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Imperial Varliament. HOUSE OF LORDS-IVIONDAY. Lord STRADBROKE moved the third reading of the Bir kenhead Dock Bill, when the Marquis of SALISBURY moved that the suppressed 'douse, agreed upon with the Shipowners' Association, be inserted. He commented warmly upon the conduct of the party who signed the agreement on behalf of the promoters of the bill. Lord BROUGHAM and MONTEAGLE defended the party. Lord WicicLoar supported the Marquis of SalisbUry. - Ultimately the amendment was withdrawn and the bill passed, there being a manifest disposition in the house to support the committee in their report. The Bank Charter Bill was read a third time and passed. Numerous petitions against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and a few in favour of it, having been presented, The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the Commons' amendments to the bill should be agreed to, and depre cated an 'opposition, which he understood was to be given to the measure at a stage when no such opposition ought to be raised to the principle of the bill. The only ques tion for consideration was the propriety of the amend ments, and it was unprecedented for any noble lord to sei2'e such an opportunity for discussing the principle. Such a course would be a slight upon the House of Com mons, in which he trusted their lordships would not acquiesce. The Bishop of LONDON admitted that the course he 'was about to pursue could only be justified by the ex treme urgency of the case. In opposing the bill, in that, its last stage, he might be deemed pertinacious, but when he found that all the arguments in opposition to the fun damental principles of the bill were wholly unanswered, he could not help feeling that pertinacity became a virtue. The right rev. prelate spoke at considerable length against the bill, and concluded by moving as an amendment, that the amendments of the Commons should be taken into consideration that day three months. The Bishop of DURHAM viewed the measure as one calculated to do justice to all classes, and had no fear that any evil effects would result from it. Lord BROUGHAM said it was admitted by everybody, that the amendments of the Commons were improvements to the bill, and he could not, therefore, understand upon what reasonable grounds they could refuse to agree to them. The Bishop of NORWICH supported the bill, which bad his unqualified approbation, in accordance with the principle of doing to others as be would be done to by them. The Earl of RODEN contended that this bill, if it should pass, would be a blot upon the statute book, which would be hereafter regarded with regret. He little thought, some five or six yearsago, when he sat upon the opposition benches, together with the present Lord Chancellor, with whom he was united in opposing a measure of spoliation, known to their lordships as the appropriation clause, that the day would soon arrive when a measure far beyond the appropriation clause, as a measure of spoliation, would be drought forward by those who called themselves con servatices, and with whom he had so long acted in that character. Lord COTTENHAM contended that the measure was strictly conservative in its principle, for its object was to preserve to those who had for a long time enjoyed it the property which they were still in possession of. After some observations from Lord TExxxAm, the Earl of GALLOWAY, and Lord LYTTLETON, the house divided, and the amendment of the Bishop of London was negatived by a majority of 202 to 41. The Com mons' amendments were then agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS —MONDAY. On'the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, the house went into .committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill ; Mr. Greene in the chair. On the 36th clause being read, Mr. CHRISTOPHER said be thought that relief to the ;houseless poor ought to be further extended ; and that every union workhouse ought to have a vagrants' ward. lie was certain-that by so doing, and extending temporary relief to vagrants, it would not be so expensive to coun• ties as the present mode of sending beggars to the House of Correction. He trusted the subject had been consi dered by the government. He should not move any amendment. Sir .1. GRAHAM admitted that the subject alluded to by the bon. member for Lincolnshire was a most important one, but at the present moment it should be recollected that it was open to the boards of guardians, if they thought proper, to sit apart a portion of the workhouse as a va grant ward, 'though the act was not compulsory. He thought the object of the hon. member would be carried out by the operation of the 51st clause, and therefore the committee had better postpone discussing it until they arrived at that clause. Sir C. NAPIER said he had strong objections to this clause, the object of which was to establish district va grant asylums in the metropolis and five large towns in 'England. Colonel WOOD said the house must bear in mind, when they were legislating upon this subject, that union work houses were not to be considered as prisons. He hoped .a remedy would be provided by affording a lodging at police stations. He, therefore, wished for the omission of the clause. Mr. B. HAWES took a different view of the clause to the hon. member for Brecon. He trusted the police and the poor-law officers would be always kept separate and distinct. Sir .1. GRAHAM contended that the wretchedness and misery of the houseless poor rendered it necessary to in troduce some such clause as the one under discussion. It was often in the depth of winter that individuals were found during the night in the parks or under arches, and therefore some provision ought to be made. He had the strongest objection to the proposition of the lion. member for Brecon to send individuals who bad not committed any offence to a police station for a night's lodging. After a few words from Colonel Wool), in objection to the exaction of four hours' labour for one night's lodging, Mr. B. COCHRANE said he was convinced the house must be much pleased with the tone,of kindness and conside ration for the poor expressed in the remarks of the Home Secretary. He had the greatest objection to the propo sition of the hon. member for Brecon ; he considered that proposition complete moonshine. (Hear, and laughter.) The clause was agreed to, and further progress was made in tke bill. Mr. WYSE moved for " a select committee to inquire, in accordance with the prayer of the petition presented on, the 17th of June, into the facts connected with the formation of the special jury in the case of " The Queen, at the prosecution of the Attorney-General v. Daniel O'Connell and others." On a division the numbers were— For the motion. • • 73 Against it Majority against the motion lB The announcement of the numbers was received with ,much cheering from the opposition benches. Sir Robert Peel obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the Church Endowment Act, and after some routine busi ,ness the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.--TUESDAY. Lord FORTESCUE moved for papers respecting the restoration to the commission of the peace of Mr. A. O'Driscoll, an Irish magistrate, who, according to the noble lord's statement, having on two occasions displayed gross infirmity of temper, bad been superseded on the ostensible ground of ill health and old age, but restored some six months afterwards. The motion was agreed to after Lord \VHARNCLIFFE had stated that a memorial in favour of Mr. O'Driscoll's restoration had been signed by three thousand persons of all parties. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. After several clauses in the Metropolis Improvements' Bill, Lord PALMERSTON rose to move for some returns re lative to the slave trade, and expressed himself desirous of making some general observations upon that traffic, al though be understood that the particular returns he asked for would not be refused by the Government. He be lieved that few were aware of the cruelties which the slave trade still caused, or of the vast numbers of negroes an nually transported even now from the coast of Africa to the islands and continent of America. Mr. Bandinell, in his accurate work, compiled from official documents, represented those numbers as amounting in some former years to 130,000 negroes per annum ; Sir F. Buxton esti mated them at 150,000. Let any man imagine that he saw that vast body of men moving to their frightful doom, and what would his feelings become, if he should be :told that this was no single sight, but that a like spectacle was repeated every year ? Moreover, such was the waste .of life in providing for and accomplishing this great trans port of human beings, that for every individual so landed, three must be calculated to have perished. To procure .these slaves, the undertakers of the adventure were ac customed to fire some peaceful village in the night, and s eize the startled and flying inhabitants. The caverns where they sought refuge were besieged ; the springs and wells were occupied ; and the fugitives were thus forced to come in and surrender. The children were then mur dered, to save the expense of maintaining them when torn from their parents; and the adults were marched hun dreds of miles over the burning and stony desert to the place of ernbarcation. Multitudes perished on this jour ney.; and the path of the caravan was marked by thou sands orbleaching skeletons. The purchaser on the coast selected the strong alone ; the weakly and exhausted he rejected, and these last were put out of the way or left to perish. Then came the horrors of the voyage. What ever the numbers which the vessel would probably carry, the trader took care to exceed them by a third or a fourth ; as a tnercbant, sending a hogshead of Madeira to mellow by a long vastage, added a quarter cask to make good waste.in evitante. Day after day the dead—too often living if also,smittenwith disease, and therefore likely to prove unprofitable —were thrown overboard. In the hold where the negroes were crowded the stowage was so stinted, that all were obliged to lie length, with less room to each captive than a man occt a p a t tie e t w in his coffin. In fine weather, the grating of the Lem were ayswereopen ; but, if rough weather came, h f necessarily closed, and the state of the hold below became one o actual suffoca tion.saffoca%lna!' an A third of the negroer, were found, u m i s a t h these had of one ship with another, to perish on the voyage. It was e the British Govern_m m e a n d t e, to wb e e z e t e i b n yg the duty' of atrocities. Treaties had been been accomplished. Between France and England mu tual sacrifices had been made in the concession o e o _ t En or te right of maritime vis itation. England, in rtu f f th t he services rendered by h er to Spainhd b a e ined a treaty from that country. With respect to Portuga l, p owers had been obtained which were equivalent to the articles of a treaty. The effect of these various arrangements with the European states had been a g reat diminution in the numbers of negroes transferred from Africa to the plan tations of America. These improvements were the result of the efforts of the late Government. It remained for the present ministers to effect the same object with the United States; but then slat rvolt had boa a Ectiotade one. For thit) 'perhaps, the present Gtvernment might not be to blame ; but at all events It was an unfortunate state of things. Lord Palmerston then scouted as chime rical and impracticable the plan of the present Govern ment for blockading the African coast. Much had lately been heard of the cordiality subsisting between England and France. The only fruit he had yet seen from their union was the suppression of the efforts of liberty in Spain. He would rather behold those great countries united to free the slave than to enslave the free. If they were to use their joint influence in earnest with Brazil, they might surely accompli,h something. Sir R. Peel had lately mentioned, as one of the motives for encoun• tering the toils of office, the hope of obtaining posthu mous fame. Such fame a British minister could obtain only by serving England, or by serving mankind at large. From serving England the present ministers were very much precluded by their peculiar position. They were interdicted by their own supporters from the complete disenthralment of commerce. The full emancipation of the Catholics from all their practical disabilities was an object which they had not chosen to leave open to them selves. Education, on a large scale, was a blessing which their followers would not allow them to bestow upon the people. In the affairs of Europe they could not acquire distinction for their country ; because they had long since made their election that she should cease to hold that front rank which until of late she had proudly occupied, and drop astern to take up her berth in the wake of every foreign Power: But it was still open to them to abc lish the slave trade; in that work they would be impeded by none of their supporters. By achieving it they might ac quire immortal glory—by neglecting it, they would earn for themselves a dishonour in comparison of which the reputation of the worst of Governments would be en viable. Sir R. PEEL observed, that the noble lord had a way of exercising his powers at the end of each session, upon some motion to which the most fastidious minister could not object, and upon which, therefore, he had the advan tage of exhibiting his eloquence, without the hazard of an adverse division. In all which had been said about the enormities of the slave trade, Sir R. Peel said be fully concurred, though he believed the numbers of imported negroes had been a little overstated. Two nations only were now opposed to the complete abolition of that trade —Spain and Brazil. If they would sincerely join for its suppression, the object would be accomplished : without their aid, it was almost impossible wholly to attain it. He charged those two governments, therefore, with the ' whole responsibility of the still continuing guilt. He would adjure them by the highest motives; but, if those should be insufficient, he would warn them of the precarious tenure by which their power was now held, and of the proved resolve of the whole negro population to relieve themselves from the state of slavery. That resolve of theirs had been revealed under the influence of the torture by slave insurgents taken in several successive revolts; and it was fixed and universal. With respect to the in vidious contrast which the noble lord had attempted to draw between the late and the present government, he would give full credit to Lord Palmerston for the efforts made by him when at the head of the Foreign Depart ment; but he must assert the not inferior diligence and earnestness of the present government. If difficulties had occurred in the ratification of the treaty with France, they were difficulties wholly occasioned by that irritation of French feelings which the measures of the noble lord bad roused. He justified the instructions given to our naval officers against any transgression of the principles of international law. He vindicated the policy of block ading the African coast, by reference to the opinions of officers who had served on that station, confirmed by the deliberate judgment and high authority of Sir George Cockburn. But, he did not propose a total discontinu ance of the force now employed to watch the Brazilian coast. He adverted to Lord Palmerston's observations upon the good understanding between France and Eng land, which he was sure could not be preserved by any concessions discreditable to either; he expressed his deep conviction of the importance of its preservation, and condemned the conduct of those who attempted to dis turb it. France and England had, in this spirit of union, made strong representations to Spain and Brazil, and had declared their determination to insist on the fulfilment of the treaties. His own wish was not to enslave the free; on the contrary, he desired to see Spain, the country to which Lord Palmerston's phrase seemed to apply, enjoy ing free institutions under a limited monarchy; he had likewise the highest respect for the character of Espar tero ; but he was not disposed to any active interference by England in Spanish affairs. The noble lord appeared to have now made his motion, of which he had given no tice last March, mainly for the sake of his peroration ; he, of course, could not suffer such a gem to remain in obscurity. He could not take it with him into the coun try ; if he had done that, he would have been repeating the speech to himself all the autumn, as hefmust already have been doing all the last month. As to the unfetter ing of commerce, at all events the present ministry had done more than its immediate predecessors, who had at tempted nothing until their last moments. As to the emancipation of the catholics, surely he had not been without his share in the advancement of that object. And as to general education, his attempt of last year had been defeated by his regular opponents, not by those who generally supported him. The last avenue to fame Pointed out by the noble lord was the abolition of the slave trade. To that object the government were earnestly attentive ; they would pursue it with the sin cerest zeal—but at the same time with a just and prudent regard to the principles of international law. The returns were agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Commons met at twelve o'clock. Mr. Spooner took his seat for Birmingham, and was much cheered by the tories as he approached the table to take the oaths. . The House went into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill, and went through the clauses from 37 to 55, when the House resumed. In the evening, after forwarding a variety of minor bills one stage, the House went into committee on the Metio politan Buildings Bill, and all the principal clauses, after lengthened conversations, were adopted, and the report was ordered to be received on Friday at twelve o'clock. Adjourned at half-past ten. HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY. The second reading of the bill for the purpose of le galizing Art-Unions was agreed to. The Earl of MoONTCASHEL addressed the house re specting the misappropriation of certain school-house funds by the commissioners of education in Ireland. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said the case was one for the Court of Chancery, and it was useless for the noble earl to proceed unless he could show that their lordships had the power of interfering. The noble earl said they had such power, and moved the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the subject. Lord WIIAILNCLIFFE said none of the members of the Irish government knew anything of the matter, and he would recommend the noble lord to send a memorial con taining the facts to the Lord Lieutenant or Lord Eliot. It was quite impossble that the House of Lords could in terfere in the first instance. The motion was negatived without a division. HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY. The house met at one o'clock, and advanced to the 60th clause in the consideration of the Poor-law Bill before five o'clock, when the house resumed. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved that he should be allowed to be present on the examination of certain witnesses be fore the Post-office Secret Committee. Lord SANDON was of opinion that such a power as that sought for by Mr. Duncombe was equivalent to making him a member of the committee, without sharing any portion of its responsibility. This was felt to be contrary to the order of the house in appointing the committee, and the committee therefore refused to accede to the pro position. Very great progress had been made with the inquiry, and a report would shortly be made which, he trusted, would satisfy the public that the inquiry had been fairly conducted. The motion was negatived by 141 to 51. The Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill, after some discus sion, was read a third time and passed. The House then went into committee on the Poor-Law Bill, which occupied the chief portion of the remainder of the evening. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR complained of a misrepresen tation which had been disseminated through the Irish papers, attributing to him the expression of an opinion during the legal arguments before their lordships in the case of the writ of error respecting the Irish trials, to the effect that the jury lists were fraudulently made up for the purpose of influencing the result of those trials. He had traced the misrepresentation to the Morning Chronicle, and he felt himself called upon to say that he had never said anything of the kind. Lord BROUGHAM said the misrepresentation was cer tainly very gross, but he believed it originated in misap prehension, owing to the ignorance of the reporter of legal technical language. Lord CAMPBELL said that when the subject of the Irish trials came regularly before the house, he should contend that the Attorney-General for Ireland had not conducted them in a proper manner. Lord MONTEAGLE moved the committal of the Art Unions Bill. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE strongly supported the bill, stating that he had witnessed the effects of similar insti tutions in promoting the arts in other countries, which were most gratifying. The bill then went through committee, as did also the Aliens Bill, and the Debtor and Creditors Bill. The County Coroners Bill was, after a short discussion, read a second time, and was ordered to be committed on Monday. In reply to a question from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord WMARNCLIFFE said the subject of the fees paya ble to the clerks of assize throughout the country was under the consideration of the government, and they would be prepared to introduce a bill respecting it in the next session of parliament. Several bills on the table were then forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. oli motion r l e li s e peetin g of future M ra i lways i I G w L a A y s D S w T e o r N e E , a seri to. s of resolu tions Th e Joint- s t oc k C om p an i e s' Regulation Bill, and some other bills on th e paper , were a d vance d a s t a ge. agreed e In reply t o some observations of M r. BRIGHT , Lord ELIOT said that the Irish government would direct its attention to the case of the two women who were con victed of murder at the last Roscommon assizes upon very doubtful circumstantial evidence. Mr. EWART called attention to the necessity of having statements from the government as to the disposal, and the results of that dispopl, public Pi9ney, fur the pur- Foseßof cducoicia. THE LiVaPOOL STANDARD Sir R. PEEL said that Mr. Evrart might obtain much information by referring to the minutes ~ af the Privy Council on Education. He was favourable to the sugges tion of Lord Hewick, and would willingly act upon it as far as practicable, Mr. EIVART suggested the importance of establishing public lit:marks in large towns for the use of the working classes. Sir N. PEEL thought that government interference in such 'Matters might prove prejudicial. 'On the motion for the house resolving itself into a com mittee of supply, Mr. M. GIBBON moved an address to the crown for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the causes of incendiarism in the agricultural counties, and into the general condition of the rural population. It bad been urged that the new poor law was the cause of the discon tent and alienation of the people; but be denied that it was an adequate cause for the present disturbed state of society in these districts. Prejudices had been fostered in the minds of the people against machinery and wages for party purposes by the landlords, and the results were now recoiling upon themselves. Sir J. GRAHAM apprehended the motion of the hon. gentleman was calculated to promote, rather than allay, the existing discontent. There was such a thing as fan ning the smouldering flame, and he feared such would be the only resul' of the present discussion. He had been in communication with the judges now on circuit, and was happy to say from their report that the crime of incen diarism was rapidly decreasing, and the law was being en forced with the most salutary effects. Under these circumstances he should resist the motion. Upon a division, the motion of Mr. Gibson was defeated by a majority of 130 to 41. The house then went into committee. In reply to some observations of Mr. WINE on the subject of an additional grant for Catholic education in Ireland, Sir R. PEEL said it was in contemplation to increase the education grant from £50,000 to £75,000. The means of academical education in Ireland were, he admitted, at present inadequate, and the attention of government would be directed in the next session of parliament to placing the College of Maynooth and education in Ireland upon a more satisfactory footing. Mr. SHEIL and Lord JOHN MANNERS expressed their gratification at this announcement of a more liberal policy towards Ireland. _ _ _ _ Mr. GROGAN said the Protestants of Ireland were not prepared for such a wholesale and sweeping announcement. Colonel VERNER said it appeared to be the object of the government to place the education of the people of Ireland in the hands of the Roman Catholics, and he felt satisfied the Established Church would never submit to it. Mr. M. MILNES congratulated Sir R. Peel on his an nouncement, and he hoped be would carry it out. ANr some further discussion, the vote was agreed to. Another discussion took place on the vote to the College of Maynooth, which was agreed to by a majority of 87 to 30; and the house then adjourned. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. SIR HENRY HARDINGE.—The new Governor-General of India reached Alexandria in the Geyser, from Mar seilleQ, on the 22d of June; and, after having had one public and several private audiences with the Pacha, de parted on the 25th for Cairo, on his way to Suez, where he was to embark for India in the Hindostan. THE REV. DR. WOLFF.—Letters from Trebizond to the 24th of June announce that intelligence had been re ceived there of the safe arrival at Bokhara of this enter prising traveller, who had had a very kind reception from the Bokharees ; but, since nothing is stated touching the interesting object of this journey, it is concluded either that the rev. gentleman had not yet arrived at any certain facts, or that, sent as he is by certain individuals on an undertaking under the sanction of government, he is de sirous to communicate the result to them and it before publication in the public journals. WINE TRADE.—Advices received from Lisbon state that the wine exportation of Oporto and and Madeira was depressed beyond alt previous experience within living memory. Good wine was unsaleable at £5 per pipe. BIRTH OF A FRENCH PRINCE.—On Friday week the Duchess de Nemours was safely delivered of a son, to whom the King of the French has given the name of Duke d'Alencon. ANOTHER ATTACK BY THE MOORS.—We have received by express the details of a skirmish, which took place on the 3d instant, between the French and the Moors, and which is important, as it proves that up to that date, not withstanding the expressed expectations of the French government to the contrary, the forces of the Emperor were still moving against them. The results of the fight were (the despatch published in the Messager states) of little consequence, but this refers of course only to the action and its immediate effects upon the conflicting forces.—Times. TURKEY.--Letters from Constantinople of the 27th ult. state, that the intelligence received by the govern ment from Albania continued to be of a satisfactory na ture, and that the Greek Archbishop was assisting the Mussulman authorities in preparing an inventory of the losses suffered by the peaceable inhabitants, and for which they were to obtain compensation. On the 26th Sir Strat ford Canning repaired to the Imperial Palace of Beyler bey, and presented to the Sultan an autograph letter of Queen Victoria. in which her Maiestv congratulated his iguness on the fortunate arrangement or me misunder standing which, to her great regret, had momentarily affected the relations of mutual good-will which ever ex isted between the two courts. GREECE.—The accounts from Athens of the 30th ult. describe Greece as on the eve of becoming again the thea tre of party strife. A few days previously some rioting took place in that capital. Cries of " Down with the Ministry !" and " Viva the Constitution !" were vocifo rated under the King's windows, and Callergis was obliged to order a body of Cavalry to disperse the mob. Several persons were wounded in the affray, two of them subse quently died. The elections were nearly over in the pro vinces, and had passed off quietly, except in Messenia, where five individuals lost their lives. On the 29th, the list of the senators, thirty-six in number, was published. Celetti, Mavrocordato, and Metaxa would not permit their names to be enrolled on the list, which included the most eminent of the personages who took part in the po litical events for the last 25 years. SPANISH AFFAIRS. — The accounts received from Spain are considered rather ominous, by that portion of our commercial interest that have attached importance to our direct trade with the Peninsula being placed upon a more liberal and secure footing. The decree for the dissolution of Vie Cortes has excited comparatively little interest, it having been expected for some time, as the necessary consequence of late events. But the decree for the re establishment of the deputations and municipalities in the Basque provinces, according to the Fueros, is looked upon as an important step in retrogression, in both the commercial and the financial view of the case. The lead ing object of the administration of Espartero was to bring the country under one uniform system of law and govern ment, by the progressive abolition of provincial distinc tions ; one great object being to put an end to the demo ralizing influence of the contraband trade, by the uniform imposition of a moderate scale of import duties. The restoration of the Fueros in the Basque provinces, will, however, put an end to all hope of this kind. The whole frontier will again be thrown open to the French smug glers; and the present change is considered decisive of the undivided ascendancy of French counsel in Spanish affairs. The recent return of the trade of France exhi bited a very large diminution of the exports to Spain from the period of the removal of the line of custom-houses to the frontier ; and although the status quo, as it respects them, is not included in the present decree, it is antici pated that it will follow at no distant day. Every person acquainted with the state of society in Spain uniformly places the evils arising from the contraband trade in the foreground, and its suppression an essential requisite to ensure respect to the law, and the establishment of an efficient system of finance. Until this is done it is per fectly clear that Spain cannot resume her place amongst the nations of Europe, and everything tending to retard the change must be a subject of unqualified regret with all well-regulated minds. IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. — At the meeting on Monday the chair was filled by the newly-elected repeal member for Limerick, Mr. James Kelly. The rent was £1,688,—a somewhat ominous series of figures to Repealers, who are not fond of being reminded of a monarch who (as Lord Plunkett sarcastically phrased it) " came to conquer Ire land to happiness and freedom." USEFUL KNOWLEDGE—" CHEAP 1 "—At an auction of books in Tuam, on Friday evening, the first three numbers of the Poor Law Commissioners' report were offered for sale, but no person appearing disposed to pur chase them, the lot was set up for one halfpenny, and knocked down for three halfpence. So much for the estimation for poor law commissioners' reports. — Dublin Mail. LORD DE GRIM—The address to Lord De Grey on his quitting Ireland contained the signatures of four mar quises, twenty-five earls, twelve viscounts, fourteen barons, the Lord Primate, six bishops, nineteen deans, twenty three archdeacons, the Provost T.C.D., thirty-nine hon ourables and privy councillors, forty-two baronets, thirty eight m embers of parliament, ninety-five deputy lieutenants, one hundred and seventy-four magistrates, one hundred and thirty clergymen, and an array of resident country gentlemen, barristers, physicians, bankers, respectable inhabitants of Dublin, &c. &c., amounting to some thou sands. Two WOMEN CONVICTED OF MURDER. — Catharine Bryan, Bridget Langan. and Ann Carr were tried, at the Roscommon Assizes, for the murder of Patrick Bryan, the husband of the first prisoner, by strangling him with a rope. Bryan and Langan were found guilty, and after wards sentenced to death. Carr was acquitted. The murder was committed a year ago, and, the wretches who perpetrated it having cut the man's throat after strangling him, a coroner's inquest returned a verdict of suicide. Since that time an important witness has been discovered, in the person of Margaret Gilhooly, who witnessed the murder, but wished to avoid giving evidence : hence the present trial and result. DEPARTURE OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT. — ' Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess de Grey took their departure from Ireland on Tuesday morning last, after a sojourn of two years and nine months, during which time they gained the esteem and respect due to their exalted stations from all loyal and dutiful subjects of the sovereign whose representatives they were. Every suitable preparation was made by the military authorities to do honour to the noble earl and his amiable countess upon their departure from the seat of their vice royalty, and the several streets through which the cortege was to pass, after its arrival at Essex-bridge, were lined with the various horse and foot regiments composing the ganigou of Dublin.—Evening Packet. THE REPEAL FUND AND ITS USES.-At the Roscom , mon assizes, before Mr. Baron Lefroy, a Mr: Fry h highly respectable gentleman, was put on his ttial un a charge of perjury, but most honourably acquitted. The perjury was alleged to have been committed by his swear ing that his horse was maliciously killed, for the purpose of recovering its value from the county. It came out in the cross-examination of a Rev. Mr. Hester, the priest of the parish, that he (the aforesaid reverend) had received £25 from the Repeal Association, to assist him in prose cuting this gentleman, who had become obnoxious from avowing himself an Orangeman. LORD NORDURY'S MURDER.-At the King's County assizes, on Thursday, Peter Dolan was indicted for the murder of Lord Norbury on the Ist of January, 1839. The prisoner, at the close of the previous year, was a farm servant of a tenant of Lord Norbury's, and was pay ing his addresses to the daughter of a man who had been dispossessed by his lordship. The principal witness was a person named Day, an approver, and the following is an extract from his evidence :—" On the day his lordship was shot, I was in the demesne ; I saw the prisoner there, standing with James Gill, at the corner of the plantation ; I did not speak to them ; I then went home for a broken reaping -hook, and went to the woods to cut rods, and as Iwent into it I saw a man going down along the ditch ; I did not see his face, and did not know who it was ; he stood awhile at the breast of the ditch, and soon after I saw smoke and heard a shot; I then saw the man running away, and he came to where I stood 1 then saw him quite plain ; the prisoner at the bar is the man ; I was within about eight perches of him ; he wore a light coloured dress, and a cap of the same description ; he went into the wood, and I saw him no more; I then went home; I did not see Lord Norbury on that occasion at all." His evidence was confirmed, but the jury acquitted the prisoner, to the surprise of every one ; and the Dublin Evening Mail says, to none more so than the prisoner and his friends. ROMANISM AND SOCINIANISM. — The Irish journals inform us, that on Monday week " The Rev. William Hugh Doherty, Moderator of the Remonstrant (Socinian) Synod of Ulster, paid a visit to Mr. O'Connell, at the Richmond Penitentiary, for the purpose of expressing his thanks to that honourable and learned gentleman, and through him to all the Roman Catholics of Ireland, for the generous and powerful support which they had given to the synod in the matter of the Dissenters' Chapel Bill. The reverend moderator also expressed his hope of a speedy and favourable decision by the House of Lords on the writ of error, and the consequent termination of Mr. O'Cnnnell's unjust imprisonment," &c. Socinianism and Romanism—is there anything new in this coalition ? Nothing whatever. Nay, Voltaire himself, who spent his whole life exclaiming, " Crush the wretch!" felt no re pugnance in sending for a priest, at the close of his mis'tr able career, and declaring that he died a sincere member of the Catholic Church. But did he ever show the least disposition to embrace the Scriptural faith of Claude and Coligny ? Not for an instant. One false system may displace another, and the man remain intrinsically the same—but an inward and real change must be undergone before he can be brought to embrace the truth. Julian, the demon-worshipper of the fourth century, agreed with the Arians of his day in persecuting Athanasius and the worshippers of the blessed Trinity ; and the agreement of the Irish Socinians and the Irish idol-worshippers in the nineteenth century is essentially of the same character. Only let a man hold by the Bible, distribute the Bible, and preach the doctrines of the Bible, and he has done enough, though his life be as blameless as Paul's or Cran mer's, to ensure for himself the general hatred of Roman ists, Infidels, Mahomedans, and Heretics, from one end of the globe to the otker. ORANGEMEN AND REPEALERS. -- The walls of the towns in England and Ireland (Liverpool amongst the rest) have, within the last few days, been covered with a bombastic address, issued by the Repeal Association to the Orangemen of Ireland, reminding them of the evils Ireland suffered under the Tudors and Stuarts, urging the folly of Irishmen in fighting for a Dutch Prince and against a weak bigot at the Revolution of 1688, and their miserable condition since, notwithstanding the resources which the country possesses •, and calling upon them, in order to obtain the benefit of these capabilities and de liverance from these evils, to join in seeking a domestic Legislature. The Dublin Protestant Operative Associa tion has now placarded an answer, the circulation of which may be of service, especially as it avoids the use of offensive and opprobrious epithets. With regard to what the Repeaters term the enslaved condition of Ireland, this Protestant Association. argues, that it is but upon the miserable level of every Roman Catholic country, national degradation being co-extensive with that system. "It is not the prevalence of English power here, but of the false principles of Rome ; " ' idolatry is of all vices the most detested of God, and the most damnable to man ;" " and in the remote period upon which, as it respects Ireland, you have observed in your address, England herself was for the same reason totally devoid of what we would now call constitutional liberty." Next, say they, if James 11. was, as alleged, a bigot and a tyrant, then in fighting for King William 111. Irishmen must have fought for liberty. And as for Ireland having vast resources, " so had the land of Canaan, but when it adopted principles identical with those which are now the ruin of Ireland, it became ' a land of poverty, vexation, and rebuke.' " " Repeaters ! ' there is no might, nor power, nor counsel against the Lord ; and as sure as you are living men, if Ireland had a resident Legislature to-morrow, it would have merely changed its cros.' is. humanly sneaking. the charac ter of a people that determines its temporal condition ; and when we consider the influence of Roman Catholic principles upon the mass of our countrymen, we find in that influence a satisfactory explanation of all the woes of our country. A prejudice so strong that it rejects, with out inquiry,—a confidence in priests so engrossing and implicit that it takes in without hesitation, and holds, without possibility of eradication by ordinary means, fables the most gross and contemptible,—argues the ab sence of that native spirit of independence and self-control which is, perhaps, the most important attribute of the hu man mind, the spring and source of great enterprise and great success, and the chief element necessary to makeup a great national character. Let our countrymen begin to think for themselves; let them cease to allow themselves to be made tools of by those who have an interest in their degradation; let them —we do not say reject human authority in religious matters—but ascertain that that which they yield to really has Divine warrant, and is not directly at variance with the word of God; let them act thus, and they will have taken the first step towards Irish independence; but until they do this, though they may change or multiply their masters, it is perfectly impos sible that they can be free." In conclusion, the Protest ant Operatives add, that they cleave to the Union with Great Britain, not from admiration of the acts of its mo dern statesmen, but because they know that the bulk of the British people are a noble and a right-minded race, and because they expect eventually to obtain from the Imperial Parliament what they could never hope from an Irish one, constituted as it then would be—laws that shall aim at the ascendancy of truth, and the elevation of the national character thereby. UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The Senate of the Uni versity of London have recently come to the resolution of adopting academical costume for the under-graduates and graduates of every degree conferred by that body. No collegiate dress has been hitherto worn by the mem bers of this university. BISHOPRIC OF NEWFOUNDLAND.—Letters were re ceived from Halifax, by the last North American mail, announcing the arrival of the Bishop of Newfoundland, and his intention of continuing his voyage to St. John's, the capital of his own diocese, by the next steamer. H e was to leave Halifax on the evening of the Ist of July. The vessel, which was presented to the bishop previous to his departure, is now undergoing repairs, to fit it for the special purposes of visitation, and other uses, alluded to in his late letter, in his diocese, and will sail in about a fortnight. We desire to make this fact known, as pro bably there are many ft lends, and others interested in this mission, who may be anxious to send out presents of books, church-plate, or furniture, which may be useful. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—The report of the ecclesiastical commission gives a statement of all churches and benefices augmented by the commissioners up to May, 1844. Since the passing of the first cathedral act in 1840, it appears that 496 livings have been aug mented, as follows :—With a population of 2,000 and upwards, the stipend of the minister has been raised to £l5O, in 261 cases; population of 1,000 and upwards, to £l2O, in 96 cases ; population of 500 and upwards, to £lOO, in 80 cases ; population below 500, to £BO, in 59 cases. The annual augmentation of these livings amounts to £26,779, which, with grants to meet benefactions when the income is below £2OO, compensation to incumbents for loss of fees surrendered to new churches, &c., gives an annual augmentation of £29,809, wholly exclusive of considerable gross sums of money expended and pro mised to meet benefactions for building and purchasing houses of residence for incumbents whose annual incomes are below £2OO. This statement is also independent of all that is in progress under Sir R. Peel's endowment act. APPOINTMENTS.—The llev. William Philip Haslewood, M.A., Trinity College, to the Rectory of Ardiugly, Sussex •, value, £498. The Rev. Edward James Moor, 8.A., of Trinity College, to the Rectory of Great Bealings, Suffolk ; value £250. The Rev. Nicholas Kendall, 8.A., Pembroke College, to the Vicarage of Talland, Cornwall ; value £llO. The Rev. Robert Marler Cremer, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, to the Rectory of North Barning ham, Norfolk ; value £156. The Rev. John Oliver, 8.A., Queen's College, to the Vicarage of Warnington, Northamptonshire ; value £lO7. The Rev. William Medcalf, M.A., Clare Hall, to the Incumbency of the new church of St. John, Yeadon, in the parish of Guiseley. The Rev. William Reade, 8.A., of St. Catherine's Hall, to the Curacy of Welby, Lincolnshire. The Rev. Sa• muel Lewthwaite, M.A.. Magdalene College, to the Curacy of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire. The Rev. William B B ;th. ' Wellington Wellock, M.A., Magdalene College , to the Curacy of St. Philip, Stepney, Middlesex. The Rev. Alfred N. Bull, 8.A., Sidney College , to t he Cu racy of Rendlesham, Suffolk. The Rev. Joseph Gattey, A Si T dn h e e y R C e o v l . le j ge Christi College, to be incumbent of t he New D Church of St. Jude, in the parish of Upp er Chelsea • o , hn to p th e e tte Curacy , cymo.fA.t. henfParin3.inoestf Bi s hop of Chester ORDINATION AT DURHAM.—'The ntlemen were ad. on Sunday week, when die following Wm gruuntain Addison, witted to holy orders :—Priests : Wadbatn Coll. Oxford ; B.A. and John Groom, B.A. , held an Ordination in the Cathedral Church of Durham Coll. Oxford ; Charles Kilshaw Crowder, M.A. Merton O xford Charles B dh Dean, B.A. Queen's COIL ; a am, Coll. Cambridge • John Samuel Bage, B.A. Emmanuel Edw. Pedder, B.A. Brasennose Coll. Oxford J. Hutton B.A. St. John's Coll. Cambridge ; ' Joseph Afranius Bur rowes, B.A. Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge; Joseph Hollingworth, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge; John Li n gham i 13,A, Trinity Coll, Cambridge; Johu Royds, B.A. Christ's Coll. Cambridge ' • James Cox, B.A. Wm. Morris Colles, B.A. and Abraham Hume, B.A. Trinity Coll. Dublin ; Francis Busteed Ashley. Russell Cope, Thomas Ellertborp, Ralph Kinder, and John Rimmer, St. Bees •, John Booth, B.A. Brasennose Coll. Oxford ; George Tatam, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge ; Simon Naughton Sherard, B.C.L. Christ's Coll. Cambridge ; Benjamin Hayward Browne, St. Bees.—Deacons : Henry Brooks, B.A. John Tayleur Piggot, B.A. and Francis Gartside Tipping, B.A. Brasennose Coll. Oxford •, Edw. Jackson Dixon, B.A. and John O'Brien, B.A. Queen's Coll. Oxford ; John Thorns, B.C.L. Trin. Coll. Oxford ; Arthur Thomas Whitmore Shadwell, M.A. Balliol Coll. Oxford ; Wm. Henry Arret, jun. B.A. Queen's Coll. Cambridge; W. Chamberlain, B.A. Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge; Lonsdale Formby, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge; Edw. Henry Gregory, B.A. and Charles Philip Wilbraham, B.A. St. Peter's Coll. Cambridge; John Atherton Kershaw, B.A. and Edw. Fawcett Ne ville Rolfe, B.A. Trinity Coll. Cambridge; Join Robert Parr; B.A. Wm. Spence, B.A. Henry Plumer Stedman, B.A. Chas. White Underwood, B.A. and Robert Whit taker, B.A. St. John's Coll. Cambridge; F. Thackeray, B.A. Caius Coll. Cambridge; John Booker, B.A. Mag dalen Hall, Cambridge; Geo. Marshall, B.A. and James Pease, M.A. Trinity Coll. Dublin •, Thos. Allnuit, Geo. Crighton, John Crump, Wm. Robert Duncan, Thomas Craven Humphrey, Geo. Leopold Longland, Henry John Loddington, John Edmund Lesson, John Lowthian, Henry Nembhard, Henry Thomas Rees, and H. Sewell, St. Bees; Joseph Telford M'Donough, B.A. and Wm. Mears, B.A. Trinity Coll. Dublin, (by letters dim). CHURCH EXTENSION. — SpeciaI meetings of the In corporated Society for promoting the enlargement, build ing, and repairing of churches and chapels, were held on the Ist and 15th inst. The Committee having ordered the payment of ten grants to the places where the works undertaken with the aid of the Society have been com pleted, (eight of these grants being voted towards building additional churches,) proceeded to consider the applica tions for assistance recently received, and voted new grants of money towards building twelve additional churches or chapels, and towards rebuilding or enlarging ten existing churches, making twenty-two grants in all. The new buildings are to be erected for two districts in the parish of Gainsborough, and for districts in the parishes of Middleton in Teesdale, Durham • Ashbourn, Derby ; Sandbach, Cheshire ; Woolwich, Durham; ; Cal verley, Yorkshire; Barnstaple, Devon; Buslibury, Staf fordshire ; Lynn, Norfolk ; Gosport, Hants ; and Dids bury, a chapelry in the parish of Manchester. The churches to be enlarged, &c., are situate at Ystradyfoding, Glamorganshire; St. Feock, Cornwall; Great Bookham, Surrey ; Lower Guiting, Gloucestershire ; Yardley, Herts •' Ninebanks, Northumberland; Stranton, Dur ham ; Kirkdale, near Liverpool ; Attleborough, Norfolk ; and Tarrant Gunville, Dorset. The population of the twenty-two parishes now assisted is 462,000 souls, the number of existing churches is 72; containing accommo dation for 69,034 persons, and including 18,994 free seats. The, free church room is therefore only one seat for twenty four inhabitants. The additional accommodation to be obtained by the execution of the works referred to in the applications which have been now considered, is 6,199 sittings, 4,940 to be free and unappropriated. It will be observed that five-sixths of the new seats are to be free; indeed two of the new churches, viz., those intended to be built at Middleton and Gosport, will be wholly free; a further evidence of the growing conviction that it is of the utmost importance to provide the labouring classes with the means of attending public worship. The aggregate amount of the population of the 22 places above referred to, when compared with the total present provision of church room therein, does not convey an accurate idea of the wants of particular parishes; and without again calling attention to the parish of Manchester, it should be noticed that Middleton in Teesdale contains a population of 3,000 persons, and has one church with 284 sittings. Woolwich contains nearly 28,000 inhabitants, with one church ac commodating 1.500 persons, and a proprietary chapel. Kirkdale, a suburb of Liverpool, has a population of 5,000 persons, rapidly increasing, and 960 sittings in the chapel, 100 only of which are free. Lynn, with more than 12,000 inhabitants, has two churches accommodating about one-sixth of the number, but affording free accom modation for only 450 persons. Gosport, containing a population of nearly 8,000 persons, with only a proprie tary chapel containing 1,000 sittings, of which only about 300 are free. Sandbach, with 6,600 inhabitants, and 1,247 sittings in two churches, only 224 of which are free. In these six parishes therefore there is a population of 63,000 persons, 55,901 of whom have no seats provided for them in the existing churches, in which the free ac commodation is only 1,822 seats, or one sitting for 35 persons. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY BRIDGE ACROSS THE THAMES.—Another bridge across the metropolitan portion of the Thames is proposed. Among the speculations of the day is a plan of a metropolitan junction railway, one of the most con spicuous schemes of which is the formation of a railway bridge across the river Thames at Battersea. The French, the Belgian, and the German manufacturer and man of business, can travel by railway at ld. or 14d. a mile, where the Englishman pays 24d. or 3d. the foreign operative can travel for id„ where the English man is either excluded altogether, or obliged to pay ld. for very inferior accommodation. ()UV .11,1VAlr...INT A. 1.41/ 1 ti. rtall,WAY DILL.-We are gratified in being enabled to state that the result of the interview which took place last week between Mr. Glad stone, on the part of the government, and Mr. Entwisle, M.P., Mr. Hudson, Mr. Glvn, Mr. Saunders, &c., as a deputation from the railway companies, is in the highest degree satisfactory. The subject having been fully gone into, the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade stated his determination so to modify the bill as to render it in every way unexceptionable to the railway interest. The measure will now pass through parliament without opposition, and will prove, to adopt the language of a gentleman, a member of the deputation, who has hitherto taken a leading part in opposition to the bill, " a good bill for the public as well as for the shareholders." THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—A general meeting of the shareholders in the North Midland, Midland Counties, and Derby and Birmingham Railway, now consolidated into " The Midland Railway," was held at the Derby Station on Tuesday last, and was attended by between three and four hundred shareholders. Geo. Hudson, Esq. the chairman of the hoard of directors, gave a very favourable report of the affairs of the company, and of its future prospects, in consequence of the consolidation of the three companies, of the increase of traffic, and dimi nution in the expenses. The opening of the line of rail way from London to Newcastle-upon-Tyne direct was re ferred to with considerable pleasure, as also the prospect of the completion of the remaining one hundred miles. be tween Newcastle and Edinburgh, when London and Edin burgh would be connected by railway by the eastern line, which was of great importance to the Midland as every other railway on that route. In order to meet the threat ened opposition to the Midland Railway, by the formation of a direct line from London to York, full powers were given to the directors to take the necessary steps to obtain powers in the next session of parliament for fhe construc tion from the present main line of four lines of railway, viz. 1. From Swinton station by Doncaster, Bawtry, and Gainsborough to Lincoln. 2. From Nottingham, by Newark to Lincoln. 3. From Lincoln southwards, to join the Eastern Counties' Railway at March. passing near Boston. 4. From Doncaster to join the York and North Midland Railway. The half yearly dividend on the North Midland shares was declared to be on the £lOO shares £2 25.. half £1 ls., third 14s. ; Midland Counties, £lOO shares, £2 2s. 6d., quarter 10s. 7 d. ; Birmingham and Derby, £lOO shares, £1 Gs. 6d., third Ss. 10d. NEW IRISH RAILWAYS.—The Dublin and Cashel is now wending its way through Parliament, and supported as it is by ministerial influence, there is little doubt but it will pass into law. Out of this starts a line from Cork to Limerick, and Limerick to Waterford. The Limerick and Waterford, in conjunction with the Great Western South Wales line, is evidently to compete with the Dub lin and Cashel,in connexion with the Chester and Holyhead line. A strong opposition may, therefore, be expected to both the Fishguard, or South Wales, and the Waterford and Limerick lines, by the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, Chester and Holyhead, and Dubli❑ and Cashel Companies. On the other hand, both of these lines will be supported with all the weight the Great Western, and we presume the Birmingham and Glouces ter, and Bristol and Gloucester, can throw into the scales. It will be a curious phanomenon to see the London and Birmingham and Great Western battling for a line in the sister kingdom, apparently in no connection with either. But let the Irish Great Southern and Western be carried, and it will be a reason immediately for the Fishguard line, or let the latter, and it will be a reason for the for mer. From Fishguard to Wexford, to which the Lime ' rick and Waterford line would of course be extended, is only six miles longer, sea distance, than from Holyhead to Kingstown. The other line which is expected shortly to appear before the public, under the title of the Irish Great Western Railway, is one issuing from the Cashel line at Lucan, 71 miles from Dublin, and taking nearly the route of the Royal Canal, on to Mullingar, and teethe to Athlone, for the object, we presume, of going i end to Galway.—Railway Journal. DOMESTIC• _o n Monday evening, a THREE PERSONS DROWN or punt. The party con setting of a small pleasure b o'f Preston, two of her daughters, m a e young a o n u c n h g o l gentleman, e l n o t s i sisted of a Mrs. Bentley, id -„, to be the nephew of Mrs. in Dover Bay, by the up setting men who were in charge of the Bentley, and the and Lewisham. The young man and boat, named Fox d rowned, the remainder of the party the two girls 1./ e re up : d by a fishing smack. h av ing been picic . car go of pine apples has arrived in the Thames Another being 12,000, brought over by the Sophia. the n umber letters from the Bahamas state that the natives are The quite enthusiastic now the British have taken up the trade, since the Americans, who were the sole purchasers before, cannot beat them down in prices. The pine trees in the West Indies it appears only bear for three years, and then the natives root them up to make room for other plantations. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, July 19.—We have ex perienced a very good demand since our last report both from the refiners and grocers, and which have been met by the importers, a fair amount of business has been transacted at rather improved rates on those current last week. The sales comprise 650 hogsheads and tierces West India, at from 555. to 655. for very dark brown to good grocery ; 200 bags Bengal, at from 60s. to 665. for yellow and low white, and 600 mats Mauritius at from 575. to 60s. for fine brown to middling grocery.—ln rum setnofalintfl:)ccurorEai the transactions amount to about 100 puncheons Jamaicas as steady prices. Gazetted average price of sugar, July 18, is Ns, 24(1, per cwt. July 23, 1848: AWFUL FULFILMENT OF A BAD WISH..--OD Sue day week, Harriet Milwood, a middle-aged female, who with her husband kept a large toy stall at Fairlop fair, and who had been in the habit of going to different fairs to follow the same occupation, drank to such excess as to become much intoxicated. Her husband and herself had. in consequence, some words, when the latter declared she would stop on the ground no longer, and managed to get into a light cart for the purpose of going home. Wherl about to drive away, her husband, who had suffered mu' from her conduct during the evening, exclaimed, with much fervour, " I wish you may break your neck before you get home." The wretched woman took no notice of the observation, nor did she make acy reply, but she had not driven more than 200 yards when she tumbled out of the vehicle, and, falling with considerable force on her head, actually broke her neck, and in a few minutes wss a corpse. PLATE GLASS.—There is perhaps no branch of moon; facture in which the operatives are more fully employed than are the workmen of the plate Blass establishments , and in particular at St. Helen's. These concerns present at the moment a most favourable and cheering contrast to the state of things at that place some two years ago. At that period some concerns were at a dead lock, what , ' others were only partially employed. At present a very different scene indeed presents itself. All is bustle and activity, orders, it is said, are pouring in much quicker, than they can be executed; indeed, at some works, report says truly, they have orders in store which will take months to execute. It is impossible to convey tO those who did not happen to witness it, an idea of the dis tress that pervaded the district during the depression of trade in 1811-2, and it is equally difficult to convey an idea of its present comparatively cheeringposition now that au, the glass works are fully employed, and the late strike 0 1 the colliers at an end. --- A WEDDING SLIP.—A gentleman and lady, both of Garstang, the former 74, and the latter nearly the same► having made up their minds to take each other for better and worse, upon going to the registrar's office, to tie the asto hi f s ol t i a o s w k of repeating upon hearingw ha what be fatal knot, met with the following mishap : —The ma.nr the ha lady ving finished w called out by the re g i s t rar , s h e d ec l are d, t h at a m i s take had been made, and that thi s was no t h er rea l nam e. The circumstance of having changed it t w i ce b e f ore , un der similar circumstances, had led, we presu m e, t o this mistake. This blunder stopped the proceedin gs a t onc e, and a new entry had to be made and the usu a l time to elapse; but the parties adjourned to the inn and enjoyed themselves with the good things provided for them. A he her was name told, few days after, however, another offer was made by farmer, upwards of eighty, and duly accepted ; and in stead of waiting two or three weeks for her old suitor, the lady embraced the latest offer, and the new match ws 6 duly confirmed by license, without further delay, at the parish church, Garstang, last Monday. THE BRADFORD POPISH MURDER.—At the York assizes, on Friday, Thomas Rogan (25), John O'Brian (23), Daniel Donovan (32), Wm. Quin (37), and Daniel Power (35), were charged with the wilful murder of Ben jamin Gott, by casting and throwing him down upon the ground, and striking and kicking him on the sides and stomach, at Bradford, on the 27th of May last, inflicting various bruises and wounds, whereof the said Benjamin Gott died on the 29th of the same month. After a pa tient hearing of the case, which lasted the whole day, the jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned with • verdict of manslaughter against all the five prisoners. Sentence was deferred. It may be remembered that the unfortunate deceased was a member of a band cf musi cians engaged by an Orange Lodge at Bradford, who were walking quietly along, playing the Battle of the Boyner when they were set upon by the prisoners and othersr who so shamefully abused them, that Gott died in cons& quenae, and two or three of the other musicians were se riously injured, and their instruments were dashed to atoms. ENLARGEMENT OF THE BRISTOL DOCKS.—At a ape.. cial meeting of the Town Council of Bristol, on Mon day, a report from Mr. Brunel, relative to the contem plated enlargement of the south entrance lock of Cum berland Basin, was submitted. Mr. Brunel is of opinions that to commence a thorough repair of the lock would be the same thing as its re-construction. The expense of widening it will only, he thinks, entail an extra cost of about £5,000. The expense of a lock, 52 feet wide and 240 feet in length, will be £22,000, and this will be amplf sufficient for all the ordinary steam-boats employed in the Irish trade. It was stated that the masonry is in a ver9 defective state, both as to the backing and facing, and also that the fronting had been separated from the bank ing nearly 18 inches, Some discussion occurred as to the, impropriety of limiting the increase to 52 feet. Most of the royal navy steamers, it was contended by the object ors, were 60, 61, or 62 feet wide, and all those were o°,l thought to be rather too narrow. Fifty-two feet voll l not admit such a vessel as the Great Western in sea-going trim. Ultimately, however, the recommendation of Mr. Brunel was agreed to. PEERAGE STATISTICS.—Within the last three years st considerable decrease has occurred among the hereditarf honours of the country. The dukedoms of Sussex and Dorset ; the Irish marquisate of Wellesley ; the earldoms of Plymouth, Ludlow, and O'Neill; the English baroniell of Rolle, 'Wellesley, Lynedoch, Wallace, Ludlow, Fits. gerald, and Sydenham ; the baronetcies of Bruce, Cowan Cromie, Hannay, Johnstone, Mackenzie, Macnaghteus ' Mansfield of 1793 has merged into t h at of 1776. The viscounty of Ferrand has united with that of Massareene ; the English barony of Arden with Lovell and Holland; the Irish barony of Arden with the earldom of Egmont; the barony of Duncannon with the earldom ofA Besbo rough. During the same period the earldom of Aber gavenny, the viscounty of Hereford, the baronies of Rod ney, Berwick, Fitzgerald, and Congleton, have descended to clerical possesors. The viscounty of Hill is the only elevation ; the barony of Lowther, now merged in the earldom of Lonsdale, the only addition to the ministerial party in the upper house ; whilst Sir John Pirie is the only baronet created since September, 1841. By the de mise, of the last Earl of Plymouth, the barony of Winn" sor has fallen into abeyance between the sisters of the sixth earl, the Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Il• Clive, wife of the Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P., for South Salop.—Standard. ELOPEMENT TO GRETNA-GREEN.—On Thursday last, Lieutenant Leeson, nephew to Lord Milltown, and young est son of the late Hon. Mr. Leeson, of the Thorn, near Penrith, Cumberland, who is on leave of absence from his regiment, which is in the East Indies, eloped to Gretna green, with Miss Laura Bristow, a daughter of John Charles Bristow, Esq., of Ensemere-hill, Ullswater, Westmoreland, and over whose head sixteen summers have scarcely flown. It appears that this young officer, had laid his plans for the accomplishment of the siege, °l Ensemere-hill with great skill. Wednesday last was th e day in which he intended to have stormed the works, bu t the garrison having doubtless been apprised of his into , ' Lions, manned the walls so well all that day and night+ that the besieger thought it right not to commence o pera' tions at that time. Next morning, however, the besieged? thinking all safe, made a sortie, and set sail up the lake of Ullswater to Paterdale, taking the young 'lady with them. The besieger was not aware of this, and the be sieged had nearly made a safe retreat into the garrison again ; but one of the gallant officer s sharpshooters la/ concealed among the brushwood, who seized the fair prize? and away she was taken to her betrothed, who was waiting at a short distance with coach and four, and off the youn% officer went with his booty. Pursuit was in vain ; the fugitives soon passed over the six-and-twenty miles to Gretna-green, were married. BRITISH SHIPPING.—The East India and China sociation have published their comparative statement of the number of British ships, with tonnage, entered in' wards and cleared outwards from and to places within the limits of the East India Company's charter, from the 1 6 1 of January to the 30th of June, in the years 1843 se', 1814. The statement of vessels entered inward s shoals that the number arriving at the port of London duriel that period was an increase of ten vessels, with 6,013" tonnage, compared with 1843, there being 280 vesselol with 116,632 tonnage, in the former six months, and 27 : vessels, with 110'5-18 tonnage, in the latter six mon% In the case of Liverpool, the increase w a s only t" vessels, with 710 tonnage, the number of vessels arrivi ng in the first six months of 1843 being 85, with 36,321 to n g nage, and in the same period of 1844, 87, with 3 7, 06 tonnage. The ports of Bristol and Hull show an incl . ! 84 3 of five vessels, with 1,915 tonnage, the number in having been 9, with 2,982 tonnage; and in 1844, 14, sc,': 4,197 tonnage. The Clyde and other ports show a ~le.. crease of two vessels , with 2,046 tonnage. 27, with q ,6°' 25 nt a r r ie n s v rn i : entries of withtwoan rndaf,sesh,2o2hwatsvoinnang totalarrived ge. A increase g in e n l e B r 4 a 3 il n , r Nsr et ' v h hi iselieonniof the.rst x 1844 over • si 6,663 tonnage. The chief increase has been in the arrive' of Islands; the same period of 1843 of 15 vessels, with , s e P s a l :t e ls, the same tim e and NewSouth f t r h o e m p port Wales, China, of Singapore , wo nhdi oentoh fe r3e the BhaN been a considerable decrease in the arrivals from C; c utta. The clearances outwards show an increase in tonnage, in 1844, compared with 1843, the respent, l 4 . 9 numbers in the six months being 233 vessels, with 9 2 17 t 0 tonnage, and 195 vessels, with 79,914 tonnage. pool shows the large increase of 87 vessels, with 3 0 . n " n o f arrivals vessels at with 12 , ; e tonnage, the numbers being 117 vessels, with 45,37 1 "-*; nage in 1843, and 204 vessels, with 75,761 tonnage' ; I th 1844. Bristol, also shows an increase of 17 vessels,' ; 0 1 4,155 tonnage, only 1, with 367 tonnage, having el'F',2% in the first s i x mont h s o f 1843 , w h ereas 18, w ith 4, ,ib0 tonnage, arrived in the first six months of 1844. e isr Clyde and other ports show an increase of 10 les"Arot with a decrea se o f 555 tonnage, the arrivals in the fi ef six months of 1844 being 89 vessels, with 28,947 tonn e b'o% and in the first six months of 1843 79 vessels, with 2 4 1, 0 $ tonnage. A general review of the clearanc es 01": t he " . total increase in the first six months of 1844 ov enige, same period in 1843 of 153 vessels, with 46,9 02 terse if The increase includes 44 vessels for Calcutta, 15 fof for Bombay, 24 vessels for the Mauritius, 87 yes s ea the Cape of Good Hope, and 5 vessels for the .reo i Seas. In the clearances for New South Wales the. decrease of 20 vessels is to be noticed. its ° THE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds Rl O fell one to promote or reproduce the hair, few have surviv e d s r ay in name, whilst ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, IS putation already unparallelled, is still on the iner:ll_4p public estimation ; which fact, together with bum. %/6- testimonials in the possession of the proprietorssole:reigt dent to satisfy the most incredulous as to its 7; A O virtues so repeatedly shown in restoring, pre ba i l; O b i beautifying the human hair. In dressing th Oh, thing can equal the effects of " Rowland's Macassar awl; on either natural or artificial hair, rendering Bu roclu ce l rably soft that it will lie in anyirection : anL ,P, lst s e beautiful flowing curls, and, by t he transcend imparts, renders the head dress truly encbantrt e bs: preserves the coiffure in the heated atmosphere o ta l L. bc r 5 room, and neutralizes the effects of a da m p a DDY or violent exercipe.—See advt. .1