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intpertal Varitamint. HOUSE: Or LORDS.—MoNnAv. Lord CocoaEstatt wished to knew if the Board of Directors of the East India Company had assigned any reasons for the recal of the Gov.-nor-General of India, and if so, what were those rias.ms ? (Heir.) The Duke of WELLINGTON sad the Bard of Direc tors had certainty stated their reasons, which were not considered valid by her Majesty's government : nay, fur ther, ministers had remonstrated against the procedure of the' eard of Directors, though at the same time there could he no doubt that the Board had acted in a p , rtect!y legal 'Manner in reciting the Governor-General. The Board had that undoubted right conferred upon them in 1784, and it hail been ratified since that time ; but it was a right which ought to be exercised with di•ieretion. The -present exercis.- of power. to say the least of it, was not a discreet exercise. (Hear. hear.) He ripe ited it was not a discreet exercise of power to recal an officer who bad been in office little more than two years, and alto bad , given satistactton—recalling tint, ton, vtithm t making provision for a successor, in the present ethical state of India. (Hear.) It was the more indiscreet, inasmuch -as the members of the Board, as a body, had no know ledge whatevr r of the causes which induced the Give:nor- General to act as he had thruzlit fit; it was indiscreet, .be repeated, to recal that officer, who had given such sa ti•factio.i. He w iirld illustrate that indiscreeon by going a little further. Tne Board of Directors, no doubt, fr. , - 9uently issued orders fur a recal; but they had hitherto, In most cases, attended to the reinonstrain es of the Go vernment : even with respect to the pr-sent Governor- General, during the last year they had done so. What, he would ask, would have become of the great ooeration before Gualior, if his noble friend the Governor-G-neral bad been withdrawn six or eight months ago? Cense quences of a most dangerous character might have taken place had the gross indiscretion of the recal been persisted in. The present recal was the na, st indiscreet exercise of power he had ever witnessed during the long period of time that he had been in power. Lord BROUGEIAM said, it appeared to him to he a very anomalous law by which the { Governor-General was com pelled to take office. He - was of opinion that ill-omened clause in Mr. Pitt's bill df 1789 was intended to be con sidered as a dead letter., an& if exercised, only to be so with the utmost discretion. Whether that bad been done on the present occasion he left the house to judge, alter the strong censure pronounced by the noble duke. The Marquis of CLAN-RICARDE expressed his surprise that the noble duke opposite should pronounce ste h a grave censure against the East India Company without giving noble lords some notice of his intention. The house could not but suppose that the Board of Directors bad cogent reasons for acting as they had done. He Wished to know if it were the intention of - ministers to lay on the table the correspondence welch had taken place between the Board -of Control and the East India Com pany ? The Duke of 'WELLINGTON said there could he no ob jection to give all the informationrpossible. Lord CAMIAIMLI. could not help regretting that the noble duke had thought proper to pronounce. on this oc casion, such a heavy censure on'the directors of the East India Company. The noble chike should be aware that what fell from him had very great weight; and he was sure that all who heard and all who would read what had fallen from him mnst come 'to the 'conclusion that he strongly condemned the conduct of the East India Direc tors. It might turn out that they were to blame, but at present the censure was altogether prema:ure. Their lordships were ignorant of the circumstances under which this recal had taken place. 'The noble duke had informed the house that the directors had accompanied their inti mation of the recal with the reasons on which they acted, but with regard tottaase reasons-the noble duke had been entirely silent. The Marquis of 'LONDONDEURit presented a petition from the coalowners of the north, against the ploposed tax on coals, for the improvement of the port of London. Lord WgianNcLumn said, with reference to the sub ject of a reduction of the duty upon coals, which had been mentioned in the ether house , of parliament, he had only to rematlc that the government had not as yet decided upon otrrying out and he rattier thought that the governmentwould not at present be disposed to decide upon taking such a course. The Matquis.of NORMANBY postponed his motion for an inquiry into the.•sutxject connected with the Board of Charitable Bequests in Ireland for another week. HOUSE OF COM M ONS.-MONDAY. THE BUDGET. - On the tantion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the house then went itrto a committee of ways and mean's, Mr. Greene in the chair. The Ca ANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said,— v He thought it desirable to avail himself of this opportunity of' brioging under the consideration of the house the view of the financialeondition of the country which the house is entitled to expect, and. which it must be anxious to re ceive at the bands Of her Majesty's government. He was happy—and he was sure those hon. gentlemen who differed from his views would he happy also—that the views which he had entertained of a speedy revival of industry and commercial -enterprise had been realised, and that the alarming forebodings which were indulged in had turned out to be groundless. He called the attention of the house to the situation in which they stood when this question was last before them, touching more part;cularly on the China opium debt. The balance sheet showed on one side £2.000,000 to hare been received from the East India Company and the China opium claim. The estimate he had made of the ;public income during the course of last year, has undoubtedly been very greatly exceeded. The amount that had been- received from the Customs is £21.426,000, instead of the £l9 000,000 at which he had estimated it. This included £350,000 arising from the ditties on grain and wines, the importations of both of which were coosiderab"y greater than was expected. The ditty on sugar , had increased £200,000 and upon tea £300.000. Mire was an augtnentition also iii the duties on cotton' wool, amounting t0.£200.000. an indication ot increased activity-in the manufacturing districts. He es. timated theexeise revenue at £13,000,000, and the amount it yielded • was '12,900.000. The taxes esimated at £4.200,000, produced :4,192.000. The increase from /lie Pest-office. be was happy to announce, exceeded anticipa tiOn, the receipts were £628,000. The revenue from the Crown lands, estimated at 130,000. produ-ted 147,000. The miscellaneous estimates were £870,000, the rece pts were £803.000. The total of the estimates on th •se several items were £50,150,000, arid they had- produced £52,138,840, b •iug en increase of £2,700,000 beyond his calculations. The army expendi'ure last year 'yes £6.188.000, being a aseduction of £500,000! Taking the sums together lie had calculated on a surplus of-MO.OOO. but it had from the causes shown, and £650,000 less being required for 'the navy, produced a surplus - of £4,165,000. (Loud .cheering). At the close of last year th re was a deficiency of £2,400,000. He howei er believed that deficiency to -be rather appar ent than real, and recommended to the House to make no provision for the payment of that deficiencys-not to raise means by loan for tire purpose of getting rid of it, but that it should be detrayeri out ot the surplus of future years, as circumstances., from time to time, might al'o and I; was happy to he able to announce to the House that the deficiency lot 18411, which amounted altogether to £2,749,00 0 , had been id .weed t ff and discharged out of the t roduce of the revenue of the present year, and after the disc Jorge of the d , bt iacurted in the course or last year. it ;alienable us to pre-eat to t , e,public a surplus of £1.400.000 on the Ist of April last passed —(Coeers.) So fir then as the past year was concerned he believed the House would agree with him that his startment was sa tisfactory. . He would proceed to consider the estimates and prospects for the year en they had entered. Mr. COLLETT (Athlone.) —What is the amount of the • pronerty• tax ? TheiCHANCRLLOR of the EXCRECIUKR. — XO,3IS,OO O , which is somewhat larger that Vie estimat. , he had made last year, in consequence (as we ands rstood) of there be ing a larger return from Scotland thao he had anticipated. Now. in making the estimate for the year on which they had-voter-el, he would adhere to the rule he had laid laid dowiefor himself on a former occasion, that of not being betrayed into too sanguine expectati ns, which the future would nor bear out He therefore _unit-liter! him self wait taking the Customs at little more that the amount they had actually prodieed last year, viz., £21,500.000. £Buo.ooo of. which was c;erived tram ci en; arid as the state of the harvest in this country was not yet ascer tained,- be thaapt it prudent to estimate the Customs at DO more than thee hail produced list year, viz., £21;5011,000. Ile • Is s est'ma•e-1 tie Excise as in the year guise- by at £43.000,000 He took the Stannis at £7.000.000, the Tax, - s at £4.200,000, and the Property Tax 3 t 4.5.100.000. To these he added the Post office at .£6(10.1:0() only, and. for this reasati, tie revenue of the Post •offiee -ins-to sotne little progress to the course of last-year. tm.l bectou'led r.ot that in the coarse of. next year it n-ake,,o .certain progress also. The Croan lands he w , take at £130.000. and the toiscellamoos estimate% et 1:250.W. makii g a total of £51,790,000. With regard to tb-•National debt the payment for the last year aye £29.1 , 0.000-401 the present, £27.697.000. (Cries'ef " Heix, hear:".) The deficiency of shat must be 'odd in the pr---rat year ascoiered witn last, amo u nted to £1.400.090; but ,tine m [Lase mu't not he led ion, the delusion that ti-at is it he-reirl (leer, ase. To e rea l diminu tion of the den?, in the tireseat year, was one-halt of the benefit tletivesble from the 'll.ieE.- and a-Hall per ce t.., beieg ;013,000. The chargts for the vein on Recount of the c,-tit and consolidated livid it , nnuntt dto £3.097.000. This included the Exchecuer-higs, and ti eioterest teere on. The estimate for the armvamounted to £6:66,000. The 1.-lin:ate of the nary -to .X 6,250.000 instead of £ 6 . 3130 , 0 0 1 . all in the preceeing yecr ; .a, d, in this expert diture, prat ;on' had heron atide for the great national wroka. -Ti' orOr:arice to a sum of £1,842.000, and the estimates, - to* eaLeulated would amount to Boniest/her.' annul £3,000,000. oAu to the hens•ficiliti workine of the refine tion or .the Tb , ;e and-a- -At per cents 'rite amnot-t of 40and amount e d to di's-lair:it sin iE 4 ; 0 4994, and in Ire lout to £13.28!1. lle •h-ri alluded io the p , -.-tt-m. of Go vernment an). the-Soleil Sea a.‘.d mite pa t of the gra, etiv th 55 I, Gt. rce 111. for ahint >i hind had teen sniik which r o :• - 'll/-ed a I ow £300,000 ; and t) ere was a deficit of * . •239010, -f t whit" the public acre pswiiig £11,860 a ye a . He recommended ant arr , fiveinent we h Comp , v. The twat d 'tire a f tile year for the ordinart s evict is .1.17.700,0P0. ar d for the extr iordioary e 1:8 Si. It aking t• t d (11;18 546.000. So hai if that sio, o er• atinte; to the tit-ht,wts'eh sac £30 .( 4 7 170. , . the i. tt I t•Np -:n .ture of the year would be £48.643 170. It . th t 13, rind., 4tror. tl egri,s aimaioroi the rev roue. that . i s a:51,790,01'0. it Mild Item . a . apt.ar. - e.t snrplit. (-or i-j- et . t, 'e .to•tittroa ithieb 11- anti b t alluded X3..116.0 )0 hi l t if anti wa ir •-'s ere ,riade for th , t rriu tt • of 4s, ex' t ear. , lNt wit the .p7 44 ,;t2ZW,00. • ( h-ar,' !beers.) It.n:rtg.'avensiti ti,en wrgrir4 to the jl.lco.4kP • which ad produced in 1812, £5,100,004, and that Vito double iiiij -et of supplyirig, dur tax was iiipased with the big an interval, the pr•vieu‘i deficiency of the regular re s,-..ne o. the cenntrv, and or giving time for yet taiii re . pealral dir ies t r. so a s to b e as p ro d ue i ce as be ' foie the reiluetniti was effee.ed As this question is in ' terra rig and imperta.o, we will give the own words upon it. "Tile income tax was suliiiiired by my right lion. friend to the house, and he stated his opi nion th it if tin, t jx were coritinued for five years, it. would • have the effect which he anticipated. (Cries of " Thr , e tears.") My right tam. tr n , l took it for a -hurter pe ' riod. My rig,t him, friend in'leed took it for a shorter ' Period —for three years—and he did so on ails groom', tat if at t he expiration of that period the result which he ' had entieipated te occur at tee red of five years shoolil not ocean; then tie house would have an o 'portunity of considering whether they w0 , ,1 I no.iiinue that impost for the same p-rind, or whether they would take another mode of sulply , ng any deficiency which might exist. I have no hesitation in saying that, at. the present moment, I cannot form a ,y estimate of vihat those reductions may be. %Veen I I olc at the list of aitcles in the tariff on which le:lie:tines of duty teak place, and at the increased ciirisuinp.ion vrtsieh his taken place of those—when I find that only on five has consumption di-en ass d, while on all the rest consionv. ion has increased—l must say, I enter tali, very sanguine teeliegs as to the ultimate success of the experiment. But he house will he good enough to bear in mind that ii some main articles—timber, I will esoecialiv mention—on which a reduction of the duty has taken place, th it reduction did not come into operation until the middle of last year. The experiment, therefore. in these instances, has not had a fair trial; and I am not therefore, .prepared to say what .noise (light hereafter to be pursued in respect of them. In the course of the next year the prop olt tax must necessarily come under the consideration of the house, arid it will be for it to say what course it w,iuld pursue with respect to the continuance or discsutinuance of that impost." The hon. gentleman then went on to state the reasons which Lai induced him to refuse to consent to any large reduction of taxation. He proposed, however, to effect some reductions, and the first was to remove the di-tine. tive duty between tint and bottle glass, the former pa ) ing a duty of 2d., and the latter ot dater farthings. This al- teration is to take place on the sth July, and will only cause a reductem of £45,000 a year. He also proposed to repeat the duty on vinegar, which produced last year £23.000. He wished for this r. duction. because manu facturers uld be much benefited by its repeal, and also because it was an artiele so generally in use by the public. Be would however allow one year for the dealer to get rid of the stock on hand. The next reduction was aa import ant one—on marine assurance. "The present rate of duty," said the hon. gentleman, " is as follows :—For every £lOO, ahere the premiun does riot exceed 15s. per cent., the duty levied amounts to Is. 3d. per cent : where the premium exceeds 155., belt does not exceed 305., the duty is 2s. 6d. per cent.; and where it exceeds 305., the duty timeurts to ss. per cent. This presses unduly upon small its. I therefore propose to reduce the duty and to vary the rtes according to the following scale. For every £lOO insurance, in which the premium does not exceed 108., I prof ose to levy a duty of 3d. in-tend of Is. 3d. ; where the prtmium does exceed 10s., but does not exceed 205., a duty of 6d instead of Is. 3d. ; and in some cases 2s. 6d., as At present where the premium • xce , ds 20s, but does not exceed 30s. a duty of Is. ; wht re it exceeds 30s. but does not exceed 40s. a duty ot 2s ; where it exceeils 40s. brit does not exceed 50s. a duty if 3s ; where it exceeds 565. but does not exceed 60s. a duty of 4s ; and where it is above 60s a duty of ss. I calculate that (luting the course of the present year the diminution of revenue consequent upon this renuctiun will aniount - to £lOO,OOO. But 1 calculate that during the course f the following two years after the change shall have he , ..n effected, there will be a sensible increase in the disposition of foreigners to come to this country to effect their insurances, and that the country will reap the advantage even if no advantage should be derived by the revenue in consequence of this reduction." He prop . sod the reduction of the duty on currants from 225. t 155., in consequence of the great consumption of the article by the lower orders. The duty on foreign coffee he proi osed ti reduce trom Rd. to 6d., and he iu ►ended to increase the duty on ch cory root, which had been mixed with coffee to a gnat extent. The last article in. which he intended to propose any alteration, was wool, and be proposed to take off this tax - altogether. That duty produced last year about £lOO,OOO. The total propose.' reductions would amount, in round numbers, to £400,000. The hon. gentleman then said he was de sirous of placing before the public the determination of government with respect to the article or sugar. (Hear, hear.) He said that the treaty which enaeled Brazil to bring . slave grown sugar into this country would expire in November next, and he intended, in mov ing the sugar . duties, to recommend to the house, that from and after November tiext he duty upon sugar produced in those countries which are exempt from the taint of the slave-trade—that do not raise sugar by means of slave labour—shall be reduced from their present amount. By this means we shall throw open, under certain aulations, to couqtrit s eastward of the Cape of Good H pe, a valuable ti ade, and shit!' most especially encour age the growing commerce with China, wiihwhich couotry, ktherto, .our relations have nein ex , remely confined. In thus speaking of countries eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, I must impress upon the house that I refer only to such with winch we have retstons, and wherein the Bug it is not raised by m.-ans of sl ivei y. Sir, the dSferet:tiai duty which 1 slialf propose to this house to be imposed on sugars from cuutittie- free from the tat nish of slavery will he 10. per cat —that whereas British co lonial sugars pay a (iuty ot 24s per cwt., toe sugar from the countries I refer t t shall pay 34. t per cat. I tarn quite aware it may be said that although the treaty with Brazil is brought to a conclusion there is a treaty with America, which contains a similar clause to the other, entitles America to the rights extended by us to the most favoured nation. Nothing can be further from my intention than to infringe the letter of any enactment existing with thht or soy other country. but I t oink that when we take the discussion on the sugar daces I shall be able to show that the sugar produced in the southern states of North America is not calculated to be brought ; into competition with the sugar, the produce of free la bour, I have now been speaking of. It would have been desirable to place the reduce io of the duty on colonial su gar nn a solid and permanent fouudati.‘n; but it is obvious that till Novemberveit it will!), u t-oly itnposslileroact up- On any principle of that description, for the doings° would paralvseall the trade in the i.iterior. I think that the better course will be to admit foreign sugar at a discriminating duty, arid continue it till that perio-1 sl all arrive whet) the sugar cuies come again under I onsideratiom In doing this, far he it from me to entertain - any ill feeling- toward those coon. ries whose sugar willretnain excluded. I think the reduction we have made in the coffee of those coun tries proves sufficiently that no such feeling animates the Goverr merit. The hon. gentleman, at the close of his luminous address, was loudly cheered ; and was congratu lated even by Mr. Hume, on his clear and satisfactory statement. The house shortly after adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. Lord CorrextrAm, in moving the second reading of hia hill to amend the r,la , icris of creditors and debtors, explained that its object was to exte -d the remedy which had been applied in 1838 !o executions on me-n , process, and to release debtors trom imprisonment in any shape. The - b 11 was founded upon repots, the one made in 1832 and t e other in 1840, to which the names of almost every person whose position entitled his opinion to especial at tention were affixed, and who, although in each case dis sentinz mum other points, unanimously. ag , eed in the r'commendations which were elibodied in the bill He described from those reports the utter ruin, in morals as well as est de. which imorisontrent tironi.ht upon the debtor and his faintly, and showed also, nom, the same authority, that this evil, to which about 5,000 persons per annum were sot jectecl, was not necessary as a pi uee tion to the commercial interest. I-Ic then entered into a review t f the legislation upon the subject down to the act by which arrest upon mesne process had been abolished, exposing th- inconsistency of the bankrupt and insilvent laws, and contending that imprisonment, while infli4titt great and most unjust cruelty upon the debtor, had en tirely failed as a safeguard to the creditor. Under the proposed hill the debtor would be compe!led to give up his propery the benefit of those to whom he was d hteil. anti would receive as a compensating boon an im munly frou imprisonment. Th, distinc ion of the law 'between bmsroptcy and insolvency would be removed, and the punishment of frau tuleat debtors would be left to the ordinary tribunals, by which the coutrictilig debts witt.out a pro.peet of raying them would be treated as a substantive offence fir the consideration of a jury. The LORD C ANCELtOR highly approved the measure, and prom , sed it his cord al support. Lord Brougham, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Den man, and Lord Campbell, severally expressed their ap probation of the bi.l, which was accordingly read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnAy. *A question was put to Mr. Hoeg by Lord JOCELYN, as to the papers which the C . o s u p r o t ,, o il l Ft. producerec'orsu e t s i p w ee E ti a n s g t India Comninv might fee l d the rec4ll of the Governor-General of India. Mr. Hoop said; he was not the offical organ of the Company. and had no authority to make any state be on the subject •, but he presumed the Directors would invented by the coarse which might be pursued by her Majesty's Ministers. Mr. F. M AULE moved for leave to brine in a Bill to rei:ulate the a !Ministration of oaths in the Universities of Sc,or land. These oaths were er &ally intended to apply to Episcopalians, but, they had long been allowed to fall into de.nitude, and we e only now recivtd in order to be enforced, tot against Episcopalians but Preshyrtrians, owing to the recent schism in the Church of Scotland. A s an illnstiatitn of the was in which the•e test oaths were made tO'apply,, he stned, that when he was elected Lord lltctor of the Uniy(rsitv of Glasrcw, tut ol jection wss tal.en h'm net he lad joined the Free (hutch, al. tht , ugh when Sir it. Peel west lected to the same honota hie positron. although kn-syti to he an Fpikopalian, no test whatever was applied to hint. His °Wen was that prorepsnrships might he told by qualified men without ti e applicarinn of any illiberal test, with the exception of the ological professorships, with whit'', he did not propose to interfere. S r A. L. Hair seconded the motion. Sir J. GRAH AM said, that the. Commivsion of 183 0 . 0 1 ,- pointed to inq u ire into the s ate or the Universities In Sc.:Cant!, had report.-d the necessity of a more e.trit4..ent application of th- t. t. Eli e-p.diaits. it, w:is tt ne. hi.d occasionally filled cffices in Ile, UniverAtes, hot no Pre:— byteriatt Dis“ n'er had r heee alh;vird to fill ;env 0+ the proieesoe ships. A fact nI it it I.e witch rest et le (I, though he rowel I e f -I , I,tetrt to tern o.r tit V eit the s;ift.p.ods of the Clooell of Scot a ti win-et he -aw the orn-n Dort I ty to it avowed by ti e edhip•iits of the Free Ctintet, and abet) he r;(;Genibt red the jalpe:ruittee Lf the cow pact by which the Universities and the CLut.cii of Scotland were declared t() be for ever united. The right hon. baro net condoled by declaring himself opposed to the intro duction of :he bill. Mr. ItUTHERFURD said, it was a scandalous spectacle to see these trips applied to a man like• Sir David-Brew st!,r. By maintaining the test, they were rendering the Church of Scotland sectarian in the worst sense of the term. The LORD ADVOCATE contended for the necessity of retaining the tests, which was the mire necessary because of the ! - xtentof the late secession in the. Scotch Church, although h , did not admit that that. secession comprised anything like two-thirds of the spopuhrion. Sir (v. CLERK warned the Engrish gentlemen in the lriuse that if this motion were carried they _would soon have a similar afienipt—indeed the hon. member who had last: spoken had already such a motion on the paper—to abaish the oaths in the Universities of England. Some discussion ensued, in which Mr..M'Kenzie, 'Mr. Baon , rcnan, Mr. P. W. Stewart, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. Hume, and Mr. F,rbes took part; after which Mr. Pox Made replied, and on a division his motion . was nega tived by a majority of 128 to 101. The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Masters and Servants Bill went into committee. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved as an amendment that the bill be considered in committee that day s'x months. Sir J. GRAHAM thought its defects could be got rid of in committee, and that when perfected it would be a use ful measure, he therefore supported . it. . . 97 After some further discussion a division took 'place , when there arpeared— For going into committee Against it• The bill was lost amid considerable cheering. The house was counted out soon after. HOUSE OF LORDS.--THogsna.r. Earl FITZWILLIAM gave notice that he would, on Tuesday next, move an address to the crown, praying her majesty to appoint a committee, with a view to the issuing of a commission of inquiry as to the points of the country it was desirable to connect by railways. Lord CAMPBELL moved that the house should resolve itself into committee upon his bill for allowing defendants, in whose case a writ of error may he obtained, to put in hail for their appearance to receive sentence, in the event of the decision being unfavourable, instead of at once be coming subject to the punishment imposed by the court appealed against. The LORD CKA NCELLOR denounced the bill as a scarcely disguised attempt to procure for Mr. O'Connell and his co-traverser s a further exemption from the punish ment. which, in pursuance of its public duty, the court by which they hsd been tried was about to impose upon them, and vigorously resisted a measure which, even on general grounds, be showed to be a means of defeating the ends of justice. In this view the house appeared to coincide, for after a few remarks from several noble lords the bill was sum marily rejected. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN Ai\D COLONIAL. INDIA AND CHINA. (From the Times ) We have received - by extraordinary express Calcutta pa gers of the 14th, and .13,mbay papers arid corresgandebee to the 13th of March inclusive. brought by the Bentinck, which reached Suez on the 12th of April ; they were brought to . Marseilles from • Alexandria direct by the French steamer. . The latest dates brought by the Bentinck, which reach ed Suez on the 12th instant, are from Calcutta to the 14 - h. and BofobaY to the 13th . - Ma:rch. The steamer Carnac was despatched from Bombay on the evening of the 13th to Ceylon, -to meet the Bentinck, on her passlge from Cal cutta to Suez. The mails' Which had left 'London ton the G'h of Febru ary had arrived at Bombay,' huit the letters were not to be delivered until 'the following day. The most important Military news refers to the rtfusal of one Madras and two 'Bengal regiments to proceed to Scinde on finding that they were not to be allowed full batta. There is nothing of importance from Lahore and Aff• ghanistan, but it is supposed that these two states will shortly come to open hostilities. The Sesostris arrived at Bombay on the 10th of March from China, which c ,, utitry she left on the 15th of Febru ary, having on board, amongst other passengers, Major- General Sir James Schoedde. The town of Victoria was quite healthy, and it was hoped that the ensuing summer would not be so fatal as the last. Several daring attempts at robbery had been made at Hong Kong. Sur 1-1. Pot tinger had evinced an earnest desire to act up to the treaty with China. Her Majesty's 55th Regim.nt was under orders for immediate embarkation for England. Ott. Majesty'a ship Dido, Captain Keppel, left for Calcutta on the 2d of February, having on board Lord Saltoun, late Commander of the Forces, who arrived at Suez in the Bentiock, and will proceed to England by the (Great) Li verpool. Little was doing in teas on account of the high prices demanded. The Governor-General arrived at Calcutta on the 28th of February, and on the 29th published a most liberal grant of batta to all the troops that were engaged in Gwa lior and Scinde India in general is tranquil. A letter from Calcutta, dated March 15, contains this passace :--" Scinde is finally and for ever annexed to the British possessions." _ _ Malta - letters of the 23d of April, received by this ex press, brings no news." HURRICANE OFF THE MAURITIUS. Within the last few days the subjoined intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, announcing a most fearful storm having occurred in the month of January last, off the Mauritius, by which, we regret to state, several splendid ships were totally lost. It is described to have been the severest that lms visited that island for many years, and lasted nearly 28 hours. Among them the Hugh Matthie, an Indiaman, on her first voyage, having only been launch ed by the owners, Messrs. Sparks and Co., at Maryport, in Devonshire, in the early portion of last year ; and the purpose for which she put into the Mauritius was to land about eighty emigrants and their families from Calcutta, and afterwards to proceed on the remainder of the voyage to England. Through the zeal and vigorous exertions of the captain and pilot. every soul (except one man) was saved. The unfortunate person who was lost was one of the emigrants, who, it seems, was washed ovrrboard by the breakers. The last letters received from the Mauri tius state that the ship had become a complete wreck, and her fragments have been sold to the highest bidder. She had a valuable cargo on board, consisting of merchandize and East India produce, very little of which was saved. The total loss was computed at £25,000 portions of which sum - will fall on one or two insurance companies. The emigrant ship Amity was also a beautifully built ship, and it is somewhat remarkable that she likewise was on her " first passage" when overtaken and destroyed by ►he tempest. This .hip belonged to Liverpool, which port she sailed from for Bombay in June last, and made an ex traordinary quick passage From Bombay she proceeded to the Mauritius, with emigrants for that Island, which place she reached in safety on the 2d of January. One of the vessels that left Liverpool at the same time that the Amity did, was unable to hear up against the violence of the ocean, and was eventually hurled upon the rocks. Two other ships soon shared a similar fate, which, lamentable to d- tail, also had a number of emigrants on hoard. The ship Marion; Captain Ross, 350 tons burthen, also in the emigrant trade, was wrecked within a short distance of the spot where the Hugh Matthie went on shore. She was from Calcutta, and had a valuable and miscellaneous cargo ; providentially, the whole of the emigrants were saved, though they endured the most severe sufferings, con equent upon their destitute state. She was lost under precisely similar circumstances to those already detailed. The Malay brig, Captain Shaw, with a number of emi grants also on board, was lost at the same time on the same coast. The whole of the passengers were saved, as also the crew. Another vessel, called the Bordeaux, was lost during the storm, but all on board saved. Letters were on Friday evening received, mentioning ;the total loss by fire of the ship Palestine, between 500 and GOO tops burthen, belonging to the port of Newcastle noon-Tyne, off the Cape of Good Hope, in the month of February last. Great anxiety is felt for the safety of thecrew : 'none of them have ben seen or heard of since the occur. rence. She left Newcastle in the early part of Septem ber last, and was bound for the East Indies. The Havannah papers mention the failure of the house of Mooyor and Co., of that place, for 700,000 dollars. AsoTuErt DUEL--We are sorry to be compelled to state that a duel t ok place Yesterday morning. between General W. D: buys, the State-treasurer, and Mr. R. Richardson, which is likely to be att-nded with fatal con s, quences and derrive the State of a valuable servant. The parties met at the New Orleans Ball-room, at twelve o'clock, and folight with sharpened toils. Mr. Bichard. son was severely wounded in the shoulder, and General Damp was run through the lower part, of the t-mly. We were informed last evening 11,1 t. but faint ,the were en. tertained of his recovery.—New Orleans Tropic, 25th March. INTOLERANCE AT .Romc.—A weekly meeting of Eng_ lishmen has for some time past been held in Rome, in the apartur nts of an Englishman of rank, for the purpase of reading the Scriptures and prayer, at which the Dean if Ardagh has presided, and Dr. Keil. the writer on pro phec) ; Dr. 'Lillis, of Cheshunt ; Mr EN:4, the South Sea missionary ; several English clergymen, and persons from Germany and . America, have been present On one of these occasions, the assemb:y was turned into a mis sionary meeting, in behalf of the Lond , n societies, and Lord Gaii.sbarough tof.k the chair. The ecclesiastics, however, although they complain en loudly of the exclu sion of the Jesuits by thelaueen of. Tahiti, have put a stop to the meetings. The landlord of the house in which the meetings were hell was sent for, and a proas verbal was drawn up (which he was compelled to sign.) enj.tining him nut again to let hisloose to " Methodists," and not any more to bold a public kitchen in his house. The poor man d.d not so much care about the first part of the old r; but applied to the government to relax the orderahout his kitchen. This they r t once did ; saying, their object hal only been to : , top the meetitigs. and, f that object were effecied. he need tint he afraid to furnish dinners. Of course, this policy succeed , d, and the meetings era ed.— Letter in the Globe. IRELAND. THE DUBLIN TRIALS. On Monday last the Solicitor Genet al restimpti his address on the part of the crown. The learned gen. tleman commenced hi. arguments by replOnz to the fourth grouno of objection specified in Ali. O'Connell's noti, e of tooth n. v z., that no evidence had been tticen of any mate , iii or evident fact Invitie taken place within the venue' laid in the imictruent. lie then woreedtd at great length to reply to the statemt ws put forth about what was teemed the "fraudulent" suppres sion of mums fr m the jury list, and went through the objections of the traverse's seriatim, and argued that th;•re gas not the slightest reason fur granting a new trial on the grounds relied on, On tues•lav the Sol.eitnr• Gen-ral concluded his ad dress at one o'clock, when coton..tl for the teat erset s oin mowed t►►eir a(!dres,es, and ocruped the time of the court nr►til Friday at noon, when lin. Attorney-General rose to repl , and continued his spee4 h unt►l the adjourn ment of the c urt. On Saturday the full court sat, pursuant to adjourn. meat, a, two o'clock, when The ATTORNEY GENERAL continued his arguments, replying to the übi-rtioni raised r , spteting ttie judge's charge,, and the evoience of tr , .e net, s t :titers. At neatly a quart er r past five o'cl ick the Attorney-General concluded in these wrrds :—" 1 'can say, with a meat magic' rate o;t au occasion and under circumstances not unlike this, Ego hue animo scraper tri invidiam virote pirtam ploriam non invidiam putarenl " The Aiturriey•General testnt - d seat amitlst dentinstrations of applause. Mr. Ni BITESIDE adverted to the tact of there hay ng been at feast taefve near cases cited by the Attortiey-Ge n,ral in the con. s, of his ar g um en t s . an d th e ti avt . rsers' ciiousel; ' . he said, tad a iiitht to eitument upi n thetn• Mr. MONAHAN s.itl when the traversers' cons 1 waived h it right to be heard by two counsel each, it " 8 "P n " the twd. rAanding tbit the Solicitor-Genetal s hould men 'ion all the cases on widen the Crown n east to rely. so that the traveis , rs' counsel would comment ut on them ; ituf Mr: Justice Burton said, that it at y case uo men tioned by the Sol , e , trr•Gent-ral svas att-ivt , rds relied on, that the traverscrs' counse. would .be entitled to comment it them,. Alter rnme discussion nn this point. Jnilr.PuaToN ,a , (l, that if. on h oking more fully in'o th easeS c‘ted by the cr wn, the jtioges were if opinion that it was essential f. r t..e traverAtro to have a reply; ..her wuuki he .11• wed it. The court adj-urned at a quarter-post firs. FATAL ACCIDENT AT DUBLIN.—On Twww s.(7av, Lieut. .;cett, o° e sin Fu .r. nc his Lode 'brine e tit the •ce•wix Pa.k. alai rereive.il so s,‘eie t cvcu , 11 a I. al:. Ice vva, token home to Ship- Arret U = I racks in e and died during lIP g ,t. THE, RF,PEA 1. A S^OCIATION —At the weekly Mt , tins; .e this b..dv on 7tl..nliilV 1%1'4, O'C. nne4 &poke at e t ten4til nutl m d f. c l ue allusion t r the prohai.ay .r his beau rpi-e-11, io• p: • wit (I. moved that. tie ttc s'ciatiott. to os 5.,._. acj.u.rn 1.. retoste bn ad to is e prat 1 • 1...1-rd eet tie the cotidue• t ey 'Oa to t the trim Th.t oti t.f ft e -tale t. als. rue t w 1 , /itit,l r.t the rum 1,.t.t.t. 41: 190 . Flo r EESSING ACCIDENT. —A VV., ep- Hertity I)lTUrli on Fr.tay. by .I:eh Alexander Chartil.,., I.llr. henry Nelson, and Mr. Alen B-11. have nee,' conogne.l to ,en early grace. .I*. ey had, that day, gone on the iake, oil a pleasure exents;on ; and w:tett rounding Ram's-island. the yacht in which they were rapstz-d, in a sudden and violent sqoall, ant stink. when tne twee vcung men nerigued. Several persons on the shore witnessed the neo , irr:nc , , hut tin ass's anc. could he afforded. All the bodies h ~ e been recovered.— Belfast Whig. SUPERSTITION.—The f tllnwingreccurrence, which rook play last week at a e called Candhbrack, in the parish of Inoisca ra, deserves to he made pubic, not only as awful in itself, but as showing t h e degraded state of su perst it on i n h 'he people are kept. A young woman. daughter of a farmer living at that place, had been disap pointed in a matrimonial arranzement, in consequette- 0 . her patents not giving the amount of money required on the man's part ; and he ua, in consequence married to another. The former wem n, who lived as servant s mie miles from her father's, proceeded in the mid:ile of the night to the house of her parents, with a lighted candle in a lantern, set fiie to the thatch while the inmates—her parents and brothers and sisters—were asleep, and then drowned herself in the river Toonali which flims by that place.—The. family escaped with great difficulty, but the house and furnitui e, and a quantity of pot a t oe s, were consented to ashes. T ile body of the unfortunate woman was toandliteless in the river, part of ber dress found tied to the lantern which she had lett on the bank; apparently for the impose of twilling the place. The awful super. stition: connected with the occurrence is this :—When found in the river, a Rontish scapular was upon her body. which it appears was pat t of a regular set of that kind of trurnpet-y, worn by persons in Romish orders, which the - pour infatuated creature had purchased the day before from the venders of such thanes in Cork, evidently with a view of scieetenz her soul Irian the'guilt of the f-nl and awful crime she had then in contemplation. Had this wretched 'superstition rested with the unfortuttaie woman herself, it might have lost much of its weight, as a sauple of the spiritual degradation of the peasantry ; hut the If lowing facts give it general appltc ttion :—The parents and friends of the woman not only carefully kept the scapular found with her in the river, upon her dead body, at the wake. but had the other Popish rags above alluded to brought and put upon her, and had her buried with them ; and a report was circulated through the neighbourhood, that though the scapular had tio' kept her front drowning, yet it had showed its wonderful power in keeping her body perfectly dry in the water.—Cork Constitution. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, TUESDAY, April 30. PICKFORD V. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action in which the plaintiff, the well known carrier, sought to recover compensation from the defendants for the breach of an alleged contract to f ,r -ward certain goods of a pr tishable character from Liver pool to London on the night of their delivery at the Liverpool goods station. At the trial it appeared that the goods in question were taken to the Wapping station at ten minutes past six in tie eveniog, when the carman was told by the warehouseman that he was in plenty of time. The goods, however, did not go forwa , d on that evening, and the owners havin, enfr cid their losses from the plaintiff, he in turn brought this action against the railway company. On cross-examination of plaintiff's witnesses it was shown that there was a large bcrird on the nremi• sea in Wapping, the purport of which was that "goods received after 4 o'clock p. m. would go forward to next working day," there being but one goods train from Liverpool to Loudon on each of the week days. The jury having f-und for the deferid6nt under the direc tion of the learned judge, Lord Abjurer, on the ground that there was no evidence of a special contract to for ward these good• on the sante evening, a rule nisi uas af terwards &A oiled tor a new trial, on the ground of mis direction, sod that there was no evidence to warrant the verdict of the jw y. Mr. Erie and Mr. Crompton now showed cause. The action was On a supposed special contract, which was a deviation from th, general one set f rth to the public by the board, and it was one which the servant M the compa ny could have no authority to make so as to bind the de fendants. The cont, act r .th r was to send forward the goods so received at the earliest reason,ib:e time, and though goods might have been lorwardA when left later than 7 o'clock even, still the conapayy were not bound to do so. There was no evidence whatever to warrant the jury in saying that there was any spec!al contract. in the first place; and in the next, there was no misdirection in his Lordship's telling the jury that in his opinion there was none, which was all he did say. - . - Mr. Martin and Mr. Cardwell supported the rule, and contended that the learned judge was not justifi-d in leav ing the facts to the jury as he had done, for the defend ants ought to be bound by the agreement entered into by their clerk or weigher at the station. That person had informed the plaintiff's agent that the goods were in time, and that, coupled with the enquiry, certainly was very good evidence of a special contract in respect of the goods so deli , eruct The Cur was of opinion that there had been a misdi rection on thiA point and tin-r fore— The rule was . o.ade absolute fora new trial. it is said that Mr. Serjeant Goo'born, brother of the Chane• llor of the Exch -quer, is to d the lhte Mr. Merivale as one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy. The salary is £2OOO. It wa. exp •cted that yesterday morning the Solicitor- General w,ultl move the Court of Queen's Bench for a criminal information atainst Mr. urnfrey, the b rrrister, for his speech against ‘he Dike of Mariborourch at the recent election for Woodstock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Petitions were presented in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill, by Lord ASHLEY, from the operatives of Wigan ; from the hands in the employ of Mr. T. Greenhalgh, Messrs. Lomax and Walker, and Mr. J. Hutchinson, of Bnry. In answer to a question from Lord Sandon, Mr. GLAD STONE stated that he expected the bill for the alteration of the duties would be pawed in the course of a fortnight or three weeks. The Cu ANCELLOR of the ExcnEQuEn moved for leave to introduce a bill to amend the laws respecting savings' banks. The low rate of interest upon other securities compared with that allowed upon deposits in savings banks had induced investments of money there by many persons not of the classes for whom these institutions had been intended. He proposed, therefore, to reduce the rate of interest in savings banks from 24d. to 2d a day; and to enact that whenever the capital and infere4 should amount to £l5O all interest should cease. This bill would make some provisions for preventing abuses by persona investing money in thoae banks as trustees for others, and would contain some regulations upon minor points. Mr. HUME said he had long been persuaded that it was a fallacy to quote the amount of the deposits in these banks as a proof of the national prosperity. Lea e was given to introduce the bill, and soon after six the house adjourned. HOUSE OF Lorips.—FRIDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that their lord - ships should resolves themselves into committee on the Dissen ters' Chapels Bill, the objects of which he stated. and the principle vf which he advocated in an able speech which elicited cheers from both si:les of the house. The Bishop of LONDON opposed the motion, and con tended that the sec,ind clause went to legalise the illegal use of a great trust. It was an ex pose facto law to legalise the use of chapels for purposes entirely contrary' to those for which they were founded. It proposed that the application of the chapel for the last twenty years should he th:cisive as to the intention of thefon-thr ; but surely it would be far better to take the application of it for the first twenty years of its foundation. The right reverend prelate moved as au amendment that the bill should be committed that d'y six months. Lord BROUGHAM sup, orted the bill of which he entirely approved. Its object wos to prevent litigarion by render ing it unnecessary to inquire into the peculiar tenets of the founder where there was an actual possession for thirty years. Besides it was a common thing for persons to leave autos to found chapels where doctrines were taught dian etrically opposite to their own. The Bishop of EXETER said that although he stood, be believed, alone in his opposition to the first clause of the bill, yet in the exercise of his duty he felt it necessary to resist the legalising of bequests which were illegal at the time they were made, because of the illegality at that time' of the doctrines which they were intended to inculcate, al hough these doctrines might have been since that pe ri.4i legalised. Lord COTTENHAM supported the bill, as did also Lord CAMPBELL, after which The Bishop of LONDON said he would not press his amendment to a division, perceiving from the feeling of the hou-e that he had no chance of carrying it. After some ob-ervations from Lord TEYNHAM, the bill went through committee; and their lordships then ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. On the motion for the house resolving it-eif into com mittee on the Factories Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK moved as an amendment, "That it is the opinion of this house that no interference with the power of adult labourers in factories to make contracts respecting the hours for which they shall be employed, be sanctioned by this house." He contended that the fac tory labourer was better paid and did not work harder than the agricultural and other labourers - indeed, worst feature of his condition was, its being meddled wit h by the vice of legislation. He was anxious to emancipate the labourer from the heavy weight of Lord As day's hurt anity, and exceedingly regretted that Sir J. Graham shoehi have meddled with the question of interference. Sir J GRAHAM said that non-interference a ith adult labour was the , principle of the bill as well as of the ex isting law, and it only went to carry out the prnection to young persons, which was sanctioned by the legislative in 1833. The only departure from the writ c'ple of the existing law was its interference with adult female labour, and this interference was sanctioned by the great majority of the manufacterers as a check upon the unfair opera tions of competing manufacturers. Females workieg in factories were entitled to protection, and he took his stand noon the necessity of limiting their toil to a period which their coestitutiens might enable them to snstaii.. Lord HOWICK expressed his sure rise that Sir J. Gls ham should call upon them to pa-s a bi!i which he admitted to be a violatien of principle. The bill berore the house was a feeble commencement, but it established the prioel tie of interference, and if passed it a mild be inipcssible to draw hack. If any evils shouid result they most re medy them by throwing down all artificial restraints and commercial monopolies. Sir IL PEEL admitted that the moral and intellectual improvement of the Labouring population had been too much negl: cted by the legislature, hut he feared that if a limitation to ten hours were adopted a struggle might fol low between wages aed profits to the diminution of the comforts of the labourer, and thus the only consequence of an etumpt to promote too , talky by law would be the defeat of their own object The interference eith female labour wile, no doubt, a departure from principle. but it' aas justified by the beneficial effects which woe likely to flow from it. Lot d J. RUSSELL said he was opposed to the amend ment uf Mr. Roebuck, but thought interference should be limited to persons under 21 years of age. and that the ten hours principle should be eradually at - tired at. Lord ASHLEY vindicated his former statements re spectirg labour in factorits from imputations cast upon them by Mr. Roebuck. He declined disco sing the t-ti hours principle, until it should come regularly before th , house upon the motion of a hich he had given notice upon the third r ading t f the bill. Ater a few observations from Mr. C, Wood, Mr. king.' worth, Mr. Fielden, Mr. M. Philips, and Mr. Parker the house divided, and Mr. Roebuck's amendment wa= negatived by a majority of 282 to 76. The other orders of the day were then disposed or, and the house adjourned. PATH ERS,GUARD YOUR DAUGHTERS FROM INFIDELS. —The Timex gives a long account of the s.cret history o! the capture, &c. of the parties convicted in th- late w It forgery case.. The article co•ichtdes with the following, history of the two females imi , licated :—" The mother of Mrs. Dorey and Mrs. • Saunders was the th,w.ker of art aged soldier of the name of Crene, a tien , oner at Fal mouth, and their father (Wm. Itichat d-) rya.: the Ste.war , of a Li.h ole g nernment packet. - • Oct toe proel It-nation ea peace, Me' R ic h ar d s went t o Li s b on t o estabLet hitto,el , there, hut he soon afterward-died-in e mbarrts..e i circutu s aces in th a t c i ty . The daughters had been hrou4ht pi asmilieu rs, h u t on t h, i t f ather ' s de,th, fte mother Roc daughte rs opened a eh ne shop at Falmouth, cohere th y remained a tew y ears , w h en t h ey remove d to 13 , . clicalmn' , in Sontersetshire, arid at last to New Bortd...trect , Beth %bete they carried en the I miness of s•taw-hf I net make/N. In this street Saadels kept u-fitth shop, and thu it is believed, led the unt,rtuna iron the circumstance of- heighboun,ood, became ac quainted with Lydia, who played the t art of Emilia Slack, and eel her s sire into all 'he *nisei ; 4,et wen rn , :,ery, to th , de oils of wI i h the I 1 1 IM , allt have beer, s. , long met, t aue,i. Herr, A- , , Nl's. D ref, then G. r,t a-a tti.Oite (1,-, b'- ie u are. with the an C .me re go..inted uoh Ca hs!e, 0., t er, .f. 's vi-i's to i h.t rity, alto /0 /Ilia rim., and to the blaxp , e ,thnx rketritte , t,/ Cartive, the whtile cl . the Jamily a.,etibe /heir lota' ruin." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE'. On Wednesday morning, the branch railway from the Bricklayers' Arms stainin to Fulkestone and Doter was opened, in due ceremony, to the public. The entire line of the litit4.l and Exeter Railway was opened on Wednezday in the usual manner by the direc tors. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—A special me, ting of this company was hi Id on Tuesday, when it was agreed to raise a further sum ..f £300,000 by the issue of 7,500 new shares of £4O each. RAILWAY lin:lA.—ln the Muse of Commons, on Friday bight, the Leeds and Selby Purchase, the Poutop and Souin Shields, and the :Newcastle and Darlington Junction, and the Tyne. Bridge Railivay &Pp were read a tutid time arid pass, d. MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY COMPANY. —The junction of II is railway ' , van the Leeds and Matt el e t r, which took peace on Saturday, will foim an im poitilit tpoch in ra lway annals. It is notorious that hitherto on this railway these have been no third cliss carriages, and even those known as the second clasS have been the shabbiest and the least calculated for the public comfort of any in the kinvtotti ; I); 'hese matteis of just complaint are about being redresse I, thanks to the la bours of the House of Comnio,s Railway Committee. Mere are to be third class carri:iges, and the tare will, it is reported, be moderate, and the present serond class car tia;les w 11 he mnveeted into the low fared enes, whilst the second will be constructed with some regard to the com fo, t of the passengers, a thing I.i h,rto unknown on this e. RAILWAY STATISTICS.-1 he ext-nt of railways alre , dst constructed arid in opera lm n the united kingdom is 2,000 miles; the sum a hiels Lac aiready been actually ex pended in their formati,ni is no le:.s than .t. 79.000,000 sterling ; the pi ojet t- now before pirliament will. if sanc tioned, add nearly anotier 1 000 miles to the existing length of our railways, and were the cost of their cons ruc tion to be equal to the rate if ex, cut nz the existing lines, almost £40.000,000 sterlirg a otLd be added to railway in vt stments ; hot, as the cost not r ach that rate, to add another £30,000,000 sterling to railway stock will be probably a more truthful calculation. Thus, in a few years, the enoro ous turn of £109,000,000 of money will have been invested by t'.e English capitalists in the con structio r of rat ways a; home, besides a very considerable sum which has la-en sent out of the country to assist in the formation if f rr ign railways, THE CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—This bill was t r , iisht miner a c , tr mitt, eof the House of Commons on Mond.ry last. 11 r. Marshal in the chair. The bill was out •ed hy 'he Bishop of liangOr, Sir Charlet; Smith, and Nit . . James Bateman. On Tuesday evening. Sir G. Cli rk was added to the con mitt. e, and a considerable amount of traffic at present exisrrng on the line was !roved by se veral witnesses—as much as wt,uld scow a clear income to the pt., prietors of the line of at least six per cent. On Tr,ur sdi.y ti;e con mit tee came to thy- unanimous deem& nat icn that the preamble of the hill was proved. Sir G. tl:tk then i'm'posed to exam-tie Mr. Giles, the engineer, as to the ut lity of adopting Ws line at Chester. which would have the effect of leaving out the city. This was opposed by the committee generally, and it was untlerstr od that the s Ant tiort of the giivt rnment would undoubtedly be giv , nto the bill. The clauses were considered on Fri day. when at the stiggestitAn of the government, a clause wr.s introduced sus! e-ding the works from the river be tween Ogayn and the Metui Badge, until next session. wt err a bill will be introduced g sing power to the com ta,y to make an iron bridge over tie Met,ai Straits at the Britattria Rocks, and fixing the line which the railw a y m shall nt puts traverse e,end to e t n h e t these t s a i p on. oi a n l t H s i . t h T e r i e ri This a p rr a a r n s g e to he nn doubt of the bill now passing, and Mr. St- pheirson's litre being finl!yr adopted, according to his plats. Hii;:gahl:slon:he s I-, , ew sb to T r SHREWSBURY AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.— lii another part of our papt r we insert an extract from the Railway Chronicle, of Satuniay last, tn . entioning, as a rutin:me, tf.e pr0p0, , ,, d formation of . the 'I rent vatic) , line 1:y the tllit u( e ji d ni: i t il a, fl .,nn i i e: tm :e lt a ,ti l lt i ej d e mI I , funds oh nt, ._ limn .taffoid to Rugby, of the three powerful cominalies most interested in the ti r this hne, which, it II e decided sat ction of govern pi oji (t. We now hate ai,cthuritititay.ntioess:thitarvi.,haagtrt:dat: aunngiete. Junction, at or mar Stafford, wi 1 r Ilder ti rr j: ) : e le n , o t a: : . ' there e tli r n e i rp a n l ,: l : l , l : o i c a e mi d th„ni t r o a. .a tn 1 : f e. i x e (i c .; i sr d ,a e sn d sd,.( u .1.11 and hest route to Loudon, and ti,us (I, . il°':lffi‘;.s:"l..o.ndoti journey. From the union of I h'' t ii : s h e i ,i,l s , ~t , ., d r , ..ra l _i t i h i o i e B .d. ~,,,, ~,, y. : line into i he Trent that it would save liall-aii hite the W e ;ii Fon project I. I of the 01 e sato y ar lout, nirt.ely, lire.v igill l l,,l l : :: ,, . :,,tet iincri::iit a , I. ond , in and B . truongl am arid Grand Juncii, n Compahiss in the firmati , n of it. the pro•pt ett,f ;hrevistAiry remain ing permarienly the terminus co the blauch in ihis direc -6,,,,, has assumed a. much n ore c,dant and definite ~- p, et than was pretx.usly the yam-, Lol a itl is i ton li fi;: th e da , si, ui" interest and cl,elated iniention of tl,e Grand Jut.clion Com; u . ny to make ~ , il 1,. IL suit ii. , ui . suiveNmi , 0' II e Grat d June loi, C„ t, piny I-SIC heel' in tie n( i;;1 lieu, - o,?itu,,; ytatkliliii.l4,l,igti-sieetitc:elll;la:trlli:l,,setsmiitieekv,o(yit,i,i: I I tn I v . d I. ,o u t t v Sn i e n w g rectum.— Shrcu; sbicrp Journal. May 7, IR4i. CL.ER,CAL INLW:,. OXFORD. MAY 2.—ln a congregation holden this: morning, the following degrees were conferred: Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. Peter Peace, Worcester College. Rit M ence , Rev. John Henry N urse , Wor w/foi,vet,rar ; of Arfsß Rev.E .— dwa e r v d . William T ir tn i r n o to r n ch c , h s ave r;r:la 'of Rev- John crater; George Bust, Pembroke; Rev. William Cobb, Christchurch Bachelors' of Arts.—Thomas Patridge Nunn, St. Mar! Hall, George Ridley, Christchurch, Grand Compounders; John Buller Yarde Buller, Hcniy Ochteilony Middle ton, St Mary H a ll ; Willi am B a lf our. Lincoln; R ic hard Bright. Fa r ax William Cartwright, Burrington Stopford Thomas Mills, Christch urc h ; J o h n Ch ar l es B a gshaicr Henry Brooks, Sam ue l Pl an t, sc h o l ar o f B razenose ; .1"11 Lowder fl a y, M ag d a l en -h a ll ; L ou i s Balfour Clutter b uc k, Wadham ; Aneu r i n Ll o yd Lodge, .le-us . ; Crarl,s WilliatY Lawrence, F e llo w o f N ew College • &hound Du Buissour Oriel; John B a t guv , Morton; Henry Clarence Pigour schol a r o f U n i vers i ty ; Ch ar l es I ngleby, James Thoma s Boles, Ri c ha r d S eymour C onway Chermside, Exeter ; George Poingdestre, s chol ar o f P em b ro k e. The Bishop of Ch es t er h as nom i nate d Richard W a n t B.A. (twenty-fo ur th W rang l er, 18 44, ) to theVice-Princi palship of the T ra i n i ng C o ll ege, Ch ester. Rev. James Garbett, P ro f essor o f P oetry at Ox f or d, has been collated by the Bishop of Chichester to the pre' bendall stall in Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Heberden. The Rev. Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, the recent convert to tfic komish faith, who is on a visit to the Rev. Thos. Dikes, at the Charter House, in Hull, partook of the sacrament in St. Joha's Church, in that town, on Sunday week. The Rev. Edward Field, D.D., was consecrated BishoP of Newfoundland. in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, OS, Sunday week. H e was present ed to the Archbishop o f Canterbury by the Bishops of Bangor and Worcester, the Bishop of London being the other consecrating bishop. Several clergymen were present, and among. there the Ref- D. Jarvis, of the diocese of Connecticut, United States. ETON COLLEGE, MAY I.—lt has just been notified to the authorities of the College that his Royal Higbnol Prince Albert will lay the foundation -atone of the exten sive new buildings which are to he erected forthwith, at an expense of £26.000, immediately corviguous to the ancient edifice, in that portion of the premises known as Weston's.yard. It having been considered for some time past that the manner in which the boys on the foundation of the College were lodged was not in accordance with the present habits and feelings of society, and being also in many respects objectionable and injurious to the best in terests of the institution, the authorities of the College determined upon making great additions to the fabric, in order that extensive and commodious apartments might be provided for sleeping and for study, and likewise for those meals which the boys do not take at present in the College ball. • COLONIAL CITORCH SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the Colonial Church Society was held on Wednesday eveninx. in Exeter Hall. Captain Sir E. Parry, R.N. presided. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P.. Mr. J. P. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. G. Finch, Mr. J. Labouchere, the Rev. A. Thelwall, and a great number of the lay and cle rical fiends of the society were on the p'atform. Tha secretary read the report, which gave a detailed account of the society's of crations in Nova Scotia, Western Au* , tralia, the Cape of Good Hope, the Bahama Islands, and various other parts of the world. The subscriptions and donations received during the past year amounted to £3.775 exclusive of collections in the colonies. The last accounts received from Syria announced that 200 i n habi•- tsnts of Hasbeya, a village situate at the foot of Mount Leb.ition, had abjured the Greek orthodox religion to em brace Pi o'estantism. Oxford was on Thursday the scene of unusual excite ment. The morning trains from town, and the coaches from all parts of the country, brought up vast nurr,bersOf the clergy, all apparently on one errand, and of one mind, as was proved by the re, , ult. At two o'clock the Cun.oca tion-house was filled to overflowing, and the Vice Chan cellor proposed the new statute, wh;ch had for its o bject to settle the existing per p l ex iti es as to t h e con it and exercises requisite for theological degrees, by creating and granting to the Regius Prof-s-or of DivinitsqDr. ElantP den at present) an absolute doctrinal authority in the rya" ter, with a reference, on questions of FORM, to the Vice Chancellor. The statute was proposed in four clauses., The subject of the fir s t was tota ll y i rre l evant, relat i n g to degrees in law, and seemingly introduced to embarrass tin. voters, committing them, h owever, to a certa i n mo de of exammation, in a matter in which they would probahlt, feel indiffrrence. By anticipation it she the fate etv the rest of the statute, and was rejected by a large um" jority. The second clause contained the proposed I °P :a of exercises, and was the substratum of the two re l marp ing. It was rtjected by a majority of 341 to 21 O n _ . the result being declared the two last clauses were Con vocationmaereetlywithdrawn dissolved.by statute, on the and his friends voted against the proposed questions of form to the ground that .the reference oil Vice-Chancellor was an invasion of his supposed absolute I t t h i e: , Vicesaid thatC a Chancellor. 'and irresponsible power in granting degrees. Among the nou-resident members were Dr. Honk, the Dean of Cbi: chester. Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Edward Churton, and a mb i d io r st is o e f wh o e tl r r e e . r_ch r ar m ac e, te . rs well known by name both here lo ii r a , manprldetnnehilnsef CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The forty-fourth antliver.Nry fleeting t.f this society was held on Tuesday, at Exeter Halt. The Earl of Chichester, President of the Society, took the chair. Amongst those ou the plat form were the Bishops of Chester and Ripon, the Dean of Salisbury, Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir R. H Inglis, Bart., M.P., Mr. J. P. Plutupire, M.P., Mr. J. hound, M.P., Major-General Latter, Hon. E. Curzon, Right Hon. Sir G. Rose, Bart., Hon. Capt Waldegrave, R.N., Hon. Captain Mande, R.N., Arc h•leacon Hoare, Rev. H. Stowell, Drs. Marsh, H. Stewart, H. Green. J. Cunning- Lam, and several o'ber clergymen. The proceedings having been open.-d by prayer, the noble Chairn an yeti briefly addressed the meeting. With the exception of Jamaica, there had been no contraction of missionary I,bour. During the past year, nine additional missiona a ies had been sent out, 54 branch associations and 18 juvenile societies estahlished, and 24 missionaries admitted to holy orde rs . Th e D u k e o f Manchester, V isco un; Sandon, and L or d Lurg an had accepted the office of vice-presid en t s . Th e retort stated, that two yer= ago the society was i n a p os i tion o f cons i derable enat.arrass nient, arising f rom excess o f expend i ture over income ; _ but last ye.,r, through the liberality o f th e chaiscian b lie, that difficulty pfl. bad been overcome. Toe coma, tree had taken th e i r s an d up on t h ose sound Evangel cal an d Protestant p r i nc ipl es w hi c h h ad f rom its very foundation the c hi e f c h arac t er i st i c o f the society, arid to which its prosperity a nd us; fulness were attrib u t a bl e . Th e fi nancial statement . which was next read, gave the following results:—General fund. £97.791 2s. 3d. ; special fund for China mission,£lss6 16s Id.; capital fund.£26lB is 6d.; Foorah Bay Buildings Fund, £llBl 17s. ; Dis Mis sionar es Fund. £1145 19s. Total receipt=, £104.323 15s 10d. The expenditure of the veer, ina lading contribu tions to 1 , ,cal funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The expenditure of th • year, including contributions to local' funds, amounted to £93,473 is. 3d. Tlvy excess t:f income had been applied in part to the erection of buildings at Sierra Leone, with the view to the training of native youths as local missionaries, to the discharge of a debt of £lOOO, renti&ng due on the last account, and then sidue of £4318 15s, it had been deemed rad% isable to trsns'er to the amount of capital, in order that the socieiy's opera tions might not hereafter he interrupted by t. tcporerf fluctuations in ins financial department. The committee had raised the maximum of expenditure from £85,000 to £87,000 a year, exclusive of local funds in the respec tive missions.—O n M on d ay even i ng, the Lord Bish,l3 o f London preached the forty-fourth anniversary s e rmon at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street. THE SOCINIAN FRAUD BILL.—We perceive that this. " conciliation" measure has pa-se I a second reading on the motion of the Lard Chauc hor without observation. This case, which involves the property and riglitb of the Presbyterian laity, as well as the principles of the law of aJseistttsw were sub s t, s c i a i n en s t c io a :c l e io; ly t the land respeetng trusts, and th e f un d amen ' al articles "conciliation" t ? pint, of a Mt l i n igarian or anythin4arian t o h f e 'e g i f s a l i a t t h u re f mini-try. The foll ow i ng d eacr i plion of the bill is taken . i '' tl e- ist h a ° o P cri:z P t t li s e s fr - on a letter by J. Cook Evans, Esq. to Lord Lynd bu- st I hope that your lordship will permit me, without any sus picion of a want of that r spect winch is due to yo r lordship's exalted rank. and that profound leaning which is at mice the foundation and the ornament of your elevation, to state what in my humble judgment, ought to have been the preamble, an d enacting clause in the bill in question. It should hate run. I think, in the tollowaig words :—•• Whereas nearly three hun dred chapels. &c., rected, and in some cases, endowed, by Trinitarian Presbyterians, and the maintenance and spread of Trinitarian dr , ctrines, have, by the lap e t time. and the on' faithfulness of trustees ant ministers, he n perver ed to Or maintenance and spread of doctrine, common y caned Units; rian, entirely opposed to arid subversive of those entertaine d by the pious founders, and for the maintenance of which doC; trines the sa'd chapels, &c., were erected aro endow d, tine' the sanction of the law; and whereas the intentions of - lb e founders of the said chapels are clearly ascr rtainahl by thos` rules of interpretation which the Cour a of Equity adopt it % the interp:etation ix all deeds of trust, whether for religio n 6 purposes or for purposes purely civil; and whereas some of th e chapels, &c., so erect e d h ave been restored to the purposes for which they were originally intended. end used, under the dc , ;: i sions of the Court of Chancery a= d the 'louse of Lords; a i whereas it is expedi en t th at the parties who have violated t bet ":. trust, and have perve ted proper y fr o m i s l aw f u l use , as td°r:i said, shall not be called to account for their ma:versations, heretofore, but shall be confirmed and secured in possession 4 the pr perry whi c h th ey now do or shall hereafter untqwflll4 po - sess, HE IT ENACTED . by. &c.,Xc. that. In all cases in wb!: ti the d ctrines t o b e t aug h t i n such chapels are not laid d°7 4 in the deeds dechiring the trusts in ' express ter ms .' a .thou_bf otherwise clearly ascertainable, ace, Wring to the I.rinciple c ,... law, 'banded on common sense and common j us ti ce ' the _4l eregation for twenty years in via ation of the original trfucco shall be a perpau .1 bar to all suits for the re , over' of th at' property to its rightful use. And Hs IT FU R T HER EN ACTKP re the usage of the congrega ion for the last twenty ) 0 1 the qttenting such chap e l shall lie c,,uclusice evidence' Oa use d Tractarian founders intended the said chapels, &c.. to l i c u .i n es. for the propagation of U n it ar i an , rid not Trinitarian de , ,eos for the subversion of heir own f ai th, an d not for its P r t se , tion, any prestnnv ion of law, or principle of comma's se'' common justice,' notwithstana.t.g." •.i n p - .3 We still hOne -that this bill, repugnant as it ;1 r.- WI pie. Loth to "common sense and common justice, yet be at res'ed. *l 111 The area of Newfoundland is 57,000 snit lie nn es• th population—extrem e ly po or and th,ill ,, t-t - atte , e" brr (Iva and south coasts—exceeds 80 100. 1 h e j. " yet 130- c'ergy is but 26. wo swim s are w ccerPi el r t ,e.r fer where are 1: emir nien mut', gladly t :boi 1,4111 g tile \flees more tntly bit Ti.et o•' f r 1, of St• Utuhi-dral, a !Orli %ill he a 1 , :o II e atish I , ' t „ t l 1 4 r i n ' s ei , harta iis t o h s , l (me st, con' c i fi t e h eii i t it T 1, 3 ,2 t t o • t'efiui . y in the tu,d, con.pkte the aurk without twiner aid.