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Varliamentarp prorteliings. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY The select committee on the Great Yarmouth Election reported that Lord A. Lennox and 0. E. Coope, Esq., had not been duly elected for that borough—that bribery (of which t seated members were not conscious), had been practised at the late and preceding elections, and that in the opinion of the Committee the place ought to be di-f: A new writ was ordered for Waterford in the room of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, resigned. In reply to Mr. Horsman, Lord JOHN RUSSELL inti mated that it was intended to make some alteration with reference to the revenues of the Archbishopric of Canter bury, and that whoever accepted the appointment must do so subject to any changes effected by Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS TUESDAY The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from the clergymen of the county of Buckingham, praying for the repeal of so much of the statute of Henry VIII. as ren ders deans and chapters and bishops liable to the penalties of a pramunire. He agreed in the prayer of the petition, but only so far as placing a wholesome check on the ex ercise of the undoubted prerogative of the Crown to nominate bishops. That was not, however, the object of the petition, which only sought to get rid of the monstrous and oppressive tyranny inflicted by the act referred to. He willingly assented to the doctrine that the appoint ment to a bishopric was the prerogative of the Crown, but still it was right that there should be some safeguard that no man of unsound divinity, of immoral character, or who was disqualified by the canons of the Church, should be forced upon them. He stated this upon broad principles of what was right, but still he could not help referring to the case of Dr. Hampden as an illustration of his position. In that case no decision had been come to in our courts of law, and it was, therefore, doubtful if at the present moment the Bishop of Hereford was really legally appointed. Under the existing system, even if he were a grossly. immoral man, the deans and chapters were bound to confirm his appointment under the penalties of a Rnemunire. _ _ The LORD CHANCELLOR said' that the power of ap pointment was really vested in the Crown, and he feared it was wished to sanction the interference of some other ecclesiastical authority. It might be thought right to make some alteration in the mere forms of the election of a bishop ; but whatever change they might make in that respect, he hoped they would never interfere with the power exercised hitherto as the unquestioned prero .. The Bishop 05 UIIiChESTEn thought that if they gave effect to the views of the noble and learned lord, they must be prepared for a crisis in the Church which they did not at present appear to contemplate. Lord DENMAN said that no case had ever come before him to which he had devoted so much time and such was not f He believ learned 1 Lord ( in the le and It he f giving t 1 iad erred in his judgment it Lbject due consideration. ven by himself and his advantageous to the ig a termination to those painful pro hose opinions had been more in coinci- the judg me. islating upon it were reqr bishops, 1 Erie was more power he cou The the right rev. prelate. thought there were sufficient guards em to prevent the necessity of their op of ST. DAVID'S agreed that some than attending the consecration of s intended to endeavour to have the .t to such a proposition :TER, in reply, id that the Crown Archbishop of _Canterbury and the ould,in their respective provinces; g if they Lola be consecrated before also p] 1 charge was proved pointed. He, would ight of appeal to a e should b, ie hoped, would .e of cases of e )ng be appointed to Istieal heresy. His wer—not even that m upon the ele was then laid up, IOUSE OF COMMONS.-' tor cop or extracts of corre- !ct of the commercial league in principles of serting court, I take cc spondenc Italy, wh free trade the err s the result of t our of the ltaliin chanu er once more The Duke of Wellington and Lord Stanley said that though they wished some amendments in the bill, they would not oppose it going into Committee. The Duke of Newcastle then withdrew his amendment, and the bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS, •TH URSD AY Mr. P. SCROPE gave notice of a bill relative to small tenements Mr. BRIGHT gave notice that, on the 2d of March, he would ask leave to bring in a bill to amend the game laws. Mr. HERRIES, having presented a petition from the principal bankers, merchants, and traders in Liverpool, praying for the suspension of the Bank Charter Act, moved a resolution to the effect—" That, looking to the state of distress which has for some time prevailed among the commercial classes, and to the general feeling of dis trust and alarm by which the embarrassments of trade have been aggravated, it is the opinion of this house that her Majesty's ministers were justified, during the recess of parliament, in recommending to the Bank of England, for the purpose of restoring confidence, a course of pro ceeding at variance with the restrictions imposed by the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 32." The right hon. gentleman said that if that resolution were agreed to, he would then pro pose that the house resolve itself into a committee of the whole house to consider the following resolution :—" That it is expedient that the limitations imposed by the act 7th and Bth Vic., c. 32, upon the Bank of England, in rela tion to the issue of notes payable on demand, be sus pended, subject to such conditions as may be provided by any act to be passed for that purpose." The right hon ' Ito ' gentleman proceeded to give a description of 3e melan choly state to which the commerce and trade of this country were reduced by the operation of the act of 1844, and to contend that the government were fully warranted in giving, and indeed were compelled to give, to the bank authority to suspend that act. Notwithstanding this, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had come down in hot haste, at the meeting of parliament, to propose the ap pointment of a committee of inquiry, the object of which was to stifle discussion on the subject. The evils suffered by the country had been attributed to the conduct of the directors of the Bank of England, but no skill on the part of these gentlemen could have prevented the crisis that had occurred, which would be attributed to the ope ration of the Bank Act alone. T' Pvil principle ae evil principle was inherent in the act itself, and therefore the house would - 'nly be fully justified in suspending it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that he had attempted to stifle discussion, or that his motion for a committee of inquiry had any such motive. He argued that, instead of moving for the suspension of the act, Mr. Herriee ought to have moved for its repeal. To suspend the act while the committee was sitting would be to de cide first and hear the fact afterwards. He could not oppose the first resolution, but he would oppose the going into committee. Alderman THOMPSON' said that, although the bank was now in a satisfactory state, there was no sufficient security against a recurrence of the difficulties which had lately occurred. The mercantile community could not stand up against the continuation, in 1848, of the pressure which weighed them down in 1847, nor was it reasonable to ask them to wait till the report of the committee. Mr. W. BROWN considered that the Bank Act had totally failed on the first occasion on which it had been ginally caused by tl' tale r o t the attend a bill to amen( His bill consis rants in t changes it Irish membe On ti as the moved that it of the safety of his Majesty's royal person and govern- no more than justice to are who, however wronged, ment, the safety of the established religion, the security always scorned to defend -himself. The noble lord then of the ancient rights and privileges and peace of the proceeded to state all that had been done in the way of kingdom, &c., would have, of necessity, to be repealed. increasing our establishments since the year 1835, hi order The Bishop of St. DAVIDS contended that the bill to show that neither the Government nor Parliament had would only make that open and honourable which was been negligent. The late Government had organized the now continually done, but not in a plain and honourable old pensioners to the number of 50,000 men, at all times manner. A political necessity for its passing had been available, and in addition to these they had the dockyard shown, and therefore he supported the bill. The right battallions and the coast guard, to which were attached a rev. prelate paid a tribute to the character and ability of supplemental force of 6000 men. In addition to all these, the present pope, and defended the use of the style the regular force of the country, amounting to 55,000 men " Sovereign Pontiff" as perfectly innocent. in this country, would be increased to 60,000, by the The Bishop of EXETER heard for the first, and for, he return of some regiments from India. The question then hoped, the last time, a British Prelate designated the style arose as to whether they should make a great reduction " Sovereign Pontiff," as applied to the Pope, innocent. in this force or largely increase it, or continue it, adding to He emphatically denied it. The assertion was absolutely its present strength from time to time as they had hitherto contradictory to the Canon Law. The noble marquis had done and as occasion might require, and be satisfied with failed to show that there was a reasonable doubt of the those additions. The view of the Government was that this law, and should they say that the law permitted the great country, with its extensive colonies, and exposed to carrying on of diplomatic relations with Rome, then the the possibility of war, would not act wisely in reducing Ministers should on their own responsibility advise her the expenditure of the country within the limit of its Majesty accordingly. The right reverend prelate saw a income. On the other hand, he could see no reason for very marked distinction between having an agent at the any sudden armament of any kind, because at the present Court of Rome and receiving a Nuncio here. A Nuncio moment the nation was in a fit state of defence, and in a in England ! He shuddered at the thought of seeing position calculated to guarantee the continuance of peace. Rome again raising her scarlet head in England. The noble lord then entered into a statement of our naval strength, particularly in steam, and remarked that, al though the adoption of steam navigation gave greater faci lities for the invasion of this country, it also gave to this country greater advantages in watching the ports of its enemies. He did not propose any increase to the number of the army, but in the sappers and miners an increase would take place, the result of which, including stores, &c., would swell the estimate by the sum of £358,000. He proposed also to bring in a bill to embody the militia, or rather to lay a foundation for an efficient militia, the expense of which would be £150,000. In addition to the usual sources of expenditure, was a sum of £1,100,000 " for the Kaffir war, and all added together, he would not estimate the expenditure of the coming year at less than £54,596,000. It was evident, therefore, that if the government was right in its view of the impolicy of reducing largely the establishments of the country, they must not only renew the income tax, but they must also resort to additional taxation, to make up the deficiency of income to meet the expenditure. Any at tempt to raise revenue by re-imposing the taxes taken off articles of consumption, would be, in his opinion, very unwise. The government, therefore, proposed to renew the present income tax for a period of five years from next April, and in addition that the tax should be raised for a period of two years from 7d. in the pound to 12d., or from 3 to 5 per cent. Considering the distress which had recently prevailed in Ireland, he did not propose to raise the tax to that country. He did not think this unjust to England, for if Ireland were crushed by a weight of tax ation the result to England would be almost equally de plorable. He proposed the tax should be imposed in the same manner as it had been in past years, and on the same principles which governed its application in the days of Pitt and Grenville. There was one tax which it was pro posed to repeal—a tax on copper ore, which had been im posed in 1842. That tax had done much injury to the smelters, and had been of no benefit to the owners of copper mines, and as it produced only £41,000, it was thought advisable to propose its abolition. The total in come, including the increased income tax, would be, according to his esti ma t e , £54 , 750 , 000 , w hil e the expen diture would be £54,637,000 , l eav i ng a surplus of £113,000 (a lau g h.) Th e no bl e l or d conc l u d e d by moving a series of res o l u ti ons , i n accor d ance w i t h hi s s peech, and intimated that on Monday, the 28th, he would again move for a committee of ways and means, in order to take the sense of the house upon'them. Mr. DISRAELI referred to the promises made when first the income tax was resorted to. and said, that instead of finding it a temporary tax, in'aTc 7 cordance with those pro mises, it was now to be made not only perpetual but largely increased in amount. . Mr: COBDEN contended, that instead of levying an income tax they should reduce their expenditure to what it was in 1835. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, to sit again and obtained leave 4ND CLERICAL_ NEWS, Dr. Hampden will now have a seat in the House of the future Bishop of Chester being the junior Lords, prelate The Archbishop of Canterbury's grandfather was a Manchester tradesman, and his father received his edu cation at the Manchester Free Grammar School. WESLEYANS BOUND TO UNITE WITH THE CHURCH.— Nippteen years ago, we considered this question in our 'le Methodists fter a long and fined. nem. con., that it was blic conferenCe 'at Leeds—whether. e motion I candid inc I LAN gu utw winunuee to consuier tne resolution to s the act of 1844, the house di v id e d—Fo r Mr. Herries motion, 122 ; against it, 163 ; majority against the mo tion, 41. HOUS OF LORDS. The bill for opening diplomatic relations with Rome passed through committee. In the course of the debate the amendment of the Duke of Wellington, substituting the title " Sovereign of the Roman States " for that of " Sovereign Pontiff," was adopted by Lord Lansdowne, and agreed to. A smart discussion then arose on theamendment pro posed by the Earl of Eglintoun, prohibiting the reception if any ecclesiastic as the accredited minister of the Pope -FRIDAY in this countr The Marquis of T.A.NSDOWNE thought that the right to refuse any minister who blight be distant:4M tome crown, ought to be left in the case of the Pope, as in that of any other foreign sovereign, to her Majesty and the govern ment. The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the amendment could not be rejected without incurring the danger of grave con- Vuncio in this cOuntr Lord STANLEY deemed it highfy important that the amendment should be carried. While he had no objec tion to seeing England properly represented at Rome, he could never sanction the transplanting of the Vatican to London. The result of the division which took place was unfa vourable to her Majesty's ministers, the numbers being 67 for the clause, and 64 against it. This amendment would, in all probability, be considered destructive of the princi ple of the bill as limiting the right of the Crown to the reception of a certain class of ambassadors, but that the government have in their own hands the power of revers ing the decision of their lordships on the bringing up of the report, by the employment of the proxies with which they are entrusted—proxies not counting in divisions in committee. • Subsequently the Duke of WELLINGTON proposed an amendment declaratory of the competence of the Crown to establish diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome, notwithstandin g the ancient laws of this realm, which was adopted by the government, and incorporated with the preamble of the bill. Lord REDESDALE then moved a clause to the effect that before any diplomatic relations are enured into with the Court of Rome by this country, the Pope should renounce all pretensions to temporal power in the dominions of her Majesty, which was opposed by The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, on the ground that such claims alluded to by the noble lord meant nothing, and were therefore unworthy of serious notice. Lord STANLEY, however, considered that such a renun ciation ought to be made by the Roman Sovereign ; but, at the same time, he was of opinion that the point was not of such importance as to necessitate a division upon it. The clause was then withdrawn,%nd the bill, having passed through committee, was ordered to be reported on Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Lord J omq R USSELL ma d e hi s fi nanc i a l s t a t emen t f or the yea r . He said he felt that he could very inadequately lay before them the outline of the financial policy of the g9vernrnent, and he therefore intended to leave to a future discussion the greater portion of the arguments in support of that policy. The noble lord then alluded to the recent difficulties through which the country had passed, s tated the enormous transitions which had taken place in the value of commodities and in the rate of discounts within the last 18 months, and also drew attention to the amount of bullion in the bank at the periods corresponding with each transition, in order to show the severity of the Tires not expedient for them to separate. The reasons were set down at large, and they stand equally good at this day.—Wesley's Sermons vF THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.—The negociations for Sedgeley have been broken off, it is stated, on the ground that the price was higher than the ecclesiastical commissioners were disposed to give. Since then two other mansions in the neighbourhood had been named as suitable. One of these is Rusholm House, the property and late the residence of Mr. W. Entwistle. The other is Hough's-end Hall, near Moss-side, the pro perty of Mr. Wilbraham Egerton. The letter of the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, of Kington, sets at rest the doubts which have been thrown on the position taken by the late Archbishop of Canterbury re lative to the Bishop of Hereford. Mr, Rowlandson, it tiara time of the tuathishop's addressing a most kind letter to the Bishop of Hereford, expressing a wish to officiate personally at his consecra -a most graceful act : it must have been all but the last letter penned by the lamented primate. An antique pulpit of remarkable elegance and beauty has been discovered in the Church of All Saints, Sudbury. It is Gothic—an octagon of the perpendicular style, beau tifully proportioned, richly carved in the higher parts of the,panels, and terminating in a single pedestal, which is now very correctly made to rest upon an octagon stone plinth. The latest date which can be assigned to it is the early part of Henry Vll's reign—the date of the church, if we except the northern arch, which is as old as the reign of Edward IV. The oak is as sound as on the day on which it was constructed. The Stipend of the Bishop of Manchester is the sub ject of an order in council, published in Tuesday's Gazette. It directs the ecclesiastical commissioners to pay £4,200 a-year to the Bishop out of the funds of the commission ; and in the event of such funds being in sufficient, it directs the payment by the Archbishop o f Canterbury and the Bishop of London of £l,OOO each per annum, and by the Bishop of Durham of a sum not exceeding £5OO per annum ; the money so contributed from the rich sees to go in aid of the fund of the com mission for the endowment of the new See of Manehester2 In 1847 the diocese of Chester contained 2,435,644 in habitants. Of these, 1,390,287 are now assigned to the bishopric of Manchester, 117,022 are hereafter to be added to . Carlisle, and 928,335 still remain to Chestei. 'Of the seven hundred and seventy-seven benefices which it then contained, 320 form the diocese of Manchester, one hun dred and twenty-one are to go to Carlisle, and Chester will retain ' three hundred and thirty-six. The total church aecommodation is 535,166 sittings, viz. : for Man chester, 257,794 ; for addition to Carlisle, 54,211; and for Chester, 233,161 ; fully one-half of which is free to the poor. The number of Parochial Clergy is one thousand and thirty-three, of which four hundred and forty-two are in the diocese _of Chester, four hundred and fifty-three in that of Manchester, and one hundred and thirty-eight will belong to Carlisle. THE TITHE REDEMPTION TRUST.—On Wednesday, a meeting of the members of this society was held at their office, in Abingdon-street, Westminster. Lord John Manners presided. There were also present Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Spranger, the Rev. Messrs. J. T. Russell, Swan, Denne, Mallet, &c. Mr. G. H. Drew, and other supporters, of the society. The secre tary stated, that he had sent copies of the prospectus to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and to all the bishops, most of whom concurred in their views. He had received communications from a great number of persons, some of whom were willing to give up the tithes they held as lay impropriators fora fair consideration. Several new subscribers had been added to their list since the last meeting, and many applications had been made for advice how to act where there were chances for getting tithes restored. He then read a long list of suggestions"which he had received for carrying out the object they supported. . . ,uowja, cu Mai Loa cl nobt. al Ub YUMA., Lord J. Manners, the Rev. Mr. Mallet, Mr. Dingwell, and the Rev. Mr. Scott took part ; after which a committee was appointed, and the meeting adjourned. TIIENEWARCIIBISIIOP OF CANTERBURY.—The Bishop of Chester has been'nominated to the Primacy ; his lord ship has accepted the high office ; but, we believe, the appointment will not be officially announced for pro bably a day or two. It is the rare felicity of of Dr. Sumner to attain to the highest eminence, in the Church—to the post of greatest dignity and highest in fluence—with the concurrence and approbation of the first statesmen on both sides of politics. Our readers cannot have forgotten the spontaneous testimony rendered to his lordship by Sir Robert Peel, in the,House of Corn mons, when speaking as the Prime Minister of this coun try, and as the head of the then united and all-powerful Conservative body. The Premier had occasion to allude with commendation to other living Prelates; but singling out the Bishop of Chester from all others, he spoke of his personal character and apostolic labours in terms of as high admiration as it is possible for one man to use in speaking of another. It is this individual whom our gracious Queen, under the advice of the leader of the other great section of politicians, has selected to fill the highest office in the Church, in times of unusual embar rassment and danger. Dr. Sumner was appointed Bishop of Chester in 1828. He is in his 68th year, and the income of his bishopric, until within the last two or three years, when it was raised to £4,500, was only £1,500. The annual revenue of the Archbishopric of Canterbury is £15,000, with the patronage of 149 livings. The Bishop of Chester has consecrated, we believe, very nearly two hundred new churches in the twenty years of his episcopacy; and a great number of these owe their erection to his own zealous exertions. And yet this la borious prelate has found time to produce, not merely some volumes, or many of moderate merit ; he is the most copious and useful writer that the English prelacy has seen during the last century. His " Apostalical Preach ing Considered " is in the eighth edition ; his " Evidences of Christianity " in the sixth ; his Prize Essay on the Creation, in two vols. octavo, in the fifth ; his " Sermons on the Christian Faith. and Character," in the eighth. His writings form fourteen octavo volumes, and all of them have been frequently reprinted. 'We repe4, there fore, that the premier has had a fine opportunity of dis charging a great duty to the church ; and he has promptly and wisely availed himself of it. The Tractarians, how. ever, will probably be of a different opinion ; for no mein ber of the episcopal bench has so firmly or constantly withstood their efforts, as has the new Archbishop of Canterbury. ppointment of a Select Com- _ll cases of shipwreck and ns of merchant vessels attended with loss of life, an fter the accident, and as near as pos should be appointed to examine into es and causes of the shipwreck, e in wh a t manner that inquiry whether, i t circu I LLE d of two parts I . bc given for Arch have .t n moved for leave to bring in landlord and tenant in Ireland. the first relating to the .nyeinent* made by te- ings ; and ihe second, - to certain relative to the respective positions of to bring in the bill, OF COMMON for the House to resolve itself into a Roman Catholic Relief Bill, Mr. LAW Nommitted that day six months. is contended that the concealed object of this bill was the destruction of such securities as Parlia ment had provided by the act of 1829 for the remaining Protestantism of the empire. Every Roman Catholic nouittry'in Europe had in succession expelled the Jesuits from its territories on account of the hostility of their principles to those of civil government ; and yet it was now proposed to legalise the existence of that confrater nity in Great Britain and Ireland. Referring to Mr. Drummond's _question " against what did the church of England require to be protected ?" he replied, that it re quired to be protected against this bill, and against its own members preaching against its peculiar doctrines. Mr. Anstey, Sir G Grey, Mr. W. E. Gladstone. Mr. _. _ _ Shell, and the Earl of Arundel supported the original mo tion ; and Mr. Newdegate, Col. Conolly, the Marquis of Graiaby, and Mr. Henley opposed it. The house divided, when there were for the motion 186, and against it 134. Majority for going into committee, 32. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY VNE moved the second read ing of a Bill to enable her Majesty to establish diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome. He said that he had him:plf been long of opinion that it was desirable to es tablish direct diplomatic relations with the Roman State, and he had at length the satisfaction, with the full con currence of his colleagues, and with the approbation of a great portion of the inhabitants of this country, to pro pose a measure to effect that object for their lordships' consideration. Did he suppose that the spirit of the Bill of Rights, of the act for settling the succession of the crown, or of any of those acts which were the safeguard of the Constitution would be touched by this bill, he would be the last person in the world to propose if; but he did not think that, on a fair construction, these acts, the object of which was to prevent spiritual and ecclesi astical reconciliation with the Church of Rome, were de signed to prohibit diplomatic intercourse. Up to the passing of those acts there had been no impediment in the way of sending missions to the Court of Rome. Lord Castlemaine's missions, in the reign of JamEs 11., had .finis of I lot because he had been sent an Ambassa t the words of the resolution of the ) he bad endeavoured to been censt dor to. Rome, but House of COMM , ns, " L reconcile this ki bin to the See of Rome But from the passing .cts—for upwards of one hundred and - fifty years—s with Rome that t I were the necessities for intercourse 'e had scarcely been a reign in which, foot and carried on by a circuitous and imperfect means. consequence to the revenue, which had also materially To prove that Sir R. Walpole had done so, and that he suffered, owing to the decrease of our manufacturing pros had been much favoured by the Pope, the noble marquis perity, and to the consequent decrease in the consumption cited a curious anecdote relative to the purchase of the of excisable commodities. Owing to the commercial vicis -pictures of Guido, That the Cardinal York had been situdes in April, and again in October, the greatest houses; employed in negotiating with the Court of Rome he es- if they had not been compelled to give way, had, at all tablished by the fact of his having received a pension of events, suffered the greatest losses ; and this misfortune, £3,000. for his services. The noble marquis also said in conjunction with the famine in Ireland, had been that he had found in an old blue-book that the late Duke seriously detrimental to the revenue. In fact, the balance of Portland had entered into communications with the sheet of this year showed an excess of expenditure over Pope, and that a prelate was sent from this country for income of more than £2,500,000; of which, however, that purpose. Lord Grenville had likewise carried on £1,500,000 was for relief in Ireland. The estimates of such negociations. But it might be objected that this last year were £52,550,000. For this year he estimated, Bill would be a recognition of the Pope, when the Pope from the ordinary sources of revenue, only £51,250,000, did not recognise the authority of the Monarch of En- leaving a deficiency which, with the - increased expendi gland. What, however, became of the Treaty of Vienna, ture for the navy and the Kaffir war, would amount to in which the Pope was fully recognised as a temporal £2,411,000. He felt it his duty to lay this state of things sovereign ? And, as to the Pope not recognising the before the house, in order that hon. members might have British sovereign, when George the IV ascended the sufficient time to take the whole matter into considera throne, the then Pope wrote hi m a letter congratulating tion before they came to the consideration of the esti him on his accession, and George IV immediately wrote mates. There were various courses open to them to pur a reply with his own hand and sent it off. Having been sue to meet this deficiency : but all he proposed to do on reminded by some one that by that act he had forfeited that occasion was to state the course which seemed to the his crown, George IV despatched a messenger to recall government the one most advisable to be submitted to the the letter, but the messenger was too late. But the. Pope consideration of the house, when deciding whether that had frequently recognised British sovereigns whenever course or any other should be acted on. One great ques it was convenient for him to do so. If the intercourse tion they must decide upon. Either they must supply the between the two states were to be carried on at all, it deficiency he had laid before them by taxation, or they should be car ried on in a more formal, proper, and digni. must come to the resolution of making great reductions in fled way than at present, and therefore, he hoped their their military establishments. Some extreme opinions lordships would consent to this bill. He would not ob- had recently been put forth respecting the defences of the jest to the introduction of any words that might be country. On the one hand, it was said that we were de esteemed a guard against the sovereign Pontiff's exercis- fenceless againstforeign incursion, while,on the other hand, it was maintained that our establishments were on too ing any autho r it y in this country. The Duke of NEWCASTLE opposed the bill as one at high .a scale of expenditure. In considerin g thi s quest i on variance with th e sp i rit of those statutes by which the he would at once state that there was nothing in our rights, the liberties, the religion, and the throne of these foreign relations which would, lead us to fear a rupture of kingdoms were secured. His grace moved, as an amend- the existing peace. No one was more impressed than went, that the bill be read a second time that day six himself with the benefits of preserving peace, and more months. particularly with France, and nothing could be further The Bishop of 'WINCHESTER concurred in the amend- from the thoughts of the Duke of Wellington than hinting rnent. Whenever a case of necessity arose for holding at the possibility of war. Indeed, he knew it gave the communication with Rome, means had heretofore been illustrious duke great pain to find that publicity was given found for effecting that object. The inconveniences of a to opinions whiCh he had expressed in confidence. The direct, communication with the see of Rome were many noble duke was in the habit of communicating his views and great. The wording of the bill itself showed how to the government as to the state of our national defences, easy it was to slide into the language of Popery, f or but as nothing could be more pure than his patrioti sm , h e therein the pope was styled th e "Sovereign Pontiff'," a was not gratified to find publicity given to his views, the style that the noble marquis also used in his speech. object of whicleivas to maintain the independence of this This hill should, of necessity, go one step further, be- country asliatiarantee for the safety of others. He stated (*we, if passed, the 6th and 13th chapter of the act of thus much, partly because lie differed from the noble William 11L, declaring the said acts to be the foundation duke on some points, and partly because he felt it to be UNIVERSITY FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. A jury of Prince George's country, Maryland, set aside the will of the late Mr. Townsend, because the testator liberated, by his will, all his slaves and other property. The steamer Styx has captured thirteen slave vessels during her services on the coast of Africa. They comprise brigs and brigantines, and altogether amount to 2000 tons of shipping which that steamer has removed from the traffic. All of them have been condemned. Accounts from Hanover state that King Ernest is se riously indisposed. His Majesty has been suffering from a severe influenza, but it was feared that it had taken an alarming character, and some apprehensions were felt on the subject. The "failure of Messrs. Dubois and Co. the largest bankers in Havre, is confirmed. The bank consisted of a body of shareholders, and was known as Messrs. Dubois and Co.'s Commercial Bank. The paid up capital of the concern was 4,500,000 f. (X 180,000), and the total liabili ties are stated by some parties at 12,000,000 f. (£480,000). OPENING OF THE ELBE.—On Tuesday last, the steam ship Marshall, Captain Raas, arrived in Hull from Gluck stadt, bringing the first news of her own departure, and of the breaking up of the ice in the Elbe. He took his de parture on Saturday, and after encountering much ice in the river, which stove one of his bowplates (she is an iron steamer) had the damage repaired in Cuxhaven, and pro ceeded. Captain Raas informs us that, in his opinion, it would be about a fortnight or three weeks from the date of his departure before the river would be clear up to Hamburgh. CONVERSION TO PROTESTANTISM OF A MEMBER OF THE INQUISITION AT ROME.—The most reverend Signor Lingi de Santes, Rector of the principal parish in Rome, La Maddalena, Qualfficator of the Inquisition, Member of the Theological College of the Sapienza, and of various Academies. and one of the most eloquent preachers in Italy ; has solemnly abjured the errors of Romanism. turned his back upon all human grandeur, and united himself to the rising Italian Church, and is now preparing for the great work of the Mission, in the Evangelical College of Malta.—Translated from an Italian paper, by a Corre spondent. CAPE OF Goon HOPE.—We have two days' later news from the Cape of Good Hope, viz., to the 14th December. This arrival confirms the belief previously entertained, that Umhala is not incere in his submission to British authority ; for though living under its protection, he is evidently affording shelter and assistance to those in arms against her Majesty. Pato still continues to elude pursuit. Sandilla is kept a prisoner at Graham's Town, and is libe rally fed at the expense of the colony or the state, while his brother Dundas succeeds to the chieftainship, and, being inimical to the British, rallies the scattered tribes around his standard in the fastnesses of the Amatola, whence the probability is they will only be dislodged, as before, by the employment of an adequate force. THE AVENGER.—A court-martial took place at Malta, on the 31st of January, on board the Trafalgar, on the survivors of the unfortunate steam-frigate, Avenger, viz., Lieut. Francis Rooke, Mr. John Larcom, William Hill, and James Morley, boy. Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., presided. A narrative of all the circumstances connected with the lamentable event was put in by Lieut. Rooke and read. This officer was then examined. Other testimony was also given, from which it appeared that no blame whatever could be attached to Lieut. Rooke and his three surviving companions. At the close of the proceedings on the 31st January the Couit was adjourned to Tuesday, the Ist of February, on which day the Court re-assembled, and fully acquitted the prisoners. They expressed a doubt whether the Avenger had the Admiralty charts of the Mediterranean on board. Among the advices from America we find one of a rather curious character touching the famous Mississipi debt. A. citizen of that state, by name Robins, has stated the di lemma of the honest people to be this; they wish to pay their debts and they have funds to do it with, but these particular debts of which we talk were illegally contracted by the Government; and if they submit to being taxed for the purpose of paying them, they will be giving their sanction to an illegal proceeding. The case is undoubtedly a knotty one ; but happily Mr. Robins has his solution ready. He is " deputed' to meet the Mississippi creditors and to make to them a proposal that they shall send round—[their hats, we were going to say, but something to answer the same purpose]—from house to house among the good citizens, who will, he undertakes for them, joy fully pay their, luota towards the discharge of the State debt, and redeem their characters for honesty without compromising the constitution by admitting the legality of an legality of an illegal act. Advices from Paris state that the reform agitation con tinues with undiminished vigour. The great reform banquet, however, has been postponed from Sunday to Tnesday, to obviate the danger of excitement among the populace on their day of recreation. The agitation is spreading rapidly through the provinces, and addresses had arrived from Chartres and Amiens to their deputies, exhorting them to resistance. These addresses were signed by bankers, lawyers, municipal councillors, officers of the national guard, and electors. Similar addresses were on their way from Blowis, Tours, Rouen, Havre, Arras, and Lille. Deputations were . coming from the provinces to attend the reform banquet. The_ govern ment contradicts the statement that artillery, ammuni tion, and other military supplies. had been distributed from the fort of Vincennes to various points of Paris. It is said that the king has consulted M. Dupin on the legality of the banquets, and that he has said that minis ters have no legal right to impede them, and that such a proceeding would put the country on the brink of revo lution. The partisans of the government still maintained, however, thst ministers were resolved to stop the banquet. SINGULAR SUICIDE.—At the latter end of January, Dr. Horace Wells, formerly of Hartford, Connecticut, committed suicide at New York. The deceased claimed for himself the honour of being the original discoverer of the use of ethei and chloroform in surgical and dentistry cases, and visited London and Paris for the purpose of stablishing his claim to the original discovery. It appears that Dr. Wells was in the habit of producing intoxication upon himself by the use of chloroform, and, under one of the paroxsinis produced by the intemperate use of this powerful agent, sallied forth into Broadway, and threw vitriol upon the clothes of some of the unfortunate girls who there promenade at night. He was taken into custody, and, for the purpose of drowning the conse quences of the exposure, committed suicide by inflicting a desperate gash in his left thigh, penetrating the femoral artery. Beside him, when discovered, lay a razor, a pen knife, and a phial, labelled " Pure Chloroform," from which there is no doubt that he used his own medicine to destroy the sensation of pain in the act. A person had obtained from the deceased, a few days previous, a phial of vitriol for the purpose of throwing upon some of 'the girls, who, he said, had injured him, and it is supposed this in his intoxicated state must have operated upon him. He has left a wife and one child. _ 107A40NTES.:411;; AT Mu NlClL — There is confu sion in the North of Europe as in the South, but the cause is not equally dignified. Munich has been in a kind of insurrection, on account of a Royal mistress, just as Naples has on account of constitutional liberty. The honours heaped by the Kink 'of Bavaria on his Spanish paramour, Lola. Montes, Countess of Lansfeld, have caused a disgust which has at length exploded with consi derable violence. The proximate cause of the manifesta tion arose in the University. There, as in other German universities, the students form themselves into associa tions, with distinctive names and badges. A new one was ately formed,, under the auspices of Lola Montes. This seems to have caused great irritation ; at length the members of it, on their appearance at a lecture, were hissed and hooted in such a way as to oblige the professor to dismiss the club. The next day there was the same up roar. Prince Watterstein, the minister for foreign affairs, interfered, as it appears, with success, a promise being given that the interruption should not continue. Never theless, on the ninth of the month; several of the Alma nea—the name taken by the members of the new associa tion—were attacked furiously in the street and obliged to take refuge in an eating-house. They sent a message to Lola Montes for protection, who boldly walked' to the place on foot, but being recognised by the mob she was in her turn compelled to seek for refuge, which she did not seem likely to find, when the king, being apprised of what was going on, left a file he was giving at the palace and hurried to her aid. Offering his arm, he led her to a church opposite the palace. There the melodramatic lady first threw herself at the foot of the altar, exclaiming " God protect my best, my only friend," and then sallied forth pistol in hand. Not at all touched by this display, the mob became furious, and one of them wresting the pistol rival, her hand, pinned her by the throat against a wall. From this rough hug she was fortunately rescued by the gendarmes, who eventually conducted her to the palace. The authorities then announced that the Univer sity should be closed for a year. On this the irritation increased, and some disposition was shown to come into collision with the military, sonic of whom it is said had without orders made a charge in the morning and shot down two or three people. Either on that night or the next, the house of the mistress was sacked by the students, Lola Montes having barely time to save herself by flight. The King, it is said, aided by the general irritation, has consented to her expulsion, and reopened the University. Such are the singular and disgraceful scenes which have been occurring at Munich. On the 12th, tranquillity was nearly restored in Munich, though Lola had reappeared dressed in male attire, and made a last attempt to pene trate into the royal palace. Some ten or twelve students of the Alemanna Association, her body guard, escorted her. The moment the return of the royal mistress became known, the people assembled, and strict inquiry was made to discover her hiding-plaee. Fortunately for her, Prince Wallerstein, who still retains his seat in the ministry, caused her to be arrested by gendarmes, placed in a post chaise; and sent off to Switzerland. She reached Augsburg in the afternoon. Three students accompanied her in the carriage with the two police-officers. On leaving Munich she said " The king will abdicate, and follow Me int o exile." Intelligence has been received that Lola Mentes had arrived at Lindau, on the Lake of Constance, on the eve n i ng o f th e 13th, and was to leave the next day for Switzerland. COURT AND FASHION The Court remains in town, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobur g being included in the royal circle. On Monday the Court .honoured• the French theatre, and on Wednesday Drury Lane, with their presence. THE CHASE The CUSSIIIRE IlouNns will meet on Wednesday (to-morrow), at Dunham Park ; on Friday, at the Black Dog, Saighton ; on Saturday, at Withington ; each day at half-past ten o'clock. Sir W. W. WYNN',G HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday (this day), at Styche; Azon Wednesday (to-morrow), at IlAwkatone; on Friday, ~at Pries ; on Saturday, at Lop pinetos ITillage; each day,ht half-past ten o'clock. IRELAND. The prisoners confined in the gaol of Ennis, notwith standing the special commission, amount to 511. Government has made a grant of £lOOO to the Belfast Flax Improvement Society. The Erne Packet gives an account of the discovery of a plot to assassinate a bailiff in the employment of the Earl of Erne. A practice of hissing during the playing of " God save the Queen has of late become so prevalent in the Dublin theatres as to amount to a common nuisance. The constabulary of Tipperary have been tolerably suc cessful. Thousands of guns and pistols are concealed in the banks of ditches till the present activity subsides. The constabulary from Newport on Tuesday lodged in the ordnance barracks, at Limerick, 1031 guns, 48 pistols, three blunderbusses, sis guns with bayonets, pawder flasks, bullet-moulds, &c., taken from the peasantry. ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS.—The Nenagh papers an nounce the formal suspension from his clerical functions of the Rev. Anthony Nolan, parish priest, the rev. gen tleman having pleaded " guilty" to the charges preferred against him by a sub-inspector of constabulary. A Tralee paper states the receipt of information of a most foul conspiracy against the life of Mr. Frederick Mason, of Kilmore, in the barony of Clanmaurice, county of Kerry, and that owing to the exertions of a magistrate, Mr. G. V. Stokes, several of the parties implicated are in custody. " RESPECTABILITY" IN IRELAND.—A writer in the Dublin Evening Packet says of the late Mr. Waldron : " The deceased has been some time on his keeping to avoid arrest, and though an improvident, he was a highly respectable gentleman of good fortune, but by no means remarkable for his observance of law or good morals." A fearfuFfamine has set in Mayo. The Telegraph says that whole villages are depopulated in Ballintubber. In one large townland every head of a family except two men has been cut off. Six men and women died of starvation in Tulla, and three others were dying. The bodies of the dead lay unburied, in some instances for seven days toge ther. The poor rate in Scariff for three months, at 7s. 6d. in the pound, amounts to £17,600. A Scariff ratepayer writing in the Clare Journal states, that the rating is so oppressive that many farms have been given up, and many of the people preparing to emigrate. Eight houses and stores have been taken for additional workhouse accom modation. The writer states, that a rate amounting to total confiscation would not support the poorer popula tion in the absence of employment. On Tuesday Patrick Ryan (Small) was executed at Ennis gaol, for the murder of the late James Watson, Esq. He ascended the scaffold at half-past two o'clock, in a very feeble state supported by two priests. The wretched man appeared almost insensible, and had to be held up whilst the executioner was adjusting, the rope. He fainted off before the bolt was drawn, and died in stantly. The evening before his execution he declared his innocence in the gaol. A great concourse of persons congregated before the prison to witness the spectacle. UTILITY OF ORANGEISM.—A petition against the bill far establishing diplomatic relations with Rome is in course of signtature by the Orange lodges in the neigh bourhood of Downpatrick. We earnestly hope that Pro testants generally are adopting a like course and forward ing petitions to the legislature upon the same momentous subject. The promptitude with which expression is given to Protestant feeling through the Orange Association is a proof of the efficiency of the organisation for.one impor tant purpose—not the least useful of the many which it subserves. TERRIBLE CALAMITY.—On Sunday night week, the house of Mr. Clarke, pawnbroker, Killarney, was burnt down. A family named Farrell, consisting of eight per sons, were in the house at the time; one of whom hav ing had occasion to leave his bed, perceived the fire, and gave the. alarm to, the rest of the inmates. Some of them endeavoured to escape (unfortunately before a lad der could be procured) by jumping out of the bed-room window in the upper story, a height of nearly forty feet. The unfortunate mother, Elizabeth, was killed in the attempt ; the father and his son and daughter are de spaired of in consequence of the injuries received from the fall. Another child having fallen into the arms of one of the crowd present, escaped apparently uninjured ; but the rest of the family, namely, three children, were burnt to:death. l - iiEpiii, ASSOCIATION.--At the meeting, o n w e d nes _ e coh df in. H the day, -Mr. O'Mahony took the chair, and delivered a l ong p a him in Paris. T wo pr i ests, replyt ot i hel e t t eT of Lord detailingShrewsbury. thero p A proceed_ in n tserge : s newastreaen banquetgfrom adni given to Mr. J. o Connell, an and Masterman, delive re d very violent speeches. The former said he would submit a resolution to the committee, to the effect that every parish should meet in the neighbourhood of their respective chapels on a Sunday to be, named in the course of the ensuing month, in order to petition for a repeal of the union. He stated that he was the first man who had signed a requisition for the monster meeting in 1843, and that similar meetings of every parish which he now proposed took place twenty years ago, when the people, of Ireland were seeking for emancipation. The latter priest (Masterman) detailed what he termed a number of " Protestant atrocities" which had been perpetrated on the Irish Catholics. The rent for-the week was declared to be £66. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -----.*-------. The dividend for the half year of the Hull and Selby Railway will be at the rate of X 9 19s. per cent. per annum. The dividend on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, to bdeclared next month, win be eix per eut. for th e last year. Thomas H. Higgin, Esq., managing director of the Preston and Wyre Railway, has received the appointment of managing director of the Belfast and Ballymena Rail- A man, named Barker, for some time in the employ of the Eastern Counties' Railway Company as porter at the Cambridge station, has, by a late decision of the Court of Chancery, been declared to be entitled to property to the extent of £30,000. RAILWAYS AND CARRIERS.—The Great Western have another action against them by the assignees of Parker, the carrier, to recover £6,000 for overcharges— the list of which fills - folio volumes two feet in thickness, and the list alone costs £1,300. Pickford's case with the South-eastern nTuesday the n goes coroner's tiller,s inquest i April. LATE ACCIDENT ON THE S OUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. o was brought to a close, when the jury found a verdict of " manslaughter" against the driver and stoker of the luggage-train that ran into the passenger-train near Woking, by which the driver of that train was killed, and many passengers seriously hurt. The Marquis of Breadalbahe, who is Chairman of the Scottish Central Railway Company, when in Edinburgh some time ago, was waited upon by a deputation of the Sabbath Alliance, to solicit his support in regard to the question of railway travelling on the Sabbath, when his Lordship expressed his opinion to be in accordance with that of the deputation. - Out of 3400 miles of railway now opened, 300 miles only are upon the broad or exceptional gauge of 7 feet-1-11th of the whole length of railways opened—while the remain ing 3100 Miles, being 10-11ths of the whole, are on the national gauge of 4 feet 81 inches. Only 50 miles of broad-gauge rail 'ay have thus been opened since the commissioners reported, while upwards of 1000 miles of railway on the national gauge have been opened. BRIGHTON RAILWAY. The proceedings at the meeting of the Brighton Railway shareholders, on Monday, excit e d a good deal of interest among the Stock Exchange people. The impression is very strong that either by neglect or design an unfair advantage was taken, by a knowledge of the state of the finances, to operate on the Stock Exchange, before the official announcement ; and the appointment of the committee of shareholders for that and other matters is relied upon to probe into the bottom as an example to other concerns. DREADFUL DEATH.—An engine-driver, named Wing , field, on Tuesday, detached his engine at Brandon station, on the Eastern Counties' line, for the p ur p ose o f running it into the shed, and while doing so perceived that his lamp was in some way defective. He had noticed that his stoker, whose duty it was to attend to the matter, was in a state of intoxication, and consequently clambered to the front of the engine to make all right himself. While in the act of doing so he fell over, and was literally crushed to atoms under the wheels of the engine. MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at the Derby station. The directors reported a balance of £2,17.975 12s. 3d., which, after deducting £42,238 10s. 5d., - the amount of the guaranteed dividend on the six per cent. stock and shares, enables them to dPclare a dividend of £3 10s. upon each £lOO of Midland Consolidated Stock of £3.105. upon each £lOO of the Consolidated Preferential Stock, and'after the rate of 7 per cent. per annum upon £lO of each of the .Z4lO shares, of £2 165.. 3d. upon each £lOO of the COnsolidated Birmingham and Derby Stock, after the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from the opening on the 6th of - September to the 31st December last upon £32 10s. (the amount then called up) of the Erewash Valley, and leave a balance available for the present half year of £15,672. OPENING Or THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY FROM GLAS GOW TO BEATTOOK.—On Monday this important line was formally opened, so that the citizens of Glasgow have now, for the first time, a . direct railway 'communication with the metropolis, and all the English lines. At a quar ter-past nine o'clock, two first-clais carriages and a second-class were in waiting at the station at Tornhead, for the reception of the party invited, and started' at twenty ,minutes before ten, when the signal was given, and the first engine in connection,with a direct railway to London was issuing its furious snort towards the south. The construction of. the carriages is most elegant, and surpasses anything yet seen in the north. After'a delight ful trip, the party arrived at Beattock station at a quarter to one o'clock, where they partook of a sumptuous lun cheon. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.`---The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at Manchester. Mr. John Cop man, the deputy chairman of the board of directors, pre sided. The secretary (Mr: Meadows) read the report, which,` besides 'other 'particulars, stated that the receipts to the present time amounted to £2,336,623 13s. 5d., and the expenditure 0100,714 over that sum, against which must be placed a balance of £21,861 on the revenue ac count. The Chairusu, in moving the adoption of the report, briefly referred to the resolutions which would be submitted to the meeting, and particularly referred' to the reduction which had been proposed in the direction, viz., from 15 to 12. Mr. Peliey ailted;'Why the expenses were greater on this than any other line ? -TheChairman said the traffic was local at present, and of course it was more expensive than , general' traffic. The report Was then adopted. Several suggestions to tlie. , board created a somewhat, animated discussion ; but 'finally the resolu tions proposed by the directors, which embodied the sen timents expressed in thereport, were Carried'. The audi tors were re-electedi . es' were also the retiring directors, with the exception of Mr. Randell, who was replaced by Mr. James Lee, of Manchester. LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDICAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. SHORE V. BARNES. This was an appeal from a decision of the Arches of Canterbury, in which th e R ev . J ames S hore, of Britea town, Devon, who w as or d a i ne d a pr i est of the Chug t England in the year 1829, b u t i n 1844 b ecame a di ss el , ing minist er , an d too k t h e oaths and signed the deeht', c ', tion set forth i n th e 19 t h G eorge 111., was, in pureuale, i of letters of re ques t i ssue d b y the Bishop of Exeter, u,t dared liable to ecclesiastical censure and punisbre%) under the Church Discipline Act, (3d and 4th Victo for having officiated in an unconsecrated chapel or b hag without license or authority, and contrary to the 1 ;, junction of th e Bi s h op o f Exeter, and admonished to a stain from offending in like manner in future. The / I ; pellant, on the trial, protested against the proceedinge:4 the ground that he was not amenable, inasmuch as he IP., ceased to be a clerk i n h o l y orders, having, from CO esc i d entious motives, seceded from the Church of Englo and become a Protestant Dissenting minister. The P' test was overruled by the Judge, (Sir H. J. Fust) sn on the ground that th e appe ll ant did not then ask perl, f sion to appeal to th e P r i vy C ouncil, their Lordships 1 , firmed the sentence with costs, thus confirming, tbo' apparently on a me re p o i nt o f form, the dictum—" 011 a priest always a priest." • COURT OF EXCHEQUER. BURON V. DENMAN In this case, which was a trial at . bar, M. Burooi i , Spanish merchant an d s l ave trader, established at G....3'0, nas, on the coast o f Africa, was the plaintiff ; the 1 1° d Captain Joseph Denman, son of the Lord Chief Justice the Court of Q u e en ' s B enc h , - a captain of the royal 133, , was the defendant ; an d th e act i on was brought to r ,' ".,: cover damages, estim a t e d a t £lB O,OOO, against the clef° dant for having, in November, 1840, with a party of se 3 i men and marines, taken possession of certain slaves, sei/d and burned certain w are h ouses , d estroyed sundry casks 8,3,, barrels of spirits an d gunpow d er, and, in a word, OW), ally destroyed a larg e s l ave -t ra di ng establishment schlt bad flourished f or many years. M r. M. D. Hill led ree the plaintiff, the Attorney-General for the. defends 34 The first day, Monday, was occupied by a detail statem! , of facts in supp or t o f t h e p l a i nt i ff ' s case. On Tuesclal, thewhi which w as, substantially, Attorney-General o opened that the defendantfor t the e was d efend:lb his squadron to th e Gallinas, by Sir R. D o h erty , then Governor of Sie rra L eone, to claim the liberation of tic-o English subjects ; that the plaintiff and others had seize, possession of two isl an d s at t h e mouth of the Gallinas t` carry on their nefarious traffic, contrary to the wishes iof f p Liacca, kink of th e country ; that, inpursuance of a trea ty with Siacca, th e d e f endant seized the barracoons, , contents of which were handed over to King Siacca, the buildings themselves set on fire; that 000 slaves vc,e, found in th e p ossess i on of the plaintiff; that the Wilel/ were destroyed in consequence of a suspicion th a t th e were poisoned, an d t h e gunpowder thrown into the ti c i f from an app re h ens i on of treachery ; that the plaintiff sli, his broth er s l ave-traders had blockaded the river, tr vented the ac cess o f B r i tish vessels, and carried on tu'peir proceedings in spite of the native kind ; that the caP til e of the ba rracoons was the most effective blow ever sl e r at the sl ave -t rade in that quarter ; and that Commooberl Denman, for hi s con d uct on this occasion, was prorne,'ho to the rank of Captain, and received £4OOO out of .0 1 . v voted by parliament as a further reward. Numerous e nesses were examined in support of these facts, and tb R , case as again adj ourne d . The case was resumed on W 5„ nesday, and t erm i nated at three o'clock in the aftern° " in a v er di ct f or the defendant, on the gr oun d that i br v treaty with the African king had been ratified by Crown, with a full knowledge of all that Captain Denr ° " ll had done. To this a bill of exceptions was tendered , ° the point w h et h er a subsequent ratification of the def ell, dant's co n d uc t was equivalent to a prior command to r sue it. IN RE B ARTON , IRLAM, AND IIIOGINSON.--A spe ci a l examination of witnesses. in relation to this bankral , %;' took place on W e d nesday, Mr. Brandt barrister, (. 4 `': structed by Mr. L own d es,) appeared on behalf o f the signees, and Mr. Bardswell for the witnesses. Mr. 14 031 ," Davies, of the firm of Messrs. Davies and Co., was e "; asnokmreupletns,gathndasmtor. theirjohnsmhaoress,abnadnkterarn, was a l t o w aill it i h ne th d e a b t examined as to the grounds on which the bank claimer 4 1 hold certain share certificates. After these gentlemen t u n o been shortly examined, Mr. Brandt said he thought_ g d r ; s the information afforded by Mr. Davies and Mr. 11 11 ) : the object of the present examination might be amio o t arranged between the parties. To ascertain the d a tes,, the transactions w hi c h h ad b een alluded to was the Plp d cipal object, an d h e had no doubt that might be effe ct by a furth er i nvest i gat i on. He did not for a moment ~„. pose that there was any attempt on the part of any er'be e the transaction to concea l any thi ng. M r. Parsons , i he managing clerk for the b an k ru pt s , was exam i ned as 0,4, bills of ladin g o f th e s hi p Vi g il ant. T hat vessel he lis',`,er did not arrive i n Li ver p oo l from Rio Janei r o un til 2 t b the bankruptcy. The bills of lading arrived about to 15th November and were sent to A. W. Ly on and They crime as a ship letter to Barton, I r l am , an d Higaor, son. Mr. Haynes Higginson handed them to A' dr Lyon, by virtue of a letter to that effect. They were_ e j, livered to A. W. Lyon the same day they were reeev' t i l e On being pressed to say whether lie was certain that, be f bill's of lading were handed over to Mr. Lyon the c1a9 1 4 , were received, the witness said he really did not re ui 'vr ber. The Commissioner said he had read over the e se f deuce given at the last examination, and in many eat the witness did not seem willing t 9 recollect what 1G ought to recollect. In reply to oth er q ues ti on s, the ness stated that he did not remember the circumstance' 16,...a.....6N POLITICAL VARIETIES. ------ ' Sir Thomas B. Bi rch an d Mr. Rushton had an in ter view with Sir G. Grey, on Friday, at the Hoine Offic e :i o ri Mr. Ludlow Bruges intends to resign the represents' of Devizes, on the ground of his continued ill healtl2%,, " Mr. Daniel. O'Conn e ll, so n o f " o ld D an, " has 12.7 appointed Engli s h consul at Boulogne. This ~ patre B Meagher, e I e t y h gets £BOO a year for this ! d e u Youngly el elected. t i e r d e i . 'IV WEST GL OUCESTERSHIRE.—On Wednesday l as t ;, select committee terminated its inquiry, and declared : t he electors of the city of Waterford. His father, the Irelander.was returned jointly with Mr. Daniel °Tow' at the last election. ~ ~,„ o 0 NORTH SnaocsuinF..—The election took int' 9 ander, has addressed o ki Wednesday. Mr. J. Whitehall Dod was proposed 14 a , A. V. Corbett, seconded by Mr. Robert Burton, en“ - turned without opposition. Gra m n r t . ley A RADICAL C OUNCIL. The radical council o ,' f di' tb e city of Durham h as agree d to petition parliament—t ho u not without a p ro t est f rom the more respectable mere -h e —in favour of the Jewish disabilities bill. ' Several distinguished m em b ers o f the House of s e Cs° l' Irons have si gne d an Add ress to Lord George Bes`.lo expressing their app rova l o f t h e high sense of honour w rt p induced him to r es i gn th e l eadership of the Country Pe rfi' and their gratification that on general grounds that P will continue to receive his most strenuous support. gi , The Hon. W. F . C ampbell has addressed his c°'„teti tuents at Camb r id ge, i n consequence of having c , -e, against the Je w i s h Di sa bi lities Bill, contrary to his rtlie raise. He intends giving his reasons at length 0 0 t he third reading, but in his address relies principally o °_, be dictum of the l a t e D r. Arnol d on this question, whew eulogises as the " never-to-be-forgotten liberal!' • t ote THE MIN T .—Th e Q ueen h as b een pleased to conste tbe and appoint the Right Hon, Richard Lalor Shed, rl' Master of th e Mi nt, William Cotton, Esq., Comm'is.7 o o General Sir Ed war d Pi ne Coffin, and Colonel li r lp d p' Nairne Forbes, H.E.I.C. Bengal Engineers, to be e""d missioners to conduct an inquiry into the Royal 111 in t, P. - 0 d has emp owere d them to report upon the constitu tioerolo expense of the Royal Mint, and to suggest such alterau , d o , as may app ear to them to be required. The Lib era l party in Abingdon, who believed tteei selves on th e eve of a " glorious triumph, " have just 'oe' thrown into, consternation by the unexpected and 0 6 0 what mysteriou s announcement of their champions ,bee' Caulfeild, th at the petition against .the sitting tile'o' Sir F. Thesiger, Queen's Counsel, has been withdrsoi owing to c er t a i n " unlooked for events," of whiebd constituency at pres en t rema i n i n total i gnorance, a l t h° numerous conjectures are afloat upon the subject. t bee! THE BAN K C HARTER ACT. Among the men 0,5 who voted on Thursday, for going into committee 000 act, on the moti on o f M r . H err i es, were :—W. Brnee J. Tollemache, J. Bailey, J. Bailey, jun. , Lord G. Y o gl tinck, B. Disraeli, G. Hudson, and G. Sandars. Ani ° „lo those who voted against the motion we find the nall i _i o o' B. Cardwell, Sir T. B. Birch, A. Henry, J. Brotherdo, R. Cobden, Sir. J. Graham, J. Heywood, C. Hi o „. J. W. Jackson, Sir J. Jervis, T. Thorneley, and Walmsley. SIR ROBERT P EEL AND HIS FOLLOWERS.—The ---, m il t " News asserts th a t a meet i ng of the friends and folk"' of Sir Robert Peel was held on . Saturday, for the Pi lr , of considering the policy whi c h t h ey should hen to adopt towards th e present ministry, and that it wag est' nimously resolved th a t t h eir present indeterminate Poe! tion between th e lib erals and protectionists was no l° ,1i tenable. According to that journal, Sir Robert pee 0 1 1 ce r e dined to he a d them in any course, which •might plaq ‘o ll , in such a p os i t i on as to render it possible th a t l i e ss itt ` Se be called aga i n to take, office; and recommended the, Pt choose the Ea r l o f Li ncoln as their leader, who'd' would willingly serve with his advice and vote. This': posal is said t o have been adopted without O pp OS ilioo re e SIR ROBT. PEEL AND THE JEWS.—Sir Robertl l seems to be undergoing a singular process, of 1 : 13 o 0., transformation. Sh ou ld h e li ve a f ew years more, ew e 5P have be come a complete double man—nothing of t14,,,e; Robert Peel 'of 1828 w ill b e l e ft ; an d we s h a ll find 100,1 cessary, when quo ti ng any op i n i on of his, to state ittil2' year it was held, in order to avoid confusion. His'' is a thor oug h s li d i ng scale. It may, to be sure, lle„ti, e" that he is d a il y becoming wiser, which is the metaPel; interpretation of daily thrusting out old opinions to f - e room for new ones. The right lion. baronet comen, i: his spee c h i n the H ouse of Commons on Friday wee, favour of the J ew Bill i n t h e following words :—" '-' tr was with grea t re l uctance that I gave a silent vote °, O 01 first occasion w h en t hi s matter was brought unds.'iiie, consideration ; but the peculiar circumstances under.", the debate closed, so immediately before the Ch rl O s ves,!; recess, and my unwillinguess to incur the risk of pre Pi, ing the house coming to some practical conchision "iie o , question, induced me on that occasion to remain ° co il' I now wish to state the grounds upon which I have, / 10; to a conclusion at vaeiance, certainly, with my fir' „ 9 0 :d pressions_(loud cries of " Ilear")—and which pis e 'i t ios; in pailful collision with those with whom I have 4 „00 1 :, .invariably acted." Possibly the right hon. bar"' I', memory is failing him, for he said, in the course ' e l speech; "it is so long since I represented the 'Gni / lb of Oxford, that I have almost forgotten the .fact I .r , :i PI not very surprising, therefore, that he should for po bo principles, which he lost at the same time he lost for the University. t heir 'lean Rood. D R . The with w form. her ma TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Peb. 22, 1848. ton; coati in ti Whol NA lish drawl to th skilft The rica n and, Alen] to co Part, chol had whet ans vp •that Wah l tion. R E day the a l It tria sand. the fl them gor( et p re fierce, might his st; medi€ maint vatic Unin TH Arno the t to quest Witt the ro,Yal rie rr 1 . 11 as Pa te pl l ( r ) . _ll°.p_ae Such rea c h but h corn