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which he bad consented to produce were laid upon the table of the House, the Noble Lord would have an oppor tunity of seeing the grounds on which the opinion of his Majesty's Government had been formed. Mr. MACLEAN wished to know from the Noble Lord . whether it was his intention, when he laid those papers on the table, to enter into any explanations with regard to the progress which Russia was making in the East? Mr. ROEBUCK hoped, as he had applied for the pro shit:Aim) of the papers, that the Bon. Gentleman would allow him to bri.ig the subject of Russian influence in the East forwird. lie thought that the Gentlemen on his side of the House were as well able to discuss the subjet as the Hon. Gentlemen opposite. Lord PA LMERSTON said that all he meant to do was to lay the papers on the table of the House ; but ;t was not his intention to make any motion.—(A laugh.) Mr. MACLEAN said that, as time pressed, he hoped the Noble Lord would give as little delay as potsible to the production of those papers. Lord PALMERSTON—As soon as they are prepared they s h a ll be laid on the table of the House ; certainly no li.mccessary delay shall be given. POOR LAWS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Poor Law (Ireland) Bill, Mr. BERNAL in the chair. The Otith clause having been put, Mr. 'BARRON said that by this clause no more than 12 acres of land could be attached td any workhouse, and he conceived Pitch a limitation to be objectionable, and therefore wished a discretionary power on the subject to be vested in the hands of the Comm i s sioners. Landlords in Ireland were indifferent towards their tenantry, and did not bestow the same attention on improvements that they did in this country. On this account that which would be a good argument in this country respecting this plan, would have a very different effect in Ireland. The Honourable Member concluded by moving an amendment, to the effect of au thorising the Commissioners to increase—accord..' to cir cumstances—the quantity of land to be attached to c_ach workhouse. Lord J. RUSSELL had no obection to yield to the amendment of the Honourable Member. Whilst he made this acquiescence in the propositions of the Honourable Member, he wished to be understood as being averse from the Commissioners becoming the general employers of la .bour in Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL recommenled that the land at tached t. each workhouse should not exceed twenty acres. He trusted that no attempt would be made in Ireland to make pauper labour profitable. Mr. LYNCH concurred with the Hon. Member for Kil kenny, but thought the power of the Commissioners ought to be exended to fifty acres. Mr. O'BRIEN trusted that the Noble Lord would not concur in any amendment that would have the effect of li miting the power of the Commissioners as respected the quantity of land. Mr. LEN NARD thought the amendment vicious in principle. Mr. HUME would be very sorry if the Noble Lord consented to allow the Commissioners to occupy land be yond a limited extent. He objected to mixing up Irish absenteeism with the question of Irish poor-laws. He did not believe that absenteeism produced as much evil as was represented. He thought the example of the Netherlands ought to teach the Noble Lord the impolicy of giving to the Commissioners the power sought to be given to them by this amendment. Mr. P. SCROPE wished to know what was the nature of any ultimate plan of emigration that might be contem plated, or whether such was contemplated? Colonel JONES said that instead.of making the quantity of land more than it was at present it ought to be made less. It could not be intended to make labour in the work houses productive, and on that account he did not see the use of increasing the quantity of land. Mr. O'CONNELL concurred in the opinion of the Hon. and 'Gallant Member. He trusted the Noble Lord would re-consider his decision. The operation on the pro posed amendment would be highly injurious. Mr. BARRON said that his proposition seemed to be completely misunderstood and perverted. He merely meant that it would be judicious to give the Commissioners the lower of employing the two or three hundred labourers in the workhouse in reclaiming the lands surrounding the building. The experiment might be commenced on a small scale if approved of. He did not desire to make the Com missioners the employers of the whole nation. He merely meant that the men relieved should make some return for the assistance given them. He must repeat it—he only desired to allow the Commissioners the power, if they deamed proper of employing the persons whom they assisted. Mr. S. CRA WFORD said that the clause gave un limited power to the Commissioners to build workhouses, without, however, giving ont-of-door relief. This was not the assistance that the poor of Ireland required. He maintained that no poor law could be of utility which did not react on the landlords, and force them to give employ ment to the great mass of the people. Mr. BERNAL here called to the recollection of the Hon. Member that he was wandering from the point under consideration. Mr. S. CRAWFORD should, after the clause was dis posed of, move, as an amendment, that out-of-door relief was necessary for the poor of Ireland. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the Hon. Member for Waterfor4 seemed to desire that the experiment of giving a certain power to the Commissioners of increasing the land attached to each workhouse should be tried. He could assure the House that wherever the experiment had been tried in England it had totally failed. He was of opinion that 12 acres, the quantity assigned to each work house in Ireland, was amply sufficient, and he should op pose any amendment for giving a discretional power to the Commissioners. Mr. RICHARDS felt it his duty to oppose the amendment. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it better to leive the clause as it stood at first. Mr. BARRON declared it to be his intention to divide the House. The Gallery was then cleared, and there appeared— For the clause For the amendment 3 Majority Mr. RICHARDS was of opinion that the workhouse system Would not be a proper test in Ireland of the extent of destitution. The Hon. Member proposed as an amend ment, that workhouses should be built within every eight miles square for the relief of the destitute poor, but that no able-bodied paupers should be permitted to lodge within the walls. Mr. LUCAS trusted the Committee would not sanction a proposition so fraught with mischief as that of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough. The result of its adoption would be to make morality cheap and easy.—(Hear.) . Mr. O'CONNELL would make Dublin - the test of a general and compulsory provision for eight millions of people. The population of Dublin was 240,000, and the Mendicity Association expended about 9,0001. per annum. What would be the amount in this standard of calculation of provision for the pauperism of eight millions ? But then this was not the entire, for the expenditure on the poor of Dublin by Government grants, by the bounty of other vo luntary institutions, by collections amongst the various con gregations, raised the amount expended on pauperism in Dublin to upwards of 100,0001. As to the plan of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough, it was a novel one in-. deed. Why, the Hon. Gentleman seemed as if he intended to convert the workhouses into a species of club, where the paupers went to breakfast, and dine, and might then go out to pass the evening.—(Laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman, amongst other provisions for his club, ought to have inclu ded the morning papers.—(Renewed laughter.) It was ludicrous to have the time of the Committee occupied in discussing such idle and futile propositions. • Mr. RICHARDS did not envy the feelings of one who could treat so lightly, and in such a strain. the poverty and distress of his poorer countrymen. It ill became the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny, seeing the source from whence he derived his income—(" Oh, oh," from the Minis terial benches)—to give way to merriment upon such a sub ject.—(" Oh, oh.") He would not be beaten down by the assumptive tone which the Hon. and Learned Member as sumed in that House—(" Hear, hear," and " Oh, oh")—a tone and manner which excited the indignation and scorn of the country.—(Confusion, cries of " Oh, oh," and laughter, mingled with cries of " Order.") The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had dared to speak of and act towards him in a manner which he would not have ventured upon, had he not been under the protection of some vow. • Mr. D. BROWN rose to order. The Hon. Gentleman was certainly exceeding the usual Parliamentary language. Mr. RICHARDS (lid not feel that lie went beyond what the language and bearing used towards him warranted, but he would submit to the decision of the Speaker. The SPEAKER said that. the language of the Hon. ' Gentleman was not Parliamentary. Mr. RICHARDS, on being so informed, would, of course, retract it. He then referred to a speech made by the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny, in 1828, in which the Hon. and Learned Member, then an advocate for a compulsory Poor-rate, said that, though he was for merly opposed to such a measure, he now saw its necessity, and he would adfocate the cause with all the ardour of a renegade, ati:l that no man could be a Christian who did riot advocate the measure.—(Cheers and laughter.) Yet now the Hon. Member was always talking of voluntary charity, and about drying up the sources of itidiOdual bounty. Was the Hon. and Learned Gentleman now to be looked upon in the light of a double-distilled renegade? —(Laughter.) Notwithstanding what had been so fairly and temperately urged by the Hon. Member for Monaghan his (Mr. Richards's) opinion had not been altered. • Lord J. RUSSELL deprecated any discussion as to the vneral principle of to a proposition for affording 2._ to remain at their homes. It had been . try and proved a failure. Even the mere sustel.... with idleness ‘vas.preferred to labour by persons who we.- able but unwilling to work. Mr. HAMILTON hoped the Hon. Member for Knares borough would not press his amendment. The amendment was then negatived without a division. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD had a proviso to pro pose at the end of the clause—namely, that it should not he lawful for Commissioners to build or enlarge a work liousft or. workhouses in any Union, or to purchase or hire any land, without the approval of the Board of guardians, and that no workhouses should be built unless it appeared io the Board of guardians that such houses were necessary to afford proper relief.. After a few words from Lord MO RPETII, which did not reach us, the amendment was negatived, without a di- vision. . On the 35th clause being proposed, Mr. LUCAS wished to know from the Noble Lord what was to be understood by the following passage :—" And the guardians of any union are hereby authorised and re quired to assess, raise, and levy such sum or sums of money for the purposes hereinbefore specified as the Commissioners shall from time to time direct as a poor-rate, in the manner iiereinbefore provided?" Lord MOR PETH said that, as far as the building was concerned, the clause made it compulsory on the guardians to raise the money. The clause was agreed to, as were also the other clauses, up to 40. On the 41st clause being proposed, empowering the Com s4mers to re-sell workhouses on lend which might have been piofthaacd, Mr. LEN N AEI) said that the Commissioners might purchase twelve acres of land in the middle of an estate, which, if they were disposed to re-sell, they ought, having fixed the lowest price, to give the preference to the person from whom they had purchased. Yr. VESEY concurred in that opinion. Claus agreed to. On clause 4:2 tieing proposed, Mr. S. O'BRIEN :_noved, as an amendment, that out door relief should be afforciCd with the consent of the guar- dians. After some conversation on the wording of the clause, Lord MORPETH could not agree to the amendment, as it was contrary to the object of the Bill. After a few words from Major Beauclerk, Mr. Finch, Mr. P. Scrope, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. O'Connell, the amend ment was withdrawn. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN moved, as an addition to the clause, that guardians should have a power of giving out door relief until workhouses were erected, or in cases of emergency. Mr. LYNCH was opposed to out-door relief. Mr. WARD coincided with the Hon. Member in re gard to the evils of out-door relief in England ; but he did not believe that Ireland was in such a state as to be affected by it at present. While destitution was only accidental in England, there it was certain and periodical. If the sum total of the return of destitution made by the Irish Poor Law Commissioners were reduced to one-fourth of what they stated it—namely, eighty thousand persons—would the workhouse system be sufficient to relieve it ? It was perfectly impossible. Lord CLEMENTS thought it would be necessary hereafter to come to out-door relief ; but he thought it wise to limit relief, in the first instance, to the workhouse. Mr. WYSE objected to out-door relief altogether at the present in Ireland, and he should vote against the amend ment of his Hon. Friend. Major BEAUCLERK supported the amendment. Mr. HUME hoped the Hon. and Gallant Member would carry out the evidence on which he sustained his statement, because he (Mr. Hume) was snre. if he did, it would show that all the evils of pauperism in England arose from out door relief. Mr. FINCH considered any system of Poor-laws as most inhuman which did not extend to out-door relief. Mr. S. CRAWFORD would support the amendment of the Hon. Member for Limerick, because if the Bill were to pass in its present state it would be the worst measure that ever passed for Ireland. Mr. P. SCROPE was favourable to out-door relief in Ireland, because he was sure the infirm, the aged, the lu natic, and the infant parts of the population of that country would be sufficiently numerous to fill the poorhouses, so that out-door relief would become necessary. After a few words from Mr. W. ROCHE, which were inaudible, Mr. WAKLEY would support the amendment, although he did not think it went far enough. Mr. SHELL for the present did not think that in-door and out-door relief ought to be given, but that one mode of relief only should be extended. Lord J. RUSSELL said it should not be forgotten that the law now proposed was altogether new in Ireland, and he could not but think that the Board of Guardians would never be able to exercise a sound discretion if out-door re lief were to be established under the present Bill. He could not think that establishing the absolute right to relief would tend to the peace or welfare of Ireland. If a poor person could get work to support his family lie would not go into the workhouse. Whereas if he could not get work he would have the advantage of good clothing and food within the poorhouse.. Mr. O'CONNELL must therefore vote in favour of the amendment. He had heard no reason for adopting the poorhouse system in Ireland, although it might be neces sary in England. No Irish Member had been consulted on this Bill. Without this amendment the measure would produce irritation in place of conciliating. Would it be conciliatory to imprison the poor in workhouses ? If there' was to be no out-door relief six hundred workhouses would be necessary. One million was now expended in voluntary charity. The whole of this would be withdrawn the mo ment the Bill passed. After a fiw words from Mr. RICHARDS and Mr. HAMILTON the Committee divided :-- Ayes Noes ... Majority against the amendment —BB On the return of strangers, Mr. HINDLEY was on his legs, proposing a proviso in the clause which went to. give out-door relief to the aged and important poor (as we understood.) Lord MORPETH said no out-door relief was contem plated by this Bill. Mr. WARD recommended that the amendment should not be pressed, as the Committee bed, in effect, just now decided upon it. ' Mr. HINDLEY was determined to press his mien& ment, that the public might see who were the fri,nds the poor. After a few words from Mr. LUCAS, Mr. O'CONNELL, and Sir R. INGLis, the gallery was cleared for a division, but none took place, and the clause as amended was or dered to stand part of the Bill. The Chairman then reported progress, and asked- leave to sit again. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES. The House then went into Committee on the Registra tion of Births and Marriages' Amendment Act. Clauses 1 to 14 were agreed to. On the 15th clause having been proposed. Mr. G. PALME It objected to the clause, on the ground that sufficient publicity was not provided by it to guard against contracting clandestine marriages. After a discussion, in which Mr. Goulburn, the Solicitor- General, Mr. G. T. Young, Mr. Pease, Mr. Borthwick, and some other Hen. Members took part, -- Mr. G. PALMER declined to press his objection, and_ the clause was agreed to, as were the three successive clauses. Mr. NICHOLLS proposed, that as important amend ments to the other clauses were intended to be moved, the Chairman should report progress, and ask leave to sit again. Lord J. RUSSELL acquiesced, and the House resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. The Secular Jurisdiction (York) Bill went through a Committee, and was ordered to be printed. The East India Officers Bill was read a third time, and passed. Colonel SEAL, after a brief discussion, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Recorders of boroughs to hold Courts of Requests for the recovery of small debts amounting to five pounds. KENT AND SUSSEX MILITARY CANAL. Sir A. LEITH HAY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to place the management of the military canal in Kent and Sussex under the principal officers of his Majesty's Ordnance. REGISTER OF ELECTORS. 111 r. ELPHINSTONE brought in a Bill to render tl.e register of electors final, and to amend certain provisions in the Reform Act, which was read a first time. The other Orders were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'Clock. Thursday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the following accident occurred in the one-arch pond adjoining the Serpentine river, which in a few minutes would have proved of fatal consequence to a little girl nine years of age, nareed Emma Payne, had it not been for the prompt and in trepid conduct of a poor man named Morgan, deaf and dumb, a pauper belonging to Lambeth parish. At the imminent risk of his life he plunged into the water, which is deep and parti cularly muddy, and by great exertions succeeded in rescuing the tnic:7!!'nate child, who had accidentally fallen into the water. With the :"41stanee of another man he tben ponvayed her, apparently lifeless, to it.: recelvinkhouse of the Royal Humane Society, where she was instantly . placed in g hot bath. The other usual means to resore pmmation were em ployed, and happily with success, TB, • measure, He t'irbyle, not consent COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. --lief, and itlkw the paupers I 4ried in this mAn ^nee of life Yesterday a Court w;s held for the despatch of a great !lead of husincss. It wi.s attended by .an unusual number of Members. ADDRLSES TO Till IR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE DU.. ^l' KENT AND THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. CHESS - ( 1 ./DUtt having re a d th e a n swers o f '• The Cletk of the sses voted by the Court, • • their Royal Highnesses to the ...4':•re m Sir P. LAURIE regretted .to be e‘!.peled to stand forth to complain of a flagrant violation pf the privileges of the Corporation by one of its Members, who, when they went to Kensington Palace with the Addresses, took occasion to introduce a sealed letter to their Royal Highnesses, of whi.l the Court bad no cognizance. What made the cir cumstance more deserving of consideration was, that the person who had thus trespassed was the mover of the Ad dress, and that the act immediately followed that which they had expressly gone up to perform. He had witnessed the occurrenze with his own eyes. lie would ask the Lord Mayor and the Recorder whether they had not cautioned Mr. Edmund Wilson, who was the Priftekiliti} ihicied to t not to present the letter. The LORD MAYOR said that before the Corporation ii were introduced to the presence of their Royal Highnesses, it was rumoured that a letter was to be presented to the Duchess of Kent. Upon hearing the report he intimated to Mr. Wilson that he considered it would be improper in presenting the addresses to present anything else, and Mr. Wilson having been informed that the letter might be handed to Sir John Conroy, did accordingly put it into S:r John Conroy's hands immediately after he had himself been presented to the pu,hcs g of Kent, Its the mover of the addresses. The RECORDER said that as far as he recollected, he stated to Mr. Wilson that the Corporation would be com promised by the act contemplated by that gentleman, and that if the letter were pregented at all, it should not form a part of the proceedings of the Corporation, . . Sir PETER LAURIE glen moved a vote of censure upon Mr. Edmund Wilson. Alderman WINCHESTER seconded the motion. Mr. BEDFORD never heard of anything so flagrait, ar.d wished that the Court would express itself strongly on the subject. Alderman WOOD had upon many occasions w:tnered the presentation of books and letters to the Lord in W.iit ing, by individual members, when the Corporatioa and other pulic bodies had presented addresses, and he did not ste unything improper in the proceeding. Mr. SAVAGE briefly supported, and Mr. JOHNSON opposed Sir Peter Laurie's motion. - - After a few words from Mr. Stevens, Mr. Fletcher, and Mr. Jupp, Mr. ANDERTON trusted that the Worthy Alderman weli'd withdraw his motion, in order that another might be substituted, which would express the opinion of the Court of the impropriety of any Member attending with an ad dress to any branch of the Royal Family taking occasion to present any book, letter, or other document, to those Royal Personages themselves, or to any of their officers, and the expression of that opinion of the Court might be made in terms which would have the effect of an order upon all futon) occasions, without conveyinc , any reflection upon the Hon. Gentleman for what had . passed. Mr. Anderton then read a resolution to that purport ; and Sir Peter Laurie and the seconder of the original motion agreed to withdraw it, for the purpose of substituting Mr. An. derton's, _ _ Mr. WILSON declared that he would not consent to the withdrawal of the original motion. Sir PETER LAURIE—Then I shall not withdraw my motion. Mr. STACEY said that it was for the Court to decide the question whether or not the motion should be withdrawn. After a long discussion, in which several members joined, the motion of Sir Peter Laurie was withdrawn. Under-Sheriff WIRE considered both the original and the substituted motion as uncalled for by the occasion, and most unjust to Mr. Wilson. Upon the very last occasion that the Court went up with an address to the Duke of Sussex, at Kensington Palace, one of the most respectable members of the Corporation, in his official costume, for mally presented his Royal Highness with a book published by himself--(Hear)—and the Duke was pleased, with his own bands, most graciously to receive it, and no person had thought it necessary to comment upon the circum stance ; but if the present Resolutions were adopted, it would involve that Hon. Member in the same censure. Mr. R. L. JONES was of opinion that Sir Peter Laurie's motion was too personal, and embraced topics which it was unnecessary to introduce. He, however, thought that the notice before the Court, as proposed by Mr. Anderton, ought to receive their support.—( Hear, hear.) The discussion was continued at great length, in which Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Pritchard, and Mr. Norris took part, opposing Mr. Anderton's motion ; and Mr. Williams, Mr. Stacey, and other members supported it, and upon a di vision it was carried by a majority of 14, the numbers being for the motion 56, against it, 42. The Court adjourned, completely tired out with the affair. SWISS CONFEDERATION. In one of our late numbers we took occasion to notice the singular coincidence which existed between the arrival of the Prussian General Pfuel and the political commo tions which broke out a short time afterwards. History in hand, we proved that the presence of this great personage at Neufchatel had caused a division amongst the patriots, the result of which was to destroy them, portion by por tion (by retail). We also showed that the attempt at re action on the part of the Bernaise patricians, the formation of an illegal diet at Sarnen, and the sanguinary designs of Basle, were all got up at Neufchatel, and tlrat whenever it was necessary to act, they waited for the arrival of the fo reign General. Founding our reasons upon these facts, we expressed an opinion that there might be some connexion between the disturbances at Oberland and the presence of the Neufchatel Governor, and we call on the Swiss patriots to profit by the lessons of experience. Sincere partisans of an order of things which insures the blessings of equality and progressive improvement, we have always shown ourselves the determined adversaries of aris tocracy, which withholds them ; anxious to extend instruc tion to all classes of society, we have fearlessly attacked a retrograde clergy, and in spite of the assistance given to those extinguishers by a Radical journalist, we have no reason to doubt that our efforts have not been altogether useless. Wishing, above all, to secure to the people of Berne all the advantages which they acquire from the pre sent constitution, and not being disposed to give a certainty for an uncertainty, we anticipated that a division between the patriots of this country might furnish the aristocrats with the means of again laying on those chains which the re volution had broken ; and, without abandoning on convic tions, we have gone hand in hand with the Schnell party, in order to oppose the common enemy. An extensive conspiracy is going on in Switzerland against the regenerated cantons ; the events of the last few years, and what has taken place in some cantons, especially in Berne, remove all doubt upon this subject. To watch the tricks of the aristocracy, expose them in order to weaken their effect—such should be the duty of the liberal portion of the press, and when we point out Neufchatel as the grand centre from which arise all the plots directed against our new liberties—when we put our finger upon the exact spot or seat of the evil, and show it distinctly to our confeder ates, it seems rather too bad to be reproached with silliness, ' particularly when the accusation comes from the lips of a person who in 1831 entertained quite a different opinion upon the circumspection of the Prussian General Pfuel. The late inundat►on has caused considerable damage at Triengen, Buren, and Gauensee. A large extent of country., was covered with water, and assumed the appearance of a vast lake.—L'.Heloctie. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—June 2, the Roxburgh Castle, from Bengal, off Dover. sailed Jan. —., Cape March 23, St. Helena April 13 ; the Edmond Castle, Fleming, from the Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed Jan. 27 ; the Nouvelle Louise, from B enga l, at Havre, sailed Feb. 3, and from St , Helena, April 3. Arrivals at Calcutta.—The Courier de Rio, from Bourbon. Departures from Calcutta._The Eole, Joulnalar, for Havre. Arrival at Launceston.—The Isabella, Hart, Jan. 28, from London. Departures from Hobart Town.—The Eudora, for Swan River ; the Wave, for New South Wales. Arrival at St. Helena.--The Mulson , from the Mauritius, and sailed for London. Arrivals at Batavia.—The Argo, Billing , from the Mau ritius ; the London, Major, from Rotterdam ; the M e d ora , Laws, from China. The Victory, from Calcutta to China, put into Manilla on the 10th of Jan., with ten feet water in the hold —cargo dis charging. Ships Spoken.—The Lord Goderich, Wetherell, from Syd ney and New Zealand to Rio and England; the Young Hus band, from Liverpool to Calcutta, April 4, lat. 5., long. 27 ; the Parsee, M'Kellar, from London to Calcutta, April 13, lat. 5, N., lon g . 21. 43. W. ; the Adam, Lodge, fro m Liver pool to New South Wales, April 24, lat. 2. 20. N., l ong . 23. 6. W. ; the Sir Edward Paget, Hall, from London to Madras, April 14, lat. 9. N., long. 2. 6. W. Passengers per Castle Huntley, from China and St. Helena. —Capt. J. K. Johnstone, C. R. Read, Esq., James Hamil. ton, ZV I .. died at sea, March 22 ; Catherine and Alice Jack son, Master 1-1, Jackson, John Brown, Charter Party, W. sanger, four servants. I. o rowt St, Helena.—Sir William W. Doveton, Thomas Greentree, Esq, William clreentree, Misses Eleanor, Anne, and Elixa greentree, Master Loveton green 7 tree, Mrs. Rinseale, Misses Mary 40 Penelope Seale, three I servants. T. , I Ir #APPPL COTTON MARKET, 'JUNE 1.--W e bgve had 4 gqo4 4 1:lerp4pd for Cotton to-day, and abetter feelinfr prergilo 1A 0;9 . inarisc s t• Tkc eik3s7- 50 9 bags of all desaript tons. THE FISHERIES. HERRING TRADE.—Since our last, considerable quan tities of herrings have made their appearance on our coast, and the fishing of them with the hook has been pretty suc cessful. On the coast of Latheron, the catch in this way has been considerable. We understand, that a boat on the West coast brought in from seven t o n i ne crans a b out u week ago. The fishermen continue to be very sanguine as to this season proving an abundant fishing, appearances continuing favourable, and white fish being plentiild. The herrings have not yet attained their flavour, being in gene ral lean fish. The early fishing has commenced at Strom ne,s, but we have not heard with what degree of success. We have b.:en informed by an acquaintance, that salt her nip have fallen considerably in price in Norway within the last month, 7s. per barrel being the utmost that can Le obtained fir them shipped free on hoard. We learn from the same quarter, that a vessel lately arrived here sailed on 'Wednesday last through a shoal of herrings ex tending to a naher of leagues in length. The herrings sere very §ea di in size. Ue adds that the shoal was exactly 3 i 6 oast of Wick bay. We observe by a Berwick paper, that some herrings had also been caught at Eyemouth. On Tuesday the 16th instant, a boat went out from Thurso with a few nets, and brought in better than half a cran, which were dispatched to Leith on the 17th, per steamer. On the 2.3 d five or six boats went out, and re turned with from four to ten crane per boat, all of which were sent by the like conveyance ; thus making from thirty to forty barrels in all. The fish arc rather seperior in round, and well formed. joint Itabertson, Esq , her• ring-curer to his Majesty, being on the spot, immediately purchased the take of one boat, being five crans, at 21s. per cran. That enterprising gentleman, Mr. Methen of Leith, presented a bounty of two p0i.141; to another boat, in apeOrdaece with an lAvelliernent by which he pro mised to award that stun to the crew of the first boat that brought in two crans of fish, over and above the price •of the fish. This gentleman deserves well of the public for his endeavours to excite the fisherman to exert himself lin his vocation, by which, when success crown his labours, he not only benefits himself, but gratifies his liberal donor. NORWAY Cori-FISHING.---We have received the follow ing letter from Bergen, under date 21st April, t 837 ;—A vessel having lately arrived from the fishing station, we are enabled to communicate to you an account of the result of the fishing in the Northlands this year. The catch has not been so successful as last year, boisterous weather hav ing occasionally hindered the fishermen from venturing to sea. It is, however, on the whole, considered to be a good fishing, although the quantity may not be so large as last year. The fish is particularly good, and uncommonly large and fat, and if the drying season be attended with fine weather, it will be of an excellent quality. Higher prices have been paid at the fishing places than last year, on account of the interruptions in the fishing occasioned by the weather, which made the result very doubtful. The quantity cured for klip-fish will, as usual, wind and weather permitting, ar rive here about the middle of June, and the new stock-fish in the latter and of July, when shipments immediately com mence. With regard to prices, we should suppose that of Hip-fists open about the same as last year, viz.:-131. per ton, free on board ; all, of course, depending on the demand. Stock-fish, of which about 2,500 tons still remain on hand from last year, can at present be shipped at 71. 18s. per ton, free on hoard, and if this parcel should not be dis posed of ere the new arrive, there can be no doubt that the price will be still lower in the autumn,--John O'G roal Journal. The largest merchant vessel in Java, a ship about 1,000 tons burthen, was built by an Arab merchant, in a long bit shallow river, which runs into the sea near Sourabaya. As great expense is incurred by floating the timber in rafts down the river, he determined to commence the work in the forest itself, as he would thereby be enabled to select the best trees for the purpose. He accordingly ascended the river, accompanied by a sufficient number of workmen, conveying the necessary materials, and commenced the undertaking about 80 miles from the sea. When the keel, and the floor timbers were laid, and a few of the bottom planks nailed on, he launched the embryo vessel, and floated her gently down the rher to a place in which the water was deeper. Here the building was continued, until it became necessary to seek a deeper channel, and in this manner the work proceeded, the vessel being floated further down the river whenever the water was found to be too shallow for her to float, until at length she was fairly launched, half finished, into the sea, and completed in the harbour.—Earl's Eastern Seas. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Thursday a Coroner's in quest was taken before Mr. Payne, at St. John's Vestry-room, Southwark, on the body of Sally Airner, aged seventy-one, who stabbed herself with a knife in the throat. Charles Bean, of No. 2, Goat-street, St. John's, about eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, was informed that the deceased had made away with herself. He went to No. 4, where she lived with her husband, and proceeded into the attic. There he found the deceased on her face, upon the floor, with her throat cut. Near a trunk was a basin, which was full of blood, from which it appeared that after having inflicted the wound, which was done while sitting on the trunk, she held her head over the basin, in which position she remained until exhausted by loss of blood, when she fell. George Aimer, of No. 4, Goat street, in employ at a warehouse near Thames -street, occupied the house. He slept with the deceased on the first floor. The deceased had been'inSane many years. He had been married to her twenty-seven years, and lived in the same house sixteen years. She had everything she could wish to make her happy. Verdict--" That the deceased destroyed herself in a state of insanity ; and the Jury regret that some person was not ap pointed to watch over her." A lively trade ha,s been stirrin g during the past fort night in the articles of lizards, cockroaches, centipedes, and other verminous merchandize. The gentlemen of the corvette La Bonite have made heavy purchases to increase their cabi net of varieties, and some of the natives have been busy diving for shell fish, while others have employed themselves in huntin g scorpions, snails, and humming birds ; the birds, i nsects , fi s h, bugs, and all, are to visit France, where they will in future live together in harmony, for the benefit of science, in the cabinets—not of the nation, but of the national museums. When they get there, their stings will sting no longer ; they will neither hum, bite, swim, nor creep. G o od bye, dear bugs • write us when you get to France: don't—oh I do not--forget the Sandwich Island Gazette —Sandwich Island Paper, We are very sorry to learn that infant murder is b..coming very common in this part of the country. The crime is one of the deepest dye, and it is much to be regretted that the system of our jurisprudence does not render a coroner's inquest on the bodies discovered absolutely necessary. The good effects of such a system have long been felt in England, and surely life is as precious in this country as there. These remarks have been suggested by information having been sent us of the bodies of two infants having been found in the canal, somewhere about Kittybrewster toll. bar. One of the bodies seemed to be that of a new• born child ; the other about three weeks old, and, horrifying to relate, the head had been cut off! This child had been thrown into the mud i• one of the locks when the water was out, and did not appear to have lain any length of time. It is stated that early in the morning on which it was found, a young woman was seen looking into the lock ; and on one of the labourers, who happened to be near her, inquiring if she knew anything of the child whose body had been found, she made off. We understand that measures were taken with a view to find out the perpetrator of the diabolical deed, but hitherto they have been fruitless.—Aber deen Herald. The fire at Haxon, announced in our last, spread with such rapidity, notwithstanding there was a plentiful supply of water and an engine from Amesbury quickly on the spot, that the progress of the flames could not be arrested until eight cottages, with great part of their furniture, and six barns were consumed ; and it was only stayed at last by the prompt exertions of some gentlemen unroofing the adjoining houses. It was quite accidental, having originated in a brew house where the flue was out of repair.— 'Villa Gazette. A serious accident occurred in Oxford-street Thurs day morning. As a gentleman named Tulmish was proceed ing out of town in his gig, accompanied by his lady, the plug Suddenly burst out of a plug-hole, and the water rushed up to a considerable height, which so frightened the horse that lie set off at full speed. Mr. Tulmish, who was rather infirm, became alarmed and jumped out, receiving a severe concussion of the brain in his fall. The lady kept her scat, and, the horse having been shortly stopped, she escaped without any injury. The unfortunate gentleman was taken to the house of Mr. Walton, a surgeon, in Oxford-street, where he was imme diately put to bed, and lies in a dangerous state. Hay is now selling at Chichester at 8/. Bs. per ton ; and straw, at Cheltenham, as high as 91. a ton. If you wish to annoy an enemy, and he is timid or nervous, detail to him recent dreadful cases of hydrophobia, and the danger of the great number of dogs bsing suffered to ramble at largo, and you will succeed to your utmost expecta tion. • A few days since a p ar t y o f b oys , having gone into Lord Dynevor's park, in search of bucks' horns, on entering the deer-shed they saw two bucks lying down, to all appear. ance dead. One of the lads immediately leaped astride one of them, taking hold of the horns, with the intention of sepa rating them ; but scarcely was he seated when the buck (which had merely retired there to rest) started upon his feet, and bounded from the shed, carrying the astounded youth, with the greatest velocity, over hill and dale, for a distance of nearly two miles, and havin g in its course crossed a po n d o f c onsiderable width before the lad fell from his scat. The boy is 14 years old, and weighs 73 lbs. The sudden melting of the snow, and heavy rains, have steelled many rivers, which have overflowed their banks, and bridges have been carried away, dikes broken through, and in many places the causeways covered by the waters, so that the communications were interrupted for two days. The Dniester, the Ruth, the Bug, the San, the Roppa, and the Wilorka, and particularly the Dunajec, which runs in the centre of the Carpathian Mountains, and is joined in its course by all, t4o PO!eF rivers, llavo gVerilQwe4 in many places, gild done great damage. The dikes have given way, and whole plait'; sown with wheat are laid under w4 t e r._ qermqn Pcfpq: En a dlvtrorntli l s shop wimiovit In Totte road, there is a peck measure full of silver watches, with a note to this effect—.• This imperial peck measure of watches, 132 in l? (amber, to be sold for 1050 THE LATE FAILURES. (From the Times.) FRIDAY EVENING.—The expectation formed of the re sult of tile Bank meeting has ,been wholly disappointed. After a sitting which continued till near 9 o'clock yesterday evening, and at which '23 Directors were (resent, it was decided by a majority of one only that no further assist ance could be given to the three American houses previously under the protection of the Bank, and they have, in conse quence, all of them suspendel payment this !naming. Tbs.! firms are those of George Wildes and Co , T. Wilson and Co., and T. XViggiu and Co. Such an extent of failure has probstdy never bofore occurred in the city in the same day. The engagements of these houses have been mate s ._ !idly diminished since they first received assistance from the Bank, and therefore the calamity will be much less fatal iu other qUarters than would he anticipated. Had it &loon - red six months ago, and taken the city by surprise, it uould have been difficult to say who was entirely beyond the sphere of its influence. S,Aeral versions are current respecting the outstanding engagements of these houses, but they are generally stated in the aggregate a t n o t higher than 2,000,0001., w hi c h we should imagine to be far short of the truth, or perhaps only meant to apply to those engag! meats now due, or on the point of soon becom ing due. The more immediate and severe loss will fall upon those houses who have become guarantee for them is ith the Bank, for sums varying from 5,0001. to 20,000/. or more, and who must he very •numerous, as the aggregate of the occassities given to the Bank is said to art:saint to 1,500,000/., the whole of which will b peremptorily claimed for the protection of the Polak. Even with this aid, the Bank will be, it is said, imperfectly proteoted, but will have to take their chance of a division for a largo amount with the other creditcsN, The house of 'l'. Wilson and Co. is largely eutmected, among other parts of th e world, Is.'iol ()lull, and h e ld t h e agency of several !!gotta q the security and future disposition whisslt, as soon as the fact of the failure became known, was a subject of much solicitude to the mer chants connected with that part of British America. They were, however, speedily placed in other hands, as follows s---Tlie account of the 4. Montreal Bank" with Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co, s that of the " Bank of Upper Canada" with Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.; that of the " City Bank of Montreal" with the Bank of Bri tish North America in Great St. Helen's ; and that of the ~ Commercial Bank of the Midland Districts of Ca nada" with the London Joint Stock Bank. The engage ments of this house are understood to be much more widely spread than the other two, as they have done much business in the Zsit Indies and China. Large acceptances were given by them on bills drawn from Canton only a few weeks ago. Th ey h ave also had the agency for the payment of the dividend% on Brazilian and Danish Stock, and were the contractors for various loans raised for dif ferent American states and banks in several parts of the union. Their commercial engagements, as distinguished from those of the banking department of the house, are also be lieved to be very large. With respect to the house of T.Wig gin and Co., it is understood to have been principally, if not wholly, connected with America, as was that of George Wildes and Co. The last stands in a position towards the Bank of England somewhat different from the other two, having relinquished business, and agreed to wind up their affairs a few weeks ago, on the express stipulation of the Directors, who made that a condition for affording the as sistance asked, and appointed persons to superintend the performance of it. When the general stoppage, therefore, took place this morning, it was at first supposed that this firm would not be included in it, but would go on as before, under the agreement with the Bank. It was soon ascer tained, however, that the Bank would not pay any more of their bills. The parties who bold them are, it seems, highly dissatisfied with this refusal, and some of them have given notice of legal proceedings to compel payment. The firm at least has had all along the impression that the Bank were legally bound to pay all the outstanding bills at the time of the agreement, and still more those which have been drawn since, as the parties contend that they did so entirely on the faith that the house was placed under the protection of the Bank. Some very critical escapes, as not uncommonly happens, have occurred on this occasion. It was by no means cer tain at the commencement of business in the morning that these houses would stop payment ; several draughts were presented and honoured, and in one instance a bill on Messrs. T. Wiggin and Co., for 1,6001., was presented, and the money handed over to the party just as the notice came in to the banking-house, that of Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., that the house had stopped, and that no further payments were to be made. It is considered a piece of groat good fortune for the London trading interest generally, that the force of the blow has been broken by the interference in the first in stance of the Bank. All those who had connexions di reedy or indirectly with the houses which have failed have had ample time to prepare for the worst, and all bills con nected with American business have been in so much dis credit for a long time past, that those who at first held them would not again engage in them after the set had run off. The guarantees given, though they will entail in many cases a very heavy loss, are not so great a sacrifice as they would appear to be, since by forming the induce ment to the Bank to assist they have enabled the parties to escape quietly from liabilities of a much more formidable nature. This will be fuund to be the case, we believe, with the majority of them, though a few persons who had no such motive, and merely offered their guarantee out of good nature, will pay a heavy penalty for so doing. In general they are such houses as will bear the loss without much difficulty. The guarantees of the bankers, so far as they have been given, appear to have been very prudently and cautiously entered into, as should be taw ease with persons who have the custody of the money of other people as well as their own, There is no doubt that the contest in th© Bank parlour, wilds) the discussion of last night was in progress, was a very severe one, and it must not be concealed that many of the Directors themselves must, as merchants, have a very deep interest in the result. Some of those who were in favour of support to the American houses up to a late hour in the afternoon were so confident of carrying their point that they intimated as much to some of their friends, One gentleman, who has taken a prominent part in Bank affairs, is said to have resented the decision of the Board so highly as to threaten a resignation in consequence of it. The Bank Directors can ill spare at this moment aoy of its really effective members. There can be no error in saying that the tenour of the last advises from New York. had a material influence in turning the scale. The refusal of the Government to accede to the wish of the merchants on the subject of the public deposits, with the immense number of failures daily occurring in New Orleans and New York, carried with them the conviction that assets to anything like the extent calculated upon could not be realized in the United States, and that it was no longer safe there fore for the Bank to continue their support. Besides, it is known that the additional assistance asked for, either on the arrival of these accounts or shortly before them, was so large, and so inadequately supported by such securities as all banking must require that has any principle or system in its management, that all pre text and apology for it was taken away. Though often at variance with the Directors in their general management, we do not believe that they will be found censurable for having stopped here, but that they have gone as for as they could do with prudence, and perhaps farther. The hesitation of going with a portion of the securities, which was mentioned yesterday, of course increased their risk, and they found, too, that if they went on they must take other houses under their protection, and carry on their on ginal mistaken principle, as they might easily have done under the circumstances, to the absorption of the whole disposable means of the Bank. It is greatly feared that the impression of these disasters will be much more serious in Liverpool and Glasgow than it has been in London. It would reach the former place by express in the course of the afternoon. The reaction from thence is very anxiously looked for. It must be tt very long time, years perhaps, before the entire effects of these failures is known, for they will extend, more or less, over the whole world. The funds have not been much affected, but there was a considerable demand for money at the Stock-Exchange ; still, however, not amounting to a scarcity. Lady Drummond's death was occasioned by the in fluenza, which was prevalent at Naples, and her 'Ladyship having gone to a party and caught cold. She was upwards of 50 3 ears of age. JOHN FRASER, ESQ., INVERNESS.-011C of our most respectable townsmen, Mr. John Fraser, lately Provost of the Burgh, left his native town this morning for Canada, having been appointed Chief Commissioner of the North Ame rican Land Company. Mr. Frascr's knowledge of business, his general intelligence, an.l his active habits, well iit him for this situation. —lnverness Courier. SALMON FISIIING.—We cannot yet announce any improvement in the take on the Tay. During the last week or two the average at any one statiun has hardly exceeded one tlsh durin ,, a single tide, and we hear equally bad accounts from the lower stations. The same remark applies to the nor then streams.—lnverness Courier. A gold watch was found on the cliff near Herne Bay this spring., which was lost by a visitor last summer, and after ling such a length of time, and through such a severe winter, it proves to be entirely uninjured. No owner lm ~ )e.s put in a claim for it. The immense number of 4 continually imp or t e d 0.214 Ftamsgato from trance is ,truly astonishing. Scare°ly A day poses that does not witness the arrival of one or more yes. sels laden with them. They arc carefully packed in long wrr,dn ho4e6, put on shore there, examined by the Custom_- hOuse officers, and immediately shipped for London by the hoys. In this manner upwards of twenty vessels are (:gia: a fiantl< ernploptl, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE I.—ln a Convocation holden this day University teal was affixed to a letter of thanks to Mrs. Sltr, land, of Marrow, in th e c o unty of Surrey, for her magnificent of 18.700 prints and drawings, being an illus tret7 of Clarendon's and Burnet's histories, in 61 volumes , to D o, placed in the Bodleia n Library. The following is a copy 1 the letter sent to that l a dy on the part of the University :—" M, y, "To Mrs. Sutherland, of Alerrovv, in the county Sarre;' of S " Madam,—We, the Chancellor, Masters,And Scholar' u. the University of O x f or d, f ee l o urse l v es called upon knowledge, in a public and formal manner, the sple:lditi tion recently made by you to our Bodleian Library. " It is doubtless a source of much gratification to us, that , our University s h ou ld h ave b een se l ecte d by y o u as the fitto! depositocy o f so va l ua bl e a co ll ect i on ; b ut we are not, on tits; account, less disposed to appreciate and admire the feeling which has led you to make so considerable a sacrifice, and to relinquish the possession of what has been to you for many years an object of constant interest and occupation. " We shall prize the matchless volumes about to be t,.)51• mitted to our care, not merely as being eltbellish.l kith the richest specimens of the graphic art, but as Pc''sesing a re al historical character—as enhancing, i n no s li g ht d e gree, thl value of work s w hi c h we h ave l ong been accustomed to rei;gra o t as most importa n t contributions the annals and literat:are of our country. " Given a t our H ouse of Convocation, under our votrii" seal, this Ist d ay o f June, in the year of our Lord 1837. " In the s ame Convocation, the nomination of the Rev. Sam . '" Wilberforce, M.A., o f O r i e l C o ll ege, to succeed to t h e offic e uf select p reac h er , at Mi c h aelmas next, the place of theßev. Rev. G eorge R o b ert Gl e i g, M . A., of College, resig ned ' was unanimously agree d to . In a Co ngregat i on h o ld en the same day the following de" grees were conferred MASTERS OF ARTS.-1-lenry Hall, Student of Christchu rch ; Rev. George Ed en Peake, Magdalen -hall ; Evelyn PP iii i ) Shirley, Magdlien College ; Rev. Charles Powell Peter'' Queen's College; Rey. Francis Jones, Oriel College; Richard W ar d, Oriel College.ll3 coullEeLgoett;s JohnoA s a p T e s. n — ce T r I p te h o i d li o il r ) e s, William Exeter Hatsell, Oriel C o ll ege; F re d er i c k Menzies, Scholar of Dra sennose College ; C os b y Th omas Nesbitt, Brasennose Col lege ; Henry J ames G ore, P ostmaster of Merton Col l ege . CAMBRIDGE, JUNE !3.--At a Congr ega ti on on Wednesu A Y last the followi ng d egrees were conf e rr e d : College; n a , B m a e l lio tl hi 10 MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. Forster Maynard, Caius College. BACHELORS IN THE CIVIL LAW. Rev. Charles Chichester, Downing College. William M. R. Haggard, Trinity Hall. • BACMILOR IN PHYSIC. William Augustus Guy, Pembroke College. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Francis W. Raves, Caius College. At the same congregation the following Graces passed t he Senate. To affix the seal to a conveyance of the piece of gr", which it was a gree d, b y a grace passed Nov. 2, 1336, to giro the Master and F e ll ows o f Peterhouse, in part, for otherllo ground to be conv e y e d b y t h em to to the University for the enlargement of the site of the Fitzwilliam Museum. To confirm the R eport o f t h e F i tzwilliam Syndicate, dated the 24th ult. (and inserted in our paper of last week.) Proctor To appoint M r . Sh aw , o f Sid ney College, Deputy in the absence of Mr. Martin. The Rev. John Stoddart, D. D., late Fellow of dia l Hall, in this University, has been instituted by the Bishop London, to the Vi carage o f N ew Brantford, Middlesex, 13, cant by the death of the Rev. Sir Robert Peat, on tits P r i / e sentation of the R ev . Dr. Walmisley, Rector of 1 - lan' e and Rural Dean of the Diocese. The Rev. John Weller, B. D., Senior Fellow of Emma nuel Colleg e , i n t hi s U n i vers i ty, has been presented to t,",. Rectory of N ort h L u ff en h am, i n the county of Rut l a nd Patrons, the Master and Fellows of that Society. On the 23d ult., the Rev. Philip William Ray 105 x p , ducted into th e R ectory o f C reensted junta Organ, E65-iie on the collati on o f t h e L or d Bi shop of London, under t will of the Rev. Dr. Pratt. Tho Rev. George Malim has been instituted in the liv ier : of Higharn Ferrers and Ch e l veston cum Caldecott, 11'46h amptonshire, on the presentation of Earl Fitzwilliam. IN RH ELIZA LUCY VESTRIS'S BA NKR UPT/ —Yesterday m orn i ng at an ear l y hour the Court was crowd ed, it being the day appo i nte d f or the last examination of s' bankrupt. " The curious" were, however, disappointed 1 their expectati ons o f catc hi ng a glance of this celebrated me ta ' e ber of the corps draniatique, for they had not b ee n long wa il ' re in the Court and avenues loading thereto, before they . w e , acquainted that the fiat had been superseded last evenings ; composition of .ss. in the pound having been accepted by the creditors, and the notice of the supersedeas would appea r the Gazette last night. A melancholy accident occurred at Castletownshen cl a ' in this county, on W e d nesday. There was an auction, ea f among the visitors was M rs. B us h e, the lady of the Rev. i'r. ` Bushe, the Recto r , an d d aug h ter- i n- ' aw of the Chief Jus;re „ : of the King's P enc h. Th e h eat becoming oppressive, Mr;. Busho left the r oom f or t h e purpose of enjoying the freshati outside, and while wa lki ng on t h e pier her foot is suppose d e s a. have slipped, a n d s h e f e ll i nto the water- and was drown ed' The lady was found a f ew h ours after, and her melancholy s ta b i n ' has excited deep sympathy among all who have heard it. has left three c hild ren to mourn the loss of an amiable an" , ex cellent mother.—Cork Paper. DUBLIN, MAY 29.—The Master of the l; °115 to-day pronounced an important decision. His Honour ,de cided, under th e 3d an d 4t h of William IV., cap. 27, that trici 42d section of th a t A ct did not apply to the judgments ; r that, therefore, creditors could recover snore than ix yela l interest on their judgments. This decision is of great portance here. Between one and two o'clock yesterday afternooot Henry Plowman, a fine youth, betwee n 14 and 15 years .lt of the son of Mr. Pl owman, carpenter and builder,of No. j Thomas-street, G rosvenor - square, was sky larking on a 9'sis folding; erected in front o f a h ouse in Dean-street, S°ll-r when he stopped on the end of a plank placed too far o " ,j the putlog, and it til t i ng up with him, _he was precipitarh from the fi r st fl oor on t h e sp i kes of the area railing, on oh e he became lit era ll y i mpa l ed, one of them having entere d t back pa r t o f hi s l e f t t hi gh s h i, , a second slightly perforated !Is hip, and a third en t ere d t h e l eft shoulder in a slanting direc tion to the depth o f near l y t h ree inches. He was removed th " great difficulty, and although hopes are entertai ne d of his 1 ° tiniate recovery, it is greatly feared that amputation of the 4 will become indispensable. At the meeting yesterday of the Parliamentary Cor: mitten on the P ort l an d C emetry Company's Bill, it was ceded, upon th e mot i on o f M r. Wakley, that Primrose -1:11 shall not be used for the purpose of the Cemetery, ti t h e n other object, b y which the public s h a ll b e d epr i ve d of it I free access t o i t . A special clause was also agreed to, pr or biting th e va l e o f Hampstead-heath, or any porti o n thereof , , any of the waste lands, for the purposes of the CompanY . On Friday last a woman named Reynolds, betw ee nt fifty and sixty years of age, the wife of a labouring nu' is Sslling, committed suicide by hanging herself to a beam the washhous e . H er son- i n-law, a youth about eleven Yeher of age, returned home to dinner about noon, and found p s suspended to th e b eam. H e loosened the cord, and W s his father, b u t t h e poor b oy was so alarmed at the circum,t2oed that he was u na bl e to spea k , and it has so seriously lareo,-, him, that be is not expected to recover.—Kent Hera!it This day is the anniversary of the death of .v r. . r. William Harvey, wh o di e d i n 1657, the discoverer of thebc:3, culation of the bl oo d . H e was born in Folkstone i n 1 olio and publish e d hi s i mportant discovery in 1620. Before e ls , time it was un i versa ll y b el i eved that the arteries or veseg, through which th e bl oo d passes did not contain bloo d a t d to but only air, mu d i n d ee d t h e word artery was o:iginally signify the windpipe, or air tube. was fed with blood entirely through ' t i ft e ve b i o n d s y , at last to the heart, where it was in some way or other the 'orbed or drunk up. Harvey lived many years to enP,Y, e sd glory of his discovery, dying at Hempstead, in Essex, l" of June, in the 81st year of his age. Poo° The village at which the Vauxhall Nassau 1 3 a . e s descended was Wormshill, in and not Wormslev , s e ` ri - d stated, and where the wronatits experienced a most " n N e v. hospitable reception from the inhabitants, particularly th It. Dolling, at whosel:ouse Mr. Green and two of the' gea .oo , men took supper and passed the night. The village 'e withisc.laiscati;riuealbit, poured forth its whole population, male and female, boo me ter assisting in securing and packing the balloon. The bar t o fel to 24 inches 2 -10ths, g an altitude of about feet, The lowest point of the mercury in the tiler!! The was 30 inches, being two degrees below freezing. v the " a ' rents cn Tuesday last were precisely the same as 0' ja of the Continental savage. Toe balloon leaving Vauxhall an an Easterly direction, and reaching the upper curreisti elevation of about 5,000 feet, proceeding South-east as fa Maidstone. When descending, the aeronauts found once more in the Westerly wind, which had, howeve ti r ) % ebee ll i o e rasher more South-west than it was whet, they starte • alloon would h ave gone to ace at F aversham i n about e_o r nrs , mi lutes, and h ave arr i ve d over the Dutch coast in flve ", On th e n i g h t o f d ie 17 t h o f A pr il a wheat,sta stacks On the night of die 17th of April a wheat orfoWJ b- longing t o M r. C . L emon, farmer, in Shou ldh am , was maliciously destroyed by fire, and a stable and c ri t ..4.. o r in the same parish, containing five tumbrils and a v.a e - __,( io lo other farming implements, were also set fire to,o' of the iraperty destroyed. A reward of 100/. for tl d 1 pro very of the incendiary has been offered, payable in e t l e % t io. portions by Mr. Lemon and the Norwich Union Asso tri _ We rt gret to announce the death of Mr. _ even t Lavelle, the proprietor of the Freeman's Journal,.:nt. wideh took pace (after a !o ;g illness) on Sunday butls n ot * L tvelle was a zealous, effective, and intelligent, belie" thed "f. and the blind and bigoted supporter of his party ; and we in hen; 1 1 journal over which he presided was the oaly °Lector had t o advocating the same line of politics, whose on. nail) , to C; manliness to differ from, and the courage o ccasiona ll y prio , e sure the course pursued by Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Lavelle was a mild, amiable, and as an adversary, we always found him (and 1 s ta ' i qucetty t. so to exp ress ourselves) a fair, manly, and forward opponent. --Dublin Evening Post. chOlcott The table at Fontainebleau upon signed his Act of Al:dieation is the same upon w the l o _ . 9 d cress Helena will also be signed. What a. a'_____rbirnse tlO tract of marriage between the Duke of O r lea L i b ta ar a i n n.e P l ; f :P art e that leon—who saw the end of one Duke of o , r , l f e ni Emperor and en exile, gone ! The be tha " W e ' q2cup;es the throne of Napoleon, and be w . rop ir.: where 64 1 / 4 name is a brideirogra a th e table w away. soli 0