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3Emperial parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. This day several bills were advanced a stage, and the house immediately adjourned E OF COMMONS.-MONDAY o'clock sitting was of his intention to withdra Vnntimliararl 17..atatPa (T the present session, the Bill, the Prisons Bill, Marc El for the house re into a comma Mr. B. Os ttention of the hot udnlent, to the effect that the interfered in the late insur- -ern m ent rection, were chrytibl 1-al coo ie Portuguese people ' their just and legiti- freedor a for bringing the mat nore before the house was to give an oppc Palmerston to make the speech which 121 out of sion Ld beer linable to deliver, owir Le house, when th, Lord 3biected neither to the substanc faithful performance of the articles of the convention +which had been entered into. The object tl Govern- lenceurent was to induce o. That course OF LORDS.—T limited to the p: The bwir ntation of Ijourned. earl recd to in comr e auth, 3f the I was committed ot v onl. Thursd )'clock for the British bondholders of unpaid h, reviewed th and 1 paid off a por 'they squall& tion of t iebts thus contracted, but that ate ob- ;d away their resources on illegi f their co antr The question noble lord wide med of o might be disp -or - Parliament and justic fresh taxation American fusion to• was some e] the defaulti such f that t hen the for the national A.s to ti ver this r Uovern t come 'V cted upon th subjects British nation would no lot. the interest unpaid upon the to private subject and timely effort pas?ive F the false i tthell eminent was called le of England, it s e to the pa to make it defalcziio the Ho iOIIIC c urces, a f this country, and when the r witness with tranquillity 150,000,000 of money due t if they diet not make y Ito in the people arl as Inn°. f. lined upon interfering. rngiana re but to unite with those coun tries, not to crush the liberties of the people,_but to give and :pain h; had then no iternati a parliarn en and to restore to Por a consti )vernment Mr. P. Borth- B. Escort, Sir Hume, Lord J. M • Bentinck took part, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. 1 - lumE then brought on his motion on the case of Rejah of Sattara, and asked for the appointment lect Committee. As soon as he had resumed his seat-the debate was adjourned. The orders of the day was then disposed of, and the house adjourned. The house then resumed, and immediately afterwards the ex. of a S it had i by any c , lved a qu, on, and when nid a burst o: ing redress for ,ritish further observations from s cic withdrew h •ery country upon earth Iv; deceive - itself I call upon the Government t would not be amply pro- be latter r would fi rce its sup vith the m Ible lord's seat, it cheerin; bers, Lord GE Mr. flume's motion for a inquire committee to into the ( tara was then resumed, Sir J. C. Honno fill explanation of all the circumstances which led to the Pfordine On a division, the motion for the committee of ir was negatived by a major of twenty-c OF COMMONS On the motion of Mr. PARKER, that the committee on the Argyll Canal Bill have leave to sit and report to-mor row, a disclosure took place, to the effect, that the bill had been introduced as a private bill, and yet it involves the expenditure of £140,000 of public money. Mr. CHRISTOPHER announced this fact to the house, observing that a grant of public money ought not to be obtained under the pretext of carrying a private bill. The CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, upon this objection being taken, proposed to_ discharge the motion of Mr. Parker Ind to refer the bill to a select committee. COMBS objected to that course, denounced Ind said that it ought to be de- Mr. the bill Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord G.BENTINCK, Mr. BAINES, Mr. HUME, and Mr. WILLIAMs, all denounced the suspicious appearance of the measure, which they treated as one for the benefit, not of the population, but of the lairds of the Highlands. _ - „ „ Mr. S. , ORTLEY and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIE WIER. defended the bill, alleging - that there were the strongest grounds, both public and private, for such a - --”sation lasted for time, but The cony Ineasur terminated in the for the house going into con r. V. SMITI the On the order of_ the d inittee on the Reg. istration of Vote on account of the later and the Parliamentary Electors (No. 1) Bills, which end ed in the postponement of the two former, and the rejec tion of the latter by a majority of five votes. On the motion of Mr. BODKIN, the Poor , Removal Act Amendment (No. 2) Bill was read a second time alter a desultory conversation, in which Mr. CHRISTOPHER, Sir W. JOLIFFE, Mr. FLOYER, Mr. BANKES, and Mr. P. BORTHWICK expressed themselves hostile, and Mr. SPOONER, Sir G. GREY, Sir J. PAKINGTON. and Mr. WAKLEY, favourable to the measure. On the order of the day being read for consideration of the amendments of the Lords on the Juvenile Offenders Bill, Sir J. PAKINGTON moved that two of their lordships' amendments should be rejected, and that reasons for their rejection should be assigned to their lordships. This motion was agreed to. The other amendments of their lordships met the approbation of the House of Cora l-1(10TM The other orders were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. --....e0..-- HOUSE OF LORDS rHURSD The Earl of HARDWICKE - drew the attention of the go vernment to the claims of those seamen who had served in ships of war, engaged with the enemy between 1793 and 1846, to a participation in the distinction conferred by the order of the Admiralty, dated the Ist of June. The Earl of AUCKLAND promi se d th at t h e ques ti on s hould be taken into cons i deration, Aft e r some observations from Earl GREY the subject dropped. The committee Poor RE kf Supervision Bill was postponed The Clergy pension Bill; were rea, HOUSE OF ( At the early sitting, I is withilraw the I the p!:( would inconveniently delay ti same time his o - Mr. G. frthisditafraß( to the state of the city, a mind on this subject.•. Mr._ AglionbY; Lord 1 Wakley, awl Mr. Hume made some suggestions for im proving the future measure. Mr. HENLEY could not avoid saying that, for a question introduced in the Queen's Speech, it had not received from the Government that consideration which it ought. Lord MORPETII would feel bound to bring the question forward early in the next session. Lord. G. BENTINCK trusted the Minister would ex post facto exonerate the Opposition from any blame for having Lord J. Rt LL said he brought no charge of factious OF CC ted, as onds fr fuEsp ssary to exonerate any one Ling sitting, Sir J. HOBHOUSE stated, in stion from Mr. EWART, that a despatch eat out to India containing a plan for changing At the ev to a char the order of the day for going into corn- T. called the attention of the house __ Lord G. Bentinck had put , relative to the position of the statue of the iellington on the top of the triuMphal arch. ...ed the noble lord to postpone that motion till .t lay, in order that he might ascertain in the mean me ,ne Duke of Wellington's feelings on the subject ; )r her Majesty was most anxious that nothing should be of mot to the pe I for it, nt to ii lora, onf THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ably be faded ! 3948 tons, 1 - eland Isl 'ellery, .e has r has nc ancipation Act of lk! A at the period of th ian at the approaching election, be his pa is pretensions what they may, who will n in the result "The rest Akby X !yams, Pr will lay. forward'as his c Influerice SoCiety whatever is attributable to Captain Gowan, who was on deck at the time. The lead was kept going constantly, and the vessel at slow speed; but the fog was so intense that no precaution was of avail—as a proof of which, we may state that, -- even after the ship struck, the land was invisible, though but fifteen or twenty yards distant. The passengers were all safely disembarked in the course of the morning, and came up to town by various convey ances. A number of steamers and lighters were yesterday forenoon despatched to the spot to secure her cargo, and assist in getting her off the rocks ; but as yet she remains hard and fast.—About the same time as the Sea King, and not far from the same place, the Athlone steamer, on her voyage from Dublin to this port, went ashore on the Copeland Island. Everything that care and foresight could do to prevent the accident was done by Captain Williams ; but, as we said before, the fog was so intense that no skill or seamanship was of any avail. The Ath- lone, however, was more fortunate than the Sea King, in that she got off at high tide, and arrived at the quay on Sunday night at six o'clock, not having sustained the slightest damage.—Belfast Chronicle. CORRESPONDENCE. THE DUTY OF ELECTORS AT THE PRESENT IMPORTANT CRISIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD DEAR SlR, — There was, perhaps. never a period in the his immortal Nelson, "England expects every man will do his duty" was more ap plicable than at the present important crisis : seeing we shall shortly be called upon to exercise the political power with which we are intrusted by the constitution of this free coun try—the Elective Franchise. In this land of freedom, the feelings and . prevailing senti ments of the people, duly expressed by their representatives in Parliament, will never fail for any long period, to ;act with a degree of power quite irresistable upon those in whose hands out beloved Sovereign may place the reins of Executive Go. vernment. Hence the importance of the Electors forming a correct judgement upon those momentous subjects which are likely to occupy the future attention of the Legislature, and upori which the prosperity of the nation may gre'atly deiend. It becomes then a sacred duty in the present crisis of our National condition, that we should seriously consider the rapid increase and threatening aspect of the Roman Catholic Church, both at home and in our colonial possessions. The growth of any system of religious opinions, however erroneous, or the zeal of those who may advocate them, are not in them- selves matters to create political alarm ; they should rather stimulate the friends of truth to greater exertions, and call forth larger efforts of a counteractive character, but the growth of Popery, being in reality the advance or a great political corporation, (the Romish Hierarchy) into power and influence, cannot be thus revived. The Church of Rome essentially in tolerant, she has ever warred against the liberties of the world, and her triumphs can only be secured by enslaving the consci- ), the constitution of this country e Revolution of 1- was, to us the words of an eminent, but by no meansconsikent; stat man of our day, "broken in upon ;" and by that act person bearing spiritual if not temporal allgiance to a foreign,pripc, and prelate, are admitted to the unrestrained exercise of pol upon which this admission was fou7nded,`Was scarcely vindi cated even by the authors and supporters of that measure; they deemed it to have become expedient, and with their expe diency justified its enactment without even an appeal to the constituency of the country. Under this so far altered consti- tution, our legislature no longer takes cognizance of truth or Tror in matters of religion—all are equal in the eyes of the Q. But, as regards the aspiring Church of Rome, the evil not stop here. Popery first tolerated, then enfranchised, , w become Popery favoured ; endowments have been granted from the national funds for its support; more exten sive concessions and measures of an alarming character are in contemplation, and that church will soon become a dominant establishment.; unless God, in his mercy, awaken the people of these realms to a sense of their danger and their duty. As then we value the great principle of civil and religious liberty, the only real safeguard of our freedom ; as we value the free circulation of the Word of God, we are called upon to take an immediate and determined stand of resistance against the further progress of these evils, and to refuse to vote for any merit or encouragement to the Ch - urch of Rome.* I trust then, sir, that the sound-hearted Protestant electors their duty at this important crisis; that byterian and Baptist, Inde 44—;r prejudices, and A PROTESTANT ELECTOR I by the ( present chairman, 1 I). NI proceeding LoP merch the Dock-, ve the I ark, or g them of the g wad le into a day to d I the pro: ) clear the whole reply to a qu had I r arato The right hon. baronet also stated, in answer to INGLIS, that a voluminous body of evidence in reference to idol worship in India was prepared, but until this war: To a question put by Mr. V. SMITH, Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the minutes of education relative to Roman Catholics were not yet sufficiently for ward to be placed on the table. There was no intention to ask for any money during the present session for the education of Roman Catholics. He had been in cominu- nication with the Catholic Institute ; the Government and the Institute had agreed on many points, but there were some on which they differed in opinion. On the motion of the•CuANcELLon of the Excut the houSe resolved itself into a committee of the wh house to consi er a resolution for a further loan of the security of rates for the purposes of he whole amoun expended and pended up to fhe close of the proposed operations would amount to £9,350,000, being £650,000 under what he had originally calculated. Of this sum £3,700,000 was 1,270,000 on the security of lands and wort and £4,380,000 grants. The right hon. ger '• , ed that the operations were eminently --rution of Ireland was very I of utility successful ri ally improved ie resolution wa agreed to The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then proposed a resolution to exonorate certain counties in Ireland, liable for the cost of public works and drainage, from the pay ment of one-half the amount. After observations from Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. B. Os borne, Mr. Callaghan, and Mr. Poulett Scrope, the reso- The Royal a bills. t was given to an immense number of A motion of the Earl of RODEN, complaining of the third report of the Irish Relief Commissione imputed misconduct to certain chairmen of committees and justices of the peace, was withdrawr adjourned s was then disposed of, and their HOUSE OF COMMONS, -FRID AY he house on the pape Duke of NI time 0 !FOREIGN .5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE THE WEST INDIA MAILS, The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Med 7 . .way, W. S. Andrews, commander, biinginc , the West India mails, and 120 passengers, arrived at Sont . hampton b on Wednesday morning. Her dates are Tampico, May , 20 ; Chagres, 26th ; Carthagena, 28th ; Vera Cruz, June I 2 ; Havanna, 10th ; 'Nassau, 12th ; Beamuda, 24th ; De- Her freight con tons of arrowroot, 219 ) serons of cochineal; St: Thomas, 18th ; Jamaica, Bth sists of 252 serous of indigo, 8 , cases of cigars. 47 live turtle, 1 Greilada 311ars, 73,fi1 tuition, 1,7 hunt.' i ounce 151 b of gold, 64,348 ounces of gold for mem account, of platina, 131 boxes of pipes, and 110 sundry packages The steamer experienced fine weather on her passage the Medway very s. ,t increase in - the crops could be relied giving a quarter more than usual t at Jamaica an )emerara gnisant of the feeli subject. and reioi, Lord G. B ssurance that i probation of her peopi After a few words b RUSSELL, the co Lord G. BENTINC A considerable was next c Spooner a t in dividing committee on t .h, W after a gajesty and the ap- TRENCH and d, and t Lord J The cony( motion of 111. HUM E ersation excited co. the motion he had orie of the relief commissic 1 - ion, NI lc was not in his place that evening to hear i which he was about to give to his ( 1, asked Si on a forr the medical officer of. an union had the power of drugs distributed by him to the union itself." tice of the law to he this ly of me( blie on th, ir. P. BORTHWICK, the house Of the EXCHEQUE board would 1 oner of the new He would have Llary of £1,50C The whole exper £5,000 ,000 a-year less than tl expense of the poor law commission. A discussion then took place in the committee on the inefficiency of the present medical relief for the poor. In the course of it Mr. WAKLEY expressed his reluctance to vote these salaries, because the house had not the New Poor-law Bill before it, and because he understood that that bill had been mutilated in the House of Lords of two of its most humane and important clauses, and that, too, without any effort having been made by government to The vote for the Poor-law Board was then agreed to without division; On the vote for granting £lO,OOO to defray the ex penses connected with the capture of slave-trading vessels, Mr. P. BORTRWICK called the attention of the house to the great evils and cruelties resulting from the system adopted under our treaties with foreign powers for sup pressing the slave trade. He showed that that system cost us more than a million a year—that it produced no advantage—and that it retarded the progress of civilization. Furthermore he contended that the loss of life among our seamen and officers employed on the coast of Africa was very large, and was perfectly useless ; and, lastly, he maintained that for every thousand negroes sold into sla very, seven times that number died in the most excruci ating agonies. He concluded by calling on Lord Palmer ston to consent to the repeal of the statutes enacted for carrying out our treaties with foreign powers in reference to the slave trade, to abrogate the treaties themselves, and thus to free humanity from the terrible curse which they had entailed upon it. Lord PALMERSTON supposed the object of Mr. Borth wick to be to legalize the slave-trade, and observed, that under the guise of great regard for humanity he had in sinuated that conclusion by every means in his power. He believed that the slave-trade could never be entirely and permanently stopped until the condition of slavery was itself abolished. He then took a review of the va hich the government had taken for the bominable traffic, recounted the va were bound to co-operate with 1 that we could not suddenly ricus treati fcreign poN Conside 1-.:,..-4- 1-, loss of honour and national division .edlo without a The rest of the evening was taken up in discussing the her estimates. RAILWAY IFFAIRS The opening of the railway from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Berwick will enable travellers to make a journey from London to Edinburgh in 13 or 14 hours. The bill for the amalgamation of the Chester and Bir kenhead, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railways, has passed through all its preliminary stages in both houses of parliament, without the intro duction of the restrictive clauses. The bill has therefore passed in its integrity, and is quite safe. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OE A RAILWAY TUNINEL.—On Friday, the first stone of the tunnel, about to be made under a considerable extent of the north part of the town, for the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Railway, was laid at the corner of Great George-street, by rge - torry, Esq., one of the directors, in the presence 'and other friends, 3.K CALI The banking house of Smith, Payne, and' Co. was so completely besieged on Wednesday, by parties coming to pay the call, that many of the shareholders were obliged to wait full an hour before they had an opportunity of paying their money and aetting their receipts. On the day in question no £lBO,OOO wa holders of th rthern Railwa CAusr DEFECTIVE RAILWAY WO. 'he end too Recu to keep within the tin and want of care and has pr the share- to slight the w much bad work; iencv to have led bribe 1 who pir and a:ill 11 island of brims v Constantino- 1 t' only Euic tved to a of the farinersin tt —Cope B del j.loyd. it present as to ren t of her 3 Grey whet! recovering the price of the the poor of the union f GREY believed the p 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE The county courts -are to receive great extension of power. County insolvancy is to be placed within their scope, and the amount of debts allowed.to be tried will be extended to £5O. The lawyers do not like this. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Scrope Ayrton, of the Middle Temple, London, Esq., Barrister at-Law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy to act in the prosecution of Fiats in Bank ruptcy in the country. ACTION AGAINST THE PROPRIETORS OF THE " DAILY NEWS."—In the Court of Common Pleas, on Thursday, Mr. Powell, formerly one of the sub-editors of the Daily News, obtained £5OO damages from the proprietors of that paper, for dismissing him from his situation. Powell, it appeared, was engaged for two years certain, at £l5 a-week, but the proprietors had reason to suspect Bristol Bankruptcy Court, to gratify the spleen of ano ther gentleman in the office, and deemed it necessary, for the character of the paper, that he should be dis missed. The jury found that the report was not garbled, and granted the damages named. INSOLVENT CIRCUITS. — Home : H. R. Reynolds, Esq. Dover, November 5 ; Canterbury 8 ; Maidstone, 9 ; Hertford, December 3.—Midland: J. G. —Chelmsford, October 26 ; Colchester, 27 ; Earns, Esq terborough, ; Oakham, 9; LincOln, 10 ; Nottingham, 12 ; Derby, 15 ; Lichfield, 16 ; Stafford, 17; Shrewsbury, 19 ; Warwick, 22 ; Coventry, 24 ; Leicester, 26 ; North -9 ; Bedford, 30 ; Aylesbury, December 2-- Esq.—Sheffield, October 16 ; York, 27 ; Richmond, 30 ; • Pnrim e , 5 An- am ptor Northern : W. J. Law, Wakefield, 18 ; Hull, 25 pleby, 8; Kendal Cheste 9 ; Lancaster, 10 ; Liverpool, 17 ; 22 Ruthin, 23 ; Dolgelly, 25 ; Car aris, 30 ; Welshpool, December 3. larvon , 29 THE COURT. Victoria and Albert, and her tender, the Fairy, have been reported ready for the Royal service. We.believe her Majesty and Prince Albert will proceed to Osborne to-day, and very shortly 'after will proceed on a cruise round the kingdom of Great Britain, visiting Land's End, west coasts of England and Scotland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and the Hebrides, and eastward returning home. 1 N D. emizr Limerick Chronicle port to America Five persons have renounced Popei church, Dublin. 'ants from thi in St. Andrew r. ER.-831 cases of fever are reported in the five bos sin the city of Cork. As yet, there appears no de . _ ;e in the epidemic THE limn RELIEF Wouxs.—The gross total daily ierage number of persons employed on the public work L Ireland in the week ending the 26th of June last wa 5,639, and the total expense From Cork 53 vessel £23,257. with 12,374 emigrauts sailed to with 3,778 he North American colonies, and 38 vessels migrants, to the United States, during the quarter ending re 30th. A. few days farmer, named Murphy, living at ;navar, near Cork, whilst in conversation with his leaned his arm on the muzzle of a fowling-piece ; whilst in this position, his child touched the trigger, gun went off and killed him on the spot, ,11l Ulf from the well of his ;, at Bu have adopted the advice of Dr !ansing and fumigating their courts m one hour each day of the commis. of a purer atmosphere in their courts under the lerick Blood, pay-clerk under the Board :of y dropped .Z. 21 ed a single penny rewarc ral pay-clerks have been tl led such extracts from HEAD DOCKS I lett T alluded to in our •s' meeting on Wednesday week : London !1Y 7; 1847, , and the extraordinary ci ed for Et T which it was broOg,ht forward imstances remarks iome that sowed, at ad sanctio: y such belief " When I accenteti.,witti your chairman the appointment of it was - *ith the di nd that we shot ng, it was sugge eral petitions against the bills, it should be endeav ave them withdrawn, and Mr. Lloyd was instructed to aster sin if this object could be attained. " This proposal met a decided refusal, Mr. Loyd having ob erved that only two points were raised in the several petitions iz , the question of title, and that of permanent level. It oc mrrecl to me, that, if the opponents should agree to limit thet After tll man that, as there were se ed to •ed fron- lonnuittee was appointed for the 25th ult. The Whole of that h the commit -1 been ettled by requiring the qualifying ter rted in the first act, and then adjourns rid I fully ex- on Monday morn- before going into committee You knovrthe rest Fie anneared at s oard, and obtained your consent to a I other interests. ructive of you; own position, as I believe it willbe seen so entirely in `accordance with require iehalf of the Woods, that no doubt can t of its having ty nearly the same as were p ,ge, and were then believed by your la i at an earlier They are such as no honest board mers can enter into; for they are beyond their n to be withdrawn in effect, put a veto on your bi on the part of the crown to legalize it, with me whether the only fair course t is not to gather up the unexpended portion of their funds, and call for their instructions how further to apply them. wards y h is that which y-oi property, anti winen i ueuiny Lament. a _ having joined your commission, for no opinion of its ultimate security can justify the transaction. "This proceeding is the chief obstacle to the fulfilment of the only one of the requirements which it appears to me you ought to entertain, even if it had not been relinquished at an earlier stage, when the bills were under the charge of your late chair- "I believe the best course you can now pursue is the resolution passed on the 28th ult., on insufficiet every possible me I am, dear sir, your faithful servant, " P.S.—Mr. Bryans and I have just had an interview with the Board of Woods, which he will detail the particulars of. "To the Dock Commissioners, Birkenhead." THE REGISTERED PALETOT CASI the Vice- July 13,1847. POSITION OF THE AUTHORITIES IN BIRKENHEAD The affairs of Birkenhead have latterly excited so much attention, and yet their actual state is so little understood, that the following may perhaps not be uninteresting to some of our readers. The commissioners of Birkenhead consist of twenty-one persons, one-third of whom go out in rotation every three years, when others are elected by the ratepayers.. They have the entire management of the parks, ferries, mar kets, streets, sewerage, lights, &c., their powers being much similar to those of municipal corporations. They are, also, ex officio commissioners for the management of the Birkenhead Harbour and Docks ; but all proceedings, accounts, and monies of this trust, are kept quite sepa rate and distinct from those of the town. It would have saved frequent mistakes had they been called Dock Trus tees, as their affairs from the similarity of the style are frequently confounded. But, although they are the same. individual persons, the two bodies are, in every point of view, distinct and independent of eachother, so that, in fact, there are in Birkenhead two public corporations, or, more strictly speaking, two public companies. There is also a private body, frequently taken for the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners; but which is entirely independent of either of the public trusts, this is the Birkenhead Dock Company. It is a private company,. having a nominal capital of one million, divided into 10,000 shares of £lOO each. This explanation is requisite for the clear understanding of the following statements. It was on the 19th of July, 1843, that the scheme of the docks was agreed upon at the house of Mr. John Laird. He, as every body knows, is an extensive iron shipbuilder, then holding land under the Corporation of Liverpool, occupied by him as a build ing yard at Wallasey Pool. By the Liverpool papers of this week, it appears to have been stated in the Town Council, chat an application was made for an increased quantity of laud, and an extension of the term of his lease, two frigates having to be built there. 'However, such a lease was granted to him, and also to others, who, uniting their purchases or leases, came thus in possession of the requisite space for the dock-works, which were commenced by the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners in October, 1844. The estimated cost of the Docks and Harbour was stated between £300,000 and £400,000, and the plan of the then intended docks was given with the Standard of the 14th November. Though materially altered since that period, two large triangular pieces of land will vet be formed by the sea walls, which will encl o s e an area on ^^- 1 - ' 4 - 3 - of the pool, of about sixty or seventy acres. would the value a defray the cost of constructing the Docks and Harbour. In the words of an official document issued by the Com missioners, " the entire cost of the Docks, it is believed, will not exceed £300,C00, as an offset to which an immense quantity of valuable land will be reclaimed, which may amount to more than the whole outlay." Upon these statements_ aided I,s, he money market sums of money _.ers were enabled to borrow large „ and they proceeded with their works, hav ing to a parliamentary document, expended, _zu Dec. last, £263,967 on the works. In addition to this outlay, the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners have lent to the Warehouse Company the sum of £50,000, and to the Birkenhead Town Commissioners a similar sum. A deviation from the plans originally submitted to Parlia ment, has been made, whereby £78,000 has been spent "', present Morpeth Dock, opened recently by his lamed so in compliment to him. With a cralise this expenditure, and to obtain powers to on the 31 lordship, and view to 1 make further alterations from the original scheme, bills are now before the Lords ; but although they passed the Commons without opposition, and even the committee of the upper house, they are now most violently opposed. The crown appears to have claimed possession of the strand of the Mersey, which is now claimed by the owners of several frontages on Wallasey Pool; by Mr. Price, of Liverpool ; and by the Corporation of Liverpool, who bought a portion of Mr. Price's property therein„ These parties are all movers against the right of the crown, in which, incredible as it may appear, they are joined by the Birkenhead Warehouse Company ; and they have been. lo far successful as to induce the Lords to insert a few ords, which entirely open the question of the Ind instead of the broad assertion, " Whereas, ^no.sed, &c.," the paragraph stands thus, to bt reassessed. In this position, the nan Commissioners of Wot ^nd Forests refuse their con- is, or c us to be, t to the bill, unl given for the cuter dock works being completed in three years, and for suspending the works until the re improperly loaned by the commis- funding of the mor sioners. With the !se condition. allaby and honest com- can comply !ceiving the Prot, which his Royal Highness stands to her Majesty . . . . some amusement. . Robed as Chancellor, Prince Albert The whole number of persons reciving relief, (allowing lii ", "'", '""!" V"""'"` 1 !"""""tsc 9."' "'t"'" "ue advanced to the dais, or throne, on which the Queen sat, h a lf- ra ti on s for children) will be upwards of 2,700,000. member in particular, he is immediateiy subjected to t.., ... injury of which we have had cause to complain. Now, had v and in a distinct voice read to her a congratulatory ad- REFORMATION IN DUBLlN.—Yesterday, as we an- advertised our invention simply as a new overcoat, it is mo dress on her arrival. This was very graciously received nounced in our last publication, five persons renounced than probable that, ere this, we should have been confounds and replied to, after which the Prince and those around Popery in St. Audben's Church. One of them is a Mr. with the many advertisers that since our appearance before the him retired, walking backwards until they had reached the John M`Shane, who has been employed for years as a public have assumed a somewhat similar description to that door. In the Senate-house the Chancellor conferred se- lit e r a ry teacher in different Romish seminaries. He long which from the first has been employed by us. rm. rlocomloo. ;,.. 1.1-.:o no.n h.ince narhntic mnra onnaniminliS f about £2,000 per :tion of the Court in respect to 1 right td an invention, and by uy which it has been publicly known. ..tt the great popularity we have attained by the sale of the ..,uject of the injunction, a garment styled the Registered Paletot, of Llama Cloth, it may be assumed that the public will be somewhat interested with the precise facts of the case. It has alreadv - ^t introducir an infringement our patented n im - ption of the ti been described; that, when fir our invention, we with much care selected a nam try; as, tracing the origin thus - , paletoque, or pallescote, a coat Niith glee - That we exercised due caution in select has, by the result of these recent a i Chancery, been fully proved an unusual name dings in the Court of m• £168,000 per week relief; • :Luc unenuatui In Luis cube, uelus Pf 1,. example, as venal degrees, after which was delivered the Latin oration,appeared. that they xtiocKea at tne uoor ot tne om ce, at nau ;:esisTeil the truth of the gospel, but at length yielded to determined thanth eres rest, to enforceas first selected our rightful tooe claim al' past six o'clock on the previous evening, and demanded which lasted a whole hour, and much exhausted the its influence under the teaching of some of the reformed " i n o the originality (as tience of the company. In the evening the Queen, ph.ai yßthowbteherwe Royal Highness, and a portion of their suite, dined witlsl priests._ The_ Rev. Thomas Scott received the converts ; far as regards the English language) 0 , f u t n li w e_ i t l i . tle Registerede i d langsitnolifiariectrde being de a a n fr f t hours. Immediately afterwards a crash the Vice-chancellor in Catherine-hall, and at night there tin", after they had partaken of the Lord's supper, and Paletot of Llama Cloth; but yet bein g a ne d d the roll, he presented each of them with a against those who may have unguardedly use food. n without .. first giving t n heiu l i o lo u tipe,_We would, therefore, respect:it wet the fire-works on Parker's Piece. On Tuesday morning B a ible sl i p . c ‘ opy of the Book of Common Prayer. The w waßa nn a irnddi s dd h iceenow e w m a a s ebt r a isi d i l ti tohyre Oneto Ture relief as the causes of tile inisde taken into custody and conveyed to h h Prince Chancellor proceeded to the Senate-liouse, and Rev. R. launsell Eyre preached from the Ist chapter now e liot l Z;;;ls st o ° t i n ntenfi b on th w e ir raeiumdof your columns, Poems—Latin, y afterwards joined by the Queen, to hear the Priesof St.A As much to the Romans, 15th and 16th verses future copyists; for it would appear, frgi a- n r Greek, and English. The Installa- ____,, OCCUPATION OF co t C h i nTermihmAie,teAytneßdss were a t i . No d Oie) h Ti. ia e cs Dho h in a rfi d Lfnyoe b rd e et e eo ntneNndays. ashillingsforty-eightysu.c , be judicious t b t e o a ttar wserrn made 0 r e casin me is, lam ready to preach the gospel by Messrs. llawbarn and Son, of Liverpool, Messrs. Waring meanour. tion Ode, the Poet Laureate, Wordsworth, the musicand Son, of Birmingham, as, also, many of our other influential hours without to you that are at Rome also. For lam not ashamed of by Dr. Rralm y isley, was then performed in admirable style. the . gospel of Christ : for it is the power of God unto sal- agents, that they have experienced equal inconvenience with AND VENTILATED AS Dwv - The Royal Pair partook of luncheon at Trinity College, vation to every one that belieyeth.—Dublin. Evn. Herald. ourselves through so many . tradesmen in their neighbourhood Tee s n ho . ulc i l have be , after which they proceeded to the Floral Fete at Downinr:assuming the same, or a similar unauthorized, title to that of INCENDIARY FIRE IN CORK.—Last week the work- the Registered Paletot of Llama Cloth. It may -No f College. The Royal Pair left the Gardens, and returnea given by in state to Trinity, where a grand banquet was house of Cork was discovered to be on fire the work of here to explain, that we n be i l l ieve that, had a continuane an incendiary, threatening the destruction of extensive nn the Master and Fllows. Mr. and Mrs. Green ascended public property, and great loss of lfet occurred after e u ct r t r a new balloon from Parker's Piece at six in the even- all the inmates had retired to bed in the th j e l se piracies were articles of our man m u t fa u c e t d f) rcllse a rs o gve lOn Wednesday morning the Prince Chancellor w ra r tte e of wooden charge and excellence of which has induced p- ' at which all the ,ead held a of sheds, lately erected in addition to thei n - _ a ir i e r r s 'o h c o e u e l ling u s be both here ane are all connected together. Some one effected n annseentran which itnoggeVemr w%irreaplrfiaTiilaiels' lsters of Arts were presente; the whop .'• • into a cellar, formed of the stone foundations, upon whichce fessions, as, also, general nil fa m vo e u m r b y e , , it s ) ,of ' of this country. • to sheds are erected, where the coffins are kept, and his Being well a . ware of the intere , " eparations for carrying out his design .evinced the ex- raging, all_ grievon. --- - 'me of cool and wicked ingenuity. He stuffed some of Tiod of a coupl one of the sti unable to tai le of the reception, tl - When this cere id on the - previous day of Trinity and St. John's fined tickets for the that may affect industr and a half notice c I pauper I that the loc .sing 1( LINGS. - WS in La, nearly every one of ti ;ewer than fifty treet, Midghall- 3ournood, were and Mr. Bolton ed cellars to the .ed the cellars a height, and imunication with the floor above, where I s were sleenbur • Fortur 3r, one o f I point upof inta went on 801 ere cot irnined pci patentt occupied natt reed pat :e from to the very King went uis, on her news from the variou tisfactorv. A on, the hest E itimatc h exceeding t weather was extremely dry at Puerto Rico, and also at St. Thomas ; indeed St. Thomas was suffering for water, and the crops on the south side of Puerto Rico had generally In Jamaica the crop was fated at an increase over less by £250,000. The following are the only interesting particulars received from Mexico : So sickly was Vera Cruz when the Medway left that all the hospitals were full. and 20 to 25 nersons were dying daily. The town wa's -under...the command of Color Wilson, with about 400 men in the Castle of St. Jean allOV• vv aJ J4a Vlll6 ty Ik/11.111 ,U 1111 01.11 Gates had about 1,000 regular troops and a numl volunteers under his command in the latte T place both places a very e ras stated at Vera Croz thnt General Scott was at 1, 75 miles from Mexico, with 4,800 infantry, 200 with PrOvisCons ; he left Colonel Childs and 200 men' at Jalapa. General Taylor was at Monterey with 5,000 or 6,000 troops, mostly volunteers. General Taylor is ac knowledged by the Americans to be " iii a fix "—much in want of provisions, ammunition, and money. General Scott's army had five months' pay due to them, were very discontented, wanted many necessaries, and as many as 30 per day are said to be lost from sickness. His s composed of Yankees, Irish, Gerrnans; and a army his position was r The valuabl, of the ci Gold was fast dis given for doubloons: ' little wealth they posse The lower orders are burying w The foundation of the first German catholic chur built in Prussia has been laid at Leignitz, in Silesia In the year 1828, the quantity of caoutchouc exported from Brazil, did not exceed 20,00011 ; but in the year 1845-6, it amounted to upwards of 800,000tb, besides 415,953 pairs of shoes. dish workmen employed in some of the iro: foment ry wholly destitute nformed, of Middle ton Speculator ual famin spindles in full operaticin Zi,C72 spindles in operation , with 7,( ceased labour, becau heir wages, and have Tur- least pc Upwar have lost theii live -The Giornale •ade There exis ninz facto works in the state of Virginia haif their masters have refusi so employed slaves as "paddlers." The increase of banks in India during the last ten years been si paid-up )nly £B7s,ooGit iIoNN Viceroy of Egypt at Bosphorus, will have he Asiatic side Of the The construction will three or four yea: and the cost m contain t betwen the de LTival of the newll pointed Gov lost on the saved. The ecca. I 1, bound to Tunis, with 175 nil ', i as been tots.' - qv G 8 DP tives of A aff buil Ind our ri silthar b French has hitherto beer that of Guaninato 1, with 53 spinning factories )indles. of which 23,940 are in' course o construction. The daily consumption of cotton (continue! our Italian contemporary), is at present 39,7551 b., and increase to 48,6221 h. when all the projected spindle, meted; the daily production of yarn now amount! 8 reals. The number o of the value i are, recer money, restored it, and re rt in the same county se , , ar attacked and plunder, The Lord Lieutenant I he ccinduct of certain magistrates and landlord; to be )rwarded to them with a request for explanations. The "ornmissioners reported that, in 1;700 committees, they I found instar RT-T le official esti oyal command he furthe !quired the ex- land, during the year ending March 31, _ £500,000 to be applied in donations in aid he Relief Commissioners, under the act of namely ibition of native t variety of products which I skill of the Irish chiefly cor I and wrot tapestry from the once ious Liberty, tabc uty, woollen fabric its of remarkabl ition, according to the opinion of aperior in the number and excel- ,t judge ace of t :ficfes to :ill ;ous exhibitions, and r t on Jr sh industry PMENT AT KNOCKEIERNA upon a time fairies revelled, dition saith, deeds of nd plur ngly outraged, that government y interference, and the Light I odder, has encamp )ectacle so novel has ati under Captain I the county 'e are happy to rep-ea! turned to thu I C/e PORT OF LONI 111 America has been greater during the presE ear. We subjoin a return, for which we are indebted to Lieui govern- .nt here, showing the umber of emigrant the quart 30 ships, al the 30th June passenge New Br Total er quarter 1 .cnnfinel, 2497 pdssengers Hill, the € the benra Aa, 10 ships, 5431 t unswick, luring the quarter, 9379 Ctotal game 510: increase for 1847, 4869.—Derry On Friday week, at the quarter O'Connell was S IN COLTRT n Kilrush, Clare co dver r nment inspector, Mr. Hill, who was on , was observed to laugh, _and in reply to a ques- tion thereupon by Mr. O'C at his foolish observations. , said he was indeed laughing Mr. O'Connell said he would not suffer such language to pass with impunity elsewhere era 4-hQt lia slinnlrl rintirp it. nit of ennrt. The Dresidim barristE r. O'Connell to find sureties to keel the peace, and on his refusal he was cc well, where he was visited by his brot spent with them a pleasant evening. proceedings have not yet transpired. DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURREE torn ey s The subsequent Portumna, 3rd instant, states that on the previous Friday, as Mr. Hacket, and his lady, of that place, were returning homeward from Redwood, Tipperary, in a car, in the rp RECTORY OF SPOFFORTH. — The Rev. James Tripp, rector :of Kirkby-Overblow, near Leeds, has been ap pointed to the rectory of Spofforth, Yorkshire, vacant by the demise of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, LL.D. late Dean of Manchester. Mr. Tripp is nephew of the late Dr. Tripp, who held the rectory previously to Dr. Her bert. MISSIONARY COLLEGE AT CANTERBURY. — The new College of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, founded by A J. Beresford Hope, BEA., M.P., is to be opened in Octo- gero .._, ber, for the education of a colonial Clergy. At present Mr. Hacket is acknowledged by all parties to be a m the principal quadrangle only has been completed, in- benevolent man, and his lady not less ri , ----' - ' eluding the Chapel, hall, library, and apartments for 50 employment to mn. ,, - students, with the requisite accommodation for the officers and servants of the establishment. The Institutio” be formed on our Collegiate models, and his C._ f - L - A 2 - .LRRLAND.—The a m oun t o f auvances made from the Archbishop of Canterbury has consented to give statutes Treasury for the relief of Irish distress by public works, for the future government and regulation of the College. was, on warrants issued up to June 15th, £5,574,876. INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT AS CHANCELLOR From the third monthly report of the Irish Relief Corn- OF CAMBRlDGE.—Yesterday morning week her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their suite, left London in three missioners it appears that the whole number of rations daily distributed, gratuitously, in the 1677 divisions re open carriages, by rail, to be present at the installation of ceiving relief, was 1,923,361; and 91,326 rations per day his Royal Highness as Chancellor of Cambridge Univer- were sold. The average cost of a ration is about 21d. sity. They reached Cambridge by one o'clock. Shortly The daily cost of the food given away is therefore rather afterwards her Majesty entered the hall of Trinity College. morp than £20.000. If the 312 vet to be included be added evening, two men deliberately annett _ arms, upon which he jumped out and struck at them wills his whip, but both barrels were discharged, the slugs from which dreadfully wounded him. Though faint from loss of blood, he regained his seat arid got to Portumna, three miles of, where by the last accounts he lay clan , )st price; rendering the neig grace the p ersons where about 300 pof the first rank, among whom numberanrt ; ne of rations required for them be assumed were Prince Waldemar, the Duke of Saxe Weimar, as to be, on an average, the same as for the 1677 already re well as learned doctors and beautiful ladies, were present. ceiving relief, the total number of rations to be daily dis- Then occurred a scene which, considering the position in - tributed, without payment, will be about 2,388,000, at a to 35,780; spinning establishments in operation amounts to 8,753 employing altogether 17,000 persons. The annual con sumption amounts to 14,585,6661 b., and as the indigenou production only amounts to 50,000 quintals, it follows th there is a defidiency of about 95,666 quintals. In ore partly to cover this deficiency the importation of 60,( quintals has been allowed at a duty of six reals per ( tal. The carriage from Vera Cruz to Mejico--a di of about 94 leagues, which is traversed by mulet rieros) in 18 to 20 days—is from 18 to 22 reals four quintals .and upwards. The importation - of cotton yarn and cotton tissues of not more than 30 threads woof in a square of quarter of an inch is prohibited. Smuggling on extensively, especially on the shores of the UNIVERSITY IND CLERICAL NEWS The Cape of Good Hope is constituted a Bishop's see, to be called the Bishopric of Capetown, the Rev. Robert Gray, D.D., being appointed thereto. copal sees, viz. :—Dr. Wilson, Bishop of Sydney, Dr. Tyrrell, Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Shortt, Bishop of Adelaide, and Dr. Perry, Bishop of Melbourne, which Kings! they w testant who your obedier llowing is the suppres report of the proceedings of tl , ns arc now in course of signature, works are now all but entirely sus Le Woods and Forests to co they now stand. Our readers are a nt to the bills .e cif the lay last ; the tit, apparently on W ad from the want of pecuniary means; but little prospect c their early resumpt Before giancn _ the other bodies, it may be as well to state that the reclaimed land has not been given to the Dock Commis and that even Mr. Price contended, ;ht of shore, and such the actual cor. , against their taking his rig im was ref Ted to The condition of the township commissioners' funds is such as to prevent the refunding of any portion of the £50,000 lent to them by the Dock Commissioners at pre . , nt. The on their 1 hey o we [ready iiearl however an they have legally power to borrow. It IT different with the Birkenhead Dock )ock Commissioners £50,000. Company, who also owe tl n act of parliament dated - 30th piny, incorported by 5. The third June, 1 holders, among whom are named Sir Isaac Lyon Gold- - smid, Bart., Joseph r yailey, senior, Joseph Bailey. junior, Brownrig y , Robert Garnett, John Laird,'Williarn Potter, William Jackson, Joseph Travis Clay, James Gandy, and John Laird, Esqrs., shall form a company under the pro visions of the Companies' Clauses Act ; and those gentle s are in italics, together with Robert Tar, and James B. Boothby, shall be the first directors of the company. By a subsequent cir- Barbour, John Ivl`Vi ~ le commis it appea . rs that alterations have taken place i❑ the direction- - -Mr. Jackson, who has sold out, and Mr. Boothby having withdrawn, and their places supplied by Mr. Amorose Lace and Mr. William Laird. The capital is comprised of shares of £lOO each, on which, however, only £35 has been paid up. It is remarked upon by some as strange that a rich and doubted wealth, should have borrowed from the Dock Commissioners at all, or that the loan should not be repaid at a moment when it is so much wanted ; that the Dock Orsmrinr,v, ba,n allenlatalv cliamiacarl nastrlv all 41-tair men, and the great public works of the town are suspended frindq esnpeinnv as to do so it would only be nece .ry to ca11...4? remaining to De =lea another trust, and thu so anxic sznall portion of tl ty, about £l3O to £ to the outer works. 150,000 Above very la. hotild . at the been using every exertion to get with which; they must ; POLICE INTELLIGENCE service of Mr. Frazer, was on Tuesday last committed 'ee of having embezzled upwards of £6O On Wednesda' !id costs, saulting Johanna confession of the and there lost her ) lads, John Patterson and Matthew lice-cov Chapel W belonging to his empl Whetstone, marine- or to be imprisoned f Cronin, who, accordi .t thesessions,_on a charge of stealing a quantity prom the . house of viously been seen together SAVAGE 30ARD AN AMERICAN SHI I his fin- named Taseley, during which the prisoner f gers into the eyes of the complainant, and bit off a large portion of his nose. STRATA( 4 TO OB' A. gentleman from the parish office charged two men, on Friday, at the poliCe court, with breaking a.Nyindow in that establishment. It of the