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4 of 3 1i , P g ,re A senlnti oe. "„; bs ivetu ee l r i - e r g e-• jai e el s r and o- to h ie 00 0 e j _JP 0 0rot. 4 ' . 0 C, r of • ~10 110 11 ie • MP I ne• %ft ll .. Je nd to' 5 1t 15 to erit'OP, 60:4 ter ‘ of oco 0 0 1 0„ine ire O sy3ir, Vl°Cth KNIGHT. of admiration, the cheers and applause continuing for several minutes. Mr. C. KNIGHT rose to acknowledge the toast. ,He chimed their utmost indulgence for the struggle he must feel in returning an adequate acknowledgment for their kindness. Ho felt deeply the kind manner in which his Lordship had proposed his health, and he felt with equal depth the manner in. which it had b ee n received. He could not but feel proud when he saw round him so many gentlemen, eminent in sta tion, talents, and acquirements, assembled together to express the sentiments which they had done towards him.—(Cheers.) He did • not feel that exclusively as a personal compliment. It was an acknowledgment made alone to the cause in which they were all en gaged—the liberal education of the people—the edu cation of the people as far as they could advance it, after the first primary stages, by the diffusion of sound knowledge and general - literature, as widely as they could be disseminated. He attributed great part of the success of the " Cyclopedia" to the exer tions of his friend, Professor Long. He contended that a great part of the merit of the works of the Society arose from the manner in which they had been put commercially before the world. At their outset, they had been exposed to some obloquy and some ridicule, and these works were now found, not only in the Mechanics' Institutes, and in the Parlour of the shop-keeper, but in the bureau of the Minister, and in the study of the collegian. He referred to the good feeling that had prevailed amongst all par ties concerned in the works; and noticed, with great praise, the labours of the artists engaged in illustrating the works of the Society. The CHAIRMAN then stated that the following noble men and gentlemen were prevented from attending by pressing engagements:—Lord Denman, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Dr. Lushiagton, Colonel Fox, Mr. Hallam, and Mr. John Murray. He then pro posed the health of Professor Long. Professor LONG acknowledged the toast in a brief speech, and gave, in return, the " Contributors to the Penny Cyclopmdia.' " Mr. H. KEY acknowledged the toast. Mr. WEIR then proposed the " Society for the Diffu sion of Useful Knowledge." Lord WROTTESLEY spoke in reply to the toast. MATTHEW HILL, Esti., proposed " The contributors to the Pictorial History of England,' " mentioning with the strongest eulogy, the exertions of Mr. Craik and Mr. M'Farlane. The toast having been acknowledged by Mr. Craik, The Rev. Mr. JONES proposed the health of their Noble Chairman, Lord Brougham. Lord BROUGHAM very briefly acknowledged the honour done him, and gave in return " The London pub lishers." His Lordship then qUitted the chair, and the meet ing having drank the toasts of the Honorary Secretary, the Committee, and Mr. Harvey, and the Draughtsmen and Engravers, broke up, after an evening spent in the most social and gratifying manner. event of considerable importance in the literary "la occurred last evening ; a congratulatory dinner wa s ! p i li s t se v ett to Mr. Ch ar l es K n i g h t, t h e we l l -k nown pub ,s. r of eful K the wor k s of the Society fur the Diffusion of • of the n ow! e ge, on t he occasion of the completion mint Penny Cyclopedia," a work whose commence pfetipwas an era in English literature, and the coin ef which may be called a triumph. .The gela_ er % v as also a display of the respect and admiration s er ally felt for the spirited publisher of the various k i rl i u t e e r d tal . ( ings of the Society, who in many: cases has led wa in his own person the exertions of projestor . th or and author of the works, in adiition to that o`. e publisher and bookseller. vid lk ett l)Qat 15 0 gentlemen sat down to the dinner pro lir at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. Lord brat at presiding. The repast was served up in the s tYle of this celebrated establishment, Tinder the rintendence of Messrs. J. and 'T. Staples. The "Ts, s e aho were abundant and of excellent quality. trit 4 .l 4 . ouspany included most of the editors of; and con tecutiters to, th e wor ki of the Soc i ety, and many ot h er ts e ,„nlen svell known in the world of literature. Anaong 14 - Ave observed Lord Wrottesley, the Rev. Mr. Jones. Rareresvvick, the celebrated landscape painter ; Mr. t rit ',_ - eY, the illustrator of the " Arabian Nights ;" Joh:. s t,'"° ,. n, Esq., author of the " Ecclesiastical . Antiquities a.eat Britain ;" George Lang, Esq, editor of the „PennprY Cyclopmdia ;" J. R. Porter, Esq., author of the ° gress of the Nation ;" Mr. 11. B. Ker, Mr. A. 14 . 7, Mr. H. Lamb, Mr. G. Clowes, H. Ingram, Esq., of th • Intlbs, M r . W. Cl ar k e. M r. J. M ac f ar l ane , editor" Pictorial History of England ;" Mr. G. Cruik, A ‘V-• S tansby,Tipper, Esq., &c. h;'' r n efficient corps of vocalists, including Messrs. Broad set't' Prancis Hobbs, Bradbury, ancr Chapman, were isd ai n . a ,"' l , nod enlivened the proceedings by several . songs fill et e;_ e es- The office of toast-master wits most efficiently Ili 'V Mr. Harker. Was ° cloth having been removed, Non nobis Domine ttini e sti ni l , g n in most excellent style by the professional s The he ss„, N OBLE CHAIRMAN then rose to give a toast, which It pi "3 the needed no preface to recommend it to them. to p as the health of her Majesty the Queen t the pro S t h i SS, RS all the kings and queens of this country be en " t ' be, and as several, indeed most of them, had of the • arts an d sciences. (ior?nk with three times three and loud cheers. Air— Th u sate the Queen." Alh,rtieneiamats then gave his Royal Highness Prince , and the rest of the Royal Family. An— a health to the Prince and th_e . Queen." tkti a ‘-;RAIRMAN then said, It gave him great satisfac rourCsa.t although their duty as good subjects, and the thei r j' they owed to the sex, as well as the station of Cos '''' w ereism, and the observance due to her Roy al lo s s ' f 'rt had been fulfilled, yet it had not detained them th e ; i t ;° 11 1 the proper business of the meeting, at which . t elti sd r n"sv arrived, nor would he detain them long h im sands - ng them of what,. indeed, • must be present to t e eesw ° F all o f th em — t h e occas i on on w hi c h t h e y wer a the to e u• He was the less called on, or rather he than seeessore deterred from expanding. this point more t an. hos on a Y, by the presence of their most N . verthy____ guest.—(Loud and continued cheering.) This telb ta eaitss,i„ unposed on him some restraint in the few t'fits a Xs With which he should preface the toast he of wh"."°4t to propose. He need not expatiate on that kills 'eh theY were all aware, the great merits of Mr. fist ed with whom he had the honour of being asso dad b„ th rough a somewhat extended course of business; Was bound to acknowledge that it was not merely .0e h'seillsereantile capacity that Mr. Knight might Last ;" up as an object of just esteem, and , s k ! w,eet, •of all his fellow-countrymen, and %eh 1, ( . ) valued the best interests of society; b sefur i s labours had tended most materially and most led g „' to promote He spoke with a perfect know ths ~0 1. this sub'eci, when he said that few men within 1 14 t1 tt e , l e 'with j which he (Lord B.) was acquainted— q4cl f - ir was not a contracted one—that few men who IV 4 kien within the scope of his observation-6nd that : 3 _4t 4 , 4 , , very narrow one—had rendered more imppr-' ,rlaQL''ees, or done things more likely to confer lasting 'iel id - 7On mankind, than his worthy and excellent h 4 44 3 ' Mr . Charles Knight. •He should without esi ,"es sti t'Nee, in the lowest scale of merit that which _he Ar s -re his friend, Mr. Knight, would place in a very gr aph' Position. He referred to his critical and bio tt44 Ic allabours, directed .to the illustration of the l if e Z'ett w° :,.." of their great dramatic poet, Shakspeare. Dejectuong the critics on the almost exhausted i• s s °l' the dramatic works of Shakspeare, Whi'4s (t-suight ranked among the highest h h cir d Brougham) would go to a subject with h . " w4 s more conversant, and on which he was sk sP Z e " hisfriend's labours still more highly. t t he we t l t those more valuable works which he ave to Ne e " eleven or twelve years ago, at a time when a t existed in this country, produced by the grossest ° Nt i 4O 0 e on the part of men who did not know their f tke s!lter es , t B s and who overrated their own rights, con r uleed, both right and wrong altogether, ar i;,4 - 1 -7 5 t they had a right to do that which in itself iter es ° & " "lY 'wren but manifestly against their own s Tiest - s • referred g' to the unhappy men who at that Oltierjeetned bent on the destruction of capital and ma w 1 , At that time the country was lit up with fires, Z, l res ii -e ' the agricultural produce stored up for the use ;ere e - „ w ai destroyed, and the ravages of those flames "tir i "ending also to the machinery in the manufac tvoreistricts. At this time were published the two ' ca lled the " Rights of Industry' and the "Results &Nis in ert," and he belie v ed that those delusions 0 - ' l e li a) ; °r e checked by these two works, emanating from 1 ,,,51',P ) 3 7 genius of Mr. Knight; than from any othnr i 4n ee, except the firm execution of the cri.- - "R 'aw, in administration of which, however, Samar t 4 ,Wass tempered with mercy ; he knew this from si,te as time time at the head of that department of the he was convinced that the law was materially m ' 4 9 1 1- s uPpressing the mischief by the genius of a r t . t hatV• It was part of the policy of the Government 4114 pPrt h e rtu ; to give an extensive circulation to these works, did not exaggerate when he said that at one_ b` n ere than 40,000 of these tracts were circulated. s'atiienhl now proceed to the other works of Mr. rs t ,.. ; lie need only state, that by his connection with , ft 'lielC h ' e tY for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, of f iu r e had the honour of being chairman, he had for ""titt e Cteen or sixteen years been brought into close j'rrieen'eation with Mr. Knight. That gentleman's 14 ' 1 3' into this Society, from the beginning, were abso hlhsLvakittable. Many of its best works were advised r i ; h e enperintended their execution in the most w7lite,dnti-iaeuccessful manner ; and when he (Lord B.) li s v [ many of them sold to the number of 30,000, L ate rt .as ecase with many parts of the Library of t 7, r t hei n al4 ti i , Knowledge, he had . said enough to prove is„'d te the great services which Mr. Knight had ren lknity ' l „,e tastes of the middle classes of the .corn w him the Society and the public at eh a deep debt of gratitude—a debt sad Is e s -a ti not be repaid.—(Loud cheering.) thi s -nny Magazine" was suggested by Mr. Knight, ti,v43, Mostly executed by him. At one time per te aphed theenormous circulation of . 22_0,0 . 00 toyedas k ' w hich he believed was the largest circulation Led. /I),.erioilical or quasi periodical, had ever en th;4 for hi aid not maintain that circulation very long, O a vsarket:treitSoll--its great success raised up rivals in w er th e out the Society was far from regretting this. uCt.Arary, it was extremely glad that there th ststutes created for its own labours. The I,:f England at that time complained that a Its nr.Y Magazine" did not treat of religion Parr es bs kt atin s i a °, • The magazine was published on th, vt , Y. and th e S oc iety thought hatthe Rh t t s al the fittest for sermons.—(Laughter.) It 14e1 b e tat to treat of such a subject in the work . sis the„, b ring religion down, rather than otherwise , ke°llsit'h.therefore abstained from doing so ; being Ps t .! t oth, J r c 'ct on which men did not so well agree as on fo l ,„ l° _,die tt i , . The Church of England then produced a t o ) ,1 4 u, Its own, the "Saturday Magazine," but they ini n ' t 4 while, that religion was not a good subject th s - i t , and so they kept it out of it—(Laughter) op t a i i t .tird4 were successful just as we were. Indeed the littyi tl l3 de ser l i agazine" was one of the_ most successful theth at ktion of works. Ho had no hesitation in tht l uook t ile Society , had often taken a leaf out of fee t , l 'eeiet v . "d they had often benefited by imitating t . tt lut t t Was a case of reciprocal benefit, arising lisr4ttlsod- imitation But each of them—the Church ai ty eObj ee : and the U se f u l K now l e d ge S oc iety—had the to ti; lle " i n view, that of doing good to the commu ks la.tt -°w came to a su bj ec t which he, had reserved t t ' 4 41' 4 ' and which was the immediate cause of their Itts,),s•r4 i to gether.—(Hear, hear.) They had met l e i , l 'oen t L 4t e Mr. Knight on the completion of that N o -a da it " Penny Cyclopmdia.—(Cheers.) es t ?res eot 'ilthout the least fear, of contradiction, that A11 t . 4 4t u, had ever been made to the world of more br i P t bS ( , , wh —ss, or better calculated to serve every erat tn . e e ther of rational amusement or every branch ct, t e olipk d itoll s cience, than this great work. Its name Ohter) w lth that of a cArtain denomination of coin — li ter Is eye-.---but that ma d e i t a ll the more . i nteresting Il e Ottir eto becau se i t b rought down sc i ence an d fei t , l ' it t \va s t he mea ns of the people.—(Lou d c h eers .) kh wQr k of extraordinary depth, of most pro tntac'etige, %of most enlarged and accurate classical bra ll ' s t nnes ‘ ?„ 1. . most consummate and thorough ac hat ofk oo 't i n history. He would also take that not t il )r th e edge with which he was most conversant, Ar a , ey h aa a vv ; with 'respect to which, if he mistook tO th ,,, inst poured forth in harmonious notes th,`4tighte;Lr Queen, that she " would amend our. laws." le L' h e " w a nd cheers.) And they had also hoped th, i elie ved ntlild defend our cause."--- (Cheers.) Now, a ddss' s di ftie n t the more their laws were amended, wo e ir hop ed n ' b tY there would be in defending them ; thi s he hett that they might be so amended, and they aeonbr stleh er worth defending.—(Cheers.) But even p ot te of this of knowledge came within the universal g ar n• A od g r( 2at work, in its due measure and pro- N u.) t , eie ntif 'nos all the branches of knowledge, lite ft~oUltidtvisions moral, physical, and political—all the 'S Of tite ,._ which Lord Bacon classed under the * oni t i .:t'ury, i magination, and judgment— teetiti be th ey Nostri aunt farrago libelli" °-aed the found complete. The Noble Lord then tthe r aise, e .namnet..otfhaProfessor Long in high terms par,,,„ edito r "e sir" writt en " Cyclopmdia," and instanced a nd _ n str eno „ . _ on mathematics by Professor Airie, hoeo!terwarrr Royal, written for the " Cyclopmdia," ti t ,' In the r.epublished in a separate form as a text te rtl ".° k unive rsitY of Cambride, as a proof that alludesdiettl nad , been completely rescued from night ° lorine r l • t "glit th e 0 ,, Y cast upon it. He also e salt th e „ other great _publication of Mr. A ss; f or - c lographical Dictionary," which east, seXeeeded°Pionsness, accuracy, and complete to/4'lg ey e , every work of the kind, not b, the Vrench " Biographie Universel." He ‘ 441 toalie_ProPosing the health of Mr. C. Knight. Wits rir {oak with the warmest deineustrotions ASCOT HEATH RACES. WEDNESDAY. Under aay circumstances a " review" would have been a powerful counter attraction to the second day's racing at Ascot; and yesterday, excellent as was the bill of fare in the estimation of all who love and understand the sport, the extinction of all public interest in it was the natural and inevitable consequence of the announcement that the grand military spectacle in the park was " got up" for the special entertainment of royalty, domestic and foreign. To hedge to this formidable opposition to the amusements under his immediate control, the Noble Master of the Buck Hounds delayed the commencement of the races until three o'clock, thus enabling those who survived the dust, heat, and fatigue of the review, to get to the Heath in time to witness the whole of the running. Some " gluttons" in their love of pleasure availed them selves of the opportunity so considerately afforded them, and made a day of it ; but, it must be admitted, the number was very small, and thus some really good sport attracted a select and most apathetic assemblage. The events recorded below, as fully as the quickness with which they were run off will permit, were not brought to a close until six o'clock. Some of them pos sessed considerable interest, and had the " ring" been in a healthy state, would have given ample emplcyment to the professional speculators ; the state of abeyance, however, in which the settlement for the late Derby re mains, has, and for some time will continue to operate as a serious hindrance to betting round, and may ultimately do more towards, assisting Sir James Graham's efforts to check the diffusion of a spirit of gambling, than any hints he may receive from the report of the Select Com mittee., We have said enough to show that, notwith standing the superiority of the list, everything was flat yesterday ; as a set-off, we may state with confidence that it is the intention of her Majesty, and her illustrious visitors, to honour the races with their presence this day, and that their arrival on the course may be expected immediately . after the second race. We subjoin a return of the running yesterday after- noon : • The Swinley Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, with 50 soya. added; three yrs, 7st 41b; four yrs, Bst 101 b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner of the Derby or Oaks in 1843 or 1844 to have carried 101 b extra. Swinley Course. (7 Subs.) Lord Glenlyon's Ben-y-Ghlo, 4 yrs ...(J. Day, jun.) 1 Duke of Richmond's Pastoral, 3 yrs 2 7 to 4 on Ben-y-Ghlo, who jumped off with the lead, but was passed after running a quarter of a mile, and waited on the Duke's colt to the lower turn; he then resumed his lead, kept it to the end, and won.easy by a length. The Fern Hill Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft., and 50 sovs. aided; two yrs old, 7st; three yrs, 9st; mares and geldings allowed 31b. About half a mile. (13 Subs.) Mr. Ongley's b f Mystery, 2 yrs (Pettit) 1 Mr. Edward's Hedgehog, 2 yrs 2 Mr. A. W. Bill's Beaumont, 3 yrs 3 Lord G. Bentinck's Prince of Wales, 3 yrs 4 Lord Exeter's Economy, 3 yrs Colonel Anson's Buzz, 3 yrs Betting-3 to 1 agst Beaumont, 7to 2 agst Hedge hog, 4 to 1 agst Prince of Wales, and 5 to 1 agst Mystery. The Prince of Wales went in advance at a great pace for a quarter of a mile, and .was then passed by Beaumont and Hedgehog, Mystery lying off ; at the stand she closed with them, headed them at the end of the rails, and won cleverly by a length, Beaumont a respectable third, and the others beaten so far that the judge placed them all. The Great Ascot Produce Stakes of 100 soya. each, h ft, for three-year-old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b, with 200 sovs. added for the winner, and 100 for the second horse. The winner of the Derby 71b, of the Oaks 51b ; of the 2,000 Guineas or 1,000 Guineas 31b extra ; untried horses allowed 31b. Once round. (29 Subs.) Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale (Rogers) 1 Colonel Peel's Zenobia 2 Baron Rothschild's Emerald Lord Exeter's Crosby 4 Mr. J. Day's Seaport Lord Chesterfield's The Bee Mr. Greville's Jamaica Betting-2 to 1 agst Sister to Martingale, 3to 1 agst Emerald, 7 to 2 apt Seaport, and 6 to 1 agst Jamaica. The Bee took the lead at a steady pace, followed by the favourite, Crosby third, Zenobia and Seaport lying in the rear. They ran. thus to the Brick-kiln road, where the favourite took up the running, and had a clear lead from within a distance and a half of home. Ze nobia then went up, headed her at the Stand, and ap- peared to have the race in hand, but tired, and ran out near the Chair, and was beaten by half a length. Eme rald a bad third. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; for three yrs old, .7st 21b ; four, 9st 21b ; five, lOst ; six and aged, lOst 51b. From the New Mile post. Once round and in. Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham, 5 yrs (Cotton) 1 Lord Glenlyon's Ben-y•Ghlo, 4 yrs 2 Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 4 yrs 3 Mr. Ford's The Odd Mixture, 3 yrs 4 Mr. Jaques's Misconception, 3 yrs 5 Mr. Reeves's Tarquin, 4 yrs 6 to 4 agst Robert de Gorham, 4 to 1 agst Ben-y- Ghlo, and 4 to 1 agst Wee Pet. Ben-y-Ghlo made the running, followed to within half a mile of home by Robert de Gorham and Wee Pet. The mare then took the lead, which she kept to the, Stand, where Robert went past her, had it all his own way, and won by five lengths. The tailing so great that all were placed. The Royal Hunt Cup of 200 sovs. with 100 added, for three-yr-olds, &c. Thirty-two Subs. New mile. Sir R. Bulkeley's Bishop of Romford's cob (Marlow) 1 Colonel Anson's Attila, 5 yrs, 9st 41b Lord Exeter's Maria Diaz, 4 yrs, Est 91b 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle, 6 yrs, 9st 21b —Mr. W. Etwall's Palladium, 5 yrs, fist 91b—Mr. Combe's Fakeaway, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Sir G. Heathcote's Amorino, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Mr. Ellis's Epaulette, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. Parr's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs, Est 61b — Mr. Greville's Portumnus, 4 yrs, 6st 41b—Mr. Rush's c by Plenipo, out of Bangtail, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Mr. Lit tle's Dahlia, aged, Est 21b—Count Bathyany's Fox, 4 yrs, 6st—Mr. Herbert's c by Elis, out of Delightful, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Lord Chesterfield's Tiddly Winks, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Mr. Jaques's Advice, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Lord G. Ben tinck's Best Bower, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b. Betting-3 to 1 agst Bishop of Romford's cob '•5 to 1 agst Portumnus ; 5 to 1 agst Attila ; 6 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle ; 8 to 1 agst Amorino ; and 10 to 1 agst Best Bower. Maria Diaz jumped off with the lead, and with Best Bower and the favourite in waiting, made running to the distance ; the Bishop and Attila then singled them selves out to finish, the Cob leading, and winning cle verly by a length, Maria Diaz a good third, and Dahlia fourth. The Coronation Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs-old fillies, Bst 71b each ; the winner of the Oaks 71b extra; of the 1,000 Guineas, 31b; of both Mb extra. The New mile. (9 Subs.) Col. Anson's The Princess (Nat) 1 Lord Exeter's Mocha 8 to 1 on The Princess, who won in a canter by two lengths. CUP BETTING. 5 to 2 agst Mr. Towneley's Corranna 3 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Lothario 5 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lonian 12 to 1 agst Sir R.W.Bulkeley's Bishop of Romford's cob. Alice Hawthorn was declared not to start ; the reason that she is engaged in the Goodwood Cup, and that it is not considered advisable to incur the extra weight (31bs. only) she would have to carry for winning. Great grumbling amongst those who backed her for the double event. The races commence this day at half-past one o'clock. ------- - TILE IRISH STATE TRIALS .—Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., and Mr. Austen, Q.C., have been retained by Mr. O'Connell and the other traver sers, to conduCt their case on the Writ of Error in the Stowe of Lords. THE SUN, rom him the hammer with which he gave him several se- - , +ere blows on the head, its shaft being broken in the struggle. At this time, also, the old man recollected that he had a sword stick, with a stiff square sword (four I edged), about a foot and a half long, and with this wea pon he several times stabbed the fellow, aad it was sub sequently found stained with blood ! The father and son then rushed into the parlour for a loaded gen, which was hung up there, when the fellow followed them and seized it ; but the cap having been lost, it was rendered useless. The struggle in this little parlour was severe, and so much blood was lost by the whole party, that the walls were literally besmeared with it. The old woman escaped by the window to give an alarm, when the other three returned to the room in which the attempt at murder was first made, each too faint from exhaustion and loss of blood to struggle any more. The ruffian then (having unobservedly locked the door inside, and put the key in his pocket), finding the old woman was gone to give an alarm, took out his razor and swore he would cut his own throat, drawing the razor across it as he spoke, if they would not let him go. Whether from fear or otherwise, he was then suffered to make his escape, and took a direction towards the woods on the Spilsby road. APPREHENSION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE CRIMINAL. Lours, SUNDAY, ONE O'CLOCIL-Our correspondent further writes :—We ha ve j ust rece i ve d i n f orma ti on that the perpetrator of the diabolical outrage recorded above has been discovered, and has attempted self-mur der by cutting his own throat, though not so severely as to destroy life. His name is Markham; he is about 45 years of age, and was originally apprenticed to a baker in Louth, and was formerly a keeper at the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum. Having some time ago threatened to revenge himself upon old Gainsley, for having informed upon a brother of his for riding upon the shafts of his waggon at the time Gainsley kept the Ashby toll-gate, he took the opportunity referred to to carry his passion into effect. By some means or other, he became acquainted with a Mrs. Desforges, a widow, possessed of some little pro perty, residing ati Bilsby, near Alford, to whom he was actually paying his addresses at the time he attempted to carry out his sanguinary intentions. From information received the prisoner was traced to the house of Mrs. Desforges, at Bilsby, during the night of Saturday last,iwhere Superintendent Campbell arrived at half past eleven o'clock at night, accompanied by Chapman (Louth police) and Biggs (Alford police). On arriving at the house the superintendent knocked at the door. Mrs. Desforges asked " Who's there ?" The answer was, " A friend." She then ran up stairs, looked out of the window, and repeated the same question, asking, " What was wanted ?" He answered, " You need not be afraid, I want to speak to you." She then came down stairs, and opened the door. Campbell then asked who she had in the house ? She said, " I have only my children and Mr. Mark ham." He then said he wanted to speak to Mr. Markham, and requested her to show him the bedroom, which was only seven steps from the front door. She went up, and the officers followed. The door was open. Mrs. Desforges observed, " Do shut the door, Mr. Markham ;" but, on looking into the room blood was seen, and it was immediately discovered that he had cut his throat. Mr. Handsley, of Alford, was, sent for, and he very promptly arrived, and sewed up the wound, which extended four inches across his throat. The prisoner said it was his intention to wound Gainslay, and to give him a desperate fright, for having about three years back, laid an information against his brother for riding on the wag gon-shafts. The prisoner was wounded by Gainsley in several places, and he stated that it was with difficulty he had made his escape. He had determined to cut his throat rather than be apprehended, and had his razor with him for that purpose ; he did the desperate act directly Mrs. Desforges went down for the purpose of opening the door. He was left in the custody of Biggs. Since Mr. Handsley, surgeon, of Alford, sewed up the gash in the man's throat, he managed while - alone to tear, ' out the stitches, and now lies in a most precarious state ; indeedi with scarcely a hope of recovery. I-MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled this afternoon at a quarter before Four o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The House of Commons having been summoned to the bar of their Lordships' liouse, the Royal A ssen t was given by Commission, in the usual form, to the undermentioned Bills :—The Custom s D u ti es Bill, the Stamp Duties Bill, the Edinburgh B oroug h s Bill, the West Indian Colonies Bill, the Lancaster and Car lisle Railway Bill, the North Union ;Railway Bill, the Carlisle and Maryport Railway Bill, the Eastern Coun ties Railway Bill, the Salford Improvement Bill, the Leeds Gas Bill, the Globe Insurance Company Bill, and two Inclosure Bills. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Dalhousie. The Commons having withdrawn their Lordships ad journed during pleasure. Their Lordships resumed at five o'clock. The Assaults (Ireland) Bill passed through Com mittee. The Earl of MANSFIELD presented a petition against Sir Thomas Wilson's Estate Bill. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Earl FORTESCUE presented petitions in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. He gave his cordial thanks to the Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack for having introduced this Bill, and he trusted it would pass into a law. WILSON'S ESTATE BILL-INCLOSURE OF HAMSTEAD•HEATH. The Earl of EGMONT moved the second reading of this Bill, and in doing so he denied that it was intended to apply the powers of the Bill, should it be passed, for the purpose of inclosing Hampstead-heath. Lord DENMAN felt it his duty to oppose this Bill, for he was at a loss to know what grievance there was of which Sir Thomas Wilson could complain, and there fore there was no necessity for this Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The will under which Sir Thomas Wilson held his property, provided that Hampstead-heath should not be leased for more than twenty-one years. It had been said that this Bill was not for the purpose of 'enclosing Hamp s t ea d h ea th. It was true that it was not intended t o cut up t h e h eat h i nto sma ll portions, as was the case of an inclosed common ; but it was meant to give by the Bill power to certain parties to build over 400 acres of land, which now made the heath a healthy and happy place, and the resort of thousands on every Sabbath-day in the summer time ; and this, he thought, ought to be more gratifying to the proprietor than any trifling increase in the value of that property. The holders of copyhold property near to the heath were greatly annoyed at the prospect of hav ing 400 acres of the heath built upon. It had been said that the will of the late Sir Thomas M. Wilson was a very strange will, but he (Lord Denman) thought it was a very humane will, for he believed that Sir Thos. Wilson as much devised the enjoyment of Hampstead heath to the public as he did any of his property to his son. Under these circumstances he should move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. The Earl of COLCHESTER supported the Bill. Lord CAMPBELL thought the Bill ought to be re jected. The same powers existed with respect to the property of Sir Thomas Wilson, as were possessed by his ancestors. Why then should he come to Parliament for further powers as to the disposal of such property as that on Hampstead-heath ? Why should Par liament give powers to a private individual, at the expense of public convenience and comfort. This Bill was precisely the same as the Bill of last session, which was brought forward to empower Sir Thomas Wilson to lease Hampstead-heath for periods of sixty and seventy years. He (Lord Campbell) hoped their Lordships would reject this Bill. The Earl of WICKLOW said that within the last ten years thirty Bills similar to this one had passed, and he would ask what objection there could be to this Bill going before a Committee of their Lordships' House ? He should support the second reading. The Earl of MANSFIELD argued that if this Bill were unsound in principle, there was no necessity for going into the Committee, and therefore he should op pose it in the present stage. Lord COTTENHAM said, this Bill if passed would not interfere with Hampstead-heath at all.—(Hear.) The Bill contained nothing which in an ordinary case would prevent its passing, and, therefore, if they refused to pass this Bill, they would forfeit their character for doing equal justice to all. The Earl of EGMONT replied. Their Lordships then divided— Contents Non-contents 3l Majority against the second reading -11 The Bill is consequently lost. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. ROYAL COMMISSI DN. The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and summoned the House to the bialarilowfatyheßHillouwseasofrornederas to hear her Majesty's Commission r ea d f or g i v i ng the Royal Assent to several Bills , for which see Lords' report. The Epsom and Croydon third time and passed. The Taff Vale Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from the Cler gymen of the Established Church in the county of Dub lin, 100 Members of the Irish bar, and several fellows and scholars of Trinity College, against the Bill. Petitions against the Bill were presented by Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. Antrobus, and Mr. Mundy from nume rous congregations of Wesleyans, Independents, and Baptists. Mr. WALKER presented a petition from a body of Wesleyans, who gated that upon examining the Bill, they found reason to withdraw their opposition to it, and they prayed the House to allow them to withdraw their petition against the Bill. . Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented a petition numerously signed from Roman Catholics in the county of Cork against the Bill. Mr. ARCHBOLD presented a great number of peti tions from Irish Catholics in favour of the Bill, amongst others one from Kildare, signed by 5,000 persons. Mr. MUNTZ presented two petitions from Birming ham, one in favour of, and one against it. Mr. GODSON presented a petition in favour of the Bill, and several against it, from places in Northum berland. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented petitions from Warrington, in Preston, and one from pl ace s in Lan cashire, in favour of the Bill. Mr. THORNELY presented several petitions in favour of the Bill, from places in the West of England, and from Abby Lan, in the county of Westnipath, and LONDON, THURS , DAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1644, from several other places in Ireland. Mr. TAYLOR presented petitions from several places in Worcestershire in favour of the Bill. Petitions against the Bill were presented from Mon mouth, by Mr. Blewitt ; from Cumberland, by Mr. Gore Langton ; from Birmingham and places in Grloucester shire, by Mr. Scholefield ; and by Colonel T. Wood from Finchley and other places in Middlesex. Mr. RICE presented a petition from Dover against the Bill. Mr. BUSFEILD presented petitions from congrega tions in Bradford, in favour of the Bill. Mr. BROTHERI ON presented six petitions, signed by several thousand Roman Catholics in Manchester and Salford, against the Bill. Lord R. GROSVENOR presented several petitions for and against the Bill.—(Laughter.) He had carefully examined these petitions, and he found the signatures so nearly balanced each other in point of numbers, that he was unable to say whether he was petitioning for the Bill or against it.—(Laughter.) Mr. BOYD presented 51 petitions against the Bill. Colonel TREVOR presented a number of petitions against the Bill. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a similar petition from Margate. Mr. 0. GORE presented petitions against the Bill from Pershore, and other places in Worcestershire, and also one from Sligo. Dr. BOWRING presented petitions from Wesleyans, and other Dissenters at Barnard Castle and Manchester, in favour of the Bill. Dr. STOCK presented a petition, signed by 50,000 Roman Catholics in the county of Dublin, in favour of the Bill.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Mr. BECKETT presented a petition from a congre gation in Leeds in favour of the Bill. Sir J. HANMER presented . a petition against the Bill. Colonel ACTON presented petitions from Dublin to the same effect. Sir G. STAUNTON presented petitions to the same effect. Mr. SHAW presented petitions in favour of the Bill from the Roman Catholics of Dublin. Mr. WAWN presented petitions from South Shields against the Bill. Mr. E. TENNENT presented fifteen petitions from the north of Ireland against the Bill ; also, nine petitions in favour. of the Bill. Mr. MILNES presented a petition from the deanery of Pomfret against* the Bill.' Mr. RICHARDS presented petitions to the same effect. Lord MARSHAM presented petitions from Kent to the same effect. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented several petitions from Lancashire in favour of the Bill. Mr. 'WILLIAMS presented a petition against the Bill. Lord DUNCAN:presente4 several petitions from Bath against the Bill. Mr. SHEIL presented fifteen petitions from Roman Catholic congregations in Ireland in favour of the Bill. Colonel VERNER presented petitions from the North of Ireland for and against the Bill. Viscount ACHESON presented petitions for and against the Bill. Mr. DIVETT presented petitions from Gloucester shire against the Bill. Mr. WYSE presented several petitions from Ireland in favour of the Bill. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY asked the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether they were aware that an enactment had passed the Legislature of British Guiana, sanctioning the rais ing of a loan in this country ? Lord STANLEY said he had received dispatches from Demerara that morning, to the effect stated by the Hon. Gentleman. Dr. BOWRING said, perhaps the Noble Lord would be able without receiving notice of his intention to put the question, to state whether he was able to lay on the table the papers which had arrived yesterday from China, containing some important declaration issued by the Government of Hong-Kong on the subject of slavery and the slave trade. Lord STANLEY said he had not seen the papers to which the Hon. Gentleman referred. BANK CHARTER. Mr. MUNTZ wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government a question with respect to the Bank Charter, in order to remove the doubt which existed in the public mind. In the event of such an export of gold as should withdraw from circulation all notes ex ceeding the 14 millions issued against securities, were the said 14 millions, or any part of them, to be payable in gold on demand ; and supposing that three millions issued against the Exchequer to be withdrawn from cir culation, how were those notes to be redeemed which were issued against the 11 millions of debt due to the Bank ? Sir R. PEEL said he would really rather not answer the question. He thought the intention of the Bill was quite manifest. Any demand made upon the Bank must be paid in gold. The Bank was allowed to issue notes on securities to the amount of 14 millions. The debt due from the Government to the Bank, to the amount of eleven millions, was assigned as part of those securities. The remainder of those securities were securities over which the Bank had an entire control. - It was of no use to put extreme hypothetical cases.—(Hear.) The Bank -4hould have free • con trol over the thres millions, and if it should be necessary no doubt the Government would have credit enough to pay the demand upon them. In reply to a question from Lord J. RUSSELL, Sir R. PEEL stated that the Sugar duties would have precedence on Thursday next. Mr. BORTHWICK wished to learn from the Right Hon. Baronet when the Poor-laws Amendment Bill, the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, , the County Courts Bill, and other Government measures, would be brought forward? Sir R. PEEL could give no pledge on the subject. It was most desirable that the subjects should be properly discussed. On Mon . day next he intended to proceed with the Sugar Duties, on Thursday with the question of the Bank Charter, and if to-morrow, he could state what question would be broug ht' on Friday, he would do so, but he would not pledge himself on the subject. ' IRISH REGISTRATION BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL trusted that sufficient notice would be given of when it was intended to bring forward the Irish Registration Bill. Sir R. PEEL would take care to give such ample notice respecting i n full tthi intimation Bill ß that iL a ll wisn h .t e r rla c j t e i s o t n. y' s subjects should have On the motion for reading. the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Dissenter's Chapels Bill, Mr. BORTHWICK gave notice that he should on that day fortnight move for leave to bring in a Bill for the amendment of the existing Poor-laws. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Sir B. HALL presented' petitions against the Dis senters' Chapels Bill. Mr. MACAULAY presented 100 petitions from different partsi - of Scotland to the same effect. • Sir GEORGE STICKLAND presented a petition from the Wesleyans of Preston against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. SCOTT presented petitions, in favour of the Bill, from various Dissenting congregations, and also various petitions, with a similar prayer, from the lineal descend ants of many of the founders of these chapels. Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Wolverhampton, in favour of the Bill. Mr. BUTT presented several petitions against the Bill. Sir JOHN SEALE presented a petition from the Wesleyans of Dartmouth against the Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented petitions in favour of the Bill. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented a petition from a congregation of Wesleyans .against the Bill, and also a petition from Selby in favour of the Bill Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY presented thirty-six petitions from congregations in London, Southwark, and Lambeth, against the Bill ; also a petition signed by the Right Hon. Fox Maule, as Chairman of a meeting held in Exeter Hall, against the Bill, which petition stated twelve distinct reasons why the Bill should not pass into a law. Mr. COBDEN presented twelve petitions against the Bill, and three in its favour. Mr. GROGAN presented petitions from various Wes leyan and Presbyterian congregations in Ireland against the Bill. Mr. WAWN presented a petition from Birkenhead against the Bill. Lord H. VANE presented petitions from various con gregations in Durham against the Bill. Sir J. TYRRELL presented petitions from Essex against the Bill. Mr. WATSON presented eight petitions from dif ferent Roman Catholic bodies in Ireland in favour of the Bill. Mr. GIBSON presented petitions in favour of the Bill. Captain PECHELL presented three petitions from Brighton against the Bill. Mr. BOUVERIE presented a petition in favour of the Bill. Mr. P. S. BUTLER presented two petitions from Kilkenny in favour of the gill. Viscount BARRINGTON presented a petition against the Bill. Lord CLAUD HAMILTON presented petitions against the Bill. Lord STANLEY presented petitions in favour of the Bill. Mr. STANSFIELD presented a petition from Hud dersfield against the Bill. • Sir B. INGLIS presented petitions against the Bill. Mr. COWPER presented four petitions against the Bill. Sir J. PARKER presented petitions for and against the Bill. • Mr. EWART presented a petition from Liverpool in favour of the Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL presented several petitions against the Bill. Colonel FOX presented petitions from the Tower Hamlets against the Bill. Sir C. DOUGLAS presented a petition in favour of the Bill. Mr. HAWES presented 63 petitions, some in favour of, and some against, the Bill. Mr. WARBURTON presented petitions from Kendal against the Bill. Sir R. PEEL presented several petitions from mem bers of the Established Church, Roman Catholics, and Dissenters of various denominations, in the county of Down, in favour of the Bill. Mr. BELLEW presented similar petitions from the counties of Down and Antrim. Sir WM. FOLLETT said, on rising to move the second reading of this Bill, lie would endeavour to state to the House as clearly as he could, the object which was contemplated by it ; and he was the more anxious to do so, because he was satisfied from what was taking place out of doors, and from the language of ma ny of the petitions presented against the Bill, that much misapprehension prevailed upon the sub ject.—(Hear, hear.) Petitions had been presented against the Bill from various denominations of Dissenters, and, amongst others, from the classes who claimed to have an interest in the property which was the subject-matter in dispute, and who said that if the Bill were passed they would be deprived of property to which they were now entitled. He would deal with that allegation in another part. There were petitions from the Wesleyan body. Ile could not think there was any provision in the Bill which could in any way whatever affect the property of the Wesleyan body—(Cries of "Her, hear")—nor would it affect the pro perty of the members of the Church of England, for its operation was confined to Dissenting chapels. The costs of the suits which had been going on for nearly fourteen years kad almost destroyed the property in dispute, and although the House of Lords had come to a decision, it was at that moment as much a question what class of dissenters were entitled to the benefits of this charity as when the suit was instituted fourteen years ago. He did not know whether gentlemen were aware that a fresh infor mation had been filed on the part of the Independ ents against the Presbyterians, alleging that the latter did not agree in doctrine with Lady Hewley. (LEFT SPEAKING.) fourtb2bition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The present session promises to be in no respect inferior to any of its predecessors in the do-little course of legislation. There has been much noise, but little work. One Bill after another has been introduced, to be debated, and withdrawn. Others have been pro mised by the Government as an inducement to Mem bers who had brought forward measures for the re moval of acknowledged evils, which Ministers could not defend, but had no disposition to remedy. These gentlemen —we think too readily—consented to with drew their measures, on a pledge from the Government, that bills of a comprehensive kind, in which the removal of the grievances complained of should be provided for, were to be forthwith introduced. Week after week has crept away, but nothing has been heard of these promised measures. The end was answered. Time was gained by the promise ; which, like "dicers' oaths," were worthless. The evils which brought gain to a few at the expense of the many, were thus preserved, at least for another session ; and by some fortu nate chance, may even escape the threatened extirpa tion altogether. When Lord Worsley drew the atten tion of the House of Commons to the disproportionate amount of fees on summary convictions to the penalties inflicted for the offences, and from the returns furnished by order of the House of Commons, established an unan swerable case forlegislative redress, what was the conduct of the Government? The evil of the existing system was admitted: it could neither be denied nor defended. The notice of the Government having been directed to the subject, it had already given directions for a bill to be prepared to abolish the present, and provide a better mode of paying the clerks of petty sessions. It was therefore to be hoped that the Noble Lord who had brought the question before the House—at whose instance the returns upon its table had been ordered, and by which the evil had been exposed—would leave the matter in the hands of Government, and withdraw his motion. Lord Worsley yielded to the request. Mr. Manners Sutton's bland compliments were irresistible. Lord Worsley did, indeed, venture to ask when the promised measure might be expected to reach such a maturity of preparation as to be in a tangible shape for the legislative process ? The Hon. Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department could not exactly say when. No time would, however, be lost ; certainly the Bill would be before the House during the present session. As the session was yet young, there was some reason to look for a fulfilment of the pledge. The matter rested thus till last evening, when the Noble Lord (Worsley), who had received the promise, "wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet when the Bill would be introduced by the Government for regulating the fees to magistrates' clerks." Sir J. Graham, with one of his sweetest smiles, gave the matter-of-course intima tion, that the measure inquired after was precisely in that hopeful state which rendered all idea of its making its ap • pearance during the present session wholly out of the question :—" The measure was in course of preparation ; but it was now, he feared, too late to introduce it, with any hope of its passing into a law during the present session." So much for the measure ! But what shall be said of the faith of Government--of the promise which induced Lord Worsley to resign his measure, which he had prepared with great care and diligence ? The information contained in the speech by which his Lord ship brought the subject before Parliament, had made so powerful an impression on the House and the coun try as to insure the passing of his Bill. The obvious inference from Mr. Manners Sutton's language was, that the Government measure would be immediately introduced. And now, after waiting nearly three months, the chief of the department comes forward to announce that nothing can be done in the matter during the present session ; but without de signing to tell why —except the old, worn-out official apology, that at this advanced period of the session it is " too late" to introduce the promised Bill. Thus " The Fees to Clerks in Petty Sessions Bill" is added to the measures which were promised—to be postponed, sine die—apparently with the hope that they will never be again called for ; or if called for, in so faint a tone as to enable Ministers to avoid fulfilling the pledges they have given to Parliament and the country respecting them. STANDARD.—It would be curious and instructive to trace the history of the "Socinians' Usurpation Con firmation Bill," or, as it is improperly called, the "Dis senters' Chapels Bill," which is, as o'ur readers know, to come before the House of Commons this evening. The inquiry of which we speak would be curious, because we believe that the starting into life, fully armed and equipped, without any ostensible parent, of a measure of such deep interest and such vital importance, has no precedent. The inquiry would be instructive, because the process by which these sly imitators of the cuckoo, the Socinians, have deposited their odious mea sure in the hands of the Government, might explain the contrivances by which they have furtively smuggled them selves and their accursed doctrines (the Holy Scripture calls their doctrine accursed) into so many chapels raised for Christian worship. Nobody can believe that the Mi nisters, oppressed as they are with an overwhelming mass of indispensable public business, and frequently as they are compelled, in the faithful discharge of their public duty, to give offence to their friends, have willingly encumbered themselves with the labour and the odium of this unjust and hateful measure. That would be, in deed, to realise what Sheridan said of the practice of the Whigs, " to build a wall for the purpose of knocking their heads against it." There must have been some misrepre sentation, some unwary promise made upon that mis representation, hastily caught up—for the thing is so completely out of the regular sphere of Government measures, that we are persuaded, though it were just' and harmless, as it is iniquitous and mischievous, no Government, unimportuned, would ever think of it for fifty years. We trust, for the sake of the Mini sters, whom we sincerely respect, and whom it is our most anxious wish to support in all their measures, that the true history of the Bill will be given in the approaching debate. If the Government has been entrapped by the crafty and dishonest infidels, who can only benefit by such a Bill, the ex planation of the fraud will at once enable Parliament to rehevelhem from all difficulty. The difficulty in which the Bill involves the Government is indeed a serious one. It places the Conservative Cabinet, and those who sup port it, in open and direct hostility with all their best friends without exception—with churchmen of all sec tions, Presbyterians, Wesleyans, as-well as with Baptists, Independents, and all oth er d enom i nat i ons o f Chris __. than Dissenters—the only allies, as respects prin ciple, upon n whom the Government can count being the Socinians themselves and the political Romanists. This is an unpleasant view of affairs to the many who, like ourselves, wish to see the present Government strong in the confidence of the country and in the affections of their countrymen, and not relying altogether upon the strength of pliant votes secured merely by the consideration that the only choice lies between the present Government and a worse Government. Such a title to office is surely below the pretensions of her Majesty's present advisers, both from their character and their talents. What in the world has her Majesty's Government to do with Socinian chapels ? Is there nothing else in the law that requires reform, that they will stumble upon this unhappy question, on which they must give to nine-teuths of the people :of the United Kingdom that kind of offence which is never forgiven by conscientious men, because it is believed, -and, as we think, rightly believed, to be an offence against religious truth ? It was painful to many to be compelled to oppose Sir Robert Peel's Government upon the factory ques tion, and doubtless the consideration which made it painful to those who opposed the Government upon the occasion referred to, was the motive that ral lied so many supporters to the Ministerial benches This,-however, is a more seriousquestion than the factory question either morally or politically considered. Clearly convinced as a great majority of the nation probably is of the sinfulness of affording unjust, facilities to the pro pagation of Socinian doctrines, men cannot com promise with conscience themselves upon the point, or forgive those whom they suspect of making such compromise. One holding the opinions that are gene rally and justly held of the nature and tendency of Socinian doctrines would no more, upon considerations of expediency, promote the propagation of theie doc trines, than he woulkupon such considerations, join in the opprobrious vote of the tenth Thermidor. Here there is a line which conscientious Christians cannot pass themselves, and which, if passed by others deli berately and with their eyes open, must operate as a wall of perpetual separation between those who pass it and those who do not. SHOCKING ATTEMPT at MURDER NEAR LOUTH. On Tuesday evening last, about nine o'clock, the ut most consternation was created in Louth, from the galloping into the town of a mounted messenger, who sought the assistance of the police in endeavouring to discover the retreat of a ruffian who had made an at tempt to murder an old man, name d J aco b G a i ns l e y, and his wife, who keep the toll-bar on the Spilsby-road, about two miles from Louth. About eight o'clock on the above evening, a tall, stout, banker-looking fellow called at the bar, and asked for a biscuit and a cup of water, which were plied to him by old Gainsley, and of which he sat down and partook. When he had finished he went out, and on his return said he would have another biscuit and a bottle of ginger beer. These were also supplied, and soon afterwards he rose from his chair, went up to the fire, and taking down a brace of loaded pistols which were hanging over the mantelpiece, said to the old man, " What do you keep these for?" to which he replied, "To protect myself from robbers." The ruffian in stantaneously levelled a pistol at Gainsley, and fired. Providentially the ball missed, and lodged in the opposite wall. lie then pulled from his pocket a heavy hammer, with which he began to beat the poor old man on the head. The noise brought out Gainsley's wife, who was in a little parlour, who seized the assailant by the necker chief, when, to release himself, he took hold of the fore= finger of her hand with his teeth, and completely bit off the first, joint. lie then began beating the old woman on the head with the hammer until she was nearly insensible. All this was but the work of a moment, and at this stage Gainsley's son, a stout young man, who was bed in another part of the house, rushed into the room in his shirt, when the vil lain fired at him with the second pistol, the ball of which must inevitably have proved fatal, had it not entered the thick part of his right arm, where it lodged. The poor fellow grappled with the wretch, and in the struggle he was severely cut about his right hand with a razor, which his opponent pulled from his pocket. He succeeded, however, in wresting DUTCH PAPERS. AMSTERDAM, JUNE 3.—His Majesty the King has been pleased to grant permission for the celebration of divine worship in the English language, according to the rites of the Anglican Church, at the Rogue, at No. 104 of the Korte Iloutstraat. THE HAGUE, JUNE 2.—The sections of the Second Chamber will begin to-morrow the examination of the proposal for modifying the standing orders of the Chamber. ROTTERDAM, MAY 31.—M. Van Huell having very unexpectedly received late yesterday evening notice that his Majesty the Emperor of Russia would embark on the following morning on board his Majesty's steams' the Cyclops, immediately took measures to comply with his Majesty's wish to have a kind of pavilion, or cabin, erected on the deck of the steamer, in which he might pass the night on his passage to England. Workmen were employed all night, so that by the morning the cabin was set up, furnished with windows and furniture. This morning, while the carriages were being em barked, his Royal Highness th Prince of Orange arrived, and before ten o'clock the Emperor, accompa: nied by his Majesty, our King. His Majesty with the Prince his son, the Russian Ambassador, and o th er dis . . _ - tinginshed persons, accompanied his Imperial Majesty to the Cyclops, where they expressed their entire satis faction with the arrangements which M. Van Huell had made on so short a notice. As soon as the tide served the King took an affectionate leave of the Emperor, and the Cyclops put to sea. THE HAGUE, JUNE I.—His Majesty the Emperor of Russia is expected to return to the Hague about the 10th of this month. It is said that on his way home he means to go up the Rhine to Maintz, for which purpose a steamboat has been engaged at Rotterdam. The Berlin journals say the Emperor performed the journey from St. Yetersburgh to Berlin in four days and seven hours. His Majesty's resolution was unknown to anybody, so that the news of the journey, and the orders to set out, arrived at the same time ; and Count Orloff; his Majesty's Aide-de-Camp, had not time even to provide himself with all requisites of the toilet necessary for so long a journey. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENIN:I. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris' : is 12 poi mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 451 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 50, it follows that gold is 0.18: per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. York on Londonfollows By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold i s 435 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13101 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10 , it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. d e a T r h e r e in courseH am o b f u e r x g e h h than e in a t L N o e n w d o llaoaBl an p e d r A c cent., t e . r , ca a n d h e t i h n e g p l a o r 9 o 2 f 3!4 x o c h p e a n r g e e e b n e t t . w n E n , it that the exchange is 0.83 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted front the above difference. SUN.—The English market was very quiet this after noon, and prices therefore exhibit very little change. Con sols for Account closed at 9811 to 4 ex div. Mexican Bonds rallied a little, although it appears that the remittance for the dividend is, as reported thi s morning, very small. The closing prices were 354 to f. Spanish Actives were at 23k to 4. Colombian were 131 Russian brought 117 k. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. receded to 814. • The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 8i ; Chichester and Brighton, 4 ; Brighton, 2f to i; Green. wich, 5f to ; and Thames and Medway, 94. discount. Bristol and Exeter, 10 ; Eastern Counties, New, sf; Great Western, 47; Ditto, Fifths, 104 ft ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 594 ; Birmingham, 122 ; Green wich Preference, ft ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 13 ; Midland Counties, Quarter, 8 ; Newcastle and Darling ton, 22 ; Northern and Eastern, 124- ; North Midland, Thirds, B*-, 1 , • Yarmouth and Norwich, 4i ; and York an d North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 17 to 18 premium; British North American Bank Shares were 71 discount. and Santiago de Cuba Mine, 14 premium. The advices from Jamaica, per Teviot, still allude to excessive drought in some parts of the island. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the' results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the 'Week ending Saturday, the Ist of June, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Total. Average' of Five years. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 186 178 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 148 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 33 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 6 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 5 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 6O 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified BB5 942 Deaths from all Causes ...... 'mints FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER CAUSES OF DEATH. THE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption Scarlatina 63 34 Pneumonia . .. ..... 49 79 Dropsy .. ... .. .. Hooping Cough 2O 33 Typhus Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles ... l4 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths l5 DISTRICTS. West North _ __ 171 Central East l7O 207 South.. Total ... ........ ...... ..... 885 946 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. TnE DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.—Mr. Richard Taylor and Mr. Ashurst, the common councilmen, waited upon the Lord Mayor in the justice-room, in conse quence of having seen placards borne about the streets, and advertisements in the newspapers, intimating that a meeting had on Monday taken place, at which his Lord ship presided, and a petition against the Dissenters' Chapels. Bill had been unanimously agreed to. Mr. R. Taylor said the object Mr. Ashurst and he had was to ascertain whether a bona fide meeting had taken place at the Mansion-house upon the subject of the Bill, at which his Lordship had taken the chair. They had seen no advertisement stating that a meeting was to take place, neither had they seen or heard of any public re quisition to his Lordship to call a meeting for such a purpose. The advertisement stated that the meeting consisted of merchants and bankers, but they had seen several merchants and bankers who had never heard of the meeting until the alleged proceedings had been pub lished ; and they felt that injury might be done to the measure now before Parliament, which had been brought in by the Administration, and was supported by all the law lords and all the bishops, with the exception of two, if it went forth to the public that the merchants and bankers of London had assembled, and adopted an un animous °position to the Bill. They had been given to understand that no more than thirty individuals had actually been present at the meeting. Mr. Ashurst begged to he allowed to add a few words. They considered the Lord Mayor to be the protector of the rights and privileges of his fellow-citizens, and the object of those who had assembled on the occasion al luded to, was to inflict a wound upon those who were in terested in supporting the Bill. If public notice had been given of the intention to hold a meeting, the bankers and merchants, who were in favour of the Bill, would have promptly attended to discuss its merits. (Mr. Ashurst here read a paragraph of the petition, which p pq e t u t ri r st p eo o ne r s t v e i : diei t no o t .rs hadsoumde drawn m nmu t a l p i t et that taeoter petitiont thating . )qu lie a r t ei said :t a b : a l t y t was un the . acquainted with the subject they pretended to under stand. He was anxious, under all the circumstances, that the Lord Mayor should state whether the meeting was, or was not, a public meeting? The LORD MANOR said the meeting certainly had not been assembled by public advertisement. He had been waited upon by nine gentlemen of high respectability, ho wished to discuss amongst themselves the most ad- Visable mode of opposing the Bill in Parliament relative to Dissenters' chapels. It was not by any means for the purpose of discussing any religious or sectarian ques tion. They were unanimous in their opposition to the Bill, and they brought with them to the meeting the petition which had been previously drawn up. If the application to him had been to preside at a discussion of the merits of a question touching points of religion, he certainly would not think of consenting, without throW ing open the doors to discussion by both parties; but , the meeting which took place did not occupy a longer o sp f a t c h e e o m f e t a i s m u e re. than ten minutes, and, as he had said before, m ere ly re l ate d to t h e b es p l an of oppos i t i on amongst persons wh o were unan i mous i n the ccnidemna- Mr. Ashurst said it was obvious that the persons who had got up the meeting had not the courage to discuss the question. It was a private meeting, to effect the object of which the name and station of the Lord Mayor had been made use of. Mr. Taylor and Mr. Ashurst then thanked the Lord Mayor fur the frank and candid manner in which his Lordship had communicated with them, and retired. WORSHIP- S TREE T. Daniel Rodriguez, alias Rogers, a Portuguese Jew, and Charles Stewart, a young Scotchman, were placed at the . bar, before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, charged on suspicion of having been concerned in break ing into the premises of Mr. Peter Hay, a watchmaker and jeweller, in Leith-street, Edinburgh, and stealing an immense quantity of jewellery, watches, and other' valuable property. Mr. Robinson, the solicitor, attended on behalf of the prisoners. The particulars of the former examination have already been published, and it will be recollected that the prisoners were remanded for the attendance of Mr. Peter Hay, who it was supposed would be able to iden tify various articles of jewellery which were found in their possession, and which exactly corresponded with similar articles described in the advertised list of the stolen property. Mr. Hay now attended, and stated that, in the early part of May, he had occasion to come to London on business, and soon after his arrival, he received a letter, apprising him that, on the sth of that month, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning and 9 at night, his warehouse had been broken open, and plundered of nearly the whole of its most valuable contents. On receiving information of the robbery, he immediately , returned to Scotland, and on examining his steck, he dis covered that the miscellaneous assortment of property which was afterwards advertised in the litre arid Cry had been carried' off, but he was happy to state- tlsa(ite aggregate value, as estimated by the police, had been considerably overstated. He had seen the various -arti cles found by the police in the possession of the Kisoners, and felt quite satisfied that neither of them formed any portion of the stolen property. In answer to the magistrate, the prosecutor said that the mother of the prisoner Stewart resided within a few doors of his warehouse in Leith-street, and he had fre quently seen Rodriguez driving through the streets of Edinburgh in a gig, but he had no personal knowledge of the other prisoner. The prosecutor was cross examined by Mr. Robinson, with a view of ascertaining whether he himself had given the police the particular description of the pri soners which had resulted in their apprehension, but on being informed by the magistrate that be *aa not bound to answer the question, the prosecutor declined doing so. Sergeant Barker stated that he had made inquiries respecting the two boxes which were found at the pri soner Rodriguez's house, and had ascertained, th a t tn . stead of their havi ng been transmitted from Edinburgh as was at first supposed, they were purchased by the pri soner on the day after his arrival in London, Mr. Robinson then said that he was prepared with abundant evidence to prove that the prisoners were young men of unimpeachable character ,• but he trusted, after what had taken place, that its production was un necessary, and that the Magistrate would at once dismiss the charge. _ _ _ Mr. BiouoßToig said, that as the description given of the supposed robbers exactly tallied with that of the prisoners, he considered that the police had acted strictly in accordance with their duty in taking them into cus tody ; but there being an entire absence of evidence to prove their participation in the offence, he had no hesi tation in ordering their immediate discharge. The prisoners were accordingly discharged. , LLOYD'S SHIPPING. CAUTION TO MARINERS NAVIGATING THE CHINA SEAS. HoNo-KONG, MARCH I.—The Alligator, Cook, ar rived here from Sidney, New South Wales, reports that, on January 9, she fell in with an unknown reef, in lat. 7 56 N., long. 15 20 E., in form of a horse-shoe, to the extent of at least ten miles. On the 15th January, in lat. 13 N., long. 16 S.E., was thrown on her beam ends, and cut away her masts. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Lydia, Newport to Montreal, 26th ult., lat. 0, lon. 10, by the Constantine, at Liver pool. Pilot, from Palermo, 16th ult., lat. 45, lon. 14; brig Zephyr , lat. 38, lon. 42 ; Lady Charlotte, barque, lat. 49, lon. 8 , by the Spheroid, off Falmouth. Acorn, Villa Nova to London, out 52 days, and supplied with provisions 24th ult., lat. 50, lon. 11, by the Snile, arrd. off Falmouth. Dolous, Lisbon to Liverpool, 14th ult, by the yacht Emerald, arrd. at Plymouth. Burrell, Liverpool to Constantinople. 22nd ult. ; Jupie, Charleston, to Liver pool, llth ult., lat. 45, lon. 95 ; O cean Queen , to Quebec, 24th ult., lat. 51, lon. 10, by the Oromocto, arrd. atXaterford. Unicorn, Viana to London, out 57 days, by the Swift, off Cape Clear. Edward Robinson, Jan, 22d ; Anna Eliza, 30th, in the Giloto passage, by the Brahmin, arrd. at China. Don Juan, going into Chusan, and Thomas Crisp, Feb. 27th, off Leage Montague, by the Soundrapivy, arrd. at Hong-Kong. Wetherall, Singapore to Batavia, Feb. 12th, in Banca Straits ; Shins Castle, China to London, 16th, off Minto, by the Edward Bonstead, arrd. at Singapore. THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT WIMBLEDON. On Tuesday night information was brought to Great Scotland-yard, that Charles Hall, the plasterer, of Wim. , bledon, who is suspected of having murdered his wife, by smothering her with a pillow, had been apprehended near Sevenoaks, been examined on that day before a county magistrate, and remanded. The follZiiving facts relating to the apprehension of :he accused have been obtained from the most authentic source : On Monday afternoon, about three o'clock, a rnan answering the description of Charles Hall, who is sup posed to have murdered his wife at Wimbledon,' and who afterwards absconded, went into the tap-room of the Polhill Arms, New-road, Shoreham, 'which is about three miles from Seveneaks, in Kent I he sat down and had some beer. It was gener ally remarked by the company that he -appeared very depressed in spirits, and the landlord (Mr. Vine) asked him what was the matter with him. He ' said he was in great trouble. The landlord asked him on what account ? and he 'replied through finding' his wife dead in bed on Wednesday morning last, and that he had not heard of her since. He then admitted that he was the man who had absconded from Wimbledon, and stated that his wife was drunk on Monday night, and they quarrelled ; that on Tuesday night when he went home they fell out, and she pitched in to him, and swore she would murder him ; to save himself from her violence, he put his hand to the side of her neck and pushed her. He then went to sleep, and when he awoke in the morning he turned round to kiss her, and found that she was dead. Hall con cluded his statement by saying that he loved his wife as well as a man ought. Mr. Vine took every precaution to prevent the man escaping, and then went to the constable of Shoreham, to whom he communicated the above par ticulars. The constable proceeded to Mr. Atkins, a county magistrate, residing in the neighbourhood, and that gentleman went direct to the Polhill Arms, and had an interview with Hall, who, in answer to some questions put to him, observed he had nothing more to say upon the subject. Mr. Atkins then ordered Hall to be appre hended, and given into the custody of the superintendent of police at Sevenoaks, and he was accordingly conveyed to that town, and confined in its lock-up. On Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, the prisoner was taken to the office of Messrs. Austin and Holcroft, the clerks to the magistrates, and placed at the bar before Mr. Atkins, charged upon suspicion of having murdered Charlotte Hall, at Wimbledon, in Surrey. Mr. Vine, the landlord of the Polhill Arms, and his ostler, deposed to the facts above mentioned, after w hich— Mr. Atkins, addressing the prisoner, said,."Have you anything to say respecting the evidence these wit nesses have given ?" The prisoner answered, N o , I've nothing to say more than I've nothing to do with it more than anybody in the world. Besides, it is all set tled—the Coroner's jury brought in a verdict ' Died from natural Causes ;' therefore, what have I to do with it." The prisoner, who, throughout the examination, was very restless, and continued plucking the beaver from by hat, was then removed to the lock-up. A malicious paragraph, just at this time, he ap peared in a Parisian revolutionary journal, which is marked with enmity not only to the Royal Family of England, but also to that of France. It is to the effect, that the King of Saxony, now on a tour in this country, and about to become the guest of her Majesty h in ne h s i s s ” kingdom not to recognise, or give and Prince Albert, at Windsor Castle, has issued orders tiotitleie autho r it i es of Ii g he ti to, the Dukes of Saxe Coburg and Anhalt ; and the writer adds, that a similar order has been made by the King of Prussia, whose reception in England was so flattering at the christening' of the infant Prince of Wales. Now this, on the face of it, is a rank fabrication, and only a repetition of what was cir• culated on the marriage of the Princess Clementine of Orleans with the Prince of the Coburg line ; for no third-rate sovereign, as the King of Saxony unquestion ably is, would venture to adopt a course that would weer the semblance of insult, when a compliment was about to be conferred upon him by the Queen of England, house_ il of who is so closely united to the destinies of the e Coburg: The same denial may be given for the ar o f farfetched. Prussia, the introduction of whose name Victoria, is equal to that of the t. S_o e v es e a jgn neient as the The position of Prince Albert, as the Consort rew in n f Queen kingdom he enjoys a hereditary ti t l e words upon so Sovereign himself: But why the Clubs (of course not the Ca I ), MP . of the royal tourist in visit ingremarks on the indifference flagrant a falsehood? for this re as on, ton_ tb e a re t thezi n c g e a in t about the country before pay.. noblemen and driving aies Y. e. CHINA. —Caledonian Mercury. oHis Excel reAsimpeoEutsletAoNher EMBASSYgt Cushing, Envoy Extrao rdinary and from the United States of Minister Plenipotentiary. his suite, the Court of Pekin, with suite, arrived Americaao _tads ou Saturday last, the 24th instant, on ilnengTcyl-'llisEthe Hon. C. , in Mae I I board the United States flag-ship Brandywine, Commo- dore Parker. His Excellency's suite consists of six gentlemen, Mr. F. Webster, Secretary of Legation, ; Mr. O'Donnell, Mr. 111‘Intosh, Dr. Kane, Mr. West, and Mr. Hernisz. And we understand that the Rev. E. C. Bridgman, D.D., and the Rev. P. Parker, have been ap pointed joint Chinese Secretaries to the Legation. His Ex i cellency has apartments on the Praya Grande, where he will remain until the Brandywine shall have taken in her stores and made other necessary arrangements to proceed on I her voyage to the Nonth of the Peiho.—Cantm Press, - - , - - - X . -