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firtperit ,, .l llartiamtnt. HOUSE OF' LORDS.-WEDNESDAY. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL appeared at the bar with a mes sage from the commons, praying a conference on the subject of the Registration of Election On the motion of the Earl SHAFTESBURY the conference was agreed to, and the same noble lords who managed the former conference were appointed to conduct this conference. On their return, the Earl of Shaftesbury reported that the commons had left the bill with the reasons for disagreeing with the lords' amendments in the bill. Viscount MELBOURNE moved their lordships to agree to the commons' reasons. Lord LYNDHURST opposed the motion, and insisted on the former amendments. Alter a short discussion the house divided. when there ap peared for the motion, 88; against it, 51. The motion was consequently lost. The bills on their lordships' table were severally forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY CANADA INDEMNITY BILL Mr. SANFORD said he should wish to give the bill his entire opposition ; and as there was not to be a envision, he was anxious to state his opinion. He thought they ought not to declare the ordinanCes If there hail been a division, be should have certainly voted against the bill. Lord EBRINGTON did not feel justified in dissenting from the bill, •although he regretted that the question had been brought forward. It would add to the etnharassments of Lord Durham, if a division were- to take place, and exhibit a difference of opinion. Admiral CODRINGTON was- sorry _that Igo one had moved the rejection of the bill; and if any honlimember would do so, he would second the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL, begged his hon. friend (Mr. Sanford) not to press any division. Under all circumstances, he thought it would be most advisable to pass the bill, particu larly as the Attorney-General said there was one part of the ordinance which could not be justified by law. He lamented that the bill had been introduced; but, having come down to the house, he thought the best course would be to pass it. Mr. AGLIONBY deprecated the bill, and also the hurried manner in which it had been paced. Sir. G. GREY thought it was clear that, in the opinion of the house of commons, at least, the noble Earl (Durham) . was entirely free from blame or criminality. After some observations from Mr. Easthope, Mr. Grote, and Colonel Sibthorp, m '' moved that the bill be read a tuna day three Mr. HCTTON then addressed the hcuse ; and after some further discussion, the bill was read a third time and passed. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY The galleries and doors of the body of the house were opened for the admission of strangers at twelve o'clock, im mediately after which the Lord Chancellor, in his state robes, took his seat on the woolsack. The only other peers present were Lord Lyndhurst and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Prayers were then said by the Bishop of Hereford. At one o'clock, the side ani end galleries were completely filled with ladies ' • and most of the seats reserved tor the peeresses in the body of the house were occupied. The Lour) CHANCELLOR presented the fourth report of the poor-law commissioners of England and Wales.—Laid on the table. At half-past one, the foreign ambassadors began to arrive in quick succession, and took their places in the railed-off space behind the episcopal bench. Among them we observed Prince Esterhazy, whose extremely rich and costly uniform attracted much attention; the Austrian, Prussian, Hanove rian, Russian, Turkish, and Dutch ambassadors, with their attaches. The Duke of Norfolk, earl marshal, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Glenelg, and the other minis ters, in their robes of state, arrived shortly afterwards; and at this moment the appearance of the house was extremely brilliant and animated. Almost every seat was occupied - , and the rich and varied dresses of the ladies glittering with brilliants, pearls, and other precious gems, the magnificent state robes of the peers and great officers of state, and the unif.rms of the foreign ambassadors, formed a very striking and brilliant coup At a quarter before two, the Princess Augusta and the Princess Hohenlohe entered, and took their seats on the woolsack, immediately fronting the throne. It was the subject of general observation, that the old de corations of the throne remain as they have been for several parliaments, and the letters "G. R." are still displayed in tarnished gold at the back of the throne after the lapse of two reigns. _ _ _ At half-past two, the firing of guns and flourish of trum pets announced the arrival of her Majesty, who shortly after wards entered the house, preceded by the heralds and great officers of state, and attended by the 'Duchess of Sutherland, mistress of the robes, the Marchioness of Lansdowne, and the other ladies of the royal household. The queen wore her c^own, a splendid robe of white satin, richly trimmed with gold lace, the crimson velvet state man tle, with a broad band of gold lace around the hem, and decorated with gold cord and tassels. Her Majesty's neck lace, stomacher, and ear-ring, were composed of large bril liants of the purest water. Her Majesty looked extremely well, and conversed for some time with the Duke of Sussex, who stood upon her left hand, and Viscount Melbourne, who carried the sword of state, on her Majesty's right hand. Having requested the peers to be seated, her Majesty di rected Sir Augustus Clifford, the usher of the black rod, to summon the House of Commons; and shortly afterwards, the Speaker, in his robes of state, attended by the ser,,"eant at-arms arid a large body of members, appeared at the bar. The SPEAKER immediately proceeded to address her ma jesty as follows: Most Gracious Majesty, We, your faithful Commons, approach your majesty at the close of a laborious and unusually protracted session of par liament. The serious disturbance which unhappily broke out in the province of Lower Canada demanded our imme diate attention. It was our first care to place at the disposal of your majesty, such means as we deemed to be indispensa ble for the restoration of order, and the maintenance of fu ture tranquillity. In considering, as it Was our ditty to do, the causes which had led to these deplorable events, we found that the discord which had so lw.urperi ferent branches of the government and legislature had ren dered it impossible to conduct public affairs with that effici ency and harmony which were essential to the prosperity and safety of that province. Under - this conviction, we telt that it was necessary to interpose, by adopting a vigorous and deci sive measure; and we have passed an act, suspending, for a limited time, the constitution of Lower Canada, and have given large and extensive means to be exercised under the control of your majesty, and on the responsibility of your ministers. We are conscious that such a measure can only be defended by the deepest conviction of its necessity; and we anxiously look for cur justification in the early re-estab lishment of the 'free institutions of that important colony, with such amendments as may best secure the happiness of its people, as well as cement its union with the mother coun try. Among the subjects rendered to our consideration in your majesty's gracious speech on the opening of the parlia ment, there was none that presented neater difficulties, or, which demanded more care and circumspection, than the provision to be made for the destitute in Ireland. We felt that no measure for the introduction of a poor-law into a country circumstanced as Ireland is, with respect to the num ber and condition of its population, could be proposed with out incurring heavy responsibility; but, looking at the exam ple of what had been done on this subject, by former parlia ments, with respect to England, we thought that the time was come when we might legislate for Ireland with safety, and with a reasonable hope of success. We have firmly ad hered to these principles, which have been sanctioned by general concurrence and by experience; but we have not carried them further than was necessary to give them a fair chance of success, and to meet the pressing.exigency of the case. If the execution of thieigaost important law shall be watched over and guided by thefaine prudent and impartial spirit which governed our deliberations in its enactment, we confidently hope that the benefits which it is calculated to confer wilt he gradually developed, that it will be found to be just towards all who are effected by its provisions, and that it will eventually be the means of greatly improving the comforts and the habits of the people of Ireland. We have passed an act for abolishing compositions for tithes in Ire land, and have substituted rent charges, payable by those who have a perpetual interest in the land. The exaction of tithe from those who were either unable, or who refused to pay, has been a fruitful source of strife, alike injurious to the public peace and the real interests of the church. We have given the strongest proof of our desire to extinguish those evils, and to procure present repose and tranquility by mak ing a liberal and munificent grant to idemnify, in certain cases, those to whom arrears of composition for tithes are due. We have mitigated the severity of the law, and the sufferings of the unfortunate, by abolishing in certain cases imprisonment for debt; and we have endeavoured to increase the usefulness of the church, by abolishing the holding of benefices in plurality, and by making better provision for the residence of the clergy. In passing these measures, we have again recorded our, conviction, that the surest way to main tain respect for our laws, and attachment to our institutions, is by gradually introducing such amendments as are most likely to recommend them to the improving opinions and in creasing knowledge of the educated classes of the community. We have made provision with liberality, but without impro vidence, for the necessary expenditure of the year, as also for those additional expenses arising from the events in Ca nada. I have now, on the part of the commons, to present • our last bill of supply, to which, with all humility, we pray your majesty's royal assent. The royal assent was then given to a number of bills. '4e Lord Chancellor, on his knee, then presented the speech to her Majesty, who read it in her banal clear and impressive manner. "MY LORDS AND GRNTLEMEN, " The state of Public Business enables me to close this protracted and laborious Session. " I have to lament that the civil.war in Spain forms an exception to the general tranquillity. I continue to receive from all Foreign Powers the strongest assurances of their desire to maintain with me the most amicable relations. " The disturbances and insurrections which had, unfortu nately, broken out in Upper and Lower Canada, have been promptly suppressed ; and I entertain a confident hope that firm and judicious measures will empower you to restore a Constitutional form of Government. which unhappy events have compelled you for a time to suspend. "I rejoice at the progress which has been made in my Co lonial possession towards the entire Abolition of Negro Ap prenticeship. "I have observed with much satisfaction The attention which you have bestowed upon the amendment of the Domes tic Instituti o ns of the Country. I trust that the mitigation of the law of Impri:ionment for Debt will prove at once favor able to the liberty of my Subjects, and safe for commercial credit; and that the Established Church will derive increased strength and efficiency from the restriction of the granting of Benefices in Plurality. " I have felt great pleasure in giving my assent to the Bill for the Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland. I cherish the expectation that its provisions base been so cautiously framed, and will be so prudently executed, that whilst they contribute to relieve distress, they will tend to preserve order and to encourage habits of industry and exertion. 7 "I trust likewise that the Act which you have passed re lating to the Composition for Tithe in Ireland, will increase the security of that property, and m:onpre intern•!l "IGENTI.EMF.N"Or THE }LOUSE OF COMMONS, " I cannot sufficiently thank you for your dispatch and liberality in providing for the expenses of my household and the maintenance of the honour and dignity of the Crown. I offer you my warmest acknowledgments for the addition which you have made to the income of my beloved Mother. " I thank you for the supplies which you have voted for the ordinary Public Service, as well as for the readiness with which you have provided means to meet the extraordi nary expenses rendered necessary by the state of my Cana dian possessions. " My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " The many useful measures which yo❑ have been able to consider, while the settlement of the civil list and the state of Canada demanded so much of your attention, are a satisfac tory proof of your zeal for the public good. You are so well acquainted with the duties which now devolve upon you in your respective counties, that it is unnecessary to remind you of them. In the discharge of them you may securely re ly upon my firm support, and it only remains to express an humble hope that Divine Providence may watch over us all, and prosper our united' efforts for the welfare of our country." The LORD CHANCELLOR announced, that the parliament stood prorogued till Thursday the 11th of October next. Immediately afterwards her Majesty and her attendants quitted the house, all the Peers and Peeresses standing, and returned to the palace in the same order as before. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes after one o'clock. Sir R. INGLIS begged to congratulate the Speaker and the house upon the termination of a session unexampled in many respects. They had now sat 178 days; and in no former session of parliament had that house ever sat for ten consecu tive months. The house bad in the present session sat for ten consecutive months, and 1134 hours. It was true that, in one former year, that ❑umber of hours was exceeded; but that was owing to there having been morning sittings. Mr. LEA DER presented petitions praying that the twenty three individuals who bad been included iu Earl Durham's -Canada ordinance might receive a full and free pardon. Sir C. DOUGLAS wished to make a few remarks on the motion of which he had given notice some time ago. He regretted that no amendment had been made in the poor-law amendment act. To the motion of the honourable member for Oldham, he refused to accede, thereby showing himself favourable to the general principle of the act. He was sorry, however, that the labours of the committee had been so pro tracted, for he was anxious to have brought this matter under discussion ; but he did not feel justified in bringing it forward now, as the report had only just been circulated. He thought the recess might be well employed by hon. members, if they looked through the evidence during that period. He begged to disclaim all party feeling on the subject; but he hoped ministers, at the commencement of the next session, would be prepared to make the poor-law amendment act more con sonant to the feelings of the people. Mr. FRESHFIELD thought, if any persons had a right to complain, it was the committee that had been sitting. What ever Might be the anxiety of hon. members to show feelings of humanity, he could assure the house that no stronger feel ings existed anywhere'than in the committee. 'rhe SPEAKER said, the hou. baronet had not concluded with any motion. Sir C. DOUGLAS then moved that each assistant poor-law commissioner do forthwith prepare a report to the board at Somerset House, as to how far he may lie of opinion that the regulations nu..- it, f orce for r cf.ohi s out-door relief in money to the able-bodied, ano.c.. the separation or muu awl wife in the workhouses after sixty years of age (each,) should or should not be , modified, stating the reasons for whichever view he may take. Mr. EA STHOPE deprecated these vague discussions on subjects of so much importance at this late period of the session, when it was impossible any good could be effected by it. At twenty minutes past two o'clock, the Usher of theßlack Rod appeared at the table, and summoned the house to the house of peers, to hear her majesty's gracious speech. On their return, the Speaker read ber Majesty's speech, and the house then separated. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS, &c. The Rev. W. Wallace, 8.A., has been instituted to the Rectory of Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk, on the presentation of Samuel Skinner. Esq., of Shirley Park, and John Hodgson, Esq., of Chigwell, Essex. The Rev. Septitnus Ramsay, M.A., minister of St Michael's, Burleigh-street, Strand, has been appointed Secretary to the Upper Canada Clergy Society. The Rev. Silvanus Brown, M.A., of. Pembroke College, Oxford, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Rectory of Pollock, Somersetshire, vacant by he death of the Rev. A. J. Clarke, M.A. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Report states, that the Incumbency of the New Church, Edghaston, will be given to the Rev. Richard Spooner, son of townsman, R. Spooner, Esq.—Birmingham Advertiser. The Rev. J. Holden Harrison has been appointed Chap lain to the Aston Union. The Rev. P. W. Joliffe to the office of Cbaplain to the Poole Union. The Rev. H. Cottingham to the living of Ballymachugh county of Cavan. OBITUARY. In his 82d year, the Rev. John Gardiner, D.D., a Magis trate for the county of Somerset, for more than 57 years Rec tor of Brailsford, in the county of Derby, and upwards of 42 years minister of the Octagon Chapel, in Gloucester. The Rev. John Barlow Seale, D.D. Rector of Slated, in the county of Essex, and of Anstey, in the county of Hert ford, The Rectory of Sisted is in the patronage of the Arch bishop of Canterbury; and of Anstey in that of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge. At Oban, Argyleshire, the Rev. John Collier Jones, D.D., Rector of Exeter College, Vicar of Kidlington, and an acting magistrate in the county of Oxford. At Gateshead, in the 64th year of his age, the Rev. Robert Arthur, 24 years minister of the Castle girth Chapel, in New castle, and formerly of Paul's Chapel, Perth. MISCELLANEOUS. The Bishop of LLANDAFF is, we are happy to state, quite recovered from the serious indisposition which that Rev. Pre late was labouring under a short time since. His lordship is at present on a visit to Lady Wilson, at Sidmouth. CONSECRATION OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH, GLOBE -ROAD, MILE END.—'Thursday the ceremony of the consecration of anew Church was performed by the Bishop of LONDON in the Globe-road, Mile End. The Church, whiclkis remarkably neat and convenient structure, is situated at the north east corner of the park belonging. to Messrs. Charrington's, the well-known ale brewers. We understand that the ground was purchased from those gentlemen by the managers of the metropolitan Churches fund at merely a nominal price, and that the expenses of the building, which cost about £4,000. in erecting, were entirely defrayed from that fund. The com munion plate and books were furnished at the cost of the Bishop of LONDON. The Church contains sittings for 1.300 persons, more. than one-half of which are free and unappro _primed. .7. , ',- The Rev. Dr. HUNTLEY has preleiffed£ool/. as a - donation to the Charity School of the parish of Marylebone. EPISCOPAL VISITATION AT LEEDS.—The Primary Visita- tion of the Bishop of RiPoN at Leeds, took place on Wednes day last. The sermon was preached by the Vicar of Leeds, from Acts, 7th chap. 26th verse—" Sirs, ye are brethren ; why do ve wrong one to another ?" The discourse was listened to with great attention ; it comprised a lucid and interesting history of the Church and of the Reformation, and of the causes which had led to the diversity of opinion among pro fessing Christians. We had intended to have given an out line of this discourse, but as we understand that the Vicar has complied with a request to publish it. we refrain from doing so. After the sermon, the names of the clergy were called over, and the Bishop afterwards, seated in his chair of state, read his primary charge to the Clergy. We understand that in compliance with a request made to his Lordship. the charge will also be published! The Bishop and the Clergy afterwards dined together at the Royal Hotel.—Leeds Inteitigencer. At the Visitation dinner at Leeds, the Bishop ,of Ripon announced that it was his intention to consecrate seven new churches, recently erected within his diocese, in the mouth of October next. 'rhe foundation stone of a new church, to be dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in Wakefield, was laid on Thursday, by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, with the customary ceremonial. A subscription has been set on foot, headed by the Arch bishop. and the Dean and Chapter, of Canterbury, for the purpose of raising a sufficient sum to erect a church, and clergyman's residence, in the ville of Dunkirk. An important decision was, come to by the bench of magis trates, at Doncaster, on Saturday last, by which it appears, that Catholics, Quakers, and Dissenters are exempt from payment of toil, when going to and returning from their usual place of religious worship situate out of the parish. We understand, and we believe on good authority, that the venerable Major Sir Robert Clayton, Bart. has invested in the hank of Messrs. Woodcock and Sons, Wigan, the muni ficent sum of £5OO towards an endowment to Christ Church, Adlington, in addition to £2OO which he has given towards the building. We have heard also that Lady Clayton has kindly promised to give the communion-plate and books.— Blackburn Standard. POVERTY OF THE IRISH PRIESTHOOD.—PrOm a statement made by the Rev. J.W. Dixon, now a minister of the Church of England, but formerly a member of the Church of Rome. it appears that whilst a poor parish priest in the diocese of Killala, he enjoyed a clear income of £3OO a-year. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—The woollen trade of this district continues steady, and with very little alteration. Wools are in fair demand, but as the price continues firm it has a tendency to check any merely speculative demand. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The demand for goods was by no means brisk, still the prices of the last few weeks were firmly kept up. This may be attributed mainly, no doubt, to the comparatively low stock on baud, and the persuasion that things will certainly advance. HDDDeRSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Trade is very brisk to-day; every description of goods fur the cold, season are in demand at prices which are understood to pay the manufacturer. Doe-skins and other fancy articles in great request. The, merchants are extremely busy. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—The trade has again been very flat, and large holders have submitted to a ►ittle reduc tion, but it has not been accompanied by extensive sales. In short wool rather more has been done than of late. BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—There is no difference as com pared with last week in our piece market. Six•quarter me rinos (fizired) are still wanted in greater quantities than they are made, and for such a little more money is paid. Low plain qualities are also not over plentiful, and such easily change hands. The improvement noticed in lastings and moreens is still readily obtained.—Yarns: There is nothing different to report as to yarns from that 'of last week. Wool: The various wool sales now at hand evidently ope rates on the spinners in their purchases. This, added to the anxiety of the staplers to sell, makes the trade dull, and no doubt a purchaser, to any extent, might be served on easier terms than on this day se'nnig,ht DEWSBURY BLANKET HALL.—There was a brisk demand for blankets here on Monday, as well as for a new descrip tion of coarse cloth called " Radical"; but prices were no minally the same as at recent markets. BARNSLEY.—The linen-trade here, which for some time past has been dull, owing, in a great degree to the cold spring, is reviving, and a good winter trade is confidently anticipated. Generally speaking, the operatives are well ' employed; and those not in the rooms, may, if they please, get work in the fields. The grain crops in this neighbour hood promise well; especially barley and oats. • IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—A farmer in Forfarshire has it is said, completely saved his turnip crop from the beetle, fora ti,ne p i e n v g i () s u e : r i t e o s s o o f w y i n e s a , m b y o n keeping d t e r a b s e l e e d q , u f a o n r t i s t o y m o e r flour of sulphur, and sowing the sulpher along with the seed. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The halt-yearly general meeting of the proprietors in the Great Western Railway was held on Wednesday, at the Me rc h an t s '-h all, Bristol. The chair was taken by W. U. Sims, Esq., at one o'clock pre cisely. After the general and also the engineer's r e p orts h a d been read, which occupied more than two hours, it was moved by Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, of Liverpool, and carried, that the meeting, at its rising, do adjourn until the 10th day of October, in order that the proprietors may have time to ex amine their contents. A long uiscussion ensued on a pro posal of Mr. Mozley, of Liverpool, fora committee to inquire into the mode of constructing the railway, whether it is best to carry out the present pl,aaq, or make any alteratinuitherei-nr; but, as e - feeling of meeting was decidedly in favour of the entire management being left with thedirectors, the pro posal was not persevered in. Various reasons were urged by persons present, a g ainst the en g in ee ri ng d epartment of the undetakiug, which were answered in a very satisfactory manner by C. B. Fripp, Esq., one of the directors; who, in the course of hir remarks, mentioned as a proof of the de cid§d preference of Mr. Brunel's mod e o f l ay i ng t h e ra i ls, that on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway they are actually substituting rails laid on longitudinal sleepers, as nearly as possible similar to those on the Great Western Railway, for the former rails laid on the old plan. The meeting, which was very numerously attended, not fewer than 400 gentlemen being present, broke up at half.past seven in the evening, having lasted nearly seven hours. The account of the receipts from passengers, &c., conveyed from London to Maidenhead, was such as to exceed expectation; upwards of 100,000 pas sengers having travelled thereon since the opening, without a single accident to any one of them. The present estimate, as to the cost of the undertaking when finished, is for the 117/ miles, £4,560 , 938, exclusive of locomotive engines and carriages. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. SATURDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the afternoon of yesterday the British market had a heavy appearance, and Consols receded from the morning prices, 91*, to 94 for the Account, and from 94i Money, to 93% 94 Money. This re-action in general is attributed; to the still unsettled state of affairs between the Dutch and Belgians, as well as the French government having given orders to put the fortress on the side of Belgium in a warlike attitude. _ Consols opened this morning at 94i'for Account and Mo ney, for the October Account 94h I. "Exchequer Bills, 72 74; India Bonds, 73 75; Bank Stock, 207 8; ladia Stock, 2641 265. In the Foreign market the prices are nominal as yet; Spanish Active, 2li Portuguese, 361- 371; , Three per Cents., 24M ; Brazilian, 84; Mexican, 241 4; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i i; Five per Cents., 1.028 HALF-PAST ONE. Accounts received at Bordeaux, by the schooner l'Aigle, of the Bth June, from Tabasco, state the above province was on the eve of being the theatre of great disorders, the federal party having advanced within 60 miles of Vera Cruz, and it was expected that they would enter the town, as the inhabi tants were disposed to favour them, by supplying them with a large amount of money. • Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 94 for the Account, have somewhat improved, and may be quoted at 941 for the Account; Money, 941. Exchequer Bills, 74 72 pm.; India Bonds, 74 72; Bank Stock, 208; India Bonds, 2644 5. In the Foreign market—Spanish, 21i ; Portuguese rather better, 361 7; Three per Cents., 24k; exican, 244 Brazilian, 841; Colombian. 261 .1; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 541 I; Five per Cents., 102% %; Belgian, 10234. _ _ The Share market is extremely heavy. Great Western declined to 112 pm. Brighton, 21 dis. Robinson's Asphalt; 11 dis QUARTER BEFORE THREE. Consols for the Account, 94i 1. (From the Times.). F' RIDAY EVENING Some attention has been drawn to the fact:of a trifling ad vance in the price of gold, and the Bank, it is understood, now consent to purchase at the price of £3 17s. 10d. the ounce. By giving the full legal limit, they expect to wake it less of an object with the holders to send it abroad, for which the state of the exchanges offers some inducement, especially to the north of Europe, for the use of the speculators ingrain, who seem likely, however, as they have been for two or three . seasons.y.ast; mi. naistaken iu thcii co.kujwions. - • • The foreign exchanges show a still further decline on the last post, and the proceeding of the bank above referred to proves that a proper degree of atttention is directed to the subject. The quotation on El amburgh was 13.111 i ; on Am sterdam, short, 12.24 to 3; and on Pari.s, short, 24.45 to 471-. A correspondent of Boston (United States) paper, lately received, gives some striking facts, showing the real cause of the difficulties of the country, and connecting in a clear and convincing manner the over-issues of the banks with the disasters of the trading interest. Some of the facts, which are derived from official documents, are exceedingly curious and instructive as to the issue. He says— " Of British manufactures, the leading items of which are cotton, woollen, and linen fabrics, the importation of the three years past have been so excessive that there can be no question the country is over supplied, as it is also with many other staples, the products of Asia and South America, as Well as Europe, since our importations of foreign goods in the years ending the 30th of September, 1835, 1836, and 1837, were nearly equal to the aggregate of five years. The whole amount was 480,758,757 dollars, averaging 160,252,919 dots; per annum. The import fur 1834 was also large, having amounted to 126,521,332 dollars. The average importations for four years prim to 1834 (and the period was a prosperous one) amounted to 95,803.905 dollars, against 160,252,919 dots. the three years . 'past. The natural increase of wealth and population, however, requires an increased supply of goods, and perhaps an average of 105,000,000 to 110,000,000 dol lars would not been out of proportion to 96,000,000 dollars, the former period; and the excess of that may be considered, according to our view of the matter, as an over supply, and beyond the means of nation to consume. The redundant importation was caused mainly by excessive issues of bank paper, bank loans, and by various other facilities for the exaction and extension of credit. "It was asserted in my last communication, that the im ports of cotton goods for 1835 and 1836 cost the importers 37,000.000 dollars to 38,000,000 dollars. It should have said, • dyed and printed cottous,' and the fact of such an unusual quantity of this particular species of goods will readily ac count for the low prices of American printed goods with which they have come into competition. It is true they are a higher quality of goods, but having been sold from 1-3 - to z cost of importation, they have been brought down to the ordinary prices of American prints. _ _ " I will now call the attention of those merchants and ma nufactures who are deeply interested in the important article of cotton fabrics to the following facts, taken froth the Cus tom-house returns, and which I think must satisfy every one familiar with the subject of the reasonableness of what I have advanced—namely, that the existing low prices of cotton goods, so much longer continued than was generally anticipa ted, have arisen, not so much from decreased consumption, as from an over-supply, and mainly derived from foreign im portation. " Import of cotton goods in 1833 " Do do. in 1836 Dollars. 15.367,585 17,867,087 " Total _ 33,234,672 "The imports in 1833 and 1834 amounted in the aggregate to 16,894,041 dollars, being only one-half the two latter years. "It may, however, be supposed that the whole amount of foreign imports for these two years was less than Usual . ; but so far was this front being the case, that they were beyond the average, and amounted to 117,319,821 dollars per annum. " To aggravate the evil sowing from this superabundant importation of cotton goods, there was an increased importa tion of linens, many kinds of which come closely in competi tion with cotton fabrics, and more extensively so since the en tire removal of duties on the principal part of our importations. This alteration took place in 1834. "The aggregate importations of linen goods in 1835 and 1836 amounted to 19,225,218 dollars, against an aggregate ;., iszaq -h.;nt; I, .s¢ than a third of the amount of the two latter years." (From the official list, containing the business actually transacted.) . • BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 208 India Stock, 3 per Ct. Red., 951 India Bonds, 3 per Ct. Con., 94 South Sea Stock, 32 per Ct. Anns. 1818, _ Bank Stock for Acct., 3 per Ct. Red., lO2i Consols for Acct, 944 New 3y, per Cents.. 1011 £lOOO Ex. Bills, 74 72 pm Long Ans. 1860, 152 9-16 £5OO do. 71 72 pm Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, 15i Small do. 74 72 um Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, 15 3-16 Ditto Commercial, `2td., 12 (The quotations give the actual price, without reference to premium or discount.) Great Western, 78 761 ;Le g al & General Life Assur- London and Brighton , 8 ranee z pm. Bitumen, Polonceau, London and Blackwall, Bitumen, London, London and Greenwich, Manchester and Birmingham, London & Southampton, Galvanised Iron Company. London Joint Stock Company London & Birmingham, Northern and Eastern, South Midland, Asphalte, British, THE FREE-TRADE SYSTEM. (From the Morning Herald.) The columns of the Courier are, occasionally, graced by contributions from some of the small fry of dabblers in Whig political economy. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the self-sufficiency of these authorities is proportioned inversely to their knowledge, and powers of reasoning'! Last night, the Courier adverted to, what it was pleased to style, the " ludicrously weak arguments," and, also, to the " cant" employed by the Herald, on the subject of the corn laws. Our censor proceeded, subsequently, to exhibit the profundity of his own views, together with his own exemp tion from cant, in the following luminous passage : " The merest tyro in public business knows that the hand loom weavers have been reduced to distress by the competi- . tion of improved machinery, and Spitalfields has not been beggared' by the competition of Lyons, though it has suf fered from the competition of Manchester. The proof that an approximation to a liberal policy has not injured'our silk trade is found in the fact that, whereas we formerly exported no silk manufactures, we now have a large export trade, and are able to compete with several descriptions of French silk in almost every market in the world. In 1836 we exported silk manufactures to the declared value of £917.822, and even in 1837, a year of depression, our exports under this head amounted to £194,569." That the handloom weavers have been reduced to the deepest distress by competition with machinery, is a fact, which the _Herald has often proclaimed; but the simple repe tition of that fact by the Courier does not, by any means, prove, that a system which tolerates competition of such 'a character, is not an exceedingly had system :—nor does the assertion (even if that assertion were absolutely true); that the competition of Manchester—and not the competition of Lyons—impoverishes Spitalfields, prove that the policy of free trade !s not a policy destructive of the best interests of England. The unconscious philosopher of the Courier ap pears to be ignorant of the grounds on which his favourite flee-trade system is assailed ; but, with a simplicity which is quite refreshing in these sophistical and calculating times, adduces, in favour of our reigning commercial policy, cer tain obvious facts, which tend merely to prove that policy's unsoundness! We contend for the establishment of a system that shall truly and fully protect the industrious classes of England. We oppose the free-trade system—that sy s t em , i n M other words, which lays all the barriers that ever have been reared for the protection of labour, prostrate before the eecroach ments of capital. To the perfection of such a system as that which we advocate, it is essential, not merely that the in. dustrious classes of England should he protected against un due competition with foreign labourers, but against unnatural competition against their fellow-subjects, and with ma chinery! The government which permitted eight hundred thousand handloom weavers to be robbed by machinery, of profitable employment—without providing for these poor men other equally profitable employment or ample compensation at the public expense—was party to a fraud of fearful magni bide ; whilst the system of commercial policy which inflicts " beggary" on the patient and skilful artisans of Spitalfields —whether the immediate instruments in the production of that state of " beggary" be the workmen of Manchester or Lyons—is a system at war with the dearest rights of huma nity, and, therefore, with all the enduring interests of Eng land. A truly protective system would save the men of Spitalfiel Is from unnatural competition with the men of Manchester, as certainly as from unnatural competition with the men of Lyons. The free-trade system, on the contrary, has doomed the Spitalfields 'Weaver to toil eighteen hours a day, Sundays included; and it is of the very essence of that system that the harder its victims toil the less valuable must their labour become. But such results are not the less odious, whether their most efficient causes are found to operate in Manchester or in Lyons! In estimating ' moreover, the real meani ng o f th e C our i er ' s statement, that Spitalfields has suffered by competition with Manchester, we must not permit ourselves to run away with the notion that the weavers of Manchester gain what the weavers of Spitalfields lose. No ; both classes of producers —the men of Manchester as well as the men of Spitalfields— lose, and lose equally. They are employed to beat down the value of each other's labour to the lowest possible point, and -the benefit accrues exclusively to the monied classes who em ploy them, and to the idle consumers all over the world ! Such is the inevitable result of the free-trade system; and it is because such is its result that free trade finds favour in the eyes of its supporters! But, according to the Courier, free trade can have inflicted no injury on our silk trade, because we have an export trade in silk ! Does the Courier mean to deny, that the condition o f the Spitalfields and Coventry weavers has become worse every year, since their protecting laws were repealed—or that the silk-weavers of Manchester are in a condition not sensibly better than that which is the lot of the artisans in Coventry and Spitalfields? What, in point of fact, does the existence of an Export trade in English silk, in such circum stances, denote? What, but that the misery of the English silk-weavers—induced, as that misery has been by compe tition with the weavers of Lyons, and aggravated by coin petitition with the artisans of Spitalfields; Coventry, Mac clesfield, and Manchester—is more intense than the misery of foreign producers of silk goods ;—and that in virtue of the greater cheapness of labour, of which that misery is, at once, tbe.canse, and the effect, an export trade in English e silks has come practicable ? Let the hours of daily labour . ~ in Spitalfields be increased—let the wages of industry in that unfortunate region, be still farther depressed ;—and we will venture to prophesy, that the export trade in silk, to which the Courier points with so much pride, will be very considerably increased. Having disposed of our silk trade, according to the ap proved " philosophical" principles, the Courier comes, at length, to the corn laws. The following is a cogent question : " Does our contemporary suppose that if foreign wheat were introduced at a moderate fixed duty of Ws or 12s a quarter, our landlords would be so very anxious to promote the interests of the corn growing serfs' beyond seas, as to turn all their own corngrowing serfs adrift, and throw their estates out of cultivation ?" The anxiety of " our landlords," in the circumstances sup posed, would, we fancy, import very little ! If there existed only a fixed duty of twelve shillings a quarter on foreign wheat, not an ear of wheat could be grown in England, and not a " corngrowing " estate in England would be worth a year's purchase. The rents of the landowners would pass into the pockets of the moneyed classes • and, at the same time, one-half of the wages now paid to the labourers of, England would find their way, permanently, to the sgme destination. Cheap corn would make land cheap to the moneyed classes; —whilst cheap corn would be the prelude to cheap labour — that great object, on which the desires of the buyers of labour are fixed. Free trade in corn would produce results similar to those produced by free trade in silk. The idle consumers, and the moneyed schemers would gain all that other classes would be sure to lose? Such, however, undoubtedly, is not the view, which greets the prophetic eye of the Courier:— "With a moderate fixed duty on foreign corn there would be nearly as much corn grown in England as at present ; but the rents of the landlords would have to be reduced, though to a smaller extent than they themselves apprehend. Mean while the increased prosperity of all classes depending on their own industry, would infallibly react upon the value of the land, and in the course of a few years, perhaps even the owners, as well as the occupiers, of land, might find themselves benefited rather than injured by the change." "A moderate fixed duty on corn "—even although rents were annihilated—would render the cultivation of the Eng lish soil impossible! Half our popUlation would be thrown out of employment ; —Wages would sink universally to the starvation point;—our home-trade would utterly cease; — farmers and landowners would be reduced to beggary; — whilst the discharge of public and of private Obligations would become absolutely impossible! As to the Courier's pleasing anticipation, that "the increased prosperity of all classes. would depend on their own industry "—let us only bear in mind, how far the prosperity of all classes stow—under the partial operation of free trade--depends on their own in dustry ;—and from known facts, let us attempt to estimate the results, to which unrestricted free trade would probabit, lead ! Now, we repeat, a Spitalfield weaver works eighteeii hours a day, Sundays included; and earns not one-third part of the sum, which he was able to earn, when twelve hours measured the period of his daily toil! In what sense, or to what extent, would the " prosperity" of a Spitalfield weaver, or of any other artisan depend "on his own industry," after the introduction of a change, which by cheapening bread, would not only directly cheapen labour in the same propor tion—but increase competition to an incalculable extent ? Perhaps, the Courier's philosophy may enable it to answer the question ! TO THE ELECTORAL BODY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. Many of you will have seen' the covert personal attack which was made upon me in the House of Commons on Monday last, by one of the sitting members for your city, Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The parliamentary reports in the newspapers contain it. If I spew you, and 1 think I can do it in a short space, that he has used his privilege of a seat for the city, in this instance, where no public end was to be answered, for the purpose of making a wanton and unmanly attack upon me, I conceive he has by this act, if he had by nothing else, disentitled himself to expect the support of any man of common honesty, or indeed, endued with the ordinary feelings of humanity; but the outrage is even ag gravated by an assumed pretext of jealousy for the public money, which makes it the more detestable. I shall first observe that it appears his speech did not procure the support of any member, English, Scotch, or Irish. The motion was made to postpone the third reading of the pension , ' bill to Tuesday, that the mover might, in the meantime, prepare a clause to place the Marchioness of Westineath's pension in abeyance until my death. He, confessedly the most ex-. pert lawyer of the day, demanded, in form, twenty-four hours' delay to prepare a clause, which the most inexperien ced M.P. could have composed on the moment—five short lines would have sufficed. But though he had time to turn in his mind the materials to blacken me in a well-considered speech, and to make re ferences, he would have the house to believe it was not to make the speech he had risen, so much as to obtain 54 hours' postponement to do that, which even a schoolboy could per form in five minutes. Well, he knew that his clause would not be entertained, even if prepared and proposed; and he was just as well aware that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not stop the progress of the pensions' bill for such a purpose. The debate shews it. But farther—the proposition that Mr. O'Connell had sketched was to abate the pension du ring my life, and that it should be revived if Lady Westmeath should survive me. Now, if it had been a wish to effect a sa ving of the public money that actuated him, Mr. O'Connell (having had a knowledge of the pension ever since the papers were first prin ted in the early part of the session,) had seve ral months to ascertain the public grounds on which he should have moved in the matter. The slightest disposition to in quire would have enablecLhim to know, that in the event of my death, Lady Westmeath has a jointure of £3,000 a-year, Irish currency, secured to her; and it is upon such a contin gency that he proposes a pension should revive, which, until then, was to be abated—that is, now, while he states she is in comparative poverty, it was to be taken back from her, and (in the interest of the public,) to be given back in an event when she could not possibly want it. The hypocrite!. and he could not be ignorant of the fact of the existence of that join ture, for my title has been before him with a statement of in sumbraneas. and it is not in human nature that, meditating such a speech, the facts should not have recurred to his•vigor ous memory. But finally, after having emitted his venom, he withdrew his motion. froliiever, this i s not the worst. Of a ll men existing, Mr. O'Connell is the very last who should have made a personal attack on me, as you will presently set.. .4 is true 1 have with _perseverance, to the utmost el ,ruy power, - exposeu in parwatnerit fife pernicious effects 00 society of this Lad man's influence upon the government of the country. In his tour of mischief through the . north of Enitand and Scot land, I was subjected by name, as a member of the House of Lords, to the compliment of his low lived, vulgar abuse— since, then, also, in some of his speeches to the same distinc tion, and in such terms as no one who had been born and bred a gentleman could have stooped to use. I have had, there fore, the right and the leisure to analyse the vow in heaven from which the foul-mouthed hypoCrite obtains his-impunity; and I ask you, fellow-countrymen, whatever may be your po litical opinions, whether it is humanly possible that a man can have registered a vow with the God of peace, of justice, and of mercy, who knows no measure in the indulgence of private malignity, when provoked by the offence of merely political opposition—who stops at nothing as far as his great talents, so hellishly. perverted, can enable him to go, indulge in at tacks on the private character of political opponents? If not, then, you have a well:defined coward for your' member, and I do not see how any other conclusion can be arrived at. The miscreant has stepped beyond the sphere of ordinary men, merely by the force of his talents;it has not been by their le- ;itimate use. He has by fraud, perjury, and impudence, embodied a sys tem to deprive property of its due share of representation for treland in the House of Commons, and to substitute his own nominees (most of them not even qualified), all for the avowed purpose of ulterior and endless aggresion against the Protes tant institutions of the country. Does it not behove every Protestant who is not a fool or a knave to resist him? Inas much as 1, then, for one, have put my shoulder to the collar to do so, I am become a peculiar object of his vindictive hate, and what is more, of the never-Sleeping malice of those minis ters of peace, his fellow labourers, the Roman Catholic priests ; for in every parish where I have property, they never suffer any, the slightest occasion to pass, which is afforded them, of promoting dissension between me and my tenants; while their altars are profaned by coaxing and threats to extract the money of my tenants, and the tenants of others, to put it into the pockets of this demoniac, that he may, vulture-like, live iu affluence, without industry, and continue to disturb the peace of society here, and proclaim to foreign nations the shame-of• Great Britain and of its administration, which per mits such a nuisance to exist in its bosom, not only unabated, but nourished, for those purposes which no individual of the government collectively cannot deny, and of which i,t is con victed daily from sunrise to sunset. I come now to the next cause of Mr. O'Connell's everlasting shame, as connected with/this transaction, if anything could shame so abandoned a viilain. -Be has in his speech referred to certain suits and decisions in the ecclesiastical courts in England, between me and ihe - Marchioness of Westmeath, thus wantonly re viving before the public, matters into which the public never inquire, except when before the tribunals of the country, and which, of all men, he should have abstained from alluding to, .because his own treachery, when my paid advocate, mainly led to the result it now suits him to exult in. In the progress of these suits u and in January, 1825;1 found it necessary to institute criminal proceedings for 'conspiracy against several of the witnesses sent from this country to sustain some of the -allegations preferred against me. 'There were five persons of them indicted at the sessions of Green-street, fur conspiring by false evidence to sustain those imputations, and the attorney of Lady 'Westmeath was in dicted for the same offence along with them. Mr. O'Connell was one of my council. The trial lasted two days. When near its conclusion, all my counsel (they were five) were invited to leave the court, and to confer in an adjoining room, and 1 was requested to attend them. '1 he case was nearly ready to go to the jury, and Mr. O'Connell then made the unprecedented Proposal to me, when in the agony of suspense, as to a result which I considered of more importance than my life, to allow Lady Westmeath's attor ney to he acquitted, by way of ensuring the conviction of the rest. This proposal came from himself. It was not made in concert with any other of my counsel, who are all now liv ing,- and can now contradict me if I mistake it. One of theca, the present Master of the Rolls, who, although it has been my lot to differ with him in politics, I owe it to truth to say, is an ornament to his country as a lawyer and a judge, openly opposed the proposal. His words to me, said in the hearing of those present, were: " Hold him on, Lord West meath." However, Mr. O'Connell blustered, and his recom mendation prevailed. The agent was enlarged, under these suspicious circumstances, by - 111 r. O'Connell's own act. I might, to be sure, have resisted it; but I could hardly have been expected to take so decided a line against the urgent recommendations of the counsel whose share it was to speak to the evidence and to the jury. Judge Vandeleur, however, who was trying the case, expressed his opinion Of the pro ceedings so as no legal man could mistake it, by saying "it should have been allowed to go to the jury." And what ensued ? I merely obtained by all the trouble, anxiety, and expense, the conviction of three perjured wretch es f rom th e dregs of society (for two were acquitted)—who were mere tools in that infamous business; and when the result of that trial was to be transferred and criticised by the Ecclesiastical Court in England, the moral effect of the acquittal of the agent was the white washing of the principal—and thus Mr. O'Connell, against the con v i c ti on o f every one w h o h ear d the trial, and who knew of the affair at the time, is now, in consequence of his own act, enabled to volunteer to resuscitate this shocking affair, and to say in the House of Commons, that he may blacken me, " the lady is blameless." I never could have conceived the disastrous effect which the step be had advised would have had upon me. Had he but permitted the effect of what was actually performed and done to take place, the whole fabric of the matter which now gives Mr. C'Connell his exultation would have been cast the other way. The charges of cruelty (which could never stand the test of a trial at common law, when the witnesses were examined viva voce, and their faces seen in the day light), when put to that ordeal would have been scouted out of court, as they have been laughed at by almost every one whom the process of time and other events have undeceived upon the subject. That this must have been the result could not have been hid from one of Mr. O'Connell's legal acumen ; but I, little thinking that following his treacherous advice was to fasten nearly ten years' more litigation upon me, wrote him a letter , of thanks for doing merely his duty as to the conviction of the rest. - Then I shall he asked with what motive do I now charge Mr. O'Uonnell for taking the step he did. I am now con vinced he was highly bribed to do it. It was, towards me, an act of treachery, of which, at the time it was committed. I could not have supposed any human being capable; but the pressure which I have endured in consequence of it, and the development of his character for scoundrelism in the turpi tude of his political life since, has convinced me be was not only capable of it, but that it is eminently in consonance with the nature of the man. Did he nut receive 'money for supporting the factory bill, and did be or did he not acquit himself for his wages ? Did he not solemnly go up to the table from his place in the house, and adjure his God to the denial of a fact which every dispassionate person in the house and all Ireland knows to be true ? Did he not, in the bearing of Captain Vignoles and of two officers of the 71st refit., now ready to substantiate the fact, in a speech at Carlow thus deliver himself— "Men of Carlow, are you ready? (Aye, aye,) lam the last man to recommend the shedding of one drop of blood; but we lhave tried every means of attaining our just rights; and they have failed. We have no course left now but that which I have hitherto deprecated—the shedding of blood; blood must be shed." And he has had the impudence since to try and extricate himself by a brazen denial, and nothing else. These three matters, selected from the annals of the infa mous political life of the national incendiary, are my proofs of what the man is capable of. The facts of my own case, which I have referred to, bad as they are, never should have been mentioned by me, but for the gratuitous attack lately made in the house of commons. They refer to other parties, and, all considered, it must have been my natural wish to let the matter sleep. No other consideration should have led me thus far to rev►ve them. Good-feeling commanded that I should not do so, but! am not permitted so to act. The public have heard that Mr. O'Connell has lately bad the option of stepping in upon the judicial bench. I cannot credit it to be possible, that any British minister would be so hold as to recommend to his Sovereign that a man implicated as Mr. O'Connell is, should be raised; above all, I will not believe Lord Melbourne would think of such a thing. Our illustrious Sovereign must be first studiously blinded as to the past history of the man, or such an appointment could never happen. Lord Melbourne is not, in my opinion, a man to go that length, or, on the other hand, to admit that any mere expediency could justify such an experiment on the public endurance. I have learnt by report (for I was not in London) that the 'ruffian ventured to present himself at court. I learnt also that a Prince of the Blood, in the presence of the Sovereign, forgot himself so far as to shake hands with this common blackguard. I 'cannot believe it. But if it be really fact, and that it was done for the assertion of a principle, methinks it would have been more consistent and generous in his Royal Highness tO have taken sothe practicable mode of showing his countenance to the object of it during one of the late reigns, because then Mr. Daniel o'Connell was struggling against the presumption of success in his project of dis membering and revolutionizing these dominions. The dung h4l demagogue had not assuined the garb of a courtier in the times of George IV. or of the late King : and, although he "Gud-lessed" his late Majesty to satiety while the reform bill' was in progress, yet he did not make up his mind that matters were ripe for his appearance at court in the late reign; therefore, the salutation by band could not well have happened its the Royal presence then; but, for consistency sake, this distinguished privilege might have been accorded ',o.ewhere, though it certainly was not. But now, when the "reviler of the Saxons for a quarter of a century, and of their women especially, produces his potato-plebian-face at the court of the Queen of the Saxons—at the court of our most gracious Queen, a Prince of the Blood steps out to offer an insult, in the presence of the Sovereign, to every lady in England and every gentleman in Ireland, by forcing the dis tinction of familiarity upon this vagabond—upon the great est trading liar that was ever trained by the Jesnists or cursed the earth—aye, upon the very pivot of treason and disaffection—upon the fostering parent of perjury and demoralization. I treat it as a fable. It could not have passed. But again, I say if it did, inasmuch as 1 know that that illustrious Prince has, out of an enlarged benevolence, bequeathed his royal body for dissection after death, I recommend that he should antici pate the entire gift so humanely intended, and cut off the hand which was so defiled, that he may entitle himself to ap pear again in the presence of his abused sovereign and niece, and also learn from the surgeons who have to analyse that dishonoured limb, the amount of the defilement incurred, that his royal highness may repent in proportion, before increased mischief is generated from so foul an example. The fate of Egalite is pregnant with counsel against such like associa tions. Fellow countrymen, electors, repudiate the monster; if you be Roman catholic:, be cannot be a friend to your reli gion if he dishonours your country; if you be protestant, he has planned your destruction. Send him hack to Kerry— the Kerry men have guaged him, and let these send the petti fogger to parliament if they will. Mr. O'Connell will possibly, however, inquire again after your suffrages. If so, pause, and at least reflect that if he has not long -since been on the felon scaffold, it is only because be. lacked the courage • but remember, he has sent hundreds of others to an untimely end since his career began, and re flect also that his black brooding heart inevitably will deluge this island in blood, by setting man against man within it, unless it pleases Providence to open the eyes of our sovereign to the mischief which is hatching by his contrivance, and to awaken you also to your confidence abused by this thoroughly profligate adventurer. If this happens, we may yet hope to see " In every honest hand a whip, . . To lash the rascal naked through the world." I have the honour to be, fellow countrymen, respectfully your well wisher and obedient servant, WESTMEATH. Clonyn, Castledowndelvin, August 11, 1838. The old-established hank of Messrs. Wood and Holden, at Burslem, is about to be incorporated with the Imperial Bank of England Joint-stock Company. PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND.—At the Wesleyan Con ference lately held, the president asked Mr. Waugh, one of the Irish representatives, if he could give them. a general notion of the amount_ of emigrations from the Wesleyan societies in Ireland during the last fifteen years? Mr. Waugh said that he did not think the number would be less than ten thousand; that they might almost be called (together with their families) the very cream of the society, as they mostly had a little independence, and bad thus been enabled to remove from a country in which Protestants deeply felt that they were positively discountenanced. He added that many of the more respectable Roman Catholics, who did not like to join in plans of revolt, and even blood, likewise, were glad to emigrate. HONESTY IN A SERVANT.—The following singular circum 'stance is said to .have lately occurred at Baden-Baden :—A yOung Austrian count having had uncommon good luck at roulette, brought home and carefully locked up 30,000 florins (about 65„000, francs.) When he arose in the morning not only his gold was gone, but, to his astonishment, his old faith ful ScrVant Fritz was missing also.. In about a week's time, to. his surprise, Fritz made his appearance. " And where do yOu conie from 2" said the count--" From Vienna." "What have you been there for, and what's become of my money?"— "Why, sir, I thought you Would play again, and - lose your money, so I took it home, and here's your fathei's receipt for it."—Are there any but German valets that would take such precaution ? SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF COINERS.—On Thursday 111Orn• ing last, Phcenix, keeper, of the New Islington lock-ups, while on his way to the New Bailey, saw two men sitting upon a stone in a yard by Ladyman's Hotel, in the act of rubbing something. H e went up, to them; and, as soon as they saw him, they ran and dropped a paper, which, on examination, appeared to be composition used to.make zinc look like cop per. 'Williainsou, another officer, who was going by, ob serving a crowd, went to see what was the matter; and, by his aid, both the men were secured. On searching them, several counterfeit pennies were found upon them.—The pri soners, whose names are Enoch Taylor and James Jones, were brought up at the New Bailey the same day; and, having nothing to say in their defence, were committed for trial. — Manchester Courier. AN INDOLENT HUSBAND.—"To this complexion have we come at last."—lt has been the luck of one of our body cor porate to have amassed as much of this world's gains as to leave him in reputed possession of what enabled him to affirm that he is worth £l,OOO when all his just debts are paid; yet he suffers his care sposa to drudge in the capacity of charwoman for eighteen pence a day, in order, it is said. to repair the loss which the husband sustains on a too con stant attendance to the best interests of the borough, on com mittees and at public meetings of the body corporate of Stockport, as one of the radical members of " our little parliament." We shall furnish this interesting fact to my Lord John Russell, in order that he may be made aware of the extent of the usefulness of his household suffrage repre sentation, with an invitation, too, that he will, during the re cess, pay this town a visit, and witness, with his own eyes, paraded in the council chamber, a dozen others of the et hoc genus omne. If he could hut once witness " old Sally" scrubbing the stone window sills and stone steps of the houses of " her betters," or at the wash-tub of some neigh bour, he would be delighted at the thought that the munici pal reform act had conferred so great an htinour on any man who was worthy of so industrious and so useful a woman to her neighbours as " OLD SALLY."—Stockport Advertiser. EXTRAORDINARY LUNACY.—On Monday last a commis sion of lunacy was opened at Ipswich, to inquire into the state of mind of l'obias Rivett, Esq., of Brockford, an old gentle man of 70 years of age, the last survivor of a very ancient family in the county of Suffolk, Mr. Rivett had been mad for more than forty years. At a very early period of life he showed a most revengeful spirit, acting with great malignity , to those offending him. About thirty-five years since, he at tacked a toll-gate keeper, who had given him offence, and most seriously injured him. In consequence of this and other similar conduct, he was put under restraint ; and, when being conveyed to the asylum, he refused to pay for his own and the constable's breakfast, alleging that he had not a penny in the world, whilst he had in his pocket at the time more than £14.000 in notes and gold. After his release from the asylum, he gave up living in the mansion house of the family, and took a labourer's cottage, in which be has since resided; has - ing dogs, cats, rabbits, and other animals, as his companions. All his money has been hoarded, and he has refused to draw the interest accruing from a large sum in the funds, giving as a reason for so acting, his not having received a certificate of his release from the madhouse. He fancies himself to be the rector of the parish, has demanded tithes as such, and of -fetid to appoint curates to do the duty. A few years since, his brother, a gentleman of large fortune, died suddenly, leaving him heir to the estates; but the unfortunate gentle man refused to administer, and has never called for any rent, The tenants have cut down the timber to a most ruinous ex tent, and sold several thousand pounds worth ; but he refused either to prosecute them for the offence, or to prohibit their committing further waste. Shortly before -the last assizes, some thieves broke into Mr. Rivett's cottage, and stole seve ral bags of gold and r.,11s of notes, containing £5O each; but, on the trial of the offenders, he would not give evidence against them, and they were necessarily acquitted. Amongst other extraordinary conduct of this-gentleman, was his knocking down the side of his house, removing the staircase, and get ting into his room by means of a ladder, which he afterwards drew up into the apartment. He kept a colt, dogs, cats, and other animals, tied up in the chamber in which he slept, and refused to permit the filth to be cleared out of the place. He was once conveyed- to prison for refusing to give sureties to keep the peace towards a toll-gate keeper, at whom, he dis charged a gun. Mr. J. Beck, of Brockford, said that Mr. Rivett, some years since, claimed witness's estate; and on his refusing to admit the claim, he attempted to shoot him. Mr. J. Beck, jun. also deposed to having been shot at by him. Mr. Rivett was himself introduced to the jury, and during his examination the public were excluded from the court. The unfortunate gentleman possesses great beauty of features, and a fine majestic form ; his beard hung down low on his breast, and was as white as snow. The jury found that be had been insane and of unsound mind since the year 1806: - TROUBLES OF Tllfi STOCKPORT CORPORATION.—There is a musty, but nevertheless useful, old proverb which informs us that when people of a certain character fall out certain other people come by their own. In all but the alternative, this ancient saying has well nigh been accomplished in the neighbouring borough of Stockport, within the last week. It would appear that sometime in the course of last year the corporation of Stockport obtained an act of parliament for the improvement of the borough, at a cost to the inhabitants of something like £1,700. No improvements have as yet been made, or even attempted, notwithstanding the fact that the act is limited in its operation to five years from the time of its passing, and on Wednesday the town council assembled a meeting of the inhabitants for the purpose of " ordering and directing certain improvements named in the schedule of the improvement act, to be carried into effect by the council of the borough." Well, the inhabitants—at least the "liberal" portion of them—did meet, but they met only to squabble with and upbraid their governors for having " humbugged" them in " the gas question," which one of the speakers contended " they had yet to dispose of before they meddled with other schemes." The same person also squabbled with them for convening the meeting at a " tory" hour, and declared that by such tricks " they were compelling the real reformers to turn tories." The upshot of the whole affair was, that the motion for the improvement was lost by a large majority, and the adjournment of the meeting for twelve months carried by a large majority. Truly, the worthies of the Stockport de bating society—for the town couucil is nothing better—are dancing to a melancholy tune; but, as the parody says, when scavenger meets scavenger, then comes a horrid clatter of scoops and besoms. But even if they smash each other's heads in the rencontre there is not much danger of many braini being lost to the borough. Their squabbles, we con fess, are somewhat interesting; but to be picquant they should age a little more furiously.—Manchester Courier. OPENING OF SIR T. STANLEY'S RAILWAY. The opening of this railway was celebrated on Wednes day with uncommon spirit and liberality. Our readers are perhaps aware that this road has been constructed at the ex pense of Sir T. S. M. Stanley, Bart., for the purpose of con veying the stone from his quarries on Stourton-hill to the river side—his tenants, who have rented from the royalty of these quarries, paying for the use of the railroad a certain per centage. The reasons which led to the formation of this public-spirited and highly useful work were the delay, incon venience, and expense attending the transit of a heavy ma terial, on common waggons, over the badly-formed and ill repaired roads of Stourton and Bromborougb, as well as a desire to liberate the inhabitants of those places from the expense to which they were put by keeping their roads in anything like serviceable condition. The roads which an swered tolerably well, with little repair, for the light vehicles of the parishioners, were quickly torn up and rendered al most impassable t•y the heavy stone waggons which traversed them, inasmuch that it has been known to occupy the space of nearly three weeks in conveying one block of stone from the quarry to the pool, and in others it has been found requi site to break a large block when half way to its destination, from the impossiblity, otherwise, of conveying it further. These circumstances, not to mention the - complaints which they necessarily elicited from many of the parishioners, were a serious drawback to the tenants of the quarries, preventing them from carrying on their operations to the extent and with the vigour which they might have done under a more favour able state of things. The opening of the railway will, how ever, at once do away with every complaint and difficulty, and allow the stone to be brought to Bromborough Pool in the same number of minutes as it was wont to occupy days, perhaps weeks. Nor will the benfits of this improvement he trifling, or limited to the locality of the railway alone. Since the opening of the new or North Quarry, which is allowed by all parties to contain a harder and finer kind of white free stone than has been hitherto obtained from any of the Stour ton quarries, and which, it is confidently anticipated, will yield a supply that will last for at least one generation, if not many, there is a prospect of the builders and architects of Liverpool being no longer cramped in their operations by the want of good freestone, or of their being reduced to the necessity of bring it hither from very great distances, and, of course, at a very heavy expense. The quarry in question has been rented from Sir Thomas Stanley by Mr. Walker, who has hitherto carried on the working of it with great spirit and perservance; but the completion of the railway will, of course, give him, as well as the other tenants of the quarries, the power of extending their operations in proportion with the extent of the demand, which is expected to be considerably increased. It is not alone in the transit of stone, however, that this railway will he advantageous. Every one acquainted with the higher parts of the peninusula of Cheshire is well aware to what a limited extent manure is used by the farmers, the cost of conveying it over the common roads being too gieat to be borne by them. By the means of the railway this want will in some measure be obviated, and richer crops, and perhaps more extensive cultivation, be the consequence. The length of this railroad is nearly three miles; it extends from what is termed the "North Quarry" to Bromborough Pool, where a quay has been erected for the .embarking of the stone, &c. It is considerably inclined throughout nearly its whole extent, so that a simple push gives a loaded waggon sufficient impetus to descend, at a good speed, to the edge of the pool. A velocity of twenty miles an hour has been at tained. Horses will be employed to draw the waggons in the ascent. Immediately biyoild the old quarry a tunnel bas been cut, the length of which is ninety yards. The earth work, excavation, &c., were executed by Mr. Joseph Jones, of this town, and in a manner which has given the highest satisfaction. The road was commenced in April, 1837; it was executed under the superintendence of Mr. Henry Heyes, engineer and land-surveyor to Sir Thomas Stanley; and has been completed at a cost to the spirited and munificent owner of about £12,000. Although the line will not be ready for conveyance for some four or five days, its opening was, as we have previously stat ed, celebrated on Wednesday. The event created a great sensation in Stourton and the neighbourhood. Early in the mot ning flags were hoisted in several places along the line; and as the day advanced a number of gentlemen from Liver pool arrived to witness the ceremony and partake of the at tendant festivities. Several parties entered the waggons which had. been provided, and made trips both downwards to Brom borough Pool, and upwards to the North Quarry, which was a point of great attraction to the tradesmen engaged in build ing.- About one o'clock, amidst the discharge of some can non from the heights above, the playing of several muscians below, and the shouts of the assembled people, two waggons loaded with blocks of stone were despatched, and went down the road at a rattling pace. it had been expected that Sir Thomas Stanley and Sir Richard Bulkeley would be present on the occasion ; but cir cumstances prevented them. Mr. Charles Stanley and his lady, however, were present, and the arrival of the train which brought them up a portion of the line to Stourton was hailed with a salute from the cannon and much cheering. In the afternoon, temporary seats and a table having been erected in the tunnel, all the workmen employed in the quar ries and on the railway, to the number of 200, were there treat ed to a substantial dinner and quantum sub': of home-brewed ale. Mr. Joseph Jones preside& In the midst of their feast ing and hilarity, they were visited by Mr. Charles Stanley and his lady, and immediately on their arrival at the head of the table, the health of their beautiful visitant, "Mrs. Charles Stanley," was proposed. The vaulted dining-room rung with the thunders of applause that followed the announcement of the toast. Other toasts followed —" The Queen," "Sir Tho mas Stanley," &c., and ever and anon the rocky roof was flinging back the enthusiastic shouts of the merry and de lighted crowd. While matters were thus proceeding in the tunnel, a cold collation was laid out in an adjoining house, to which about fifty persons sat down, consisting of the quarry tenants, vari ous tradesmen from Liverpool, and such persons as had been invited to attend the opening fete. J. Formby, Esq., of Maghull Hall, presided, and Mr. Walker took the vice-cair. After dinner, as the house was somewhat small for the accom modation of so large a party, and as the afternoon was a splendid one, the company adjourned into a small garden in front of the house, (whence there was a delightful prospect,) and toast, glee, and song became the order of the day.— " The Queen," with three times three, was first given ; after which Mr. Gillow sang the national anthem in very beautiful style, the company joining in the chorus. " Sir Thomas Stanley," " Ladv Stanley and Family," and " Mr. William Massey Stanley" followed, each being drunk with enthusias tic cheers, which frequently mingled with and was swelled by the blended shouts that came from the tunnel, elicited by a similar cause. An appropriate song or glee was sung after each toast. Next came the health of " Mr. Blundell," the' highly respected steward of Sir Thomas Stanley, who return ed thanks, in an extremely neat speech, for the manner in which his employer's health and that of his family had been received, as well as for the honour which had been done him self. in doing so, he referred briefly but pointedly to the ad vantages, both immediate and prospective, which were likely to result from the completion of the undertaking, the opening of which they had met to celebrate. The healths of Mr. H. Heyes, the engineer, of the president, vice-president, Mr. Latham, and J. Jones were then drunk, and about half-past seven o'clock the party broke up. The utmost conviviality, good humour, and good order matked the day's proceedings, —a result attributable in no slight degree to the gentlemanly attentions of Mr. Blundell. 'Three or four policemen were present under the orders of Mr. Whitty, the head constable of Easthaitr(brother to our excellent head constable) ; but their office proved to be almost a sinecure.—Journal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER-FRIDAY EVENING. We noticed on Tuesday that several of the leading specu lators were then at Wolverhampton races. Two out of the three certainties have come off to the satisfaction of the fieldsmen. The defeat of St. Martin, by Heron, is, however, rather contrary to expectation-6 to 4 was the current odds on the loser, and sto 1 against Heron. The meeting was e xceedingly well attended, and the sport good. The following will be found the average prices of the ap proaching great northern race : THE DONCASTIift ST. TIGER. 7 to 2 against Colonel Peel's lon. 7to 2 „ Lord Chesterfield's Don John. 7to 1 ~ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost. 10 to 1 ~ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus. 12 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad. 13 to 1 „ Mr. Coombe's Cobham. 14 to 1 ~ Duke of Cleveland's Alzira. 22 to 1 „ Mr. Fox's Jemmy Jumps. 40 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville (off.) Nothing in the way of speculation has taken place on the Victoria Stakes, to be run over Kersal Moor on the 30th ; it is generally supposed that the forfeits will be very few; but Monday next will settle that point. TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY. The betting was slack, and is still further paralysed by the doubt which hangs over Grey Momus as to whether he will go to Doncaster or not : until that is cleared up, his price must be regulated by the temerity of his backers, which con sist mainly of the public. A rather dull afternoon closed as under :—• DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 4 to 1 against Colonel Peel's lon (tk.) 4to 1 „ *Lord Chesterfield's Don John (tk.) 7to 1 „ •Mr. Parkin's Lanercost. 9to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus (t.) •12to 1 „ •Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham (tk.) 12 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad (tk.) 20 to 1 „ Mr. S. L. Fox's Jemmy Jumps. 30 to 1 ~ Major Yarburgh's Easter. 40 to 1 „ Mr. J. 0. Fairlie's The Hydra (tk.) 40 to 1 ' , Lord 0 Bentinck's D'Egville. 100 to 40 against Grey Momus and Lanercost (tk;) 12 to 1 against Talleyrand and Jemmy Jumps (tk;) 6 to 4 on the field against two (taken.) HEATON PARK MEETING. 1838. This " star" of the north shines forth With still greater lustre the present year than has been the case since the com mencement of the meeting. The list, as far as it has yet gone, is attractive in the extreme; and to the various stakes already closed are appended the names of many of the elite of the sporting world. The races will take place on Wednesday, the 26th of next month, and the two following days. For the first day's sport there is a promise of four races, consisting of the Stanley Stakes, the St. Leger, with 100 sovs. added, for which there are thirteen subscribers. The skim over the T. Y. C. for the Champagne Stakes has a fair show of youngsters ; and though last, not least, the Heaton Park Stakes, has booked an entry of thirty-four horses. We subjoin the list, together with the weights, which will most probably be news to most of our sporting readers. 9 2 Harkaway, 4 yrs 7 7 The Hydra, 3 yrs 9 2 The Potentate, 6 yrs 7 6c by Priam, out of May. 8 11 Epirus, 4 yrs flower, 4 yrs, h bred 8 1 1 Jupiter, 6 yrs 7 5 Creeping Molly, 3 yrs 810 Slashing Harry, 4 yrs 7 3 Rachel, 4 yrs 8 8 The Bard, 5 yrs 7 3 Golden Drop, 4 yrs 8 7 Cardinal Puff, 4 yrs 7 2 Vesper. 5 yes 8 7 Caravan, 4 yrs 7 2 Wee Willie, 3 yrs 8 6 Black Diamond, 5 yrs 7 2 Ole Bull, 3 yrs 8 5 Mus, 5 yrs 7 1 The Early Bird, 3 yrs 8 0 Darnley, 4 yrs 7 1 .Compensat ion, 3 yrs 8 0 Altamont, 6 yrs 7 1 Percy,hyMargrave,3 yrs 7 13 Chapeau d'Espagne, 4y 7 0 Cruiskeen, 4 vrs 7 10 c. by H. Clinker, out of 6 13 Harpurhey, 3 yrs Gasparoni'o dam, 4 yrs 6 11 Northenden, 3 yrs 7 9 Appleton Lad, 3 yrs 6 8 Opera, 3 yrs 7 8 f by Economist, out of 6 4 Fairy Queen, 3 yrs Skylark, 4 yrs 5 12 f by Tramp, out of Barn -7 7 Isaac, aged fylde's dam, 3 yrs For the second day, the only two prizes as yet announced are the glittering donation of mine host at the Bush, and the late steward's piece of Gold Plate. For the formerthere are entered Richard Roe, Cardinal Puff, The Potentate, Don John, Epirus, Zotirab, The Bard, and Cowboy. For the latter there are sikteen engaged. The concluding day presents the allurement of the Man chester 200 soy. Cup, the Claret Stakes, for which ten are entered; and several other stakes will be announced in due time. We understand that the noble earl has already invited a numerous but select party to the hall during the races. The course has been much improved since the last meeting; and altogether every thing has been done to render this year the most attractive that has yet occurred. The Duke of Devonshire, it is now said, will not go to Milan as Ambassador from England : he merely visits the Continent to see Lord Granville at Aix-la-Chapelle. MR. OASTLER.—We understand that it is the intention of the tenants of the Fixby estate to give a grand dinner shortly to Mr. Oastler, at which a piece of plate (a silver salver), subscribed for by themselves, will be presented to that gentle man,' in token of their gratitude and esteem for the many valuable services he has rendered them during the eighteen years of his stewardship.— tepd. Intelligencen WARRINGTON. THE NEW ASSESSMENT TO THE POOR RATE.—Thiiiew assessment of the parish of Warrington,lwhich hal just been completed, in compliance with the provisions of the new poor laws, is now lying at the overseer's Office, for the inspection of the inhabitants, and Thursday, the 30th instant, is the day fixed upon by the magistrates for hearing appeals against it. TRESPASSING UPON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.— On Monday, Mr. O'Sullivan, a clerk in the employ of the Vulcan Foundry Company, at Newton, appeared before the magistrates at Warrington petty sessions, to aiThwer an in formation, charging him with having committed a trespass by walking along the railway at Winwick, on the 7th Instant. The defendant admitted having walked along the railway on the day stated in the information, but, in defenee pleaded that he had a written permission from Mr. R. S. Norris, an engineer in the employ of the Railway Company, so to do " until further notice." The order was addressed to the "police and plate-layers," was produced. At the request of Furlong, the policeman employed on the line at Warring ton, the magistrates postponed the case until Wednesday, to give Mr. Norris an opportunity of attending, he having stated that the permission for the defendant to walk along the line bad been obtained from him by misrepresentation. —On Wednesday, the case again came on for hearing. The defendant had the advantage of professional assistance. Charles Furlong stated that Mr. Norris was unable, to attend, in consequence of an accident that had happened on the line on the previous night,,which rendered it necessary for him to go'from Warrington to inspect it. - He produced two do cuments, one signed by Mr. Norris. This *stated that Mr. Norris lad, some time ago, in consequenceof a statement made to him at Bank-quay by the defendant, to the effect that he had the permission of Mr. Alcard to walk on the line, he (Mr. Norris) gave him a written permisiiOn to do •so, which hehad since verbally withdrawn, on ascertaining that Mr. Alcard had not given theedefendarit - suCh nermission• The other document bore the signature.of Mr. Tait,- of Li verpool, and certified that he had never at ally time given an order to Mr. O'Sullivan authorising him to walk on any,part of the Grand . Junction Railway. On the part of the de fendant it was asserted that Mr. Tait had done so, ind thit policeman on the line, echo had receic'ed Mr.. Tate's verbal order, had, on the previous everting; been 'taken before Mr. Norris, and stated such to be the case. It was positively de nied by hini that any mention had been made of Mr. Al - name. Mr. Cross, a gentleman employedat the War rington station, was called asn, witness for the defendant. He spoke as to the nature of theconversation that paxsed at the time the order waegivertby4lr. NOrtis to the defend ant, and said that Mr. Alcard's nam&wasnotuieetioned as the person who had originally given the ;defendant permis sion,ta walk on the railway. The defendant said that, if per mitted, he could make an affidavit denying that: he - received and verbal notice from Mr. Norris or any other person not to walk on the railway in future. The Magistrates dismissed the case, on payment of costs.—Another information fel- a trespass committed after the service of the firgtsumnionsy , ;,ki dismissed without costs.-I . lt is ,a pity Mr. Noriis hidnot.ate tended before the magistrates. Furlong . .has reqties(cd:oni reporter to state that no accident had oectirreif, - antOhatMi. Norris was engaged on other business . .] . S i'EALING CORN.— On Wednesday, two Men; ,living ; at Sankey, named Swift and Turner, were. brought before the magistrates at Warrington, charged with steiling.a " pack" of wheat from the Windmill barge, lying at Sankey Bridge. Thomas Hussey, the master of the flat, stated that he left the barge at Sankey Bridge on Sunday; with tiffy=five i'aeks of wheat on board. On Monday he, missed one , sirk, and after sending for the police he went to Turnei's house,_ and telling him that the police were making a search at Swift's, and that he had better bring down any, wheat he had, induced him to bring down stairs two packs, containing in the whole about half a sack. The wheat resembled that, on- board the flat. Thomas Povey, a policeman, spoke to finding half a sack of the same wheat as that on board the flat, under Swift's garden-hedge. Swift denied. all knowledge of it. • Turner said the wheat found at his house had been-there for more than twelve months. Samples of the were produced. They strongly resembled each other. They were committed for trial. WARRINGTON OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE, ASSQCJAT;ON, —The quarterly meeting of the members of this association was held at the Town-hall, Corn-market, on, Tuesday ttiorn;', ing. Mr. Wilson, the president of the society. took. the chair. The minutes of the last meeting' having been reid".. and approved, and several new members .elected, the-Chair man addressed the meeting. After explaining the i ganse• el:: - the absence of so many members from the ineetri4, - which he attributed to their having gone to Lvm,n to heritvierineri' that was to be preached there by the celebrated - M..l\H ewletn , be proceeded to congratulate them upon the general prospe. rity and increase of the association, as well dk , . - tipirii their' , improved political prospects, owing to the House 01.1;titits having again rejected the measures brought . ferwarkhliy,the,- •• present ministry. At this he did not suppose, the ministers. themselves would be sorry, as it would afford theiti tunity of commencing operations afresh next7setsion,,auct^tO ., hold their places in the meantime with greater safety:, -, next adverted to the condition of the Roman Catholics, and.. lamented the power which Mr. O'Connell continued hold over them in Ireland. He was in some degree astonished Id find that the dissenters of England were allowing-the: Irish ministers to preach amongst them; for, while they. professed to support the church, they were really rendering assistance to the Catholics to pull down the establishment. He hoped the dissenters would see the necessity of separating thetn.: - selves from the Catholics altogether, which would afford the dissenters the best protection to their own interests. It was with pleasure, however, that he heard the reverend:gentle man (the Rev. J. H. Nolan) to whose preaching he partfen larly. adverted, expose the fallacies of the Roman Catholic religion, and the mischievous views its professors maintained, , towards the church. It.was his (the chairman's) determine- . .. tion to support the church as by law established by "e'very means in his power; and he considered he could. not. tlo so more effectually than by advocating and adhering, to ,those principles which formed the basis of the Warrington Operas, tive Conservative Association. (Cheers.)—Mr.Thos. Clare considered the chairman had not acted very wiselyin•attend ing dissenting places of worship, as the ministers,- while-pro fessing liberal measures, were the first and greatest enemy. the church had to contend against.—Mr. Flanagan anti ether members warmly defended the chairman. After a fevi. words of explanation from Mr. Clare, the nieeting'preeteded consideration of 'other matters. A vote of thanks was after- • wards voted to the chairman, and the meeting broke np.--- The bind, formed from amongst the members of the associa-, ‘ -„. tion, paraded the streets of Warrington, both before andnfier'-1 r the meeting. ,11:0i; AN ACCOMPLISHED SWINDLER. A series of ingenious frauds have lately been practised upon different mercantile houses in Manchester and else• . where, by ordering goods in the names of partiei welllnowti to them, and then contriving to get possession of,the parcels , sent, in a way which will be best understood from the folleming particulars of an unsuccessful attempt, which led to "the . capture of the offender. On the 3d instant, Messrs. Potters and Norris, of this town, received by a post letter i nf which ' the following is a copy : Ewa.: " Halifax, Augustt Lc33B. " Gentlemen,—Please to send us by first coach' two pieces black bombazine, about 100 s.; two pieces 'abnot . l2(fs; ; and two pieces 140 s. of a medium shade of blue blacks, and good qualities. Also at same time about six pieces of your best and newest patterns of India printed • bafidannas; , full •26 • inches. Any of these that we should not approve of,,yr.e.will - return the day after theirarrival.—We are, gentlemen, yours .; respectfully, " For Hartley and Morton, J. P.S.—You will please to put each two pieces ofnne priors.; both of a colour as nearly as possible, as the persons whoM they are for will want more than one piece, and they vrill like thein both of one colour." , . . , . Messrs. Potters and Norris having had frequent dealings with Messrs. Hartley and Morton, drapers, of Halifax, did not doubt the genuineness of the order,, though ,they : were. aware that the partnership of that firm had jilt& been dissolved,_ and that the business was then carried on by.. Mr. Mbiturf... They therefore packed up the goods as ordered, and forwarded - them by coach to Mr. Morton, accoMpanied 'by an invoice„ &c. Mr. Morton, not having. given any order, teas' a- good' deal surprised by the receipt of the goods and tlie.invince and he immediately wrote to MessrS - : Potters and Norris, tq -• say that be had not ordered any such. goodi,-nar - learn that any of 'his neighbours had 4p T i Fi s,o; .anteh't the*;: • fore presumed. there was some Mistake; but, at the,,,guode #4 .ia might be intended for somebody in•TrirlestfireNiewnifill keep" them until he heard from Messrs. Pottersnnd Norris on.:the subject. The fact seems' to have been, that the swindler liatt...,. ! .';e somewhat miscalculated the time of the arriyal , bl—th i e . geoas at Halifax; for, about an hour after Mr. Morton-had - writtee to Messrs. Potters and Norris,. he'receivad the followipanote, • enclosed in a coach parcel - " Manchestur, Aug.:2(14838. ' • "Gentlemen,—Having directed a parcel to you in mistake; will thank you when you receive it, it yon would be kind enough to pay the carriage forward, and to redirect it to Mr. Morton, to he left at the Golden Lion coach office, Briggate, Leeds. till called for.—We are, your obedient servants, for . Potters and Norris, " J. BROWN. " Messrs Hartley and Morton, drapers, Halifax." Although the explanation given in this letter exactly ac corded with Mr. Morton's previous conjecture, that the goods were intended for some other person of the same name in Yorkshire, there was something about the communication itself which excited his suspicions. In the first place. the carriage of the parcel was not paid, which he thought was unlike the course which, under the circutnstances, would be taken by Messrs. Potters and Norris; and, in the second place, it seemed extremely improbable that they would ; send goods to a coach-of f ice in Leeds , to be called' for, instead, of . ; forwarding them to the shop of the party who had bought's' them; and his suspicions were very greatly strengthened. ott'''' finding, that, though the letter purported to come from Man chester, the parcel containing it had been brought by the Leeds coachman. He therefore determined net. to forward- the goods as requested, without hearing further from Messrs.. Potters and Norris, which he' did on the following day in swer to his letter. The explanations which ensued, showed , very clearly the nature of the fraud intended to be practised; and Messrs. Potters and Norris sent over to Halifax an officer of the Manchester police, who had the goods repacked, and' directed as requested in the letter; and the officer left the parcel at the Golden Lion coach-office, Leeds,'Where' he waited for two days, but nobody came .to claim the parcel.' The officer then returned to Manchester, leaving proper directions with the clerks at the coach-office, as well as with the Leeds police; and, on Thursday last, a young man call ed at the coach-office and asked if any such parcel had arriv- . ed there. He was answered in the affirmative; the parcel , was delivered to him on payment of the carriage, and he was • taking it away when an officer apprehended and conveyed him to prison. He gave his name William Howard; and we understand that he was very soon identified as the person who had, a short time previously, obtained a .quantity of goods from a manufacturing house at Bradford,- i n the name of Messrs. John Satterfield and Co. of this town, by whoni be'."` said he had been sent to select them ; and there are also, we believe, other charges against him in that neighbourhood, on which account he will be detained there for examination be- • fore the magistrates. From what we have heard, it is probable that he has car ried on these frauds to a more considerable extent than tuis yet been ascertained. Two or three other cases, similar to that of Messrs Potters and Norris, have been mentioned to us; and in one of them he succeeded in getting possession of ~ goods to some amount; but part of them were afterwards re- • covered, having been detained by a party.to whom they were , offered for sale under suspicious circumstances.—Manchester' Guardian. A new combination of metals as a substitute for the watch pieces in which the pivots turn, and which are liable to be come damaged by the action of the oil, has been Submitted, - to the Academy of Sciences. It consists of platina, silver, and copper, and oil has no effect on it. The recent debates in the two Houses of Parliament on the Canada blundering and misgovernment furnish one •of the most humiliating exhibitions of a ministry whom no reproo f or exposure of incapacity can move from o ffi ce. The ir dilemma was complete. They dare not quarrel with t he Dictator they have se t up i n C ana d a an y more than with th e ~ Dictator who has set him se lf o v e r them in Ir e land. T"`": have not the spirit of poor old Lear, who could not brook th e epithet of " The fiery Duke;" but, in their pitiable conci) 1- tion, are obliged to put up with every affront from the iierYd or rather the coal-y, Earl, who has satisfied every unto"! anticipation of misrule abroad, whither they sent order to avert his creating greater misrule at home, anil djlve ing them from their places. But the greater error, tn_ original sin, is to be found in his associates ; againSt w"hule the voice of every moral, honest, and decent man .in ..t he,. country was raised as soon as their names were known to.t'fis public. What, indeed, could be expected from the counsei'd, • of 'futons and Wakefields ? " Law-breakers," says, the adage, " should not be law-makers;" but Lord Durbel though otherwise, and behold the con se quen c es! Vi be bad begins, be sure that worse remains behind,—Past' I