The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-11 00:00:00

133 spiked= fa repairing churches which were in dan ger of Mlles. Seek wee the actual pities of the Irish ekerch io reference to its property. Mr. HUMS said he had bees seldom so ratified with any speech on Ibis subject as with the most convecting, satiefec tory, and moderato speech of his bon. Mead. (Hoz.) Not canned the points noticed by his hen. Mend hed bon , whilst the time of the house bad been takea up by the boo. such with antlers which he never toothed apes, such as &memo, pluralities, and mareseidems es the part of the clergy. The relit hoe. gentleman had not grapoloi with the points which had boa brought forward by his hon. Mond. The boa. gentleman mid that the church el Ireland was not so wealthy as was opposed. But it was net • question of wealth. It was the degradation which IPS be felt by the Roman esthetics of Irelead,who formed the greet majority of the nation, at being ealledo& to contribute to Support the church of the enisority. It was the placing that ease of depredation weep catholic that proved such 6 social and mon injury to the white e g g airr. B s loo k e d upon the so ion of his lies. Mod is • itaansial sad social mist of view, as one of the utmost isportanos. (Bear.) le was most naturally that the fright boa. genthemas eshred the solution of • dillerity which he him self bed not been able to elope with, to gentlemen who ke 669 lest Arty years bad been wrap* the system. (War, bear.) There was no question, however, that this subject lim6 he grappled wi h; the Anglican church hi Ireland meat be remosid ; for he did not seem with his has. Mead be steatite a compromise. (Hear.) Twenty-Saar ago Weed, when he himself brought the modes ye bleat, he had an idea that a time be mei gable, but all his subsequent caperissee bed lengle hint that he had been mistaken la this sake. (800 beer.) The English cluisek is Ireland mast Via aappert upon the insaiben of that Starch. A if Ms. Orissa opposite were as satisfied as they professed yes to be that the principles of this church wave the only precipice that were entitled to be maintained, there essidi be no real rear on %lite port that due support weak% be wilkhel Iby its members. (Rear, hear.) Their broom r, in charring so fixedly to the revenues of the chunk M Ireland, clearly showed their opiates that the sop poet of those 'empties the climb Meld would la These "'fell.. were clearly public messy, which bed been taken by parlianseat from one sect and given to another, and which were sill, as much as ever, at the disposal of parlientest. (Hear, hear.) Mr. P. WOOD said he should sepperlthe metienmstbeeento be felt that at this advanced period of the sods& say peer then result meld unetedistely follow from its &dopiest, but lactoss it eastacoated a principle I. which be fully sow mood, and which be was satisfied =Vet, soccer or later, be astod apes by the goverunest of the country. (Hear, bear.) This was a great &Mean trustee, • question 'Song • nation Snick we bad treated from the period of ewe greS ono idea with the utmost iodipity, bet towards which • erbarby different toes and Toney snot be adopted. (Heer, hem.) It west a very little way towards the settle feet of this gassiest to point out that • few pluralities had has reduced, a few siouieres cut of. It was well that three amendments had been effected, but they wield set satisfy • nation whose just complaint was that &early eight inillioas of people were taxed for the mistimes's( &church among them whose memben did net count ow million. (Hear, hear.) The great mistake of the established church in Ireland from the asset was that it had national shush. He did not consider it nacorary foe a bishop to have 4,0001. a year. (Bear, hear.) He, knew en admirable specimen of a bishop at Perth, who had only 701. a year—(hear)—and no man was ever more ho noured or beloved than that estimable prelate. The boys would kneel down in the streets, and beg kis blessing, as he passed sling. Bet he did not propose to limit the Irish bishops to 701. a year. humid of annulling any more of the lbiehope, which measure he looked upon to lave been a harsh and uncalled-for proceeding, he would proceed on the principle that the act of 18V had entirely abolished and broken down the pale which separated the two classes in Ireland. He would treat the church es lever having been the church of the people, hut only of the pale; and it should Male to be a church in the sense in which it was now looked at. Hs would grant—whet was no small boos— the power of choosing their own bishops to the niembes of the protestant relapse in Ireland, which power of choice was possessed by toe Roman catholic* there. And those protestant bishops should still he remitted to retain some of their present emeluments—a portion of the remaindee should be applied to religious and educational instruction—and a also to the purposes of the Roman catholic clergy. Kir h; aid not think that the bishops ought to continue to receive 4.0001. • year. He would say 1.5001. a piece for tea bishops, and he would men go lower than that if it were necessary--so that lauded of 40,00G1. a-year being sppropristed am now to the Whops they would henceforward receive at the very utmost 16001. amongst them all. He would not give up the tithe. If they were gives up the landerds alone would profit by them. They were not of the nature of a tax, but rather of a rent charge—and be was sorry that there had been 25 per cent of their amount given up. Such were the views which he entertained on this subject, and having so far explained himself be should only further add that he felt bound to support the motion bf the hon. member for Middlesex, reserving to himself the right of objecting to the views entertained by that hoe. gentleman. Mr. NAPIER wand have been satisfied to have rested the defence of the church of Inland oa **speech of his Ma. colleague, but he felt Mead to comet a misre presentation that had been made by an hos. mem ber opposite (Mr. Reynolds), who had averted that church propi rty wand in the Roman catholic of Ireland had been tread. reed to the church of England by pact of parliament. Would the hoe member show him that set h a d ad fied him to do so. The hon. ember for Middle sex itted the imam* of the character and conduct D the ministers of the protestaat church of Ireland ; the Mshope of that church we the lineal dreceadants of the old and pure church, and what grounds were there for ils Sublet the clergy of that church in their possessions ? Was that church establishment too lop for the protestants of Irelaed—(loud cries of "Oh," and laughter)—at least according to the ideas of the protestant' themseles. (Laugh ter.) At that late hour he should not trespass further than to uprose his intention to vote against the motion. Mr. REYNOLDS expiated. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL mkt the Hems of Cosinloas was set the arena for a theological dissuades, seek as the hoe. and learned lumber for Dublin Usivenity had stored into. The question wee sot whether St. Patrick was the founder el the preentent church is Inland, or whether the present Les i ttect Wisps were the liaeal descendants of the early 411=althengb, as sia Lke is :i s tive bishops of the Christie* w 616 sever he did sot well see bow that toy be. (A laugh.) peseta before the house was, what were the religious opinions of the poor— that was, the greet moss of Si people—of Ireland ? Bepissed bisects is the position of his protases% brethren is belied, sad he asked himself if he had beau brought up be their frith, and they bad long enjoyed large sums of messy, what would his feelings be if he were deprived of that miaistratioa ? He maintained mow, se he had male Seised bribe, that a respostabie provision should always be weds for the weeklies dew of this peasstaat church. Be admitted that the Irish pelsehlmeideogy bed deserved the deep mod toting petite& of the bib gesegis. It was %hem line as spirit of hostility to them that he should vote kW the wed= of his has. friend. (Bear, bees.) Mr. REYNOLDS bad sever beard matil that esselag that St. Patrick was • protestant. Be was • mint ; and it had bees said that he wee • " geneses* "—(a laugh)—and, act may that, it had been said that he " calm 61 decent people" (renewed laughter) but ortaielyi evil that evening, he bad neve? heard that St. Patrick wee • protestant. (Hew, hoe.) There was once • very despotic king celled Beery who had &quarrel with the Pope, and he eapereeded the Pope sod made a Pope of himself, aid be deeded that no Irish bishop nor Irish Teeter stolid hold • besellee ashes they mimowkdged him as head of the *loch. The clergy his cedmiestitel Whisky, Sid the oaths woe th s WWI yeesewed by tbeee el W sew med. !be Ihileeles wawa of the velowse of the Irish Aunt wee bees a prehshat peetedieel, the Daily lirratfor. et May, 1646. Them were far anhbiskops hitheere. 161,1271. LIB. 4d. ; deem and chap l., 72,6241. 6s. ed. ; glebe lands, 92,0301. ; tint* =shoe, 651,7611. 14e. 7d.; ministers money, 10,0001. ; an aggregate of 807,5231. 12 6l. That WM irrespective of the income of 75,0001. • year by Trinity College derived boa leads sad Thee poor domesients paid the omens agentof .astare, widths& ease the probate. He held in his official doormat teaching the poverty of the Irish He found the motate duty paid anon the property .hR by the following bishops, up to July, 1832. The arch bishop Of Dublin, 150,0001.; Seagrove. Bishop of Tuem, 250 0001 ; Ayer, of Camel, 400 cont. ; Cork, 26,0001. ; nro mare, 40,0001. ; Verret*, 60.0001.; Clamber, 25 0001. ; Eaphoe, 26, 0001 . : Kinston, 100,0001.: making 6 total, with others, of 1.676,0001, apes whisk probate duty was paid by the desoodants of these descendants of Pt. Patrick. Ns thanked the boa. member for Middlesex, not ply for the spirit with which be had inerodseed the subject, but for the ilea sad argumentative week which be had &limes , end he begged also t wale vat the discoidal, being carried on with good temper, would do greet good in bawd, and wof afford the people • guarantee that they WPM not to be deprived of elevatingan y church of the mino ri ty Ove their heads. He thought that ought not to be tolerated in any country. Major BERESFORD could show that the probate duty pail on the WW Ankbiehop of Team's property was 40,0001. and not 200,0001. Mr. J. O'CONNELL did got rise to allude to the sub ject matter of debate, but simply to eater two protests. In the first place he protested against the inference that the Irish people were indiffereat to the monstrous justiceinuse of the Irish chinch establishment, because they had fo h e ties petitioned parliament oa the sublets , . The fact wee, that even previous to the famine they had looked upon petiti ming o melee, and looked te repeal of the onion as the preliminary step tr redrew of this, along with other grievances. The other protest he had to nuke was against the principle laid down by the hon. member for Mayo, sonely. that it would be wise to endow the catholic clergy. Spottier from ley general knowledge of both priests and petiole he could say. that thee would rather the church establishment re mained as it was, than that there should be any state endowment for the catholic church. Mr. OSBORNS-1 do wet think that the friends of reli gious equality in Ireland have any reason to repot the thee, or upshot, of the debate. (Hear, hear ) But the present is • melancholy occasion, and the whip principle has expired. (Ls's& cheers and laughter. We have heard ef birth, parentage. sad education of the spprepd6. lion clause, and now our meleneholy duty ta to 'Send its obsequies, the Right Hon. Secretary for site Home Deportees , eines the dirge as chief mourner, while all the men who voted for the clause since 1835 are forced to walk is the fumral procession. (" Hear, bier," and laughter.) The right hon. gentleman says that I am net consistent, be man I wished to abolish the church altogether in 1848. But whoa he reminds sae of rely looms's' ency, he *wild not forget that he himself supported the ballot to Dnasport and opposed it in Northumberland. (Hear.) This question, which had already destroyed so many go ' yerasseals, will eventually prove the grays of her Ho. jerty's renal miairry. (Hoar, hear.) At the coardadoe of the hon. member's reply, there was a pretty general rash from the ministerial beeches. As the Members passed out they core greeted with Lad haulm' cheering from the proteetioidat aide of the home. Ti. house divided. -- For the antics Aisiast it l7O-67 Ths assinineement of the amain was pasted with loud dons by ths ealwority. NEW ROUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. PACKI postponed his notion oa the delay is cow *Us% duo aotr Roans of Cosmos. gill seat session. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. Ow the voodoo of ldr. BRIGHT (in the absence of Mr. Hams), the fallowing returns were ordered :—R-tuna of all sane voted for harbours of refuge skies the year 1844 land • statement of the mosey upended upon Lower, Hawich, and Portlaad supectieely : similar return for &,l head, die tiaguishiag between the sums a:undid upon the old and new harbgen: statement, showing under which departaisat of government the several harbour works are being carded out, and the sort of superintendents cr control that is erawbed over Gum: copies of the authenticated plea (if any) of the works to be executed at each of than places, ( %h s ozi s oi the Meat to which It is proposed they should be and the estimated expanse of each : sad a the most oi surreys, if any, or copy of plans, if any, showing the = made from time tometi in the wicks; =disbuds( precast elate ; the amount already szpeadod is ease, mei the amount to be ozraded to c , sepleta the warts as mist. sally planned. Copies of the authority under which the harbour department of the Admiralty was formed, and of the latter of instructed', if any, which prosaribed includes: sad of repute( any ontainee of Inquiry as to the efficiency of that department, or of any report. if say, reemamending its reduction, together with say doettasots or other ',ideate or which such report may bare Wm feuded. NEW BILLS. Os the motion of rir. HAYTER, item was gives to bring In a bill to repeal the allowances Is he purchme of stamps, sad for the receiving and accounting for the duties on gold and silver plate, and to great ether allowances in lieu thereof. Oa the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER., a bill further to timmd an act of the tenth year of her prisent Majesty, for rendering valid certain proceedings for the relief el Distress in Ireland, by employment of the labouring poor, and to indemnify those who have seed is suet proceedings. Also, bid to amend an act of the tenth year of her Majesty, intimated, " An Act tat facilitate tha Im provement of Leaded Property in Ireland." Oa the motion of Sir W. SOMERVILLE, a bill to con tinue an act of the 6th and 6th years of her present Majesty, for amending the law Mauve to private lunatic asylums in Ireland. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Mr. WYLD moved the second reading of this bill. Year after year the lase of life in collieries was increasing, and this year it had increased 35 per cant. over the previous jeer, end his object in proposing this bill was to provide a remedy for this evil by a proper and efficient system of inspection. Sir G. GREY suggested that legislation should be post. posed uatil the committee now sitting of the House of Lords on the subject, and the eommiesion appointed by the severnment, should have reported. Re did nut desire tis ire the merits of the bill, but he imam prepared to seem* te site appointment of a chief iospettor In London, sad a num. her of impmears in the country, to be paid fur by • rate of is Nis pond. He believed the understanding on a Issas dio rum% that the bill should be postponed until the ispiries referred to bad concluded. If the hon. gentleman persisted in pressing the second reading, he should feel it his duty is move that it be read a second time that day three mouths. _ _ _ Mr. AGLIONBY supported the bill. Mr. BERNAL opposed it. He bad a sincere desire to effect the of ject in mew, but be had full cAtfilenet mat the right hon. gentleman, the home secretary, would pay due attention to the subject. Mr. DUNCAN requested Mr. Wyld to withdraw the bill. Strangers withdrew, but the bill was negatived without a division. Ia reply to Mr. HIM'S, Mr. LABOUCHERE mid he could not at prevent fix the day for the seemed reading of the Railway Audit Bill, but that he would do so on Thursday. The hones went into committee on the POOR RELIEF (CITIES AND BOROUGHS) BILL, The several clauses of which were agreed to. BOROUGHS RELIEF BILL. This bill passed through committee. TRUSTEES BELIEF BILL. This bill also pared through committee. SHERIFFS (WESTMORELAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time and passed through com mittee. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at half. put one o'cbick. Mu. Houma/Jr paired off is favour of Kr. Osborne'' motion ow the Irish 'burgh with lard Henry Lemnos. Vie erproso. OUTGOING MAILS. Maas kr Wadi North /Liberia sad tho United Rata, will be each apes the main of tbe 13th July. The silo far Mao, Oporto. Whoa, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, willbessale ve ea the 17th of My. Thu Meer lONS ill* esatudher lienasia. Havana, Nimes, liesaame likre Orteaso, zed Masie., sad taciwltag than lee lesdeles.lll. Jemoboeloseasea, Nam Gromeda, cain. aad toes. bomb op es the 17Ih et July. lie Nib eltnism, aims. OVeIM, Sbe kali& 1 11 Madis Ea*, et aim eis houthamptse, will he made esi Ne dee et Me IMM Thema; eis IllersiNes le the Mediteotesses, lempt, (leeks, MAK Ilisieelgeleß Om. win be toads opal the wages at July Milt. Iles nobler Madan, the Brazils sad Brame Apse, will be leads epos the eth MAlrset. WOE WATER AT IIAWDOR MUM& To Tay —WaiWag,l6 sal Aleumies.l mil&Plog To lI•ww—ERWWT.IIIESE pot 6 ; ikkanams. • nes. pa S. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 Arran an interval of five years the question of the Irish Church has been raised once more in the Howie of Commas. Last night, upon the motion of Mr. Online:el, the old controversy regarding the tem poralities of that overgrown establishment was revived. In a most able and telling speech, lull of widely-Dulled and well-arranged informa tion on the subject, the hon. member for Mid dlesex endeavoured to recall attention to the position in which the question stood previous to the fall of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S admiuistrauon. He reviewed the suc cessive declarations of the hones in favour of appro priating the surplus wealth of the church in Ireland ; and reproachfully re minded ministers of the reiterated pledges they had given in support of that measure. The latter could as little be explained away as the former could be erased from the records of parlia ment s and, so far from public opinion having gone back upon the subject, we are convinced that every day's progress in general liberality and enlightenment has tended, and will still farther tend, to abate the force of that resistance which was formerly arrayed successfully against the mention of this most wise and equitable principle. We cannot disguise, however, from ourselves that MON prew • ng wants and urgent necessities have do ring the last three years engrossed the popular mind on the other iclikof the Channel to the exclusion et nearly all prospective views and aspirations. Tempo reiry relief from hunger, not permanent exemption kern injustice, has occupied men's thoughts : nor can itbe denied that so long as the fearful exigencies et liesiee were likely to recur, little energy was likely le be evinced in the renewed dismission ot meek sullied. But there is every reasonable ground to hope that the night of physical misery is pail, and that henceforth more grateful and ennobling topics will resume their place in the national consideration. If this be so, it cannot be long until a spirit of resistance to an institution so utterly inde fensible will be evoked in Ireland, with which a deep and earnest sympathy will not be slow to manifest itself in this country. The speech of Sir GEORGE OM will be read by every sagacious friend of the whirs throughout the *navy with feelings d disappointment and dismay. Stang by the recitation of his former sentiments into ea inellestive effort at retort on Mr. OSBORNE, he tried le elicit tory cheers by empty compliments to the protestant clergy of Ireland for their exertions l uring the famine, as if no other clergy or no other sect had done anything in the cause of national clarity; and finding it equally difficult to excite the enthusiasm of the bench behind him by bandying sneers with his radical tormentor, or of the bench be fore him by his flattery of the unimpeached parochial clergy, he betook himself at last to the still more hopeless task of reconciling his votes and speeches in favour of the appropriation clause with the dogged silence and immobility of himself and his colleagues on the question since their regamp tion of power. And on this head, all he had to s ly amounted to this—that notwithstanding every pled and declaration ever made to lessen the superfluous endowment of the Anglican establishment in Ireland, he was no longer prepared to diminish one tur- THE EXl'R' SS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1849. ret or battlement of that sacetdrtal fortress; but iostead of doing so, he was willing at some future day to undertake the erection of another ecclesiastical citadel to be garrisoned by Roman catholic priests. He added, with edifying naivete, that of the possibility of doing so he saw no present amee, as the peop:e of England and of Scotland were as indispoted to countenance birch • project as due people of Ireland were to see it executed. And therefore, because the only possible alternative to ap propr:ation was utterly impracticable, he was of opinion that the grievance, "for a grievance he ad mitted it to be," had better not be spoken of any fur ther. Cool and contemptuous enough! We are willing to btlieve that the unavoidable ab sence of Lord Ion• RIMSELL contributed in some de gree to the folly of adopting this irsultiog and lode feasible tone on the part of the government. We 'gannet admit the idea that the Premier would haw I suffered such a total abandonment of the covenanted faith and hononr.of his party, to be thus audit guisedly sad unblushingly made. Lord Joux, sr er all, ban tact, and even when he fails to realise the expecta tions of his friends, his say.ir faire oftentimes comes to his aid, and helps to hide or screen what he feels the folly of expo.ing. But the Home Secretary appears to be as destitute of tact u of fidelity to the principles whereby he has floated into po see. Ever since his entrance into office he has been observed daily to lean more and more to the enemies of popular principle than to its f. lends ; and while others of the present cabinet have indicated regret that they could cot do more in the way of progress, the chief aim of Sir GEORGE GREY MOOS to have been on all oats sions to conciliate the support of the tones at the expense of the feelings of the great bulk of the liberal BAsAs y for his valueless avowal of his desire to endow the Roman catholic church in Ireland, it will only tend to make every.popular constituency in Ea land a little more rigorous in the exaction of a pledge from every one who seeks their suffrage,, never to give any support to the measure. Towards settling the Irish church it will in no possible manner con tribute; and for the sake of the peace and amity of the two countries, we are persuaded that the sooner the vain and delusive notion is thrown aside the better. Tuna is an article on convict transportation in the new number of the Edinburgh Review which calls for serious and dispassionate attention, and which we have on that account transferred to our own columns . It is en elaborate exposition and vindication of the course which government have resolved to pursue with reference to that mode of secondary punishment. Common fairness requires that, in attempting to estimate the merits of the government plan, the state of public opinion with reference to penal legislation be kept steadily in view. The truth is, that public opinion is quite at sea on the matter. After all that has been said and written on the subject for the last century, thetheory of penal legislation is still in its infancy. The experiments that have been made at late years are infinitely toe limited in their range le warrant general conclusions; for, in truth, the se eessities of modern society, and the demob of modern philanthropy, call for a kind of penal legis lation of which our ancestors never dreamed. When society was less donee, the extremes of wealth and destitution brought into close proximity less startling, and the accumulated experience and ingenuity of the professional mime class less great than they are now, simpler means of prevention and repression sufficed. And what is scarcely lees de serving of consideration, society was in former times more tolerant of the existence of a crime class within it. In the feudal ages, during the first efforts to establish constitutional government which preceded the revolution of 1688, and so long as there existed a restless and stirring faction bent upon overturning the political settlement of that period, the hardness of mind contracted from a per petual struggle to uphold law and order by the strong hand, rendered "men comparatively insensible to the discomfort of having to wage a similar personal war against depredators ani all their ruffian allies. Bat since the foundations of government have in this country become so consolidated, that argument and discussion are the sole efficient weapons of political strife, we have become more effeminate (if the ex pression be allowable) and anxious to be re lieved even from the apprehensions and dit taitii which the vicinity of criminals excites. We are not, like our grandfathers, contented to have JONATHAN WILDS and thewretches who wen alternately the tools and victims of these caitiffs, living next door to us, so long as we are exempted from their attacks ; and we ere too full of humane regards, sometimes too tender of our own nerves, to have recourse to the wholesale butcheries by which less than a century ago a redundancy in the criminal population was from time to time brought within comparatively safe limits. Not satisfied with intimi dating or coercing criminals, we aim at the extinction of, or at least the restraining within the narrowest pos sible limits, crime itselL In short, much more is now asked and expected from real legislation than formerly; and, at the same time, the difficulty of attaining even what former ages were satisfied with has been incalculably aug mented by the increased complication of social rela tions. the multiplied temptations to crime, and the multiplied opportunities of offending. We are by no means disposed to undervalue the important and varied experiments which have of late years thrown light on the theory of penal legisla tion, or the zeal and talent which have been brought to bear on their elucidation and practical application. We would not, by discrediting the weakest labourer , in the vineyard, discourage exertions, or chill hopes so praiseworthy. But we seek to place in bold relief the difficulties of the task of perfecting our penal legislation, with a view to enforce the necessity off due caution in all new experiments, and of a liberal tolerance in estimating the efforts of any government. The difficulties attendant on any attempt to ame- 1 Horde our penal law which are inherent in the at tempt itself are sufficiently great, and those which have their source in the position of government are Nosily t. Government must now work not only inance with, but through the instrumentality of the public will. It must carry along with it the wills and convictions not only of the home public aid parliament, but of all the minor scattered com munities incorporated in the imprrial connection. It must not only array the friends of pro gress against the conservative or obstructive element in society, but disarm the opposition of every zealous theorist who may dissent from its views. And it must do this in accordance with strict constitutional modes of pro- Bi S ping these considerations in view, let us now turn to tte plan which government has " finally de termined" to adopt with regard to convicts sentenced to transportation. The plan is intended to combine punishment with reformation, and the treatment of the convicts em braces three distinct stages. The first is, separate confinement for a limited period, not to exceed one year. The second is compulsory labour, also for a limited period, in England, or within each moderate distance from home as shall be consistent with exaet supervision. The third is deportation to a distant colony. Of the convicts who have reached this stage, some will be immediately set at liberty on arriving at their place of destina*n ; the rest will be kept, for a time at least, under survillance,receiving tickets of leave. It is urged in behalf of this system that an interval of sequestration from all society (not so prolonged ss ' to affect injuriously the physical and intellectual po were) is neasssary to soften the minds of criminals, and pre pare them for salutary impressions ; that a period of compulsory labour (daring which they are to receive moral and intellectual instruction) is neceaary is order to impart to them habits of self-contrul and endows' industry; and that removal to a distant land is necessary in order to break up slimming cos-4 nexions, and prevent the undue accumulatirn of nee-' Oates in honest courses of life at any one place. We should be reluctant to indulge or encourage undue expectations from this or any other plan tt at can be proposed at present. We regard it as pursk tentative or experimeatal. Much, perhaps all, will depend upon the manner in which it is carried into execution. The difficulty of .procuring an efficient agency forbids sanguine anticipations of its success. The partial nature of the experiment increases our doubts : it deals only with one cl-ss of secondary punishments; and it is calculated at most for the repression and cure, not for the prevention of crime. Oar hopes from any reform in penal kgislation are slender, so long as the subject is not grappl 11 with in its entireness, and 113 long as measures time not adop ed, by general training or otherwise, to prevent the growth of crime, to place of the ctiminal class. With this caveat we give our entire assent and hearty support to the proposed plan. In the pre sent state of national experience and opinion, and due weight being given to all obstructive elements which government has had to encount4r, we do not see that it could have done better. The scheme is sufficiently plaurible to merit a fair trial, and it is prodeced in the only quarter where power to institute and work out the experiment fairly exists. We do hope, therefore, that no attempts may be made to thwart or obstruct it even by those who, on theoretical grounds, may honestly dissent from it, much more by political opponents with a view indi rectly to subserve other ends. We wilt watch closely and with interest the progress of the experiment, and fearlessly express ourop.nion of its success or failure. But so far as our voice can have any influence, it shall be raised to implore that the plan may be allowed such a trial as will, in the event of failure, leave no room to suspect that that failure has not been owing to inherent defects, bat to obstacles interposed from inimical quarters. on the increase stock of sixteen years' interest, payable quarterly, which brought on an average per sent. premium. More than eight millions were bid, and x larger amount than the whole sum pro posed to be borrowed was bid tor on ibreign account. As It Is Roths child. took about 400,000 dollars. All this shows the abundance 01 money with us. Ow season is propitious for the Woven —after a cool, damp spring warm but bright weather, bringing rapidly to ma. parity the wheat and other winter pais, and faTourogg very much the Indian cant plant. Our surplus of certal grain bids f air to be very large. The intelligence by the last at amer at Raton, the America. with dates to the Ilthinst, had net much efkct upon prices except in the article of cotton, which is firmer ever since, and higher prices still are looked for in England by the month of August. ESPONTS Alen 1111C11 PTO or COTTON AT vs. Posh so TAR Tan riZAION AND TO TFIK coaannaotru Tiuc IN roams SEASoits. (In tharand bales.) I Great Britian. France. Other. Total. lteoetote. - -- -- 1819 . . 1438 311 399 2091 2637 1848 .. 1111 278 233 1613 2193 1847 ... 681 203 139 1023 1733 1646 .. 923 313 162 1397 2819 1843 ... 1377 314 372 1963 2342 During the last two weeks itteludoi la the above. 1349 ....1 31 1 : 111 I 7 6: 1 : 1848 ... 62 1817 .. 28 8 2 U 12 1846 .. 61 10 14 83 17 1843 .. 47 7 12 66 14 1 1 1649 1 1848 1 1847 1 1816 1 1843 remaining te the poeb We bare framed our table to Mow thee:porta and receipts of theme last two weeks compared with former moats. France and the Cee. llama metalling awe than at this Urn^ leatlear ; therefore, the less is sent to &tidied. The capacity of those countries to take cotton, and the small stooks In ear ports competed with last year, or, indeed with most of the meeedine years, combine to assure us that the export to Gnat &dais must breasted' be upon a very small scale. It wee not until • period Ilse weeks 'Wee than the present that the stocks in oar ports were last year redo rd below their present amount ; eel during them t h e weeks the export to Greet Hritain was near 120,000 balm end to all other quarters only 17.000, will e the receipts at tee ports were about 63,000. Of course, we mauve expect either as joie receipts or as large to take place this year. The following may y be as arreet a comparison for the mat are weeks as can guessed at : 1649. 1841. Premed stook in pate 207,000 311,04 Receipt at ports in 3 weeks •33,000 64,009 240,060 361,000 110,000 190,000 Aveliable quantity Blocks to polls at the end of the S weeks 120,900 190,000 Balance disposal et u follows: Exported to Geed Britain 40,000 110,000 tooter prams 20,000 17,000 Taken for home Ms lO,OOO 33,000 110,000 190,000 •N.B. halo* pert of this 23,000 will have to be deducted at the end alike sera% os It may include a portion of the Augusta and meet WM& was included and formed part of th e preview argil: Wes. me see the export to Great Britain carried up to the eesmases moves of 1,498,000 tales a month befog the mese deem sad that month must any it beyond 1,3u0,000. But the mid straking feature in this perepectiee glance le the exteeindy mall stock on thin ode the Gunn. with which the mend aim= will end. With reepeet to the growing crop of crates, we hem nothing potholer to remark. The meant wino weather Ism doubt doing sit Ice it that werber can do; but backward it is and Makward it must remain. It may indeed be unnaturally forted and melimad es as le seem forward • few weeks hence ; but if so we ..east impost Mona boiling or keg oontinui d gathering. The sans of mount to 1,200 balsa, making, niece the receipt of the Amerim's Sale beta lanai during this period have rammed le. en sod man, sad fa on good middling to fully bk." Sams niimef the bitter description have been effected at an imprenement et le. TM deemed in principally confined to qualities norm Orem good middling to " fully for," which, from their scarcity, samnimil very fall prima. Now YORE, Jaws 26. —There has been quits a moderato business transacted In Soar during the last fortnight, and prices re main eddied any material thongs. The Englieh orders are mostly limited at . 43e. to the. per barrel under our present quotation', and the principal transactions on that account are for umespected ant line at 4 dole. to 4 doh. We. pa barrel. Indian corn is in good request for export, and the Manama are large. recent , ppearenece indica e that the coming crop of wheat and corn will be an abundant one, but it is too early yet to lodge with any certainty. Tee exports bout this port to Great Britain and Ireland for the fortnight ending on the 19th inst. consisted of 30,820 brit. lour, 16,203 both. wheat, and 412,768 bush. Indian corn. Freights of 00111 are • trine better, the last engage ments having been at did. to 60., and on dour Is. dd. per brl. to Liverpool. Prowa.—Notwithstanding the extreme heat of the last week there has been a fair demand for home use and the tartan trade, ranging at 4 dol. 44e. to 4 dol. 30e, for the emu* state ; 4 dole. Stile. to 1 dole. 73e. for strait and good State and Western. Ohio is lees plenty, and commands 4 dots. 624 e. to 5 dole., according to brands. 117 e flour is wane, and sell' at 3 Join to 3 dole. 66,e. Corn meal le is re quest at 3 dole. for Jersey, and 3 doll. I 2 le. for Brandy wine. Geals.—Por good wheat there are buyers at 102 to 106 for Ohio, and 12ee. to 1300. for (encase, with hghtsupplies. Common is plenty at eye. to 93e. Bye la Millet Sic. to 574 c. per 36. (lath 3Se, to Mk per bus. Barley I. out of season. liateorn (of which the supplier. are large) in good request previous to the last steamer, and early hut week sold freely at 64c. to 63e. for round yellow ' bat bas oboe gra dually declined, and cloud yesterday at 59c. Southern yellow, Sk. o 39a. White Jersey, 58e. to 39e. Western high mined, 54e. to Sic. Aerie.—Pots are in fair request at I dole. 061 c. to 3 dole. 621 e. Pearls are dull at 3 dole. SOc., but there are few offering at this price with good t .res. %YUMMY retneille without alteration. Sales of Ulu are made at 211 to 21s, and drudge casks at 21e. PRUVIIIIOII4 —Pork is dull at 10 dole. lk. to 10 dole. 37k. foe mere, end 8 dole. 73e. to 8 d 015.13740. for prime. Lard is steady at 61, to 7f foe barrel* and kegs. Naval. Si oasis.—Bough turpentine is beldat S dots. 37k. pa bd. of 2801 b., with moderate sales: spirits of turpentine, 32c. to 63c.; common rosin, 10e. to 90c.; white ditto, 3 dole, SOc. to 4 don. COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES. We have received Sydney and Maitland papers to the 24th of March. They contain full details of a ju di.ial investigation into the circumstances attendant on the deaths of Mr. Kennedy and his comrades. The expedition left Sydney in May, 1848. Mr. Kennedy's instructions were to land at Rockingham Bay, and proceed thence to Port Albany at Cape York, where a schooner was to be in waiting for him with *applies from Sydney. Ile was then to return by the western side of the peninsula. The party con sisted of 13 persons-12 Europeans and an aboriginal native. They landed at Rockingham Bay on the 21st May, and commenced their journey on the sth June. The country was so difficult that on Nov. 10 their camp was pitched only 25 seconds north of the 12th degree of S. latitude, near Weymouth Bay. Their stores, too, had been improvidently expended by the person who had been entrusted with the can of them on starting. Mr. Kennedy determined tie leave eight of his party here, and go on with fur Europeans and the native to Port Albany, and tetanal with supplies. One of the Europeans shot himasl4 and the other three became so exhausted that at Shel burne Bay Mr. Kennedy was obliged to leave them behind also, and push on with lackey lackey (the native) and three horses. By the time they reached Escape River Mr. Kennedy was so exhausted as scarcely to be able to proceed. They were here within twelve miles of Port Albany. A numerous party of blacks who had beset and followed them for some days here made an attack upon and killed Mr. Kennedy and severely wounded his at tendant. lackey contrived to escape their pursuit, and reached Port Albany on the 23rd of December, where he was taken on board the schooner. The captain ran down the coat to Shelborne Bay ; no Users were found of the three men left there, but articles belonging to them having been found in the penession of the blacks, no doubt remains that they bays perialiel. The schooner next proceeded to Weymouth Bay, where only two of the eight left behind were found alive-Ih. Carron the botanist, and William Goddard. These two were in such a state of exhaustion that it was long doubtful ] whether they could survive. After receiving them on board the schooner proceeded to direct to Sydney, where there facts were elicited by the judicial investi gation above alluded to. "It would appear," says the Sydney Morning Herald, "that as far u earnestness of purpose, un shrinking endurance of pain and fatigue, and most disinterested self-sacrifice could go, the gallant leader of the party exhibited a model for his subordinates. But the great natural difficulties they had to en counter at the outset of the expedition, so severely affected the resources of the adventurers, that they sank under an accumulation of sufferings which have rarely if ever been equalled in the most extreme perils of the wilderness." The courage I and the devoted attachment to Mr. Kennedy dis played by his native attendant were beyond praise. The poor fellow's description of his muter's dying momenta cannot be exceeded in simple pathos " asked him, ' Mr. Kennedy are you going to leave me ? ' and he said, Yes, lackey, my boy ; I am going to leave you.' He then said, ' lackey, give me taper and I will write.' I gave him paper and pencil and be tried to write, and he then fell back and died. And I caught biro as be fell back and held him, and I then turned round myself and cried. I was crying a good while till I got well; that was about an hour, and then I buried him.° lackey carried Mr. Kennedy's papers ate far as fe could and then secreted them ; but even if the blacks have not dis covered and taken them away, it is extremely doubt ful whether he could trace out the spot where he left them. The balk of the papers and specimens were left at Weymouth Bay, but some were carried away by the rains while the men were too weak to take cue of them. One box of specimens and an abstract of Mr. C4rron's journal were carried on board with huh and Goddard. The camp was tilled by the blacks immediately after they left, and all the rest were lost. There is only one other item of general inte rest in the papers we have received, and that is of • scarcely less painful nature than the one we have been narrating. It will be remembered that some time ago a number of female orphans were sent out to Sydney from Ireland in the Inchinnan. On the arrival of that vessel at Sydney, a complaint wan lodged against the chief mate for assaulting several of THE UNITED STATES. We yesterday published a summary, received by electric telegraph, of the news brought by the Cambria. _ _ The following letter of our New York correspondent embraces every particular of news from the States re ceived by this arrival. NEW YORK, Jens 27. One of our most exciting topics Father now is the mo mentarily-expected arrival of Father Mathew. A democratic city corporation, in order to " curry favour" with the Irish voters, sent him years ago an invitation to visit New York, and to become the guest of the city. That corporation went out of power, and now that the reverend father is actually coming, the whigs, taking advantage of the former movement, ars about to get the advantage of it. Tht y have thus a plea for the expenditure of the money, and a good opportunity for conciliating the Irish. They have taken the finest suits of rooms for his ac oommodation to be found in New York, and the public - wi! t have to foot the bill. Great preparations are making to receive him by the temperance societies, and his presence here may do some good. lam informed by persons whoknow him well that we shall b 3 dis pointed, and that he has nothing uncommon abut him but his peculiarity in abandoning the strict line of duty which attaches to a catholic priest, and his advocacy of a reform irrespective of the discipline of the church. What coarse of conductl he will pursue is not yet conjectured, but be will no doubt take hie cue from the clever and intriguing, Bishop of New York, who has ambition vast enough for any enterprise. Meantime, if Father Mathew can influence his countrymen here to refrain from drunkenness, and behave decently in the land which has received them with a kindness far greater than they merit, he will do us a service for which we shall be duly grateful. This topic suggests another kindred one. At the late provincial council of the catholic bishops at Balti more, it was decreed that a general contribution should he taken up in the United States for the relief of the Pope. Bishop Hughes has therefore issued his mandate that the "children of the church of Christ" should "stand by their reverend and venerated father," by making an offering "to console his heart." Peter pence is therefore to be levied for the "immortal nee of Peter." The plains, as we term our vut territory west of the Mississippi and its tributaries,present at this moment a most curious spectacle—carious not only, bat grand. Cooper hu invested the journey of a single tinnily over the prairie with interest and dignity; but what shall we say of our Anglo-American Saythians who are now threading their way in thousands to the land of gold. After le suing the Kansas, a writer informs us that he parsed at one time three thousand teams, that he was never out of sight of the emigrant trains, and that for miles a long white waving line could be seen girdling the landscape. A thousand mounted riflemen in the United States' service added to its length. Officers at fall gallop rode up and down to control its movements, like the whippers-in at an English hunt, anti a strange orderly confusion marked the scene. How singular is the American character! What daring enterprise, what fortitude, what perseverance mark their progress! At what do they aim? Nothing seems to daunt their efforts, and they are, for ever in search of something more than they have. We are a riddle to ourselves. The striking increase of the North-western States is another subject of remark among us and of lemigrstulations. Let your bondholders read over this table and see if the, have not good security. Is 1810. In 1848. Ohio had Indiana Mods Michigan Wisconsin 6,383 „ 39,166 lowa 633780 724,847 Here is an increased population of 40 per cent. in eight yaws, and en increase greater than the total vote of Virginia, North Carolina, and Louisiana. The actual population of the six North Western States in 1840 was about 2,200,000, in 1848 4,500,000. This sturdy body of freemen, who are sparing no pains to improve their states, support religion, extend education, in crease their internal resources and facilities, and acquire pecuniary independence must convince the world of nut determination tr maintain freedom in its most liberal sense, and to be as happy es the condi tion of man will permit. No such spectacle can be witnessed any where else on the face of the globe as this, no any so consoling to the philanthropist and Christian. We have some interesting news from South Caro lina and Georgia in relation to their cotton manufac tories. In several towns in these states, factories have been put up which are producing the greatest quantities of shirting, and sheeting', at prices which throw the northern manufactories in the shade. Flouring mills are also being es•abliahed on a large scale, and are operating with success that asto nishes the southern people. Slave and free labour is used, according to circumstances. There is no telling what may be the result of this. I should not be sur prised if an entire change should take place in the views of the leading southern states men on certain questions. If they can have cheap goods, and em ploy their slaves profitably, I imagine their abstrac tions will take a new form. In my experience of political consistency I have made this note," that its texture very much depends on the materials to be used, and the colours .vary, as all colours vary, ac cording to the nature of the surface from which they are reflected. I am sorry to say that the cholera is on the in crease along our w. stern rivers arid in this city. We had here yesterday 73 cases and 38 deaths, and I fear some of my worst predictions are yet to be verithd. Large numbers of our citizens have gone into the country for the summer, and many more will follow. The men of business, whose presence is indispensable to their encase, remain to take the risk. No method of treatment has yet been found to master the dis order. For the most pert the deaths have occurred amongst three who are peculiarly exposed to disease; scarcely a single case of mortality having yet occurred among the higher classes. Notwithstanding the alarm which prevails here, the thoughtless poor continue to drink root beer, eat all kinds of fruits, and expose themselves to the extreme heat of the weather. Green peas ap o.r to be particular favourites with them, and the Irishwomen peddle decayed and tough apples, and sour oraneee, with unmitigated seal. Thus the mortal coil slips off, end the public burial grounds receive daily in decades the dead of ignorance. In polities we have nothing new. The administra tion goes on its usual way. Mr. Ciayton takes his naps as formerly, and there seems nothing to awake the activity of the cabinet beyond what I have already stated. Money is easy just now, for the influx of gold acts with a wonderful power on the market. F.S. As it is not believed that the government will send out an expedition to look for Ssr John Franklin, the rich merchants of Boston propose to do so at their own expense. COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. Nuw YORK. Jules 27 —Our stoney matket is abundantly supplied. end the pries of Mode are high. The demand for EOM. peen bills la not large by thi. meat, and nesters rather reserving thernielves for the peetet of the second week in July, give • 4- derable amount of dividends to be remitted mop peny better demand at hitt rates. Bill. on Lend= rale tram el to 9). U. S. sixes of MT bring ill; do. do. Treasury setae. A loan of about one million and three quarters dollars wee negoeiated by the state of New York, last wet, pi a alz pa oat. the girls. He was committed for trial on one of the charges. The paper which vintains the report of the trial is unfortunately missirg .rom our file, and we cannot state the result ; but the fo:lowing paragraph, velOch appears in the Australian Sportsman of 10th March, shown that the interests of common decency end common humanity require the institution of a gent and searching inquiry into the Effete by the home government : The orphan girls who mired hither by the Inchienan rto have been treated in a nice na leer by the officers in ch-rge. It came out in evidence, en Wednesday last, during rue trial of one of those w) ethics for an unmanly as ssult on a poor girl, that the surgeon superintendent had invented a new punishment fur re:rectory young women. His system was this— " To take the offender, put her in msh's trousers, and then tzoise her in the most conspicuous part of the vessel, to the d.usion of the crew and others, end ti the obscene This to which on board ship such a spectacle must give rise." This humane din iplinarian also stated, that he had suggested another mode of punishment, namely, " to have belts made to go round the girls' waists and then to sling them up to the yard arm." We are told that upon Mr. Justice IL:admen (who seemed homr struck at the doctor's desmiption of Hl'. new punish ment" asking him ). if a girl so slung .could not he rather an indelicate spectacle ?" he replied that most of the girls woul I not feel its indelicacy. The judge gave this surgeon-superiutendsnt the severest rebuke when he suggested that the delicacy ot the men might ne offended attach a disgraceful sight. We trust that full reports of the proceedings in the Su preme Court during the past week, in the matter of the Itichianan, will be sent to the C donial.office. NEW ZEALAND.—The Secretary of State bad authoritei Sir George Grey to constitute the southern half of the southern island of New Zealand together with Stewart's Island, into a separate province. The inland postage of 4d. at New Zealan t was reduced to Id. for each letter. tete Court. OSBORNE, JULY 10.—The Queen and Prince, so. mpatied by ad the junior branches of the Royal Family, task their usual early walk in the park and grounds at Osborn*. The royal dinner party yeat.rday included Sir R..bert. Lady, and Miss Peel ; Colonel the lion. C. B. aad Mis. Phipps, and Mr. Birch. Sir It.9bert, lady, and Miss Peel mama' tarty this morning to London. Lord Ashley had en interview with Sir George Ores yesterday at the Home-office, Toe Ecclesiastical Commi.icr ere for England had a 3 mmi•tee meeting yesterday at their 4.• Bice in Whitehall. place. Lord John Russell left town yesterday morning for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. ARRIVAL OP TEM FRENCH AMBASSADOR. —His Eteellancy M. Drouyn de Lbuys, the newly accredited am tmsaclor, arrived at Hertford House yesterday forenoon. from Paris._ Ma. J. HAY MACKENZIE, fatter of the Marchioness of Stafford, died at Clietden Palk, the Dui. of Sutherland's seat, on Monday alernoon. The dean sed gentlussan was to all appearance enjoying good health when his daughter was married last month to the Deka of Sutherland's son, hut to the extreme grief of all his family connexions be ex pired on Monday afternoon as above, the Marchioness of Staff rd by his decease succeeding to • princely fortune and landed inheritance. TILE SIEGE OPERATIONS AT CIIATHAM.-It is not only decided by authority that these operations shall not take place this week ; but, from inquiry, yesterday, it ap pears vary improbable that the affair, on the strand scale at first contemplated, will take place at all this summer. ITALIAN COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.-A con vention has just been concluded with Minister Correll, Baron Ward, and Count Vole, for the regulation of the free navi gation of the Po. Obstacles, which could newer be removed before by the Parmesan of moderate states having an inte rest in the transit of goods which passed their dominions, so that vessels were detained from the continual visits they had to Puhmit themselves to, several days in each voyage. Minister Correll, being a commercial man, no one better than he could appreciate the *comity of such commercial reform. We are informed he intends to introduce the stamp system throughout Austria, comprising the minor Italian states in his project. Much may be exptcted from the ea. lightened intelligence of this gentleman, should he remain in offite. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. THE CHOLERA. The number of deaths registered in the week was 1,070; the weekly average tor the summer quarter (which commences with the present month) of five previous years, is 1,008 , this rotors, therefore, shows an excess of 62. The whole mortality is also rather high as compared with the samisen returned from week to week during the last two menthe. There is en obvious increase in deaths caused by symo ic or epidemic diseases, with a decrease, tho.gh not to ea equal extent, in those produced by affections of the respi ratory crests. In the former class, during the last three weeks, the deaths have been progr. ssively 277, 349, and 393; iu the latter the numbers in the same weeks were reepeo- Lively 119, 10.5, and 87. Homing cough numbets 47, or double the usual amount of fatal cares. Diarrhoea increases a little; but the deaths from it, which last week were 46, have not reached the average of the season, which is 76; for in previous years, chiefly in a mere advanced part of the quarter, this ooasplaint has carried off many children of milder age. In the correspoodiog week of 1846 the deaths from diarrhoea were 70. Two cares are reported of childrea who died, one of diarthrea, another of hydrocephalus, at No. 3, Linney-court, Museumstreet, where the back of the house has no windows, and the emelt from drains and other nuisances in front is extremely of fensive. The average at this season from cholera is only 8; its recent progress is shown by the deaths in the last six weeks, which were successively 9, 22, 42, 49, 124, and in last week 162--aarnely, 94 of males and 58 of females. Of the 162 victims of this disease, 19 were under 6 years of age, 30 at 6 and under 15 years dare, 88 between 16 and 60 years, and 13 at 60 and upwards. The ages of two are not returned. It is worthy of observation, that not more than 14 deaths from cholera lest week occurred in the west and northern districts, though the population which they comprise is ;about a third of the whole. On the south aide of the Thames there were 93, and in this region the districts of Rotherhithe, Lambeth, and Bermondsey are fatally dia. anguished. Other epidemics differ, at present, not much from the average. A young man died of " want" in Came den•town, and an infant of " exposure to the night air, and purpure hemorrhagic*" in the Borough-road sub•diatriot A man of 48 died of " paralysis from working in a lead rota tory, after an illness of 13 weeks." Mr. Butterfield, the Re gistrar of Islington But, has recorded what he describes as " a curious fact," but without stating Iris authority, that woman employed in this manufacture last much longer than men. The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.799. On Setay, when the temperature was highest, the thermometer reached 82.1 in the shade, and 103.6 in the mu. The mesa temperature, which for the week was 62.1, was 111. her than the average on five days, and on Saturday exceeded the average by 9.2. LORD DENMAN AT JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. —Yes terday Lord Denman announced that he would attend on this morning in the Queen's Bench Hall, fierjeant'minn, at 11 o'clock, and every succeeding morning at 10 o'clock, to transact business during the absence of the judges on their circuits. Tnn BISHOP OF BERM% BUTLER CHARGED WITH STILLING A PORTILILITRAIL—At the Devon county sessions, last week, George Evans, butler to the Bishop of Exeter, was indicted on a charge of stealing a portmanteau containing clothes. The indictment contained eight counter the fleet four charging the prisoner with stealing, and the lest four with feloniously resolving. The property was laid is the mama counts as belonginKrespectively to the Great Wagons Railway Company, the Bristol and Exeter Railway Clempaay, the South Devon Railway Company, and Master reancis De Pre Montagu. The prosecution was instituted by the Great Western Beltway Company. It appeared that la May, 1848, Mester Montagu lost h is portmanteau on a Imrimy from Bristol to Newton, and nothing was heard of W the month of June last, when the police received in itermallon which induced them to search the prisoner's in the bishop's residence at Bishopstowe. They thew nd a quantity of articles marked "F. D. Montagu." ibffllnfi taken posses ion of these things, they charged the prisoner with steeling the portmanteau, and he replied that he had brought a portmanteau from London by mis take, and he supposed the things were in it. He was then taken into custody, and it appeared at the trial that in May, 1848, the bishop travelled by railway from London to Tor quay, giving his luggage . in charge of th. prisoner. A pro bability was therefore need that the portmanteau might by accident have been placed amongst the things belonging to the bishop. This being the defence set up by the prisoner, the Chairmand the Sessions left it to the jury to say whe- Gum they believed his account, or whether they thought he had stolen the portmanteau. The jury retuned a verdict of Not Guilty. In the course of the trial several witnesses tes tified to the good character of the prisoner, and the Bishop of Exeter saW that if be should be acquitted he would take him into his service again with unimpsir• d confidence. SUICIDE OF A BRIDE NEAR LEEDi.—A sad event occurred at Holbeek, near Leeds, on folowLy afternoon, at the house of Mr. William Wilkisnon Wa'l y, of liolbeck, near Leeds. Mr. Walley, who is a wooletspler in Leeds, was married on the 21st ult., at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, London, to Sarah Ann, the daughter of Mr. Joshua Haldren, of Horton, the lady being about 27 leans of age. Up to Monday last nothing but recurred to create any :dissatisfaction between Mr. Wi'ley and his bride, and on the day named he was about to receive company. When Mr. Wally left home in the morning , his l ad y appeared in her usual health and spirits, and in the course of the day retired to her dreesing-room, t or the purpose of c hanging her dress and preparing her toilet, previous to the earttral ot her fr iends ; but es she chi not return, the servant groemded to her room, where the unh.ipny lady was found WS dead. She had committed suicide by dividing the Ardor vein of the neck. Yesterday an inquest was held ea*, body, sad wee steamed. •1 t t ' ,„- • 1 ~ • d i i : . 1 ~, i 1 1 • 1 ' I I, 1 , i !I t ' p !, i , I :. 4 1,, .i'\, 4 , 1, t , i P 4 I I 1 , i i 't 1