The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

Emprriat Varitaguntt HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuiispAv. Parliament was this day opened by the Quee,, - son, and a description of the ceremony .we have given elsewhere. It is scarcely necessary now to give her Ma jesty's speech in extenso, and we shall therefore content ourselves with an outline. Her Majesty after alluding to " the dearth of provisions which prevails in Ireland and in parts of Scotland,"' recommends her Parliament " take into serious consideration whether, by incr a limited periOd the facilities for - foreign countries. -- " freely into brewer id by the admiaOri'O?s %nd distilleries, the SUM )e beneficially auim "their can Her Majesty then di- .st consideration to condition of I iana, efore the es tha' if adopted, r le in comfort, Ltine that s for imprc m_of calamity, h s to your ( your deliberative wisdom had wisely ab- stained from introducing int topics which were likely to lead to disCussion, it unnecessary for him, at the commencement of bit embar under existing circumstances they were ce. The fact of their being in rom no act of their own ; there fairly entitled to forbear possession of power aros were many in office against their wishes ; in the trying position in which they were placed, they were entitled to aid, and so long as they abstained from tampering with the institutions of the country they should have the for bearance of him and those who acted with him. Majesty's Speech there was nothing to give rise to hostile In her 1 of the toontry , but now they were down to ss. and ttention to t ms, the 1 good and - red for the ht, althougi Robert Fergus Buller, Mr. Al Ightson Mr. CI SELL sai, 1, a resc tion into effect A. those HOU. -OF C( Lord Joh explained his rem gation laws till ti 3 be mac oe grea - e been so often of corn in'Oct and Novernt but from that thr the firs t andendy c sen to 66s the int on Ext larvest hac lering on laws had b Id hardly I very it s country s they I to consid zricultur imitted for use Marquis of Lans- was agreed to COMMONS TUESDAY Lord John ie lute minist opposition ; Colonel Sibthorp Smith O'Brien, (the leader o Sir R ling the calamity HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Mr. EWART moved that committees on all private as ,well as railway bill s , sho_, .sist of five members, nei lhergerscnally nor indi # interested in the question submitted to their consideration. On a division, the motion was lost by a Majority of 67 In answer to a question from Mr. O'Brien, Mr. GIBSON said that the state of the agricultural districts was under the consideration of government, and a bill on the subject would shortly be submitted to Parliament. On the motion of Mr. PARKER, the following members were nominated the select committee on standing orders : Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Ord, Lord Dalmeny, Sir . Wilson Patten, Sir John Yarde . Captain Jones, Mr. Home Drum , and Mr. Sotheron. sked if it was the int, ion of go lleries and temporary measure ? ould be moved for d breweries, sugar .in distilleries uld be fully discusied, and if it wa, d be brought in to carry the resolu- , MMONS THIIRSDA USSELL, in committee of the whole House, sons for proposing to suspend the navi first of November next, and the duties on corn till the Ist of September, 1847. On the termina tion of the last harvest the prospect was that the harvest lelovr the avera of ordinary years, of superior quality; aid that the harv — est of also of , oats, would be deficient in some pa r ts rn . t failure, however, was that 3 crop, wbich was considerable in England— n Scotland—and the greatest of all in Ireland, , rs of the erop, - according iy rate one-half, had been to some cal lost. There n, last year, a great importation of foreign corn, -itogether to 4,800,000 quarters. The prices there had been a consider th the prices at the time of the August wheat w week of January to 645., in the ,econd week to 665. 10d., and on the 16th of January to ros. 3d. Having quoted.the price of wheat, he proceeded o show that the rise in barley had been still greater. In he first week of January, 1842, it was 295. 7d. ; in the same week in 1843 it was 265. sd. ; in 1844, 325. 7d. , in 1845, 345. 2d. ; and in 1846, 31s. 11d. In the first week of January, 1847, it was 445. 3d. ; in the second week, it and in the third week it was 505., and this f the price of barley for malting, which id 70s. Ile then estimated the money d in parts of ;he potato crop which had fai 4-.14.,. Lrts of Western Europe. There 1 effort made by all to obtain supply. The duties on the importation of foreign grain ad been remitted in France,Belgium, and many of the le Rhine ; whilst in several of . 1 passed prohibiting the expor stock of corn at Dantsic at present rig so, the sellers expected higher The propo, Irices. There were only two quarters from - which a ;up dy could be obtained, Odessa and the United States. i-om the first France had obtained supplies to the amount f 700,000 quarters, but in the spring there was every rrospect that a large supply of grain weak! be sent to _ _ .rom the interior of Russia. In the United states there had been an abundant harvest both of wheat and of Indian corn, but hitherto much of that supply had not come to this country. Now, such being the state g the defici y, we ought to The 4s. deity had_ not prevented y of , foreign corn from coming into Great while there was a strong corn' petitioni; make a considerable difference in future as He therefore proposed that all duties on the importati on - gn corn should be suspended till the Ist of Sep -xt, and should leave it to parliament hereafter r whether it would continue that He then adverted to the subject of s, which were tension ox poor law more Navigation present an impediment to the impor- The house then resumed, and the' Corn Law Suspen sion Bill and the Navigation Laws Bill were severally read a third time and passed. Lord John RUSSELL moved for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the law of settlement. He thought it right to say that Government did not think it necessary to take any step in reference to the re port of the select committee etrsthe Andover inqUiry, un less some hon.-member should think fit to bring the case under the consideration of the house, in which event he would be prepared to state his opinion upon the subject. He admitted that the Poor Law Amendment :fit had not been carried out to the satisfaction of Parliament, and the Government had, therefore, resolved to propose, that the board should be re-constituted with a president, having permission to have a seat in the House of Commons. There should be also two secretaries, one of whom should have a seat in the house, in order to give all necessary explanations, should the president not have a seat. The rules of the board should have no effect until sanctioned by the Queen in Council, and the administration of the poor law in Ireland should be'Wholly separate from that of England. Ation of the noble lord appeared to be very approved of, and after a short discussion; in which Mr. Bankes, Mr. Hume, Mr. V. Smith, Sir J. Pakington, and-Sir G. G re W t oo k part, Mr. FERRAND said he believed there was some truth in the report circulated during the last few days, that it was the intention of the Government to shelter the poor law commissioners from that punishment which they had not hesitated to visit upon their own subordinates. They would, however, be much mistaken if they thought the people of England would be thus easily satisfied. The hon. gentleman referred to the criminal information moved for against him by.. Mr. Lewis, one of the poor law commissioner; the rule.for which was made absolute last November, but in which no step had been taken until he moved for papers on Wednesday evening, preparatory to icesmoving for a committee of i nqu i r y i n t o th e i r con duct ne x t of show any con- trrnat Thursday. He was next day served w ith a notice that hP st the information was filed, w hi c h was no thi ng l e ss, i n hi s ncr opinion, than an attempt to intimidate him from the per formance of his duty in parliament. He challenged the parties to go on, and he pledged himself to resign his seat if he did not come out of the ordeal with honour. Mr. ETWALL regretted the course taken by ministers with respect to the Andover inquiry. Mr. T. DIINCOMBE said that, unless they could render secretary would ever lie able to get returned to parliament After some further discussion, the motion was agreed to HOUSE OF LORDS.—SATURD AY. Lord STANLEY expressed his regret that the proposed bill for the allowing the use of sugar and molasses in klis. tilleries was to be a permanent and not a temporary nu'a. quire what would be the course 1 L4ansdown, with respect to the Irish polici of the Government ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE assured the noble lord tin the house should have ample onport,—;4— the Sugar and Molasses Bill. 'With regard to the Irish policy, he had already stated that his intention was to move for certain papers on Monday ; on which occasion it would be competent for any noble lord, _ raise a discussioff on the whole Irish question. Lord BROUGHAM was anxious to know when the me_ sures referred to by the Marquis of Lansdowne would come on ; and, passing to the poor law, dilated on the blessings it had conferred on the sat f he chose, to g• was enhanced at Present in the United necessity of ei to M and munitions of w stated to the house the ad g ships to carry troops The noble lord then ance in the price of freight at present over the ordinary price of freight from the Danube, from Odessa, from the United States, and from the Baltic. The advance with regard to freights to Ireland was still more remarkable, add, as a pro - of of it, he would merely mention that the freight from London to Cork had risen from ls. to 3s. 3d. He therefore thought that in suspend ing the Navigation Laws we should diminish the price of freight and let free a number of vessels of foreign coun tries, which m to this ( The motion was seconded by Mr. G." Bankes, and after a short debate, carried without a division. E OF COM ,-FRIDAY The Corn Law Suspension Bill passed through com- n to the length of the voyage prior to the Ist of after some discussion, tor the he amendment was unneces- ways vested in the Treasury Governme Lord J. RUSSELL opposed the amendment, thinking that a limited period would he likely to make merchants more rapid in procuring canoes. At the same time he would exercise the same discretion as had heretofore been exercised by the Treasury in cases such as had been re ferred to. A desultory conversation ensued, which terminated in a division, negativing the amendment by a majority of 118 to 50. The bill then went through committee. The house then went into committee. on the Customs and Excise Acts, and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved resolu tions with a view to allow the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries. The right hon. gentleman entered into very minute details in order to show that, under the new state of things, there would be ample security against any frauds on the revenue. He also proposed a resolution re commending that the differential duty on colonial rum should be reduced from one shilling to sixpence, which comp9ni, would have the effect of putting a stop to the manufac ture of a spuriousdatiele which was now consumed in this country to a consMerable extent. Lord G. BENTINCK said that these measures were cer tainly not open to the objections which he had always entertained against the free admission of foreign produce into this country; but he nevertheless thought th a t a ll for the use of I t h - __ letails required more consideration than could be iven to them that evening. He would, therefore, sug proposed measures should be passed as tern ' .nd that the right hon. baronet should porary or n:bling them forward as per - manent ones at a later Mr. W. S. O'BruEk said he was greatly disappointed at the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which, in his opinion, would not lessen the consumption of grain in the manufacture of spirits or of beer. Mr. D. CALLAGHAN said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer overlooked a most material fact—namely, that in Ireland and Scotland, under the proposed regulations, the differential duty on rum would be practically reduced to lid. or 2d. Now, however anxious they may be for free trade, it was scarcely fair to Ireland and Scotland to expose them to such a competition, while refusing them the privilege conceded to the West India colonists of dis tilling from molasses. This he thought the right hon. gentleman would see the necessity of altering in com mittee. Mr. BANKES supported the suggestion of Lord G Bentinck. Mr. GOULBURN contended that the measur )e permanent, as they stood upon grounds wholly; different from those on which they were acting in refer ence to the corn importation and navigation laws. , Mr. WODEHOUSE said these measures ou g ht t o b e on l y 1 temporary until they should have time more fully to con- iem. If they were necessary to meet the present exigency, let ministers take them for a time, thus leaving to the house an opportunity for reconsidering their tendency. After a discussion, in which Mr. FINCH, Mr. D. BARCLAY, Lord G. BENTINCK, and other hon_ members took part, sider t Lord J. RUSSELL regretted to feel himself compelled by a sense of public duty, to decline acceding to the re quest of Lord George Bentinck, whom otherwise he would most willingly have obliged, owing to the fair and candid manner in which he had received every proposi tion of the government during the present session. It was not, however, intended to hurry this bill through Parliament, as circumstances corn pelled them to do with of cost few days since, when Captain Coddington, the new inspector-general of railways, was proceeding by a special train from London to Exeter, a speed of seventy-two miles an hour was obtained on some parts of the Way. _ then be engaged in transporting grain The Doncaster and Peterborough Laup of the Great mtry and to Ireland. He, therefore, proposed Northern Railway has been let to Messrs. Peto, to be to suspend the Navigation L aw s till th e I s t o f N ovem b er comp l eted b y the Ist Feb. 1848, Under a penalty of £lOOO next. The noble lord then concluded by moving that it per week for non-performance of contract. be en instruction to the chairman to ask for reeve to bring The Queen's Speech was received in Sheffield by elec in a bill to suspend the duties on corn till the Ist of Sep- tric telegraph by five o'clock. on the eve n i ng it was deli -IRA vered. The London and North-Western Railway will soon enable us in Liverpool to use even greater despatch than this.l FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening, as a girl (aged twenty) was attempting to cross the Eastern Counties line, at the Whittleworth station, an express train rushed upon, and instantaneously killed her. Her head and one arm w re completely severed from her body. Mr. MITC HELL moved an amendment, the effect of which The special meeting of the Reading, Guildford and Rei ,vould be that all vessels arriving with corn in a British gate came to no results, and was adjourned to give the port after the Ist of September would nevertheless be ad- directors the opportunity of concluding, if possible, an mitted, provided it could be satisfactorily shown that she agreement with the South-Eastern to lease the whole line ~ ~, ~ r ,L_ ,_ , _.,• , , .. . ~♦ Al ...............4- ~...1 1...1C ........A.5... The Great Western, he North Western, and So'nth Western Railway Companies haveoffered the Association telief of Distress in Ireland, to convey on their respective lines, without charge, the supplies of food, &c:, which the association may send for shipment at the various _ _ ao tout, Gill/ 1,11.0 mutiny LCILI FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning, before day light, on the line of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, now in the course of formation, a waggoner fell across the line of rails, and his waggons ran over him, when one of his legs was cutoff, and the other shockingly mangled. He was instantly removed, and surgical aid procured, but he shortly after expired Tx EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—The Corpora tion of Preston intend offering a determined opposition io the East Lancashire Company having a separate entrance '-` '' Tl ' . `' "- - by crossing the valley of the Ribble and ridge. The reasons alleged are the non undertaking, and the serious "manner in which it would interfere with the proposed public CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—The two first miles of the line out of Chester being completed, the use of it has been granted to the North Wales Mineral and Chester and Birkenhead at £2OOO per annum, which sum is to be increased to £2500, if the combined traffic of the two mounts during the period of its rental (six months) to £31,200,. The portion of the line in question forms the connecting link between the railways which now enter Chester. ACCIDENT ON THH LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY, —As the nine o'clock train o n F r id a y morning, was proceeding from Liverpool to Manchester, owing, we believe, to the accumulated snow, it ran off the line about Rainhill. In the last carriage was Mr. Jack, of the Com mercial Bank of Liverpool, and several gentlemen going as a deputation on the affairs,of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway. This carriage was thrown into collision with another standing by, and the consequence was a severe fracture of one of Mr. Jack's legs. Mr. Jack was immediately brought back to Liverpool, where he received prompt surgical assistance, and we understand he is doing well. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—An ex press train, conveying the Queen's Speech, left the Euston sipition, on Tuesday, at 22 minutes past 1, and reached the Leighton station, 41 miles distant, at precisely 2 minutes past 2, having thus travelled 41 miles in 40 mi nutes ? From Leighton to Wolverton it followed the half-past 12 o'clock stopping train, and was 'also delayed at Weedon by a goods' train, at Rugby to set down a pas senger, and near Brandon by overtaking the 11 o'clock train from London, which it followed slowly to• Birmin gham but, notwithstanding these delays, the 1124 miles were performed in 23 hours. Exclusive of the delays, the speed throughout was 60 miles an hour while running free! A meeting of 3000 persons was held at Glasgow, on Wednesday, for the purpose of strengthening the hands of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Directors in per severing in the discontinuance of Sunday trains. Hugh Cogan, Esq., occupied the chair, and the platform was crowded by an array of all denominations of clergy, be sides a great number of highly respectable gentlemen of ',lie clergymen on the platform, were the Rev. Dr. Hill, Professor of Theology in the University of Glasgow, Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, Rev. Dr. Reid, Professor of Church History in the University of Glasgow, Rev. Dr. Smyth, Rev. Dr. King, Rev. Dr. Buchanan, Rev. Dr. Symington, Rev.ington, Rev. D ra r i . k 7 tk ill e i . s, B,e. Rev. Dr. Bates, Rev. D. NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION. — Our readers will see that the Northern Counties Union (late the York and Carlisle and Yorkshire and Glasgow Union) is a sort of cross or diagonal line, uniting the Lancaster and Carlisle on the west with Mr. Hudson's line on the east. Itex tends from the Lancaster and Carlisle at Tebay to the Darlington line at Bishop Auckland, and from the Leeds and Thirsk line at Thirsk to the Lancaster and Carlisle line at Clifton. It has 119 miles sanctioned, and has powers to Ilise £3,000,000. They will see that these lines form a sort of transverse table, by which some of the traffic .of the eastern lines may be transferred to the western, or vice versa". On this account both lines attach importance to them, beyond what would, in all probability, be their intrinsic importance, looking only to their own local traffic. Our readers will also find another group of lines, adverted to at the meeting, and which have a similar character—the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-op - Tyne Junction (with which is amalgamated the Lancashire and North Yorkshire,) extending from Preston and from the Leeds and Bradford to the Richmond branch of the Great North of England, promoted by the Manchester and Leeds Company, and proposed -to be amalgamated with the Northern Counties Union, the total length being 561 miles, with a capital of £1,400,000. in this mass of lines it will readily be imagined-that some economy ought to be exercised, and that it is most desirable that in carrying out the joint scheme, the greatest amount of accommodation should be given at much less expense than was proposed in the fever of last year. A reduction • and of capital is accordingly proposed, and the great subject of discussion was, which lines should have the preference in con s t ruc ti on . Th e report of the directors to proceed with their proposed reductions, was carried by a considerable majority, and the proposal for amalgama tion wag also carried.-:-Railway chronicle, e happened a the two count owing to the events of the last few months. As to th occupation of Cracow, that would probably not have taken Elace had not the misunderstanding between France and ngland unhappily arisen. With respect to Ireland, he believed that the .description of distress existent there and t could be propo raise the agriculture, and to 1 for land which has been the fruitful sourc( The marriage of the Infant having given rise to E ure of that corr merely mentioned a: m of Cracow is called ence between the B France and Spain. " a manifest violation of the trea , which her Majesty has protested. xs hope thatllie host terminated ; and aft requisite preparat Lion ti and rec Towns, thus concruth ings which, after I confide ti conviction that y partial spirit, of my Peopie_zr. Lord HATE Lord STANLEY said 'that' a s is the River Plat he has comment ; but ti therein I must soon ra premium ( high as 3.5 s subject req then conte With respe pressed his as was ev respect was not to be denied that the inar le to t could not be ex and no ef cheerfully responded to by and Great P ing of a Bi had done, tent of the culties, one iifficulty to the &rant ad been taken by surprise of acquiring correct infor cnmstances, supply food laws and th, be'objection would he ju! gation laN but he t cation of the m; in our breweries downe and Lord )'clock the Speal I his colleagues, Young Ireland). were a 1 H. Ingl seated 1 o on the san id some of the Protectionist members, were by Mr. C. Howard, and se- conded Mr. W. S. O'l 't on tl of Ireland and eet the terrible the ineff emergen unless the which would ye only had effect of inc Loid GEORGE tENTINCK assured the government that the advocates of the Protection policy had no intention of making Ireland the battle-ground of party. They felt that the nresent government had laistratimi of Ireland at a time of extraordinary d and ther was due to the governmen to examine its acts with indulgence. The - miseries of Ireland demanded sympathy, and it was the resolution of the Protection party to give their calmest and best consi deration to any measures that might be oronosed for the alleviation of the calamity.- But while clispo_ lenient eye upon the conduct of the government not prepared to admit that the measur - already taken were such as he could t,, impossible to view the poor employment a, effectual remedy; whilst upwards of 400,000 pe— were constantly employed, the works they wrought upon were worse than useless. As to the non-interference with trade, such a maxim of political .economy might •be good in ordinary times, but when an unexampled calamity afflicted the country, the harsh rules of such dogmas should be relaxed, and the government should not ha hesitated to do so. It was perfectly unreasonable to' expected merchants and retailers to have sprung once in Ireland in numbers sufficient to have ample and cheap food for the p, Lord r tinck emphatically disclaimed I to cast a they had It was forded as an 11 idea of a coininlet supposed to exist between the Pr o tection p ar ty and par liament, relative to the existing 4s. duty on corn ; the Protection party acknowledged no such compact, and therefore the government were free to propose the re moval of the 4s. duty if they thought fit. Should the go-. vernment propose the temporary removal of this 4s. duty, the Protection party would not oppose it ; but it was their firm persuasion that its removal would give no benefit to the consumer. The Exchequer would lose the duty, and every farthing would go into the pockets of t chants and forestallers. Should the g think fit to'propose the admission of suga breweries and distilleries, the Protection party would offer it no opposition, although from such a measure they had little expectation of benefit. Should a tempt ference with the navigation laws be propose( y would not oppose it, though the hail come such a ren if they wis rigid princi of politica - 1 economy wherever they am Ket it, an jesty's ships in carrying these supplies into the ports of Ireland. An experienced captain had informed him that there were eight ships of the line now available, which in forty-eight hours could be got ready, with which, in ten weeks, 80,000 quarters of grain could be bro ug ht i n t o our ports. These, and four such voyages between this and harvest, would be no mean supply, and would go far in reducing the price of grain to a moderate rate. Lord George Bentinck expressed his deep regret that anything should have occurred between the governments of France and England to interrupt th e am it y th at ex i ste d b etween them. - He did not believe the people of En g l an d sympa thised. at all with the foreign minister on the question that had arisen. The commercial partt of the country would have been better pleased it the noble lord had turned his attention to the Spanish carrying trade instead of to the Spanish marriages. As to the grr made in the Royal speech against the great sovereigns with whom we fought the -e rave charges A • George Bentinck expressed his regret that such condem nation had been thought necessary. The idea of brand ing the occupation of Cracow as a manifest' violation of the treaty of Vienna was preposterous. How many times had the treaty of Vienna been violated ? What was the severance of Belgium from Holland ? Lord George, for himself, declared he felt no sympathy for the people of Cracow, the pear able portion of whom were themselves delighted at the change. On the part of the Protection party, the noble lord gave notice, that unless the govern ment should bring fdrward some comprehensive measure of general utility for Ireland, he would himself do so. Sir R. H. INGus said the only error, if any, which he could see, was that of excessive concern on the part of the government and of the people of England for the state of Ireland. Scotland was exposed to similar privations, the corn and navigation acts. and had endured them with a most admirable degree of Lord G. BENTINCK said he was satisfied with the ex -patience. (Ve r y genera l cheering from both sides of the p l anat i on, an d wou ld ta k e t h e sense o f t h e h ouse upon house.) the question of the permanency of the bill on one of its Lord J. RUS SELL sa id t h at had government adopted future stages. the principles advocated by the Irish members, they must Mr. B. Escorr commented on the cordiality which ap have taken upon themselves the responsibility of support- peared to subsist between Lord George Bentinek and Lord ing the whole population of Ireland, in which case, by John Russell, and which appeared already to have led the competing with private capital in the market, they would former to have made a sham fight for the reduction of the have grievously increased the evil. He commented malt tax—thus selling the farmer, notwithstanding the shortly, but severely, on the course pursued by Austria score of dinners at which he had been an honoured guest, towards Cracow, and concluded 'by an appeal to the sym- and the establishment of an anti-malt-tax-league, of which pathies of all parties in favour of the Irish people. he was the president, he believed, for he (Mr. Escott) had Sir R. PEEL alluded to the Montpensier marriage, and never been invited to join it. (Loud and ironical cheer said he apprehended that the correspondence published res- ing from the opposition benches.) pecting it were only partial, and that the noble lord would Lord G. BEisirrsCu said he hoped that the long friend place before the house much fuller information. He ship which had existed between himself and Lord John deeply regretted the recent occurrences at Cracow, which Russell ,, wo . ul . 4 continue for many years, however strong were a virtual departure from the treaty of Vienna. f or —. ...i e was no ustification. With res , -- mignt be thei r p o liti ca l oppos i t i on. (Ch eer i ng. ) He jpect to Ire- would assure the honourable member for Winchester that ..ell knew the embarrassing position in which the any league of which lie (Lord G. Bentinelc) was a presi dent would never i nv it e hi m (M r. Escott) to join it, unless go v e r nment was placed, and he was therefore prepared to extend to it every allowance and consideration. lie was it was ' theirwish that it sho u ld b e b etraye d . (Loud cheers also prepared to give his cordial support to any temporally from all parts of the house.) measures proposed by the government for the purpose of Some smart sparring took place between Mr. FEARAND resc uing the people from a state of starvation. and Mr. Escovr, which terminated the discussion, and Lord PALMERSTON replied, after which the Address was the resolutions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ,were agreed to. !greed to. which ti land, he Under existi would not, in I eyed that the a 4 he cliff uld r ! lord ex- the us down expressipg his hope that central superintendence, the corner-stone of the system, would not be interfered The Marquis of LANSDWNE explainA, that it was not the intention of the government to impair the efficacy of the original bill, but solely to give additional facilities to , • its working RAIL W AFFAIRS. %nd Thirsk for ~240,000 has been unanimously confirmed. The Taw Vale, having declined alliance with the Bristol and Exeter, have concluded an agreement for lease to the South Western, the latter guaranteeing 5 per cent. It is now decided that the submarine electric telegraph shall be laid down across the channel from England to France. By the proposed extension of the Eastern Counties Railway to Guildford-street, Gray'slnn-road, from Tot tenham, the Middlesex House of Correction will b e con- verted into a railway terminus. The Railway Times says that " the attempt to re-open negotiation between the London. and North Weste rn an d Great Western Comp an i es are likely to prove unsuc cessful." THE 'LTVERPOOL STANDARD. _ r , FOREIGN - 4 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, OVERLAND MAIL FROWCALCUTTA. The Calcutta mail of the Bth of December has been re ceived by extraordinary express, with/papers from Bombay of the 15th of December; Madras, -18th of December; and China, the 26th of November. The news-brought by this mail is in the main unimportant. The Punjaub re mains tranquil, and the British army, it was said, would, about the middle of December, march from Lahore. It is rumoured that it will make a halt some march or two from the capital to watch the immediate results of its re tirement before falling back on -Ferozepore. Just as it was supposed, the most satisfactory conclusions had been attained. It is stated that unquestionable evidence has transpired of there having been an understanding betwixt the Rajah Lall Singh, Vuzeer at Lahore, and Sheik Emaum-ood-deep, the Cashmerian insurgent leader, with the purpose of keeping Gholab Singh from taking posses sion of his new dominion. Should this prove well grounded, it will materially affect the concluding portion of our arrangements. Lord Hardinge was still within our lately acquired dominions, in progress to the westward: Lord Gough had left Simla for Umballa. A hurricane of unusual violence, by which much loss has been occasioned to the shipping interests, occurred at Madras on the 25th November. Similar visitations at this season of the year are frequent on the eastern side of India, from Calcutta to the line ; they are almost unknown in the Arabian sea, on the western shore of the peninsula. The weather was becoming cool and pleasant. THE BOMBAY MARKET, DECEMBER 15, 1846.—The dulness which prevailed in our import market, at the close of our last issue, has continued unabated throughout the fortnight. The exchange continues at 2s. id. to 2s. Id. AMERICA Boston accounts to the sth instant inclusive have been received by the packet-ship Anglo-Saxon, Captain Gor don_ which ww; 74,4 ; Ira n" - r ter a remarkably short run of eighteen clays The House of Rc )resentatives on the 2 oplved,that and coffee.' it was inexpedient to levy any duty on tea The d • • The accounts with regard to the war add little to our previous intelligence. General Scott had left New Orleans for Tampico. Dates from that port to the 19th December mention a report that a large body of troops had been seen - in the vicinity of the town. Accounts from the Rio Grande state, that large bodies of troops were advancing, or about to advance, en route to Tam pico. General Taylor was to leave Monterey for the same destination about 10th December, viii Victoria. It was reported that General Unzrea, with a Mexican force of 6,000 cavP l- was at v". alry, victoria. General Worth re mained at Saltillo, and General Wood at P aoras . Ru , Anna had 22,000 men at San sted. among the troops at Matamora The state of Tobasco, resenting the neglect with whicl. the central Government treated it when recently attacked a " pronunciamento" struggling amid constitu ad pronounced" for the declaring its independence. Yucatan appeared still to be 1101141 utsoruers. campeachy independence of the department. Montreal journals of the 30th ult. add nothing to our ntnm/VII 'Ann's-rum.' Havana accounts to the 20th December had been received A Yucatan schooner had _managed to elude the Ameri- -war cruising off the por twisting Eng] colours and so passed into the harbour PORTUGAL Accounts from Lisbon to the 11th instant represent that considerable progress had been make towards the pacification of the entire country. The provinces of Es tremadura, Algarve, Lower Beira, and Tras-os-Montes were entirely tranquillized, and the road from Lisbon to Coimbra perfectly clear of guerillas, the telegraphs and posts being again established. - Saldanha had marched northward from Coimbra, where he had met with a bril liant reception, as far as Joaninho, on the road to Oporto. Our accounts from Oporto are to the 13th instant. On the 3d Das Antas entered that city, where the remnant of his army joined him on the 7th. The regular troops there numbered only a thousand, and the whole number under arms in Oporto was between twelve and thirteen thousand. Viana had declared for the Queen ; the rebels were deserting the country and gathering in Oporto. Most of their leaders were 'there : among them General Barad da Almagem, and Conde da Tiapa. The Miguelites were fast joining them. A Spanish letter states that Don Miguel had been proclaimed King by the insurrectionary junta, but this statement needs confirmation. SWITZERLAND The internal ag - ittiOnof --- §RvTi;&&;d, proceeding from the collision of the Liberal and Jesuitical parties in the cantons, continues. The seat of the Federal Legislature and Executive being now established, by the usual rota tion, in the canton of Berne, where the Libe ra l p ar t y i s predominant, the representatives of the northern powers, to check any manifestation which might favour the Libe rals, addressed to the Vorort a threatening note, which has provoked a strong and dignified reply. The execu tive council of Berne has protested against all foreign in tervention in the internal affairs .of the country, and has declared, as far as regards these, it acknowledges no au thority save that of the confederate cantons. Meanwhile a system of terrible re-action seems to be menaced in Friburg. L' Union Suisse , a journal of th a t c it y , i n th e interest of the Jes u iti ca l party, loudly demands a system of persecution against the Protestant Liberals. " The Government," it says, " has been in too much haste to dismount she scaffolds ; some of them must be re-con structed to hang the chiefs of the revolution, and to con sign them and their adherents to infamy." The French government has prohibited the exportation of pulse and potatoes during the next six months. The Queen of Spain has conferred upon her chief phy sician, Don Pedro Castello, the singular title of Marquis of Health (de la Salad.) Mr. Henry Edward F. Young, for many years Govern ment Secretary in British Guiana, has been promoted to the Governorship of the Eastern district of the Cape of Good Hope. Official news has been received in Berlin, that, by an Imperial mandate, Poland has ceased to exist, and that it is incorporated in the Russian empire. Consternation and mourning prevail in Warsaw in consequence. HAYTJ.—The new constitution is partly monarchical and partly republican—it was partly the work of France. The President is elected for life ; the Legislature for nine years ; the Catholic religion the religion of the country, and no white man to become a citizen, hold office, or own real estate.—New York Sun. HONOUR AND MERIT. — The Queen of Spain has con ferred the star of Charjes 111 upon her music-master ! She also honoured Monsieur Bonet, her hairdresser, with the cross of the same distinguished order ! Not long ago Louis Phillipe sent the cross of the Legion of Honour to M. Felix Vouillon, a man milliner to' the Queen, in Princes-street, Hanover-square ! Commercial letters, have been received from Bahia of the 15th of December: A very large quantity of sugar, considering the period of the season, had been forwarded from the plantations, upwards of 10,000 cases being th em in the warehouses. Ignorant, of course ? of what is now passing in Europe, there were no buyers in the market. A very different tale will be told on the receipt of intelli gence to the present date. Fribourg, the most Catholic, except Lucerne, of all the Cantons, but isolated by sittelon from its confederates, and linked to the Protestant dependency of Morat, has been the scene of another outbreak of aimless and tur bulent Radicalism. The attempt, however, proved a fai lure : the Fribourg villagers rose en masse in support of the Government, and the insurgents were discomfited after a faint attempt at resistance. FIRST ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN CANADA.—About 12 o'clock on the 19 December, says the Toronto Globe, the telegraph commenced its operations between Toronto and Hamilton. The communication was .open to all without payment, and many messages were sent from both ends of the line. One gentleman was informed that his bill was due at Hamilton, and many complimentary communications moved to and fro with lightning speed. The office was filled with crowds attracted by the novelty of the proceedings. POPULATION OF GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, AND MANCHESTER IN 1841 The Manchester Guardian has, at the request of a cor respondent, furnished some interesting statistics on this point, deduced from the parliamentary census and other .sources, correcting some errors that have appeared in the columns of some of our contemporaries. The corres pondent alluded to had given the numbers as stated by two papers, namely— Glasgow. Liverpool. M'nchster. Liverpool Mercury Scottish Reformers' 24_4 Gazette ,533 204,2 w 2W;rB 3 T xlGi_ f‘h,,eLeear Guardian ff irtay e ni r n e neLxceaepanlbaaieirinttkwsosiemiaeirsnitethtil:a,bveguit2twaß9oaeprsntiesfrearetsneowmnassei.oinirmotefs ,mhGewilsraintesagekgyieivw.evn makes wTthhhoee up the difference between that and the Scotch paper. The Mercury is right as regards the population of the municipal borough of Liverpool, and the Scotch paper errs by including 1060 persons in that part of West Derby which is in the hundred of West Derby. The writer of the article points out other errors in the Scottish paper as regards Manchester, and gives the full particulars from the official returns of 1841, of which the following is an abstract : Glasgow and its large suburbs contained together (in June, 1841,) 274,533. Liverpool, (with an area of 5300 acres,) including Tox teth-park, Everton, Kirkdale, and part of West Derby, had, at the same date, a population of 286,487-now pro bably 300,000 at least. Manchester, including all the immediate places or townships, covering an area of 6070 acres, had a popula tion of 353,390. - The following is thefore nearly the correct state ment := • Municipal Borough ... Parliamentary &mug , With Suburbs. .... Glasgow. ...120,163 .. 11, . 255,650 .. 274,533 Population in the year 1841 of Liverpool. Mancheste 286,487 :. 242,983 282,656 .. 240,367 294,651 .. 308,893 It follows, says the Guardian, from these and other statistics that of the three populous places under notice, in 1841, Glasgow was the least populous municipal borough, the second parliamentary borough in population, and had the smallest aggregate population of the three. Liver pool was the most populous municipal borough, the,most populous parliamentary borough, but only the second place in point of aggrega t e p o p u l a ti on . Manchester was the second municipal borough in point of population, the least populous parliamentary borough, hut it had the largest aggregate population in 1841. IRELAND, There has been an increase of at least £20,000 excise revenue in Limerick, upon the consumption of spirits alone in the past year. The ship Jane, of Limerick, has - been lost in the Bay of Biscay. Mr. Taylor, a merchant of 'Kerry, and several of the crew, were drowned. The King of Hanover has transmitted for the relief of distress in Ireland, £lOOO, as a contribution of the Duke of Cumberland and the Chancellor of , the University of Dublin. A gentleman acting as secretary to a relief committee in Dublin, committed suicide on Sunday se'nnight. He was of a very benevolent disposition, and declared he could not endure the harrowing misery he witnessed. PURCHASE OF ARMS.—A gentleman (says the Limerick Chronicle) returning from _Tipper* to this city, on Saturday, counted in the hands of peasants returning from the market, 146 stand of fire-arms, supposed to be purchased in this city on that day alone. STARVATION.—One of the male paupers admitted into the Tralee Workhouse on Tuesday, died next day, being unable to eat from intense exhaustion. On the post mor tem examination, not a trace of food could be found in his stomach. INDIAN ATEA L.—An American gentleman named Cherri, who arrived at Cork on Sunday, offered to supply Indian meal to any amount, required to be delivered within three months, wind and weather permitting, at £l2 per ton. He offered the house of Barings, of London, as security for the fulfilment of his contract. At an inquest held at Galway, on a person who had died from want, the jury found a verdict of wilful murder against Lord John Russell. and Sir Randolph Routh ! but the coroner refused to receive so preposterous a find ing. - They were finally obliged to content themselves with the verdict that " deceased died from want and the inclemency of the weather." HORRIBLE CRIMES.—The Tipperary Constitution states that, on Sunday night week, four ruffians in disguise, and armed, entered the house of Michael Mullally, at James town, and found in it J. Mullally, aged 80, his nephew Michael, aged 60, and two women. They lighted candles, and demanded money. They beat the poor inmates, tor tured the women by attempting to hang and burn them to death, with a view to extort money. All the property the wretches obtained was but is. 6d. in money, and some articles of trifling value. They have not yet been appre hended, and will probably, from the difficulty of identifi cation, escape punishment. BARBAROUS MURDER IN TIPPERARY.-011 yesterday morning week, within a short distance of Nenagh, John Flynn, under steward of Richard W. Gason, Esq., of Richmond, was barbarously murdered. He was going to his employment, with an axe in his hand, to cut awac some clumps that remained on the ground of felling of trees in the fields, when th saluted him in the usual mt . fired the contents of recent aurdere: than in mane a blow at th e assass i n, wh i ch struck and cut the L I pistol, and knocked it out of the murderer's hand, who then ran off. The wounded man was conveyed home, gave some information, and died soon after; butno trace of the murderer could be discovered. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—It being the leading actor' last appearance this season, there was a tolerable at Conciliation-hall on Monday. The proceedings were distinguished by their ordinary stupidity—not as much as one novelty to relieve the general dulness, except the mo dest announcement made by Mr. O'Connell that instead of £30,000,000, he mans to demand a government grant of £50,000,000 to meet the Irish distress. Should Lord John Russell have the temerity to demur to this reasona ble proposal, he (Mr. O'Connell) was prepared to assist in putting him out, and reinstating Sir Robert Peel ; not that he has lost his preference for the former minister, but the £50,000,000 must be got at any sacrifice. The week's rent went up to £127 odd shillings and pence— famine and pestilence notwithstanding. IRISH RELIEF JOBBING.—A correspondent of the Times, who dates from Enniscorfhy, county of Wicklow, discloses a shameful piece of jobbing done in that locality, in dispensing the money for the Irish Relief Works. After stating on one road there nre 100 people employed. he adds,—" they commence work at 9 a.m„ give up for dinner at 12 a.m., resume at 1 p.m., and are dismissed at half-past 3 p.m., thus w or ki ng b ut four hours and a half in the day. The employment may be called a family af fair, as the hundred people do not belong to more than thirty families, and of these many are of farmers holding more than twenty acres of land (Irish,) equal to more than thirty English. There is one instance of a farmer who holds eighteen acres (Irish) of good land at 10s. an acre. His horse is employed at 2s. 3d. a day, and led by his wife: he is employed himself as a workman, and so are his two sons, each at ls. 2d. a day; making in all, for one' starving family, the pretty sum of ss. 9d. per diem, or rather more than the pay of an ensign. This is by no means an exceptional case. Many families of labourers are receiving- 3s, and 4s. daily for four and a half hours' work or idleness, whichever you choose to call it. To this expenditure you have to add the pay of innumerable overseers, &c., who oversee, or overlook, everything." A VOICE FROM ST. JARLATHS.—Dr. Mac Hale has addressed another letter to the Premier, in the course of which he attempts to show that Ireland would have been in a much better position had she had an independent *legislature. In answer to this the Dublin Mail says :--- . Now not to talk at the unseasonableness of such a pro position, what would be our present state had the Union been dissolved twelve months ago, or were it to be dis solved on this day three weeks, under the feelings which must naturally either lead to, or be endangered by, such a consummation of national folly ? 'We should have our own Parliament sitting to legislate for our wants.' But without food, or without money of our own, how should we be the better of their empty resolves ? Will speeches , fill the stomachs of the hungry —or votes fill our pockets with money ? Would England, severed from a discon tented sister, advance us her cash or her credit ? Would she purchase for us in the markets of the world, and pro vide us with shipping to convey the supplies to our shores ? Would the whole credit, and means of the wealthiest and most powerful nation of the earth be employed to provide for our present necessities ; and where is the other nation on the earth either able or willing to lend us enough, and on such reasonable and indulgent terms ; or to be to us what Great Britain now is, in our otherwise irremediable calamity ? The thought is not madness—it is not folly : it is wickedness—it is mischief; or, if not folly, it is in fatuation ; if madness, it wants even ' method.' Doctor Mac Hale would do better for himself and his country if he would study less to show himself off—and more to do justice to the merits of others." muster DREADFUL MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—ROBBERY OF ARMS.—On Thursday morning last, as Mr. Edmond H. Wayland, of Ballywalter, pay clerk for the barony of Kilnemanagh, was proceeding through a monntainy dis trict close to the boundary of Lord Hawarden's and the late Colonel Purefoy's estates, accompanied by two police men, for the purpose of paying the men on the public works, they were waylied by five or six armed ruffians, with their faces blackened, who rushed upon them from behind two piers, and immediately surrounded the car. Two or three of the fellows came round to the side where Mr. Wayland and one of the policemen were sitting; one of them put a gun to the policeman's head, and fired, killing him on the spot ; another of the gang p u t a gun to Mr. Wayland's breast, which he pushed aside—thus saving his life, as the gun went off without taking effect. The poligwan who was sitting at the other side accounted for himsOrby stating that as he was in the act of standing up and turning round, he was thrown down by the motion of the car, when he was seized by two of the ruffians, who took his gun from him. Mr: Wayland then, seeing that he had to fight his way alone, endea voured to save the money he had with him, amounting to about £llB. Previously he had fired off his two pistols, but could not say whether either shot had taken effect. He then went to the car in hopes of getting the murdered policeman's carabine, but it had been taken off. His chief object now was to secure the money, which was in the car , the horse of which continued to go on, the driver having fled. He got on the car and drove off to the next hill, where the men were at work, and safely deposited the money in the house of the overseer of the district. We regret to state that as yet there has been no clue to discover the assassins.—Tipperary Constitution. FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF IRISH MISERI The medical officer of the Kanturk (Cork) Union, in his last report, dated the 15th instant, says " 1790 persons find refuge in the workhouse built for 850: 502 in hospital board days, the number of applicants fox admission was 800. In this emergency the guardians, in addition to having taken a store in .this town, are at this moment erecting sheds to contain from -100 to 500 persons. The sanatory condition of the noose as progressing favourably 'till measles of a malignant character diffused itself amongst the children ; out of 400 patients, 67 died ; immediately after convalescence gastric fever attacked the survivors, which was of a decidedly contagious character. The mortality was principally confined to the young children recently admitted, whose _constitutions were do bilitated by innutritive f oo d an d i nsu ffi c i ent clothing, - filthy rags being th e i r on l y garments. The adults who were admitted for the last month, previous to their re ception, lived on bran and turnips ; the latter being now nearly exhausted, the peel formed their chief sustenance ; that dietary, coupled with extreme cold, induced dysen try, which terminated in low fever, and three of the assist ant nurses have caught the infection ; the dissolution of one is fast approaching. Dr. Sweetnam, the dispensing physician at Skull and Ballidehob, in a letter, dated 14th January, to. the Cork Constitution, says , " within the last few days, eight per sons here died of actual starvation, and are as follows : Two children at Denlera, near Skull, three days without food ; Patrick Linehan, of Rosslum, near Skull, found dead in a field, two days without food ; John Driscoll, of Keelbronogue, near Skull, found dead on the road, two days without food; John Coughlan, found dead on the road at Knuckroo, - near Ballidehob, two days without food. - Three persons named Cassidy, at Cove, near Skull, father, mother, and son, all in fever ; had no drink or food but salt and water, or any person to administer it. The old couple three days uninterred, and the son lay on the bare floor from Tuesday till Sunday, and so decom posed, when persons could be got to eater his house, that he was tarred and rolled up in a rag, and buried in the next field. In my opinion, if I can judge from the num berless persons dead, dying, and staggering, half the population must di,t before the Ist of May. I verily believe there is more real destitution in the parish of Skull than any other in Ireland, and regret to add that the dispensary patients—now five times their usual num ber—are so exhausted from disease and starvation, that medicine is almost useless. A gentleman, whose statements are entitled to the highest respect, gives a most deplorable picture of the condition of the county of Roscommon—a condition Which represents it to be infinitely worse than Kibbe men, or the most destitute parts of Mayo. He says that whole villages are depopulated, either by death or by the Jan. 26, 1847, flight of such as have the means of transport to England, Scotland, or America. He counted in one village ten houses together abandoned by their owners, the doors torn off their hinges, the window-sills taken out, the rafters burned for firing, and the very flagstone at the en trance taken up and sold for a mouthful of food. An elderly man was sentenced to seven years' transportation for sheep stealing at the quarter sessions last week; his appearance in the dock was that of a man reduced to the last agonies of hunger. He died in an hour after he re ceived his sentence. Numbers of young men, mere boys, with wan cheeks, relieved by a hectic flush, were indicted for similar offences, and equally pleaded guilty, in the hope of transportation or imprisonment, or any punish ment rather than the lingering death they were daily un dergoing. The fortitude of the people, he says, almost surpasses belief; they ehdure their sufferings without murmur or complaint, and it is not until famine well nigh destroys reason itself, that they are driven to the commission of that species of crime which is just now so prevalent all over the country. The Sligo Champion records fifteen cases of death from hunger in a week in that small county. •Accounts from Mayo are to the effect that deaths from starvation are becoming more numerous. The Castlebar Constitution enumerates no fewer than thirty cases of poor creatures thus perishing—including eleven who had died in the Tyrawly district. The details are too painful for perusal, and are but scantily given by the reporters. "On Thurs day an inquest was held at Ballycastle on the bodies of John and Thomas Jordan, father and son. In this case our correspondent says :—' No pen can picture this scene of wretchedness and misery ; an aged woman gazing at the emaciated skeletons of her dead husband and son, and another son who looked as badly as the cold corpses of his father and brother. The last words the dying boy said were, ' Mother, wet my lips with warm water—l am cold with hunger.' Both expired at the same moment.' "- In another case the deceased and his family had been living for three weeks on half a meal a day. In another, a family, ten in number, had been living for three weeks on boiled water-cresses and salt. Two of the children died while the inquest was holding. /Inother person was found dead in a mud cabin, another on the roadside, and so on. The Cork Reporter says—" The people are perishing now, not in twos and threes, but in twenties in each pa rish, in hundreds in each barony. The pestilence is mow ing down the people faster than grass fell before the once strong and cheerful labourer." THE MENDICANT PATRIOT'S SYMPATHY WITH THE POOR. At the last mee ti ng of the Repeal Association : " The Rev. Mr. O'Carney said he had omitted to give the true reason why it was that subscriptions were not cowing into the were Old Ireland Association. ers The would be fact was he, and others he kne w , w h o , ashompi +„ - - • a e, uanu tnem ; to e t i o r Dulinon subscriptions.';de raVon e slo n a m i l •e u l t ie o f e , —(hear and cheers.) At the preceding meeting of the same body, the Roman Catholic priest of Achill made a similar revelation. Is it possible that, in the face of such statements, Mr. O'Connell can have the effrontery—nbt to talk of the bar barous inhumanity —to continue his exactions on the poorest peasantry on the face of the earth, now suffering the aggravated miseries of famine and pestilence ? The only answer we (Dublin Mail) can give, is the dis gusting fact, that on that day the sum of £l2B 6s. 7d. was acknowledged, and lodged in the Tralee Bank, to the cre dit of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., sole Treasurer of the Repeal fund. "LERICAL INTELL CE The Rev. Dr. Scoresby ha bone, Esq. )een on a visit to W. Rath- The new church at West Derby—St. James' —of which the Rev. A. M'Conkey is the incumbent,' was opened for divine service on Sunday last. It is hoped that Christ's Church Cathedral, Fredericton, will be completed in October next. There are now thirty clergymen of the Church of Eng land descendants from the Hebrew race, besides several hundreds of lay members. Last week immense meetings of the Evangelical Alliance were held at Leeds, at which the Rev. W, W. Ewbank, of this town, delivered a very able address. On Saturday week the handsome residence of the Rev. W. Roy, D.D., the rectory, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, was destroyed 131- fire. CHESTER CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY. —On Sunday week, the Rev. J. Lomas, curate of the parish church, Wigan, preached his farewell sermon, on his appointment to the incumbency of a new church, at Walton-Breck, on which occasion he pleaded the cause of the above society, after which the sum of £23 were collected. Several admirers 'and friends of the rev. gentleman have presented him with a handsome sum of money during the past week, as a token of their admiration and respect. CONDUCT OF THE PERVERTS AT ST. SAVIOUR'S, LEEDS. —One of the results of the investigation instituted by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, into the proceedings at St. Sa viour's Church, Leeds, has been the ascertaining that, on the very eve of Mr. Macmullen and his confederates for marlly abjuring Protestantism, they obtairtd the keys of that church and therein celebrated a complete Roman Catholic service, in anticipation of the period when the church would be wholly in the hands of that communion ! This outrageous conduct, irrational as it may appear, nevertheless strikingly illustrates the object of the Oxford and Cambridge Architectural Societies, and of those of the clergy who are daily dropping off from our communion, in expending rc.o of on such decorations and restorations ; they expect that, ere long, the restorations will subserve tl -nd . I 1 t T o I }E the C Hu Dublinßc . Mail h e says ne purpose of promoting mediaeval forms, and hasten the day of " union:with Rome ! "—Church and State Gazette. well-informed thatLord Lo G nron Eß eo N rr m eTp T on A d N en D John Russell has proposed to the Archbishop of Canter bury to create Manchester into a bishopric, giving t o t h e new dignitary the usual seat in' the House of Lords, or, should the heads of the church prefer it, to create a num ber of new sees, those appointed not to have the honour of peerages. He adds that it is for the purpose of deli berating upon these two propositions that a meeting of the prelates has been summoned by his Grace. What the object of the latter is, requires little skill to divine. It would be the first step towards ejecting the bishops alto gether from the House of Lords. The London Morning Herald says,—" A rumour has prevailed, during the last fortnight, that it is the intention of the government to propose the immediate establishment of six new bish oprics. The dissenters add, that it is also intended to propose to make these new bishops spiritual peers. Very naturally they, who were demanding a short time since, the expulsion of the bishops from the House of Lords, now declare that their friends the Whigs have " lost their senses." The substantial part of this rumour we believe to have some foundation. It has been remarked that the Primate has lately had several interviews with Lord John Russell ; and it is not to be supposed that such confer ences can have had reference to trifling or immaterial matters. BENCH AND THE BAR SPRING ASSIZES.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe come the northern circuit ; Mr. Justice Coltman takes North Wales, and Mr. Justice Wightman South Wales. The members of the bar, who attend the Kirkdale ses sions, have subscribed to present the Rev. Jonathan Brooks with his portrait, which will be hung up in a pro minent position in the court. • In an action tried in the Court of Exchequer, on Mon day, Messrs. Coglan, sharebrOkers, of Liverpool; being the plaintiffs, and Mr. Bryant, one of their clients, de fendant, a 'Verdict was given for the plaintiffs for £378 10s. LAW REFORMS. - The Lord Chancellor will shortly introduce two measures into the House of Lords—to separate4the two systems of bankruptcy and insolver and to abolish an . only be allowed in CHUBB V. SOIOM m. Imprisonment will or fraud Chancellor's Court, on Monday, Mr, Bethell stated to the court that the de fendant, being perfectly satisfied that the iron safes which he had exposed for sale as Messrs. Chubb's were not their manufacture, had consented -that the injunction obtained against him should be made abSolute. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, an action was tried, which had been brought by Mr.-Lee, the well known pantomime writer, against Mr. Mercer H. Simpson, the lessee of the Liverpool Theatre Royal. for niracv. in- performing at his theatre the celebrated pantomime known as the Princess Battledore ; or the Harlequin Shuttle cock. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for 23 nights' penalties--X46. r uTURE fROPERTY " IN INSOLVENCY.—In the Lon don Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Thursday, an applica tion was made in the matter of Samuel Davies, who was discharged fourteen years ago, and was now entitled to £l5O in right of his wife. The question was, in what manner the money was to be distributed. His creditors under his insolvency claimed a part, and he showed that he was in indigent circumstances, with a large family, having several under • ten years of age. The court, re garding the equity in the case, ordered the creditors un der the insolvency of 1832 to be paid £5O out of the £l5O, and the costs of the present application out of the estate. It is said that about twenty of the appointments to the judgeships under the Small Debts Act have been already definitively made. Of Queen's Counsel, Messrs. Chilton, Starkie, Koe, and Anderdon (the two latter gentlemen members of the Chancery bar), are mentioned as having received a ppointments. On the Ne r th ern Circuit, Messrs. Walker, 'Wharton, and Ingham, and on the Midland, Messrs. Wildman and Hildyard, will, it is said, fill some of the judgeships. Mr. Gale, of th e Midland Circuit, goes to Hampshire ; Mr. Espinasse to East Kent ; and Messrs. Tyrrell, Smith, and Palmer (three, provincial counsel, and at present filling judicial offices under local ac ts), to East Devon, Bath, and Bristol respectively. All or most of these appointments are of a political character; although as lawyers many of the gentlemen named sustain a respectable, and in one or two cases, a high reputation. NOTICE OF DISHONOUR—TIME OF POSTlNG.—Wood cock v. Holdsworth, 8 Law Times 215, is important as being another decision that the question to be determined where a notice is transmitted by post, is, whether it was put into the post within the proper time, and, conse quently, if delay occur, that it is not to tend to the injury of the sender. The point turns upon the question whe ther the pest-office is to be treated as the agent of the sender. Public policy requires that it should not be so treated. In Stocken v. Collin, 7M. and W. 515, accord ingly, the Court of Exchequer held that the jury were not bound to accredit the post-mark, but might give their verdict on the evidence of a witness that he posted it on a particular day, no twithstanding the post-thark. In these cases Alderson B. observed the question is, has the party been guilty of lathes ? 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