The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

, • • aritanuntarp procitl ings. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. In the morning sitting the Registering Births, &c. (Scot land) Bill was read a second time. as was also the Marriage (Scotland) Bill, on the declaration of the Lord Advocate, that he would take time till Friday next to consider whe ther be would proceed any further with that bill during the present session. In the evening sitting, after several questions had been answered by different members of her Majesty's govern ment, Lord MORPETR moved that the house should con sider in committee the Lords' amendments on the Public Health Bill, and the house immediately resolved itself into the proposed committee. Several of the amendments were agreed to, and some others dissented from ; and it was determined to ask a conference with the Lords on the points upon which the two houses differed. In the course of the discussion, Lord MORPETFI read extracts from the despatches of our consuls in various foreign ports, con taining descriptions of the ravages made by the cholera, and showing the steady approaches which it was making to this country. He was, therefore, most anxious that the committee should assent to the various precautions which the House of Lords had recommended as best cal culated to arrest the progress of that terrible disease. On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Mr. EWART renewed his annual motion for the siihai tution of direct for indirect taxation, and, after advocating the expediency of reducing our duties on all articles of ge neral consumption, proposed a resolution to this effect— " That it is expedient that there should be a revision of our present system of taxation, especially with a view to extend the commerce of the country, and to increase the employment and comforts of the people." Mr. HUME seconded the resolution. _ _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that Mr. Ewart had invited him to consider the taxation of the country, and to make such alterations in it as would tend to increase the employment and comforts of the people. He had not been so negligent of his duty as not to have taken those points into his consideration ; but the finances of the country during the present year had been in such a state that he had not been able to make any reduction of duties, except some very small reductions, which it was scarcely worth while to mention. He admitted that it was advisable to reduce duties in all ewes where the re duction of them would extend the consumption of the ar ticles on which the duties were imposed ; but he could not consent to the reduction of nine or ten millions of duties, .• -2 _. l I.:- 4%.;.n fie nrnnnoPr find fr. 4" ;"'"" Sition of taxation to that amount on t h e realise property of the country. He declined on the 7th of August to enter into any discussion on the various points which Mr. Ewart had raised in the course of his speech of that evening. _ _ _ Mr. War n made a few observations in support of Mr. Ewart's resolution, but regretted that that gentleman had not forced upon the attention of government the propriety of repealing forthwith the legacy and probate duties and the assessed taxes. He was sorry that at this time the house could not enter into this question so fully as its im portance required. After a few words from Dr. BowaING on the same side, Mr. COBDEN hoped that Mr. Ewart, in whose general principles he concurred, would not divide the house on this resolution. He was too late in bringing it forward this session ; but be trusted that better success would betide ..him in the next. After a few words from Mr. EWART, who protested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer wa , mistaken in supposing that he wished to reduce nine millions of duties this ses sion, the motion was withdrawn. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. The Lord Chancellor laid upon the table a bill to renew the Act for the Suppression of Illegal Societies in Ireland, with a special clause inserted relating directly to clubs. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. The SPEAKER intimated to the house that he had re ceived a communication from the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, to the effect that Mr. W. S. O'Brien, a member of their honourable house, had been arrested for high trea son, and was now in Kilmainhamgaol. Mr. 11. BERKELEY then moved a resolution to the ef fect that it was expedient in the election of members to serve in Parliament that the votes of the electors should be taken by way of ballot. After some observations from Mr. Fagan, Mr. P. Howard, Colonel Sibthorp, Lord D. Stuart, Mr. Urqu hart,.and Mr. Tancred, Lord J. ltussam. stated the reasons which would induce him to give his vote against the motion of the hon. gent. After a protracted discussion the house divided—for the resolution, 86 ; against it, 81; majority, 5. . _ The announcement of the numbers was received with loud cheers.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. Mr. GROGAN inquired, considerine the state of Ireland, and the expressed opinion of several statesmen that there was no difference between the repeal of the Union and civil war, what was the opinion of the Government with respect to the proceedings of those who advocated the repeal of the Union ? Lord J. RUSSELL said, an association for the purpose of effecting the repeal of the Union by other than consti tutional - means was undoubtedly illegal; but if it was an association strictly confined to asking the house for a re peal of the Act of Union by petitioning Parliament, there was nothing illegal in associating for the purpose of peti tioning the house for a repeal of the Union. , Watliffiroie - tiirleitie Criiig in a bill to cause the votes of electors for members to serve in Parliament to be taken by way of ballot. The annunciation of Mr. H. Berkeley's intention to postpone following up his unex pected victory of Tuesday night for six months excited considerable laughter in the house. • The house was occupied in committee of supply upon the Army and Navy Estimates for the remainder of the sitting.. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. Certain Lords were appointed commissioners for con ducting a conference with the Commons respecting some alterations in the Health of Towns Bill. Earl GREY laid further papers on the table. having reference to Australian emigration, and in a speech of considerable length gave a sketch of the rapid rise anu present prosperous condition of the Australian colonies, the state of which alone was a convincing proof, if any were wanted, that Great Britain had not lost the art of colonization. The noble lord then explained the mea sures which had been adopted by the government for increasing and assisting emigration to Australia, and regretted that the expenses of the voyage were so great as to render it necessary that they should be defrayed to a very great extent by the colonies which would be bene fitted by the labour of the emigrants. Lord MONTEAGLE said that he had listened with dis may to the statement of the noble earl, - for there was nothing in it to shuw that he had considered the question with any reference to that great principle of systematic and continuous colonization of which the people of Eng. land'had heard so much, nor was there anything in it to induce them to cherish the slightest expectation that, through the agency of the noble lord in the colonies, any possible relief would be afforded. Earl GREY replied, and the papers were laid on the table. The Unliwful Oaths Act (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained leave to bring in abill next session on the subject of the Navigation Laws, the Go vernment having been compelled to withdraw the mea sure already introduced on the subject, Mr. GLADSTONE expressing a hope that the measure would be the first one introduced next session. A discussion of some length took place on the proposal of inserting the city of Lincoln in th e b r ib ery bill . In the course of it Mr. ANSTEY, in his own particular manner. asked Lord J. Russell whether he had any o bj ec ti on to . include in it the city of London ? He stated that £32.000 had been paid in corruption and bribery by the Whig candidates at the last election for that city, and observed that he had been promised by an hon. member not then present (Mr. F. O'Connor we believe) that he (Mr. An stey) should be provided with the names of the persons bribed, and the amount of the bribes received, when he brought this charge forward. Unfortunately the docu ment which he expected had not yet reached his hands, but he ventured, from his knowledge of the hon. mem ber, to make this charge on his responsibility. Lord J. RUSSELL could not understand that because he had introduced this bill into parliament at the request of the house, he was bound to put London into its sche dule, in order to gratify either the curiosity or the malig nity of those who wished to attack him as the author of the measure. The ground for inserting the name of any borough in the schedule was either the report of the Election Committee or some documentary authority on which the house could proceed. He then described the origin and nature of his connexion with the city of Lan don, and assured the house that, instead of paying £32,000 out of his pocket for his return, he had only paid the legal expenses. As he had not been guilty of any illegal practices himself, and had not employed any ma nagement to get rid of any petition against his return, he could not allow London to be inserted in the schedule on the authority of rumours of which he had heard from nobody but Mr. Anstey. In the middle of Lord John's speech, Mr. Anstey stalked out of the house with unusual pomp and stateli ness. Mr. W. BROWN observed, that as Mr. Anstey had not waited to hear the reply to be made to his charges against the city of London, he might perhaps be permitted to remark that Mr. Anstey was not exactly the person to bring forward such charges. Ile bad better look at home. The voters of Youghal were notorious for looking out for " a fat goose" at every election, and common rumour gave them credit for always plucking it bare after they had caught it. The committee then proceeded to insert in the schedule the names of all the boroughs selected by the government for investigation, with the exception of Bodmin, which was rescued from that fate by the chivalrous exertions of its two representatives, Mr. Wyld and Mr. Lacy. The Chairman was then directed to report progress. The house resumed ; but the bill was ordered io lie re committed for the purpose of inserting two new clauses. Having been recommitted, it was reported pro forme!, and ordered, with its amendments, to be printed. HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—FRIDAY. Several votes in the navy estimates were then agreed to. In the course of discussioa upon one of them, "a pretty quarrel" took place between Sir De L. Evans and Mr. Hume, which was, however, amicably settled at the com mencement of the evening sitting by a mutual explana tion, in which both parties protested that they meant nothing personally offensive to the other. The House proceeded to discuss the Navy . and 4iiscel bums Estimates till a late hour in the evening. 1 , - 't 111:: ‘-‘71% FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. The Finance Committee has expressed, through its re porter at the tribune, its desire that certain parts of the evidence and documents which were brought before them should be withheld from publication, hinting in a manner provokingly obscure at the nature of this part of the evi dence. This mystery makes the assembly and the public only the more curious to know the nature of this forbidden evidence. Curiosity has even taken the start of the official disclosure ordered by the assembly. It is announced in the journals that one of the mysterious documents which the committee desired to withhold from publication, is a long letter written by M. de Lamartine, from which it re sults (say the journals) • that this manifesto is a vehement condemnation of the ultra-democrats with whom M. de Lamartine, at a later period, formed so close an alliance. The illessager says, another series of letters was found on May 15, at the residence of M. Sobrier, the signature to which testifies an incredible intimacy between the most active agent of the policy of the red flag, and the person age who, at that period, was still, in the eyes of the coun try, the personification of contrary ideas. A PROFESSORSHIP OF ATHEISM.—The Committee on Pnblic Instruction, at Paris, met on Tuesday to hear a petition read which was presented by an infidel named Koenig, who demanded that a Professor of Atheism should be appointed and paid by the state ! The committee in dignantly rejected the petition, and passed to the order of the day. ATTEMPT To ASSASSINATE M. THIERS.—It is lament able to be obliged to record an attempt to assassinate M. Thiers. A child, sitting on the steps of his house, was, on Saturday week, struck by a shot, supposed to be fired from an air gun, and evidently intended for him. It seems he had received anonymous letters threatening his life. The police had also cautioned him against wearing a white hat, having reason to suspect that some mischief was in agitation against him, and that this part of his dress would supply a means of easy recognition ; but he paid no attention to these various hints. On Saturday, however, about the time lie usually returns home, M. Migret, who also wears a white hat, was crossing his court-yard, when, hearing a child scream, who was sitting at the gate, he re turned, and found it had been wounded by a ball that had rebounded from the steps of M. Thiers' house. No clue to the assassin has yet been found ; it is supposed the shot came from the roof of some of the adjoining houses. This event caused the greatest excitement in the National ~.pp.,1,1r, • irn ;} ‘1,,, 1 t members had been threatened. ITALY. At an interview of the Minister of Sardinia in Paris, the Marquis of Ricci, with General Cavaignac, on Monday last, he formally demanded the armed intervention of France in Italy. General Cavaignac replied that he had anticipated the demand by opening a negotiation with the British Government on the subject, the result of which would appear in a mediation between Austria and Pied mont that would preserve Europe from a general war. The Austrians had taken possession of Parma. King Charles Albert had arrived under the walls of Milan, and was determined to defend it to the last extremity. He had with him fifty thousand men. Radetsky had, on the 4th instant, arrived in the neighbourhood of that city. Advices from Turin of the 7th, confirm the news of the evacuation of Milan by the Piedmontese army, in conse quence of a capitulation and the retirement of that army beyond the Ticino. Letters from Rome of the 2d an nounce the definitive retirement of Count Mamiania. That minister has made the following propositions to the Chamber of Deputies :-1. To open a voluntary enrolment in all the cities of the state. 2. To extend the mobilisa tion of the National Guard to 12,000 men. 3. To autho rise the Minister of War to employ foreign soldiers to the amount of 12,000 men. 4. To employ a foreign general officer to take the command of the troops. An address to Tuscany, Sardinia, and Naples, for the prosecution of the war, was voted in the chamber. The abolition of capital punishment has been voted by the National Assembly of Frankfort by a majority of 238 to 146. Several students belonging to the Academie Legion at Vienna, have been severely wounded, at drills and reviews, by the awkwardness of their comrades, whose unskilfulness in the use of their weapons is equalled by their unwilling ness to obey the orders of their officers. NEWFOUNDLANH.—Two new churches have recently been consecrated by the bishop, one at the populous settle ment of Heart's Content, the other at Foxtrap, on the south shore of Conception Bay. The recent advices from Sydney bring intelligence of the Tractarian heresy, which has long been working in Aus tralasia, having at length borne its natural fruit in the secession to Popery of the Rev. Messrs. Sconce and Ma kinson, incumbents of St. Andrew's and St. Peter's, in Sydney. ARRIVAL OF THE " JOHN WILLIAMS" AT TAHITI. — Extract from a private letter from the missionary printer; —" Saturday, April 22d, 1848. I have just heard that a vessel will leave here to-morrow for Valparaiso, so that any letters or communications we may have for England, will meet with a quick conveyance. We arrived here (Papeete) this afternoon, after a long trial of our patience by calms and contrary winds. As we 4eared the land, we observed a canoe putting off to us containing two natives. They came on board to sell some fruit, but as soon as they dis covered the nature of our ship, they filled a bucket with oranges and refused any manner of payment for them, however, prevailed o n them to takeiifeW - biZilits, - which they were much pleased. * * * I cannot speak favourably of this part of the island • for cursed war has rendered it almost a wilderness." Another letter says : " I am now in the Mission field—the South Seas, Tahiti, —the birth-place of that Mission which is now fast spreading over the vast Pacific,—lies before me. We had some rough weather on our passage from Hobart' Town to Tahiti ; indeed, great fears were entertained for our safety. * * But in the midst of these dangers, we experienced the kind care of our Heavenly Father, so that we suffered no evil. On one of these gloomy morn ings, we saw the spar of a vessel sweep by us, belonging to some ship which had not so freely escaped the- tempest as ours."—Patriot. IRELAND. 4 (From our Second Edition of Tuesday last) DUBLIN, MONDAY NIGHT. All is quiet in the South. Mrs. Smith O'Brien was a passenger by the midday train to Dublin to-day. Before O'Brien started, he was told that he could not be allowed to speak or move, when he replied to General M`Donald, " I have played the game and lost. Had I won, my power would have been unlimited ; and I am ready to pay the penalty of having failed. I hope those with me will be leniently dealt with. I care not what happens to myself." On Saturday the eight persons charged in Dublin with the conspiracy to murder an inspector of police were dis charged on entering into recognizances to appear when called on. At Clonmel, the arrest of Dr. O'Ryan and F O'Ryan, jun., produced such excitement that the populace would have attempted a rescue but for the overwhelming force of artillery. At Carrick. on-Suir not less than ten horse loads of pikes have been captured, and destroyed by the police in the open street. MILITARY MOVEMENTS. Lord Hardinge left town with his staff this morning for Kilkenny. The camp at Thurles has been struck, and General M'Donald has moved his troops, consisting of the Rifles, 74th and 85th infantry, together with the whole of his cavalry, to Limerick. The final destination of the column is supposed to be Abbeyfeale, where Mr. O'Gorman is said to be at the head of an insurgent force. THURLES, SUNDAY, 3 .m.—At one o'clock p.m. this day, the Light Division (or Flying column, as they are termed,) which have been scouring the country for the last ten days, under Gen. M`Donald, consisting of two light six-pounders, Royal Artillery, one company sappers and miners, the 60th Riles, and the 85th Light Infantry, received orders to strike tents and proceed by railway to Limerick, en route to the county Clare, where a rising is expected. The tents were struck, baggage loaded, and the men off the ground in one hour afterwards. The 74th Regiment proceed to Tipperary. The 85th Light Infantry escorted Smith O'Brien to the railway on yesterday even ing. The men have been served out with canteens and blankets, as on service, and have suffered from the rain and damp of the ground in camp, but are, notwithstand ing, very healthy, and in great spirits. The 75th Regi ment are under canvass at Ballingarry, county Tipperary, vacated by General MacDonald." MORE ARRESTS. A number of arrests have taken place at Waterford. The gunsmiths' shops are searched, and the police are seizing large quantities of pikes and arms in Dublin, and through the provinces. On the other hand the peasantry of Limerick are plundering the private houses for their arms. _ _ Mr. Bergin, of New York, and Mr. Marron, editor of the Drogheda Argus, have been this day lodged in New gate under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Mr. Bergin is a ship-broker, who arrived in this country only a few days ago. He has, we understand, forwarded a communication to the American Consul in this city on the subject. Mr. S. J. Meany, of the Irish Tribune, and Mr. J. Brennan, of the Irish Felon, have also been apprehended. These gentlemen, though seized in Gort (county Lime rick), have been transmitted to Dublin and lodged in Newgate. The following statement respecting them, and others of their fellow-prisoners, will be found interesting: DR. WEST, DR. M'CARRON (OF AMERICA), MR. STEPHEN J. MEANT, AND MR. J. BRENNAN, FULLY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. On Sunday the Governor of Newt-ate prison received warrants from the Lord Lieutenant, fully committing the above gentlemen for high treason, the previous commit ments being only for further examination. The parties were immediately informed of the new warrants, with a view, we presume, to a preparation for defence. The committal sets forth the charge against all the parties as for having conspired, combined, confederated, and agreed, with divers other persons, to levy war against her Ma jesty, and deprive her of her just style and title of Queen of these realms. The committal of Mr. Meany is singu lar in this respect. He is not alone charged, like the others, with having conspired, &c., with " divers other persons," but with having conspired with " Richard J. Verner, and divers other persons." Mr. Verner is, we understand, brother-in-law of Mr. John Mitchel. It is understood that the trials for high treason will not take place during the commission, which opens to-morrow ; but that about the beginning of September a special com mission will issue for the purpose—that then the parties will all be put on trial together, and that the crown hav ing given proof of a conspiracy, the overt acts, by writing THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. or otherwise, of any portion will be made applicable as against all. A large number of the club leaders have taken their departure from Cork for America. Eighteen persons charged with the attacks on the Lime rick mails have been arrested. WARNING TO REBELS !—Of the thirty men who formed Smith O'Brien's body guard, at and subsequent to the battle of Ballingarry, fifteen have turned approvers ! The TVerford Independent states, on credible authority, that warrants have been issued for the apprehension of more than SO individuals in the county Wexford. A large placard, with a pike-head, and " Death to Lord Clarendon," written in letters of blood, was posted on Wednesday at Galway. It was taken down by a constable. Since the proclamation, warning the people against harbouring the rebel leader, Mr. Smith O'Brien never once, up the hour of his capture, slept under a roof, al though the peasantry and farmers were perfectly willing to receive him. On Thursday week Viscount Hardinge arrived in Kil kenny, which is, we believe, to be his head quarters forsome time. In the evening his lordship was entertained at mess by the colonel and officers of the 83rd Regiment. On Monday Viscount Hardinge inspected the garrison. COINCIDENCES.—It has been suggested as curious co incidences that Mr. Smith O'Brien was tried in Dublin on the 15th of May, the anniversary of O'Connell's death ; was arrested on the sth of August, the anniversary of his burial ; and committal to prison on the 6th. the anniversary of his birth. The Lord-Lieutenant, in addition to the caution against 'harbouring any of the rebel leaders, has issued a further caution, to the effect that the penalty of treason will equally attach to all masters of emigrant ships, packets, and sea-going vessels, should they be concerned in favor ing the escape of any of the persons above named, or others whom they shall know to have been engaged in treasonable practices. . The following particulars are, among the statements made by Mr. Smith O'Brien since his committal to Kil mainham. Some days previous to his appearing in open insurrection, a difference of opinion, terminating in a final rupture, took place between him and Mr. Meagher. The latter contended that operations should be riostponed until the rebel organization was more perfect ; and on Mr. O'Brien's persisting in his resolution to proceed immediately to action, Mr. Meagher withdrew, and has had_ no further commnnipgrion whatsoever w;th him since. Mr. O'Brien's object in going to Thurles was not to effect his escape—on the contrary, although unwilling actually to give himself into custody, he was resolved against any further endeavour to evade pursuit. He ac cordingly walked through the most public parts of the town of Thurles, for a considerable time previous to his arrest. He particularly mentions his having stood for fully half an hour under a lamp, and in such a position that the light shone full upon his face. Thus situated, he believes that he was recognized by several of the pas sers-by. One poor woman selling gooseberries unques tionably knew him, for looking up, she exclaimed; Oh, God ! it is himself." MR. SMITH O'BRIEN IN KILMAINHAM GAOL.—Some account of the appearance and demeanour of "the King of Munster," while under incarceration in this prison, has been communicated to us by an eye witness. One morn ing during the past week Mr. O'Brien was engaged in the game of hand-hall with one of the guard of soldiers, con sisting of about thirty men, placed over the prisoner, when Mrs. O'Brien was admitted ; it being, we believe, the first time she had seen him since his capture. On beholding him she burst into tears, and asked him what he now thought about his foolish projects ? He replied that he saw his own folly now, when it was too late,—and the con sequence would be, that he should be torn from his family, deprived of his property, or either be shot, hanged, or banished for life from his country. His wife regarded him awhile in speechless grief and amazement, the tears coursing down her cheeks in rapid succession, and, at length affected by her sorrow, O'Brien himself shed tears, but evidently strove to hide them. We understand that his guard relieve each other in watching over him day and night. It is not very easy, therefore, for any one outside the gaol to obtain communication with the prisoner of state. THE CAPTOR OF O'BRIeN.—It appears that Hulme, who arrested O'Brien, was formerly a policeman at Man chester, where he was much respected as an active, honest man. He has had the £5OO paid to him through the Bank of Ireland, and has since arrived in this country, his continuance in Ireland not being deemed safe. Hana van, the man who would have let him escape, sought to cheat Hulme out of the reward, by asserting that he (Hanavan)made the arrest through the instrumentality of Hulme, but Mr. O'Brien coolly interposed and said, That is the man who arrested me," pointing to Hulme ; and his claim was recognised by the government. He received the congratulations of many of the guards upon the Liverpool and Manchester line, and was quite an object of interest to many who recognised him during his stay. SUBMISSION OF THE IRISH REBELS.—It is but a short month since Meagher and the other giants had it all their own way. Lord Clarendon did not look much of a gigan ticide, and, if we might judge from the confidence of his enemies, there was every reasonable prospect of his being soon caught alive, and carried about Ireland, like Bajazet, in a cage, preliminary, of course, to his undergoing the fate described in the rhyme. A month has passed, and such is the mutability of human affairs that Mr. Thomas Meagher, the scourge of Britain, is now skulking some rnLi-iiie,settdwr gom u lgini . ons di sguise, , or doubled up dignified back premises. In this last citadel of 0 - 1;7-- tunes Thomas Francis Meagher, described in the. Hue and Cry as of " no occupation, 25 years of age, five feet nine inches, dark, nearly black hair, light blue eyes, pale face, high cheekbones, peculiar expression about the eyes, cocked nose, no whiskers, well dressed," is at this mo ment endeavouring to avert the horrors of an assault, or the tedium of a blockade, by an immediate capitulation. Hard up in his fastness the rebel chief has sent the Rev. Mr. Mackey, under a flag of truce to " my Lord Assassin, the Butcher-General of Ireland," to beg for his life. On the sole condition that he may still be permitted to live under the rod of the oppressor, he is content to surrender himself and all Ireland. Lord Clarendon, fortunately, has no notion of bartering away the Royal mercy to every fellow who may think to rebel as long as it is safe, and to fall upon his marrow-bones at the first intimation of dan ger. His Lordship has declined to receive anything but the• man himself, the animal Thomas Francis Meagher, as described by the political zoologists of the Hue and Cry. _ _ _ Richard O'Gorman, jun., is still at large, and the Lord Lieutenant has, by proclamation, offered £3OO for his apprehension. SEIZURE OF THIRTY TONS OF GUNPOWDER.—OR the night of the ith instant, the Coquette, Whelan, mas ter, went into Dungarvon Bay, and was boarded next morning by three of the coast guard. Her nominal cargo was " flour," and " othei Irish goods." On examining they found gunpowder. Information being given to the authorities, a detachment of the 6th Foot, and a police force boarded the vessel. On a search, six hundred barrels of gunpowder were discovered—in weight about thirty tons. The master and one of his crew went on shore ; no doubt to make arrangements for effecting a landing at a part of the country so close to the Tipperary border—but were since apprehended. The crew were sent to bridewell, and each of them gave conflicting accounts. It was subsequently discovered that the powder was purchased at several places in Cork, to be conveyed by the person who brought it to Liverpool, paid for, and subsequently put on board the vessel, which immediately sailed from Cork. There was nothing known by the authorities of this transaction, until the police went about the city for the usual returns given by vendors of the amount sold in the week ; when, perceiving the unu sua l quantity sold, inquiry was made immediately at the Cus tom-house, where it was ascertained that no powder had been entered there; and it being subsequently ascer tained that this vessel had sailed, a war-steamer was immediately despatched after her, and came up just in time to see her put into Dungarvon offing. It turns out that this seizure, like the last, was unnecessary. The powder was purchased for and regularly invoiced to a firm in this town. Clonmel and the surrounding country are quite peace able. The constabulary were actively engaged in search ing for arms in the neighbouring districts. All the arms belonging to persons who joined the clubs have been seized. Arrests continue to be made in town and country, and many warrants had been issued for the apprehension of suspected persons. Several Americans had been placed in custody, _ _ _ At Dublin the grand jury have found true bills against Duffy, under the Crown and Government Security Act, and on Tuesday he was placed at the bar of the qommis sion Court. He sought to plead, but as the arraignment was not complete, he was not allowed to do so. The Attorney-General intimated that he might have sent up bills for high treason, but he would be satisfied to have Mr. Duffy , tried on this indictment.—On Wednesday, the Dublin grand jury returned true bills against John Martin, the proprietor of the Irish Felon, Kevin Izod O'Doherty and Richard Dalton Williams, the proprietors of the fish Tribune, and Denis Hoban, John Flanigan, William Murray, Henry Shaw, and other printers, connected with the Nation, the Felon, or the Tribune. Williams and O'Doherty were afterwards pl ace d at t h e b ar, and pleaded not guilty to an indictment, charging them, under the Crown and Government Security Act, with having pub lished certain libels in the Irish Tribune. On Thursday O'Doherty indicted for publishing sedi tious articles in the Tribune, was placed at the bar, and a jury was sworn. The Attorney-G enera l addressed the jury, and the trial lasted until Friday night, and as the jury could not agree, they were discharged late on Satur day without fi nding a verdict. A newsvender who had been apprehended, was on Wednesday placed at the bar, and having pleaded guilty, was released on their own recognizance of -C-50 to come up for judgment when called upon. On Thursday, five or six persons pleaded guilty in the same court to indictments, charging them with having in their posses s ion guns, pistols, and pikes. As it appeared that they might not have been aware of the illegality of their conduct, the Chief Bar9n, aft er a s t rong caut i on, di rected all of them to beimprisoned for 48 hours, with the exception a one, who was sentenced to one month's im prisonment. A special commission to try Mr. O'Brien will be opened immediately at Clonmel. On Hoban plead e d gu il ty, as a pr i nter of the ofhaving printed sediti ous lib e l s. On in the cases of prosecution a ga i n st T. D. Reilly P. Fitzpatrick, the t raversers and their sure nTrs Fr iday iab endtu u n r j e d ,. a Denis sure ties having been called and no response being made, the Chief Baron ordered the sureties to be est rea t e d an d b enc h warrants to issue.—Several parties charg e d w ith h av i ng guns and swords in their possession were discharged, on showing a reasonable ground for having such articles. A FELONIOUS PIE.—On Thursday, a large meat pie smoking from the oven was presented at the gate of the city gaol by a servant of .Messrs. Varian, of Patrick -street, to be given to Isaac Stephen and Ralph Varian, prisoners for treasonable practices. Before the pie was forwarded by the outward turnkey the searcher pierced it with a long needle, and finding it contained something hard, lifted the crust and discovered a bottle. On drawing the cork, it was found to enclose five or six letters and scraps of news papers. The scraps gave accounts of the arrests of the rebel leaders and reports of the proceedings in Italy. Amongst the letters was one directed to I. S. Varian, pur porting to be written by one of his female relatives, which was very lengthy, couched in extraordinary language, and containing the most horrifying sentiments. It commenced by stating that the Irish revolution was crushed by the gold of England and the treachery of Ireland. but it was only for a time, though he or shn might not live too see ano ther effort, as the present age was not suited to struggle for nationality :—however, baseness and cowardice would have their reward. The potato blight had again shown itself, and in a form more destructive than hitherto, and thank God for it, as it would rid Ireland of the degraded wretches who had not manly heroism to risk their mi serable lives in a battl .c, edotri ; she would, however, regret to have the po ar.t willing swept away, if there were not a hereafter I I.c letter proceeded to say that the base Romish p • is L. I sold their country, and were now about to be r as tr , , for their undying sins by Saxon gold. [There ar r,tht s passages, the import of which it would be wrong to aim to.] The bottle and its contents have been detained by the authorities. The pie was given to the prisoners. —Cork Constitution. THE SAVINGS' BANKS.—The Cork Constitution of Tuesday says :—" There is no better barometer of confe derate feeling than the savings' barks. Last week large sums were drawn out here, and notices for larger given. Yesterday, numbers of the notices were withdrawn, and many of the drafts re-deposited, some of the owners re marking, ' We'll have no war now.' The arrest of O'Brien has had a very sedative effect." DR. M'CARRON.—This person, who was arrested in Dublin, on Monday, and committed to Newgate for high treason, and who is supposed to represent the body of Irish sympathizers in America, was formerly a resident of Liverpool. . His profession is that of a surgeon, and he is understood to be a man of remarkable ability. For some time past he has sailed as surgeon with the Sarah Sands, American screw steamer; and he only gave up this situation to follow his treasonable tastes on the other side of the channel. The Executive have, for some time, had their eye on him and his brethren in the crusade which he was conducting on behalf of the Young Ireland party in America : he need not hope to escape the fate which has befallen lei►,,. Dr. M'Carron was arrested in rather a strange manner. Believing himself to be un known and unsuspected, he sought and obtained an order to visit his brother-in-law, Mr. Duffy, of the Nation, at present incarcerated in Newgate ; the officers of the prison treated him with all civility, and he was not disturbed in his interview, in which much treason was no doubt talked with his relation; but on keying the cell, and requesting to be shown outside the walls, he was politely informed that he was a prisoner, and that measures would be taken to secure to Mr. Duffy the solace of his brother in-law's constant company. Bergin, another American sympathizer, has also been arrested : he is also an Irish man. Papers are said to have been found in the posses sion of these parties which indicate a much more careful and well-provided conspiracy than was supposed to exist, and curious disclosures may therefore be expected on their trials. Michael Healy was executed at Clare, last week, for the murder of Michael M'Namara. He confessed his guilt. The Cork papers announce that it is the intention of Mr. John O'Connell to take up his permanent residence in London for the more efficient discharge of his duties as a director of the National Bank. The hon. gentleman, it is stated, means to retire from politics. SENTENCES.-At Nenagh assizes, Martin Ryan was sentenced to death for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd ; and William Cartley and John Ryan, for conspiring to murder Mr. Richard Bayly, who is still living, though his life was despaired of for some time. At an assize ball, on Tuesday, at Cork, the dress of a young lady, named M'Carthy, took fire in one of the dressing-rooms, but the fire was fortunately extinguished by the aid of a gentleman, without doing the wearer more injury than slightly scorching her fair arms. At Newry, on Friday, a young child was in danger of being ridden over, and a woman, who ran to rescue her, fell. The driver of the cart, in attempting to save the woman, also fell, and the wheel of the heavily laden cart passed over them both, and killed them instantaneously. The child escaped uninjured. The anniversary of the relief of Derry was celebrated by the Apprentice Boys on Friday with all the usual demon strations. An excellent sermon was preached to the clubs by the Rev. W. Alexander, curate of the cathedral and chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, from Isaiah, xxxvii. 34, " By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord." ExEcuTioNs.—On Tuesday, at Roscommon, Patrick Hasty and Owen Beirne were executed, the former for conspiring to murder the late Major Mahon, and the latter for conspiring to murder the late Rev. Mr. Lloyd. They both confessed the justice of their sentence, and Hasty attributed his wretched end to "a knowledge and participation in the accursed system of Molly Maguire ism." The accounts from Ireland about the potato are very contradictory. Even in the same district one person will tell you that they are very bad,"—another, that " they never were better." A friend who left Dublin on Tuesday for the country some miles to the west writes that on his journey he observed " all the potato gardens, with no in many places in which the same observation has been made, the root hag, heretofore at least, been sound. MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF CLUB LAw.—A working shoemaker in Dublin who was secretary to one of the seditious clubs, on hearing of the proclamation for dissol ving them, being apprehensive of arrest—fled. Shortly after the police came to search for him ; and his wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, became so frightened, that she was seized with premature labour, which ended in lier death. She has left two infant children, who now have no one to protect them. So much for club law. HEROIC CONDUCT.—As Mr. John Hilton, steward to G. Gough, Esq., of Ardsallah, was proceeding to ring the work-bell at six o'clock yesterday morning, a dog that accompanied him, by barking and growling, drew his attention to the shrubbery, which was quite close. On turning round be saw a large athletic man, six yards dis tant, with a pistol presented at his face, and with great self-possession, made a sudden headlong plunge at the villain, which tumbled him ; a desperate struggle ensued, in which the pistol was taken and retaken several times, and which did not terminate for three quarters of an hour. Hilton, having inflicted a severe wound on the fello ?es head, then collared and marched himin to the stable-yard, where he completely secured his prisoner. It is worthy of remark, that Mr. Gough had given some gunpowder to a workman on the evening before, for the purpo.sr of pro tecting his crops. The wadding found in the pistol was, beyond doubt, torn from the paper in which the powdtr was enclosed, and the miscreant who attempted the mur der, though a stranger, happened to be a cousin of the labourer who had charge of the powder. —Clonmel Chronicle. . EFFECT OF FIRMNESS.—The orders of General Mac donald for the preparation of a special train to take Smith O'Brien to Dublin, were conveyed to Thurles railway station by Captain Makenzie, who on arriving there found the only engine in reserve puffing away and on the point of starting for some other portion of the line. He imme diately went up to the driver and told him that General Macdonald's commands were that he should remain, and take a special train up to Dublin. The driver refused to obey, stating that he would not take his orders from such a quarto., whereupon Captain Mackenzie quietly pulled out a pistol, and told the man that if he did not at once do as he was ordered, he would blow his brains out. This had an immediate effect, and the engine was retained for the purpose for which it was wanted. Had it not been for this firmness, Smith O'Brien must have remained at Thurles that night, and next day, by the pulling up of the rails or otherwise, his transmission to Dublin might have ' been difficult or impossible. As a proof of this we may mention that one of the trains next day between Thurles and Tipperary ran against a huge block of stone, which had been placed on the line during the night, and which did considerable damage to the engine. AWFUL SCENE.—At Nenagh assizes, on Monday, Richard, James, and Mary Conolly were found guilty of •aiding at the murder of Thomas Dillon, on May 18, for the actual commission of which two brothers of the male prisoners had been previously found guilty. At the open ing of the case the female prisoner, an old woman, who was aiont eighty years of age, being unable to stand, sat down near the side of the dock. Mr. Henry Phillips, a juror, said that he as a juror, wished to have the old woman standing at the bar, so that the jury might see her. Court : She is too old and too feeble to stand. Mr. . Scott (Counsel for the prosecution): She is eighty years of age. Ob, is it not truly melancholy to contemplate that a woman of her years, being on the verge of eternity, should stand at the bar charged with being privy to the murder, with having held a basin to receive the blood which flowed from a gash in the throat of the victim, and which had been inflicted by her sons—(sensation). Court : Mr. Scott, Mr. Scott, I hope you will not go into those matters, and not become excited. I know the particulars of the whole case. Mr. Scott then proceeded to state the case according to the evidence, and having concluded, the old woman stood up and grasped the rail of the dock with her shrivelled hands. Her grey hair hung loosely about her head, and her appearance was that of a maniac; she screamed loudly and extended her at tenuated arms, and repatedly clapped her hands, at the same time exclaiming wildly, and oscillating her head and shoulders—" Oh, gentlemen, look at me, look at me ; oh, wisha D/ei na Glora—my two boys are hanged, and my self and my other two boys here ; ochone, ochone," and she began to cry most bitterly. Thomas Looby, an ap prover, having been called upon ascended the witness ta ble, when Richard Conolly cried out—" Oh, Looby, Looby, you hanged our brothers, and now you are going to hang our poor mother and ourselves. 'declare to God, this day, I will follow you, either dead or alive, until I have satisfaction from you. You took our land from us, and—" The old woman : " Oh, Looby, Looby, Looby." This was truly a touching s cene , an d, w hil e i t lasted, the utmost sensation prevailed in court." MORE INTOLERANCE. — At the Petty Sessions at Skib hereen, held about a for tnight ago, a c ase came on i n con sequence of the demolition of a garden-wall in the old churchyard of Abbey Stewry, which elicited an exposure of gross religious tyranny. It appears that some years ago, the highly-respected and huma::e Richard R. Town send, vicar of the parish named, did his utmost during the famine to alleviate the distresses of the poor without re gard to the religion of those who were the recipients of the relief he had the means of bestowing through his own resources as well as the government fund. During his exertions he invited the co-operation of the Roman Ca tholic priest, and they worked Swell and amicably together the worst period of that fearful visitation. During its continuance, Mr. Townsend found that the churchyard wall, where so many victims .of the contagion were daily interred, was in a delapidated state, and the dogs entered by night and rooted amongst and tore the bodies. He, in consequence, had a wall which divided the churchyard from a garden repaired, and also a small gate-house, the expense being defrayed partly by himself, and partly by Lord Dufferin, in order to prevent scenes which were an outrage to all humanity, and which took place in the spring of 1847. After the worst season of cal am ity h a d p asse d away, Mr. Townsend erected schools for boys and girls, to which the children of the parish were indiscriminately ad mitted, and many of the Roman Catholics availed them selves of the boon. Lately, however, the wall was demo lished, though no objection had been urged against it as a nuisance for the first six months after it was built. The cause of this it was proved by a witness in the case, him self a Roman Catholic, was that a man, also a Roman Catholic, had persisted in sending his children to Mr. Townsend's schools, and it further appeared (though not absolutely in evidence, as the question was not urged upon the witness) that the mischief had been urged from the altar of a Roman Catholic chapel. The people themselves, of all classes universally, approved of the erection of the wall, as making their burial-ground respectable, which it never had been before. It now lies a heap of ruins. The Rev. Mr. Townsend, in a moderate and feeling letter, stating the particulars, makes the following remark amongst others, and we sincerely trust the writer's hopes may be realized :—" I have good reason for believing that such altar assailments will not long be borne. The people's wits have been too long in movement towards thinking and reflection from the appeals made to their reason and private judgment by the devices of agitation ; and, accord ing to the spirit of the age, they will disentrammel them selves by and bye of all such encumbrances upon the liberty they have been taught to make a household word of for other purposes, by those who would crush it by their own weight when it begins to exert itself in a way they do not choose, viz. against themselves. But in vain. They have gone too far with the cry of liberty, and resistance to the spirit they have evoked will be certain ruin—slow per haps, but sure. Though changes now come rapid as light, and it is hard to say the turn on the instant the wayward fancy of these times may take against oppression." The writer then states what the schools are doing. The boys' schools are in full operation of usefulness, and one of the free boys will soon be sent to the upper school to prepare himself as a sizar for the University. A wash-house has been erected, where the clothes of the poor children are washed, dried, and mangled. A flax manufactory is also erected at which the boys and girls work alternate days, and acquire the art of hand-scutching, a novelty in that quarter. The girls' schools are equally efficient, and some beautiful specimens of knitting by the scholars have been sent to England. " And these," says the reverend writer, " are the schools it is so unrighteously sought to binder the children of our people to frequent ! It cannot be that the friends of humanity will not support me in my poor efforts for their good ; neither can I for one moment doubt that schools dedicated to, and based on the word of truth of, the Most High God, can be either forsaken by Him, or unsuccessful." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Labouchere's Bill for the Repeal of the Navigation Laws will be in circulation early next week. Time will thus be afforded for its consideration during the recess. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—Her Majesty's Min isters left London via the South-Western Railway, for Gosport, on Friday. The Cabinet were conveyed to Osborne in one of her Majesty's steam yachts. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Mr. H. Berkeley succeeded in carrying, by a majority of 86 to 81, a resolution affirming the necessity of the ballot in taking votes for the election of members of parliament ! A fact not very generally known was stated by Mr. Berkely, in moving his resolution on the ballot, namely, that the House of Commons, in the year 1710, passed a bill for establishing vote by ballot, which was thrown out by the House of Lords. We find, on reference to an authority, that the statement is perfectly correct. We doubt, however, whether the radicals of 1849 will be as successful as the jacobites of 1710. The arrival of M. Gustave de Beaumont in this country as the envoy or representative of the present government of France is a circumstance favourable to the mainte nance of amicable relations between the two countries. M. de Beaumont is a gentleman already well known to the society of the metropolis, both in person and by his lite rary productions. He shared with M. de Tocqueville in the mission sent out by the French government in 1831 to examine the penitentiary system in the United States; and some years later he became the author of a book on Ireland, which is one of the best foreign works on that inexhaustible subject, and does credit to his discrimination and his researches. In politics M. de Beaumont has been, since his entrance into the late Chamber of Deputies, an active member of what was termed the dynastic opposi tion. SLEEPY MEMBERS.—At 12 o'clock last night the con dition of numbers of the honourable members in the two galleries of the House of Commons was most pitiable. Legislation is evidently much more fatiguing than the hardest agricultural labour. Who ever saw in the heat of harvest a dozen labourers fast asleep in a field of a few perches ? And yet last night, in the highest fervour of legislation, within a smaller compass, I saw at least a dozen of our legislatorial labourers recumbent at full length on the downy cushions of the galleries, and buried to all outward seeming in the most profound repose. It would be invidious to mention the names of the dozen sleepers; but a high legal functionary was among them, who snored unblushingly through a long debate. A metropolitan member, as if ashamed of his .slmnnlp.fr, ala ms nest to sleep wiui ..terucy oy covering his face with both his hands ; but another without the slightest regard to the usual convenanees of society, turned his face to the wall and exposed a most extensive surface to the admira tion of the House. At half-past 12 o'clock there was an attempt to report progress, but all in vain. The only result of the motion was that the cry for a division woke the sleeping members, who shook themselves gloomily, and then sheered off with tottering steps and slow, not into the lobby, but up to Bellamy's to obtain some slight refreshment to enable them to encounter the prolonged labour which at that hour they had still to undergo.— Times of Saturday. MR. COBDEN'i FALL.—The Times has long been in the habit of puffing off Mr. Cobden ; but in an article on Friday, stating that they had formed high expectations from Mr. Cobden's recent continental tour, asks, " How have our anticipations been fulfilled ? Alas, how are the mighty fallen ! Mr. Cobden set out with advantages such as no other man in his position ever carried with him from England. The applause of crowds, the pane gyric of Ministers, and the Royal assent—all ushered him from the shores of a grateful country. He went as an ambassador, with more than the usual credentials and less than the usual burdens of diplomacy, to every court of Europe. Every town from llamburgh to Trieste did honour to the successful champion of free trade. He was feted, belaudee, and toasted from Bourdeaux to Cadiz. His continental glorification was crowned by domestic honours. The West Riding of Yorkshire conferred on him the unsolicited distinction of its representation before his return, and expected that after he had returned he would justify the choice. What has he done ? What have been his tactics ? What is the sum and substance of the statesmanship to which all the world looked for ward so anxiously ? Simply this—a depreciation of our military and naval establishments, and an emulation of America. The first constitutes the whole gist and pith of the honourable member's speeches ;. the latter, of his policy. England is to disband her fleets and armies, to give up her colonies, and to enter boldly on a course of Yankee statesmanship." A SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—Rather a strange scene occurred , on Tuesday week in the House of Lords. A claim has been for some time pending before that tri bunal, at the instance of a Mr. Tracy, as the alleged legal heir to the Tracy peerage in Ireland, at present in abey ance. Among the muniments of claim some time ago produced, were the broken nieces of an apparently old tombstone, taken from the burial ground of an ancient church or chapel, and bearing an inscription, in antique characters, setting forth the death, interment, age, and title of a remote member of the Tracy family, and thus supplying a necessary link in the chain of evidence for the claimant. Nothing could be more satisfactory. There was the hardness of granite added to the durability of parchment ;—the title of the claimont was fixed in stone and enshrined in ink. But it was fated to a sad change. A stonemason and a quarryman were produced before the lords, and their evidence, particularly that of the former, was to the effect that the alleged old tombstone was of very recent manufacture—had been secretly prepared in the silence and seclusion of night—had been darkened with the smoke of a turf fire to give it the appearance of age—and was, finally, fractured by a hammer into' Such convenient pieces ,, as, on being put together, would make out the required inscription. The stone mason deposed that he had himself cut out part of the inscription—that he had scientifically fractured the tombstone—and that he now recognised in the fragments before him, lying on the floor of the house, the specimens of his own handiwork. Not old Edie Ochiltree, the bedesman, had a greater triumph when he demonstrated, to the utter confusion of Mr. Oldbuck, of Monkbarns, that the long-valued stone, bearing the cabalistical letters of A. D. L. L., and very clearly indicating not only Roman origin, but the senti ment Agricola Dicavit Libens Luber's," was of com paratively recent manufacture, and merely designated "Aiken_ Drum's Lang Ladle," having been so fabricated by himself, and "a wheen other wild hallenshakers." CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. 4 The splendid service of plate, valued at £7OO, from the inhabitants of Birmingham to the Bishop of Manchester, was presented on their behalf by the Mayor on Thursday. The Rev. J. Mr: Birley, M.A., has been presented by the vicar of Lancaster, to the perpetual curacy of Little dale. Her Majesty and Prince Albert have subscribed £lOO towards the fund for re-building the parish church of St. Thomas's, Newport, Isle of Wight. THE COURT. The Court is expected to arrive at Buckingham Palace to-day, anil to return to Osborne on Thursday. The Duchess of Kent arrived at Osborne House on Friday, on a visit to the Queen. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the royal children, proceeded from Osborne on Tuesday to the Portsmouth regatta, and returned to Osborne at about six o'clock. " Hunting the Squirrel" was performed by her Majesty's desire, for the amusement of the, Juvenile royal family. This consists in a boy being put in a small boat or punt with one oar, and propelling himself in various directions, dabbling about with three or four fleet rowers in gigs or wherries after him, the object being to take him out of the punt :. this was not accomplished in the usual way. The Squirrel" being hard pressed, took to the water, whither his pursuers ought according to the rule of the game to have followed him, but instead of doing so, one of thew thrust a boat's hook at him,.and hooked him out. The prize was witt4eld in oonsegueuee, Angnst LAW INTELLIGEKCE. 11G. t r * NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—CARLISLE , A (Before Mr. Justice Erie and a Special Jfir WILKIN V. SCOTT.—DILAPIDATIONS OF A . I " ii. ,• C nt HOUSE.—The action was brought by Mr. \V" 1 " to Rector of Bootle, in the county of Cumberland, 0, cover from Mr. oon, the late incumbent, a Om b a d between £l4O and £155, for dilapidations, £6O haj; paid into court by Mr. Scott, as an ample sum f or o° quisite substantial repairs. The rectory had been by the late incumbent in 1839, and the present recto' entering it, found almost the whole of the wood ' aa w° a state of dry-rot, and cert a i n ou tb u ildings in a bdie, of repair. The principal witn e ss was Mr. 11 rci s ite Newcastle, who estimated the amount for requl bi o pairs at £147 Os. ; the estimate of Mr. Gr• 11° 6 was £147 2s. 9d. • that of Mr. C. Armstrong, • 15. 43 ,4 the part of the defendant witnesses were c alled c° r j ot , that the building could be p u t i n t o co mplete rep al a sum considerably under £5O. The jury returned dict for the defendant. Ili The August assizes commenced on Saturday a t 1A ter. The calendar we are happy to say, is lig u :i i rot procession of the sheriff, Sir T. G. Heskethc,noo Preston, en route for Lancaster, took place in the int''"„pte Mr. Bouverie's new bill for consolidating the baio r s - t laws, restores, in certain cases, the power of orr e mesne process. , _we COUNTY COURTS.—In a di scuss i on w hich tool' the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor i n cident 9 ,t pressed his hope, that befo r e lo ng a pl an would be au`i'tir by which the fees in the cou n ty cour t s w ould be reu one-half. In the appeal made by the Duke of Brunswick -„t the King of Hanove r , f or se tti ng as id e a n instre we ' r ir which the defendant wa s ma d e guar di an o f the pr°,P, e de the plaintiff, the House of L or d s h ave con firmed tn; co o sion of the Master of the Rolls, that as the met e ' r io , plained of was an act done by a foreign sovereig ode in his own country, it could not, th ere fore, be r subject of a suit in equity here. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. 4 _ A correspondent of the Times animadverts on the gular fact that the Great Northern Railway hare :14 a newspaper to publish their own reports. Shrewsbury can now calculate upon having the t i from Chirk opened in a short period ; indeed th e o f I stated is the first week in October. The last arch t o Dee viaduct will be " keyed " in the course of the P week. The shareholders of the Lancaster and Carlisleg ai adopted their report w ith ou t muc h di scuss ion of th e red ' tents. The passenger traffic appears to have in e l'i ti tic' and, indeed, the only unsatisfactory matter, is the i r . e ,,idd, of the line with the Lan ca st er an d P res t on . A ,7 1 e fort of £1 per whole, and 4s. 6d. ner thi r d s h ar e was l a v and plenary authority was given to the directors settlement of the Lancaster and Preston qu estion. ,0 0 ATROCIOUS CONDUCT OF AN E NGINE DEll„ questions net!, the East Lancashire Rail wa y wor k s , at Tunnel I; f 0 `; Burnley, on Friday week, th e driver and ste" e "enei n Medusa locomotive were drinking, and had left the 5 0 10/ in charge of the cleaner, whose name is Rhodes.d,wOr persons in authority came down t o th e eng ine, e e ,„ tsl' h ee , ing to 'go to the " tip end" a t R ose - grove , wna, thither by Rhodes. Shortly a ft er Rh o d e s lisc,:"engA'n driver, named Whittle, c a m e d own , an d fi n ding p10`"„ gone without him, he was very much vexed, s e c roe formidable obstacles on the rail s t o o b s t ruc t the its return. On the engine's return, with a truck e ` tot, it was cast off the rails, and Rhodes was thro n t re e" ground, and had his arms and thighs broken. 'I A " ; r, in the truck the Rev. T. G. James ; his hrel," f e l t 't e t James, of Liverpool ; Mr. Donaldson, the engi,,n e `,"o3l e " line, and another gentleman, all of whom escaped. Whittle has been committed for trial', of cr o f PRICE OF RAILWAY S HARES .—O n F r id a y a v e ye rv te siderable. depression took place in the price of is the railway shares. The immediate cause of tll,, l ; reduction in the dividends by so m e o f the lealw:,,lers" ll which is producing an influen ce on o pi n i o n cec s ijeclo",j beyond the intrinsic value of the difference. Th e ° n e".l tion of the divid en d a t th e meet i ng o f t he Loe' d North-Western Company on F r id a y b e i n g re"„ ce or re f ; per cent., or at the rate of 7 per cent. per all d0..2 duced a considerable se n s a ti on , an d sen t the sher'; per, 4or 5 per cent. The idea that had been for a 10 ' 4 ' port/ attached to this line that it would permanently ha e hit dividend of 10 per cent. on the capital invested co a l much more influence than the decrease merits, be ti secl b o t is quite clear that it is to a considerable extent e 9.05 the expenditure upon new br a n c h e s and exten s ; yet become productive. The holders in that and w W., lines shou:d, therefore, be cautious not to at? tjr, property away under the influence of a panic vehicn,,ist e are always parties ready to foster and sustain for D i ' puTHErposes. LONDON AND NOTH.WESTERN DIVIDE - 4 60 d' shareholders in this company had the satisfactio n vrA ing that the dividend declared at the meeting on u ce _;;lo , , was real—actually payable from the bond fide as T o y earnings of the line, and not got up for show hY r P ..4ll 6 ' the " ingenious devices" of financial generalship, o.;;:tatz, financial jugglery—a resort to which species of till %pil e dexterity might possibly, if the directors had conde. t b to such shifts, produced a larger nominal dividend f o e th' nonce, but would have proportionately endange r o tiO high, the unsullied , and universally trus tpd renuai,b • t• which they peculiarly pose... an d rpr apl forward dealing. Whatever might have been tic' rent temptations to an evasive cours e o f conduc t , e 1 instance, the directors may rely on it that they bat in pre' the path not only of honour, but of true seating an undisguised, unvarnished, unexa ggrucl lookirg ment of what, considering all incurobrances, 1 , 1 a iont afthe tremendous occurrences of the year, Is t h e Vic' d for which their constituents and themselves have oec or: ample reason to be proud and thankful.—Rai/icaY nd ; the THE STRIKE OF ENGINE-DRIVERS.-011 Mct artb s i following notice was posted on the premises of the „ e a prudencl,d state, Western Railway Company :—" Euston Statiom_r e ker, 7, 1848.—A statement having appeared in the s 0; newspaper of Sunday, and been copied into the I ";7 0 8 0 Y this day, to the effect that at a meeting on FridaY.,?; D° o ; of the engine -drivers and firemen employed on pi e dthi l don and North-Western Railway, it had been all e in g s siq e " it was the intentioa of the directors to use the c 9 o f ag tion as the means of ultimately reducing the wag Men, I am instructed to declare that so far from t i t ' t i c tlid the case, it is their intention, in every instance" s ee r s carry out the regulation by which engine - u r n ' c ie o "2 o 3 firemen are to be successively advanced as vaca nt t, r e occur in the classes above them, and that it is'" e reo l l,tr never has been, the intention of the directors l e or th' io the number of the men employed in these clas,,,se' e 'olo rate of wages.—R. CREED, Secretary." On ' li n den l ' r e, adjourned meeting of engine -drivers on the Le,'" l'av e e , North-Western Railway was held at the Rad` rg idiog a- Hampstead-road, to consider the question no w ' ()i f , tween them and the directors. Mr. James 13r,? The • pied the chair, and 150 drivers were present. 1 " cno ce t ' b i man read a speech; which recapitulated the gr' e o posfrVe suiting from the new classification of wages P r r rr Mr, M'Connell, the superintendent of locomotive bo t are perfectly satisfied, he said, with our wages' the r the move is made because we see in the backgrou e , sa to „ t 5 object of the new system—that of being subjec t 7,os , caprice of the superintendent." A variety of! a t e I°oo were made to show that great danger resulted I° , o y. to lie from the course being pursued by the eon:Pi - e nde'et' resignations had been sent in, and the men 10 t he 0 o ld adhere to them.—After thanks to the Chairram! n s ing separated. It was expected that negotia ti nc es. have been set on foot to terminate these diffe r i e- of t "tio o ' men however refuse to give way, and the velico e ,igas t be from Rugby to Carlisle, have forwarded their re t hat d to A letter was read from Northampton, stath l g li ducc i vi, engine drivers and firemen there had been bat . l ied withdraw their notice from a misrepresentati o e verc el o s ; had since recalled their withdrawal, and wer e joia,r,b& to resign if they had only bread and water for 6 p ubPitii MIXED GUAGE.—A pamphlet has just 1 11 ' e so on this subject by Joseph Locke, Esq., I ‘ l '„,:eate r e ar ° shown that the remedy o f m i xe d gauge is 3 ft :s the e vil' than the break of gauge , M r . L oc k e ne xt go'', t he for both :—" With the view, then, of avoidim9yetec T i i to which must necessarily arise to the railwaY nte nti ° o o such extension of the mixed gaug e, it is rnY ? int o t' t bre e show your lordship that, for a far less sum t he o ve_ about to be laid out on the mixed gauge Mild 00 12 5 ill° lines I have named, a railway of continuous 3 9s t s e pol° gauge may be completed between the south c o ine tec o ot North of England on the one hand, and the the bj; 15 and the whole of the North of England, t g,itig.,t h th e Western line, on the other. The mode of t or o.l ` ( 10 1 !' simply by laying the narrow gauge concurre,ll.o Don,cbts broad gauge from Oxford through Readin., m iles' ,i0( 1 and from Reading to Basin g st o k e —in all 77 or a i b - e an might be done either by i n d e p en dent lin A ed e jit• be hf gauge; and although the l a tt er wo uld, I a c oUldittle evil, it would be much l ess i n ex t en t than it e hrocu7 , any other arrangement, s h or t o f altering the from 0, v to the narrow. Th e narrow gauge must he o at 9 r ot ford northward ; but why lay the broad Ol e o elP t bo proposed by the Great Western Company' n e t . i iiore ar rol at the outset (from the mixed gauge , " s , the 11 04' £BOO,OOO sterling ? Why not, instead, o f the,.., e tie gauge from Oxford to London, at one-th ird _ereth e If this were done, the Great Western coulkirent,velt`soll ally compete in the north, if that be their oci to ilco North Western, than they can ever c li n cP h e amee't t ! l e breaks of gauge at either Rugby, Wol b y mingham, or Oxford ; and, for the south '''',,ode b oce t a i Great Western carry out the pledge ofteti3asings.ct,, chairman, to lay the narrow gauge from _ st aistrl n of: a cost of less than £lOO,OOO, Reading ; and thus the north w an e i u l l s d ou b t e h sit c 7 ent a ev t e h r e . ';‘ ,1 8 0 1 1 1, v ; ance and expense of any break of gauge v!"_, l , tbe s ,,, f io . then, my lord, is this suggestion—so obv!ou'in'tersj'estel est, simplest, and best for the loubl te G r eat bee 9 adopted ? Must it be confessed that the „ oir mit' nj is, e relying on the conflicting decisions the Parliament, hopes, year after year, to e- `` h old, a a c .1 e one Alu gauge further to the north on Southampton and Portsmouth on the owned, that whilst that company is Chas e fult l,o A) . , sions, for its own (supposed). advantage, a betwe et k f , To the introduction of the mixed ge"l e , get r i p o f t and Oxford, which would almost theentire )...tensiooanc.it other.ergi4v ester, difficulty which affords a pretext for rn e th at i l t d r broad gauge ?It was the Great Westc c ou e c oa l ti i t n li t e er e fe x r c e ep w t i i t o h n a t e g l u i n a e g s e the 5 1sg e 'ho l piny that is now seeking to introduce s brn0,700,17; order to avoid, as it is alleged, tile _e at 0 41) . really in order to multiply breaks of g, i l!g- ` eom pa b remote from their own line ; and yet tl is le a nd 0101 dtchcelanrionrgth.tliaaitL4xed t, 0 • to app l y Ivey ",s to construct and to work, hesitates thems o 03 _ 111 , alone contend that a mixed gauge is stmt ~ the c:-•0 01 ' to their own line, where no one pa have control over it." 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