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an d tolo count* T iseo i 3nsible pity r on, eoplo' Bill. siel, there oP 49 Pe ........ 57 ...... •• ........ 0,01 a June 11' lo i 9 a • 3- f I ,lp. the I) llr fe' fs t° , l lt l f ' ( 1 , 1 oil' t, 'sr 1 p d, t o 1.1*13 si ra vPe d e nt t l i ' o e question Ile was about to bring under the eon % ,f the H ouse that evening ; and strong . as *er e Li s tiOrl reSpi'eti!ig it - deep as was his eollVW raischie4,l aoY delay in dealing - with it would only add fre t , to past procastination--he should shrink ~, ',task (if again calline• the attention of the house to 1,4; soafteeet so la rge l y and ably discussed at the begin- IsPe, hot•lie present session, if h e saw an ythin g like a a erninei . Never dista n t an d f a i nt, that h er M a j esty ' s Go whicli were prepared to entertain the principle upon dep,lolile settle ment of the question must ultimately . that ( C heers.) He did not for a moment suppose dual efts question would or could be advancel by indivi jediees 9 ,_rt, or that the inveterate feelings or strong pre three lvotild call them, which had plunged them for ndred years into a course of vicious legislation. ta ' ri hieh still retained such a hold on the minds of Nit 3 ;p e lr '''' l(l he removed by individual effort. On the thi s w henever th e t i me f or d ea li ng pract i ca ll y w i t h th e ;I,l,ilestiun arrived, it would require the best efforts of Inc rl of both sides to remove the obstacles which in the way of a settlement. Mueli forbearance, belfe, e :, 'n l ill' concession, would be required ; and he Al ott " th.t men on all sides must follow the opi tile It o ! tilshop Watson, who, in the debate on Rapti said that " the:) , must barn give up cora , a H ;l4s to seenre great thin g s, a s tranquillity, con tleestto int Peace."—_(bear, hear.) He admitted the te ase , n was difficult and complicated, but that was no et„h,liwl7 it sho u ld nut be entertained.—([Tear. hear.) bl tip etion e ) teaneipation was difficult, yet Catholic Eman w,R carried, Nay, the moe difficult and c.ont petopi, t ne question was, the moresndispeesible did it befo-re.that the House should entertain and promote it tt eela h it w as forced on it by events over which they Nut t ,e no control—the mo re i n c um bent it was to ke4 t those difficulties and unravel that complication, I:o l P ., lee, if possible, the Irish Church upon . a , foot : t he eci nsislent with its (lan professed objects, and this f e ,..t interests it was intended to promote. With th e % ln g , if he saw anything like a progressive policy m eter 1 431 of the MinistersLanything like an honest ti es litn,!.flation or desire to grapple with the real difficul tem In ell the Government of this country had to con kr. P t h -- to regard Catholic Emancipation as Feat regarded it. as the first ofa Of Ir ser ies of measures for the amelioration aPirit"nd, framed on a large and comprehensive Polies,and Carri e d out w ith a vig , rous band—such a llitp s ' eir as that wou ld h ave no warmer supporter t h an Nem' ° c .fte a t l o pt e ,l on t hi s paint the wor d s of an Ho. rate, his, w i hom he was sorry not to see then n his es at w illi whom he often concurred in opinion, though top wen th e ot h er side of the House—the Hon. Member v isa eYnl outh—who said, on the first debate, " that his at t• he as to se e his Right Honourable Friend h i tati H ead of th e G overnmen t announce hi s in .r°oteS;ant altering the anomalous position of the Churel in Ireland, while he maintained upon which a Church Establishment °tren t :9 be maintained in any country for the purposes l ook but giving up the doctrine that it was to be P tt i )1.1 _ s a 134 thus Protestant stronghold." He (Mr. Ward) retleraat prine.ple altogether ' , but he would ask any l e ast on either side of the Hence whether the ''ettrp,3 e nlion was indicated by Honourable and hies Gentlemen, either by word or deed, t hat p u lle tild warrant him in entertaining the belief kep t. e,h are the sentiments of her Majesty's Govern ir„l'Vas there any good legislation at all in prospect Ntt - I; ant i Had the Government announced any ti rtikseiNsa,nge in their policy, any change that might ante be expected—had any one thing been said ca lculated to remove or to allay the just cause of to Intent,„, the iust cause of excitement which prevailed 14 ' t -1111, and thus bringing back the alienated feelings ".„ (be4,„ Pee Ple of that country to England and this House. mel e ' r e hear.) The only measure commenced was tlet• pa''sa R egistration Bill, which the Right Hon. Gen gad, p -4 „ ) t he Secretary of State for the Home Department, tapc - , ne llliced his intention of proceeding with on the tite - f a ut 'l,‘7 if the state of public business admitted it. --e e t ' ft; believed, was, that the Bill had been every m , her e f, ec eived ith such an universality of condemna theV would never hear of it again. There was '`ord Bo t2oef, they the Right Hon. Baronet .. the First 41:Nee the Treasury alluded to at the beginning of the e di a ' for f ur th er en d owmen t o f th e C a th o lic clergy. of ia, - ; not kno w w h e th er th a t was i nc luded in the list are s e-"a u res to be introduced by the Government in the ali it session. But there was, in truth, no legislation N t h, fur Ireland since this time twelvemonths, and if, t heill f rom their works to their words, they looked at toteCleelarationa as a criterion of what their future )t heh tle , t ,was to be, he found that there never was a time law 'flare was so little of what was good expected, 4 _ ll ley ße i , much of what was bad anticipated.—(Hear.) l 'aae" ati not only taken up a position which was mi l), le, but the lad ledged themselves to maintain it. et*, ellvtst e had bad Y R . series of declarations within the last m onths, from almost every member of the Ml ' 4 "ke i t ? °lr ensive to Ireland, discouraging to those who, pari:nself, wished it well without any direct reference I rlep r „ .l o bjects, and destroying ail hope of good to arise I tt iNt : . ' e n who had been tying their own hands upon the oeforntil'ortant questions which could possibly be brought or 4.9 le in. His Noble Friend the Secretary of State saevedonies had declared that he could see no differ .7444-Let:veil a Protestant Establishment and a Pro llat•ele i •xlvereien ; that in 1629, when Catholic Erean 'thiehl-g was carried, there was an implied agreement, ea ty it be a °Toss breach of faith in those who 11 41 3 : 4 th atmeasure t' to depart from. Now he really had tian aware that the present Government was composed 111 of those who carried Catholic Emancipation.— alal' hear.) If the Right Hon. Baronet the Member ,otieent had been told, at that period, that . he t. 40 4 . 5,, find himself in a Government of which the 1 14 h -art let (Sir R. Peel) was a member, he would „"olt e . . lee n much surprised at such a declaration. .Suc , "li e? " , was the first declaration illustrating the inten t2etatltda,etbe Government. In the next place, an Hon. ;11, whose opinions on Irish affairs were entitled the e -le erable weight—and they derived more weight fr ees \v from his recent appointment as Secretary to the • s - e llr Y - --had declared that the Church was a line ate -aration between parties ; that no Conserva ' !If :t a ,tesman could, without dishonour to him ,',lllrat-in't ruin to his party, make any other de " 41 11i s -t ni than that be was determined to do all 11 ,1t1 1 , - I ) ?wer to maintain inviolate and intact the dignity i l'• t ilt i t inn of the Established Church. Then came the ""n. Baronet, the Home Secretary, who, while he ..it, 7of Ireland as the fatal field which had separated meet om his former friends, who he could never hope to lap st again, except as opponents, in answer to many ?lob! moderate and rational suggestions made by his ji:e.Priend the Member for the city of London, said . t itli e ' lc et all these ; they are all incompatible , that nostrums - e a t Preference which the Protestant State of L . . g tt fundamental principle, has decided on givinF . be et NtA — (1 64 of the Protestant Establishment." " I sand, the add ed trien the choice made by this country s; Refo i rmation —confirmed at the Revolution . 1 1 t e C ed , by the Act of Settlement—and ratified 1 714 er - '' e t of Union. I hold that preference to be eoe it '3st the fi rmes t f oun d a ti ons of our liberty ; I be d° nto be th e wor k o f th e grea t es t s tatesmen, and I k eiti qt be lieve it will be overthrown by any Repeal As• th,ie,4.”—(Hear hear.) Now, the Right Hon. Baronet mer - ",;',ad of her c Majesty's Government, had had the 4 t a li• l lt ." e t t co nsiderable modifying these declarations. He " If we were now convinced that the socialZiAd , c' f i a "on of Ireland requires an alteration of the law ▪f• or "eParture from the compact which has been made, • •should not Le prepared to maintain that . comb ' I Nt l,le 1/11t still he came to the same conclusion, in su - bpi as his colleagues; because he said afterwards, alltli,,,l%;ng reason and conviction in aid of compact and I, c oup s - c l i tY, and I come to the conclusion that the best 7 11 , 1 ribie a nd the course which, I for one, as far as my t alo i n Powers can be exerted, can pursue, is to main- L il es ; its integrity the Protestant Church." Now, Nt,e,:peclarations held out very little hope as to the , t aore . ,ate of Ireland, but a still stronger and a still t4 ,„ttd, signal declaration on the same subject had been atilliaunther place, to which he could not allude more thre place. by saying, that there were certain organs ,aSs , t eok the liberty of imparting to them all that to ‘ f Vhich he referred. On the occa thU ha r_el i, e!!ntation o wr a petition on the subject of the Irish llington said, " The Protestant t e mj i ha_ subsisted o f 12 4 edIreland for 300 years. It had been tostter_ u ere durin g a s ystem of contests , rebellions, and " r to "; it was part of the compact ma with Ireland at you 4: ti f d t , h a e n u t nion • it was the foundation on which the of cannot depart from it without being r ° , , f a breach ' of you cannot depart from it without being S btCaOl. of faith worse than those pecuniary breaches ti -° , l 4lEt " -. I\ '''hich have been alluded to on such °ee ilriseie old '"" , v, all these declarations were, in his humble t• di i nt ; very useless and very impolitic. They irritated not aolivioce stemt nothing; they could not re yeople t — y which was indefensible upon any Ills e ' fl at l o • a, h s t He could not but help referring to . 1 , 1 15 nteo4rable occasion , tlrar4 ' on . which a Royal Duke, in alluding to "teeleistort of Catholic Emancipation, had made a remarkable •W Nit: - 1 144 . The h f the Duke of York did more in 11 440 1 .' er ees tu alienate and exasperate Ireland than all the 'lr.) a and suffering of which he had complained—(Hear, 11 TIC said concession to Catholics would be a total change • 'attj'tdhsnsventa,l principles - of the Constitution and a blow di toi eD root of . it—that . nob , ody could be more in ertt_ eratlen than his late Majesty . , but there was a great th us Co netween toleration and emancipation. He said that th th s e to K od . in the way of concession, from the could not release himself by any 11 „ 1 , 1 4 1° w ,' , released m rb any act of the Legislature. He si r t' i a ", imbibed those principles Y in his earliest youth, . 44-Ittitid,e-asteiohnbed to their justice . after the most mature a le , Woul d o these princ h iples he still adhered, d ee 7t uf maintain and act upto them , down to the last mo tarations tt le oh, E L_ . not, however, stop . ex istence—so ence—s° help him the God .-- ( ( s il e e o a f r e ' v li e e n a t r s . , ) fo T r , t h lfe t I tod e i",fu-Ipation Act was carried four years afterwards-- I ;" - ' t f it was to delay a great and wise measure, kark ta i e l )r. '"e it of hlf •t g ce and utility. There was a re !Pecch f I s p, - h ra t H n Baronet, the Secretary . of fosprentee' vieuhtittielti;ya.t the time of •t ° delivery, made an impression r the Right ( 1 1N1r. Ward) had quoted it on a ther.ne,s s at { the , tne Right Hon. Baronet, said that if the Ca kt,-elves t heme ergans, senses, affections, ' and passions, as and were Y,would never be satisfied if Catholic En-13nel - t c y arned, to leave an intrusive Church in Ire . la . n . d . , r eli w or:,„ oll 7;tr .. y first . use they would . make of that political li ea rs ac, to reinstate their own Church ; yet, within W w ere a d u C r ;he delivery of that speech . , the Roman p ut it itiiteed to the enjoyment of political pow er.— (Hear ) 8 34 thecould Right lion. Baronet, then, how they oo deo are t . ,Y Ireland without doing that which, 27ears , 14 lic ett 4 could be utterly impossible to withhold if Ca retpat ion were carried. Now, let him recal to i the r . ! %% 111 1 ' 4 ...loth? House what was the real subject of d . isp o u ta e . . hßss refe4_t.'seary them with any lengthened stati . s !cal d t t i l e tie,, es " , 7 to the revenues of the Church , was d 1 t media os al Y , o do so, because his Noble Friend had place a by % e V tbe most recent data which could b . e Zrout beforeFesiastical Commissioners. The question Of WOuld b_ them in such a shape that , believed L. Lae r, ve . e very little difference of opinion as to the amount • t is h Ch r 9 4e . Last year his estimate of the revenue of the et e, was 65 1 1 ; which was exceedingly imperfect and inco.rno -4a2eireptu‘e,7s3/. The estimate of his Noble Friend, owi n g .025/ . ranee, which were afterwards explained, 7 . t t a a ate s e;eleaving a difference of 1`)0,000/. Both those the very Much under the mar k. He believed he might 4nd s andPlscipal r evenues—the revenues held by deans,•pre esked, unn or canons, a t 196 , 1 32 / . ; the paroc hi a l tit h es at i the episcopal at 9,000 L; tithes held by dignitaries at 24,0001. ; making in all 524,660/. Deduct from this 25/. per cent. for the rent-charge, and there remained 390,495/. Add for episcopal revenues, after deducting tithes, 162,001)1 , which made 552,753/. ; add to this the value cf glebes and demised tithes, and the total present income of the Irish Church appeared to be 652,000/. He b-lieved the estimate formed by Lord Morpeth same years ago, was 744,926/. Well, 'now, the y had to provide out of this income for a popula tion of 750,010 Episcopalians. In the original returns the Wes leyans were improperly included. Th-y amounted to at least 100,01) persons, and were totally independent of the Establish ment.—( Cheers. ) In England there were 14,000,000 Pro testants. There were in Ireland 2,450 parishes, end 1,422 beneficed clergy. In England there were I 0,7e0 parishes. In Ireland there were two archbishops and ten bishops ; in Eng land, with an episcopal population ten times larger, there were only two archbishops and twenty bishops.—( Hear, hear.) To one bishop there were in Ireland 115 benefices; in England there were 411 The diocese of Lincoln contained 1259 benefices, and that of Norwich 1,033 ; so that there were two bishops in this country for 2,292 benefices, whilst there were 1,422 benefices in Ireland with ten bishops and two archbishops to superintend them.—( Hear. hear.) He put it to the House whether one archbishop and three bishops would not be an ample provision for 1,422 benefices, with 752,000 Protestants, costing eighteen or twenty shillings each? But that was not all. Including educational grants, grants for building churches, and other objects, not leis than 3,310,0001. had been voted since the union, to support the Irish Establishment. The charter schools, founded by a Primate Poulter, were proselyting schools, in which the Catholic children were taught to regard their parents as heretics. How could they be expected to turn out well. when they were educated in such a belief? Ir point of fact they had not done so. lie did not wish to repeat anything which he had stated already ; but some of his former state ments having been denied, he felt bound to allude to them. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Recorder of Dublin said that the neglect of the native language had been greatly over rated. The Honourable Gentlemen then referred to events which occurred in the reigns of Elizabeth and James to bear out his statements on this subject. The Hon. Gentleman then went into a series of statements, to show that from the first establishment of the English dominion in Ireland. the object of the Government had constantly been to enrich the Church at the expense of the people. The Hon. Baronet the Member for Oxford had on a former occasion al luded to the great improvement which had lately taken place in the Episcopal clergy in Ireland. According to the Hon. Baronet the Apostolic age was on the eve of returning in that country. Now, it so happened that he (Mr. Ward) was constantly receiving communications from Ireland on the sub ject of the Church. He. believed that he might say that his desk was the general receptacle for all documents relating to the abuses of the Established Church in Ireland. Now he held in his hand a document, of the authenticity of which he had no doubt, it was entitled a catalogue of the genuine effects of the late venerable Thomas De Lacy, Archdeacon of Meath, to be sold by auction, and was dated in February last. Among the articles for sale, he found enumerated forty thorough-bred horses and mares, justly celebrated in all the hunts and steeple chases in Ireland ; an entire Spanish ass ; a spanish donkey in foal; thirty coupe of beagles, and thirteen brace o: greyhounds well known in the county of Meath.—( Hear.) These things seemed certa'nly very little like the Apostolic age as he under stood it. The Hon. Baronet would find that there was still small rooom for improvement. These documents had been transmitted to him by a Catholic clergyman, who, in his letter, had stated that the pla7ard enclosed would illustrate the man ner in which the wealth of the State was lavished on the Church of the minority in Ireland, hut he protested against the wealth being transferred to the Catholic Church. His de sire was to see it employed in some purpose which should be useful to all classes of the people. Such were the doctrines entertained by the whole Catholic prelacy and priesthood. Now how could they imagine that the people of Ireland, when they saw these revenues, which had been originally left for the sup- port of the Catholic religion, thus lavished on the members of a sinecure Church, who wasted them in the profusion of worldly luxury—how could they imagine the people of Ireland could place any reliance on their sense of right or of justice? He admitted that the late Archdeacon De Lacy was a kind, hospitable, li beral man--he did not complain of him, but of the system. Nature had intended him for an excellent fox-hunting squire, but the law had made him a bad archdeacon.—( Laughter.) But then they were told that to meddle with the Irish Church would be a breach of the Act of Union. If the Act of Union had no better foundation to stand upon than that, God help them and it—it would not stand twelve months.—( Hear. ) He c mid not forget the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government on the Dissenters' Chapel B:11—a measure which met with his hearty concurrence. The Right I-lon. Baronet had spoken of the good effects of perfect tolera tion at Tamworth, where they were like a happy family, with a Unitarian chapel at one end of the town, a Catholic chapel at the other, and the ',church, like the cut in the Honourable Baronet's caricature, keeping the peace between them. —( Hear, hear.) Surely Tamworth was not to be the exception—why was not the Tamworth system made co-exten sive with the empire ?—( Hear, hear, from Sir R. Peel.) He knew the meaning of that cheer. In Tamworth the Church had her rights, and 'the Dissenters were tolerated. That was right, for the Church was the Church of the majority ; but let the Right Hon. Baronet transfer the revenues of the Church 1 to the Unitarian or the Catholic minority, and he would have a little Ireland at his park gate in a fortnight. He utterly denied that they were bound to support the Irish Church, either by the Act of Union, or by the Emancipation Act of 1829. The Catholic oath, in 1829, was framed without any participation or compact with the Catholics, and, at the time of the union, not only was there no compact in favour of the Church, but there were assurances given by Mr. Pitt, and by Lord Corn wallis, that the union should be immediately followed by Catholic emancipation. As a proof of this, he would refer, not only to the communications of those distinguished men, but to the whole course of the union debates. As a proof of Mr. Pitt's sincerity in thist instance, he would remind the House that when Mr. Pitt found he could not carry his measures in favour of the Catholics into effect, he resigned office, in 1804, and yet the men who dined at Pitt clubs coupled Mr. Pitt's name with Protestant ascendancy.—(Cheers.) Why, Mr. Pitt had actually struck out the sixth article of the union as it came front Ireland, which saved the Church all the rights, privileges, and jurisdictions which then belonged to it, and had substituted the article as it stood at present, guaranteeing to the Church its discipline and doctrine in the place of the original sixth article ; and he made this substitution on the ground that he wished to reserve to the Imperial Parliament the power of considering what it might be expedient to do for his Majesty's Catholic subjects. Now, it was not possible for a Minister of the Crown to hold stronger language than this. But, even supposing the Act of Union had guaranteed the pre servation of the Irish Church interest, still he might ask the Right Hon. Baronet how he proposed to deal with the question? This was the last remnant of the old system. The Right Hon. Baronet must have foreseen some years ago that it must come to this. He had emancipated the Catholics, and he also stated that when they were emancipated, if they had the feelings of men they must necessarily use their power to endeavour to obtain the restoration of their own Church, and that the union with Scotland had never been completed until that had been effected. How did the R.ght Hon. Baronet mean to deal with this question? Did he mean to fall back on the ‘• No Popery" cry, and tore-enact the Catholic disabilities? He had lately seen a remarkable suggestion on this point from a gen tleman who had at one time been honoured by a high eulogium by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies, he meant the Rev. Hugh 114•Neiil, who, although he was not now so im portant as he was some years ago, before the present Ministry came into power, was still a gentleman possessed of considerable local influence. That gentleman as late as December last, in addressing the Conservative Operative Associa tion of Liverpool, had given it as his opinion, that the British Constitution would be destroyed unless political disabilities were again imposed on the Roman Catho lics.—( Hear, hear.) He hardly thought the Right Hon. Baronet would agree with that gentleman. Then there was another gentleman, the Rev. Mr. Glover, who, in a re cent work on Ireland, had stated it as his opinion that all the agitation in Ireland was owing to the double episcopal rule of the Roman Catholic Bishops and of the Bishops of the Esta blished Church, which was the ancient Church. Mr. Glover stated that it was entirely in the power of the Home Secretary to stop the agitation at any time, by issuing a royal proclama tion informing the people of Ireland that the Roman Catholic Church was a new Church, not dating to a later period than the seventeenth :century, and that the Bishops of the Esta blished Church were the true representatives of the Apostles, and of the Saints in general, and of St. Patrick in particular ; that that was the old religion, which was not the less old because it was preached in the English language. Those were professions made by men who professed the sin cerest regard for all classes of their fellow-countrymen, and one of them at least had been lauded for his mildness by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies. Was the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Government prepared to say that Catholics were not justified in voting for those reforms in Ihe Established Church which a large portion of the 'Protestants of this kingdom were in favour of ? Did he mean to go back to the days of 1753 or of 1792, when Lord Westmoreland indig nantly rejected a petition from the inhabitants of Cork, because it contained a paragraph which prayed for the remission of some of the penal laws which then afflicted Catholics? Did the Right Hon. Baronet subscribe to Mr. Montgomery Martin's recommendation—to punish every Irishman who happened to be a repealer with the loss of his goods ? Did he believe in the soundness of the triumph over " the convicted conspirators ?' Did he believe that that success would insure the peace of Ire land ? He thought that would be a most unsound conclusion, and one which he saw nothing in tine present condition cf the affairs of that country to warrant—he saw nothing in Ireland now but a sullen dogged feeling of dislike to England, and a distrust of our justice.--4 Hear, hear.) There was a general feeling there, that if O'Connell had been an Englishman and tried in England, he would have been acquitted—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear") —that he was in prison because he was an Irishman, and because he was tried in Dublin.—( Hear, hear. ) Such a feeling naturally gave rise to strong and general re sentment. He saw no sign of discouragement or despondency on the part of those who had joined Mr. O'Connell in the re peal agitation. He saw no sign of any disposition to ask un worthy favours of the Crown to effect the release of a man who, whatever his faults might be—and he (Mr. Ward) did not be lieve they were greater than what would naturally fall to the lot of one engaged in active public duty—a man whom history would pronounce to be the most eminent of his age and coun try—he saw no disposition, he repeated, to sue for even his liberty, although it would be, no doubt, to the Irish people a source of unspeakable satisfaction. He feared, if the wounded feelings which at present existed were not allayed, that the struggle would soon be of a different nature—a struggle for separation instead of repeal. Were the sympathies of Europe with them in this persecution of Ireland? He thought not—he did not think the Government could rely on them for a moment. Ireland was our Poland, and what was felt for Poland we ought to feel for Ireland. He did not ask them to go to Catholic Belg;um or Catholic France, but he would go to Protestant Switzerland and Protestant Ger many. The Hon. Member then referred to a passage in a French work, the " Bibliotheque Originel," lately published, in which it was stated that the present condition of Ireland was utterly untenable. The work was circulated over the whole Continent, and the Continental newspapers generally had aper feet horror of our policy. They could not understand the mi serable inconsistency of our applauding public liberty, and yet practising the most illiberal policy upon a large portion of our fellow-subjects. For three centuries the greatest cruelties had been practised on them in the name of the Irish Protestant Church Establishment.—( Hear.) Why the treaty o f Westphalia, although its territorial re gulations had been long since blown to the wind, was prized be the Germans, because it conferred civil and religious liberty. Germany sympathised with Ireland, and wished to see her shake off that yoke of oppression, that cruel yoke, by the tortures of which, as Judge Jebb remarked, you might track Ireland by her blood, like a wounded man.—( Hear, , hear.) Whilst we were voting away 800,000/. a year for the emancipation of the blacks, we were annually higgling and haggling about a paltry sum of 8,000/. a year for the education of 7,000,000 of our fellow-subjects.—(Hear, hear.) Was it not lamentable to see us risking the peace of Ireland, to pre. serve a paltry rotten system, which Pitt had, twenty-seven years ago, declared must be abandoned, and which, he said, could not survive Catholic ernancipation. We saw the King of , Prussia laying the first stone of the Catholic cathedral at Cologne amid acclamations, and yet the Queen of England could not place the name of the most distinguished Catholic in her realms on the Privy Council, without encountering the vulgar abuse of Exeter Hall. lie would call upon the House that night to take the first step to put an end to this system. He trusted that the 1 subject of the Irish Church would receive ample consideration at the hands of the Commons of England, and that that fertile source of discontent would be removed, and that tranquillity would be permanently established. Ireland would have her rights, hoss'ever they might slight them. Our only choice was whether Ireland should receive her rights from our justice or through our humiliation. He preferred conceding at once what it would be dangerous and unjust in us longer to with hold. On a subject so exhausted as the present, he would not longer dwell, but he believed the House had no other means of averting the repeal of the union than by proving that the Imperial Legislature CAI legislate for the whole people of Great Britain and Ireland on the principles of equality and justice, and that they were not only able, but willing, to consummate at once this work of civil and religious renovation.—(Cheers. ) Lord ELIOT said, that during the last session of Parlia ment the subject of the Irish Church had been so thoroughly discussed that he did not think it necessary to trespass, for any length of time, on the attention of the House. He had on that occasion so fully stated his opinions, that he thought it the less necessary to trespass on their attention. If he rightly under stood the motion of the Hon. Member, it was much more limited in its nature than the motion of last year. Neither did the Hon. Gentleman go into the same ample details as on a former occasion, but contented himself with requesting of the House to accede to Isis motion for inquiry. The principal argument of the Hon. Member was, that as the Members of the Established Church in Irelaad bore a small proportion to the whole people of Ireland, that, therefore, the Established Church should be stripped of its temporalities. He admitted the pre mises, but denied the conclusion. It was not a mere question of numbers, it was a question of principle, of right. They were not now called upon to consider which was the best mode of supporting the Establi-hed Church in Ireland. They had now to deal with the Church which had a prescriptive right to its temporalities nearly 300 year. He did not think the argu ment of prescriptions could be altogether disregarded by Hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House. There was no part of the speech of the Right Hon Gentlenian, the Member for Edinburgh, on the Dissenters' Chapels Bill—that eloquent, argumentative speech—which seemed to have made a greater impression on the House than that in which he treated of pre scription. He showed how much his right was cherished, and to what an extent it prevailed, not only in the polished States of Greece and Rome, but even among the uncivilized nations of the East. But he (Lord Eliot) did nut, by any means, altogether rely on prescription. The temporalities of the Established Church were secured to her by the Act of Union, and were confirmed by the Catholic Emancipation Bill. The fourth article of the union was decisive on this point. Mr. Pitt, who had been frequently quoted as an authority by the lion. Member for Sheffield, was decidedly adverse to the abridgment of the tem poralities of the Established Church. The Noble Lord then quoted the speech of Sir Henry Parnell in 1811. in which that distinguished man stated that the Established Church in Ire land had been secured in strength by the Act of Union, which was one of the objects of that union ; and he quoted Mr. Pitt's authority to the same effect. Mr. Pitt was of opinion that the Established Church in Ireland would derive security from being consolidated with the Established Church in England. The people of England had been assured at the time the Catholic Relief Bill was passed, that the Protestant Church in Ireland would be secured by it. Mr. Grattan, in 1823, thought the revenues of the Established Church should be supported, and should not be subjected to any species of spoliation. Lord Plunkett deprecated in the strongest manner the transfer of any portion of the temporalities of the Established Church to the Roman Catholic Church. He said he respected the rights of the Established Church, and would resist any encroach ment on them. He maintained that the property of the Church ought to be held is sacred as any other species of pro. perry ; and down to 1832 the present Earl Spencer, then Lord Althorp, held language of the same nature. He was adverse to any spoliation of the revenues of the Church. After dwelling on this portion of the subject at some further length, the Noble Lord proceeded to notice the argument of the Hon. Member for Sheffield regarding the mal-administra firm of the Irish Government in respect to Church patronage. The Hon. Member said that appointments had been made in the Irish Church which were calculated to excite .the discon tent of that people, and that those dignitaries who were so appointed were unfriendly to the people; and the Hon. Member attempted t °bolster up his case by reading a placard, announcing the sale of some of the property of one Archdeacon Lacy—an elderly, eccentric gentleman, who, be it remembered, was not dependent upon the revenues of the Established Church, but hail an ample property of his own, The Hon. Member had somewhat misrepresented his (Lord Eliot's) sentiments; he had not said anything which could be construed into an opi nion that Catholic Emancipation in any way invalidated the Established Church. Neither could it be urged as a reason for spoliating the revenues of the Established Church, that they should be applied to the Roman Catholic Church, or to the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy ; for the ROman Catholics, as well as their clergy, repudiated the idea of a State provision. Then, what would they do with the property of the Established Church were they to confiscate it? Mr. M. O'CONNELL—AppIy it to secular purposes. Lord ELIOT was entirely averse to any such application, and he believed if the revenues of the Established Church were taken away none would lament it more than the Roman Catholics themselves. Whatever opinionhe (Lord Eliot) might entertain regarding the endowment of the Roman Cathode clergy, and he owned he was not unfriendly to it, must, during the present state of feeling on the part of the Roman Catholic population and clergy, be altogether abandoned. But this was not the time to discuss that subject. In fine, he conceived that the Hon. Member's plan was unjust, inexpedient, and incapa ble of producing the effects which he anticipated from it ; and firmly entertaining these opiniors he called upon the House in the most earnest manner to reject the motion. Mr. ROSS said he had heard it stated by Hon. Members on the other side of the House, on several occasions when this question was under discussion, that there was no real grievance in the establishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland; but he and others knew well, from practical experience, that these asseverations had no foundation in fact, and that wrong did exist. There was one Hon. Member on the Ministerial benches (Mr. Shaw, we believe), who never hesitated to say that, for his religion, he was ready at any moment to lay dow n his life. He for one did not doubt his sincerity, but he disap. proved the feelings which prompted such an avowaL He be lieved such sentiments to be irreconcilable with the Christian dispensation. There were some occasions when his sense of duty would compel him ( Mr. Ross) to figh t ; he would fi g ht fur his country, but he would not fight for his religion, because, in doing so, he must necessarily be attempting to violate the con science, the scruples, and the religious feelings, of his fellow man. It was said by the opponents of the present motion that, if it were agreed to, it would be consenting to the destruction of the Protestant religion in Ireland. lie hoped he was as good a Protestant as any man in that House, and his opinion was that no injury could ever accrue to the Protestant faith by any such step. He believed the Protestant religion to be placed on too solid a foundation ever to be shaken, even though all its endowments were swept away. But, for his part, he ss as prepared to contend that even if this wss a real grievance, they were bound to consult even the preju dicea of those from whom they differed. And when the Roman Catholic population of Ireland looked at their own clergy, and then at the rich clergy of the Estab lished Church, and contrasted the two, they felt keenly how strange and strong that contrast was. Under these circum stances, then, the question arose, what was to he done? It had been said that evening, as on previous occasions, that a Committee only was asked for, and that no specific measure of relief had been suggested. Now, in his (Mr. Ross's) opinion, the Hon. Member for Sheffield (Mr. Ward) had acted much more suitably and respectfully by leaving the remedy to the wisdom of the House itself. The Honourable Gentleman called on the House to consent to take the first and necessary step towards a remedy, and that was by going into a Committee of the whole House. He thought they ought to act towards the Roman Catholics as they acted towards the Presbyterian clergy, who received the Regium Donum. It was due time for the House to turn its attention to the subject. There was danger in delay. He did not mean to say there was any danger of a rising on the part of the people of Ireland, for peace and order had been preached to them. But human nature was human nature, and the Irish people might avail themselves of the first oppor tunity presented to them, and when that House would too late repent it had not hearkened to the advice of the Hon. Member for Sheffield.—( Hear. ) Mr. SHAW said he was not surprised at the weariness which seemed to pervade the House upon this subject, whether it arose from a consciousness of what the result would be, or from its having been so frequently discussed before. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Sheffield, as usual led the attack on the Established' Church of Ireland, of which he (Mr. Shaw) was the humble advocate in that House, but lie perceived from the speech of the Hon. Gen tleman that the tactics of the party with whom he acted were considerably changed. The mask of professed friend ship towards the Established Church had been at length cast off. He was glad of it, for the professing friend was more dangerous than the open foe. There was no more talk of surplusses and appropriation clauses. The destruc tion of the Established Church was now put forward, and this he believed was always the object which Hon. Gen tlemen opposite had in view. The issue now sent to the House and country to try, was whether the Established Church, after a possession of 300 years, was to have its property confiscated, and the Roman Catholic Church established in its place?—(No, no. ) The Hon. Gentleman again said that there should be no hig gling about terms. He would not admit of terms, but would take his stand on the ground of justice. As the representative of the Church of Ireland in that House, he would repeat the terms of the Hon. Gentleman. The Hon. Gentleman had spoken of the failure of the Established Church in Ireland in winning over the people. A main cause of that, perhaps, was the m aladministration and neglect of the Irish Church. The Hon. Gentleman again alluded to there being no Protestant prayer-books printed in the Irish language for the use of the people. Now he begged to tell the Hon. Gentleman that the Protestant prayer-book was the 'first ever printed in Dublin, and during the last twenty years thousands of them had been circulated by the Society for the promotion of Chris tian Knowledge. The Hon. Gentleman then went to parti cular cases, and referred to Archdeacon De Lacy. Now, this clergyman was the owner of a considerable private fortune, which he spent in works of charity, and if he kept a great number of cows, he gave away the milk to the poor. If he was fond of sporting, there were perhaps not far from where he had lived Roman Catholic clergymen who were also fond of their gun and their hounds, but he should be sorry to adduce this as an instance of the conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy generally. The Hon. Gentleman then quoted a hand bill of the auction of this clergyman, which he supposed was drawn up by some George Robins, giving as flourishing an account as pcnaible of the property to be sold.—( A laugh. ) The character of no Church should be estimated from the conduct of individuals. What were the cir cumstances of the Established Church in Ireland? Now, he believed there was no practical grievance now felt by the Roman Catholics of Ireland. Whatever grievance they had suffered with respect to tithes had been removed by their being transferred from Catholic to Protestant landlords. The nett income of the beneficed clergy was now about 350,0001., including curates, 377,050/. The income of the archbishops and bishops was about 6 1,0001. a year, Adding the incomes of d e ans, chaplains, &e., the total would be about 550,000/. a year. The average of the benefices, supposing them to be 1,400, was 332,000/. That was 225/. for each beneficed clergy man. He believed that the Hon. Gentleman had understated the number of Episcopalians in Ireland. AceOrding to the Commissioners of Instruction, it was 850,000 ; but the Wesleyan Methodists of Ireland considered them selves as belonging to the Established Church, and supposing that to be the case, the entire number of Episcopalian Protestants in Ireland was not, he believed, less than a million. Fifty sinecures had been abolished since August, 1833, and thirty-two pluralists had been taken from the list ; there were at present only eighty-one pluralists remaining. In 1837 it was roported that there were 345 non residents; there were now only 109. When the Temporalities Act had been brought into full operation, he believed there would not be two benefices worth 1,500/. a year, and not ten worth 1,0001. There were, under the bishops and clergy of the Irish Church, 1,873 schools, containing 102,520 scholars. Now he could not help observing that such motions as that before the House would rather tend to excite than to allay the animosities which had hitherto existed. He did not believe that the abolition of the Irish Church would give the Catholic population a single meal ; and he thought it was hard that those who had been the firmest friends of British connexion, and who had suffered so many privations, should now be threat ened with the destruction of that institution.—( Hear, hear. ) The object of the motion could not be mistaken ; but he trusted that he should never live to see the day when the Government would countenance such a proposition. Mr. REDINGTON knew to what new party the lion. and Learned Gentleman might consider himself to belong; but he could imagine the shouts of derision with which, such a speech as that which had just been made would be received lin Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman and the party to which he ritiE SO N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1844. belonged, by whatever name they might choose to call them selves, had always been the greatest enemies of Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman had come down to-night to explain the present position of the Irish Church, and had at tacked them for bringing the condition of that Church Mole the public. He would not now stop to ascertain to what the fact was to be attributed that the Church had not up to the present time made one convert more since the hour it was planted. It might perhaps he owing to the maladministration and mismanagement of its funds. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman asked them to have pity upon the poor Church of Ireland, because it had only 81 pluralities.—( Hear, hear.) He could not have believed that any Church could have found a defender that had so many.—(" Oh," and cries of " Hear, hear " from Mr. Shaw.) He took a very different view of these matters from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. He told the Hon. and Learned Gentleman how he, as a Roman Catholic, regarded these things. The Hon. Gentleman took credit for the fact of there only being 109 incumbents of the Church not being in benifices, so that, acaordiag to the Hon. Gentleman's own admission, one-fourteenth of the beneficed clergy of Ire land were absentees. They could have no better authority for that fact than that of the champion of the Established Church of Ireland. There perhaps might be an excuse for the absenteeism in Ireland, because it so happened that in many parishes in Ireland there was not a single Protestant.—(Hear, hear.) In the parish in which he resided sneh was the case— (Hear, hear)—and in the whole union there was not thirty persons who attended the parish church.—( Hear, hear.) It was monstrous that the motion of the Right Hon.. Member for Sheffield, which only asked for a Committee of inquiry into the state of this Church, should be refused by the Go vernment.—( Hear, hear.) He would not stop to offer an opinion as to the manner in which such an announcement would be received in Ireland. The policy of the Right Hon. Baronet was a most dangerous pelicy.—( Hear, hear.) It was never to leave a stand which he had taken until the tide came and drove him back from Isis position. He, a Roman Catholic, told the Right Hon. Baronet this. He was one of those whom the Right Hon. Baronet had emancipated, but whose emanci pation he had through the greater part of his life bitterly op posed, and he stood there a living example that the policy which the Right Hon. Baronet pursued for a great part of his life was false and untenable.—( Hear, hear.) He was surprised to hear it said that the Catholic peasantry paid no tithes. The instant each tithe Bill had passed the landlords had raised the rents, on the ground that they had to pay the tithes. Mr. F. SHAW—They must get it in one way or another. Mr. REDINGTON thought the Thin. and Learned Gentleman seemed really to think that this qnestion of the Church in Ireland was only a question of pounds, shillings, and pence.. He wished to guard against its being supposed, for one moment, that he wished to transfer the revenues of that Church to the Roman Catholics. If he thought that the present motion would tend, even in the most indirect manner, to the establishment of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland, or to the payment of its clergy by the State, he would record his vote against it.—(Cheers.) He bad not yet seen any example in which the payment or,. a State Church had ever tended to the benefit of the Church or the State.— ( Cheers.) It was vain to suppose that the Established Church would long subsist in Ireland. Nothing that resembled it would be found in an other country on the face of the earth. While a niggardly grant of 50,0001. a year only was made for the education of the people—while that people were taxed to support the poor, was it not mon strous that they should be called upon to pay tithes for the support of this Church, in addition to the immense revenues which it otherwise enjoyed. The cause of the Hon. Member for Sheffield was the cause of justice, and although they might oppose it successfully for the pres e nt, yet as sure as there was justice in Heaven , it must ultimately succeed. Col. RA WDON moved the adjournment of the debate. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but no division took place, the adjournment of the debate having been agreed to. COUNTY RATES BILL. Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill, which after some discus sion was agreed to. The Bill passed through Committee and the House resumed ; and the Bill was ordered to be reported on Thursday next. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House, at Twenty Minutes after Twelve, adjourned till this day (Wednesday). MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 pea mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 451 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 524-, it follows that gold is 0.27 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advises from Hamburgh the price of gold is 435 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 104; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 98, it follows that gold is 0.40 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. SUN.—The English Securities leave off firmly, and Consols improved a shade, being 984- to -8, Exchequer Bills remained as in the morning. Reduced Three-and a-Half per Cents. touched 1018. Spanish Bonds supported the previous prices--the Five per Cents. were 224- 4, and the Three per Cents. 341 to 4-, Venezuela Bonds were at 40, Mexican receded to 344, Columbian *ere 138 to 4 , and Chilianlo4 to 1041. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 17 ; Croy don, 5 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 19 to 18N ; Nor wich and Brandon, 54 ; South-Eastern, 24 ; Ditto, New, 64. Paris and Orleans; 184 . t0 i; and Paris and Rouen, 184- premium. Eastern Counties, 1 ; Blackwall, 94, and Greenwich.s4 discount. British North American Bank Shares were 8 discount, London and Westminster, 61 premium, and Provincial of Ireland, 21i premium. The rate of exchange on Paris was steady, and, in deed, on most of the other Continental cities. The following paragraph in a Sydney paper conveys news from New Zealand, to Jan. 10 : " GovernOr Fitzroy landed at Auckland on the 26th December, and immediately took the oaths of office. Two addresses, purporting to be from the natives of New Zealand, but bearing internal evidences of having been concocted by the land- sharks, were presented to the Governor. Their principal topic is dissatisfaction at the state of the land regulations, which the Governor pro mised to inquire into. Mr. W. Shortland, who has held the difficult and unthankful office of Acting Governor since Captain Hobson's death, had resigned hs office of Colonial Secretary, and been succeeded pro tem, by a Dr. Sinclair. The Legislative Council met on the 9th instant, when the Governor presented three short Bills ; one for extending the Supreme Court by allowing the apppointment of a judge at Wellington ; a Bill for in troducing grand juries, and allowing certain chiefs to sit on them ; and a third for giving magisterial powers over the native population in remote districts to certain chiefs. It was expected that the passing of these Bill would only occupy a short time, and his Excellency in tended to sail in H.M.S. North Star, for Cook's Straits, about the 16th instant, and, on his return, would intro duce a measure for settling the land claims." The following is the official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London, for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Bars to liamburgh ~ Rotterdam ~ Coin to China ~ Rotterdam Hamburgh 9,000 oz. „ Bullion to ditto .... 1,000 oz. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 25 1 1 2 3 910 6 4 Gibraltar ymeinl ance.... ............... 1 47 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 45 Rotterdam 2U.12 64 Genoa 25 90 Antwerp 13 144 Naples ....... ........... 39 54 Marseilles 8655 LisbonPalorm o, per oz ll7 25 90 ()port() 534 Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Ar a D ttr n oti i osn b ;a u 33 l ag m ahy o months t s M.B. sight... Frankfort on Maine.. 1214 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 36 4 Buenos Ayres Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight Vienna, effec. 13 M 953 Philadelphia Irieste, ditto Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Cadiz Palbao 36 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 10 . Seville Silver in Bars 0 4 11 LLOYD'S SHIPPING. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CLEOPATRA.—MAS SACRE OF PART OF HER CREW. An extract of a letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at the Cape of Good Hope, of the 16th April last, throws some light upon the occurrence in which Lieute nant Molesworth and seven of the crew of her Majesty's ship Cleopatra lost their lives, and of which certain par ticulars were given yesterday , . From this it will beLseen that the natives were the aggressors, and that the me lancholy loss of life referred to occurred in the discharge of a special act of duty, for irritated by detention and re pulsion in an endeavour to thieve, the two natives men tioned evidently instigated their countrymen to perpe trate the murder of eight persons who had offered them no wrong, and were the last to imagine such an outrage. The natives appear from all accounts to have been very prompt in carrying their horrible intentions into execu tion. This is not the first act of the kind that has oc curred upon that coast, but is peculiarly extraordinary in this instance as being perpetrated upon the persons of those to whom the natives of that part of the African coast are indebted for strenuous exertions to suppress the slave trade, and can only be explained from the principle which instigates all uncivilised nations to the commission of such barbarous usages. C a pe of Good Hope, April 16, 1844. "Her Majesty's ship Cleopatra has arrived in Simon's Bay, having struck on a coral reef on the coast of Midges on the 21st of March, and whilst weighing the kedge-anchor (which had been used to warp her off) on the 23d, Lieutenant Molesworth and seven men were killed. by the natives. This was brought on from two of the natives having been forcibly turned from the boat whilst endeavouring to steal some of the stores." IMPORTANT TO MA RINERS.—EST A BLISH MENT OF MARINE HOSPITALS. Admiralty, June 10, 1844. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty t) transmit to you herewith, for the information of the Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, an extract of a dispatch from the Lieutenant , Governor of New Brunswick, received by my Lords from the Colonial-office, notifying that marine hospitals I have been established in that colony.--I am, Sir, your ' most obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN BARROW. To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. (Copy.) Extract of a dispatch 'froin Sir W. M. G. Colebrooke to Lord Stanley, dated Fredericton, New Brunswick, April 24, 1844: " Marine hospitals have been established at St. John's, St. Andrew's, and some other sea-ports, where sick and disabled seamen are received, and provided with every comfort. These establishments are supported from a fund raised on the shipping frequenting the ports. At Stockingford, the other day, for a wager of a shilling, a woman ate a peck of radishes, with a pound of bread and butter ' a nd ale ad libitu m , i n h a lf au h our . Mr. Hart Davis had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT. CONOLLY. Captain Grover has received letters from Dr. Wolff, dated Meshed, from the 14th to the 24th of March. The intelligence contained in these letters was con sidered so important, that they were sent open to Constantinople, for the perusal of Sir Stratford Can ning. This will account for the dates being anterior to those already received, extracts from which have been published. At Askarea, two miles from Meshed, Dr. Wolff was met by Mullah Meshiakh, the Jew of Meshed, who assisted Lim in 1831, when he escaped from slavery at Torbad. He was accompanied by Ilfuhani. , mad Ali Seraf, Colonel Stoddart's agent. They.had heard of his approach by the caravans. This Muhammad Ali Seraf was the channel through which all the correspondence with Bokhara was car ried on, and the Doctor says, "In less than two hours I found this man to be a lying, treacherous scoundrel !" Numerous proofs were given of his villainy, and it is shown that he alone, and not Colonel Shiel, is to blame for the detention of the Sultan's letter. The Doctor discovered that this man had in his possession property belonging to Colonel Stoddart of the value of 2,0001. sterling. He thus relates a conversation that took place : " I asked him whether he had sent on the Sultan's letter which had been sent to him a year ago, which he had sent back to Colonel Shiel on the report of their death, and which Colonel Shiel had returned, with an express order that it should be for warded to Bokhara at any rate ?" Muhammad Ali Seraf—" No, for nobody dared to take charge of the letter." Myself—" Why did you not give it to the man who was sent by the Vice-Roy 33 days ago, at the re quest of Colonel Shiel, and who also took a letter from the King of Persia ?" M. A. S.—" I was afraid that the King of Bokhara might suspect the messenger." Dr. Wolff immediately took the letter from him, and placed it in the case with the letters of the Sul tan and the King of Persia. Sir Moses Montefiore had kindly written letters to the Jews of Bokhara, Samercand, Balk, and Kokau, which were to have been en through a highly re spectable Jew of Meshed, named Mullah Medee, but Colonel Shiel, of course, according to Stoddart's di rection, sent them to this Muhammad Ali Seraf. Dr. Wolff inquired about these letters, and. found the most important one, addressed to the Jews of Bok hara, in possession of this man with the seal broken ; he took this letter, and as it was no longer of use he has returned it to Sir Moses Montefiore through Co lonel Shiel. In a subsequentletter the Doctor mentions that Aga Abool Kasen), a respectable merchant, formerly British agent, informed him that Colonel Stoddart had sent Muhammmad Ali Seraf shawls to the value of 1,0001. sterling, for the purpose of raising money to purchase an estate. The Doctor says :—"I asked him about that; he replied, that he had still the shawls in his possession, and that he intended delivering them to Colonel Stoddart's sister in person ! and then sat down to write a letter to that lady. You see by this that the fellow is a rogue." It has already been mentioned that Dr. Wolff was to be escorted by 270 Turcoman chiefs. He gives an interesting account of their having been assembled in a tent by the Viceroy, who showed to them the letters of the Sultan, the King of Persia, the English and Russian Envoys, and thus addressed them :—" Here I recommend to you an English Mullah,• recom mended to the Kings of Bokhara and Khiva by four Sovereign Powers. They stroked their beards, and swore to convey me in safety to Bokhara." Another chief of a caravan, named Kurban, who goes to Bokhara every three months, states that Stod dart and Conolly are alive, and imprisoned in the Kalai outside Bokhara, and the Doctor says—" Ka hulli, a Turcoman chief, showed me a letter written by his brother at Bokhara, in which he states that Stoddart was alive to a certainty; and his Excel lency the Assoof Addowla (Viceroy), of KhoraSsan, to whom I sent the King's courier, to inquire whether I should go to him, at Maddan or Meshed, sent me word that Stoddart and Conolly were alive last year." Dr. Woolff states that the Saleh Mohammed, who communicated to Shiel the report of the death of Stoddart and Conolly, is not the Saleh Mohammed whom he knew in the year 1826. He also mentions that an Ambassador from Russia had arrived at Bokhara. • Captain Grover communicates to the Editor these facts as he has received them, and, as he has always done, without comment; and he hopes to be allowed, on the present occasion, publicly to express his grati tude to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for the powerful means he has so kindly employed to aid the mission, and which, should the Almighty have spared the lives of his friends, will, he doubts not, procure their restoration to liberty. BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, JUNE 11. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Church is evidently gaining ground in France. In this place the change is most perceptible, as every one can bear witness who had been present at the celebra tion of the Fête Dieu some years ago and had also an opportunity of seeing the procession and service in the church on Sunday last. The people showed much greater devotion and reverence for the rites than, per haps, at any period since the revolution. They attended in vast numbers—men, women, and children together ; and the clergy, aware of their importance, carried them selves with an air that showed they looked forward; and at no distant period, to recover that supremacy which they once held over the thoughts, morals, and religious feelings lof the community. To do them justice they have exhibited indomitable perseverance and skill in ef fecting their purpose. When religion was at' the lowest ebb, and the priests were objects of indiffe rence, and not unfrequently of ridicule, they submitted to contempt, and scoffing with Christian patience and forbearance; they . reviled not again, and endeavoured to make an impression upon the irreligious public rather by their passive resistance, their humility and religious fervour, than by the authority of the State even in the days of the Restoration, when the Court was wholly in their favour. Their plan is one which can hardly fail of success if they do not grasp at their object too rudely, and before the time. The ceremonies of the last week exhibit their tactics in great perfection. This period of the year, the most delightful of the season, has been chosen for admitting the young into communion with the Church. The weather is generally most suitable for the processions, for erecting altars and canopies, and performing the most solemn religious rites in the open air—a circumstance, which it is well known, gave an indescribable effect to the religious gather ings of the Covenanters, and which is still observed at the celebration of the Sacrament by their descendants in the North. But the Catholic Church has far sur passed even these sturdy religionists in their scheme for captivating the people. They begin with the young. On Thursday processions of boys and girls, to the num ber of about five hundred, were formed at particular places, and then conducted to the principal church to be confirmed. They were all decked out in their best dresses, and those of the girls were peculiarly elegant and graceful, being of the purest white muslin, with long veils flowing over the face, occasionally some ribbons of a striking colour, and little garlands of roses on. their heads. The mothers of the children, and frequently the fathers too, were in the line with the rest of the crowd, addressing their children in affectionate terms, and evi dently delighted with the impression made on the bystanders by their gay dresses and happycountenances. On entering the church the ceremony of confirmation took place, and they afterwards departed in the same manner in which they had arrived. On Sunday, the ceremonies were on a grander scale. Altars were erected in the principal streets, shaded by long tapering branches of birch, so arranged as to resemble groves, with all the outward symbols of the church, massive candlesticks, with . fifty tapers burning, wreaths of flowers hung up in different quarters of the temporary fabrics, which were generally lined with white linen in the interior, and covered with tapestry of various colours. From ten to eleven o'clock religious ceremonies of the most solemn kind were performed by a chief priest in gorgeous robes, and assisted by a long train of his brethren. This procession was headed by two church beadles, and more warlike men than they could not be found in the army Gf France. ' They wore large cocked hats, with epauleti, swords, &c. carried long halberts, the spear at the top being at least a foot and a half long, and, to add to their martial air, they rejoiced in moustachios which would have done honour to a bold dragoon. Thus the religious ceremony ended, but at five in the afternoon high mass was cele brated in the Church of St. Nicholas, and the whole of that large building, galleries and all, were crowded with spectators. The pompous service was very imposing, at times sublime, and certainly formed a striking contrast to the dull, monotonous rites performed in the English Church. The I'useyites are aware of the fact, and are borrowing the weapons of the Church of Rome to sustain the tottering fabric, and revive the power of the priesthood. It would be well if they did it in a more honest way, and marched out in a body to join their Catholic brethren. The increasing power of the clergy here has evidently attracted the attention of the Government; and M. Guizot, perhaps also the King,. has resolved to counteract it by the New Education Bill. The Church, however, may in time succeed it she carry on her assaults with her usual prudence and per severance. This delightful watering place is rising in importance every day. There is a constant bustle on the pier from the frequent arrival and departure of English steamers, which certainly contribute greatly to the traffic and activity of the place. The English now are increasing in numbers, and appear to be on the best terms with the inhabitants. There is great room, however, for improve ment in some of the public offices at Boulogne, parti cularly the passport office. Though orders had been given by the Commissioner of the Customs, and a board is hung lip at the door of the office to the effect that per mits to embark would for the future be issued between one and four o'clock eac h day, yet the officers frequently set this order, as well as others, at defiance. In fact, there is a great deal of looseness of discipline in French offices, particularly as regards foreigners. But yester day a party applied at half-past one for permits, when they were told none would be issued till three, for no reason that could be given. There were two or three officers in the bureau who had absolutely nothing to do, yet the applicants were compelled to return into the town, and unnecessarily hurry their departure, because the persons on duty thought proper to annoy strangers and neglect the orders of their chief. The authorities may rest assured that such conduct cannot be concealed, and that it will have its due effect in preventing their best customers, the English, from visiting the place. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. The annual conversazione given by ►Mr. Walker, the President of this very useful and flourishing Institution, took p:ace on the evenings of Friday and Saturday last, when the attendance was even more numerous than usual. On the former evening about 300 gentlemen were pre sent, but on the latter there was a much more brilliant assemblage, comprising the most distinguished persons for rank in science or the fine arts, who it was gratifying to perceive, all felt the hospitality of 'the worthy host who, attended by Mr. Manby, the secretary of the institution, received the visitors on arriving, and directed their at tention to the objects most worthy of notice. In the principal saloon we noticed some good busts by Mr. J. E. Jones, one of Major Blakeney, the other of Manby, the secretary, both of which were remarkable for their striking similitude to the originals. There were likewise other busts by the same talented and rising artist in the different rooms. A very beautiful, and, at the same time, simple sketch, made at Strathfieldsaye, of his Grace the Duke of Wellington on horseback, by Mr. E. H. Bailey, was much admired. Some bronzes from the collections of F. Hodgson, Esq., M.P., Mr. Deville, and Mr. Grissell, were placed in various parts of the rooms, also wood carvings from Rogers, Pratt, and Vincent. A very beautiful engraving of the Duke of Beaufort's dog, by T. Landseer, from a recent picture by his bro ther, Edwin, and a Maltese dog, by the same clever artists, were much admired. Portfolios of sketches by Oliver, Buss, Kendrick, Tripp, Gastineau, and Goodall, were exhibited, and a portfolio of litho graphs of eminent men, by Bauejeret. Scanlan had several excellent sketches of scenes of domestic life, but his best was an Irish scene, and an episode from the history of the White-boy, in Ireland—an affecting story --now beimg engraved by Brown. Part of a collection of rings, formed of beautifully carved heads of the ancient Greek philosophers and poets, attractedmuch attention, as did also some natura flowers coated with metal by the electro-deposit by Elkington and Co's process, and some by the simple electrotype itself, from Mr. Ibbet.lon ; Mr. Dennys contributed some choice articles in the fine arts de partment ; one was a bust of Lorenzo de Medici by Michael Angelo, the other a painting by Denner, supposed to be of his mother, which was the most exquisite thing we have seen for some time. Professor Wheatstone's re cently-constructed magneto-electric telegraph was ex hibited, two of the apparatus being placed in different rooms to telegraph signals from one to the other, which was done with the utmost facility. Advancing further into the rooms, we found some chronometers from Den and Fradsham ; and also a machinery for tracing ellipse by Mr. Farey, a gentleman well known in the, scientific world In the model-room, which was lighted by . two gas chandeliers on Faraday's 'ventilating principle, were various models of steam-engines, by Lord Dundonald, G. Rennie, Maudslay and Field, Boulton and Watt, and Barrie. In the centre table was a full-sized model of Greener's harpoon gun, which has been found so useful in whale fishing, and a life-boat by the same gen tleman ; around were neatly arranged models of Captain Bullock's beacon, which is erected on the Goodwin Sands ; the South Bishop's Rock, and Coquet Island Lighthouses, a ballast-lighter, and raft of the Maplin Land Lighthouse, frum the Trinity-house ; a Russian camel for lifting large vessels over sand-banks, a model of the Victoria and Albert Yacht, of her Ma jesty's ship Rattler, of Sir W. Symond's schooner yacht, and other very interesting models from the Admiralty. Models of various forms of screw propellors from Ren nie, F. P. Smith, Galloway, and Grantham ; Mitchell's screw pile lighthouse battery . ; Bush's caisson and com pass by the same, intended for the Royal yacht ; a model designed to show the principle of the atmospheric rail way, from Mr. Vignoles ; Prosser's timber railway and locomotive, with guide wheels for traversing very sharp curves ; Barlow's hollow iron keys for fastening the rails in the chairs ; and Wood's soft metal bearings for rail way axles ; models of agricultural implements, from Mr. Cottam ; models of London-bridge with its coffer. dams, and part of the centering, Stoneleigh Abbey Bridge, by the late John Rennie. The walls of this room were beautifully ornamented with specimens of Adams's baunabic composition, a new material for architectural decoration. In the lower rooms NN ere the heavier models of ma chinery, consisting of Burnett and Corpe's concentric steam-engine, Bodmer's breaks for heavy machinery; also screwing tops and cutters, and a machine for form ing the cutters; various tools from Holtzapffie and Whit worth ; Mereweather's cabinet fire-engine ; Davison and Synington's mode of cleansing brewer's casks ; Haddan's railway wheel; and a gas meter by Clegg, besides many other very beautiful models, which want of space alone prevents us from noticing. Among the distinguished visitors present we noticed particularly the Marquis of Northampton; the Earls of Lincoln, Devon, Dundonald, and Lovelace; Lords Blayney and Courtenay; the Bishop of Lichfield; Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Baron Rolfe ; his Excellency Ali Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador, and suite ; Sirs R. Peel, M.P., W. Burnett, E. Cust, J. Rennie, P. Laurie, W. Clay, M.P., J. Barrow, T. D. Acland, M.P., C. Bur rell, M.P., C. Pine, R. Inglis, M.P., H. Fleetwood, M.P., W. White, J. Trollope, M.P., H, Ellis, G. Murray, H. Webb, H. Douglas, T. Goldsmid, J. Lnshington, G. Clerk, M.P., W. Tuyll, and H. T. De la Berhe ; J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., P. Pusey, Esq., M.P., H. G. Knight, Esq., M.P., B. Estcourt, Esq., M.P., Em merson Tennent, Esq., M. P., Brotherton, Esq., H.Drum mond, Esq., M.P. ; Admiral Sir B. Martin; Major-Ge nerals Monteith and Pasley ; Colonels Maberley, Sykes, Jackson, Herbert, and Sloane ; Lieutenant-Colonels Spottiswoode, Sabine, Alderton, and Wells ; the Lord Mayor, Meer Jaffer Ali Khan, Loof Oolah Khan, Mo hammed Alice ; Counts Gola, Lopez, and De Rosen ; Messieurs Horace Vernet, Baugmet, Godershall, Siemens, Shalenees, Bindervald, Vanzellers, Hebeler, and Mix ; Barons De Gerlach and De Linden, &c. It were injustice to forget to state that the scientific enjoyments of the evening were greatly enhanced by the generous hospitality and attention of Mr. Walker, who received the mosl zealous and efficient co-operation from Mr. Manby, the Secretary. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK RACES. The Stewards have given notice that no horse will be allowed to start for any stake at York, in the present year, without his mouth being examined (if required) by one or more veterinary surgeons, to be appointed by the Stewards. If an objection to a horse's age shall not be made until after the races the Stewards will insist upon a similar examina tion; and if the owner or trainer of any horse which has come in first shall refuse to allow the examination, such horse shall not be considered the winner, but the stake shall be given to the first horse in the race which is duly qua .... • The Marquis of Exeter has accepted the office of Steward of the Jockey Club, in the place of Thomas Thornhill, Esq , deceased. NEWMARKET, 1844. FIRST OCTOBER 'METING. Mr. Ford's Sir Diggory Diddle, 3 yrs, Bst, agst Mr. E. Walker's black cob horse (half bred), 6 yrs, 7st. T. M. M. 150 h ft. The match between Minotaur and Wee Pet, for Monday in the Second October Meeting, is off by consent. SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1846. WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 200 sous. ea C ch, h ft, for fillies, Bst 71b. each. T. Y. . Duke of Bedford's fby Gladiator, out of Misnomer—Lord Exeter's fby Hetman Platoff, out of Amina—Mr. Payne's f by Camel, out' of Vat—Duke of Rutland's f by Gladiator or Th e Doctor, out of Flambeau's dam. ASCOT HEATH, 1847. LAST DAY.-Mr. Phillimore's c by Sir Hercules, out of Adeline, Bst 71b, agst Sir W. W. Wynn's f by Touchstone, out of Semisarius, Bst 41b. Old Mile. 100, h ft. BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL AND THE HOUSE OF OC CUPATION BELONGING TO BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL.—His Majesty the King of Saxony, accompanied by his suite and the Earl of Morton, visited these establishments yesterday morning. Sir Peter Laurie, the President, Mr. Ralph Price, the Treasurer, and several members of the Committee of Governors, attended upon the occa sion. His Majesty, during his . visit, made many in quiries respecting the management of these Royal Hos • pitals. The necessary details were explained to him by the resident officers, Mr. Hunter and Mr. Nicholls. His Majesty appeared to be much pleased on noticing the absence of all restraint amongst the patients at Bethle hem Hospital, and at seeing so many of them employed, both inside and outside the galleries, and acting as ra tional beings. His Majesty ekpressed great astonish ment at being informed that persons thus employed, and to all appearance responsible for their acts, were luna tics, and he declared that, with such evidence before his eyes, he had no doubt of the extraordinary efficacy of the system adopted for the cure of the numerous pa tients. His Majesty accepted the various books contain ing the history of the ancient foundation of the two hos pitals, the rules and regulations of their government, and the plans of the several buildings, and also the re port published by the Governors at Christmas last. The drawings and plans of the large additional building now being erected at Bethlehem Hospital for convalescent wards for the patients, &c. &c., we re exhibited to him. His Majesty expressed great satisfaction with the ar rangements at the House of Occupation, and the mea sures used for the reformation and employment of the in mates. Before he left Bethlehem Hospital, the King inserted the following record ,in the visitors' book :—" I have inspected this noble institution with much interest, and found e verything in perfect order." CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER AGAINST A MASTER OF A VESSEL.—On the arrival of the brig Chieftain, from Spalatro, with a cargo of bones, at Southampton, on Tuesday week, the master, Capt. Reay, was arrested on a charge of having murdered one of his crew, named George Harrison, on the 21st of December last, near Spalatro. He was forthwith conveyed before the ma gistrates, and underwent a lengthened examination, in the course of which it appeared in evidence that, on the day named, the ship's company returned from shore " rather fresh," when a quarrel took place between them, and the carpenter declared that he saw the master, with out the slightest provocation whatever, place a pistol to deceased's eye, and deliberately shoot him. The deceased fell, and survived twelve hours, when he died. On the part of the defence the prisoner handed into Court a certificate, bearing the signature of James Thomas Hill, ' British Vice-Consul at Finnac, officially acting at Spa latro, the purport of which was as follows:--That he (Hill) had been officially , instructed by Sir Thomas S. Sorrell, K.H., her Britannic Majesty's Consul - at Trieste, to investage the circumstances connected with the death of the deceased, and after a careful inquiry he had conic ':to the opinion that it had resulted entirely from acci dent, and not wilfully, as was at first represented. He found the crew in a mutinous state, and greatlypreju diced against the c a p tain. The magistrates consulted together for some time, and on their return to the Court committed the prisoner for trial on the capital charge. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson, Lord George Lennox, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, went yesterday morning to lay the foundation stone of the new Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, in tbe Ful ham• road. His Majesty the Ring of Saxony, attended by his Ex cellency Baron de Gersdorft; the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting ; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting ; Monsieur de Minckwitz, Count Albert Vitzthum, and Dr. Carus, went yesterday morning to the Bazaar in Portman-street, and after wards went to the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park. His Majesty walked through the gar dens and viewed the interesting collection of animals. 'I ke King honoured Mr. Hope, with a visit at his resi dence in Duchess-street, and inspected the gallery, and afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace, to luncliing two o'clock. Captain Siborne had the honour of presenting to hid Majesty the King of Saxony yesterday a copy of hit! " History of the Waterloo Campaign," to which hia Majesty is a subscriber. His Majesty, to whom Captain - Sibarne has the honour to be personally known, is pleased to express his admiration of the work. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,' the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, were taken their' daily airings yesterday in the royal gardens. In the afternoon the King of Saxony, attended by the Earl of Morton, Lord C. Wellesley, Baron de Gersdorir, and the Gentlemen of his suite visited the British Mu seum, the United Service Club, and the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Before returning to Buckingham Palace, his Majesty honoured the Earl and Countess Delawarr with a •isit, at their residence in Upper Grosvenor-street, and alio visited the Countess Amherst. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes terday included his Excellency Baren de Gersdorff and the Duchess of Buceleuch. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend ance during dinner. _ _ Yesterday evening, soon after nine o'clock, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Majesty the King of Saxony, left Buckingham Palace for her Majesty's Theatre, to honour the Italian opera with their presence. The royal 'uites included the Earl of Morton, Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir Edwarii Bowater, Baron de Gers dorff, M. de Minckwitz, Count A. VitzthuM,, Major Reichardt, and Dr. Carus. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian opera with their pre sence last evening. _ _ _ A Cabinet Cat;leil was held, yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir IL Peel, , the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, 'Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sit J. Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Had dington, Earl of Ripon, Mr. Gl a d s t one , Si r E. Knatch bull, and Lord G. Somerset. The Council sat an hour and a half. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Bangor, St. David's, Exeter, Lichfield, Lincoln, Llandaff, Norwich, Ripon, Salisbury, and Worcester ; Earl of Devon, Earl of Harrowby, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, Sir George Grey, and the Dean of Westminster. His Excellency the French Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches from the Governors of Ceylon and New' Zealand were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were also received yesterday from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The ROAD to FORTUNE, or the RISE of 31 JAQUES LAFFITTE. When M. Laffite came to Paris in 1778, the extent •f his ambition was to find a situation in a banking-house, and to attain this object he called on M. Perregaux, the rich Swiss banker, to whom he had a letter of recom mendation. This gentleman had just taken possession of the hotel of Mdlle. Gurmard, which had been put up to lottery by that lady, and won by the fortunate banker. It was to this charming habitation, which has since been demolished, that M. Laffitte paid his first visit in Paris, and, as it were, took his first step in the Parisian world. The young provincial —poor and modest, timid and anxious—entered by that gateway which had witnessed so many of the gaieties of the last century. He was in troduced into the boudoir of the danseuse, then become the cabinet of the banker, and there modestly stated the object of his visit. It is impossible for me to admit you into my es tablishment—at least, for the present," replied the banker ; - A' all my offices have their, full complement. If I require any one at a future time, I see what can be done ; but in the meantime I advise you to seek else- where, fur I do not expect to have a vacancy for some time." With a disappointed heart the young aspirant for em ployment left the office, and while with a downcast look he traversed the courtyard he stooped to pick up - a - pin which lay in his path, and which he carefully stuck in the e lappel of his coat. Little did he think that this tri vial action was to decide his future fate, but so it was. From the window of his cabinet IV. Perregaux had observed the action of the young man. The Swisa banker was one of those keen observers of human ae- tions who estimated the value of circumstances appa rently trifling in themselves, and which would plass un noticed by the majority of mankind. He was delighted with the conduct of the young stranger. In this simple action, he saw the revelation of a character ; it was a guarantee of a love of order and economy, a certain pledge of all the qualities which should be possessed loy a good financier. A young man who would pick up a pin could not fail to make a good clerk, merit the con fidence of his employer, and attain a high degree of prosperity. In the evening of the same day, M. Laffitte received the following note from M. Perregaux : " A place is made for you in my office, which you may take possession of to-morrow morning." The anticipations of the banker were not deceived. The young Laffitte possessed every desirable quality, and even more than was at first expected. From simple clerk, he soon rose to be cashier, then partner, then head of the first banking-house in Paris, and afterwards, in rapid succession, a Deputy and President of the Council of Ministers, the highest point to which a citizen can aspire. On what a trifle does the fortune of a man sometimes depend. But for the simple incident of the pin, M. Laffitte would, perhaps, never have entered into the house of M. Perregaux ; another employer might not have opened to him so wide a field of action, and his talents and intelligence would not have led to such mag nificent results. Little did M. Perregaux think that the hand which would pick up a pin was that of a man, generous .to pro digality in doing good—a hand always open to succour honourable misfortune. Never were riches placed in better hands—never did banker or prince make a more noble use of them. PRINCESS ROYAL STEAMSHIP. —This favourite ves sel, having undergone considerable improvements in her cabin accommodations, has again taken her place in the line between this port and Glasgow. We have no doubt she will sustain the celebrity she has already obtained, and that the continued patronage of voyagers to the west of Scotland will remunerate her owners. Of one so well known in the Glasgow and Liverpool trade as her com mander Captain M'Arthur, it is scarcely necessary for us to observe that he still ministers •to the comfort of the passengers under his charge.—Liverpool DEPLORABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT. --A ;me.. lancholy accident occurred at Broadway. on Sunday, the 2d of June, in the garden of Mr. Morris, grocer, of that place, whereby his granddaughter, Mary-Ann Morris, aged five years, met with her death. An in quest was held on the body before C. Best, Esq., on the following day, when it appeared that Mr. Joseph Wilson :Nforris, the uncle of deceased, took from his brother's room a double-barrelled pock e t pistol, and with it went to the garden , where h e fired off a cap to frighten the birds ; he then put on another cap and discharged that, when the -pistol went off, and the deceased, . who was going along the path, fell to . the ground. ller uncle immediately picked her up and car ried her into -the house, when it was discovered that 'she was shot, the ball, a very small one, having entered the centre of the forehead and passed out at the back part of the head, forcing out:a portion of the brain. Alessrs. Smith and Beadles, surgeons, Were soon in attendance. but of course could not be of any service. The unhappy young man was totally unconscious of the pistol being charged: both barrels, however, were so, and, it is sup posed, had been for seven years. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death, with a deodand of 11. on the_ pistol."— Worcester H era ld. • MELANCHOLY DEATH OF RALPH TAYLOR: The name of Ralph Taylor is well known to the 'operative classes of this district. Some few • years ago, he was e leader in most of the trades union movements, which were then so prevalent, and also in the Ten Howe Bill agitation, in which he might be considered almoakap right hand man o f Oastler .and Sadler, the latter - .[ whom he greatly assisted when he contested the-repre sentation of the borough of Leeds..'-Fora long - time, he had taken no part in public thatters,.and having lost all settled habits of industry, had ,ahandoned himself to a life of excessive and destructive. dissipation. Ills death occurred under very melancholy circumstanct th Leeds Workhouse, on Tuesday morning last. dis ease from which he died was. delirium tremens, produced by excessive drinking. lie was Mao - labouring under inflammation of the lungs, upon which there was an ef fusion of blood. In the. opinion of Mr. Burland, his case had been hopeless from the day before he was brought to the workhouse, and it was quite impossible that he could have recovered. It appeared that he had done little else but drink for some weeks before, and at night lie had slept sometimes in outhouses, and at other tinges walked all night about the streets. He was about forty years of age, and was a cloth-drawer by trade. ,§ tie b was the melancholy end of poor Ralph Taylor,. e. man who, by the possession o f good natural abilities, obtained, and for a considerable time preserved, an aseende, ney over the minds of a large portion of his fellow -operatives, many of whom will be not a little shocked to hear of his untimely death. The jury returned a verdict of " Died nun natural causes."—.Leeds 7'imes. FooLitaantNEss.—At Fort Puntales I witnessed i i following scene :—A cannon shot from the enemy buried itmelf in the sand bags in front of one of the buildings, and a second followed exactly in the same direetion,not even widen ing-the opening the first had made. A soldier belonging to a fatigue party of the 88th Regiment, on seeing this, pat the side of his head against the hole, simply.saying to Ins com rades, " Now, you shall see if they are good marksmen ;" but the next shot that was fired, and every succeeding one for several minutes, went wide of the mark.—United Savior Magazine. U