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Empertal Parliarnint. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The house rat for a short time. but all important busi ness was postponed in order to allow the arguments on the writs of error brought by 1 1 r. O'Connell and his fellow prisoners to be proceeded with. DOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAy, In reply to questions from Mr. SHELL and Sir C. Wa rmts rep petting the present position of affairs between France and Morocco, Sir R. PEEL said he was desirous of avoiding all discus •sion that miL ht give rise to counter observations in the , French Chambers upon subjects which were will under negociation between the governments of England and France. The British Consul at Alg , ers was nut acting under a French exequatar, but was precisely in the same position as under the late government. He alsa observed that the mediation of this country was not rejected by the Emperor of Morocco, for Mr. Drummond Hay was still with the Eirp ror, acting under instructions from the British government. Mr. GLADSTONE moved the order of the day for the second reading of the railways bill, and in so doing en tered at considerable length into the details of the measure, which, he said, had been more misrepresented as to its objects than any bill which he remembered to have been brought under the consideration of the hoese. The chief objects of the bill are to enfurce, for the convenience of the humbler clas-es. conveyance in, carriage's protected from the weather at the rate of one penny per mile, and to reserve the option of the legislature of purchasing ways if at some future period it should he necessary to do so, without being barred by the, plea of vested interest•. He denied that the bill was calculated,to give a shock to railway property, for they had not even had a dull day in the money market, notwithstanding a•.l the 1 , ef itions which parliamentary agents (for they were its rt al opponents) bad got up against this bill. With respect to the wish on the part of many hon. members to postpone the bill, be _ must say that, owing to the very nature cf the opposition raised against it, he was more than ever persuaded of the necessity of immediate legislation for the purPose of pro tecting the interests of the people. Mr. ENTWISLE said that the low fares professed to be for the advantage of the pc or man, but if the hill passed they would find many members of the house travelting in third-class carrates. lie moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Colonel SIBTUORP denied that he bad lost confidence in the government, and tendered his most sincere thanks to ministers for the bill before the house, though it was not so perfect as he could wish. The gallant member in the ennr.e of his remarks, said be hated railroads as be hated the devil. Mr. BRIGHT moved the adjournment, which, after some conversation was acceded to. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. All the business likely to occupy time wits postponed in order to allow the arguments to be proceeded with in the writs of error in the case of Mr. O'Connell and others. At the suggestion of the Duke of Wellington, tie Bishop of EXETER withdrew the Brothels Suppression Bill. Some other bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which counsel were called in, and the ATTORNEY GENERAL for Ireland proceeded with his arguments against the writs of error. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TVESDAY• - - Mr. M. D. Hill was heard as counsel against the Sud bury Disfranchisement Bill. After his adiress, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL gave his opinion that a ma jority of the electors had been clearly proved corrupt. He adverted to the details of the particular corruption preva lent in that borough, and pressed the house to concur in the seccnd reading of the bill. Mr. BLACESTONE gave notice, that be should move an instruction to the future committee, directing them to include the adycent hundreds in the franchise, rather than abolish it utre,lv. Mr. TUFFNELL, Mr. Ditt.oN BROWNE, and Mr. WYNN, each gave a blow to the falling borough ; and the bill was read a second time. At five o'clock, to which hour the house adjourned, Mr. Cno.isn'E brought forward the often-discus•ed subject of Danish claims. After some debate, in which Mr. HUME seconded, and Colonel SIBTHORP, Mr. HAWES, and Sir C. NAPIER supported, the motion, and Mr. GOULBURN and Sir R. PEEL opposed it, the house divided, defeating Mr. CHRISTIE by a majority of 3. Mr. LIDDELL obtained a committee for inquiring into the depredations of the dog-stealers of the metropolis. Mr. HOME was proceeding with a motion upon the subject of the Royal Academy, when the house was counted out. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Exemption Bill, and the Vagrants' Removal Bill, were read a third time and passed. The reports on the Colonial. Postage Bill, and the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, were brought up and agreed to. The house went into a committee on the Joint Stock Companies Regulation and Registration Bill, and the first six clauses were agreed to. The Joint Stock Companies' Remedies at Law and in Equity Bill was also considered in committee, and the clauses were agreed to. Sir JAMES OR AIIAM, in answer to Mr. Crawford, said he should certainly proceed with the Poor Law Bill on Friday. Mr. COWPER moved the second reading of the Field Gardens Bill, which, after a short discussion, was so read, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday next. The Sudbury Di,franchisement Bill went through com mittee, and was ordered to be reported. The house went into committee on the Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill, and after very considerable uninteresting discussion, the various clauses were agreed to. The report to be received on Thursday. Adjourned at twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIIRSDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock, and proceeded with the usual legislative business, no judgment in the O'Con nell writ of error having been pronounced, as had been expected. Earl Powts said. in consequence of the consent of the. Crown having been withheld from the bill relating to the separation of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, he, after mature deliberation, had thought it advisable to withdraw the bill rather than press it forward against the report of the committee with the prospect of being ultimately beaten. The Bishop of SALISBURY recommended her Majesty's government to consider this question. He very much regretted that the noble earl had been compelled to with draw this bill, for he felt that if it had been passed it would have been found to be a very beneficial measure. lie trusted, however, that the government would in the next session of Parliament introduce a bill themselves upon this subject. A discussion of some length followed, in the course of which an attempt was made by Lord Lyttelton and the Marquis of Clanric,rde to fasten a charge of unfairness on the government in the course it had adopted in respect of this hill, which charge, however, was rebutted by Lord Brougham, Lord Wharncliffe, and Lord Monteagle; after which the bill was withdrawn. Some other business on the paper was then disposed of, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. - - - On the motion of Sir G. CLERK, the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was read a third time.—ln answer to a question from Captain Pechell, Sir G. Clerk said the present measure was a mere continuance bill. • The Colonial Postage Bill was read a third time and p:ssed. Mr. FERRAND wished to know whether there was any objection to lay on the table of the house the evidence • taken before the coroner on the steam-boiler explosion at Bolton. Sir .1. GRAHAM said he was not aware that it was in the power of any authority to compel the coroner to pro duce the evidence taken in his court ; but he would make inquiries on the subject, and if the hon. member would repeat the question, be would endeavour to reply to it. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Railways' Bill was resumed by Mr. BRIGHT, who sup ported the amendment for reading it a second time that day six months. Lord Seymour, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. J. S. Wortley spoke in favour of the bill; and Mr. Bernal, Mr. Col quhoun, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. Milner Gibson for the amendment. Sir R. PEEL was very merry at the expense of poor Mr. Gibson, whom he designated as "Ingenui vullus puer ingenuique pudoris." Mr. Ward, Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Muntz subsequently spoke against the bill, and Mr. Sharman Crawford gave • It his support. The house having divided, there were—For the second reading, 186 ; against it, 98 ; majority, 88. The bill was'read a second time, and its committal fixed for Saturday next. The Turnpike Trusts (South Wales) Bill was read a se cond time. . . *The reports of the Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill, and of the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill were re ceived. - . • The committee on:dog stealing was nominated, after an •ttnsuecessfal divisiennn a motion for adjourtiment. Sir GEoaciE CLERK obtained leave to bring in a bill se-;i3 to continue certain of the allowances of the duty of excise on snap 'used in manufactures. Mr. J. W.• Hoes obtained leave to bring in a bill to • continue an. act of the 10th Geo. IV.: for providing for r 'the governinentof her Majesty's settlements in Western Australia, on the Weftern Coast of New Holland." HOUSE OF LORDS.—FitioAr. in reply to questions from the Marquis of Cr.mint cAßDE, retkpe c ti ng the collection of forces under Sir C. Napier oh the frontier of the Purtjaub, The Earl of RIPON said, that the rumours which hail, recently reached this country from India, to the effect, that an army of 80,000 men were collecting on the banks of the utledge, for the purpose of iavading and conquer ing.the Puajattb, greatly exaggerated the truth. The fact wns, shat it was necessary t o have a large force concen trated in the north-western provinces, which were there , most likely to ( be suddenly attacked, and in the present dis:tressed state of the Purijaub it w ou ld b e nothing short Of insanity to leave that portion of o ur I n di an frontier There . was, however, no desire on the part unprotected.. home, to add one of the government, other abroad or at inch territory to our possessions in that quarter, though it was quite possibly tint we might be called upon to defend ourselves from attack. There was no intention to enlarge our territory further than it now extended beyond the Indus. With respect to the revenues of Scinde and their sufficiency to meet the expet.S-s of the artnaulent required for its subjection, he was not in a position to give the information required by the noble marquis. The Earl of RIPON then move-4 the committee on the Batik Charter Bill, and entered into a lengthened state ment of toe various details of that measure. A discussion ensued, in which Lord Montearle, Lord Ashburton, and the Earl of Radnor took part, after which the bill went through committee. Some bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FgIDAY• In reply to a question from Mr. Gibson. Sir R. I'EEL said he had seen a statement of the new tariff which was to come into operation in the Brazils in November next. and had sent to the. Fcrrign Office to as certain if any offieial communication upon the subject had been received. The answer was in the negative. There was a correspondence going on with the Dutch Govern ment respecting certificates of origin with regard to sugars; but he was not in a condition to lay that correspondence on thAable of the house. In reply to a question from Mr. Liddell, the right hon. baronet said it was his intention to introduce a bill on the subject of the law of settlement, but he would not press it through the house during the present session. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Sir J. Graham the house resolved it self into committee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill, the consideration of which occupied the remainder of the evening. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY. The House met at twelve o'clock for the furtherance of public business, now that the session is drawing towards its close; and its attention was chiefly occupied by the discussion of the clauses of the Poor Law Amendment Bill in committee. Some progri-ss was made, and even taally the chairman obtained leave to sit again th►s day, at twelve o'clock. After the house had resumed, some observations made by Mr. WODEROUSE, conveying a personal attack on Mr. WAKLEY while in committee, drew from that hon. gentleman a complaint cf the utifairmss and injustice of the attack upon his private character, and an explanation of the c'rcumstauces so often lubliclv alluded to respect ing the unfortunate conflagration of his premises soon after his first arrival in London. Mr. Wootuouss admitted that he had alluded to the occurrence referred to by the hon. member, said he was perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and apologised for whit had fallen from him in the course of the discussion. The house then adjourned. FOREIGN AAD COLONIAL. AMERICA. Since our last we have received New York papers to the 30th ult. Cong:ess adjourned on the appointed day, the 17th ult., after having, upon the recommendation of the Com mittee on Foieiga Relations, rejected the Zollverein Treaty of commerce. The grounds upon which the re commendation is made are, that a measure such as the one in question, revising the great subjects of trade and revenue, should origina'e with Congress, not with the executive, whose duties appear to them to be, to fulfil the wishes of the people, as expressed through the agency of their representatives ; and that the concessions made by the United States are not repaid by those of the Ger man Unions. If, however, they say, Congress approves of the arrangement, let them pass a law imposing the duties contemplated in it. The Senate had also confirmed several nominations, and, amongst others, the long-pend ing one of Mr. Coshing, as Minister to China. Colonel Thompson, the special messenger to Mexico, had returned to Washington shindy after the close of the session; but the reply of the Mexican Government, in respect of annexation, had not been made known. We may, however, judge pretty accurately of its general tenor by a perusal of the following :—On the 18. h ultimo a messenger arrived with dispatches fr m Senor Bocanegra to General Almonte, the Mexican Minister to the United States; of which the Spanish jouinal published in New Yo'k, the Noticioso de ARbos Mundos, gives the text. Senor Bocanegra informs the general, in the most empha tic terms, that Mexico will never assent to the annexa tion; that the Government and the nation are immovably determined to resist the project and reject all proposals for its consummation, whether accompanied or not by offers of compensation ; and General Almonte is author ised and instructed to contradict, in the most formal man ner, any assertion or intimation of a different character, which might be dissemi ated by the partisans of Presi dent Tyler for the purpose of producing a change in the hostile feeling with which the people of the United States generally regard the measure. We learn, further, that the Diario del Gobierno, (the Mexican Government paper) of the 14th ult., contains an official notice in relation to an extraordinary session of Corgress, which had been ordered to meet on the first of last month. The decree of Senor de Bocanegra, Minister of Foreign -Relations, and which has been approved by Valentia Canalizo, the acting President, sets forth, th..t the time of the Con gress will be occupied on the following important points : " 1. In receiving the oath of the President, so that he can enter at once upon the duties of his office. "2. In giving to the government the power to increase the army, and furnish the necessary means for so doing. "3. In empowering the Government to procure ample pecuniary means and everything else that may be deemed necessary in order that Mexico may recover Texas, and preserve the entire national domain. "4. In taking into consideration everything that the Government may send to the Congress, to the end that the Republic may be secured, and its independence and honour preserved." Such is the substance of the measures which will occupy the attention of the extraordinary session of Congress of the Ist of June; thus .rnmerially lessening, at least for the present, the chance of a peaceable and amicable set tlement of the difficulties existing between the two re publics of Texas and Mexico. The Diario is filled, for the most part, with govern ment documents and articles upon the all-engrossing sub ject of the annexation of Texas to the United States. The Mexican editors, one and all, say that Texas always was, and always shall be, part and parcel of the republic, and that the people will contend to the death before an inch of the territory will be relinquished. General Tonnell had resigned his station as Minister of War and Marine. A new minister would be appointed on the arrival at the capital of Santa Anna, who was on his way thither. Various conflicting opinions were prevalent as to the probability of an extra session of Congress being called. The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says, that the question was considered at a special meeting of the executive, held on the 22d ult. The Oregon question has been left in the same situation that it was at the meeting of Congress, no legislative measure in reference to it having been adopted. This is as it should be. So long as friendly negotiations ate pending, nothing calcu'ated to produce unkind feelings should be done by any party. The treaty between the United States and France, for the mutual surrender of criminals, others than polit 4 cal, escaping from one country to the other, is now finally ratified and completed. Governor Polk has accepted the nomination of the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. It ap pears that the friends of the three candidates for the Presidency are determined to sustain their respective nominations ; viz., Mr. Clay, anti-annexation ; Mr. Tyler, and Mr. Polk, annexation. Whether they will all remain in the field to the end is matter of doubt • but, whether they do or do n o t. the resu lt w ill b e the E Henry Clay will, undoubtedly, be the next President of •. of the United States. Philadelphia continues quiet. President Tyler was married, at New York, on the 26th ult., to a daughter of th elate Hon. D. Gardner, one of the victims of the explosion on board the steam-ship Prince ton. The bride is described' as young and beaueful, and twenty-four years of age. The President is upwards of fifty. Money continued abundant. The Exchange on Europe dull at 1C94 premium. In the Stock-market " fancies " had fallen, but stable and dividend-paying stocks had ex perienced improvement. The New York American reports, that the yield of wheat is likely to be immense. Extensive conflagrations have occurred at Boston and Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the losses by which are estimated at 100,000 dollars and £30,000. The Canada parliament' has' been further prorogued until the 3rd of August, and then to meet for the " despatch of business." Sir C. Metcalf made his public entry into the seat of government, Montreal, on the 24th nit. Information has been officially received, that, by a de cree of the Mexican government, dated 31st March, the towns of Taos, in New Mexico, and Paso del Norte and PresidiO del Norte, in Chibauhua, are declared open to foreign trade. All articles which can be introduced into the Mexican Republic may enter those places on payment. 'of the duties prescribed by the tariff and laws. The Government paper of Havana, of June the 10th, contains an official announcement, that, in consequence of the late calamitous .drought,exrrienced in the island, the Custom-house duties •on various. articles of food are reduced to one-half of the previeus rates. ' Letters had been received in Jacmel, on ,the 11th ult., from Aux Cayes, stating, that the new President had ap pointed one of his black generals governor of that town, and ; that thenew official had plundered the mulattoes and put a' number of them, to death. President Gurrier had, 'chartered the Dutch brig Napoleon,. ut Pan' uibassador an board, and sent her to the city of St. Domingo, to the Spanish, to induce them to- acknowledge the Hay 'tian flag e but. they refused, and wished the Presi dent to acknowledge their independence. Still later. -accounts from Aux Cayes State, that affairslwere some what .settled, but, it was thought that tranquillity would .not long continue as the rebel chiefAcana manifested con siderable reluctance to submit to the authority of General Guerrier c wha appears to- act• with considerable .energy. ,His cabinet consists of Mons. Hypolite, Minister of War and of the Exterior; .Mons. Paul, Minister of the Interio r and Agriculture • Mons. H. Fexg. -Minister of:Publie In struction and Justice, and Religion; Mons. Landin, Minister of Finance and Commerce ; all coloured men, well educated and influential; and popular with allparties. On the 6th June the British barque Dominican, Captain Salter, from,Loadon far Jamaica, was wrecked on the Folle, m coral reef in the. vicinity- of Aux Cayes, about twenty miles distant from the port, and was found to be totally abandoned. It is supposed the crew and passen gers took toehe boats and steered for Jamaica. SVMMARY JUSTICE.- - At Caddo, Texas, on the sth ult, a man was taken, chargechwith murder, and bung by the people, N%ithout trial. He confessed that he hod been hired by some Texans to murderfive men for 1,000 dollars. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD The King of Prussia has accorded a renewed grant of fifty thousand thalers (£7.500) for the completion of the Roman Catholic cathedral of Cologne. H is majesty has, moreover, dedicated a sum of ten thousand Orders (£1,500) to the works on the north tower. At the assizes for the Department of the Seine, E. D. Cadot, a youth of 18, - was charged with procuring the murder of his father, a rich banker, by the promise of 100.000 francs to his assassin. The tent ptat'ons were his father's wealth, and his father's mistress, the latter a servant girl, to whom both were passionately attached I Ile son was acquitted—the assasiin convicted. THE ITALIAN INSURGENTS.—The Gazette of the Two Siciltes, of the 25th ult. states that five more of the insur gents who landed in Calabria have been arrested, and that all arc now in custody, but the names of only a few of them are given. A Leghorn letter states that the two sons of Admiral Bardim a are among the insurgents who have been arrested in Ca'abria. It is stated in letters from Turin that the railway be- tween that city and Genoa, with two branches between Venice and Milan, has received Royal sanction. It is to be executed at the expense of Government, and the Coun cil of State have given directions that it. shall he immedi ately marked out. L' Industrie, Calaisien alludes with regret to the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of the branch line from Hazebrouck to Arras, even on the second application. Moaocco.—According to some of the Paris papers au thentic accounts have been received of the dismissal, by the Emperor of Morocco, of the two general officers who headed the Moorish troops in their late attacks on the French camp at Lalla Magronia. It is also said that strong hopes are entertained of a speedy arrangement, as the French government does not demand the expulsion of Abdel Kader from the Moorish territory, but his immedi ate removal from the Algerian neighbourhood, and the assitnation of a fixed residence for him under the respon sibility of the Emperor, in one of the towns of the most distant frontier. QUICK TRAVELLING.—Extract of a letter dated Co tome, Monday evening, July B.—" The rapidity of tra velling between this place and London is now wonderful in the extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven o'clock, and here I actuallv am on the second evening at Coloo'ne on the Rhine. There has, besides, been nothing like hot haste' in the matter ; on the contrail • every thing has been done quietly and comfortably. You are aware that I embarked on board the steamer Antwerpen, having been assured at the office in London that we should arrive at Antwerp on Monday morning in ample time for the railway train for Cologne, and I certainly was not misled. 'We landed before eight o'clock, and all of our passengers who wished to do so, and they were certainly almost the whole, including many persons of high rank, got away by the train and reached Cologne with me after about 30 hours' travelling. Who -would have believed this even 10 years ago ?" NEW ZEALAND CANNIBALISM. The Journal des Debals publishes the following from A karort, in. New Zea land, dated January 28 :—" Probably, before me letter ar rives in France, you will have learned that the Mahouris, a tribe of Zealanders, have killed thirty English of this colony; but you, perhaps, will not know that the bodies of these unfortunate men were eaten. This is but too true. We had been out on a hunting party for a week, when, one evening, we arrived among the friendly tribe of Terauparaa, or Mahouris, and found them regaling on human flesh. We all conceived that they were eating some captives or slaves of their own nation. As I under stood the language I could not resist expressing my indig nation, end threatened them with chastisement from the crew of the corvette. The savages, alarmed, endeavoured to appease me by saying, ' They are not men of Mabouri that we are eating, but some Yes, yes,' for it is thus they call the English. They then showed us the head of their victims, and among them I recognised that of Captain Wakefield, one of the distinguished inhabitants of Port Nicholson, who had ent. veined us at his own house when a e went to the town to procure provisions. I was seized with horror at the sight. My companions blamed me for having risked irritating the cannibals, as we were only five against two hundred. But they gave us con fidence by saying, 0! the Oui, oui, (for so they distin guish us,) are good people, but the Yes, yes are very wicked.' They then related that they had killed the Eng lish because they wished to establish themselves in a bay which they had not purchased, and which the Mahouris are unwilling to give up. We then retired, withour hearts full of horror and disgust." - - The Indian papers, brouebt by the last overland mail, record a shocking instance of mortality in a " Cooly ship," employed to bring back from Mauritius a number of Coolies whose time had expired. When she left Calcutta to go to the Mauritius with 210 Coolies (the full number permitted,) she only lost three of them, including a wo man, who died in child-birth. When she returned, she brought 270 Coolies—nearly a third more than her per mitted number—and of these she lost 17. To the fact that so much more than the proper number were carried, do the local writers, who take the humane view of the question, attribute the increase of mortality, and the melancholy event gives them an opportunity of contrast ing the conduct of the public authorities at the Mauritius with that of the authorities at Calcutta, to the disad vantage of the former. At Calcutta, as we have seen, no more than the right number could be shipped, and there are at the same place a variety of regulations concerning the supply of provisions for the voyage. At the Mauritius, on the contrary, no such regula tions seems to exist, or, if they did exist, they are completely inoperative, and the assertion is well borne out that afti r the engagement of the Coolies have expired all concern for their welfare ceases. There appears to be no necessity for providing medicine or medical attendance, and all that the captain is bound to furnish is a pound and a half of rice daily, two pounds of salt fish per week (which is found positively injurious) and some salt and wood, with accommodations for cooking. No re g ard is paid to the number of Coolies put on board, and the owners may cram their vessels as much as they think fit. Thus; while every precaution is taken on the voyage from India to the Mauritius through the humane exertions of the Bengal authorities, the very reverse is the case on the voyage back. The Government of India is totally powerless in this matter, and the local writers urgently call for inter ference of the home government. In two ships,it seems, no less than 61 persons have perished. EXECUTION BY THE GUILLOTINE.—On the Bth inst., Pierre Lescure, who was accused of the murder of his fa ther, but not brought to trial for want of sufficient evi dence, and who has since been condemned to death for making away with his uncle, was executed at Thom (Puy- de-Dome.) The circumstances attending the execution were most horrifying. Being a man of herculean strength, he was bound in prison with an unusual weight of chains. It required at least half an hour for thiesmiths to unrivet them. Lescure was much weakened by his confinement; and assistance was offered to him in walking to the scaffold ; but he declined it and went .forward, nod even ascended the ladder with a firm step. Fearing resistance, the executioners of St. Fleur and Moulins were called in to aid the executioner of Riom. When Lescure appeared on the platform, his tall and athletic person towered above them and the priest who attended him. Unfortunately he was not bound with suffiejett force to the swing -board, which was also too short for hn length, FO that his neck went beyond the groove, and the axe, when loosened, fell on the wood of the frame, and only wounded its intended victim. Upon this, the.executicner from St. Fleur get astride on the head of Lescure, but the convict struggled from the grasp, and breaking his bands, rose again, with his shoulders and breast covered with his blood, his face flushed, and his eyes haggard, uttering cries that s , ruck terror to the breast of every spectator. The priest approached the wretched man, and, presenting to him the image of Christ on the cross, succeeded by hiy exhortations in prevailing on him to again submit to be bound. Again the axe fell, and sgain missed its mark, only enlarging the first wound. Lescure's cries became st 11 more astounding. 'the people shouted with indignation, and, pressing round the scaffold, were on the point of overcoming the Gendarmerie in attend ance, while the priest, whose surplice was covered with blood, embraced and did all in his power to console the mutilated man. The three executioners were for a time paralysed ; but at last one of them mustered resolution to fix the devoted head in a proper position, and the axe, already streaming with blood, fell a third time, and com pleted its task. The three executioners are, it is said, to be dismissed from their offices.—Galignani' Messenger. IRELAND. It is calculated that the O'Connell tribute this year will reach £30,000. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The proceedings at the Con ciliation Hall, on Monday, were totally devoid of all in terest, save the amount of the rent, which was £2,135. On the 24th nit. two soldiers and a girl of bad charac ter were drowned in the Shannon by the upsetting of a boat. LORD Da GRAY.—The Earl and Countess De Grey will leave the Viceregal Lodge this (Tuesday) morning, and go by railway to Kingstown, and embark at half-past eleven for Liverpool. Lord Heytesbury is expected to enter on the duties about the 21st instant. " On Saturday morning," says a writer in the Warder, "Mr. O'Connell commenced his great literary labour — his ' Life and Times,' or by what other style and title his ' projected autobiography is to be distinguished, employing Mr. O'Neill Daunt as his amanuensis. BRDTAL OUTRAGE. 77 -The Clsddah MD, as a race of fishermen, in Galway, are called,. brutally attzeked a rev. gentleman and ethers, last week, for attempting to fish in the bay, the monopoly of which .they claims.. They cut away the sails, Scc., , and sent them adrift. Fortunately, the rev. gentleman and his companions were picked up by a vessel.passing, _ DISCOVERY OF Pigrs.—On the Lath ult. a girl named Murphy went into Kildavin Grove, Carlow, to gather broken sticks, and while walking , on a ditch in the grove, she saw secreted among the briars some iron bound up with hay.ropes. On.unfolding the parcel, she, discovered, to her astonishment,: two newly-made and completely finished pikes, such .as those so much in requisition in 1798. YoTATOIt RIOTS.—On Thursday a very serious riot took.plade at the Quay. Mr. Thomas • Dobbin was ship. ping potatoes for LiVerpool on •board a vessel, and the quay-porters and townsmen gathered, and iwevented the shipment. The police were sent for, and directed the owners of the potatoes to proceed with them to the ves sel, and that they 'would be protected. They refused to do so, being afraid of the mob. Had they attempted to go on with the shipment the consequences would have been serious.--Sligo Journal. BARBEIIISING PAUPEUS.—We often said—God help the poor l And who is thare that will not respond Amen, when we tell him of the prison discipline of the Dunman way guardians of the poor ? It was resolved last Satur day by those humane, Christian gentlemen, that all the women were to be " cropped," their hair cut close—thus uniting degradation and poverty. shaved poles and por ridge It was further resolvt d. that if the master's wife had not cropped every ferna'e' head in the house by the Sth (this day), she was to forfeit .£l. Col k Examiner. GALLANT RESISTANCE.—On Sunday last, doting the hours of Divint service, a nix y of four men. one armed with a hlundeibuss. the tohtos with pit , tol-, went to dr! dwelling-house of Mr. Gil y, of Sopwell. a. respectable Protestant, and attempted to force an entrance for the vurpose of robbing the house of aims; but were bravely resisted by Mr. Grey's two ors, one aged al out twenty years, the other a fine little lad of about thirteen. and in the conflict that ensued receivt d some severe wounds— the former received a wound in the lett hand, from the discharge of some of their fite-arms, and a poor old woman, a servant in the house, received a violent blow of a stone on the head from one of the party, inflicting a severe wound. Atter the party possessing themselves of .a pistol, the brave young fellows cot.tinued the stroggld— re-took the pistol. and forced the miscreant. to decamp without effecting their purpose, and something the worse of the attack.—Nenuh Guardian. CLERICAL, lEWS. The Bishop of Chester has licensed a place of worship on the prinei i les of the Established Church in the village of Oxton. The Rev. Joshua King and his nephew will officiate until minister is appointed. CHURCH EXTENSION--A supplement to the London Gazette,, published on Friday night, contains an an nouncement that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in virtue of powers intrusted to them by Parliament, prepared a scheme, which is explained at great length, for constituting a separate district fi r spiri tual purposes in each of the parishes of Astbury and Prestbur y, in the county and diocess of Chester. Seve ral other places are named. in which it is proposed that separate districts of this kind should be constituted. FALL OF TUE TOWER OF HALLSTEAD NEW CHURCH. —On Wednesday afternoon last, the beautiful tower ai d steeple of this churrh, (which was to have—been conse crated on the 31st instant,) which had been completed to a height of 115 feet, fell with an awful crash, which must have been heard for miles round. The first impression was, that all the labourers were beneath the ruins, and the shrieks and screams of the women and children were dreadful. It was a most prosidential interposition that such was not the case. It appears that Mr. Johnstone, the builder, actually saw the tower sinking. and he imme diately ordered the workmen off, when the tower tell ; only two labourers were then upon the staff id, one of whom is severely injured, but it is hoped may ultimately recover ; the other is comparatively but slightly hurt. The Rev. Archdeacon Burney and G. Sperling, Esq., ex perienced a very narrow esc; pe, as did also Mr. arid Mrs. Arden, who were in the body of the church at the time of the accident, a portion of the ruins falling into that win of the structure. The church itself has received but little injury, LECTURERS AND PARISH CLERKS.—A bill has been recently passed by the House of Lords, and brought down to the Lower Chamber, entitled " An Act for bet ter regulating the Offices of Lecturers and Parish Clerks." It hes been, we believe, already read a first time in the House of Commons. The preamble recites the fact that there are now in dives parishes, &c. certain lecturers or preachers elected to deliver or preach , lectures or sermons only, without the obligation of performing other clerical or ministerial duties, and declares that it is "expedient" that, in many cases, such lecturers should.be required to perform other clerical duties, and act, .if necessary, as assistant-curates in such parishes, &c. We need hardly stave that the enactments are in strict accordance with the requirements of the preamble. Lecturers or preachers (so called) may be required by the bishop of the diocese to perform such other clerical or ministerial duties as the bishop, acting in conjunction with the incumbent of the parish, may think fit, under pain of suspenlion or re moval. An appeal may be made to the archbishop of the province within fourteen days. This enactment, how ever, is not to affect or be deemed at plicable to any lec turer appointed prior to the passing of this act, unless such lecturer shall consent to be bound thereby. Power is given to the rectors or incumbents of ; ari,hes by the second clause to fill up vacancies occurring in the office of church or parish clerk, by the appointment of persons in the holy orders of deacon or priest of the united Church of England arid Ireland, such persons to act as assistant curates if required. The appointments of assistant-clergy under this act are not to exempt incumbents (now liable) from the duty of providing curates. Power is given to archdeacons and other ordinaries to remove such parish clerks, not in holy orders, as may be guilty of misbehavi our or neglect of duty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. LAW OF MonTmAlN.—The Bishop of London, the Bevds. Thomas Sherburne and Francis Trappes, two Roman Catholic priests, and Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Brindle Lodge, near this town, were examined before the select committee of the Law of Moitmain last week. Mr. Eastwood's evidence occupied the whole sitting of the committee on the Thursday. In the Court of Bankruptcy, William Bromley under went another examination, which disclosed facts of a most painful nature, and frauds to an enormous extent. The debts and liabilities amount in round numbers to about £140,000, principally thiough breaches of trust, and some of them aupear to have extended so far back as 1824. The Right Hon. Dr. Lushington, and the Rev. Arch deacon Brymer, of Bath, core present on the bench, they Lavine. in their capacity of co-trustees with the bank rupt in re Wilkinson, keen defrauded of no less a sum than £29,000. The further bearing was adjourned. CAUTION TO PERSONS MAKING WILLS.—On Wed nesday last, Dr. Lushington, the Judge of the Preroga tive Court, set aside as invalid under the statute of Wills, 1 Vic. 26, sec: 9, a will which had been signed by two witnesses neither of whom had seen the signature of the testator to the document, he having brought the docu ment into the room to ask their signatures with the paper so folded that it is impossible they could have seen the signature if 'it bSd been there. The learned judge held that insufficient. They had seen no signature, and they could not witness the acknowledgment. of that they did not see. • THE BAR.—}n consequence of the recent changes which have taken place at the bar by promotions and death, and which have bad the effect of causing a great arrear at Nisi Prins, the Lord Chancellor and the Judges have caused the following gentlemen to be called within the bar, and on Monday they obtained their silk gowns:— Mr. Kinslake, of the Northern circuit; Mr. Alexander, of the Western circuit ; Mr. Whitehurst, of the Midland, one of the juniors of the Oxford circuit; and Mr. Chad wick Jones, of the Home circuit and the Central Crimi nal Court, is made a Serjeant, and was invested with the coif before the Lord Chief Justices and Judge of Com mon Pleas. ACTIONS FOR GAMING DISCONTINUANCE BILL.--A bill further to stay proceedings in certain actions under the provisions of several statutes for the prevention of excessive gaming, and to prevent any similar proceedings being taken under those statutes during such further limitd time, has been brought in by Viscount Palmers ton and Mr.Tufnell, M.P. By the first clause qui tam actions for the recovery of gaming penaltie3 ate further suspended until the end of the next session of parlia ment—that is, we presume, until about the month of August, 1845. The second clause enacts, that in any case where actions are prosecuted contrary to the provisions of this act, a verdict is to be found . for the defendants. The bill is, we believe, awaiting a second reading on the t xble of the house of which Lord Palmerston is so distin guished a member. The Marriage Celebration Bill just introduced into the House of Lords by the Bishop of London, and " waiting for seconding," is "to declare the law respecting the publication of banns of matrimony, and the celebration of marriages in churches and chapels to which districts shall have been assigned under certain of the Church Building Acts." The preamble recites the acts 1 and 2 William IV, c. 38; 1 and 2 Victoria. c. 107, and 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 60 ; and then continues to set forth, that " doubts are entertained whether banns of matrimony can be published, or marriages be celebrated or solemnized, in churches or chapels to which districts have been as signed, or may hereafter be assigned, under the said acts, or either of them, and that it is expedient to remove such doubts." The clauses enact, that where districts have been assigned under the recited acts, the Church Building Commissioners, or the Bishop, may decide as to the pub , lication of banns and celebration of marriages. Mar ' riages solemnized in churches or chapels built under the said acts are declared valid, but nothing in the bill is to affect licenses for solemnising marriages in churches, &c., under the act 6 and 7 William IV, c. 83. YORKSHIRE SUMMER Assizas,—The Yorkshire Sum mer Assizes commenced at York on Wednesday last. The arrival of the High Sheriff, Timothy Hutton, Esq., of Clifton Castle, was announced by a sonorous peal from the Minster new bells on the previous evening, about half-past five o'clock. Up to a late period it was not known in what manner the learned Judges of assize would enter the city, but in consequence of an intimation then received from their. Lordships, the High Sheriff and the City Sheriff (James Chadwick; Esq.) proceeded to Dring houses, with their respective retinues, to meet them. The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Cresswell arrived at the Copmanthorpe station, on the York and North Mid land Railway, by the afternoon train from London, whence they proceeded in their private carriages, each drawn by four horses, to Dringhouses, where they were tareceivn theired by the High Sheriff for the county, and having ke seats in his carriage, the cortege' returned to the city, and thence proceeded to the castle, where the commissions of, assizes were opened and read. The High Sheriff then duly made the returns to the writs to him directed, and the court was adjourned to the following day (Thursday), -at noon. Their lordships then proceeded to the Guildhall in tbe city, where the assizes for the city were opened with the like formalities. COURT OF ExeliEQualt, JULY 6.—Acrta max v. Coo- PER AND OTHERS.--This was an action of trover, to re- Cover X 10,300, the alleged value of the scrip for 300 shares in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The 'defendants, who are bankers, claim a lien on the scrip for advances made upon this and other securities deposited with them by Calls, Thompson, and Co., the plaintiff's bill brokers. The case was tried at the -sittings after last Mielmelma's Term by Lord Abinger, found for the defendants, and the second for the plaintiff. The two cases were afterwards brought under considera tion of the Court of Exchequer, and a new trial was rected in the present case. The Lord Chief Baron was of one of the juries opinion that if the plaintiff was aware when he depos i t ed the scrip with Coils, Thompson, and Co., it was . atrans ferablean money, the the action could not be returnedverdict f the sence ry a or sence of nearly an hour the ju security upon which the bill brokers might raise defendants. The foreman at the same time stated that all hough the jury felt themselves• constrained, after the e.ider►ce of the bill brokers, to return a verdict for the de fendants, they had heard with extreme surprise that it was the prat tice of the bill brokers to raise money on col lateral securities, 'Aged with them. They thoueht it a most dangerous practice for the mercantile world to rai.‘e money upon collateral securities, whilst the original secu rities were still rooting and available.—The Chief Baron asked the jury it they considered the scrip receipts a trans ferable security ? The foreman replied that the jury con sidered it a transferable but not a negotiable security, and thrt the mercantile world were ignorant of the custum de posed to by the brokers. 'I he v erdict was then entered fix the defendants. THE COURT. The Queen he'd a Privy Council on Wednesday after noon, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty in Council a•as pleased to declare the Right Hon. William Lord Heytesbury Governor-General of Ireland. The Queen and Prince Albeit, accompanied by the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace in an open carriage and tour, for the Paddington tt rrninus.of the Great Western Railway, escorted by a party of right Cavalry, and arrived at indsor Castle at twenty-five minutes before six o'clock. At an early hour on Thursday morning, the Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in a pony carriage. The Princess Royal was also taken an airing in the pleasure grounds and slopes of the castle. Her Royal Highness the• Duchess of Kent arrived at the castle • at eleven o'clock, to pay a visit to her Majesty, and afterwards returned to her residence at Fregmore. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left the castle for a drive in an or,en t•ony pheaton, the Prince driving. The royal party left at five o'clock and returned to the castle at seven o'clock. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice were taken an airing in the pleasure grounds in the after noon. The Duchess of Kent joined the royal circle at the castle at dinner in the evening.—The accouchment of Vie queen is expected to take place at a very early period, and every nett ssary preparation for the auspicious event has betn made accordingly. Her Majesty was extremely desirous of remaining in London some days longer than she did, in order that the trade of the metropolis might not suffer from the absence of the court, but her Majesty's medical advisers were urgent that the journey to Windsor should not be further delayed. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Frogrucre Ledge, at half• past eight o'clock, on Wednesday evening, in a carriage and tour. The Royal Duchess hmded at "Woolwich dockyard, from the Continent, from the Princess Alice steam-packet, at half past four o'clsek. RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. The projected railway from Beverley to Hull, in con nection with the Hull and Selby, is proposed to be constructed on Mr. Prosser's plan of wooden rails and bey(' wheels. EXPLOSION ON A RAlLWAY.—Yesterday week, at Brighton, the non-arrival of the last train from London caused some alarm and a pilot engine was sent n to as certain the cause, Y‘hen it was found: that at Hayward's Heath Station one of the boiler tubes had burst, and enveloped the train in steam. No one was it , jured by the; explosion. The pilot brought up the train after a delay of an hour. A meeting of the inhabitants of Banbury was he d on Friday to discuss the merits of four projects of railway, which , have been submitted as advantageous to that town, and the one selected by a large majority was the Great :Western, from Oxford to Rugby. The other three were the Oxford, Woicester, arid Wolverhampton 1 ne; the London and Birmingham, from. Weedon to Worcester ; and the Birmingham, Banbury, and Oxford line. Depu tations were present in behalf of the respective projects, and a very animated cl,bate wa, entered into. BRISTOL AND GLOTICEsTER RAILWAY.—This railway, 371 miles in length, was opened on itionday last, and the event was marked with the usual demonstrations of re joicings. On Saturday the directors and their friends made an excursion on the line by a special train, and par took of a defjeuner ala fourchelte at Gloucester. By the opening of this line the inconvenience hitherto experienced by the public from the disseverance of the chain railway between the west and north of England is at length ob viated. At the Tilsteg Railway meeting held on the 3d inst.. the shareholders resolved to complete the orig nal plan of the company by carrying on the line .from Portadown to Armagh. The engineer stated that the expet,se would be about £lO,OOO per toile, including the cost of the bridge across the river Baun. Traffic appears to be expected from the adjoining districts, and Armagh bent; a town of greater population than Portadown, it has been thought more desirable to make the terminus there. An extension as far as Monaghan was spoken of by some parties, but this did not meet with the approbation of the meeting. DEATH IN A RAILWAY CAARIAGE.-0/1 Thursday morning, Mr. Thomas Anthony Tuelon, aged 81, of Denchfield, Surrey, died very suddenly in a railway car riage in which he had jnst taken his seat at the London station to return home, after transacting a good deal of business at the Bank and other places. His two sons were by him at the time. A physician who had att'nded him for some years said that his health was generally ex cellent, but, from symptoms of disease of the heart, he warned the family two or three years ago that he might die suddenly. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." MISCHIEF AND DISTRESSING CALAMITY.—About two days ago, Mr. Joseph Crawshaw, contractor on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, having gone to York to look after another contract, and detained longer than expected, some malicious persons raised a rumour that he had been thrown on the rails and killed. His relations in alarm sent his brother Richard in search of him to York, when he found him well, and also that he had been successful in his tenders for 44 miles of road. On Mr. Joseph reaching home, being elated at his pros pects, and employed in the viaduct at Blackmoor, went too near to a stone that was just slung, and it fell upon him and crushed him to death ! The outrageous fabrica tion of his death was thus in some measure confirmed. Low FARES ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—It appears from Mr. Lang's paper, appended to the select committee's report, that at present the London and Birmingham Company carry 780,000 passen gers per annum, and average distance of 66 miles each. Of this number, 37 per cent. wy 3d. per mile; 54 per cent., 2d. ; and 9 per cent., lid. Supposing the com pany to run third-class carriages at ld. per mile, with all their trains, and allowing that 15 per cent., raid 3d. per mile. 30 per cent. paid 2d.. and 55 per cent. ld., they would require to carry 2,979,670 persons (or nearly four times the present number.) an average distance of thirty miles each, to secure the same gross returns; or, as the expenditure would be increased, the number must be increased to 3,500,000 to retain the existing amount of net profit.—Railway Record. YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE RAILWAYS.—Within the last few days, public meetings have been held at Keighley, Colne, Burnley, Haworth, and other places in the vicinity of the proposed lines, on the subject of the proposed extension of railway communication from Brad ford to the North of Lancashire. It seems that the pro moters of the new line of railway from Preston to Black burn, for making which an act has wily been obtained during the present session, are anxious to extend it to Burnley, Colne, and the Yorkshire Railways; and that the promoters of the Bradford and Leeds Railway are equally desirous to carry forward their line to Keighley, and through Craven, into Lancashire, but that there is a considerable difference of opinion between the two parties as to the best line to be taken for the purpose. The Leeds and Bradford Company propose to continue their line from Shipley to Bingley, and thence .up the valley of the Aire to Skipton, with a branch to Keighley, and from Skipton to make a junction line to Blackburn. The Blackburn Company recommend a line through Burnley and Colne to Shipley, to effect which it will be necessary to make a long tunnel, with steep gradients in other parts of the line, sometimes to the extent of 1 in 80. Nothing has been decided, but the surveys are proceeding; and a meet ing held at Keighley, on Monday, for the purpose of se lecting the site for a station, declined to do so until the line was fixed upon. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. DURHAM.—The pastures, which previous to the rains presented a melancholy aspect, have again assumed a healthy look, and a good second crop of grass may be rea sonably expected. The rains have also been of immense service to potatoes and other root crops ; whilst turnip sowing has progressed under the most auspicious circum stances. As regards wheat, sufficient moisture has now fallen ; and in same districts, that which was particularly luxuriant, has been partially lodged by the heavy thunder showers ; with this trifling exception the, rain has been most beneficial, and when it is taken into consideration the enormous difference -it must make in the produce of all spring corn, we may well slay the prospects as to the fu ture have brightened sufficiently to encourage the hope that there will be no deficiency of the crops as the aspect of affairs indicated about the middle of June. In short the prospect is now one of u niversal abundance in all the fruits of the earth.—Durham Advertiser, July 12. GLOUCESTERSIIIRIL— With the exception of a few drops which fell yesterday, no rain has fallen since our fall in the price of butter and vegetab les. During the drought of last, but the weather continues warm and g enial. The copious rains of last week have no t onl y amazingl y im provedgrow growing pasture p , but grounds have and producedbenefited everl r c onsiderable description butter, was selling- at 15d. ; since the rain the p rice has :ranged from lid. to 13 d. T he lamb has fallen to 6d. ; matton.is alsp lower. Hay, of tile, best description, h as fallen from £6 to £slos. per ton. — Gloucester Chronicle, Davoxsutas.--Tbe weather during the past week has been most delightful, warm annoy days giving rich frui tion to the genial showers which fell so copiously a few days previously. The consequence has been a complete anti favourable change in the appearance of the country ; the wheat-and potato fields are looking more than a hun- Aired per cent. better, than they did a few weeks since ; the meadows are now green that were then b si brown, and even the crops of spring corn oiler cons'derable promise. This morning there were some refreshing l lowed by sunshine, anal. confident , hop e s showers, fol lowed the approaching harvest, which, are entertained commenced (a field of wheat ha • indeed, has already bridge), will be of abundant yield. vltlg been cut at Cowley quence is that prices have The natural conse instance in which sales have slightly declined, as in every obliged to submit ,to to be effected the holders are yoßKsmnui a reduction . — Exeter Gazette, , EAST RIDING.--Notwithstanding the continued draught, the wheat crop is in five condition all around us, and gi is a field of wheatves promise of an early harvest. There . of six or seven acres, in the parish of Snuthcoates, and adjoining the Hull and Marfleet road, which is so forward as to seem likely to be ready for the Fickle by the end of the month, and so abundant that it is expected to yield upwards of seven quarters an acre. The crop of wheat, however, is not considered a particu larly large one this year, generally speaking, though its ndition is excellent. Neither oa.s nor barley, it is be lieved, will reach an average; but they are in good order. Wails will be the most abundant crop that there has been for a long tim-• cast. Hay is everywhere a complete fai lure ; there will scarcely, we are told, be more than three quarters of a ton an acre. The turnip crop is at present in rather a critical state : should the weather be unfavor able, it will be exceedingly defective, if not altogether lost, in which case the want of provender, both for cattle and ship, will be severely felt. The stock marktt is el, ready feeling the effect of these apprehensions.—Hsu Packet, July 12. YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING.—We have this week bad an opportunity of taking rather an extensive survey o f the progress of the crops in the west riding of York, and the southern division of Lancashire. The hay harvest: / 3 these districts has become wry general. The crops are exceedingly light, riot more than one-third an average; an the meadows, both upland and by the sides of the river* will afford but little employment for either the mowereor haymakers. The oats are shirt in the straw and somewb" deficient in corn, but not nearly to the same extent as in di., dry summer of 1826 when commercial and agricultnr" distress was so prevalent. The potato crop has lailedie some parts of the country, but the quality of this invaluable root will probably be generally good, and free from that 0" cessive moisture which is often complained of in wet set' sons. The turnip crop is unpromising ;in many fields the seed has never geiminated, and in others the fly has been very destructive. Beans are generally stunted in tha straw, but tolerably well padded. The wheat creP looks uncommonly well, and will, according to present appearances, yield more than an average produce. There is scarcely a field in this part of the country where it is laid, there is no rust or mildew, and the verdant bue_of the ears and the straw is quite refreshing. This thought extraordinary, seeing that in the months of Mircb: April, and May, there has only fallen one inch and a ludr, of rain, while in those three months, in an average of years, the quantity is upwards of four inches. The Oro harvest will, this year, to present appearances, be two : or three weeks earlier than usual. This is generally a greet advantage, from the days remaining long and the 80 0 powerful, and it may account for the depreciation in the price, in our principal markets, of blth the Michaelmas and Lent sown corn. There has been some rain since Wednesday evening, but the land is still thirsty, and there exits the strange anomaly for a general wish for rain among the farmers. in the midst of the hay harvest, from a per,u,s'On that it will do more good to the other crops, and to the after gras4, than it will do harm to their scanty nod easily secured crops of hay.—Leeds Mercury SPO .TING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE LIVERPOOL T' Friday Evening. 'RADESMEN'S CUP. to 1 agst The Era to 1 „ Aristotle 18 to 1 agst Best rf Three 20 to 1 „ Trueboy (ofo Bto 1 „ Pompey 20 to 1 „ Armytage 9to 1 „ Poor Soldier 20 to 1 „ The Ne 11 (off) 10 to 1 „ B. Yeoman (t f) 20 to 1 „ The Caster 10 to 1 „ Yardley (t) 25 to 1 „ Brit. Tar (offal 12 to 1 „ Pagan to take) 16 to 1 ~ Lothario (t) 25 to 1 „ The Squire 16 to 1 „ Queen of Tyne 33 to 1 „ Mickey Free (t) (20 to 1 taken) 33 to 1 „ Whistle Binkic Aristotle and Pompey have been in much request sines Tuesday, and backed to vein a good sake at various prices• Aristotle was yesterday backed 8 and 7 to 1 sererbl tunes► and Pompey at 10 to 1 in ponies. then 9 to 1 was takedt and afterwards 8 to 1, in small sun s; at which latter prices we quote them to day, few inquiries being made respecting them. To-day. Poor Soldier sprung up to 9to 1, the off,rs during the week averaged 20 to 1, hut he vg o backed to very little money at any price, and not a bet laid about him to-day. 33 to 1 was laid arst MickeY Free; he was backed yesterday to a score at 20 to 1 ' Offers to-day to take 25 to about British Ter, and to bast him for £5OO each agat Trueboy and Rueen of the Tyne. 500 even was laid between British Tar and Mickey Free. _ July 16, 1811. GOODWOOD STAKES. 6to 1 agst Franchise (offd. 12 to 1 agst Red Deer to take) 14 to 1 „ The Currier 9to 1 „ Croton Oil 20 to 1 „ Lucy Banks 10 to 1 „ Canton 20 to 1 „ Elegance filly 12 to 1 „ Parthian (t) 25 to 1 „ Poussin • Parthian was backed at 12 to 1 to a small sum, belt►% the only horse upon which business was done. 6to 1 would have been taken about Franchise. 4 to 1 agst The Cure 6to 1 „ Ithuriel 9to 1 „ Princess 10 to 1 „ Red Deer 10 to 1 „ Bay Momus TAE LEGER. 15 to 1 agst Morpeth (off) 15 to 1 Foicr- a- bailee (offered) 25 to 1 „ Devil-to-Pal There was not a bet laid t( was backed in scores at 4 to times at 8 to 1, and Bay Mo )-day. The Cure, yesterday' 1, The Princess two or thro s mus in scores at 11 to 1. TATTERSALL'S.—THuRsDAY. - -------- - -------- - - The attractions at Newmarket were not sufficient to in' duce a large proportion of the usual frequenters of t i l t room to stay away; and many who had gene there tia'te ne „. back, in the forlorn hope of meeting those whose ab sent on Monday had excited so much regret. Nothing 9_ o curred, hoWever, to lessen the feeling of dissatisfa ctio ., the windinz-up of the Bunning Rein affair had produce 1 In fact, " the absentees " were as numer 113 as ever, ow, the complaints were " loud and deep" at the want 0, principle displayed by persons in whom the fullest con 6; dence had been placed. A sort of vague impression Still remains, that some of the lost sheep may be found at Li verpool. and a tacit understanding existed against a public announcement of defaulters till after that opportunity of "coming to the post" had gone by. All delicacy -0t ,_ then cease, and the names of the unprincipl e d w ill ft made public without scruple. The dissatisfaction ' , hi e ' prevailed had an obvious influence on the heftily!, and the busine&s done was not only limited, but confined to a ve' 7 _ narrow circle. The following were the closing prices"'" THE LIVERPOOL CUP. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstene's The Fra Bto 1 „ Mr. Jacques's British Yoeman (taken to X 59 10 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's The Poor Soldier ( ta ken 10 to 1 „ Lord Eglington's Pompey (taken) 14 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's Pagan (taken) 14 to 1 ~ Mr. D. Cook's Trneboy (taken) Two or three bets were laid against the Poor Soldier , at a point or two less than the quoted odds. GOODWOOD STAKES. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Wrefoed's Franchise (taken to .£25) l 2 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's Parthinn (taken) [3 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's The Currier (taken) 17 to 1 „ Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks (taken) ST. LEGER. 3to 1 „ Mr. H. Robinson's Morpeth (taken) 4to 1 „ Mr. Irwin's Foi,g-a-bollagh (taken) THE KING OF SAXONY.—His Majesty continues 'bit tour through England, visiting most of the retuarkable, places and sights. On Sunday last his Majesty, attenn by his usual st.fte, visited the city of Bristol, and Pr°cee 9,, t , ed to the Bath Hotel, Clifton. His Majesty , after e; tending Divine Service at the Roman Catholic chaPe!, proceeded to view the various beauties of Clifto!, On Monday morning he proceeded to view the steer% ship Great Britain, on board which • his Majesty ° l :d received by the Right Worshipful the Mayor. 9„1. others, by whom his Majesty was conducted t hrol i P d every portion of the ship, which excited the most roar' tl commendations from the royal personage. His Mai, r e'i), then proceeded to Leigh Court , the seat of Mr. -I,:ete Miles, which has been so often visited by royalty, w' of he viewed the superb gallery of paintings, and partook, o r a dejeuner. In the evening his Majesty departed 'of Wales, to view the Dowlais ironworks, the prope l -0_ .4 Sir J. 'Guest ; and after a tour through the southern ref, nrrhern portion of the Princ i pality, arrived at Ole! jo whence his Majesty proceeded to this town, whio reached on Sunday, as noticed elsewhere. MEETING OF PITMEN. — On Monday a numerous 03 1 if ing of the pitmen was held on Shaden-hill , more ileaer'ooo known as the Black Fell. It was said that 25,000 Pe rs c to were present; and our impression was that 20,00 0 ,„e0 about the number at the meeting. Nea r ly all the to lately employed in the pits of the Tyne and Wear ; of present, and each colliery was di s ti ngu i s h e d by a 11%cl banner, bearing upon it the name o f th e co lliery. 11 "0 0 suitable inscription. Mr. Thomas Hay was called il/i c e chair. He said,—since the strike, the march of inte has been advancing, and the people are thinking for thge,l selves. I never saw such a Bost of moral-force ene.° - " t oi see assembled here to-day. Oh ! the voice of this we e tb , will produce a wonderful effect, and will be heard b/,,0r tyrants of the coal-office.—One of the resolutions " That in the opinion of this meeting, the struggr i ol which we are engaged is one of justice and righteouS o and based upon these principles, it cannot fail to trivitl; o ll therefore tins meeting pledges itself to continue the i r' con test until our just claims are acceded to." ---'1 Mercury du T ct u io g nin WOOL tthe Td duty n o s n . —f foreign n as w o f o u I . y un expecte d iint ; :r t. ! l e o 6 : i country o graziers un tr y g w e o n u e l r d a 1 l h y a v t e h throughout the of kin very gdo co in n th at t t ho w du o c o i l u f g a te g p en ri e c r e al o l f that staple commodity at t hee agricultural i t t c h u t e i u i r s a l e l y w oo he part of the graz y districts. fiae u ir e rs l , d dwT ho a h t niecos e t h h t w i a s rapo p spr e eeh r ab i er o : addl forebodings,. se f g ty t , h vrt e oe eh Y obk e v : r „ jr 4i. ve,e ; d :, l upwards of 4,500 tods were pitched, and more t i 1....10 4 *L; tods sold, th e pr i ces rea li se d were f ar grea ter than and when it is considered that 'the pr i ces o btaineo wi r graziers for their wool at this celebrated normal f tb!, looked upon as a fair average standard of the value i t pc: important article of - commerce in other districts,,!,:rfer, not, appear that the wool-growers have much cause .. I ` l , 1Y : or alarm, at least at present. The following w`i, 3 1 11 prices obtained by the growers this year :—Teg so° o o!; to 325. 6(1. ; ewe wool, 275. to 28s. • and mirsitier being about one-third part teg, 28s. to'29s•Od t • the same qualities obtained the following Pne e i s . .6 o ' i g highest) the prices have gradually decline& dowfi__gobi_p when it was at its lowest price. In 1838, the prlcf3 o6 f; . • 25 5. 24 s to a . d . 25 s i . w 6 e d t : ;6 since 1838 1 1 3 8 8 . to c w 23 h , e s n . 6 w d o . o ; i m w i ta x ed nt , oe 2 tirti_Lyi l o: were obtained by the growers at Ilsley fair wer: Bo , lows :—Teg wool, 425. to 455. 6d. ; ewe, 365. mixed, 40s. to 415.. Several extensive buyers fronioir,pit, shire and other parts of the country attended the o lfe r o helda d e l a c s o t n: . i e d e e k r considerable i p n u e r s c s h w n purchases. At exceedinglyA t theh b i ng r s d k r;d o b ag b e from all parts of the country were present. i" e the CI 0° whole of the wool pitched was purchased befor s er a , of the day. The'prices obtained by the growerw d i tv' follows, at per tod :---Teg wool, 30s. to 330. ; 275. to 295. ; mixen ditto, 295. to 335.