The Royal Shaksperian Club are to endeavour to collect funds

for the purchase mons last evening; its first reading having been carried by a large major- of the house at Stratford-on-Avon in which Shakspere was born. ity-274 to 149.

Market on Monday; the price, 21. 10a. tain FiTzateunics, and Major BERESFOR.D, advocated the principle of the A Cornwall paper tells a laughable story of horse-jockeying. A farmer at bill; Mr. PATRICK SOMERS, Mr. MAVRICE O'CowEELE Mr. TIMOTHY Constantine had a mare whose good qualities were so few that he determined to O'Bzurst, Mr. Snanstaw Csawrortn, Mr. BELLEW, Mr. EfEriav Gnarre.sr, Bell her: he did so, but was not able to purchase a substitute at that market. A Mr. ROCHE, Captain LATARD, Colonel RAWDON, spoke with much free-

dom against it; and Colonel StaTitoar closed the debate in a way of his discovered that he had merely repurchased the old steed, the horse-dealers having Of course there was nothing new in the speeches: but we glean a few of

It is very remarkable that the last three Coroners in the late Mr. Partridge's Mr. MAURICE O'CourrELL's points were—the dismissal of the Repeal Magic!. division of the county of Devon jurisdiction, viz. the deceased and his two im- trates by Sir E. Sudgen; the Arms Act; the monster indictment; the impn-

mediate predecessors, committed suicide.—Dercmport Telegraph. sonment of Mr. O'Connell, and his subsequent discharge by the House of Lords; the Charitable Bequests .Act ; the godless Colleges Act ; the contempt of the The Paris Commerce states that several pardons are to be granted on the ap- people of Ireland for the Government which had introduced these bungling acts wmching anniversary of the King. Among others, the sentence of Madame Laf- of legislation; the failure of all former Coercion Acts; the oppressive character are is to be commuted to imprisonment for ten years, to be computed from the of the present Coercion Bill; the folly ofiressing it on the House against the penod of her arrest. wishes of the Irish Members, the Irish peo e_, and the very officials of the Irish The pawnbrokers of Paris have been victimized by a clever rascal. A pawn- Government; the agrarian insurrection, an the causes of it. broker was applied to by a pretended lace-merchant for a loan on some diamond or- Mr. Cotquaousr said that the evil was at present intolerable; but he did not 'laments: he said they were the property of his wife, and that he wanted a sum of think the present measure was sufficiently ciently stringent to overcome t: to some ex- money on them for a few days. The tradesman had the articles examined, and tent it would do good, but not to the extent required. He thought that you ought the diamonds were pronounced to be of good water: he accordingly advanced to have powers to arrest these village idarats, who were well known to the Police, 4,800 francs. Two as after, the articles were redeemed. This was frequently either by a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, or by some other similar measure, repeated; the lace-merchant always reclaiming the diamonds in a few days. On and to place them for a time in such imprisonment as would deter others. the 14th of last month, the goods were pledged as usual: several dap elapsed, Mr. TIMOTHY O'BRIEN warned the House, that if the bill should unfortunately and they were not called for; this alarmed the pawnbroker, he sought his ens- pass, it would be found in less than twelve months, that fifteen instead of five tomer in vain, and then set off to the head establishment of the Mont-de-Piete; Irish counties were in a state of intolerable disturbance.

' where he learned that the last ornaments left with him were formed of false Mr. BELLEW thought that Sir Robert Peel was the last man in the world to atones, and that three other tradesmen had been similarly tricked. The pre- tell the landlords of Ireland that they were too much in the habit of neglecting

tended lace-merchant has been since arrested at Rouen, on his way to England. their duty, of doing nothing for themselves, and of trusting for everything Letters from Iceland, received at Copenhagen, state that a great misfortune has to the Government. Was not Sir Robert Peel the Minister who issued the befallen that country in consequence of the present eruptions of Heels ; a fatal Landlord and Tenant Commiesion; and had be brought in any measure founded malady having attacked the cattle from eating herbage which had been covered on the report of that Commission to fulfil the hopes which he had himself excited?

by the volcanic ashes. " These dshes act more particularly on the bones of the The ATTORNEY-GENERAL made an elaborate reply to the speeches of Mr. animals which have swallowed them. Thus, on the bones of the feet there are O'Connell and Lord John Russell on the first night of this debate, and vindicated, formed, in less than twenty-four hours, osseous excrescences of an oblong form, in detail, the various clauses of the bill. which gradually assume so formidable a development that they prevent the beasts Mr. Ihnsay GRATTAN, after an impassioned denunciation of the agrarian from walking ; the same phsenomenon is then manifested in the lower jaw, which murders by which Ireland had been recently disgraced, proceeded to condemn with is at the same time enlarged, and extends in all directions so considerably that it even still greater warmth the oppressive and unconstitutional provisions of this eventually splits in several places; whilst on the teeth of the upper jaw there is Curfew Bill, which was intended to repress, but would most unquestionably formed a species of osseous needles, very long and pointed, which take root in the aggravate them. He ran riot for some time among the general and local gnevances lower jaw, and even traverse it,—a phase of the malady which always de- of Ireland; which he described as "a gutted and eviscerated" country. lie caused, termines a fatal issue. As high winds had prevailed for some time, the however, a striking sensation in the House by making. a statement of numerous volcanic ashes were scattered throughout the island; and a great number cases, in which the Police had been actively engaged in employing spies and in- of cattle, especially oxen, cows, and sheep, had perished. If the eruption of formers to incite individuals to the commission of crime in Ireland, and in which Hecia is prolonged for two months more, all the rural proprietors who have they had themselves written and served threatening notices, for which they had not enough hay to keep their herds—and the majority are in this situation afterwards apprehended innocent individuals, and received considerable rewards. —will be obliged either to slaughter their cattle, or to abandon them to certain Mr. W. R. COLLETT showed from his own experience that the infusion of capi- death on the pastures thus poisoned by the volcanic ashes. The eruption of tal did not always prevent the perpetration of crime in inland. He detailed cases. Mount Hecla was extremely violent. The flames which issued from the three In connexion with one in which a number of ruffians with blackened faces inti- great craters attained a height of 14,400 feet; and their breadth exceeded the mated to a woman that her husband would be murdered so soon rs he bad re- greatest breadth of the river Picersen, the most considerable river in Iceland. covered from injuries previously inflicted upon him by fire-arms, he said, that if The lava had already formed lofty mountains; and amongst the masses of pumice- he had been armed with this bill, he could lave apprehended those marauders; atone vomited by the volcano, and which have been found at a distance of three- but as the law now stood, they were enabled to walk off with impunity.

important that the Irish Members should be during the next two or three months on their properties in their own country, looking after the interests of their eople; but it this bill should enter into Committee, they would return from Ire- rand, and prevent it from ever leaving it, until the British Parliament first passed

Major BERESFORD reserved to himself the right of making any amendments

upon the bill in its future stages. he appealed to its owner, who was not caming a gun, to have it explained. The .

Colonel S1BTHORP would neither oppose nor support this bill. It was so

weak, futile, and inoperative that he could not give it his sanction. If they had brought in a bill with ten times as much coercion to Ireland, he would have gladly

Lord GEORGE BENTHCCK seemed anxious to purge himself from the

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tion of a compact with Mr. Smith O'Brien on the subject of the Corn-laws; and ac- tually moved the adjournment of the House to enable him to disclaim the alleged com-

tact. The SPEAKER intimated that Lord George could not make such a motion, as The House then divided on the bill—

For the first reading 274 Against it 125 Majority 149

Sir ROBERT PEEL named the 25th May for the second reading. Mr. O'CONNELL intimated that he should move as an amendment, the appoint- ment of a Committee to inquire into the Irish landlord and tenant question.

Sir ROBERT PEEL also announced that he should proceed with the Com- mittee on the Corn Bill op Monday.

Some discussion occurred in the Rouse of Lords on the motion for going into Committee on the Railway Companies Dissolution Bill.

The Earl of RADNOR thought that the measure should undergo considerable alteration. It was notorious that there had been a great deal of gambling going on for the last few days in scrip, to buy it up, and so entitle the purchasers to realize profits out of the share of the deposits after the liabilities Lad bees pro- vided for. The Earl of DALHOUSIE replied, that this gambling bad bees going on long before the bill had been heard of. Lord DlouTeeetz accused the Go- vernment of dealing out remedies in "shreds and patches." Lord Blionosem

=of the neceesity of thoroughly reforming the private bill system in both The bill passed the Committee, with a few verbal alterations.