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LAST NIGHT BUT TWO OF THE SEASON. IWILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN- At the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, THIS EVENING, June 30, at Eight o'clock, Mr. WILSON will give his Entertainment, entitled JACOBITE RELICS. n whioti he will sing some of the most popular Songs of 'l5 and '4l PART I.—The Battle of Killicrankie--Whare hae ye been sae braw, Lad?—When the King comes o'er the water—Mother, Mother, hear the News—The Chevalier's Muster-roll—The Blackbird—Donald M`GillivrAy—The Battle of Sherramuir-The Piper o' Dundee. PAET 11.—Kemnare's on and awe, Willie—Lord Derwentwater's Farewell—Awa, Whigs, awa—The Sun rises bright in France—Wha will ride wi' gallant Murray ?—Lewie Gordon—He's coming again. Piano-torte--Mr. LAND. Tickets, 2s. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. Private Boxes for Six, 15s, for Eight persons, IL ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A Working Model of the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, capable of carrying visitors, is lectured on and exhibited daily, and also in the evening. 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A more extensive calamity has never, it is believed, befallen any city on the continent of America than that which now compels the inhabitants of Quebec to appeal to the sympathy of their fellow subjects. One-third part of the extent of the city, and that the most populous, covering a space of a mile in length by half a mile in breadth, now lying in ruins -1,650 dwellings, two churches, an extensive ship-yard, several lumber-yards and wharfs laid in ashes— upwards of 12,000 people left, in the course of a few hours, without house, or home, or shelter, or food, or a change of clothing, or a bed to lie on, and without the means of procuring either, except by the labour of their hands—these single touche4 of the picture of devasta tion which we have to lay before you might suffice, but a few par ticulars may be added. At eleven o'clock in the morning of the 28th of May a fire broke out in the St. Valier suburb of Quebec, which immediately spread to the adjoining suburb of St. Roch, closely built, almost entirely of wood, and crowded with people; thence to the upper suburb of St. John, and in a few hours reached the western extremity of the lower town of Quebec, the timber yards and wharfs. Wafted on by a strong gale of wind, the flames leaped rather than communicated, not so much from house to house as from square to square of build ings, seizing various remote points at once, so that those who left their homes in security at one extremity of the suburb to assist at the distance of half a mile in staying the progress of the fire, were sud denly and soon recalled to endeavour, in vain, to save their own houses. No human power was of any avail to arrest the conflagra tion ; so rapid was its advance, that but little could be saved from the houses, and often life itself with difficulty ; many were overtaken in their flight by the flames and perished. Many who rose in the morning in possession of competence, or even of comparative wealth, the fruit of many years of industry and economy, found themselves in a state of destitution before night closed upon them. A million of money will not replace, in several years, the value of the property destroyed ; nor can any correct estimate be now formed of the real extent of the calamity. A large part of the po pulation, on whom it has more immediately fallen, consisting mostly of Canadians of French origin, supported themselves by the labour of their hands, and are now thrown out of employ ment by the de struction of the manufactories and other establishments of business in which they found it, or by the simultaneous destruction of the property of those in better circumstances who employed or could have relieved them. Every class of society has directly or indirectly, but effectually, been reached by the wide spreading calamity. From the high public functionary to the pauper who walks the streets with out a home—ail feel its effects. The resources of all to afford relief are impaired; and the case is in truth one beyond the resources of any such community as ours, in its best circumstances, to relieve. Not one-tenth part of the loss sustained was covered by insurance, and a large Portion of that so covered was insured in a Mutual Insurance Company in the suburb destroyed, whose whole means have been swept away in one common ruin. In a few months an inclement winter will add its rigours to the prevailing distress of the houseless mass of destitution ; and the ordinary channels of employment being then closed, and navigation at an end for six months, and the ordi nary course of communication and of relief, or escape from the scene of wretchedness, interrupted, the severity of the season will complete what the rage of the flames has begun, while in the mean time there is too much reason to fear that, as has happened in other instances of the like disaster, it may be aggravated by pestilence, produced by poverty and distress crowded into confined space. It is in these circumstances that we appeal to our fellow-subjects in the mother country and the sister colonies to come to our aid ; hut we do not make the appeal without having ourselves put forth our best energies to alleviate the misery around us. On the day after the conflagration 7,000/. were contributed in an hour, at a public meeting of our citizens, and nearly 4,000/. more have been since collected among us. Our sister city of Montreal has liberally seconded our efforts by subscriptions, which, with an advance from the pro vincial Government of 2,000/., will probably reach the sum of 10,0001. Throughout the cotmtry parishes also the noblest spirit of liberality and of free Christian charity has been shown, in large supplies of clothing, provisions, and money daily reaching Quebec, although the agricultural population has been of late in a state of great depression, by a succession of unfavourable seasons and other adverse cir cumstances. But the facts and considerations we have mentioned show how in adequate is this supply, even to the present immediate and most pressing necessity. Already has one-fourth of the money subscribed been exhausted in the supply of the daily wants of the thousands re duced to beggary. Thankful for their own immunity from the im mediate effects of the calamity, and acknowledging their Christian obligation to contribute to the relief of their sulThring brethren, those among us who have not been deprived of the means have freely given of the store with which the Almighty has blessed them, to the extent of their present ability; and having so done they look with confidence to the benevolent and charitable co-operation of their fellow subjects elsewhere. To rebuild the ruined portion of our city, to restore the ruined for tunes or former comforts of its inhabitants, must be the work of time, and of individual exertions, enterprise, and industry ; but to rescue the multitude now sunk into poverty by this visitation of Providence from the horrors of present destitution, and probable disease, rendered more severe by the inevitable rigours of our climate, requires an aid larger than we can supply, and as prompt as large, and It is for this that our present appeal is made. Quebec, June 6, 1845. P. F. EVEQUE de SIDYME, Coadjuteur de Quebec. W. WALKER, J. NEILSON, Committee of Correspondence. A. W. COCHRAN, J. C. FISHER, Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, London, are authorised by the Committee of Correspondence established in Que bec to receive subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers. Already subscribed : Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. ............£lOO 0 0 ru - Ecnrs LETTERS ON AGRICULTURE. T_IL Mr. Mechi having received many complaints that Booksel lers do not keep this publication in stock, begs to state, that by giving any Bookseller " an order to procure it," in any part of the United Kingdom, it will be had at the same price as if purchased In London, say, unbound, Is. 6d., neatiy bound in cloth, 3s. 4, Leadenhall-street, London, June 12, 1845. The Appendix to this Work contains much valuable information on agricultural subjects, such as Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, Discussions on Tenant Rights, an authentic Report of Dr. Forster's Experiments in Electro Culture, &c., &c., &c. Also correct Plans and Elevations of the Farm Buildings and Machinery. NEWRY, BANBRIDGE, AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given that no application for Shares in this un dertaking will be received after Friday the 4th o. July, when the allotment will be immediately proceeded with. By order JAMES BRYDEN, Londo ecretary. London, 210, Regent-street, June 30, 1845. SHREWSBURY, DUDLEY and BIRK WOLVERHAMPTON, [INGHAM RAILWAY. Esq., M.P., Chairman , M.P., Deputy-Chairman S. Phillips Esq. Richard Smith, Esq. R. A. Slaney, Esq. Sir William Young, Bart. W. ORMSBY GORE, ] The Hon. R. H. CLIVE, John Benbow, Esq., M.P. I W. R. Collett, Esq., M P. William F. Black, Esq. James Clay, Esq R. Norman, Esq, The Committee of Management, in acquainting their Shareholders that the necessary preparations are being made to prosecute this un dertaking in the next session of Parliament, have also the satisfactiti of stating, that while considerable engineering improvements will be made in the line, the main features which obtained for it the favour able report of the Board of Trade, will be preserved. The Committee are in negotiation with the London and Birmingham Railway Com pany and the Birmingham Canal Company, for the construction of the portion of the main I ne from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, on the banks of the Canal, the result of which will be advantageous to the shareholders in the saving of cost and distance on this portion of the line; the whole line will also be constructed with the additional assistance and superintendence of Mr. R. Stephenson. The Committee have also determined upon the construction of a branch from the main line to the mining district of Coalbrook Dale, In connexion with other projected railways, and also in extending the main line from Shrewsbury to join a railway which has been pr.,• jetted by the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Compay, to Welsh pool and Newtown. Full powers will be taken in the new Parlia mentary contract and subscribers' agreement for these purposes, and to undertake other branches and extensions, which the Committee have in crntemplation, with a view to ensure a profitable return to the proprietors. The subscribers' agreement and contract, requisite for complying with the Standing Orders of Parliament in the next session, will lie for signature at the Company's office, from Monday, the 7th of July, until Saturday, the 19th, after which they will be transmitted to the Company's agents in the country. The Committee are happy to be able to state that the local interest in favour of this railway continues unabated ; and, as far as they can at present form a judgment, they are satisfied that no further de posit will be required for prosecuting the Bill in the next session of Parliament. By order, GEORGE KNOX, Secretary. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Offices, 3, Moorgate-street, 27th June, 1845. NORTHERN LUNATIC ASYLUM, London, Colonade Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's-square, sth June, 1845. At a Meeting held on the 20th ultimo, of the Committee appointed by the County of Inverness, for promoting the erection at Inverness of a Lunatic Asylum, for Pauper and other Lunatics of the Northern Counties of Scotland ; We, the undersigned, William H. Colquhoun, Advocate, Sheriff- Substitute of Inverness-shire, and John Mackenzie, banker in In verness, were appointed a Deputation to solicit Subscriptions in Lon don, in aid of the proposed Asylum. And being now arrived here, in pursuance of our mis.lon, we beg leave to send you some particulars regarding the proposed establish ment, in the hope that you will be pleased to give it the benefit of your support by contribution or otherwise, Under that Impression, we will do ourselves the honour of waiting on you, in a day or two, to learn your determination ; but should we he so unfortunate as not to have an opportunity of seeing you personally, we hope you will be kind enough to favour us with your views, to the above address, on or before 12th instant. The primary object of the projected Institution is the accommoda tion of pauper lunatics, and of other lunatics in poor circumstances, in the northern counties of Scotland, which comprise an extent of surface equal to one-third of all Scotland, and have a population of about 250,000. Yet, with the exception of a very few cells attached to the infirmary at Inverness, there is not any provision made in all this wide district for the secure confinement or medical treatment of the insane, the poorer classes of whom, amounting in number to up wards of 700, are left in a state of wretched destitution, either burden some to their poor relatives and paralysing their industry, or roam ing about the country in search of a precarious subsistence—pitiable on account of their calamity, often alarming and dangerous to the community from their furious conduct, at once the disgrace, the in jury, and the terror of the country. To abate this crying evil, this heart-sickening and frightful neglect and destitution, it is proposed to erect at Inverness, as the most central and convenient point, an Asylum for pauper lunatics, and for other lunatics in poor circumstances belonging to the northern coun ties. As a subsidiary and ulterior measure, provision will be made fbr the addition afterwards of apartments for richer classes of patients. The funds for this purpose can only be obtained by the voluntary contributions of such benevolent persons as are interested in the wel fare of the wide district of country• referred to, or in the mitigation of human suffering ‘enerally. It is estimated that at least 8,0001. will be required to erect the necessary buildings, and to form a fund for the permanent endowment of the Institution. Already considerable progress has been made, principally in the North of Scotland, in pro curing subscriptions ; and hopes are confidently entertained that with Metropolitan, and perhaps Colonial aid, the necessary funds will be obtained to secure this invaluable boon for the poor, and re move one of the worst blots on the humanity of our countrymen. The rules for the government of the Institution will be of course de termined at a generai meeting of the Subscribers, and will be sub mitted to them on principles fitted to secure a liberal and efficient system of management, comprehending the chief official funtionaries of the district, but giving to the Subscribers due and ample powers of control and recommendation. We are, respectfully, Your very obedient servants, (Signed) W. H. COLQUHOUN. JOHN MACKENZIE. CONTRIBUTIONS for a NORTHERN LUNATIC ASYLUM for INVERNESS-SHIRE, and the other Northern Counties of Scotland ;—to be erected at Inverness. £. s. d. His Grace the Duke of Sutherland 200 0 0 James Matheson, of Achany, M P 500 0 0 David Dundas, M.P. for Sutherland (01. H. Baillie, of Red Castle, 31. P 5O 0 0 Henry J. Baillie, H.P. for Inverness 50 0 0 Gen. Sir •John Rose, of Holme, K.O B 31 10 0 Mackintosh, of Mackintosh. 100 0 0 The Chisholm. 31 10 0 Cluny Macpherson••.. J. 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The most important Treatise on Roses is just published in Part VI. of the " HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE," price Is. com prising a perfect system of Rose Culture, with full and explicit Directions for every Operation connected with the Management of Roses, Advertisements, books for review, and communications for the Editor,to be sent to Thomas Houlston, publisher, No. 154, Strand. Sold by all Booksellers. HOOD'S MAGAZINE for JULY, No. 19, Price 2s. 6d., contains-1. The Bushranger of Van Dieman's Land. By Charles Rowcroft. 2. Scandal-3. Recollections of Lis ton-4. Chronicles of the Fleet-5. Incident on the Highway— 6. The Exile-7. Lady Barbara's White Rose-8. First Love-9. Corn laws and Free-trade-10. A Chapter on Brokers-11. Colonisation and Emigration-12. Reviews of Books-13. Maynooth-14. Virgil for School-boys, &c. &c. London : Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand. WHEATHAMSTEAD FREE-TRtDE CLUB. DISTRIBUTION OF BEDS TO AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. The anniversary of the Wheathamstead Free-trade Association was celebrated at the Swan Inn, Wheathamstead, on Wednesday last. Mr. C. H. Lattimore, the Chairman of the Association, pre sided, and was supported on his right by Robert R. Moore, Esq.; and on his left by Lattimore, Esq., Mr. Burton, &c. The vice. chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Gilbert. Between forty and fifty farmers sat down to dinner, and the attendance of this class would have been much larger had not the haymaking imperatively detained them on their farms. Many who had intended to be pre sent, and had purchased tickets for the dinner, were prevented from attending by this cause. Dinner, which consisted of an abundance and variety of season able viands, was served up in a tent in the yard of the Swan Inn, and the arrangements altogether were exceedingly creditable to the worthy host, Mr. Hewson. After the cloth had been removed, and the usual toasts of eti. quette given, The CHAIRMAN proposed " Prosperity to the Wheathamstead Free-trade Association," and in speaking to it at much length said --Perhaps, in the first place, you will allow me to glance for a moment at the place in which we are assembled, the population of the village, and their usual occupation. It is impossible to find any where a population more completely rural than exists here. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 acres of land, the population is about 2,000, and 1 don't know any description of manufacture that is carried on here, or any machine that exists for the purpose of any manufacture, even to the extent of a spinning-jenny.— (Hear, hear.) If, therefore, any place can be isolated from manu factures, it Is this. Perhaps a more perfect antithesis to the city of Manchester cannot be found; and yet it is the opinion of persons here that this place would be as much benefited by free trade as even Manchester itself, and this Association has been formed to demonstrate this conviction that the principle of free trade' would be equally as beneficial to this rural village as to the manufacturing districts.—(Loud cheers.) Nothing can possibly show more plainly the truth and beauty of this prin. dple, and its universality, than the fact that districts between which there is such great contrariety in point of occupation should agree to unite upon this principle; no greater proof of the truth of free trade can be given than that a population like that of Wheatham stead should unite with Manchester in its favour.—(Cheers.) The Chairman next proposed "The Anti-Corn-law League, the only true farmers ' and labourers' friend."—(Drunk with applause).- ROBEILT R. MOOSE, Esq., responded to the toast In a long and eloquent speech, in which he dwelt forcibly on the necessity of attending to the registration, and suggested that the farmers should choose a representative of their own class, who would sym. pathise with their wants and attend to their true interests. At the conclusion of Mr. Moore's speech the curtain at the back of the Chairman was withdrawn, and we then observed the yard thronged with the peasantry of the district, who had come for the purpose of receiving their tickets for the beds awarded. The ma. jority of the assembled multitude were women, whose husbands were unable to attend, in consequence of being engaged in getting in the hay harvest. Tickets for the following articles-80 beds, 80 counterpanes, 80 pairs of sheets, and 50 ditto children's sheets—were distributed to 210 of the most necessitous and deserving labourers. The CHAIRMAN in rising to propose " Thanks to the Council of the Anti-Corn.law League for the munificent present which they had made," turned round to the peasantry and addressed them to the following effect :—You are assembled here to receive a gift in the shape of beds and sheets, which we find it impossible to distri bute to you this night. You, however, to whom the various presents have been awarded, will receive tickets, and the beds will be distributed this night week at six o'clock. You don't know much about free trade except from mere report. You are aware that population increases and employment does not ; and you sometimes look at your children and ask your selves how they can be brought up honestly. I spoke to a labourer the other day, who said that he did not know what would become of his children, but he hoped God would help him to bring them up honestly. That was a good feeling; it is your duty to bring up your children honestly, and neither they nor you can be happy unless you do so. You have no capital but your labour, and for that there is not now suffi. cient demand or employment. We advocate that which will give you more employment and also cheap food. We give you these beds and other things, not as a charity —not to degrade you. We want to elevate you. But we know your necessity, and we give you that which you want—not to depress you—not ostentatiously —but to do you good ; and we are very happy to be able to assist you in this way. We shall distribute the goods without favour or affection, or regard to sex, class, or creed. All we inquire is, whether you are honest and industrious. We ask you to endea vour to promote the happiness of your families. There is a gentle.. man named Grantley Berkeley, who says that all the labourers are poachers.—(Cries of " No, no.") Now, I say, that is not true; I tell him from this place that that is not the case. You are actuated by a better spirit. You are not only interested in your own happiness, but also in that of others. We have to work for all we eat or wear, and whoever lives by idleness or dishonesty takes away that which another man works for. And be you sure that, if every man lived by honesty and industry, more food would be grown, and more of everything that you want made, and all of you would have a larger share. The Anti-Corn-law League wishes to see you better clothed and better fed. Consider this. People who never saw you, living hundreds of voiles away, and having only heard of you by report, take an interest in you. They are free-traders : lam one. I believe that free trade is necessary to your happiness. I could live without it; but I don't believe that the rising generation will be able to do so. Whenever you look upon those articles which will be distributed to you, let them re mind you of what is the objeet of those who sympathise with your situation. At the suggestion of the CHAIRMAN the multitude, as an ex. pression of their thanks, then gave three vociferous cheers for the Anti-Corn-law League; after which, Mr. MOORE addressed them to the following effect :—As one of the League, I am pleased to tell you how glad I am that we are able to make you this small present. Our wish is that every agri. cultural labourer in the kingdom should have a comfortable bed. We don't send them to you as a charity, but as an earnest of what you would be able to get yourselves if there were no corn.law. We believe that you deserve them, and that you would get them your. selves if you could. We are convinced that we are working for the good of the landlord, the fanner, the labourer, and every one in the country. We say that labour does not get its own ; that men work hard and don't get fairly paid. But this is not the farmer's fault, but that of the laws. He can't make a profit out of farming, and so he can't pay you as he would wish to do. But if farming were profitable he could pay you better. The Rev. Mr. GILBERT, Independent minister of Wheatham. stead, then addressed the labourers as follows :—My friends, I know most of you. I have sympathised with and endeavoured to alleviate your distresses. You have been brought together to.night, and have heard statements so clear and practical that you must have been convinced by them. You will believe that what has been spoken has come from the heart. I have been told by some that I am out of the path of duty in taking part against the corn.laws. Now, I do not advocate the repeal of them as a political but as a religious measure. I find the Bible condemns him "who holds back the corn." But, if we want to get rid of the corn-laws, we must do so in a peaceable way. We shall never get rid of them by any other means. My friends, I hope you will sleep comfortably upon the beds which have been given to you. L. ',at-1131mm, Esq., proposed the health of C. H. Lattimore, the chairman, which was drunk with enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in an able and eloquent speech, in which he showed that monopoly taxes every working man to the extent of 2s. per week—a sum which, if accumulated till his 50th year, would save him from the degradation and misery of a work house. The meeting then quietly separated, highly pleased with the novel and Interesting scene they had witnessed, which, there is no doubt. has left a deep and permanent impression upon the minds of all classes in the neighbourhood. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. Tho Music composed by M. W. Balfe ; the '4lbretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Don Sylvio, Mr W. Harrison ; ltamir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horneastle ; Stella, Madame Anna Thilion. _ _ . _ — To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Glselle, Mdllc. Louise. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, n&R. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, sntitled TIME WORKS WONDER.I. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews : Bantam, Mr. Buck:3olle ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Sirs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Ruttier, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Buff, Mr. James Bland ; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley ; Helen, Miss Telbin. _ To conclude with an entirely New Farce, calit:::! THE 1:1N! , , AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Hell ; 3urehell, Mr. James Bland ; Perkin Pyeffnch, Mr. Buckstoue ; Jessie .Donald, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de 3lousseux, Mr. Selby ; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Woflington, Miss Woolgar. After which, THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Practice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANSGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. T HIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts, entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and Turner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. TO conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CIND ERE L LA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeirjr, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. "Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—FRENCH PLAYS. Fourth appearance at this Theatre of the popular Actor, M. ARNAL THIS EVENING Will be performed RENAUDIN DE CAEN. Renaudin, M. Arnal ; Suzette, Mdlle. Ozy. To conclude with L'HO MME BLASE. Nantouillet, Mons. A rnal Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 35. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at Half-past. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES. In order to afford to the patrons and frequenters of this Theatre an opportunity of witnessing the most extraordinary Entertainment ever produced in this country, an arrangement has been made with the Celebrated M. PHILLIPPE (now performing at the $l. James's Theatre with unparalleled success), for Three pertormances only, of his astonishing exhibition of PHYSIQUE AMUSANTE, MAGICAL DELUSIONS ! ! ! Which will take place on MONDAY next, June 30 ; WEDNESDAY, July 2 ; and FRIDAY, July 4. There will be AO advance of prices. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. Applications for Places , Private Boxes, &c., to be made to Mr. J. K ers chner, at the Box - office , from Eleven till Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Immense and overflowing Audie nces attend the re-production of the Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and Foreign Equestrians of the present day. To conclude with the New Grand Pantomimic Spectacle of THE GREEK RENEGADE. M. JULLIEN'S SECOND CONCERT MONSTRE. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1845. In consequence of the immens e p re paration necessary to give, at the SECOND GRAND CONGRESS MUSICALE, the same eclat as obtained at the first Concert Monster, June 20, the SECOND CON CERT MONSTER IS POSTPONED, and will take place on FRI DAY, July 11, on which occasion great Instrumental Novelties will be produced, also several eminent artists from the provinces and the Continent will arrive, in addition to the,mmense galaxy of instru mental talent at the first Concert Monstre. M. Jullien begs respectfully to draw the attention of Musical Amateurs to his announcements during the ensuing week, in which the arrangements pending will be advertised. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Hartnomicon, Every Day, from Nine till Dusk. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The MINSTREL BROTHERS. from Four to Twelve Years of Age, will perform Select Airs at intervals. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight. 4nd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivora at Half-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar ,Bears at Six ; Concert at Half-. , ast Si:; and Fireworks at Half-Past Nine. M. THIERS' HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, With Illustrative Notes from all the most authentic sources. By FREDERICK SHOBERL, Esq. To which will be appended a copious Index of Persons and Events. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. ..* To be had also of all Booksellers. NEW EDITOR—GRATUITOUS SUPPLEMENT. C OLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Now Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. CECCO DEL ORSO. An Italian Romance of the Fourteenth Century. By the Editor. 11. My Room in the Country. By Andrew Winter. 111. Thoughts on Inns. In Two Chapters. By the Author of " Hillingdon Hall." IV. The Principality of the Captive Jews. By W. Francis Ains worth, Esq. V. Written after witnessing the Performance of a young Ameri can Actress. By Charlotte Cushman. VI. The Ass eating Thistles. (iEsop Illustrated.) By the Au thor of " Peter Priggins." VII. The Robertses on their Travels. Chapters 2iL., XLI., XLII., and XLIII. By Mrs. Trollope. VIII. Lights and Shades in the Life of a Gentleman on Half-pay. No. XIII. By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo." IX. Recreations in Natural History. No. XXIV. Elephants. X. Beauteous Little Mary. By Edward Kenealy. XI. The Chest of Cigars. By Lancelot Wagstaff, Esq. XII. The Fiddler of Frankfort. By Dudley Costello. XIII. The Gray Old Ash Tree. By Miller. XIV. Selections from Jean Paul Friederich Richter. By John Ox enford. XV. The Last Adventures of Hereward the Saxon. By Thomas Wright, M.A. XVI. The Opera. XVII. Literature of the Month. With this Number is presenteP A GRATUITOUS SUPPLEMENT, Containing Twenty-one Chapters of the REVELATIONS OF LONDON. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. _ . - . . Illustrated by Fourteen magnificent Designs on Steel. By rhiz, Thus giving a Double Number, without increase of charge. *.* Mr.Ains - worth will henceforth write exclusively in the New Monthly Magazine, and continue his " Revelations of London" in that Journal, until the completion of the Romance. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. S ELTERS WATER (in England called Seltzer Water). DECLARATION OF THE NASSAU GOVERNMENT. THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE DOMAINS OF MS HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF NASSAU, Declare, by these presents, that being desirous to prevent and put a stop to the numerous falsifications committed in respect to the Waters of Selters (in England called Seltzer Water), in the kingdom of Great Britain, its colonies, and dependencies, which have been made known to them on indisputable evidence, and wishing by every means in their power to secure for the fhture to the consumers of the Waters of Setters (Seltzer Water) in the kingdom of Great Britain, its colonies, and dependencies, the enjoyment of the genuine Water of that Spring, as also of the Springs of Fachingen, Schwalbach, and Weilbach, likewise the property of his Highness the Duke of Nassau, they have resolved, from the let of January, 1845, to use the Metallic Capsules of Mr. John Thomas Betts, of London, known under the name of "BETTS'S PATENT METALLIC CAPSULE." as a top covering for all the bottles, both large and small, filled with the said Mineral Waters, for Mr. John Thomas Betts, and intended for the kingdom of Great Britain, its colonies, a - A dependencies. On these Capsules are to be impressed the Arms of Nassau, and under the arms the name of the Water contained in the Bottle, with ihe words " BETTS, IMPORTER," and " BETTS'S PATENT," around. The above named Bottles, capsuled in such a manner, will like wise bear, as heretofore, the usual marks, consisting of a Shield, im pressed on the Bottle, containing the arms of Nassau, or a Crown, under which are the initials H.N., and around the name of the Mine ral Water contained in the Bottle, and also the usual burnt mark on the lower end of the cork. The General Direction of the Domains further declare by these presents, that they have granted to the said John Thomas Betts, Patentee of the above described Capsule 3, and to no one else in the Kingdom of Great Britain, its Colonies and Dependencies, the exclu sive right to purchase and export, direct from the Springs, the Waters of Selters, Schwalbach, Fachingen, and Weilbach. They declare further, that the Bottles, after being tilled with the respective Mineral Waters, are to be immediately, and in the pre sence of their officers, closed with the above earned Capsules. This present declaration Is granted to Mr. John Thomas Betts, with authority to publish the same. Given at Wiesbaden, this 18th day of December, 1844. The President of the Direc tion-General of the Ducall BARON DE BOCK HERMSDORFF. Domains of Nassau. •HENRYHENDEL, Secretary, The public will observe, by the above declaration, that these Waters, protected and hermetically closed by the Patent Metallic Capsules, may now be obtained in the same state of freshness and perfection, irrespective of time or temperature, as at the first mo ment when taken from the Springs, without the possibility of frau dulent substitution. These Waters are imported in hampers containing four dozen quart, or five dozen pint bottles at the rate of 10s. per dozen, and 25. the hamper for the former, and 7s. per dozen and Is. 6d, the hamper for the latter, bottles and hampers not returnable. And, as the sale must inevitably extend to many thousand persons, Cash Payments will be indispensable ; on receipt of which hampers will be delivered at the railway receiving houses ; and to any part of the metropolis, exclusive of the railway stations, where carts are liable to detention. lMr. Betts respectfully informs the public that, the first importa tion having arrived, orders will be received, addressed No. 1, Wharf-road, City-road: and to prevent disappointment he begs further to state that they will be executed consecutively, with refe rence to priority of date. Special agents, from whom the smallest quantity may be obtained, are in course of appointment, in town and country. And applica tions for agencies, from respectable persons, where appointments are not already made, may obtain particulars by addressing letters post paid, to No. 1, Wharf-road, City-road, London. N.B.—Dealers in other mineral and effervescent ;Waters will be ineligible. , HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be revived Mercadante's Opera IL GIURAMENTO. Eloise, Madame Grist ; Isaura, Madame Bellini ; Blanca, Mdlle. Brambilla ; Manfredo, Sig. Fornasari ; Vlscardo, Sig. Moriani. The Danseuses Viennoises will appear in some of their favourite Pas (it being their last appearance but one). To conclude with LA ESMERALDA . In the Third Tableaux, the admired Pas de Quatre, from the " Lac des Fees," by Mdlles. Cerito, rerdinand, Demelisse, and M. St. Leon. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist; Fleur de Lys, Madame Petit Stephan ; Phoebus de Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot. applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sig. MARIO has the honour to inform his Friends, the Sub scribers to the Opera, and the Public that lIIS BENEFIT will take place ON THURSDAY, JULY 3, When will be presented (last time this Season), Bellini's Opera I PURITANI. Elvira, Iladam s e Grisi ; Arturo, Sig. Mario ; ,ticcirdo, Sig. Fornasari ; Giorgio, Sig. Lablache. The Danseuses Viennoises will appear in some of their Favorite Dances (being their last appearance). To be followed by Selections from ROBERTO DEVEREUX. The Principal Characters by Madame Rossi Caccia, Dldlle. Rosetti, Sig. Moriani, and Sig. Barroilhet. With various Entertainments, in which Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi will appear. And, for the Last Time, LA SYLPIIIDE. La Sylphide, Mdlle. Taglloni. _ _ _ Appllcations for Boxes, Stalls, Ind Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-cffice, Colonna4e, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven, to comme.we at Half-past Seven o,Clock. OUvnin_t LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 184.5. The pending " privilege question," between the Courts of Law and the House of Commons, is every day assuming a more grave and unsatisfactory aspect. We cannot deem so lightly of it, in common with some of our Contemporaries, as to regard it as a mere question of smart practice between the So licitor appointed to act for the Sergeant-at- Arms and the Solicitor HOWARD, who is the plaintiff in the action. Neither is our interest limited to the consideration whether the law laid down in this matter by the Judges of the Queen's Bench, and especially by the Lord Cbief, was, as some contend it to have been, most dangerous to the independence of Parliament, or, as others consider it, most valuable as an exposition of the rights of the people. The prospect of any colli sion between the Common Law Courts and the High Court of Parliament, at any time, and under any circumstances, is calculated to excite in every reflecting mind much uneasiness; and the very many difficulties that must attend the issue at stake are by no means to be disposed of by the ordinary rule of solution we apply to litigated questions in this country—" Let it be determined in the ordinary course of law "—for that course is not applicable to it. The privilege itself is an anomaly, by the very confession and argument of its advocates, overriding the law ; but no Englishman can honestly deny that the law exists, at this day, in its strength and integrity, mainly by reason of that privilege exerted in darker and more stormy periods of its existence for its protection and support. And it may be safely affirmed that whatever objections may have attached, from time to time, to the privilege of Par liament in the abstract, that privilege has worked practically to the signal benefit of the people. Were there no other considerations but these to rest it upon, upon these we would found our earnest appeal to the two parties in the House of Commons and among the public, who advocate, the one the most extreme amount and exercise of the privilege, and the other, its reduction within limits which would neutralise its effective action altogether,— to dismiss all heat and passion in dealing with the subject. If they are rash and unreasonable, who would stretch the cord of privilege to the tension it had attained in the days of the Long Parliament, or of the Convention Parliament which enforced forfeiture of the Crown against one dynasty, and established its succession in another ; they are neither more reasonable nor less rash who denude the House of Commons of all privilege beyond that possessed by any individual subject of the QUEEN in her courts of law. The second report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to in quire into the proceedings of the action of HOWARD U. GOSSETT, is a document to which it is not difficult to pre dict a character of both historic and legal importance At the present moment it suggests some reflections that powerfully confirm us in the appeal we thus make to the good sense and good feeling of all parties. The Committee, in considering the course which, in the present stage of the proceedings, it may be most desirable for the House to pursue, admit that they have found the case to be one of great difficulty. The facts of the case it can scarcely be necessary to bring in de tail before the reader. Let us suppose them to arise out of the service of a Speaker's warrant, and an entry upon premises in virtue of that warrant, in the absence of the party against whom it had been taken. He brings his action against the officer of the House, and in a court of law a verdict of damages is returned, upon which proceedings are taken and a judgment obtained. Prior to a levy under this judgment, the question arose— should the House interfere to prevent, by its own au thority, the execution of a judgment so granted by a court of law, or seek to reverse that judgment on a writ. of error ? The Committee declare " that they feel it to be of the utmost importance that the House should maintain the entire privi leges which are essential to the discharge of its constitutional functions." This may sound like beg ging the question, but it does, at all events, very fairly raise it, and it is of a two-fold character. 1. What is this privilege of Parliament ? 2. Is it expedient to vin dicate it ? With regard to the former of these branches, it seems to us obvious that the privilege is an adjunct naturally arising out of the free exercise of the roper to a representative body of this description. It this were even to he disputed, the fact of prescription could not be. Sir EDWARD Cox says that " the power and jurisdic tion of Parliament are so transcendant and absolute, that it cannot be confined, either for persons or causes, within any bounds. It bath sovereign and uncontrollable au thority in making and repealing laws." In the large ness of this estimate they may find an answer to their objections who insist that the privileges which Parlia ment claims as inherent in itself ought to be defined. The very first step towards such a definition would not only destroy the salutary principle on which it exists, tamely, an exclusive power in the fountain of the laws to " control," as COKE has it, their course according to the par ticular exigency) and of which it alone can be permitted to judge) ; but it would subject its own action to in cessant Interruption and impediments, invoked under the general authority of any specific law, of which it might seek to modify or to repeal the enactments. As to the latter branch of the question, may we not well ask, if, on the authority of CoKE, this transcendent privilege is indispensable to the theory of an indepen dent Parliament, its practical necessity has been less strongly shown in all our experience of its working since the reign of EDWARD I. ? On how many occasions, dur ing that interval, has Parliament exercised this privilege to protect the vassal from the rapacity of his lord? When tenures by grand and petit-sergeantry were abolished, it was argued that there could be no further necessity for the maintenance of Parliamentary privi lege. In how many subsequent cases, occurring in how many subsequent years, and down to our own times, has the same privilege been extended as a shield over the subject, to protect him from the aggressions, or the threatened violence of the Crown ? But were we to attempt to assign a tithe of the reasons that may be adduced, to show why it is expedient to vindicate the privilege of Parliament, we should be oppressed with their number. If it be a salutary aid to support the popular branch of the Constitution against the en croachments of the Throne, it is fully as important in protecting the popular branch from the too stringent pressure and irregular passion of its own constituency. Perhaps it is this very " privilege" in the Commons of a limited Monarchy which makes the popular Member of the State the very ark of the monarchical Constitution ; whilst, he want of it, in pure republics, leaves their coun cils so open to external,but direct influences, so much at the mercy of the impetuous and intemperate purposes of the democracy, as too frequently to entail the decay and ultimate ruin of the Commonwealth. On a large and general view of the subject, therefore, we are clearly of opinion that the privilege of Parliament ought to be upheld. Its abuses, particularly if you will have trien nial or shorter Parliaments, are sufficiently guarded against by the powers of reconstruction vested in the electoral body who return the Commons. Descending to particular objections, we come to one very candidly re-stated in the Select Committee's Report. 'We allude to the tom, of emphatic depreca,tioniu which any pus,wie collision between Parliament and the courts ,of law is spoken of. To the mischiefs of any such col lision we are fully alive ; but we cannot think that the same danger or inconvenience could attach to it now, which might have been reasonably appre hended from it prior to. 1761, when GEORGE 111. first created judges by patents for life. That is to say, so long as judges held their high and most exalted offices under the Crown, only " durante bene-placito" (as their appointments then ran), the policy of the State should have been what the spirit of the Constitution adopts-- namely, to uphold the authority of decisions of the courts of law against all privilege beyond the law, claimed by the councils of the Crown, in which there would probably sit venal judges, its own creatures. But now, when the tenure of the judge is quamdizi se bone yesserit, there is nothing to fear, whore other cir cumstances justify Parliament in resorting to its pri vilege for the protection of its own officers—from its enforcing that privilege against the decision of courts of law. Now we can imagine no cases stronger to justify the assertion of this privilege than that before the House, or its immediate predecessor, " Stock dale v. Hanszrd." The publication of evidence taken before the Committees of Parliament, is perhaps one of the most unqualified public benefits the Legislature con fers on the country. If the publisher of so notorious and scandalous a work as the " Wilson Memoirs," could induce a jury to befit ve that he had really been libelled in one of the depositions printed by order of the House of Commons, among a hundred others, he was a lucky fellow. But we do not see that, therefore, the writ of a court of law, in which a verdict of damages had been taken by such a plaintiff, ought to defeat the exercise of so vital a power as the privilege of Parliament. Udder other circumstances, and as against a private defendant, it would have mattered not one straw to the public whether an attorney—Mr. SMITH, or Mr. HOWARD, or Mr. JONES— did or did not make " a good thing"out of his action, or how light or how heavy damages he could in duce a jury to give him. But it matters much, indeed, whether Mr. HOWARD should be allowed, by the capricious event of an appeal to a court of law, with the benefit of his own technical management, to make the House of Commons change places with him, and sue it, by its officer, as a civil delinquent. From one paragraph in the report before us it would appear that others are emulous of the successful experiment of Mr. HOWARD, " Three other actions are pending at present against officers of the House for arts done under its authority, in one of these actions the damages have been laid at 100,0001. (1 !) and they have all been brought in the Court of Queen's Bench." Of course, they have been. We will undertake to promise that Court an enormous accumulation of business in similar actions, if the Par liament do not interpose to put an end to the prevailing fever of Parliament prosecutions. But when some of these gentlemen are so m..clest in their estimate of the damages they shall go for, as to " write down " 100,000/. upon the record, the House of Commons must interpose to bar it ; if in no other character, surely in that of guardian of the public purse. But what is the proxi mate cause of a condition of things thus false and complicated ? As it appears to us, the ill-judged in structions given by the House to Mr. Attorney-General to plead to the action. Nothing can be more moderate, yet dignified, more temperate or reasonable, than the language of the " Report," which we published on Sa turday. But we cannot help deploring the step thus taken in this remarkable business. The Committee state (and no doubt with perfect truth) that the probable in tention of the House, in permitting its officer to plead in this case, agreeably to the precedents of " Burdett v. Abbott," and " Stockdale v. Hansard," was not to sub mit its privileges to the judgment of a court of law, but merely to bring within the cognizance of the Court, in the most formal manner, the fact that the acts com plained of by the plaintiff had been done by officers of the House, at the instance and under the authority of the House. The Committee naturally contend, in this view of the case, that the pleas ought at once to have been admitted by the Court as a sufficient answer to the ac tion. The Court did no such thing, and this is just one of those cases in which success alone can excuse an error in judgment, whatever were the grounds it went upon. We do not pause to inquire wherein the analogy con sists, that pointed out to the SOLICITOR-GENERAL the utterly different casts of Burdett v. Abbott and Stock dale v. Hansard, as precedents to guide the House in its dealing with this action of "Howard v. Gossett." But with every respect for the Committee, we dissent from the doctrine affirmed, in relation to its "First Re port," that " as the levying of the plaintiff's execution " would, in no respect, prejudice the proceedings in the " Writ of Error," therefore " they did not deem it ex " pedient to advise the House to interpose to prevent " the levy." Let us give the Committee and the House full credit for moderation in wishing to proceed by Writ of Error to set aside judgment obtained by the plaintiff. It by no means followed that the vindication of the privilege of Parliament would be established. It is now evident that it did not, in fact, ensue on this permission of the levy. What have they gained by this course ? A loss. They are damnified, not bettered. The Com mittee postponed the distinct assertion of a great principle to a choice of proceedings which, at the best, migh t obviate the necessity for putting that principle immediately in issue. Which was the more important point for them to have established ; that which would have inhibited, in limine, any challenge in a court of law of the privilege, or that which might indeed, for this time, keep the great issue of its vindication out of the law courts altogether ; but could only do so, by invoking in a specific form the re medial, and, therefore, the protective, and, therefore, the superior authority of those very tribunals ? We shall ever deem it a fatal mistake to have pleaded ; because, on every principle recognised by the canon, the civil and the common law in this country, to appear in a jurisdic tion under its own form or citation, is to acknowledge it ; except, indeed, the appearance be under specific pro test. Hen, there has been no such protest. And if there had been one entered in a former stage of the pro ceedings, you tear off your own seal from it by going elsewhere fir a writ of error—unless, indeed, you make your application SO PROTESTING. And this, as laymen— but earnestly solicitous for the integrity of those privilege. which we infirm all parties concerned in maintaining them are held on sacred trust for the highest service of the public—we say this modification t,f the recommendation of the Committee the House of Commons will find it yet essential to adopt. It is with great pain that we solicit the attention of our readers to the melancholy account we have pub lished of the conflagration at Quebec of the 28th of May last. By this desolating calamity no less than 12,000 persons are said to have become homeless, un sheltered, and destitute ; and the 2.000 houses which they had previously occupied have been consumed by the flames. One hundred human beings, it is feared, have perished in the burning ruins of their homesteads, or as the helpless, bed-ridden patients of a hospital, who had been purposely removed to a dwelling in another quarter of the city, the distance of which from the area of the fire, it was vainly hoped, might protect them from its ravages. But sparks and burning fragments, wafted n that direction by a furious wind, accomplished the destruction of the dwelling, and they perished in it. The loss of property sustained has been variously esti mated, but probably exceeds 700,000/. sterling. A disaster more appalling has not often been recorded even in the annals of colonial fires. Much as Quebec has been of late years improved by the introduction of substantial masonry in the construction of Government works and of the superior class of private dwellings, it is still essentially a city of wood. The great mercantile stores established there, many of the landing piers, quays, &c., aro of that material. Wooden shingle forms, for the most part, the roofing of the tene ments ; and it is, of course, one of the greatest depots in the world for stacked timber, the produce of the forests of Canada ; deals, battens, staves, logs, &c. All these appear to have formed fatal elements fur the action of the fire, although its extinction in one quarter was happily accomplished by the sudden hurling down of these piled masses. The writer of one account which has reached Hs states, that at its broadest point the breadth of the densely-crowded area, over which this sudden devastation has swept, is nearly one-third of a mile. We remark that Lord METCALFE, with his cha racteristic energy, and his prompt humanity, has for warded 2,000/. ; the Roman Catholic Bishop, 5001., for the relief of the sufferers ; the Hotel Dieu, 500/. As VT animosities between the hierarchies of the Roman Catholic Church and our own Establishment, which vent themselves nearer home with so much unbecoming rancour, are happily modified in Canada by feelings of reciprocal respect and Christian charity, " our good Bishop " as he is called, d• ies not cast ungen roux reflec tions upon, or impute unworthy motives to, his mitred brother, as a Bishop of EXETER would deal with a Bishop of WORCESTER, but frankly and assiduously emulates his example. The Protestant Bishop of QUE BEC embarks with ardour in his pastoral labour of soli citing charity for the distressed, and sets in moion the active agency of all his clergy for the same benevolent purpose. In Quebec itself about 3,000 of the inhabi tants attended at a public meeting, at which between 3,000/. and 4,000/. were subscribed. In Montreal a similar meeting was about to be convened with a like object ; and we have no doubt that the inhabitants of t h e W es t ern will COMP fOr.‘ird Tnriproi l o, i n rid r.£ their compatriots of the Eastern province. In the mean time we would earnestly commend the afflicting case of these Quebec sufferers to the humanecoueideratiort of the English public. It is a case of pt , culiar claim Upon their sympathy, and one which pres,es urgently fur im mediate relief. Those who consider how short is the duration of the warm season in Lower Canada, bow rapid the approach, and how excessively severe the rigout s of a Canadian winter, will at once appreciate the necessity for immediate exertion on behalf of the ruined victims of this calamity. Those who cannot withdraw themselves from the habit of regarding all Ca• nadian questions under their political relations, and with a certain degree of political excitement, will feel that the sooner a social evil—a domestic misfortune —of this mag nitude is repaired the better it will be for the welfare of the colony at large. These are not times in which, set ting out of view considerations of humanity, and appeals of private misfortune, it would be expedient to leave the metropolis of our most important possessions in America weakened by the protracted existence of unmitigated suffering among its population on this gigantic scale- Such a neglect would amount to a dangerous presump tion of national apathy and public weakness, the moral influence of which, in depressing our own subj ects on the shores of St. Lawrence, and raising the hostile preten sions of some among their neighbours on the other side of the United States' frontier, it is not difficult to calm" late, though it would be invidious to dwell upon. We confidently trust that public meetings will be held in our own metropolis, and in the other great mercantile sol manufacturing capitals of the United Kingdom, to Cow tribute a liberal fund to the relief of our fellow -country. men in Quebec. It will be gratifying to find, too, that in an exigency of so awful a nature the Colonial Depart ment here can shake off its customary indifference or indolence, and vigorously employ both its Parliamentary influence and its executive powers to prompt and reme dial measures for the succour and re-establishment of the surviving sufferers by this calamity, and the faililies and representatives of those who have perished in it. If we may credit the accounts brought b y the Great Western from New York, and the authority of letters published in that city, said to have been received from Vera Cruz, the knotty question of Texas independence re sented man e n t a settlemen t,intimated The tMexicanheir consent Congres s t o would appear to be making good progress towards a pe cognizing Texas as an independent State, on tertes honourable to Mexico, and advantageous to both the contracting parties. This result is alleged to be owing to the exertions and good management of th e English Minister accredited to Texas, who lost no after being fully in possession of the views of the 'fess' Government, in putting himself in -commuuicatiou with a 1a the authorities of Mexico,and obtaining the acquiescence for ree of their Cabinet in the basis of such a treaty w w e ' s tha t the finally negotiated. It was further unders tood independence of Texas has the joint guurantee of flg ,1 prO" land and of France, on condition that she rejects posals of annexation to the United Stat es or any other g.vderear T r.t h ue e kt i te n eo t n elligence to this effect from Mexico appe a rs Power whatsoever. to Uuited States. bfiorint a Cruz. If it be borne out by facts a c shall eon- Vera to be dissipated, h at ,t i ri o lh n ee po b; lyt l i e e t ; te a r yt s oin o t f hwe a hi p ec r;: tph i( ae : us m : is a ca t i ; ei f v r tt o )hus in e chance of inducing was delusion of TYLER'S unprincipled the citizons of 1 by putting United States in the wrong ; ft.r that is the, only to gratif y on a proposition too well calculated wtahse,m to r : as a i o , nen xciaitsipoans',on:tt schemehe their v a n n c e e , sh the e put y m bY t - a national vanity at the axed to c b h e araeteristic shrewdness, so long as, there alV e— , .. no disposition in other Powers to resist their desgrio" do ßut Te xas , the United. e U t t t n o i i n T t g e e d x h S a e s t r a s t e t e lf o s iiritrdthoh:eo washreorsnhgte.c) b T h eo has o : : 8 0 1 ; member of the Federal Union, proceeded on the assump tion—openly avowed—that the Government of Texas desired that incorporation with the States of the Union• expense of there In vindicating her own independence and integritft Texas, instead of being absorbed as a component ele dm.ent into an unwieldly federation, secures her own in tvidual position under the auspices of the two most powerful nations of Europe. Perhaps, under the court relations which the Texas question was in ' l4 assuming, with regard both to the United States sa d to this country, no course could be suggested so well calcu lated to obviate th e probabilities of h ostile frontier ol lisions between Mexico and the United States, and serious ill-will and heart-burning s between the United States and this country at some not remote period' 8° s that of which we, are thus apprised, and which we trust has been adopted. Madrid journals of the 22d instant state, that on thel2oth a meeting had been held in the Saloons of Senor PAcnEO" relative to the abdication of Don CARLOS and the marriege of the QUEEN. It was composed of thirty-one Pe° puties and three editors of Madrid journals. Speen",, were made, and it appeared to be the unanimous opinion tbal ' both the Count DE TRAPANI and the Prince of As•ruglAs should be rejected as suitors for the hand of her gai estl. • But ISTURITZ opposed any expression of public opil llo° • the subject, as the initiative should come from the (NM; and to this the meeting unanimously assented. A c irc " — c had been addressed on the 19th, by NAR vArz ' a t no Barcelona, to the commandants of the didere° provinces, warning them that " the rebel Don Affl 'a. and the whole of his family have been declared outlio._' strangers to the kingdom, and excluded by the of the State, and by special laws, from succession to.thto crown, and deprived of the rights which bad belonged theM as infantes of Spain, and that this law must be enforcetu inexorably upon those who, either directly or indirectly., a the tempt to overthrow the fundamental institutions of country, and derange the order of succession to the CO ssro " by deceitful promises and lying sacrifices, which the 11 IL O as the supreme head of the State and nation, openly dined It It is generally believed that Queen CHRISTINA ia c_onstitoo: to take a very different view of a question which , li Tb e en tates the whole kingdom. MARTINEZ DE LA ROM I ' s d that taken ill on his way to Barcelona, but it was expecte arid tu in a short time he w o u ld b e a bl e to continue his jelieY' reach that place on the 24th. b and The Three per Cents. closed at 32 5-16 for O S 03 32 3 16 for the 25th of July ; and the Five per Cents at at 60 days ---vice--- --- The French Chamber of Deputies, at the cloSe ° f e t e . i r, husiness last week, after having passed all the other .‘,,,11f . mates, tofi proceeded to consider the Bill for granting 10, : ‘ , uu : ca, in t out the squadron to be stationed on the coast of of the ,i virtue of the late convention for the supPres sie . n . nn s re :l.7e trade. Admiral Micicau gave some exPhin sti- t - e d to . , r. to the sth article of the treaty, villlci l sPl' e3 t i ad give satisfaction. M. GUIZOT and M. DUPL."( also brie Y de. dressed the Chamber, and M. DEsrsas tried to get ,I d li f r onx bate on the question, but was incessantly interruP.• ,_„,,p. all sides, and was at last obliged to desist. A division,.oP:t it ever, took place, when there were for the Bill 248,3014214 only 1. Tile Journal des Debats, on referring to t he re sult, thus points out the vast services of M. BILLATILT, i ll ea tioa ing the treaties of 1831 and 1832 :-" The 13"' h C : riV ie 110 did not give rise to any further discussion. The - tt d iffillg not begun fromwant of combatants. On seeing this edifying not of the Oppocition, we asked ourselves whit! papery come of the celebrated M. BILLAULT and his bundle e l O ,P h - t N MI He it was who concluded the treaty-he it was w" el tposiag carried in triumph to the capitol. He is no doubt ' 1 ~, cow on his laurels, for the whole world knows it was h e w h o Mal l ducted the negotiation. Let US leave to thle g, r- n the l - innocent consolation ; it is fully due to biro j or art of s evil he has done. Let him continue to BlaY the P broug ht i ni n ysterious Egeria ; as long as his political idea ere 11 reli to execution by M. GuizoT, we shall W a r 4 1 0130: ance both on their tendency and their results." 14 ', ~,.'OO 01 after some discussion on the appointments to the "I l e boll Honour, urged, " that every nomination for the Presentfutar be published in the Moniteur." All the Mioia pledged their words that they would publish el l troo p, minations recommended by their respective deP sr __ e iga, but the motion was intended to apply also to the Sov: f r ove. and on a division, it was carried by a msPritY,,ble, and The accounts from Algeria are not very favour4 ;ft for it was understood there would be a necessitysiitabai creasing the number of troops in the colony. tars b:00 BUGEAED had been attacked with fever, and Wet lid P e r o : the r bably be compelled to return to France for die , 20th very of his health. Tile .illoniteur Algerien of ',. Algiers for t he states that the Duke DE MONTPENSIER erilbarkedt:i' on the preceding day, in the Gomer steani-frigs _: A a eir• Levant. The Minister of the Marine has addre7_ o yr is cular to a great number of officers in his departme t, "' lto , Paris, ordering them to repair forthwith to their P ( . 's_ ta of Dort reported at Paris that on the news of the abdicatt°D idea of Canws reaching Naples, the KING had o till i tilsiedf:e f tsA. t t li ce i o n all f „, the marriage between Contit nE Taara sl an g iven c y Queen "-- cording The strike t o a carpentersGoefntehveaiournai, te n a t DELLA. expulsion o d will vote at the approaching Diet for the . ht ere Weill Jesuits, and should the canton of Geneva join, be a majority for their expulsion. Cents , s r ta ar te is s closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at s at L lif. The Bourse was exceedingly flat. The Three 14 r f. 7 0c; stillaria ctown the New Loan at 841. 90e. ; the Five per Cen o t ti • co. 1,0 • ) 7f 60c.; ()dean= Railroad Sham,. 1,162 f. 50e• •R, a 957 f. 2 3 f ' Avigoo . 1, 5. 50c. ; Vierzou, 7271. 50e.; Havre, 8• • D i t to a 50c.; Basle, 252 f. 50c. ; Spanish Actives, 3 8 ; "' sives, 7%. 10 • Boulog e. Orleans and Bordeaux, 165 f. pre.mrium. ; ,,,irk a : ( . 1 j, ,y -oi di , ~, ; rro;‘ (~ at:d .)tont Preav, 27t. o'h' . I' ' t G a guetOV' ditto . k The following are the quotations for the new lines :--- 5f (i.Alitft ), 20f. ; ditto (Caton), par ;to (Resared; 6f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Alackenzie), 1 ' ditto (J ae rt e o ( Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2f. ?De.; i t g. 50c ;. --t • sf. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50; dit,.. 50e. ; dit , Lsfevre), pat- - ; Lyons and Avignon (Leeeint.edl'ii,i,), 6f. oul'i:, • an ..-, a ris a alabot),36f. 25c. ; ditto Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 50 e• , . , „ or; r 1 , (Lspeleta), 3f. 50c.; Creil and St. Que_r. 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