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saaberiag the majority of A. " preseste." Still he wee fivenseble, his the made mad Leonia lord beside him, to Ike wan of proan ; but he thought their aalNmg skald be go esoed by seme sort of Mariam. The Mer spa of CLANRICARDE wee curious to know hew easy sash Ossetian could be practically reserved if =were a beaked at all; and again, how the noble sad lewd (Rodoestele) who had ass spoken, meant to obviate the watiagebsy of s majority a the " pressals" Wag oectsissay set aside ea akin pear. Septum at H ouk period of the session ono-third of all the peers had left cars sad deposited their proxies, such of than 7 1 ,7d ioj e co de so, with t he .. peers who remised. It was *Sons that no say Gestated question there would always o gnat pnibililitY, a proxies being ailed, of aay Ruda s oy el privioits befog outvoted. Lied CAMPBELL lama that the noble lord's (Reda ogle) aides of the llama extreme of the power of giving is o proxy br an assent poor amounted to this, that whim So resoldag easarity oa any questinn in which lie gees it k i ppesiod to be en the side for which it was so given by gin, he, the noble baron, coneeiva he had eureka gee privilege under doe discretion; but whim the maps r ill era against the side supported by the proxy so Gentri• Paled, then the nails baton felt he had used his proxy aliscreetly. (A laugh.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was glad to find that the noble aid leaned lord was in favour of retaining the lass of peoxies. At the saw time he thought it appear ed , on the Amine of the noble and learned lord himself, that the allies likely to be experienced in regulating the sort of dis affirms, with which he seemed to eoatend that the privilege should be always outsized, would be found is pasties endless aid impracticable. There were difßculties —there would didlesities—es to the nature of the questions on which proxies should, and as to those on which they should not, be tolled. As to the commiesions for tensing ths bills, sod other business, from time to time taming beihre the House of Peers from another place, he wee pita at a lose to see how the nohle and leaned lord could hope to make provision for all conditions of the prin. Spies he desired to apply without taking from this branch of the legislature same of its chiefest and most peculiar functions. Ile found himself, therefore, unable to swede to env such proposal as that suggested by the noble sad learned lad. And it occurred to him to add, for the mosidentioss of that noble and learned lord, smother element of difficulty in connexion with the potability of regulating the discretion of using proxies, or indeed of calling them. What additional weight ought to be attached to the minims of the peer in whoa hands other pars, out of de fortace probably to the oeneral soundness of these opinion., bed co' filed their proxies ? In short, be could see no way out of the many censideratinns that surrounded the sug rations which had has submitted to the house, and wh'ch, thereon, he trusted that the house would decline to adopt. Lord BROUGHAM felt that no course renitined to bias but to withdraw hi. proposition, after what bed fallen from the noble Marquis who had just eat down But the noble marquis would give him leave to say, when he talked of the impossibility of patting ar.y antroul on the exercise of the privilege of calling proxies, that they hsd already established precedents for that control in several eases. (Hear, hear.) Fur example, the Standing Orders bad miteemtively prohti• it'd the questions in respect of ell jadiciel queetiooe, on &alms suer, and on votes of wasare.—Motion withdrawn. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid upon the table vai n; pipers, among others, the Seennd Annual R put from the Commission,' s foe earning into effect the New Poor LAW in Ireland ; Papers and Correspondence relative to the Affairs of Italy; Report of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, aid Marriages; Return, Marco to the Agricultural Pro duce of Ireland, for the year 1848. Statistical Returns con meted with the levy of Poor Rates in Ireland, site. Their lordships then adjourned until Wednesday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TursoAY, JULY 31. Ms [lmam took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. LORDS' milibilirriidoillibEezto.—Losth Nukes asi Improssavuts ; Norfolk Estuary, *a. ; Bills. PUBLIC BUSTWISS. PETI !lONS PRESENTED. ZONCIARY.—By Lnrd D. STUART, from • naeotior bald MaryMbotao, oa the 24th oh., in favour of the resognition of Hoogarlin iodepandenoe; by Mr. HIIMZ. frees Mary- Wow agreed to at a meatier. a.tooded by 3,000 persona, vial the mar prayer ; .141 a petition from St. Pancras, to dr wee effect. TAINS ON KNOWLAIRON.—Mr. MOWATT preened • petition fawn as ma.cistine It4ving for its &lett the shell. tioa of ell mi. sen knowledge, Freitag that the stamp of newsmen may be tate* off. Sir J. Draw. took the oaths and his seat fir the city of Loadoo. He was introduced by Mr. Madonna& and Mr. LONDON CORPORATION DILL. On the anti at Ist firs eonsith reties of thel Ueda' slued- Ism% Kr. Alderman SIDNEY celled the attention of the house te the fact that the amendments made by the Lords would have the fftee of very peaty curtailing the vows of the city of London. Clause 3 prodded that from the lit No rusher the aldermen an common council should make out a list of voters who should be on the register fur the year en suing, and this must be taken from the parliamentary register. The parlismentsry register wu only published on the lit December, and the consequence would he that upon the Ist November the aldermen and emarion council would be o►liged to publi•h a list of v”ten which would be melees at the end 01 a month. They would be compelled to lease at a voter if be had not appeared in the parliamentary register for the year before. Ile considered the amendments to be very unnecessary endue, e-steic.ise to their character ; they would have the effect of displacing men who were ea cable of voting. He moved that the house disagree to the amendments of the Lords. . . Si; J. DL 8314 that the bill would not oceissioa say Weoareeence, and would be highly sitislictory to the citi zens of Lwrdon. The sinendenents were then we'd to. YORK., NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY BILL. Oa the notion for the consideration of the Lords' emend• mass is t►is bill, F MAU LE said this bill bad been very considerably amseded by the Lords, sad muse things had been inserted aad some omitted which warranted hiss in moving that the emendsmats be considered this day three months. Het thought they ought not to pass a hill to which, in the first plate, the railway commigioners, who were engaged in the INlBlldnatioa of the public intetest, had strongly objected ; sad is the neat place, he understood they were shut out by ths standing order• of the house from amending the bill in say way se as to give protection to the public or the parallel Mr. HEADLAM said that the house had usually been in the habit of paying great respect to the decisions of com mittees of the bowie, end when this hill had run the gaunt let of committees of this and the other house of parliament, the house erht not to reject it on the third reading. The object of the lai was to facilitate the transit of goal from this pest coal districts on the eastern side of the island to the other side of the island, and that the 07111aUtlielLtied from this country to Ireland should be made r cheap as possible. The clause relating to the audit of accounts was Introduced by the House of Lords. The company said that if each a dear were right, it ought to be applied to all comparr, and not to their alone; but they were 'mewed to adopt it rather than that the bill should not be passed. Sir 3. GRAHAM objected to the Lords' amendments. 1 1 He objected entirely to the audit clause. Mr LABOUCHERE said that he had always thoTigit that questions which ri quired a minute inquiry into details should Iss delegated to ossesittees of the house, and he had he hated to my that it would require a strong ease In deed to induct his to Tote against the decision of the eon- Mr. CARDWELL observed that while they bed the opi nion of Lord Dalhousie and the railway eenuaissionen who had examined tally into the merits of the ease,they had in Its favour only the opinion of those who had heard one side oul~; an d of these, the Lords' committee had decided by a majority of one. II the two protecting claw suggested by L or d Grenville, but which, ia cosmoses's* et Use rapidity with which the bill waiherried through the Leeds, there bed not been time to blunder*, and which, in etnenvienes ef a technical difficulty, it appeared could set be i n t ro d uce d i n that how, were inserted, all opposition would mese; but if not, representing the interests he did, be felt hound to vote for the motion of the right hos. member (Mr. F. Mamie). Mr. GREENE supported the sodas on the peva* that Wires peeper that the house should uphold the decisions& of its committees. Mr. ROEBUCK inquired if the two clauses referred to were nywesary in consequence of the amendments made in the bill by the Lords ; if so, the house oogLs to support the view of the right hes. baronet (Sir J. Orakeies) 4 :z s iy not, he did not think they would be justified in g the decision of the committees of both hawse. (Hear.) Mr. LABOUCHERE replied that the einem is qualm were not nemesery in cosisequenee of the Leeds' simendlegate to the bill, but might ly have bees isteedneed es the bill we whoa it the Commons. Mr. SPOONER supported the amendment of Mr. Pen Mauler, conteeding that the absence of the equal readying and equal rating clauses in this amalgamation bill would in effect give • monopoly to the promoters, to the prejudiee el the opponents of the measure and of the public. Mr. FORSTER supported the bill, and alter a few weeds from Mr. Roma ou the audit clause, in the course of which be wee laterrepted by the Sr CALEB, who intimated that that geodes would not be before the home nntilthey deckled whether the Lords' amendments should be taken into cote& deratkin at all, The hoses divided. tee the Biotic& Fee Mr. Fox's Maule's unendment 6l-111 TM bill wee accordingly het. HOSPITAL OP ST. CROIX. Mr G. GREY appeared at the bar sad reported that the address of the HOW of Commas, of tk• 20th of Jim hat. far an bquiry into ths application of the revesse et IS. adz, with the view of placing the hospital et a puilioa awry oat the 'steatites of the foundation, had bees ps seated to bar Majesty, and that her Majesty bad given dim. thee test steps sherald be taken by the linorney- General with a view to the placing the hospital on sack • footing r arid costy out the object of its founders. Mr. HIIIIMM bad a notice on the pew width tiers had Oct been tine to bring forward, is reprd to some 30 Me pitals and other charitable institutions which kat not bees blushed late—could the right hon. buomet state wbotlitz any mompas would be adoptsd to carryout &similar iteisizy with lw thaw wbieit it cow append was about to be oda loops* to Si. Oak? (Hoar, boar.) tie O. GUY believed that as isquivy bed bees instituted Weds, Neffeetriy if not all of those iastitutionee by the ehaeity eohninieel. The subject would, however, be referred to the AtimearGeneral to determine in what eases further pro digal,. lbsuid be taken. (Hear, leas.) LORDS' AIIIIIpM*NTB. The Lords' ai;adaaents to&loffc;riri bills were con sidered and agreed to:—Joint Stork Companies Art (1848) AlLamas's% Bill ; Bevel Pavilion, Brighten, Bill ; Chapels of Baas (Ireland) Bill; Judgments Unbind) Bill; Patty Deg, ita.. Ofices Amendment BM; Baahraprer (Ireland) Bill ; Pecw-law Union Charges Ace Amendment Bill ; Bank rupt Law Consolidation Bill ; and Drainage of Lands Bill. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1849. Vitt erpreliti. OUTGOING MAILS. The Wag Inks Mail Including Bermuda, amens, Emma, herder's, New Weans, end Mesita, and eseluding those Sr Nedotes, IL Mesas. Ulearseue, New Grenada. and Pan, will Maude ep tomoogrow, the led of August. Maw he Orman north Amens' ALIA the Gaited Butes will be made up en the evening at the Srd of August. 'The smile for Madeira, the Brazils, end Beams Ayres, will be made up on the 4th of August The mails kr Vigo. Oporto, When, Medan, Gild* and Gibraltar, will be =Weep es the Ith &August. The malls, Slaredike, to the Meditensomen, Egypt, Ceylon. India, ThsegAmm, ke n will be made up ea the awing of the 7th August. Mr mks kr Weaker, Malta, Orme% the lonian lolanda. Egypt, Orfien, Ink% end Chins. rin mothmartom wk. be made up en the mono* of the Seth of August. IMPERFECT L E GISLATION. Mr. ILOBBIR/E;i4i; had ben given to understand that la the burry of public business a blunder had, until aser, reaped the Mize of the hawse in the Bankruptcy (Ireland) Bill ; and that several classes of mother Nieuwe had been pared upon the faith of their being of quite a dif ferent character to what they really were. In the case of a bill brought la by the hon. and horsed BolieitorGeneral, an other till had to be introduced to suspend the operation ef the foram bill for twelve months ; and that very morning they had had an instance of matters having been foisted into a private bill, which w. re of public importance. He thought, under eiresentanees like these, that a responsible cam ought to be appointed, where duty should be to look over and compare all the bills brought before the house for fore the same received the sanction of parliament: hon. gen trams would then know what they were about, and the legis lation of the country would not be what it had been for the lest month—a perfect disgrace. (Hear, heir.) It was a direr to an assembly Ike the House of Commons to go though the scenes which had bees witnessed during that tire—scenes of which the learned men in the country, and all who were unlearned as well as learned, would form their own estimation. (Hear, hear) He ega'a pressed upon the ministry, who professed to lead the house, and who ought therefore to be responsible for its misdeeds, to appoint some competent person to prevent the repetition of such clerical errors r had occurred in the passing of public and private meseures. BANKRUPT LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT. The AI7ORNEY•OENERAL said, that with referent* to the Bankrupt Law CorsoEdition Act, two amendments had only bees made by the House of Lords—one an amend ment in the schedule, in whisk a typographical error of no esieequence was mad•, and the other an amendment autho rising, very properly, the senior commisaioner to eo•operate with the other Colllllgriol2llll in framing rules. He stated that upon this bill some very unfounded objections appeared to exist in the minds of traders, every one of which would have beat removed had they attentively studied its provisior s. The House of Commons committee on it had been composed of eminent lawyers and merchants; they had examined Vice-Chancellor Knieht Bruce and the commission, rs ; and in the end they had arrived at very sound and correct con clusions. Mr. MULLINGS said he had been given to understand that a noble and learned lend (Lord Brougham) in ennthi r plane had stated that the committee of the House '.f Com mons on the bill in question had been composed of merchants and traders who knew nothing of the subject. Now, that was a great mistake, the ennosittee having been composed of several eminent lawyers and well•informed merchants. After a few words from Mr. FORSTER, the amtodments were armed to. SUSPBNSTON OF DEFECTS IN LEASES BILL. The Defeat* is L• use B U, after it passed, having been found inoperative, the Solicitor-General lair 'dosed this bill, suspending it vU the beginning attest session, which the Lords so amended, es to ext .nd the sapeneion till the Ist of June 1860. , Oa it being moved that the Lards' amendments to the bill be agreed to, Mr. TENNENT moved that their consideration be post peed fora week. Kr. HUME supported the motion, showing that the pro- posed suspension would lead to litigation. Mr. TURNER said it would have exactly the rem.* effect. After a conversation the motion was negatived, and the ■aadeenta were agreed to. THE RAJAH OF SATTARA. Mr. HUME (after presenting two petitions from certain proprietor. of Indian stock, stating that ttere were abund ant twirl to the late Rajah, and praying for ir.quiry into the circumstances under which that family were disposwaved of the territory of flatters, and also for redress), moved the fol lowing resolution : That it appear. from the papers laid before this house that, by the len end Image of India, as reengnbed by the &blab government, and distinctly expressed In a minute of Sir Charles Metcalfe, lieutenant s( Ute north-western provinces of India, and dated the ''sf el apt Oineleir. ISM, that Itinior primers in failure of Mein male of their body, Welt right to adopt, to the exelmtion of collateral heir', and of any supposed reversionary right xf the paramount power ; and that the Britt.* ipmernment is bound to aekeowlolge the adoption. provided that It he regshw, end not In violation of Ilindoo law. That the Beat I. Meengem by • treaty candaded dept. 21, lel% ceded tho leathery of Ilatforg to the Rajah of del era, Ids kin and encore. mu, he leseepetall sovereletath which treaty was aciallnald on the 41 h day el lead. . IMO. when his heather sad easseemor wee raised to the throne. 'that both the rajahs died, leaving Wes by adoption., heirs by blood, and collateral heirs. That the East ladle Company never theless (without giving an opportunity to any ailments of Meting their claims) have ad amide the Mindoro law of snetnesion, sad have ordered the Santini terrihwy to be annexed to the British donalano, on the plea that it has lewd by failure of heirs. That each a pro ' carding being le violation of national hits and fig ,istat the reeog. allied rights of all the sovereign princes of India, it is the opinion of tine how* that the trders hr annexing the fluttere territory should be suspended until these member,. of the Madly who have the right to deist to be heirs to the throne have been heard and task sight& de- Inendsed. The question was cis intimately oosegus• etars, religious tensity. tie he moved for these papers on the B.it of Much, but had only received them wh. n he could not fairly bring forward the qu-stion; when he could neither hale an audience to listen, nor the mear s of explaining properly the grounds of his appeal. Her Majesty's President of tee Board of Control had given a pledge, that whatever might become of the Principality of Sattara, due attention should be paid to the heirs of the R jab, but the India Company, he leered, were becoming the sgenta of the spoliation and robbery which would be the result, if the proceedings which bad been sanctioned by them were allowed to take place, and an attempt 'tads to refuses to the Rajah's family those rights which they were justly entitled tn. They never could be induced to take the opinion of Mr. El. phinstone, who, under the direction of Lord Hastings, con cluded the treaty ie reference to those rights. Looking to the lamentable smalt that followed their interference with the Buddhists in Ceylon, be deprecated most strougly all such interference midi Hinduism in India. At for burr, there were plenty, both collateral and direct, and the govern ment, by the 21st Or , . 111., were bound to have regard to their right.. But according to a minute of Lord Dalhousie, it appeared that the conduct of the government towards the Rajah's family was a grew violitiin of that act, and abo a great act of injustice and spoliation. He pro tested Limit that proveding, and would bring it forward again next session, an the hope of shaming those spoliator,. (Ironical cheesy.) Yes, and he sew some of them rpptrite (Sir J. Hogg)—(a laugh)—those destroyers of religious freedom for the paltry !ululation of property to the amount of 120,0001. to the property of • company worth 20,000,0001. a year. He bad done his duty, unfortunately too late, as he was speaking to empty benches ' and he had only now to leave the question in toe hands of the house. The question having been put from the chair, Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said the net complained of, the order for annuning the territory of Setters, left England on the 24th January—no doubt with the knowledge of the hon. gentleman and his Iriende, who, had they wished to prevent this roes injustice, as the hon. member styled it, ought im mediately to have called the attention of parliament to the subject. (Hear, hear.) He (Sir J. C. Hobhoure) had been all along in his place, and ready to meet any charge that might be made. He would now notice one or two assertions which were unfounded in fact. The hon. member bad talked of religious lioerty being infringed, by which he meant the right of a Hindoo to make an adopted son his suecessar. A avenge notion appeared to have got 'bros. that thee- was no such thing as a paramount state in India—that Great Britain bad not succeeded to the authority she had crenhcd, and that consequently the petty princes might appoint their successors. (Hear, hear.) This was quite &novel view: even the hon. gentleman emelt he net advaaNd it last year. The resolution psi meal net aseensplish the hon. member's object ; no short of an sat of parliament would do it. He (Sir John) repeatedly urged the pay ment of the money to the widow ; this payment was only delayed became she refused to sign a receipt, she grounding her refusal on the circumstance of her son's adoption not Wag recognised. But there we. no doubt that the money would be paid at an early period. Sir E. 60LEBROOKI referred to the recent discusrion in the India Howe, and observed that the principle of re fusing the right of adoption to the Indian princes, without Vie unction of the supreme government, struck at the authority of those princes. The British government had no rights with regard to those princes, except such r were derived from treaties sleds on equal terms; their rights of succession were full and unimpaired ; and be therefore pro test/a MTV gly ageing the principle enunciated by the right hen. baronet. This question had been repeatedly raised and derided. Sir Charles Metcalfe clearly recognised the right of the Indian princes to adopt sucessor. Ss important lid he redder that question, that he should submit a motion, rely :next moron, declerior the rights of the native =wholly irrespective of this Satan ease. The right or was strictly define d by treaty, the words of which rind the fullest right of ti nitory. and which could n be ruined to the heirs of the body of the sovereign, as eon tended by the Court of Directors. Whether parliament mitt to interfere in this ease it would be for the house to deride when the question came fully before it. Sir I. C. HOBHOUSE explained. What he had said was, that the doctrine that the British authority was not the supreme sorority in matters of thie kind was a perfect.' novel doctrine. In proof of this, he cited the opinion of Sir Charles Metcalfe. Mr. ELLIOT said that the whole of the religious rite. bad been performed in this ease, and the adopted son got the property under these religious rites. An hon. Manion then moved that the house be counted; and there being only 38 member. preseat, the house adjourned shortly after 4 o'clock to this day, at &quarter past two. CLERK/ OF COUNTY COURTS.—An Order in Council published ia lan sight's Gasate his the salaries of Clerks of County Comae (who ars sot to be paid by fees after the Ist October), at 6001. per anima, salon it caa be shown by say of then that their avatar aasccuit of fees has exceeded that sow, ia which ease the aisesat of the salary is to be axed in accordance with each average. MOM WATTS AT LOW1:1011 rya Dar Zii• - 7I;00 - - 17;107;eri pm 0. T•./Laseve—nrswise, 41 Ws. post 0; Alisemea. IS Ms. paw I. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1. THE closing none ensued yesterday in the House of Lords was eminently fitting and appropriate. The legisiative season has been occupie d with attempts at enacting a variety of tragic parts, and it has termi nated in a case of actual suicide. In proportion as the accents of theatrical distress were ineffective, be cause they were feigned, so is the contrast afforded by genuine madness and disaster strong, and its tone startling and impressive. The audience that beard without emotion the professional fury of Lord BROUGHAM, and yawned when, for the seventh time this session, Lord ABERDEEN tore hie diplomatic hair—listened with unaffected wonder to the old man's tale, told by Lord RODEN, and gee d with silent astonishment at the Grand miner of the Orangemen, as he stood before them recounting with uccanscious earnestness the extraordinary transac tions in which be bed recently borne an almost in credible and hitherto oncredited part. All party imputation., or personal attacks, or melo dramatic airs of hatred or resentment, fade into ne ttling, when compared with a deliberate case of fele de se. Such was the case of Lord RODEN, and to the sense of their necessary inferiority to his simple eloqu-rice on the occasion in question we doubtless owe the sigr Noma silence obee reed by all the other members of his party. His lordship began the even ing's entertainment, and eas allowed to finish him aidL A brief and formal epilogue was spoken by Lard LANSDOWNE when he had done ; but it rather hinted than expresso d what the verdict of the audience ouht to be ; and left every one to take his own moral out of the singular performance. Few people probably have forgotten that upon the intelligence being received of the outrages perpe trated by armed bands of Oraagemen, at Castlewellan, on the 12. h July, a motion for inquiry was made in the House of Commons, and supported by several of the ablest men on both sides of the Speaker's chair. Hard words were unquestionably used in commenting on the conduct of the magistracy on the occasion ; land terms of energetic denunciation were no doubt employed with reference to the encouragement afforded by Lord RODEN to the assemblage in arms of these murderous associations, and the sanction given by him t 3 ties turbulent and dangerous processions. After a fortnight's deliberation, his lordship comes forward in his place as a peer, and proposes to enter into a fall and explicit defence of himself against all who had assailed him. He recapitulates the princi cipal charges mede against him. He cites with indig nant scrupulosity the very words of his chief accuser. And while with a disdainful charity he repudiates all desire of recrimination, he solemnly declares that the entire tale is false, and that he will substitute in each particular the real and unvarnished truth for the fable founded upon it. Whereupon all ears were anxiously inclined to bear the novel story; and confident were many that strange discrepancies would appear in the authentic narrative from that which the Mate public and the impatient Commons had believed. But great did the amszemeat grow when step by step the injured earl proceeded to explain, not how he was absent from the scene alleged to have taken place in his demesne at Tollymore, but that he actually participated therein; not that he was a silent or passive spectator, but an enthusiastic orator there ; not that the affair was im provised or accidental, but pre-arranged ten days be fore; not that tt e aspect of the multitude whom he feasted and harangued was dece ptively peaceable. but that ee saw hundreds of them armed, though certainly not all! In mute astonishment the peers listened to a confession uttered in the ace nts of pious and triumphant vindication. He told them what the deliberations were that led to the marching on the "glorious anni‘ersary of the D•ty•ne": how he had modestly declined at nrst the honour of reviewing this standing army of civil war; but how, at length, he had given the assurance that if the ledges chose to assemble, his gates never would be clued against them. With graphic particularity he detailed the approach of the procession to his house, and the rea son why:he requested them to move on to another part of the rounds;g how the noise might disturb an invalid if they did not do so, and how a plat form for thou who wished to speak, and refresh ments for those who desired to drink, awaited them at the spot assigned ; how docilely they obeyed, and how affectionately he accompanied them. Touching the liquor, his lordship pleaded much in the style of the unhappy fair the blame of whose frailty was to be proportioned to the size of its fruit. His slanderers had spoken of barrels of strong beer, as it he would administer stimulants to armed men. There were certainly some barrels emptied on the occasion, he would admit, but part had been intended for another purpose, and he emphatically declared that the beer " was small beer," and of course not strong. Finally, Lord RODEN reads faithful report of his own speech to " the brethren ;" and we imagine that few in reading it will marvel at the manner in which it appears to have been taken by those to whom it was addressed. With the ordinary words of course about loyalty and moderation, it nevertheless con tained abundant reminiscences of past conflict and in centives to continued alienation and antagonism of creeds, to the one essential and inveterate spirit, in short, on which the system of Orangeism is founded. The armed multitude cheered and filed off before their chief. He returned to his dwelling, and they went on their way. Whither that way led we, un happily, too well know. Ere the sun had set houses had been sacked or consigned to the flames, children and women had been maimed or killed, and on the green hill-side bleeding urines lay of men who, in the morning, had been Joyous in the strength of youth and health. Do we impute intentional com plicity to Lord RODEN in these horrible results of that disastrous day ? God forbid ! We are certain that no man of just or impartial mind can read his defence of himself and dream of so accusing him. But beyond the terms of that defence it is unnecessary to go in order to perceive how singularly unfit are "an like him to be entrusted with the grave responobthty of preemie& the public peace. Lord RODEN sap he saw before him a multitude numbering perhaps in all two thousand, marching with banners and music in party procession, and a certain portion of them beer tog arms. Yet it never for a moment struck him that there was anything illegal or improper theism I Argument or reasoning in such a case would be absurd. Lord LANSDOWNE has clearly and without contradiction pronounced the opinion which all com petent lawyers, and we may add all men of common sense, entertain as to the gross illegality which never occurred to Lord RODEN'S mind. One question only remains, and it is this—what does Lord CLARENDON intend to do, in order to redeem the character of the government from the suspicion of indifference or weakness in the matter? Mammon the cause of the gallant Hungarians depends altogether, for this campaign at least, upon themselves, it must be gratifying and useful to find Englishmen of all ranks start up, as in the great Marylebone meeting of Monday, to express their sympathies and their eagerness to serve so holy a cause. We only regret that such a movement did not take place months ago, and perhaps by its enthu siasm and unanimity have deterred Russia from the decided step which it has taken of placing constita tionalism and national independence under its ban. Lord DCDLEY STUART stated fully the nature of the war, which was not that of socialism or even of demo:racy, but a war for ancient rights, as impera tive as if our own constitution was invaded, and as if we were called to fight for it. We were glad to see Lord DUDLEY STUART is the chair. This was a kind of identification, forced on Europe by the Russians themselves, of the great causes, hitherto distinct, of Poland and Hungary, both of which, if suppressed, will form one running and virulent sore in the side of the great despotic monarchies, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and baffling their every effort to form anything like a stable and tranquil despotism. The ether speakers were equally enthusiastic, (gamily eloquent. But the great doubt parvaded all of what to do. We fear there is nothing left but:to bide the events of the campaign. And there is every hope that should GIOROEY sneered in crossing the Theme, and ' joining his forces to the Hungarian armies behind , that formidable Sae, that then the united military powers of Russia and of Austria will fail of reducing these gallant men for this campaign. It will then ' be for the lovers of Hungarian independence, and the admirers of Hungarian resistance, to see whether something might not be done to counteract that fear ful coalition of the two military despotisms. The Daily News is justly proud of the tribute so generously paid to it at this great meeting. Eager to act as the organ and as the supporter of wise and jest liberalism all over the world, it is not without honor that we have observed the league of despots show itself not only in a junction of their legions on the Danube, but in a coalition of almost all the old European organs of the press against the cause of liberty and independence. It is impossible that this can proceed from chance, impossible that it can proceed from mere conservative fear. There is something more in it. It is a proof that our press has fallen under the influence of Russian and Austrian diplomacy • and the source, ' established for furnishing the Engl ish people with impartial information have been poisoned by foreign interests, foreign br nality, foreign tyranny. We are glad therefore to find a solemn protest against the backsliding of our contemporaries uttered at a meeting of a great metropolitan parish—the district, too, in which wealth, birth, intellect, and trade, are univer sally . combined and interwoven. It is remarkable that this universal sympathy for the Hungarians should pervade the English race. It is as great in the United States as in our own pre views, and a numerous and effective legion was raised the other day in New York, ere its enthusiastic leaders considered the difficulties in the way of transporting it to Hungary. It is lamentable to think that in such a cause, at such a time, the French should be back ward ; that no sympathy or generous feeling what ever should be displayed by its public or its_ press; and that, as Mr. ROBERTSON said at the Marylebone meeting, the President of the French Republic was, or might be reckoned as, a Cossack Prince. This is no doubt unjust. But, in truth, all men and parties in France are paralyzed by fear; and whenever they descry any principle or silt/mint that is • source of power, they fall down and wor ship it. There are a set of idols, quite as vain and fra gile as the popular idol of socialism, which the French President, his statesmen, and his generals, are each day kneeling to. One is an idol called Order, on the altar of which they are sacrificing every liberty. LOUIS NAPOLEON made the most absurd prostration of himself and his dignity before this idol in Ham prison, where he asked pardon of public opinion for having once invaded the realm of LOUIS PHILIPPE. Prince Louts NAPOLEON divides his time between passing reviews, attending masses, and bolding coun cils. To worship, first the army, then the priesthood, and lastly the body of mcnarchic futctionaries who constitute the priests of Order,—this is the business of hie life. To humble, and to kneel, and to act the hy pocrite before each ephemeral idol of the day, without having one princip'e or sentiment of his own, is the policy of the heir of the great NAPOLEON. Of all the ludicrous farces which the French have played in this way, the most ludicrous certainly is that of General OUDINOT at Rome, or Cardinal OretNor, as the Romany call him. A knowledge of his proceedings we obtain from OUDINOT himself, who suppressed every journal in Rome in order to establish in their stead one of his owe. This journal records Ovnirear's doings day by day. It seems that one of the devices of the general has been to get a successor to GICEBOACCIIIO, the great popular favourite and statesman. OUDINOT has found this succorer in a fellow whom be has styled HAN NIBAL THE LlrrLe. When Cardinal Ountrar had gone through the ceremony of the great mass at the Lateran on the 15th, HANNIBAL was appointed to address him, and HANNIBAL did so in the name of every Roman family who were eager to welcome the French, and to restore the authority of Pope and priesthood. HANNIBAL then protested in the meat naive manner that be was not paid for what he was then doing, but that it was the spontaneous produce of his liberty and confidence. Cardinal Ot: DINOT replied to HANNIBAL THE LITTLE in terms which the J;,urnal de Borne duly records. France. he slid, woo the. /ootroosoot of P rov id ence i n restoring the Pupe, and proud he was to enact Erance on that providential occasion. He did not make war on the Humane, and be had spared them the horrors of war, because the Romans boasted to be true catholic', like the French, and the French and Romans were members of the some family, sons of the same father, and alike the children uf Gou ! This eloctiient apostrophe Cardinal OUDINOT wound up by shouting Viva Dieu, which, in plain English, means Long live God Almighty, a blasphemy and an absurdity which he followed up by wishing the same long life to religion and the Pope. Are not the French ashamei of such servile, such blasphemous, such beggarly buffoonery ? There was, at leant, some originality in NSF°. LEON'S repeating the Mahonutan symbol of faith and exclaiming within view of the Pyramids, that GOD was great and that Msnomrr was his prophet, a profession of faith taker, literally by his follower, General MENOCT, who turned Mahometan altogether. But there is nothing even serious in the mock piety of the miserable,farcesr, OUDINOT. While the French have thus fallen so low—it is to be hoped not irreparably so—we recur to English meetings in favour of the Hurgarian cause with pride. The following comes via Germany : SCHAFFHAUSEN, JULY 25.—The newspaper here says, so late back as the 23rd even, that all negotiations have failed respecting the liberation of the Hessians in Biisingeo, and that oonriere have been now sent to Carlsrube (more likely to Gen. V. Peucker's or to the Prince of Prussia's head quarters) and also to Bern. BERME, JULY 23.—The federal council hu issued a circular to all the federal cantons, respecting the violation of territory by the company of Hessian troops, which disarmed and occupied the village of Butmigen, that is enclosed on three sides by the canton of Schaffbauseo . This affair induces the-Fede ral Council (the diet) :-Ist, to augment to 8,000 men the division already stationed on the northern frontier of Switzerland ; 2nd, to call out two more divisions into the federal service, each of which is to be 8,000 strong, and each to be composed of each species of armed troops ; 3rd, to station on piquet the whole remaining force of the federal contingent ; 4th, to summon the cantons Basic-town and Basle country, Aargau, Zurich, Schaffhausen, and Thurgau, to station also their militia on piquet for the present'; 3th, to empower the federal commissariat and the mili tary commander in case of need to summon more troops to thefederal service; 6th, to convoke the fede ral assembly for the 6th of August. The chief com mand is temporarily conferred on Gen. Dufour, and Colonel Zimmerli is named chief of the staff. Colonels Omar, Abundi and Boutems are chosen as com manders of the divisions. ALARMING COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAT.—As a special engine, despatched from Lytham with a carries' containing Dr. Robinson, of hiancherter, was proceeding on Wednesday morning last. about half-past four o'clock. on the North llnioa Railway, the flange of the wheel, when about 200 yards beyond Leyland station, ran along the line foe 40 or 50 yards, and all of a sudden the en gine by some accidental means unknown, sprang on the other line directly in front of a powerful luggage engine that wee conveying a train to Preston. At might be expected, a fearful collision took place, several of the goods waggons being smashed, and the two engines damaged to a con siderable extent. The ground for a number of yards was ploughed and raked up, and the engine driver of the express was thrown over a hedge into an adjoining field, but escaped, as well as the driver of the goods engine, unhurt. The carriage containing Dr. Robinson was thrown on the bank, but that gentleman sustained no in jury, and reseeded onward by the mail train that soon after arrived. After the occurrence a platelayer on the line hastened to Preston and gave notice of the accident, upon which all the porton, together with Mr. Pest, the surveyor of the locomotive department, were sent down to the place by the mail, to render all necessary assistance, and to transfer the bags luggage, and passengers from one mail to another. After the mail had gone the line was soon cleared, so that none of the submuent trains during the day were impeded on their route. The speed at which. the engine was running when the accident took plate, was, we understand, about thirty miles an hour.—Preston Guardian. Int Court. OSBORNE, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince walked this morning, in Osborne-park. His Royal Highness the Primo of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger branches of the Royal Family, walked and rode as usual. Lord John Russell, after attending the Privy Council held by her Majesty, yesterday atterneon, remained at Osborn until this morning. Sir James Stephen, H. C. 8., arrived at Osborne, yester day afternoon, having limn honoured by an invitation. Sir James retuned to town this forenoon. There was no other additive to the royal dinner party yes terday. (From last night's Casette.) PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. thIBORNE-ROUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT, JULY 30. The Queen's Most Exoellent Majesty in Council.—lt is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that tha Parliament be prorogued from Wednesday the Ist day of August next to Tuesd‘y the 9th day of October next.—Wit.L. Barnuaor. FOREIGN -OFFICE, JULY 30. —The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas L. Crittenden, as Conml at Liverpool, and of Mr. Alfred Mitchell, as Consul at Cork fur the United States of America. ----- OSBORNE-HOUSE, ISLE OP WIGHT, JULY 30. The Queen's Most Pasellent Majesty in Council.—This day the Bight HonouraLde Matthew Talbot Baines was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, sad took hie place at the Board accordingly. WHITEHALL, AMY 30.—The Queen has been pleased to _present the Bev. James Wilson to the church and parish of .from, in the presbytery of Chirnside, and county of Berwick, vacant by the death of the Rev. Alexander Cuthbertson. ROYAL PATRIOTIC SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. Yesterday, the annual meeting of the London Auxiliary Branch of this society took place at the London Tavern, Bishopegate-street—the LORD Mayon in the chair. Tee following gentlemen also took part in the proceedings:— Mr George Powlett Strops, Mr. Thomas Birmingham, of Galway; Captain Bellew ; Mr. George Bain, Mr. Charles Mackenzie, of Scotsburn ; Mr. James Illalcelmson, Rev. Mr, Fisher, Rev. Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Charles Forbes, Mr. Daniel Davidson, Mr. Despite?, &c. &c. Mr. C. FORBES read the report; from which it appeared that " the committee regret that the primary object of the society—viz., that of auementing the funds of the parent society—has been less successfully carried out than they trust it will be in future years. Although a considerable portion of the very small funds hitherto possessed by the parent society was contributed in the south, yet the amount sub scribed during the year, ending March 1849, in connexion with this auxiliary branch, only amounted to 801.95., which, alter deducting 291. 19s. Id., for proving, advertising, and incidents„ left a balance of 60/.95. lld." A letter from Dr. Mackenzie, the honorary secretary, re- presenting the present c ,ndition of the Dichloride, was then read ; ant other letters were produced, showing the necessity there was far giving encouragement to this society. Mr. P. SCROPE, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that it would be quite hopeless to attempt to improve the condition of the labouring classes in England, unleis steps were also taken for the advancement of the peasantry of Ireland and Scotland, and the but way of rendering them assistance was, not by !granting them pecuniary aid, but to teach them to rely on their own indusuy for support. The motion having been seconded, the S. cretary addressed a few observations to the meeting respecting the genera condition of the highlands and is'ands of Scotland, and stated that in his opinion the most available source of profit to the labouring classic would be found in the manufacture of kelp from sea•weed, but little could be done in this respect without some encouragement from government. Another means of benefiting th;oondition of the poor might be pro duced by the manufacture of oil from the fish which were caught on the vim of Scotlan , ..; but th, se deeirable objects could not be effected wi bout the assistance of those who had it in their power to promote them. The report having been adopted, The Rev. Mr. HAMM I ON pr,,posed a vote of thanks to the officers of the society, and to Sir James Duke, as the President of the London Auxiliary Branch. Tue resolution havin4 ben carried, and thanks having been returned by the chairman and by one of the officers of the society, the meeting separated. SYMPATHY WITH THE ROMANS AND HUNGARIANS. MEETING AT WAKEFIELD. On Monday evening a meeting was held in the Court house, Wahefield, for the purpose of expressing sym pathy with the Romans and Hungarians iu their Efforts to mainta:n their liberty. The MATou in the chair. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, and the following resolu tions were unanimously ad listed : That this meeting regards with the greatest respect and admiration the conduct of the Hungarian people in defence of their ancient liberties and constitutional independence against the usurpation of Austria, and deprecates the inter ference of Russia as contrary to the common law of nations recognised throughout the civilised world. That this meeting views with the severest disapproval the conduct of republican Fiance in sending her armies to destroy the reputelic of Rem*, which had imitated her own example, and which aught to have had her warmest sym. pathies. " That her Majesty's government be respectfully requested to protest against the Russian i terlirence, end to recognise the independence of Hungary and its provisional govern went, and that the following memorial be adopted by the meeting, end signed by the Mayer on its behalf, and for wardel to her Majesty's government." A memorial in accordance with the above sentiments was read and adopted by the meeting. A vote of thanks to the chairman and to the magistrates who had kindly lent the room for the occasion, was then adopted, and the meeting was about to separate, when Mr. SLIM read a letter from Mr. Cobden, expressing his interest in the Iluogarian eau's, and also informed the meet ing that a subscription list was now opening in Wakefield for the relief of the destitute Hungarians at Folkestone, any ova rplus to go towards the funds for the relief of the Hun. garisna generally. MEETING AT LEEDS. A meeting of sympathy with the Hungarians was held in the Court•hutue at Leeds on Monday evening. In the absence of the mayor, Mr. Alderman RICHARDSON WAS called upon to preside. The chairman having stated the ob ject of the meeting, and esproreed a strong opinion in favour of the Hungarian cause, Mr. THOMAS Purer moved the first resolution. " That this meeting admires, respects, and sympathises with the Hungarian nation, in their noble endeavours to maintain inviolate their jest rights, and the constitutional independence they have inherited from their fathers, against the tyrannical encroachments of Austrian deep AWE.' The hon. gentleman observed, in the course of his speech, that he wanted this country to maintain its present inflames by nonintervention. But the tendency of the present uni versal application of the sword on the continent was what the Daily News had pointed out—it was to give a military cha racter to the whole continent of Europe. Mr. Councillor NswroN seconded the resolution, which was carried un , nimously. The following resolutions were also proposed and adopted: o That this meeting views with abhorrence the atrocities committed by the Austrian authorities in Hungary, and re garde the intervention of Russia as a violation of the law of nations, and dung eons to the peace, the freedom, and the general welfare of Europe. " That this meeting entreat the houses of parliament to take steps to secure the immediate recognition, de facto, of Hungary; es, in their judgment, it is no less demanded by considerations of justice and policy, and the commercial in terests of the two states, than with a view of putting a stop to the effusion of human blood, and of the fearful atrocities which mark the prosier of the Austro•Rnesian armies." A petition to both houses of parliament was then adopted, and also a memorial the Queen, praying her Majesty to inter fere on behalf of the Hungarians. A resolution was proposed that Lord Beaumont should be requested to present the petition to the Lords ; R. Cobden, Esq. that to the Commons; and Lord Yslmenton the memo rial to her Majesty. A committee was formed for the purpose of raising tub teriptiout for the Hungarians, in connection with the Lon don committee ; and after three cheers for the Hungarians the meeting separated. SELF-DESTRUCTION_ BY A MILITARY OFFICER. An inquiry was held on Saturday, at the Bee Hive Inn, Cheltenham, to ascertain the eireutostanees which led to the death of Captain Robert John Colville, assistant cam missary-general, and residing at Paragon-terrace, who was found with his throat cut, in a closet on his own premises, in the afternoon of Friday. The deceased had attained the advanced age of 70, and was generally cheerful in his dispo sition, until about three weeks since, when a change be came evident in his manner ; he began to talk to himself, and to manifest other symptoms of a deranged intellect. On Friday Miss Johnson, a distant relation, who resided with him, went to church, and during her absence he walked about in different parts et the house ; but, on the return of the lady, he was found in the water-closet, weltering in blood, which issued from a wound inflicted in the throat. He was not suite dead, but life departed in a shirt time after. The following evidence was given: The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased destroyed himself while suffering from temporary insanity. —Cheltenham Journal. READING ELECTION.—Mr. Gardner has retired from the contest. In his parting address, issued yesterday morning, he states that Mr. Bowyer's second address put forth, containing statements with respect to public quer tient which are at least intelligible, though by no means so advanced as his own, enables him, unwilling as he 'is un necessarily to divide the liberal interest, to withdriw his claims upon the constituency of Reading, and to decline a contest which he should have hesitated to engage in if Mr. Bowyer's first announcement had been equally explicit. Mr. Griffiths has aho withdrawn. The only candidates now in the field are, Mr. Stanford on the conservative interest, and Mr. Bowyer and Sir John Rare on the liberal interest Proclamation wu made _yesterday morning by the mayor and returning officer, and the nomination is fixed to take place on Monday next, and the election on Tandy. THE DUKE OF BEDFORD AND HIS TENANTS. The following address, which forms s good argued to the celebrated Bennett correspondence, has been presented to the Duke of Bedford by his tenants: " Ws, your grace's tenants, beg leave to record the sand menta of deep respect and attachment which we entertain towards you as a landlord. In a qua stion purely political, it would have been more becoming is us to observe perfect silence; but when we see your grace's character assailed u a landlord (not so much by aid tiaras so by ambiguous in sinaatice), we feel that a responsibility rests with us to counteract the Mame of such • misrepresenta tion. Your grace's correspondence with Mr. W. Bennett km been circulated from one end of the Wand to the other, end has been mods the subject of commentary by parties who have not tailed to interpret a a generaut proposal into an arbitrary exercise of power. We, your grace's tenants, therefore think that a longer silence on our part would be unpardonable, and we beg thus publicly to repudiate, as grows calumnies, the charges made against your grace in the capacity of a landl rd. We deem it the noblest characttristic of a British tenant that he possoses the free choice of his political opinions, and the power of their free expression. Tins privile 4 e we enjoy unfettered by any condition on the part of your grace. It is our pride and happiness to tent under a man so pre eminent for his private virtues, of such an unex ampled munificence in promoting the welfare of every clue of persons upon his property, and one with whom the relations of landlord and tenant are cemented to gether by so many ties and endearments, as to make our attachment to your grace's name and person a reel and en during sentiment of the heart. And • e beg to subscribe ourselves, with the greatest respect, "Your grace's most faithful, obliged, "Obedient, and bumble servants. - - (Rae follow the signatures.) The Duke's reply was as folluwe:— " Endsleialt, July 17, I E I9 . " Gentlemen—l have to acknowledge the kind and affectionate address you have transmitted to me under circumstances that render it peculiarly acceptable. It shows that the question between Mr. W. Bennett and myself is clearly understood by you, although attempts have been made to pervert it, not only to an impatation of ' arbitrary exercise of power; but also a question of personal character; and 'mo tives have been attributed to me which are as alien to my feelings in this transaction as they would be repugnant to the principles of my whole life. But I have already stated, on another occasion, that it would ill become me to notice more particularly the reflections and insinuations which Mr. Bennett has cast upon use, but which, let us hape, his own calm reflection will, sooner or later, repudiate. The opinions he entertains upon free trade, or any other political subject, he had a perfect right to express when and where he thought fit; but when he publicly proclaimed his conviction that tenant farmers (him sM, I took for granted ircluded) must be ruin ously affected by the Act of 1846, I felt induced to offer to release him from his engagement to me. It was my desire that, in empties or declining this offer, he should be governed solely by a consideration of his own interest, and it wsa made without a thought of depriving him of one atom of his political independence, or of fettering its free exer cise on all occasions. I gladly take this opportunity of expressing how entirely I concur in the opinion expressed in the address, that it is the noblest charactetiric of a British tenant that he possesses the free choice of his political opinions, and the power of their free expres sion; and I cordially thank you fir having done jus tice to my true sentiments, as well as my invariable practise in that respect, by the avowed that you have always enjoyed this privtlegs unfettered by any c.aulitiin on my part. Gra tifying as it must be to me at any time to receive such a tes timony of the confidence and aruchment of a large number of nay Bedfordshire tenants, it is particularly at at the present time, to be furnished with this satisfactory proof that they fully understand and justly appreciate what Mr. W. Ben nett himself has been unable or is unwilling to comprehend. Believe me. gentlemen, with heartfelt thaoss for your con siderate and well timed kindness on this occasion, Your obliged and faithful fri.ert, " BEDFORD." YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT LEEI)S. LEEDS, JULY 31 Yesterday afternoon a large quantity of rain fell, end ale, during night there were very heavy shower., which it was *eared would interfere much with the proceedings in the implement yard and in trial fields. The trial of land implements was however got through towards evening, and as to day has been beautifully fine, no great inconvenience has been sustained. The show field, which last night was nearly snide deep in dirt and wet in some llaces, is this moving nearly dried up, and a arge number of spectators have visited it during the day. The show of implements is exceedingly good, being more than double the ge number of previous years. The pit a for implements are not yet awarded, but they will be in the course of the afternoon, and announced at dinner this evening. The list of entries of cattle, although completed, is not yet published ; but we understand that the entries are double those of previous yi ars, the total number being over 800. The Earl of Carlisle will preside at the council dinner this evening; and, besides his lordship, the Earl of Ilarewood, Lord Galloway, Lord Keane, Sir John Johnstone, and other distinguished visitnn, are expected to arrive to-day. Tc-morrow is the great day of the show, when it is ex pected that large numbers of visitors will arrive by the several railway trains centreing in Leeds. As yet there has been no great arrival., or any extraordinary number of per sons in the town. Indeed, with the exce,vtion of • little throng and bustle in Wellingtonatrees, near the show yard, the main streets are not more crowded than usual. True, a good many people have passed through the imple ment yard, but, until the cattle is exhibited to-morrow, we do not anticipate anything like a crush on the ground. BRITISH ARCHXOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CHENTER, MONDAY EVENING. The proceedings in connexion with the holding of the 'lath annual congress of the above interesting and valu able society in Chester, commenced this day, under highly favourable auspices. The chief objects of the society are to promote a personal intercourse between antiquaries and his torical inquirers who reside in different parts of the country and abroad, and to afford a week's amusement and instruc tion, by the reading and discussing of papers on antiquarian and historical subjects, and in visiting and examining thee ther the antiquities of the locality, with a view of illustrating and preserving the ancient monuments, arts, manners, cus toms, and remains of put times. Shortly lifter eight o'clock Lsrd Albert Conyngham, the president, was introduced by the Bishop of Chester, who, in the course of a short address, stated that the ancient city of Chester contained many remarkable relating of the middle ages calculated to give new light, and impart new interest, to what was scarcely understood. The noble President then proceeded to deliver an ad dress, dwelling at some length upon the interest which attached to the study of archa , dopy, and pointing out the various antiquities connected with the city of Chester. The remainder of the evening was occupied with the reading of several most interesting papers ; by Mr. Dillon Croker, on the study of archaeology ; by Mr. J. It. Plumbs, on the seals of the Berle of Chester ; Thomas Wright, Esq., on an Ivory Casket of the thirteenth century, as illustrative of the romantic literature of England in the middle ages ; J. 0. Halliwell, Esq., on the cottage literature of the Palatine counties, illustrated by notices of fugitive tracts chiefly relating to Cheater; J. G. Waller, Esq., on the brasses of Sir Peter I.egh, in Winwick Church, Lan cashire. and of Roger Legit, in St. Michael Church, Mac clesfield, Cheshire. RECOVERY OF A VESSEL SUNK IN TILE SHZIHNE4B, it:LT 31.—Some weeks back a sloop, celled the Providence, of Enchanter, whilst !Wire about half a mile below the Mouse Light, was run into by a steamer celled the Londin Merchant, end sunk, since which time several at tempts have been made by the Sheerness boatmen to recover the hull, in which they yesterday succeeded, and she now lies much damaged on the hard ground near the pier. A MOTHER STABBED BY HER DAVCIITER.—Oft Saturday, an inquest was held at Ramsey, at the house of William {'yenta, a farmer, on the body of his wife, Anne Spencer Pyman, aged 74, who met with her death under the following melancholy circumstances:—Mazy Anne Pyman e single woman, stated that the deceased wu her mother ; on Tuesday, the 10th ult., about one o'clock in the afternoon, li-r mother and her sister, Eliza Pyman, were in the sitting room together, when her sister called to her to bring z lily leaf to put on her mother's knee ; she got a leaf, and went cots the room with it, when her mother said to her, " She (meaning her sister Eliza) has cut a hole in my knee, only because I said there should be some more cabbage for din ner .' " her sister was in the room at the time, and could hear she said ; she then examined her mother's left k nee, whe n she saw a wound, which appeared to have been made by a knife. It was not then bleeding much, but it bled a great deal afterwards. Stu placed the lily leaf, steeped in brandy, upon the woun I, and tied a handkerchief over it. She had forgotten before to state that, as soon as she came into the room, her mother said to her, " Eliza has thrown a knife at my knee ;" but her sister Eliza said nothing. The wound was continued to be dressed by them until the Tuesday fol lowing (the 17th tilt, ),when Mr. Smith, surgeon, of Manning tree, was sent for, and he attended her up to the time of her death, which took place on Thursday, the 26th ult. Her mother did not say whether any blows had passed between her and her sister. Her sister had been for some time past labouring under abe-ration of intellect. There was a hole in her mother's gown and under-garments, u if cut with a knife. —Phoebe King, wife of William King, of Ramsey, labourer, deposed that she was last night at the house of Mr. William Pyman, husband of the deceased, where she and a Mrs. John son had their tea together. Eliza Pyman was in the room with them, and talked about her father and mother, 'when she said to them, " I cut the old woman's knee with that kni e," the knife she (Mrs. King) was using, and the same then produced. She said nothing more about it. By the old woman she meant her mother. Has known Eliza Pyman for some years, and considered her to have been for some time past in a deranud state of mind.—Mary Johnson, wife of a labourer in the parish, corroborated the last witness, and added that when Eliza Pyman spoke of having cut her mo ther, she was quite composed.—Jam,,Hent7 Smith, of Man ningtree, surgeon, stated that on Tuesday, the 17th ult., he was sent for to attend the deceased, whom he found in bed, and he had not the slightest doubt whatever that the death of the deceased was attributable to the wound in the knee.— The jury having consulted foe about twenty minutes, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Eliza Pyman. The coroner t then committed her for triaL—Essex Herat.;