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governor. The governor bad a doultle vote, and therefore ea every government question is was sure of • majority That wee the court in which ordinances were prepend, tbsestablidtments fixed, and the general legislation of tae colony carried on. But the court of policy had no power to provide the means. For that, Mentors, they woe s oed to have recur-s to the combined court, where o kaa a reabere were is a majority over the official, and where, eansequ - ntly, the colony had • majority. 'eke estimates of 1847 were opposed by the combined court. The adduce which had been sent hones showed that i• D a:o mega 1847, when the tSinallttt for 1848 were introduced the elected members submitted a most respectful application to the governor, prayieg that in consequence of the &grimed state of the colony tksy might be alleged to reduce all lan- Tile above 2,500 dollar. 2-, per cent. It preyed further that the application might be sent home to Loed Grey for his 'elution, which that noble lord decidedly refused. Be tenth, answer arrived,Governor Light hail pressed through the estimates in April, although he had agreed to pos:- pone teem geed us 15.11 of May. He not only brought In the nitrate' before the time he bad eget. d to, but decided every one of them by his casting vets It was of no avail, however, because they could not be pared without the sanction of the combined court. He tar. Hume) comp:ained here of great breach of faith aerie et a k e frwerror. When the colooists agreed to the civil list 011841 they did 93 on the condition that facilities for obtain ing labour, and for paying for that labour, should be pro vided. The colony was promised an immigration ordon• nano, and assistance in bringiag in labour from whatever quern it might be necessary is obtain it, together with • nem% law to keep the labourers in order. Bat they bad had neither the immigration ordonnance, nor was there a vagrant law passed until 1844. When, in 1514, they granted the civil list until 1854, they had the rotection of the British markets for their produce,- they had thee every noon to believe that protection would continue, and that it would enable them to pay the civil list they bad agreed to. They found. however, that with out the assistants they had been promie-d, they could not do so, and they asked for a reduction in the amount ; but although slavery was abolished, and the apprenticeship sys tem removed, and notwithstanding that they bad been de rived of protection in the British market, the lacrosse civil list was insisted upon. He did not blame parliament for abolishing protectioe, though, as he insisted et the time, he thought it should have been done gradually, and accom panied by ineautes for enabling the e ilonists to procure labour at a retemostse rate. for cultivating/ their estates. In his opinion Lord Grey, in refining to allow such • reduction as would meet the redacted means of the colony, was highly saleable. Lord Om alleged that, by the agreement of 1841, the colony agreed to continue the payment of the civil lie as it then stood until 1854. True, they did so: but an anigrition ordoneance and a civil list ordonnance were rat the same time. These were approved by the ens e t d d c nee, and were together legal ; but they were re jetted by the Colonial-office. The consequence was, the Court of Policy had to mulct another callow/nee • and that ordoanance under which the civil list was payable had received the sanction of the combined coart, and there fore was, according to the opinion of the law of ficers of tee crown, mere was:e Piper. (Hear , ben) Lord Grey said it was unfair that thew who lock office in the colony under certain arrangements as to salary should afterwards have tent gaieties reduced ; but the colonist replied that Lord Grey was wrong, inasmuch as the original ordoanance oflB4l,which was sanctioned by the own bleed court, and under which the civil list was made, was to have force only until 1547, and beyond that time the officers could have no claim. It was important to know that when Governor Walker, having fell power, brought the combined court together, their fest vote was the civil list, but reducing it from 30,0001. to 28,0001. ; but Governfg Walker said, " 11 you reduce at all we cannot proceed." The vote nevertheless passed, and was as complete as any vote could be; and Governor Walker then told, "I cannot allow you to go any further," and locked the doors and suspended the sittings of the court altogether until Governor Buhl,. arrived. With what instructions Governor Barkly was sent out it did not appear ; in short, it would gem rather that he was sent oat without any instructions whatsoever. Governor Barkly would not say what he would do in regard to the civil list, and the other votes were proceeded with. One of the elected members inquired of Governor Barkly how the salaries were to be paid, the civil list having been voted for a quarter of a year only, god no grant having been made for this purpose by the British House of Commone. It then appeared that the money had been yak' n from the colonial chest; and the members of the Combined Court, believing that it had been applied without their autoority, protested, asserting in the protest that the governor, is paying the salaries from that source, without • vote of the Combined Court, had acted illegally. Governor Darkly would not allow that protest to be entered, nor would he permit the discussion upon it to proceed, but ordered the doors to be chat. Of this the colony most properly com plained, and appealed to the imperial legislature. The sup plies of course then stopped altogether, and some money need under an old customs act, was taken and devoted to the payment of the salaries.and now an ordonnance had been brought in by Governer Barkly by which he penned to reform the nun of policy, by extending the suffrage. To an extension of the soli/one there could be no objection, bat there was considerable objection to the mode in which tee ntension was in that rose proposed to be carried out, and by which it was intended so to ex the qualifications as to obtain a majority of tee elected members for the government, in cedar to carry through the estimates, which, since December, 1847, bad remained aimed. As the law now stood, ac cording to the government law authorities, the public officer on the lit of January every year, called for • list of all par ties who assessed themselves to the required amount, such amsement being the qualification to vote ; but Gnome Barkley insisted that not only should ths asseginint he made, but the amount paid Defers the party should be entitled to vote. The elected members complained that they had no objection to the pro peed change, but they said, let the change be complete—let as get rid of our present institutiens, and let us have a regu larly elected assembly constituted. Every one of the elected members had protested against the injustice of the partial charge proposal by the governor, es well as against the eon- Cooed illegality of paying money without the sanction of the only authority wto could legally vote I i:her ways and means or supplies. It would appear that the government knowirg their own strength were determined to take advantage of the weakness of the colonists and to tyranniat over them. Under these circumstances he thought the time had come when the Lute of Commons might ['While called upon to declare the nein embodied in the two paragraphs of his motion. The hon. member concluded by moving : That It appears by the evi lence taken before the select coinwittee on litavn Guano, that that government has been carried on for the loot ten yetf• in amp...Rion to the espressed views and °pistons of toe Kelm meat, t 9 at the colonial legislature, and that the supplies ▪ snip..°4 in the colony by continued opposition, to the great injury of the colony. 'that this house Ina opinion that the time has arrived whet the public expenditure of the colony should t. reduced se desired by the col.sais.s; and also for the establish= nt of a re. eprisibie local govirnment. which should have full power to decide on Welted awl nature of their establishments, and to provide the warns for payAg the same. Mr. H. BAILLIB said the hon. member for Montrose had brought the report of the committee on British Gals= ardor consiieration on two grounds : first, because the in habitants of that colony, confiding in the justice of the British parliament, had tapered a &aim that their dispute should be deci led by the imperial legislature; and, secondly, brume, having the misfortune to differ with the majority of the committee with respect to the nature of the report which, in accordance with the evidence, it was deemed to be the duty of that committee to sub mit to the house, it was thought just and reason able that the whole case should be fairly stated, and laid before that tribunal to which the inhabitants had ex pressed a desire that it ahould be refined. The hon. mem ber for Montresa was if opinion, and he (Mr. Baillie) agreed with him, that the committee had omitted to notice In their repor some of the most important pests of the evi dence laid before them ; and if • committee of that house, so appoiattd to inquire into the erievance of • colony, emitted to antics the evils and shoes which were proved Is tale the Colonial-office would then naturally have a iht to assume that the silence of the committee on those paints wit a tacit spproval of the aim*, of polity Idiot° pursued, and the result would be that no impartment would take place either i I t ch e government el that coloay or in any of our colonies. was, therefore, ea behalf not only of British Guiana, hut of all other colonies, that he breed leave to direct attention to some of those *Diets of the evidence which had bete omitted to be noticed by the committee. He (Mr. Baillie) had submitted • renelatioa to the committee, very similar to the first of the one now propo se d by Mr. Home, part notwithstanding Sir H enr y kght's evidence, the committee had not thouht fit to pronounce upon the subject. (Hear, keel.) There was another grievants* which the cols nista had a right to complain of, touching the conduct of the Governor, for when the apprenticeship sys tem had been abolished the governor refused to allow any laws to be pared in the coney for the regulation of labour ; be refused to allow esetreets to be amide for labour for a longer period thaa thirty days, under the pretest that it would be contrary to the liberty of the subject. Is gone quince of that refuel the inhabitants met together ✓id passed certain rules and regulations, which were perfectly fair, but these rules were ob jected to by the neuron; they were denounced y the governor, aid he instructed the police magistrates not to enforce them. The result west, that the negroes were triumphant and the planters were compelled to succumb; and, in short, all the rule and misery which occurred in the colony were traceable to this sort of mutest upon the part of the governor. (Hear, hear.) He new came to the question of the civil te In the year 1839, %Tenor Light wrote a despatch to the Colonial-office, requesting that his salary might be increased from 3,001. to 8,0001. per annum, and e'eo the salaries of other officers, and upon these therms grounds—first, the great and increasing prosperity of the colony, and neat, the rest cost of living in British Guiana, the high prim of ell the necessaries of life there as compered with the island of Antigua, where he had previously been. That despatch wee favourably received, and the governor was instructed to demand the increase from the court of policy. 'the court violently objected to the demand ; they refused the prope l iti on , and the supplies were stopped, and the governor immediately adjourned the court asse die. Now, about that time an idea prevailed that emigration would as,, the colony from ruin, and the ernetement at home instructed Sir Henry MiLsod that if the court granted an increased civil list, they should receive an emigration ordinance. The result of that loth action was that Sir Henry MiLeod was enabled to pass an increased civil list, and also an emi gration ordinance. In the year 1844, after repeated remorc , streams, the government assented to • loan advance, and by this means they neared the voting of a civil list fir a period of fourteen yea.s. He thought this most unseemly Pendent ire the part of the government, and he proposed a genebt bon in committee to that effect, but it was not ameba' M (Hear.) He now came to the close of the year 1811, when, in consequence of the reduced prices of colosial THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1849. Mr. DISRAELI wished the house ri ally to Meow what it was about to divide neon, and in what position it was placed. Them was a general widinstanding that every member of the committee was anxious to make a very long speech on this &abject. (Lsugh• . er.) And as it was expen lent that this debate should come tea elms as soon as possitie, it would bi extremely convenient to adopt his hon. friend's amendment without a division. (llear.) After a few words from Sir J. HOOO, Toe house divided, The numbers were—For the adjournment l7 Against it - - - the gallery being re-opened, the first question put was " Ttat this house do now adjourn," which wu immediately agreed to amidst some laminar. The hens* adjourned at hall-put 12. gilt eypreglizi. prod's, ' :crettain reelutions were agreed to in th e court of Poley sa kg that it was matter of necessity that the principles of scoacesy should he carried out in all the deer 'lntents of the Lord Orey on the Bth of February, 1848, stated that if pro- tection were admissible ou the grounds of the general interest of the country, it would be the interest of the planter himself that they should odhere to the determination of parliament in 1848. It was natural that the colony should feel indignant at that statement, when they knew there was not a word of truth in it. He (Mr. Bernie) moved a resolution in the committee to the effect that additional difficulty bad beets engendered by that state ment of Berl Grey, and that a minister who was capable of so acting was not fit to hold the reins of power ; but the, committee came to no determination on it. The question railed by the hon. member for Montrone was one of great Impeeenese, embracing at it did that of self government, and whither the colony should be allowed to manage her own ingianial affairs or whether the Colonial-office should inter /sea and exercise its known great influence to compel &quiescence in its views. Mr. HAW ES said he was relieved from the necessity of going late any great length of detail on this question, as the hon. member fur Montrose, and the hon. gentleman opposite, bad had the opportunity of bringing all their charges and complaints before • committee of that house, to which no opposition whatever was made, every facility was afforded, and every possible information in the possession of the Colo nial-office was freely and spontaneously given. Having made their charges and complaints, not with peculiar cour tesy or feeling, the bad found themselves in a minority ; and bring so, had thought it necessary to obtain the opinion of the house in opposition to the report of the committee. (Hear, hear.) Did the case rest entirely on the statements of these hoar. members he might be apprehensjve of the re sult; but statements so wide of accuracy, so little calculated to cite the huuse correct information, it had not been his for tune very often to bear,- conside ring that these gentlemen had rot for months in the committee, end bad beard all the evidence, but had apparently come out with the same im pressi Ins, and without deriving one particle of information from what they hid heard. (Hear, tear.) What was the dispute—what were the grounds stated in the colony for seeking to alter an act of parliament, for so might an act of the Combined Court of Policy be regarded ? That act *stab labeid a civil list, not of 39,0001 • rear, but of • conrilerably len sum. The civil list was nominally 39,0001., hut 4,5001. was paid out of the imperial treasury, thus redueiog it to about 35,0001. In addition, then was • rpduction of 1,0001. for pension falling off, and about 9,0001. more for the pay ments to the clergy which were placed on the evil list, thus reducing the sum paid for conducting the government—and that alone was the civil list properly speaking—to 24,00 W. or 26,0001. The revenue of the colony was about 227,0001.: out of that was set aside, by an act of the colonial legislature, slime 23,0004 for the officers who conducted the govern. meat. In December, 1847, Portals resolutions were passed by the Court of Policy, which were the oriels of this dispute. Then resolutions stated that the colony wee essentially agricultural ; that it possessed no manufactures, and that its prosperity was entirely dependent on its exports to the markets of Europe ; and that in consequenci of the recent measures of the imperial government, by which sugar, the produce of slave labour, had been admitted to competition with sugar, the produce of free labour, the value of the colo iiial property bad decreased. That was the main reason then assigned for the first objection to the payment of the civil list. They then went on to state that the no was declining, that the colony was impoverished, and that they wets unable any longer to pay that amount. The first question then was, bed the civil list been embodied in an act of the Court of Policy, of the legielature ? acd if so, was it eneedve, sad was the colony in that state of decline, and its revenue so failing, as to jus tify a reduction of the salaries ? (Hear, hear.) Would it be believed that in the evidence given before the committee, by their own wanes's, it was plainly and unde niably stated that the revenue of the colony, down to the very last hour when the supplies were stopped, had not fallen off at all but, on the contrary, had rather intend ? (Hear, hear.) What pretext, then, was there for saying that the acts of the hernial parliament justified the reduction of the civil list? There bethg no decline, the act of the imperial parliament was not of itself a justification for the reducion. But the bon. gentleman aid that Lord Grey had refused all reduction of the civil list when first proposed. They must have spent th.ir time m:st unaccountably in the committee. Either they had not beard, or had totally forgotten, Lord Grey's despatch of the 15th February, in which he showed that the revenue had increased from 829,000 dole. to 900,000 doh. And there was no reason whatever to suppose that, down to the 30th S !Member last, there was any decline. Lord Orey had dealt with the question fairly ; he said that, on the statements laid be:ore him, it did not appear that there were any circumstances to justify the reduction. In • subsequent dispatch, when the dispute had proceeded further, he distinctly gave his assent to the reduction of salaries as vacancies occurred, and stated that thouch it was his preeent impression that the fends of the colony were ant in a condition to render such re duction neceosary, and having regard to the great expense of living in Guiana, and that the salary of the governor was nothing more hen sufficient to secure the services of a person of so importint a station as the office demanded. Yet the reasons which had been adduced in favour of a different conclusion would have received the most favourable consideration. The committee had made their report, and they reported in the teeth of the opinions of his hon. friend and the hon. gentleman. That was a complete answer to the allegations against Ball Grey, that he was indifferent to the welfare of the colony. The contrary was the fact. There was no reasonable and rational economy which would not find in Lord Grey a warm supporter, and all his acts confirmed that. The boa. gentleman opposite brought a charge of inconsistencyrigainet Lord Grey, because he consented to reductions in Trinidad and refused them in Guiana. But the circumstances were quite different, for there was so civil list in Trinidad. There was merely an annual vote for the public officers, which was subject to the flue.ustions in the condition of the colony. In Trinidad also the expenditure exceeded the in. come, Ito that when Lord Harris, the governor, wrote to Lord Grey, proposing a reduction of the salaries of the officers in that colony, his noble friend told him that he might do what he thought right. The cases of Trinidad were, there fore, entirely different from that of Guiana, and there was no analogy between them. (Hear.) His hon. friend had charged the Colonial office with a breach of faith. That opinion was exploded and completely blown to atoms in the evidence given before the committee. (Hear.) The honourable gentleman's own witnesses gave it up. If a civil list of twenty-five thousand pounds was more than sufficient let it be clearly and distinctly tends out. When the colony said that they wished to have the civil list reduced with a view to economy, what would the house think when they were told that s ix-sevenths of the whole expenditure was under the control of the colony itself. The revenue of the colony amounted in round numbers to 227,0001, and the colonists would have done better :in looking after the ex• penditure which was under their own control, than in getting up • mischievous, reckless, and injurious quarrel for the purpose of embarrassing the government in revenge of the act of 1846. They considered what could be effected in the way of economy in respect to the money under their own control. He stated that on the authority of Sir H. Light and Lieutenant-Govemor Walker. So far from the trade of the colony having declined, the pro duction of sugar had actually increased ewes 1846. If he took from the year 1845 to 1848 inclusive, it appeared that an average of 28,500 tons had been produc ed annually in the three first years, and that 32,000 tons was the average for the years, 1817 and 1848. This did not look like that impoverishment of the colony which had been spoken of. Governor Barkly Saline that the Court of Polity was a mere oligarchical body, which possessed very little influence in the colony, and that they were elected by very small constituencies, with a very MO franchise, had with singular propriety introduced a measure which beams necessary in consequence of the stoppage of the puppet for extending the constituency. The consti tuency at present did not amount to more than 700 or 800. Under the new measure it would be increased to 3,000 or 4,000. Wes there anything wrong in carrying a civil list by means of an extended constituency and a boiy snore pro perly elected than the existing court ? (Hear, hear.) If it was so carried would it not be a proof that the colony wee not on the aide of the Court of Policy ? (Hear.) 0 Darkly, so far from being unwilling that his own salary should be redwood, declared in his very first speech that he should be inn if his own salary stood in the way of then redactions. The struggle, therefore, was the mere struggle of a party to uphold their influence in the colony. The hon. member had alluded to the part which he took in committee in reference to • statement made by Lord Grey is the House of Lords. Here, again, the main Let was kept out of sight, lamely, that Lord Grey spoke from information obtained from a local newspaper, which bore date two or three days after the despatch of the governor. The state ment was that in a particular district the labourers had returned to their work, and were in fact working at a 'educ tion of 25 per cent. ; and Lord Grey, in erasing that if wages were reduced, it was tantamount to ea imam fa the number of labourers, rehired to the me stated is the SOW papers as an example. The boa. member said the governor had made the immigration ordinance a bribe for the civil list. In that case an accidental phrase had been aught hold of the governor having only stated in his evidence that the colonists bad declared that they would grant anything in their pewee obtain immigrants. It had been said that it was a of faith not to allow the colonists to procure labour from any pert of the world. His hon. friend (Mr. Hume) was is favour of what was termed free trade in la bour ; but there was evidence in the papers that what the colonists meant was, that they should be at liberty to go to the slave coast of Africa. If by free trade in labour was meant liberty to buy men from the slave coast, he confessed that he was opposed to it, and y he believed • majorit of that house were also opposed to it (Hear, hear ) It had been said that this report was Sir Robert Peel's re port. On that point he must do his bee. friend the member for Buckingham the justice to say that that part of the re port which had reference to the improvement of the multi tut ion of Guiana belonged to him. (Hear, hear.) LA con clusion, be hoped the result of what had been dens would be the introduction of an improved state of things in the colony. Mr. STUART then moved the adjournment of the de bate. (Cries of " Oh, oh.") Mr. HUMB replied. He roes principally to refute a calumny of the grossest kind. The hon. gentleman said that by free trade in labour was meant the use of slays la beler. He utterly denied that such was the case. (Hear, hear) That was the only thing in the hoe. gentlemen's speech which he thought worthy of notice. The alleged fads were admitted. The hon. gentleman had chosen to term an act of policy an act which the law officers of the crown had declared to be of no value whatever, those fenctionaries hay ing declared that the colonial, were right in the course which they bad pursued. He wished to see the colonists in the enjoyment of responsible government, and no longer in leading strings. If a rebellion took place, there would be immediate concessions. OUTGOING MAILS. The teals for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cada, and Gibraltar, will be made upon the 27th ofJuly. Male for brain north AMMOs and the Vatted State, will be Wide up on the evening of the 27th of July. The West India Mall, iodating lama* Sanaa, Nana, Nealures, New Orleans, and Maw, and excluding those to: Marts; St Juso•doNieeragua, New Grenada, Chili, and Pees, ail; In soda op on the bed of August. 11111 mails tor Madeira, lb. sod Buenos Ayres, villa, made upon the 4th of August Its mails, rin Marealles, ha the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon. India, Bong-Kong, la., will be seade up on the evening of the 7th August lir malls for Gibraltar, Mrßa, MINS, the lonian Islands. IgYnt Osylas, India, and Mia. wis tat will be sumo up on the naming of the leth of August. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun DA, —Motelag,l7 We. pan 6. All USIS 6 sla.pent Te-Ilksawir-166n5ur.31 WA. Pot I; AftemeNss W. Pm' • LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. WELL might the return on " Church Pluralities," just presented to the House of Commons, on Mr. Humes motion, provoke the inquiry Mr. FazwEN made of the Home Secretary, the other evening! For the state of things it discloses is very discreditable to the Episcopal Government of the Cnurch of Eng land ; and demands, what it will, no doubt. receive, the serious attention of parliament, whenever Mr. Hoes- MAM can induce the legislature to go into the ques tion of Church Reform. From the time of HENRY VIIL down to the reign of VICTORIA the policy of legislation on this subject has been the dis couragement of church pluralities. Yet, it now turns oat that the bishops are still doing all that legislation has left within their power to promote that evil. And the power left them by parliament is much greater than is generally supposed. Before, however, setting forth the facts which Mr. Hume's return has brought to light, let us very briefly glance at the progress of legislation on the matter. An historical retrospect will assist us in seeing the full enormity of contemporary practices. By the common law of this realm, and by the canon law of the church, no ecclesiastic al person can hold two benefices rime: et awl, as the old books have it. Upon taking the second benefice the first would, were reference made to either branch of law, become void. At an early period, however, the Pope seems to have granted dispensations ; but the exercise of this power in England is &aid by more than one grea text writer to have been an " usurpation." Notwith standing its original illegality the practice prevailed. And the bishops appear to have endeavoured in this respect to follow the Pope's example ; but episcopal dispensations were expressly rendered illegal by the decision of a General Council. By whomsoever dis pensations were granted, the evil of plurality of ecclesiastical benefices had become, on the dawn of the Reformation, oce of the great scandals of the Roman catholic church. And it was amongst the first of its mal-practices which was attempted to be corrected in England by HENRY VIII. For that purpose the 21 HEN. VIII., cap. 13, was enacted; and it is probable that the reli gious and pastoral objects of the parochial sys tem were never b.Cer or more comprehensively stated than in the preamble of this act. " For the more quiet and virtuous increase and main tenance of divine service, the preaching and teaching the word of Gad, with godly and good example giving, the better discharge of curates, the maintenance of hospitality, the relief of poor people, the increase of devotion, and the gall opinion of the lay-fee toward the spiritual person ; it was thereby enacted that if i any person, having one bee efice with core of souls of the yearly value of 81. or above, should accept another, the first benefice should be void. Some exceptions were, however, made to this useful enactment, and they, of course, were in the aristocratic spirit of the Tudor age. The exceptions were principally in favour of the chaplains of royal and great personsges. Itoyai chaplains might, for example, ho!d three benefices, and the chaplains of noble families two benefices. Tile immediate results of this statute were, how ever, excellent ; it increased the efficacy of the parochial system at a time when the system was in valuable—the commencement of the Reformation ; and if in subsequent reigns its provisions were some what 'buried, it at all events bore testimony to the righteous spirit of British legislation on the subject of a great ecclesiastical abuse. Uufurtunately the spirit of this statute was not cirried out by succeeding parliaments so as to suit the existing aid altering position of bene fices. It prohibited pluralities only when beto ken were of the yearly value of Si. or above; and the principle on which that value was to be ascertained appears never to have been judicially settled. For a long succession of years the sum at which benefices were rated fir first-fruits in the King's bodes was accepted as the test of their ✓alue, and therein the great proportion of benefices was entered at less than hi. And, though at a later period this doctrine was questioned, and the more ralcnal test of actual value was contended for, the question does not St em to havu received an authorised 'dation. So, in yoint of fact, the law remained until our own times. Somethinr, indeed, was done to re press the growing evil of non-residence by the 57 Geo. 111., cap. 99; but so tenderly, that for all prac tical purpsea, the 1 & 2 Vic , cap. 100, found the law as to pluralities much as the 21st HEY. VIII., cep 13, had lei% it. By the statute of the present reign just mentioned, it was enacted that not more than two benefices, cathedral or otherwise, shall be holden together; nor two benefices unless within ten miles of each other; nor if the popu'ation of one benefice be greater than 3,000 ; nor if the two benefices be of the joint yearly value of more than 1,0001. These were the prin ciples or rules laid down by the act ; but it was clearly not the intention of the statute that every clergyman who could get a presentation to two benelices,within those conditions, should as a matter of course be permitted to hold the two benefices. For the statute goes on to provide that such presentee shall only hold two benefices on a dig pensation to be granted by the archbishop of the pro vince ; and that such dispensation shall only be given on a statement of particulars made to the archbishop by the bishop of the diocese. The object of par liament in these provisions was, obviously, to throw the responsibility of church pluralities on the episcopal rulers of the church ; for they, and they only, can grant dispensation, and the amount of pluralities consequently depends altogether on their voluntary act. The Act, in short, laid down rules which the bishops had to carry out. It becomes then important to know how the rulers of our church have exercised the powers thus confided to them by the legislature ; and this very interesting and valu able information Mr. HVME'S return gives. It appears, then, from this reture, that since the passing of the Pluralities Act the archbishops cf the church of England, en the statement sad recom mendation of its bishops, hive granted dispensation to 620 clergymen to hold 1,240 benefices, worth, at the very least, 218,2281. a year, with a population, at the least, of 625,323. We say that the above value of these livings, and the above number of their popu lation,is stated in the return at their very lowest figure, because the statute authorised the value to be estimated after all outgoings are deducted, because we find the value of benefices and their population given in the re tarn to he frequently lower thin those contained in the "Clergy List; and because the value of livings as stated in the "Clergy List" is notoriously beneath the actual value. But, take the totals brought out by this return u the truth, the fact that since the year 1838, 600 000 people and upwards have, by the d section of Episcopal Order, been subjected to ecclesiastical Pluralism is, we say, very discredita ble to the Church of England. In some especial instances, doubtless, the poverty of the two livi:gt thus epiecooally consigned to one incumbeit may be pleaded in excuse. But no inch plea can be est up in three-fourths of the cases in which archiepiscopal dispensation hal been granted. Let as take half-a-dozen indiscriminately : NAM. Benefices. Value. r.o, rota.- Distance 0. W. Manny .. Viestsge al Cleolasty €499 1730 et miles. linkt . 3.2 4. 0 C. IL Renal , Deans W. &Freeman* * Reetory ' ot Middle C syt 5 10 130 Isi ma ts . Vleuage of East Clayton 328 1217 8.. Sang ate .. .n ( 7d Mil 544 614 l 2 miles. rawkliam 221 20 5 Tsernien Relbseje , t East Allington 310 C 7 15 Castleton.. ... 477 644 T. Deaden:a Vgarageof liming Rectory et Kohn Wake J.R. White Flabary et ilizursaympto 458 777 m u m West Weelinstne 177 218 B. St. John salary el 343 334 2 miles. „ „ Rathbun 3lB 248 These are far from being selected cases; the return abounds with similar cases. Now, what justification in one of the above is there for plurality of be nefice? Not income, certainly; for the lowest is probably twice as high in income as a curate begins life on. Not population ; for the smaller the popula tion of a parish the more efficieut ought the ministry therein to be. Not distanc?; for in every one of these cases the law requires the incumbent to keep a curate. Wherein, then, are we to find justification for a dis pensation in such cases? And, if no reasonable ex cuse is to be found, what are we to think of the episcopal rulers of • church who habitually grant- d dispensations in such cues ? To every candid mind and sincere churchman the facts disclosed by Mr. Hume's return will establish the abuse of that confidence which the 1 and 2 Vic. cap. 106, reposed in the Episcopal Bench, and the necessity for further curtailing the power confided in the bishops by that statute. Mr. FREWEN, to do him justice, bum, conservative though he be, to have felt the force of the case against the bishops even before this return was laid on the table of tie house. For early in the present session, he introduced a bill "to amend the law relating to the holding of bene fices in pluralities." This bill, as originally introduced proposed to lower the value of the two benefices, which might be held conjointly. But Mr. FREWEN appears to have soon seen how defective the test of value, when taken alone, is. So he quickly altered his bill ; and, as it now stands (rejected, else! on the motion of Lord JOHN RussELL!), he pro poses that parliament shall enact that two benefices shall not be held by the same person unless actually con tiguous, and the united population be under GOO. Bat to these Mr. FREWEN should also add a money restriction. That added, his bill, if enacted, would be good, as a step to a complete abolition of church pluralities. For that is the end to be aimed at. The poverty of benefices is, in troth, no reason for the practice of pluralism. For in the great msjority of cases vary poor benefices ere also very small nod thinly peopled parishes, and the course to be pursued with them is to annex them to the adjoining livings, as Mr. Betour very properly proposed when discuss ing Lord ASHLEY'S motion r the division of great parishes. And in the cases of large and populous parishes with inadequate endowments, an appeal to the voluntary principle is the true resource of the church. Tne Appropriation Bill has passed through com mittee, and parliament will do no more real work this session. The financial results of the parliamentary campaign, in so far as they admit of being stated in figures, are not to brag of. Tte annual income and the annual expenditure ken? oscillating between sur plus and deficit ; one year the balance is one way, another the other. And ministers and their pulls mentaty majority have not been brought to re . ,. about any comprehensive and systematic plan of retrench ment and readjustment of taxation by which they might at once relieve the public from the excessive and unequally apportioned burden of taxation under which it labour. , ' and restore the finances of the empire to a healthy condition. Nor would our prospects be much more flattering if we looked merely to the division lists of the I louse of Commons. The earnest and reliable financial re formers are still but a minority in the house. In February Mr. Wanes could only muster 78 votes in favour of his plan of financial reform against 197. In March, Mr. HUME'S amendment cn Mr. 1/Pruett's motion received only 70 votes against 394. The division on Mr. DRUMMOND'S motion on the 19 h inst., though full of promise for the future, hal only 71 votes recorded in favour of the important principle it affirmed. When we turn from these votes on gene ral principles and comprehensive measures to the more desultory war of special votes on items of the estimates the result is even leas encouraging. The divisions of this cla‘a have not been very numerous, and the numbers tell a pretty similar talc to those in the divisions we hare noted. Motions for slight redactions in the numbers of men to be voted for the sea and land services were respec tively supported by 59 against 144, and 48 against 182. A motion for roducieg the vote for staff officers was supported by 17 against 50; a motion for reducing the vote for civil contingencies by 1.5 against 47. It is clear that in the actual financial business of the current as of former years, ministers have been allowed to have pretty much their own way. Still it is obvious that even ministers are not mis led as to the nature and reliability of the support they have to meet with. Their language and con duct show that they feel the old financial system, in which they have been so anxious to persevere, is breaking up ; that the support of partisans, and the lenity of rivals, cannot be impli citly relied on much longer. They began the session by concessions staftingly at variance with their averments and professions of last year. In the beginning of the session which preceded the one now drawing to a close, ministers took high ground in de fence of the amount of their general expenditure, and in particular in defence of their outlay on the army and navy. They lowered their tone considerably be fore the close of that session. They were ob:iged to grant a committee of inquiry on the cost and man agemerot of our defensive establishments ; and the result of the very partial inquiries which the committee wee able to bring to a close while parlia ment eat, was such that ministers voluntarily came forward to propose, in an amended budget, some small reductions in Oe army and navy expenditure, which they had at first declared to be rather below than above the mark ; and this session they discovered that they could make still further reductions. They profess to have reduced the army, navy, ordnance, and miscellaneous estimates of this year 1,500,000/. below those of last year. Al e will not inquire at present how much of this retrench ment is real and how much only apparent. Enough for our purpose that it proves that ministers feel they mast give way to the general and growing des mend for retrenchment. _ _ Turning from the contemplation of the conduct of ministers as suggestive of hope for financial reformers, what is the position of other parties in the legislature and its augury? Various specific modes of reducing items of national expenditure have been indicated during the present cession, and have met with more or less of support. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTM'S motion in (*your of a more economical sy stem of colonial go vernment received 89 votes. Mr. Hurr's committee on the West African coast blockade have declared that source of expense to be unavailing, and even mis chievous. Mr. Ht ME was supported by 48 of our representatives in his attempt to have a more distinct and satisfactory mode of conducting financial busi ness in the House of Commons adopted. The sup porters of these and other special measures of finan cial reform were not a compact unvarying party. Members of all parties were found voting sometimes for one, sometimes for another. The aggregate votes on the divisions we have referred to indicate a grow ing sense of the necessity of some financial reform I among men of all political shades of opinion. It is not only in divisions that symptoms of this growing conviction are to be found, nor are the symp toms confined to isolated members. The sturdy and successful stand made by the financial reformers against the indecent attempt to hurry the ordnance votes through committee chows that part t o be im proving in fi rmness and practical skill. The old tory party, who have hitherto rallied under the flag of protection, evidently begin to feel that it will not serve their purpose, and are giving no unequivocal signs of preparation to hoist the flag of economy. The loose fish who hang upon the skirts of the ministerial party, and of the party with whom ministers seem on the eve of concluding a coalition, are coquetting with retrenchment and finan cial reform. The dispositions visible in so many quarters to conciliate public favour by promoting the work of retrenchment, will increase with every succeeding session, in proportion as the visions of hustings and general elections draw nearer and become more distinct. Nor is it a mere vague and aimless sentiment in favour of retrenchment that is springing up. Materials are daily being accumulated for demonstrating its necessity and possibility, and plans for carrying it into effect are daily being moulded into mere definite and practicable shapes. The comm•ttee of last session on the miscellaneous estimates, tho com mittees of the laA and present sessions on the navy, army, and ordnance estimates, the committee on slave trade suppression, the committees on the woods and test ate, and various colonial committees have dragged to light an enormous mass of wasteful expenditure and misapplications and wanton waste of public money. The labours of Dr. BOWRING to promote the adoption of better methods of national boek-keeping, the labours of Sir WILLIAM MOLES WORTH to establish a more economic it system of colo nial government, the labours of Lord Di:NCAN in the', deoartment cf the woods and forests, the labours of Dieters. HLME and COBDEN in exposing the unneces sary outlay on fleets and armies—all are 00-operating to prepare materials for a comprehensive system of finan cial reform. The discussions in the House of Commons on local taxation, on the unfair distribution of the burden of taxation, and the merciless and reiterated exposures of that official indolent: and that dogged adherence to old abuses which is the only impedi ment to financial reform, have not been lost either upon parliament or the general public. Though barren in immediate results, the session now drawing to a close has been most important as preparatory to a great financial contest. Ministers feel the ground giving way beneath their feet. This is apparent in their actual concessions, more apparent in their lavish hints of greater concessions to be made hereafter. In general we are little die po-ed to rely upon ministerial promises of future good behaviour, but the revelations andthe temper of the House of Commons are a guarantee that ministers will not spend the recess idly. The parliamentary proceedings of the last fortnight have read them too rough a lesson. It is only necessary for financial reformers in par liament and out of doors to be on the alert to prevent these good imp essions from being effaced. The pole star by which they are to steer their course is clear: large reductions in the army and navy; improved organisation in every department of govern ment, especially in the Treasury and Exchequer ; equitaVe re-adjustment of taxation. We believe that pereeveranee and activity will in a few years ensure these reforms even without parliamentary reform. But we believe that parliamentary reform will be no cessary to keep the cyst- m right after it has been amended. And the people can reform parliament themselves through the instrumentality of the forty shilling franchise. SWITZERLAND. BERME, JULY 17.—A circular note of Mr. Dimey, chief of the department for justice and palice in the fichral council, enjoirs the cantonal authorities to dismiss (we cannot believe to send back) from Switzerland the political and military chiefs of the Baden insurgents. The names of some are specially mentioned in the circular, viz.; Brentano, Struve, Goegg, Werner, Mietoslawski, Sigel, Doll, and many others. PORTUGAL. PENINSULAR AND GIBRALTAR MAILS. The Oriental Company's eteampacket Pacha, Capt. John Weeks, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Litut. Wm. Persaer Newenham, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her daus are :—Gibraltar, 15th July, 7.20 p.m.; Cadiz, 16th, 10.30 a.m. ; Lisbon, 19th, 8.30 a.m.; Oporto, 20th, 9.13 a.m.; Vigo, 21 , 4, 8.30 ELM. The public: health at Gibraltar was good. A dis agreeable sensation has been created in the commer cial circles, by the failure of a Moorish merchant for 150,000d015. Cholera had made its appearance at Cadiz, an artil lery officer having died of it after a few hours illness. Lisbon is in the same bad monetary and commercial way. The Vasco de Game, that was sent to Rio Janeiro, had nearly suffered shipwreck at the mouth of the river in a gale of wind through her com mander's neglect. The ship was dismasted and other wise injured. The merehaote of Li-bon have met and subscribed a sum of 22,0001. to refit her, the government not being able to do it. There is very much cabal, confusion, and conspiracy to overreach each other in die chambere. Charles Albert was still ill at Oporto, and had pre sented an order, which be wore on his coat at the battle of Novara, to Mr. J. Forrester, of the house of Ofihy, Webber, and Forrester, as that which he in tended for him had not arrived out. Our cvreepondent writes as follows: LISBON, JULY 18, 1849. Costa Cabral ordered the Duke of Saldanha to pro ceed to his mission at Paris. The Duke refused, and sent in his resignation, stating that he could not accept of any mission under the government of Conde Thomar, a person so well known to be so obnoxious to the nation at large. A copy of Saldanbee letter hos been sent round to the 1 eading chambers of the I progress party. his known that the king protects the Duke of Saldanha. Wdilo the queen and the Camarilho favour Conde Timmer. It is impossible to say how this ruptu-e will end. Money is the great spring of action. Saldanha paid but three months' salaries, &c., to all employes —in short, to all receivers from the govergment—in the twelve. Thomar finds himself able to pay eight oat of the twelve, but by means of a ruinous loan he has contracted for 400 mates with certain Brezlinos, they to receive 800 contoa securities on the revenue, and with tilu/os. But even with this small amount, sufficient scarcely for a month, it is well known that the government continues seriously embarrass d for want of money. There is no confidence in the govern ment, and they cannot receive the taxes in the pro vinces. The revenue of the Lisbon custom-house from July, 1818, to June 30, 1849, was 2,449,678 doh,: 101 Fels, during which time the custom-hose paid to the com missioners charged with the payment of the interest upon the public debt 335,559 dole. 160 reis. The ex cise during the same time produced 882,163 dole. 245 reis. The revenue of the Oporto custom-house fur the same time was 1,891,347 dull. 634 reis. The expor tation of wine from Oporto in the month of June was 3,085 pipes, and 144 of Geropiga. It is said that the government are about to renew their attempts to induce Dan Miguel to relinquish all claim to the throne. _ Business is totally paralysed. Discount on bank no'es 38 to 40 per cent. Exchange, 541 milrea. Govern ment securities are merely nominal. Vbe Court. OSBORN!, TCESDAT.—Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and the Baroness de Speth, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her hisjesty and his A,yal Highnew. Sir Hamilton Seymour, 0.C.8., was included in the royal duster party yesterday. The Queen gave a concert yesterday evening at Osborne. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next the 30th inst., at one o'clock, at her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Mr. Capreol, from Canada, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade, on the • übject of the Toronto, Simms, and Luke Huron Union Railroad. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.— Yeaterday forenoon the marriage of Mr. Wm. Cavendish (only son of the lion. Charles C. Cavendish, M.P., and Lady Catherine C►vendish) and Mils Henrietta Frances Laseelles (second daughter of the Right Hon. W. S. Lucelles, M.P , and Lady Caroline Lasalle.) was solemnised at Kensington church, in the pre sence of the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Carlisle, and a very numerous circle of the relatives and friends of both families. ELEVATION OF MR. SERJE9T TALFOURD TO THE BENCH. STAFFORD, JULY 24.—Much satisfaction is to day evinced by the barristers of the Oxford circuit at the ele vation of Mr. Serjeant Talfourd to the judicial beech, the official notification of which reached the leader of the circuit this morning, thus causing a parliamentary vacancy for Reading. Vali learned serjeant has just taken leave of the circuit, and gone to town to be sworn in. COURT OF ALDERMEN.—YMterdiy, Mr. Aldermen Lmerence gave bond to take upon himself the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex. ELECTION FOR BOSTON.—BOSTON, JULY 23.—Mr. D. W. Wire arrived here yesttrday, where crowds of electors were wilting to receive him, by whom he was most enthusi astically cheered. MEETING OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. SALlelltitY, TVE6DAY. The proceedings of the anniversary of this eoc'ety commenced hi re this m ening. Shindy after 12 o'clock this Marquis of NORTHAMPTON took the chair, at the Atersably rooms, supported by the Bishops of Salisbury and Oxford, Lord Braybrooke, the 11;eht Hon. Si lei y Herbert, &c. The Noble ld rquis briefly addressed the meeting, in in.. troducing to the chair the Right 11 - in. Sidney Herbert, as the president elect for the year ensuing. Tee Right Hen. S. HERBERT then trick the chair, and addressed the meeting in eloquent 'elms. Many of the leading objects of interest were alluded to by the right hen. gentleman, and the illustrious men of Wiltshire who bad phone as wargion, poets, divines, and ratestnen —the latter including the, Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chatham—were By glanced at in very eloquent terms. The Rey. E. HILL then detailed the excursions planned for the meeting, which include visits to Amesbury, Stone henge, Wimborne Minster, Christchurch, Beaulieu Abbey, Ramsey, and many other places mo:o immediately in the viciotty of the city. The Bishop of OXFORD moved the thanks of the insti tute to Earl Brownlow, the late president, expressing deep regret that the noble lord's state of health prevented his at tendance that day. S. M. IV E ‘II3LE, Erq., seconded the motion. O. MATCRAM, Esq., of New Reuse, Wilts, then read an essay on the 'results of former archeological investing dui in the district, which included notices of all the principal objects of interest therein. The CHAIRMAN intimated that it was the intention of the Institute, as a tribute of sympathy to those who had lost relenvet in the city, to abstain from all public festivity Eluting the meeting, and that the public dinner, appointed for Thursday, would not take place. The members then adjourned to the Council Chamber, where an elegant cold collation was provided by the mem bers of the corporation, and in the evening held a comer catione. .........—. Among the victims of the prevailing epidemic to-day. was Dr. Hole, a physician, residing in the Clow. who had been indefatigable in hie attendance on the sick lost week. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JULY 24. The turn things have taken about the late Orange explosion is of the greatest imp ,rtance, and will. doubt:ess, attract the closest scrutiny at your ds of the water. Your readers have beard of a certain Mr. Beers, a magistrate, who figured in the late deplorable scene. The catholic party in the north of Ireland look upon him as one of their most bitter acd insolent enemies, and various reports have been circulated about his braggithe beforehand of what he would do at Dolly's Brae. This gentleman has since been entertained at • public dinner given to him by his brother Orange men, and the Downparrick Recorder furnished us with areport of hiaspeech, which was malignant and incen diary to the very last degree. But this is not all. In the chair at the dialler was the Grand Master of the Orangemen of Down, Wil liam Keown, Esq., the High Sheriff of the county. It was that functionary—the Queen's special officer of c unty justice—who propcscd the health of G.-and Mas:cr Beers. Indeed the whole proetediugs at this dinner are significant. The High Sheriff's health was drank as a metier of course, and, in re turning thanks, he said " that when rebellion was in the l►nd Lord Clarendon had trusted the o;argt men —and when he undertook the office of Nish Sheriff be trusted them too." The Fpeccbes at this dinner show that the character of "Old Tapertocs " in Carleton's It ih novel, " Valentine M'Clulchy," is no caricature, but a dis gustingly faithful portrait, drawn actually from the life. Yesterday there was a county of Dublin meeting at Kilmainham, for the purpose of pre ling a loyal address to her Majesty. The High Sheriff was in the chair, and several of the gentry attended the gathering. The best spirit prevailed. RELIEF OF DISTRE , B.—ARhadda Re:tory, White gate, tear Cloyes, county Cork, July 23.—Rev. William R. Townsend, rector of Achadda, Whiteglte, near t'l tyro, county Cork, requests the editor of the Express ta acknow ledge for him, with hest thanks, to " Anna," no writing, seal rile, and a ilny,lll. 4d ; T. 11.8. M. " These need nut bo acknuwiedged in any way, stamps, U. 4.. ; Am ny ru ms, crest a stag's head, stamps, 2s. 61; It. W., Glou cester street, Dublin, post office order, 103 ; a mite for the poor, rt..; J. A. 1.1., half a 1!. Provincial Bank, Belfut, No. 4721, 11. 1 .- . { ~i ~~. -fro • ./ - SCOTLAND. AFFRAY BETWELN TILE MILITARY AND roLIeR sr EDI NBC no it.-0., Sunday night, about half-past eight o'clock, ttte Curegate became the scene of a disgraceful dis turbance, in which the military and the p dice were involved in a serious conffiet. The origin of the affray was a scuttle between two Irish navvies at the head of the Cowgate, one of whom, upon 'he interference of the police, quietly retired, but the other, a tall t.thletic fellow, uttered an etc:agitation of defiance, and reftsed to move off. The police took the man into custody, and notwithstanding his resistance, con veyed him down the Cvwgate towards the police office, lowed by an 'vanilla Igo of navvies and boys. The first at tempt made for tho reacuo of the prisoner was by another Irish navvy, who was, however,seized by two policemen, and safely lodged in the police-odic • ; but, when near the arch of Ucorres the Fourtl. Bridge, a body of seven or eight soldicos, belonging to the 21st regiment, at present in the Castle, made an attack upon the police, who, in self-defence, used their batons with considerable s fleet. The navvies having joined the soldiers, the police were overpowered, knock. d down, and abused in a cruel manner, whilst their prisoner made his fSC Ipe, and has not since been apprehended. The batons of some of the poli •e were wrested from their hands, and em ployed against themselves; and the result was, that one of them, named Hunter, sustained several injuries on the body and legs; a second, of the name of Mulling, bring cut and braised ; while a third, a young man named Gibson. received severe deep wounds on the head and face. Only one of the military, who was identi fied after the affray, was apprehended, and, after a most oheinste resistance, conveyed to the police office. The police having in some degree cleared the Co ciente, were then withdrawn; but one soldier, having aftra arils met e policeman in Bow-stre,t, struck him the lace with a large stone which he had cone'aied beneath his coat. This brutal n'tatk was witnessed by several spectators, and the man has been identified; hut it iv feared that the unfortunate con stable has sustained a fracture ef the jawbone. Two strong p'quets of the 21st regiment, under the command of an officer, reached the Orasemarket about else o'clock, and w• re greeted with loud cheers by the mob, sad, after their return to the Castle, the streets resumed their termer quiet appearance. It is anticipated that several of the soldiers eeetaged in the affray will he identified and brought to trial. —Edinburgh Evening Courant. SUDDEN DEATH OF TILE COUNTII , 'S OF MoRCTON.— Wc regret to state that the above-named lady, who has been an inhabitant of East liergholt for some years, was found dead in her bed on Monday morning. On Sunday evon;ng she retired to rest in her usual health.—lpswiels Express. EAST LANCASHIRE —The directors of this company have issued a statement of accounts fir the half-} ear ending 30th ult., preparatory to the meeting of shareholders on Monday next. The total receipts for the half-year, on account of capital, have been 2,9671611., and the total expenditure 2,938,8861, leaving a balance of 28,8771. The I traffic receipts for the half-year were 61,7171. net, after ' deducting toll payable to other companies ; while the total disbursements for workieg expenses, rates, taxes, and passenger duty, amounted to 27,9311., leaving a balance of profit of 36,7861. FATAL SIIIPWRECK.—TWENTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST. —By the arrival of the Maria Watson, from the Isle of Piney, in the South Sass. in , ellieence is brought communicating the total loss of the ship &amender, on a reef of rocks off New I Caledonia, with the melancholy sacrifice of all hands (empt ies three. The Seemander at the time of the unexpected calamity was bearing for the Isle of Pine* station for water and provisions on the night of the 15th of February. At 10 o'clock the south reef of New Caledonia was observed on the port quarter, and within ten minutes afterwards she struck on it with tremendous force. The moment alter she struck a terrific sea broke upon her, instantly sweeping overboard the whole crew, excering two, who clung to the main rigging and foreyard. Of the twenty eight washed overboard, only one succeeded in re gaining the so Ruh The remainder writhed at one swoop. The master, Mr. Mill, hid been confined to his cabin for some days from painfull illness, and although the cabin was nearly full of water, he could not, on account of extreme weakness, reach the deck. A second heavy sea soon after thundered over her, throwing the vessel on her beam ends, where she would have soon been dashed to pieces but for the unfortunate master, who, making himself heard to the sur viving seamen, they with the utmost expedition cut away the masts and rigging. This in far lightened the ship that she immediately righted, and the seat sea carried bar high and dry on the reef. The next day the gale having moderated, as much fresh water sad provisions as coal be got out of the wreck was stowed away in one of the whale boats, with which the muter and the three surviving men put to sea, and made for the Isle of Pines. Whin they quitted the reef, the vessel wan a complete wreck. The names of the survivors are, Thomas Underwood, Joseph Gabriel, and a South Elea Wander. The ship was insured. SUICIDE AT DOVLB.—On Saturday night last, a gentleman named Jacob &regime, said to be a general in the German army, arrived by the eleven o'clock train from London, act Anpanied by a friend, and they were about to embark in the Ostend-packet, but whilst the latter was absent for the space of only a minute or two, seeiag to their luggage, the former ruche f out and running down a lane at the back of Providence Hotel, cut his throat so effectually as to cause death. It was stated that deceased was married about two months since, and that his wife having died very suddenly, he has been in a desponding state of mind ever pine.He was on his way to j in her mother and fast , r at Ostend. An inquest has been held on the body, wl en the jury reeurned a verdict of" Temporary insanity."—Maidsioite Journal. . t" (‘-