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SATURDAY.

Ministers were last night triumphant in both Houses ; drawing forth much cheering by announcing a success in the foreign policy, and de- feating the Whig Opposition in the House of Commons.

Soon after the House of Lords met, the Earl of MALaLESBURY rose and announced that the King of Naples had agreed to give 30001. as compen- sation to Watt and Park, the engineers ; and that he had without condition given up the Cagliari and the whole of her crew to her Majesty's Go- vernment. The Earl of CLARENDON said that this was satisfactory ; but was it correct to say that the ship was given up to us ? Lord MALMESBIIRY replied that it was so.

In the House of Commons Mr. DISR.AELI, in a speech on another sub- ject, added some further details.

"The Cagliari, under the command of the same Sardinian captain, manned with the same Sardinian crew, and under the general authority of Mr. Barber, will sail to Genoa, and there Mr. Barber will deliver the Ca- gliari and its crew to the authorities of the King of Sardinia."

The House cheered this statement loudly and long.

The motion that the House at its rising should adjourn until Monday, gave rise to a conversation upon the state of our national defences. Sir Cmintes NAPIER, dwelling on the vast preparations and extraordinary military and naval activity of France, and her facilities for concentrating and embarking a force for an invasion of this country, asked whether the Government intended to take a vote for more seamen and marines and call out the Militia, when the reinforcements have left for India ?

Mr. Dist:Lai:Li rather made light of Sir Charles's " startling inquiry,''_ which seemed to be based on old information. Questions, like this ere inconvenient. Government are not aware of these extraordinary pre; _parations. Our relations with France are of a cordial and confidential nature ; at this moment we are acting with the prinffipal powers of Eu- rope, and the object, and he hoped the result of these labours will be the maintenance of peace and not its outrageous disturbance. It is not the policy or the interest of England to give credit to foreign govern- ments for the worst intentions. The policy of the Government will be "firm, conciliatory, and just." But whatever the state of our alliances, he would, "abstractedly speaking," lay it down as a condition that Eng- land should be adequately and completely defended.

In the course of the conversation which ensued, Mr. BRIGHT made a speech in favour of small armaments. He told a story of an old lady of eighty who was not at all afraid of a French invasion. An attempt had been recently made to frighten her, but she said that as long as she could recollect there had been a story afloat of French invasion. " I am asked by persons in this House and some people out of doors, who -do not look very deeply into these matters, put the same questions to me,— why do you show something like favour to a Conservative Government, and -why were you accessory to putting the gentlemen now in Opposition on their present benches ? If I wanted an answer to this, it would be found in the speech which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made to us tonight. (Cheers.) These are not questions of aristocracy and democracy, they are not questions of Conservatism and Radicalism; they are questions of the obvious interests of our country, and of humanity at large. I only hope the House and the nation will sustain the present Government in every effort they may make to restore our foreign relations to a state of tranquil- lity and safety, so that we may be able to turn our attention again to that from which we have been diverted for the last five years—namely, the pro- cess of reducing our expenditure in order, if possible, to render England a country which all Englishmen shall prefer, rather than one from which they have incessant inducements to emigrate to every other part of the globe." (Cheers. Sir CHARLES WOOD defended the late Government. Sir JOHN PAXMG- TON deprecated the speeches and articles they had heard and seen of late. "I am bound to state that at this time we could at the shortest notice as- semble in the Channel a fleet which would, I believe, be able to cope with any that any other Power of Europe could send out. I feel it my duty to make that statement, hoping that I shall not be understood to imply any alarm, but the reverse." The House went into Committee on the Indian Resolutions, and dis- cussed the number of the Council and the nature of its functions. Lord JOEL,/ RUSSELL advocated 12 ; Mr. Timaras Bennie 18 ; the Government proposed not more than 15 or less than 12. The Committee divided on the question that 12 should be the maximum number of the Council. The motion was negatived by 243 to 176 ; and the proposal of the Go- vernment was carried. The Chairman then reported pregress, and ob- tained leave to sit again on Thursday.

Telegraphic despatches received from India this morning, with advices from Bombay to the 19th May, bring the gratifying intelligence that Bareilly was captured on the 7th May by Brigadier Jones and Sir Colin Campbell. Nana Sahib and Khan Balladeer escaped. General Penny's column had joined that of the Commander-in-chief; but General Penny himself was killed in an action with rebels on the road. The British garrison left at Shabjehanpore were surrounded by the enemy. Brigadier Jones marched on the 8th to relieve them. Sir Hugh Rose, after his action at Kooneh, had moved up to within fourteen miles of Calpee. General Whitlock, it appears, had not left Banda. He had to await there the arrival of his infantry. Sir Edward Lugard had crossed the Ganges, relieved Arrah, and was about to attack Jugdespore. The .statement that Kour Singh had died of his wounds is confirmed, The political intelligence is that Rohilcund is entirely in our hand;, that an amnesty has been published, and that tranquillity- is in course of restoration. The preceding statement respecting the favourable progress of affairs in Oude is repeated. [Lord Stanley read a despatch lastnight to the same effect in the House of Commons, and deliberately stated hie belief that a policy of conciliation and justice has been pursued in Oude, and that its results, so far as we can ascertain them, have been sale: factory with regard to the landed proprietors.]

We have reason to believe that a circular has been issued by Lord Derby to his supporters, which announces the intention of the Govern. ment to offer no further opposition to the admission of the Jews to Par- liament. While thus conceding the political expediency of this admis- sion, Lord Derby seizes the occasion to reiterate his moral conviction that the-Jews ought not to sit in Parliament-2Ymes.

There was a dinner in Merchant Taylor's Hall given on the termina- tion of the election of Fellows from the Merchant Taylor's School to St. John's College, Oxford. There was a large gathering of Conservative Peers, Bishops, and distinguished civil and military men, around the hospitable table. The Prime Minister made a speech chiefly occupied with descriptions of the difficulties encountered by his Government, and his success in dealing with and overcoming them. His latest exploit,— in obtaining the grant of compensation to Watt and Park, and the sur- render of the Cagliari, by the Neapolitan Government—of course, figured prominently in the bill of fare.

Lord Malmesbury has appointed Mr. Lyons, the eldest son of Lora Lyons, and recently employed at Naples in the Cagliari business, Minis- ter to the Court of Tuscany in the room of Mr. Howard. Mr. Lyons has long resided at Florence as our resident but unaccredited Minister at Rome.

Yesterday, the day of St. Barnabas, an extraordinary meeting took place in St. James's Hall. " Gentleman only" were invited to attend. Lord Calthorpe presided, and expectation was great. The Honourable and Reverend F. Baring then made to the meeting a long statement, in- terspersed with documentary evidence, to show the use that the Reverend Alfred Poole, Curate of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, had made of the confes- sional. He read the statements of two women, one twenty-six, the other fifty. These women stated that they had been confessed by Mr. Poole in a dark room. [The questions put to them have too much of an Holywell Street character to find a place in our columns.] Mr. Baring had laid the whole evidence before the Bishop of London; • the Bishop gave Mr. Poole a fortnight to show cause, and in default of his doing so, he had revoked Mr. Poole's licence, and dismissed him from his office, Mr. Baring read other statements to show that Mr. Poole was "only following his leader," Mr. Liddell .of St. Paul's. The meeting passed a resolution thanking Mr. Baring for the manly course he had pursued.

_ -- The inquiry into the mental state of Sir Henry Meux was yesterday con- tinued. Lady Meux, Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Alm- bury, Colonel Gilpin, Lord Edwin Hill were examined. All these witnesses said they had not observed any indication of incapacity on the part of Sir Henry 'Meux previous to his journey to Scotland in August 1857. Lady Meux was examined touching the relations between her husband and his sisters ; and her answers did not reveal a very pleasant state of things. Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce declared that they knew nothing, until the preceding day, of the contents of the codicil to Sir Henry's will. The in- quiry was again adjourned.

Sir Edward Buxton died yesterday at Colne House, Cromer, in his forty- ninth year. He had been unwell for some time. His death causes a vacancy in the representation of East Norfolk. Sir Edward was a Liberal.