The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

Emperial parliament. of Assembly in Nova Seotia had contributed the sum of £lOOO towards the relief of the distress in Ireland and Scotland HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. --- ' Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to Mr. Foster, said the Lord ASHBURTON moved for various returns, showing Government had sanctioned the importation of GOO bushels the' amount of capital embarked in the various railways of of superior flax seed into Ireland, but it was not intended the United Kingdom, the amount borrowed, and the to make any further importations_whatever of that article sums advanced by the Bank of England on railroad sem. - ^n t"" ---- -----"" ---- ----- upu.. lox own accounts. - - rities, but which motion, at the suggestion of the Earl of Mr. B. HAWES, in answer to Mr, Barkly, said a yes- CLARENDON, the noble lord withdrew until Thursday, sel was preparing under the authority of the Government, stating that he did not feel any alarm at the monetary for the - purpose of establishing a steam communication condition of the country ; all he wished was that parlia- between the coast of Africa and the West Indies, forthe ment should be in possession of information which might purpose of facilitating the emigration of free labourers. avert mischief. In reply to Mr. Bright, Lord J. RUSSELL was ynder 'mu _ 1,...,4..4- 13,—.........e. 1T......1.•••.-T\ UM I .... ; tr.; risitPil A at.— . • . ..• . • —..1.1 ....... litnneles, 'lnv an - thaw - HOUSE OF COMMONS Lord MORPETH, in answer to " the committee of the Wellington S lions that a still furth be removed, in order to enable the u ley, said ictories Bill. The noble lord also inti r to Mr. W. Collett, that the earthworks would in all cases be considered Yen threc of Iris er portion of the scaffolding should t fairly to s objected t bat rul its enlarg judge of the merits of the s The Government had not th present position. I T] Ight this proceeding at bt tatne in i ioble loid that, on -1 ssary, but inasmuch as the expen id final removal of partial demo- chequer or himself vould fall on the which he had given -erection ttee, they left it to them and the sculptor to take night add, that on a review of the statue might be removed, the msidered the most the in :erloo-place wa .te, whic Victoria ~10,.. The arguments of lts went to put -THURSDAY ters the .eaties w ;arl of ent, 'they must do so by way of memorial Mated. for the of Irish mem- day: either the Chancellor of the Ex would make the finarcial statement of with the Railwa es must be mow week, it would be Month i.s the € with the bills for that for the relief urn,' he .A,n4 e house lition, .1 corn their own course different sites to whic north portion of Wat fittirig The' adjournted debate on the IriSh Railways Bill was resumed by the Marquis of Granby, who was followed by posed to be taken on account of tl Alderman Thompson, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. J. O'Connell, should bring:under the considerat and Mr. Disraeli, in favour of the second reading, which he considE was opposed by M French, Captain C W. Molesworth, t] that when to be defects standing HOUSE OF COMMONS.— On the motion for the resumptio debate on the second reading of the Railways (Ireland) Bill M , FOREIGN 6 r. S. O'BRIEN drew the attention of the house and government to the system by which whole districts were involved in the punishment of specific outrage public works,. with the intention of asking the went if they sanctioned such a system. Mr. LABOUCHERE observed that 0- uESDAY hat eon r upon I T he pack by the government, in Drotect manner in which they could :isting in the .constitntion'of and condi- ,LICENCE discusion on al 'referring to the present stat :er whic COLONIAL IN'FEI AMERICA ,ip Oxford, which left N ant, has firougl important news no papers to that ith. General Quitman drov the M st 30 or 40 miles before enterin were very re tected, and the result had, in many instances, proved the Lu wisdom of the rule. but went out on o n e side as Q uitman entered on the The adjourned debate on Lord G. Bentinck's bill was other. General Quitman, having no cavalry, could not then opened by Mr. B. Osborne in favour, who was fol- pursue them. The Mexican army, it was believed, was lowed on the same side by Col. Conolly, Sir John Walsh, not far off. The Mexican soldiers seen in the neigbour- Sir Henry Barron, and Mr. W. R. Collett. The bill was hood of Saltillo are supposed to have been advanced opposed by Captain Layard, Sir R. Peel, and Lord John parties of some 1500 to 2000 men kept in possession on Russell. • this side of the desert between Saltillo and San Luis, to Mr. MuNtrz should vote against the bill, although he destroy the water tanks in case the American army should had spoken in favour of it, on the ground that its success move in force in the direction of San Luis. Col. Kinney would involve the resignation of government. brought a rumour to Tampico, that 15,000 Mexicans were Lord G. BINTINCK having replied, the house divided, to attack Saltillo on the 27th of December. Large Alexi and the bill was lost by 322 to 118. can forces, mostly cavalry, were at Tula at the last dates, under General Valentia. Generals Urrea, Romero, and HOUSE OF . COMMONS.—WEDNESW&Y. Fernandez were also reported in that vicinity. The adjourned debate on the Factory Bill was resumed - On the Ist of January General Taylor sent forward Col. by Sit-A. L. Hay, who contended against the bill, quo- May to examine the mountain passes between Montemo- tang the opinion of lvlr. norner uaat 1L wouiu of the manufacturers. Mr. BERNAL supported the bill, which the operatives had demanded, though threatened with a re pass leading to Linares, and was attacked by a large body of the enemy, and his rear guard cut off by rolling large stones into the pass, which was scarcely wide enough for all other considerations, it was absolutely necessary - for their health that the hours of labour should be dimil nished; _ _ with the main body of his for( enabled f nd reached a spot where lismount and return to st our th DENNISTOUN opy sed the motion E :e with the inch an absu rear guard. But it was too late : the enemy had retreated with their prisoners. At one time May's dragoons were almost at the mercy of the enemy, had the latter, dis charged their nieces with sec and clang rous interf The Ameri ivintage of acY ; )Osition they freight and insure per cent., which were passed. Mr. FERRAND occupied was dire May's loss had ni any lnen killed. There can 1 Tome had fallen. Generals 7 and Pillow were at Victoria wih a lax Shields. with 650 men, marched frou lieen asce over the heads of theiroops. Col, lined, nor whether he had no doubt, however, that Patterson, General measure of the nature of Which he had never, during ten years he had advocated it, known a manufaet ye his opinion in the presence of h 10th towards Tampico on the Altamira, with the supposed intention of opening communications with General Taylor at Victoria. From two 8 three thousand Mexican troops were between Victoria, with which it wa supposed yrFn t hiave an eagagefuent Colonel Kinney states mounted to 30,000 at Tampico numbered 950 men that the Mexican force at San Lu men, and he estimates their entire f Generals Taylor and Pat t Victoria, waiting order The Secretary of the Treasury had sent a report to Congress, recommending an increase of duty on various articles, and a diminution on others. The other com- mercial news we give in another column as_to7ing the British ships_Manehest( S. W. Pass when all of her six boilers exploded at once. calamity Mr. Lathrop, the pilot, was blown ov By this :rboard, board the bark Leontine the destruction was yet greater. Eight Germans were killed, and a large number wounded. Two of the Manchester's crew were killed. The bark the explosion made a fearful wreck r type, and with the easily recognisable conspicuous n which important intelligence is communicated, that It dinner by her operat g a pound in te beings who more value upon a rise or fall of a fart cotton, than upon the lives of the unfort toiled in the mills and factories. The cotton trade of th carried on at an annual sacrifice of the lives country of thous Mr. I of the cc but was satisfied that, to grant it, would inflict a serious evil. He was certain that, if the bill Were passed, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be the first to feel its effects • and he was positive that the cotton-spinners themselves would turn round on the hon. member for assing the act as they were then in their demands tc have it. Mr. Bortimi and Lord Etri .k, Sir R.'lngli )rge Strickland, Ir. Tre- supported the bill ; and Mr. Ni:vDEGATE was in favour of the second reading of the bill, and he regretted that he had been too late to present a great number of petitions, with which he had been entrusted from Huddersfield, in favour of it. Mr. T. DuNcomnEtebeved that both the master ma- A the operatives were tired of th and, if that were so, he caul I finally. Believing that and reading, upted by cries of .ed that he should rd G. Bentincli second reading nufa,cturers o r .1 settle the qu the bill wou Atter " vote against t in its favour, the house divided, - and ti was carried by a majority of 195 to 87. HOUSE OF LORDS Lord BEAUMONT having briefly related the events which followed the surrender of the Castle - of Torres Ve dras on the condition of being treated with all, the ho- Hours of war, and t vernment in Om on board a brig: g forty or fifty of the captured off ith the . intention of transporting _ them Government had received any commu I done anything to obtain a re decree. ' ver:;al of tt, ?ortuzu The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted the fact, and deeply regretted that the Portuguese Government had so resolved to use men who had surrendered on condition of being treated with all the honours of war. But all that could be done had been done. The moment the. British Charge d'Affaires had heard of, the decree, he presented a representation to the Court of Lisbon ; and the Belgian and French Ministers respectively, and acting separately, had likewise presented representations. The object of our large force on the coast of Portugal was to protect British interests might ani p . C1"3011 throne, wi whether rightly or wror lug wit ich as - the presence of Don - Miguel,' or of ling with the of .ich might give rise to the question how far ex- cl warrant our interference. CDEEN remarked that this Government ly cautious, because it had someho'w, 'y, obtained circulation that the cause of the insurrection had the good wishes of the British Government. The force we had in the Tagus was sufficient to overawe the entire kingdom. We took a, perhaps, too active part in placing the Queen of Portugal on her throne, and we ought now to give at least such support to her Majesty as would show that we disapproved of the insurrection. arl of ELLENBOROTIGEI could not say what our large fleet in the Tagus was 'there for ; bait he could safely say that, but for its presence there, the Queen of Portugal would have met Don Miguel in London._, Lor c a BROUGHANI presented a petition from Liverpool on the state of the criminal law, especially with respect to juvenile, offenders. The noble lord t! ~ : n entered, in an elaborate speech, into the statistics of crime in this and other countries, and called on the house, if they agreed with him and the petitioners in their sense of the infinite importance, of the subject, and thought that the time was e Criminal law, for a pr Id at a very early the prayer of the petition. After some observations and Earl GREI their lordships from the Duke of RicilmoNn, ther business was disposed of, and HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. arl of ELLENBOROUGH asked whether her Ma linisters would produce copies of a correspon- deuce which had taken place between the . government of heavy rai armind in last Christmas w (la, St. Vincent, at I.t Antigua a bill to as )f the land to that of the mother fajor Yea, of the ith'Fiiiiliera imilate the eurren Ad passed the assembly. 164 emigrants from sadeir arrived at Dominica .on the 19th of January. A rt s ock of earthquakewas felt at Trinidad on the 13th rn.ary. Lord Harris, the Governor of Trinidad, has a premium for the best essay on the cultivation of e sugar-cane in Trinidad. HiS lordship was entertained dinner by the heads of departments, principal officers of the garrison, and other official personages, on New Year - ^f Portland. (seventy-six days mars ,- f January s-aay. The Duke o. .rom Madras) landed 172 male Coolies, 64 women, and 85 children at Port of Spain, on the ' 2nd of January one p.m. the whole had found employers NEW ZEALAND The bark Cecilia, Captain Pearce,• contract Kauri spars, and a small quantity of copper ore, arrived at Plymouth on the 15th inst., from Auckland, New Zealand. The native chief Held, who formerly die- likely to remain so. In the south the vigorous measures of Governor Greyhave completely suppressed the rebel lious efforts of Rangbieta, whose brother was taken priso- ndr in Cook turbanees on the river Hutt. The course. pursued by the new colonial government at Wellington has given entire sa - tisfactiou RIVEIt PLATA The William Peile, Captain Sproat from Monte Video, arrived at LiverpoOl on Friday. s She left the Cisplatine capital on the ltith December, but up [ling of importance hat Tll E 'LTV R Pfo VPSMERWESSAMIMINNORM'a DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. — The fine ,paoket Creole, which was long employed between New (Means and Bordeaux, has been wrecked on the eastern coast of the island of Cuba. She:left Bordeaux on the Sth of Novem ber, with 135 persons onboard, including crew and pas= sengers. On the 19th of December she was driven on the submarine rocks of Nuevitas, Canal of Bahama, and re mained in this perilous situation during two days and nights. All hopes of getting her off, notwithstanding the passengers added their exertions to those of the crew, be ing at an end, the captain ordered here masts to be cut off by the board, and turned every effort to save the passen gers ; but before means could be taken the ship broke up. Out of 155 persons, only 82 reached the shore. Among those who were lost was the captain, M. Jules Cayol, who refused to quit the vessel until every other living person had been rot off. Those saved have been well-treated by the inhabitants, and were expecting to leave shortly fe New Orlea , s BLACK SEA Iter from 0 —The Sietle- quotes thq following —osa, of the 29th ult. :—" The trade of sa was never more flourishing than in 1846. In the :e of that year, 1,441 vessels entered our harbour, and 1,512 sailed from' it. The exports amounted to 22,763,055 effective roubles (91,052.220 f.), and the im ports to 7,745,047 effective roubles (30,508,4620, forming together a total of 30;508,462 roubles, and showing an increase, as compared with the amount of the preceding year, of 4,318,360 roubles. The imports of 1846 con sisted of 5,840,803 effective roubles (25,363,2080 in merchandise, and 1,9(4,605 roubles (7,618,4200 in spe cie. The wheat exported last year exceeded 2,000,000 tzetwers, representing .a value of 15,000,000 of effective roubles (60,000,000 f.), the largest quantity of grain ever )orted from Odessa in one year. There were still 725,000 tzetwers of 95.000 tzetwers of 30,000 tzetwers of. 'fia; seed.' instan Saturday, the 31st to run between line of steam shit New York and Bremen, touching at Cowes, was launched at New York. She is built of white oak ; length of keel 220 feet, length of upper deck, 240 feet, extreme length over all 260 feet ; breadth of beam moulded, 39 feet ; depth of hold, 31 feet ; on the outside 40 feet ; Custom house measurement, 1750 tons; carpenters' measurement, 2350: she has four decks, the upper one will be flush fore with ten fc ana they weigh 20,000 are of cast weighs 4U,000 pounds; she has an entire wrougnt-iron frame ' • four cranks and shafts, each weighing 8000 poimds ; the shafts are 20 inches in diameter, and 18 inches in the feet diameter. The cabins are designed to accommodate 2 . 00 fiist, and about 72 second class passengers. Her *eight capacities, and all the wants of the ship, including coal, &c., will be 600 tons. She will be commanded by Capt. Hewitt, late of the Havre packet ship Utica, and will leave New York on her first voyage about the first of EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—MT. Seaman has introduced a bill into the Houk of . Representatives, the object of which is to prevent the evils arising out of.. ie pans . . fling sum, getting rid effectually of supporting them, and throwing upon us the responsibility and expense of pro vhouse or prison accommodation for the trans- viding mat agents of the tnited States shall examine on oath or otherwise, as may best serve the proposed end, all immi grants who take passage in vessels from the ports where they are resident, and which vessels are bound for the United States ; and if it appears that such emigrants havq not been paupers or convicts, then the consuls are to give effect ; but if, on the contrary, itap )ears that they have been the inmates of prisons or work houses, the consuls are to refuse the certificiates; The certificates, when given, are to be duplicated, and a copy sent to the authorities of the port for which OIL vessel sails. Persons arriving .in ports of the United States without such certificates are to be sent whence they came, and the master or owner of the vessel from which any im migrant is landed without such certificate shall be liable to a tine of £l.so.—American paper. certificates to that AN INDIAN BATTLE.—kietter from a gentleman at Council Bluffs, dated on the 17th of December, to his cor- respondent in St. Louis, states that on the previous day a band of the Omahas were met by a band of the Sioux, in the neighbourhood of ,the Bluffs, that a battle ensued be- ween them ; and that the killed 60 of t before the conflict terminated. The following p'articulars we find in a letter to the St. Louis Republican :—" ltwas a cold-blooded butc,hery of women and children, in the. absence of all the warriors of the village. On the night of the 12th and 13th, the letter states. a war_party of of the Omaha tribe of Indians, located at the time at Wood's Bluffs, situated about 60 miles from. this place— Belleview. •The men and warriors of the Omahas bad left the - camp on a hunt ; and the Sioux, soon after they reached the camp, discovered that they had only women and children to contend with. The slaughter was terrible 73 were killed, and 19 mortally wounded. Two men made their escape—one of them named Joseph Lafleche, a trader in the employ OT nir. r time in charge of a stock of p He ran from the ne of blood barefooted, and arrived at Belleview with Sharp and Major Miller, the pre- soth feet frozen fact Ind they confirmed, on their return, the report of Lafl They also reported that five of the Sioux In dian _Led, no doubt stabbed by the Omaha Squaws. _ g2O miles further than the ground of the massacre they found the place where the_ goods of the trader had been divided among the robbers. "It seems," adds the letter, " that fate is against the Omaha Indians. Four or, five days before this event took place, one camp, lodging at Carbanne's old trading house, was'attacked by s had been I Goin A by the well known nen wounded, and a war party of - Ayonas, commai chief White Cloud, and four of tin American paper, the following estimate of the supplies that can be furnished from New Orleans, and which is stated to be made by a long-established and extensive louse iu rleans, intimate ly acquaintec capabilities. of all the cultivated districts on the great plain of the Mississippi, the produce of which passes by New Orleans. The statement embraces , the probable amount of provisions that have come or will come to New Orleans, from the Ist September past to the 31st August, 1847." It is impossible (say the writers) to - say with any a'coaracy, what portion of it will reach England, as large ships cannot get to New Orleans for want of a sufficient depth of water at the entrance of the Mississippi ; this diffieulty.will be overcome next year by the recent dis- covery of Cat Island Harbour, where vessels or th_e . largest class can be admitted and laden with grain anc icir has been receive ajesty the Queen of England, and had subsequently .ssed the evening at Lord Paltnerston's. This announce ent,had-the effect of leading the public to believe that personal misunderstandings were at an end ; a general im, pression prevailed, that M. Guizot would take some op speech which - had proved greeable to the i'Letters of the French Bishops for with an unusually strong infuAion Papal supremacy is the :exclusive and f 1 which 'w ns a more or less promi have seen. In more than we is in- feelings of Lord Normanby of Ultra-moutanism theme of culcated, indicates something like a feeling of insecurity or the part of the writers. They seem to suspect or antici. . . pate a latent insubordination among .the inferior Clergy and to cling to the Roman centre of unity, simply as th, key-stone 'which upholds the episcopal authority. A coinnositions they incline to be weak and diffuse. • WEST INDIES. steam-ship Teviot arrived at Southampton on destroyed the potato in Europe that has attac cocoa in that iila )nly forty-six miles amind frnm Itha "Via board in less than three hours travel Bushels. Quarter 300.000 say 2.000,000 or 250,004 Jitto Flour in barrels 900,000 „ 4,500,000 „ 550,001 Indian corn in ears, in "bulk Ditto shelled in sacks 1,500,000 „ 4,500,000 „ 510,001 Ditto meal in barrels 150,000 „ 450,000 ~ 56,001 Oats, barrels, and sacks 300 , 000 „ 900,000 „ 112,001 Wheat in Barrels sacks ;ay 1,500,000 quarters of grain of every description, t which may he added some pease, barley, and potatoes, I 25,000 Casks of bacon , 12,000 casks of hams, 500,000 lbs. weight of hams in bulk, 45,000 barrels and kegs of butter, 400,000 barrels and casks of salted pork, 1,000,000 lbs. weight in bulk of salted pork 60 barrels and tierces of salted beef, 110,000 barrels of lard, 350,000 kegs of Lard. to New Orleans this year, including 'sugar, molassi cotton, tobacco, hemp, hay, tallow, staves, lumber, 84, TRIAL OF A NOVELIST.---On the 29th ult. at the tribu nal de la Seine, the. Paris papers, Le Comtitationnel and La Presse, preferred their charge against Mons. Alexandre Dumas and the proprietors of certain 'Parisian journals. M. Alexandre Dumas was charged, with having broken his engagement with the two above-named journals in the year 1845, and for not having wr.tten any one of the works he promises! to write for 1846. The damages demanded bled, it having h *ll STANDIID. NM63,NMX ETERFg der to reach Tunis, the Fren - ch government had placed at my disposal the steamer Veioce ; it Ws.; for the use of myself-and the Bey of Tunis alone.—Such favours are only granted - to Princes and friends. We were close to the - African coast when I learnt that our prisoners might be liberatedby a prompt intervention on my part. Twelve lives were to be saved, the sole remnant of the captives who escaped the massacre of Sidi Brahim. It was I, who, with the Veioce under my orders, saved Captain Cognard and.his brave comrades, and brought them to Melina, where 3,000 persons offered me a banquet. I am now, forsooth, Aced for 50,000 francs damageslor having been idle—whilst I—yes, I—saved from the sword of the enemy the. lives of -twelve of my.countrymen ! I took six persons in my suite, who represented the art of painting, as my self represented the art of literature."—The case was ad journed. A. large crowd was collected outside to see M. Dumas come out, and they accompanied him to the Rue Barillerie, where a magnificent Arab charger, with ,gold trappings, was waiting for him. IRELAND The Ballinasioe Star contains several instances of the re-appearance of the potato blight in the forthcoming ft is a remarkable fact, from which each will draw his own inference, that there are not less thanfifteen thousand puncheons of whisicey at present stored in Dublin. At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the rent for the week was announced to be £l7 14s. 2d., of which.£ll was forwarded from Liverpool. _ The Queen Dowager has sent £2O to the remote and retired district of Headford, in the county of Galway, where there has existed a lace factory for more than two centuries; The remittance was accompanied with an or der for lice to that amount THE BANK PARCEL ROBBERY.—The parcel containing £1,500 sent from the Nenagh branch of the Tipperary bank to Limerick, was found in• a stable of the Limerick coach-office. The boy who was taken up on suspicion confessed to the robbery, and pointed out the spot where the booty was hid. STOCK OF CORN IN DunLiw.—So unusually large is the stock of corn at present in the Custom-house stores in Dublin that no room exists for a further supply, nor can there be any more warehoused there until a new loft in one of the large stores, which is at present being erected, shall have been completed. Two cases of blunderbuses arrived in Clonmel from Bristol on the Bth inst. The proprietor, said the price of the blunderbuses was two shillings and sixpence each, and guns and pistols cheaper. These arms, he said, were obtatned from the pawnbrokers and Jews' ops in Lon here they are lying useless, the owners being glad lem at any price._ _ t rid of The barque Champlhi, so long known as a regular trader to Cork, was totally wrecked on the night of the Ist of January last, at the entrance of the harbour of Li verpool, Nova Scotia, and has since been condemned, and the hull materials sold. She latterly belonged to Mr. George Lawrence, of Cork, who, we are glad.to learn, was insured. The master and crew were all saved. MURDER NEAR CRARLEVILLE.—The house of a man named Fox, situated in Coolsmuttane, parish of Shan drum, within about three miles of Charleville, in Cork, was attacked and broken into on Saturday night, and the occupier Fox, who it is supposed resisted the entry of the its, ;gas shot. dead. The motives which could nenced them in their fatal attack have not trans- have inf Mr. Monahan, the Irish Solicitor-General has been re turned for Galway, by a majority of 4 over the repeal can didate. The numbers for Mr. Monahan 510; and for Mr. O'Flaherty 506. It is said that much bribery was resorted to. Some imprudent person caused the Cathe dral bell to be rung, and the consequence was a riot. The mob collected round the Cathedral and demolished all the windows at the west side, and the houses of several of Mr._ Monahan's supporters were injured, _ The Marquis of Waterford has directed the purchase of Indian corn to the amount of V,OOO, to be retailed at prime cost, and a portion 'to be distributed gratuitously where destitution prevails. The Marchioness of Water. ford, independently of establishing a soup kitchen and a clothing institution, has subscribed £l6O to the Portlaw Poor Relief Fund. The Marquis established a soup kitchen at Curraghmore, which has been open during the winter, and one at Kilmacthomas. OPERATION 'OF THE PUBLIC WORKS SYSTEM.-Thy Meath Herald publishes the subjoined extract of a letter received by, a gentleman in the neighbourhood of i think if but right to inform you of two persons who have been put on the public works in the barony of - - Al_ • al uy Luc of a widow who diedih May last. He sold, since then, two cows for 24 guineas, three pigs for £l5, two yearlings £l2, one cow £6, one calf £3, making a sum altogether amounting to £6O. The other man was in the employ ment of a gentleman since May. He left his place about s three weeks since, because he could not get a better din- ner on a Sunday than a leg of roast pork - , or bacon, and 6d. per day." With such practices of daily occurrence, it can scarcely be wondered that spring work on farms should be wholly neglected LOVE AND CONSPIRACY A. very curious case of love and conspiracy came before the Bantry petty sessions on Thursday week. Mr. Cornelius O'Donovan, a young gentleman residing at Bantry, 'received no less than forty love letters, purporting to be from Miss Catharine O'Sul- livan ; but; ivhen matters had become ripe for marriage they all proved to be forgeries, Miss O'Sullivan knowing nothing of the matter. These letters were brought to hirr am ed Connell him through present of a watch, a scarf, and a ring, all of inferior value. He went twice, by appointment, to Cork, but the lady of his hopes never came. Connelly, on the second occasion, was with him, and was well fed by Mr. O'Donovan, in addition to the receipt of several presents. Evidence was called to show- that the letters had been written by a Miss Nano O'Sullivan, who ' •it was consi dered, designed to marry Mr. O'Donovan by personating the former lady. Informations were granted both against her an Conelly. and the case was returned for trial at the county assizes. • - HORRIBLE MURDERS IN IRELAND the 11th instant, about four m receive —On the night of west of Louisburg a wretch, named James Gibbons, after robbing a house in which lived two sisters, named Mary and Honor Gibbons, but one of whom (Mary) was absent, set fire to the premises, and the unfortunate inmate, Honor, was burnt to death. The murderer was a brother of the deceased, and some of the property was found hid in his house" He was committed for trial for wilful murder. — On Saturday week, a farmer named Kelly, reported to be wealthy, and living at Cranah (Carlow), was murdered by a man• named llelehan, who afterwards ransacked the house for money, and then stripped the dead body. He made.his escape. A verdict of wilful murder was record ed. against him.—ln the same county, on Friday se'n night. a bailiff, named Hynes, while in the execution of ins duty-, by a seizure forrentin the house of a man named Brennan, was:struck by the latter in the eye with a pitch- fork, which penetrated the Dram anu prvuuuvv. The murderer absconded, and a verdict of wilful murder IRISH OUTRAGES. - Returns of the number and de scription of outrages specially reported by the constabu lary throughout Ireland; in each of the years 1845 Mid 1846, have been laid, before Parliament. It appears that the total number (in claSs 1) of offences a ga i ns t th e per son amounted in 1846 to 1,923, against 1,639 in 1855, thus exhibiting a large increase in the number of outrages. The list of crimes thus committed in Ireland during the past year contains 176 cases of homicide, 158 cases of fir ing at the persoi76 of conspiracy to murder, 1 of poison:. ing, 105 of rape, 49 of assault with intent, &c., 100 of in fanticide, 18 of aMneting, 83 of assaults on the police, 604 of those aggravat e d as saults peculiar to the Irish , 290' of assaults endangering life, 28 of assaults with intent to rob,. 8 of assaults on bailiffs, &c., 49 of cutting 34 of common assault, 1 ie m cno.. .„, sealing births of children, and one of unnatural crone. - 1n - 1846 there were 4,765 cases of offences against the public peace, including 465 incendiary fires, 611 robberies of arms, 232 administrations of - illegal oaths, 1,783 threatening:letters, 536 attacks of houses, 449 injuries of property, and 167 cases of firing into dwelling-houses. in class 3i " Offences against property,":' the alarming in crease is exhibited, between 1845 and 1846, from 1,739 to 5,670 cases, including 3,025 cases of cattl_e stealing;.Bl3 287 cases burglaries, 258 highW4 robberies, 534 robbtries of maiming cattle, and 416 cases of plundering provisions The general total is 12,380 cases of crime and offence in 1846, against 8,104 in 1845. The counties in which crime appears to have been the most rife are those of Tipperary, Cork, Lhnerick, Clare, Roscommon, and Leitrim, whilst those most free from the' stigma are Antrim, London derry, Louth, Kildare, and Carlow. ELOPEMENT. A policeman, of the name of Jacob Webb, a native of itathcormac, stationed in Newcastle, in the county of Limerick, got acquainted with a Miss while she was on a visit with her maternal uncle UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS The number of members in the university of Oxford is now 5930. This time last year it was 5878. The Rev. Lonsdall Formby, B.A. (1844), of Catharine hall, has been appointed Lathe perpetual curacy of Formby, Lancashire : vice : I. Bowman, resigned. The Lord Bishop of Chester has appointed the Rev. Richard Parkinson, 8.D.. Phncipal of St. Bees College, to be Rural Dean-for the Deanery of Whitehaven. The Rev. Thomas Dale has called the attention of the parishioners to the spiritual destitution of 'St. Pancras, and proposed a plan in which he suggests the division of the parish into ecclesiastical districts, and that ten additional churches be erected, so as to afford church-room for at least one-fourth of the population. The funds to be raised by subscripti, n. THE NEW BISHOPS.—It is said that the four bishoprics will be conferred upon the Hon. and Rev. Montague Villiers, M.A.,' Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury; the Rev. Thomas • Dale, M.A., Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's,; the Rev. J. Slade, M.A. - , Canon of Chester, and Vicar of Bolton-le-Moors ; and the Rev. B. P. Symonds, D.D., Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Senior Esquire Bedell, of the University of Cam bridge, is the bearer of the news of his election to the newly-elected chancellor of the university, who presents him with a gold chain of the value of a hundred guineas. Mr. Gunning, who has held the office for 58 years, now possesses three of these costly perquisites of office, pre sented to him in succession by the Duke of Gloucester, the Marquis Camden, and the Duke of Northumberland : and he will soon receive a fourth from the next chancellor. The Rev. Edward Hawkins, D.D., provost of Oriel College, Oxford, has been elected to the new chair of Exigetical Theology formed by the late Dr. Ireland, Dean of Westminster. Dr. Hawkins is a sound and able the ologian, and filled the office of Bampton divinity lecturer at Oxford in the year 1840: he is also the author of an able work on tradition, and of other miscellaneous theolo gical works. He was selected by the late Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, Dr. Wynter, as one of the board of six doc tors who condemned the sermon of Dr. Pusey on the Eucharist. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The sum of £12,000 is vested in the under-mentioned religious institutions, under the will of the late Mr. John Wilkinson, of High Wycome, Bucks, who died on the 24th of December last, and such bequests are payable on the decease of his widow, in the following proportions,. viz. :—To the British and Foreign Bible Society, £3OOO ; to the London Missionary Society, £2OOO ; to the Church Missionary Society, £l5OO ; to the Baptist Missionary Society, £l5OO ; to the Wes leyan Missionary Society, £lOOO ; to the Religious Tract Seiciety, £lOOO ; to the London Association in aid of the Missions of the United Brethren, called Moravians, £l5OO ; to the Pastoral Aid Society, £250 ; to the Irish Society of London for Promoting the Education and Religious In struction of the native Irish through the medium of their own language £250. , The Cambridge Advertiser states, that, in case of the refusal of Prince Albert to be put in nomination for the Chancellorship of that University, the Trinity men will bring forward Lord Burlington ; while the Times of Wed nesday states, that the Marquis of Northampton will be their candidate. The name of the Duke of Buccleuch has also been mentioned. The Johnians to a man will support Earl Powis. The Earl graduated at St. John's, M.A., 1806 ; he is in the 62nd year of his age. The last con tested election for the Chancellorship was on the death of the Duke of Grafton in 1811. The votes were, for H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, 468 ; the Duke of Rutland, 391. Lord Powis is the only candidate as yet in the field for the vacant office, though a requisition to Prince Albert has been signed by, we believe, all the heads of colleges, except the master of St. John's. The election is on the 25th. THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. - A gentleman, resident in the East, has communicated to one of the London pa pers the fact of :the arrival in safety of Dr. Gobal, at the Holy City, which he entered on the 30th December. The Bishop, his family, and suite landed, though not without danger, at Jaffa, from her Majesty's steam-sloop Hecla, which conveyed them from Malta. The party was there welcothed. with much kindness, by, the Authorities and others, and they remained until the 28th, when the Bishop and attendants proceeded on their journey. On the 30th they.neared Jerusalem, and they were met by all the English and other residents meunted, by whom they were escorted into the city, and proceeded very soon to the church, where, as the Bishop entered, a touching and interesting hymn was sung. The Te Deum was read and the Litany of our Church, when the Rev. Mr. Nicolayson addressed the Bishop in a very interesting and feeling manner, to which the Bishop replied, and greeted the congregation, blessing them in the name of the Lord. Tranquillity reigns throughout Palestine. COURT AND E ISHION. The. Court left Buckingham . Palace on Saturday, fox Claremont. They return to-day (Tuesday.) On Thursday, the Queen and Prince Albert honoured the French Plays with their presence. Her Majesty ani. the Prince, with the Royal Children, have taken their ac. customed airings in the vicinity of the palace. The Duke of Bedford is to have the Garter vacant b 3 the death of the Duke of Northumberland. _ . The venerable Earl of Derby has so much improved i health, that his lordship intends to leave Knowsley Par for town at the end of the month. RAILWAY AFFAIRS The Wh Railway was opened o: Monday. It extends from that town to Maryport. The Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon and Lynn and and Dereham respectively have confirmed the lease of the lines to the Eastern Counties. There is a general report that the East Lancashire have purehaSed the Lancashire and-Preston.. Thus the East Lancashire will obtain a direct line from Liverpool througl Ormskirk and Preston to Lancaster. . during (1 by th SUch has been the demand for locomotiv(,. the last two years, that out of ten engines ordere , . Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire two years ag only three have been as yet delivered. Mr. G. , 13.. Ward has just finished a beautiful of Mr. Mackenzie, the mil. excellent likeness by Mr. H. J subscription, made at Paris. ,ent railway contract( The proposition of the Taw Vale to lease the Exetei and Creditou was accepted by the latter. Five per cent. to be paid by the Taw Vale for paid-up capital ; the pro fits exceeding five per, cent. up to a half per cent., and when exceeding five-and-a-half per cent., surplus to bE shared. NOTTINGHAM, JUNCTIONRATLIVAY IMREItoATE, BOSTON; AND EASTERN The first sod of this line was cut Btes- ford; nearlielvolt6astle,l;y the lady of the chairman, as sisted by • the noble owner of the, castle—his grace the Duke of Rutland pay the Best dividend they, have yet done ; per cent. for the half-year on the Consolidated stock, and 28s. upon the fifth shares, whereon £-10 had been paid. It is quite clear , that w elcome as is this dividend, it is so, not merely as a fact by itself, but as a warranty of increased prosperity in future. SEIZING RAILWAY PARCELS. An action_ has be raised before the Sheriff's Court of Paisley to decide r the legality of the joint railway seizing the parcels of - to ascertain if they contain other than p' sertgors Iw4'grige that being the only kind of luggage allowed tt passengers. The railway company has craved time, am are to conduct their case by written pleadings. NARROW ESCAPE.—On-Thursday afternoon, in copse. quence of the heavy fall of rain, about thirty yards of ti Sheffield and Manchester Railway, near Woodhead, wf washed away by ti A down train to Sheffield, am Another to Manchester had just passednver, when fin line fell in. Had the 61. occurred a few moments before, by Mr: C. Barker,. the advertising agent, to recover front Mr. Griffith, a merchant in ' Liverpool, as a provisional directni and member of the committee of management "of the 7Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool Direct Trunk the_ gum of £3O 3s. lid. for work and labour done tcanway,•vii, - in advertising-the prospectus of the company. Tile jury, gave a verdict in favour of the claim. • Four per cent. for the halt-year continues to he the declared dividend of the Great Western. Delighting in that confidence which has won them so, many triumphs, the , Chairman • gave_ his version of the existing - state of affairs between the London and North-Western and his company ; and . Mr. Heyworth patronizingly advised the uniforM gauge companies to give up " tinkerin g ," an d to put their. housei in order. _ _ The report of the Mancheste Sheffield, and Lincoln favourably. The traffic is prpg►ressing tler the rate of 5 per cent. per - annuni_ is i(! 26. 23, 184.7. THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—On Saturday a meeting of the shareholders in this railway was held in the cotton sale-room, to receive a report from a committee appointed on the 3d of September last to inquire into the past proceedings of the directors, and to inquire into the present and future prospects of the undertaking. The meeting was most numerously attended.—The chair was taken by Mr. Charles Holland. He said it seemed strange that an undertaking that had been so auspiciously ushered in, and was accompanied at the outset by a high premium in the market, should have sunk to a very great discount without any ostensible reason for the change. A meeting of the shareholders had been brought about by advertise ment last year, and was pretty numerously attended. It 'then appeared that nearly all of them were in total igno ranee of the merits of the line,- and that they had entered into it on the faith of the prospectus, and the assurance of names which wee entitled to, the highest credit, and that they had not given themselves the-trouble of inquiring into the matter. A committee was appointed, but for any infor mation obtained they were indebted to the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Beloe. The object now was to estab lish confidence in the concern, if it deserved it, and to avoid all, irritation.—Mr. Beloe read the report, but it was not considered advisable to publish it.—Mr. Tort said the statistics of the railway were in a very small compass. Deducting the expenses last year, and paying the interest on the bonds, there would remain to the shareholders about ls. 6d. per share. He assumed that the bonds would be, liquidated, and that the capital of the company would be two millions. If they took fifty seven miles of railway, now open, which yielded £lB per suile per week, then the whole 112 miles would yield something like £92,000 per annum. This would leave £50,000 nett, and would yield 24 per cent. From that point, and that point only, were the shareholders to pro ceed ; and it was now for the meeting to ascertain from the information of any gentleman present whether there was a prospect of advancing to five or six per cent.—Mr. Chaplin (of London) said he had no doubt but the line would yet realize all that had been paid, in the same pro portion as the Rouen line. He alluded to the management of the line by commissaires appointed by the Dutch govern ment. These gei3tlem en were disinterested, and no one could complain of their not acting properly. He then alluded to their solicitor and engineer in Holland, both of whom were worthy of the highest confidence. He denied that bonds had been purchased with a view of securing the private purposes of parties in that country. He suggested that the report should be withdrawn, as it might be felt that it unjustly impugned the conduct of parties there. He had the same interest in the concern now that he held from the first. To some enquiries he said the company could effect a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share upon paid capital on May-day. A long conversation took place relative to the purchase of the bonds, which was explained, and the Directors had promised not to purchase more. — Mr. Moss expressed his confidence in the concern.L--Mr. Mozley said he was willing to take Mr. Chaplin at his word, and to view any errors which might have been com mitted as errors of judgment. What could not be undone must be, submitted to. He looked at the future with confidence ; and he was willing, for the sake of the con cern, to forgive and forget. He moved that the present provisional committee be, requested to continue their ser vices pending the carrying out, by negotiatidn, with the London and head direction, such arrangements as may tend to the. removal of the dissatisfaction at present existing, and to (he promotion of the prosperity of the concern.—Mr. Tool seconded the resolution, and, it was carried unanimously. It was agreed not to publish the report, and the meeting dispersed. THE BENCH AND THE BAR, One of the judges has declared that the persons placing money in the savings' bank, who do not draw some por tion within six years, are debarred from all claim by the Statute of Limitations. William Allcard, Esq., Civil engineer; Joseph Stubbs, Esq., file manufacturer ; and John Allen, Esq., cotton ma nufacturer, all residing at Warrington, have been placed on the commission of the peace for this county. ncaster Assizes dosed about noon on Thursday _.,.; of the Crown Court was finished on Wednes day night, about eight o'clock. On Thursday their lord ships (Barons Rolfe and Alderson) proceeded to Appleby, to open the commission for Westmorland. The busines NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, FEB. 18 (Before Baron Rolfe and a Special Jury.) LEVINS JAWTON V. BOUSTEAD AND ANOTHER LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEBIE; This was an action brought, by the plaintiffs, who are surveyors at Manchester, to recover the sum of 4128 10s• from the defendants, who are both gentlemen of private fortune, Mr. Henderson, residing at Liverpool and Mr. Boustead, at Sedburgh, in Yorkshire, for services ren dered in that capacity, in reference to a projected , line e' railway between Lancaster and Newcastle, and in the prospectus ofwhich the names of the defendants appeared as provisional committeemen. " A great number of witnesses were examined, who prove' that the defendants had authorised their names to be, placed on th e prov i s i onal committee, and that Bousteau took such an active part in the scheme as to direct th e diversion o f th e route from that originally contemplated by the surveyor sent over by Messrs. Levins and Lawto n ' It was not proved, howeve r , th at either of the defendl;fv. engaged these gentlemen, either personally or by VI II- 3, Under these circumstances, the learn e d IL ., direCW wished to tender a bill of objection the His lordship had no to Baine s ta kin g case to a court of error or the House of Lords. He wig': nevertheless remark that the state of the case was p er fect clear. When persons entered into a commercial contras they took each other for better or worse, either by them' i selvei or their agents. But this was not the Case with joint-stock speculations, and least of all with provision" committees. When a man entered into partnership, 11° knew who were his partners ; ,but no provisional cols; laced on'the list aft° hat there was nc thing startling in the do c t r i ne that provisional committee" men were not responsibl e f or con t rac t s i n w hi c h th e y J not taken an active part. On the 17th one of the de fendants was appointed a member of the provisional cool: mittee ; but that did not, make him employ' the defo, ' ants, .and was therefore no evidence whatever . —Verdi ew accordingly for defendants. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE LYTHAM SPRING CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. : 4 This meeting took place on:Wednesday, Thursday, an Friday, ov er th e g rounds of Thomas. Clifton, Esq. 1. , hares r an we ll, particularly the two latter days. The f ai n lowin g are t h e re t urns : —Th e G rea t Clift on C up , was by Mr. Coupe's Handy, beating Mr. Temple's Tricksy The Talbot Cup was won by Mr. Jardine Liddesd ale ! beating Mr. Barnes's Lady. The Lytham Cup was Ny?, P , by Mr. B ux t on ' s O ctavia, M r. A. Graham ' s Sen d - baci , the4noney running up. The Veteran Stakes were "".. 4 1 by Mr. E. Robi nson ' s O ld Nick, heating M r. Saunded, Dressmaker. Sapling Stakes--No. 1, won by Mr.. Hornby's Her Highness , beating Mr. Jepson's 1 - 1 0 7. No. 2,. won by Mr. E. G. Hornby' s Hydropathy, Y' d• Taylor's Ruby running up ; No. 3, won by Mr . I son's - Beggar Boy, beating Mr. Atkinson / s Am . ber 1 ' 1 _ 2 % I m's Gin, beating Mr. Reg en 4e . won by .Mr. Reade's Sultan the " _ md, beating Mr. Browne's 'Phoenix . The snatch b e ' tween Mr. Graham's Sir. Edward and Mr. Bake's nir ci t : Browne's Stunning vonbyAtnhdey former ." The he mi t tch,b . etween Car dy Joe 4, won bIA: lime, w Hozg's POLITICAL MISCELLANI as consented .to be a cane iced a petition fr,t for the representation of Leicester. On Friday, Sir, Robert Peel press. Liverpool, in favour of further relaxation of ties on manufactures and commerce. . MANCHESTER, BOROU GH ELECTION.—At a meeting Lord Lincoln'g committee,- held on Friday, it was d solved that a deputati on should proceed to L ond o n Tuesday, to present the requisition, asking his lore to : offer himself as a candidate for the representation the borough. rictive 01] SLAVERY.—Lord Brougham, in presenting a petit i t u i, to the Ho - use of Lords on Friday, from the Foreign M o . Slavery Society, said he had beewinformed that in c ol . l , e t, , q uence of the bill o f last year sugar plantations had v.-00, propagated in Cuba and Brazil, while coffee plantat l had been throw n out of cultivation. The had also increased from 20 to 25 per cent nicie of 511° e. her Majesty's 'dominions, on the subject of advances by way of loan, for carrying out such projects. The noble Earl also complained that the people of India had to pay five per cent. for money, when it could be raised in Eng land for the purposes of Government at three - -and-ahall. _ The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there would be no objection to produce the correspondence sVhen complete. Conditions had been sugg es t e d b y the Government, on which certaip ad ways to be constructed in India, but up to the present time they had not been accepted. Lord ASHBURTON renewed his motion for various re turns relative to the capital embarked in railways, and of the investments of the bank of England in bonds, deben tures, or other securities of railway companies. The Earl of CLARENDON objected to the latter return, on the ground that it would establish a precedent, by which the hank might be hereafter compelled to disclose to the public the names of those parties to whom they had given credit. Lard Astinn - it.roN was willing to substitutelor the 're turn objected to by the noble earl, one to the effect' of an account of public securities held by the bank, his only .object being to enable Parliament to see what had been the cause of the movement in_the money market, and the to Wilt of the imtnk - had been used in begged it to be no reflection upon 1114 he did, that no body of me! reference to railway securnai clearly understood, that he , ( bank directors, believing. for going into rommittet j Distilleries Bill th ensued. Lord ST ANT Ou the order of on the Sugar in B sion of seine lens an amendment, that th, )istiller select committee up staff took place, when there upon Which 11. for th contents, 35 ; non-co bills then went throng HOUSE OF COMMONS The City of London Small-ffei time. Mr. A W.E tat iu Monte Video The London %vivo ~, and that there is no reason whatever to doubt tha he will he speedily enabled to proceed to his destination armed with the combined instruction of the Government of France and England for the settleMent of -all points it dispute between the belligerent parties on both sides o the Riier - Plata. .So far as the negotiations have pro eeeded there is no point of difference, and they only wai the leisure of the French Cabinet from other more press. as will enable (lit British Envoy to carry out the wish pliblie_slave-market at Constantinople I abolished, but it is suspected that the traffic in human be• ings will still be carried on in the shape of private bargains Lord Hardinge has- resolved on the reduction of th postage throughout India, and the introduction of . tent similar to that of Rowland Hill. daily paper. restt4,4,--1 :_. • - At preser London journal, the pos India to £lO annually. THE EMIGRATION + TO CANADA IN 184 treat Iferrad furnishes the t'allowing offiei, 1846 :- - Number of .Elnigrantx landed ai Quebec and Mont 12.3 CA f 1,32.153 ti as fii Lion--Proc of whi Western •(anada. 24 Derma Quebec. Of tht Ind trade generally was dull hat Lord Uow•den is still al author of Monte Cristo" would plead his own cause ; and the doors were scarcely thrown open, when every corner of the house was tilled. For two hours and a half the im patient audience had listened to an unimportan t and un interesting ease which was. g oing on, and their impatience no allayed by the non-appear ance of M. I .n already to be rumoured that he would ir, nhe was ushered in by the hussier by a 'it He was at once recognised by 'his dark complexion and his being extremely oVet-dressed. The '' -t-g-tion at his appearance having sub -- ' Dumas plead edlis own was in no wise Dlllllaq. ft beg private door smett, a veep suence prevao , u• - case, contending that he - had not broken his engage ment, but .must first. complete previous engagements to the extent of Si) N ()Wines ! His speech was less remark able for l inodesty that for (French), eloquence. He dwelt complacently upon his almost snperhuinati labours as a writer. " The plaintiffs pretend," said he, " that at my villa at St. Germain i remained idle. I wrote there eight volumes of Balsamo.' At the same time I was ocCupied ns of Shakspere and Durnas in the nain ; but 1 do not think I can be re ially as I gave them 27,000 lines rds niy jtiurneY to,S.pain, I never Duke of Montpenster, who en, id to me as his 1 wish theatre of St. ( proached for 11 :hat. e• 4)) elicited Salvandy id Algeria, and peciully t out know left fo bout it as the only. Frenchman present at It was. then I received the grand yen not to the liter e Dumas. le Duke of t.) I t but I /44 pmferrecl upon me the order of Mid Larkin, a wealthy shopkeeper in the town in which , she was stationed. The attachment having reached the ears of the family, the-father forbid the acquaintance, and " to make assurance doubly .sure," a lad eligible to seek the hand of Miss Macmahon, was introduced, and a marriage determined upon. The wedding -clothes were bought---;- the marrif ge settlements completed, and the day named. But, a• the old adage goes, " there's many. a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," so it was with respect to the Mac mahon family, for the night before the appointed day, the sly policeman rescued tho bride-elect from the custody. of her watchful uncle, and before the diseovery'of her elope ment, she was on the road-to her intended people-in-law at Itatheornme. When the morning came, Newcastle Was in a ferment. A warrant having been obtained from a magistrate for her arrest upon a charge of felony, the family 'of the Mactnahons was up in arms, and the country around was searched for the delinquent, and a . reward of £lO was offered through the Limerick Chronicle for her apprehension. Within two days Webb returned to his station; to avoid Coming under the charge of deser- tion and resigned his office as policeman ; but so great was the indignation of the - family and the friends of the Maemabons . that he had to be escorted out of the town. Perceiving he was " set," with the instinct of a policeman, he made a circuit to arrive at the place of appointment, and, eluding his pursuers, arrived in Cork on Sunday night. Here he •inet his "intended," and on Monday they went to get . married,: but were recognised by an old soldier of- the local companies, who gave • them into cus tody; They were immediately taken before. the presiding magistrate, who discharged Webb, but remanded .the lady.- However, on Tuesday, Webb having engaged 'the services of Mr. 1 I .0' Brien ; he showed the bench that she *am not criminally cha quently 'discharged. This- was a t<rrtnnate release, for that day, being Shrove Tuesday,. they were enabled with out much (Hay to be joined in Wedlock by a priest. On Wednesday, the father and uncle of the young ,wife The ruder cannot but h arrived in this city, but they found they were a late, the happy couple having started the to enjoy the scenery of ttie Lake., of Kilfaxm ay too mile morning Ork Comtitulioi paiu w ule timers or *Joe ongtnal I.;100 Sheffield. anu MancheAer shares. The No. 1 quarter or preferential shares are to receive at the rate of 74 percent, per annum. Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the neigh bouring lines. • (kRMAN RAILROADS.—From recent German papers se gather that within the year 1846 there opened of Ger man railways li4 German miles, or, in round numbers, about 800 English .miles in length. The 'wrest section, amounting to 94 German miles, was opened' in Prussia, and includes the direct line from. Hamburgh to Berlin. There is a line from Frankfort on the Oder to Bertin, which joins the line from Upper Silesia to Stettin, tin the Baltic sea. Upper Silesia is, therefore, connected by lljelaigliliwirligiv`e:-I-f. railway communication with Stettin o n the. Baltic, and with llamburgh rid Berlin. In another year there will he another line to Hamhurgh, yid Dresden, which is now finished as far as Hanover. The Prussians completed their direct line to Hamburgh. while. the good King Of Hanover was raising, the wind to mange the uniform of his soldiers from red to blue; In the south of Germany the grand Austrian trunk line from Vienna to Poland passes through . Upper Silesia, on its way to" Galicia. A ! portion of the line already constructed leads through tht plipneerin Silesiapro - vale of the Oder, and is continued to Cracow, The lint now constructing from Frankfort to the communication between Upper of the Oder to the Rhine at ,Bierberic% ec ":h u e agrseeessonfidinnl-eCantilso,Ogrcotmo nAliiiillutile,altliaolnldbet orm _.,,,t .the aßriedlgituhic, a ß n i t i i ine the nee n r hi D ne r t e i l i d e or e f .o . inn ß i ( u t i z a e t n io .t n he is c o nr en t:i d f d il e ir d ee t t o b, crstruct .igaged 'the frpouttxn:hA_natnad-e..rppr:nssidt:sttceTrirdit..oryl: isii,' a railway' from Flushing . to Dusselt n it t ir e t 9 the bench that .nd- she - was conse ,__ titer . g ood communicati,--- ti;; which all these lines Silesii or the Va►li( truck with the dire :ake. They uniforrt upper Silesia. - Thl hey of the Ulmer Oder are t trisa line from Vi4inna to Cracow will be, oaried to joi. gnu nr:NTINCK's /LAILWAY 1.311,.• , 80 0 , Entwisle, Es q ., J . I. Blackburne, Esq., J. T. CL.DR 11. Esq.,' B. Disraeli, Esq., G. Hudson, Esq., and vv . of Ferranti, Esq., voted. among the minority in favet o of this bill. Lo r d S an d on , W . Brown, Esq.. Sir P.:EgerLP T. Thorneley, E sq. , E. C ardwell, Esq., W. T. Egeid Esq., W. E wart , Esq., Sir P. H. Fl ee t woo d, Cal'i Gladstone, Lord B. Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, an ° Jervis, Esq., Noted with the majority against the bill. Mr. Barry; the architect, of the new Houses of ment, has intimated to the Marquis of Lansdowne " t oo the House. of Lords will be compiated for the recepO t io# their lordships after. the Easter rfflFss,' with the 'exeePtrlig of the fresco paintings and th e s t a t ues i n th e n i c h e s. fo' new House of. Commons is not expected to: be readY cl tibE some time. Th e Vi ct o r i a Hall, at the south end, al l II Peel Lobby, at the worth end, And the corridors, are LORD (40. BENTINCIe4 BILL. AND THE IRISH I T The division was a curious one, and , no it •To into-an analysis of it. The high - need, Two of the " d ea r sono_j very peculiar part meassu r. ~lauiice O'Couuell) did not v& O'Conitell , biuiself; but his nepi Thus the O'C'orutell aid as to r all, n el i IVf r. I%f division, ()Turmas I used 01 TUE.. 'I ford, Mr. W. Elan, Mr. R. Walker, L GroSvenor, Earl GrosveniP:, n Gladstone, and J. Toile r econd reading :—Dr. Bowring, k. 11 :0 dwell, I'. M. Gibson, Hon. 1 1 7 0 ' illips Mr. J. W. Patten, T.. 111 I W. T. Egerton. r. E. Car( pre Who £ll eve wal to t bro Lai me] the fits oph tim lay Ar cha the dar th e dia an( sel COT ail sel £4 , £3 cul COI low ha` tril pc( •l