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4., ow Tii h 11 111,15 i to Ri toreetings in Varliantent. while, however, the clubs issued a manifesto, convoking T aylor, succeeded in apprehending Thomas Brennan, the populace, - who assembled in great numbers, and pro- d escribed as of Carroward, in the county of ;Roscommon, ..0. claimed a provisional government, choosing Montarrelli, labourer, .at the house of Mr. Spencer, called Wooderoft HOUSE OF COMMONS. — MoNDAY• .• Guerazzi, and Mazzoni as its .chiefs. The multitude then Castle, near Peterboro' he being charged with the - murder Mr. TuatiNELY presented a petition from Liverpool, p r oceeded to the chamber, and rushing into the galleries of Mator Mahon, in Ireland, on the 2d Nov., 1847. The drawing attention to the alteration likely to take place in c ompelled the members assembled to acknowledge and major had been out on a charitable mission, and was re the value Of gold, owing to the recent discoveries in Cali- confirm the provisional government. The dubs pro- turning home in his carriage accompanied by his surgeon, fornia. claimed the deposition of the Grand Duke, and declared when within a few miles of his residence at Strokestown, Mr. Eames' presented a petition from a place in Lan- Tuscany to be part of the Italian Constituante, to be dis- Roscommon, two men with guns fired at them from behind cashire, praying for an alteration of the law in reference posed of as the Roman Assembly shall hereafter decide. a hedge. One of the gUns misfired ; buethe shot and ball toClergymen seceding from the Church of England. ' The Grand Duke has written to his Ministers to say that of the other struck the major on his right side. and some •On the motion for going into committee on the Habeas he does not intend to abandon his country, but that he of the shot went through his heart. The major immedi- Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Bill, thought it prudent to decamp for the present.—The same ately dropped the reins of the horse, and expired with a Mr. J. - o'ooNueee moved that it be an instruction to communication also announces that the Sardinian Go- groan. The surgeon seized the reins and set off at a the committee to introduce such provisions into the bill vernment has directed passports to begiven to the Roman gallop. Brennan is supposed to bethe man who fired the as - shall'guard and save intact the right of the subject to refugees at Turin ; and that the Queen of Spain has given fatal shot. A true bill having been found against him by bold meetings, to petition for the enactment, repeal, or two millions of francs by way of a present to,Narvaes. the grand jury at the last Roseommon assizes, a bench alteratien of acts of parliament, or for redress of grie- The Emperor of Russia has prohibited all charitable warrant was issued for his apprehension, and placed in the vanees, or other constitutional objects, without other or institutions from increasing their funds by means of mas- hands of 'Taylor, who had received information that he further restriction of that right than existed under the querades or other public amusements. was somewhere in this neighbourhood. Great praise is operation of the common and 'statute law of the land, pre- On the 3d inst. a large public meeting was held in the due to Taylor for his exertions and ingenuity in this case. vious to the passing of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Theatre Tortinono, Rome, when the Pope was denotinced He had been engaged fitr the4ast three weeks in devising Act of last July. as a temporal prince, and loud cries were uttered for a re. meanslorapprehending the prisoner: It was a narrow After some debate Mr. O'Connell withdrew hismotion, public. escape, for on searching the prisoner, a letter from His and the House went into Committee on the Bill, and it Louis Napoleon Bonaparte surprised the Bourse on brother was found upon him, stating that his passage was was ordered to be reported. Tuesday by a visit, which caused a suspension of business , paid to America by his sister, and that the vessel would for half an hour, to the annoyance of the •" bears," who sail in a few days from Liverpool. Taylor ultimately HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY. : ' growled at M. Feuld, who did the honours. The Presi- succeed in finding him in company with five other Irish- 'Mr. F. Peel took the oaths and his seat for Leominster. dent was very well received. . men, at Mr. Spencer's. He immediately went with two The hon. member was introduced by Mr. Goulburn and MURDER ON BOARD THE " AmELiA."—A few days ago assistants well armed, and, after a struggle, succeeded in Mr. W. Patten, and took his seat on the opposition was published a short account of the horrible catastrophe capturing him. He then lodged him safely in gaol at benches. which took place in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, on Peterborough, where he will remain until orders are re- Mr. ANSTEY obtained a Select Committee to inquire board the Amelia, bound from California to China, with ceived from Ireland. £BOO reward has been offered by into the state of the inland Fisheries and Navigation of gold for the purchase of silks. A private communication the family of the major, and £2OO by government, for the Ireland. , from Hanavoora Bay, in Wahooa, one of the Sandwich apprehension of Brennan and his accomplices.— Stamford c;» T la. ~,,,,,,,-, ratfaintul icmvP fn hrino in " n Rill Islands. received by a mercantile house in Manchester, Mercury. • , . n MURDER ON BOARD THE AMELIA.' ICW days ago was published a short account of the horrible catastrophe which took place in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, on board the Amelia, bound from California to China, with gold for the purchase of silks. A private communication from Ilanavoora Bay, in Wahooa, one of the Sandwich Islands, received by a mercantile house in Manchester, corroborates every main fact :—On the night of the 3rd of October, three of the crew—Jose Cabrero, Jose Torres, and Andrew Boldevio, mutinied, attacked the mate and killed him. Captain Alva, (a Spaniard,) and Mr. Francis Cooke, passenger, hearing the noise,-came on deck. Two of the ruffians came and attacked them, killed Mr. Cooke and immediately threw him overboard, and badly wounded the captain ; who, nevertheless, succeeded in getting down into the cabin to arm himself, and came on deck again with a-cutlass, but the murderers stabbed him in the neck with a knife, and he fell a corpse.' Mrs. Cooke, her maid servant, Mary Hudson, and the flag - fain ' Sir J. PAKINGTON obtained leave to bring in "a Bill for the better prevention of bribery and corruption at,the Election of Members to serve in Parliament." _ _ POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Mr. C. LEWIS brought in a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to public roads. He observed that, owing to the unsatisfactory state of the law, it had been deemed advisable to attempt to deal with the 'entire subject, not confining the bill, as had been done by that of last Session, to highways, but including all turnpike roads. He then explained some of the principal details of the bill, which would consolidate' rusts; and place the management of roads under the immediate control of the Poor Law IJ ,-. I The vacant Garter will be conferred upon Earl Spencer, Mr. Bentley has announced for immediate s pubfication a work by Mr. John O'Connell, M.P.,' entitl6d Recol lections and Experiences during a Parliamentary Career from 1843 to 1848." The Times - of Thursday has a congratulatory article on the diminished " itch for speaking in the House of Com moni" this session, so far. as it has gone, compared with last. After enumerating the important subjects intro= duced on Tuesday night last, and sensible speeches deli vered, our contemporary exclaims, in an etdusable ecstasy, nions; and he developec. ae plan by whit. he proposed to extinguish the enormous debts of th existing trusts out of the county-rate, aided by the tolls fund; NA wiJl4llll, .native of Dublin,) who were below when the murderous scene commenced, were confined to their staterooms ; and the mutineers, who were all Peruvians, shaped, their bourse for Peru. On the following morning, Captiin M'Nalty offered, with the assistance of the 'carpenter, ,t 9 leave the ill-fated ship, with the females, provided - the mutineers would give him one of the boats and the neces= Coro nrnvicinna Thic thnv cuwnPrl fn acennt fn hilt nn hia by means of a strm__ adopted grounded upon the principle of this bill, it would be impossible to legislate generally upon the' subject, which must be abandoned to all the evils of local legisla tion. _ _ _ ss a measure was and after transacting all this real business the hoiise adjourned Wore nine o'clock Ma. BAINES AND THE. NAVIGATION LAws.—When Lord J. Russell offered to Mr. Baines, M.P. for Hull, the Presidency of the Poor Law Board, the latter gentleman franigly avowed that he was pledged to his constituents to vote for the navigation laws; but as that was the only obstacle—Mr. Baines having been found to accord in opinion with the cabinet upon all other important ques tions—hii lordship agreed to waive it, rather than.that the country should be deprived of the benefit of the great administrative abilities of the hon. gentleman. 'Mr. HENLEY, Sir J. PAKINGTON, Mr. BROTHERTON, Mr. SLANEY, and other members, spoke more or less approvingly of the general features of the plan. ' Mr. SPOONER doubted whether the proposal to take away the security of theroads, and-transfer the'£8,000;000 of -debt, to the county rate, would not alarm the bond creditors; and Capt. Pechell and Sir George Strickland were averse to placing the management of roads in the hands of Boards of Union Guardians. going on deck he was seized, bound, and thrown over board. They then threw the papers and documents also overboard, and gating out a large quantity of gold, 'di vided it amongst the remainder of the crew, compelling each to take a part. On the night of the sth, the murder= ers having drunk freely, two of them went to sleep, w.heu the carpenter, in accordance with a plan arranged by some of the crew, killed them with his axe, while others attacked the third murderer, who resisted, but was likewise dis patched by Smith, and the vessel brought to those islands (the Sandwich) by the apprentices, Thomas Gannon and Charles M'Donald. The specie, about 300,000 dollars; has been secured by her Majesty's consul-general. Mrs. Cookeand her servant are living on shore, and it is expected will return to the coast of Mexico when an opportunity offers. We are rejoiced to find that the West India proprietors are at length arousing themselves to a consciousness of their interests and a determination, to assert and enforce their,rights through the medium of a Colonial Association, which is now in process of formation, under the superifi tendence and presidency of a gentlemab in every way pre-eminently adapted for such an office. Mr. Henry Marshal is the gentleman who has, at the solicitation bf many persons of influence connected with the colonial interest, undertaken the important task of conducting this movement. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY The house went into committee, and Mr. LABOUCHERE proceeded to bring under considera tion his resolution upon which to found a bill for the alteration of the Navigation Laws. He proposed to repeal those statutes, leaving, however, a power with the'Privy Council to retain thetnin cases in which it might be bene ficial to British interests so to-do.. He also proposed to break down the monopoly of ship-building in this coun try by an alteration of the law of registry. He proposed to keep the coasting trade from, place to place as it now stood, but he would allow either an English or foreign - vessel bound for a foreign port, to touch at several Bri tish ports, taking cargo at each prior to proceeding on her long voyage. This was the' only alteration of any conse- THE COUNT OUT.—An irrefragable proof of his anxiety to expedite the public business of the country was afforded by Lord John Russell on Thursday last, when he got one of his supporters to count the house out ten minutes after the Speaker had taken the chair. There were not, it is true, more than twenty-four members present ; but thero was business enough, at all events, to make it worth while to give the absent members time to flock in. There were no fewer than twenty-six notices of motion on the paper y besides four government orders of the day, of which one was the report of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, another the report of the committee' of the whole house on the grant of £50.000 for the relief of distress in Ireland. qUence which he proposed. In reply to a question from Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. LABoucnitam said that Mr. Bancrcift had informed him that he was, on the part of America, ready to sign a treaty to-morrow, conceding the right to participate in the American coasting trade to • British shipping, if this country gave a similar concession to the shipping of America. He informed that gentleman that he could not anticipate the decision of the House of Commons. He hoped to be able in the 'present session to bring in a bill with respect to the light dues, and also a bill with respect to the Merchant Seaman's Fund, which latter would be on a somewhat different principle from the bill of last session. The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving a resolution in accordance with the objects stated in his Lord Stanley gave a grand Parliamentary entertain ment on Saturday last at his residence in St. James's square, when the following noblemen and gentlemen, members of the House of Commons, dined with his lord= ship—the Marquis of Granby, Viscount Mandeville, the Right Hon. C. E. Law, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Sir Henry Halford, Colonel Rolleston, Captain Jones, Mr. B. Dis , raeli, Mr. G. Bankes, Mr. R. A. Christopher, Mr. R. S. Bourke, Mr. C. L. Cumming Bruce, Mr. Geo. Hudson, Mr. James Milnes Gaskell, Mr. R. Spooner Mr. John Stuart, the Hon. F. Scott, Mr. C. W. Packe, Mr. J. Napier, Mr. J. Neild, Mr. Milnes, and Mr. Waddington. The noble Lord had large Parliamentary dinners on Wednesday and Saturday. DISSATISFIED FREE TRADERS.—SeCession is the order of the day among the Free Traders. Mr. Muntz is asked to join in the celebration of the triumph of Free Trade at Manchester, and bluntly replies, that he sees no results which deserve celebration. Mr. Baines is desired by Lord John Russell to take the Chair of the Poor Law Commission, and replies, " Not if I am expected to sup port the repeal of the Navigation Laws !" Yet does not Lord John recal his offer with indignation ; nor do the electors of Birmingham demand an explanation from their plain-spoken representative. The truth is, that the cheat is iwetty well understood; and in England, as in rrance, Inc IPacwrs, ulzu. riuulU giauiy replace themselves in the position they were in in 1845, if they knew how to do so so as to escape ridicule. slieech Mr. Hansues said, if the right hon. gentleman had thought proper to give them information as to the altera tion he now proposed in the bill of last session, he would not have opposed the proposition in its present stage ; nor did he think even now that, on a question of such importance, it would be prudent to enter into the whole question until the nature of the proposed alteration could be fully considered. He thought it hard, that, when he asked for this information for the benefit of the house, the right hon. gentleman should have refused to accord it, and yet have allowed it to be made public through the columns of a public journal. If there was no injury in communicating it through such a channel to the public, he could not understand why it should be positively refu sed to hon. members of that house. It appeared to him that we were abandoning all our exclusive privileges to all foreign countries, rebervitlF, tu llutoclico vuly if they will grant similar advantages, which most of them cannot do, to us, to maintain those laws as against such countries. Suppose France should refuse to us a share in her carrying trade, and that we should, therefore, exclude French shipping from the privileges we accorded to all others, would not France have a right to say, " We do not understand this. You have done away with your navigation laws for your own benefit, and why retain against us laws which you have abrogated against all others ?" The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Labouchere) Had dwelt upon the injury which these laws inflicted upon Canada and other of our colonies, at which he was surprised when he recollected that it was the pre sent government which, by its legislation, had pros trated and utterly ruined the greater number of those colonies. The reason why Canada asked for the repeal of the navigations laws was, that the Government had deprived them of the protecting duties which they Previously enjoyed ; and if they restored those duties they would never hear a word again about repealing' the navigation laws from that quarter. It was, however, upon the fundamental principle of the navigation laws that the opposition to the measure must be based. The resolution professed to modify our navigation laws, whereas the real proposition was to abrogate them. He had no doubt that by admitting the competition of foreigners they would diminish freight, and thus perhaps confer an apparent benefit on the consumer, but that ad -vantage would be only apparent, for the difference of freight on tons of goods could never find its way beyond the retail dealer, if it could even find its way to hiin. The consumer would not benefit one farthing. With respect to the carrying on European trade he thought it right so far to modify our navigation laws as to throw open that trade upon a principle well understood and just in itself— that of reciprocity. He wished that those who professed such a respect for the principles of Mr. Huskisson would adopt those principles in their measures, and adjust their propositions to the concessions which might be made by others. That gentleman in one of his speeches had said that there was a spirit of rivalry with us prevalent in America which should render every Englishman cautious bow he adopted any measures which could give encourage ment to the commercial marine of that country. He wished they would act upon this advice, instead of taking a course which would invest a vast amount of British capital in the promotion of foreign ship-building, to the detriment of our own. Haying stated many of the grounds upon which he should oppose the second reading of the bill, the right hon. •gentleman sat down amidst general cheers from the opposition benches. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. --.-----* The directors of the North-western Railway Company have notified that any of their servants who accept gra tuities from passengers will be immediately dismissed. Mr. Burke, an Irish contractor, has been the successful candidate for the construction of the Parkgate, Chester, and Birkenhead Junction Railway. The first sod was " turned" last week. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY .—Traffic for the week ending the 11th instant :—Coaching traffic, £744 10s. 2d. ; parcels, £4B lls. 3d. ' • goods and cattle, £2BO 2s. 3d. ; steam-boats, £ll2 ss. 4d. ;—total, £llB5 9i. Some miscreant placed an iron bar across:the railway near Sudbury Station, with the intention of upsetting an express train which did not stop at the' station. The guarding iron in front of the wheels of the locomotive pushed the bar forward till the train was stopped. On Monday, an important branch of .the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line was opened for piAbfic traffic. It is a short line of 7+ miles, by means of whiclia junction with the Midland Railway will be formed, and the distance between Derby and Manchester considerably shortened, and the passengers will avoid going round•by Masborough. The gradients are lin 150. There is one tunnel on the line 374 yards long. MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Derby, on Thursday, Geo. Hudson, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was nu merously attended. The report was read by the secretary. A dividend of five per cent. was recommended to be paid, after which a balance of upwards of £16,000 would remain to be carried to the account of the current half-year. It, was moved and seconded by two proprietors from Liver pool, that a committee be appointed to investigate the affairs of the company. This was negatived by a large majority. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The usual half-yearly meeting was held on Thursday. Mr. Russell, Ivi.P., chairman of the board of directors, presided. The report stated that the company had maintained, and in some degree increased their receipts during the last six months, although the general business of railways had fallen off, and this company had to contend against some special disadvantages. The report was unanimously adopted, after which several resolutions were passed, among them one approving of the dividend of three per cent. for the half-year. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The half yearly general meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. W. Chaplin, M.P., in the chair. The report stated the reve nue of the current half-year would afford a dividend at the rate of five per cent. per annum. An animated dis cussion arose on the proposition that the company should take a fourteen years' lease of the packets and property belonging to the South-Western Steam-packet Company. On the motion that the directors be empowered to com plete this lease, a poll was ordered to be taken on Friday, at the Waterloo Bridge Station. The meeting adjourned to Saturday. Thr numbers who voted for the lease were 1,673, against 829. Colonel Henderson, Mr. Seymer, M.P., and Col. Reid were elected directors by a large T u ak . tualr ; Sergeant Gagqei not having half the try ac gcuti le I. -.W0.- HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAN The Bishop of OXFORD laid on the table a bill for the Punishment of Fraudulent Seduction of Women, which was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. The Right Rev. Prelate then gave notice, that on Thursday next he should move the appointment of a select committee to consider the best means Great Bri tain can adopt for providing for the final extinction of the slave trade. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the Criminal Law Consolidation Bill, and the Bankrupt Law Consolidation Bill, were read a second time, and .referred to a select committee. On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the Larceny Acts tI.IIICLUILILGtav -mans% . -I ---1 A. CA. sation, in which the Marquis of Salisbury, the Dukeof Richmond, Lord Brougham, Lord Stanley, and several other noble lords took part. LONDON AND NORTH-`WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at. twelve o'clock on Friday, at the Euston Hotel, Euston square, London. The circulars calling the meeting an-' nounced that it would be proposed to consolidate into Stock the £lO shares (A. and B) of the late Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and such of the £2O shares of the late London and Birmingham Railway, and £4O shares of the late Grand Junction Railway, as had been paid up in full. The meeting was very numerously attended by proprietors from all parts of the country.—Mr. G. C. Glynn, M.P., the chairman of the company, presided. He said the directors had, as promised, presented to the shareholders a statement of the accounts two or three days previous to the general meeting. The directors had stated everything without the slightest concealment. There had been some increase in the working charges, as compared with the same period of 1847, from causes over which the directors had no control. Lord Campbell's Act had operated against the company, upwards of £lO,OOO having been paid during the half-year, as com pensation for accidents. The directors, too, had thought it their duty to take from the revenue account no less than £22,000, which had been applied to the renewal of stock. The increase was accounted for by additions to the plant. There was a small diminution in the passen ger traffic, owing to the depressed state of trade. With regard to the goods traffic, the change in their becoming carriers had been pecuniarily beneficial to them. The depreciation in railway property had he believed mainly arisen from a conspiracy on the part of those who had benefited by it. For instance, he knew cases where stock had been sold in July, to be delivered in October, the parties in the meantime doing all in their power to depreciate its value for their own advantage. He entered into a statement of the circumstances of the proposed amalgamation with the Great Western and South West ern Railways, and said, that though the negotiations had failed, the object in view, which was to save useless ex pense in contests and competition, had been practically effected ; and that the greatest harmony prevailed betwee n the several companies upon all points. The chairman concluded in these words, " Do not, gentlemen, let any idea enter into your heads, that the stock of 'the London and North-Western Railway is not a secure and a per manent, property."—(Cheers.)--The rgport was. read. In this the directors -Amy* at the close : —" We Earl GREY. in reply to a question by Lord Stanfey,, relative to the intention of the Government with respect to transportation, said that for the future every male convict sentenced to transportation would; if his health permitted, be sent to the colonies. In the first place, however, he would be placed in separate confinement at Pentonvilled or Wakefield for a period not exceeding 18 months, but rarely more than 12 ; after the lapse of that confinement he would be sent to Gibraltar, Bermuda, or the establishment now in course of formation at Port land, for a certain period, and then removed to the colo nies. The case with respect to females was one of much greater difficulty, and on that subject no final decision had been come to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. After the presentation of ;eVeral petitions, Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice, for an early day, of a motion for taking votes at elections of Parliament by way of ballot. Lord J. RUSSELL gyve notice that he would, on Mon day, move that, on Ash-Wednesday, the house should meet at two instead of twelve o'clock, to enable the Mem bers to attend Divine Service. Mr. LABOIICHERE said he would take the second read ing of the Navigation Laws Repeal Bill on Monday, the sth of March. In reply"to a question from Mr. Bankes, Lord PALMER• STUN said our differences with Spain had not been adjusted. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the report on the Habeas "Carpus Suspension (Ireland) Bill be brought up. Several &visions on this subject, and on the Irish Relief Bill took place, but ultimately the reports on both bills were brought up. 't E LIVERPOOL STANDARD. r‘sZlvt#44-a:==laMst - ongratulate the proprietors upon the ftivourible auspices under which the present half-year has com menced. The returns of traffic for the first six weeks of 1849, show an increase over the corresponding period of 1848, of £14,400, which the directors trust may be re garded as the commencement of that enlarged traffic to be anticipated ;min the returning prosperitynf the country." The disposable balance of that revenue at'the termination of the half,year was £630,320. The proposed dividend of 32 per cent., being at the rate of / percent. per annum, - would absorb £551,922 9s. 10d. A balance was conse quently left, to he carried to the credit of the current half year, of .C 1,398 Os. 2d, The balance on the preceding half-year's account was £44,368 Is.—The report and accounts were unanimously adopted, as was the dividend - 672 , 3 4 1 per cent for the half-year.—The directors were em powered to take measures to relive the' company from its heavy assessments to parochial and' local rates. These amount to upwards of £58,000 per annum.—Mr. T. R. Greig (of Manchester) urged the discontinuance of the goods traffic on Sundays, and he hoped to see the time when no trains whatever would be run on the Lord's day: He moved " That no trains belonging to this company bi permitted to run on the Lord's day, except required by Act of Parliament, or in special cases of necessity." After some remarks from the chairman, who thought the pre sent arrangements, granting some accommodation to the public on Sundays, under proper regulations, which gave their servants the time and opportunity to attend divine service, ought to satisfy the scruples of all conscientious Christians,—the motion was negatived. He added that the dividend would be payable on the 26th instant.—The meeting was then made special, for the, purpose of creating new shares in connection with the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway Company, and a resolution to that effect was passed. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURTS.—THURSDAY (Before Sir L. Shadwell.) SHARP V. ARBUTHNOT. This was a motion for an injunction to restrain Messrs: Gladstone and Serjeantson, brokers of Liverpool, from proceeding with an action at law on two bills of exchange for £2,736 and £Bl9, which had been accepted by the plaintiff, and indorsed over to the defendants by Messrs:: Arbuthnot and Ewart, of Liverpool. The plaintiff em powered Messrs. Arbuthnot and Ewart, through their agents at Bombay, to purchase cotton on their behalf. Accordingly cotton was purchased, and shipped on board the'ship Majestic. and at the same time the bills were drawn on the cotton, and sent by the overland mail, and arrived iri England, and were accepted, prior to the arrival of the cotton.: They were subseqftently indorsed to Messrs. Gladstone and Co. but when the cotton arrived the plaintiff objected to the quality, and on an action being commenced on the bills, filed a bill in this court to restrain this and other actions. The Vice Chancellor said he could not divest himelf of the idea that something remained to be inquired into. He did not mean to question the defendants' statement, but the real facts of the case would come out hereafter. He was not conversant with the dealings of merchants and brokers; but it seemed a strange thing to say, "I have a bill which the acceptor may not pay ; therefore take these two of mine, and give me yours." Thiis might be consistent with commercial prudence ; but he could not believe it was the ordinary course of dealing. The case was one for inquiry. His Honour refused to direct the money to be paid into court. FOREIGN:AND .COLONTAL PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT PSOCLAIMED IN Tus c-grry.---Important intelliffence has been received froth Florence, with the dateTzethe 9th instant : — The flight of the Grand Duke and family from ,Sienna: has-been offici ally announeed. - Thie announcement was followed by an immense agitation in every part of the city.- • The generale was beaten, the national guards and troops ' - were called out, apd the chambers were hastily cuirvoiret. IRELAND. Little new or interesting has occurred since our last, if we except a strike for wages by the labourers under the Board of Works, upon the canal that is being cut between Loch Corrib and the sea. This work was undertaken in one of the most impoverished districts (immediately ad joining the town of Galway,) in that impoverished coun try.. The ordinary wages there seldom, if ever, exceeded tenpence a day. In this work, however, where the pay ment was proportioned to the work done, a man, by giving a fair day's work, might have had sixteen-pence as his fair day's wages. But the strike is in order that the payment may be by the day, irrespective of the amount of work done. We notice the incident at all only as sadly illustrative of the hopeless character of:the Irish peasantry, and the demoralizing influence of the Poor Law as at present administered, that affords the shelter of ont-door relief to those fellows that otherwise must have supported themselves by honest labour. What is to be done for or with the country ? for 'tis true as an axiom, that so long as the finest pisantry on the earth can take sixpence a day, in idleness; out of any other man's pocket, they will prefer it to three times the sum, the reward of their own industry. The southern papers give an account of the faithful and intrepid conduct of the Rev. D. Foley ; assailed and inter-, rupted by a popish mob in the parish church of Tralee, on Sunday evening, he yet persevered undaunted, speaking the truth in love, setting at naught the malice of his ene mies. This is but a sample of what the ministers of the should she ever regain the power of effecting her own will upon them The trial of Gavan Duffy has at last assumed a shape in which it is likely that the opinion of a jury will be taken. Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, the young gentleman who figured rather prominently in the councils of the late Irish Confederation, has entered the service of His Ma jesty the King of Sardinia as a lieutenant of Lancers, with pay at the rate of 180 f. a month. Archbishop M‘Hale, and the other, Roman Catholic prelates of Connaught, have adopted a resolution in con clave, to act immediately on the Pope's recommendation of forming a Roman Catholic College independent of Government. The provincial papers report several cases of death from destitution—viz., one at Limerick, two from Tipperary, two from Galway, one from Mayo, and one from Ferma nagh. These are in addition to many others, which had occurred previously. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A MAGISTRATE.—On Saturday night week, J. S. Scott, Esq., of Launsdowne, Queen's county, was fired at near his own gate. The ball passed through the lapels and breast of his coat, car rying away a portion of letters he had in his pocket, with out injuring his person. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Friday, a man named Wm. M'Connell, residing at Coshquin, Derry, had been engaged in shooting, and after enjoying his pastime, he entered his own house, leaving the loaded gun in the kitchen, and retired. At this time, a youth entered the house, and on lifting the gun M'Connell's daughter at tempted to wrest it from him, being apprehensive of danger, as she told the lad that the gun was loaded. In the struggle, a discharge took place, the contents enter ing the head of the unfortunate youth. M'Connell, on hearing the report, entered the house, just in time to w7tless the death of the lad. FATAL CONFLICT IN THE COUNTY MONAGHAN.--011 Friday morning, there was a wake in Rosslea, and before daylight a number of young men present adjourned to a house in the neighbourhood where an illicit still was in full work. While enjoying themselves, the house was surrounded by a party of the revenue police, who called on the persons inside to surrender. The consequence was that one man named Quigley was shot dead, and another dangerously wounded. A large number of prisoners were captured, and conveyed to Clones by the revenue police, and many serious injuries besides gun-shot wounds were inflicted on both sides. It is said that Quigley is a respectable man, and brother-in-law to the Rev. Mr. Caulfield, parish priest of Rosslea. ANOTHER FIGHTING PRIEST.-At the last meeting of the Carlow board of guardians, the matron of the work house complained that father Wyer, " whirling a stick round his head, ordered her not to dare to cut off the hair of one of the women—which she was about to do accord ing to custom. He said in a menacing tone that he would put a stop to hair cutting in the house." The board hav ing heard the priest's version of the story, which admitted the main fact, came to the following resolution :—" The board regret to say, that it appears to them, on hearing the complaint of the matron relative to the conduct of the Rev. Mr. Wyer, Roman Catholic chaplain, on the 26th of January, and a statement of Mr. Wyer in reply, that and was quite unjustifiable in the manner of his interfer ence with the matron in the execution of her duty •, and the rev. gentleman is referred to the printed rules, clearly defining his duties." MARRIAGE FESTIVITY.-FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE.- A wedding, between Cunningham Greg Robinson and Margaret Lewis, took place on Monday. Between six and seven o'clock in the evening, a number of boys and girls assembled about the door where the newly-married couple and friends met to pass the evening, and com menced cheering, throwing stones, and kicking at the door, with great violence. Two shots having been fired outside the door, and some of the windows broken, Cun ningham Greg Robinson took a bayonet from a chest in the house, rushed out of the back door, and, after being absent a few minutes, returned, in company with his two brothers, with blood on his forehead, and the bayonet stained deeply with blood, and stated, he had " given something to somebody that would keep him from his work for some days." A few minuten afterwards, the dead body of George Cunningham was found, with a wound on his person. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Cunningham Greg Robinson and against Alexander Robinson, for aiding.—Belfast Whig. THE MURDERER OF THE LATE REV. MR. LLOYD.-It is said that this man, on his passage from this port to Dublin, freely admitted his guilt—simply adding, by way of extenuation, that he could not refuse to act as he had done. He was a member of a ribbon society, at a consi derable distance from the scene of the murder, and the lot fell upon him to carry out the decree of death passed by the society in the neighbourhood of Strokestown. He says he was bound to do it. If he had not done it, he himself would have been shot. He had never heard of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd until he received his instructions to murder him, and the way he carried out his horrible mis sion is worthy of a place in the Thug records of the coun try. He says he dressed himself like a beggar, and sta tioned himself at the door of the church from which the rev. gentleman had to issue. Then, to make sure of his victim, he asked him by his name for charity, which was responded to by some donation. The villain then made his way across a field to the high road where Mr. Lloyd should pass, and where his assistants were in waiting. Too well he executed his commission. APPREHENSION OE THE - MURDERER OF MAJOR MAno:s.--On Wednesday last, the Teterboro' constable, VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.-=-FttinAy M'CALMONT v. RANICIN..—HiS Honour said he had no doubt that at the time the arrangement was made between the plaintiff's firm at Liverpool and the New Brunswick house the whole of the business of the latter house in Liverpool was transacted by the Liverpool branch of the New Brunswick house, and there was also no doubt that the understanding was that the agency business of the American house should be transferred to the plaintiffs. There did not appear, however,,to be anything positively binding upon the New Brunswick firm to. send all their consignments to one particular house, or to prevent them from sending their ships and cargoes to any other port or place. , The plaintiffs, by their agreement, came under an obligation to make cash advances to the New Brunswick house not exceeding £5,000, and the intention must have been that these advances should be covered by the amount of the consignments to be made to them from America. The transactions of the two houses went on upon this footing until the plaintiffs learnt the fact of the failure of the house of Duncan, which it was apprehended would involve that of the New Brunswick house, and the plain tiffs then ceased to come under further liabilities. The ti ansactions out of which the present suit had arisen took place immediately before this, and the bill of lading, and the power of attorney to sell the ship Miracle, had been transmitted to the plaintiffs. In order to establish the plaintiffs' claim they must show that the agreemeet gave them the benefit of the appropriation of these consign ments, for otherwise the plaintiffs were mere trustees for the New Brunswick house, who were at liberty to point out the destination of the consignments ; and, secondly, the plaintiffs must show that such acts had been done it would preclude the New Brunswick house from altering the destination of the ship and cargo. Upon these points he would read the evidence in private before pronouncing his judgment. The Judges have decided on admitting Messrs. Warren and Fuller, the Bath jewellers, to bail. Each has beet, 'uuuua-iu-a,ta uwu reeuguizt.ieea uI aoZUW, wtn tour sure ties of £5OO each, thus making, in all, £BOOO. On Wednesday, in the Court of Exchequer, the case of Wakley v. Cooke and Healey, for a libel, was brought to conclusion after three days' discussion. It arose out of what the defendants had published in the Medical Times on the conduct of Mr. Wakley as Coroner on the well known flogging case at Hounslow. 'The Jury returned a verdict of £350 in favour of the plaintiff. THE MARQUIS OF CHANDOS ACQUITTED OF PERJURY. —A pending indictment against the Marquis.of Chandos, for perjury, excited much interest in the Queen's Bench. Nisi Prius Court during Monday, Tuesday, and Wednei day, the days on which it was expected to be brought for ward. The charge arose out of proceedings in Chancery connected with the pecuniary embarrassments of the mar quis's father, which lately ended in the sales of Stowe. Interesting revelations . " were anticipated, and the court was crowded by the curious. But at the calling of the case on Wednesday, the prosecutor's solicitor was not at his post, "he was gone for papers," and in his absence the prosecuting barrister did not " feel justified " in open ing the case. On Lord Denman's direction, the jury im mediately returned a verdict of " Not guilty." On this triumphant acquittal, the marquis rose from his seat, shook hands with his three eminent counsel, and left the court. • PROSECUTION FOR SELLING A CADETSHIP,—IR the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, before Lord Den man and a special jury, five persons were indicted for being concerned in the sale of a cadetship in the East India Company's service, contrary to the statute. Mr. Kendall, Mrs. Binckes, Mrs. Linley (wife of the compo ser), and a Mr. Bickley, were charged with conspiring to sell the appointment, and Mr. Henry Moore with buying it. The last defendant pleaded guilty, and was admitted as evidence against the others. The parties are all in respectable stations. Bickley is a solicitor; Kendall was formerly consul at St. Michael's ; the defendant Moore himself is a shipowner at Plymouth ; and Mrs. Binckes, through whose immediate influence the appointment was obtained, claims still higher connexion, representing her self as " cousin to the queen." The transaction is alleged to have taken place in 1845, when the Earl of Ripon was president of the Board of Control. The patronage of some cadetships is the privilege of that minister, and it appeared that Mrs. Binckes agreed to use her influence over Lady Ripon, with whom she represented herself to be intimate, to get a cadetship for Mr. Moore's son, on that gentleman's depositing with her a thousand pounds. He did so, and Mrs. Binckes kept her word, and the young gentleman was appointed, but died after his arrival in India. The Earl of Ripon was examined, and confir med these facts. He said that Mrs. Binckes was not an intimate friend of his family, but that Lady Ripon had requested and obtained from him the nomination, at her solicitation. Lady Ripon was not in court herself, and his lordship, in answer to questions, said that she was too ill to attend, and that there was no probability of her being able to attend if the trial were adjourned. The other de fendants were engaged in the transaction as mediators, between Moore and Mrs. Binckes. The defendants were found guilty. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, the remuneration to which a short-hand writer is entitled became the subject of litigation. The plaintiff had 1 :22 1 1 t ,a1. 4 ,1 1.ial ti !,F.,t e .T, 1 :!4, t ;,.7 1 1, 0 0ja s s a i gre of Bd. per folio of 72 words. The defendant had offered to pay him 4d. only. After examining numerous wit nesses, the court decided in favour of the plaintiff's claim. ?Loral prtus. THE DOCK RATING QUESTION.—The bill which was introduced into parliament with a view to alter the dock trust has been thrown out on standing orders. Two deputations have proceeded to London in support of the Dock Rating Bill ; one from the parish, as promoters of the bill, the other from the Town Council, as assenting to it. EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.-At a meet ing of tne Board of Examiners held on the 14th instant, Mr. George Pearce Dock. Ist officer of the North Ame rican Royal Mail Steamer Acadia, of Glasgow, and Capt. John Parker, master of the Zion's Hope, of Liverpool, were examined, and both found duly qualified for first class certificates as masters. TASKER'S REGISTERED ANTI-COLLISION LANTERN. — The ship lamp, recently invented and registered by our townsman, Mr. Tasker, of South Castle-street, and which has elicited much commendation from nautical men, is now on view at the Underwriters' Rooms, and has there also excited much interest and attention. For defining the respective positions of ships approaching each other at sea in the night, it appears to us to be infinitely superior to any light, or system of light, hitherto pro duced. DEATH BY THE FALLING IN OF A QUAY GATE.—An inquest was held on Saturday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Morris Jones, aged fifty-four. The de ceased was generally employed as a quay watchman at George's Dock, and was handy in giving assistance in any kind of work about the quays or shipping. Early on Friday morning deceased and sonic other men were engaged in moving back into its place a new gate which, when thrown back, runs into the shed at the west side of George's Dock, and which gate had been run too far out (partly over the quay) on the small wheels on which it works, when, a handspike being used to replace it in its position, and being loosened from its groove at the top, it fell over on one side, and so crushed the deceased that he died in two hours. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." THerOWN COUNCIL.—There are, in reality, five vacancies at present in the Town Council. From causes to which we need not further refer, Mr. Atherton and Sir Thomas Branckcr have absented themselves for some time from its meetings; Mr. Danson has intimated his intention to do the same ; Mr. G. H. Horsfall has gone off to the West Indies, and Mr. Josias Booker is about to take his departure to Barbadoes. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday, a most destruc tive fire broke out in the workshops, three stories high, of Messrs. Harkness and Dempster, joiners and builders, Beckwith-street, Birkenbead. The property destroyed consisted of a large quantity of workmen's tools, and timber in course of being constructed into window-frames, doors, &c. No cause can, as yet, be assigned as to how the fire originated. The building and stock are insured in the Wet of England Fire Insurance - Office. - Loss OF A FISHING SMACIL—On the 16th January last, the fishing smack John and Alice, belonging to Mr. Robert Isaac, left this port for the fishing ground be tween here and the Isle of Man. She had on board Mr. E. Giles (the captain), his son, a boy, and three men. It is supposed the smack has been run down by some out ward bound vessel, as nothing whatever has since been heard of her. As the crew on board were married men,- and have left widows and children unprovided for, a sub scription has been got up in their behalf. WAR STEAMERS FOR GERMANY.—The steam-ships Acadia and Britannia, so celebrated in the British and North American Company's mail service between Liver- - psol and the United States, have recently been purchased from that company by one of the German governments., They are now in the Coburg Dock, Liverpool, under going the necessary alterations for their being converted into efficient war-steamers. The passengers' saloon on the main deck has been cleared off, so that they will be flush fore and aft. Their armament will be of the heaviest description. SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER AT BIRKENHEAD.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held at the Market Inn, Bir kenhead, before Henry Churton, Esq., on the body of a female child, which was found on the steps, in Churcb street, leading to St. Mary's Church. According to the evidence of Mr. Jennette, 'surgeon, the infant had evi dently been born alive, but?not the slightest trace of the inhuman mother could bn discovered. - The body was merely wrapped in an old Oece of blue cloth. The jury, however, under the circuinstances, returned an open verdict, in accordance with the evidence, leaving the police to deal further with the case. - - INQUESTS ON SATURDAY BEFORE THE BOROUGH CORONER.-:-On view of the body of Edward Cotham, who lived with his parents in Moffatt's Buildings, Copperas hill, and was three weeks old. On Thursday night deceased was put in bed with his father, mother, and two other children ; at seven in the morning deceased was found dead in bed. Verdict, " Died from suffocation. but how caused no evidence."—On view of the body of John Drummond, who lived with his 'mother in Robert street, Park. He was found dead in, bed' on Friday mornin g , in the same manner as the above, and, it ap peared, peared,had died from convulsions.—On the body of. Ann Newby, who lived' in Peter's-lane, and was 64 years old. , She went to bed on Friday night as usual, and was found dead in the morning. The surgeon stated that death was' caused by congestion of the lungs. Verdict accordingly; —On view of the body of Flora M'Millan, who lived in' Boundary-place, and was 49 years old. On Thursday night last she was put into bridewell for being drunk, but was taken home afterwards in a car, quite sober. Mr. Wood, surgeon, who examined the body, stated that death was caused by disease of the lungs. _ OPPOSITION IN:; MANCHESTER TO THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS RATING BILL.—The Liverpool Docks Rating Bill, now before parliament, excites considerable interest amongst the manufacturing and mercantile classes of Manchester and the neighbourhood. The object of this bill, which stands for a second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday, is to rate, in support of the local burdens of Liverpool, the dock property, which hitherto has been exempt from such imposts. On Wednesday, a conference on the subject took place in the mayor's parlour, at Manchester Town-hall, when, amongst others, the following gentlemen were present :—His worship the Mayor (Mr. J. Potter), Mr. James Aspinall Turner (President of the Manchester Commercial Association), Mr. Thomas Bazley (Chairman of the Chamber of Com merce), the Mayor of Salford, the Mayor of Stockport, the Mayor of Bolton, and the Mayor of Ashton-unde- Lyne. After a conversation, in which the gentlemen present expressed themselves to the effect that they ought to oppose, and do all in their power to get thrown out, the Liverpool Docks Rating Bill, it was resolved that a deputation should proceed to London with the view of using all the efforts in their power to defeat the object of the promoters of the bill. PLANS AND ELEVATIONS FOR BATHS AND WASH HOUSES.—London : Simpkin and Marshall, and John Williams and Co. ; Liverpool : G. J. Poore.—The sana tory condition of the country has long been a topic to which the earnest attention of our readers has been claimed, and it is to us highly gratifying to find that our townsman, Mr. William Fox, prompted by the practical benefits that have accrued from the public baths of this locality, has published (in a large, handsome volume) a series of plans and elevations for such establishMents, which are alike creditable to himself and all concerned. It would be imposiible, in the limits of our space, to do ample justice to the sixteen plates which illustrate the object : they exhibit a diversity so great, that it would be somewhat strange if one of the plans were not perfectly applicable to any conceivable circumstances. In the in ternal arrangements there is much talent displayed ; and as Mr. F ox h.* nnly I.:•w•eseal 4f 11 features of the existing buildings, but coupled with them many important and hitherto neglected improvements, we cannot do less than strongly recommend this work to every corporate town. The plates are lithographed by Mr. Poore, of Castle-street, and certainly surpass any thing of the kind hitherto produced in Liverpool, if not in London. THE LIVERFOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE IN SURANCE COMPANY. The annual general meeting of this company was held on Thursday. The chair was filled by Mr. William Earle. The report (which was read by the secretary, Mr. S. Boult,) stated that there was no addition to the capital of the company during the year. In the fire department, notwithstanding the dimi shed receipts of premium here, the surplus, after dischar ging all claims, and providing for all known liabilities, was considerably larger than that of 1847. In Londoh; and other places the business had increased. The life business had steadily increased since 1846, the premiums last year being £4,410. No addition had been made to the reserved surplus fund, and it therefore was the same as at the date of the last report; £129,458 15s. At the credit of the profit and loss account would be found the sum of £71,860 14s. 10d., being the balance of the year from which to take the dividend. After paying the divi dend of 10s, a share, less income tax, and five per cent. on the uncalled capital, the balance to the credit' of the account will be £35,481 13s. 6d. A nrotracted and some what angry discussion followed. Mr. Evans found fault with the mode in which the business of the company had been conducted, and asked if it were true that the losses had amounted during the year to £lOO,OOO. The losses, it was stated in reply, only amounted to £B,OOO. Mr. J. B. Neilson arraigned the conduct of Mr. Boult, the secretary. That gentleman defended himself, and attributed Mr. Neilson's opposition to a private pique which he had against him. Ultimately a list of directors proposed by Mr. Shiel was carried. A sum of £BOO was voted to the directors, after which the chairman received the usual compliments, and the meeting broke up. The Farmers' Royal Insurance Office has appointed an agent in this town, and the advantages offered by the In stitution are detailed elsewhere. The announcement relative to the medical fee is a novel feature in life in surances. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday, a young girl, named Catherine Jones, alias Wallace, was sent to gaol for three months, for picking pockets at the Bazaar in Church-street. This is the girl who, a short time since, figured so conspicuously in the robberies on board the Woodside steamers. A man, named John Doran, was committed to gaol for two months, on Tuesday, for stealing a bag of wheat from a flour warehouse in Fleet-street. He was observed by one of the detective police to be moving suspiciously about, when he was watched and traced with the stolen property to a stable in Duke-street-lane. Mr. It. M. Beckwith, the town-councillor, was sum moned at the police-court, on Tuesday, on a charge of drunkenness. The charge of intoxication was refuted by a number of witnesses who were called, but it appeared that Mr. Beckwith had interfered with the police who brought the charge, and used intemperate and abusive - - - NOVEL CHARGE.—A man had been placed in custody by police-officer 865 for having been found illegally pick ing horse manure in Great Howard-street. Mr. Richard Pickering, publican, Vauxhall-road, said the prisoner,had been placed in charge at his (Mr. Pickering's) instance; he was a contractor under the corporation for the manure in the streets, and was a great loser by reason of per sons picking the street sweepings. Mr. Rushton, after referring to a section of the Sanatory Act, said to the officer :—" Why did you take him into custody ? If he has been guilty of any offence, it is one by which you should have brought him under summons." Mr. Pick ering said there were parties in the town who employed as many as forty or fifty persons to co ll ec t f or the m , an d the loss thus occasioned to him was £4OO or £5OO a-year. Mr. Rushton : " You can't, because you are a contrac tor, have poor wretches like th a t t a k en i n t o cus t o d y. You may have actions brought which would cost you more than the value of horse manure you may collect for a long time. The informations mus t b e by summons ." At the Police-court, on Saturday, Joseph M`Cabe was charged with having stolen two five gallon bottles from the warehouse of Messrs. Leigh and Sons. Preeson's row. The prisoner said he had been sent for them by Mr. Rogers, druggist, of South Castle-street. The ware houseman said he would send them, as they were heavy, but while he was making out the invoice the prisoner snapped up two of the bottles and made off with them to a marine-store dealer, who properly gave information. He was committed for trial.—Nicholas Ward, keeper of the York Hotel Tap, who had been committed for trial on suspicion of having participated in the robbery of a watch, was brought into court, and on account of his delicate state of health, Mr. Rushton admitted him to bail.— Catherine Wilson, one of those persons who ply little gambling tables in the street, was charged with having placed a seductive bazaar table in Great Charlotte-street, which was also attended to by her husband. The charge for playing was one penny, and there were no blanks. Some handsome toys were on the table, but the construc tion of the apparatus was such that these were scarcely ever attainable, and the prizes were worthless little arti cles taken from a drawer. Mr. Davenport, who defended, said nothing illegal was done, and that there waa a bazaar on a larger scale, but similar in principle, in Church street. Mr. Rushton felt the force of the objection, and discharged the prisoners with a strong caution, that if they were again brought up under the same circumstances Feb. 20, 11111 he would send them to prison.—A vast miro u.: At o f beggars,.chiefly Irish, were brought up and del'.„,c; the usual way, either to be sent home, or, refus'o,l to be imprisoned for twenty-one days. A- 03°16 otv was a Patrick McGinn, an arrant impostor, on be# were found, wrapped in a rag. He wishe" ,t° dee ri! back to Ireland ; but Mr. Rushton said, pi' shall not, you must go to gaol for a month , _ money found upon you shall be applied to Yc' w tenance." JENNY LIND IN MENDELSSOHN'S ori-tv OF " ELIJAH We have headed our notice of this interest in e , i c t mance in accordance with the almost universP with which it has been regarded by the pub,fi to hear the Nightingale—the embodiment of del Reggimento and Amine—pouring forth K tig g i in the ninjestic strains of Mendelssohn's su orii that the interest of the musical world inni,n l3 :lol! But our rernaiks must extend beyond the in el ' r ,e o treat of a performance which, as a whole, ice member to have heard excelled in Liverpool' 01 41 here was wanting to constitute excellence ell partment, - both vocal and instrumental. -" c o, composed of members of the Philharmonic S O , of throughout most efficient ; the whole of the 0 1 were in excellent hands ; and Mons. Benedict:rt.. ductor, displayed the ability of a master of his 0 0 Part I. commences with the terrible c lean e d the prophet, "As God the Lord of Israel ; 0 1 whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor b el d, years, but according to my word," which SO S • sung by Mr. Machin. The choruses and recita tI ,e' O followed were given with great correctness, esfe.„4l recitative " Now Cherith's brook." Mdlle. 0 "34 1 effort, in the recitative and air " What have 1i thee," thee," was of course the object of leading ie t ,, e ig its execution gave the audience at once the l , o r? style of singing sacred melody. Here evel fo e embellishment, with which in opera she is accu, s o! overlay the music—every triumph of art o ' 4 it put aside ; and the singer depends alone o'o' sources of her splendid voice, and the feeling 40 4 she renders the sublime subject before her. ' 1 ( °, sion of the duet " 0 blessed are they wile fp" drew down a burst of applause. The chorus cry to thee," was very effectively . suns t , and I '4 composition ; but the most attractive portion ', ng) part was the quartet " Cast thy burthen upon which was greatly applauded, as was the chorus. _ Part 11. is commenced by an air. " Hear ~I,e ; tti sung by Jenny Lind, in a styl e o f indescribaus. 0 ,0 In the passage, especially, " I am h e th a t cetot o ti not afraid, for lam thy God, I will strengt she was most triumphant. This air was the of the evening. The recitative and chorus whit 1 1 ' were also encored, by none more beirtily Om° of Lind herself, who throughout the 'evening fre0,...5 pressed, no doubt unconsciously, her a pprobatw? correctness with which the choral p ar ts• were %1 1 1 The chorus " Woe to him " was also loudly Ititf The recitative " Though st r i c k en I am o° t ',.o, sung most beautifully by Mr. Machin, 109 ,,iY again ; as were a trio, " Lift thine eyes," in Nc,, Lind took a part, and the c h orus w hi c h t .o " ° quartet and chorus, sung by Jenny Lind, 3 . 1 41 . ! ,4 ' Miss Kenneth, and Miss St o tt, '° Holy, holy, Po, the Lord," was very beautifully sung , and n 1 0 . 1 .4 as was the quartet " 0 come ev er y one that thin.) We cannot conclude our notice without meotoett excellence throughout of the singing of Mr. 113 ., 5 1 Mrs. Noble. The former, espe c i a lly, posse s !X voice, and manages it with great t a ste and y i The lady executed the music entrusted to li t e,ttY j ditably, and was frequently applauded. Al` e ,o elusion of the oratorio, the N a ti ona l A n them o il Jenny Lind taking the s o l o p ar t, and an enc ° tempted. • e d The house, we are glad to sa y, was crott°, l o part with a brilliant audie nce; an d if we coo', pleasure of believing that this performance vo s : 1 1 ment on the part of the fair vocalist, t o a scerttiti she could depend upon th e su p por t o f the nausi°; Liverpool in sacred song, we should, from I' l o success of the appeal, entertain a lively hope soon repeated. We will not go so far as to impression made upon the public generally is tbt eels in, and should confine her rare talents t°' walk of her profession. Many would regret t ° lay aside altogether operatic and concert mus ic, ¢• should think is far from her intention. But t'' D music is more than any other with her own f ee -t sympathies, is clear to us from the fervour, obl i tt thusiasm, with which she threw, as it were, soul into many portions of Th urs d ay ' s per f o rm w Bistritt grio. Earl Cathcart, K.C.8., tl:e new comma nder' i l r the northern districts, arrived i n M anc hester o .oi t evening, accompanied by his son and a ide-de-.` e d Greenock. During his stay in town he resi% o d Palatine Hotel. Immedi a tely a ft er hi s r eturn t land, whither his lordship h as since gone up on he will assume the command of the district. THE LORD BISHO P OF N ORWICH IN COS T f venerable prelate, on Mond a y l as t, i n conosiV Very Rev, the Dean of Chester, paid a visit to b e Public Bath and W as h-h ouse prem i ses, f o r ! inspection and to make inquiries. We belle,. - bt citizens at Norwich, and 'to devote a cons idenl,, of the proceeds of the late Lind concer t 1 0 , 1 ; public bath and wash-house est a bli s h me nt in " Chester Chronicle. THE SHORT-HOUR PLAN.—The agitation the decision at Manchester in favour of the the relay-system is great and increasing. , t been operative meetings in Manchester, As'' Lyne, and Stalybridge, at which Mr. Oastlet present. At the latter place a resolution was, ( 0 pressing a want of confidence in " the officio.' 'I the magisterial bench in these districts is . where the interests of the factory labourc l : o cerned." It will be remembered that the „u% gistrates of Manchester, who decided in rtqb legality of the relay-system, in opposition to man, Mr. Maude, a stipendiary magistrate as high reputation, were cotton-spinners ao 1 makers. It is to this the resolution alludes., also been a numerously-att en d e d mee ti n g at Manchester, at which it was resolved to s e, tation to Lord John Russell, declaring their 4 , abandon the relay-system, provided they 111 ,1 eleven-hours bill. It is at least a comfort ' t/ 1 even on their own acknowledgment, short 1 3.?„ fectly consistent with their prosperity.-- - vl;ei week, the hands of Sir W. Feilden—six hulluo ber—turned out in consequence of a notice tl l vt males would have to work eleven or twelve as their employers might require. MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRlC gift CIETY.—The second annual ploughing 1 13 .: society came off on Tuesday last, the 13th 1 11. grass field in the occupation of Mr. E. J. 11 ,, e , 0 1,3 f Great Sankey, near Warrington, on the ban l "o. key canal, and little more than a mile fre.ol_.„ti station, Warrington, along the Liverpool tolp i At an early hour a goodly assembly apPl o r ground, anxiously waiting to witness the skill e: ous competitors. A little before ten o' c lock ing commenced in right good earnest, and 0 1 1 excite an unusual degree of i n t eres t amoilg d there being upwards o f 33 en t r i es , an d, wit,' r.' exceptions, the whole we re a t wor k a t o ne til l ' one o'clock the ploughing was concluded, et n ,ti there were no les s th an one th ousan d sp ecip field. We do not remember having ever 1 13 d e agricultural treat as this has been. The P io George Hatton, Esq., Sudworth-hall; . 1 ,1 , be Esq., Stretton ; and Warburton, Esq. ~/t , . prizes were awarded to the successful calll l a o o - • Class 1. Ploughs drawn with two horses, 1 without a driver: First prize, to Mr. Jar de ol, Lostock, Gralam, £6 ; George Glassford' Iv £3. Second prize, to Mr. George Bartd v 'elir near Bury, .£ , l• James Butterworth, Pl°''''?" The judges highly commended Peter Holdelliook to the Earl of Derby, and William C a unce, Po f Mr. Andrew Caunce, of Ne w ton-le-Will° e , For young men, not more than 20 wears of Flo, horses, " double," and without adriver : ,V Mr. James Glassford, Lostock, Gralam, £ 4; joli . ford, ploughman, £2. Second prize, to iol d Blackburnc, Esq., of Hale-hall, £3 -TY, ploughman, £1 Is. The judges commend e _A ing i n , .1...ph Dnb e ll, son o f M r . Richa'Le Leftwich, near Northwi c h ; a l so th a t by Tbo , son of Mr. John Swinton, of Marston. ) SUB-DIVISION OF LARGE PARISHES." - o il* CLERGY AT BURNLEY.-011 Thursday rd °l ; ing of the clergy of the district of Whall!'„il . ,' the Bull Inn, Burnl e y, f or th e purpose OL.I S i OP movement now set on fo o t f or the sub-a" 0 parishes, the abolition of double fees, &c. . 0 0 which was confined to the clergy, was a Pr l , o 0 no layman was admitted. The meeting „; about twenty clergymen of the district. 1 1 lir Master, incumbent of Burnley, and rdr i ' d to parish of Whalley, was unanimously calledj A deputation consisting of the Rev. ) 1 Henderson, Thursby, and Birchall (61 10 1' district of Whalley), who had waited upcN i de g ,' of the diocese at the diocesan registry, St. rt eo Manchester, on the Tuesday previous, reP ° e i , of their interview with his lordship. 0 0 e' they had been received by his lordship in 8 0 , kind manner, and that during the intervie,: s l l ,l pied two hours, they had discussed with ) 1 , f various objects contemplated by the meetly ) ; , 4 lordship had expressed himself favourable O t . ii in our present ecclesiastical divisions. 'for conversation then took place as to the t o 4' ecclesiastical arrangements, which it 'Oa, ' o p that meeting to seek ; and, we are inford le re oe . d nimity prevail e d amongs t th e gen tl em en 13 f or agreed that there ou g ht to b e a di v i s ion of h o e; that in the case of small livings, the inc ho'' depended upon fees, some compensation 5 . 0 for the fees taken from them ; but, tha t leo ' larger livings, the fees should be entirelY l ; i s the mother church, without compensatidvt , of the present incumbents; and further, t cli ' of the larger livings, the dignitaries of W i g be requested to use their influence in indu c t c o t bents to give up their fees at once, withou t ili The abolition of Easter dues, at least 1 1`,, e d I shape, was also discussed, and it was res,° o r desirable that they should be redeemed pt and that at all events no vicar or inclw w ,i i er . lect Easter offerings in the district of an,°„ . o 14 but that the new districts to be formed 5 1 , 1 vt and that the Easter offerings, if collected too collected by the clergymen of such newlY .—Blackburn Standard, Feb. 20 , rY CA TEI THE a -4 esday le a (3 f the nh 11 14 a , (4. 3 in co Chapej s af B,P] of d lovv ela Y i rlg the T t l ii with w e Ar ate PrOCeed. 44l "Oß 111 s • e at at r.. 11 scassiot 'ally r e :mo o - 1 i I,lseaosolution. ti ll h ers ' c eari n , 01~lr,, to , ant. j. 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