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'lo6milwsk•. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.. SICILY.—RECOMMENCEMEN T OF HOSTILITIE King of Naples' ultimatum Govern me The Neap f Palermo, hostilit. have left.tt n only r days 6,000 suppo army. ion of t aving been rejected by tb have re-cornmenc f about 18,000 m Cousta of Moldav a kind of f river, on Lower Dai the bureau, of the Mini months, till Guards and being vestei members (i were c cert XVI d'AngOL Valentino, or SARDINIA. GENOA.—La the towr been c cannot obtaining the c Three m( to oh* ain the I quit the town. The r. each side. The West Ini account of one I particu how to received at ill, and e sets arrivt gold regic the other consignee American six mo. at immense profit pected at Panama his Rife in l'anLina. About -':).7,60 a' a present passengers In crossed the I s th mus s i nce t h e 26th of December, ar there were nearly I MA ut the route when the ad left Panama in tl :Is. The first party t Clyde 1 Californ suffered the rain health a travellers rates, and to steamer 0 zreat demand foi; asco r Panan by Me hard of eng 1 and C g curve} supposed their July ; and sho the road woul next, and corn from I and Bu soil of pean Dc sm exploring , days, he than C 'e of Tu ie opit their Turkish prov eaci. we tions, tooli ber of vic CALIFORNIA ted with 4 influx of bullion exander Cross had 'rants remaining t from New Y( -live in number, were the railroad. It was neluded by th e Ist of in Ca named fight, c 1 that a r employing himself for a month in the end .ust to ti le of 15,600 f pies on the 4th March ' b. to the 1 arrived at 1 , en arrested in I on his to leave tided t nephew Bourge: face du ber, a blow on the t begged leave to jority. Rasp; his eye-glass denied doing Raspail's unc the cause of t i said that Point had m an offensive manner; so. P • 11 - Yoin meipal evi and there is no doubt that s NARROT ...uaeAPE Or LORD Gonun.---Lord Gough very narrowly escaped being taken a prisoner at the battle of Chillianwallah. A letter from an officer on his lordship's staff says :—" The old chief and the whole of us were completely exposed to the Gnorchurrahs, who came within 50 yards of us, but in consequence of the jungle, were not aware of the prize within their reach ; and two guns happening . to come up at the moment, God knows how or why, the horsemen were driven hack by the first discharge. Had not this providentially occurred, we should have been ' gone coons,' as nothing; I am sore, would have persuaded Lord Gough to budge an inch." Telegraph. '—Bomb THE .ENGLISH IN PAR nglish to the Opera Co: Previous to the visit of the !ay eveni was prof one of the body that each rson sha - - - u, u va VG L throw on the stage as a tribute to the actresses. The proposition was, however, abandoned on the advice that 500 bouquets thrown on the stage would totally prevent the continuation of the performance. The English, it may be remembered, were the parties who availed them selves of Mr. Crisp's cheap trip to Paris. They were received by the National Guard and authorities with much enthusiasm. A beautiful triumphal arch had been erected in front of the Custom-house, on which was written in English, " To the fraternal union of England with France." The sous prtfet addressed our countrymen and welcomed them to France. Mr. Lloyd, the banker, of Lombard -street, replied. A body of matelottes, in their picturesque costume, carrying baskets of flowers, pre sented every visitor as he passed on shore with a bouquet. Among the visitors was Lord Brougham. The party after a short delay proceeded to Paris. A great number of the visitors attended the Assembly on Monday. Two of the tribunes have been set apart for their especial accommodation during their stay in Paris. THE SLAVE TRADE.—We have received advices from the west coast of Africa to the middle of March, and from the seat of operations (Sierra Leone) to the 20th of February, brought by her Majesty's ship Penelope, at Portsmouth, by which we learn that the slave trade has increased very considerably of late. Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, in his steam-ship the Penelope, accom panied by the Favourite, 14, Commander Murray; the Waterwitch, 8, Commander R. Quire ; the Sealark, 8, Commander Monvpenny ; the brigantines Dart 3, Lieut. Hill, and Bonetia, 3, Lieut. Forbes • and the steamer Pluto, Lieut. E. K. Joaffe, proceeded' off the island of Gallinas (the chief slave-dealing settlement on the coast), on the 3rd of February, and landed all the available force of that squadron early in the morning, and totally demo lished, by fire and sword, all the slave barracoons found !n the place, the factories, and other receptacles of the slaveholder, " leaving not a wreck behind." The coast nas closely watched, and the captures very frequent. Commodore Sir Charles Hotham gave up the command of the station to Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, on the lst of March, at Porto Prava. A most frightful accident occurred ashore at Sierra Leone, ou the 20th February, which caused the death of fourteen soldiers of the West India Regiment serving in that colony. The party were employed in clearing out the contents of a number of rockets condemned as unserviceable, when the r In the band of one of the ignited, and went off the heap of powder as heaps and strew m by some means became licating the explosion to dating c Qsflionsin result ensu e d . • • -e g in whic the oons were going on was h blown buildi i n nto the air, h and with pe it rati the bodies of all employed in it, whose mangled remains presented au appearance far too horrible to attempt to learn by thi per by t ast no fewer holy clay c describe. Fotiitbeil out of the party died almost imme- CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. diately ; onlY bile survived to relate the manner of the oc currence. The squadron was very healthy. Our contemporary, the Builder, recommends the in- JERUSALEM.—The following account of the corsecra- surance of churches. To invest the surplus incomes of tion of the new church at Jerus a l e m i s t a , ien from'a letter fat sees and livings in the augmentation of the salaries of of a resident :—" Now, I must tell you a little about the needy curates, would be one of the best means of insuring onening of our church on Mount Zion, on January 21, the Church of England. 1849. I had anticipated we should have 'had a great The election of the Vicar of Orton, Cumberland, by but was mistaken, for it proved a-very silent, mo- the freeholders, some 500 strong, takes place on Wednes ar.i, thA only stranger being the Engli s h consul day, - the 18th instant. The two candidates are the Rev. —"b -ur consul, vice-consul, and the John Sisson, the present curate, and the Rev. George " . their Atkinson, vicar of Arnold, Notts. The Guardian says, the Clergy Relief Bill, we learn, ssed through the Select Committee to which it was d, and has been reprinted with some important The objectionable fourth clause, enabling , in his r by bin a boy, who ceding clergymen to deprive and depose themselves, en altered so as to make the deprivation and depo t of the bishop, who is now directed to re of deprivation and sentence of deposition r and such sentences are to have the by any duly authorized ecclesiastical held by the s, sition t cord s( him to ren of the Loots in Bristol of what 1 s that have to c the blue Soothe 1 a speech frog by an exarni iok on to put us out of love wit IND. to give 3uckinghorn' n Ireland were readily k:1 years' purchase on ffo cm his t rental At the Cork assizes there sv a ik much of four pints of whisky a d The foundat 'et in circu , venty- on light! t those who came before hit !ence, at ' so eel between Esq charge was a gentleman who enjoyed an independent pro perty on the demise of his father ; but, from causes which It . is not our province to set forth, be(' an was for several yea Mayii Teleora not with his mot this sort o rut, like too The pro :tor, not after fully from t led hir ! . t. to the e to a paper The Eccle, kable,but merely lamentable state er as a member o ntly de nan is to be liable to .er of the Church are thereupon to be led and vacant; and no ch 3 admir Two clans( the of rently to meet the ( rsons in ct laces t DERBY its parish incumbent of t his kind bea - ring t RAILWAY : er to him any rite or ld. ; parcels, -boats, ment booths wi AND FASHION. V,!IE. iIiTERPOIii, STANDARD. INCREASE IN THE_CUSTOMS REVENUE OF LIVERPOOL The customs receipts of Liverpool continue to increase, and almost keep pace with the increase of the tonnage of the port. The following comparative statement shows our progress as compared with our position in 'the corres ponding period of last year:— Jauuary February March 292,507 277,465 320,356 261,480 292,055 £873,891 giving an increase on the quarter of £52,570. It will be borne in mind that the corn laws were totally repealed on the Ist of February in this year, which renders the in- crease much mo POLITICAL IIIISCE LLANY. Mr. Rigby Wason has addressed a letter. to Lord John Russell, denouncing Sir Robert Peel's Irish scheme as one " caring nothing about the Irish laiullord. the Irish tenant, the Irish labourer, or the pockets of the British people." _ A large and influential meeting was held last week, in the County Hall, Oxford, to take into consideration the present depressed state of agriculture, and the steps ne cessary to be adopted to obtain relief. The high-sheriff, S. W. Gardiner, Esq., presided, supported by Lord Nor rays, M.P., and nearly all the members of parliament, and leading agriculturists of the county, The electors of Sheffield have invited MI represent them ; but not till Mr. S. D Roebuck to renting minister, made a strong appeal on behalf of Sir Culling Eardley, and denounced the rejected of Bath as a traitor, who had sold his constituent:- for a silk gown from Sir To talk about the inconsistency of the T upon a stale truism. And vet one cant rues is to dwell amused by the almost inconceivable audacity with which it puts forth its oracular leaders, which contradict one another in every line, and betray the discordant sources from which they spring. Just now we have the high church, aristocratic, conservative-whig, enacting the adulator of a venomous democrat, Mr. John Arthur singing pavans on his anticipated parliament. What means this? The Times plume itself upon its practical character. What has Mr Roebuck done, beyond making very bitter speech talking of horsewhipping Mr. Walter? THE MESSENGER OF WAR PERMITTED TO RETU TO DENMARK WITHOUT AN ANSWER. — The states that, previously to the expiration of the armistice between Denmark and Germany, a courier from Copen hagen delivered to Lord Palmerston the final propositions of the Danish government, and that his lordship, though a mediating power, failed to open the despatches till after the two (Lys to which the courier was limited had ex pired. The messenger, in compliance with his orders, oebuck, and return to es, and .ssembled, o London and N ppears strange cal ict )port, opposed hi ag the c lebts due t ing that a r ed to y INGS OF THE IRISH C among the Irish clergy, not exceptionalorpecu is 13 r.m uth of Irel 3 which numbers of the ( ,„ d are reduced. We would rei pious n his ordinary income of one legacy left to him in 1847 to the relic , . parishioners • but he and his f am ily, can . and nine children, are now menaced with vation, though his sons would gladly earn ti wimonlabourers. Again: they may read of a . his wife and ten children, who lived for months on die . ) meal and turnips, and but for the timely aid of a ene lent friend " must have perished"' - -house." We cannot forbear M extrat from this melanchol record of unn s starving ; of a wife yman, to extract the fol- Of one clergyman WE could lay claim to last re told, that " all t November NI living in tl tical commissioner the wife of anoth Ps the distressed condition of clergy r You may judge hOw t] d to publish our miser painful nec drove me to v _ Who has supplied us with inea mi which we are now living. We would w_ engage in any way to help ourselves, and are not too prc any honest calling. My boys are well able to dig and 1..„ ground, but we have no means of supplying seed, so our glebe i lying idle, our only cow having been sold for poor rates." ne boys ill atisfy the fri comfor TRIAL OF DUFFY.—This trial commenced on Tuesday. Sir Colman O'Loghlen was absent . , and Mr. Butt, Q.C., appeared in court, having travelled all night from Cork in order to be present. The prisoner has the advantage of the distinguished talents of Mr. Napier, Q.C. There was a very small number of jurors in attendance, which in itself is significant of the kind feelino. t - -ds Mr. Doff" ,uwa.. Mr. Duffy, for few would keep now away, club system is utterly extinct. After the prisoner' scl had challenged fourteen e fifteen, the Attorney-enera'l indiscreet enough g to select a jury s coun- to taunt the prisoner with endeavor to try him ! Mr. Butt then offered the A jury was is called here uu cue same, Out 111 r. Monahan a. at last sworn, and it is thought to be "a very doubtful one," i. e.. one on whom the crown does not rely for a verdict. Mr. Monahan, in his state ment of the case, traversed the same ground as he went over before, but he exerted himself beyond his former effort to produce effect upon the jury. Mr. Butt deli vered his speech for the defence on Thursday. The evidence for the defence was heard on Friday, after which the Solicitor-General replied. Judge Jackson having summed up, the jury retired at twenty minutes past six o'clock. At ten, it having been intimated that they could not agree, they were called into court, when they stated that there was not the slightest chance of their agreement, as they were equally divided. This was greeted by a loud cheer, which was enthusiastically taken up by the crowd outside, where the prevailing impression was that the prisoner had been acquitted. The jury were given in charge and locked up, and the court adjourned. On Saturday morning they were recalled into court. They said they had not agreed, and declared that it was not at all likely they would agree. The Attorney-General consented to liberate Duffy on bail for his appearance at the next commission. WHAT BECOMES OF THE MAYNOOTH GRANT ? —The Rev. Daniel Foley said, at the meeting of the Irish Sock ty in Dublin, on Thursday, (Lord Roden in the chair,)— " The other day I was dining with a gentleman who began to tell of his grievances, and amongst other things mentioned, that one of his tenants owed him several hundred pounds. " Why don't you turn him out ?" I inquired. "Oh !" he replied, "h e h as a numerous party connected with him, and as I am fond of proceeding often to his neighbourhood, I am afraid I would be shot if I did." " Well," I observed, " your's is certainly a bad case." " Moreover," he continued, " I could gain nothing by turning him out now, for I have a littl e expec tation of £4O which he promised me on such a day, for he has a son in Maynooth, and he will get £4O on that day from him, and says he will give me the money. (Hear•r.) That, you see, is what the grant has done ; it ha s no t made gentlemen of the priests, but it goes to pay the farmer's rent. (Hear.) I tell you what I believe. If John Bull hears that the money for Maynooth goes to pay the Irish landlord, he will soon stop the grant. (Laughter and applause.) Another woman, I was told, could never pay her rent until she received . £3O, which i s allowed f rom M aynoot h t o th e s t u dents as if to buy books. I remember heaiing it stated what a grievance it was that if a Protestant wanted to make a minister of his son, he must pay a l arge sum to t h e un i vers ity t o ge t him through, but if a man wants to make his son a priest, let him go and make interest with the Roman Catholic bishop, and he will exert his influence, and not only have his son made a priest, but get himself £4O a year to Fay the landlord." of our read privation that have also been )dy under any writ de con s for pr mints tted b ntiy he is qualified, either )ishon : in the fnrnini hore, the first rty on 4 in un- —The Rev. David Anderson who has been appointed to the 1 dioce is already caused himself . to be valued and beloved by 1. An address, signed by the principal parishioners, as forwarded to him, before his formal acceptation of ie bishopric, expressive of their regret at the probability nentation of the stipend of the , ply is fraught with kindness, I it to be his duty to the lent. The consecration .ce -on Holy Thursday —Derby IFFAIRS. tAILWAY —Traffic for the ; goods and cattle, £l9O Os I. 9d. ;—total, £1297 7s. 6d. , AND HOLYHEAD he 7th instant ) 12s. 2d. £134 7, rom the Shrewsbury and Chester Com: yment for conveyance of mails k is one of importance, t true, as it cannot fail to give encouragement to holders If large funds to invest now in the railways. Sir R. Peel of the wee is saiu to have purchasec amount of £10,500. A week ago it was rumoured he was to lend the company such a sum. The contract between the General Post-office and the 3'reat %Yes between I the Railway Company being unable to raise the amount necessary for the purchase of the steam-boats they had purchased of Government, or to hire any other steam vessels for the purpose. The Yorksbireman of Saturday, in a biting article on the railway doings of Mr. Hudson, says that " the past compared with tho notice of the coming invest investigation only discloses trifle which will come under t We shall be of some use to that committee here. ire shall place our fingers upon the blackest ant most dishonourable transactioiis." In reference to the Eastern Counties Railway, a railway per says :—lt has been stated to us that, as far as the have yet carried their inqui. ries, they cannot advise the payment of any dividend for the last half-year. We give the statement as we heard it, without vouching for its truth. It will be remembered that a dividend of ss. 6d. per share was recommended from the chair. mittee of t BAUD BY RAILWAY SERVANTS.—The magistrates were last week engaged in the investiga tion of an extensive fraud on the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, by three of the s JXTENSI John Hayes, a clerk at the Ne - wcastle station of the Nortli Shields line, Robert Bowie, a guard on the line, Alexan der Alexander, ticket collector at Percy Main, and Robert Codling, ticket collector at North Shields. It appears that a number of tickets issued at Newcastle for Percy Main and North Shields. i n st ea d o f goir this wa York, had been sent back to one of the clerks at New castle, and re-issued before being sent to York, so that oney bad only been received by the company for one sue, while two or more issues of the same tickets had ken place. There were three parties to complete one of ese frauds, a collector, a guard, and a clerk. A police in deposed to having found upon the guard £33 in gold, d at his house a large quantity of silver, making £4ll £5O in gold was found upon the Percy Main The prisoners were fully committed. all ; and ollector. The toundatioh stone of the vast clocks atGreat Grimsby, on the eastern coast, will be laid on the 18th inst., by the Prince Consort, amidst festivities of no ordinary charac- Regimental bands, arl oast Guard service, a tillery, the force belonging to tre to be present, and masonic ons from the town, wits every kind of i other proces amusement for the humbler classes, will be specially pro vided on land. The Sheernes3 squadron, under Admiral . . out in the the coast 1 gayest colours, and the various yacht clubs of :lave received an official notification for the at- corporation of Grimsby will give a ball in the hich the Earl of Yarborough, as high steward —the poor of the 11 be erected for all classes of visitors men employed on the works of the Manchester, and Lincolnshire line will have a banquet on the ES AGAINST MR. HUDSON.—The Report )rs of the York, Newcastle, and B flgate the Great THE CHARG tilway, to in gland Pur ;ainst Mr. chase-account, involving certain Hudson, the great Railway Owner, It is a remarkable document and arriv that Mr. Hudson sold to the Company 3253 shares, not only at a profit on their cost to him, but also at a price higher than that prevalent in tt date of the sale. This was den son, on Mr. Plew's valuatior Delusion t at th full extent 3, Directo Tetary, having mac improvident y ought to have gn Mr. H I to the I( ny; but it At any NudsOn fi; formed about Xloooof the COURT is assembled round her Majesty. The Queen, the Prince, and the Royal Family, daily take their habitual airings in Albert have become the pa- caused to be transmitted, in aid of its funds, th donation of £lOO, and have also become annual sut of 1;5. Icribere THE CONVICT RUSH , ed 24 per c annual income of £BO W. Wilson, Sir A M.P., a d nearl of the di .triet were pre3e: paining of the general dis It to both H .ortty LYNN. e Hen. H. E. this borough, appeared before nesday last, for the first time s dressed them in public. In ti said it would be a high honou politically almost unar sition of the late Lord ( tion becomes more valuable still, when conferred upon a young man personally unknown to you, and, as yet, poli tically untried. Indeed, gentlemen, I cannot easily de- scribe to you the proud sense of satisfaction with Which I first learned from the American journals-that you had, by what I think I am now entitled to call an almost unani. stranger to you, and at . that time absent from England, for the arduous but most honourable duty of representing and defending your interests in parliament. lam not so . t —for indeed it would, in my case, be a -1 madness to believe that this high honour has var.' nor so ma tle 1 been conferred upon me in sonal to myself; but I am not the less of the reasons for which it has been c proud on mferred o during frie hip, continued through so many years, and strengthened of late by ties of political connexion, which bound together him of whom I have spoken and my own nearest and most respected relative. My father was the friend of Lord George Bentinck, and I, had myself hoped to be Lord George Bentinck's disciple and political fol lower, and for those reasons my kind friends here judged I could not be held a stranger in the borough of Lynn." He then at length gave his constituents his opinions on protection for agriculture and the Navigation Laws. " He would do . his utmost to oppose the free-trade system." (From the Norwich Mercury of Saturday.) The conduct of a convict under sentence of death gene rally excites some attention, and in the case of this mur derer, it is natural there should be a morbid curiosity after the great excitement he has created, and as natural that those who live by feeling the public mind should seek to keep alive that curiosity. Various of the London papers have, during the week, given much space to tales regard. ing his conduct since his condemnation. Those who are at all cognizant of the course followed towards a criminal in his position, know that his life is, in such a case, a mere preparation for death. and to that proper apprecia tion of his situation, which it is the desire of all charitably disposed persons he should attain. To this end he receives scarcely any visitors but the Chaplain or the Clergyman of his own parish, and perhaps his legal adviser, and the latter, we believe, under certain restrictions. To pretend to detail a long history of his conduct would be merely to string together all the tales which are daily related for the benefit of vulgar curiosity, the greater part of which are a tissue of untruths, or twice told tales. We have, there fore, inquired in the only proper quarter, and we give the particulars we have received, vouching for their accuracy. Soon after Rush's condemnation the Chaplain of the Castle visited him and offered his services, which Rush declined under the plea of his own sufficiency to conduct his devotions privately, at the same time civilly assuring the reverend gentleman that his determination arose out of no disrespect to him. Rush had intimated a wish to see the Rev. W. W. Andrew, whose church he had fre quented for several years, and who had shown great kind ness to lim and his family : but he declined formally re questing his attendance. The Chaplain, therefore, kindly wrote to Mr. A., an d i n t ro d uce d him to the p r i soner i n , - company with hims e lf. D ur ing this visit Rush w as m u c h Rhich tney moved, ' especially at certain connections and family trans- Man._ Such are the Ares actions being brought to his recollection. The night be- wishes of _ fore this interview he had become very restless and per- ever,donnythingra..— _ turbed, and exhibited symptoms of uneasiness, that in- fact is, they only need to b duced the Governor to place an additional guard over him. temned. If the present 1 On the following day he requested the Chaplain to pray what is probably most to be with him, and has continued to do so, thanking him for of the respectable parties in his services. His spirit is e v idently much subdued. He may be in feeling, there is in prince— _ .e:irked dis is more tranquil, and appears to have lost all hope of tinction between such men •as Peel, Lewd John Russell, escaping or mitigating the fate th a t h angs over hi m. At Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and Sir George Grey ; present the day xed for the execution remains for Satur- and I% e may hope, amongst other improvements of the day, April the 21st—the customary time. A desire has day, there is too much good sentiment in the country for been expressed by some persons that the day should not the most distinguished statesmen of the day to sacrifice be market day, on account of its injury to business; but for feeling the essential interests of the Crown and Con no order has been received to alter it. Ititution.-,ReecTd. SIGNS OF RETlRlNG. — Whatever we may desire or fancy to be expedient, it is but too clear that the ground is fast crumbling under the feet of the present administra tion. One very important section of their supporters — the Bright and Cobden class—is evidently growing rest less and discontented. Its leaders begin to perceive that they are in a false position. Diametrically opposed to the Church and the Aristocracy; and, in fact, to the Monarchy itself, they find, by experience, that a Whig Ministry stands greatly in their way. A Tory Govern ment might be rendered very unpopular, and so a large amount of public feeling might be enlisted in an attack upon the national institutions. But a Liberal Govern ment, standing between the Crown and tne people, acts like a bag of sand in front of a castle wall. The effect of this was remarkably seen in April, 1848, when the remark was in every one's mouth, " What would have been the result of the Chartist movement, if the Whigs had not been in office ?" A year or two's experience of this state of things has produced much vexation and discontent among the Manchester leaders. The journals which are reputed to be under Mr. Bright's influence, are now urging warmly the necessity of the speedy retirement of the Ministry. Their writers clearly see, that with either a Peelite or a Protectionist Ministry, they might entertain better hopes than now. Either concessions would be made to them, s the momentary purchase of peace; or else such an `-. l gr feeling might be aroused; as to compel array of-popul the new. And ...ay to retire, to make room for a new inmet, which they fantastically hope might be of the -I, ester school. Su. , _ 3 . .present views and r-, Bright and party These people, 'iblicesteem. The known to he thoroughly eon inistry cannot stand alone, desired would be some union the State What a no . 1111 His daily attention to the Moners, a parish hastened so as to be there before the conclusion of the armistice. The Danish Minister received no answer, and must have supposed his proposals treated with contempt. It is in * I . 1 " . fbm''' nroposah: on one side and eon- . . cessions on the othe r that would have prevented the re newal of hostilities and the recent excessive loss of life. MR. COBDEN'S DINNER—The Wakefield Journal says, that when Mr. Cobden and his friends walked through that town on Wednesday to the banquet presented to him, not a single cheer greeted him or his friends. There was plenty of space in the banquet room for more than sat down, and after cloths were withdrawn, there was no anxiety manifested to obtain admission. In five minutes after Mr. Cobden's entrance into the room there was not a single person loitering in the vicinity of t Buildings a stranger in passing through the town, would not have imagined that the free trade member for the county was for the first time meeting his constituents. We question whether there were thirty persons present at the dinner connected with Wakefield. It is true that Manchester sent some 200 to the dinner., Rochdale and Todmorden their quota—Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds made up the rest, but the country gentleman were absent ; the life-blood of the riding were also absent —its middle class tradesmen. At the dinner given to Mr. Sandars, the member for Wakefield, about eighteen months ago, there were twice as many persons present as there were at Cobden's banquet. • DINNER AT WAKEFIELD TO MR. COBDEN.—On Wed nesday a grand complimentary entertainment was given to Mr. Cobden by his constituents, in celebration of his triumphant return for the West-Riding at the last elec tion. The entertainment took place at the Corn Ex change, Wakefield, where accommodation was provided for between 600 and 700 persons. The side walls were ornamented with branches of laurel, at the upper end was the Royal cypher surmounted by an Imperial Crown, and at the lower end of the apartment was sus p en d e d a ndependen .5 11 , 1 411 Laic stinuriplloll laooaen ann the _ Electors of Wakefield ;" in front of the Chairman were emblazoned the mottoes " Protection is Robbery," "The Twins—Agriculture and Commerce," " Free Trade," &c. At the upper table, which was slightly elevated and stretched the entire length of the room, sat the Chairman, Mr. George Goodman, having on his right Mr. Cobden, M.P. ; Mr. Bright, M.P.; Mr. William Brown, M.P. ; Mr. George Wilson, late Chairman of the Anti-Corn Law. League ; Mr. Harrison, mayor of Wakefield; Mr. Alder man Carbutt, of Leeds; Mr. James Hamerton ; Mr. C. H. Dawson ; and on his left Mr. Marshall, M.P. ; Col, Thompson, M.P.; Mr. Salt, mayor of Bradford; Mr Henry, M.P. • Mr. Ike* mayor of Halifax, &e FREE TRADE.-One of the largest and most influential meetings that was ever held in this district, took place at Market Harborough, on Tuesday last. There was but one unanimous feeling expressed, both by the landlords and the existence of free that nothii trade measures lately adopted by j theieXl;t7ire; -- short of a return to protective duties on Low, &c., wou ave the farmers from ruin, and t the repeal of the dens, would be .rs from starvation ; and that neither .qualisation of all local bur- Or protection, but that the aivalent f The Loyalist liberals of Upper Ca id the honour to shoulder my musk .ertainly "agree, was objectionable, unequal, ,and unjust; ter, long a had mrce of just co mpl G. Hu] NOW TOO LATE" may come to be us to the union" of Upper to Lower Canada, and thus have, no doubt to some extent, been made the instruments pf their own destruction. The failure of the UNION, however, has occurred from itsfail ing to produce the results contemplated by the Loyalist liberals of Upper Canada. They had two inducements to support THE UNION OF THE CANADAS ; first, they thought that in no other way could they rid themselves of their own family compact or high Church and College fac that the de- `rich has -" ion, W.. all along been the great curse of Upper Canada ; second, they trusted that the French hahitans had heed taught so severe a lesson of loyalty in 1837 and 1838 that they would not forget it before the British po pulation had time to grow into overwhelming numbers in the United provinces. The latter calculation has too no toriously been disappointed, and the French Canadian leaders had sense enough to see that had they not thwarted the former object, but permitted Church ques tions in Upper Canada to be settled, a great popular Bri tish connection party would have been formed in United Canada, which never can be the case while Church and College questions remain to sow dissension among the Anglo-saxon race. Nothing is more certain than that if Church and College monopolies are not banished from British America, the Anglo-Saxon population will remain dissatisfied, and gra dually- become disaffected ; but, IN THE MEANTIME, a more imminent danger has to be . warded off, and the Bri tish Government may still depend on all the loyalists of 1837 and 1838 putting their shoulders to the wheel. The parties who will have the disgrace of losing the Colonies (if they be lost) can only be your Lordship and Lord Elgin, by your throwing obstacles in the o n ly course l e f t the ritish population to pursue. The only alternative left to the Loyal Colonists is TO RETAIN UPPER CANADA BRITISH. since they cannot make United Canada British or loyal. They will be sure to petition the Home Govern ment as follows, and if your Lordship and Mr. Roebuck have not influence enough to get the prayer of the loyalists insultingly disregarded, (as usual,) the Colonies will be saved ; otherwise, muCh . against their will, they will be States of the American Republican Union. THE ANGLO SAXON RACE WILL INSIST ON THE UNION OF THE CA NADAS BEING BROKEN UP, THE ISLAND 0 AND EVERY THING SOUTH OF THE OTTAWA AND ST. LAWRENCE, AS FAR DOWN AS PORT ST. FRANCIS, INCLUDING THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, BEING INCOR PORATED WITH UPPER CANADA. Thus would the Canadas be temporarily saved (by our repudiation of the anti-British legislation of 1774), and by this course ALONE will time enough be got to save our entire colonial empire by the national repudiation of Sir Robert Peel and his anti-British measure of 1846. Except with a vier,- to the latter there is no use whatever in carry ing the former reform ; but, to leave no uncertainty what I mean by the latter, I shall here state the practical way in which the legislation of 1846 may be so qualified as to secure permanently our colonial empire. Let us at once prove our faith in free trade by making the colonies so far integral parts of the British empire as to levy no duty on the sugar, corn, or other products of the colo nists, except on articles on which there is an excise duty in this country; and let us (in order to show our confi dence in British manufacturing superiority, and to lead other nations to reciprocate with us to a reasonable ex tent) declare by the same act of Parliament that all foreign countries that will agree so to remodel their ta riffs as not to charge us more on any article than 15 per cent. on the British cost, shall stand on the same footing as the colonies, and have their products received here free of all duty. And, as it is most reasonable that countries that will not agree even to such terms of reci propel trade should have deducted from the price which their articles produce in this country a customs' duty in some degree . equivalent to the taxes paid by British sub jects producing the same article, let us arrange that, on all such foreign articles as are riot charged any duty, or are charged a less duty than 15 per cent. on the price in England, we should charge the said customs' duty of fif her! per cent. until the foreign country agrees to our pro position for reciprocal trade, or until we can agree to such other propositipn as the foreigneyrimay show to be more reasonable in his peculiar circumstances. By following the foregoing line of principle and policy, I am confident the Canadas and the West Indies could, in a moment, be resuscitated into the most prosperous and most loyal portions of the British empire. I see, also, however, that it is more likely that our national in fatuation may continue till, in. the British Colonies it 1850, as in France in 1848, the melancholy wor ied ; and, in such ( the names of Peel and GREY will go down with inf posterity, as having reversed the British principle HONESTY IS THE. BEST POLICY. now become intolerable. The greaf room at the Swan e, and numbers came in afterwards. filled to overflc The Harborough district e parts of the counties of Leici it was estimated that the meeting r producing from X 90,000 to £100,( ['ants' c preciation C would excel ices the richest grazing and Northampton ; and led an area 0 rental, and a recent change of prices des the loss upon their I Bateman, the Hon. H. !, Bart., Sir H. Halford, lords, and many of the demanding relief, will .epresentative of his constituency, on Wed since his election, and ad ae course of his speech he , d by the occupy the y°. I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's obedient hurnbl ISAAC Member for Toronto, the then metro Parliament of United Canada, and formerly P dent of the Boards of Trade of Toronto and Hamilton, Upper Canada. servant, UCHAN STATE TINKERS. (From the Dublin Herald.) A short time before the meeting of Parliament it was announced with a flourish almost equal to the occasion, To the Poor-Law Guardians of every Union in Ireland —to the Ratepayers—to the Country—that the Govern ment wereprepared"— Prepared for what ? To adopt the Cobden budget ? To cut down the salaries of high functionaries in all pub lic departments ? To show an example themselves, by voluntarily paying in one-fourth of their allowances, as conscience-money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer? To make Spain pay her debts ? To send an ambassador to the Pope ? To endow the Irish priests ? To appoint a Bishop of Down ? Or—to resign ? None—none of these. The Government mind ; but it is like the great mind of the late Lord Ellenborough—who " had a a Brea defendant's attorney." It i Government "had a great tr to amend the Poor Law." •eat.in little thin nd was prepared- Amend it ! Who does not recollect the apposite quip of the hackney coachman to Alexander Pope's " God mend me ?" " Mend you!" said Jarvie "it would be far easier to make a new one." How were they to set about mending such a crooked, perverse, mischievous abortion as that law ? Would they lighten the burden which oppresses the wholesome labour and industry of the country by so much as a little finger? Would they sweep away the swarms of voracious locusts who have been em ployed by sundry names, and under various pretexts, to prey upon the substance of honest men ? Would the really destitute be the Netter of the change ? Would the workhouse cease to diffuse famine and pestilence through the land ? Would a stimulus be given to the lazy to ) the liberal soul to an encouragement held ou ye employment? Would any ma of .life feel the oppression of that amendments ? No—there was no such balm in their Gilead for an af flicted people. They did not intend anything just, equit able, kind, or life-rendering by their reluctant consent to depart from the killing letter of that act. They only in tended to adhere to the governing principle of all their proceedings, and do a minimum of good by a maximum of taxation. They were " prepared" to propose in Aid. There is an ai more, who had been a 'being accosted by a yo tion, and implored to upon inquiry that the s those of a brother in distr( in fact, his own child. " a friend, by whom he was a the sins of our youth will ris _ to answer for with respect to this poor boy. If it had n been for my licentiousness, he would not have bei brought into this vale of tears, and I have cruelly net lected him ever since he was born. I must, however, ( something for him now. Give me a guinea." Illientie story told of a great man, now r s youth, t rester in a very d humanity up against us I have mu And thus, at another men's expen;e who had no in producing the misery th a t move d his comp - remorse, our great philanthropist soothed his c and gratified the benevolence of a most t heart. That guine was a Rate in A NORFOLK MURDERS. We do not remember to have not which, as the details furnished by t folk papers have been so volurninou We believe we can supply the deficien About twenty years since, a gentler county to take the part of managing or principal clerk in the office of one of the most eminent solicitors in Wigan. He remained in that situation for a period of about three years, when he left rather abruptly, taking with him his family, consisting of several children, the eldest of whom appeared, to our informant, to be about ten years of age. His name was Sandford, and one of the little girls was named Emily, doubtless the female who has attracted so much notice of late. She went to a school kept by a Miss Bent, in Standishgate, Wigan, who now resides in Manchester. Mr. Sandford came from London at a very respectable salary, and appeared to enjoy —for the two or three years he remained at Wigan—the full confidence of the nume rous clients of his highly respected employer. CAN THE BRITISH COLONIES STILI BE REIAINED ? TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL GI , SECRETARY OF STAT: FOR THE COLONIES Glasgow, 11th April, 1849. My Lord,—ln 1846 I b r ought bfore your Lordship and Lord Elgin tue true position. of the Canadas. I showed that for the loss of these, the noblest of Britain's Colonies, we would have to blame entirely our own Im perial Legislation in 1744 and 1846. In 1744 we created Lower Canada into a French, when it should have been made an English Colony; and we gave the French Cana dians a feudal system as a means of keeping them different from the New England States, (which were then evincing the independent spirit of Englishmen, and as a machinery by - willetri macdi the aid we vainly imagined to bunt down the then protesting Colonies which are now the United States' Republic. I showed you that, practically to suffer a French dominancy Now in United Canada (even if done under the forms of the Canadian Constitution of 1840) would he an equally vain attempt to coerce the British portion of the remain ing Colonies, (who, though the British name well, love the reality of British principles and freedom better) ; and I pointed out the certainty that. if the fatal policy of 1744 were practically to be persisted in by the British Govern- . merit, Lord Elain would assuredly be the last British Governor in America, it being absurd to suppose that the same policy that would lose us Canada would not also lose us Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the West Indies. .nada, with whom I .et in 1837 and 1838, ,APtil 17 -----._ this subject, read by .10 011 April The on a b f e u h li a e l r f r o e f p M o th r The Tie!' gaol Nunro n a t ' 4 22 h d at ours i Svc , t zl e Rev. T. We last week could but briefly notice an abl!: e : tiday I C( last Polytechnic Society, which was held on the ece f Bolti publication ; and the interest expressed by 0. 111 o two E w's tWell, l l'ost readers i 8 to supply Gre " I "rni • Mr. SOUTH, after making some appropriate ell V th at 11 07 , As , the apathy of the public in regard the treat'D•the dioc e ' a rd-! to thi Mr. ofdSootuhubtelhep at edt PRACTICE OF EMPLOYING CLIO° - "s Ot Fri c 1 t— . yet largely of all em thep loivvendiintloi. ay. psi urbehrn:ds: v4 s it e f eale 441 '' 4 ealth k si xt Poo a uut Itted Dug at 1 1 ; 's eas w e of ‘1) . G • tkil er.s ase I, l ;i tentir. treet, Fri., is, it is, °f to n air" — „*" 3 s, below poor boys , Tracing the accounting for their failure, briefly anu parliament against th e e mployment of c then concludes thus : _ There is not in this wide wor IA of nin l lY jab rorleY, in beings whc little c ren employed by c , ansing chimnies. ApPaP, miserable existence, infected with ,nd engendered by, ti r emploPile, ant of all they ----" ose , irom their earliest infancy, in a ll th a after life constitute the bad man and Per. rtl( rof society ! The barbarity of the PT! to ied. It is impossible to mitigate it, ' t i je lot be taught his trade at all, excePt b Ybieel such cruelties on his person as would . 4 the g ny other business to the discipline of k >ible for him to exercise a like cr uelty „, on 105,0 iced in tt .s these i lim binS bbe wo uld• .4 t h e ir chimney, a nd by n tc4, ! '3 l' ° h ° : incaitti ulders, and feet wnen in - this state of suffering , p l ot I erect weather, to climb the roughes t Pe, unds ulcerate aiinoditiiilflebdaen7pemodo:arliaynierdtsleri.oos,o•o cruelty of e bu ved classes 01 • dors: lerally rendered that there what bev vs which do 11 n ful ex mragi all interferenc unable t w and ?r4 ave bee :3 3UUjeCI f their et ually exposed to the ev have their flesh toil love, and a Je for t t up ch Qt any P' it way throug they have been scalded by st, :hroWn into the f not unfrequently been compelled etnmnies tempt ) __ _ • pavement below. They have been sl3 /Y in the flue of an oven. They have been h 'T the sides of chimnies, in which they have They hay n nea f . be nf places•in which they were iron crows, lite itself having led by I would ask whether such a sy r" "27:0 ;eyed to a country 'e have been before our eyes, that we not only disreg 00 1 ,) scarcely be persuaded that it is such• a lea strangers to it in our own country, and h a e ta some such cruel practice was f o ll ow ed in on es of . i nies—the horror, the indignation, and o lc n er ple would have been raised against it from deeds kingdom to the other. So repugnant , feelings of Englishmen to anything like cr"l r P legislature has not thought it beneath W in as protect the dumb and brute creation fr ° 5 01 strange as it may appea r , th e ac t for r e to ol children from inhuman oppression and Pr e ofc thrown out. Who ever heara_;°,/61, brute creatures being so injured and ' l " 3 le , ~ young as to be rendered d e fo rme d cripP,, beings ever after, even if they survive ? but b destroyed by the severity of their treatmeisloo arrive at their full strength and stature? A to of young cattle being suffocated—dash" a t burnt to death ? Yet it has been sufPleei with these poor children, beta not so lotto., and despised to obtain the efr - 4;ctiTarassist 3 . l s:ll What wouid have been said, had the el l ' ro been so abused ? Suppose the p/a;n te ics i l had - plead their own c red to , y baying , , uld have been felt dented cruelty are , nstantly p but even som Ped 3 bew dete, sn A .--e r Y o the de , ,ildt 0 a de tr to .4. on in which this trade is held 1 n the circumstance that horrent purchased or St., .... In all ocher traat. generally given. is it to be endured that , A to. I I Christian country, parents should be all° weu heoi infant children for money, t'- ire obtained if an !ertain misery and depravity, if not d the most depraved to be guiltyl tem pti 1 his money.-and ti; t4 ent s te r ° ctith e ' are st th, Port ti, be s ,,,, i ;lverp . o aft burp es e 40,0( 8 ,11 1 , 1 11111 b e ' ;," T o :aYor e ; it C 9 nn e Earl 0 Q!ep o R eins .1( re J e,d o h, I,!' n • /i ` 4l es Ai 14; 01, W, 41. D, N r e , 41 7. , r,raT v 414 sabj e ssE s, e'IN Or at „ n e t 'a . ] attent! el tj k ; l l p rofessio ion 8 "n Pubilll 1 Yotitl; l who se a c t f f ° 1 11 1 :, Yet wh o _ 01;1 41 eithe 17:- al liej g e * _I) Which t4 1;: otiorIta e ,1,1 0 11. etg r,fibillil t iv i , c l i ltt S3' a W°l4 / . s . w.. l .!rd ay ti e° 1 11 1 a w Ile. a lr's d as , str eet ' Ma ; 1 1di • kl at Sue , li g nea ,t1t 1,,, slieas instl , 4 t o r an to dr„'ed 4, her ass. 1 13 fall eating lA O '4 the er ns ~Niez g,,ate It .4 tr "r. omd ee fi rst he h t P ott i , re °ver. : . t . t,, AIT op 7 iinti,: . > By w I,, r t 'et, k whi c h i ilgh t .e tal ent li o ih ke of i nto re q i 0 41(1 3. th e tic tr a . 4 Ped . The i oti t Yi 'he li 4 t is p,. i'la 01, qlnt ed it ; ii;'> 13,,te very NI ! , tit t o h iQ I kti tu q his i• - ; tl i , T he n r :, B of th e N:4..41;1'1' L shawl ke ti %a cur ten h., sly s 'lab] v ee , n. ~..1.! 4 ;4 8° 1 ! f l- .• yr; 'lent .a, • „, tri t , 4 l) o th e Zt, h °4 (t 3 l-:, 4 'Yat e t n ° I Po o l l `alttabl Thie, it ill)1 ,1 4841 & Ndt P C t la110"?a 11 0"? k t i ;a' s, ,tti n tt tla rtt enq A _ , Reps e$ c kitZ,o e qpert V , erti f i of k ar ue, j i. N,Zt a i ll Ys of If :P 4 4 i i;st f°l. :fir t S a ll_ of at, Ca ; It 47 :8 "Ac'e a ti te fre' i ttt s tki. c of a t; Nertifi„ t 1 1 11 Nn E q,.. e • I Is te, ;, O &is b VAL `.'lll macrifici surprising that, in a fit of inseusw; ne i _ away his child to a chimney-so .e ."de pounds, to enable him to plunge further 111 How many hundreds of such drunken fatr 3e y amongst the lowest classes, who, though t e t ril some little natural affection for their C 4 -- ,,, taticn of such a paltry sun! ;ort 4er to be tolerated—thatfe 01 barter any circ of their children - for money ? as well might they have the Leg e an 011-I'' daughtc spur t tb' 3 ridicule, probably even the contempt , decd plead a cause tl le The world. amble as of U' s the fear of,e6 y doing - that w right way, Vulcan liehitie, stated th a permanent fund that if a numb be enabled to t persons rk for less chimney ates, as the c ny now do in the institutions of a Charitable character. e r At the conclusion of the p a p er the lette r applauded. a The PRESIDENT (Mr. Milner) rernar. t ,e,-t• lieved they had all listened with deep int e 'ilii" ful evidence Mr. South had brought for bof lent paper. If the poor wretched c limbing f f p; born with a black skin, how la rg e a share ° ..e°' sufferings would have excited. On the s q , r Mr. South's argitments h a d an i rre sistlv v ' which surely the public apathy of whinb we re would give way. Our domestic comforts b rt involved in the improvements advocated up, man, and he (Mr. Milner) could speak sc„' t ;c' confidence of the efficiency of the vulcan of fore he used them his kitchen chimney In b every six weeks; and since, the work 1 1: 00; • much more effectually by the comparl,, a ,.ier Hanover-street, much less often is sa";;;0 5 e ascertained this by referring to his wife's Por , the last three years. He felt sure tha t u, greatly indebted to Mr. Sonth for the taken in illustrating, by the elaborate t 'i Every; and models, all the delicate raraifilt ney sweeping, of whi c h f ew o f th ose pre' hie aware, and he sin cere ly w i s h e d succe ss to So ot Mr. Bennett cordially agreed with ; he had said, and consid e red th e s ubject 01 , 1 ;rii ance, and one that ought not to be treat e " thy which the public generally had showe'S Lord Ashley and other noblemen, as o ;d' who considered such a subject beneath G rip s regretted that Mr. South, after the TC, ; ,5 which he had alluded to the many hards e i r giel cruelty the climbing boy suffered, had oe r eFf il e her of boys so employed, even at the I' direct opposition to the act of parliamen t L i. gized the sweeping apparatus invented io e po o and spoke, from practical experience, 0 ' ble ti f simplicity. lie also alluded to the favou':; o3 o, l V i the machine had received from the cha t premises it had been used,) and meinb,e:- ,1' by Committee, and conclud e d hi s rem arks ertt) hope that the public w ou ld t a k e th e inl, l o l ' port the disinterested exer ti ons o f Mr• fig ground of humanity and Christian feel ie rfe'd'ill the score of economy, c l ean li ness , a nd 53 ipCJAI Mr. JOSEPH B OULT r e mar k e d u pon t be w cs, f 6 the legislature in p r ohibiti ng th e e mpl°Y boys, yet enacting that flues should b e Ltd) size not less than 9 inches by 14 innbq'pet2i and 11 inches in diameter, if circular. t o dimensions were quite too small for O r 's. but were just large enough for small b °s o f frgl legislature, instead of enacting details 04, 4 te d , laid down the general principle that nli ej u p not be used, and had left the size of tu t .'b''' ‘ iti? cretion of the architect or builder, it fi o tt ' 0 .4 0 1 would be made smaller than the regw e ' employment of boys abrogated by Ora be t pr, sending them up. Larger flues woe , fires at which there was much cooki o l,'iye lo cti parlour and bedroom fires the specified re a n Lib He (Mr. Boult) thought the public Nr e t" 1 ,1 1 1 - Ir. South for his earnest endeac°llc practice of using climbing ill tants of this town would . sbor and emulate the generous activity of per places. • a eti The thanks of the meeting were 81V o°A r o i e. their c 3 t to t he hut dam! been have fugit' nerrc