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imperial parlizurant HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNnIy, Lord BROUGHAM submitted for consideration some re solutions proposed by him on the 4th of May,1846, rela tive to the private business of the house, and made an ex position of his plan for private and railway legislation in their lordships' house.—After a short discussion the reso lutions were withdrawn. _ _ _ The Bishopric of Manchester Bill was read a third time and passed. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the-table a treaty of commerce and navigation between her Majesty and the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Clergy Offences Bill and the Royal Marine Service Bill went through committee. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS--TursDAY. The Qualification of Peers (Scotland) Bill passed the committee and was reported to the House. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in moving the second reading of the Poor-Law Administration Bill, briefly ex plained that it continued the powers, but altered the ma chinery, of the present law, the principal alteration being the appointment of one commissioner at the head of a certain board, who would have a seat in parliament, and there be compelled to answer questions relating to the administration of the law. _ _ . Lord BROUGHAM expressed his admiration of the prin ciple of the present law, and hoped the House would not depart from it. But when they went into committee on the bill, he should feel it his duty to suggest some amend ments. Lord REDESDALE objected to that portion of the bill which provided that the chief commissioner should have a seat in parliament. In his opinion the delicate duties which that functionary had to perform should be kept wholly apart from party politics. After a few words from the Marquis .of LA.NSDOWNE in explanation, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. . . On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the house went into committee on the Baths and Wash-houses Bill. The noble lord said that in this bill, which was intended to promote habits of cleanliness among the poorer classes, it was originally provided that all the baths, hot and cold, Should be charged at a uniform and minimum rate, but subsequently it was thought that the classes immediately above the poorest might be benefitted, if baths at a some what higher charge were established, and that, further, the revenue derived from these latter would support tilde baths for the poor, without any increase in the poor-rate. With this view a clause had been introduced, authorising in certain cases a charge of threepence for cold and six pence for warm baths. Lord MONTFAGLE opposed the clause, as applying a public rate to that which was not a public purpose. To establish baths and wash-houses for the better classes at the public expense would be tantamount to establishing a tenant-farmers' ward in the workhouse. The Bishop of LONDON said that he did not think that any argument that had been urged would justify the house in refusing its assent to a measure which was intended to promote the health. the cleanliness, and the morality of the people. Since the establishment of the cheap bath houses no less than 80,000 persons had taken 'advantage of them in the north-western district of the metropolis. After a few observations from Lord BROUGHAM, Lord STANLEY said that the principle of the bill was unobjectionable, and, in fact it had been adopted in the county - lunatic asylums, wherein patients were received and treated at a greater charge than the pauper patients, the county rates being thereby considerably relieved by the surplus derived from the richer patients. The fact, however, was that, in the present bill , it was a quest ion of principle, but one simply of argument, and in order to obviate the difficulty suggested by the proprietors of pri vate baths, some condition ought to be imposed on the managers of the baths to be created under the bill, where by the higher class baths should be charged at such prices as not wholly to supersede the private establishments of that nature, whose existence was supposed to be en dangered by the measure. With this proviso, the bill would have his perfect approbation and sanction. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the suggestion of the noble lord was a good one, and might be adopted with great advantage. After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE, the clause was agreed to. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Thursday. . Their lordships adjourned at seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS •TUESDAY There being only fourteen members present at four o'clock, the Speaker declared the house adjourned till Wednesday. The following members were present when the Speaker took the chair:—Barnard, Thornley, Brotherton, Duncan, Bowring, Hindley, R. York, Kemble, Greene, Hamilton, Pattison, Christie, Ward, Wakley, and Trelawny. HOUSE OF COMMONS WEDNESDAY In the course of a conversation Lord J. RUSSELL said he should propose the suspension of the navigation laws, as necessary to afford facility for the importation of corn until the Ist of March next. Some remarks were made by Sir D. NORREYS who complained of the report of the Relief Commissioners for Ireland, in imputing to the gentry of that country the grossest misconduct and dishonesty, without producing the documents upon which such conclusion was drawn. Lord J. RUSSELL said the report imputed such conduct to some of the gentry only, and added that a general in vestigation into the allegations would be wholly inad visable. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, after a discussion of some length, withdrew for the present his Mines and Collieries Bill. After an unimportant conversation on the removal of the Wellington statue from Hyde Park corner, the house adlourned. HOUSE OF LORDS THURSDAY Extracts from all State for the The Earl of ASHBURTON moved for communications between the Secretary of Colonies and the colonial governments, relative to any re peal or diminution of those differential duties by which the produce of the domestic industry of this country had hi therto been protected."—The returns were agreed to. The Trustees' Relief Bill was then read a second time, on the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR. The Juvenile Offenders Bill was read a third time and passed, after which their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS.- THURSDAY Objections were made by Mr. G. PALMER and Colonel EIBTHORP, to the house going into committee on the Health of Towns' Bill. The latter wanted to know, why the city of York—which, when he had formerly visited it in his military capacity, was as distinguished for its hos pitality, liberality, cleanliness, and good feeling as any city in the country—should be included in this bill, when the city of London, with all its filth and insufficient sewerage, was to be exempted from it ? He was afraid that the savory steam arising from the Lord Mayor's kitchen overpowered the olfactory nerves of Lord J. Rus sell, and rendered them insensible to the villainous smells of Puddledock and other similar laystalls in the city of London. The bill was most partial, dangerous, and un constitutional; and he should therefore meet it with the most strenuous opposition in his power. Mr. W. BROWN considered this to be the most impor tant bill of the present session, and hoped that the house would support i required in all larg Some better sanitary regulations were and particularly in the town since Mr. G. I posed to it it the city fence of the crowds of destitute ho were flocking into it. In the course of the r 250.000 Irishmen had landed at tl ne to the western world, carry- h. The 3o1; and red, if di of pestilence and rt, still in Liv he was sorry tosay, that there were at present 6000 or 7000 cases of typhus in the hospitals of that town, and that disease and death were spreading in every quarter of .nt of Rroper sar y regulations •rived from that borough informed him, that in the course of the last fort night the authorit!e3 had paid not less than £l6O foi With these facts before their eyes, he hoped that nor ;es of Parliament would give their support to 6 uvernr nt in carrying this bill. If experience shoul show ti there were defects in it, they cm" " coffins remedied ii Mr. MA rich it ought to include, and_ that twined much machinery which might be as well lef ut still, upon the whole, it was a good bill and de. , . serving public support. If the government had power to include in its operation the city of London, it would un doubtedly exercise it ; but it had not the power, and therefore it was not fair in the opponents of the measure to twit the government with not doing that which it had not the power to do. Mr. SPOONER objected to this bill, as it was founded on the principle of centralization, on which we had acted too much already. If the system, of which the bill was a part, continued to be acted on, we should have nothing but commissions to govern the local affairs of the country. He sympathized with the present condition of the borough of Liverpool ; but was the house, on account of the di-s -tress of that town, to pass a general and permanent mea sure--from which, however, the city of London was to be exempt—to meet a special and temporary evil ? The bill established a most expensive machinery, of which nobody knew anything ; and the most objectionable feature in it NM.% that it placed no limit to the expense which might be incurred on it. Mn. HUDSON also objected to the bill, which was one of patronage and jobs. He also objected to the bill be- cause it contained powers that were monstrous in respect to the unlimited rating of towns. Other bills contained niting the amount of rates to be levied in one no such clause was to be found in the present have the Dower of year, 0 ;s from eve that The house then dividedpwhen the numbers were—For the committee, 117 ; against it, 26 ;—majority, 91. The house then went into committee ; and before any clause was proposed, Lord MORPETH, to mollify opposi tion, announced his intention of reducing the number'of commissioners from five to four, and of making only one of them a paid commissioner. The rest of the evening was consumed in the discussion of the first seven clauses of the bill, upon which some verbal amendments were made, but not without the con sent of the Government. _ The Chairman was then ordered to report progress, and the committee was ordered to sit again this day. The other orders were then disposed of, and the house adjourned HOUSE -OF LORDS.-FAIDAY The Royal assent was given by commission to avast number of bills. _ _ _ Lord BROUGHAM aaked the Duke of Wellington whe ther he had received any information respecting the late case of suicide in the, 75th Regiment. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that the offence of the private who had committed suicide was a most atrocious case, and that, in his opinion, he fully merited the severity with which he had been treated ; the only fault he found with the commanding-officer was that he had not suffici ently explained the grounds of the order which had worked so unfortunately on the prisoner's mind. On the motion for going into committee on the Poor law Amendment Bill, Lord BROUGHAM stated his objection to the connexion of the Poor-law department with the Government, and to making its head removable by, and intimately con nected with, the party in office. The consequence would be that all Poor-law measures, good or bad, would be at tacked and defended in a spirit of party, and there would be an end to all dispassionate treatment of the subject. He always considered the „greatest blot in the bill to .be the clause which had been introduced into it in the other house, providing against the separation of married pau pers above a prescribed age, and he tendered his hearty thanks to the Government for having opposed that pro position. Again, the requisite knowledge of the details of the department was not to be acquired in a day, and still less the firmness necessary for the discharge of so de licate and so difficult a duty. Yet the president of the department would, if his Government went out, retire from office before this firmness and this knowledge of the details could possibly be acquired. Such a functionary ought to be acquired by knowledge, by temper, by firm ness of character, but, above all, he ought to have a seat in Parliament from which he could not be expelled. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was glad to find that Lord Brougham was disposed to admit the heads of the Poor law department to seats in Parliament, for he was con vinced that a great portion of the obliquy that had been thrown upon them resulted from the fact of their acting so much in the dark. He could not agree with the noble lord in thinking that the president ought to be uncon nected with party, but, on the contrary, was sure that the department would not work well unless its head was in intimate and confidential communication with the govern ment. Lord STANLEY thought that the question was beset with difficulties on all sides, but, though he was fully aware of the political inconvenience which might arise from the connection of the head of the Poor-law department with the government, he still thought that such a connexion would be advantageous, and for this reason he quite ap proved of the principle of making the chief functionary of that department personally responsible to the government. The house then went into committee on the bill, and all the clauses were agreed to, with the exception of the 23d, providing that married persons above 60 years of age should not be compelled to live apart in workhouses, which was negatived without a division. • The bill was then ordered to be reported. Several other bills were forwarded a stage, and their lordships ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS -FRIDAY The following Bills were read a third time and passed : —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Sup ply of Surplus Water to Manchester, Salford, and Stock port); Portsmouth Paving, Lighting, and Improvement : Taunton Improvement and Market. Lord G. BENTINCX questioned the Foreign Secretary as to whether, in the event of the Prussian Government and the Zollverein refusing to renew the treaty of inter national commerce with this country, it was the intention of the British Government to make reprisals. Lord PALMERSTON answered that the Prussian Go vernment had the option to terminate the treaty, and he had received an intimation of their intention to do so. He would have no objection to lay that intimation on the table. Mr. HuFT wished to know whether the Foreign Secre tary was aware that negociations were on foot with the intent of inducing the Hanse Towns to unite with the States of the Zollverein in an arrangement to impose differential duties on the ships of all nations which would not accord to the German States the same privileges of navigation which the German States extended to them. Lord PALMERSTON said it was true that the German Governments had been in communication with the Hanse Towns for the object indicated ; and he had been informed that a person had been sent from Berlin to Hamburgh, Lubec, and Bremen, to induce the Hanse Towns to be come members of the Zollverein. Hamburgh and Lubec had, he believed, become parties to the arrangement. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Bill for the renewal of the suspension of the Navigation Laws. Lord G. BENTINCK opposed the Bill as an underhand attempt to repeal the Navigation Laws—as a stepping stone to their total abolition—which he felt convinced would be a measure most disastrous to our commercial marine, and which would put in peril the naval supremacy of England, by restricting the source from whence the Royal Navy is supplied with seamen. He maintained that the .suspension already tried, as far as experience proved, had had no practically beneficial effect ; and he insisted that the Government, instead of suspending the Navigation Laws, ought to have employed all the vessels of war that could be spared in carrying grain to this country. By September next there would be no further pretence for continuing the suspension of these laws. Lord J. RUSSELL assured the noble lord that the mea sure was designed to be only temporary, and had no reference whatever to any ulterior change in the perma nent Navigation Laws. After a slight discussion, Lord G. BENTINCIE consented to withdraw his opposition, as Lord John Russell had announced that he would impartially consider the evidence taken before the Navigation Laws committee. The Custody of Offenders Bill passed through com mittee, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. . The Stock in Trade Exemption Bill was read a second time after some opposition from Sir R. Inglis and Lord G. Bentinck, the latter of whom moved that the House be counted. Sir G. Grey was then the only occupant of the Ministerial benches, but by a sudden rush of members the House was saved. _ . Dr. Bow RING asked the Attorney-General whether the property of Tawell, who was executed for murder, and respecting which an official inquiry had lately taken place, instead of escheating to the Crown, would be restored to his widow ? _ _ _ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had been wholly surprised at the turn given in various quarters to the late inquisition into the property of the convict Tawell. The hon. member was aware that the goods of convicts es cheated to the Crown ; but the widow of Tawell having petitioned the crown that an inquisition into her late husband's property might be made, with a view to itsbeing vested in herself, the petition had been granted, and the inquiry had taken place accordingly. ',Hear, hear.) Lord SANDOM asked if the Governor of Hong Kong had acted on his own responsibility in his expedition to Canton ? _ Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had received instruc- I tions to demand redress for injuries inflicted by the Chi nese authorities, of which he had sent home information ; but other circumstances having since arisen, he had acted without instructions as to the particular expedition. To a question from Mr. Horsman, Lord MORPETH replied that he intended, on the passing of the Health of Towns Bill, to discontinue burials in crowded towns. The House went into committee on the Health of city of London, was carried on a division by 112 against 70. The Chairman reported progress, and obtain leave to sit again at twelve o'clock on Monday. The House then adjourned to Monday. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, This week the installation of Prince Albert will take place at Cambridge. The Queen is to be present, and would arrive there yesterday. The Lord Bishop of Exetsr has been pleased to appoint the Rev. William Maskell, M.A., of Broadleaze, near Devizes, one of his lordship's domestic chaplains. Friday's Gazette contains Orders in Council ratifying three schemes of the ecclesiastical commissioners. The first authorises the sale of certain lands now forming part of the endowment of the prebend of Bishopshall, 'hi the cathedral of Lichfield. The second and third assign dis tricts to the consecrated church of St. Peter, Birming ham, and to Newport Chapel, Bishop's Tawton, Devon. COLONIAL SEES. —We have now twenty-two colonial sees and dioceses ; viz., Antigua, Barbadoes, Bombay, Calcutta, Gibraltar, Guiana, Jamaica, Madras, Montreal, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Tas mania, Toronto, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Cape Town, Colombo, and Fredericton. This ia a goodly and a godly array ; but it is the forerunner only, we trust and believe, of a far larger distribution of spiritual aid to our vast colonial empire. The field for labour is bound less ; our duty, as a Christian state, to cultivate it, impe rative. Until recently, this duty was but feebly and par- tially recognised ; but 'we are beginning to understand it better; and we look forward to its future performance with confidence. The impulse which has been given will have a natural tendency to develop its own energies.—John Bull. OF THIS DIOCES. the Bishop of Chester has divided the ruri t hitherto presided over by the " Rural dean Ties of he archdeaconry .on (of Chester, lof Chester." Hereafter, each I Manchester, an d Liverpool) will his own district e as rural dean over 1 and Archdeacon s some of our read a rural dean, we n Ts may not uties of the 'bisho, better to inspect the Conduct of the y, to inquire into and report dilapidatio line the candidates for confirmation, and .med, in minutt7 matters,. with an inferior degree dicial and coercive authority.--Manchester Guardian I FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL qNTELLIGENCE. INDIA By the last mail of the 20th of:May, we learn that Hy •derabad;the Metropolitan of the .Deccan, had been the scene of military tumults in consequence of long arrears of pay which were due to the soldiery. The consequence had been that for the first time a body of English troops entered Hyderabad; and should their presence fail to re store tranquillity, it appears the'Nizam's territories are so surrounded with British bayonets, that large reinforce ments from the three Presidences can be instantaneously despatched. The Deccan has long been in an unquiet state, and the British authorities, not only in Madras, but in Bombay and Bengal, have had to maintain an uneasy attitude of preparation which renders it extremely desirable, now that we have at last moved in the business, to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, which we have no doubt Lord Hardinge will do. Till ;LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SPAIN Accounts from Madrid to the 25th ult. say that prepa rations were being made for the reception of the Queen at San Ildefonso, where it was still hoped the King would join Her Majesty. The intelligence from Burgos mentioned that the band of the Carlist chief, El Estudiante, had been reinforced by very few partizans. On the 20th, that chief, after ex changing a few shots with the civic guards of Villafranca, retired into the mountains, and surprised the small town of Belorado, where he seized some arms and about 2000 reels, (£20,) belonging to the municipality. The Madrid Gazette publishes a despatch from the General-in-Chief of the Spanish Army, of Operation, dated Braganza, 16th, stating that he would arrive before Oporto on the 22d or 23d. Another despatch from the same general, dated Mirandela, the 19th, announced that Brigadier Belesta, with eight battalions of infantry, a bat tery of artillery, and two squadrons of cavalry, was to sleep, on the 20th, at Chaves. PORTUGAL, THE DUKE OF PALMELLA.—The Queen of Portugal has written a letter with her own hand to the Duke of Palmella, commanding his return to Lisbon, and his re sumption of the position which he had so long and so de servedly held in the councils of her Majesty before he was displaced and banished by the factious and corrupt pro ceedings which have brought so much trouble and cala mity upon Portugal. The Prussian Gazette of the 27th ult. announces the closing of the Diet at Berlin on the preceding day. The quantity of beet-root sugar manufactured in France during the last six months, amounted to 52,695,424 kilo grammes, being an increase of 13,343,670 kilogrammes upon the quantity made in the preceding season. An American paper mentions that the woods along the Baltimore and Ohio Railway were lately set on fire by a spark from the ngine of a train; and as the wind was high the flames swept over a space of more than four miles. The Boston Transcriptstates that General Tom Thumb, who has realised a handsome competency, has " wooed a little maid," who has agreed to marry him. She is in her 16th year z weighs 1911 b., and is 30 inches high. The united weight of this little couple is 501 b. Mr. Cobden was entertained at a grand civic banquet at Venice on the 21st instant. He replied in French to a complimentary speech made to him and was enthusiasti cally received. The treat was given with the authority of the Austrian Government. Mr. C.was about to proceed to Trieste, where a new triumph awaited him. THE POPE'S LAST MIRACLE.—The Tablet publishes the following extract from a private letter from Rome : " The Pope has wrought a miracle. He went to Subiaco, and as there was a great want of rain, the people asked him to pray for it. He accordingly went to the shrine of St. Benedict, and prayed there an hour, and immediately the rain came and lasted six hours." SUFFERINGS OF EMIGRANTS.—The latest accounts from Quebec estimate the number of emigrants arrived, at 30,000; the number of deaths on shore and at sea, 3000. The number of deaths in hospital at Grosse Isle ; during the week ending June 11, was 119; the number of deaths on board. the 30 vessels performing quarantine there, could not be ascertained, but was known to be greater. On one day there were 128 funerals. rangements must, if possible, be made for sending the wife of the prisoner to her friends, as her name will be erased from the books at the end of the month." In compliance with this order, Radcliff 's hair was cropped close, and a ft er bein g paraded be was led back to the guard-room in company with a corporal and two privates. Immediately on his entering the room he seized a razor, and drew it across his throat, which divided the principal vessels of the neck, and he soon afterwards died.—An inquest was held, when the following verdict was return ed :—" We find that the deceased, John Radcliff, came by his death in consequence of having inflicted an exten sive wound in his throat with a razor, whilst labouring under temporary derangement, induced by the extreme severity of the order from Colonel Hallifax produced in evidence." IRELAND. The sum subscribed towards the Irish Relief Fund at Bombay amounts to £9,3oo—upwards of £22,000 having been collected throughout India. Colonel Jones, chief commissioner of the Board of Works, is now making a tour of the coast of Ireland, with a view to the adoption of measures for improving the har bours and fishing stations. Parliament has made a grant of £40,000 for this object. By order of Government proceedings have been insti tuted against Mr. Wallnutt, mayor of Limerick, a repealer, as one of the firm of Stein and Co., for having defrauded the finance committee, by substituting a different descrip tion of Indian corn for that sent to their mill to be ground. THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CORK. — Letters have reached Cork from Rome, in which it is stated that the Very Rev. William Delany, 8.8. of Ban don, who stood second on the list, has been appointed Bishop of Cork by the Court of Rome ; and that the consecrating bulls will be received in a few days from this date.— Cork Examiner.—[Father Mathew was first on the list]. TUE busn PACKET STATIONS.—We have learned that £30,000 bas been granted by government for Port patrick Harbour, and large steamers are about to be put on that packet station. At the same time, we under stand by way of experiment, an additional mail is to be carried by contract from Ardrossan to Belfast and Fleet wood, to carry, we presume, the north mails to Ireland and England—the south mails continuing as formerly to go by Portpatrick and by Holyhead. The new arrange ment is said to be a temporary one.—Wiytonshire Free Press. _ _ _ - • ---- MR. O'CONNELL'S REMAINS.—The Dublin Evening Post says: "The Oriental Steam-packet Company, through their respected and public-spirited secretary, Mr. Hartley, have made arrangements on the most liberal scale, for the conveyance of the remains of Mr. O'Connell from Genoa to Southampton, free of all charge. The steamer destined convey the body of the illustrious deceased is expected at Southampton about the 17th of July. Mr. Hartley has undertaken to convey the body in one of his own vessels, and solely at his own cost, from Southampton to Dublin or Kingston, as the Dublin Cemetery committee may select, and has given directions that the Queen steamer should be suitably fitted up for this purpose. It is calculated that the remains of Mr. O'Connell will arrive in this city about the 20th of July." STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Generally, the accounts are much less unfavourable as to the extent of fever and desti tution. Food is becoming plentiful and cheaper, and the fine prospects of the harvest are giving confidence to all classes. Even in Skibbereen there is a most decided im provement. The Rev. R. Boyle Townsend, in a letter from that place, says—" Though the workhouse is as crowded as ever, having at this instant eleven hundred in it, that is, three hundred over its original intended num ber, there were but four deaths in the last week—a prodi gious change from over one hundred deaths in the same space of time shortly ago. We have, to be sure, many epidemics raging still, and much destitution of course, but nothing above ordinary mortality, nor any want of food in plenty allowed to exist, through the Lord's blessing." In some districts, however, Sligo in particular, fever and destitution still prevail to a lamentable extent. THE WEATHER.—Summer has set in in right earnest, not, as has been observed, "with its usual severity," but with a brilliancy and warmth more resembling a tropical than the humid, lukewarm, climate of the " Emerald Isle;" and a continuance of such weather as we have had for the last few days cannot but raise high hopes of the advent of better times, by the realization of the prospect of a harvest of more than average abundance. Nothing can be more cheering than the accounts from all parts of the kingdom—there is scarcely a drawback. The grain crops are described as being seldom equalled, never ex celled, in appearances, while the turnip and other green crops promise a yield which must nearly, if not altogether counterbalance the loss by failure—supposing it complete —of the potato. Prices of all kinds of provisions are ing everyw money moved, leartening as it I "That this meeting, considering the main objects of the bill now before Parliament, to enable the Birmingham the aspect of affairs is by no means so c was at the corresponding period of last year Mr. SHIEL'S PANEGYRIC ON O'CONNELL.—Mr. Sheil and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make certain availed himself of the recent debate upon the Government alterations in the line of the Birmingham and Oxford project for lending .C 1300,000 to certain Irish railways, to Junction Railway, and to purchase the Stratford-upon deliver a panegyric on O'Connell. The hon. member's Avon Canal Navigation, and for other purposes, to be speech was in his usual style when he lavishes praise— consistent with the interests of the shareholders, desires somewhat florid and tawdry, but at the same time cold to express its concurrence in the provisions of such bill, and constrained. He appeared as if wishing to be only expecting those which confer power on the Great Western decently civil; without any deep feeling of admiration for' Company to subscribe for, or to purchase and hold shares his departed friend, or of veneration for his memory. Mr. in this company, under the alleged agreement, to the M. J. O'Connell, who afterwards addressed the house, terms of which the shareholders in this company object, took no notice of this posthumous tribute, and we suspect: and which enable the Great Western Railway Company it will be very ungraciously received in Conciliation Hall. to raise capital for that purpose, and to vote in respect The topic upon which Mr. Sheil expatiated most largely, th er eof, of which provision, in the present state of the was his own regret that O'Connell did not live to reach matter, the meeting cannot approve : and this meeting, Rome ! Nothing could be more trite or superficial than un derstanding that certain shareholders have petitioned the manner in which he handled this point would that the House of Lords against such bill, on standing orders, he had lived to behold the seat of that ancient and per- respectfully request those shareholders not to proceed petual faith in which he was an humble believer, and of further with such petition, provided the objectionable which he was the proud and chivalrous champion—that provisions before referred to are withdrawn, and doth he had lived to behold the eternal city, that he had knelt hereby express the desire of the shareholders that, sublect at the altars of that temple, the noblest that was ever to the withdrawal of such provisions, the said bill should raised by the hands of man , an d wor thy of the purposes, be allowed to proceed without further opposition in Par the high and holy ones, to which it is devoted—and that liament." Mr. Jones, of Liverpool, seconded the motion. through the marble halls o f th e Vatican the venerable The chairman said every one present must be in favour man, though with a feeble and tottering step, had found of such a motion; but if it were carried, it would not be his way, amidst the array of sacerdotal pomps, and re- of the slightest weight. Whatever came from the Wham ceived the sanctifying salutation of the great pontifical cliffe order, required a period of three or four weeks. If reformer who has ascended the chair of St. Peter amidst the petition were withdrawn, the committee might per the acclamations of the world. haps allow the bill to pass. Mr. Mozley enquired, TRAGIC OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday week, a trooper "Will you withdraw the bill ?" to which the chairman named Smith, of the 7th Hussars, attempted to shoot replied in the affirmative, provided the shareholders would Sergeant-Major Trout, in the barracks at Ballinasloe. withdrawn their opposition to the other bill. Several of On examination, the culprit endeavoured to prove that he the directors dissented, and the chairman declined to put fired a blank cartridge ; but, in order to do this, it was of the resolution, on the ground that '` " "- - course necessary that his pouch should contain the usual tioned in the notice calling the Inc 11 cartridge. It is supposed that a private then moved, "That this n --- " -- I John Radcliff, supplied a hereby adjourned until Mon been men . Mozeley .ornPar rs mentioned and h day of April ls atAy to be confined and pur of orders.' He will also I Tednesday next, _at _5 a.m., :conded by Mr. ( jibed f 1: and r - ?st punishment that can he I shareliolders to st lonel cannot too strn—i- Ja A the detestable part taken cts - ansaction in question, thus bring -J.l us light before the public, and also dr _ so worthless a man, so vile a soldier. should belong to the ranks of the 75th Regiment. left the room, and Mr. Ti l!fr. Mozeley moved the r private ltadcliffin the t ing the corps in .t the come vied nem. cc lication 12t1 of July y, the 12th day of July, at T was % ,ted in the motior to theC which he h LAW INTELLIGENCE, An action for libel against The Times was tried in the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, by a dealer in curio sities, named Evans. The alleged libel consisted in stat ing that he had sold a sword, falsely_ represented as having belonged to Lord Nelson, A verdict was returned for the plaintiff. THE LAW OF MARRIAGE.—The London Gazette of Tuesday, contains a notice that the Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Rev. John Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., the Right Hon. Anthony Richard Blake, Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Knt., and Andrew Rutherford Esq., Lord Advocate of Scotland, to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state and operation of the law of marriage. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—This Company has been singularly unfortunate this Session in their schemes. Out of five bills, they lost four. It is estimated that the Wolverton'accident will involve the London and North Western Company in an expense of between £30,000 and £40,000. The daily expenses of the Great Western Railway Com pany, in the present parliament, have been estimated at £4500, or about £30,000 a-week. The Mining Journal states that a series of experiments made by Mr. Motley, C.E. have thrown doubts upon the safety of Stephenson's bridge across the Menai Straits. Twenty railway bills have received the royal assent this session, authorising £5,404,915 to be raised by capital and loan for the construction of 2551 miles of railway. During the present session, the mere expense of railway bills in parliament have been estimated at half a million sterling, and during the last sessions at three millions sterling ! The rombro' Railway Branch was opened on Monday, and in commemoration of the event two thousand colliers received each a gratuity and free passage to Liverpool and back. THE ST. HELEN'S RAILWAY.—The St. Helen's Rail way Company's Bill, for branches to Warrington and Blackbrook, passed through the committee of the House of Lords on Tuesday. In the railway committee of the House of Lords on Wednesday, the preamble of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction was declared to be proved, and evidence was heard in favour of the East Lancashire (Southport branch). AMERICAN TELE GRA PH. —A telegraph line is completed and in working operation between Philadelphia and Pitts burgh. Everything is also in readiness to carry it farther west. In a short time we may expect to hear of this magic means of communication being extended to the most remote regions of the American continent. A useful label for passengers' luggage has been invent ed by a person named Hope. These labels are printed with each a different number, and on a diversity of stri king patterns, all dissimilar; and passengers may readily fix them on packages, so that they may be easily recog nised, and no mistakes arise. Yesterday week, the boiler of a locomotive engine on the North Union Railway, near Wigan, exploded. The foreman was seriously injured, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. The engine was completely wrecked up, portions of it being carried upwards of a quarter of a mile from the spot, and one piece weighing 701 b. nearly the same distance. The Chester and Holyhead Railway Company have withdrawn that clause of their bill which enabled them to apply their funds to the purchase of steam-vessels, and to unite the business of railway management with that of shipowners ; and the parliamentary committee have de cided on recommending that ample free quay e shall be provided for the public, instead of giving the company the exclusive use of the quays and lauding-stages. _ OPENING OF THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAIL WAY. —The line of railway, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is the last link in the iron chain which binds together the capitals of England and Scotland, was opened for general traffic on Thursday last. The bill for the formation of the line received the royal assent in July, 1845 ; in less than two years from that pe riod it has been opened for public traffic throughout.— Sunderland Times. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—We are happy to learn that this company are making preparations for immedi ately commencing the line from this town to the Askern Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, which will afford a ready communication between Don caster, Wakefield, and Normanton. This part of the line it is expected will be finished by Christmas, at least up to the Marsh, where probably a temporary station will be erected until the bridge over the Don is completed.— Doncaster ,Chronicle. - RAILWAY CARIIIAGES.—A novel first-class carriage is to be constructed expressly for through trains between Scotland and England, designed by Mr. Sinclair. The ,body of the carriage will be of the usual size, divided into two apartments, the one larger than the other. Both di visions will be fitted up with cushions, pillows, and every thing suitable for laying down at full length. The larger division will accommodate six personsi ; the smaller one, communicating with the other, is principally intended for ladies, and will afford room for two. In this latter divi sion there will be all those conveniences which ladies and invalids will appreciate.—Railway Chronicle. LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY. — The annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at Lancaster on Tuesday ; Mr. —. Bushell in the chair. The report stated that the accounts furnished by the committee of management showed a balance of £4,505 in favour of the company, the disposal of which the directors recommended should be postponed. The accounts showed that £38,605 had been received from the shareholders since June, 1845, of which £37,406 had been disbursed, including £28,655 paid on account of calls due on the Lancaster and Carlisle shares held by the company, leaving a balance of £1,200. Resolutions were passed adopting the report and accounts, re-electing the retiring directors, appointing Messrs. Willan and Jackson solici tors to the company, and also Mr. Bushell to be the com pany's representative at the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way board, in right of the shares held by the company. THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—This line (which we have before stated was opened with great ecldt on Satur day week) is, strictly speaking, a level one throughout, through a very pleasing country, passing partly under (by tunnel) and partly through Shugborough Park, the seat of the Earl of Lichfield; crossing the Trent seven times, and having junctions or connections with the North Staf fordshire, the Midland Counties, and the Birmingham and Derby, lines of railway. The cost of construction is stated at £1,050,000, or £21,000 per mile, which, we believe, is about the estimate. Though the first sod was cut by Sir Robert Peel, on the 13th November, 1845, it was not till February, 1846, that the contractors got fairly to work on the line, and yet it was so expeditiously constructed thoat it could ab c y o e ueblned desirables h a a i have e t b o e have a n tvoe o pbweeonernekd executed u t tt r re a ad ffi i trains oon7l little etrh more' l-Ise tw a h nye a b fi Ifdt tsfresnywmzookntsitohns past,o; i andtohfe due it consolidation. carriagesad o t n i th a d e s o. advantage, g uw e sig f h o no r gu n t r o ao r nm e y thandis agreeablethe jerks or vibrations, we should say that the con solidation is now in a very satisfactory state. The stations are all finished, and the whole line as complete in all de partments as a new railway well can be. BIRM!NGI!AM.ANDOXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.— On Wednesday, the adjourned meeting of the sharehelders in the Birmingham and Oxford Company was held at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham. P. H. Muntz, Esq., chair man of the dirprtnra nracitiorl Mr COURT AND FASHION. The Queen, it is said, will visit Ireland in the month of July, and preside at the ceremony of laying the first stone of Queen 's College, Belfast. Lord and Lady Stanley are now at Knowsley Park, and are to receive a visit from his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, this day. Gibson's statue of the Queen was added to the Royal Academy on Saturday week, and inspected by her Ma jesty the same morning, her Majesty expressing her plea sure to be thus early in her visit, that she might not in terfere with the usual arrangements for the public. The • statue is in marble, and about the size of life, with an antique feeling, and yet a good deal of Canova about it. Her Majesty is represented standing with a wreath in her right hand, a small roll of paper in her left. The drapery is admirably arranged, and quite a study and example in a very difficult department. Mr. Gibson has coloured his statue after the antique fashion, and with extreme good taste. The tiara, wreath, and sandals, are of a light yellow colour; the border of the drapery a faint blue and red. The statue was a commission from the Queen ; and will be erected either in Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle, which ever will afford the best light. THE ROYAL VISIT.—In ancient times a Royal progress was the scourge of a country. Wherever and whensoever the Court appeared in any locality the people trembled with apprehension. It resembled rather the march of an hostile army through the land than that of the beneficent sovereign of the people. The purveyors for the Royal ta ble were entitled to carry away, sans recompense, from any house or enclosure whatever promised to be agreeable or appeared necessary to the subsistence of the monarch and his numerous hosts of retainers ; and this privilege was abused in the most atrocious manner—so scandalously, indeed, that what they could not consume the Court pur veyors not unfrequently destroyed in sheer wantonness. A Royal progress, or Royal visit, is now a very different thing indeed. Her Majesty, by moving to and fro, not only diffuses general gladness and gives a stimulus to trade, but actually whitewashes her dominions. Nuisances that have enjoyed a lease of centuries disappear at the mere prospect and anticipation of a Royal visit. Every house and lane and suburb puts on a new appearance. The Royal route is renovated. Improvements are suggested, and rapidly carried into execution, which were never pre viously thought of. Dunghills tremble and are troubled, and at last they are absolutely swept away for very shame, because " the Queen is coming. ' All old things disap pear. The approach and advent of Her Majesty ushers in a new era, promotes the sale of brooms, and a rapid traffic in mops and brushes. Temporary decorations lead to permanent renovations, and Her Majesty may boast at her departure, in the language of Augustus—' I found this place of brick, and 10, I have built it of marble."— Cambridge Advertiser. FASHIONS FOR JULY (From the London and Paris "Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") All light and transparent materials are now in favour, cachemire barege is one of the prettiest; the patterns are mostly large for printed materials, as mosseline de soie; two shades of the same colour are very fashionable; lilac, ' with violet, pink, or currant, dark green or light, the organdys are in large checks, awl for morning wear jaco nots and brillantes with flounces; the ensemble of toilettes is simple, the dresses intended for country wear are prin cipally redingotes and peignoirs of foulard de Kamboul Nankin, with deep hem, and mante Luisa trimmed with nankin fringe—many are made with corsage a qmazone; toiles de Chine are ornamented with embroidery in sou tache. For the present moment redingotes of muslin, lined, with collar, are pretty ; the corsages are made high, and full at the shoulders, with ceinture and long ends ; some are trimmed with several rows of lace, divided by boillons, with a ribbon through ; others with muslin fes tonnee or bouillonnee; these are accompanied by black lace shawls ; some are of net, almost covered with lace, and partake of the demi mantelet form; more elegant ones are small, with a simple row of lace half an ell in depth, the same style is worn in white over coloured dresses. A new material, termed taffetas ruban, is very fashionable; it consists of a silk stripe and a wide satin one shaded, chine, or brochee imitating ribbon. Flounces and ruches in silk materials are pinked in crete de coq, others are in deep vandyke edged with gimp or braid; printed tarlatanes, mousselines de soie grenadines require flounces, and under skirt of white silk, the corsages full at the shoulders and waist, forming gerbe with ceinture of ribbon. For all thick materials the sleeves are tight; others are wide fulled into a wristband and showing the bouillons of the white sleeve below, or with cuffs turned back a la Louis XV., finished with a plisse of ribbon. Many short sieves are worn with mittans. Many rendin gotes have been made in Pan; of white taffetas, but very simple in style, merely closing with gimp buttons; light collars are decidedly fashionable this season. The uncertainty of the temperature renders variety necessary in out-door toilette, and the lace shawl of the morning must often be replaced for an evening promenade by a wadded cloak, closing to the throat with pelerine, and long ends crossing in front; many pardessus are with frills, having wreaths of flowers, broth& on the same material ; the mantelets form a shawl behind, and the ends in front are short; many are of black figured net, trimmed with lace of embroidered muslin ; those of taffe tas glace have trimmings of the same material; ecru,_ green, glace, with white, dark blue, lilac, and currant, are favourite colours. Tn bonnets, all the lightest materials are now in request; the dentelle paille is particularly so ; bonnets of crin and aloes are also of pretty texture; they are lined with lilac, trimmed with ribbon, veloute or checked; pailles de riz are ornamented with large flowers; marine ones, chesnut blossom, honey-suckle, &c. Some bonnets of dentelle paille are lined with a light-coloured silk, with pinked ruche inside, and bunches of flowers; some fancy straws have silk crowns, and the fronts lined with silk and finished with a ruche, which continues round the bavolet; the bavolets are made larger than they were a few months back, particularly for capotes; tulle bouillonnee and crape are much admired, those of dark colour are enlivened by the beautiful flowers that ornament them. @meta! glisSrellann. Lord John Russell has offered Mr. Sheridan Knowles, from the royal bounty, £lOO a-year. The authorities in Edinburgh are about to erect tents in a park for the reception of fever patients. Ten casks of Russian potatoes have been imported into Bristol from Odessa. _ _ A public entertainment was given to Sir Henry Smith, on Wednesday, at Ely, his native place. The yearly amount of insolvency in England is no less than £50,000,000. " A practical man," writing to the Morning Chronicle, suggests that the best monument for Caxton would be a " Caxton Hospital" for decayed printers. At a late meeting of a London Antiquarian Society, one of the members produced, for general inspection, the heel bone of Edward VI., pilfered from his coffin. The Queen, on the advice of Lord John Russell, has settled on the widow and family of the late Dr. Chalmers a pension on the civil list of £230 a-year. A parliamentary return gives the cost of the Yeomanry Corps in Great Britain for the year 1846 as £87,948 ; the number of officers was 884, and of men 13,818. The quantity of alpaca and llama wool imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1846, was 1,554,2871 b., and the quantity re-exported, 112,1281 b. The Eleven (Ten) Hours Bill came into operation on Thursday ; and in several mills, consequently, the wages of the hands are about to be reduced. Fever is raging in Scotland. A Scotch paper says : " From all parts of the country we hear of the prevalence of fever, and of the steps which are taken to stay its progress." A large porpoise, or sea-hog, meas ur i ng a b ou t 12 f ee t in length, and weighing 120 stones, was caught in the ri ver Ouse, at Kilpinpike, ne ar Howden, on Thursday, the 24th ult. Mr. Leigh Hunt has received a highly-complimentary letter from Lord John Russell, with the announcement that the queen had bestowed a pension of £2OO a-year on the veteran author.—Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper. Six new companies will be immediately added to the corps of Royal Marines, and fully officered with a captain and two sabalterns in each company. Two field officers will also be added to the strength of the Royal Marine forces. The bricks charged annually with duty in England and Scotland alone (in Ireland there is no duty on bricks) are upwards of 150,000,000, yielding a revenue of £440,900. Tne malt tax alone yields a net duty of £5,000,000: paper yields a net duty of £7,000,000; soap yields upwards of £950,000 ; and British spirits upwards of £5,000,000. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.—The House of Commons determined on Thursday night, by a large majority, to proceed with the bill in committee, and some of the most important clauses were afterwards agreed to. Several members expressed their regret that the metropolis had been excluded from the operation of the bill. FALL OF A GRAIN LOFT.—Some days ago, one of the lofts of a granary at Craigie gave way, and fell to the ground floor with all its accumulated treasures, in one promiscuous uproar. We believe more granaries through out the country have fallen within the last six months than during the previous sixty years—certainly no proof of the scarcity so loudly asserted to exist in the land. — Perth Advertiser. . _ The daughter of a surgeon residing in London was ac cidentally poisoned on Tuesday last. She was in the ha bit of taking ginger-beer and soda-water, which she fla voured with essence of lemon ; but she unfortunrtely mis took a bottle containing essential oil of bitter almonds for the phial containing the essence of lemon, and expired in a few minutes after she had swallowed the poisoned draught. A singular mode of preparing medicines appears to have been recently adopted in France, by covering the most nauseous descriptions of them with sugar in a con fectioned and highly-finished state, so as to represent su gar plums and comfits, and to deceive any person as to their exact quality and real substance. Quantities of medicines thus distinguished have been imported for use into this country. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.--Mr. C. R. Vold, a con nexion of Sir J. Franklin, states that all the alarm which ;1 created respecting the Arctic adventurers is , s s. " Sir John, he says, " was provisioned for , er of 1848, and when he sailed no one contem ;rig from him earlier than October or Novem - some unforeseen accident should compel ' succeeded in passing Behring'E earlier s at the end of August, or in Sentemb ise as ye to his rE Lbsence hai nc not, in fact, exist at the present moment more reason fo: Apprehension than there was when the expedition sailed mrd from Sir John is to be looked upoi t of success than of failure." as more an ear July 6, 1847. Her Majesty's royal assent has been given to the nett/ Enlistment Act ; and, from the 22d instant, recruits fot the cavalry are only to serve twelve and the infantry tel y ears. - A quantity of horse flesh, salted and picked so as VI resemble ribs of beef, has lately been seized in Birming ham. The house where it was found has long been famous for cheap and savoury meat. The ingenious ptd prietor has absconded. AN UNEXPECTED DIEFICULTY.—The Weekly Times states, that Mad'lle Lind has found herself involved In some difficulty with respect to practising at her house in Brompton. It has been impossible for her to give free vent to her vocal energies without attracting a crowd of persons about her dwelling ; and consequently, to remedy this inconvenience she has been compelled to take a house on Wimbledon Common, in the centre of a deep garden. Thus she hopes to avoid the uncourteous inroads of John Bull upon her privacy. NEW POSTAGE BILL.—A bill has been introduced b' government empowering the lords of the treasury to pre , - vent packets of unweildly bulk from being sent by post, by fixing the maximum weight; to reduce the rates on any letters exceeding one penny ; and to allow printing: or writing on newspapers or their covers, besides the direction ; also to extend the privilege of the 3 and 4 Vict. to seamen and soldiers' foreign letters ; to enable any person to require a receipt for a letter delivered to the• post-office., at a regulated charge ; to compel the senders of letters rejected or addressed to persons not to be found, to pay the postage; and to` authorize the sending of mails by railways without a guard. A CIDER DRINKER.—An old man, named Abraham Hillard, approaching fourscore, who has lived in the family of the Holmans, large farmers, at Glastonbury,. for the last forty years, as farm bailiff, has had through the whole of that time one gallon of cider daily allowed for his own drinking, from his master's stores, and though he is now too aged to work, he is still seen going for his favourite beverage. The father of the present Mr. Holman, at his death, left in his will Bs. per week, to be( given to this faithful servant as long as he lived. This he (the old man) regularly has been paid, and his daily potation of cider drawn for him also. During that forty years this man must have received 14,600 ga ll ons , or 27 0 - hogsheads 20 gallons, which, at 40s. the hogshead, would have realized £540 and upwards.—Sherbourne Journal., A NEW WAY TO TAKE A COLD BATH.—Two sailord were taking a walk the other day on the lower footpath to Duddington ; and when opposite the Loch, one of them, evidently the worse for liquor, suddenly broke off from the other and dashed into the water, his friend following him ; but the latter, it is supposed, seeing the other swim ming so well, and thinking no suicide was intended, re turned to the shore and sat down on the bank, waiting the event. The tipsy man swam for the nearest island, which he reached in safety, and coolly lay down to rest himself beside a swan on its nest; and after remaining for a few minutes, again plunged into the Lock and swam ashore.. Having rejoined his companion, they returned again to town, arm in arm, as if nothing in particular had occurred, dripping like two Newfoundlands after a plunge.—Edin burgh Weekly Register. AN INNOCENT CONVICT.—A highway robbery was com mitted in the early part of 1846 by four persons, near Hertford, and three were taken into custody and tried at the February assizes held there, and being all found " guilty," were sentenced each to 15 years' transporta.. tion. William Bowers, one of the persons convicted, de clared his innocence of any participation in the crime after sentence had been passed upon them ; but the tes timony of his fellow-convicts was of a doubtful nature, owing to their silence on the subject previous to convic tion. Another of the guilty parties having been recently taken, confessed to the chaplain of the Hertford Gaol that William Bowers was innocent of being a participator in the crime of which he was convicted, and named the other person, still at large •; and it having now been satis factorily established that Bowers was really innocent, a free pardon for him was received from Sir George Grey, Secretary of State, by Mr. Masterman, Governor of the Warrior convict-hulk, at Woolwich, and the prisoner was immediately liberated a faw days ago. Ivy ow CHURCHES.—The paper of inquiries to church wardens, issued by the archdeacon, always contains the question, " Is there any ivy growing on the walls, &c. ?" A rural dean has appealed to the Archdeacon Ormerod, on his primary visitation, to consider before he issues his fiat for the removal of this ornament of many of our churches. He contends that, so far from the ivy render ing the structure damp, and so hastening its decay, on the contrary, nothing so effectually keeps the building dry, as may be seen by examining beneath the ivy after rain, when it will be found that the walls are dry, though every thing around is deluged with wet. And further, he con tends that " its exuberant and web-like roots, issuing, as they do, from every portion of the branches, and running. all over the surface on which it grows, binding everything together that comes within their reach with such a firm and intricate lace-work, that not a stone can be removed from its position without first tearing away its 'protecting safeguard." In proof of this, he refers to our ancient castles and abbeys : " for while in those parts of the struc ture that have not had the advantage of this protection all has gone to utter decay, where the ivy has thrown its pre serving mantle, everything is comparatively perfect and fresh, and oftentimes the very angles of the sculptured stone are found to be almost as sharp and entire as when first they came from the mason's yard.—Bury: Post. AN IMPRISONMENT OF 23 YEARS ! — Jeffrey Harvey, a miller of Wedmore, in Somersetshire, in February, 1805, mortgaged his lands for £3OO, and in 1812 further mortgaged them for £3OO to William Barrow, of Wed more, the clear annual value of the property being £BO. In 1817 W. Barrow took possession and received the rents, and Jeffrey Harvey has not had a penny from the property since the death of W. Barrow in 1830. On the 4th of September, 1824, J. Harvey was arrested at the suit of W. Barrow, for £7OO, for principal and interest alleged to be due on the mortgagee, and was lodged in IlcheSter gaol. The cause having been tried at the Lent Assizes in 1825, a verdict was given against Harvey for £826 10s., and he has ever since been retained a prisoner, although the judgment has never been revived by any of the repre sentatives of the deceased plaintiff. In Easter term last, Mr. Edwards benevolently moved the Queen's Bench. Court for Harvey's 'discharge, there being no legal detain ing creditor, and on the 25th of May the rule for his dis— charge was made absolute. Thus, after 23 years' impri sonment, during 19 years of which he had been a recipient of the gaol allowance, this unfortunate man is now at liberty ! It is alleged that upon a fair account, a consider able balance would be shown to be due to Harvey from the representatives of the mortgagee, and proceedings are to be adopted accordingly. DEATH OF A NOTORIOUS ENGLISH OUTLAW IN AMERICA.—Recent Vermont papers chronicle the death in the village of Brattlebro, in that State, under rather curious circumstances, of one of the most reckless and successful highwaymen that ever ranked in the annals of crime, and upon whose head the English Government, thirty-five years ago, set an enormous price. Doherty alias Captain Thunderbolt, was Irish. During his last illness he refused to have his clothes removed, and when he was sensible that his recovery was impossible he bar gained with two men to bury him in them. The curiosity of the neighbours was aroused by this singular request. Desiring that their fellow-citizenshould ease and on have removingdecenta burial, they interfered after his the clothing from the corpse they discovered at once the . cause of his singular desire. .A withered leg exhibited shot marks, and his neck a scar, which together with a cork heel, identified him as being the notorious highway man Thunderbolt. On his person a loaded pistol and' a dirk were found; among his effects, carefully packed away in sawdust and concea l e d , arms, watches, diamon ds, rings, and othe r j ewe ll ery to an immense value ; an d it appeared that, in orde r t o ma k e hi s person more portly' so as to prevent recogn i t i on, h e h a d worn for years three suits of clothes at the same time. The shrivelled leg was covered with cloths to increase its apparent size to that of the other. The discovery of the far-famed robber, say the Vermont papers, in the person of the individual who had for some thirty years resided quietly in their midst, and who had been known to many as the " eccentric Scotch doctor," in whose prescriptions they had the most exalted faith, made a considerable stir among the people of the village in which he had so long lived.—American paper. A WEALTHY AND EXTENSIVE FARMER OF WILT SHIRE.—Near to the town of Mere, Wilts, we were struck at beholding the fine crops, the excellent order the fields appeared to be in, the low neat cut hedges or fences, and the immense quantity of oxen, cows, and sheep grazing in the meadows : and this led to an inquiry to whom those rich, broad fields belonged. To Sir H. R. Hoare, the rich banker of Fleet-street, London, was the ready reply, whose seat is about three miles from Mere, and seven from Wincanton, who himself has the following seven farms in his own hands :—Shirton, Knoyle, Colcat, Hill grounds, Brenham Lodge, Top Lane, and Search. Farm ; altogether containing between three and four thousand acres of land, once so poor and considered so unproductive that every farmer in the old school failed in getting their living from the farms they occupied ; hence Mr. Hoare, one after the other, was driven to make the best of such land, or suffer it to be still less useful if over run with weeds. He therefore hired farm-bailiffs, pur chased horses, and every necessary implement of hus bandry : employed at least 150 labourers, keeping between. seventy and eighty horses, giving constant work to wood men, carpenters, bricklayers, and thus more than 200 men through him have constant emplopment, winter or summer, wet or dry, at good wages; the lowest amount paid to labourers is I2s. per week, some having 21s. at the present time ; no reduction in the cold and short days. His cottages are let to his labourers at from 30s. to 40s. per annum, with large givdens, right of common or pasturage, enabling some to keep a cow or two, and in the winter fatten two or three pigs. Mr. Hoare himself has as many cows in milk at one time as yield him twice in each week fourteen to sixteen pounds of good butter, has seventy calves weaning and fattening at one time, and in the winter at least fifty beasts stalled ; when fat they are sold generally to beast-dealers in the neighbourhood, some of these beasts frequently reaching the enormous weight of from sixty to eighty score pounds each. About one third only is grazing land ; he has never less than 1000 sheep and 600 ewes for breeding, of the pure South down breed ; nearly 1000 acres of this very land was never considered to be worth more than is. per acre for rent Os annum. When Mr. Hoare had it first in his posses sion, the occupiers then thinking_ three to four , sacks per acre of wheat a good field, now, 1 and manuring, it would let for 30 'el five hundred last year on this very land pro from ten to eleven sacks per acre. clueing on an av( This gentleman lets off a lat o in the neighbourhood, giving every encouragement and to those who will follow in his plans, by lending ilex, and rendering every as lv ask, and even more than breadtl assistan Once they ma they expect .ent as extra management ng long leases at the olden ds some to adopt, but gr low terms to induce the not blinded to prejudice self-willed tp.cl vertiser, ;e under him to persevere soon do well, ti lied to leave.— Hampshire Ai