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imperial parliament. Lord J. RUSSELL answered that if the bill went into com mittee he should propose the omission of the first 14 clauses, extending the metropolitan police to the city. Mr..HAwEs having instituted inquiry on the subject, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he intended to press the county courts bill ; and he added, in answer to Mr. Darby, that he thought he should not be able to introduce the proposed poor law act amendment bill until the latter end of May. Lord PALMERSTON, in presenting papers regarding the express packet, stated that the French government, it would be found, had made most satisfactory explanations. Lord PALMERSTON and Sir J. HORHOUSE said, in answer to Sir Robert Peel's inquiry, that the remaining papers re specting the affairs in the east and the designs of Russia would be forthwith presented ; and that it was desired, in justice to Lord Auckland, that no discussion should take place until all the papers were before the house. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he should move the postpone ment of all the government orders that stood for Monday, with one exception, the municipal corporations (Ireland) act. On that he understood the Secretary for Ireland intended to make some proposition. into two bills—a proposition that was negatived on a division. The bill was then committed'pro forma. The supreme courts (Scotland) bill also called forth much desultory conversation in consequence of propositions moved by Mr. WALLACE, which, however, were negatived on a di vision. The bill was afterwards considered in committee.— Adjourned. CLERICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (From the Oord Herald.) In a Convocation holden o xf n Wednesday last, the nomina tion of the Rev. Ashhurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. and Princi pal of Brasenose College, to be a Delegate of the Press, in the room of the late Mr. Professor Rigaud, was unanimously approved. In a Congregation holden at the same time, the following Degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN LAW. James Parker Dean e , Fellow of CIVIL St. John's College. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Philip Mules, Fellow of Exeter College. Rev. Alfred Hackman, Chaplain of Christ Church. Brook Edward Bridges, Fellow of Merton College. Rev. Francis Curtis, Baliol College. BACHELOR OF ARTS. James Marsh Lakin, Worcester College, Grand Com pounder. - In a Convocation hblden in the afternoon of the same day, the Proctors of the last year resigned their offices, the Senior Pro-Proctor, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, of Merton College (in the unavoidable absence of the Senior Proctor, Mr. Rick etts,) making the usual Procuratorial speech, recounting the events of the past year, in which he paid a just tribute to the memories of the late Provost of Worcester, the late Rector of Exeter, and the late Professor of Astronomy. The new Proctors, having been previously elected by their respective Colleges, were presented for admission to the Vice-Chan cellor. SENIOR PROCTOR. The Rev. Jacob Ley, M.A. Student of Christ Church. JUNIOR PROCTOR. Ambrose G. Lethbridge, M.A. Fellow of All Souls' Co lege. The former was presented by the Very Rev. the Dean of Christ Christ ; the latter by the Warden of All Souls. After making the parliamentary declaration, taking the usual oaths, and being admitted by the Vice Chancellor with the accus tomed ceremonies, to the offices of the Proctorship, the new Proctors named the following gentlemen to be Pro-Proctors for the ensuing year : Rev. Walter Lucas Brown, M.A., Student of Christ Church. Rev. John Robert Hall, M.A., Student of Christ Church. Rev. Wm. Jacobson, M.A., Vice-Principal of Magd. Hall. Rev. Walker Ker Hamilton, M.A., Fellow of Merton College. The Rev. C. R. Tate, M. A. Scholar of Corpus Christi Coll., has been appointed Curate of the parish of Po r t smou th. On Thursday se'nnight was married, at Patshull, Stafford shire, the Rev. Chas. Grey Cotes, B.A. late of Christ Church, Rector of Stanton St. Quinton, Wilts, to Fanny Henrietta, daughter of Sir George Pigot, Bart. Yesterday se'nnight was married, at Carmarthen, the Rev. Richard James Francis Thomas, B.A. of Christ Church, Curate of Hammersmith, to Elizabeth Esther, second daugh ter of the late Thomas Jones, Esq. of Carmarthen. On Tuesday last was married, at St. James's, Westminster, by the Rev. R. C. Coxe, M.A. of Worcester College, the Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe, M.A. of the same College, and one of the Sub-Librarians of the Bodleian Library, to Char lotte Esther, youngest daughter of General Sir Hilgrove T. Turner, G.C.H. &c. On the same day was married, at Clifton Church, Bristol, the Rev. George G. Gardiner, M.A. of Exeter College, to Frances Mary, only daughter of the late Peter Touchet, Esq. and niece to Sir Francis Fort, Bart. On Wednesday last was married, at St. Leonard's church, Exeter, by the Rev. Reginald E. Copleston, the Rev. Wm. James Copleston, M.A. F e ll ow o f O ne l C o ll ege, and Rector of Cromhall, Gloucestershire, to Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Blake, late Rector of Yeovilton, Somersetshire. TIONS. Rev. Nicholas Walters, M. PROMOA. of Trinity Coll ege , Cam bridge, Vicar of All Saints', Stamford, to be Rural Dean for the Deanery of Beltisloe. Rev. Henry Payne Mason, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Beesby, Lincolnshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Joseph Hallett Batten, D.D. ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. April 5, the Rev. F. Glossop, the Rectory of West Dean, with the Chapel of East Grimstead annexed, in the county of Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. William Heath; patrons, the Rev. H. Glossop and Mr. J. A. Young. Rev. J. R. Fiske, M.A., to the Rectory of Kettlebaston, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Fiske. Rev. T. P. Dodson to the Vicarage of Willoughby -on the-Wolds, Notts, patron, T. Dodson, Esq, Rev. E. T. Gregory, to be Chaplain to the Lord Lieuten ant of Ireland. Rev. J. L. Drapes, to be Archdeacon Vicar, and Librari an, in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, Ire land. Rev. J. C. Haden, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cam bridge, to the Rectory of Hutton, Essex, vacant by the resig nation of the Rev. James Tate, Canon Residentiary o f S a i nt Paul's; patro ns , t h e D ean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathe dral. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William Brown, to the Church and Parish of Half Morton, in the presbytery of Langholna, and county of Dumfries.—Gazette. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Swanson to the Church and Parish of Small Iles, in the presbytery of Skye and county of Inverness, vacant by the removal of the Rev. Donald Maclean, late minister there. Ht the Devon Assizes, a widow, with eleven children, got a verdict for £2O, against a young man who had broken his promise to marry her. IMMENSE PIG.—An extraordinary fat hog, supposed to weigh 110 stone, or nearly 900 lbs., is now being exhibited at the Woolpack Inn, in this town (Reading). Its dimen sions are—height, 3ft. 10in. ; length from snout to tail, 9 ft.; girth round the neck, 4ft. ; ditto round the body, 7 feet.— Berkshire Chronicle. HOUSE OF LORDS—THLRSDAX. The Mutiny and the Marine Mutiny Bills were brought from the Commons, and read the first time. The Earl of ABERDEEN adverted to the papers that had been circulated among their lordships regarding the affairs of the east, and inquired whether any explanation had been given by the court of St. Petersburgh respecting the conduct of a Russian agent in the east ? And if so, whether the result would be ' produced ? Lord ELBOURNE answered that such explanations had been given ; that they were deemed perfectly satisfactory ; and that they would be produced. Lord D UNCANNON presented the report of the commission ers regarding the hand loom weavers. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY. Several petitions were presented by Mr. Brran, Mr. Ash ton Yates, Col. Butler, and the O'Connor Don, from Kil kenny, Tipperary, &c., expressive of confidence in the ad ministration as far as regarded the government of Ireland during the last three or four years. The Lord ADVOCATE (inanswer to Sir G. Clerk's inquiry) said that it was not the intention of the government to renew the patent of the Queen's printer of Scotland, which secures to that person the exclusive printing of the Bible in that country, and which expires July 17th next ; but that a bill, which had already received the sanction of the government, would be proposed, which would secure the purity and freedom of the publication of the Scriptures in Scotland. Mr. THORNELY, in the absence of Mr. Hume, deferred several notices for that hon. member till the 18th inst. Mr. Giasos said that on Thursday week he should move for copies of an official correspondence that related to certain duties imposed by Denmark on the goods, &c., of this coun try. _ Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD fixed the committee (one of the dropped orders of Wednesday) on the " Copyright " Bill for the 24th inst. The Lord ADVOCATU • moved for leave to bring in bills 1. To ascertain and define the right of voting for members in Scotland ; and--2. For the better registration of parlia mentary electors in Scotland. On the motion of Mr. P. TuomsoN a committee was ap pointed to inquire into the state of communication by rail ways, with a view to the adoption of such regulations as the public interest might require. The ATTORNEY GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a bill lafjpe i sti w thnirAnyisoppent for Debt Act, as far as Several returns relating'to the expence incurred by the appointment of commissioners and public officers in Scotland were ordered, on the motion of Mr. COLQUHOUN. The Imprisonment for Debt Amendment Act was read a first time, and the house adjourned•at an early hour. HOUSE OF LORDS. —FRIDAY. Lord SEAFORD moved for further correspondence on the subject of Jamaica. The Marquis of NORMANBY said that he had no objection to the motion, but he rather thought all the documents really important had already been laid before Parliament. Lord MELBOURNE stated, in answer to the Earl of Wick low's enquiry, that it was not the intention of government at present to introduce any bill regarding the impro vemen t o f the registration of voter s , Ireland. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented several petitions in favour of the government plan for railroads in Ireland; and his lordship directed particular attention to the prayer, and urged the propriety of complying with it. The Duke of W ELLINGTON spoke of the irregularity of presenting petitions for grants of money, except the:ministers were prepared to say they had the sanction of the crown. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE observed that the prayer was not of the specific nature imagined by the noble duke. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. Sir R. DUNDAS, the new member for Richmond, took the oaths and his seat. The Necropolis Cemetery Bill was thrown out without a division. Sir R. PEEL, stated the terms of the " amendment," which he proposes to move on Lord John Russell's motion, declaring in effect, that the appointment of a select committee of the House of Lords, to investigate the state of crime, &c., in Ireland, did not justify the ministers in calling on that house, without inquiry, to make a declaration of opinion with res pect to the policy of the government of Ireland ; and that it was not fitting that the house should adopt a proceeding which had the appearance of calling in question the undoubted right of the House of Lords to institute their proposed inquiry, more especially as that investigation did not interfere with the progress of any legislative measure before parlia ment. Mr. T. DuNcomsz gave notice that he should move an amendment upon Lord John Russell's motion, in the event of it being carried, declaring the expediency of effecting such fur ther reforms in the representation of the people in parliament, as might conduce to their contentment, and the security and welfare the kingdom at large. Lord 4/.. RUSSELL postponed the ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill from Monday till the 29th instant. Mr. HAWES having inquired what course was to be pur sued respecting the metropolitan police bill, as he intended to propose the atloption of the first recommendation of the po lice committee, FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. " LONDON, WEDNESDAY. " The unexpected course t a k en by Sir Robert Peel, in the House of Commons yesterday evening, of giving notice of his intention to move an amendment on Monday night, to the resolution to be submitted by Lord John Russell, carried terror into the ministerial camp. The members of the govern ment are under the impression to-day that the amendment will go the length of inculpating their general policy, and in that event a section of the Radicals would be detached from them ; but althorigh the precise terms of the amendment have not yet been agreed upon, I think I may take it upon myself to prognosticate that the counter resnlutim will hp ctrirti v ___t comamea trie resolution to be pro posed by Lord John Russell, and to the event which called it forth. " It is manifest that the House of Lords, in granting a committee to inquire into the state of crime in Ireland, have transgressed no constitutional principle, have violated no precedent, or done aught deserving the censure of the other branch of the legislature; and as it is most unjust to prejudge a case pending an inquiry, I make no doubt the resolutions to be submitted by the conservatives will broadly assert those propositions. - "Of course, it cannot be expected that resolutions contain ing so much truth will obtain the support of the Radicals, and therefore, ministers may probably succeed in negativing the amendment by a majority of something between fifteen and twenty. But when they have done so, they must not imagine that matters will be allowed to rest. Their Irish policy will be disposed of ; but there remains their foreign, domestic, and colonial policy to be considered ; and, from what occurred in the House of Commons last night, it is pretty clear they have no chance of carrying their bill for sus pending the constitution of Jamaica. In fact, they are utterly powerless, except where Ireland is concerned, and a vote of want of confidence, omitting Ireland, must inevitably be successful. " That such a vote will follow, as a matter of course on the decision of Monday night, I have not the slightest doubt. " The cause ofMr. Sheil's resignation of his commission er's place is the subject of general conversation here. It is not generally known, however, that though the place was conferred upon him for life, as he supposed, and as was cer tainly intended by the Government, yet on looking to the act of Parliament, it has been recently discovered that he would be liable to be dismissed on a change of administration. Does not his resignation look as if he thought such an event not merely probable, but inevitable ? " The House of Commons did not meet to-day." We cannot better conclude this article than by subjoining the following very interesting letter from Mr. JERVIS, the the member for Bridport; a flaming Radical, to the Whig whipper-in upon the subject of this same " crisis." We ex tract it from the Morning Chronicle of yesterday, which has just reached us : " Whitehall, March 27, 1839. " Mr. Stanley presents his compliments to Mr. Jervis, and begs leave to inform him that Lord John Russel's motion respecting the policy of the Irish government is postponed till Monday, the 15th of April, on which day it will certainly be brought forward : and Mr. Stanley begs leave to express his earnest hope that he will be in his place for the division on that day. " hitehall-lace, April 9, 1839. " DEAR SlR,—Having been recently favoured with a com munication from you, on the subject of Lord John Russell's motion, which I observe now stands for Monday, the 15th I feel bound in fairness to trouble you with a few lines in re ply, for the purpose of removing any apprehension as to the course which I shall consider it my duty to take at this juncture. " Upon all former occasions, whenever I could do so without compromising my opinions and principles as an earnest Reformer, I have voted with ministers, and if their conduct as respects the executive administration of Ireland were all that we are now called upon to sanction, I might still, perhaps, consider myself justified in giving them my support, though I cannot help thinking that but a narrow and short-sighted policy which is beneficial to one section of the empire only, and that but for the passing day, to the neglect of permanent and universal interests. But the question which is now about to be raised in the House of Commons, however it may be glossed am- disguis ed, involves more than the mere approbation of the Irish policy of ministers. Greater and higher considerations are at stake ; while Ireland, as has been the case upon too many occasions, is made a convenient stalking-horse to support their waning popularity. " It appears to me utterly impossible to join in a vote of approbation of the ministerial policy in Ireland, selected as it is without reference to any pending or contemplated mea sure, without indirectly sanctioning their general policy ; and this, considering the conduct of government with regard to the ballot and many other highly important questions, I for one am not prepared to do. " Under these circumstances, and looking at the question in its several lights and bearings, I think it right, however much I may regret it, to inform you that I should be acting contrary to my own convictions, were I to give my support to government in the division of the 15th.—I am, dear Sir, your obliged and very obedient servant, " SWYNFEN JERVIS. " E. J. Stanley, Es., M.P." Nothing can be more amusing than the course adopted by that once ministerial journal, in finding fault with Mr. Jer vis for honourably following out those same principles which the Morning Chronicle itself, with unaccustomed indepen dence, has been advocating so hotly for the last three weeks. Have any other members taken the same independent coun sel of the Chronicle? We shall see. The followiug are its observations upon Mr. Jervis's letter : " We differ in opinion from the highly respectable mem ber who announces his refusal to support ministers on the 15th ; and we have already stated at some length our reasons for wishing that all liberal members should adopt a different course. We do not, any more than Mr. Jervis, believe that the beneficial policy pursued in one section of the empire will long avail to avert the ruin which the suicidical policy of ministers, regarding the permanent and universal interests of the empire in general has a tendency to effect; but minis ters are attacked by their opponents, not for neglecting the permanent and universal interests of the empire in general, but for having administered one section of the empire in such a way as to promote its peace and tranquillity. Irish reform ers, with the very best disposition to assist the reformers of England and Scotland in their views, will be at a los s t o un derstand why, as a p re li m i nary to their moving in concert, Ireland should be sacrificed to a faction. Had ministers not pursued a generous policy towards Ireland the rest of the empire might now be in a perilous condition. We once more impress on all liberal members the importance of not separating themselves on this occasion from the Irish libe rals. A whole people have, as one man, pledged themselves to assist in repelling this attack on ministers. To refuse to join the Irish members would almost amount to a declara tion that, on a consideration of the policy which ought to be pursued to the empire in general, it was immaterial what course should be pursued towards Ireland. RAILWAY FROM CARLISLE TO GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH. The committee of subscribers to the survey of the pro posed line of railway from Carlisle, by Beattock and Biggar, to Glasgow and Edinburgh, have put forth a well-written minute of the proceedings of a meeting of their body held at Lockerbie on the 26th of March last, under the presi dency of Sir Wm. Jardine. The object of this document is to show the superiority of the direct line by Beattock over the circuitous line by Nithsdale, which appears to us to be effectually done in the following extracts "Although there are yet no accurate measurements, it is certain that the direct line by Beattock and Lanark, from Carlisle, is under one hundred miles ; while the circuitous route by Kilmarnock, Beith, and Paisley, will be upwards of one hundred and thirty miles, or from thirty to thirty-five miles longer. As affording the best communication from the interior to Glasgow, it is to be noticed that already the Ayrshire railway opens to Glasgow the towns of Kilmarnock Irvine, Ayr, Ardrossan, &c., or, in short, all the portion of the county of Ayr with which any material intercourse can take place, so that the extension of the line to Cumnock, &c. brings with it a very small and unimportant increase of traffic. On the other hand, the Beattock line opens to Glasgow the whole vale of the Clyde, the towns of Hamilton and Lanark, and for thirty miles it has on each side of it a country rich in mineral and agricultural produce ; and likewise, it brings within the reach of Glasgow a large portion of Peebles-shire, and the central district of the south of Scotland. The Beat tock, equally with the Nithsdale line, opens to Glasgow the county of Dumfries, with the a d van t age o f prox i m i ty b y the former line. The Obstacle of theascent of the Evan Water is the point deserving most material consideration. The sur veys made are not so minute and elaborate as to ascertain particularly and positively that the rate of ascent cannot be much lessened. But assuming that, for seven miles, the rate is one in 106, the question rests, whether the difficulty of these seven miles can be fairly set off against forty miles of railway, on ordinary gradients ? The committee confidently anticipate the opinion of any engineer on the point—viz. that it is impossible the expense of capital, of annual tear and wear of travel, or the delay of time of the seven miles, can be equal to the forty, or even one half of it. The Glasgow Committee are no doubt aware that, by the diverging line from Biggar of about twenty-five miles, the distance between Edinburgh and Carlisle will be under one hundred miles ; and thus Edinburgh is brought by a shorter line, by Carlisle and Preston, to London than it could by Newcastle, Leeds, and Birmingham. Ediubpro, th , .. nearer to Manchester and by seventy or eighty .3 X., k r Newcastle and Carlisle nn the one hand, or Glasgow and Kilmarnock on the other. Glasgow is, as stated, brought nearer by thirty or thirty-five miles to England by this line than by any other. And thus, by making 120 or 130 miles of railway, the whole objects of Scotland are attained more completely than they could be even by two lines of more than double the extent—viz., by both the Kilmarnock and Berwick lines. In conclusion, it may be proper for the Beattock commit tee to state that the list of subscribers to the survey made by Mr. Locke, represented by this committee, includes almost every proprietor from the Scots border, for fifty-five miles northward on the line ; and indeed it may be said they are the owners of nineteen -twentieths of the land through which it passes.—Carlisle Patriot. THE CRISIS-SIR ROBT 7. PEEL'S AMENDMENT. (F the Duin in Mail.) We have often rom said, as w e have Even often had occasion to say, that we are proud of the leaders of our party. Now, that the struggle has come—when the battle has begun in good earnest, we shall have other and more striking opportunities of ex hibiting the contrast between sordidand unprincipled selfish ness, submitting to every species of personal and moral de gradation for the sake of salary, and the proud and honour able tone of unpurchased patriotism and conscious rectitude, never succumbing, in the gloomiest times, to popular invec tive, nor swerving in the slightest degree from its straight forward course, when apparently about to receive, at a na tion's hands, the reward due to its merits. This day we have it in our power to furnish two specimens of this happy contrast—the first, in the conduct of Lord J. Russell and Sir R. Peel, respectively, in regard to the pro ceedings of Monday next—and the second, in that pattern of pure and disinterested Whiggery, Richard Lalor Sheil. It appears from the following interesting letter from our private correspondent, that Sir Robert Peel and his friends are about to adopt a'course, in the present crisis, every way worthy of their reputation and their cause. Instead of any quibbling amendment—any hesitating half-measure—any double-sense terms by which a vote can be entrapped, or through which a false friend may escape, the chief of our party will come forward and compel the representatives of the people to say, in terms that cannot be misunderstood, whether the House of Lords have the right, since the reform bill, of inquiring into the oppressions of the people—whether they are to have the lib er ty o f exerc i s i ng that right, upon the people's prayer and supplication, without subjecting them selves to the censure of the British nation, enunciated through that constitutional organ, the Tail of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. This is the question he will ask, and which must be answered. And what that answer may be from a Radical majority we care not one farthing—it is already replied to by the voice of all good men. With respect to Mr. Sheil, we confess that we, in common with every human being that calls himself Irishman, were overwhelmed with wonderment at the authorised announce ment that he had resigned Greenwich and his pension, and had decided upon falling with his falling friends. There was something so generous in this—so like a touch of true pa triotism—it resembled so strongly the honourable devotion of pure men to a good cause, that we puzzled our brains for two whole days in trying to discover whether Mr. Sheil had given up Whiggery or not. Behold our correspondent has given as the solution—Richard Sheil held Greenwich not for life but during pleasure. LORD EBRINGTON'S PUPILAGE. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) It was the silly vanity of Lord Ebrington's predecessor to affect an entire independence of Mr. O'Connell, and to deny that his government was in any respect influenced by that hon. gentleman's dictation. This is, of course, one of the lessons which our new viceroy has adopted from the code of his " guide, philosopher, and friend ;" and, in consequince, we find his advocates already anticipating the charge of ser vility—and, with a haste which " testifies of guilt and looks suspicion," asserting the true autocracy of the new regime. This is one of the ways of walking in one's predecessor's footsteps. But was Lord Normanby's affected independence a verity ? Had Mr. O'Connell no weight or authority at the castle? Was the government conducted on his principles, and the patronage bestowed at his suggestion or not ? Whoever may have read the admirable letters of our correspondent L, in - recent numbers of the Dublin Evening Mail, and particularly that which appeared in our last publication, is already con vinced of the fallacy of this vaunt ; and whosoever, not having read them, may still doubt (on the credit of a noble man's word) the overruling influence of the agitator, let them turn to the numbers of this journal of Wednesday, April 3, and Wednesday, April 10, and he will be no longer able to resist the conviction that Lord Normanby was the puppet of Mr. O'Connell's administration ; and that through, and by the agency of the viceregal deputy, the sovereign de magogue carried on the government of this country. Nor are we unprepared to show that the vaunts of Lord Ebrington's friends (for his lordship has been hitherto very far from rebutting the soft impeachment) are equally vain and deceptive—and that his lordship's profession of political faith (for we have not yet come to his practice) is in rigid submission to the dictation of the demagogue. The appointment of Lord Ebrington to the Lieutenancy of Ireland was first announced in this paper, on the autho ritoty of our London correspondent, upon the Ist of March. Up to that day, nothing was known in Ireland as to the per son who as to succeed the late deputy. Now, upon the 18th February preceding, Mr. O'Connell held, in this city, a meeting of the Precursor Society, and (as reported in the Morning Register of the following day,) delivered himself in the following terms : " I can tell the new Lord Lieutenant, whoever he is to be, that the popularity which covered the mistakes and errors of Lord Normanby, will afford no protection to - him ; and, un less the incoming vicegerent be prepared to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, he will not leave the shores of this country, ar his predecessor has done, with the lamenta tions, cu......p.aa c a wale w tultco, blessings of Ireland." Lord Ebrington's appointment, as we said, was made known in London on Wednesday, the 27th February, and in Dub lin on Friday, the Ist March. His Lordship, under the style and title of Baron Fortescue, assumed his dignity and place in the House of Lords, on the 4th of March. His speech on this occasion is almost a literal transcript of i Mr. O'Connell's, and demonstrates the prompt facility of the docile pupil to copy the dictation of his master. " I have," said his Excellency, " the satisfaction to know that I have before my eyes the l ixample ofiny predecessor, in whose footsteps I am determined to tread; and happy in deed shall I be. if, ON MY DEPARTURE FROM IRELAND, I RECEIVE THE SAME EXPRESSIONS OF REGARD, AND THE SAME FERVENT WISHES FOR MY HAPPINESS, THAT MARRED THE DEPARTURE OF MY NOBLE FRIEND." Now, it is in the highest degree improbable that two per sons, though speaking on the same general subject, should have connected, as in the foregoing extracts, two sentiments not naturally connected or arising one out of the other, vi consequentice, in the same order of delivery, and very nearly in the same words—if the latter speaker had not read and adopted the views and expressions of the former ; and per haps the address of courtiers could not, in all its refinement, furnish Lord Ebrington with a mode so delicate, so flattering and respectful, of giving in his adhesion, and securing the protection of his powerful patron_, as that very one adopted by his Lordship on this occasion of swearing to the ipsissima verba of his master. It has evidently given the utmost satis faction ; and Mr. O'Connell is now in Dublin countenancing the appointment of his new deputy, and rivetting upon him the chains, strings, rings and pullies, by means of which he must work his instrument to his own good purposes. BRITISH INDIA. (From the Yorkshireman.) [There is much truth, but not unmixed with exaggeration, in the following :—] In the extracts which we have recently given from the lec ture of Mr. George Thompson, at Sheffield, on the 27th ult., we have shown that the effect of British rule, in our eastern empire, has been to beggar the population, to multiply famines to a degree unknown under her former rulers, to turn a land of gold into a scene of universal poverty, and to drive the natives into a state of incipient rebellion. Incon trovertible authorities have been adduced to prove that the system of taxation inflicted on her impoverished people is one of habitual extortion and injustice, limited only by their capacity to pay. In the words of Mr. Thompson, we now proceed to advert to the commercial bearings of the question, and the effect which would be produced on the slave trade, and slavery throughout the world, by doing justice to our fellow-subjects in India. "It was strange," observed Mr. Mr. T., " that while our merchants and manufacturers were complaining of the falling off of trade, they did not turn their eyes to our 100,000,000 of fellow-subjects in the' east, inha biting the most fertile country in the world, ready to become our customers." • " Every pound of sugar we have consumed, produced by slave labour, during the last forty years, might have been had from the free labour of India. Every yard of cotton that has been made from the polluted produce of the United States might have been had from the free labour of our own India. Every leaf of tobacco we have had from the blood and sweat of slaves might have been raised by a free peasantry in India, which is capable of supplying, not only our own country, but the whole world. To show how the East India produce might compete with the slave produce, Mr. Thompson stated that the expense of a slave, consisting of prime cost, interest of money, wear and tear, and keep, in North and South Ame rica, was not less than ls. 6d. a day to the owner. But the natives of the East Indies would gladly work for wages vary ing from Id. to 3d. per day at the highest ; and, at this cheap rate might be produced sugar, cotton, tobacco, and rice for the world. We were the slaves of China for tea, which we might have from India ; we were the slaves of America for cotton, and an east wind for three ur nay exhausted, might stagnate the trade of the cotton districts, and produce starvation, discontent, and sedition. The same would be the result of a war with America. ,But yet we, for the sake of enabling the planters of the slave states to drive their 600,009 slaves to the cotton fields every morning, wasting human blood, crushing the human intellect, darkening the human understanding, and plunging into per dition their own souls, to raise cotton to procure our gold— we are doing foul injustice to the hundred millions of our fellow-subjects in India." But suppose we could get cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco, from British Indi a , were we sure that they would take our manufacturers in return? To prove that the natives were eager, when they had the means, to take our manufactures, Mr. Thompson adduced a variety of evidence, showing the surprising increase which had taken place in the value of our exports since the abolition of the company's monopoly of the trade to India.* It was impossible, Mr. Thompson con tinued, to calculate the immense amount of trade we might have with India if the people were allowed to enjoy any rea sonable share of the produce of their industry. Sheffield and other parts of England now send to India goods to the amount of £lBO,OOO a year in hardware and cutlery of all kinds—an amount which ought to be doubled and quadrup led a hundred times. He showed that if the Hindoos were only left in a condition to take our manufactures, to the same extent in proportion to their numbers, as the negroes of Hayti, it would make our exports 150 millions a year. * Sir Thomas Munro observed, " the people were remark ably fond of British manufactures." General Briggs says, " Place India on an equal footing with the mother country; treat her as a trading nation, and not as a tributary colony ; and 90 millions of people, with a thriving agricultural popu lation, and a ready market for their produce, will not fail to consume all that the manufacturers of England can supply, in the way of broadcloth, cutlery, machinery of every de scription (from a steam-engine to a pocket-watch,) porcelain, glass ware in all its shapes, jewellery, wines, and a hundred other articles, which the want of means alone now prevents the natives from purchasing." THE TORIES. Pm the Cork Constitution.) Such journals ( as still cling by the whigs are conjuring up all manner of horrors as the inevitable accompaniment of a tory administration. They would give us (says a Liverpool paper of Monday) a war in a month, and treat us with an income tax to pay for it ; and a war and an income tax would send the funds down to sixty ; and, with the funds at sixty, smash, crash, what is the price of bank shares and railroad shares," &c. &. Very alarming no doubt ; but does it not strike this imager of evil as rather singular that the tories should resolve to rush upon destruction ? Suppose the catastrophe accomplish ed, who would be the sufferers ? Who are the holders of the property of the country ? Who are her " merchant-princes," and who her prince -proprietors ? Whose are the sails that whiten her seas,. and the ploughs that furrow her fields ? Strike the balance, and tell us what proportion belongs to the Whig, and what to the radical, and will you then see, as some shrewder politicians of your own school have before seen, and before admitted, that in nine cases out of ten, the incomes on w hi c h t h e d readed tax would be those of, the tories. No, Sir,_ if we have a war , it w ill not b e a war " given " to us by the tories. The seeds are sown, but they are sown by whig hands, and it will not b e ow i ng to t h e i r v i g i lance or their vigour, if the harvest be not one of blood. But what warlike indications have the tories exhibited ? Have they expressed a desire, or evinced a disposition, to disturb one existing relation of the country?' Look through the " Des patches" of the most eminent among them, and point out a single passage which is not adverse to the provocation of war, or to its protraction one moment beyond the point at which the sword can be sheathed with safety ? Why, then, are the tories to be thus unjustly and most falsely charged ? Are they not as deeply interested in their country's welfare as the whigs ? Have they not struggled as strenuously, as persever ingly, as suzcessfully to advance it ? and is it not to their swords and to their councils we owe the peace which was sealed in the blood of France at Waterloo, but which is now, under a whig administration, threatened for the first time during nearly a quarter of a century ? No, we repeat, if we have a war, it will not be from the tories. The direction of it, indeed, may be in their hands, and we hope will—but not its creation; and the only ques tion, then, is, which of the parties is the more competent to conduct it ?Is there a man in the country—we care not who or what he is—that will say, the whit's But while our Liverpool contemporary speaks of war as one of the consequences of tory rule, he seems to forget that we are at this moment at war in the east—that we have only just concluded a war in the west, and that even ministers, apprehensive of an extension of the evil, have increased our army and are endeavouring to increase our navy. It is easy to indulge in prophecies when the events predicted have " cast their shadows" so fearfully before, but it is not honest to impute to the tories calamities in neither the production nor the encouragement of which they have had a share. Besides, what other name does our Spanish intermeddling deserve than war ? The men, the money, the arms, and the ships were ours ; and call the " intervention" by what name you will, it was an intervention which brought upon our people the burdens, the perils and the penalties of war. SACRILEGE.—During Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning, the parish church of Prestwich, near this town, was entered ; the thieves obtaining admission by the vestry window, and (doubtless, aware of the place where the plate was deposited) the door of an iron safe, in which was lodged the communion plate, was forced open by a large sledge hammer, and the whole of the plate was stolen and carried off. It consisted of two silver cups, or chalices, — one inscribed " Prestwich, 1667," and the other " Prest wich, 1713 ;" a flagon inscribed " A gift from Pilkington ;" and two silver patine, or bread plates. The thieves also car ried off a sum of £l2, nearly all in silver, which had been placed in the safe. The sledge-hammer, with which the door of the safe had been broken open, was left in the ves try ; and we understand that it has since been ascertained, that it was stolen on the same night from a smithy near Whitefleld, on the Bury road, and about a mile beyond Prest wich. A reward of £2O has been offered for such informa tion as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the offenders.—Leeds Intelligences. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER—FRIDAY EVENING. The most prominent feature in the bettings on the cup is„ that Harkaway was made first favourite yesterday, by a Li verpool gentleman.—The Derby betting is all with Lord Jersey's ; they take 2-to Ihe wins—and 11 to lon the mush room from Scott's stable, called Dragsman—it is said he has beaten all the other seventeen " to fits." THE CHESTER CUP, P.P. 6 to 1 against Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway (tk) 13 to 2 „ Mr. Copeland's King Cole (tk)' 9to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff (tk) 9to 1 „ Captain Berkeley's Caravan (tk) 11 to 1 „ Captain Healey's Van Buren (tk) 15 to 1 „ -Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy 16 to 1 „ Mr. Meiklan - es Modesty (tk) 16 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's lon (tk) 18 to 1 „ Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry 20 to 1 „ Any other. TATTERSALL'S--TH uns D AY. In our report of Monday's betting we stated, that, although offered in two or three quarters, 3 to 1 against the first fa vourite was not to be obtained currently ; the bidders yes terday were more shy, a good many bets having been made at less than those odds ; the last 2000 to 700, the layer offering to double the bet. The Dey of Algiers was not backed for sixpence, that we could hear of ; several parties would have laid 7 to 1, and as many have closed at a point more. Dragsman was an immense favourite ; 16 to 1 was laid first, then 18 to 1 ; 14, 12, and 10 to 1 were then snapped up with extraordinary eagerness, and, finally, 9 to 1. We doubt if these odds could have been procured at the close. Euclid and Ilderim were equal favourites during nearly the whole of the afternoon ; but when the room was about to close, an unaccepted offer to back the latter for 500 even, gave him a decided call ; the odds previously laid against each would perhaps have led to a different conclusion. Bloomsbury was backed in several quarters at the old price, and a trifle laid out on two or three others, with no other result than a decline of some points on Wapiti. With the exception of Dragsman, Scott's h orses were scarce l y men tioned unless as a lot." Flambeau is reported to be amiss of Rat-trap and Blankney's disorder. Closing prices :- THE DERBY. 2 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot (take 9 to 4) 4to 1 „ Scott's lot (tk) 12 to 1 „ John Day's lot 12 to 1 Mr. Thornhill's lot 20 to 1 Sir G. Heathcote's lot (tk) 9000 to 700 .. Colonel Cresa oft(k and aft offered) 7to 1 „ Peel's Dey Algiers (take Bto 9to 1 „ Mr. G. Clark'iDragsman (tk) 16 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Euclid (tk) 16 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Ilderfm 30 to 1 „ Mr. Wreford's Westonian „ _ ----.. 35 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh (tk) 35 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt (tk) 35 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Bulwark (tk) 40 to 1 „ Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury (tk) 40 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo 50 to 1 ;, Mr. Bateson's Brother to Plenipo 50 to 1 „ Mr. Theobald's (nomination) Hamlet 1000 to 15 „ Mr. Wreford's Wapiti (tk) 1000 to 15 ~ Lord Albemarle's Domino 500 even between Mr.Thornhill's and John Day's lots (t ;) 500 even between Euclid and Ilderim (tk ;) 500 even on Ilde rim against Wapiti and Bulwark (tk ;) 1000 to 15 against CEesar, Reel, and Commodore, winning the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—We have no material alteration to note in the demand for woollens. The markets since our last have been full as dull as those of the previous fortnight, but still there is, on the whole, a fair business doing. Prices continue much the same, and it is not improbable that those who are looking out for a decline will experience a disappointment. BRADFORD MARKET..—There was a fair demand for ma nufactured goods in the Piece Hall here on Thursday, and prices continued much the same as last week. In the yarn market the sales effected were more extensive than on Thurs day week, though there was no material variation of terms. The wool market was firm, and there was a fair business done, principally in super and good fine Hog wools. For wools of superior quality better prices were generally ob tained. WAKEFIELD. WOOL. MARKET, APRIL 12.—The quota tions of both long and short wool are nominally the same, but there have been few buyers in since our last report, and a degree of dulness has pervaded the market for both, through the week. Fine noils are an exception, being in request and rather dearer. SADDLEWORTII.—The woollen cloth trade is moderately brisk. The accounts from America are as good as can be expected, and there has been a deal of business done both in the home and export trade. Plaid shawls and fancy goods are in particular request. Hands have full employment, and wages are moderate ; but manufacturers complain of the high prices of the raw material. - Very fine broad cloths and fancy stripes are in particular request for home consump tion, SILK TRADE.—The silk trade of every description con tinues unusually brisk, and many of the manufacturers can not get hands sufficient to meet their demands, especially of the finer satins, which can only be worked by the best of weavers ; but the goods are rich-looking' articles, and chiefly light-coloured. COTTON FACTORIES.—In some of the neighbouring towns round Manchester, the trade in cotton factories is rather better this week, and at some places the hands have com menced to work full time,—yet at many of the mills they are restricted to four and five days per week, but this is only at those places where they spin fine numbers for export, and is by no means general. COTTON HAND-LOOM WEAVING.—There are no kind of work people worse paid for their labour than the cotton hand-loom weavers, yet things are better than they were last year at this time, but still there is very great distress, as the cotton hand-loom weavers on an average cannot earn more than from 4s 6d to 6s 6d per week. LIGHTHOUSES. In 1834 a committee on lighthouses was appointed by the House of Commons, which sat through the whole session. The different systems of lighthouse illumination, as 1...1 toe continent, were very fully examined. In the report of this committee, the light from lime was re commended, if possible, to be made practicable for light house purposes. As far as the management of the light was concerned, the practical difficulties were soon removed ; but there remained an elementary objection, of serious impor tance, namely, a want of magnitude or quantity, as techni cally called. In the Catoptric system, practised in our light houses, a light of seven-eights of an inch in diameter is placed in the focus of a parabola, which light gives 15 degrees of di vergence, and consequently each reflector illuminates 15 de grees of the horizon. In the Dioptric system, as practised on the French coast, a light of three and a half inches in dia meter is necessary to give the required divergence. The lime light, though one of great intensity, gives no divergence : when placed in a parabola, it throws parallel rays, and when placed in the centre of the Polysonal lens, could not be made to give one degree of divergence. In the spring of 1835, Mr. Gurney proposed, by combining oxygen with the flame of wax or oil, to obtain a light of great power, to which these objections would not apply. This proposition was immedi ately entertained, and the new light was put under experi ment at the Trinity. House.. In explanation of this light, we must first observe the well-known fact, that oxygen increases the brilliancy of burning bodies to a very great extent : thus, sulphur, which burns in atmospheric air with a pale blue and scarcely visible flame, when put into oxygen gives out a very intense light ; and phosphorus, when so surrounded, gives out a light so intense that the eye cannot bear it. The same happens with charcoal, and with the flame of oil, wax, or other bodies which contain it. Dr. Priestley proposed to supply a common argand burner with oxygen instead of com mon air, and made a long series of experiments, with a view of producing a light of this description. All flame is hollow, or, in other words, consists of a thin film or bubble of ignited matter, which surrounds and contains a quantity of the de composed body supplying it. In the flame of spirits of wine, the interior of the film is chiefly filled with hydrogen ; in that of oil or wax, it is filled with separated carbon—olefiant gas. Dr. Priestley applied oxygen to the outside of the film or bubble, or rather in the argand lamp which he used, double cylindrical films. The outside portion of flame consists, in its burning state, of half consumed carbon in the act of com bination with the atmosphere. The oxygen, therefore, in Dr. Priestley's arrangement, met with carbon in a half state of combination, and produced only a brilliancy in proportion. Mr. Gurney proposed to introduce the oxygen into the inte rior of the bubble, and to strike the film on its inside surface, where the carbon was pure and uncombined. He did so, and succeeded. In the construction of this light for the Catop tile system, there are four small flames in a line of about three eights of an inch in diameter each.. • The oxygen is in troduced by a small jet : the light from each jet is equal in quantity to two and a half, making in all ten ordinary argand burners. The divergence of it in a parabola is fifteen degrees. The light for the polyzonal lens consists of a circular series of seventeen films or bubbles of flame, and struck on the in terior by as many jets. The diameter of the whole is 31 inches, the same as the French lamp. It gives the same di vergence, with a power equal to sixty argands. The French lamp gives only ten. Mr. Gurney's light is cheaper than the French, iu the proportion of twelve to seventeen, taking all wear and te ar i n t o th e accoun t . O xygen is obtained ' by heating black oxide of manganese, which is found in large quantities in Cornwall and Devonshire.—Athenaum. ARITHMETICAL REFUTATION OF HUME'S ARGUMENTS AGAINST MIRACLES. According to Hume, our belief in the unvaried constancy of the laws of nature is founded in experience ; so likewise is our belief in the truth of human testimony. Whenever, therefore, these two are opposed to one another ; that is to say, when human testimony is opposed tq, the unvaried con stancy of the laws of nature in any particular instance, it be comes altogether a question of comparative probability ; in other words, we are to consider whether it is more probable that the testimony should be false, or the interruption of the laws of nature true. For example, suppose the world to be 6000 years old, and that the whole co-existing population during one generation is 1,000,000,000; then reckoning 30 years to a generation, there will have been 200 generations, and 1,000,000,000 multiplied by 200, gives 20 0,000,000,000 of persons against an interruption of the laws of nature. The improbability that such interruption should occur, is thus, a priori, expressed arithmetically, 1 in 200,000,000,000. This appears a formidable amount of probability ; yet such is the value of distinct concurrent testimonies, such is the force of testimony when given by separate independent wit nesses, that we are bound by all the laws of probability, I may say mathematically constrained, to yield our belief to the interruption of the laws of nature, provided it be vouched by a sufficient number of moderately honest and competent witnesses. In this very town I am sure we could, without any difficulty, pick out twelve men, who would tell the truth nine times out of ten. The improbability, therefore, that one such witness should state a falsehood, is Ito 10. That two such witnesses, unconnected with each other, should agree in a false statement, is Ito 100. That three such independent witnesses should agree in a falsehood, is 1 to 1000; and so on we may express in general terms the improbability that any given number of such independent witnesses should con cur in a false statement, by 10, multiplied by itself, a number of times equal to the given number of witnesses. For in stance, in the case supposed there are 12 such witnesses; therefore 10 is to be raised to the 12th power, arithmetically expressed thus 10 12, which is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 ; from which it appears that the improbability that twelve mo derately honest independent witnesses should concur in a false statement, is 1 to 1 , 0 00,000,000,000 ; that is in words ten hundred thousand millions. But we have seen that the improbability that the laws of nature should be interrupted, is only two hundred thousand millions. Great as is this im probability, therefore, it is five times more improbable that twelve competent independent witnesses should be wrong. Now, it is justly observed by the celebrated and profound Bishop Butler, that " probability is the very guide of life. A greater presumption on one side, though in the lowest degree greater, determines the question even in matters of specula tion, and in matters of practice will l ay us un d er an a b so l ute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and interest, to act on that low probability." — Correspondent of the Chelten ham Chronicle. IMMENSE BULL.—A bull, bred by Sir John Ramsden, Bart., of Byram Hall, and sold in Wakefield market, last week, by Mr. Petty, a butcher from Pontefract, weighed the enormous weight of 189 stones, of 141bs. to the stone. Mr. Petty has purchased of the same Baronet five heifers, equally well fed.—Doneater Chronicle. WARRINGTON. Majority Second Day.—For the rate . For the adjournment Majority , BRITISH ASSOCIATION. A FEW WHIG EPITAPHS. (AFTER GOLDSMITH.) (Which may soon be wanted.) LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Here lies my lord Johnny, whose genius was such, To say he had any, would be rather too much : Who once wrote a d—nable farce* in a hurry ; But to party gave up what was meant for the Surrey ;' Till a premier en petto he must fain strain his throat To persuade master Wakley to give him a vote ! Too slow for the Rads, he went on' namble-pamble And thought of a " pause," while they thought of a scramble A sort of factotum, for all things unfit, Neither orator, statesman, nor scholar, norlwit ! But still for a placeman he'd one good ingredient— Though the man was mis-placed, the place was expedient ! In short 'twas his fate to bequeath us this history : His fall was quite nat'ral, though his rise was a mystery ! MR. rouLtrr THOMPSON. Here Thompson has time from his cams to relax The prince of pretenders ! Quintessence of quacks ! Come ye that at quacking beat Katterfelt hollow, And worship where slumbers your Magnus Apollo, - While he was the centre of " Freedom of Trade," Ye felt ye were only for satellites made ! But now he is gone, past all doubt or conjecture, His brother . t may scribble, and his namesake T. may lecture Macculloch write nonsense, and call it a " science," And Tooke may put Cocker and Lock at defiance. New Seniors and Bowrings shall quickly cross over The pons asinoruni new truths to discover; And every bright " march of intellect" spark Cry—" A Lucifer ! Ho ! and ge t ou t o f the dark !" SIR JOHN' CAMPBELL. Here Campbell reclines, a most " blunt pleasant creature"— E'en Sir Robert himself must admit his good nature ! He let out his heart, though no glutton or guzzler, II Yet one fault he had, and that one was a puzzler. Perhaps you may ask, was he too democratic ? If he has a sheep's eye, it is aristocratic !If Too conservative, perhaps, and obligingly loyal? " Plain Johnny" was never yet put to the trial. Or perhaps he confided in whigs as they go, And so was too foolshly honest ? Ah ! no ! Then what was his fault? Come tell it, and burn ye— He let the " base" whigs dub him " Mr. Attorney !" LORD BROUGHAM. Here lies both'ring Harry, whose fate I much doubt Be his grave e'er so deep, I believe he'll get out ; For such his delight with the whigs to make riot, While there's one to be h aun t e d, h e 'll never be quiet : What comical spirits were his ! By the Lord The whigs rarely found their " schoolmaster abroad !" Now giving Lord Melbourne a taste of the leather, Now tickling the drowsy Glenelg with a feather, — Now birching the stupid but innocent Minto, For scrapes that he'never knew how he got into, — And now giving Durham a slap on the back, Which he either might take for a " well done" or whack ! Ever wrangling or dangling, to keep up the ball, — Ever teasing or pleasing, or lashing at all ! In short, sir, so rusty a grunter was Harry, So awkwa r d to lead, or to drive, or to carry, That his very good friends, if he would not be civil, Most heartily prayed he would go to the devil ; But Harry resolved, to torment the poor elves, First to see them well off to the devil themselves ! * The immortal tragedy of Don Carlos. t Mr. P. Scrope. *.t. Colonel T. § The Scotch delight in calling Sir John " plain Johnny Caramel." II At the late Mansion House fete, to wit. ¶ Sir John has secured the rank of peeress for his lady. Morning Herald. A young Irish member, who attained his majority not many months ago, has squandered nearly the whole of his patrimony to the amount of .Z 97,000, since his introduction to public life.—Limerick Chronicle. FEMALE RADICALS.—On Tuesday evening, a female ra dical association was established in the radical school-room, Rochdale. Several of the fair politicians addressed the as semblage on the present political state of the country ; after which upwards of forty women gave in their names as n2eui bens. STABBING.—On Thursday Thomas Moran, an Irishman, was brought before the magistrates, at the petty sessions, to answer the charge of maliciously stabbing William Taker, so far back as the 26th day of March, 1837. It appeared, by the depositions of several witnesses, that the prosecutor, who resides near Scotland- roa d, W arr i ng t on , was standing at the bottom of Cocksedge, about half past six o'clock in the even ing of Easter Sunday, 1837. He had just parted with some friends he had been conversing with, when the prisoner came running down the hill. Some persons pushed the prosecutor against him, and he instantly pulled out his knife, and stab bed the presecutor in the buttock. The wound was very deep, and so dangerous that for a time it was feared the pro secutor would have bled to death. Search was made for the prisoner, in Warrington, the same night, by Mr. Jones, the deputy-constable, and a reward was offered for his apprehen sion ; but nothing was heard of him until last week, when he was seen walking through Altrincham by Mr. Turton, the deputy-constable. He took the prisoner into custody, and brought him to Warrington for examination. Mr. Beau mont, who appeared for the prisoner, proposed calling a wit ness to prove that the prisoner had been knocked down and robbed before he stabbed the prosecutor. A man named Holland was put into the witness-box ; but it having been proved that, on the previous day, in the course of a drunken spree, he had boasted of having been promised £3 if he got the prisoner clear, the magistrates refused to hear his evi dence. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the assizes. A RAILROAD ADVENTURE.—On Wednesday Joseph Mad dock, a journeyman joiner, appeared before the magistrates, to answer a charge brought against him by the Grand Junc tion Railway Company. It appears that the prisoner pre sented himself at the Acton Station in a state of intoxication. He expressed a wish to be conveyed to Moor, but the clerk refused to book him, owing to his being drunk. When the train was about to start, the prisoner, at the imminent peril of his neck, jumped into one of the carriages. At Moor he was taken into. custody by the guard, and brought to War rington. He was convicted in the penalty of ten shillings and costs. AN HONEST WITNESS.-011 Wednesday, Holland, the man brought forward as a witness in the stabbing case, was committed for trial on the charge of stealing some lead from Mr. Walsh's premises, in Bridge-street. He was clearly proved to be the party who disposed of the stolen property to a person named Wilkinson, in Haddyek-ctreet. GRAPPENHALL.—DEFEAT OF THE RADICALS.—On Easter Monday last, the 2d of April, the proceedings of the vestry-meeting 'of this hitherto peaceful village were dis turbed, and the levying of the church rate attempted to be prevented by surprise. The accounts have usually' been passed, and the necessary levies ordered, at the accustomed vestry-meeting on Easter Tuesday. Mr. Eskrigge, a noto rious leader of the radical party in the borough of Warring ton, and who was defeated in an endeavour to adjourn the laying of a church rate for the borough of Warrington, in which he resides, in 1837, by a majority of more than two to one, seems to have determined to try his hand at agitation in this parish. He is the occupier of a small cotton mill in Latchford, which is the parish of Grappenhall. On Easter Tuesday, he attempted to spring a mine upon the authorities of the parish. To conceal his plan from the rate-payers, his supporters resorted to the village in small knots of two or three, and remained in the vicinity of the church, in the yards of the cottages, under the canal bridge, and other places, to avoid their being observed. On a given signal of a shrill whistle, all appeared, and the force being thus con centrated, rushed into the school-room, to which, by the prudence and foresight of the churchwardens the meeting was adjourned, and a n y unseem l y con d uct in the church pre vented. The accounts of the late churchwardeni, and the appointment of their successors, were carried after many objections ; but when the imposition of the rate required for the repairs of the church for the ensuing year was proposed to the meeting, the real object of the attempted surprise be came apparent. A rate having been proposed of twopence halfpenny in the pound for Grappenhall, and three-halfpence for Latchford, for the ensuing year, Mr. Estrigge proposed as an amendment,—That the question should be postponed to that day twelve months. The amendment, on a show of the hands of the persons present, was carried of course, although the result has shown that many of them had no right to be present at or to vote in the meeting then assem bled. Some attempt at a scrutiny was made, but the leader of this agitation having repeatedly told his worthy followers not to say who they were, where they came from, nor whether they had paid their rates, no other means of ascertaining the sense of the ratepayers were left but to resort to a poll, and one was accordingly demanded, which it was arranged should take place at the Black Bear Inn, in Latchford, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 10th and 11th instant, and Arthur Minton, Esq., was appointed the chairman, to take the poll. The result is as follows : First Day.—For the rate For the adjournment A meeting of the local council of this body was held in the lecture-room of the Philosophical Institution yesterday, to appoint sub-committees, and make other arrangements for the ensuing meeting of the British Association in Birming ham. The Right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth, -one of the vice-presidents of the Association and chairman of the local council, was called to the chair. There was a numerous and highly respectable attendance, including the princip a l mer chants and manuf ac t urers of the town, a large number of gentlemen belonging to the learned professions, and several members and friends of, the association from a distance. The noble chairman, in opening the business of the meeting, ex pressed a hope that country gentlemen, residing, like himself, in the neighbourhood, would co-operate in giving the associ ation a reception worthy of that distinguished body and of the town of Birmingham. He concluded by reading letters of apology from Sir Edward Scott, Bart., and other gentle- Bonen who had been invited to attend the meeting.—The li 5t of the local council having been read over by Dr. Blakiston, John Corrie, Esq., said that every gentlemen British more or less, acquai n t e a with the history of the Asso ciation for the advancement of science, and he was sure that they fully appreciated the noble object for which it was established. There were some, however; who could not see any benefit which arose from the annual meetings of the institution ; but if they gave few additional discoveries to the world of science during the period of their sittings, no one could deny that they operated as a powerful stimulus to pri vate exertion and research ; and if the objects for which it was established were not worthy of all support and encou ragement, and its means and proceedings worthy of the end in view, it would never have received the sanction and ap proval of their great universities and of the distinguished names which it 'comprised. The annual transactions of the association were, in -themselves, invaluable records; for by referring to them they were enabled at once to ascertain the present state of particular branches of science, and to point out those desiderata which they presented. He trusted, while they avoided those costly displays and unnecessary expenses Which had occurred in their visits to richer corpo rate, towns, that gentlemen of all shades of opinion in politics and religion, would co-operate heartily in giving the associ ation such a reception as would prove worthy of this distin guished body, and, he would add, of the great town which they were about to honour with their presence. Mr. Corrie concluded by moving the first resolution, inviting the friends and patrons of science throughout the adjoining district, to take part in the proceedings of the council. A series of resolutions for the' appointment of committees, &c. (which appear in another column) were then adopted, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the noble chairman, the' council adjourned. The b es t poss ib le spirit pervaded the assembly, amongst whom there seemed to be but one feeling—that of uniting in a zealous and harmonious effort to give the mem bers of the association, if not a splendid, at least a cordial and hearty reception.—Midland Counties' Herald. MISCELLANEOUS. The fund subscribed for the maintenance of the children of Millie, the late assistant clerk in the Newcastle Savings Bank, amounts to £lOOO, of which sum the bank has contri buted £6O, being a year's salary of the murdered man. A bazaar was held last week at Walton-le-dale, near Pres ton, and the handsome sum of nearly £7OO was collected in support of the Sunday schools in connexion with the estab lished church,,at that place. We are enabled to state, on undoubted authority, that Sir John Rennie has expressed a very decided opinion with respect to the practicability of crossing Morecame Bay, on theplan and principles laid down by Mr. Hagne.—White haven Herald. An anti-medical wag remarks, that, in consequence of the chemists' shops being shut up on Sundays, there is a proba bility of the mortality in great towns being one-seventh less than it used to be. A captain of a vessel loading coals went into his merchant's counting-room, and requested the loan of a rake. The mer chant, looking towards his clerks, replied, " I have a num ber of them, but none, I believe, wish to be hauled over the coals."—New York paper. Sherry, as we drink it in England, is an artificial wine ; 20 vintages, differing in age, flavour, and odour, are mingled till a neat article is made up. There is not much mischief nor mystery in the way things are managed at Xeres, where there is neither cider, Cape wine, nor Thames water.—Quarterly Review. DANTZIC WUEAT.—The Mark-lane Express states that letters from Dantzic, to the 22d March, state the stock of old wheat to be reduced very low, and that the new wheat gene rally came to hand in very bad condition ; and it was feared that very little would be fit for shipping, without being first kiln-dried, or mixed with a large proportiOn of old. REPRESENTATION OF AYRSHIRE.—The only opponent who has yet proposed to measure his strength with Lord Kel burne is Mr. H. Craig, of Chartist notoriety, Kilmarnock, at present one of the members of the Convention—he bids for higher game, and is apparently ambitious of a place among the " collective wisdom' of the nation.—Ayr Observer. DR. WOLFF.—The celebrated missionary is about to pub lish his " journal," and, f rom w h a t we h ear, we expect to find the work one of the most interesting that ever fell from the press. The Protestanijaiscopal College of St. John's, at Annapolis, United St of America, has conferred on Dr. Wolff the honorary eigeor of Dr. of Divinity.—Leeds Intelligencer. 4a. REPRESENTATION OF BRADFOR n. — lt has been rumoured at Bradford within the last few days, that William Busfeild, Esq., of Upwood, will resign his seat in Parliament for this borough, in consequence of the lamented death of his wife. What degree of truth there is in the rumour we are unable to say ; but it is added that a canvass has already been com menced for a " Yellow" candidate to succeed him.—Leeds Intelligencer. On Monday evening an immense rat attacked two of the children of Mr. Gowen, of the Orange-grove, while in their bed. Before their cries for assistance were heard, the rat had inflicted several severe bites on the hands and face of the youngsters. At length, however, the rat was destroyed, and we are happy to say that the children are doing well.—Wilts Independent. We are able to state that there is no foundation for the re port of the demise of his Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Brunswick ; but at the date of the last despatches from Hanover, the 2d inst., the duke was l a b o uring under a dan gerous indisposition, arising from a nervous fever. His Ma jesty the King of Hanover, (Duke Charles being declared incapable of reigning) is the heir presumptive to the duchy, which contains a population of 200,000.—Morning Herald. According to a Geneva letter, a fierce altercation between the catholics and protestants is going on in that city. The protestants contend that the concordat entered into between Napoleon and Pius VII., establishing the catholic religion in Geneva, remained in force only as long as Geneva formed an integral part of the French empire, while the catholics declare they will defend their rights, established by the con cordat, to the utmost. The lace trade in Belgium is now extremely active. Im mense orders have been given, we learn, at Brussels, by tra vellers from France, England, Germany, and Russia, parti cularly in old lace, in the style of the 17th century. When genuine old lace cannot be procured, or is too dear, the makers produce new lace or imitation, which, although more beautiful in itself, is less valued. Large purchases of old lace, principally procured from altar-cloths, have been made for the Empress of Russia, and a considerable quantity sent into France. HANDSOME SUBSCRIPTION.—In less than a week, nearly £3OO has been raised in Nottingham for the widow and chil dren of Inspector Phelps, who died a fortnight ago from hy drophobia, in consequence of the bite of a mad dog. The subscription is still going on. The labourers employed in excavating on the Derby and Birmingham Junction Railway at Kingsbury, near this place, have discovered lead ore. It is said to exist in such abund ance, that a mine is to be opened and worked. Should the project be found to answer, it will be an event of great im portance.—Staffordshire Examiner. HURRAH FOR THE BALLOT ! General Subervie has distri buted to the Chamber of Deputies some observations respect ing the election of M. Salvandy, at Lectoure, where the general was the opposition candidate. There were, it ap pears, 0n1y327 voters present, and yet 330 tickets were found in the ballot urn ! By deducting these three votes, M. Sal vandy had one less than the majority required. A protest against the return had been immediately entered into, and sent forward to the chamber.—Paris paper. HINDLEY CHURCH BATE.—On Easter Monday, accord ing to annual custom, the rate-payers of Hindley, assembled for the purpose of electing churchwardens, and laying a rate to meet the usual expenses attendant on the worship of God, in connexion with our venerable establishment. The rate required for this purpose was a mere trifle, only one half penny in the pound on the assessment, yet certain discon tented Papists, Socinians, Independents, and Infidels, joined together in sweet harmony, determined, if possible to do away with the " impost." An amendmend was therefore proposed, and seconded by the Romish Priest—the individual who, a few years ago, called out, " Down with the Rector," whilst that gentleman was passing through the crowd at one of our vestry meetings. A poll wa. ADAnanded, and it took. tm - Monday and Tuesday, ending with a most triumphant majority in favour of the church, which majority would have been much greater, had not the radicals found the wherewith for a great number of rate-payers, who paid their rates, and, as a debt of gratitude, voted to please their benefactors. The utmost exertions were used by all the dissenting sects com bined against the church, and the ministers of the Unitarian, the Papist, and the. Independent flocks, were to 'be seen leading up their dupes to vote against the rate. All was, how ever, of no avail, for the church alone withstood the attack ; and, based as she is in the affections of her people, proved victorious. At four o'clock on Friday, the Rev. E. Hill, the incumbent, closed the poll, declaring the numbers to be, — for the rate, 253 ; against it, 211. Majority for the rate, 42. Mr. Leigh, solicitor on behalf of the anti-church party, pro tested against the poll being closed, but it having been pre viously aranged that it should then close, the chairman persisted in hi s r i g ht t o c l ose i t, an d t h ere the matter ended. Wigan Gazette. A CANDID ATE FOR EMIGRATION.—FORBIDDING THE BANNS OF MARRIAGE AT WOODCHESTER CHURCH.—On Sunday morning last, after the Rev. Dr. William had " asked in church" the following parties, viz., William Stephens and Ann Davis, both of this parish, a n d bef or e the rev. gentle man put the usual form about " just cause or impediment," a young woman with a baby in her arms, and with an expres sion of countenance betokening her sincerity, yet with the most perfect coolness and intrepidity, stood up and said " I forbid the banns in this church and all others." The strength of female attachment has long been proverbial—their courage in difficulty has long been tested and admired—and the sim ple facts conected with this affair adumbrates traits so well, that we give them. They are as follows :—Wm. Stephens, by trade a weaver, is about to emigrate to that land of pro mise, the modern Canaan, Australia, that land " Where everlasting spring abides, And never-failing flowers," and wished much to marry and take with him a young woman, named Harriet Cliff, with whom he had been on terms of in timacy for some time, but the fair damsel preferring her own native shores, the terra firma of " Old England with all her faults," to the golden crows of that far distant land, plumply refused to go, which induced Stephens to try another female, who readily consented to emigrate with him, and wherever he chose, and they were consequently about to be married as soon as the three times of asking in church had transpired. The second time of publishing the banns nearly arrived be fore the former sweetheart, Harriet Clift, knew of the fact, and the news, as a matter of course, was very unpalatable ; she did not much approve of this second string to the bow of her lover, and upon a second consideration fully consented to face the mighty deep ; to en d ure " Siberian cold or Afric ' s burning sands" with Stephens, and at last the matter was agreed upon, on condition that she would go to church and publicly forbid the banns between him and her rival, and that he would after marry her and immediately set sail. In this she was not worse than her word, and, as it became known in the neighbourhood, the church was more than usually full, and great curiosity was excited by the circumstances. How ever, the solemnities of the service were not at all broken ip upon ; nothing more than a smile was observed, but that smile was universal, and on the rev. Dr. acquainting the ob jector that he would speak to her after church the thing sub sided. We understand the parties will be married next week, and are about to sail for Australia in the course of the same week, leaving Ann Davies behind, no doubt a little annoyed at the disappointment she has experienced.—Cheltenha m Journal. SHIPWRECK.—On Thursday afternoon the brig Retrench, bound for New York, with 45 passengers, sailed from Green ock, the wind blowing fresh from the east, which was a fair wind for the vessel. On Friday morning the deep sea steam ers brought the news to Greenock that the Retrench was ashore on the rocks adjoining the Cumbrae light-house, and it blowing a gale at the time, fears were entertained that the vessel would be dashed to pieces, and all on board perish. The Gulliver steam-tug was immediately ordered off to the assistance of the unfortunate vessel, with a party of men, headed by Captain Kennedy, harbour-master of Greenock. A buoy, with a rope fastened to it, was thrown from the Retrench, and had drifted ashore, and the islanders made it fast, by which means a communication was opened with the island, and a number of female passengers were floated ashore on an empty chest. The passengers were all safely landed by the Gulliver at Greenock on Friday night ; but we are sorry to learn that they will lose all their luggage, provisions, &c., as the vessel, in all probability, will be a total wreck. We have heard that the accident was caused by the vessel, whilst tacking, missing stays. The passengers were princi pally from Paisley, Greenock, and some of the agricultural population of the adjoining counties, one or two females, with a number of children, to join their husbands and fathers in America.—Glas.gow Chronicle. A RADICAL PATRlOT.—Brimmer Brassey was a stirring person, and likely to make himself and his principal popular amongst the radicals. He was always over-smartly dressed ; his countenance was florid, edged with much black whisker; he wore his hat—a silk hat—on one side of his head ; a co loured handkerchief round his neck ; a chain, questionable as to metal, by way of guard to an equivocal watch, over a velvet waistcoat. He was well able to drink punch weak or strong, hot or cold, as the case might be, at any time, and in any quantity ; smoked cigars if degired, and went the whole length of pipes if necessary ; was upon intimate terms with several actors of the minor theatres ; sung songs which were not in print ; told anecdotes of men and things which asto nished the natives ; had a friend who benevolently lent mo ney to anybody who wanted it, upon the least imagineable security ; and, in fact; was the most accommodating person in his peculiar line of the profession to which he did not do too much honour. At Mudbury, he was all in all ; the way he talked, the way he sang, the way he dressed, the way he paid, were the theme of universal admiration ; and if the mere representative of the coming candidate did all this, what would the candidate himself do when he became the repre sentative of them all ?--Births, Deaths, and Marriages. CURIOUS FACT.—A correspondent of the Whitehaven Herald, writing to show the superior quality of the soil to be reclaimed by the projected railroad and embankment over Morecambe Bay, says—" The sea sand of Morecambe Bay contains 20 per cent. of calcareous matter, (one fifth of the whole,) composed almost altogether of finely powdered sea shells. The average depth of the sea sand may be about fifteen feet, (being deeper higher up the bay than on the line of the Morecambe Bay embankment.) The bay may average eight miles from north to south, by about eleven miles from east to west. We have, therefore, even in one bay of the county of Lancaster, not less than 2 72,588,800 cubic yards of organic remains —(sea shells)—another .proof added to the coral reefs and islands of th e animal ori gin of much of the surface matter of this globe. , $ A Philadelphia advertisement reads thus—" ted t e rs coachman to take care of a pair of horses of a religious of mind." THE MODEL REPUBLIC.—The Georg o is legislatusrte,cedse; the free banking law, has provided that th e capital K o be paid in negroes. It is said that the system of imprisonment lately adelL tea t . in the army in s t ea d o f fl ogg i ng h as b een the means of gr''' ly diminishing the number of offences. • last , TRIBUTE TO A CLERGYMAN.—On Tuesday everuni:eattd the Teachers of St. Paul's Sunday School, Preston, Pre - R io, their beloved minister and faithful pastor, the Rev J. M.A., with a very chaste and elegant silver pocket coo nion service ; and as the feelings of the donors are s u expressed in the inscription upon the offering, we sh a „ e ct, add, that in those expressions of grateful esteem and, re c "r er eh' . the whole Protestant population of Preston most s uI A. M.• sympathise :—" Presented to the Rev. Joseph Rig , a s $ by the teachers of St. Paul's Sunday Schools, Preston,bies, memorial of thei r th an kf u l ness that, under the Di vine v eil sing, he has bee n so em i nen tl y successful in provi ding abundant means for the religious education of the Pe April 2d, 1839."—Preston Pilot. RADICAL DISPLAY.—The radicals of Leigh and the or rounding neighbourhood attempted to get up a rneetinnigpve Hindley Green, on Monday week, which proved a e°,. failure as to numbers. We understand, however, th","hich females paraded, with their pikes fixed upon long Po le ' dial gave them a very ludicrous appearance. Some of the r a ts an d are also said to have attended the meeting with Illus ke ra t te fixed bayonets, and every now and then fired a gun' -- e oel' purpose, we suppose, of showing to the meeting their II c i t . lent discipline. The chief speaker was one of the L ei g r iced legates to the national convention, who, having latelYa h r t ; be from London, could talk of nothing but the grandlc'H our had seen in tl:e great c ity, an d th e r i c h d resses i n " l i a l• nobility figur , r. away in the neighbourhood thereof. chester Guardian. A CHARTIST IN TROUB L E.—O n S a t ur d a y ec en ing breach of the peace was caused in one of the public thoro har tito , fares in Halifax, by a person who styled himself a w ere and such was the• disturbance he created th a t the poliq obliged to interfere, w h en h e se t th em at comp lete de to to - They, however, managed after considerable resistanc e we d cure him, and on taking hi m awa y t o th e L oc k u p, he decVer that in a very short p er i o d th ere wou ld no t b e a police 0 pre . in existence, as th ousan d s of the people were alrea d y ifss pared with fire-ar ms . O n th e M on d ay following, he left taken before th e mag i s t ra t es , an d h av i ng ha d t i me to to his scattered senses, he ad m itt e d the offence, an d begs, he he be for g iven. H e gave hi s name George Si ms on, and sal .; came from Lindley. The magistrates, after giving 11 , 1 0 0, caution, convicted hi m i n th e pena l ty of £1 and IN' which was afterwards paid by some'brother Chartists. fi t s SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—SII KI" tote INQUIRIES,---The following verdicts for land takec ll l, 0 ,01, company were recorded on Th urs d ay l ast, a t -D ll °‘ for before Leigh Trafford, Esq. as sheriff's assessor: tom . 15a. 3r. 91p. of land in Hattersley, belonging to Lor,df,.. te nt ford, £1,580. 18s. 9d. ; f or l a. l r. 1 9 4 p. of lan d i ll IG'Op. the property of Mr. Marl er ' s t rus t ees, £355 ; for 25a. . 7 `;r 0 110' in the township of Ti n t w i s tl e, the property of Joll ° l 5275; mache, Esq. (part of whi c h i s requ i re d f or t h e tunnel,, tore, for la. lr. 161 p. i n G o dl ey , b e l ong i ng to Messrs. Row o rs. £275 ; damage by se verance , £325 ; toget h er, £6OO. Foster and Brandt appeared as counsel for the company' tof Wilkins for the land owners . W e b e li eve, that i n three oily, four cases the se ver di c t s were ta k en by agreement bet` e• the parties, a s i n d ee d th e pr i ces g i ven will sufficiently la d c Only one of the inquiries was actually tried. t. , THE MANCH E S TER C ORN - LAW A GITATORS AT . p — IS hes' fi —An application, by the anti corn-law agitators of g a n tic i;lel ter, has this week been made to the town-council of O f to aid them in their endeavours to blind the peoPl e L i e - sge, country so far, as to transfer their agricultural pa" - ,. 5 0 ' from the farmers of Britain and Ireland to the fata l ,„ e ",,le. Prussia and Poland. But the council are not s uch s 'S' s ji, tons as to comply. They were led somewhat thoughttl a few months since, on the application of another Bflt be• law association, to petition - on the subject, but they hal the come wiser since. To th e a p p li cat i on f or pecun i ar y al dup council wisely and warily turned a deaf ear, they buttctece the community's pocket, an d wou ld not consen t to &" itb, single rap. A vote of thanks was more easily parted litt le and was accordingly g i ven th e app li cants, to mo llify 3 o t the effects of the rebuff. "It i s never, " says an I°3lle moralist, " too late t o b ecome w i se ;" an d we congraThel the council on their affording such substantial proof that t are determined to exe m plif y i n prac ti ce t h e value th e y $e such an admirable apophthegm.—Paisley Advertiser. Al! ATTEMPT UPON FEAR GUS CYC ONNOR. —F O R• p , ESCAPE.--On Wednesday last, at the conclusion 0 for meeting at Hollowayh ea d, an acc id ent h a d nearly o ° l3- ins Mr. O'Connor. It appears that the itinerant orator heed to return to London per railway, by the first train, eng, n e r e ll a hackney cab to convey him to the station. He had s e t; se seated himseif when from some unknown cause the k w no i li• took fright, and dashed off at a furious rate down SmalVit ar' street. The career of the animal was not arrested till b ib le rived in the bull-ring, when the wheel coming in f°l* -1 t he e collision with a lamp-p os t, th e h orse was thrown clow°,:k ' n, chaise shattered, and po or F eargus, w h o had, terror-str; watched from the wind ow o f th e c h a i se the care er of th e ter tbo', mal, was assisted from th e smas h e d ca b as pale as ahl ° (`` The man who had been boasting of hii courage to le*"' ; people to " death or glo r y" was para l yse d w i t h te rror• th e friend informs us that some wicked wag whispered it st' i orator's ear, " that the horse was a tory, and had ti l t for ! tempted to assassinate the great leader of the chartists. d i, ourselves, we do not cr e dit thi s ca l um n y. O n t h e contt: o s , we believe if the horse was a p o liti c i an a t a ll , th a t he " the chartist. It was stationed near to Mr. O'Connor durtng se d whole time that gentleman was addressing the neoP le 4 ,,' no doubt appreciating the arguments adduced by Itt":" - ey 1)1 your of " physical force," determined to try their eti;e, st an early practical application. We have only to ada s !,•, t ht. Mr. O'Connor walked to the railway station " more i t. ' ened than hurt."—Standard. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES AT B RAMPTON, NEAR -- R ° HAM.—We have this week to record one of the most re% has able, and at the sam e ti me pa i n f u l cases of forgery whic h D, ever come to our knowled ge ; an d the circumstances oi nected with which have cre a t e d an extraordinary ,reo surprise and regret in this neighbourhood. The party i° i ;dj. eatcd in this case is M r . L arrat Langley, proprietor o f 3 p known and highly re s p ec t a bl e b oarding school at BrareP u st' near Wath, and a gentleman of very considerable literarY t he tainments. He wa s b roug h t up for examination before D, Rev. H. B. Cooke, an d W . B. Martin, Esq , at BrontP e t on Monday w eek, and was reman d e d to Thursday for W o o. examination, during which period he was retained in Ae s finement at Barnsley. On Thursday, the investigation glit resumed at Brampton Bull Head Inn. The charge ba n g of against Mr. Langley was that of having forged the nel,"" Mr. Biram, the agent of Earl Pitzwilliam, at Wentwor. t T ot i security along with himself for the payment of a proli° s : io r, note, given by him to Mr. Birks, of Heming-field, soliclot for £3OO. Although this was the only charge brought aga ic oe him, specifically, it has been ascertained that he has aoof forged the nam e o f M r. Biram and of Mr. Beardsh' . Ashcroft, near Wentworth, either as securities for the P a D l ` ' ment of mo ne y, or as the indorsers of Bills of Exchatig e "f o rl together amounting to about £3OOO. Rumours of o ther genes or fra u d u l ent transactions are afloat, to wh i °,, h 01 forbear to g i ve currency. Some of these rumours are evilletbsi without fou n d a ti on — others are so confidently avou eheurtea we feel it equally difficult to admit or reject them. Conc.esr, as these exam i nat i ons were, within a stone-throw 01 , 100 Langley's res id ence, i t excited intense interest and 0 " pain amo ng hi s ne i gh b ours, by whom, up to the mome°tol. this unhappy disclosure, he had always been highly resP coo i. He was f u ll y comm i tted to York to take his trial at the the mer Assizes. Perh a p s th e most remarkable feature T e o case is, that until very recently, few of Mr. Langley's trio*, were aware of his being seriously embarrassed ; and eve° biell they are utterly a t a l oss to account for the motive w_;ey. could have actuated hi m i n th e commission of these f or ge' —Sheffield Mercury. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND R AILWAY.— O n Satur das last, at one o'clock, the d e pot o f this railway presenctirec scene of considerable animati on , i n consequence of the n t he tors having determined to ma k e an experimental trip ° ocs' line. The " Lowther" e ng i ne was b rought out for the 1105 sion, and was greatly admired for its beautiful proPe r n ,of and workmanship. It was b u i lt by Messrs. Step hens°-At' Newcastle, and combines all the latest improvements;_ e b t o tached to it was a t en d er , after which was a secon°,,ork, carriage, which, by th e ki n d ness of the Lord Mayor of . 1- ets who is chairman of the directors, was well filled by resPe ci o ble persons who had gone to witness the event. A first;irec carriage was also att ac h e d , i n which were seated the . for tors and their friends. This carriage contains seats ele' eighteen inside pa ssengers, and is fitted up in a style o toy , gance far exceeding anything we ever before observed in ttbo public carriage. Combined with elegance, comfort bas s, been attended to, and each passe nger h as resters f or the aloe the seats being of the most easy and soft description. a ble. second-class carr i age i s very capacious, and comfort,eiog About half-p as t one o ' c l oc k , the engine and tender the attached to the carriages, the signal was given for to start," and th e a l arm whistle having given notice, inir' the asto n i s h ment o f num b ers of the spectators, the flol' ther" pro cee d e d s l ow l y and majestically towards the rest gate-bridge, which was crowded with spectators. A g uP number of lads had, up t o thi s p l ace, contrive d to keernpdo• to the train ; but, on c l ear i ng the bridge, the speed g r ally increased, until it a tt a i ne d a rate of probably 15 °roe miles an hour, and of course distanced all comp et itors. ; re f horses which were graz i ng i n t h e adjoining fields eel 0.. about at a most fe ar f u l ra t e , probably from fear of the cti t t sition which_ was set u p aga i nst them. A few minutes b ro the train to the bridge which crosses the Tadcaster ' the n under which it passed, and proceeded about a mile fu r ere past the village o f C opmant tb horpe. The directors „„,, alighted to examine so me o f th e wor k s which are i oing ug u b t and whilst they w ere th us engage d the " Lowther ' br°o to ') the carriages back as far as the bridge, and then returi! tbe ir take up the dire c t ors , w h o h a d i n the interim conclude, , a _ the , survey. The whole p ar ty h av i ng resumed the i r seal!., the train returned to th e c ity, per f orm i ng the distance frrbout Tadcaster-bridge to the engine-house, a distance 0 not two miles and a half, i n less than six minutes. Not thei tato rs accident occurred th roug h out, and the crowd of sPe° needs appeared highly pleased with the interesting scene. Intelliyencer. NEW POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS..--It may be CO ent to some of our r ea d ers to see a copy of the new re, which tions, sanctioned by the lords of th e treasury, under m ay printed prices cur ren t an d commercial lis'l 4 ,ol, be forwarded, by post, t o a ll parts of the United Kinteigo to the British colonies a n d p ossess i ons a b road, an d to In w e parts, by packet or private ship, at the reduced rate °;. t he penny. They are as f o ll ows : - Ist. The sanc tion Postmaster-General must be expressly obtained for each doe, lication, and recorded at the General Post-office, in I . c ' ot the before it can enjoy the privilege of circulating by Poi.' e c ur , reduced rate of one penny each.-2d. No private Pric_ io ted . rent or mercantile circular of any description, whetherll,, r e.:•• or otherwise, can be permitted to circulate by post at t oo ly, duced rate above mentioned.-3d. Prices current mus t al in. contain the nam es and prices of the articles, with ge n _ e nn r 1 rties formation as to the ma r k e t s ; b u t t h e names of thecrthelt; dealing in suc h art i c l es are to b e excluded; norm uit;tioost or any other p u bli ca ti ons c i rculating under these regul to the , contain any advertisements or matter subjecting the° l _, w er-4, newspaper stamp d u ty.-4th. N o pr i ce current o r co_ c i the cial list, c i rcu l a ti ng at t h e reduced rate, must execcoto weight of two ounces.-sth. Every p r i ce current or „ mercial list must be posted at the post-office of the '`,/., er its place where the same is published, within seven day " s d a or Pr. 7 publication ; and no such publication can be re-1 901 5 0i letter warded a second time without being charged with I"' i n the rate of postage.-6th. Each copy must be made up ds, Ad' same form as a newspaper, with covers open at the mitting of its being withdrawn for the purpose of exami , % te d, ith. The title of the publication must be written, or 1 1 ',1 t on immediately above the address ; and any other writV.; reo ce such address, any name of initials, or any mark for e. 7,00' of any kind, calculated to convey information as to by whom such publication is forwarded, will subject the sa re to full letter rate of postage.-Bth. The aymen t Z l i c atio° duced rate of one penny upon these privileged King re, circulating by the inland post, within the Unite or is optional, and may be made either by the sender , n t his ceiver ; but the penny must be paid, when posted. e 1 4 0 1 country, upon all such publications forwarded to the "-' e ither 9 colonies or possessions abroad, or to foreign part r__ ca rol packet or private ship.-9th. Those to thupon e commercial lists published in London, the Pen h which is to be paid by the receiver, must be brought,, , befo re lobby of the Inland Office at St. Martin's-le-Gran d, six o'clock p.m., as hitherto : those to be paid for 0 F' foreig!' privileged price!, must be delivered at the paid window of the inland, aceo s ,s or ship letter office, according to their destination, at of p.m. They may also be posted, and the postage Pal, m ile of the branch offices or receiving houses within the till"' circle, before six p.m. Is en 0 4 f 4 th hi t s etti 41, Op 1,1 seri e "( The ' '44 ti rh a. • Oati( p i , ` ) ; 1 ' t i l l riler, ri,if *es tftpuk. '-, kJ