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Imperial Varliament. HOUSE 01 , LORDS-MONDAY. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the mayor, magistrates, and a number of highly respectable inhabi tants of Liverpool, complaining of the influx of Irish pau pers into that seaport. The petition stated that in four teen days no fewer than 11,104 paupers came over from Ireland; (being at the rate of 800 a day,) exclusive of Thursday last, when upwards of 1,100 were brought over in two steamers. The petitioners stated they had reason to believe that thousands of persons were at the present moment begging their way to the various seaports of Ire land with the intention of seeking their food in this country, and, if possible, in Liverpool. They therefore prayed their lordships to interfere for their relief, and ex pressed a hope that Parliament would not separate with out passing a law by which the people of Ireland as well as the people of England should be compelled to support their own poor. Upon the subject of a poor-law for Ire land he would not express any opinion until the proper moment arrived for discussing it. Meanwhile the griev ance to the people of Liverpool was of an extremely seri ous character ; for, although under a recent act these paupers could be sent back, yet the expenses of their main tenance until that could be done, and the expense of their transmission, fell very heavily upon the ratepayers. He was aware that the public press contended that the land of Ireland ought to be taxed for the support of the Irish poor, but that would only be taxing the landlords twice over, because the mortgagee would call in his mortgage. Such a proposition was a species of cheap humanity that reminded him of a saying of Lord Milbank,s, that there were two things of which most people were exceedingly generous-other_ people's money and their own advice. These persons were proclaiming the right of the poor to be fed; but he denied the right of the poor man to be fed, unless by his own labour. The government were not bound to feed the poor, or even to find them work. The only duty of the government in that behalf was to remove all obstacles in the way of the people finding work for themselves. Some persons were calling out for more pub lic works in Ireland, and others demanded a loan of X 20,000,000 for making the railways. He would not stop to inquire whether these latter had first bought shares in the Irish railways, and wished to raise the price of them. But he warned the house that all the millions they might give would not stop the mouths of those who were crying for food. He trusted that whatever steps their lordships might take respecting the maintenance of the Trish poor would be in the right direction, and that they would not suffer themselves either to be driven, or coaxed and se duced, into any other by compliments to their humanity. He feared that complaints would soon be heard from Glas gow, Greenock, Bristol, and other ports, unless some measures could be devised for checking the immigration of Irish paupers. The Marquis of WESTMEATH, as a representative peer of Ireland, admitted that the town of Liverpool had a grievance. The inhabitants thought they could trace it to the landed proprietors of Ireland ; but he said it did not lie at their door, but at the door of those laws which were directed against the management of their estates, and from which they could not escape. He felt it to be his duty on all occasions, as he did on the present, to rise and enter his protest against the aspersions and imputations that were constantly cast upon the Irish landlords. Lord BROUGHAM disclaimed having cast any imputa tion on the landlords of Ireland. -HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the order of the clay for the second reading of the Irish Poor Bill. Mr. WILLIAMS moved an amendment, that all the stages of the Poor Relief Bill should take precedence, but had no seconder. He asserted that, in six months, the premier would bring in another bill for the removal of further grievances. A dull debate followed, all the speakers differing equglly, more or less, from the premier, mid from each other. Mr SMITH O'BRIEN contended that the calamity of Ireland was under-rated, and that the loos of the potatoe trenched on thirty millions rather than sixteen ; and that this was the time for public works. Mr. HUME said the government plans had no system, and that Ireland could not be thus regenerated. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, in ad dition to the pressure of famine, there was a necessary change in the social system. The debate was adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, the select committee 0f'1845, on entailed estates, was re-appointed, with a view to considering the propriety of extending the provisions of the existing law to Ireland, in order to ena ble the proprietors of entailed estates to avail themselves of loans, for the purpose of draining and permanently im proving them. • Lord 'BROUGHAM trust the committee would report speedily, as it would be a most unexceptionable mode of affording relief. Lord STANLEY,iII reference to the sugar bill, not yet before their lordships, expressed his hope that it would not be pissed as a permanent measure without the inter ests of all parties being fully and fairly considered. Lord , CLAD:Er/pox intimated that full opportunity would be afforded for due consideration. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in reply to a question from Lord Stanley, stated . that it was intended to remodel the Poor Law Commission, and that it was proposed one Commissioner should be resident in Ireland ; further than this he was not prepared to state at present. HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY, The adjourned debate 'on Ireland was resumed by Mr. Hamilton, who was followed by Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. C. Lawless, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Gregory, Sir 11. W. Barrow, Mr. Lefroy, Lord Clements, and Mr. Labou chere—all more or less in favour of the Ministerial mea sures. Sir It. PEEL closed the debate. He deprecated a general debate on the measures before the House in their present state, as they. could be weighed and considered in all their details when they were brought into committee. They should at once proceed, if possible, to enact those measures intended to meet the present distress. He was prepared to grant full indemnity to her Majesty's govern ment for: the responsibility which they had assumed in the crisis whieli had fallen upon them. He thought, how ever, that it would be an advantage in reference to the future, that there should be, in the bill which granted the indemnity, an explanation of the circumstances under which the responsibility had been assumed. He was wil ling to give his assent at once to the bill for giving further power to the relief committees. The evils of the present system of public works in Ireland were great, and the sooner the remedy was applied the better. He was sur prised that the right hon. gentleman who had just resumed his seat, underrated the danger which arose from the ap plication by the government of the labour of the people to public works, when he remembered that the right hon. gentleman, only in August last, when commenting on the conduct 'of the kite government, stated that the greatest inconvenience arose in Ireland from directing labour from the ordinary operations of business, when only 60,000 or 70,000 people were engaged upon public works. If this was the ease then, how much more must it be so now, when about half a million of people were so employed. He was ready to give, under existing circumstances, a wide discretion to the government. The officers who had been engaged in carrying the present system into opera tion were entitled to the greatest credit. As to the land lords of Ireland, he thought that great allowance should be made 'for the difficulties with which they were sur rounded. And in reference to that sex who were always foremostin the works of charity and mercy, there was no country in the world the " ladies and females" of which exhibited instances of greater devotion and sacrifice of health, time, and all worldly interests, in attempting to alleviate the distress which existed around them, than did those of Ireland. •It was impossible to read the volumes which were - before the house; relating to public works, and other subjects connected with Ireland, without award ing the highest meed of praise to both the higher and in ferior officers employed, for their industry, intelligence, and integrity. As to the measures which had been fore shadowed to them, for the permanent improvement of Ireland, it would be improper in the house to enter into the discussion of their principle at present. He thought, however, in respect to one of them—he meant that for the sale of encumbered estates, that if was of far more import ance to Ireland than were some of the measures which they were now discussing. With respect to the cultiva tion of the waste lands, he hoped the noble lord would pause before he appropriated the public money to so pro blematic a purpose. In the conclusion of his opening statement; the noble lord had advised the Irish proprietors to act independently and for themselves, before they looked foi external aid. Let him extend the application of that principle to the reclamation of the waste lands. To accustom the Irish people and proprietors to depend upon this country for aid was only to paralyse the energies of Ireland.. If the speculation in regard to the waste land was a profitable one, private capital would soon be em barked in the enterprise ; if it was not profitable, they would only be throwing away the public money in so ap propriating it. The noble lord had many and arduous duties to .perform, but if he attempted to make himself an improver, on a large scale, of Irish bogs,lie would involve himself in difficulties from which it would be no easy mat ter to escape. The bills were then read a second time and ordered to be committed. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. Papers , relative to the annexation of Cracow, including the last communication from Austria on the subject, were laid upon the table by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord Baounitaxt once more complained of the influx of Irish paupers into Bristol, Liverpool, and Glasgow, which he thought likely to extend to this country , the dis tress now 'prevailing in Ireland. The noble and learned lord also animadverted upon the fanaticism which caused the directors of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Railway to refuse permission to any one to go by the mail train from the former to the latter city, during the extensive confla gration by which the former had recently suffered, to in form the owners of the property threatened with destruc tion, of the impending calamity, because it was the Sab bath-day. They allowed the mail train to go, because they were Paid for it, but they would not permit a mes senger,thowever, important the business. The noble lord likewise condemned the fanaticism which led the people of Glasgow, in the exercise of their benevolence, to close their charitable "'LP kitchens on the Sabbath-day, and seized the opportunity to correct the error into which he had been led respecting the soup-kitchens in Liverpool. had no apprehension of the The Duke of RicirMoND . scarcity extending to tngland, believing that a very con siderable supply, of wheat was still in the hands of the farmers, besides the abundant supplies which were coming from America. Earl Fiirr*lLLlANt corroborated this opinion, and be lieved that in Ireland also there was a good deal of wheat ; but the Trish people were not wheat consumers, and that fact did not operate as a mitigation of the calamity which had overtaken that country. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK moved to bring in a bill to make Irish' railways at the cost of the state. Acts of par liament had passed for the construction of 1522 miles of railway in Ireland, and that, although some of these acts had passed as far back as eleven years ago, only 123 miles of railway had as yet been completed, with 164 miles in process of construction. During the same period about 2600 miles of railway had been completed in England and Scotland, while new acts had been obtained for the con struction of 4600 miles. He entered into a number of calculations showing the number of men which the com pletion of the contemplated railways would employ ; the rate of interest at which money might be profitably ad vanced by the Government, and the immense benefits which the system he advocated would hold out to the pub lic over the one now being acted on by the Government. As to the sedition of which they heard so much in Ire, land, let them only fill the bellies of the Irish people with good beef and mutton, with wheaten bread and good strong beer, and their pockets with English gold, with which to purchase necessaries for himself and family, and he, the Saxon, would answer with his head for the loyalty of the Irish people. Mr. HUDSON seconded the motion. Lord John RUSSELL agreed with the noble lord that the establishment of railways in Ireland would be of im mense benefit to the country. In a case of extreme des titution like the present, however, it would not be wise to devote sixteen millions to the promotion of railways at this time. He would not, however, oppose the bringing in of the bill, but he wished the noble lord to understand that it' was not his opinion that it would be wise to adopt the scheme: A long debate followed, more or less acrimonious, and the bill was read a first time. The house then went into committee of the whole house, pro forma, for the purpose of voting a sum not exceeding £300,000, on the security of the rates hereafter to be levied, for the purposeS of the Destitute Poor (Ireland) Bill. , F HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. A conversation arose on the propriety of granting aid from the state for the construction of railways in Ireland, which was commenced by -- Lord STANLEY, who remarked that the object of Lord George Bentinck in introducing the Railway Bill was not to advance the value of railway shares, but to facilitate the employment of labour without laying a tax of one shilling on this country. The Duke of IttcumoNn expressed his great satisfac tion at the introduction of the measure. He was con vinced that it would give employment to 50,000 persons in Ireland, without taxing the people of England to the extent of one shilling. Earl FITZWILLIAM said the zeal, intelligence, and in dustry manifested by Lord George Bentinck must have excited the admiration of the other house, and entitled those who had prepared the measure to the gratitude of the people of Ireland. In whatever hands the measure might be when it reached their lordships' house, he would give it his most undivided and strenuous support. The Earl of WINentLsEA said Lord George Bentinck's measure was certainly of an extensive nature, but it should be remembered that it would not d4w a shilling from the pockets of the people of England! He consi dered the population of Ireland greater than the soil could support, and that every facility ought to be given to a sound and extensive system of colonisation. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid upon the table the minutes of education agreed upon by her Majesty's Privy Council, and, in so doing, stated that it was not his in tention to ask their lordships to come to any conclusion upon any particular plan, though he felt it to be his duty to inform them of the suggestions which the Privy Coun cil were prepared, under existing circumstances, to re commend. The Government felt that it was not practi cable to propose any large and comprehensive national system of education, embracing all conditions of society and all - classes 6f religious denominations. There were two powerful classes of objectors to any such system that could be devised—the one composed of the most pious, the most virtuous, and the most learned men of the country, but who thought that persons of different creeds should not come into contact in these schools—the other of a very large and influential class, who thought that there should be no interference whatever on the part of Government with the education of the youth of the empire. Under these circumstances the Government thought it most advisable to confine itself to offering suggestions as to what ought to be done in the distribution of the sum which had been last year voted for the purpose of educa tion. It had been found from the reports received, that the plan of inspecting the schools had been attended with the best possible results. It was, therefore, suggested to carry out the system of inspection still further, so that the schools might be each of them inspected at least once a-year. For this purpose, it was intended to appoint three or four additional inspectors, but they were by no means certain that this number would be sufficient for that pur pose. It was also suggested that in all those schools which were reported to be well and ably conducted the schoolmasters should be allowed to take apprentices, to be chosen from the most promising pupils, with the view of training them to become schoolmasters themselves - at a future period. The selection of the pupil should be made by the guardians or the patrons of the schools, and a special allowance should be made to the master for each apprentice. From these apprentices a selection should be made of the best for exhibitions in the normal schools, where they might follow up their studies ; while those, though equally well qualified as respected their attain ,ments, but who might be in other respects unfitted for teachers, would be provided for in the revenue departmeni s of the country. It was also proposed to elevate the state and condition of the schoolmaster by giving small pen sions in old age to such schoolmasters and schoolmis tresses who can show that they conducted a school with propriety and ability for a period of fifteen years ; and also by giving gratuities from time to time to such of them as might be deemed particularly deserving. It` was also suggested that auxiliary assistance should be given to those who could show that they had successfully carried on a system of industry in connection with their schools. It was also proposed to place workhouse schools on a better footing than that on which they now stood. lie was aware that all this fell very far short of what they all wished to see adopted—a system which would imbue the mass of the youthful community with the elements of education ; but in the existing state of society, and in the face of insuperable difficulties in the way of any compre hensive system, the Government had no hesitation in recommending them as steps to be made in a sound direction. Lord BROUGHAM regretted, that after forty-six years of exertion in favour of education, they should now, in the year 1847, find themselves as far from the adoption of any national system of education as they were at their first setting out, and this entirely owing to the state of society in this country. He approved generally of the plan suggested by the Government. The Bishop of LoNnorr was of opinion that, under all circumstances, the course proposed by the Government was a wise one. The Bishop of ST. ASAPH suggested the encouragement of grammar schools, as calculated to give a better kind of education. The Earl of WINCHILSEA said the Government should have brought forward a system of education in connection with the Established Church. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY approved of the pro positions suggested by the Government. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY, It was suggested by Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, that they should establish territorial divisions in Ireland for the purpose of rating to the relief of the poor. Mr. LABOUCHERE could not agree to the suggestion, which, in its effect, would not be found applicable in a free country. It was returning to the system of serfdom, for those smaller divisions would be throwing on each in dividual landlord the relief of the poor on his own estate. After some observations from Mr. Osborne, Sir H. W. Barron, Mr. M. O'Ferrall, Lord John Manners, and Lord Bernard, The house went into committee on the Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill, and the greater portion of the remainder of the evening was occupied in the discussion of its clauses. COURT AND FASHION. ' The Queen will leave Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace this day (Tuesday.) The Queen and Prince Albert have joined in the reel parties at Frogmore ; but, notwithstanding the late hours kept, they have been seen walking in the Home Park shortly after daybreak. Walking, riding, and hunting are the daily occupations of the Queen and Prince Albert at Wjndsor. On Thurs day her Majesty held a Privy Council at the Castle, which was attended by nearly all the Cabinet Ministers, who re mained to lunch, and returned to town by a special train iu the afternoon. Prince Louis Napoleon has returned to London from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry at Wynyard Park. THE BENCH AND THE BAR. The Court for the Recovery of Small Debts will be es tablished in Liverpool one month after notice in the Gazelle. J. W. Barden, Esq., is appointed judge of the Small Debts Court for West Cheshire ; Mr. Yardley for East Cheshire, and Mr. R. G. Temple for North Wales. • MR. WAKLEY AND "THE MEDICAL TIMBS."—Ill the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday last, Lord Den man gave judgment in this case—one in which Mr. Wak ley obtained a rule to file a criminal information against the proprietor and editor of the Medical Times for a libel on him in reference to his conduct in the well-known Hounslow flogging case. The court decided that the rule must he discharged. A WIFE'S EVIDENCE ON BEHALF OF HER HUSBAND. Mr. Bingham, the newly-appointed magistrate at the Marlborough-street police-office, London, in a case which came before him on Tuesday last, said it had been hith erto customary to reject the testimony of the wife on be half of her husband, but as the legislature had recently exhibited a disposition to relax this law, and had in the new act for the recovery of small debts allowed the wife to give evidence in favour of her husband, he should certainly extend the same privilege to cases coining before him in his magisterial capacity. In the Exchequer Chamber, Tuesday, at the Sittings in Error, before Lord Chief Justice Wilde, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr, Justice Malik, and Mr. Justice Williams, the court gave judgment in the case of Howard v. Gossett, re versing the decision of the court below. The court were of opinion that the warrant issued by the Speaker of the House of Commons was valid, and that the plaintiff in error, the Serjeant-at-Arms, (Sir W. Gossett,) was justi fied in acting upon the same. The verdict must, there fore, be entered for the defendant. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. INDIA AND CHINA. Indian papers were received onflMrSAlay, in anticipa tion of the Overland Mail. The latest dates are—China, Nov. 28 ; Calcutta, Dec. 23; and Bombay, Jan. 2. Important events have just occurred in the Punjaub and Scinde. The Wuzeer Lall Singh having been sus pected of a treasonable connexion with the Cashmere in surgents, had the charge brought home to him by the Sheik Emaum-ood-Deen, on the evidence of letters writ ten by the Wuzeer to him while in arms. The inquiries were conducted in presence of a Commission, consisting of Sikh chiefs and British officers—Mr. Currie and Cols. Lawrence and Goldie being amongst the latter. It was intimated to the Durbar, that should a convicted traitor remain in power, we should be under the necessity of ceasing to hold intercourse with the Government, and Lall Singh was accordingly deposed and removed, under our protection, to Hindostan. Had he remained in his own country his life would quickly have been sacrificed to the indignation of the people. The government was now intrusted to a commission of chiefs, and the question pressed as to the arrangements contemplated by them on our retirement. After much equivocation and delay it was determined to ask of us to permit an army of 10,000 men to remain at Lahore during the minority of the Ma harajah, our commissioner virtually to exercise the func tions of Wuzeer. To this we assented, the Sikhs defray ing all the charges of our troops, amounting to a quarter of a million sterling annually. The Maharajah is now a child of seven years old ; and for the next ten years at least the Punjaub is in the hands of the British Govern ment, and controlled by a British army. The Sikh Go vernment have thus voluntarily undertaken to defray the extra charges of an army at Lahore, which, for our own protection, we must have maintained at any rate on the frontier. Such has been the success of the much-cen sured policy of Lord Hardinge, refusing to conquer or spoil the country which has now been voluntarily and tranquilly placed in our hands without obloquy, trouble, or charge. Just as the army of the Indus was about to be reduced from 22,000 to 14,000 men, a foray of the Booghtie tribe from the mountains has driven in our outposts and com pelled a whole cavalry regiment to retire. The enemy were computed at 2000 on their first appearance in the field. They succeeded in ravaging numerous villages, carrying off sheep and cattle in the face of our troops. A wing of the 4th Rifles, Jacob's Scinde Horse, and Fitz gerald's Camel Corps, were on their way to reinforce Shalipore at the date of last despatches. The robbers are doubtless long ere this time safe within their mountain holds, where we cannot follow them, waiting till our out posts are again weakened by sickness or military indiscre tion. Had the present attack been made during such a season as 1843, when nine-tenths of our troops were in 4ospital, our cantonments might have been fired, and their occupants roasted in their cots before human aid could have reached them. The ravages of pestilence in Upper Scinde are quinquennial. If 1848 sees us on the banks of the Indus the Cabul catastrophe may not be without a parallel; the Belooches, like the Ghilzies, abide their time. Sir Charles Napier continues at Kurrachee, where the climate is healthy. He is expected at Bombay in February, on his way to England ; the government of Scinde to be intrusted to a civil commission, preparatory, it is to be hoped, to its final abandonment. . , Matters at Cabul would seem to be in a better condi. tion than formerly. The Ghilzie chief, who had so long been annoying the Government, had intimated his desire for a cessation of hostilities, and, in token of the sincerity of his intentions, had sent his son as a pledge of his future peaceable behaviour. A vakeel from the British Govern ment was said to be on his way to the Cabul chief, though the nature of his mission was unknown. A present of horses and fruits for the Governor-General left Cabul on the Ist of October. The Governor-General was at the latest dates still on the left bank of the Beeas, where it was supposed he would remain till rejoined by Mr. Currie, from Lahore. The Commander-in-Chief of India was en route for Loo diana, and was expected to reach Delhi by the 20th Jan. The districts around Gwalior are said to be in a sad stale ; murders and robberies being of frequent' occur rence, the commission of any atrocities being overlooked by the native authorities fora consideration. The sword sent out by the Court of Directors for pre sentation to the Rajah of Sanghae, in token of their appro-. bation of his 'con•luct during the Kolopore disturbances, was presented to that chief on the 19th ult. at Belguum, in presence of the troops of the station, and an immense concourse of people. The ship Augusta, of Bombay, one of the vessels which left the Madras roads at the commencement of the hur ricane of the 25th of November, was wrecked near Point Pedro, off Ceylon —crew all saved. Upwards of £2500 have been subscribed for the relief of the sufferers by the gales of October and November, £lOOO of which was mu nificently bestowed by the Government. FRANCE. The Paris papers of Tuesday are filled with Monday's debates in the Chamber of Deputies, The principal speeches were those of M. Gamier Pages and M. Billaut ;, the former violently against ministers, and the latter of the contrary character. The ministerial supportersdenied that any interruption of the good understanding with En gland had taken place. M. Guizot referred to the temper in which the English Parliament had discuss l the Spanish marriages, but entered into no lengthened statement. The disturbances respecting the price of corn were sub siding steadily, but had not been quite extinguished in some of the departments. The Duchess de Montpensier, now fifteen years of age, gives promise of an increase to the family of Louis Philippe. The price of flour and wheat has diminished in Paris. At a late trial in Paris, M. Alexandre Dumas, the well known French littirateur, said that in August he was publishing five feuilletons, in five different journals. Three horses, three servants, and the railway, scarcely sufficed to bring him the proof-sheets. A correspondent of the Atlas states that Madame Laf farge is about to be liberated. The matrimonial agent who brought about the unfortunate match has the hardihood to boast of it in his advertisements ; and on Tuesday last, there appeared in all the Paris papers an announcement from a rival establishment (that of Madame St. Marc) setting forth that she has to dispose of " a young English orphan; heiress to a splendid fortune!" POPERY IN FRANCE.—We are indebted to the Church and State Gazette for directing public attention to a re markable occurrence in the modern history of Popery—a curious piece of priestcraft which has just been exhibited in France. The disastrous whirlwind at Monville and Malannay had reduced some hundreds of the survivors to the utmost destitution, and in short to the verge of actual starvation. Under these circumstances the city of Rouen alone contributed for their relief the munificent sum of 10,400 francs. This fund was placed by the charitable citizens at the disposal of a special committee of ecclesi astics to carry out their benevolent intentions in detail. The clerical committee, thus invested with the tempting trust, proceeded to administer it according to the follow ing characteristic resolution :—" Seeing that among the victims of the above-mentioned calamity there are great numbers of dead, for whom hitherto nothing has been done;` that nevertheless it is but sheer justice that these should partake of the charity of the faithful, and that prayers should be offered up for the welfare of their souls ; that thereby all the victims would benefit in exact pro portion to their wants by the succour accorded to them ; and this idea ought to be the more welcomed, seeing that there exist resources more than sufficient for the aid of those unfortunate persons who have survived," &c.. The resolution concludes by providing, that, " in order that all the victims may profit according to their necessities," the entire sum' f 10,400 francs, raised at Rouen, should be invested in the public funds • that one-half of the interest resulting from the same shall be employed in celebrating low and high masses, at the rate of a franc and a-half for each of the former, and forty francs for each of the latter ; and that the other half of the interest should be distri buted among the surviving victims, on condition that when they should cease to need it, this half, as well as the other, shall then be applied for the celebration of masses for the dead. It would not be easy to conceive a more aggtavated instance of Popish rapacity. UNITED STATES. The fine packet-ship Yorkshire, Captain Bailey, reached the Mersey on Friday, after a highly prosperous trip. She sailed on the . 16th ult., and has brought intelligence some ten days in advance of the previous arrival, and a week later than the arrival at London this week. The papers by this ship speak of a desperate battle, which, it was be lieved, had taken place between Santa Anna, with 30,000 men under his command, and Generals Worth and Wool, with 7000 men. Santa Anna had left his position at San Luis Potosi, and marched upon Saltillo, to give the Ameri cans battle. Another rumour stated that General Wool's cqlumn had been cut oil in attempting to join that of Gen. Worth—that the latter had been driven back by the Mexi cans from Saltillo to Monterey, and that General Taylor was shut up in the last named place. But there is evi dently much conjecture mixed up with these accounts, and probably some exaggeration as to the strength of Santa Anna's forces. Enough, however, had transpired to make the Americans uneasy respecting the issue of the collision with the Mexican troops ; and this feeling, com bined with the expressed determination of the Mexican Congress to carry on the war, and the difficulty Mr. Polk experienced to raise the necessary supplies, had rendered this brush with the Hispano blood additionally unpopular with cousin Jonathan. The next arrival will probably bring something decisive respecting the Mexican war. There had been much talk in Congress, but little had been done, and the proceedings, as far as we have glanced at them, possess little European interest. Congress still holds tight the purse-strings, and the position of the Pre sident, badgered on every side for rushing so hastily into the war, which appears to be only now commencing, had been most unenviable. The following p is given as the exports to this country and France during the week preceding the sailing of the packet:— To Great Britain.—Corn, bush, 112,672; Flour, hhds, 25,968 ; Cheese, lbs, 183,677 ; Peas, bush, 2,300 ; Oats, 6,206; ; Turpentine, bbls, 6,212; Beef, tcs, 208 ; Beef , half bbls, 50 ; Lard, lbs, 102,489 ; Wheat, bush, 13,691; Wool, bales, 78; Sperm Oil, gals, 21,032; Whale Oil, ' gals, 6,676 Staves, M, 12,490 ; Pork, bbls, 699 ; Meal, bbls, 4,046; Beeswax, lbs, 695 ; Tallow, lbs, 223,299 ; Barley, bush, 915 ; Whalebone, lbs, 17,932 ; Bacon; lbs. 116,952 ; Cotton, bales, 1,170 ; Tobacco, manufactured, lbs, 13,500. To France.—Staves, M, 2,000; Flour, bbls, 3,107 ; Wheat, bush, 9,920 ; Pork, bbls ' 350 ; Tallow, lbs, 44,649 ; Rice Meal, bbls, 618 ; Whalebone, lbs, 14,088 ; Cotton, bales, 784 ; Ashes, hbls, 130 ; Rice, tcs, 120 ; Beeswax, lbs, 4,135 ; Lard, lbs, 13,458. The receipts of the New York Customs for the week were, 850,875 dollars, of which 776,453 dollars were in American vessels. The arrivals were 52, of which 39 were American ; clearances 66, of which 32 were Ameri can. Sterling Bills were 5% to 6.1. Some engagements of flour to Liverpool were made at 4s. 91 - 1. and grain at 17d. to 18d. Cotton 5-16 d for square. ' To Havre, grain had been shipped at 28 cents, which is lower. Flour nominally 1 dollar 121 cents • cotton 1 cent. The following are the latest notes of ;he, New York Corn and Cotton Markets : Corros.—The sales to-day have been full 3000 bales, at very full prices. The purchases to-day have been pretty general, and it is supposed are mostly on specula tion. We heard of one list of middling fair uplands being sold at 111 cents per lb., and another list of 500 bales up lands at a price not made public. Holders are daily de manding a trifling advance in price, and only sell when full rates are obtained. Cotton freights to Liverpool are dull at 5-16 d per lb. square bales. GRAIN.—A small parcel new southern wheat sold at 102 cents. and a small lot Genessee was on the market at 115 cents. Corn samples were rather scarce to-day, and the market without change. FLOUR AND MEAL.—The demand for flour is still good, and prices are gradually improving. At the close to-day it was not easy to find Genessee below 5.56, and many holders asked 5.621. A letter from New York states that the labouring Irish have since November last remitted, in small sums, to their distressed relatives and fellow-countrymen at home not less than 150,000 dollars, or £20,000 sterling. For the whole year 1846, the sum total ascertained was 650,000 dollars, or £130,000 sterpling. There are yet four houses to hear from, which will swell the amount. ONE THOUSAND CATS.—A Mr. Ridgway advertises in the Centreville (Md.) Times for 1000 black cats, for which he will pay two cents. a piece, on delivery at Poplar Island, Talbot county, Md., or at the store of John W. Ridgway, of Bayside. Here's a chalice for speculation. — U. S. Gaz. —Mr. Ridgway does not explain for what purpose he en gages in this wholesale feline speculation. The Hutchinson family having advertised one of their concerts to take place on the 30th December, at the Music Fund Hall, Philadelphia, they were warned by the Mayor that if they persisted in singing anti-slavery songs, and in 'admitting coloured persons, there would in all probability be a riot. The Hutchinsons would make no alteration ill their Terformances or in their custom of admitting co loured auditors. In consequence, the trustees of the fu nd had refused the use of the room, and the concert was abandoned. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. give no further cer tain information regarding the Spanish ministry. El Ti empo states that it will be constituted by the Duke de Rivas, MM. Bravo 'Murillo, Sejas, Donoso Cortes, and Rogo de Tagores. News from Lisbon of the 20th an nounced that the Duke de Saldanha had established tran quility in all the upper Beira. FORMATION OF THE CABINET. The Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have reached us in due course. The new Cabinet has been composed as fol lows :—The Duke of Sotonmyor, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Bravo Murillo, Jus tice ; Seigas Lozano, Interior ; Roco de Fogores, Public Instruction; Sautillon, Finances-; Pavia, War; and Bal dasano, Marine. The new Cabinet has taken the oaths to her Majesty. In the sitting of the Congress of the 2gth, M. Cortina requested to know -whether the papers relative to the Spanish marriages would be produced. MM. Mal dand do so, 0 Mon b u t d t e i c i a t r et they th yt a ,o _ t u t l lAe x n e ot - a n n i s i n w ite e s rf rf o ; r we t -e b r eir Tp u s c,c o e s s ed to st The journals contain little else cifinteret. ' UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, FEB. s.—ln a congregation the following degrees were conferred ;—.Doctors in Civil Law.—The Champneys, St. Alban Hall.—Masters of Arts, —Rev. J. Godley, Exeter College ; Rev. W. D. Astley, Pembroke College.—Bachelors of Arts.—T. Whitehead, scholar of Exeter College; H. W. Thrupp, Exeter Col lege ; W. F. Hood, Exeter College ; T. Harvey, Balliol College ; G. P. .Bevan, Oriel College ; C. J. Soanes, St. John's College. DURHAM, FEB. 3.—At a convocation the following de grees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—H. P. Dwarris, . B.A. ;' Rev. J. Robertson, B.A. ; A. Bearilarids, B.A. ; fellow of the University.—Honorary Master of Arts.— Rev. T. W. Johnes, Licentiate in Theology.—Ad eundem Bachelor of Arts.—W. Douglas, St. John's College, Cambridge.—Bachelor of Arts.—A. Grenwell, J. D. Anderson, C. Thornton, J. F. C. Johnson, P. Smith. The gentleman chosen by the trustees as the successor to the late Dr. Tattershall, at .St. Augustine's, is the Rev. Herbert Jones, one of the sons of the Rev. Incumbent of St. Andrew's, and at present curate at the latter church. A London paper, on the subject of the new bishoprics, says, that probably a plarivill be devised for severing Northumberland from Durham, Surrey from Winchester, Nottingham from Lincoln, and for forming new sees in Yorkshire, and near the Metropolis. Robert Suffield, Esq., late pensioner of St. Peter's Col lege, Cambridge, has joined the Roman Catholic Church, aird has entered, or, at all events, is at present staying, at tshaw College, St. Cuthbert's, near Durham. The Rev. E. Bickersteth has / written to the Church and State Gazette, urging the importance of obtaining a day of national fasting and humiliation. The reverend gentleman says that the clergy around him are joining in a petition to the Archdeacon to bring the desirableness of this before the Bishop. The example should be followed by the 'clergy in all other districts. - The Rev. Hugh M,Neile has, we are glad to see, already taken the mat ter up. DIOCESE OF HEREFORD.—The Rev. Josiah Bartlett, a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, on account of a series of libels on his sister-in-law, has received a Monition from the Bishop Of Hereford, requiring him to reside on his benefice, the rectory of Ivington. Mr. Bartlett, in reply, • claims exemption from residence, by reason of his forci ble detention by order of the Judges, who, acting on evi dence falsely given, and from divers other causes, have been misled in their intention impartially to administer the law. Mr. Bartlett expresses his .determination to attempt to set aside the decisidn of the Judges, and in the event 'of the Bishop of Hereford determining to persist in his mo nition, to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a pro- . hibition to stay the right rev. prelate's order. THE CLERGYMEN OF LEEDS AND THE BISHOP OF RIPON.-The clergymen of Leeds have recently memori alized the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon on the subject of the forms and services used at. the consecration of St. Saviour's Church, in that town, by one of his lord ship's clergymen and a few laymen. The memorialists, after expressing their regret at being reluctantly, though conscientiously, obliged to absent themselves from the consecration, proceed to state that they were so fully per suaded that efforts were made on that occasion to procure a large assembly of clergy, in order to honour and pro mote both principles and practices utterly opposed to the Reformation, and subversive of the Protestant faith, that they considered it their duty not to attend. And further on they state, " While, however, we deplore, we are not sur prised at this apostacy ; we view it as the legitimate fruit of the principles industriously and insidiously inculcated by the teachers of a school which,. speciously professing to the opposite extremes •of Rornanism and ultra Pro testantism, has artfully endeavoured to conceal from the young, unwary; and partially informed members. of our communion, their longing for a closer approximation to the Roman Church, both in doctrine and practice. Main taining, as we do, ( in the plain sense of the sixth article,) the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for salvation, we can scarcely fail to trace those evilg to the fundamental error of those teachers who proclaim that Scripture and tra dition are our joint rule of faith, and, under the plea of development, embrace and teach doctrines and traditions at variance with the revealed and written Word of God." The memorial concluded by directing his lordship's atten tion to the subject, with the view of having the evil stop ped. It was signed by James Fawcett, M. A., Incumbent of Woodhouse; Wm. Williamson, M. A., Incumbent of Headingley.; Joseph Holmes, D. D., head master of the grammar school, Leeds • John Holroyd, M. A., Incum bent of Christ Church ; William Sinclair, M. A„ Incum bent of St. -Geerge's ; JosePh Wardle, A. M., Incumbent of Beeston ; Thos. Boys Ferris, M. A. 111inister of St. Luke's ; Benjamin Crosthwaite, M. A. Incumbent of St. Andrew's ; Thos. Sturgeon, A. M., Curate of St. George's ; Richd. R. Wolfe, A. 8., Incumbent of St. Matthew's, Little London ; Joseph Ware, A. M., Incumbent of Kirk stall. We, the undersigned, who 'were not resident in Leeds at the opening.of. St. Saviour's Church, concur in the address —Foster Rogers, Incumbent of St. Philip's ; Edward Wilson, B. A., Curate of Christ Church. To the memorial his lordship has returned a most gracious reply, from which we select the following passage as showing the tenor of the whole document , With regard to ,the events which have elicited these welcome expressions of kindness and goodwill, although there is undoubtedly much to grieve, it is nevertheless satisfactory to remem ber, that no clergyman of the diocese has ever quitted the church of his fathers to embrace the Boorish communion. The ordained person who took this rash step entered the diocese but a short time since, having been sent to Leeds by the leading trustee of St, Saviour's Church, to act there as officiating minister on trial, not only without any license from me, but even without my knowledge or con sent. His services were speedily dispensed with when I discovered his presence there, and ascertained the tone of his mind and the tenor of his proceedings. Yet short as was his stay, he seems so successfully to have tampered with the faith and allegiance of some few members of the congregation, that they were on the very point of joining him in his act of desertion •, and since his departure he has assiduous]; persevered in his attempts to complete his tin finished work, but happily without effect. Such pro ceedings, however, cannot but excite feelings of just indig nation against the authors of them ; while the ignorance thus displayed of the real character and disposition of mind of the individual sent,. when consequences so serious were hazarded, must necessarily awaken feelings of dis trust. as regards any future appointment from the same quarter." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.-011 Friday, the fourth and concluding day - of this- meeting, the last ties were ran off, with the fallowing results :--Derby: Mr. King's Rhadamanthus beat Mr. Vipan's Valiant, and won the stakes.—The Cup . : - Mr. Vipan's Victor beat Mr. Do bede's Dowager Queen, and won the cup.--Oaks: Mr. King's Sileia against Mr. Dobede's Daisy ; undecided ; stakes divided.—PLA Stakes: Mr. Bnckworth'a Brutus , . beat Lord Stradbroke's Mainmast, and won the stakes.-- E.rning Stakes : Mr. Arabin nd Mentor beat. Mr. Moody's Rosetta, and won the stakes.--Boashum Stakes: Varna beat Mawworm; and won the stakes.—Rut fond Stakes: Backsheeth beat Doubtful,. and won the stal;es. • WOLVERHAMPTON GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLE-en ASKS. Tuesday, the Wolverhampton Handicap Steeple chase was won by Mr. Jones's b g by Glaucus (Mr. Bretherton), beating Cavendish, .lerry, Valeria, Gip;' , Queen, and Avoca. The Milt Stakes were won by Mr. E. S. Davenport's Moonli g ht : (owner), beating Richard the Conrad, and Ironsides. A QUATICS.---CU ALLENGE TOR It. Newell,. of London, has challenged to row the best four men at Neweastle-upon , ;Tyne•for 4:300 a.-aide. • The match to be rowed on the London river; if , not, - he use, ready to meet .them half way, each party pqylpg theirowu expenses. IRELAND. In six days, according to the Cork Examiner, from Monday to Saturday last, the deaths. amounted to 102. All the flax mills at Belfast have commenced working full time. - At the weekly repeal meeting, in Dublin, on Monday, the attendance was wretched, and the proceedings unin teresting. The " rent " was £27 7s. Ild. The grass-corn around Limerick looks vigorous, and is fully six inches over ground. The sowing of wheat is, however, one-third short of last season. A new Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner for Ireland has been appointed—namely, Mr. Charles Sharman Craw ford, son of Mr. William S. Crawford, M.P. THE IRISH FAMINE.—The starved dogs are being killed like vermin in several parts of this county, as these animals have attacker the bark of trees, bereft of their usual sustenance.—Lfterick Chronicle. At a late Repeal meeting, the chairman, Mr. Somers, M. P., expressed a hope that "th e prophecy which had been addressed by the great poet Dryden to the ancestor of the nobleman who presided at the meeting on the pre vious Thursday would be fulfilled. He forgot the pro phecy, but they all remembered it as well as he did !" A storm on Sunday week raged with great violence at Ballyshannon. It was so violent during divine service in the town that the officiating clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Clemenger, had to conclude the service, and dismiss the congregation, as his voice could not be heard. The guardians of Tuam workhOuse have had to call on Captain Seton's company, 41st, to protect them from the violence of the clamorous crowd collected for admission and relief'. Mr. Gannon, one of the guardians, sent a hostile message to Mr. Blake, another of the board, which the latter refused to accept. GALWAY GRATITUDE.—Mr. Comyn, in announcing his resignation to the Galway electors, says :—" I retire, not because I despair of your support, but because dissension in the repeal party might open the way for the Whig, and the Whigs must he beaten at every sacrifice and at all hazards.' DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN GALWAY.-FrOM every quarter of the country, we are literally besieged with the heart-rending particulars of the progress of famine. A. respectable correspondent in the neighbourhood of Kil conly; has communicated to us the loss of no less than eighteen lives from want and destitution ! And this is occurring in a few short days.—Tuarn Herald. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POOR-RATE COLLECTOR.—A letter from Moate, in Westmeath, states, that on Thurs day evening week, Mr. Patrick Balfe, poor-rate collecter, was fired at, near Moate, but, providentially, without fatal effect : the ball, passing through his hat, slightly wounded him on the hack of the head. Mr. Balfe was re-. turning home in his car, accompanied by his son and daughter. AWFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, Edward Farrell, aged 50, Joseph Farrell, his son, aged 16, Christopher Flynn, 26, and Michael Hill, aged 23, went out in a boat from Malahide to fish, and when crossing the bar the boat was upset, and the unfortunate men drowned. They have all left families in a state of the utmost destitution, and it is said they were forced out by hunger to look for some fish.—Dublin Mail. LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—Lord Clanricarde's name is the one most freely mentioned in connection with the successorship to the Viceroyalty ; but occasionally also we hear that of the Earl of Dalhousie, who seems destined, according to general gossip, to be a candidate for all the eligible gifts in the bestowal of the Russell Cabinet since the offer was made him of continuing at the Board of Trade. _ _ _ DEATHS FROM STARVATION. — Three children of the name of Crowley died within the last few days of starva tion. Inquests were held on the bodies of two of them, on Monday, before H. E. Jones, Esq., coroner, when the jury founfl that they died " from the want of the common necessaries of life." A third died on Thursday from exhaustion arising from want of food during the previous week. The father, with the mother and four children, came from near Mallow into Cork about three months ago, to seek for work. Since then they had not sufficient food nor a bed to lie on until Sunday morning, when they were discovered by the police in a garret off Mallow lane, two of the children being then dead.—Cork Consti tution. BURGLARY AND BARBAROUS MURDER.—Wednesday, the 20th ult., a party of lawless ruffians, supposed to be about twelve in number ' surrounded the dwelling of an industrious farmer .named Duffy, on the lands of Drum shampo, in the parish of Cloone. Duffy and his family were in the act of repeating the rosary, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic church, when the degraded villains arrived to perpetrate their nefarious purposes, and (as given in the evidence) remained quietly outside until the religious ceremony terminated. Three of the wicked gang immediately broke into Duffy's house, one of whom carried a gun, demanded arms, and struck him violently. A severe and unequal contest ensued, in which Brian - Duffy, son of the farmer, eighteen years of age, received so violent a blow of a loaded cudgel on the side of the head, that a few hours put an end to his life and sufferings.—Dublin Packet. DEATHS BY STARVATION.—The intelligence from You ghal is thus referred to by the Cork Examiner :—lnquests have been held, and the verdict in each of three melan choly cases was " Death by starvation." A family of the Crowns, consisting of father, mother, and son, lived at a place called the Windmill, about a mile from the town of Youghal. On the night of Tuesday last, the mother, Margaret, and her son, Patrick, died in the s ame b e d w i t h the father, Michael, whom hunger had rendered so help less that he could give them no assistance in their last struggle, nor even make their case known to the neigh bours. Another case was of a still more horrible nature. A person named Thomas Millar from Ring, a place on the extreme coast, opposite Cable Island, came with his wife to Youghal, where they both offered for sale, at an apo thecary's shop, the dead body of a male child, aged seven years. The authorities were informed of the 'circumstance, and the parties were arrested. Upon being interrogated, they coolly acknowledged that this child was a nephew of theirs, who had died in their.house, and that they brought him to the doctors to get something for the body that would keep the life in themselves and their children. The description they gave of their suffering was frightful in the extreme. On more than one occasion they bad deter mined to - kill and eat the cat, only they feared it would poison them. RIOT BY LABOURERS.—During the .past three or four days, vast bodies of labourers, carrying spades and shovels, have been in the habit of assembling near the Cork Work house, and on one morning they carried off the bread taking to the temporary Workhouse for the inmates, in consequence of which an order was made by the magis trates that a police force should attend the future transits. Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, a report was made that the Union House was attacked by a mob over 600 labourers, armed with spades and shovels, and that they threatened to level the entire building. Immedi ately a large Party of police was despatched, but on arriving at the Workhouse, it appeared the mob had left for the city, after breaking in the outer gate. After leav ing the Workhouse, the mob went along by the South Infirmary, where ' they met a van loaded with bread. They immediately upset the van, and distributed the bread amongst them. They then moved on to George's-quay, where they broke into the bread shops and appropriated their stocks. They next got into Prince'sAiret, and were attacking the bread shop of Mr. Thonifflbn, when Head-constable Condon, Constables Burchill and Porter, and six Sub-constables, the only then available force in the city, came up with them. On seeing the police the rioters turned into Patrick-street, and thence into Castle street. Here they ran until they turned into the North main-sfreet, when they rushed at a bread shop, the windows of which they smashed, and some of them got into the shop at the moment the police arrived. Here for a moment there was a frightful affray between the few policemen and the numerous rioters, spades and shovels were flourishing, and some stones were thrown, until the rioters finding that two of their ringleaders had been made prisoners, and perceiving others stretched on the street they moved off, followed by the police, who charged them with fixed bayonets, until they were dispersed in the wildest confusion. It is supposed that the determination shown by the Head-constable and his small band, in op position to so large a number of armed rioters, will deter these people from being again encouraged to enter the city for similar purposes.—Cork Ape?: . of !Saturday. POLITICAL VARIETIES. O sdaz tht ,lofrdopßio,sbietirL. Grosvenor was returned for e a t r i l n t Middlesex, , of Ell es mere took the oaths and his seat i n the House of Lords on Monday. Th e Presse states . that Lord Palmerston has secre tl y made offers for the purchase of Egypt after th e d eat h of Mehemet Ali ! They will have his lord s hip poc k et i ng a pyramid by and by. Te N E l' On Tuesday, Mr. Prime was returned for West Sussex, in the room of Colonel Wyndham. H e i s a P rotect i on i st of the first water—and prepared to vote for the endowment of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Ireland. The Times publishes an anonymous' paper, stated to have. been handed to the e dit or by a " B r iti s h Minister." It is styled a " protest," and professes to emanate from certain inhabitants of Cracow, who do not choose to ha zard their necks by giving publicity to their names. The scope of the document is to show that the insurrection was in reality a mere farce, bespoken by the Three Powers, as a pretext for suppressing the Republic, and conducted by a handful of Russian and Austrian agents, without the concurrence of the citizens. Wuso BLUNDERING. — On the 26th of last month, the, bill for suspending the duties on the importation of foreign corn received the Royal assent, and became the law of the land. On the following day, however, it was discovered t n" that those insignificant ingredients in the " bread line, viz, buck wheat, buck wheat meal, maize, b . than • and forgotten in the act : an d the error had to be corn, Indian corn meal, anti rice , had been totall y over lookedremedied by a Treasury minute, addressedto the Commis sioners of Customs, directing them to admit all the afore said articles " free of duty, under the usual conditions of the parties abiding the ultim ate decisions o f Paella. merit !" Oh ! the quautula smpientia of Whig states manship ! M. GUIZOT AND LORD PALMERSTON. — The corres pondence upon the question of the Spanish marriages m a y .be considered, says the Morning Chronicle, 'as now closed, " the last despatch of M. Guizot being of such a character as really not to justify the British Minister in giving it an answer, much less to demand one." The real question at issue is still, however, as far from beim: . settled as ever. The position taken up by Lord Palmer ston admits of no compromise. He insists that the by the children of the Infanta will,Treaty r , u, , of Utrecht, b e deprived of their rights of Succession to the Spanish crown, and that the English G overnment will adhere to the principle of their exclusion. Until this question is settled our. relations with both France and Spain must re main disturbed. , gt MoftE L ER AL DO INGs.—A requisition is in course signature at Sunderland, among the Conservatives, to Feb. 9, 1847. convene a meeting of that party to consider the atrocious imputations made by the mayor of that borough at 3 recent public meeting held in that town, on the public character and conduct of the Conservatives of Sunder land, whom he described as worthless as the worst felons in the land. It is intended, it is said, "to send his worship to Coventry." The affair is creating " a sensa tion."—At Durham, only about fourteen miles distant, the mayor of that borough last week, refused to put a mo tion made by one of the members relative to the accept ance of the resignation of the town-clerk. He was fre quently and vehemently requested to do so, but con tinued to refuse. After the lapse of a considerable time, during which the proceedings were of any rather than of an amicable kind, Mr. Veitch, proprietor of the Dur ham radical paper, and therefore of the mayor's party,. rose and said that the only thing which prevented him from proposing a vote of censure on the mayor was, be cause he felt uncertain whether the gentleman in the chair would condescend to put it to the meeting.—[Ap plause.) Shortly after this the mayor attempted to read some document or other, but the council were so annoyed with the conduct which had been pursued, that they hurried out of the room, leaving him with only one or two thick and thin supporters of his party ! And thus ended this memorable meeting. Since the meeting, we understand, says the Durham Advertiser, that the mem bers of the council have come to the determination not to attend any more meetings of that body that may be summoned by the present mayor. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Liverpool Crosby and Southport railway bill would be read a second time last (Monday) night. All negotiations between the London and North-Wes tern and Great Western Railway boards are at an end, and are not likely to be renewed. The inquest on the bodies killed on the Great Western Railway has terminated, and the verdict is " accidental death," with a recommendation that the tires of the wheels should be screwed instead of welded. At a late meeting of the directors of the Midland Rail way Company, tenders were received for two thousand coal waggons, which, if placed end to end, would form a. line upwards of six miles in length. The cost of the wag gons would amount to nearly £150,000. The Liverpool and Bury Railway Company intend to make their passenger station in Moorfields, and to purchase the Wellington Hotel, Dale-street, for a waiting-room and inn, with a carriage road at the back to Dale-street, opposite North John -street. AN INSATIABLE BOG.—The railway between Shipley and Keighley is progressing rapidly, witfi the exception of that part near llingley Church called the Bingley-bog. Sixty tons of earth and stones are cast into this bog every hour of the day. Notwithstandin g this immense quantity being dropped into the gulf at both ends, all is swallowed up every morning; the heavy matter sinking thus forces the lighter up, and makes a black spongy embankment on both sides. BENEFITS FROM TELEGRAP.HIC COMMUNICATION.— During the past week a vessel grounded in the Humber, and was in danger of being wrecked. To save her very prompt assistance was requisite ; and the aid of a very powerful screw propeller being required, the telegraph from Hull made known the want at Newcastle-upon- Tyne, and by first train the much needed screw was forth coming, and thus property was saved by this prompt ass sistance exceeding in v<du3 consith ra'ily above £l,OOO. THE CALEDONIAN.—The works on this line are rapidly progressing, and it is promised to be opened from Carlisle to Beattock early in July. As Beattock is equi-distant from Edinburgh and Glasgow, the inhabitants of the former city are loud in their complaintrthat the Dumfries mail is to be discontinued on the sth of April, in conse quence, it is Supposed, of this partial npening. They affirm that this di scon ti nuance w i ll be highly detrimental as respects correspondence from Galloway and Western Dumfriesshire, whether proceeding northwards or south wards, to Liverpool or London. ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, in Abbott's Cliff tunnel, on the South Eastern Railway, Joel Rush, the master of the electric telegraph at Dover, having experienced some dif ficulty in transmitting a message per telegraph to Folke stone, was proceeding along the line to inspecrthe wires, with a view of ascertaining where the defect existed ; and on the one o'clock afternoon passenger train leaving Dover for town he got on the engine with the driver and stoker. When the train had 'advanced about thirty or forty yards in the Abbott's Cliff tinnel, the engine -driver saw him fall against the wall on the left-hand side, and disappear beneath the train. Thtengine was stopped, and the body of Mr. Rush was founfrightfully mutilated lying across the rails. EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF A RAILWAY ENGINE AND SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On Thursday evening, Wile some men were engaged with an engine at the Camp-hill sta..' tion, on the Birmingham and Bristol Railway, near the former town the engine suddenly started off at a terrific pace, without driver, guard, or any other person being • upon it, and continued at the rate of upwards of 30 miles an hour for about eight miles, when, owing to some cause at present unknown, the engine suddenly stopped, and avoided an accident which must have been terrible in its consequences. It appears that it was running on the down line, up which the third-class train was coming from Gloucester, and had actually stopped. when within a few minutes, if not seconds, of coming into collision with it. The guard of the train saw the light of the runaway engine, pulled up, and prevented the accident. VICTORIA TUNNEL.—On Monday, the first stone of the grand entrance of the tunnel was laid at Edge-hill, by Edward Woods, Esq., the engineer, in the presence of ; many of the railway offi cers , an d of a large concourse of ` persons. The works of the tunnel commen ce by asp ten ' - did iron bridge, of two arches, across their railway atiVe vertree-lane. Several acres of land are in progress of ex cavation at Edge-hill, to be added to the present station, where there will be abundant space for the thousands who, in the summer season, avail themselves of the cheap trains. The grand entrance of the tunnel is under the road leading to the railway hotel, and several hundreds of workmen are already engaged on these gigantic undertak ings. The tunnel is to pass in an oblique direction across the town, being carried in a direct line under the King's Monument, Christ's Church, the Friends' Meeting-house, the Chapel in Byrom-street, the North Dispensary in Vauxhall-road, and then under the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, to a station comprising several acres, between Great Howard-street and the Waterloo Dock. These works hive been contracted for by Messrs. Samuel and James Holme, and Mr. M'Cormick, and considerable progress has been made at the various " eyes," as they, are termed, along the whole of the line. The entire cost will be, we understand, about £200,000. RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—A " wind-up" meeting was held in London on Saturday weeks The directors' report stated that the total amount • . • • received in deposits on sharegissued, and interest on those deposits was £80,200, of which £45,500 had been returned to shareholders, at the rate of 30s. per share, out of £2 12s. 6d., the deposit paid, as determined on at the last meet-_ ing ; £5900 had been paid to Mr. Brewer, the solicitor to. the company, and one of the original promoters; £7000: to Mr. Blunt, the engineer ; and about £13,000 to cover various other claims and expenses, leaving a balance of assets to the credit of the company of £B6OO in the funds and banker's hang Of this sum, however, Mr. Brewer still claims £4OOO more, in addition to what had 'been already paid him ; and had brought an action for that amount, which was now pending in the Court of Exche quer, and which he had offered to compromise on being paid £2600, an offer which the directors had refused. Should the action be altogether defeated,. then there.would be over 53. a share more to be returned to the sharehold ers ; or should the compromise be accepted, there would still -be over 3s. a share more to return. Every other demand and claim on the company had been settled and discharged. The report was unanimously agreed to, as was also a resolution authorising the committee of ma - nagement to resist to the last paying Mr. Brewer one • shilling more than he had already received. of. this Tuesday, a Company;ver y was held in the Palatine H otel, in M anchester, for the pur pose of considering the steps' to LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAST LE - UP, nu- ON- • T m l e - ro NE us meetinguNCTlONof ißvelArvroiet Al p - . r —( Or n s be taken with respect to th e report Of Messrs. Win. Gibb, Geo rge W. Cram, and Wm. Nichol, the committee of inve s ti ga ti on appo i nte d o n Saturday, the 25th day of July last; and to determine the propriety of reducing the number of directors from twelve to six_; and also for powers to proceed with and endeav- • our fo obtain in the ensuing session of parliament acts for—Alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch, with power to purchase, rent, or use the Northern Counties Railway, and Aniendment of Acts relating to the Liver pool,- Manchester, and `Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway, and to the Northern Counties Union Railway Companies—Railway e from the East Lancashire Railway, near Burnley, to join the. Burnley Branch of the Man chester and Leeds Railway, with power to sell or lease to the East Lancashire Railway Company, or to the Man' chester and Leeds Railway Company—and Liverpool; Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and Northern Counties Union Railways Amalgamation. The following is a summary of the statement of accounts Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, receipts £B9,S 9 A 13s. id. ; expenditure, £26,773 2 s . 7d. ; b a l ance, £63,11- 10s. 6d. ; accounts unpaid, £13,247 ss. 11(1. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Coln; pany, receipts, £88,635 6s. 10d. ' • expenditure, £24,70 7 9s. 9d, •, balance, £63,927 17s. 1(1: • accounts Impala! £7,015 6s. 2d. The report above allu'ded to stated that the serious amount of £44,201 13s. 4d. bad been claire(' for law expenses, and the committee suggested the pro; priety of,§ubniitting such of the bills as remai ne d unind° to the respective solicitors, in order to give them an or portunity of reducing. the balances unsettled. Mr. tic" man, after asking some questions relative to the allotreeil of shares, asked to have th e b oo k s with the minutes ° proceedings of the Company produced; and this bei n eg done, he called atte n ti on to the meeting on the 2 70 of August, when 23,000 shares were allotted to the dirk' tors and their friend s , an d 6000 only to the pu b l i c. elicited from th e m i nutes of proceedings that on the 2"'l of September five gentlemen - met and allotted to till', selves 3250 shares ; and that upon the very day on wbi c „ - they had is sue d a not i ce that all t h e s h ares had b een tala l ; up ; and be referred to the share list of Octocer 1, fr °°- , • which it appeared that the shares Were selling at 61 -- , t. mime. About this time a report was circulated that g e m Hudson had be co me favourable to the li n e, an d that 2wt shares were to • tie reserved for him and his friends. their last meeting it was stated by Mr. Allhusen that Hudson had taken - up•1000 shares, and that he (Mr. ! e l. husen) hail paid the . deposit for the m ; b u t it now appet'r'"a that Mr. Hudson had not taken any shares whatever the undertaking. A very lengthened diseussion, enSll r c e , in the course of which a gre a t d ea l o f cr i ns i na tion and . t it el imination passed on bothesides. Mr. IL Houldsw°_ l l li suggested an amendment to the eff ec t th a t th e report ce„e, be received, and that the meeting he adjourned site'' (g a l and that the directors be instructed t o c a ll a nother sPe.,, A O general meeting within a m on th. Thi s amen dment 0 - 0 put to the vote, and was carried by a majority of six to fie of the shareholders-present. 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