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Entpertat Varlianunt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAY. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill was read a second time. The Charitable Bequests (Ireland) Bill was read a third time, Lord MONTEAGLE declaring, on the part of him self and his friends around him, on the apposition benches, that ministers were entitled to great praise for the pains they had taken to render this bill as pe-fect as possible, in which they had so far succeeded that he be lieved it would not be fairly objected to as not being equitable and impartial. They were also entitled to great credit for the courage they displayed in the announcement of their comprehensive views respecting the College of Maynnoth and education in Ireland. Lord BEAUMONT moved the committal of the Roman Catholic Penalties Repeal Bill. The Bishop of LONDON opposed the bill, which went, in his opinion, the length of re-establishing Popish supae macy in this kingdom. He deprecated the discussion of the measure in the absence of the bishops, who were the legally-constituted guardians of the religion of the coun try. He moved that the bill should be committed that day three months. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had taken great pains to remove from this bill every clause which could be deemed objectionable by any reasonable man. He sug gested, therefore, the withdrawal both of the motion and the amendment to allow these alterations to be made, in order that the real objects of the bill might be under stood. After some further discussion, the bill passed through committee. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. Mr. GLADSTONE moved that the house should resolve into committee on the railways bill, and explained to the house the alterations he had made in the bill. [An abstract of the principal clauses was given in our last.] Several honourable members expressed their approba tion of the proposed alterations, and clauses one to five were agreed to. On clause six being moved, Mr. GLADSTONE observed, in answer to an objection made by Mr. Thornely, that he would never be a party to compel railway companies to run a particular train upon the Lord's day. Mr. THORNELY moved, as an amendment. that instead of "every week-day," these words should be inserted— " every day on which passengers were conveyed." The committee divided. For the amendment, 73; for the clause, 41 ; majority for the amendment, 32. The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. Captain PLUMRIDGE, seeing the noble lord the mem ber for Staffordshire in his place, wished to ask him, as an officer of the royal navy, what his opinion was of the late explosion ? Could he give the house any explanation of it ? Lord INGESTRIE really did not know whether he was in order or not, or whether it was expected he should state what took place off Brighton on Saturday. Briefly he might say, that upon that occasion a large ship was destroyed by Captain Warner, but how it was done he was not at lib er ty t o s t a t e . Hef bad a short statement of the fact, which, with the leave of the house, he would read. It was a short account of the matter, was dated July 21, 1844, and signed by himself, Captain Breton, Captain Dickinson, and Captain Henderson. The noble and gallant member then proceeded to read the document. In it the abovenamed officers certified that the barque John o'Gaunt was, on Saturday, the 20th of July, placed under their management and control; that the explosion did not take place in consequence of anything placed on board, or alongside of it, by Captain Warner ; that the explosion took place by a signal from them ; that Captain Warner was not previously aware of the time when it would be given ; and that their belief was, that Captain Warner had not been once that day on board the John o'Gaunt. He would give a full statement of his views when the proper time should arrive. At present he would only say, that his conviction of the importance of Captain Warner's discovery to this country was undimi nished by the experiment of Saturday. _ _ Mr. &MIL moved an address to the Crown for the production of certain papers connected with the occupa tion of Algiers by the French, and, in doing so, entered into a history of the events preceding and subsequent to the capture of Algiers, down to the latest intelligence from that quarter respecting the operations against Abd el-Kader, contending that the true policy of this country had not been maintained in allowing France to subjugate the country, from which British manufactures were in some measure excluded by an ordonnance, which raised, in 1843, the duties leviable upon them. Sir R. PEEL regretted that this subject had been brought forward, because it was calculated to do anything but aid the efforts of the British government to prevent a war between France and Morocco. Considering the time which had elapsed since the occupation of Algiers took place, he thought it would be scarcely consistent with common sense or discretion to ask that it should be now abandoned. With respect to our naval establishment, we were in a state of preparation which would enable us to meet any emergency whatever. The right hon. bart. intimated that France stood pledged not to extend her conquests in the direction of Morocco or Tunis, and he hoped no remarks would be made in that house which would give rise to retorts in the Chamber of Deputies. After a short discussion, the motion was rejected with out a division, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. The Soap Allowance Bill, the Parish Constables Bill, the Western Australian Bill, and the Colonial Postage Bill, passed through committee. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, a clause was added to the Farm Buildings Bill, to the effect that per sons, under the age of 18 years, convicted of arson, shculd be whipped. The clau s e was i n t ro d uce d b ecause th e crime was frequently committed by children and very young persons, from no other motive than one of mis chief. The bill then passed through committee. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill passed through committee.---Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. The Leeds Vicarage Bill was read a second time. The house then went into committee on the Joint Stock Banks Regulation Bill. Sir W. CLAY said, the house having decided that the liability of shareholders should be unlimited, Parliament ought to take care that the liability should not be illu sory, but bond fide. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the greatest care would be taken to remove any difficulty or ambiguity on the subject. The clauses in the bill were agreed to. The Joint Stock Companies Registration and Regula tion Bill was re-committed. Mr. GLADSTONE, on the second clause being read, moved the insertion of words to extend the operation of the act to Ireland. Captain JONES opposed the amendment. A conversation ensued, in which Mr. Ross, the Attor ney-General for Ireland, Mr. Gladstone, Sir W. Clay, and other members, took part. The amendment, extending the provisions of the bill to Ireland, was agreed to, and ordered to stand part of the clause. _ _ _ The remaininz clauses were read and agreed to. Mr. GREENE brought up the report on the Railways Bill. A desultory conversation ensuefi, in which Mr. P. M. Stewart, Mr. Entwisle, and the Chancellor of the Exche quer took part. The report was weed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. Lord ASHLEY moved an Address to the Crown, praying her Majesty to take into her consideration the report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, and presented to the house by command of her Majesty. Aftstr considerable discussion the motion was withdrawn, as was also a motion by Mr. T. Duncombe relative to the employment of troops in the island of Guernsey. Mr. Ross moved an address to her Majesty praying for the removal of Mr. O'Driscoll from the commission of the peace. After a long and tiresome discussion the motion was rejected by 92 to 59.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. Sir J. GRAHAM, on the order of the day for the second reading of the Criminal Appeal Bill, proposed to Mr. Kelly to postpone it for the present session, reserving to the government the full right of affirming or denying its principle, after that mature deliberation which it was their intention to bestow upon the subject during the recess.—Mr. Kelly agreed. The report of the Poor-law Amendment Bill having been brought up, Mr. BORTHWICK proposed, that suitable and decent accommodation should be provided in workhouses for every man and his wife aged more than sixty years each ; that, when from the infirmity of either, though below that age, the attendance of the other should be requisite, the arrangement should be the same as if both parties bad been aged more than sixty ; that on a certificate from one magistrate, or a case of temporary or insufficient em ployment, the guardians should order out-door relief during the continuance of such suffering; and that chil dren under seven should not be separated from their mothers being inmates of the same workhouse, with a provision for the convenient access of mothers to all chil dren in the same workhouse aged under thirteen. Mr. Borthwick declared himself desirous to found his legisla tion upon two propositions—that the law ought not to separate husband and wife, nor parent and child ; and that the , workhouse ought not to be the lot of those who acroentirnoisanl from circumstances over which they have no If wealth had its duties as well as its privileges, poverty had its rights as well as its sufferings. It might be that the commissio ne r s or guardians would humanely make order in s uchindi vidual cases for the objects he sought, hut he preferred to secure them through the ge neral sanction of the law. ions now n propos e d anywhere to be found in the old law. The guardians had had p ower a b n y d the pre sent law to give the proposed accommod a tion lief to man and wife under the ci rcumstances indicated in these clauses, and the access of mothers to children was also provided for; but the principle of Mr. Borth wick's third clause, for the general allowance of out-door relief, struck at the very root of the existing poor-law. lie referred to the great amount of out-door relis-f af forded under the existing law in proportion to the relief given in workhouses, and rccommenCed it to the house o reject these clauses. Lord JOHN _MANNERS said, that if the practice were really as represented by Sir J. Graham, there would be no objection to enact that nractice he nnsitive law. He entreated the house t o p ass t h ese c l auses, t h at t hi s sess i on might obtain the credit of having, in its last days, done something effectual for the benefit of the poor. Alter several other members had spoken,- the house divided, when the first of Mr. Borthwick's clauses was negatived by a majority of 95 to 32. The other three clauses were negatived without a division. Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved a clause directing that the commissioners should appoint clergymen of the Church of England to act as chaplains in the workhouses, and fix their salaries, to be paid out of the rates ; the chaplain of each workhouse to be approved by the bishop of that diocese. Mr. O'Brien enumerated a great number of populous districts whose vairkliouses had no chaplains; and animadverted upon the disgrace incurred by England by suffering such a state of things to exist for the sake of saving money. Where these workhouses were planted, the population was the most dense, and the parochial clergymen consequently the least able to find time for the religions instruction of additional poor. Sir J. GRAHAM feared that the interests of the esta blished church would -not be really promoted by any measure that should force all districts to pay for her par ticular form of worship. As the law now stood, the commissioners had the power of directing the appoint ment of chaplains to any workhouses, though they had not the selection of the candidates, which belonged to the guardians ; and, in fact, out of 513 unions having work houses, there were 411 to which chaplains had thus al ready been voluntarily appointed. The proposed com pulsion would but kindle a flame of religious discord throughout the kingdom. The clause was rejected by a majority of 82 to 19. The house soon atter adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. The County Coroners Bill was read a third time and passed, after an unsuccessful attempt by the Marquis of Normanby to add a clause, restoring to county coroners the mileage to which they were formerly entitled. The Gaming Actions Suspension Act continuance Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of ABERDEEN laid on the table the code of in instructions which have been drawn up for the guidance of the naval officers employed in the suppression of the slave trade. In doing so the Foreign Secretary made a statement which will be read with the greatest interest, not only in this country, but in all parts of the civilised wcrld. He stated that notwithstanding our great exer tions in putting down slavery, we were still very far from being cornpl.tely successful. The annual average of slaves torn from Africa previous to 1830 was between 90,000 and 100,000. During the period of 1830 to 1835, the annual average has decreased to 58,850. But from 1835 to 1840 the average again rose to upwards of 99,000. But since 1840, during the three years of the present administra tion, the annual average, he was happy to say, had de cended to 28,000—the numbers in 1842 being only 17,000, while in 1843 they had been as many as 38.000. His lordship attributed the increase of slaves last year to the necessary withdrawal of part of the cruising squad • ron from the coast of Brazil. in consequence of the hos tilities going on betwixt Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, and likewise to the removal of General Valdez from Cuba.—The Earl of Minto, Lord Colchester, the Earl of Clarendon, and Lord Brougham, severally congratulated the Foreign Secretary on the result of his labours, and thanked him for the code of instructions compiled under his directions. The report of the Insolvent Debtors' Relief Bill was received, after a long dull talk between Lords Cottenham, Brougham and Campbell. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, and the Western Australian Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. The House sat at noon. The report of the Poor Law Bill was further considered. Two clauses were added by Sir J. Graham. The object of one of these added clauses was to enable the guardians of any union to enter the asylum of such union for the purpose of inspection ; the second provided that the bill should not come into operation until the day after it received the royal assent. In reply to Mr. Labouchere, Mr. GLADSTONE stated that persons residing at Java, but not holding any consu lar dignity, had been authorised by her Majesty to per form the duty of giving certificates of the origin of sugars. The Controverted Elections Bill passed through com mittee. The Joint-Stock Companies Registration Bill, the Rail ways Bill, the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and other bills were read a third time and passed. The report of the Turnpike Trusts (Wales) Bill was re ceived. The house went into committee on the Criminal Jus tices (Middlesex) Bill. The Marriages (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. Sir G. CLERK obtained leave to bring in a bill for the re lief of clerks to attorneys who have omitted to enrol their contracts ; and for amending the law relating to the en rolment of such contracts, and to the disabilities of such clerks in certain places. [HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. The Party Processions (Ireland) Bill was passed through committee after some discussion, and reported. In the course of the discussion the Duke of WELLINGTON ob served that, although Government had asked for no new powers to enable them to preserve tranquillity in Ireland, yet they did not feel themselves justified in parting with those powers which they now possessed, and therefore it was that they proposed the renewal of this bill. The Marquis of NORMANDY moved an address to the Crown upon the subject of the sanatory condition of the poor, with the view of establishing a principle of justifia ble interference where the public health demanded im provements in poor and crowded neighbourhoods for the purpose of preventing contagion. He dwelt at much length on the melancholy condition of the dwellings of the poor in large towns as deposed to in the evidence taken before the commission appointed for the purpose of in quiry, and called upon their lordships to remedy that evil by agreeing to an address, pledging themselves to legis late*upon the subject early in the next session of parliament. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH admitted the importance of the subject, but yet felt that there were great difficulties in dealing as they could wish with the evils so strongly dwelt upon in the report, many of which he pointed out. Government would, however, be prepared to bring for ward some remedial measures next session, and under these circumstances he would move the previous question as an amendment to the address proposed by the noble marquis. The Marquis of NORMANBY shortly replied, after which the previous question whs agreed to. Several bills on the table were then forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. The Savings Banks Bill was passed through committee. Considerable discussion took place on the third read ing of the Poor Law Amendment Bill, which was admitted by Mr. Wakley and other hon. members to be a great improvement upon the existing law, and Sir J. Graham received great praise for the conciliatory manner in which he had carried the bill through the house. Sir J. GRAH Am in return admitted that the opponents of the poor law had discussed the provisions of the bill in a fair and temperate spirit. The bill was then passed. A great number of bills were passed through one stage respectively, after which the house adjourned. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, arrived here on Saturday at midnight. She left Boston on the 19th and Halifax on the 18th instant, and has, therefore, made the passage from the former port, including the usual detention at Halifax, in little more than twelve days. She brought a large number of passengers, a list of whom we give below. The Brtiannia has now completed four passages across the Atlantic since the fourth of May this year. In the course of eighty-six days, fifty-two only of which were actually occupied in steaming, she has traversed a distance exceeding 12.000 miles. _ _ _ The seeam-ship Great Western arrived at New York on the 7th instant. The riots in Philadelphia had been renewed. It appears, than, on the 6th instant, a report prevailed that a number of muskets had been conveyed by the Irish catholics to• the church of St. Philip de Neri, in Queen-street, South wark, Philadelphia. The report caused much excitement, the street was soon crowded with citizens, the sheriff and two aldermen were sent for, the building was entered, and ten or a dozen muskets were found. A committee of the citizens was subsequently appointed, and, after much con sultation, the church was again entered to search for more arms. It is solemnly averred, in a document signed by the committee and an alderman, that they were met at the church door by two Irishmen withloaded muskets and fixed bayonets. These were' mnaediately disarmed. The party entered a room and found twenty-seven muskets. The priest was found officiating at the altar. He was seized, and asked if he had any arms or ammunition. He replied in the negative. They subsequently found a quantity, of arms, bullets, cartridges, gunpowder, and percussion caps. The excitement increased greatly after this, and matters appeared to be so threatening that troops were poured in from all the surrounding districts. Crowds filled the streets, and threatenings were heard in every quarter against the Irish party, respecting whose inten tions the most absurd rumours prevailed. On Saturday the state of affairs before the church was so threatening that the military were marched to the spot. The crowd made a rush upon them and forced them back. At length the soldiers were assailed by missiles of all descrip tions which, having been borne patiently some time, the word was given to fire. The soldiers were , ho w ever , unable to obey, because of the position of the sheriff's posse of police, who would have been exposed to dan. ger. A Mr. Naylor, an ex-member of the Congress stepped forward and exclairffed,:if they would fire on their fellow-citizens they had better commence with him. He was instantly arrested and locked in a part of the church placed under guard. This exasperated the mob greatly, and they would have demolished the church had not some of the more prudent of them restrained their fellows. After twelve o'clock the crowd gradually, and slowly, di minished in numbers, until about nine o'clock on Sunday morning, when they began to increase, and threats, loud and deep, were proclaimed, that, unless Mr. Naylor was released, the walls of the church should be battered down. The demand was resi s ted f o r so me ti me , un til, a t length, two pieces of cannon were brought up near the church, one of which had been taken from the ship Venice, moored of the near the navy -yard and the other from a wharf in the vicinity vessel. A second accompanied with a coz ea dd t e , m t a h n a d t, w i a r rt h l s t a e d y e d f i o d r notrelease, give him up by twelve o'clock, the church would be fired upon.. 11111.11 ,, nil Os:. ♦:..,n su„. church. The demand being :till resisted, the pieces were drawn up in the reir of the church in an alley running from Christian-street, and an attempt was made to dis charge them, but it seemed that, owing to some water having been poured into the touch-holes, they were fired with difficulty. The infuriated mob then got a large log, which they used as a battering ram, and with it they broke in a part of one of the doors in Queen-street. A parley then took place between the crowd and the mili tary within the building, the former demanding that the Hibernia Greens should be dismissed. At length the request was complied with, it being that they should leave the church with their pieces unprimed and the pan open. From this time the vicinity of the church was a scene of wild uproar. Several attempts were made to break open the church doors, and they at last succeeded. Toe windows were smashed, and the crowd immediately filled the church ; but it does not appear that they did much mischief to the interior of the building. On the church being thus taken possession of, an alarm was given by the tolling of bells, and a large body of military was marched to the spot, when, some formidable demonstrations having been made by planting pieces of artillery against the doors, &c., the mob were induced to evacuate the building. The military were shortly afterwards assailed by a body of men, upon whom they fired, when several persons were killed and wounded. There were now numerous threats of ven geance against the military. The mob soon rallied in various places in the vicinity, and the news of the collision soon spread in all direc tions. The mob soon obtained possession of three can nons, taken from on board two vessels lying in the river. They also had procured a considerable number of muskets and other fire arms. The cannon were loaded with vari ous substances, one of them with a thirty feet chain, which killed or wounded a number of the military, parti cular the National Artillery, a company of Native Ameri cans. The firing with musketry was kept up briskly, and the mob took shelter in and fired from the houses and alleys in the vicinity upon the military, who changed their position, and were drawn up in front of St. Philip's Church, which recedes a short distance from the street. The squadron of cavalry arrived on the ground about half-past ten, and succeeded in capturing one of the guns in possession of the mob at the corner of Second and Queen and one at the corner of Third and Catharine, which was taken to head quarters. They were fired upon by a number of the mob, and some of them wounded. As soon as the cavalry made their appearance the rioters generally dispersed before they were charged on. By one o'clock the military had entire possession of the ground. The city was placed under milit• ry rule, the soldiers daily and nightly parading the streets. By dint of the most vigorous measures tranquility was restored. Several of the rioters had been arrested. The Mormons have lost their leader and prophet, Joe Smith, who was murdered in cold blood by a gang of ruffians, who attacked the gaol in which the prophet a nd his brother had been placed for security. It appears that great feuds have existed for some time between two rival sects of Mormonites, and also between the Mormons and the people of Warsaw, who have, it is said, determineJ to drive the Mormons out of the state. The Providence Journal, in noticing the general pros perity of business throughout the country, takes occasion to remark on the rapid extension of the cotton manufac ture. One individual, near Providence, had received an order for no less than 100,000 new spindles for a factory in Rhode Island. Preparations were making for the erec tion of a new mill on Fall River, and in New Hampshire a similar spirit of enterprise has been manifested in favour of this branch of industry. The latest intelligence as to the state of the Cotton Market will be found in our last page. No improvement had occurred in freights. The amount offering for Europe was unusually small. Cotton was taken for Liverpool at 3-16 to id. ; Flour, Is. 6d. ; Provisions in barrels, 3s. 6d., in tierces 4s. to 4s. 6d.; Naval Stores, Is. 6d. to 2s. ; Tobacco, 255. ; Heavy Goods, 225. 6d. per ton. Exchange on England was quoted at 1051 to 109, and on Paris sf. 273. The latest advices from Hayti represented that all was quiet in the island. The Boston Atlas says that a letter, dated Lima, May 11th, states that a report was current there that the French and - English were in difficulties at the Society Island, and that, when the vessel that brought the report left, they were about to commence hostilities. The French had imprisoned the English Consul. Late ad vices from Cuba state, that the utmost tranquility prevailed throughout the island. It appears that the re cent plot of the negroes bad been much more extensive than was at first conceived. A vast number of negroes had been arrested, many had been shot, and above one thousand were confined in the different prisons awaiting their doom. One of the plans which the revolutionists intended to adopt was to put poison in the bread, whereby they'expected to destroy the entire garrison, consisting of 25,000 men. The poison was placed in the bakehouse where bread is daily prepared for the soldiers. It was be lieved that several white men were implicated, amongst whom' were two Americans. General O'Donnell bad positively refused to liberate, at the instance of the British Commissioners, any of the "Emancipados" or negroes captured long ago by the British cruisers. There are up wards of 5000 of these unfortunate people, who, having served their probationary term, are entitled to their free papers upon the faith of the British Government. The pretence is, that the moral and religious instruction of these blacks having been neglected, they are unfit for the enjoyment of freedom until they have been educated. Their whole sum of knowledge, nowever, it appears, must be obtained under the hard taskmasters to whom they are re-assigned ; for, as their terms of service expire, they are given up for a further term of seven years, on payment of about 150 dollars per man, and about 85 dollars per woman. The crops of coffee and tobacco have been greatly injured by the drought, and every orange and lemon tree in the island has been destroyed. An official notification - from the Department of State has been published, of the adoption by the authorities of Cuba, of the following rules to be observed in all the custom-houses of the island : 1. Every box of sugar, exported under the national flag, shall pay a duty of five reals, and those under a foreign flag, six reals. 2. Every quintal of coffee shall pay, in all cases, three reals under the national flag, for a port of the nation ; four reals under the Spanish flag, for a foreign port, and four reals and a half under a foreign flag for a foreign port. 3. Molasses and rum are declared free from all duty. 4. Vessels going out, laden completely with molasses, shall moreover enjoy freedom from tonnage duty. 5. Vessels whicli falceon board more thanathousand cases of sugar shall pay, as tonnage duty, at the rate of six cents per tun of measurement of foreign, and two and a half reals of Spanish. . - 6. Vessels which take on board more than two thousand bags of coffee, and more than three hundred pipes of rum, shall enjoy the same advantages. LIST OF PASSENGERS. From Boston :—Mr. Peter J. Francisca, Mr. Robert Leech, Mr. Purton, Mr. John Gilmorer, Mrs. Lee, Mr. Jobn Bryant, lady, and servant, Mr. Harbeck and lady, Mr. E. Oxnard, Count Napoleon Bertrand, Hon. C. R. Ogden, Hon. James Kirk, Mr. J. T. Jones, Mr. W. E. Swaine, Mr. James Bryers, Colonel C. Johnson, Mr. Thomas Appleton, Mr. William Young, Mr. W. Prebn, Mr. Thomas Daly, Mr. George Martin, Mr. Geo. Smith, Mr. Jacob Snider, jun., Mr. Muir, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Matthew Robin, Mr. Peter Robin, Mr. W. Southwell, Mr. T. J. Kerr, Mr. Max. Bohrer, Mr. Chrs. Bohrer, Mr. C. S. Barclay, Mr. F. C. Stuart, Mr. W. Crothers, Mr. James M'Connell, Mr. Thomas Hacker, Mr. George S. Glover, Mr. Chrs. Schmidt, Mr. Bernard M'Connell, Mr. S. Forster. Mr. H. A. Vandamme, Mr. T. B. Power, Mr. W. C. M'Leod, Mr. G. W. Hoghton, Mr. J. Cuth• bertson, Mr. H. Holland, Mr. J. Garson, Mr. J. Rickard, Mr. S. Benjamin, Mr. Jos. Jacobs, and Mr. James Maguire. From Halifax:—M. M. G. Black ; Hon. Emos Collins, Mrs. Collins, Master Collins, child, and servant, Mr. R. H. Chilton, Captain Egerton, Mr. Donohoe, Mr. Chrs. Enches, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. William Hutton. A BEGIMENT.OF BLACK GUARDS.—The British go vernment has considered it expedient to organise some companies of black troops in Upper Canada, which are stationed along the line of the Welland Canal, commanded by white officers. The Halifax Herald says the Cork onians and Fardowns are kept quiet by these gentlemen in red coats and Clack facings.—New York paper. Something effectual seems likely to.be done for the protection of Dr. Kalley and the British protestants in Madeira. Lord Aberdeen has made a claim of £l2OO in favour of the doctor, by way of compensation for his losses during his illegal imprisonment in the gaol of Funchal. We hope this demand will be not merely made, but vigorously enforced. SHOOTING MEETING IN SWITZERLAND.—The great, federal shooting meeting at Basle is concluded. It is cal culated that the number of carbine-shots fired was at the least 250,000; and, it is said, on the Sunday, no fewer than 21.000 bottles of wine were drunk in a few hours. The list of all the prizes would fill many columns of a journal. There were three grand prizes of the respective value of 3780 f., 2400 f., and 2100 f.—the first won by Col. Hunerwald, of Lemburg, in' Argau : the second by M. Benzinger, of Appenzel : and, the third, by the English nobleman, Lord Vernon, who obtained his naturalization in Switzerland, in order to have the right of compet ing. SPAIN.-By accounts from Madrid, of the 16th inst., it would appear that the Spanish Government realty pro poses to send an expedition against the Mdors. Madrid letters and papers concur in regarding this matter as cer tain. The Isabella 11. Spanish steamer, was to leave for Ceuta on the 18th, with a battalion of the Regiment of Toledo on hoard. The Spanish force destined to act against Morocco was to be raised to 10,000 men, and it was believed they would attack and occupy Tangier, whilst the French operated in another direction. The Heraldo states that Brigadier Mauri, who is to take the command of the Spanish troops now on their march to the south, had arrived at Algesiars. On the 6th, the Dutch squadron, commanded by Prince Henry of the Netherlands, reached Gibraltar, after a passage of 14 days from Pl)mouth. The prince had taken up his residence in the Governor's palace. The Patriarch of the Indiei left Madrid for Barcelona on the 16th, at the request of their Majesties, to act as their spiritual director. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.—In consequence of the recent decision of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, that lodgers paying a yearly rent of £lO, were entitled under the Re form Act to the priyilege of voting at elections, there is every probability that the constituencies of the metropoli tan boroughs wit this year be greatly increased. In the Tower Hamlets about ICOO claims have been sent in to the overEeers ; in the ward of Cripplcgate notices have been served for 700, and in the borough of Lambeth there are no fewer then 1000 new claimants, the great majority THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR!). IRELAND. MAYNOOTH AND THE MINISTRY. The Morning Herald, of Friday, reveals, by way of hypothesis, the intentions of Government with respect to Mavnooth, and general education in Ireland. According to this organ of the Government, the Irish Romanists are to be tempted out of their thraldom by offering them a really liberal education, at the outlay of a few thousands. But, no second Maynonth! sacs our contemporary, " nor any increase of the grant to Maynootb, while left on its present footing ! Not to speak of the filth of Dens, or of the morals of Bailly, think of a British Parliament actually paying a body of professors to inculcate such doctrines as the following : " ' It is proved by natural reason, that heretics can justly be excommunicated, and therefore PUT TO DEATH.' Experience teaches that there is no other remedy ; for the Church has tried every other in vain.' if you con fine them in prison, or send them into exile, they corrupt the neighbourhood with their books and speeches ; there fore. the only remedy is, to send them at once to their own place.' ' All these reasons persuade us that heretics ought to be put to death.'" Such is the decision of Bellarmine (book iii. chap 31) and Bellarmine is a class-book at Maynooth. The Herald then asks zealous Protestants if it is not possible to frame a plan which, giving to the Irish Romanistsfar more than they now receive, m a y ye t re li eve our P r ote s t a nt con sciences from the pain and guilt of teaching and propagat ing Popery ? The Herald supposes a large college founded for liberal education of the middle and higher classes of the Romanists of Ireland; the state to find the fabric, and the endowment of a body of professors in all the various branches of a liberal education, theology only excepted: and then it asks if the state were to do all this, would it not be (tally justified in throwing upon the Romish priest hood themselves, who are at this moment raising some £50,000 per annum as " repeal rent," the charge of fur nishing theological tuition, with which the government need have nothing to do ?—Church and State Gazette. REPEAL FLAGS.—On Monday Captain Postle, and other officers of Her Majesty's steamer Flamer, prefered informations before Alderman Watson and Alderman Boyse for breaches of the Admiralty statute, by vessels in this harbour, decorated with flags not national. The legal penalty is £5OO, and not less than £5O. However, in a commercial port so seldom visited by ships of war, it is not surprising that neglect of the Admiralty regula tions should be apparent.—Limerick Chronicle. THE lIARVFST IN IRELAND.—The reports from all parts of the sister country speak most sanguinely of the prospects of the harvest, which has already commenced in some of the more favoured districts, several fields of barley having been cut down in the neighbourhood of Dublin. The grain crops will be abundant beyond the average of preceding years, but hay, from the excessive drought, will be scarce, and of inferior quality. Potatoes are said to have failed in some instances ; but the complaint is by no means general, nor is there at present any reason to apprehend a scarcity of this necessary article of food. The heat of the sun for the last two days bas been almost in tolerable. Some rain fell on Saturday night and Sunday, the effects of which on the after grass must have been neutralized by the intense heat which followed. TRANQUILITY IN IRELAND.—There was no convict left under sentence of death at Clonmel Assizes. Kildare, Carlow, and Queen's County Assizes occupied only a day each.—Dublin paper.—PEACE OF TIPPERAI.Y.—For the last 30 years this is the only assize at which the respected coroner for this division of the county had not returned a case of murder or manslaughter ! Between this and the last assizes there has not been a single outrage of the kind —a fact unprecedented for 30 years. This is one of the effects of the repeal agitation : but if the youths who rule the destinies of Ireland can help it, this is a fact that shall not again be told.—Repeal paper.—[There is no denying the fact, that " for the last 30 years" there has been sel dom witnessed so apparent an absence of crime on the face of the calendars, not only of Tipperary, but through out the four provinces, as shown at the present summer assizes ; and it is also equally undeniable that this grati fying state of the country has been "one of the results of the repeal agitation," inasmuch as the blow struck at the leaders of that agitation has had the effect of partially restoring order, by convincing the people of the delusions under which they so long laboured with respect to the in vincibility of the great agitator, and hence their gradual return to habits of peace and industry.] THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.—NO small stir has been made by the repeaters in consequence of an alleged ad mission by Lord Lyndhurst'' that the jury list was fraud ulently made up, &c." As some misapprehension still exists on the subject in the minds of many persons, not withstanding the - explanation of Lord Lyndhurst, it may be necessary to give the following explanation :—On the 15th of January last, and before the swearing in of the first juror, a challenge to the array was put in by Sir Col man O'Loghlen for the traversers, on the ground, as alle ged, that the names of certain persons recited in the plea were omitted from the jury list—" that the names omitted from thefraudulene paper writing were also omitted from the jurors and jury list to the manifest injury of the said Daniel O ' Connell , " &c.—" that the fraudulent paper had been made out without the knowledge, assistance, or contrivance of the said Daniel O'Connell, or any person acting on his authority ; and it was therefore prayed, that the panel might be quashed or set aside." To this the counsel for the crown demurred; and it may be necessary to apprise the general reader that the very essence of a de murrer is the admission of a matter as a matter of fact, for the purpose of raising an argument on the law ; for it refers the law arising on the fact to the judgment of the court; and, therefore, the fact—as, for instance, the alleged " fraudulent paper"—is, for the occasion, taken to be true on such demurrer, or otherwise the court would have no foundation on which to make any judgment. It was in reference to this principle of pleading that Lord Lyndhurst addressed himself in reply to Mr. Hill, when arguing the prisoners' case ; and his lordship no more de clared the jury list to be " fraudulently made up" than the Court of Queen's Bench in this country did when the point was argued before the judges, upon the legal admis sion of the fact, and when they unanimously decided in favour of the crown. ARRIVAL OF LORD HEYTESBURY IN DUBLIN.—On Friday morning, shortly before eleven o'clock, the Mer lin, Admiralty steamer, the vessel which conveyed his Ex cellency the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from this port to the shores of the sister country, as noticed in another paragraph, entered Dublin harbour under a sa lute from the guns of the revenue cruisers, and amid the most enthusastic cheering from the assembled multitude. The Right Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore, and the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, the two Privy Councillors ap pointed to receive his Lordship, immediately proceeded on board. His lordship then landed, attended by the above-mentioned personages ; and, amid the continued cheering of the vast crowd which had assembled, pro ceeded to the Railway Station, where a special train was in waiting to convey him, and the cortege by which he was accompanied, to Dublin. His lordship appeared to be in the enjoyment of excellent health, and acknowledged in the most courteous and dignified manner, the cordial greetings which were tendered to him as he passed along. At a quarter past eleven o'clock the train started from Kingstown, and reached Westland-row in nine minutes. There a detachment of the Ist Royal Dragoons was sta tioned, who received his lordship with the usual military honours, and formed his escort to the castle. His lord ship having entered his carriage, accompanied by the Right Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore and the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, proceeded to the castle. Manifestations of welcome from the crawd were loud and repeated, inter mingled with some occasional faint cheers for the repeal prisoners and repeal. It was a matter of remark that amongst the immense crowd which filled the streets, and even amongst the groups of people who raised these party cries, not even a solitary repeal button could be seen. The repeal Lord Mayor of Dublin, attended by tke cor porate officers, and preceded by the City Marshal, who was becomingly attired in a cocked hat and top boots, and carried in his right hand something resembling a gilt rail ing-pin, took his place in the van of the procession until it reached the entrance to the castle, when the carriage of our Chief Civic Magistrate was by that functionary or dered to the right about, and he "politely" turned his back on our future Lord Lieutenant at the moment ap pointed by the nobility and gentry of the country to wel come him to the seat of government. The ceremony of inauguration then took place in the usual form, after which his excellency held an undress levee. THE ADARE CONSPIRACY.—The miscreants convicted of this nefarious case of incendiarism have been all sen tenced to transportation for life. Previous to the learned Judge passing sentence, the principal offender, James Regan, made the following confession of his guilt:—He said " there were never so many witnesses seen on :the table before as appeared against him, though it was not for conscience sake they came forward ; but to hang or transport him if they could, when he was in a hobble : if he was in the country as formerly, the very persons that swore against him, would, if he committed White-boy offences, call him a brave fellow, and a lover of his coun try.' If was easily known that what was sworn against him was false, when his own mother-in-law, his brother in-law, aye, and his wife, if taken, would prosecute him : his brother-in-law didn't swear informations for six weeks after the burning, when his mother tutored him, and taught him his lessons so well, that unless he began at a particular word he could'nt tell his story. He should inform his lordship that he was formerly a member of a White-boy society, which was carried on by secret signs and pass words : while connected with it, it was planned to assassinate Lord Dunraven, which would have been carried into effect were it not for his informing the priest about it. The prisoner then alluded to his having prose cuted four men to conviction for attacking Mr. Lyndsay's house near Adare, and said that was the reason the people of Adare would not trust him : sooner than be much longer under the separate system,' he would be as well pleased to be transported.' The Limerick Chronicle thus remarks upon this extraordinary case :—"l'he con dition of these miscreants has been singular; for the Crown was obliged heretofore to employ them as prose cutors of White-boy offences, and having therefore lost their caste in the rural district—for nothing is more de testable than the name of a common informer, or spy'— these outcasts were necessarily beholden to Government for the means of support, as they must else have abso lutely perished of want. Finding their paltry stipend was reduced, if not entirely suspended. they formed a plot to burn the farming stock of the Earl of Dunraven, and to fix the odium , of that midnight outrage upon the character of the populace, in the midst of which his lordship and family have resided for so many years, dispansng " of the sup tality, and exercising all the social viltuest.iolni t h eir exten sive neighbourhood. By giving inf°r f a u l r a ther bounty from posed incendiaries they anticipated a of innocent persons, the Crown, and, upon the convictio n i,enaslves. The diabolical a permanent provi,ion for of t Divine Providence, and the , design failed by"the mercy in t h e ver y ac t o f lordships property, which they, mi. conflagration of his infamous gang d Id doom to the gallows or , wore detected almost serable wretches, expecte d wou ld IiRPEAL AND THE ORINGEMEN OF IRELAND.-At Rathfriland, the following resolution was adopted last week at a respectable meeting of loyal Orangemen and Protestants :—" That we view with disgust the treason able invitation of the repeal party sent from the Concilia tion Hall to the Orangemen of Ireland, holding out in ducements to join with them in making Ireland, as they style it, a nation, expecting at the time we are unjustly treated that we will join them, which we fling back in their face with contempt. Our determination, therefore, is to rally round our beloved Sovereign, with our lives and properties, in maintaining the union of Great Britain and Ireland." EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.—The following scene could only be enacted in Ireland :—Last week two men, named Crane and Conway, were tried at Limerick for riot, and the jury not being able to agree for some time, were locked up in the usual way. At twelve o'clock at night they intimated to the officer in charge of them that they had agreed to a verdict. Judge Ball was in consequence sent for, and soon appeared in court. The jury being asked in the usual form whether they had agreed to a verdict—the foreman replied " Yes my lord. " " Then hand it down, sir." At this matter-of-course order the foreman looked greatly embarrassed ; and, after much fumbling, leaned over the box with his hands placed together as if retaining snipe shot or other small particles. Judge Ball looked unutterable things at the foreman, and again called upon him to " hand down the issue paper at once." " Here it is my lord, " said the embarrassed juror. handing down a handful of bits of paper varying in size from that of a shilling to a four penny piece.—Judge Ball : What is the meaning of this ? —The Foreman : My lord, this is the issue paper. The fact is the jury quarre'led among themselves, and tore it up in this manner. 'I did all I could to save it, but with out effect.'—His lordship condemned in strong language this "most scandalous and disgraceful conduct," and after giving the jury a sound rating, intimated that he deemed it his duty to receive the verdict.—The prisoners were found guilty with a recommendation to mercy.—Judge Ball declared that he would not pay any attention to the recommendation of a jury who had behaved in the dis graceful manner which he felt it his duty to reprobate as he had done. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of " The Great National Confederation," as it calls itself, was held yesterday week. A Mr. Gordon complained that the committee had determined that it would be inex pedient to bring the repeal question before Parliament this session; and Sir V. Blake talked of " the discussions that might arise, after the repeal, as to the best form of government," thus showing that it is not the mere repeal of one act of Parliament they contemplate, but a new go vernment of their own, apart from England. Mr. Wlslevin, a young barrister, endeavoured to show how little of the public money was expended in Ireland, and spoke of " the insane intolerance of the bigetted and besotted George III.," forgetting that at a Dublin meeting, in September, 1810, the " Liberator" himself had said that that monarch " abounded in every great and good qualification to make his people happy." He then alluded to the war in China, perpetrated under the " felon flag" of England ; but sub sequently withdrew the odious word felon. Mr. Gratton urged his countrymen not to enlist, but refuse the shil ling, and nothing could prevent their success. The Rev. Mr: Hearne, of Manchester, referred to the strike of col liers in the north of England, and besought the Irish not to go over to replace the men who stood out, to favour the Marquis of Londonderry. Mr. Smith O'Brien was sorry that Lord de Grey had gone, as he produced " an aliena tion of feeling towards England." He stated that the signatures of the Repeal Petition to the Queen now amount to 872,000 ; but obser% ed, that in some o f th e smaller counties, it must have been signed almost univer sally." It would be prudent, not to have the number in any county larger than the amount of population. The week's rent reached no less a sum than £1,558. One Person handed in 255., collected the day before in penny weekly subscriptions ; but, said he, " I was all day at the chapel," UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL IVEWs. BISHOPS OF NORWICH AND DURHAM. On reviewing the speeches of these bishops on the Socinian Endowment Bill, it strikes us that there is that in them which does require from us some further remarks. These remarks we make with all reverence due to the station occupied by an ecclesiastical ruler, but, at the same time, with the recollection that he is a fallible man, subject to the usual infirmities of our nat. res, and liable to mistake. We consider, then, that the bishop of Norwich, in his speech on the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, has betrayed the trust reposed in him, and given up into the hands of its enemies the great principle of Catholicism lodged in the sacred citadel of our ecclesiastical polity. His lordship is represented as saying, " Upon what title did he hold his preferment? It had once belonged to men who held doctrines widely different from those which Protestants consider essential ;" and that he was satisfied with holding his preferment by act of parliament ! Strange admission! As if the hierarchy of the English church had ever changed —as if it were not identical with the ancient British church—as if it had not acted constitutionally as a church possessing an inherent power, as an independent branch of the Catholic church, to purge itself from error, and to restore itself to a conformity with the primitive church. • Strange the mistake the bishop has made! The church of England, at the Reformation, actually did what the dissenters did in the case of Lady ilewley's charity —re covered the endowments by proving themselves in posses sion of the doctrine of the founders and the English chu ; in restoring the doctrines of her founders—the apostles—asserted her title to be the true branch of the holy Catholic church planted in these kingdoms. But hers was a stronger case; for she ejected no one—she retained her bishops in the true successional line, and being truly independent of any o , lier church on earth which can have any jurisdiction in these realms, her en dowments naturally belong to her without any act of par liament. "Act y parliament!" Then, again, the bishop says the Wesleyans need no act of parliament. Indeed ! why they could nct exist but by act of parliament. They are entirely an act of parliament religion. What being have they without the license of the magistrate ? 0, venerable mother ! who shall defend thee when thy bishops betray thee ?—Church and State Gazette. OXFORD, JULY 25.—The election of three Demies took place at Magdalen College yesterday, being the second day of examination, when the following gentlemen were the successful candidates :—Messrs. Sedgeirick, Christchurch; Wickham, Wadham ; and Hessey. There were 32 competitors. The Revs. J. L. Hoskyns, M.A., G. W. Paul, 8.A., H. Smith, 8.A., I. T. Landon, M.A., and Messrs. H. C. Adams, M.A., F. H. Deane, 8.A., and R. Cholmeley, 8.A., Probationary Fellows, were this day admitted Actual Fellows of Magdalen College. Me. H. G. J. Parsons, 8.A., Demy, was also admitted, and Mr. W. Balfour, 8.A., of Lincoln College, was elected Probationary Fellow of the same college. The foundation stone of a new church at Morpeth, Northumberland, was laid by Lord Morpeth, the brother-in-law of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Richard Grey, the reeor of the parish. THE ISLE OF MAN.—The Bishop of Sodor and Man held an ordination at Bishop's Court on Sunday, the 21st instant, when the following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders :—?riests.—The Rev. John Fry Garde, the Rev. John Congreve, 8.A., the Rev. Isaac Brittain, Deacons.—Alexander Watt, A.M., Philip Dowe. LAY MUNIFICENCE.—Mr. James Fussell, of Chantrey house, in the county of Somerset, is building a beautiful church near his house, in the parish of Wh Utley, which he intends furnishing and endowing at his own expense. He is also building a parsonage-house, stable, &c., for the future incumbents. This magnificent donation to the Establishment will, it is believed, amount to nearly £B,OOO. THE COURT. Earl and Countess De Grey returned to St. James's square on Thursday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. The Earl and Countess are expected to proceed to Buxton this week. On Friday ; the schooner, Lord Coke left London Docks for St. Petersburgh with the following live stock, presents from His Royal Highness Prince Albert to His Imperial Majesty the emperor of Russia :—A beautiful Yorkshire stallion, valued at 600 guineas ; a splendid Durham bull valued at £300; and a pure Leicester ram. VISIT OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH TO ENGLAND. It is well known that King Louis Philippe has promised to pay her Majesty a visit this autumn. It is now under stood that His Majesty will embark at Treport, in the month of September, for this country. His Majesty will be accompanied by two ships of 74 guns and four or five steamers, and will land at Portsmouth, whence he will proceed by railway to the station nearest to Windsor. His Majesty will remain eight days at Windsor, and will not visit London.—Morning Herald. His Royal Highness Prince Frederic William Louis of Prussia, brother of the King, and heir apparent to the Prussian throne, is expected on a visit to her Majesty in the early part of next week. On account of her Majesty's expected aceouchement his Royal Highness will take up his residence at the mansion of his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, who returned on Alonl a y. last from Berlin, for the especial purpose of receiving th e Prince in Carlton-terrace. His Royal probably be present at the Goodwood racesi,ri ace Albert THE QUEEN AND THE QUAREI!.. t h e vicinity of having resolved to keep an apiary were brought to American manufacture, filled with wibholl, the patentee, and Windsor, on Tuesday, by Windsor Castle, two beautifully. Mr. at Frogmore; and on Wed placed in the Royal commandgardens at of the Prince, they were nesday morning, by to the place assigned for them. removed from Froganore cboenies:t,ructed hives, of Consort had appointed ' morning, on their return from Frogmore spect them that went to within a House, where they th r ey bad not time on pa th y ei a r return of Kent . Duchess t but as 'tbe Queen and Highness the Fro more H The Queen and the prince. to in spect'them s Castle Royal ' i few minutes of two o clock, (the hour for her a' ' luncheon,) to inspect tile hives. Mr. Sholl, who was awaiting alone the Prince did not leave L ou u s s i with considerable anxiety for the arrival of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, ran out to them when he saw them pass by the entrance of the new apiary, and thus addressed the illustrious personages, with his hat undoffed, of course, being a Quaker:—" Friends, won't you look at the hives? They are all fixed, friends ; pray come and look at them." The Queen and the Prince, however, hastily passed on to luncheon at the Castle, laughing heartily. retn Highnessttoo untilh e Mer ,O-UEEN ADELAIDE.--The Queen Dowager arrived at oolvvi:th on ThurAay from the Continent. Her Ma jesty left AtAwerp on the previous dew, and, on arriving. immediately entered a c arr i age w ith f our horses, and left for M.rlbormirrh House. July :30, 1814. SFO RTIiVG INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. The betting was uncommonly flat, and, except in the instance of Croton Oil, the Elegance Filly, and Murton Lordship, for the Stakes, and the mare for the Cup, who were in great favour at improved quotations, nothing arose out of it to require more than a summary of the closing quotations ; • GOODWOOD STAKES. 7 to 2 agst Mr. Wreford's Franchise (takers of 4 to 1) 6 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil (7 to 1 tk 0 9 1 Mr. H. Johnstone's The Era (tk. and aft ad) 10 1 Mr. Meiklam's Best of Three (tk, & aft offd) 11 I Colonel Peel's Canton. 12 1 Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare (tk, and aft offd) 13 1 Colonel Anson's Parthian (taken) 16 1 Lord Exeter's Elegance filly (taken) 18 1 Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks (taken) 20 1 Mr. Mostyn's Murton' Lordship (tk freely) 20 to 1 Mr. S. Spry's Subduer 200 even between Canton and The Best of Three. GOODWOOD CUP. Even on Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn 6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Prizefighter (taken) 7 1 Mr. Quartermaine's Discount (take 20 to 1) ST. LEGER. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure (taken and aft offered 4 1 Lord Stanley's Ithuriel (taken, and aft offered 19 1 Col. Anson's The Princess. 1000 25 Mr. Vane's Valerian. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. Friday Evening% Saturday, Monday, and part of Tuesday forenoon, wog spent in settling the Liverpool accounts, which was done satisfactorily. On Tuesday the attendance was decidedll good. The only investments were as follow :—FranchiSe was backed for " the stakes" at 4 to 1 to about £4O; se veral scores and tens were laid out on Croton Oil at 61 and 7to I, leaving off at the lesser figure. The Era, ats to 1, was done upon to a little money, but after currently offered. A " pony" was intrusted to the Pride of Kil•• dare, which constituted the absolute transactions on this race. For the Goodwood Cup two or three of the leaders lastwer eobffo, offer bold d b e e n i n o g u g 6 h to to s R ; C C 6 o o lll t m o 0 1 d 0 a t a e g p a a i n r s t t i e s with fi 5 g h t t o e r 4: t t h h: last bet laid. Forthe St. Leger race 4 and 43 to 1 waslaili against Ithuriel; 8 to 1 in fifties doubled, and other sums, on Bay Momus. The same terms found Princess with small party ; coupled to Bay Momus 4 to 1 in ponies was accidentally picked up. On this, as well as the previoui: day, there was a little beating about the bushes to secure' a " good start" with Valerian, 33 to 1 being quietly booked. On Wednesday the attendance did not reach a score; 9tol to a " fiver" was the Era's fate. Murton Lordship made his debut at 20 to 1, and Parthian declined to the same figure. For the St. Leger 25 to 1 was taken on Valerian ; also (rather a catch) 800 to 25. At night, at Mr. King's first St. Leger " draw," the following bets were pencilled down to 1 against the Era, 12 to 1 agst Parthian, 25 to 1 against Poussin ; also, for the St. Leger, 4 to 1 agst Ithuriel, 10 to 1 agst Morpeth, and 18 to 1 agst Valerion. Yesterday there was a good-like muster; 3 to 1 the top offer ; the field for the Stakes ; 6 to 1 agst Croton Oil (taken freely,) and 35 to 20 on the two; 20 to 1 was got to a little money on Murton Lordship •, 33 to /: '- was offered against Poussin. For the Cup Alice was backed at evens. For the Leger 4 to 1 offered on the field; 41 against the Cure, with takers of 5 to 1 about either; 8 to 1 against Momus (taken in ponies); 14 to I offered against Red Deer; 25 to I taken at first on Vale rian, then 20 to lin ponies taken eagerly. 6to 4 wanted on Scott's lot. The race promises this year to be the most interesting for many years past. The character of several of the candidates are of the " first water," and we look for a race worth a " Jew's eye." DOINGS TO-DAY. A tolerable at'enclance, but not much business. no prices left off thus : ," THE GOODWOOD STAKES. A strong desire exhibited in the same leading quarter to. take 7 to 4 about the two cracks, with an offer to lay 6 to to 1 against Croton Oil ; Murton Lordship rose to 14 tO 1 ; 12 to 1 was offered against Parthian, bnt we think more would be laid. 3 to 1 agairist Franchise (offered, 4 wanted) 6 to 1 „ Croton Oil (offered, 64 wanted) 8 to 1 „ Era (offered, 9 wanted) 10 to 1 „ Best of Three (offered) 11 to 1 „ Canton (nominal) 12 to 1 „ Parthian (offered) 12 to 1 „ Pride of Kildare (offered) 121 to 1 „ Murton Lordship (offered, 14 wanted) 16 to 1 „ Elegance filly (nominal) 17 to 1 „ Lucy Banks (nominal) 20 to 1 Subduer (nominal) 33 to 1 , Pouissin (offered.) Offers to take 500 to 15 and name the winner " bar 12." As we " guess," Franchise or Croton Oil will pass the judge's e e " first." THE GOODWOOD CUP. " Alice for ten" was one of the last offers; 5 to 1 agit, Prizefighter, (offered,) but nothing done. GRATWICKE STAKES. As before, say to take 2 to 1 Ithuriel wins, or 4 to I the, field beats him and Red Eeer. ST. LEGER. At the Old Swan, last evening, the penchant for Vale rian, so that 17 and 16 to 1 were booked. At the corset . ' yesterday, his prier, was " 1000 to 25." and sans thelitt4 " t." 20 to 1 was currently offered in sums. 400 to 100 against the field (offered) 450 to 100 „ The Cure (taken) 7to 1 „ Bay Momus (offered, 8 wanted) Bto 1 „ The Princess (nominal) Bto 1 „ The Ugly Buck (offered) 14 to 1 „ Foig-a-ballagh (taken) 15 to 1 „ Morpeth (taken and offered) 20 to 1 „ Valerian (offered freely) 25 to 1 „ Attaghan (offered.) Foigh-a-ballagh was backed in fifties at 14 to 1, the gentleman offering to take on in hundreds, 600 to 50 was the top offer ; even on him against Morpeth for 200 (off.) The field was backed on Wednesday at 33 to 1. UNEXAMPLED FEAT AT CRICKET.—At a match of cricket, last week, at Boated, between that club and the Bentley, Mr. John Almond, jun.. one of the Bentley bowlers, had the good fortune to put out the whole side of the Boxted gentlemen by his own hand, in the follow ing manner; namely, by bowling down seven wickets, two catches, and stumping one. This feat is, we believe. unparalleled in the annals of cricketing.—Chelmsford Chronicle. QUOIT MATCH FOR £lOO ASIHR. — A match at quoits, for £lOO aside, came off yesterday week, at Glasgow, be tween Mr. John Goodall, of Shrewsbury, and Mr; Rigbyr Wellington, on the one side, and Mr. Weir and Mr.' Dunlop, of Glasgow, on the other. The match lasted two hours and a half. The number of ends pitched was 51, and at the clos . e the numbers stood thus :—Mr. Dunlop, 32 ends, Mr. Weir, 29; Mr. Rigby, 14, Mr. Goodall, 12• Total, for the Glasgow men, 61, for the Shrewsbury men' 26. The weight of the respective quoits, was as follows —Mr. Weir's 1711 b. per pair, Mr. Dunlop's 141 b., Mr• Rigby's 81b., Mr. Goodall's 'alb. GALLOPING MATCH.—On Tuesday, an extraordinary match came off at the Hatcbam•park race-ground. The terms of the match were that Harry England (of sport ing notoriety) should produce a horse to gallop 20 miles and leap over 20 hurdles within one hour f;onl the time of starting, Captain Napper (as was stated) betting £2OO to £lOO against the horse performing the distance within the hour. A mare, (Charming Polly) was presented as the animal to perform the feat, and 20 hurdles being staked at 100 yards apart, the mare was mounted by her jockey (Paget,) and immediately entered upon this novel under; taking. She appeared to have scarcely "turned a hair,' and almost immediately resumed her task, going away et a rapid rate. She was subsequently pulled up twice during her journey. and having been attended to, she again started for the completion of the distance, which she finally accomplished in four minutes less than one hour, and at the conclusion she appeared but little distressed• FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. (From the "London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") Bareges Taglioni, in checks of moderate size, Mousse' lines Giselle, fil de Marie, and toiles de Chine, with /ow lards of endless variety, are the materials best suited fo r the present month. In negligers, redingotes are worn 0 English jaconet, or muslin, lined ; the bodies are gel L ei rally open in front; the sleeves wide, but very short, °" o f under ones of muslin bouillonnes ; many peignoirs arel', white barege, trimmed with ruches of white ribbon. 1 , corsages, with revers pelerino , continue in favour, w e ll but as the half long sleeve, with under ones of wh ite these, it must be observed , are seldom with wristband _ s, but preserve their width to the bottom; t he revers worn on the corsages are s omet imes so large as to have the ap pearance o f , an open pelerine, to which a fancy fringe gives additional wid th ; a simi lar fring e ornamentin g th e ski rth a s u s rm a flounce, ounts th andthe sle sleeve, eadlsgoe finished is t h h e e d cl w o i s t e h r j o t w wic s sh' of it forming a border at the bottom Of 06 fringe . Velvet is much used to ornament dresses , nu' s ki r t, just above the hem, lessening in width, as they 103 ; cend ; it is also used on black net dresses, forming h ead" ing to the flounces, which commence at the waist. ra i .'; dessus, montelets, and maritilles, are of every variety; t h e paletots of taffetas d'llalie are much in fashion • but. 03 1 ," the promenade the colours are confined to black ' or o i ; blue, trimmed with black lace ; the sleeves are rather wi d e ' but not lower than the elbow ; and a broad ribbon roc"' Aker des the waist: for carriage wear they are of light sill s n i o n e c r k t oewuyos rows trimmett with ruches of ribbon or white lace. In .fi° l , - 0 ; the embroidered guimpes and little collars a la Jeanne' 0 , covered by several rows of Valenciennes lace, are *O r d as well as revers formed of inlets; frills of three rows vv ", lace, and the standing-up collar, with three or four io of ruches. of There is no change just now in bonnets : the for u lo pailles de riz is a little more open ; and capotes of _ OO have crowns a la bonne femme. ART-UNION BILL.—Lord Monteagle's bill, entit " An Act for Legalizing Alt-Unions," has been b roul l down from the House of Lords for the consideration % the lower branch of the Legislature. It enacts that , art-unions, and all members, contributors, subscr iber f; and officers thereof, and persons acting for them otl't, their behalf, shall be discharged and freed from all 6,,u-K'ch and prosecuants, bilities, pains, and penalties t o by law they might be le, as being concer ned in lott er ; little goes, or unlawful games, for anything don which may be done - by them her ebefore, or before the uc h day of January neat, t ,uching the purchase of anY oric i s ot o . f a i r :;o or v the of o is sale made byor r otherc hance v or i, for the regular establish went and regulation of suc' a r ovti f o r the by tr' bu s t e i c o o n n se p e T a r tis_ sociations by royal charter, to be granted on th e aPPr of the Board of Trade and Plantations. '""~.