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1 4,4,vigiAevgr luritanum 1 the colon snotti hat deb;te he had r that he had the w him fo' I that tt ould not give tb ,or-General and lying clearly shewn property conferred e valuatior act of land in the money in Canada nual income mtnary, ificently r Canad. to the Protestant nently, but to finance church throughout the tion was contend within the .ion of former tion ha s quoted. read the next i heard by ing on Drdinince are, or rather on similar corporation had sat, would not subject of 1775 up to tt ligion was only [y from a at he bad nes, the oni miffing Catholic I no record in the )AMMOIs £140,000 lion of admitting rur ast Indies, at the sam ill was read a second hen disposed of AO,wE,► sed to be struck out of the recom- 8 a description of a pointment of returning gentleman retired that the return, n isicorreet state correctness of the ppointment of Mr. .djourned and dues under a resolution to [tich the king of such a revision the trade of .ed the cours, g suffered th I to every prin king of Den s of the treaty, ad not been the a statement eregoverned , ithout the sanction -MONDAY be contr chequer ver that the loan nov Gover- the rec Dcnthar F. 4114111117. I nit:Ml(44 ter ;estion c 4 the hou t the commerce of Great of been diminished by rea- tainly not increased since rule, th k to act ji ion of g ,sitio❑ to mak, Lord Palmer.' withdrav less the I by a of Commons ustly, for rna►ent ht communit ring the matte ~ment, T, In neon:tam greed to the previous ASTHOPE moved hat the petition of William Baines ner in Leicester Gaol, presented on the 2d of Feb should be printed and circulated wth the votes ided that thoug h the House might have 3 the motion, if made on the day the petition w ion could not be received except a the petition was pre- the cireum: Mr. I Thursday,'t rn tic house then assented to the printing c Y-GENERAL obta roughs in En East India 11 y Bill, were e HOUSE OF LORDS.—WED house of Lords did not sit to -night HOUSE OF COMMO ter whlc question of ;y-General and Lord _ he peti uulated amonlfst .re to bring in a Iministration of criminal justice in cer- ind the Marine third time and passed, and the its favour; of time tie to parties in t Fore necessary ogether different from the one which the ,vioustv int nceo, seconded tl the motion; but while spea refused to post his motion, the members so tht when counted th 'efore adjourned RD APPEARANCE OF THE BOY JONES Al BUCKINGHAM PALACE. the Mon 7 Herald of Wi us entrance into Buckingham Palace, on Monday similar unenviable exploit The urchin was dis ad two o'clock Befcr, must again regret that the ill consider it necessary to ig into a _ t the Ho►n eporters of the public press fr .11 any inquiry cted with royalty, and thereby prevent a formal account fore the public in which all her subjects must feel a deep interes' laving thus much, we proceed give an account o ary affair, which we have derived from sources which cognizant of the facts, and on which we can place ......aLeo from Tothill-fields prison on Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, where Thomas March (yesterday fortnight), his term of Knowles's last schedule was inspected, in which he is de - -.". , 1 vagabond" having expired. scribed as of No. 2, Lion-terrace, Edgeware-road, out of -ration he was visited by Mr. business, that he had taken the benefit of the insolvent act 6 in the name of that respectable twice—viz., in 1819, and in 1829, and that he was a bankrupt ~., whether he (Jones) was willing to go in 1825, and obtained his certificate in IB2G. The boy did not object to go on board, Sir P. Laurie.—And now he is possessed of an anormous dhe wanted to make certain conditions fortut;e. I understand that he and Hole have houses in ;ceded to. His father was then sent for, Hythe and in Edward-street, Portman-square. These ought yen into nis charge, with strict directions to be at once taken possession of for the benefit of the credit ke every possible care of him, and watch tors. Sir Peter thanked Mr. Connell and. Mr. Barrett for actions ;at the same time the offer to send the boy aboard having come forward on this occasion, and said that he should was renewed (and we understand it was offered in the first call upon those who had been plundered to apply to the re- Ance). The boy's father and mother, in of the places in which they resided to demand A object to the offer, asked for a week or in the strongest manner a parliamentary inquiry info the ,wo in order to get him ready, which of course was granted, whole of the nefarious transactions of the company. He although they were upbraided for not letting him go without considered that nothing would become a representative of the t 1 delay. Up to Monday last the boy's conduct was unobjec - people so well as a firm and energetic effort to punish such tionable. Sunday last he attended a Methodist chapel two - --- ' ' lative enactment On the day previous to h Hall—or some one actii and as' on board a ship ander;t and Jones wa that h instance some v although they di or three times, and had frequently stated his determination to join a total-abstinence society. On Monda systematic villany. and to prevent by a legis the perpetration of future robbery by assurance companies was at heard of liiiii until yesterday morning r and mother were summoned to appear at 'heir attendarite at the police-office, however, light have been dispensed with, as no examination took place there, the police being instructed to convey their pri soner to the Home-office. This was the first intimation when his fatt Bow-street. EGLINTOUN CASTLI NUPTIAL FESTIVITIES AYRSHIRE, Mancil 10.—Yesterday, the Earl and Coun tess of Eglintoun arrived at the castle, after experiencing the most enthusiastic welcome ever witnessed in this part of Scotland. The countess's family arrived on Saturday last that the boy's friends had of his having effected a third entrance into the Palace. The lad's father says, although his son has often been the cause of uneasiness to him, he never knew him guilty of any dishonest action, but that his curiosity, on many occasions, has been most remarkable; and the urchin himself still persists in declaring that his uuly e ject i❑ going to the Palace-was to hear the cony her Majesty and Prince Albert, in order to '` from the metropolis. To notice all the gratifying demonstrations prepared for the welcome of the liberal earl would be a tedious task, but all that could be done by the inhabitants was achieved. A beautiful arch, which extended across the road, was erected, and profusely ornamented with artificial flowers. The Ayr shire yeomanry cavalry, commended by Colonel Craw ord, write a book Be 1 interest 1 fond reading, but no one would 's tenantry, with two excellent bands, ri ana countess were detained about a quarter of an hour, by the presentation of another address. At length the cavalcade resumed its route, and as the procession came in sight of the royal burgh of Irvine, a discharge of cannon announced the approaching entry of the noble earl and countess. The town was crowded, all the inhabitants having apparently re sorted to the high street and Kilwinniog road, in the endea vour to witness the splendid procession. At the Town-hall the earl and countess were received by the provost, magi strates of the burgh, clergy, &c., who presented a congratu latory address to his lordship on his arrival at Eglintoun Castle, with his amiable countess. Another elegant arch ,carance, which is is , • . countenance is exceedingly heir esteeme he is very diminutive for his age, which we under- His father asked him several times how imission. The only reply he was ever able Oh, by the door or window," Immediately red in the Palace, three months s 17 years to obtain was, after the boy was discov since, two extra policemen (sergeants of the A divisioni were appointed, whose duty it is, on alternate nights, to watch all the staircase approaches and interior of the build ing ; and in consequence of this arrangement Jones was so soon discovered—it is supposed shortly after he bad effected his entrance. It appears, from what we have heard, that shortly after one on Tuesday morning, the sergeant of police on duty in the Palace imagined, as he was going along the grand hall, that he saw some one peeping through the glass doors. 'and which turned out to be the case; for on his ap was erected in this town, being surmounted by the escutcheon of the Montgomeries superbly emblazoned. The hotels and principal houses were, with very few exceptions, adorned with flags, flowers, garlands of evergreens and ,white roses, &c. The local societies were assembled with their gay ban ners, and altogether this retired town presented a scene of extraordinary festivity. On leaving the boundaries of the burgh, there was another discharge of artillery. The caval cade then directed their course to the castle, followed by the different societies and inhabitants to upwards of five thou ciety of the Irvine Archers were drawn ping Jones ran against him, and, of Course, was - mediately secured, and at once sent off in custody to the station-house in Gardiner's-lane. It was afterwards disco vered that the boy had previously visited her Majesty's larder, as, at the time he was disturbed, he was feasting him self with cold meat and potatoes, which he had conveyed up sand person he same way a fore, and at any thile he pleased, obtain an entrance into the We understand it is generally supposed that the fel wall on Constituticn-hill, and crept through A, • r . ••,... earl to the halls of his noble ancestors. The noble earl, before the assembly dispersed, came to the front of the castle, and addressed them in a neat speech. low got over t of conjecture as long as Jones retains his extraordinary taci turnity. After, however, the precautions which have been taken for protection, and to keep out intruders, it is a subject In the evening the yeomanry cavalry and his lordship's tenants were liberally entertained at the expense of the noble earl. of general inquiry how an entrance could have been effected, and there is only one opinion upon this subject, namely, that the most searching and rigid inquiry ought to be instituted. MISSIONARIES ' WILLIAMS AND HARRIS Between one and two O l clocl: yesterday Jones was con veyed to the Home-office by two inspectors of the police, and shortly afterwards underwent a long examination, the particulars of which, from the cause above stated, we are unable to give. We understand, however, no other witness was called beside the police-sergeant who took him into cus tody, and the result was, that the boy was committed to the House of Correction, Tothill-street, as a rogue and vagabond, for three months. The remains of the two murdered missionaries, the Rev. Messrs. Williams and Harris, were recovered by Captain Croker, of her Majesty's ship Favourite, in Feb. 1840, at Nupati Bay, called by English writers Dillon's Bay, in the island of Erumango. They stood into the island on the 27th of February : what follows is the account of the subsequent proceedings from the Sydney Herald:— " A boat was manned, and Capt. Croker, with his second lieutenant and Mr. Cunningham, also Lalolange, Naurita, and another, put off from the ship. The party consisted of 20 persons. As the boat neared the shore a canoe pushed off from the eastern side of the bay having six men in it but a squall coming on they put back again. Some natives were seen among the rocks, who soon disappeared, the war shell sounded at the same instant in various directions. It now became necessary to proceed with the greatest caution ; for it was the anxious duty of the commander to obtain the remains, if any, without the effusion of blood. At the approach of the boat the natives fled precipitately, but being called to by the interpreters they returned, and a negoci ation commenced. The Erumangans said that but few bones remained, two heads were at the west of the bay, and a few bones to the east. Various temptations were offered to procure the whole ; but they were ineffectual, the natives declared they had made a feast of the bodies at the edge of the brook, and had cast away several of the bones into the lagoon. It was not their custom to preserve any part on such occasions, except the arm and leg bones, of which they formed tools and made fish hooks. They stated, moreover, that another tribe had made an incursion upon them, and had taken away all or most of their clothes. The natives were now gathered round the boat, and several were at last induced to go off in search of the 'lopes, and after a while returned with a few, which the Samoans and Tannes concurred in be lieving to be the bones of white men. Persons in New South* . Wales, aware of the intuitive sagacity of the aborigines, will not be at a loss to understand the decision with which these parties could speak on such a subject. When the heads were inquired for, it was said they had been carried some distance, and that the men who had gone for them had not returned. A strong trade was now carried on for some time. Among the throng Mr. Cunningham recognised a man who had husked cocoa nuts in the bows of the Camden's boat just as Mr,. Harris left, and who was afterwards among the murder ers of Mr. Williams. At the call of Naurita several laid down their arms, and brought both bows and arrows for sale. Having waited on the burning beach for several hours, and it being afternoon, Captain Croker suggested that the party should leave for the ship, and visit the natives again the next morning. On getting into the boat, however, many of the savages ran down towards it in crowds, picking up stones on the beach. Old Naurita was quickly at his post, and harangued them on the number of muskets in the hands of the boat's crew, and required them to refrain from any insult or aggres sion. Just as the boat was putting off, some were observed running down with skulls in their hands ; the boat waited for the messengers, they brought three skulls, the only ones belonging to white men that they possessed. Although they were unable to distinguish them they affirmed that they were the remains of the two bodies sought for, and of another white man of whose death perhaps no record has been kept. Having thus obtained all that Mild be procured, the party returned to the vessel, rejoicing that the mortal , remains of the persons so much beloved bad been reclaimed from the hands of savages to receive an honourable burial amidst the regrets and lamentations of Christian converts and the tears of affectionate relatives and friends. Surrounded by the commander, officers, and crew of her majesty's vessel, wept over by his !•elatives, and deplored by the thousand The inquiry was conducted by Mr. Hall. There were also present at the Home-office the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Uxbridge, (Lord Chamberlain of the Household,) the Hon. Mr. Murray, (Controller of the Household,) Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. Phillips, and other official officers. Jones was removed to his old quarters in Tothill-street Prison be tween six and seven o'clock. The extraordinary circum stance of his having obtained a third entrance into Bucking ham Palace formed the all-engrossing subject of conversation yesterday.—EA most rigid investigation as to how Jones ef fected this third entrance into the Palace is about to take place. He is to be imprisoned for three months, and kept to hard labour.] RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY [Length of line, 3't mi. For the week ending March 11: Passengers LONDO 'Length of line, 101 Receipts.. Passengers £945 13 2 s of Sa moans whO naa neara.tne gospel from hi s li ps, the ashes of th e venerated missionary Williams we re comm i tted to their kindred dust, together with the remains of 114 r. Harris, a less known', but to many not a less loved name —and thos ,unknown victim of barbarous usage!' THE CLERGY.—The opponents of the established church make frequent allusions to the supposed i mproper li ves of some of her ministers ; but the fact is that thelaw is far more stringent upon them than upon any ?thee teachers of the gospel. By the church discipline act, if complaint be made to the bishop of unbecoming co nduct on the part of any in cumbent or curate, be is bound to issue a commi ss i on o f lin quiryately havei nto b the e been adopted facts, i and actina n accordingly ehbgou This course wo u ld ri ng diocese, but as the party accused resigned, there was of course an end of the matter. If there be improper ministers in the church, it i s therefore clearly the fault of the parishioners themselves ; but from the absence of such complaints, it is only right to infer that there are very few or no instances where they could be preferred upon substantial grounds.—Worcester Journal. 1, and t ouse would 1 for by the ing _ stated the der whi, )wn by the a sum, ough Wit lord would consent ld Lord Howick ' - i that the co -3a ne government is of salaried c ssioners, the least mum, while its re he noble lord would nd at as early a LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY [Length of line, 31 miles.] For the week ending March 5 Receipts £4,550 8 10 BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY [Length of line, 384 mileS.l For the week endintt March 6 : Receipts NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY [Length of line, 72+ miles.] For the week ending March 6 : Receipts HULL AND SEI r BY RAILWA [Length of line, 31 miles.] For the week ending March 7 : Receipts... Passengers £957 13 11 GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY [Length of line, 114 miles.] For the week ending March 6 : Receipts £2,782 7 1 £617 13 3 .. .. 2,823 E 8,200 4 YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY [Length of line, 23 miles.] For the week ending March 8 : Receipts PaqgenffP NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWA th of line opened, 191 miles. - March 9:— [Leng For the week eridi Receipts Passengers Receii NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWA Length of line, 61 miles GREAT WES Le For the week endin Receipts. of line opened, 92 miles 36 1 .. 5.0( £1,606 8 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY For the we [Length of line, 77 miles.] k ending March 13 : Passengers, &.c Goods £2,912 9 1 690 13 2 THE W EATHER.—Such genial weather at this season has seldom been experienced. It has all the amenity of sum mer without its oppressive heat. The promenades of Prin ces-street and George -street have a very gay appearance in the afternoons. Vegetation has made extraordinary progress within the last few weeks. " The bud is on the bough, and the leaf breaks from the bud ;" and everything betokens a fine season. May no unkindly frost nip the fair promises which nature now presents.—Scotti s h Standard. etitioner, y it to the Dll of the haying Sat Mr AWES 1110ved !sisted several entrea understand it, which nded, because the bill hon. member ,C3~~~ Conr.ell, of the :h Parliamentar and independent Assurance Company tteuded at the request o )ns to pay that stun a and to receive the r Le had to speak re- •emiums upon insurance from Scotland, datedth, etter of credit for MORNING CH unfounded calumn: oblige me and Mr. n your column bat I co ,nxious to see the people of the concern, and he went himse ked to 1. person of tall street, and Mr. Knowle ;s, and seemed t be about o him tt It was c a his appearance, and he (Mr. Connell) money of his clients and received their Mainly with reluctance that the money waspal Sir Peter Laurie this system of v Tat number of year and the • whole scheme was got up by those two fellows Knowles and Hole. I have here an authenticated list of individuals who, in consequence of reliance upon this company, are now in workhouses. I have given merely the initials of a few whose relatives requested that the names should not appear : Ann Tyson, Glo T. S. Edinburgi Joanna Austeri, Exeter Miss White, Nottinghe Barber, London Scammell, Wiltshire 20 3 6 per ann 40 0 0 per ann Gracie Hitchern. Suffolk ;mall, Newbury Craig, Armagh Nymouth 100 .. 8 0 0 per ann 200 .. 25 0 0 per ann 90 .. 1G 0 0 per ann W. L. Lanag ss Tilden, DCw M., Kid& A.. 8., ditto Captain Harris, Weymouth 550 John Harrison, Pocklington 200 20 0 0 per abn Now, most of the annuitants are poor people, who had given all they had and could gather together in the world to -Messrs. Knowles, Hole, and Co., in the fulk,belief that they would receive the large per tentage which their prospectus ,• The two concoctor of livthe, in Ke the company Hole's father and his mother was a washerwoman. After dasa s. boy to a grocer, now residing at Hythc, to London and opened a shop, but failed in several tempts to establish himself. About twelve years he kept was a t being li red as a shot an Italian warehouse in the Edgeware-road, and at last joined Knowles in the West Middlesex. The father of ,Knowles was a servant in the brewery at H y the, and his mother was a wash- , erwoman. When young the manager Knowles was a footboy. He afterwards became a footman in London, and about twelve years ago he was usher at an academy in the neigh bourhood of Chelsea, and, as will presently appear, he cut a figure as an insolvent and a bankrupt before he started upon the speculation which so con and has caused such calamity pletely a I pero iest held ❑rpose, Worcester 3or fellow Z account of an inc named Thomas Hig, by his own hands were :. and the loss of XlOO accouv Assurance Com- pany. Mr. Barrett, the governor of Whitecross-street prison, stated that Thomas Knowles, the managing director of the Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Company, was committed to that orison on the 18th of April, 1829, at the it of George Vincent for £4O. lie was discharged under e insolvent act in the following August, but did not leave ...e prison until the 2d of November, 1829, which made the term of his imprisonment upwards of six months. Knowles, who had been.the steward of one of the wards, asked to see him (Mr. Barrett) on the clay of his final discharge, and, with tears in his eyes, requested the loan of some money to redeem a suit of clothes which were in pledge, and without which he was ashamed to return home. The suns of £4 9s. cordin y lent to him ough the most solemn e money should be most grate _ epaid, the money was never repaid, though repeated assurances were given that t full ,ons were made for it ppears fr A a search Will was yesterday made at the LETTER. FROM THE REV l'ciockenham, nea. March 8, 1841. As your reporter has 'epresented what Mr. Langdale said about me in the House of Corn the 2d instant, and thereby conveyed to your nu eaders a most injurious Liverpool, zrievously misr lsethe good te, not to say veracity, of that gentleman, in repeating an long since publicly refuted Langdale also, I should think , 1:;) you wiil giving red the politico-religious system of modern to the character of " that woman Jezebel," is most and although the resemblance has been vehemently and petulantly denied, I have a 4 yet seen no attempt to dis prove by fair argument the legitimacy of the parallel. My statement is reasoned out in detail under distinct heads, and open to an argumentative refutation, if it can be refuted. Nothing of -the kind, so far as I know, has been attempted. My opponents have confined themselves to nickname scur- There has been nothing so flagrant as rill" ____ In support of a bad cause , it is easier to rail than to reason. I have no such occasion for condescending to rail in return. If the descriptions of modern Romanism, on which her alleged similitude to Jezebel is grounded, be er roneous or exaggerated, the blame belongs not to me, but to the authorised standards, published laws, and unrescinded formularies of the system, which in that case are convicted of falsehood, and the rulers of the system are convicted of retaining them, knowing them to be false. That I repudiated the idea of Christians holding their peace while such standards are maintained, is also true; and I quoted our Saviour's words to show that vital christianity, however peaceful in itself, can never be at peace in a fallen world, but must ever be, through the opposition of men, the nocent cause of contention, or, as our Saviour expresses it, s%Vord. It has been so, and must be so, until the second >ming; of our Saviour.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, HUGH• M 'NEILE Liverpool, March 5, 1841 Sir,—Your speech in the House ofCon:mons on'Tuesday night last, as it is reported in the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday, contains the following passage :—" When the honourable gentleman adverted to the strong language which he stlated had been used from the (Roman) Catholic pulpits in Ireland, could he be a stranger to the new Refor mation sermons, as they were called, which had been preached in this country by Mr. M`Neile and others, in which the Sovereign of this realm was compared to Jezebel [hear]?" You will oblige me by letting me know if this be a correct report of what you saidabout me, and it not, what it was you did say. As you thought it right to mention my name in parliament, I cannot doubt that you will feel it equally right to favour me with a reply to this inquiry.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, HUGH WNEILE. To the Hon. Charles Langdale, M.P. London, March 6, 1841 Sir,—The substance of what I said in the House of Com mons, in reference to Mr. M`Neile, was to the following ef fect :—That he had denounced the religion of a large portion of his fellow subjects as Jezebel, and that he repudiated the idea of peace towards such. I shall be happy to learn, by any public or private disavowal, that this is not a correct in terpretation of the comparison alluded to, any more than that which had bcen attributed to it as applied to the Queen, and which, I am aware, has been denied, and theref,re could not be repeated by me, as reported in the Chronicle.—l have the honour to remain, sir, your obedient servant, Rev. H. M`Neile. . CII ARLES LANGDALE. THE OXFORD TRACTS At a meeting of the Vice-Chancellor, Heads of Houses, and Proctors, in the Delegates'-room, March 15, 1841. Considering that it is enjoined in the statutes of this Uni versity (tit. 111., sect. 2; tit. IX., sect. 11., §3, sect. V., § 3) that every student shall be instructed and examined in the 39 articles, and shall subscribe to them ; considering also that 'a tract has recently appeared, dated from Oxford, and entitled Remarks on certain Passages in the 39 Articles, being No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times, a series pf anony mous publications purporting to be written by members of the University, but which are in no way sanctioned by the University itself. Resolved, that modes of interpretation such as are sug gested in the said tract, evading rather than explaining the sense of the 39 Articles, and reconciling subscription to them with the adoption of errors, which they were designed to counteract, defeat the object, and are inconsistent with the due observance, of the abovementioned statutes. P. WYNTER, Vice-Chancellor. R. NEWMAN Mr. Vice-Chancellor,—l write this respectfully to inform you, that I am the author, and have the whole responsibility, of the tract on which the hebdomadal board has just now expressed an opinion, and that I have not given my name hitherto. under the belief that it was desired that I should not. I hope it will not surprise you if I say, that my opinions remain unchanged of the truth and honesty of the principles maintained in the tract, and of the necessity of putting it forth. At the same time I am prompted by my deep feel ings to add my deep consciousness that every thing I attempt might be done in a better spirit, and in a better way ; and, while I am sincerely sorry for the trouble and anxiety I have giVen to the members of the board, I beg to return my thanks to them for an act which, even founded on misapprehension, may be made as profitable to myself as it is religiously and charitably intended. I say this with great sincerity, and am, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Your obedient servant, JOHN HENRY NEW MAN. Oriel College, March 16. The University is in a great state of agitation. The printers are engaged on both sides, hard at work. PUBLIC EXECUTION OF JAMES TAYLOR, FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. SALISBURY, TUESDAY. - It will be in .the recollection o our readers that James Taylor, a pig -dealer, residing a' Vootton Bassett, was charged at the lat Id at Devizes, with the wilful murder his wife, when it appeared that the prisoner, about 39 year old, having given up his avocation as a pig-dealer, had let out his little cottage, consisting merely of the ground-floor, to railway labourers, who were thereby accommodated in a very sorry manner, they being huddled together like so many pigs. This circumstance, it is supposed, gave rise to an illicit correspondence between the prisoner's wife and a railway la bourer, named Jack, and this led to an elopement, which cir cumstance so irritated the prisoner, that he coolly and de liberately fired his gun at his wife while she was in the act of cleaning some carrots and potatoes, and killed her dead on the spot. But as the principal witness could not then attend, the trial was adjourned to the Salisbury Lent Assizes, when the jury found him guilty of the charge of wilful murder. The only question, said Mr. Justice Erskine, for them to'de cide was, " whether the prisoner loaded the gun with the in tention to destroy or not the life of his wife's paramour (the railway labourer, Jack); for, if they were satisfied of that fact, it did not matter whether the wife had been killed acci dentally or not, for if the gun exploded, when in the posses sion of the prisoner, he having loaded it for an unlawful pur pose, that was, by law, murder, and equally the same as though lie had loaded the said gun for the express purpose of destroying his wife's life." _NVe_understand that hundreds of persons - in this city sympathised with the unfortunate man, he having taken the life of his wife under circumstances of the most aggravated nature, and consequently a petition was got up at Salisbury, and very numerously signed, for the commutatio❑ of the sentence of death, but to no purpose. The prosecutors (the authorities of the parish) and the jury recommended the prisoner to mercy, but we are informed, on authority of the most official character, that his lordship most positively declined joining in that petition for mercy. During the interim between the unhappy man's sentence and execution, he has conducted himself in a manner altoge ther extraordinary. His wife was a young and very beautiful woman, and it is supposed his jealousy continued after her death, for he would not acknowledge himself guilty of a fault, and asserted that the injury he had sustained fully justified the act he had committed. His conversation was blasphemous, lewd, and insulting to the authorities—justification of his own conduct, and determination not to vepent. Even on his last day, his first words were imprecations, alleging that the workmen were lazy fellows for not coming and putting up his drop (the scaffold) at an earlier hour ; and on his hearing the sound of the workmen's hammers, when they were beginning their labour, he gave three hurrahs with a firm voice, having previously observed that lie had two crooked sixpences to give Jack Ketch if he would well grease the rope The Venerable Archdeacon Macdonald, the chaplain (the Rev. C. H. Hodgson), and the Rev. Mortimer Hodgson, and other ministers, were indefatigable i n th e i r s piritual labours in his behalf ; but he would not listen to them fora moment. He would not suffer the sacrament to be administered to him, nor allow the burial service to be read previously to his execution. Eleven o'clock came, the hour appointed for his death, and when the officers went to his cell, lie exclaimed, " Give me a pint of gin, and I'll show them how to dance Jim Crow !" Indeed we should be pollut ing the ear, and demoralizing the community. were we to publish the almost dying words of the wretched man. Find ing that this conduct was his determination of display at the last, the under-sheriff and other officers were resolved to al low him no time to corrupt the public morals on the scaf fold, and a few minutes before twelve o'clock the prison bell announced the approaching time of his dissolution—(at this time there were thousands of persons congregated in front of the gaol to witness the last moments of this unhappy victim of jealousy), and shorly after the Venerable Arhdeacon Mac donald, the Rev. C. H. HodgiOn: and son, preceded by the officers, were seen advancing from the wretched man's cell, and then next the turnkeys and prisoner followed, and the prisoner was seen jumping, dancing, and singing "Turn about and wheel about, and do just so, arid every time I turns about I jump Jim Crow. I went up to London," &c. But here evidently this wretch was almost broken hearted, and seemed to be a mere puppet of some hidden mechanical power ; nevertheless he arrived on the fatal spot without be traying any very evident symptoms of intimidation, and went readily and placed himself under the fearful beam, saying, in a hurried manner, " Ladies and gentlemen, I am very glad to see so many of you present—such a grand assemblage of people to see me hanged! And mind, if ever any of you go a robbing, be sure and take a double-barrelled gun with you and shoot all you can !—and mind and do it as it should be. And I got to tell you that Jane Newman and farmer James Hathway, of Toockenham, are the greatest enemies 1 had ; and had it not been for them, I should have been there now. I am glad I killed my wife, and I don't mind being hanged" —(here the executioner drew the cap over his eyes, and the unhappy man resumed)—" i don't care for that, I can keep on talking Oh ! what a pleasant view—what a grand sight. I likes this sort of fun !" At this moment the bolt was drawn, and he was launched into eterni t y . He apparently suffered but little, and, after hanging the usual time. (au hour,) his countenance was scarcely changed, nor his fea tures distorted ! His body will be interred within the pre cincts of the gaol this evening. Th e populace conducted themselves altogether with much propriety. RUMOURED EPIDEMIC AT ETON.—In consequence of three children of Mr. Tarver, the Italian and French master at Eton College, having died of scarlet fever during the past week, the greatest alarm has prevailed on the subject amongst the parents and friends of the various boys (amounting to upwards of 600) now at college. On INlonday last a line youth, 12 years of age, the son of Mr. William Mount, of Wasing-place, Berks, who was an inmate in the establish ment of the Rev. Mr. Coleridge, one of the assistant-mas ters, expired of this distressing disorder. It was reported on Tuesday that one of the servants of Mr. Tarver had died of the same complaint, but she is now better, and likely to re cover. Dr. Ilawtrey has addressed a letter to the parents of the respective pupils, in which he encloses a letter from a physician, who states that he sees no necessity for the re moval of any of the boys, and that were he a parent or guar dian, he would not disturb them at this advanced and so nearly expiring period of their stay at Eton. The number of boys who have been sent for by their parents amounts to upwards of 300. No fresh cases of sickness had occurred up to Wednesday evening. Some very extensive alterations and improvements are now in progress in the playing grounds connected with the college. Several of the adjacent build ings are to be removed, and the ground upon which they stood, together with the gardens, are to be added to the playing fields. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1841 The speech delivered by the Colonial Secretary on the Jews' Municipal Bill is lauded by a London weekly journal as " one of the most enlightened speeches ever delivered on the subject of toleration." So high an eulogium induced us to turn once more to so po tent an oration, and to weigh with more deliberation than we had before used, those arguments addressed in it by which it had found so much favour in the re gards of a leading organ of Radicalism. Our re-in vestigation, however, has not brought us to the same conclusion with that of the hebdomadal critic; for, though we are willing to admit that the courage evinced by the delivery of such a speech was of a surpassing quality, we cannot conceive that it was at all supported or matched by the enlightenment. The courage, we grant, was magnificent. With a large majority to cheer him on, and ready to laugh down any one that should oppose, his lordship certainly had the courage to put forth a manifesto that leaves us nothing more to learn as to the Whig doctrine of toleration, and the lengths which the party are prepared to go in carrying it out. The doctrine which the noble lord avows comes ex actly to this, that it is intolerant to maintain any reli gious test whatever, and that no man should be ex cluded from office on account of his religious belief or unbelief, as the case might be. Well, the position is not new. It strikes us we have heardithe sound thereof before, borne along by the western breeze and redolent of Hibernian flowers, and that it was the theme unceasingly celebrated by every youthful poet or orator mature, in days not so long passed, when humble Popery was a suitor at our shores. To originality therefore it can make no pretension, as coming only a week or two since from her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies. It is a doc trine, however, of a very extreme kind, and, in its ope ration and tendencies, subversive of all religious esta blishments. It would admit the Jew not only to mu nicipal offices but into Parliament; and the minister, clearly perceiving this consequence, was kind enough to announce; that should' any one bring in a bill for such a purpose, he, for one, woule cordially support it. Follow out the principle, and the. Parliament becomes an assembly not of Church of England Protestants, nor even of professing Christians; but of men who may be anything, everything, or nothing, so far as re ligion is concerned. Nor would the principle cease to operate here. The houses of Parliament having sanctioned it in their own favour, would be bound to go forward and give the benefit of it to the Sovereign. The Crown could not be kept under religious restrictions while all its sub jects were discharged from them, and must soon cease to be legally Protestant; and revolution having thus travelled through all ranks of society, what connexion, we may ask, would remain between Church and State, or how long would a Parliament that had decreed all tests and questions to be intolerant and had abolished them, allow any church to remain that could claim such a connection ? On the ground assumed by the Colonial Secretary we could have no Established Church at all, and must cease to be a Christian people so far as might be known by any national law or declaration on the subject. This is a consequence that follows strictly, naturally, and legitimately, from his doctrine, and is as perfect in the egg, though not so fully developed, as it would be in the actual, full-grown, locomotive cockatrice. His lordship, we must allow, has shewn great bravery in broaching such a doctrine, for it is perfect latitudina rianism, and exhihits a recklessness on the subject of religion and a disregard to the known and most che rished feelings of Englishmen such as few ministers of the Crown have had the hardihood or the imprudence to display. Heretofore some reserve has been prac tised when tests were sought to he withdrawn, or our laws relaxed in favour of persons who were not at one with the established constitution in all respects, and the pleas for relaxation were founded not upon that latitudinarianism now promulgated, hut upon the ex pediency and convenience of the thing, and the little harm which, it was contended, should be apprehended from the change. But Liberalism has waxed strong, and now comes abroad confidently without any dis guise. But let us leave the Liberal for a moment and turn to the Conservative. We put this question to him. Will he sanction tgis latitudinarian, anything arian, God-denying principle now openly and unblush ingly commended by one of her Majesty's ministers, and acted upon, we do believe, so far as may be, by his party ? Dissenters have been emancipated, Papists have been emancipated, and now equal civil privileges are sought also for the Jews ; or in other words, our constitution having ceased to he strictly ecclesiastical, then to be Protestant, is now sAught to be de-christi anised. Such is really the proposition involved in the municipal liberties solicited for the Jews—liberties, as we have before said, of perhaps little intrinsic impor tance on their own account, but of much and serious consequence by reason of the momentous relaxation of principle which the concession of them necessarily re quires. The application seems to rest on the presump tion that Church Protestants have no scruples of con science like other religionists, or that they want the courage to act upon them. The Dissenter puts his religion in the foreground, and asks for indulgence solely on the score of his peculiar religious sentiments; so does the Papist ; so does the Jew ; but the Church man is not supposed to entertain any scruples of the If he speak of them, he is laughed at or de nounced as a bigot; but if he proclaim that all reli gions are the same to him, and gives to all classes of assailants power and opportunity to pull down that church of which he is a member, oh, then, he is every thing that is expansive in mind—liberal, generous, and enlightened. Truly, as the Scripture saith, there is " a fear of man that bringeth a snare." Why are Churchmen ashamed of their church-principles ? Pa pists and Dissenters are not ashamed of theirs. Popery, we lament to say, has gained a new and im portant victory in the affair of the St. Sulpice frater nity of Montreal. We had been led to expect a very different result by what took place in the House of Lords when the Bishop of Exeter gave notice of his motion on the 4th instant. Certainly it could not have been imagined that when, in less than a fortnight after, he submitted his proposition to the house, he would have been completely deserted, and obliged to ahatbn it without calling for a The Right Rev. Prelate must have been especially disappointed in not receiving the support of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, who expressed himself so strongly in fa your.of his object on the former evening. His Grace's language on that occasion will not easily be forgotten, when he said, 'alluding to the intended incorporation of ' the St. Suipicians, that it was the " first blow struck at the principles of the reformation," and he entreated the attention of their lordships to it with an earnestness suitable to an emergency so serious and important. Was this appeal put forward merely as a demonstration, and intended to direct the public mind from, rather than to fix it on this particular point ? We ask this question, because, if we mistake not, his Grace ha's on former occasions applied some of that admirable skill which distinguished him as the first of military tacti cians to the strategy of debate and the conduct of ci vil affairs. It is certainly a species of finesse, or, at least, it so appeared in our eyes, which none could put in practice with greater probability of success than his Grace. When people are led to suppose that the Duke is wide awake, and sees a serious blow aimed at some vital principle in our constitution, how natural is it that they should abandon themselves to a feeling of confidence and security; how natural that they should exult in the imagination that the threatened attack had been discerned by his eagle eye, and that they should give themselves up to the enjoyment of that satisfac tion which the idea of having so vigilant a sentinel and so powerful a defender at the post of danger `vas calculated to inspire. It might appear at a first glance that this sort of alarm-cry would tend to excite rather than to calm, to awaken rather than allay apprehen sion ; but under his Grace's refined and judicious ma nagement a contrary result takes place. The feint is applied by his skilful hand with such unequalled tact that nobody entertains the slightest suspicion of what is to follow. His Grace, perhaps, does not breathe the secret of his deceptive missive even to himself. Ile has said, we may remember, that " if the hairs of his head knew what was passing inside he would cut them off." Meanwhile the missive does its work, and no body dreams of interfering with a business which it is supposed the Duke has taken in hands. The day of trial at length arrives, and-the blow is struck, ' quietly, effectively, and without opposition. And then what have the people to do but muse upon the melan choly result. We cannot collect from the debate that the incorpo ration of the St. Sulpicians, and the confirming to them the disputed seigniory, out of which it is calcu lated they will net some thirty thousand pounds a-year, will be less a blow at the principles of the reformation, when inflicted, than it appeared to be while yet only impending. Popery now obtains a degree of recogni tion and establishment in Canada, such as it had not arrived at before ; and along with this consolidation, it acquires great possessions with an improved title, which we fear will give it a new power that will he felt not only through the entire of our Canadian terri tories, but beyond them. Well might the Duke of Wellington say that this was " a severe blow at the principle of the reformation"—lamentable under any circumstances, but particularly so now as coming from the Sovereign authority, aided, we must add, by that dignified and (as it should be) independent branch of the legislature, in which all the loyal and respectable portion of the population has been accustomed to re pose its confidence. Thus it is that the bravery of the Canadian loyalists and Protestants in both provinces is rewarded ; and such is the answer returned to their prayers and re monstrances touching this superstitious brotherhood of St. Sulpice. Rebels are richly remunerated ; loy alists are treated with rejection and contempt. The most ample provision is made for the dissemination of a false religion, wholly incompatible with an undivided allegiance to a Protestant Sovereign ; but the national church, scarcely indulged with toleration, is left to starve. But this, after all, is not the first blow at the principles of the reformation; it is only the second. The first was inflicted some twelve years ago; this is its legitimate fruit. In the course of the debate on Monday, it was ar gued that, from the neglects or compromises of former administrations, the right of the Crown to the seigni ories now about to be assigned. away irrevocably had become involved in doubt; and on this doubt, coupled with certain inuendoes as to what might happen if the Canadian Papists were to be irritated by a refusal of their demands, the plea for concession was raised. Doubt and fear—two bad advisers, especially when conspiring in their counsels—are the main ingredients of its actuating motivr. : doubt as to the law, and fear as to the consequences of non-compliance. But doubt, under existing circumstances, is certain triumph to the adversary ; for, in such case, ascendant Popery steps in, and the scale of Protestantism immediately kicks the beam. But when and where is this wretched system to end ? As a system of policy, by the way, it is absurd, nay suicidal. In strengthening Popery in Canada, we do but strengthen that disease from which all the troubles in the province flow. By very large concessions we purchase dearly a very little temporary peace, and confirm and establish the power of the ad versary immensely. Popery will never be won over to our side by any concessions. It will bear no rival near its throne, and be satisfied with nothing short of absolute command. It is time we should know this. and act as if we did. The boy Jones, though the son of a tailor who works on a bulkhead, and though at this present mo ment immured himself in Tothill-fields House of Cor rection, as a vagabond whose wanderings have ceased for the present, he is probably climbing that ever beginning, never-ending steep, the tread-mill—is yet, in our estimation, a youth of noble aspirations. We should like to examine his phrenological developments. Our pen upon it, there is something that gives token of a lofty, soaring spirit in his bumposities. In his present forlorn state he is, poor fellow, but an abject, despised thing. The world estimates merit by its for tune. External accidents and mere trappings settle everything in their opinion; and few there are that can see any genius in the man whose ill luck clothes him in rags, or sends him to Tothill-fields House of Correction. Yet, gentle reader, do accompany us for a moment to the prison of poor Edward Jones. Let us consider him there, not as a cruel fate has for the moment disposed of him, but as his own bright ima gination would have him be. What is his crime ? Ambition—ambition, not for the glories of the tented heath—not " to follow to the field some warlike lord ;" not to command upon the seas, and shine hereafter a new star in the galaxy of British naval heroes. No; letters and the court have been his first love, and he remains true to the passion. In vain do they ask him to enlist, or embark, " a shiphoy, on the high and giddy mast ;" he cannot, will not, break his plighted faith. He has vowed to become either a Melbourne or a Normanby—a palace premier or an author, or both ; and who can blame him for so noble a denouement of his powers ? We are sure her Maj9sty will not. His error consists in the rather abrupt method that he has taken 'to attain the gratification of his wishes. Of a disposition too impetuous to await the ordinary pace of events, he strikes off at once into the royal road, and would become a premier by climbing the palace walls, or forcing himself through a palace window, or down a palace chimney; and then, having entered—instead of paying a nice regard to the solemnity and sacred ness of the place, and to the etiquette and ceremony inseparable from its halls and banquets, as a royal guest should do, and as Lord Melbourne, no doubt, does—the bulkhead tailor's son proceeds immediately, and sans ceremonie, to profit by his advancement. " He was taken," says the report, " in the hall, but it was discovered that he had previously visited her Ma jesty's larder, as at the time he was disturbed he was feasting himself with cold meat and potatoes, which he had conveyed up stairs in a handkerchief." Here lay the error. The love of the palace kitchen is, if we may judge by the example of great men, in itself laudable ; and no wonder that a poor tailor's son, with a passion for reading, and reading, as he frequently must have done, of the su mptuous faring, every day, of the great men alluded to within the royal residence—should have become smitten with a desire to partake of the same bounty, and share in the good things of the palace cupboard. But, as we have said, to take up the cold meat and potatoes in a handkerchief, and to munch them behind a glass door—that shews an ignorance of the ways of courts, and the uptutored simplicity of the tailor's son. But he had another, and we may say more cable, ambition also, " Somebody had told him," he says, " that if he got into the palace, and could hear the men and women talk, he might write a book and make his fortune." Ilere we have the " pursuit of know ledge under difficulties," and the love of literary dis tinction. And here once more let us ask, who will say that the tailor's son had not a " soul above buttons" ? Vet the limbs of this poor boy arc now perhaps endu ring indescribable fatigue, treading on the mill, merely in consequence of his yielding to a noble inclination— an ardent love of fame and authorship, which our schoolmaster has many a time flogged us fur not feel ing at all, or for failing to exhibit with an adequate degree of intensity. It strikes us that the impulse of genius was upon this poor lad, and that he must really be gifted with powers to distinguish himself in that elevated sphere for which he evinces so palpable a penchant. The Herald has given the following speci men of his powers of observation, and, considering the difficulties our young author laboured under, we think it affords evidence that in due time he will, if his ca reer be not cut short by some untoward accident, be come eminent as an historian, and publish perhaps a " Book of the Boudoir," compared with which Lady Morgan's will be considered insignificance itself:— " He says he was in a room where there was a coronet, and many jewels, which he handled ; that he sat upon the throne in the throne-room, and read books in the library, which books he can name, and point out the places where they are placed on the shelves. He says, also, that in one of the rooms two men came in one morning to light the fire; that the one began to whistle, and the other said, Jack, you know that is against the rules ;' to which he replied, There are many more rules than that broken in this As we have taken a lively interest in all that con cerns this extraordinary youth, we shall attend with much anxiety to the sequel of his history, and not fail to report to our readers whatever we may be able to collect of an important and authentic character. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIANIENT. (From our London Correspondent.) The proceedings of the House of Lords on Monday night were of a character, in every point of view, most deeply to be regretted. A great and influential portion of the public had looked forward to the result of the motion, to be brought forward by the Bishop of Exeter, as one which was to revive the drooping spirits of Protestantism throughout the empire, by affording evidence of a return, on the part•of the heredi tary branch of the legislature, to the ancient principles of the constitution. The sentiments expressed in a former debate upon the same subject, by that illustrious man to whom, under Providence, his country is already so deeply indebted —need I mention the name of the Duke of Wellington as that of the statesman to whom I refer ?—had filled the hearts of thousands of his confiding fellow-countrymen with the clad thought that he, at least, would not stand tamely by, and see the Protestantism of any portion of the empire surrendered by a base and dishonest faction, as the purchase-money of those venal majorities by which the Church of Rome sustains ' them in office, to work cut her own projects against the li berties of Great Britain and of mankind. Those hopes— those glad thoughts—no longer exist. The friends of Pro testantism—the friends of the entireness of the empire itself —are now left to rely solely upon their own unaided strength —upon their own resolute exertions—to protect their coun try from inevitable decay and ultimate dismemberment, and to preserve to their children, untarnished and inviolate, the faith which has been handed down to them by their fathers. The speech of the Bishop of Exeter in favour of the moticn afforded a presage of the result which was to attend it. " I was encouraged," observed the rev. prelate, " in the course which I have found it my duty to pursue with respect to this ordinance, by the sentiments expressed by the noble duke, that he regarded it as the first direct violation of the great principles of the reformation—sentiments which have already been echoed with pride and satisfaction by Protestant com munities in every corner of the empire ;—and I should in vain attempt to describe the feelings of bitter humiliation with which I learn that I am not to-night to be favoured by his grace's support to this motion." This feeling, which there are few indeed who would not have experienced in si milar circumstances, affected the tone of the rev. prelate's speech throughout ; and from the circumstance that not one of those noble lords, who have on other occasions been found supporting in the house the integrity of the Protestant faith of the kingdom, came forward on this occasion to his assist ance, we can only conclude that the unaccountable conver sion of the noble duke to the advocacy of ministerial policy with respect to the ordinance iu question, had made upon them the same impression. The country, however, will have an opportunity of observing that, isolated as he was, and un supported by his party, the rev. bishop succeeded fully in proving the incompatibility of the greet . of St. Sul ice with the principles of the constitution, with the termii?itle-rreall hy which Canada became a possession of the British crown, and with the act of union of last session ; whilst its support ers were satisfied to rest their case upon the assertion that the present concession is justified by former concessions— that a new abuse is justified by the " precedent" of an old I will not enter into an examination of the arguments by which the Duke of Wellington attempted to vindicate the course which he had determined to pursue upon this ques tion. It is painful to see such a man blight the hopes of his fellow-countrymen, as the noble duke has done on this occa sion ; but there is one consolation—if indeed it can be called such—in the reflection that it is not by the prompting of his own noble spirit, or by the exercise of his own strong powers of judgment, that he has ever been led to do so. When these qualities of his grace's mind are called into action by any sudden emergency, his conduct and his sentiments are all that his most ardent friends could desire ; but when the impulse is allowed to cool, and the unseen influence (of which we cannot but suspect the existence) is allowed to creep in, to poison the springs of action—to draw aside with the whispers of expediency that noble heart which never swerved from its Purpose by any coercion—it is then that we are called upon almost to regret the existence of that influence upon the minds of his fellow-countrymen, with which grati tude and admiration of his virtues have invested him. It is then, too, that we are led to make the serious inquiry— " From whose lips are breathed those fatal lessons which have so darkly blotted the record of the political life of one whose career of arms presents only bright pages of unsullied and continuous glory ? " But I will not pursue the ques tion. There is one illustrious individual who has been said to exercise a great influence over the mind of the duke ; but surely—surely that individual has of late seen sufficient, of what was on Monday evening termed " carrying out the measure of emancipation," to induce him to withhold his approbation from this particular portion of the " carrying out" in question. The flippant oration of her Majesty's Secretary of State for the House Department, Lord Normanby, will, I am convinced, be read with unmingled disgust by every man of taste in her dominions. That it was a reply to the rev. bishop it would be a mockery to suppose for a moment—as great a mockery, in fact, as to place the frizzle-gated author of " Yes and No," and " Matilda, a Tale of the Day," in competition, as to any one quality which enters into the composition of a statesman, with the illustrious men who have dignified that office in the better days of the constitu tion. The real and the only reply to the rev. bishop was the exhibition of the Duke of Wellington in contented thrall by the side of the ministry ; and relying upon the helpless sub serviency to which his grace had been brought, his lordship thought proper to inflict upon the house the frippery of his wit, and even, like the ass in the fable, to throw up his heels in insult to the memory of one of the best monarchs who ever held the throne of Great Britain—the revered grand father of her present Majesty. Would that his descendant possessed one tithe of that acute perception of the character and capabilities of men and ministers, which distinguished her illustrious predecessor ! Were such the case, a grea country like this would surely not be insulted by seeing any portion of her interests committed to the charge of an inca pable and insolent compound of pomatum and false hai whom Nature never designed for any nobler duty than th of supplying the kitchen-maids of our nobility with nauseous and tawdry novels, or of occupying any more dignified posi tion than a shelf in the window of a fashionable perruquier.. The House of Commons on Monday was occupied by a motion brought forward by Mr. Hutt, the member for Hull, with respect to the Sound duties, now levied by the govern ment of Denmark upon British tonnage passing through the Baltic. The honourable member laid before the house, with considerable clearness, the various treaties relating to the duties and question; and shewed that the rates now levied upon many articles of merchandize exceed the rates stipu lated in the last of those treaties, in some instances as much as from 1,500 to 2,200 per cent., and operate as a very seri ous check upon our commerce with the North of Europe. The statements of Mr. Hutt and the effect upon British interests in the Baltic were admitted by Lord Palmerston, who nevertheless was anxious that the House of Commons should not express any opinion upon the motion, as " the at tention of government had already been drawn to the subject, and negotiations were in progress with ,the government of Denmark" —as happens to be the case with most subjects connected with our foreign relations which are brought be fore parliament. The house manifested some little disincli nation to accede to the wishes of the noble lord ; but ulti mately the motion was withdrawn, upon the understanding that unless the negotiations in question were brought to a conclusion within a reasonable time, the subject should be brought forward again before the close of the present session. I may remark, that the attendance of members—as is the case in the Reformed (?) House of Commons whenever any " merely commercial" question is to be decided—was thin enough to have been counted at any moment. In the House of Lords on Tuesday evening, Mr. W. Stan ley—an assistant poor-law commissioner for Ireland—was brought to the bar to answer a charge of having falsified a return, made to that house with respect to the election of an HOUSE 61SUlt..1.ti( COMPANY Louse of Richari ion and Connell, of Fludyer-street, made a f Sir Peter Waterford 1. on by; the. `Vest the H o Pr)pp,Ry lence has me:may taken place be- NOW and the Hon. C. Lansdale, ELONICI veeen the Re TO TUE EDITOR OF TH LiVERPCIOI. Cider the .21Ianagenv I of Mr. CLA.RKE, Sole Lessee FOR THE ERNEFIT OF MR. ELTON, And the Last Night but One of his Engagement, Last Night but One of Mr. J. S. BALLS. _ THIS present - FRIDAY, March 19, formed Shakspeare's Tragedy of 111, will be per- H A ML . E T Mr. piton. ...AIM. Stuart Hamlet The Ghost of Hamlet's Father Mr. Baker. Laer Mr. W. I land Polonius, Mr. H. Holl Osrick The Queen.... Miss Cleaver. Ophga.. Mrs.W. H. Bland To conclude with a new Farce, never acted here, called • ENGLISH ETIQUETTE; Or, I'LL THINK ABOUT IT. Mr. Handle Hibbs Mr. J. S. Balls. Achille Townsend.... Mr Grainger. Miss Agatha Bloomington . Madame Simon. Peggy - Mrs Baker. TO-MORROW (Saturday), the Tragedy of VENICE PRESERVED. Jaffier, Mr. Elton; Pierre, Mr. Stuart; Belvidera, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—After which, a favourite FARCE, in which Mr. J. S. Balls will appear.—To conclude with the Musical Farce of ROSINA. Belville, Mr. G. Horncastle ; William, Mr. Baker; Rosina, MissE. Honner. In addition to the list of auxiliaries already announced, an arrangement has been made with the popular performer MR. WALLACK, of the Theptres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, who will commence an engagement for a limited number of nights, on MONDAY NEXT, March 22nd, in the characters of Julian St. Pierre, in the Comedy of the WIFE, and Dick Dasball, in the Farce of MY AUNT, being his first appearance here since his return from America. LIVER THEATRE 1/[R. FOGG; Box BOOK-KEEPER, begs respectfully to ./V1 inform the Patrons of the Drama, that his BENEFIT is fixed to take plaCe on WEDNESDAY NEXT, Mancri 24TH, when will be performed WOMAN'S LuIFE; BOTHERATION (In which Mr. RAYMOND will appear); And other Entertainments, which will be detailed in a future announcements. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. FOGG, at the Box office, or at his residence, 8, Clare-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS We are sorry to decline the lines:by " S. N." We have not seen the plan of the intended Mass-house at Edge-hill, and it would be, therefore, premature to give a reply to " A Constant Reader." MR. CRONIN'S WORK ON DE AFNESS.—We: shall notice this little work in our next ; in the mean time we recom mend it to our readers. ar Z.tbrrpool 4,tantarb.