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Vat' ianuntarp Vrorrit tngcs, HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. On the motion for going into committee on the Unlaw- ful Oaths Acts (Ireland) The Earl of SHREWSBURY reviewed the social condi tion of the people of Ireland, and traced the calamities under which that country laboured to the postponement of the remedial measures so frequently promised. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE contended that the bill before them was a remedial measure, as no other mea sure would be effectual withbot it. The Duke of WELLINGTON thought the bill was abso lutely necessary in order to put down rebellion in Ireland. The bill passed through committee. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. In answer to a question from Mr. Thorneley, Mr. C. GLYN said a great many of the engine drivers on the North-Western Railway had returned to their duty, and the trains would henceforth be worked with the same punctuality and safety as heretofore. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Lord G. BENTINCK moved as an amendment, " That an humble address be presented to the Crown, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct the Earl of Elgin forthwith to transmit to the Secretary for the Colonies copies of omitted correspondence between the Provincial Secretary of Canada and the Secretary to the Montreal Board of Trade, and will direct that the same be laid before the house." The noble lord entered at great length into the comparative expense of navigating vessels to Montreal and New York, showing that the repeal of the Navigation Laws would not be so advantageous to the Canadians as the people were led to believe by those who were its supporters. He denied the right of the Colonial Office to select such portions of the correspondence as the Colonial Secretary thought proper, and to suppress such as did not agree with the ministerial views. Lord J. RUSSELL declined to be led into a discussion on the navigation laws, but would confine himself to the point raised by the noble lord's motion, which carried with it the impression that the Earl of Elgin was to blame for suppressing a portion of certain correspondence that ought to have been laid before the house, and should be repri manded for so doing, and ordered to supply the deficien cies immediately. The noble lord (Russell) then pro ceeded to state the circumstances under which the omis sion had taken piece, exonerating Lord Elgin from all blame in the matter. He was not averse to the produc tion of the documents, and Mr. Hawes would ask leave to lay them on the table of the house. • The motion was negatived without a division. HOUSE OF LOP,DS.—TuEsDay. The Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill and the Parlia mentary Elections Bill, were severally passed through Committee. Lord CAMPBELL moved that the House should not insist upon some of its amendments to the Public Health Bill, which had been objected to by the House of Com mons, or ti►e bill, which still contained some valuable principles, must be l►st for another year. . The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, though objecting to many of the amendments of the House of Commons, because they gave a power of jobbing to the local boards, would, nevertheless, not give an excuse to the House of Commons for depriving the public of the advantages the bill even yet contained. A short conversation ensued, after which the motion of Lord Campbell was agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. At the early sitting, Mr. P. MAPLE in reply to Major BLACKALL, stated that the subject of separate accommo dation for married soldiers, by taking them out of bar racks altogether, was under the consideration of the government, and he trusted that ere long that object would be effected. Mr. F. O'CONNOR, at the instance of Mr. G. Thomp son, on behalf of Mr. J. Williams, explained the course he intended to pursue w ith respect to the National Land Company. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Hume, stated that it was the intention of the government to cause a special inquiry to be made in Edinburgh, with reference to the annuity tax for the support of the established church of Scotland during the recess. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. SPOONER, ex plained the circumstances under which the gratuity of £2,500 had been awarded to Sir C. Trevelyan by the Treasury. The noble lord further stated that since the matter had been debated Sir C. Trevelyan had expressed an earnest desire to repay the amount in question ; but his answer to that gentleman was, feeling fully convinced of the valuable services performed, that he could not con sent to any repayment being made. If the hon. member thought fit to bring forward a formal resolution of censure on the government that would be a perfectly constitutional course to take, and one which they were prepared to meet. Mr. B. ORnorINE intimated that he should move the disallowance of the whole sum, when the civil con tingencies out of which it had been paid were moved. The House having gone into committee of supply, and the vote for the sa!aiies and expenses of the Foreign office having been put, Mr. D'ISRAELI proceeded in condemnatory terms to bring the whole foreign policy of the government under consideration. Lord PALMERSTON replied seriatim to the allegations brought forward by the hon. member. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Grogan, made a statement relative to the new Queen's Col►eges in Ireland, concluding his observations by stating that the course re cently taken by the Lord Lieutenant had been to make these invitution3 as effective its it was originally propogoc.l they should be. They were intended to be such as per sons of all religious denominations might resort to, and the purpose of Parliament would not be answered if Roman Catholics were excluded. On the question of resuming the committee of supply, Mr. URQUHART moved, as an amendment, "That from the correspondence laid upon the table in reference to the suppression of the slave trade in Mussulman countries, it appeared that her Majesty's servants had adopted pro ceedings calculated to aggravate the horrors of the traffic •and to alienate from this country the good will of the governments and nations so•interfered with. After an able reply from Lord PALMERSTON, and some observations on the subject of the means at present taken by this country for the suppression of the African slave .trutle, The amendment was put and negatived, and the house went into committee, when the vote for thePoreign office was again put, which gave rise to a further debate on foreign policy, in which Mr. MACGREGOR, Sir DE LACY EVANS, Mr. HUME, Mr. P. HOWARD, Mr. UR QUHART, Mr. B. OSBORNE. Lord PALMERSTON, Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, and Sir J. WALSH, took part ; at • the termination of which the vote was agreed to, as were various others, after some discussion on most of them, and the house, having resumed, adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIURSDAY. On the motion for the further consideration of the re port of the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, Some conversation took place between Sir H. Mermen and Lord J. RUSSELL relative to the appointment of a subordinate officer of the Post-office in the county of Leicester, upon the recommendation of Mr. Gardner, the rejected member for the borough of Leicester. In the course of it his lordship remarked, that if Lord Clauri , carde had known that the late election for that borough . had been made void in consequence of the bribery prac • tised at it by the agents of Mr. R. Gardner, he ought not to have listened to their recommendation. He therefore regretted that through inadvertence Lord Clanricarde had taken the recommendation of Mr. R. Gardner ,and his agents, but he was convinced that his lordship had not done so with any view of encouraging corrupt practices in the borough of Leicester. After a short speech from Colonel SIBTUORP, Sir C. BULLER, Mr. H. DRUMMOND, and Mr. MUL - LINOS made some observations on the distribution of the patronage of the Government in the Post-office and the Stamp-office at Shoreham, at Cirencester, and at some village in the county of Surrey, which induced Mr. TUF NELL to enter into a brief but very satisfactory vindication of the proceedings of the Treasury in that respect. The report was then brought up and agreed to ; after which the bill was recommitted and several clauses added to it. The bill, as amended, was reported and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Lord PALMERSTON, in moving the second reading of the Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome Bill, . observed, that the grounds for this measure were so sim • pie and so much upon the surface that it was not requisite for him to enter into any abstruse or refined argument to show its necessity. Doubts, and doubts only, existed, whether, by the interposition of certain old acts of Parlia ment, it was lawful for the Government of this country to hold diplomatic intercourse with the Court of Rome. Those doubts arose on the interposition of the word " communion ;" but it appeared to him that the meaning of the law prohibiting any " communion" of the Sove reign with the Court of Rome was simply this—that the • Sovereign of England must be a Protestant. The " com munion" prohibited was only spiritual communion, and was not the interchange of political and diplomatical com munications. As doubts, however, were entertained on that point, it was deemed necessary to introduce a bill authorising diplomatic intercourse and communication with the Court of Rome. He then proceeded to obviate the objections raised against it, and to explain the advert ' tages which were !ikely to accrue from passing it. After showing that the presence of an English Ambassador at the Court of Rome and of a Roman Ambassador at the Court of St. James's could not injure the faith of our So vereign, he proceeded to demonstrate that the want of in tercourse with the Court of Rome was injurious to our in terests; for we could not now make any commercial treaty with the Court of Rome to obtain for our merchants and manufacturers those advantages which commercial treaties afforded to them in every other part of the world. As no constitutional danger could arise from the enactment of this measure, and as great commercial advantages would arise from passing it into law, he had no hesitation in re commending it to the support of the house. Mr. C. ANSTEY had expected to hear some explanation of the bill itself and of the objects which it was to accom plish ; but not a word on either of those points had the noble lord uttered. After analyzing the bill clause by clause, and condemning them all one after another, the hon. member coacluded by moving, that it be read a second time that day six months. Mr. thee:Lunar - ex seconded the amendment. Sir R. INGLIS complained, like Mr. Anstey, of the insufficiency of the speech which Lord Palmerston had made that evening for the introduction of so important a change into the constitution of England, and almost pitied his lordship for having been reduced to the painful neces sity of pleading as his reasons for this bill the importance of consulting the commercial interests of England in Italy and the increased facility which it would give to British subjects to obtain the ccnstruction of a railroad over the Pontine marslaes for abridging their communications with India, He called en the bonse to reflect at what time nis bill was brought in, who was Pope, and what the Court - of Rome now was. The bill was introduced into this house on the 10th of August, at a time when the Pope had violated all his obligations to Austria, the chief benefactor of the Papacy, when the Pope had been unable to protect the Austrian Ambassador from the attacks of the rabble of Rome, and when he had absolutely blessed the arms of the soldiery whom he sent to attack the Aus trian forces ' • and all this, too, at a period when England was more alive than ever to the rampant and aggressive character of the Church of Rome against the Protestantism of the world. He did not object to enter into negotiations with the temporal Sovereign of Rome, no matter what his religion might be. He did not object to recognize the civil governor of Rome, even though he should be another Rienzi ; but he did object to recognize the spiritual governor of Rome and of all the Roman Catholic popula tion of the world. The Pope had millions of subjects in this country, and he would not give to the Pope the direct means of issuing his powerful edicts to them without any restraint. He had another objection to this bill—it nei ther conciliated the affections of the Protestants nor satis fied the wishes of the Roman Catholics, who in March last had denounced it to the Pope in the strongest lan guage. Besides, the result of the diplomatic communi cations of other Protestant states, especially Prussia, with the Pope was most unsatisfactory. Several other members then addressed the house, after which the second reading of the bill was carried by a ma jority of 125 to 46. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. In reply to a question from Lord BROUGHA M, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he had no objection to lay upon the table the answer of the Austrian government to the dispatch of the British government, dated the 11th September, 1847. Lord BROUGHAM , under these circumstances, contented himself with moving for the documents, intimating his opinion that, as Charles Albert had retreated into his own dominions, and as every inch of land lie bad invaded had been recovered by the Russians, Italy was precisely in the state quo in which it stood before the commencement of the war, and any interfer ence on the part of France or England was wholly uncalled for. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY, Lord D. STEWART, in reply to a question from Dr. BOWRING, announced that it was not his intention to proceed with the Odd Fellows Societies Bill during the present session. In reply to a question from Mr. TURNER, Lord J. RUSSELL announced that he would postpone the Charity Trusts Regulation Bill for the present session, and would also withdraw the Chancery Proceeding's Regulation Bill. On the motion for going into committee of supply. Mr. CHRISTIE drew attention to the proposed grant of Van couver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, a proceeding which re strongly teprecated. Mr. GLADSTONE said the grant ought not to be made until an inquiry was instituted into the manner in which the Hud son's Bay Company had acted under their own charter, and until it should be ascertained if they had taken into their own hands the power of inflicting capital punishments. The com pany were charged with having laid it down as a principle, that when the Indians killed any of the servants of the com pany they would have blood for blood, and that, too, without a trial, and it was said that one individual had actually been put to death without trial, in accordance with this principle. This power was exercised in direct contravaition to the 12th section of the act of Parliament which particularly prohibited the ex ercise of any such power. There should also be an inquiry into the manner in which the Hudson's Bay Company exerci sed their monopoly. He could not see why the Indians should be obliged to bring their commodities to one purchaser only, who was to fix the price of their goods. The company, how ever, conducted the business on a principle so penurious that the savages were sometimes starved, and not unfrequently com pelled t o resort to cannibalism to preserve their lives, though not cannibals by nature or by practice, while the company was receiving £2OOO per cent. in the British markets for the furs they purchased from the Indians for a trifle. He wished to be understood, when he spoke of the Indians, that he was not al luding to those on the borders of the United States, for those Indians received a fair price for their skins ; but those who were entirely under the tyranny of this irresponsible body, in which the Government seemed to place the most implicit con fidence. With respect to the moral character of the company, he would observe that, although they had divided 70 per cent. during the greater part of half a century on a capital that had been nine times multiplied, they had never erected a single place of worship, and had discouraged, as far as possible ? those mis sionaries who had attempted to propagate religion in their ter ritories. In many instances threats were resorted to, with the view of intimidating the natives from listening to the missiona ries, and those who would not listen were rewarded. The right hon. gentleman stated several other objections, and expressed a hope that the Government would not make this grant until an inquiry had been instituted. . Mr. C. BULLER, in deference to the course pursued by the government, said that the grant was but a conditional one for eleven years, during which there would be a representative go vernment in Vancouver's Island. If, therefore, the company should be tempted to exercise any arbitrary power, the legisla ture would very soon transfer their privileges to the local go vernment, to be exercised for the benefit of the colony. At the expiration of eleven years, the British government would be at liberty to resume possession of the island, on paying to the company the expenses incurred for building and improving the colony, or allow the company to continue in possession under further arrangements. Mr. HUME went at some length into the question, deprecat ing in the strongest terms the proposed grant, and concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that a petition be presented to her Majesty, praying that the government of Vancouver's Island should not be handed over to the Hudson's Bay Com pany until the complaint of the Red River Indians should be heard and considered. _ _ . Mr. CHRISTIE replied, and after some further discussion, in which Mr. Wyld, Lord J. Russell, and Mr. Goulburn took part, the house divvied, when Mr. Hume's motion was negatived by a majority of 76 to 58. On the vote for salaries, &c., to professors of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge being put, Mr. B OSBO RNE opposed the motion : the committee dividing—for the grant, 96 ; against, 20 ; majority, 76 ;—when the Chairman reported progress, and the house resumed. On the question that the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill be read a third time, Mr. T. HOBIIOUSE moved that it be read a third time that day six months. After some. discussion, on a division the third reading was carried by a majority of 67 — the number., ao w ia; the um pab...d. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Rev. W. 11. Self, 8.A., curate of St. James's Church, Preston, has been appointed incumbent of the new church at Lytham. The Rev. J. S. Master, M.A., rector of Chorley, has been appointed rural dean of the hundred of Leyland, by the Lord Bishop of Manchester. ROBBERY OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—Sundry hints have been thrown out in the House of Lords about the propriety of en dowing the Romish Church in Ireland; and Lord Bhrewsbury, forgetful of his oath, has coolly proposed to give half the pro perty of the Irish Church to the Itomauists. If rebels are to be treated so well, who would not take up arms against the Queen? If this theory is to be acted upon, the only way for the members of the Irish Church to save their ecclesiastical property will he to turn rebels themselves. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. By the arrival of the royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Shannon, in the Mersey, on Tuesday, we received papers from the United States and Mexico. The Hibernia left New York on the 2d, and Halifax on the sth instant. She brings the usual mails, and forty passengers, and has about £5,000 specie on freight. The America, which sailed from Liverpool on the 22d ult., reached Halifax on the 2d instant. In Congress the attempt to pass a sort of Compromise Bill for the government of the new territories has been defeated, the House of Representatives refusing even to entertain or discuss the bill which had passed the Senate, and of which the tendency was to permit the establishment of slavery in New Mexico and California. It seems pretty well settled now that no bill looking to such a result can obtain the assent of the House of Representatives. General Taylor's acceptance of the Whig nomination to the presidency has at length appeared. The only other news of political interest is the state ment now received in an authentic shape of a bittle, or rather succession of skirmishes near Guanajato in Mexico, between Bustamente commanding the Government forces, and Parades with Jarante at the head of the revolters. The victory is claimed for both sides, but neither appear to have done so much in the n•ay of fighting. Tile dates from the city of Mexico are to the 14th ult., where the Government of Herrera seemed to be pursuing its course without interruption or disturbance. The American troops have now all left Mexico, and that country is again delivered up to its own laws and rulers. Among other effects of this is the re-enactment of the old Mexican tariff. Dulness pervades all branches of trade and commerce. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. The Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Captain Lott, ar rived at an early hour on Sunday morning, having made the run from Boston to this port in ten days eight hours, the shortest passage on record. She brings dates from New York to the Bth, Boston to the 9th, and Halifax to the 11th instant respectively. Congress was to adjourn on the 15th instant. ' It is stated in the Journal of Commerce that a proposi tion was before the Senate for the purchase by the United States of the territorial rights, privileges, and immunities of the Hudson' Bay Company and the Puget's Sound Company. The proposition is said to be recommended to Congress by the Administration. The proposition is, to cede to the United States a tract of territory larger than the state of New York, and for a comparatively trifling consideration. The importance of the cession cannot be doubted. It would include the country and the military posts on the northern banks of the Columbia river, and, says the Journal of Commerce, " for ever prevent any collision between the United States and England in regard to points which are unsettled by the Ashburton and Webster treaty.', This of course must refer to the Oregon, not to the Ashburton treaty. At New York, on the 7th instant, a meeting was held to ratify the union between the Provisional Committee and the Young Friends of Ireland." The Herald says that between 30,000 and 40,000 persons were present. From Yucatan we learn that the white inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Sisal have been gaining power and are gradually subduin g th e I n di ans ; b u t famine will shortly finish what the Indians have left. The poor were already dropping off fast. The accounts from Venezuela are to the 10th of July. The Paez faction still held possession of the lake Mara caibo. The forces were under the command of Colonel Weir, an Englishman. The foreign merchants residing in that city had forwarded petitions to their respective Con suls-General at the capital, earnestly appealing to them to send vessels of war for their protection in the unhappy position in which they were placed by the unsettled state of affairs. They were apprehensive of a revolt among the labourers and poorer classes of inhabitants, for the pur pose of plunder, owing to the scarcity of provisions and want of employment, which is attributable to the pro tracted state of the civil war. Little reliance could be placed on the troops in the city, which numbered only 800 men, of whom 250 were in the hospital. The rest, being badly fed and clothed, would, in the event of an outbreak, join the mob. In the neighbouring rebublic of New Granada there are indications of some approaching change. General Flores was in Panama in April last, and the Caraccas papers say that a plot has been made between him and Mosquera, the President of New Granada, to re-establish the former Columbian confederation and establish a monarchy. These accusations have frequently been male spinet Pores, but w tiuut any:foundation it would appear; least, no distinct ground of accusation has ever been made. 'This plot, it is said by the Caraccas editors, extends beyond New Granada, involving a coalition be tween Flores and the Paez faction in Venezuela, and when united they were to march on the Ecuador and coerce that republic to join in the proposed confeddra tion. Advices from Porto Rico, to the 24th of July, state that the inhabitants of Pouce were on the night of the 18th thrown into a considerable state of alarm by the discovery of a plot existing among the ziegroes for a grand insurrection. It was discovered by information given by one or two negroes to their master, who on ascertaining the truth of it immediately gave notice to the proper authorities. Three of the ringleaders were arrested, and, after trial, two were condemned to be shot and the other to be sent to the chain gang for 10 years. The plan was an extensive one, and included all the ne groes on the south side of the island from Guayama to Mayaguez. The rise was to be simultaneous in the dif ferent parts of the island, and the day fixed was the last day of the month. They were to burn all the towns, kill all the whites, and make a second St. Domingo of the island. Since the arrest of the ringleaders confidence was entirely restored. There was a great amount of English shipping. £4 per ton was the last rate paid for freight to England, but small vessels would bring more. The estates had finished getting in the crops, and the weather continued favourable for the coming one. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS The royal mail steam-ship Great Western, Captain Chapman, arrived at Southampton, on Sunday, with the usual West Indian and other mails. She had fair weather on the passage, and arrived two days before she was due. The intelligence from the British, West India colonies is of unusual importance, because we learn the effect pro duced there by Lord John Russell's proposition for West Indian relief. The measures are evidently looked upon as unsatisfactory in their nature, and totally inadequate to relieve the extent of distress existing. The Jamaica Dispatch strongly condemns the project, which it charac terizes as "an insult to the colonies, and an outrage on the honesty and humanity of the nation," and t hus con cludes,—" We tell ministers plainly that they will have no supply from Jamaica. They may levy, if they will, their taxes by orders in Council. Their unconstitutional tyranny is quite equal to the effort, but taxes will not be paid. The tax-gatherer may seize, but distresses cannot be sold without a bidder." De Cordova's Intelligencer says that the government measure " has inspired the in habitants of Jamaica with disgust and contempt." The same paper then continues,—" Speculation is almost un known in Kingston. A great proportion of the stores in the principal business streets is closed—hundreds of per sons born in the middle classes of society, and who were formerly accustomed to support themselves respectably by business occupations, are now walking about the streets in the vain and fruitless endeavour to find work which will enable them to gain their daily bread. With a defi cient population in as beautiful and fertile an island as there is on the face of the globe, there is no employment for any industrious man. Sorry are we to have to chro nicle this fact, and those who knew Jamaica in her better days will scarcely believe it, but it is nevertheless too true. Who then can wonder if dissatisfaction and dislike should displace affection for England in the hearts of those who have never yielded to any subjects of the empire in loyalty ? The business of the past fortnight has, as usual, been limited only to purchases for immediate con sumption. In the foreign trade there has not been any thing doing, no buyers having arrived." Several emigrants had arrived at Trinidad from Marti nique, not thinking their lives . secure during the present unsettled condition of the French West India colonies. We have advices from Port-au-Prince and Jacmel, Hayti. From Jacmel we learn that many respectable persons had been arrested and cast into prison, some of them having been confined in irons. The General com manding the arrondissement, who had recently acted so praiseworthy a part in staying the pillage with which Jac mel was threatened, had been removed by the President Soulonque for performing his duty. At Port-au-Prince everything was tranquil, but the prisons were filled with political offenders, many of whom it was thought would be shot on the return of the President from his tour through the southern part of the republic. From Cuba we learn that the island was perfectly tran quil when the Great Western left, on the 27th ultimo. A slight disturbance had occurred at one of the outports, but it had been repressed by the energetic measures of the Governor-General. The chief of the town, who was im plicated in the revolt, had fled. This is doubtless the oc currence that has been magnified by the American papers into a revolution in Havannali, and which originated the news in the New York papers of the sth of August. brought by the United States steamer to Cowes on Friday evening. The Captain-General of Cuba' had seized a slaver entering one of the ports with 150 negroes on board. She had been brought round to Havannah. The blacks would be brought round and apprenticed for seven years, and would then be entitled to freedom and per mitted to leave the island, in virtue of the convention to that effect between the British and Spanish Crowns. Our Mexican advices represent political affairs as ex tremely unsettled. The Indians were about in large num bers, causing travellinc , to the interior to be very unsafe. Some of the cities had called out the inhabitants to patrol during the night, to prevent surprises from the band of Indians prowling about for plunder. The Americans had given up all the ports to the Mexican authorities, and the national flag was once more hoisted in all the ports. The Customs' duties were collected according to the old tariff. The United States' army had nearly all embarked, and it would very soon he entirely out of the Mexican territo rips, the approach of the sickly season on the coast causing them to lose no opportunities offering for their embarkation. In Demerara the planters were all busy with their crops, the weather being very fine, but labour still scarce. In the Danish islands of St. Thomas's and St. Croix order amongst the emancipated blacks had been restored, and the negroes had returned to their work. FRANCE. The greatest anxiety is manifested throughout the capital from the rumours current about an insurrectional movement hurried, if not caused by the threatened debate on the report end documents inculpating Ledru Rollin, Caussidiere, and Louis Blanc. The Government bad received information of an intemled insurrection, and taken the most determined precautions. Abd-el-Kader is about to be transferred from Pau to the Chateau of Amboise, in the department of the Indre et-Loire. Orders have been given to have the chateau prepared for his reception within a fortnight. The number of unemployed operatives in the 11th ar rondissement of Paris is officially announced as 3000, and that in the 12th arrondissement at 10,000, who subsist entirely on the food distributed to them by the municipal authorities. ITALY. BOMBARDMENT OF BOLOGNA.—A conflict has taken place between the Austrian troops and the Bolognese, in which the former were repulsed; but they subsequently raised reinforcements and bombarded the city. The Au strian general, on the Bth instant, laid a heavy contribu tion on Bologna, and to secure its payment requred hos tages. This demand gave great offence—the people re sisted, and the tocsin was sounded. A dreadful conflict, we are told, ensued ; but the details are not given. The Bolognese, however, captured 27 of the enemy's troops, and drove the main force out of the city. Shortly after wards the Austrian returned, and commenced bombarding that town ; two of the palaces were soon in flames, and the faubourg pillaged and burned. The Austrians lost 40 men killed and 50 prisoners ; the Bolognese 15 killed and wounded. Latest advices from Rome state that the populace were in a most excited state. An address to the French Re public, demanding intervention, had been signed by the people. The Chamber approved of this address, and sent it to the Ambassador, who replied that be would forward it to his Government. The following list of . the new Ministry had been communicated to the Chamber of Deputies :—Count Fabri, Interior ; Di Rossi, Grace and Justice ; Lauri, Finance ; Guarini, Commerce and Indus try, and, provisionally, Public Works; Count Campello, Arms ; Perfetti, Police, ad interim. The Epoca states that his Holiness has dismissed the Ministerof Arms, Count Campello. The Patria of Florence, of the 10th, pub lishes a letter from Rome of the Bth, which says that the Cardinals were flying from that city. The Portuguese government has ordered a young Spa niard, named Aguilar, to leave Portugal, because he had written some republican verses in an album kept at an inn at Contra. DREADFUL CASE OF SUICIDE.—A case of suicide, rare in Germany, occurred two days past on the Hanover-Hil desheim line. Professor Michelsen, of Kiel, stepped from the waggon at the station, placed his head suddenly under the wheel of a locomotive on the point of moving, and in an instant it was severed from his shoulders. THRILLING SCENE.—We learn that a fearful scene oc curred at the Suspension-bridge, at Niagara Falls, yester day afternoon. Four men were passing over the bridge, when it was struck by one of those sudden and strong gusts of wind which frequently rush through the chasm with the tremendous force of a hurricane, and so twisted it as to turn it bottom upwards. The men caught the wires, and in this position—suspend e d 200 feet above the resist less waters beneath—they were enabled to maintain them selves until the alarm was given at the Falls, a mile and a half distant, and the whole population rushed to the res cue. The bridge was restored to its former position, and the men saved. We have not learned the particulars, but can well imagine the deep sensation of the spectators, as well as those whose lives hung upon a thread, as it were, during the time which intervened between the accident and the rescue.—Huron Gazelle, July 21. COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.—The sixth hundredth anniver sary of laying the foundation stone of this unfinished cathedral was celebrated with much royal and sacerdotal pomp on Monday. The most characteristic event of the day was an accidental one. Shortly before the arrival of the king, a band of peasants going on the annual pilgrim age to the chapel at Cafen entered the city by the bridge of boats. It was composed of very old men and women in their provincial costume, dusty and footsore with their day's march. They walked in two long lines, the women first, with folded hands, chanting the Ave Maria : a priest in full robes followed, breviary in hand and the crucifix borne behind him. Then came the men, aged, bald, and wrinkled, stooping under the weight of years and toil; many of them were the very types of the peasant in the etchings of Holbein's " Dance of - Death ;" most of them repeated aloud a prayer as they walked along. Several covered carts closed the procession, carrying the baggage and a few children, half-delighted, half -scared by the great floating banners and the noise and rush of the great city. They all rested for the night outside the walls, and re sumed their march next day, having still three day? journey before them. It was a fragment of the life of the middle ages brought suddenly on the scene; and it was almost tie only event of the day that let an impression .of tnese or depth of feeling. IRELAND. All is again quiet at Abbeyfaile, and the mails pass and repass without a single policeman to guard them. Numerous arrests of persons implicated in the late trea sonable conspiracy, continue to be made every day, both in Dublin and in the provinces ; but none of the leaders have been captured since Mr. Meagher's arrest. The National of last Monday, announces that Mr. Morgan, solicitor to the reformed corporation of Dublin, has escaped to France. Saunders's News-Letter states, on the authority of its Clonmel correspondent, that a small party of police, on the Clogher road, within half a mile of Clonmel, were at tacked with a volley of stones from some elevated ground by the road-side. None of the police were hurt, but they failed to capture any of their assailants. The scene of recent insurrection in the south of Ireland is now one of perfect tranquility. The scent lies very hot in Limerick after Mr. Richard O'Gorman, jun. Several persons, including some of the Yankee sympathisers— have been arrested and committed to gaol, in Dublin and in the provinces. They are, however, people of inferior note. The Cork Constitution states that the gunpowder seized at Dungarvan had not been shipped for an unlawful pur pose, but fell into the hands of the authorities, through the imprudence of the master, who, attempting to escape the difficulty of the county being proclaimed, was silent respecting it, and thus excited suspicion. Summonses are to be issued immediately to the jurors of Tipperary, calling on them to attend the special com-nis sion, which will be opened early next week, for the trial of Smith O'Brien, Meagher, Duffy, &c., who have been taken in arms or been in correspondence with the rebels. It is said that they will be tried in one "monster indict ment" for conspiracy. The Nenagh Guardian asserts that, when Mr. Meagher and his two friends, Leyne and O'Donoghue, were first seen on the high road by the police, there was a fourth person with them who was permitted to escape, and that this person was no other than the notorious and pro claimed rebel, Mr. Doheny ! They do not merely in sinuate, but distinctly allege, that Mr. Doheny had peached, and that it was through his information that Mr. Meagher was captured. Mr. Martin was on Wednesday found guilty under the treason-felony act, and Mr. O'Dogherty was on Thursday again placed on his trial, when Mr. Butt, on behalf of the prisoner, challenged the array, but the challenge was dis allowed. The indictment preferred against Mr. Duffy under the treason-felony act, has been aandoned, as cer tain documents discovered among Mr. Smith O'Brien's papers have supplied the crown with materials for putting Mr. Duffy on his trial for high treason. The Dublin Herald says that Mr. Martin was tried by an exclusively Protestant jury. INTIMIDATION OF JURORS.—Shortly after the foreman of the jury in John Martin's case had returned home after the prisoner's conviction, he was waited on by Mr. James Martin, a brother of the felon, who said to him—" I come here to challenge you to mortal combat, for having bullied the jury in the case of my brother." This was declined by the foreman, who handed over the would-be duellist to the police. James Martin afterwards wrote to apologise for his silly impudence. On Friday, this person was committed by the Chief Baron for a month to prison, his lordship stating that the sentence was less severe on account of the prisoner's having expressed his sorrow for the offence, and the appeal made on his behalf by the foreman of the jury. On Friday, fourteen prisoners were removed from the gaols of Kilmainham and Newgate, under a strong escort of constabulary and city police, and sent by railway to Kingstown. from whence they were transmitted, on board war steamers, to Belfast. On Saturday the jury in the case of O'Doherty were again discharged, being unable to agree, and the Attorney- General intimated that he would again try him at the next commission. Application was made to admit the prisoner to bail, but this was refused. On the same day John Martin, convicted of treason, was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and was removed to Newgate in chains. Prior to the sentence being passed, Mr. Martin said that he would not condescend to ask for mercy. He was strongly of opinion that he was morally right, and that he had done nothing that would stain his character as a man, a patriot, or a Christian. The Clonmel Chronicle announces the arrest of one of the rebels wounded at Ballingarry :—" A man of the name of James Dwyer was brought into Clonmel on Friday, and lodged in the county gaol; he was one of the insurgent band in the battle of Boulagh Common and at Ballingarry, and had a dreadful wound in the right breast. Ever since the affray he has been concealed in one of the pits in the vici nity of Boulagh, and from information received by the authorities, he was arrested down in the pit a few days since, and conveyed to Killenaule, from which place he was escorted into Clonmel." Lord Hardinge reviewed the troops under General Mac donald, at Limerick, yesterday week. The Morning Herald states that there are in Ireland full 3,000 Roman Catholic priests, and 1,500 professed religious women of various orders. THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND.—The failure, WC regret to say, appears to be as complete as that of 1846. There are now lying before us reports from Tipperary, Carlow, Cork, Sligo, Limerick, Derry, Antrim, Down, Louth, Armagh, and Monaghan, and unhappily they all concur in representing the pestilence as universal. The Irish papers report the premature death of Mr. G. Nimmo, an engineer well known in that country. It seems that as Mr. Nimmo, accompanied by two men in a sailing boat, was crossing one of the bays in Connemara, the boat, when at full sail, struck upon a sunken rock, which cleft her in two. The two men, with this much lamented gentleman, perished. _ _ _ NEW SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—Last Monday a meet ing of about 60 noblemen and gentlemen, among whom were Lord Cloncurry, Earl of Miltown, Lord W. Fitz gerald, Sir M. Chapman, &c., was held in Dublin, when it was resolved to form a society " to promote the peri odical sitting of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin," the annual subscription to be £l. CURIOUS ASSOCIATION.—A correspondent of the Cork Constitution says,—" Some few years ago I paid a visit at Dromoland, the seat of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., County Clare. Sir Lucius, pointing out to me the various members of the family pictures, showed me one of Lord Chancellor Hyde, (Earl of Clarendon, and grandfather of Queen Anne,) among the ancestry of the house of O'Brien. Would that the unfortunate William Smith O'Brien had not endeavoured to sully the brilliancy of an escutcheon so distinguished ! and exposed himself to the censure and rigour of the law, so well administered by the present Earl of Clarendon. AN IRISEI VAGRANT'S DEFENCE.—An ingenious de fence was made in a case tried at Galway, at the present assizes. M. Connelly was placed at the bar and arraigned, the grand jury having presented him as a vagrant. The evidence adduced against him clearly proved that he was a notorious bad character. He had no settled place of residence, was constantly before the magistrates at petty sessions on charges of sheep stealing and killing sheep ; he has publicly sold in markets legs of mutton at 6d. each, and was committed for trial both at quarter sessions and assizes; but so ingeniously did he continue to corn, mit these offences, that exidene-e could not be adduced legally to commit him. The case for the prosecution having closed, the prisoner made a few observations to the court in Irish, which Mr. Walter Bourke translated —the statement of the prisoner being both ingenious and poetic.—Mr. Bourke said : My lord the prisoner sub mits that all the evidence given on the part of the prose cution must be construed in his favour ; and that the fact of his being so often tried, and on no occasion convicted, clearly shows he must be an honest laan—(loud laughter) —for the same reason, my lord, as the prisoner states, that the more frequently gold is molten in the furnace and tried for its genuine character, the purer it becomes. —(Loud and continued laughter, in which Baron Lefroy heartily joined.)—He further submits, my lord, that his case is analogous to that of Jonas in the whale's belly-- (laughter)—for that when Jonas escaped from the belly of the whale, he went forth an untainted character, and so he insists he should be considered, having escaped from the clutches of Mr. Lopdell, who, the prisoner states, is in mind very like a whale, and who sought to devour him. (Laughter.) He further, my lord, insists that the fact of his having meat frequently in his possession, and having gone about the country selling legs of mutton, demon stratively proves his innocence. for that it is merely evi dence to show he is a man of industrious habits prosecu ting his trade as a butcher.—(Loud laughter.) lie sub mits, my lord, to go into the dock and stand his trial for sheep stealing, or any other offence that may be brought against him • but he denies the existence of a power in the jury to find him guilty as a vagrant, the whole weight of the evidence in his opinion going to prove he is an honest man.— (Loud laughter)—He was sentenced to the usual penalty in such cases. STRANGE POLICE CASE.—At the Henry-street Police office, Dublin, on Thursday, a respectable-looking young man whose name appeared as George Bailey, of Calen, Wiltshire, was charged with having a gun and a case of pistols in his possession without license. The following are the heads of the case :—On Wednesday (the day before), Mr. Bailey arrived at Dublin from Liverpool, and went to Fleming's Hotel, North Wall. In the course of of the evening, some discharged soldiers arrived from England and also stopped at the same hotel. Two of them slept in the room over Mr. Bailey's bedroom, and about two o'clock next morning, one of them who was very drunk, got up with the intention of proceeding down stairs. The window of the room looked on a shed, and the man mistaking it, as it was open, for the door, walked out on the sill, and finding his mistake a tt emp t e dl to re cover himself. He failed, and laid hold of the window sill to support himself. He fell so far, and his legs hung down. In his exertions to regain the room his feet came into contact with the window of the room in which Mr. Bailey was asleep. He kicked away for some time, and broke several panes of glass. Mr. Bailey was roused, and having a good deal of property in the room, jumped out of bed, thinking he was going to be attacked by robbers, and seized a small pistol which he had left loaded on the dressing table, when by some accident it went off, the ball severely wounding himself in the hand, and passing to the other side of the room. The man at the outside of the window, hearing the report, and thinking it aimed at him, fell from his position, and coming on the shed, tumbled through another window, and cut one of his legs severely. When the waiter ran up stairs he found Mr. Bailey nearly covered with blood, and afterwards found the soldier half dead from fright and hurt. The man declared he had been shot, though the ball did not go near him. The soldiers gave the alarm to the police, stating that their comrade had been shot. A surgeon was brought, Mr. Bailey's hand was dressed and the soldier was sent to the hospital. The constable called was puzzled and decided on charging Mr. Bailey with having arms in his possession without a license.—Mr. O'Callagan, the magistrate, ques tioned Mr. Bailey strictly .as to his possession of them, and the reply was to this and ether questions, that he had just arrived from Liverpool, that he had accidentally gone to the inn, not wishing to lake !his luggage through the torm,,as .I.te was going on hesinessinllee corn trade; that he carried the pistols for his personal protection, and the gun—which he intended to resister as soon as possible — for his amusement. He added that he knew General Dombrain, of the commissariat department. That gen tleman was sent for, and gave Mr. Bailey a high character; he also added that he had employed Mr. Bailey at Water ford under the relief commission, and that his story was, he believed, correct. Meantime Mr. B's luggage was searched by the police, but nothing of a "felonious" cha racter was discovered.—The magistrate at the end of these strange and eventful proceedings, discharged Mr. Bailey, and ordered the arms to be sent to the commis sioners' office. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. ---- The dividend of Bs. per sha t re recommended in the re port of the Eastern Counties railway was carried at the half-yearly meeting. RAILWAY SPEED.—The express train of the Great Western on Tuesday last ran the 22 miles from Didcot to Swindon in eighteen minutes. The dividend to be declared at the approaching meet ing of the North British Railway Company will be five per cent. _ _ - It is expected that the dividends of the York, New castle, and Berwick, and the York and North Midland Railways, will be eight per cent. at the approaching meetings. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending August 5, £lBO7 4s. ld., and for the week ending August 12, £2235 55., (Postoffice for conveyance of mails, and toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, not included.) The report and accounts of the Great Northern were adopted by the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting ; after various pressing remarks to the directors on the necessity of a more stringent economy in the conduct of their affairs. Before October the line will probably be opened to six miles beyond Lincoln CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. —Baron Goldsmid and Mr. Garnett have joined the Board of Directors, and it is intended to resume forthwith the works for complet ing the line between Chester and Warrington. Arrange ments are also in progress for resuming the works at the Birkenhead Docks. At the South-Eastern railway meeting, the dividend was continued at 21s. per share on the original shares, and 15s. 9d. was declared on the No. 1, and Ils. Bd. on the No. 2 shares, the available balance of profit and loss being £108,836. The capital account, it was stated, will be closed with all possible dispatch, and the entire report was favourably received. In the report to the meeting of the Great Western Railway Company, " The directors recommended that the same dividend as before, 3 per cent. for the half-year, to be payable from the disposable balance, which will leave the sum of £7,821 Bs. 7d. to be carried to the credit of the current half-year, which is always found to be pro ductive of the largest revenue." The report was agreed to. CALEDONIAN OPENING TO ARBROATH AND MON TROSE.—On Monday the Castlecary branch of this rail way was opened for public traffic, thus completing the direct line between London, Perth, Dundee, Arbroath, and Montrose. The express trains from Dundee arrived at the Euston-square terminus in 15 hours, and from Ar broath in 151. The line is continued from Arbroath to Montrose, coaches conveying passengers on to Aberdeen. From official returns, it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 4,045 miles of railway, was £237,194, thus accounted for :—£131,565 for the convey ance of passengers only, £47,692 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £57,937 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £20,851 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,230. The average earnings per mile were £52, whilst in 1847 they were £67. A very serious accident happened on the Eastern Counties Railway, near the Lea-bridge station, on Tues day, by which Mr. William Bungrey, a solicitor, residing at Stockbridge, in Hants, lost his life. The deceased gentleman got on to the main line at the moment a train was approaching. The engine -driver sounded the steam whistle, but from deafness, it is supposed, he was not conscious of his danger until the buffer of the engine caught him, and threw him apparently on to the perma nent way between the rails, the firebox of the engine crushing him as it went along. Mr. Glyn, at the London and North-western meeting last week, took the opportunity of congratulating the shareholders upon the connection with the docks in the Thames, which will very shortly be realized. It is curious to observe how every railway is trying to have its water terminus. Mr. Hudson connects his Eastern Counties at Yarmouth ; his Hull and Selby at Hull; his northern lines at Hartlepool and Sunderland. The Great Western has Bristol, and is looking to Plymouth and Falmouth. The shrewd men of Sheffield were laughed at for seizing hold of dull Great Grimsby ; but every day's experience is proving the wise policy of that step. The Lancashire and Yorkshire have secured Goole ; the South-western, Southampton, &c. ; and we have no doubt that, in a few years, docks will be a feature of every important line. The possession of a good water terminus is like extend ing the line, in one sense, to all the world. RAILWAY COLLISIONS.—OIi Thursday morning a colli sion took place on the London and North-Western Rail way, between the early mail train from York and the branch mail train from Peterborough. The spot where the collision took place is called Ashton Bank, situate about 51- miles on the northern side of Wolverton, and 21 miles from the Roade station. The Peterborough mail train left Peterborough, drawn by No. 93 engine, and all went well until the arrival of the train at Ashton Bank, when the engine came to a dead stop, in consequence of the connecting-rods of the engine having given way. The York mail was at this time due, and the engine -driver, being unable to do anything with his engine, immediately dispatched his fireman down the line towards the Roade station with the fog signal, it being exceedingly foggy at the time, in order to stop the up-coming trains. The York mail was at the moment approaching, and it appears that there was not sufficient time after the engine -driver of that train had sight of the fog signals, to stop to prevent his running into the Peterborough train. Several of the carriages were much damaged, and some of the passengers were cut and bruised; but no serious injuries appear to have been sustained by any one, except a man named Col lins, the under-guard, whose head came in contact with the break-iron, and who is thought to have sustained a concussion of the brain. .He has been removed to Lon don, and is now lying in the University College Hospital. As soon as the line was cleared, the passengers were brought to Wolverton by-the Liverpool mail, and thence to London, where they arrived at nine o'clock, upwards of five hours after the proper time. Amongst the passengers in the York train were the Rev. Dr. Townsend, Preben dary of Durham, his lady, and lady's maid (Mrs. Chorl ton). Happily the Dr. and his lady escaped with a few trifling contusions, but Mrs. Chorlton was a good deal cut about the head.—Another accident occurred on this line of railway on Friday morning, by which the life of one of the engine -drivers has been placed in imminent peril. The following are the circumstances, as far as we have been able to ascertain them :—Thomas Sands left Bir mingham at a quarter to nine o'clock on Thursday eve ning, in charge of a luggage train, which he brought safely as far as the 'Ting-cutting. While passing be tween this cutting his engine became out of order, and the unfortunate man having become alarmed, threw him self off the engine-plate into the embankment, and sus tained a severe fracture of the thigh. —Another collision took place at Birmingham on Friday. On the arrival of the nine a.m. express train from London at the Birming ham terminus, a train of first and second class carriages was being shifted on the main line. The driver of the engine drawing the express train did not shut off his steam in time. He ran into the train of empty carriages, smash ing three or four of the first-class, and damaging more or less every carriage in the train. No life was lost. Thistrirt 49.etv5, The Wesleyan Methodist conference will be held nest year at Manchester. Mr. Palmer, solicitor, of Preston, paid last week his one hundred and nineteenth visit to Lancaster Assizes. On Wednesday, a sturgeon, upwards of six feet in length, and weighing 1221b5., was caught by Robert Leadbetter, of North Meols, at that place. A NOVEL DEFENCE.—A man was brought up, on Monday, at Preston, charged with having been drunk and creating a disturbance in the previous week. He hoped the bench would pardon him as he had only been attend ing a temperance tea party, and had had a little drop too much. DEATHS FROM DROWNING.—On Sunday, a little boy. named John Dean, a year-and-a-half old, was drowned in a pit at Winstanley. The child had walked out of the house, and fallen into the water.—On the following day, a little girl, named Mary Ann Heaton, was drowned in a pit at Pemberton. She was playing with some other children, and fell in. CONVICTIONS FOR BURGLARY.—At the Lancaster assizes last week, three men, named Pilkington, Culshaw, and Cheetham, were sentenced to fourteen years' trans portation, for a burglary at the house of Mary Crawshaw, near Croston. John Doming was sentenced to a similar term of banishment, for a burglary in the house of James Rainford, at Preston. FATAL RESULT OF A BOYISH QUARREL.--On Tues day, two little boys, named Charles and George William son. the sons of an operative of that name living in Red Bank, Manchester, aged respectively nine and four years, were proceeding homewards, on their way from school, when they commenced quarrelling, and Charles, the eldest, struck his brother a blow. A person who was passing at the time, and knew them, interfered, and told them it was very wrong to quarrel, on which the youngest raised his hand and repaid his brother the blow, causing him to fall backwards off the footpath. Just at the mo ment a laden cart happened to pass, the driver of which did not witness the quarrel, when, before the fallen boy could regain his feet, the wheel passed over his head, and killed him on the spot. CHESTER ASSIZES.—The assizes for the county of Chester commenced on Monday. Joseph Sherlock, 19, William Sherlock, 25, William Mitchell, 24, and Samuel Pownall, 22, were indicted for the manshughter of Thos. Evans, at Greasby, near Birkenhead, on the 16th of June. The first-named prisoner was charged as principal, and the others as accessories. The matter had its origin in a fight, but the jury, after hearing the evidence, acquitted the prisoners. John Dean, 20, pleaded guilty to two in dictments, charging him with stealing letters containing money, the property of the Postmaster-Ceneral, at Wilmslow, and was sentenced to seven years' transporta tion. Thomas Jones, 24, was similarly sentenced for stealing a letter containing ten postage-stamps and a half sovereign, the property of the Inspector and Re ceiver-Generals, on the 11th of July last. .The prisoner was a letter-carrier at Birkenhead postoffice. August 22, 1848. EMIGRATION.—According to a nct . ce fixed on all places of worship in Lancaster, a meeting of the rat' _ payers took place on Thursday last, in the vestry of too . Parish Church there, to consider whether money no t ex ' ceeding half the average yearly poor-rate for the last three. years should be borrowed as a fund to defray the exPense: of the emigration of poor persons having settlements 1n the parish, and expended under the regulations o f t h e existing poor law. The Rev. Joseph Turner, the vi c ar , . o 7 presided. It appeared- that, in consequence of notic e s published that assistance would be given to such pa r ti e s who were desirous to emigrate, the guardians had aPP. I ,, cation from twelve adults with ten children —bu t ' l _7 feared none of them came under the denominatio n agricultural labourers, so as to entitle them to a free passage to Australia, to which some of them wished t o F u Two or three were sawyers, and the remainder laboul men. The expense of the adults would be £9 each , I n to of the children half the sum. A resolution was passe" the effect that £3OO should be raised for the Pnel )ese stated, the same to be chargeable on the rates. The' ,- „, ' . pense in the Workhouse is £5 17s. per head per annu l' Some of the applicants had received relief for four Ye o ' and some had been in the Workhouse four }Tars. ta m A PROVIDENT SUGGESTION.—Last week, the Hon. T. Pemberton Leigh, M.P., gave a splendid fete to his Lancashire tenantry at Hindley-hall, near wig he In the course of his address to them he said, that would like to see them endeavouring to save somethi.og for a rainy day. He was quite su r e that in manY In stances it only required a beginning. In order to on complish this, and make a commencement, he should , Monday, place to the credit of every one of his woritte`„ in the Wigan Saving's Bank £2, and when he had Fur they would have a perfect control o ver th a t sura• 4 ther he should not interfere, as eve r y m a n had a Pe r r h t right to do what he pleased with his own. They 0 1,,„ draw it out and spend it if they liked ; he wished no ther control over it. At the same time he would strong,. advise them to save. He was aware how diffintam Stn. matter that was for a labouring man with a farnilY• of there were often small sums—a threepence, a sixpenc e s a shilling, which a labouring man mi g ht put by if he t o a fund to which to add it, but which otherwise he w° spend at the public-house. Any such sums, bow oc ec ' small, Mr. Ellison would receive, and p a y into the ba 0 for them. And, by way of encouragement, every ath i t t l so made, up to 205., he would double. If any tno.,,n, ) added ss. in the course of twelve m on th s , h e (Mr. r',.„11 .' would add 10s. If any man had a dd e d 10 s he viva add 20s. If any man had added £l, h e would add Those, therefore, who had saved 205., would have their credit at the bank. (Loud cheers.) He would b t , glad to find that they had clone so. He would make la further enquiries, but at the proper time they Ir. bring their books to his most excellent agent , Ellison, who, he was sure, would carry out his wishes. SERIOUS & FATAL CHARTIST DISTURBANCES. On Monday an ou`break of armed Chartists took P lsc : at Bright, which was not put down before a policeteli named was killed. So far as can be ascerta i 9 it appears that a number of the Confederates asson b ies , in the evening at their usual meeting-house, the Clul,r a o town Chapel, and for once havin g e va d e d th e surveity ' of the police, were enabled to arm th emse l ves w ith In s ri i to pikes, swords, and other weapons, and marc h out I n the streets, thusi armed, at a little before t we lve o ,:n rso ' 00 without encountering any immediate opposition. .r e s a rtf who saw them state that there were some thirty orl,t, pikes carried by them, which gleamed in the mooringto and that several carried drawn swo r d s , an d o thers g o d and pistols. Soon after leaving the meeting-house o gb encountered two policemen, one of w h om was s hot thre. o o the heart with a pistol; and they pursued the other in to an adjoining street, but he baffled th em b y ru nning di rs a cottage, the door of which he locked inside, taking, t he to extinguish the light as s oon as possible. liVb s " object of their march was, b e y on d the assassinati e „ .,, 0 1a the police, does not very clearly appear; but it nave seem that for a short time they en t er t a i ne d the on project of holding the town against the military, f 0 r ed messengers being sent to the barra c ks, th e y enen nn a e edt this armed force, and were turned back—some I n p it' being fired at. Several of the rioters have been ' ee na r , ted for trial on the charge of murdering the policem,, s o lo On Tuesday evening , at Manchester, in consetln em ar tiO what had occurred at Ashton, several of the Ch ei d leaders in that town were arrested. Between, t e n eleven o'clock a large force of a rme d p o li ce and in ' be' visited the clubs, and arrested f our t een o f th e leade rs orS fore any alarm could be given. A mongs t the Pr is° v/11 0 are Leach, the printer, Whitaker, and Donev aP ' appeared much chopfallen at their capture. brou ght On Wednesday morning, the prisoners were ~,g t ioS' up before a full bench of magistr a tes f o r exa ril ' A - 0 05 ' James Leach, Daniel Donovan, I. J. Fi nn igen, an tester. Rankin, had been arrested on war ran t s f r om 31eue'' were The police had received ilearmation that warrants of out against several others from othe r towns. The ,? s of the rest were T. Whittaker, H. Ellis, P. Deciltretv Carrigin, G. Rogers, J. Leaman, H. Williams, G •i tba‘ her, G. White, and J. Dolan. Mr. Pollock ask es i`s e ity all the prisoners should be remanded, as it would iott jurious to the ends of justice to enter into an exaull:'_ e rs, at the present time. Mr. Roberts defended the pri-0J:.100 and, •in a speech of some length, demanded that .t%iej prisoners against whom no warrants had bee n .15:',i00 should be at once discharged, and that the exam iu nco , of the rest should be proceeded with. After consultsu_or the bench decided to bind a ll th e p r isoners over to sPlioa that day week. The court was crowded to excess, large numbers were gathered outsiFe. --- , , o 0 A meeting of the Oldham Ch art i s t s t oo k P°' — salf • s Wednesday night, but they dispersed qui e tly about - past ten. From all that has taken place in and around 1-1 311 C s ive ter, there is every reason to believe that some ext ell u its• t im n a i r ios a u n ns g e e mi g m oh e vb n eom t u s rein h l o a t odadm.boeneTngisi Their fora rt a n d he e ocp RePe t a h l e e 0 0 ; vernment, so as to compel them of tb troops from Ireland. Attempts have been made p r ) , t he Manchester Chartists to rouse the working classes. _ o f surrounding towns to seditious movements, and in nee cases with success. The magistrates and the police " have, however, frustrated any general rising. giolft to alarm At Birmingham, two men, named White an ° e st' ethoavrw:riisstthsdarnawd many . , the were committed for seditious language at Chartist t‘ ings. l for On Wednesday night, in consequence of private ady mation received by the Government, a stroig bo oze' the police, nearly 300 in number, proceeded to the stp itlif Tavern, in Webber-street, London, kept by a l; ho to,„ where they seized fourteen men, and conveyed 1 to tra Tower-street. On being sea rc hed, pistols loadet , ,, , muzzle, pikes, three-corner daggers, spear hea°' ore swords were found upon their pers o ns, and otbersa bee, found secreted under the seats on which theY l , i t of° l ,, sitting. Some of them wore iron breast-Pl at °, tl ; others had gunpowder, shot, and tow-balls. L' a p r eo l ,'; man no fewer than 75 rounds of ball -cartridge w` o f tP,I covered. The prisoners were all placed in front es a n t lobby, and having been duly charged, their ni to oo', addresses were taken, and scarcely a man was, via forward who was not well known to the police t prominent Chartist. o tbe At one o'clock on Thursday morning, eleven armed Chartists were arrested in the neighbour ot , ao io Red Lion-square. The whole of the police n° arm`' in the streets were at the several stations unde r of `r, case their services should be required. The la ° T°`` ,e military quartered at Buckingham Palace, the,,„, vte 4 Mint, Bank of England, and the various barrao4oo under arms, and a continuous line of commun ica a s ° • ,, e s t kept up between the metropolitan and city Pn li t• c° o . o lw• d as with the military and other official bodies. r, t ist 0 has already transpired it is supposed that the Cha' w ed, 0 Confederate clubs intended to march out wel l qfdia, ° lo o they did some weeks back, and attack such nu , car to might be pointed out to them. Shortly after thoodtto was made in Webber-street, a meeting was a tte the °I ! if be held at the South London Chartist-hall, in ho ilike / e t street, when one of the leaders rushed into the as taxi; and advised them, for God's sake, to disperse,tit tetie lives were in danger. In an instant a generalfrro 6 ' place for the street, and one man, in leaping m an window, severely injured himself. olieet i° On Thursday morning, at an early hour, as ,"basrit t° was on duty at Clerken w ell, he espied a larg e the churchyard. On getting o v er the rails he f t for d o t' contain 700 ball cartridges, and implements It sto ti gerous purposes. The articles were taken to te o ld Wag • house. tes On Friday evening, a meeting of Confederal, 10 1 a lit at the South Chartist-hall, Blackfriars-roan been,cierl• but a formidable array of armed police havinthird i llO4 to the spot, the room was not above onet; which The object was to revive the Mitchel Cl it ro n l ; ‘ . was ofit greatly fallen off of late. A man named ' • ng° • ' s ' to the chair, and, after alluding to the, t heir Je people, requested the speakers to conceal. „. man ' ' T Polle and not to use seditious language. A Yn an '' c ling ° e violently against the press, accusing it of hone.nil f government to crush the liberties of the Pe a u Pdav-e C H vised Irishmen to organise, and hold I the 13 01 0 meetings at their own houses. A person '1 the rebut, be the hall began an address, stating that, 0 ° t i) was put down, what object could be gal i i io orss was yelled down, and so threatened tlmt. wa , a r_ xit make his escape. A cry was raised that tad rapid m e officer in disguise, and a scene of uproar an d nisat:tterev 9-10ths of the meeting took place l . in e W ha iro3 oll t ese lu s' and women were knocked down. Th ‘ e,. l ` - '„ he i, a warm eulogy on the patriotism of Pl'' gitc , , os l Iv o tion affirming the necessity of reviving issa A itiO was carried.—On the same day warrants Tt . . o o f se" o° s the apprehension of the most violent spout" at recent . k . h lt e hougii t he meetings precau i t n i t n l s m e taken tncr metropolis . pho i a i rae e c C t cO.; the h si tt o c n .e er b s ee h n av f e ul b :y ee w n ar o r f an tl t l e e d mboysttheexitucufusrivueitiaor i sv t h w l aeso t o h ji commissioners have obtained — namely, lo on n T io el'; intention of the Chartists and BePea l f s j, to ~'„° poli: 10 0 opportunity after they were fully org their disturbances in several parts o i f ' t he „ a n' tt e ilVg liciti to , one time, by pulling up the gas-pipes and in total darkness. Chartist 0- s ., t ien , to On Saturday, William CuffeY, a t eouv e " offi ce 'et' riety in connexion with the John-street polie e ,c t e to c o o(1 brought before Mr. Henry, at Bow-stl, A e lecT answer the charge of having attenoed ings referred to in the evidence of PowelL,i'lepsiV'tirjoeo`of taken part in a treasonable conspiraer.s. street' i brae c o og' he was a tailor, living at 11, 11 01 in re menoesi o ,s, street, Soho. His appearance, AieWe'eetlY.crii he oc e the tone and style of Juli speeches, aa Pen Lek i whi t os °°l4 o (/ ' He was scarcely higher thin the „uden u s s 4 0 ' Ai! ciplaced,sa African sort demeanour b e t er N ne V aatisiEnil:ags t o irs_ t uat i ; o r n. be P ine d, the J: ea l .;l o ..; t oi: i s ; to t l After several witnesses had been ex Mrs. Cuomol oa,ao.ef was remanded to the 31st instant. views in oo expressed her %tow The P.41 . 1P the court, but having expres• n o fficer. , clay' terms, she had to be put out by wel l , g oo d on leaving the court exclaimed , men," with well affected firmness. Anar i 1 .... . 2 : ... .5 and as SR east o Glasg the t o taken The N ble re ship, altho t is lost their SR was 1 Mille " Arc about and srnoo forth adapt goes. Mess in ab St: nine AVA: The vacat otrie same the s ted. by t} in 0 thro , that Ghee sam rnir€ Thri The n Whit Eery "tic in 1 not fo r ver