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HOUS f his spe 1 ga to have the words reporte :d by 11 BROUGHAM complime of refuting on-t Sir T Lord CAMPBELL coma ne case of Stockdale v. Hansard. a nninion of all the learned opinion that entious iqualified contradiction to and learned ul a calumny, and read a letter tr that he had ever used such expressions in the course :ngthon the judg; sing the {gentlemen in House of Commons that it was not a rightpne. Lord DI , - - .aid that if the house ha4the power of what was the use of their past late act Ned of. Lord R rds from Lord BROUGHAM the subject was dropped ne other business of a trifling .ed as to t e cbaracti air inqui ao composed ioor-law C ir nature had been dis- as only NGTON defended the commissioners , m Lord CAMPBELL, the sub- and stated it as I be added to th The Duke of IN After a f lervations d the house adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS.--MONDAY On the motion for Mr. T. DUNCOMBE n consequence of the formation N said the c morandt ad of informing GRAHAM said Istrates I why the rates han one r CHAN( Knutsford Gaol, and read a letter fr inlaining of the conduct of the magi" was not reduced, seeing the cnrrent rate nto a committee of supply, .ted to the subject of the chartist •h. bich he had 1 rison inspector, sent down from the several year iaplain had what had occurred In gistrates of what he thought proceeding was premature, as Ile .eport of the prison inspector on the le B orne Secretary had no control over -val of the chaplains of gaols, which f interest on ex r mone _.,;ELLoa. of the EXCHEQUER repnea Lru We securities could not be arranged with refe --- rate in the market. luctuating and temporar house having formed itself into a comm a on the hig )r the commissariat raised and Mr. Williams objec establishments acing urge f the vote reply to Mr. Williams nanner in wnich as no wond forward, tna at had taken ' e by surprise which they had lo ded universal acquiescence, after some further busine adjo . urned HOUSE OF LORDS. -TUESDAY AGLE gave notice I BROUGHAM called the of two p, cne extravagant scale of Sir R. Peel Other mem- tingencies on account of not havir 1-enabled to it on Tuesday next he rns relative to tne importation of cotton e should call attention to the -c se articles attention of their lordships I had appeared relative to Lord Lynedoe n ature. for the I Mr. A up w backward WILLIAMS --. , .111.- - ight than as stand s Ashburton rican ships, E lat house, and arrel between them. -He _ le author, and if he could discover him ald have him called to the bar, and try whether ad or had not the privilege of punishing snot lord stated o e facts as the., __ had ever been sent to ey had taken The noble )stile messag. on the contrary, asst... fetter was full of the kindest and n towards him, mere l y re q uesting that h feeling ontra di c t the misrep resentat i on s which had f c h in that house -.. misrepresentations of facts heen ridiculous —if not despicable, hateful, and ;ere it not that this sort f interference by the press with privat e society was no longer o to be endured. In reply to a question from Lord 132AumoNT, The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was the intention of Government dur in g t h e present session to brin g in a bill to carry out the objects of the bill which had lately passed the Canadian legislature, for the ppose of admitting American into Canada at 3s. duty. I.hips soon after adjourned. ag that an tin; that Lynedoch ; Lord I :en made o O peech in th would have ' execrable—% OF COMMONS.—TtIESDAY. Sir T. liVawas referred to what had passed on the pre , e House of Lords relative toor obse enmrvations ieged to have b een made by him upon Ld D said that though that noble lord had not been in his his own expressions, yet that he (Sir T. Wilde) in using the words that " the noble word's judgment in the case of Stockdale and Hansard contained little law and less common sense," had used words which he most certainly would not have adisel chosen. Lord v P AL aignsT d y oN moved for copies of all communica tions which have taken place between the governments or plenip oten tiaries of G reat Britain and of the United States with re f e rence to the treaty signed at Washington the 9th day of August, 1842, and to the negotiations which led to that treaty ; and copies or extra Majesty's communications on the same subjects between her Secretary of State gn Affairs and Lord A .s hburton. Various opinions, he said, were entertained of this treaty, but as a bargain no for Forei one thought it advantageous for this country, while many, of the num ber, thought it a bad one , and wa s one gof blame. The first disputed point arising from w as the St. Croix, there being -‘f 1783, whic h -e. The second disputed "-blonds," the British John, tvg:, noUs t evening in tt lan, and guarded and he deservi' rivers than one of that na ..-` " point was as to which vy cone Am , that they were sourn .. :ontended that they were near the St. Lawrence. inned dispute also arose as to the meaning of the of latitude, the Americans contending thatit was 'ned by geometric latitude instead of by astro- The King of the Netherlands decided the kmeriean lines me „fixed upon an intermediate „.,;ca to by the British government, a 1... ... was felt to be very disa d va ntageous to E n g land. .le government of the United States rejected the decision, Apon which it was intimated to them that Great Britain withdrew its offer of adopting it. The British claim was founded upon the fact that the St. John falling into the Bay of Funday was an Atlantic river according to tent erms of the treaty. This point had been determined in favour of Great Britain by the King of the Netherlands ; and although the British Government refused to re -open the question, yet it w as subsequently agr eed that a convention should be appointed to the and decide upon the disputed boundarY- The proposition, however, that the state of Maine should appoint commissioners to be associated with the general commissioners was rejected by the British go vernment. Instead of continuing to rest on the justice of our claims which the Americans were perfectly aware were corroborated by the reports of the British commissioners, Colonel Mudge and Mr. Featherstonhaugh, and conducting through the ordinary channel of our am ,ton, a special mission was appointed, self was so far disadvantageous, because a -—;pl, great parade and pomp bservatior British n o 782, and that neither ♦iews of the trea line, which was though id6r, at Washing out WI s going )ut doing son d for this ne . ‘,. with respect to the person selei,,,- him.tionLord Ashburton, he wished to speak of with all consideration . for his private virtues ; but he laboured under great e disadvantages in being connected with America, and in h ing wholly unacquainted with diplomacy. W hen ,. Lord in America he was met by Mr. W ebster " What proposal be bad come . to make taking ar --- nosition. ' would f a natural reluctance to Demand of Intageous f _ timately checkmate( b u t he was skilfully --...inn after sh neg ie his propose► - t to a stand ,e A rnericfu rinciple of mutua l coo bupt Lord Ashburton flung which Mr. Webster , and when Lord .. . c essions on the part of no equivalents to offer, for he hen given e first instance. The noble lord con ' since actions d that all our foreign tra: ad corn into pow The first abolition of the sla: Hof ti ad been in the non-ratificat.— the third, the second, the treaty with America ; ons on the ;r1 relative to the burning of: th b ar e aco p believed the snh- recinding of the former orders opo of Africa baracoone cat was '" n* --- d Ashburton, f w hich ourse ° nce between Mr. Webster and .i. 'le case of the Creole, in the c med to admit that slaves on boar d . 251 . Int -:: 3 British ports, were not to be r , ^ - can rerr.it,_or,sy‘ 1 upon made, Loru ~..,.. ,,, ai spute had not been settled, and as It" to prove this a bill had since been presented to congress with a view to take immediate possession of the Oregon t e rritory, which, if it passed , wou ld be tantamount to a declaration of war against this country- Sir R. Past said that the noble lord had occupied upwards of three hours in endeavouring to show that government had acted unwisely in the selection of the plenipotentiary sent to America to bring to a close a negotiation which had lasted upwards of twenty-five years, and that the whole of that ne gotiation was badly managed. He, in short, denounced the treaty and all concerned with it, and then concluded with a motion for papers which he knew it was impossible for go --t to produce. Had he been open and manly enough for a vote of censure be would have met it with an dment, and the house could then have decided whether censure was fairly attributable to any party. The course allowed was unworthy of one of the leaders of a great party ,Ise, for he might have even moved to confirm the condemn the parties who had made it. He e treaty with America was any retrograde step respecting the abolition of the slave trade. On the contrary, the Americans had undertaken to keep up a certain force on `he coast of Africa for the purpose of suppressing the slave —a step in advance considerably greater than any which the late government had been able to induce the American government to adopt. The refusal of the French to ratify the treaty it had signed, was to be attributed to the noble lnrd, who had embittered the feeling of the French against by his policy on the coast of Syria, and who had verge of war. With --- -- kshbuston was told that vernmer to mov in that denied that ,th this count to the very the barra- iestructi? respect to the letter refe coons, he must say that international law, nowever desirous U end to the slave trade. limits of the law to pro trade, but they would onl with disrespect tt the slay e the suppret neat their own v treating i other powers w _,— ao stipulatio were not at war. Wit was entered into by Li ent at respect to (I Ashbort( home, but to the general principle that slaves escaping into B territories could not be restore( to induce slaves to take advent ge of that law. It was very point of difference between Great Britain and and perhaps because tree that every the United States had not bee Lord Ashburton feared that might peril the sett a the two lement of t for so long a period been the fester The American governm adjustment peed its willingness to effect a satlstactu. .-J -4-4e.to the Oregon territory, and a few months would p.rhal_ :0110, tibia point also to a conclusion if national jea lousies and `ll es should not be most - kab. rrttin LORDS to con he Morn; rd Denm I of was a most a maligoa A Ashburt hich kept List be ( decided upon sending States—a gentleman c rought t En issioners chosen by the Kings of Prussia, Sardinia, and Sicily, to settle this boundary ; but Mr. Fox exclaimed against so extraordinary a proposition, and Mr. Featherston haugh had also said that such a commission would last eight or ten years, in which case the expense of the commission would be far greater than the value of the territory in dis pute, and tbarafter all the question might be decided against ,s surely wise to tak ritory which would ha ble for all that ha tied to which had a' fo extent of territor Netherla I in the 3rehiv Dssession of IN motion to a divis. ton and Mr. Ni !nt of the right of s such interpretation of the treaty N Sir H. DOUGLAS defeßded at co made by Lord Ashburton (which report treaty o gorui sliburtor territory, and two- treaty g bster at Mr. WI ap was the one the noble lord tone on the part of the found f conclusi bad take f blame v on the govern done by Lord tended that they were e pursued and til far as related to military seem treaty of Lord Ashburton m' should have derived under t Netherland- and with rest The K equally ad vantag to Americ three-fifths of fifths to Engl twelfths to respect negotiatic had been had no rb point out th Dt censur Mr. MAcAuLAy C between Lord Ashbur cated caressing former unworthy of ii y of this country. , n ratified in Lond an abandon far from bl' Tanks for the cou iat course ter advant i in another col Che debate was then HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDN Mr. DIVETT compromise m been concer silk, as then who had car had compromised the matt The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER said I it his duty to inquire of the Customs, and found th public mind that to ti greatest never was, nor would th th th y never had any ( isten to any for a c legal seizures 'omise where they Upon the report of the Dogs Bill, two a proposed and rejected, and the bill third time this c The adjourne 1 debate on the A xi Tre Sir U. I.\ vilderincr Sir C kPIER, who complimented ontended that Lord A outwitted t Mr. D'l t there made, and ,s ordered to b, ELAELI th, previous evening one of the ables aitions he had ever heard a land on_the bur s of Vermont an oining New Bruns- Hampshire, and had received a wick ; and for a trifling portion of land formed by t of the Connecticut we had, in exchange, a considerable ter ritory forming an important military frontier—that is, we had given up one hundred thousand acres and had received one million. The navigation of the St. John gave the Americans liar advantages, as on ning in British territory they mus and the relinquishing of Roti portion of the river run )e subject to British law, as it did not Command the en moreover was in ruin: map, which v nt was of no consequence of Lake Champlain, and D'Anville, of the continent of oo minute t from the correspondence of I Franklin, as published by ap used lev,otiator *indson, in which it was negotiators was Mitch rho conducted the treaty of 1783, Mr. Oswald, had been objected to on grounds very similar to those on which the appointment of Lord Ashburton bad been questioned. In concluding, be criticised Lord Palmerston's foreign policy. Mr. HAWES proceeded to address the house, but an hon. member stating that there were not forty members present, the house adjourned at a quarter past seven. CAMBRIDGE ELEcTIoN.—The polling at this borough took place on Monday last. At eleven o'clock Mr. Foster was 68 a head of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, but this majority was gradually reduced until two o'clock, when it was 49, but between that hour and three o'clock the conservatives made a spirited rally, and at the latter hour Mr. Kelly had a majority of 28, which was increased at the close of the poll to 33. Mr. Kelly was therefore declared duly elected. He is a well known and firm conservative. STEAM AT SOUTHAMPTON.—The increas of steam ton nage at this port is worthy of notice. Twenty years ago a steam-vessel was known only by name, and as la s limited to but a few hun- years back tne stealm, dred tons, whilst on Sunday last we observed in our rib. commission, 24 steamers Cwhich is no unusual occurrenc, measuring in the aggregate 12,000 tons, and giving employ ment to 800 men, which, with the officers of the rur , companies, servants, &c., causes the expen. 4:50,000 per annum amongst the trade of this town.—Hamp shire Advertiser. The revolting outrage in Mont tailed a week or two ago, in whic iditure of at least Tyshire, which we de- a poor, aged, in man named Samuel Poppet, was thrown into the _ his own cottage, and a fire made on his breast, where,. Tl, has resulted in the death of the victim, after weeks of unparralled suffering ; the flesh of his body, -ck to below the stomach, being so much consu action of the heart and stomach was visible. flames, in consume hir from the II( med that tt and the bowels exposed. No motive can be assigned for this wanton cruelty, except the plunderers were disappointed of their prey,—a considerable sum of money which the old man possessed being so concealed amongst a parcel of rags that the thiefs could Strong suspicio❑ attaches to a gang of vagabonds who fortunately are now in custody —Chester Courant. . MURDER.—On the night of Wedn instant, a young man named Brock village of Tuam, wit lay last, the 15th Is twice fired at in th We ar a four miles of Strokestown sorry to say that both took effect, and immediate death was son for the committal assigned the result. It is difficult to assign a r of this murder, and we understand the most feasit is, that he had got ti changed to an adjoin Esq., of Rathtnile He was ant to R. ]rein ords in this. county ;ice, and his murder has excited con. we charactc siderable alarm and horror in the neighbourly sincerely hope that the perpetrators of this dreadful outra may be discovered, and that the r exertion in bringing them to justice FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday se'nnigl Newtown Mill, near - Melrose, having observe( -Boyle Gazott, t the miller of water• in the darn suddenly diminish, went to a lar enclosed pond, situate by the road side, where tl placed, to ascertain the cause. For this purpos luice is in a dung-fork, when to his astonishment and horror, I drew up the body of a little girl, the daugh named Jane Mein, who resides in the the daughter of Adam Thompson, L her mother, on bearing of the occurr :r of a person Another girl, and expressed her apprehension that her child had shared 111, same fate. Unfortunately her fears were too well founded for the next moment the lifeless body of her offspring wa dragged to the side. The two little girls, who were insepa ruble companions, had, while playing together, fallen unob served into the pond, which is of cDasiderable depth, and wet drowned.—Caledonian Mercury. TEMPERANCE MARINE spectus of a new company advertisement in the Londwi £23 each company as stated i .ro of underwrit new to London, but not new to America, where the plan has be eminently successful. Evidence has been submitted to par liament, and select committees have reported in its favour that a very large proportion of losses at sea arise, either di rectly or indirectly, from the use of ardent spirits. Sir Ed • I Codrington, Admiral Brenton, Mr. C. Purnell, the Liverpool, the lion. Capt. Rous, and mans id, or to nd found to t Dockmaster ;toted to parliament that a very large proportion of all the I are occasioned from this cause alone ; taking, however, the .s at sea losses so occasioned at but 20 per cent. of the whole, it is clear that a system which allows (say) 5 per cent, a bonus to the proprietors of all the insured vessels or cargoes, navigated under temperance regulations, on safe return voyages, must add to the ordinary profits of underwriting to the extent at least of 15 per cent. in addition THE REPEALERS.—These g Sabbath by a repeal demonstrai Trim, where 30,000 . persons, entry have been violating the ion on the last Lord's day in headed by numerous Popish . . at a political meeting of 1.P., in the chair; and priests, are stated to haw the morning, with Henry Grattan what Mr. O'Connell terms a " str wards, graced by the presence of the P ❑op of Meath al treason was B — y a " strong dinner" we understand that strong as well as the fare. One Lew feature seems to b( anxiously put forward at the recent repeal statements of the rent—via., —_ ,utions from Presbyterians and min Protestants are beginning to flow in more freely. place too much faith in these representation 3, but they strongly asserted. At all events the rent increases : that o the week is £351 Os. Bd., being above seven hundred pound in the fortnight last past. Again we ask, are our governor asleep ? Is impunity to be the reward of treason, seditio/ and crime, henceforth? Is danger to be steadily winked till it becomes no longer danger but dismay ? Truly, things are permitted to go on in the' soon be time for the Prote,..- contrii We don't present track, it wi of Ireland to anticipate th corning anarchy by the formation of a provincial associatio of some sort.—Dublin M'NAUGHTEv ffect of example, in Tring I has been found to bi natics from comr derabie, lr w , the lives of r n in the co, unquestionably a lunatic, was hanged for the Mr. Perceral, and from that time until Mil, not ler and s been mos o or three years asTnife political assassination was perpetrated in this coun try, throughout the most exciting and troubled times that have long been known in England. Oxford was acquitted for his late attempt on the Queen, on the ground of insanity, though with a very doubtful propriety ; and other similar at tempts almost immediately, followed. Not a week had elap- " serf;o - m --- the trial of M'Naughten, for the murder of 'Mr Drummond, and his acquittal on the ground of insanity, ere another madman openly threatened the lives of her Majesty and Sir IL Peel; and that of Mr. Goulburn was menaced by • • ...._ _ a person for whom, had he put his threats into execution, the plea of insanity would probably have been set up.—Lan- such circumstances e territory ice to b THE BOUNDARY On Tuesday n 1 broug Ashburtc t, in the Hous the cour rents to the and said, ' ner by the ESTIO Lord Pal- motion for his papers rotating to the lordship was replied to by Sir Robert Premier had close( " That ha. me ver id diplo ye Sir Howard toou it- Howard rose en alluded to i t called upon to trouble abject. He s with which right hon. baronet, he f wished first to detail so marke he had the honour of hold ituation of Governor of New Brunswick. Had he )een called upon ten or twelve years ago to state his opinions respect to the expediency of compromising the great he should have been during [uestion they were now considerinz disposed to have expressed his dissent to such a proposition ; but since then the question had undergone most material al- In 1794, by a question of arbitration between the terations _atries, the St. Croix was declared to be the point from which was to be drawn the north line which was to form the north-west boundary. In 1839 a certain boundary was the government of the United States, which, d, was their territorial point ; and for the purpose of ng any encroachments being made upon their terri n, they sent some land agents from Maine and Mas ts to traverse the country. He protested against -•-• In the summer of 1827 it was said that . ane of _., territory stopped the 6 trorn him, but afterwards de •.hat he was not to be country again without _. ',tie American authorities. As soon as was reported to him, he (Sir H. Douglas) felt -d in a difficult situation ; that if some vigor insisted upon preven those proceedi the British pol )Fls there we not exclusive vered i the concurrent ti a warning part of the that he was pia ous effort was not made the (i _ possession was alto gether lost to the country : and on the other hand he felt that if he used too much vigour lie might involve the two The only instruction on which he then he had received from Lord Bathhurst, not to relinquish any act of sovereignty. Soldiers were some times accused of resorting too speedily to harsh measures, but instead of the adjutant-general sent he sent for the at- countries in war had to act was a lette eneral, whom he desired to issue his precept to the gh-sheriff of the county to apprehend those parties that were engaged in this seditious conspiracy, to put them into the I tornev- the gaol of Frederickton, and to let the case go to the supreme court for judicature. He received a letter afterwards from the governor of the state of Make which he would read to the house. That leter was to the effect that the government demanded the release of those parties, and the granting those parties full indemnity for the imprisonment they had suffered. He felt very reluctant to get into any correspondence with the governor of Maine, or with any other subordinate autho nevertheless, he wrote a letter, in which he stated it was not for Is ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. LAST WEEK BUD ONE, A. GRAND CONCENTRATION_ OF NOVELTY, _ VARIETY, AND TALENT. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. J. SLOAN, NIONDAY next, March 27th, TUESDAY and kl WEDNESDAY, March 28th - and 29th, the Perform ances will commence with a grand Spectacle, entitled ESMERALDA ; Or, The Deformed Bell-ringer and Paris Dancer of 1482 After which, the laughable Interlude, entitled THE ATTIC STORY. The whole to conclude with the Romantic Drama, entitled THE WREN BOYS; OR, THE MOMENT OF PERIL. Dennis O'Donnell Mr. Sloan. 9 5.; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the 'LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester a f fords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation o f the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it a f fords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. rity, bu doubt the propriety of the Governor of Maine entering upon a correspondence with a foreign • , but that for himself he knew- too well his position to keep up such a correspondence; and that, if there were any thing in his (Sir Howard Douglas's) conduct of internal af _ open to objection, it would be better that the ,or of the state of Maine ahould refer the matter to his .11 general Government; that for himself he hoped the krneri— power, fairs which was 1 functionary would recollect the importance of keeping up unbroken the friendly relations between the two countries; and he suggested that the best way to maintain that was to lease matters in dispute to their respective go vernments ; that on the question of possession he was deter mined to maintain it inviolate on the part of the government of Great Britain. Upon this a proclamation was issued by the American authorities of Maine, calling out a large body of the militia. A person was sent by them who insisted on coming into his (Sir Howard Douglas's) presence, for the purpose of insisting upon the demands which had been made. The mister made by him through his secretary was, that he must positively refuse to recognize this person in an official capacity, and he refused also to enter into any cor respondence with the Governor of Maine, who wrote to Washington to insist on his (Sir 11. Douglas's) recal, and the same Governor ordered him to release Mr. Baker. The home Government supported him in his views, and their answers to him were couched in the same tone in which he had expressed himself. Upon this a large de nt of troops came within fo►ty miles of Frederick- Ir. Baker was brought to trial and a lenient sen tence was passed upon him in the shape of a moderate term of confinement and a fine. Threats continued to be made and the excitement proceeded ; everything was done to intimidate him, but he saw that it was expected he would call out the troops. After Baker had expiated his term of imprisonment, he refused to pay the fine. Upon the payment of this fine he as governor of the province insisted. Troops were threatened to be marched into the town, but he did not move a single soldier or constable ; and the result was that Mr. Baker, after remaining in gaol two or three weeks longer, paid thy fine. Ile thus vindicated the sove reignty of the British Crown, and as long as he was in the province not one person dared to intrude. In the spring of . - the next year it was declared by the Gover nor of Massachu setts that a road would be made to run from Mars-hill to the disputed territory. He, therefore, wrote to Sir Charles Vaughan, who did his duty manfully. Now it happened that upon the very identical spot where he apprehended Baker and his associates, and where he (Sir H. Douglas) had vin dicated the exclusive possession of Great Britain, on that very spot had the noble lord opposite who had raised the motion that night permitted the Americans to erect the forts of Jarvis and Fairfield, on the north line, a little short of where it met St. John's River • was not that concession ? Why it was the concession of all that he (Sir H. Douglas) had contended for,—it was relinquishing the possession—it was capitulating the whole case—it was allowing the Ameri can force to take military possession. And then the Ma dawasca settlement—that was an encroachment, and the peo ple were handed over like so many serfs to the Americans. He was fully determined, if the Government had commanded the release of Baker, to have regarded the injunction. This, however, could not have happened, for Government had cor dially approved of the course taken by him. He would have disregarded it, because,he well knew that one encroachment, if acquiesced in, soon led to others. The order was sent, however, by Mr. Livingstone, from Washington, to Sir A. Campbell, to release these parties, a proceeding which was protested against by the local government. In August, 1837, a person was sent to this Madawasca settlement, which he and his successors had protected with so much firmness, to make a census of the population, as part of the inhabitants of Penobscot county ; a correspondence was opened with the Governor of'Maine, and the result was, that the person was eleased, on his giving an assurance to the colonial govern ment that he would desist from these practises. He was re leased on August 5, 1837 ; and what was the consequence of that weakness? The consequence was that he immediately reappeared in the Madawasca settlement on the 26th of the same month, and proceeded with the census. Of course, it would be expected that he would have been brought to trial and visited with condign punishment. But what did the house think ? He was again released, at the instance of the American Government—of course, under the orders of the noble lord. This was followed by a series of encroachments , nd aggressions from New Hampshire into the Canadian ter -v. Considering the lateness of the hour he would not trouble the house with details extending from the 83d to the 192 d page of the printed papers. He had bought this cata logue of weaknesses to the year 1838. Turning to the cor respondence in 1840 and 1841 he found that a proposition was made to the British embassy at Washington, and transmitted to the noble lord, to the effect that, considering the disorders that prevailed, it would be better that each country should send into the disputed territory a settled posse of equal strength. His (Sir H. Douglas's) answer to a similar appli cation was that he would look after his own affairs, and Nould make his own arrangements with regard to the military and police. The noble lord, however, thought differently in 1840 and consented to the arrangement, the consequence of which was that an equal force was sent by the United States and Great Britain into the disputed territory for the purpose of keeping peace. Why that was surrendering the very poi n t for which he (Sir H. Douglas) had contended, by permitting a concurrent jurisdiction on the territory which we claimed as our own. The United States then complained that Great Britain still possessed an exclusive military jurisdiction, and therefore requested the withdrawal of our troops, and our troops were withdrawn. The United States suggested the substitution of detachments of national troops on the part of the two countries. " A very good idea," said the noble lord, " we will ;" and concurrent military possession was forthwith established; another surrender of those rights for which he (Sir 1 - 1. Douglas) had struggled. After this, it was of course impossible to dispute their right to make a military road, which was completed all the way across the disputed territory up to the St. John, and the erection of forts followed as a natural consequence, for the forces em ployed must needs have some abiding place, and the forts Fairfield and Jarvis were built forthwith, by which means the United States obtained concurrent possession of the whole territory. To sum up all, the noble lord left the whole of the territory, the whole jurisdiction, and the whole sovereignty subverted; instead of maintaining in it an ex clusive jurisdiction, he had permitted a concurrent power, and a surrender of the territory became inevitable. The noble lord spoke of the arrogant tone adopted by the United States, as though they were the actual possessors of the soil; but he could not see what other course could have been ex pected after the events to which he had referred. But did the noble lord think that after having gone up they would have gone up without a war? Did he think the United States would, under any circumstances, have withdrawn from the disputed territory they had usurped ; That they would destroy the fortifications they had built or pull down the flags they had hoisted, or that they would be satisfied with any conventional boundary short of the line the noble lord had permitted them to take? No such thing. They were determined to take their stand there, and to meet Lord Ashburton in the manner which the concessions of the noble lord only enabled them to do. What were their terms? They had yielded nothing, and if concessions had been made to them derogatory to the honour of the crown and the in terests of the country, it was not by the present govern ment, but by the noble lord, for he had left no choice to his successors but to make a conventional line or go to war. With respect to the treaty itself he thought the proximity of the frontier to the line of communication would be a great - s the St. John; he admitted, inconvenience The line aeros, was an eyesore— (hear, hear) ;—and ii Lord Ashburton could have got that point and omitted to do so, he was much to be blamed for it; but if the demand for it would have ruptured the negotiations, it was not worth that, for, in a military point of view, it was insignificant. Rouse's Point was a military point only, on account of the facilities it afforded for offence ; but this was precisely the reason the Americans were anxious to get it, and we should have been anxious to retain it. The great defence of New Brunswick as the territory on the right bank of the St. John. So ling as St. Andrew's bay was held, no irruption could be made into New Brunswick, no attack could be made on St. John's. For all these reasons he avowed that he entirely approved of the arrangements of the treaty which had been so happily concluded. lie recognised in the strongest terms the eminent services rendered to the country by the distin guished individual who had negotiated and concluded it, and he felt that gratitude was due to the government for having selected him and given him those instructions to a satisfac tory terminate. Whatever might be the wishes or desires of the country, there was nothing left but to adopt the conventional line. Government could only do what they had done. He felt it his duty to support arrangements which he would not have advocated 12 years ago, but he thought it the best that could be done under the circum stances, particularly as the noble lord had let slip out of his hands the actual possession of the whole of the territory. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES.— From the valuable report of the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth, corn- missioner of patents to the congress, we have extracted the following item, showing the total amount of the principal agricultural products of the country for 1812 : Wheat. 150,883,617 22,762,952 135,883,382 Hemp and Flax Tobacco . 158,565 tons 194,694,811 lbs. 683,333,231 94,007,484 Sugar Silk Cocoons 142,415,199 244,124 130,748 gallon it growing States Ohio is the greatest producer— . _ crop being over twenty-five millions bush e l s . Inc next largest is New Yo rk , being sixteen millions. The next in order are Pennsylvania and Virginia.—New York Paper. the celebrated " red only eighteen inches North America read an extract EAR Ziinmoal iDthilbfarb. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1843 If it must be conceded that the ex-Whig Secretary for Foreign Affairs is a somewhat clever personage, an excellent Parliamentary gladiator, and a ready master of the tactics by which Opposition skirmishes are made to tell out of doers, as well as in the House which he adorns, it must be conceded, too, that he combines with these properties a degree of assurance—impudence would be the better word—which is perfectly unap proachable. Any other man occupying the position of the noble lord —any other man who, for ten years, had held the seals of the Foreign Department, and so con ducted the business of his responsible office that the wonder of nine-tenths of the world—of men of every party—is that the country has escaped being embroiled with every foreign nation with whose Government he had the slightest opportunity to bring himself in con tact ;—any other man of whom it can be said with truth that, during ten years of protocolling and nego ciation, he succeeded only in unsettling every thing which he found settled, and settling nothing which he found unsettled—would have shrunk from such a mo tion as that of Tuesday last, by which it was sought to censure the Ministry and the diplomatic agent, who have succeeded in arranging, satisfactorily, the most pressing points of our differences with the United States, aggravated though those differences were by his own embroiling finger—any other man situated with respect to the question as Lord Palmerston is situated, would have blushed to utter the opinion that the negociation conducted by Lord Ashburton was an ill-conducted one, or that the terms of settlement were unfavourable to Great Britain ; for it must have oc curred to such a man that he himself had, at all events, conducted it worse—conducted it to no good, unless a state of almost open hostilities and bitter exasperation between two powerful nations be the end in question ? and that, with respect to the terms of settlement, if these are not all that we could wished them to have been-,-all that at one time we could and ought to have insisted upon—the cause is to be found in the deterio rated position in which we have been placed by his own acts, of omission or commission. Lord Palmerston, however, is not an ordinary man, but, as we have already stated, possesses and exercises a degree of impudence, in his Parliamentary movements, which is quite extraordinary. His lordship did not scruple, on Tuesday, to hold up his own transatlantic policy in advantageous contrast with that of Lords Aberdeen and Ashburton. No doubt can henceforth exist that had the destinies of Great Britain been still controlled by a Whig Government, and himself been still protocolling, our differences with the United States would to this moment have remained unsettled, and that, in all likelihood, we should have been carry ing on a fanatical war with that country, for our escape from both which inflictions we have abundant reason to be thankful to the present Administration. But let us come to the ground of his lordship's com plaint. We are told, broadly, that Lord Ashburton went to business in a very undiplomatic style. He did not ask about twice as much as he was willing to take. He did not throw out an advanced post of protocols, as skirmishers, designed to throw dust in Brother Jona than's eyes and ruffle his temper into a false move. He entered upon no series of manceuvres, made no feints, threw up no temporary outworks to mask his main position; but, in a word, declared the terms upon which lie was prepared to negociate. The answer to this objection is simple. Lord Ashburton went out to settle the question. He adopted a plain business mode of effecting his object; and, instead of haggling like a fishwife, or a west end smuggler of silks and laces, proposed the terms upon which he was disposed to ratify. Be adopted neither the "sic volo, sic jubeo" style, favoured by Mr. Thomas Macaulay; he did not descend to the cringing view, of which he is accused by that voracious fish ; nor did he stoop to the equivo que by which Lord Palmerston would have had him tantalize, and, if possible, overreach the Yankee ; and, in consequence of his doing nothing of this description, he effected his object ! With that, we and his fellow countrymen are satisfied. Upon the detailed cavillings against the various points of the treaty—the settlement of the right of search and the Creole questions—we shall not enter. Those cavillings were sufficiently given to the winds by the able and convincing reply of Sir Robert Peel. We come, therefore, to the objection that the terms of the Ashburton Treaty, by which the Boundary question is settled, are unfavourable to Great Britain, derogatory to her honour, and prejudicial to the security of our Canadian possessions. There can be no doubt that, by the settlement of this Boundary question now, we have secured less advantageous terms than we were entitled to have granted us—less advantageous terms than we could have made good our title to, during any of the ten years of Lord Paltnerston's trifling with the question. Upon this point we have had an ex cellent evidence in our valued representative, Sir Howard Douglas—himself for many years, as Go vernor of New Brunswick, actively engaged upon a portion of the disputed Boundary. At the period of Sir Howard's recal in 1831, the position of Great Britain, with respect to the territory disputed by the State of Maine, was the following :—We held at that time the military possession and claimed the sovereignty of the territory in question, pending negociations upon the subject of its final settlement. The Government of Maine, however, had, a little previously, mooted again the question of Right ; and Mr. B a k er , t h e agent of the State, with a view to establish directly his autho rity, had seized upon the postman, when passing over the territory, and, after a short detention, formally " warned him off." What was the course which Sir Howard Douglas thought it incumbent upon him to pursue, in vindication of the rights and honour of his Sovereign ? We give it in the graphic language of the gallant officer himself, a report of whose convincing address will be found in another column. It will be seen, from that report, that, in 1831, we held sovereign possession of the disputed territory, and were enabled —and resolved too—to keep in check the insolent pretensions of Maine and the prcedatory in roads of her border ers . B ut Sir H. Douglas resigned ; a Whig Government at home came into power; Lord Palmerston veered round to the opinions of the Reform party, and shortly occupied the Foreign office : and from this time mark the changed position of Great ißirinitgainufWe had the award of the by the American Govern ment,ted on their acceptance by and up to 1835 pressed i H n ol t l h an is d, the most ob- Lord Palmerston—an award containing quarrel. rep udia jectioriabie poit;is urged by himself against the Ash burton Treaty. Then we had six years more of pro tocolling, surveying, and negociattng - ; and, in the mean time, what became of the disputed territory it self for which we were at issue ? Why, it had been, inch by inch, conceded to our opponents ! " I hope," said Sir Robert Peel, " to hear from a late high commissioner, the gallant officer near me, his testimony as to what was the result of the delay respecting the dis puted territory. (" Hear, hear," from Sir H. Douglas.) Did we gain by this procrastination ? No. America was nearer at hand. Every month that passed was undermining our dominion over that continent. I ask my gallant and hon. friend (for instance), whether in W2B he did not ap prehend an American subject and bring him to trial for encroachments on this disputed territory, and whether on the very spot on which he was taken, a fort was not erected by the authorities of Maine? (" Hear, hear," from Sir H. Douglas.) The vast tide of population—that rapid and resistless tide which knows no ebb—pressed on from day to day, and each month that passed saw our territory further encroached on—the dominion we had in 1838 we retained not in 1810 (hear, hear;) and had we postponed the settle ment for another five years, the question would have settled itself by a contest for actual possession." (Hear, hear.) First, the concurrent Civil Jurisdiction was - conceded to the blusterings of Maine. Then a demand was made for the withdrawal of our military forces ; and acceded to ! " And thus," remarks Sir Howard Douglas, " The concurrent civil and military possession for which be (Sir H. Douglas) had struggled had been abandoned. After the Americans had obtained these concessions, of course there was no disputing their right to make a military road, and this was accomplished all the way to St. John's. When the American troops arrived there, it was asked where they were to live? and accordingly the two forts of Fairford and Jervis had been erected for them, and thus possession of the whole territory was given to them. So that when the noble lord left office the whole jurisdiction and sovereignty of the dis trict had been, by his consent, subverted, and instead of its being held concurrently, it was held conclusively ! " Yet this man, Lord Palmerston, who has tamely looked on whilst the entire possessions in dispute were conceded—so effectually conceded that nothing leis than a war of extermination against the American sett lers could make them ours again—complains that be cause they have not rushed into such a war, it is the negociations of this treaty, and not himself by whom the honour and the safety of Great Britain have been prejudiced! How much further could the force of impudence have carried even Lord Palmerston than to the propounding of such a motion as that of Tuesday night ? The leading tnembers of the League party display just now considerable eagerness to draw down upon themselves the reprobation of well-regulated minds. By the prompt exercise of a more than ordinary amount of bluster,' they succeeded in implicating their whole body as abetters of their project to carry the repeal of the corn-laws, by threats of " personal responsibility" levelled at the Premier. The incen diary language of Mr. Richard Cobden, and the tone of fierce rancour with which that language was deli vered, have been justified and applauded by public ga therings of his associate dupes throughout the king dom—gatherings at which even females were not ashamed to present themselves, and to join in tributes of thanks to the incendiary ! And now a bolder flight of hardihood is resolved upon. The amiable Leaguer, dissatisfied with the amount of his unenvia ble notoriety, entertains an ardent longing to appro priate that of the rev. dissenting preacher who pre dicted that, in case of the death of Sir Robert Peel, " there would be few to shed a tear over his grave ;" and accordingly, on Wednesday last, from the boards of Drury Lane, in the presence of. some thousands of his fellow -countrymen, and with the public press to record his sayings for the benefit of the world, that personage deliberately came forward to take upon his own shoulders—nay, " took shame to himself that he had not sooner taken upon his own shoulders"—the full responsibility of a speech the most shameful which ever fell from the lips of an advocate of this or any other public question ! Far from disavowing this gen tleman's sentiments, he is extolled as an •` amiable and warm-hearted" lover of hi• kind, possessed only of one failing, " a want of tact in discussing political questions." We shah hear no more now, we presume, of the hardship and injustice of charging the language of this rev. dissenter upon the League. The language in question is now adopted by that body ; and in behalf of it every member is now irrecoverably pledged. The glee of the " warm-hearted" individual, who luxuriated in the notion that "few would shed a tear over the grave" of the Premier, is the glee of every man and—proh pudor !—of every woman who from this day forth countenances the Anti-Corn-law agitation ! And for what consideration—for what quid pro quo —has the League embraced this astounding defile ment. Mark, reader—watch the filthy Mammon creeping out, as the moving cause of this shameless piece of hardihood ! The rev. gentleman, sought to be whitewashed, is one of those " ministers of all de nominations" who, in the words of the League's apostle, came forward, "in defiance of the declared wishes of their congregations," to throw the weight of their sacred character into the anti-corn-law agitation —who preferred the smiles of the rich factory lord to the entreaties of. the humble objects of their ministry. The ministers are useful men, fluent of speech, able to fawn upon public assemblies. The " drum ecclesias tic," though beat only by dissenting hands, was not to be spared from the noise of League dinners, tea-drink ings, and conventions; and, moreover, there was work to do, in which the personages in question were calcu lated to be useful agents. A bill, it will be remem bered, has been introduced by Sir James Graham, for providing the advantages of education for the children of the poor in the manufacturing districts. By the same bill, the time of working for children in facto ries, from the age of eight to thirteen, is proposed to be reduced to six hours and a-half per day—surely a sufficient duration for the toil of children, in the debi litating atmosphere of a cotton-mill ! But so think not the virtuous and humane Leaguers. The trade in infant flesh they cling to with a tenacity passing be lief ; and the bill in question is therefore to be opposed by every appliance of craft and cant which the party can bring to the task ; and in such an effort what agents so ready as your dissenting ministers ? The education to be given, is education in Church of Eng land principles—education to some extent directed by the clergy of that church; and, to obstruct the pro gress of such education, need it be doubted with what zeal dissent will labour, or how eagerly its aid is em braced by the " liberal" cottonocracy, which sees, in the measure proposed, the infant health and strength of the country wrested from its oppressive gripe ? Well, here then is the evidence of the compact en tered into by the worthy twain—the League and their rev. dissenting tools On Wednesday the latter were formally cleansed, by Mr. Cobden, from the stain which the assassination speech had cast upon their skirts ; and on Thursday they hastened to enter upon their crusade against Sir James Graham's bill, by a meeting held at the London Tavern, the resolutions of which were duly given to the world in the advertising columns of the Times on the following morning ! Of course those resolutions contain a world of complaint of the " sectarian nature" of the education to he given ; but the main ground of objection against it is the injury inflicted " upon the factory-owners," and superhuman impudence! —upon the poor children them selves, by the reduction of the period of labour from eight hours per day to six hours and a-half ! We shall watch this agitation with interest. It will afford us some little insight into the peculiar morality (.9 of political dissent, and the nature of that humanity which vents itself in nauseous cant from anti-corn-law platforms ! On the subject of this bill of Sir James Graham, our metropolitan namesake made the following remarks on Monday : " The political dissenters are again busy in obstructing the advancement of education among the humbler classes. For twenty years they have laboured in the same perverse course, and it will not be their fault if the people are ever educated by public aid. The measure now before Parliament is suffi ciently liberal —at least more liberal than many of our readers may like, but it is not liberal enough for the liberal dis senters. flow, indeed, can any measure be liberal enough for those who think all but their own particular sect wrong, and who make a conscience of bringing all whom they can within their own fold ? We do not blame them for either their opinions or their conscience ; but we blame them for making the triumph of both the necessary condition of the education of the'People. Ample provision is made to protect dissenters from wrong by the provisions of the national sys tem of education, hut to allow them a place in that system would be a contradiction in terms. They dissent from the church, iThete tonformil can they claim to belong to the church, where authority is to be exercised? We might stand upon the principle of all social government, that the minority is properly bound by the majority; and it is unnecessary to take this ground, ex cept for the purpose of soothing the sore consciences of too sensitive dissenters. It is unnecessary to take this ground, because any other system of religious education than that through and by the Established Church is impracticable — the legislature which should agree to such a system would practically unestablish the church and de-christianise the country. We hold that as long as a system of national education reposes confidence in the church, acknowledges the prima facie claim of the church to be considered as the ex officio superintendent of all religious education of the people, there is no harm in allowing very liberal exceptions under particular circumstances." The world has been amused during the last week with an unfortunate mistake of that somewhat erratic genius, Lord Brougham. His lordship—who, from the acquaintance he has had with the fraternity, ought to have known better—appears to have laboured under the impression that it was within the power of ability such as his to extract a direct answer to a direct ques tion, from—a quaker ! That he has been disappointed is to us no marvel. We never met with such a lusus naturw as a quaker so directly communicative; and we should certainly not have expected to meet with one in the ranks of the Anti-Corn-law League, or in the person of that anomalous production of mingled nature and art—a quaker cotton lord. Lord Brougham, therefore, if he is convinced now of the quibbling pro pensities of members of the Society of Friends, has ar rived at his convictions rather late in life ! It will he remembered that some month or two ago, his lordship—somewhat after the manner in which a lively tiger lashes his tail through the bars of his cage at some presumptuous urchin whom he cannot at the moment reach with his claws—inflicted, from his place in the House of Lords, a rather handsome castigation upon the gentlemen (!) of the Anti-Corn-law League, being the first—except, as Mr. John Bright, of Roch dale, affirms, the Quarterly Review and the members of the " monopolist press"—to connect that body, through " the assassination speech" of the Rev. Mr. Bailey, with the crime of M`Naughten. At the time that this castigation was delivered, we positively trem bled for the ex-chancellor. Nothing less than to be devoured at some anti-corn-law tea party—to be cut up in plates of bun-loaf, and washed down with de coctions of saloop, spent sloe-leaves, and coffee grounds —was the doom which, in our mind's eye, we predicted for Henry Brougham and Vaux. But no : such was not to be his fate. The League could neither eat up the lively lawyer, Burke him or get rid of him in any other:effectual and expeditious manner ; and so they— only libelled him ! The Anti-bread Tax Circular taxed its ingenuity to fabricate a damning charge against the offender, and at length screwed up the necessary power of face to assert, first, that the said learned lord had, at some period last year, prayed and beseeched the League to be permitted to bring on a motion in the House of Lords, on the subject of the corn-laws ;—to be permitted to act as its standing counsel in that assembly; secondly, that the deputation from the League were disinclined to entrust their brief in his hands ; thirdly that, in most moving terms, he per sisted in his entreaty ; fourthly, that the deputation reluctantly consented; fifthly, that he invited them to his own house ; and sixthly, that after all this patron ising condescension of the cottonocracy towards so very humble a personage as Lord Brougham, his lord ship had turned out a very ungrateful fellow ! We would really have given our cigar-case, or any other valuable we possess, to have witnessed the effect of the first reading of this impertinence upon the learned peer. We rather imagine the contortions pro duced by the shock would have been a subject worthy of the pencil of H. B. The first transports of his rage over, however, his lordship proceeded to write two letters, containing a reasonable quantity of Cayenne, Chilies, and other hot seasonings, to the gentlemen who composed the deputation, and from whom the alleged facts, as to the entreaties, &c. of his lordship, must have come to the ears of the Anti-bread tax per sonage. And here was the instance of his lordship's marvellous folly One of the gentlemen in questiOn was Mr. Hamer Stansfield, of Leeds—a leaguer and a mill-owner, but a man habited like other men—and it was reasonable enough to ask from such a man for an explanation; but the other was Mr. John Bright, of Rochdale—a leaguer and a quaker—and it was palpably absurd to expect that from such a man an intelligible explanation, or an answer, at all direct, and in intelli gible English, could be drawn. The result has been the publication of the corres pondence, and just such a correspondence as all the world would have expected. The reply of Mr. Stans field to the question, as to the truth of the representa tion put forth by the Anti-bread Tax man, was a frank and manly admsion that the statement was through out untrue—that his lordship's own recollection of the circumstances of his interviews with the League depu tation was throughout true: in short, it was almost as complete a negative to the scribe of the League, as we remember to have met with. The reply of worthy John Bright, however, was of a more undecided colour. The honest quaker could not remember " that thou did show any reluctance," or that any urgent en treaties were used on the part of the deputation. He could in fact afford to remember nothing calculated to impeach the veracity of the slanderer of his lordship. His mind retained no impressions of anything favour able to the character of Lord Brougham. He opined, however, (in direct contradiction to his fellow deputy, Mr. Stansfield) that, the deputation were rather in disposed than otherwise to accept his lordship's advo cacy, (though they waited upon him to pray for it !), and finally assured his lordship—John Bright of Roch dale assured Lord Brougham 1 more in sorrow than in anger," that he John Bright P:TIED Lord Brougham The substance of this correspondence will be found elsewhere. As a sample of epistolary style, they are rare. This much, however, they establish. Lord Brougham and Mr. Hamer Stansfield have spoken what is true, or they have not. John Bright of Roch dale has spoken what is true or he has not. The world has the opportunity of deciding between them. We are compelled to withhold a few remarks in reply to our contemporary the Manchester Guardian, who has somewhat misunderstood a recent article in the Standard On the Corn-Law question. On Tuesday, however, we hope to be able to pay our respects to him ; and we shall do so with the greatest pleasure because we observe, in our contemporary's remarks, a little abatement of his ordinary supercilious tone. We can assure him that we have nothing to conceal upon this or any other question. To one portion of the Guardian's article we must, however, reply at once, as we are unwilling to remain, even a day, misunderstood with respect to it. Our contemporary, out of some assumed coldness of our advocacy of a sliding scale, infers that the mercantile body of Liverpool are becoming converts to the argu ments in behalf of a fixed duty. Now, highly as we do and ought to appreciate the value of the opinion of a body of men, so well worthy of deference being paid to them as the merchants of this great port, we must inform the Guardian that such a conversion on their part is not to be inferred from any remarks of ours. We think and act for ourselves, and would feel de graded in our own estimation if we could, as the Guar dian implies, trim our course to jump in with the changed opinions of others. Our mercant i le friends, we are sure, expect no such time-ser v i ng policy at our hands. LOCAL, NEWS. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION EXIIITTION.—As we inti mated last week, a polytechnic exhibition will t a k e p l ace at the Collegiate Institution at midsummer, an d a prospectus will be found in our advertising columns. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—It will he seen that on Sun day next, two sermons will be preached at St. Andrqw's Church, in this town, by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, in aid of the funds for supporting the schools in connection with that church. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM AND JERUSALEM BISHOP rue 1. 7 1)N0.—0n Sunday next, as may be seen from an ad vertisement, sermons will be preached in St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, for the benefit of these interesting and imp or t ant objects. A sermon will also be preached in St. M ar k' s a C id hu o r f ci t i h , e on fu S n u d n s f d o Sunday morning, by the Rev. M r . M arshall, in the former institution. COTTON MARKET. -It will be seen from our brokers' circular, that our cotton market has experienced a sudden and extraordinarily increased demand. Yesterday and on Wednesday upwards of 24,000 bales were disposed of, by far the greater proportion of which have been taken on con and the orders are not yet eompleted. sumption. Buying continued spir i ted until the clo se o f t h e market yesterday, Prices were firm, and the market is healthy. last, Mr. Braham's concert talcespl:ce Itf:illelisneCnetiLlarlttllll: Royal As3emLiy Rooms. A fashionable and go )d attendance is expected ND A:11 AND EVi: Dulluk Dubufe, now exhibitin„ daily and nightly attractir whom declare them to be ue beautiful i;ctures by .ie Postoflice-piace Kootos, are crowds of visitors. one and all of Le specimens of modern art. CAUTION TO SHOPKEEPERS IN M ARKETS•—Ye sterdal t: Charles Parsonage, a shopkeeper in St. James 's Market' was fined 10s., with 4s. 6d. costs, for leaving the market a t night without extinguishing a gas-light in his shop. THEATRE Roy L—The theatre has been well attended during the week. There was an excellent house on night to witness the " Poor Gentleman." To -night 1 V 1 , 1. : William Farren, the most finished and talented actor of present time, takes his benefit, when the beautiful little drama of " Grandfather Whitehead" will be represented for the last time AMPIIITITEATRE.—It will be seen elsewhere that IVir; Sloan's benefit is fixed to take place on Monday next , s ale the highly-interesting drama founded on Victor 1 - logo' of " Notre Dame" will be represented. Mrs. Leclerq Pe': sonates Esmera/da ; and, from her versatile talents ag fill clever actress and graceful dancer, she will no doubt ably the character. of THAME HAVEN RAILWAY COMPAN v.--The „„ed the company having been extended by a further Aet obtained during the last session, and since solemly recognised, 35 argument, by the unanimous judgment of the Court of Clare mon Pleas, the Court of Directors have determined to t advantage of the present promising state of the share uorlacee• to commence the undertaking with a single line of ra ils, ferring the excavation of the dock. They are assur eu n di. their present egineer, that on their reduced plan the e x P e " , ture will not exceed £21,000 for the railway and landingPe" ANCIENT LIVERPOOL.—A new work bearing this title in the course of publication in this town. The author an, artist is Mr. W. G. Herdman, who sometime ago a beautiful portfolio of continental sketches, in which W ell s of the first order was exhibited. Mr. Herdman it sel, wishes to secure the memory of the old buildings from vion, and has been many years in collecting materials. The list of subscribers is already a large one, and includes the fi b names in the town. Holden, Ranelagh-stseet, is the pub lisher, where subscribers names are received. tiVe ELECTION OF GOVERNOR OF THE WORICHOES.-• ed stated, in our paper of Tuesday last, that at an adjour i j ay meeting of the select vestry held on the previous Wed n „. es t he a deputation of three gentlemen was appointed to vis" ie h various workhouses in the south, the governors °f the were amongst the nine remaining candidates from who m e .. governor of our workhouse was to be chosen ; and that a 51) to publisheat cial meeting was directed to be called on their return , o f hear their report. As the subject of the election is ° fle „, considerable public interest, we have now to state that, to last night, the deputation had not returned, but that he"' are expected this day, or to-morrow, so that, in all probaby lity, we shall be en a b le d to furnish the final resu lt of the Pr °. ceedings in our next number THE FUNDS: WEDNESDAY EVENING. —Sales o f s tock and Exchequer-bills to some amoun t cause d a decline i n fi ti g value of both securities, b u t th e ex t en t o f o perations et c i, not be clearly traced. The secret manner in which the 'Fi e . ness was transacted was among the brokers a subjee,t a „, o le probation. Before the close of the day, however, Con for money and the account recovered, and left off 9 6 i . In: Exchequer-bills were last quoted 655. to 675. premium' , dian Bonds, 77 premium ; New Th r ee- an d- a -half per Cetdi n ' 102 k to 4-• Bank Stock for opening, 183 to 18-1; and jll re Stock,26Bl to 91. Bargains in the foreign securities %erg not extensive ; they were sufficient, however, to g ives uPP: o a to the issues of the P en i nsu l ar G overnmen t s . Duch I s h Maxican, on the oth er h an d, were ra th er fl a tter. SP ari e se Actives closed 221 t o ; ditto New, 31k tok; Port u g a pd, Converted, 39+ to ; Mexican, 29k to 30k ; ditto I),.. s ef er i s - b, 8i to ; Dutch Two- an d- a - H a lf p er C en t s , 102 to 1 ; n i ia sb-1 to 87+; Bel g i an , 1011 t o 1051 ; Brazilian, 80 to g 1; Dana ad 261 to -. STEALING WRECKED GOODS.—Yesterday, three se smer b j i belonging to the T r it on , now l y i ng i n thi s port, were br oug of before Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing a quantitY.ej wrecked goods. It appeared from the evidence that a "'r o d called the Emily had been wrecked at the Scilly islanrist,"o, that the bale goods had been re-shipped on board the T ri s,u t° .; in the forecastle of which a quantity of handkerchiefs, ,be belonging to the Emily, was found, the prisoners beingrid only parties who lived the r e. M r . R us ht on , after W on g the case, s a id sa il ors an d o th ers oug ht t o k no w how s tr oat the provisions of the law were on this subject. It Was' ke d, if any good s b e l ong i ng t o an y ship in distress, or morelnor be found in the possession of any party, who shy 7014 satisfy the justice before whom such case shall be heard, /Vet he came lawfully in possession of them, the justice may t he a fine not exceeding £2O, over and ahove the value ;t hin articles, and if the fine be not paid immediately, or t n n ey such time.as the justice may decide, the narties maY I ";bea mitted to gaol for any period not exceedi ng two months , "d o es the fine does not exceed £5 ; four months when the five t hat not exceed £lO ; and six months when the fine is abco: e hvi itli sum. Mr. Rushton then ordered each sailor to pay O to rw be 30s. thevalue of the goods, and £lO as a penalty, or imprisoned three months. the THE WINDSOR CASTLE.—Mr. O'Brien, agent o f Dublin Steam. packet Company, left TrZrush, with L',l o clif Triphook of the H am ilt on , r e ve nue .7fazer, at ten, ° for on Monday ni g ht, an d go t do wn t o -- the Heads 8 „ o'clock, next morning. The Windsor Castle was the o l ig ht side the Heads, and the conduct of the pilots 8i1°,_ 13 4 sad her in was most praiseworthy. When Captain TriPo ru ggle Mr. O'Brien boarded the derelict vessel, there was a s` fe ter the o ' - r ty• between the pilots in charge and the shore people; anxious to save, the others to destroy the vessel andnr°lli)ieeS! The names of the principal persons who rendered se , 0 0. were taken down, and the intruders were then put on s' a nd after which, Captain Triphook got the vessel under waY:00 1 brought her up in tow of the Hamilton, until the 00 backed away to the east, and then fortunately, `h e t, steamer, from Kilrush, Captain Kennedy, hove in sig Lied' took the Windsor in tow. Much praise is given to d Triphook, Mr. Baldwin, of the Kilkee Coast-guard , .gbabet Trousdell, f or th e i r exert i ons , as a l so to t h e p il o ts of ts- f i 'f: o s9 , who first board e d h er w ithi n a f ew m il es of land 01 0 0 and wh ose con d uc t a ll t h roug h was o f a mos t praises' idi a character. The Windsor Castle is 721 tons regis icr ' e arec i owned by Chaloner and Co., Liverpool. She is now % e re* in Scattefy-roads, and is in charge of the Coaa t ltl at There are 35 clai man t s f or sa l vage . Th e va lue is , £90,000. terd a li APPEALS AT THE S E SS IONS .—At th e sess i o ns, Ye s c , e pe'' after the disposal o f th e cr i m i na l cases, two cas es 01 .. .Zjer• oa the part of p u bli cans were b rought befoae t h e Re': tlia They both arose out of convictions by Mr. Rusht°l l lo o offece charged in both cases being, that the then defers (now appellants) had sold liquors at an early hour 0 11 ,q 1 bil morning, contrary to the local act of parliament vv4l'; tire` for some time been in operation in this borough. wee" case was that of Joseph Clayton, publican, Ath° l- , e loct Scotland-road. I nspector M oore sa id . t h at a t one g at the on Sunday morning, the Bth January, liquor was soi., h it appellant's house. He found the party coming out wit cue'' a bottle, but did not see it sold. The evidence wa s A ci bes,. e ; stantial, but satisfied the Recorder of the fact, an d „fro cordingly confirmed the conviction, £5, with cos. n t s e ' n eett ° other case was that of James Smith, publican , -''' iy With street. Police-officer Cunningham, who was the ei3 t he 6t 'less, stated, th a t soon after eight o'clock, on Sunday the ar of January last, he saw three women standing ne ar . tie! nellant's h ouse . H e was i n co l oure d c l ot h es at tn, re ar having be en sen t t o watc h the premises. He looked ;_: thr ee the window f or a b ou t a minute, and there observed to_'ito the women in the h ouse , s t an di ng ou t s id e th e c ounter , a t • t hes i landlady (appellan's wife) inside of it. He saw one %101 13 wrap a bottl e i n a h an dk erc hi e f , an d wen t i n an d took ' it e on' her, It was a ginger-beer bottle, and he found thatrry sad tained some rum. He did not see the women e a te utle tit bottle in with th em —Th e counse l f or t h e ap p e llant co that there w as no di rec t ev id ence o f th e sa l e or d,..e lile ptlY had no hope that this case would be viewed din ere och the bench from the last, to which it was similar, h i° f Of eel the Recorder appeared to consider it a sufficient Prl oc e W m ' that a party should be seen comin out of such a P in Of e'' ; liquor, He spoke strongly against the odious sYst% t hes, ploying police-officers, in th disguise of plain c lO 'nag spies in such cases. It was undoubtedly a system ei _ O OO4 which he regretted had been introduced into this and, he th oug h t, t h e sooner i t was d roppe d t h e het te :t r i; bunt Record er sa id , h e cou ld not d ec id e i ncons i s t en tlY .w' t be self ; the sale, he thou ht was sufficiently clear as I v i c tiat t case, and he similarly confirmed Mr. Rushton's e°rl rir £5 and costs. day 03 0 FIRE AT WEST D ERBY WoRKIIOUSE. —On T nes ke oe t t he ~ ing, a f ew m i nutes before three o ' clock, a fi re , is Al the drying h ouse o f t h e W est D er by Workbotl se efe r , vicinity o f th e Z oolog i cal Gardens. At was firs t u 5 ,,, 1 I t o tia by one of the female inmates in the invalid wa rd,. ht. it through illness, up a t th e ti me , an d o bserved the hg , ssif e , immedi a t e l y gave the alarm to those arou nd h e is ' l O soon reached th e ears o f th e gove rnor an d wa h ll w 0 s h- The drying house is in the north-east angle of the the Waco encloses the buildings, and immediately house in one direction, and the laundry on the °T o ws ' eo , people, one and all, exerted themselves to the the {Pal o / carrying water in buckets, &c. and throwing it °n of th e at and but for their strenuous efforts, a great portion 'h a bit range of buildings round the outer part of the Yfi t ' e d; o part of the quadrangle would have been so far ign i be t cl . v . of t a I could not have been saved even by the playing n j,-- -1 2 0 01 engines, speedily as they were got upon the gr eu- n tre ..,fars deed, the main pile of the building in the C c s not have been in imminent danger of being burne ts an n o, four o'clock, three engines and several water cart strong body of the fire-police reached the a d i ae . cl i l lors eL.- er Mr. Whitty was immediately on the ground , o . l ', 0 11 t he and in less than half an hour, through the p 1a Y 1 , 13 7)0 0 .. te ,.f1re , „ ) adjoins .r,_er. jo gine, and the exertions of the policemen, who g roofs of the adjoining low buildings, (which had c w ell a- the and cut off the communication of the flames , as in ly efforts of th e inmates, the fire was confined no,out Il drying-house, which, with its roof, and most Of J et ty n'.. r ies was entirely consumed. The wind was blowing P r k i e h at the time, but, luckily, from the southward, wil, t he t e te the blaze clear of the main and higher portions °llotheS:r o f ins. A considerable quantit of bed and body c ~ursh -b ett destroyed, including 60 to 70 y pairs of blankets, a - 1 wns t be quilts, and much of the clothing that had b , u ,, e c i le °To r k; a p n o d or th o e f rewere twenty-two etw townships, t hr e on the previous day. The house is the receP't-eth I'o% r bus t t he an d fo rain d o th e inmates. Great alarm was at first created in the o ut Tose inelud d ing governor and his wife, lest the fire had brske i c l ry ing dormitories, the beds being of straw. Th e : le' et ° was constructed o n th e most a roved prinei? fl'odergitbs. siderable cost, a n d appears to be a ne cessarY. F t 'ir nao lve llt so large an establishment, particularlyin th by the . house aa r The fire-place is separated from the drying' The le ad th and it is not known how the fire originated. evitihenig mates of the establishment, male and fema le : aged d th e toe tan best spirit throughout the emergency — e ven „ e ders ig ,e. seen staggering under buckets of water. ‘ l ' ean o gre premises were insured, but have not heard at w • -- 'ts the Tnz CROPS.—The wheat plant everywhere exhiblropitr ore P" most promising appearance. Nothing can be 0 ..;0e cot ' ous than the present weather for getting in the stu; Maidstone Journal. of ome' Of The circular of Messrs. Crofts arid Co., on - f s c o v i-j e c li the ohje c h t II tahree of f re s sent condition of the skin trade, furnishes facts brs tl iie in raw k hands of the i F m r p e o n r c t h an g e lo e v t e o mthaousuefaccortlunreecrtse,de:teiliils sot eld i. t the ° t he ployed in the " from the Eastl e i la n s il i tins i t c i rbe tr ece r ti;r :0 : business..dskiFnrsomfrowmhaatlitphaely.tassbsearst,:itaadpuparrs gt..o.%egintlitoo de partment connected c an tilde Indies. d er as w .c t i ut The h the e o s gt o heavier oc kv e os i la an id Tuscan b sr ket is sonai stated at about 150,000, all good qualitY,.'ed th o Lif prices, but it does not seem to be exPe c ' e e a r in ' . t he advance e willbe will occur in value, since the crop this.? 00 a ll good in quality and abundant in quatitiLY_;4lioet..4 other land, there is no iin n date rospect (00,3 cco;§ the Bordeaux lambs havinwibeeeni b ou ght for Eng lis s od 0 4. at the prices of last year. 'The trade in French dres w ith ! l o g continues, it is said, to be of a steady chs racter' rs "li c it vancing prices. The imports of the last two Ye tt e c ,or licit diminished ,it is inferred the demand in Frai.le 4the,,6 ra tio r ; 4 64,v; e0 own glove manufactories has increased in the crease here. The imports for the tear 184 2 ° I o f g l° „ r tS skins ; but of this quantity about 5'8,000 doe ilnP"re would be manufactured, while the legal duty Pa l. " s. last alone of French gloves last year was 117,425 dozegr f the th. turn of the imports of raw lamb and kid s kins f _ 03330, ten years shows a vast decrease in our favour. skins 16 0, to number of lamb skins were 2,358,467, and Icid t - d ill er es64 while last year the number of lamb skins had e 760,242, and of kid skins to 66,942.