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Nmptriai Varliamtitt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. THE MEDEA COLLISION. Lord STlt ANGFORD wished to know from the noble lord at the head of the admiralty, whether he had received any official information regarding the collision that had taken place be tween her majesty's steam-ship, the Medea, and a French titoop of war. Lord MINTo was extremely indebted to the noble lord affording him this opportunity of explaining a had attracted a good deal of attention, which ilad been the subject of a good deal of misrepre sentation. It was very true that a collision had taken place between her majesty's steam-ship, the Medea, and a French sloop of war, but which was wholly accidental. As soon as the circumstances were made known, the French officer made every apology 'that could be possibly due for the consequences of the accident. He (Lord M.) was more fortunate on this occasion than on the last, because he was now in possession of a full detail of the circumstances from the commanding He had both a private and a public letter on the object, dated on board the Medea, at Bermuda, on the 20th April, which stated the circumstances under which it oc irred, and from which it appeared that the French sloop ;Id mistaken the British sloop for a Mexican cruizer, ad that when she ran across the French sloop, the French flu - !ted one shot to be fired, although by some unac w itable circumstance six shots were fired into the Medea, P ouch one man was wounded, and his leg immediately rwbrds obliged to be amputed. Altogether, it was one of 'e unforeseen accidents which would at times happen, and 'cent of which nothing culpable was to be attributed to side. If there was any aggression, it must have arisen Ir s'nip running across the French sloop. The noble sted that this explanation would be satisfactory both 'use and to the country , and he regretted to have its on this subject circulated which were calcu y to eNcite an unnecessary feeling and high ,x.ss in sensitive people. BEER BILL. In reply to a question from the Marquis of Westminster, Lord BitZTJGHAM said that nothing should induce him to postpone the consideration of the Beer Bill beyond Monday. T:IF. DISTURBANCES IN CANADA. Lord BROUGHAM moved for papers connected with the case of Colonel Prince, who, after a defeat of American sym pathisers, near Sandwich, Upper Canada, ordered several prisoners t i be shot. The motion was partially acceded to by the Marquis of ofiicer otticer curt !ell state: lazed certain! 011 M ANBY. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that a warfare of the great est horror was now carried on in Canada. At this moment our guards and picquets were necessarily kept on the whole line of frontier, from one end of the country to the other. If by any accident we were obliged to withdraw our troops from one part of the line, the persons very appro priately designated brigands came over in sledges, or some other description of carriage, crossed the country, and the houses of the inhabitants every where in that particular di rection were destroyed, life taken, and property plundered. All along this frontier there was a perpetual fire kept up from the side of the United States, across the imaginary line,upon . as, our picquets, and even on the single sentinels along the line. In war, every means was justifiable on boths sides to get the better of the enemy ; but certainly he had never before, in the whole course of his experience, heard of such a thing as firing on single sentries, not to say guards or picquets. Yet this species of warfare was going on at present in this province.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tuunsnay. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY BILL. Tice London and Birmingham Railway Bill was read a third time and passed, after some amendments had been agreed to. BIR7,IINGTIAM EXTENSION RAILWAY ;JILL, ILMOT said that on Tuesday he presented several etitions against the Birmingham Extension Railway Bill, which were ordered to be referred to the committee. The committee met on Wednesday, and found that they had not been presented within the requisite number of days, and that they could not receive them. The circumstances of the case were these :—On the 14th of this month the bill was read a time, and the house adjourned on the 15th to the th. The notice of the committee was given for the 22d. 'o business was done on that day in consequence of the speaker, and; therefore,' the only day for the pre on these petitions was Tuesday last, and, conse quently, they could not comply with the standing orders of the house. There were no laches on the part of the peti tioners ; and he therefore hoped the house would, under the peculiar circumstances of the,case, direct these petitions to be laid before the committee. Lord STANLEY said it must be a strong case which would induce him to relax the standing orders, because the house had, upon very good grounds, declared that it was necessary, in railway petitions, that three days' notice should be given to the parties on the other side, in order that they might be prepared to meet the allegations; and in the only case in which hardship could arise to the petitioners, an exception was made by the standing orders, when the petitioners found al on matters which had arisen before the committee, out when the circumstances were al known, if they once made a deviation from the rule which required notice to be given, they would receive endless applications, and defeat what appeared to him to be a very salutary rule. (Hear.) Lord SANDON said, in this case, if the parties had been required strictly to adhere to the standing orders, they would have had imposed upon them an impossibility. Now what was the fact? On the day after the second reading of the _ election bill, the house adjourned fo the 27th May, when it met again for the purpose of electing a speaker. He had the petition in the house at the time, but was precluded from presenting it by the circumstances to which he had alluded ; he, there fore, thought he had made out a case which would show the house would be doing the greatest possible injustice by shut ting out parties who might have the greatest possible interest in the bill.—(Hear, hear.) He, therefore, trusted the house would not refuse the application. Lord STANLEY. : After the statement made by his noble friend, which he was not aware of before, he would withdraw all opposition; he, therefore, suggested that it be an instruc tion to the committee that they have power to take these petitions into consideration, notwithstanding the standing orders have not been complied with. The SPEAKER then put the question, that it be an instruc tion to the committee on the Birmingham and Manchester Extension Railway Bill, to take into consideration the peti "TriengW'Atatindrersigalliatitigthlig.henregoleirll'a7htithu petitions respecting national education would forthwith pre- sent them. The house instantly became a scene of extraor dinary confusion. About twenty members ran simultane ously in all parts; and the noise was so great that, for some minutes, none of them could be heard; at last Sir E. KNATCHBULL rose to order, and expressed an earnest hope that hon. members would preserve more order and decency in their proceedings. (Loud cries of " hear.") A great number of petitions were presented against the proposed measure, and were hailed with loud cheers from the opposi tion. CALL OF THE HOUSE. Lord ASHLEY said, that as the noble lord the Secretary of State for the home department had at last fixed a day on which he intended to submit a motion on the subject of national education, he would take the liberty of giving notice, that on Tuesday next he should move the house be called over on Friday, the 14th June, being the day appointed by the noble lord for the discussion of that plan. (" Hear, hear," from the conservative benches.) Lord J. RUSSELL : I beg leave to second that motion. WEST INDIA DILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE moved, according to notice, for leave to bring in that bill for the settlement of the Jamaica ques tion which the government had now prepared as a substitute for their lately abandoned measure. That abandonment, he said, had not been the result of any change of opinion. He wished the former measure could have been carried with such a strength as would have 'enforced a due regard to it ; but it would have had little effect, even if passed, had it been passed with the sanction of only a very small majority. He would make no charge against the great party opposed to him ; but if colonial questions were to be made questions of party, he could not help anticipating much of general mis chief, and much of disgust among the inhabitants of our colonies. The present bill was founded on the principle of calling the assembly together again, and giving them what had been called a locus ptenitentice. He had not much faith in the success of the experiment, but government intended to give the assembly a fair trial. There were several subjects u bids the assembly itself had represented as urgent ; such as those of vagrancy, of the relation between master and servant, and of unauthorised occupation of land (commonly called squatting), as also the state of the militia, and the qualification of electors. Moreover, there were no fewer than seventeen annual acts of importance which had been suffered to expire. Their expiration, especially that of the police law, had been extensively mischievous ; and the present bill proposed to give the assembly time for the re-en actment of them, with power to the governor or council to revive them, if the assembly should do so. The principle of this bill was contingent legislation. With respect to those matters which did not fall under the head of expired enactments, particularly those of vagrancy, master and ser vant, and squatting, it appeared from Sir Lionel Smith's despatches, that some new provisions were urgently required. On these there had been orders in council transmitted to the crown colonies, that is, the colonies governed not by local legislatures, but by the king in council ; and the orders so transmitted had there been successful in practice. The assembly of Jamaica would be referred to those regulations, and called upon to legislate, not indeed according to their letter, but in conformity with their spirit. If this should li not be done in such a way that the governor could properly give his assent, then, after a certain interval, the governor in council would be authorised to make the requisite laws on those models, =taus mutandis. Thus had the proposed interference of the imperial parliament been reduced within the narrowest possible merits, consistent with the protection of the interests which the great experiment of emancipation had been intended to secure totheilegroes._ Sir ROBERT PEEL said, he should not only offer no oppo sition to the bill in the present stage, but abstain from saying anything which might go to prejudge the subject of it. En tirely reserving himself as to the merits of the bill, he con curred in the general principle that the wisest course was to presume that the assembly intended to do its duty ; and he would say that its duty, as well as its interest, would be to legislate in such a spirit as should leave no doubt of its de sire to do full justice to the negro. Nay, more; this coun try, in return for its magnificent grant, had a right, in the negro's behalf, to insist that he should receive, not merely the nominal, but the practipal advantages of freedom. But, after the great experiment of emancipation, he should not have liked another great experiment, in the shape of a sus pension of the colony's constitution ; and on this ground, and by reason of the present relative state of the white and black population, he had opposed the former measure. With respect to the permanent legislation, which the present bill proposed to require of the assembly, he repeated that he must wholly reserve himself on the question, whether the subjects were of such a character as to demand this mode of intervention. The. right hon. mover had deprecated party feeling, which it was always specious and plausible to do. Certainly it would be unfair to oppose a government for the sole purpose of embarrassing it on a mere colonial question, especially with reference to the altered state of the negroes. Bat if, bond fide, he and his friends considered the alleged grounds insufficient to justify the suspension of a constitu tion, surely they had as much right as the government to choose their own course ; and when it once was chosen, party tactics would necessarily attach, and the fullest procu rable attendance would be mustered on both sides. And the mover must recollect, that the division against the bill had included not only the conservative phalanx, but likewise ten of his own friends. Where these charges of party are made, the whole question turns on the sincerity of the proceeding ; and as I was sincere, I resolved that my opposition should be a real and not a merely nominal one. Lord JOHN RUSSELL insisted on the necessity that, what ever it might be proper to do, should be done in the present session, and that the Jamaicans should not be left to pervert obsolcte•and imperfect laws to purposes of oppression. He only regretted that England had, improvidently, paid the compensation to the planters before she had got the freedom -of the negroes established to her own entire satisfaction. As to the recent J ama i ca ' bill, he would admit that the opposite leader had a right to proclaim and act upon his hostility to it, and that his friends in general would naturally and fairly follow him ; but government did feel that certain of those friends of his connected with Jamaica, and possessing a deep interest in it, and a thorough knowledge of its affairs, ought to have been left free to follow their own opinions, already expressed and actually communicated to government,—that they ought not to have been obliged to bend their opinions about Jamaica to the objects of party in England. He thought, therefore, that Sir Robert Peel had acted in a men ner which was not only unusual as regarded party warfare but at variance with his own declarations. Mr. GODSON protested against the disposition of the go vernment to bring forward bills of pains and penalties. Mr. HUME thought the government had made no better case for this than for the former measure. He begged to ask had government ever sent any answer to the inquiry of the assembly, whether the colonial parliament was in future to be allowed the privilege of legislating for the colony ? If ministers had not answered that inquiry, they had no right to complain that nothing had been done by the assembly. Sir CHARLES GREY addressed the house in support of the motion. Mr. LABOUCRERE excused the government for having sent no answer to the assembly's inquiry, on the plea that it was impossible to give the answer till parliament should have decided on the course to be pursued. Sir EDWARD SUDDEN begged to vindicate his friends from the charge of having been actuated only by party motives in the late vote. He said he had read with attention every paper on the Jamaica, as he had done on the Canadian question ; and though he had begun with no little prejudice against the planters, his opinion had been so greatly altered as he had read on, that, if his friends had taken a different line from that which they did pursue, he should have felt himself obliged to act in opposition to them. The governm e n t s ee m ed to think that, because the conservatives had consented to a suspension of a constitution in Canada, they must perforce give the same sort of concurrence with respect to Jamaica ; but he did not take the suppression of a constitution to be quite so much a matter of course as they appeared to regard it.—Leave was given to bring in the bill. Mr. CRESSWELL moved for papers relating to the duties paid on manufactured woollen goods exported to the United States, After a short conversation, the motion was agreed to. Mr. M. GIBSON obtained leave to bring in a bill to prevent persons in England and Wales, once registered, from losing their votes at an election by reason of removal after the preceding registration. THE CURRENCY. Mr. ATrwoon, after a long speech in his usual style, on the state of the currency, moved a series of resolutions on the subject, which the London newspapers have not thought worth the trouble of publishing. They were seconded by Mr. WALLACE. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the previous question. Mr. WARBURTON was of opinion that the proposition contained in the hon. member's resolutions was a dishonest one. It amounted to this—that men who borrowed at 20s. in the pound, wished to pay at 195., and then at 18s., and then at 175., and so on to an unlimited series of reductions. [Mr. ATTWOOD : " Ay to 10s. in the pound if necessary."] He (Mr. Warburton) called that a dishonest proposition ; and whether it proceeded from whig, tory, or radical, he was sure that the house and the honest people of this country would nevar agree to it. The motion was negatived without a division. On the motion of Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD, the custody of infants' bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted on Wednesday, the 12th of June. The house adjourned at half-past eleven o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. The Bristol and Gloucester railway bill was read a second time, by a majority of 11. MINISTERIAL POLICY. The Earl of WINCHILSEA required of Lord Melbourne an explanation of the principles on which the cabinet has been reconstructed—and an exposition of the measures to which the country may now look forward. Lord MELBOURNE observed that he had already furnished what he believed to be a most satisfactory explanation of his conduct. He and his colleagues had resigned, because, un doubtedly, they did not possess in a sufficient measure, the confidence of parliament. He and they had, subsequently, resumed office; in obedience to influences which it was utterly impossible for him and them to resist. He perfectly admitted the existence of the difficulties by which his government was surrounded. It was possible that the causes which occasioned these difficulties and the late change of govern= ment might still be undiminished ; sure he was they would not be diminished by any abandonment of principle on his part, or that the government would be conducted on any other principles than those upon which he understood it was originally framed and conducted throughout. Those princi ples unquestionably were principles of progress and reforma tion ; he had always been for adopting every measure which, in his opinion, would tend to promote the good and advantage of the country ; but he never had been, and he certainly was not now, for purchasing or obtaining support, either by bringing forward or advocating measures contrary to his opinions and conscience. His opinions on most of those subjects of political discussion which now agitated the public mind were perfectly well known. They were perfectly well known in 1835; just as well known as at present. He would not declare and repeat them on the present occasion ; he would only say that to all measures of reformation, he was a warm and anxious friend ; but he was not prepared to adopt measures contrary to his feelings, opinions, and conscience, for the sake of gaining the support they might conciliate. The noble lord had adverted to the difficulties with which the country was surrounded, difficulties unquestionably both intecnal and external. (Hear, hear.) He did' not mean to extenuate the difficulties which might prevail, or the dangers from disorderly tumult raised and excited within the bosom of the country. It appeared to him, not an inattentive ob server of public affairs, that something of a new feature had of late presented itself; he knew not whether it was a more or less dangerous symptom, that while in former times such designs were always glossed over with something of pretend ed measures of reformation and amendment, in the present day there had been at all public meetings, and on the part of persons of no small influence and power, an open profession of intentions of plunder, of violence, and of blood. He knew not whether this was more or less a dangerous symptom ; he trusted it was a less dangerous symptom of the times, be cause if it were a more dangerous symptom, they must sup pose the country to be so infected to the core that it would be impossible to hope for its salvation by any measures that could now be adopted. His lordship concluded with the following somewhat whimsical declaration :—He did not know what was the best ministry in itself considered ; but this he did know, that unquestionably the worst ministry was that which did not possess sufficient of the confidence of parliament and the country to carry those measures which they thought necessary for the well-being of the state ; and he trusted, for the benefit of the country, if there was a de ficiency in that respect, thewisdom mid prudence of parlia ment and the good sense of the country would supply the defect. severity on the indecent use which the ministerial support - eis had made of the Queen's name in order to prop up a falling administration. The private, individual, personal feelings of the Sovereign had, he said, been made the topic, at every riotous meeting after dinner, at every still worser meeting of mobs in the morning, and during the day, of every harangue of all the demagogues who had been called to the support of the sinking administration. They had nothing to say for themselves, they had no measure to promise, they had no defence of their policy to make, all they uttered was the name of the " Queen, Queen, Queen," dwelling on the feel ings of their royal mistress, the bedchamber quarrel with respect to promotion, and to sum up all in one sentence, which he took fairly and impartially, for it was used by no friend or kinsman of his, but the friend and kinsman of the noble viscount, his private secretary and own nephew —con gratulating themselves that Sir Robt. Peel's formation of a go vernment had been defeated by two ladies of the bedchamber. This was the unfair, the unmanly, part of the business. They were called upon to discuss a grave question of state policy, to discuss and consult touching the sum of affairs, to argue respecting the government of the whole realm com mitted to the care of the Queen, and at the same time they were called upon to discuss it on such terms, upon an issue so taken, that whoever differed or dissented from his noble friend, incurred the hazard of being taken to make a personal, and invidious, and offensive opposition to the sovereign. The noble viscounl had stated that he had lost the confidence of the country and of parliament so as to make resignation necessary ; circumstances had arisen which, in the opinion of his noble friends at least, rendered it their duty to resume the government ; and then, when an adjournment of 12 days had been granted, every one was entitled to expect there was to be a reconstruction of the government, or a change in its policy ; but though he was sure that it was not so intended by his noble friends, it did so happen that the period in question was not used for either of such purposes— it was used by their supporters out of doors for the purpose of raising a clamour—of appealing to mobs 10,000 times less knowing than themselves in the subjects upon which they were appealed to—working upon the credulity and the pas sions of those multitudes by the most scandalous mirepre sentations, taking the chances in the meanwhile that the government would regain some portion of the parliamentary confidence which they had, as it was hoped, only temporarily lost. The noble and learned lord proceeded to observe, that it did occasion him no small surprise that his noble friend, in addressing the house, had not spoken out his mind in reference to that portion of his supporters towards whom he could not help feeling the utmost disgust, as regarded whom he could not help feeling, that if he truckled to such men, they would abandon him • that if he conso r t e d w ith th em , h e would be despised ; and if promoted them, he would be op posed • that if he permitted himself to hold intercourse with them, 'he would be contaminated ; and that if he raised them to the bench he would be impeached. After some further remarks, he stated that he had never before known a whig government establishing itself upon a bedchamber question resting its whole claim to support upon its care for the personal feelings of the sovereign. He de nounced with great force the gross and infamous false hoods put forth by the friends of ministers on the question which had arisen between Sir Robert Peel and her Majesty respecting the ladies of the court, and ridiculed with cutting sarcasm the queer doctrine now promulgated by the whigs.— That when a ministry said they resigned, they meant only that the husbands resigned, and that the wives, upon the principle of non-conformity, did not follow their husbands ; that half went out, but that the better halves remained in ; and that when a government came down and said in the usual and customary form appropriate to the occasion, " We are only in office until our successors shall be appointed," they meant, "We are only in office until our wives and sisters shall succeed in preventing our intended successors from taking it." One word more with respect to the illustrious person who had been so much alluded to. He deeply grieved that her Majesty should be placed in this position. (Hear.) It was not the fault of parliament ; parliament had spoken, fairly enough : neither was it the fault of the illustrious in dividual herself, inexperienced as she must necessarily be at her age. But it was the duty of those who were about her to inform her of the solemn, of the ancient, of the known and established principles of the constitution of this country. They ought to have done so with every possible delicacy, with all imaginable tenderness ; but while they used this tender ness, while they showed all the reverence and all theprofound respect and veneration which the most devoted courtier could profess, they ought to have towered above all pettier consider ations, and for the sake of their characters as men, as states men, and as the sworn advisers of the Sovereign (cheers,) es pecially when they were her first advisers, the counsellors of her earliest youth, to whom she had proved a most confiding, most gracious, and most kind mistress,—for all these reasons, it was the bounden duty of those advisers to have told her what they could but know, that the constitution of this coun-. try admitted of no divisum imperium ; that it would not tolerate the holding of office by the wife of a leader of the op position. (Hear, hear.) They ought to have said that such a thing was unknown to the constitution, that unnecessary changes in the household were to be carefully avoided, but that under such circumstances as the present the retirement • of the ladies was as necessary a part of the change as the re tirement of their husbands and brothers. He (Lord Brougham) hoped, he trusted such information had been afforded, but of this he felt sure, if for want of due consideration, if for want of appropriate counsel, if for lack o f th e requisite information, a most illustrious, amiable, and upright princess was brought prematurely into collision with the wisdom, or what was the same thing in effect, with the will of parliament, and the in terests of the public received, as they must receive, detri ment from such a collision, he was sure that the advice to which such a state of things would be owing must have been given not by trustworthy counsellors, but by servile courtiers, base flatterers, and worthless parasites. He denied the pos sibility of its having proceeded from his noble and hon. friends in office—that was out of the question (a laugh,) he knew the fact was not so. But those who had given such pernicious ad vice had acted in a manner most injurious to the interests of their confiding mistress. To their counsels would it have to be attributed if, at the commencement of her reign, a con fliet took place between the parliament and the Sovereign, upon personal grounds--a conflict always to be avoided, even by a Sovereign who, by a long and beneficent reign, had laid the country under a load of gratitude, but more especially to be avoided by a princess who had just ascended the throne, and had had no time to entitle herself to any such gratitude ; to those counsels must it by attributed if her reign began by a personal coldness and alienation between the country and the Sovereign, which it might take long to remove. He knew that his noble friend near him would be the last man in England to tender any such advice. He was convinced, from his personal know ledge of his noble friend, that he would make no sacrifice of character for the purpose of retaining office, but there might be others who had given such counsel, others who were anxious tc, keep, or hungering and thirsting to get, who felt that appetency of office which arose from possession ; or that still greater lust of place which was felt by those who had only seen power at a distance, and perceived its sweets with out knowing the bitterness by which they were alloyed. Such persons would do well to avoid pursuing their system too far ; they were putting the principles of monarchical govern ment to a severe trial. (Hear.) Let it not be strained too far, lest, peradventure, it should crack. The noble earl who had addressed the house thought that there now existed a conspiracy against monarchy in this country, and that there was a design among a portion of the people to pull it down ; the noble earl seemed to expect a revolution for the purpose of destroying regal government. It might be so ;he (Lord Brougham) did not believe that such a portion of the people, if such portion there was, was respectable in point of num bers, but he was sure it was not in capacity and intellect. But if he thought there was any such party in existence, he vowed to God he could not look with any feelings, but those of the most serious apprehension and dismay at the unwise, ill-considered, and, he had almost said, reckless course, which was now about to be taken—that of risking the stabi lity of the monarchy upon a mere bedchamber squabble, and of placing the personal feelings of the monarch in conflict with the wishes of the country. (Hear, hear.) The Duke of WELLINGTON made a few remarks, which, if correctly reported, seem to imply-Ist, that the noble Duke thought that, the government had upon the 7th of May no good reason for resigning their offices ; 2dly, that if the noble Viscount would persevere in the course which he had re solVed upon taking, and which he had announced to the house during that discussion, and would perform his duty not only in parliament but out of parliament also, he might trust to the good sense of the people of this country for support. The Marquis of NORMANBY concluded the evening's con versation by emphatically declaring that on the day when the resignation of the government took place he had had a con versation with his noble friend behind him (Viscount Mel bourne) on the subject of the ladies of her Majesty's bed chamber. None of them (the ministers) had ever doubted the power of her Majesty to retain them ; but he stated that it was very possible his connexion with the late government might place Lady Normanby in a very different position from that which others occupied ; and that it might, therefore, be proper that she should cease to hold her office in the Queen's household. He had heard nothtng whatever of the difficulty in which the new government was placed with re ference to this point till subsequently, when he went at night to his noble friend's residence, and the moment he returned home he communicated to him and to Lady Normanby his desire that she should resign. That resignation took place the first thing the next morning.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. Mr. FRENCH gave notice of his intention to move an ad dress to her Majesty on the subject of railroads in Ireland. Mr. WARBURTON adverted to Lord John Russell's state ment on the subject of an alteration of the postage ; and wished to know whether the postage was to be one penny or twopence. Lord J. RUSSELL answered that the plan would be a uni form penny postage. He added, that the plan, if it received the sanction of the house, could not be carried into effect for several months. He also mentioned that he should deem it his duty to submit a resolution, pledging the house to make good any deficiency in the revenue that might result from its adoption. Mr. LABOUCHERE brought in his new bill regarding the enactment of laws for Jamaica, which was read the first time, and ordered to be read the second time on Friday. . . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL called attention to the decision of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, in the case of "Stockdale v. Hansard," and said that as Lord Denman and the other judges had unanimously decided in favour of Stockdale, and against the right to cover with parliamentary protection the sale and publication of the Commons' printed papers, it was urgent to ascertain what course ought there upon to be adopted. He, therefore, proposed tne revival of the select committee on this subject. Considerable conversation ensued; but Sir R. PEEL, and other members, admitted that not a moment ought to be lost in the institution of inquiry. The remainder of the sitting was occupied with the second reading of the County Courts Bill, the consideration in com mittee of the Prisons Bill, &c. DREADFUL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION (From the True American, New Orleans, May 8.) The steamboat George Collier, which lay at the wharf op posite the Custom House, to undergo some repairs for some time past, left this city on Saturday evening last, between 5 and 6 o'clock, for St. Louis. When near the mouth of Red River, about 80 miles below Natchez, at half past 1 o'clock, a.m., a serious accident occurred, which proved dreadfully destructive of human life. The piston rod, which works in the cylinder, and by which the engine is propelled, being at tached by a key or bolt which passes through the tea head, gave way, at the rent which received the bolt, and being re lieved from the immense weight against which it had to strug gle, was driven through the cylinder head, and gave free room for the steam to escape. The aft doors of the deck room were closed; consequently the effects of the steam were un avoidable upon the locum tenentes; The stands were thrown from under two boilers, but the concussion was not severely experienced on the boat. The most of those killed and in jured, were in the berths, on the deck aft of the boilers. So soon as the accident occurred, many of them rushed forward unconsciously in the face of the danger ; and inhaling the heated vapor, instantly perished, or lived to linger a few hours in indescribable misery. It is supposed that between 40 and 60 persons were scalded. The clerk of the Collier rates them at 44, consisting of deck passengers, and part of the crew who had retired or were sta tioned on watch. We crossed over yesterday to see the Collier and examine the extent of her damage. No explosion seems to have taken place, b a ut t the e he immensekey, therebyfo d r i c s e en o g f a t g h i e su ngt d h d e e p n ro n p i e p lli tu n r g e p o o f w th e e r from the machinery by which the boat was moved, impelled from the screws the cylinder head, and deranged the boiler eipukutttre- --;-^ of --- fn nennr,a_ - We have scarcely ever seen a more heart-rending specta cle than the dreadfully scalded, yet ekeing out their few brief hours of maddening misery, who are yet on board the Collier, where every attention and kindness is paid them that could be expected, and which may tend to lessen their agony. There were aged mothers, with faces, and hands, and necks, and every portion that could come in contact with the hot air, dreadfully blistered, and presenting a horrid spectacle, calling for the lost ones whom they will see no more for ever. There were strong, stalwart men, calling aloud in their misery for their Great Protector to relieve them. How noble did the fortitude of some of the females appear ! The fair skin had been curled and crisped, and the bright and histrous eye had been quenched, or the irritation had closed up the swollen lids and shut out the world's light. What must have been their agony !—the flesh falling from the red lips—themselves becoming of a sudden soft and ready to fall and leave the " face divine" a horrid spectacle. We cannot conceive how the accident might have been an ticipated. We do not remember to have heard of one of a similar kind. The steamer George Washington came down about an hour and half afterwards, after the accident, and towed her down. Every assistance in his power was promptly rendered by Captain Quarrier, of the Washington, than whom there is not a more amiable, attentive, high-minded, and honourable officer on the western waters. We take plea sure in according to Captain Quarrier his just deserts. The accident occurred near Tunica Bend. [Here follows a list of the killed and scolded—all of whom, with the exception of Wm. Blake, Dederick Cross, and Joseph B. Bossenil, of Boston, Mass.—killed—belong to the South and Europe.] THE COTTON TRADE. (From the New York Herald, of MaylB.) Important as this staple is to the general weliare and growth of the country, so much interest and anxiety seems never before to have been excited at one time as is now evinced. The remarkable operation of Mr. Biddle seems to have drawn out the lights and shades of the business iu a greater degree than was ever before evident. The past year has been one scene of contention between spinners and holders. The former have evinced a spirit of opposition clearly against their own interest, and which must have had its origin. only in a mistaken view of the trade as regards this country. They were, apparently, alarmed at the momentary discrepancy which existed between the prices they were paying for the raw material and those they were receiving for their manufac tured goods. Being thus alarmed they attempted to knock down the prices of cotton rather than to wait until the re newed demand from this quarter should, by competing with the continental buyers, raise the prices of their wares. It was this policy which rendered them so backward in believing the statements of a short crop, and nothing but the fearful results which would follow a discharge of their workmen at a season of high prices of corn induced them to continue their move ments ; as it was, short time was adopted to such an extent as to reduce the quantity taken for consumption, up to our present dates, nearly 100,000 bales. It is no wonder that such a course should, in some degree, shake the nerves of those more directly interested in cotton, and create uneasiness in the monied circles, knowing, as they did, that the south had resumed too soon, arid that the proceeds of the crops was the on ly sheet-anchor by which they could ride through the storm. Notwithstanding this, the firm conviction that the crops were short has enabled them unflinchingly to maintain their ground. The prices have been fully maintained at the highest points. There remains now but for the Manchester demand to become again so active as to enable the holders to realize, and the affairs of the south will be placed in such a condition as to enable the suffering planters and traders of that section to come forward and make large purchases of those goods of which they now stand in so much need. These will be, without doubt, to a very large amount, causing a gt eat demand for manufactured articles, and bring up the prices to a point which will be remunerating, even at the present rates of the raw material. As the rise in the price of cotton took place after it had mostly passed from the hands of the planter, he has not had the benefit of it ; and if the present crop is short, by reason of the want of means which existed last year, how much more will the next be affected by an aggravation of the same causes. We will here give a com parative table of the receipts, exports, and stocks for three years, from October Ist up to the present time. 1839. 1838. 1837. _ Receipts, 1,225,553 1,523 , 107 1,181,961 11 Exports, 664,079 1,013,162 881,720 Stocks, 366,512 399,446 269,969 Crop, 1,427,500 1,801,497 1,622,930 This crop for 1839 is the medium of the numerous state ments which have been published, and will prove nearly cor rect, although there are a number of those who, at first, doubted that the crop would be short at all, are now con vinced that the amount will be even short of the figures given. It has been reported, among the stories of the day, calcula ted to reduce the price of cotton, that, although the number of bales is actually less, yet their weight has been much in creased ; therefore, that the quantity of cotton is •nearly the same as last year. In answer to this, the exports from Mobile, for the month of March of the two years, were as follows : March, 1838, bales 40,089, lbs. 23,702,061, ay. 4861. lbs. 11 1839,. „ 28,293, 15,151,448, „ 463 1-6 Showing a decrease in th e we i g ht of bales of about 5 per cent. The same fact has been apparent in other cities. Now, therefore, with these facts before us, that, during the past year, while trade has been very dull, the supply of the raw material was increased nearly 25 per cent., yet the prices went up rapidly, and are new higher than in 1837, and busi ness just upon the point of revival, what prospect is there for a decline in cotton ? Why, says the spinner, the growing crop will be in the market before trade revives in any great degree. This is, however, not the case. In the southwest ern states, we have good authority for saying, the next crop will be even less than this. In the southern states the drought which has prevailed since the time of planting has much re tarded the growth, and in some sections the quantity will be much reduced. There is no alternative, therefore, but a maintenance of present prices, if not a further rise. In the the present early stage of the season, it is, however, in our view, impossible to form any accurate opinion as to the crop. We can only judge from the operation of general causes : these are, however, not sufficient to risk an opinion with any degree of certainty. BATH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. A public meeting of this association was held on Tuesday last, at the Upper Rooms, Bath, which was very numerously and respectably attended. Harewood, Esq. was called to the chair. After prayers by the Rev. Harvey Marriot, the Chairman addressed a few introductory observations, and called upon the Rev. R. J. McGhee to address the meeting. • The Rev. R. J. McGHEE, on coming -forward, was re ceived with loud cheers. The rev. gentleman's address oc cupied nearly three hours, and was listened to with the-ut most attention. He commenced by replying to some charges which had been brought against him since he last addressed them in that place, by Dr. Baines, the Roman Catholic bishop, who resides at Prior Park. Previous to the last meeting he had invited Dr. Baines, or any person accredited by him, to a public discussion at a meeting, half the tickets of admission to which were to be at Dr. Baines's disposal. The doctor declined the offer, but got up a counter meeting, at which, while he (Mr. McGhee) and others were charged with getting up a meeting for political purposes, proceedings took place which were contrary to every acknowledged prin ciple of justice. He appealed to the invitation conveyed in the letter to Dr. Baines. whether there was any truth in that charge. (Cheers.) It was afterwards charged upon him by Dr. Brown, that the quotations which he had laid before the meeting were made from books-which were not the class or standard books of the college of Maynooth : but the authority on which they were brought forward was a parliamentary report, and the persons who made the return of those books to the Commissioners of Education were the president and professors of the college of Maynooth them selves. (Hear.) He had also invited Dr. Brown to a pub lic discussion, at which the doctor was to take his (Mr. McGhee's) speech in his hand, and with his own books go through that speech item by item, and document by docu ment, in order to show, if he could, that the statements con tained in it were garbled or misquoted. Dr. Brown did not choose to accept that invitation, but published an address to the inhabitants of Bath, stating that he was obliged to retire to Downside College, it being the long vacation. (Laughter.) He (Mr. McGhee) had also challenged Dr. Brown to a con troversy on the subject of the Papal Confessional, in which he could take upon himself to prove that the system was immoral, treacherous, cruel, and intolerable to the heart of any husband, father, or brother, who became acquainted i with the facts. (Loud cheers.) Dr. Brown, however, refused to notice this challenge on a subject which forms the very foundation of the Church of Rome, identifying as they do with this horrible confessional the whole hope of pardon for the sinner. Leaving, however, the discussion with the doctor, he would go to a more important subject—the peti tion which was to be presented to parliament against the College of Maynooth. The most important part of the con troversy between Protestants and the Church of Rome, was not the temporal afflictions which that church can inflict, but the evil which she inflicts on the souls of those who are bowed down under her antichristian yoke. The Roman Catholic religion he could show was a system of antichristian idolatry ; this would be seen by a letter addressed by the present Pope to all the Romish clergy in the year 1832, and printed in Ireland by the Catholic bishop's printer ; in that letter was the following passage : " Now that all these happy circumstances may concur, let us lift up our eyes and hands to the most blessed Virgin Mary who alone has destroyed all heresies, who fills us with the greatest confidence, or rather who is the whole foundation of our hope." Before God and man he (Mr. AVG-bee) proclaimed as a minister of Christ that that was direct and blasphemous idolatry. The church of Rome takes away the sympathy and tenderness from Christ's humanity, and looks for that tenderness and sympathy in idols. In one of their books called " The Glories of the Virgin Mary," this passage occurs : " Holy Virgin !" whoever recurred in vain to thy powerful protec tion? Heaven and earth will sooner be destroyed than you will cease to help those who humbly invoke you. St. Fran cis, to increase our confidence in Mary, assures us that our prayers will often be more speedily heard by invoking her name than by calling on that of Jesus Christ." (Hear.) St. Francis is also represented as saying to the Virgin Mary, " Be my advocate with the Son ; I dare not recur to him." The Virgin Mary is styled, " the Coadjutrix of our redemption;" and we are told that " the Holy Virgin told St. Bridget that as Adam and Eve sold the world for an apple, she and her son had redeemed it with one heart. We read in the Chronicles of St. Francis, that " Brother Leo once saw in a vision two ladders, one red, at the summit of which was Jesus Christ; and the other white, at the top of which presided his blessed mother. He observed that many who attempted to ascend the first ladder after mounting a few steps fell down, and on trying again were equally unsuccess ful, so that they never attained the summit ; but a voice having told them to make trial of the white ladder, they soon gained the top ; the blessed virgin having held forth her hand to help them. Peter Dens says, " all , power, oh Mary, is given unto you in heaven and on earth ; ' the very words ascribed to the virgin Mary which Christ used of him self. What wonder that they shut up the scriptures from the poor Roman Catholics, when they were taught to believe in such " refuges of lies" as these ? (Loud cheers.) And was England to be asleep ; was British principle, to say nothing of British religion, to be silent while the papal apos tasy was bargaining with infidel statesmen to take away the word of God? (Continued cheering.) The rev. gent. then referred to the mental reservation, "salvo jure superioris," saving the rights of my superior, which every Roman Ca tholic holds in every oath he takes, made the following state ment with respect to the oath at present taken by the Roman Catholic members of the legislature, contained in a document brought forward through the talents and exertions of that faithful maintainer of the Protestant religion and liberties, the Bishop of Exeter. (CheerC) It was proposed that the Bishop of Malta should have a seat in the council of that island, and in order to qualify himself the oath above referred to was to be taken. The Bishop well knowing that if he took the oath he could not keep it, refused to do so till he knew whether his holiness the Pope approved of it. It was ac cordingly dispatched to the Pope, and after the lapse of a con siderable time, during which the Bishop had made several applications for an answer, he received a letter from Cardinal Bennetti, stating it to be " the oracle of his holiness" (not the opinion merely of the Pope) that that oath could not be approved by him : and he (Mr. Al•Ghee) would affirm from every principle of the standards, canons, and councils of the church of Rome, that that oath not being approved of by the Pope, was rendered perfectly nugatory upon the conscience of any man in the church of Rome who took it. (Cheers.) With reference to the books which are the standards and class books of the church of Rome, the rev. speaker stated that in 1796 the Cardinal of the Prefect of the Propaganda wno in return neciarea tnat ruey do so; in 1808 these bishops assembled in synod, and set up the Compendium of St. Thomas Aquinas, which is Den's Theology, as the guide and instructor of the Roman Catho lic ecclesiaitics in Ireland ; and in 1831 the Popish bishops of Ireland assembled in synod, and set up that same book as the guide for their pupils, commanding the clergy by that guide to direct and drill the Roman Catholic population : and yet Dr. Baines talked of "the Dens humbug" having exploded." There was another book which it was neces sary to bring before the public notice, called " the Secret Statutes, printed by the printer to the Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland, to whom the whole edition is sent, the printer not being entrusted to sell or keep a single copy. The bishop gives one of these to each of his priests ; and if a priest chances to be ill, the rural dean is commanded to visit him, and to take his copy of the Secret Statutes away with him. In one case, however, the rural dean either neg lected his duty, or the priest died before he got there ; and his library being put up to auction, his copy of . the Secret Statutes was advertised for sale. He (Mr. McGhee) gave a commission to a bookseller to buy that and some other books, telling him to get that and a few more at whatever price they might be sold. The bookseller took him at his word ; the bidding commenced at sixpence; and a book which when new was worth about two shillings, reached the sum of £7 10s., the auctioneer's clerk bidding against the bookseller. Considering it rather singular that a book of such apparently trifling value should realise so high a price, the bookseller asked the clerk why he bid for that particular book ; he said lie was commanded by Mr. Castegan, the priest, to buy it if it fetched £5O. The bookseller saw it was of no use to go on, and therefore let the clerk have the book for the £7 10s. The circumstance got into the Irish papers, and a . Roman Catholic dealer in books having a copy of this work took it to the bookseller, and said he should have it if he would give him his price, to which he consented, and he (Mr. McGhee) thus became possessed of the book which he held in his hand. At the conclusion of the rev. gentleman's speech, the Rev. E. Tottenham addressed the meeting on the subject of na tional education, showing the danger which would result from the introduction of the Douay version of the Scriptures into schools. After a few observations from the Rev. H. Marriott and Irwin, Esq., the meeting broke up. STATE OF TRADE. Limns.—The demand for balk goods in both cloth-halls was more extensive on Tuesday, as well as on Saturday, than it has been for some weeks, and in consequence a good deal of business has been done. This gratifying change has taken place somewhat earlier than was anticipated, as the winter trade can scarcely be said to have commenced ; there is, however, little reason to doubt that the improvement will continue for some time. Most of the mills are running full time. BRADFORD MARKET. — There was a tolerably brisk de mand here, on Thursday, for Saxony cloths and figured stuff goods, but in most other descriptions very little business was done. The prices realized for most goods are considered low, considering the state of the yarn and woollen markets. In the yarn market there was comparatively little business done, scarcely an average amount. The wool market was very dull, and we have scarcely any remark to make upon it. There was a good supply of the staple article in the market. and the slackness in the demand caused a very trifling ad vance in the prices of some sorts. BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—We are sorry to state that the linen trade of this place continues to grow worse. There is little or nothing doing, either for foreign or home con sumption. The manufacturers continue to reduce the num bers of their weavers. YORK WOOL MARKET, Thursday, May 20.—Prices may be quoted as last week. There was very little wool in, and few sales were effected. SADDLEWORTH WOOLLEN CLOTH TRADE. —Since our last report respecting the woollen cloth trade, we have had more cheering prospects from America. There is rather more business doing than there was a month since, both for home cons umpt i on an d exportat i on , yet the woollen trade is not very brisk, some of the hands being only partially em ployed ; but on the whole, considering the high prices of wool, it is in a moderate, healthy state, and operativeS gene rally appear in good circumstances:. SILK TRADE.—The silk trade has not been so brisk in the neighbouring towns for twelve miles round Manchester for many years past. Manufacturers are seeking silk weavers of tine satins, fancy checked and striped goods, and very fine plain sarsenets. STATE OF AMERICAN THEATRICALS.—AII the principal actors in the country are wending their way north to spend the summer. Celeste has left New Orleans, where she has reaped a rich h arves t, an d i s on h er way o New York via Louisville. Caradori Allan is at St. Louis, delighting the trappers, for traders, and wild men s of the west. Forrest has played to good houses up the Mississipi and Ohio. Ellen Tree is at Cincinnati, but too ill to appear on the stage. Booth is on his way back to Baltimore, to attend to his farm ; he has made 10,000 dollars by his southern and western tour.— Finn and a few adventurous Yankees have started a theatre in Texas, and are making money by the operation. Pedrotti and Pantanelli talk of leaving the Havana and coming north this summer, where they will be well received. Little Miss Davenport has met with great success in the south ; at Louis ville she was more attractive than any one who preceeded her. Abbott and Jones are trying to rival each other at Richmond and Charleston. Bads have drawn good houses at Balti more. Sloman and his wife are playing at Philadelphia to houses two-thirds full. Sinclair and Mrs. Gibbs have not done a good business at the Park this last two weeks ; but the attractions of Miss Sheriff, Wilson, Seguin, and the. pretty Mrs: Baily continue undiminishe4l. We must have more novelty from England, however, for the next campaign. THE RIVER SEVERN.—It is painful to look on the low state of our river, the navigation being almost wholly im peded, more particularly when we reflect on the efforts which have been made to have it irnproved, and which efforts were defeated by an unjust, selfish, and disgraceful opposition. The scene daily of vessels being aground on nearly all the fords, when with scarcely a third of their estimated cargoes, will, we hope, arouse the dormant energies of the friends of this national improvement. On Saturday last five vessels were aground for several hours on Diglis Ford ; and we are informed there is only a flow of eighteen inches of water over Deerhurst, and scarcely so much at the Red Stone Roels.-- Worcater Journal. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Ridsdale has refused £4,000 for his celebrated horse Bloomsbury. Fanny Dawson, the dam of celebrated Harkaway, pro. clticecl a fine colt foal, by Economist (the sire of Harkaway: List week. The Queen is understood to possess a talent of mimicry equal to the celebrated Charles Mathews. A TALL MAN.—They have a man " out south," so tall, that he hires himself out, at camp meetings, for a steeple.— American paper. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have approved of Dundee as a warehouseing port for East India goods. The Earl of Wilton is to have the management of the hounds next season at Melton, in the place of Lord Suffield. • The accounts received from most parts of England, re specting the growing crops, continue, generally speaking, favourable. An auricula, with 148 full-blown flowers, was,- a few days ago, cut in the garden of Mr.• William Campleman, of Hull. The stem was 41- inches long, and 2 4 in circumference. The Duke of St. Alban's was married on Wednesday, a the seat of the lady's family in Leicestershire, to Miss Gub bins, daughter of General Gubbins. So many of the " tip-toppers" were taken in by the result of the Derby, that, by way of revenge, some of them declare that Bloomsbury won for the benefit of St. Giles's. The Salisbury Herald states that the Bishop of Salisbury s about to be married to a lady connected with some of the oldest and most influential families of Dorsetshire. It has been said of the Duke of Wellington that, during the congress at Vienna, he completely misled the most subtle diplomatists, by always stating exactly what he thought. The splendour of the present season is likely to be consi derably diminished by the closure of the ducal mansions of the Devonshire, Sutherland, and Northumberland families. There is now to be seen at Kenchester, a bird's nest con taining 13 eggs, and which is built in a pump in daily use; the rod of the piston works through the nest.—Hereford Times: A whit editor says—" We intend to get a new head for our paper." He had better get anew conscience for himself, for his present one appears to be prettj , much worn out.—Boston Post. There is now within a hundred yards of the farm house of Mr. James Inskin, of Caldecot, near Baldock, a partridge nest in which a fowl deposits her eggs with the partridge.— Northampton Mercury. A Bordeaux paper relates, as an extraordinary instance of unnatural brutality, that a young soldier quarrelled with his father in that town a few days since, and in his rage cut off one of his fingers and eat it ! The Rev. Dr. Wolff is now giving a series of lectures on the Divinity of Christ and the Atonement proved from Jewish and Heathen writers, in the Parish Church at Hud dersfield, at the request of the vicar. A decree of outlawry has been issued from the Court of Exchequer against Sir Henry Mainwaring, Bart., late of Over Peover, in the county of Chester, and a writ of dis tringas executed on his propery. Sir Henry is abroad. A person lately deceased in Bradford, bequeathed £5OO to his widow, but on the condition that she should marry again within six months after his decease. She is very good looking, and will have no difficulty in complying with his injunction. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia has subscribed £3OO for the monument which is about to be erected in honour of the Duke of Wellington, whose glory, his Imperial Highness says, belongs to England, but whose servicesbelong to all Europe. Much consternation prevails in •one of the highest families in the county Mayo, the head of which is told that his estates are held without any title, and that Mr. C. will come in for £30,000 a year. Legal proceedings are about to commence. —Limerick Chronicle. TWEED SALMON FISHERY.—Since the commencement of the favourable weather which is now experienced, the take of salmon in the Tweed has been generally satisfactory, though the produce of the fishing has not as yet been greater than is usually the case at this period of the season.—Scottish Guardian. We think it will be agreed that there is no lack of magis trates in Lancashire, when we state that there are at present in the commission of the county no less than 284. In Salford Hundred alone, from January, 1835, to April in the present year, 50 have qualified. MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The following is the engineer's return of the quantity of earth-work executed, and the number of men, horses, and engines, employed on the works yet to be completed of the Midland Counties Railway, from the 20th April to the 18th May, 1839 :—Earth-work ex ecuted, 297,960 cubic yards ; number of men, 5,138 ; number of horses, 513 ; engines, three locomotives and two stationary. ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday the temporary suspension bridge at Kirkstall malt kiln, over which a railway passes, gave way just at the moment that six waggons, drawn by three horses, were crossing it. Horses and waggons were all precipitated into the valley below, a depth of 50 feet. Two of the horses were killed, the other much injured, and the waggons almost entirely demolished. Providentially no human being hap pened to be on the bridge.—Bradford Observer. EMIGRATION.—On Tuesday morning, one hundred and forty persons embarked in the Lower Shannon, on board the ship, Wellington, for Canada, sent out under the directions of the committee in this country, under Colonel Wyndham. Some of the emigrants went away in good spirits. Three or four who left the vessel to take a parting glass, were left be hind, one of these lovers of the dram, has a wife and several children on board the vessel.—Clrae Journal. A LITERAL ANSWER.—Rather a laughable circumstance occurred in our justiciary court on Monday week. In a case of house-breaking, a female, among other witnesses was cal led, who keeps an humble lodging-house in Gatehouse. Af ter administering the usual oath, the judge, (Lord Mackensie) inquired in common form whether she had received, or been proposed, any thing for her evidence. To this question the woman answered " Yes !" and when the wondering judge inquired what, she answered with the greatest naivette - -` a summons." This curt and simple reply set the court in a roar, in which the judge good-naturedly joined, at least for a moment.--Dumfries Courier. A few days since the commanding-officar at the Hone ram, and perceiving that a raised platform, which was used by the soldiers on duty as a bed, had become decayed, he de sired its removal, and a new one ,to be substituted. Accor dingly, while in the act of removing it, and the rubbish that had accumulated underneath, a number of gold, silver and copper coins, of the reigns of Queen Anne, George I. and 11. were found. The soldiers who were at work, considering them as their perquisites, pocketed the money, and afterwards disposed of them. A few, however, were delivered up to the adjutant. DISCOVERY OF A NEW MEDICINE.—A medical practi oner at Andover, who attends a friendly . society at Chute, Wilts, for a low salary, gave one of the members a box of pills for some illness with which he was afflicted. By some chance or other, when about to take one he thought it felt ra ther hard, and was tempted by curiosity to divide it in halves, when he' discovered, to his astonishment, that his pills were peas. To be fully convinced of the fact, they were, after being weighed and deprived of the magnesia with whieh they were enveloped, planted in earth, and are now actually grow ing This statement was made by one of the stewards of the society.—London Paper. FARMING STOCK.—MOSt of the sales of farming stock in this quarter are over, and, in general, higher prices have been realized than we had for many years. Young mulch cows readily brought from £lO to £l5, with a brisk demand ; good draught horses, from £25 to £39 ; three-year-old cattle, of the Galloway breed, from £9 to £l4 14s. ; two-year-olds, ; from £6 to £lO 10 s . stirks, from £4 to £5 15s. with plenty of purchasers ; and hog sheep, from £1 15. to £1 19s.— Though the prices of wool are not yet fixed, there is evidently a brisk demand ; as many of the usual purchasers have been on the alert for some time past, bespeaking the superior clips. Dumfries Courier. PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—The following pri vate Banks, in Yorkshire alone, [have within a short period, merged in joint-stock companies. At this rate, it may be predicted that, ere many years elapse, private banking in the country will become extinct :—Rawsons and Co. Halifax and Huddersfield; Briggs and Sons, Halifax ; ;Hagues and Co. Dewsbury ; Perfects and Co. Leeds and Pontefract ; Bywater and Co. Leeds ; Smith and Son, Leeds ; Fletcher and Co. Borobridge ; Coates and Co. Knaresborough ; Farrers and Co. Ripon ; Dressers and Co. Thirsk ; Buckleys and Co. Saddleworth ; Huttcn, Other and Co. Richmond and Ley burn ; Walkers and Stanley, Sheffield and Rotherham ; Skinners and Co. Gainsborough ; Wilson, Sons and Co., Huddersfield. On Friday last a dreadful homicide was committed in Lynn, under feelings of excitement and ungovernable passion. It appears that two persons, named Adams and Horsley, in the employ of Mr. Watts, wheelwright, in Norfolk-street, had had an altercation in the shoppit nd in consequence ofsome aggra vating conduct on the pazrof Adams, the other was led to strike him a blow, whereupon Adams seizing a piece of wood that was within his reach, struck Horsley with such violence upon the skull as brought him to the floor, and after linger ing for a few minutes in a helpless state he expired. At the coroner's inquest, held at the Hanging Chains public-house, on view of the body, the jury returned a verdict of manslaugh ter against Adams. He is ,not more than 16 or 17 years of age, and is the son of respectable parents in this town, who, in consequence of this melancholy affair, are thrown into the greatest grief and anxiety. Horsley, the deceased, was a married man, without family. He had lately come from the neighbourhood of Favenham.—Bury Post. THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.—From a recently-printed parliamentary paper, entitled " An act of the gross and net revenue of the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, for the year ending Michaelmas, 1838 ; showing the amount of revenue which became due, the monies received and paid within the year, and the arrears and balances at the close of the preceding and current years ;" we take the following items and particulars. In the appendix relating to income— showingthe "amount of fee-farm and unimprovable rents and leasehold rents, including rents in lieu of land-tax re deemed," we find that the Duke of Devonshire pays for the hundred, manor, bailiwick, &c. of High Peake, and manor of Castleton, £10; the courts of the same, £1 ; the castle and precincts, and the Devil's Hole, £5 ; the game, and offices of the master of the game and master forester, £1; the millstone and other quarries, £1 ; the osier beds, &c. £1 ; the fisheries, £1; the chief and other dry rents, £25. Bs. sd. and for the wastes, £1 ; altogether, £46. Bs. sd.—Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. for part of the Dove fishery, due Lady-day, £2. 10s, and £l.los.—ln the counties palatine of Lancaster and Chester, we find the following items of income :—The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Duchy, for the profits of the seals within the county palatine of Lancaster, £7 ; the trustees of W. F. Brockholes, Esq. for Myerscongh Park, rents, £6OO ; land tax redeemed, £l9. ss. 10d ; John Fitz gerald, Esq. for the Pendleton collieries, one year's sleeping rent to Midsummer 1838, £5OO ; for (th e sur f ace ) land and messuages, farm, buildings and cottages thereon, same period, £285 ; George Jones, Esq. for building ground at Pendleton, same period, £l7B. 75. 9d; the proprietors of the Manches ter, Bolton, and Bury Canal, for land in Pendleton, taken for the purposes of the canal, £6. lOs ' • the comptroller of the barrack department for a piece of land at Salford, 5s ; the trustees for the site of the Royal Salford and Pendleton Dispensary at Salford, £29. 105.—The boroughreeve, con stables, and burgesses of the town of Salford, for the tolls of the markets and fairs, one year to Midsummer, £5 ; and there are various other items chiefly under £l, for gardens, &c. in Bank Parade, Oldfield Lane, Cross Lane, and Regent Road, Salford. By a recapitulation it would appear, that the total amount of rents received during the period specified, in respect of the Duchy of Lancaster, was £22,935. 2s. 84d; land tax redeemed, £440. 9s. 71d ; together, £23,375.125. 3d ; In the appendix, No. 4, (Expenditure) we find the following items :—Her majesty's donation of 100 tons of coal to the poor of Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, January and Feb ruary 1838, £37. lOs ; her majesty's plate of 100 guineas, given to be run for at Lancaster races, 1838, £lO5 ; the Rev. Joshua Thomas Horton, incumbent at Ormskirk, £2l ; the Revs. Jonathan Brooks and Augustus Campbell, incum bents at Liverpool, £4. Iss. 5d ; the Rev. Robinson Elsdale, schoolmaster at Mancheste r , £4. l s . 9d. I n appendix N 0.7, which appears to be of a still more miscellaneous character, we find the cost of the new seals of the duchy and county palatine, made on the accession of her majesty Queen Vic to,ia, with the silver and cases for the same, £432. Os. 3d ; and of the velvet bags used on the occasion of the said seals being submitted to her majesty, Ils. 6d ; and for frames for the county palatine seal, cast in iron, £2. 6s. 9d ; and, lastly, for illuminating the duchy office oil the occasion of the coro nation of her majesty, £5, 10s, It is rumoured that, among the approaching changes, Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, M. P, for Preston, is likely to have an appointment in the colonial department. It is stated to be the intention of a body of the electors of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the event of a dissolution of par liament, to invite Sir Robert William Horton to offer him self as a candidate. Sir Robert represented this borough previously to his appointment to the governorship of Ceylon. —Wolverhampton Chronicle. CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—The judges met on Thursday morning in the Exchequer Chamber, when the ensuing circuits were chosen as under : Home.—Lord Denman and Lord Chief Justice Tindal. Midland.—Lord Abinger and Mr. Justice Littledale. Norfolk.—Mr. Justice Vaughan and Mr. Justice Bosanquct. Oxford.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams. Wales.—Mr. Justice Pattison and Mr. Baron Gurney. Western.—Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Erskine. Northern.—Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Maule. Mr. Baron Parke to be the judge in town. THE EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY. —The amended bill, with several very important and useful clauses, has just passed the House of Commons, and is now in progress through the House of Lords. By the alterations in the levels this company will save upwards of .Z 36,000, un der the able management of Mr. Macneill, the celebrated civil engineer, and the eminent Scotch contractor, Mr. Gibbs. This railway and the Trinity Harbour will now be completed, which will be of the greatest possible advantage to all the Scotch railways, as the intercourse with the Frith of Forth will advance the traffic on all the projected railway communications throughout Scotland, and tend to revive the commercial prosperity of that portion of the British empire. The scribe who acts the part of " Clown in the ring" to our mountebank ministers, attempted last Sunday, while chalking his master's feet, to cut a joke of his own, instead of borrowing one, which is more usual with him. Master Merryman compared Sir R. Peel to the Boots, who is called upon to take a turn in the saddle when all the regular postilions of the establishment are engaged, adding—" there is, however, this peculiarity about the humour of our Boots, that he insists upon being lifted into the saddle by the cham bermaids." Clumsy clown ! Where is Lord Palmerston, the Mr. Widdicombe of the Ministerial " ring," with his long whip ? Why, it is Lord ,Melbourne, not Sir R. Peel, who appears as Boots—and his humour is not only to insist upon being lifted into the saddle by the chambermaids, but to depend exclusively on the chambermaids for the safety of his seat and security against a tumble.—Times. WINES . AND SPlRlTS.—Comparing the consumption of . wines during the present year with that in the same period of the last year, there appears an increase in the consump tion of Cape wines of 2,180 gallons ; an increase in the con sumption of French wines of 7,589 gallons ; in Madeira there has been an increased consumption of 3,144 gallons ; of Fort wine the increase of consumption during the above parallel periods is 75,753 gallons. There has been also a large in crease in the consumption of Sherry and other Spanish wines of 63,809 gallons. On the contrary, in brandy there has been a decrease in the consumption of 2,802 gallons. In Geneva or Hollands, the consumption,has been about the same, there being only the trifling increase of thirty-three gallons ; in rum the decrease of consumption is remarkable, being 25,926 gallons. DREADFUL STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday a steam-boiler at one of the cotton mills belonging to Messrs. Milne Travis, and Milne, Shaw, Crompton, Oldham, burst with a tremendous noise. The hopper of the boiler and the steam were 'propelled at a distance of fourteen yards into a cottage occupied by the engineer ; the door, the adjacent wall, and the windows, as well as the furniture in the house,. were all destroyed. A child, about two years of age, was so much injured that it died soon after. The wife of the engineer was also dreadfully injured, and is in a precarious state. A man of the name of James France, who was passing betwixt the mill and the cottage, was driven with great violence against a wall, and his head was severely hurt. The windows of five houses were also nearly all demolished by the explosion, the cause of which is not yet ascertained. This mill seems ill fated, for not long ago a young man was killed by falling from one of the upper stories ; and a few years since the mill itself was burnt down. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—A cow belonging to Mr. Scott, of Blackhall Wood, calved, on Wednesday morning, a calf having two distinct heads, four ears, four eyes, and two necks, which united together to the body at the shoulder. It had also two distinct spines or back-bones, which were united at the rump, but the tails branched off and were distinct, ten or twelve inches in length. It had four legs, which were all perfect—the belly and entrails were single, with one liver, and single lungs or lights, one gall and kidneys, as in a per fect animal, but what is singular it had two stomachs and two hearts, proving that it must have had a double circula tion. The calf was alive, but Mr. Graham, of Blackhall Wood, who extracted it with great skill, found it necessary to destroy its life to save that of the cow, and she is doing well. The skin of this singular lusus naturte is being stuffed by Mr. Graham, and the skeleton wtll also be preserved.— Carlisle Patriot. OPENING OF THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAIL WAY.—On Thursday, this important national and commer cial undertaking was opened from the terminus at York, to the junction at the Leeds and Selby Railway, near South Milford, which forms an uninterrupted railway communica tion between York and Leeds, and York and Selby, and the several intermediate places. The preparations were on the most liberal scale. A large party of ladies and gentlemen were invited to breakfast, in the Guildhall, York, at eleven o'clock; and at half-past twelve a procession was formed to the station, preceded by a band of music. The train started at one o'clock, and proceeded to the junction ; and on its return, the procession re-formed, and walked, attended by the music, to the Guildhall. At four o'clock, a grand dinner was served up at the Guildhall. The city presented an animated appear ance throughout the whole day, a great number of visitors from the country having arrived to witness this interesting scene. Not the slightest accident occurred on the trip. JUVENILE TASTE FOR EQUESTRIANISM.—A boy named Brown, 13 years of age, has been apprehended for horse steal ing. The performances at Cook's circus had excited his de sire to become an equestrian. Having learnt that the com pany on leaving Lincoln, had gone to Wakefield, he deter mined to follow them. He then purloined the stable door key of Mr. Mansford, butcher, and stole the horse of that person On the evening of the day he decamped, he arrived at a village in the neighbourhood of Rotherham, and offered the horse for sale. The publican at whose house hp put up, pimp9stiin his timiamr, hid i litp £lO. l Ihe jsa bon a beery considerably below the wor th o f th e animal, the man became confirmed in his suspicion that it had been stolen ; and to make assurance doubly sure, he offered the boy £l, saying, he was convinced the horse had been stolen, and that he had better take the sum and be off. The boy consented. The publican then delivered him into the custody of a policeman. He was examined on Tuesday, and committed for trial. — Lincoln Mercury. . CHESHIRE MARLE.—CAUTION TO ENGINEERS.—In an excellent work recently published under the title of " Life of Thomas Telford, written by himself," that celebrated engineer, in speaking of the difficulties which had to be en countered in the formation of the Liverpool and Birming ham Junction Canal, thus expresses himself:—" It now became necessary to carry the Junction Canal in the shortest possible direction between the Birmingham Canal, near Wolverhampton, and the Ellesmere and Chester Canal at Northwich, although this led to crossing the numerous ine qualities of ground between the before-mentioned places, whereby this canal encountered cutting, and embankings of unusual magnitude, and proportionably expensive. In pass ing through Cheshire, the canal was in this respect peculiarly unfortunate ; for the heavy soil of which the surface of that rich country chiefly consists, when used for embankments, slips and bulges in great masses, and rapidly dissolves when exposed to the atmosphere. From an unaccommodating disposition in some of the landowners, in persisting to pro hibit the proper line of canal, these evils were experienced to an enormous and unprecedented extent; and I am bound to state, for the benefit of engineers who may be engaged in similar works, that to the height of ten or twelve feet, it was found by experience, Cheshire mark retains its shape suffi ciently well ; but when the height required amounts to 50, 60, or 70 feet, no estimate can safely be made, and the enter prise ought not to be hazarded." ENGLAND AS SHE WAS AND AS SHE Is !—There was a time when England' was indeed a power —a power of the first magnitude ; nay, she was once the highest power on earth. But now how changed—let Russia, France, and America declare. Our flag, which was once the terror of the world, is now a mere laughing-stock for juvenile adven turers in any foreign navy. Our cannon, which once could awe a world in arms, now only serves to kindle the resent ment of a semi-barbarous province ; our manifestoes and protocols—but no, I will not write the melancholy ditty, the disgrace of my native land. But what is England now at home ? She has a mere shadow, acknowledged by itself to be so, for its government. Her army is tramping from town to town, and county to county, to enforce a law which they and the people abhor. The soldiers are insulted at every post by the presence of the London police ; and from the field-marshal to the private, they are either deriding or cursing the sham government which thus degrades them. Her nobles are engaged in consulting with commissioners as to how many ounces of bread and spoonfuls of skilly will keep a labourer's soul and body together ; and then superin tending the matrons of our bastiles to see that weight and measure are not exceeded. Her lord-lieutenants are entirely superseded by assistant-commissioners. Her magistrates are insulted by the presence on the bench of justice of mere government tools and spies. The Queen's palace is the seat of the vilest intrigues ; the labourer's cottages are the habi tations of wretchedness, misery, and compl ain t. Th e whole social system is on the brink of ruin, and Ireland is worse than in a state of rebellion.—Oastler's Letter to the Nobility, Clergy, Farmers, and Shopkeepers of the county of Not tingham. - DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—As the rumours of a dissolution become more rife, so are the motives assigned for such an extraordinary procedure more numerous. One party has it, that the Queen, to avoid the tories being forced upon her, and to gather round her person a more sycophantic clique of flatterers, will try the dissolution in the hope that the Radicals may prove themselves sufficiently strong to enable her Majesty to make Lord Normanby prime minister —the Marchioness (Mrs Masham) being at the head of what the Standard most appropriately designates the Chamber plot Administration. Another section asserts, that Lord Melbourne, assured of the weakness of the radicals amongst the body of electors, will dissolve for the purpose of extin guishing them as a party, thus marring the projects of the conspirators who are plotting to intrigue him out of the cabi net ; while a third contend that a dissolution is the only measure that, by defeating the object of the Committee of the Lords, can save the ministry from such an exposure of their Irish policy, as must cover them with shame and disgrace. and preserve Lord Normanby from impeachment—perhaps from corporal punishment. We will not deny that there is some semblance of truth in each of the motives_assigned, as a reason for dissolution ; but should it be carried into effect with a view of defeating the publication of the evidence taken before the committee now sitting, we tell the readers of the Evening Mail that it will be abortive. More we are not permitted to say for the present. —Dublin Evening Mail. DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT, WITH LOSS'OF ELEVEN LIVES. - BRISTOL, MAY 28.—An accident of a most ap palling description took place yesterday afternoon in the col liery of Messrs. Braine and Co., at Kingswood, near this city, by which 11 unfortunate men and boys have been hurned into eternity, their dependent families deprived of their means of subsistence, and the whole village thrown into a state of consternation and sorrow. The circumstances leading to and connected with the accident, as stated to me, are nearly as follows :—When a vein of coal upon which the pitmen have been employed becomes exhausted, it is usual for them to make a cutting of some eight or ten fathoms, at the extremity of which another vein of the mineral is most commonly found. In the present instance the men had been employed in cutting from an explored vein, and had got to some distance, when, having unfortunately selected the direction of a vein which had been exhausted upwards of 50 years ago, they, about noon yesterday, cut through what is called the pillar of the old vein ; the consequence of which was, that the water, which had supplied the place of the mineral, and which is called " the land water,' broke in upon them with terrific violence. At this time there were 36 human beings at work in the pit, and, as may be readily imagined, the utmost terror and con sternation prevailed amongst them. Such as were possessed of greater presence of mind than the others, or whose posi tion in the pit enabled them the more readily to do so, escaped with promptitude to the mouth of the pit, and the signal of their danger having been given to those whose duty it was to look out from the above, they were raised by means of the machinery which is usually employed for this purpose, and rescued from their perilous situation. Twenty-five were thus saved from impending death, but the number before stated, 1 the greater part of whom had been employed in a lower part of the work, perished. ' • THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL• To The Public is respectfully informed that in cousequ e oll the unprecedented attraction of Mr. VAN Ag l ij o rre , and his TRAINED ANIMALS recently at this reor o an Engagement has been made with him, on h . ,i - be from Dublin, for a limited number of Nights, an" an d r make his re-aearance here THIS EVEN ING? sf itt through the whole of his extraordinary Perforraocesenteti LIONS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, &c., as ePrety One Hundred and Fifteen Nights last season , oit d Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, and frequentlY there by her Majesty. bePer. PHIS present TUESDAY, June 4th, 183 9, Iv— a. formed the Tragedy of ALEXANDER THE GOAT; OR, THE RIVAL QUEENi• Alexander.. Mr. Stuart. ClttOs.. Mr. ar c l s plis. Lysimachus.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Cassander. • Mr' Roxana.. Miss Cleaver. Statira.. Miss Faue l At the end of the Play, cIP . MR. VAN AMBURGH will exhibit his Fear'es- 311 traordinary Performances with the LIVING LION' TIGERS, LEOPARDS, &C. To conclude with the Farce of the LADY AND 'THE DEVI'y Colonel Wildlove.... Mr. Lynne I Jeremy. • • • 14 Zephyrina Miss Faucit. The Box-office will be opened daily , w h en Ticket s 'loci had, and Places taken, of M r . PA ' R KER , from T en Three. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS WORSHIP THE MAYO". POPULAR CONCERTS • siv• r fI- OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL gol'l A SERIES of CONCERTS will be values 3- AMPHITHEATRE, Liverpool, THIS EVE1•11-v: • and continued on each Evening during We We"' ers• g i ve n at tile dig , The BAND will consist of upwards or3o Perfor rd t ree The MUSIC (selected from the Works of the 1 10 ; 0 0 j lar Composers) will includ e th e favourite 0,110/19 WALTZES, and GALLOP ADES , a s played by the n c e 00 Bands of Strauss, Musard, &c., interspersed d e and other Vocal Composition s , which v3—e Evening. - bef°r.e4 The ORCHESTRA is erected on the stage, Curtain, and three yards added in front, the whole e after the manner of the M USARD C ONCER TS, that %lot. so attractive at the English Op era H ou se, and oth er in London. 1 1 . INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMER~: Violins, Mr. D. Stubbs, Leader, Mr. J. Jones!, Seat Smith, and Mr. —, Mr. Wilberforce, PrinciP Ser, Messrs. Thomson, Cornwall, and M`Kenzie ; Vi el3s ; ( lCY r Sergeant aid Hulse ; Violo nce ll os , Messrs. Ball man ; Double Basses, Messrs. Harrison and Gr een , Messrs. Horrocks and Hornby • Oboes, Mr. le; J. Stubbs ; Clarionets, M essrs . 'Fisher and Ent w 0 . Si/. soons, Messrs. Miller and H arr i son ; Horns, Me ss e s, and Jones ; Trumpet, M r . Bradbury ; Trorolj n :. Brindley and —; Double Drums, Mr. Gr ee ' Casa, Triangles, &c., Mr. J ones an d others. for te. J. Mr. HOLDEN will pres de at the Piano- t. Several first-rate Solo and Glee Singers (including fie LUST and Mr. G. LUNT) are engaged. c utire o , Box Tickets, admitting to t wen ty-f ou r conse certs, may be had from Messrs. HIME and SON, G in Cal l° each. Price of Single Admission :—Box, 25.; 1" ,41d Is. each. , t The Doors will be opened at Half-past Seven o re ' c i s elf. the Concerts comme nce eac h E ven i ng a t Eight P thi Zibtrpooi gptanbao' TUESDAY - MORNING, JUNE 4/ 15'' ff The splendid steam-ship Liv er pool, Lieutenant for rer, R.N., commander, a rr i ve d h er e on Sun d f 3 o ) , noon, after a quick and be au tif u l passage °f e o' ll ' ll days and ten hours fro m N ew Y or k, whenc e s h il e f ee' on the evening of the 18th u lti mo . It will ' o° l lected that the Liverpool sailed from this r e d' 0" 20th of April, for New York, wh er e she arr l `, e , be d!, afternoon of the 7th of May, h av i ng accomr s f passage in the short space of seventeen da) s tli remaining at New York from th e 7th to the ' rt, 0 1 May, she sailed on her retu rn vo y age to this P°At 01 Saturday last she was off Tuscar ; at ntlid a T t e? was abreast Holyhead; and at a quarter P as l le.fd Sunday morning she once more entered the t ~ This last voyage of th e Li ver p oo l affords the°' 0 . 0, elusive evidence in favour of steam naciga t i ical ifth, packet-ship Garrick, w hi c h sa il e d h en ce on the April, did not reach New York until six day s cod ' Liverpool, thus making a difference of twel ve r i, favour of steam, The packet-ship Europe , w ill ` pa ci from New York on the Ist of May, and tbe ha cl 4 f ship Roscoe, which sailed on the 9th of May'' ,„ ir j ther of them arrived at an early hour yeste r 7i et r• Liverpool, therefore, has brought the news , (9 r l o yel j t l arrival out, and beaten the crack ships, the -Dijeen, the Roscoe, the former by upwards of eig ht ,tl i the latter by upwards of nine days. This is 3 ,01 ) d proof of the triumphant advantages of steal° r Dr to the navigation of Atlantic ; for finer oio commanded ships co not have been pla°e%s iv' petition with the Li 00l than both the s h ips 4, i t g el we here mention. The Liverpool brought eighty-six cabin P a t . 3 ( and might have brought many more if she 113 0 / sessed sufficient accommodation. Among t he gers we find the names of the Hon. Da niel i ,dy' I , f ' the celebrated . American senator, and his go'o John Moss, charged with despatches from t lie ,010 1 ;1 ment at Washington to the American Ar° 1335 :0 3 , 4 Great Britain ; and Lieutenant-Colonel T° 1 ` 13 1 , 8 5 r Lieutenant-Colonel Head, bearers of desP atc ol ar t. the Canadian Governors for the British Govern „h 4 The Liverpool has brought news later bit s/ o % .A/ ' days than the intelligence last received fr ; ° ,por 7 York. We proceed to extract the mo st / T . At items from the papers which we have receiv ed ' From the Canadas the news is chiefly of a ja f i gsf' character. The Detroit Daily Advertiser (1. 0' has the following paragraph : g O t4 " We have seen an official despatch from 0°- t ee P'ii den, stating that Sir George Arthur, Lieuten,A l , .e. of 'Upper Canada, had p ar d one d Jefferson o 0 - r War re : and Edward Page Anthony, two of the prison'or, the 4th of December last, at the invasion of ter' l ,,, C TOd r vious to their liberation, Col Aire of the a"",i 'l!' 4 who had the prisoners in his custody, Y ' ndeavou r i r e ; Ce $ O 7 ' l 'd upon them a just sense of the nature endeavor their e ' i p - , 1 11 3): . ,,,1G the Canadian Government, and the extreme 'A - i l io'.4 l , 4 '' course pursued by the government toward es Ir o r j situated. We learn that they expressed thems e . n . 00 ,d' sensible of the lenity shown themOn the afte';ol , Ill eor 7th instant they were conducted . to Sandwi.c h ' -, itli . , board the ferry-boat, and arrived in this c ity, ss 0 rejoicing." calla"' The Provincial Parliament of UpPer y leper of prorogued o n th e 1 1t h of May, by his " Lieutenant-Gove rnor , Si r George •Ex A rthilr• cif had n ega ti ve d t h e proposa l to sen d a e ° t he t‘' to England on the question of the union °f t° it provinces. Th e banks in Upper Canad a Ire e i ) ' sume specie payments on the Ist of Augus t ' The news fro m th e l ower prov i nce is e c ' nip b A 0 of devoid of inter es t. Th e C ourt M ar ti a l, wh ic t obe hef f s for five months h a d b een di sso l ve d. The n haii prisoners tried amounted to 110, of whom 1- ' s lat se executed, and 9 acquitt e d. Th e h ar vest of it . $ l3 10 Lower Canada is said t o h ave b een s o estreinecilio dant, as to render probabl e a l arge eXp nrtatioll to England. to • Nothing definiti ve h a d b een d one in refe le nc tbis 'ec settlement of the bound a ry ques tion. On " ape' '0 we find the following paragraph in a Canan i ' oo An extraordinary di scovery h as b een acciden t - nu eo this city, relative to th e di spute d b oun d a ry 'hie ' v ole"' New Brunswick and Maine, which may lead t2 ; , i s tant results. In a few words, it seems that ILi t on4o . ; Esq., M.P.P., was one of the chain-b e arers °7 1 ployed to run th e li ne i n di spute ; th a t the a', o ii s ;tiac t ll, cumspection was observed ; an d th a t he had a jr coo s , fi ii° lection of the face of the cOuntry and its roostits te• 0 0: features through whi c h th e line passed ; and , I ,i e tion, or an g le in disp u t e , every pa i ns imagina — to oa7, o ',t not only to establish a conspicuous hut a lasting t Jor r o ;, a lar g e and sound c e d ar t ree was selected, and c .' j a nd 4 . 0 1 higher distance f rom th e groun d t h an is usual , '. e re P . ,4; 4 1 every person employed in this survey, or that h er engraved the initials of his name ; that, as a /art a ig rie distinction, all the surrounding trees were blaze, t i l e striking manner, leaving a kind of area aronnu, ment itself ; and finally, although so many Ye sr.- 61°,0/ 1 ` 4 14 sed, and he is not aware that any of those eroPia)of re to y, are living, he is confident, such is his clearness ce 00 h iec, tion, of the entire transaction, that he could go ,7 he spot, and convince even the most see tical t We understand that his exc-110 the Lieutenaarosicl ,111!. has communicated with the - Go' n ve cy rnor of New 13 e - 1140 1f this important discovery ; and that Mr. M• has oti expenses . Treadinesshen news being g o frp a o t ami a d n .r. y era tim a nd i e s t a h n e t. 'P oe ii 'et highly lin Or t: ' York Daily Express contains the following n ' y r v LATE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT F, l . 4 l;rlo ls cts,' THE VICTORY OF THE CHILIAN ARMY, C resr e ,,t'. l l We have been politely furnished by a highlY or ts" commercial house with the following late and ter, which has been received via Jamaica. that the r ecen t repor t o f t h e v i ctory o f the Chill 7e fo ( e that of th e P ro t ec t or , i s confirmed. Lima 110-4, 19•191' fallen. 2: 7 . cif LIMA, Jarl• h the The army of the confederation, commanded ",-.4;,i1i•1 or in person, was entirely destroyed by the m i..lf. 0; army at Tungay on the 20th inst. The Protectof_ ,24ti!011:1 C t 5 of the provincial officers arrived at Lima on the fi~ to and have since gone to the south. We exP ect „ laSs see daily, their advance guard having been for till ' be 131 4 1 , fifteen leagues of the city. No opposition t bo t e their entrance. me Ti n, le an c . oast 0 d a s are beinghastily of Callao ha provisioneds v e a garri o n of for a th ab osoite nun be) h", ros)co the forei gn merc h ants ( ourse l ves amongstrde, embarkin g as many o f t h e i r goo d s now at Call boro, of, before the castles are invested. • cite , te theTikengworoidesantobortif,r Richardconsignment will be depcn6nig ng remain in the bay of Callaa, or proceed to u • at be determined on hereafter. J• E . ,-. — boe l e e illa rlisg:3sll l; , We consider the destruction of the federal alleotiirces (for it is complete) as a death blow to the con th e statu t e gy hope it may lead to a general pacification In ° f Ha te eilrbe prising it, and a peace with Chili. Its brine' for b:( be to remove the seat of war from NOrth FT: l3 'l l ,o or ties of Callao are the only forts which eau % fel/ Protector, and they will probably be reduced 1 silt of w d a3 l , we s h e , jaih . Is de • eision