The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

Varliamentarp VrorciWngs. -MONDAY HOUSE OF COMMON Lord JOHN R house resolving on the sugar duties he day for the L moved the order ;elf into a committee of the whOle ho Sir J. VAKINGTON moved an amendment to the c that the r given so Itivation of suk adjournei On the Bill was r ration by r with a view to al elective franchise householders the duration Mr. H. I toed to ti it woul misery that u Lord J OF COI\ ,cluded a took r Le How ,s the 1 se of Co he dimi- ;; I Cli ate was USE OF ( , and o OUSE 0 luntil Monday, Sir B. H A LL brought under the notice of the house the alleged misappropriation of the money ad vanced under the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act by Lord de Freyne and a Mr. I. O'Neill. After explanations from the CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex :QUER and Mr. F. FRENCH, with respect to the pro ceedings had on these cases, the subject dropped, and the ffect motion - was agreed to I hou: XCHEQUER, in reference utation of Irish mem lid he had con ? frit duti. )y the de and it g n laid for makin ifferential duty of en sug at no man ev lervice a p Is energy, the had acted upon s considered that no suffi ,e issuing of new writs for h ensued, Sir Hume, and .t. with him, that hon 14. ' and La. the cont im had I G. B ,rmly to defend ft d, in the strongest ter by t 1 COLC e people the writ, contrary 1, was r 97 to 112. of his obser- office from the co, mittee, on speakir g to the 'fend the noble and per- duity with hn hot! litely lc a at N , 1 had a v of M, treaty I 3 to 5 pool arrived at Halifax on t by ex I Rrri reached m Or- rn took I President of the [C on the 10th, d Bermuda on the sail from Boston on the 14th, I steamer Her Niagara would York for Southarnptor 500.000 a on freigh fin was intended ,TYIPTI Tho Tied an unprecedented run I leave N ad anot in favou T in favour THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. nominated by the president, and are dismissible at his will and pleasure. A council of state is to be appointed out of the members of the assembly, to consist of 40 per sons at least, and chosen by the assembly itself, the office of that body being to consider and draw up the laws which it may be deemed advisable to bring in. The punishment of death is interdicted for political offences ; slavery is abolished in all the French colonies ; the press is to be free, and every man has a right to print, or cause to be printed, whatever he pleases, subject to such guarantees to the state as may be deemed necessary ; all religions to be allowed in France, and the various ministers are to be paid by the state. Public instruction is to be free, but subject to the superintendence of the state. Substitutes are to be interdicted in the army and navy. The national debt is declared sacred property, and is inviolable. Gra tuitous education is to be given to the working cl as t o p 'e them for their different callings Lases, so and the is declared an integral part of the french soil, and is to Le administered by laws peculiar to itself. The same is to take place in the other French colonies. Trials are to be public; the judges, when once appointed, are to be irremovable. Each department is to have a prefect, &c. .ztte, st Rad at7l A letter from Innspruek of the 14th, in tates, that after the taking of ki had returned with the first [le loss of tha papal troops at tated to have been 1,800 killed and wounded ; )n the Austrian side 500 to 600 killed. It was ly believed at T Concluded between the c that an armistice woul he deec perween gdo'm of Sardinia on the 10th inst Garda. The Piedmontese Gazett of the 15th gives official news from Milan of the 13th, r a noble resistance, had fallen, is of the Austrians, after a loss Austrians was only a third that number The last advices from Rome bring the declaration, of the Roman Government, in which is resolved the difficult problem of the separation of the spiritual and temporal powers of the Pope. It has been read in the two Cham- hers and has prodUced on the Deputies the best impression. The Minister Mamiani, on being asked by a member if it contained the sentiments of the Pope, replied, " I can "le Deputies that the declaration I have read has with the consent of the Holy Father, and .0 approbation." Unanimous applause fol- with I mer Rob Roy, which left St. Petersburgh on •eek, arrived at Hull on Saturday. She brings ;erg, a general cargo, and £ 150,000 in gold bars, supposed to be for Government, as the exportatil lion is forbidden to the merchants. _ The Swedes, 10,000 strong, were at Funen o• Alsen and Jutland a of bul nd the 'he most squad The Bal So great is the sc wan River, that a ity of lawyers in the c, uitOr was forced to send to T to procure a solicitor qual Jockey Club, and the sporting c tud, which i I to he about the centre of the Belt vith Russian, Danish, and Swedish men- Copenhagen we learn that the Danes several Prussian ships. Their crews a prison ship, under the guns of the Kronen bat ey having plotted to fire the ships in the harbour nave con- Eon has been caused amongst the everal of IRELAND. Lord Ffrench has given in his adhesion to the Irish re peal league. Mr. Steele's remains will be removed to Ireland, with the view of his being buried near his great leader, O'Connell. The last meeting of the Repeal Association was ex petted to be held yesterday (Monday). John O'Connell is laid on the shelf, and the physical force repealers are now resolved not to halt in their course. The Queen has sanctioned a pension . of £2OO a-year to Mr. William Carleton, the Irish novelist, and another of £lOO a-year to the sisters of the late lamented Professor M'Cullagh, of Dublin University. THE REPEAL ALLIANCE.—The Bishop of Dromore has given in his unconditional adhesion to the Irish League. A rumour strongly prevails in repeal circles that Mr. John o'connell will decline joining the League. Nearly 400 emigrants sailed in two days from Limerick last week. The emigrants who have left the Shannon since the season commenced, carried on an average £l5 each, which would caus e a d ra i n f rom th e district of £60,000 in specie within three months. ON DlT—that the worthy Member for Limerick, find- to retire into a monastery for married . gentiem the Trap formations of nAlicev letter of resolution A Di Der reprE IRELAN of Dublin. e I a verdict, with dama nued in tery, the country. Dr. Wise a circular lett tranquil Arnim 1 Justice and ; t horses in F !authentic calculations of the of wheat in the United States o- America si ns of bushels are go consumption of tl Bishop of Melipotamus, has address to all the Roman Catholic Bishops um, and_Germany, rfciu ng their att July. They are mg a mitre, and a " Chape rouge." nts from Berlin of , the 16th represent the disturb- Pntirely at an end, and the city more than usually age of ministry had taken place, Baron riven in his resignation, which was followed Minister also of Count Scl Minister of N 4 Mr. Henry Coxwell, the aeronaut, ;cent in a balloOn at Bru vine taken place on a previous day, he . was I that there should be no further disappointment, panied by a friend, ascended when the weather rous state. The balloon was carried !s in 20 minutes, and a safe, though !escent was made near Herenthals. The last accounts from Moscow state c „ . four hundred and sixty-four persons attacked, from the 23rd to the 29th of May, no less than two hundred and five died. The number of new cases on the 29th of May alone amounted to eighty-nine, and the number of deaths to forty-two. The cholera has also broken out with great intensity at Jaroslau, Robinski, and KalougD, - antrtrus appears to be gradually advancing westward ; it is, in fact, the Sainted BLAKE may hay tin jury have ret _ _ OUR LEASE 0 mated by suet ment just thre Led this wis upon Mr. Usher vindict of their formation." PROTESTANT REPEA catching a f in the next evenin they say, is to take t it is asserted th people of Ireland union of rep nil riff )f a col clergy s The Tribune, one of the s, in its number of Sati Confederate clubs. Th( h five hundred clubs, of fi • faith, we will give the British govern 'ase of this island from the c iird sitting, with a view, no doubt, stable recruits capable of taking pa t's performances. _ Lord Cloncurr join the nev member of stateix clubs, the whOle 'ue.' I trust tc and at home I hole 12.000 each count r in the w that tt carried on by that bc Ireland. It is also A CRUEL HOAX.—A f arrived at the Victoria Ho days s: Cork. got noised throu martine had rea fire, and in the that Led [erate Clt Blackpool, and oti and addresses and were resolved on, as the a ls (1 , I clubs waited on duce them to I men that arrived here was the reply, " you have been shamefully he gentlemen are not Frenchmen but Brazilian Bahia, and they have just left Dublin, on their way to London!' , -;on looked petrified, bu' n a coach The astonished De -Cork t of course withdrew Constitution FIGIITING Kenyon, of Templederry • urt. acupvi , ticuying a statement in that paper to the effect that he had retired from political strife. He thinks that no honest Irishman ought to retire until the country is delivered from her two plagues or calamities, namely, Her subjection to a cruel what they may. Fo " clubs." with thei like thai . of a lad of the two Here 300 to b .nd by some means u Rollin and I tation from th of 131 UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. On Saturday week, the Bishop of Manchester conse crated Christ Church, Ashton-under-Lyne. The Rev. Herbert Jones, incumbent of St. Augustine's Church, in this town, has been elected a Lay Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. The Rev. Richard Loxham, M.A., of University Col lege, Durham, licentiate in theology, has been appointed to the curacy of Rufford, near Ormskirk. The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed Thursday next for the consecration of the chapel of the new College Augustine, Canterbury. The Cambridge Prize for English verse has been awarded to Mr. G. J. Cayley, of Trinity College, son of E. S. Cayley, M.P. The subject was "the death of Balder" (son of Odin.) On Thursday last, the Bishop of Manchester consecra ted two churches near Bolton,—St. Paul's, in the town ship of Halliwell, and Astley Bridge church, in the village of Astley Bridge, Sharpies. One hundred and eight clergymen in the di Hereford have presented to the zealous and right rev bishop thereof a congratulatory address upon his lordship's elevation to the ancient see over which he now so exem . ocese of lip of Modern es at Oxford ha circum- which this. 'etion has - been made are of a , that we must for the —Morning Chronicle.— present abstain Is it M. Guizot ? qny rer parish of Winwici being pi based for the. Bishop of offered f £17,000 ;omething less and will prob carved —A numi y been ere and it now ned for Dr. SadlE and Clon ferred on Dr. El it has t of exquisitel ORI held 1 :ted in the cl: brass work, it r p of We its kind in the vestige of the plates is gone, only the translated to Cork, that the Provost, )bably accept the united see of Killaloe hat the vacant provostship will be con gton.—[Our contemporary is, in ed, though he is usually c " During the last fou bird, 1 On Sund Foreign Parts, with reference ars, it api. the building Of week ordin rchbishop of Canter The following are till anteibury, 6 r Df London, I by several 7s ordained : H deacons ; , 19 d 15 deacons; by the ,ns ; by ti , . 3ishop of Gloucester, 9 priests, 4 deacons ; by the - ter, 11 priests, 11 deacons ; by the Archbishop "ts, 13 deacons; by the bishop of Oxford, • by the Bishop of Exeh, 17 twip.f of York, 13 p 18 priests, 19 13 deacons ; 1 lop or r p of CI Ely, 12 sts, 5 c Hereford, 8 priests. 6 deacons; by the Bishop lid's, 2 priests, 6 deacons ; by the Bishop of 21 priests, 26 deacons ; by the Bishop of Lin :sts, 4 peacons ; by the Bishop of Rochester, 8 deacons ; by the Bishop of Ripon, 6 prie.' : making a total, br - ,cll oishops, of if ARGE OF THE BISHOP OF EXETE R .-1 I his triennial vi Bishop of Exeter commenc Monday last, in the cathe, clause malt test of here treated of t averted to tt The Lord ral of Exeter. In his charge pDstponeinent of the Clergy )und doctrine, on any,points articles, his lordship observed, Ading of diversities of opinions, ent touching true religion." ay employed in declaring the judgment of tters then in controversy a in it of a Axt iclesi; I , or tat They v the Ch hing C and on t certain unsound tenets, ;ogether with a disclaimer of ichwere maintained-IW-sOri; Protestants of the day, and with the odium of which dvocates of Rome were eager to load all her oppo- controv of all oth tween us, ore` just issued aclreu ) its co anual ex here I s not the subje )t set forth in much of detail ny particular which w s were drawn up the point on which, , there was the least of difference, either be- andßome, was the doctrine of Baptism. The formularies set forth in this country during the reign of Henry the Eighth, the early confessions of faith of foreign Protestants, on this great particular all agreed, not only with each other, but ith Rome itself. Of Baptism, every one of them asserted le cardinal doctrine of its being the blessed instrument in nt P/111c01,in rr ersi vitvw al rodlsriartifireri 1 Mr. 27th artid Lerefore, haviiig little to controvert, ex- June 27, 1848. THE NEW REFORM MOVEMENT.—At the meeting held at the Portico, in this town, on Monday evening, to sup' port Mr. Hume's motion fo r H ouse h o ld S u ff rage , Equal Electoral Districts, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Perlis' ments, the supporters of those measures were defeated by the Universal Suffragists, who succeeded in carrying res o ' lutions in favour of the six points of the Charter. As the Chartists are miserably wea k i n Li verpoo l , th i s fact pro"' that the Humeists must be still weaker. The fact is that there is no party in Liverpool, except a little knot 0 Chartists, that desires organic changes of any kind. Even those who are most disp os ed t o th em on general grounds, consider the present period o f p o liti ca l con f us i on a b r oad and commercial depression, (caused by that confusion) at home, extremely ill chosen for reconstructing the Conetl . tution of the country.—Liverpool Times.—( Whig Pap s' CHEESE-PARING PATRIOTS.—It i s no t b y sinecurr and unmerited pensions that the resources of a cowl are drained. Curtail all th e expenses of the Court—pu t Her Majesty's attendants on board wa ,, es—cut down the Chamberlain's and Lord Steward's departments—be 0 penurious as you may be, you would not save 3d. a-yet to every tax-gatherer throughout the empire. It is not the establishment of the Palace that is consuming 08 subsistence of the householder at Stockport and Birmiet ham : and, while in m an y d epar t ments we would OS - -duction, it is not by saving a few thousands a PP' die merchant can be rendered prosperous o r the artizan kept in full work. We are as willing to reduc e the army and navy expenses as they can be ; but we a l ; not break up the apparatus and appendages of a grer • —we would the stock of a bankrupt tradesrao; -'• , 44Ps and th e res p ons ibiliti e s o ~.cssure. We canno t , fling Canada, Australia, I n di a t o th e w i n d s ; ne i ther et we keep them and all that they give us without soldier' and sailors. We cannot afford to surrender our ovr i l, position and pre emine nce i n th e eyes o f t h e world. Ift is part of our stock i n t ra d e . I t i s our cap i tal. goes we go too. But w e canno t k eep i t without keepore that by which it was obtained—an adequate fleet and 01 Ideqnate supply of brave and well-trained troops. G e ntle' leaguers, be careful what you are d o i ng . P e tition: gitate, and declaim, against superfluous and extravagan t expense. Petition against and denounce every ur We can n ieces' sary outlay in the army, the navy, the state ; but bewar e , of going too far. Y ou may d o muc h m i schief w i t hoo, meaning it. Your coun t ry i s engag i ng the attention 0' the world. Secu re , an d h ar dl y s h a k en, she is affording -- lum to the exiles of less happy lands, and the bpnithy institutions. Slowly and steadily • and zreat suffer- ings. Mar not the completion of a glorious - history, O r under the pressure of a temporary distress try to inflict wound which no time can cure, but which all would have reason to deplore.—Times DECLINE OF MR. ( POPUL ARlTY.—ForeignerS, y superficial inf orma ti o n, an d •fced that even the speeches of lk'fr• _ Wakley are read by con ti n ental as if they carried with them all the weigh t rigs to some of our g re a t p ar ty leaders. The irally imposed upon I , e and fr. Cot Idea was t ie enjoyed it. He came back to Enerand ill ringing with the cheers with which he 10 4 ,n greeted at public dinners and public meetings. bnd :my misgivings as to the stability of his populall ,:se must have been remove d w h en th e firs greeted his arrival in England was his election the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was his election Yorkshire that placed Lord Brougham on the W ok ck, and had he declined that honour, might, with tole' ale management, have made him ultimately prime Inr, ,ister. It was an honour that turned Lord Broughno!: lead, and has been the forerunner of his downward course' The glory of Lord Brou g h am cu l m i na t e d w h en he WI: returned for Yorkshire, and we think Richard Cobden_: his ears st at home, t 1 uay he sv 3s st tie has found, 1 10 a of enthusiasm which greete . died away into expresso` ell, as formerly, the l', °° ocracy, courted by the people' tention by the House of Cora the gay circles of Grosvenor: 'en scarcely more brilliant (/' rge Hudson and Ivi. t r . —„.. uue agriculturists can h ar dly clar o as a friend, whilst the manufacturing operatives, ilf, t clubbed their shillings and h a lf- crowns t o ra i se £loo,r t for the idol of their m a st ers , now fi n d, t o t h e i r cost, tha ^v had a far truer and much more economical friend is Ashley, who never sought for such splendid tew .onials to his more effective and more consistent thropy. It is obvious that Mr. Cobden has been gull and mortified by the de c li ne o f hi s popu l ar i ty, an d sail more by the manner in w hi c h th e H ouse o f Cornol°" o f received the killing exposu re ma d e b y Admiral Dundalog tack on the British navy at Malta. Something _,; r 4 A new league was to b e go t up . A new s tanu of agitation was to be raised, and reform in parliatr.led, seemed to be the most promising. It has signally and the people have b u t t oo recen tl y ra i se d X 70,000 11 '4 Mr. Cobden himself, and se vera l h un d re d t h ousan d poilo r u a more for a whole army o f h ungry ag it a t ors , t o exPe ni any unusual exuberance of enthusiasm in favour of f ' new league, having such costly'arpendages.—Record. as an a Lence he no longer finds hit of the d , feted square and Belgravia, has more evanescent than t of Geo: Out of do, CO Uit 7 AND FASHION. Niajesty anti rnnee Albert of being present, at tho H lave signified t"'" market Theatre 0 0 7 $ Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ke.511 uly, on the occasion c June SE( STORmD STRC The ci„ in the nein for several Saturday, a into th e Fa at four o'eh Armand M 4ssenibly. AU the loairie, are age has 13e; Seen in Par twiitlthie G r s t o e iB3 d treop t u h a gh a ' po l ation of V halted a t tl Drake of St. th . e bridge ste ps, atd, A ustrians, de combat. be en killed ; I le _R haN Rh such eitiz, Gre ach a t°lrarde ernment, Yesterdi Mr. Charl borough TI LIVERP We have this mornir rOly above list of bush 15i di,. L tefererice, orth Stal ference, LIVERp Wheat m Fresh floi . Egyptian Week. b ( : ), ts .eri Indian C tion severa Indian AI Withot co be Sp th idition to is of I dipl cease ;lected to avail itself Lt had: of ding of the Cri- on Bill to ma' .on of t. e long ioRD - CHANCELLOR moved the second rea ement Ex OF COMMO/s On ad was ordered to be iss jority of 54 over 50 voice reducing the differential c 4d. a gallon put by Sir L. O'Burt bers contending that sometbin bad bee member ant and the Irish ty 6d. per gallon. tial de government proceeded, Lord JOHN RUSSELL declaring that the government would adhere to their original proposition. Mr. GLADSTONE objected to the ministerial measure on the grounds that it was less than the exigencies of the co lonies demanded, and that, in the present state of the finances, it would be most unwise to make experiments with the sugar duties such as those proposed. The West Indies had equitable pecuniary_ claims on this country on measure of relief brought forward by the Government did not satisfy; and until the imperial finances should be brought into a healthy state, the tampering with the sugar duties would be inexpedient. The right honourable gen tleman controverted the calculations made by the Chan cellor of the Exchequ Ind contended that the proposed of between three The question, of finance was one of serious and growing difficulty, and it was the first duty of the house to restore the equilibrium between the revenue and the expenditure. When that was done, then would be the time to do full 4 ustice to the colonies. The right hon. gentleman sup ported the amendment. _ _ _ - Mr. Jas. WitsoN . followed in a long and able speech. He had a strong desire to put an end to slavery and the slave trade, and to remove the distress now existing in the West Indies ; but nothing could be more prejudicial to all those objects than to adopt, as was now proposed, an in creased protection for sugar. The debate then stood adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The Administration of Justice, the Protection of Justi ces from Vexatious Actions, and the Joint St oc k Compa nies Bills, were read a second time. The LORD CHANCELLOR drew the attention of the house to the case of Viscount Arbuthnot, who was charged with the commission of forgery in Scotland, true bills having been found, and the proceedings removed by writs of certiorari to that house; he, therefore, moved for the appointment of a committee to search for prece dents, in accordance with the usual practice, for the pur pose of advising their lordships; and, inasmuch as the accused was not at present in custody, he further moved, that the Black Rod be directed to take the necessary steps for effecting that object. The case of the Poles at Posen was brought under the notice of the house by Lord KINNAIRD, but the papers asked for were refused by the Marquis of Lansdowne, not for want of sympathy with the motion, but because he deprecated interference on matters of foreign policy with which the country had nothing to do. Lords HARROWBY, BEAUMONT, and EiLENBOROUGH took part in the discussion. Ea'rl FITZ WILLIAM concluded a speech on the state of Ireland by moving the resolutions given in the parlia _ mentary report. 7 The Earl of LANSDOWNE, after replying to the argu ments of the noble lord, moved the previous question, which amendment, after some observations from the Earl of GLENGALL, was agreed to, and their lordships ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. Sir G. GREY, in reply to Mr. FORSTER, stated that there was nothing'whatever in the conduct of the police magistrates, in reference to the Chartist disturbances at Bishop Bonner's Fields, which called for his interference as home secretary, or that of the government. He con sidered that the magistrates had exercised a sound discre tion in remanding cases of an aggravated character until further evidence could be produced, with a view to send ing the parties for trial to the Central Criminal Court. On the motion that the house, at its rising, do adjourn .d. S g very I making the trip in ten day a, captain an Sunday mor Ig:having left I an across the. , m Boston eight h :ws of the ratifica 3n on the evening of the 13t -ed at an antic on record, having D this port in ten ; by Chronometer, including the vsu. h Mexico a rise on the New York s at extent. n. Taylor is nominated as the Whig candidate, with was tending downward, 11 to 111 being the closing rates. Trade was very stagnant, and the export of specie to , Europe was at length beginning to create an The shipments of cotton continued on a liberal scale. The transactions in this staple at New York had been only to a small extent, at a decline of k to a cent per pound, since the sailing of the Hibernia. Flour was advancing, and was too light for our markets. The news of the rise in the price of Indian corn, on this side, caused that article 3e of about 3s. 6d. per quarter. Cotton, at New Orleans, had declined about a cent per ~ in consequence of the news by the Hibernia. WEST INDIES.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Tay, Captain Sharp, arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. His Excellency Sir Henry Light, K.C.8., has returned to England in the Tay. The Tay brings intelligence of the wreck of the barque Lady Huntly, which was lost at sea on her passage from Liverpool, on the 18th May, crew saved, part of whom returned in the Tay. There is no news in particular from any of the islands. The accounts from Jamaica are still extremely unsatisfactory, business being completely at a stand-still. The weather, however, which for a long time had been very dry, had changed for the better, and on the day the packet left copious showers had set in, with every prospect of their continuance. The information o: taxen place in iviartnuque. une ramily of whites had been burnt to death by the blacks. The freedom of the slaves had been proclaimed at Martinique and Guadeloupe, and very great fears were entertained of the consequences. FRANCE MADAME LAFARGE.—A committee is about to be formed in the Paris house of representatives, to inquire ans and lepartments witn a view to tue release of prisoners who can establish any claim to that preference on doubts of their guilt, or other favourable cause. Amongst those whose chances of favour are considered the most sure, is Madame Lafarge, and the measure is suspected to have originated with a view to her benefit. She had been reckoning upon this be fore the revolution of February, in her prison at Montpe lier, where she is regarded as a saint and martyr. Six months ago an official personage was sent to visit her on the part of the queen, to whom she had applied for some prints and books to relieve her solitude, she basing her claim upon the relationship between them. The gentle man employed found her engaged in forming a hortussic cus, composed entirely of all the poisonous plants used in medicine. Around lay some odoriferous flowers, some fresh and some faded, and the gentleman, with French gallantry, endeavoured to turn a compliment by congratu lating her upon being thus surrounded with flowers. " Ah, monsieur," exclaimed she, with a deep sigh, " do you not perceive that they are withered ones ?" She took up a bunch of the beautiful belladonna which lay near her, and handed it towards him with so much grace, that he who came to reprimand became from that moment her devoted slave, and seized the gift with avidity, declaring that he would keep it as long as he should live ! It is now this very official who has drawn up the report on the " dossier Lafarge," and who is to take that special case in hand be fore the Assembly. The Paris correspondent of the Atlas, from whom thes e cur i ous f ac t s are d er i ve d, f urn i s h e d a cu rious account of the apartments, or " cells," occupied by the lady ; one of them replete with every article of ele gance and luxury, including many of her own paintings and drawings, and amongst others a likeness of her hus band (for the alleged poisoning of whom she is now con fined), with his own autograph at the bottom. This looks out upon a beautiful country, embracing the chateau where the crime took place. The other, containing her little bed, is gloomy and austere in furniture, having an air of the most rigid monastic pe nance. T he wr i ter of the article exclaims—" Is this wo man gu il ty or i s she i nnocent ? is she a most injured martyr, or a most fiendish and con summate comedian ? The debates upon her future fate are expected to be carried on with as much passion, and to excite as great a curiosity as those to which her trial itself gave rise. The mysteries of social life in France are too deep to fathom ; and it would be presumptuous to dare to condemn even those against whom the most mi nute proofs of guilt can be brought with success in a court of justice. M. Marrast presented the draft of the constitution, which occupied nearly an hour in the re a di ng . I t must be borne in mind that this is only a project, which may fill the greater part of the session before it is settled. There is to be a president for four years, to which every French citizen, thirty years of age, and of fair character, is eligible. A vice-president is to be elected by the Na tional Assembly, which is to consist of 750 members. There is to be but one chamber, The muurters are to be of the treaty w )ck exchange, but COMBINATION 0 ND SLAVERY the rive slaves. er last fall took a load c ngst other things he )f produce down took down five New Orleans ; he came up to Natches, bought seven there, and took them dciwn and sold them also. Last March he came up to preach the gospel again. A number of persons on board the steam boat, the Tuscatora, who had seen him in the shambles in Natches and New Orleans. and now, for the first time, found him to be a preacher, had much sport at the expense of " the fine old preacher Who dealt in slaves."• VISTRCSSING ACCIDENT.-Dr. A. J. Burmester, a profession3l gentleman at Malta, was very fond of prac tising pistol-firing, amongst other exercises, and used to fire at a target in his dressing-room, and at night practise at a candle. On the morning of the 29th of May he was practising as usual. when his male servant entered, and showing a disinclination to pass between the doctor and the target, the latter jocularly turned the butt-end of the pistol towards the man, and the muzzle towards himself. In a very short time the piece went off, and the ball en tered the region of the doctor's heart. Medical assist- ance was in vain INDIA AND CHINA.—The Overland Mail has arrived, and brines no news of importance beyond the confirma tion of the rising in Mooltan and assassination of our officers. It appears, after the first quarrel, our , men had retired to a small fort outside the walled town of Mooltan, where for twenty-four hours they considered themselves protected, but the troops from Mooltan hastened to attack the fort. Lieutenant Anderson being severely wounded, was unable to rise from his bed; Mr. Vans Agnew shook hands with him and bade him an eternal adieu. He then prepared to defend himself, but his pistols had been tam pered with •, and as the crowd of soldiers with which his soldiers had " fraternised " entered the room, he cut down the first assailant, but he was instantly shot, and his body, like that of his companion, Lieutenant Anderson, and that of their apothecary, Mr. Wilkinson, hacked to pieces; and treated with great indignity. The new governor, Chan Singh, was wounded and made prisoner by the troops of Mooltan. There is no additional intelligence as to the preparations for vindicating our honour, but those mentioned at the time the news arrived are being carried out. Mooltan is the strongest town in the Pun- , considering the hot weather and the approaching rains, to postpone the expedition against the insurgents until October or No vember. The other parts of India are quiet. Commer cial affairs, both at Bombay and Calcutta, are somewhat better than they have been for some time past ; and still they have an upward tendency. There is little intelli unce.fron China, but that is highly satisfactory, the having been brought to an amicable d advisable eae dispute ;rmination BOHEMIA.—AWFITL CRUELTIES.—On the 15th, Prince Windscbgratz was in complete possession of Prague. The insurrection is ascribed to the machinations of the Swornost faction. The Wiener Zeitung gives the fol lowing interesting details :—" Owing to the refusal of the Prince to give arms to the people on the 10th, the Swor nost faction proceeded in large numbers to the residence of the commander-in-chief, wh ere th e y sang songsinsult ing to the Prince, accompanied by hooting and threats. The military on duty having in vain called upon the mob to be orderly and disperse, and the fatal shot being fired at this moment which deprived the unfortunate Princess of her life, the Prince with great dignity and calmness advanced in the midst of them, and addressed them to the following effect :—" Gentlemen—lf it is your desire to insult me, because I am 8f noble birth, go to my palace, and do there as you may think fit. I will even give you a guard that you may not b e di s t ur b e d i n your amuse ment. Butif you act thus because I am commander of Prague, and purpose making a demonstration in front of this building, I tell you candidly that I shall prevent such a step with every means at my command. My wife now lies a lifeless corpse above st a i rs , an d yet I address you in words of kindness. Gentlemen, do not drive me to severe measures." After this noble speech, under cir cumstances of so heart rending a nature, the Prince, instead of being hearkened to, was roughly seized upon by two Czechs, and dragged to , the next lamp-post, where a rope was soon provided—at thi s moment the Prince ' s grenadiers advanced with fixed bayonets, and in less than a second cleared the square and delivered the Prince. Five minutes afterwards the artill ery swept the streets. Prince Windischgratz is spoken of as one o f the most distinguished Generals in the Au s t r i an serv i ce. The most awful atrocities were committed. Among others, Wilhelm Weiss, a paper merchant, was crucified in the true sense of the word. He .iad shot a couple of students in his capacity of Burgher Guard, for which his house was first demolished, and hims e lf li terally nailed to a cross. Prague is horribly devastated ; in many streets there is scarcely a house to be seen that has not suffered from the bombardment. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday. two brothers were amusing themselves at Byker, nea r N ewcast l e, b y jumping across an old pit mouth, when one of them lost his balance on the side and fell in, and the other, observing that, made an attempt to save him, and fell in also. The accident was observed by an engineman, who was s itti ng in the engine house getting his dinner at the time, and he instantly rushed to the spot, and, by great daring. suc ceeded in saving one of the youths, who was.upheld by a beam across the shaft, a few feet from the , top. In at tempting to rescue the other, the unfortunate man sacri ficed his own life, both having fallen together to the bottom of the shaft, in which there was seventy feet of water, ght months, but i )le of Ireland have not " Decent habitations and national freedom," and the dignitaries of the church do not cease to blow hot and cold ;" and that, " If John O'Connell be still encouraged by aw( stipend and letters from tl father's bones for our am) Le highest quarters, to rattle his Isernent ; if we go on renewing litv, and lend him our ears as his bills upon our gu part, will c ics, 6cl occupy_ my futui:e leisure I Limerick Examiner•, a priest named Vaughan, uses equally violent language. He thus concludes :—" A great occasion, based on the union of Repealers, is now offering itself. The country should rise with and assume again the colossal attitude of '43. The moment the fi,,t field in T molar treianci then up with the million host of Mul- laghmast, and the daring Of Mallow ; and shame eternal on the recreant who will not be for Erin and Repeal." The writer of this epistle is one of Dr. Kennedy's clergy, and will that bishop suspend priest Vaughan ? and if not, why not ? EXTRAORDINARY BALLOON ASCENT.—On Wednesday Mr. Hampton made one of his most successful ascents from the Rotunda Gardens, in Dublin. It was announced that he mould cross the Irish Channel, but. this did not prove a great attraction, and from the haze the object could not be accomplished. The aeronaut was accompa nied by Sandham Symes, Esq., of Dominick-street, and Mr. Bateman, of the " Shades." It continued to ascend to a great altitude until the great body became almost be yond the range of observation, at which point it appeared for a considerable time. In fact no instance is of so great an altitude having been attained in on recor Ireland. The balloon descended in the vicinage of the Ashbourne road. The aeronauts landed in perfect safety a corn field, but afterwards trailed into a meadow, where they were immediately surrounded by a joyous and astonished crowd of haymakers. The country people behaved with the greatest civility, and used every exertion to aid in se curing the balloon. By some n,pidpnt nM m;.t.v. in %/I 1111.101,C, 111 those engaged in holding the prodigious.bubble, it escaped from the netting, and rose to such a height that it was soon lost in the clouds. The voyagers returned to Dub lin. Mr. Hampton has written an interesting account of the voyage, from which it appears that a gust of wind hav ing thrown over the balloon on one side, the men holding on the netting got alarmed, and let go. Mr. Hampton and Mr. Bateman were left hanging on to the netting ; but at length the balloon slipped out of it, and having no thing but the silk to carry, it ascended very rapidly. It was afterwards recovered in a field at Athearne, eighteen miles from the town. It was safely folded up, and taken to Athearne Castle. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, In Whitsun week last year, the average earnings of the railways per mile was £6l ; his year they were £52. The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead railway, for the week ending June 17, was £llll 14s. Id. During Whitsun week no fewer than one hundred and sixteen thousand individuals left Manchester by the re. spective railways. On Monday that portion of the East Lancashire railway which connects the town of Accrington with that of Black burn was opened to the public. When the line through Ormskirk is finished the distance from Liverpool to Black burn will he performed in about an hour. The North Staffordshire Railway have agreed to give a bonus of £4OO to Messrs. F. and J. Mills, for injury done to the salt works of those gentlemen, at Sandbach, Cheshire, and to pay damages if the works are not put in working order within a prescribed period. The requirements of a railway when detailed with any minuteness appear absurd ; for instance, three million of bricks, says the Railway Record, will be requisite in the formation of a viaduct of 300 yards, in progress at Brier ley Hill, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line. It is stated that Mr. Creed, who from the first projec tion of the London and Birmingham Railway, has been the secretary to the company, has resigned his office. Mr. Henry Booth, who now holds the j o i n t appo i ntment of secretary, together with Mr. Creed, will, it is presumed, be his successor. _ _ The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway have received the sanction of the shareholders to the imme diate consolidation of their share capital. Any means, said the chairman, that could bring up their stock to nearly its proper value, so as to enable those to sell who wanted the money to meet engagements for calls on other stock, would be a great advantage. _ At the special meetings of the shareholders of the Bir mingham and Oxford Junction, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, end Dudley, the bills for confirming the agreement of November, 1846, for the sale of the line to the Great Western, &c., and for the loop line from the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, through Leamington, were approved of. The ancient Collegiate Church of Edinburgh has been purchased by the North British Railway C om p an y f or a waggon shed. The antiquaries made a stout resistance, but the company have at length possessed themselves of the edifice, the tombs of the Scottish Queens, for £17,000. The remains of the foundress, Mary of Guelders, Queen of James the Second, bpve been removed to the Abbey of Holyrood, y of the raments, of ,1•0 irk invis that they are sure Ind God's will to- ly on us." The 27th said of Baptism, in particular, that it was such an effectual sign—a sign effecting that of which it is a sign, _ egeneralion or new birth." For these and other reasons, which his lordship stated at great length, he maintained that, even if the articles were our sole test of doctrine, they 'did not afford any real support to the denial of spiritual regeneration in Baptism. But he must namely, resist the claim of their being our sole test • he must insist on the Book of Common Prayer and administration of Sacraments being at least as authoritative as the articles themselves. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON EDUCATION.--A deputation from the dissenters of Manchester waited last week on the Bishop of Manchester, no doubt with the ex- pectation of finding his lordship an advocate of merely se cular education, but were sadly disappointed. His lord ship said that " he could not consent to the exclusion of all instruction in peculiar religious doctrines. He be lieved -^-ePctl• "-)- that teacher r Id lc a . pertectty impossible t any could gain any living influence over the hearts and minds of his pupils, if he was interdicted from communicating with them on the most important subjects. He spoke himself (his lordship said) from an experience of sixteen years as an educator ; and he reminded the deputation of the influ ence which the late Dr. Arnold gained over his pupils by his constant appeals to their religious principles. Ad mitting that many 01 i5 t , 1 1,,,.. 1 .4 1i , 1t n n f v‘t,hoeulddeneolsmewinhaetrieonrteo- which they belonged, were the deputation ,nd their friends, he asked, prepared to sanction the constant asso ciation of young people thus carefully trained, with those who are under no religious influences whatever? Ihese objections his lordship considered fatal to any such scheme of education as that now proposed. Having thus stated his views on the plan of the association, the bishop went on to explain his own opinions on the best mode of effectively providing for the existing educational destitu tion. His lordship observed that in King Edward's School at Birmingham, with which he had been recently con nected, instruction in the doctrines of the Church of Eng land was given at fixed periods of the week; but from at tendance on such occasions, the children of dissenting parents were excused. At the same time, his lordship re marked, he had always distinctly stated that he would never permit himself to be precluded, by the presence of dissenters, from alluding to any religious matter which might present itself in the course of a lesson ; he would never intrude such a remark, but, at the same time, he would never go out of his way to avoid it. During the eight years of his residence at Birmingham, he had pupils of almost every sect, and he never received a complaint respecting the nature of the religious instruction given in the school. Now this was a practical proof of the possi bility of having a system of education which would be re ligious without being exclusive. He would provide schools in which instruction should be given on the prin ciples of the Church of England, while dissenters should be excused from attendance at the doctrinal lessons ; and in places where disenters were numerous, he would also afford them the means of giving an education in accord ance with their own views." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Earl of Rosse has published an admirable letter — temperate, rational, and full of the truest principles of political wisdom—against the repeal agitation. A decision of the Dublin Election Committee, last week, has upset 198 of Mr. Reynolds, the Repealer's votes. Mr. Hume's proposed reform is called the " Four-point Charter," viz., retrenchment, household suffrage, triennial parliaments, and vote by ballot. In the present session of Parliament more members have been unseated on charges of bribery than in any preceding one. ____ A bookcase and library, valued together at £1750, have been presented to Mr. John Bright by his free-trade friendi The Times says of John O'Connell : " He reels to and fro, he staggers like a drunken man, and is at his wit's end." The purpose of, to-day is the no-purpose of to morrow. He shuffles, he twists, he wriggles, but there is no escape. Resolution is fatal, and irresolution perdition. Afeetings continue to be held in all parts of the coun try in favour of Mr. Hume's proposed measure of reform. They, however, excite little attention, the Daily News being the only journal that thinks them worthy of mera record. At Liverpool, Leeds, and one or two other large towns the Chartists have succeeded in carrying their six points as an amendment. June is passing away; in July, people will be counting the remaining days of the session. Yet even the Budget is still to be produced ; while Church reform, sanitary reform, and many other important subjects are rapidly falling into the danger of being " postponed from want of time," before anything effectual is done. Th e H ouse o f Lords has now been in attendance for several months, with scarcely any important business placed before Very few statesmen of modern times have produced such strange feelings in the minds of both friends and foes as Lord John Russell is constantly producing. The leader of " the Reform movement" one year ; the next, " the chief obstacle" in the way of Reform. At one time, regarded by Churchmen as their most dreaded enemy; anon, looked up to as the Church's firmest friend ! The Dissenting leader at one period ; in a few years after, the object of the greatest disgust to all Dissenters ! Scarcely ever, certainly, did such opposites meet in the public life of one not dishonest nor very inconsistent man, ajesty and Prince I, Prf : , *tended her MajestO nny Lind play Alice' obtained knowled.g! Theatre on 'Thursday night, to see Je of their presence at the conclusion of the opera, and cries for " the Queen !" " the Queen !" resounded from all parts of the house. Her Majesty at length acknowledged the call amid one of the most deafening demonstrations of loyalty ever heard. The National Anthem was sung.. Each stanza produced its salvo of a pplause : and at ifs_ Anse . her Majesty was again saluted with round a P ° !: t, accompanied with the Wu of affectionate resp. ving of hats and handkerchiefs. L by On Tuesday the Chinese junk "K e yi ng " was - on the by a visit from the Duche s s o f K en t, accompadied by Duke and Duchess de Nemours and family. te, Mrs. Hudson gave her fi rs t b a ll a t th e Albert , Aa - as London, on Tuesday evening, on which occasion shl er s honoured with the presence of nearly 600 leadinginel° of the fashi ona bl e wor ld. Th e C on d e d e Monte accompanied by his Royal Highness the I n fante Don FeL . nando of Spain, honoured the reunion with his presen'' The Duke of W e lli ng t on was amongs t th e ear li e st to 4; rive. His Grace was loudly cheered on alighting frota big carriage. The guests arrived in rapid succession r ° half-past 11 until nearly 1 o'clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE. NJ, g A London journal says that the numb er o f lawYer- in London is not less than 4972, and that the amount of th e costs, in 1846-7, was £16,210,165 An action for libel was tried in the Queen's Benc - de r Saturday, at the suit of Mr. Ki e ly, aga i ns t the 1110' Chronicle. The jury found for. the plaintiff, and 0 £5OO damages. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, a Jn pt awarded to the Duke of Brunswick d amages t o th e am °„ of £l5OO, for sundry atro c ious lib e l s on hi s c her n ' t ba which have appeared in the Satirist, the defendant in action being Mr. Ghislen, the publisher of that pa per . In the Dublin Queen's Ben c h, l as t wee k, Mr. Si t i /1 0 Q.C., moved for a mandamus to compel the Societym Friends, to restore a certain Mr. Jelico to their b ° ,be from which they had excluded him. The reason of plaintiff's expulsion by the Quakers was so nove l as to o ; serve record. Mr. Jellico, as agent for a number of 1 1 7 , e pt sons in Kilkenny and Tipperary, had p a id th e tithe- der charge to the various incumbents on the properties his control. This being a violation of th e l aw s of the _f o g ciety, they expelled him. Mr. Napier a rgue d that, hed: only the servant of another, and not ac ti n e, for hilqbe the Quakers had no ri g ht to ex p e l M r . Jellico. u pd Chief Justice disa g reed w ith M r . N ap i er , on the gr l9 o ,- that the Society of Friends was a vo l un t ary associati 1)9 and, therefore, the plaintiff was bound, as a member' a s, its rules. The Court had no power to issue a mand.?l s of or compel any body, or any individ ua l, t o d o an ything the sort required. Rule refused accordingly. STATE OF TRADE. 011 e MANCHESTER.—The general aspect of our market is stl es ses of dulness. A moderate inquiry, indeed, exists for some F D or; of goods, but it is not generally accompanied with any tent amount of business. It is not yet possible to say free r may be the effect upon the market of the last accounts s ige: the East, which are somewhat favourable; but there are t oe' of returning activity in some quarters where extreme usioste has long prevailed. Yarns continue without change, n° rial concession having been made in prices during the " o ere . The amount of business doing is still limited. In goed s „ has been less inclination to _give way in prices than has bee ., o g; case for some time past. We cannot expect anything_ i re i r ' s r tie terially better in the market while our continental littY` iie themselves obliged to operate on so small a scale, andaad provement we may have will not be abrupt, but al" grßOCHadual. n ttel l '' DALE FLANNEL MARKET.—We have had a P-° ro e e f dance in the flannel market this week, and trade exce e d th, dull; many of the small manufacturers had commen c i f s ort: hay harvest, and did not attend the market. P r ices of plaC" of goods are same as last report. No alte ra ti on h a s take" in the wool market this week. woo De lien LEEDS. —There have not been many buyers in the r ill ig goods market this week. The expectancy th a t goods ch ec A lower, through a fall in the price of wool s , seems tP„ an t , i l f buyers. There is, however, no great stock of goods if ie s, st as the season for the purchase of winter s tock a pproae the prospects of the harvest continue fa v o ura ble, the._t s ioes opinion of the trade is that there will be agood autumn"' t. done. ba te r ' 0 0 BRADFORD.—WOOI: There is no change for the he., i s wool continues as depressed as ever. The consumPtiP;is. ;fie so limited that our staplers are loud in their coral from lonial wools are dull sale, and the augmented stocics,, e nrec,i, sales in Liverpool and London will tend t o a furthet:_ty9 ho tion in price. Yarns : This, as well as la s t week, bet and th day, has tended to diminish the quantity produn e rs frte ; production is now very low ; the prices deter the spi n s t o y , working except to actual order. Pieces : The in'tve 6 P the of the weather gives a tone of cheerfulness. We 'Thch t° liss pect of good and early crops, which will tend ost, maintenance of our home trade, which, for some 6 1101 we cv been almost the only trade of the town, and in w piece thine to have a good business. thu c i ere HALIFAX. Although there were more person - e., . no Hall on Saturday than we have been used to see of 0. w 0 does not appear to have been much business 0 . nere 8")tlit r, description of goods, either plain or fancy, -s that can Le called a demand, and the manufac '._ tra de.. ee rs tailing production as much as possible. The Yary the spin e but nues in the same state of extreme depression, an Tbere s r f the add to their stocks as little as they can lieli?• favo ur 0 .11 few transactions in wool, and those rather,, v er t y buyer. Short wool keeps up in price, oil'''. , tbe i, I of quantity produced; and, limited as the suPP'Y keeps pace with the demand. _ our it business vools, _ . l lll % j ni the no doubt that the expected fall in the price of price of goods, has kept buyers out of the markets E tl ß li s s F w l E e L elc D , — wit l h re a h s a li; e ht t r o ed re u p et o i r o t a lnt, asin ar al e l in pr i o m b in ab e i di lit a y t , e b w e a f n o t ll o o f w g e o d od b o y . a co rrespo ‘ pd t i , n e g x . :e . pt such Pc bitiytrtehnech tur e d an The it ho ld, thi The F The is