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TO CORRESPONDENTS, The justly indignant letter of "A Friend to the Bible" was received too late. A Subscriber ' ought to hive appended his name, in confi dence, to his communication. We could answer the questie:, of " A Member of the Church of EDI: and" mach more ,:cisf :ctorily at a personal inter view, if he will favour us with one. We differ from "An pponent of the Government" as to the memorial of the Rotnish bishops in Ireland. Sir Robert Peel has been not inaptly compared to the Roman Catholics' sponge, and it would be worse than f fly on their part not to squeeze him dry. Q.71)1) Wiberpout klanDarb, TUESDAY moßmiva, JUNE 3, 1845 Our indefatigable Protestant champion, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile has once more taken the field in defence of the principles violated by the proposed Endowment of Nlaynooth. The rev. gentleman has addressed the following letter on the subject to his Grace the Duke of Wellington ; and if there is any instrumentality which could possibly sway the re solve of that great and revered man, it must be a communication such as this—so admirably adapted to the duke's habits of thought and reasoning—so terse in style, and convincing in argument. We trust that it will have such an efreo, that it will lead him and the house of which he is the ornament and the honor, to pause and enquire before they commit themselves, and the institutions of their country, by affirming this most obnoxious measure. Let Eng land once more have cause to exclaim " Thank God, we have a House of Lords !" TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. My Lord Duke,—Pray excu.e this intrusion on your time and attention. Your Grace can, and I doubt not will, appreciate an effort of he nest, though it may seem to you mistaken zeal ; and, if the circumstances of the case do not plead my apology, I should in vain attempt to make one with words. My Lord, the fate of your country is once more placed in your hands; and for more permanent good or evil, I sincerely believe, in June, 1345, than it was in June, 1815. 1 feel assured that you have not taken your pre sent position without what seemed to you good and suffi cient reasons. Still, it is not derogatory to even your Grace's sagacity to re-examine your position before it is too late. Perhaps it may be strengthened ; perhaps it ought in some p,in's to be changed. Your Grace is a straightforward, unprejudiced men. not to be deceived by mere talk, however plausible, and not willing to shut your eyes or ears against good sound sense, though pre sented in a homely garb or from an obscure individual. The notice of Lord Roden for Monday evening contains a fair and frank request. lie proposes the suspension of the dismission on the Maynooth Endowment Bill until a committee of the House of Lords shall have inquired into and reported upon the course of education which the state is about to endow. He oujecs to so important a step being taken in the dark. He objects to public money be ing voted away for purposes of which the public are kept in ignorance This is businesslike, and will meet with your Grace's approbation. It is, in fact, very like one of your own plain point blank movements. Are we going to pay £26,000, and to bind ourselvr s to pay the like sum annually! Then, clearly we audit to know what for. Can any really sound objection be offered to this? Your Grace ie fully aware that it cannot with fairness or truth be urged that a sufficient inquiry has already been made. It is. ii.deed, true that an official return has been made of the class-books used in the College of May nooth (a most valuable preliminary to the proposed in quiry), but no adequate investigation of their contents has ever been ordered by the British Parliament. Your Grace is a man of too much experience to doubt for a moment that, on a subject involving alike the pu bli c morals and nation a l a ll eg i ance of so large a class of our fellow-subjects, it is the duty of the government to proceed with cautien, and not to pledge the state to the support, by public money, of wie:t may possibly, on further inquiry, be discovered to be prejudicial to the public good. Omit ting for the present, all other matters, it is alleged, and I think can be proved, that doctrines subversive of the British monarchy are inculcated in the class-books of Maynooth as laws which it is reeresented to be the reli gious duty of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to obey, as soon as they c tn acquire the power to do so. Your Grace cannot be insensible to the startling fact, that within the la4t few weeks above 1,200,000 of the adult male pupal vine of this kingdom have recorded (in peti tions to the House of Commons) their conviction that the contents of the Meynooth class books are evil. Are all these pwitioziers mistaken ? It so—if the impression on which thee have acted, and by which atey are still very powerfully influenced, be indeed an erroneous one, how ever prevalent, surely the friends and favourers of the College of Meynooth, instead of resisting, ou g h t t o b e the most zealous in forwarding an inquiry : instead of resenting it as in any degree detracting from the grace of the con cession, as Roman Catholics trey ought to hail it as a boon, becete,e its result would be their most triumphant vindication; and as patriots, they ought to urge it as a duty, because its result would allay the apprehensions and tranquill ze the minds of their excited fellow-subjects. Is it too much, then, to expect from your Grace's mag nanimity and f tirnees, that, instead of availing yourself of a ready mej ., ri'v to reject so reasonable a proposal, Von will accede to Lord Roden's motion, and thus con vince the couirtry that her Majesty's Government, though possessed at present of a giate.'s strengtb, is not disposed to use it as a giant, but rather as an honest Englishman, who is not expected to pay his money year after year without knowing to what pu r p oses i t i s app li e d , especially when many of his most respectable and best informed neighbours assure him that it is applied to purposes evil in themselves and dangerous to his welfare and the pros perity of his family ? All eves will be fixed on your Grace on Monday even ing. You can sway the house in this matter like a mar shalled la' st on the battle-field. Give but the word, and no aporeheneion of a change r.l Ministers, no fears for agricultural protection, will produce even a murmur mongst your best friends and supporters. Will you then, my Lord, afford the country satisfaction on this important subject ? or will you, by pleading the sup posed state nec ssity at all hazards, reject a proposal which need occasion but a brief delay if your cause be righteous, and which cannot lead to a final defeat, unless your cause be proved to be such as you ought not to ad vocate ? The supposed state n tcessity is rap'dly advancing to an agg•avated state embarrassment. The integrity of the British Empire and the Protestantism of the British Crown must be, maintained in any event. Your Grace will say so, and wilt your accustomed emphasis. If, then, there be persons accused of systematic and pledged hostility to that Protestantism, I venture, with unfeigned respect, to ask, is it wise, is it politic. is it right in the British government, without any public investigation of the charge, to invest those persons with increasing powers ; to animate them by fresh encouragements; to proceed with what may prove a serious aggravation of the evil ; and thus eventually to involve the country in a struggle incalculably more dreadful than anything to be appre hended now, I say not from inquiry only, but even from detection of the suspected danger, if it really exist, and consequent resistance to its progress ? My Lord Duke, your Grace's responsibility on Monday evening is one of the most overwhelming character. May Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, direct your decision, and overrule its results, immediate and remote, to the advancement of His own glory, the good of his church militant here on earth, and the safety, honour, and welfare of our aivereign arid her dominions. Who I am that have ventured thus to address your Grace is a question not worth answering, or even asking. The question is, have I said anythirrs worthy of your Grace's attention? But, as I disapprove of anonymous letters—as lam conscientiously persuaded that the ques tio❑ at issue involves the great and sacred principles to which I, as a clergyman of the Church of England, am solemnly pledged, and as I do not feel that I need be in any respect afraid or ashamed of a respectful appeal to your Grace in the present crisis, I have the honour to subscribe myself Your Grace's faithful and obedient servant, Liverpool, May 30. H UG El 111'N EI LE. The ministry of Sir Robert Peel is at length pre cisely in the position which an apostate from party and from principle ought ever to occupy. The Premier himself, moreover, has arrived at a know ledge of such position. He feels, and during Wednesday night's debate acknowledged the fact, that althntigh cetioniAhly wielding the power of go vernment, he is of himself powerless. He has the confidence of neither of the great parties in the legis lature or in the country ; and that whether in his policy he turn to the right or to the left, he earns the hatred of the one party without any .counterba lancing love or respect from the other. Humiliating as such a position must be ac knowledged to be to any sensitive mind, it must have been additionally galling to the right honour able baronet to be twitted before the assembled House of Comtnons by the leader of the Opposi tion, Lord John Russell, with the fact that he is only used as an instrument to carry out Whig mea sures, and that he is distrusted by those who use him : that he is regarded only as the betrayer of a place of strength confided to him for defence is re garded by the enemy who profit by his betrayal. Let Sir Robert P ee l contemplate his position, as thus painted by Lord John on Wednesday : " As Sir Robert Peel had himself adverted to that sub ject, he would be frank, and inform him at once, that he (Sir R. Peel) ha.l not gained his (Lord John Russell's) confidence. He disagreed with Sir John Tyrell, when he said that the introduction of the tariff and the existing Corn-law had been injurious to the farmer; but when the honour.ble baronet went on to assert that he had been taught by ministers, when in opposition, to expect that they would be in favour of protection and against free trade, he was prepared to contend that Sir John Ty re ll was perfectly justified in such an assertion. At th e same time, he would add, that i f Sir John Tyrell were to pro nose a vote of a want of confidence in tier Majesty's mi nisters, he would Pot support it ; for what he had now to consider was bow he could best carry the measures w hi c h he deemed con f orma bl e t o his own principles. If he and his friends were to propose measures similar to those now proposed by Sir R. Peel and his colleagues in the govern. rnent, he knew that they would he opposed by Sir J. Tyrell arid many of the gentlemen who were now in office. He, therefore, thought that the best mode of carrying out his own principles would be by opposing Sir J. tyrell on any such motion, and by leaving mPasures founded on his principles to be proposed and carried by the party now in power. There could be no doubt that Whig princi ples were better cap ried out at the present moment by the opponents of the Whigl, than they could be by the Whigs themselves. This is certainly stated clearly enough, and it ought to be intelligible to the constituencies of the empire as well as to the minister. Those consti tuencies bargained for a Conservative government. They struggled through years of difficu!ty for that object. And they have got in its stead a Whig go vernment, and SOMETHING MORE. We ought to thank his lordship for his candour. The news by the Ilibernia steamer may be re garded as of a pacific and satisfactory character. The war mania has in a great measure subsided. America has discovered that she has vast interests depending upon the preservation of peace; and she is therefore anxious to have the questions between herself and this country settled by an amicable ne gotiation, to forward which, it is said that Mr. Cal houn will be despatched on a special mission to the British court, with very full powers and even per mission to make some small concessions to effect so desirable a consummation. So far, then, all is well ; and if the intelligent and honest portion of the Ame rican people is to have a voice in deciding the mat ter, all will remain well. On the contrary, if the ultra-democratic classes of America gain the ascen dant, we are not at all so confident that peace be tween the two countries can be preserved. If nego tiation is to be any thing better on the part of the American government than a mere subterfuge to gain time for the preparation of other and more vio lent measures, we must see much of the insolent pretensions with which the question at issue is now treated by the American people, and even by the press of the American government, materially abated. Great Britain cannot consent to negotiate at all with an envoy who, we are told, is to hold in one hand " a broad. and comprehensive icommercial treaty," of American dictation, with a very " small portion of the Oregon territory," and in the other, as the result of our refusal to accept an offer so com plaisant, a declaration of war. If anything like these are to be Mr. Calhoun's instructions, he had much better stay at home. Whilst the government of this Protestant coun try is actively engaged in endowing and assisting to strengthen the position of the Church of Rome in the British Empire, it may be interesting to examine what is the position of that Church throughout the world. Is Rome extending her boundaries, or is she retrogading in influence and in the numbers of her followers ? We believe she is retrogading ; and that at this very moment she is tottering to her fall. In France the conflict between the University and the Church threatens to inflict upon the latter irre parable injury; and the first popular movement which shall arise to unsettle the Orleans dynasty must inevitably destroy all traces of an establishment in that country. And whilst the Church there is thus menaced by infidelity, another encroachment upon her privileges and po.ver is silently being made by the rapid spread of the principles of the Reforma tion. Philosophy on the one hand, and the truth of the Bible on the other, aft working her overthrow. In Switzerland the Jesuits, ever busy when Rome has great objects to achieve, or isin great emergency, have brought upon themselves the popular indignation. In the United States Romanism has arrayed against it the fierce hate of democracy ; and even in its very strongholds, Spain, Portugal, and Italy itself, the light is slowly, but surely, breaking in, and its haughty pretensions are being scrutinized, and are only submitted to with murmured dislike. In Germany we see commencing a new religious movement, which threatens to produce results re sembling those which followed the exertions of Luther and Calvin. From within her own pale a Reformer has sprung up, M. Ronge, and has re ceived powerful support from large and influential members of his co-religionists. More than one sovereign is already arrayed with him in the prose cution of the objects of which he is in search, the principal of which is the freedom of the German Catholic Church from the power and the interference of the papal see. In addition to this emancipation, the Reformers seek to abolish the use of the Latin language in their church ; to do away with the con fessional ; to permit the marriage of the clergy, and to withdraw all restrictions on the marriage of indi viduals of different religions : "This reformer (writes the Paris Constitutional,) ap peals at the same time to Catholics and Protestants. To the former he offers a religion, in his opinion, more easy, freed from auricular confession, augmented by the marriage of priests, and relieved of many other regulations. To t he Protestants, M. Ronge presents a form of worship more apparent than their own, and appealing more to the senses ; he offers them in addition, he says, a certain unity which would put an end to the differences now giving birth to the innumerable sects that at present split Pro testantism into pieces. Thus recruits are found in both camps. Protestants and Catholics place themselves under the banner of M. Ronge; and his standard-bearer, M. Czersky, another fugitive from the Catholic Church, serves him with effect in his conquests. The inferior clef ay are more particularly appealed to, and in various districts they seize on the opportunity of escaping from the yoke of authority and discipline. The movement is propa gated throughout all Germany, and it is even penetrating into Austria, notwithstanding the precautions taken by the Government to arrest its progress. The Austrian journals are forbidden to mention the name of M. Ronge and bis adherents; the police and the censorship aid each other to crush the new doctrine in the bud. The King of Hanover prosecutes it as anti-monarchial, and the King of Bavaria as communist. The German Catholics of Saxony have addressed a protest to the Minister of Wor ship, and call on the Saxon government to ask Bavaria for explanations on the Pleasure which sbe proposes taking; and they defy the Bavarian government to find a trace of communism in their doctrines. In his last dis. course, Cz-rsky has given his partisans notice to prepare for persecution. It appears, in fact, that Austria intends proposing to the Diet severe measures. In other places, (Prussia, Saxony, and other states of the German confe deration) the temporal power has shown itself indulgent." Against these significant evidences of decline we have only to set the partial success of her desultory efforts to extend her power in distant regions—in India andsi,China, and even in less civilized and wealthy lands. The limbs of the system are length ening, but the heart and the entire body is dis ordered. In this crisis of her position Rome turns her anxious eye to Great Britain for strength. She clutchei Ireland with one hand, whilst with the other she throws her baits into England herself; and she is aided in her efforts and caressed with fondness by a government calling itself Protestant. But is she secure even here ? Are the gigantic efforts she is making for the subversion of the Bri tish empire to her yoke the promptness of vigour ous health and superabundant vitality, or are they the violent convulsions of conscious decay? We maintain that they are the latter. We say give Protestantism a fair stage and no favour, and even in Ireland the fate of Rome is sealed. Abstain from propping up the tottering fabric of her power; above all, give protection to those who abjure her errors, and the truth must speedily triumph. We may refer to an extract in another column, from the Dublin University Mayazine for this month, in support of these statements. Whilst upon this subject, we may mention that a public meeting will be held in this town on Tuesday evening week, the 17th inst., when a number of distinguished foreigners will detail the wide-spread and increasing separations from the Church of Rome which are at present taking place in France, Ger many, and other portions of the European continent. The memorial presented by the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland, conveying their objections to the government scheme of academical education, contains amongst its immodest demands one decla ration which ought to be instructive to the states men and the people of this country, as sheaving that Popery and the free and full spread of enlighten ment are regarded by Romc herself as incompatible. It is not the unmutilated Word of God alone which she fears to see placed in the hands of her followers. It is not religious truth alone which she wishes to tamper with at its fountain, and mingle with her own fables, but every kind of knowledge, by which the reasoning powers can he aided and invigorated, and correct views of man's nature, and of the laws of mind and matter, conveyed to man. Here is the confession of Romanism that it cannot bear the light, as stated broadly by her prelates, whose memorial, amongst other things, humbly sheweth : " That the Roman Catholic pupils could not attend the lectures on history, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, geology, or anatomy, without exposing their faith or mo rals to imminent danger, unless a Romati Catholic pro fessor will be appointed for each of those chairs." " History," " logic," " metaphysics," " moral phi losophy," " geology," " anatomy" ! These, studies one would imagine common to all sects and classes in an enlightened age, Rome would permit to be doled out to her enslaved followers only in homoeo pathic doses, or diluted, under the watchful super intendence of Roman Catholic professors. There is imminent danger" to Popery in her youth being admitted to a knowledge of the world's annals or the world's structure. There is " imminent danger to faith and morals" in logic, metaphysics, anatomy, and moral philosophy ! Well may we exclaim, What a faith must that be, which is thus sedulous to shut out the truth, and dare not contemplate, ex cept through a darkened glass and in a tortured form, either the records of history, or the beauties and the wonders of creation itself—which dare not either inform or elevate the mind of its believers ! Who can say, with this unblushing confession be fore them, that Romanism is changed ? We see here the very spirit which struggled through the dark ages to repress the free and unfettered spread of knowledge--which denounced the early printers, and even in later days has trampled on the press, in whatever country it has exercised supremacy. When the arch-agitator of Ireland asked for the erection of " Normal Schools of Agitation" in Ire land by the agency of the Whig Municipal Reform Bill, he expected, no doubt, to find these bodies useful and subservient allies ; and as such they have proved and are proving themselves. He didn't ex pect town-councillors to be either gentlemen or re flecting beings —patterns of politeness or of wisdom. But we much question whether he anticipated these negative qualities in such an excess as they have just been di: played i n th e To w n Council of Sligo. We give a few extracts, as specimens of the qualities of a Sligo Town Councillor, from the proceedings of a meeting of that body held last week. The vestion before them is the adoption of a petition for an assi milation of the Municipal Laws of England and Ireland : Loquitur his Worship the Mayor.—" They wanted to blacken our popular member, and bring in some per son that would more freely minister to the m ercenary cravings of certain persons." Council/or Verdon.—" You and your party got more than any others. Poor men refused to vote against Mr. Somers, thoudi offered £5O to do so; but Mr. Andrew Walker would not give him a vote without receiving a bribe of £l2O a-year." Alderman Walker —"You made Mr. Somers pay more dearly than any man in Sligo; having become your se li rity to a tea company in London, by which he suffered to a large amount, you having become insolvent. The Messrs. Madden and others got government situations for their friends previous to my having obtained one." Councillor Verdon.—" Your conduct has been base all through." &c., &c. Pleasant constituents the member for Sligo must have if these pay thriots be a fair sample ! But pro ceed. The question is, that a deputation be sent from the Town Council to attend O'Connell's levee in Dublin ; and, after some discussion as to how robes to go in were to be got, Councillor Verdon says,—" Then I meet your resolu tion with a direct negative:" Mayor.—" I am a member of the Repeal Association ; you are not." _ _ Councillor Verdon.— prietor." Mayor.—" You never paid a guineas to O'Connell in your life. Even your expenses to Dublin were always old." •" Because I am a newspaper pro- Councillor Verdon.—" We will remove the mask from pseudo repeaters. To send you to Dublin would be only a mockery and a delusion." Councillor Henry.—" You were a pretty repealer, Ver don, when you wore an orange lily in your breast through the streets of B dlina." Councillor Verdon.—" You are a I—r." Councillor Henr✓.—" You are a scoundrel and a I—r." Councillor Verdon.—" You dare not use such language to me, only you know how I am situated." After some more skirmishing of the same polite description, in which one Councillor reminds an other of having lent him a wardrobe to go to Dub lin, Mr. Alderman O'Connor, apparently the only sensible person present, remarked," it is no wonder that the enemies of Ireland say we are unfit for self government. This day is powerfully confirmatory of the argument. They may well laugh at us," — an opinion in which we feel disposed to join. The reporter of the Sligo Journal, who describes this scene, states, that so violent was the conduct of the parties that it was expected every moment that from words they would have come to blows. The Repeal Association, he adds, is about to send down a paci ficator, Mr. Dillon Brown, to investigate the cause of the differences amongst the Sligo repealers." It is said to be the intention of a number of gentlemen who are at present in business as sharebrokets in this town. but again.t whom the Stock Exchange of Liverpool is rigidly closed, to ass )ciate themselves into a rival body. The foundation-stone of a new National School, for the populous and increasing district of Stanley, the Old Swan, &c., null be laid to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, imme diately after a sermon in St. Anne's Church, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. THE KING OF THE FRENCII.—A report was current on 'Change yesterday of the death of the King of the French. For some time it excited considerable attention, but it could be traced to no credible source, and the si lence of the morning papers completely set it at rest. The rumour, probably, arose from some misapprehension of the abdication of Don Carlos. MORGAN'S IMPERIAL HOTEL.—The following have been among the fashionable arrivals :—The Earl of Meath, Earl of Gosford, Major Mc Mahon, Lieutenant Smyth, R.N., Capt. Boilean and Son, Rev. G. Laurie, Rev. Mr. Wright, Wm. C. Duckett, Esq., Lady and Family, J. F. Collings, E•q , G. J. Dore, Esq., Messrs. Poingdester, Monsenatt, &c. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We observe that the Rev. F. Bingham, Incumbent of Harwood, is to deliver a lecture at this institution, on Tuesday evening, upon poetry, and that owing to the indisposition of Mr. Row ton, his place will be supplied by the Rev. Dr. Hume, on the dialects of the Engli,h language ; and by Mr. Day, on warming and ventilation. The exchange will doubt. less be very acceptable to the friends of this institution from the popularity of the substitutes. RADICAL. PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE.—The boast of the Radical party in Liverpool has ever been their patronage of Townsmen in preference to strangers. " Ewart and Townside" was one of their favorite electio neering mottoes. Their practice has been just the re verse of their professions. When in a majority in the Council they inundated the town with strangers. Their police was almost to a man Irish. And scarcely have they got their fingers into the management of the affairs of the parish than they are found displaying the same anti local bias in their appointments. Only a week or two ago a gatekeeper was to be appointed at the Workhouse; and one would imagine that some decayed native of Liverpool could have been found quite capable and worthy of the office. The appointment would have fallen to the lot of a stranger, a native of Buckinghamshire, had it not been for the Conservative patronage of a townsman for we find every member of the Radical portion of the Vestry voted for a stranger. This is their mode of carrying out in power their professions when out of it. THE ABDICATION OF DON CABLOS.—Few events of equal importance have presented themselves under more difficulties to the speculator than the abdication of Don Carlos, says a Paris letter. "No man can foretel the consequences. It is for a great good or a great evil. One thing only is clear, namely, that it is not the work of French intrigue, being, on the contrary, diametrically opposed to the views that France has so long entertained upon Spain. It is notorious in the precincts of the Tuile ries, that previous to the unexpected arrival of the Envoy of Don Carlos with his abdication, and which you announced two days before it was known here, the Duke de Ne mours proposed to be at Bayonne about the middle of August, and to visit the Queen of Spyin at St. Sebastian. This was, it is asserted, with a view to promote the inte rests of the brother, tho Duke de Montpensier, who aspires to the hand of the Infanta, the sister Queen Isa- bella. Tlic abdication of Don Carlos and the pretensions of his son are calculated, however, to bring about changes and events in that respect, and in others of vast magni. tude. One of them will probably, in any case, be the withdrawal for ever of Queen Christina from Spain, but it is really premature and a loss of time to attempt to speculate upon this new phase in Spanish affairs, and upon which you are likely to bear more than upon any other subject far months to come." INFRINGEMENT OF TIIE COPYRIGHT - OF A DESIGN.-- Ye,terday, at the Police -court, Mr. Bateson, solicitor, laid an information before the magistrates, on behalf of the Carron Iron Company, against Mr. Rigby, iron founder of this town, for an infringement of a copyright of a decorative design for a stove parlour, or drawing room grate. lie stated that several Ober copy Lthts of the same company had been pirated by the defendant, who had hitherto been forgiven, so that in this instance they could not altogether overlook the delinquency. The des gn was produced, represented in a small engraving or drawing. Mr. Green, ironmonger, Leece-street, said he had in February purchased from defendant three grates, or rather fronts and parts of grates, of the same pattern as that p ro d uce d , an d he afterwards found the words "Carron Company" raised upon them, though he believed they were cast by Mr. Rigby. A defence was attempted for Mr. Rigby, by Mr. Payne. who pro4ced a book on the laws relating to copyrights, publisnd by Neaton and Co., and from which it appeared that a government mark was required, as well as the company's name, to enable them to maintain the patent. This was, however, overruled as erroneous, by Mr. Bateson showing a clause in another act. Mr. Payne said that his client had acted in ignorance ; but if be had really committed himself he would consent to pay the lowest penalty, £5 (the highest being £30); and, as the object of the company was, he had learned, more to give the case publicity, as a future warning, he hoped this would be acceded to, parti cularly as the patent would die out at the end of the present mouth. After some good-humoured conversation, this was agreed to, and the defendant, ;being convicted, paid £5 and costs. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. STATE OF THE CROPS. We have been favoured by a friend of much practical experience.in agriculture, and who has just returned from his accustomed professional tour in the south, with some interesting facts relative to the general state of the crops. He journeyed through Kent, Essex, and other southern and provincial corn counties, and his remark was, that the wheat was not looking so well in those quarters as at the same time last year. Many of the crops of this article were very thin, having seemingly suffered severely from the attacks of the wire-worm, and. on light lands, evi dently much injured by the continuous severity of the winter, especially from the keen east winds to which those localities are more exposed than with us. Wheat, how ever, is a plant of a wonderfully revivifying character, and he by no means entertains, after the late fine rains and general favourable atmosph-ric change, the gloomy appre hensions that have been expressed by some of our contem poraries. A great breadth of wheat had generally been sown ; but in some instances, where the wire-worm had been more than usually destructive, the farmers had Ploughed down their fields and substituted spring seed. It is remarkable that in these, and also in the eastern counties generally, the crops are not so forward as in Lan cashire, owine, no doubt, to the cause assigned for their thinness—the long prevalence of cutting east winds. The spring -sown corn—oats and barley —are exceedingly pro mising. In the course of his experience, indeed, he never saw them look better. The whole of the corn crops in the west of England give indication of an abundant harvest, provided the weather continue to be genial, in which case, after the recent seasonable rains, a general average crop may vet be fully expected. All the spring corn crops this year are doing well, the rain having come in time, which it did not do last year. In Lancashire, some of the wheat suffered from wire worm and cold easterly winds, and was in some few spots ploughed down. The crop that remained looks remarka bly well, being generally thick on the, ground, and withal strong and healthy. We have seen many beautiful fields of this prince of grains in our Immediate neighbourhood, though it is not so much of a wheat as a grass-growing country. Our grass crops are very superior to those be tween this and the metropolis ; and. strange to say, our market is at present better supplied with grass than any other in England, although the crop is one month later than usual. Potatoes, so far, are also promising. It is yet too early to form an opinion as to turnips, but we have seen many fields in which the seed has already told in a gratifying manner. FIRST ELECTION UNDER THE WALLASEY IMPROVEMENT ACT. The first election of commissioners, to put into exe cution the act recently obtained for the improvement of the parish of Wallasey, took place yesterday, at the Queen's Arms Hotel, in the village of Liscard. The mode of taking the sense of the ratepayers, all of whom who occupy tenements at £lO yearly are voters, was by each tendering a paper upon which were printed or writ ten the names of twenty-one gentlemen eligible to act as commissioners. The voting commenced at nine o'clock in the morning, and closed at three in the afternoon. During the whole interval, not only the village of Liscard, but Seacombe, Egremont, and New Brighton, exhibited signs of great interest in the contest ; for there was a genuine electioneering contest between one party deno minated " the Clique," and another designated " the Independent and Unbiassed." " The Clique," accord. ing to the representations of the adverse side, have ob tained, and desire to carry out, the act for the purpose of improving the landed property of the parish at the ex pense of the ratepayers; their object, in their own words, is to work the law for the b-nefit of all parties. " The Independent and Unbiassed" party profess a desire to execute the law without reference to any private interests whatever, but solely for the public welfare and the im provement of the parish, and, what is very important, to keep down the rates. " The Clique "—and, in applying the terms by which the parties are named, we express no opinion for or against either—put a list in nomination, the names upon which will be found in the paragraph elsewhere, reporting the proceedings which took place at a meeting at Liscard on Friday night last. The " Inde pendent and Unbiassed " party nominated the following list :—Henry Winch, Henry Meadows, John Halliday, John Parry, George Hamerton Crump, Joseph Brice, Gideon Dare, Samuel Fleming Symonds, Wm. Atherton, Harold Littledale. Joseph Christopher Ewart, Charles Holland, Thomas Dean, Robert Edwards, James Leay, John Ripley, John Bewley, 'William Healing, William Dickinson, Henry Johns ,, n, and Samuel Carter. Mr. G. H. Crump officiated as the presiding officer; and, as we have just in'imated, the poll was kept up with much ani mation till three o'clock. The official declaration of the result was not made, however, until a late hour in the evening, when the election was announced to have fallen upon the following gentlemen :—For three years : Messrs. G. H. Crump, Ripley, Winch, Healing, Richard Parry, Halliday, Ewart. For two years: Messrs. Atherton, Fisher, Holland, Littledale, Leay, Mann, Peers. For one year: Messrs. Hughes, North, Dean, Edwards, Mawdsley, Meadows, Bewley. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, a man, named James Harvey, a labourer, from Bristol, who was em. ployed with others in excavating the new sewer in Hamp ton-street, Windsor. accidentally fell down one of the eyes or wells opened for the tunnelling, a depth of 22 feet, and was so much injured that he died soon after. THE COTTON CROP.—The statistics brought by the Hibernia, fully bear out the highest estimate made of the last year's production. The arrivals at the shipping ports from the Ist of September to the latest date amounted to 2,240,752 bales against 1,829.821 to the corresponding period last year, and 2.153,437 in 1843, the largest pro duction ever known. It will thus be seen that the actual imports were nearlyloo,ooo bales more than the maximum production, rendering it highly probable that the crop of last year will turn out to be full two-and-a-half million bales. SALE OF THE AUTOGRAPH OF SHAKSPERE.—On Saturday a sale by auction took place in Mr. Fletcher's rooms, in Piccadilly, of numerous valuable autographs; among them was one of the immortal Shakspere. The book, after some competition, was knocked down to Mr. Pickering, of Piccadilly, for 21 guineas. Among the other autographs was a signature of Lady Jane Grey, with the words attached, " I am the Queen," which sold for £4 ; another of Lady Seymour, Queen of Henry VIII., £2 55.:; another of Elizabeth, £2 7s. 6d. ; and another of Napo- leon. ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH SCHOOLS.--We beg to call attention to an advertisement in reference to sermons to be preached in St. Michael's Church, on Sunday next, in behalf of the Girls' Week-day and Sunday School. Upwards of 100 girls, we understand, have received a scriptural education in this school in the past year. The mayor, who is patron of St. Michael's Church, and seve ral members of the Town Council, have kindly promised to attend. The hour for assembling at the Town-hall, on Sunday morning, is ten o'clock. We make no doubt there will be a large attendance at the Church both morn ing and evening; and we trust that the collections will be adequate to the excellent object for which they are in tended. SAVAGE ASSAULT. -- Yesterday, William Martin, a Very stout man, and Frances his wife, lodging-house keepers, Atkinson-court, Bell-street, Toxteth-park, were charged by a sailor, named Henry Jones, with a violent and unprovoked assault upon him. It appeared that he had lodged in the house about a fortnight, and that being asked by the servant girl to go up stairs and bring her bonnet down to her, he did so ; :whereupon both the pri soners set upon him and assaulted him with their hands and with a poker, so that he was covered with blood and bruises. The defence was that be had brought down stairs a plate and a cup and saucer, with which he intended to make off, but this was considered, even if true, no justi fication, as tney might have given him in charge. The prisoners were each tined £5 and costs. SEAMEN'S WAGES.—A seaman, who had performed a voyage in the ship Lord Canterbury, Captain Bruce, yes terday claimed, at the police-court, £6 10s. stated to be due for wages.—The captain said that he had delayed to pay the amount until he had received a reply from the owners in London. It was stated for the prisoner that he had been found on shore with albs. of tobacco upon him, but the article was merely seized, and he was not proceeded against. The captain or owners had suffered no loss or injury in consequence, so that the wages could not be withheld. The captain said he had received a le•- ter from his owners. and would nay the amount.—Edward Skihtnui lie, a young man, claimed £6 ss. as wages, for work done on board the ship Olinda, at the rate of £1 ss. per mouth. He had shipped as a labourer for lchaboe to work at guano, and also to assist at sea. When the vessel reached the island the guano had all been taken away, and the vessel went to Maranham, and thence came home. The captain said the claimant had not done what was required of him as an ordinary seamen. The magis trates decided that as the wages were very low, and it was not the man's fault that he had not worked at guano, he should be paid the amuuut demanded. THE CUSTOMS.—The Board of Customs have recently had before them the annual return of the characters and capacities of the various officers, clerks, and subordinates employed in the service of that branch of the revenue throughout the uni ed kingdom for the past year, and a committee of the board having inspected the returns in question for the period referred to, and inquired perso nally of the principals of departments with reference to the conduct of the several parties under their supervision, it appears that the general account of the attendance of the officers, and of the zeal evinced by them in the per formance of their variJus duties, has been such as to give very great satisfaction, and afford just grounds for gratulation, as to the mode in which the business of the department has been conducted. A certain num ber of officers rendered unfit for further advice, by length of servitude or infirmities, have been, as usual, recommended to the Treasury to be placed on the super annuation list. The fines imposed on officers and clerks during - the p.tst year in London and at the outports fur irregular attendance, instead of being divided, as was formerly the case, amongst a certain number, the most deserving, as a premium for good character and abilties, are, by a recent regulation, to be added to a fund, and disposed of in benevolent grants to widows and children of officers who may die in the service, or in such other cases of distress as may from time to time be brought before the board : thus enabling them to dispense imme diate and much required relief to parties, in respect of whom there was previously no fund or means applicable to the purpose, SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S MEDICAL BILL.-SO CIETY OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. A public meeting of the chemists and druggists of Li verpool and its vicinity was held in the Clarendon-rooms last night, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against a clause introduced in the amended Medical Bill, calculated to be seriously injurious to their interests. The meeting was held in compliance with a suggestion from the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Mr. THOMPSON, jun., of Church-street, was unani mously called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by mentioning that the council of the Pharmaceutical Society considered it highly desirable that the chemists and druggists in every town in the kingdom should forward petitions to their representatives against the 36th cl , use in the amended medical bill. If that clause became law, the effect upon their trade would b e most i n j ur i ous. The term "apothe cary" was very ambiguous, and it behoved the trade, before any enactment was made, to ascertain the exact application and signification of it. The clause re erred to proposed to enact that every person acting as an apothecary, without having been registered by the Council of Health as a general practitioner, should, for every offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be applied to the use of the college of general practitioners, and recovered by the said college by action of debt in any of the courts at Westminster. The Chair man then read an article from the Pharmaceutical Jour nal for the present month, in which all the objections against the clause are elaborately stated. The operation of it was described as hinging upon the words " practise as an apothecary," which opened a large field for litiga tion, and the college would require no other funds for its support than those derived from fines. No chemist could act in any case of emergency without being liable to the penalty ; he could not apply a bit of sticking plaster, or administer a dose of rhubarb. Mr. JOHNSON said he was satisfied that this clause struck at the roots of the business of chemists and drug gists. The definition of an apothecary, in Johnson's dictionary, was " one who provides medicines for sale." Every druggist in the present day might be termed an apothecary, and upon that supposition this clause would utterly ruin him. The CHAIRMAN expressed a hope that every druggist in the town world sign the petition. He then read the petition, which set forth the objections of the trade, and prayed, in conclusion, that the clause, as it stood, might not become law, and that the petitioners might be heard at the bar of the house, either by themselves or by counsel. Mr. WALIcER expressed an opinion that the clause did not extend to chemists and druggists, provided they did not use the titles of " physician, surgeon, or general prac titioner." It would be as well, however, he thought, to petition, and by that means an explanation of the effect might be drawn from government. A GENTLEMAN stated that the trade came under the designation of " general practitioners," consequently they would be liable to the operation of the clause. The CHAIRMAN repeated that the trade would be de stroyed by this clause, and recommended all chemists and druggists to join the Pharmaceutical Society, which was now a chartered body, and able to act, for their in terests with much effect. He also mentioned that Sir James Graham had stated that the original bill was not intended to interfere with chemists and druggists; and that if they opposed it he would give it up. The petition was then unanimously adopted, and signed by all present. The Chairman, upon a suggestion from the council of the Pharmaceutical Society, recommended that each druggist should send up an individual petition, and also sign the general one, by which means the House of Commons would literally be inundated with them. The meeting then separated. The petition will lie for other signatures at Mr. Thompson's this day (Tuesday) and to-morrow. WOOLTON FLORAL, &C., EXHIBITIONS.—On Thurs day next, the first Woolton show of the season will take place, in a spacious marquee, near the church, under dis tinguished patronage. A great number of prizes are an nounced for plants, fruits, and agricultural produce, to gether with several for the encouragement of cottagers, and the great and annually increasing interest of the former exhibitions., together with the novelty and variety of specimens that may be expected to be brought, will we doubt not, ensure a numerous and fashionable attendance. ST. SIMON'S CHURCH.—A plan for raising the amount requisite for the extension of this church, and providing 790 free sittings for the poor, is elsewhere advertised, to which we cordially direct public attention. The sum of £l5OO has to be raised, to add to £l5OO already raised, and if 500 collectors or subscribers would produce £3 each, the money would be realised. The nece-sity for such exertion has been shown in this paper. The Lord Bishop of Chester, the Chancellor of the Diocese, and the Rectors of Liverpool, have already subscribed. BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first exhibition of the present year, of plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables will take place on Thursday next. The tent will be pitched in the gardens of the Royal Rock Ferry Hotel, and a good military band will be in attend ance. The former fine exhibitions at the Rock, and the growing taste in the neighbourhood for all that is beauti ful or useful in horticulture, furnish a sufficient guarantee to visitors, that on this coming occasion, they will find increased objects of attraction. The grounds, moreover, are beautiful within themselves, and afford delightful views, not only of the surrounding land cape, but ti the river, with i s multuctrOUS and ever-moving shipping. NOT KNOWING WHEN YOU'RE WELL OFF.—A few days ago a lad a-cended a ladder to the top of the Black burn Arms Inn, in the Park, which is undergoing repairs, with a jug of beer and a glass for the workmen. In at tempting to come down, by some accident he missed his step and was precipitated from the top, a height of about fifty feet, to the pavement below. Surprising enough, he immediately raised himself apparently unconscious that any thing to be thankful for had happened, and unhurt. His first care was not for himself but for his jug and glass ; and on seeing these smashed to pieces he tell a crying, saying to those who had run to his assistance, that he had borrowed the jug and glass from the public house, and as he had not as much money as would pay for them he was afraid of being punished. PASSENGERS By THE PACKET-SHIP HENRY CLAY.— John Hillhouse, Lieut. Gargas, A. H. Arnold, John R. Stevens, B. R. Stevens, A. G. Stevens, A. Gullaten, jun., John S. Miller, R. D. Izard, J. Bruce, jim., Mrs. A. Matthews and servant, Miss Anley, Miss Harriet Cole man, Miss S. H. C o leman. Mr. G. Dawson Coleman, D. W. Wetmore, W. Ferguson, lady, and child, John Trowat, James Coleman, Miss Ann Colman, Edward Martineau, Benjamin Armitage, L. G. Hoffman, Mr. P. Parks, James Lee, jun., and lady, Dr. J. Rush and lady. The " Henry Clay" is a fine-looking long vessel, as now seen at anchor in the river, and has already been much admired. She appears to be very tauntly masted. We shall furnish some description of her build and equip ments in our next, after having inspected her cabins, &c., when she comes into dock. SATURDAY EVENINGS CONCERTS.—The concert of Saturday last, notwithstanding the heavy rain which fell, was attended by several hundreds. The principal attrac tion was Mrs. Sunderland, who sang with her usual good taste and feeling. In the duet with Mr. Rvalls she was enthusiastically encored • Mr. Ryall's, in the good old song " Ye Marin ers o f England," and in the scena from Somnambula, was vociferously applauded and encored ; in fact we have seldom attended a concert where the en cores were so numerous and the efforts of all parties were similarly rewarded. Mr. Armstrong was in capital voice, and sang with much ta s t e . M r . H enry R usse ll i s an nounced for Thursday and Saturday evenings, another proof that the promoters of these rational recreations are determined to cater liberally for the amusement of the working classes. EXHIBITION OF THE LANDING-STAGE MODELS.—On Saturday evening a meeting of some of the inventors of the models and plans for landing-stages, sent for inspec tion to the Dock Committee, met at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street, Mr. Joseph Boult, architect, of Colquitt street, in the chair, for the purpose of considering the propriety of having a public exhibition of the plans. After some discussion, pro et con, it was at length agreed that the exhibition should take place, and a deputation was appointed to wait on the chairman of the Dock Commit tee Yesterday, to make the preliminary arrangements for holding it at the rooms attached to the Dock-office ; but owing to the absence of that gentleman in London, nothing definite was done. The deputation were, however, most courteously received by Mr. 'Mason, who assured them that every facility should be afforded for forwarding the object of the contributors. The exhibition will, in all probability, be open to the public in the course of a fortnight. MEETING.—Amongst the business to be brought before the council to-morrow, are the proceed ings of the Health Committee, which comprise a resolu tion, that no plan of any house intended to be built in a court will hereafter he approved by the committee unless thyre be shown upon sur' plan a separate privy and ash pit, immediately adjoining such house, for the exclusive use of the inmates thereof. Mr. Alderman Horsfall will move the adoption of a report of the Special Committee, appointed by the Council on the sth of February last, to "inquire into and report upon the unnecessary restric tions imposed upon the trade of this port by the Board of Customs, and the insufficiency of the customs establish ment for the growing wants of the port." A present ment by the Grand Jury at the last sessions of the dan gerous state of an unoccupied house, in Vernon•street • a fence wall, on the n or th si d e o f Phillip's-street • and the furious rate at whi c h spr i ng -carts, and especially butcher's carts, are frequently driven along the streets, will be submitted. FIRE AT BIREENHEAD.—At about half-past two o'clock yesterday morning, an alarm of fire in Hamilton lane, Birkenhead, was sent to the police-office there. Fire-engines were instantly dispatched, and it was found that the offices (a small two story building) of Messrs. Walker, builders, were in a rapid state of combusion. The flames were by great exertion finally subdued, but not before the floors, roof, &c., were entirely destroyed, together with the fixtures, &c. Luckily the fire was pre vented from reaching the yard adjoining and the work shops at the back of the premises, containing a great quantity of timb er an d new joiner work, otherwise the loss would have been great, with the probability of other buildings close by being ignited. The principal part of the books and papers were saved, they having been depo sited in one of Milner and Sons' patent safety-boxes which was afterwards found amongst the ruins, in which it had been submitted to an excessive heat. The contents were uninjured, having undergone only a little discolours_ lion. The superiority of these boxes in resisting fire was furthor den onstrated by the fact, that in an ordinary iron box, close to the patent one, some old books, &c., were completely destroyed. We have heard no estimate of the loss, which is not much. It is not ascertained how the fire originated ; but as it is improbable that any fire left in the premises would smoulder from Saturday night to Monday morning without developing itself, it is strongly suspected that the ignition was the work of an incendiary. June 3,& ,arammwow""" STATE OF TRADE.—THE COTTON SHARE MARKETS. ______ We have had a fair demand for . o bilit week, the trade having bought rather :..3' , . It lators took about 5,000 bales : the total sale W I bales. bringingt er T ri h t e o rayr,rnitevowaalse together rat withh p e aciilaiiccbceonrunanitatus; nature fnrveesSrpayetcubtrei doasigiit,beasfirrio': Cotton in the ports (exceeding the reeniP t°l o ; crop year at a corresponding period, by B° ' e ritt 6 have tended to depress our market ; 0 30 re e ' ril L of a ," many of our operators had expected no va i i fi litv• tendency. We had consequently had a ren re us i e r; , quiry yesterday, the sales not exceeding 4, 0 ' , , le r tbe beio although no alteration in prices is quoted, done has been in many instances fully i per lb, week's rates. r gle ill Bearing in mind the very healthy state of - I. 0i. 4 country; the great increase in the co nsumP ti°ll ' o o l now 30,000 bales weekly, against 26,000 last Ye " addition, the very promising appearance for tu t or ld h o a uo r rk v i neigsot forward wh w ea e ryd a e are or , i n sbo d em u ce fullye fluctuations. u t c o t maintained,ub a e t l I o ev n believe . t - h ' a . ' t e i ° p i n r t e b a e o e g o er itl tb l a 1 0 .4 a nd Partly as the result of the Hibernia's ne vl 'i be" from other causes, speculation in our staPie ss pressed has flown into our Share-market. °tie!' Ss , a large business was done, at very full prie es 'ert e ,' lines and good new ones. Yesterday th e ,. — A ltry tinned very excited, and upon several stock s i a' Vance in price was secured. The stocks 03 . 1 9 . 3 rise!, upon were Midland, in which, however, th e '',"hsre:' turday was slight, having advanced £l6 Per t :o, A : week ending Saturday; Sh e ffi e ld an d Mancn c idinr rose on the day's transactions .£5 per share 1 0 :4 £l2 in the previou s wee k ; S ou th Eastern ‘ 5 ,., 2 'i 1 i.0 48k; Grand Juncti on w hi c h were d o ne at X 4 ','; o , 4 and Birkenhead, and severa l o f th e lighter s har d .h ona The market closed w ith g r ea t firmness , 5 1 5 0 11 9 . upward tenden c y, w hi c h i s a tt r ibuted to t ( a nearly the whole of th e b us i ness no w doing i s ° t he ', fide character and for permanent investmen t ! t hat of the count r y b e i ng now rap idly flowing ' ll sea tion. The Sc o t c h B an k an d I nsuran ce-offic e. : 0 i #1 buyers ; and we are i n f orme d t h a t t h e Live efii are compelled to give notice to their custoen n° ,( : li d intention after the 30th i ns t an t t o cea se to 8 01 j upon dead accounts, which step will drive en ke rr amount of now almo s t idl e ca pit a l i n to the o ar ' vestment. be i f _ The Northampton and Pete r borough branch ef,gtallii don and Birmingham railway was opened on preamble 0n Sat unrfdtahyn, Aberdeen a m r a e i n i t w a a r y y c p o r m n v m e d i t . tee d ecn. (SSt°o IRISH COLLEGES BILL.—Th e DublinPosh ° t to f states that it is the intention cf Governtn ea " draw this bill for the present session. ;Id The Bishop of London has susp e nded, ICJ months, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Moneh t ' ili foi r whom, it is known, charges have been pending time. An aggregate meeting of Protestants, the F4 ,-, ar it hr . tilit o' chilsea in the chair, will be held at Exeter tit" to e ' row for the purpose of memorializing the an e ‘ e "h i al..4 hold her assent to the Maynooth Endowtoen‘i.," • IF is t• P n e nbxe allowed O W w : d u H b e y c txh,e Jockey e ß y L c o l o n n b s T t n o r• i i .u n i c; Il f j a ist r t 0 11 cnw b en y iairtd l3 :o:aw e eds ir b a y m ß , o nb at as o te f s ß . owaike, not as falsely en tereu annuities ann cl YACHTub contended widowhood, of £200; and to the daughters °for Not t, w folf Alderman Johnson.. came in in the fol a— lo sF : il oEon'SLat eo s et t nfit:ide l t.ziei n Andll a Tao i fatc a ooentiredasci Company .hvva riel Charlotte have NN ot: granted a nh I : f t bo , 6,40 # l l , Tatham • , Blue Belle, Mr. Hodges; Belvidere, !4 (1 Paget • , and Vixen, Messrs. Heighington. if/ . 0 0 0 0/ THE OLD ENGLAND AFFAIR.—The eteluz,4og Gully's charges of foul play, against certain b,, e 7 . „ - a• „d p to v n aalyt:e yachts u s i t n ' erls;ll' ; l l took place on Saturday, before the Jockey t',.. - e ,:ia s er• press was not admitted, but it is stated that t a 4 o - e11;0 goes to show that had not Mr. Gully made a 070 covery of the plot, Old England would have ", e stsf' perfectly " safe," and his backers not had even their money. joid r r e d r ptrhiem :rhpBlllooeili;gigeOrir FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday. rn e , s - f n Ittra" at one o'clock, a fire broke out in the prenitse e ",: Satchel! and Robertson, hatters, Fenchurch-str:ctija vnnuegrr Saturday, u d don, when the premises and stock-in-trade we were consumed. Several of the buildings a djoining,,se ll ,lo more or less injured. Unfortunately, Mrs. 5 3 ,,g0',1 her infant perished, having been, it issn by the smoke. The origin of the fire and th e damage are alike unknown. § th e TEXAS ANNEXED.—" A few days ago," say s del; pp osed , o ttik bile Herald," Judge Bragg of the Circuit Coor"ooes that Texas was a part of the United States. T b A e ( r ote, came up by a juror petitioning to be excas% tbe h 1 performance of his assigned duty, on the plea t i:tsi te t o l a citizen of Texas. The Judge ordered fil m sop' 0/ seat in the box with the other 11, giving for re 6- ,, 4 104 Texas was a part of the Un oa and all her citit e lJP to be called upon to do duties citizens of t -5 wr i States. a 0 //b A STEAMBOAT ON FIRE.—The steamer 1 ,0 " °- ' l o .l".t ir left Dundee for London on Wednesday evening' ` *. d covered on Friday morning, when off the co as- PP' • tea' ld‘ folk, to be on fire. The combustion origin ° the taneously, among the coals stoweda way behind tee e ;:i The fire spread rapidly, and soon extended acroissad tire breath of the vessel between the fun ne '.,r - ed' 6 0 quarter deck. The deck was considerably in•r;" • the bulkheads which separate the coalhold fr om cabin berths were also partially on fire. N ntv.. t inier ing the alarming aspect of the flames for some were at length finally extinguished. THE LATE DUEL.—Up to (Thursday Mr• Sett)P oieg r was wounded in the late duel at Gosport, w as t g o ol sl3 o l.6 ; favourably, but on that day some alarming sYn l . - 'on 0 0 sented themselves, and on Saturday an ali e " - fi ti r e l ,"10 performed to suppress the pulsation in a turn a- r „ bad formed within the last few days at the Val - r e ",e, abdomen in front, and which distressed the suu' a - je,'",ts much. All necessary preparations having been r°- „tier P of Liston, attended by several other medical ge:'001,0 commenced the operation, which consisted of s ,, y the external iliac artery. N o sooner was the er.,ter. ce! tb s up, than the throbbing sensati on i n the tutnn"."s and gave the patient much r e li e f. The su et ' l operation cannot at present be calculated upo n ' d THE ORCHARDS, &c.—lt has been calcula,teaiot should half the blossom stand, we shall still bac- s 0 10 cellent crop of fruit. A finer " blow" was Pe r"P ed it' llf witnessed. Since Saturday we have had some verloso,ol showers, and although the temperature has been u c - a ° d e low for the season, they have already produc e co oly beneficial e ff ect, renovating the whole face of th e io Oita The weather is now (Tuesday) much warmer' ssP ec ed to the grain crops, (the most Wenimportat,) the 0 4 / we believe, generally cheering. notice that many new hop grounds have been laid down this :f t a proof that, in the present ruinously low We' ° tte' ' the agriculturists find it necessary to turn their -Jae' more particularly to other descriptions of Pr° 0 0' Hereford Journal. EXTENSIVE FAILURE IN THE FLAX-CRC?' ( 0 0 0 f ief nounced that the flax-crop has proved a ruinnu,s, the flax-growing districts in Ulster. A 13eI r ' ' • I i te ° e go; says, "The Riga seed was generally the fav eal n - f titr country, but owing to the unfavourable state -,,,, ; erdr son ven d f e o r r s s a h v a i v n e g it resortedi n t h i e t is nefarious thought p t r h a e ct lt i v e ; ti o r f rA : ce fai ri f e drying it. This would of course give it a fi r ' - ,,a appearance d to the eye of the purchaser, but t'Ve ":00 es•roys almost all probability of vegetation• p , of,; ( 1 0 been assured that between 4,000 and 5,00 0 ne r 'ronleo this country, are do i r i t n h i sown w ua i ti t tc h lhlo t su h eg i e s hds s l e ,a e tw d e have missed, and that th e lia r- tig ° and prepared for potatoes and barley. I. . be f ,;rt ea r i s4 cro d p this period in former seasons." yo papers received by th gn e twhg li e: SPORTING IN THE UNITED STATES.--,5940 grea° 11, BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH.—The, t he ° e g tra y inni da t a i n a a n d rel promiseaa p t f e pa l el y l i f l oafioa r• roe pt s ob r o : Union Course, New York, between Peyt p o ti n riler a e 's t fl oo bee - , ti r ::: match, which took place on the Atoror l e : oe t: ica l t :lii: tTptb h ihea o lhaer r e • lrt s : horse, and rk a roee n mda d df jeo F trri a sd sh airn i tn o he n dn , a tts a oofetnnioik.urct much northern e horse, t for 2° ' v ve er Oregon • i a n s g f o question,ur theirm rr huts ; etatehsb ei me f ae tree n oe d fny a h ht sh e ei r t e s s inct u joo l oi s osio P e a rcif ie ti : roo s o p f e o e u d and bottom of English teh a r n eitm d s. we subjoin a few particulars of the race. luethe (of four mile s ) was accom pli s h e d by Peyton n t of 1 I , ern horse, in 7 min. 39i seconds, or an averageoo )1 O p 55 seconds per mile. 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