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is 2 Vroreettino in parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. 'The royal assent was given, by commission, to the party pro cessions (Ireland) bill. The commissioners were the Earls of Shaftesbury, Minto, and Carlisle. Lord REDESDALE presented two petitions complaining of agricultural distress, and praying for a return to the system of rotection. The noble lord, pursuant to notice, called attention to the subject, and complained that though parliament had been sitting six weeks, no notice had been taken of it. The noble lord concluded by asking the government, first—What !were their views with respect to the present distress, and aecondly, whether they could hold out any hope of an imme diate and considerable improvement ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted that considerable dis tress existed, but said the quantity of foreign corn imported lad diminished and was diminishing, and there could be no .doubt that the agricultural classes would participate in the prosperity of the people at large. A discussion followed, in which Lords Grey, Malmesbury, and Redesdale, took part. The petitions were ordered to lie on the table. HOUSE OF COMAIONS.—TTIESDAY. Mr. HENRY DRUNIMOND moved a resolution, that whereas the present taxation depresses all classes, by diminishing the funds for the employment of productive labour, adequate means should be forthwith adopted to reduce the expenditure. He gave a rapid sketch of the history of the last few years—the lavish profusion in the time of war, the command we obtained by the wat over the commerce of the world, and the stimulus which this prosperity received from a gradually depreciated currency. The peace, he observed, changed the aspect of affairs ; the demand for agricultural produce fell off ; the cur rency measure of 1819 augmented the difficulties of the landed interest, and the corn law was given as an equivalent. That law was now repealed, and, although he did not ask the house to reverse its policy, he called ❑pon it to halt midway ; he demanded a reduction of expenditure in the matter of salaries, and that all burdens should be revised which checked the growth of raw produce. When salaries were increased on account of the dearness of the necessaries of life, it was never supposed that they should be maintained at their high scale when prices became low ; and whilst the value of produce had been lowered, the cost of production remained the same. By what right, he asked, were the yeomen of this country pre vented from growing what they pleased upon their land ? and why were they subjected, in their rural affairs, to an inter ference from which other trades were exempt? His two pro positions, therefore, were—diminish the salaries of all servants f the crown, and remove every impediment in the way of the cultivator of the soil. CAYLEY seconded the motion. A long discussion followed, in which Sir !UM. Peel, Col. Thompson, Lord John Russell, Lord John Manners, Mr. Bright, and others took part. Mr. Drummond having replied, the house divided, when the numbers were—for the motion, 356 ; against it, 190; majority, 34. JEWS IN PARLIAMENT. Mr. WOOD then moved for a select committee to search the journals of the house, and to report such precedents and such acts of parliament as relate to the question of Jews or other persons being admitted to take their seats in parliament with out being sworn upon the holy gospels. He said that he was induced to bring forward this motion in consequence of the anomalous position of Baron Rothschild, who had been twice returned for the city of London. After a few words from Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Rus sell, the committee was appointed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. On the motion for resuming the debate on the second reading of this bill, PAKINOTON rose to move that a select committee he appointed to inquire into the present mode of levying and ex pending the county rate in England and Wales, with a view to ascertain whether any more satisfactory mode of levying the said rates, and of giving to the rate-payers more effectual con trol over their expenditure, can be adopted. Mr. W. PATTEN said that the house had already stated as their opinion that the rate-payers should have some control over the expenditure of the county rates. Mr. HUME supported the measure, which was opposed by Packe. Sir J. GRAHAM said the present system of expending the county rates was universally condemned ; and an improved 'node of superintending the county expenditure became a mat ter of necessity. As regarded the principle of the measure he had no objection to support it, but he thought the details were objectionable. These details, however, could be revised and corrected, and it might then be made a most valuable measure. Sir GEO. GREY, whilst he approved of the principle of the bill, objected to several of its details, which he should be pre pared to discuss in committee. - Sir Robert Peel and Sir George Strickland also supported the till, which was o; posed by Mr. B. Denison and Sir H. IVil /ougliby. After some further discussion, the amendment was with drawn, and the bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TwuRsbAY. Lord ASHLEY, in answer to a question from Mr. Lushington, stated that the hoard of health had no power whatever to prevent interments in churchyards, and the subject required the atten tion of parliament. Sir G. GREY added, that soon after Easter the government would introduce a measure upon the subject of intramural interments, founded upon the recent report of the general board of health. Lord ASHLEY then, in a long speech, moved for leave to bring in a bill to declare the intentions of parliatnent with regard to the hours and modes of working in factories. The result of the case in the Court of Exchequer was adverse to the interpretation put upon the act by the inspectors, Mr. Baron Parke declaring that the words of the act were not sufficiently stringent to carry i n t o e ff ec t w h at the court considered must have been the intention of the legislature. Lord Ashley ap pealed to those who had voted for the ten hours' act whether this was not their intention, the very object of the law being to afford to the younger classes of operatives means of instruction, recreation, and health, which, under a system of shifts and relays, opening a door to evasions of the law were unattainable. Ile showed the lamentable effects of the relay system upon the operatives, contrasting with it the beneficial results of the limitation of labour. Whilst all the vaticinations of ill on the part of the opposers of the measure had been totally falsified, the health, social, moral, and intellectual comforts of the ope ratives had increased beyond his anticipation, and even their wages had been in some cases augmented. If the legislature, whilst talking of educating the people, refused to interfere in a case like this, it would be reproached with disgusting hypo crisy. Having put the house in possession of the benefits which had been wrought by the ten hours' act, and shown the utter falsification of all the predictions of its enemies, he con cluded with a solemn appeal on behalf of the temporal and eternal welfare of thousands, in the name of Almighty God, to the justice and honour of parliament. Mr. EDWARDS seconded the motion, expatiating upon the ill effects of the relay system. After remarks from several members for and against, leave seas given to bring in the Bill. The Highway Bill was read a second time. The Chief Justices Salary Bill, fixing the salary in future at £B,OOO a year was read a second time. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. Lord STANLEY, at the entreaty of the Marquis of Lansdowne, refrained from provoking a discussion on the aflairs of Greece by bringing forward the motion of which he had given notice, the noble marquis declaring that if the motion were persevered in, he, in the present state of affairs in Greece, could take no part in the discussion. On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the railways audit bill was read a second time, and referred to a select committee. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, who was warmly greeted on entering the house after his long illness, laid before a committee of ways and means his financial statement for the year. He had, he said, estimated the income of the year 3842-50 at $52,262,000, but the actual result had been $52.87.1,000, showing a surplus beyond his esti ma t e o f $612,000. He could not estimate so highly the revenue of next year, as there had been a falling off in the last quarter, but he thought it might be taken at the sum of $52,785,000, being less by about $BO,OOO. He had estimated the expenditure of the country at $50,858,000, but it had only amounted to $50,533,000, making a difference of $300,000, which, added to the surplus beyond the former estimate, and combined with the surplus on the estimates for this year, would give a total surplus of .$2,225,000 on the two years. He anticipated that in the cus toms there would be a decrease of revenue principally if not entirely to be attributed to th e d ecrease of importation which might be looked for in the articles of corn and brandy. The right hon. baronet then recapitulated the various items of revenue and expenditure, the latter amounting to only the sum -of $50,613,000, and leaving a surplus of estimated revenue to the amount of, in round numbers, $1,500,000. He then ad verted to the various propositions which had been made for the reduction of taxation to an extent far beyond the capabili ties of the revenue, and dwelt upon the disinclination which prevailed to apply any surplus which might arise to the liqui dation of the debt. It was a mischievous policy always to borrow when the revenue was deficient, and always, instead of repaying, to reduce taxes when there appeared a surplus. Since the year 1831 we had borrowed no less than $35,000,000, of which we had only repaid $8,000,000. He was of opinion under such circumstances that it was not right to appropriate every surplus that arose to the reduction of taxation. Repu diating the various propositions which had been submitted to the house by other hon. members, the right hon. g en tl eman proceeded to submit his own views to the committee. He pro posed, with the view of benefiting the small holders of land, to reduce the stamp duty on transfers of land under $l,OOO in value, and to render more just the duties on transfers of land of a higher value than that sum. This he thought would be a boon to the poorer agriculturists, but there was another which lie thought would be still more advantageous, as it would tend to the providing better dwellings for the labouring classes—he meant the repeal of the duty on bricks. He also proposed to reduce the duties on bonds and mortgages up to $l,OOO, in Order to give a facility for obtaining capital to improve the land, and he likewise proposed that on all leases under $25 the stamp duty should be reduced to half-a-crown. The loss to the revenue would be, in his estimate, about .6'300,000 on the stamp duties, and $455,000 by the repeal of the duty on bricks. 'This would be about one-half of the estimated surplus, and this he thought a fair division of the surplus—one-half to the reduction of taxation, the other half to the reduction of the national debt. It was his intention to propose advances to the landed interest for the purpose of draining and improving the land, and this he hoped to do without making any charge upon the country. Some time back .$2,000,000 had been advanced in this way to England and Scotland, but our neighbours north of the Tweed were so active that they obtained by right of priority of application no less than $1,600,000, while England got only $400,000. He would propose another $2,000,000 to be advanced to England and Scotland, and would take care that a fair portion of it should be reserved for England. He would also propose that $1,000,000 should be advanced to Ire land for similar purposes,and that $BOO,OOO of that sum should be expended in arterial drainage. These were his chief propo sitions, and if the house would support him M carrying them out he believed that future Chancellors ofthe Exchequer would be able to carry out princitAes of retrenchment and economy with greater effect. The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving a vote for $9,200,000 exchequer bills, and sat down amidst loud cheering. Several members expressed approval of the learned gentle 2nan's statement, whilst others spoke strongly in condemnation of it. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ALTCAEL COURSING MEETING. -FRIDAY. CROXTETH PURSE. Second ties : Alcohol beat Theresa; Cinderella beat Penketh ; Bleng beat Lioness; Perseverance beat Czarina.—Third ties: Cinderella beat Alcohol; Bleng beat Perseverance; Cinderella beat Bleng, and won the purse. ALTCARSTAKES.—Third ties: Winlove beat Clearwell ; Wee.. wee beat Piper; Glent beat Peggy; Criterion beat Spaniard; Glent beat Criterion ; Wee-wee beat Winlove; Glent drawn, and Wee-wee won the stakes. WEST DERBY STARES.—Third ties : Jenny Lind beat Tri. inth e ; Weaver beat Empress; Roger heat Blank; Coruscation beat Patty ; Jenny Lind beat Weaver; Coruscation beat Roger; Coruscation beat Jenny Lind, and won. LANCASHIRE S TAKES.—Third ties: Duchess beat Cobweb; Thornton beat Coronet ; War-dance bert Hermit; Captain Cook heat Merrylegss. — Fourth ties : Duchess beat Thornton ; Captain Cook beat War-dance ; Captain Cook beat Duchess and won. SEFTON CUP.—Third ties : Columbus beat Compact; Sefton beat Cerito ; Columbus beat Sefton and won. MOLYNEUX PLATE.—Border Boy beat Well-I-Never: Rat tler beat Molyneux; Border Boy beat Rattler and won. ALTCAR GOBLET.—Flycatcher beat Boatswain; Topper beat Morocco ; Flycatcher beat Topper and won. A, large company present, amongst Whom were Lords Sefton and Molyneux. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. On Wednesday morning, at twelve o'clock, what is called a complete list of the result of the Paris elections was published. The numbers are stated as follows : Carnot, 132,881; Vidal, 128,317 ; De Flotte, 126,835; Foy, 125,673 ; Lahitte, 125,163 ; 10njean,124,009. The votes of the soldiers of the army who are natives of Paris are stated to be as follows :—Carnot, 6.699; Vidal, 6,615 ; De Flotte, 6,553 ; Foy, 5,378; Lahitte, 5,363 ; Bonjean, 4,911. The triumph of the three socialist candidates at first caused a fall of 11 per cent. in the French funds, which have since, however, somewhat recovered. The Moniteur du Soir gives the following as the result of the elections in twelve departments :—Moderate candi dates returned—Arriege, General Pelet ; Isere, M. Bar rel ; Hautes Presnees, M. Goulard; Var, MM. Clapier and Simeon ; Ardeche, M. De la Fourette ; Allier, M. Dufour; Cher, MM. Desgranges and Vogue. Socialist candidates returned—Bas Rhin, MM. Gerard Vidal, Va lentin Laboulaye, Hochtulh • Loir et Cher, M. D'Etche goyen ; Nievre, M. Chas. dambon ; Haute Vienne, M. Ducoux ; Sabne-et-Loire, MM. Esquiros, Madier de Montjau, the elder, Carrassin Duvigrier, Hennequin Dain. The prefect of police, in Paris, has published an order, commanding that in future no money-changer shall expose any large sum of bank-notes or gold in his shop-window. The Pope's return to Rome is positively announced for the 2nd [qy. Ist ?] of April. The Turin parliament has abolished all ecclesiastical courts throughout the kingdom of Sardinia. DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.—It is certain that the order had been given for the Russian troops, with the excep tion of 10,000 men, to quit the Danubian principalities. When, however, the news of what was taking place in Greece became known at St. Petersburg, a courier was despatched to Jassy, and the Turks were informed that the state of the weather would not permit the Russians to quit the principalities till May. BRAZILS.—An arrival from Pernambuco has brought advices from that place to the ith February, and Bahia and Rio Janeiro to the middle of January. There is not any political intelligence of importance. The province of Pernambuco was tolerably quiet. Previous accounts in formed us that the yellow fever bad broken out there. The advices now to hand state that the epidemic had been raging with fearful effects. Many sailors had fallen vic tims to its malignity, and some vessels in consequence had been disabled, and thus prevented from proceeding to sea. The disease had made its appearance at Bahia, but was not near so terrific as at Pernambuco. AURIFEROUS WEALTH OF RUSSIA.—We see it in the continental papers, that in consequence of the quantity of produce extracted from the Ural Mines, the Emperor of Russia has, by an ukase, recently established at Cronstadt an imperial entrepot for the deposit of metallic produc tions, consisting of gold. Since the receipt at St. Peters burgh of large accessions of the precious metals, there rAnained in the entrepot of that capital a very large aggre gate, the produce of the mines of the Ural and the Lena. The amount named is 400,000,000 of gold, silver rubles of the value of less than a shilling each, say 9d. or 10d., making a sum of £15,000,000 sterling, being, we presume, the coin in which it is estimated.—Mining Journal. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL V. CHIPPENDALE. In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Thursday, Mr. Stuart called the attention of the Court to this case, in which, on the previous day, his Honour thought that the defendant was entitled only to 40s. costs, under Lord El don's order. The facts were the plaintiff had obtained special leave to give:notice of motion, which, however, it was stated by the counsel in court, was abandoned. It had been thrown out that the Lord Chancellor thought the order only applied to cases where the notice was aban doned by non. appearance in court. It was arranged that the matter should be mentioned again. It appears usual for the Lord Chief Justice to appoint his son, if he has one, to the office of Associate to th e Court, worth about 2,000 a-year. Immediately on the appointment of Lord Campbell as Chief Justice he wrote to the Hon. Thomas Denman, who held the office under his father, requesting that Mr. Denman would continue to be his associate. This was, however, declined by Mr. Denman. who reminded Lord Campbell that he had sons of his own to fill the office. THE BEDFORD MARRIAGE CASE.—The government prosecution against the Rev. M. James, incumbent of the above district, comes on at the approaching Liverpool assizes. The John Bull of Saturday says, with reference to the case :—" The persons, scarcely beyond the years of childhood, (the man a Separatist, and the woman just on the point of confinement,) presented to the Rev. M. James the certificate of the superintendent-registrar, ac cording to 6 and 7 Will. IV., and 1 Viet., c. 22, and thereupon demanded of him the solemnization of matri mony, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Eng lish Church. It was too evident that this mode of proce dure had been adopted to evade as much as possible the clergyman's notice, and consequently his rebuke ; for which reason, to prevent the church being outraged and profaned, and to vindicate her service from (it is to be feared) its too often desecration, the incumbent declined the application. The clerk of the Board of Guardians having taken up the matter in opposition to the clergy man, a correspondence ensued with the Home-office, and eventually it was intimated to Mr. James by the Treasury solicitor, that instructions had been received from the home secretary to institute a prosecution against him. The reason assigned for refusing to marry the parties was the absence of confirmation in one of them, as the mar riage service of the church proceeds upon the supposition that the parties are in a condition (though it is not impe rative) to receive the holy communion, from which an un confirmed person is prohibited unless he be ' ready or desirous of being confirmed.' The prosecution being in stituted by the government, will leave this point untouched. The question to be tried is, whether the certificate of the registrar is absolutely and unconditionally binding upon a clergyman." IRELAND. 4 An attempt is making to establish a Sailors' Home at The Bishop of Down has given £2O to the Belfast baths and washhouses. The Lord-Lieutenant has directed several resident ma gistrates to proceed to the counties of Down and Armagh immediately. Some persons have been convicted for one of the re cent incendiary fires in the county of Down, and sen tenced to 10 years' transportation. The owners of property in Dublin fear that much depre ciation in its value will take place by the removal of the Lord Lieutenant. The Ribbonmen have been long preparing for a pro voking display on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, but the Orangemen, although severely taunted, have, as usual, declined to offer the slightest molestation. The Queen and Prince Albert have subscribed £5O towards the funds for providing a supply of seeds for green crops for the peasantry in the south and west of Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant refuses to bring before the Synod of Ulster Lord Londonderry's complaint against the Presbyterian ministers of Down for agitation with land lord and tenant. On Sunday morning last two men, named Hardy and Devlin, met to fight in Ballinliss, county Down, and the consequence was, that there was a general engagement, and many wounds and serious injuries were inflicted. It is stated that the potato crop of this year, if it es capes even with a partial blight, will be fully double the extent of last season. Emboldened by the splendour of the weather, the Irish farmers are directing their whole attention to its culture, early sowing being now the panacea for the prevention of failure. Saunders' Newsletter says that the contemplated ar rangement respecting the abolition of the Lord Lieu tenantcy is to create a Secretary of State for Ireland, with a seat in the Cabinet; and to transfer to him, by Act of Parliament, such of the executive rights as are at present vested in the Lord-Lieutenant. The prerogative rights will, of course, remain with the Queen. At the Limerick Assizes, two brothers, named Matthew and William Gavan, were capitally convicted, on Satur day, before Mr. Serjeant Stork, for the murder of a man named John Ryan, on the 7th of September last. It appeared that the murder was an act of revenge, the mur dered man having arrested the father of the convict for debt, and thrown him into prison, where he died. At King's County Assizes, on Thursday, John Ryan was found guilty of the wilful murder of Staff Sergeant James Grant, on the 2d. Nov., 1848, and sentenced to be hanged. The prisoner heard the sentence unmoved. At the conclusion he looked up to the gallery where bis mother was, and said, " come to the gaol to see me to morrow; as I am to die, I will die like a man." (To the Judge) " Good evening to your lordship." INGENIOUS ROBBERY IN TIPPERARY.—On Tuesday some fellows entered the farm-yard of Mr. Pierce Power, Priorstown, and took out the centres of two stacks of oats which were there. Having carefully cnt the ears off therefrom they replaced them again, and decamped with their booty. The darkness of the night prevented them arranging the sheaves so compact as before; and this being observed next morning, caused an investigation to be instituted. Three persons have been apprehended. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.—The Limerick cor respondent of a Dublin paper says :—" The judges could not get through their business, and the city records have made remanets,' which is a tremendous hardship to the parties. Never was there such weather. A spring assizes in Limerick without rain is quite unprecedented. The people accept the omen, and are selling their beds actually to get seed potatoes. Though we had not many heavy cases, the number of petty thefts is quite enormous ; and one pretty strong proof of the extent of demoralisation among the people is this—although the population has been reduced at least 25 per cent., the magistrates say they cannot spare a single policeman." THE USES OF A LORD-LIEUTENANT.—" The Castle of Dublin" is thus defined in the first part of " the Repeal Dictionary, by John O'Connell, Esq., M.P." :—" Castle (of Dublin.)—A moral sink ! The focus of corruption, tyranny, and insult, during Tory rule. The focus of cor ruption and impertinence, during Whig rule." (J'est pourquoi, the said John Connell, Esq., M.P., has pre pared petitions to Parliament against the removal of the Viceregal Government, and calls upon the people of Ire land to join him in the cry. He is an admirer of sinks, a stickler for focuses (pro aril et focis,) and will not tamely submit to have his nose defrauded, or his moral sense de prived of the slightest whiff of corruption. THE PROCESSIONISTS OF DOLLY'S BRAE.--The grand jury of the county of Down has ignored bills of indictment preferred by the Crown against John Jardine and others, for unlawfully aesembling at Dolly's Brae, on the 12th of July last. How any jury of ho-'wt men could have found such bills we are at a loss to imagine ; the tittter a:mammas of Lord Clarendon and his officials, is too notorious to permit the entertainment of the slightelt feeling of sur prise at the *ending of the bills before the jury. The legislature, filial its branches, has justpassed an act declar ing such assemblages to be in future illegal, and admitting, by the very fact of that statutory declaration, that up to Tuesday last, there was no statute or common law forbid ding them, in existence. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. 4 OrroßD.—ln a Convocation, holden on Thursday, the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts: Rev. William Henry Robert Merriman, Brasenose, grand compounder ; Rev. Richard Vincent, Brasenose; Henry Beilby William Milner, fellow of All Souls; Rev. Robert Blayney Wright, scholar of Worcester ; Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, Christ Church ; Rev. Hudson Boyce Pruen, Pembroke.—Bachelors of Arts: Charles Henry Townsend, Lincoln; George Grey Byrne, Oriel. On the 14th instant Thomas Alfred Stowell (son of the Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A., Hon. Canon of Chester) was elected Bridgman Exhibitioner at Queen's College, Ox ford. We are informed that the Rev. Mr. Bennett has " yielded to the tears of his congregation," in Wilton crescent, and will not carry into effect his terrific threat to abandon the Church of England to its fate. Had his congregation been inclined to move with the rev. gentle man his decision might have been different.--Record.— Lord John Russell has relinquished his pew in Mr. Ben nett's church. THE GORHAM CASE.—In reference to the recent deci sion of the judicial committee of the privy council on this case, the Rev. G. A. Denison, M.A., vicar of East Brent, has read in the vestry of his church, and then transmitted to the bishop, solemn protests " in the name of the most Holy Trinity." In both he recapitulates the facts of the case. In the first he protests against the state of the law which empowers the judicial committee to take cogni zance of matters of doctrine, and pledges himself to use all lawful means to prevent the continuance of such law. In the second he warns all Christian people of his parish to beware of being moved or influenced by the decision in the least degree, and pledges himself to use all lawful means to obtain, by a synod of the church, a declaration as to the doctrine of the church on regeneration by bap tism. The Times is satisfied that the judgment in Mr. Gor ham's case is the only one that could be arrived at. The Chronicle says it will prove perfectly satisfactory to no one except Mr. Gorham. The Herald conceives that the decision has relieved the church from a state of great peril, and that it will restore peace. The Post deems the judgment weak, inconclusive, and barren of judicial know ledge. The Rev. T. J. Judkin, Minister of Somers Chapel, St. Pancras, has written to the Morning Herald to suggest the propriety of presenting Mr. Gorham with some tangi ble memorial, expressive of gratitude and esteem, and promising, towards this object, a contribution of five pounds. SECESSION.—On Sunday, the widow of a late em%nent physician in Oxford was received into the Roman Catholic Church, by the Rev. R. Newsham, at the chapel lately erected at Dorchester, Oxfordbhire. The Oxford Herald says that the Rev. F. Ralston, M.A., has given up his living of Benson in that county, and left the Church of England on account " of his dis satisfaction with its posture and future prospects." He has been joined by his curate Mr. Stratton. THE NEW MOVE.—It is stated that the Bishop of Ex eter is urged, by the most insane of the insane party who are projecting impious agitation against the peace of the Church, to refuse Mr. Gorham permission to preach or pray in his diocese—to institute him in the temporalities of his living, but to deprive him of exercising a spiritual office therein. When Dr. Pusey was under the grave and solemn censure of the University of Oxford, and condemned to silence by that University, he was allowed to preach in the diocese of Exeter. In the latter case it was only treating the University authorities with scornful contempt.—Church and State Gazette. MR. DENISON AND HIS PROTESTS.—The Times of Friday has a stinging article in reference to this subject, to which we have alluded elsewhere. Our contemporary says :—" A misguided clergyman, whose fanaticism may serve to protect him from the ecclesiastical censures and the legal penalties to which his violent language and ille gal conduct undoubtedly expose him, has been moved by the irritation caused by the decision of the Privy Council in the case of Mr. Gorham to protest with a ridiculous solemnity against the legal constitution of the church to which he professes to belong. We had anticipated, as our readers may remember, some opposition of this sort to the moral effect of the late judgment; but we had hardly anticipated that any beneficed clergyman of the Church of England would have presumed so far on the indulgence of his diocesan or the indifference of the public as to declare his open resistance to every authority which he is bound to obey. Mr. George Anthony Denison, vicar of East Brent, has delivered himself of the burden which this judgment seems to have cast upon his uneasy con science, but he has violated the statutes of the realm, he has violated the canons of the Church, be has broken his oath of canonical obedience to the Articles of that Church, and he has been wanting in his duty to the undoubted supremacy of the Crown. These are offences which expose him to the penalties of a prcemunire, or to the rigour of the Ecclesiastical Courts ; and it is to be regretted that a clergyman who is so extremely anxious to apply the strict letter of the articles, according to his own interpre tation of thorn, to tho opinions of Mr. Cioiliam, sho uld give in his own person and in his own parish so scandalous an example of his own contempt of the very law which it was attempted to enforce." THE LATE EDWARD BICKERSTETH.—At a meeting in London last week, the Rev. J. A. James, the eminent dissenting minister of Birmingham, paid the following worthy compliment to the memory of the late Rev. E. Bickersteth :—" His spotless piety against which slander never uttered a whisper, nor profanity never uttered a jest ; his gentleness and meekness which rendered it all but impossible that he should have an enemy or lose a friend ; his Chrisrian simplicity, united with his manly intelligence ; his divine charity, before which the demon of bigotry, like Satan before the seraph— ' Stood abashed, and felt how awful God might be;' his happy countenance, which looked as if his soul were ever sunning itself in the light of glory, combined to form a composite character, which is rarely exhibited in this world of imperfection. Bickersteth was a member and a minister of the Church of England, and one of its brightest ornaments ; but he had a heart which the Church of England was too scanty to hold, and for which nothing could be found adequate but the amplitude of the Universal Church.—(Applause.) I am from conviction a nonconformist, but I would abhor my conconformity and repudiate it the next moment, if I felt that it blinded my judgment, or hardened my heart against the distinguished excellence of such a minister of the establishment. (Loud applause.) Sir, that luminary has set; and we are gazing upon the glo w in g h or i zon , an d the ruby clouds which mark its going down, and form its train of glory, and which attend its transition from the hemisphere of grace to that of glory. May it he granted to us to follow him as he followed Christ ! May we find the mantle which dropped from him when he ascended to the skies, and go from this place prepared to carry on the work which he lived to accomplish, and to which he set the seal of his dying testimony. With what joy would he have been here this morning ! With what seraphic ac cents would he have addressed us; but perhaps with accents less solemn than those with which he speaks to us from the grave : Be ye also ready, for at such an hour as ye know not the Son of man cometh.' " LIVERPO.L STANDARD. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. At the half-yearly meeting of the Lancaster and Car lisle Company, a dividend, at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum, was declared, and a resolution passed deprecatory of Lord Granville's Audit Bill. At the half-yearly meeting of the Chester and Holy head Company, the report of the directors, which shows a small profit of about £2,000 on the total working of the line, was adopted, and the bill authorising the amalgams • tion with the London and North-western Company ap proved._ THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.—It was expected that this wonderful structure would be opened for general traffic on or about the 15th ; but it has been postponed till a very early day in the ensuing mo n th, w h en P r i nce Albert and the 'Prince of Wales are to be present—their royal highnesses coming down from London on a visit for the purpose to Sir Bulkeley Williams. . - EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The twenty fourth half-yearly general meeting of this company was held at Glasgow on Tuesday. The directors' report was agreed to, after a discussion. A dividend of 3 per cent. was resolved upon. A motion for the running of two trains from each terminus on Sundays was, after consi derable discussion, negatived by a very large majority. A PASSENGER TRAIN ON FIRE.—As the train from Leeds was on its way through the tunnel to Bradford, on Tuesday, the top of a second-class carriage was set on fire by a cinder from the engine. As soon as the accident was discovered, and the train clear of the tunnel, through which it was passing at the time, it was stopped, and the fire speedily extinguished. Little damage was done.— Wakefield Journal. PLAIN TALKING.-At the South-Eastern Railway meeting, last week, a resolution was carried that the directors should by ballot reduce their number to nine •, on which one of them, Mr. Thompson, said that he would not be ousted by any such side-wind.—Mr. Levy : Then you mean to say you won't go out without you are kicked out ?—Mr. Thompson: Exactly so.—Mr. Levy : Then we must kick you out. (Laughter.) At the half-yearly meeting of the South-Eastern Com pany, a dividend of 9s. for original shares, and in propor tion on the other shares, was declared, leaving a balance of upwards of £16,000 to be carried to account, inde pendently of a reserve of £lB,OOO made to meet the deterioration of permanent way. The salary of the auditors was fixed at £lOO per annum each ; certain shares consolidated into stock ; and the Reading, Guild ford, and Reigate lease approved. THE RETORT COURTEOUS.-At the recent half-yearly meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Com pany, where a resolution was carried for raising a sum of £200,000, to enable the directors to redeem a portion of the stock of another company,—the Wilsontown, Mon ningside, and Coltness ' on which an 8 p er cent . di v i dend had been guaranteed by the former,—a shareholder, indignant at the job, angrily exclaimed that it was robbing Peter to pay Paul. " Excuse me, sir," said another shareholder, it's quite otherwise ;" and turning towards the chairman, Peter Blackburn, Esq., with a significant look, he added, " e we all know that it is only robbing Paul to pay Peter. As it was notorious that the chair man and some of his friends were the principal holders of the Wilsontown shares .entitled to the guaranteed divi dend, or to a premium of £75 per cent., if redeemed, the meeting was convulsed with laughter, in which those who had the best of the joke heartily joined. RAlLway Arffir BILL.—A draught of the bill framed by the representatives of the shareholders appointed at the various railway meetings to consider a measure on the audit . question and other matters, now sitting in London, has just been printed. Its chief provisions are that each company, at its first half-yearly meeting, in 1851, and each year thereafter, shall elect five shareholders as an audit committee, who are to recommend two persons, whe need not be shareholders, to act as auditors for the ensuing twelve months. The members of the audit com mittee are to hold the same qualification as directors, and are to be wholly unconnected with any contracts or official appointments from the company, and they are also not to be selected from any partners, clerks, or relatives by blood in the first degree, of any of the directors or persons em ployed by the company. The members of these com mittees are to be eligible for re-election, but the auditors are not to be re-eligible. The directors henceforth are not to vote on the nomination of auditors, or as a proxy on the nomination of directors. The auditors are to em ploy a competent accountant with a salary. The rezular half-yearly report and accounts and scheme for dividend, together with the auditors' report, are to be sent to the shareholders seven days before each meeting. Any twenty or more shareholders, holding a tenth of the capital of the company, may require the last half-yearly accounts to be submitted to a special auditor to be appointed by them. Printed lists of shareholders are to be prepared half yearly, and to be sold at a reasonable price, the names of such persons as are qualified to act as directors being dis tinguished by some mark. Names of candidates for the direction, or for the office of auditor, are to be transmitted to the shareholders seven days before each election. Proxies are not to be distributed either by the directors or any other parties at the expense of the company. Direc tors in arrear of any call for three months are to go out of office, and to be ineligible for re-election until after some general meeting of the company. The power of re-elect ing directors at any meeting at which such directors may go out by rotation is never to be exercised in favour of more than one of such retiring directors. Shareholders to have the power of removing directors at any special meeting for the purpose, and also of redwing the num ber, the minimum being five. The remuneration of the secretary and treasurer of each company to be hereafter fixed by the shareholders. Directors are not to fill up casual vacancies in the board. The act to come into operation on the Ist of January next.—An executive com mittee, consisting of the following gentlemen, has been appointed to carry the bill through parliament, namely— For London and North-western, Mr. Ewart and Mr. James ; South-western, Mr. Baker ; Eastern Counties, Mr. Martin ; Great Western, Mr. Norris ; York, New castle, and Berwick, Mr. Douglas ; Midland, Mr. Pope ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mr. Mellor.—A deputation from the committee waited on Lord Stanley on Monday last, to request him to take charge of the bill. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Sir R. Gore Booth, a Protectionist, has been returned without opposition for Sligo. Mr. Ellis, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey on Thursday, at the Home Office, to convey to him an anti-slavery petition to her Majesty signed by 59,686 women of the United Kingdo m , p ra yi ng her Majesty to promote the use of free labour produce. A deputation on the sub-division of parishes had an interview with Lord John Russell on Thursday. The deputation consisted of Mr. Adderley, M.P., Lord Robt. Grosvenor, M.P., Mr. Greenall, M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr. Christie, M.P., Mr. Frewen, M.P., Lord Lewisham, M.P., Rev. Frederick Wade, and the Rev. Francis Kitchin. On Friday, Mr. Cardwell presented petitions from Liverpool for the removal of duties on timber ; and from members of the Archaeological and Architectural Society of Liverpool, praying for the removal of duties on bricks and timber ; and from the letterpress printers and book binders of Liverpool for the repeal of the advertisement. newspaper stamp, and paper duty. From the Notice Paper of the House of Commons it appears that last night Mr. Hume would ask " what notice the Government intend to take of the protest of Mr. Denison published in all the papers yesterday, im pugning the judgment of her Majesty's Council in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, and denying the Supremacy of the Crown as head of the Established Church." On Tuesday, a numerous deputation, composed of fac tory masters and factory operatives, had an interview with Lord John Russell, at his official residence in Downing street. Sir George Grey was also present. The deputa tation numbered about thirty persons, and was accompa nied by the Eerl of Harrowby, Lord John Manners, M.P., Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., Colonel De Lacy E vans , M.P., Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., Mr. Edwards, M.P., Sir George Strickland, M.P. ; Mr. Muntz, M.P., &c. A second dispatch from Count Nesselrode to Baron Brunow has obtained publication. The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh having found that the mediation of France has been accepted by England, will no longer insist upon a want of courtesy complained of in its former note, but trusts that such mediation will produce the most amicable results. Nevertheless, as it regards the cession of the Greek islands, the Russian government connot permit this question to be settled without its consent, as well as that of England and France, these three cabinets having founded the Hellenic kingdom, as by treaty established. Such is the tenor of the second note. Free-trade has rendered the people of England tho roughly contented and happy ; the repeal of the corn laws has answered the expectations of its most sanguine advo cates ; the necessaries, and even the luxuries of life, according to Sir Robert Peel, have been brought within the reach of the humblest of the labouring classes,—yet concurrently with all this there is a cry for retrenchment and financial reform from one end of the kingdom to another, and the only reason given for that cry is that the heavy load of taxation has become intolerable in the present circumstances of the nation. The minority of Tuesday last contained representatives of every political party in the country. The Protectionist, the Leaguer, the Whig, and the Radical, passed into the same lobby. The Earls of Clancarty and Bradford have taken the lead in a movement which, we hope, will not be allowed to subside until it has achieved success. The two noble and conscientious earls decline taking their seats in Par liament on account of the—we had almost said perjury, but, at all events, inconsistent oath to which they must submit before they can be admitted to sit again in the House of Peers. They object to the oath generally, as much for other lords as themselves, inasmuch as it states not only that no foreign potentate ought to have power in Britain, but that no foreign potentate "hath " that power. This is known to be contrary to truth. The Pope is permitted to exercise a certain power at his own caprice : in its exercise he shows neither courtesy to the heads of his own Church within the realm, nor respect to the sovereign to whose rule that realm is committed. The Romish hierarchy in Ireland is disposed of by him without any regard to its own privilege ; and the course taken by the Queen to render peace to Ireland, and to reconcile adverse factions within its limits, is crossed by the opposing influences and the absolute decrees of the Bishop of Rome. Where such things exist, it is nonsense to say that the Pope has no jurisdiction in England, and impious to make men swear to it. To one of these courses we must come,—either suppress the usurped power or alter the oath. A RADICAL PROTECTIONIST.—The Hon. Grantley Berkeley has addressed a letter to the Premier stating that he can no longer support the government. He concludes his letter as follows :—" Before this session is over we will test the extent of the desire in Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Co. really to effect the just removal of those burdens vthich at present stamp free trade as an impolitic and a class legislation. If no one more competent than myself essays to close the English market against slave produce, and afterwards to recall the African squadron from the scene of its hitherto vain efforts, I will, as soon after Easter as possible, bring that question before the house. If I succeed in that motion, I should put an end to slavery, and save to the country upwards of £lOO,OOO a year, besides the loss of life among the crews of British seamen. Those who really desire retrenchment in expen diture, and success to the cause of religion and morality, must support me ; and on that occasion I shall reckon on the votes of Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Co. I will, then, in the event of no more able advocate being found, bring under the notice of the house the necessity which existsfor a return to protection, by the impost of an eight shilling duty upon foreign corn, to continue until such time as the burdens on the land of this country shall be so far reduced as to enable the tenant-farmer and home grower to compete with the foreign markets of the world.' QUACKS AND THEIR QUACKERIES.—The legislature having left the public much at the mercy of those igno rant compounders of useless or dangerous nostrums for which their authors claim such astonishing virtues, it becomes a duty of the press, the natural guardian of society, to sift the tares from the wheat, and warn off the unwary from those deceptive appearances,,whia, if they do hot altogether invite to destroy, care little what the consequences may be, so long as they dispose of commo dities made only "to sell !" Were we to judge, then, merely by pretensions, how many infallible remedies should we have to stigmOse as barefaced impostures on the public. But amidst this host of frauds, as manifest to the wary age as , fy have been proved to be deleterious in fact—still the • ore some wholesome and reliable me dicines, whic • .ccomplish all they pretend, and amongst these—the " ra avis "of patent medicines—are COCKLE'S PILLS : at they promi se th e y p er f orm , w hil e it Is cer tain th: they are a safe medicine ; a character which can not •. accorded to nine-tenths of the compounds that perform so many astounding miracles—in print.--John Bull. A WONDERFUL WORK-BOX.—According to an Enigma published in No. 18 of The Family Friend, for March the 15th, an ordinary work-box is capable of containing a lion, an elephant, a tiger, a stag, a dragon, a peacock, a goat, and numerous other animals, all alive, and to each one may be allowed a cage. Tn addition to this - menagerie, there may be exhibited, within the york-box, a magic lantern, by which may be shown a living ghost— " And as uncommon things the most make common peoplestare, (And giants are uncommon) gr t Goliath shall be th ere !" A Gold Watch, value Ten neas, is offered to the per son who produces the be solution ; and there are two other prizes for the sec and third-best solutions ! The readers of the Liv POOL STANDARD may obtain the number which contains this interesting Enigma, and the Conditions of t Award, by order of any bookseller, price Twopen The competition will remain open until the 10th of ',lit The Editor guarantees that the Enigma is capable . the Ist and 15th of eac h mont h , and enjoys a n fair solution. The F am il y F r i end is pub lished u! ciricula on of 65,000. New s u b scr ib ers are advised to ord. e 01. I. price 2s. 6d.; and Nos. 13 to 18, price 2d. each—they will thus have the work complete up to the present date. London: Holliston and Stoneman, 65, Paternoster Row. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL EDUCATION. The following excellent letter, from the Rev. Canon Stowell, appeared in the London Times of Thursday, and ought to be promptly and energetically acted upon. Let the government and the country see that the noisy mem bers of the National Society who oppose the wishes of the leading dignitaries of the Church constitute the merest fraction of that church in respect either of intel ligence or numbers : SlR,—Can you favour me with room in your widely circu lating journal to bring before the minds of my fellow church men, and more particularly of my fellow clergymen, a sub ject which seems to me to be of very pressing and practical moment ? It is clear that we hive reached a crisis in the history of national education in this country. It will not be denied that very enlarged and effective measures must be adopted by the Legislature in furtherance of the object. The vital question then arises, of what character are these measures to be ? Are they to be in furtherance of a sound combination of secular with scriptural education, or are they to have a tendency to discard the latter and exalt the former? The solution of this question is very much in the hands of the religious communities of the land, and, above all, of the national church. If we meet the Government in a large and candid spirit, prepared to conciliate, so far as conciliation may be consistent with faithfulness, and to concede, so far as con cession will not involve the compromise of principle; if, taking our final stand on the Bible alone, we maintain our distinctive peculiarities unbetrayed, whilst we do not attempt to force them on the reluctant, there can be little doubt of the result. But otherwise, it seems inevitable that the current of national education will be forced into channels where it will cease to be living, and therefore cease to be life-giving. At such a juncture, what co u ld h e more. inopportune, more likely to act mischievously, than the position assumed by the committee of the National School Society— a body hitherto recognized as the educational organ of the Church? By a late decision of a majority of that committee our door of official communication and co-operation with the State on the subject of education is closed—a fact which I have been assured by members of Parliament goes far to account for the ominous complacency with which Mr. Fox's plausible but fatal bill was received in the House of Commons. But, was the voice of the majority of the committee of the National School Society the voice of the church ? Far from it. The voice of the minority rather, including, as there is reason to believe, both our Archbishops, is. in truth, the voice of 9-10ths of the clerical, and 19-20ths of the lay members of the establishment. Then let that voice be heard—whether in memorials to the committee, addresses to the Primate, to our respective dio cesans, or in whatever other mode. The matter presses. The crisis is momentous. Action should be prompt and decisive. The Manchester Church Education Society has taken the initiative; and I write this letter in the hope that others will go and do likewise. I am, Sir, your faithful servant, Manchester, 3farch 11. HUGH STOWELL, CORRESPONDENCE. THE SABBATH QUESTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Manchester, 12th March, 1850. Sia,—l purchase here, and am a constant reader of your honest Christian paper. Your publication of this date has an article in reply to the Liverpool Mercury on the Sabbath question. lam much surprised that a paper of its boasted sagacity should not come forth with some thing more substantial in argument than the extracts I have read from it on this subject. He urges the hard ship a cessation of postal labour would inflict on the tradesman, and the ruin that might be brought upon him consequently, forgetting all the time that tile very same argument might be used against the present syttem of being obliged to provide for acceptances now falling due on Sundays on the day previous. There is not a public measure of utility that individual cases of hardship might; not be brought to bear against it. Here is a question upon which the Sunday labour of thousands of persons is staked ; and leaving apart altogether the religious part of the matter, I would like to ask the writer of the Mercury's article to make the thing a personal Question, and put it to himself, supposing him to be a journeyman printer or clerk in the office,—" Would I like to be compelled to come to the Mercury-office on Sunday as other days, and commence setting type or directing newspapers ?" Now this is just the position of post-office clerks and letter carriers. They, instead of repairing to their places of worship, have to go to their week-day labour, thus not only being deprived of Sabbath rest and its blessed privi leges, but are made the instruments of diverting the thoughts of thousands from the contemplation of that subject, for to indulge in which God in His wisdom and mercy instituted that day of rest from labour. I am, sir, yours respectfully, R. D. --_.___......5,.. - THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stn,—Since I wrote the letter which you did me the favour of inserting in your paper of the 12th instant, I have seen a pamphlet published by a " London Banker," in which I am pleased to find a strong condemnation of the present law as to regulating the circulation by the quantity of gold, and for the same reason I mentioned in my letter, viz. its being a mercantile article, and con stantly liable to great changes. The same party proposes a remedy for this, which, however excellent in some parts, is, I think, wrong in making the Government regular ban kers, by discounting bills whereon to found their issues of notes. I beg to suggest what appears to me a more simple plan, and one that interferes less with existing institutions, leaving banking entirely free for the public to arrange for themselves. Say— Let the present bullion and issue offices become entirely Government concerns, to be managed by commission or otherwise, as thought best. Let Government be the only issuers of notes, and either make new ones, or stamp the royal arms on the present Bank of England's, adding new ones for two pounds ten shillings. Let„the delft due to the Bank of England—eleven mil lions—be paid to them in these notes, and pay them for whatever coin or bullion they choose to offer them ; and in all other respects the Bank of England to be the Go vernment bank, as now. The issue department to be buyers of gold and silver from any party, paying their notes for the same, and also sellers. So far, there would be no change in the amount of currency, and it would be restricted, as the gold went out of the country, not by law, but naturally. To prevent this, which is the present great evil, let the bank of issue be authorised to buy stock, or advance on the deposit thereof, to a certain amount, say two-thirds of nominal value, but not to exceed a fixed amount, which perhaps would give limit enough at fifty millions of notes issued. This would give that elasticity which the present system does not provide for, and pre vent the possibility of a panic, upon the safest foundation, viz. property. Country banks, at present legalised issuers, to remain precisely as they now are, except that their notes must be payable on demand in Government or national paper, and they would always be able to provide this by either gold or deposit of funded security. These few suggestions I recommend to the consideration of those who are anxious to prevent a recurrence of 1847, and am, sir, yours obediently, A. B. 15th March, 1850. FREE TRADE " If the greyhound does not run well, the halloos of his pa- Tons will not obtain the prize for him."—Sir TV. Scott. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The shouts of triumph so prematurely indulged in, on the opening nights of the session, in regard to the success of free trade, are become hushed. While this phamtom-ship was represented to be " bounding over the billows" " like a thing of life," she is suddenly becalmed, or breakers have been descried. If the " halloos of pa trons" were sufficient to win the race of free trade, we should now have been in the very hey-day of prosperity ; but an obscuration has appeared in the manufacturing sky, and we fear it will be found " all is not gold that glitters," even in a Queen's speech. Mr. Editor, things are changing ; the delusion and the snare are becoming evident, and even the " big loaf" agitators must abide by the verdict that will ultimately be pronounced in their case, by the people of this country, although great havoc may be committed before honest John Bull confesses that he has been regularly duped. The beginning of the end cannot be far distant, when things are already looking so gloomy in Manchester, while we expected every weaver's shuttle and spinning-jenny were vibrating at full speed. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD (true to the high character awarded to it by Blackwood, of " sifting commercial mat ters to their foundation") supplies us with " stagnation in the demand," " short time," and even " closing of factories" ! at a period of the year and in the usual cycle of time, when the manufacturing industry of the country resumes its wonted activity. I confess I was not prepared for this so soon, though I have never doubted that the ab surdity of England receiving the easily-produced products of other countries free, while they charge heavy duties on the imports of her industry, would work out its own re sult. Apart from the high consideration of the injustice inflicted on the agricultural interests, by such sudden and uncalled-for legislation. lam book-keeper to a highly respectable mercantile house in Liverpool, and we have not been so slack for many years as we have been during that portion of 1850 now gone by. The partners in the house don't seem to understand how it is, and their only consolation is that others are in the same predicament. I was up at Manchester a few weeks ago, and on inquiring of my friends, one of whom is a cheese-factor, another a shopkeeper in Deansgate, tk.c.. I was rather surprised to receive information, that they have great reason to com plain of the present state of trade. " Why," I replied, " I understood that everything was in a very flourishing condition in the manufacturing districts." " Nothing of the kind," I received for answer; " we ought now to be busy; but we assure you, such is not the case." This certainly did not comport with what had just been uttered by Villiers, Earl Carlisle, &c ; so I waited a solution of the matter, which yourselves and others are verifying daily, in favour of my clients, and in direct opposition to the " hallooing" of Ministerialists, Peelites, and repealers. The fact is, the home trade has dreadfully fallen off ; and how otherwise could it be ? Well, what can make up for the loss of this trade ? Why, nothing can ! Then, in a logical point of view, the sooner we retrace our steps the better ; and it pleases me to see a tide rising in the cause of protection to native industry, which, " tak en i n the flood, must lead on to fortune." This rising tide— the Conservative press—is daily augmenting, and must soon attain its flow ; and thanks to our Morning Healds, our Blackwoods, and our Standards, as it floods, the slave-drivers, the child-destroyers, who have had their short-lived day, must relapse into their native dens, the horror and execration of the friends of humanity. W. S. I am, Sir, yours, trul Liverpool, 16th Marti), 16.50. x a rch l!' 1. irkd rftesseiy . t d n h e o e c is m is e i , o a i n s n t order, h of ey theeB can , T CO _ rti 6 , THE TROUBLERS OF AL .. head ........---. to 00 't oi let Bin h ii: , !) The tractarian party appear inclined at e 0 .to ri a Y last lyf ( t ' stre et, ."' r , e of the late the so ,s the te I idea that they are a more numerous Psrtforl i ee l lall, and would allow. It may be as well to Plac e ., to kid: th an sir 1 era some of the statements put forwarda I o ksse Y f or th lag proceedings of these parties, The Lo 4. tgers, e li n of the Oaford Herald says—" There is %lb' 'g . ton ° gathering of the leading divines of thatnigi h el l new 'ton from all parts of the country—who meet of Prid C'°Illp a „ 11 at will one subject. What is to be the full sce l P i :i di 9, Sieg n ' ceedings in defence of the orthodox)! of t or ii) 1,41 1 , 115 0 IC IIII yet precisely known. Protests and Inee 3 4l, ot , will not ban means be all, it is under ~,ilitrantoe Some more l''',o ~7, and , st s . at it and decisive step is, it is said, to be A . rb children 'Lin o 'alld instance with the view of asserting_o“;o; , L ea -b, of 6 1 ' a vrc herself to settle her own spiritual,', ro sy tlip ki Tlin r „ e d W i in that, then a crisis will arise whiel,,,h , ' T i . ,,torain t - " f aY bably lead to d' •of the ch il l - it' Itg ° -•°‘ a a isruption e 0 lIGE g The ground upon which the objection by 11l ell .p . 1 ;81'4 Committee is placed is that laid down JO 114 ,1ai ra b: 41 9,1 who, arguing that the two acknovr1011;00 and 1/ray and ajd reignty are analagous, says, that " t tes. le ant 1 . ; 4 al any power in the Crown to make Ol e , „tivesi a s liament, so neither the other to settle is % le t s R oth a ban Covocation. In both," be adds it 'ce ' gt hief u * fi e lo the ' a ll ialu te as det, Kings will govern according to lavr." that is being made—and with which the C O Ras-ceai 4'B st ere long—for the Church to meet ill Sial it lift e dOw, z pose of disavowing the declaration of ! he e l s t tlitet t L 4 tVr a ttli , 8 a mittee, that two opposite doctrines as sod 4 Po 100 Dock ment of Baptism may lawfully he he' 5 , 0 " , , ket,,7110, orks Church of England. e Bislio of gl e " - „iii ~ oof thi, a letter to the Archbisho of Canpterl/10/..4,°- ti • n... ‘ l. at -°ll o n the judgment against him. It is in the r b ijrll ' '''u• TO th e -lt i published in a few days. Nothing is P_, li ii pil ' io a t1, 3 1 4 (4. 4 _ena; as to its contents, but it is expected to GI, , ~ qoui4loe - ge a vindication of the part which the bishop j e si ,: ii lert e s.jalt s ,7„. ) ,o Mr. Gorham, and ably to controvert the P 0) •,,._ t th t - :,„tit ti t gh the judgment professes to be foundeiLm,ss ilable-Rilt,ui,e',G with very great anxiety—the more so sier 1 0 / 1 41 14 4 ,_ - al, fending what is past, it is thought ail , lli sh ,thei7 ll o. 4l l course which the bishowill take for . I C u cl i f , s4 4 7di sid k, address to the Bishopof Exeter is li t ' w 14' ' ietti t tlin A tons', • for the signature of both clergy as ,, 8. 1 14 ' , , , r . of deep sympathy with him unde r the r ' 14 41 'Oh u stances in whih he is placed, and of h,' I. h :" .fo ness ' for the firmness with which be r....' ,2",, 4 6 , A.. 11 sli respecting the Sacrament of Holy naPiisle , e15."14-04-lasf immediately pPairgoet hspseaisrbte present ,l .e,toWiroiwith p h autho rities resre srop kw A e e l,: 11 , is likely to he very numerously signed. ~,,. 0,9114441k0l fopilgt The Exeter Gazette states that tbe i r'' 1 "lltog i _ S' oe a refuses to yield to the decision, and the "y ' r. I' e etOeu re et 9 asserts that his lordshiwill • 60 0 p not ins . Lfott:Pp e C the living, • and is prepared to risk all the ' 6, ,q, klf from such a refusal. But perhaps the right r,!. ' fr. lak ik _' Iti, ros u wait until he is asked, for we believe 'h e , , 7Sty ' l e' * f el k,. ct be performed by the Judge of the Arellexso , 11 1S ii /l i h elbi s t Liv missary of the Archbishop, whose )nr i , s eloo .'. 34 40 rt of wi ham invoked. Several meetings of ' ' lu iles aif. l iadb:,, th, are about to take place to oppose the e 1 ; 3 0) , '''eout,-711d law, and it is said that the Bishop O f t NA aerie L h g a' favours the movement—but this we clotw ute . ' 'to br 0 4 of ,oke 4es -1414,6The to n•! NO "ov 'net t o4 No l l ie o i ej: te d try s, r tes 4 1 f ) 4: 1 1 e d tv e , -.,ti fh ,• bt, one ' so " s , a tel l , vii i . °ll ex 4. , an , id, _ ip, i '''epe p it th re ' 4 4 ,,0 w . s e s , it ,e J o h 4 ''' 4 ea . , NI, Y th e it ' t t . 1 , 4 It litiNkLl:v Pol th e s V. , , it% s e xp , ' .0 shi and w t 4 0 Is e „ P L„, I , ,'Y Xt ve re , Kel • orti l ' e lsra. 'PleSt .th e 81 - I , eftv v ,tied e t a 40 ' l .te 11 Rh 41 e d e Y , l i t 4 ilis atev ei ! t le, ; to ate oketie:lratelBh4e f 3 / 4 e 9 0 tett i ! l aded 4 81 ,11 tee al ued '' L A ~ • un kl t : k," 1, -------- SPRING INVITATIOr4„, TO The Spring is coming! time sete!'„lo, 'When Nature all her beauties slf g ret a lb The flowers new bud, the grass ne,r i beti/ Then why not ma n renew his eiv This city cloth a mart contain That (loth all other marts excel ; The object there he's sure to gain4,llod 7 Who likes his clothes made cheap In Lord-street the b u ilding steno s ' And Hyam is the glorious WO e, 'Who all our gratitude demands ,e; For having earn'd a deathless fa, A fame for selling what we prize As dearly as our daily food — . goo, New clothes, of every sort and slz e c i Well-marle, well-fitted, cheap an Then all who would be treated fa",' .00 1 ' And with the Spring their suits To Hyam's mart forthwith rePsi" tr ae- His goods are cheap, his fits are_l_ Ye exquisites, that grace the ste.e,t a ile, Ye merchants that adorn the 01 Mechanics, whose ingenious fea ts Have in the world so wide a ra n t ' e 0 01 Ye neighbours from surrounding And every honest m a n that to , or frv" Who would in Spring exchan , For sunny looks and chee To Hyams go! His powe o fue— ls quite as strange as is tru e ; 40 1 Each heart will find it onted et,'_ s Bo ll o When clothes areOund both co e : Hyam ! Do not mistake the Nor yet the shdp in Lord•stree Remember Hyd'm ! still let fall ,e '4.at. And "ech o " still that name ter In Lord-street, again, be sure, .., ou ld For there are tho se w h o fain " To entipt to " cozen," and allu re, The tndetermined passer-bY, no , But prchasers, keep straightly At sixty and three only stop; . 0 , Yield not, then, to th e i r temptat i But walk direct to Hyam's shop' 6, d.Anl43 i taki e 4rtd re cet d Grepti _,ea, n. 111 f 0 ,: ~, e , ,Itl 94 !OK' Dilrpn IL qe ~,..-hit y ,—sec 4 et .. iftt._ .., Wit ke(l Ql° the '4 l, e Wit ,qor . , tit 8 k., 're str..:e r... "el ,-.. dYn TI , 41ed frc A 4,.. it L10 N " 4 1 3 / 11 110 r , !„,'l,o l 'r OF ,: t4i' lii 4tC •, 4ll° e ll eari S' . 4 i °lle tl icA t e ' , h as f h . 41 4 4 : t 1e ' 1 l v isiti 0 ''4l4t4f4qshire, --- g o; Os 4 ?4‘ 4 4 4 .pre p e o Purp An extraordinary assortment o f BUC/C,S,ltfr 41.4bieet..1irig local Sed TROUSERS, for Men and Boys,:, C t .. co 4 of $ i lto tt e 4 r, l e k r etr A HINT TO O'CONNOR.-The tae; 7 1 i i: , tll o 4 l., i 9li ti o, ft y 11 2--j Sniggs End. " Respite finem'; 0 16 11 ' P - 1 1 0 i kpi'tie s ''''at eri - L a The friendship of some people is like "biort • q S,Nt;, 4II (I nick ing close to us while we walk in the 5 013- 4 0 Itit,Al; 44 140 T a n ing us the moment we enter the shade. s e; , ft 1if t .0,b 0 N..... 1 --4 THE HUMAN HAIR.--The peculiar Ae o. ; l i s..lll 4 ;;lii.,9rtle _ 4 integument of the head, its Singular moll '44y, e \ 41// it is ! - T1 elongation, and the various conditions 0 04 .41 ( 1 0ot t `,"_ 4 a n / decay connected with its existence, and t P c os b . 1 1 , 11,.'14 im 'e,,_v( render it an object requiring paramoun4 Vl: 4l :4k t w eot,47 tion. As a specific for its health and. s' i 'df II t b „tat bA,. ! , 3 th e lands' Macassar Oil cannot be too g. lo Cik e i'l4 4 ;"ciati on a , Its effects either in preserving . the ha t he o t `4 l 4 fo t t' it iv , strength and beauty, or restoring it ''''", ", 4 i li thlsi tlo lin g " t t many cases all but miraculous, and are rot 1 , 4 4 4 1 ' of EitY f e ll i , monials most numerous in themselves, , 4 tr le kail V et ., Ir. , the highest authorities. It has o btair,r so or, o li o4 t . itt:' i g4o ' r s_bi patronage of Royalty, not only as regari.', o o l A 1,,, the f e "P but those of the whole of Europe- t dfol g o t l l w l tt 1%, ehr ' purity and delicacy it is admirably adnP ii - il d., ,•, 1 41 1 ,, 41 / 11 .,mkt ii children, even of the most tender age l • b y tp se ' o , ,!I.,`"l:o o i ti ght b y '''' in use in the nursery of Royalty, na, u o rti bi tjo,'he 1 a ains . the nobility and aristocracy.- See Aay tis el o , ,4;r's p 4 tter h - GAMBLING.-This vice has been Pra c q 0 v ; S:, 1 41... e th arriji, 4, civilized and enlightened people, as we' k tedj ir, to Ati e e e, e i , barbarous and ignorant. The coroneLoP; t,,ktt; l , w hi ls e4 L W the foremost nation in refinement has,hv ro 4qa t ,• 4 w h eh he beg rifice a princely income to this passt ° 4 3 ;os t l , 4 4,C1 p,. ° aPp: a ffi , rre from its degrading influence. The, :1 7 0 0 0 .,;0 1 atigte g . 2Perti e E v a n n r d te t x h . e mAonstinpsrtoafnoueendeftltlihnekleartihearvneosoli,ed,i4 i i di yotl i t lkk.4.ic t i l l:ll4 ll l:ll 4 l l ) : A i i t h de anwe works, said, of , T European es celebrity,gamester, if he die 0 ,1; . ,,, t i l iloAlo Al liA tto lf 4 4 41 0 ' ze th ri e pursuit, is doubly ruined :he adds his s o s or - , to„ck it %zee of loss, and by the act of suicide renouncenteac 'de t erst ( I I oahfeatvheins gambler,d!'e' in andoTr h a leizmi ultimatelynagn h w a b h i o t , a wrotesusuicide that s i e sneoc h rl io: ' : ‘ 1 67 e84.1, I,of fun 4 commenced XO6 i tt t t , p e --://1- 1. " ' 4ll eti v I Ai of dissipated ennui, and continued tf o o„ . ts, l t; tl y y oie,ma s l,fva t n a ujeldls. t isdep e ei etndadoacpgiftkiseceptrtonihenent discontented I Fe e rd s a t m i v states e pt o o ra os organs, P s : mind,iel n o t f a i ii i n teli g ane ] oi f oib b e : 7 4 . ). pia : : tt li til a itu ' i bi l n efrue r i ;1:1 11 0 O s ‘ ,,,,,vnd might have been prevented by the oces s b ~ot 'prm '''ee , 4w. lt • r 1, 1 1 A IV 4 THE POST OFFICE.-Reader, if. Y",,, 0 I o rs j , , - Zit t '-ute ) , t i:ortli t a stroll throngh the General Post ° tr oK 4 :1: t p'l as t hese just ' I.'ps lace a a o s n n d t to h c hn e a e n t c hr s l ie ol i c i ch k l tor Continent; h s l t i i i n O n h e n d a n: : : : l c 0 ,: , :f6 1at b e tdo o e .t_p l e ;o : :di) .„, t44 . : 4 4,l l 4 ll oCt l i c :Nl oh i s _ 411 11:4 11 ,11, 1 1 4.... 1 : : i t v ey i b a ci d r t(i scene is much more exciting than:ln u ` ns ide,.„ 're nil, La ; ttlb a h n u d nd m re u d ch pe m op or le e , safe. Stand ru S n ta a n s d p a o s y iel l aside 5 9 : 10 a: riti ff t4 P4 4 l :44t tp i : iti y 4 ,l add; d vl Of attack upon the letter takers. A ,s''''L cii2 :40' t a i Sly '''' roc 4111 4th °1 th can make them run, dash desperate I, tO lif t O ) 4 -9 all (If all windows of the receivers. Against ths 009 k 1N. 1 % I\.l wide of hundred who have posted dodge an d rePl - iN tve ari a Wave after wave of people advances 9 , 13 t he I ro to (~ 11413 ser u ; with billets the capacious swallow °L s o tti,';',) , l k . , ' 4 11 4 11, 1 ,,, while a still more active and vigoron re el ig , f it k iol i ;T:-..A . in the direction where newspapers are gsP e Ot it it 4 t 44 41 th i Yv/, ° : d et, l less window frame, with tremendous ter,o; *, N t i 4 4, 44 4 4 1.,. ‘ v e e z1e Of with showers of papers, which fly f g a ,, s i, dr, i *4 4' 4 , I, 4 9 ' . 43 \ snow. Now and then large sa cics , •_ t acew,' i t Ato i t e ,r29. ~ eu different newsvenders and publishing " t 9 pe* ti, tit. t/ -4 4 ..1: 11 all in and bolted whole. As the molne a o t str ti th 44 1 tz Ili l it th, papers grows thicker ; those who cann,„o/14, 1 4 4/ . . 41 _18 47, fore" whiz their missiles of intellige4; fa i zook, , t oo l, fir st the others, now and then sweeping L ' r ede lj o y ti; l ttAt N-ttlie,4 Pt round shot. Letters struggle with o° 4 oo kt, k t l ll 4: 41 4 L,- 'i Nv e , which is increased to frantic desPef'...-0 i IPS till,tO'' 4 t '' e f slowly strikes, one-two-three---fewore a' i ' 4 . 4; 4 0 k i llo ivi 4 tte N with a nigh miss of guillotining a t , lt .one ti tti IN; i tS4l ) ,l i !: l a Yel ) one loud snap all the windows sitt i e " co tfe 4l l' 4 t l/ 44 kt Niti zvo of The post, like a huge monster, has r i t or t et) 4 4 1 tk l . N:Qit k ed for the night, and, gorged, beg If w e e l) , I . :4 , 1 14, lii: 1)0( spectators, in quiet to digest. IL, ~. o ons , l lo 4 1.'4,7 t, - ey. scenes, and traverse what Might n!' 4 ,,e , i , V be 4 ~,1 . - "O. Nti t: % et , stomach of the office, we shall Per c ;i 9 ts ite A o 4. 1 , 10, 4 i t , almost as perfect as that which e it. l e r ei l lioN s i N e l.l o 4 Of t economy, and not very dissimilar to or, 'r It lt 0 p ti lp ir 4 of letters, and the huger mountains 'l' o o o/ e.," st, l leA OR/ heaps,-the newly-swallowed foon; to 0 3 0 0 , , th,l , te,mect t 'ek h c i bt t ,' le t different atoms, arrange and circa of i/0 16 , , ,, Nt o . 3 4 tl\ - .11 - yrso o, 4 ado' ta 11 multiplicity of organs, and a variety u_ i ros t A' , ,/ t,ll b at 4 -Pah • the au eb a 1 ilo °I 'ol,'s 0 numerous as those engaged in o on 00 ei h, Stii ii .t e tle one interfering with the others, ° of AA 1 . iit tie leo ) lutely necessary to the well-being, t he o r °. C Z9 ile t l' tt eil t h il t; l h , ' A nod hit perfect is the drill, so clearly debt L' 14 le 'Ad - i'll strangermember loefethsedaerwmnynopfensefvreontooornseeiogsfocithinoct, ' ' F itti b., 4;i tt tit t Itzt %; sh a t ithi he can only compare its noiseless sglite.l 41 10et2let h e ments to the action of some clletn . .. re spe i ' E iO S I d 1 4 - 9 Qt. Cto the vast table upon which the.c u be ap;o ti ; q t th i e ltle 4 1 r millions of people for two days this 11 44,4 4 kl o s : p..., er n certain number performing the . be, ee 40 0/ , k h , L is _Dt ed - • , e4 chyle proceed to arrange, e liMil: l9 `, ; Cey J 4 i t ,; 4l tif 4 44 bi rerp o °Lis future and more elaborate operatioini-o o too r , ti t t ti oti let ot, away these eliminated at sn e e s i ou btee, . et t lao:o b to (L tae k : l ell district delivery, and, by means % co on joi ritt,„ t k i t i e t t 4 34 , Zit t: 0 transport them to their proper ,Ir e busy e 5 ooi tl ik ,tity lL d fr , d of the building • others again, it" i. e tab' e ati, V% leit,qt a Tvit letters for the general delivery to ti t .' oe.elaorjcA7l ii .4 / I , ..iii y : It, Y: s e p, when in a moment the irnPort_a_ a d o 0 " orir „ 1 ,474 1 „,_Vv e ,;( into roads and towns sets all nali t h e, r e etieh fi t ,q`b fa n„ as as silently, and as purposefully as. _:i c tng,,,lr i p kihj IN' t Lae i i ' l l e o. l` D u ' ceu'W V, L 1. 4 1% .14 peep at through the hive•glas a so is , o , 0 •it•‘4 4, 4 -/ sh-est e sweets. In an hour the procc __ cti o tite JA. 1 441 , , tt tli tio e has thoughts of lawyers, lovers, rq l ,.. priv,. o otrfil tett,/ belt 4 ' 4 4 / 1 4 44 ev e 4 filers, masters, and servants, tYning te_,levt, to , s .! tj whole town, lie side by side, erkl°Y„ o d OS (1 1 ';'V 4 11, secrecy ; and bagged, stringed an otPesser, the atte length n t g h tehir and d ie b f breadth of ' the iald"--fr ' H Y A M,,,ro s NATIONAL CL Li v poOP LORD-STREET, LfVgi- larch 19, 1 `.....---___L.„_