The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-24 00:00:00

Vroterbings in parliament. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. Mr. SCOTT moved for a select committee to inquire into the rolitical and financial relations between Great Britain and her dependencies, with a view to reduce the charges upon the British Treasury, and to enlarge the functions of tha Colonial LPgislatures. After an animated debate, the House divided, whe❑ the motion was negatived by 81 to 31. A cons in took place upon a motion of Mr kinnon remova .he appointment of a sel ct committee on the Smithfield Market, which was ultimately agreed tc E OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. pursuant to notice, called attention to liments to the sale of landed property in •ecommended the appointment of a local the lep. Ireland board, or eommi powered to In ion, with comprtrhensive functions er nister a simple system, wherebv ampered Irish titles might be ,ry title be conferred on purch location of estates being made cheap as, so that land might become a readil3 . Mr. Sadleir concluded with a mo• lect Committee tOinouTr. into the whol L admitted the evil s of the a thinking that the regeneration of .d its landed property, could not he which were in the cou Government, and in the r r ing of upon tne cc -operation of all partie! convinced that a foundation woulc prosperity in Ireland far exceeding y bad ever known. He forebore into the details of those measures, or of the estates, all of which would he better and more — conveni ently cli - ieus.ed•when the bills were before the House. Mr. 7. O ' CONNELL rose. but a member havine takes notice that 3ers were not present, the House v .e .. number being only 31, an adjournment 'yen o'clock OF COMMONS ATEDNE B. DENtsoN addressed the hot in apposition to the me re, contending that the genera as that the bill was not called fi country turnpike tru , were in.anytl s throughout the country ng but a desponding situation, and were a: good securities to the mortgagees as could be desired The bonded debt was actually decreasing:, and the bil was,in his opinion, so unnecess ar y, th a t be would move as an a 3e read a six months. He admitted that. a bill was rec alter the management of turnpike trusts and pub.— -- but could give no countenance to the measure under cot sideration., for it proposed that the debt should be paid c at certain periods, the consequence of which would I States placed hors de combat on the occasion. The Affghans were led by Akram Kban, a son of Dost Mahommed, who, some say, was killed, and some allege escaped to wards Attock after the battle. A body, supposed to be his, was exhumed by order of Lord Gough, but there seems to have been some difficulty about its perfect iden tification. On the 22nd, General Gilbert, with a division of 12,000 men was despatched in the direction of the Jhelum, to push on for the extreme frontier, occupying Rhotas, Attock, Peshawur, and the other places of strength up to the mouth of the Khyber Pass. On the 28th he crossed the Jhelum, and here waited for the remainder of his force. This consi'ted of 4,000 men, They left on the 2nd March, bringing up ut 16,000 men, with 40 guns— with 26 guns the army under 1: a heavier force than foueht at Moodkee, in 1845, or forced the Bolan Pass, in 1839, when Affghanistan was to be conquered. Major Lawrence has been t w i ce despatched of securing terms, and there is no reason to doubt that by this time negotiations will have come to a successful issue, and the Sikh chiefs agreed to surrender themselves unconditionall residue of the the I back on Laho grand army and and Fernzepon Liief himself returning to Simla Lord Gough will fall the Cominancler- DUELLING.—A. meeting took place on Tuesday, between M. Charles Blanc, brother o f M. Louis Blanc. and M. article published in the jour i to M. Louis Blanc. M. Lacombe was on its leaving Cat ROMAN STATE is on Saturday eve F , the city was utiful edifices were and the renowned li Dmpletely destroyed ry and museum of —The Genoa Gazette of the 14th state in the port of Gaeta four Spanish fri war steamers, two English f three Neapolitan vessel About 20.001 I somewhat obscure which we learn Itional As- :it has written a long s to the electors of Li=ieux, fro e is not unwilling to be elected to 7of France. The document sea M. Gilzot zates, and Neapoli- nn M. Guiz There are in it many fine reflections ions, hot. it. will not add to the wri. practical stateso:vn. It is said that .ectors. The he estahlish- t recomr I oth hment of order we do not petween Nap( a terrific car[ earnest, and the city of Catania 7th inst. Catania was captured, The Neapolitan squadron then urrendered without a shot being high st had the command of the insu the i 4 ,t expect nn are to be offered to rh sed, Palermo is to share the from Lahuan to the 14th of Feb as in a healthy state. Sir James set out on an expedition who have been committine son the outskirts of his territory. All to be collected at t the Sakarr g by the 6th of AP Canton ; but it; a take a cargo of it to Si EPIGRAM. The following epigram was written on Hill, printer to King James 11., doine D(f1111!IVP ,ed, durst Hill refuse esolved to stun ith pease in 's shoes? ,t, the sly sinhc u r on Me dinne In soup did penance yVpatn!ed we feaa dying cause Ms plain long The ptelsc of 1k error, tl ce that crafty Hill ry could not feel. e exposed to additional rate berg, the been suc be mulct auties inittee, but unl, Se^eral Hon of the bill, Sir G. GREY to make up th A. long discussion ensued, and. amongst oth gill was opposed hy, .ficiency of tho: I not oppose the bill ioi; ie distinctio id, after the endeavor lsts which ha(' iabilities shouk rs having advised the withdrawal s of the Govern ter, the prospect of success was not very encouraging. (Hear, hear.) The opinion of the house had now been fully taken with respect to the bill, and that opinion was pursue would be to witbdraw the bill, a felt that to state that he cou avernmprit urnrchl hr I out any hope I upon the subject. The order of the day for the second reading of the bill was then discharged. The third reading of the Affirmation bill wa on carried by a majority of 70 to 46 discus HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THracnkv. A vote of thanks was passed to the Cowman !Ma n... 1 .I.n r_ a, _' __ ler in I agreed to, Mr. LABOUCHERE assenting to an amendment moved by Mr. Gladstone, so far as to empower the colonial legislatures to proceed only by address, and not by hill, in matters relating to inter-colonial trade. The House then resolved itself into a committee of " W le 1— no _ noose on the relief of distressed unions in Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved an advance of £lOO,OOO for the relief of those unions on the credit of the rate in aid. The debate on this question occupied the remainder of the night, and it was eventually adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. —FRIDAY. The adjourned debate on the rate in aid (advance o. money)_was resumed by art, and referred it b, his report k to the m :er to review . Mr. SADLIER, ...... —..., mat tne propo- ' COURT.—" He had been himself familiar with the practice sition of the Government would increase, rather than of the Court - of Chancery for many years past, and he diminish, the extent of the distress prevailing in Ireland. well knew the great benefits which it conferred upon the He believed, if it should be rejected by the house, the public • but at the same ti me h e wou ld own t h a t h e wou ld consequence would be, that Go vernmen t wou ld di rect i ts not willingly enter that cou r t as a su it or , nor wou ld h e energies to the production of more comprehensive mea- advise any of his friends to do so if they could with pro sures, or would resin. and rive way to thnen ~,n prietv keen out of it." (Great 1 ble of dealing with N - p - 17;;;i)1;"vii; ';`ol;"`e'Zr 12 `o p n l e - Evidence before Lords' Committee. lamented to see pressing with such overwhelmingyforce INTERESTING TO RAILWAY PROPRIETORS.—On Wed upon that unhappy country. , , nesday an important appeal petition from an order of the Th. .Minutes of 4 V ••• • .. V• 4441 WA 4.4 JAM committee aimed, and the ame n d men t o f Mr. Vice..Chaneeflor was ar g ued before the Lord Chancellor. Herbert was negatived by a majority of 194 to 146. The appellants were the London and Manchester Direct The committee then divided on the original motion, Independent Railway Company (Remington's line), ex for advancing £lOO,OOO for the relief of Irish distress o n parte Bar b er; and the question was, whether abortive the credit of the rate in aid, which was carried by a ma- ' railway companies came within the provisions of the Joint jority of 201 to 106. cf......t , r,-.............;.-- , 117,-.3:_ _ _ A . - - Lnut ,tnnpunieb vvinuing-up Act, passed in the last session of parliament. The Vice-Chancellor held that FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. the act did not apply, and refused the prayer of the peti • Lion for the winding-up of the above-mentioned railway AMERICA. company. The Lord Chancellor, alter reviewing the The British and North American Royal mail steam- arguments urged pro and con, said he could not help ship Canada, Captain Judkins, which left New York on coming to the conclusion that it was an association . _" for the 4th instant, at two D.M.. and Halifax nv, +h. nt►. . _ , uu cue um, at commercial pu r p oses or f or t h e purposes of profit," and nine p.m., reached the Mersey early on Thursday morn- was, therefore, within the provisions of the Joint Stock ing, after a very boisterous passage against strong easterly Winding-up Act of 1848. The decision of the Vice gales. She brings 143 passengers. The Niagara arrived Chancellor must, therefore, be reversed, and an order 4311 t at Halifax at midday on the sth. made for the winding -up of the company. From the United States there is no political news of THE NEW MARRIAGE BILL.—The second reading of the slightest importance. In Kentucky considerable the bill to amend - and alter the act of the sth and 6th damage has been done by a violent hurricane, and at William IV., c. 54, so far as relates to marriages within Chicago an immense flood had destroyed two hundred certain of the prohibit: d degrees of affinity, is appointed thousand dollars worth of property. for the 3d of May, when Mr. Goulburn will, according to The commercial advices are important. Exchange had notice, move that it b e rea d t h at d ay s i x mont h s . Th e again largely d ec li ne d, an d many bi lls are offering at 31 bill is a very short one. It contains five clauses. After to 4 per cent. There were anticipations of a considerable reciting the purport of the act mentioned, it is proposed import of bullion and large purchases of exchange for that the relief afforded should extend to marriages between remittances to London for return in specie. The money a man and the sister, or the daughter of the brother or market was tight. Importations were large. sister, of his deceased wife, and therefore that the prohi- Over 200,000 dollars of Californian gold had heen re- bitory clause should be repealed. By the second clause ceived in the United States. marriages within the degrees of affinity heretofore prohi- CALIFORNIA.—CoIoneI Fremont's expedition overland bited are not to be voidable, except under certain circum to California has failed. After enduring much hardship, stances; and by the next provision clergymen are no the expedition was compelled to return to Taos. While longer to be liable to penalties for solemnizing marriages passing through a mountain gorge, the expedition expe- between the parties within the degrees of affinity hereto rienced a severe snow -storm, during which 130 mules were fore prohibited. Further it is proposed that the act shall lost. Colonel Fremont was accompanied by an English not disturb persons possessed of property or honours in officer named Cathcart. The sufferings of the expedition consequence of the invalidity of marriages heretofore con are said to have been intense, even to the extreme of feed- tracted, nor is the act to affect settlements of personal ing upon each other. It is satisfactory to state that some property under wills and testaments administered to be doubt is thrown upon the latter part of this statement. fore the passing of the same. Such is an outline of the The latest accounts from the gold regions are dated San measure which has caused so much discussion with respect Francisco, Feb. 7. Much had been said and done in to marriages with a " deceased wife's sister." regard to the organization of a Provisional Government THE CASE OF MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—On Friday the for the territory. Several villages had appointed delegates Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in this case, which to attend a convention for the arrangement of fundamental arose out of a fifth application to the Court to supersede laws for the country. It was proposed to have the con- the commission granted in 1843, and under which the Tendon assembled at the Pueblo de San Jose, about sixty petitioner (Mr. Dyce Sombre) was declared to be of un miles from Son Francisco, on the 4th of March. Weather sound mind. To the course of an elaborate judgment his of extraordinary severity bad set in, and the gold-seeking Lordship severely animadverted on the fact of two com operations had been suspended. munications having been addressed to him, one signed by Dr. Morrison, Dr. Copeland, and other physicians, and IMPORTANT FROM CANADA. the other signed by Lord Combermere, Lord Downshire, The Canadian accounts are of a very important nature. Lord Roseberry, and Sir Charles Trevelyan, of the Trea. The Indemnity Bill passed the Upper House on the 14th sury, the latter document being intended to introduce the ult., by a majority of four votes. The opposition was former. Both documents his lordship designated as exceedingly great, and on their defeat the minority entered an attempt to interfere with the course of justice, and a protest against the measure. On the 22nd ult. a riot , amounted to a high contempt o f cour t. Af ter pass i ng a broke out in the city of Toronto, and effigies of three of ' high eulogium on the character and affectionate devoticn the supporters of the Ministerial measure were burned in of Mrs. Dyce Sombre, whose life was attempted by her the streets. Throughout the province numero;us meetings husband, and whose reputation he endeavoured to destroy bad been held to take measures for preventing the ratifi- without the slightest possible reason, his lordship said cation of the measures. To such a height of personality that he dismissed the petition, without costs : but if he had the opposition reached that his Excellency the Go- had the power he would make the party pay the costs vernor-General is said to have been insulted at a concert. who had been instrumental in getting up the petition, and The University Bill was to be immediately brought into he concluded by saying that he must give some advice to the Assembly, but it was expected that great opposition Mr. Dyce Sombre not to come before the court irregu would be offered. It may be mentioned that a report was larly any more, or else he might find the doors closed prevalent that the Governor-General would leave the against him. If he had any application to make let it be assent to the Indemnity Bill entirely to her Majesty. Sir made in the proper way, under the guidance of his agent Allan M'Nab having moved for copies of all petitions and counsel, on whose judgment he might rely, and then that had been received in regard to the Indemnity Bill, a every attention would be paid to it. It appeared that a sharp and bitter discussion took place, which resulted in contract had been entered into to give Dr. Mahon the defeat of the motion. The American papers state £lO,OOO if the commission was superseded, and £2,000 that an armed expedition to Canada was organizing. of that sum had already been paid in order to bribe judges, physicians, and others, and that created in his INDIA. mind a doubt whether he would not establish a more The overland mail from India arrived on Tuesday night, vigilant supervision over the expenditure. He should be bringing news from Moulton, and Lord Gough's army, unwilling to do so; but, if such conduct were repeated, and dates from Bombay to March 17. It brings the he would feel himself bound to do so. He dismissed the details of the battle of Goojerat, of which the general petition, but without costs. results were stated in the intelligence brought by the A SCENE IN COURT.—A ludicrous circumstance occur mail. It appears that if rumours of dissatisfaction, rather red just as Mr. Hope was about to take his seat in the than plaudits of approbation, have waited on th e an- C ourt of Queen ' s Bench on M on d ay , w hi c i nouncement of Lord Gough's former victories, there certainly will, on the present occasion, be cavil, or ground for complaint. His lordship tions are described as having been conducted with great :Justice Patteson to each of the gentlemen called within the skill, five British officers were killed in the baaie of bar ; an d a f ter the learned j udge h a d sa id, " M r . H ope, Goojerat,' an d t wen ty-f our w ounded. The casillties her Majesty having been pleased to appoint you one of amongst non-commissioned officers and men, including her counsel learned in the law, you will take your place wounded and missing, amounted to between 700 and 80 0. within the bar," &c., th e pe rs o n alluded to, who seemed This was much above the original estimate, and' Lord to answer to the name of hope, hastily pushed himself Gough, in his diwatch, expresses surprise at the largeness before that learned gentleman, and was about to occupy of the number. Of the Sikh l oss no thi n g of course is the seat intended for him within the bar, when the usher accurat& It own • but 1,500 at least of the combined informed him o f hi s m i stake amidst the loud laughter of Pußiaulre and Atighan levies are believed to have been the cwt. last opera- questions and a Par transfer and 1 easy. and COOVer tion ft. subject Th Chti., to In way of reform with Irelan ri3easn measti ductio prepar , and t be laid for a s anythinc from zoi LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT RSDAY, APRIL 19, _ritory.) The Ir. James Leith by his will gave about £14,000 for he purpose of spreading the Christian religion in foreign lands, and made the Bishop of London and others trus tees. It was proposed to apply the money i n su p por t o f • drawn up by the master to that effect ; but thb refused to confirm the report on the ground that there was no evidence taken nor any facts proved on which to found a report. There was no evidpnr, thst th. , .... ....,.. rd Langdale no A the c CAN WE COMPETE WITH THE FOREIGN MANUFACTTYRER ? It is becoming a serious question with sill classes of producers whether or not we are, as a manufacturing na tion, so far beyond the reach of competition, as to be ena bled to command a sale for our goods, at paying prices, in neutral markets. The whole case made out in favour of free-trade rested upon the assumption that our increased imports of grain and other foreign produce would be paid for in the products of British industry. It must be plain to the merest tyro in politico-economical science that, if We connot do this, we are paying out of our capital; and that the certain result must be a progressive national de cay and ultimate insolvency. We th, refore watch with interest every commercial movement which tends towards the solution of so important a problem. Our attention has been attracted by a letter, bearing upon this subject, in the Midland Counties Herald, the writer of which shows that, so far as regards the trade of Birmingham, we are not only incapable of competing with the foreigner in his own, or in neutral markets, but that, with respect to many articles, actually beaten in our own. In the course of a letter on the subject, he says : " I have been induced to make these observations from hav ing carefully inspected a number of articles recently imported into this country, of German manufacture. I am not here alluding to those which have been recently sitlyertised in yntir paper, about the quality of which there has been some tittle contention, though I believe only the files have really been ob jected to, and these the importers are said to admit to be of in f-rior quality. The articles which I have seen have been r: t,rl recently imported, and will certainly come into competil-4 with, if they do not entirely supersede all similar articles of nufacture. They may he enumerated partly in the dvertisement alluded to, the files, scissors, and g omitted, though for common purposes even English r words of th penknives 'rein vices, pHs. The articles, then, are hand _.a of all kinds, cutting nippers, spring callipers, and articles in what I believe is called the heavy steel toy Patterns have been received and examined, and some ,as of them have also come to hand, and have been found ,cen superior to sample. They are so good in appearance that no one would hesitate to make choice of them in preference to the articles manufactured by our known makers. They will bear comparison with the manufacture of "Stubbs," and in some cases where a comparison has been made, the foreign ma nufacture has proved the better article. In the cutting nippers this is especially evident, the cutting edges have not been da maged when put to trials which have injured the home-made nippers. The articles have been submitted for inspection to several of our most intelligent manufacturers, and their good ness has been acknowledged. The question became, with th , one of sumo— " _ y they be supplied in sufficient quantities? This inquiry has been put to rest; the German manufacturers undertake to supply any quantity that may be required. The importers have already furnished several old-established factors with pattern books, and have been assured that orders will be plentiful. The prices range from twenty to upwards of forty laving paid an import um) , or ten per cent. in many cases the mere journeyman's wages at home, for forg,inz, is equal to the price asked for the foreign finished article. It should. perhaps, be mentioned that 'r German competitors have carefully studied and copied the terns of our most eminent English manufacturers. The -s are thus en. - - *- to cOmoetit; , - - • - -ticles .....,veittion with us in artic, in which we were supposed to be in every way their superiors. They can beat us in our own home market, how much more so in foreign markets? There is matter here for our ultra free traders to ponder over, and I shall be glad if their philosophy will enable us to overcome the difficulty of the position in which they have placed us. " We are afraid that this is not a solitary case. The stuff- manufacturers of Bradford have already con fessed their inability to compete with the Continental manufacturers of woollen stuffs. The silk goods of France are exposed in all our shops, to the exclusion of own fabrics. The American c!o- beer.- • people are becoming -eiv more capable of supplying themselves from the produce of their own looms and workshops; and the necessary result must be a constant balance of trade against this country, thus adding tenfold, by derange ment of our currency, to evils which, of themselves, are sufficient to swamp any country, however fertile may be its resources, and however great its accumulation of wealth. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS: CAMBRIDGE.—Professor Thomas Starkie, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, expired at his lodge, in Downing College, on Sunday evening, at the age of 68. Professor Starkie graduated at St. John's college, and was Senior Wrangler in 1803. He was subsequently ap pointed Fellow and Tutor of Catherine-hall, and in 1823 Downing Professor of Laws. In 1825 he was appointed University Counsel. Recently he also obtained the ap pointment to the Judgeship of the Clerkenwell Small Debts Court. In 1840, he contested t he representation of the borough of Carnbridze, in the liberal interest, but was beaten by Sir A. Grant, by a majority of 716 to 647. iv • 1•. . tie is +:now❑ to literature as the author of Starkie on Evidence, and of several other works. His death is attributed to a general decay of nature. He has left a Emily to mourn his loss. THE CHURCH AND EDUCATION.—The excellent Bishop of Ripon is now on a tour through his diocese, with a view of rousing Churchmen to a more vigorous support of the . Ripon Diocesan Church Building Society and the Diocesan Board of Education. The Church Building y £44,000 (encouraging a voluntary expendi y £200,000) in building 68 churches, con . taining 32,120 sitting seven-eighthsof which are virtu ally free to the poor; besides increasing 40 poor endow ment, and assisting to erect 54 parsonage-houses. Not aiding this good work there still remain in the ,liocese-25 parishes with only one church to every 8,000 souls ; 16 with populations between two and five thousand in which there is no church ; and twenty districts o. townships similarly destitute. CHELTENHAM TRAINING COLLEGF stone of this incritutioa s wlikh waxa v —The foundation av last 3 . reat prey e to celebrate the event with outward show, se were unfortunately completely frustrated by the Ipreviously mac but t m wind. The site selected for the location of the college is on the north side of the town ; an ample space of ground (five acres), adjoining Lady Ricketts' property (The Elms), and with a frontage on the Swindon road, having been presented to the committee for its erection, by Miss Jane Cooke. If a judgment may be formed from an en graving in the Parish Register, there is nothing remark able in the exterior elevation. We have heard that the quadrangle will be larger than any in Oxford, with one exception. The building is designed to accommodate a Principal, a Vice-Principal, a Training and Assistant . • Master, and eighty pupils; the internal arrangements seem admirable. Mr. Daukes is the architect ; Mr. Haines the builder. The proceedings of the morninT began by the performance of Divine service in St. Paul's Church,at ten o'clock. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile had been icv;' to preach on the occasion, and many braved the weather to hear him. About half-past one Lord Ashley arrived on the ground, accompanied by the Rev. F. Close, Dr. M'Neile, and several of the local clergy, as also by a numerous body of resident gentry and visitors. The 100th psalm was then sung by the company, and after three or four short prayers by the Rev. F. Close, a silver trowel and boxwood mallet were placed in the hands of Lord Ashley, and tho stone was then lowered to its place. RAILWAY AP'FAIRS CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended the 14th instant:—Coaching traffic, £938 9s. 10d. ; parcels, £37 193. lid. ; goods and cattle, £279 ss. sd. ; steam-boats, £l2l 6s. ;—total, £1377 Is. 2d., (ex clusive of toll from the Sh r e w sb ur y an d Ch e ste r Com pany, and payment for the conveyance of the mails.) MIDLAND RAILWAY MEETING.—A qpecial general meet ing of the proprietors of the Midland Railway was held at the station, Derby, on Thursday afternoon. The meeting was called in compliance with a requisition presented by a body of shareholders residing in Liverpool, who were anxious for the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the state and prospects of the company's affairs. As the meeting was expected to be numerously attended, preparations on an extensive scale were made in one of the large buildings at the station, for the accommodation of the proprietors. The meeting was appointed to take place at one o'clock, but as early as twelve the share holders began to assemble, and long before one o'clock there could not be less than from 2,000 to 3,000 persons present. Great anxiety was manifested to know whether Mr. Hudson would attend ; but he came to Derby on Wednesday evening, and in a letter, which Mr. Ellis read to the meeting, resigned his situation as chairman of the Midlands. We believe, however, that he remained at Derby until the close of the meeting.—Mr. Ellis, deputy chairman of the company, took the chair, and succeeded in conducting the business in such a way as to stave off, for the most part, all extraneous and irritating topics; and the meeting passed off admirably.—Mr. Bell, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, Mr. Ellis read the letter of Mr. Hudson, tendering his resignation, and also stated that the same had been ac cepted by the board of directors.—Mr. Wylie, of Liver pool, then proposed a resolution, that a committee of investigation be appointed to examine into, and report upon, the management of the company; w hi c h, b e i ng seconded by Mr. Mozley, also of Liverpool, after some discussion was carried unanimously, and the committee were named.—The meeting was finally adjourned to the 31st day of May. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—We have to notice a letter, just published, touching the " doings of the directors" of this company, as it adds another argu ment in favour of an improved system of auditing rail way accounts. One object of the writer is to show that shareholders are kept in ignorance of the real state of things until fresh calls for money become necessary, and that, as he contends is the case with this company,—the original capital is to be mortgaged, and even sacrificed, in favour of what are called " preference shares." Ana lyzing the proceedings of the directors, he states that there has been a systematic concealment of the amount required to complete the undertaking, and that the traffic and receipts are utterly insufficient for making any return on the original capital, at the same time that the directors are assuring the shareholders that the information they have received " tended to establish the merits of the Chester and Holyhead Railway assn investment." The writer combats the allegation of the directors, that the receipts will be adequate when the line is complete, inas -h as " party' " He ows that openings never pay. an dS glity miles of the railway are open out of eighty-four, and that the gap of four miles at the Menai Bridge is tra .. " If, then," adds traffic they should, it THE STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS. On Tuesday the condemned convict Rush was visited by the whole of his family of nine children. They were accompanied by Mr. James Rush, of Wymondham, brother of the convict, and Mr. Somes, the brother of the late Mrs. Rush. The governor conducted them to the cell in which the convict lies. When Mr. Pinson an nounced to the convict that his family had arrived, Rush for a moment or two buried his face in his hands, and seemed to be deeply affected. Having regained some what of his usual composure, he said, " Let them be ad mitted ;" and the next minute the whole of the nine children were in the presence of their unhappy parent. The scene is described as being most heartrending, both parent and children giving way to the wildest paroxysms of grief. They spoke little upon family affairs. The convict, with intense earnestness, called upon God to witness his innocence of the foul crimes imputed to him. The interview lasted upwards of two hours, and as it was understood that this was to be the parting visit its close was most harrowing. Parent and children embraced each other, and gave vent to the loudest lamen tations. At length the children of the unhappy man left him, and after indulging for some mom nts in grief, he fell upon his knees, and was engaged for a long time in earnest prayer. A check, for £4O, has just been given up by Rush to Mr. Pinson, the governor of the Castle, under very curious circumstances. It will be recollected that, in the course of the trial, Mr. John Cann, solicitor, and clerk to the magistrates at Wymondham, produced certain papers and books which he found at Potash Farm, on going There after the apprehension of Rush. Amongst these was a pocket-book which contained certain entries relative to Rush's business, and also a few memoranda, &c., on slips of paper. There was also a check in it drawn in favour of Rush for £4O. Immediately on the pocket-book being produced in court Rush asked per mission to inspect it, and as the judge assented, it was immediately handed up to him. After detaining it some few moenelts he requested that he might be allowed to have it in his possession until the following morning. The counsel for the prosecution objected to this, where upon Rush handed back the book to Mr. Cann. No ex amination of the book was made when it came from the hands of the prisoner, but on the following day Mr. John Cann discovered that the check had been abstracted. His suspicions imm e di a t e ly f e ll u p on the prisoner Rush ; indeed, Mr. Cann felt convinced that nobody else could haye taken it, the book, with others, having been placed in a strong chest locked up while it remained at Mr. Cann's house. Nothing was done in the matter until after the close of the trial, when Mr. Pinson, the gover nor of the Castle, was requested to sound the convict on the subjeCt. When Mr. Pinson first put the question to him, Rush said, " No doubt that fellow Cann has got it ; why don't you ask him ?—he knows all about it." Day after day passed ; similar questions were put to the con vict on the subject, only, however, to elicit the same reply, that Cann knew all about it, and that if they wanted any information about it, they had better ask him. " It's of no use asking me anything," said Rush, " I tell you I have not got it, and don't know anything about it. No doubt that fellow Cann has taken it." On Friday last, Mr. Durrant, a highly-respectable solicitor of Nor wich, visited the Castle, and in the presence of the go vernor saw Rush on the subject of the missing check. Rush fenced for a long time, and at length said, " Well, suppose I do know anything of it, what then ?" It was urged upon that as be had improperly obtained possession of it, lie ought to give it up. He said, " No, I don't want to trouble myself about it. You had better ask John Cann." Mr. Durrant pressed cim very closely, and at length Rush said, " Well. suppose it should be found, what will become of it ?" Mr. Pinson, the governor, replied that, under the circumstances - , -he had no doubt the Crown would order it to be handed over to the cony cats family. Rush, after musing a few moments, said, " Well, Mr. Pinson, if you really think it will be given to my children, perhaps I may be able to tell you something about it. You will find it in the lining of my hat." The hat was immediately produced, and the check was found carefully placed under the lining in the crown. During the few moments Rush had possession of the book in court he managed to abstract the document unseen by any one, although every eye was turned upon him. On being convicted, he was very particular about his hat, and manifested considerable anxiety about it before he left the dock. The family of the convict have been ejected from Felmingham Farm under the notice of ejectment some time since served. They still remain at Potash, but only upon sufferance. There is some talk of pulling down Potash Farm, and building another house upon its site, to be called, of course, by a different name. Mrs Jermy and Eliza Chestney, both of whom are still at Stanfield Hall, are going on favourably ; indeed, the latter has almost completely recovered. A Norwich correspondent supplies a probable reason why Rush, after he had shot Mi. Jermy, sen., went round by the servants' doer and risked detection, by the fact that in a box in a closet at. the end of the passage leading to the staircase hall Mr. Jermy kept his papers and the mortgage deeds relating to Potash-farm, and that Rush's intention was doubtless to secure those deeds at all hazards, for, according to the forged documents cancelling the mortgage, all the deeds and papers of a prior date re lating to Potash-farm were to be burned. Young Mr. Jermy just reached the door opening into the recess when Rush reached it, and therefore Rush fired at him. After shooting young Mr. Jermy he very likely went into the dining-room to shoot any person there, and thus to pre vent the possibility of his being interrupted while he was employed in securing the deeds. The two women ran to the same recess, and further prevented his purpose being carried out; and when he came out of the dining-room he fired at them, doubtless with the view of escaping The following particulars of the unfortunate but not to be despised Miss Sandford, will be acceptable to our readers, and may also act as a salutary caution to those who may have any young friend seeking her livelihood as a governess —a class greatly to be pitied. They also tend to show the extent—the intricate ramifications of the assassin's complicated scheme of villany. Rush, as be fore stated, put an advertisement in The Times for a governess for his children. Mrs Sandford, the mother of ten children, seeing this, took her eldest daughter to the reference in the advertisement, a very re spectable house in a good street in town, where they found Mr. Rush, occupying the first floor. The landlady had been induced to represent that she knew Mr. Rush, and spoke of him as a worthy kind of man ; and after various inquiries and witnessing her handwriting the daughter was engaged to go down to Norfolk to educate Rush's children. Some months after having been there she was rather surprised at receiving no letters from her mother, and the latter was equally so at receiving no replies from her daughter. During this state of things, Rush, when in town, called upon Mrs. Sandford, who very naturally expressed surprise at not having heard from her daughter, whereupon Rush said he believed the fact was she was become engaged to a Mr. James, a commer cial traveller, but for some reasons she thought it would be a match her mother would not altogether approve, and therefore preferred not writing at all to her. The fact no doubt was, Rush had intercepted these letters both ways, and thus caused an estrangement between her and her friends, to facilitate his own purposes and her ruin. She now felt her dependence upon Rush. and in the simplicity and confidence of her nature, and her ignorance of the world and its snares, soon became first his victim and then his instrument. He subsequently compelled her to write her friends in such a way as to repel any attempt on their part to interfere in her welfare. So late as 10 days before the murder Rush again called upan Mrs. Sandford, and told her her daughter was married, and had been in France with her husband, Mr. James. The inference of all this is evident. It would have accounted for her dis appearance, had such taken place, of which there is little doubt in the minds of those intimately acquainted with the minutiae of attendant circumstances. The guilty man continued to eat and sleep well and to enjoy life to the last. The accounts that have appeared as to his depression of spirits were entirely without foun dation. he exhibited no sign of repentance, nor any desire to purge his breast of the tremendous crime which must have been preying on it. He persevered in the most solemn declarations of his innocence, and upbraided Emily Sandford most bitterly, asserting that she forswore herself at the trial, and that had it not been for her evi dence, he should have been acquitted. On Thursday he asked the turnkeys if they had begun to fix the machine : but no answer was made. He then expressed a hope that it might be a fine day. The Rev. Mr. Brown, Chaplain to the gaol, the Rev. Mr. Andrews, and the Rev. Mr. Blake, of Felmingham, were most assiduous in their efforts to bring the unhappy criminal to a due sense of the awful position in which he stood: But these efforts were attended with very little apparent success. On being informed that the universal opinion through out the country was that he was guilty, he appeared angry. He wrote a letter asserting his innocence, which he wished to he signed by his daughter, and sent to the editor of the Times; but Mr. Pinson declined forwarding it. In two years, he asserts, the real murderer will be known. He was watched by ten turnkeys, who relieved each other every two hours, and every precaution was taken to prevent anythihg taking place to rob justice of its victim. THE EXECUTION NoftwicH, Saturday.. It was expected that an immense crowd of spectators would be attracted to the spot, as the population of the surrounding country, which had taken so deep an interest in the dreadful tragedy of Stanfield-ball, would watch it to the very close; brit this has not been the case. Nor wich has received no sensible addition to the number of its inhabitants, and, though it is market-day, there is very little additional bustle or excitement in the streets. As the fatal hour approached, the increased in ''numbers. For many it was evidently a day of great ex citement, and they crowded to the execution as to a the atre or public show; others came obviously in a different spirit, to notice the dying moments of a man whom they had known in their daily pursuits, and to see how he bore himself in that supreme hour, when oppressed by the re collections of such tremendous crimes. Turning from the crowd and preparations outside the Castle to the unhappy convict within, there has been little opportunity for gleaning any additional particulars to those which have already appeared. At nine o'clock last night he received a letter from his eldest daughter, and on reading it he became depressed ; he rallied, however, after a time, and made a hearty supper. The chaplain to the gaol has been in constant attendance on him all the morning, with little effect upon his conduct and feelings. Just previous to the execution. the sun shone out and the day - became fine, and the crowd on the Castle-hill increased. The space is a large one, and there might be 13,000 people present. The early trains from Yarmouth and other places were loaded with passengers, and the 'arrivals were also very numerous from Suffolk, gine even Essex. The magistrates and representatives of the press lined the short space between the prison gate and the scaffold. Precisely at twelve o'clock the procession left the con detkiled cell, headed by the:oho:all and javelin-men. The convict walked with a firm step, and was attended by the executioner, who stood immediately behind. As the pro cession emerged from the Castle, the chaplain of the gaol joined it, and commenced reading the burial service of the Church. The culprit then mounted the scaffold, and the rope having been immediately adjusted round his neck, the drop fell, and he was launched into eternity. He retained his firmness to the last, looking up to heaven and shaking his head as if protesting his innocence. He shook hands with the governor, to whom he whispered' something, and then died without a struggle. The Times, of yesterday, gives the following additional particulars of the wretched mans conduct shortly prior and up to the moment of his being launched, into another world. He took every opportunity of denying his guilt, professing perfect tranquility and unhesitating confidence in his acquittal. His constant language was, " Thank God, I am quite comfortable in body and mind ; I eat well, drink well, and sleep well." The wretched man's sleep was observed by his attendants not to be so quiet as he himself represented it. He was constant in his attend ance at chapel, and very soon after his committal requested the chaplain to administer the sacrament to him privately. This, however, the chaplain refused to do, and thereupon Rush lost all confidence in him. After conviction, he requested that the Rev. W. Andrews, of Felmingham, and the Rev. C. J. Blake, of Ketteringham, might be permitted to visit him in Mr. Brown's company. This wish was of course complied with, and no doubt the con vict expected to work upon the minds of those gentlemen, wiluse churches he had urc f attend conviction of his innocence. Finding, however, that he was deceived in this hope, and that he could not impose on them a doubt of his guilt, he became dissatisfied with them also, and his last interview with them, as will be seen, terminated in a violent altercation. The chaplain, who had determined to refuse to him the sacrament while he remained impenitent and without confession, was apprehensive that he would requ-st to have it administered on the day of his execution. He, however, expressed no such wish, but about five minutes before he left the chapel to be pinioned he said he hoped that it had been the intention of Mr. Blake and Mr. Andrews to receive the sacrament with him. The chaplain came to him about half-past eight o'clock this morning, and he seemed glad to join in devotion, but whenever his guilt was assumed, and confession and repentence was urged on him, his constant reply was, " God knows my heart ; he is my judge, and you have pre-judged me." On Friday night, at nine o'clock. Mr. Pinson went his eldest daughter, expressed, it is said, in a very pro per and feeling manner. Mr. Pinson had two doors to unlock close to the bedside of the prisoner before he could approach him, yet Rush professed to have been in a pro found sleep when awakened by him. He had not retired to rest more than half-an-hour previously, and Mr. Pin son was perfectly satisfied that he could not have been asleep as he pretended. He kep twelve o'clock, and told the turnkeys in attendance on him that he had had a beautiful sleep, yet no five minutes in the interval had passed that his eyes were not wide open and fixed on theirs. About two o'clock, becoming very restless, h e got up and commenced reading a religious book, passages of which he interlined, expressing at the same time a wish that the book might be given to his family. Thus two or three hours of the short time re maining to him passed away. He then got into bed again, but could not rest, and was up and down con=tan \ tly until the chaplain came to him. For breakfast he re quested that a little thin gruel might be given to him. He was then engaged in reading till after ten o'clock, when he went to the chapel and heard service performqd with the other prisoners. This lasted till twenty minutes to twelve o'clock, and at its close he was left with the chaplain and Mr. Andrews. They again solemnly urged upon him the duties of repentance and confession, but he became much irritated. reneatpd hig [even or and said that the real known in two years. He was proceec rel most violently with them both, when expected Captain -appointed omnibus Ilan the so-eat _s owing .4 partial opening. oecause travgoers go cheaper another4ay. Now, credulous shareholders," he adds. "look to your liabili -s, as swelled by gross mismanagement. Capital re- A. £4,427,600, will require for interest £232,702, or 4 1.000 per week." He contends that the upward total et S 01 ..o Fred imimdsP;rweeli , to pay interest amounting to four Among other charges against and per week." directors, he brings that of "deluding the shareholders with the prospect of six per cent. dividend on the original shares, wherep they can get no dividend at 41. iminal would be to quer- Pinson entered the chapel and removed him. Mr. Pinson states, as a turher illustration of the prisoner's state of mind, that he hardly ever visited him without his saying " Thank God Almighty, all is right." At one of the interviews with his family at which he was present Rush asked whe ther the Queen would be in a hurry to hang him, and upon being expostulated with for using such an expres sio , added, "1 am all ready for that. You cannot sup pose that having prepared my defence, I am not ready in that respect.. Thank God Almighty, lam prepared to die." Nothing in his conduct is more remarkable than the reliance which he placed upon his defence of himself, his confidence in his power to convince others of his inno cence, and his anger at bearing that the world was unani mous in thinking him guilty. On leaving the chapel he went into the prison yard and washed his face and hands and the back of his neck with cold water at the pump. From the prison yard he was conducted to the room of one of the turnkeys, where Calcraft, the ex.cutioner, was waiting to receive him. On observing him, RuQll said, "Is that the man who is to perform this duty ?" To which Mr. Pinson replied it was. Calcraft then desired him to sit down, which he did, and the operation of pi nioning commenced. The prisoner, who appeared per fectly calm and collected. said with a shrn, Phi. - - co,* yr 6 ZAJI ug, 1111. CUM go easy; I don't want the cord to hurt me." His request was complied with, and the rope was moved a little to give him relief_ Rothe. maid that he was comfortable, and the procession having been formed he was conducted to hi doom. The man was in all respects the same unwavering, reso lute being, who for six days conducted his own di-fence in a court of justice, though oppressed, not only by -the con viction of his enormous guilt, but also h) the knowledge that it had been so clearly brought home to him. His hid to his doom. step never fait On catching sight of the scaffold he lifted his eyes to Heaven, raised as far as be could his pinioned hands, and shook his head mournfully from side to side once or twice. The pantomime was perfect, conveying almost as clearly as words a protest of innocence, conveyed with resigna tion, to his fate. As he walked along he asked the go vernor what the words were with which the burial service ended. He was told that it was with the benediction, " The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," &c., and he re quested that the drop might fall when the chaplain came to those words. It will not be matter of surprise, that since the perpe tration of the murders at Stanfield-hall, the country-side should have teemed with stories of the murderer's previous life. Facts are recollected which before appeared natural and of small account, but., seen through another medium, are now deemed mysterious and full of suspicion; The nurse whom he had engaged to attend his mother on her death-bed, remembers that cne night, in the month of August, 1848. Rush told her he would sit up with the sick woman, and desired her to go to bed. When she had re tired, as he bade her, she declares Rush came into her room, as if to ascertain if she were asleep. At the first dawn he entered her apartment again, and told her that his mother had been dead for some hours. She adds. that when she rushed into the dead woman's room, she found that Rush had laid out the corpse with his own hands. He had summoned no witness to her last mn- ments—he had asked no assistance in performing the .. last offices of the dead. We do not, of course, give this story as though there were any thing to justify the horrible in ference which the nurse no doubt suggests, but as showing the feelings of the neighbourhood towards the man. But in the following extract from the Norfolk papers there is n.ore certainty. The death of the elder Rush (the step father of the murderer) was certainly a violent and a bloody one. The fact is attested by a judicial investiga tion and the verdict of a coroner's jury. Rush was pre sent, and Rush alone. Knowing what we now know of the man's ruthless character, a dark suspicion will arise in the mind that he was not altogether disconnected with the fact : " On Thursday last (the 24th of October, 1844,) Mr. Rush. a respectable farmer at Felmingham, and father of Mr. Rush, a farmer and auctioneer at Wymondham, was shot dead on the spot in his own kitchen, by the accidental discharge of a gun. It appeared that the son had been over the father's farm at Felmingham shooting, having paid his father a visit for a day's sport ; and, having returned home to his father's, had been admiring his gun, and directing the attention of his father to it as a very superior one. The son retired into another room and left his father without examining the gun. Almost directly after a report was heard, and when the son went to see what was the matter, he found the bleeding corpse of his father lying prostrate in the kitchen. It was found that the gun had gone off, lodging the whole contents in the head of his f Aber, entering at the left cheek. Instan taneous death was the consequence. An inquest was held on the following day before Mr. Dench, coroner for the Liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster, when the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death." It is, however, useless now to discuss such a matter as this. Enough was done at Stanfield-hall to place Rush beyond the pale of human sympathies. There is no lesson in legislation to be gathered from the fate of such a cri minal. This is not the case of a person tempted by poverty or cradled by ignorance into vicious courses. It is unfortunately true that when prices are high and wages are low, when hands are thrown out of employment and distress prevails, the criminal returns present an almost proportional increase in offences against property. To such an evil we can in some degree apply a remedy. We pity while we condemn, and alleviate if we cannot alto gether cure the ill. But such considerations as these are utterly beside the purpose in the case of the murderer Rush. He was a man of education and of intelligence. His means would have been affluent but for his vices. He indulged himself in the commission of one iniquity after another until he reached a pitch of guilt which few men have attained before, and none, it is to be hoped, will reach in times to come. ORIGIN OF EMILY SANDFORD'S INTRODUCTION TO RUSH A correspondent of the B ur y P os t supp li es t h e fol lowing particulars relative to this unfortunate young woman, as a caution to those who may have any young friend seeking her livelihood as a governess—a class greatly to be pitied. Th ey a l so ten d to s h ow the extent — the intricate ramifications of the assassin's complicated scheme of villainy. Rush, as before stated, put an ad vertisement in the Times for a governess for his children. Mrs. Sandford, the mother of ten children, seeing this, took her eldest daughter to the reference in the advertise ment, a very respectable house in a good street in town, where they found Mr. Rush occupying the first floor. The landlady had been induced to represent she knew Mr. Rush, and spoke of him as a worthy kind of map ; and after various inquiries and witnessing her hand writ ing, the daughter was engaged to go down to Norfolk to educate Rush's children. Some months after having been there, she was rather surprised at receiving no letters from her mother, and the latter was equally so at re ceiving no supplies f rom h er d a u g hter ; during this state of things Rush when in town called upon Mrs. Sandford, who very naturally expressed surprise at not having e ß e u n s g h ag s e a d id to h a e be lheard from e her t d awuagsh she, whereupon James, a commercial traveller, but for smile - reasons she thought it would be a match her mother would not alto gether approve, apd therefore preferred not writing at all April 24, 18411, to her. The fact no doubt was, Rush himself ha,dinl7p cepted these letters both ways, and thus caus.,!'_'behil trangement between her and her friends, to faciliewdoce own purposes and her ruin. She now felt her doP ° o f bet upon Rush, and in the simplicity and confidencesnar6 nature, and her ignorance of the world and its Eta soon became first his victim and then his instruroent• , o ct subsequently compelled her to write to her friener_liereill a way as to rep e l an y a tt em pt on their part to int.° her welfare. S o l a t e as t en d a y s before the raureerdsugh, again called upon Mrs.. Sandford, and told her he r 00 0 ter was married, and had been in France for six ?AO with her husband, Mr. James. The inference of is evident. It would have accounted for her disaTibi ance, had such taken place, of %Lich there is littlebeeuo in the minds of-those i n ti ma t e ly a cquainted w ith t of attendant circumstances. sincem in g _ isuiefmravm; served. . y r ni o T, f uh t the They, esr c t o itl n hl convict eicnto remainthi e a e v a e ot f b p e co c itc n a. es e th, j rn e cebtnuetdt seeofrn tuts r i; sufferance. There is same t a lk of pulling dow n to t° farm, and building a no th er h ouse upon its site, called, of course, by another name. °le Mrs._ Jermy and Eliza Chestney, both of whe„deitli still at Stanfield hall, are going on favourably; 1" the latter has almost completely recovered• or During Rush's trial, a tradesman in Norwich to have placarded the streets with the words J oe " Rush," and " Verdict," in large type, which . 11(3 ' 7 0 closer inspection, were f oun d t o re l a t e t o the Oa / soli°Oh for his goods, the rush made to his shop, and the ce 4— ot verdict being returned in his favour. POLITICAL MISCELLANY then e° The members of Parli amen t f or Gl as gow met thei be stituents privately on M on d a y, an d authenticated. ton port that a defeat on th e N av i ga ti on -l a ws Ve st ' s ensure the resignation of th e R usse ll C a binet. .g e oll' On Tuesday last M r . B rom l e y was re turned at 1. ; far South N o ttin g h ams hi re , i n td e room of Colonteo'roagi leston, without opp os iti on . M r . B rom l e y is at a Protectionist; looking, however, to relief fro P es oil" adjustment of local t a x a ti on ra th er th an to a re' a protection at present. ' n bl7 o NAVIGATION LAWS.—A public meeting of ..- r e tants of Hull (convened by his Worship the .:N! 8 , 1 ) e compliance with a numerously. signed requistto-Ilt' held on Monday, at noon, in the Town Hall, for ti l l o tie pose of petitioning Parliament against the rePe B e ,os ll Navigation Laws. The meeting was very nnillekb,l ana respectawy attended, and the bench was c'" n o es'`" merchants. shipowners, and other gentlemen co with the mercantile interest. THREATENED RENEWAL OT CHARTIST AGI*, - , T fi r, u'o Mr. Feargus O'Connor, in his last Northern dares he will, after Easter, in spite of the " gaggtl revive. in nersnn_ an nail-Ed-in., 4• Inn - reviled animal." Mr. O'Connor made a pretY , fish of his ani ma l b e f ore , as a ll w h o remem ber O s e c i ) ief. ster petition exposu r e mus t a d m i t . Wh at he will . - this year remainst the amendments made by ther - sbor°, in Mr. Bouveri e ' s bill h ave g i ven um b rage to Mr•;,htlis friends. We al wa y s th oug h t th at they d id not sv;',llor, registered clergy to be what Sir C. Eardley calls d Do; above-board" dis sen t ers , an d not hi ng more : an. oR our suspicions are confirmed. The object of 3fr. 1 0 , party is to combi ne th e t wo characters of dissen.„.s 'ft void the consequences of doing 50 t out not to be permitted. We observe f C. Eardley persists, on th e au th or i ty o f a letter °to Shore's of the 22nd of March, 1849,r r Mr. Shore ho.iestly a vowe d hi mse lf a di ssen ter, g n n i nounced all claim to the c h arac t er o f a c l erg Yirn: e Church, before celebrating the serv i ce f or which lob prosecuted. The reply to this i s , th a t M r . Shore' it ) after this, in ' in the statemerid is written pleas to the proceeding against him, grounded his defence on the express' i 'd7rl tion that he was still a clergyman. So far from ab an te d his character of clergyman of the Church, be o f ° ur i_ j ar that he was entitled to that character. With this h Or ' niable fact subsisting, it cannot be said with wit," Mr. Shore was persecuted for renouncing his C chTHE N aracter, AVIGATION and calling LAWS.— himself T On a dissenter a.hursda . y Ap , r a nj influential me e ti ng o f t h e d e l egates from Lis - ETV oI IA ok r other sea-nrirt frizono ~c*tipti) alo ac vuil.t."ll -- 1 0, 1$ at Fendall's Hotel, Old ni Palace-yard, for the P u a r oollg,„ opposing the repeal o f th e N av i gat i on Laws. .o.l•ritsv the meetin g p ar t oo k more o f t h e c h aracter o f aPi tha than a public o ne , th e diff erent d eputat i ons sen t frp'ls,,e. respective towns came to the unanimous reolution ° r id ing the members of Parliament connected with thesilbeeo cities, borough s , an d t owns f rom wh i ch they I.o„.atio! sent, previously t o th e h ouse meet i ng, and demons"oo to their representatives the irreparable I/jury whi ca r e several localities would s u ff er if th e present l aw s we st , p .aled ; as well as of urging upon them that as the K it' ment of Mr. Labouchere in reference to Mr. / 381 ' - e nl the American minister, that America was ready t o ° dre: l l . l into a reciprocal treaty as regarded the coasting tr 3 f been repudiated Mr. Webster, and as none maritime powers of Europe had either a coasting ! r , e tio colonies, the advantage would be all on one therefore, if they had been pledged to suPP;;,,eto. measure, the repudiation of a r ec ip roca l t rea ty by 11 , to Or had released them f r o m an y pl e d ge so g i ven . ana„ quest them to give thei r s t renuous oppos ition '' o t° measure. At four o'clock, a deputation went d ° f ii" the lobby of the house to carry out the o bject ° . above resolution_ LP; THE IRISH MEMBERS AN D L ORD J OHN R R s- QE Compliance Willi i.znpd , „ sell, a deputation of Irish members of parlianien' e tir!' interview with the n o bl e l or d, at his officio: re -i No. 10, Downing-street, on Wednesday n n orning; s ver° George Grey and th e Ch ance ll or o f t h e E xc l ie gr ol itet also present during th e i n t erv i ew . A s h ort- h a nd, t he being present, s ome re f erence was ma d e b y severs ` members to the allegations published that Irish rePr t fire tatives had given incorrect accounts of what passed ° ere !l interview with Lord Clarendon. These remarks I t 0 5 , elicited from Lord John Russell a reply that WV, no intentioa to convey any imput a ti on t o an y one. ob j e t: John briefly explained to the deputation, that his,,, t her , in rPnnwatino their attpndnnra was WV. .;di at. a ,tiuLoutts tut.. okuLcuutxxatic vraa LU ascerustu • as a body, the Irish members preferred the rate-In es to or an extension of the income and some ass e ssed tas l be Ireland, as a means of raisin g th e f un d s nece searY!' n present crisis. He reminded them that the nio ti f o tiO, Mr. Herbert, in favour o f th e l a tt er expe dient, " $ O O romp tinder iiisenacinn nn tri,,,,..daY)9,.;,) requested to know early in th e d a y what course tn. f or k members would generally t a k e res p ec ti ng it. - 0 1 s orii e ship then retired, but the Irish members remained ptiri time longer in consultation, and h e ld a seco nd r 4e , - ,teo' on Thursday morning, at which a resolution was aOf ef ie to the effect that the Irish memb ers wou ld not I P or themselves to the support of any particular tax to l i i t tf posed on Ireland, until they were satisfied of her $ l lOB to bear increased burdens, and that they were unT eo pr to discuss any such proposal, except in the house ( o ,d mons. This resolution was accordingly communicate the premier by Sir Lucius O'Brien. . 4 f MR. COBDEN'S ATTACK UP O N THE AnisToc oe'of Mr. Cobden is quite angry that the House of Co n ? ce sd won't allow him to declare that the defensive serin O f the country ate maintained solely for the sunport°Ao aristocracy, and is quite delighted that his West hearers applaud this declaration to the echo. 3 nat. Mr (W.-inn natrara thnt thin nnoriantLs.. th ', l to if not in the whole, untrue? - Did he ever it:J 3 . .,(1 4 Army List, into the Navy List, i n t o th e li s t of rift and decorations ? If he has n o t d one so, h e h as n° to speak on a subject which he has not looked in rr itil he has, he must plead gu ilty t o a f ar heav i er chargese that of ignorance. Do es h e not k now that n i ne -ten ts efAi the infantry officers, and at least three-fourths of a u t o ° valry officers, are me n o f th e m iddl e c l asses ; the s,c)gerf' merchants, lawyers, d oc t ors , b an k ers, manufactoe; clergymen, or old military officers ; that for pag e ' f er ther in the Army or Navy List the eye wanders ° l porr long and recurring array of every good old Saxon con' te r place name associated with trade, commerce, and f A r prise ? Doos he not know that the enormous P.aY st (l f e e l ensign is £9O a-year, and that in the majority of in a £4OO hard cash has been expended for the llaa ° ;0 0 1 working out this stipend in every vicissitude of ,d, or and danger? Does he not know that what he lar e ; as the magnificent perquisites of a lieutenant-coloof n tb after all, reducible to some £360 a-year, which , fromm a majority r t £l2oo of to n o s x t a 2 n o c o e o s hasßu Butt cases bought w h e fo r r e scuornmsroToti bet are not purchased, does not Mr. Cobden know th at ~, are given as the prizes of a scientific education, or r op ? ward of long and tried fidelity to the sons of offi r ios`',l have bled or died in defending the honour of ri n rd,,s 0 It is but a few weeks since many a bosom thrill e s m a amney consigned g a o t y a was t r sweop ug l droppedaclhlarzt officersl f over h Mr. a t cnod e b tdhet heir untimely rhhaed d r ohi i ci s s a s so st ,nae sons t o of men like Pennyeuick a n d C ureton wou ld aa' , zd trusted with the standards which their fathers cen t conquest and elory.—The Times. ort fo t Parliament havi ng sa t f or t wo mon th s, the rebrutv, current that the pre - sent session will be ;short , );/, ministers, by no me a ns a merr y one . T o ber m D'lsraeli's tender phraseology of Thursday nigbt? s are unwilling to use any expression of harsheri e if respect to the present government. They are all men of great power ; they are all personally re 6 ,P e ptso men whose characters we esteem and whose t icP:j acknowledge. They are, moreover, a body of g e .",s whose existence as a ministry, whatever their failt% be, is absolutely and indispensably necessary to tlioyil empire." But it does so happen, that notwith s ,o" 4 o i the consummate ability of these gentlemen, they ''' s „itz; to prove themselves lamentably incapable, and i" r r e, e , the urgent necessity for their continued existence,!cAl are offering up on all sides for their speedy a b r .oo cease. Mr. Macaulay did much when he created ‘o)ig liant halo around the representatives of a principl e pe OP O , no longer exists, and eloquently bamboozled the re o r , into the belief that the liberties of the subject ' 5 11 41 roughly safe only when guarded by w a t c hmen Wii tg, in their boxes, and do about as much o n their be a o f 17 last sleepy move of the premier is surely decisi,v e ,gi o 7o fate of himself and his government. " I can l t re, r ed ge f , continued Mr. Disraeli, on the occasion above r e ` t i.a ,l ,,, " nothing more ludicrous than a prime minist e fo r 1 .7 0 0 tising in the napers, before parliament meets , o rtil ef er sixth of the house to come to his residence one f t , 01 , and see what God will send them ; his being reilud e re , ',,e with two high members of the cabinet, a private s e cr oPoi and a reporter—and then sending, through thi s , ,e O c iet an accurate bulletin of all that had taken evening paper, as the latest intelligence." In ou st ofa` nli of, the notion of , the ludicrous is superseded by t tb p a vl /1 , 4 1 1 11 ghastly. It is sad and melancholy to see the ' 1 " he"' den of the state resting upon shoulders that g roan c e the load i oilte da" o 'l A moving appeals fo dr, - UP liven. whe would fain cling t to deserve them, a ful claim to either =John Bull, ir l 'tne ` i r ead 4cl ot ae e r o s f v bt"i lh ' I knal,tl.,e` I tlT 4 e r 11 1 . 11 ni ~1 1 )k n he ~on i rli q I t 4 4 , 4 1,4 , t th 4hk a e g IThei!SYm', !kt,'tttd des klp ~JOlede 11 flat The f` t r iii"ukr l it„'t i t , 1 kc!,l:q 4 4 ;;, 51 i 0 tii ti 1 0. .011 tt, , • C „ J 'sti, ke rit i l le N f ever t 11( 11 IlEk t th 4 A~ 'Kt N `.E tt% N 'n -t 0 tEtte tO I !!t.j..14