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Empertal paritaintnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord BROUGHAM, in presenting a petition from Glasgow against any further grant or endowment to the Church of Scotland, expressed his satisfaction with the declaration made by Lord Melbourne upon the subject. The Earl of ABERDEEN said he had understood that the noble viscount had given a pledge that funds to a certain amount should be applied to the further endowment of the Scotch Church. Lord MELBOURNE said, that the government had not at present come to the determination of making any proposition on the subject. On the motion of Lord SEAFORD, several papers mkttive to the working of free labour in Jamaica were ordimed. The Earl of ABERDEEN inquired if there was any further inkrmation relative to the war in the east to be laid before the House, and was informed by Lord MELBOURNE, that considerable additional informa tion had been received, which would be laid before their lord ships. He added, that he would make a statement upon the subject as soon as all the papers were produced. In answer to a question from the Marquis of NORMANBY, The Earl of RODEN stated, that the motion of which he had given notice for Thursday next would be for a commit tee to inquire into all the circumstances connected with the state of Ireland. Some discussion ensued on the presentation of a petition by Earl Stanhope, complaining of the conduct of the poor law commissioners, and a petition presented by the Earl of Mountrashel in favour of the corn-laws. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. After the presentation of a great number of petitions, Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that soon after Easter he would call the attention of the house to the subject of impressment in the navy. In answer to a question from Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord PALMERSTON said that Mr. M`Neill, the envoy at the court of Persia, after retiring from Persia had returned to this country on account of ill health, and that he had left Colonel Shiel as Charge d'Affaires. A short discussion took place respecting the affairs of Canada, when it was settled that Wednesday should be fixed for the discussion of the question. On the motion being made for the house resolving itself into committee of supply, Mr. T. ArrwooD moved ` That it be an instruction to the committee to reconsider the vote of 34,160 seamen and marines, and to inquire whether it would not be advantageous, in the presentstate of the country, considering its foreign relations, to make an immediate and considerable increase ;" but after a short discussion, he con sented to withdraw his motion.: The house then went into a committee of supply, when several votes connected with the army were agreed to. The debate on the corn-laws was then resumed for the fifth time, and after a discussion of several hours the house divided, when Mr. Villiers's motion was lost by a majority of 147 the numbers being for th e mo ti on 195, aga i nst i t 342. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. Lord NORMANBY (in answer to the inquiry of the Earl of Ripon, whether any further documents were forthcoming) stated that, connected with the Maltese commission, he was endeavouring to procure more information on the subject of the reports, which, as soon as obtained, he would present. The Earl of ABERDEEN, in moving for papers illustrative of the state and causes of the war in the East, said that he was prepared to wait for the papers regarding Persia, and, therefore, would make no observations in reference to our relations with that power ; but that he must apply for papers regarding the warlike proceedings at Affghanistan, and of the governor-general's declaration, &c., and at the same time condemn the conduct of the government, as far as he under stood it. Lord MELBOURNE complained of the condemnatory lan guage of the noble earl in the present state of affairs in the East, and said that, now he knew what were the papers, he would ascertain whether they could be produced consistently with the interests of the public service. The Earl of ABERDEEN clai me d th e right to comment on the The declaration, it having been laid on their table. If that document was to be exempted from cri ticism, why was it produced ? Their lordships soon after adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. The Bristol and Gloucester bill was read the second time, after some opposition and a division. On the motion of Mr. HAWES, it was ordered that none of the 21, or more, " small debts" bills, now before the house, should be committed until after April 8, in order to afford the opportunity of proceeding with the general and uniform measure on the subject now on their table. Sir T. FREMANTLE presented a petition from Wigan, com plaining of the undue return of Mr. Ewart. Ordered to be considered April 16. Mr. GRATTAN moved for various returns respecting the appropriation of the £50,000 annually voted for the purposes of education in Ireland.. Lord MORPETH expressed his readiness to produce the returns, excepting that portion which required the Protes tant and Roman Catholic children to be separately enumer ated. Mr. Grattan's motion led to an extended and desultory l but not very animated, discussion. THE MEXICAN BLOCKADE. Lord SANDON having been called upon by the Speaker to bring forward the motion of which he h a d given notice, re specting the French blockade of the Mexican ports, presented a petition from the merchants of Liverpool on that subject. It was a subject which had previously been before the house. He thought he perhaps need not further allude to tne con tents, as he should be called upon to move for them in some detail. He would only remark that this petition was not one signed only by the merchants of Liverpool, but was signed by other persons also. He understood that there were other petitions from London and Glasgow on the same subject, and he would wait until they had been presented. Mr. GROTE then presented a petition on the same subject as the noble lord, the member for Liverpool, had given no tice of, from the merchants of London connected with the Mexican trade, complaining of the serious grievance of the Mexican blockade. Lord SANDON again rose. He said, the motion of which he had given notice wt , s for the production of certain papers between certain merchants in connexion with the trade of Mexico and Buenos Ayres and the members of Her Majesty's government, whether abroad, or -in the department of the Foreign-office. He felt much embarrassment in putting him .6l,Z•dreme- 'AJA LLaral couittlerce. tie should not have thought of mixing a question of this nature up with a question of the law of nations, a question for which he was not fitted by peculiar education, if he had not been called on most imperatively, some way or other, to being the question before the house. In bringing forward this question he con fessed he felt one difficulty in a great degree—that the nature of the discussion almost imposed on him the necessity of en tering in some degree on a sort of criticism on the actions and proceedings of a friendly nation ; and therefore he should take the liberty of disclaiming at the very outset of his observations any feeling of hostility against a country upon whose conduct he was called on to make some remarks, in any other way than that their proceedings were at variance with the interests of Great Britain, and against the interest of all other nations with which Mexico had any extensive commerce. Perhaps it was necessary, before he went into the case, in some degree to al lude to the proceedings, both with regard to Buenos Ayres and Mexico, which had preceded the blockade, the effect of which all who were engaged in British commerce had such reason to deplore. At the same time it was not the business of that house to enter into the policy of a foreign country, except as it re garded the interests of this. He should endeavour, therefore, to make his observations as concise as possible. With regard to Buenos Ayres, for a long period of time France had shown a great desire to possess considerable influence in the river Plata. They had evidence of this early desire of France, not only in the state papers published by the Foreign-office in 1820 and 1821, but also in the communications and investiga tions on this subject with M. Chateaubriand. In the year 1821, under the administration of that prime minister of France, the government of France entered into negotiations for the purpose of establishing a Bourbon dynasty as the government of that devoted colony. As soon as this was dis covered, Mr. Canning, the then minister of England, made a most decided communication to France, inquiring if such was the intention of France. If he (Lord Sandon) was not mis informed, to that question M. Chateaubriand gave a denial ; but subsequently, perhaps the vanity of that distinguished man had led him to betray the fact that his denial was not founded on fact, and that his intrigues in France had that object. But he confessed that this early proceeding have them a little insight into the motives of the transactions which France had been carrying on lately in Buenos Ayres, and led them to imagine that it was not simply for the redress of grievances of that republic, but for the purpose of carry ing on her ancient interests in that state, and for which she had taken the extraordinary and unusual measure she had. It was a remarkable fact that France had throughout inter fered in the internal divisions of that state. She had pro tected the minister of that state, who had been driven by an Su, -act of his government to seek refuge in France. He remained 9111 - there a considerable time with other refugees, and they had now returned to Buenos Ayres under the proteetion of the -r, French flag. Th e ostens ib le causes, however, of the differ . ences between Buenos Ayres and France, were—so far as he (Lord Sandon) could collect them, amidst the liberal pro fusion of phraseology displayed in all the diplomatic corre spondence on this question on both sides, out of which it was very difficult to obtain any information—s o far as he Ird been nhlp fr. ‘1,40.6, v u et! objects or France were e protection of some of her subjects who had settled within the district of Buenos Ayres from being called on to serve in the militia, that they should have the right of retail trade, and they also sought for indemnity for some injuries which particular individuals of that nation had suffered, or at least had been stated to have suffered ; but greatly redo minating over all th ese was the imposition on the p state of Buenos Ayres, of a treaty of commerce similar to that enjoyed by Great Britain. lie thought, though the exemption from serving in the militia might be a cause for negotiation, and an object desirable for France to attain for her subjects, it yet did not justify a cause of war. The disputes of France with Mexico were much of the same nature as those with Buenos Ayres, though he confessed that the French had more reason to complain of the conduct of Mexico than of Buenos Ayres. He did not deny that France, as well as other nations which had to deal with Mexico, had much reason to be dissatisfied with her conduct, and he (Lord Sandon) had had on more than one occasion to com plain on the p ar t o f hi s constituents of the injustice of the Mexican Government. It had levied forced loans without distinction of the subjects of other nations who were affected by it; but this they justified on the plea of necessity; in fact, like other half-civilized, half-organized states, Mexico was not in a condition to afford adequate protection to the subjects of other nations, but he must say that that did not justify France in proceeding to the extremities she did. He did not feel it necessary on this occasion to enter into an examination in detail of the grounds stated by France for her blockade of the coasts of Mexico, but it could not be denied that the French government, whatever might have been the real round of dispute, had made an attempt to extort com mercial advantages under the pretext of redressing individual grievances. After a good deal of negotiation on this subject, a blockade of the Mexican ports was notified by France in May last, and made, in hi s op i nion, with a force not suffi cient to justify her Majesty's government in acknowledging it at first; but he admitted that afterwards a force sufficieut for an effective blockade had been sent out under Admiral 13audin. The question which he raised on this part of the case was, whether, in the first instance, Great Britain was called upon to recognize the blockade with such breathless haste as it had done • and next, wh e th er, considering the great amount o f British interests at stake, the French had any just ground for a blockade, and whether it was at first enforced by a force sufficiently effective. He confessed, for his own part, that he much doubted whether the French were justified in the blockade at all. He was but little skilled in those questions which arose out of international law, but he had the curiosity to look into several writers of admitted authority on these subjects, and, notwith s t an di ng the prac tice w hi c h had grown up recent date of resorting to block ade on slight occasions, and before a declaration of war, he found in those authorities a decided opinion that a blockade was a purely belligerent right. It had, however, been of late used i . n a different sense. He could not, in the authorities to which he had referred, find any case in which it had been recognized in any other sense. It seemed not to have been a case at all contemplated. It was like parricide under the Romans—no punishment had been decreed against it, be cause it was a case not at all contemplated. Looking at the decisions of Sir W. Scott, he found that blockade had always been held as a pure right of war between bel- APPEARANCE OF THE WHEAT CROP.—We rejoice to be able to state, upon the authority of several intelligent farmers, resident in various parts of the corn districts, in the neigh bourhood of this town, that, so far as can be at present judged of the appearance of the wheat crops, the prospects are highly auspicious. On the whole, the season has been by no means unfavonrable for agricultural operations.—Preston Chronicle. CURIOUS CASE. —At the Moot-hall, Colchester, on Mon day, Mr. Samuel Powell was summoned for 9s. arrears of church -rates. Mr. Powell pleaded that he had tendered the money on the overseer's demand being made. The overseer said that defendant offered to pay him in farthings, and as that was not a legal tender he refused to accept them. The defendant contended that it was a legal tender, being the cur rent coin of the realm. On a reference to the 56th Geo. 111., cap. 68, it was discovered that no. other money than silver was a legal tender under 405., and none but gold above that sum. The defendant was ordered to pay the rate and costs. —Chelmsford Chronicle. FOUR PERSONS POISONED.—Two LIVES LOST.—The village of Hempnall, near Long Stratton, has this week been thrown into a state of great alarm, by a woman, her two children, and a neighbour who was washing for her, being all poisoned. It seems that a carpenter named Daynes, liv ing in the same village, who goes out to work for the farmers in their own yards, got up at the usual time on Monday morning last, to go to his work ; b ut before he went from the house he filled the kettle with water, as was supposed ready for b rea kf ast—a thing with him very unusual. The wife was in bed when he went away, but soon afterwards got up, kindled a fire, and boiled this kettle, containing the same water the husband had left. She had sent for an old woman named Betty Mills, who had formerly lodged with them, to come and help her to wash. Mills attended, and the two women, and two young children' of Mrs. Daynes's, sat down to breakfast. The women made tea from the ket tle, and the children had sop from the same water. They had scarcely finished breakfast before every one of them was taken ill. Mrs. Daynes was violently sick, and vomited very copiously, as did also one child. Their illness was so alarm ing that it was necessary to call in medical aid, and the hus band also was sent for from his work. He came home, and as soon as he arrived, was observed to take the kettle to a beck standing at the back door, and rinse it very carefully, and would have put the children's sop, that still remained, out of the way, but was prevented. Messrs. Litton and Bur ton attended ; to whom it became evident that the - people had been poisoned. The youngest child, about two years and a half old, died in a few hours, and the poor old woman (Mills) ceased to exist at about half-past three o'clock : the others, from the effect of the sickness, though considered in a very precarious state, are likely to recover. The man Daynes was taken into custody, and on Wednesday a jury was summoned to hold an inquest on the bodies, before Mr. Pilgrim, county coroner. It appeared that the man Daynes had formed an acquaintance with a woman named Gook, in the neighbouring village of Tasburgh ; but being somewhat crossed in this amour, had at different times threatened to put an end to his own existence, and for this purpose had kept a razor under his pillow, or got ropes to hang himself, so that the parties lived but very, uncomfortably. It was also shown, that during the previous week he went to Mr. Brownts, a chemist, at Long Stratton, for six-pennyworth of arsenic ; but Mrs. Brown refusing to supply it, he wen t away, refusin g t o h ave " so much trouble." Report says that the woman Gook purchased it for him ; but that we cannot assert for truth. The inquest on the bodies has been adjourned, in order to procure time for the analization of the contents of the stomach, which have been sent to Norwich for that purpose. —Ipswich Journal. ligerent parties ; that it was looked upon as an exit-I'6ll'k right of war, as it inflicted so much injury, not alone on the nation whose ports were declared in h g; ate of block ade, but also on the interests of heti - toil powers ; and on these grounds Sir W. Scott 'would not recognize it in any other sense. He tLord•Santion) looked upon block ade as something analogmis to a state of siege, which no power had a right toter upon except in a state of war. This was the opinion of Bynkershook, that it was purely a belligerent Tbrht of parties at declared war. All authoritative writers the law of nations admitted that a blockade to be recognized must be effective not only for one but for all of the ports declared to be blockaded, that it should lee as far as possible a circumvallation of those ports, if he might , so Ott that word, so as to make it a matter of great risk for any vessel to attempt to go in or come Gat of these ports This was the opinion of very high naval authorities. It was held by the British Admiral Rowley,. VIM was at Ilk - head of a naval force in those very waters in 11121 and 1822. A CI - hat period a blockade had been proclaimed by The 'Spanish Go vernment of the ports la the Rio de la Plata, by Which British commerce in those quarte rs had suffered Ary considerably. On that occasion the British 'Admirtil addressed a remon strance to the Spanish officer in , conimand of the blockading force, in which he declared'tikal he would resist the blockade, against the legality of which he protested ; that legality, he observed, depending %n the power of the blockading force to prevent any vessel 'from going in or coming out of the block aded ports without great risk. Now, he (Lord Sandon) wanted to know whether a similar course bad been adopted with re spect to the blockade of the ports of Mexico?—whether the blockade was effective as to all the ports, for if it wets not ef fective in some, it would vitiate the whole? The admiral went on to say that the blockading ships eenhl not enforce it partially, and only where these ships happened to be, for the blockade must be effectively kept in all. The language 'of Sir W. Scott on the same subject was that the besieging force must be applied to all the ports resorted to for such a:purpose —(hear, hear.) The writers, however, couldte 'brought to bear upon it inferentially, for all throughout their works it was mentioned as a belligerent right, and only in that light was it received by th em —(h ear, hekr. l c : This was the view taken of it by Sir William Scott It was purely a right of war, and, being an extreme ono, it should be watched with the greatest jealousy. 'Ceee should always be taken that no injury should acertiete neutral parties. If Sir William Scott were now living he would receive a blockade in no other than a belligerent view, and would by no means allow its use as an intermediate instrument—(hear, hear.) It was to all intents and purposes the same as a strict siege, and could Weyer be considered in the light of a gentle pressure from without , — (a laugh.) He did not think that the French had the power of enforcing their blockade on the northern coast of Mexico. The noble lord then referred to the opinion Of a French offi cer in proof of the fact, and next read extracts from the cor respondence of the authorities of the United States on the sub ject. He contended that there was on the part of the govern ment of this country atlispositionto support French rather than British interests. If we could not prevent hostilities in Mexico, we ought, at least, to •do our utmost towards mitigatilig their effects. The noble lord then referred to varioussitocuments, for the pUrpose of showing that no adequgtt 'protection was afforded to the commercial interests of -England in Mexico. The trade between Liverpool and Wilco produced, at least, £500,000. a-year, yet nothing sits done to protect it. Would that the country had these&ices of Mr. Canning at so criti cal a moment as thisd now very different would he have acted from the noble lord opposite ! (Palmerston.) When the Liverpool 'merchants made application to the admiralty for protection to the trade with Mexico, and for a govern ment packet to convey specie from Mexico to this country, what wars the answer given ? Why, that sufficient protection was already afforded, and that there was no want of it. When the application was repeated, and when it was urged that the United States had the right of exporting specie from Mexico, and why should England not have it also ? The answer he received was that an application would be made to the French government, with the view of obtaining permission -for the object in question. The noble lord then went On to argue that the blockade was not eftective, and:Skit for 30 or 40 days there was not a single ship at Tempieo, nor was there one at Laguna till the 30th Of .11/14.y last, while the trade in logwood was entirely suspended. It was not till the 28th of October that any steps were taken by the British government to send out a naval force to Mexico, thus suffering a period of four or five months to intervene without any protection whatever. He had reason to telieve that when, at the re quest of British merchants, her Majesty's ministers did inter fere, their language of remonstrance was not very decided. It was known that not a single ship of war appeared in the 6'lW of Mexico for the purpose of attending to British inte rests till the latter end of the month of December. British exports to Mexico had undergone a reduction of three-fourths in the latter months of last year. The noble lord, is con clusion, submitted his motion to the house, Mr. GOULDURN seconded it. Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to produce the cor respondence with the merchants, but declined to give the ne gociations with France, which it might be detrimental to the very object of them to publish. He agreedin the general principles stated by Lord Sandon : on the individual applica tion of them he had consulted the legal advisers of the Crown throughout the whole of these transactions. Practically, he considered that a state of hostility existed : the warning of the Admiral, that unless certain conditions were complied with, his squadron must interfere, was a declaration of war. No minister had been more anxious than himself for the pro tection of commerce ; he deemed it no duty of his to aid or to vindicate France. - But he thought it inexpedient in gene ral to censure foreign governments in parliament : it produted irritation, and injured the interests of England : though he was willing to admit that in the present ease the British in terests, involved in the act of France, made the right of comment by members of the British parliament a very fair one. There was no intention, however, on the part of France to accomplish a permanent settlement on the soil of Mexico. Of this he had full and satisfactory assurances. The noble moVer had blamed the government for not having had a larger foroe, and for not having taken a higher tone. Could we have gone to war for the prevention of this block ade ? If not, the large force and the high tone would come to nothing. We had now, indeed, despatched a large force ; but it was designed only to give moral weight to our efforts. He had intended no incivility to the merchants who had ap plied to him ; he felt that they were entitled to all' possible respect ; he had only been anxious not to mislead them. Mr. E. TENNENT exposed the unsoundness of the French pretexts. The Americans had fared better than the English, by making a greater display of power. If ministers had used either moral force or physical, England would not have been placed in so humiliating and helpless a state. The hon. mem ber then entered into certain questions relating to claims of France and Brazil upon Portuguese ' Guiana, and to the indemnifi eat:intuit: Aritials hirtsuitOdantot i 1— "" Mr. GROTE complained of the conduct at Vera Cruz and Mexico of the French, maintaining that it called for the marked interference of the British government. Dr. LDSHINGTON also strongly condemned the proceedings of France, as oppressive and unjustifiable, and contrary to the usages of nations ; and urged the interference of our government, by the most decided remonstrances that could be well enforced after whht had taken place in that house, to show France that England was "wide awake" to its conduct. Mr. C. WOOD stated what force had been sent to the sta tion, declaring that there was sufficient to protect British interests, the best proof of which was that that they had not suffered. • Sir R. PEEL thought that there had not been adequate activity and remonstrance on the part of our government ; that there outght to be information produced ; and that it was far from being clear that British interests had not suffered. The motion, however, was eventually withdrawn. The orders of the day, together with the report of such army estimates as were adopted on Monday night, having been disposed of, the house adjourned. --.,.-.—.- HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY. The House of Lords did not assemble to-day. - .WOW HOUSE OF COMMONS.--WEDNESDAY. Many petitions were presented on the subject of the beer act, most of them praying for its revision, especially so far as concerned the consumption of the beer on the premises. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to inquiry from Mr. Hume, said that it was not the intention of the government to pro pose any alteration of the institutions of Newfoundland. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that after Easter he would move for a copy of the charter of Trinity College, Dublin ; also for copies of any correspondence that may have taken place between the King of Hanover and the authorities of the college. Dr. LUSHINGTON intimated his intention to move for copies of any despatches or proceedings, on the part of the Governor of the Leeward Islands, recommending the convo cation of a general assembly of those islands. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, in answer to Mr. Wodehouse's in quiry, said that he thought he should best consult the con venience of the parties if he were to defer his motion which was appointed for to-day, relative to work-house out-door relief, until after Easter. The highways bill, on motion of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, went through committee. Mr. PAEINGTON moved the second reading of the sale of beer act amendment bill; which, after much conversation, was read a second time. THE UNITED STATES (From the New York Gazette of February 28.) WASHINGTON, February 26, 1839.—The most popular and he easiest theme of declamation is war. We have had a dozen or two of regular war speeches in both houses, upon the message relative to the boundary difficulties. The message was read to both houses about two o'clock. It was found to be a sensible, conciliatory, and moderate paper, but still sufficiently tenacious of the honour and in terests of the country. It does not approve of the rash pro ceedings of Governor Fairfield, and recommends to Maine to withdraw and disband her forces. The President says, however, that Great Britain has no title to exclusive juris diction in the territory in dispute, and he does not think she will persist in asserting it. He roposes first, to try th pending negotiation, and, if that fa p il, he will propose the re ference of the dispute to the arbitrament of a third power. But should the authorities of New Brunswick persist in their aggressions, and in asserting and maintaining exclusive juris diction over the territory, he will then deem it the constitu tional duty of the executive to repel the invasion. He re fuses to comply with the demand of Governor Fairfield for aid from the United States under present circumstances ; but, in an anticipation of the occurrence of such an emer gency as will render the interference o f the general govern ment necessary, and to obviate the necessity of calling an extra session of congress, he recommends it to congress to make proper provision for any contingency. Mr. Waddy Thompson, of S.C., first spoke, and eulogized the message in the warmest terms, as manly and patriotic. He gave his unqualified approbation to the whole course of the administration on this subject. • He deprecated war, and knew that its consequences might be disastrous to us, and that it might be made a pretext by England for seizing upon Cuba ; but still, in a matter of national pride and honour, he would not stop to count the cost. The right of the United States was not a question. That had been decided unani mously by both Houses of Congress heretofore. The ques tion now to be decided was, whether we should passively submit to the insults and aggressions of England. The tone of Sir John Harvey's letters he thought insolent in the ex treme, &c. He moved the printing of 20,000 extra copies of the message and documents. Mr. Evans, of Maine, followed in a long speech, exhibit ing the present position of this question. He complained of the past neglect of this subject by the general government, and remarked upon the former conduct of the administration as " pusillanimous." He expressed himself as being pleased with the assertion by the President that, in case the aggres sion should be persisted in, he would aid Maine. But he maintained that Maine was now entitled to the support of the general government. All hope of adjustment through nego ciation would be found delusive. The temper of the people of New Brunswick, of the people of Maine, of the determi nation evinced in the letters of Governor Harvey, Mr. Fox, arid Governor Fairfield, showed that matters would be pushed to an extremity. He called upon congress to provide, at once, the necessary means for aiding Maine ; and he insisted that the state of Maine would not flinch from the position she had taken, whether she was supported in it or not. Several gentlemen, Messrs. Adams, Cushing, Lincoln, and Sergeant, supported Mr. Evans' views. The whigs went the whole hog in both houses. They threw Van's quiet message quite into the shade. Mr. Clay was for giving the President men and money. The Committee on Foreign Affairs will soon report on the subject. The house is still in session (ten o'clock) on the civil and diplomatic bill. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. To the Senate of the United States, and House of Representatives. I lay before Congress several despatches from his Excel lency the Governor of Maine, with the enclosures, commu nicating certain proceedings of the Legislature of that State, and a copy of the reply of the Secretary of State, made by my direction, together with a note from H. S. Fox, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, with the answer of the Secretary of State to the same. It appears from the documents that a numerous band of lawless and desperate men, chiefly from the adjoining British provinces, but without the authority or sanction of the Pro vincial Government, had trespassed upon that portion of the territory in dispute between the United States and Great Britain which is watered by the river Aroostook, and claimed to belong to the State of Maine ; and that they had commit ted extensive depredations there by cutting and destroying a large quantity of timber. It will further appear that the Governor of Maine, having been officially apprised of the circumstance, had communicated it to the Legislature, with a recommendation of such provisions, in addition to those already existing by law, as would enable him to arrest the trespassers, and secure the timber which they were about carrying away ; that in compliance with a resolve of the Le gislature, passed in pursuance of his recommendation, his Excellency had despatched the land-agent of the State, with a force deemed adequate to that purpose, to the scene of the alleged depredations, who, after accomplishing a part of his duty, was seized by a band of the trespassers, at a house By the England, Captain Waite, we have received New York papers to the Ist instant, inclusive. The England accomplished the passage in nineteen days, having arrived here on ThesdAs` last. We learn from these papers that the Litt-giool was to leave New York on-the 9th imstaht. Her arrival 'flay, therelbre be doily evetted.Vtre extract i from 'the - New York gapers a variety of intelligeriCe ; 'chiefly 'relatii* to the boundary question, respecting 'Which the President addressed a s p ec i a l Message Orr the '6th ultimo : , From the New York Gazette of Feb. 26.) FROM MAINE.—The eastern mail of yesterday furnishes some futher news in relation to the border difficulties. The resolutions that had previously passed in the !tout for 800,000 dollars, and for the increase of the military force on the disputed territory, have passed the S e n a t e , an d the 'Go= vernor has ordered the following drafts ofthemilitiathiaiighu out the State, the ofilters and 'goldiers ‘VeA 'ihtatlied to severally hold themselves in readhiess for on immediate call into the istrvice of the 'State; %riticitcliid &juipped as required by JAW : Cavaltr, 451-Riflemen, 548----Light infantry, 15'2-Infantry, 7581.—TOtal, 10,343! !.! The Major Otrierals andnffieers ctorinia,nding division's are dtrected to cause the draft's to be. made with n l 'l)6iSgible ex pedition, and to cdmplete'the rolls of bath Wficers and men. Col. Rogers, who had been 'ffisWilied by Governor Fair field to-New littitivick, had returned to Augusta, in com pany.With'Mclntyre-, the land agent, rele ase d by th e Provin cial Government on his parole of honour. Orders have been sent to nan e ,eor for the release of Mr. McLaughlin on the same condition. Colonel Rogers was the bearer of a 'letter from Sir John Harvey to Governor Fairfield, containing the following propositions. Ist. That the Provincial Land Agent, Mr. McLs.lighlin, be released on the same terms that Mr. Mclntyre was released. 2d. That the trespassers be giVen tip to be tried by the British laws. , 3d. That the f or m the disputed territei.y inina'cdiately withdrawn. At tht latest dates tap . t.itirl Ititkt 'was at No. IC), on the Aroostook, with 700 'menu all in fine spirits. Gen. Hodsdon left Bangor 'On 'the 21st with 1000 Kentiebee troopa:to Join Captain and other's were to follow day or two Fot companies of riflemen passed, through Augusta on the 20th, for Bangor, and, a slip from jerome's News-room, Bangor, states that . a -patty of Gtitoddy Indians would join the Maine trOdpS. An express 11'64 e Aroostook on the 20th, stated that the Solicit4'Gcneral of New Brunswick sent a flag of truce to €l4iles Jarvis, Esq., the Land Agent ad. interim, order ing him to leave with his force, or he should be driven off immediately, as he had 200 men with him, and 1000 men ready to march to his support. 1000 men of the Kennebec division were under orders to march to Bangor on Sunday, in addition to the 1000 now ern their march for the disputed territory. The mew tit 4 atk will be minute men. We make the following e.xtatets front *ply of 'Governor OVernor Fairfield to Sir John liatvey " In speaking of the disputed territory, your Exqrlleny says—' The elaiM hith is in diSpute betwixt Great Bri=. tain and the Unittcl States, and which his been agreed be twixt the OeneralVovernments, shall remain in the exclusive possession andjurisdiction - of nlglancl s until that claim shall be determined.' " Now, Sir, I canna hesitate to say, that in my o pi n i on your ExcellelcY is labouring under an entire misapprehen sion In regard to the facts. No such agreement, lam per suaded, has ever been made between the two governments. I have, looked in vain for it among the numerous documents which have grown out of the question—and have never heard of any recognition of it, verbal or otherwise, on the part a the General Governme n t. If, however, such an agreement exists, your Excellency can undoubtedly point it out. At all events, such an agreement can never be recognized by this state. A decent self-respect will ever forbid it, if there were no other considerations in the way, " Your Excellency entreats me immediately to.recall the force upon the territory, and then add. It is proper that I should acquaint your Excellency, that I have directed a strong force of Her Majesty"s troolis, to be in readiness to support Her Majesty's authority, and protect Her Majesty's subjects in the disputed territory, in the event of the request not being immediately complied with.' " In reply, I have to say, that the territory bordering on the Aroostook river has always been, as I regard the facts, in the possession a n d un d er th e jurisdiction of Massachusetts and Maine ; that, more than thirty years ago, Massachusetts surveyed and granted large tracts of it, which have ever since, in some way, been possessed by the grantees, and these claiming under them—that the rest of it was surveyed by, and some of it divided between Massachusetts and Maine, soon after the latter became an independent State—that both States have long been in the habit of granting permits to cut timber there without being molested from any sipiartei--,that many persons have purehased these lands of Maine, and en tered into their actual occupation—attd that, in various other ways, Maine has exercised it juritliction, which may fairly be regarded as exclusive, 'over this territory. * * " The party of the Land Agent is now on the territory en gaged in executing the trust with which it was charged—and with my consent will never leave it, while the protection of the property of the State from plunderers renders it neces sary for them to remain. If your Excellency chooses to send an armed force to attempt their expulsion, I can only say that this State will endeavour to meet such an attempt as it will deserve. I have no threats to make ; no boastingsto ' indulge. If Maine does her duty, as I trust in God she will, nothing that I could say in advance would add to the glory of her career. If she proves recreant to her duty and tamely submits to be expelled from her territory ) by a force that she could successfully resist, nothing that I can say would tend to diminish the measure of her ignominy and disgrace. (Front the New York Gazette of Feb. 27.) FROM MAINR.—The Boston Daily Advertiser publishes the following letter from its correspondent at Bangor, dated " FeBRUARY 23.—Our city has to-day presented the ap pearance of a sackled town, so little has been doing. The re maining troops left early this morning, and carrying with them, as they have, a very large number of our citizens, our streets have presented a less active character than upon ordi nary business occasions. The excitement of the last few days has subsided, and little has been doing. As for news, we have none of importance. Many rumours have been abroad during the day, but none of them can be relied upon as true. 1700 flt Edh Olf a f t a l "ond A7 - gsPipa r ,. v kurt sminv&l from our encamp men t. I s h ould be rather disposed to doubt' the correctness of this rumour, though I have it from good , authoriry. "In ray yesterday's letter I remarked that Colonel M`Laugh lin had been released on his parole. In this I was mistaken, —he refuses to accept any terms short of an unconditional re lease, and, therefore, refusing to pledge his honour, he is still in custody. " The Bangor Whig of Friday says—' The Fire:Department of this city, embracing about 300 young men, have voted to organize themselves as a battalion of riflemen and petitioned. the Legislature for a supply of arms.' " The breast work thrown up by our forces at the junction of the St. Croix and the Aroostook, is 12 feet in thickness, and mounted by a brass field piece. Before this time,' says the Whig of the 20th, the force has three pieces of artillery.' " R. H. Vose, Esq., a representative from Augusta, is sent to Boston, to confer with the governor of Massachusetts. " The St. John Chronicle of the 15th says We have been informed that orders were received here last night from Head Quarters, to send up all the disposable troops, artillery and 36th regiment from this garrison : the garrison at Frederickton having marched for the upper country.' " The following resolutions were presented in the Senate of Massachusetts on Tuesday, by Mr. Child, from the com mittee to whom had been referred the message of G overnor Everett, on th e su bj ect of the north eastern boundary. " Resolved,—That the present state of affairs in relation to the North-Eastern Boundary, as communicated to the Executive of this Commonwealth by the Governor of the State of Maine furnishes a strong reason fbr again asserting our rights, and for re-affirming the positions heretofore as sumed by the Legislature of this State against the unwar rantable claims of Great Britain, and in favour of strong and vigorous measures by the government of the United States, for a speedy adjustment of the existing difficulties in such a manner as shall protect Massachusetts and Maine in the possession of the large tract pf territory guaranteed to them by the treaty of peace of 1783, " Resolved, That the active measures authorized by a Re solve of the Legislature of the State of Maine, passed Janu ary 24, 1839, for the prevention of depredations upon the lands of Massachussetts and Maine, were required by the exigencies of the case, and a wise regard for the preservation of their interests in those lands, and were similar in char acter to measures adopted by the land 'agents of Massachus setts and Maine, in October last, and recognized and ap proved, through their agent; by the government of the Pro vince of New Brunswick: • " That the claim by Great Britain to the exclusive juris diction of the whole of the disputed territory, as recently asserted by the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, and his avowal of a determination to sustain that claim by a military force, and his denial of the right of the State of Maine to protect from the lawless deyredations of tres passers, the lands which have long been in the possession of Massachussetts and Maine, call loudly for the immediate interference of the Federal Government ; and that the crisis has now arrived, when the honour of the nation demands the adoption of decisive measures for the protection of her citi zens, and for the preservation of the rights and interests of two of the members of our confederacy. " Resolved, That this Commonwealth will co-operate with the State of Maine in all constitutional measures for the pre servation of the interests of both States in the lands on the disputed territory, and for the speedy adjustment of the ex isting controversy. " Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Executive o the United States and of the State of Maine, and to each o our Senators and Representatives in Congress." CONGRESS.—The Senate on Wednesday, went into the election of Printer, and on the first ballot Blair and Rives received 25 out of 43 votes, and were declared elected. The Harbour bill was ordered to a third reading, and Mr. Crit tendon occupied the floor for upwards of two hours in sup port of the bill to prevent the interference of Federal officers in elections. In the ilotise ) the.:(4ener&ApprWi4flOil under the operation of the jireidMA 'lntstion, was passed; Mr. Harlan iircsented the report of the majority; and Mr. Owens the inort Of th.e.thinority of the Investigating Com mittee, which, owing.to their. great length, were, without reading, ordered to lie on the.table, .._and 20,000 copies to be printed. The committee.m a k e ou t ,Mr. Swartout a defaulter in the sum of 1,225,705,t39 dollars, and Wm. M. Price " a defaulter to the government in a,large,•suin." The followlnkmeSsage and mbmokanda in relation to the diffioulties bacve:eh. Maine and New Brunswick were received from the President. " WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 1839. " To the House of Representatives of the United States. " I transmit to Congress copies of various other docu ments received from the Governor of Maine, relating to the dispute between that State and the province of New Bruns wick, which formed the subject of my message of the 26th inst., and also a copyof a memorandum signed by the Secre tary of State of the United States, and Her Britannic Ma jesty's EnVoy Extraordinary and Minister , Plenipotentiary near the United States, Of the termstip6n#lii6h it is believed all collision:Can liay:diadem the frOntiit, Consistently with, and raßCtiri,; - the, Claims On either side. As the British Minister acts without specitiC authyrity from his government, it will be observed that this memorandum .has. but the force of recommendation on the Provincial authorities and on the Government of the State. ,• " . , _„ - • M. VAN BUREN." fcegi"6kAi4i)iim. " esiy's authorities consider it to have been under stood and agreed upon by the two governments that the terri tory in dispute between Great Britain and the United States, on the northeastern frontier, should remain exclusively under British jurisdiction until the final settlement of the boundary question, " The United States Government have not tinjetstddd the above agreement in the same sense. hilt ikinSitler On the con trary, that there ham, toetll il4 gfeenient whatever for the ex ercise. Gii.at Britain, of exclutife ; torisdiOidit aver the disl - >niedteii4Ory; or . any i)ortidri but nitittial un derstanding teat s i- , ildhkg the neitoti3tioli . , o,i'3,•jt4isdiction then A theeOiselty eitha etVer s'mall, portions of the territoly ) ta Aispute, should not be enlarged, but be, : continued merely for the ,preservation of.local,tranquillity and Ole pub lic property, ,both, kkrbesOngos,fite as 17actioahle its, exert any authgtity,,, l ende *hen any 63:eileised by either, placing qvon the oridilit of each other the most favourable constractain. " A complete understanding upon the question, thus placed at issue, of present jurisdiction, can only be arrived at by friendly discussion between the governments of the United States and Great Britain ; and as it is confidently hoped that there will be an early settlement of the question, this subor dinate difference can be of little moment. " In the mean time the Governor of the Province of New Brunswick and the Government of the State of Maine will act as follows : Her Majesty!s A. 4 Vet: to, expel by military foree„ the eryii.a haS been - Sent by Maine it to thi district *bordering on the .ArOostOOk river ; but - the Government of Maine,Vvill ,voluntarily, and without needleas delaY,lVithdra* beyoinl.the bounds of ,the disputed territory any.,armed force •now within thorn ; and, if future necessity should arise for disbersing notorious trespassers, or protecting public prolaerty,fini,depredation 11 . arnied force, the.operation stall '('). e -condlicicd by concert; jointly or sepa rately, according to agree me nt s betw een th e Governments of Maine and New Brunswick. " The civil officers in the service, respectively, of New Brunswick and Maine, who have been taken into custody by the opposite parties, shall be released. " Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to for tify or to weaken in any respect whatever the claim of either party to the ultimate possession of the disputed territory. " The Minister. Pl en ipot en ti ary o f h er Britannic Majesty having no specific authority t o ma k e any arrangemen t on t h e subject, the undersigned can only recommend, al they row earnestly do, to the GoVernnienta of New Brunswick. and Maine; to regulate their futuk proceedings aCeordirrt to the termhereinbefore:gt fArth; Until the final, Settlement of the territorial 'dis'pure',. Or nr.til the Governments of the United Sates afid:Gfeat Britain shall Conic to some definitive con clusion on the subordinate point upon which they are now at issue. " JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State of the United States of North America, " H. S. FOX, H. B. M. Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiavy." " Washington, Feb. 27, 1839.",. _ _ MONEY MARKET.--4\Th4V YORK, MARCH I. — There has been quite a 'panic in the stock mark e t t o -d ay , an d a ll ,de lcriptions have fallen off. The cause is the message of the President, and the warlike remarks of members of Congress. The exchange on England at New York, on Feb. 28, was 4 dollars 82 cents to 4 dollars 84 cents. At New Orleans on the 19th, there had been no change in the money market. Money was rather more abundant than during the two or three preceding weeks. The rates for com mercial paper were' 1l to 2 per cent. a month. The amount invested in cotton on speculation in the city was estimated at 1,000,000 dollars. This sum would otherwise be employed in active operations, and this has a great effect in producing a scarcity of money. The largest portion of the cotton crop is yet to be brought into market, and only a small part of an unusually larger sugar crop is yet disposed of. This state of things indicates that the rates of interest will advance rather than decline. The city trade was said to be unusually brisk. The cotton market was dull and the stock accumulating fast. The accounts from Liverpool by the Hibernia had no effect either on buyers or sellers. claimed to be within the jurisdiction of Maine; whither he had reparied for the purpose Of meeting and consulting with the land-agent of the Province of NeW Brutiswick, and con veyed as a plisorrier to tyederieltton, in that province, toge ther with twontlier citizens of the state, who were assisting him in the, discharge 'of his duty. . It will also appear that the Governor and Legislature of Maine, satisfied that the trespassers had acted in defiance Of the laws of both countries, learning that they were in possession of arms, and anticipating (correctly as the result has proved) that persons of their reckless and desperate cha racter would set at naught the authority of the magistrates, without the aid of a strong force, had authorized the sheriff, and the officer appointed in the place of the land-agent, to employ, at the expense of the State, 0 alined . passe, who had proceeded to the Seene of the dePredation§; with a view to the entire dispersion or arrest of tilt ti4,Patsers, and the protection of thepu.hheproperty, in the borreip'ondenee between the Governor of Maine and Sir Yalu' HarVer, Lieutena n t Governor' of the Province of N'w briinswick, which has grown out of these occur renees, and is_lilrewise .herewith communicated,. the former is requested to recal the armed petty advanced into the dis puted territory.for the -arrest of trespassers', anti is informed that a strong body of tritiSh troops is to be held in readi ness:to support awl. piiiiect the authority and subjects of Grett Britain lit the said territory.. In answer to that request tlite ~-ovincial Governor is informed of the determination of the State of Maine to support the land agent and his partyf in the performance of their duty, and the same determina tion, for the execution of which provision is made by a reso lution of the 'tee legislature, is communicated by the gover nor to the general government. The Lieut.. Governor of .New Britrisnitly in calling upon the governor of Maine for the fecall of the land agent and his party from thedispiited territory, find the Ilritiih Minister in ,making a similar demand upon, the ; g:), ,, • , ..ilinent of the United S't at&, proceed *On the as,umptien that an agree ment exists between the two nations conceding to Great Britain, until the Anal Set tlerrient of the boundary question, exclusivepassi47sibri of, and jurisdiction over, the territory in clisinut. The important bearing WhiCh such an agreement, I if it existed, would have upon.the,canclit,itm,and interests of the parties and the influence, it might :haveupon the acisiitt merit of the dispute,, tine too "obvi - ous so OA- the error: upon which. this assupwtion seems 't. - ii. 1 - est.:Jo pass for a moment without' correction. 'pie answer of the Secretary of State tbltiTi( Von hate, will sho w the ground taken by the Oven racht Of the United States on this point: It is believed all the correspondence Which has passed betweet , " governments upon this Subject has aircatly been commin. cated to congres.s, and is now cm her tiles/ An'abstract o, it, however, hastily prepared, accompanies this communies, tion. It is possible that in thus abridging a ,- .liiininimis Cor respondence, commencing in 1825, and continuing to * very recent period, a portion may have been aecidentalik over looked ; but it is believed that 'railing tafitilli i eri 14 . - de which would materially change the ftt'peS:t Of the, tkestion as therein presented:. Jirstdad of sustaining the r aistiniption of the British 'firirdfibriArles . that'CbrreSpandeliee didproves.the exist ' enrerii of any catch agreement. It shoWs thatthe,Wo,gOvern rnenti have differed n o t o nl y An 're aril ta the 'main quit.stitn of title to the tffritpry, in dispute, but 4th kf t .nence also to the right of jnrisdietidri, and the ' fact of the actual exe rc i se of it iP 'afferent ti&jiais thereof. Always aiming at an .amicable estitiStruent of the dispute, both parties have enter tained and repeatedly urged upon each other a desire, that each should exercise its rights, whatever it considered them to be, in such a manner as to avoid collision, and allay, to the greatest practicable extent, the excitement likely to grow out of the controversy. It was in pursuance of such an understanding that Maine and Massachusetts, unn the remonstrance of Great 'Britain, desisted from mak tig salts of lands, and the general government front the Vaiis ruction of a projected military road in t. pailfon ref the territory of which they claimed to lit.ti* enjoyed the etelusiire possession; and that, Great. Britain. on hoer part, in deference to a similar remonstrance from the United State's', - sitsPendect the issue of licenses td cut timber in the territory in controversy,,,and also the surrey and location of a railroad,thrbegh a section Of country over whiCh she also 'clainied to hate exercised excht - Sive jurisdiction. , - The State of 3Wiiiiie hid a tight to arrest the depredations 'Coniptalisied oft it belonged to her to judge of the exigency of the occasion calling for, her interference ; and it is presumed that had the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick been correctly advised of the nature of the proceedings of the State of Maine, he would not have regarded the transaction as requiring., on his part, an y resor t t o f orce. E ac h party claim ing a right to the territory, and hence to the exclusive juris diction over it, it is manifest that, to prevent the destruction of the timber.by trespassers, acting against the authority of both, and at the same time_ avoid foreible etillisian between the contiguous Governments during the pendaney of riegOtiOns concerning the title, resort must be had to .the )1 - luting exercise ofjurisdietion in such extreme cases, or to in amicable and 'temporary arrangeme n t as 'to the limits within which it should berLexereised by each y),irti-, The understanding supposed to exist lietwde4 the United States and Great Britain has been fond he'retof'ore sufficient for that purpose, and I believe will prove so hereafter, if the parties on the frontier directly interested in the question, are respectively governed by a just spirit of reconciliation and forbearance. If it shall be found as there is now reason to apprehend, that there is, in the modes of construing that understanding by the two govern ments, a difference not to be reconciled, I shall not hesitate to propose to her Britannic Majesty's Gevefrinient a distinct arrangement for the temporary 'and mut ua l exerc i se o f jurisdiction, by means 'af Which similar difficulties may in future be prevtnttd. • Brit httteen an effort on the part of Maine to preserve the peePertS , in ' dispute frcim destruction by intruders, and a Military occupation by that State of the territory, with a view to hold it by force, while the settlement is a subject of nego tiation between the two governments, there is an essential difference, as well in respect to the position of the State, as to the duties of the general government. In a letter addressed by the Secretary of State, to the Governor of Maine, on the Ist of March last, , giving a detailed statement of the steps which had been taken by the Federal Government to bring the controversy to a termination, and designed to apprise the Governor of that State of the views of Federal Executive, in respect to the'future, it was stated, that while the obliga tions of the Federal Government to do all in its power to effect the settlement of the boundary question were fully recognised, it had, in the event of being unable to do so so specifically, by mutual consent, no other means to accom plish that object amicably, than by another arbitration, or by a commission with an umpire in the nature of an arbitration, and that in the event of all other measures failing, the Presi dent would feel it his duty to submit another proposition to the Government of Great Britain, to refer the decision of the question to a third power. These are still my views upon the —,,2a: dimcathe means for the settlement of the controversy, or or to cause the natary power of the Federal Government to be brought in aid of the State of Maine, in any attempt to effect' that object'hy a resort to force. On the other hand, if the authorities of New Brunswick should attempt , to enforce the c l a i m o f executive jurisdiction set up by th em ,' by means of a military occupation on their part of the disputed territory, I 'shall feel myself bound to consider the contingency :provided by the Constitution as having occurred, on the happening of which a State has the right to call forthe aid of the Federal' Government to repel invasion. I have expressed to the British Minister near this Govern ment a confident expectation • that the agents of the State of Maine, who have been arrested under an obvibus' misappre hension of the object of their mission, will be promptly re leased ; and to the Governor of Maine that a similar course• will be pursued in regard to the agents of the Province of New Brunswick. I have also recommended that any. militia that may have been brought together by the State of Maine, from an apprehension of a collision with the Governnient or people of the British Province, will be voluntarily and peaceably disbanded. I cannot allow mysell to doubt that the results anticipated from these representations will be seasonably realized. The parties more immediately interested cannot but perceive that an appeal to arms, under existing circumstances, will not only prove fatal to their present interests, but would post pone, if not defeat, the attainment of the main objects which they have in view. The very incidents which have recently oecurred will necessarily awaken the Governments to the importance of promptly adjusting a dispute, by which it is now made manifest that the peace of the two nations is daily and imminently endangered. This expectation is further warranted by the general forbearance which has hitherto characterised the conduct of the Government and people on both sides of the line. In the uniform patriotism of Maine, her attachment to the Union, her respect for the wishes of the peo'ple of her sister States, of whose interest in her wel fare she cannot be unconscious, and, in the solicitude felt by the country at large for the preservation of peace with our neighbours, we have a strong guarantee that she will not dis regard the request that has been made of her. As, however, the session of Congress is about to termi nate, and the agency of the Executive may become neces sary during the recess, it is important that the attention of the Legislature should be drawn to the consideration of such measures as may be calculated to obviate the necessity of a call for an extra session. With that view, I have thought it my duty to lay the whole matter before you, and to invite such action thereon as you may think the occasion requires. M. VAN BUREN, r ashington, 26th February, 1839 (From the New York Gazette, of March 1) FROM MAINE.--By the Eastern Mail of last evening, we learn that the Maine army had moved forward, in the dis puted territory to the junction of Aroostook and Little Aroostook rivers, this being a point where the trespassers had been cutting timber. The St. John Observer, of the 19th, contains an order of Governor Harvey for forming the draft directed to be made from the Castleton militia, into a battalion of five companies, and appointing the officers. Detachments of the royal ar tillery, and the 36th regiment, proceeded from St: John to Fredericton on the 16th, and other detachments on the 18th. A slip from the Bangor Whig and Courier Office, dated Sunday evening, states that the volunteers on the Aroostook were strongly protected by a fort made of logs, and had five brass cannon mounted. Several companies of volunteers had arrived within 36 miles of the encampment. Four deserters from the British army had arrived at Liricoln. It was expected that the Maine troops would proceed to the mouth of the Madawaska, and there establish themselves. It was reported that there were about 300 British regulars opposite the mouth of the Aroostook, on the eastern side of St. John. The number of this detachment has been here tofore stated at 200, consisting of the troops which were in garrison at Frederickton. There will probably be no fighting at present.—Boston Daily Adv. CANADA. Extract of a letter from a young married lady, who settled with her husband, father-in-law, and other members of the family, hi the State of New York, ibout four years ago, and removed last summer to Toronto, in Upper Canada : " We have been in great commotion here, Try v houra : nc l ifliffinlick v iTaWa ti gikjarnes both slept with their - muskets ready to load at a moment's notice, and w.llen•We, went to rest at night it was with a feeling that, be fore morning, we might be in the midst of the horrors of war. The Americans certainly are infatuated ; they keep coming'aeross in small parties to the frontier villages, burn 'ind destroy, as much as they can, turn the people, even women and children, naked into the bitter •frost and snow, and, in short, commit all manner of atrocities, and then pre tend they are trying to liberate Canada! My father and every one else here says, if you had anything but a parcel of. fools at the heid of the' government at home, they would at, once declare war, against America, and put an end to the harassing state the people here are kept in. It is firmly be lieved that the United Stites government is at the bottom of it all, and a national war, all agree, would b e i n fi n i te l y pre ferable to being open to the assaults of pirates and banditti, who call themselves American citizens. James entered a volunt,eer, company to avoid being called out in the militia, and'one day the Governor reviewed them ; he told them he had, ascertained the Americans' grand object was to anni hilate the British, and spare neither women nor children— plans were found on the persons of many of the prisoners to this effect. Had they succeeded in their invasion at Pres cott, they were to have come on to Toronto ; they would have met with a warm reception: the Governor had well prepared for them. lam thankful we are well out of the States, and regret that we had not come to Canada at first ; we should all have been more happy and contented, everything here is more like home, and the people are a different set of beings from the Yankees. " We have met with a great loss in the destruction by fire of our beautiful church here • but we have service in a large room, and also the chapel belonging to the college." SOT 1838 . MONTE VIDEO, 29th U De H c., AMERI .—Sin Since our last, arrivals have continued to be numerous, by which our market has been over -stocked still more, and caused still further decline in important articles. Salt has become next to unsaleable, and only got rid of slowly, at 10 rls. fanega on board. Flour has declined to 12 dollars per barrel in small parcels : to force it by wholesale it would hardly comniand 11 dollars. Do mestics sell at losing prices. Lumber has declined, and will soon be unsaleable. The great demand for produce has still increased ; besides which, very little is coming in, on account of the rainy season and other circumstances. Hides have risen from 25 rls. to 33 rls. per pesada, and will go still higher : other articles have also risen. Exchange has ad vanced to 48d. two months' credit. Extract of a letter, dated Monte Video, 28th Dec., 1838 : " The great demand 'for produce, together with the small quantity here, has caused an advance in price of from 18 to 25 per cent., which, combined with the very high rate of ex change, operates much against purchasers. The government of Buenos Ayres have made an emission of sixteen and a half millions of paper dollars, and, in consequence, the dollar has depreciated to 13 dollars for 1 dollar Spanish. Produce was difficult to be purchased with paper, no confidence being placed in it : no nutrias have arrived from the country for nearly two months, and they were becoming scarce. All imports are low, and almost unsaleable, while exports are increasing rapidly. NAVAL ECONOMY. (From the United Service Gazette.) There is, it would appear, scarcely a single branch of the naval service in which our present cheese-paring administra tion have not cre Ited distrust and dissatisfaction. Among their latest performances of this description we may mention their recent regulations in reference to her Majesty's pilots— regulations which have so intensely disgusted those expe rienced veterans, that the Powerful was detained until Sun day last at Sheerness in consequence of the impossibility of finding any pilot at that port who would take her in charge. It appears that the Queen's pilots at Sheerness, Taylor and Deans, have lately been subjected to certain new regulations, which have been the means of disgusting completely these old servants of the crown. After some 30 years' service, and the pilotage of so many hundred ships, they have been called upon to prove their qualifications," and have, moreover, been assigned. duties in the dock-yard which are entirely foreign to their office, and which have never hitherto been required at their hands. Considering that about four years ago the retaining pay of the Queen's pilots was reduced from 6s. to 3s. a-day extra work, without further remuneration, they seem to consider, and justly, that they ought not to be, nay, are determined not to be, the victims of any further exactions. Taylor having taken the Zebra to 'the Downs, did not return to his duty in time to take charge of the Powerful ; and Deans was nowhere to be found, having, in fact, struck work. In this dilemma Captain Napier was con strained to report to the Admiralty that the ship could not get round to Portsmouth for want of a pilot, and it was not until one had been despatched from the Trinity House that his vessel was enabled to proceed on her voyage. Since writing the above, we have been informed that in consequence of pertinacity of Sir John Hill, the superin tendent of Sheerness dock yard, in requiring duties at their hands which have before been expected, Taylor and, eans, two of the be s t pil o t s i n h er M a j esty ' s service, have thrown up their situations in disgust. It is possible that the Ad miralty may have directed that these valuable men should perform extra duties in the dock yard, for the extra 3s per diem ; but even if this be the case, the suggestion is believed to have originated with the superintendent —a genuine chip of the Admiralty block. We have heard, by the way, that now tint Captain Na pier has arrived at Portsmouth he has met with the utmost difficulty in manning his ship, Jack having got into his head a notion (founded on the captain's penchant for a propelling apparatus) that he has a " t rea dl e ' (" treadmill") on board. Such is the rumour circulated by the Admiralty and its tail. The leading cause of the captain's difficulty, however, will, we believe, be found in the fact, that he is too good a judge to rest contented with the idle lubberly vagabonds, whom the anxiety not to appear contumacious towards the Ad miralty, and the necessity of the case, would seem to have imposed on her officers commissioning ships at that port. • The Hull Chamber of Commerce has invited Lieutenant Watson to come from Liverpool and estimate the cost of a line of telegraphs from that port to a line communicating with the metropolis.—Hull paper. MORE PALACE MYSTERIES We should much like to know whether the " medical ad viser" is still permitted to attend the Palace ? Is he to be dismissed from one wing to find shelter in the other ? The Marquis is bound to find out all this. _ _ We cannot avoid making a parting remark. We think Lady Flora Hastings would have done better had she refused to remain in the Palace, where she must necessarily be thrown into the society of her traducers. We know, indeed, her high born and hereditary loyalty, which would endure much —we are aware of her faithful attachment to the Duchess of Kent, which would, for her sake, sacrifice much ; but we think too much has been exacted from her ladyship, if she is required to consort with those who would have ruined her. One word to' the Marquis of Hastings. He has not ye avenged his sister's wounded honour 1 SHORT CATECHISM ON THE CORN LAWS, ADDRESSED TO THE WORKING CLASSES Ques. 1. Who are the principal agitators for the abolition of the corn laws? Ans. The owners of factories, manufacturers, and mer chants, Ques. 2. What reason do they assign for their anxiety on this subject ? Ans. They say that unless the price of corn be reduced in this country, they cannot long compete with foreign manu facturers in foreign markets. Ques. 3. But huw will a reduction in the price of corn en with.rawkaanorPfeaPB-1, uperu lives. Ques. 4. Are wages lower on the continent than in this country ? Ans. Yes, In France the operative cotton-spinner gets ss. Bd. a-week ;in Switzerland 4s. 5d., in Austria 45., in Saxony 3s. 6d., at Bonne, in Prussia, 2s. 6d. ; while in Man chester and Glasgow they get from 20s. to 355. Ques. 5. Do the anti-corn law agitators tell the people honestly that the wages of operatives must be reduced by the success of thefr present efforts ? Ans. No. Some of them declare that wages are not regu lated by the price of corn—but by the demand for labour ; and as they expect a greater degree of mercantile prosperity after the abolition of the corn laws, they say the demand for labour will increase, and so also the wages. Ques. 6. But how is this increased, mercantile prosperity to be created ? is it not by the reduction, in the first instance, of the working man's wages ? Ans. Certainly ; on their own showing, they can only sell more goods by producing them at a cheaper rate, and that can only be done by reducing wages. Ques. 7. You said that some of the agitators speak in this way :—are there others who speak differently ? Ans. Yes; the more honest among them admit that the money wages of the operatives will be reduced, but maintain that the material wages will be as high as formerly. Ques. 8. What do they mean by material wages ? Ans. The Times explains it to mean—the same quantity of corn or bread. Ques. 9. So that their theory is—that the wages of the operatives will fall from 20s to lOs a-week in money ; but that they will not be the worse off—for lOs will then pur chase as much corn or bread as 20s does now ? Ans. Exactly. Ques. 10. You are a working man, and know what are the items of a working man's expenditure. Now consider how much of your wages is required for bread, and how much for other commodities? Ans. I cannot say precisely. Ques. 11. No. But there are other things that you are accustomed to use, and which you deem essential to your comfort ? Ans. Yes. There is my house rent that must be paid ; tea and sugar, at least occasionally, for my wife—education fo a my children —m e di c i ne w h en any of us are sick, and doc tors fees —soap, candles, clothes, and other indispensables. Ques. 12. Well then —suppose your wages reduced by one half from their present amount ; and suppose that you would get corn one-half cheaper than at present, in consequence of the abolition of the corn laws, would you be better or worse off on the whole? Ans. Worse, certainly far worse. For if I had lOs instead of 20s of wages, I might get as much corn as I need for ss, but then I'would only have the other 5s instead of lOs for house-rent, clothes, candles, and every other necessary. Ques. 13. W ou ld the abolition of the corn laws reduce the price of these articles ? Ans. No : excepting, perhaps, the clothes if the manufac turers can succeed in getting the workmen's wages reduced. Ques. 14. But it is quite certain that after the abolition of the corn laws the price of corn will fall ? Suppose that their is no import duty imposed by the British government, is it not possible that the Emperor of Russia, or the - King of Prussia may impose an export duty of 8s or lOs a quarter, by way of adding to their revenue ? Ans. Possible ! it is most highly probable : and then the whole benefits will go into the pockets of foreigners, and may help to foster their manufactures. Ques. 15. What course then should the working men pursue ? Ans. They should meet all the oily speeches of the leading monied agitators with the cry- of the men of Birmingham, " Won't you reduce our wages?" ANOTHER FRENCH OUTRAGE. (livin the United Service Gazette.) The impunity with which we have allowed France to insult .he British flag in the case of the Express packet, has led to the commission, on the part of the official servants of that power, of another outrage scarcely less flagitious : we allude to the seizure and detention at Marseilles, and examination in Paris, of the bag containing the despat c h es b roug h t b y Mr. Calvert, th e agent of the East India Company, from Malta. The following account, which will be found to differ from that published by our contemporaries, is a correct outline of the affair. The despatches in question were conveyed from Malta to Marseilles by her Majesty's steam-vessel Volcano, in the custody of Mr. Calvert, the agent of the company at the former place. After going through the customary forms at the Marseilles Post-office, the director took possession of Mr. Calvert's bag, and refused every application on his part to restore it. The pretence for this outrage was the suspi cion that it contained the general mail from India. Acting, or professing to act on this suspicion, the post-office autho rities transmitted the bag to Paris by the malle poste, where it was OPENED, and no pretence for the outrage having been discovered within it, it was sent on by post to London. We believe that, after they had broken open the bag, the Paris Post-office authorities would have restored it to Mr. Calvert, but that he very properli refused to take charge of it after its contents had been thus scandalously violated. M. Conte, the French postmaster-general (after the bag had been opened and its contents examined), expressed his disapprobation of the conduct of his subordinates. It is, perhaps, needless to add, that as the bag was found to con tain nothing but despatches, not a shadow of justification can be offered in extenuation of the outrage. This violation of the sanctity which has hitherto, by com mon consent, been permitted to surround the public des patches of every nation, is, we believe, without a precedent. What ministers mean to do in the matter we are, of course, unable to say. A strong representation will, no doubt, be made to the French government, with what result remains to be seen. It is not surprising that the familiars of the French Post-office should calculate on a forbearance of which they have recently had so memorable an example. So confident were the friends of Mr. Buller at Northmolton, which is now under the Ebrington influence, that he would be sure of a great majority, the ringers were practising, almost every day for a week to be prepared for the triumph, and flags were made with " Buller, the Farmer's friend, and the Poor Man's Benefactor," painted on them.—Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. (From the Argus.) It is said that a noble marquis consulted a general officer on the propriety of seeking reparation from the husband, for an alleged defamation of his sister's character by the wife of another marquis, and that it was determined, to apply to the latter to k now if h e h a d an y cogni.zaneb Of the rwirtg in question, and if he had, ." ,alittio;i6l, adopted, dr defended theni.i”--:to all,ofwhich the.nlible lord iii question replied in the negative, leaving the bfferisive matter_ to rest on the responsibility Of the lady.. Of course, under such Cir cumstances there could be no measage: We shall be, anxious to observe what follow's; and whether the lady retains her present position. The dislike taken by the Queen to Sir John cpnroy is said to have ori g i na t e d in a series Teri ., 'trivial matters, arising out of his situation of. comptr,oller of the household of the Duchess of Kent: One of the Kensington r6ports on this subject was, that Sir John had deemed it necessary to sell a pair of favourite ponies, presented to the Princess Victoria by George the Fourth, they having, from their great age, become unsafe. The Princess is said to have remonstrated against their being disposed of, but was overruled by her illustrious mother and Sir John Conroy. On another occasion, Sir John is said to have committed a most serious offence by discharging a boy groom, a smart lad, who attended upon the Princess Victoria, and who had been recommended to her service by the late Lord Sefton, he being the son of his lordship's coachman: This lad had, it appears, been guilty of some trifling itregularity in his hours of iitteridinee, aild being . reported to Sir John, he discharged him, without hatifig Previously Communicated_ . the circumstance to liiiiroyal mistress .1240, on missing him, inquired the cause of his dismissal,, and finding that it was not for any serious neglect, insisted upon . his restoration to his former situation. This last ,event is said to have.occurred but a very short finna thefiirc 1114;:s'4's accession to the throne, and the tedolleetion of it would appear to have pro duced that indifference which Sir John Conroy is .reported to have since experienced. We give these on dits as we have heard them, neither vouching for their correctness, nor alto gether discrediting their accuracy. (From the Age) We know for a certainty, that had not Lady Flora Hast ings been the faithful friend and attached follower of the Duchess of Lent, there would have been no calumny circu lated against her; and we also know that her Royal High ness is the object of the incessant hatred of the Camarilla, • whom, although they dare not openly attack her with their undisguised intiiienr!e, haiie yet that sneaking courage which, is bold enough to annoy her by htir insinuation against her friend, and thus, ofier reflective insult. . We will pass. over the part.played by One Who wigs cunningly made : first } csttliSible Perfotimer in the Pldt. She was led into it by the ifflinenee of the same artful wiles which have on many former occasions deceived her confiding care. But, we are sorry to say, that two noble ladies of the court, not remarkable for wisdom or kindness of heart,. were induced to fall in with the scheme. They have both played dirty parts in this most disgraceful affair • their unfortunate hush " .ur aoing which, inis are now placed in a very unplea sant position of responsibility to the Marquis of Hastings. • We are enabled positively to state, that Lord Hastings is in communication, and that of the most friendly ehafat:ter, with the noble lords alhided tO---14)16.144 i been denied the justlOWhith, he had 'right re, e p pct rrpm the advisers of the,erOWil, and. ekecialltffdni 4 loW4Oriken person, Lord MelboUrn,e, who Is unmanly enough to continue premier, guardian adviser, and constant guest of a youthful Queen — and that, consequently, as there is , no question at law but the parties can be indicted for conspiracy,. the noble marquis is raaking,preparations for bringing the whole matter before a jury of Englishmen, ; , • , . Indeed we regard such a step as this tp be imperatively called for trom the Malcit is of 16stirigg: The baneful influ elide behind the thfone must he put an end to, or it will drag that throne down,to the very mire. If Lori Hastings does do this—if he seeks reparation in the public tribunals of the country, the exposure which will be made will be of an astounding nature, calculated to show the true character of the Melbourne system of extending the honour of the crown, by the illustrating conduct of the court. We unhesitatingly say that the court can only be purified by certain dismissals, and more especially of those persons who have been engaged, through malignity on the part of some, and folly oh the part .of otiArs . , n thu attempt to ruin a defeUceteSS Or. r: There eliiStZ, but one Opinion in fa v o ur o f lady, and people are. waiting, not for the announcement of any private arrangement of the affair, but for the Public acts of her noble brother. ~ We tell Lord . MelboUrne that he who does not instantly suppress a calumny, and punish, as .far as he is able, the authors of it, sanctions and, participates in the dishonour at tending upon its, circulators. If we are rightly informed, h e has contracted t4e wa r s,ure of. officialjustice which ought t o haye been rendered,to Lady Flora Hastings, acid has also re fused to reply to eliteA . t . tell of the Noble Marquis, who has desired his Lordship to hold himself personally responsible for the actions of those whom he patronises and protects. The public will draw inferences. . „ _ MURDEROUS OUTRAGE ON A Will' for ba d e !s6 yt t n s i ee Pl' (From the Manchester Guardian.) tants On of Club R afternoon ow last,Oldham Road,_a bout fi a v r e i d o : t ' l ee, o rn c k oeciv: ha t . l nbe i ro _ u ,tuf b!. were in a state of great excitement; in donSelOe : stippOsed irifirder qf , ynnni,Woman . b a r. The :1,0'00106i viCtim.ot infuriate je ontl'y nP v i N j a jul;': but sO. dreadfull mutilated. and. severec r t : that we suppose there but little hope of, covery; though it is possible she may yet linger 114 ( in agony. , . • . „ • For ,the better understanding of .the eircuinst , _ r oe . Which this brutal outrage has been committed, we un, 00 . the melanCholy narrative a little earliei than the do.) tb! her nannardo, tion. seems,: from the.inquieies we , havo .111" husband and wife, George and Sarah .Whitaker, married smile years, and had for some time lived ax;n4,f , Chapel-street, S a lf or d, w h ere h e carr ied on hi s bns wood turner. He i s a b out 32 years o f age, and Ins...ll').oeti nate wife about 28. Sh e i s rat h er a goo d-l o okin i do woman, her features being what are called prettY• ._lOO a very suspicious and jealous disposition ; so far as is b e thi without any real cause. Hence the assault which in, to, cause of taking away the life of both. It is stateqroso such a height did 'Whitaker carry his jealous suslnn. to 0 . ) rage, that he could not bear to see his wife speak; ° 4l o oo, man ; and frequently when, in the street, some one at her, he has exclainied angrily, " What's that fellow . is he lookin g a t you f or ?" To such lengths didti i i , l ;i s 4 bikl; cions, working pn . a n irritable temper, made tn. ° o l, 0 toxicationfer it i§ stated to us that, he vitas . habits—carry him, in his treatinent of hiswife; nesday last, after he had threatened to kill her; o Litri,Pr man thought it nece ssary f or h er own „safety.to leave f.c4l she did so, that ilay,,taking With her theie N t. 4 ur ehilil t ; s t_ . i eldest a boy . ofsix orsevci years °ra g e, an d the rc l " infant only live Weeks old. ° This act, however nece s s ar y o r pru d ent on the pa rt 4 , ea u 'wife, having a due regard for her personal safety, - lie have had an unfortunate influence on the misguided n ) _' f onl• appears to have immediately sold off great part of th_e as io an d taken n iel. ture, &c., and to have given up the house, in dge-street t •Shude-hill. However, on Sunday In' y he-went to the house of his wife's parents, who are c i er be • cent, respectable persons, in their sphere—the huslirtilli an operative dyer—named Peers, living in Oldneldl-03;_n saw his wife's mother—his wife not being there- 7 -andPido!'; earnestly that if she would send to her daughter, an u ths her to return to him, he would behave better to b et 6 , l4. ever had done; and he added ; ," I've token il 6 %eit 4 . brother's house, in Club RoWs . for.her arid M 6 and 01 ;, dren, and rye no d.Pubt., that We 'shall be comfortable . . is duced by his seen - ling eontritipn,,Mi - s. Peett;.kno;iving t i OA! her daughter Was; sent fOr her and th e ehild r en ; Nt came to Mrs. Peers's, while Whitaker remained they'' e et renewed his promise s o f amen d men t to hi s w if e ; an d ahead; cottgt, sented to accomp an y hi m t o th e i r new , home, a sm all house, occupied by his brother, Robert Whit a ker (wi l° ,, e lid a wood-turner,) in Cl u b Row. Oldham Road. The`' ~ • • • • ' Lev --v tne afternoon ' and, so far as we have heard , tinned to treat her kindly in the presence of his brother t ' About a quarter befo r e fiVe .d'eldek the MOit Robert. Whitaker and his Wife left the house, 4iid•g` Lavery's Spirit , faults;t drink ; an d;, intinediately• Whitaer asked his Wife to go Vi Min intd . zi,frthit, r i i :deof the groulid floor *lien the had tione.So he itieked inside. After they had been in the room awhile ler t o' alarmed some persons i n .and near the house ;'" an d w ere ift , t, these, a man named John'Bolton, andanothet, ivho another room of the house, ran to the doer of the rill finding it locked Bolton' - freed it npen.' then unfortunate woman,nn;a bed which was onithe 1100%00 with blciettl,„and sf riving vein; k - ft) ilyqt•ll her B P; infuriated husband, B(Iton tight; poor creature with a short sharp axe, of the kind us eu „ a to! trade. Thi s bl ow was a i me d at her head ; but she p. fo r her right hand (already m u til a t e d) t o ward off or rege!,,ino blow, and th e axe c l e f t h er h and in two, longitud i na iii the nuckle joint of the fourth finger as far as the vvri' 10; ton and othe rs , w h o b y t hi s time had arrived, seeing, ,:!1, taker armed with so f orm id a b le a weapon, dare d the room; but Bolton requested a young man to rWi peri to the Oldhain-road leek.iip, for Mr. paggatt i th, who returnerkalnanskirnylo , ,tliatel, . lit t r tjb m tirof ever, Whitaker threw tiewri the axe 614 ,ni„,, o tured into the room and raised the unfortiinate , (o7ibefr yeyed her into the kitchen, whither Whitaker follo'o sch When Daggatt entered the•kitchen he .found. George O ,A ker standing in the middle of that place; his clothe% 0 0, his shirt stained with ~blond,..and,,,in aria chair riest, 4 o'o Sarah Whitaker was seated, bleeding,profnsely, IndlaroPt 4 „, with blood from her, head and both, hands. An ~ where the outrage, was s Omnlittet - C the bed on • 14 'n' O - di fiv, poor womaA lying Yellen attacked was also cover' de° blood, and five of her fingers, three from one hand an .be y from th e o th er, a ll of which had been severed f r om 0; hands by blows of the axe, were lying on the e°' U ' Daggatt entering th e kit c h en, t h e poor woman, win ) ,‘ er 011, ued to ret a i n possession of her faculties, said to him' a let' he said last W e d nesday he would kill me ; he has k ill' i he has don e it." D aggatt immediately seized Whi t !, gs.i:i the throat, on w hi ch the prisoner said " Oh, Mr. l'a°•• don't be afraid, I shall none run away." D agga tt r4 t i t, that he was no t afraid, and that he would t a k e care tf or eo did not run away. Being St. Patrick's day, and nunnZ r ok Irishmen being then in the streets in that heighbuil r o 'S one of whom h a d att empted to trip hp the young nbtiaol; had been despat c h e d to the lock-up for assistance, ove thought it prudent to lose nti time in conveying his net' to a place of safety. He therefore handcuffed him ti t and hurried him off to the lock-un, at the same tin le patching one of his (Daggett's) sons to Mr: Mittel i f surgeon, and another lad t o M r. B lease, surgeon! h° siding at a -short distance in Oldhany•road. Thel on!' promptly in attendance ; .and D aggatt, w h en he 113500' back to the house, found one of these gentlemen inn the poor • woman's head whiell was ser e fractured, and the other inspecting the mutilated n: Daggatt asked the surgeons if he had not better eon" e _ 4 4 to the Infirmary and, they having assented, he preen' e , coach immediately, and, together with his son J n a l° o 6o youth of 16, went w!th her in the coach to the Inn r ,„ tie On the way thither, she seemed to endure great boilio w el! ment, and she said to James Daggatt, " Oh, yOnng 0 ~ give me somethin g t o pu t me out of my misery, I sued much. Ah ! he said he'd kill me, last Wednesday, 3 ° 0 1 ° has done it." She reached the Infirmary between s's )1r• seven o'clock ; and h er i n j u ri es were then examined h)•;:, e ,i! Smith, the house surgeon, who found that she had recel,', 114 Liii./AULL, o satin, oee: right ear; and the axe, besides cu tti ng t h roug h t h e scalp 4 _Os the skull, h a d broken the latter int o sp li nters and fragra;o several of whi c h were removed. From her left hand A* t y of the fingers (the fore finger, , the middle finger, an fourth) had bee n severe d , near the nuckles. H er righil a oi wanted two fing ers , th e f ourth and the little finger • and only had th ese b een chopped off, close to the knuckle, h, 3 1 ,1 another blow —that w hi c h B olton witnessed—the liana 0 been cleft in two, from the insertion of the fourth fing,!,f'o' far as the wr i s t. Th e excessive haemorrhage, before sn' rived at the Infirmary, had probably preserved h er frorn .sne sensibility ; and, d ur i ng S unday night, she remained in rm. session both of her faculties and speech.—On M i T i fter morning, Dag ga tt ca ll e d at the Infirmary, to inquire her;it and Mr. Smith then expressed an opinion, t"' - ze would be desi ra bl e to take her account of the matter, 01,0'0! might not rem a i n muc h l onger sensible. Accor dinglY,'o-iii ten o'clock on Monday morning, Daniel Maude, Esq•• • stipendiary magistrate, a tt en d e d b y M r. Oswald Milne, • 0 1 as his clerk, an d b y Mr. J. S. Thomas, deputy-constable , Manchester, p rocee d e d to the Infirmary, and took the l e sitions of the p oor woman, who repeatedly declared that was killed and should not recover. O il • We understand that, during the whole of Monday o ld Monday night, she retained possession of her speech . S senses ; and ye s t er d ay morning, on making further inq u , s e, at the Infir mary, we were informed that she was not W 0 a d but much in th e same state as on the preceding evening; 5,11 that there was no appearance of that fatal symptom in su t be cases, erysip e l as . I n d ee d , it was intimated that, if by „A, efforts used, inflammation of the b ra i n could be as ert' - „, there was just a possibility that she might recover. s fof afterwards, we u n d ers t an d , s h e fell into a dozing kin' slumber, which was likely to be of service to her. The account she gives of the circumstances attending - assault is in substance th e f o ll ow i ng :—After they had been ;1 short time in th e room, t h e door of which was locked , Lcl while she was lyi ng on th e b ed upon the floor her husu i suddenly produced an axe, which till then had been C- na' cealed, she knew not whether about his person or bene"d, the bed, and struck h er w i t h it on the right side of the h t ,, r e just over the ear, exclaiming at the same time " you Thomas." She explained this allusion by'statins r e on Saturlay afternoon, as her husband and herself w e n d walking together, a man named Thomas, who knew hen; tat who had not seen her before for some ti came u p to t T o and said " Oh, Sarah, how are you ? I've not seen you good while," and he held out his hand to shake hands w it a, her; but she knowing the jealous temper of her liuslo i n ,. drew her hand back. On seeing the blow about to fa ll -fi e her head, she instinctively raised her left hand, and the ate (which has a large blade, with very sharp edge, an d a sh ° ,,, t handle) coming down upon her hand, cut off three fing e ,L l besides inflicting the fractured wound in the skull. Her ' j ai band again raised the axe, and she then put up her rie- ci hand to stop or ward off the blow ; but again the axe severe two of the fingers from the hand. She screamed, and' loudly as her strength would permit, shouted ,‘ mur der; but a third time her husband raised the fell weapon ; she lifted her right hand to protect her head, and again the axe st r ik e h er hand cleaving it t o th e wr i st as a lreanl described ; th e door having by this time been forced ope ll ' and Bolton witnessing this last blow. We understand that the unfortunate woman was in every respect prudent in co n d uc t, an d respectable in character. She is stated t o h ave b een, f or a short time past, a pious member the congregation assembling in Oldham -street Wesleyan In, sn e thodist chapel, and to have been a member of the Wesley in, methodist society f or some years. On Monday, herotai t ' e was allowed t o see h er, and she requested her to fetch t'' minister of Oldham -street chapel, as she wished to see hi' ° e Speaking to her mother of her husband, she said, " Oh, 11 P 9 P, you'll punish hi m as much as you can; for lie has done ni he's don e it." Sh e also said; " Mother, if I die, take n° keep my children ; for I'm not long for this world." The prisoner, so far as we have heard, has not manifested any outer sign s o f compunct i on for his cruel "act. W he p l r i brought by D agga t t i nto the lock-up, and while that of fi nni was writing hi s p ersona l d escr i ption in a book, he said, " I )°0 be so d—d a f ra id, D aggatt ; 1 shall none run away. I ha ve not done it, an d no b o d y saw me do it. " He is a slender n'a ° t , about 32 years of age, five feet six inches and a half in heign i , As is required in such cases, Daggatt searched him, and to, ° b from him the contents of his pockets, including ls:•.4d, was all the money he had about him. On the same nigh •' when Daggatt went into his cell to see if all was safe, the soner said to hi m , " S en d f or something to drink out of tbl, 16d. - you ha v e go t o f me. " Daggett said he had better th i n "' of something else than drink, and then left him. When ar; prehended, he was quite sober. During Sunday night , la repeatedly ask e d D aggatt if his wife was dead. Daggatt to s him she was no t, an d W hitaker ' s reply was, " Well, i t, ' bad job ; but I have not done it." On Monday morning he was conveyed to the New Bailey lock-up, i n th e pr i soner ' s van. He was not brought UP cli, a that day ; b u t M r. M aude intimated that he should rem, 1, B ' 3 him to Friday nex t , b y which time in all probability it will known whether his un f or t unate wife has any chance of reco very. On Monday, th e t wo e l dest children of the prisoner, both boys unde r seven years of age, went to the lock-u p, and as ' e Daggatt to g i v e th em t h e Is. 4d. which he had taken fr oni their fathe r . H e to l d them to tell their aunt to cnll fort' and he would give it to her. Accordingly on Monday even" ing, Robert Whitaker's wife called at the lo c k- u p, and 1) 3 ", gatt gave her th e money. She did not appear to attrib ute blame to any o ne but the prisoner; her expression beinF; " It's a bad j o b ; s h e was a very prudent woman ; but he so jealous." At a late hour last night, on inquiry at the Infirmary , learned that little if any difference had manifested itself du ring the day, in the state of the unfortunate patient. In the course of the day h er f at h er and mother visited her ; but 5h is not allowed to talk much, and last night she was quiet composed. There was no appearance of inflammation of the brain ; nor is it expecte d that it will he necessary to amput at q any portions of the m u til a t e d hands, bey ond those ar ts which - it was re qu i s it e t o remove when the poor womanwas brough t into the institution. Mr. Ewart is prevented from attending in the House o f Commons by the sudden and dangerous illness of a near re lation. ----Morning Chronicle of Monday. 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