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Imperial laaritament, HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. Lord WHARNCLIFFE, at the suggestion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, postponed until Friday the second reading of the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill. The Duke of Bum,Euon moved the second reading of the Metropolitan Buildings Bill, which was opposed by Lord CAMPBELL and Lord COTTENHAAI, on the ground that at this late period of the cession it was impossible to give proper consideraton to a measure of such importance. A division ensued, and the second reading was carried by a majority of 30 t o 8. . Several bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. The house got through the committee on the Merchant Seamen's Bill. Several other bills were also forwarded a stage. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the second reading of the Cha ritable Bequests (Ireland) Bill, the object of which was to remedy the defects of the 40th George 111., by which be quests for religious uses in Ireland were regulated. The existing board is constituted exclusively of Protestants, and it was proposed by this bill that there should be ten commissioners to be appointed by the Crown in addition to the ex officio members, and of these ten one-half should be Roman Catholics. After pointing out various minor remedies contemplated by the bill, for the purpose of placing the Catholics on that ground of equality which was contemplated by the Emancipation Act, the right hon. baronet concluded by stating, that the bill was brought forward in the spirit of peace, and as a part of that con ciliatory policy which it was hoped would have the effect of tranquillising Ireland, and enabling her Majesty to visit her Irish subjects, who were a brave and still loyal people. The Earl of ARUNDEL supported the bill, which was, in his opinion, conceived in a kind and conciliatory spirit. Sir R. PEEL said that the bill was a bona fide manifes tation of the spirit in which the government was prepared to act towards Ireland, being brought in for no other put , pose than to remedy a grievance of which the Roman Catholics alone complained. 1 his measure was founded upon the outline of a plan suggested by the Marquis of Wellesley, and approved of by Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, and its object was to do justice in a kind and conciliatory spirit. The bill might be defeated by a persevering opposition ; but, if so, he trusted that during the recess the public mind in Ireland would not be inflamed by allegations of injustice and neg lect against the government. Mr. SH ELL said the most serious error in the bill was, that it placed laymen, no matter whether Protestants or Catholics, over the ecclesiastics in matters affecting doc trine and discipline. Lord STANLEY, in supportin g the bill, quoted the evi dence given by Mr. O'Co nne ll in 1829, when he stated that if three Catholics were placed on the board, all ground of dissatisfaction would be removed. After some observations from Mr. Wyse and others, the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. The Lord CHANCELLOR explained the course he had - pursued with respect to Lord Beaumont's bill for repeal- Ing all the obsolete penal acts against Roman Catholics which still remain on the statute. book. He confidently recommended that their Lordships should pass the bill, in spite of the objections which the late period of the session had suggested. The Bishop of LONDON anxiously guarded himself from the possible imputation that he was desirous of con tinuing these laws for their own sake, but opposed the further progress of the bill, on the ground which the Lord Chancellor had himself suggested—that it was not it comprehensive measure. He complained that it was pressed forward at so late a period of the session, and in the necessary absence of most of the bishops ; and, re minding their lordships that the constitution of the En glish Church was not only Protestant but anti-Popish, cautioned them against thus lightly and hurriedly break ing through the links of the great chain which had been designed to maintain the Church in its supremacy. There was already a talk of " going further ;" let there be no piecemeal legislation, but let a subject of such great importance be considered at leisure, and as a whole. Lord BEAUMONT said a very few words in reply ; and the Bishop of LONDON having withdrawn his opposition, the report of the bill was received. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. The following bills were read a third time, and passed, the Protection of Purchasers (Ireland) Bill, the Customs (New South Wales) Bill, the Books and Engravings Bill, the Courts of Common Law Process Bill, the Courts of Common Process (Ireland) Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, and the Privy Council Bill was fixed for Thursday. A great number of other bills were forwarded a stage. At the evening sitting, various documents, &c. connect ed with the deposition of the Rajah of Sattara were order ed, on the motion of Mr. Hume. The Debtors and Creditors Bill, and the Transfer of Real Property Bill were read a first time, and ordered to be read again on Thursday. Mr. HUME moved a resolution, pledging the House to take the case of the coopers into consideration early next sessions, with a view to the removal of distress which the coopers attributed partly to the tariff charges of 1842, throwing open the colonial market to the Americans, with whom it was impossible for them to compete, whilst a duty of 25 per cent. was levied on the raw material for staves. Dr. BOWRING seconded the motion. Mr. GLADSTONE admitted that the coopers suffered some hardship, and he had doubts of the expediency of imposing a heavy duty on wood, or a class of articles like staves, but he maintained that the coopers had been bene fitted, not injured, by the tariff of 1842. He assigned va rious other causes fur the distress complained of, and said that of late a great improvement had taken place. After some remarks from Mr. HUTT and Lord SAN DON expressive of a hope that Government would direct its attention to the subject early next session, the motion was negatived without a division. The Earl of LINCOLN obtained leave to bring in a bill for the embankment of the Middlesex side of the Thames, from Blackfriars to Westminster-bridge, the object being that the bill may circulate during the recess, for the con sideration of all whose interests may be affected by it. Mr. MACKINNON drew attention to the practice of in terment within large towns, and in churches and chapels. Sir JAMES GRAHAM saw great difficulties in the way of any general legislative enactment on the subject, and could not pledge himself to bring in any bill on the sub ject either this session or the next. A motion of Mr. BORTHWICK, for the production of certain correspondence relative to Don Carlos, was nega tived, after some discussion, by a majority of 33 to 2. Mr. WYSE drew attention to the petitions from artists and friends of art in London and Dublin, praying for the establishment of a gallery for the reception of the best works in sculpture, or of casts from them, from the ear liest period of art to the present time. He moved an ad dress to the Crown on the subject, which, after a short discussion, he withdrew for the present, Sir T. Freeman tle and Lord ELLIOT having objected to it on account of the lateness of the session. Mr. FOSTER moved iOi• further returns on the subject of slavery, but Sir J. Graham having in vain urged its de lay, the house was counted on the motion of Mr. Cripps, and, there being only 37 persons present, the house stood adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Grand Canal (Ireland) Bill, the Spirits (Ireland) Bill, the Piccadilly Improvement Bill, the Woods and Fo rests Accounts Bill, the Clerks to Attorneys Bill, the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, the Horse Slaughtering Bill, and several private estate and divorce bills, were read a third time and passed. Several other bills were forwarded a stage without dis cussion. The Juvenile Offenders Bill was withdrawn. At the evening sitting numerous petitions were pre sented, and amongst them forty from Ireland, in favour of a repeal of the Union. Sir C. NAPIER, after introducing the matter as one of great importance to the character and reputation of this country, referred to the intelligence from Otaheite re specting the proceedings of the French, asked if it were true, and, if so, what British force there was at the island whilst those operations were going on ? Sir ROBERT PEEL said Government had received ac coubts from Otaheite, and, presuming on the accuracy of those accounts, which he had no reason to question, he did not hesitate to say that a gross outrage, accompanied by a gross indignity, had been committed. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Her Majesty's Government received in formation to this effect on Monday last, and had taken the first opportunity of making those communications to the French Government which they considered the circum stances called for. The outrage was committed by a per son in temporary authority at Otaheite, and from what government knew of the facts it was not committed in consequence of any authority given him by the French go vernment. Presuming that the accounts were accurate, he apprehended that the French government would at once make such a reparation as this country had a right to re quire. He trusted he should not be pressed for any fur ther information on the subject. (Hear.) Sir C. NA PIER said there was one part of his question which the Right Hon. Baronet had not answered—whe ther a proper force was stationed at Otaheite at the time, and whether the French had established fortifications in the island. Sir R. PEEL said he had given the hon. and gallant officer all the explanation necessary. Lord INGESTRI E concluded a speech of great length, in the course of which he expressed his own conviction that the invention was one of vast importance to the country, and moved for the production of the correspondence on the subject between Captain Warner and the government. Sir R. PEEL, in seconding the motion, said " that Go vern meut had off ere d ever y reasona bl e means an d facili ties for testin g the value of Mr. Warners discoveries, the ' invisible sh e ll' and the long range,' and, after alluding to the negotiati ons with that gentleman, and especially his preliminary dema n d of £lOO,OOO, saidthat all his experi ence with him stren gthene p dh m is e d n etermination not to pledge the Government to the ay w ithout a previous concession thepayment any secret, its efficacy ; and sum whatever, ie cautioned rou gh knowledge ofthe House against an y de p arture f rom this rule. But both the late and the present Government wer e amp l y vindi cated from hav in g treated Mr. Warner's proposals with neglect. After a short di s cussion, in the course of whi c h Sir H. Douglas, Sir C. Napier, Sir G. Cockburn, express e d great doubts as to the utility and applicability of the invention, the motion was agreed to. The Insolvent Debtors Bill was read . a second time. In committee on the Art Unions Bill, a clause was ad ded extending its operation from Scotland and Ireland to England. The Arms Act (Ireland) Bill was read a Prat time. Adjourned at a quarter before twelve, HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. In reply to a question by the Marquis of CLANRICARDE respecting Tahiti, The E,,rl of ABERDEEN said, undoubtedly gross out rages had been committed in that island against the per son of a British subject, but, he was satisfied, without the instruction or knowledge of the French government, who, he believed, regretted the matter as much as he did. Pro per representations had been made, and there was no dan ger of a misunderstanding on the subject. Lord KINNAIRD inquired whether Queen Pomare bad been restored since the first outbreak, and if so, whether the consul had not been restored , lso ? The Earl of ABERDEEN said it was very difficult to say what was then doing at the antipodes, but he had reason to believe that by the present time Queen Pomare had been restored, though only in a qualified manner. The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved the order of the day for going into committee on the Railway Bill, and stated its policy and provisions. On going into committee, the Bishop of LICHFIELD gave notice that it was the intention of the Bishop of Lon don, on the third reading, to move an alteration which would have the effect of preventing travelling on Sunday and Good Friday. The bill passed through committee. On the third reading of the Law Courts (Ireland) Bill, the LORD CHANCELLOR strongly objected to the 7th clause, respecting the appointment of officers by the Lord- Lieutenant, and maintained that by common law it was right, as on all considerations it was expedient, the judges in the respective courts should appoint their own officers. Lord CAMPBELL having moved an amendment in con formity with the Lord Chancellor's observations, Lord WHARNCLIFFE said he could not understand the united authority of his noble and learned friends. The debate was adjourned to afford time for considera tion. The Poor-law Amendment Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. The Savings Banks Bill was read a third time and passed ; and the Marriages (Ireland) Bill went through committee. The house was then occupied for several hours in com mittee on the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Bill. Nineteen clauses having been agreed to, the chair man reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again the following day. For the convenience of the house, SirJAMEs GRAHAM stated that he proposed to take the third reading of the bill on Monday. The Merchant Seamen Bill was read a third time and passed. The Debtor and Creditor Bill, and the Transfer of Property Bill, were severally read a second time. The house rose early. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. Lord BEAUMONT having called attention to the conduct of the foreign consuls at Tunis towards our own consul, respecting the trial of a Maltese for murder, The Earl of ABERDEEN said he had made representa tions on the subject to the foreign powers, most of whom had censured their consuls, while the result of the matter showed that the English consul exercised more power than all the consuls of Europe put together. The report of the secret committee on the Post-office was brought up, and ordered to be printed. On the motion for the third reading of the Railways Bill, the Bishop of LONDON said he did not propose any additional restriction on Sunday travelling, but in the seventh clause of this bill, contrary to all former legisla tion, it was made compulsory on the railway companies to run third-class trains, and consequently to facilitate travelling on Sundays. He would, therefore, move the amendment of which he had given notice, which, without prohibiting it, would leave the matter to the discretion of the companies. Lord BROUGHAM considered both the desecration of the Sabbath, and the keeping it ascetically, a great evil. He thought the people should go in the morning to church, and in the evening to the country, and hoped that:in doing so they would meet with no restriction. After some further conversation the debate was ad journed to Monday. On the question for the third reading of the Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill, The Marquis of CLANRICARDE took occasion to review the progress of the repeal agitation in Ireland, and to con trast the policy of the late and present government towards that country. He was satisfied that if the government wished to get rid of this agitation they must be prepared next session to take great, and sound, and well-considered measures for the improvement of the Irish people. Lord WHARNCLIFFE defended the policy of the govern ment towards Ireland, contending that they had adminis tered justice, enforced the law, secured their endowments to the Roman Catholic clergy, promoted education, and either had or were about, as soon as possible, to redeem every pledge they had made to that country. _ _ _ Lord CAMPBELL believed that if the constitution had not been suspended in Ireland, the law had been perverted; and that, as the cry for repeal had been raised from a sense of grievance, so it might be removed by the removal of the grievance. Lord WHARNCLIFFE denied that the law had been per verted, and thought such language stronger than was ne cessary. The bill was then read a third time, and the other busi ness of the day being disposed of, the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. The Insolvent Debtors Bill passed through committee, after considerable opposition from Mr. M. Philips, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Wortley, and other members. Sir J. GRAHAM having stated his intention to add some clauses providing for compensations, the punishment of fraudulent debtors. &c., it was agreed, on the under standing that it was not to be again contested, that the bill should be printed with the new clauses, and re-com mitted on Monday. The Charitable Donations and Bequests bill was also amended in committee, and ordered to be re-committed. Mr. HUME then moved a series of resolutions relative to the government of savings banks, which were negatived without a division ; after which Several bills were forwarded a stage, and the house ad journed. _ HOUSE OF COMM ONS.-SATURDAY. The Marriages (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed.—The Insolvent Debtors' Compensation Bill passed through Committee. Report on Monday, (yester day.)—On the order of the day being read for the further consideration of the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Bill, Sir J. GRAHAM brought up some amend ments, which having been agreed to, the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. _ . . The Debtors and Creditors Bill was read a third time and passed.—The report on the Transfer of Property Bill was brought up and agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday, (yesterday.) The Arms (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The house then adjourned. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. INDIA AND CHINA. The news brought from India by the Bombay mail of the 19th of June is of considerable interest. The intelligence from the Punjaub represents that coun try in as disturbed a state as ever. Dhulup Singh, the boy King, has been dangerously ill of the small-pox ; and his Prime Minister and his mother, yet a young woman, are said to have been discovered intriguing, to the great dissatisfaction of the Sikh troops, who rule in that country and wait but an occasion to create another revolution to their own profit. The defeat and death of Ittur Singh and Cashmeera Singh, who attempted to upset the power of Heera Singh, has for a time consolidated the power of the Prime Minister. Peshora Singh, who fled from the battle and surrendered himself a prisoner, was said to have been killed • this report excited the Sikh soldiers, who were not pacified until the prisoner was shown to them. The ut most care was taken on the British frontiers to prevent any collision with the Sikhs ; but as vet no satisfaction has been given for their invasion of the British territories after the defeat of Uttur Singh. The report respecting the as sembling a large army on the Sutlej had died away, al though some warlike preparations were making, such as the collection of camels in Scinde, and of military stores at Ferozepore. It is well to be prepared, for if the popu lar stories are to be believed, the Sikhs are anxious for an opportunity of invading India, and plundering its wealthy towns, and of course measuring arms with the British troops. The state of Scinde is highly satisfactory, and promises to become much more so. One of the chief sources of curiosity subsequent to the departure of the last mail from Bombay for Europe, was the meeting of the Beloochee Chiefs at Hydrabad. The meeting was convoked by the orders of Lord Ellenbo rough, and under the careful arrangements of Sir Charles Napier, passed over quietly. There is no doubt that the inhabitants of Scinde, who have begun to feel the benefit of a good and regular go vernment, are far more contented than many of the poli ticians of England are willing to suppose. Their property is secured to them, if they are peaceable and do not in trigue against the British government. The cultivators of the soil are not subject to the former cruel exactions, and they are allowed a full scope for their industry. The population of the banks of the4ndus does not now amount to a tithe of those who in andt nt times cultivated its soil, and yet, few as they are in number, they were lately oppressed ten times more than the people even of other Indian states. The removal of the Ameers is re presented as a most decided blessing to the present race of Scindians, who require but a few years experience of British rule to become active and industrious. The sys tem of the Ameers depopulated the country, and rank ye gelation is consequently luxuriating there, and causing a malaria destructive of life. Some time must be required to accustom the inhabitants to the present government, and then they will increase and multiply the products which a most fertile soil can bear, and the country will become healthful, as it formerly was. The great assembly of Beloochees at Hydrabad on the 24th of May had several objects :- 1. To cause all these wild chiefs to make their allegi ance personally. They had many of them done so before, but it was in the midst of the confusion and hurry of war, and some had since been suspected of being unfaithful. 2. Numbers had not made their salaam from fear. Re peatedly a " longer day " f o r this h a d been given ; but it was excel l e nt vlastim e to be mo e decided, and the 24th of May (the Queen' s dal () o wcaasmeins chosen who as had thde never last. beforeT he eftec sub mitted. They m jaghirs. ade their sala am , an d rece i ve d thei r I 3. To try the fealty of then l• e efs, a n d see if t h ey rea ll y felt confidence in the gove rnm They did §Q, Do proof wasc en c, t ui , and wo u ld o b ey or d ers. plete. Their fear that THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. some treachery was intended was great, but the result has given them perfect confidence in the promises and cha racter of government. 4. To show them that the government had confidence in them, and had no fear or distrust of them. _ 5. To heir all complaints or representations that ex isted ; many were made and examined into. 6. For the Governor to become acquainted with and speak to the chiefs, giving praise to those who had shown a readiness to serve the British. All these points enabled the Governor to form a general guess at the temper of the Beloochee population. There is no doubt, that in ordering the Governor of Scinde to hold this meeting at such time as he judged best, the Governor-General acted from a wise policy. About 20,000 people were supposed to have been collected. All were orderly in the extreme. They were kept divided, as caution was necessary. There was some sickness in Scinde, arising from the heats, but not more than in other well-known parts of India. Exposure to the sun had produced the deaths of 14 men of her Majesty's 86th Regiment, and of some women and children. Sir Charles Napier was at Kurrachee in the beginning of June—a strong proof that nothing of striking impor tance was dreaded which could demand his presence in any part of that province. There was some excitement in the Cabinet of Gwalior in consequence of the orders of the Supreme Government to take possession of the flourishing Mahratta town of Boorhanpore, and to imprison the father of the young Queen Dowager of Gwalior, Tara Baee, as he was sup posed to be involved in certain intrigues ; but those or ders were countermanded lifter an explanation, and all was peace and tranquillity there. The abrupt recall of Lord Ellenborough had produced a great sensation at Bombay, from which place alone in telligence has reached us. It was not known there what course Lord Ellenborough intended to adopt. The news of the recall is supposed to have reached him on the 14th or 15th, and he might desire the Bentinck, then on the point of starting for Suez, to wait a few hours for him. It was supposed by others that his lordship would await the arrival of Sir Henry Hardinge. The news from China extends to the 26th of April. The China authorities were disposed to act with perfect good faith towards the British, and it was even said, that the Emperor was about to make arrangements whereby the trade in opium would be legalised. Sir H. Pottinger had passed several enactments, regulating the mode in which British trade is to be carried on there. A cargo of tea from the northern ports had been despatched in the Nautilus, Captain Gibson ; its weight was 246,5251 b. . A new source of dissatisfaction has been created at Borneo. An expedition of two vessels—the Young Queen and Anna, fitted out by the Hon. James Erskine Murray and Mr. W. C. Bowra—had entered one of the rivers, and endeavoured to establish commercial relations. They were allowed to proceed up the Cotee River for a consi derable distance, when all their advances were rejected, and they were assailed and fired upon by multitudes. They attempted to get back, but were met by a fleet of boats, and a conflict ensued, in which the Hon. J. E. Murray and two sailors lost their lives. It is thought that Sir Thomas Cochrane would have to order some ships of war to go there to demand satisfaction. The only part of India in which any kind of disturbance existed was near Dharwar, where there were some bandits collected ; but as public attention was called to them, they would be speedily put down. Mr. J. F. Davis, the new Governor of Hong Kong, ar rived at Sincapore on the 27th of 'April, and sailed again for Hong Kong on the 31st. Her Majesty's ship Corn wallis, with the flag of Sir W. Parker, was at Trincomalee on the 27th of May. Her Majesty's ship Nimrod arrived in Bombay on the 18th of June. The Commercial news from Calcutta is on the whole satisfactory. The indigo crop is not likely to prove a heavy one, but rather the contrary. 330 boxes of quicksilver, packed in bamboo and cases, had reached Calcutta from China—a new feature in the trade, which is expected to have an important effect on Rothschild's monopoly, and caused an immediate fall in the price from 7 to 6 current rupees per fy. seer. Sir H. Hardinge was at Aden on the 4th of July, the Hindostan having averaged 11 knots an hour from Suez. AMERICA. By the Great Western steamer. whose arrival is noticed elsewhere, we have received New York papers to the 20th ult., being five days later than those previously received. Quiet has been restored at Philadelphia. The Madisonian, by some very curious means, is enabled to publish another President's Message and sun dry annexation documents, though the same were ordered to be suppressed by the Senate, The Message is dated May 16th, and in it the Presidcnt urges, that, if Texas be not then annexed to the United States, the opportunity would be lost for ever ; and, in order to influence the senators in favour of the measure, he accompanies the Message with several letters. or communications, " de rived from private sources." but not bearing any signa tures, which confidently declare, that, if the annexation treaty be not ratified, Texas will ally herself with Eng land, and enter into a treaty of commerce, offensive and defensive. There are also extracts from letters of Gene- Houston, the President of Texas, and General Jackson, upon the same subject. General Houston says, that if annexation be refused, "it would then only be left for the United States to expect that she (Texas) would seek some other friend." We publish a circular in another column on the state of the cotton trade. &c. The news from Mexico indicates great activity in pre paring for the renewal of hostilities with Texas, General Santa Anna had again placed himself at the head of the republic ' - appointed a new secretary of war ; demanded a levy of 30,000 men and four millions of dollars ; ordered General `Noll to repair to the frontiers; and appointed General Canalizo commander-in-chief of the army destined against Texas. By advices from Dominica, to the 23d June, we learn that the insurrection had been quelled and the operation of martial law suspended. The Governor had issued a proclamation and amnesty to all, with the exception of ringleaders, ninety of whom had been retained in prison to undergo the decision of the laws, several hundred having been discharged under the admonitory advice of the Governor. The islands had been overwhelmed with rains and floods, which had caused great damage to the roads, &c. A singular discovery had been made, in taking a census of the island of Trinidad, of " two en campments of the aboriginal Indians of the island, be longing to a race perfectly distinct from any hitherto known." The coronation of King Oscar, of Sweden, is to take place on the 21st of August. The new comet has been seen at Bois le Duc with the naked eye. AN EXTENSIVE ORDER.—Previous to her departure from Paris, Queen Christina left orders for the construc tion of a number of carriages for the service of the Spanish court. No less than sixty-four of those vehicles have al ready passed through Bordeaux. As a proof of the depression in the value of agricultural property in Sydney, it has been remarked that the Sydney Herald contains an advertisement to let a farm of 112 acres, and offering to make the person who will take it a present of some cows into the bargain. FRENCH REVOLUTION.—The fourteenth anniversary of this revolution passed off quietly at Paris last week. A melancholy accident, however, occurred at the termina tion of the day's proceedings, a number of persons having been trodden under foot by the crowd in the Place de la Concorde, of whom three lost their lives. THE SCOTCH CHURCH IN CANADA.—The Presbyte rian Synod of Canada, on the 6th ult., by a majority of 56 to 40, determined to maintain its connection with the Es tablished Church of Scotland. Some of its ministers— it is said about 26—had in consequence seceded, and have resolved to set up a rival institution, which they propose to call " The Presbyterian Church of Canada." ALLEGED PLOT TO MASSACRE THE CHRISTIANS AT RHODES.—The Augsburgh . Gazette quotes a letter from Smyrna, of the Ist ult., stating, in the most positive terms, that in the island of Rhodes and other places the Turks had formed a plot for the massacre of the Christians at last Easter. The execution of tne plot appears to have been prevented by an accidental discovery. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—Our Monmouth correspondent has received a letter from a friend in Hobart Town, dated March 8, 1844, in which the writer states— " I often see Frost, Williams, and Jones ; the former lives a few doors from me, at a grocer's ; he is in the counting-house ; Williams is a constable ; and Jones is a guard to the mail." The above may be relied on as cor rect.—Gloucester Journal. A RELIC !—The Cathedral of Treves is in possession of a vestment without seam, said to have been worn by Christ. This precious garment is exposed to the faithful once in every century, except when the Pope grant s a n express permission. This permission has been accorded by his holiness for this year, and the relic will be exhibited from August 18 to September 30. The last regular exhi bition was in 1809. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF PBXS SIA.-It appears by an official bulletin, which reached London on Thursday, from M. Bulow, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prussia, that an assassin fired two bar rels of a double. barrelled pistol at the King, on the 26th ultimo; one of the balls missed, but it is said that the Queen, who was in the same carriage with his Majesty, would have been hit had she not, just at the moment, leaned forward. The other ball struck the King on the breast, but glanced off, leaving only a slight bruise. - - STRANGE PROCEEDINGS AT TAHITI.--Oar polite and peaceable neighbours, the French, seem disposed to carry matters in the Pacific with a mighty high hand. In fact, things are come to a pretty pass already. Not content with depriving poor Queen Pomare of her kingdom, and converting her regal palace into a dwelling-house for his own high mightiness, that terrible fire-eater Monsieur d'Aubi gn y, a warr i or o f th e J o i nv ill e or Jeune France school, who makes w ar, as the Times says, " upon wo men in the family-way"—this doughty hero has at length performed an exploit for which he must be appropriately rewarded. The vapouring Gascon has actually had the insolence to insult the Queen of Great Britain by arrest ing the person of her consul at Tahiti : here are his own words in proof of the outrage :—" FRENCH ESTABLISH MENT IN OCEANIA.—A French sentinel has been attacked in the night of the 2d and 3d of March. By way of re prisal I have seized one Pritchard" (no less a person than the British consul,) " the only mover and daily in stigator of the excitement of the natives. His property shall answer for every damage occasioned to our establish ments by the insurgents ; and if French blood is shed, every drop shall recoil upon his head." It is true that Mr. Pritchard has since been released from arrest, and that he has arrived in England ; but that is no atonement for the outrage ; and unless a proper and full atonement shall be made, Captain Warner or somebody else must teach Johnny Cropand a lesson which he will not readily forget. FLOODS IN THE WEST.—By the Hibernia were received fearful accounts of the overflow of the Mississippi. For a region of more than a thousand miles in extent, along the Missouri and Mississippi, above St. Louis, the inhabi tants have been deprived of their cattle and crops, and, in many instances, their houses and barns also ; while the soil itself, for hundreds of thousands of acres, has been either seriously injured or totally destroyed. The loss of the cotton crop now growing, is estimated at equal to 300,000 bales. The city of St. Louis, itself a severe suf ferer by the flood, has naturally become the refuge of hundreds of houseless, destitute, and starving creatures, driven from their homes by the pursuing footsteps of the flood ; and the scenes of want and suffering presented by them—gathered together in sheds and rude tents, and fed by the hand of public charity—is represented as heart sickening in the extreme. We are yet to hear of the de structive course of the flood for thirteen hundred miles between St. Louis and New Orleans ; and we anticipate disasters of the severest kind when the mighty torrent roars through the Louisiana plantations—the garden of the south. SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF GREECE.—On Sunday, the 7th of July, a serjeant of the gendarmerie at Athens rushed past the sentinels on duty at the palace, and proceeded to enter at the private door which leads to the garden. The sentinel on duty at this door attempted to stop the intruder, who drew his sword, and turning aside his musket, sprang into the corridor ; the sentinel immediately followed, but not being able to seize him, transfixed him with his bayonet, and he fell wounded before the door of one of the maids of honour, Mdlle. Wiesenthau, a Bavarian lady, who opened the door to inquire the cause of the disturbance, and was witness of the scene. The King's physician was immediately called, and the wound was dressed. Though the bayonet passed through the body of the unfortunate man, it ap pears that there is every prospect of his recovery. There is little doubt that the man was insane before and at the time when he conducted himself in so extravagant a man ner. No blame can be imputed to the sentinel, who only wounded him when he was rushing in with his drawn sword, and it was impossible to stop him in any other way. The King is said to have been deeply affected by the sad accident, and to have sent repeatedly to make inquiries concerning the state of the unfortunate man, and he has ordered that he is to receive every possible care and atten tion. THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO AND THE FRENCH.— The Moorish Consul at Gibraltar has received a letter from Morocco, via Tangier, informing him that, for the purpose of being nearer the Algerine frontier, and there fore having his orders better obeyed by his people there, the Emperor was about to set out immediately for Fez and Mequinez, the one being but half a day's journey from the other, and the latter more properly the rendez vous for large assemblages of troops in that part of the empire. The Moorish Consul states, that on such move ments the Cadis of the different districts furnish their quotas of cavalry, so that he thinks the Emperor will have nothing short of 100,000 of that force at Fez and Mequi nez, 5000 being splendid blacks, quite superior to those usually seen, and such as astonished the officers of the Gibraltar garrison who saw some of them at Tangier a few years ago. The Moorish cavalry are always quite inde pendent of a commissariat; indeed, every man is his own commissariat, and manages matters thus for himself : Preparatory to the march he gets a quantity of wheat toasted by his family ; this, pounded with a portion of dates and butter, is formed into a mass, of which about 141 h. is put into a prepared leather bag, which he slings on his shoulder ; and this quantity answers for his con sumption for twenty days. It seems an exaggeration to speak of 100,000 cavalry, unless it be considered that a young man of thirty is often the father of ten boys, each brought up to horse and long gun from an early age; indeed, a boy mastering a horse at the age of eight is common. STEAM BOAT ACCIDENT.—SEVENTY LIVES LOST. — The following melancholy account is extracted from the Rio de Janeiro papers :—At five o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th May, about 200 persons had taken their pas sage in the Especuladora steam-boat, which plies between this city and Nitheropy (a pleasant village on the opposite side of the harbour.) The next day being Whit-Sunday, and this the last boat for that evening, was crowded by respectable parties anticipating a day's pleasure on the morrow. The clock had just struck five, and the captain given the order to " cast off," but the moment the paddle wheels bcgan to move round a terrible hissing noise was heard, the precursor of several explosions, which suc ceeded each other like flashes of lightning and claps of thunder—the boiler had burst ; at first nothing could be seen for a dense cloud of steam that covered the vessel, from whence issued the most dreadful cries. On the steam clearing off, a most horror-striking sight presented itself to view.; the middle part of the deck had been blown away, and a great number of human beings were disco vered —men, women, and children, struggling in the hold, amidst the boiling water from the exploded boiler. Some died instantaneously, and these were, perhaps, the most fortunate : others, in their endeavours to extricate them selves from the horrid cauldron, caught hold of the hot bars and fragments; but obliged to let go their hold, fell backwards into it again. Soon after the explosion the chimney and mainmast fell on the awning, and buried be neath it a number of the passengers, who were thus placed in the greatest jeopardy, as the boiling liquid was fast ap proaching them ; but they were rescued by the great ex ertions made. The number of victims could not be ascertained ; but, from more recent information, the deaths exceeded seventy, and several of the thirty wound ed were still in a dangerous state. The cause of the explosion had not been exactly ascertained. THE MURDER OF JOE SMITH.—We mentioned in our last briefly the murder of this notorious fellow. It appears from fuller information that the Mormonites have for some time past been in insurrection. Their leader, how ever, Joe Smith, and some of his followers, laid down their arms on the assurance of protection from outrage. Joe Smith, his brother Hiram, and some others were con fined in gaol at Warsaw, in the State of New York, await ing their trial on a charge of treason. The gaol was strongly guarded by soldiers and anti-Mormons, who had been placed there by the governor. A Mormon attempted to rush by the guard for the purpose of forcing his way into the gaol. He was opposed by the guard, and fired a pistol at one of the guards, giving him a slight wound. The governor and his forces being absent, a general con fusion ensued in the crowd around the gaol. Joe and his Mormon fellow prisoners it seems had provided themselves with pistols, and commenced firing upon the guard within. He then attempted to escape from the window, when a hundred balls entered his body, and he fell a lifeless corpse. His brother Hiram shared the same fate. Ri chards, a leading Mormon, was badly wounded. There our intelligence ends—what took place after this, God only knows. Mormons immediately left for Nauvoo to carry the news of the death of the prophet. The dead bodies of the Smiths have been conveyed to Nauvoo, by order of the governor. It was supposed by many that the Mormons, on seeing them, would break away from all re straints, and commence a war of extermination. But no thing of the kind occurred. They received their murdered friends in sorrow—laid down their arms and remained quiet. Colonel Singleton and his company of sixty men are still at Nauvoo, and the Mormons submit to their authority. A man has been knocked down with a musket in Warsaw for presuming to express disapprobation at the murder of the Smiths ; so great is the popular feeling against the sect. The papers by the Great Western in form us, that the Mormons submit to the loss of their leader in silence. The prophet and his brother were buried without parade on the 29th June, and the poor infatuated creatures confidently anticipated his resurrec tion on the third day. It is said that a Dr. Richards, of Massachusetts, a m an o f t a l en t, h as b een se l ecte d as a new prophet. MASSACRE AT THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.—On the 14th of last January., the Magnet, whaler, Captain s Lew ' , ' o came to anchor off the north-we s t coas t o f Liffore, one of the South Sea Islands, and by a num b er o f natives coming on board to barter with the crew, the latter were informed that a vessel had lately been captured, and most part of her seamen murdered by the natives of Maryee Is land. In order to test the troth of this story, the Magnet got under weigh, and proceeded to the spot. Soon after her arrival, a canoe came alongside with a missionary and three men, who had just come from the south-west ex tremity of the island ; and upon being questioned as to the alleged outrage, they confirmed what the officer of the Magnet had previously heard, their information being. that all hands had been killed, and the ship sunk, but that the sails, rope, and part of her stores had been deposited in the hole of a rock abreast of the spot where the vessel went down. The missionary further informed the crew of the Magnet that another vessel had met with a similar fate ; that the whole of her unfortunate crew, with the ex. ception of two seamen who had managed to escape to a more secluded part of the island, had been slain; and that if the Magnet could lay to till the following morning, they would bring the two survivors on board. Captain Lewis consented, and about the middle of the day the missionary came again alongside with one of the seamen, and the ac count he gave of the transaction was, that he sailed from London in September last, in the brig Janet, of Dumbar ton, on a voyage to the South Sea Islands, for a cargo of sandal-wood and tortoise-shell, but they were wrecked upon the coral reef of Caledonia, on the 14th of Decem ber. Some of the crew perished in the wreck, and the re mainder (14 in number) escaped by a boat, and landed safely on the same day in the Isle of Pines. Their stay was but short, owing to the ferocious disposition of the natives ; and they again set sail, in the hope of gaining some other island where a more civilized race of people might be found. Unfortunately, however, they touched at Maryee, where they were immediately attacked, their boat destroyed, and twelve of their crew seriously maimed. He and another sailor, named Richards, were saved, and they eventually sought refuge in that part of the island. Nothing further having been learned as to the fate of the missing ships or crews, the Magnet proceeded on to Lip pore Island, on a further search, and on coming up to that place the officers ascertained that the name of the former ill-fated ship was the Two Sisters, a South Sea whaler, commanded by Captain Brend, and that every soul of the crew had been barbarously murdered. Shortly after her arrival off the coast a large number of the natives, of both sexes, went on board. The crew were at their respective duties, but unfortunately one of them happened to take a slight liberty with one of the women, and a dreadful slaugh ter ensued. The natives then plundered the vessel, and in order to carry out their diabolical revenge, fired her, and she was thereby utterly consumed. The crew of th of Mag net being well armed, and believing that some portione theth e unfortuna teresidents of that whaler's part c o a f r go the that of the chief (Bulla) until the things belonging to the g t the articles soon Two Sisters were delivered up. jolly-boat, with the name Two he log , which had been chronometer, account books, and t sduetsitrti. destroyed, and a last twoetheir wisaisanddi,stdreibtauitneedd. the h n r g o s . t kept up to the 10th of December brought on board were a quadrant, r s n a: at n e : r t t n , s : : p rr Ta e it a lne t t l i at n gh j ne u er reteodthen a a years crews murdered by the savage barbarians of the South set sai l l n f v o e r t S h y o d s n h e e y e . n Sea Islands. Five fine san"dp LABOUR IN THE WEST INDIES.—It is understood that her Majesty's Governinent have finally resolved to con vey a considerable number of Coolie labourers from the ports of C, lcutta and Madras, to the colonies of Guiana, inidad, and Jamaica. The agents to conduct this emi gration have already been appointed, and it is to com mence after the Ist of October next. 'The ships are to be chartered in India by public tender, hi conformity with the provisions of the Passengers' Act, and they will arrive in the colonies at a favourable period for obtaining cargoes for this country, while they have besides the whole sea board of America open to them. Gumw.—Accounts from Ichaboe mention that the Amy and Hanover left that island for England on the 26th and 28th May last. The Marquis of Wellesley, Mathesis, and William and Ann had completed their loading on the Ist of June, and that the Charles and William Grant were nearly filled. Thirty vessels had ar rived there during the month of May from various parts, of which number six were from England, three from Liverpool, one from Bristol, one from Cork, one from Glasgow, one from Guernsey, two from Fernando Po, two from Rio, nine from T. Bay, two from St. Helena, and one from Boston. JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS. —The advantages that would be afforded to commerce by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a canal that might be navigated by the largest ships are obvious to all ; and it is the supposition that all schemes for such con nexion are impracticable that causes them to be less gene rally regarded than the benefits they promise would seem to demand. A passage through Central America would throw open an easy and comparatively short communica tion with the north western coast of the southern conti nent, would facilitate the approach to the Australian co lonies, and allow of a new route to China. However, such appears to be the magnitude of the undertaking, that there is a general disposition to look upon all projects for connecting the oceans with distrust. Setting aside, how ever, the general doubt, and admitting the scheme of communication to be practicable in some shape or other, opinions seem to be divided among three plans—the Pa nama passage, that by the Lake of Nicaragua, and that by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the Mexican territory. To this last plan attention has lately been called by Don Jose de Garay, who has published a pamphlet containing the results of a survey, undertaken under the auspices of the Mexican government, and setting forth his project in very full detail. The foundation of Don Garay's project is the cessation of the cordillera of mountains near the source of the Chicapa, and a number of neighbouring ri vers. This leaves a table-land about Tarifa, composed of a soil which is easily excavated, and densely inhabited by an active population, whose labour can be obtained at a trifling outlay. Don Garay would cut two trenches—one from the Ostula to the Chicapa, another, which, beginning a little above the " Ultimo Rancho," would direct the waters to the immediate vicinity of Tarifa. To explain the workings of the scheme fully is impossible without re ference to accurate maps of the spot, such as those which accompany the pamphlet, but the general object is to connect the great river of Coatzacoalcos, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, with the Chicapa, which flows into the lagunes adjoining the Pacific, and affording the advan tage of an excellent harbour. The total cost of the work Don Garay estimates at 85,000,000 f., or upwards of £3,000,000 sterling. IRELAND. The Dublin Evening Mail says that, for some unex plained reason, the repeal button has been entirely discon tinued. The proprietors of the Pilot, Freeman, and Nation, now in bridewell, received £122, their stipend for the last week, from the repeal fund.—Limerick Chronicle. The repeal rent for last week amounted to £l,OOO 165., being nearly £6OO less than the week previous. Father Tierney, one of the late traversers, took the chair, in order, we presume, to show the effects of the clemency of the government. On Sunday last, the Rev. Mr. Brasbie read his public recantation from the errors of Popery, in Dingle Church. The fact of a priest abjuring Popery caused great excite ment, and the magistrates having got full notice that the mob were determined to execute Lynch law on the priest, on his road to the church, they took full precaution to preserve the peace. SUNDAY OCCUPATION IN PIELAND.—There was horse racing at Lahinch last Sabbath, for the sum of .£B, when Mr. R. Floyd, Mr. J. Shannon, and Mr. G. Mahon started, and Mr. Floyd was declared winner, but not before a poor woman was ridden over, and whose life is despaired of. Two riders fell, and one broke his arm.—Limerick Chronicle. A NEW WAY TO RAISE THE REPEAL RENT.—A threatening notice was posted on the hall-door of a gentle man's house in the neighbourhood of Littleton, a few nights ago, to the following purport :—" Sir, you'll be shot—nothing can prevent it. lam your friend, and have this long time been trying to save you ; but it is no use : the party against you are too strong and too numerous, and the only way you can save yourself is to give ten pounds to the parish priest to make friends for you.—Ne nagh Guardian. REPEAL PROPHETS.—The Romans had great faith in a parrot —so have the Romanists of Ireland. Disap pointed in the prophecies of DANIEL, they now lend an ear to Pretty Poll. " There is," quoth the Belfast Vin dicator, an eminent organ of repeal and Romanism : " There is a parrot in the possession of Mr. Chas. M'Alis ter, of this town, which, when asked Will we have the repeal ?' answers, ' You will, you will!' " This " bird of presage" is as well taught as the Connemara echo — which, when asked " How do you do, Paddy Blake ? " was always ready with the answer—" Pretty well, I thank you." MURDER DURING THE HONEYMOON.—An inquest was held on Tuesday last in Freshford, on the body of a man named Thomas Meany, who, it appeared in evidence, had been married only three weeks. The deceased made a dying declaratio❑ that the poison (Spanish flies) was given him by his wife, and he suspected one Thomas Lannan to be her accomplice. The jury found, " That Thomas Meany came by his death in consequence of poison having been administered to him by his wife, Ca therine Meany ; and we find the said Catherine Meany guilty of wilful murder, and strong suspicion attaches to one Thomas Lannon as an accomplice."—Kilkenny Mo derator. BROTHER BISHOPS.—At the Mayor's dinner at Derry, a few days since, the Protestant Bishop of Derry and Raphoe paid some extraordinary compliments to Dr. M'Gettigan, the titular of the latter diocese. After Dr. M'Gettigan returned thanks for the drinking of his health, his lordship rose, and, in the fervour of the mo ment, designated him his ' brother prelate of Raphoe,' and then, in the warmest terms, expressed his admiration of the beautiful, delightful, and truly Christian senti ments' he had just heard from him. It seems almost in credible that a prelate of the Church of England should thus claim brotherhood with a priest of the Romish Apostacy ; but from the confirmations of the report that we have received there appears no doubt of the fact. THE DAY OF PRAYER FOR O ' CONNELL.- , -Owing to the interdict of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dub lin, Dr. Murray, the ceremonial of the " General Day of Humiliation" was eclipsed of one-half its eclat in conse quence of the priests having been forbidden to read aloud from the altar the form of prayer for the health of the chief conspirator. This decision caused the greatest amazement in the various chapels in the metropolis ; and so indignant were the congregation of Francis-street Chapel, that they forwarded a strong remonstrance to the parish priest, the Rev. Mr. Flanagan, against his compli ance with the orders of his superior. The whole pro ceeding clearly shows that it was not true, as originally stated, that the bishops were all of one mind with respect e ll u nd y tey n a HYDROPHOBIA.—On treasurer,br y o u h r y A-- 04 0 1 o n eb t si the eboe2fida thee o o f u re M ,l d a oe r sf c t h sdu w anu e ng yh a h n t ei n iri o ,o u f n Eo c s e uq d r. to this piece of so l emn mummery. t c h o Little did we anticipate that that melancholy malady would claim a second victim from the family, and that the father who then mourned a daughter, would now be bowed to the earth by the bereavement of a wife. But so it is. The same dog which licked the lip of the one had unfor tunately been admitted to a similar familiarity with the other, and though seven months have passed, and proba bly no apprehension existed, nor any thought had been be stowed on the circumstance until the event recalled it to recollection, the fatal symptoms showed themselves on Thursday, and at eleven o'clock on Sunday Mrs. Dela cour expired. Just as in the case of her regretted daugh ter, a pain in the ear gave the first indication of what fol lowed, and in less than eight-and-forty hours Mallow mourned the removal of a lady in whose recent sorrows it sympathised so deeply.—Cork Constitution. AN INTELLIGENT WITNESS.—The County Cork Grand Jury met on Monday week at twelve o'clock, and proceeded to investigate claims for malicious injuries, &c. In the case of claim made by William Corkery, for mali ciously burning a dwelling-house, stable, linney, and cow house, the property of Henry M. Smyth, Esq., with household furniture, &c., a witness was produced to de tail the property destroyed, when the following colloquy ensued :—Colonel Burke.—Are you any relative toCork ery ? Witness.—N ex t d oor , your hono Witne A la u gh .. Colonel Burke.—You live next door. o (Laughter.) Col. (Laughter.) Colonel Burke.—Are his. Witness.—The were all bur ned. . tr u lOs a . c fo o r nu f e u c r t n i l • t n ur o e, f —Thomas Tyrrell, ) Witness—Yes, (Loud laughter.) —Yes, or his daughter, the facts, £3O was granted B yourur k Burke.—Are honour. you Colonel marriedß Burke .— To eh.i_s for the injury to the house, and s!Tsoiais sister Witness After much difficulty potatoes, turf, &c. THE HUSBAND OF tique of the Victoria Theatre, was one of the corps drama_ork s Police-0 ce, on Saturday, brought up at the U committed bigamy by charged with having 7 his former wife b • • Anne Barrett, in 183 , e being alive at the It will be recollected that about five months since time. the prisonerbrought up on a charge was . of annoying a Mrs. Heas, on which occasion some e of eliciting extraordinary facts transpired. It appeared that Tyrrell had paid attention to a Miss Ann Callaghan of this city, and had been mar ried to her. In the course of some disputes which arose between them, he threw out hints that he had another wife, on which she made inquiries, and ascertained that he had been married to a woman named Sarah Clayton. Miss Callaghan, finding that her marriage was null and void in law, subsequently married a respectable young man named Heas, with whom she bad lived happily, until Tyrrell, who had been absent for a considerable time, re turned to the city, when Mrs. Heas preferred charges against him, but the case was adjourned. It now appears that a third woman has been made a victim of deception. The present is the curious state of the facts : Tyrrell is married to three wives, Sarah Clayton, Ann Callaghan, and Mary Anne Barrett; Sarah Clayton and Ann Cal.. Lighan are each married to two husbands. The case was adjourned.—Cork paper. Es something. t xvi nE7gy7s.. August 6, 1814, JUDICIAL PASTIMES —The Galway Vindicator states, that the Judges of Assize arrived at Clifden without the usual escort of military or police, but in lieu thereof, and " in compliment to the hon. visiters, the beautiful and well-instructed temperance band, all repeaters, accomPa" nied their lordships, and played many of our national and soul-stirring airs, which the Judges enjoyed in nu small degree." Curious company for staid Justice Jack• son and Mr. Baron Lefroy ! Da. WHALE AGAIN.—John, Archbishop of Taal has addressed a second letter to Sir Robert Peel, through the Freeman's Journal, on the subject of the Irish Chart table Bequests Bill. The objections urged are substan' tially the same as in the former letter ; the following sea." tences are more important, connected as they are with S l r R. Peel's recent remark on the subject of a national grant for the education of the Roman Catholic youth—a matte r which fills the hearts of Irish Protestants with many nye' givings. The haughty M`Hale, it will be seen, is not st i , all unwilling to be endo w ed, th oug h h e as k s a t fi r st, of course, the most favou ra bl e t erms . " Nothing," a` writes, " nothing but separate grants for separate educe tion will ever give satisfaction to the Catholics of Ireland. * * * * Before the next session of Palle!' ment, we will have petitions with thousands of signature!, praying for a share of the public funds for our people i ll proportion to their numbers, and their services to the state. We shall also petition for the erection and endoW trent of Catholic provincial colleges, as well as diocese ! ' seminaries. It will be well to meet our just wishes, fors!' average of two thousand pounds a week to the repeal asso ciation shows the mighty resources of a people resolved be free. The yearly amount would throw into the shade your increased grant for education. Think you thael l people so patriotic and religious will not co-operate Wit 4 ' their bishops in freeing education from all penal shackled and wresting our embryo colleges and universities frosts hands, which would deface them with some of those 0 0 ; dern deformities that spoil the colleges of Germany and France, but which honour and gratitude to them) the zee' and intrepidity of the French prelates are gradually takia down ? UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Worcester, the week before last. conse crated in his diocese three 'new churches, and laid the first stone for another. The Rev. Mr. Bluck, rector of Wolsoken, Norfolk; has been condemned by the Consistory Court of NorwiCl l to forfeit one-third part of the annual value of his bene fice, and costs, by reason of non-residence, without leave► for three months. MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD.—The following is s correct list of the names of the actual fellows admitted on the 25th ult. :—The Rev. William Francis Pickin, M.A.; the Rev. John Leigh Hoskeyns, M.A. ; Mr. Henri Cadwallader Adams, M.A. ; th e Rev. James Timothy W Landon, M.A. ; Mr. Robert Chomley, M.A. ; Mr. Harrio Smith, M.A. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTIONS.—A bill has passel the House of Commons for continuing till the 31st of December, 1847, an act for suspending the operation al the new arrangement of dioceses, so far as it affects tin existing ecclesiastical jurisdictions. The registrar of every ecclesiastical court is to make a return to the pric/ council of all fees for each of the years ending Januar/ sth, 1845, and is to continue to do so annually. The/ are also to report on the state of the offices to the Seal' tary of State, who may direct surveys. THE ROUND CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE.—The question respecting the restoration of this edifice was decided o _, o Thursday week in the Co ns i s t or y C our t o f El y, which o._°l: in the hall of Trinity C o ll ege , th e R ev . Ch ancel l or S par " presiding, assisted by Dr. Daubeny, of Doctor's Coro' mons. We may briefly remind our readers that the Re!' Mr. Faulkner, the incumbent, resisted the confirmatio° of the Faculty granted for the restoration of the chard , ' on the ground that a stone altar and credence table, suc h as are used for idolatro us p ur p oses i n P op i s h Ch ape l s , been erected without the sanction of a Faculty, and vrlth' out the vicar's previous knowledge. The case was veil fully argued by Dr. Bayford on behalf of Mr. Faulkaah and by Dr. Phillimore on behalf of the Churchwardeaa ; and the Court directed the Faculty to issue, thus confirms' ing the erecti on o f th e s t one a lt ar an d credence table' The Vicar immediately appealed to the Court of the Arch bishop. f l E m x P e o te ß o p su N s T pe P n ß de o d cE f E o p r f N o c u . r — fourteen d T a u y e s s , d a a n y d l o i, e te nd ß era is o h ; , °l :k in the costs of th e proceedings, (taken under the Cbur' ll fo having purposely o m itt e d, i n b ury i ng a d ecease d Discipline Act,) the Rev. J. Todd, vicar of Liskeard r man . , the following words in one of the prayers tbo Burial Service---" as our hope is this our brother cloth. It appeared that the reverend gentleman had been ere ; dibly informed that the d ecease d h a d di e d i n intoxication, but that h e h a d di scovere d s i nce the fulle r that he had been mi s i n f orme d. Th e Bishop, i n tbe course of his judgment, gave u tt erance t o the following to our minds—mo s t erroneous d oc t r i ne •—" God, when' he vouchsafes to regenerat e by b a pti sm , vouchsafes also to give forgiveness of a ll s i ns t o those who on, tinue in the state in whi c h th e y have been placed by bBP . , tism. Presumptuou s an d u nr ep e nted sin does indeed forfeit that state, b u t, th an k s b e t o G o d, not sins of firmity ; and whether i n th e cas e of a death under intox ication the sin was pre s u m pt u o us a n d unrepen ted, or bC sin of infirmity, consiste n t w ith a li ve ly, though May languid faith, it is not f or man t o pronounce." a state 061 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT or REVIEW IN BANKRUPTCY, JULY 29' EX PARTE MOLYNEUX, IN RE HUMBERSTON ; AND EX PARTE BRANCKER, IN THE SAME. The first petition sought to increase a proof for ire to £3,036; the latter sought to reduce it to £2 00 • questions arose relative to a shipment of cotton frow Charleston on the order of Humberston and Frodsha°l; of Liverpool. Bankruptcy intervening, an attempt 8 made to stop the goods in transitu, which was succeli fully resisted, on the ground of the delivery having Il e , completed on shipment in a vessel hired by the pil t" o' sers. The dispute on this matter has given rise to action at law, and several trials ensued. uld The Chief Judge saw no reason why the seller sh° not be entitled to payment for his goods. The proc ee ; ings on the actions relative to the stoppage in tran si were no longer material. Proof enlarged, costs out of the estate of Humberol and Frodsham. INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL.—Lord Brougham's bill s entitled " An act to amend an act passed in the sth a 3 6th years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitle 3 ' An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,' and to liT b i t, the power of arrest upon final process," has been bronto down from the Lords, and read a second time in the C? 1 / 1 1 0 ; mons. The notice to creditors in the Gazette, precl e to presenting petitions for protection from process 11 0 ',,,t the sth and 6th Victoria, chapter 116, is, by the nr o clause, entirely dispensed with, another form of p eltin g to the Court of Bankruptcy for protection from procV to be verified by affidavit, being laid down in the soiled o, of the bill. Forthwith, after the filing of the petition, ti tice thereof is to be given to the creditors, and advert`" in the Gazette, and a public sitting of the court appoint for for the first examination of the petitioner, and for, choice of creditors' assignees. The property of the Fle s it tioner to vest in the assignees pro tern, by virtue of ti'4, appointment. Upon the petition being filed the cotnrn' o f sinner is to have the like power touching the seizure g , the property of such petitioner (except in certain cas e ", and the examination of persons, as in cases of bankruP tc ' e t All prisoners in execution at the time of passing this I. upon any judgment in any action for the recovery 0 0 1 debt, may be petitioners for protection from process, t r , such petitioners shall be protected, by an interim orn!„, from detention in prison, upon any judgment for therif covery of any debt mentioned in their schedules ; an",e so detained, the commissioner may order their dischsni, Petitioners in custody, and not entitled to be discharg,. e iv may be brought up by warrant. Wearing apparel, W ° t • he ing tools, &c., of the value of £2O, are exempted fro s o' operation of this act. Final orders under the act t° p r of ' r tect the person of the petitioner from process in resg e- e the sums or debts particularly mentioned in the 03- ,11 ,' viz., from process in respect of the debts due to the cr e . o f tors named in the schedule, or in respect of the clainho any other persons not known to such petitioner at of time of making the final order, who may be endorsees e , holders of any negotiable securities set forth in suc h „ t y dole. Prisoners in execution at the time of filing titions may be discharged by the commissioner, if detar_!,, for any debt in respect of which they are protected fr:' s A discretionary power is Ol e process by the final order. to the commissioner to adjourn the consideration of 9 ; 4 sine ' No debtor to be imprisoned for 03 0 6 final order dee. for than 12 calendar months for any debt contracted be a d, fili n g his petition, in case the final order shall be refus'ol or shall not be made, or in case the protecting order 0 ; r not be renewed. Persons making out fraudulent silo doles will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, an n c l , ll S6 . t ai l/ to three years' imprisonment and hard labour. TP"( 0 clause distinctly abolishes arrest 9 • r upon final process debts wherein the sum recovered shall not exceen„ie c• exclusive of costs. Persons in execution at the passing this act, in • ton for any debt where the sum shall not e xceeo Olt shall be discharged on application to of one ° heir a judge their superior courts. Persons fraudulently obtaining 0 3 , discharge may, however, be retaken in execution: 0 . estate of the debtors discharged to continue liabl e is ao they had not been taken in execution. Bytbe 3 8 th c onl‘' the Lord Chancellor is empowered to issue Rfiat f ruptcy against a trader, having filed a declaration °A, solvency, on the petition of the trader himself. Ti t 0 the chief enactments of the bill, which, if pass e , e oo l commence and take effect on the Ist day of their ~.0 next—that is to say, on the eve of Michaelmas ter"- _ . "..! HONESTY !—Many men there are who, for the w,,lfir would not take a purse, yet who would steal whatis of higher value and importance. An instance pagoda reached us, where a firm of long standing, Messrs.,‘ ov LAND and SONS have acquired high reputatiou--s. h r t bef name," in short, for the value of those articles schi'c,:roisf have discovered and prepared for the toilet. the success which Messrs. Rowlands had achiel e , t ioas i , the reputation which had attached to their Prnufrasu. other parties by a new and despicable species of t hose have concocted some trashy compounds, resembl ing l ed prepared by Messrs. Rowlands, and by adopting th e 00, coollysame n en am de e a s v , ou a r nd to closely copying thec t o h p e y ir in t g rasii as dtvreuratllenic,ece:Soi SAR OIL," " real KALYDOR," &C., thong h a O ds , s• the signature, which is not that of Messrs. Rowlannotlll6 once convinces the purchaser that he is buyi n g ita tiot” real production, but a spurious and trashv , r`? o Os' which may be, and in fact is, of the worst pernici tore.—See advt.