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Sir Moses Montefiore embarked from Marseilles on Sunday for Malta, in the steamer Merlin, being again called to the East by the Israelites of that quarter of the world. Sir Moses is accompanied by his wife, six ser vants, and a rabbi. HOUSE OFLORDS.—MoNDAy. The third reading of the Navigation Bill was postponed for a week, owing to the inability of the Bishop of Ox ford to attend on an earlier day. In reply to a question from Lord Stanley, The Marquis of LAICSDOWNE said the correspondence between the committee of Privy Council and the com mittee of the National Society, respecting the conditions under which grants could be made for the purposes of education, was, progressing satisfactorily, and the propo sition of the Privy Council was approved of by many of the heads of the Church. _ _ The Bishop of LONDON, on the part of the Church, disclaimed all responsibility for the acts of the committee of the National Society, who could not be considered as the heads of the Church. _ _ _ Lord PORTMAN moved the second reading of the Land lord and Tenant Bill. On a division the bill was carried by a majority of 9 to 5. HOUSE . OF COMMONS.—MoNon-r, On the order of the clay Mr the third reading of the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, Sir Ltcrns O'RnsEN moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a third time that day six months. The house divided, and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 117 to 12. The bill wis then read a third time and passed. The house Then went into committee of supply, and the remainder of the miscellaneous estimates were agreed to ; after whidh the house resumed. On 'bringing up the report of the supply of Friday night, Mr. V. Sefrrn moved that the house do not agree to the vote of the Ecclesiastical Commission. After a short conversation the matter dropped, and the remaining - items of the report were agreed to. Mr. HAWES then moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better government of the Ans•ralian colonies. The noble lord at the head of the colonial department had resolved to consult the wishes of the colonists, instead of ....ming out his views. Several of those colonies should have separate I ,, ll.ondent governments, but with a general federal assembly for ass vr MA hon. gentleman entered at some length into the details of the bill, which, amongst other matters, proposed to make Port•Pliilip a separate colony from New South Wales, under the name of Victoria. Mr. .GLADSTONE feared the Bill would not attract the attention it deserved, and lie therefore felt it necessary to offer some observations which werealtogether in a friendly spirit to the object proposed to be effected, and which he looked upon as a great improvement in the system of our colonial government. Leave was given to bring in the bill. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsDAy. Mr. Hcnek: moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the national representation by extending the elective franchise, so as to include all householders, by enacting that votes shall be taken by ballot ; that the duration of Parliament shall not exceed three years ; and that the ap portionment of representatives be rendered more equal to the population. A discussion ensued, in which the principal opponents of the proposition were Sir G. Grey, Mr. Newdegate, and Lord J. Russell; and its chief supporters, Mr. F. O'Con nor and Mr. Bright. The motion was defeated by a majority of 268 to 82. V .1: N • \ \l/4 4 11.1 . Yi. 54h31,.‘ HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. Mr. MOFFAT moved the second reading of the Bankrupt and Insolvent Members Bill, which was, in all essential particulars, the same as the one which had previously been brought under the consideration of the house, the chief alteration being that the present bill placed the bankrupt and insolvents precisely en the same footing. Sir W. CLAY believed the bill.to be the most objection able that during his experience had ever come before Par liament. The more he considered its provisions the more were his objections to it im,reased, and he therefore moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The amendment was nee.atived.by a majority of 55 to 45. The Bribery at Elections Bill passed through committee. On the motion for the third reading of the Affirmation Bill, Air. LAW said he believed they might as well shut up courts of justice as pass the bill. The house divided, and the third reading of the bill was carried by a majority of 73 to 51. The house acain divided on the question that the hill do pass, and the numbers were—for the bill, 77 ; against . . it, 73. Mr. AGLIONBY moved the second reading of the Copy bold Enfranchisement Bill, which was opposed by Mr. Ileatbcote and Mr. Turner, who moved, as an amend ment, that it be read a second time that day six months. The house after a short discussion divided, and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 80 to 55. The bill was then read a second time. Some discussion took place on the second reading of the Smoke Prohibition Bill, but on a division the bill was car ried by a majority of 72 to 37. HOUSE OF LORDS—TnuasnAy. The Defects-ir-Leases Bill was read a second time. The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Bishop of OXFORD, having presented several peti tions in favour of the bill for the protection of women, moved the order of the do, See the Loweo roeolving itoolf into a committee on the bill. Their lordships having re solved themselves into committee, the clauses were agreed to with certain amendments, and the bill was or dered to he reprinted, with the amendments, and to be read a third time on Thursday next. The Archbishop of DUBLIN moved that the special re port of the Education Commissioners of Ireland, relative to an endowed school at Clonmel, be laid on the table. Agreed to. lIOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY. Mr. DICKSON took the oaths and his seat for Limerick, in the room of Mr. William Smith O'Brien, convicted of high treason. Mr. MILEs moved for a return of all correspondence which had taken place between the Committee of Council of Education and the Committee of the National Society upon the subject of the management clauses, subsequent to the last publication of the minutes ; copies of the management clauses, as amended ; and of all conditions which are imposed, either upon Roman Catholic schools, or schools of dissenting bodies, previously to the advance of any sum of money towards the building of the aforesaid schools by the Committee of the Privy Council of Educa tion.—Agreed to. A discussion followed on the evictions which had taken place in Ireland, and the consequent destitution produced, but no result was arrived at. On the motion to go into committee on the poor relief (Ireland) bill, Sir W. H. BARRON moved, as an amendment, that the property at present rated to support the poor in Ireland is totally inadequate for that purpose ; that in England there are sixty-seven millions of property rated to the poor, the population being about fifteen millions; whilst in Ireland there are only thirteen millions of property rated to the poor, with a (much poorer) population of about eight millions ; showing nearly three times more property in England per head to support the poor than in Ireland; that, therefore, it is necessary to provide fur ther means to support the poor of Ireland, in order to remove the extreme pressure which is now crushing down the ratepayers in that country, and checking the energies of all employers and capitalists. The hon. member, amongst other remedies, proposed that an income tax be laid on all persons not now rated for the support of the poor in Ireland. After a discusssion, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 144 to 30. [During the exclusion of the reporters, immediately before the division, Mr. J. O'Connell addressed the House, and when the gallery was re-opened (the House being then in committee), that gentleman alluded to the absence of the reporters whilst he was speaking, and took notice that " strangers were in the House." The galle ries were thereupon cleared, and were kept closed (with a short intermission, after a division) until the house adjourned at one o'clock.] FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE The French Government received on Tuesday morning, the sth instant, the official news that M. Lesseps, the Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome, had positively become deranged in his intellect. A letter is said to have been addressed to the President of the Re public by M. Lesseps himself, in which he proposes to him (the President) a detailed plan of a bedchamber. It was believed this unhappy incident would still further complicate the Italian question. M. de Lesseps arrived in Paris on Wednesday. There is no doubt whatever as to the state of mind of the unfor t nate gentleman. MESSAGE OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.—Louis Napo leon has communicated his presidential message to the assembly. It is as weak as it is long. It commences with regret that the President had not yet been able to carry out all his views, but hopes the new assembly will enable him to do so. It then confesses that the French finances are in a ruinous condition ; states the amount of the army, navy, and national guard ; and enters into con siderations of the agricultural, the industrial, and the commercial questions—all of which are matters of embar rassment. On foreign affairs, it tells nothing new : it endeavours to get as well as possible over the Roman question—cordially speaks of England—declares France ready to meet any opponent, but yet desires to maintain peace ; and, finally, relies upon the aid of God to enable Louis Napoleon to carry out his mission ! With refer ence to the French interference at Rome, the message has several curious paragraphs. After alluding to the Pope as having, for two years, taken the initiative in useful re forms, and as having been adored by the people, he states that that sovereign all at once was advised secretly to fly his capital—the result of a private conspiracy rather than the movement of the people. After the measures taken by Austria, in concert with Naples, as regarded Italy, France, he states, had but three modes to adopt—either to oppose by arms all intervention, or break with Catholic Europe, for the sole advantage of the Roman republic, which France had not recognised—to leave the three powers to re-estafilish the papal authority, or to exercise a direct independent action. The last mode was adopted. The expedition to Civita Vecchia was, there fore, resolved upon, and all promised success ; but a con currence of unfortunete circumstances decided otherwise. On the 10th April, 6,000 French soldiers presented them selves before the walls of Rome. "They were received (he adds) with a discharge of musketry ' • some of them were even drawn into an am b us h an d made prisoners of. We must all lament the blood shed on this unhappy day. ITALY. Garibaldi, 'elated by his 'successes, has taken a step which may lead to very serious consequences. He has crossed the Coman frontier, and entered the Neapolitan territory by Caprano and Salvaterra, with a view of fol lowing up the pursuit, as well, no doubt., as of giving sup port to the liberal or revolutionary movement which is said to be going on in 'the border provinces of the king dom of Naples. A letter dated Naples, 31st ult., says that the Neapoli tan troops were guarding the frontier for fear of an irrup tion from Garribaldi. The corps that fled from Velletri reached Gaeta in a sad plight. However, the official jour nal has published the tact that his Majesty returned to Gaeta in excellent health, and victoriously retreating from the Roman states. The Spanish expedition of 4,000 men had arrived at Gaeta. _ _ _ PROSPECTS FOR THE POPE.—Manzeni in an address to the French envoy thus speaks:—"There is at the bottom of every heart a determination the most profound to accom plish the destruction of the temporal power of'the Pope. All bear the same hatred to the government of priests, under whatever form it may be presented. I say hatred —not to men, but to the government. Towards indivi duals our people, thank God, since the commencement of the republic, have ever been generous; but the idea of a clerical government, of a pentiff king, sets us in a rage. We shall fight to the last against all projects of a restora tion. Right and left are agreed. All with one voice ex claim, • 'lnc tempwai rc,..a. of tha Pope is at an end.' " The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 26th ultimo, pun lishes a letter from Father Ventura, stating that the Re public of Rome has never given him the slightest reason to fear for his person, but that, on the conrary, it has constantly upheld true religion and true liberty. Among the last victims to the assassin system in Italy was the Rev. William Kelleher, of Cashel. The rev. gentleman was attached to a convent of the Franciscan order at Aneona ; whilst entering the convent he was shot dead. A CITY IN ANAIICHY.—The Daily Newt publishes the following extract of a letter from Ancona, dated the 15th ultimo, and stated by that journal to proceed from un questionable authority :—`• During the reign of terror and total disorganization of society I have been occupied in helping to put down our system of wholesale assassination. * * We have not yet been able to ascertain the number of assassinations that have taken place in this town. I was informed by a Sardinian sub-officer, who had been in our hospital five monihs, that 246 cases of stabbing and shoot ing had been taken in during the time he was there. mentioned this to the governor, who declared it to be an exaggeration. However, the numbers are awful. The secretary-general bas been shot and stabbed, but is slowly recovering. Poor Father O'Kelleher has been shot dead. I have been threatened for protecting some parties doomed by the assassins, and have only with great danger escaped. The Belgian, Russian, and French consuls have fled from the assassins. lam trying to save your horbes ; but here carriages, carts, oxen, cows, horses, donkeys, all have been taken up for the troops. No horse is allowed to pass the gates. Barricades and cannon are on all sides, ready for defence." GERMANY AND NORTHERN EUROPE. BADEN.—The Grand Duke of Baden, by a proclama tion, dated Frankfort, the 2nd instant, declares null all the measures of the provisional government, announces that imperial troops are about to enter the Duchy, and he pro mises an amnesty to all, except the chiefs, who may have taken part in the insurrection, provided they make a vo luntary submission before any combat with the troops shall take place. The Cologne Gazette announces that the troops of Electoral Hesse have refused to march against the insur gents of the Grand Duchy of Baden. THE DANISD WAR.—COLLISION WITH, AND DEFEAT OF, THE PRUSSIANS.—Accounts from Hamburgh of the sth instant state that on the 31st ultimo the Prussians, under Prince Salm-Salm, were surprised and defeated at Aarhuns by the Danish Hussars. The prince was cap captured, having sustained serious wounds, with several other officers. The Prussian troops had many killed, wounded, and taken prisoners; they also lost fifteen horses. The Danes had nine killed and twelve wounded. The American lady, whose discovery of a telescopic comet was recently rewarded by a gold medal from the King of Denmark, is not more than four or five and twenty years of age. REBELLION CLAIMS IN CANADA.—The Montreal Herald furnishes the subjoined narrative of one claim under the indemnity scheme :—" I see," says a corres pondent of that journal, " that a claim is laid by one E louard Major, for the sum £5OO, on account of rebellion losses. That the loyalists' may take a proper view of this affair, please insert the following :—I was attached to th Koyal Regiment as an assistant engineer at the en g igeruent of St. Ens tache. During the engagement, Edouard Major fired at me, and knocked off my cap ; my rifle was empty at the time, but I ran up to him, and struck him across,the face with the barrel, which floored him—(see the mark on his nose !) I then took him pri soner, and from his pouch took about twenty or thirty cartridges. He claims £5OO ! Does he come within Mr. Boulton's amendments ? If so, farewell to the principles of loyalty that were instilled into me and my children, and to generations before us. So, Mr. Major was to get £5OO, partly paid him by the writer, for losses sustained in trying to blow his brains out. Mr. Major turned out to be an eligible subject, even under Mr. Boulton's amend ments, which restricted the claimants." HORSE-RACING IN EGVPT.—A number of English gentlemen, under the patronage of his Highness Said Pacha, have succeeded in getting up a racing match at Alexandria, which is to come off on the 29th instant. Letters from Cyprus announce that the locusts had made a dreadful havoc among the crops. The greatest fears were entertained that the attempts to prevent the ravages of these destructive insects would be useless, and that this beautiful island would shortly become almost a desert. Her Highness the Ranee Chunda Koonwur, of Lahore, mother of Dhuleep Singh, escaped from her guard and the fortress of Chunar during the night of Wednesday, the 18th of May. No particulars of her escape have tran spired, but the native report is, that she bribed two of the sepoys of her guard, who aided her and escaped with her, it is believed, towards the hills of Mirzapore or Bewail. SIAMESE TWINS.—The Siamese twins, who have been living some years, with wives and children, on their own plantation in North Carolina, are said to be on their way to New York to embark for Europe, with a view to con sult the most eminent surgeons on the practicability of an operation to divide the ligament that binds them toge ther. It is farther said that one of their sisters had been adopted into the family of the Emperor of Siam.—New ark Advertiser, U.S. (April 13.) A frightful tragedy has taken place at Cyprus on hoard the Ottoman schooner San Spiridion, bound to Bevrout. Twenty-five prisoners, who bad been put on board by the authorities, rose in the night and stabbed the captain. The crew abandoned the vessel, with which the convicts immediately set sail, and, although an Austrian steamer was despatched in pursuit, the schooner got clear off, and it was supposed would cruise as a pirate vessel amongst the islands of the Greek Archipelago. A SYMPTOM OF IMPROVEMENT.—The Boston papers announce the promotion of Robert Norris, Esq., (a co loured gentleman,) of Boston, to the office of justice of the peace. Mr. Morris was admitted to the bar some five years ago, and has acquitted himself with credit to the coloured people, and no doubt his promotion is the fruit of merit and industry. This shows that talent and worth are appreciated among the wise and virtuous in that country, notwithstanding the repeated attempts to slander them by saying that they never can become equals in that country with the whites. AMATEUR FARMING IN AMERICA.—A letter has just been received by Mr. John Cadbury, of Birmingham,' from the well-known advocate of the temperance princi ple, John Hockings, familiarly known as the " Birming ham blacksmith." Mr. Hockings emigrated some few years ago to the United States, and has now fixed him self at Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin, U.S., from whence he dates his letter. We extract one or two passages, for the pu-pose of affording information to in tending emigrants to that part of the new world. " The way in which I spend my time is this : in the spring and summer I work my farm, for I do not keep a hired man; my crops will not pay for me to have one, except in har vest time (the crops here do not average more than fifteen bushels to the acre). The seasons here are so short that there is not time to cultivate land like that in the old country, for wheat put in the ground in April is cut in July, thirteen weeks after sowing. Now take the price of your seed, your labour, ploughing, pay Gs. a day for harvesting, and pay £2 for thrashing by a machine 100 bushels, then take it 50 miles, and all- you can get for it is 2s. 6d. a bushel. * * We have always about five months of winter; this year we shall have six months or more. The long winters make the farmer's life a very laborious one, for to sow wheat before the winter sets in, the frost is so severe that it has invariably on my farm killed one-half the produce. We cannot begin to plough in the spring until April, and by the time the wheat is in, it is time to get in your Indian corn for your cattle and pigs; before you have done that you are getting late for potatoes, and before you get through with them, your Indian corn is spoiling for want of hoeing. By the time the corn is hoed, the wheat harvest is ready ; and although I work from sunrise until sunset the longest day in sum mer, I scarcely find time to get in my hay; and by the time I have got in my hay, winter is on me again." A BLOW IN PREPARATION FOR THE ROMISH CHURCH. —The long-promised assault on the ancient doctrines of the Romish Church is announced for Saturday next; and you may judge with what intense interest the conference is looked forward to by all classes. The work of the Ab bate Leone is now completed, and will be read and com mented on in a public seance. It is anticipated that his apparition as preacher of a new doctrine will cause more emotion than any event of the kind since the days of Luther. The Catholic world is ripe for a reform; and anything presenting the appearance of a just and salutary change will be eagerly caught at. The history of Leone is curious and interesting. He is of a good Roman fa mily, and was from his earliest youth devoted to solitude and study. Being an orphan from his childhood, he was allowed to follow the bent of his own inclinations, and THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. entered the church at the age of nineteen. He then be came attached to the Pope as librarian, and for 15 years he never set foot outside the Vatican, living entirely in the section of theology, belonging to the library of the little closet close beside it, where he slept. His whole time was thus devoted to the research of ancient authors ; and he has been known to spend three days and nights without sleep in poring over some half-defaced manus cript, or in interpreting some correspondence in cyphers, in which science he has become a perfect adept. It was thus that he became acquainted with all the secret machi nations of the Church, and with all the intrigues by which she has maintained to this hour such unbounded influence over the kingdoms of Europe which still own her sway. The Abbate became terrified at the discovery of the vast system of corruption of which Fate had made him an abettor—he hastened to abjure his vows and toffy from Rome. He next took up his abode at Turin, in order to examine with attention the system upon which rue Jesuits were then acting. Two attempts to murder him by poison caused him to come to Paris about six months ago. He has ever since that• time been employed in 'finishing the work which is to lay the foundation of a new form of re ligion, or rather of a practical theory by which the gospel is to be displayed in action as well as in words. His new religion is to be called Catholic Democratique, and already has his Catechism been submitted to many men of learn ing and piety, who declare it without fault, and are ready to assist him in his efforts to obtain a complete reforma tion in the system of church law as now practised in France. The Abbate is about five-and-thirty years of age, of a calm ascetic countenance and thin attenuated figure. His eyes are large and dark and very wide apart, and he wears his hair and beard long and flowing. He possesses the gift of eloquence in an extraordinary degree, and his erudition is unbounded. He pretends to no visions, to no inspiration, but merely argues upon facts, and brings the proofs of what he asserts in the correspondence of which I have spoken, and which are in course of publica tion, and in the history of the Secret Conferences of the Cardinals, of which he has copied out the substance and upon which he means to comment in his very first dis course on Saturday.—Paris correspondent of The Atlas. IRELAND. The Rev. W. Hall, the newly-elected incumbent of inig,• 0 ovlc, Lao ..rioa of &mar The Duke of Devonshire has made a reduction of fifty per cent. on the half-year due the 29th of September last, to all his tenants (except noblemen) in the counties of Cork and Waterford. Notwithstanding the reported stagnation of trade in Ireland, it is curious that there has been no new bank ruptcies declared in the three late numbers of the Duklin Gazette; and even the number of insolvents is not more than the usual average. The Duke of Norfolk's famous speech about curry powder has almost been equalled by an oration delivered at the Fermoy board of guardians, in which Lord Clanri carde said that the workhouse was much too comfortable. The Evening Post of last night handles his lordship's speech with much severity, and recommends him to try the experiment of living on twopence a half-farthing a day. THE STATE PRISONERS.—The prison authorities were under orders on Tuesday, to have the convicts O'Brien, Meagher, &c., in readiness for embarkation that evening, for Van Dieman's Land, and there is therefore no more doubt about their present destiny. A memorial, very numerously signed, on their behalf, was presented to the Lord Lieutenant, on Tuesday, imploring a further mitiga tion of their sentence, with which, however, he felt it impossible to•comply. . . IRISH EMIGRATION MOVEMENT.—A meeting was held in Carlow on Thursday, for the purpose of promoting a wholesale system of emigration to America. The move ment owes its paternity to the Rev. Mr. Maher, a Roman Catholic clergyman, of, it is said, considerable influence in the county of Carlow. The assemblage which responded to his summons was almost wholly composed of small proprietors and tenant-farmers. The meeting ended in the appointment of a committee to carry out the proposed object. MR. W. S. O'BRIEN.—This gentleman has instructed counsel to apply to the judges of the Queen's Bench for a habeas corpus the moment the officers of justice arrive at Richmond Bridewell to convey him nn board the vessel which is to bring him to Cove. The infatuated and un happy gentleman means, proforma, to resist his removal, on the ground that he cannot legally be transported for the crime of high treason. He admits, of course, that he may be legally hanged, quartered, &c., but he holds to the notion that he must be dealt with according to the judg ment passed upon him or discharged. FREE TRADE IN FLOUR.—Free trade is already telling upin that great body, to whose enterprise, capital, and industry Ireland owed much of her agricultural prosperity since the Union—we mean the Irish millers. The French millers are now supplying the Dublin market with flour of different qualities—some of a superior and some of a coarse quality—which makes good bread. We learn that some of the latter quality has been purchased by Carlow bakers for the use of the workhouse; and thus, bread made of French flour is now consumed by the paupers of the Union. Here is another blow aimed at the only trade we possess in Ireland ! ! ! THE BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS IRISH FEE SIMPLE ESTATES.-011 Thursday Mr. Uttledale offered for sale by auction, at the Commercial Buildings, Dublin, the Buckingham and Chandos Irish estates, situate in the county Westmeath, consisting of 4,270 acres of land, pro ducing a rental of upwards of £2,000 a year. The pro perty consists of four lots, which were severally submitted to competition, but in no instance was a buyer to be found, Offers were made ; nut they all tell short of the upset prices. For the first lot £4,000 was offered, and for the last £9,000. The auctioneer stated that a short time since, £6,100 was offered for the former, and nearly £ll,OOO for the latter. The sale was then adjourned sine die. THE CASE Ole CANNIBALISM.—The Rev. Mr. Ander son has addressed a second letter to the premier, in which he says that the man he previously alluded to did not ac tually eat the portion of a human body, simply because he was prevented by parties near ; but that he deliberately and manifestly intended to do so. M. Anderson pro ceeds to mention several other cases of the most awful destitution. Among them he tells of two aged women, sisters, killing their own dog, boiling it, and partaking of the flesh, one of whom died the day after she partook of this horrid repast. " The police themselves," he adds, "can attest it (the destitution), for they are discovering dead bodies amongst the walls of ruined habitations, or rather hovels, and find them the frightful prey of rats and scarecrows !" LANDLORD PROSPECTS IN CLARE.—The Ennis Board of Guardians owe the Messrs. Russell of Limerick more than £12,000. At a special meeting on Monday, the Guardians accepted of Mr. Russell's tender for Indian meal at £lO 103. per ton, to be conveyed to the various depots of the union, and distributed at the expense of the contractor—he giving six months' credit for the payment. This unfortunate union is fast sinking into utter ruin ! The rate lately struck, and which is now in course of collection, will not be sufficient to meet the requirements of the union. The Board are at present indebted to their contractors in the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred pounds; and for the payment of which they are totally unable to make any provision ! ! The number of paupers at present relieved, including both in-door and out-door recipients, amounts to twenty-six thousand seven hundred and thin ,' in other words to one-half the present popu lation of the entire union ! The Guardians appear bewil dered, and have applied to the Poor Law Commissioners for pecuniary assistance. THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—Sir Robert Bate son has addressed a letter to the Derry papers, in which he announces the appearance of the blight in a field of early potatoes, part of them planted about the middle of February. The hon. baronet says,—" Three or four days ago, when I last noticed them, they were luxuriant and thriving, this evening nearly half the tops were blighted and dying, and the remainder seem likely to follow. I speak of that portion of the field first planted, above half an acre; though symptoms of disease appear in some of the later set. To alarm the public by repeating rumours, is not only wrong, but leads many to neglect those pre cautions which, if persons were certain that the disease had commenc.d, might tend to alleviate some of the misery and distress, the loss of another year's potato crop cannot fail to augment. Farmers may judge by their own observation of what I have now stated ; and if this early notice will lead to the adoption of other crops, and of all holding themselves ready to substitute turnips, cabbage, &c., for any failures that may arise from disease within any reasonable time from the present, they may have occasion to thank you for giving them this early advice." CONVERSIONS FROM POPERY. Eight families, amounting altogether to forty-two individuals, were ad mitted into communion with the Protestant Established Church, in the schoolhouse of Creagh parish, diocese of Limerick, during divine service on Trinity Sunday. At their own earnest solicitation the heads, and several of the members of those families, were allowed to read their recantation, expressing their desire by this public act to deprive their late clergy of all pretext for visiting them with the cruel penalties of the Church of Rome. Ano ther family of eight persons who have been in the habit of attending Divine service, have deferred reading their recantation till they see whether the Roman Catholic clergyman of the parish can disprove the unscriptural charges which have been made against some of the doc trines of their church. When this family joins the num ber will be fifty.—On the same day four respectable con verts from Romanism partook of the holy communion in St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, under the spiritual direc tion of the Rev. Thomas Scott, and subsequently abjured the errors of popery. They each received from the com mittee of the Priests' Protection Society a copy of the Book of Common Prayer, and of the Holy Scriptures. ENCUMBERED IRISH ESTATES' BILL.— This bill, of a class so important to Ireland, was on Monday read a third time in the House of Commons, by a majority of 117 to 12. By this act, which is of a temporary nature, commissioners will be appointed, invested with summary Powers to deal with encumbered estates, and bring them into the market. The difficulty with a large mass of pro perty in Ireland, is the almost impossibility of making out a title, and one of the reasons why the bill of last year empowering the Court of Chancery to act in the case of encumbered estates failed was that any sale under a Master in Chancery was clogged with conditions that subjected to future litigation. The sale under the com missioners will be itself a title, and thus give a security to purchasers which, under the previous system, they could not obtain. In all undisputed cases, the commis sioners will have no difficulty in distributing the proceeds of the sale among the claimants on the estate, but where there is doubt, they can either pay the money into the Court of Chancery, or call upon any of the Courts of Law for an opinion whenever 'they think it needful so to do. It seems to be the general impression in Ireland that this bill, which has grown out of Sir Robert Peel's able sug gestions, will have a most beneficial effect, by giving over to capital and enterprise, much valuable land that is DOW locked up, and utterly neglected. NOTES FROM THE WEST.—Under this head an intel ligent writer thus continues his sketches of the condition of the province of Connaught:—" In my last paper 1 observed that a retributive Providence was punishing the parties that had contributed to the poverty and degrada tion of these countries. The improvident proprietor has to pay up by rack-rates what he formerly took away as rack-rents, and is made to support the poor he helped to impoverish. The bigot priest, who lived upon the super stition of the people, feels his system of the dark ages unsuitable for the age of light, and is frowned upon as the adherent of a sinking and hopeless cause. As light prevails, the men of beads and crosses, and relics, are deserted. I fear you will not believe me when I state a few facts concerning the social state of the country. One union boasts of a staff of paupers to the amount of 27,000. The Union of Ballina has on out and indoor relief not less at present than 32,000. A gentleman writes me from anotlier place, ' We have 19,000 on outdoor relief, and 2,000 in the workhouse-21,000 in all, and our union £15,000 in debt, and an execution this moment in the house for £9o.' The High Sheriff of the county is missing; so is the county treasurer. Society is tho roughly dissolved, and the Government even in the admi nistration of their relief do not know whom to trust or employ. Strangers have to come in to support the people, and grangers have to administer the support. The right eousness which exalteth a nation,' teaching mutual de pendence, and leading to the discharge of respective du ties, is wanting. In the midst of this dreary state of things evictions go forward, and if the poor creatures do not clear off as soon as ordered they arc denied relief. Wherever God has designed they should live, it is clear the proprietors do not design that they should encumber e their property ; so they drive them off in hordes to the fever-shed, the workhouse, or America. On the road from Ballycastle to Killala I counted from one eminence 37 unroofed houses. The number of these is rapidly increasing." WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR IRELAND ?—The Times ask , and reiterates the question—" What is to be done for Ireland ? " The answer had been given by anticipa tion in the plans of the Society for Church Missions to the Roman Catholics of Ireland. This society, hereto fore known as the Special Fund for Ireland, has taken the field with the following avowed objects, being the result of experience of Ireland's necessity acquired during the operations of the society in the last two years :—" 1. At the request of incumbents, they will support assistant ministers in paribhe, containing a large Roman Catholic population : the nomination and appointment of these ministers to be subject to rules similar to those of the Chu-ch Pastoral Aid Society, with the understanding that ministration to the Roman Catholics shall be their dis tinct and peculiar object. 2. Assistant ministers may also be appointed, under the direction of the bishop, for the Roman Catholics of a whole diocese. 3. In parishes where the incumbent would be favourable to such efforts, the temporary services of able and experienced clergy men, in visiting districts, giving lectures, and preaching to the Roman Catholics, may be engaged. 4. Courses of lectures, by competent lecturers, on the great subjects in controversy between the Churches of England and Rome, will be encouraged and upheld in the principal towns in Ireland." This looks like work in earnest ; and already has the plan been responded to by upwards of two hundred of the Protestant clergy, assembled in Dublin in April last, and in the following expressive terms :—" That they have been struck with the gracious providence of God, which, making openings that did not before exist for the introduction of the Gospel to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and disposing their own minds to take a deeper interest in that great duty which lies upon them as ministers of our united church has, at the same time, dis posed the hearts of their English brethren to aid them, and concur with them in further efforts to fulfil that duty. That they will joyfully, in their several localities, render all the aid God shall enable them to this blessed work of faithfulness and love to which God is now calling them, and trust that the English Church will largely assist an effort so important to the national welfare of the empire, the true honour of our church, and the advancement of the glorious Gospel of Christ, directly at borne, and in directly in its effects through the whole earth." POLITICAL MIS CE LLANY. Sir David Dundas, the new Judge-Advocate General, will be re-elected for Sutherlandshire without opposition ; and, on Thursday last, Lord Guernsey was elected for South Warwickshire without a contest, in the room of E. J. Shirley, Esq. UNIVERSAL. SUFFRAGE.—The following were amongst the members who voted in favour of Mr. liume's motion for universal suffrige, vote by ballot, and three-year par liaments :—W. Jackson, Sir J. Walmsley, T. Thorneley, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, R. Cobden, W. Evart, T. M. Gibson, J. Greene, A. Henry, L. Heywortb, and lIon.G. Villiers. SMOKE.—In the majority of 72 for the second reading of the Smoke Prohibition Bill, were only four of the Lan cashire members, viz. :—J. Brotherton, J. Greene, J. W. Patten, end R. A. Thicknesse. In the minority of 37, we find the names of W. Brown, R. Cobden, John Bright, Thomas Thorneley, T. M. Gibson, G. Greenall, S. Blair. J. Thornley. J. Kershaw, and G. F. '_Mintz. THE SMOKE PROHIBITION BlLL.—This hill, which has already passed the House of Lords, is progressing favour ably in the lower house. On Wednesday the second reading was carried in a thin house by a majority of 35. Tts opponents were, of course, the old Free-Trade Anti- Ten Hours'Bill men. With the exception of Mr. Brown, however, not one of the speakers against the bill dared to state that the smoke nuisance could not be prevented. Mr_ Winirma nn th..th., h.nd deeleeed the hill unneces sary ! And Mr. Bright said the same of the exception as to the kindling of furnaces ; and ridiculed the entire bill as a piece of " sentimental legislation." The sincerity of some of our professing economists was put to the test on Friday night in the House of Commons. We all know that there has been a good deal of paring down in the public offices. Some clerks have been dis missed ; and others, slaving hard for £l5O a-year, have bad their salaries docked. The pretence was that free trade bad made everything cheaper, and so the clerk's Sunday and walking shoes would cost him less than they used to do. Well, thought Mr. Henley ; " what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander;" let us carry out the principle, and deduct 10 per cent. from the high sala ries of ministers, who, being men of fortune, can bear it far better than the poor clerk. This was not to be en dured : our economical and consistent ministers stuck like leeches to their own salaries of £6OOO a-year, and succeeded in securing them by a majority of 84 to 33. In the House of Commons Mr. Cobden has again dis playkl a little of his habitual candour and love of truth. He denounced the settlement of Labuan, and the expenses incurred thereby, and seasoned his denunciation with a little ridicule of Rajah Brooke." " You talk," said he, in his financial reformer's vein, "of the distress of the people of this country, and yet you give your sanction to such proceedings as these." Frightful depravity ! But at whose instigation was it committed ? At that of the Manchester men, who in a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce " implored the government not to suffer any delay in securing a position so important, and in every point of view so desirable, for the convenience and pro tection of our China trade." Fie, Mr. Cobden ! Can you tell us the difference between a suggestio falsi and a suppressio veri Perhaps they don't pay much attention to these matters at Manchester. MOVEMENT FOR THE REPEAL OF THE BEER SHOP ACT. —Petitions to parliament are being got up in various parts of England, from the inhabitants or Christian congrega tions of towns, villages, &c., for a gradual repeal of the Beer Bill, eighteen years experience of which has incon testibly proved the demoralising and debasing influence of the system upon the lower classes, including not only adults but children! A large body of evidence is already published from highly respectable authorities, shewing that the beer shops,, with scarcely an exception, are the haunts of gambling and vice ; the meeting places for the concoction of crime, and in many instances the nurseries of prostitution. A form of a petition to the House of Lords, and another to the Commons, is in circulation, praying for a gradual repeal of the act, by prohibiting the granting of new beer-house licenses to any but present holders, and to refuse new licenses to holders of them at present in respect to any other houses than those which they now occupy. This, it is considered, will tend to re strain the evil, and by final measures to bring about its total suppression. The Earl of Harrowby has promised, if supported by petitions, to bring in a bill for the gradual repeal of the act, and it is to be hoped that the friends of order and sobriety will exert themselves to obtain nu merous well-signed petitions to that effect. These should be sent for presentation as soon as possible. In order to pass post free, it is requisite they should be open at both ends, with the word petition " written outside, and that the address be simply the name of the member who is to present it, and net his residence, as for example,— PETITION, To the Right Honourable the Earl of Ellesmere, House of Lords. . __ _ A SEVERE TEST—THE DUKE'S ALTERNATIVE.—Mr. Bennett having declared, at Willis's rooms the other day, that " a Free-trade Parliament had blasted his every fourth field of grain, and robbed him of his every fourth bullock," or words to that effect, his landlord, the Duke of Bedford, at once offered to accept a surrender of the lease, granted to him, at his own request, some years ago. His Grace said, " Now, as this sentiment must have been spoken advisedly, on full conviction of its truth, the im pression it produces on me is that it would be hard to hold you to the lease, which at your earnest request I consented to give you a few years ago, at a time when you may have not anticipated Corn-law repeal, which, accord ing to your view of the change, has so seriously injured your farming prospects, and, with them, your property, as to give you cause to complain of great injustice. 1 therefore, propose, if agreeable to you, to release you from the obligations you have contracted by that engage ment; and I hope you will avail yourselt of my offer, since it must be as distressing to you as it is unpleasant to me, that we should continue our relations of landlord and tenant under such a strong persuasion, on your part, of future loss and injury to yourself, and announced in so deliberate and public a manner."—Mr. Bennett in reply said, " Your Grace has more than once assured me that you do not wish to exercise any controul over my public opinions, and you will perceive that my observations in Willis's room applied to the farming community in gene ral, and not to me individually ; and therefore, if I were to avail myself of your offer, the evil would not be got rid of. I should not hope for the present to hire a farm on such terms as would enable me, under our present bur dens of taxation, to grapple with free-trade."—The Duke repeated his offer; but 3lr. Bennett has not accepted it. In a debate in the House of Lords on this affair, it was stated that the tenant's hesitation was caused by his hav ing " recently expended £lBOO in improving the property, and he would therefore have to make a very great sacrifice if he gave up his tenancy."—On this point Mr. Bennett's noble antagonist replies, " If you quit your farm, we must endeavour to make the best arrangements, and on the most equitable terms, the circumstances of the case admit of."—Mr. Bennett has since decided upon giving up the farm as soon as ho can provide himself with another home.—[On reading this correspondence two things will strike the reader—first, that it is no slight matter to offer a conscientious opinion, even though encouraged to do so by a " liberal" landlord; and next, although you may be told to quit the homestead and the scenes where you have long dwelt, yet it is not so easy to break the ties which bind you to such a spot, although you may only be able just to make your income agree with your expenditure.] UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Manchester has accepted the Rev. J. S. Birley's resignation of the perpetual curacy of Hoghton, in the parish of Leyland. The Vicar of Leyland is the patron. Mr. Thomas Carter, of St. Bees' School, has been elected to one of the valuable Exhibitions at Queen's Col lege, Oxford, founded by Lady Elizabeth Hastings, and open to certain schools in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Yorkshire. ORDINATIONS.—On Sunday week, the two Archbishops and several of the Bishops of the Established Church in England held ordinations. The following are the num bers of gentlemen ordained by each Bishop to the re spective offices of deacon or priest : D. P. Archbishop of Canterbury l2 Archbishop of York Bishop of London Oxford .... - Peterborough 8 Chichester .... Exeter Manchester l4 .. . ..... 22 Gloucester and Bristol .... U. -- Ely St. David's . 7 Mr. Allies has addressed a long letter to the Tablet, Romish newspaper, the last passages of which are as fol lows ;—" Accordingly, what I have done in the churches abroad I am in the habit of doing, and trust to have the grace always to do , as often as I am present at the cele bration of the Holy Eucharist in the English Church—l adore, that is, with the adoration due to God, the Lord Jesus Christ, truly, really, personally, and substantially (ousiodos) present under the species of bread and wine. To do this is not necessary to believe, and I do not be lieve, that the sacramental elements undergo a physical change, which sort of change the English Article rejects, as does St. Thomas, under the term conversioformalis,' one, that is, which continetur inter species motus natu ralis.' (Qums. 75, art. 4.) It is enough to believe, which I do most fully believe and profess, that by the descent of the Holy Ghoseupon them they become in an inscrutable manner, and by the very greatest of miracles and mercies after the Incarnation itself, the body and blood of God the Word Incarnate. Thus you have in your remarks wronged equally the English Prayer book and me : you have made the Prayer-book to pronounce that to be idolatry which it does not pronounce to be idolatry, and then upon your own groundless assertion you have based a charge of dishonesty against me. I am, sir, your faithful servant, T• W. ALLIES." THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND 711 E PRIVY COUNCIL. — The Rev. Mr. Denison took little by his motion on Wed nesday at the meeting of the National School Society. In fact he was defeated ; and the following amendment suggested by a less vehement Tractarian, Mr. Manning, was adopted :—" That this meeting acknowledges the care and attention of the Committee in conducting the correspondence still pending with the Committee of Privy Council, and they regret to find that a satisfactory con clusion has not yet been attained. That while this meet ing desires fully to co-operate with the State in pro enotieg the education of the pecple, they are under the necessity of declaring that no terms of co-operating can be satisfactory which are not based. ore principles and models sanctioned and commended by the Church of England. And in particular, when they shall so desire it, to put the management of their schools solely in the clergy and the bishop of their diocese." We trust the Government will be firm to the position they have taken. That position is one becoming a Christian and paternal Government to assume. They refuse to become parties to a scheme which lay at the root of the apostacy of the Romish Church, and which will ruin any Church which is subjected to its Anti-christian sway. We speak of the principle which lodges all effective power in the clergy as cnntradistinguishable from the body of the Church, and makes their unchecked will its rule and law. Making their rule to be that of " lords over God's heritage,'' instead of that incomparably more honourable and genial influence which naturally follows from their being " ex amples to the flock." At the meeting the Archbishop of Canterbury presided. In anticipation of the resolution of which the Rev. G. A. Denison had given notice, an unu sually large meeting was assembled, among whom were many of the bishops, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lords Har rowby and Nilson, and several members of the House of Commons.—Attar the report of the committee had been read, Mr. Denison proposed, in a long and violent speech, a resolution respecting the matter in dispute between the National Society and Committee of Privy Council on Education, stating that no arrangement which involved the imposition of any management clause whatever, as a condition of state assistance, ought to be accepted by the church. The Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, at great length, seconded the resolution. A long and animated discussion ensued, in which Archdeacon Allan, Archdeacon Wilber force, and the Earl of Harrowby took part ; after which Archdeacon Manning proposed an amendment, which simply insisted on the right of the church to claim one of the points in dispute, viz., the appointment of the Bishop of the diocese final rereree Iu easra of clicagrotsmont--Altor a stormy discussion, in which the Bishops of Oxford, Salisbury, and Chichester, took part, Mr. Denison with drew his motion in favour of the amendment of Archdea con Manning, which was carried by a lerge majority. CHINESE MISSIONS.—At a missionary meeting in Bath last week the Lord Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) after dwelling on the mingled encouragements, and difficulties of the Chinese Mission, and the plans by which we might avail ourselves of the former, and overcome the latter, proceeded to show that the grand hope and desideratum for Christian Missions in China was the raising a body of native Missionaries; who, acquainted with the language, inured to the climate, and familiar with the character and customs of the country, might diffuse the knowledge of the Gospel among the native population on the mainland of China. For this purpose, a college was needed at Hong Kong, where a number of Chinese youths, of suitable talent, and promising religious character might receive the advantage which a thorough instruction in the litera ture and theology of Christendom might impart to them, in controverting the errors of their heathen countrymen. He proceeded to state, in detail, the remaining reasons which rendered England, and the Northern cities of China, ineligible, as the scene of such an institution. He appealed to the meeting to support such a college, to be founded at Victoria, in the Island of Hong Kong, under the superintendence of the Bishop of the new diocese, £5,000, at least, was required to complete the building, of which there was a prospect of obtaining about £2,000. For the remaining £3,000 or £4,000, which was barely adequate for completing the building, and also for the future annual subscriptions towards the permanent sup port of the tutors and students, he had mainly to depend on the pious liberality of Christians in this country. He read, from a letter lately received from China, a statement of the large scale of operations on which the Romish Mission was conductedat Hong Kong, by a numerous staff of priests and nuns, under the superintendence of a local bishop. After alluding to the peculiar circumstances of his present mission to China, and dwelling on the mingled difficulties and privileges of his high office, as the first English Protestant Bishop of China, his lordship con. eluded by commending himself, and his fellow mission aries, to the sympathy, the pecuniary help, and the prayers, of the assembly. NATIONAL SOCIETY'S GENERAL MEETING. (From the Church and State Gazette.) The Annual General Meeting of this Society has passed off with a narrow escape only from its being committed to the fatal position which we described a fortnight ago as imminent, and which must have ended in the disrup tion of the society, the abandonment of its endowed funds to a Tractarian clique, and a prodigious accession to the power of the State over the Church, as regards the edu cation of the people. From the commencement of the proceedings it was evident, from the tone of the mover and seconder of the resolution of which notice had been given, that the Trac tarian party had mustered their entire force, and that the battle of principles was transferred to the arena of the National Society. Of not less than seven hundred sub scribers, we should think that on a moderate computation five hundred were of the class we refer to ; and it required all the practical tact of that excellent and sound Church man, the Earl of Harrowby, supported by Sir Thomas Acland, and other lay members of the society, to render the more reasonable section of the party sensible to the abyss before them, and into which the society would be plunged by an adoption of Mr. Denison's resolution. The noble Earl, in a speech eminently distinguished for saga city and penetration, unveiled the design of the Romani zers at the bottom of the movement to coerce the arch bishops and bishops, and to pass a censure on the com mittee of the society, as well as practically to exclude the laity from a share in the managements of Church schools ; and he also indicated the impossibility of the society going before Parliament with the slightest chance of find ing sympathy and support, if committed to such a flag rant rejection of State co-operation as was conveyed in the terms of the resolution. An amendment was moved by Archdeacon Manning, embodying a declaration that, in the opinion of the meet ing, the committee had not obtained from the government adequate conocssions, and that no arrangement would be satisfactory which did not recognise those forms of trust deeds which gave the entire management of church schools, aided by state funds, to the clergyman and bishop of the diocese, to the exclusion of the laity. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in putting the amend ment, concurred in the protest of the Bishop of Oxford against Mr. Denison's construction of the amendment, and declined to be bound by it if voted in that sense. The meeting, however, which had evidently been packed. was in no humour to defer to the episcopal authority so loudly vaunted when exercised in a tractarian direction, and the amendment was carried amidst much uproar—the tractarian majority voting it in their sense. The Rev. Sir George Prevost, a Tractarian, proposed that the meeting, instead of dissolving, should adjourn, with a view, as explained by Mr. Denison, of holding in check the committee, who would otherwise be irresponsi ble to the members for another twelvemonth ! The arch bishop, however, declinel to entertain this new insult to the committee, on the ground of its being contrary to the society's charter, and declared the meeting dissolved. Thanks having been voted to his grace, the proceedings terminated with prayer, interrupted by a person in the garb of a Roman Catholic priest proposing a vote of thanks to the demagogue of the day—Mr. Denison ! June LI, 1840, LAW INTELLIGENCE. —*-- .05 10 In the bail court, on Thursday, leave , ea § g literi r t Pa l' cause for a criminal information arcAinat the ediwts Usher, sal proprietor of the Li:•;, ca l a ahieelFree,,,% e aller" a libel on the Rev. Dr. Me Bore, a ma gistrate. o f Dt libel commented with some Moore in his inP:sterial capacity. psdaY: NCHITRE;tN ClRCUlT.—Yorkshire : We" 11 city 11, at .ne Castle at York • city and county of he m p t . ork, the same day, at the Guildhall of the ciq_isPhlr, ham: Wednesday, July 25, at Durham. se; erity on the cola. — land : Monday, July 30, at Newcastle-upo ni T; e il till and county of Newcastle, the same day, at th nrel• Cumberland : Thursday, August 2, at morland : Monday, August 6, at ApplebY. at CP.! Northern division, Wednesduy, August 8, at ~,t at Lancaster ; southern division,' SaturdaY , A u g" - Co° Liverpool. the LAW CF INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGIIT."' in P o llock of Exchequer, on Tuesday, Chief Baron ciyofbi nounced judgment in the case of BooseY F 3r tnyrio l , involved an important question of international c ( go o The plaintiff had taken from one Ricordi an II: d ile of the opera of " Sonnambula," which the c clmP a fter ol° Carlisieiieoshire lini had assigned to Ricordi. The defendant and as published some of the airs out of it in London, VI), these circumstances the action was brought• coe question was, whether the plaintiff acquired an} r. TV right, having a title by assignment from a foreigse court held that he did not. The intention o f the.j was not to protect foreigners. They, therefore,ls7o copyright in this country, and, of course, could a, ' s ' io ttl , what they had not. The learned judgeintiinatfnolo decision was at variance with others, and that tVi,' o o ls * would probably be brought before the House 0' Diso l " BANKRUPTCY COURT, FRIDAY.--DUTY `a14,1),,5105: LITY OF TRADE ASSIGNEES UNDER OLD CO3P°iior —ln re Joshua Gibson and Joseph M`Glashen, S i et , pee cars and drapers, of Liverpool, Mr. Commissisnoiciii4 delivered judgment at great length. Vali: w as . aa. DO A under which Messrs. Charles Warwick a nd Wil ba s belb" were assignees . It appeared that just three &L o d: the act of sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 122, ca me ti l iedal ° ' ration, (November, 1842,) a dividend was de to the estate of the bankrupts ; but no step wa s i t i s o gs ought to have been done, to bring the pro court until 1848. He at first thouht that gr• I '2llo B the (t2t h7 o 2e n ) l p y ewn a h s a i s lc i t g hy n o e l if e e now acting, p he cent.is co-assignee rendere dn.o muN do s e otb of ; per annum had :0 1 ° 14 $ til li held from the creditors ; but 12 e bad meet u" d e pe s D so money, though retained by the assignees, wa s acl j in the hands of bankers named by the creditors,,le wot!lit were not the private bankers of the assignees. by tht not, therefore, enforce the penalty imposed DY Geo. IV. against Mr. Warwick, (who, relying on biteli,,s; citor, had acted in ignorance,) but he must ha' oat' ble to pay to the estate of the bankrupts interests pet dividend unpaid, to be calculated at the rate of out° cent. per annum from the expiration of tifte en t he from the declaration of the dividend, i, e., fr" 3,. " a do', of February, 1844, to the 17th of April last, and aeih-essa" him, within eight days from Friday last, to PsYntobi l : to the official assignee accordingly.—ln re Jo st P rot son i o oo n uns P oe i f mRt, Richardson, court or dusr ot bankrupt nf,orlastixe wo obtained feetsor; a d a-rnsetdn2ee Lord-sheet, re l Georg% Liverea ° bankrupt passed his final examination.' COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—WEDNE SO ;:p THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY THE All‘V ° OF LIVERPOOL. Aat Mr. CROMPTON resumed his argument to-u-- - : 1 0 1 - - , case, which was part heard on Friday last, an tl-113 n ietY ° : the important question was raised, whether the 111- o oft a to the penalties recovered before a justice of the Pea c it b borough of Liverpool, under the provisions of th c Ac t, Bth Victoria, c. 112, the Merchant Seamen's ;),• s tcot: payable to the treasurer of the borough fUnd oftnsthea poration, under the Municipal Corporation A ct, to 6th William IV., c. 76, or ought t o be handed overtiool Seamen's Hospital Society, pursuant to the dir e c 0 .14 c the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 112. The clause und er wlilt l the defendants claim the penalties in question4iei re' amounted to £655 Gs. 4d., enacted that all Pen covered in any borough under any act then in ex' s ' yob' which should thereafter pass, and which should bellscept to the Crown, or any corporation, or any individnalher, the informer, should be paid to the treasurer of tz'pt rough in which the same should be inflicted , elsci se ' such penalties as arose under any act relating to th e or Customs, or Post-office, or to trade or nav'gation the department of the revenue. The plaintiffs ( 13 ; 1° ,0 r e ; sum in dispute under thei r ac t, an d the clefenn a tisno sisted such claim under the section above set outt:r - o t re" that the 7th and Bth Victori a , c . 112, wa s not an to tbs' , iating to navigation" within th e s en se attached, ide term by the Legislature. This the plaintiffs den teu e re ff; first place ; and ' they secondly urged that if it w to still the penalties were payable to them, and 11 °' lo st e borough fund, as the 7th and Bth Victoria, C. 11 'of t, variance with and contradictory to the provisions - „ s t Municipal Act, and being subsequent thereto, t a r i tios, taken to have repealed that in so far as the aPPr °ll , a elP of the penalties was concerned. The learned sou on the the defendants having been heard at great leng lh hat° first point, was about to enter upon the second, " stopped by CO P The CHIEF BARON, who intimated that as the tbe was opposed to the argument of the defendants e) on os first point, it was unnecessary to deliver any °P in , 0;c therefore c, the second, which ne e d no t b to.cbed ,030 ment. As to tile first question, it appeared to " ;08 0 , 3 like asking the Court whether an act relating to nn s ;'" was an act relating to navigatinn, whorl its or in '.'l7ll3 asked on so clear a proposition. It was imP essi to adopt tile view put forward by the defendants, 5 0 ,1. ch tb ° tide this case upon what mi g ht b e th e sense in jet )f Legislature meant to use the wo r ds " relating to tro The navigation" in the Municipal Corporation Ae t ip ' Court could only look at th e wor d s use d by the - clef ture, and these words certai n ly mus t be held to . 0 10 , 0' the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 112. th e general teno which had express reference to navigation. The other judges concurred, and judgment was Bate ed for the plaintiffs. COURT AND FASHION. wet / After a brief sojourn at Buckingham Palace, the o r returned to Windsor. On Wednesday her bad a dinner party at the Castle, and on Thurs`, l ; ,itor s : Court, headed by her Majesty and her illustrious ' t ` o cr" including the Duke of Wellington, attended AseQp o loc e On Saturday the Court returned to Buckingham icE r THE ETON REGATTA.—The 4th of June, the an ll,' nary of the birthday of the late King George 111 :! e ll, time-honoured custom originating with that nova; fto'' always celebrated as a festival by the scholars.% g et! College, who on that day make an aquatic piler i l V o ilsc f Surley-hall, about two miles and a half above l'L e riiv, bridge. When the crews mustered, the banks of He r 31 0 , fler were thronged with many thousand spectators. , ioce jesty, Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the “a otbv Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Earl Spencer, l' l3 noblemen, visited the regatta. • torlY It is said the services of the royal yacht Vic-too• Albert will be brought into requisition - some time `A l bert' the latter end of July, when her Majesty, Prince J. and the royal children will proceed in her to Scot lB o o7, On Thursday preparations commenced for the real!, of the celebrated marble arch from the east front of ingham Palace. It will be re-erected at the V I entrance to the Home Park, at Windsor Castle. Don Miguel do Braganza, the ex-Ki ng of I' l ' r has taken up his abode at "Bexhill, in the neighb°,o of St. Leonards, where Louis Phili ppe i s hi s ilea " bour. AFFAIS . rt The North-western RAILWAY Railway Compa n y has beg r ll i ;ge CG, % B ning a new class o f carr i ages , ca ll e d " f am ily cat t intewled for the use of families and their serval' 8 latter occupying second-class coupes on either side'Thr t CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffi c•- 0 4, 4 week ended the 2nd instant :—Coaching tratb,cy,7l. l ,: j 6s. 4d.; parcels, £35 9s. ld. ; goods and cattle, s''',4o l ' 7d. ; steam-boats, £213 13s. ;—total, £l9lO, ef i ll titir of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Company, an meat for conveyance of mails. ) I °' THE FEMALE STOCK JOBBER.-0 W d n enc f Catherine Stultz was again brought up for final v l e°, tion before Aldermen Gibbs and Carden, on the cl s toc' commissioning Mr. Barton, of Throgmorton-str ee , Flott li ;1 0 01 broker, to purchase £lOOO worth of London _ 1 oil, Western Railway stock, which stock was purchas; o o; which she refused to pay for, or the loss thereon, '",4 1 ",,,v ing to £37 18s. Mr. Alderman Gibbs said-- ° tbe; disgraceful the prisoner's conduct might have 11ce 09 ,,. was no case established against her, and, therefor Prue was discharged. If, at any future time, sufficie nt ,,, , si a. were obtained, they cotld give her into c ustody ' 1 She was then discharged. oec`its, LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RA I LWAY." — '' 440t 4 i meeting of the proprietors was held at the Eust °° dog (London), for the purpose of confirming or reie e ptei draught of a bill, authorising the company to becoceen prietors, or joint-proprietors, along with the Lontilwt3,l York Railway Co., of the Preston and WYre 3i ;,1 Harbour and Dock. The attendance was but sais;iaio w , G. C. Glynn, M.P., occupied the chair. He ,1;lea t h'e the nature of the proposition, and having clese,r'bill be local position of the line, he stated that by ti" 3 ,4 itc3 railway, harbour, and quays were leased in PerP' Par. the two companies, the Lancashire and Yorkshiresortbs two-thirds of the rent, and the London O d el l ° f ell e d western one-third ; and the capital upon which och was calculated was £656,000, and the rent, when it toonft the maximum in 1852, would be £53,440 pfr ,13,13,g0r„ 1 1 which the London and North-western Co. "" tin y ‘ll l O to pay £17,813 per annum. As there were of_'r verging lines at Preston—the northern terrain. line—the Lancashire and Yorkshire had felt 4 W on ttl i c , sible for the success of their system that the Pr es t ovir Wyre should centre in themselves and in this est op fir to and that had been the inducement of the nego t.: " j d 18 / e ro the lease. The actual returns of the Preston a n bo t O l d would not meet the eng4gements as to rent , „ a rc a i l had been very extraordinary increase in the L t fut ei 6 ' o B tonnage of the port of Fleetwood, and thi s grounds for believing that if it proceeded in a oblia ratio, the rents would not prove a very onern' t be of tion, especially as a profit would be derivable by 01 0 t o line, which it was impossible to calculate. The ha j r 4o o , 4 , doubtless an onerous one, but it had been force" t . et`!ol Lancashire and Yorkshire as well as this comenol'a 1 „ 1 01 wise the line would have fallen into the hal e - triarilts company, who would have exercised interests . 0 0 1 ,5 to both. The aexcernent had secured the sati e L l a tetiend London and Yorkshire proprietors. He im -- r 0 '4 6 £lO,OOO would be required to complete the h t3 e trtid in the harbour, a pile railway to the quays,' on cling, ; o4 of the live weeks commencing April 21, and One 19, in years 1847-48 and '49, showed most esti% (or t o increase. (Hear.) The chairman then proposloitieit., resolution, exprez4sing the sanction of the Flis r ' c d with the bill, and giving the directors power to pr e y ~,die"' On being put, the resolution was unaniroolislY pic ±nne 1! 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