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414 , -Akakr‘ AVN Ni‘drittelkawsk imperial AJarliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—NIoNnAr. Lord STANLEY laid noon the table a bill, founded on the report of the Irish Landlord and Tenant Commission, for the purpose of securing to the occupying tenant in that country compensation for any improvements he may have effected on his holding. The noble lord combatted the idea that the evils of Ireland could be adequately met by compulsory emigration ; and contended, that in pro portion to the extent of waste lands, the country was not over-peopled. Contrasting the condition of the Irish with the English tenant, he argued for the necessity of some measure which might have the effect of inducing the former to expend capital on the improvement of the soil. With this view the bill proposed to grant compen sation to tenants for three classrs of improvements— buildings, drainage, and the levelling of fences. For the' erection of buildings, he proposed that the tenant should be secured in a compensation which should diminish to the extent of one-thirtieth annually. Thus, should the tenant remain thirty years in occupation arter building, be would be considered to have received the full benefit of his outlay. For deep thorough tile drainage he should be assured compensation, diminishing one-fourteenth annually, so that after an occupation of fourteen years his claim to cgnaapensation would cea=e. On the third head, that of Saes in Ireland a car might be driven on the tops of fences running between small fields in any direc tion but a straight one, and which, notwithstanding, af forded no security against the intrusion of any Irish ani mal whatever. In order to encourage the tenant to level those fences and add them to the general surface of his farm, he would be allowed compensation for outlay, di minishing to the extent of one-twentieth annually. Thus if he added ten acres to a farm of fifty, he would be con sidered in twenty years to have had the full benefit of his expenditure. There bad been hitherto attempts to en force regulations between landlord and tenant; but those attempts had failed, owing to the expensive nature of the process for enforci'ig them. In order to obviate this dif ficulty, and establish an inexpensive method of equitably adjusting claims, he proposed that there should be an office in Dublin, with a salaried officer at its head, to be called " The Commissioner of Improvements." He was to have the duty of communicating between landlord and tenant as to the nature and value of the contemplated improvements, and to provide for the valuation, &c., as well as the settlement and adjustment of conflicting claims. The noble lord concluded by moving the first reading of the bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE. Lord PORTMAN, and several other Peers, disapproved of the bill ; but it was read a first time. The Earl of RADNOR moved the second reading of the bill to amend the recent enactments relating to bastardy, urging that they had revival many of the evils which had existed under the old law. Lord WHARNCLIFFE opposed the bill, on the around that a sufficient check had been provided against fraudu lent paternity, and it was rejected. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. Sir R. PEEL laid upon the table, by command of her Majesty, a copy of the treaty recently concluded between France and Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade; and, in reply to a question from Lord Palmerston, said he could not consent to produce the evidence upon which the treaty was founded. In reply to a question from Mr. S. CRAWFORD, Sir J. GRAHAM said it was his intention to postpone the Parochial Settlement Bill to a distant day. The house then went into committee on the Banking (Scotland) Bill, the remaining clauses of which were, after some discussion, agreed to, and the house resumed. On the motion of Sir R. PEEL, the house then went into committee on the Banking (Ireland) Bill, the dis cussion on which occupied the remainder of the evening. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY. • After the presentation of an immense number of peti tions against the measure, The Duke of WELLINGTON moved that their lordships should resolve themselves into committee ul,on the May noo!h Bill. Loa' CLANCARTY moved that the bill be committed that day six months, resting his opposition principally on the absence of proof that there was a want of funds at Maynooth, and upon the inappropriateness of the time at wh . ch the measure had been introduced. Lord WICKLOW trusted that he might regard this mea sure as an index of an intention to connect the Roman Catholic church with the state by means of an endowment. This was now only a question of time and mode ; the for mer was as propitious now as it ever would be, but the latter was still one of difficulty. He objected either to charge the endowment upon the Consolidated Fund, or to take it from the property of the Irish church ; but he thought that if it were placed as a rent-charge upon the land, neither parliament nor the landlords would have a right to complain. He concluded by urging the govern ment, if they meant to preserve tranquillity, to pursue their present measure, and he prepared next session with one for the endowment of the Romish church. Lord FITZWILLIAII concurred in the opinion that, after endowin4 Maynooth, an endowment of the Romish clergy-would he absolutely indispensable. Lord CLANCARTY having withdrawn his amendment, . Lord WIIARNCLIFPE said that the noble lord the Se cretary for the Colonies had stated this measure to be in its”lf of vital itnportance, and that the government were anxious to do what they could to produce a better state of feeling amorgst the, Roman Catholics of Ireland than at present exited. At the same time, the measure was no earnest that the government had any intention like that which the noble lord had attributed to them. W:th respect to himself, and other members of her Majesty's government, he must say that they had undoubtedly on former occasions expressed it as their opinion that the Citholie priesthood should be endowed. He and his noble friend near him did, when they were in the House of Common*, vote for that question when proposed by Lord F. Egerton. But he would fairly state that;until he could see that the people of England would be favour able to such a measure, he did not think it would be pru dent in any government to propose it. Ile (lid look for ward with hope to a time when a change would take place; but there were now -so many difficulties in the way, that he did not know how any one could conceive that the government had any intention of proposing such a measure. It would be for the government to watch the feeling of the country on the subject, and in the mean time they proposed this measure as one which was impor tant in itself, and as an earnest to the people of Ireland that it was their wish to do all that lay in their power to conciliate them. The Marquis of PREADALFIANE trusted that the people of England would take warning by this declaration. The hue then went into committee on the bill. This occupied;as new ly as possible, half a minute, and the bill was repNrted without amendment to the house. _ _ The thiid reading was fixed for Monday (last night). HOUSE OF •CONIMONS.--TOESDAY. The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill was read a second time. Mr. LAWSON moved that the rel ort on the Leeds and Thirar Rp.ilvvay Bill be reconsidered, as far as relates to the Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway Bill, which was agreed to. . _ Sir U. GREY moved that the evidence on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Bill, and the Oxford and Rugby Railway Bill, be communicated to the house. The right hon. baronet observed, that the parti cular circumstances of this case, involving as it did the important que , tion of the wide and narrow gauge, justi fied him in asking the house to depart from its usual cus tom of having the evidence taken before a committee on a private bill printed at the expense of the party moving for it. On this occasion he would move that the evidence be printed at the public expense.—Agreed to. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice, that on Tuesday, July Bth, he should move for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the rating clauses in the Reform Bill. Mr. VILLIERS once again brought the corn-laws under the consideration of the house. The hon. member, in a long speech, re-stated all the usual arguments against protection, with which the public must be, by this time, sufficiently familiar, and Concluded by moving resolu tions, the substance of which was, that all restrictions on corn be aboli,hed. Mr. °swam) seconded the resolutions. Sir JAMES GRAFIANt was willing to admit that the questions should be discussed with reference to the inte rests of all classes of the community, and would, never theless, contend that a sudden change in the corn-laws wonld prove very injurious to the country. He was convinced that a free importation of corn would bring the price down permanently to 355., a price which would render it necessary to throw much land out of cultivation, and the injury thus inflicted on large districts of England, and on the whole of Ireland, would be so great as not to be compensated for by any benefit likely to accrue from a free trade in corn. Lord J. Russzu, would vote for going into committee with a view to see in what way the law should be relaxed. The noble lord then contended for the necessity of a re vision of the existing law, which added to the incomes of the legislators, while those legislators failed in proving that it was beneficial t 3 the rest of the community. Sir R. PEEL said he had last year opposed a similar motion, and which was also opposed on that occasion by the noble lord, who now, it appeared, was prepared to support it. He could not follow the noble lord in this course; but, while voting against the motion, he could not agree in all the arguments adduced against it. Ile could not agree that a high price of corn necessarily im plied high wages ; nor could be agree with those who contended that the condition of the people was much de teriorated, as compared with what it was some few months back. The right hon. baronet then explained that his object was to reconcile a gradual approach to sound prin ciples, with a cautious attention to the interests which had grown up under a different system. lle would not attempt to defend the corn-law upon the ground of its being beneficial to one class of the community ; but he could not agree to the motion of the hon. member for Wolverhampton, because, though positively injurious to the owners of the soil, it would prove still more injurious to the labouring classes, whose welfare depended on the prosperity of the landowner. Mr. VILLIERS replied, and his motion was negatived by a majority of 25-1 to 122. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESD AY . The first business trans a cted was the passing the Sta tute Labour (Scotland) Bill through a committee. The following bills were severally read a third time and passed :—The Bridgewater Navigation and Railway, the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and the Newcastle upon-Tyne Coal Turn Bill. The committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill was postponed by Mr. Watson to the 25th instant. Mr. Lin DELL having moved the second reading of the Dog-stealing Bill, a long conversation ensued. Mr. Home opposed, anti Captain Berkeley and Major Beres ford supportg the bill, as also did Air J. Graham. Mr. Warburton, Mr. Watson, Mr. Ri rdo, Sir G. Strick land, and Mr. B. Escott, opposed it; and Mr. Liddell's reply only called forth another chorus of opposition from Mr. Forster, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Hawes. On a divi sion, however, the second reading was carried. Sir J. Y. BULLER then moved the second reading of the County Rates Bill. Mr. M. Gibson opposed, and Lord Ebrington supported it ; and after a short conver sation, in which Mr. Darby, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Hen ley, Mr. Hume, and Sir J. Graham took part, the bill was read a second time. The Smoke Prohibition Bill went into a committee ; but in the course of a short discussion on the first clause, the house was counted out. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. The Caledonian Railway Bill, the Dundee and Perth Railway Bill, and the Clydesdale Junction Railway Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. A new writ was moved for the county of Edinburgh in the room of Mr. Ramsey, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The Banking (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. In reply to a question from Mr. C. WOOD, Sir J. GRAHAM said that he would on Friday move the money vote for the Colleges (Ireland) Bill in a com mittee of the whole house, preparatory to the committee on the hill, which he would move on Monday. The Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) Bill was read a second time, and the committee was fixed for the 23d inst. The Banking (Ireland) Bill was brought up, agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday. HOUSE OF LORES.-FRIDAY. On the presentment of a petition respecting the dis turbed state of the county of Leitrim, The Marquis of CLANRICARDE reviewed the policy of the present Government in Ireland, which he contended was an entire failure. In illustration of his argument, he adverted to the meetings now taking place in that coun try—the processions, speeches, and language - of the news papers. A portion of this effect had been produced by the reversal of the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, in the case of the State Trials—a rever sal which took place not on technicalities but on the ac tual merits. The noble marquis concluded by asking if the Government intended to renew the Party Processions Act ? Lord BROUGHAM denied, most emphatically, that the judgment had been reversed upon the merits. There were seven good counts and four bad ones, and bad judg ment been given severally on the counts, there would have been no reversal. In fact, since the decision in that house the judges had adopted the rule laid down for their guidance. Lord DENMAN and Lord CAMPBELL contended-that the decision had been upon the merits ; while the Lord Chancellor contended that it had taken place purely on technicalities. Lord Fausznam hoped the Party Procession Act would not be renewed. Lord STANLEY deprecated the course pursued by the Marqdis of Clanricarde, in not having given a sufficient notice of a specific motion before entering into statements as to the condition of Ireland, which, if correct, must enhance the difficulties of gt)verning it. He denied, how ever, the prevalence of dissatisfaction in Ireland, and said it was not the intention of the Government to renew the Party Processions Act. Atter some further discussion, in which the Earl of Wicxt.ow, the Marquis of WESTMEATH, and the Earl of ST. GERMANS took part, the matter dropped. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. The Lancaster and Carlisle, the Dublin and Drogheda, and the Aberdeen Railway *ills, were severally read a third time and passed. Sir R. PEEL appeared at the bar of the house with a message from her Majesty. Its purport was, that her Majesty was graciously desirous of conferring on Sir H. Pottit ger some mark of her consideration of his services in China, and therefore recommended the house to enable her to make provision for the gallant officer to the extent of £l5OO a year for life. The right hon. baronet gave notice that he would, on Monday, move that her Majesty's message be taken into consideration. In reply to a question from Dr. BOWRING, Sir R. PEEL regretted that the most deplorable ac counts had been received from Syria; but her Majesty's representatives at the Porte and at Beyrout had done all they could to arrest the dreadful outrages which had taken place. The consuls of France, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain had met, and had determined on making a collective representation, urging on the Pacha the necessity of resorting to more effectual mea sures to repress the evils. By the latest accounts to the 20th of May, it appeared that general hostilities bad ceased, and he, therefore, hoped that the collective repre sentation of the consuls had produced its effect. lie would not sit down without noticing the exertions of Col. liose,.-through whose active and assiduous efforts more than 300 lives had been saved. In reply to a questlo; from Mr. LABOUCHERE, Sir It. NEL said that a claim had been made by the Spanish Government. under the provisions of the Treaty of Utrecht, to have Spanish colonial sugars admitted into this country for consumption upon the most favourable terms. No answer had as yet been returned to the de mand, but when the answer would be given, he would have no objection to lay the papers upon the table. Sir J. GRAHAM moved that the House should resolve itself into a committee of the whole House upon the Colleges (Ireland) Bill. Ills object was almost formal. being only for the purpose of introducing the money clauses. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN commented on the bill, and on the fact that the catholic clergy had not been consulted before its introduction. He warned the Government, that unless the b ll was sanctioned by the catholic clergy, it would fall to the ground, a dead letter. Mr. CoLcurficitis commented most happily on the course pursued by Mr. O'Brien, whom he designated as deputy dictator of Ireland, in absenting himself from his parliamentary duties, and only reappearing to oppose a measure of concession to his countrymen. Mr. ROEBUCK made a violent attack upon Mr. W. S. O'Brien, for basing, in Conciliation Hall, challenged the English gentlemen in that house with having the intention of corrupting the intellect of Ireland by the means of this bill. It was a bad return to those gentlemen who had triumphed over their own religious prejudices, and who had to combat with their constituents who were opposed to their views—it was a bad return to those who were making such serious sacrifices to be told they were acting with a view to corrupt the intellect of Ireland. Repeat. ing such trash might gain approbation in Conciliation Hall, but would be met by a different feeling in that house. The intense personality of the whole speech called up Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN, who commenced by saying that Mr. Roebuck had give❑ utterance to the accumulated venom of three months. Sir R. Irons immediately rose to order, and an ani mated scene ensued, which was terminated by the house resolving itself into committee, with the view of giving Mr. O'Brien an opportunity of fe.mally replying to the attack of Mr. Roebuck. Sir J. (;RAITAM then moved, " That a sum, not ex ceed ng £lOO.OOO, be issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, to defray the expenses of establishing new colleges for the advancement of learning in Ireland ; and that an annual sum, not exceeding £21,000, be also issued out of the said Consolidated Fund, to pay the stipends, prizes, exhibitions, and other expenses of the said new colleges." Mr. W. S. O'BEtEN then rose and replied in bitter terms to Mr. Roebuck's attack. In so doing he said be looked upon that hon. gentleman with the most unutter able contempt, and would accompany that feeling with an expression of intense pity. Sir R. INGtas again rose to order, but Mr. O'BEJEN voluntarily retracted the expressions. Subsequently, however, he dealt in others of a very strong description ; after which the matter dropped. The discussion on the resolution was then proceeded with, and it was ultimately agreed to without a division. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. On the motion for the house resolving itself into a committee of supply, Sir H. W. BARRON called attention to the neglected state of the Irish fisheries. Sir T. FREMANTLE admitted the force of many of the statements of the hon. gentleman, and said that Govern ment would direct its attention to the subject. After a short discussion, the subject dropped. Sir C. NAPIER then drew the attention of the house to the state of the defences of the naval ports and arsenals, and also the harbours for the protection of the mercantile marine. He, however, founded no motion on the subject, but recommended that a large sum should be appropri ated to the formation of harbours of refuge, and placing our ports and maritime towns in a state of defence. Captain BOLDERO said there could be little to appre bend while this country held its supremacy at sea. If we should he unhappily at war, independent of the vessels of the state we could bring into play a most formidable ar tillery, for there was not a steam-boat in the river large enough to tow an American liner down the river, which could not be placed with an armament in a good position for either attack or defence. lie thought, in short, that there was no ground whatever for apprehension. Sir R. PEEL objected to the expenditure of a large sum of public money for such a purpose. With regard to harbours of refuge the matter required very careful con sideration, and had for some time past engaged the atten tion of the Government. A discussion afterwards took place on the subject of the pay and allowances of the regiments of Life Guards; and the house then went into committee on the Ordnance Estimates, and immediately afterwards adjourned. PuREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA. The steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, arrived here on Friday morning from Boston, which sh e left on the Ist, and from ;l;alifax, whip h she left on the 3rd inst. She has brought upwards of eighty passengers. The Mexican House of Representatives had pas Fed a bill, by 41 to 13, the object of which is to acknowledge the independence of Texas. provided that that republic will not annex it'elf to the United States. Our Ambas sador at Texas, Mr. Elliott, bad visited Mexico, in con nexion with this measure, and, on his way, had been stopped and plundered. The American papers hint that the above movement emanates from the British and French Governments. They are, consequently, urged to wrath at what they deem an impertinent interference ; but comfort themselves with the hope that, however much the Texan authorities disapprove of the annexation, the people of that country, par excellence, are in favour of it. A little time will determine the point. California has been the scene of an emeute, peaceable in its character, but important it its results: it had severed itself from Mexico, and organised itself into a republic. The State-Treasurer of Pennsylvania, Mr. J. R. Snowdon, had addressed a circular letter to the col lectors in each county, urging them, in forcible terms, to exertions in order to provide for the payment of the interest on the debt, which falls due in August. He shows that, by vigilance and activity, the interest may be met, and the odium under which the state has so long laboured wiped away. But the New York Courier seems to think that about two-thirds only will be raised in cash, the balance to be paid in checks, redeemable Is fast as money comes into the state treasury. The Repeal Association of Lousiana, following the ex ample of that of Baltimore, had dissolved, in consequence of Mr. O'Connell's " slanders" on the institutions of the United States, The funds had been given to charita ble establishments in New Orleans. The British government, it is alleged, having an eye to the defenceless state of Canada, bad sent out Mr. Tucker, the admiralty builder, on a" tour of military inspection." He bad visited Kingston, and left immediately for To ronto and Niagara. It is said that he will pass rapidly along both shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario, and return to England with all convenient speed. The health of Lord Metcalfe, respecting which great alarm existed a few months back, WAS stationary. The accounts from Canada represent the colony as being in a prosperous state. "The Road to Oregon" is now a standing head in the United States' papers. How well the road is known, and bow great the zeal for traversing it at present, may be inferred from the following, from amonst a number of other paragraphs on the same subject, which we find in the papers before us The independence Mo. Expositor states that a train of 200 waggons left that town recently for Oregon, and others had been departing daily since. The Expositor adds :—` Yesterday 28 more passed this town from the neighbourhood of Fort Madison. lowa Territory. From St. Josephs we learn that 200 waggons have crossed the Missouri at that place and its vicinity, and departed for the same destination. Whilst we write, a friend informs us that fifty more vvaggons are crossing at the lower ferry, and will pass onward to•morrow. As the main company has started at least two weeks earlier than usual, and many intending to emigrate may be diverted from so doing by this fact, we will state that parties will continue to start until June, and that animals, provisions, and everything for complete equipment are to be obtained in abundance, and on the most moderate terms, in this county.' " _ _ The intelligence from Buen s Ayres via New York, confirms that which came to hand at this port on Mon day by a direct arrival, with the following more detailed particulars of the triumph of the Monte Videans : Rivera, on the 27th of March, was completely routed by Urquiza's forces. About 1000 of Rivera's men were killed, and 500 taken prisoners; Rivera himself escaped with only eight men. Admiral Lane, by advice of the French Charge d'Affairs at this place, will now recognize the strict blockade of Monte Video by the Buenos Ayrean squadron." The accounts respecting the new cotton crop are flatter ing. The receipts at the ports had exceeded those of any previous year, and the estimate of 2,500,000 bags will now, it is believed, be under the mark. A serious accident happened a few days ago on the rail road between Vienna and Glocknitz by the explosion of the locomotive, which caused the train to diverge from the rails. Three of the men employed on the train were killed, and two of the passengers were slightly injured. A similar misfortune has happened to Lchzengi, belonging to the Danube Steam Navigation Company, from the bursting of her boilers. The vessel was blown up, but happily no one was seriously hurt. The St. Petersburgh journals of the 31st ult. give an afflicting account of an inundation to the town of Kre mentchoug by the overflowing -of the Dnieper. The in undation commenced on the 2d, and continued increasing till the 9th, when the effects were so terrible that nearly the whole of the inhabitants, 18,000 in number, were compelled to abandon the town, and seek refuge in the neighbouring villages, whose localities were above the reach of the water. Several houses were washed away, and some of the large stone buildings were so injured that they are expected to fill. MANUFACTURE OF COTTONTWIST IN LOWERC ANADA. —The Mon'real Herald lately mentioned the receipt of grey domestic cloth from the Chambly factory, it being the first sample of the results of manufacturing enterprise, as applied to weaving by machinery, in Lower Canada; and since then, another and a similar specimen, in the shape of half a dozen hanks of cotton twist, from the fac tory lately established at Sherbrooke, in the eastern townships, has been inhown. The twist is of superior quality, and can be afforded to the purchaser at a lower rate than the same quality imported either from England or the United States. There is no country in North America better adapted for manufactures than Lower Canada, from the extent of her water power, and the com parative density of her population. PROTESTANT MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. — GATHERING OF THE I.IUGUENOTS.—A new French Pro testant or Huguenot Church has been erectedin Charleston, S. C., for tht. purpose of gathering the lineal descendants of the Huguenots in the vicinity of that city into a con gregation. The church, as we learn by the Charleston Courier, was dedicated on the 11th instant, when a dedi catory sermon w•is preached by Rev. Charles Howard, the pastor. The Courier :says, "the original French Pro testant Church, in which the Hucuenot emigrants wor shipped, Was built on the site of the present edifice, and was burned down in 1740. A new building was erected on the same si.e, and was also destroyed by fire in 1796. A third structure was erected in 1800, but, on the recent determination to revise the old form of worship, (discon tinued since 1826,) the building, being of insufficient size, was taken down, and the present elegant edifice, in the Gothic style of architecture, (which, when finished, will be an ornament,) erected i❑ its place." This Huguenot Church is, we believe,. the only one of the kind in the United States, and will form an important link between Protestantism in France and Protestantism in America. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRBGAND. Dr. Wllale has addressed a long letter to the Premier on the Irish Colleges Bill, which he designates "an infidel, slavish, and demoralizing scheme." THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting was held on Monday, J. T. Devett, Esq., in the chair. Owing to the absence of Me. O'Connell, its Alpha and Omega, the proceedings were flit. The week's rent was an. nounced to be £378. DOUBLE Smell:ie.—An old man, named Mason, formerly gamekeeper on the Irish estates of Lord Clon brock, from which he was dismissed some time since, and his mother-in-law mixed poison in their tea on Saturday last. from the effects of which both the unhappy" persons have since died. Mason's son had been previously ap pointed to the situation held by his father. STATE OF LEITRIM.—Many outrages continue to dis turb the quiet of Leitrim. On Sunday week the rector of keltubrid, when going to perform divine service, was obliged to get the protection of the police to escort him to the church, and hack to his residence. On the previous Saturday, as a party of gentlemen were sitting together in . a house in Ballinamore so m e p ar ty fi re d a b a ll th roug h the window. On the 3rd of June, a man on the lands of Clooncumber found his cow shattered by a gun-wound when about to be milked. A man of the name of Rey nolds was fired at, and one of his fingers shot off, in the street of Mohill, in open day. REPEAL DEMONSTRATION IN CORK.—Mr. O'Connell attended a monster meeting in Cork on Sunday last, which, according to his own account of it, surpassed the recent exhibition in Dublin ; and which, according to some of the repeal papers, was attended by 500,000 peo ple. On Monday he received a deputation, with an ad dress, from the Corporation, and in the evening attended a banquet, at which the Mayor of Cork presided. There were about 600 guests present, many of whom wore the uniform of the 'B2 Club. The speeches were of the usual order, but Mr. O'Connell seems to have excelled himself •in the scornful manner in which he treated measures for which he was so very thankful only the other day, that he called for "three cheers for Sir James Graham." At the Cork banquet he thus alluded to one of them " Look at the proceedings, and trace the progress of the Maynooth bill, a good one in itself, and liberally granted ; but then we did, not ask for it. (Laughter.) They have been de bating with vigour what great things they have been doing for Ireland ; but, like the story of the country girl, when the fellow refused to marry her—' Nobody asked you, Sir,' she said. (Renewed laughter.) Why none of us asked them for anything at all." And, later on, the hon. and learned gentleman declared his intention to vote ra ther for a tory, than for any candidate who was not a re pealer, and urged all his hearers to do the same. Several more intended monster meetings were announced. UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS. CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 13.—At a congregation, just held, the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor of Di vinity—George Preston. Queen's College. Master of Arts—James Hoot Sharpies, St. John's College. Ba chelor of Arts—Edward L'Estrange Dew, 8.A., St. John's College. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Tbe Rev. J. Goodacre, curate of Sheepsherd, near Loughborough, to the vicarage of East Drayton Cummembris, near East Retford, Nottingham.—Rev. C. J. Sympson, to the rectory of Kirby Misperton, Yorkshire.—Rev. W. H. Cartwright, to the rectory of Compton Martin, Somer setshire.—Rev. J. E. Brown, to the living of Cudlcy.— Rev. W. Tucker, M.A., to the rectory of Dunton Wal llet, Essex.—Rev. F. Hose, M.A., to the rectory of Dun stable, Bedfordshire. —Rev. J. Nussey. M.A., to the vicarage of Oundle, Northampton, vacant by the cession of the Rev. C. E. Isham.—Rev. J. Salt, to the rectory of Standon, Stafford, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Walker.—Rev. D. R. Jenkynq, master of Balliol Col lege, Oxford, to the Deanery of the cathedral church of Wells, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough. —Rev. R. Hussey, 8.D., to the perpetual curacy of Binsley, Oxon, vacant by the cession of the R. J. A. Cramer, D.D.—Rev. W. B. Killoch, 8.A., to the rectory of Brougham, Westmoreland, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. G. Elliott.—Rev. G. E. Bruxner, M.A., to the rectory of Thurlaston, Leicester, vacant by the re signation of the Bev. J. Arkwright.—Rev. J. Should ham, M.A„ to the rectory of Woodnorton, with Swan ton Newers, Norfolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. M. Salter.—Rev, R. Buckeridge, to the the Sunday ever - ing lectureship of the parish church of Wakefield.—Rev. W. F. Addison, to the curacy of Woolpit, Suffolk. — Rev. C. Heath, to the curacy of Ninfield, Sussex.—Rev. E. 0. Morgan, to the curacy of Stockwell Chapel, Lam beth, Surrey. Rev. J. H. F. Kendall, to the curacy of Guiseley, Yorkshire.—Rev. J. R. Quirk, to the curacy of Nuneaton, Warwick.—Rev. J. Alport, minister of Ashted, pear Birmingham, to the vicarage af Kimbolton, Hunts, and to be chaplain to the Duke of Manchester. — Rev. J. Stewart, M.A., assistant master in the Kepier Grammar-school, Houghton-le-Spring, to the curacy of Laugham, Suffolk.—Rev. F. J. Manning, M.A. to the curacy at the temporary new church, Hampstead. —Rev. W. Pattison, 8.A., to the rectory of Kirkbempton, Cumberland. Rev. R. Holland, vicar of Spreyton, to the rectory of Hittisleigh, Devon.—R. J. Rowton, M.A., to the chaplaincy of the garrison at Weedon.—Rev. C. A. Hocken, 8.A., to the perpetual curacy of St. Paul, Cbacewater, in the parish of Kenwyn, Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev. D. Jackson.—Rev. R. P. Carew, 8.A., to the vicarage of Rattery, Devon, void by the resignation of the Rev. F. J. Taylor.—Rev. J. Tripp, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of Batonsborough, near Glastonbury, Somersetshire. POPISU PRIVILEGES IN OXFORD.-1n the ancient acts of ordination, the fellows of New College, Oxford ; St. Mary, Winton; and King's College. Cambridge, and no others, are mentioned as possessed of a special privi lege from the Pope, to be ordained by what bishop they pleased • and they are said to be sufficienter dimissi, in virtue of that privilege, and without letters dimissory. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A great effort is about to be made for the relief of the great spiritual destitution in the borough of Southwark and the neighbouring parishes. There has been at least one meeting on the subject at Winchester House. The venerable Primate has entered upon the consideration of the case with due zeal, and has given a subscription of £l,OOO. The Bishop of Win chester subscribes X5OO. The bent of the academic mind at Oxford at the present day is shown by the subjects proposed for the disputation in the Divinity Schools lately, one of them being " Whe ther the doctrine of baptismal regeneration is supported by scriptural authority ;" another, " Whether the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons, have existed in the church from the apostolic age ;" and a third, " Whe ther the place of repentance is to be denied to them that sin after baptism." LAW INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Frederick Peel, second son of Sir R. Peel, Bart., has just entered the Temple as a stu.lent. Mr. CARUS WILSON.—The Court of Exchequer have granted a writ for bringing up Mr. Wilson from the pri son at Jersey. He was, however, unconditionally re leased by the authorities of the island on Wednesday. THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK V. MR. BARNARD GRE GORY, EDITOR OF THE SATIRIST NEWSPAPER.—In the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday last, the defendant in this case was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for libelling the plaintiff in the columns of the Satirist. The Irish Court of Exchequer have decided in 'the case of Malcolmson Brothers v. the Proprietors of the Dublin Warder, that the ca'e had against them should stand. It was an action for libel, and a verdict was given for £5OO, at the last Waterford Assizes. In the action brought by an informer, named Hobbs, against the proprietors of the Globe, to recover penalties to the amount of £3,300, for the publication of certain advertisements respecting foreign lotteries, Mr. Justice Coleridge, in the Bail Court, on Wednesday, decided that the plaintiff should first have given security for the pay ment of the costs in the action. IMPORTANT DECISION.—In the Queen's Bench, Dub lin, last week, it was moved that a peremptory mandamus should go to the visitors, the Primate, and the Arch bishop of Dublin, requiring them to hear Mr. Heron's appeal against the decision of the Provost and Senior Fellows, who had refused him a Scholarship, because he was a Roman Catholic, and would not take the Sacra mental Test. The chief justice gave the unanimous de cision of the court, that the peremptory mandamus should go notwithstanding the return of the visitors. BUSINESS IN THE LAW COURTS.—The business in the Queen's Bench still remains undiminished, there being at present standing for hearing for the sittings after term, which commt.nced on Friday, no less than 138 causes, 103 of which are remanets from the previous sitting, and the remainder new causes : out of these, 68 of which are specialjury cases. The court adjourns to Lon don, on the 29th, so that it is next to impossible that the list can he got through. and those actions which are not decided this silting will remain until November. _ _ MR. WARD'S CASE.—In the Queen's Bench last week a rule was applied for on the part of the Rev. Mr. Ward, calling on the chancellor and masters of Oxford Univer sity, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding them to restore Mr. Ward to his academical degrees, from which he had been removed under circum stances which are well known to the public. The Solici tor-General, who had been retained to show cause against the rule, now advertedito the case, and observed, that as it seemed very unlikely that the Court would decide the case ultimately upon affidavits, it had been considered more desirable by the counsel on the part of the Univer sity that the writ should issue, in order that the whole facts of the case might be stated upon the return, and that materials might thus be furnished for arguing the case in the most solemn manner. Lord Denman assented to this arrangement, and the rule for the mandamus was, there fore, made absolute. IMPORTANT TO INNICEP.PERS.—In the Court of Ex chequer, one day last week, an action was brought by an individual named P.irker to recover compensation from the defendant, who, in the capacity of an innkeeper,' had refused the plaintiff admission into his house. It appeared tbat the plaintiff, who is an attorney - at Loughborough, had driven into the ion-yard of the defendant who keeps the Chesterfield Arms at Bingham, where he was refused admission, notwithstand;ng an intimation that the refusal would subject the defendant to an action. The denial of admission was, however, persisted in. Baron Parke, in leaving the case to the jury, said that it was necessary innkeepers should be aware of the way in which they were affected by the laws respecting their vocation. The pre sent case was without doubt against the defendant, but it would be for the jury, under the circumstances, to give such a moderate amount of damages as should be suffici ent to teach him that a different line of conduct must be pursued on another occasion. The jury returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—damages Ma. SPO ft TING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT RACES. The sports at Ascot have continued since Tuesday, and undoubtedly there has been a week of the most splendid racing which could possibly occur. We subjoin the result of those events which more than many others that have been decided are of a national character. The GOLD VASE given by her Majesty, added to a Sweep stakes of 20 sous each : Mr A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat, 7st 81b, .. . .. 1 Mr A. W. Hill's The Libel, 3 yrs, 7st 3Ib, Woodpigeon, Zanoni, and Fuzbos also started. Alice Hawthorn and Foigh•a-Ballagh were declared not to start before the first race. The ROYAL HUNT Cur, value 200 soya with 100 added. New mile. 54 subs. Lord Stradbroke's b c E venus , 5 yrs, Bst, .. Mr Thompson's hr g Mongrel, 3 yrs, sst 71b, 2 Mr Payne's b f Queen Mah, 6 yrs Bst 71b, . . 3 The EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S CUP, of 500 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each. Lord Almermarle's The Emperor ...... .... Mr Irwin's Foigh.a-Ballagh, . .. Mr Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, Lord George Bentinck's C0w1,.... • No others started. THE BENTINCK TPSTIMONTAL.—The amount collected (X 2000) for the testimonial to Lord George Bentinck is to be applied to some public institution, with a view to secure, in perpetuity, to a certain number of the children of deserving trainers and jockeys support and education from infancy until they shall arrive at an age to seek their own living. The celebrated steeple-chaser Discount was sold on Monday last, at Tattersall's, for 820 guineas. At a meeting of the Jockey Club, on Saturday week, it was proposed, and unanimously resolved, that, if a horse shall fraudulently run, or be entered to run, for any race by a false description as to age or pedigree, such horse shall be for ever disqualified running in any race whatever. It was also resolved, that the sixth resolution, passed on the 17th of June, 1844, shall apply to the owners, trainers, &c., of horses which are brought to run and are disquali fied on account of age, as well as to those which actually run. FURTHER DISCLOSURES ON THE TURF. A very numerous meeting of the members of the Jockey Club took place at their rooms in Old Burlington -street on Saturday, the 7th, for the purpose of taking into con sideration a statement submitted to them by Mr. Etwall, an influential proprietor of racehorses. This statement, it is now urderstood, involved a communication made to Mr. Etwall, in the year 1840, by John Day, jun., the jockey, by which it was imputed that a gentleman very well known in the betting circles had gone down to Win chester in disguise, and had there offered him the sum of £lOOO to " pull" the Melody colt, the property of Mr. Etwall, then training in his father's stables, and which, in all probability, he would be called upon to ride in the forthcoming race for the Derby. This communication was made under the seal of secrecy, and it would seem that Mr. Etwall took no further notice of the circumstance until immediately after the late Epsom meeting, when, by some means, it oozed out that young John Day had divulged the circumstance to some other person. Lord George Bentinck, to whose knowledge the affair came, in an interview with Mr. Etwall, asked him whether there was any truth in the story told ? -Mr. Et wall, in reply, it is stated, declared that he had no inten tion of referring to the subject, but that as a disclosure bad been made to others, he had no difficulty in explaining what had actually taken place as far as he was personally concerned, and we believe be then described that which John Day had stated to him. As such a disclosure neces sarily involved the character of the party alluded to (who is a member of the Jockey Club-rooms at Newmarket), as.well. as the veracity of John Day, it was deemed ex pedient that the matter should be taken up by the Jockey Club, and op Saturday week, as already stated, Mr. Etwall appeared before that body and made his state ment. The matttr was at once communicated to the gentleman most interested in the inquiry, and he promptly expressed a desire to meet the ac,:usation as quickly as possible. The witnesses summoned were Mr. Gully,Mr. Wrefurd, John Day, gen., and John Day, jun. The inquiry was private. Mr. Etwall having made his statement, Mr. Gully, Mr. Wreford, and the two Days were examined. The witnesses were then withdrawn, and the accused sub mitted his counter-statement, accompanied by letters written to him by young John Day. This led to the fa ther and son being recalled, and again undergoing exami nation. The investigation being thus concluded, the club proceeded to consider the facts before them. Of the na ture of those facts we are ignorant; but, upon the con clusion of the inquiry, which lasted from one till half-past six, we understand that the result was " a complete and unequivocal exoneration of the gentleman against whom the foul charge already referred to had been made." The members of tile club have adjourned to Tuesday next, (this day,) when they meet to consider the whole of the case, and to consider in what form their sentence shall be pronounced.—Observer. GENERAL MISCELLANY. • A steamer on a novel principle, having a double stem and bows, was launched at Blackwall, on Tuesday. A young gentleman called at the Post-office in Lough borough, last week, to buy a " stamped antelope 1" THE LAWYER'S FIRST BRIEF.—" Thoq great first cause, least understood." So says Horace Twiss. Moore, the poet, is about to write the biography of his facetious friend, the late Rev. Sydney Smith. So numerous have been the accidents on the wood pavement in the Strand, London, that the paving com missioners have given orders to have it taken up. A man named John Graham is now in custody in Car lisle gaol, on the charge of poisoning his aged father and his wife. • Th , 3 Kentish Observer states, that a dragoon officer committed suicide the other day in consequence of losses un the Derby. The Marqu's of Westminster, it is said, has purchased the celebrated Fonthill est a te, formerly the property of Mr. Beckford. Richard Christopher, an old man of seventy-five, has been held to bail at Abergavenny, for a manslaughter committed twenty years ago. The proxies of Lord Enniskillen, Skelmersdale, and Mayo, were entered to be given against the Maynooth bill. By some accident they were not given. A steam-packet which arrived at Hull from Rotterdam, on Saturday, brought 71 live oxen, 1,000 fowls, and 30 baskets of cucumbers ;And fruit. The Builder states that the project to throw a tube of sheet-iron across the Menai Straits has been abandoned. Two strong bridges are to be built instead. On Tuesday, there was a sale of 2,000 pine apples in London, which had been brought over by the Trent steamer from Nassau, in the Bahamas, in excellent con dition. They sold from 2s. to ss. each. On Monday evening John Hickman, aged 28, who had been for some time past. employed as a scene-shifter at the Theatre Itoyul Birmingham, was killed on the stage by the falling of the scene-roller. An antidote for arsenic has been discovered by Dr. Bun sen in the hydrated peroxide of iron—a simple prepara tion, and one which ought to have a place on the shelves of every druggist in the kingdom. Prince Henry, third son of William 11., King of Hol land, nrrived in Leith Roads, on Thursday week, in a frigate of sixty-eight guns, and spent three or four days in inspecting Auld Reekie. A HOPEFUL FAMILY.—When Mr. Byng read in a pa per the other day that he was ". the father of the House of Commons," he remarked to a friend that he felt greatly ashamed of most of his sons. Major Hamilton, of the 13th Light Dragoons, cut his throat last week, at Maryboroueh, but not mortally. He has only just attained his majority. No cause is assigned for the rash act. Mr. Setim, who fell in the late duel at Gosport, was buried at Fordiogbridge, on Tuesday. The hearse and four mourning coaches were joined by the neighbouring gentry in ten private carriages. An innkeeper of Carmarthen lost a dog in this town in November, 1843. since which period be heard no tidings . of the animal until Sunday evening week, when it made its appearance at the door of its former owner. A seizure of almost unequalled magnitude has, within the last few days, been made by the officers of Excise, on the premises of one of the largest tobacco manufacturers at the east end of London. The Ewart Rock, so long a dangerous impediment to vessels navigating the Solway Frith, has been b own to pieces with gunpowder, by the direction of the trustees of Mary port Harbour. To-morrow will be the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo ; Friday next the anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne in 1837 ; and Saturday, the 28th instant, the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation in 1838. RUSSIAN STATISTICS —According to the last census of the population of Russia, the Serfs amounted to 42,000,000, 15,000,000 of whom belonged to the crown, and 27,000,000 of private individuals. The entire popula tion of the empire exceed& 53,000,000 of souls. -- --- On Monday the Queen and Prince Albert proceeded to Windsor, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Ne mours, the Prince of Leningen, and the usual suite. On Tuesday and Thursday the royal party and their guests drove to Ascot to witness the races. On Saturday her Majesty returned t, town. It appears to be in contemplation to bring glass into use for the roofing of houses. This roofing wilt be much lighter than tiles or slates, and if it be extended into the country, the poor will be enabled to partake-of the luxury of a bunch of grapes grown under the roofs of their own humble cottages. PRICE OF BREAD.—The bakers of this town last week reduced the price of the 41b. loaf to fourpence-halfpenny, and the best seconds is brought into the town at four pence! This is "cheap bread" with a vengeance I No body but the farmer has a right now to complain of the price of bread.—Exeter Gazette. TRINITY COLLEGE v. MAYNOOTH.—A meeting of electors of Trinity College, Dublin, was held at the resi dence of Archdeacon Magee on Saturday last, when a re solution was adopted to address her Majesty, praying her to dissolve parliament before giving her royal assent to the endowment of Maynooth. A MORAL SIGN.—In Worsborough Dale, near Barns ley, an innkeeper has so contrived his signboard, that by pulling a string, another board, quite plain, falls directly over the old one, thereby o b s c ur i ng the landlord's name, and the rest of the writing. This he does every Sunday, by which means his house looks quite private. Vidocq, the celebrated French thief-taker, has opened an exhibition in London, at which he personally shows to visitors various implements of torture, manacles, &c., which he was wont to use in the coercion of criminals, the disguises which he used to wear to compass their cap ture, &c. IMPORTANT TO ANGLERS.—By the new Fishery Act, all rivers in England and Wales are to be closed on the 13th of September in each year, and any person catching or having in his possession any trout measuring in length less than seven inches from eye to fork will subject himself to a penalty. It is rumoured that Mr. Milnes Gaskell, now a Lord of the Treasury, will be made Secretary to the Board of Control, in the place of Mr. Emerson Tennent, who goes out to be Colonial Secretary in Ceylon ; and that Sir Charles Douglas, M.P., for Warwick, will succeed Mr. Milnes Gaskell. Let the electors of Warwick be on the look-out. For some time past the copper coinage of William IV. has been eagerly purchased by persons who are stated to be Jews. and a report has, in consequence, gained ground that gold is contained in it. Whether this be so or not, it is a well-known fact that agents have been at work for the last two months buying up those particular coins in West minster, and they now fetch double the legal value.-- VERY NEAR THE FAG-END OF IT.—On Saturday week, in the afternoon, a singular scene presented itself in Osborne-street, opposite to the Masonic Lodge, Hull, where, for a considerable time, to the tune of a fife and a penny jew's-hap, six sweeps, in all the dignity of soot and bare-feet, danced the Polka, to the great amusement of the numerous bystanders. NARROW ESCAPE.—Un Wednesday, during a sale by auction of machinery, &c., in Dixon Mill, Yeadon, the second floor, on which the company were assembled, gave way, and upwards of 50 persons were precipitated into the room b low, along with a great quantity of heavy pieces of wood and other weighty property ; but, as tonishing to say, not one was seriously injured.—Halifax Paper. An electrical gun is now astonishing the Cockneys by displays of its destroying power. The bullets used are calculated to kill at the distance of a statute mile; they pass freely through a three inch plank, which, in volley firing, is torn to atoms by their force; but if discharged against an iron target, they are dashed to pieces; if into a solid log of wood, are often found welded together, ap pearing to be united by a semifusion. In the course of a recent examination of Mr. Brunel, before a parliamentary committee, that gentleman stated that, notwithstanding the increased speed of the new fast trains, "the maximum rate of speed on the Great West ern line is not yet attained; it will be much greater." And Mr. Gooch, of the locomotive department, stated that last Saturday week, in a train of 63 tons, he went at a speed of 65 miles an hour. Dr. WOLFF.—At the last meeting Of the Royal Geo graphical Society, Captain Grover exhibited a very curi ous picturesque delineation of Dr. Wolff's route from Bokhara to Mesched, executed by a Persian who accom panied the Doctor, and who has written a history of the journey, which is now being translated. Dr. Wolff is now labouring under severe disease, which he took at Bokhara, and the consequences of which are greatly to be dreaded. NOVEL OPERATION.—An ancient prediction is fulfilled, and the plough is, in very truth, passing over the streets of the royal burgh of Peeble, in North Britain. The streets having required to be lowered and repaved, a strong plough has been employed to tear up the old cause way and subsoil; and, so effectually has this been per formed, that, by one or two days' operations of a man and a pair of horses, the labour of many men for a week or more has been spared. The hint is worthy of the notice of railway excavators. DEATH FROM THE USE OF LEADEN PIPES.—An in quest has been holden on Friday at Malvern Wells, on the body of an agricultural labourer named Wilkins, who came by his death from having drunk a quantity of cider (the common drink of agricultural labourers in that dis trict), which had been conveyed in leaden pipes from the cider-house to the place where it gas drawn for• use. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from apoplexy, drawn on by drinking the impreg nated cider. June 17,_1S t . ° THE DUEL A T P ORTSMOUTFI .—It i s said that 'den Ai to prove the p rovoca ti on to th e un f ortuna t e d u el, wil t ' t is to be br oug ht f orwar d b y Li eutenant H aw k ey 's frien: h has produced such lamentable results, and that Lieut en * Hawkey will s urren d er hi mse lf, at t h e t erm i n ation of inquiry, to abide the consequences. Dr.S tt L P y P o L n Y p o y W ra r T , E that—ilnt appears a from t p b e e r e e e v D i d e c o ati ( houses are supplied with water ; in Preston. 50i, Manchester, 52 ; i n B ur y, 56 ; i n Oldh am , 68 ; it Ashton-under-Lyne, which is " the cheapest and " supplied town in Lancashire," 93 per cent. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday vain!, last, a shocki ng ca t astrop h e occurre d on t h e r i ve r Du i , went, within a f ew h un d re d yar d s o f D er b y, b y which ta t following individuals (the average age of whom was , 111 1. twenty years,) met w i t h a wa t ery grave : —G eor ge Dr` b , bury, of Willow-row, son of the late librarian of t Derby Mechanics' Institution ; John Keys, Eliza M ire d' ham, and Emma Bradderley. It appears that the decease d Bradbury had got a boat on Tuesday night, and with the other three deceased persons went on the river. From t he circumstance of the bodies being found near to t h e landing -place, it is conjectured that the parties were in ant of landing-, when the boat overbalanced, and prec l P l tated them into/he water. EXTRAORDINARY LADY'S BUSTLE.—On Mondayl a , Caroline George. servan t t o a m illi ner o f t hi s c ity, 1 7f committed for trial on a c h arge o f s t ea li ng fi ve yards ribbon, a handkerchief, a thimble, and other articles, the property of her mistress. These things were found in 11 : prisoner's box ; but on her arrival at the station-ha s ': another and somewhat novel receptacle for miscellan eou goods was disco vere d. Sh e was subjected to the us u al search by the daughter of the superintendent, who ~,rem arked that he r " b ust l e " was rather b a lk y, an d on 11 : being cut open, in addition to the usual contents of the!: articles of a lady' s d ress , th ere were t wo pieces of sib' two pieces of silk ve l ve t, an d n i ne piece s of ribbon." Somerset Herald. EXTRAORDINARY DELUSIONS.—On Tuesday a Con' mission of Lunacy was held at the Crown Inn, Hockerilst near Bishop's Stortford, to inquire into the state of Win of Mr. John Tucker, aged 65, a nurseryman and t. in n keeper, Bishop's Stortford. The unfortunate man, (" 0 was brought into the room) said he had got several (O a in his inside, who were complete masters over him, ° I that unless he did whatever they wished, his death woul d be consequence. They also had got five machines, whic h they set to work at one time, so that he was afraid 0 " violence of the motion would shatter him to Piece's' They would not allow him to move without paYi"',..l enormous sum, and f o r wa lki ng to t h e i nqu i ry they%-ho charged him three th ousan d tr illi ons for every ste p - took ! -A frightful explosion took place on Monday last, at the shop of Mr. Steele, Claypath, Durham. It appears that Mr. Steele dealt in gunpowder for the purpose of suppir ing the pitmen for blasting ; and one of his apprentice s ' having a lighted candle in his hand, went into the cellar where the powder was. It is supposed (for the boy vr 3 l deprived of his senses, and is since dead) that a spark h" fallen from the candle, and caused the explosion. T. e front of the house was completely blown out ; and cat; derable damage was done t o th e a dj o i n i ng an d oinics i ,, shops and houses ; the g l ass an d woo d wor k o f man y oft if„ windows being broken. Miss Robson, who was lying on the premises, received considerable iiijury, togelb s _ with two or three oth er p eop l e , w h o were pass i ng at tag time the•explosion took place. SIR HENRY POTT INGER ON C HINA .—At a d i nne r o f the merchant tailors of London, on Wednesday, Sir Pi Pottinger said he h a d many f r i en d s i n Chi na, b o th officia l and otherwise, from whom he rejoiced to say he ha l re:: ceived assurances that everything was going on as well ay could possibly be expected in that country. Th e trad, was flourishing, and th e em p eror hi mse lf bad adoattr t the free circulation of b oo k s on Ch r i s ti an i ty . Th ey tang' , the people virtue, a n d th ere f ore th e emperor sa id . th e y should not be prohibited, as heretofore. This was a verf important fact. He had also lately received a very traordinary paper—an edict, signed by the Governor o f Shanghai, calling on the people to cultivate the mulberrf tree. [lt will be see n f rom our P ar l iamentary sum mery that the Queen has recomm en d e d an annu i ty to b e gr anted to Sir Henry of £l5OO per annum.] THE GAME LAws.--The following is an abstract of Lord Dacre's Bill. " for the further amendment of the laws in England relative to game." According theretoe no person is to sell game except a licensed dealer in gam e ' &c., but occupiers of land need not take out certifivare s : Dealers in ga me are t o k eep a b oo k , enter i ng t h e n ame' of sellers thereof, the description of game sold to them' &c.; and such book is to be open to inspection at WO' time by justices of the peace, or persons having their '. 0 " . ": rant. Persons in possession of game are to account fur it, and also f or th e p ossess i on o f snares . D amage don e by game is to be apportioned among the neighbouri n g proprietors, the amount being assessed at petty session . ': power of appeal being given to quarter sessions. Provisions of the former oct, as regards all penalties an forfeitures, are proposed to be extended to this act.* DEATH BY EXPERIMENTAL HANGING.—Last week. a young man was found han g i n g i n a s t a bl e a t B-tht i n t . Green, suspended to a rafter by a horse' s b e llyband. r" was taken down, but was qu'te dead. He had been a schoolfellow and an acquaintance of James Tapping , whc i was lately hanged at the Old Bailey, for the m urder f i Emma Whiter. He went t o see hi m execu t e d, but /I ` l ,, never made any allusion to the oc cu r rence . Since tha l, time be bad often amused himself by placing a hand diief round the neck of young children, and nOd r a" them to make a noise " cluck, cluck," as if they we r g hanging. About a week since a brother of deceased ha di-covered him suspended by the same strap, as if" were trying an experiment. All the witnesses at the 1 7; quest deposed to an opi n ion th a t d ecease d was mere.' trying an experiment of the sensation produced by Ilang . ing, and that unfortunately it had terminated fatally. THE SUGAR TRADE. — The new sugar duties, helped the great increase in the supply of sugar, are working es,: ceedingly well. According t o a t a bl e i n th e Econornis , the importation of West India, East India, anti Matllititis sugar, to the 29th May in the present year, is 71,510 tons , against 43,540 tons to the same date last rear; the qua d [ tity on which duty bas b een p a id i s 62,285 t on e, egs'"4 42,072 tons; and the s t oc k on h an d 30 , 389 t ons aga'. 17,874. The quantity o f f ore i gn. f ree sugar i m ported year is 4,242, and the stock on hand 5,672 tons. Conalci derable specime n s of f ree -l a b our sugar h ave b een receire from Manilla, China, Siam, and Java, and a small Va ll i.- tity of slave grown su gar f rom V enezue l a . Th e price of very fair sugar bein g now f rom sd . t o Cd. per lb. ther e will no doubt be an increased consumption of it for pre serving purposes during th e f ru it season . Thi s i s alscaY found to be the case when sugar can be bought at or un der 61 the pound. Upon referring to the history of the passing of the 11 ,°:, man Catholic bill of 1829, we fi n d th a t i t was carried 1 " larger majorities in the Com m o ns , an d sma ller in t he Lords, than the Maynooth bill. Upon the introductie° of the mea-ure by Sir Robert Peel, the numbers were For going into committee, 348 ; against it, 160 ; 188. For the second reading, 353; against it, 173; jority, 180. For the third reading, 320; against it 14 2 ; majority, 178. In the House'of Lords the divisions w,,., e , as follow :—For the second reading, 217; against it, majority, 105. For the third reading, 213; against 109 ; majority, 104. Thus it will be seen that the %vitt. creations since 1830 have increased the pro-Catholic otato jority in the upper house, and enabled the ministri C d r carry the Maynooth, or any other measure of that lo tie in defiance of the old tory party. So anxious was t g minister of the day to press the bill of 1829, that it on only five weeks in progress : the bill was introduce d ° he . March 5, in the House of Commons, and passed by t" House of Lords on April 10. ELOPEMENT.—Miss Wilkinson, daughter of Mr. , kinson, of Sudbury, was recently on a visit to the h e y ' t . Joseph Fenn, at Blackheath, one of her guardians 10" in".., the Court of Chancery. The young lady is of wea k t he tellect. She possesses property in her own right to Lo a amount of £6,000. Her father, a few years since, i5%, 5 . a commission of lunacy against her, which was stle c T,er fully resisted, she proving cruel treatment by b o th " majoritYt father and step-mother. On Saturday, the 24th ultiruel; ufa her uup sonentcdohtiunoes induced sign ne dn.Mdt the under Watts dteor mp register, re Wilkinson, tret ynh pretence hetrot f, w taaasyk al l eging,t: bn u yg th hhe a e b rwr o fht u aeot t nh 2 veei l rbs et ec t i old, son of the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, of Sudbury, e al 'et e ders. The bridegroom took the ring from her finger 1 ,!•, r ., left her with her aunt, to whom she related all the v' m a cumstances, and the aunt restored her the same afrerne in to the care of her guardian, Mr. Fenn. P r oceedinVoa the Ecclesiastical Cou r t are b e i ng t a k en by the 0" 16- to annul the marriage. e r THE ARCTIC EX PED I TI ON.—The screw -p r - , day, steam-sloop Rattler arrived at Sheerness on Moi' bu s from the Orkney Islands, after having towed the Fr i e n de and the Terror to Cape W ra th, an d th ence to the ever Barra and Rona, situated 60 miles N.W. of the Orke lie it where the ships comp os i ng th e arc ti c pe diti o n took t t he final departure about noon, on th e 4 th instant, under rof auspices of a favorable breeze. The Erebus and 're t r ial° were, on several occasions, both taken in tow at oee, no ti by the Rattler, and in calm weather a speed of 6i irr it t b was shown, by Massey's log on board each ship. I ' l waS strong breeze ahead, and considerable sea, the rat e t t he never less than four knots ; but the greatest feat th at for screw has yet performed in exhibiting its capabilitie,o6 tugging purposes, was that of towing both vessels (1 4 t ' Ir tls combined tonnage is nearly 700 tons) through th e ran' of Pentland, and thence to Cape N 4 ratb, which was the dered more difficult by swell then setting in fr. nu ° ° .. i o ch Western Ocean, and the consequent breaking of g t bese, hawsers, which were used ; at times, even too e' ea° immense ropes were insufficient to hold the Erebus her consort. • P l ' PAUPERISM.—The number of persons relieved ' fl i gklf gland alone, in the three months ending Lady-dal' a bod t amounted to nearly a million and a half, and we re a as' 9* per cent of the entir e popul a tio n . Of the milli° eat a half thus relieved, a large proportion were Per e ' t bre e paupers ; but the number of new cases in the othe.r , quarters may be safely estimated at half a mill ;id that the number of persons relieved in Englan b 5 Wales in the course of the parochial year 184 1 of lthe taken at about two millions, or nearly an e ightl o i 0 actual population 1 In other words, about one pa rs f r os; eight, through the entire population, received relle,',./.01. the poor rates at some time during that year. 011,41.1,04, y, ' paupers relieved in the quarter ending Lady-de s 3 the number relieved in the workhouse was 230.8046,14 the number who received out-door relief ass 1 100 56 that is to say, those who w e re relieved in the w° ;,, ur er were 16 per cent.; or, In other words. those / s " oe ive, relieved in the w o rkh ouse were to those alto out-door relief about one to five. The coron t : es se' further state that the total amount of the local. tai e 0 e sei nually levied and expended in England and W s . c ea not, upon the most moderate !computation, be P'" a less amount than £10,000,000. tael co n Ve and