The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

‘e. 1 N ' VI I ' t n • N ti .r'l.iC.: ~'_ been mad w, ettriWit hi the year. he trusted his statement Kt riot he wholly unsatisfactory to the country. The eitirs of the continent, the famine in Ireland, and the interruption of our trade with the Baltic, had all combined against us during the past year. He then referred to his budget of last year. The actual revenue of the year had been less than he anticipated, owing to an unexpected falling off in the receipts for stamps. His estimate of the expenditure for the last year had also been exceeded, owing to payments on account of Irish distress, and for an excess on naval expenditure. On the whole, however, there had been an actual surplus of income over expendi ture during the past year. Now with regard to the future. He estimated the various sources of revenue for the ensuing year as follows : Customs .e20,1300,000 Corn duties 250,0')0 Excise 13,710,000 Stamps '6,750,000 . Taxes . Income-tax 5,275,000 Post-office BOO.OOO Crown lands. lBO,OOO Miscellaneous Old stores 485,000 Fees 90,000 Total £52,252,0 0 00 The expenditure he estimated as follows : Interest on funded debt £27,763,527 Interest on Exchequer Bills 480,000 Civil list . Grant for Irish distress 50,000 Total charge on consolidated fund £31,075,085 Navy, packet service, &c 7,021,724 Army, &c. Ordnance 2,654,270 Miscellaneous estimate 3,924,731 f ‘lit:;,.l tarorraings in I,3arlianinit. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The Select Committee on the Landlo- ' filt4 Tdvitnt 4f6 proceed 'with Bill reported that it was not exped that measure. The Tieasehold Ten"- time by a may• -,ea (IrthiNa) Bill was read a third for, 38; , : tfa i ns C , 3 1 of threg only, the numbers being— OUs r ,;1 7 COMMONS.—MONDAY. The ritollrAt far the second reading of the Trans portation for Treason (Ireland) Bill, a discussion arose as to the admissibility of a petition from Mr. Wm. Sadth O'Brien, Mr. Meagher, and Mr. M`Manus, they having been attainted of high treason. Ultimately it was ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. NAPIER then moved that the petitioners be heard by counsel at the bar. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which a very 'undignified altercation occurred between several Irish members and Mr. Roebuck, who was taunted with being " the hired advocate of rebels at the bar of that house." Another expression applied to Mr. R. when interrupted in his speech, "Give him rope enough," excited his extreme indignation, and called forth a reproof from the Speaker, as ungentlemanly. The motion for hearing counsel a second time was re jected by 178 to 31. The second reading of the bill was carried by 175 to 19. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. Lord BROUGHAM brought the affairs of Canada before the house, and after giving an elaborate historical sketch of the British connexion with that colony from the Peace of Paris in 1762 down to the present time, proceeded to expose what he termed the folly of the doctrine of respon sible government in Canada, the inevitable result of which would be —as, indeed, Lord John Russell had predicted in 1839—the confiscation of British .property, the insulting of British subjects, and the punishment of British soldiers for discharging their duty; and condemned in strong term 3 tho Compensation Bill by which British loyalists were to be taxed to pay French rebcla £{,r lasses sustained in having their rebellion crushed. The noble lord con cluded his speech with an eloquent peroration on the evils to be expected in any future struggle with the United states, if we persisted in disgusting the Canadian loyalists by suffering the Rebel Compensation Bill to pass. The noble lord also moved two resolutions condemnatory of the principle of the measure. An animated debate ensued, after which their lordships divided, when Lord Brougham's resolutions were lost by a majority of three, the numbers being 96 to'99. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. The Earl of LINCOLN moved an address to the Crown expressing the opinion of the house that the Hudson's Bay Company, to which body Vancouviers Island had been granted by royal charter, was ill adapted for super intending the establishment of any colony founded upon principles of political or commercial freedom. Mr. Huar seconded the motion, although he consi dered its terms not sufficiently strong, the acts of the Co lonial-office, in this matter, calling for direct condemna tion. Every one of the conditions was contrary to the policy which a wise man would pursue in establishing a colony. At this moment the house was counted out, and an ad journment took place. • HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. A long conversation took place on the " count out" last night on Lord Lincoln's motion relative to Vancouver's Island, but it ended in nothing, further than showing that it was principally owing to the absence of Lord . Lincoln's friends that the house was counted out. The adjourned debate on the bill for legalizing marriages with a deceased wife's sister, was resumed by Mr. NAPIER, who spoke at considerable length in op position to the measure. The LORD ADVOCATE felt how unfit that house was for the discussion of topics connected with the religious view of this question, or how far these marriages were or were not prohibited by the word of God. He admitted at once that if they were forbidden by the word of God, either ex pressly or by plain implication, there was an end of the question ; if not, restrictions should not be put upon mar riage where the law of God had left it free. He had in vestigated this part of the question with great care and attention, and had come to the clear conviction that these marriages were not forbidden by the word of God. The practice of the Roman Catholic Church, in dispensing with the bar to these marriages, proceeded upon the as sumption that they were not so forbidden, the Church of England had never held these marriages not void, but only voidable ; and it would be strange to say that the Church of England had recognized marriages, under any circum stances, as legal, which were repugnant to the word of God. The old law of Scotland, based upon the Confession of Faith of 1567, made incestuous marriages, within the prohibited degrees contained in the Levetical law, punish able with death; but no person had been punished under that law for contracting a marriage with his deceased wife's sister. If, therefore, these marriages were not prohibited by the law of God, what right had human legislation to throw impediments in the way of marriage which that law did not interpose ? He knew there was an aversion to these marriages both in Scotland and Ireland, which origi nated in religious scruples, there being no aversion to the union itself; but the foundation of this adverse feeling was being daily undermined, and with the conviction that the law of God did not forbid such contracts, the abhor rence of them would disappear. He was nut blind to, the evils which they might create in the upper classes of so ciety : but he could not legislate upon such a subject as marriage with reference to one class only, and he found that the middle and lower classes—persons of chaste and moral habits—exercising their own independent opinion, deemed these marriages not repugnant to the word of God, and contracted them in spite of the law, which they considered cruel and tyrannical. Was it wise to tempt people to rebel against the law, on the ground that it was in conflict with the Divine command ? Mere legislation, in opposition to religion and nature, was impolitic, and must be ineffectual. Mr. GLADSTONE said the considerations which the Lord Advocate had admitted to apply to the upper classes ap plied equally to the middle. But how was it really with the poor ? Of the 1,648 marriages of this description, re ported by the Commissioners, 1,503 were in the middle classes, 105 in the upper, and only 40 in the lower. The fact that the Church of England had held these marriages as voidable only did not imply that they were regarded in a favourable view, for the defective state of the law placed other incestuous marriages, those within the degrees of affinity, in the same category. This was not a mere question of civil liberty ; it altered indirectly the lavi of the Church, releasing clergymen from the obligation of obedience, in respect to these marriages, to their spiritual superior. In was not a mere matter of ecclesiastical dis cipline ; the bill professed to declare what was the word of God, and to set aside the ninety-ninth canon. Those who had made up their minds that there was no Divine prohibition of these marriages might waive the theologi cal discussion ; but those who had come to an opposite conclusion were compelled to enter upon it, in order to show that a great religious injunction forbade this bill, which contravened the law of God as declared through out the world for 3,000 years. These marriages were not only prohibited by the Jews, but the letter of the chap ter of Leviticus declared them one of the abominations for which nations not subjected to the Jewish law were punished, thereby showing that the prohibition was one of universal application. .Mr. Gladstone then argued from the whole sense of the chapter, that the term " near of kin," in the sixth verse, must mean the sister of a wife, and contended that the traditional law of the Jews so understood it. The transition from Judaism to Christianity must have made the restrictions upon marriages more rigid ; and in the fifteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles the word "porneia" could only mean marriages forbidden by the Levitical law. The prohibition in the Roman civil law, contrary to the habits of the 'people, must have been derived from the belief or the Church, when the governing power became Christian, and the dispensations which began with the infamous Pope Alexander VI., and had been discouraged by the Council of Trent, were no evidence of a contrary opinion in the Romish Church. Upon the social branch of the question, he expatiated upon the immoral effects of such a relaxation of the law, which would taint the atmos phere of society, lowering the character of domestic feel ings, threatening even the purity of sisterly love, and he asked Mr. Wortley where this course of legislation was to stop—whether he would take his stand upon practical ex pediency, which would lead him on to other relaxations; or upon the letter of the Levitical law, which would open to us the most horrible forms of incest ; or upon the law of nature ; If the last, the law of nature, which meant no more than the reception of revelation, depended upon the law of Christianity. Mr. S. WORTLEY, as far as the time and patience of the House would permit, replied to some of the objections urged against the bill. The House divided— For the second reading Against it Majority The Bill was then read a second time. 1' 7 7 ..... 14:; -34 HOUSE OF COMMONS—TnuRsDAy. In compliance with a request made to him by Mr. D'lsraeli, Lord John Russell set apart Monday, July 2, for the discussion of the hon. gentleman's motion on the state of the nation. Lard NUGENT moved for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the practicability of better pro viding for the maintenance of the indigent poor of Eng land and Wales, by an equal and general apportionment of the burden of the same. The motion, after a long discussion, was negatived itl mut a divison. Mr. HAMILTON then drew the attention of the house to the subject of education in Ireland, and concluded, for an address to her Majesty, praying that she would be graciously pleased to direct that such a modification of the system of National Education In Ireland might be made as might remove the conscientious objections which a large proportion of the clergy and laity of the Established Church entertained to that system as at present carried 'into operation ; or otherwise, that means might be taken to enable those of the clergy and laity of the Established Church, who entertained such conscientious objections, to extend the blessings of Scriptural education in Ireland. Sir W. SomErtvILLE opposed the motion ; and Mr. BERNARD supported it. The discussion was then continued by Mr. Howe, Sir A. Brooke, Mr. Newdegate, and Lord C. Hamilton; who were followed by Lord J. Russell, who opposed the motion. The house then divided, and the numbers were—for the motion, 102; against it, 162: majority, GO. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to make his financial statement. He commenced by saying that although not so favourable as it would have been had it Vote to refund escheated property. 51,515,064 Excesses on last year's votes for navy, army, and ordnance 642,632 Total .e 52,157,696 , , Upon this calculation the surplus of the year would be £104,304. It would be seen that the expenditure was enhanced nearly a million by excesses upon the estimates of last year for the navy, army, and ordnance services. In tuture yearn, when we recovered from these excesses, it was clear that we should have a very coubidcr.ma sur plus of income over expenditure. It would be observed that he had taken the ordinary income of the country at very little more than it bad realized during preceding years. There was an improvement in the manufacturing districts, money was easy, there was a good supply of bullion in the country, and he saw no reason whatever for anticipating any decline of our present prosperity. With regard to expenditure, he also hoped that there would be an opportunity in the ensuing year of enforcing still more important measures of economy. In the estimates for the present year there were reductions amounting in the whole to £1,511,455, arising as follows : £718,168 in the navy estimates, £433,914 in the army, £337,878 in the ordnance, and £21,500 in the miscellaneous. A great reduction had also been made this year in the public expen diture by the consolidation of the Excise Board with that of Stamps and Taxes. This consolidation would save upwards of £247,000 a year in salaries. With regard to the amount of surplus, he admitted that he thought nothing but the peculiar circumstances of the time would justify them in going on with so small an amount of surplus. So long, however, as they had a surplus, let its amount be what it might, he saw no reasons for increasing the bur dens of the nation. On the other hand, it was obvious that with so small a surplus it would be impossible to make any changes of taxation, whether by reductions of such duties as those upon tea or stamps, or in any other way. The right 1 - on. gentleman concluded, after a speech of an hour and ten minutes, by putting a formal vote into the hands of the chairman of committees. Various members addressed the committee in suc cession. On the motion for the third reading of the Transporta tion for Treason Bill, Mr. ANSTEY charged the Irish members with want of sincerity, unanimity, and "pluck," in opposing this mea sure, and declaimed against it in violent language for up wards of an hour. He moved the omission of words in the first clause rendering the bill a declaratory enact ment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Sir G. GREY opposed the amendment ; which was supported by the Irish mem bers and Mr. Muntz. The object was stated to he to pave the way for other amendments denuding the bill of its ex post facto operation. The amendment was rejected by 151 to 27. Mr. REYNOLDS moved another amendment, with a view to remove the retrospective operation of the bill. This amendment was also rejected, the numbers being 104 to 24. A third amendment of Mr. Anstey was also rejected on a division. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. The cholera is rapidly disappearing in Paris. Paris has settled down into quietness and order, and business is proceeding with even more regularity than be fore the demonstration of the 13th instant. It is said that Ledru Rollin reached Ostend on Friday evening, and having supped at the Hotel de la Cou r Im periale, he left the same night for England. An important discovery of a clandestine manufactory of gunpowder and a concealed depot of arms has been made at Moulins. Lyons is perfectly tranquil, and the disarming of the insurgents is proceeding without resistance. The accounts from the other provlucca are entirely of a, pacific cha racter. Letters from Macon of the 19th instant state that pre parations had been made by the Socialists in that town to rise in insurrection bad the movement in Paris or Lyons succeeded. They resisted the departure of the 48th Regi ment of the Line for Lyons, and it was only by command ing his men to charge bayonets that the colonel was en. abled to force a passage through the streets. _ _ _ La Liberte states that a fetter has been received in Paris from the ex-King Louis Philippe, dated 18th June, in which that monarch congratulates the French nation on the bloodless victory gained by the army of Paris. He declares that the triumph of the friends of order over the republican party must necessarily and inevitably produce the restoration of the monarchy. Louis Philippe (adds the Liberte) announces, moreover, to his filen& that in a letter addressed by the Emperor Nicholas to the Duchess of Orleans, and communicated by her to the ex-royal family, he tells her that she must waive the claims of her children and unite with the elder branch. The Czar, it is added, persists in consolidating the monarchial principle on a legitimate basis. The King, who was overthrown in February, consequently recommends all his friends to transmit this resolution to their adherents, in order that henceforth there may be but two camps in Europe—roy alty and legitimacy on the one hand, and revolutionary movement on the ether. La Liberte'completes the com munication by declaring that the friend to whom the letter was addressed is one of the persons enjoying the greatest favour at the palace of the President of the Republic. At Moulins, in France, on Sunday week, the populace shouted, on the approach of the procession of the Fete- Dieu, " Vive la Republique Sociale," and threw stones against the ornaments on the altars in the streets. The section of the Paris and Strasburg Railroad be tween Paris and Meaux was opened to the public on Sun day. The railroad from Paris to Tonnerre, and from Dijon to Chalons-sur-Saone, is likewise to be opened in a few days. Madame Cavaignac, the mother of the General, has fallen a victim to the cholera. Madame Marrast, wife of the late President of the National Assembly, died in Paris on Thursday. General Oudinot's chief aide-de-camp, Major Espivant, is the brother of a gentleman well kown in London. He is the grandson of that nobleman of Brittany described in the " Sentimental Journey," who deposited his sword among the archives of Rheims, and reclaimed it during Sterne's visit. The sword has descended from grandfa ther to grandson, and has made a campaign in Africa. ROME. On the 12th inst. the French General issued the fol lowing proclamation : "Villa Pamfiti, June 12th, three p.m. " Inhabitants of Rome,—We come not to bring you war, we come to consolidate order and liberty amongst you. The intentions of our Government have been misunderstood. The siege works have brought us before your ramparts. Until the prp.Pnt moment we have replied but at rare intervals to the fire of your batteries. We are arriving at the hibt moment, when the necessities of war produce dreadful calamities. Spare them to a city filled with so many glorious monuments. If you persist in repelling us, to you alone will belong the re sponsibility of irreparable disasters. 6 ` OUDINOT DE REGGIO.' " This was accompanied by a letter to the President of the French Republic, stating that if, in twelve hours, an answer was not returned " conformable to the intentions and honour of France" the city would be assaulted. To this insolent appeal the Triumvirate returned the follow ing noble reply : " General ! We have the honour to transmit to you the answer of the Assembly, extraordinarily convoked, to your communication, dated the 12th inst. We never betray our engagements. In the execution of the orders of the Assembly and of the Roman people, we have undertaken the engage ment of defending the standard of th e R e p u bli c , th e ho n o ur of the country, and the sanctity of the capital of the Christian world. We will do so. " Receive, General, the assurance of our consideration. (Signed) "MAZZINI, " ARMELLINI,}TriUMVirs." "SAFFI, The Moniteur publishes a despatch from General Oudi net, dated Villa Santucci, the 15th inst., giving a detailed account of the operations of the army under his command. Tho General estimates his loss during the 13th and 14th inst. at six killed and 32 wounded, of whom two officers were slightly wounded. Captain Castanet, of the 53d Regiment of the Line, was killed. Private accounts from General Oudinot's camp, dated the 16th, conveyed to Toulon .by the steam-boat Chris tophe Colomb, state that the French batteries had demo lished 480 feet of masnnry. The General had received a reinforcement from Toulon of heavy artillery, and bad 90 pieces employed against the city, comprising 36 heavy guns, 6 mortars, and 48 field pieces. it was said that a conspiracy, planned at Rome, was preparing at Civita Vecchia to surprise the French garrison in the fort. The plot had been discovered, and some of the parties were arrested. If the plan had succeeded, the French General would have been compelled to raise the seige of Rome, and return to Civita Vecchia. Letters from Toulon of the 20th inst. state that the steamer Caton had sailed that day for Port Vendres to embark artillery for the French army in Italy. The Cerbere had sailed for Civita Vecchia with a company of engineers ; the 50th Regiment of tile Line had likewise embarked for Civita Vecchia. It is confidently said that a split has taken place among the College of Cardinals at Gaeta. Several of them are of opinion that the Pope might accept the proposals made by the Roman Republic, viz., to acknowledge the Pope as sovereign, but to have a complete separation of the tem poral and spiritual authority. Other members of the eol- 3a t lege are averse to this, and have secretly sent a messenger to Paris to urge on the French government the impor tance of entering Rome. The " Villa Pamphili," near Rome, now in the hands of a mass of French soldiers, is the property of a da`Agh ter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. No part of the !souse has been injured, but the furniture is smashed to piecesy fix ; pictures cut out of their frames, and much of the orna mental garden sculpture is broken up. The ptincipal mischief has been done in the grounds and gardens ; there mutilated statues and crumbling balustrades show the wanton love of mischief, and several of the finest trees. cut away for no apparent use, prove that all this violence had no other object than the destruction of property. THE FRENCH AND THE ROMANS.—Supposing a prac ticable breach to be made in Rome within a few days by the French army of 30,000 men, with all the appliances and instruments of war at hand—supposing--and it is no strong or improbable suspicion—the walls to be scaled and the gates to be entered, there remains the street fighting ; and if a tithe of what we hear be true, each house in Rome is a fort, each niche and corner a redoubt, and every 50 or 100 yards of ground throughout the city a barricade. These are not flimsy barricades of omni busses, cabriolets, carriages, sitting-chairs, prie-dieus, cabourets, and milliners' and clerks' stools, as were seen in Paris, in the Rues St. Denis and Montmartre, but so lid barricades of stone, of brick, of old pieces of marble, of rubbish knit together for more than a thousand years by Roman cement, of terracotta, of cippolino, and the thousand-and-one hard and impermeable substances which a city rich in Pagan and Christian ruins so abundantly supplies. The genius of the people of Rome for architec ture still survives, and Michael-Angelos and Palladios of the street will be found in abundance, not to rear temples or to build palaces—but to construct barricades. Behind these barricades the Romans will fight as well as any peo ple in the world. There is not a braver race under the sun than the Trastevcrini, if well led and well officered ; but even the most timid Romans will fight coolly and well, like the most timid Spaniards, under the cover of a wall or barricade of any kind. Supposing, therefore, General Oudinot to have made practicable breaches, his entrance into any part of the city must be at a prodigious loss of French life. Every yard of ground will be con tested, and we do not in the least exaggerate when we as sert that 20 Frenchmen must fall for one Roman. Thus will the French army be harassed and worried, and ulti mately the commander, desperate, discouraged, and des pairing, will have to bombard the glorious old city. itself. —Morning Herald. THE LIVERPOOL STAri;ARD, ""a'ITGE o A ROBBER IN A BURIAL VAULT.—The Cork Cos-vtitution contains the following :—" The parish church of Carrigrohan was broken into last week, through the Vestry-room, and a window-sash, some brass and iron EO'ticles, and the hangings of the pulpit, were carried off. On the following day the sextoness was walking through the graveyard, wken her attention was suddenly arrested by two hands, which she perceived thrust through a hole in a large vault, and drawing towards them a piece of a coffin-board, to stop the aperture. Being much alarmed, she went for the police, who returned with her to the spot, and on looking into the vault they discovered a living te nant, comfortably stretched on some grass and straw, strewed over coffin-boards and human bones, with a skull so placed as to answer for a pillow. They instantly sum moned the strange tenant of the tomb to come and ap pear,' which.he seemed very loath to do; and it was not until they threatened to fire at him that he came out and surrendered. He was a most forbidding looking villain." RENTS OT LAND.—Reductions of rent, varying from "20 to 50 per cent,'have been made by many of the landed proprietors, in a few instances permanently, but generally the reduction is temporary, on account of the failure of crops, the low prices of produce, and the high rates caused by the extent of destitution. The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Stradbroke, and Lord Lorton are among the pro prietors who have made large temporary reductions : and the provincial journals almost daily contain announce ments that other landlords are adopting the same system. It is, however, upon the limited class of tenants holding upon lease, and sustaining themselves out of the remnant of their capital, that the pressure is at present most severe, because landlords in many instances are endeavour ing to held them to their contracts. A week or two since, the tenantry of this class, occupying farms in the electo ral division of Swords, county of Dublin, published an address to their landlords, urging a temporary reduction of their rents to the amount of 20 per cent, on the ground of the failure of the potatoes for three successive years, the failure of the wheat crop last year, the enormous in crease of poor-rate and other local taxes, and the dimi nished prices of corn and cattle. On Tuesday some of the landlords of the Swords division met at the Imperial Hotel, in Dublin, to consider the proposition of the tenantry. The result was a unanimou; determination to reject the claim ; and it was arranged that an intimation should be conveyed to the tenantry. to the effect that they should have individually applied, instead of having had recourse to a public form of address, and that such of them as considered themselves overburdened with rent could have their leases cancelled on surrendering their holdings to their landlords. EXTRAORDINARY COMBAT. — Captain Rochfort, of the screw vessel Rose, arrived on Monday morning from Lon don, and reported having on his passage fallen in with a whale of huge dimensions, on Sunday morning, seven miles S.W. of the Lizard. This monster of the deep was suffering severely at the time in an encounter with two well-known enemies of his tribe—a sword fish and .A thresher. These formidable creatures go together through the waters, and are reputed to be joined in a league of unrelenting enmity against the cetaccous tribe. Capt. Rochfort and his crew saw the combat for. about three quarters of an hour; but, being obliged to continue their voyage homewards, they had to forego the pleasure of witnessing the struggle to its close, and of taking in tow to Dublin the body of the vanquished whale, for of his being eventually worsted in the affray they was no doubt. The sword fish was seen once driving his tremendous weapon into the belly of his victim, as he turned on his side in agony. The thresher fastened on his back, and gave him terrific blows, which were heard at a distance with great distinctness. The latter not having any power to strike it in the water, it was the instinctive policy of the sword fish to make the attack from below ; this causing the whale to rise above the surface, which he did at times to a remarkable height ; the 'other assailant, which was about twenty feet long, then dealt out his blows unspa ringly, with all the force of his lengthy frame—between them their victim must have suffered extremely ; he spouted blood to an immense height, and crimsoned the sea all round to a considerable distance. Being within two hundred yards of the ship, towards which the whale appeared to make for protection, the conflict was distinctly visible to all on board. It is unusual for marine monsters such as were engaged in the struggle now narrated, to be seen in such a latitude.—Dublin paper. \ ,N.Nt k . ... n\. „ 4 . I 4.0" - • `l. It. T. .."C, • AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. Vienna papers and letters of the 11th, state that the successes of the Imperialist and Servian corps in the south of the Hungarian Crownlands continue, and that the city of Neusatz has been occupied by the troops of Baron Jel lachich, who carried it by a most sanguinary assault. The Hungarians are asserted to have suffered another defeat at Kaez ; indeed, the Austrian papers, which for a long time have had General Percel's corps routed at least once a week, are now positive that that unlucky corps - was totally annihilated on the 7th inst. The Ban's head quarters are at Petrowatz. Our correspondent informs us of several skirmishes which have lately taken place on the island of Shiitt, of a defeat which five companies of Imperialists suffered at Szered, and of the occupation of Neutra by the Im perialist troops. The Kolner Zeitung has news of a battle which was fought, on the 13th instant, at Csorna, south of the Danube, on the territory between two arms of the river Raab, and in which an Austrian corps was surprised by the Hungarians. The. story brought by the Genoese Gazette of the approach of 30,000 Hungarians to Trieste has received no credence in Pariq. Dr. Bowring assumed charge of his duties as Consul at Canton on the 13th April. The Piedmontese papers confirm the important intelli gence of the definitive arrangements for a treaty of peace between Austria and Piedmont. The insurrection in Baden is on the point of being ex tinguished. The Palatinate had been completely restored to order. GERA , 'Aer AMAZONS.—The Baden insurrection has produced several heroine?. who lead or follow some of the free corps en ar?azone. The wife of Strilve (who has himself absconded), a Fraukin Zitz, and a Madame Blan ker, are mentioned as prominent ; the latter in full uni form, with sabre buckled on, and rifle in hand, w as th e other day in a drawing-room full of company at Edenko ben, and passing before a large mirror, stopped, perhaps to survey herself for a moment, when, to the horror of all present, the rifle went efr, luckily without damage to any thing but the mirror itself, which was shivered to atoms. We literally live in dangerous times ; if ladies will arrange their ringlets with loaded fire-arms in their hands, what is to be expected. DANISH BLOCKADE.—We have received private intel ligence, upon which we place much reliance, that the negotiations for peace between Prussia and Denmark are so far advanced as to render it almost certain that the blockade will cease in a few days.—Hull Packet. GIBRALTAR.—We learn from Gibraltar that there was some probability of the quarantine being reimposed, and that the next packet and all other vessels from England would be put under quarantine. The Spanish govern ment had quarantined all vessels having had communica tion with Gibraltar that had arrived at Spanish ports. PORTUGAL.—Another rninisteral crisis has taken place upon the Duke de Saldanha's return from Cintra, which ended in the formation of an entirely new Cabinet, by the Count de Thomar, Costa Cabral. The following is a list of new ministers :—President of the Council and Minister of the Interior—The Count de Thomar. Foreign Affairs —The Count de Tojal. Justice—M. Felix Hejeira Ma galhaes. Finance—M. Antonio Jose D'Arville. Marine —The Viscount de Castelloes. War—Brigadier A. M. G. Ferreri. The Duke de Terceira has declined to join the Cabinet, but it was hoped he might accept the offer of Adjutant to the King and Commander-in-Chief. WEST INDIES.—The steamer Severn arrived at South ampton on Thursday afternoon, with £llO,OOO in specie, and with mails from Vera Cruz to the 16th ult., Jamaica to the 23d, Barbadoes to the 29th, and St. Thomas's to the 2d inst. At Demerara the affairs of the colony re mained in nearly the same unsatisfactory state as reported by the last mail, and no meeting of the combined court had been held ; the supplies continued stopped, and the public creditors unpaid. From the other colonies the intelligence is unimportant. The Jamaica papers contain accounts of victories of the Dominicans over General Soulougne, in Hayti ; but it does not seem that any dependance can be placed on these accounts. A cargo of immigrants, consisting of 248 Africans, of which 42 were women, 19 girla, and 51 boys, have been imported into Grenada direct from Sierra Leone, at the expense of the government. The passage lasted 23 days, and so admirable had been the arrangements on the part of the captain of the Clarendon, and the medical gentle man ha charge, that only two casualties occurred during the voyage. None of the immigrants exceeded 30 years of age. They were distributed amongst the planters, and indentured for one year, with very easy and proper condi tions AS to food, clothing, and medical attendance, when necessary. All above 14 years are to have a quarter acre of land, and adults after three months to be paid 3d. per week. ARRIVAL OF TRAPPIST MONKS.—Among the passen gers who embarked from Liverpool in the steam-ship Caledonia, for Boston, were the Abbott of Mount Melte ray, and three brothers of the Cistercian Order of Trap. pists. They were accompanied by Brother Macarius, and design to make the necessary arrangements for the found ing of two monasteries of their order somewhere in North America. The abbott, after arranging matters here, will return to Ireland, from whence, in August, forty or fifty brothers, including four or five priests, will embark for this country.—Boston Traveller. IRBLAND. _4_ All the, property of the Guardians of Castlebar Union is to be sold by the Sheriff* on Thursday. In one of the streets of Cork there are fourteen shops closed, and in the main street of Clonmel there are no fewer than twenty-two shops unoccupied. The Marchioness of Waterford is building at her own cost, a new church at Guilcoh, in the county of Water ford. A series of riots took place in Derry on Monday, arising from the police attempting to take into custody some drunken persons. The constables were pelted with stones but ultimately secured their assailants. Foreign corn is arriving in large quantities at Cork. On Thursday, ten vessels arrived with maize, two with wheat, and one with beans; on Friday, four vessels with maize, and two with wheat. Haymaking is progressing vigorously throughout Ire land, and the general aspect of the grain crops is such as to promise a prolific harvest. New potatoes, well grown and sound, have been last week selling by retail dealers in Belfast at 2d. per lb. From the 12th February till the Bth June, a period of seventeen weeks, there left Londonderry for the United States twenty-seven vessels, containing 4,662 souls ; for Canada, two vessels, with 238; New Brunswick, three vessels, and 445—making a total of 5,435. Two brothers have been committed for trial at the Gal way quarter sessions, on a charge of having killed a neigh bour's ass, and eaten part of the carcase, and another man has been committed for trial at Tuam, on a similar charge, which he so far admitted as to acknowledge that he had eaten part of the ass. The Pope has sent Dr. M`Hale 20,000 francs towards the relief of the starving people of the west. The post which conveyed this respectable sum—nearly £Boo—was met by another bound for Gaeta with £345, contributed by the people of the diocese of Tuam to the exchequer of his holiness. So that one good turn deserves another. AN ANTIQUE MESKIN OF BUTTER. — A small cask, of what was once butter, has been dug up out of a bog at Leckpatrick, Londonderry. It presents a curious appear ance, not unlike that of a mass of white greasy limestone, and has been buried, probably, two centuries, as the vessel containing it belongs evidently to a period of some anti quity. The parties who first discovered this singular treasure broke in two the vessel containing it, so that no Bates are discernable by which the exact age of the deposit can be ascertained. . _ nISKERS.—At the Police-court, Belfast, on Monday, a thimblerigging " swell" was brought up, and after a caution was told he must leave the town. The prisoner thanked the court, but, before going, begged leave to ask a question—" Was it fair for the turnkey to shave off nearly the whole of my whiskers ?"—at the same time exhibiting what remained, much to the amusement of the spectators—" Was it fair for him to take them off?" Magistrate—You have as much still left as I have. — (Laughter.) Prisoner—Ay, but I'm no way attractive without them.—(Roars of lLughtcr.) Mr. Seeds (soli citor.) Why, a barber would have charged you sixpence for what the turnkey has done for you for nothing.—Pri soner. I would not have employed a barber to disfigure me in this way, (again exhibiting the remains of his whis kers ;) but that cursed turnke t v has spoiled my face. — (Great laughter.) T.he pris.auex wfs then removed. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The North Kent Railway will be opened next month. The railway from Manchester to Bowdon and Altrincham will be opened before the end of July. The first electric telegraph erected in Ireland has just been constructed on the Great Southern and Western Railway, for two miles. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending 16th instant :—Coaching traffic, 1341 10s. 9d ; parcels, £32 7s. 11d.; goods and cattle, £lBO 19s. 4d. ; steam boats, £194 12s. ; total, £1749 10s. Exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Company, and pay ment for conveyance of Mails. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Bishop of Chester will hold his next ordination in Chester Cathedral on the 23d of September. _ _ _ The Oxford Herald says that the Bishop of Oxford's carriage arrived the other day at the Rotnish Oratorian Institution, and out got the rev. brother of the bishop, who went in to pay a friendly visit to Father Faber. What this Protestant minister was doing there no one can divine. The Rev. G. Keble, Mr. Dodsworth, Dr. Spry, and 1 Archdeacon Thorpe, Mr. W. Palmer, and others, have formed a committee to watch their bishops, or, as they term it, "to consider the course of any correspondence which may hereafter take place between the Committee of Privy Council on Education and that of the National So ciety." On Saturday, at a meeting for the propagation of the Gospel, held at Willis's rooms, the Bishop of London expressed his great regret that the meeting was so thinly attended, and stated, that it was a sort of reproach to them as a Church that so little general interest was felt in societies having for their objects the extension of the faith throughout the world. The new Bishop of Down and Connor (Dr. Knox) has commenced his episcopate with a stretch of authority which can scarcely fail to render him extremely unpopu lar. It appears that the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan was advertised to preach a sermon on Sunday week in &lfast, in aid of the funds of the Church Education Society, and a large concourse was awaiting his appearance in the pul pit, but the expected preacher was not forthcoming, in consequence of the Reverend Doctor having been served with an interdict by the Bishop forbidding him to preach in the diocese, on the ground of his being a stranger. — [Until very lately Dr. Knox was a member and subscriber to the society which he now tries to damage. Why he ceased to be so, or for what good reasons, the public are but little concerned to know. Nor will it, we think, exalt him much in the estimation of any whose esteem is de sirable, to have commenced his episcopate by what many will regard as a very gross insult to, probably, the most able and meritorious of the clergy of Ireland. Doctor O'Sullivan a stranger! The man whose mild and power ful advocacy of every cause which he ever undertook to advocate has won for him an imperial renown, securing for him the respect and reverence even of those by whom his views were most strongly opposed ! Doctor O'Sulli van a stranger ! Let the widows and the orphans, the blind, the aged, the helpless, and the infirm, for whom he has so often and so ably pleaded, answer the question. Had he been selected for the mitre, which at present en circles the brow of Dr. Knox, would any one have ques tioned his claims ? Can the same be said of the worthy bishop ? We wish not to be provoked into any investi gation of the peculiar merits to which he owes his ad vancement. But undoubtedly they were not those of learning, ability, or public services in his profession, such as distinguish the great man, whom it was his privilege to outrage •, and we do trust the friends of scriptural educa tion will take some means of expressing their emphatical condemnation of an act by which the whole church, with the exception of the time-servers, will, we have no doubt, feel aggrieved and injured.? AFRICAN CLERGYMEN. - A pleasing sight was wit nessed in St. Peter's Church, in this city, on Thursday. We allude to the circumstance of the prayers of the Church being offered up in the English language, and with the purest accent, by a young African clergyman, a man of colour, the Rev. George Nicol, and of another native missionary, the Rev. Thomas Maxwell, being pre sent on the occasion. These gentlemen were ordained by the Bishop of London on Trinity Sunday last, and are on a visit to the - Vicar of St. Peter's, (the Rev. J. Venn,) for whom Mr. Nicol read prayers, as already stated. The Vicar, in the course of his able lecture which followed, said he thought the congregation and the public ought to avail themselves of the presence of these interesting strangers, who were born at Sierra Leone, educated by the Church Missionary Society, and are about to return to Africa as missionaries, to hear something of the pro gress of the Gospel in those parts with which they were acquainted, and announced that a meeting for that object would take place on Monday evening. At this meeting Mr. Nicol, the African, entered upon a simple and very interesting narrative of his early life, and of the state of the Christian religion at his native place of Sierra Leone, that climate so unhealthy to Europeans, but spiritually a bright spot amidst the heathen and moral darkness around. It appeared that his parents were being taken as slaves to a Portuguese colony, when the ship was cap tured by an English vessel, and the crew taken, as usual, to Sierra Leone, upon which, as soon as they had set their foot, being a portion of the British territories, they were of course free. Mr. Nicol's account of his education, his acquirement of Christian truth, and the state of the un converted population beyond the limits of the missionary settlement, riveted the attention of his hearers, whilst his graceful allusion to the eminent men of the last century, including Mr. Venn's grandfather (and again his father of late years), who roused the dormant piety of the Church, showed his acquaintance with our ecclesiastical annals.—Mr. Maxwell, who is from the north of Africa, stated that his parents were Mahomedans, but that his father did not object to his learning English provided that he committed to memory certain passages in the Alcoran. It was thus that he acquired the elements of scriptural truth, and but for British Christians, he must have remained a heathen, if not an idolater, all his days. This speaker also entered into exceedingly interesting details of the state of religion at Sierra Leone, and nothing could be more touching than his description of the recog nitions which sometimes took place in the Queen's Yard, the place where rescued or emancipated slaves (those snatched from foreign dealers) were stationed when first brought in. The inhabitants of the colony would there often again meet a long-lost parent, a wife, a husband, a brother or sister. Mr. Maxwell as well as Mr. Nicol expressed the most heartfelt gratitude for the kindness and generosity that they and their countrymen had expe rienced at the hands of the English, and trusted that they should never deviate from their chosen work, that of preaching and commending in their example the Gospel of Christ—Hereford Attrnal. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. AGE OF PUBLIC OFFICERS.--There are said to be ru mours current at the clubs, to the effect that the Govern ment have laid down a rule, that no person above fifty years of age can be appointed to any vacant office. THE BUDGET.—Formerly this financial exposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer occasioned great interest and crowded houses attested its importance, On Friday night no expectation appeared to be excited, and the house and galleries were equally ill attended. The Daily News says that a more pitiful exhibition was never witnessed than that offered by Sir Charles Wood. MORE FREE TRADE.—It was stated in the House of Commons on Thursday, that the Calais firm of Laroche and Co., have offered to sunply a Cambridgeshire Union if they were allowed to do so with " bread, flour, biscuits, groats, candles, raisins, beef, mutton," &c., at a price such as no English house could compete with them, the articles to be sent viii Folkstone, every week. THE FRENCH AT ROME.—In the House of Commons, On Friday, Mr. Roebuck asked if any disapprobation had been expressed by the British Government of the pro posed bombardment of Rome by the . French.—ln reply, Lord Palmerston, after referring to the delicacy of his po sition, said emphatically, and amid general cheering, that the government had witnessed the circumstances referred to with very great regret. England was no party to the transactions ; and we bad strongly deprecated these unfor tunate proceedings from the first. THE SCENE IN THE HOUSE.—The Honourable M. F. F. Berkeley, on the part of Mr. Roebuck, and Samuel W. Blackall, Esq., on the part of Mr. Fox, have had a correspondence touching the scene in the House of Com mons on Monday. Mr. Blackall having, on the part of his friend, withdrawn the imputation that Mr. Roebuck was the " hired advocate of rebels," the Honourable Mr. Berkeley, on the part of Mr. Roebuck, has with drawn the word "falsehood," as applied to Mr. Fox, and thus the difference has been arranged. _ NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—On Thursday a debate took place in the House of Commons, on a motion proposed by Mr. G. A. Hamilton, member for Dublin University, with a view to effect some modification in the system of national education in Ireland. In the majority of 162 against the motion were, E. Cardwell, Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, T. Tirorneley, J. Heywood, C. Hindley, and R. A. Thicknesso. In the minority of 102 in &your of the motion were, Sir B. H. laglis, Marquis of Blandford, Sir E. N. Buxton, Lord Castlereagh, B. D'lsraeli, J. Heald, J. N2.pier, R. Spooner, and J. P. Plum ptre. Mr. Cobden, in a letter to Mr. Sturge, says, in refe rence- to the arbitration debate :—" Not one *of the county members for Middlesex, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and North and South Lancashire, voted in the majority ; they were all with us or absent. Those constituencies are generally admitted to be fair tests of public opinion. Not one of the metropolitan members voted against us, excepting Lord John Russell. lam afraid that some of our friends will think I took low ground in the arguments I used in introducing the question to the house. I did so purposely. No other appeal than that to reason, facts, and practical experience, would have secured to me a debate." DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—It appears from a statement made by Mr. Newdegate, that from £90,000 to £98,000 passed through one office, that of Messrs. Sale and Worthington, for the creation of 40s. freeholds in Yorkshire and Cheshire. Mr. Newdegate thus stated the scheme by which these 40s. voters are " under the thumb" of their masters of the Leaguo Freehold-purchasing Confederation : The purchaser, who was in debt to the society for the instalments of his purchase, passed a bond—a personal security—not a mortgage, as that would disqualify his vote. Until he had paid up these instalments, he was at the mercy of his securities, who might recall the money lent, at any lime, in case of a contrary vote. _ _ If we may estimate the strength and unanimity of the Peelites by the way in which they supported one of their pet champions, Lord Lincoln, on Tuesday night, they are either a very miserable remnant indeed, or a very divided house. That noble lord had a grand motion about a rank job, the cession of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company. He spoke for four hours and a half; and after a further infliction from Mr. Home, some considerate person had the house "counted out." Lord Lincoln pot angry at this, and next day made a petulant complaint against the government whipper-in. From the conversa tion which ensued we learn this fact—that at no period of the noble lord's speech were there more than half-a-dozen members on the opposition benches, from the front of which he spoke, and that for the last two hours not more than two faithful subs backed their man. BLESSED FREE TRADE !—The people of Lincoln have at length come to their senses, and a genuine Free-trader can only now be found amongst the men of fixed incomes, who have been enriched by low prices, or amongst the most obstinate and mulish of the citizens. Many a re spectable mechanic who bought a comfortable bed when flour was from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per stone, has had to sell it to keep body and soul together, although flour in Lincoln is only Is. Bd. per stone. This fact, " a great fact," speaks volumes as to the wretched delusion that because commodities are low-priced therefore they are cheap, and the want and wretchedness now prevailing with low prices are converting Free-traders by the score. As to the farmers, all feel that unless a great change takes place before long one-half of them must leave their farms. One question even the most self-sufficient and selfish Free-trader has never answered, and it is the following : —lf free trade be the source of wealth and happiness, which Cobden and Co. affirm, who among the labouring and trading people are at this moment in possession of the blessing ? The tradespeople of Louth have for some time past. complained sadly of the effectb of free trade, and we dare not say without a cause. The business that is at present doing is on a very small scale, and that at a low rate of profit ; consequently the result must, sooner or later, prove an unfavourable one to many parties. On Tuesday last two of our minor traders executed deeds of assignment for the benefit of their creditors, and we ex pect other similar occurrences will take place at no dis tant period.—Boston and Lincoln Herald. A SCENE IN THE COMMONS.—If the following scene, which took place in the House of Commons, on Monday night, had been part of a comedy, it would have been cone sured as improbable :—Mr. Reynolds : I never used the words. Mr. Roebuck : There are 200 men in the house who will say these words were uttered. Mr. Reynolds : (Shouts.) No ! The Speaker : Order ! Order ! Mr. Roebuck : 1 insist upon it they were ; but it is disorderly to refer to a past debate, and I won't ! (Mr. D. Browne here rose and spoke inaudibly.) Mr. Roebuck : The hon. member says, it is false. Mr: D. Browne: No, I said it was not true ! Mr. Roebuck : The hon. gentleman is not in that state in which I can notice what falls from him. Mr. Lawless : Give him rope enough. Mr. Roebuck (pointing): An hon. member near me exclaims, " Give him rope enough !" I've marked the gentleman, although I don't know who he is. Mr. Lawless : You don't know the proverb. Mr. Roebuck : The hon. gentleman is adding to the offence. He says I don't know the proverb. —Great confusion here ensues ; the Speaker says, the member for Sheffield ought not to have been interrupted ; Mr. Roebuck quotes the obnoxious proverb in extenso. Lord John Russell blandly intimates that the merits of the question before the house had been " rather lost sight of;" and the lion. member for Clonmel—there is nothing in a name, though his be Lawless—determined to have the last word, complains that several Irish members have been insulted ! This is no fancy sketch, but a veritable scene performed on the floor of the house, a few evenings ago. We have abridged it a little, but have added nothing. Falsehood was twice charged, intoxication once, and no retraction made. 0 temporal 0 mores! The madness of the O'Brien rebellion would seem to have inoculated all who have come into contact with it. THE ITALIAN REVOLUTION.—As for :he effect of the revolution upon Roman Catholicism, both religiously and politically speaking, it must be most disastrous, if not quite fatal. The hierarchy in Italy are not, as I conceive, hated entirely for their lust of power and the bad use they put it to : they are despised as well as bated by the whole mass of the people for their general wholesale depravity of every sort. The Italians have seen too much behind the scenes ever to have the smallest respect for the clergy; and, in fact, there is scarce such a thing as pure and sin cere religious feeling in the country, especially in Rome, as, I dare say, you are well aware. Utter recklessness and total infidelity is the order of the day there, and St, Peter himself would preach in vain there now. If the Pope be restored, his presence will do more ill than good ; and when such becomes the case with the head of the religion, what is to be prognosticated as the fate of the flock. The Romish faith must go down hill, and either die out altoge ther or be found in the several nations as a mere Christian sect, like others, maintaining its own peculiar doctrines and tenets amongst its own sect—unless the misfortunes of the church rouse zeal enough to maintain for a while some faint image of departed glory. There will be much disorder and much infidelity for a while; but the end will be, as I take it, a splitting into various sections of the mass, and a de generating into sects. Some people have an idea that half of Rome is already Protestant; that thousands of Protestant Bibles have been secretly distributed gratis, and received with eagerness ; and that a great part of the people would now at once forsake their old faith were freedom of conscience permitted : but this I take to be a mere hallucination. Converts from one faith to another are not made by the million, and the consequence of op pression in religious matters is much more often a destruc tion of all religion than a change in an opposite direction. —Times Correspondent. THE STEAM NAVY.—Sir C. Napier, " Rear-admiral and late Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron," has addressed a long letter to Lord John Russell, in which he wishes to show the inefficiency of the steam marine of this country, and the efficiency of that of the French. With the view of showing the necessity for increasing our power, he says—" If we dare to say an offensive word, were Louis Napoleon to hold up his fingers, and pronounce the name of England, I verily believe the whole army, Red Republicans and all, would throw up their caps, and rush to the sea coast, just as the gold diggers do to Cali fornia ; they would find a rich harvest here, and easier reaped than by digging ; and what, my lord, have we to prevent them ?" The letter concludes as follows : Your lordship may ask what I propose. I will tell your lordship. Put the whole strength of your dockyards on the steam vessels (such as they are) now on the stocks, and get them ready for service. The Queen has been commissioned—man her and fit her out as fast as possi ble ; complete the crews of the Superb and Ganges ; man the Blenheim and Ajax screw steamers out of the Excel lent ; fit out and arm your best steam-vessels ; and do this at once, before your sailors go to Denmark and Ger many • let this squadron assemble at Spithead. You will then be in a position to arbitrate or remonstrate if you will. Watch well the progress of events in the Mediter ranean, and if any war take place, order the fleet home for the protection of our own shores. Parliament cannot object to this ; Mr. Cobden could not object to it. It is a precaution ; it will not be an expensive precaution. If you do not want to press for. money at present, you may suspend works in progress in the dock-yards that are not pressing.. Search closely into all your departments ; ran- June 26_1.1..1 thousands and thousands of pounds ; sack the dockyards, and you will find the treans2ol of experienced steam officers to decide 11 • ° ,l steam vessels shall be built ; give up cuttin, and and changing ships' bows and sterns ; give uP enc e ' goad sailing ships into bad steamers at 33 ,, se of t ; expense ; aid look more strictly at the exP e " Pr dock-yards, and you will have no occasion to 8 , liament for more money." i? 0 It is said that the Queen bas written ticfal Robert Peel, congratulatin him on the written c'; c re" of his son. The gentleman and the o the secret, 'out mamma, with natiiral appoint vctvf, LAW INTELLIGEAT. THE ASSIZES.—North Wales and G i tster ,, , i fore Mr. Justice Maule and Baron. Platt:1l'10;1 Saturday, July 14; Dolgelly, Wednesday. . 1 11 u es jsP it i narvon, Friday, July 20; Beaumaris, eG,„,scliP 25 ; Ruthin, Saturday, July 28 ; Mold, e'''''coi/ 1; Chester, Saturday, Aug. 4. It turns out that the boasted Joint Stock fay Winding-up Act of last session, so far fr° ll ' jes, Jr of settlement of the affairs of insolvent com Pan tooF )rigliP better than a vehicle for every species ftbe, cruel oppres-iion. A melancholy instance c) ,, t te,F; ists in this district at this moment, and the tl tl i s il! and the grace are receiving their almost " ore Those who dreaded the District Court of Ban . 1 ( sigh for that more just and more merciful tritalo' castle Journal. t e r o BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIA,,-*--:b DI kind was tried in the Court of Queen's B er ''"i : be/ Thursday, before the Lord Chief BarOn• was an English lady, Miss Maria Wilson , i f iCP and the defendant was Mr. John Douglas, °T‘befooro4:4 man of fortune in the county Arrnag? r . trg le r father having become embarrassed in nis the 6t lf; the defendant broke off the match. Sonle,d) Wedy t p a r r o s rl ou lovers dffom 2 etnheeradielfy are. end T defendant wheereraessen:s fer°l the lady, with £BOO damages. Her Maj esty it it' Sa to the Queen Dowager at Tunbridge Z` .l fu e ball, A e 0 a U nRd Prince Albert 4 D A—Ib F e A rt S P E: i I 6 9 : : : The Queen and Prince Albert honotit&ettr," Harmonic Society with their presence ativiesopbs' Friday, to witness the performance of gee ° to the sacred drama of Athalie. frio ce .ii: On Thursday afternoon the Queen a n `itrinc e o ,4 ,i ' accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the vellfr t to' and the Princess Alice, and attended j e ,wep the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Boirr A er eo fete at Holland Park, Kensington, an d :h 5 games under the auspices of the ,t of " Princ Londo. een t lti l e Albert presided on Friday at the,.., Commissioners for Promoting the Fine Ar'' the Pelace of Westminster. tebrs l t i i er, On Monday the customary banquet to r eii bl i.o F niversary of the Battle of Waterloo was Ir y o re t' of Wellington, and it passed off with al brilliancy. Prince Albert was present. to ti! et t Prince Albert has accepted an invitation, pcloo annual meeting of the Royal Agricul turm I pointed to take place this month at NOrwich.gitotrii Fr! while sojourning at Norwich, will be t l ' e V, Bishop of Norwich. .01 f". ti , t The Count and Countess de Neuilly ~, , ter„lo St. Leonard's, on a visit to the Queen v e t jta" bridge Wells, and remained to luncheon scl aro, .44 D trious personage. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland liat,i;e a. l/4 severe domestic calamity by the sudden ter„ef.ol4 youngest daughter, the lady Alexandrine co ti? lf The deceased child, about 18 months ol d, ' n ig t o' convulsions in the course of Thursday mn r iera after the nuptials of the Marquis of Sflfiej. Hay Mackenzie), and never afterwards r ai ve 9, GRAND SCOTTISH FETE IN LONDON• ga d, Kt of the Scottish Society, which we Inen l i s sd commenced on Wednesday, in Lord fin' o lle't Kensington. 5000 persons, including a er iper'4, 4 ables, attended. A corps of Highland I' ho t , the ground, marshalled by Angus MaellaY'. to te% piper. Soon after twelve o'clock the el'''. 15 with the competition for the archery Pri z ,, e , i 'i t telttr o i sisted of pieces of plate of the value of 300 prizes were open to all England, Scotlaa";torpt6 and the competitors numbered about 80, i n r ' ef , of toxophilite societies in the country bein4 or ce, e ff their most adroit members. Mr. R. "f r rt b o efte Norfolk, was the Winner. Immediately tv,hror) trial, eight stalwart Highlanders entere u ie dgqi contend for the prizes awarded to the bee,tthe The hammer used was 20 lb. weight, an" A.reb' / were those of Colin Macdonald, 86 feet; .' leo pei donald, 81 ; A. M`Hardy, 81; Thomas ' - `,b e no s o9 " Putting" the heavy shoulder stone Was i i re elso . meat. A great number of pibrochs an ' F ef e . ,o l , l formed on the great Highland pipes. anted b. dances, strathspeys, and reels, were execi„; o ioe' ll , (1? dancers with truly vigour,wonderfulPnctie e ,(l o ) lity. For the prizes given to the best or dtzi Highlanders started, the first prize being a bi ,e o l ; e ft;', lin Macdonald. The sports were wound °P r , J• c l4 bouts at single stick and broadsword Pl3l n o altogether amounted to 500 gu i n eas, 3u,,,d ,tros apportioned to the most expert archers, ":„; , ' - ber , / der are to be distribut e d, i n sums varY l ijie° t £3, amongst the successful competitors iS O' r el e i and pasti men. After paying the prizes i r .'„ g of t ( ii? expenses, the committee purpose halw2;; for lip plus, which it is hoped will be c onsidarea• I ttee i 5 tP tion among the Scottish charities of the . i e t O / t i Thursd: y the fete-was continued, and aV o jes',l o l , l, importance from a visit paid by her s ss 0 r Prince Consort. The Duke of Wellington sc,rbteher Tint LATE PRESENTATION AT COUnl . ' her Majesty in this disagreeable affair en:iticrel grateful respect of the nation, and the no of Gazette, involving, as it did, an inditeet..4sl" Lord Chamberlain and his subordinatestin'ts 0101,7 prevent the recurrence of any fresh atfe te r r bs s ho those admirable rules which her Maj e9t; of t 's t . for the purpose of maintaining the puritY o lo , : o l// In the reign of George IV., and perbar s ' tfi A? his successor, successful attempts had b ee a to",ttiii cases of ladies of high rank to obtain preseostitrtf would not have been permitted by Quee n oli tt 't t l : reign of good old George 111. But, althoncierit; may still appear at the Court of Queen jesty's rules have forbidden the repetitionyoe s tations of the same kind. In the late cq e ,:gs l4ifif ill seated by her sister-in-law, was the wife of (4 57: o !, Colonel of one of the regiments of Horse G o such holding the office at Court of Sil.V er P ee l former occasion a similar attempt to Il e whom he married several years after t . r . l l ellest son, had been repulsed. The c i , t io,r, that marriage were notorious, and the c l u „,, e irleA cacy in legitimising their son had been of p eft Court of Session in Scotland to the linu -e p Marquis of Dalhousie was next heir to thef property, but the decision of the House ° s oli the principle of Scotch law, that as f 4) ,..„,.0 o j e ► marriage legitimises the previously -a " t a i tf e bfg?" Scotch parents. When her Majesty bl i p If SK) tat ion, the notice in the Gazette was Pn der, and the Major of the regiment 1 09 110,4 ' e )li the royal table instead of the Colonel. tLottl',l.; persisted in this course, the Colonel in, ns both his commission and his Silver Stiel'oe,,ri,toi went off to Scotland on leave of absenee , „ o l o Pboty was pleased to accept of the Colonel's t', i rtion g te s , r il ing that enough had been done as a jge Lord Chamberlain and to those who noire. tempt to infringe on the rules of the C° 8o ir? THE DUKE OF NORFOLK'S FETE 100" Tuesday was a grand day at Norfolk , aly honouring the noble duke with her VI, tll e oe t tY banquet and ball. At the dinner taut.-olit,eogyir upon the rigut hand of the Duke of I•l°r ort oc / eV? of Kent sitting upon his Grace's left. iace, ti b it Queen sat, in the order named, the prince, NI Duchess of Norfolk, Lord John Russ_e-,,,e 0 pr o of Ellesmere. Upon the left of the li n g , of be ' the Duke of Wellington, the Coun ts- i, 17 ) Duke of Buccleuch, and Sir Robert Fr, t10 5 09,,t of Granby faced the noble host, hav ni ftoOitirt Buccleuch, and the Marchioness of AY e ; r,c e jr,tl9, ively upon his right and left. La°`" sad (VI Russell, Earl Grosvenor, Sir E. LP:Ol5"r tb e r f? fi r f were also present. Immediately , f -So,,kkoty been placed upon the table, the Duke 1 0 ,10 4 b ej proposed—" The Queen." The n° o rris' but emphatically pronounced the tvo; c v:L l : . l i face or addition, and the company, rilber 9 ,ed/. in silence. Her Majesty having WI a rorA'; e 4 ments, the duke rose again, anu ; $ 1 , e rif Albert," in like manner, and his It ° ,.> th e ir fl„ ing made a similar acknowledgere c c .cow ev'dvr Norfolk conducted the Queen, being a u V Duchess of Kent and the rest of the r. r er foll‘s lo l , noble rooms forming the saloons of, I I 0' 3 44 4 ) banquet was succeeded by a grnd un l O 4, rt!, tons were issued to about two hundred a 0,,,d,r of the aristocracy. The ball was ope i )e ftr pr olfe her Majesty leading off with I ,o t,'„,itli~t Y Howard. Her Majesty then waltzel e aeri o ififl The Almacks' quadrille followed , dtb e ‘fil es o l .,4 the Marquis of Granby with her hen opr Lither,/ dancing with Mdle. de Flabault. dri lls g v i ,rl quently danced in the Stradella (ln a , ta ljnb i O r ti/ quis of Kildare, the Prince ConsVeculeeeroo, the Hereditary Grand Duchess saf„'• e stY h dti e, l l In the Gubel quadrille, her -e„,'V a , Alfred Paget with her hand. I n 'a fr°, e elli danced with the Earl Grosvenor, i fi n u ati' e her Majesty entered the ball-r° th,,110,,t rt , v'.,ove period at which she took her della ar - t/ 1 , ted to dance but once, and that vib e ''iecloe r p , The Queen and the Prince, accolnuteei coop relatives, left the ball-room at five° e pere vi t i i s ll The festivities were kept up by t he %al t tlie4 a much later hour. We regr.et to fit itl es t o y . , Russell was seized with a famtinf - ot P; about eleven o'clock, and carr ied ht lordship . speedily revived when 131 1, 0 01,„ Pio and shortly afterwards left, in no"'„,,r 4 lo'"d 1, Russell for his mansion in Cb esba a s en , . 1 moment at the he was taken w ‘ess of mated conversation with the Count 1.0 1y .,! NN Ntr• s eP THERE IS NO REMEDY , e o e PILLS FOR THE CURE OF AST .ec . ,01 1 „., , Belmont, Carlow, having der' n olie ybee ° oil j e of these Pills, wishes it to b 'l e e'en persons troubled with A a , tha_, t t itt . e,„ _ A this distressing comp! for threatift Ir p ) and although he h tried ag oe none seemed to im any 'fe e d;, „ ing Holloway's Pi' , which invalua.eatli afforded him onderful relief; .). u; perfectly free and easy. the 26