the 
distribution of the New Testament in the native language 
was one of the most interesting features of the efforts of 
the society in New Zealand. At Cloudy Bay, in the 
middle island, where 400 copies had been distributed, 
there were no less than 700 eager competitors, and nothing 
could surpass the expression of gratitude of the successful 
applicants to the British and Foreign Bible Society for its 
munificent grant. With respect to Hokianga, in the 
northern island, it was observed in reference to the Ca- 
tholic priests that their people were daily leaving them, and 
many of them were beginning to attend the missionary ser- 
vices; scarcely a day passed without bringing tothe mission- 
ary station a company of five or six Catholic converts, who 
went for the express purpose of conversing with the 
clergyman on religious subjects, ‘and begging books.’ 
The committee acknowledged another liberal grant of 
5,000 copies of the New Zealand Testament from the 
British and Foreign Bible Society in addition to the 
10,000 copies formerly voted (cheers); but even that 
number would fall far short of meeting the large demand 
made by the natives within the range of the society’s 
missions. In the Friendly Islands, the missions were 
generally in a languishing state, resulting chiefly from 
that rigid economy which the straitened circumstances of 
the society’s funds compelled the committee to practise. 
At Malta and in southern Africa the success had not been 
so great; whilst in the West Indies great loss had accrued 
to the society from recent earthquakes. Cape Haytien 
was entirely destroyed by an earthquake, May 7, 1842, an 
many thousand pounds would not repair the damage done 
to the chapels and mission buildings in Antigua, Domh 
nica, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Eustatius. ‘The income 
of the society during the year, containing some princely 
donations, amounted to 99,253/. 12s. 9d., and the expen= 
diture to 100,663. 13s. 9d., being an increase over the 
receipts of 2,4102. 1s. 1d. There was, however, a surplus 
in 1841, of 2,933/. 14s. 7d., which left the sum of 
5237, 13s. 6d. wherewith to commence the missionary 
labours of 1848, The debt of 30,0007. contracted 1> 
1838, 1839, and 1840, was now nearly liquidated, only 
6,6532. 2s. 1d. remaining to be paid. The Rev. Dt 
Hannah moved the adoption of the report, which being 
seconded by Mr. Campbell, M.P., and supported by # 
thippewa Indian, named Pah-ta-se-gay, who had been 
converted and christened Peter Jacobs, was carried uname 
mously. Hight other resolutions, in the course of whic 
twenty speakers addressed the meeting,*were agreed t0- 
gentlemen. The report stated that the number of soy 
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classed amongst the wranglers, and four amonge’ iy 
senior optimes, whilst two were in the first @ 
the second class of the classical tripos. 
attached to the college was now completed, by the tory 
tion of a valuable set of instruments from the nee aad a 
at Kew, a gift of her Majesty; it likewise contin 
