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THE Itbrrpoot :stantiarb+ TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1856. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. HER MAJESTY and the Court continue to reside at Buck ingham Palace, devoting such brief spaces of time as the public affairs leave at the QUERN'S disposal, to a discharge of those domestic and maternal duties which it is her happiness to attend to, and in the fulfilment of which she sets so com mendable an example to even the humblest as well as the most exalted of her subjects. On Wednesday, a levee, the second of the season, was held by HER MAJETTY at St. James's Palace. The presentations were numerous, those of military and naval officers predominating. In the evening of the same day, HER MAJESTY entertained a select party at dinnC'i, among whom were Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS ROYAL, Mr. Bucruacut, Minister to the Court of St. James's from the United States, the Earl of EGLINTON, and the Right Hon. B. and Mrs. DISRAELI. On Thursday, the QUEEN. and Prince ALBERT, together with the PRINCESS ROYAL, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence; and on Saturday HER MAJESTY graced the performance at the Lyceum Theatre by attending. The performances on this last occasion were for the benefit of the Pavilion company of actors, who have suffered so severely in the loss of their pro perty by the recent fire at their theatre. Preparations are already on foot, on au extensive scale, for the reception of the KING of the BELGIANS, who is shortly expected on a visit to the QUEEN, and whose sojourn in this country will, it is understood, extend to about a week. How important soever the routine of our domestic public affairs may at this time appear, and doubtless are, all eyes are at present fixed on Paris. The transactions there being car ried on arrest not merely the attention of Great Britain and her august Allies, but rivet the observation of all Europe and engage the sympathies of the civilized world. In that capital a small council of men are assembled, delegated to discuss and arrange the conflicting interests, and to represent while they amalgamate and modify the opinions of the independent Mo narchies ,of Europe—it may indeed be said, of the world at large. Considering the importance of the subjects submitted to their arbitrement, it is not to be wondered at, that every motion, whisper, or expression which may emanate from them is watched with the most intense anxiety. In vain, however, are all eyes and ears upon the stretch. The avenues to the meeting chamber are barred against intrusion by means so strict that "Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds" on which to rest conjecture. In the absence of information the fancy has been busy, and rumours the most fantastical have been freely circulated with respect to the negotiations and the resolutions of the conclave. The first great act of the Plenipotentiaries has been ratified and promulgated. An armistice has been concluded, and proclaimed, the armistice being of course a useless affair unless proclaimed and publicly acted on. It includes more than the mere formalities implied in the temporary cessation of hos tilities. It was authoritatively stated that no armis tice would be agreed to by the Allies, until a formal recognition of the principles on which the negotiation should proceed were definitely fixed. The proclamation of the armistice is therefore looked on as a proof that some sin cerity is evinced on the part of Russia, and that there is at least a probability of peace. Having divulged so much of their proceedings, the members of the Conference have once more drawn around them the curtain of obscurity, and all concerning them and their deliberations is again involved in that mystery which forms so fertile a source of conjec ture. The suspense thus occasioned is painful, and some maintain disadvantageous; but a moment's reflection must convince even the most anxiously curious that affairs so mo mentous as those concerning which the assembled Plenipoten tiaries are deliberating must be carefully secluded from general discussion, at all events until they have assumed a practical and definite form. Those whose monetary and mercantile interests are deeply involved in the issue, will no doubt long eagerly for such intelligence as may guide them in their future proceedings, but in the meantime prudence dictates to them and others to " wait a little longer ;" to refrain, in fact, from speculations and conjectures which must prove vain and fanciful, and may occasion themselves much risk and detriment. While anxiety connected with foreign matters occupies so large a share of general attention, and while on the subject of our external policy ministers are iu the enjoyment of what may prove a portentous and treacherous repose, they have during its continuance been tossed upon a sea of domestic troubles. In the House of Lords they have been beaten and baffled on a question of vital interest to the state — in the same place they have been constrained to grant a commission of inquiry into the report issued by them selves, although prepared by their commissioners to in- ' quire into the state of matters in the Crimea, which had produced such disastrous effects upon our army and had so tarnished the glory of our arms. In reference to this report two ministerial blunders already stand prominently revealed. The commission issued was not sufficiently extensive. It em powered the commissioners to inquire into the state of affairs which had produced the evil complained of, but it conferred on them no power to ascertain who were the parties immedi ately to blame for that state of matters. For example, it enabled them to ascertain that the great mortality among the cavalry horses was occasioned by want of food, which was plentiful at a few miles' distance from them, and that Lord CARDIGAN refused to allow the cavalry horses to go for forage. It also enabled them to ascertain with precision the mehsn. .choly fact that the morlity occasioned by this want of forage was not confined to the horses, but extended its ravages with frightfully fatal effect among the men. Here, however, it stopped. They were not entitled to inquire into the reasons which induced the Earl of CARDIGAN to refuse, even, in the trying emergency referred to, to convert his cavalry chargers into beasts of burden for the:conveyance of commissariat stores. Sir JOHN AINSID and Colonel TuLLocE inquired with search ing and impartial scrutiny, and reported with responsible though fearless fidelity, so far as they were entitled to go; but here, like provident men, they m de a virtue of necessity and proceeded no further than their commission gave them warrant for. In these circumstances, parties, who like Lord CARD/GIN imagine they have been presented to the public in an unfair and invidious light, demand to have the supplementary portion of the inquiry gone into. It is per fectly obvious that various and conclusive reasons may have operated on Lord CARDIGAN'S mind, and may have fully jus tified him in acting as he did in the peculiar circumstances referred to ; and so of other officers, whose conduct is im pugned by implication. The demand made iu reference to further investigation has wrung from Ministers a military commission for further inquiry ; and thus, as is the case with most half-measures, the piece-meal style of the examination gives rise to endless misrepresentation out of doors, and varied' castigation in Parliament. By one set of opponents, Minis ters are accused of issuing an imperfect commission for the purpose of screening the great offenders, while those who are so designated by an imperfectly-informed public complain loudly that they have been denied the opportunity of stating their own case, and vehemently affirm that their reputation is undermined by insinuation and tarnished by inference, which they could have disproved if permitted the opportunity to do so. A third class maintain, that, in appointing the military commission to prosecute the inquiry further, Ministers are, in effect,invalidating the report, censuring the investigation, and seeding their own commissioners for trial before..a newly-con stituted and anomalous military tribunal. In point of fact, the whole of the ministerial procedure, in respect to this Cri- mean inquiry, has been of so extraordinary and unbusinesslike a character, as to provoke, if not to justify, the most sweeping suspicions. Every one has long since agreed that the parliamentary investigation was so adroitly manipulated by the artistes who preside over the politico-culinary arrange ments of the cabinet cookery work, that its conclusion was a farce, sorry enough, no doubt, in the enactment and result , but still a farce. Here the second branch of the inquiry seems to have been so " cribbed, cabined, and confined," that even the unwearied assiduity and dauntless courage of the commis sioners have been circumvented, and a third commission must now sit upon the cruelly-mutilated subject of inquiry, to com plete a work which the two gentlemen sent to the East have, by their report, proved themselves so fully competent to perform. Bad as it is, however, this is not all with which. Lord PA.LMERSTOII and his colleagues stand fairly chargeable i n respect to the report of Sir Jon's' APNEIL and his coadjutor. On receiving the report, Ministers did not communicate it to the Horse Guards ; and, in ignorance of its contents, the Commander-in-Chief conferred promotion, and bestowed places of emolument, trust, and high responsibility, on officers underlying suspicion, if not deserving of severe censure, in accordance with the terms of that report. In withholding the report from the head of the military department, Minis ters inflicted manifold wrong. In permitting the ignorant act of patronage, they exposed the public service to detriment ; they placed the Commander-in-Chief in a false position with Parliament and the country ; and they set the recipients of the patronage in the invidious light of being rewarded first, and punished or acquitted afterwards, while, at the same moment, they lay the conduct, motives, and judgment of their own commissioners open to misconstruction, and expose them to undeserved suspicion. The matter was gravely de bated in the House of Lords ; and, on Friday last, it was dis lussed with much acrimony in the House of Commons, the latter discussion ending in the withdrawal of a resolution brought forward by Mr. ROEBUCK, severely condemnatory of Ministers, in relation to the newly-appointed Board of Gene rals to further prosecute the inquiry into the Crimean mismanagement. • The discussions in Parliament for the last two years have turned so much upon " War's vast art," that matters affecting merely civil rights have received but little attention ; though in not a few instances these have been threatened with serious injustice. One of these occupied the attention of the House of Commons, almost exclusively, for the two first nights of last week ending in a total and ignominious defeat of the Government,on a measure,on which, judging by the parade and ostentation with which it was introduced, and advocated, they had obviously set their hearts. The measure in question was the " Local Dues on Shipping Bill" introduced by the Vice- President of the Board of Trade, in a speech full of false facts, supported by illogical deductions, and entirely based upon the " appropriation principles" which form so distinguishing a characteristic of the Manchester school of political ethics. _This Bill had been foreshadowed in the address from the throne at the opening of Parliament—was introduced early in the Session, and with hot-haste pushed its second reading on Monday last. Alarmed by the revolutionary opinions pro mulgatechat the introduction of the Bill, in his declaration that " Corporation property" was a thing which the legisla ture could appropriate to the general good, without offering any compensation to the party denuded, the Conservative party stood manfully forward in opposition to the measure, which was also warmly opposed by all who object to so sweeping a mode of dealing with property ; and on the second reading, Sir FREDERIC THESIGFER, in a calm and temperate but convincing speech, pointed out the dangers to be apprehended from a measure which proposed to effect such un disguised spoliation. At the conclusion of his address, Sir FREDERICK moved that " the bill be read a second time this day six months." This was seconded by Sir F. BARING. Mr. Lows defended his bill, but did so in a style which, by bringing prominently forward its very worst features, raised up enemies where he meant to secure friendship. In the words of a contemporary, " he was by far too enthusiastic a parent, and thought too highly of his child." Many members, whose love of ease might have induced them to remain absent from a division on the subject, and whose apathy or dullness might have secured their acquiescence in a more plausibly put for ward tale, had their apprehensions excited and their fears roused by such assertions as those with which he backed up his arguments. "Whatever may be your charter," said Mr. LOWS, " and whatever may be your legal rights, your charters are iniquity, and your rights injustice, and we will sweep you away, your self-elected system, and your property." Even the dullest could perceive that a slight extension of this dogma, which was uow only levelled at a corporation, would snap asunder the bonds of every species of property—would snatch the coronet from the ducal head—wrench open the treasures of the Church—pervert and sully the direct and pure stream of justice—filch the diadem of the Sovereign, and in its explosion burst asunder the fabric of the throne. Mea wondered to hear such doctrines avowed in an assembly of constitutional legislators.; and stood aghast when reflection restored to them the consciousness that these were the senti ments entertained and expressed by a member of the govern ment. If the matter of Mr. Lows's Bill and his speeches were bad, the manner in which he delivered the one and advocated the other was by no means such as to inspire confidence in the measure or to extort approbation tor the man. His manner is repulsive -his assumption intolerable. He reasons with the arbitrary harshness of a despot—assumes the stiff for mality of definition while manufacturing a string of what he calls abstract truths—moves his intellectual man in a region peculiarly his own, in which he deals exclusively with those same " truths." These he pours upon the ear with a rapidity of utterance never equalled, and a cold unimpas sioned yet vehement monotony as irksome as his self-applaud ing temerity is offensive and repellant. How any Ministry, more especially a Ministry presided over by a man of such consummate " tact," finesse, indeed, as Lord PALMERSTON, should have confided the management of a bill so deeply involving their own character as politicians and theiroredit as statesmen, to such a man as 'Mr. Lows, is a matter which evades solution, and can only be accounted for by the entire absence of legislative skill and debating talent in- their second. range of officials. Mr. Hossiremx., with telling suavity off manner, followed the Vice-President of the Board of Trade; , and with a well aranged phalanx of facts and figures , vanquished the abstract propositions laid down by the framers of the bill. In persuasive accents, which told: well, in contrast with the dictatorial impetuosity of his opponent, the Honourable Member for Liverpool laid before the House a succinct but glowing narrative of the valuable purposes to which the denounced Town Dues had, been applied, and successfully applied in such a way as to con tribute not merely to the maritime benefit of that town, but to the general benefit of the country. Mr. EWART also did. something to expose the hollow reasoning and dangerous prin ciples upon which the bill was founded and by which it was , supported. On Monday night the debate was formally ad— journed till the following day, but every one felt assured that the fate of the measure was sealed. The property doctrines of Mr. Lows, probably derived from his experience in the Australian bush, where the definitions of mewn and tuum are said not to very strict, had too effectually damaged it to admit of its possible resuscitation. On it, as on the murdered. DUNCAN, " treason had done its, worst." Even so adroit a leech" as PALMERSTON could effect no present cure, and ac cordingly on Tuesday night he dexterously threw his mantle over the abortion and withdrew it from further observation. One singular, and by many it was-- considered shabby obser vation, as it reflected on his subordinate, escaped from 'his Lordship in his withdrawing address •; it was to the effect that Government did not fully understand the peculiari ties of the case till these were brought out in course of the debate. On this latter point, that of attempting to legislate for cases they didnot understand, Mr. Dr3RA.ELE hit the Plasm= hard. Every indulgence, he said, had. been accorded to Ministers by the Opposition, yet within., the six weeks during which Parliament had been. sitting,_ through their rash and ill-considered attempts at leg islationt, they had manifested the utmost feebleness and been exposed. to numerous defeats. They were defeated not by tht dr loppo nents, not even by their supporters, but by themselvrt . Not even the balanced sarcasm and well-weighed invectk ve of the Right Honourable Member for. Buckinghamshire co d add much to the damage the Government had already sustained; and the Australian proposition of Mr. Lows was buried for 1 the time being, if not consigned to lasting oblivion. It is now clear, that in refereneeto this measure Ministers reckoned without their host. Relying on the comparative feebleness of opposition which the• Manchester petitioners-had led them to expect, and inreality, as Lord PALMERSMON, ad mitted, ignorant of the true nature of the case, in the hope of conciliating that rapacious clique-, they made a swoop, at the Liverpool Town Dues. As, in cases frequently recorded in the annals of sporting, the falcon has been impaled upon the heron's bill, Ministers. have ran a-tilt against Municipal pro perty, and they have been fatally wounded by their own shivered lance. VALIVSLEY' S SABBATH DES.ECTION MOTION! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sia,—What has become of our representative, Mr. J. C. Ewart, and where did he hide himself on the all-important " Sabbath Recreation" question, brought before the Commons. by Sir Joshua ? I look in vain for his name in that tell-tale list of ayes and noes in the division of the-House—on neither. side is it to be found. The inference, / fear, is inevitable. Fearing on the one band to do justice to his own feeling& by opposing, and still more greatly fearina on the other to offend even a few of his unwashed supporters at the hustings, a studied balance of the difficulty probably coerced the adoption of Falstaff's defence of the better part of valour,, and he shirked that which he could not face. This is sorry trim ming. The great community of Liverpool had a right to look for a deeper interest and a holder and more, independent front in its representative, an one of the greatest questions that could by any possibility agitate the legislature of the country. As for our Walmsleys, our Heywoods, and Shelloys, we may look in vain for anything better from this. For the talented young Lord Stanley's support of the infidel measure, how ever, the country has much cause to feel deeply grieved at the prostitution of his highly-gifted mind, in furtherance of an attempt to lift the very foundations of moral society, (to say nothing of the higher principle involved,) that of legalising . . . • . the infraction of the Decalogue,—an acquisition long aimed at by the Whigs, Radicals, and revolutionary infidels, both in and out of the House. I am not sorry the question has been mooted, for while its discussion lies been adorned with as splendid a display of parliamentary eloquence as ever graced the Commons Rouse of Parliament in its best days, the divi sion exhibits a malority so overwhelming as to lead to the hope that any future attempt to renew the motion "looms" (if it loomt et t in ve ry remote distance indeed. But , Was th e ra di ca l represen t a ti ve o f our borough?—where co uld h e be burrowing on such a divi sion as that which called for practical proof of the divinity that stirred within him ? It is a pertinent question, and one which I, a voter but not a supp orte r of the " honourable member," hold a right to put. If timidity on a great not only moral but religious question frights Mr. Ewart from the post of honour and responsibility, what guarantee have we that a great damaging constitutional question may not meet, under similar fears and pressure, with the same fate? But then this was only a moral, based on a mere religious ques tion, and consequently of secondary importance only. Sir, I do not hesitate to say that the principle mooted was of a magnitude mtretching to eternity itself, and that it was so felt is evident in the number of petitions against it. It is truly gratifying to see no fewer than three—yes, absolutely three mortal columns of the Times occupied in close array with the names of places from which those petitions have emanated, proving the existence of a sounder judgment, a better feeling, and a more elevated and righteous principle pervading the country at large, with its humble inhabitants, than the mise rable, the contemptible minority of 48 out of the 424 members who voted on the occasion had dreamt of. I congratulate my townsmen on the result. BROOKVALE. SIR E. L. BULWER and THE CLASSICS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sts,—Long confinement to the house, through a complica tion of bodily diseases (which, thank God, have appeared to conclude an armistice not to disturb the mental citadel), has driven me, pour passer le temps, to the lazy, yet most rational way of wiling away the weary hours, by lolling on a couch, perusing standard literary productions, which I read with a relish ; and if, at times, the appetite fail when the food gets dry, why, I take a snooze, and at it again. No living or dead author presents such mental attraction to me as Sir EDWARD BOLWER LYTTON ; he is an author who may defy criticism. But yet, as in the most costly robe, a passing glance may detect a stitch out of place, which has eluded the searching inspection of a most thorough-bred art professor—so the giant in literature may be found tripping by an admirer, where the most envious critics had failed to dis cover a flaw. I have lately been reading, for the half-dozenth time, Sir Edward's admirable work " The Cartons ;" and, in craving a niche in your literary corner for this letter, I do so for an alternative purpose, viz., either to find myself in the wrong, which some one or other of your scholastic correspondents, — nay, should this meet his eye, Sir E. himself, perhaps—may prove to me ; or, finding that lam right, to serve as a caution, even to the profoundest classical scholars, not to mislead young students by erroneous references. In " The Cantons" I find the following passage :—" 'Be good children, Roland and Blanche both,' said my mother, stopping from her work, and holding up her needle threateningly—and, indeed, inflicting a slight puncture upon the captain's shoulder.' —` Rem acu tetigisti, my dear,' said my father, borrowing Cicero's pun on the occasion.' " And the erudite author, for the benefit of nontcomposite readers, explains, in a foot-note, the Latin quotation of "Rem acct tetigisti," as Cicero's joke on a senator who was the son of a tailor—" Thou hast touched the thing sharply," Oar with a needle—acu). . . Now, althm;gh rusted for these last forty years in classical study, I have never forgotten that elyptical passage, "Rentucu tetigisti," which you will find in." Corderius, Colloquim where the dialogue refers to the pawning of a book ; and has as much to do, in old "Cordery," with a tailor or his trade,-as the waters of our own Mersey with , those of the Bosphorus ! I should like to learn from any of your classical correspon dents, whether "the pawning of a book that had been lent," as recorded by Corderius, or a skit at a tailor by Cicero, as recorded by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, originated the pointed eqnivogue of "Rem acu tetigisti."—l am, your's, E. B. LYTTONIENSIS. AMERICA. ARRIVAL Oir THE PERSIA, klsa) OF THE QUAKER CITY. BY the arrival of the British and North , American royal mail :steam-ship Persia, Captain Judkins, which arrived in Liverpool on Sunday morning, at half-past ten,-we have intel ligeno?. from New York* to the 20th ult. The - United States mail steam-ship Quaker City, Captain Shufredt,-arrived about half an hour after the Persia, bringing intelligerree from New York to the 16th of February. The Quaker City has come to take the place of the Padre, on the Liverpool and New York line, and brought the mails which should have mule by that ship, and six passengers. The Persia brings her own mails, 145 passengers, and $700,000 in specie. Up to thetime when the Persia sailed, no tidings had been received respecting the Pacitiir, nor had the steamers-which had been sent in search of her returnei LOG OF TZ43 , PARSIA, PROM WSW TOPS TO ',WET-POOL, Feb. 20th.—Wind, W. ; courses, various ; 2 p.m. received mails ; 2.50 proceeded slowly' the river; 6 p.m: set on full speed - moderate and clean:- 21st.—WinCI,, W. ; course, N.. 80• E.; distance rtmi. - 226 miles from the N. Y. light ship;, lat. 40 32.; long. 66'10.; fresh breeze and clear. 22nd.—Wind N.W.; course, Itr. WE.- ' distance, 307 miles; lat. 40 49. ; long:: 6L 17: • fresh breeze and. clear. 23rd.— Wind, N.N.W.; course, N. 79 E.; distance, 311 miles ; lat. 4146:;. long. 53 26. ; 'fresh , breeme and clean 24th.—Wind, southerly; course;, N. 72 L.; distance, 301 miles ; lat. 43 19.; long. 48 56. ; fresh breeze. and hazy. 25th.—Wind southerly; course,. N. 72 E.- distance, 274 'miles ; lat 44. 447 , -;.. long. 42 51. ; strong - gales, with thisk. weather. _ . 26th. —Wind, southerly; course, IL 62 ; distance, ',RA! , miles; lat. 46 52...;-long. 36 54; fresli..breezes,and clear, with heavy sea. 27th.—Wind, &S .W.; • course, N. '7O E.-; distance, 2::6* , miles; lat. 48 32. .;-long. long. 30 64. ; strong breezes and clear, a , heavy sea. 29th.—Wind, Sa.W.; course, 31 - : 76 5..; distance, 308 miles ; lat. 49 4& ; long. 22 27. ; strsup.-breezes and cloudy. 29th.—Wind, SSW. ; course, N. -80 E. ; distance, 286 miles ; lat. 50 31.; :loses. 16 01. • at" 9.80 a. m., stopped engines to repair frosts ; .11 a.m., set on: fall speed; moderate breezes and clear. March lst.—W - md, S.E.; course, various.; at 3 a.m. abreast of the Old Head of Kinsale ; moderate and hazy. ; at 2.28, a.m. arrived at the bar, and stopped to wait foz the , tide; 8.30 axe. set on full speed, and arrived in Liverpool:o:3e a.m. The royal mail steamship Canada, wisli• the European mails of the 2nd February; arrived at Hanfaz.on.the ];9th, and had seen nothing of the Pacific. Disorganization stilt prevailed in the senate. To enable ,him to arrange his committees without annoyance, Mr. Banks, the newly-elected speaker, had left hit -customary residence, and betaken himself to some concealed retirement. Several discussions, which led to no result, had taken place in regard 'to the affairs of Kansas; but after a long,continued party con test, as to who should be appointed printer, the senate had at last come to a decision. _ CENTRAL AIt£I33.ICAN QUESTION.—In reference to this subject, the State Department had senteto• the Senate a mass of documents streeching back to 1850. Regarding this matter the New York Herald says :—" W. published, on Sunday, several extracts from the London newspaper press on the Central American question. That from the London Times is unexpectedly generous and conciliary ; and the flat-footed protocol of the Thunderer for a pacific settlement of this warlike entanglement is a refreshing novelty in its way. * * This arrangement,if duly ratified and carried out between the :two Governments, would certainly make clean work of the whole business ; but we agree with the London• ] Globe, that theproposal to ' root out! that alleged gang of I pirates and murderers' is just the point where the shoe would:', pinch. We could do no such thia.g Those men have expo, triated themselves. They are no longer citizens of the United. States. We are no longer responsible for their acts ; and. if,. upon a call from one native revolutionary party in Nicaragua, acting against another such parte; General Walker and Mis followers have gone and conquered the country, it is an affair to be settled .by thesovereign people of Nicaragua." Concern ing the proposed reference to any neutral third power, by Lord. Clarendon, the American press does not appear to entertain very sanguine hopes of its success, probably the members of the press took,too practical a view of the untenable position which has been assumed by the American Union to be deceive-1 into a hope that the United States' version of their own quarrel will receive favour at the hands of any impartial power. Indeed they declare that such a thing as an impartial power is not to be met with. On this subject the Herald has an article, in which the. following remarks occur:— " Perhaps no prominent State in. the world is so badly si tuated as. the United States. is when subjects of international differences are referred to what is theoretically denominated a.frieudly power. The honest truth is, we have no friends amongst the monarchs of Europe. A third and wholly im partial and disinterested empire is not to be found. We do not complain of this. Prejudices exist in all the governments of Europe against the republic. It is natural and inevitable that it should be so. These prejudices result from the charac ter of the Union, whichis.a ceaseless enemy of absolutism of whatever form. * * * * Now, iu this condition of things, we stand no chance in, arbitration. Our rights are sure to be. sacrificed. * * * * We are, ourselves, to a great extent ; responsible for the fact, that, as a government; we have little or no weight with the Cabinets of Europe. We have under taken an exclusively American policy, and rather discouraged all attempts to occupy a position in Europe at all correspond ing with the wealth and resources of the. republic. * * The remedy is still obvious,—the enforcement of the American construction of the treaty, the positive refusal of the admi nistration either to arbitrate or recede,aad let consequences visit the parties interested as they shall incur them. If England can afford to appeal to arms in such a cause we cannot affordto be neutral. * * * * We have, therefore, no fears of a war between the United States and England ; for upon the issue raised by Lord Derby, of peace instead of war, the Palmerston Ministry, if brought to the test, will, from the pressure of public opinion, be ignominiously expelled from power." Warlike discussions, and a consideration of the United States resources in the event of hostilities form staple topics of general conversation, and the American mind, as has lately been the case with that of Great Britain, finds exercise in the supposed invention of submarine infernal machines, plans for several of which have been submitted to the Secretary of War. One of these is thus described by the newspaper already quoted :—" The Nautilus Battery, a floating cylinder from which radiates a circular battery of mortar-shaped tubes, charged with shot and shell of a peculiar construction, which can all be blown up together by an electric wire, connected with the nearest lighthouse or fort. The guns are made of iron plate, and each gun can be charged to the muzzle and exploded like an immense bombshell, making, in a continuation of fifty. three mortars, the force of five hundred shells, of the largest calibre known in military service. This battery will cover an area of a mile or more with a deadly irresistible shower of cutting shot, and exploding shell and burning flames. Another invention is a kind of floating fire-shell, of great size and power, charged with Greek fire, and a kind of wedge. shaped shot, which is also connected with the galvanic battery." Such fancies as these may tend to inflame a spirit of in. creasing antipathy, and may, without doubt, by their influence on the popular mind, tend to complicate'still further the already sufficiently enlarged maze of boasting and discontent. That they can ever serionsly sway the reason of the real friends of American greatness, or act as an intimidation to the British government, cannot be supposed for a moment. Internal complications seem to thicken. The latest accounts from Kansas state that the Abolitionists there were organizing troops, erecting fortifications, and col lecting munitions of war at Lawrence, in order to be ready for instant and effective service. The Governor of Kansas (Shannon) had left for his post, with full instructions to execute and carry out all the laws of that territory He carried with him instructions to Colonel Sumner, who had charge of eight hundred troops stationed at Fort Leavenworth, to hold himself in readiness for any emergency that might arise. The members of the Western Anti-Slavery Society had memorialized the Legislature of Ohio to withdraw from the Union. The U.S. sloop-of-war John Adams had arrived at Panama from the Fejee Islands, where she had been to chastise the natives for cruelties to American seamen. During the cruis ings of. the John Adams five sharp engagements took place between her crew and the cannibals of Polynesia. Five of their largest towns were burnt, and all the houses therein reduced to ashes. A treaty was ratified between Commander Boutwell and Tui Vite or Thokambau, the. King of Fejee, on behalf of the American government. The isthmus of Panama was very free from epidemic or con tagion. There had been some slight insurrection in Lavilla. In Nicaragua affairs were quiet. General Walker had about 1,000 men with him. President Rivas had issued a decree suspending all ofl•icial communication with the Minister of the United States, and recalling Parker H. French. Mr. Manning, acting Vice-Consul of the British Government at Realejo, had addressed an official letter to the Minister of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, in which he sympathizes with the Provisional Government of Nicaragua in its endeavour to maintain quiet amongst a disorganized population, and bring prosperity to a people reduced to want by aimless revolutions. He assures the executive of the goodwill of the British cabinet whilst the affairs of the republic are conducted in accordance with the " usages of the laws of nations." He also recognizes Walker's commission as a general, and promises to transmit to Sir Charles Wyke, English Consul in Guatemala, a copy of the Walker-Rivas treaty. Amongst the items of miscellaneous news, we learn that Barbour, the witness against the acquitted Irish fillibusters at Cincinatti, had been pat on his trial for perjury. Mr. Rowecroft, the English Consul, had given evidence in favour of the veracity of the accused. An Irish Emigrant Aid Society Convention had been held at Buffalo, at which it was determined to organize a prac ticable system for the benefit of emigrants, by assisting them to remove from the seaboard cities to a field where there ser vices would yield ample subsistence. The president of the convention denied that there was any sectionality in the movement. The emigrants were to be free to go to Canada or Minnesota ; the only object of the society was to provide a way, and furnish the means. A railway train, weighing eighty tons, had crossed the Po tomac river on the ice. The Northern Light had arrived at New York from San Juan, with advices from California to the 21st January, and $242,678 ; and the St. Louis, from Aspinwall, with $1,023,028 on freight. On the sth February, Her Majesty's ship Eurydice and the mail steamer Clyde were in the harbour of San Juan. Her Majesty's ship Espiegle had sailed the previous day. The J. L. Stephens had left San Francisco with 1,276,648,19 dollars on freight', including 259,071 dollars for England. The mines continued to , yield a regular supply, and great prepara tions were being made by the farmers for sowing an unusual quantity of grain during the coming season. Business at San Francisco was dull. The latest advice& from the Amoor River report the Rus sians as well fortified. A cannon foundry had been established. From the Sandwich hlands we learn that the inhabitants of Hilo were in great apprehension lest the stream of lava from the volcano should overwhelm the town. Accounts from Havana, of the 13th ult., report the state of the sugar crop as unfavourable. The weather was bad, and the crops would probably not be' larger than last /ear. An increase in rates was expected. Molasses were scarce. The ship Anna Tift, Captain Golding, from New Orleans for Liver pool, had been struck by lightning. She also sprung a leak, and-put into Havana to repair damage. She would probably have to discharge. Atli/ices from Vera Cruz report"that Puebla had capitulated to Hato y Tamariz. Comonfort was•about to to dispatch from the city of Mexico nearly 7,060 soldiers, divided into three brigades, against the insurgents; Santa Anna's property had been sexed on account of his treasons and other crimes. In the interior all the telegraphic wires- had been cut away. Utaga had been beaten at ToFeman: It was said that the southern provinces were quiet. The Canadian Legislature was apenedon the 15th Fsbruary by the Governor-General. Letters from Porto Cabello, of - the 27th January, report considerable activity in business. Coffee was in great demand for the Ermpean and United States- markets. Good qualities commanded- 1 - 21 per qtl. ; fair, slalit Hides; Zile. per lb., in much requestfor the United States. Fieight, $l5 to $lB. The Advices-from Valparaiso are ttrthe - 16th, and Callao to the 26th Jammu. Political affairs , were tranquil. Ten or twelve edifices had been destroyed by. fire at Valparaiso. Peru was in a very unsettled state. Mr. Dallas, the new Minister to Nand; was- to' eave in the Baltic, on the: 6th instant. His MI had-been appoinied Secretary of Legation. - COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW Yoßic t February 20. There was a plentiful supply of mouey,.and the market was busy at the rates-previously current, namely, 8-to 10 percent. for first-class business paper. The stock market was buoyant. Compared with the closing quotations of yesterday„lBlluois Central Bonds advanced ; Erie shares- ; INl'ew York Cen tral 3 , ; Harlem 24--• Hudson River ; Reading 1; Michigan Southern 1 • Cralona and Chicago lt ; Chicago anti Rock Islands ; Cleveland , and Toledo 2-1; Panama ; and Nicara gua per cent.. FOreign Exchanges continued firm, and Bankers expectinga further advance were -indifferent about drawing at the present rates. Exchange on England In good demand at 1.08 c. to 109 kc. Bills on France, f. 5,18- to f5.21-k. COTTON.—In cotton there had been an advance of ie. tele. per lb. during the'week. There was a fair amount of business done, without excitement, and holders were very. firm *t _the, following quotations. The sales were estimated at 7,500 boles, in addition to 15,N0 in transitu. We quote— New Orleans Upland. Florida. Mobile.- and Texas. Ordinary 9• 9 0• g Midd1ing......... IQ 101- 10L- 101-. Middling Fair ll 11 114, 111 Fair 114 111- 114 124 Total import since Ist February Total import since Ist September 198,511 „ Export from the United States : Since Ist September, 1855 1,35,198-bales. Same time, 1855 - 966,071 „ Export, from Ist to 15th February . Cotton .. ITOCIE 02 COTTON , IN INTERIOR TOWNS. NOB INCLUDED IN THE RECEIPTS. Pork, 1856. _ 1855, Augusta and Hamburg, Feb. 1......27.',807 40,292 Macon, Georgia, Feb. 1 18;498 20,790 Columbus, Georgia, Feb. 9 19;846 2,338 Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 11 Memphis, Tenm, Feb. 6 5,679......18,560 Columbia, S.C., Feb. 8 ............... 44582. 8,600 VESSELS LOADIIYG• IN THE UNITED STITES FOIL GIIHAT BRITAIN. New Orleans... ...... Feb. 9.. ....... .........34 Mobile Feb. 9 2O Florida ....... . Savannah Feb. 15 Charleston Feb 15 New York- Feb. 19. 34 Galveston Feb. I Total. 108 STATEMENT Or-RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON. Exports Total Exports Stocks on to to Hand and Receipts Great Britain. Foreign Porta Shipped. 856 2,098,347 835,662 1,352,293. 561,913 85 , 5 1,442,255 693,5 7 8 966.071 439,495 increase 646,058 14:1,084 386,132 123,418 From the circular of Mr. W. P.. Wright, of the 20th ult., we extract the following :—" In Mobile, and with some few at New Orleans, 3,500;000 bales is still confidently adhere)! to. It is, of course, impossible to prove in advance the extent of a cotton crop, grown as it is over so vast an extent of country, and subjected as it is by low rivers r bad roads, and other hin drances, in beingbronght to thoports. Receipts show a gain on last year•of 341,000 bales, and a loss as compared with 1853 of 109,000.0 The exports for the week are the largest on re cord in the , aggregate, amounting to 142 4 900 bales, of which 51,000 are- to other foreign ports than Great Britain or France ; indeed, the most remarkable feature in the export since the Ist September- last, is the large quantity taken by France and other continental ports. Notwithstanding the large exports to Great Britain this week,.the total is.still 43,000 bales less than in 1853." BasiAnsTrprs.-Up to. the close of Last week the commaa, qualities of superfine flour had declined to the extent of 25e.., per barrel, with only a. very moderate demand. The-tele graphic advices per Canada, to the and instant, from Liver pool were received early yesterday morning, announcing a considerable decline in prices there, and a further rednetionof 25e. per barrel was =ceded by the holders, without leading to any business. At this day's. Corn-exchange there was a,rather better feeling, and the higher grades, being scarce, were held at comparatively dear prices. We quote Western Canal, $6,87 3 / 4 - to sr• per bbl. Ohio and pure Genesee, $7,75 to $B. Fancies and extras, $8,50 to $9,50. Southern. kinds,. $8,50 to $10,50. Canada, free, $7,25 to $9. We quote wheat sc. per bushel lower, but in consequence of the difficulty in effecting shiprnents, from the prevalence of ice in oar harbour, few transactions take place. Genesee white, 200 c. to 2C5c. per 601bs. Southern white, 200 c. to 205 c. Western white, 200 c. to 20.5 c. Western red and mixed, 170 c. tolBsc. Canada, 195 c. to 205 e. Southern red, 180 e. to 190 c. Indian corn had declined 6c. to 10c. per bushel, and shippers still held off. Jersey and; northern round yellow, new, 70c. to 75c. per sflbs. Southern yellow, new, 70e. to 75c. Southern white, new, 72c. to We. Mixed, old, 75c. to 78c. Barley, 117 c. to 127 c. per 481bs. Rye, 1200. to 125 c. per 561bs, Corn meal, $3,75 to $4,121 per bbl. Rye flour, $5 to s6,soper bbl. Psxmrtsross„-The market for pork bad improved slightly, say 6 3 / 4 .c., with an increased demand previous to yesterday, part speculative; the supply was large, but being in the hands of strong parties, with light receipts, it was well held ; sales 3,100 barrels, closing at $15,87k to $16,931 for mess, and $13,872 for prime, including 000 barrels for August, and 500 ditto for June delivery, at $15,50; and 400 ditto buyer's option, thirty days, $l6. The beef market confined dull and drooping, with sales of 600 barrels, at $9 to 9,62 3 / 4 - for country prime, $lO to $ll for ditto mess, $l3 to $13,50 for Vermont mess, $ll to $14,25 for repacked Western, and $14,50 to $l5 for repacked Chicago. Prime mess beef and beef hams were dull of sale, and prices are without quotable change. Bacon was quiet. Lard was in fair demand, and prices had advanced lc. yesterday on the better qualities ; sales 1,500 barrels and ,'tierces, closing at 104 e. to 10.1 c. for fair to prime. Butter and cheese remained quiet, and the market was steady. NAVAL STORBB.-The market was dull at our notations ; stock about 12,000 barrels. Spirits turpentine were in very large stock, and the market not active, though prices were about the same; stock 17,000 barrels. Tar moved off slox ly, at prices within our range, thin being worth about as much as thick ; stock 12,000 to 15,000 barrels. Common rosin was inactive, but firm, at $1,55 per 3101 b. delivered. CoAL.--Liverpool was in good supply, but we have heard of no sales ; the last sale of best Orrel was $6,30, less 0 per cent., cash. IRON.- The business in Scotch pig was very small, at $34 from vessel, and $35, six months, from yard. Last sale com mon English bars $62,60; refined was offered at t 67,50. 300 bundles English sheet, single, sold at 31c., six months. TOBACCO.-In tobacco there has been a fair demand, with out change in prices. Sales 100 hhds. Kentucky at 121 e. to 13c. ; 426 bales Havana, 23c. to 25c. ; 42 cases seed leaf, 11c. to 13c.; and 61 ditto Florida, 10c. to 20c., usual terms. ' SALT.-The receipts of all kinds had been small, and prices well sustained. An invoice of 1,170 sacks Marshall's Liver wol fine, the only lot afloat, ba,l been t.,l:en at abant $1 .40, four months ; 300 sacks Ashton's sold, previous to our last, at $1,55, less three per cent. cash. FRElGRTS.—Freights were dull. To Liverpool : For cotton, 4d. to 5-16 d. per lb. ; flour, 2s. 6d. per barrel ; grain, 7d. to £3ld. per bushel. To London : Flour, 4s. per barrel. To Havre : Cotton, lc. per lb ; flour, 70c. per barrel. These rates at the moment are quite nominal. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18.—Cotton: Sales to-day, 14,000 bales, at an advance of tc. to lc., under effect of the Canada's news. Middling is quoted at 4 9.lc. to 01c. Sterling exchange, 8 per cent. prem. Freights stiffer. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAMES BAINES. Tag anxiety which had been felt here for some days past respecting the James Baines (clipper ship), Captain M'Donald; belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s celebrated " Black Ball" line of Australian mail packets, was happily dis pelled, on Saturday forenoon, by the arrival of a telegraphic message intimating that, on the preceding afternoon, she was off Ballycotton, near Cork. Immediately on receiving this intelligence, her owners despatched the steam-tug United States to aid in bringing her into the Mersey, placing the steamer under the orders of Captain Newlands, a gentleman whose experience in Austra lian, and likewise in Channel navigation, entitles him to the highest confidence ; and about noon on Saturday, he left Liver pool to meet the James Baines. Her mails were landed on the Irish coast and immediately forwarded to Liverpool, where they arrived on Sunday. By this arrival we have advices from Melbourne to the 28th Novem ber. She has brought 80,000 ounces of gold on freight, and 300 passengers, besides a large cargo of wool, &c. Amongst the passengers by the James Baines is the celebrated Mrs. Emma Waller, an actress whom the press of California and the Australian colonies pronounce to be one of the most ac complished actresses the stage has had for many years. During a severe gale which the James Baines. encountered, this lady fell, and we regret to add, dislocated her right shoulder. She is, we believe, to appear in London at an early date. Mr. G. V. Brooke and Miss Catherine Hayes were at Melbourne at tracting large audiences. Mr. Brook• had performed 117 nights in Melbourne, and 59 at Sydney. The James Baines has been detained by calms, off Cape Horn. During the voyage she experienced a severe gale, which lasted for five days. The Lightning, Captain Enright, hence, arrived at Mel bourne 25th November. The James Baines, which had waited for her three daya, brings the return letters. The subjoined precis of Australian news is taken from the Melbdurne Age of the 27th November : STATE OF TUADl3,—Since the departure of the - last mail business has been more animated ; and the reports from Syd ney being more satisfactory, there was increasing confidence. The demand for the interior had greatly improved, and was very lively. Large quantities of goods were continually for warded to the diggings ; while cartage continued very Dm in fact lower than had ever been since the gold discovery. Mer= cuntile transactions had generally assumed a more healthy aspect, and insolvencies were less numerous. The official re turns of exports and impertir to the 17th November stood. thus:— Imports. Exports: For the week ended Oct. 20 £273,026 £268,729' 1r ft PO 27. Nov. 3 216,789 122,572: 11 It It • f, 10......... 97 ~ 17 16%201 172,239 From let Jan. to Nov. 17 ‘8,633,528 10,915,417 Showing an excess of exports over imports since Ist Jan. of £2 ; 281,889'. EXCIFAINFEEL—The Banks lowered'the rate of exchange on England on the 19th November to , par, and purchased at two percent. discount. This reduction. had an immediate effect on the price of gold, which is now gtoted by the brokers at from £3 15s. 3d. to £3 14s. 9d. They Colonial Bank of Aus tralasia will shortly commence operations, with every prospect of success. _ _ _ _ GRAIN' Alm F.Lops.—At the beginning of October flour was worth about f',l7, and there was- a great demand, both natural and speculative, so that the price 'quickly' advanced.to £5O, at which it remained firm; so mall so that a• cargo of 400 tons •of *Chillan flour was sold at' £4B• 108 , .. nett cash. Another large carga, which was held at - E4l for several days, was eventually sold at £44 55., the importers seeinwthe neces sity of lowering their price to effect a salt. - - Oats- had greatly improve& in .value, particularly as regarltd 'California; which were much• preferred. Pnovisreolts:— There was little change -in the- market. Butter and cheese had declined, while- I)iltch butter had fetched 1711;z- LlQUOliZt—Malt liquors were in great demand, more- par ticularly bottled porter, and as there was -very little more expected that season; a considerable rise in• price was antici pated, concurrently with , the diminution of stocks during, the summer season. , The.cleantity on hand was-held by a few in. dividuals. Ale and porter was worth 145.;1 seine parties , were• even asking 1.5., half ale and half porter.. There was-very little alteration in the market value of spirits, Brandy:- Man tell's, hhds., gals.; 13s. 9d. to 145.; Flennessy'e• and united Vineyard, d0.,.134.-to 13.4. ed.; other brands r elo.., 9s. 6d: to-12s, Geneva : JDlcZnr Key, 4gal. cases, £1 3s. ;: Half case; each, 13s. to 155.; other brands, do., 18s. Whisky: -Scotch, gal, ss. 9d. to 65.: Irish,. Jamieson's or Mehan's - s . dd., Os. 6th to• 6s. 9d.; do. Grain, , do., 45.. to 4s. 6d. SALT.—Liverpool, coarse, per ton, £5 ss. ts:2s I.os. Soar.—Eng-,liaili: pale• yellow, hhd., cwt., (Lendon,). 22: to. £2 25.; Liverpool, , yellow, per wt., £1 154. a-la 184. WOOL.—Thie• staple had undergone considerable fluctua tions in value. The sales by auction on the Bth . passed off' without spirit, and ,parts,of stocks of greasy wool which had. previously realized Sd. to. 9d. did not realise-more than 7d. to 7ld. At the sale of the 15th prices ralliedm-little; and we _inay-quote the average at from 7Wto Sid. 13)4pquantityol; wool shipped from October 10th to Nov. 10tli was 561,959•1b5.. LABOUR.—The cry of destitution had entirely ceased, and there were few complaints of want of emplbyment. Same: judicious steps had teen taken by the government for notify ing to new arrivals and others, , seeking such: information;. the localities in which a. demand existed for labbur, and the current rate of wages. THE GOLD Frmaas.—The reports received during the pre vious month from the various gold fields were -mg an-uniformly satisfactory character, both as regarded the yield.laf the pre cious metal an& the generally prosperous condition. of the• population. Two nuggets,the one weighing 220 and the other 240 ounces, had been found on the Alma ; and a third, weigh, ing 730 ounces, had been brought to light at Daisy-bill. Dis coveries of new quartz-reefs were of frequent occurrence, and indications were not wanting of the presence of- silver- and: copper in these conglcimerates. Great activityswas..obsereable in the works cf . the ironfounders in Melbourne, and the-men. employed by the principal firms had been working night and day, in order to keep pace with the demand for quartz-crush -1 ing machines.. Thequantity 'of gold brought.dawn by esoorlz during the laetfive weeks was 263,091 ounces., Irrespective• of which, a large quantity found its way to this city and to other places by private hand, besides what. was smuggled. over the frctl'ers - to avoid payment of the export duty. AnErenwmas.—The coming harvest promised to. be a bountiful one. CROWN LANDS4—A considerable quantity.of land had.beent thrown on the market by the government;: but, the • demand had been somewhat inactive, and numerous ..lots had! been withdrawn for. want of an offer, while in many instances those. who became purchasers, forfeited their deppsitz,and neglected to complete their contracts. HOUSEN , AND Houa - 3 Re:qrs.—The comparatively moderate price of buiklitig, materials, and a plentiful supply of labour,. I had imparted activity: to building operations.- Notwithstand ing the fall which had taken place in rents,. they. were- still 1 absurdly and extravagantly high. THB ELECTIONFS.—The election for Melbourne terminated in favour of-Mr. Thomas Rae, by a majority. of gout- to one over Mr. Cruikshank, the pro-squatting candidate: TawNsvf.,CorkszrztruoN.—The governor had proclaimed .1 the royal assent to the New Constitution Act for , the colony,. 1 and recommended a general holiday in .honour cl the event. The citizens .universally suspended business; bat there , were no special public. rejoicings . The tegislatare had. been dis solved, with a speech from Sir Charleellotham., From, Adelaide we learn that business had assumed a mere lively appearance, partly owing to the commeacoment of har vest work, aswell a.s from the execution of sundry export orders few the Melbourne market, which latter.had tended to tighten stocks in some descriptions of go ids. The wheat harvest had to some extent been thrown back.by the cool and stormy wea ther. In many articles of general consumption importers had considerably less on hand thut at that-One last year. The high price• of breadstuffs acted as an incubtmon every channel of industry. The Chamber of Commerce had held a meeting on the subject of steam communication with. England, and recommended that no contribxtion for Oa services,. as proposed, could, be• claimed from the colony, Daanra ROBBERY Nnal. - kßoTrlnnaux.—Anotber of those daring robberies which have been so frequently committed of late in various parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, but par ticularly in the neighbowhood of the. large towns, was perpe trated on the premises of Mr. John. Hardwick, a farmer re siding at a place called. Gila, a few miles. from Rotherham, on Monday. Mr. Hardwick vas about to take an additional farm in the immediate vicinity of his own, and had provided him self with between 2001 and 3001. for the payment of' the valu ation, which had just been made. Of this 371. in gold and: some loose silver were deposited hi a box in Mr. Hardwick's. bedroom, and two rolls of 5/. notes, 1001. in each roll, wore secreted in a pain of old,boots,. which were left propaiscumisly among other articles of wearing apparel in the bedroom. On Monday afternoon, Mr. Hardwick and his wife went to Rother ham market, Locking up the chamber where the money was, and also the house, before leaving. Very shortly after their departure, two men made their appearance on the premises, seizing a ld named Samuel Law, about 15 years of age, who was looking after the cows, presented a pistol to his head, and commanded him to be silent. They then dragged him into the cow-house, and„ having tied him securely to the "heck," put a large piece of turnip into his month, and tied up his jaws, by way of gagging him. They then closed, the door of the place, and proceeded to the house, into which they effected an entrance by breaking a square of glass in one of the lower windows. They appear to have gone direct to the room where the money was, and to have forced open the door' by means of a fire poker, coal-rake, or such other implement as they found at hand. The box containing the money was forced open with a carving knife, and the contents, consisting of 371. and a purse with some silver in it, were abstracted. The 2001., concealed in the pair of old boots, was missed by the thieves. After ransacking the bedroom they went down stairs in search of more booty, but succeeded only in ob taining a silver watch from a delf-closet. They then de camped from the house by the back door, and got clear off with their plunder. A hay fork, a mattock, and a half refercer, circular hedging-bill, which had been taken fro m Hardwick's corn-loft, apparently for weapons of in case of discovery, were found in the house. Soon after the retreat of the robbers had been effected, a sister of Mrs. Hardwick called at the house to pay a visit, and the robbery was then discovered. A neighbour was at once summoned to the premises, and was examining them when Mr. Hardwick returned. He immediately went in search or the boy Law, and found him in the position already described, but greatly exhausted, having remained bound and gagged for about three hours. He was speedily released, but did not recover his consciousness for some hours after. The lad says he can swear to the men who seized him, and has given a description of two persons who were seen by others near the place shortly before the robbery was committed. The watch and the purse also can be identified. Mr. Hardwick has frequently been robbed of poultry, and has once or twice shot and wounded the marauders. His house dog was poisoned a few days ago. It is scarcely necessary to add that be has deposited his money in a bank. ECCLESIASTICAL INTEL, LICENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. T. H. Britton to the Vicarage of Newlyn, Cornwall• Rev. F. Colville, Vicar of Leek I .iroatton, to be a Mira' Dean within the Archdeaconry of Coventry. Rev. J. Clarke, to the Curacy of East Donyland, nea t Colchester. _ Rev. W. Featherstonhaugh, to the Rectory of Edmondbyers, Durham. . Rev. L. Gregory, BA., to the Vicarage of Oadby, Lek& tershire. Rev. C. W. Heaton, 8.D., Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Rev. J. H. Hill, M.A., to the Brotherhood of St. Ka the• tine's, Regent's-park. Rev. E. Lacey, to the Curacy of Watford, Herts. Rev. J. L. Morris, M.A., to the Vicarage of FillOngley, Warwickshire. Rev. R. Powell, to the Living of South Stoke. Rev. W. H. Walter, M.A., to the Curacy of Sedgefi eld ' Dnrham. Rev. F. T. Wintour, to the Rectory of Hawerby, Lincoln' shire. - DIOCESE OF CHESTER. OVER TABLEY.—The Bishop of Chester has licenced school-room for the performance of Divine Worship, in COn . sequence of the fire by which the new church has been de' st roped. CONSECRATION.—The new Church of All Souls, Vanx i ha ll ' in the parish of Liverpool, is to be consecrated by the .14 01 `' Bishop of Chester, on Friday next, the 7th instant, at eleven o'clock.—The district of Vauxhall was constituted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Act of Parliament commonly known as Sir Robert Peel's Aet, and it therefore becomes by the consecration of a church a new and separat e parish for all ecclesiastical purposes,—patronage in the craw' and Bishop alternately. AT Catrine, N. 8., recently, the Rev. E. J. Jonas, in no pliance with an expressed desire, had evening prayers, with 0 sermon, in a Churchman's house, and at the same time ad` ministered baptism. The parish (Sorn) was the last in the west of Scotland in which Episcopacy was given up, and tills was supposed to be the first Episcopal service for more than two hundred years; the house in which the service was Per formed was covered with the slates of the old Episcopal church. One old man who came from Mauchline to attend the service, stated that, although he had been in Scotland forty-nine years; and attended the Established Kirk, no Episcopal place of worship being near him, he never ceased to read his PraY,e r ' book on the Sunday, and hoped to die in the faith of w Church. THE friends of therChurch in theparish of Wheatley, Oxon , where, on account of the numerous small tenements, much OP' position might be expreted, have just gained a signal victors' On the 21st a vestry was held for the purpose of granting sa l rate to meet the current expenses of the year. The p r opo was, however, met by an amendment in favour of the volt' tary principle, which, being put to the vote, was ne v g ativedi and the rate was carried by a majority of independent, ° the chairman's vote. A poll was then demanded by the n e " feated party, but after some discussion was prudently wit h. drawn, Two valuable metropolitanlivings, in the gift of the 01 , Chancellor, have become vacant—the rectory of St. Margare t Lothbuey, by the death of the lien. Archdeacon Hollingwor thf worth £1,500 a year; and the rectory of St. George's, Blown.; bury,. worth 21,000 a year, by the elevation of the Hon. a' Rev. It M. Villiers, M.A., to the bishopric of Carlisle. Tien London Gazette of Tuesday announces that the (Pe e s; has been pleased to order a eon** (Mire to pass the Grol, Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the'Cathedre Church of Carlisle to elect a bishop of that see, thesarne been void by the. death of Dr. Hugh Patty, late Bishop thereof ' and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend'the 1 1 1, 13 ' mul+Rev. Henry Montagu Villiers, MiA., to be elected by t he said Dean and Chapter, Bishop of the said see of Carlisle. 21 E a N L 0 NTUESDAY. [PROM THE reessj. A CABINET COUNCIL was held on 'iliesday afternoon, °S' the Foreign-office, Downing-street. Fourteen of the Minist er ' were present. Lord' PitmenSns briefly explained his-reason for wishing, this Connell to be held. It was that he might assure hiraseP. that every Member of the Cabinet fully understood the, principle upon which it would in future be necessary to caret on the business of the-country, so far as legislation was ne t :, cerned. He had given his beat consideration to the subjee,', and had maturely, and he.would add affectionately —(a —weighed the powers and capabilities of those-with whom he had the honour to be associated. In announcing the ee"" viction that further experiments; in legislation. must be ,„ pensed with, he hoped that he should receive credit for doinf what was best for those whom he saw around him. In word, they were notnp tcetheir werk. The LORD CHANCELLOR. quite comprehended the Premie l l' On the previous night the President of the Couneit had bee! desired to apologise for the bhinder, and topromise w do what was fitting. That course was exceedingly unkind to himself, and he felt that he-ought to , have been supported. ._ Lord Gainvzrzn Was sure-that he had supported his Islok f and Learned Friend in a remarkable manner. When : 8 1 (Lord Granville)• came to read the amount of wisdom he b poured forth upon a subject of - which lie really knew nothing' he was quite astonished. The Duke of ARG - len had also been astonished to hear t he . Noble President say so much.. It was- all wrong, certaild u ci but it showed hia- desire to be -useful. He (the Duke) wo take that opportunity of asking.whether the Cabinet did n , ° _ think he had castigated the four Law Lords in capital style' answering their elaborate - orations. with the intimation tn..: they were only prompted -by the jealousy of a batch of Pr ressional adventurers: ,Lord PAemensnort , admittest that it was bold. He shoo not liked to have said it ; sonve-peopte might say anytlaini •vsitia on.ziong-to. ourraet- his _Noble o,p Learned Friend, the , Chancellor. His- remarks were by means solely directed at his Nale-Friencl„ although, doubtles*' the Parke affair was -one of the great messes of the session. • The LORD CHANCELLOR wouldorepeat that he ought to ha lo been stuck to. Mr. Vsmisom Sxtrmr begged that the language used tbeof might be more refined.. It was all very well for the House _, f Lords, where people-talked about "rows,"' and quoted vulg'" proverbs, but he had been accuettnnechto.genteel society. , Sir GEORGE Gner -hoped that the Chancellor was not goi n : to be childish. He was mortified at his failure, and natural so, for it was a very signal and disgraeeful one; but the W e ' e being of the Cabinekwas,not tabs saerifieed to a crotchet. A , Lord PALMERSTON . said the conciliatory speech of Home Secretary—(laughter)—explained, his meaning, gild left nothing to be desired. To-night he was going to thr?l, over another experiment. (Sensation.) Yes; the bill vi lol , their friend the Irish Solicitor-Cceneral called the Local jev o The Duke of AttnYer., was notrsnrprised, The advocael to which the measure had been coramitted.was deplorable. Lord PALMERSTON .said that it was nothing of the kw A , and, considerine. that Robert boweknew nothing of the tion until he got it - up for the debate ; . he had been deucer, dashing. He def_ed,the noble duke himself to have be% more courageous. But audacity, would: not do by itself. would be dangerous, to confront the opposition the meor o , Lad called out, unless -they- had' other• and better chamPl ° ,4 And he begged to signify to all and each of his friends aro t !ur him that no one must be astoniChed or offended at any sim i le Bate overtaking any measure he-might have in charge- l a was contrary to hia -.opinion that any bills had been broflg_; 4 , in at all. They were a war ministry, and while there n war, they bad ar , exeuse for neglecting, everything else. . 11 -' a man who had a good excuse was an ass for not usin g it. Sir GEORGE GREY -was no amateur legislator, and deter the making acts of parliament for doing what ought tore, left to official responsibility. The premier's remarks, ttl e b v , fore, did not affect- him. But he- confessed that, of all cabinets with which-he had been associated, this one had d i ' l t ; tinguished itself most by abnegating one duty suppose d belong to the executive—that of initiating reforms. Lord PALMR.RETON begged•the Home Secretary not to mot state the case._ They initiated.lots of reforms, and he had be the least objection to everybody initiating as many t 9 t he pleased. But bewould haves no government questions. JJ bills could becarried, bon- If not, so mach the worse for objectionable bill. Sir GEORMI GREY migbt acquiescent a course which" ) . J v sity seemed to dictate, but it certainty looked quintessoutw cowardly, • 1. 1 ? Mr. Lsnancrinne agreed with his friend, but soraet, l apparent cowardice involvelthe highest moral courage, "„,4 were convinced that their retention of offi c e w a s a. patio ., necessity; : and be saw a noble fearlessness in their hesita tP e to accept no humiliation that' might enable them to. perse c ' in the discharge of their duty. (Hear, hear.) of The Duke of ARGYLL bad heard those sentiments. at Manft# their meetings. The argument was infelicitously nut, but, ht conclusion was practically, if not logically defensible. B._'`,lo l, should certainly not take the trouble to attempt legisnwile unless he were to receive support, especially as anytningj might bring forward. would be—he said it without a par oil of vanity—that which a government ought to pride itsel f producing. Lord PALMERSTON was unfortunate in anuoying c ots -stall friends, as he seemed to have done in several inst but a little anger there was better than a goad deal of as wardness elsewhere. bt Sir CHLRLIZS WOOD was not going to be persona l , r be had been a good deal laughed at, he should like to aslei all good humour, who it was that first decided that the, b o Crimean Commission must sit with closed doors, anti'..o decided that it was as absolutely neeessary that the 5 0)- should be public. 16 Lord PANSIIIIIE thought that he had suffered enough ) 4 mistakes—he would not say whose—in that business, to '- him to ask that the subject be dropped. • Ire" Lord PALMERLTON said there .. Was. no need for sornie; The 'change was only another proof of the willingness of2l. Majesty's Ministers to do whatever was agreeable to anylr A door must be open or shut, 11 as the French proverb sai u ' o to Sir CRARLES WOOD wished to ask when a door was 0' c door. (Impatient sensation.) Well, he would give not iL " , the question for their next meeting. Lord GRANVILLE concluded that they had acco m plishewt object of their assembling. There could be no doubt ;_;ri the Cabinet was in rather an awkward position-rsovn etP V like that of the king that reigned, but did not govern" then, as reigning would do for them , why-- Lord PALMERSTON : Viro ta Reine! TIIE NEW' LoAlv.—A bill for raising £5,000,000 bY annuities, now before the Commons' House, enacts that e t be" contributor of £lOO shall be entitled to £lll 2s. 2d. it i lo 2, per Cent. Consols. The contributors who have already de / ts; 10 per centum on the sums by them subscribed are to P 3 i, 0 ; re mainder by i ns t a l ments as f ollows — v i z., £lO per co l "f the 3rd of March, £26 per cent. on the 13th of Marc b Atil per cent. cn th e 29th March, £l5 per cent. on the l v April, and the r ema i n i ng £l5 pe r cent. on or before thes.oo' of April next ensuing. Guardians may subscribe for inn 01' The dividend on the stock will be three per cent. ° t ort ' annuity of £lll 2s. 2d., to commence on the sth of P lit sil t ha t 1856, and to be payable half-yearly. Contributors r 03 , 1 / 01q cipate payment of their instalments, but no discount oar allowed thereon. Subscriptions paid in part only, 3 1 ) 00 (° , completed, will be forfeited. The Bank is to be allowed xvi l sr, every £1,000,000 of the said loan for the expenses of 03 ' 1 , d celi A ment, equivalent to the rate of ls. per cent. The 3 P e ls , annuities are to be added to the joint stock of Cous c) ,. 0 8 .„ sinking fund will be formed for the extinction of th 9 5 s e y debt until, by means of a yearly payment o f £250,10' e : of £5,555,416 las. 4d. of the funded debt has been ¢l ed f A second bill, just issued, provides for the funding 0 go 4 . quer-bills to the amount of £3,000,000, the terms ic .,is` c ,f being £lll 2s. 2d. in Consols for every £199 of Egc otely bills. Interest on the bills will be allowed from the 5? ..x the same up to the days on which they are deposited' g iftP c scribers may pay money instead of Exchequer-bills bY rr.mium of 54. nof cent. on the money paid. M LARCASHI signed : 4 . Read gel ntritGLlV ork-terrace 1,3 0 in cash n lotinting ii Naylor, E " W orn into vAstle. At Acton 4 : tic e el t i:e n n o e r e:,:i n i n i g v E ' L'lle sixth of l 't• Mary's C TRR POST. 'The follow 4 ndermentic Packet servi £4 packet offio 7() .; makin Dacket aervi bEaTns t W h i tey dang -e ms' afternoo ~q 1 Tuesday M ughter of 41 , Burlingt 'rternoon, ti Sr. SILAS' !Tening, Mr lectures whi, 4 ., a bove associ Th 41 e working br the Bible, striking pas tilibited se, THE LIVE meeting of 1 le Royal I chair. Mr. electric &CI °l4 ervations Clocks hithE W ere p u t.t e , Mercer d A discussion The museun l it , of sped 14 41 classifies A.CCIDEV boon, some t to the the M ersey ,_*ered his a !'o be turned It accidental severel the Norther I'lltate three man, only s s earch of em ft :APPOINT] STOII-HO d ePartment,,p, +aomas Moi liars; and 3 dent, a cle tlerk has b G eorge Moo i. acnamara ttY has bee; 4 01 den has ‘ 4 l clerks in . I _ 4 e third cis "%a, from th 44 c 1 Mr. PaE _.. '~ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. [MARCH 4, 1856.