The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-29 00:00:00

-- IN , - mowed, ostentatiously paraded in every journal, 4 . 43 ,, m g by every essayist opposed to the navigation it furnished one of the moat sarcastic sneers to the has • .para ble mo ver of the select committee, and author of t . ejeg caricature of those laws with indifferent wit " Anatomy." And I freely confess that had it ;Wi n o, instead of being, as I am about to prove it, ut terly undeserving of credit, I could not myself have resisted ths . e ,bision, that experience had demonstrated free cora tiuo ee be, on the whole, better calculated to advance Veep marstime commerce than the protective policy so hag and so fondly cherished. dad now, sir, to the disproof of this bold but unfounded •detenent." Will it be believed that the tannage em ployed in every one of the crazies enumerated is tee ,jemn described as " unprotected trade " is actually pro. weed in a high degree, and, in some cases, to an extent aii ,,, m aieg to exclusion as absolute se that of the colonial lode, and this by the very laws which are invidiously, and, y must add, insidiously, represented as applicable alone to the o protected tradeo," enumerated in the opposite column? Imolai is the indisputable fact, as an examination of the Act of Navigation will instantly confirm. I take the trade with China as en illustratioa. It is denominated en unpro tected trade, and as such is described as having increased th e y V 3,270 tons in 1824, to 63,693 tons in 1846. Now, did t ha eo cepder of this document ever beer of a single foreign eke) t^ti ne the ports of the United Kingdom within the ode period trom China ? Was a tingle ounce of tea ever imported from China for the consumption of this country ex wpt in British ships ? Does be doubt the the owners of mier ,„ a ships would eagerly avail themselves of permission is c ompete with British shipping in this valuable trade ? What is it that prevents taern ? The law. What law ? Why, the navigation law. How, then, I mast ask, could the compiler of this " statement" have the effrontery to mike her Itleiesty tell her parliament and people that the We with China ta an unprotected trade, and that therefore it g ea riskes ? Sir, he must know well that the case is the I wo with many of the states of South America, and with all Out du not possess merchant shipping of their own. Dewing that by the Navigation Law., goods, the produce f eisreign countries, are not permitted to be imported into Skis country to be used thereto except in Britian ships, or daps 01 the country of which such goods are the growth or reduce, or in which in some cases they may be found, he 'sabot but be aware that this restriction, varying, it is true, b effect, in proportion to the tonnage possessed by each we ary, but acting es an exclusive privilege to British ships biome, and ensuring to them a proportion of aU, does con mieete *great, an efficient, and a valuable protection • and I i mikes, that with this knowledge , notwithstandi ng my manence of the reckless assertions et political economists, mid of the successes they ottea achieve by the mechless boldness of their assumptions, it ekes amaze me that my pu'ilic functionary of station and information , ihould have ventured to speculate so largely on the wedolity or carelessness of his opponents, as to have ex-1 =that such a misrepresentation could possibly pans utt er unrebuked. I repeat, because I have proved, that the trades described as unprotected for the purpose of breciating the navigation laws, are all really protected by these very laws; and having thus demolished the fact bged, I leave the worthless inference deduced to your dia. *Blasting judgment and impartial conclusions. Bat I canuot, air ' suffer the occasion to peas without espeeMp britfiy the distortion of facts for the purpose of heading and deluding the public, of which these state ments are also full. One illustration may suffice, but it shall is a crushing one. The inward entries from France, which 111524 were 82,650, will be perceived to have increased in 1846 to the enormous amount of 656,821 tons. Well, indeed, M this were an unprotected trade, anti gave employment to each a tonnage, might free-traders cite it, as the " statisti cal department of the Board of Trade" has done, as oonclu ass evidence of the tendency of their system to develop and Weed the bevel resources of the country, Sir, I have emeived while I write a return laid before parliament isring the present section, on the motion of Lord G. Ban tle& (parliamentary paper No. 28), and just printed, which Meg the real value of this monstrous statement, and must I link make the checks of its concoctors tingle with confusion. By this return it amuse that the steam-vessels entered in roads from France, in 1846, were 47 in number; their beensge, 7,101; and that they were manned by 698 men. These are ell included in the " Statement," while (can It be believed ?) they are absolutely made to figure as 228,189 tons of the 6,56,821 teas of British shipping Ilachred to be engaged in the trade with France, and advanced to prove the inefficiency of protection, and the propriety of repealing the navigation laws! !! One vessel glom, the Magician, of 96 tone, is actually made to repre sent 14,208 tons ; and another, the Prince Ernest, of 146, le stand for '24,215 tons, the astounding exaggeration being protheed by the calculation including the repeated voyages, bkich in the former of these cases were 148 in number, and la the latter 167. Sir, I will not comment on this discredit able and almost incredible attempt to deceive the public on the important question of the navigation laws ; but I entreat you not to forger, when you are examining these returns, that if you find in the deereciated Column 14.090 ISMS of British shipping engaged In the trade with India, yea look at the exponent of perhaps fourteen magnificent ships of 1,000 tons each, exhibiting in substantial truth the proved results of a maritime commerce, raised and sustained Maar the protective policy of our navigation laws ; while, if your eye should glance at an equal amount of tonnage in the apposite and vaunted column, you may, perchance, but be required to take as of equal value for naval security some beggarly steamers of less than 100 tons. As a statesman, as a eibinet minister, as the selectee guardian of the interests of British commerce, as an upright and prudent man, I invoke your serious and dispassionate consideration of the momen tous questions involved in the projected destruction of the navigation laws ; and I call on you to weigh well the cha racter of the evidence before you lend your aid to a reckless proceeding, which, I believe in my conscience, is calculated le place in jeopardy the safety of our common country. For penonal reasons, which it is not necessary to explain, it has cost me a painful struegle before I could resolve on expceing the misrepresentations I have, I think, unmasked. Bet, identified as I have been throughout my life with the shipping interest, and profoundly convinced as I am that by tot maintenance of the principles of the navigation laws the supremacy of the British mercantile marine can alone be eonate], and that on that supremacy depends the naval power, and consequently the security of my country, I have been unable to reconcile It to my sense of duty to allow so great a cause to be hazarded by such unworthy attache, while I felt It was in my power, in some degree, to with draw the poison from the weapons with which it is assailed. I would gladly now avoid obtruding my name on public attention, but, basing advanced s grave and serious accuse- Mon, it seems to me unmanly to attempt to shelter myself from responsibility under an anonymous signature; I therefore subscribe myself, Sir, your very faithful and obedient servant, 80, Cornhill, Dec. 24. Geo. FRED. YOUNG. OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. 81r,—The state of our national defences has for Mae time put engaged the public attention, thanks to the untiring activity of the preen; and presently it will occupy the attention of both houses of parlisment. lam no alarm ist, having too high an opinion of British bravery and skill to dread the ultimate success of any invader of our shores; but I am anxious to establish England's defences as much as parable upon the deep, to prevent, so tar as may be, the cau tion of English blood on Engliali soil, and to husband the action's treasure as well as her blood. I therefore beg your punission to address the public through your columns, as the subject of the much-derided, but in my deli berate judgment u a naval othcer fearfully eft:cations and comparatively cheap means of defence offered the sentry in the Warner inventions. Were they fully and birly brought before that finally just tribunal, public opi nion, I am satisfied that unbelief and division would give place to thankfulness that such weapons were ready for our use and protection. There are some who will cry out in impatience, and others in ignorance of the foots of the Warner case, that his 'aerations have already been tried and condemned. mars such impatient or ignorant objectors that the fact is not so. The subject has indeed been successively forced apes unwilling governments, who have seized upon the incomplete and partial reports of °Seers not over-anxious that these inventions should prove succenful so an excuse fre 'Udine them. True it is that the " long range," after tea imperfect trial, was pronounced a failure, though the arifamitnioners actually never maw where the shells fell, and mould not, though earnestly and repeatedly invited so to do, listen to an 7 explanations, which I - can pledge myself were tendered with every regard to their own convenience. But bad the " long range" proved • failure, which I here pub licly deny it to have been in the tree acceptation of that term, would that furniih any argument for condemning the " invisible shells," whose power and manageability was so satisfactorily demonstrated in the destruction of the ship off Brighton ? All sort* of idle tales were circulated at the time about minuend internal contrivance, being accessory to the destruction of this ship, and they are perhaps still believed by the uninformed. Bat Commissioner Chalmers's report to the then Maeter.Oeneral of the Ordnance completel7 negatives this nonsenee, and shows how dmply Mr. Warner destructive powers an, by the properly Instructed, be called into action. . "Mr. Warner dropped his shell and a buoy into the water. The steamer on which Mr. Warner was aboard was then about one hundred yards a head of the John O'Guant, towing her, and directing her carefully between the buoy and the shell. The shell came in contact with the ship on her starboard side, about midahips, and under her bilge. The explosion took place about three minutes after Mr. Warner had dropped his shell. The explosion was very violent : the main and misen masts were lilted, as it were, and snapped, and the ship sunk in little more than a minute. I do not think the agent made l ava of by Mr. Warner was ired powder. The noise was not great, very little smoke ;" then t was no smoke at all—what wide its appearance was water ; ) " it resembled a violent shock and lift, an the damage done to the side must have been great." The above is an extr.ct from the report of an unwilling witness, and may be read at length among the papers printed bj order of the House of Commons, and entitled " Warner's utfrespondenae." A perusal of those papers will show that Mr. Warner and I, hie bumble advocate, have always conned the fullest inquiry, and still invite it. But let that till be conducted before some impartial tribunal, on and lammed by either Treasury, Admiralty, Ord nance, or Horse Guards. The country is deeply concerned iu the solution of this question, which the interested seek to stifle and the prejudiced refuse to examine ; for, if the Warner problem is proved, then may millions upon millions st ll* Public money be saved. Surely this is not a subject lobe left unexplored at any time, and, least of all, at a crisis *lee the national mind is fastened upon warlike matters Ind is startled at their expensiveness. Certainty and cheap. 6011 ere, in ay judgment, combined in the Warner weapons s Lwari and it will not be my fault if their advantages are ▪ ay and Mr. Warner's native country and kw out. tg• hr-spread colonies, now so accessible to any foe. To tenantry I appeal, on Mr. Warner's behalf, for fair play. To that every Englishman is entitled, and I ask no ZOAM—Your obedient servant, INOUTRIL [ln giving inser tion to this letter we feel it expedient to retry our readers to the reports of experiments with the Warner inventions, and our own opinions regarding them, already recorded in this paper.—Ed.] THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1847. TH E HEREFORD BISHOPRIC THE ELECTION. [ter exraase.) HEREFORD, DEC. 28.—Although it was very geserally known Cosa ibiaiwas the day for which the Dean, the Very Rev. John Merswether, D.D , had, in obedience to her Majesty's corgi &air* and letter missive, summoned the Cheerer together to elect a Bishop to the vacant see, but little excitement appeared to have been occuioned . flu re hu been no orowding of hotels or lodging-houses, no influx of clergy illtetent`a in the result, as was anticipated (especially by such as hoped to turn the occasion to I profit), and from the perttet quiet that reigned from the commencement to the does of the proceedings, and which was only then broken by the ringing of the bells in some of the churches, no event of the slightest interest would have been supposed to be going forward. The chapter was summoned for between the hours of ten and twelve in the morning, and somewhat subsequent to the former hour, the dean, and the following canone end prebends entered the cathedral; namely, the Venerable Archdeacon Wetherell, the Rev. Chancellor Cor bett, the Rev. Canon Musgrave, Rev. Canon Morgan, the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Save and Sale, the Rev. R. L. Freer, the Rev. W. B. Rues, the Rev. Canon Huntieglord, Rev. J. B. Webb, the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Asaph, Rev. G. F. Lewis, Rev. R. N. Pemberton, the Hon. and Rev. J. S. Cocks, Rev R. Blame, Rev. J. Johnson, and the Ron. and Rev. 0. Forrester; and having robed, they pro ceeded at eleven o'clock to the Lady Chapel, the place in which the meeting wu to be held, and which is a continua tion of the western end of the cathedral, wholly without win ' down (being under repair), and exposing its occupants to the rigours of a bitter frost ; and affording no other accommodation than a few planks laid out as seats and writing tables, and some dilapidated chain and stools for the tans of the Dean and members of the chapter. The Deur, having taken his seat as the president of the chapter, said (pointing to the corgi d' ilire)—As reference is made in this document to a supplication, as having been made by the dean and chapter of this cathedral for license to sleet a bishop, I wish to silt what supplication his been made ? Mr. R. II: made. (the Chapter Clerk)—None hu been The eonge d' dlin was then read as follows : " Victoria, by the grace of God, &e..—To our trusty and wall-beloved the Dean and Chapter of our Cathedral Church of Hereford, in the diocese of Hereford, greeting :—Suppli• cation having been humbly made to tee, ou your part, that whereas the aforesaid church is now void and destitute of the solace of a pastor, by the translation of the Right Rev. Father in God, Thomas, late bishop thereof, we would be graciously pleased to grant you our leave and license to elect you another bishop and pastor, we, being favourably inclined to your prayers in this behalf, have thought fit, by virtue o these presents, to grant you such leave and license, requiring and commanding ysu by the faith and allegiance by which you dead bound to us, that you elect such a person for your bishop and pastor as may be devoted to God, and useful and faithful to us and our kingdom. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness oursel at Westminster, on the llth day of December, in the 11th year of our reign. By writ of privy seal." The Daarr—lt is proper that I should here Mate, that several addresses have been nreeented to the dean and chap ter, requesting them not to proceed with this election.:Thc.e addres es it ia not necessary for me to go through, as they I have already been laid before you. I will now merely I.y them on the table. The chapter then rose and proceeded to the chow, when divine service was performed. At the con clusion f the First Lesson for the morning service, which J was read by the Rev. J. Hopton, the congd &tiara was again, by direction of the dean, read publicly in the church by the chapter-clerk. The DEAN then said: We had better now retire to the Chapter•house to consider this matter. The dean and chapter retired accordingly to the Lady Chapel, followed by such of the public a. were present to witness the ceremony— perhaps some 60 persons in all—and having taken their 1 places, the chapter-clerk read the citatory letter of the dean calling the chapter together, as follows: " John Merewether, Doctor in Divinity, Dean of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, and the chapter of the said church, send greeting to A. B.: Whereas the episcopal see of Hereford, by the translation of the Right Rev. Father in God, Thomas, late bishop thereof, is vacant and destitute of a pastor, and we the said dean and chapter have, on this present with all due reverence, received in our chapter house, from her Most Excellent Majesty Victoria, letters of cosoJ d'dlire, under the great mat of Orw 4 Britain for choosing another bishep and pastor of the said cathedral church, and also other letters re commendatory, under the signet of her said Majesty to ns the deaa and chapter directed We, the said dean and chapter, according to the same respective letters, have determined to proceed to the election of a future bishop in j our said Cathedral Church. so as aforesaid vacant, and have appointed that you, the aforesaid A.B. in particular, and the canons of the said church in general ? and others having, or pretending to have, right or interest in the said election, be lawfully coed to appear on the 28th day of December, be tween the hours of ten and twelve in the forenoon of the same day, to give your votes respectively. We do therefore, by virtue of throe citatory letters ' warn you the said A B, that you do appear before us, the dean and chapter of the said cathedral church on the day end at the hour and place aforesaid, in the forenoon of the mime day, and in the choir of our said cathedral church pro ceed to the election of a new bishop and pastor in the same cathedral church as aforesaid,l vacant according to the tenor of the said conga critire and letter recommenda tory to the said dean and chapter directed, intimating to you, and every of you, as by these presents we do intimate and signify, that we, the said dean and chapter then present do intend on the same day, and at the same hour and place, I to proceed in the whole business of the said election, with ail lite incidents, emergencies, and dependencies whatsoever, until the final despatch of the said election, as, God willing, we ought to proceed, your contumacy or absence noterith j 'tending. In testimony whereof we, the said dean and chapter, have hereunto put our common seal, &c." The names of all the members of the chapter who had been severally cited were then called over, those above named (only) answering to the challenge. The Darn—The names of the several members cited having been called over, I have now to declare those who have not answered contumacious, and that the members pre sent censtitute a full chapter for the purpose of pr ceedtng with this election. The usual form of opening the business of the election was then gone througn, and the letter missive read as follows: - "10 our trusty and well-beloved Dean and Chapter of Hereford, in the diocese of Hereford. Trusty and well beloved, we greet you well. Whereas the Bishopric of Here ford is at present void by the translation of the Right Rev. Father in God Thomas, late bishop thereof, we let you know that for certain conaiderationsue at this time moving we of our princely disposition and seal, being desirous to prefer unto the same see a person meet thereunto, and considering the virtue, learning, wisdom, gravity, and other good gilts wherewith our trusty and well-beloved Dr. Rene Dickson Hampden, our reader in theology in our University of Ox- ford, is endued, we have been pleased to name and retain nr.nd him unto you by these pre.ents to be elected and chosen into the said bishopric of Hereford. Wherefore we require you, upon receipt hereof, to proceed to sour election according to the laws and statutes of this our realm, and our cove Waits herewith sant unto you, and the same election 90 made to certify unto us under your common seal.—Given under our signet, at our palace of Westminster, the 11th day of December, in the eleventh year of our reign." Mr. R. Underwood, the chapter.clerk, was then ap pointed notary for the election, and /deism. Knight and Bpenar his two witnesses. The DEAN --Tile next process is to proceed to the election of the future bishop and pastor of this cathedra , church. It has pleased her Majesty, in her letter missive, which Ilea been read, to make a recommendation on this subject ; and it is for the chapter now to determine upon that recommendation. The vote' will be taken, commencing with the junior mem ber of the chapter present. There is a restriction as to the dean in the statutes of this cathedral, that he should not vote till the last. _ _ _ The RLtht Hon. and Rev. Lord SATZ and SELS—Before we proceed to vote I think it right to inform the chapter that I have this morning, upon what I consider undoubted authority, an intimation that the Bishop of Oxford has with drawn kis intended suit in the Court of Arches against Dr. Hampden, as testing his orthodoxy. The DEAN wi , hed to know if the informstien was certain, not that he disputed the authority of the noble and reverend lord, but on all occasions of this kind it was necessary that some authentic evidence of any fact stated should be adduced. No allusion, however, having been made, in the course of these proceedings, to the circum'tance adverted to, he (the Dean) questioned the propriety of its being brought forward at all. The votes were then taken, the Hon.. and Rev. 0. For rester, as the junior canon present, voting first, in favour of Dr. Hampden. The other members present, with the ex ception of the dean and the Rev. Canon Huntingford, the canon now in residence, also voted the same way as their names were called over, according to their seniority. The Rev. Canon HUNTINOFORD, on being called upon to vote, rose and said—With the utmost respect for the royal prerogative, and with a full conviction that it is for the peace and safety of the church that the crown alone should nominate to vacant sees, yet in this particular instance I feel obliged to defer complying with the recommendation which has been sent down to us, anti/ a competent tribunal shall have pronounced to be well founded or not the sentiments expressed by so many bishops of our church, and by so many members of one of our universities. And hers it is not a favour, but an act of the merest justice to myself, considering bow well known I am to most of you, when I ask yon to acquit me of any personal direspect towards a learned and talented divine—towards one who, I am told, la so estimable in his disposition—when I uk you to believe that I em not swayed by any of those unimportant (of course I mean not unimportant in themselves, but still com paratively unimportant) motives, viz., a preference for one political party to another or any feeling is between church. men and dissenters, or be tween one partyand another within the church. But, while I ask you to believe that I am prin cipally swayed by higher motives, motives which have no connexion whatever with this earth or with the present life, yet I will frankly confess that my mind Is much affected by this cir cumstance, that among the bishops of ourchurch who have signed a certain remonstrance, there are, in the first place, two prelates, who are said to differ in opinion in some other par. ticulars —the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Wia&as. ter ; that. secondly, there is or.e so itiatinguished for mild nese and Christian meekness as the Bishop of Lineoln ; and thirdly, that there is one of so powerful sot intellect, and of such sincere piety as the Bishop of Oxford. I say, I confess that the above fact seems to me important, and confirms me in the resolution which I just now stated that I felt myself obliged on the present occasion to adopt, namely, to wait for an impartial and so , lemn decision on this subject from a tribunal competent to pronounce it. Considering that on such an occasion it is im portant that one's words should not be mistaken, have thought it proper to write what I have said on the paper which I will now lay on the table; and for the reasons' have stated, I vote fur deferring this election. The DIAN then nee, and spoke as follows lam standing in the sanctuary of the Most High Gal, and, together with my brethren, the ordained ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 am called upon in the name of the Sovereign of this land to choose and elect such a person as may lie meet to be the bishop and pastor of this diocese. I solemnly declare here in the divine preaence, thatitis my earnest and hearty desire to be faithful and bear true allegiance, to pay all humble duty and submissive oh. dience to her Most Excellent Majesty the Queen of these dominions, who, I feel assured, en her part, knowing whose minister she is, will above all things seek His honour and glory who is the King of Kings and Lord ef Lords, to whom, a..ove all, I owe my first allegiance; and whereas by . the exercise of that civil privilege which gives to the tirot minister of the crown the power of recommending to the sovereign for nomination to vacant bishoprics, the Rev. Rem Dickson Hampden, D. D., has been so nominated, and to us recommended by the official instruments this day read be fore us, to the bishopric ef Hereford; and whereas we, the dean and chapter of this cathedral church, are prohibited, under heavy penalties, to elect any other person into the said bishopric except the said Rev. Dickson Hampden, and whereas the university of Oxford, in full and lawful convoca tion, did decree that the said Rev. Dickson Hampden should be deprived of certain functions of office in the said univer sity, because in his public writings he had so treated theological subjects th at in this respect the university had no confidence in him, and that the convocation afterwards with in five years last past, after full debate, refused to rescind the ' said decree and deprivation ; andwhereas the saidße v. Dr. Reno Dickson Hampden is now under the effect of the said decree of the University of Oxford, in convocation assembled, and from the careful and attentive perusal of the said writings, I do believe their decree to be jus:, those writings unsound in doctrine • and danjerous in their ten dency ; and whereas, taking the premises humbly and anxiously into consideration, I preferred a humble petition to her Most Excellent Majesty, dated the 17th day of De cember instant, praying postponement of the election until due iirvestigetion had been made, and a sufficient removal of the censure and deprivation of the said Dr. Henn Dickson Hampden had been attested by a just and competent tri• banal; mid moreover, further pleaded to her Majesty's prime minister the entire circuantauces of the case, together with the useful and constraining obligations by which we are bound; and whereas the primate of all England, with 13 Wallops or more, have preferred their objections to the ap pointment, and great numbers of clergy and of the laity throughout the land, of every shade of religious opt. pion tolerated by the church, have by the most solemn appeals entreated us to surcease from such election until such time as the aforesaid objection should be removed, or another unohjectionable person substituted. We, taking allfthe aforesaid premises into our most serious consideration, do most humbly and imploringly supplicate Him whose holy word declares, ' That the hearts of kings are in His rule and got ernment," that her Majesty may even yet be pleased to reconsider our earnest and disinterested prayer, to correct and amend the errors and misfortunes which have arisen, and still more seriously threaten, from the ill-considered ad vice of a misinformed minister, as on other occasions her Ma jesty's royal predecessors have done, and so to avert the iajury which must otherwise be inflicted on Ott church and pacify the outraged feelings or tier members ; and here, in the sight of God, in the midst of His temple., and in the per formance of our priestly office, I solemnly protest that it is no deficiency, in the smallest degree, of loyalty and humble devotion to our sovereign, of implicit respect sod deference to the laws ef this realm which impels me to make this de. elaration --it is the dictate of my conscience, the conviction of my mind, that I am coustrained so to act as I tender the safety of my soul, and dread the vengeance duo to infidelity and insincerity, mockery and profaneness, from a justly offended God, if I did not thus discharge what seems to me to be my duty. I, therefore, John Mere wether, D.D., Dean ef this Cathedral Church of Hereford, do humbly protest against this proceeding as an election, inasmuch as certain persons have voted who I have reason to believe, being merely honorary prebendaries, and not having conformed to the provisions of the statutes of the church, which I have sworn to observe, are cot qaalified to vote in chapter; and also, because the majority so constituted has not, according to the said statutes, the dean and three retidentiaries at least voting therein ; and I require and claim the power of extending this my protest, and that this my protest be duly annexed and appended to the significa tion and certificate of election to the bishop elect, to the crown, and to the archbishop.— (Signed), JOHN Maas- *Evian, Dean. This protest was also laid on the table. The Rev. W. E. EvaNa—Mr. Dean, as the senior of those prebend' whom you have objected to, I feel it my duty to step forward and remind you that, on the previous occasion when we were met together, you stated distinctly that no objection should originate with you with regard to the 'nai ldity of our votes. The Dux—That is a mistake. . _ The Rev. Mr. Evans—No ; it cannot be a mistake. I appeal to those rev. gentlemen present who heard what took place, it I did not ask you two or three times over whether any objection of that kind would emanate from you, and if you did not solemnly 'saute me that it should not? The Rev. G. F Lewis—At the previous meeting it was distinctly put to the dean whether any objection would be made to the Totes of the honorary prebends—and the answer was " no." The Rev, J. B. Wenn—We stated on the former occasion that if the dean and chapter objected to our votes we would withdraw, but no objection was made and we voted. The Rev. Mr. Musolthvz—But if the honorary prebends had not voted, there would still have been a majority of the chapter in favour of Dr. Hampden. The Hon. and Rev, Lard SAYE and Baca—By the act of puliament a majority of the chapter are competent to carry any measure. The dean and four canons being present, the majority of the four are quite sufficient. The DEart—l submit that it is not for the chapter to determine those points. I wish to call attention, however, to what has been said by Mr. Beane. When I called the chapter together to consult as to the numerous addressee which had been received entreating the dean and chapter not to proceed with the election, I stated that a question might arise in regard to the right of the honorary prebends to vote, and when I was asked if I should object to their vete. I replied that it was not for meta object, and that I should admit their votes, as I was required to do bymy office, and they have been admitted. But I never did say anything as to my supposition as to the right of voting (nor could I do so with nuy:regard to right or proper conduct); neither did I say anything which could affect these votes one way or the other. I have now dune my duty in the eight of Clod, and although some have endeavoured to cast a slur on my in tegrity and character, in regard to the course which I have pursued in this matter, I declare, moetsolemoly, that I am free from any just imputation of the kind. 1 distinctly and clearly stated in the first instance that such an objection might be raised, and that I believed the objection a valid one, and I further stated that it was not for me to reject the votes of the honorary canons, but that their votes would be inserted in the list ol votes as members of the chapter, and that their validity would be decided by others, who would constitute a proper tribunal for the purpose. The Rev. Mr. Dlosonavn--As I was present on the occa sion referred to, I can say that you, Mr. Dean, distinctly stated that no objection to these votes should come from you ; yet this objection is inserted in your protest. The Dias—The statutes enact that in all these matters which depend on the collection of votes nothing shall have force and strength unless the dean and three resident canons are component parts of the majority ; or unless the dean alone dissents, in which cue his dissent shall be of no avail. _ . . The Rev. Mr. Lewis—Fourteen days ago I received • letter calling on me to attend here to-day al a member of the chapter. Who signed that letter / The Duerr— The signature is in my hand. The Rev. Mr. Lewis—The letter is under your hand and seal. Lord SATZ AND SALZ referred to the act 4 and 5 Viet., cap. 39, clause 16, which enacts that a majority of the mem bers of the chapter, including or not including the dean should be sufficient to constitute chapter for the trans action of the business of the chapter. The Dams deprecated the discussion of such matters, but contended that the clause referred to did not apply to the Cal?. _ . The Rev. Mr. Mt7RORATIL—As the dean's protest is likely to go forth to the public, and as be has mentioned the na ne of the Primate of all England as having been one of the re monstrant., I wish to sa7 that at present we have no ground for including the Archbishop of Canterbury's name amongst the remonstrating bishops. The DEAN would nut have alluded to the circumstance was he not assured, on the best authority he could arrive at, that the Archbishop of Canterbury did write a letter to the prime minister previous to the re-monstrance of the 13 bishops. lie stated in his protest 13 or more, because he knew that others had written to Lord J. Russell against the appointment of Dr. Hampden. The Rev. W. MOROAN—But we have no right to take notice of that here. The DEAN—I take notice of it, and am responsible for it. I know I have done my duty. The Dean then announced the result of the voting, viz., for Dr Hampden, 3 canons resident, 5 prebendaries of the old order, 10 being absent, and 6 honorary prebends, 3 being absent, and the dean and 1 canon resident being dissentient. A long discussion again ensued as to the right of the hono rary prebends to vote, and the opinion of the Rev. Chan. , cellar Corbett wee asked, and given in favour of the right, and stating that the only difference between the honorary and the other prebends was in the emolument, the former having all the duties of the office devolving upon them, but without emolument. The Rev. Mr. MOttOLN ultimately put a stop to the dis eussion by moving that the remit of the electioit be de clared ; which motion was seconded by Lord Faye and File. The Dane—There are 15 ♦otes, or claimed votes, for sleeting Dr. Rena Dickson Hampden as the bishop for this diocese. There are two votes against him, other, being ab sent. It is for the chapter now to say if they consider that to be an election of Dr. Hampden. After a pause, the Dean added: No one, of course, will object but those who have protested ; under those circumstances we have now to decree three certificates of this election—one to the Queen, one to the Archbishop, and one to the bishop elect. I beg leave to add, that had I been allowed to proceed without in terruption, we should have concluded the business half an hour ago. The chapter then proceeded to the choir, and after the conclusion of the service returned to the Chapter-house, and •fixed their seals to the following official certificate of election : " Be it known unto all men that a majority of the members of this caLbedral church of Hereford, in full chapter this day assembled, is obedience to her Majesty's license, have chosen the Rev. Been Dickson Hampden, D.D., to be the future bishop of this cathedral church and see, in the room of the Right Rev. Father in God Thomas Musgrave, D.D., late Lord Bishop thereof, now translated to the archbishopric of York." Signed by the majority only. The proceedings then terminated. IRELAND. DUBLIN. Die. 27. Dr. Slattery, Archbishop of Cashel, has addressed a short letter to the Earl of Clarendon on the rapidity with which the Coercion Act has been brought into execution. The archbishop places in a sort of anti thesis the tardiness of the law which should save—the Poor Amendment Act—and the rapidity of that which tends to destroy. In conclusion he observes " Your excellency baa admitted in your answer to the me morial of the catholic bishops that the preservation of human life was the sacred and paramount duty of government ; and shall it be always true that in Ire land there is to be one law for the rich and another for the poor ?" The poor-law commissioners are by no means satis fied with the progress of the guardians in the south and west. The order for the dissolution of the Ballina board has been sent down, and that of Galway is soon to follow. The gentlemen to whom the law is in trusted there devote too much time to orations, and little to the law. In the south the Cahirciveen union has shared the same fate, and others are to walk soon in the same footmarks of dissolution. Laid week, the Times,Chronicle,&c., had filled up, by anticipation, the new chairmanship. I stated that the candidate would be selected from the north-east bar, and that opinion has since been confirmed. Mr. Robert Andrews has received the appointment, a gentleman in every way qualified to discharge the duties of the office. Mr. Andrews lately succeeded to the seat in the Board of Education, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Holmes. He is a unitarian, a gentleman of high personal character, liberal in his opinions, a very able lawyer, and is very considerable practice. The appointment has given general satisfaction. On Friday the new judge of the Queen's Bench, Mr. Moore, together with the new law officers,•were sworn before the Lord Chancellor. It is gratifying ' to add that his health has been improving for the last few days. A war of letters has for some weeks been raging in the Belfast papers rather singular in its nature when we consider the character of the community in which Greek has been pitted against Greek. The cause of contention consisted in the practicability of reviving Greek, as a spoken and living language, in the "modern Athens," not of Greece, but of Ulster. A Mr. Masson, ex-Philhellene Judge of the High'' Court of Areopagus, and Attorney-General of the Peloponnesus—real and veritable titles—returned from the court of Kin: Otho, took girder. as a presby tr..an clergyman, and was promoted to the classical chair by the synod of Ulster. In hie inaugural lec ture he stated, inter alia, that his object should be to teach Greek so as to make it the language of intel lectual communication among the students; that this result was perfectly practicable from the close affini ties between the modern and ancient tongues, of which any scholar might be convinced by a of the standard works now published in the E u male. Nay, the professor believes that in a few years the Arcadian shepherds will speak the venerable langulige of their classic forefathers in all its full and mellow purity. Such strange hallucinations pro- I yoked the Rev. " Eyeik Nealem ' to break a lance with the Dicast and first law officer of the Mores. He quoted " Theodorus Ttechotylodromue," and other such learned authorities, to prove the impossibility of a reconciliation between the language of Pericles and the dissonant rudeness of the Klepth. The professor rejoined, and referred to the State Gazette, now pub lished in Athena, and written by members of the uni versity. Dr. Bryce stepped in as moderator of the learned contention, and suggested a board of referees., with Dr. kennedy Baillie, translator of the " Aga memnon " of 211echylus, and editor of " Homer," as president, flanked with Dr. Hincks 4z 'various other erudite' of the north. Such is the present state of this famous question, which is likely to restore to Belfast its ancient boast of "The modern Athens." The Great Southern and Western Railway Com pany have given public notice that in the event of any person employed on their works being molested they will immediately suspend the works, unless the I offenders bo given up. This is a beneficial regula tion—a leaf from the note book of Mr. Dargan, the eminent contractor, who practised it before with the most perfect success. The men to whom employment is afforded will thus be interested in the preservation of the peace, and, when outrages are committed, in the detection and punishment of the offenders. REPIAL ASIOCIATION.—This body met to-day, Mr. J. P. Conran presiding. Tne only topic of interest brought forward was a correspondence between Mr. Robert Lon Browne, M.P., and Mr. J. H. Dianne, a member of the association. Mr. Dunne, at a meeting of the body held after Mr. Browoe's vote on the Coercion Act, attacked the member for Mayo, amongst others, for his vote, remarking that he had voted differently on the present occasion, when his friends the whigs were in power, to his vote on the coercion bill proposed by the tories. Mr. Browne baying seen a report of this address of Mr. Dunne wrote him a very hostile communication, denying in very unmeasured terms the " sinister" sug gestion of Mr. Duane, regretting that he had had the mis fortune to dine with'hins on some occasion, but that that circumdanoe made him take notice of his attack, intimating that he had heard Mr. Dunne wu about being called to the bar, but that he had on this movement of Mr. Browne's a shorter mode of establishing for himself the position of • gentleman. This letter having reached Mr. Dunne , he placed himself in the bands of the committee of the association, which resolved that he should write to Mr. Browne, explaining that he had not attri buted corrupt motives 10T his vote, Mr. Dunne pro- testing that no such idea prevailed with him—and that he should, at the same time, all on Mr. Browne to with draw the offensive letter. Mr. Browne replied that be had great respect for the committee of the association, but he denied its right to interference in a matter concerning his public and personal honour. This correspondence, together with a protest from Mr. E. W. Castello, a member of oem mittee, the same in effect as Mr. Brown's letter, wee read to-day by Mr. Dunne himself, who inti mated at the same time the committee would take further steps in the matter.—Mr. John O'Connell stated that a spe cial committee was summoned for Wednesday to consider this affair. He then read certain resolutions passed at Castlebar, Mayo, condemning the votes of Messrs. Browne and Moore on the Coercion Act. The remainder of the sitting was occupied by Mr. Reynolds, in reviewing the pro ceedings of the late session, and Mr. John O'Connell in condemning the haste of Lord Clarendon in promulgating the Coercion Act. The repeal rest reached 201. SCOTLAND. Ennrseaou, Deo. 27. Fever is beginning to diminish in Edinburgh. For the last four weeks the mortality in the infirmary has been 76, 82, 45, and 30. In Paisley the malady is also diminishing, the patients in the house of recovery there having last week been 136, whilst this week it is supposed that they will not be much beyond 100. In the south of Scotland influenza continues ex tremely prevalent ; in the north it is disappearing. The visits of the two medical officers of the Aber. deen parochial board amounted during the past year to 5,998, and they have received their reward—their salaries having been raised to forty guineas. Trade in the manufacturing districts of the west still continues deplorably depressed. At Kilbarchan, says the Gtasooto Post, there are, as near as may be, two-thirds of the working population out of employ ment. Some partial subscriptions have been raised over the parish for their relief, but all that has been obtained is so utterly inadequate, that one instance has been communicated to us, where a nursing mo- ther, with twins at her breast,was two entire'days without food of any kind. One of the children died, which is an occurrence no way surprising, under the circumstances; and, while in England suck a case would have been inquired into, the verdict of a jury obtained on the subject, and the blame laid down at the proper quarter, in Scotland, as the law stands, no inquiry is instituted into such cases, and, if they are omitted by the press, they must pass for ever unheeded. In Orkney and Shetland the recent storms have caused much destitution. In Caithness the loss of life has been 14, in Orkney 14, in Zetland B—in all 36. By these calamities twenty widows, and more than forty orphans, have been cast on the world. The Scottish Educational Institute is advancing favourably. The members already amount to 1,230, while nearly 300 applications ate under consideration. With such strength, the institute may be of great ser vice in raising the standard of teachers, provided the different classes of diplomas be impartially awarded, and examinations continue to be rigidly the test of admission. The profuseness of thee- logical and literary degrees by slime of the Scottish universities has lowered seulemic distinctions con siderably, and has led to such appendages being regarded u the matter of course adjuncts of me diocrity, instead of being distinguishing marks of ability and learning. The institute would do well to keep this error earnestly in view. The established church presbyteries are preparing petitions against equal privileges being allowed to the Jews. The resolutions of the presbytery of Lin lithgow are as follow, and may be taken as a sample of all that will come after: I. That the presbytery view with the grest - st alarm the introduo tice, by the first minister of the crown, into the !Lowe of Commons of a Mil for the removal of Jewish disabilities 2. That such a mea sure appears to the presbytery to be wholly at variance with the con. stitution of this kingdom, which is based on the explicit recognition by the mate of the Christian religion, and to b• subverve of the fun damental principles which ought to guide the polioy of every Chris tian state. 3. That Um measure appears to the pmeb3 - tery to he fraught with evil consequences to the cburch of Christ within the nation, and to the kingdom, even aim-Ward under ■ temporal aspect. 4. That the presbytery resolve to petition both hour... of parliament against this measure, and farther, if it shall appear neoewary, to run morialise her hi ejeety the Queen that the mad measure may not pass into a law. NSW INDUSTRIAL Rai%Maui rola Boys IN GLASGOW.— In Glasgow there is, and has been fur • considerable period, • large class of ragged urchins, from 10 to 12 years, who carry on a regular trade in catching rats and disposing of them alive to parties, who reward them for their labour at rates averaging lid. to 23. a head, aceording to size and the number in the market. By this profession these daring boys earn a livelihood, and some of them who are well ii,) to their business make as mach as 10s. a week. The process of catching the vermin is exceedingly simple, and gene rally pretty successful. Having discovered a hole in a stable, cellar, or back building, where rats are plentiful, the armee takes a piece of cord of some length, upon the end of which he makes • noose equal to the size of the hole over which he has resolved to watch, and after putting down meal or bread to attract hie intended prey, he stations himself with the cord in his hand, watching like • patient angler until his victim pops out his head or part of his body, when by a sudden jerk he hooks him in the noose, and then with the aid of his bonnet or some other thick cloth seizes the living prize as if it was• canary or a mavis. Having deposited the rat is a cage or other place of safety, he returns to his work, and in this way proceeds to rid the tenement where be curies on operations, of hordes of useless and destructive vermin.—Glaagoto Poet. DINISS or AN AGED RADICAL.—The Glasgow Post records the death of an old and much respected radical reformer (Mr. Wiliam Lang, printer), which occurred at Dunoon on Tuesday last. Mr. Lang was in the 76th year of bin age, and although for a number of years pest unable to take an active part in the business of political agitation, he was devotedly attached to those principles of radical reform in the legislature of the country, which gained for him, in darker and more precarious times, a reputation which was by no means favourable to his advancement amongst certain dames in the community. Is the days of Sidmouth and Castlereagh, and when spy Richmond had a local habita tion and • name, Mr. Long was taken into custody in 1816, along with his brother-in-law, Mr. Turner of Thrushgrove, on a charge of high treason, the treasonable part of Mr. Lange conduct being the crime of having printed the resolu tions adopted at the public meeting held on the grounds of Mr. Turner, on behalf of parliamentary reform. How that charge was given up by its . romoters, how public opinion 1 has changed, how Mr. fang and his coadjutors have since been honoured by those who formerly contemned their principles and their conduct, has already been sufficiently 1 ya,....... WALES. 8 EILIKTING BETWEEN THE MAR- gtlrs or Bore AND SIR JOSIA N GU SST, relative to the Dowlais works, it le said, are not likely to be brought to a favourable issue. The work of destitution has commenced there. We (Hereford Times) understand from good authority that three thousand men have already been pxid oft, and that five thousand more are under notice. The prrsent aspect on the hills is indeed bad. We fear this winter will prove the most severe the working classes have experienced in this locality for many years. PROVINCIAL. CONFERENCE ON TRH TEADUTIES.-Yesterday very large and influential meeting of merchants and manu facturers was held at the Town-hall, Manchester, being • conference of prudes interested in the welfare of the menu factoring districts. The meeting had been called by circular. Among the gentlemen present were E. Armitage, Esq., the mayor, who presided, James Heywood, Esq., M.P., John Bright, Eeq , M.P., W. Rathbone, Esq. (Liverpool), James Kershaw, Esq , M.P. John Duncuft, Esq., M.P., and a number of the l eading , merchants of Manchester and Liver pool.—W. Rathbone. Esq., of Liverpool, moved the first re solution, which was as follows : That it is notation;; "that the trade with Chinn bas been for some tithe to a yeti unsatisteeiney Thu the rendf of oar n_ tended intervouree with that country hen he CO!:; ara , rea li s m th e just expectations which had Moo natarilly kiunded on a freer owes to magallatat e market."—"That on a great proportion el the trade the km taken bath ways Le. on the manufecturis sent out sad on the tea brought borne in payment may be fair', stated at from $3 to 40 per amt"—" not the diZeultios of the trade do not arise fear any want of demand in China for snide. of British manufacture, or from the increasing competition of ether nations, but irom the sole difficulty in providing a return." He said the question needed little argument. When he said there were three hundred millions of people wanting English man ufactures,provided they could find the payment for them, he had shown sufficient ground for a consideration of the question. Their means of payment was in tea, and all that was neceseary was to reduce the duty on tea to a rate which would enable a great consumption. The duty at present ranged from 300 to 400 per cent. Wu this a time to go to sleep ? At Preston the poor's rate was 12a. in the pound, and the rates were exceedingly high here and in Liverpool ; and they must find work for the people or they would be higher. Lord John Russell had said they had all the argu ment on their side ; the only question was one of revenue. He contended that it would be wiser to remit the revenue ea tea, and raise the amount in some other way.—Mr. Thomas Healey, President of the Manchester Chamber of Comm: ree, seconded the motion. He said, they contended for the re- Motion for • two-fold reason: one, with a view to increase the comforts of the people; and the other, the increase of em ployment. Our exports to Chlui only amounted to about One fortieth of our exports to the rest of the world, though the population of China was half that of the world. Their principal obstacles consisted in obstinate Chancellors of the Exchequer, whou only duty it appeared to be to resist con viction unless they could put money In the treasury by it. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. Aapinal Turner, Chairman of the Manchester Commercial Associa tion, in moving the second resolution, alluded to the recep tion they had given to Sir Henry Pottinger, who, he said, was well received on account of the commercial benefits anti cipated from his treaty with the Chinese. They naturally expected an increase of the tea trade and of manufactured exports, as a consequence of it. How miserably had they been rinappointed ! And how was it to he accounted for ? The Chinue put no duties upon our goods, whilst 300 per cent. was charged on theirs. It was said that it was neces sary to protect the revenue, but he asked if it was the way to protect our revenue to pursue the present system ? Was it likely merchants would pursue a trade for the sake of the revenue when it no longer yielded a profit ? (Hear.) He thought that instead of deserving the name of barbarians, the Chinese, when they learnt that their teas, which they sold at Bd. or 10d., were saddled here wi h 2s. or 2s. 2d. duty, would be inclined to say, and justly, that we were the barbarians. (Applause and laughter.) The resolution wise : nu we malt look to tea melalg esid to as lasmssed cartentlea of Ms for the mem of even mobilo/Pa sib aims arena= probates trade with them vett maw sal OM fa IMO ME 1113111M0011 we r .sly look la I rodartba 'Many, it =the dab rat a medals is Os marossm mu be almoblamosompllet It so morthis a degree as t oted to a healthy end sa sabadal lona. —Mr. Fields', as Windt of due Blackburn Chamber of Commerce, masaded the madam Carried.—Mr. Robert Gardner moved : That we • niettin le Oe &sty is also Nikkei* k itself as premeds, the leseeseel see et o>rekrage, whoitems art agreeable to every am elver sat me etikl la kereselek asked se • aelelleke tee e—ael "keg It twat he so mare ties k des te the who tax ow puede* so tightly, while we bora= this es lemily and with irk leseeseekeos to their kale" —Mr. Gardner referred to the history of the tea duties, and said it showed that the revenue had not gained but lost by the increase of the tea duty. In 1835 the import was two millions, but last year it fell off to 1,800,00016 c, and this year it would be less; but he contendeJ that the loos in money to the importers would be much greater. lie did not hesitate to say that, by the present mode of levying the duty, in addition to the ruin it had already caused this year, it would sweep the whole trade. The working classes depended on it not only as a beverage for breskram, but for dinner and supper, and when it was considered how greatly their coma asp tion would increase if they could get it cheaper, and how ready it would increase their manufacturing and shipping, it was of the utmost importance that the duty be removed. Many might be surprised to know that tea in bond might be bought at Id. and 24, per lb., and fine congou, which sold at 17d. or 184. this time last year, could now be had at Bd. or 9d. The revenue must be supported, it was said; but Ikt it not be supported at the expense and the ruin of the China merchant. If they wanted revenue, let them put on M e Ze t ry y of Liverp erease 001, it, n b d u e t d ir h t s ruin It . class of :s is e Tied— 'Me manufacturer turer were o get 2a. 2d. profit ou ' t of 2s. 5d., would it not be called an exorbitant price to charge ? Yet the government did that. A respectable mer chant had told him he had bought tea this year at 3d. per lb., upon which a duty of Is. 2d. wee charged. He contended that the government would be wise which should boldly revise the present system of taxa tion. The amount derived from customs was 23 millions that stopped our trade. The excise was 124 millions, and that also impeded trade. Bat the amount of charge on duties was not Os whole amount. In addition to the actual amount they aught to add the obstruction of trade, and of mond by the duties levied.—Mr. M alcolm Roes move mal lg ge' lbsrik resolution : Thet wklielbe Mir sa wee sad mesa haw bus repatedly re duced Ire Pik by vela tb enumpleli et tie errs lees been elaulsted Mpg seaL. led Set et lee beer ifs!, OM Ledel per opt. lbws Ye tam se reerlate Is duly ie led =MU Issas.lssas.lid* bill Ulm Is the the eumepidea lest oath Is etcreceelie leer seinen la Ile leedl wtlehltmmaurlally added is le item lems ef the Jan Deane, Req., _ILP_ Y.Y. --- &014/04 seseadul the me WY, vse waled. XL lkasidbestaimei she Lift "Medi yea* Milleakl =Ws It the abet vial my ststeelel ..ellselse—ted am ether tesejd he dumb estsb—ager he sesseged to have NM the 1 ./... 11 V. all wargagre bet ea us "there. meat eiseml el ?MUM omit he plemmill nibill In. Wilt founded on • convompeca white bats been carried to that rotent by prim not remunerating to the intpuetrra, and which are therefore not likely to be continued." thit meeting, while "it will not portend to SAM that no Or to the revenue would be the eon equence," is deliberately and tally of opinion, that "though the kW might pomibly for a time be considenole, It would not be long cuntinued,"— as tbs moused cosewmptum of both tea and sugar, together with the Motive given to the prosperity .4 the general commeree of the country, and the consequent boomed employment of the labouring clues, would iremethately cover • considerable portico of the apprehended dedctrocy. and convert this eource of revenue, ere long, into one of much greater value than at present. He denied that it wu • question of revenue. When they looked at the moral consequences of this question be con tended that this view of the subject carried it out of the common category of those which dtpended on the conve nience of a Chancellor of the Exchequer. Did we pay twenty millions for manumitting the eines ' eight hundred millions for the freedom of Europe, and ten millions to says Ireland from starvation; and was the censideration:of money a fair answer to a demand for repealing a duty of such im mense consequence to the trade and proeparity of a country 'such as this ? He proceeded to read portions of evidesoe taken bef ,, re a committee of the House of Commons, beatieg on the que4ion.—The following resolutions were for consi deration when our report left by the express train That es such reduction in the duty on tea appears to this meeting es "most derirable in itself wit` a view to the madams and the social habits of the people as involving but a temporary Ire, to the revenue, and as essential to the exteneion of our trade with Chins, nay, even to It. smintedanne at the point which it has already resehed," thisepeet log is of opinion that the government may reasonably be urged to ' make ouch large and immedlete reduction, and that until the meanie I h s recovered itself from any defalcation In consequence, the dellei ' racy may be male up, by an increase of direct taxation, and tha: the e 'entry at large will acquiesce in such an adjustment. That, se the foregoing resolutions are founded upon, and expressed mostly in the very worried, a "report of the select committee" sp. pointed in the bat session of prliament zo consider " our cos menial relatioo. with Chiba," the following be and are hereby appointed a committee to ige s deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, anti the chairman of this meeting address the chancellor with a copy of these resolution, requesting hint to ex an early day for ittliViDg such deputation.—Thu the thanks of bhp meeting be given to kb worship the mart . , for his kindness Is pantisg the Town.hall be this meeting, and his conduct in the chair. Mr. Bright and Mr. Heywood were both expected to speak. REBPITE.—A letter from the Home-office has been received by the sheriff of Lancashire, to the effect that the Queen has been pleased to commute the sentence of death passed on Speed, at the Liverpool assizes, to transportation for life. - - PORT OF LIVERPOOL.—Last night's Gazette con tains the official notice fixing the limits of this port as fol lows : " The limits of the said port of Liverpool shall com mence at the termination of the port of Chester, namely. at the Red Stones in Hoylake, on the Inlet of Wirral, and so continuing down the river Mersey to the termination of the port of Runcorn, in the county of Chester, thence crossing the said river Mersey to the termination of the last-men tioned port, in the county of Lancaster, and so along the coast of the county of Lancaster to a gutter or run of water commonly called the Hundred End Water, on the south side of the river Ribble. and so continued seaward for the distance of three miles from the headlands of, and including all the rivers, streams, bays, harbours and creeks in, the said counties of Chester and fencaster, within the said now assigned limits of the port of Li verpool." The following places, within the said port of Liverpool, are to be legal quays for the lading and unlading of goods, and the bounds sod extents of such quays to be as follows, that is to say: " All that open space, called Wert Quay. and slipways of the Woodside Basin, 1,260 feet in length, extending from the granite stone marked ' L Q,' at the south-west angle of the Woodside Basin, to the circu lar return of the same basin, and bounded on the south by the Woodside Ferry Slip, and =the west by land the private nrotierty of !violin narties : and Ling between itrcit and Sandford-street; dire west quay of the par sage duck, 1,227 feet in length, extending from the said circular return into the fifty feet entrance to the cir cular return into the bridge and dock south-west side of the seventy feet passage gates, and bounded on the west by land belonging to various parties lying be tween Sandford-street and the stone marked ' L Q,' bridge end ; also the south quay of the bridge and dock, 180 feet in length, extending from the 70 feet passage gates to the stairs at the south-west angle of the docks, and bounded on ' the south or south-west by part of the said land belonging to various parties, terminating at the stone marked ' L Q at the bridge end ,• also the west quay of the bridge and dock, 319 feet in length, extending from the stairs of the south-west angle of the same dock, and bounded on the wed by Canning-street, to the stone marked ' L Q' at the south angle of the dock-yard sod offices belonging to the Birken head Dock Commissioners ; also the north quay of the Bridge end Docks, 210 feet is length, extending from the stairs, at the north-west angle of the same dock, to the north-west side of the stene dun across the north end of theism' dock, bounded on the north-west side from the last-mentioned stone, marked ' L Q.' by the said dockyard and offices, and the line extend ing from the north angle of the said yard to the north-wit side of the said stone dam scram the north end of the same dock, bounded on the north-west side from the last-men tioned stone, marked ' L Q,' by the said dockyard and officer, and d yard the line t 0 1 n t. • n extending from e 0 extendingztt .1 5 : h e pg north o k .d s t on e g . : thot;: o If;a lsot t the : Mt wes bef t een in rthl g oe le kl o uB f l72 th o e feer sa ttili" c li r g to r t l Fdam, wills from the sluice dams round the piers of the 30 feet lock, to the circular return on the north side of the 70 feet passage, bounded on the north by the north-west wall of the great basin, extending from the stone, marked' L Q,' at the end of the circular return in the east wall of the said great basin ,• also the north quay of the passage dock, 1,334 feet in length, extending from the circular return into the Bridge-end Dock, to the cir cular return into the Woodside Basin, and bounded on the north by a line extending from the said stone, :nuked ' LQ,' at the circular return of the north wall to the Great Basin, to the stone marked L Q,' saes side of the 60 feet entrance gates, being 100 feet from-the north wall of the Presage Dock, and 205 feet from the north-east wall of the Woodside Basin, measures at right angles to the same respectively; and also the north-east quay of the Woodside Basin, 760 feet in length, extet.diag from the circular return, on the north aide of the 60- feet entrance, to the circular return of the south river wall, bounded on the north by a line parallel to the same, at a distance of 206 feet, and extending from the said stone, marked ' LQ' on the north side, to the said 50-feet entrance to the south river wall; and also all quays and wharfs declared legal quays and wharfs by a certain act, ceased in a session of parliament holden in the 61st year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for the improvement of the port and town of Liverpool, and amending the several acts relating to the docks, quays, and other works belonging to the said port." All former limits of the port of Liverpool, and all former legal qua), already set out sad appointed within the same are annulled. A DRUNKEN ENGINE-DRIVER AND FIREMAN.—At Manchester, on Monday, two men, named William Hatfield and Mark Clegg, the former an engine-driver and the latter a fireman in the employ of the London and North- Western Railway Company, were brought up before Mr. Trafford, the stipendiary magistrate, and Capt. Whittaker, charg ed with drunkenness andgroae negligence in the discharge of their duty. Mr. Wagstaff, solicitor, of Warrington, appeared on behalf of the company, and from his statement and the evidence of the witneres, it appeared that the prisoners had charge of the night mail train from Liverpool to London on Saturday. The number of carriages sad passengers was not stated, but the pointsman at the Warrington junction, being at his post waiting for the train, was sur prised to hear it coming at a very rapid rate. He had been preparing to turn the points, in order to shunt the train on to the Warrington junction ; hut, as the train did not dimi nish in speed, but rather increased as it approached, he, anticipating great danger if he should turn the point., de termined on the instant upon letting the train take tea course, and not turning them. Most fortunate was it that he exercised an much judgment and sagacity ; for, in con sequence of the acuteness of the curve at tho Warrington junction, and the tremendous rate at which the train was proceeding—not leas than forty miles an hour—it does not appear that anything could have otherwise prevented the train from being overturned, and • frightful sacri fice of human life ensuing. Meantime, the train continued its frightful progress ; but the mail guard seated at the end of the train, perceiving that it was fuing on towards Manchester, instead of staying at the nction, signalled to the engine driver and fireman, but without effect, no notice whatever being taken of his sig nals. Finding this to be the case, he, at very considerable risk, passed over from carriage to carriage till be reached the engine, where he found both the prisoners lying drunk, and apparently insensible, from the effects of liquor. They re sisted for some time all his efforts to stop the train, and he was unable to bring them to a sense of their duty and their peril till they were near to Patricroft. At length, however, he suceeded in stopping the train just before it reached that station, a distance of fourteen miles from Warrington ! This again appears to be almost a miraculous circum stance ; for, at. the Fatricrott station, on the same line as that on which the mail train was run ing, was another train, containing a number of passengers, who thus escaped from the consequences of a dreadful collision. The prisoners were of course immediately given into custody and conveyed to the New Bailey prison, while, other assistance being ob tained, the train was taken back again to the Warrington Junction. The regulation 1., in consequence of the sharp curve at this junction, that the train shall not run at more than five miles per hour. Hatfield appeared very penitent, and wept bitterly at the danger to life and property of which he had been the cause. Clegg said that he had been out all the previous night with • train, and had not taken his clothes off; that before be started for Liverpool be had taken three glasses of spirits and water, but that he went into the office before the train started, and did not feel any effects from what be had drunk till after the train started, when he supposed it was the keen air, coupled with his having been up all the previous night, which canoed him to fall asleep. The magistrates had power to commit the prisoners sum marily for two months' hard labour, or to inflict a fine of 101., or to send the prisoners for trial at the sessions, at which they would be liable to a sentence of two years' im prisonment. Alter some consultation ' the bench appearing to be of opinion that some negligence had been exhibited at the office in Liverpool, or the men would not have been allowed to have left there in such a state of intoxication, de cided upon the first alternative, and sentenced both prisoners to two mouths' hard labour. LEICEMERSENLE. REvoitm OP WIOSTON'tI HOSPITAL.—At the last meeting of the Leicester town council the following report was read.n behalf of the 'ntlemen appointed t' —emaci ate with lard Campbell, Chanoeilor Lansarter, relative to ts " The oratmittaa hare of the owned they have call er at the Duchy of Rev. B. T. Vaughan, Wigeton's Hospital, committee believe that will give petrel XI 71 I) ta . the gentlemen appointed to oommuni- Moll, as Chancellor of the Doehy of a the reform or Wigston's Charity : e to report that, sines the but meeting eve received information that the Chan. of Lancaster has reemosmen• vicar of St. Mutineer. ^a l with a salary et woks- . 4 .5 1 A„ -- "ttt at the appointment otife.V. 0 0 1 satisfaction to the town- , ck,A 11F • II 0 ,.: 1 4a1V i s r 6