The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL FRANC} M. Ledrn Rollin and his Commissioners have in e district in the provinces ex tilt taken id General Cav would huve I mister of t tual in ea' Ledru Rollin lowered his 11 the presents hirnsi electorate," w ballot-box. The same ind at the :same n which Bours Febru to the don his s ent articlesd in t and in the tier du H 100 kilogn The -till nzer. Cr. r to have oh fin: _ Pn )wski. If the ivi would only ( is one c those rn of lieu Vellin 1, and B cabinet n e stated t in five p, as stated on V M. Gamier pag ter all, i eme for taking the r nobly to decide on the ri levied on 1 return e same interval. Iday, and generally believed rrnined to aban ys, leaving the oniteur, it appea id export of differ- reduction of fifteen francs s on colonial sugar is talked of. tes waited on Wedn on M. de L the Preside him as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic. In presenting the letter, Mr Rush expressed the anxiety which the President of the him with a letter from formally accrediting ,e, in_ reply, said t Seen t. nce of the States to be the first to French republic ; and, on the certificate of the birth of Fre - nch democracy in Eu- He predicted that the French republic would be- Ind prosperous, and he expressed the warmest observing that e of tne United States with turn of Providence, to the Unit& make an official recognition cf tlu so to s its name the first SUCCESS OF THE MODERATE PARTY IN THE ELECTION Though the result of the elections is not officially a been suc !ssful in Paris, w TO the strength of the e:valtes that men of if tly be returned by the departments. It ap i Paris, and nearly 60,900 in the t. Dennis, and only 40 its of Sc e sux n in each s oIlowine: The Na- rates which have reached u! ult of t ax, Corn hiere, Core best char :hmont Dupont LM. Bastid )ussie, Oeneral GUinird, , vial be rightly informed, I -' e twe ru Rollin urth in order, while LamartinE 1 Duvivier, were formerly deput art are deputy mayors of Paris. Peupin is a watcl r, belonging the original Society of Prud'homme m is the editor of the Atelier, the organ of the wort )rt of a French Cobbett, who; Schmidt is a of the Constitutronnel, was reprinted, and )in a short time. He it was who that allthe money in France, as money capital, to each nd land only 63f. His re- I all tli a significant and important fact, A the working classes. Perdi- Daugny is a printer who figures on the David (d'Angers) is the famous statuary. e professor of industrial legislation at the He is a moderate man, an excellent speaker, and is brother-in-law of Leon Faucher, the well known ex-deputy. Garnon was formerly a deputy. Degouisse is a civil engineer, and chef de bataillon of the s cif th )vernment "citional, now considered the conservotiv üblic. Goudchaux was the predec 11th legion of national gu moderat( Wolow sl 3d legion of national guards. well known protestant minister The Pastor Coquerel is a 1 Berger, the last on list, is an ex-deputy of the centre quiche, or Thiers had been exte vorking lICIOUS C th the priniary returns of had been ordered to England. Borneo to the 18th February The Saab° . marauders pany's s 're not then aware of the attack that was preparing, calculated to give Details are the Gene to Penn, en from Sincapore of the rising on board "nt vessel, bound from that port rts. In this instance, the with Chine of the captain and three officers appear to have been sacrificed to the cruel practice, common in India, of transporting convicts on board merchat"- vessels wit en i►► the hands of the The ity days' uncertain sailintr, was v among the Malay Islands, whence two officer - s and a lady, who were passengers, effected their escape in one of the boats, and reached Sincapore. The Gentleman's Gazette of Bombay has pointed out, apparently with correctness, a singular oversight in an act which has just emrnated from the Calcutta Council for equalizing Customs' duties on goods imported or ex ported in British and foreign bottoms—in fact, a repeal postal trade of all parts of the company's territories being by that act declared free, without exception or reservation the effect will be to enable the entire trade of British India, if conducted vid Sincapore, where no cus toms' duties, either way, are exacted, to be exempt from government duties of every sort. "An act to amend an act" may be expected. _ _ . The Governor of Bombay and the Commander-in-Chief of that Presidency had gone to the heights of Mahabulesh- .y, signed by the principal residents and natives, to con ne a public meeting, "for the purpose of expressing the .en regret with which they had heard of the resignation entertaine of the Hon. Governor, and the feelings of admiration they dof his distinguished Indian career." A public was subsequently held in the Town•hall, with Sir Kine Perry, Chief Justice of Bombay, in the chair. There are accounts of the serious illness of the Rajah of Sattara, but by the latest advices he was said to be somewhat As that Prince leaves no direct heirs (under an greement not to marry), the state of Sattara will, at his death, escheat to the India Company, who will thereby . . mec tinz or 16 lacs of revenue, and its civil service acquire •al valuabl appointments ported from Bombay, after an unprece pression. At CaleUtta another firm, Messr Hardman, and Co., had suspended payment. Haworth RUSSIA a Cologne Several I apprehensions of an approaching conflict with Russia. The declaration of the Viceroy of Poland, Prince Paske witch, to the Polish noblemen is indeed fraught with the elements of anxiety for all Germany. The prince bids them turn to the emperor, who would soon be able to prove to them that Rtissia loved them better than Ger many. He asked them to wait in patience for a few weeks and months, and that their children and their children's children would remember the kindness and praise the generosity of the Emperor of all the Sclavoni ans. The scheme of Nicholas is said to be no less than a Sclavonic tribes into one gigantic federative and consequently the attainment of unlimited union of the sway over Europe DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES Intelligence from Hamburgh, under date of the 22nd ultimo, announces that another action had taken place on the previous day, between the Danish troops and the volunteers of Berlin, Cologne, Hamburgh, &c., in which the latter were defeated after a tight of several hours. The engagement took place at a wood on the way from Keil to Eckerneforde. The action resulted from the pre- the volunteers RENDS k at Night BATTLE IN SCHLESWIG April 23, One o'clocl 3ut of this r noon. at 3 o'clock. They were followed by an almost interminable succession of the other Federal troops, and of our dragoons, who had been quartered in the neigh bourhood of Remmels, to recover after their five days' harassing fatigue at Flensburg. It was not till 6 o'clock to-day that the last party quitted Rendsburg, and at half past 7 several wagons arrived, bringing the wounded and . . Danes retired from Cropp to Schleswig, and that between 2 and 3 o'clock a fierce combat ensued to the west of Bustorf and close to Schleswig. At the first point the Prussians, who had vowed to conquer or die, without waiting the arrival of the artillery, stormed the newly fortified Dannewirke and the embankments thrown up at Section that the eig of the 22nd The Paris papers of Friday confirm our previous report ht moderate members of the Provisional Go- List of t of fraud ,s vote it FATAL RIOT AT ROIJEN.—On Wednesday evening, much agitation prevailed in Rouen in consequence of a report or an impression that M. Deschamps, the popular necessary to insure his eleciion. Groups were forme( who cried " Down with the National Assembly ! " an " Down with the Aristocrats ! " They were, howeve. and assumed a very ween t o. Ti arisian .es that a lady of Geneva has he Duchess of Orleans says— r the terrib , se who wer n the loss c d at first for my light one day sit upon a thr in Paris, Ba two per cent. over full-Weight ,chment of 3 MA AND CHINA ved by express fro lity they If M. Ledru ;equenc,e of tt its imr Bomba , in an d about We have r zse caF had be( !en raised as Co the validity of t was c of the Supreme Court at the railway prospects of necessary to secu tro us c THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. REVOLT IN MOLDAVlA.—Official intelligence receive in Paris states, that Moldavia was in full revolt, and that Wallach :a was about to follow in the same course. _ six steamers of 350-horse p - ower. Three are to England, and three in the Peninsula. the Gardeners' Chronicle describes the Pat-is tree of erty as a miserable Italian poplar, rootless and sapless . . k with a red cap— a fit emblem of the false liberty it ►resent As soo he Queen of Spain was informed that her she exprE a wish to mount the son of the former King ( West pi- talia, has arrived at Ajaccio, in Corsica with loud acclamations by the population at lUTCHINSON the modest and f lister of the Hutatiosons, w sachusetts paper, is about to secede from the nd be iio more heard by he She is to marry, on dit, a son of a cler New York ston paper, dated the 18th of Decembt thaniah Williams, who and Jon )rt, a fc sears since, hasbec hard work iii chains to the ur, for attempting to escape with qemeine Prussiche Zeit IRELAND. TRAINNG TO Anms.--At Cork, Youghal, &c., a num - Tof parties have been committed for trial on charges of • Dining to t le use of arms Mr. Hodges, the government reporter, has been de spatched on an official mission to the south of Ireland, With a view of furnishing a faithful record 'of the sayings are to come off in th a t quar t er d ur i ng th e present week. MILITARY Pa ECAUTIONS.—neMorniRa Herald states that 15,000 stands of arms, witl voutre . inents and am- munition, have been forwarded from the.oidnatiec houses to different barracks throughout Ire ' ! , store- Tor the Le Dublin Court Of Queen's Bench on Thursc ,e Attorney-General enterer of Mr. O'Brien and officio inform at. ph ODD TASTI a nolle , /i in the lties wl TrzemE They shot every one who sec th the Prussian ft Of Germans and Jew game to Smyrna, w about ten lc is yet t knother party h ill treat them. Trade of all kind ie comp! , is stated by the Observer to be livi le Waterloo hors de la Porte Lot hat during Ititution so gre al food :ely obtain suffi le diet but that sot lespair Y UNC News - :—" I told you about the head of St. Andrew. On its recovery t was r ed to sym men and women), and kept then ays without giving them any food. At Wreshen A. caravan of Y AND MURDER IN SMYRNA. ^ carrying 60,000 piastres, coming from 'RS stopped by eight armed men, trom Secirna. The robbers fired up - or in, killed twO and wounded twis widow of Belzoni, the traveller, an aged English- he whole of ti upon the- R. Peel, -year for How the Apostles wou saw him moving in the mummery of a ur of the recovery of a stolen skull! rom the Roman correspondent of the )bbery of the solved to sth, this week, feast of St. Vincent, le way from St. Andrea della in the evenir lie town of scene of great riot and tumult. .T FRIBURG IN BADEN Fri bur Under burg on etext of holding a public meeting, about 2000 mixed up with the lowest rabble, came to Fri 3aturday, the 22nd ult. They were all armed, 1 guns, lances, scythes, bludgeons, &c. After the meeting was over, which passed some resolutions of a re publican and communistical tendency, the whole mass constituted itself into a regular little army ; the leaders chosen, an attack upon the gates of the town was le, and the town taken possession of by the Troops were sent for, and after a bombard ment of more than seven hours, the town was retaken by ;form. A gieat many of the insurgents were made )risoners, but the majority have taken flight. Martial aw has been published in various parts of the duchy. iyrnptoms of mutiny have appeared among the troops. in artilleryman who had deserted was brought to Canis- mile on Afonday, in order to be shot, when another artil leryman suddenly drew a large knife against an officer; but the latter killed him on the spot with his sword. 'HE WEST INDIAN COLONIES -The fate of the colo nies is sealed. Theory has triumphed over experience, and facts have given way to falsehood. A more dishonest, a more heartless course was never descended to by minis ter than that which has been pursued by the present go vernment in dealing with the West Indian colonies. And mind what ministers now say. They will not admit that our present ruin is attributable to free trade; but they are pleased to ascribe it to the bungling properties of the act of 1833. Who passed that act ? Are we responsible for its errors ? So far as the unhappy victim is concerned, it is immaterial whether the Act of Emancipation or the s been our ruin. But there is abound to loyalty as to every other passion. Self-preservation is a powerful stimulant. The colonists dwell too near a prosperous continent not to feel the disparaging contrast between wealth under one government, and beggary and ruin under another. Ministers may persist in their ruinous course—they may still doom our property to sacrifice, and still withhold the fair remuneration that is due to us for its confiscation, but they cannot hold us to our duties as British subjects when every right of a British subject is denied us. — Jamaica Dispatch. OURT AND FASHION. The Court still remains at the Isle of Wight. Sir Robert Peel arrived at Osborne on Thursday, and had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner. On Wednesday the DUchess Of Kent returned to town, from the visit which she had been paying the Queen. The Queen Dowager arrived at Portsmouth on Thurs day, from Madeira, in her Majesty's ship Howe. Prince Albert left Osborne on Thursday, and proceeded alter on boarC :ss afterwards Viscount Hardinge arrived on a visit to the Duke of Wellington on Monday, at Strathfieldsaye, Hunts, from South Park, near Penhurst. We are authorised to announce that many ladies of rank and fashion have resolved. di season of distress, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles of British manufacture. We have reason to believe that the determination has been made with the sanction and Miuncement of the fact will slio . rtly be made In the oile, we would strongly advise the traues.,.. - metropolis and elsewhere not to increase for the present their stock of foreign goods.—John Bull. [ The Lor' Chamberlain has issued an order stating that " her Ma jesty, ever desirous of giving encouragement to the arts and industry of the united kingdom, and particularly so at meanw epression, would wish to see the ooms in dresses of British this time of commercia ladies attending the drawing manufacture."] FASHIONS FOR MAY (Front the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") Very elegant materials are in use for evening dress, brocarts with large patterns in orange colour, having by candlelight the effect of gold ; others are of black grounds, with wreaths of roses or mixed flowers of showy colours, satins and gauzes s reps, broches, &c *-. . Sky blue and violet ara the prevailing colours ; pale blue for young ladies, and deep violet for the more advanced, which lattr colour is also much used for high dresses and for mantelets and pelerines, harmo nizing in colour with the dress for these toilettes ; black 'lace is well suited ; foulards and bareges again constitute the most elegant negliges ; we have also toiles de laine glae63 and emroidered, new popelines and checked toile- tas • the last are in small checks in which white prevails, and are adapted for young ladies. Many of the spring re dingotes are ornamented with buttons, others with biais, edged with fringe or deer ^ - • _z_ . 1 • ,p trounces festonnes, pinked or simply hemmed ; corsages less high will be fashionable, but will still have to contend with the Puritan form ; two styles of low bodies are spoken ; those a la Grecque, with guimpe and tassels, are open, showing the chemi sette ; corsages made of lace are spoken of; there is no particular change in the sleeves ; for dinner dresses the , „ 111•04.1.2 act th tin" rimmlngs Mr. Meagher, and filed ex- These traversers, as well as At the Antrim Farmers ' Society, Lord Massarene, after commenting upon the destruction of home manufactures, and abusing England, said, " For my part, I would rather stand my chance to be shot at once a week in Ireland, than live among the cold-hearted THE BUCkINGHAIII ESTATES.—The property in the county of Clarc was put up for auction on Wednesday, in separate lots, but not sold. After the auction, the entire containing over 7,870 acres, was sold by private , at a fair rate of purchase, to one gentleman. I's County estates were sold on Thursday propert The Qu —Tile two men, Shea and Browne. con sizes for having aided and assisted kin and Daniel, who since suffered death for the mur of Mr. Prim, pay-clerk, were also executed the same in front of Nenagh. Kilkenny as Am execution has been laid in the Castlehar workhouse, .e no funds of course in hand, and the collection of a to is fast sinkiry , into en impossibility, while. the roar of rism swells louder and louder each day. The vice s have appealed to the commissioners, but the s—" collect the rate I" Oa Thursday, as Mr. Barnatyne, of Limerick, was g to Clackwatcr, he was stopped by two ) threatened to guardi reply wa, The proceedings at the meet tremely stupid, and remarkable for Mr. Reynolds, in the REPEAL ASSOCIATION )ot him if he did not t two men whom he had to comply with their ing on Monday we vance of tt members of pailiaMent had promised t when the question was I HORROR AT twenty English vote for repeal vision. At five N EXECUTION.- Monday. Oa in lentedly lo I.d rest lit to a di Two men were executed to the neglect of the hangman, the face of one of the culprits was not covered. It is impossible to describe the dreadful appearance of s he fell through the grating of the gallows ! he man Le sufferings and pains of strangulation were visibt ; in a moment the face became . blood-red ; in another nent it assumed a ghastly livid hue, whilst again the Al muscles quivered in every fibre. Death was almost antaneous; but as it was, nothing could be more LOYALTY OF 0. ZANGEMEN. - The Grand Orange rmagh met on Tuesday, and Lodge of the Count Autions declaratory of their determination to iphold the legislative union, not concealing that they had uffered wrongs, but affirming that no such injuries had haken their attachment to British connection, which th( y to maintain at the peril of life and fortur itions were signed by district ma 228 lodges. On the day following, were re The re the Grand Oran ,odge of the County Tyrone met - at Ballygawley, and lopted similar resolutions, which were subscribed on 232 lodges, EFFECTS OF SEDITION —There is no description of en- gagement or of business, with the exception of gun-mak ing and pike-making, that is not affected by the rebellion exciters. It has already been stated that even insurance offices have taken the alarm, and as a proof of it we annex a copy of a letter received by the agent of a respectable " London, April 20, 1848. Dear Sir,—l re- company gret to inform you that the directors are not disposed to entertain Mr. —'s proposal. The political aspect of Ireland appears to have brought them to the conclusion that for the present they cannot grant policies in your part of the country, any more than in Paris."—Cork Paper. STARTLING COINCIDENCES.—in the year 1795, Mr. Pitt founded the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, for the purpose of putting an end to the rebellious feelings of the Romish priests and people of this unhappy island. In three years he reaped the fruits of this worldly policy in the rebellion of 1798. Exactly fifty years after (1845), Sir Robert Peel greatly enlarged the annual grant to Maynooth. for the purpose of putting an end to the rebellious feelings of the Romish priests and people, and now in three years time, the people are arming themselves for the rebellion of 1848, to teach the British govern ment, if they will learn by experience, the folly of sacri ficing truth and consistency at the shrine of political ex pediency. HEARTLESS SEDUCTION. The Tyrone Constitution states that Miss —, of Derry, a beautiful and fascinat- 8 years of age, eloped on Friday 'evening se'nnight, with Lieut. Wemys, of the 48th Regi ment, whose company had left Derry the day before, en route to Dublin. The manner in which the elopement was conducted appears to have been very disgraceful on the part of the heartless seducer. At Ballygawley, the mother of the unfortunate girl found her, with her de stroyer, at the hotel, and, says an Irish contemporary, upbraided the epauletted ruffian with his villany in no measured terms. He took the matter very coolly, how ever—remarked that it was difficult for officers to get rid of the many girls who were laying snares for them—that he bad informed the young lady he had no intention to marry her—and that she might return with her mother if she wished, but that he would not urge her to do so, as he would take care of her if she would remain with him ! ing young laC STATE PROSECU rioNs.—At the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday, in the case of the Queen v. John Mitchell, the Attorney-General stated that two several indictments had been found against the traverser for seditious publica tions. Mr. Mitchel, to each of these indictments, has filed dilatory pleas, to the effect that one of the grand jury, Mr. Bowles, was a member of the Town Council, in the city of Dublin, and the traverser made the usual affi davit to verify the pleas. So far as he (the Attorney General) was concerned, he did not think there was any Wolfe p by the grand jury, and file an ex officio information against Mr, Mitchel. He, therefore, applied that the nolle prose qui might be recorded. The information was then for mally substituted for an indictment, and the traverser is had been found AUDACIOUS BURGLARY AND night last, three men effectei of the Rao_ Rieharti M tOBBERY n Saturd an entrance into the house )f Killaloe : by means of a ...tuner, they smashed a pane of glass in a window on the second flight, and unscrewed the pin. As soon as they entered they covered the heads of two female servants, in order that they would not know them or cause a noise I The I Liss Martiiis, who were in a room adjacent, heard the noise, and immediately ran out ; the first thing they saw was three men, with th e i r f ac es blackened, and one of them in female attire : one of the ladies ran to the win dow, and screamed aloud for help, for which the ruffians gave her a severe crush on the chest. The other sister had a poker, and gave one of the ruffians two blows on the arm when she saw her sister struck. At this time the Rev. Mr. Martin came up, and the youngest of the Miss Martins rushed between the ruffians and her aged father, and said not to shoot him but to shoot herself. One of them had a short gun, the other a large hatchet, and the third a piece of iron. They demanded arms and money. Mr. Martin was compelled to give them £3. After they got the money they went off.—Limerick chronicle. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, The Archbishop of Canterbury WI the annual ineetit,g of the Church Missionary Association in Exeter-hall. A THANKOFFERING.—The Rev. J. G. Kelly, Bristol Association Secretary of the Pastoral Aid Society, ac knowledges the receipt of a donation of £5, being " a thankoffering " from a beneficed clergyman, in conse quence of the late appointment to the see of Canterbury. The Rev. George C. Algar, M.A., fellow of University College, Oxford, and tutor in the family of her Majesty's representative at the Court of Sweden, has conformed to the Roman Catholic Church, having previously resigned his fellowship. WHIG CHURCH PATRONAGE. — The Lord Chancellor NEW CIII/ItEVIES IN YORKSHIRE. — On Tuesday last, his Goace the Archbishop of York consecrated the very handsome new church at Goole. On Wednesday, his gratO 'consecrated the church at Ellerton recently rebuilt, and on Thursday the beautiful Norman church at Sowerby, near Bridlington, built and endowed at the sale expense of Yarbtrgh Greame, Esq., the present High Sheriff. Yestefday, his grace consecrated a church at Carlton, near I:6ntefraCt . ; and to -day, the new church at Balby,' near Doncaster. DR. HAMPDEN ernoon last miles from Oxfor This now rather celebrated Divin )arishioners on Sunday a living attached to_t many were Professorship windows xhortea his hearers to persevere in the zealous discharge of thoFe Christian duti had been his study to E urage and as i them during It havinv been stated that the Lord Bi hop of Glouces ter and Bristol has presented £ll,OOO to the fund for providing p that the foil Commissione er to the papers statitkg :—`' The Ecclesiastical g are ti reed to purchase my interest in the _ • estate of Horfield Manor ' except a portion which I have reserved for the eventual augmentation of the vicarage. The sum whfch 1 am to receive is £11,587 ; of this I have .1f to the benefit of small livings in my diocese, and as the most effectual mode of employing the money, I intend to consolidate this sum with another fund remaining unexpended froth the whole, amounting ... 238, with s increments, will be appropriated to assist in the erection of pars which do not exceed £2OO a year." THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On the 29th March a deputation from this society waited upon the Archbishop, by appointment, at Lambeth Palace. The ge-houses in benefi the Marquis of Cholmondeley; the Earl of Harrowby ; the Bishop of Oxford ; Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., 11I.P. • Sir R. H. Inglis. Bart., M.P. ; William Evans , Esq., A.P. ; and George Finch, Esq. ; vice-preSidents the secretaries I and a numerous hod; of the fay, and clerical members of the committee. The Archbishop expressed, in a very feeling manner, his affection for the society, and his entire itlithe principles upon . w lice of v ,nd added, that if even he had . not in years past ealous supporter of the society, ,he should think unworthy of the station i he• church to v been now called, if he hesitated to identify himself with a society which had long been air honoured instrument of May 2,1848. estimate *of its contents. Mr. Newman's proposition* may be briefly represented as follow :—That we are suf fering under a mortal malady in our enormous debt; our taxation for the discharge of our liabilities is radicallY unjust ; that our Government is so fettered by routine and precedent that the best disposed Administration can hope to break through the trammels till the national ;entation has been organically reformed ; and that the middle classes take this matter into their own bands by a " league of the franchised," some desperate convulsion must be inevitably in store. It is with a de-- sire to uphold " reverence to the Throne, honour to the. and at all events and at any price to seem or order, wisdom, and equity," that the g a disagreeable but a unavoidable't - ask of reform into Mr. safer lands than those threatening to assume it financial and organic s his projected refor - ms under two heads, His chief argument in the former the apportionment to be legiti mately made of the liabilities contracted by the last war. He conceives that it was not rightly competent to the Ministers of the day to charge any but the then existing property of Britain with the charges incurred by the then existing generation. Hereditary property, therefore,' ought to be charged with the dead weight of 27 millions, whereas, with reference to this particular obligation, it ircely been charged with anything at all RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The express train on the Great Western Railway per formed the distance from London to Bristol, 118? 4 , miles, on Wednesday, in two hours 25 minutes. A locomotive boiler exploded on Tuesday at the Nor manton station, by which the engine driver was severely scalded, and four other persons more or less injured. A grand dinner is to be gfren to Mr. Robert Stephen son, by the inhabitants'of Conway, on the lith, to cele brate the triumphant completion of his master-piece' of engineering —the Conway tube. . rived at the ISrormanton station, and the engine had just been detached, an explosion took place in the fire-box attached to the boiler. Fortunately no lives were lost. The railway between Limerick and Tipperary Was opened. for passengers and traffic on the Ist inst. When the line to Dandrum is finished, it will complete the en— tire communication between Limerick and Dublin by steam, excepting nine miles. At the special meeting of the Scottish Central, the bill for leasing the line to the London and North-Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, and Caledonian Companies, has at last been approved of. The new chairman (Lord Duncan) announced that he bad traversed the line, and, from the satisfactory condition of the works, the government in spector would be forthwith called upon for his report. A few days since, in the Sheffield Bankruptcy Conti, Dr. Holland applied for his certificate, but the application was opposed on behalf of the directors of the late Sheffield and Retford Bank, whose property he had used in railway speculations ; and in the course of the proceedings it ap peared that Dr. Holland had bought and sold railway shares to such an extent that nearly half a million sterling had been turned over on a capital of £4,000. From official returns, it appears that the amount of traffic' for the last week, on 3,663 miles of railway, was £171,610, thus accounted for :—.01,660 for the conveyance of pas . sengeis only, £46,842 for the carriage of goods, and remainder of £43,108 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £2,18 5 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 2,845. The average earnings per mile last week were £47, whilst in 1847 they were £5B. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, as Wm. Yoxall, employed at the Crewe Railway Station in sepa rating the carriages which form various railway trains to and from that junction, was attending to his duty, he was accidentally struck by the buffers of one of the carriages which he was detaching, and received so severe an injury that he died in half an hour after the occurrence. In re turning from the inquest, Mr. Stanton, engineer of the Chester and Crewe branch, fell on to the line while alight ing from the train, when in motion, near Waverton sta tion. He received such injuries that it was found neces sary to amputate the right leg just below the knee. RACE ON A RAILWAY.—DARING ExPLOIT•—The fol lowing extraordinary circumstance occurred recently on the Manchester add Huddersfield Railway. The porters had been removing some luggage waggons, and carelessly neglected to put on the brakes after unhooking - the horse• The consequence was, that two trucks set off down the incline, sc,on attaining a speed of nearly twenty miles an hour. The station master, on being informed of this► instantly mounted an engine, and, accompanied by the head porter and driver and stoker, set off at full speed after the runaways. Upon coming up with them the porter most daringly got upon the buffers of the engine , and succeeded in hooking the waggons. The engine Was then revel sed, and the trucks were brought back without any injury being sustained. Had the waggons gone down to the junction, and on to the Manchester and Leeds liner a collision would most likely 1 taken n l ^ - 'le es' nave taken place, as th press train, leaving Leeds at forty-five minutes past one, was just about due at the time. LAW INTELLIGENCE. At the Court of Arches, on Tuesday, Sir H. J. Fa st delivered judgment in the case Geils v. Geils, Pr' ). " nouncing for a separation, on the ground that the Il us i hand had be en gu il ty of - adultery, with full costs again „ the husband. SPORTING INTELLIGENcE, THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES-11M it°r nt the Newmarket first spring meeting, on Tuesday, wa s " n by Mr. B. Green's Flateatcher, beating Glendower, Blaze, Fern, and Sunnyside. promoting the object to which his energies ought to be ~l ory of God, and the extension of the all devoted--the IEREFORD The ceremony of f by the General Chapter &rchdeacim's and the cer proceeded with It was understood that the Chapter Ch;rk presented a protest on the part of the Dean, who was absent ; but the Chapter declined receiving it, or allowing it to be en tered on the minutes, and proceeded with the business of the Rev. Canon Musgrave, as Hebdomadary proceeded to st door, and met the Bishop, who approached, his lordship's Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Hay- _ ward Cox, 8.D., the Rev. Chancellor Corbett, and ThOs. Evans, Esq., his lordship's secretary. His lordship then had the usual oaths ainunistered, and was conducted to his throne. The Te Donn was then sung, and the Latin prayers having been offered for the new Bishop by th e the Bishop rose, andlthe Hebdomadary, ae hand, placed him in the seat and induc in due form, into the full rights of the see of ,domadary to the royal mandate. The dignita ries present (among whom we recognised the Rev. Lord Saye and Sele, the Rev. Canon Morgan, Prebenda r i es Webb, Venn, Gretton and many others) were then pre sented to his lordship in succession, and the usual service was proceeded with. The vast and superb edifice was crowded by an attentive and apparently deeply interested congregation, and his lordship was the object of the most respectful recognition of the audience as lie entered, passed, and repassed from the episcopal palace to the cathedral. Hereford, accordir -------- ENGLISH CLERGYMEN IN WALES.—The Rev. J. Griffith, vicar of Aberdare, has addressed a spirited letter to the Lord Chancellor, from which we quote the follow ing passage:—`` The living of St. Andrews, now vacant, and in the gift of your Lordship, is one of the most valuable livings in the diocese of Llandaff. It is also not the least important. By the exercise of that right whi c h no man it will deny, your Lordship has, is said, appointed to St. Andrews one of your own relations. It is also said, that the Bishop of Llandaff has remonstrated against this ap pointment. It is never doubted but that the gentleman appointed by your Lordship is a man of great piety, and great merit. But this is not all that is necessary in the - parish of St. Andrews ; nor is it all that is necessaryio render a clergyman useful. One thing ab ove everyt hi ng is necessary : it is peculiarly necessary that the clergyman should be able to communicate and converse in the com mon language of his parishioners. In this requisite, Mr. Sampson is deficient ; and it is for this deficiency that the Bishop has refused to institute him. His Lordship has felt himself bound to do so—bound not only by his duty and his conscience, but also by the, stringent clause of an act of parliament : an act, indeed, which ought to be not the less stringent, because it was introduced, and passed, by 0 - Government of • • • Lordf _ very . which your ~nip was, as your Lordship is now, the highest legal authority. But, it is said now, that there is a flaw in that clause; and, acting upon this flaw, it is further said, that your Lordship will compel the Bishop to institute. What foundation there may be for this rumour, I know not ; but I cannot believe it. It is impossible for me to believe it, my Lord, when I call to mind the great stress laid upon the clause durirg its progress through the Upper House." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. CLOSE OF THE CONTEST IN WICKLOW.—At the close of the poll, on Thursday, the gross numbers were— Howard, 368, Monck, 355 ; majority, 13. The most important intelligence received from Lisbon is that Lord Palmerston has begun to interest himself in the behalf of the Portuguese bondholders, by remonstrat ing against the non-payment of the dividends. CHARTIST DOINGS.—Two Chartists of Burnley were overheard in conversation on Wednesday last to give their real opinion on the petition. " Ha! ha !" said one, " I always thought it would be so. It's no wonder the par liament laughed at our petition. They would not have had it at all if they only knew all about it." " Why," said the other, " I know a fellow wot put his dog's name in the petition, he said it would make one more." " When a man has been hopelessly lingering a long time under the influence of some painful and incurable disease, his friends are quite disposed to say, when death puts an end to his sufferings, that he has had a happy release ;' and we believe that most of those who are aware says,— of the extent of the inflictions under which the right hon. member for Manchester has recently laboured, will be dis posed to congratulate him upon his official demise. It is, indeed, ` a happy release ;' for no unfortunate ` toad under a harrow' could have had a more uncomfortable existence than that which the right hon. gentleman has endured for some months past, under the badgerings which he has re- ceived through the newspapers, and the alternate coaxings and bullyings'to which he has been more privately sub jected, have at length overcome his firmness, and he has resigned his office." REFORM MOVEMENTS.—Various movements, eschewing the name of Chartism, but pressing to substantially the same measures, have been got up in different place. At Birmingham, on Saturday, a declaration, in the form of a monster placard, was appended to the walls, setting forth that the undersigned " earnestly desired, and were deter mined to obtain, by all peaceful and constitutional means, household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial parliaments, and electoral districts." More than a thousand signatures were appended to this document, among them those of several respectable mercantile houses ; three-fourths of the aldermen and town-councillors, and several magistrates ; the list being headed by two M.P.'s—G. F. Muntz and W. Scholfield. At Leicester, last week, resolutions were agreed to, in' favour of universal suffrage, and the is charot r ; wt. ~.sat wan a moaerate anterential au or los. per c _d e a . . • • • ing against the constitution of the present legislature of a limited period of ten years, against . slave produde, Great Britain as partial and unjust, and denouncing the during that interval by liberal immigration from A, re d, Crown and Government Security Bill as a daring infringe. the vigorous suppression of the slave trade being enu' o r i by ment of constitutional freedom of speech, and as tending the energy and enterprise of our pl a nters, assisteol- to undermine the civil and religious liberty of the nation. capital, which confidence would ag ain place at their 'OA One of the resolutions provided for the opening of the mand, would place Jamaica in a position to entef o iog register for the borough, in which the names, age, rest- i unfettered competition with all other sugar pro' t of countries,—for this chamber feels convinced ta,, r properly equal terms the British Jamaica planters fe il competition 6 r - —The Times, in I five dence, and occupation of every person who is in tnvour of the national charter shall be entered. Similar meetings have taken place at Doncaster, Manchester, Bury, Brad- ai distinct.: . a trves P r • ° e, Ausi • ly at'' 0 39 r by v2loontitor LORD PALMERSTON'S IMPERTINENCE THE STATE OF JAMAICA [Often as we have called attention to our West Indian possessions, we have never done so at a more critical pe riod than ie present. Unless something is done instanter their complete ruin is inevitably sealed. Let any person who hesitates to believe this read the following article from the Jamaica Despatch of the 23rd ultimo, in cow* nexion with the important resolutions of the Juni° Chamber of Commerce " The sentiments expressed in the following resolutio ns passed by the Chamber o f C ommerce, an d to which lc' cannot assign a too p rom i nent pos i t i on i n our c olumns , will, we are convi nce d, meet w i t h t h e h eart y concurrenc e of every one possessi ng a genu i ne i nterest i n the prosp erity of Jamaica. The period which we have long anticipated as t he ne cessary result of the infamous measure of 1846, ha s no !: arrived. Ruin surrounds us on all sides—property 1 valueless—commerce has deserted us, and rapid abal?' donment of all that remains of cultivation must iminedl:' ately ensue. To maintain in the midst of this fea rful condition of things a public expenditure of £40 0 , 000 P er annum, is palpably impossible. It becomes, therefore, a duty in common fairness, not only to the public, but to the recipients of the public bounty, at once to declare the • •'ons• inability - of the colony to maintain its existing institul And this notification cannot be made too soon. " In a crisis such as that which the affairs of the colon'', have now attained, it is most essential that the sense of the legislature should be taken with as little delay as pOO-- sible upon this subject. The taxes warranted by the Vi e . passed during the late Sessio n cannot be raised. .-" A very crop which a h eav y ou tl a y h as p l ace d on the gro an s will not in numerous instances be t a ken off, because tl unrighteous declaration of Ministers has destroyed wh t , little confidence remained, and capital will thus be lin a tainable at any sacrifice. " We trust, therefore, that the appeal of the Chamb er of Commerce will be responded t o th roug h o ut the islan d, and that the promised memorial to the Executive, for e' ) . , early convening of the Legi s latu re , w ill be backed bi similar applications from every parish in the Island. RESOLUTIONS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE• 8. At a meeting of the Chamber, held on WednesdaY , 1 ` - 0 twenty-second of March, 1848, it was proposed by . 13111 Porteous, esq., and unanimously t'° "Resolved I.—That the announcement by her Maie sY he . ministers of their fixed determination to adhere to toe sugar duty act of 1846, without modification, has set seal to the ruin of this colony • Doenhind 9 lency will be nearly at the bottom of it The electi Bug 2sted fears that the ultra-Republicans an a empt to dissolve the Chamber by force, e m nent when our despatch left Paris every- departments were, on the whole, of a similar These might ma but uo t thing was ran The Gr ern .ent was, however, fully prepared to meet any claw rth : might present itself. The ' aris ,apers of Saturday contain the official an nounce' ent if the result of the Paris elections. It may be only Necessary to observe here that the first name on the list of the 34 deputies elected to represent Paris in the National Assembly is that of Lamartine ; the that 9f_ M. Ledrn Rollin; the 26th, that of 111. I . speak y lican, but moderate re four c urnalists y in confirmation of wha y will be llepub kmong the representatives of Paris to 300,000, and Lamartine obtained 259,800 A. votes, whilst Ledru Rollin had only 131,587. By a decree of the Provisional Government, the Palace of the Louvre is ordered to be completed, and to assume the name of " Palace of the P eo pl e ." I t i s to b e appro .2 •.• Rue de Rivoli is to t Peopl( ion" of the h The National ant was married Lieven. It riage should be in office. e continued on the same plan. The le construction of the Palace of the ing is to commence !es on authority that M. Guizot n London three yt as agreed for p s since to the Princess itical reasons that the mar kept secret as long as M. Guizot remained in the taking of Friedricksburg and the so-called Erd beerenberg, while the dykes at Gottorp are still in the hands of the Dates. The Hamburg Dirsenhalle of the 24th, dated 1 o'clock p.m., says :—" Schleswig was taken by the Prussians yesterday ; the fortress of Gottorp was still in the hands of the Danes during the night. Danes, together with several dragoons, gone over to the Prussians." By another letter from Rensburgh, dated the evenini of +ha 93rr1 -e c , . . Two divisions of the are said to have , ut ocuieswig is said to be certain. The Danes, pursued to the eastward, saved themselves at Missunde by crossing the Schlei. In the skirmish which took place at the Altenhot yesterday, several of our troops were unfortunately taken prisoners by the Danes, namely ten or twelve of the Cologne free corps, , which covered the passage. The Danes in this instance f eve over reached us by a stratage m , by .r. f” 1‘ •-a ,•“,"16 lla 110114 4116 corps of Lindburg, wearing green and black blouses simi lar to the Berlin and Colognee free c orps , w i t h t h e Ger- isrman banner -- A letter from Rendsburgh of April 23, says :—Last night the report was circulated here, though it is in all probabi lity unfounded, of the death of King Frederick VII. A letter from Hamburgh of April 24, says :- train last night we received the intelligence 0 By the till head quarters at Danewieke. There is to b e a gene ral attack to-day. The Schlesw ig-Holstemers form the right wing; the troops of the 10th army corps the left wing ; the Prussians in'the centre. SICILY The Parliament at Palermo has published a decree that "1. Ferdinand Bourbon and his dynasty are:for ever fallen from the throne of Sicifv.—Sic.;ly shall govern her self constitutionally, and calf to the throne an Italian Prince, as soon as she shall have reformed her vtatuto. The mantilles, mantelets, demi-pelisses, little Aletots, are all made this season of plain or glace taffetas, the trimmings generally of frills, pinked in two or three rows at the back, two of which terminate at the arm, falling as a sleeve_ on the hand ; the third is continued round the style is the mantillon, and is small in form, resembling the mantelet in shape without the ends ; the pardessus Milanais is of taffetas d'ltalie glace, with triple border o f lace. The new bonnets are round in form, and jockey crowns continue in favour. Some bonnets are of a more open form, and these require more ornament inside. Some are made entirely of ribbon, others of mohair and straw, and of gimp and straw; but the Parisian ladies always give the preference to Leghorns, for which they reserve their ostrich. marabout, and heron feathers. A new tissu de paille is mac retty bonnet de fantaisit," The capote casteuane of pink atin, covered with blacelace, forming fichu on the crown, nd voilette at the edge. ornamented inside with roses, is very generally admired. Fancy straws are ornamented by wild flowers, foliage, bunches of the peach and apricot blossom, &c. Various simple and pretty. caps Ire made for neglige, all of a round form, and many owe much of their beauty to a new kind of foliage ribbon, which forms ; . Mechlin lace. • Sinai! blond caps with flowers, and dress hats with fea thers, are reserved for evening wear ; meuds of velours epingle are worn in the hair, and many pretty coiffures are made of bugles in every colour. Bracelets are univer sally in favour, large or small, .rich or gimple, in every va riety of 'Material. one or. more at pleasure. The Clulte- lame suspended from the waist also varies in-value. The gloves continue short, ornamented at the top-by ribbon tarsades. Beads or narrow bloud forming ruches. Llandaff. It is stated that the Bishop has refused to institute the rev. gentleman to this thoroughly Welsh parish, on the proper ground that he does not understand Welsh. _ . - The enthronization of his Grace the Archbishop of Can terbury took place at Canterbury Cathedral on Friday. He was attended by the Dean of the province (the Bishop of Lichfield, as proxy for the Bishop of London). the Sub- Dean (the Bishop of Winchester), the Deanand Vice-Dean, and other officers of the Cathedral Church, and about 200 clergymen. The ceremony of the induction was performed by the Archdeacon of Canterbury. VOLUNTARY EASTER OFFERING.---OR Easter Tuesday the Mayor of Newcastle, accompanied by Mr. Willium Young, the senior churchwarden of St. Nicholas, and Mr. William Gibson, the treasurer to the fund, waited upon the Rev. R. C. Coxe, A.M. at the Vicarage, and pre lim with the sum of £450 as a voluntary Easter rented offering from the inhabitants of the town, thus affording a substantial proof of the estimation in which the worthy vicar is held. A similar offer has been presented for the three previous years, and on each occasion has been sub scribed in a few days. It is deeply to be regretted that the income attached to the vicarage is so small and in adequate. ,mmittee o; cou n ci on education haVeiii4a;ardea certificates of merit to the following gentlemen, v ho were examined at the Chester Diocesan Training Col.eg • in November last, by two of her Ma jesty's inspectors, and who were all trained in that establishment :—Second class certificate, Mr. E. 11. Hey- wood, Master of St. _Bride's School. Third class, first division, Mr. J. L. Murphy, Master of St. Augustine's. Third class, third division, IVIr. C. Becket and Mr. E. Luke's Schools. Mr. A. Boardinatk, of ilebington Na tional School, has also:gaingd a third-class certificate. Spain, who was recently driven to these shores under cir cumstances demanding every mark of consideration and kindness. The editor says—" It is now notorious that the pretensions of Lord Palmerston were such as to in duce the Duchess of Montpensier and her husband to quit this country and repair to Holland, whilst a Dutch steamer was prepared to convey the royal exiles to the coast of Spain ; and when their royal highnesses called to take leave of Queen Victoria, at. Buckingham Palace, on the eve of their departure, they were not admitted, by the ad- vice of Lord - Palmerston, who was sent for on the oc casion, to the honour of an audience. They left England, therefore, astonished and irritated to no small degree at the usage which the influence of a single minister could cause to be inflicted on their rank and their misfortunes. Thus it was they arrived in Spain •, and it certainly was no very difficult task to persuade Queen Isabella that her sister had been received in England with very little of the been what might be anticipated. But this was not all. Mr. Bulwer was ' recommended' to follow up these heroic exploits, directed against fugitive princes, by a diplomatic demonstration against the Cabinet, which had at any rate beaten the mob and the revolution in the streets of Madrid. In short, no means have, as it would appear, Dstility of the two courts and governments complete ANOTHER REFORMER. — An appeal to the middle classes on the " urgent necessity of numerous radical re forms, financial and organic," has been published by ➢lr. F. W. Newman. No person acquainted with the writer's in"Resolveduinous and hopeless cultivation. doe' 4.—That feeling assured that the au ° , o off ment of sugar estates throughout this colony Inu s " fl iarY beccme general, and, as a consequence, the Pee t .' 0 of affairs of its inhabitants be thrown into a conditt.e„sol fearful embarrassment, accompanied by wide-sprea d vency, this chamber deems it advisable at once t° to the memorial before the Governor, and recommend s s ting different parishes a similar course for adoption, reVtb the his Excellency to call together the Legislature Is l A itioe least possible delay, that the appalling financial c on " of the island may be considered. be " Resolved s.—That it is the opinion of this o'4l:tiler that in our present situation and prospects, a ll 10 13 progress in the erection of new public Institutions be at once arrested. are nqS "Resolved G.—That the people of this island tbl° o in a situation to continue to pay existing taxes, se rie , t chamber, therefore, strongly urge upon the V i e„s t ce fer f. curtail their estimates of contemplated exPen a liort ° the ensuing year to the lowest possible limit s, t abandoning entirely the Parochial Institutions. song " Resolved 7.—That it is an admitted maxim all civilized nations, that whenever the state in va .`:, ipver,'; vidual rights for the public good, full indemni t y 1 ' for t ° o ably awarded ; if, therefore, the British nat ie "'„Ang 7 sake of cheap sugar, destroys her colonies by vc, 10 4 unrighteous crusade against her own subjects, ilat ee invested their capital upon the faith and gea r w ill l a ', their Country's laws, they, as British subjects, to , c le of their claim for full and ample compensation I°ToStice struetion of their property, —a claim whichth° the Brit ;11 nation'eannoCrefuse to recognize. 3s be mine t tigm,lcir be forwarded for it tion in tile Tin] Monling Pos By order WILLIAM GIROP: 5.6 c. character could rom luck a ,en would contain much that was . deserving of .?gneral e appea circurm fore the 10th of la hereafter seen, of considerable import was wr Ince, as will be towards a due of thl have the r deter finis] the (