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2 e's - . e. " - - ' e --e - :. -sae-) ' ' , . T 111 L E inp crial Vatitainriit. , to alter and amendithe,lows relating to the disposition of 'the opinion of the people of Ireland, in property for pious and charitable purposes. The principal 'house, as to the extent of- the assistance see features of the hill evere, that it propcsed that all wills paring 'to render to Ireland ; but he wot HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY. containing bequestsforpious or charitable purposes should 'the government should compel all parties At ten minutes to six o'clock, the House of .Commons be signed for three months before the death of the testa- neereel with- property in Ireland to reside o resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. tar; and also that, when such bequests mere made. the , -andolo their duty at home for the next si The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then roee to Property shoul s enooge as l au d to the charities, but--should • thisenearis the government. would ease ti make the financial statement for the year, and claimed be sold, and the proceeds handed-over to them. coffers of Great-Britain, an&relieve the le the indulgence of the house while he made the statement, and healthrmanner. which he would_ make as short as was consistent , with HOUSE OF •COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Mr, LABOTIOTIERIeS opinion on the pre dearness. It was many years since a Chancellor, of ' Mr. WATSON moved the second reading of the "Ro man gratien was the same as Mr. O'Connell's. the Exchequer h a d t o re po r t suc h h eavy demands capon Catholic Relief BlIL" He-said' that ehe.first act which hon. memberhed not attributed them to th the Exchequer, bet those demands were occasioned by he sought to reped was the - Isteof Elizabeth, chap. 1, such .e..horrible doctrine they would not the dearth of food, which was a visitation of Providence. commonly called the Act of Supremacy, which provided could assure the hone gentleman that ever, vernment Thousands of starving persons in Ireland appealed to th a t if an y p ers on denied by word, writing, or oth erw i se , could do to meet the distress in this country for sympathy and assistance, and that the supremacy of therlCiug in any, part of the kingdom, be deoe to alleseate it. He usreed with th he Could not refuse. Never, however, had the he should for the first offence be liable to imprisonment that Ireland had a claim on Great Britain, finances of the country been so able to bear ?these or forfeiture; for the second offence, to the penalty 'of vernment were , exertio,g and stilt would exe demands. For the first time there had been-no deficiency prcemunire; and forthe third offence, to death. Now all to its utmost to relieve them. -bills, and the produce of the revenue had 'been sufficient these penalties had been repealed lerthe acts of 1844 and Mr. KERR ark: orated the principle of er to defray the expenses of the state. In •the Customs, the 1846 ; b u t the crime us defined in the act of Elizabeth the population oflrelanclevas reduced 1 produce of every article for the last nine months huh-with still existed, and persons committing it were liable to be more nearly meet the limited quantity of p - , the exception of articles on which duties h a d b een re - i n di c t e d f or tt as a rnistleineanour at common law, and to vessels taking-out the emigrants to return duced, exceeded the estimate. In the Excise, with the be punished by imprisonment. He-called upon the house Mr. 'WARD, in moving the committee of exception of soap the same had taken place. By to - repeal that act, and :along with it the act forbidding a navy estimates, stated that the navy estim the return of the quarter ending the 13th of February bull to be sent over to a Roman Catholic bishop, the act were greater :than last year by £62,248. last, he found an increase of nearly half a znillion. respecting the form of prayer, the Recusant Act of Char- the gradual : increase in the navy estimate: The whole produce of Customs and Excise for the last les ll. ' the act of the Bth of William III.," and the 31st I eained. The maritime service of England Year was £34,500,070. Of this £5,530,000 was con t r a of George 111.. chap. 32. '- He then mentioned the in conmaeison , to other countries. The sui buted by articles of food, £21,781,000 of drink, and by clauses in the Emancipation Act which he wished to ;the packet service alone.this year amounts tobacco £4,336,000, making £31,653,000 out of the repeal. The first was the clause prohibiting certain re- There wasalso a large increase 'for the te X 34,500,070. This must have diminished in consequence ligious ceremonies in public. The,last forbade some of connected with ordnance and ,convict SE of the diminution of employment in the manufacturing the ministers of the church of Rome to act as parochial three _breaches of expenditure 'will requi districts. On the 9th of January, there were working clergy, or to administer to the spiritual wants of their The amount of oer navy estimates is £5,99 full time 25,845 persons; short time, 11,851; and with- people, and rendered ell persons -who were bound by sum is for the .ddence of a country whose out work, in consequence of the stoppage of mills, 1,690. monastic vows, especially Jesuits, subject to be transported was its navy, while Franceerotes £5,639,00 On the 9th February, there were working full time 2%949 for life, for the religious opinions which they entertained. crease of her navy, although she has a sta person§ ; short time, 15,862 ; and out of work, 2,4113. Having explained to the house the •kw on this subject, as 100,000 men, and -a militia of %1;000,000 ma The drain of bullion on the Bank had not been so great laid down in the 18th of George IV„ he denounced it as upon, and Paris being impregnable. He w aft might belie been expected, the amount being only a specimen of legislation worthy of Russia. He con- of Prance, but when he saw her granting ri £1,200,000 less than it was this time 12 months. The late eluded by calling on the house to repeal all these laws, for her defence, he thought England ought Chancellor of the Exchequer had calculated upon a sun- not as a concession to Roman Catholics, but as a conces- to support so efficient a defence as her navy plus of £776,000, th e ac t ua l surp l us was £2 , 846 , 000 , i ns s i on t o P ro t es t an t s , w h om th ey disgraced. The house then went into a committee of eluding £304,000 paid as duty onthe import of foreign sugar. - Sir R. INGLI s denied the assertion of Mr. Watson, . He now would state what the probable income of theyear, : that the penal laws of this country rose at the- Reforma from sth April, 1816, t o sth A pr il, 1847, wou ld b e. L ast ti on an d c l ose d a t th e R evo l u ti on , an d asser t e d th a t some FOREIGN ,5- COLONIAL INTEL year the duties on corn produ ce d £793,000. He could not of those which gave most offence to the Roman Catholics - - calculate upon such an amount. There had been an in- had been passed long after the latter event. He did not THE OVERLAND MAIL crease in the importation of butter, cheese, and silk la.t call upon the house to stand by the act of 1829, but he Files of papers have arrived by extraor, year, consequent upon the reduction of duty, and h e cal- did call upon it to confirm the decision which it had come dated Calcutta, 7th of January ; Bombay, II ciliated that this increase would continue, and he assumed to last year. There was no country in 'Christian Europe and China, 26th of December. There is n that the probable revenue from customs during the next where the Jesuits were admitted without some restriction ring interest. India is generally healthy, v year would be £20,000,000. During the present quarter on the part of the Executive Government; and he there- then of - Madras, where some cholera has the increase of customs duties had been £204,000. Up fore implored the house not to fritter away the securities was at the latest dates on the decline. T to January the ' amount of excise duties had been which it had taken to prevent the further admission of the Sikhs was on Christmas day, duly r - £13,988,000, and he reckoned for the ensuing year Jesuits into these islands. He could not consent to the 1 Governor General and Dhuleep Singh, who an increase of £13,700,000. The increase on the excise repeal of that clause of the Emancipation Act. which pro- meet at Lahore on New Year's day. Thi from the beginning of-the quarter had been £106;000, and fifibited the exercise of any of the rights or ceremonies of force is to be reduced by, about seven thou in • Ireland, extending to January, there had been an in- 'the Roman Catholic religion, sailiewithin the usual 'places European and five Native Infantry regin crease. •He contemplated from Stamps a revenue of -of worship, as it would legalize religious processions, and cavalry, and five batteries of artillery. The £7,500,000, from • Taxes £4,270,000, from Property-tax would give rise to dangerous collisions if such proces- has been strengthened; and from 14,000 I £5,390,000, from the Post-offices £845,000, from Crown glans were permitted. He concluded by moving, that the will remain to do duty. Four Sikh corps ai Lands £120,000, from miscellaneous sources of revenue 'bill be read a second time that day six months. to form a portion of a brigade that is to be u £427,000 • making a total of ordin ar y revenue of Mr. SPOONER thought that this bill was the small mand of Captain Lawrence, of the 11th cave £52,065,000. The expe n s es o f th e i n t eres t o f t h e d e b t poi n t o f th e we d g e, which would b e a ft erwar d s d r i ven wur. - Sir C. Napier has been promoted O and the Consolidated Fund would be £30,735,000 • for the home without any scruple. We were daily losing our Lieutenant-General, and attached to the E Army, £6,840,074. The Navy vote would be X 7,561,000 ; Protestant character — and he believed, in his conscience, The Nawaub Anieer , Doit Mahomed Khan the Ordnance v o t e wou ld b e X 2 ,67 9 ,12 7, b e i ng an increase that that was one of the causes which had brought down sons, had been imprisoned at Asseergleur f of £135,568 over the vote of last year, a great portion of the judgment of Almighty God on this afflicted nation, in the late insurrection at Bhopal. The doi which was due, as in the case of the Navy, to a deferred Mr. J. O'CONNELL defended the Jesuits, and declared Nizam were again _in, much disorder, and vote of last year. The residue was owing to an increase that he had no wish to retain the clause about processions, antes had broken out among the Khonds of 1,200 men and to putting the ports in a state of defence. for even in Catholic countries he thought processions ob- owing to the exertions of our agents to The miscellaneous votes, exclusive of votes for Ireland, jectionahle. - . practice of sacrificing human beings. would be £3,750,000, being an increase of £397,000. Mr. NEWDEGATE concluded a violent speech against The increase was owing to the expenses of the poor-law the bill with a furious invective against the Jesuits, whom FRANCE. and the prosecution of prisoners, and another portion to he accused (by inference) of having poisoned Clement The'Presse still continues its fierce attack the increase of printing and stationery for the Houses of TH. and Clement V. ; the first because h e con t em pl a t e d and the B r iti s h A m b assa d or . Thi s paper c l Parliament. The whol of the estimates would amount their suppression, and the last because he actually accom- position journals with having supported Lei to £20,851,077, making the whole ordinary expenditure plished it. against the French Government, and con £51,576,000. He had purposely omitted in his statement Lord G. BENTINCK gave his support to the bill, on ac.. matting that the existing difficulties are g all allusion to the grants for the relief of distress in Ire- count of the practical grievances which the Roman Catho- more so as M. Thiers and his journals lel land; and he would now state what he thought would be lies suffered under the present existing law, and which he Government to expect to obtain an advent required for the distress to be advanced by the Treasury, enumerated at some length. He denied that there had later. " Difficult though the present situai for whatever burden might ultimately be thrown upon the been any compromise in-the year 1829 with any party on may be," says the Presse, " still it is equa landlords of Ireland, hitherto they had paid nothin g , s ave the subject of Catholic emancipation ;on the contrary, it Great Britain, and she suffers more from indeed £393,000 of poor-rates. It was not easy to state was a strong and decisive measure taken by the Govern- France." - precisely what the expenditure required would be. In meat, and had been described by Lord Sandon as an ex- The most important item of intelligence i four weeks of November the expenditure had been ertion of absolute power equal to any act of the desppt of 'Paris by the papers of Saturday, is the si £383,000, in December £742,000, in January X 772,000. Russia. King of the Belgians in procuring a recoi The persons relieved in October were 150,000, in Novern- Sir R, PEEL observed that the bill contemplated a tweenM. Guizot and Lord Normanby. Th her 285,000, in January 440,000, and in February 571,000. double object ; the repeal of many enactments of the sta- PerY quarrel is, it appears, to be settled ii Up to 20th February there had been issued by the Exche- tine of 1829 ; and the extension of the acts of 1844 and supposed early in the affair. M. Guizot wi quer to Ireland £2,400,000 in November, £2,000.000 of 1846 , which abolished laws that had become obsolete, and away We offensive character of his words, a which had been i ssue d b y th e B oar d o f Works. The ex- imposed upon Roman Catholics penalties most severe and quis of Normanby would accept the explanal penditure for the future he expected would not fall be- disproportionate. He was prepared to carry the latter , The Municipal Council of Paris voted, o low a million a month. He expected to effect, however, object into effect, but not to repeal any of the enactments sum of 600,000 f. (£24,090), to defray the exp a saving by administering relief through the medium of of 1829, as they were introduced to satisfy the Protestant by issuing tickets for bread at a reduced pric the soup kitchen. He expected that many labourers mind, and ought therefore to be continued. He would gent poor of that capital. - would be taken from the public works by the work- not, however, refuse to consider the whole of the measure, The Court of Cessation decided, on Tie ing of the Bill fo r th e I mprovemen t o f Lands, but merely because there were some portions of it from which Roman Catholic clergyman, who had cease( to work that bill it sh ou ld be remembered that_ ad- he was obliged to dissent. fill the functions,of his ministry, and had e vances were to be made by the Treasury. It would be Mr. LAW and Mr. GOULBURN both briefly expressed Protestant, was not justified in marrying ! necessary that relief should continue at least until the their hostility to this bill. The first opposed it because The trial of the National, (Paris paper) us next harvest, and for some short period after the he had been a party to the introduction of the act of 1829, ral charges connected with the Montpenuer I harvest, advances would be necessary. Taking all and felt bound in honour to maintain it unimpaired. terminated in a signal defeat of the Governor these circumstances into consideration, he could On a division, the second reading was carried by a ma- we sincerely rejoice ; and rejoice all the m not estimate the advanc es t o b e ma d e to Ireland under jority of 104 to*lol. every approach towards a well understood 1 £8,000,000, which, including the £2,000,000, advanced press in France, is an advance in the path of since August, would amount to £10,000,000. Now, if HOUSE OF .COMMONS.—THURSDAY. tutional freedom.' The charges against t the 16,000,000 propos e d by th e N o bl e L or d had b een Mr. B. Escorr gave notice of his intention to move, on were, first, an " offence against the King's p advanced to railroad s , h e did no t thi n k i t wou ld b e poss i - a future day, that the existing duties on butter and cheese secondly, for "having blamed his Majesty fi Me to have secured one farthing of this £10,000,000, and be abolished. his Government, making him responsible fe therefore he was rejoiced to see the majority by which that Dr. BowuiNG postponed for a fortnight his motion re- The first charge was not altogether unfot measure had been rejected. Under these circumstances, lative to the public revenue. puted to Louis Philippe an eagerness to it was manifest he must go i n t o th e mar k e t t o b orrow . Mr. PLUMPTRE gave notice of his intention to move dowry "of the Infanta, and an indifference 1 The question was, wheth er h e s h ou ld b orrow th e w h o l e or that a day of national humiliation f or th e , existing famine or welfare of France, when :either was oppo only a part; by following the latter course, he would con- le appointed. aggrandizement. The second was purely I Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved for leave to bring in a bill character, and involved a revival of the ql siderably reduce the balance in the Exchequer, from w hi c h source the advances have hitherto been made. Thi s was to secure the rights of occupying tenants in Ireland, and produced so much controversy about ten yea a course he was for many reasons unwilli ng t o a d o pt, an d thereby to promote the improvement of the soil and the King reigns—he does not govern." The he therefore thought it more advisable to borrow the employment of the labouring classes. M Guizot's tricky and dishonest policy in th whole rather than put any further pressure on the Bank Mr. LABOUCHERE agreed to the introduction of the Spanish marriages has provoked, the conte; of England, or incapacitate the Government from - making bill as one containing valuable suggestions. The govern- felt towards him, and the more than suspicio advances to the landed proprietors of England and Scot- ment have a similar measure under consideration, which ceived his instructiohs from the King, where land. Besides, the prospects of the next harvest were they will shortly introduce. • we doubt not, that induced the jury to give uncertain. Hitherto we had been living mainly upon Leave was given to bring in the bill. acquittal on both counts. Under the circa the produce of other countries of the harvest of On the motion of Mr. Sharman Crawford, the Poor was a just and salutary verdict ; for the pla the year 1845. There had been entered for home con- Rates (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. come into Court with clean hands. sumption of 5,388,000 quarters of foreign corn, and he was The Markets and Fairs Clauses Bill, the Commissioners ' confident that up to the harvest of 1847 we should have au Clauses Bill, the Gas Works Clauses Bill, and the Water . SPA I N. abundance ' • but by that time the produ c e o f 1845 an d Works Clauses Bill, severally passed through committee. Madrid papers of the 19th and 20th have a 1846 would be exhausted, and we should he dependent --_,..„—.. Marquess de Viluma has resigned the pres upon the produce of the harvest of 1837. The debt would HOUSE OF LORDS.=-Fnerto. senate ; his successor has not been appoii not be permanent, because a considerable portion was to The royal assent was given by commission to the Act names of General Serrano and M. Armero ha be paid out of the property of Ireland.—(A laugh,) The for the Relief of Destit u t e P er s on s i n I re land. tioned for that high post. next question was, whether th e l oan oug ht to b e ammo _ ' Lord STANLEY suggested that as it would be some time Advices were received at Madrid on the if panied by increased taxation. He was unwilling to add before they could have any business of importance from cessfnl incursion of a band of Carlists, um this amount to the debt without taking means for its the Commons, and the business of the upper house get- mand of the Cabecillas, and other leaders, I extinction, but he thought th a t d ur i ng th e present year i t ting on slo w ly, th e y s h ou ld commence some measures Cervera, in Catalonia. 'They surprised and would be unfortunate to attempt any change in taxa- there instead of waiting for them to come from the Corn- garrison, and killed one and wounded anoth( time The present year was an exception to all others. mons. - - - . guard, making the remainder prisoners. Ad If we had a good harvest there would be no necessity for The Marquis of LANSDOWNE referred to the session of five hours in the city they evacuated it, car further advances :if it should be bad, it would be neces- 1845, and in comparing the first six weeks with those of treasure. It was reported that cries of miry to make a further demand on the country for the the present session, he found that much less business had Charles VI. and the constitution of 1812" es assistance of Ireland ; and therefore he thought it better been done then than now, yet at that time Lord Stanley Other letters state that the Queen 31 to postpone the question of the imposition of additional had paired off during the whole of that time. More work probably retire to France ere long. A form taxation. Besides, next year it would be necessary to had been done during the first six weeks of the present had been formed against her, in which were 1 deal with the income-tax ; and it would be unwise t o session than during the corresponding period of many his family. Every moment the state of of attempt to prejudge in what manner parliame n t— a new previous sessions. coming more and more co m pli ca t e d. Sh ou t parliament perhaps—might choose to deal with that tax. Lord BROUGHAM remarked that the complaint was Mother be obliged to withdraw (and nothing He therefore thought it best to leave the whole question made annually, and for that reaso n it s h ou ld b e redresed. more likely, from the me ans em pl o y e d so t o open till next session. He calculated on a surplus of The Earl of WICKLow complained that the bill for a violent explosion would, it was expected, £489,000 of ordinary revenue over expenditure. He making advances to the Irish landlords had been so sue. There is superadded a report of a certa calculated he could borrow the £8,000,000 at 3' per cent., worked up with the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill that they standing between the Queen and her royal a the interest of which would be.£280,000 • but then he . had become one and the same, and must pass or be 1 1 A il _1 __'ill . . . '. ' calculated he should have to raise the interest of Exche quer-bills. The interest at present was 14d. a day, and he proposed to raise it to 2d., which would amount to £142,000, giving an increase of interest of £122,000, ma king the total ordinary expenditure £51,988,000, leaving a surplus of £67,000. From Chinese money the next year he should receive £450,000, but against thishe must 'place an extending expenditure of £185,000 to cover the rejectec The Marquis of LANSDOWNE explained the reason why the government had so classed the two measures together. In answer to a question from Lord Brougham, the noble marquis said that they had every expectation of being able to remove to the new House of Lords immediately after Easter. - excess or naval expenditure of the year ending sth April last. The total of income therefore would be £52,515,000 ; the total of expenditure £52,183,000, leaving a surplus of £332,000. It was evident from all he had stated, that it was not in his power to spare any revenue this year, which was the most effective answer that he could give to those who had urged hi -- " Lancaster had been placed under a commission of three members of the upper and two of the. lower house, as the noble lord the Chancellor of the Duchy was neither an infant, a lunatic, nor a femme courerle ? He, therefore, wished to know the motives which induced them to esta blish a commission, and also what were the duties of the :ies on tc paper, tobacco, & then regretted the unfortunate circumstances which had interrupted that commercial and financial policy which they had for some time pursued, and which, for the last four years; had been attended with such success, and con appointed, but from the constitution of the duchy, which remained as it was in the days of John of Gaunt, and had lasted from time immemorial, it was thought advisable lurne of poeni's eluded with reading a statement showing the increase which had taken place in the consumption'ef coffee, but ter, cheese, and currants, from 1843 and 1846 inclusive, as Hording striking evidence of the beneficial tendency of that policy. The -vote for eirht millions out of the Consolidated 'should take adsice. The gentlemen who composed the council were introduced for the better management of the property and finances, without in any degree taking the powers and duties of the Chancellor of the Duchy, whose dignities and prerogatives were in no way infringed. was agreec lean Z. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY HOUSE OF COMMONS—FIUDAY Sir It. I . NoLts wished to know in what form The Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill, after certain amendments had been made to it, was read a third time and passed. The royal assent was then given by commission to the Distilling from Sugar Bill, the Brewing from Sugar Bill, and other bills, which had within a few days past gone through their various stages in the two * houses of parlia ment. to purchase grain for seed would be put, and what the opinion of the right. hon. gentleman was as to the cultiva tion of the soil in Ireland ? Mr. LABOUCHERE said that he hoped the prosperity of Ireland did not depend upon the very limited sum the • . _. he pur e eulti- vation of the soil, it was very difficult for him to form one, as it depended upon the assistance and good feeling of the people of Ireland in co-operating with the govern- HOUSE OF COMMONS.- TUESDAY Mr. HUME obtained a select committee to continue the inquiry into the private business of the house, the ex penses attending the obtaining of all private bills, includ ing all the expenses of the opponents as well as of the pro inotera of UM, 44.- a-_:_ _ -0 ------ LI. Mr. ROEBUCK moved for a committee of inquiry into► the working of the poor law in England, and asked what alteration they proposed 'Dakhla in it as rea - arded its ex .ray Limn agreed that all railway bills in the present session be referred to the Railway Commissioners, for their report to the houSe upon certain points, previously to such bills being considered in committees of the house. Mr. DUNCOMBE then move d f or le ave - to b r i ng i n a bill ." to repeal SO much of an act passed in the rei g n of "A Sir G. GISEY said, that when the committee of inquiry into the , conduct of the poor law commissioners _ was commissioners had been - legal or not, and from the answer 42 1 • An a c t t o . amend toe t c People in England and Wales,' as makes the right to registration in cities and boroughs conditional on the payment of poor's rates and assessed taxes." The 'motion was rejected by 58 to 38. • Sir JOHN PA KIN GTON moved for leave to bring in a bill for the more speedy trial and `Punishment of juvenile offenders.. The object of the bill was to substitute, in certain; cases, a summary juriAdietion_ ,se England and Ireland: The goveinMenivrere;ep;ed to submit to the house a plan for the working of the poor law in Ireland. Mr. lIUME , who was on the committee of inquiry into the working of the poor law, was of opinion, from the evidence that came before him, that every commission that was held was illegal. But it was the opinion of the house ury, which w'a at the inquiry into the conduct of th© commis- •• a.. uu pi I,OII.IIIGUIV before trial, in cases in which such imprisonment was far niore than commensurate with the offence committed, at the same time that it was calculated to have the very worst effects upon the supposed culprits. stoners should not.be gone into until it had come before them, and then they would inquire into their conduct. He wished an early determination as to what alteration the government intended to make in the poor law in its extension to Ireland. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN objected t- .t,~, hill now of the bill without pledging himself, however, by so dnin - g, to the principle involved in it. Tlie government had the .subject under its consideration, and he trusted that they viould receive that assistance from the honourable gentle man, in any measure which they might deem it proper to Pr9pose. which he was competent to give them. Lord Jcnsx MANNzas obtaingd leave to bring in a bill ...., Inc flu, as it itood, being applied to irebuid, the difference being R. great between the two countries, that what will suit the one will not suit the other. the opinion of the people of Ireland, and even Of the ?house, as to the extent of- the assistance they were pro paring 'to render to Ireland; but he would suggest at the government should compel all parties who wcve.coa tlecteid with property in Ireland to reside on the - n. estexs, 7andotlo their duty at home for the next six months. thislneans the government would ease the drain or- the coffers of Great Britain, and'reheve the poor in a natural and -healthy -manner. Mr,.LAßottoriEntes opinion on the principle of gration was the same as Mr. O'Connell's. He hoped the hen. member: had not attributed them to the Governrauit ;- such,o..horrible doctrine they would not entertain.. He could assure the hon, gentleman that everything the Go vernment could do to meet the distress in Ireland should be &lie to allegiate it. ile..m, , reed with the hon. member that Ireland had a claim on Great Britain, and the Go vernment were , exerthag- and still would exert their power to its:utmost-to relieve them. Mr. KERR ark: orated the-principle of emigration until the population of ,Ireland was reduced to what would more nearly meet the limited quantity of provisions. The vessels - taking-out the emigrants to return with corn. Mr. 'WARD, in moving the. committee of supply for the navy estimates, stated that the navy estimates this year were -greater :than last year by £62,248. The cause of the gradual : increase in the navy estimates was thus ex plained. The maritime service of England was great only in comparison ,to other countries. The sum proposed for the packet service alonethis .year amounts to £820,083. There was-also a large increase for the transport service connected with ordnance and ,convict service. • These three _branches of expenditure will require , £1,564,948 The amount of our navy estimates is £5,996,000, and this sum is for the' ,ddence of a country whose sole defence was its navy, while France.votes £5,639,000 for the in crease of her navy, although she has a standing army of 100,000 men, and a militia of %1;000,000 more to fall back upon, and Paris being impregnable. He was not jealous of Prance, but when he saw-her granting money liberally for her defence, he thought England ought not to hesitate to support so efficient a defence as her-navy was. -- The house then went into a.committee of supply. FOREIGN COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE Files of papers have arrived by extraordinary express, dated Calcutta, 7th of January; Mombay, 15th of January; and China, 26th of December. There is no news of stir ring interest. India is generally healthy, with the excep tion of Madras, where some cholera has appeared, but was at the latest dates on the decline. The treaty with ,uropean and five _ cavalry, and five batteries of artillery. The froth has been strengthened; and from 14,000 to 17,00 t, will remain to do duty. Four Sikh corps are to be raise( to form a portion of 0, brigade that is to be uni nor dof c ftb 'av- wur. - Sir C. Napier has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and attached to the staff of India. The Nawaub Anieer, Dot Mahomed Khan, and his two sons, had been imprisoned at Asseerghur for their share in the late insurrection at Bhopal. The dominions of the Nizam were again _in, much disorder, and fresh disturb. ances had broken out among the Khonds of Gomsoor, owing to the exertions of our agents to put down the practice of sacrificing human beings. The' Presse still continues its fierce attacks on England and the British Ambassador. This paper charges the op position journals with having supported Lord Palmerstgg against the French Government , and concludes by AR nutting that the existing difficUlties are great, and the more so as M. Thiers and his journals lead the British Government to expect to obtain an advantage sooner or may be," says the Prisse, " still it is equally serious for Great Britain, and she suffers more from ,it than does France." )ortant item of intelligence received from iris by the papers of Saturday, is the success of the King of the Belgians _in procuring a reconciliation be ... tweenM. Guizot and Lord Norrnariby. That very train. pery quarrel is, it appears, to be settled in the way we supposed early in the affair. M. Guizot was to explain -v rr • quis of Normanby would accept the explanation. The Municipal Council of Paris voted, on Tuesday, a sum of 600,000 f. (.0.4,090), to defray the expense incurred by issuing tickets for bread at a reduced price to the indi gent poor of that capital. C 1 - , of Cassation decided, on Tuesday, that a gyman, who had ceased for years to till the functions,of his ministry, and had even become a Protestant, was not justified in marrying ! The trial of the National, (Paris paper upon two seve ral charges connected with the Montpensier marriage, has terminated in a signal defeat of the Government. 'At this we sincerely rejoice ; and rejoice all t...._ more, because every approach towards a well understood liberty of the press in France, is an advance in the path of true consti tutional freedom.' The charges against the . National were, first, an " offence against the King's peAon ; " and secondly, for "having blamed his Majesty for the acts of his Government, making him responsible for the same." The first charge was not altogether unfounded; it im puted to Louis Philippe an eagerness to "finger the dowry " of the Infanta, and an indifference to the honour or welfare of France, when :either was opposed to family aggrandizement. The second was purely of a political character, and involved a revival of the question which •vntroversy about ten years ago—" the Jolley in the affair of tin felt towards him, and the more than suspicion'that he re ceived his instructions from the King, where the motives, we doubt not, that induced the jury to give a verdict of acquittal on both counts. Under the circumstances, it was a just and salutary verdict ; for the plaintiff did not come into Courtt with clean hands. Madrid papers of the 19th and 20th have arrived. The Marquess - de Viluma has resigned the presidency of the senate ; his successor has not been appointed, but the names of General Serrano and M. Armero have been men tioned for that high post. Advices were received at Madrid on the 19th, of a suc cessful incursion of a band of Carlists, under the com mand of the Cabecillas, and other leaders, on the city of Cervera, in Catalonia. They surprised and dispersed the garrison, and killed one and wounded another of the civic r- ine f rem ners A.fter remainior five hours in the city they evacuated it, carrying off the treasure. It was reported that cries of Long live Charles VI. and the constitution of 1812" were heard. Other letters state that the Qu,_ probably retire to France ere long. A formidable cabal had been formed against her, in which were the King and his family. Every moment the state of affairs was be coming more and more complicated. Should the Queen Mother be obliged to withdraw (and nothing was deemed more likely, from the means employed so to decide her,) a violerit explosion would, it was expected, instantly en sue. T here is superadded a report cif a certain misunder between the Queen and her royal consort. THE RIVER PLATE. -By intelligence from Buenos Ayres we are informed that the Paraguayan ruler, Signor Lodez, had not only issued a decree suspending hostilities against the confederation, but- had actually disbanded his • army. ANTIGUA.—The ceremony of laying the corner-stone of the parish church of St. Paul's was performed by his Excellency James Macaulay Higginson, Esq., Governor in-slief, assisted by the bishop (the Right tev. Daniel Gatewood, Davis, D.D., first bishop of the newly consti tuted diocese) in his office, on anuary On the 10th instant a grand banquet was given to Mr. Cobden at Rome, by the Chamber of Commerce of that capital. _ . 'mal des DWbats announces A STIIANGE BiniomANtA.—On the Bth inst. died, at Padua, Count Leopold Ferri, leaving a perfect unique library, it being composed of works written by female authors, amounting to nearly 32,000 volumes. The Emperor orßussia has issued a decree prohibiting conversions to any other creed than the Greco-Russian religion. Any person abjuring that religion is to have his property 'confiscated, and if he does not recant within a The King of Bavaria has become so infatuated with a Spanish dancing-girl, named Lolla Montes, that on his desiring to create her Countess Von Starenberg, and en dow her with some of the Crown domains, his Ministers have resigned, and there exists an idea of declaring him mad. and of calling his eldest son to the throne. There are at present probably 200,000 or more quarters of produce, consisting principally of wheat, beans, peas at A te.xandrin the greatest activity reigns at the several wharfs where the lighters receive their cargoes, thousands of camels, don kies; porters, Set.; all jostling with each other, and fight ing for precedence. FAMINi AT MALTA.--The commercial avidity with which all grain is 'bought up at Malta, for the want s of surrounding countries and England, at such enormously iuenees month's consumption of•wheat in the place re°Ple In the totintry are starving! ! and a respectable inhabitant of Casal Uintd states fliktthe Door arc boiling the heads , of clover for soup ! ! ! In England, all the ports ar e o p en fo r the introduction of ffrain of every description. The Go- il-ig&4e.4,Oii;er;4;;:il;MOsiClii•efulc.unsequences must ensue. - •- - • • • . Aeritcru sudden and affecting death of Mr. Charles Thornton Cunningham,-- u tenant-G0 vet nor of St. Christopher's• and of-the Leeward Islands, and son of the Rev.- J.-N: - Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow, is announced in 'the West Indian papers which hate. just arrived. ; It aiwears_that this gentleman had driven in !rem the country to Basseterre, the seat m In apparently vigorous•health and•cheerful spirits, to open the newly-elected Houses•of Legislative. After transact ing some business with hispivate•geetattry, and despatch ing a'nOte to invite riOnie . officerS in a French ship-of-war just come into port .to luncheon atGover - he the Young 1a RAILWAY AFFAIRS. the be^x at Government-house, he sent a servant in quest •Of amend who might be withdaim when the box was opened. Having failed in finding' 'him, he proceeded to open the box. His butler, who , was-present, reports that he =looked at the countenance -earnestly, turned pale, whispered a few words to himselfe walked hastily up to his own room, was theard almost instantly to fall as lie entered it, and his servants following up stairs, found him stretched on the flow' a corpse. Ai. INCREDIBLE STORY.—The following is an extract of a letter from Tanjore In a neighbouring village a r tragedy has been enacted, which for barbarity has few parallels in the history of crime. An opulent farmer's wife formed a liaison with a neighbour, and the intrigue was successfully carried on for several months. On the day in question, the farmer purchased a leg of mutton, with which he ordered his wife to prepare him a savory dish. :It was accordingly done ; but in.the interim, the paramour coming in, the woman treated him with the nice things she bad in readiness for her husband. The lover and his 'mistress partook of the dainties, and while they were yet eating, the woman's son, a-fine young lad, returned from school unexpectedly. He saw his mother in company with a stranger enjoying herself, and threatening to report the circumstance to his father he fled back to school. The guilty pair then held a consultation, and it was deter mined to murder the b o y, t o am p u t a t e a limb and dress it into a curry, of which the lover'said if the husband eat he would shortly die. The unnatural mother then proceeded to the school, and unfortunately prevailed on the boy to go home with her. In execution of her plans she mur dered the child, cut offa leg, cooked it, and had the meal ready against the arrival of her husband. The unsuspect ing good man came at the uaual hour, but the moment he entered the house, a cow he was bringing up ran to him and snuffed him, and theri,flew at the woman to butt her. This she did repeatedly, when the farmer thought that the cow wanted straw, and going to the hayrick he pulled out a handful, when, tolis horror, the body of his murdered son tumbled out mutilated. The parties have been apprehended, and the case is now before the autho rities.' IRELAND. The average deaths per day in Cork 'Workhouse are 22. The Limerick Examiner of Saturday put itself into mourning on account of the rumoured death of O'Connell. - The physician of the Cahir dispensary died last week of fever caught while attending- his patients. Vast crowds of the mo.re comfortable class of farmers nigrating from Cork, Galway, Dublin, Derry, and otho Irish ports. are en pays 7 percent unary, 1847 of twenty ncteasec accommoc dents'air 'ever and dys lation is being sous: ading widel it for fevOr hich is ful A fire broke out Z)n-Vriday week, at the extensive bacon concerns of Mr. G. Courtenay, William-street, Water ford; which destroyed property to the extent of £7,000. Mr. O'Connell is daily expected to return to Ireland for the remainder of the session, on account of the deli cate state of his health. KILLARNEY. — Some idea may be formed of the state of this district—proverbial as it is for its charities,—from the fact that no less than thirteen funerals passed through the town on Sunday week. In Leitrim, the governor of the workhouse has died of fever ; and ,from Monday, the Bth, to Wednesday, the 10th instant, fourteen of the inmates died—two of fever, and twelve of dysentery. Twenty persons have - died in the small village of Ballin thea, Ventry, within the last six weeks. The body of a young woman, five days dead, was interred in the church yard of the village, on Friday, by two women only. , On Tuesday a return was ordered by the House of starvation in Ireland each week since the Ist of Novem ber, 1846. It is affirmed that M. Soyer, the chef de cuisine at the Reform Club, has been instructed by the Government to proceed to Ireland for the purpose of submitting to the of soup on a large seale. DARING OUTRAGE.—On Sunday week within the in terval of half-an-hour three shots were fired „into the dwelling of the Rev. Robert Carey, Donoughmore. AY the second discharge two bullets entered one of the upper windows, a third striking the widovf A man named James Maloun has been fully"colkmitted for trial, for the wilful murder of Patrick Breman, at Mayo fair, thirty-six years back. Ile escaped' at the time to America, but returned to Ireland eighteen years afterwards, and has sive been residing at Meath, till arrested about a fortnight back. He is now seventy years of .age THE POTATO.—The Dublin Mail, in quoting the sub joined paragraph from the Belfast Mercantile _Register, says, that there is no doubt of its truth. "It is our opi nion, from what information we have received, from the quantity of home produce with that of foreign at pregent on hand and to arrive, that prices will be lower. We have learned of late that there is a far greater quantity- of pota toes in the country than we expected, and after seed time, we shall have the residue in the market at a moderate price ; foreign potatoes are not so much inquired for, and sales are generally effected at 10. to 12s. per cwt. as in quality. Irish are more plentiful, and may be quoted at Bs. to 10s. per cwt." - - DARING ROBBERY BRIM°, a; party of abo with guns and bayonets, attacked the dwelling-house of Mr. Wm. Adams, residing at Brackagh, near Tandragee, Armagh ; they forced open the door, rushed into the .—On the morning of the 17th Lt twenty men. some of them armed house, and demanded £2O. M Adams gave them X 3 . . of his hand, it having three or four pounds more in it, they then ransacked the house, and carried off with them about nine cwt.. of meal, some bacon and beef, Mr. Adam's watch, some house linen, half-a-dozen silver spoons, and other articles ; in all value for about £3O or £3O. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Mr. Themas Steele took oc casio.n at Monday's gathering of shreds and patches to announce that all the reports respecting the indisposition of Mr. O'Connell were utterly false, and that, although not as young and healthy as his sons, the " beloved leader " was extremely well indeed. Of course, the learned.gentleman would be unworthy the title of ather 'of his country if he did not suffer in mind at the gross conduct of the government in not taking active measures to relieve the distress of his beloved father-land. This announcement must, of course, be regarded as demi-offi- cial, but as the Head Pacificator omitted to state any rea son for the non-receipt of Mr. O'Connells ordinary weekly missive to Mr. Secretary Ray, the feeling of uneasiness, either in or out of doors, was not altogether allayed. •After some frothy declamation touching the signal defeat o f the combined Repeal forces at Galway, the rent was an- AWFUL.-Dr. Sweetman, the physician at Skull, writes to the Cork Constitution as follows,—" This parish is at this moment a charnel-house : onr mortality is fearful, averaging daily from forty to forty-five at least. I could not—east, west, north, or south, point to a poor man's house where there is not fever, dysentery, or death. .Our grave-yards are crowded to excess—so much so, that the dogs have.rooted up and devoured some bodies. To the west of Skull, at Recnahaning, the creatures are so weak they are unable to dig , graves sufficiently deeli. To ob viate this, the Rev. Dr. Trail has added half an acre to the church-yard at Skull, and has a number of deep graves daily dug, which are as soon occupied. *. * I solemnly declare, in my very humble majority of those poor people, who are crawling about the streets and trying to work on the roads, are dying uncon sciously, literally walking in death: they are now beyond the reach of food and medicine, save the Great Physician. To give you an idea of our state, for it is not at all known, nor can words convey it, what a change a few months have _ _ nade—l was informed by the National Schoolmaster here, that this time twelve . months he had one hundred and : forty school Children this day he has not one. Half, he said, are dead, and the remainder are unable to attend for want of sufficient food and raiment. and he is himcnif main lir. s on t second time in th lc carried Vile Norfolk pays a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. The Eastern Union is about to amalgamate with the Norfolk. - The Manchester and Leeds:have confirmed the amalga mation with the Preston and :Wyre. The Manchester and Lincoln Union and Chesterfield and Gainsborough Canal have agreed to incorporate with the - Manchester,- Sheffield and Lincolnshire. At least 51 per cent. .per annum certain has been gau ranteed by the South--Easternto the Reading, Guildford and Reigate, and accepted by the latter. The Middlesborough and -Redcar works having ex ceeded the contract, it was agreed to raise £15,000 addi tionally. The traffic thus farhad equalled expectation. At a meeting of shareholders in the North Wales Rail way Company, held in this town on Tuesday, Mr. J. L. Butler was authorised to attend the half-yearly meeting, and try to effect an entire change in the directors. The Enfield and Edmonton have disposed of their cor poration to the Eastern Counties, on receipt of a bonus of ss. per share, and payment of all expenses up to time of purchase. _ A perpetual lease of the South Wales to the Great Western at 5 per cent. per annum for the first five years, with half surplus profits afterwards, was reported as con .eluded at the meeting of the South Wales. The calls had been paid with unusual alacrity. The usual dividend of £2 2s. 6d.sper share, subject to income-tax, was,declared at the meeting of the South- Western, on Friday. It is now clear that the first effect of lowering the fares, at first so discouraging, is passed, and that the receipts are again buoyant. The line from Blackburn to Darwen is expected to be opened in May or June next, and the entire line to Bolton early next year. The company is likely to amalgamate with the Blackburn, Clitheroe and North-Western Junc tion. ' Better prospects at last are dawning on the Blackwall shareholders. A half-yearly dividend of 4s. per share, clear of income-tax, has been declared. In order to bring the line into successful co-operation with others, it has been determined to reduce the guage, and to alter the present system of motive power. The dividend declared at the meeting of the Norfolk Railway shareholders, on Tuesday, was at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, and the prospects of the under takin,, are regarded as en courag i ng . Th e report of the directors met with the concurrence of the shareholders in attendance. It recommended the acceptance of the offer of _the North Union to lease their line at 71- per cent., and they confirmed the agreement. The line already and valued at £1,500 is about to be pre: covers; w rich represent Cucumber, &c., are admirable EXTRAORDINARY WIRE ROPE. — On Thursday, there was shipped at the Galvanised iron and Wire-Rope Works of Mr. Andrew Smith, Millwall, Poplar, a wire-rope, which was no less than 3,600 yards long, 3 inches circum ference, and weighed 7 tons 15 cwts., and ordered for an incline plane in Lancashire, between Blackburn and Bol ton. This is, no, doubt, the l arges t w i re - ro p e ever y e t made ; and it was only commenced last Monday, and the wire was in bars of iron not more than ten days before. A half yearly, dividend of 4s. per share, clear of income tax, was declared at the meeting of the Blackwall Rail Way shareholders on Tuesday, and the report presented was received as.satisfactory. The total receipts amounted to £34,801 6s. 9d. It appears to be considered necessary, in order to bring the line into successful co-operation with the Epping and other routes, to alter the rwpc,,,,t system of motive power, and le estimate of Mr: Locke is, that the necessary arrangements will involve an expense of £26,046. EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.— On Saturday week, the viaduct reached Glasshouse-street, Lambeth, having completed_ one-half of the proposed .• TT • . row, Princes-row, Moss-fields, Salamanca-place, street, and row, together with several in Anderson's-walk, have been demolished for the further progress ; as also, in the course of a few days, the houses on either side of the Westminster-bridge-road, where the railway crosses at the Marsh-gate.—Globe. The shareholders in the Northern Counties Union Railway Company., at their half-yearly meeting held on Wednesday in London, ratified the agreement entered into for an amalgamation, on almost equal terms, with the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junc tion Company, and the opinion appeared to be entertained that the arrangement will lead to the most beneficial re sults for the shareholders in both undertakings. With the funds in.hand, amou n ti ng t o £55 , 510 is. Bd. and th proceeds of the call of £1 next, t le directors propose to commence active operations in the spring on that portion of the route from Wath np to Wensleydale, and from Tebay to the junction with the DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE HULL' AND SELBY RAILWAY.—A most dreadful accident happened on this line on Sunday week. The mail train left the Hull station at six p.m. for London, being drawn by two engines, the Kingston and York, and having eight pas senger carriages and five carriages laden with fish attached. The train had proceeded to within about a mile and a half of Hessle, tbr first station, when, from some unexplai ne d cause, the second engine, the York, sprang off the rails, and dashed_ into the passenger carriages attached to the ,o atoms number of passengers were of course thrown our; one, Mr. James Brown, of Hessle, tin plate worker, was killed on the spot; another, named James Waring, of Dews bury, was so dreadfully injured that he died at the Coburg Hotel, Hessle, whither he was taken on the followipg evening ; and eight others are now lying at various•inns in Hessle, suffering from the fearful injuries , they have sustained. BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNC TION RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of the propri etors took place at the Town-hall, Birkenhead, on Satur day, Joseph Bailey, Esq., Jun., M.P., in the chair. The secretary read the report. The works on the line between Chester and Warrington, contracted for by Mr. BrasseY, a distance of 181 miles, and including a tunnel of 2,00 yords, and a viaduct of 580 yards, were in rapid progress towards completion. These were the only heavy work the whole line. The arrang mers c outer pm were proceeumg satisfactorily. Applications were to be made this session of parliament for amalga mating the Chester and Birkenhead Railway with this company ; also to deviate the line between Chester and Helsby, and to confirm the purchase of land on the mar gin of the Birkenhead Docks for a station.. Arrange- ments had been satisfactorily come to with other rail;tiy companies for the erection of a joint station at Chester. The committee, on .application, had decided to take an in terest to the amount of £20,0 0 0 in the Mold Railway. It appeared by the accounts that the expenses of the Act of Parliament had been £40,267, and that the general expen diture was £28,600. The deposit of £2 15s. per share, on. 44,308 shares, was £122,094 ; and the balance to the cre dit of the company was £57,767. The Chairman made some observations of a gratifying nature relative to the progress of the line, and moved the confirmation of the report. This was seconded by Mr. John Laird, and car ried. There was no other business of importance, . and )n , , I that the thanks - being voted to the chairman, the meeting se aerated. POLITICAL MISCELLANY Lord Lincoln has positively declined a contest for the represention of Manchester. Mr. William Brown, M.P., was presented to her Ma jesty, by Lord John Russell, at the levee on Wednesday. Mr. Brown has the reputation of having been consulted by the Chancellor of the Ex c he quer , b e f ore h e ma d e the read a . It is :ommons on Friday understood that the, motion for the bill going into Com mittee will be made on Wednesday. There will be some opposition, but there is not __ much doubt that the motion —4 . +1.,. ~,ostqurt. will try ir . ;;;in,m iiiee.to transfo . rin " ten" into " eleven" hours, but it is much hoped that the bill will be preserved in its present • form. The House of Commons at present consists of GSG members, the two vacant seats at Sudbury being still in abeyance, making the total number 658. Of these there are 4.1 members between the ages of 21 and 30, 139 be tween 31 and 40, 213 between 41 and 50, 155 between 51 and 60, 67 between GO and 70, and 15 above 70. The oldest member in the house is Mr. Denison, the member for West Surrey, aged 77—the youngeat the Earl of Gros venor, member for Chester, aged 22. The average age of , --a• 1 • DESERTION OF PROTESTANTISM.--The second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief .Bill was carried on Wed- mr It ? Jut against it. Amongst the names in mu majority for the measure, we find those of W. Brown , W. Swart, L or d G. Bcntinck, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, Sir J. Graham, Sir R. Peel, Lord J. Russell, and T. Thornely. .Agaitmt the measure we find the votes of Sir Howard Douglas, W, Entwisle, Sir P. Egerton, W. T. Egerton, 'J. tollemaehe, J. I. lilarkburne, G. Finch, Capt. Gladstone, Sir It. Inglis, 11. Goulburn, Col. Sib tliorp, &e. Lord Sandon and Mr. Wilson Patten were absent ,0)07.—0n Monday, a num- I itv assembled at thelreasury NJ VII.. I.llcaa upallauaso cr. -- proposed loan. The chancellor of the Exchequer took the chair. There were present—Baron Rothschild and his brother. Mr. Bates, of - the firm of Baring Brothers, oar 1.• L. UVlUYlluu Lys., oax• -, • ••- -- T. Baring, Wills, Thomson, A. flunkey, F. Ricardo, St. J. Afildmay, .T. G. Scott, James Capel, George Bar.. next. He therefore proposed to take tenders on Monday for the loan, in one lot. - The government desired to make the loan in - Consols, and the biddings would be in a money payment, £lOO Consols, (at a minimum price to be fixed by the Government, a sealed paper with respect to which would be placed - ,upon the table,) at a price above the quotation in the-sealed paper. The Chancellor of the Exchequer would not on any account allow of discount The payments to 'this loan are to be by monthlyinstal inents, and if regularly paid up to JUIY, to.-bear interest from January last, UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL N_EWW'S• The Rev. Mr. Wellesley has been appointed PrinciP of New Inn Hall, Oxford. The Rev. Edward Cardwell, D.D., Principal of St. Ai' ban's Hall, is the new examiner in Theology at Oxford. The Cambridge Chronicle, generally well informed 00, church matters, says that the R ev . E. Bli c k , rect o r ot Rotherhithe, will he one of the new bishops. The annual general meeting Of the Manchester Church Education Society was held on Monday, in the Town' hall, King -street. There was a numerous attendance , including the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean (Dr. Tier bert), the Rev. Canon Wray, the Rev. Canon Sergeant , the Rev. Canon Clifton, the Revs. H. Stowell H. N. M'Grath. , A font for the baptism of grown-up persons by immer sion has been constructed in Trevethin Church, POnty pool. It is large enough to admit both minister and candidate for baptism into the water, and yet there is e provision made for the minister to administer it without going into the water, by a flight of steps made almost as low as the bottom of the cistern. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Lord Jobe Russell, in reply to Mr. J. Collet, observed that it WO not intended to unite the sees of St. Asaph and B an gor; that a new bishopric was to be founded for. Manchestert and that three other new bishoprics were in contempla tion, to be endowed from the existing revenues of the church, but without giving seats in the House of Lords. ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, LEEDS. — Recently we pre sented to our readers a copy of a clerical address to the Lord Bishe.of Ripon in reference to this church, and also his lordThip's answer to that address. The laity have also taken up the matter, and an address to the bishop is now in the course of signature in Leeds, thanking his lordship for his seasonable interposition on that occasion. CONVERSIONS TO ROMANISM.—Mr. Kingdon, of Tri nity College Cambridge, has made his profession o f the Roman Catholic faith. The Rev. John Gordon, M.A. , whose registration of the curacy of Christ Church, St. Pancras, has withdrawn from ministerial duty in the Established Church, on grounds similar to those which led to the resignation of his colleague. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—The Dean and Chapter of- Westminster have determined on restoring to the tombs of Queen Eleanor and King Henry V., the rich old con' temporary r Francisgeearinrioannn :wedwhcoeasrhntkatiteitanyekrs,et,sneaorndl,ddoawnaanitli o o sswo n ueb t dms h et e ugocu r hr e eu c n o :tt m i yci m . wnr, recommendation baron d t o at e b ir the nlo D n joining vault. CHANCELLORSHIP OF CAMBRIDGE.—The election of a chancellor for the University of Cambridge, in the room of the late Duke of Northumberland, commenced ou Thursday. At a quarter before ten, the doors of the "se n.+,.-hluse were opened, and shortly afterwards the gal .ere completely filled by the under-graduates, who themselves by cheering and groaning in their - 4 yle. At t en o ' clock the vice-chancellor lmgc ' n" a 's station at the ta- amusec se two proctors and the TtiniOr - aoi, i° divinity present, stood in scrutiny. The proceedings were commenced by'one of the beadles reading the 33d statute of Elizabeth. The vice-chancellor then gave his vote (for Prince Albert), next the senior proctor (for Earl Powis), and then the junior proctor (for Prince Albert) ; a fter which, the votes of the members of the senate generally were received. The votes are written on a card; which the voter delivers to the vice-chancellor, who, having read it aloud, drops it into a box, which stands before him, having two divisions, one labelled " F or Prince Albert," the other " For Earl Powis " Amongst the earliest votes for H.R.H. Prince Albert were the Bishops of Norwich, Ely, and Hereford, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Mon• teagle, Sir J. Herschel', and the Right Hon. 'H. Goul burn. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl 'Grey, and the Bishops of London and Norwich, also voted for Prince Albert in the course of the morning. Amongst the vot ers for Lord Powis was Sir Lancelot Shadwell. Th e for the first three hours was strongly in favour. of .1,0 1 Powis, but in the afternoon Prince Albert gained upon his competitor. At the close of the poll in the evening, the numbers stated by the two committees .varied consider ably. The following are the two statements :—By Prince Albert's committee, H.R.H. Prince Albert, 618 ; Earl Powis, 601; majority for Prince Albert, 17.—8 y Earl Powis's committee, Earl Powis, 610 ; H.R.H. Prince Al bert, 602 ; majority for Earl Powis, 8. On Friday, filo voting was renewed. At half-past ten Prince Albert was -25 a-head, which was reduced at half-past twelve to 10. At this time, the excitement of the earl's friends was a the highest pitch. The Prince, however, then began to le, and increase his majority, which wore steadily upwarCrs until the poll closed for the day, when the numbers were,—for Prince 'Albert, 875 ; Earl Powis, 789 ;--majority for the Prince 86. The Dean of Ely and Sir H. J.'Fust voted for Prince Albert, and among those who voted for Earl Powis was the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. Justice Pattesoo, W. Entwisle, Esq., Rev. C. Wordsworth. and Mr. Jos" t k i e ce pt C in re c s r s e u as e i l n l. g On until •twelve Saturday, Prince Albert's m a j o rity returned by a majority of 112, the numb ers b e i ng, f o r Prince Albert, 951 ; for Earl Powis, 839 . T he greatest u o'clock, when the P r i nce was excitement prevailed the whole of the time; the under graduates filling the Senate-house with all sorts of noises? and k l a a u s ni i th a i i i n s g to d: e w s . n p l e t a s n , o c w ap r s e , m&acin'sfrtoombethseeegn h galleries Prince Albert will accept the honour. At the contest ip 1811, when the Duke of Gloucester was elected in oppo sition to the Duke of Rutland, the number polled NATO 819, and the majority 117. At the great struggle for tli high stewardship, when Lord Lyndhurst was elected, tho total number polled was 1,380, and the majority 446. COURT AND FASIIIOAr. Wednesday, the Queen held her second levee for Oc and brilliantly attended,—remarkablyso:Whenii; ear commencement of the season is taken into account. On Thursday evening her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured with their presence the perf ormances a t h er MajestY'l Theatre, in aid of the fund for the distressed Irish an, Scotch ; and on Saturday, the Queen h e ld a P r i v y Councl at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge attained his 73rd year 011 rednesday. FASHIONS FOR MARCH (Prom the "London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Pashion.”) There is ni? great variety in the make of evening dresses this season, as far as the corsages are concerned: they continue to be pointed and with draperie or berthe, and irts are very long, and, if of hey are still made very full• Velvet, figured satins, moires, and damas, are mostly used for evening dress, and accord well with the neck laces, bandeaux of diamonds, now so fashionable. - Tunics of point d'Angleterre, forming short upper skirt, over s satin dress, with deep berthe and flounce to corresponds nave a very rich effect. Very small tips of i . na l .aboull: feathers, on damaS or brocart s o f go ld o r s il ver, in said? Moorish patterns, have a beautiful effect. Generally speaking, all dresses of clear materials, as gauzes, crapes' &e., are m a d e w i th several skirts, the upper one forming arc v e 'a r ;s n h d i muchon: lightness. usedte ea;si.di corbeille or tuna for young ladies taffeta? are still much in favour, and form toilettes of elegant simplicity. made n . , o ,t r a n n a un e s t g i r n oe g fa t g dresses, piet eny and bo reliefth gimp asa is to very fashionable, on each side the skirts of crape or galit dresses, raising ,the tucks so as to form draperie tern'" re with a ?wend of gimp a jour : this nceud ma ' replaced by a feuillage of velvet. Dresses swt-441- boutoU d'or, sea green or all white, with triple floe eO l arc pretty tbr . demi toilette. rpm,. brrny1,.....;:1" lowers ~.. u.pv i/WI.IICTS . 311(1 eLly , "",. being made ornamented with flowers, enci r cled wit h some are intermixed with straw or gimp, and are itness and elegance suitable to the spring season' Bonnets of pudic guipure will be amongst the earliest 0 _ r r u eg n u n e e s r t s ornamented .Ca tesaw with velvet, and others haVe a narros es of pros d'e?e' have tit: blond put on full at each coulisse. The evening eoiftires offer many prettyn(v e lt do r i novelties; ,rm the int e ne newest a w re ith the ro g s i e p s sYre e black lace or dpnit and leaves ; the coiffures Luisa and Odette are also p r etty; one formed of a half square of lace is quite novel; the corners rounded, and fall i. be o l f l i t n i d ie t ii he ch h u e . ad ;T a a n rin d e th fl e o s w id: a spray of which crosses the a fo r i e e ve d i underk ed by the honeysuckle,bon are very fashionable this season, and compose manY pretty roWures ; wreathes are numerous, and widen int 47 ' full bunches at the ears. LIE WE t AND THE CROPS . (From the Church and State Gazette) From a curious " Table of Prices of Wheat," by Lieut., Mackenzie, author of the " Elements of, the Cycles 01 the Winds, Weather, and Prices of Corn," compiled frig' Smith's " Wealth of Nations," and our Parliamentart records, the following deductions are made. We arc ill" duced to lay these before our readers from the circuity stance that, of late, public attention has been arousedo both at home and abroad, to the discovery made by Mac kenzie of a fifty-four years' cycle or periodical revolution of the weather. The " Table" we refer to records the prices of wheat from the year 1203 to the present time and, by a minute computation, it is proved that during twenty-seven years of the cycle prices have a tendency t i ti rise, and during the oth er twenty-seven years to fah' From 1836 till 1847, the inclination of higher prices has been perceptible ; and, from the present year till the yea 1862 they will, it is conjectured, still further advance. This the author ascribes to the great preValenee of un, favourable winds on this division of the fifty-four years cycle. The dreadful years of 18 00,-1801, when rice' were at 110 s. and 116 s. ; and again 1812-13, when prices were at. 116 s. a quarter, tell within the corresponding division of twenty-seven years. There is no doubt (On author admits) that the effect of corn laws, and other con" vavt+;nrt n 1 . _ arrangements of legislators, political economist`' changes i n the currency, &c., materially affect the prices these, and a state of peace or war, vary the rate and gene rally produce higher prices upon both the dear and cheaP divisions ti_ _ -... ~, we cycle---more especially w h en Europe is suffering under a striking visitation.of nature ; but legishv, tine measures can have no placein any systematic account of the we a th er or i n the revolution of sea sons ; an d such is the powerful influence of the weather, that prices, 0 ° the average, are proved to be cheap and dear on the re' spective divisions`of the fifty-four years' cycle. This very influence of the weather—altogether independent of coo ventional arrangemeqts—would produce, as it has pro" duced already, for a period extended back for more thao, five Inindred years, an average of 5-1 s• on the dear hal l (or twenty-seven years) of the cycle ; and of 365. per (1; on the cheap half. We are now in the commencement o' a series of unfavourable years, which (if the theory b e well-founded) will prevail to 1862, when another revol tion . bf the cycle will occur, which will have a tendencf produce\greater abundance, and consequently the poet's will decrease frOin thiit period tilt the year 18$9. THE BENCH AND THE BAR. Mr. J. O'CoNNELL had heard it rumoured that a prin- person, that his earnest desire to. posseB_ _ ciple of emigration was in agitation for the relief of the net unmixed fear as to the effect the. sight ofit distresses in Ireland. Such a horrid principle h e , d epre _ might produce upon him. So strongly hxl this aPPre cated. He believed .the ministry were far in advance of pension fastened itself on. his mistd, that, on ••be arrival of The Judges arrived at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Thuisday. The Court of Queen's Bench has decided that share holders in' proprietary schools and colleges are liable for the books ordered by the Principal. _ ILLNESS OF MR. BARON PI ATT. —Dunn; the reeept severe frost, - Mr. Baron Platt had the misfortune to slip down, and hurt his hip so severely that-an operation was deen►ed necessary. Mr. Travers operated on Tuesday, and the Learned Baron has since been going on favourably. Mr. Henry Stephens, the inventor ethe writing fluids, has recently : obtained a final decision in the Ainerican Courts in.his favour (after the most protracted •law pro- from tne use of his inventions in t case is one of importance to English patentees On Wednesday: tho 1....,i V.ii.npAinr an pm. injunction to restrain Messrs. Nott and Co., the patentees of the electro-magnetic telegraph, from an alleged in fringement of a patent granted to the Electric Telegraph Company: thereby Pstnhli Ain .7 thp nerfer.t validity of the tier Majesty has directed letters patent to be passed, appointing Lord. Langdale, Lord Beaumont, Joseph Humphry, Esq., Henry Bellenden Ker, Esq., Walter Coulson, 'Esq.'(haiiisteis-at-law),Georg"e Frere, ..E;" and_Fran e i s B ro d er ip, E sq ., h er Majesty's eommi;sionegi registration of deeds and the simplificatidn 'of the forms of conveyance. _ A P RIVILEGEDLETTER. —A ease was tried at the sought compensation from Mrs. Gillett for libel: ~ Mr. liege(' that he had paid his addresses to a Miss ly, receiv m favoura' y and her hither had heard matters of . _ paragement relative to Mr. Green from other quarters, and that Mrs. Gillett's letter was in reply to a letter from Miss Hook, requesting her opinion and advice. The Lord _Annent-house, Chief4ustice, in leavin ,, the case to the jury, said that be rode down to the mail-office to- meet- bis.letters and box considered th e terms oelVlrs. Gillett's letter to be action containing apieture•of unielt.behmed sister, 'recently able if the ()erasion did not justify the use of them. The _ deceased in Enrland: iia .4.-4-AA to more than one jury would determine th a t po i"). 4•Pv th o ught the the picture was occasion was a • q• , would Justmeation, tnen Luc . be considered a privilegod communication. The jury; with out a utorneut's delay, rpturned a verdict for the defen dant., TIC LIVER/40'01 STANDARD. ho, 'wi March 2, 1847. On. 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