The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-16 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF EXETER. (From the Western Times.) The exigencies of political events have compelled us to postpone a notice of Mr. Shore's case, and also that of Mr. Bowden, who has been shut out from Plymouth be cause he wont preach baptismal regeneration. The ec centricities of our Right Rev. diocesan have added a uew feature to the former case—by the light which the new debate throws upon the grounds of his displeasure with Mr. Shore. The Bishop has been the instrument for closing the chapel at Plymouth, in which, up to a few weeks since, a minister of the E s t ablished Church was wont to discharge the important functions of his sa cred calling. Uis now some eight or nine years since we first heard the Bishop lament the great spiritual des titution of Plymouth. He had then just discovered, or but just proclaimed, the " astounding fact" that there were 80,000 souls perishing for lack of spiritual nourishment in the Plymouth district. He was then moved with a new born zeal, and determined, by the celerity with which he prepared to repair the defect, to make some amends for his extraordinary oversight and delay. We thought it extremely strange, to use the mildest term, to see the Bishop only then making the discovery of all this spiritual destitution. Ile had come to the diocese some years before, and received, from the very day of his taking possession, some two hundred pounds per week, as his wages for discharging the important duties which he took upon himself as the Bishop of the diocese. He had to conciliate the opposition, and overcome the contempt, which naturally followed his recent conversion to the measure of Catholic Emancipation ; which in spite of his pamphlets, he had just then helped to carry, by his vote for Sir Robert Peel at Oxford. We will suppose that the first hours of his official life were spent in prayer to a higher power to smooth the way for his ministry, and to overcome the prejudices which English men naturally feel against rats, one of which the per verse people of the diocese persisted in calling him. After having, as it were, adjusted the cushion of his episcopal throne, so that he might occupy his seat with ease and comfort, there arose the care of providing for his family. It took some time to quarter that son of his in Worcestershire. There was a squabble with the Chapter, who refused to appoint the young man Precentor. Then there was the time spent in thinking about the appointing of old Luxmoore, who held the living of Bridestowe, which it was thought he would have to vacate into the hands of the Bishop, supposing that the t ishop should nominate hien to the office of Precentor. Whatever was thought, (and something was said about it), no arrange. went took place in this quarter. The affairs of the young man were quite at sea, till the Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe turned up. This gentleman was the holder of a brace of fat livings in Worcestershire, Hollow-cum-Grimley. Him did the Bishop nominate for Precentor, and him did the Chapter accept, and the young man was hence forth transferred to Worcestershire, where as the rector of the united parishes of Hollow-cum- Grimley, ho showed to an admiring world, how soon the merits of a young divine are seen, when his father happens to be a bishop. We cannot follow the Old Gentleman through all his arrangements, but there were some very clever. The Government were deprived of their patronage of the Deanery, after having possessed it for some 300 years, the Precentor Lowe became Dean. Then we have young Mr. Phillpotts made Precentor, and " our son-in-law," Mr. Stephens, made Sub-Dean, and since rejoicing with the substantial seal of the episcopal approbation set upon his labours, in the shape of the goodly living of Dunsford, which is situate within an easy walk of his commodious and beautiful residence at Culver—a location in short, worthy in every respect of the dignity and piety of one who has had the grace to woo and win the heart of a Bishop's daughter. Then there was our other son-in-law, De Bouilli. This reverend gentleman was for some years uhprovided for. He was Bishop's son-in-law, without any consolation made to him in the shape of preferment for the sacrifice of that supreme fitness for the ministerial duties which celibacy imparts, save the barren business of Bishop's curate. He was the curate of the Bishop's own living at Shobrooke. How this Young man came to be ransomed from that " inferior clergy" state of slavery—that was a clever affair ! The Chapter, on the death of Dean Landon, acting under the advice of the Bishop, resisted the Government in the exercise of their patronage, which for 300 years they had enjoyed. Those honest gentlemen claimed by virtue of the Popish statutes, the right to administer the patronage themselves. By these statutes they were required to live in comnieu—to preserve themselves chaste, and to keep their vows of celibacy. They permitted a Protestant Government to absolve th em from those galling regulations, and as holly priests w ho had passed many years in the solace o f oly wedlock, they must have laughed at the folly of their predecessors, who had in their monkish nonsense, foregone the substantial blessings of matrimony. But notwithstanding that they have been well content to receive and enjoy the immunity from monkish slavery. which Protestant institutions gave them, they still fell back on the popish statutes, in resistance of the Queen's " authority spiritual" over all orders, civil and ecclesiasti cal, and refused to take the nominee of the Crown for their Dean. The old gentleman, who then as now enacted the part of Bishop of the diocese, patted them on the back, gave them council to prolong the litigation so they held the Crown at arm's length, and succeeded in carrying the election of their Precentor, by which Bishop Phill potts secured the appointment of a very good-natured man, much given up to the promotion of the Bishop's interests, to be their chief—and thus was Mr. Precentor Low now elected in secret conclave to the office of Dean of Exeter. What passed in the solemn conclaves of the reverend body at that time will probably never be re vealed to the present generation; but we will just glance at what took place out of doors. The dignitaries of the Chapter held IA rotation certain pieces of patronage ; by virtue of their appointments, it is just as much theirs ' as any private property, subject to the conditions under which they are entitled to share their patronage. This patronage consists of certain livings, which are none of the worst ; and as the incumbents of these livings die off the patronage is distributed to the dignitaries in tarn. During this contest, which was maintained with the Bishop's approbation and by his help, the living of Thorverton became vacant. It fell to the " b a ll" of the Reverend Chancellor Martin —(e Ball " is the technical phrase used by members of the Chapter). By the conditions annexed to the patronage, the patron dignitary is compelled to nominate his proteg‘ within the space of six ninths. The Worshipful Chancellor Martin received his piece of patronage, and proceeded in due course to nominate his irierld- The Bishop reminded him that the body was not yet complete, and therefore no nomination could be exercised till the Dean was appointed. The litigation proceeded—six months are soon passed over in law pro ceedings, much sooner than the suit is settled ; and when the Reverend Chancellor next proceeded to nomi nate, he was told that the living had lapsed to the Bishop by law. The Bishop by this chance came into ' the possession of the living of Thorverton, and all the world thought the reverend dignitaries had been "jolly green" t o h ave p l aye d his game, which ran the Bishop's chance against their patronage, without taking secu rity from him that he would not avail himself of any windfall which lapse of time might place in his way. Fur, he it observed, they made the lapse in fighting off the Government appointment, in which the Bishop was as much (if not more) interested as they were. They ought certainly to h ave st i pu l ated with the Bishop that he should not take advantage of any lapse which might arise, through the want of a Dean. which want the 3, had incurred in the pursuit of an i n t erest common to ' both of them. But how did the Bishop act, having thus got the living through negligence of the "jolly green" Chapter? Why, he cave it to the Rev. Dr. Coleridge, of Lawhitton. Dr. Coleridge vacated Lawhitton, which by the vacation fell into the hands of the Bishop, who gave it to his son-in-law, De Bouilli, and the Bishop's living at Shobrooke was thus unencumbered of the pre senoa of the son-in-law—for we may suppose that though the son-in-law had only a curacy there, yet as curate to his father-in-law, the Bishop, he got more for it than the old gentleman would give to an ordinary curate. But it must be observed here that the old gen tleman did not take advantage of Chancellor Martin's lapse, as he might have done, by giving the living to his own son-in-law. No—in order that he might be above suspicion, he gave it to that most exemplary divine and tolerably sound Tractarian, the Rev. Dr. Coleridge. Nothing can be clearer than that it was not till he got the second living of Lawhitton that be thoug ht of his son-in law, and exalted him. Wh o can b lame him for natural affection ? Well, but a ll t hi s time, possessingwhere baptismal regeneration ? Softly, good reader , not w as . te So fast. A man's mission is two-fold—first, a s to him self and his natural affections ; next, as to the outer world of mankind at large. He who neglects his own family is worse than a heathen, and the Bishop did not commit this unheathenish sin of neglect. We pass over " our" nephew, then at Pinhoe, Hawkins by name, and who is now settled in some other part of England, but whether by some secret swop, or by virtue of his own merits, we will not say, though we will as sume she latter, and therefore say nothing more about him. Nor will we enlarge upon the case of that meritorions young man, who, albeit he is nephew of the Bishop, is now enjoying a comfortable living in the neighourhood of Falmouth. Well, next we have our son Joh n , appo i nted Bishop's chaplain and e rector of StokeinWignhead. There was a swop here, it was thought, but th a t was a mistake. Dr.Col lyns vacated it for Fassingd on , i n order to getnearer Exeter, where he had cussed s ome pleasant da ys in the character of instructor of th e youth in theFreen Grammar School, as many of them probably recollect. But here " our sun John " was cotefortably located, near his Right Rev. father, his guide and comforter, whose pleasant palace of Bishopstoe is within easy access of Btokeinteignhead. We shall pass over in silence the elevation of young Mr. Woolcombe to the very hand some living of Yingsteignton, as a popular delusion existed here on the sudden elevation of this young man, which delusion has been since made man if est b y his marriage; and we shall not dwell on the transfer of " our son William " to the Archdeaconry of Cornwall, in op position to the Bishop's hasty and unripe conclusion, before the vacancy occurred, the'. the post was too great for one man's talents. This William is also in posses sion of the good living of St. Gluvias, worth an annual round sum, as the clergy of Cornwall know. There are some minor affairs of a family nature, which it is not worth while to go into ; but we have given these details because the Bishop, having lately pushed Tractarian doctrines with great zeal, and having backed up all those ministers who have made themselves obnoxious to their parishioners by the introduction of obsolete customs, and being now engaged in the worthy task of endeavouring to extrude as schismatical, those ministers who will not preach the doctrine of the baptismal regeneration, it appears to us that this doc trine, by the Bishop's own showing, is of very secondary importance, and certainly net of importance enough to warrant him in thrusting out from the ministry any man who by his self-denying character, his practical be has rendered himself acceptable ne—volenco and his piety, s o g • wa i k d p ar i s h, For it jis manifest, on the face of THE SUN, LONDON. things, that if the doctrine had been of much consequence, it would have been the Bishop's first care to have seen it enforced ; but for years he went on, attending to his own matters and the matters of his housshcld, extiting his sons and the husbands of his daughters in the Church, before he directed his attention to these things; and though it is no business of ours to interfere with the authority of our right reverend diocesan, and to discuss points of theology with the old gentleman, we must say we think he is pushing matters rather inconsiderately, in making the enforcement of these doctrines a stum bling block in the way of the faithful. THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES. An ILLUSTRATION of the SPIRIT of HUMBUG, and of the way in which the great and Ball vulgar agree to can: about what they do not believe. (From "Danish Fairy Legends," by Hans Christian Anderson.) Many years ago there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers ; nor did he care to go either to the theatre or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his new clothes. He had a different suit for each hour of the day ; and as of •any other King or Emperor, one is accustomed to say, " He is sitting in council," it was always said of him, "The Emperor is sitting in his wardrobe." Time passed away merrily in the large town which was his capital ; strangers arrived every day at the court. One day, two rogues, calling themselves weavers, made their appearance. They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs of the most beautiful colours and elaborate patterns, the clothes manufactured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining invisi ble to every one who was unfit for the office he held, or who was extraordinarly simple in character. " These must indeed be splendid clothes I" thought the Emperor. "Had I such a suit, I might, at once, find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish! This stuff must be woven for me immediately." And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers, in order that they might begin their work directly. " So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all. They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread : put both into their own knapsack; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms, until late at night. " I should like to know how the wearers are getting on with my cloth," said the Emperor to hiraseLf, after some little time had elapsed ; he was, however, rather embarrassed, when he remembered that a simpleton, or one unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manu facture. "To be sure," he thought "he had nothing to risk in his own person ; but yet he would prefer sending somebody else to b r i ng hint intelligence about the weavers and their work before he troubled himself in the affair." All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess ; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant their neighbour might prove to be. " I will send my faithful old Minister to the weavers," said the Emperor, at last, after some deliberation, " he will be best able to see how the cloth looks ; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than he is." So the faithful old Minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might at their empty looms. " What can be the meaning of this ?" thought the old man, opening his eyes very wide. " I cannot discover the least bit of thread on their looms !, However, he did not express his thought aloud. The impostors requested him very courteously to be so good as to come nearer their looms ; and then asked him whether the design pleased him, and whether the colours were not very beautiful ; at the same time pointing to the empty frames. The poor old Minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason—vis., there was no thing there. " What !" thought he again, "is it pos sible that lam a simpleton ? I have never thought so myself ; and no one must know it now, if lam so. Can it be, that lam unfit for my office ? No, that must not be said either. I will never confess that I could not see the stuff." " Well, Sir Minister," said one of the knaves, still pretending to work, " you do not say whether the stuff pleases you." " Oh, it is excellent !" replied the old minister, look ing at the loom through his spectacles. " This pattern, and the colours—yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay how very beautiful I think them." " We shall be much obliged to you," said the im postors, and then they named the different colours and described the pattern of the pretended stuff. The old minister listened attentively to their words, in order that he might repeat them to the Emperor; and then the knaves asked for more silk and gold, saying that it was necessary to complete what they had begun. How ever, they put all that was given them into their knap sacks, and continued to work with as much apparent diligence as before at their empty looms. The Emperor now sent another officer of his court to see how the men were getting on, and to ascertain whe ther the cloth would soon be ready. It was just the same with this gentleman as with the minister ; he sur veyed the looms on all sides, but could see nothing at all but the empty frames. " Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you as it did to my Lord the Minister?" asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colours which were not there. "I certainly am not stupid!" thought the messenger. " It must be, that I am not fit for my good, profitable office! That is very odd; however, no one shall know anything about it !" And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colours and patterns. " Indeed, please your Imperial Majesty," said he to his sovereign, when he re turned, " the cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent." The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense. And now the Emperor himself went to see the costly manufacture whilst it was still on the loom. Accom panied isy a select number of officers of the Court, among whom were the two honest men who had already ad mired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever ; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms. " Is not the work absolutely magnificent ? " said the two officers of the Crown already mentioned. "If your Majesty will only be pleased to look at What a splendid design ! What glorious colours I" and at the same time they pointed to the empty frames ; for they imagined that every one else could see this exquisite piece of workmanship. " How is this ?" said the Emperor to himself, " I can see nothing I this is indeed a terrible affair I Am I a simpleton, or am I unfit to be an Emperor ? that would be the worst thing that could happen." "Oh ! the cloth is charming," said he, aloud. "It has my com plete approbation." And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms : for on no ac count would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his Court had praised so much. All his retinue now strained their eyes, hoping to discover something on the looms, but they could see no more than the others ; nevertheless, they all exclaimed, " Oh, how beautiful 1" and advised his Majesty to have some new clothes made from this splendid material, for the approaching procession. " Magnificent I charming ! excellent !" resounded on all sides, and every one was uncommonly gay. The Emperor shared in the ge neral satisfaction ; and presented the impostors with the riband of an order of knighthood, to be worn in their button-holes, and the title of " Gentlemen Weavers." The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that every one might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit. They pretended to roll the cloth off the looms; cut the air with the scissors; and sowed with needles without any thread in them. " See," cried they at last, " the Emperor's new clothes are ready!" And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his Court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, s l a wc y aher i oe n fbnl g wahe ' re ' ber H s;es e eiod r sn e tienh ar eim e tm y a o n u t r ie .N ! lajesty's trowsers ! here is the The whole suit is as light as thi,s, ydeelsi.caintedeceldot;h, a tfancy, however , is t nothing h e great virtue eof i ; gh th t ' said all the courtiers, although not one of the m cou ld see anything of this' exquisite ma nufacture. " If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes, we will fit on the new suit in front of the looking-glass." The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit : the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking-glass. " How splendid his Majesty looks in his new clothes! and how well they fit !" every one cried out. " What a design I what colours ! these are, indeed royal robes I" " The canopy which is to be borne over your Ma jesty in the procession is waiting," announced the master of the ceremonies. "I am quite ready," answered the Emperor. "Do my new clothes fit well ?" asked he, turning himself rA. Majesty's i v ari n heh d stet 3i,againoa,,psprt Lords appear r b e i on ft, f ot o hf r ebe e l et E t ea h exbd e oa. l muc o thi o nos k inn a i n n tbga g when - erhotl g , ugi l ewsl a r oh s h s uoa , nn i dwd n , seaor o sme r idetfeo they aei t rty l 2 . r a y w t ehr h i es e carryingl lifting up u p somethingthe ends of the , d a b n y d nopretended means betrayto be ;forthe m y anything like simplicity, or unfitness for their office. So now the Emperor walked under his high can o py i n the midst of the p rocess i on, t h rough the streets o is capital, and all th e p eop l e stan di ng by, and those attn the windows, cried out, " Oh, how beautiful is our Empe ror's new clothes ! w h a t a magn ifi cent train there isto the mantle, and how gracefully the scarf hangs 1" in short, no one would allow that he could not see these touch-admired clothes, because in doing so he would have declared himself either a simpleton, or unfit for his office. Certainly, none of the Emperor's various suits had ever made so great an impression as these invisible ones. " But the Emperor has nothing at all our said a little child. " Listen to the voice of innocence!" ex claimed his father; and what the child had said was whispered from one to another. "But ho has nothing at all on!" at last cried out all the people. The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now! And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold. Mr. Moreno the) Minister from Buenos Ayres, trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. ebtrti latttou SUN OFFICE. Seven o'Clock. DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A meeting_of the shareholders in this scheme was held to day at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry, at twelve, for the purpose of determining whether the Company should be dissolved. Mr. LAWRENCE moved that Mr. Alderman Challis should take the chair. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS, having taken the chair, said he did so most reluctantly-, but his reluctance was altogether on his own account, and not in any way arising out of any cir cumstances connected with the company. He had entered into railway matters at first with all the reluctance which one could do who had foreseen all that had subse quently occurred. This railway afforded another ex ample of the unhappy issue of this kind of speculation. It started with good prospects, no energy was wanting tc urge it forward, and the line, which was at first believed to be a good one, had been justified by everything which had since taken place. The Great Western during the present session had had ten or twelve of their Bills thrown out without opposition on the part of this Company ; and others had met with like ill success, because the lines proposed deviated from that direct course which this Com pany had adopted. He assured the shareholders that it was no bubble scheme, taken up with a view to the aggrandisement of a few individuals. The •immittee believed at the time that the scheme was a good one, and would certainly succeed; they entered into it in good faith, and by their conduct had shown them selves honest men. Although he had attended their meet ings less frequently than others, yet he had attended, and he could assure them that the interests of the shareholders were line do ne w t would uld n o considered. There had been no jobbing ; everything had been t succeed economise ex p,ena least in the present Parliament.se ever since it was seen that the Indeed, the last two or three months had been occupied in cutting down the bills, well knowing that railway committee men were considered fair game. He said the line was proposed, a provisional committee was registered, and a good and able engineer, in whom the company could trust, namely, Sir John Macneil was selected. The line was surveyed, the plans deposited, and the number of shares issued were 1,400,000, but this number the committee considered it proper for the security of the company to reduce to 120,000. These shareswere allotted many of them to landowners along the line, but only 17,630 had been returned paid upon. What could the committee do in these circumstances ? They felt that they could not go on ; they were brought to a standstill for the want of the support of those who had the shares allotted to them. As he had already said, the Committee from that moment considered only bow they could reduce the expenses, and he asked the confidence of the shareholders for the committee ; he courted inquiry, and the closest scrutiny of all the affairs of the Company. The SECRETARY having read the advertisement calling the meeting, Messrs. Bischoff, Coleman, and Gordon Thompson were appointed scrutineers. The accounts of the Company were then read, showing receipts, deposits on shares, amounting to 44,8131., and on the credit side payments for engineering and surveys, 11,3311.; for law, 10,5751., and other miscellaneous accounts, to the amount of about 8,1001., leaving a balance of 14,970/ The CHAIRMAN expected that the Company, if dissolved, would pay, after meeting the outstanding accounts, 25a. or 30s. a share. lie hoped that the meeting, instead of declaring a bankruptcy, would simply dissolve the Company. Mr. Alderman SIHNIY moved that this Company be, and the same is, hereby dissolved. Captain LAMPET seconded the motion. Some discussion ensued on the question of dissolution or bankruptcy, and what the effect would be on the assets of the Corn pang. The motion was put to the vote, and the scrutineers hav ing made up the numbers, The CHAIRMAN declared it to be for dissolution, with out bankruptcy, 2,845 ; ' neuters, 140 ; and said that as not one-third of the shares had been represented, he adjourned the meeting to this day week, at one o'clock for two, and between this and that time that the officers of the Company would take the opinion of a profes sional man as to what position they stood in. A dissolution would put them in a worse condition for the recovering of the outstanding deposits not paid up. A vote of thanks having been moved to the Chairman, the meeting then adjourned. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room D. The members of this Committee reassembled to-day at eleven o'clock. IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S (NORWICH EXTENSION.) Mr. George B. Bidder was re-called for the purpose of answering some questions respecting the shares in the dif ferent lines of railway which he had projected in this district, which terminated the case against the Bill. Mr. Sergeant WRANSIIAM said that it then became his duty to address their Lordships such observations as might appear to him necessary to put the case before them with regard to the evidence in that light in which it should be viewed. Their Lordships laboured under a misfortune with respect to this line, which the other tribunal before whom this Bill was tried were free from, namely, that they had not had all the rival schemes before them. Had this been otherwise they would have had an opportunity of weighing in the balance with the present line some of the schemes for the same purpose which had been referred to by Mr. Bidder and the company he represented. Now it was in evidence before the Com mittee that the scheme then before them was calcu lated to give accommodation to the same district, and to afford ample remuneration to the promoters. It had been stated by Mr. Bidder yesterday that such was not the case, but that it was true of the schemes with which he (Mr. Bidder) was associated, , Mr. AUSTLN said that he was just informed that his friend, I Mr. Kidder, had received by telegraph an account that an express had arrived at Yarmouth in three hours and a half including stoppages. Mr. Sergeant Wrtaxanax said he was about to state to their Lordships what was the amount of expense that would be incurred by these rival schemes. Why, the cost of the first line was 440,000/. ; of the second line, from Thetford to Redham, 480,0001. Then there was the coast line, the Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, the capital of which was 11,960,0001. There was another line from Thetford to New market,the cost of which would be 350,000/., making a total of 2,465,0001. of share for the accommodation of that district, which, with the 40,0001. required for the establishment of a station at Norwich, and the money they would be entitled to borrow, gave altogether a sum of 3,333,0001. Such was the sum this rival Company required to gave the advantage of railway facility of transit to Norwich, Ipswich, Yarmouth, and Stowmarket. The present project would effect this object by a direct line, except with a slight deviation to accommodate the important town of Stowmarket, for a cost of little more than half a million. He should call the attention of their Lordships to a mistake which had committed by the only witness against the Bill, Mr. Bidder. That gentleman, in dealing with the question, as regarded Yarmouth, said that he was desirous in his schemes to connect the centro of Suffolk with Norfolk, whereas the point to which he alluded was not in the centre, or even the county of Suffolk. Mr. Bidder had also stated to their Lordships in his evidence that, though he did not think Yarmouth entitled to a per fectly direct line, yet that he did think it might justly re quire the second best line at the point he had mentioned, namely, Diss. Nuw, the present scheme did give that second best line. After some further observations as to the evi dence in support of the Bill, the Learned Counsel concluded by calling on the Committee to declare the preamble proved. The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN announced th a t th e pream bl e of the Bill was proved. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at the usual hour; Lord Shaftesbury in the chair. Their Lordships immediately assumed the form of a Select Committee on Merits, and proceeded to the consideration of a list of thirty-two Bills which came before them in that ca pacity. Fourteen of these were railway Bills. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON. The proof on the part of the promoters of this often ad journed Bill completed their proofs this morning, and the preamble was declared proved. SHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY AND CHESTER JUNC TION (CRICKHEATH AND WENN LINES.) SHREWSBURY, OSWESTRY AND CHESTER JUNC- TION (EXTENSION AND BRANCHES.) These Bills were again called on, and after hearing some further proofs their Lordships declared the preambles proved. A number of other Bills were part heard and adjourned. On resuming the form of a Committee on Standing Orders, their Lordships proceeded with the case of the WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH. The promoters of which Bill had complied with the stand ing orders. After part hearing one or two Bills which they adjourned till to-morrow, the Committee rose. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met to-day at Four o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The royal assent was given by Commission to the following public and private Bills. The Lords Commissioners, who arrived shortly after four o'clock, were the Earl of Minto, and Lords Cotten ham and Campbell. The following is the list of the Bills, 92 in all : Election Notices (Ireland). Dublin, Dundrum, and Enniskillen Railway. Leeds and Thirsk Railway (North-Eastern Extension, north to Hartlepool). Scottish Central Railway (Alloy Branch). London and Birmingham Railway (Camden and Euston Stations Enlargement). hgate anidJnits Branchweraigßranch).pea. vi L Sl e a e m ds an a n n a d n T ß h a ir il s w k ayl3a Railway t (St. Helen's Lion). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Knaresborough Extension) Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern June, tion Railway. Midland Railway (Erewash Branch). Midland Railway (Clay to Newark). Deeside Railway. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway. Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Cale donian Branch). Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Im provement and Branches). Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Bath gate Branch). Midland Railways (Nottingham and Mansfield Branch). East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway. Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway. Great Western and Uxbridge Railway. Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway. Great Leinster and Munster Railway (Carlow to Kil kenny). Norfolk Railway (Dereham, Wilts, and Blakeney Ex tension). Cambridge and Oxford Railway. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway. Newmarket and Chesterfield Railway. London and South -Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch). London and South-Western Railway (Chertsey and Egbam Branch). London and South-Western Railway (Hampton-court ' Branch). D E th a l s w t e a rn . Rail w ay ). Lancashire M u o n ra b y l . a s n h e ir , Donne, eaßnadßailway. yw on a ry n k. h r a e I ( e s n d o r e t r h R . Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway (Chapel Hall Brutish). a ( y D ( e c tin re y w ß st ra on n e ob ß ). ranch). LBScoorinstdttoisholnaaCennddnEtßraixiertmeßianßiglhwaisalmwy Railway (Aylesbury Railway Purchase). St. Helen's Canal and Railway. Morecombe Harbour and Railway. Wakefield and Pontefract Railway (Extension 13ranches). Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway). Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Dukinfield and other Branches). Govan Branches). (Crieff Branch). Stations). East E Glasgow, Paisley, and Gr ( e p e e n r o t c h k T ß er a m ilw iti a i y an ( d p Scottishat of F Manchester, Scottish CCeefen tti ß rrlaaa u lli x l Iwt Railway ßuxton, &c. 7 8 ). c Railway (Huy ton and War rington Branch). Mallow and Fermoy Railway. Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway. Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland (Cork Extension). Mountmellick Junction Railway. Clonmel and Thurles Railway. Glasgow and Northern Terminal Railway. K Co ii r i lt ar , n ßkock and el;cjurnctioil Railway. Railway. .e Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. Midland Railway (Burton to iNuneaton Branch and A9h an bYC d rm an ß a i lP i u ng rc h h a a m se) London Grand Junction and Manches ter and Birmingham Railways Amalgamation. Eastern Counties Railway (Epping Extension). Wishaw and Coltness Railway (Greenhill Extension). Newcastle and Berwick Railway. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway. Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Liffy Branch and Longford Deviation). Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, and Port of Goole. Dublin and Kingstown Railway. South Leith Church Bill. Chard Canal Bill. Monkton Gas Bill. Yeovil Markets and Fairs Bill. Manchester Markets Bill. Bath Waterworks Bill. Newport and Pillguynly Waterworks Bill. Bristol Waterworks Bill. Witham Navigation Acts Amendment Bill. Ardrossan Municipal Police Bill. A ston Rates Bill. Schoolmasters Widows' Fund Bill. Banffshire Roads Bill. Kidseame's (or Duddnosse's) Estate. Videan's Estate. Abbess of York's Estate. Wauchope's Estate. Dundas's Estate. Tyson's (or Cullen's) Estate. Deltenton's Estate. Mackenzie s (or Thompson's) Estate. Creagh's Divorce Bill. Curtis's Divorce Bill. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills, which were ordered to lie on the table. CORRECTION OF CLERKS BILL. The Bishop of LONDON said that, with their Lord ships' permission, he would move that the order of the day for going into Committee on this Bill be dis charged. He did so principally in consequence of the advice of his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack, to whom some of the provisions of the Bill were objec tionable, and who had promised that if the Bill were postponed, he would devote his first leisure time before the next session for the purpose of drawing up a Bill to remedy the present state of things, which every one must admit required great alteration. Unless the Church were armed with greater power for the punishment of such as were her ministers, and who had disgraced them selves, the Church, and the morality of the people, must suffer great injury. The order of the day for going into Committee on the Bill was accordingly discharged. The Bishop of NORWICH presented a petition in favour of this Bill. He was decidedly of the same opinion as his Right Rev. Friend as to the necessity of some such measure as this. He knew many instances in which clergymen of the Church, notwithstanding their awful profligacy, retained their livings, and it was almost im possible, under the present law, to dispossess them.— (Hear, hear.) Ile himself had convicted one of this sort of disreputable clergymen, but it had cost him 3501. To the honour of the clergy of his diocese he has received addressed from them, thanking him for his conduct in that case, and 1501. was raised and paid by them into the Norwich bank to defray as far as they could the expenses to which he had been put. This showed their anxiety to maintain the disci pline of the church as well as the great diffi culty and expense of punishing the guilty. Livings might be gambled for, and yet the Bishops were disabled from putting a stop to such nefarious proceedings. He did not begrudge the money that was expended in the prosecution of clerical offenders, for, in his opinion, money could not be better expended, but surely it was high time that something should be done by the Legislature to make it an easier matter than it now was to visit such offenders with just punishment. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that some Bill of the kind was necessary, but he thought it inexpedient to discuss its provisions at present. As the Bill had been session upth their i r t o h t fidmr parliament a w ri n lni a b ma y el nuthetd he proposer de r o L ob i n t us , it h d e ebre w ft o o h r u ee l d t nhoet proprietynt take t of bringing forward a Bill to carry out the intentions of the Right Rev. Prelate. The subject then dropped. PROTEST AGAINST THE CORN IMPORTATION BILL. Lord RADNOR complained of the course adopted by certain Noble Lords who had signed a protest against the Corn Bill, but who had never been in the House during the discussion of that measure. He thought the practice quite unusual and objectionable. Lord BROUGHAM thanked the Noble Lord for re ferring to the subject. The practice of voting by proxy, and protesting by proxy, was sanctioned by the Irish Parliament, but it had never been usual in the British Parliament. He thought, however, that the Noble Lord referred to had acted through inadvertence, and from not being aware of the regulations which wets obtained in their Lordships House regarding protests. ADDITIONAL BISHOPS. Lord COTTENHAM presented a petition from the clergy of the diocese of Leicester against the Bill for the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, and praying their Lordships to provide a bishop for Manchester. ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from the Archdeacon and clergy of the archdeaconcy of Oxford, against the Bill which proposes to unite the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. The Right Rev. Prelate would conclude by l a yi ng on the table the petition of the University of Oxford against the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph. Lord STRADBROKE presented a number of peti tions relating to railway Bills before the House. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the annual returns furnished by the Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. LORD GOUUII AND LORD HARDING'S AN NUITY BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the brimg ing up the report of this Bill, a n d i n d oing so prayed that the Bill be restored to its original form. He regretted that the first duty imposed on him in his present situation should b e t h e ta ki ng of the preset course, which might be construed into some thing not like due acknowledgment of the great services rendered of the illustrious individuals in question. He felt, however, the highest sense of the great services rendered, still his duty to the public and to the other House of Parliament compelled him to ask them to reconsider the decision they had given, and to place the Bill in its original form. Before asking them to take that step, it would be neces sary for him to go into the circumstances that had led to the proposal of the grant in question. He was bound to say, looking at precedents under si milar circumstances, and looking at the substance of the Bill, it seemed to him that it did confer on these distinguished individuals ade quate compensation. This was his decided view, after taking a glance at similar circumstances in the history of the country. He would only call the attention of th e House to the fact that a N o bl e Duke in that House after the battle of Talavera and a brilliant cam paign in Spain, was made a Viscount, and received a pen s i on o f 2,0001 . a year. This was c on si d ere d ade quate c om p ensat i on f or the great services rendered them, and theref ore h e t h ought the provis i ons o f th e pre sent Bill, as it or i g i nally stoood,was ample enough to meet the case o f t h e d i stinguished indiv id ua l in question. (LEFT SPEAKING.) 1 - HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. his seat as M em b er for the borough of NEW MEMBERt)S t. Mr. SLIME (Master of the Minook the oaths and Dungarvan. Lord A. PA.GET also t oo k t h e oa ths and his seat as Member fo r th e city of Lichfield. MES SAGE FROM THE LORDS. —ROYAL Sir Augustus CliffordA, the Usher of th e Black Rod, appear e d at the bar, to summon the Speaker and the House t o h ear the royal assent given to several pu b lio and priv a t e Bill s, (for which see Lords' report). The SPEAKER returned after the absenc e of half an hour, and informed the House of the Bills to which the royal assent had been given. A messenger from the Court of Chancery brought up several returns. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON On the motion of RAILWAY. Lord E. BRUCE the Manchester and Southampton Railway Bill was read a third time and passed ; as were also the following Bills :—Billings gate Market, Cambridge Improvement, and Hill's Estate Bill. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WOR CESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The report upon the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Bill was considered and agreed to. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW UNION CANAL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. SLIGO SHIP CANAL BILL, This Bill was read a third time and passed. DUBLIN WIDE STREETS BILL. Sir J. Y. BULLER brought up the report on the , Dublin Wide streets Bill. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1846. AYRSHIRE AND BRIDGE OF WEIR RAILWAY. I On the motion of Mr. DUNCAN, the Lords' Amend ments to this Bill were can Aid -rp,l and azreed to. LORDS' AMENDMENT. The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to : Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway 13i/i. I Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Rail'"; ay B;11. Buckinghamshire Railway Di 1, Gloucester and Dean Forest t aiiway Bill. Great Western and " 7 . ycombe Railway Bill. London. and Croydon Railway (Thames Junction Branch) Bill, Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway (Durham aid Sunderland Railway and Wearmouth Dock Pur chase and Branches) Bill. South Wales Railway Bill (No. 2). THE ANNEXATION OF SINDE. Mr. HUME, seeing the Right Hon. Baronet the Pre sident of the Board of Control in his place, wished to ask him a question with respect to Sinde. He wished to know if Sinde had been annexed to the British empire, as was declared by Lord Ellenborough to be tie: intention of Goverment, in the same manner in which eylon was annexed ; or whether it was to be considered as a por tion of the possessions of the East India Company ? If so, he wished to ascertain what course was to be taken by the Government, as the government of that province was altogether different from any other place in the East India Company's possessions, as it was in neither pre sidency, nor had it a civil government, but it was governed by a single officer. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said, that in answer to the question of the Hon. Member for Montrose, he begged leave to tell him that the province of Sinde was a pro vince kept by the East India Company in trnst for the Crown. The Hon. Gentleman would recollect on perusal of the papers which had been published by Lord Ellen borough with respect to Sinde, that Sinde was annexed in the usual manner by notification, and the management of it had been entrusted by Government to Sir C. Napier, who reported his proceedings to the Home Department. When his report was received, it was determined that he should continue to govern the province of Sinde in the manner which he had ex plained to them, and to that decision no dissent or disapprobation had been given by Lord Ellenborough. On account of that circumstance, the province continued to be administered to by Sir C. Napier in a manner which was, as the Hon. Member had said, totally dif ferent from the manner in which the other provinces of India were governed. He believed that in the month of July, 1844, the Court of Directors of the East India Company addressed a communication to the Governor-General of India, and advised him to propose for their consideration a plan for the civil and military administration of the pro vince of Sinde, in conformity with the usual prac tice in such cases. In consequence of the important matters which had to come under their considera tion with respect to the affairs of the Punjaub, and also several other weighty matters, the Governor- General had not seat any plan, as he had been advised by the Court of Directors. In December of the same year the Secret Committee made a similar communica tion to the Governor-General with respect to the expe diency of governing Sinde like other provinces ; but the Governor-General, up to the month of June in this present year, had not returned any answer, nor sent to any place. He could inform his Honourable Friend, that on the 24th of June (that was June last), timilar orders had been sent out to to the Governor- General with regard to the annexation and government of Sinde. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN wished to ask the Hon. Member for Montrose, whether, with regard to the discusion on the Charitable Trusts Bill, which came on yesterday, he (Mr. Hume) had any objection to place on the votes of the House the clause as amended? Mr. HUME said he would do it on Wednesday next. MINISTERIAL POLICY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I stated that I would to day give notice to the House the general course of policy which it is the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment to pursue with respect to those Bills before the House, and I will do so in moving the consideration of the order of the day. On Monday I will state to the House the policy which it is the intention of the Go vernment to pursue with respect to the sugar duties. I will then unfold the plan we con sider ought to be adopted, after which I propose to adjourn the further consideration of the question until to-morrow week (Friday). It is now late in the session to lose time, and I will make as little delay as possible ; at the same time I propose a short Bill for the continu ance of the sugar duties for one month, or until Parlia ment shall otherwise approve.—(Hear.) With regard to the Poor-law Removal Bill, I have; already stated my general views respecting it to the House, and what is further proposed to be done will be stated by the Secre tary for the Home Department. The next Bill before the House is the Drainage Bill. Some Members of the Government will undertake the care of that Bill, with the hope of carrying it through. The next are the Bills brought in by the late Chief Secretary for Ireland—one of the most important of these Bills, the Ejectment Bill, it is our intention to adopt with some slight alterations, preserving especially that clause which prevents the seiaure of growing crops: We also propose to proceed with the Lease Bill ; but with respect to the Tenants' Compensation Bill, we find the machinery so exceedingly complicated that we will postpone it for further consideration. There are some other Bills affecting Ireland, regarding which the Chief Secretary for Ireland (Mr. Labouchere) will be able to answer whatever questions will be put to him. There are some Bills which are now in the House of Lords ; one of them is called the Small Debt: - Bill, which is a Bill similar to the one which has been in troduced by the former Gcvernment, and which has been repeatedly before Parliament. The present Government entirely approve of the general purport of that Bill, and although it is a Bill of great length, containing many provisions, they do hope that they will be enabled to obtain the sanction of Parliament to it during the present session, as it is a measure of very great importance. There is another Bill, which likewise is at present in the House of Lords, which the Government do not propose to take into their own hands unless necessary, but which I trust will obtain the assent of Parliament—it is called the Religious Opinions Bill. That Bill was introduced by a member of the late Government, in the name of the Government, and, therefore, is a Government Bill. I trust that the author of that Bill will continue to take charge of it; but if he should not do that, some mem ber of the present Government will then propose that Bill in its present shape. There are many other Bills which are not of great importance, which we propose to go on with. With respect to other measures pro posed to be introduced I will not give any detailed notice. I will only say that, looking at the improve ment of waste lands in Ireland as a subject of the greatest importance, we shall endeavour to introduce a preparatory measure ; and it it is ne cessary to ask the aid of Parliament for any measure of that kind, we shall do so this session. At all events we shall endeavour to take steps between this time and the next session for the introduction of some measure on the subject. These are the general statements I have to make, and I beg to move that the orders of the day be now read. POOR REMOVAL BILL. On the order of the uay for proceeding with this Bill being read, Mr. E. DENISON, who was for some time inaudible from the noise which prevailed after the Noble Lord sat down, was understood to say that the Poor Removal Bill would cause great injury and great inconvenience in many parts of the country. He begged leave to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman the., Secretary for the Home Department whether irremovability or settlement was contemplated by the Bill. He was sure it would not meet with the approbation of the Hon. Member for Finsbury to grant irremovability without settlement. The word irremovability was a word not to be found in any dictionary, and it related to a condition of life not to be found in any law-book. Before that word could have penetrated the understandings of half the com munity? it might have to be swept totally away. He (Mr. E. Denison) thought it right to tell the Noble Lord at the head of the Government that there was one remark able deficiency and one great defect in his administration; there was one great thing wanting, and that was a want of adequate representation of the landed interest of this country. He said the great towns were amply and powerfully represented. The law was represented more than it deserved—(Laughter)—but he l ooked in vain i for any powerf u l p art i es to represent t h e nterests of the land. In th e G overnment were t h e representatives of London, Manchester, Halifax, Nottingham, Sheffield, Devonport, and Edinburgh ; and when he named Edinburgh, he would not do justice to his own feelings if he did not mention the Hon. Member for that city (Mr. Macaulay), not less celebrated for his great talents than for his upright and noble conduct—an ornament to an Administration. But he looked in vain for any re presentatives of the land. There was Lord Lansdowne, an owner of land in England, and also in Ireland ; there was Lord Grey and Lord Morpeth—(Hear, hear)—but Lord Morpeth had his character as a representative of land in the manufacturing interests of the West. Riding, and in the membership of the League.—(Laughter.) He said, Lord Grey, in pressing on the abolition of the corn-laws, had said that land rents would rise from fifteen to twenty per cent.—(Hear, and laughter) —a n d he could o n ly b e regar d e d as a sanguine prophet.— (Laughter.) When that had occurred he might rise into credit; but he (Mr. Denison) did not think, that at the present moment especially, he represented either their interests or their views. As for the Mem ber for Halifax (Mr. C. Wood), he was no representative of the land by his own address, and he (Mr. Denison) found him applauded in the newspapers as the represen tative of the manufacturing interests of the West Riding, and the repealer of the tax on wool. If this Was a de fect in any Administration, it was so particularly at the present moment, when the landed interest had received a rude shock from the hands of those from whom it had least reason to expect it. The landowners required to be conciliated towards the measure which had lately passed. If at any ti me i t was a defect in a Ministry that it did not represent the landed interest of the country, it was particu larly so at this time. No person could say that he was one who wished for anything lik e exclusive privileges, for on a former occasion, when exclusive pri• vileges were sought to be afforded . to the land, h e h a d thrown his neigh& into the oppos ite Kale, gad h o d boo denounced as faithless among the faithful. At the present moment the landed interest had no quarter to which to look for receiving a due attention to their interests, while questions seriously affecting there were about to be brought forward questions upon which they would feel deeply ; there was the Law of Settlement Bill, the Highway Rates Bill, the Turnpike Trusts, and other Bills affecting the question of local taxation. He begged leave to tell his Noble Friend that if his Administration was to last, it must be by its mea sures ; that it would last, and that the defect in his Ministry to which he had alluded, he was sorry to say was one of such a nature as to prevent him giving it that degree of confidence which he would otherwise have been happy to afford. Colonel WOOD thought that the Hon. Member who last addressed the House should have allowed the Noble Lord to state the course which he intended to pursue before he had attempted to find fault with his Ministry. He thought that his Hon. Friend was somewhat mis taken iu the view he had taken of the division of the Poor-law Removal Bill. The question of settlement was one which was not proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the late administration, when he first announced the measure. It was a Bill merely to prevent the removal of paupers. The clause affecting the settlement of the poor was introduced afterwards by the Honourable Member for Maldon (Mr. E. Denison) himself. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he took the liberty a few evenings ago to put a question to the Noble Lord as to the principles upon which the Government was to be conducted. That q ue sti on h a d exc i te d irritation in the Noble Lord's mind, but it was a question which the country would require to have answered. Let them look at the state of the House at present. Nobody knew where to sit.—(Laughter.) Sitting on the same side with the Noble Lord were those who had hitherto been his bitterest enemies. The reason of this was, as he understood, that they had been informed that none but the extremes would be dissatisfied. Now this required explanation. Every Prime Minister in coming, into office had stated the principles on which he intended to act. The Noble Lord had said that he should conduct the Government on the principles which he had hitherto adopted. Now, who could put a right construction upon that ? Nobody knew what it meant. To what period of his life did the Noble Lord allude ? Had he said, I shall act on the principles of Lord Grey's Government, he (Mr. Duncombe) would have understood him. Then there was another question. Had not the Noble Lord applied to Sir Robert Peel to lend him three distin guished members of the late Government ?—(A laugh.) Now he (Mr. Duncombe) wished to krow if such ap plication had been made. If the Noble Lord were to go to Guildhall now his reception would not be so gratifying as it was a few days ago.—(Disappro bation.) Why, let the Noble Lord try it.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Duncombe) had seen some of the Noble Lord's constituents that morning, hnd one of them said he was afraid they were going to have the old Whig dodge again. He read at the time a statement made in a paper called the Weekly Chronicle, which was composed with great ability, as everything which proceeded from the pen of his Hon. Friend the St cretary of the Admiralty, was written with great ability.—(Loud laughter.) He read that ten days ago. It stated that there could be nothing more absurd than the rumours which had been circulated, and were hourly circulated about the new Ministry. Every hour had its lie, and every lie its believer. That was one of their crotchets. They could comprehend the crotchet of a Peel mania, a Sid ney Herbert mania, and a Lord Granville Somerset mania. If there was to be a fusion of parties to make a Government, let them have Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Gra ham, and they would then have something for their money. —(Laughter.) The Sun also had its rumours. The Sun says, " We eannot conceive a system of Irish ge vernment, in which Lord Lincoln is the confidential agent." They heard this as an absurd rumour in which there was not a word of truth. The Times also be comes the confidential organ of the Government. Would any man in that House say that they were not entitled to an explanation ? The country whose desti nies the Government was about to direct were also en titled to some explanation from them—(Hear, hear) — and he therefore did expect that the Noble Lord would have been anxious to hare stated the principles on which he intended to conduct the Government. He (Mr. Duncombe) wanted to know what were the in tentions of the Government. The Noble Lord had re moved part of the difficulty, because he had told the House that he meant to conduct his Government upon the principles that he had always advocated, and the opinions he had always expressed. Well, then, he (Mr. Duncombe) also wanted to know what were the intentions of the Noble Lord with regard to the Irish Church?—(Hear, hear.) What were the opinions of the Noble Lord with respect to the Irish Church last year. His (Mr. Duncombe's) Honourable Friend the Member for Sheffield (Mr. Ward), moved upon the discussion of the Maynooth Bill, " That it is the opinion of this House that any provi sions to be made for that purpose by the present Bill ought to be taken from the funds already applicable to ecclesiastical purposes in Ireland." Now the Noble Lord su pp or t e d an d voted for that motion. Well, then, he wished to know whether that was to be the principle upon which the Government was to be di rected on that subject ?—(Hear, hear.) Let the House know what was the Governments intention. The Noble Gentleman opposite, of the country party, who had a dinner the other day at Greenwich, (Great laughter)—declared, amidst cheers which shook the House in which they met to its foundations, that their principles were the same in 1846 as they were in 1841.—(Great cheering from the Protectionists.) But he should like to know what were their principles in 1841.—k Laughter, and cheers.) Did they not in 1841 come to a resolution that the Goveanment of that time had no confidence in that House, and that her Majesty should be prayed to appoint a new.Ministry?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) A n d y et , were they not now support ing that very Government in whom they, in 1841, declared they had no confidence.—(Cries of " No, no," from the Protectionists.) They did support them, or why did they sit on the same benches. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) COMMONS SUMMARY. In reply to Mr. T. DUNCOMRE, --- Lord J. RUSSELL stated that it was true that he had offered Lord DRLHOUSIE, Lord LINCOLN, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, places in his Government, because for the last five years they had been gradually approaching towards his opinion ; but he should not have done so had they maintained the opinions which they had ex pressed in 1841. He thought it was sufficient if the Members of a Ministry agreed in general principles without insisting that every Member of the Ministry should agree upon any question which should be brought before Parliament. For instance, he did not agree with Earl GREY in every opinion which he entertained with regard to the Irish Church. With retard to Ireland, he considered the social grievances of that country called for an im mediate remedy, and he and his colleagues were prepared to propose measures which would afford not perhaps an immediate remedy, but which would produce bs•neficial effects, so that, in the course of ten years, the social condition of Ireland would be greatly improved With regard to the franchises of Ireland, he did not imagine that the question of the franchise was one of small consideration. He thought that possession of the franchise elevated a man in his own opinion, and in that of his neighbours, and he was, therefore, prepared to propose fur the people of Ireland an enjoyment of the franchise equal to that possessed by the people of England. [LIFT erzAEINO•J ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD C l RCUlT.—Oxford, July 15. CRO , YN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Ma tILE. ) Jane Cross, aged 30, was indicted for having on the Bth of May last, feloniously set fire to and burned down a certain dwelling-house, at Shipton.under•Wy c h woo d , with intention to injure Elizabeth Cross and Thomas Lee. Mr. Dowdeswell conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Pigott and Mr. Huddlestone defended the prisoner. For some time back, it would seem, there had been dis putes between the husband of the prisoner (who was, how ever, indicted as a single woman, there being another indict ment for the same crime against her husband) and his mother respecting the dwelling-house in question, which was her property. Some time since there was an attempt made by Mrs. Cross to dispossess the prisoner's husband, and to turn him and the prisoner out of the house. The parties who aided in so doing were indicted for the forcible entry and convicted. The house in question had been, it appeared, mortgaged by Mrs. Cross_ to a Mr. Lee, an attorney. A n ac tion of ejectment was brought, and judgment having b een obtained, a writ of possession was sued out and placed in th e hands of Whitelock, an officer of the Sheriff of Oxford, to be executed. He proceeded on the Bth of May last, about e l e ven o'clock in the morning, to the prisoners house, and afterwards left it, and returned soon in eompany of a con stable named Franklin, and his own servant, North. On going back, he saw Cross in the garden, and the prisoner at the first-floor window of the house, the door of which was locked. The window was open, and she continued at it while he was talking to her husband. He asked the pri soner's husband to deliver up possession, butsthe latter re plied that he would sooner die than do it. Whitelock went to a carpenter, leaving North and Franklin at the house, to borrow an axe and a pair of pincers. On his return he called out to Cross, asking whether he was still in the same mind ; he made no answer, but the prisoner said from the window, " Don't let them in, let them break in." Whitelock immediately called to Franklin, sayin g , He does not mean to open the door, or to make any resistance," and then proceeded to draw out the staple by which the door was fastened, and at the moment heard some one cry out " The house is on fire." He looked up, but the prisoner was not at the window. Having forced the door, he went in, but did not, owing to the flames, go up stairs. He went in search of a back door, but found none, neither did he see any one in the house. Franklin noticed th a t as they were breaking in the prisoner was at the window, though, when the fire broke out, which was in about a minute after they began to force the door and break the window, she was gone from it. When she came out she denied any knowledge of the cause of the fire. The house was burned, and 100/. damage done, which, however, the Royal Exchange Assurance Com pany paid to Mr. Lee. The prisoner and her husband fol lowed the trade of shoemaking, and one of the implements of that business is a sort of iron tool inserted in a wooden handle, and called a " polisher." To make use of this tool it must first be heated in a candle or the fire, and then applied to the leather; and so frequently is the handle set on fire in this operation that it is always covered with a tin plate. That produced in court had its handle completely converted into charcoal by the action of the fire and heat to which it had been subjected. It was urged for the prisoner that it was most probable that this tool had just been taken from the fire when the first alarm of the attempt to eject the family was given ; that she or her husband might have been at work, and that in the fright of the moment it was thrown either on a bed or on the floor, and that the weather having been previously both hot and dry, the result had been that the wood of the floor, or the bed, ignited. The prisoner was seen at the window till within a minute of the cry Of use, And that gry Ofiteita Mai Wake het IWO it 11 effect her escape. It was contended that all her words, "Le them break in," meant was, Let them do as they did befor and we can indict and punish them for their act. It was most improbable that she would risk her own life and destroy her own property by committing the crime alleged. The Learned Judge summed up, and, in a minute, the jury Acquitted the prisoner. There was applause in court, which was instantly sup pressed. (Before Mr. Sergeant GAZELER. A PRIZE. Flour— Wm. Gi ll and Thomas Oliver surren dered to take their trials on a charge of riot, and of assault ing, on the 12th of May last, George Hall alias George Norley, in a prize-fight, and for other misdemeanours, in the parish of Shipton-under-Wvchwood. Mr. Keating and Mr. Phillimore appeared for the prosecu tion, and Mr. J. J. Williams conducted the case for the de fendants. By an arrangement made by the gentlemen of " the ring," who appear to have patronised this county of late, a contest for the "championship of the light weights" was to take place at Northleigh, for 2501. a side. The heroes who were to struggle for the honour above-named, and the trifling pe cuniary advantag es a tt ac h e d to it, were William Gill, of Coventry, and George Hall. Some intimation of the pro posed " passage of arms" having reached the authorities, A constable went to the spot, and thus the contest was pre vented there ; but the combatants repaired to Witty-green, near Ramsden, where the fight actually came off. The county magistrates determined not to let the pugilists escape so easily, caused indictments to be preferred against the de fendants William Gill, John Brown, and Henry Brown, twa worthies of "the fancy," and who appear to have made themselves very conspicuous in the matter, and also against the ringkeeper or " commissary," Thos. Oliver, the other de fendant. For a very strange reason (when the administration of justice is concerned) no proceedings were taken against Morley, it being considered that as he lived somewhere in the north, it would cost a great deal to follow, apprehend, and bring him to Oxford to take his trial. There were present at. this fight upwards of 1,000 persons, who appear, except as regarded huzzaing and shouti ng , to have behaved in an or derly manner. The constable said that there were maul vehicles there, and several "good imitations of ladies and gentlemen."—(Laughter.) He also identified the defendants. Other witnesses confirmed the evidence of the constable. At this stage of the case, Mr. J. J. WILLIAMS said be should advise the defendants to withdraw their pleas and plead guilty. His LORDSHIP, having first conferred with Mr. Justice Maule, said, that without going the length of saying that all parties present at a prize-fight as spectators were equally guilty with the principals, yet this he would say, that if any of the gentlemen assisting at such a lawless transaction as this had been brought before him, he should have made most severe examples of them. The defendants had committed an offence of by no means a light character; but that of which those gentlemen were guilty who had stimulated them en was much more grave in its nature. He should deal leniently with the defendants, and should therefore order them to be imprisoned for three weeks, and at the ter mination of the imprisonment to enter into their own re cognizances of 1001. to keep the peace for one year. The business of the county has this day terminated. The commission will be opened at Worcester on Friday (to morrow). fHE SILVER MINES OF MEXICO- The following anecdotes of the secrecy with which the Indians of Mexico preserve the knowledge of the silver mines with which their country abounds are told by a German traveller :—The Indians have discovered that,their silver mines have made their condition rather worse than better. They determine, therefore, to keep secret their knowledge of some rich veins of silver not yet explored by Europeans. Traditions of these mines have been handed down, it is supposed, from father to son, through centuries. E ven b ran d y, w hi c h w ill o pen, the Indian's mouth on any other subject, fails in this case. A few years ago, there lived, in the large village of Huancayo, the brothers Don Jose and Don Pedro Irriarte, who were among the wealthiest mine proprie tors of Peru. As they had reason to suspect the exist ence of rich unexplored veins among the neighbouring hills, they sent out a young man in their employ to examine the country, and use the likeliest means of discovery. Accordingly, he repaired to a village where he found lodgings in the hut of an Indian shepherd, from whole he concealed his object. In the course of a few months, an attachment had grown up between the y ou ng ad venturer and the shepherd's daughter ; and, at last, the young man succeeded so far in his object as to win froze the girl a promise that she would point out to him the mouth of a rich silver mine. She directed him to follow her, at some distance, ma a certain day when shs should go out to tend her flock on the hills ; and to notice where she dropped her' manta,' (woollen shawl). There she told him, he would find the entrance of the mine. The young ngent obeyed her directions ; and after some digging, found his way i n t o a mo d erately deep sha ft, which led to a rich vein of silver. He was busily engaged in breaking off some specimens of the ore, w hen he was surprised by the old shepherd, who con' gratulated him on the discovery, and offered assistance. After working together for some hours, they rested: and the Indian offered to the young man a cup of chic* which he drank. Soon after drinking, he felt unwell ; and, as a suspicion of being poisoned flashed upon ble mind, he instantly packed the specimens of ore in hiS wallet, hastened back to the village, and thence rode t° Huancayo. He had only time to explain his adventure to his employers, and point out, as well as he could, the locality of the mine ; for he died in the night. Ai l " other exploring p ar t y was immediately sent into th e neighbourhood, b ut w i thout success : the Indian and h IS family had vani s h e d f rom the place, - and no trace of th e mine could be discovered. Another story is the following : A certain Franciscan monk, a passionate gambl er slived at Huan cayo . B y his friendly offices he bed" n come a favou r it e among t h e Indiana, to w i,„ zu he o f te n applied when in wan t o f money. One day, when li e had suffered losses at the hazard-table, he begged of an Indian, who was his relative, to help him out of hie poverty. The Indian promised assistance on the folloi ing evening, and arr i ve d punctua ll y at the appoin t ed time, with a bag full of silver ore for the monk. Tb o process was repeated several times, until the still need/ . monk earnestly prayed th a t h e m i g h t b e favoured wit° a view of the source from which his wants had been so often supplied. This request also was granted by the friendly relative; and, accordingly, on the appointed night, three Indians came to the house of the Franciscan—desired that he would allow them to bandage his eyes—and, he es' sensing, carried him away, on their shouldersr some miles along the mountains. There, they lifted bi' • down—conducted hi m d own a shaft of considerable depth —and displayed to him a rich and shining vein of silver. When he had amply feasted his sight, and • had taken ore enough for his present necessities, his eyes were again bandaged, and he was carried home on the shoulders of his guides. On the road, he slily 'untied his rosary ; and dropped a bead here and there, that be might have a clue to the mine. Arrived at home, be lay down to rest, in the comfortable hope of exploring the path to wealth on the following day; but in the course of about two pours, the Indian his relative: came to the door, with his hand full of bead ' s—" Father, said he, as he gave them to the monk, "you l o st your rosary on the road 1" RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 15. STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are --Bristol and Exeter, New, 9% —Caledonian, New, S —Great Western, Quarter Shares, 233 i Midland, New, 39%. , MANCHESTER, JULY 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Eastern Junction, I% dis.-Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, 320• dis.- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, burn, Chorley, and Liverpool, I% dis.-Chelmsford and Bury, 160• 6d. dis.- Clitheroe Junction, h dis.-Derby and Crewe, 3% c. P. -- Derby, Stafford, &c., 1% dis.-Eastern Counties, New, 7% p.- York Extension, 1% p. -East Lincolnshire, % db.-Exeter and Exmouth, % dis.-Grand Union, I6s. dis.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield Extension, 2 dis.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 250• dia.- Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 14 p.-Liverpool, Preston , Manchester. and Southport, 19s. dis.-Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, % p.-Manchester and Birmingham, Quartet". ) (A), 10 p.-Ditto, Quarters (B), 10 p.-Ditto. Quarters (C), -Manchester and Leeds Extension, 2% P.-Manchester, Midland, l ip n . c - ti O on id , h B ana g. 9,d8 d ir is k . e_nh s e h a r d op , s t i c r . e , and Grimsby, 21s. dis.-North Staftordshlre, 3 1-16 C. p.-Nnrth ‘ Union, d Wales, Mineral, New, 1 k p•-North Western, % dis.-North and and Li M :c n ol li n ei shi d' re south-Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 9-16 P.-West Mint Union, 214 p. 34Shdietfis.ell LEEDS, JULY 15. STOCK ExCHANGE.-The sales are -Eastern Counties, York Ex. - ' tension, 295. p. -E ast Lancashire, 4% p.-Great Grimsby an d Sher field, Quarter Sh ares, 195. dis.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6/. 165. p.-Leeds and Bradford, 40 p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, Branches, ss. p. -Leeds and Thirsk, dis. - Manchester and Leeds Extension!! 2/. 3s. 6d. p.-Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 1 0 " is. 3d. p.-North British, Carlisle B ranc h, 22 5. p.-Oxford, Worces ter, and Wolverhampton, 5 dis.-York and North Midland, E Eas t 4 and West Riding, 12% p.-Clith eroe J unction, 18s. 6d. dia.- as and West Yorkshire, 225. dia.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 27 and dia.-Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 18s. 6d. dia.-Leioes v ter York,._ . a a n n e d h e L s t e e e r d , 2, Buxton,22. d 5 orin Bedford, skirk l , O a s n . dd Preston,s . Ma 43 . Midland, 13s. p.-North Staffordshire, 3 1 4 p.-North Western, dig.- South Midland, 9s. dis.-West Riding Union, 4%. -ne 1 2 n ; a . are - Caledonian Quarter SHEFFIELD, JULY 15. on, 20s. Shares, 20s. 6d. dia.-East Lincolnshire, 155, d i a. - Sheffield and Lin ' .-Liverpool, and dis S .-Grimsby S t ei tensi are o - n, 31s. comshire, 12a. 6d. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY 15. STOCK Excusztox.-The sales are-Caledonian Extension 19s. and 199. 6d. dia.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1 p,-Lancashire No p. h Weat rt Yorks ßidin hire, g Union, 214 p 215. dis.-N ew castie and Ber w i c k (North Shields ) , -. % 10 HULL, Jay 15, STOCK EXCILiNoz.-The Sales are - North British, Half Shama. 12 1 4 -Ditto, Carlisle, 465. 9d . - Chelmsford and Bury, 125.-Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 15s. Chelmsford and and Bedford, 12g. 6d. "-- Melton and Driflield Junction, 485 . - Manchester, Buxton, and Mat lock, 21. 165.-North Western, !,( dis.-North Staffordshire, 51.105. 6d -South Mialand, 85. 6d. dis.-Weat Riding Union, 41. 95. cd. YORK, JULY 15. &Veit EXCILiNon.-The sales are-Clltheroe Junction, U. 131.--- Eastern Canines, York Extension, 2-Great North of England, Nei" 43-Leicester and Bedford, 138.-London and York, 1 1 ,i- Manors and Driffield Junction, 21. 75. -Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and 3lidland, 2/. 145. 6d.-Newcastle and Darlington, New. -North British, Carlisle Extension, 21. &1.-North Staffordshire, 5 - York and North Midland, East and West Riding Extension, lad, 1 lg„ BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., in Guernsey, the wife of Captain Mann, Royal Engineers, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., Mrs. Puzey, of Surrey-square, Old Kent road, of a son. On the 10th inst., at GoitrewenlHouse, Calgarthenshire, the wife of Dr. John Morgan Hopkins, M.D., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at York House, C roydon, the wife of J. G. Maud, Esq., of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Clapham, the lady of Major William Soltau Pil:ans, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 9th inst., at Whitburn, near Sunderland, the Venerable George Bland, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne, and Vicar of Eglingbam, Northumberland, to Frances Sybel, eldest (laughter of the Rev. J. Collinsen, Rector of Boldon, Durham. On the 14th inst., at Titchfield, Hants, the Rev. Walter Maude Cosser, M.A., to Sophia p ugusta Leroux, only daughter of Major Thomas Wilson, of that place. DIED. On the sth inst., the Rev. Isaac Bridgman, M.A., minister of St. John's Chapel, West -street, Walworth, aged 57. On the 7th inst., Amelia. fourth daughter of the late Rev. T. H. Walpole, Vicar of Winslow, Bucks. On the 13th inst., in Red Lio n - square , El eanor, the infant daughter of W. M. Armstrong, Esq. London: Printed and Published by AILTRDO YOUNG, of No. lig,. Strand, Printer, at The Sun °nice, N 0.11 2, S trand, in the Precinct of the Sayey, in the Conner of DildcUesex. mummy, ;ids 10, 1140. O r" h et and : h l iti - x 0 0, 11 11 ) 4 : 11 4: li 1( DA I'DAY S g, • 4441, 41.1% ARK DA 813 $ 1) A ' 4 ,6, 7, YS : tod 7 gi b tkr ",..—To, m" "".; Sal ot (ton, 9clrakeL, fwtr or litketo. 1, 11. 15 *IT. Monk; L o O , TI t he b 4t a klkin g -4 ; oxi kr 114 , n boo ;ti'l: l lCkf Itol: 11 etirl b,„ 44 6 t e d HA Ltcrr o lit3 e~ the l4 :h te j;i!log for 7, 7r J . Oate thGLeStlit NI-7.4:year .It, 41%:_ltrar lo th e b t i l r len the Q$ tOt tt4:eoa4t Nll len 01111 841 0 .. Th "lit&ild rit • t e cry cr tio Prow ra 3 ;!. di' Otit of 61 ' 4 ,7 4 0, 0 4 t tt„ l tt,_ b to th `lin e Chair 41 it t ,,._ 84 Mon v io —ulved given t o ...attEt e Si t gne ed at xtl ison Z t ' ll ; , e hel d vl r o u l stal. tt for -.t o'cloc Trans Cult the oPelie 1 301 of ••::_? 4 cion Ti CRIES' 'Co b The itANY )1,:lt1 Low] The AM" Tai l And 11ad Itu t For Thei Itec: Abul ThiS Trill And For Do The ILO; Just env lo,„4,tzroartwai pare thh tyeiy A* 9p r , Nib • ik tb o , 9.64 "tt eat 1•171 y: 1 4t1 Val ••z