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TAIT'S MAGAZINE. The more interesting articles ,in this number are " Mitchell's Fall of Napoleon," and the " Politics of the Month." We looked for something good in another, entitled " Ireland and her Agitators," but it consists chiefly of extracts from " Saints and Sinners," supposed to be written by the Private Secretary of Mr. O'Connell. What Tait, however, says is to the purpose, and espe cially the remarks at the close of the brief notice : " What care the great body of the British people for the Established Church of Ireland ? Is there one man in ten among .us who recognises the principle e,f ecclesiastical establishments in any shape, who will hesitate for a moment in replying to the plain question, what ought to be the established church of a Catholic country The " Letters from Naples" contain little or no news, and merely repeat statements respecting the habits, poverty, and idleness of the people, and the beauty of the climate—facts generally known to English readers. In commenting on the fall of Napoleon, the writer concurs in the opinion of the author, that this great General had been much overrated, that he had committed faults with out number, that his crowning victory at Marengo, to use the words of Cromwell, was an accident, and i&there had been active and fit generals opposed to him, his army must have been annihilated. Of this there can be little doubt. The battle was completely gained, and had Melas done his duty all the efforts of Dessaix and Killer man would have been in vain. Austria, in fact, was the good genius of Bonaparte up to the Russian campaign ; her wavering and vacillation, her wa.AL of moral courage, carried him to victory, and the ver ; same qualities in Prince Schwarzenberg had nearly decided the day in his favour in 1814, when a million of enemies were fighting against his troops on the plains of France. In a very brief notice of " Sybil" we find these remarks:— "Its tendency or avowed object—for the real one, after all, is in the first place to entertain—is well understood. Mr. D'lsraeli is for the h our th e f as hi ona bl e preac h er o f the cir culating library; and he suits his sermons to the times and his audience, with much more tact than the author of Hawk stone, Hannah More, or even Miss Edgeworth." We have room for only the following extract from the political article. It relates to the banking and currency system of Scotland, and is entitled to much weight. We may remark that, in; the same article, the magnifi cent demonstration of the zeal and resolution of the free traders. aff , rded by the Covent-gar den Bazaar, is re garded as the greatest stroke yet made by the League, and to it is attributed the remarkable change which ap peared in the- House of' Commons on the motion brought forward by Mr. Vdlis-rs:— " The small space left us we wish to occupy with a few words on a matter affe c ti n g S co tl an d a l one , b ut affecting the most vital interests that country—Sir Robert. Peel's inter ference with the banking and currency system of Scotland. That interference we deprecate in the strongest terms, as highly detrimental to Scotla n d, w hil e use l ess t o th e empire at large. Throughout the whole Scottish community, there exists on this subject no difference of opinion. All classes, Tories, Whigs, and Radicals; landlords and tenants of both houses and landed property ; rich and poor, creditors and debtors, are unanimous in deprecating any meddling with a system of currency and bauking which has existed so long, and has been found to work so well. The suitableness, to a different community, of the Scottish banking and currency system, we are not called on to prove. Possibly in a coin manity so large as that of England, so busy, so wholly ab sorbed, as are both public companies and private individuals, with their own affairs, so ignorant and regardless of the af fairs of others, it might be productive of less unmixed be nefit. But here, in Scotland, where not only banks and other public companies, but private individuals, have so much more leisure, so much more curiosity, and know each other so much better than do the two millions of London citizens, our system of banking leads to none of the mischievous re sultshthaed Independent such swindling edeeten dl% c , e company panyi which poss ib ly it might produce in England. We have Middlesex Edinburgh Assurance orG c l e a re s g p o a n w a s That monstrous and i mpu d ent fraud was openly carried oyi; in London; and it was reserved t o a c i t i zen of Glasgow to expose and break it up. In Scotland we have no equivalent to that rapacious and dangerous, although perhaps useful and even necessary personage, the English bill-broker. Losses by private loans are-with us things comparatively rare; the banker acting as the careful and intelligent agent between those who have money to lend and those who require to borrow." DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. The present number of Dolman is an excellent one. The opening paper, " An Adventure in the Pacific," is from the pen of James Welsh, an American welter, and is dated from Baltimore. It is a most spirited descrip tion of the eruption of the Conseguina, a volcano or Central America, in the year 1835. The gt'eater number of the papers iu this Magazine are devoted to the de fence and propagation of the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, and, differing as we do with the writers in opi nion, we cannot but admire the talent which they display, and honour them for the absence of that odieuz theoloyicum which has hitherto been the besetting sin of all contro versial writers. LITERATURE. .1 1 1E11101PS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA, CON SORT OF GEORGE I. This work is chiefly composed from the secret archives of Hanover, Brunswick, r.: lin, and Vienna, and contains letters and other decum e.s published from the originals. The more interesting portions of it re late to the death of the Count Konigsmark, and the treatment of the wife of George I. The general belief is that thie prinee , s was imprisoned in a fortress under the most mysterious circumstances—that some horrible crime on her part had led to this severity—and that her husband, who was Crown Prince of Hanover, and during her imprisonment, or rather seclusion, mounted the throne of England, had shown towards her a degree of cruelty and vindictive vengeance which rendered him unworthy of the high station to which he was elevated by the British Parliament. These are all exaggerations, and the acc ounts f urnished by the author, who leans to the side of the Princess, leave little doubt on the subject. The Court m of H .over at th a t ti me was t h e most cor rupt Europe (we know not what it is now). George the First had many mistresses, but, like George the Fourth, he would make no allowances fur indiscretions committed by his wile; she was like Queen Caroline in discreet; advantage was taken of her folly, or perhaps erienee ere, n ie,g" inveet gati,•n was instituted, and tee woe, teteee eeipi it was found guilty arid confined to the Castle of Ahld en . li er confineme n t, however, was not solitary. She was permitted to invite the civil and military authorities i f the place, and the gentlemen in w . ietibourleoed. Sue had a larg , e retinue of at tendants anti servants, as many as fourteen footmen, a Taru propomonate eumb er o f feeiales three cook s &:e cation with her father'satched , afti:yal.loweßdutlitetlli::hcchune.; but . was y watched, father bad east her off, and a gen.ral belief at the time prevailed that she was 'a of irregular habits, and that her separatien ;rem husbandhellirla h had been brought on by her own conduct The author,(,b disposition of all her m;sfertunes in t t o ri t g h ue, sehoeful;i: m e iw i e sposition d ot her husband, and the es e ciallv to the Countess Platen, who tran=nllttse'datno heir forged letter, as coming from Count konigsmark rea questing her permission to visit her in her private apart discovered remained merits. The request was granted ; yet, after they both of adducing this long discovered the !etN•t* to be a forgery, she e e i w r criminalanted. intercourse. The together for some. hours, and thereby gave the Countess interviewt h e opportunity as s a proof whichot part of the palace in which she resided was surrouneled with armed men, for the purpose of seizing the Count he had to make his escape, a scuffle . ensued, and h e fen mortally wounded, his last words being " Spare the in. nocent Princess. " This tragic scene is thus described . " On leaving the Princess, the forged letter had presentee itself to his mind as a snare that could not have been em ployed without a purpose ; that it was the production of an enemy there could be but little question, and lie need,, not have hesitated long before he must have been satisfied who w that enemy was. When he ascertained that the doors through he had hitherto proceeded out of the palace from the Princess's apartments were locked, he began to fear he was l enclosed in a trap. He walked cautiously along, and on tee first rush of the trabants his sword was out of its scabbard befor6thev could lay hold of him. " Urged: on by the Countess, and inflamed by the liquor they had drunk, the men attacked him furiously with their weapons. A most desperate conflict ensued, the result of which might have been doubtful—for the Count had in. THE s N, LONDON, TUESDAY WORNING, JULY 1, 1845. =MAGAZINE DAY. these'BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. riter on the " Marlborough Dispatches" returns I-. to important documents with•the laudable p . urpose, . _ %along others, apparently, Of correcting some mislatt_ee -4+ /11.e.nts, and doing justice both to the Great Duke, an h editor of - his " Dispatches"— Sir G. Murray. In the forni . er article i t was stated, i n very p l a i n l anguage , that the dm catches and letter s p u bli s h e d i n F renc h cou ld no t have -, sufficient . k een writt en by -41% now ledge of th e l anguage, an d was too little Marlborough, as he had not familiar on with the epistolary style of the country to venture c " r atuuninating his sentiments in French. The error men r e i n s cor rected in th ese words. :—" Like many other destined for future diAtinction, Churchill made no great • figure a s a scholar, a 'circumstance easily_ explained, recollect th at i t is on the know l e d ge of w f we or c d f s a th in a a t n t_he , • rep utat i on of a school-boy—of things, that i is founded. But the dispatches now published blaisgbe he waseddemon- T atate that b e f ore h e a tt a i u ed m % proficient a t • l eas t i n Latin, French, 4ish compos i t i on; . for letters in , . and *te ln ; : n n ga el :Ch u c b e' r 1 _ very pure style, are to be t ° be n d in otherwiseail par t s when of leis e n it i 8 e r ' responde nce ." It could hardly known that Marlborough served at least fiveyearsunder the mo s t ce l e b ra t e d French generals of with of thh men e dap, and w horn learned the art of war in the same camp he afterwards defeatedin many pitched battles. B u t - the writer does a great deal more than correct a errors—he gives us a concise and inter es ti ng memoir . ort he illustrious General up to the battle of Blfnhe , m, with occasional anecdotes not familiar to En,, , lish read, rs. Indeed Marlborough, as is justly remarked, is better known on the Continent than in his native country. The French n u r ses used to frighten their children with stories of " Marlbrook." Nap demi hummed the well • known air " Marlbrook s'en va a la guene," when he crossed the Niemen, and but for the plpular pages of Voltaire, Marlborough " would he virtually unitnown at this moment to nineteen -t A entieths of the British people." Vultsire in a few words draws a vivid picture of one great quality to which he, as well as the Great Duke of our OWII tune, owe their im mortality. '• He had above all the generas t-)f th e age that tranquil courage in the midst of tumult, =and that serenity of soul in danger, which the English call cold head (tete j; oide) It is perhaps this quality, the highest gift of nature to a general, that gave in 'Fortner times the English such advantage over th e I ?rench on the pl a i ns of Po i tiers, Cressy, and Agincourt." The other articles in this number fully maintain the 'character of Maga. North, with a lingering look to wards. the old E ng li s h poets, again returns to his criti cisms by way of supplement, for he had announced their termination in his last notice, but we do not regret the circumstance. One sentence, indeed, atones for pages of tedious comparisons and poetical di,quisitions. 'Never were words more true littered than those here subjoined. Let them sink deep into the minds of youth, and urge the m on to the study of languages, which not only tends to humanise the mind but to give the only true knowledge of the divine works of antiquity. It is impossible to translate fine writing —poetry should never be attempted. Homer, and Horace, and Lucian, and Cha ucer , an d Burns, can be understood only in their own language. "We fall back upon the old conviction," says North, " that verse is a sacred, and song an inspired thing ; that the feeling, the thought, the word, and th e mus i cal breath spring together out of the soul in one creation ; that a translation is a' thing not given in rerun, natura ; consequently that there is leave hnothingien elsein Ito be don e with a great po e t, sav i ng to is glory." The " Opium-Eater" is more gloomy than ever. The sorrows of life (for he seems to count for nothing its many joys) make him sick of ex istence, and prefer death to birth. "Death we. can face, but knowing, as some of us do, what is human life, which of us is it, that without shuddering could (if con sciously we were summoned) face the hour of death ?" The following verses on " The Fall of Napol," are by the Russi an poet, Pushkin, translated by eon T. B. Shaw, 8.A., of Cambridge. We can find room for only three, but they are a fair specimen of the rest : " 0 thou, of whose immortal story Earth aye the memory shall keep, Now, 'neath the shadow of thy glory Rest, rest, amid the lonely deep! A grave sublime nor nobler ever • • Couldst thou have found for o'er thine urn The Nations' hate is quench'd for ever, And Glory's beacon-ray shall burn. " There was a time thine eagles tower'd Resistless o'er the humbled world; There was a time the empires cower'd Before the bolt thy hand had hurl'd : The standards, thy proud will obeying, Flapp'd wrath and woe on every wind— A few short years, and thou wert laying Thine iron yoke on human kind. " And France, on glories vain and hollow, Had fixed her frenzy-glance of flame— Forgot sublimer hopes, to follow Thee, Conqueror, thee—her dazzling shame ! Thy legions' swords with blood were drunken— All sank before thine echoing tread; And Europe fell—for sleep was sunken, The sleep of death—upon her head.' COLBU.RN'S NEW MONTHLY. Air. Harrison Ainsworth is now the editor of this niagazin and he opens the number with an admirable tale, " Cecco del Orso." The hero is an Italian Con dottiere, and the scene is laid in Forli in 1448, and in the space of nine pages and a half we have a romance which, in the hands of oriinary scribes, would have been dilated into a three-volume tale of " intense interest." Shutt as it is it is Mr. Ainsworth's masterpiece. The autho r of " Hillingdon Hall" gives us his " Thoughts upon Inns," and most quaint and amusing thoughts they ate; and Mr. Francis Ainsworth gives us a most in teresting account of the " Principality of the Captive Jews in the Valley of the Euphrates;' Then follows one of the best occasional poems we have ever read:— WRITTEN AFTER WITNESSING THE PER FORMANCE OF A YOUNG AMERICAN ACTRESS, IN CHRISTINE OF SWEDEN' BY CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN. i. In sooth a queen ; a gentle, loving queen ! So true to nature, as to cheat the will From all observance of the mimic scene, To bow in reverence of thy matchless skill. Thy brow, which well the diadem became. Beam'd with the light and purity of truth ; While the clear eye flash'd well and wild the flame, From the soul's altars, fed by hope and youth. 11. And then, the high-wrought tales of woman's love. Shackled by chains of custom and of state, Which the fond heart strives vainly to remove, Preferring to be loved than to be great. From thee, the tale came like a pleasing dream, Cheating the heart, and robbing it of care— Alas ! that this all bright and glorious theme Should wild Delusion's fleeting raiment wear. We may observe thy course, and watch thy star, Brighten with years along the Drama's heaven, No envious clouds thy onward fame to mar, All threatening tempests from thy pathway driven. With such rare powers to cultivate the Muse, Genius to model, judgment to refine ; Who may behold thy flight, and yet refuse To crown thee champion of the Sacred Nine ?' This delightful tribute to the excellencies of a rival proves that whatever may be said of the envious nature of actresses there is at least one, and she the greatest, in whose bosom that passion hits no place. " The Ass Eating Thistles" is a tale illustrative of one of ./Esop's fables. It is from the pen of the author of " Peter Priggins," upon whom the mantle of Theodore Hook appears to have fallen. " The Robertses on their Travels" are as amusing as ever, and the author of the " Stories of Waterloo" continues his "Lights and Shades of a Gentleman on Half -pay." " Recreations in Natural History " consist of some must amusing anecdotes illustrative of the sagacity of elephants. These are followed by an exquisite lyric, entitled "Beauteous little Mary," from the pen of Ed ward Kenealy. The " Chest of Cigars," by Lancelot Wagstaff, is a quaint and humorous story, told in excel lent style--the sort of story that we are wont to expect in the NewAjoet'ri p. Dudley Costello contributes a tale entitled " The Fiddler of Frankfort," and Thomas Miller contributes a poem entitled " The Grey Old Ash Tree." Mr Oxenford is doing good service in the cause of literatur e by giving ua selections from Jean Paul Frie derieh Richter. Jean Paul is one of the most original, and certainly the most witty, of German writers. With the exception of M. Heine, he is, perhaps, the only really witty writer that Germany has praduced ; but he is not merely witty—there is an under -current of deep and thoutakeghtful pliilty (Thy running th roug h a l l his writings —, f r instance, " The Molucea cad Spice Islands in Scheeran," which Mr. Oxenford has given us in the present number. It is one of the most biting satires ever a ritten upon monopolies, an.- as such we recom mend it to the attention of the League It is too long to extrlct, but as a specimen of Jean Paul's style, a e cannot resist giving the following, on Rudy and N , Jul "BODY AND buLL. " Gratings of flesh and bone stand between hu man souls ; and yet men can fancy that there may be such a thing as an embrace upon the earth, when it is only the gratings that knock toqher, arid. behind them One soul only thinks tipon the other.' The I..st adventure of " I lereward tit Sax,n," by Thos Knight, is a stirring tale of the bray.• hut inetr , ctual struggle of our Saxon ance , tors ar4ait,st Norman Conqueror. The number also contains a re, i a of the opera season, and of se% erA new books which have been eently published. A supplera.-nt is delivered gratis with the present number of the .'s ew rtTo.thly. It can talns all that has hitherto been published of the " Reve • latio ns of Lon ion," by the editor, and the work will henceforth be continued in the pages of the New Mcn.t.i/y. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. No political article graces " Rcgilia" this month, and readers wil , .• delight in gruiribling wi!l therefore be greatly disappointed. Since the end of May the State coachman has been driving at a frightful rate, the May ni,oth affair has been settled, the Colleges Bill is in a fair train, free trade is triumphant, and the corn-laws are doomed to destruction. No High Tory, therefore, could w rite on politics without weeping and lamentations, and rt-eehoing the doleful strains of Newcastle and Win ,,passeil ovir. ils( a. But the calarnii,y is too great to be entirely The " organisEd hypocrisy " is be g every day such a prominent feature in the of Cab i net especially chosen for the preservation 'atkaqhurch and State and the triumph of monopoly, iotaabsolute silence is impossible, and in a character of fuls r oL yndh urst care is taken to tell,him,:amidst the most eru praise, that he is a desperate renegade, and fit Ly n t a l ,"Y for Peel end his other associates. " Lord e() , ursts like his brethren in the Ministry, was a Rasse:entions anti- emAricipationist in August, 1828 ; he upbottstaanch em ancipationist in April, 1829. He took m ost .., n _ ides vvith equal facility. Again, he was one of the VoWerful tad effective agents. of the Conservative of the foremost of those mho are acting as a Government on Go vernment. Ile is now one party in undermining and overthrowi n g the Whig IN , hag policy.' e rest of the number, however, is a bundantiv cheerful, if - we except the - three epechs of the (French) Re volution," the first of which appears under th e title " Destruction," and gives a horrifi ing pic ture of the violation of the royal tombs in the Cathedral of St. Denis and the disinterment of the bodies of some twenty or thirty Kings and 'Qt - lens and scions of an illustrious line at the instigation of Barre.re, the associate of Robespierre. Those who delight in wonders and few do not, will find plenty of them in "Animal Magnetism and Neurhypnotism" which-throw all our modern mesmerisers into the shade. We give the following as a specimen. It is abridged from Os borne's " Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh," and is given as a proof that a man may be buried for months without feeling any inconvenience. After detailing the particulars respecting a certain Indittn buried for a month and rising from his grave alive, the writer adds : " There is this difference, however, between the two in vtances, in the latter he was rctually buried in the earth for ten niontll:', a sentry set over him night and day, and a crop of barley sown over his grave. This was witnessed by Gene ral Ventura, and performed in the presence of Runjeet and his court. The Maha Rajawas so sceptical about the matter, that he had the Fakir dug up twice in the ten months, when he was found to be in exactly the same position, and in a state of perfectly suspended animation. At length, at the end of the ten months, he was finally taken up, in the pre sence of Captain Wade. His tongue was precisely as he him - self had placed it before his sepulture—forced back, and filling up the gullet. By the application of the usual resto ratives he came round, and was perfectly well again in two hours. We ought, perhaps, to state that there are other in stances recorded of the interment and exhumation of this Fakir." "a.ets, Painters, and other Shadows" will be read with delight by all who take delight in the fine arts, using- the term in the most general - sense. It is written in a spirited and also a poetic style ; takes, on the whole, a very correct view, according to our judgment, of some of the more remarkable poets and painters who have afforded such enjoyment to men in the civilised state. It contains also a great deal of in formation respecting the works of Reubens sind other Dutch painters, and still more reTecting the Italian school, without exception the first of modern times— whether we look to painting, po?try, music, history, or novels, or, indeed, any of th e ar t s w hich dis:inguish Italy from all other countries, and make her yet, though conquered and a slave, the first in taste, in execution, in beauty, and description, among all her proud and power. ful rivsls . " Gracia capt r Romani cessit," said Horace, but with all his prophecies which have been fulfilled to the letter, as far as time has gone, he never ventured to say, that when Italy was subjected to the same fate with Greece, she would still shine in all her real glory, and teach her barbarian conquerors that they could not subdue her. We could give many extracts from this article, and confirm our statement, but we are compelled to omit them for want of space. flitted several severe wounds on his assailants—had not the blade of his sword snapped in two. He had endeavoured to give the alarm, but his cries were soon stopped; and, when his weapon became unserviceable, he was easily secured and carried into the adjoining room. Here the alarmed soldiers discovered that the person they had thus arrested was so severely wounded he could not stand upright. He had just strength to murmur an entreaty to spare the innocent Prin ce,,' though they murdered him, when he fell into a swoon as they were placing him on the floor. " The Countess made her appearance directly the wounded man had been brought out of the hall, and the first object that met his eyes on recovering ; consciousness, was the face of his malignant enemy bending over him with triumphant malice expressed in every feature. He rallied all - his re maining strength to denounce her as the infamous wretch she was, but his mouth was stopped by the foot of his as sassin, who pretended she bad slipped in his blood, barba rously trod on his wounded face. Life was ebbing fast—too fast either to resent or notice the indignity, and in a few seconds the murdered man breathed his last." This unfortunate result sealed the fate of the Prin cess. She was confined for thirty years as a state pri soner, and died in the fortress of Ahlden on the 15th of November, 1726, George the First did not long survive her, for he expired at Osnabruck in the month of June the following year. The work furnishes a sad picture of the state of morals at the Courts of England and Hanover during the period of which it treats. WHEATHAMSTEAD FREE-TRLIDE CLUB. )ISTRIBUTION OF BEDS TO AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. The anniversary of the Wheathamstead Free.trade Association was celebrated at the Swan Inn, Wheathamatead, on Wednesday last. Mr. C. H. Lattimore, the Chairman of the Association, pre sided, and was supported on his right by Robert R. Moore, Esq. ; and on his left by Lattimore, Esq., Mr. Burton, &c. The vice chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Gilbert. Between forty and fifty farmers sat down to dinner, and the attendance of this class would have been much larger had not the haymaking imperatively detained them on their farms. Many who had intended to be pre sent, and had purchased tickets for the dinner, were prevented from attending by this cause. Dinner, which consisted of an abundance and variety of season. able viands, was served up in a tent in the yard of the Swan Inn, and the arrangements altogether were exceedingly creditable to the worthy host, Mr. Hewson. After the cloth had been removed, and the usual toasts of di. quette given, The Criaramari proposed " Prosperity to the Wheathamstead Free-trade Association," and in speaking to it at much length said —Perhaps, in the first place, you will allow me to glance for a moment at the place in which we are assembled, the population of the village, and their usual occupation. It is impossible to find any where a population more completely rural than exists here. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 acres of land, the population is about 2,000, and 1 don't know any description of manufacture that is carried on here, or any machine that exists for the purpose of any manufacture, even to the extent of a spinning.jenny.— (Hear, hear.) If, therefore, any place can be isolated from manu. factures, it is this. Perhaps a more perfect antithesis to the city of Manchester cannot be found; and yet it is the opinion of persons here that this place would be as much benefited by free trade as even Manchester itself, and this Association has been formed to demonstrate this conviction that the principle of free trade would be equally as beneficial to this rural village as to the manufacturing districts.—(Loud cheers.) Nothing can possibly show more plainly the truth and beauty of this prin ciple, and its universality, than the fact that districts between which there is such great contrariety in point of occupation should agree to unite upon this principle; no greater proof of the truth of free trade can be given then that a population like that of Wheatharre stead should unite with Manchester in its favour.—(Cheers.) The Chairman next proposed "The Anti. Corn-law League, the only true farmers and labourers' friend.''—(Drunk with applause). ROBERT R. Moons, Esq., responded to the toast in a long and eloquent speech, in which he dwelt forcibly on the necessity of attending to the registration, and suggested that the farmers should choose a representative of their own class, who would sym. pathise with their wants and attend to their true interests. At the conclusion of Mr. Moore's speech the curtain at the back of the Chairman was withdrawn, and we then observed the yard thronged with the peasantry of the district, who had come for the purpose of receiving their tickets for the beds awarded. The ma. jority of the assembled multitude were women, whose husbands were unable to attend, in consequence of being engaged in getting in the hay harvest. Tickets for the following articles-80 beds, 80 counterpanes, 80 pairs of sheets, and 50 ditto children's sheets—were distributed to 210 of the most necessitous and deserving labourers. The CHAIRMAN in rising to propose " Thanks to the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League for the munificent present which they had made," turned round to the peasantry and addressed them to the following effect :—You are assembled here to receive a gift in the shape of beds and sheets, which we find it impossible to distri bute to you this night. You, however, to whom the various presents have been awarded, will receive tickets, and the beds will be distributed this night week at six o'clock. You don't know much about free trade except from mere report. You are aware that population increases and employment does not; and you sometimes look at your children and ask your selves how they can be brought up honestly. I spoke to a labourer the other day, who said that he did not know what would become of his children, but he hoped Gcd would help him to bring them up honestly. That was a good feeling; it is your duty to bring up your children honestly, and neither they nor you can be happy unless you do so. You have no capital but your labour, and for that there is not now sal cient demand or employment. We advocate that which will give you more employment and also cheap food. We give you these beds and other things, not as a charity—not to degrade you. We want to elevate you. But we know your necessity, and we give you that which you want—not to depress you—not ostentatiously —but to do you good ; and we are very happy to be able to assist you in this way. We shall distribute the goods without favour or affection, or regard to sex, class, or creed. All we inquire is, whether you are honest and industrious. We ask ,you to endea vour to pronxote the happiness of your families. There is a gentle man named Grantley Berkeley, who says that all the labourers are poachers.—(Cries of " No, no.") Now, I say, that is not true; I tell him from this place that that is not the case. You are actuated by a better spirit. You are not only interested in your own happiness, but also in that of others. We have to work forall we eat or wear, and whoever lives by idleness or dishonesty takes away that which another man works for. And be you sure that, if every man lived oy honesty and industry, more food would be grown, and more of everything that you want made, and all of you would have a larger share. The Anti-Corn-law League wishes to see you better clothed and better fed. Consider this. People who never saw you, living hundreds of miles away, and having only heard of you by report, take an interest in you. They are free.traders: lam one. I believe that free trade is necessary to your happiness. 1 could live without it; but I don't believe that the rising generation will be able to do so. Whenever you look upon those articles which will be distributed to you, let them re.. mind you of what is the objeet of those who sympathise with your situation. At the suggestion of the CHAIRMAN the multitude, as an ex pression of their thanks, then gave three vociferous cheers for the Anti• Corn-law League; after which, Mr. MOORE addressed them to the following effect :—As one of the League, --------- -I am pleased to tell you how glad I am that we are able to make you this small present. Our wish is that every agri cultural labourer in the kingdom should have a comfortable bed. We don't send them to you as a charity, but as an earnest of what you would be able to get yourselves if there were no corn-law. We believe that you deserve them, and that you would get them your selves if you could. We are convinced that we are working for the good of the lana i ord, the farmer, the labourer, and eve r y one n the country. We say that labour does not get its own ; that men work hard and don't get f a irly p,id. But this is not the farmer's fault, but that of the laws. H e ca n't m a ke a profit out of farming, and so he can't pay you as he would wish to do. But if farming were profitable he could pay you better. The Rev. Mr. GILBERT, Independent minister of Wheatham stead, then addressed the labourer, as follows :—My friends, I know most of you. I have s y mpat hi se d w i th and en d eavoure d to alleviate your distresses. You have been brought together to-night, a nd have heard statem en t s so c l ear and practical that you must have been convinced by them. You will believe that what has been spoken has come from the heart. I have been told by some that I ant out of the path of duty in taking part against the corn-laws. Now, I do not advocate the repe a l o f th em as a po litical but as a religious measure. I find the Bible con d emns him "who holds back the corn." But, if we w a nt t o ge t r id o f th e corn-laws, we must do so in a peaceable way. W e s h a ll never get rid of them by -ny other means. My friends, I hop e y ou w ill sleep comfortably n the beds which have been given to you. L. LATTIMORE, Esq., proposed the he a lth of C. H. Lattimore, the chairman, which was drunk with enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in an able and eloquent speech, in which he showed that monopoly taxes every working man to the extent of 2s. per week—a sum which, if accumulated till his 50th year, would save him from the degradation and misery of a work housi. The meeting then quietly separated, highly pleased with the novel and interesting scene they had witnessed, which, there is no doubt, has left a deep and permanent impression upon the minds of all classes in the neighbourhood. WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.-This afternoon, between five and six o'clock, a person, in the garb of a sailor, was discovered suspended (by means of his handkerchief tied round his neck) to the rails in the Long-walk, about a quarter of a mile from the Castle, by Mr. Lima, of Brunswick-terrace. His feet were resting upon the ground, and he appeared to the numerous passers by, to be kneeling and looking into the Sheet-street-road. Mr. Lima, and Mr Tatner, of Adelaide-square, who was nn the spot, lost no time in cutting him down and sending for the aid of the police, who forthwith conveyed him on a plank to the gaol when Mr. Holderness and Mr. Eton, surgeons, were immediately, in attendance. The poor man, who was black in the face, and for a long time, to all appearance, dead, was fortunately restored to life after half an hour's persevering exertions on the part of the medical men. His name is Jackin, and it appeared, from docu ments found upon him, that he has just been discharged from the Dreadnought hospital ship by his own request. No money was found upon him, and, according to his own statement, want and poverty drove him to attempt self-destruction. He was removed this evening, by order of the authorities of the borough, to the Windsor Union Workhouse, to be taken care of. He ap peared to be between thirty and forty years of age, and an able bodied seaman. We are requested to state, that Colonel Fox, M.P for the Tower Hamlets, has been prevented by severe illness from attending Parliament for the last three weeks. DEATH OF DEAN LE FANU.—On Friday morning, at the Glebe-house, Abingdon, after a few days' illness, died the Very Rev. Thomas Phillip Le Fenn, Dean of Emly, and Rector of Abingdon, to the sorrowing affliction of his family and relatives, and sincere regret of his friends and neighbours.—Limerick Reporter. INQUEST ON THE HON. CAPTAIN DE SALIS.—On Friday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Goat, Arabella-row, Pimlico, on the body of Charles Lewis de Sails, aged twenty-four, captain in the Scotch Fusilier Guards. Mr. Henry Jerome de Salis, deceased's brother, was present at the painful inquiry. Mr. Jos. Woolmar, surgeon, of 11, Victoria-row, Pimlico, said deceased was brought to his house about six o'clock on Wednesday even ing, and witness saw him a quarter of an hour afterwards lying in a state of insensiAlity en the sofa in the drawing-room, and at tended by several friends and two army surgeons, Messrs. Good and Judd. Mr. Liston was also called in. Deceased had two wounds, one on the right hip, and the other in the knee. He was also labouring under concussion of the brain. He was put to bed, and treated for concussion without success, for he gradually sank, and died on Thursday evening at eight o'clock. Thomas Garmonswys, a groom, said that on Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, he was about to cross the Victoria-road from Brewer-street, when he saw deceased and Lord Douglas cantering slowly by. Just as they were passing deceased's horse, a pony made a long stumble of five or six yards, in consequence of its hitting one foreleg against the other, and in trying to recover itself it struck the hind foot with the pastern joint of the near fore.leg. It then stopped suddenly, and deceased fell on the off side, the pony rolling on to him. Witness picked him up bleeding and insensible, and took him to the surgery of the first witness. Mr. H. Jerome de Salis said his brother was twenty-four years of age, and a lieutenant and captain in the Scotch Fusilier Guards. He was an excellent horseman. The animal he rode was a hired one. Several of the jury said they saw the accident, and that deceased rode well, and kept his seat until the horse fell with him. Had he been a bad rider he would have been thrown far from the horse, and probably have escaped. Verdict-.." Accidental death." PRiiSPERoUS STATE OF AWicK.--Trade is Still continuing good. The mills are fully employed, and no person is idle who is able and willing to work. Many of cur manufacturers are gradually extending their business, and more goods are made at present than at any former period. The population is of course tr , creasing, and were a stranger with a family to arrive here at pre. sent, they would find it difficult to get a house to live in. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Jura 29.—The scene of Monday last at Spithead was repeated by the experimental squadron on Thursday, but with out the presence of the royal and illustrious personages who on the former day attended ; the result, however, as regards the evolu tions performed, was more satisfactory, the various crews having followed the respective evolutions made by the flag ship with a much greater degree of alacrity than on Monday; in one respect, however, the result was the same—the Trafalgar was again uni versally first in obeying the signal made. This is consequent upon the additional efficiency of the crew of that ship over every other ship of the squadron, the same men having been in three line-of-battle ships (first rate) successively, without being paid off, namely—the Camperdown, Queen, and Trafalgar, whereas the majority of the crews of the other members of the squadron are either volunteers or very " ordinary" seamen, except those of the Albion, who has, if not the most efficient crew of seamen, cer tainly the finest body of men on board of any ship in the service. Those who so industriously endeavour to preach up the efficient state of the navy, will not relish the fact that the Queen, 110, at the time she left Chatham with 700 men upon her books had not 30 of that number rated as able seamen I The Vulture, first-class steam-frigate, came up to Spithead about the same time with only five able seamen upon her books, and left the anchorage no better off. With such a comparative scarcity of able seamen on board the squadron how is it possible the ships can be well manoeuvred at sea, when they have so much ado to perform cre ditably at anchor and in smooth water? A large number of the crews of the various ships now at Spithead are men drawn from our dockyards, " general service" men, 1. e. men of no service at all as seamen, being, for the most part, unaccustomed to " working" a ship. Commanders of ships have got into a bad habit of looking for fine men instead of good sailors; they forget that it was the small or moderate-sized man that worked and fought so well during the last war. A fine looking, broad-set fellow, six feet high, will now be seized with avidity by the captain of a ship fitting out, whereas the thorough practical seaman of five feet six or seven will be rejected; instances of this occur daily, not only at this, but at all our ports and rendezvous, and as long as such ridiculous caprices are allowed by the Admiralty, it is useless placarding the walls with huge announcements of the wants of the navy, and it were better far to save the public money so fruitlessly expended in printing. Admiral Sir Charles Rowley has tried a more likely expedient for raising seamen by exhibiting a notice at the dockyard-gates, inviting such seamen as have recently been paid off from her Majesty's ships, or who are about to be paid off; and who may wish to enter for any ship of the experimental squadron, to apply on board his flag ship, the Victory, where they will be received and entered, and be allowed six weeks leave of absence, their pay and time going on, and re. taining their present ratings. This is a good bait, and may, per haps, take, but we doubt it. The eighth anniversary of ber Majesty's coronation was kept here yesterday in the usual manner. A general holiday was given at all the Government works. The ships at Spithead were gaily decorated with flags as were those in harbour, and royal salutes were fired at noon by the fleet and garrison. _ _ . A Swedish corvette of 20 guns came up to Spithead this morn. ning from the westward, and saluted the garrison, the commander. in -chief, and the rear.admiral commanding the experimental squad. ron, which was returned by the platform, the Victory, and the St. Vincent, each returning 13 guns, from which circumstance it is believed she had some distinguished personage on board, but no communication having been made with the shore we are unable to furnish more. At four o'clock a schooner came up and paid the same compliment. By letters from Ascension to the2sth of April, we are informed of a dreadful catastrophe having happened to the Brazilian slaver, captured by the Wasp, on board of which Mr. Harmer, the mid. shipman, and 10 men of the Wasp, in charge, were murdered by the prisoners, who then took possession of the prize, but which was retaken by the Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, when Lieutenant Wilson was put aboard to take her to Sierra Leone. It appears that ten days after Lieut. Wilson took charge of the recaptured prize and parted company with the Star, he was caught in a heavy squall and capsized about 200 miles off Cape Three Points. Lieut. Wilson, with two Kroomen, and some of the pirates who were re.. taken in the schooner, and five seamen succeeded in cutting away some spars and making a raft, which they finished just before the schooner settled down and foundered. They did not save any provisions fit fer consumption, and only a small quantity of water, which being soon exhausted, the Kroomen commenced drinking the salt water, which killed them both. The quartermaster and the pirates also died from the same cause, the quartermaster having previously become raving mad. Twenty days after they left the schooner, and, being still upon the raft, they fortunately fell in with the Cygnet, 6, Commander Layton, to windward of Whydah, and when taken off the raft by the Cygnet's boat, the survivors presented a mos thorrifying spectacle, being literally a mass of pu trifying sores. Commander Layton, with much prudence, sent the poor fellows on board the Wasp for conveyance here (Ascension), where they arrived quite recovered on the 22d. The Penelope, 22, steam.frigate, Commodore Jones, arrived at Ascension from St. Helena on the 24th of April with a supply of water for the Island. The Heroine, 6, Lieut.-Commander Foote, is on her way from the coast of Africa to England, with the pirates who massacred Mr. Harmer and ten men of the Wasp, whilst in charge of a Brazilian slave schooner, for trial. Lieutenant R. D. Stupart, of the Wasp, comes home in the Heroine, as chief witness against the pirates. The Firebrand, 8, steam frigate, Captain Hope, left Rio for Monte Video on the 22d of April, with Mr. Gore Ouseley, her Majesty's Consul, on board. The Scylla, 16, Commander Sharpe, was at Bermuda, all well, on the 24th inst., at which date the Vindictive, 50, Captain Sey mour, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austen, Commander-in- Chief, was also there, daily expecting to sail for Halifax ; all well on board. The Eurydice, 26, Captain Elliott, sailed from Vera Cruz on the 20th ult., with dispatches for the Commander-in-Chief. The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir H. Blackwood, Bart., arrived at Trincomalee from Bombay on the 22d of April, at which date the Serpent, 16, Commander Nevill, and the Alligator, 26, troop.ship, Master-Commander King, were also at Trincomalee. The Winchester, 50, Captain Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the lion. Jocelyn Percy, - was at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 2d of April, at which date the Mutine, 12, Commander Craw ford, was also there. The Winchester was about taking a short cruize. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 30. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal Assent was given to-day to no less than eighty Bills, among which were the following :—The Officers' Qualification Indemnity Bill, the Military Savings' Banks Bill, the Privy Council Adminis tration of Justice Bill, the Maynooth Col lege Better Government Bill, an Act to Regus la+ e the Labour of Children and Women in Print Works, an Act to empower Canal Companies to vary their Tolls, the Scotland Fisheries Bill, the Scotch Heritable Securities Bill, an Act to amend the Laws enabling Justices of the Peace to borrow Money on mortgage of the County-rates in Middlesex, the Crediton Small Debts Bill, the Battersea Poor-rates Bill, Clerkenwell Im provement Bill, Cheater Improvement Bill, the Claughton-cum-Grange St. Andrew's Church Bill, the Claughton-cum-Grange St. John the Baptist Church Bill, the Cromer Sea Walls Improvement Bill, the Ches ter and Holyhead Railway Bill, the York and North Midland Railway (York and Scarborough Branch) Bill, the Manchester, Bury, Blackburn, and Burnley Railway Bill, the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Huddersfield Railway Bill, the Dunstable Railway Bill, the Leeds and Brad ford (Shipley to Colne Branch) Railway Bill, the Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway Bill, the Berks and Hants Railway Bill, the Yarmouth and Nor wich and Norwich and Brandon Railway Conso lidation Bill, the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Railway Bill, the Bedford Railway Bill, the Blackburn, Damen and Bolton Railway Bill, the Monklaud and Kirkintilloch Railway Bill, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Tynemouth Railway Bill, the Ely and Hun tingdon Railway Bill, the Midland Railway Company's Extension to Nottingham and Lincoln Bill, the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Bill, the Hull and Selby Railway (Bridlington Branch) Bill, the Kendal and Windermere Railway Bill, the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company (Keymer Branch) Bill, the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey mouth Railway Bill, the Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley and Oldham branch) Bill, the Lynn and Ely Railway, the Midland Railway Company (Syston and Peterborough Branch) Bill, the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway Bill, the Whitby and Pickering Railway Bill, the York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington branch) Bill, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Port Bill, Boddam Harbour Bill, the Southampton Docks Bill, the Birkenhead Docks Bill, the Wexford Castle hill Docks Bill, the Hungerford andLambeth Suspension Midge Improvement Bill, the Clifton Bridge Bill, Stoke upon-Trent Market Bill, Glasgow Market Bill, the Pud sey Gas Bill, the Devonport Gas Bill, the Plymouth Gas Bill, the Paisley Gas Bill, the Birmingham and Stafford shire Gas Bill, the Taunton Gas Bill, the Scarborough Water Works Bill, the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Works Bill, the Huddersfield Water Works Bill, the Nottingham Water Works Bill, the Newcastle-upon- Tyne Water Works Bill, an Act to enable the Shaws Water Joint-stock Company to increase the supply of water, an Act to carry into effect an arrangement between the Corporation of the Royal Naval School and the Committee for managing the Patriotic Fund, the Newcastle Coal Turn Bill, the Hemel Hempsted Poor-rates Bill, the Standard Life Assurance Company Bill, the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company Bill, the North British Insurance Company Bill, the West of London and Westminster Cemetery Company Bill, an Act to enable the Master and Commonalty of Watermen to invest the Endowment Fund of the Free Watermen's Asylum in the purchase of land, the Stokenchurch and New Woodstock Road Bill, the Duke of Argyle's Estate Bill, Molyneaux's Estate Bill, Barrington's Estate Bill, the Leicester Inclosure Bill, the Nottingham Inclosure Bill, and the Spoad In closure Bill. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the wool sack soon after Five o'clock. SCOTCH BANKING BILL. The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of this Bill. The Earl of RADNOR considered the Bill as un necessarily interfering with the present admirable system of banking in Scotland, and he should be glad to see any Noble Lord connected with that country get up in his place and defend the Bill. The object of the Bill, it was said, was to prevent an increase in the number of banks, and to restrict a paper currency ; but there was no necessity for such a measure, for within the last fourteen years the number of banks and the amount of paper currency in Scotland had considerably diminished. The Duke of RIC hMOND agreed with the Noble Earl that the measure was most objectionable, and un necessarily interfered with a system of banking which had for years been working successfully in Scotland. The Earl of ROSEBERRY thought the principle as well as the details of the Bill were most objectionable, and if the Noble Lord determined upon dividing the House, he should certainly say non-content to the third reading. The Earl of RIPON defended the measure. Already restrictions had been placed by the Legislature upon the Bank of England, and he confessed he could see no reason why the same restrictions should not apply to the existing banks of Scotland. Lord KINNAIRD objected to the Bill, because the averages had been unfairly taken, and he was , quite certain it would, to a considerable extent, limit the cir culation of gold in Scotland. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH approved of the Bill ; and, so far from thinking it would do any injury to the existing system of banking in Scotland, he was quite convinced it would place. the banks of that country upon a more wholesome and firm basis. After a few words of explanation from the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Radnor, and the Earl of Dal housie, their Lordships divided, when there appeared— For the Bill Against it . Majority for the Bill —32 The Bill was then read a third time and passed. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. This Bill was also read a third time and passed. SANATORY REGULATIONS. The Marquis of NORMAN BY presented a petition numerously signed by medical men practising in the me tropolis, praying their Lordships to establish some sana tory regulation for large towns. The Noble Marquis expressed his regret that the measure announced in the speech from the throne for in quiring into the sanatory regulations of large towns had not been brought forward, and expressed a hope that something would be done before the next session for establishing some central machinery for effecting the object in view. The Duke of BUCCLBUC LI said a Bill had been prepared on the subject, but the state of public business in another plate had prevented Government from intro ducing it into Parliament. RAILWAY AMALGAMATION. Lord CAMPBELL, in pursuance of notice, wished to ask the. Noble Earl the President of the Board of Trade whether Government were prepared to adopt some steps f.3r preventing abuses in railway amalgamation? The Noble Lord sail the practice of amalgamating competing railways had lately been carried on to an enormous extent, and in many instances to the great injury of the public. In some cases these amalgamations were effected before one of the lines was sanctioned by Parliament, and he should be glad to know whether some steps could not be taken by the Legislature for protecting the public against injury from those amalgamations. The Earl of DALHOUSIE admitted the importance of Parliament interfering, to prevent the public from sustaining injury from their amalgamation, but he thought the law, as it at present stood, was quite sufficient to effect that. The two Companies effecting the amalgama tion, were compelled to come to Parliament for powers to sanction the union, and Parliament ought to take that opportunity of scrutinising, and, if necessary, of cur taiLing the powers proposed to be taken by the promoters of the amalgamation. Lord BROUGHAM repudiated the existing practice of amalgamating new with old railway companies, and remarked that the amalgamation was not always con fined•to two railways. Not unfrequently it was a canal that was united with the railway, and in such a case the canal was invariably filled up, for the protection of the railway. After a few words from the Marquis of CLAN RICARDE, who presented a petition on the subject, the matter dropped. JURORS' BOOKS IN IRELAND. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a Bill entitled an Act for making further regulations for more effec tually securing the correctness of the jurors' books in Ireland, which was read a first time. The Bishop of DURHAM presented a petition from his own diocese in favour of the Bill for amending the law of marriage in England and Scotland. RAILWAY CLAUSES COSOLIDATION (SCOT- LAND) BILL. The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved their Lordships to adopt the reasons of the House of Commons for strikicg out the clause giving compensation under certain circumstances to road trustees in Scotland. Unless their Lordships agreed to these reasons the Noble Earl said the Bill would be lost, and he could not allow so important a Bill to drop for the sake of such a clause. The Duke of RICHMOND complained that the ques tion relating to the turnpike trusts of Scotland had not been really and well discussed in the House of Commons. There was a vast difference between the road trustees of Scotland and those of England, and he certainly thought the former were entitled to the compensation given to them by the Bill. The Earl of KINNOUL said the road trustees of Scotland had incurred heavy responsibilities for the sake of the public, and he certainly thought they were just as much entitled to compensation from a railway company as the landholders, whose property was required for the purposes of the proposed railway. The Duke of MONTROSE agreed that the road trustees of Scotland were entitled to compensation, but, under all the circumstances, he . thought it advisable to pass the Bill without the clause. Lord CAMPBELL remarked that it would be com petent for a committee to introduce a special clause into a private Bill for giving the road trustees in Scotland compensation for the injury they might receive from the course of a proposed railway, and, upon second conside rations, he could see no reason why they should not strike out the clause objected to by the Commons. After a few words from the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Dalhousie, and Lord Brougham, the reasons of the House of Commons were agreed IRISH BANKING BILL. The Earl of RIPON moved the second reading of the L•ish Banking Bill, and expressed a wish to have the dicussion on the Bill postponed till Thursday, when he should move the committal of the Bill. _ . The Marquis of CLANRICARDE had no objection to the course proposed by the Noble Earl. He entirely approved of the principle of the Bill, and only differed with some of its details. The Bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed on Thursday. PROMOTIONS. Commander—D. Roberts (1812) to be retired Captain. Mate—C. M. Shipley (1844) to the rank of Litutenant. Mates passed for Lieutenants at the Royal Naval College on Monday—W. G. Douglas (acting) of the Excellent; G. M. Bal four (acting) of the Hibernia. Marine Cadets—The following passed out of the Excellent on Friday, and will be promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant this week :—W. P. Draffen, C. Pyne, W. J. Kinsman, and J. Bastable. ♦PPOINTMENTS Captain—Sir H. Leeke (acting) to the Calliope. Commander—C. F. Schomberg (acting) to the Queen, vice Wonsfold. Lieutenants—S. Fowell and R. C. Whyte to the Crocodile; R. Mc. It. Richardson from the Agincourt to the Castor ; M. Conolly from the Agincourt to the Driver ; G. Newcomen to the Iris ; R. J. Balfour to the Vestal ; H. C. Toby to the Queen ; L. B. Mac. kinnon to the Vanguard ; J. A. H. Boyd to the St. Vincent; C. H Tonge to the Trafalgar ; R. Carter to the CanopuS ; L. F. Burrell to the Superb. Masters—J. Jarvis, from the Driver to the Fox, v i ce Grant, invalided ; G. Rowe from the Agincourt (acting) to the Driver; J. Rogers to th e C rocod i le; G. A. Wi l li ams ( a ssistant) to the Spitfire ; G. H. Hughes (assistant) to the Victory. Paymasters and Pursers—G. C. Buzney, clerk in charge of the Tortoise (acting), to the Alert; T. Dobbin, to the Crocodile. Chaplain--Rev. A Salkeld (and Naval instructor), to the Hi bernia. F. A. Boy ce , Mates -0. B orland, to the Queen; H. Boys, to the Vanguard; to the Rodney ; J. H. Henderson, to the Canopus. Assist ant-Surgeons —J. Campbell, to the Actmon, vice M`Cleuse, promoted ; W. B r i ce, to t h e C uc k oo. Naval I nstructor—W. D. Grant, to the Vanguar d . Midship men—T. H. M. Martin, to the Vernon; H . W. Corneck, late of the C arysfort, to the Siren. Clerks— W . H Turner to the Caledonia, vice Dyer, app ointed acting paymaster o f t h e H ecate ; J . L . Th orne , t o the Albion ; E. Forster (assist ant), to the Vulture. , Naval Cadets —W, B. Pauli, to the Vernon ; A. Heneage, to the Superb; Hon. H. M. Nelson, to the Rodney; W. H. Iv es, to the Canopus ; W. H. Truscott, to the Rodney; IL W. Heath. cote, to the Resistance; J. Saumarez, from the Hecate, to the Caledonia, additional. COAST GUARD. Appointments—Lieut. S. Morrish, to command a station, vice Travers, appointment cancelled. Removals—Lieut. H. N. Atkinson, from South Yarmouth to Portsmouth-harbour station, vice Allen; F. P. Coull, from Ulam Bay to South Yarmouth, vice Atkinson ; J. Wilcox, from Epple Bay to Barryscove station, vice Kempthorne, removed. REPORTED LOSS of the APOLLO. --- In the brief notice on Saturday of the supposed loss of this vessel, she is said to have been bound from Quebec, instead of Halifax. In addition to the particulars already given, the follow_ log paragraph from the Courier, of St. John's, Newfoundland, of J un e 14th, received at Lloyd's, will be perused with interest : o LATEST FROM NE WFOUNDLAND.—REPOREED WRECK OF A MAN.. OF. WAR. " The royal mail steamer North America, Captain Meagher, ar rived yesterday from St. John's, Newfoundland, which port she left on Saturday evenin g , an d stopped at Sydney, C ape B re t on , t o l an d and receive mails. The steam-frigate Vesuvius, with Lieu.. tenant -General the Earl of Cathcart, the recently-appointed Com. mander of the forces in Canada on board, arrived. in the Morning P os t of the 7th inst., it is stated t h a t a ru mour had been abroad the d ay prev i ous, at St. J o h n ' s , th a t a vesse l had been lost at St. Shot's, and sixty men had perished. It was said to be either the frigate Spartan, or the transport Apollo, but they have not been able to trace the report to any authentic source." Halifax Post. [The Spartan arrived at Queb ec on th e 4t h o f J une. Th e Ap o ll o sa il e d from Halifax on the Ist inst. for Quebec.] AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. thrown into a state of painful excitement, by the dis covery IVIIJEDER —The village of Stondon Massey, in this county, was yesterday wife of a l abour in gcovery man named William Black. burn had been murdered. It appears that about six o'clock in the morning the husband was seen to leave Stondon Hall, the reel gale. James French, a farmer. in dence of Mr. Part of which he lodged, and soon after a daughter of M r. t . -. rench discovered the lifeless body of Blackburn's wife lying across the bed in almost a state (Thursday)tha of nudity, with her throat cut in a horrible manner. An given, a number of Findingwoun wound in himself h hie th throat, oa observed, t, the blood h e alarm being persons, with the police, instituted a search for the husband, and in the afternoon he was seen t t he in Church Wood, about a quarter of a mile from Stondon Hall, standing by a went out of the pathway into the standing wood, from which he He was unable to speak, but a - was beard in his throat. rattling noise A razor and knife were found in his pockets. An inquest was afterwards trickling held this morning, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., and the scene, on viewing the corpse, was one of the most appalling character, the floor and walls of the room dcoawmne uponout w with a h f r r e i ga. breast. u 1 being deluged with blood. From t he state of the body it is concluded that the unfortunate v ictim struggled greatly in her endeavour s to avert the hand of her mur derer. Mr. Barlow, s ur g eon, of Black rnore, described the state of the deceased an d the woud expos e d the spine of the neck HenrycompletelySeers, nds, one of which, lie said olice.con stable, proved t h at Blackbnrn, the hus. band, about eight o'cl ock last night, wrote broken sentences on a slate to the effect that he did not know wha t he was about till be divided a p the larynx, an committed the deed, and then he tried to end his own life; that he loved his wife—who had no time to reflect—dearly, Without hesitation, foun refl ect—dearly, b u t h e h ope d the Lord would have m erc y upon him. The evidence went to show that the man had b een low-spirited fo r a considerable time. William Blackburn. The not long survive, the sus tenance he takes escaping from the wound in his throat. De. d ceased has left no childre n.—Chat/Word Chr onicic. an e dv d e h iv a a d ilc mt b e eo e n n f a t , i ; newaobfil Wilful Atio opinionnlw norrdke.r thato T ahg h ea e i .i nw u sit r l l POISONING BY A BOY OF TH IRTEEN.—Last week e old, as he supposed. the following mysterious case of poisonin g occurred to Edward Muir, aged thirteen years , t he son of Mr. Muir, a'respectable hair dresser and perfumer, in th e Commercial-roa d , Whitechapel. It upstairs,sister ten lea vingars y the deceased in charge A short time after the siste r came runnin g bp greatly agitated, a o p f p t e h a e rs sh thatop, together l‘lr. Muir with was a saving that her brother had poisoned himself. He immediately ran down, when he found his son lying on the floor in strong convulsions, and quite insensible. Three medical gentlemen were promptly in attendance, when, from the smell which per. vaded the room, it was found that he had swallowed essential,oil of almonds. Notwithstanding the efforts of the medical men, he died in about ten minutes. The mysterious part of the transac tion arose from the fact, that the bottle which contained the oil was, upon search, found to be in a cupboard in the shop in its usual place, corked and “cd UP. . _ LANCASTE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. The Duke of RICIISIOND brought up the report of the Committee on this Bi:l. The report, which was re ceived, rfcommended their Lordship to pass the Bill. Several Bills lying on the table were then advanced a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, .7une 30. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly bafore Four o'clock. Soon after which Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the table, and summoned the House to the House of Peers, to hear the Royal assent given to several public and private Bills. The SPEAKER on his return announced that he had been to the Lords, and had heard the Royal Assent given to several public and private Bills (for which see Lords' report). NEW WRIT-THE NEW AT fORNEY-GENERA L. A new writ was ordered to be issued for the borough of Abingdon, in the room of Sir F. Thesiger, who has accepted the office of her Majesty's Attorney-General. The reports of the following Bills were then brought up, and ordered to be committed—namely, the Bermond sey Improvement, the Forth and Clyde Navigation and Union Canal Junction, the Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Branch and Cheltenham Extension) Rail way, and the London and Brighton (Wandsworth branch) Railway. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:—The Cockermouth and Workington Railway, the Wear Valley Railway, the Middlesborough and Redcar Railway, the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, the Preston and Wyre Railway Branches. The Lord's Amendments on the following Bills were considered and agreed to :—The Dundee Waterworks, the Blackburn Waterworks, the Kendal Reservoirs, the Manchester Court of Record, the London and Green wich Railway, the North British Railway, and the Bel fast and Ballymena Railway. Mr. OSWALD moved "that in the case of the Glasgow Junction Railway Bill, a copy of the memorials (if any) presented to the Board of Admiralty, with reference to the crossing of the River Clyde, and the reports and evidence (if any) laid before the Board, or before the Tidal Harbour Commission, and the minutes of proceed ings had thereon, as wall as all correspondence between the promoters or opponents of the Bill, or other parties, and the Admiralty, on the subject of the proposed cross ing of the river by the railway ; and the communica tions (if any) which have been made from that Board to the Committee on the Bill, be laid before this House." The motion was agreed to. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the inhabitants of Lek ds, complaining of the tyrannical proceedings of Rusas on account of his interference with the commerce on the River Plate, South America. NOTICE OF MOTION. Mr. HUME gave notice that he should postpone his motion respecting the Raja of Sattara to this day three weeks. THE OYSTER FISHERIES. Sir CHARLES LEMON inquired of the Vice-Presi dent of the Board of Trade, whether it was the intention of the Government to bring forward, with a view to its enactment in the present session, a Bill to prevent exces sive dres4 ing for oysters during the breeding season; by which practice, as has been abundantly proved, the oyster beds are often seriously injured, and may be en tirely destroyed? Sir G. CLERK said that no measure on the subject would be introduced this session. He was of opinion that this interference with the oyster trade would ma terially affect the supply to the metropolis. After a few words from Sir C. LEMON, the subject dropped. _ „__ STATE OF IRELAND. On the order of the day for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Colleges (Ireland) Bill, Sir EDMUND HAYES said that, in pursuance of the notice standing ou the paper, he had to ask a question of the Right Honourable Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department as to the present disturbed state of Ireland. He wished to know whether the powers at present possessed by the Executive Government were considered sufficient to put down the system of outrage and murder which was carried on in that un fortunate country—a system carrying terror and dismay into the hearts of the peaceable portion of the com munity.—(Cheers.) If the Government said that they required other powers, he should like to know what those powers were? Mr. B. OSBORNE said that before that question was answered, and to save after trouble, he should wish to know what part of Ireland the Hon. Member referred to? Sir E. HAYES said it was quite evident that he re ferred to those counties which were the scenes of those disturbances. Mr. B. OSBORNE—Name them. Sir E. HAYES—Cavan and others. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that her Majesty's Go vernment had felt as much anxiety as the Hon. Member couli possibly do, respecting what was going forward in the counties of Wicklow, Cavan, and Fermanagh. He could inform the lion. Member that every effort had been made to repress the outrages and crimes that unfortunately prevailed. They had recently increased both the military and police forces in those counties, and it was to be hoped this step had done some thing to arrest the progress of this deplorable state of affairs. He quite agreed with his Hon. Friend that neither polities or religion had anything to do with this unfortunate state of things. He had been informed that a meeting of both the laity and clergy of these counties, without distinction of denomination, was about to take place, at which measures would be devised:for co-operating with the civil and miThary powers. He did not despair but with this the existing powers would be quite suffi cient to secure the peace of those districts. At present, however, he was not prepared to advise any other course. ACADEMICAL EDUCATION (IRELAND) BILL. The order of the day for going into Committee was read. Mr. J. O'CONNELL presented a great number of petitions against this Bill ; the number of signatures attached to them he stated to be 300,000. Mr. ROSS said he wished to correct a statement that had been made in a former debate, respecting the Pro fessor of Greek, in the College of Belfast, teach ing Arian doctrines. He was instructed to state that the Reverend Mr. Bruce had never, on any occasion whatever, taken advantage of his position as professor to inculcate Arian doctrines. This he (Mr. Ross) thought it was necessary to state in order that Hon. Members might go into Committee with a perfect understanding respecting this point. Mr. S. O'BRIEN said that he had already stated his belief that the Bill would be the subject of endless revision if the House undertook fully to consider it. He was convinced that if he endeavoured to discuss it his labour would be unavailing, and he thought, therefore, that he should best consult the convenience of the House by stating thus early his objections to the details of the Bill. Without expecting to modify the details of the measure, he should h ave aneast, the satisfaction of having performed his duty to the House and his coun try. He admitted the importance of education, and great and pressing as was the physical suffering of the people, he admitted that the education of.the present generation might lead to a diminution of that suffering in those that were to follow. He would, however, remind the House of the measures which were recom mended by his Hen. and Learned Friend the Member for Cork, and those recommended by the Com mission of Inquiry ; and he felt that they were destined to pass another session without seeing any measure introduced for the diminution of the suffering, the exist ence and the extent of which was acknowledged by all. Ile would also remind the House, that several years ago the Commissioners of Education in Ireland said that it would require the annual sum of 200,0001. a year to pro vide education for the people of Ireland. He would take this opportunity of saying that lie preferred a mixed education, and objected altogether to the ex treme opinions held forth by the Archbishop of Tuam on the one side, and the Archbishop of Armagh on the other. Classical and mercantile education were, he thought, sufficiently provided for in Ireland, but there certainly was a deficiency of scientific instruction. He did not object to the amount of the grant proposed by the Government, which he thought liberal. The friends of united education in Ireland opposed the measure because it provided for the religious instruction of neither ; and the friends of separate education opposed it because all sects would be amalgamated without the possibility of Christianising any. The Irish people were essentially a religious people, and it therefore was in cumbent on the guardians of the Roman Catholic popu lation of the country to approach the House with a demand for the appointment of a Roman Catholic chaplain. But the Bill, as at present framed, provided for the religious instruction of neither Protestant or Catholic ; and though it contemplated and sanctioned voluntary endowment, such a contin gency was very uncertain ; and if it did not oeeur, as he believed would be found to be the case, no provision whatever would be made. He thought the plan which had been suggested by the Roman Catholic Prelates was one of the best which he had heard, and he was persuaded that nothing but the Anti-Catholic prejudices of that House prevented its being adopted. The Noble Lord the Member for Hert ford had proposed another plan, namely, that fees should be demanded from every student. That proposal also had been rejected. The Catholic Bishops de manded for the Catholic students protection from all interference with their religious tenets. He thought they would admit that that body was fully justified in the jealousy which they felt with respect to this Act, as in the Executive Government there was not a single Roman Catholic. They went on to say that the Act allowed Roman Catholics to be eligible for the chairs of geology, moral philosophy, and history, as well as other professorships; and in some of these, as in geology, he did not see that any point of differ ence could arise between Roman Catholics and Pro testants ; but still it was well that they should secure the students from the contagion of infidelity. He ha thus endeavoured to show that the remonstrance made against the Bill by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Ireland was perfectly justifiable, and that it ought to receive the consideration of Government. He did not think that the Right lion. Gentleman the Secretary for the Home Department could be considered the most fitting judge of what was necessary for the education of the Irish people. He could scarcely be thought the most able person to decide on the merits of the persons of either faith, who might be candidates for these professor • ships. And yet the Right Hon. Gentleman reserved to himself the power of making these appointments. The next clause conferred an additional power, for it gave the body of professors power to appoint teachers in Galway, Cork, and other counties in connexion with those Universities. But it was said that the Right Hon. Baronet might, if he saw fit, reconsider this part of the Act in 1848. Now, with respect to that, he thought that the power of doing so existed in Parliament, and therefore this reservation was perfectly unnecessary. Ile should take that opportunity of saying that a measure ought to be brought forward for opening the Queen's College in Dublin to the Roman Catholics. Why should rot the Roman Catholic merchants in Dublin have as opportunity of having their sons educated at Trinity',' College, Dublin. The Roman Catholics were quite con- tented that so much should be reserved for the Protestant Clergy as was necessary ? Why not open twenty scho larships to the Roman Catholics in Trinity College, and provide endowments which should b e a l s o open to them ? He had taken this opportunity of offering a few sugges tions to the Government, because he was really anxious that the Bill should succeed. His present impresaion. was, that if this Bill was enacted in its present form f 0 would prove a nullity. They must remember that the Bishops of Ireland were chosen by the people, and en joyed perfect confidence, and whatever they recommended! was to be considered as an exposition of the opinions of the Catholics of Ireland. He should have thought that they had had sufficient experience in the Charter school, not to mention otheranalogous cases, of attempting to govern schools independent of that opinion. If they proceeded on their present principle, they might as well withdraw the Bill altogether. Lord Stanley had given them as system of poor-law, which was carried against the wishes of the Irish Members, and it ultimately proved a failure. lie should like to see the Government doing justice to Ireland by consulting the opinions and the feelings of her people. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he had hoped the Bill would have been allowed to go into Committee without any more discussion on its general principles. The Hon. Member admitted the necessity for a measure of this kind, and, therefore, he (Sir James Graham) con sidered the best course would have been for him to allow the Bill to go into Committee, and when there to consider what amendments were necessary for the efficiency of the Bill. He was nt.;?; prepared to say that he was opposed to ail the amens eats pro posed by the Hon. Member, though he would beZ to ob serve that the principles involved in them had been fully discussed both by the Noble Lord the Member for Len don, another Noble Lord (Lord Mahon), and other Members who had suggested alterations and amend ments. The Hon. Gentleman accused the Government; of corrupting the minds of the people of Ireland. But he had such an opinion of the importance of diffusing general intelligence that Le believed there could be no greater means of preventing their corruption. The reli gious education of the students was not neglected. It was provided for, first, under the care of the parents themselves ; secondly, under the care of the persons selected by the parents or guardians; and, thirdly, by the heads of the Halls, who would be chosen by the professors, subject to the approbation of the Cro'vert. With respect to the representation of the Right Ref.. Prelates, since that was made several amendments had been made in the Bill. The colleges were intended for secular education, and that only. Religious instruction was not to be given there. _ _ Mr. O'CONNELL said he would not retard the House by expressing his sentiments, and thought it would be useless to do so after the declaration of the Right Hon. Baronet. He agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet in thinking the House ought not to submit to the dictation of any body of persons, however respectable, and how ever honourable. What signified the expenditure of money,and the appointment of professors, if they did not attend to the advice of the Right Rev. Prelates, the Bill would not succeed. The Right Hon. Baronet said the Bill had been much altered. Ile was in possession of the opinion of those prelates, which showed that the alterations made had created no change in their minds. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then read a letter dated Maynooth College, June 26, from Archbishop Miele, which set forth the unanimous opinion of the Prelates as to the immoral and irreligious tendency of the Bill remaining unaltered. Some of the prelates were of opinion that they should petition Par liament, taking the memorial already published as a model for such petition, but subse quently agreed not to du so, in consequence of the disrepect with which the opinions of the Prelates had beeu already treated in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Rev. Prelate further described the Bill as a litinees and revolting act, and again meutioned that the opinion of the Prelates expressed in the memorial re mained unaltered. The Bill (continued the llon. and Learned Gentleman) was justly considered as a tempta tion to youth to neglect their duty, which they owed to the first principles of religion. Some words in the letter might be too strong, but it was, at all events, characteristic of the strong feeling which the Bill had created in Ireland. The object of its promoters was of course success, and how could they expect success when the opinions of two thirds of the people of Ireland were in strong opposition to it. His object was to obtain re ligious as well as secular instruction for the people. This the Bill had not done, and therefore he objected to it. They had positively done nothing by these alterations. They hael to be sure, given permission to enact a Bill for religious purposes, but this provision was only negative, for, according to the decision of Lord Chan cellor Sugden, that power existed already. The law was quite settled on that point. There was no longer any doubt but Catholics might endow schools and convents, as the Right Hon. Baronet had said. This measure propagated darkness; common charity would be promoted best by giving each sect instruction in their own religion ; let them give one hall for theology to the Roman Catholic, another to the Protestant, and another to the Presbyterian, but as now arranged they left all in original darkness, and defeated their own intentions. the Protestants comprised the wealthiest in Ireland, and the present measure virtually allowed wealth to triumph over religious poverty by leaving endowment to voluntary bounty. lie should take one division on an early clause, not from any hope of success, but be cause he felt that lie should have done his duty to his conscience and his country. He pretested against the measure, because he regarded it as totally irreligious, and giving a one-handed permission to darkness and i religion. Lord J. RUSSELL considered the observations of the Learned Member for the county of Cork of the greatest importance, accompanied as they were by the opinions of the Roman Catholic prelates. He could not go the length of designaiing the measure a penal. enact ment, but thought some weight should be attached to the observation of it being dangerous to faith and morals, and certainly if passed in opposition to the wish of the hierarchy of Ireland, it would not at least be useful. He should not oppose its going into Com mittee ; in that stage it might possibly be amended, bast if it came out of Committee with the stigma unremoverl, he thought the Bill ought not to be sent over to Ireland. One otht r provision he considered very objectionable—he meant that of the appointment of professors ; but as amendments on that subject would be subsequently pro posed, lie should reserve any further remarks till that psi id. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. On the first clause being read, proposing that 100,0001. be appropriated for the erection of three colleges, appos• tioned in sums of 33,3331. 6s. Bd. respec, ively, Lord J. RUSSELL rose to move an amendment. He moved that in line 17 of the clause, the words be inserted "including the building of the halls hereinafter men tioned," and that they leave out the words "not exceed ing 33,333/. 6s. 841. for each such college." Sir J. GRAHAM opposed tbeamendment as decidedly at variance with the principle of the Bill. It would be introducing the princip!e of religious education as a part of the scheme if they allowed this provision to be intro duced into the Bill. He therefore decidedly objected to what the Noble Lord proposed. He considered that the 100,000/. would be little enough for the other purposes of the Bill, without apple ing any of it as the Noble Lord desired. If it was the opinion of the House adiscretionary power might be invested in the trustees, but the amend ment was at variance with the principle of the Bill. Mr. WYSE said that he differed from the Right Hon. Baronet as to the principle o: the Bill. There was no necessity for considering the halls and the colleges as bound on the same principle, for they were indeed essentially different. If it was objected that no grant could be made for religious instruction in the halls, yet that objection was overruled in the colleges. If the governing body of the colleges were not worthy of the confidence of the Catholic community, then indeed the objection might be made, but if it were, though he should object to the supremacy of one governing body over the proceedings of another as being incompatible with that supremacy which ought to be held in each, yet, under the circumstances, he did not see that the amendment was opposed to the principle of the Bill, and it was entitled to his support. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY thought that any aid con tributed out of the public purse would be contingent on any contributions of the nighbourhood. Sir R. PEEL said that the Government had made a much more liberal provision, far they had proposed that 100,0001. should be appropriated to the erection ofcolleges, halls, and other edifices, but without the appropriation of any portion for the residences of the professors. Yet they would not refuse any aid for the secular instruction of the youth sent to these colleges, and it would be 1112. ieasonable to refuse the same aid for the religious instruction of the pupils. They were ready to receive these contributions for the endowment of these halls, and they were quite ready to allow the use of the pulpits in those halls to the clergy of the Catholic body.—(Hear, hear.) The object was not to conciliate the Catholic body, but to adjust the respective claims of the several parties. Was it not then reasonable to say the Roman Catholics, the Presbyterians, and the Independents should provide for their own religious instruction? They were willing to provide for the best secular instruction of those bodies, and he thought that it would.bo unreason able to provide for the religious instruction of theßoman Catholic pupils, and he thought, therefore, that any ad judication of money out of the public purse would be contrary to the principle of the Bill. Mr. VERNON SMITH—The object of this amend ment was not to test the validity of the grant, but to elicit the feelings of the people. He contended that it was a bad principle to leave the moral supervision to voluntary contributions. He quite agreed with his Hon. Friend (Lord J. Russell) that the professional system was quite unfitted for Ireland. Now, what had the Hon. Gentleman told them the other night, why, that these colleges were intended for the benefit of the middle classes. The studies for active life of that class began at 17 or 18 years of age, and at that time it was in which religious instruction was most especially needed, and yet the Right Hon. Baronet proposed to leave this religious instruction to the voluntary feelings of the people. He thought the effect of such arrangement was not likely to prove very satisfactory His Noble Friend wished to establish with more certainty those halls which seemed likely to provide for the education of the Roman Catholic pupils. Mr. SHAW said that this question of the halls na turally led to the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church in general, and as he knew that if they endowed one professor they must endow others, this proposition was clearly in opposition to the Bill. He thought, therefore, that the Noble Lord ought to be able to ex ' plain the grounds on which he thought this endowment should be made. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, as was shown by the observations of the Hon. Member for Waterford, it was the proposal of the Government not to give re ligious education, but only a secularieducation for the people of Ireland. Now, as the clause now stood, it was 'i.`.at.`~'a . ~~ I I r