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Impala parliament. HOUSE OF LOUp sad SIDNEY presented a petition from his relative, Lord Charles Townshend, only brother and heir-presumptive of the Marquis Townshend, which, from the extreme novelty of the circumstances, as well as the character of the applica tion, excited much interest. The petitioner stated that his elder brother had, in 1807, married a Miss Gardner, of Chat-' -ies, from whom, however, he separated almost immedi •,fter their union. A suit in the Ecclesiasti,cal Courts 'AP. the marriage was commenced, but while it was Marchioness eloped with a person named was married at Gretna-green in 1809. ing the to whc rson she continued to live, adopting his name as his wife until 1823, and by him she had six children, all of whom bore the name of their father until 1823, when they were baptized as the children of the Marquis Townshend. These facts he claimed to be allowed to prove before their lordships, that the testimonies of the witnesses to whora . the circumstances were known might be perpetu _ _ ated, and the mor the second in his tl specially as the title of Earl of Leicester, tinily, had been wrongfully assumed by oer ror Bodmin. Some conversation ensued as to the manner in which an investigation so wholly unprecedented should be proceeded with, and a committee was ultimately appointed, at the suggestion of Lord BROUGHAM, to search for precedents. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Some discussion took place as to whether Mr. C. Buller's motion, respecting the bribery alleged in the petition of Mr. Warburton to have taken place at Bridport, could be consi dered in the light of a question of privilege, so as to take pre cedence of all other business. SPEAKER decided that it could not come under the class of questions of privilege ; and Mr. BULLER, therefore, gave notice that he would bring it forward on Thursday next. Mr. MITCHELL and Mr. B. COCHRANE complained that the petition had been printed in the Morning Chronicle, contrary to the understanding usually acted upon in such cases, and said it was hard upon them that they should not have an earlier opportunity of defending themselves from the gross charges made agoinst them in that petition. Mr. C. BULLER said Thursday was the only day he could bring it forward, the others being order days. In reply to a question from Lord PALMERSTON, Sir R. PEEL said that the commissioners who had been sent out by the noble lord to examine into the North Ameri can boundary had made their report within the last few days, but the annexes to that report were not yet completed. When those annexes were ready, the whole would be laid upon the table of the house. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN asked the noble secretary for Ireland if it was intended to proclaim the county of Tippe rary where so many outrages had recently taken place. Lord EExor said that those statements were much ex aggerated. During the first four months of the year 1841 the cumber of offences in Tipperary was 305. During the same ;period of 1842 the number was 327, but the number of the rmore'serious offences was materially diminished. The go vernment had sent an increased force into the county, and if that should not be sufficient a still greater number would be added. He felt confident, however, that the exemplary con duct of the catholic clergy, in denouncing all illegal pro etedifigs from the altar, would ultimately be attended with the success which their exertions merited. _ _ The louse then resolved itself into a committee of supply, and Capt. BOLDER° proceeded with the ordnance estimates. A conversation arose respecting the non-adoption of Capt. Warner's projectile, in the course of which Sir R. PEEL said he had caused an offer to be made to Capt. Warner to make a trial of his invention upon a large scale at the expense of the government ; but this he declined doing except certain conditions were attached, to which the government did not think it advisable to accede. Mr. BROTHERTON expressed his satisfaction at finding that neither the late government nor the present government had rewarded this gentleman for his infernal invention. (A laugh.) The ordnance estimates having been gone through, Mr. S. HERBERT moved the remaining navy estimates, which were all agreed to. After which the house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday next. The report on the Colonial Passengers Bill was brought up, the amendments were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time on Friday next. Sir J. GRAHAM, in moving that the house resolve itself into committee upon the Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill, said that its object was to enable ecclesiastical corporations, whether corporations aggregate or sole, to grant leases of 99 years, and to apportion the increased value thus given to church property to the augmentation of small livings. He was sure there could be no objection to the details of the bill, and the discussion on the principle might be taken on the report on the third reading. Mr. HAWES thought that such an appropriation of the increased value would not give satisfaction to the public. When a similar measure was formerly before the house, the increased value was to be applied to supersede the necessity of church rates. It was to be recollected that on a former occasion Lord Stanley had declared that such increased value given by an act of parliament could not fairly be con sidered as church property, and that it was quite open to be dealt with by parliament as it pleased. This principle he thought good, and should adhere to it although it would seem that it was abandoned by the noble lord. Sir J. GRAHAM denied that by the law of this country there was any maximum beyond which church property should be increased, or which authorised the state to take all that exceeded any given amount. Mr. ROEBUC K said that the right hon. baronet was, by his bill, enabling the state to deal with this contemplated increase in the case of corporations aggregate, and yet he left the in crease untouched in the case of corporations sole. This in consistency e thought required explanation, apart from any consideration of the propriety of the suggested appropriation. Mr. WAKLEY said that he understood that by this bill some property in the possession of corporations sole would be enormously increased, and yet the whole increase was to be given to the individual, and not to be touched by the state. Sir J. GRAHAM said this bill applied only to leases for building purposes, where the land for such purposes was va lueless unless a lengthened lease could be given. It was eventually arranged that the discussion was to be taken on the report, and the bill then went through com mittee. Mr. ROEBUCK moved the first reading of a bill to prevent bribery and corruption at elections, by giving indemnity to gases. The bill had already passed the House of Lords, ad it would for the present answer his purpose, though he -fter bring forward the one of which he had given witnesses ll was read a first time, and ordered for second read- on Monda The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. COPPER ORE AND TIN, (From the Mining Journal.) From the official returns made to parliament, we find that the quantity of foreign copper ore imported in the year end ing the sth of January, 1842, amounted to 973,701 cwts., which, at 21 cwts. to the ton, would give 46,366 tons, which are thus enumerated :—Cuba, 653,186 cwts.; Chili, 217,720 cwts. ; Colombia, 34,362 cwts. ; Peru, 32,104 cwts. ; and from various other parts, 36,029 cwts. The quantity of un wrought copper imported is stated at 10,186 cwts. ; 7,650 cwts. being from Chili and Peru, and 2,526 cwts. from Swe den. Of this quantity 6,448 cwts. were imported into Liverpool ; and it is further worthy of remark, that no less than 184,908 cwts. of copper ore, or one-fifth of the entire quantity imported, also came into that port. The quantity of copper smelted in the United Kingdom from foreign ore was, in the twelve months, 10,087 tons 3 cwts. 1 qr. 21 lbs., of which about one-seventh was smelted in Liverpool. We now arrive at the exports, which, of foreign copper un wrought, are stated at 570 tons—being a slight excess on the imports of foreign copper, exclusive of the ore, the produce of which, as already stated, was upwards of 10,000 tons of cake copper smelted in bond. The exports of British copper amounted to 5,926 tons, of which 432 tons were unwrought, 5,032 tons sheets and nails, the residue being otherwise wrought. Of this quantity 394 tons of unwrought, and 2,032 tons sheets and nails, were shipped to Asia, in addition to about 150 tons of other descriptions of wrought copper. The United States took 906 tons of sheets and nails ; Ger many, 368 tons ; Brazil, n ear l y 300 tons ; the remaining exports being less important in quantity. The quantity of foreign ore imp orte d i n t h e twelve mont h s, for the purpose of being smelted in bond, or for home con sumption—which latter is now to be dreaded—is represented as being 971,935 cwts., or 48,596 t ons. T hese precise figures we were not able to furnish, while any approximation must, as in other instances, be found sli g htl y at variance with the official returns, arising from the circumstance of the returns being made up from different sources. It will th us b e seen , that the quantity of copper smelted in this country from foreign ore, during the past twelve months, exceeds our es timate, as our returns have been confined to sales at public ticketing, and, therefore, not including the or es sme l te d a t Liverpool or elsewhere by private contract. Thi s w ill b e found to increase the evil, we apprehend, and, at the same time, proves that we have not exceeded our bounds in the representations made of the copper smelted in this country from foreign ore, which, we repeat, is returned at 10,087 tons, and previously assumed by us at 8,488 tons—a matter of considerable moment, as amounting to nearly 20 per cent. excess. We now approach the question of tin, from which we find that the quantity imported was 1,422 tons in the past twelve months, nearly t w o-thirds of which was shipped from Singa pore, 310 tons from Java, and 175 tons from the East India for Company's territorities, exclusive of Singapore. The exports the like period were 1,167 tons of British, and 1,267 tons of foreign tin—in all 9 ,131 tons. "RMITY OF CLOCK TIME THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN (Fron t F, Oiler's lecture at the Birmingham Philosophical Now that railw Institution.) kingdom, d oin aY travelling has become so universal in the time becam e a g tn s a 's t rnuch to annihilate space, the question of long been a opinio te r of considerable importance, and he had vent the errors a rlthat some plan must he adopted to pre doni setting its Clock c t onvenienee of every town in the king every other place out 0 7 Imeridian o f it s own , different to ex tent of the evil t o which he m ve he lted ongitu it d would perhapse. To show thbe e that , s ufficient for him to state, t there was a difference of 25 minutes 28 sec. between the ti o f Dover and Falmouth ; that is to say, when it %vas no r o h n e a .3, ' w a a l rrlo u t h , it was 25 min. 28 sec. past noon at Dover. • 5 , a minute diffe naoefaLrlondon, and about rence in time between the east and wesst a quarter of a minute between the east nd west of Birming ham. The railway directors had endeavoured to remedy this defect b y keeping London time at all their stations was this great inconvenience atte . nd' • 1 ° 11 s; but there ing it, that all the persons Great this who resided west of London were in . great d: sn7 too late for the trains. On all the time-tables b o . Western Railway an endeavour . was made . t o difficulty by printingttwhoe a c g o n 7ection for longituder.emletdnY, that it would be a very--cur red to him a year or option of lent plan if government would recommend the adoption throughoutexcel _ivlr. the kingdom ; and he was glad to uniform time Dent had turned his attention tO to find that his friend the same subject, and he ci nit° agreed with him that they o ug ht t o a d o pt one meridian as an universal standard, and call it " British time. Happening to mention this subject ' to his friend Mr. Rowland Hill, as a nlat d te e r pa o r f un so en m t e , impor tance in connection with the post-office formed hi m that he bad receivedaletter_ from Captain Basil Hall, i n 1810, on this very point ; an . d a .t, s it he embodied vi a t l h l e tter to them. The l that he (Mr. Osler) could say res pecting 1. the p erm i ss i on o f t h e au di en ce, read the lecturer then r ea d th e l e tter of Captain Basil Hall. The idea of the adoption of a general standard for time throughout.lu Great Britain originated with the late Dr. Wollaston, w on, . l suggested that all the post-office clocks throughout the diffe rent counties should be kept at London time, a measure which he consid ere d m i ght be very easily accompl i s h e d, and which would greatly simplify all those arrangements of the post office in which time was included as an element. He pro posed to regulate all the post-office clocks in the kingdom by means of th e time brought from London daily by the mail coach chronometers; and he had no doubt that, ere long, all the town clocks, and eventually, all the clocks and watches of private persons, would fall into the same course of regula tion ; so that only one expression of time would prevail over the country, and every clock and watch indicate by its hands the same hour and minute at the same moment of absolute time. The price of timber fell ten per cent, in the Limerick mar ket last week. MONEY MARKET ATVATIAY EVV.Nvic The reduction of tbe_l:ate . of 4 tereat on Exchequer-bills 2d„ which is now officially announced, has been generally commended as a proof of the acuteness and attention to business of the pre sent administration, who have lost no time in remedying the blunder committed by the last. It will be remembered that when the advance of lid. to 24d. was made by the whigs, it was the general opinion that 4d. was needlessly thrown away, and that a rise to 2d. would have been quite sufficient, with proper management, to keep the bills in circulation. By again taking off the 4d. the present ministers have brought Exche quer-bills to their proper value, and done away with the ano maly of keeping up the unfunded at a higher rate than the funded debt, which should always bear higher interest, as the capital is liable to fluctuation. The time also at which the operation is effected is no less commended than the principle of the measure, as Exchequer-bills are at such a high premium that there is not the slightest chance of the announcement of reduction being followed by a demand for payment. Some, indeed, have expressed an apprehen sion lest the reduction of the interest on English unfunded securities should give a new impulse to investment in fo reign stocks ; but so decidedly unpopular have such stocks become, and so many severe lessons of experience have been learned by those who dealt in them, that the appre hension does not seem to be well founded, and the com mon opinion is, that the only tendency of the reduction will be to drive people to invest in the English funded securities. As a practical illustration of the disinclination to have anything to do with foreign bonds, it may be men tioned, that while Consols since February have advanced about three per cent., Dutch stock has advanced only one, although it is by far the most secure stock of those that commonly dealt in. It was remarked yesterday that the operation had been pretty generally anticipated ; and this accounts for the comparatively small decline that has ta ken place in the value of Exchequer-bills. Indeed the June bills have for some time commanded a lower price than the March bills, in consequence of such anticipation. The public funds have been very quiet all day, and quota tions closed firm : Consols for money, 92/ to 4 ; ditto Ac count, 924 ; Exchequer Bills, 37 to 39 premium ; Bank Stock, 167 to 168 ; India Stock, 249 to 250 ; 3 per Cent. Re duced, 911 to 4; 31 per Cent. Reduced, 99-1 to 100; New 34 per Cents., 100 k to 101 ; Long Annuities, 12 9-16; and India Bonds, 21s. premium. Chili stock rose to-day to 85 buyers, the committee of bond holders being summoned for Monday to receive proposals from M. Rosales for the grrangement of the arrears of divi dends. This has taken the speculators quite by surprise, the last letters for Chili having given no hopes of a speedy set tlement of this affair, although the agent employed had been in close negotiation with ehe government. It is therefore feared, that although M. Rosales may have a proposition to submit, it will be to the effect of allowing an increased con cession, though the bondholders have already determined the length they will go. Other stocks also slightly im proved ; Spanish closing at 224 to 23 for the Actives, and 221 to 23 for the New ; Dutch 24 per Cents left off at 524 to 53; ditto 5 per Cents., 101 to 4-; Danish, 801 to 81/ ; Colom bian, 26i to 27i f ; Brazilian, 671 to 681 ; Belgian, 102 to 103 ; and Portuguese, 5 per Cent., 374 to 4. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE On Saturday, the 14th instant, Charles William Stocker, D.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, late Fellow of St. John's College, was instituted by the Commissary of the Bishop of Lichfield to the Rectory of Draycott-le-Moors, in the county of Stafford, on the presentation of the Chan cellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford. On Wednesday last, John Freeborn, son of Mr. Freeborn, surgeon, of this city, was elected Bible Clerk of Worcester College. There were seven candidates. The Rev. D. Melville. of Brasenose College, who was no minated as a Master of the Schools on Wednesday last, has been appointed one of the Tutors of Durham University. The Rev. Thomas Rea Medwin, M.A. formerly of Wor cester College, has been presented to the Curacy of Christ Church,'Blackfriars, London. The Rev. Mr. Tomlinson, one of the Secretaries of the Christian Knowledge Society, has been appointed Bishop of Gibraltar. Rev. George Greaves, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the Incumbency of Christ Church, Herne Bay. Rev. Robert Shittier, M.A., Curate of Melcombe Horsey, to the Vicarage of Alton Pancras, Dorset, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Masterrnan ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Sarum. Rev. William Holmes, to the Rectory of Theverton, in exchange for the Rectory of West Newton, both in Norfolk. Rev. Richard Rigg, M.A. of Caiu s College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of St. Clement's, Norwich ; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Caius College. Rev. W. W. Harvey, M.A. of Queen's College, Cam bridge, Rector of Truro, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Falmouth. Rev. Matthew Wilson, Curate of Edenfield, to the Per petual Curacy of Barrowford, Lancashire ; patron, the Rev. R. N. Whitaker, Vicar of Whalley. Rev. E. A. Webber, Rector of Runnington, Somerset, to .the Rectory of Bathealton ; patroness, Mrs. E. Webber. Rev. John Webber, to the Perpetual Curacy of Thorne St. Margaret, Somerset, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Webber; patron, the Archdeacon of Taunton. He has also been licensed to the Chaplaincy of the Wellington Union. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS (From the Railway Magazine of Saturday, May 21.) The following calculation of the last weekly returns of 30 railways, 1301 miles in length, given in our present number, will, we believe, be of interest :—Number of passengers on 24 railways, 335,011; consequently the total for the week must be about 400,000. The receipts for passengers on 38 railways, £70,119 ss. Bd. ; ditto for goods on 31 railways, £19,587 19s. 8d ; total, £89,707 ss. 4d. This is an average of £641 per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate of more than three millions a year, and carrying fifteen millions of passengers. NAME Passen- Passen. gers. per day. , Cor. wk. Per mile last year, per wk• Birming. & Derby) Birming. Gloster Brandi - mg Junction -- -- Chester & Birken. 5083 727 Dundee'&Arbroath 4092 682 Edinb. & Glasgow 11849 1693 Eastern Counties.. 16938 2420 Glasgow and Ayr . 11851 1975 Glasgow & Paisley 11467 1911 Grand Junction G. Nth.of England Great Western Hayle Hull and Selby Lan. and Preston . 2579 L'pool & Manches Lon. and Birming. Lon.and Black wall 67384 Lon. and Brighton 5795 Ditto Shoreham London & Croydon 9828 Lon. & Greenwich 85527 Southwestern .. Man. Bolt. & Bury Man. & Binning. Man. and Leeds — Midland Counties lOl2l Newcas. & Carlisle New. &N. Shields 12897 North & Eastern . 9091 North Midland North Union 3346 Preston and Wyre 11941 Sheffield & Man..• 7830 Ulster ..... 9898 York& N. Midland 7725 £1195 1 9626 828 371 1404 12212 478 171 1118 1414 1104 2014 1027 1018 838 8530 1284 13988 227 848 465 4480 17101 1296 2771 123 542 2352 6809 529 547 610 471 4551 16526 5500 585 327 3290 2664 13 43 5/4 25 & 37+ THE MURDERER GOOD.-DIVINE SERVICE IN THE GAOL OF NENVGATE. On Sunday a great number of respectable persons of both sexes were admitted by orders from the sheriff to the chapel in Newgate, in which the Reverend Mr. Carver (the ordi nary) read Divine service, and preached a sermon adapted to the awful condition of Daniel Good, who had been ordered to he executed yesterday morning. Before half-past nine o'clock, the common door of admission to the gaol was blocked up by the multitude, and at ten o'clock all were ac commodated in the most satisfactory manner in the different parts of the chapel allotted to visitors. At about that hour the Lady Mayoress and some of her ladyship's friends en tered the governor's pew. The body of the chapel was fur nished with benches and chairs by the direction of the go vernor, so that, although the chapel was numerously at tended, every individual in it was provided with a seat. Immediately before the service commenced, the general mass of prisoners confined in Newgate entered and took their seats within the railing on each side of the building, attended by turnkeys, and then Good was led in by two of the officers of the establishment, and placed in a chair in the midst of the congregation by the governor. His appearance indicated extreme mental suffering. He clasped his hands together sometimes, and sometimes he raised them up, and pressed them against his breast in great agony ; the tears streaming from his eyes while he endeavoured to catch a glimpse of some old acquaintance or friend amongst the surrounding multitude. So strong was the expression of horror in his face and demeanour, that a respectable female, who was prompted by the curiosity which will induce, even persons of the weakest nerves, to witness the "condemned sermon " once in their lives, shrieked and fainted. The culprit looked with evideat anxiety towards the spot from which the alarm proceeded; but finding that a stranger was the cause of it, he seemed to resume his own meditations, and to struggle with feelings beyond the power of any human being to describe. The service was interrupted for some minutes by this inci dent, and the ordinary did not proceed until the lady who had ventured to try the experiment of abiding the presence of so dreadful an offender was carried away from the scene. The ordinary selected for the lessons of the day portions of the Scripture closely adapted to the circumstances in which the convict was placed, and to the particular crimes to whi c h he was, by his own acknowledgment, especially addicted. The rev. gentleman read with the most impressive solemnity the rebuke of Nathan to David, whose indignation was roused by the story of a criminal, whose offence was as nothing compared with that to which the King's conscience soon afterwards pleaded guilty, and which manifested itself to him in all its hideous deformity when the words, " Thou art the man," were rung in his ears. The murderer seemed to at tend to some parts of the scriptural lessons; but it was quite evident that he was wrapped up in the fear of death, and that compunction had very little to do with the anguish he was suffering. Whenever a passage occurred which contained an allusion to the spilling of blood be shook his head, pressed his hands together, and looked up, as if calling God to wit ness that, although be was a great offender, his hands were unstained. During the first part of the service it was consi dered necessary to give him a glass of cold water, by which ne was, or seemed to be, relieved. T he elf—after naztiity ordinary took his text from the General Epistle of James, eh it h r i naeti la. 1, verse 15—" Then, when lust hath conceived forth c f ca ii i. convict forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth 'With a great deal of power he addressed him was so soon to of indulging in this world for general observations upon the consequences was the e passion to which it was acknowledged the i Lave—to the miserable wretch himself, who to make an avowal o ever. eperated from kindred and acquaintances as that e ler d e e r r. He called upon the murderer, con victedhis power to offer, for feiii"ihsad been upon the clearest testimony, country and of humanity.ilt, as the only reparation now in head, and the upward motion Good the transnession of the laws of his being thus solemnly invited °toll repeated the shake of the of the hands and eyes, upon upon a salutary confession, in order, no doubt, to impress I P e o u t t l i the congregation that his when the service that its and said, " Oh, defence was founded in truth • eluded, he raised up his hands on w e Conducted back to his God bless you all." He was the: room. He did not appear in the prison dress, his Wish to attend dwith, c h a pel in his own clot h es ha v ing been complie Why is a man troubled with epileptic a . atta c k s , like • ncti ing pair of bo ots ? Dye give it up ? Because he's in a tight fit. It is said that the Archimedean screw has becn suc cess f ully applied to the ventilation of buildings, ships, mines, the cur ingY of smoky chimneys, and other purposes. FOnsloN INTnLIGENCE, FRANCE. The Faris papers of Friday and Saturday haws bow ro. ceived The right of search forms still the only topic of importance with these journals ; but it would require a much larger space than we can afford to give in order to lay before our readers an account of the prolonged and animated debate that took place on Friday in the Chamber of Deputies, when, on dis cussing the Foreign-office estimates, the question of the right of search was again brought forward. The speeches of MM. Lefebvre, Lamartine, Mauguin, Berryer, Tocqueville, Dupin, and Salvandy, were all in direct opposition to the ratification of the treaty of 1841, and delivered in a manifest spirit of ill will and enmity to the present Foreign Minister, M. Guizot. The able minister defended his conduct, as also the line of policy followed by his predecessors on this question, on un deniable principles. With stern resolution, he said he wil lingly accepted the whole of the responsibility with which it pleased others to load him with, although he had been a total stranger to the treaties, negociations, and protocols that had preceded, and naturally engendered the new treaty of 1841. He maintained that the protocol signed in London by the French ambassador on the 13th of December, 1838, (and which, be it recollected, was only a natural consequence of the correspondence and negotiations that had been caaried on between the French and British Cabinets since 1836,) con stituted a moral engagement for France. COURT CIRCULAR.-MONDAY His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. Geo. Edward Anson, Treasurer of his Household, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting, left Buckingham Palace shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday morning, for the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in Somerset house. His Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace soon after two o'clock. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, walked in the Royal Gardens in the fore noon. At half-past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left town in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Claremont. Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert, followed in a chariot and four. Their Royal:Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal and their attendants occupied the next carriage; and Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting, and the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting, were in another carriage and four. The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted to their carriage by the Master of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Household, and Captains Duncombe and Francis Seymour, the Grooms in Waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness. The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward, arrived at Clare moot from town on Saturday, and joined the Royal circle al dinner. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended in the even ing at Claremont. . The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke Bernard and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, honoured the Italian Opera-house with her presence on Saturday evening. _ _ - The Duchess of Sa'se Weimar visted the Duchess of Cam bridge on Saturday at Cambridge-house. Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar left town on Saturday morning for Windsor Castle. His Serene Higness returned to Marlborough-house in the afternoon. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Moore, IWocestte, Evans, Hall, Browne, Percival, and Robinson, accompanied by Mr. Tatton Egerton, Mr. Tollemache, and Mr. Brockle hurst, had an interview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday at his official residence in Downing-street. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buc cleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Ripon, Earl of Haddington, Lord Fitzgerald, Sir E. Knatchbull, and Sir H. Hardinge. The Council sat two hours. The Danish Minister and the Right Rev. Dr. Griffith, Roman Catholic Bishop of the metropolis, had interviews with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Lyall, M.l'., and Mr. rigors, had interviews ;vith the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. SHOCKING MURDER IN TIPPERARY. Another victim has fallen by the hand of the assassin ; the name of the murdered man was Laffan, and he met his mi serable fate on the very day that a meeting of the peasantry was held at Dunkerrin, which was attended by several Ro man Catholic clergymen, who addressed the multitude on the evils of ribandism, &c. But the truth is, that wherever this formidable conspiracy has taken root, the influence which the priests had heretofore exercised over their flocks altogether ceases ; and there have been more instances than one in which the Roman Catholic priest has been taught by experience that his life depended on as frail a tenure as though he had been the most grinding landlord or " tithe gathering parson " that ever rendered himself obnoxious to the bloody code of ribandism. Government have offered a reward of £lOO for the discovery of Laffan's murderers ; but with the well known disposition of the lower orders of the Irish to screen offenders against the laws, it may be long in deed before justice shall have her due. The following are the particulars as they appear in the Arenagh Guardian, which paper also gives a full report of the inquest on the body ; and it is quite clear from the evidence of several of the witnesses who were examined, and who deposed to the actual commission of the murder by two men, that either from this habitual unwillingness to detect and expose crimi nals, or through fear of the consequences, the guilty parties have not much reason to apprehend speedy detection from what has transpired at the inquest : " The victim in the present instance was a man in the humbler walks of life, and his alleged offence that of sum moning trespassers in his capacity of under caretaker on the lands of Kilgurtin, a portion of the Bowen estate, in this county. It seems he left his lodging-house at Toomavara on the morning of Wednesday, between the hours of four and five o'clock, for the purpose of visiting those lands, and that in about an hour and a half after he was found lying on his face and hands on a dungheap by the road-side, in the very last shiver of death, with a gun shot wound in his neck, and the back part of his head badly fractured in two places. There is a veil of mystery thrown over the murder which is sickening to reflect on. The body of the murdered man ex hibited a frightful spectacle. His face was all burned and black from the powder, except a small streak of blood about the mouth; one of his eyes was swollen and much bruised; his bosom was scorched, for the wadding of the gun or pistol having lodged, burned his waistcoat and shirt; so that he must have suffered, along with the other agonies of death, the torture of burning. There was only one wound in the neck, though two pistol balls had been extracted, and the back ' part of the head broken in. One of the hands was much burned, from which one would be led to believe that even in death the murdered man must have ' clutched' the burning garment on his bosom. When deceased was brought into Toomavara on a car by the police, the man with whom he had lodged refused to admit the dead body into his house ; every door was shut against it ; and the result was, that the bloody and blackened carcase lay on a dunghill, like some vile and loathsome thing, until the police towards evening, broke open for its reception a waste tenement belong ing to Mr. Justice. It was the fear of a similar fate that operated on the people so as to lock up the springs of sympathy. The vengeance of ribandism dies not with its victim. It wars even with the dead. It follows the gory and mangled corpse to the very brink of the grave, and gloats with fiendish exultation as the clods rattle on the sounding coffin—as the widow and her hungry orphans raise the wild wail of desolation over the grave that closes for ever on their earthly homes. Such crimes as these are enough to freeze the blood.' Upon horror's head horrors accumulate ; and the very mention of the name of Tipperary conjures up before the mind's eye scenes of hideous barbarity ; scenes before which the deeds of the savage Indian that prowls the prairie with his murderous tomahawk sink into insignificance. The inquest was held at the village of Toomavara, which is about an English mile from the scene of murder. Major Priestley, • the Provincial Inspector, Mr. Joseph Tabiteau, R.M., and Mr. James Willington, of Castle Willington, LP., and Mr. Sub-inspector Blake, were in attendance. These gentlemen (for deceased was only worth 3d. when he was murdered) raised a subscription to defray the expenses of burial, and to procure subsistence for the widow and orphan, until Mr. Willington could procure them an asylum in the Nenagh poor-house." REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN PARIS (From the Times' Paris Correspondent.) To-day all is gaiety. The weather is beautiful, and the festival (Whitsuntide) observed more universally than I can recollect in Paris, not merely by increased numbers of people making holiday, but in a religious sense. A great revolution has, in truth, occurred here within a dozen years. Twenty years ago, on visiting Paris for the first time, 1 was forcibly struck by the impiety, the blas phemy, and the bad taste which distinguished the conversa tion one was compelled to overhear in public and in private. During the Empire irreligion made in France the most ex traordinary progress it is possible to conceive. At all the public institutions, the Polytechnic School for example, ridi cule of the Deity and of revealed religion appeared to have been more strongly inculcated than any branch of learning or science. At all convivial meetings the songs of Beranger, I and others equally impious and blasphemous without his poe try to recommend them, were in the mouths of all. Even at church Beranger's songs, and others which none but the most vile and odious of the mob ought to be thought capa ble of uttering, were substituted by the young men who chose to form part of the congregation for the sacred hymns and canticles. In short, you everywhere found or met proofs of the deep seat which impiety and infidelity appeared to have made for themselves in the public mind. Tout cela est change maintenant. Not only are you now spared the dis gust which the revolting language of the cafes and the streets occasioned to you when it could be applied to the Deity and to religion,men of good society it hu s become but even de mauv ats ton amongst young even contemptuouslyspeak on such subjects. Not only has this negative effect been pro duced, but a positive one, which th e most sanguine Christian could not have hoped for. Not only are the churches crowded on Sundays and holydays by women, as formerly, but by men also, of all ages and of all classes; and not only do they frequent the church,* but the sacraments. (The Catholics have seven, as you know.) E ven i n t h e Polytech nic School, that hotbed of irreligion, as i t i s an d was the nursery of military talent, this progress is remarkable. Not only are the students not now prone to the expression of im piety and infidelity, but at least 140 of them go regularly to church. How has all this been brought about ? you will ask. Much of it is ascribed to the admirable management of that incom parable wife, mother, and Christian, the Queen of the respecteda a t u French, who has never ceased to be notoriously most devout, but without of h a t tinge word, o f has intolerance, and e r whose r e charity, ma andreiy s , i e n every sense r rendered h be loved by the entire nation. She mad e re li g i on the fashion. To Queen Marie Amelie is, I rep eat, i n a g due the recal of the Parisians (at least) to a sense of religion ' b . / her charities, her piety, and her liberality ; but it has been c hiefly effected by the discretion and moderation imposed on the clergy by the occurrences of 1830. Not all their good conduct nor sanctity could have propitiated the people, bad they displayed even a remnant of the arrogance that (their enemies say at least) characterised their body during the Restoration. They have worked with zeal and w i t h effect in the education of youth, but, above all, they have avoided this o rexcitable domineering. people This s the is theslightest e ap proachsecret 0f g almost 1 t 1 la t attained. Bet if, as their opponents hope, they put forward giving offence to o coe coercion o n their success. If this line be followed, their object must be pretensions and assume an attitude different from . that which has mira culous change, they will run the . religion • in France been achieved towards the restoration of has so mainly contributed to bri r n is g k a o b f o l u tri t d t o h i c i s since 1830. Of this I witnessed an example last night. I was, about eight o'clock, passing by the church of Notre Dame de Lo rette, and, being struck by the entrance of a number of per sons, was induced to follow to ascertain the cause. I found the church full (one-fourth of those present were men), and, ?,t1 inquiry, I learned that no particular ceremony at tracted them, that it was the mere evening service of the eve of the ren.tecost. THEATRE.ROTAL, LIVERPOOL, The Nevv Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melo-Dramatic Fairy Extravaganza, called THE WHITE CAT, continu ing to be received with increased acclamations of applause, will be repeated Every Night This Week. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 24th instant, the Musical Play of GUY MANNERING. To conclude with THE WHITE CAT EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION NOW OPEN, EVERY MORNING; AFTERNOON, & EVENING, AT THE ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. AGRAND CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY, 200 feet long, with a Vertical Circle upwards of 40 feet in circum ference, round which a Carriage of 200 pounds in weight, containing a Lady or Gentleman, will REVOLVE at the rate of ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR, with perfect safety ; also immense Iron Weights and Buckets of Water will be placed in the Carriage, and although the whole will be com pletely inverted, not a weight or a drop of water will be dis placed. Also, a brilliant display of the OXY-HYDROGEN LIGHT, with other interesting Scientific Experiments. For the convenience of Parties who cannot attend in the Evening, the Railway will be open every day from Eleven to One, and from Three to Five. In the Evening from Six to Nine o'clock, with other Entertainments. Admission—Boxes, Is. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Schools may be admitted on advantageous terms, by appli cation being made at the Theatre by their Tutor, during any of the above hours. Ni t Ethrrpool 'tanlarfl. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1842 In addition to what may be called the leading mea sures of Sir Robert Peel's government—the new Corn Law and the Tariff—the public must be gratified in noticing the earnest desire manifested to proceed with legislation upon a number of other questions, infinitely important in their. bearings upon society, although not of that exciting character which attracts most the ob servation and comment of journalists. Among these, not the least important and practically valuable is a bill which went through committee in the House of Commons on Friday, and which has for its object the enabling of ecclesiastical corporations, by an extension of their power of leasing, to secure a more just value of the property vested in them than they are enabled to do under the existing system. It is a notorious fact that the church property throughout the kingdom is at present producing a rental, in many cases almost no minal, and in all cases infinitely below its real value. By the measure in question it is considered, and we conceive on grounds which cannot for an instant be denied, that whilst the advantage of a more permanent holding will be conferred upon tenants, and a release from the arbitrary fines, levied upon them under the present law, be gained, a large additional revenue will be secured to the church, and increased ability con ferred upon her, to provide for the spiritual destitution which still, unhappily, abounds in the land. That such a measure should be met by the carpings of Radicalism and Dissent in the House of Commons is not surprising, when it is compared with those mea sures by which the late Melbourne administration pro posed to deal with ecclesiastical property. With them an increase in the revenues of the church was desira ble, only so far as it tended to create a fund for "ap propriation " to other than church purposes. When, for example, a bill almost identical in many respects to this was introduced by Lord John Russell, it proposed that the increase expected from it should be devoted to the extinguishment of church rates. By the present bill, however, the sacred security of ecclesiastical pro perty is to be kept intact, whilst its usefulness is to be extended, by the progressive augmentation of small livings throughout the country, under the direction of the bishops. By the various ecclesiastical corporations themselves in whom such property is vested, no addi tional income is to be reaped. In the case, however, of property held by corporations sole, the additional income, secured by this concession of the power of granting long leases, is to remain with the incumbents themselves; the effect of which provision, according to the views of Sir James Graham, will be " to in crease the incomes of poor vicarages in large towns to amounts more commensurate than they now are with the duties performed." That by this bill the usefulness of the church and the comforts of its poorer working clergy will be in creased we are satisfied ; and we hail its introduction with gratitude, not, however, on this ground alone, but because we see in its provisions, and in the spirit in which it is devised, satisfactory assurance that we have now a government whose study and delight it will be, instead of " dealing he av y blows" against our venera ble establishment, to cherish and to strengthen,—to build up her walls and extend more widely the bless ings which she is calculated to confer upon mankind. Another bill, of great mercantile utility, went through committee the same evening, on the motion of Mr. W. E. Gladstone. The bill to which we allude—" the Merchants Act Amendment Bill"—it was stated by Mr. Gladstone, had been " founded upon the very ear nest representations of all the principal mercantile men in every branch of foreign and home trade in Liver pool and London, and had received the concurrence of the mercantile community generally." Its provisions are the same which have already been advocated in our columns ; and we have no doubt that it will be accepted as an important boon by the commercial world. A correspondent of the Morning Herald, on Satur day last, remarks upon the circumstance, as a singular one, that the inspectors and excise officers in no less than one hundred and thirty-eight towns, from which the average prices to regulate the duty upon foreign corn nder Sir Robert Peel's bill, were to have been re- turned, have not yet thought proper to make such re turn ; and adds, that " the public are thus defrauded of all the advantages which would have accrued had these servants duly performed their duty." The Li verpool Times of Tuesday alluded to the same alleged negligence or mismanagement. We, of course, can not pretend to explain such a circumstance, or to deny that blame is attributable somewhere. We may, how ever, suggest that the want of returns may have been caused, in part at least, by the want of matter to re turn ; and that the public have not suffered, or been " defrauded," in the slightest degree. In many of the towns recently added to the list from which returns were made under the old law, and especially in some of the manufacturing towns, a sale of wheat from the grower to the dealer or miller is, at any time, a rare occurrence ; and at the present moment, when the stock of wheat in the farmer's hands is so limited throughout the kingdom, in many parts of it there is positively not a bushel to be brought into the market. The returns from these places certainly ought to have been made; but it is highly probable that, had the re quirement of the law been fulfilled, they would have contained "nil," and the average thus have remained unaltered. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c. The demand for our leading staple—cotton—has been good throughout the week, and especially towards the close, both the trade and speculators purchasing freely. This revival is in part attempted to be accounted for by the fact, that whilst the stock of all kinds on hand exceeds that of last year by 120,000 to 130,000 bales, the estimated receipts from the East Indies are 60,000 bales less than the proceeds of last year's crop. In addition, the nett yield, to the spinner, of the American crop will decrease the apparent receipts from that country some 30,000 bales. The stagnation, too, and we may almost term it panic, caused by the recent awful occur rence at Hamburg, is fast being dissipated. It is now hoped that the results, to the commerce of Europe, will not be nearly so serious as was anticipated, the sound basis upon which monetary operations in Germany are carried on in suring the commercial world from the serious embarrassments which must have been created had the business of Hamburg, with this and other countries, been one of merely paper and credit exchange. The cost of the stock of goods destroyed, therefore, will not fall, as was feared, upon the British ma nufacturer, whilst its almost total destruction will, for a time, give active employment to our manufacturing industry. Th e total sales of the week, ending Friday, amounted to 31,250 bales, including 4500 American and 500 Surat on speculation, and 2000 American and 100 Pernam for export, leaving the amount taken by the trade 24,150 bales. On Saturday the market opened with considerable excite ment, and 5000 bales were sold, at the full prices of Friday, and, in many instances, at an. advance of *d. per lb., which, however, it was thought was scarcely maintained at the close of the market. Y es t er d ay , h ow ever, a firmer feeli ng was manifested; buyers showed a disposition to purchase freely, even at the advance noticed on the previous day, and the de mand was at first scarcely met by holders. Ultimately, however, a speculative demand, in addition to that of the trade, sprung up, and an advance of a nd. and id. was rea dily,. paid, and a cce d e d t o b y th e holders, at which rates full 'OOO bales were taken off, at the establiched advance of id. per lb. on the lowest business of last week. The market, altogether, displays a nu we healthy appearance than we h ave noticed for some time last ; and a sanguine hope is enter trained, both by s narahantg and manufacturerg, that this trade has goon its wor; g day, and that a change, to permanent good business, is at I , tngtli taking place. In the raant dacturing districts, during this (Whitsun) week, business has been, as usual, entirely suspended ; and from the conflicting accounts given as to their condition, and the feeling pre , ralent, which are as various as the political views and part icular positions of the parties reporting, we can offer no de terminate judgment. if we may be ,guided, however, by t'ae opinions of the most influential spinners who have visited our cotton market during the week, we should be disposed to say that the trade of the manufacturers is at least in t lie way to improvement, if the agitators amongst their body will only suffer confidence to be established. LOCAL NEWS, LIVERP-OOL IMPROVEMENT BILL.—The report of the committee upon this bill would be brought up to the House of Commons last night. MISDEMEANOUR.—An old man, named Samuel Davies, was yesterday charged with having obtained two forms (seats) from a Mr. Marsh, on false pretences. It appeared that he had been in the habit of borrowing forms from that person, for the use of another, but was not authorised to do so on this occasion ; and when he got them, he sold them. He was committed for trial, but was told that he might be liberated on bail, himself in £3O, and two sureties in £l5 each. On Thursday, three candidates were proposed for the mi nistry of the Scotch Church, Oldham-street, in the room of Dr. Ralph, removed to Aberdour, viz., the Rev. Mr. French, the Rev. Mr. Nicholson, and the Rev. Mr. Welsh. The last-mentioned being withdrawn, an equality of votes was found for the two former. There being no provision for a casting vote, the election was deferred for a month. ASSAULT ON A PREACHER.—Yesterday, a very tall, athletic-looking man, named Daniel Greaves, was charged with having committed an unprovoked assault. A police officer stated, that on Sunday afternoon he saw the prisoner go up to a person who was preaching to a number of people in Scotlandi-road, and attempt to strike him violently several times, in which, however, he did not succeed. His conduct was so violent that he was taken to bridewell. Mr. Rushton said the case was clearly one of assault, and fined him ss. and costs, or, in default, to be imprisoned three days. SUICIDE.—On Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, as the Queen Victoria steam-packet was upon her way from Dublin to this port, a young man, who was a cabin passen ger, jumped overboard. The engines of the vessel were im mediately stopped, and the boat launched, but the young man had disappeared. Before leaping overboard he placed his watch and a purse containing A:2 10s. upon the deck. We understand that he belonged to Manchester, and left that town on Tuesday. In a note which he left behind him he informed his friends that he was going to Dublin, and was determined to destroy himself upon the passage. STEALING FROM AN OFFICE.—Two elderly women, Ca therine Jordan and Bridget Gibb, were yesterday charged with stealing sundry articles from an office. Mr. Joseph Taylor said, he was a merchant, and his office was at No. 6, Union-street. About half-past six on Friday evening he locked up the office, leaving in it a blue cloak, three coats, two penknives, and a pencil case, worth, in all, about £2. On the following morning he was told by his office boy that he had found the door open, and he missed the articles. He identified the cloak—the only article yet found. An assistant to Mr. O'Donnell, pawnbroker, Scotland-place, said that the two prisoners came to his shop to pledge the cloak, for which they wanted 7s. One of them immediately left the shop, but he suspected them, and had her apprehended. The other returned to the shop, was detained, and afterwards taken into custody. The cloak was identified. The prisoners were both committed for trial at the sessions. THE CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY.—The Liver Theatre and its ingenious exhibition still continue to attract and amuse : indeed, we do not wonder at this, for we think it but a just criterion of the good taste of the inhabitants, who seem at all times to prefer those amusements wher e th e intellectual is blended with the amusing. The centrifugal railway has revolved again and again with many a fair occupant in its car, who have expressed themselves delighted with this journey of a moment. The impetus is so great that accident is impossible : there is scarce time to think of it. The pro prietors are exceedingly obliging and attentive, and there are little accessories to the exhibition which render a visit very agreeable. All who have visited the Liver appear to be highly delighted. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The British and North American royal mail steamer Columbia, Captain Judkins, sailed on Thursday afternoon, immediately on the arrival of the London morning papers, for Halifax and Boston. She carried out a fair number of passengers. On Saturday after 'Won, also immediately on the arrival of the London morning papers, the Great Western, Lieut. Hosken, R.N., sailed for New York. She had above seventy passengers, amongst whom were Sir R. Armstrong, Captain Mayne, and Mr. Horsley Palmer, the eminent London merchant. She carried out a full cargo of fine goods on freight. The Columbia will, it is probable, reach Boston about the 3d of June, and the Great Western New York about the sth. The Caledonia, which would leave Boston on the 16th instant, may be ex pected to arrive at this port on or before Monday next. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—A SHIP SEIZED.—At the Police court, yesterday, a seaman, named Henry Miller, was brought to the bar charged with having smuggled a quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco. Police-officer M'lnnes said, that on Saturday he saw the prisoner passing through the south-east gate of the Prince's Dock with a bundle, and on stopping him found it to contain twelve pounds of tobacco. On being questioned, he said he had brought it from the ship Emily. He was remanded until Friday, by which time the Board of Excise, in London, will have sent down directions how to proceed against him. Another man, also named Miller, was also brought up for a like offence, eight pounds of tobacco being found in a chest which he was carrying out at the north east corner of the Prince's Dock. The tobacco was from the same ship. He too was remanded till Friday. We under stand the Customs' officers, in afterwards searching the ship, discovered about three cwt. of foreign manufactured tobacco on board, and that the vessel has consequently been seized. Snor-LIFTING.—Ann Kelly, a young girl was yesterday charged at the police-court with stealing from a shop. Mr. Peter Williams, linen-draper, Price's-street, said that about eight o'clock on Saturday night, the prisoner and another fe male came into his shop and asked to see some calico and some print. They were served by one of the assistants, the witness being then in the middle of the shop. The prisoner purchased a yard of print. Mr. W. suspected she had taken something from the counter, as she went out, and conse quently followed her, and on detaining her, found one piece of print of nine yards in length in her hand, and another piece under her clothes. The two were worth about 12s. 6d. He gave her into custody. The prisoner, a decently clad girl, who cried bitterly, said nothing in her defence. She was committed for trial at the sessions.—Another girl, also well dressed, was charged with a similar offence. Mr. Walter Boler, draper, St. James-street, said that the prisoner came into his shop on Saturday, ostensibly to make a purchase. While she was in he observed her put a piece of mouseline de-laine under her apron, and got one of the assistants to hold her in conversation until a police-officer was brought. On his arrival she was taken into a back room, and chal lenged with the theft, which she denied. The piece was, however, found under her apron. It was ten yards in length, and was worth ten shillings. A new pocket and two pieces of print were also found upon her. She was committed for trial. THE REV. HUGH M 4 NEILE ON SCRIPTURAL POLITICS—It will be remembered by some of our readers that a sermon, upon the duty of subjects to " submit themselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake," was delivered some four or five weeks ago, at St. Jude's Church, in this town, by its talented minister the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile. In this eloquent discourse, delivered at the time when the imposi tion of the income tax by Sir Robert Peel's government was agitating men's minds, the rev. gentleman took the oppor tunity of enforcing upon his congregation the duty of con ceding cheerfully to the sacrifices, by that measure required of them ; and, it appearing to several of his admirers that the circulation of the sermon of one so deservedly respected and listened to by his fellow townsmen would be productive I of benefit, a requisition was got up, soliciting the privilege of so publishing it, which, in a very brief space of time, was numerously and respectably signed. In the interval, how ever, the rev. gentleman had left Liverpool for a short so journ in France, and consequently his reply to the request of his fellow-townsmen has been delayed. We have how the pleasure of announcing that an authentic report, from the rev. gentleman's own pen, of the substance of the sermon in question will appear in the LIVERPOOL STANDARD of Friday next; and here suggest to those of our fellow-townsmen, who wish to possess themselves of so interesting and valuable a discourse, the importance of making prompt application for a copy of our paper on that day, as it will be impossible for us otherwise to insure them against disappointment. A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—We gave on Tuesday an account of a robbery committed at Eastwood's Royal Hotel, on Sun day last, by a person described as a foreigner, with black whiskers, ruddy complexion, speaking broken English, &c. On Monday morning, Mr. S. Samuel, engraver, printer, and stationer, Great Charlotte-street, who has the proprie torship of a pair of black whiskers, in which respect alone he comes within the description, went over to Woodside on bu siness, calling on a friend residing near Hamilton-square, and was proceeding with him towards the ferry, when he was stopped by a police m an, who required him to go to the ma gistrate's office, on suspicion of the robbery at the Royal Hotel. Mr. Samuel told the man who he was, offered to accompany him to his friend's house, to take him to several respectable housekeepers at Woodside, or to accompany him to Eastwood's hotel, but all in vain ; the man's faith in black whiskers was so strong that he insisted on taking Mr. Samuel to the magistrate's office. Thither they went ac cordingly, and no magistrate being there, the policeman said he knew where to find one, and took Mr. Samuel to Bride well, where he was searched, deprived of his watch, private letters, and papers, and then locked up. Mr. Samuel's ' friend then went to the house of Mr. Case, and stated the circumstances to that gentleman. Mr. Case, however, said that nothing could be done until the parties arrived from Liverpool, and declined interfering. Mr. Samuel was, in consequence, detained in custody for several hours. At last Mr. Whiteman, of the Brunswick Hotel, and two other gen tlemen, arrived from Liverpool, for the purpose of identify ing the supposed thief ; and then, the mistake being disco vered, Mr. Samuel was released, the only consolation he re ceived being an expression of sorrow on the part of the ma gistrate that such a thing had happened. AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible So ciety, was held in the Royal Assembly-rooms, Great George street. last evening, and was most numerously and respect ably attended. The ministers of various denominations occupied seats on the platform. Upon the motion of Adam Hodgson, Esq., seconded by John Cropper, jun., Esq., the chair was taken at half-past six o'clock by the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, who expressed his attachment to the society in strong terms. The Rev. Mr. Davis read the ieport, from which it appeared that last year 100,000 copies of the scrip tures had been issued, making a grand total of fourteen mil lions since the commencement. There were at present 137 translations of the Bible, and 7,000 kindred institutions had emanated from the Bible Society. The committee regretted that the Liverpool auxiliary was not occupying that exalted position among the other institutions of the town, which its importance demanded. They had appointed an assistant secretary in the room of their late valuable one, Mr. John Radcliffe, and they had reason to believe that the new ap pointment would be attended with beneficial results. The annual subscriptions last week had amounted to £363, being £3B less than in the former year. There had been an in crease in the donations to the amount of £39. The want of female collectors had been much experienced. The number of copies of the scriptures distributed last year by the Liver pool auxiliary and its branches had amounted to 9,030, making a total of 228,249 since the year 1841. T. J. Bourne, Esq., the agent for the parent society, stated that the in come for the twelve months had amounted to £95,000, which was £6,000 less than that of the former year, but which in reality was greater, as a considerable reduction had been ef fected in the price of Bibles and Testaments. It was be lieved, he said, that Napoleon, while in exile in St. Helena, and during the last six months of his earthly career, had been very often employed in reading a New Testament which was presented to him by a gentleman of the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and that, from his having often spoken of Jesus Christ as the Saviour, it was confi dently hoped that that book might have raised his affections above earthly thoughts and desires to heaven and heavenly objects. The expenditure had amounted to £91,000, and the obligations to £31,500. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel and other ministers subsequently addressed the meet ing. The steana.elAp Great Western was open to the public on Tuesday and Wednesday last. The admission money was one shilling on the first and sixpence on the second day. Above seventy pounds were collected, and the money has been divided between the North and the South HospiCat We understand that the splendid new organ erected in the parish church of Walton will be opened on the first Sunday in June, by Dr. Wesley of Leeds, celebrated as the first. or ganist of the age, and who was recently selected for a similar duty at Preston. FINE ARTS.—We understand that Mr. Wilson positively leaves Liverpool at the close of this week. He has still some choice specimens of ancient and modern art, which we trust will fall into the hands of the connoisseurs previous to liis departure. They are all extremely well worthy of the notice of amateurs and collectors. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Business is decidedly mending here. " The White Cat" is likely to prove " a hit." It is a capital extravaganza, and never fails to excite much merriment. To night " Guy Mannering" will be performed, with new and appropriate scenery. Several new dramas are in preparation, to make up for the absence, if such is at all felt, of which we have our gentle doubts," of the stars. It is said that an agreement has been entered into by the London actors, to refuse an engagement here udder the present managem en t. " Very like a whale !" On Friday evening last, the grand and district officers, and a numerous body of the brethren of the Loyal Orange Benevolent Institution of Liverpool, assembled at the house of Mr. Griffiths, Phoenix Inn, top of Mount Pleasant, for establishing a new warrant. The usual Orange forms having been regularly gone through, a number of members having been initiated, and the regular business of the lodge trans acted in the usual form. The rest of the evening was spent in harmony and good fellowship, The following toasts were given, with the honours peculiar to Orangeism :—" The Queen," " Grand Master of England," " Glorious, pious. and immortal memory of the great and good King William," " the Grand Officers," " the Worshipful Master of the Lodge" and a number of other truly loyal Protestant toasts. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The east wind again prevailed on Wednesday and Thursday, and the atmosphere was exceedingly cold, but on the evening of Thursday, several copious showers of rain fell, which continued over yesterday, and the wind changed a few points, rendering the air more genial. The fruit blossoms are now carefully expanded, and seldom indeed have the gardens and orchards given greater promise of abundant produce, and in the agricultural districts crops of all kinds are looking remarkably well. On the whole, produce of all kinds gives hope of great abundance, and if fine weather continues, an early harvest will afford to the country a great relief from the pressure of the times which now prevails to a great extent among the labouring poor. THE ROOK SHOOTING AFFAIR.—SOIIIe of our contempo raries are perpetrating a vast quantity of wit, and others or f excellent indignation, against the two gentlemen who las t week displayed their love of field sports, or of ROOK PIE, a t the expense of the sable colony located in the Mount Gal dens. We can say nothing in defence of the somewhat Gotk is taste displayed in this affair; but we would just hint that 01 laugh raised against conservatism, on account of the doin gs of a conservative member of the watch committee, might V( :ry discreetly be hushed, when it is remembered that a radi cal member of the same committee was, if not aiding and at ,et ting it, at least an approver both before and after the net ! By the bye, may we inquire if this is the first time that the rookery has been invaded? CHURCH SERVICE FOR THE 29TH OF MAY.—It is not, perhaps. generally known, that it is imperative on all cl ergy men, according to act of parliament, that an act " for a perpetual anniversary of thanksgiving on the Twenty -ninth of May," which was passed in the 12 Car. 2, chup. 14, should be read ' publicly and distinctly' in all churches,, at morning prayer, immediately after the Nicene creed., on the Lord's day, next before the 29th of May, and tilt it every clergyman is required to give notice for `the due obt;ervance of that day.' " The 29th of May, in this year, it wi 11 be ob served, falls on Sunday; and it is the intention of c,ur excel lent rector to fulfil the requirements of the act in question, by reading the service pointed out by it duly to his congre gation, at St. Nicholas's Church, on Sunday next. For the guidance of the congregation copies of the act. have been printed, and were distributed in !the church on F;unday last. We have not beard if any other cfergymancomPl i .edWith this act of parliament. To show how anxiously railway engagemen is are sought after we may mention, that a recent advertisement brought, in one day, upwards of SEVENTEN HUNDRE'D applications, the salary offered being extremely moderate.—Railway Times.—[We have no doubt that the fact mfaltioned by our contemporary may be, in part, accounted for by the idea of permanancy, and the hope of progressive a dvancement, ge nerally attached to railway situations. DoQs it not however equally show, the deplorably depressed condition and pros pects of the middle classes of our population, when, in one day, upwards of seventeen hundred men, possessing education sufficient for infinitely superior employments, may be found ready to perform the duties of book-keepers, clerks, &c., for the salary perhaps of a common porter ?—Ed. L. S.] TULIPS.—We had an opportunity yesterday of seeing in the garden of a gentleman resident at Holt Hill, a collection of very beautiful tulips ; amongst them we noticed several remarkably fine specimens of yery rare plants. The tulip, at this season of the year, is the very queen of the garden. Some of the choiceSt specimens, we believe, were purchased at Mr. Branche's annual autumn sale (of last year,) many of them exceeded 40 inches in the stem, and were double headed. We observed several ladies, who appeared deeply versed ili floriculture, paying great attention to these beautiful flowers, —one lady from Durham remarked, that famed as her own county was for tulips, these exceeded the best collections in colour and variety. ROBBERIES AND ASSAULT.—Yesterday, Thomas Doyle, William Doyle, John Keenad, John M`Donald, Sarah Jones, and Elizabeth Alum, all young people, were placed at the bar of the police court, on respective charges of having been concerned in robbing and assaulting in the street (Moor fields) a man who resides in Shaw's-brow, and breaking into and robbing a shop in Dale-street. The person asssulted and robbed was so ill, in consequence of the injuries he had received, that he could not leave his bed, and that part of the case was gone into so far only as a general statement made by the police officers, that he had stated he was robbed of his watch, value £2 55., and violently struck, particularly on the head. He gave information immediately after to the po lice, and had spoken to two of the prisoners as being amongst those who assaulted him, at about one o'clock yesterday morning ; and all the prisoners were found together in one house, in which several articles produced were found. It further appeared that on Sunday night, or very early yester day morning, a small shop in Dale-street, belonging to Mr. Wolf, a pencil manufacturer and cigar dealer, had been broken open, and a number of articles extracted. A police officer found the door open at five in the morning, and watched it until Mr. Wolf came. A number of small articles found in the house•where the prisoners were apprehended, or on the persons of some of them, were produced, including a pair of spectacles and a pair of odd gloves, which it was stated could be sworn to by the man who was robbed. Mr. Wolf said that his sister had locked the shop, and he saw the door se cure on Sunday. On coming down to his shop in the mor ning, he found the floor had been forced open, and he missed sixteen gross of pencils, of the respective value of 6s. and 14s. a gross, also two or three snuff-boxes, an old knife, and five boxes, full and partly full of cigars. The two tin snuff boxes produced were precisely lik his, but he would not swear they were of those lost. The bundle of cigars were, he said, no doubt his, and he showed three from the same parcel, which corresponded in colour, make, and quality. These three had been dropped on the floor by the thieves. The three short pencils produced were also his. He pro duced one of exactly the same length, and said that no other manufacturer in the town made the same kind. The knife produced was also his. It belonged to his sister, and had been in the family for twelve years. Several of the prisoners said that they were elsewhere when the robbery must have been committed. Mr. Rushton said their defence would be beard hereafter ; and meantime the surgeon who had attended the man who had been maltreated and robbed came into court, and deposed that the man had received severe injuries in the head, and was dangerously ill, so that he could not be removed. In reply to Mr. Rushton, he added that he con sidered him sufficiently sensible to speak to the identity of any of the prisoners if they were taken to him. Mr. Rush tiki said he should remand all the prisoners on both charges, and that they should be taken to the man's house, where he would himself attend to take his evidence on the rising of the court. The prisoners were then put down, prior to being taken to Shaw's-brow in a car. The British merchants residing at Smyrna have recently addressed a letter to Lord Aberdeen, representing the expe diency of a direct steam communication between Great Bri tain and the Levant. According to this memorial, the ad vantages in the way of communication possessed by contin ental over BJitish manufacturers in the Smyrna market are so great, that, in default of some alteration of the present systm, there is danger of the British being driven out of competition altogether. THE DUTY ON COALS.—The Chancellor of the Exehe quer is slow to communicate the definitive intentions of the government with respect to the proposed duty on coals exported to foreign parts. The measure will not be aban doned, but there is reason to believe that the amount will be reduced from four shillings per ton, as first announced, to about one-half that sum, and that the duty will be equal on all descriptions of coal. The tariff will be again brought under the consideration of the House of Com mons next week, and the fate of this question, so impor tant to the counties of Northumberland and Durham, will, therefore, be soon determined. ALARMING CIRCUMSTANCE.--About ten o'clock on Thursday se'nnight a noise as if of thunder was heard pro ceeding from Messrs. Sturge's new corn warehouse, at the docks, Gloucester. The alarm may easily be imagined as the noise continued for hours, and the grain kept falling from the windows. The first impression naturally was that the building was about to give way. It is of great dimensions, and the weight upon the six floors could not be less than 4000 tons. All that could be done in course of the night was to prevent, as far as possible, the grain from being lost or damaged by falling from the windows. In the morning it was ascertained that the accident had been occasioned by the foundations on which the internal iron pillars rested giving way, owing to the immense pressure. The floor had iu con sequence yielded, and the startling noise which was heard was no doubt occasioned by the grain pouring from one loft into another. DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.—The hitherto peaceable and tran quil village of Brynmawr, Breconshire, has lately been the scene of atrocities committed by wicked and designing night marauders. About three weeks ago they took a w ay a cart, the property of Mr. Davies, grocer, dragged it about a quar ter of a mile from his residence, and threw it over a high arch, where it was dashed to pieces, the most of which they afterwards threw into a pit belonging to Messrs. Bailey, leaving only one wheel and the axletree. Although Mr. Davies offered two guineas reward, no clue to the perpetra tors of the diabolical act has been obtained. Since then they have been amusing themselves by breaking the windows of an unoffending old widow. About thirty panes of glass were smashed, and a stone upwards of ten pounds weight thrown through the windows with such force as to destroy the sash. Mrs. Lloyd obtained a summons against a young man, who appeared before the magistrares at Crickhowell but their worships thought there was not the least foundation for the charge, and the case was at once dismissed. Such inhuman acts are committed by what are called respectable young men ! STANNARIES COURT.—BEFORE HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.—The early hour of eight o'clock on Sa turday morning having been fixed by Prince Albert, the lord warden of the Stannaries Court, for hearing an appeal in the case of " Thomas v. Vice and Bennett," his royal highness arrived at Somerset-house shortly before the time appointed. The Prince had been preceded by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Langdale, the .Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, Vi ce _ Chancellor Wigram, and Baron Parke. The Prince having been conducted to his robing-room by Mr. Gardiner, the au ditor of the court, was received by the Lord Chancellor and the other judges present. At a few minutes after eight his royal highness entered the court, hahited in his splendid robe of green velvet, collared and trimmed with white ermine, and lined with crimson satin, and carrying in his right hand hi s crimson velvet cap, turned up with white ermine. Mr. Gar diner carried the purse before him, and an officer of the court bore his train. His royal highness bowed graciously to the persons present as he entered, and took his seat in an elegant gilt chair placed on a raised platform, the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls sitting 9n his r i g h t hand, and Lord Brough am , Vice-Chancellor Wigram, and Baron Parke on his left. His royal highness looked remarkably well. The Prince was also attended by the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Portman, Sir Henry Wheatley, Mr. Pemberton, and Mr. Anson, members of the Duchy of Cornwall. The titl e o f th e case having been read, and counsel having been heard, the judgment was deferred. Prince Albert took his departure shortly after two o'clock, having sat M his court for more than fax hours. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Aanniversary of the I Churc Missionary Society Sunday last. In the morning, afternoon, and evening of that day, sermons were preached in the churches, and by the mir sisters who were named in our last, and collections made b i aid of the society. We understand that the follow ing is a . correct list of the sums contributed by each congre- and West Lancashire enced in this town on gation : St . Andrew's A 11 Saints'.. . 4 10 1 15 0 0 58 o'o 50 0 0 13 10 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 51 0 0 16 o'o 6 2 0 29 0 0 Bride's C hrist Church S t. Davjd's S t. George's, Everson S t. Jude's F ,dgehill .... :irkdale 3 ilariners' ;t. Mark's Aigburth .. I Crosby . . 'Seaforth West Derby Knotty Ash St. Barnabas's St. Clement's St. James's St. Sinion's .. St. Silas's Collected at the meeting in Music-hall 28 0 0 5 9 0 40 0 0 14 15 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 12 0 0 16 0 0 4 11 10 24 0 0 49 10 8 £669 8 7 MEETING IN THE MUSIC-HALL The annual meeting of the members and friends of the So e.ety was held at eleven o'clock yesterday in the Music-hall, ?80ld -street, and it was attended by a numerous and respect able auditory. Among many other gentlemen we observed the following :—" Revs. Aug. Campbell, H. Carpenter, W. W. Ewbank, A. 11. C. Dallas, T. Gardner, F. Owen, T. Nolan, W. Maynard, E. B. Chalmers, H. Hampton, F. Barker, C. W. Lawrence, R. Davies, F. Parry, J. Wood, W. Falloon, J. Cordeaux, Longueville, J. Baylee, A. Knox, C. J. Hamilton, J. R. Connor, W. Rawson, --7 Douglas, P. Brown, S. Cragg, J. Bush, B. L. Wilts, Townsend, Cox, J. E. White, Baptist Noel, Bold, S. Fenton, B. A. Marshall, J. Baylee, F. Ould ; Messrs. A. Hodgson, J. Rigby, W. Jones, C. Inman, J. Howard, J. Eden, C. Boutflower, and W. Maples. On the m o ti on o f the Rev. H. CARPENEER, seconded by Mr. BOUTPLOWER, the Rev. AUGUSTUS C.:MPBELL, junior rector, was requested to take the chair : and the proceedings commenced with a supplication for the divine blessing upon them, by the Secretary. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting as follows : —As I am well aware of the interesting matter which will be laid before you, by the deputation from the Parent Society, and those gentlemen who have consented to address you, I will not detain you by any lengthened observations of my own, but content myself with a brief remark, expressing principally the satisfaction I feel at again being permitted, by the mercy of God, to preside at the annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society, for this town. Having felt it my duty to do so before, notwithstanding certain objections which were felt by the Primate and other Bishops of our church, under the impression that it was not necessary for a person in my very humble station, to be deterred by the mo tives which influenced them, I have, of course, much higher satisfaction in performing that duty, now that their objec tions are removed, and the operations of the Society brought into full conformity with their desires. As I conceive that the clergy cannot act very usefully in matters ecclesiastic, without the concurrence of their own Bishops, so I conceive, they could not act very satisfactorily without the concurrence of all the Bishops of our church. Unity is strength. It is by unity of purpose and action, we have the best means of se curing success under divine providence ; and although no doubt all our doings without charity are nothing worth, still unity is a very essential part of charity, for without unity charity runs a risk of being destroyed. It is by the principle of unity, unity in discipline, without which unity is but a name, that the enemy of pure and undefiled religion has suc ceeded in enslaving the fairest portion of the globe ; and it is. I think, for want of unity in discipline that the Protestant cause, both at home and abroad, has failed in ensuring that success which its truth deserves. (Hear, hear.) And if the dominion, the justly dreaded dominion, of the Church of Rome is to be restored, its restoration, I think, will be ow ing to the divisions of Protestants—(hear, hear)—livisions that are not only injurious to the Protestant cause, but to the higher and holier cause of Christianity itself, a subject, the charitable but very serious consideration of which I should wish to invite the attention of those Protestants who dissent from us upon matters of discipline alone. (Cheers.) I therefore rejoice most unfeignedly that the Church Missio nary Society is now the society of the whole united church. (Cheers.) I thank God that our venerable mother is begin ning to assume the. position that she ought, and to extend her influence in the manner that she ought, that her cords of love, the cords of her episcopal discipline are not only co-existent with the boundaries of that vast empire upon whose flag the sun is never seen to set, but the isles of the gentiles hear her voice, and that her sound is gone out into that sacred land trodden with the footsteps and sprinkled with the life-giving blood of the Son of God. (Cheers.) And I trust we shall no longer permit the proud title of Latholicity to be assumed by any church to the disparagement of our own—a church as catholic, as apostolic, and as pure as any in the world. (Cheers.) I will not detain you any longer, but call upon the secretary to read the report. The Rev. H. CARPENTER, secretary to the society, then read the report, of which the following are extracts : " While we rejoice, in common with all the friends of the society, that such a blessing from above follows its missions abroad, we have, on the other hand, cause of deep humilia tion and sorrow on reviewing the society's pecuniary diffi culties at home. So inadequate was the supply to meet the demands, that the expenditure of the past year exceeded its income £19,000. Not that the receipts of the society were less in the last than in the preceding year,—en the contrary, they were somewhat more ; but the g rowing expenses of the missions, in consequence of enlarge success, have outrun the liberality of our friends at home. In this way, the so ciety has incurred a considerable debt in the past year. And this has occurred at a period when new and promising fields of enlarged labour were opened all around in distant lands. Urgent appeals for missionaries have come from Syria, from the Himalayah Mountains, and elsewhere. but owing to the crippled state of the society's finances, the parent committee were forced to refuse every application for help, though their refusal might peril the salvation of immortal souls. Is it not mournful, is it not reproachful, to a Christian church and nation that the Heathen should be stretching out their hands for the bread of life, which we have in abundance, and that we, who ought to be its dispensers, should withhold that of which they might eat and live for ever ? Nor is this the only evil we have to lament as the result of the insufficiency of the so ciety's funds. Old fields of labour are about to be aban doned—our msisionaries are fot thwith to Le withdrawn from stations where they and others had long borne the burden and heat of day, and where God gave them many souls to be their ' joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of Christ's coming.' Our missions are to be contracted because men will not rise to the occasion, and enlarge their gifts as God requires them. It is true the past year was one of unusual commercial embarassment. But who can tell how much of our difficulties may be traced to our neglect of God, and sin ful withholding of that which ought to be consecrated to his service. It is his own promise, ' Honour the Lord with thy substance, and the firstfruits of all thine increase : so shalt thy barnes be filled with plenty, and thy presses burst out with new wine," Prov. iii. 9, 10. Let us then honour God, and he will honour us. Let us be concerned for his affairs, and we may be assured He will be concerned for ours. " In conclusion, your committee have to announce that the whole amount received by this association for the past year was £2,174 16s. lid. Compared with the preceding year'there has been a falling off to the amount of about £7O. But we have reason to cherish sanguine hopes that, through the divine blessing, the funds of this association will be en larged in the present year. New friends have been raised up amongst us, and those who have hitherto supported the so ciety in this place have not relaxed in their zeal for the cause. They are convinced that the society possesses undiminished claims on their support. She has never abandoned her prin. ciples, and those principles have now received, through the Society, the sanction of the heads of our church. These great principles of evangelical truth, on which the . society is built, are the life-blood of the body, and constitute the secret of all its activity and success. To these the society has hitherto adhered with firmness and consistency ; and it is by still maintaining unadulterated these principles,—the principles of the bible, the principles of the reformation, the principles of our articles,—that the society can look for a blessing on its proceedings. Only let the society be con stant in doing the Lord's work in the Lord's way, and none of its works will be lost. Such is the Apostle's declaration, exhorting the Corinthians to stedfastness in the work of God,'—' Be ye therefore stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labour shall not be in va i n i n th e L or d.'" Mr. ADAM HODGSON said, that in the abspnce of Mr. Jones, who was appointed to move the first resolution. he had be en requested to move it, having previously only undertaken to second it. Had this been a society of which it was necessary to state the objects particularly, and to vindicate its utility, he should have felt some difficulty in moving a resolution which he was not prepared to move; but he was sure that any deficiencies in him, as the mover, would be supplied by the gentleman who would follow him. He was sorry to find that the subject to which the resolution specially referred, and to which reference was made in the report, was a de ficiency in the funds of the society to an extent that rendered it necessary to abandon many of those useful labours which the society had undertaken. This deficiency was much to be regretted, but there was nothing in it to lead to despondency. IV hen he looked around and saw the various churches erec tad in this town and diocese—thanks to our invaluable bishop—. and not only in this town and diocese, but in every part of the kingdom, he could not but see new drifts open which added greatly to the funds of this society. In connection with this subject, he could not but strongly feel that we knew not to what extent the Church Missionary Society had contributed to the erection of churches in this land. (Hear, hear, hear.) He was well aware it had been often said, with great truth and propriety, we ought first to supply the spiritual destitution of our own country, beforewe look forward and endeavour to supply the spiritual destitution of those abroad. Nothing could be more true titan this ; bury at the time when missionary exertions were first brought for ward in this country, and missionary societies founded, atten tion had never been directed pul ipsy t o o i tnnoh t f h itt shh e osei u e si r )rgic e rono c i v t taue i utn o ruat n nl: 1 neiy o n: f esi c .ntt h rtlw u uot c r afb c tstin h ohed e nea s as; eil easier atrnah coup.dyeosr, ptb b ree y yre individuals aisdv considered properlydt h ua ro l suog through a associations sho restingot c o i astui infirmitypo enlist our sympathy, and offer our exertions, for great and noble efforts associ a t e d w i th foreign scenery, avage life, and simple :nature, th an f or the spiritual destitution which ' had grown familiar to our eyes. (Hear) But when once our re ligious sympathy existed for foreign lands, it was impossible it would long remain unexcited for our own population; it was impossible we could attend meetings of this kind year after year, and hear the solemn responsibilities resting upon us to send Christian instruction to distant countries, and to see at our own habitations, and amcng.our own neighbours, the destitution of our own land, without neglect ; it Was im possible to go from meetings of this kind, where the most feeling arguments were urged on the necessity of supplying the destitution of the heathen, and to look upon our own populas tion, and sit down satisfied with the destitution in which they had been left. When it was found, from whatever cause, that goverment, upon whom certainly did rest the responsibility, did not supply a remedy for this religions destitution, it was felt, from sympathy already excited, and the reponsibility al ready laid upon us, impossible to contemplate the mass of almost heathen destitution, which existed in our own land, without feeling that whosoever's 'dui! , it was to supply the deficiency, or whatever the circumstances under which it ex isted, it was impossible we should remain easy,, if, with means to contribute to its alleviation, we allowed it to exist. (Hear.) We did not know, therefore, how touch we were indebted for the spiritual instruction now scattered through out the land, to the early and continued exertions of the Church Missionary Society. (Hear.) He had no hesitation in expressing his firm co nviction, that had th e C hurch Mis sionary Society never been established, so far from more in dividuals having contributed to the erection of churches in this land, there would have been far less ' • that had we ne. glected our duty to the h eath en , w e amulet also have neglect population. (Hear, h e de a longer andnd surely,mo re, oiunr ourdu t y intercourse to o ur o w we would not wish religious instruction left out. We had made many treaties, and carried on many negociations with fpreign lands, and what was the object of them all ? It was to secure guarantees against the epidemic selfishness of human nature, and to secure respect from other nations ; but Great Britain never presented herself in an aspect so venera ble and generous as when she stepped forward, not to assert