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HOUSE OF COMMONS In answer to a ques Mr. C. GLYN said a the North-Western R and the trains would henceforth at many of the engine drivers on Iway had returned to their duty, be worked with the same Punctuality and safety as heretofore. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Lord G. BENTINC C moved as an amendment, " That an humble address be presented to the Crown, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct the Earl of Elgin forthwith to transmit to the Secretary for the Colonies copies of omitted correspondence between the Provincial Secretary of Canada and the Secretary to the Montreal Board of Trade, and will direct that the same be laid before the house." The noble lord entered at great length into the comparative expense of navigating vessels to Montreal and New York, showing that the repeal of the Navigation Laws would not be so advantageous to the Canadians as the people were led to believe by those who were its supporters. He denied the right of the Colonial Office to select such portions of the correspondence as the Colonial S cretary thought pr T, and to suppress such as did not agree with the ministerial views. Lord J. RUSSELL declined to be led into a discussion on the navigation laws, but would confine himself to the . . point raised by the noble lord's motion, which carried with it the impression that the Earl of Elgin was to blame for suppressing a portion of certain correspondence that ought to have been laid before the house, and should be repri- inanded for so doing, and ordered to supply the deficien cies immediately. The noble lord (Russell) then pro . ceeded to st s under which the °tn . is- sion had taken piece, exonera blame in the matter. He was Lion of the documents, and Mr lav them on the table of the he Lord Elgin from all produc- awes would ask leave to The motion was negatived without a division SE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. 'and) Bill and the Parlia issed through mentary Electic Committee. Lord CAMP upon s Public Health Honce to the ) by the H LL moved that the Ihould not Bill, which had of Cow- mons, or ti tained some valuabli principles, in hough objecting to many of the because they would, nevert of jobt House of Commons, g to the local boards, use to the llouse of Commons for deprivir bill ( ie publid of the advantages the - en yet cor A short conversation ensue Lord Campbell was agreed to 'ter which the motion of HOUSE OF COMMONS At the early sittin BLACKALI dation for married soldiers -WEDNESDAY F. MAULE in reply to e subject of separate accommo by taking them out of bar- Nas under the consideration of the goverlmet7t. and he trusted that ere long that object would be effected. Mr. F. O'CoNNon, at tt anc3 of Mr. G. Thomp- son, on h he intend .half of Mr. J. 1 explained the course to the National Land ith resp( Compan Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. HUME, stated that it was the intention of the government to cause a special inquiry to be made in Edinburgh, with reference to the ,port Of the established church of Scoflaud duri reply t Mr. SPOON/ plained the circumstances under which the gratuity of £2,500 had been awarded to Sir C. Trevelyan by the Treasury. The noble lord further stated that since the matter .Iyan had express an earnest d e to repay the amount in question ; but his a of the valuable services performed, that he could not con sent to any repayment being made. If the hon. member thought fit to bring forward a formal resolution of censure on the government that would be course to take, and one which the ling fully convinced ,an was, t a perfectly constitutional v were prepared to meet. ntimat Mr. the dis B. Os ed that he should move le sum, when the civil con- tingencies out of which it had been paid were moved. The House having gone into committee of supply, and nd expenses of the Foreign- the vote for the salai office having been put, Mr. D'ISTLAELI pro bring the whop consideration. Lord PALMERST brought forward Lord J. Rus statement relativ d in condemnatory terms to of the government under g replied seriatim to the allegations ;he hon. member. _ ly to Mr. Grogan, made a new Queen's Colleges in Ireland, iv stating that the course re had been to make in rey vat.ions 1 oeutly taken by the Lord Licutenan. these institutions as effective as it was originally proposed they should be. They were intended to be such as per sons of all religious denominations might resort to, and ea . l 1 On the question of resuming the committee of supply, Mr. URQUHART moved, as an amendment, "That from the correspondence laid upon the table in reference to the suppression of the slave trade in Mussulman countries, it appeared that her Majesty's servants bad adopted pro ceedings calculated to aggravate the horrors of the traffi and to alienate from this country the governmer -el nation , . • good will of the anu .o interfered with an able reply from Lord PALMF- observations on the subject of the means at present to _ _ . _ - on of the African s. by this country for ti trade, suppre The amendmo house went into committee, w office was again put, which on foreign policy, in whit LACY EVANS, Mr. HUME put and negatived, and the 'hen the vote for theForeign aye rise to a further debate h Mr. MACGREGOR, Sir DE P. HOWARD, Mr. UR- QUHART, Mr. B. OSBORNE. Lord PALMERSTON, Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, and Sir J. WALsu, took part ; at the termination of which the vote was agreed to, as were various others, after some discussion on most of them, and the house, having resumed, adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS 'THURSDAY On the motion for the further consideration of the re port of the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, Some conversation took place between Sir H. HALFORD and Lord J. RUSSELL relative to the appointment of a subordinate officer of the Post-office in the co un ty o f Leicester, upon the recommendation of Mr. Gardner, the rejected member for the borough of Leicester. In the course of it his lordship remarked, that if Lord Clanri zarde had known that the late election for that borough had been made void in consequence of the bribery prac tised at it by the agents of Mr. R. Gardner, he ought not to have listened to their recommendation. He therefore regretted that through inadvertence Lord Clanricarde had taken the recommendation of Mr. R. Gardner and his agents, but he was convinced that his lordship had not done so with any view of encouraging corrupt practice the b orough of Leicester. After a short speech from Colonel SIBTHORP, Sir C. BULLER, Mr. H. DRUMMOND, and Mr. LINOS made some observations on the distribution of the patronage of the Government in the Post-office and the Stamp-office at Shoreham, at Cirencester, and at some village in the county of Surrey, which induced Mr. TUF NELL to enter into a brief but very satisfactory vindication of the proceedings of the Treasury in that respect. The report was then brought up and agreed to ; after which the bill was recommitted and several clauses added to it. The bill, as amended, was reported and ordered to be read a third tir ' to-morrow Lord PALMERSTON, in moving the second reading of the Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome Bill, observed, that the grounds for this measure were so sim ple and so much upon the surface that it was not requisite for him to enter into any abstruse or refined argument to show its necessity. Doubts, and doubts only, existed, whether, by the interposition of certain old acts of Parlia ment, it was lawful for the Government of this country to hold diplomatic intercourse with the Court of Rome. Those doubts arose on the interposition of the word " communion ;" but it appeared to him that the meaning of the law prohibiting any " communion" of the Sove-• reign with the Court of Rome was simply this—that the Sovereign of England must be a Protestant. The " com munion" prohibited was only spiritual communion, and was not the interchange of political and diplomatical com munications. As doubts, however, were entertained on that point, it was deemed necessary to introduce a bill authorising diplomatic intercourse and communication with the Court of Rome. He then proceeded to obviate the objections raised against it, and to explain the advan tages which were likely to accrue from passing it. After showinz that the presence of an English Ambassador at the Court of Rome and of a Roman Ambassador at the Court of St. James's could not injure the faith of our So vereign, he proceeded to demonstrate that the want of in tercourse with the Court of Rome was injurious to our in terests ; for we could not now make any commercial treaty with the Court of Rome to obtain for our merchants and manufacturers those advantages which commercial treaties afforded to them in every other part of the world. As no constitutional danger could arise from the enactment of this measure, and as great commercial advantages would arise from passing it into law, he had no hesitation in re commending it to the support of the house. Mr. C. ANSTEY had expected to hear some explanation of the bill itself and of the objects which it was to accom plish ; but not a word on either of those points had the noble lord uttered. After analyzing the bill clause by clause, and condemning them all one after another, the hon. member concluded by moving, that it be read a second time that day six months. seconded the amendment. complained, like Mr. Anstey, of the insufficiency of the speech which Lord Palmerston had made that`evening for the introduction of so important a change into th e cons tit u ti on o f E ngland, and almost pitied his lordship for having been reduced to the painful neces sity of pleading as his reasons for this bill the importance of consulting the commercial interests of England in Italy and the increased f ac ilit y w hi c h i t would give to British subjects to obt a i n th e construction of a railroad over the Pontine marshes f ctr a b r id ging their communications with jncha. lie called en the house tp reflect at wbitt time Mr. URQLTHA Sir R. INGLI nis bill was brought in, who was Pope, and what the Court of Rome now was. The bill was introduced into this house on the 10th of August, at, a time when the -Pope had'vi/oltifed 811-his obligations to Austria, the chief benefactor of the Papacy, when the Pope had been unable to protect the Austrian Ambassador from the attacks of the rabble of Rome, and when he had absolutely blessed the arms of the soldiery whom he sent to attack the Aus trian forces ; and all this, too, at a period when. England was more alive than ever to the rampant and aggressive character of the Church of Rome against the Protestantism of the world. He did not object to enter into negotiations with the temporal Sovereign of Rome, no matter what his religion might be. He did not object to recognize - the civil governor of Rome, even though he should be another Rienzi ; but he did object to recognize the spiritual governor of Rome and of all the Roman Catholic popula tion of the world. The Pope had millions of subjects in this country, and he would not give to the Pope the direct means of issuing his powerful edicts to them without any restraint. He had another objection to this bill—it nei ther conciliated the affections of the Protestants nor satis fied the wishes of the Roman Catholics, who in March last had densunced it to the Pope in the strongest lan guage. Besides, the result of the diplomatic communi cations of other Protestant states, especially Prussia, with the Pope was most unsatisfactory. Several other members then addressed the house, after which the second reading of the bill was carried by a ma jority of 125 to 46. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY In reply to a question from Lord BROUGHAM, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he had no objection to lay upon the table the answer of the Austrian government to the dispatch of the British government, dated the 11th September, 18t7. Lord Baouotipm, under these circumstances, contented himself with moving for the documents, intimating his opinion that, as Charles Albert had retreated into his own dominions, and as every inch of land lie had invaded had been recovered by the Russians, Italy was precisely in the statu quo in which it stood before the commencement of the war, and any interfer ence on the part of France or England was wholly uncalled for. HOUSE OF COMMONS Fax DAY Lord D. STEWART, in reply to a question from Dr. Bownixo, announced that it was not his intention to proceed with the Odd Fellows Societies Bill during the present session In reply to a question from Mr. TURNS Lord J. RUSSELL announced that I Charity Trusts Regulation Bill would also withdraw the Chan( would postpone the nt session, and I . the prey ry Proceei ;s Regulation On the motion for going into committee of supply. Mr. CHRISTIE drew attention to the proposed grant of Van couver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, a proceeding which ite strongly ceprecated. Mr. GLADSTONE said the grant ought not to be made until an inquiry was instituted into the manner in which the Hud• son's Bay Company had acted under their own charter, and until it-should be ascertained if they had taken into their own s the power of inflicting , capital punishmen were charged with having laid it down s a princi when the Indians killed any of the servants of the corn they would have blood for blood, and that, too, without a trial, and it was said that one individual had actually been put to death without trial, in accordance with this principle. This power was exercised in direct contrav,ntion to the 12th section of the act of Parliament which particularly prohibited the ex ercise of any such power. There should also be an inquiry into the manner in which the Hudson's Bay Company exerci sed their monopoly. He could not see why the Indians should be obliged to bring their commodities to one purchaser only, who was to fix the price of their goods. The company, how . ever, conaucten tne business on a principle so penurious th the savages were sometimes starved, and not unfrequently com pelled io resort to cannibalism to preserve their lives, though not cannibals by nature or by practice, while the company was receiving ..tlOOO per cent. in the British markets for the furs they purchased from the Indians for a trifle. He wished to be understood, when he spoke of the Indians, that he was not al luding to those on the borders of the United States, for those Indians received a fair price for their skins ; but those who were entirely under the tyranny of this irresponsible body, in which the Government seemed to place the most implicit con fidence. With respect to the moral character of the company, he would observe that, although they had divided 70 per cent. during the greater part of half a century on a capital that had been nine times multiplied, they had never erected a single place of worship, and had discouraged, as far as possible, those mis• sionaries who had attempted to propagate religion in their ter ritories. In many instances threats were resorted to, with the view of intimidating the natives from listening to the missiona ries, and those who would not listen were rewarded. The right hon. gentleman stated several other objections , and expressed a 111 r. C. BULLER, in deference to the course pursued by the government, said that the grant was but a conditional one for eleven years, during which there would be a representative go vernment in Vancouver's Island. If, therefore, the company should be tempted to exercise any arbitrary power, the legisla ture would very soon transfer their privileges to the local go vernment, to be exercised for the benefit of the colony. At the expiration of eleven years, the British government would be at liberty to resume possession of the island, on paying to the company the expenses incurred for building and Improving the colony, or allow the company to continue in possession under further arrangements. Mr. HualE went at some length into the question, deprecat ing in the strongest terms the proposed grant, and concluded by moving . a resolution to the effect that a petition be presented to her Majesty, praying that the government of Vancouver's Island should not be handed over to the Hudson's Bay Com pany until the complaint of the Red River Indians should be heard and considered. Mr. CHRISTIE rt which Mr. Wyki, I ed, and after some further discussion, in .i. Russell, and Mr. Goulburn took part, - •'s motion was negatived by 1, when Mr. Hur a majority of 76 to 58 On the ;:ote for salaries, &c., to professors of.theuniversities of Oxford and Cambridge being put, Mr. B OSBORNE opposed the motion : the committee dividing—for the grant, 96; against, 20 • majority, 76;—when the Chairman reported progress, and On the c tion that the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill e read a third time, Mr. T. HounousE moved that it be read a third time that day six months. Atter some discussion, on a division the third reading was carried by a majority of 67 — the numbers, 80 to 13; the bill passed. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. rr Prekron, %e2l-akIL B.p cur Lytham. iparitamintan) 13roretbing. MONDAY. On the motion for going into committee on the Unlaw ful Oaths Acts (Ireland) Bill, The Earl of SHREWSBURY reviewed the social condi tion of the people of Ireland, and traced the calamities under which that country laboured to the postponement of the remedial measures so frequently promised. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE contended that the bill before them was a remedial measure, as no other mea sure would be effectual without it. HOUS OF LORDS.- The Duke of WELLINGTON thought the bill was abso lutely necessary in order to put down rebellion in Ireland. The bill passed through committee. MONDAY Mr. Thorneley Id been tbreigii The Rev. J. S. Master, appointed rural d ALA., rector of Chorley, has been f the hundred of Leyland, by the Lord ROBBERY OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—Sandry hints have been thrown out in the House of Lords about the propriety of en dowing the Romish Church in Ireland; and Lord Bhrewsbury, - )rgetful of his oath, has coolly proposed to give half the pro . _ Romanista. If rebels are to mid not take up arms against a is to be acted updn, the only way for ,h Church to save their ecclesiastical AND COLONIAL. IBERNIA perty of the Irish Chou be treats G so well, who If this theory the members of the Iri property will be to turn FOREIGN AMERICA ARRIVAL OF THE By the arrival of the royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Shannon, in the Mersey. on Tuesday, we received papers from tLe United States and Mexico. The Hibernia left New York on the 2d, and Halifax on the sth instant. She brings the usual ►nails, and forty passengers, and has about £5,000 specie on freight. The America, which sailed from Liverpool on the 22d ult., reached Halifax on the 2d instant. t to pass a sort of Compromise has been the atte In Cong. Bill for the government of the new territorie defeated, the House of Representatives refusing even to entertain or discuss the bill which had passed the Senate, and of which the tendency was to permit the establishment of slavery in New Mexico and California. It seems pretty well settled now that no bill looking to such a result can obtain the assent of the House of Representatives. of the Whig nomination to General Taylor's acceptar the presidency has at length appeared The only other news of political interest is the state ment now received in an authentic shape of a battle, or rather succession of skirmishes near Guanajato in Mexico. and Parades with Jarante at the head of the revolters. The victory is claimed for both sides, but neither appear to have done so much in the way of fighting. The dates from the city of Mexico are to the 14th ult., where the Government of Herrera seemed to be pursuing its course without interruption or disturbance. The American troops have now all left Mexico, and that country is again delivered up to its own laws and rulers. Among other effects of this is the re-enactment of the old Mexican tariff. Dulness pervades all branches of trade and commerce ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA The Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Captain Lott, ar rived at an early hour on Sunday morning, having made the run from Boston to this port in ten days eight hours, the shortest passage on record. She brings dates from New York to the Bth, Boston to the 9th, and Halifax to the 11th instant respectively. Congress was to adjourn on the 15th instant. It is - stated in the Journal q16;;;;;;;;71;i a proposi tion was before the Senate for the purchase by the United States of the territorial rights, privileges, and immunities of the Hudson' Bay Company and the Puget's Sound Company. The proposition is said to be recommended to Congress by the Administration. The proposition is, to cede to the United States a tract of territory larger than the state of New York, and for a comparatively trifling consideration. The importance of the cession cannot be doubted. It would include the country and the military posts on the northern banks of the Columbia river, and, says the Journal of Commerce, " for ever prevent any collision between the United States and England in regard to points which are unsettled by the Ashburton and Webster treaty.', This of course must refer to the Oregon, not to the Ashburton treaty. At New York, on the 7th instant, a meeting was held to ratify the union between the Provisional Committee and the " Young Friends of Ireland." The Herald says that between 30,000 and 40,000 persons were present. From Yucatan we learn that the white inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Sisal have been gaining power and are gradually subduing the Indians; but famine will shortly finish what the Indians have left. The poor were already dropping off fast. The accounts from Venezuela are to the 10th of July. The Paez faction still held possession of the lake Mara caibo. The forces were under the command of Colonel Weir, an Englishman. The foreign merchants residing in that city had forwarded petitions to their respective Con suls-General at the capital, earnestly appealing to them to send vessels of war for their protection in tho unhappy position in which th ey were p l ace d b y the unsettled state of affairs. They were apprehensive of a revolt among the labourers and poorer classes of inhabitants, for the pur pose of plunder, owing to the scarcity of provisions and want of employment, which is attributable to the pro tracted state of the civil war. Little reliance could be placed on the troops in the city, which numberedonly 800 men, of wlizyn 250 were in the hospital. The rest, being badly fed and clothed, would, in the event of an outbreak, I join the mob. In the neighbouring rehublic of New Granada there are indications of some approaching change. General Flores was in Panama in April last, and the Caraccas papers say that a plot has been made between him and Mosquora, the President of New Granada, to re-establish the former Columbian confederation and establis,b. a monarchy. These accusations have frequently beeu Mat/2 Cdnst Rom, but w thout any:foundatiou it would ' appear; least, no distinct ground of accusation has ever been made. This plot, it is said by the Caraccas editors, extends beyond New Granada, involving a coalition be tween Flores and the Paez faction in Venezuela, and when united they were to march on the Ecuador and eoe coerce that republic to join in the proposed confedera tion. Advices from Porto Rico, to tire 24th of July, state that the inhabitants of Pouce were on the night of the 18th thrown into a considerable state of alarm by the discovery of a plot existing among the negroes for a grand insurrection. It was discovered by information given by one or two negroes to their master, who o n ascertaining the truth of• it immediately gave notice to the proper authorities. Three of the ringleaders were arrested, and, after trial, two were condemned to be shot and the other to be sent to the chain gang for 10 years. The plan was an extensive one, and included all the ne groes on the south side of the island from Guayama to Mayaguez. The rise was to be simultaneous in the dif ferent parts of the island, and the day fixed was the last day of the month. They were to burn all the towns, kill all the whites, and make a second St. Domingo of the island. Since the arrest of the ringleaders confidence was entirely restored. There was a great amount of English shipping. £4 per ton was the last rate paid for freight to gri r gland, but small vessels would brink more. The estates had finished getting in the crops, and the weather continued favourable for the coming one. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS The royal mail steam-ship Great Western, Captain Chapman, arrived at Southampton, on Sunday, with the usual West Indian and other mails. She had fair weather on the passage, and arrived two days before she was due. The intelligence from the British West India colonies is of unusual importance, because we learn the effect pro duced there by Lord John Russell's proposition for West Indian relief. The measures are evidently looked upon as unsatisfactory in their nature, and totally inadequate to relieve the extent of distress existing. The Jamaica Dispatch strongly condemns the project, which it charac terizes as "an insult to the colonies, and an outrage on the honesty and humanity of the nation," and thus con cludes,—" We tell ministers plainly that they will have no supply from Jamaica. They may levy, if they will, their taxes by orders in Council. Their unconstitutional tyranny is quite equal to the effort, but taxes will not be paid. The tax-gatherer may seize, but distresses cannot be sold without a bidder." De Cordova's Intelligencer says that the government measure " has inspired the in habitants of Jamaica with disgust and contempt." The same paper then continues,—" Speculation is almost un known in Kingston. A great proportion of the stores in the principal business streets is closed—hundreds of per sons born in the middle classes of society, and who were formerly accustomed to support themselves respectably by business occupations, are now walking about the streets in the vain and fruitless endeavour to find work which will enable them to gain their daily bread. With a defi cient population in as beautiful and fertile an island as there is on the face of the globe, there is no employment for any industrious man. Sorry are we to have to chro nicle this fact, and those who knew Jamaica in her better days will scarcely believe it, but it is nevertheless too true. Who then can wonder if dissatisfaction and dislike should displace affection for England in the hearts of those who have never yielded to any subjects of the empire in t I lr -it- ' t' -* fort - ' ,oyaity The business of ..ne past, wge, Alas, as usual, been limited only to purchases for immediate con sumption. In the foreign trade there has not been any thing doing, no buyers having arrived." - Several emigrants had arrived at Trinidad from Marti nique, not thinking their lives secure during the present unsettled condition of the French West India colonies. We have advices from Port-au-Prince and Jacmel, Hayti. From Jacmal we learn that many respectable persons had been arrested and cast into prison, some of them having been confined in irons. The General com manding the arrondissement, who had recently acted so praiseworthy a part in staying the pillage with which Jac mel was threatened, had been removed by the President Soulonque for performing his duty. At Port-au-Prince everything was tranquil, but the prisons were filled with political offenders, many of whom it was thought would be shot on the return of the President from his tour through the southern part of the republic. From Cuba we learn that the island was perfectly tran quil when the Great Western left, on the 27th ultimo. A slight disturbance had occurred at one of the outports, but it had been repressed by the energetic measures of the Governor-General. The chief of the town, who was im plicated in the revolt, had fled. This is doubtless the oc currence that has been magnified by the American papers into a revolution in Havannah, and which originated the news in the New York papers of the sth of August. brought by the United States steamer to Cowes on Friday evening. The Captain-General of Cuba had seized a slaver entering one of the ports with 150 negroes on board. She had been brought round to Havannah. The blacks would be brought round and apprenticed for seven years, and would then be entitled to freedom and per mitted to leave the island, in virtue of the convention to that effect between the British and Spanish Crowns. Our Mexican advices represent political affairs as ex tremely unsettled. The Indians were about in large num bers, causing travelling to the interior to be very unsafe. Some of the cities had called out the inhabitants to patrol during the night, to prevent surprises from the band of Indians prowling about for plunder. The Americans had given up all the ports to the Mexican authorities, and the national flag was once more hoisted in all the ports. The Customs' duties were collected according to the old tariff. The United States' army had nearly all embarked, and it would very soon he entirely out of the Mexican territo ries, the approach of the sickly season on the coast causing them to lose no opportunities offering for their embarkation. In Demerara the planters were all busy with their crops, the weather being very fine, but labour still scarce. St. Ttinalas's and St. Croix order amongst the emancipated blacks had been restored, and the negroes had returned to their work, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FRANCE The greatest anxiety is manifested throughout the capital from the rumours current about an insurrectional movement hurried, if not caused by the threatened debate on the report and documents inculpating Ledru Rollin, Caussidiere, and Louis Blanc. The Government had received information of an inten3ed insurrection, and taken the most determined precautions. Abd-el-Kader is about to be transferred from Pau to the Chateau of Amboise, in the department of the Indre et-Loire. Orders have been given to have the chateau prepared for his reception within a fortnight. The number of unemployed operatives in the 11th ar rondissement of Paris is officially announced as 3000, and that in the 12th arrondissement at 10,000, who subsist entirely on the food distributed to them by the municipal authorities. ITALY BOMBARDMENT OF BOLOGNA.—A conflict has taken place between the Austrian troops and the Bolognese, in which the former were repulsed; but they subsequently raised reinforcements and bombarded the city. The Au strian general, on the Bth instant, laid a heavy contribu tion on Bologna, and to secure its payment requred hos tages. This demand gave great offence—the people re sisted, and the tocsin was sounded. A dreadful conflict, we are told, ensued; but the details are not given. The Bolognese, however, captured 27 of the enemy's troops, and drove the main force out of the city.. Shortly after wards the Austrian returned, and commenced bombarding that town ; two of the palaces were soon in flames, and the faubourg pillaged and burned._ The Austrians_lost 40 wounded Latest advices from Rome state that the populace were in a most excited state. An address to the French Re public, demanding intervention, had been signed by the people. The Chamber approved of this address, and sent it to the Ambassador, replied that he would forward 't to G ,t. The foil of V us Government -.le new Ministry had been communicated to the Chambe r o f Deputies :—Count Fabri, Interior ; Di Rossi, Grace and Justice ; Lauri, Finance ; Guarini, Commerce and Indus try, and, provisionally, Public Works; Count Campello, Arms ; Perfetti, Police, ad interim. The Epoca states that his Holiness has dismissed the Ministerof Arms, Count Campello. The Patria of Florence, of the 10th, pub lishes a letter from Rome of the Bth. which says that the Cardinals were flying from that city. The Portuguese government has ordered a young Spa niard, named Aguilar, to leave Portugal, because he had written some republican verses in an album kept at an inn at Contra. DREADFUL CASE OF SUICIDE.—A case of suicide, rare in Germany, occurred two days past on the Hanover-Hil desheim line. Professor Michelsen, of Kiel, stepped from the waggon at the station, placed his head suddenly under the wheel of a locomotive on the point of moving, and in an instant it was severed from his shoulders. THRILLING SCENE.—We learn that a fearful scene oc curred at the Suspension-bridge, at Niagara Falls, yeterJ day afternoon. Four men were passing over the bridge, when it was struck by one of those sudden and strong gusts of wind which frequently rush through the chasm with the treme n d ous f orce o f a h urr i cane, and so twisted it as to turn it bottom upwards. The men caught the wires, and in this position—suspended 200 feet above the resist less waters beneath--they were enabled to maintain them selves until the alarm was given at the Falls, a mile and a half distant, and the whole population rushed to the res cue. The bridge was restored to its former position, and the men saved. We have not learned the particulars, but can well imagine the deep sensation of the spectators, as well as those whose lives hung upon a thread, as it were, during the time which intervened between the accident and the rescue.—Huron Gazette, July 21. COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.—Th e sixth hundredth anniver sary of laying the foundation stone of this unfinished cathedral was celebrated with much royal and sacerdotal pomp on Monday. The most characteristic event of the day was an accidental one. Shortly before the arrival of the king, a band of peasants going on the annual pilgrim age to the chapel at Cafen entered the city by the bridge of boats. It was composed of very old men and women in their provincial costume, dusty and footsore with their day's march. They walked in two long lines, the women first, with folded hands, chanting the Ave Maria : a priest in full robes followed, breviary in hand and the crucifix borne behind him. Then came the men, aged, bald, and wrinkled, stooping under the weight of years and toil; many of them were the very typ es o f t h e peasant in the etchings of Holbein's " Dance of Death ;" most of them repeated aloud a prayer as they walked along. Several covered carts closed the procession, carrying the baggage and a few children, half-delighted, half-scared by the great floating banners and the noise and rush of the great city. They all rested for the night outside the .filk nnrl , ••••••••••.•Lau LUG %NWlb, MILL rx sumed their march next day, having still three days' journey before them. It was a fragment of the life .of the middle ages brought suddenly on the scene; and it was t'ie only event of the day- that left an impression of .acne tness or depth of feeling. • -:~~~ ~:.;:bw: IRELAND, All is again quiet at Abbeyfaile, and the mails pass and repass without a single policeman to guard them. Numerous arrests of persons implicated in the late trea sonable conspiracy, continue to be made every day, both in Dublin and in the provinces ; but none of the leaders have been captured since Mr. Meagher's arrest. The National of last Monday, announces that Mr. Morgan, solicitor to the reformed corporation of Dublin, has escaped to France. Saunders's News-Letter states, on the authority of its Clonmel correspondent, that a small party of police, on the Clogher road, within half a mile of Clonmel, were at tacked with a volley of stones from some elevated ground by the road-side. None of the police were hurt, but they failed to capture any of their assailants. The scene of recent insurrection in the south of Ireland is now one of perfect tranquility. The scent lies very hot in Limerick after Mr. Richard o=Gorman, jun. Several persons, including some of the Yankee sympathisers— have been arrested and committed to gaol, in Dublin and in the provinces. They are, however, people of inferior note. The Cork Constitution states that the gunpowder seized at Dungarvan had not been shipped for an unlawful pur pose, but fell into the hands of the authorities, through the imprudence of the master, who, attempting to escape the difficulty of the county being proclaimed, was silent respecting it, and thus excited suspicion. Summonses are to be issued immediately to the jurors of Tipperary, calling on them to attend the special corn.bis sion, which will be opened early next week, for the trial of Smith O'Brien, Meagher, Duffy, &c., who have been taken in arms or been in correspondence with the rebels. It is said that they will be tried in one "monster indict ment" for conspiracy. The Nenagh Guardian asserts that, when Mr. Meagher and his two friends, Leyne and O'Donoghue, were first seen on the high road by the police, there was a fourth person with them who was permitted to escape, and that this person was no other than the notorious and pro claimed rebel, Mr. Doheny ! They do not merely in sinuate, but distinctly allege, that Mr. Doheny had peached, and that it was through his information that Mr. Meagher was captured. Mr. Martin was on Wednesday found guilty under the treason-felony act, and Mr. O'Dogherty was on Thursday again placed on his trial, when Mr. Butt, on behalf of the prisoner, challenged the array, but the challenge was dis allowed. The indictment preferred against Mr. Duffy under the treason-felony act, has been abandoned, as cer tain documents discovered among Mr. Smith O'Brien's papers have supplied the crown with materials for putting Mr. Duffy on his trial for high treason. The Dublin Herald says that Mr. Martin was tried by an exclusively Protestant jury. INTIMIDATION OF JURORS.—Shortly after the foreman of the jury in John Martin's case had returned home after the prisoner's conviction, he was waited on by Mr. James Martin, a brother of the felon, who said to him—" I come here to challenge you to mortal combat, for having bullied the jury in the case of my brother." This was declined by the foreman, who handed over the would-be duellist to the police. James Martin afterwards wrote to apologise for his silly impudence. On Friday, this person was committed by the Chief Baron for a month to prison, his lordship stating that the sentence was less severe on account of the prisoner's having expressed his sorrow for the offence, and the appeal made on his behalf by the foreman of the jury. On Friday, fourteen prisoners were removed from the gaols of Kilmainham and Newgate, under a strong escort of constabulary and city police, and sent by railway to Kingstown, from whence they were transmitted, on board war steamers, to Belfast. On Saturday the jury in the case of O'Doherty were again discharged, being unable to agree, and the Attorney- General intimated that he would again try him at the next commission. Application was made to admit the prisoner to bail, but this was refused. On the same day John Martin, convicted of treason, was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and was removed to Newgate in chains. Prior to the sentence being passed, Mr. Martin said that he would not condescend to ask for mercy. He was strongly of opinion that he was morally right, and that he had done nothing that would stain his character as a man, a patriot, or a Chrisean. The Clonmel Chronicle announces the arrest of one of the rebels wounded at Ballingarry :—" A man of the name of Janes Dwyer was brought into Clonmel on Friday, and lodged in the county gaol; he was one of the insurgent band in the battle of Boulagh Common and at Ballingarry, and had a dreadful wound in the right breast. Ever since the affray he has been concealed in one of the pits in the vici nity of Boulagh, and from information received by the authorities, he was arrested down in the pit a few days since, and conveyed to Killenaule, from which place he was escorted into Clonmel." Lord Hardinge reviewed the troops under General Mac donald, at Limerick, yesterday week. The Morning Herald states that there are in Ireland full 3,000 Roman Catholic priests, and 1,500 professed religious women of various orders. THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND.—The failure, we regret to say, appears to be as complete as that of 1846. There are now lying before us reports from Tipperary, Carlow, Cork, Sligo, Limerick, Derry, Antrim, Down, Louth, Armagh, and Monaghan, and unhappily they all concur in representing the pestilence as universal. The Irish papers report the premature death of Mr. G. Nimmo, an engineer well known in that country. It seems that as Mr. Nimmo, accompanied by two men in a sailing boat, was crossing one of the bays in Connemara, the boat, when at full sail. struck upon a sunken rock, which cleft her in two. The two men, with this much lamented gentleman, perished. _ _ NEW SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—Last Monday a meet ing of abour6o noblemen and gentlemen, among whom were Lord Cloncurry, Earl of Miltown, Lord W. Fitz gerald, Sir M. Chapman, &c., was held in Dublin, when it was resolved to form a society " to promote the peri odical sitting of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin," the annual subscription to be £l. CURIOUS ASSOCIATION.—A correspondent of the Cork Constitution says,—" Some few years ago I paid a visit at Dromoland, the seat of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., County Clare. Sir Lucius, pointing out to me the various members of the family pictures, showed me one of Lord Chancellor Hyde, (Earl of Clarendon, and grandfather of Queen Anne,) among the ancestry of the house of O'Brien. Would that the unfortunate William Smith O'Brien had not endeavoured to sully the brilliancy of an escutcheon so distinguished ! and exposed himself to the censure and rigour of the law, so well administered by the present Earl of Clarendon. AN IRISH VAGRANT'S DEFENCE.—An ingenious de fence was made in a case tried at Galway, at the present assizes. M. Connelly was placed at the bar and arraigned, the grand jury having presented him as a vagrant. The evidence adduced against him clearly proved that he was a notorious bad character. He had no settled place of residence, was constantly before the magistrates at petty sessions on charges of sheep stealing and killing sheep ; he has publicly sold in markets legs of mutton at 6d. each, and was committed for trial both at quarter sessions and assizes • but so ingeniously did he continue to com mit these offences, that exidence could not be adduced legally to commit him. The case for the prosecution having closed, the prisoner made a few observations to the ennrt in Trish. whirl, Mr statement of the prisoner being both ingenious and poetic.—Mr. Bourke said : My lord, the prisoner sub mits that all the evidence given on the part of the prose cution must be construed in his favour ; and that the fact of his being so often tried, and on no occasion convicted, clearly shows he must be an honest man—(loucl laughter) —for the same reason, my lord, as the prisoner states, that the more frequently gold is molten in the furnace and tried for its genuine character, the purer it becomes. —(Loud and continued laughter, in which Baron Lefroy heartily joined.)—He further submits, my lord, that his case is analogous to that of Jonas in the whale's belly— (laughter)—for that when Jonas escaped from the belly of the whale, he went forth an untainted character, and so be insists be should be considered, having escaped from the clutches of Mr. Lopdell, who, the prisoner states, is in mind very like a whale, and who sought to devour him. (Laughter.) He further, my lord, insists that the fact of his having meat frequently in his possession, and having gone about the country selling legs of mutton, demon stratively proves his innocence. for that it is merely evi dence to show he is a man of industrious habits prosecu ting his trade as a butcher.—(Loud laughter.) he sub mits, my lord, to go into the dock and stand his trial for sheep stealing, or any other offence that may be brought against him ; but he denies the existence of a power in the jury to find him guilty as a vagrant, the whole weight of the evidence in his opinion going to prove he is an honest man.— (Loud laughter)—He was sentenced to the usual penalty in such cases. STRANGE POLICE CASE.—At the Henry-street Police office, Dublin, on Thursday, a respectable-looking young man whose name appeared as George Bailey, of Calen, Wiltshire, was charged with having a gun and a case of pistols in his possession without license. The following are the heads of the case :—On Wednesday (the day before), Mr. Bailey arrived at Dublin from Liverpool, and went to Fleming's Hotel, North Wall. In the course a of the evening, some discharged soldiers arrived from England and also stopped at the same hotel. Two of them slept in the room over Mr. Bailey's bedroom, and about two o'clock next morning, one of them who was very drunk, got up with the intention of proceeding down stairs. The window of the room looked on a shed, and the man mistaking it, as it was open, for the door, walked out on the sill, and finding his mistake attempted to re cover himself. He failed, and laid hold of the window sill to support himself. lie fell so far, and his legs hung down. In his exertions to regain the room his feet came into contact with the window of the room in which Mr. Bailey was asleep. He kicked away for some time, and broke several panes of glass. Mr. Bailey was roused, and having a good deal of property in the room, jumped out of bed, thinking he was going to be attacked by robbers, and seized a small pistol which he had left loaded on the dressing table, when by some accident it went off, the ball severely wounding himself in the hand, and passing to the other side of the room. The man at the outside of the window, hearing the report, and thinking it aimed at him, fell from his position, and coming on the shed, tumbled through another window, and cut one of his legs severely. When the waiter ran up stairs he found Mr. Bailey nearly covered with blood, and afterwards found the soldier half dead from fright and hurt. The man declared he had been shot, though the ball (lid not go near him. The soldiers gave the alarm to the police, stating that their comrade had been shot: A surgeon was brought, Mr. Bailey's hand was dressed and the soldier was sent to the hospital. The constable called was puzzled and decided on charging Mr. Bailey with having arms in his possession without a license.—Mr. O'Callagan, the magistrate, clues- possession of them, ❑wstions, that he had [4:gage through the the corn trade ; that tioned M and the reply was to this and -ot just arrived from Liverpool, that to the inn, not wishing to take h town, as he was going on he carried the pistols for his personal protection, and the gun—which he intended to register as soon as possible— for his amusement. He added that he knew General Dombrain, of the commissariat department. That gen tleman was sent for, and gave Mr. Bailey a high character; he also added that he had employed Mr. Bailey at Water ford under the relief commission, and that his story was, he believed, correct. Meantime Mr. B's luggage was searched by the police, but nothing of a "felonious" cha racter was discovered.—The magistrate at the end of these strange and eventful proceedings, discharged Mr. Bailey, and ordered the arms to be sent to the commis sioners' office. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The dividend of Bs. per share recommended in the re port of the Eastern Counties railway was carried at the half-yearly meeting. RAILWAY SPEED.—The express train of the Great Western on Tuesday last ran the 22 miles from Didcot to Swindon in eighteen minutes. The dividend to be declared at the approaching meet ing of the North British Railway Company will be tire per cent. _ _ It is expected that the dividends of the York, New castle, and Berwick, and the York and North Midland Railways, will be eight per cent. at the approaching meetings. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending August 5, £lBO7 4s. ld., and for the week ending August 12, £223.5 55., (Postoffice for conveyance of mails, and toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, not included.) The report and accounts of the Great Northern were adopted by the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting ; after various pressing remarks to the directors on the necessity of a more stringent economy in the conduct of their affairs. Before October the line will probably be opened to six miles beyond Lincoln CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. - Baron Goldsmid and Mr. Garnett have joined the Board of Directors, and it is intended to resume forthwith the works for complet ing the line between Chester and Warrington. Arrange ments are also in progress for resuming the works at the Birkenhead Docks. At the South-Eastern railway meeting, the dividend was continued at 21s. per share on the original shares, and 15s. 9d. was declared on the No. 1, and Ils. Bd. on the No. 2 shares, the available balance of profit and loss being £108,836. The capital account, it was stated, will be closed with all possible dispatch, and the entire report was favourably received. In the report to the meeting of the Great Western Railway Company, " The directors recommended that the same dividend as before, 31 per cent. for the half-year, to be payable from the disposable balance, which will leave the sum of £7,821 Bs. 7d. to be carried to the credit of the current half-year, which is always found to be pro ductive of the largest revenue." The report was agreed to. CALEDONIAN OPENING TO ARBROATH AND MON TROSE.—On Monday the Castlecary branch of this rail way was opened for public traffic, thus completing the direct line between London, Perth, Dundee, Arbroath, and Montrose. The express trains from Dundee arrived at the Euston-square terminus in 15 ho urs , an d from Ar broath in 15 t . The line is continued from Arbroath to Montrose, coaches conveying passengers on to Aberdeen. From official returns, it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 4,045 miles of railway, was £237,194, thus accounted for :—£131,565 for the convey ance of passengers only, £47,692 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £57,937 for passengers and goods together, not respectively a pp or ti one d ; b e i ng an increase of £20 , 851 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,230. The average earnings per mile were £52, whilst in 1847 they were £67. A very serious accident happened on the Eastern Counties Railway, near the Lea-bridge station, on Tues day, by which Mr. William Bungrey, a solicitor, residing at Stockbridge, in Hants, lost his life. The deceased gentleman got on to the main line at the moment a train was approaching. The engine -driver sounded the steam whistle, but from deafness, it is supposed, he was not conscious of his danger until the buffer of the engine caught him, and threw him apparently on to the perma nent way between the rails, the firebox of the engine crushing him as it went along. Mr. Glyn, at the London and North-western meeting last week, took the opportunity of congratulating the shareholders upon the connection with the docks in the Thames, which will very shortly be realized. It is curious to observe how every railway is trying to have its water terminus. Mr. Hudson connects his Eastern Counties at Yarmouth; his Hull and Selby at Hull; his northern lines at Hartlepool and Sunderland. The Great Western has Bristol, and is looking to Plymouth and Falmouth. The shrewd men of Sheffield were laughed at for seizing hold of dull Great Grimsby ; but every day's experience is proving the wise policy of that step. The Lancashire and Yorkshire have secured Goole; the South-western, Southampton, &e. ; and we have no doubt that, in a few years, docks will be a feature of every important line. The possession of a good water terminus is like extend ing the line, in one sense, to all the world. RAILWAY COLLISIONS.—On Thursday morning a colli sion took place on the London and North-Western Rail way, between the early mail train from York and the branch mail train from Peterborough. The spot where the collision took place is called Ashton Bank, situate about 5} miles on the northern side of Wolverton, and 2 miles from the Roade station. The Peterborough mail train left Peterborough, drawn by No. 93 engine, and all went well until the arrival of the train at Ashton Bank, when the engine came to a dead stop, in consequence of the connecting-rods of the engine having given way. The York mail was at this time due, and the engine driver, being unable to do anything with his engine, immediately dispatched his fireman down the line towards the Roade station with the fog signal, it being exceedingly foggy at the time, in order to stop the up-coming trains. The York mail was at the moment approaching, and it appears that there was net sufficient time after the engine -driver of that train had sight of the fog signals, to stop to prevent his running into the Peterborough train. Several of the carriages were much damaged, and some of the passengers were cut and bruised ; but no serious injuries appear to have been sustained by any one, except a man named Col lins, the under-guard, whose head came in contact with the break-iron, and who is thought to have sustained a concussion of the brain. He has been removed to Lon don, and is now lying in the University College Hospital. As soon as the line was cleared, the passengers were brought to Wolverton by the Liverpool mail, and thence to London, where they arrived at nine o'clock, upwards of five hours after the proper time. Amongst the passengers in the York train were the Rev. Dr. Townsend, Preben dary of Durham, his lady, and lady's maid (Mrs. Chorl ton). Happily the Dr. and his lady escaped with a few trifling contusions, but Mrs. Choriton was a good deal cut about the head.—Another accident occurred on this line of railway on Friday morning, by which the life of one of the engine -drivers has been placed in imminent peril. The following are the circumstances, as far as we have been able to ascertain them :—Thomas Sands left Bir mingham at a quarter to nine o'clock on Thursday eve ning, in charge of a luggage train, which he brought safely as far as the Tring-cutting. While passing be tween this cutting his engine became out of order, and the unfortunate man having become alarmed, threw him self off the engine-plate into the embankment, and sus tained a severe fracture of the thigh.—Another collision took place at Birmingham on Friday. On the arrival of the nine a.m. express train from London at th 3 Birming ham terminus, a train of first and second class carriages was being shifted on the main line. The driver of the engine drawing the express train did not shut off his steam in time. He ran into the train of empty carriages, smash ing three or four of the first-class, and damaging more or less every carriage in the train. No life was lost. tiltrat The Wesleyan Methodist conference will be het next year at Manchester. Mr. Palmer, solicitor, of Preston, paid last week his one hundred and nineteenth visit to Lancaster Assizes. On Wednesday, a sturgeon, upwards of six feet in length, and weighing 1221b5., was caught by Robert Leadbetter, of North Meols, at that place. A NOVEL DEFENCE.—A man was brought up, on Monday, at Preston, charged with having been drunk and creating a disturbance in the previous week. He hoped the bench would pardon him as he had only been attend ing a temperance tea party, and had had a little drop too much. DEATHS FROM DROWNING.—On Sunday, a little boy. named John Dean. a year-and-a-half old, was drowned in a pit at Winstanley. The child had walked out of the house, and fallen into the water..-On the following day, a little girl, named Mary Ann Heaton, was drowned in a pit at Pemberton. She was playing with some other children, and fell in. CONVICTION'S FOIL BURGI,ArtY.-At the Lancaster assizes last week, three men, named Pilkington, Culshaw, and Cheetham, were sentenced to fourteen years' trans portation, for a burglary at the house of Mary Crawshaw, near Croston. John Doming was sentenced to a similar term of banishment, for a burglary in the house of James Rainford, at Preston. FATAL RESULT OF A BOYISH QUARREL.--On Tues day, two little boys, named Charles and George 'William son, the sons of an operative of that name living in Red Bank, Manchester, aged respectively nine and four years, were proceeding homewards, on their way from school, when they commenced quarrelling, and Charles, the eldest, struck his brother a blow. A person who was passing at the time, - and knew them, interfered, and told them it ryas very wrong to quarrel, on which the youngest raised his hand and repaid his brother the blow, causing him to fall backwards off the footpath. Just at the mo ment a laden cart happened to pass, the driver of which did not witness the quarrel, when, before the fallen boy could regain his feet, the wheel passed over his head, and killed him on the spot CHES I'ER ASSIZES.—The assizes for the county of Chester commenced on Monday. Joseph Sherlock, 19, William Sherlock, 25, William Mitchell, 24, and Samuel Pownall, 22, were indicted for the mansLiug,hter of Thos. Evans, at Greasby, near Birkenhead, on the 16th of June. The first-named prisoner was charged as principal, and the others as accessories. The mattr had its origin in a fight, but the jury, after hearing the evidence, acquitted the prisoners. John Dean, 20, pleaded guilty to two in dictments, charging him with stealing letters containing money, the property of the Postmaster-Ceneral, at Wilmslow, and was sentenced to seven years' transporta tion. Thomas Jones, 24, was similarly sentenced for stealing a letter containing ten postage-sta'inps ar half sovereign, the property of the Inspector and llt ceiver-Generals, on the 11 th of July last. The prisoner was a letter-.carrier at Billenhead postoffiee. Aigist 22, 184 g. EMIGRATION.---According to a ncfce fizect places of worship in Lancaster, a meeting of the payers took place on Thursday last, in the ve stry Parish Church the re , t o consider whether money no t ceeding half the ave rag e y ear ly p oo r-rate for the l ast years should be borrowed as a fund to defray the exP;) of the emigration of poor persons having settletaeo4) the parish, and expended under the regulations I, existing poor law. The Rev. Joseph Turner, the n t i e presided. It appeared th a t, in consequence of °soy published that assistance would be given to sueb,P,,, who were desirous to emi g rate, the guardians h a ?.; cation from twelve adults with ten children—ar.. feared none of them came under the denomi nat 7 agricultural labourers, so as to entitle them to . 0 4 passage to Australia, to which some of them wished Two or three were sawyers, and the remainder 11,e,, men. The expense of the adults would be £9 e ac , i ,d' of the children half the sum. A resolution was Pa' ,t the effect that £3OO should be raised for the 4 1 1 ,0 stated,. the same to be chargeable on the rates. 1 „, 0 1. pense in the Workhouse is £5 17s. per head per a " e ? Some of the applicants had received relief for four Y and some had been in the Workhouse four years. A PROVIDENT S GGESTIO N .—Last week, t h e f e te o Hon. T. Pemberton L e i g h, M.P., gav e a splendi d ly his Lancashire tenant r y a t Hi n dl e y-hall, near a tV In the course of his a dd ress t o th em he said , '4O would like to see them e n d eavour i ng to save soa'.l f I °7 o for a rainy day. H e was qu it e sure that in , stances it only required a beginning. In order 0,0 complish this, and make a commencement, he shetklt Monday, place to the credit of every one of his lido in the Wigan Savin g ' s B an k £2, a nd when he b a they would have a perfect control over that sulaVo ther he should not interfere, as every man had right to do what he pleased with his own. ln i e ' no flL draw it out and spend it if they liked ; he wished ther control over it. At the same time he would .- e lt advise them to save. He was aware how d„ 1 .7 gc matter that was for a labouring man with a lam. "' p i l e, there were often small sums—a threepence, a s' l l? - f he ll' a shilling, which a labouring man might put by 1 0 . 0 a fund to which to add it, but which otherwise li t e o r , spend at the public-house. Any such sum. , a ° ban. small, Mr. Ellison wou ld rece i ve, an d pa y into tileiditi;, for them. And, by w a y o f encouragemen t, every a a n so made, up to 205., he wou ld d ou bl e . If any j ° added ss. in the course of t we l ve mon th s , he (Jr.x Of would add 10s. If any man had added 10s. b e I d add 20s. If any man had add e d £l, h e would Po Those, therefore, who had saved 20 ha ve IP s., would von their credit at the bank. (Loud cheers.) n e , glad to find that they had done so. He would O e further enquiries, but at the proper time th e Y,ZP bring their books to his most excellent af , '" ht "s. Ellison, who, he was sure, would carry out his 015"" SERIOUS & FATAL CHARTIST DISTURB AS On Monday an ou'b r e a k o f arme d Ch ar ti s ts tool‘etos at Ashton, which was not p u t d own b e f ore a P° lie tt iV named Bright, was kill e d. S o f ar as can b e asee r 4 bl 6 it appears that a number of the Confederates ai ia rle; in the evening at th e i r usua l mee ti ng -h ouse , the 'oo' town Chapel, and for o nce h av i ng eva d e d th e sur ve ao of the police, were enabled to arm themselves with p tia tJ pikes, swords, and other weapo ns , an d m arch ° l c the streets, thus armed, at a little before twelve ° Fa so!, without encountering any i mme di a t e oppos ition. ar fo nligr(! who saw them state th a t th ere were some thirtY pikes carried by them, which gleamed in the r eci- r s P i e "; and that several carr i e d d rawn swor d s, an d olb e g and pistols. Soon a ft er l eav i ng th e meeting-h°,lltbero,'l%,o encountered two policemen, o ne o f w h om was shot hetulij the heart with a pist o l ; an d th ey pursue d t he °t . glo an adjoining street, b u t h e baffled them by ln lirjla a cottage, the door of w hi c h h e l oc k e d inside, '"„f to extinguish the light a s soon as poss ibl e . ,",,tion object of their march was, beyond the assassi n ! i $1 0 ,,, a 0 the police, does not v er y c l ear l y appear; hot,iesvo seem that for a short ti me th ey en t er t a i ne d for e l project of holding the town against the militatPo ' t er messengers being sent to th e barracks, they e nc° itid e `i this armed force, and were t urne d back—some' being fired at. Seve ra l o f th e r i o t ers h ave bee ;oil o f ted for trial on the charge of murdering the 1 ,0 “ e- n ene e .3 On Tuesday evening, at Manch es t er , i n conseqo,3 what had occurred at Ashton, several of th e ten, t s ,:rl leaders in that town were arrested. Betwee n :, m iii hr eleven o'clock a large fo rce o f arme d police a,e,,"'det° visited the clubs, and a rres t e d f our t een o f the riso o ao fore any alarm could be given. Amongst the P are Leach, the printer, Whit a k er , an d polo° yt appeared much chopfallen at their capture. bro , l-' OO , On Wednesday morni ng , th e pr i soner s were jastl,i, up before a full bench of magistrates for eltn .n r e do 4 James Leach, Dani e l D onovan , I . J . Fi nn igen, , „7, c he ~'l , '-; Rankin, had been a rr e s t e d gn warrants from ra n ts The police had received imi rrma ti on th a t -.ar The out against several others from other towns,• n e vliQ' of the rest were T. Whitt a k er , H. Ellis, r• G. voi Carrigin, G. Rogers, J. Leaman, H. William ber, G. White, an J. Dolan. Mr. Pollock a id be, i o all the prisoners should be remanded, as it We i° jurious to the ends of justice to enter into an ext" . ..i o ne: g at the present time. Mr. Roberts defended the r at and, in a speech of some length, demanded t'-`0 prisoners against whom no warrants bad b ee r oo t . o , should be at once discharged, and that the ex e 10'4 of the rest should be proceeded with. Aft er consu the bench decided to bind all the prisoners over t 055? that day week. The court was crowded to exe` large numbers were gathered outside. plot bO' meeting of the Oldham Ch art i s t s took Wednesday night, but they dispersed quietly ab ° i e6 past ten. c ,e From all that has t a k en p l ace i n an d ar ound ter, there is every reason to believe that some, e ZroV i p arrangements had been mad e f or a genera l fou neous movement amongst- the Chartists and Rep the u"; this neighbourhood. Their h o p e was t o a larm _„o 0 vernment, so as to compel them to withdraw o',"' L" lasses t 11 1( troops from Ireland. Attempts have been ins° . 0 0 Manchester Chartists to reuse the w orking e a __, god surrounding towns to seditious movements, nn o .. c _ f o re have,cases with success. e f s r s u . s frustrated e I At. Birmingham, two men, named White Chartist were committed for seditious language at nainaygigsternaeterasiarnisdintgh:e ani ings. te ° fa ; On Wednesday night, in consequence of priva bodl,A mation received by the Government. a strolg, the police, nearly 300 in number, proceeded to t f u e ssa , o Tavern, in Webber-street, London, kept by 3 ' 2 r ibefa e he where they seized fourteen men, and conveyedd t o Tower-street. On being searched, pistols lott e eo lst 'go muzzle, pikes, three-co rner d agge rs, spear n, e rs ` 1 1 ;, e o swords were found upon their persons, and ot hers found secreted under the seats on which the one sitting. Som e o f th em wore i ron breast others had gunpowder, shot, and tow-balls. ore t he man no fewer than 75 rounds of ball-cartridge a t of et d 4.0 covered. The prison ers were a ll p l ace d in ..- we s lobby, and having be en d u l y c h arge d, their °brio addresses were taken, an d scarce ly a man " •a bei ti forward who was not well kno wn t o the police 3 et prominent Chartist. ° ‘1 le ge o d At one o'clock on Thursday morning, e t ,„ n rli° jilt! armed Chartists were arrested in the neigh oa Red Lion-square. The whole of the police e ° s rantte in the streets were at the several stations und e i r lo ie 01 , c eP case their services should be required. The sc 'Poe military quartered at Buckingham Palace, t ags, Mint, Bank of England, and the various barr c tiee, under arms, and a continuous line of comree ° l l c e, i' 9 o lo l l kept up between the metropolitan and city - fore 00' as with the military and other official bodies. rior ti s e t j has already transpired it is supposed that the `-'„ 0 11 Confederate clubs intended to march out vre h il i olieg t ore they did some weeks back, and attack such "a l e e'? P c lt;' might be pointed out to them. Shortly after tte nrr, s e was made in Webber-street, a meeting was, a ; n th e dio~' be held at the South London Chartist-hal",: e bu ii tbeg street, when one of the leaders rushed into t. 0 5 too and advised them, for God's sake, to disPe rse r'll9 ll so e lives were in danger. In an instant a g enera fo n , place for the street, and one man, in leaping 4 0/1 °W e t i fj window, On Thursday m severelyo r inj ning, ured hat animsel early hour, as t f. saP , to ' was on duty at Clerkenwell, he espied a -B rge I 003 0 0' the churchyard. On getting over the rails he At for t ioir contain 700 ball cartridges, and i m plements f ile 5t 3 gerous purposes. The arti c l es were t a ken to b. b e house. °l l " s od et ii On Friday eveni ng , a mee ti ng o f Confederates sel; at the South Chartist-hall, 131ackfriars-r o a d be en l but a formidable arra y o f armed police bevithird to the spot, the room was not above one,: i chie, o ll, ' tg f or h e e at ht. objectley fallen rw, offas r to o,f reviv etlate. a Al t the Mitchel name tche t l hd C e ! scft u arti ' oven : g a ll el f ip tb ot jt people, requested the speakers to conceal ri g 0 , 00 a, and not to use seditious language. A Yn i ndir l isife t „ violently against the press, accusing it of oo le• government to crush the liberties of the ll` to ;davt o ay vised Irishmen to organise, and hold the %di° meetings at their own houses. A person I :tbe r e bu t the hall began an address, stating that, A . s. ned ---- faie„?; was put down, what object could be ga l t ie nohvi was yelled down, and so threatened tha t , 09. 1 Y -A make his escape. A cry was raised that " - a raP l ' aij` officer in disguise, and a scene of uproar w hi c h ree ll ater w 9-10ths of the meeting took place, in ,-. 17 1 , - ;j1.03 0 - r eeFl and women were knocked down. The r h o, t o tel‘i a warm eulogy on the patriotism of allif e gitea u 'd tion affirming the necessity of reviving t" vrer a s s „clie was carried.—On the same day warrants s of ler the apprehension of the most violent sPe C tilde,l at the recent meetings in the metropoli s • r ace t Although the precautions taken by the _ Lo sct;'i j sioners have been of the most extensive Ff on 0 .11 1 10 le have been ful:y warranted by the informal i a t it „t o F, commissioners have obtained —namely, 1 " nn on intention of the Chartists and Repealers, to &w o o &sea , tror o tie opportunity after they were fully oq,Tri„ be their disturbances in several parts 0 1 lg ou ttiag to one time, by pulling up the gas-piles and I in total darkness. t of s °. oo , Chartis t On Saturday, William Cnffey, con°•ofn riety in connexion with the John-street ~...o f ice-t e brought before Mr. Henry, at Bow-street answer the charge of having attenCed t!o , cp eref ssr ings referred to in the evidence of PovvelL,huepriArdo_ll,. taken part in a treasonable conspiracy'. st ' ree t, ‘ br e tt he was a tailor, living at 11, Heller:, r emem i dica' ° ,o street, Soho. His appearance, viewed e rectly erect.Yrii 1)e the tone and style of his speeches, Wasp in wloo_ s ora v f He was scarcely higher than the dock_dent t o placed, e al m lt e l a o n u o g u h r th b e e r f e or w e a t s h i e lo n. l l African sort of countenance, and is P2 c ' d . Ole Fo, b y After several witnesses bad been examw core,' 1 was terms, she had to be put o ut by ?V i le r g ood c r o e u m r a t, nd h e u d t b t a o v g e e3xlpsrteistsrsetdathe tr on leaving the court exclaimed, men," with well affected firmness. illgts