The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

JOSEPH DAVIS, LATE 56, CASTLE-STREET, NOW DAW BARN AND DAVIS, 110, BOLD-STREET, TAILORS AND DRAPERS, Continue to receive the Newest and most Fashionable Style of SUMMER GOODS. DAWBA RN AND DAVIS, 110, BOLD•STREET. 7 n •, C ?TA INS. and OTHERS can obtain 124 E . VEItY KIND Or CLOTHING, adapted for Shipboard or Foreign Climates, on C. the lowest terms, at KEI4IC'S GENERAL CLOTHING WAREHOUSE, 19, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, opposite the Bank, LATE OF PARADISE-STREET. N.8.-SEA BEDDING SELLING OFF, FORA SHORT TIME ONLY, AT 39, GREAT GEORGE-STREET. MARSHALL AND STINTON, n, VERE-HIE:T, _8( 19, HENRIETTA-STREET, CAVENDISH :SQUARE, AVING determined upon Closing their Liverpool Esta -11. blishment, and in order to dispose of the whole Stock immediately, have Reduced the Prices FIFTY PER. CENT. The STOCK consists of RICH SILKS, SHAWLS, GLACE and MOIRE SCARFS, FRENCH EMBROIDERY, WOOL ORGANDES, POIL DE CHEIVE, SWISS MUSLINS, MOUS DE LAINES, RIBBONS, &e. THE SHOP TO BE LET. ATARY NUTTALL, (Widow of the late Henry Nuttall,) IV- 1 1 BRASS FOUNDER, and Manufacturer of. Beer Engines, Spirit Fountains, Soda Water Apparatus, Water Closets, Lift and Force P um ps, Cocks of every description, and Plumbers' Work in general, 4, THOMAS-STREET, South Castle-street, Liverpool, begs to return heesincere thanks to her Friends and the Public for their support of her Husband during the last six years, and to inform them that she will continue to carry on the Business, and hopes, by attention and punctuality, to insure a continuance of their support. LONDON HAT ESTABLISHMENT, 6, ST. GEORGE'S -CRESCENT. - . AM. WHITELY begs to return th an k s f or th e ki n d • patronage he has received, and, at the same time, in vites the attention of Gentlemen to his NEW STOCK of LONDON BEAVER and FRENCH SILK HATS, se lected from the best Manufacturers in the Kingdom, and of the most approved and elegant Shapes. Livery Hats, Gold and Silver Lace, Leather Hat Cases, Naval and Military Caps, &c. 0 8 per lb 0,9 „ 1 0 „ SOLUBLE COCOA FLAKE DO. . TRINIDAD DO. CHOCOLATE POWDER 1 0 PLAIN CHOCOLATE CHURCHMAN'S DO. SIR HANS SLOANE'S D 0.... 1 9 SNOWDON and BROWNLOW, TEA DEALERS, 81, Church-streist BASS AND CO.'S PALE INDIA ALE PHIS Ale, so long celebrated in India, has now become an article of such great consumption in this Country, (where it7is;l:OTost superseding every Other sort of mid liquor,) that Messrs. BASS and CO., of Burton-on-Trent, have established a STORE in LIVERPOOL for the SALE of it in Casks of all sizes to suit their Customers. Orders will be received and punctually attended to by their Agents, Messrs. GEORGE LYON and Co., IRONMONGER LANE, where a Stock is kept of an age suitable for immediate consumption BURTON ALE STORES, IRONMONGER-LAMS, LOWER SPARLING-STREET, TO PORTER DEALERS REID AND CO OF LONDON, HAVING appointed G. LYON and Co., AGENTS Fos. THE SALE OF THEIR PORTER IN LIVERPOOL AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, The Trade are respectfully informed, that a large Stock is kept, of each quality, for Home Use and Exportation, at their STORES, IRONMONGER-LANE, where Orders will be received and punctually attended to. WILLIAM BENNETT, IRONFOUNDER AND GRATE MANUFACTURER, 38, SIR THOMAS'S-BUILDINGS, BEGS to inform his Friends and the Public that he has now fully Stocked his NEW SHOW-ROOMS, 67, SIR THOMAS'S-BUILDINGS, with every variety of SHEFFIELD and COUNTRY-MADE GRATES, which, together with the GRATES and KITCHEN RANGES of his own Manufacture, form the largest and hest-selected variety (of Grates, &c.) in Liverpool. FENDERS AND FIRE• IRONS. Agent for J. B. Doe's Patent Iron Soap Frames, THE TEA TRADE.) Further _Reduction upon good Medium Qualities. TN consequence of the present unexpected abundant arrivals 1 of Teas from China, we are now prepared to invite the attention of large Families, Proprietprs of Hotels, Schools, &t., namely, to our FINE STOUT Conoou, at 4s. per lb., — particularly recommended. In single Pounds, 61b. Bags. and small Chests. ROBT. ROBERTS and Co ROYAL BANK BUILDINGS, May 16, 1842. krEVANS, HAIR CurrEß, WIG MAKER, and PER • FVMER, ha REMOVED from 43, Bold -street, to the Premises lately occupied by the Opposite Side of the Street G. E. returns his sincere thanks to his Friends and the Public for the very liberal support he has experienced in his late Premises, and respectfully invites their attention to his superior style of HAIR CUTTING and DRESSING, which, he flatters himself cannot be surpassed. G. E.'s improved Perukes and Read Dresses are constructed arm an entire new principle, forming a more exact imitation of nature than any yet produced. Among their advantages may be enumerated their durability and extreme lightness, being only one ounce in weight ; and, although they fit the head with tenacity and security, they are perfectly free from any disagreeable pressure, or any unpleasant feel, The Genuine RESTORATIVE BALSAM, for the Growth and Preservation of the Hair, which it strengthens and beautifies, gives it a superior lustre, and is highly beneficial for keeping it in curl during damp or wet weather, and, by constant use, will prevent it from falling off, or turning gray. Only to be had at 94, Bold-street. Schools and Families will find considerable advantage in patronizing his Establishment. French and English Perfumery, Shell Combs, Brushes, Tooth Powders, and every article requisite for the Toilet. Mr. BEAZLEY, No. 94, on THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 2, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. The Finest Congou Tea .. } 5 0 per lb. { strongly recom mended. Fine Black Leaf Congou.... 4 6 per lb recommended for Strong useful Ditto .. 14 4 per lb. { common purpose. 14 0 per lb. { i nf erior much lower. Stout Congon The Finest Orange Pekoe. 15 8 per lb.{ pacrotmicumlaenrcliydre- GREEN TEA { particularly re- The Finest Gunpowder 17 4 per lb. commended. imported .. . ......... 1 nest H yson Geuuiue H yson 5 6 per lb. 5 0 per lb. Fine , t Ouchain or Young} 0 per lb. { strongly recom- Hyson mended. 4s. to 4 4 per lb HOLLIS, WALFORD, AND COMPANY, Importers of and Dealers in Tea. " NEW PREMISES." BEE HIVE ESTABLISHMENT, 17 and 19, PARADISE-STREET. W. OK EL L, SILK MERCER, LINEN DRAPER, CARPET WAREHOUSEMAN. Nvl T H ananxious desire to keep pace with the spirit of improvement which now characterises the age, W. OKELL has been induced to remodel his Premises upon a most EXTENSIVE SCALE, and, regardless of expense, his attention has been directed to such alterations as insure convenience and comfort, with the hope it may be appreciated by those whose favours have hitherto been extended to him, and for which he feels a deep sense of gratitude. THE STOCK he now offers, and to which he respectfully invites attention, presents every thing that can be desired by purchasers ; and he ventures to affirm, without fear of contradiction, that for EXTENT, NOVELTY, VARIETY, AND CHEAPNESS, IT STANDS UNRIVALLED. ta Th ri _e distress which has so long prevailed in the manufac f ug districts and the eagerness with which Goods are °reed on , n u f„ to ll.!ne market (although at an enormous loss to ma capitaus7o),„present opportunities of no ordinary kind to is einthi wt to w • O. having availed himself of this advantage, ager Goods at Prices THE SimeW ...R THAN EVER. to which 1- I ` l D SHAWL DEPARTMENTS, In ilt iptes his special attention, present an and offer decid e d ALLED SELECTION, sIapAND SHAWLS. to Purchasers of Other Department*, SI E RY, GLOVES, i° 1 12 .. LINENS. RIBBONS, HO- C H ESTER GOODS, are A RERDASHERY, and MAN tuecornplete and extensive, and have all been selected under at the very best Markets. moat favourable circumstances, CARPET, MOREEN, Dio ,„ DEPARTQII.,, AND CHINTZ 'This being an entirely New Branch T no us are adapted, an a considerable portion of the N ew p re .rad s e, and to which EXTENSIVE will be found, and the cheapest in Liver Pool being bought from th e a great portion ..._ _ BANKRUPT STOCKof a Manuf acturer, and comprising first-rat e prices for Pattern s , the Yard-wide good Carpets ls. Eld. t o 2 . " A Brussels of elegant designs 3s. and 3s. c4 — ' Stair Carpets ......... 6d., 9-0., Is. to ls. e g f. Lobby Cloths, in all widths, 2s. 6d. per or thsquaree info yrmatioard. W. OKELL fe els it necessary to state, f or of those who have not visited his Establishment. the pfi n . tiPie on which hi s business is transacted, that of selling every Article on the Lowest Scale of Profit a ny circumstances. --------_ Ripe h e d g e strawberries were this week picked at White stone, near Exeter. Two rooks were shot last week at these, bill,ato of Sandwich. Hi ne h e ibrook, with their hea ds, t t h h r e o a E t a r a l n o d f wings white. Th ese cur i os ities have been s tuffed by Mr. Gatward, of Huntingdon. THUNDER STORM.—A heavy thunder storm passed over , Barnard-Castl e an d i ts ne i g hbourhood, on Wednesday weex. At Scargill, near that town, a house was struck by the electric fluid, which did considerable damage : Mr. Bowron, the occupant of the house, was at the time sitting near the fire s mokin g his Pipe, when the seat of the chair on which he sat was split in four pieces, and his gaiters singed as thoug h they had been held in front of a very hot are ; yet, singular to sa y, Mr. Bowron himself Upwards of 140 escaped without the slightest injury. Squares o f glass were broken in the windows, and every article of furniture, the clock excepted, was more or less injured. The back wall of the house was rent in several places nearly from top to bottom •, a stable behind was completely--°° • ar f ett, and part of the floor torn elp : two dogs were in th e stable at the time, but were un- Portion of theroof fell inwards. hurt, although a cons tder e ble The house and the outbuildings present a sceneo cleeolation, but happily no lives werelost. AFFGHANISTAN, INDIA, AND CHINA. (From Yesterday's Times.) We have received, by extraordinary express, from Mar seilles, in anticipation of the overland mail, our despatches from India and China. The intelligence from Bombay is of three days' later date than usual, the mail having been de tained until the 4th of May, to wait for the governor general's despatches. Our dates from Calcutta are to the 24th of April, and from China to the 10th of March. The British Indian armies to the west of the Indus during the months of March and April may be classed under five distinct heads, viz., those of -Ist. The Bengal division under General Pollock, which has entered Khyber pass from the neighbourhood of Peshawar. 2d. The troops forming the garrison commanded by Ge neral Sale at Jellallabad. 3d. The Bombay detachment, under the orders of General England, which having gone through the celebrated pass of Bolan, had, after some fighting, taken its station at Quetta. 4th. The garrison at Candahar, under the command of General Nott ; and sth. The surrender of Ghuznee. The division under General Pollock, originally a Bengal artillery officer, have gained the renown of opening a pass which even Nadir Shah was obliged to purchase. Having ta ken due precautions, this division, consisting of her Majesty's 9th regiment of infantry, and the 26th, 30th, 33d, 58d, and 64th Bengal native infantry, and a regiment of Jezailchees, with artillery, in three columns, on the sth April, forced the difficult pass of the Khyber, and notwithstanding the deter mined resistance of the Afreedees tribe, succeeded in reach ing Ali Musjeed, with the loss of only one officer (Lieutenant Cumming, of the 9th,) and 13 rank and file killed, and 104 wounded. On the 9th April the division was at Lundee Khan, whence to the point of junction with the garrison of Jellalabad, nothing like effectual opposition was to be ex pected. The details of the first part of this most brilliant exploit have been officially published in the Government Ga zette, and will be found in another column. The Sikhs troops, who on the occasion attacked another part of the pass, co operated cordially with the British, and behaved with great gallantry. During the period of the attack on the Khyber, Akhbar Khan, who with 6000 Affghans had invested Jellalabad, ex hibited great eagerness, as if to aid the tribes around tbepass in defending it. On the evening of the 6th he caused a fue de joie to be fired in honour, he said, of the repulse which the British troops had met with at the entrance of the pass near Jumrood. But the gallant and experienced warrior, General Sale, was not to be deceived ; he resolved to antici pate what he considered to be an intended retreat of the Sir dar, and on the morning of the 7th sallied forth to attack the Affghan camp. Three columns, composed of her Majesty's 13th infantry and 35th Bengal native infantry, with a de tachment of the sappers and miners, supported by a light field battery and a small cavalry force, issued from the blockaded " town, and completely routed Akhbar Rhan and his 6000 men, burned their camp, and retook four guns of those seized at the massacre of Khoord Cabul in January last, " the restoration of which is regarded by thetroops with much honest exultation." This victory, glorious as it is, has been dearly purchased by the fall of Colonel Dennie, whose death, even upon the field of honour, will be regarded as a great ealamity, while his memory will always be held sacred as of a brave and worthy officer. The reverse already mentioned as comparatively trifling, was experienced by General England at the pass of Kojuck, 63 miles from Quetta, on the march to Candahar. His force as composed of 5 companies of her majesty's 41st regiment, 6 companies of the light battalion of native infan try, a troop of light cavalry, 4 guns of Leslie's horse brigade, and 50 Poonah horse, having in charge a convoy, consisting of treasure, medical stores, and ammunition, together with 1,500 camels, &c., destined for the relief of the troops at Candahar. The convoy proceeded, without encountering any great obstacles, and without receiving any notice from the inhabitants of any contemplated plan of resistance, to the pass, where it, on the 28th of March, found that some field-works had been erected. An attempt was made, by sending 200 men to attack those works, to dislodge the enemy, when they showed a strong force of infantry and ca valry. Captain May, of the 41st, was shot dead, as well as several of his men. Major Abthorp, of the 20th native infantry, was cut down, (he died of his wounds the following day,) when the General resolved not to risk the loss of the convoy, and made a skilful retreat to a neighbouring village which he defended, and thence withdrew to Quetta, where he intrenched himself and waited for more troops, then on the march from Dadur and Sukkur, to join him. The loss on this occasion, besides the officers mentioned, was 2 ser jeants, 1 corporal, and 14 privates of the 41st killed, and 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 50 privates wounded of the light battalion. Of the 20th, 25th, and 6th regiments Bombay native infantry there were 9 killed and 18 wounded. The great difficulty of the position at Quetta has been the want of forage for the camels, and the efforts of the Government are directed towaras enabling their troops to proceed onwards as speedily as possible. As a contrast to this reverse, a force from Candahar, which was sent by General Nott to meet General England, having been attacked, after two days' march, by a large body of Affghans, gave the assailants such a reception, as obliged them to take to flight. They are described as fighting with reckless bravery, and charging up to the bayonets point ; they therefore suffered a great slaughter, particularly as they were charged by the British cavalry during their flight. About 300 are said to have fallen, including five of their chiefs. The loss on the side of the British was 5 killed and 25 wounded. The commander of the British force was Col. Wyman Candahar is stated to have abundant provisions, but there is a want of ammunition. The pass of Kojuck can, as it is now affirmed, be easily turned. Of the event calculated to produce the most striking im pression we have already been enabled to inform the public. It is the surrender, on the Ist of March, by Colonel Palmer. of the celebrated fortress of Ghuznee. The letter of the co lonel, whose regiment, the 27th Bengal Native Infantry, formed the garrison, has afforded ground for various com ments. It will be found below. Attempts have been made in India to excuse his conduct on the ground of the difficul ties with which he had to contend, hut it certainly does ap pear strange that a commandant should venture to surrren der such a fortress upon the authority of a letter received, as it were, from his superior by the hands of an enemy, and that be notifies that surrender not to that superior, but to another officer placed also in command of a distant garrison, and which latter officer has immortalized himself by his gal lant defence. The opinion which we have always maintained that the disastrous occurrences at Cabul (and now at Ghuznee, the garrison of which place is described as having in March suf fered the same fate as the troops of Cabul in January, the soldiers being massacred by the Ghazees, or dispersed, and the officers being prisoners for the sake of their ransom), are to be ascribed to the want of efficient military arrangements and proper precaution, and not to the prowess of the Aff ghans, has been confirmed by the publication of several or ders in Council. These orders were published on the receipt of the news of the fall of Ghuznee, and are as follows : " The Governor-General in Council has directed that the Commander-in-Chief will submit the conduct of Lieutenant- Colonel Palmer, in surrendering the citadel of Ghuznee, to the judgment of a court-martial, at the earliest period at which such court can be duly assembled. " The Governor-General in Council has already (on the 28th of January last) directed that a full military inquiry shall be made into all the circumstances connected with the direction and conduct of the troops at Cabul, at the earliest period at which such an inquiry may be practicable. "The Governor-General in Council has now directed that the conduct of Major-General Elpbinstone in Affghanistan shall be submitted to the judgment of a court-martial, atthe earliest period at which such court can be duly assembled. " The Governor-General in Council will further direct that a full inquiry shall likewise be made into the conduct of all the political functionaries employed at Cabul, at the earliest possible period after he shall be in possession of cer tain material documents, of which he has already ordered the immediate transmission to Government. " By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council. "T. H. MADDOK, " Secretary to the Government of India." The fate of Affganistan forms now a curious problem. Schah Soojab, who by temporizing and truckling to his enemies, and by many other manoeuvres available amongst the Affghans, had contrived to secure to himself a precarious existence in the Bala Hissar at Cabul, has at length, as it is now stated, been murdered. His sons have, as it appears, taken different parties, one or two being favourable to the British alliance, while two or three are opposed to it. Va rious factions are described as at present contending for the lion's share of influence and power, and general confusion, uproar, and bloodshed prevail in Cabul. Schah Kamrarn, of Herat, nephew of Schah Soojah, after a long contest with his vizier, Yar slahomed, is also stated to be dead ; so that Afghanistan, from the frontiers of Persia to the mountains west of the Indus, may be regarded as in perfect anarchy. The news of the death of Schah Soojah is confirmed by the Agra Ukhbra of the 23d ult. As an event it will produce the result of liberating the hon. company from an alliance calculated to produce but little benefit. Rumour in India asserts that the present chiefs at Cabul are disposed to sur render their prisoners, and to make terms with the Indian government. When the aversion of the Hindoo Sepoys to cross the Indus, when their dislike to fight with the Affghans there, when the poverty of the Afghan country and its small rapacious and unruly population, when the repeated cry for more European soldiers, and, above all, when the great drain on the treasury which the war produces, are taken into con. sideration, it may be presumed that the councils of the empire will recommend an arrangement with the Affghans; particularly when the British victories have secured the mountain passes, which constitute the gates of India, and over which our future care must be to exercise a rigid control. In the meantime Lord Ellenborough, accompanied by two or three secretaries, had set out from Calcutta to the upper provinces of Bengal. His object in this journey is stated to be twofold—first, to be enabled to communicate without de lay with the generals of the army west of the Indus, and the officers commissioned with the management of those pro vinces ; and next, to introduce some reforms there,. Hi s lordship, whose decision and promptitude are highly praised, has, it is asserted, required that the commander-in-chief of the army should quit his cool retreats at Simla in order to join him at a more central position. The want of vigour, which was much felt from the beginning of November last, when the Cabul insurrection broke forth, for Lord Auckland hesitated to compromise his successor by any active mea sures, is no longer complained of. Regret is, however, ex pressed that Lord Ellenborough had not come out via Egypt, since his presence in Bombay in December last, and on the banks of the Sutlej in January, would have given energy and activity to every proceeding, and the unfortu nate delays and doubts which paralysed everything daring four months would have been avoided. Ghuznee would not, it is supposed, have fallen, neither would Col. Wilde have been forced to retreat at the Klyber, nor Gen. England have been repulsed at Kojuck. Notwithstanding the activity of the measures now carried on in Affghanistan, it is stated that his lordship was at the departure of the mail waiting for the resolution that may be adopted iu London relative to ulte rior proceedings, which resolution would, it was expected, be such as to confirm fully the measures already adopted. The.great point insisted upon by the journals of India was it cannot a the i nexpediency of forming any treaties with the leaders at Soojah'a or Cabal longe r any Candahar, Ghuznee, &c. There is, it seems, no there is enthusiasts tr Ybrnonarch to rule the country, and they argue that useful to us to attempt to force any one of Schah not unite them in Schah Zeeman's sons on the whole nation. All be, it is said, a disorganizationtil, and if the hatred of some religious fore, be said to be n Kaffirs, and the love of plunder of all, did general civil the British troops, there would civil war. Afghanistan may, there- Ellenborough, whose principal with its disunited rulers great measure at the mercy of Lord The determination of difficulty will be now to settle . Lord Ellenborough to reward mili tary merit is evidenced by h is to t rpointing five officers, distin guished for late exploits, aids-de camp to the governor-general. e Ted of honorary t youths, , ctt n ct that n l a l td i n rt g ahne o k f noa a nm p piano naming de serving et t 0.. - meats conferred on inexperienced them of men having professional claims; i the creation of a . consider. native aid-de-camp, and the bestowal eie t td for the new serving soldier of the local cavalry, had governor-general very high opinions among., e troop s . In Ry pr e , .1- ninntdeerlicournodf l a n m di o a ve g m en e e n r t al h t a r d anLL putea.i., except talloßef the Ms residen had üblished strinThe go vernor the late insubordinateSecunderabad. su bscri p p r t o io c n ee s d t in g 3 of some tent or dersth altni native troops a respecti able amount bad been entered into all over the country, i n an orphans (unprovided for b of those who during the who fell y the re. favour of the lot cd gulations of the gover" 34llt) recent disasters at Cabul. A .commercial crisis has taken place at Calcutta ; but confidence was beginning to return. A large sale of opium was effected there on the 18th, which produced the government upwards of £300,000. The steamer India arrived in Calcutta on the 9th of April, after a voyage of 28 days from Suez, having been delayed 11 days at differ ent places, chiefly by taking in coal. She went into dock immediately, and was advertised for another voyage to Egypt about the 28th ult. The cholera has committed frightful ravages at Kurachee. Her Majesty's 22d Regiment had lost 98 men in six weeks up to the 24th of April. The ship Harriet, bound for Lon don, took fire and blew up at Calcutta. There is a rumour of Lord Ellenborough's intention to reduce the great salaries of the higher branches of the civil servants, particularly in Bengal. Tharawaddie, King of Burmah, whose movement to wards Rangoon produced " a sensation" some time hack, was occupied at home in suppressing a rebellion. The Brit ish troops sent to Moulmein, in order to keep him in check, are therefore at liberty to remove to other places. The Chinese soldiers who drove the Sikhs out of Thibet appeared disposed to revenge themselves upon the invaders, by attacking some of the frontier garrisons of the province of Cashmere. This attempt is important, as it may lead the British Generals, on terminating the campaigns in Cabul, to turn their arms against the Chinese in Thibet, and produce, by the defence of the country, the cession of Cashmere and of the Punjaub, by the present weak Government, to the rulers of India. _ _ The Bombay Gazette in an extra sheet, dated twelve o'clock, May 4, and published just at the departure of the steamer, gives the following extract from the Delhi Gazette of April 23 : " After our matter was arranged, and almost in the press, the Loodiana and Simla daks arrived, bringing us from our correspondents full accounts of the " doings" in camp from the sth to the 12th instant. The Simla letter, dated the 20th of April, mentions that news had been received of Ge neral Pollock's arrival at Jellallabad, but the date is not given, and also that an express had arrived which gives out that there is not the least doubt of the murder of Schah Soojah by the Ghazees as he was returning from a mosque where he had been praying; after this the Bala Hissar was attacked, ransacked, and plundered, and the Zenana became the scene of every atrocity that these savages could commit. It is now supposed that there will be no delay in pushing on at once to Cabal; the Queen's 31st and the 6th Native In fantry and the whole of that Brigade bad arrived at Pesha wur, and marched for Jellallabad, and Colonel Bolton hav ing received orders to push on, will lose no time in reducing that place. The murder of Schah Soojah appears to have wrought a complete change in the ideas of our great men, and instead of a withdrawal to Peshawur, nothing but a speedy advance is talked of. A wing of the 33d, and light company of the 6th Native Infantry, remain at Ali Musjid. They have a couple of guns, and it would be difficult for the Afreedis to do anything in that quarter." SURRENDER OF GHUZNEE NOTIFICATION Fort William, Secret Department, April 4, 1842, The following copy of a despatch from 'Lieutenant-Colo nel Palmer, commanding at Ghuznee, to the address of the officer commanding at Jellalabad, dated March 1, 1842, is published for general information by order of the Governor- General in Council : " Ghuznee, March 1 " Sir,—lt is with much concern I acquaint you that from want of water and by an overpowering force, under cover, and within 50 yards of us in the city, I have been compelled to enter into terms to evacuate the citadel and fort within six days. The garrison is to occupy the north-east corner of the town. The garrison is exhausted by fatigue and con stant duty, and the men have suffered greatly from cold, the thermometer having been 14 below zero. The terms are honourable treatment and safety whilst here and on the march to Cabul, solemnly sworn to by the chiefs. In capi tulating I have only acted up to the orders of Major Pottin ger and General Elphinstone, who directed me, in an official letter, to evacuate the citadel and city on the arrival of Bohilla Khan, son of Ameenoolah Khan, Sirdar of Logur. This chief arrived and promised to escort us i❑ safety to Cabul. Amooun Shamsoodeen Khan, nephew of Dost Mahomed Khan, has also arrived as Governor of Ghuznee and as politi cal agent. I received instructions to march immediately on his arrival for Cabul from the late Sir W. Nacnaghten, Bart. Abandoned as this garrison has been in the very centre of an enemy's country, cut from all communication with any quar ter, and without a sufficiency of water even at this season, with 200 men detached to hold an outpost which is destitute of water, and must have fallen in forty-eight hours, nothing but capitulation remained ; from the outpost falling into the hands of the enemy, they would command our only well and commanding fort, and the whole garrison would have been destroyed in a few days. The bearer has received only sub sistence on the road, and is to receive a handsome reward on delivering this letter. We have upwards of 100 sick and wounded and 137 casualties. The officers, including Captain Burnett, 54th, and Lieutenant Crawford, Schah Soojah's force, are all well. " I have, &c., " J. PALMER, Lieutenant-Colonel, " Political Agent, commanding at Ghuznee. " P.S. There is great reason to fear for our safety, as there are some thousands of Ghazis in the city, whom the chiefs cannot disperse. The snow is still deep. No tidings from the southward, but report says the troops hold the city of Candahar, and are daily fighting. " To the Officer commanding at Jellalabad." CHINA Intelligence from Macao to the 6th of March has been re ceived ; but it is not of great importance. Sir Henry Pottinger remained at Hongkong, whither he was about to remove the postoffice and all other British establishments from Macao. There was occasional fires in the wooden buildings there. He has issued some proclamations ;by one of them Hongkong and Tinghae in Chusan, were declared to be free ports, and to remain, as well as Amoy, in our possession until the British demands were satisfied. If any one of them is to be vacated due notice is to be given, and a special stipulation is to be made for the safety of the native Chinese who may have sided with the English. The batteries along the Canton river were completed, and some of them unmasked ; yet no apprehension was entertained of imme diate hostlities. Business was dull there. The troops of the expedition were healthy. A Madras regiment and the Bengal Volunteers were about to return to India. The head-quarters of Sir Hugh Gough continued at Ningpo ; he and the naval commander were, as it is stated, authorized to act in cases requiring urgent decision, without waiting to consult the Plenipotentiary. Sir Hugh Gough was about to disperse a body of Chinese troops collected near Yu-Yuou. The French Vice-Consul, M. Challaye, and some French men, having ventured too far, were seized and insulted by the Chinese, but released after some parley. It was said that there were Russian officers at Pekin, giving instructions in military matters to the Chinese. The coast is now in fested with pirates. A war about to break out between Cochin China and Siam is interesting solely as likely to have some influence in the settlement of the British demands upon China. The Si amese Monarch threatens to invade Cochin, which is tribu tary to China, and this may tend to embarrass the councils of the Court of Pekin. The King of Siam has, through the influence of the neighbouring British, been induced to grant a portion of his ancient territory to the son of the old Rajah of Quedda. The Governor of Prince of Wales's Island has published a proclamation, announcing the final cessation of slavery within that district. OXFORD AND DR. HAMPDEN (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) Oxford is once more in a state of discord and excitement. A contest is at this moment going on in that university, pro bably quite as anxious and earnest as the late struggle for the Poetry Professorship, which was so much deprecated by many sober-minded persons. It seems the Board of Heads of Houses propose to rescind the state which was passed in 1836, conveying a censure upon Dr. Hampden, then recently appointed Regius Pro fessor of Divinity. In pursuance of this proposal the follow ing form of statute will be submitted to convocation, on Tuesday next, the 7th instant : " Quum per Stat. Tit. XVI. s. 8. 11. Dublicatum et con firmatum in domo Convocationis die Vto mensis Maii A. D. 1836, sancitum sit, ut Theologise Professor Regius munerum quorundum in eodem Statuto memoratorum expers sit donec aliter Universitati placuerit: Placuit Universitati Statutum istud abrogare." A strong and determined opposition to the re-instatement of Dr. Hampden in certain privileges attached to his office, but of which he was deprivel by the statute of the sth of May, 1836, on the ground of his unsound theological opini ons, immediately manifested itself upon the determination of the Hebdomadal Board becoming known. A protest was signed by 30 or 40 resident members of convocation, who urged the withdrawal of the proposition. The Hebdomadal Board, however, are inflexible in their resolution to submit the matter to convocation, and the university is consequently again in the midst of a contest which can scarcely be regarded without regret and alarm. _ _ . . It is contended, by those favourable to the abrogation of the censure, that Dr. H am pden, althou g h h e h as i n no man ner explained or retracted the objectionable passages in his published sermons, which in 1836 were held to justify the ban then placed upon hi m , h as , nevert h e l ess, so conducted himself, in his high office, that the repeal of the statute is only an act of common fairness. To this it is replied, that the original offence remains in statu quo—that unsound doc trines are not disavowed merely because they are not re peated—that if there were reasons for the censure passed by an overpowering majority in 1836, those reasons exist in equal force in 1842—and that, therefore, to repeal the statute will be either to acknowledge injustice in 1836, or to stultify the university in the eyes of the world, by retracting a formal decision in the one point on which it professes to be the espe cial depository of truth. Again, it is said that the university has already committed itself in principle to the repeal of the censure by its accept ance of the statute relating to the two fresh theological pro fessorships founded in Oxford, by which a prominent place in the new arrangement of the duties is assigned to the regius professor. The university, by passing that statute, acknow ledged Dr. Hampden a fit person to be entrusted with a theological office, and therefore he is not liable to theological censure. On the other hand it is contended that the Convocation which passed this statute did not legislate about Dr. Hamp den, but about the Regius Professor of Divinity ; it did not regard the individual, but the office—and that, inasmuch as to pass a general statute, which happens obliquely, and quite apart from its object, to include some objectionable point, and to pass a particular one which has for its very object the formal establishment of that points, are obviously two differ ent things, the Convocation, because it has done one, is not at all committed to the other. Certain regulations, it is urged, were made affecting all the four Divinity Professor ships; the Regius Professor as one of the four came under these regulations, but it came under them purely in the ab stract character of the office, distinct from the accidental holder of it pro tempore. Since the foregoing was in type we have received the fol lowing extract from Dr. Hampden's lecture delivered in the Divinity School on Wednesday last : " I have formed no party around me. I have not sought to proselytize any. I have stood alone except so far as my teaching might associate me with other members of our com mon faith and common church. Look to those by whom I am opposed ; there you see a compact body, understanding each other, ready to act with each other, and to join their names and their hands at the first signal from their leaders. Look to my case on the other hand ; I make no boast of it, but I have quickly gone about the functions of my office. Some may say, 1 have been comparatively silent on it ' - hut I have not been silent in my place , nor have I shrunk from the labour and responsibility of publishing what from time to time seemed to me proper. But I have formed no party. discern w h n are who the are in nn t v h a e t a d r it a u w r disturbers s a roef theth I have giveny thisn o c n r t m e r e i e t n o ma anti d f ol te l s o t w m e r y s , a d T v e hn r e sa s p r t a n y n y a o n u d , test me by you the many o m re " I would that yo u what doctrine 1 h ave have attended my lectures hun dredse of this university who pyenancewlof then thechreuardcihl—y during these six years, - persons to be suspctednaoanandldd d an t. sa e ki a l d tb e h d e ef . am sure, with one taught them. They which is now so voice (unless, haply, the seductive spiri t mbers has drawn off actively at work among our Junior d Catholic views)—they any to partial sectarian, rniscalle them withaffec tion- to would tell you that I have ever spoken would tell you I • 1 , at I have trained practices, and all that belongs to it ; t in the paths them so far as I had opportunities and means, and reverence of our own church, its doctrines and deuce branch of the Catholic church planted by Gods of their forefathers, in the faith the Reformer provi dnce of that pure and grace in this country. * * * * * " But though I may look for the censures and oppositions * * of this party, I have certainly as little reason to hope for a more patient judgment now than perhaps was possible on a former occasion, from the unprejudiced and still Protestant members of the church. To them I earnestly propose a calm consideration of my whole conduct since my appointment to this chair. I ask them only to retrace for themselves what I have done, not to take their estimate of me from the studied representations of those who are, and must be opposed to me. On such I make the call, to believe me—to read, if it were only the sermons which 1 not long ago delivered before this University, and say whether they are the writings of one who does not hold, uncorruptedly, the great doctrines of the Gospel. I ask such to cast away all previous misconceptions, to make allowance for former excitement, and fix their eye not on what the invidious and censorious may hold up to them as objectionable. but upon what I have always really intend ed. What avails it that ingenious disputants may, by artifi cial parallelisms, display an apparent inconsistency in any one's writings ? May not this be done in any case? Might not the infidel practice this delusion, even with Scriptures themselves ? Has not, in fact, one of the tractarian writers 'drawn together a number of passages of Scripture, and called on the reader to observe the startling' character of the quo tations ? For my part I am not over anxious about the plea of consistency. Consistency in itself, further than it is con sistency in right, is of no value. If I have anywhere said what is wrong, I disclaim it now. If I have said what is right, I maintain it, though it may appear wrong by those with whose views it may accord. Such is the equitable con sideration with which I may well believe I have been regard ed by the presiding body of the University, who, in their concern for its interest and well-being of its particular mem bers, have brought before Convocation the recent measures, both the statute relative to the establishment of additional lectures and examinations in theology, and that to be shortly decided. They have valued truth, and right, and peace, and kindness. I may say, without flattery, above other consider ations—above all party spirit—above all sinister construc tions and imputations : I ask the candid only to follow their example." FATAL ACCII)ENT AT A NDON POTHECARIES' HALL, LO. At the urgent request of the East India Company, the establishment of Apothecaries Hall had undertaken, con trary to their usual practice, the preparation of fulminating mercury for the percussion caps intended to be used in the East Indies. With this view, both on Friday and Saturday morning, Mr. Hennell, the company's chemical operator, had been preparing about six pounds weight of fulminating mercury, containing one-third of its weight in water, with a view to ascertain its actual strength. At ten o'clock, attended by only one of the labourers, Mr. Hennell was standing be fore a large block of wood about three feet high, whose cir cumference could not be less than six feet, upon which was placed a white evaporating dish containing the mercury, the locality between the distil-house and what is called the gas room, where formerly gas was manufactured for the use of the ball, but which now is used for the purpose of contain ing various small bottles filled with essential oils. At this moment the labourer in attendance left the operator, in order to look after a furnace fire, where, in the early part of the day 400 grains of mercury had been drying, and which, it is supposed, had been taken out by Mr. Hennell, in order to test the condition in which they were. Scarely, however, had the labourer left the place before he heard three slight explosions, between each of them there only elapsed a few seeonds, but which was followed by a loud report, the origin of which, to the present time, appears to be perfectly inex plicable, although it is very strongly supposed that the slighter reports were occasioned by Mr. Hennell striking a small portion of the preparation with his finger, and the fatal explosion must have arisen from a particle of the matter having fallen upon the larger mass. By this accident we are sorry to say that the exploded preparation struck Mr. Hennell immediately below the chest, and taking an upward direction, carried away the right arm and the same side of the face, together with the whole of the upper portion of the head, as well as nearly the whole of the viscera, laying open the entire chest, and exhibiting the action of the heart and lungs. Some parts of the remains were scattered over the tops of the buildings, and other portions were actually picked up by the workmen upon the roofs of the adjoining houses. The deceased's right arm was found on the roof of Apothe caries's Hall, a distance of full forty yards from the scene of the fatal event, and had, in its progress, indented considera bly the leaden gutter pipe. One of his fingers was picked up in Union-street, a distance of 100 yards, by a person passing at the time, and must have been forced over the high building of the hall. The labourers belonging to the hall collected the scattered fragments, and deposited them in a spot set apart for their reception. Deplorable, however, as the accident has been, it is consolatory to know that no other person was injured but one man, who was knocked down, but who es caped without injury. The glass contained in the whole of the window frames (made of iron) were broken, by which, at least, 1000 panes were demolished, exhibiting a picture of destruction seldom witnessed. The block of wood upon which the dish was placed was so much splintered as to appear as though it bad been struck by a cannon-ball fired from an eighteen-pounder. The large paving stone upon which the block stood is likewise shattered into twenty pieces. About a yard square, in the middle of a wall nearly two feet thick, is thrown inwards four or five Inches by the force of the ex plosion. EMIGRATION (From the Scotsman:) We lately gave an account of the emigration to Canada, but a recent return puts us in possession of the amount of emigration to all quarters of the globe. The following table gives the number of persons who emigrated to all foreign countries in 1841 : To America : England. Scotland. Ireland. Total. United States 39066 2058 3893 45017 Texas 46 46 Central America North American Colonies: Canada New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 618 1693 33 2344 Newfoundland Prince Edward's Island 325 885 621 1831 West Indies : Jamaica.. British Guiana B4 63 147 Trinidad Other West India Islands 514 83 26 623 Falkland' Islands - 27 27 Western Africa Cape of Good Hope ... Mauritius 4O 40 Moulmein Australian Colonies : Sydney Port Philip - Van Diemanen's Land South Austrrlia Western Austra64 357 357 New Zealand ....ir*. 3BBB 13 3901 Total ........• 72104 14060 32428 118592 There is something curious in the preference which the emigrants from England, Scotland, and Ireland display for different localities. The proportions emigrating to the countries below are as follow : To United States To Sydney To Canada EMIGRANTS. English. Scottish. Irish. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent 51 .... l4l 12 17 2i` 84 25 To Port Philip 14 7 The 118,592 emigrants, probably, carried with them, or expended on their passage, £2O each ; and thus the money which left the country must have amounted to upwards of £2,000,000. . . . This gigantic emigration is one of the things which convey as idea of the immense resources of Britain. The United Kingdom contains only the ninth part of the population of Europe ; and we believe it may be safely said, that all the other eight parts do not send out half the number of emi grants annually which are sent out by the British isles alone. ADMIRALTY COURT-FRIDAY THE VOLANT — COLLISION—JUDGMENT. Dr. Lushington proceeded to give judgment in this case. The question to be decided, he said, was of some difficulty and of very considerable importance. It was an action for damage brought by the owners of the Beatitude, for £2,300. The vessel proceeded against was of the value of £675 only, and when the case came before the court, it being assisted by Trinity masters, it was held that the collision arose in con sequence of the misconduct of the captain of the Volant, who with four other persons were the owners of the vessel. The question now for the decision of the court was, if the court could enforce payment beyond the value of the ship, if hav ing been asked to pronounce that the master was also liable. There had been two cases cited ; one for and the other against the liability of the master—the Triune, decided by Sir John Nichol, and the Hope, decided by himself. He (Dr Lush ington) was not aware of the decision in the case of the Triune, when he decided that of the Hope, and, therefore, he should look at the point now before him as an open ques tion, not being bound by either. By the ancient maritime law, the owners of vessels doing damage were bound to make it good, if the amount claimed was not more than the ship doing the damage was worth. That court had jurisdiction in cases of damage over the whole seas, and the usual mode was to arrest the vessel ; but its jurisdiction, where an ap pearance was not given, did not exist beyond the value of the ship. The owners were called to enter an appearance to the value of the ship in cases of damage, and no further. Bail could not be demanded beyond the value of the ship, and the warrant of arrest was confined to that ; nor could any other claim be engrafted upon it. In the case of Wilson v. Dickson, 2d Barnewell and Alderson, it was held by Baron Bayley, under the sth Geo. 111., that the liabilities of owners were limited. The question then arose if the co-owners were liable, the master being part owner, and the loss having occurred through his misconduct. The verdict was for the defendant. The substance in effect of this decision was to protect the master, though part owner. He (Dr. Lushing ton) was of opinion that the master in this case being a part owner, and the damage having been the result of his miscon duct, the parties proceeding must sue him in the first in stance. The promoters of the suit must set out first with a personal action, and most clearly that had not been done in the present case. He must pronounce for the damage; but the court could not enforce payment beyond the value of the ship and freight, and condemn the owners who have ap peared in the costs. So soon as the Seine shall have become shallow, from the progress of the season, says the Moniteur Parisien, the bed of it, betweeu the Pont d'Austerlitz and the Pont de Gre nelle, will be explored by means of a newly-invented diving. bell, as it is supposed that valuable property was thrown in there during the revolutions. - - ----- SCOTTISH CHURCHES IN ANCIENT TIMES.—It is a some what curious circumstance that Scotland, which appears in ancient times to have been distinguished among the nations for her magnificent temples, should have become remarkable for the adoption of the most short-sighted notions with re gard to the use of churches. The sound opinions formerly entertained in Scotland on this subject have been noticed by the excellent Bishop Jeremy Taylor, whose soul loved every thing that was beautiful and grand, and who speaks of our country as being " famous in former times for so much piety that the devotion of the natives under so cold a clime—whe ther you consider the rich endowments, or the magnificent structures of places dedicated to God's service—can hardly be matched."* Now-a-days a church appears to be consi dered by many people to be nothing else but a place for hear ing ministers speak in ; and consequently it is thought th a t it should be a house just capable of holding as many people as can hear the minister's discourse, and that it should have no ornaments which a mob could destroy. It is also a down laid principle that too little money cannot be spent upon the temples of religion. Now surely a devout heart would naturally conceive that there are many uses of a church be sides its adaptation to the hearing of sermons. Is it super stition to say that a church ought to be vast enough for that as well as fo r o th er p urposes — t h a t it ought to be an earthly symbol of the etern a l t emp l e no t made with hands — a place to which the tha n kf u l an d prosperous might repair, and off er up their praises to the throne of grace—the meditative to heighten the rapture of their contemplations —and the broken hearted to pour o u t th e i r souls before the G od of all conso lation—and that ever which the feel i ngs can d er i ve from y external objects, should be there ever p resent;— Bruce's Eminent Men of Aberdeen.—Life of Bishop Gavin Dunbar. * In his Address to the Reader, prefixed to Spotiswood's " History of the Church of Scotland," folio,. London, 1668. Varitament. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY The LORD CHANCELLOR read her Majesty's most gra cious answer to their lordships' address on her recent escape, which answer was ordered to be entered on the journals. On the motion of the Earl of RIPON the Income 'Fax Bill was read a first time, and ordered to he read a second time on Friday next. Lord KINNAIRD then brought his motion for a select committee to inquire into the present state of distress pre vailing through the country. He adverted to the Queen's letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, which he thought most impolitic, because it was addressed exclusively to the established church, instead of being addressed generally to the clergy of all denominations, calling upon them to aid in the work of charity. He supposed its being exclusively ad dressed to the right rev. prelate was with a view to show a mark of distinction to the established church. The noble lord then charged the government with applying public money to suppress the exposure of the magnitude of the dis tress by doing something towards its alleviation. The peo ple being in a state of deep suffering asked their lordships for bread, and they gave them a stone, as was evident from the fact that since the passing of the late corn law the price of corn had risen 35., with a likelihood of a still further in crease. The noble lord entered into various statistics re specting Manchester, Bolton, Dundee, Leeds, Paisley, and other large manufacturing towns, showing that both crle and distress were largely on the increase of late years, although the poor's rates had also been largely increased du ring the same period. Such, in fact, was the state of the manufacturing districts, that their lordships were treading on a mine. After dwelling at much length on the intense suffer ings of the people, the noble lord besought them, on behalf of that people, to grant the committee for which he prayed. The Duke of WELLINGTON said the noble lord had at great length laboured to prove that which every one admitted —the great distress prevailing through the manufacturing districts. With respect to the money advanced by govern ment to relieve distress, he admitted it was not exactly con sistent with the principles of our law to do so, but at the same time it was by no means unprecedented. When the means of a particular locality became wholly exhausted, the Government had stepped in to afford assistance, and were justified by the necessity of the case. With respect to ad dressing the Queen's letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury exclusively, it was impossible that any other course could be adopted to obtain the end in view. The whole aim and ob ject of the noble lord, in moving for his committee, appeared to be ultimately to have the corn law, so recently passed, re pealed ; and certainly an inquiry going on iu this way from day to day could scarcely fail to produce a great excitement through the country. He hoped their lordships would nega tive the motion of the noble lord. The Earl of RADNOR said the noble duke had attributed motives to his noble friend (Lord Kinnaird) for which nothing that had fallen from him had given the slightest foundation: The fault he found with the Queen's letter was that it was a most inadequate and ridiculous mode of endeavouring to meet distress of such magnitude as that which now prevailed. The noble earl then contended, that the new corn law, at present prices, was quite as prohibitory to importation as the old corn law ; and that the recent alteration had, therefore, been productive of no benefit to the mass of the people who were in such deep distress. The Duke of RICHMOND was of opinion that they would only aggravate the distress which now prevailed by assenting to this committee. It would create alarm amongst the agri culturists, for the obvious inference would be that another change of the corn-laws was in contemplation. He regretted that his noble friend had permitted himself to be made a tool of by the Anti-Corn-Law League. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE thought it was a fact cal culated to excite deep horror to know that, although the population of the country had largely increased, the consump tion of food had considerably diminished. He hoped his noble friend would not press his motion to a division, for the committee must go into a variety of subjects, for the discus sion of which he did not think the house suffic;ently prepared. Lord WESTERN thought some inquiry should take place into the cause of the distress. Lord IVIoNTnAGLE thought it was an unfortunate circum stance that this inquiry should have been introduced so late in the session, and still more unfortunate that it should be refused by the government. After some explanations from the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of RADNOR, and Lord FITZGERALD, Lord KINNAIRD withdrew his motion, after which their lordships adjourned. --....--. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the East India Committee of the Colonial Society, praying for the produc tion of papers connected with the affairs of Affghanistan, in order to enable them to judge of the necessity for the recent proceedings in India. The noble lord entered into a long narrative of the transactions which led to the occupation of Affghanistan, and intimated that if any public inconvenience wab likely to follow the production of the papers, he would not for a moment press for them. Lord FITZGERAID declined to follow the noble lord in the history which he had given of these transactions, be cause it would not only be unfair to the late government, who were responsible for these transactions, but because, in the present imperfect state of our information, and in the doubt ful position of our army beyond the Indus, such a discussion would be both premature and ill-timed. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table, and some bills being forwarded a stage their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply to a question from Mr. Cobden, admitted that great distress prevailed throughout the country, but he was gratified to find that it had been greatly alleviated by the contributions of the charitable. Mr. FERRAND complained of a placard which he said was issued in Manchester by the Anti-corn-law League, headed i❑ large characters with the word " murder !" and asked if the government had taken auy steps in consequence of its publication ? Sir J. GRAHAM said he had seen the placard, which was very inflammatory in its language; but the conduct of the labouring classes was so exemplary in the midst of their dis tress, that he thought the government was justified in taking no notice of the placard. Mr. HUME required the ithority upon which the hon. member had attributed the placard to the Anti-corn-law League ; but - Mr. PERRAND declined to give the name of the party, who was, he said, a gentleman of great respectability. The house then resolved itself into a committee of ways and means. The CH ANCELIAR of the EXCHEQUER, in moving the continuance of the present sugar duties for another year, said, he should have been gratified to have beerdn a position to propose a reduction of those duties, but it was impossible, under the circumstances, for the government to risk any further loss to the revenue at the present moment. It was also necessary that they should have further time to ascertain whether foreign sugar-growing countries could furnish such a supply as to make up for any loss that might accrue from a reduction of the duties. It was likewise necessary to pave the way by commercial treaties for the suppression of the slave trade, which might be encouraged if the British markets were thrown open to the slave-grown sugar upon the pay ment of such duties as would enable slave states to enter into successful competion with the free-grown sugar of the British colonies. Mr. ROEBUCK then moved thaa the duty on foreign sugar should be reduced to the same level as that imposed on our colonial produce. The hon. gentleman entered into some calculations to show that the people of this country paid no less than four millions annually, in the shape of duties on sugar, more than they would have had to pay had our mar kets been thrown open to foreign sugars ; and it was to be remembered that this amount of duty was levied upon an article which had become one of the necessaries of life. The hon. member treated the attempt to put down the slave trade in this way as Quixotic, and quoted the authority of Sir F. Buxton to show that it had increased with an aggravation of its worst characteristics. The country should be made aware, that it was only for the purpose of maintaining the interests of the West Indian proprietors that they werecalled upon to pay this enormous amount of duty. Mr. GODSON said that such a reduction as that proposed by Mr. ROEBUCK would be injurious to the free black popu lation of our colonies. Mr. GLADSTONE said that most important interests had grown up under those protective duties, and those interests should not be wantonly injured by such sudden alterations as that proposed. Mr. COBDEN thought that the existing system of slavery was as much encouraged at present as it would be if the du ties were equalized. The only difference was that at present our commerce with that country was carried on by a more circuitous route, and at a far greater expense than it would be if the proposed alteration were acquiesced in. We could not import sugar for sale in our markets, but we might bring it home, refine it in bond, and afterwards sell it to other countries who had not the same objection to its admission as we had. On a division, the motion of Mr. Roebuck was negative( by a majority of 59 to 18. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. LABOUCHERE then moved that the duty on foreign sugar be reduced to 30s. per cwt., and on colonial sugar 20s. per cwt. He was unable, he said, to support the motion of Mr. Roebuck, for he could not consent, at a single blow, to annihilate interests which had grown up under a system of protection. He was opposed to monopolies of all kinds, and would reduce all protecti v e d u tie s if h e cou ld do so without material damage to the interests necessarily affected by the change. He was surprised, after the principles which Sir R. Peel had taken for his guide in arranging the new tariff, that he should have left the important article of sugar un touched. The right hon. gentleman entered into a great va riety of statistical calculations to show that the duties he proposed would not prove injurious to our colonies—would not act as an encouragement to slavery, while they would be a great boon to the labouring classes in this country. Mr. GLADSTONE adduced a variety of calculations to show that, in a financial point of view, the proposed reduction would be productive of very great loss to the revenue, and contended that for a very doubtful advantage they should not interfere with the present satisfactory progress of slave eman cipation, by throwing open to slave produce the markets of Great Britain. He hoped that the present Parliament, by a majority greater than even that of the last Parliament, would reject the policy which the right hon. gentleman then, as now, had so strongly advocated. Mr. lIUME said, as soon as prohibitive duties were placed upon slave-grown tobacco and cotton, he should give some credit for sincerity to the arguments used respecting encou ragement of slavery, but not until then. We were doing an injustice to the British labourer in imposing upon him a heavy duty for the benefit of the blacks in those West Indies any one of whom could earn in seven hours in the islands, as much as three Englishmen could in sixteen hours in this country. Mr. P. M. STEWART said that no man who was alive to our colonial interests could have voted for Mr. Roebuck's motion ; nor could he support a reduction so extensive as that proposed by Mr. Lahouchere. He was, however. op posed to all monopolies, and he thought that those West Indian proprietors who could not foresee that an early change of those duties was inevitable must be more than usually short-sighted. There were, however, strong reasons for the temporary retention of the existing duties. It would, in fact, be unfair to call upon them to compete with other countries while their commerce was so restricted—that would be in fact to call upon them to enter the arena of competition with one hand tied. Lord J. RUSSELL said, it was admitted on all hands that it was a great object to have articles of consumption as cheap as possible; but when an attempt was made to cheapen any great article of consumption it was found impossible to do so, owing to the interests which interfered to prevent their doing so. Such was the case with bread, sugar, butter, cheese, and cattle. The latter indeed had been assented to, but not until the house was assured that the people could profit but very little by the change. The noble lord then commented on the inconsistency of the government , i n ar g uin g that to reduce the duty on sugar would be to encourage slavery, while they reduced the duty on slave-grown coffee to 8d from is 3d ; and the duty on copper, also, although it was notorious that the copper mines in the Brazils were all worked by slaves. It would be a great disappointment to the people, after hav ing an income-tax imposed upon them, to find out at last that the promises of relief held out to them terminated in nothing substantial, for where the reductions were material they were sure to be upon articles which entered but little into the consumption of the poorer classes of the people. Mr. ROEBUCK said that Mr. P. M. Stewart wanted a resto ration of slavery, for otherwise he could not tell what he meant by calling upon the house to unt ie their hands , and they would then compete with the world. Sir R. Peel, it was clear, had many difficulties to contend with in bringing forward the tariff, for as the right hen. baronet had well re. marked on a former night, "every man had his herring," and colonial produce was now the herring of Mr. Stewart, as corn was of the late government. The hon. gentleman then contrasted his own proposition with that of Mr. Labouchere in order to show the superiority of his own, and condemned the whole colonial system which caused them to tax the peo ple for the benefit of a very few parties interested in the co lonies. He had no hesitation in saying, that if it was for the benefit of the people of England, he would sacrifice the West India interests, and he challenged any hon. member to show any benefit that had ever accrued to this country from the possession of those barren islands. What benefit had the poor weavers of Yorkshire or Lancashire from our possession of these colonies to compensate them for the high price they paid for their sugar ? Mr. P. M. STEWART said, in explanation, that what he had said was that he was opposed to all monopolies except those for maintaining which there were special reasons. So far from saying that he wished to see slavery revived, he had argued directly the other way. • Mr. BERNAL said he had no arguments to advance which he could hope would alter the destructive opinions of his hon. friend (Mr. Roebuck), but he should remember that all great empires, as a whole, depended for their existence upon preserving the integrity of their various parts. The hon. gentleman then contended that the West Indian proprietors were not placed on the same footing as the agricultural pro prietors in this country. Sir R. PEEL said, that in order to pour oil upon the dis sensions in the opposition, he would recommend the house to vote for the pnuposition of the government. If the colo nies were to be abandoned, as recommended by Mr. Roe buck, this country would give a fatal blow to its honour, its greatness, and even to its safety as an empire. It would be madness for a governnient to adopt any measure whatever, with a view to obtaining the support of the West India in terests ; for, as respected political influence, they were the wealthiest party in the number of their votes in that house. The noble lord had said that he (Sir R. Peel) had stated that the reduction of the duty on meat would confer but little benefit on the people ; but the noble lord had himself been ten years in office, and had never proposed any alteration in the duties on foreign provisions. It might be that the sav ing in meat, in consequence of these alterations of duty, might be very small ; but it was not the less important on that account, for it was to an accumulation of small savings, as the result of the tariff, that he looked for material benefit to the people. With respect to sugar, this country was in a peculiar position. France had refused to ratify a treaty for the suppression of slavery, and had thrown imputations upon the disinterestedness .of Great Britain. Under such circum stances, it behoved them to be cautious, in any step they took, not to give room to the world to infer that there could be the slightest foundation for those imputations, Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no reason to be ashamed of the ten years during which he was in office; for during those ten years the government to which he belonged had brought forward many of the most important measures that had ever been submitted to parliament. If they had brought forward the tariff of the right hon. baronet while they were in power, they would have been defeated, whereas now, as an opposi tion, they had the satisfaction of enabling the right hon. ba ronet to carry it, notwithstanding the desertion of a great portion of his usual supporters, On a division, the motion of Mr. Labouchere was defeated by 245 to 164. The original resolution was then agreed to, and the house resumed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. IPSWICH ELECTION. The nomination of candidates to represent the borough of Ipswich in parliament took place on Thursday last, on the Cornhill. After the usual electioneering greetings had taken place, Lord Desart and Mr. Gladstone were nominated on the conservative interest, and Mr. Gisborne and Mr. Moffatt were put forward by the liberals. Lord Desart, in addressing the electors, said he came for ward as the zealous supporter of those principles which he believed every Englishman wished to support. (Loud cheers.) It had been remarked that he had been proposed by a whig ; he gloried in the nomination, as it showed a return to right mindedness. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) His principles were a firm and entire determination to support the interests of the church and state. (Cheers.) It was the constitution of our forefathers, and he hoped it would not fail to be cherished by their children. (Cheers.) He hoped the elec tors of Ipswich would not support innovation and revolution. (" No, no.") For his own part, he would support the pros perity of all classes of the cornmyity. (Cheers.) He felt assured the present government was formed of men deter mined to support those principles, and he would also throw in his support, if they returned him as their representative. (Cries of "We will, we will.") He had witnessed the inef fectiveness of the late government, and he had seen what was the conduct of the present government. They determined to relieve the country from the many difficulties created by their predecessors. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) The present measures before parliament were the income tax and the tariff. (Cries of " cheap bread.") The whigs promised cheap bread, but what did they give them ? The rural police and the poor law. (Hisses and groans.) It was well known it was the wish of the tories to lower the price of provisions, and he believed that the measures now before the house had received the best consideration possible. (Hear.) He ac knowledged agriculture as a paramount interest, and would support it in connection with commercial and other interests. (Cheers.) With respect to the poor law, he would support it in that way which he conceived to be most conducive to the benefit of the people. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl con cluded by observing he was opposed to universal suffrage and vote by ballot. (Cheers, and cries of " Oh, oh.") Mr. Moffatt then presented himself amidst groans and hisses mingled with cheers. He said he was opposed to fi nality, and was favourable to a more equitable arrangement of the representation. (Cheers.) He would give his support to any measure which would put down bribery and corruption. (Cheers.) He would support the proposition that the man who receives a bribe should be struck off the register,—(hear, hear)—and that any candidate who was guilty of giving a bribe should be disqualified for ever from sitting in parlia ment. (Hrar, hear.) He was for a larger extension of the suffrage and vote by ballot, and in favour of shortening the duration of parliaments. (Cheers, and " hear.") He would lend his hand to an efficient church reform, and a modifica tion of the law respecting church rates,—(hear, hear)—and he would be glad to see the poor law carried out with a more leniegt spirit. (" . 11ear s hear," and cheers.) _ - Mr. Gladstone then Janie fOrward and addressed the elec tors. He had heard it said that her Majesty would never bestow her confidence on a conservative government, but the fact was it had her most implicit confidence, experiencing as she did the loyalty and attachment of their feelings. (Cheers.) He had no doubt they would continue possessed of that con fidence as long as they pursued an honest and straightfor ward course of duty. (`. Hear, hear," and cheers.) He had witnessed the whig party, which no longer merited the name, gradually giving up their ground, and approaching radical opinions,- one day advocating the corn laws and another a low fixed duty, catching at a straw like drowning men. (Cheers,) He was decidedly hostile to the altera tions in the constitution of the country advocated by Mr. Moffatt. He denied the efficacy of the ballot ; he believed that if he were disposed, notwithstanding the existence of the ballot—if he were disposed to bribe, he should have a pretty good hold on his friends if he told them they would ❑ot be paid unless they elected him. Englishmen disliked any thing that was not fair and above board. (Cheers.) A London newspaper the other day stated that he had been a proprietor of slaves. That was utterly false. (Cheers.) His family were holders of West India property, but who made them so ? The legislature of the country. He had the honour of voting with Mr. Gisborne for the extinction of slavery in the British dominions. (Loud cheering.) He never was an advocate for slavery, and be felt surprised that such a charge had been brought against him. He referred them to his past conduct as a guarantee for his future be haviour in Parliament if he were returned. (Cheers.) Mr. Gisborne presented himself, but the feeling was so much against hearing him, that after several unsuccessful attempts to be heard he retired amidst great uproar. On Friday, at an early hour, the greatest activity was manifested in getting up voters to the poll. Mr. Wason was most indefatigable in his exertions for the reform party, although every effort proved ineffectual. At ten o'clock the conservatives had obtained a majority of 18 over their opponents, and in defiance of all endeavours continued to increase it until the close of the poll. About one o'clock the whig-radicals found their case a hopeless one, and in several instances had the bribery oath put to several of the conservative freemen, but no elector was deprived of giving his vote on those grounds. The official declaration took place on the hustings at six o'clock by the returning officer, when the numbers were— for Desart .. Gladstone Gisborne Moffatt .. 680 673 543 541 The successful candidates addressed the electors, and thanked them for their having returned them to represent their interests in Parliament. BURGLARY, AND ILL-USAGE OF INMATES At about one o'clock on the morning of Tuesday last, the family of the Rev. Mr. Cowban, of Aiston, at the time con sisting only of his housekeeper, her niece, and a little girl, were alarmed by the barking of the house-dog, and by the noise of people at the back of the house, as if breaking into it. The niece got to the window of the bed-room in which they were sleeping, and said she could see a man. Immedi ately afterwards, the window of the lower room was smashed in by means of some heavy instrument, and three men en tered and made their way to the bed-room door, and de manded to be admitted. The housekeeper, a woman ap parently between fifty and sixty years of age, who was, naturally enough, very much alarmed, said, that if the men would spare their lives, she would open the door. The men having induced her to open the door, one of them immedi ately, in the most dastardly manner, struck the poor woman a violent blow on the head with some heavy blunt instru ment, as she imagined, by the poker. They then asked her where the money was, and she said, if they would not injure her she would show them where it was. She accordingly went with them into another room in which there was a desk with some money in it. This they broke open by means of the poker, and got about £3O in gold and silver. Whilst two of the ruffians remained with the housekeeper, one of them returned into the bed-room in search of the niece, and brought her out and struck her, and asked her how much money her master had, whether he had a £lOO or not ? and she said she could not tell. The little girl who was in the room, upon the first alarm being given got under the bed, so that she escaped any maltreatment. The niece had two very serious wounds on her head, and she was otherwise much hurt about the body. After having obtained the £3O, the property of the Rev. Mr. Cowban, the burglars inquired of the housekeeper, whe ther there were any watches in the house, and the reply was, that the master had the only watch there was with him. They also inquired if she had any money upon her, and re plying in the affirmative, they took from a box belonging to her the further sum of Ss. or 9s. At this time the candle by some accident or other went out, and this being Mr. Cowban's sleeping apartment, and of course having a bed in it, the housekeeper got under it to secreen herself from further violence. In the meanwhile, the niece having wrapped a counterpane about her, got through this room into the chapel adjoining, and with which this room communicated. Thence she made her escape across a field to the nearest house, which would be about two or three hundred yards distant, and raised an alarm. At this house five masons happened to be stopping, a n d they imme diately set of to arrest the depredators, but, on their arrival, the thieves were gone. The housekeeper, whilst under the bed, overheard what they said, which was to the effect that the women having got away, it would not be safe for them to stay any longer, and they forthwith decamped, The burglars are described as having been dressed as mechanics, and as having been considerably advanced in liquor. Before they left the premi s e s they broke a number of glasses in the lower rooms. They were in the house altogether not more than a quarter of an hour or twe nt y minutes. Unfortu nately, the Rev. Mr. Cowban happened to be awayfromhomethat evening, which is very un usual with him ; and what renders the circumstance of the robbery still more singular, is the fact that the money stolen had only been receiv:lspidtchir of the day before. A party has be en taken into custndy on being concerned in the r obbery. He was ex am i ne d on Wed nesday, before Mr. Cu nliffe, at Messrs. Pilkington, Walker, and Co.'s office, in Chapel-walks, and remanded for further examination.—Preston Chronicle. The Court of Queen's Bench has recently decided that ' one overseer of the y poor cannot bind another without his :onsent or authority.' UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE' (From the Oxford Herald.) In a Convocation holden on Thursday last, the Rev. Alex ander Thurtell, M.A., of Caius and Gonville College, Cam bridge, was admitted ad eundern. In a Congregation holden at the same time, the following Degrees were conferred : BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. Charles Atmore Ogilvie, late Fellow of Balliol College, Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, grand compounder. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. Anthony Grant, late Fellow of New College, Bamp ton Lecturer for the year 1843. BACHELOR IN MEDICINE, WITH LICENCE TO PRACTISE. Thomas King Chambers, Christ Church. MASTERS OF ARTS. George S. Harding, Brasenose College, grand compounder. Richard Eddie, Brasenose College. Rev. Charles James Quartley, St. Edmund Hall. • Rev. Anthony Raincock Harrison, Queen's College. Rev. Charles Walter Bagot, All Souls College. Rev. George William Hutchins, Magdalene Hall. Rev. David Jones, Jesus College. Rev. Henry Western Plumptre, University College. William Sandys Wright Vaux, Baliol College. Rev. Edw. Bowles Knottesford-Fortescue, Wadham Coll. Rev. Harcourt Norris Torriano Busfield, Worcester Coll. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Edward B. James, Queen's College. Richard Roope, Wadham College. Benjamin Centum Kennicott, Oriel College. Richard Meredyth Richards, Merton College. Henry John Sawyer, Merton College. George Shaw Munn, Trinity College. Henry Nethercote, Balliol College. In a Convocation holden in the afternoon, for the purpose of electing a Perpetual Curate for Holme Cultram, in the county of Cumberland, the Rev. Joseph Simpson, M.A., of Queen's College, was unanimously chosen. In a Congregation holden on the 20th ult., James Morris, Esq., of Trinity College, Dublin, M.A., was incorporated of Brasenose College. CAMBRIDGE PRIZE POEMS.—Mr. Henry James Sumner M.A., scholar of Pembroke College, has been adjudged both the Chancellor's and the Camden Medals. The subjects were " The Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," and " Csar ad Rubiconem constitit."—Cambridge Chronicle. On Thursday last, Mr. Edward Boucher James was elected a Taberdar, and Mr. George Henry Heslop, a Scholar, of Queen's College. The Rev. Alfred Hackman, Chaplain of Christ Church, has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of that Society to the Perpetual Curacy of Cowley, in this county, void by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Chamberlain. The Rev. Charles J. Collier, Head Master of Henley Grammar School, has been appointed by the Lord. Bishop of Oxford a Surrogate for the diocese. The Rev. Charles Deedes, 8.A., formerly of Merton Col lege, Rector of West Camel, Somersetshire, has been pre sented to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral Church of Wells. PROMOTIONS Rev. John Russell Stock, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been presented, by the Lord Bishop of Lon don, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cornish Hall End, near Finchingfield, Essex. Rev. John Osmond Dakeyne, M.A., of Downing College, Cambridge, Perpetual Curate of St. Benedict, to be Evening Lecturer of St. Mark, Lincoln. Rev. John FrederiCk Benwell, of Reading, to the Rectory of Neenton, near Bridgnorth. Rev. John Horner, M.A., formerly Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Rector of Mells, Somersetshire, to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral Church of Wells. Rev. Robert Cope Wolfe, to the Vicarage of Braithwell, Yorkshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. A. Steuart. Rev. William Buswell, 8.A.., formerly of Queen's Col lege, Cambridge, Rector of Widford, Essex, to be Chaplain to Chelmsford Union. Rev. Horatio Samuel Hildyard, M.A., Fellow and Clas sical Lecturer of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Lofthouse, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Sir William Murray, Bart. Rev. David Morgan, M.A., Curate of Amport, to the Rectory of Weeke, Hants, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Nott ; iitron,the Bishop of Winchester. Rev. Richard Foley, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of North Cadbury, Somerset shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. S. Blackall. Re . v. John Fletcher, M. A., late of the Grammar School, Stonehouse, Plymouth, has been appointed by the Council, Master of the King's College School at Nassau, New Pro vidence, Bahamas. Rev. John Vignolles Brabazon, to the Curacy of Auchna cloy, Ireland. ft'ev. John Bridge, M.A., to the Curacy of Castlecomer Colliery, Ireland. Rev. Robert Jones, Curate of Barmouth, to the perpetual Curacy of All Saints, Deptford Lower-rood; patron, the Rector of Rotherhithe. The Hon. and Rev. Philip Yorke Savile, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, bas been appointed by his father, the Earl of Mexborough, P.G.M. for the province of the West Riding of Yorkshire, one of the Provincial Grand Chaplains of the Order of Freemasons, vice the Rev. Brother Clapham. THE DIVISION ON THI THE PROPER For the third reading. ENGLAND. Counties Boroughs lOB Universities —202 Counties Boroughs WALES THIRD READING OF CY TAX BILL. Against the third reading, ENGLAND. Counties. Boroughs Counties. Boroughs SCOTLAND. Counties Boroughs WALES SCOTLAND Counties. Boroughs IRELAND IRELAND Counties Boroughs Counties. Boroughs 12 11 - 23 Total for the third , reading • ' —255 Total against the third reading.... Alajority OPERATION OF THE POOR LAW IN LAN- CASHIRE (From the Preston Chronicle.) The Poor Law Amendment Act has been in operation for nearly eight years, and what do we find the state of the case now to be ? Pauperism in no wise abated ; our workhouses so full that new and more enlarged ones are obliged to be built—in our own union a fifth workhouse is about to be added to the four already in use ; the rates increasing ; wages so low that, in some departments of employment, as in the case of the hand-loom weaver, a hard week's work will not procure a man more than a wage of 4s. or ss. ; our power. loom weavers and spinners turning out because of threatened reductions in their wages ; and such a mass of poverty exist ing in their country, as to have occasioned that ill-suited remedy to be resorted to, the issuing of a Queen's letter, for the relief of the destitute. We have before 1s a — zec - e;:t parliamentary return, showing the average annual expenditure for relief to the poor, in the parishes in this county, among others, in the three years prior to the formation of the Poor-law unions in which they are now placed ; and the expenditure of the same under the new poor law for the year ending March 25th, 1840. And what do we find the result to be ? That, in nine unions out of eighteen, there is a positive increase in the latter period over the former ; and that, in most of the others where there is a decrease, it is one of a most insignificant character, and produced by a system of coercion horrible to think of. Thus, in Blackburn, the decrease is £9OO out of £8,000; in the Fylde, £7OO out of £4,000; in Prescot, £5OO out of £6,000; whilst we find, on the other hand, that in Barnley the in crease is as from £8,694 to £9,319 ; Clitheroe, from £5,119 to £5,699; Salford, from £7,056 to £7,860; Wigan, from £8,486 to £9,486 ; in our own union the increase has been from £11,347 to £12,379 ; whilst in Bolton it has been upwards of seven thousand pounds sterling, or from £9,363 to £16,502. At present the increase will be found to be much greater in every case. That, however, it may be said, must arise from the greater depression of trade. But that cause did not exist in the year 1840, to anything like the amount which it does now. Indeed, from the year 1835-6 to the year 1839-40, trade was good—particularly so in the former period —so that the amended law has had everything in its favour ; and yet what a miserable result do we witness! Surely a law never was passed, which, inflicting so much private injury with the avowed object of promoting the pub lic good, so lamentably and signally failed to do other than incalculable mischief. Even when the screw has been pressed the most tightly, it has not realised the extravagant expec tations proposed ; and it has not just because it could not produce the effects predicated of it. And yet this law is to be re-enacted, under the guise of an amended law ; and this once gay, and blithe, and happy land, is to be cursed w ith this system for another five years,—nay, in perpetuo. Alas ! alas ! for " Old England ;" when shall she be " Old Eng land," in this respect, again? Echo, answers—when? ATROCIOUS RADICAL CHARGES We dare not trust ourselves to give expression to the feel ings with which we read the following atrocious charge against the Queen's uncle and the Queen's ministers, for being either principals or accessories in procuring the assas sination of her Majesty. We shall, therefore, extract it without comment, merely stating that it is taken from the Dublin Pilot evening paper of Wednesday : ATTEMPT ON THE QUEEN'S LIFE " Another attempt to assassinate our beloved Queen bas been made, and, fortunately, like the- other, i , rendered abor tive by the interposition of a merciful Providence. We an ticipated, we confess—and long since intimated—some such attempts. " We anticipated it from the impunity to . the former as sassin, and the calculation of ;or impun i ty from the as cendancy of the Hanoverian party in our government. We always thought that the pains taken to disengage Oxford's affair from the character of conspiracy, an d t h at having its seat in Hanover, was unjust as related to the facts that ap peared, dangerous to the future s a f e t y of the Queen, and calculated to make other hired assassins feel that, at the worst, they would be treated as l unatics, and pampered ' as pets. We should like to know has Oxford shown, in his confinement, those sympto ms o f insanity' to which he owed his life? Is he in pri son st i ll? Has he been permitted to es cape ? or is he peculiarly we ll treated since his Hanoverian friends cameinto power ? The very effect of that party being in power, we do say, without imputing to its members wilful malice, compromises the life of a constitutional sovereign. .Ruffians will, in sp i te, perhaps, of the fact, calculate on im punity, pay, reward. Should our Queen cease to live, there must be at the best a long minority—a regency ; and that, under the present regime, be rank tory. Are there no vil lains who would speculate upon the rewards of such a state of things ? See, already, the secresy of the proceedings. If high and mighty names appear connected with the crime, and those of the rulin g party, will the people ever hear of them ? Why this se cresy , if there be nothing in the case but the isolated act of a maniac or a ruffian ? That secresy itself is a proof there is something to conceal, and that something forbids the secresy. Are they waiting to make up a case, or to detect some higher culprit ? We shall see. Conceal men t, even for a period, h as a l rea dy deprived the investigation of the attributes for final justice, or at least for public confidence in its adjudications. We have lost, on perceivingit,all le con fidence in results ; and w e call upon the public to exert doubled spirit and vigilance, in defect of that op.enngehses:;swehhiae.dh should, from the outset, attend judicial proceedings ; for it is [the at the first blush of re s d uc b h y t t h h i e ng p s ;lo b t e t f (i. or s e i.r w ß d . y pe d e o i l name is usually app time to concoct a case, that facts, incidepts, expressions, betray truth, and enable the public mindl of itself to hunt out the real criminals and the criminality. I cannot refrain from stating that it has been mentioned, for the last few days, that the Queen is eneiente ; and if her Majesty were not blessed with a courage, for which all her family have ever been remarkable, these ruffianly assaults might be attended with the most painful, the most deplorable, the most fatal consequences.—Dublin Monitor Correspondent. An extraordinary bundle of asparagus was on Saturday last exhibited in the Worcester market : it consisted of 100 heads, which weighed to the enormous extent of 281bs. It s was sold for two guineas.