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proctebingt fit parliament. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TtrEDA-.lt, Mr. HoRsPIXN moved a resolution to the effect that a com mittee of the house, to which was intrusted an inquiry into the management of the ecclesiastical commission, having recom mended the appointment of three paid commissioners for the management of the property under the commission, it was expedient that effect should be given to that recommendation. The hon. gentleman, in support of his motion, referred to the want of management displayed by the commission, and, amongst other instances, stated the fact that, although the commission was composed of the highest dignitaries of the Church. they had thrown all the responsibility on the secre taryt who had received sums of money amounting to over one 3nillion sterling, between the years 1636 and 1845, all of which, Without any control or audit, he paid into the hands of his own .banker. All sums of money to be paid away he paid by his Own drafts, and was to have paid the balance, if any should arise (but there was none), into the Bank of England, to the credit of the ecclesiastical commission. An accident soon after awakened- attention to this extraordinary state of things. A motion was made in that house for the names of all persons Rho were shareholders in railways for sums over £2OOO, and the returns to that motion exhibited the secretary as a sub scriber to railways to the extent of £580,000. This fact led to inquiry, and the ultimate result was that the commission was bankrupt, and the secretary had run away with all the money .be could lay his hands upon. Sir G. GREY declined to follow Mr. Horsman into the 'charges he had made against the board, leaving its defence to others in the house more conversant with the details, content ing himself with condemning the general tone and spirit of his reflections. Sir George explained the views ofthe government and of the committee of inquiry upon the subject of the com mission, and recommended the house not to anticipate the dis cussion of a bill already before the other house. Sir R. INoLts said, he was not there to defend the ecclesias tical commission ; he had always opposed its appointment, as a great violation of the rights of property; but he gave an in disnant denial to the assertion of Mr. Horsman, that the com missioners had squandered and exhausted the treasure of the poor, for it was not the treasure of the poor which had been intrusted to their hands. He protested against this doctrine, and all measures directed against church property, and hoped the house would resist the motion. After some further discussion, Mr. HORSMAN replied, and withdrew his motion. Mr. DRUMMOND then obtained leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the transfer of real property; Mr. MOFFATT a bill to amend the law relating to bankrupt members of the house; and Mr. W. FAGAN a bill to make life policies of insurance Atsignable at law. Sir R. INGLIS, in moving for papers connected with the ex peditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions, strongly urged the government to lose no time in resuming ,their search. Sir F. BARING said it was the intention of the government to send out another expedition from the eastward, by Lancas ter Sound. .He believed that there still remained such a de gree of hope as justified the government in taking every prac ticable means to rescue Sir J. Franklin and his companions, er to ascertain their fate. The motion was agreed to, . Mr. M. GIBSON, after a short discussion, obtained leave to bring in a bill to establish county financial boards for the as messing of county rates and the administration of county ex penditure. " HOUSE OF COMMONS.'-WEDNESDAY Mr. HAWES having moved the re-appointment of a select committee upon the grievances of Ceylon, Mr. DISRAELI proposed to amend the motion by adding the words, that" in consenting to the re-appointment i of the com mittee, the house deemed it expedient to express its disappro bation of the manner in which her Majesty's government had evaded the undertaking of last session for the further produc tion of witnesses." Considerable discussion followed, after which the house divided, and the amendment was negatived, the motion being carried by 140 to 68. Mr. HUME then moved a resolution that certain witnesses ashould be summoned to attend the committee, which Lord J. RUSSELL resisted, as a vote of censure upon the committee, and upon a division this motion was negatived by 109 to 100. HOUSE OF C Mr. ROEBUCK called the attention of the house to the letter of Mr. Horsman, relating to the Ecclesiastical Commission (referred to in the debate of Tuesday,) which charged Lord John Russell with a fraud upon the house, and with employing the Home Secretary as his agent. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir GEORGE GREY, with some warmth, denied the charge, when Mr. HORSMAN ' with great calmness, reiterated the charge , and stated that he was pre pared to prove it. The subject then dropped. Mr. P. SCROPE moved for leave to bring in a bill to exempt dwelling-houses below a certain value from local taxation. The motion was opposed and lost. Lord D. STUART moved for various papers relating to the demands of Russia and Austria for the extradition of the Hun garian refugees from Turkey; to the Hungarian war; the occupation of the principalities of the Danube by Russian troops, Sze. Ltird PALmF.HsTox agreed to grant a selection from them, and after some discussion, in which the atrocities of the Austrians were held up to execration, the motion was with. drawn. Mr. 31`Gammat moved a resolution to incorporate the pa rishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Hammersmith into a parliamentary borough, empowered to return two mem bers to t1;1 up the vacancies caused by the disfranchisement of Sudbury. After a discussion, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. STEART WORTLEY moved for leave to bring in his bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Sir ROBERT INGLIS said, if he stood alone, lie would oppose the motion, which was inimical to the law of God, to the inte rests of society, and which he believed nearly all the females in the country were opposed to. The imam; was, h( 'ever, carried by 149 to 65. Mr. ANSTEY moved for leave to bring in a hill for the repeal of the penal acts against the Roman Catholic religion, stating /hat it was substantially the same as preceding bills introduced for the same object. The motion was lost, 77 voting against, and granting of leave 2 for the HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY, The house having resolved itself into a committee on the Australian colonies, Lord J. RISSELL said he felt it would be very convenient if he took that opportunity of rnoltirm, o, ototclitc ztt to tito itottoo on the colonial policy of the government. The noble lord laving gone at considerable length into the history of some of the colonies, proceeded to describe what was intended to be done with the Cape of Good Hope and other colonies. With respect to the Cape of Good Hope, he proposed to give to it a representative government, to consist of an Elective Council and a Legislative Assembly, the constituency to consist of per sons possessed of a certain amount of property. The Legisla tive Assembly should be re-elected every five years, and the Council every ten years, but one-half to be re-elected every five years. The alterations he proposed to introduce into Australia were similar to the provisions contained in the bill of last session, and similar changes would be extended to New south Wales and Van Dieman's Land. Power would also he given, cn the requirement of any two of these Australian pro vinces, that there might be an assembly from the different provinces to agree upon the same tariff for all, or upon any other matters calculated to confer a benefit upon them all. With respect to New Zealand, it was also the intention shortly to extend to that colony the advantages of representative go- Vernment. The noble lord then stated the opinions of the governors of British Guiana, the Mauritius, and Malta, as to the changes which might be advantageously applied to those places respectively, and said that these were the only colonies to which representative government could at present be applied. 'With respect to transportation, parliament had decided that that puniblimeut should be continued. He was not himself very favourable to that mode of punishment, and he felt that its future management would be attended with great difficulty. The governor of Van Dieman's Land had intimated his wish that no more convicts should be sent there ; and as there ap peared to be a growing desire amongst the colonies that tran sports should not be sent to them, parliament would have, ere long, to consider whether some changes should not be made in the present system. With respect to emigration, it had re cently gone on to an extraordinary extent, amounting in the last three years to no less an amount than 796,354 persons, being little less than the average increase of the population. Be believed that this voluntary emigration was upon a greater scale than would possibly have been the case had it been done by the aid of government grants. The noble lord concluded by moving a resolution upon which to found a bill for the bet ter government of the Australian colonies,_ and resumed his seat amidst chee r i ng f rom b oth sides of the house. Sir W. MOLESWORTH said that in most of the observations which fell from the noble lord in the introduction of his speech with respect to the past history of our colonies and the policy under which they had been governed, he entirely agreed ; but be regretted to learn from the other parts of the noble lord's speech, that it was the intention of the government to adhere to their present objectionable policy for the government of our vast colonial empire. Since the present colonial secretary came into office, not only had the colonies been misgoverned, but tor the last four years the house and the public had been kept in ignorance of the proceedings, and no satisfactory account could be obtained of the conduct of the government. In the Cape of Good Hope, in Van Diemans Land, and other colonies, there Was a general feeling of dissatisfaction with our colonial policy, and in many of them the people accused the government of a breach of faith. A complete reform in their colonial policy was imperiously demanded ; and no hope of such a reform had been held out in the speech of the noble lord that evening. The bon. baronet, after reviewing at considerable length the con dition of most of the British colonies, concluded by expressing Ins disappointment at the speech of the noble lord, and his dis satisfaction at the present colonial policy of the government. Mr. GLADSTONE was desirous that a false step should not be committed with respect to the Australian colonies; and in pro posing a single chamber, he believed the government was actu ated by the very best and purest intentions ' • but he thought they had lighted upon a mo s t i m p er f ec t plan for a constitution for these colonies. The objection of the people of Australia to ,an upper house was confined no doubt to an upper house of nominees. If they made the upper house elective, as they pro ;posed to do at the Cape of Good Hope, he had no doubt the tpeople us CIA.. LIAM VI UCLI ver le chamber. The appointment of the twelve men in the coun cil by the crown was, in his opinion, a fatal error, for it assumed that the crown had an interest separate from that of the colo nists, and would teach the colonists to think that the crown had /something to defend which it thought the colonists would be 3ikely to attack. The resolution was then agreed to, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. Sir \N. a oMERVILLE moved for leave to bring in a bill to re strain party processions in Ireland, which had become neces sary in consequence of occurrences in Ireland which were fami liar to the public. The bill was not aimed at any particular party, but was meant to be applied equally to all. Leave was given to bring in the bill. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable persons having limited interests in land in Ireland, to snake building leases and improvindeases; also a bill for better facilitating and better securing the due administration of cha ritable trusts. COURT AND FASHIO The Earl Earl of Wilton has left town for Egerton Lodge, his hunting box, at Melton Mowbray. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and the Ladies Grosvenor intend to stay at Alotcombe House until the close of next month, when they go to town for ,the season. The Mining. Journal announces that the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company have been laid down to Windsor, along the South-western railway, for the accom 2nodation of her Majesty and Prince Albert, who now can learn at all hours what is passing in both h9uses of par liament during the session, as also events in the metro polis. - Marlborough House was on Tuesday crowded with fashionable company, assembled to view the effects of the late Queen Dowager. A very large quantity of the pro perty has sold (n o t b y auction , at high prices. The eager ness to obtain napkins, &c., with the royal cypher was intense, and the prices ranged from three to four guineas a dozen. ROYAL KINDNESS.—TheIQueen has been pleased to give the sum of 120 a year, from th e pr i vy purse, towards the support of a school which was opened some time since by a few benevolent parties, in a destitute district in the zeighbourhood of Balmoral. Her Majesty had also con ffilderately provided comfortable cottages and gardens for several poor cottars, whose frail hab itations have b een cleared away to m a k e room for some improvements near castle. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The butcheries of Pesth have been revived: Ko lassq and two unfortunate Honveds were hanged there on the 23rd ult. _ _ — Xnlnglish gas company has been formed in Madrid, and several of the chief cities are about to adopt that system of illumination. The King of Prussia took the oath of the constitution on Wednesday. His Majesty, with much emotion, thanked the two Chambers. The members of the Chambers then took the oaths in succession. _ _ . The Paris Prase says that there were 564 trees of liberty in Paris, and that they have all been cut down with the exception of 37. Amongst those cat down was one which was planted in 1793. Mrs. Fanny Kemble has refused to give readings in Louisville, alleging that " she cannot read in a slave state, and wiil not receive for her labours money which is the price of human blood." A horrible murder and suicide were committed in Paris on Wednesday. A lieutenant of the 56th Regiment of the Line, lodging in the Rue du Havre, killed his mistress with his sword, and then threw himself from his window into the street. He was killed on the spot. The Standard describes the new tariff of Switzerland agreed upon by the Federal Assembly of last June. It is strictly protective—stringently so indeed—" descending," says our contemporary, to fresh mushrooms and used leeches." We have not got the only real republic in Europe to reciprocate our free trade generosity. Tire POPE.—The correspondent of the Morning Chro nicle, writing from Rome on the 14th of January, says— " We hear frequent reports of the return of the Pope, but have no confidence in them. If the year 1850 passes away, and no Pope is visible in Rome, men will begin to think that he is about to choose some new centre of unity for the nations of Catholic Europe. " Madrid letters of the 3d. inst. state that the pregnancy of the Queen would be officially announced between the 10th and 15th inst. General Narvaez had returned to Madrid, after taking possession of a large estate offered to him by the Queen, as a recompense for the important services he had rendered the throne and the cause of public order. The estate is said to be worth 2,000,000 reals. The King of Denmark opened, on the 30th ultimo, at Copenhagen, the session of the States, with a brief speech. The passage relative to Schleswig Holstein wss as fol lows :—" The war has not yet terminated ; it is only sus pended. I hope, however, that the negotiations in progress will lead to the desired end, provided my misled subjects do not meet with support from a greater power." The speech adds that the country can, without much difficulty, support the extraordinary charges which cir cumstances impose. _ _ TERRIFIC SNOW STORM—VIENNA, JAN. 30.—A sad accident happened in the neighbourhood of Wisselburg some days since. About one hundred and eight artillery men received orders to march from Nickolsdorf to Parens dorf. When on the road, which leads across a great heath, they were surprised by such a terrific snow-storm that they soon completely lost their way, and many of them were frozen to death. A few, after suffering inex pressibly, managed to reach some of the neighbouring villages, and sent out the peasantry in search of their un fortunate comrades ; but, alas ! the 20 or 25 first found, among whom was the captain of the company, were already dead. The latter was on his knees. The rest have since been brought in either dead or so frozen that there is but little hope of their recovery. COLD.—The cold was so intense in Khamtschatka about the end of December, that the governor of the pro vince was compelled to leave his customary residence at Petropawlosk, and retire to his subterraneous palace of Thchewskoi. This abode, which is built about twenty metres under ground, affords accommodation for the governor and his suite, comprised of 200 persons. it contains all the necessary comforts of ordinary life; its temperature is mild and salubrious ; the absence of day light is supplied by a number of lamps which are con stantly burning. It seldom occurs that the weather is so severe as to compel the governor to take refuge at Thchewskoi, but, when such is the case, he generally passes two entire months, sometimes three, in that resi dence. The wealthy inhabitants of the country take up their quarters in similar abodes. CALIFORNIA.—Labour is 7 dots. a-day—carpenters, painters, smiths, and other handicraftsmen 12 dols to 16 dols a day. Between the sailing of the two last steamers there had been two or three murders reported from the diggings, and two suicides (a Frenchman and a German) in San Francisco. One building lot, 20 feet by 50, was sold for 20,000 dollars, and even then was considered quite a bargain. Messrs. Cook, Baker, and Co. had put up a large house of galvanised iron from New York, which was immediately let at 3,000 dollars per month, in ad vance. Clerks (shopmen) receive 150 dots. to 200 dots. a month. A barber charges 50 cents for shaving, 1 dol. for cutting hair. Diarrhoea, scurvy, chills, and fever were the prevailing diseases, and medicine brought extravagant prices, , the practical motto being, apparently, " No money no medicine." The doctors were all getting rich. One passenger returned in the Cherokee steamer who had, by commercial ventures and land speculations, made 1,500,000 dols. since the beginning of the Californian ex citements. There are now about 100,000 inhabitants in all California, all ardent for its admission into the union as a state. There are at least 20,000 in San Francisco, and two newspapers are published there-10 dots. for the very shortest advertisement the first time, and 5 dols. for each after insertion. ROMANCE of Dr. AcntLm's ESCAPE.-We intimated last week that Achilli's liberation was not to be regarded QJ “rv. .1“, VIUILIa,y octise an aultea word. We have since learned that the French authori ties at Rome sent a party of soldiers to escort him from the Castle of St. Angelo, under the pretext that his evi dence was required at a court-martial. On leaving the prison, he was immediately clothed in the uniform of a French soldier, and marched to Civita Vecchia, where he was put on board a war steamer, and at once conveyed to Toulon, from which place he proceeded to Paris. It will be evident that private friendship could not have effected such an " escape" as this, and probably all the authorities concerned regarded it necessary to get out of a difficulty with as little appearance of formality as pos sible. On Tuesday, the 29th ultimo, a meeting of Christian friends was being held in Paris, at the house of the Rev. Adolph Monod, to decide on renewed and more bold efforts for the liberation of Achilii, though no one entertained very sanguine hopes of success, when, to the joy and gratitude of all, the object of their anxiety and prayer knocked at the door, and the prisoner, whose release they scarcely ventured to anticipate, stood before them, and heartily united with them in their devout thanksgiving to God ! How naturally this reminds one of the incident in Acts xii., 12, 13. Dr. Achill is still in Paris, waiting the arrival of his wife from Florence, but may be expected in England very soon.—Watchman. ROMAN SUPERSTITION.—The religious fervour of the common people is just now in a kind of ferment origi nating in the death of a priest, called the Abate Pallotti, who has for some time past enjoyed the reputation of being a saint, and whose body, contrary to the custom of the country, has now been exposed in a little church near Ponte Sisto for three days, in the expectation of some miracle being wrought by it in favour of the halt, blind, and lame, who continually repair thither to come in con tact with it. The Abate Pallotti was the pop,-'s confessor after the death of the Abate Graziosi, and is generally considered to have been a good kind of man, although ra ther a fanatic ; but those inclined to detract from the fame of his sanctity accuse him of avarice, and of having not unfrequently abused his situation as deathbed confessor to obtain rich legacies from the wealthy whose last moments he attended. He was the son of a rich cheesemonger of Rome. Yesterday afternoon the whole neighbourhood of the Ponte Sisto and the adjacent quarter of Trastevere was thrown into turmoil by the report that a blind woman had recovered her sight through the intercession of the defunct abate, and crowds of fanatics of all descriptions were to be seen rushing towards the church in which lie was laid out, in order to obtain small portions of some of his garments as relics. It is superfluous to remark that the majority of the thinking inhabitants consider it to be a very clap-trap affair, and laugh at the credulity of the vulgar.—From Correspondent of the Daily News. A HUNGARIAN AMAZON IN NEW YORK.—We were much pleased with the personal appearance and manners of Miss Apolonia, the Hungarian heroine, who, as rumour reports, has fought in many a battle for the liberties of Hungary. She is at the Irving House. She is a fine, blooming, handsome young lady, about 24 or 25 years of of age, of pleasing address and manners, with a fine colour on her cheeks, and quite feminine and lady-like in her manners. No one would suspect, on seeing her, that those delicate hands. enshrouded in delicate white kid gloves, ana that sienaer form, bad ever been seen dashing among the crowd of combatants on the field of battle, mounted as a hussar on horseback, and dealing out wounds and death to the enemy with flashing sword in hand. She seemed herself quite unwilling to admit the fact, or speak upon it, yet she showed us her hussar jacket in which she was attired. She would not, however, tell us how many men she had killed. We learnt from other sources, however, that her chief participation in the Hungarian war had been at the head of one of the mili tary hospitals, where, with her own hands, she had waited upon the sick and wounded, and had nursed and taken care of them with all a woman's tenderness. The calls yesterday to see these distinguished and amiable sufferers, at the Astor House, were very numerous. In the evening, at ten o'clock, a grand serenade was given them, which was executed in their honour, in front of the Astor, I underneath their windows, and drew together a great crowd.—Nero York Herald. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.--A very deplorable affair occurred on the 20th of December, in Shreveport, between two highly-respectable citizens of that place, Dr. Green and Dr. D. Hester, late a representative in our legislature, from the parish of Caddo. We cannot learn the origin of the difficulty, but the facts of the encounter are chiefly these :—On Tuesday the 18th Dr. Green, who had been for some time the practising physician in the family of Mr. Hester's father-in-law, approached Mr. Hester with a friendly recognition, tendering his hand, which Mr. Hes ter declined, and at the same time struck Dr. Green in the face. Dr. Green then remarked that he was not armed. " Then go and arm yourself," was the reply of Hester. Dr. Green retired. A correspondence passed between the two gentlemen with reference to the settlement of the dif. ficulty, but no satisfactory terms for a meeting could be agreed upon. On the Thursday following, the parties not having before met, Mr. Hester walked into Dr. Green's office, and seeing hies sitting at a table, with other persons in the room, fired a pistol at him, the ball taking effect in the doctor's side. Dr. Green then seized his pistol, which lay on the table near him, and shot Hester through the body, then threw the pistol at him, striking and frac turing his skull. Dr. Green then drew his bowie-knife, rushed at Hester, and buried the weapon in his body, causing instant death, a result, however, which would have been produced by the shot he had received. Dr. Green died of his wound that night. We have received not the slightest hint of the Muse of this savage affair,—New Orleans Delta. IIt.ELAND. ---4- On Thursckor, a boat manned by four fishermen of Barna, and laden with herrings from Costello Bay to Galway, wastbruck by a sudden squall and upset. Three Of the men, mamed Connor, Forde, and Wllugh, were drowned, and the fourth saved by clinging to an oar. MRS. SLEAZLRY.—It is stated that this unhappy female, who stands accused of the murder of her husband, and is at present confined in Armagh Gaol, to which she was conveyed in her own phaeton, placed in the hands of her solicitor, before entering the prison, her will, be queathing to her children the large sum of X 23,000. THE PROPOSED POPISH UNIVERSITY IN IRELAND. Great exertions are still made to carry this object into effect. Several Irish priests have subscribed £5O each towards it. Dr. Cantwell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath, in a letter to the Tablet, states that a sum of at least £lOOO a - year, bequeathed to him for " Catholic" educational purposes, is, according to the best legal advice, "applicable, under conditions, to the intended Catholic University." THE CARNIVAL IN CORE.—The Cork papers contain the " programme" of a series of Raffles and Lotteries for the benefit of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul, to take place on Shrove Tuesday and the preceding day. Among other prizes, we find it announced that there will be a Children's Queen-cake Raffle for a Donkey." It is to be hoped that, unlike the good saint, in whose name these pious sorter are instituted, the managers will deal fair, and give every one an equal chance of being " set down for an Ass." THE VALUE OF LAND.—The Clare Journal gives an other illustration of the enormous reduction which has taken place in the value of land in that county. A farm on the estate of the Marquis of Conyngham, containing 537 acres—within three miles of Ennis, which was lately rented at £B5O a year, was let a few days back at £4OO. The farm, which is called Island M`Grath, is furnished with a first-class farm-house, with all the required out offices, and the land is in " good heart." Until lately the " tenant-right" of this farm, with its £B5O a year rent, was deemed worth a smart sum of money. Now look at its value ! SYMPTOMS OF EARLY CLosING.—The Repeal Rent for last week amounted to seven pounds ten shillings and eight-pence ; and Mr. John O'CONNELL is mightily pleased thereat. He rejoices not because the sum is so great (which, considering the value he gives, it really is), but because it is so little ; for, according to the vulgar proverb, when things come to the worst they must mend; and this being now as bad as is can be—it must, if there be a kick left in it, give present signs of life, or else stretch itself out decently and " die on the floor." The honourable projector longs to be put out of pain, in one way or the other; and, therefore, he says—" lam rather glad, at this early period, that it should be so low." His joy is great, because the rint 's so small. What will it be then when there is none at all ? That it is coming rapidly to that consummation is apparent from this last appeal. " It would be an utter impossibility," he continues, "that this, their own association, can go on, if they don't sup port and stand by it." So—there's an end of Tom Thumb I—Dublin Mail. ANOTHER CLERICAL CHASTISER.—At a small vil lage situated eight miles from this town, a party of young persons were assembled together on the night of the 23d of January, amusing themselves at small plays and dancing in a house on the roadside between Cliffoney and Grange, and about a mile from the latter place, when the door was suddenly broken in, and the Reverend Mr. Keilty, C.C., who resides in Grange, was in the midst of them, laying round him in a most furious manner with a heavy loaded horsewhip, indiscriminately wounding the heads, faces, &c., &c., of every one, old and young, men and women, who came within the circuit of his arm. Not content with this, and as if, like the bulldog, grow ing more furious when he had tasted blood, he now turned the heavy end of his whip and felled to the earth a young lad named Patrick Conway, aged 16 years, in flicting a fracture on his left temple; he also struck a deadly blow at a man named William M`GoTeran, but he, more fortunate than Conway, received it on his hand, which was much cut and otherwise injured. Poor Con way has since been confined to bed in a very weak and most dangerous state.—Sligo Guardian. PRIESTLY LUXURY.—The Irish Roman Catholic laity are starving —not so their priests. The last week has given to the public, in the Freeman's Journal, two ad vertisements announcing executorial sales of the effects of two deceased Roman Catholic priests—the late Rev. John White, P.P. of Baldoyle, and the late Very Rev. James Carey, V.F. and P.P. of Swords. The executor of Priest White, of Baldoyle, advertises " a fashionable outside jaunting car, with plated harness ;" " richly carved G -ecian sofas, and easy chairs in ponceau damask;" " large chimney glasses, and thirty-inch mirror ;" " oil paintings ;" " a variety of rich cut glass ;" " morning and evening services of china." He mentions besides " a barrel organ, which plays forty tunes"—we wonder how many of those are psalms—and " a well-taught speaking parrot, a celebrated mimic." But the Very Rev. James Carey, of Swords, seems to have excelled the housekeeping of the plain P.P. as was but reasonable in a dignitary of the alms-supported church. He, too, had his store of " valuable oil paintings," his " chimney glasses," and his " pier glasses ;" his " Brussels car pets" and " easy chairs ;" his " morning and evening services"—not church, but china—and his " dinner and , dessert services of the same." But it is chiefly in his equipage that the dignitary outdid his brother church man. He had not only like him his "fashionable out side jaunting car." but in addition to this, in the event of what Meg Dodds calls " a saft day for the crops," he had Ea ° We a d shOltling d ig tg ugl :r;l " at a i l rz r A s s e t d h a n s v e b ai purchased during the intensity of the famine, and to have cost—what does the reader suppose—only "130 guineas !" And these vehicles were provided with "sets of plated " harness," as well as ofbrass-mounted, ditto." The luxury of the bedchamber furniture, the catalogue of which is much too copious for citation, might shame a London dandy. MAYORALTY Or DUBLIN.-Mr. Reynolds has been struck off the burgess roll of Dublin by a decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, a decision which involves his deposition from the Mayoralty. Mr. Reynolds, however, announces his determination to hold the office on the ground that his omission from the borough list is impro per, and this led to a stormy meeting of the corporation on Friday week. Mr. Reynolds, attended by all the civic officers, attired in their state robes, took the chair. Im mediately a battery was opened upon him by a section of the town-councillors present, who protested against what they termed the usurpation of the chair by a gentleman whom the law had declared disqualified to sit there. Mr. Walker would not address the hon. gentleman as " My Lord Mayor," or " Your Lordship," neither would he take off his hat while speaking, notwithstanding the im perative demands of Mr. Reynolds to respect the chair. Sir T. O'Brien moved that the law officers of the Corpo ration be instructed to lay a statement, embodying all the facts of the case, before counsel, so that they might at once discover their true position. After considerable op position, the motion was carried, and the Council ad journed.—On Tuesday last another meeting was held, and Mr. Reynolds, after a Jong speech, said that the opposition to him was but a double-distilled Orange and unrelenting bigoted persecution of him on account of his religion.— Mr. Wauchob : I call you to order. lam quite incapa ble of saying or doing anything against your creed from a bigoted and improper motive. (Uproar.)—Mr. Reynolds: Answer me by-and-by.—Mr. Wauchob : I say, sir, I am incapable of acting as you state, and I tell you, sir, you are a liar, if you say I am capable of doing so.—The scene which hero took place is indescribable. Mr. Reynolds directed in a peremptory manner one of the servants in livery who stood near him to take Mr. Wauchob into custody. The footman immediately rushed on that gen tleman and laid his hands on him. Mr. Martin interfered to prevent the removal of Mr. Wauchob, and was struck on the face by the footman. Tne conservative members of the house rallied round Mr. Wauchob to protect him from violence, and the footman was obliged to retire. The Marshal did all he could to stop the disturbance, and there were loud cries for the police, but no constables came. For some time a very serious riot was threatened —all was confusion—several jumped upon the table ap propriated to the public press, others ensconced them selves near the chair, while those who were the actors in the scene were mixed up together, buffetting and dragging each other about, shouting and roaring in the most uni maginable state of excitement. The conservative mem bers continued to keep on their hats, and refused to re cognise the authority of the Lord Mayor. The Council was excited to the close. TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The Rev. James Coward has been licensed, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, to the stipendiary curacy of Farnworth, in the parish of Prescot, in the county of Lancaster, on the nomination of the Rev. William Jeff, the incumbent. SIGNIFICANT.—In our Senate-house, last Saturday, a very large body of students were assembled, it beinr de gree day, when three groans were given for the Times, three for the Daily News, and three cheers for Dr. Pusey. —Cambridge Advertiser. Mr. Frewen has again introduced his bill against plu ralities. He stated that dispensations have been granted to hold pluralities at the rate of above half a hundred yearly. In one case a clergyman, with a living of £ll6O, was allowed a dispensation to hold another worth £lOOO. THE CONVOCATION.—An address signed by nearly one thousand clergymen and laymen of the Church of Eng land, praying for a revival of the active functions of the Convocation, having been forwarded to the Queen, the Home Secretary has replied that her Majesty " did not signify any commands thereon." ADDITIONAL CURATES' SOCIETT.—The committee of this society have passed a resolution placing on record the committee's judgment, that for a bishop to withhold his sanction to a grant, on account of the opinions of the applicant is contrary to the society's intention, and at variance with its fundamental principles. The rule re quiring the bishop's sanction is to remain unaltered. That is, the bishop's sanction is "required," but he is on no account to exercise the privilege of " withholding" it. Truly, this is to make a mere puppet of his lordship.] ECCLESIASTICAL COURT OF APPEAL.—The Case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter has induced the Bishop of London to introduce a bill into the House of Lords for the establishment of a new Court of Appeal, to decide on cases of doctrinal heresy. The Court proposed by the Bishop is intended to consist of the following persons : The Archbishops of Canterbury and York; the three senior Bishops, according to the date of their consecra tion ' • the Lord Chancellor ; the Judge of the Consistory Court of London ; the Regius and Margaret Professors of Divinity of Oxford and Cambridge. The sum of £1,050 three per cent. consols, was on the 31st ultimo transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, to found two annual prizes of fifteen guineas each, to be called the Dealtry Prizes, in commemoration of the high esteem in which the late William Dealtry, D.D., Archdeacon of Surrey, and formerly Fellow of Trinity College, was held by his friends and former pupils. Amongst the contri butors to this fund are the Archbishops of Canterbury and York : the Bishops of London, Winchester, Oxford, Lichfield, and Gloucester and Bristol; the L ord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Baron Parke. In April, 1849, the Rev. G. Atkinson was presented to the vicarage of Orton, near Carlisle, by a clear majority of personal votes over the Rev. Mr. Sisson—the vicarage being in the hands of the landowners. It has ever been the custom to elect by personal votes : the public notice of the trustees required all interested to be present ; and therefore no one had a shadow of right to suppose that legal tender could be made of nomination papers from absentees. Several absentees did, however, tender their votes, and to avoid a suit at law, the matter was referred to the bishop, who, strange to say, has decided in favour of Mr. Sisson. The London Union on Church Matters have published a series of papers. The first contains certain resolutions adopted by the union, to the effect that the church is the only competent judge of church matters. The second is a form of petition to the Queen, substantially praying her to lay down her supremacy, and allow the church in all things to rule itself. Tho third is a form of petition to the Archbishop of Canterbury, praying the lord prelate to move convocation to a consideration of the above ques tions ; and the fourth is another form of petition, to be addressed to the bishops by the clergy of their respective dioceses, praying them to join the archbishop in carrying out the matter named in the resolutions to a successful issue. THE BI3HOP OF MANCHESTER ON CLERICAL DUTIES. —At a meeting in aid of the funds of the Society for the Employment of Additional Curates, the bishop thus ac quainted the meeting how he would act in disposing of the funds of the society :—" Where I find a willing and ready population ' I would gladly relieve them ; where I find a neglected, abandoned, godless population, still more gladly would I seek to aid them. I will aid on no principles of party—on no principles of private or indivi dual pique or opinion. But if I find incumbents prefer ring the wretched ceremonial of a past time to the vital essence of Christianity—if I find men dwelling upon a dress in the church instead of the spirit in which the doc trines of that church should be taught, clinging to the surplice of ministration instead of the word and vital truths of God, and telling me (for unfortunately I am not speaking of imaginary cases) that they must cling to those antiquated follies, unsanctioned alike by the letter and the spirit of Christ ; telling me, I say, that they must cling to these antiquated follies, or that they must become infidels—then on them I will not bestow your bounty ; and if I find, under the affected plea of catholicism, and the ancient customs of your church, any claiming to them selves the right of withholding baptism and burial from others—sending children from the church-gates whose parents are anxiously craving for them to be received into that church—sending the same child unburied from the church-gates in consequence of the want of that baptism which they themselves refuse—on them I will not bestow your bounty."—Manchester Guardian. EDUCATIONAL MEETING.—A public meeting was held on Thursday at Willis's Rooms, London, to consider the present state and prospects of national education. The principal speakers were the Hon. C. Talbot, Q.C. (chair. man,) J. Napier, M.P., Bish o p o f Gl asgow , Bishopi of Chichester, Rev. D- Biber, Rev. G. A. Denison. Fair as may oe tne souna of many or tne resolutions, tney are brought forward without the sanction of the archbishops and bishops of the church, and in opposition to the re peated warnings and advice of the most distinguished lay members of the establishment. Th 9 only resolution for which the agitation is really maintained is one which, as it was well explained by the Earl of Harrowby at the Na tional Society annual meeting in May last, would exclude the church laity from all management of many church schools supported by public money, and weaken the hold of the church on the affectionate co-operation of the people of England, by placing the control of the schools wholly in the hands of the clergyman of the parish and the bishop of the diocese. This is the seventh in the list of resolutions moved: it is ambiguously and cunningly framed, but effectually for the purpose—which is, ulti mately, a disruption of that bond which, at present, pre vents that approximation and ultimate union of the Church of England with the corrupt Roman communion : and that bond is, the connection of the church and the state in these realms. We must, before concluding, no. tice a matter in connexion with this meeting which re minds us of Mr. Shiel's famous speech at Penenden Heath, which was fully reported, but which was never spoken. A tractarian paper on Thursday gave a full report of Mr. Denison's harangue—including, of course, a tolerably long passage on Mr. Gorham's case and the question of bap tismal regeneration. The fact is, however, that the for mer rev. gentleman had no sooner turned from the sub ject on which he was commissioned to speak, to that in connexion with Mr. Gorham, than the displeasure of his audience was so loudly and unmistakeably manifested that he at once desisted and resumed the thread of his dis course. Nothing of this is noticed in the report in ques tion. If there be a class of people who ought to have good memories, there is also another class which should not venture a description unless made by clairvoyance.— Church and State Gazette. THE VICAR OF LEIGH AND THE BURIAL QUESTION. We have recently, from time to time, had occasion to notice, (and with regret), the extraordinary conduct of the vicar of Leigh, in refusing to christen children, and inter deceased parties, on some plea of the parties not having exactly accorded with his views as regarded church disci pline. The rev. gentleman is now being proceeded against, in the ecclesiastic court at York, for refusing to christen a child. Since this became known it appears that the rev. gentleman has launched out in no very measured terms against all who happened to differ from his opinions on matters of church government. It appears, too that one great point of dispute between him and his parish ioners has been with respect to the burial of the dead, and that many parties bereft of their relatives have felt them selves much aggrieved. On the 31st ultimo, the wife of Philip Bridloake died. She had been a regular attendant at the church until ill health prevented her from more regular attention to public worship. Her husband had served the office of churchwarden, and during the time had resisted some of the vicar's practices, and had consequently been served with notice that he would be proceeded against in the ecclesiastical courts. Mrs. Bridecake had also been rejected as a sponsor for a child of one of her friends. The arrangements for the funeral were given to Mr. Jones, an undertaker, and that gentleman wrote to the vicar on the Ist instant requesting the passing bell to be tolled, and that it vrao 116 intcutiou to inter tho body on the following Tuesday at noon. The vicar sent the following extraordinary reply :—" As Philip Brideoake neglected the clearly expressed requirements of the church, and his duty as a husband to his dying wife, in not ap prizing the vicar of her illness, and requesting him to visit her, he can expect nothing in regard to the interment but that which can be enforced by law. The deceased was not in the communion of the church, and in stricness can have rio title to her offices,—there is no evidence that she died even professing faith in Christ; and either she must have h ad no wish for spiritual direction (which she much needed), or her husband must have cruelly refused her request to see her pastor.—Leigh, February 2d, 1850." The vicar refused to bury the body (by subsequent notice,') until three o'clock; but those who were to attend the funeral—many of them from a distance—could not remain until that hour, and the body of the deceased was taken to the grave at noon, and deposited in the grave, no mi nister being present, aad no funeral bell being allowed to toll.—Manchester Guardian. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The French government, with a view of improving its breed of horses, have purchased Shylock, by Simoom, of Mr. B. Green. THE EGYPTIAN CHALLENGE.—The stewards of the Jockey Club have declined the match proposed by the Pacha of Egypt. THE CESAREWITCH STAKES.—An intimation has been received from the Russian Consul-General, that the an nual donation of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Cesarewitch will henceforth be discontinued. It is the in tion of the stewards to recommend to the Jockey Club that the Cesarewitch Stakes shall be run as usual, with the addition of 300 soya. ; the entrance being raised to two sous. _ UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. THE UNIVERSITIES.—Some returns presented to parliament were, on Friday, printed, respecting the num ber of students entered annually in the books of each col lege or hall within the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, during the last five years. At Oxford Uni versity the number entered in 1845 was 438 ; in 1846, 410; in 1847, 406; in 1848, 411 ; in 1849, 440. At Cambridge the numbers entered were—in 1844, 533; in 1845, 527 ; in 1846, 560; in 1847, 515 ; in 1848, 499. At Trinity College, Dublin, the numbers were in the five years ending the Bth of July last-1845, 366; 1846, 368 ; 1847, 371; 1848, 333 ; 1849, 327. CAMBRIDGE.—At a congregation holden on Thursday, the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts : Charles Rous Drury, (B.A. 1846,) St. John's College; Robert Anchor Thompson, (B.A. 1844,) St. Catherine's Hall ; John Allen Parkinson, (8.A.1844,) Corpus Christi College. Bachelor of Medicine : Edward Burd, Caius College. Bachelors of Arts : William Pulford Browne, Qneen's College ; Henry Revell Reynolds, Trinity Col lege; William Smart, Sidney College. Admission ad eundum gradum : Rev. Edwin Prodgers, M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, OXFORD, FEB. 7.—ln a congregation, held this day, the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts : Rev. Edward Markham Heale, Queen's ; Rev. George H. Richards, Exeter; Rev. Robert C. Black, Worcester; Rev. James Fisher, Worcester; Rev. Robert P. Wilkin son, Lincoln ; Rev. Henry S. Savory, Oriel; Edward Owen, Fellow of Jesus. Bachelors of Arts : Clement C. Sharpe and Mortimer E. Clissold, Exeter; William J. H. J. Roe, Pembroke; William S. Dugdale and Henry Geo. Rolt, Balliol; Edward Twopeny, Oriel; Henry A. Fownes Luttrell and Archibald Peel, Trinity ; Rev. Edward Bennet Rice, Pembroke, incorporated from Trinity Col lege, Dublin. After a lapse of nine years Divine service is about to be daily resumed in Hereford Cathedral. The Lord Primate of Ireland on Sunday week was taken seriously ill,_but he is now better. A young lady of Llandaff has decorated the grave of the late dean of that diocese, which is within the altar rails of the cathedral, every week with flowers since his death. The ensuing ordination of the Lord Bishop of Chester will be held in the cathedral church of Chester, on Sun day, the 24th instant. The examination of the candidates will commence on Thursday, the 21st instant. THE CHASE. The Cheshire Hounds will meet on Thursday next, at Wrenbury ; Friday, at Chohnondeley ; S a t ur d ay , Ravensmoor Windmill—at half-past ten. at sir Wynn's Hounds will Meet to-morrow, (Wednesday,) at Baschurch ; Thursday, at Whittington ; Saturday, at Shocklach—at half-past ten. The Rufford Hounds will meet on Tuesday (this day), at Walesby Village ; Thursday, at Ossington ; Saturday, at Blidworth Dale—at half-past ten. LAW INTELLIGENCE. LORD DENMAN.—The announcement of Lord Den. man's resignation is premature. The Post says, " Should no relapse take place in his Lordship's health he will go the circuit according to appointment." Leave was granted on Friday in the Bail Court to enter judgment in sixty-six cases of ejectment which Feargus O'Connor had instituted against his tenants who had been located on the Chartist Land Estate at Lovell. Lord Brougham has, without an instant's delay, re introduced his Bankruptcy Bill, as it should have been, without the questionable improvements and unquestion able blunders introduced by the Commons. THE AGAPEMONE.—In the case of Nottidge v. Ripley, Sir F. Pollock on Thursday decided that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the amount of her dividends received by the latter during the time the lady was kept in a mad house. The dividends had been expended for her main tenance ; but, her confinement being illegal, she is enti tled to recover. Mr. Justice Maule, while hearing a case in the Common Pleas, on Tuesday, in which a confession of fraud was made on each side, said :—" There was once a case in Chancery, in which two highwaymen having quarrelled about their booty, the one of them filed a bill against the other, to compel him to divide it fairly; but the court dis missed the bill, and punished all concerned in it." THE TEN HOURS ACT.—RYDER V. MILLS.—The Court of Exchequer decided on Friday that the con viction in this case must be quashed. This decision is in favour of the relay or "shift" system, and the ten hours act is therefore practically repealed. The short time committee have, however, issued an address, earnestly calling on the friends of the measure to procure a fresh enactment. In the Bail Court, on Monday, Mr. Justice Erie com mitted John Richardson for contempt of court in false swearing, and ordered an indictment for perjury to be prepared against him. He was plaintiff in a case, and swore that his uncle, the defendant, endorsed a bill in the presence of witnesses, who were brought forward, and po sitively contradicted him. He appears to have been a man of bad character previously. On hearing the Judge's or der, be fell on his knees, but was taken out of court by the usher. BANKRUPTCY COURT.—The case in relLaceton came on on Wednesday. The commissioner suspended the certificate for twelve months (which was of the second class) without protection. In re J. Hicks.—Judgment in this case will be given this day. The bankrupt applied for his certificate on Thursday. He was opposed chiefly on the ground that he had given a fraudulent preference to his mother-in-law, by assigning to her some furniture, in contemplation of bankruptcy. In re Jos. R. Pim.— On Friday, in this case, Mr. J. R. Pim, a gentleman well known on the other side of the water, appeared for the sixteenth time to pass his examination. Mr. Evans ap peared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Rowe for the assignees. Mr. Turner, the official assignee, was dissatisfied with the accounts, because the balance sheet and books differed in many particulars. There was a difference in one item alone of a sum amounting to £lO,OOO. Mr. Evans made a serious charge against Mr. Turner and a clerk in his office, which was indignantly repelled. The Commis sioner again adjourned the inquiry for six weeks, protec tion being granted in the meantime. _ _ BREACYOF PROMISE.—In the Queen's Bench. on Friday, the case of Dunmore v. Barrows was tried, which was an action for a breach of promise of marriage, in which the plaintiff had to complain of a violation of very long-standing engagements. The parties had been at tached to each other for full fifteen years. There was no just cause for the defendant's conduct, for that of the the plaintiff had always been most kind and affectionate, The defendant was a farmer, and the plaintiff was the daughter of a small farmer, but she had gone out to ser vice. Their situations in life were not dissimilar, and she was prudent and had saved a little money, which, in the course of his courtship, he had borrowed and repaid. The defendant's letters were read, and in them were found various promises, numberless protestations of affec tion, and some, of those expressions which never appeared except in the letters of those who considered themselves engaged to each other. The defendant had, however, thought fit to break off his engagement with the plaintiff, and to marry a widow with some property, which was, perhaps, the only intelligible, though not the justifiable occasion of the breach of promise of which the plaintiff complained. The jury gave the plaintiff £lOO damages. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, Five of the arches of the railway viaduct over the Ribble at Preston were so injured by the storm that is feared they will have to be taken down. On Monday the standing orders .were declared to be complied with in the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Bill, for lease to the Lancashire and Yorskhire, and other objects. DEMERARA RAILWAY.—The construction of the rail way is progressing satisfactorily. Seven-and-a-half miles of the line are now at work, and the receipts for this short distance are stated to be remarkably good. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.-At a preliminary meeting of shareholders held on Monday, it was resolved to consent to the compromise arranged with the committee. There were only three dissentients. The directors of the North Staffordshire railway com pany have been restrained by injunction from proceeding in their application to parliament fir the construction of a branch line. This, we believe, is a case without a pre cedent. Au I, ir.—ln the House of Lords, on Tuesday, Earl Granville acid that he believed that it wac the inten tion of the directors of certain companies to introduce a bill for railway audits, and the. Government had resolved to wait and see what the character of that bill might be before they proposed any measure of their own. WONDERFUL PROJECTS.—An American has proposed to have a sub-marine electric telegraph communication formed between New York and the Isle of Wight. What The Times terms " a well-considered and elaborate prospectus" has been issued for the formation of a single line of railway from Calais to Mooltan, at an estimated cost of £34,050,000. Another portion of the Aberdeen railway was opened yesterday week, for both goods and passenger traffic, which brings the line now within seven miles of the city of Aberdeen. The traffic on,the line continues to increase. The number of passengers that now arrive in Aberdeen in a week exceeds all the estimates hitherto formed, while the goods traffic is proportionably great. A RAILWAY ON FIRE.—On a portion of the South Staffordshire Railway, in the vicinity of Wednesbury, the seam of coal works out near the surface. During the for mation of the line, the men employed in a cutting, thirty feet deep, came upon the old working of a mine; and, lat terly, a fire has broken out in the cutting, immediately in the centre of the line. A number of navvies are at pre sent employed in putting out the fire, which is perfectly red hot. ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—On Tuesday evening the passenger train which left the Salford station at half-past six for Bolton, having arrived at the Clifton junction, being a distance of about three miles from Manchester, came in contact with a luggage train, which the hurricane of wind had driven down the line a considerable distance. Three carriages were smashed to pieces in the passenger train, and a lady in a first-class carriage broke her leg, and a few others were severely bruised. ALARMING RACE.—On Wednesday, during the hurri cane' a most alarming occu rrence t oo k pl ace on the Bol ton, Blackburn and Clitheroe Railway. The heavy gusts of wind which swept across the line had the effect of set ting in motion three heavily-laden coal-waggons, belong ing to the Earl of Balcarras, on a siding about five miles above Bolton. These waggons, linked together, had been placed on a siding (without any engine attached), and the siding, being on a slight incline, the carriages, once in motion, went forward. The coal waggons, on reaching Bolton, went upon the the line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, and dashed through the station towards Manchester. The station-master became alarmed for a passenger train of seven carriages, which had left about ten minutes previously (6.30. p.m.), and despatched a locomotive, with a chain and hook, after the coal wag gons, in the hope that they might be overtaken and grap pled by these means, so as to prevent mischief. Unfortu nately, however, the line for many miles towards Man chester has a decline, and the engine had no chance in such a pursuit. The coal waggons came upon the pas senger-train just as the whole of the breaks had been applied, and the steam of the engine shut off for the stop. page at Clifton station. They ran into the passenger train with extraordinary force, dashing the three last carriages in it (third-class) almost to atoms, and strewing the fragments across the line in all directions. The other four ~taped from the collision with strained buffers merely, but the engine, in front, was considerably damaged. There were not many passengers in the train, but such as were in it suffered more or less from the accident. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Lord Aberdeen does not intend to bring in any measure to regulate Scotch marriages. Mr. H. Drummond has given notice of his bill for faci litating the transfer of real property (the first and greatest facilitation would be the repeal of the stamp act.) Ministers at length have en Irish law officer in parlia ment. Few free constituencies are willing to accept their nominee ; bnt the accommodating borough of Windsor has opened arms for the rec,dtion of the solicitor-general. The Duke of WellinLton, although present in the House of Lords during the reading of the speech, did not attend the house during the debate on the address; nei ther did his grace give the ministry his support by proxy. CoLonEsmt.—On Friday Lord John Manners was elected by a majority of 623 to 386 over his opponent, Mr. Cooke. The victory was an easy one, the majority increasing every hour. The election to the Bench, of Mr. Maitland, the So licitor -General for Scotland, in the room of the late Lord Jeffrey,m y, has created another vacancy Kirkcudbright- PROTECTION PROGRESSING. — When in the last session the principles of protection and free trade were discussed in a ho use o f 400 mem bers, ministers had a majority of 158, and that on the present occasion, in a house of 500 members, they mustered but a majority of 119. The treaty of friendship and commerce between this country and Liberia was presented to p ar li amen t on Tuesday. There is a stringent clause for the promotion of slavery and slave traffic, and in o th er respects t h e treaty puts Great Britain on the footing of the " most favoured nations." MR. MIINTZ AND THE PRICE OF CORN.—Ina letter Mr. Muntz states :—" My view has always been that free trade, with the present moneylaws, will reduce everything (except taxes and rates) lower than the prices of 1775 ; and, therefore, I have fixed the future average price of wheat at 355. per quarter, the average price :about 1775 being 405., because cultivation has much improved." Feb. 12, 1850, vinTst.eetiAotniastnethre'ols conduct of the Free Traders compelled the chalrt' of ed, county meetings meeting continue at t dissolve the meeting before a single resolution was a' so much for freedom of discussion under the auspice- Cobden. 72 in fo' c l Romani Mem/ BILL.—In the minority o f . . of the introduction of this measure we find J. Brig ;or itr Brotherton, J. Greene, and J. Heywood ; in the ro i l of 77 were Sir R. H. Inglis, W. Cubitt. B. Di 9 r a t l e ;il:e, Goulburn, G. Hudson, Col. Lindsay, Lord Men • J. Masterman, J. Napier, G. Sanders, Col. SibthorArt, Hereford, the Jan to Spooner, E. Stanley, Lord C. Wellesley, and .f. S• " ley. • 11 14 The London correspond e nt of the DublinEvenf . nt o o says, that important a lt era ti ons are i n conteinela u ;! ;or o, the department of the W oo d s an d Forests. the near connexion of L or d L ans d owne , it is said, il e u st; the chief commissioner, w ith a sa l ar y of .E2, 50 ° a l o be Mr. Hayter, the present secretary of the treasurYs,sw; 0 the second commissioner, with an equally "d and Lord Carlisle is to be removed to the Duchy-°f caster. MESSRS. GRAHAM AND ELLIOTT.—Lord Dr°"" he. on Tuesday night, inquired in th e House of La rds v „ c o( ther there was any intention of m iti ga ting the sentel.e.„ Messrs. Graham and Elliott, who pleaded guilty of d of tion, to which they had been dri v en by the Ora n , I to Commander Pitman. His lordship said they ha d n vi s of point of fact, been guilty of deserti o n. The MarLi u r def Lansdowne said he would confer with the First the Admiralty on the question. • norliS t A vigorous effort is being mad e i n several Mr' towns to obtain the repeal of the excise duty upon Pl y That necessary article, of which the raw material, or .nly 2s. per cwt., or lees than a farthing per 113 1,'" u poll -sed with a duty of threehalfpence per lb., which' crerk the coarse brown paper, used by grocers, ;ronso ll i the drapers, and others, amounts to a b ou t t w o-fifths o fat whole value. • Why did not the free-traders clara ° : e n o efit a repeal of all excise duties before they s ought to . es ?' foreigners by demanding th e re d uc ti on o f i m port d lt _ l f f ,ll The Mark-lane Express of M on d a y sa y s that ta w e heo in the value of wheat duritig the period of the Yes r io t of the foreign supplies are smallest, v i z ., f ro m the January to its close, was no t l ess th an f rom 4 5 . to s o r e ri quarter, and that, in many pa r t s o f th e coun try, f 3r „ o od are not receiving mo re th an 35 5 . per quar t e r for 6 .0 qualities of red wheat. Th e f ree -t ra d ers a dmit bs. ii i cannot be grown at the p r i ce , y e t th e government.a not admit the existe nce o f di s t ress . J oe H um e se 1 „0 the house on Monday, th a t p ar li ament h a d not hing ‘," with the subject except as it regarded the consumers ••ft MINISTERIAL REMEDY FOR IRISH DISTRESS' ; the " speech" from the throne, ministers propose,o, grand panacea for the accumul a ted m i ser i es of the 5' Of ,t ing populace of Ireland, the singularly novel sPe c L, tbe increasing the electoral power, by largely adding 1 ,', 1 4 numerical amount of voters. Will any one kin lucidly explain to us, by what recognised or unrec oo ;gir description of curative process, can Universal SW . a t relieve the affliction of Universal Su f fering or by s' re o hitherto undiscovered magic can Vote by Ballot, setgo that crying nuisance to rent-requiring Irish laer"" Payment by Bullet.—Manx Liberal 1 1 LORD GREY AND H is FA RMS.—It appears Earl, - r e • A choice farm of West Learmouth, the letting of whic h literally been hawked through the county for many "I E O has obtained no hi g h er bid un d er the free-tra d e 51 9 0 ,t than £1,600 a year, whereas, whilst protection F rt awarded to the honest, industrious farmer, Mr. Smi th r d, a willing tenant, at a rental of £2,250. The noble, , mortified to see so he av y a bl ow i n fli cted upon a PO,Ol —0 gamble would be the m ore appropr i ate term —of wh' ° '• atO• was one of the chi e f promoters, and unwilling to et de' nance any reductio n o f rent upon hi s own lands, bas gt, dined in a pet t o accep t t h e offer of £1,600 made by ,o• Jas. Thompson, o f Mindrum, and has taken the farm i ll his own hands, i n t en di ng to show, if he can, that falei in this country is yet profitable, with wheat realisingo than 40s. a quarter, and that the views and opinio ns °. amateur agriculturist are more to be relied upon that' o j, laborious effort s o f an o ld an d s ki lful cultivator of t he We shall see.—Newcastle Journal. CORN RENTS.—The Times, in a leading article, ro k s ,/ the following an nouncement f rom a correspondee'citp " His Grace the Duke of Portland has just announc e i ,, t e the tenants on hi s i mmense estates in Nottinghaw, be that from Lady-d ay l ast a mo i ety of their rents 90'08 calculated according to the average price of wheat fo r u 4 half-year pre ce di ng th e usual time of payment, tsito 565. per quarter as the standard of the present rents• t ivi venerable Duke has fo r some ti me b een engaged in rititli himself acquainted w ith th e c i rcumstances connectea each farm ; and wherever any appeared to be higher te°d than others, after ascertaining the cause, he has ote' - e Ol such additional red uc ti ons to b e made as will pu t tb ili ; on a par with their neighbours. To other tenot s ge rit Grace has given the option of remaining at th • Pr e • their A t rentals, if low, or having their farms revalued, 0 1 ; 1 ,0 rents adjusted to the present price of corn. His '" o e' has always been looked upon as a model landlord, , es .jbe cially in the dukeries ; and, as a practical agricultur is t' knows so well what is just to tenant-farmers, that 'l l O, matter like the present. of such immense irnportanee' e j; noble example will, no doubt, be very generally foll o ,e l The Times then remarks :—" We presume that his G r p proposal will work as follows :—lf the rent be .£2'l o o annum, and if next Lady-day the average price of i! during the previous half-year shall have been 'lO quarter, the rent for that half-year, instead of being will be £5O £5O ; or, by re d uc i ng t h e frac' tio, £B5 14s. 3d. The rent will be thus of a composite v's ruoi•Pr, half a money-rent and hnlf .•0 1 $' landlord will share with his tenant the fluctuations of market." Btstrirr. getus, The town council of Preston h as agree d t o ra ise Jr for m b e u s i s l r d s i . n g s ‘ b , a a t i 1 1) 1 s s o a n n d ß w ro a t s h h i h r o s r o e f s. Preston, are ab °ll erect a new cotton mill near to Penworthan-bridge• On Sunday night week, after the thaw, an in° 0 1 f mass of earth fell int o th e L ancaster an d K en d a l es l/ and stopped the traffic for about ten days. The brig Portia, of Sunderland, with ballast owl' tbe ashore about a mile north of Blackpool, durieg ic ee storm. It was reported that one or more vessels , 13 0; lost on the banks at the mouth of the Ribble. The: 4 0 of Southport was covered with palm oil, no doubt P"' the cargo of some ill-fated ship. . , r ag btt BURGLARY IN CHESHIRE.—Durin g Thurs d ay - f o p,. burglary was committed at J )ddrell Hall, near K1 4 ' 6 0 the :eat of Egerton Leigh, Esq., and the followiegoe oi r ties were stolen :—O ne p a i r o f small (very a id) ft table candlesticks, with the i nscr i pt i on , " The P o ds John Locke, to Elizabeth Str a tt on " ; a p l ate d i , ik s A with two bottles and candl e - n i c k, a h eavy wa f er s eal a very valuable ruby brooch, set in diamonds, s everT seals, and one double sovereign go ld p i ece , a quentliat/ Lea, in canisters holding six pounds each—together silver caddy spoon, and sundry other articles e s d COAT OF ARMS OF CHESHIRE. The apt! county of Chester, to be pl teed in front of the G,, ° , i 11 5 0 Asylum, are now completed, after a tasteful design ' § l4 91 0 Edward Cust. The pediment over which the ar o tl placed is 36 feet by 7 feet 4 inches ; on this re' tale sword of Hugh Lupus, wlveli forms the b as emen this is encircled with a r ibb,i n , an d th e motto, "Jfitlo4.4 dignitate gladii." In the c en t re o f th e arms eireeier7l garbs of wheat sheafs ; th e - u p por t ers are two ‘,;% i f el of the order of dragons, gra spi ng th e f eat h ers , fib the title of Chester borne by the Princes of Ws' e 'o 7 showng: the connexion with th e T u d or sover og n tv an 19 the Principality. The s hi e ld i s crowne d w i t h an trlo coronet—and, as Sir Edw ar d C us t says , the -"„ v et.l Chester were never ea r l s o f par li ament, " t h e o r " pd'" not borne with a caul or bonnet. The arms are surrellii, with carved work foliage, boldly executed. The er e tural style of the arms is basso-relievo. f S ' 41 DESTRUCTION OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, ..'" br o ke TER, BY FIRE.—On Wednesday evening, a fir e , e r," out in All Saints' Church, Oxford-road, Manche s `ble t rj which it was almost entirely destroyed. The & c i a o out about six o'clock, and is supposed to have oriE e ier, 'rom the overheatin g o f a fl ue w hi c h passes f ro m try to the organ loft. The fire was discovered ~b a t,r, reflection of the light through the windows of the ' m oil by some people who were passing, and an alarm e y,4 l been given, the fire brigade was speedily on rb, e r but the flames had obtained too great a mastery edifice, and the roof fell in shortly after they arrIZA which the seats in the area, and the beautiful tel . " 17:s pulpit and reading desk were very much damag,eu e DS( fine organs, and two stained glass windows, et c t 0,,, completely destroyed. The outer walls and ;P o o- r have been left standin g ; an d i n one o f th e Tvin ° % s ea der the organ galle r y a b eau tif u l painting, rer-ecsoi our Saviour in the Garden of Gethsemane, has 4 04 without injury. The R ev . D r . B urton was the',l bent and proprietor of the church. The church,ot was a very handsome building, of the Doric 1bos? architecture, and quite an ornament to the ne i tb hood, was erected by th e R ev . D r . B ur t on , in pe 7 1819, at a cost of £16,000. Si nce with the exception of a short interval, the ilo_ n er t i doctor has ministered in the church to a nutner24oo4l gregation. The damage done will amount to jag 11 £5OOO. The building has not bee n i n sured dar_o last ten years. One circumstance i n con nection T o r burning of the church deserves to be recordetLd t a Pro perhaps unparalleled. Two marriages were fix!' iiee li t of place on Thursday morning ; one, we believe, ei,e and the other, in due course, after the " aski n g i t LAP church. The persons who were to have been 07. 0 table ceri together" by license, moving in a resPe.e t he tyr proceeded to the Cathedral, where we believe 0% 4 0 0% 4 0 mony was performed ; but in the other case h t pd 110 was different. The banns had been publish; Saints',—the man was of the labouring class. or, not defray the cost of a license,—nor could h b e_'. ll ce , apparently bear the delay which would have c . ! on? by a repetition of the "asking" i n an otheL p el of The performance of the ceremony was accor e 'd 144 quired ; and there, amidst the ruins , — surro un d tie 0 , blackened and charred rafters, --exposed to at, it hin;" influences,--did the wedding party stand " s to 09, broken and shattered r a ils o f th e a ltar, the etejl e d bey were covered with rubbish and loaded with b ur " for —and William Briscoe took Margaret fiel e 'd 1 7 / 4 ir " wedded wife." The ceremony was perforn3eog??, Rev. Mr. Garrett; and the strange sp . ectaer ls / o f nessed by a motley audience of curious inspST p ite- • 1 1 ruins, helmeted and begrimed firemen, ancl -b „„ men. PILLS TiE F R o g a I STNLIICEumaIcapoYFICASSOTWEINM EQUALA. - -IV7g11 41 1::1: rot ," of Belmont, Carlow, having derived so much lc pi t the use of these Pills, wishes it to be m ' t hat be e. benefit of all persons troubledint for t:4 been suffering from this dist -.g g rat ed . 15 or 16 years, and alt . • . :.. he had trie di Holloway's ratohfeedrneioihmnadel remedies , e . o y s e h t . o . r . t i to t m and.. ' • Oathing has since become perfectly offewodardyteo'sddPhoililmhs7:vvobarLiedYberiflieupollire'elirA PI; lbe t is pi, befo: Or -virlt Wa s 1 With o) ( I do w , w u al p diN , 40 rei r "rs si whi ci ; thi c h uttrr le 111041; . Si ed z ho tzo!'n-l! S L , t den,