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imptrial liarlianunt. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY Tha Blackburn and Preston Railway Bill was read a se cond time, and ordered to be committed ; as was also the North British Railway Bill. e day for going into committee c Act, Mr. W. MILES moved as an amen( On the the Custom's rder of ment, "That it is the opinion of this house, that, in an application of surplus revenue towards relieving the bur dens of phis country by reduction of remission of taxation to the necessity of affording rc- lief to the agri , :ul , ural interest." The hon. member hav ing called attention to the fact that every thing had been done by the government, since their accession to office, to benefit met cial an nothing had been done b manufacturing interests, M. government, since the cession to office, to benefit the commercial and manufac turing interests, while nothing had been done by them to encourage the agricultural classes, se nut by disclaiming any intention of asking f,r a repeal of the malt-tax, al though he thought that some of the burdens that pressed upon the land might be sought to be lightened. He main tained that the agricultural distress was not local, but ge neral ; and he attributed that distress, in a great degree, to the measures passed by parliament since the coming into power of the present ministers. The hon. member entered into a variety of statistical tables, returns, and calculations, to show the quantity of foreign corn and fo reign cattle imported since the passing of the Corn Act, the Canada Corn Act, and the new tariff, and to prove the detrimental effects caused by the immense importa tion which had taken place. Hay ng fully established, as he alleged, the impoverished condition of the farmers, Mr. Miles proceed. d to suggest the alleviations which, he thought, might a ith justice be acceded to them. Ile pro posed that they should be permitted to use malt for feed ing their cattle—a boon that would cost the revenue little or nothing. He proposed that a general enclosure bill, and a general drainage bill, should be brought in under the sanction of the government. lie likewise proposed, that the cost to the counties of criminal prosecutions should be lightened ; that is, that only such cases should be paid for out of the county rates as could not be decided except by a jury at the assizes, and over which the magis tra'es had no power of decision; and that all other cases should be prosecuted at the expense of the crown. He also propos-El that one-half of the expenses of coroners' inquests should be charged on the consolidated fund ; and that the charge of printing the registries of voters should The total expense of these be taken off t ameliorati , ns would not cost £270,000 ; or, including ScoVanti, £350,000—a sum small in amount, but which would be regarded as a recognition or the principle that the legi-lature looked to the interests of the land, as well as the interests of manufactures and commerce. The lion. member concluded his speech by stating, that he had not brought forward his amendment with the assent of the agricultural members geueral.y, but that he and his friends were convinced that, by persevering with it, they would only perform their duty to their constituents The Earl of MARCEI seconded the motion it JAMES GRAHAM said, that the question placed be fore the house by the hon. member's motion and speech, was not whether protection should be given to agriculture but whether the corn law, the Canada corn-law, and the tariff should be repealed. His (Sir J. Graham's) opinion was that, most d-cidediy. such protection as wa• const,t ent with the general well-being of the country ought to be extended to the produce of the land. The general inter ests of the country peremptorily required the remission of taxation which had been made, and from those remis sions the landed interest would derive considerable bene fit. Ti e importation of ten thousand, o r even th ree hun- dred thousand, prices Equal to cul:ural distress was panial prosper increas that th 4 would not affect the f amers s in the mmulacturilig aintai ed Ireland and Scot sts were in a state of extraoiclin,ry He likewise asserted, that the progressive I the imputtatio❑ cf corn w•as bent ficidl, and e Canada corn ac as caiculited to c rt ect t hi h respect to the re prop used for the d, he could see no objection to malt tti be - provided it could be done proposed transfe con lidated fund these loci ling of c bills with that inten ould very To the rom it uhty rates to t .d. tie con and he could urdens r agree to rc mo%e them Mr. D'ISRAELI CO(l,ider: d that pro s not a t, it must nistalices, and t by quut; The qut, -Lion of rte e was the q stion of the a rid of the country ust all conit to this tes proiectlon, or will you have, rot exactly Irer e importation o motion uis of C torwar 1836 by the M as a surplus to be appropriated, due regard should hat motion was supporte the whole c,n,ervative party, and was cho s e y ti,em as a question on ,‘ h tht.y cLuid bes try a fall wit wiiig4. Mr. We► now brought faward the same ruso lurinn, and he must have mere suceers now than the noble marquis had formerly; s was ac ,ervativc that was a whig, House of Commons. The Secretary for Ireland had voted under similar circumstances to a simi lar motion, and ❑o doubt he would be anxious to main tain his consistency now. There was no occasion to de spair of the support of the Vice-Piesident of the Board of Trade; for he had voted in 1836 w!th his right hon. friend the Secretary for Ireland. Neither could Lord Lincoln, a member of the cabinet, fail to wail( into ttie same lobby with Mr Miles; and Captain Bohlero, the Clerk of the Ordnance, would also give him the benefit of his countenance on this occasion, a , he had done in 1836 ; for agricultural distress was a subject on which a great deal was said at Chippenham. The rest of the con servative party would, of course, follow in the train of such dis inguished leaders; hut Sir It. Peel would pre serve his consistency now as he did then, by leering his party, and walking into the whig lobby. Mr. ll'lsrarli then, in a strain of sarcasm which elicited the loudest cheers and laughter from the house, proceeded to assail the consistency of the Prem er, and the tone in which he tebuked the mutinous and rebellious members of his party. He believed protection to be in the saute condi tion now as Protestantism had been in 1828. (Cheers.) The country would draw its moral; but fur him, who honoured genius, he would rather have those measures proposed by the hon. member for Stockport than by a person, skilful indeed in parliamentary manoeuvres, taut who had tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and a great country. (Auplause.) For my part, said Mr. D'lsraeli, turning to Sir Robert Peel-1 care not what may be the result. Dissolve, if you like, the parliament you have betrayed, and appeal to the peo ple, who ; I believe, mistiust you : to me there has at least remained this opportunity of expressing this pub. hely, that I believe a coLservative government is an or ganised hypocrisy. (Loud and repeated cheering from both sides of the house.) Mr. DARBY olherved, that though Mr. D'lsraeli might amuse the house by such an exhibition as that which he bad just gone through, it was quite certain that it did not acquire for him respect. Even now, who could tell what his opinions were of !tee trade ? Mr. D'lsraeli had ac cused Sir It. Peel of fit,cling the whigs bathing, and of Mr. D s- Israeli had been caught bathing some years ago, not with the whigs, but with the wildest radicals. Sir R. PEEL explained the grounds on which be was compelled to resist this motion. 11 its object were merely to transfer a sum of money tram the county rates to the consolidated fund, then they would be deluding the agri cultural interest by leading it to believe that such a trans fer would be for its benefit. But if its object were to condemn the financial scheme of the government, as he inferred that it was, from a circular issued by the Central Protection Society, then he had additional reasons for opposing it. \% healer, - then he looked at this motion upon the grounds laid down by Mr. Nliles, or whether be looked at it upon thee grounds put forth by the Protection Society, he could not acquiesce in it. He had never re pented of the course pursued by ministers since their ac cesedon to office. He desc ibed the lamentable condition in which he found the country, when he was appointed prime minister in 1841, and compared it with its condition at the present moment. He took office, not with the intention of supporting any partial interests, but of taking a comprehensive view of the interests of all classes. He bebeved that in 18-12, it was for the interest of agriculture itself that something should be done to revive the then depressed condition of the manufacturing districts. What had then been done had been completely successful, and its effects were visible in the present improvements of the country. Referring to the speech of Mr. Disraeli, he observed that he suould oppose this motion in 1845 on the same grounds which he opposed it in 1836. He had then thought, and be thought still, that it held out hopes that must be delusive. He had differed in 1836 from the party with which he usually acted, and had told them that there was no tax bearing on agriculture, save the malt tax, which they could remove with advantage to that in terest. That was his opinion then. and it was the same now. He would not enter into the question of agricultu ral protection, for it was not raised at present; but it would be raised on the motion of Mr. Villiers on a future evening, and he would then say why he thought the corn laws should not be abolished. He would not say that agricultural protection should not be reduced indirectly by the tariff, as, for instance, in such articles as lard, grease, &c. He believed the system of prohibition and extreme protection to be very wrong, and he would pursue the course which he had done hitherto with respect to all such questions. Ministers had attempted gradually to abolish protecting duties, and hitherto with the best suc cess. He looked to the position of the country now, and to that in which they found it on taking office ; and on review of every circumstance, he contended that ministers were justified in the course which they had pursued, and were encouraged to persevere in it. Mr. D'lsraeli said that ministers had purchased power by pledges which they bad not redeemed. He would not enter into any personal recrimination with that gentleman ; but when ou a former occasion that charge had been made, Mr. D'lsraeli had volunteered the defence of the government. He held in the same estima ion the panegyric and the attack ; but be was surprised that the attack should have come from the same gentleman who had delivered the panegyric. After a few other speeches the house divided, when there appeared for the motion—Ayes, 78; noes, 213 ; majority against it, 135. The house soon after adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY Lord DUNCAN moved for a select committee to inquire into the present mode of assessing, levying, and collect ing the window duties in Great Britain, and to report their rpinion thereupon to the house. After giving a his tory of the various acts of parliament under which the window duties are assessed, and after commenting on the unaccountable manner in which the scale of duties rose and fell, he called attention to the contradictory returns furnished to parliament respecting the amount of taxation thus paid into the Exchequer. He showed that it bad been falling off from the year 1839 down to the end of 1843, and that during that period the population had been steadily increasing. He considered that a sufficient proof that much mischief must have been done, and great in convenience sustained, during that interval. lie men- tioned several cases in which persons had been subjected to much vexatious annoyance anti persecuti:m under these acts of parliament, and complained of the difficulty which was encountered both in properly shutting up windows that were open, and in properly opening windows that were shut. Many gentlemen who had been opening win dows for many years found themselves suddenly in the ,irrris of a very hungry Chancellor of the Exchequer, whilst many of those who wanted to shut them up knew not how to do it legally, as they were compelled to build up their windows exactly of the same materials as those of which the walls of their houses were built. He as serted that one of the chief objections to the ventilation of our towns was the variety of objects which opposed themselves to the opening of new windows in the houses of the poor; and, arguing that solar light and air were ab solutely necessary to health, and were very essential ior the prevention of immorality and crime, he appealed to the present Premier, who had declared his intention of bringing in a bill this session for establishing new sanitary regulations in all our large towns, and asked him to grant to the people of England a committee, which wculd ena ble them at a future, aid he hoped not a distant, period, to obtain a better supply than they had at present of those two great necessaries of lite, light and air. Captain Roos, in seconding the motion, bore testi mony to the very impressive character of this tax upo❑ the lower parts of Westminster and Lambeth. The CHANCELLOR ON THE EXCHEQUER said, that taxes were evils, but necessary evils, and must be raised so long as the house was determined to maintain public credit. He therefore could not give his assent to this motion for a committee ; for if the house were to agree to such a motion, it would lead people out of doors to be lieve that the house intended to repeal these duties, and it would embarrass the government by making it seek for some commutation of taxation equal to the amount of the duties which Lord Dunca❑ wished to have repealed. Ten years ago it was resolved that the house-tax should be abolished, and that half of the window-tax then in exist ence should be continued; but if they were now to auolish the window -tax, and to re-impose the house-tax, they would make a change of taxation which would be ob noxious to a greater number of persons than the present system. The window-tax applied t r one-eleventh part of the houses in the country ; but the house-tax applied to one-seventh part of them. Tt.e house-tax would, there fore, bring under assessment 270,000 persons who at present were not contributing either to the house-tax or to the window-tax. He asked the opposition to recollect ' what was the effect on rents when half the window-tax was taken away ; and then contended that if the present window-tax were also removed, the amount would go into the pockets of the landlord in the shape of increased cot. It was the duty of government to examine into the effects t taxation, and to prevent any abuse or grievance which might exist in the levying and collection of it. To the prevention of grieva ce be would readily pay every atten non ; but to go Into a committee en this subject would he to excite expectatons which he could not gratify. Lord Duncan had stated that the w indow• tax was the cause of insalubrity arid ill-health in our large towns. Undoubt euly there were cases in which the window-tax might have prevented better ventilation ; bet in general the poor man looked to the warmth rather than to the ventilation of his dwelling. Indeed, so tar from being anxious to adrn t ventilation, the poor were anxious to stop up every aper ture in their rooms to procure more warrotn. 'lice tarn- tary zeport did not attribute the want of ye tiiation in our large towns to the operatio❑ of . the window -tax, but said ti.at it was occa,iuned by houses bring built in narrow ourts back to back to each other, to rui — pertect drainage and sewerage, and to various ether causes. For these and many other reasons he was determined to resist this ihquiry Miter a lengthened debate the House divided, when the !notion was negatived by a majority uf 93 to 47 Mr. El OPE,it. moving for papers rehitive to New Zea- land, obsersed that in making this motion he should leave the general question of the affairs of New Zealand un touched till a future opportunity. His object at present was to show that no deception had been intended ur prac tised by Lord Stanley, and that the charge was unfounded that his Lordship, after having come to an arrangement with the New Zral..no Company in 1813, and atter hav ing undertaken to give certain instructions to the Gover nor of that colony, had produced one set of instructions to the Directors of the New Zealand Company, and had sent another and an inconsistent one to the Governor. For this purpose Mr. Hope read to the House, and as he read commented on, a very voluminous cor re spo n d ence . • . . , . . aid Captain Fitzroy, on the une side, and the Dirtetors of the New Zealand Company on the other. He showed that no instructions had been given to any one save to Captain Fitzroy, anc fiat none at al. had been cJmnauni- cated to the few Zealand Committee. The only in structliais to Capt , in Fitzroy were issued on the 26th of Jnne, 1843. and a copy of those was never asked for by the New Zealand Company till the January following, woe!' it was sent to them with copies of the correspond ence referred to in it. The word " confidential" was at the head of the instructions, and as the papers were wanted fur publication, he had m tiered it to be erased, in order to prevent any embarrassment to the printers. After sub mitting that he had shown reasons sufficient to exempt the noble lord from the charge of a breach of faith and deception which had been brought against him, he read to the House the opinion of the Directors of the New Z,aland Company themselves upon that point. The Company received all the corn spondence between Cap tain Fitzroy and the Colonial Department on the Ist of February, 1844, and sent a reply to it to the Colonial Department on the 29th of the same month. They ex pressed their great reliance in the good intentions of Captain Fitzroy, and in the spirit in which he would carry his instructions into effect, and said further, that they left their letter in Lord Stanley's hands, with a full confidence in his justice and his benevolent intentions. That letter was written a year ago ; and he trusted that what he had then said would induce Mr. C. Buller to withdraw the charge of duplicity which be had preterred on a former evening ag ainst Lord Stanley. Mr. C.BULLER observed, that it was with great pain he rose to answer the statement of Mr. Elope, and to speak in defence of the statement of the New Zealand Company, by which, however, be must stand if he had any regard to his own character. The New Zealand com pany had suffered material wrong from Lord Stanley. Several of the members addressed the House, and the motion was agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY The Railway and Land Clauses Consolidation Bills were read d third time and passed. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Sir R. Inglis, said if the house agreed to an increased grant for the College of Maynooth, he thought it would be desira ble to make it permanent, and not have a discussion on the subject every session. Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to Lord Duncan, said there was no intention on the part of government to make any alteration in the act of last session, respecting abolishing imprisonment for debt. He also stated_ in rPniss ►r. another question, that it was not the intention of govern ment to propose a committee of inquiry into the poor laws. The house then discussed the various items of the ue Tariff. Attempts were made to exempt grease, tanned hides, lard, and thrown silk from the operation of the measure ; but in vain. Ail the articles in the Schedules for reduc tion or remission were agreed to, and the resolutions were ordered to be reported. The house resumed, and the report was forthwith agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tnuasnair Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on the Bth of April he would move for lave to bring in a bill for securing letters from bring opened at the Post-office. Sir R. PEEL gave notice that on the 9th of April he would move that the house should take into consideration a grant to the college of Maynootb. Mr. BARCLAY gave notice that on the I Ith of April he would move for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the In solvent Act of last session. Mr. WARD gave notice, in reference to the grant to the college of Maynooth, that he would move, at the proper time, that a 1 further money grants for the purpose of religion be made out of the funds at present appropriated for the maintenance of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. MORRISON then moved a series of resolutions re spectint the future management of railways, securing the best accommodation for the public, with the lowest possi ble charges.—A discussion of some length ensued, but the motion was eventually withdrawn. The house adjourned until Monday, the 31st instant. FUKEIGN AND COLONIAL. INDIA. The ordinary bimonthly express from Marseilles has put us in possession of intelligence from India iu advance of the mail from Calcutta of the Bth ult. The mail was brought to Suez by the Precursor steam ship, which left Calcutta on the Bth, Madras on the 15th, and Point de Galle on the 12th of February, and Aden on the 2d of March. She brought 112 passengers, among whom are Lady MacNaughten and the Hon. Mrs. Erskine. The interval since the departure of the last mail (only a fortnight) bad presented in India none but the most common-place events, and a few rumours. The military men of the Bengal Presidency division remark the num ber of troops removed, not for the usual relief by general orders, but by order of the Supreme Government. Simi lar removals, as may be collected from casual and occa sional orders for bullocks, and other incidentals to a march, have taken place in the other divisions of Bengal ; and it had at last been discovered that the destination of all these troops is the north-west provinces. It may be thenceforth inferred that the state of the Punjaub gives some disquiet to Government. These movements are the more remarkable, as the usual time for marching large numbers of troops is past, and the force cannot be concentrated before the commencement of the hot season, which is not usually the period for action. In speculating on the motives of Government, however, the different characters of the present sod late Governors were not lost sight of. When Lord Ellenborough formed his army of exercise, everybody felt sure that aggressive active opera tions had been determined on, and the public were not mistaken. Sir Henry is concentrating on the north-west frontier all the available forces of the lower provinces, but in a mariner almost to escape observation. His object was supposed to be to have the strongest possible security for peace at hand at the point of danger; tli .t, is, his policy is defensive, and is not intended to cross the British i boundaries, except in case of necessity, and to punish ag gression. Railway speculation continued to engage the public at tion. Government was said to be determined to have the construction and management of railways, whether estab lished at the public expense or by private capital, and his intention had not met with much favour. The accounts from Nepaul show the new Minister, Mahtabbur Singh, desirous to conciliate our Government, and anxious to meet its terms and wishes. Prince Wal demar was travelling through that country. No news had been received from Gwalior. In Scinde Sir C. Napier had organized a force of 5,000 men for the settlement of the Poolajee afrtirs. In Bombay the Mahratta war seemed as far as ever from being ended. In Calcutta itself there was no news of interest. Sir Robert and Lady Sale had left for their destination, after receiving the compliment of a public dinner, and a ball and supper at Barrackpore. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. BRAZILS Her Majesty's packet Petrel, Lieut. Cheser, arrived at Falmouth, on Thursday, from the Brarls, after a tedious voyage of upwards of two months, having sliled from Rio de Janeiro on the 16th January. From the Brazils nothing of general interest has been communicated as having transpired since the dates fur nished by a recent mercantile arrival from thence. From the River Plate we have had later dates from Buenos Ayres, those now furnished being only to Dec. 11 ; but letters from Monte Video of Dec. 24 state that some difference had existed between the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires and the Monte Videan government, which obliged this official to repair on Board a Brazilian man of-war, but the matter was looked on as of little impor tance at Rio. The following British ships at Rio had cargoes :—For London : the Liebe, Todd ; Richmond, Grayson ; and the Fox, Duncan. For Liverpool, the Homely, Gibant ; and Star, Pugh. _ _ Coffee,'superior, 3000 to 3,200 per arroba ; first good. 2,700 to 2,800 ; first ordinary, 2,400 to 2,600. Sugar (campos). 2,600 to 2.700 per arroba ; seconds, 2,400 ; and muscavo (browns), 1600 to 1800. Exchange at Rio, 211 pence to 25. It appeared pretty clear that the Imperial Government had fully resolved on not renewing the commercial treaty with Great Britain. Dr. Wolff has arrived at Constantinople, with the envoy from Bokhara, who accompanies him to this country. A young girl hanged herself at Amiens, a few days back, from vexation at not being able to procure a new dress to go to a ball ! The city of Moscow, having been founded in the year 1147, will celebrate in 1847 the ninth century of its exist ence. The Emperor wishes the iron railway between the two capitals of the empire to be completed by that time. Marshal Soult has issued an order prohibiting the soldiers at Lille, who are freemasons, from attending lodges, and ordering these who are not freemasons to re sist every attempt that may be made to induce them to join the society. The new trial of Walker and his cenfederates before the Cour lioyale, at Paris, upon the charge of cheating at cards, terminated on 'Tuesday. The Court pronounced them guilty, and sentenced them to imprisonment for two years. SPAlN.—Lettcrs from Rome leave no doubt upon the marriage of Count Trapani with the Quee❑ of Spain. The King of Naples was expected in the Roman capital to announce the important fact to his brother, and to prepare for the ceremony. The proposed marriage was agreeable to the Holy See, but it Would appear that clidibts existed of its being acceptable to two ht least of the great Powers, or, what is of more consequence, to the majority of the Spauisn nation. In the French Chamber of Peers, on 'Wednesday, M. Teste presented the report of a committee appointed to examine Count Daru's proposition to prevent excessive speculation in railroad-shares. It suggests the greatest possible freedom in the neocia , ion of shares; that sh , res may be created before the companies putting them ii,to circulation are legally constituted, but not without the express sanction of the law. It is further recommended that all shares should be inscribed by numbers in a regis ter, the shareholders receiving a receipt which shall serve them as a guarantee for the bona fide character of the en terprise. PoßTUGAL.—Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 12th instant. A Lisbon letter of the 11th, gives an account of a serious commotion in the district of Fel guieras, attended with the loss oe many lives, and the in cendiarism of several house. The tumult from which these lamentable circumstances arose was occasien•d by an attempt to levy and collect a new impost on wines. The details are calculated to leave a bad impression of the administiation of affairs in Portugal, and of the con dition of the people under the government of Senor Ca bral. A Lisbon letter of the 12th instant centains the substance of the Convention entered into between the' Barons Folgnza and Jonqueira and the government, for the Conversion of Four Millions of Bonds of the Foreign Debt. THE CANADIAN It EBELs.—The quiet of our little vil- lage was suddenly broken in upon by the arrival from the south of 38 of the Canadians exiled to Van Diemat.'s Land for the participation in the troubles of 1837. It is nearly two years since the British Go% ernn.ent pardoned their offences, and gave them 1 berty to return to their homes. Since that time they have been at work •to earn the necessary funds to enable them to reach their own shores. They appeared healthy, well dressed, and in high spirits, and spoke well of the treatment, they had received at the hands of the British authorities. Two of tkem on returning to their hones, where they had expected to meet the smiles and joyful tears of their wives, found that these last had supplied their places with other lords. St. Alban's (Vermont) Republican. REFORMATION IN PRUSSIA.—A letter dated Dresden, Feb. 28th, says, " We have heard of a singular agitation in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. Dresden is very full of it. There are no less than seven places that I hear of where the seperation is going on. It began at Breslau . with a priest of the name of Ronge, and has made progress at Dresden, Leipsic, Berlin, on the Rhine, and the circle of Bohemia. Considerable numbers in some of the places have quite separated from the Pope and gone back to the religion of the third century —very like our Church. The snow is very deep; the train got within ten miles of Leipsic, when the workmen could no longer clear it way, and it stuck fast all night. The pas tor of a neighbouring spot. at the imminent danger of his life, made his way, accompanied by two men, to the train, and refreshed the passengers with wine, &c. The train got to Leipsic at seven the next morning. The Elbe, it is expected, will overflow, there is so much snow lying around." DREADFUL CALAMITY AT ALGIERS.—The Munileur Algerien of the 10th inst. announces the occurrence in that city of a dreadful catastrophe. At ten o'clock in the evening of the Bth, the gunpowder deposited in the stores of the park of artillery took tire, blew up that building, and occasioned the destruction of various others. A por tion of the casem ated rampart, placed between the old Spanish tower, called Pegnon, and the harbour, and the houses built a2ainst t bat rampart, were entirely destroyed, and their inhabitants buried under the ruins. The pavi lion occupied by the sub-director of the artillery, the quarters of the operatives of the artillery and the engi neering departments, and the dwelling of the Commis sioner_ - —.ex. of 'Marine, were levelled with the ground. The horse of the director of the harbour experienced the same fate, with the exception of the parlour. in which were then assembled 20 persons. Shortly before the explosion Madame Segretier, hearing her son crying in an adjoin ing room, left her guests t,) inquire the cause of his tears. She proceeded thence to the dining-room to order tea. when the house fell in and killed her. Only one lady of the party, Madame Sylvestre, the wile of the Admiral's secretary, was slightly wounded. 43 workmen of the ar tillery, 31 pontooners, 10 artillery soldiers, and 2 engi neers were found dead in their quarters, and 30 were more or less desperately wounded. The serjeant-major of the armourers and his wife and child equally perished. The controller expired after undergoing the amputation of his leg. Five other sub-officers suffered the same fate. Commander Palard was al,o among the victims of that terrible accident. EXECUTIONS IN FRANCE.—The Memorial de Rouen contains an account of the last moments of a criminal sentenced to death for the murder in October last of an old woman named Viver, who resided at Eu. From the state the unfortunate woman was found in her room, it was evident the sole object had been robbery of a sum of 2,900 f. in a bag belonging to a young woman residing with the old woman. On the trial the culprit, as an ex cuse. stated, that attiking the woman on tha head with a hammer, was solely for the purpose of stunning her, the better to effect b.e robbery. " Had I intended to kill her, I should have struck her more than twice." His appeal in Cassation having been rejected on the 20th of Febru ary, the murderer, who is barely 20, talking with one of his keepers, said " Look you. I have committed more than 20 robberies, and if I committed murder only on this last occasion, it is because the circumstances did not call for it. They did r ght to sentence me as they have done, for I feel I should have begun again." On being ap prized that the moment of execution was approaching, he turned somewhat pale, but recovering his composure, said " It may rs well be today as any other, only I thought it would not be for a fortnight." On passing the cells near his, which are quite dark. he consoled himself with the idea that he had had light in his ; and after the usual preparations had been made, he entered the van with a firm step. He maintained similar resolution on arriving at and on the scaffold The axe fell upon him immedi ately afterwards. A miscreant convicted of parricide suffered death on the Cattle-market square, at Alencon, on Saturday week. An immense multitude accompanied him from the prison to the place of execution, " and this time," observes the correspondent of the Riforme, " very few women figured among the spectators." TWELVE TOWNS PAYING THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF WINDOW DUTY. 1M39, ending April 5, 1840. 1840, 1841, s 1842, 1843, ending enning ending' ending April 5, April 5, April 5, April 5, 1811. 184 2 . 1 1843. 1844. Bath. .. Birmingham Brighton ... Bristol Cheltenham.. Clifton . Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcas , le• on-Tyne Norwich Plymouth , Y0rk........ 15,912 XI Xi 22,4081 21,89 8 21,6 7 8 121.551 1 10 4:7 9 5 5 3 2; 1 1 5 1 ;2 09 16 3 1 1 0 5:5 84 15 9111,249 15,377 15,056 14,952114,683 6,972 6, 755 7,0121 7,122 7,818 7. 850 7,9781 8,169 7,518 7,514 7,2381. 7,175 30,226 30,790 30,695129,830 19,343 19.157 19,724' 19.907 5,630 5,710, 5,6.53 6,010 6.892 7,1411 6,768, 6.674 12,848111,391; 11,259111,196 18,856 7,905 11,823 12,346 5,332 5,377 5,602 22,551 12,983 4,870 7 % 242 4,503 IRE LAND. The repeal rent for last week was £406. On Saturday week four children were burnt to death at Skibbeteen in a house which was accidentally destroyed by fire. At Brookeborough, in Fermanagh, an old man, named. Smith, upwards of eighty years of age, has been commit ted for the murder of his wife by chopping her head off with a hatchet. At the Donegal assizes, en Friday week, Michael Dogherty was found guilty of having murdered James Friel, at Tullinadal, on the 27th ult., by stabbing him with a bayonet. He was sentenced to be hanged. In compliance with the requisTon of the churchwar dens of the parish of Ballyculter, Ireland, who had been ' , quested to do so by a hundred Protestant parishioners, a meeting was held on Tuesday last, in the Ballyculter sclool-house, "for the purpose of taking into serious consideration certain alarming innovations in the Divine service of the parish church, and the propriety of for warding petitions to the Queen and both Houses of Par liament, praying the immediate interposition of their authority in arresting the progress of these errors, and the consequent injury to the reformed religion of this country." After several speeches from persons of local influence, a petition embodying the above resolutions was agreed to be adopted. ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—This anniversary was celebrated with more than usual ruffianism in Dublin. During the whole line of the procession from the Barracks to the Castle, all business was suspended, add every shop was closed for some hours—the peaceable citizens were beaten and abused, and the houses and the shops of those ob noxious to the mob were attacked and assailed. The windows in the establishment of Messrs. Hamilton and Killinger, on Ormond• quay, were broken, and a bludgeon -flung in, which, but for the merciful interposition of Pro vidence, would have caused the dee , h of one of its mem bers. The head of that highly respectable firm was, it will be remembered, foreman of the jury that found a verdict of guilty against Mr. O'Connell and his co-con spirators; and hence the popular mob demonstration that went the extent of demolishing his premises. ATTEMPT TO BURN A MAGISTRATE AND PARTY OF PoercE.—On Wednesday night, near th s town (Castlerea) T. Byrne, Esq., J. P . was on duty with four police, when they met four armed men, whom they took into custody ; but seeing there were so few police to contend with, one of the prisoners knocked Mr. Byrne down, and shouted out for the " boys" to come on, when up came over 300 men armed in all points. Mr. Byrne and the police ran into a house close at hand, and on entering it several shots were fired at them, but without effect. Report says one of the party was shot by ;he police; the house was set on fire in five different places, and Mr. Byrne and the police were obliged to remain in tt until the greater part was consumed. They at length fled, and fortunately escaped. The military and police are now assembled in Castlerea, in large bodies, horse and foot, to suppres covacre meetings.—Dublin Packet. IRISH CRITICISM ON MISS FAUCIT. —The "glorious girl," as the Nation calls this amiable and clever young lady, has been playing Antigone in Dublin ; and the re veal organ thus discourses thereupon.—" For our own part we may say, that when first we saw her act this part, we were wildered and enchanted by her extraordinary grace—hand, foot, form, eye, voice—nay, her very gar ments—were a Greek vision—we felt a genuine pain when, in her parting scene, she was tortured at the sha dow of that fearful deeth—we were savoge at her fate rather than astonished at her skill. Mourning, piety, faith, genius, and heroism, hastened by us in stormy changes, till she went to her tomh, and we looked around and.found we had been dreoming an ennobling dream ! This play of Antigone was acted thirty-six times running at Athens. Is Dublin so overlaid with ignorance, cant, and stupidity, as not to welcome it? We wish but one change in Miss Faucit—we wish her an Irishwoman." IRISH W'ttEAT.—The Dublin Mail says "there are certain parties io Ireland who make a trade of buying up wheat in its pure and unadulterated state, in the markets. They, at the same titne, purchase from the great mill owners, who deal so extensively in fleur for exportation, all their mill-screenings, which is the small wheat, and dirt and offal of the wheat, for the purpose of mixing it with the pure wheat, and sending tt over to England. There can be no doubt that this is a downright swindle, and they who practice it ought to be made, if they are not, amenable to the laws. If a trudesi, an adulterateS tobacco, tea, toff e, or any other article of consumption, he is liable to severe penalties.—We trust that the mer chants of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Bristol, will enquire into the matter, for they are the partit s defrauded—whilst the lrish agriculturist is more seriously injured and brought into suTicion by dishonourable and fraudulent speculators. Every one knows how the poor farmer is taxed at the mill-door, if his wheat is not properly cleaned ; and yet we now see a profit is made en that very dirt !! !" TRIAL BY JURY A " DELUSION, A MOCKERY, AND A SNARE. " —When these words were applied ti the great " mirister" trial of last year, none, except those blinded by party zeal, c uld agree in their appropriateness to that ( - evasion ; but occasions do arise in the ordinary routine of public business connected with crown prosecutio! s at th e assizes in ..high their application is, indeed, very evi dent. NA e will be at once understood to allude to those cases it, which the prisoner exec vises his right of peremp • tory challenge to the jury, and the crown refuses, even et the request of the persons wroneed, to put off an ob jectionable juror, or to permit the prosecutors so to do. At the present assizes in Inland we have heard of two instances at leas' in which it has been apparerely the means of ft ustrating the ends of justice. One in the county Leitrim, where nineteen protestant jurors were challenged; one was left on the jury with eleven Roman catholics. The indictment was for manslaughter. The evidence appeared conclusive; but the prisoner was ac quitted, and bonfires and r joicings immediately suc ceeded. The ,econd case to which we have alluded oc curred at Tralee. The prisoner had been for some years a pretended convert from teornanism, but having seized and taken possession of a horse belonging to a clergyman, he thought proper to return to his former profession. He was indicted for larceny ; his attorney had the long panel called over; twenty protestants were challenged; one juryman was wanting. The next name was a protestant. " Have you any obj, ction to him ?" was asked by the crown solicitor. "Just the same as the rest, but my number is out," was the reply! The consequence may be easily conceived. A legal quibble as to the animus furoredi was raised by the counsel for the prisoner; and the jury, after upwards of two hours' hesitation, brought in a verdict of " not guilty," accompanied, however, with a recommendation to the prisoner to give up the horse ! Such trials as these are a mockery indeed.—Dublin paper STATE OF IRELAND On Sunday, the 16th instant, a great meeting was held at Nenagh, for the purpose of presenting to Tom Steele, the head pacificotor, an opportunity of congratulating the North Biding of Tipperary on the restoration of peace and the suppression of crime. The meeting passed a re solution that they regarded the present state of the coun try with feelings of peculiar delight. On the following day, Baron Letroy, 83 going judge of a-size, addressed the grand jury of the Noah Riding of Tipperary, in a charge, which, as officially representing the criminal bu siness to be brought before the court, may be considered as at once an expose" of the moral condition of the baili wick, and a commentary on the " delight and gtatitica tion" of the Nenagh priest and his people. be charge is to be found in the same columns with the resolutions of the meeting ; and as the calendars (original and sup plemental) on which it is founded, record no crimes but such as have been committed within the last six months— i.e., since th- last assizes—it must be considered as re flecting exclusively a " present state of the country," which afforded the meeting in the chapel of Nenagh such unqualified satisfaction. Baron Lefroy, in the course of his charge, said—" The calendars of those in custody contain the names of no less than one hundred and eleven offenders, with an enumeration of aggravated crimes of the most distressing character, and all of which, with the exception of one, have been committed within the period which has elapsed since the last assizes. Amongst the offences which appear on the first calendar, we have no less than nineteen homicides—l should not say homicides, for of the nineteen cases, fourteen are stated as wilful murder. There is one charged with conspiracy to mur der, and seven charged with firing at, with intent to mur der—making twenty•two cases, morally speaking, of murder ; for the intention and carrying into effect, in a moral point of view, are equal. Exclusive of these cases, I find no less than forty crimes, stated to be committed by patties of armed omen, which are offences of a serious and aggravated character—involving, many of them, the intention, and all of them leading to the probability, that murder might have been committed in their perpetration. The next class of offences is that of assaulting habitations by night, armed—for which there are twenty-two persons in custody—and for highway robbery, or attempts to steal fire-arms, there are nine. Besides these, I find on the face of the calendar all the crimes, which in an ordinary state of society might be called the gradiora crimina; but in this of the North Riding must be considered the liviora crimina; outrages on females, and cattle stealing, make the remainder of the calendar. What appears on the face of your calendar does not constitute the entire amount of crime committed in your district since the last assizes. I have been furnished with a list of persons out on bail, for offences which do not appear on the calendar, and by it I find eighteen charged with homicides in addi tian to those actually in custody charged with the same crime —others, for shooting at, appearing in arms, sending threatening letters, and another offence which it is not necessary to mention, amounting altogether to thirty-two additional offences. N o r can I say that even this exhibits a perfect picture of the cr i m e that has been committed in this division of your county, since last assizes. What I have stated only gives us such criminals as have been made amenable to justice, in custody, or out on bail. I have seen a table of crime, which states that the number of offenders within the last six months amounts to 653, and of these only 164 persons have been made amenable." At Mayo, Baron Richards, in passing sentence, a few days ago, on the persons convicted before him, made some very feeling and suitable observations, in consonance with the censure which, a few years since, he found it his duty, at the same place, to pass on those whose office it should be to instruct the people in religion and morals : " He regretted," he said, " to find that there was so much crime in the county Mayo. It was true the lives of none of the magistrates had been attempted —nor were there such crimes as were perpetrated in some other coun ties; but the cause of regret was not the less. Though the people did not take the lives of magistrates, or persons in the upper walks, they attacked, dreadfully beat, and murdered one another. This was not less heinous than if they attacked and killed those above them—for the life of a poor man and his person should be held as sacred as that of the rich man, and should be protected. He re gretted also to find that the people were not improved by the lessons they got in the house of God. But that was not the case. In many instances, at this and other assizes here, he found that the course of proceeding was for the people to come hot from the house of worship to the house rf whiskey near it, and from that begin to fight on the public highway, and with sticks and stones attack their fellow -creatures who had knelt with them in the same chapel a few minutes before, and to pursue that system until they deprived each other of life. On a for mer occasion he had alluded to this unfortunate custom, and was sorry to find that it still continued. He did not know what to attribute it to unless to the unfortunate propensity which distinguishes this county from all others, a propensity to indulge in the use of ardent spirits. Every other county had, to a great extent, given up that abomi nable practice. It seemed that in Mayo this reformation had made little way, if any. There were here the stun"! drunken habits that existed in Ireland half a century be fore, and the high and glorious examples given in other parts of the country had no weight here. He was ex tremely sorry for it, when he saw what it brought so many men to. There was scarcely one of those murderous cases that did not originate in it. But he hoped in God that the day would soon come when the people would be as free from those abominable habits as they were now un fortunately addicted to them." We regret to have to add to those illustrations of a state of the country which some people regard with feel ings of peculiar delight and gratification, that Leitrim is rapidly progressing in the Tipperary fashion of peace, quietness, and security for life and property; and that the border districts of Roscommon and Galway exhibit an alarming alacrity in the same course. PROGRESS OF PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND On Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Gayer, rector of Ventry, recovered at the Kerry Assizes £4O damages against the Xerry Examiner for a series of gross libels in that paper. We give the following evidence with a view of showing on testimony the most convincing the progress which the re formation is making in the county of Kerry : The Rev. Thomas Moriarty examined—ls a clergyman of the united Church of England and Ireland ; is so seven years; has been officiating as curate at Ventry and Dun quin ; Mr. Gayer is the rector of Ventry; knows the pa rish of Kilrnalkeader ; Mr. Gayer is the curate of Kil malkeadee and assistant curate of Dingle : has been resi ding in the neighbourhood of Dingle ; knows the Blaskett Islands ; they belong for all practical purposes to the pa rish of Dunquin; Iss formerly a Roman Catholic; it is thirteen or tourteen years since I ceased to be a Roman Catholic; is about 32 years of age; is married ; recollects when Mr. Gayer came to Dingle; he was then a clergy man ; came as assistant-curate to Lord Ventry ; it is over eleven years since be came there first ; there was then but a very small church in Dingle it has been since three times enlarged ; two churches have since been built in that district; there were no churches then in several parishes (which witness mentioned); school-houses have been erected ; adults and children attend these schools and are freely taught; there are six beautiful school-houses, the finest in Munster; there are proper schoolmasters and mistresses appointed to these &chools ; they have been built by funds collected by Mr. Gayer; all were built by contributions but one, to which the Ecclesiastical Com tnissioners gave help; the moneys were expended under Mr. Gayer's superintendence, and Mr. Thompson's, and my owl, ; I believe on my oath that Mr. Gayer is incapa ble (as charged by one of the libels) of appropriating these collections to his own use; I know that Mr. Gayer has suffered in his own means by these expenses; I know he has given much attention and extraordinary labour to the building of these churches and schools ; several persons, Protestant and Roman Catholic, as well as converts, were employed in these buildings; converts, who, because they were such, could not get eueployment any where else, were engaged at these works ; the Roman Catholic people of the !Mask, tt Islands were prevented from working at these buildings ; all my services are performed in Irish ; I preach in Irish ; baptize in I. ish. bury the dead in Irish, and I am myself an Irishman ; is aware that persons who were Roman Catholics are now members of the Irish church— I mean the Established Church ; to my belief there are now in the whole district more than 800 souls who have been added to the Protest ut Church within the last ten years ; attended the deathbeds of many of them—of six teen of them within the last six years—who died to all ap pearance sincere professors of tile Protestant faith : this change has been amongst persons of all classes ; was ac quainted with Mr. Brasbie ; he cane there first as a Ro wan Catholic priest ; was present when he conformed to the Protestant Church ; 'tis six or eight months' some of the converts were of the humblest class ; some of them have suffered a great deel ; myself and Mr. Gayer have administered to them temporal relief, and to num bers of the Roman Catholics; cottages have been erected for the protection of the poor converts; is aware of the great difficulty which the converts experience in support ing themselves ; James Gloster is my scripture reader in the parish of Dunquin, and at. Dunerlin James Sullivan ; some of the poor converts are cottiers who used to get their living by planting con-acre; they as converts, ha ,re not been able to get the con-acre to plant their potatoes, and are in consequence reduced to great poverty ; I know a man iaho was a shoemaker and a convert, and he bought twenty-five pounds' worth of leather to make shoes, and to follow his trade, but he could not get custom in his trade, and be has been obliged to conform to the Roman Catholic religion again ; I can state on oath that he bought the leather with his money, and could not get a sale for it in his tr,de ; I know another man and his ap prentice who were kept idle and unable to get leather to buy, because they were converts; I know horn my own knowledge and experience that a convert can't get em ployment ; my own life and the lives of the 'converts were often in danger; we were pelted with stones because we were converts; we were hooted and hissed at, and called opprobrious names for the same cause; gave no provoca tion whatever, but we were so pelted at and treated when passing along the road ; I am called Thomaush un Neaugh, or Tom of the Lies ; we are called " soupers;" my family are called names; we are called "devils" and that it is a pity to let us walk the road : Mr. Gayer has been often abused in my own company ; I have seen some of the converts much injured ; never saw them give any provo cation; was not present at the pelting of Mr. Brasbie; was present when they shouted after him Brashie un Eneauch, or Brasbie the Liar ; in the parish of Ventre there are 38 families of converts, they consist of about 190 son's; in Dunquin and Blasketts there are 25 families, maki og, 120 souls; in all over 300 souls; some of the con verts have gone back to the Church of Rome ; three fami lies in my charge have gone back ; several have emigra ted ; over 150 children at end my schools; I think the knowl:dge of the people has much improved these six years past; the converts have free communication with their relatives, except when the latter are ashamed to speak or be seen with them ; Mr. Gayer has Roman Ca tholics in his employment; I assisted him for three years in giving relief to all Protestants and Roman Catholics ; there are now 350 or 360 more Protestants in Dingle alone than there were when I was there. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S-THUKSDAY CHESTER CUP. 12 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity (taken) 12 1 Mr. Jacques's Serniseria 13 1 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's The Era 13 1 Mr. W. Scott's Cataract 25 1 Mr. Bell's Winesour 25 1 Duke of Richmond's Strahsphey 30 1 Mr. Stebbings's Celeste 33 1 Mr. Davis's Yheoman ac Knuck (taken) 40 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen 40 1 Mr. I. Day's Portrait 40 1 Mr. Cuthhert's Queen of Tyne 40 1 Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland 50 1 Mr. Ongley's Mystery 60 1 Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn 66 1 Mr. Irwin's Faugh.a.Ballagh (taken) THE DERBY 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (taken to £2OO, and afterwards offered) 15 1 Lord Stradbroke's Idas 15 1 Mr. Ferguson's Clear the-way (taken) 16 1 Colonel Anson's Kedger 20 1 Col. Peel's Cobweb colt (taken, and after wards offered) 20 1 Lord Chesterfeld's Pam 22 1 Lot d Chesterfield's Newsmonger 25 1 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt (taken, and afterwards offered) 30 1 Mr. St. Paul's Mentor 30 1 Mr. Mostvn's Pantasa 33 1 Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (all in. taken) 40— 1 Mr. Gully's Old England (taken to £150) 40 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale (taken) 50 1 Mr. Lintoff's Cabin 13ov (taken) 50 1 Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse (taken) LATEST BETTING IN MANCHESTER. FRIDAY EVENING. A few members present, but not sufficient done to ena ble us to give a list of prices. Yesterday, for the Chester Cup, 120 to 10 was laid against Cataract, 12 to 1 each offered against Obscurity and Semiseria, and 300 to 21 against The Era (taken.)—Young Eclipse was backed for the Derby to £2OO, at 33 to 1. WORCESTER STEEPLE CHASES, MAR. 19 & 20. The Royal Birthday Handicap, of 25 sous each, with 100 added ; four miles. Mr. Holman's ch g The Page, Ilst 101 b . Mr. T. Collins names b g Albert, list ilb Baron Rothschild's ch g Consul, lOst 121 b Owner 1 . Byrne 2 .. Ball 3 The Wine)? Stakes, of 5 sows: each, with 25 added. Mr. Price names b g Laurel, aged Thrift 1 Mr. Spooner names br h by Ebury, 4 ps .. • • Powell dis The Hunt Steeple Chase, a Sweepstake of 10 soya. each, with 100 added ; friur miles. Mr. Barnett names ch m Cora. 12st 41b.... C. Walter 1 Mr. Chellingsworth's b g Red Hawthorn, 12st.. Bradley 2 Mr. G. Sheward's br g Mulatta, 12st Frisby 3 The Tally-ho Handicap, of 5 Boys. each, with 50 added. Captain Barnett's Mameluke, lOst 71b.... M`Donough 1 Mr. Tilbury bl g Tom Tug, lOst 71b . . Crickmere 2 Mr. Davis's b g Tantalus, lOst 21b Archer 3 TROTTING MATCH.—On Thursday morning the match between Mr. Lee's Highflyer and Mr. Collett's horse, to trot two miles in harnes, came off over that distance of on Wimbledon-common. After a very splendid race, High flyer trotted in the winner by fifteen yards, accom plishing the two miles of road in seven minutes and three seconds. MATCH AGAINST TIME.—A match made by the pro prietor of one of the principal hotels at Windsor, to ride his horse, an animal not more than fourteen hands and one inch in height, twenty-four miles in one hour and a half, came off on Monday afternoon, on the Bath-road, between Slough and Colebrook. The horse won the match, with upwards of eight minutes to spare, with a rider nearly 14 stone weight. Mar. 25, 1815, UNIVERSITY .5- CLERICAL NEW 6. PREFERMENTS AND A PPOIN'TMENTS.—Rev.... n " - ford, 8.A., to the rectory of Barton Seagrave, Norther tonshire.—Rey. F. A. Savile, 8.A., to the rectory King's Nympton, Devon.—Very Rev. J Hemerv, to the rect or y o f St . H e li er, J ersey. —Rev. W . *Corc. M.A., to the vicarage of Birling, Kent.—Rev.J.,ll:/ M.A., to the rec t ory o f R a d d i nton, Some rset.—oe'l Morgan, 8.A., to the vicarage of Aberavon and BO Glamorgan.shire.—Rev. J. Bradshaw,l3 8.A., to the vie age of Ho se , Leicestershire.—Rev. W. Kerry,.•` 4 the perpetual curacy of St. Thomas's, Bethnal -greet Rev. P. W. M ayo , M . A ., to t h e perpetual curac y ° 0 Paul's, at E as t on , i n Wells, Sornersevshire.—Nev' Wharton. M.A., to the curacy of Norwood, Surreyo Rev. 0. L. O'Neill, 8.A.. to the curacy of Sivell, Devon.—Rev. J. S. Wilki ns, M.A , to the curacy ° Paul's, Islington.—R ev . J. Bayldon. , M.A., to theg i k of Creech, St. Mi c h ae l , S omerset.—Rey. W. .""it), M.A., to the r ec t ory o f B arton, near Penrith, Cuwts land.—Rev. A. M. H opper, M .A., to the perpetua l 0° i of Horningaea, Cambridgeshire.—Rev. H. Collins o l' 6 , cumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Stockton, to the / i g age of Staani ng t on , N ort h um b erland, in place of the Rev. T. Mye rs .—R ev. F . Annesley, A.M., to the re °ft of Clifford Chambers, Gloucester. A Diocesan Com m i ss i on o f i nqu i ry was comm en° Saturday, under the Church Discipline Act, in M c a l t Commons, to exami n e cer t a i n c h arges aga i ns t the '"1 and Rev. F. S. Monckton, of St. Peter's Church'pa Beauvoir-squ are , W est H ac k ney. These charges , to him drunkenness, incontinence, vulgar fs° 3l 6( with his servants, and conduct altogether unworthY clergyman. The i nqu i ry was adjourned for a few d a l ADDITIONAL CURATES. —At the annual mee ti Pfas i the Society f or P romot i ng t h e Employment of Adria 40 Curates in Populous Places, held in London, on T iles it a number of grants were ma d e, among them the folW fe in this neighbourhood :—To St. Matthew's Manch e : ft £6O, to meet £3O ; to H u l me. H oly Trinity, Mat'°.„i be ,ar £3O, to meet £7O ; t o Ch r i st C hurch, Bolt on-le- I " f ' f b a sum not excee di ng £5O , to meet the remaindert°,foe curate's stipend ; to H o l y T r i n i ty, Preston, o merly occupied by the district of St. James's; t o t ,' y-triedre, in th e p ar i s h o f R ua b on, £ 7O to meet Drojet less than 250 applications remain still unaided, and g b o require the im me di ate a ddi t i on, it appears, o f ! d. e£lo,ooo per annum t o th e soc i ety ' s income. olot ciety supports by its existing grants more than 20 0 uonal clergymen, who are Libouring hard among: °11 00; gre2.ate population of near l y one m illi on and f quarters, averaging 8,358 s ou l s as th e popu l at i o n 0 district. i b o C., c ,t b' TRACTA RI ANISM V. FREEMASONRY.—The C wardens of Helston, in the diocese of Exeter, blot' dressed a letter to the Times, complaining that Mr.a ~, f i the minist er o f t h e church, still continues the inn% po' practices which have oc cas i one d suc h scan d a l in 0 , 0 0 rish. In th e course o f i t t h ey g i ve the following ilea of unnec essary insult offered to the ancient and loYsjefe of Freemasons. It seems that that body h ad O P ' mined to hold th e i r ann i versary mFeting in that bed and, as u sua l, t h e P . G . chaplain would have ere° (Deg' sermon to his br e th ren , many o f w h om are c lecgf d bf and their mee ti ngs wou ld thus have been sanc tifie the services of the church. On application Woo l Blunt for per m i ss i on to use the church that WT(' I referred th e matter to the Bishop, ands a deckle hanghty refusal was given, the reason alleged bei°g b olf neither the church nor his lordship know of such be° as the Free masons. T wo k i ngs in our day have ou t og• , members of this b o d y; t h ey at lest were heads (: pre' church ; an d th e i r royal b rother was for many Ye,",r• sider.t or Grand Master of this • unknown' bodY• CHURCH EXTENSION.—At a meFting of the I ° Q e ,„ ° ,, p oi rated Society f or P romot i ng the Enlargemen t, c'd o rt , Churches and Chapels, held on Monday in " ri f .„„ sit grants were vo t e d f or t h e erection of new churl h e s' the places, five o f t h em di str i cts recently constituted 1-yooe, ecclesiastic a l commissioners, and which will be en 0 8 46 by the funds at their disposal. Grants were ak° abet towards obtaining an increase of accommodation , nt by an exten s i on o f t h e buildinv or a re-arrange,°:ei, 11 the seats, in ei g ht p ar i s h churches. The 14 fa rls°-4 01 1°. which the society's aid is now extended, contairk s gether a p opu l at i on o f 481,949 persons, and for 02,0., 01 0 : rnense number th e p resent prov i s i on of church a cco o da.ion appears to be only sufficient for 74,149 P er ` " which of hich are f,e e , an d t h e num b er o f churoil The additional a ccommo d at i on that will be affml•e, 4,306 s;tti n e s , 3,590 of which are to be free, which l'4oei fact, more than three-fourths of the whole of t he ,bi,c h church acco mmo d at i on, T he amount of gran ts , this institution is now pledged to pay is £57, 66 , 2 • 5 5,i1f f the means at their disposal only amount to "Ac'evi which shows a deficiency of nearly £2,ooo—a cl e "";0'. sthich every sincere member of the established c‘.o should speedily assist in supplying according means. THE COURT 4 FASHIONABLE WO Mi. - Her Majesty and P r i nce Alb ert rema i ne d at Be-eil to ham Palace until Wednesday, when the court rem °. Windsor for the Easter recess. of The Duke of Welli ng t on l e f t town on Wednesl'ot e.f Strathfieldsaye, where he intends to pass the recess Sir Robert Peel left Whitehall.gardens on Sa '4,l for Drayton Manor, for the parliame,tary recess' 1 0 Peel and family have already arrived at the roa! w a r j j atl g l are happy to hear of the safe accouc h ement of 17 ' 5 %0 s' Villiers, the right hon. b a r one t' s d aug h ter , of a 6 heir, at an early hour on Thursday morning. 0,0 01 :, The Duke of Cleveland, who expended above boot ,g last year on impro vements a t R a b y C as tl e , is 9 1 300„1, make further large a dditi ons an d a lt erat i ons . Th e i lo hall is to be enlarged, and the circular room new" and the Chinese drawing-room to be remodelled. motrl Her Majesty's royal charities were distributed le P e r ; day and Tuesd a y l as t, (b e i ng P ass i on ‘‘ eek,) of.°o cessitous and a ge d p oor . Th ere were u pwar d s 00 1 . 15 0 ,• thousand perso n s re li eve d, i n var i ous su ms " er e l i p( shillings to five pounds. The Royal Gate Alms paid to 168 persons, 13s. each, being 6d• Per. *s u tiO n sll six months. On 14I aun d ay Th urs d ay, t h e distribl ,0 the royal cha r iti es was ma d e i n Whi te h a ll ChaPf, o 'oo tj o i recipients were granted, in addition to the usual . of money and M aun d ay penn i es, a sum o f 305. ! ! o do t o provisions distributed in kind. One of the reolP i fee ble e p , reached the great a g e o f 98 years, b ut being it'cLecl*lat, attend, she was repres en t e d b y a d eputy , a s t" I d po t several others, who, fro m age an d infirmity, Wu" tend. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ' On Thursday last, i n a case o f s h eep - s t e aling ig lot the Maidstone assi zes , it was urge d, t h a t a laa , b r e , sheep ; and, though a verdict of guilty was ree e f r o dgept( the prisoner had stol e n a l am b, th e L ea rned . 1 T oot served the point for the opinion of the Judgest„, e cl , the indictment for sheep-stealing could be susfal" ' 4 o ` o , The Court of Common Pleas has lately by t e affi r : e o! validity of purchases of freehold property ma d „ - t irrif:ll)r three, or more persons jointly, for the avowed 1 a he securing the county franchise." It is thus ru' e ' r e''' o tf any number of persons may unite in buying. t. property for the declared purpose of obtaitu n r o votes, and, providing each purchaser's share..latl'or clear annual value of forty shillings, he has a to iPri/ put on the register. His franchise is as full is food feasible, and his vote at the polling booth 0 0 00 0 much as that of the heir to an estate worth fifty CD II a-year.' t t he t er: BREACH OF PROMISES OF MARRIAGE• — " It j the i t'd Assizes, last week, Miss Dorothea Forrest, 0 ' - J. R 4 esting age of eighteen years, daughter of the er re d o aigj rest, rector of a parish near Mitchelstown. rec oc o ' t er damages in an action against Captain O'Brien' 'OO a o° e i landers, aged about forty. The defendant w a° o o o 'o a with his regiment near Michelstown, for six nl ° pr o ",f, after paying great attention to the plaintiff , h e ,fter,y; marriage to her, which was accepted. Short el o o, he removed to Buttevant, a town not many °wag tag; and corresponded with the plaintiff, usually )1f the endearing name of " My dear little sre n 'i4 matters went so far that the wedding-el° t o " - t he e io co dered, but suddenly the defendant broke o ",, t her.' go,; ment on the alleged ground that lie had no ".,0oie", 1 1, 1 .0 but his pay as a captain, and that was f° s "kasitol l fi quately to support a wife.—At Dorchester,!i' art_. o lsei week, a housekeeper, named Strong, broug u s ket•VO for breach of promise of marriage against a " fi f t y fo named Stone. The parties were each abou t twel 3 idi age. The defend an t had not seen the lady for Wviet,Pf years, but, nevertheless, wrote her an episf' e '..,,arrtAl frankly said, " hereby give you an offer to i' de r A favourable answer was returned, and a t i en v ers' tb .. pondence entered upon between the two to cho ro tr ild banns were put in, and they were asked in, o f 0 1,1° I t i times ; but at that critical moment, insteau bo abs . .,p the housekeeper, the defendant became fhe, c aac w irl widow Collins, who had a greater number o ' ;o ry r" the plaintiff in the shape of sovereigns. The 00, 0 a verdict for the plaintiff for £3O. • eft , !if „ NECESSARIES.—At the Oxford Assizes a s e f e , keeper, named Tollitt, brought an a ction _ e co to Astley, eldest son of Lord Hastings', s u n dry d t 6 amount of a debt incurred for the hire of ss"„der7loll, hacks, and gigs, supplied to him while en s ad 0 0 0 ,40 . 1 1 , in the University, between November, 1 ,1 aot,, 1842. The defendant pleaded that be u l uo ble tj, t or money, and that if he did, he was not I : oc orvbat i l ll Laving been a minor when the debt was that co / plaintiff, on the other hand, mainta,ir t : o itabl e r dOy t , hacks, and gigs were '` necessaries." - ,4 0 0140 0 ' situation and degree of Mr. Astley—in , o rt it was necces'ary for th a t y oun g gentete.:so, der that he should h un t, r id e t o s teeple b 2 l io ailt h adoil i i wgihgisc.h time Mr. Astleydebt was incurred during 6 " JJ v t o rY o u r e d i : E t) 0 1 0 s h t e abl m ounted es. Thoi This, it should horseback ha b d o e n i c ' n i e n o e a t e h u ntersdfo, a r w t n n dn i s g o l ; o i t oir f e r i t l! ! O ti ir e ee r p Mr. Astley's having kept one, two, part e _ so b o hunters of his own at livery during of having hired horses from otherl than Tollitt, one man's bill amounting hundred pounds. When Mr. Astley In c ij. I 0 11 0 , , r) to Tollitt, he was only nineteen years t it t i oir i A tl) up the case, Mr. Baron Platt plainlY 1 3 ,e, vo ces s d trol l that although clothes and books were, er a a" o otlyi students at the Universities, steeple - e " 'l to COY) were not. He asked whether hunting n io wo o fs o v e a a s i f iy or , ance of s•udy to hunt and ride s teeple-'____ o o o , l ol l ', l so,i m th i a n t g lf part the o j a f t. c y ol t l i e i g o e ug e i d a u i c t at n i e o e n e . ssa_rhylis fo e r: l o o e o /4 find a verdict for the livery stable-ona," de libe' de, fort 11l f wise. The jury, after a few minutes rta n ( 1 e that turned s a ep v l e e r - d e i h c a t s f i o n r g the and pla h i u n n ti t ff er — s plaintiff—th us ileolaercnee, ne rve d 1 1 01 furtherance of academical study, the ', l ora° phatically saying that their verdict was