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1 procerbings in Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, - Lord MONTEAGLE brought under the notice of the house the conduct of Charles Gream and Michael Alexander Gage, who had been aware of fraudulent signatures to a petition which had been presented on the subject of the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Bill. He concluded with moving that these two persons had been respectively guilty of a gross breach of the privileges of the house. This motion, which gave rise to some discussion, was agreed to. Mr. Gream and Mr. Gage were then called to the bar, and were heard in their defence. Both of them denied that they had intention ally been guilty of fraud; they were, however, committed to the custody of the Usher of .the Black Rod, and afterwards to be taken to Newgate, and therein confined for the term of a fortnight. The Earl of RODEN complained of the persecution to which persops were liable in Ireland who abandoned the Church of Rome and became converts to the Protestant faith. Some years ago, it would probably be known to most of their lord ships, that in many parts of the south and west of Ireland a large portion of the Roman Catholic community left the Church of Rome, and joined the Church of England. Ile alluded in the present ►nstance particularly to the name of Dingle, in the county of Kerry and Limerick. Somewhat more than a year ago very serious feelings arose between those two parties, and the most violent conduct had been used, and the most tyrannical course pursued, not only against the poor indi viduals themselves, who had from conviction adopted the com munity of the Church of England, but also against the minis ters of that Church. The Rev. Jlr. Lewis had for the last year been subject to the most tyrannical proceedings, and l►e begged to read to their lordships shortly what those proceedings were, as had been sworn to at the last assizes, before that e ninent judge, Lord Chief Justice Blackburne. From this statement it appeared that on the reverend gentleman's return in October last to take permanent charge of the mission, he learned that during his absence of six months both the priests of the parish had died, and that the Roman Catholic bishop had selected in their stead three priests who had distinguished themselves in a different part of the diocese by the persecution of those who exercised the right of private judgment; and, before his arri val, they had openly stated their intention to give him a warns reception, and to drive him from the parish, if possible. Ac cordiugly, denunciations without number were hurled against him. It was sworn by a Roman Catholic policeman that a mob of three hundred persons pursued the rev. gentleman as they would a mad dog. When he went to visit a sick person a mob assembled round the house, whistling and blowing horns. For four months he was dogged wherever he went. Public worship in his church was disturbed for three successive Sun days ; the yelling rose higher than his voice, so that on the third Sundae he was obliged to discontinue his sermon. The substance of these statements was sworn to by the rev. gentle man. 'FL noble earl concluded with asking whether the go vernment would lay on the table any communications they had received on the subject? The Bishop of CHICHESTER asked the noble lord on the woolsack whether persons who interrupted clergymen in the discharge of their duty, as had been described to the house, were not guilty of a misdemeanour? The Lord CHANCELLOR said that, undoubtedly, a person who associated with others for the purpose of booting a clergyman would he guilty of a misdemeanour. The Bishop of CHICHESTER, having that answer, believed that if the government would issue instructions to the police to seize persons so offending, the disorders complained of would at once be put down. The Earl of RODEN stated that the Rev. Mr. Lewis always employed conciliatory language. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE expressed his regret that reli gious dissension and irritation should exist to such a great ex tent in Ireland, which had, to a certain degree, grown out of the system of proselytism which had sprung up there. He would have no object►on to grant the reports which had been received from the police, and the instructions given by the go vernment. After some conversation this subject was acqui esced in by Lord Roden, and the subjeet dropped. The Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill was read a second time; and the standing orders having been suspended, the bill was read a third time and passed. The Friendly Societies Bill was also read a third time and passed. lIOUSE OF LORDS.-WEDNESDAY. The royal assent WES given to seventy-six bills, among which was the County Courts Extension, Ecclesiastical Com mission, Railways Abandonment, Birkenhead hock Trustees, and Crosby and Southport Railway. Lord CAMPBELL expressed his satisfaction with the report of the Commissioners on the Post-office. While on the circuit communications between the judges and the Home Office had been cut off for twenty-four hours, and serious inconvenience, almost affecting human life, had occurred, and himself and brother judge had found it impossible to obtain any relaxation. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. Mr. F. O'CoNsolt begged leave to put a question to the Speaker affecting the privileges of the house. He wished to know whether, when a member of that house had been named Chairman of a Committee appointed to investigate a question affecting the funds of several thousands of poor people, and indirectly involving the character of a member of that house. it was parliamentary, or gentlemanly, or honourable, or ho nest, in the chairman so appointed to pay out of his own pocket for information from a witness whom he dared not bring regularly and openly before the committee. (" Oh, oh !") The SPEAKER had had no notice of the question—(hear,)— but would generally say thLt he saw no reason why a member of a committee might not, if he pleased, pay o u t of his own pocket for information that he fairly t.ought likely to be of service to the committee. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HATTER felt bound to say a word. (" No, no.") The hon. gentleman—so called,—(" Order, order.") Will the hon. gentleman— Mr. F. O'CONNOR interposed something about swindling and juggling—we did not collect what—tor which he was at once called to order. The SPEAKER called upon Air. Hayter to withdraw the ex pression he had just made use of, which was at once done, and there the matter dropped. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. Parliament was this day prorogued by her Majesty in person. Soon after tw•o o'clock, her Majesty entered the house, preceded by the great officers of state; and, having taken her seat on the throne, gave the royal assent to several bills. Her Majesty then delivered the following most gracious Speech "My Lords and Gentlemen,-1 have the satisfaction of being able to release you from the duties of a laborious session. The assiduity and care with which you have applied yourselves to the business which required your attention, merit my cordial approbation. The act for the better government of my Aus tralian colonies will, I trust, improve the condition of those rising communities. It will always be gratifying to me to be able to extend the advantages of representative institutions, which form the glory and happiness of my people, to colonies inhabited by men who are capable of exercising, with benefit to themselves, the privileges of freedom. It has afforded me great satisfaction to give ti y ilssenE to the act wWcli you have passed for the improvement of the merchant naval service of this country. It is, I trust, calculated to promote the welfare of every class connected with this essential branch of the na tional interest. The act for the gradual discontinuance of in terments within tile limits of the metropolis, is in conformity with those enlightened views which have for their object the improvement of the public health. I shall watch with interest the progress of measures relating to this important subject. I have given my cordial assent to the act for the extension of the elective franchise in Ireland. I look to the most beneficial consequences from a measure which ham been framed with a view to give to my people in Ireland a fair participation in the benefits of our representative system. 1 have observed with the greatest interest and satisfaction the measures which have been adopted with a view to the improvement of the adminis tration of justice in various departments, and I confidently anticipate they will be productive of much public convenience and advantage. " Gentlemen of the House of Commons,—The improvement of the revenue, and the large reductions which have been made in various branches of expenditure, have tended to give to our financial condition stability and security. lam happy to find that you have been enabled to relieve my subjects from some of the burthens of taxation, without impairing the sufficiency of our resources to meethithe charges imposed upon them. "My Lords and Gentlemen,—l am encouraged to hope that the treaty between Germany and Denmark, which has been concluded at Berlin under my mediation, may lead at no dis tant period to the restoration of peace in the north of Europe. No endeavour shall be wanting on my part to secure the at tainment of this great b!essing. I continue to maintain the most friendly relations with foreign powers, and I trust that nothing may occur to disturb the general peace. I have every reason to be thankful for the loyalty and attachment of my people, and while I am studious to preserve and to improve our institutions, I rely upon the goodness of Almighty God to favour my efforts, and to guide the destinies of this nation." The Loan CHANCELLOR then formally prorogued parlia ment, and the royal party returned to the palace. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the postal report was certainly a recommendation that the suspension of the transmission and delivery of letters on Sundays, which had lately been established should be repealed, and that we should return to the transmis sion and delivery of letters on Sundays, accompanied by such alterations and regulations as would ensure to persons employed in the postoffice as much time to themselves on the Sunday as was consistent with a due regard to the paramount interests of society at large. The Treasury had not yet had time to deter mine on the course to be adopted. He had no doubt, however, that the Treasury would be satisfied with the recommendation contained in the report, and that those recommendations would be carried into effect. (Hear, hear.) In reply to Mr. Spooner, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the report had been printed. Mr. Locici: expressed his gratitude to the government for the promised step they had taken with the view of meeting the wishes of the great body of the public on this important sub ject. The members were immediately afterwards summoned to the lords. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. We received on Saturday, by the arrival in the Mersey of the royal mail steam-ship Asia, Charles H. E. Judkins, commander, letters and journals from New York to the 6th. and rid Halifax, electric telegraphic accounts to the Bth instant, inclusive. The Asia left Boston shortly after one o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th instant, steamed to Halifax in 34 hours 3 minutes; cleared thence with the mails after a detention of 1 hour end 38 minutes; made Tory Island after a run of about 7 days and 8 hours from Halifax ; and arrived in the Mersey after a run from Boston, including the detour to, and detention at, Halifax, of precisely 9 days 14 hours and 5 minutes. The Asia's run from Bos ton, therefore, although pre-eminent in one respect, is somewhat longer than her great passage of June last, which occupied 9 days 10 h ours an d 35 m i nutes. Sh e ran a greater distance in one day, however, during this passage than has yet been accomplished on the Atlantic; namely, 323 miles. The Asia brought 110 passengers, one small box of specie, the usual mails, and a valuable freight. The steamships Georgia and Cherokee, had arrived at New York from Chagres, with £60,000 worth of gold dust on board. In the Senate the Cempromise Bill, which had occupied the attention of the house for so many months, was finally disposed of, the bill being carried by a majority of 14. The disputed question of territory between Texas and New Mexico continued to create much anxiety. Infor mation had been received at Washington that 1,500 men had volunteered to march against New Mexico, but that the governor awaited an answer from Washington, and the decision of the Texas Legislature. The New York Herald reports that a president's message was daily expected, declaring his intention to protect New Mexico against any invasion by Texas. A desperate affray occurred at New York on the sth instant between the police and a mob composed of tailors, in which some lives were lost. The disturbance was caused !.1.) , the tailors attacking the house of a man who was said to be working at prices below those usually charged. The other intelligence is not of much importance. The telegraphic report is as f o ll ows : " The chief items since dispatch of Asia's mails are the arrival of the Georgia and Cherokee steamers. with a large number of passengers, and th e C a lif orn i a ma il s o f t h e I s t July, from San Francisco. The amount of gold dust on freight, and that in the hands of passengers, is understood to make the gross amount of nearly three millions of dollars. AU accounts represent that the production of gold will now immediately be greatly increased, the sea son for operating being just at hand, and prospects most favourable. _ _ " The commercial community of New York have been staggered with the stoppage of Suydam and Co., a house largely engaged in the produce trade. " Their liabilities are stated as high as two millions of dollars, but with favourable assets. The failure will be most severely felt in the west. "The millers and the bankers of Ohio, Mississippi, and Indiana will be great sufferers. " Stock market to-day firm. Government Sixes of '67 sold to-day at 1111; %El, 115. Corn and flour market very dull. Canadian in bond, 4. Cotton market shows a decline of fully s since receipt of Cambria's news, and large supplies offering." THE OVERLAND MAIL. The Extraordinary Express from India brings intelli gence from Madras to the 9th of July, Calcutta to the 2d of July, and Hong Kong to the 22d of June. The Bombay Mail has again failed. The news of the resigna tion of Sir Charles Napier is confirmed. Among the reasons to which it is attributed is the disbanding of the 66th Bombay Native Infantry—a measure said to have been resolved on and promulgated without once consulting the opinion of the Governor-General, who, while willing to defer to the superior military judgment and experience of the head of the army, could not allow his own prece dence to be thus openly slighted without a protest. It is believed that the Governor-General addressed an official wigging to Sir Charles Napier on his undue stretch of authority, which led the General to tender his resignation. The Cawnpore Bank has wound up its affairs ; it is expected to pay its shareholders in full. The name of t,aptain T. J. Newbold, of the 23d Regi ment M. L. 1., and assistant to the resident of llyderabad, an officer possessed of the highest scientific attainments, appears in the obituary. The Surgeon-General D. Boyd, Esq., is compelled by illness to return to England. He has taken his passage in the Walmer Castle. A number of Sikh prisoners, among whom were Narain Singh and Golab Singh, having been embarked at Allaha bad, for Calcutta, under the charge of Captain Cawley, of the Berhampooter steamer, mutinied on the voyage, near Patna, and managed after slaughtering some of their guards to escape. Thirteen out of thirty-nine have been recaptured. The Affreedees have again shown symptoms of hostility. The Cabulese, under Dost Mahomed's eldest son, have gained a signal victory over the troops of Bukhara, and compelled them to evacuate Bulkh and Khooloom. The commercial advices from India and China, instead of showing the long looked for improvement, are, as re gards the demand for manufactured goods, more unfavour able than ever. Fortunately, 'however, owing to the reduced state of our home stocks and the extended de mand from other parts of the world, these accounts are not likely to produce the effects that would have arisen from them at any former period. The population of Prussia, on the 30th ult., amounted to 46,330,186. _ _ It is said that a company of English speculators have undertaken the manufacture of beetroot sugar on a large scale in Austria. Letters from Turin of the Bth inst. announce the arrest of the Archbishop, by command of the Govern ment, and his committal to the fortress of Fenestrelles. A hurricane which burst last week in Burgundy has partially injured the vineyards of Clos Vougeot, and de stroyed the entire crop at Morey, Chainbolles, and Grevy. The correspondent of the Times at Rome, who takes every opportunity of lauding the Papal government, says, in his last letter, " The spirit of the Papal rule may be divine, but every brands of its administration is infernal." The sale of the splendid gallery of paintings of the late King "William 11. of Holland was to commence on Mon day at the Hague. Every school is admirably represented in the collection. A Parisian journal states that on Saturday morning a vast number of crows alighted on the trees of the Tuile ries gardens and the roof of the palace. It was necessary to call out a number of riflemen, who killed 500 of them. The total amount of California gold received at the Mint of the United States, up to the Ist of .August, was 43'29,934,310, of which =518,350,000 were received at the Philadelphia Mint. The gold coinage thus far this year has averaged nearly two millions of dollars per month. M. Teste, the Minister of Public Works during the reign of Louis Philippe, having completed the term of three years imprisonment, to which he was sentenced by the Court of Pe2rs for having accepted a bribe, was set at liberty on Sunday. _ _ _ It is stated that the daughter of Millard Fillmore, President of the United States, is an accomplished young lady, about eighteen years of age, and now engaged in the honourable employment of teacher of a public school in Buffalo. The damage done by the explosion of the laboratory of the artillery, at Rendsburg, is much greater than first announced. Ninety-one bodies have been buried, and many more were still in the hospitals. Scarcely a house in the town has entirely escaped from the concussion. The Philadelphia Spirit of the Times states that at Boston, a little boy, six years old, who threw stones at his school-mistress, has been arraigned, tried, and sen tenced to he confined in the House of Reformation for Juvenile Offenders till he is twenty-one years of age. The Hanoverian Government, anxious to promote the rise of its new free port at Horburg, on the left bank of the Elbe, has granted, by an order of the 6th of August, the remission of the stade duties on all goods arriving from the sea to that harbour. Although the Danes have officially stated their losses up to the 10th instant, at nearly 500 dead, and 2700 wounded, and 600 missing, General Willisen still keeps back any official report of the losses of the troops under him, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, at and since the battle of Listedt. The President of the French Republie has been extremely well received at every place he has visited iOduring his recent progress through the departments. Splendid balls, banquets, and assemblies, were held in ,honour of him, and the speeches he delivered were '•welcomed with enthusiasm. An explosion took place on the 29th ultimo in a gun powder manufactory at Etterstad, a league from Christiania, in Norway. Of ten men who were at work at the time, six were killed on the spot, two were seriously injured, and the other two could not be found. The violence of the explosion was such that the windows of several houses at Christiania were broken. West India accounts published in New York papers re port that a terrible hurricane had been experienced on the 11th and 12th ultimo, in which several English vessels were wrecked. The New York Journal of Commerce says : " Two British btigs, at St. Kitt's, were wrecked, and the crews, consisting of twenty persons, were drowned. A British barque, from St. Kitt's for Europe, put into St. Thomas on the 15th instant with the loss of her spars, having been knocked down on her beam ends." A few days since, the ecclesiastical police visited the house of an English lady who keeps a school in Naples, where foreign Protestant children are educated. The authorities threatened to close the establishment, and eventually did so. The matter is now a subject of cor respondence between our ambassador and the Neapolitan government. A French Protestant lady, who also kept a school, finding no protection in her minister, has had her establishment closed, and is about to leave Naples, although similar academies have existed in the city for years. " War to the knife" is the cry of the Jesuits. STATE OF ROME.—The following extract from the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle presents a ghastly picture of the consequences of violent and uncon ditional restoration of the papal tyranny in Italy :—" The population of Rome, which was 180,000, is reduced to 130,000, no less than 50,000 either having been sent away or voluntarily quitted it ; the inquisition re-established ; the Roman Catholic religion shaken to its very founda tion ; the pope and clergy held in contempt and hatred ; thousands killed by the sword or musket during the siege ; widows, orphans, bankrupts, and distress in every shape ; spies and sbirri prowling about the streets in search of their prey (the liberals); diffidence introduced into families; all social ties rent asunder; an empty treasury ; papal currency at a discount of fifteen per cent. ; all the medical men and lawyers of any talent driven into exile ; commerce annihilated, and young men of respectable families without employment, and many without food." THE POPE AND THE DUELLlSTS.—Referring to the scene on the Civita Vecchia road, I am led to mention the fact, that the noble guard who escort the Pope are ordered to compel any person who refuses to salute his Holiness to take of his hat, as well as to resort to force it necessary, and to recount an affair arising out of these orders which has just occurred between one of the same corps and an officer of the French army. The French officer not being in uniform as the cavalcade passed, did not think it necessary to raise his hat, on which one of the noble guard lifted it off his head with the point of his sword. The officer, indignant at the insult, struck at the guard and at his horse, when another member of the same body riding up gave the Frenchman several blows with the flat of his sabre. The cortege passed on, but the officer, now in uniform, accompanied by a friend, went to the quarters of the noble guard, and finding the gentleman who struck him demanded the usual satisfac tion. The gentleman agreed to give it to a person wear ing the epaulettes of the French army, and the duel took place at once in a room attached to the guard house, for the purpose of avoiding public scandal. The choice be tween sabres and small swords was decided in favour of the Frenchman, who chose the latter, and after a few passes, the Roman being slightly wounded, the affair ter minated.—Correspondent of the Times. A SCENE BEFORE THE POPE.—The correspondent of the Times gives a curious account of the reception which the Pope recently met with, during an airing which he took with his court. The reader will be amused, despite its sadder aspect, at the almost Flemislt aggravation of detail with the accomplished colourist finishes his gor geous picture of the pope " in a flowing white robe, with a wide crimson bat," in the midst of his scarlet cardinals, just descended from their emblazoned and gilded car riages, and sunning themselves in the last rays of the de clining god of day, on a sudden encountered by a train of carriages filled with foreigners (enemies of the Church !) who, at the word of command, themselves, ladies and gentlemen—at hap-hazard—forty in number—jump from their vehicles, and on their knees await the blessing of the corpulent representative of the redeemer. His Holi ness spreads out his sh or t f a t h an d s an d utters a p i ece o f f u stian—the eflect of which would be incredible were it not vouched for by a correspondent of the Times. " They all arose,' says that unimpeachable authority, " the ladies weeping, and the men imploring blessings on his sainted head—the whole were converted on the spot, and all declared they were ready to shed their blood in the service of the supreme pontiff." H e admits, how ever, that they had no sooner reached the city and ex perienced the vexations of his "_sainted" government THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. than they were, one and all, reconverted to their old faith and wished his holiness and his staff anywhere but there. LOLA MONTES AGAIN.—We find the following in the Asseinbl6e Nationale, copied from the Bulletin de Parig: —" The tranquil quarter of the Villa Beaujon was on Sunday thrown into agitation by one of the most striking incidents :—Madame Lola Montes had taken for fifteen years a magnificent hotel belonging to M. Rosa. She caused it to be furnished with extraordinary splendour. Turkey carpets of great value ornamented all the apart ments during the winter season. The most curious and rare furniture was bought of a tradesman, who, seduced by the reputation of the romantic adventurer, had sufficient confidence to give credit for six months. On Sunday, the day on which a large sum fell due, the furni ture man presented himself, but Madame Lola begged him to call again at the end of the week, on account of the absence of her husband, who had forgotten to leave the money. During this time Madame Lola made pre parations for leaving, and caused vehicles to be sent for to remove her goods. The upholsterer, informed of this, hastened to the Villa Beaujon, and found himself in the midst of the confusion caused by the removal of his fur niture. A great uproar took place, and the commissary of police and some of the other creditors, who had been apprised of what was going on, arrived. Among the creditors was M. Jacquand, a celebrated painter, to whom a large sum was due for portraits of the lady. Surprised in the midst of these preparations for flight, the lady was not disconcerted for a single instant ; she pretended that she was disposed to pay, that her husband had sent her the money for that purpose, but that she had lost the key of her cash-box. She begged the creditors to wait for a moment whilst she went for a locksmith, but neither lady nor locksmith appeared. Madame Lola had entered a vehicle which was waiting for her in the Avenue de Chateaubriand, near the Barriere de l'Etoile, and had disappeared like a shadow, without saying when she would return." IRELAND. A fire broke out in the drying-room of Kanturk work house on Friday week which destroyed the main portion of the building. Eleven convicts under sentence of transportation effected their escape from the gaol of Maryborough last week, and none of them have yet been arrested. The Town-council of Dublin have obtained permission from government to borrow £13,050 to erect baths and washhouses for the workmen of that city. Two young gentlemen, named Hamilton and Sedley, were drowned at Londonderry, on Saturday week, by the upsetting of a boat in a sudden squall. The anniversary of the relief of Derry was celebrated on Monday with the usual rejoicings. An excellent ser mon was preached in the cathedral. Colonel Beauchamp, a retired officer, put an end to his existence, at a house in Dawson-street, Dublin, by cut ting his throat on Sunday week in a fit of temporary insanity, produced by severe erratic gout. The Dublin Nation says that " a stipendiary magistracy has been sold by a five-pound repeal member for £1,0,0, and the purchaser enjoys the office still." This is a grave charge, and a journalist should not make it on light authority. It ought to be inquired into. The new Popish " Primate" in Ireland has issued a Pastoral on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin. which exhibits in the most undisguised manner the doctrinal and devotional abominations of Mariolatry. _ _ _ The Li;nerick Reporter states that on Saturday night, on the Southern and Western Railway, between Mary borough and Mountnorth, some miscreants hurled a huge stone from a bridge upon the mail train as it was passing. The stone fortunately missed the passenger carriages, but fell through the roof of the carriage which contained the mail bags. The nuns of Loretto-house have purchased the beautiful seat of Mr. Putland, which is on the sea shore, near Bray, ten miles from Dublin. The sale was effected on Satur day for £7500, and there are forty-seven acres connected with the pleasure grounds. The superioress is Miss Ball, the sister of Judge Ball, formerly Attorney-General for Ireland. The two men arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mr. Pike have been discharged from custody. The Lord Lieutenant has offered a reward of £lOO for the apprehension of the murderers. The gentry of the King's County are about to make up a subscrip tion for a similar purpose. The police are in possession of the cap of the murderer, which was dropped on the ground where the ill-fated gentleman fell. One Sarah Adams entered the Mariners' Church, at Kingstown, Dublin, on Sunday week, and violently as saulted with a stick the Rev. John Massey. She was brought before a magistrate on Monday, when she ac cused the rev. complainant of propagating false doctrines, and stated that she was a Roman Catholic, and had a mission to root out error. She is considered insane, and has been placed in confinement. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. On the 12th instant Mr. Wynne Williams and his friend bagged no less than 82 brace on his Glentulchen Moors, N.B. Messrs Hunt and Roskell (successors of Storr and Mor timer) have generously determined to give a cup, of the value of 300 sovs., to he called "The Goldsmith's Cup," which is hereafter to be run for annually by two-year olds at Goodwood. The following horses, the property of Lord Henry Len nox, were put up for sale yesterday week, at Tattersall's, London :—William the Conqueror, 1320 guineas ; Her nandez, 1115 guineas; Beehunter, 610 guineas; Turtle, 430 guineas ; Borneo, 3 1 0 guineas ; The Wren, 59 guineas ; Brawn, a yearling, 52 guineas. The three first return to Goodwood. THE Mooßs.—Monday week being the 12th of August, great numbers of sportsmen were on the moors betimes in the morning. In Cumberland, Westmoreland, and North umberland, on the higher grounds, birds were not very plentiful, but were remarkably wild and strong on the wing. The second broods, on the lower grounds, were weaker and smaller birds and were more easily shot. Several parties on Monday, Tuesday, and Wed nesday last were tolerably successful. The best sport we have heard of was on Rodrip-fell, near Alston. On Mon day, Mr. J. Richardson, of Penrith, bagged 28 brace ; another gentlemen 211; Mr. R. Tinkler, of Eden-grove, 17 ; Mr. T. Fetherstonhaugh, of the College, Kirkoswald, 13 ; and Mr. J. Lemon, of Manchester, 10 brace. On Tuesday and Wednesday, on the same moor, the same party were respectively not quite so successful, but they had most excellent sport. During the three days these gentlemen bagged 375 birds. COURT AND FASHION. The Queen gave a fete on Tuesday to celebrate Prince Albert's thirty-first birthday (the 26th of August) by an ticipation. The grounds of Osborne were enlivened ;by games, in which the seamen of the royal yacht took a leading part. The Queen and Prince Albert left Osborne on Wednes day, and arrived at Buckingham Palace in the afternoon. On Friday they returned to Osborne. On Wednesday evening the Queen went to the Hay •narket Theatre, and on Thursday to the Italian Opera House. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO BELGIUM. — Her Majesty and Prince Albert will this day take a cruise in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert to Beleium, making for the port of Ostend. His Majesty the King of the Belgians will dine on board the yacht, which will return on the follow ingday to Cowes. The Duchess of Kent is a Scotch peeress, under the title of the Countess of Strathearn. Lord and Lady Stanley and familyhave left St. James's square for Knowsley Hall. _ _ Lord Brougham arrived at Brougham Hall from Lon don on Saturday week. Lord John Russell is about to pay a visit to his noble father-in-law, in Roxburghshire. The Marquis of Chandos is said to be on the eve of marriage with the only daughter of Lord Overstone, the banker. Sir James Graham, Lady Graham, and a portion of the family, arrived in Carlisle by the express train on Friday week, and left the station immediately for Netherby. The Earl of Lonsdale, accompanied by the Hon. John Wilson Croker, arrived in Ulverston on Saturday week, and remained over night at the Sun Hotel. They both visited the exhibition at the Athenaeum the same evening. They also visited the cottage at Dragley Beck, the birth- place of the late Sir John Barrow, Bart., and other places of interest in the neighbourhood, and on Sunday attended divine service in the parish church. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. 9 It is said that Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood is likely to be appointed to some office under government. The Herald recommends Lord Stanley's son to the electors of the University of Cambridge. The Times publishes at length the protest of Russia against the designs of England in the case of Greece and that of Tuscany. Lord Dudley Stuart has given notice of a motion for next session to abolish the custom of directing strangers to withdraw from the House of Commons during di visions. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.—Lord Feilding and Mr. Lefevre are both spoken of as candidates. Lord Feilding will now be supported by the High Church and Protectionist party. Our readers cannot have forgotten the former contest, when Mr. Goulburn was returned with difficulty. Mr. Lefevre, the Speaker's brother, also stood on the same occasion. He will probably now have the government interest. LORD BROUGHAM AND THE CIVIL LIST. Lord Brougham has entered upon the books of the House of Lords a long protest against the recent decision in opposi tion to a Parliamentary investigation of the Civil List. his lordship contends that both in theory and practice the legislature is entitled to investigate the details of the Civil List; and that all accumulation of wealth by the crown is at once hostile to the spirit of the constitution, and dero gatory to the dignity and splendour of the royal state, which is so far impoverished by the savings effected. WHIG MORALITY.—We have seen a letter addressed by Sir James Colquhoun's agent to a gentleman of high respectability, who has claimed this year, of which the following is pretty nearly the contents :—" Sir,—l beg to intimate that I have lodged an objection to your claim to be enrolled as a voter in the county of Dumbarton ; but I also beg to mention that 1 am ready to withdraw the objection, provided you will promise to support the Liberal interest. I am, &c." There is Whig morality ! The claim is objected to as bad, and not founded on a proper qualification. " Support us with your vote," say the Whigs, " and we shall allow you to be ' enrolled, although you have no qualification." how uncommonly Whiggish ! How many Whig votes throughout the country have been enrolled on a similar bargain ? Glasgow LAW INTELLIGENCE. GOSSIP or THE LAW COURTS.—Proceedings are now pending in bankruptcy against the son of a distinguished orator, a member of the lower house of legislature, and one of the Whig Government, and the son of an equally once-distinguished head of a Royal:Society. The means by which they seek protection, and to relieve themselves from the pressure of their creditors,fare under the Debtor and Creditor Act, and therefore the details cannot be published.—Weekly Chronicle. THE NEW ACT RELATING TO COUNTY COURTS.—The act to extend the act for the more easy recovery of small debts and demands in England, and to amend the same, contains 25 sections, and became operative on receiving the royal assent on Wednesday. The jurisdic• tion of the county courts is now extended to £5O for the recovery of debt or demand, and to all proceedings to that amount. The legal profession has been benefited by the sixth section of the new act. An attorney is now entitled to £1 10s. for his fee and costs, where the debt, damage, or demand, shall not exceed £35, or £2 in any other case within the jurisdiction given by this act, and in no case shall any fee exceeding £2 4s. 6d. be allowed for employing a barrister as counsel in the cause, and the expense of employing a barrister or an attorney shall not be allowed on taxation of costs, unless by order of the judge. Power is now given to suffer "judgment by default," and to agree to terms of payment without going before the court. By the eleventh section it is declared that if, in actions commenced, after the passing of this act, in the superior courts, sums not exceeding £2O in actions of contract be recovered, or £5 in actions of tort, the plaintiff shall hav e no costs; and it shall not be necessary to enter any suggestion on the record to deprive such plaintiff of costs, nor shall any such plaintiff be entitled to costs by reason of any privilege as attorney or officer of such court, or otherwise. This is a great improvement, and will effec tually put an end to actions for small sums in the superior courts. An appeal is given in the 14th section, such appeal to be in the form of a case to the superior courts, to be agreed upon by the parties ; and, if they cannot agree, then by the judge of the county court. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. At the Great Western Railway meeting on Thursday, a dividend of four per cent. was declared. The engineers on the Eastern Counties Railway have resolved to strike, on account of alleged harsh treatment. The carriages on the Great Northern Railway are made of " teak" wood, highly polished. They are much cheaper and more durable than those commonly used. The London and North Western, Midland, and Great Northern lines have amicably arranged to carry at the same rates between the same points. THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—The last lift of the last tube was completed amid much acclamation, on Friday, and everything is understood to progress so satisfactorily as to lead to the conclusion that the entire structure will be opened a fortnight earlier than was expected. The London Times, of Tuesday, has an advertisement to the effect that extensive arrangements have been made with the London and North-Western Railway Company and their agents in London for supplying Wigan coal to the inhabitants of the metropolis. MIDLAND RAILWAY : THE DIVIDEND.—The surplus upon the traffic for the half-year, and applicable for or dinary dividend, is £59,513 18s. 10d., and the divi dend to be recommended by the directors will be 16s. on the consolidated stock—that is equal to £1 12s per cent. per annum; and a dividend after the rate of 4s. 6d. per annum will be declared on the Birmingham and Derby. The Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company had a severe contest with the York and North Midland Railway Company, for the conveyance of passengers to the York shire Agricultural Society's Show, at Thirsk, last week. They alternately announced reductions of fare, until the former company, whose line is direct, took third-class Passengers there and back for 9d. They got 1,300 pas sengers, and the other company twenty. LONDON AND NORTH 'WESTERN RAILWAY.—HALF YEARLY MEETING.—The half-yearly meeting of tnis company was held on Friday ; George Carr Glyn, Esq., in the chair. The room was crowded with proprietors. The chairman, in his opening speech, said that since the last half-yearly meeting several additional miles had been opened, but the proceeds from those miles had not yielded results to correspond with the mileage previously opened. The working expenses of the company had been greatly diminished. It was impossible to close the capital account at present; that for locomotive power, works, and buildings had, however, been closed. The present stock of carriages and waggons was insufficient, and it would require a vote of £90,000 to meet these require ments. With respect to the dividend, the directors believed it would not be prudent to divide a larger sum than £2 10s. for the half-year.—The report of the direc tors was then read and adopted.—ln reply to some ques tions, the chairman stated 'that the dispute with the Great Western Company was still unsettled. It was expected that the Stour Valley line would be opened be. fore the end of the year. The directors had entered into no engagement on behalf of the Caledonian line. A sum of £4OO a year had been saved by the measures which had been adopted respecting light gold.—Mr. Bright called the attention of the shareholders to the fact that the di rectors were about to carry forward a balance of £144,721, and were confining the dividend to five per cent. In point of law, all the earnings of the line ought to be dis tributed ; and he moved an amendment, to the effect that the dividend should be at the rate of five and a half per cent.—A lengthened discussion followed, at the end of which the amendment was negatived by a large majority. —Mr. William Garnett then moved that the dividend be at the rate of six per cent. per annum.—This was seconded by Mr. Entwisle, but lost also by a large majority.—The original motion was then put and carried.—ln answer to a question, the chairman said the dividend would be payable on the 26th.--The report of the audit committee was then read and received.—A committee was appointed to consider the best means for the future management of the company, with a special reference to the constitution of the board under the amalgamation act, which comes into operation in the beginning of 1851. Etneral Aqisrellailv. Shares, to the amount of X 5,000, have been taken for the erection of a public hall, at Leeds. Several firkins of butter from Lisbon have been received in London. The royal assent was given to the Earl of Lincoln's Divorce Bill on Wednesday last. The people of Brighton are going to build a public library and museum in memory of Sir Robert Peel. A rate of I2s. in the pound is required for one of the divisions of the Galway union. The act of Parliament prohibiting the holding of parish meetings in churches has just come into operation. The Dumfries Courier states that this season bids fair to be an excellent one for honey. The cholera has appeared at Chatham, where two deaths have taken place. Pate, her Majesty's assailant, is now en route to one of the penal settlements. Several bales of carpets have arrived in London from China ; being the production of that empire. The Nepaulese Embassy take their departure to-day, via Belgium and France. Leigh Hunt's brother, who was placed in the charter house by the Queen, died on Friday in his 77th year. On the Ist ult. a brig sailed for New Orleans with one hundred labourers for the Panama railroad. A compositor in the Berwick Adverti;e - r . office injured his ancle a few days since. Lock-jaw set in, and he died in spite of every remedy. The annual humbug of a Peace Congress amidst wars and rumours of wars, is to come off this year, at Frank fort, this week. _ _ _ The Sunderland docks are at length beginning to as sume a truly business-like appearance, several vessels having come in from America and elsewhere. All churchyards in Loi..lon are to he closed for ever on the Ist July, 1851, when burials are to take place in the suburban cemeteries. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of England has decreased from £16,822,376 to £16,802,236 being a difference of £20,140. A flock of a hundred ducki, from Ireland, were offered for sale in Bath market on Tuesday, at 2s. 4d. a couple, but few purchasers offered. A genileman named Chambers dropped down dead at Penrith railway station on Sunday week. He had walked hastily up the hill. The Hudson's Bay Company are taking active measures for the colonization of Vancouver's Island. A detach ment of emigrants is to sail next month. Mr. Labouchere has recently purchased, for 200 guineas, a marble bust of Milton, made from the life by an Italian sculptor during the poet's visit to Italy. A boy was killed at Gorby, in Leicestershire, last week, by drinking part of a solution of arsenic, which his mother had prepared for dressing a bedstead. There is much talk as to the opening of Drury-lane theatre for the legitimate drama after Christmas. A gen tleman of large fortune is said to have taken it. A fatal case of lock-jaw occurred at Wakefield last week, brought on by the sufferer, a female, running a rusty nail into her foot. A memorial in favour of the Cape of Good Hope route for steam to Australia, signed by most of the leading firms of Birmingham, has been presented to the Treasury. On Wednesday, the Gabriel, a sailing-boat of six tons was upset near Woolwich, and two young men, brothers, named Greenway, were drowned. A female named Mary Ann Lumb has been committed for trial at Hull for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child by administering laudanum to it. The property destroyed by the fire at Gravesend was valued at £BO,OOO. The bank which was consumed was insured for £lO,OOO. The books, cash, and papers were saved. On 'Wednesday, as five c)lliers were sailing in a boat, near Milford, the boat shipped several seas which so ter rified the men that they leaped overboard and were drowned. On Wednesday week a little boy, whilst flying a kite near Shrewsbury, fell down the shaft of a pit fifty yards deep. He was soon got out, but so badly mangled that he died in six hours. At Monmouth Assizes three women were sen tenced to fifteen years transportation for lobbing a Jew hawker, whom they previously disabled by the administration of chloroform. A little girl, scarcely six years old, is astonishing the people of Worcester by her vocal and instrumental powers. y, complained that the Though unable to span an octave, she is said to be a sur prising piano-torte player. lalill,adonbelkern occupied onda 149 sittings, Ho S u i r s e Benjaminof Commons ab sorbing 1041 hours—being 109 hours mere than last ses sion, and yet had passed few bills. Lord John Russell replied that " no other assembly in the ,world Lad got through so much business.' A prisoner ha the House of Correction, Clerkenwell, has died from voluntary starvation. He positively refused to take any food, which even when forced into his mouth he threw back again. He complained of no disease. Mr. Cook, of Dunkerton, fed his pigs with diseased potatoes on Thursday, and on Friday morning found nine out of eleven dead. He administered salt and water to the remaining two, and they recovered. It is rumoured that Miss Harriet Reeves, a sister of our renowned English tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, is about to make her debut as a vocalist. Report also speaks favour ably of her voice and talent. Henry Hillier was tried on Monday, at Wells, on a charge of having murdered Thomas George, at Nunney, in April, by cutting his throat with a knife. He was acquitted. On Sunday a young man was walking leisurely into the Westminster swimming bath, after having eaten a hearty meal. He fell forward in a fit of apoplexy, and was seen lying dead at the bottom. A gentlemac named Littlewood, living at Stockport, arrived in Douglas on Saturday week, for a short scjourn in the Isle of Man. He went to bed in his usual health, but died during the night. The splendid domain of Irnhan Hall, in Lincolnshire, with the entire village, producing a rental of more than £4,000, and including the living yielding a gross income of X 950, has been sold for £115 ,000. The wife of Mr. Juggins, publican, Sans-street, Sun derland, died of hydrophobia last week, from the effects of a,bite from a cat, which she received upon the back part of one of her hands, about four months since. Oil the signpost of a hair-dresser's shop in Paris is a picture of Absalom hanging on the bough of a tree, and below it are two lines recommending spectators to weep for the unhappy fate of King David's son, for if he had worn a peruke he had not died. Two brothers, named Wilkinson, the one nineteen and the other fourteen years old, went to bathe together in the River Soar, near Leicester, on Monday week. While sporting together in the water, they got out of their depth and were both drowned. Three boys were bathing at Errol, on Friday week, and got an old boat, out of which they leaned into the water, only five feet deep, but the bottom being muddy they stuck fast, and two of them were drowned. One of them managed to cling to the boat and was saved. Two respectable farmers from the parish of Manafon, Montgomeryshire. of the names of Goodwin and Newell, while bathing at Towyn, on Monday last, went too far into the sea, and not being able to swim, lost their foot ing and were drowned. _ _ A sanguinary conflict took place at Wortley on Sunday morning, between Lord Wharncliffe's gamekeeper and a band of ten poachers, one of whom discharged his gun at the keeper, but happily the shct did not lodge in any vital part. The two Birds, man and wife, who were acquitted at Exeter spring assizes of the murder of their servant, by flogging and ill treating her until she died, were tried last assizes tor beating and wounding her, and found guilty. Sentence was deferred. Captain Sandford, who received the honour of knight. hood on Wednesday, was the person who, at some personal risk, supplied the Commissariat at the Cape with provi sions, when their supplies were withheld by the colonists during the late disturbances. On Friday week, -- a;;Vnan, whilst being hoisted out of a well, at Micheldean, Gloucestershire, was quite overpowered by the foul air when near the top, and, losing his hold of the rope, fell to the bottom and was killed. On Friday week, a man was blasting in a quarry, at Denny, Stirlineshire, and on one occasion the powder not going off immediately, he incautiously stooped down to examine the cause. He had no sooner done so than the explosion took place, and he was literally blown to atoms. Sir Robert Peel has directed in his will that the profits arising from the publication of his memoirs, which is entrusted to Lord Mahon anti Mr. Cardwell, shr'l be given to some institution for the education of the working classes. On Sunday week an explosion took place on board a vessel in &attain harbour, caused by the carburetted hy drogen gas, which communicated with the cabin, becotn ing ignited through the mate striking a light. The vessel was much damaged, and the mate was seriously injured. The Western Times says that workmen are busily employed in preparing the prisons formerly used for prisoners of war at Prince Town, Dartmoor, for the re ception of convicts. It is expected that the first arrival of prisoners will be in about two months, if the place can be got ready for them so soon. An interesting-looking young woman, named Amelia Snoswell, living at Gravesend, has been apprehended for having murdered, during a fit of madness, a child of her sister, aged thirteen months, by cutting its throat with a large knife. She has on several occasions betrayed symp toms of unsound mind. On Thursday week, at New W)rtley, near Leeds, two boys having converted an old gun barrel into a sort of c.innon, charged it with powder and shot. As one of them was taking it up in his hand, it accidentally went off, and the contents were discharged into the heart of William Grayland Thompson, a child five years old, who instantly expired. A tea dealer, of Bath, in a rage for cheapness, got some tea papers printed at Birmingham, but the ink being of the commonest kind, the effect on the tea was most nauseous ; and his custom was rapidly declining before he discovered that the patronage of his owr: townsmen would have served him best. All the chief Roman Catholic nobility and gentry in London attended St. George's, Westminster, on Sunday week, to hear Dr. Wiseman's farewell address before leaving for Rome to receive the dignity of Cardinal. Dr. Doyle, senior priest at St. George's, or Dr. Newman, will be his successor as Bishop of London. The execution of Wm. Bennison, for murder, took place at Edinburgh on Friday morning. He ascended the scaf fold with a firm step, and viewed the multitude assembled with apparent unconcern. After engaging in prayer, the bolt was withdrawn, and he was hurled into eternity. He struggled only for two or three minutes. Mr. Hawkins, of Beeford, near Driffield, has a cat w hick at present is suckling four young squirrels. A brood of young squirrels have been taken from their nest, and pussey haying been deprived of her young, except one kitten, she immediately adopted and became the foster mother of the squirrels. _ _ _ . Mr. Thos. Shaw, an officer of the Denbighshire County Court, has been killed near the Miners junction of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. He got out of an ex cursion train at night ; the train left him behind ; a points man incautiously directO him to walk along the rails to gain a public road, and be was struck down by a train. The Dumfries Hera d states that the Rev. Mr. M'Dermid, presbyterial inister, of Dumfries, being at sea-bathing quarters at lvend, mounted a platform of rock on the face of that Tugged coast, and preached to about 200 people, some perched on rocks around him, others reclining on the shingle, others standing on the sands. The Wesleyan Conferencb have censured and degraded the Rev. Thomas Rowland. He is not to be entrusted with the charge of any circuit until he has given assurance that his " views" have undergone a change. The Con ference has also passed a vot of censure on the Rev. Dr. Beaumont, " for the failur of the due application of discipline." While a woman, named onser, was eating her din ner, at Whitwick, Leicestershire, on Saturday week, her child, a boy about fifteen months old, who was sitting on her lap, took a small piece of bacon from her plate, and attempted to swallow it ; bui the bacon stuck in his throat, and he was suffocated before the obstruction could be removed. The following is a copy of an inscription on the tomb stone in the churchyard of Llanbeblig, near Carnarvon : " Of such is the kingdom of heaven.' Here lie the remains of Thomas Chambers, dancing-master, whose genteel address and assiduity in teaching recommended him to all that had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He died June 19th, 1765, aged 31." A TROPHY OF THE HUNTERS 01? OLD.—A short tin - ,e since, a magnificent pair of elk antlers, attached to a por tion of the skull, were dug up in the South Forty-foot excavation, opposite the Helpringham Eau. They were found at the depth of eleven feet from the surface; they are upwards of five feet in extent, and have scarcely an imperfection.—Boston Herald. MONEY-LENDING ADVERTISEMENTS.—In the Insol vent Debtors' Court, London, a money-lending adver tiser, who had succeeded in swindling a gentleman named Little out of securities to the value of £9OO, was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months. It ought to be pretty well known that a large portion of money-lending and borrowing advertisements, advertised in the morning papers, are put there by swindling gangs. NOVEL PLACE TO PRINT A NEWSPAPER IN.—The Nollingamshire Guardian—a full-sized newspaper— an nounces that "During the ensuing three months, com mencing next Friday, it will be printed in the Mechanical Room at the great exhibition now open in connection with the Nottingham Mechanics' Institution. It will be printed by steam, under the inspection of hundreds of thousands of visitors to the exhibitions." CAUTION TO CUCUMBER EATERS.—A man, named John Watkins, slater and plasterer. of Evesham town, died early on Saturday, from too freely eating cucumber the previous night. The silly man ate no less than three of these unwholesome things with his supper, after which he called for a pint of ale. Ile had only one drink of it, however, when he was seized with a rattling in his throat, and immediately lost his speech. William Augustus Shean, a major in the army, a tall, remarkable-looking man; is in custody in London on a charge of bigamy. It is stated that he married, in 1838, Cecilia Charlotte Fanchell, with whom he obtained a for tune, which he quickly spent, and then deserted her. In 1848 he married Mary Whittaker Green, who is also in possession of a large fortune. His first wife is now living at Boulogne. DEATH OF A RHINOCEROS.—Wombwell's collection of animals, now exhibiting at Paisley, has lost one of its at tractions by the death of its female rhinoceros on Sunday week. The animal had been a member of this travelling menagerie for nine years, and is said to have cost £l,OOO. The Edinburgh Museum is understood to be in treaty for the remains, in order to add the skeleton, &c., to its other objects of interest. On Monday week, at the Suffolk assizes, in the course of a trial for murder, some of the details of which were not the most delicate, Baron Alderson, addressing a lady on the bench, accompanied by a very intelligent looking little boy, about six or seven years of aga, said, " Do you think you are performing a wise part in bring ing a child of that age to hear details of this kind ; I'm ashamed of you, take Lim out ." ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.—A number of prizes it o l y i r a a v it been che Rhot ac c i o l n ul t b, e a :ded cial,tt Squadron for,o Tha lu,,a. b eds y the r,( d, ucr Ne iu ' np s g s , el of the past oNi:agl,siuneege ktoothe f. he £lOO, took place on Thursday. and was won byn ine Mr. Cl berlayne's cutter Arr ow, 84 tons, beating others. The Duke of Marlborough's schooner Wyvern, 205 tons, and Mr. R. C. Naylor's cutter Sultana, 100 tons, also ciaried. _........." 1 " .. ..--'...- ---- sdi accused o f thre e ,.. of theft in Edinburgh and Leith, aas been:o:oe . tfncohlaua C cesster t royi TY OF REFUGE.—A young man , ----teas' the jail, because the authorities deem it tot! estfhiers, try him in Edinburgh: fine encourage hedgers biros all classes (and, for aught we know, e5.,400. ought to fly to Shetland, as one 0f the citi . 0,1.7 the VP . MELTING DOWN OLD IRON.----OR MOndaY.Zl/415toped , foundry of Messrs. Knight and CumminPO4_7_7t the 0 1 . ; bombshell, which had been purchased atn % wo e iron, exploded in one of the furnaces, blowni,g_ubhotli two feet of the lining in the vicinity of tne stroyed the building.—Kent Herald. . on Its!: On Saturday week a gentlemanly-1001°4,w thee!: ta T hi r h e, e tu e hs x eu p ah l l o a L e i resultedo xh n oboesii v eg ma au f r tge o gr m ei ad i t . h i e t H e w x ao p du a l n di t s i p g r otelebtolf loadbt l b s o e s d ° o 4o ! the Woodman Hotel, Wakefield, and pree":_A b e er, of a gentleman well known, stated that he r fo g o a,, commended by him to the house. On t o ,nros th the fancy _ ~. morning he paid his bill, and went WI .., 1 er 1 ,,, to church. Next mornin he went out, a n d On turned, and it was soon di scovered that ne,,, e b i o 0 , many articles of jewellery from the hotel. 11 ..t been found. Mrs. Sevester, a lady of in Pr to nt, i l ll f i don, is in custody for having defrauded her Ili in 0 to Ruddell, of Regent-street. Mrs. Re d `id dons_.4 some rent to Mrs. Sevester, inadvertently Is The y ri a £lO notes, believing they were taken up by Mrs. Sevester, who, on her d'-e° . „ii(1 00 , 1 .5 mistake, declared that she had received but fir: b r e i d e ano' It was proved, however, that she had nal" , two £lO notes into Drummond's Bank. 0 Coll l l ' lo VALUE OF AN ARCHITECT'S TIME AT C. 1%. pa ) ii pi A committee has just now advertised ' the 0 0 1 0. specifications" are required for a public hal l cfl o r oio ../ with a mad liberality, they offer to the sors-longed T o tor (one out of forty, say), after he has, °: to tbe„,4 drawn out a plan, made an elevation pleasintione ir it y ; and satisfactory to the mind (not to h? r idiolitto, knowledge), canvassed the committee (n°' "44a 0 °' council ou i h s uTte,nßh s ca t A, in a lop c dth k Ehh y adoe a trF r , at d twThe Heil a al f Eitg t no e gpn r ling expenses), stooped to intrigue, and acbie e l the tempting sum of five pounds! The°. ie 'c.a."' •,,f Is MOST EXTRAORDINARY GUN Acein- - .4 00 1 .-,s, before last Mr. Crosby, of Mapleton, wa s i l. ", e sow:ibe palings, one of the barrels went off, and tbefl'oghtet'og close to his head, grazing his cheek. lii' B ,l ool ;:fine hisonh a ßaegTrdeoao ofuFfhi short ut: ile s lsi te. p lnh a ssaa r ilTr r rio o rrpoo r p,i, 7. irens double-barrelled scigt.r si o °t ri. l l , P ,r e :n e h l icitt eto o r b vi t , tO l l i nes i d i. I l ' i:cr al opi j P i. o in the same position, and drawing it thrldePeot., to illustrate his relation, theother barrellootbeioipel the charge through his brain. He fell d e ' t iosee% s ldo, three rort , i y t e w a r a s s i a n l c s r o e a s s h e o d w 2 n s t perh that t quarterly meeting of the Bristol town-o°,oo'm (0 0 Tuesday, it appeared from the Custom-b 0 PO the report submitted by the Dock Cool o f; since the passing of the Dock Transfer o,' yes ,Ar revenue during the same period had inc re- , - e rtie,d, per cent. As another indication of the Pr e r c tinrooll aged forty, was tried for having the port had progressively increased the in mote had proportionally declined, testifying • to s OO and healthy state of trade. • be° X. 5 note!: _r..._ery of ils... l''' .!!!! 1! inur'aere fitis ilLool e her sister, took charge of her family , e °9s isos et hisf s i children. whhfpaeouetrosri ,berhe arureiexisoddbcfiiattnche:dyd T ed. h nocac e hofhnii sister's ili id wwasi tgo l h i u eb s de b atcorneni cent., whilstel yd t afnsoaidrnxt. m : t l pa t o e gi ntia lue s_ P ' j r ol :l4 a r ite i: e 41 0 l e 44 ,01 : 1 1 0 j 1 0 ii :o children fell away till they were but 51 "rie boe, r 'be , d r found the prisoner guilty of an aggra val " for I v am' she was sentenced to be transported , og bten er ti the e d p, aiA a nr s psd s e i re. z nici es, on Weinesday, Hannah CurtiO4ris,bsooo` indicted for the wilful murder of Thomason' the t ool e p i g I o t r r i i . c s oe e , aT d t nA h g i married was that she purchased arsenic previous herself .-b oa, Glared band. lared io:crdliolfAseoiusnrursot found manner t n ui ncpihn i l lerean::i interment was she tmhah h ai oopyse i emnja m , nfitioaolthtahecui w dvhlonanei i f.fdd t tbc h eetbegerht : a l ueelrtrdaeitisiiieteseaynA:: howl. s.a c e sa, pb:tiep;:sonii:no:sentidt:teon. bt,biri b ueil:sto e t e foot, gotei fdpe s o i 1,,,i.0,1,17:! t a mr ial oyielovwwauabonylogydsltaardat station, fixed.i n f n r ,g o , m a t death. 1A PARASOL ACCIDEINI:Th.I Pr , ' de one: 0 0, bi t ° visitor at BridlingßbtyyonwthheQicpuhrnety, was Walkll3o,oo tacto parasol in her month, the other end ea rn ba d iii P" t ioeil# one with a hook at the end. E t n h o e se p . osit T io h n e scessi ve ent f o r. r og i the patient aswasfu T considerableet. oE ohfa pthpeil instrument yhasnodolne l: aradencdoa vee F lret r r e da n c e t n . ewl tb p rp. o I 0 •l o v P.: : consequence, until Dr. Peirson, on he ing A it l . I. l r e rrif 111 , I i o . i Or; ! fo r fe sler The Rev. George Conway, (Kah-Ge's — o e ,s' j' l. - if Indian chief, gave a lecture on tempers% AOsiOrdon man Institute, on Thursday ev enings l o t lro ae l h Ner n r Gr : o at fi s a a a t zT me c t ek l , ed es i i ' a l dangerFitenisuoEmuderf ee je o l Ad b td of h p , e h f s s,f e c a r oubsatlirsehnn i L i to,,oio na e c '. 6s ilt i i :ob i I.o,loe r do c: ; e : j i If r i o i rd or obi ro rvio l i p °; . 4: #1°1 ,44 U:1 0 : g in the chair. The lecturer depicted , # l", f ie,ol o ,, - 0 -, ful language, the destructive effects or : 2 sea - bee - d O fri s i the Indian race, showing how h r 4 1 ' T .' they or ceded 0 Clvll zation and Christianity oi ; ,n10 5 ',,0,. tie,' his intercourse with the American aboll,'" o a fr ,itig 'err that intercourse, which should have hrdesoll'oll,-,04, the highest blessings, into a dark o°' eel" tOr - of Mr. Copway's deep pathos, relieved bY ° o f ' . ,,biell, or of humour, strongly excited the feelingsoside[eo 01 0 elf and, at the conclusion of the lecture, s f me here her came forward to enrol themselves s' to it ci;j0, 31 ,0,' society. Tile room and lobby lead h ltog si :: Scirer r crowded, and hundreds went a way a o o . h jer te lr TRANSMISSION OF THE QUEEN S ''' - peeel,e' tri e rv o o/1 GRAPH.--On Thursday, the Queen 's e s i'br el,iloyAr shortly after two o'clock, was distribut „,,,"t° int, OP graph from the centrsl station, L o tbbn'" per,of i t Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Eil'lllingba°3l# 5b170(0/0 Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasga f 1 ',,f 50 0 tblert three o'clock. The speech consisting " who O t be ~.,5 7 streamed off by the best manipulators, As on', at the rate of 45 and 52 words a Inie ut r e 'to tna,'', i e c o cmtained the Queen's " cordial lase'?" Rol" te , extension of the elective franchise n o t th c Ooll t io(P taken on from Crewe, beyond vvhich P tro ° in to i% o 0 0 1 does not at present extend, by sPee isi ing °C :O l t " and thence by the express boat, eonlesc o 'cl - 0 to los which delivered it in Dublin at abo,n t an °e n c of evening. The Electric Telegraph 1- , ° ° t l o polit! o . for messages between their principal in u e org e of ' fr itlil north, south, east, and west, at a C „', 4 14. ~n o f e.,1 munications not exceeding twentY° l ",",frern°""of l' e f or i a STEAM-BOAT DISASTER.- - On the - oper ty ~e ‘ : ir week the Shandon steamer (the Pr from t R i .5 it'if Burns, of Glasgow), was on her voYag e oE seng. e nb i V, of the Crinan Canal to Oban, ; stn re north, and when navigating the narr e is dy's u' l - der• 00 0 ; entangled with the chain which partite Easdale from Seal Island , a t he rlim o li'of mov es re the l oot 0 : 1 0 0 this trifling cause, which partially t e ck iven_ o etrof A from her person, the steamer wo uld be,60 0 6" course, and before the engines alarm s tn. Os/ struck upon a sunken rock, to the fsbe n 0:000 ; on board. The passengers W W I, Iter e 4doi Gough and other distinguished pers°,;bnil, bee :A Happily there were several boats vritniP bing li4 fr t he ; to their assistance, and the Shandon ' _oltked : 1 02 posen gern stio den foi o ag „, number of her passengers, gradually " l ittle ~o r tst ooo transferred to the Dolphin. The o be h i nira at Oban to have the trifling i n jurY 0 1 0 / wanedhtittawaosbfaohu,ndansdhehehrad made verY for the ; 0 se lect h o c° t I s ol f rep aired . The he ' 0 THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.'" , on t- . 0 % 10 o LA of the House of Lords have rep the olooeorf,, of suppressing the slave trade, and til` st ef6°_,l, 4 greatly in i " Th s "' s ' r mary of their conclusions: --1• The Pl e rve hlev t i fi r .r cruising squadron has been _ A 3. . c e , .,4. lig its cost has been much exaggerat e ";,. seitials r o per precautions, it is not an unhea", to athn 0 0 , 0 60, : f gulated Pave trade, (as has been. ; Lqiing , l i e /St impossible of execution, no materia!;orionegty,,o.i.ro to withdraw the cruisers in part , ae o gest eu itb ° ISO the present system, and utterly s'' th in 511 005 0, 07 0 1 past profession of Great Britain °° 5, The ah es 4 Ai abolished the British slave trade: , be net the, in i if of nourishing and maintaining Butterlyve't"lio jl6O lawful trade, which must be , de W ere „, _..00P r i p cruisers were withdrawn, and w hich _,. o erv,„, p 9,40, to an unlimited extent if the slave til t ; 7 be tran 015 present cost of the squadron shoulaolooto a trolff) 6. That to abandon the suppression _i i' d, 17,01,4 in the face of the whole civilized 0 w ould hsled r i, r o r solemnly and repeatedly pledged, $ . l ; _ re i s to o f _Ai, her national honour. 7. That teseuseentlpel 010715, believe that the present system is by ti d ' A•; I s I t F. a and immediate increase of efficiencYl.ooo !. 0 1 c or such improvements as we have qe7ded l e o; 4 if these improvements be adoptea : p a son t, be obts it i3O sures recommended, there is t ea ,nOl, O VOYAGE OF THE DOVIILE•BOO;hos 01 ...0 , ta_ Jo y RUSSIA.—We have had the part ' c ,,,, alaSig,',, Dv/ 1,1 great object may be speedily an° .„ STOrtbe v the little iron steamer Luna , I °c, Sess'd Op, t / which was built and fitted out f ilion, ° ICI° bilq bei e F,; 8 fee t ' s';o o ,o' Dumbarton. The Luna is built 0 _ bo ut ~ 4 So/ b 72 rea t d o t n h s 2 b o u , rd a e h n d , i h te e r r lengthdth of b.0_ , , , ::,,. i 0 ou to p.. of) draught of water, when in sailingww".serehloto;7/ feet three inches—a very swan OP s ci 6 c ifF - V his P bete 00 , et , German Ocean with, even at o t r , t t d ; 0 0 year. Notwithstanding this, h 'Te e th e dil e ' 2 and hands bold enough to undertaLo ste ani o f t erl , the command of Captain Gentle , se, , a nd , was p iplo pot/ Dumbarton on the 29th of June last sbr 5 11 0 101 of about a fortnight, including the time 00' 0 W K s e at sundry ports, where she called ,lent es! t oo, s il le safely at Cronstadtz, where the Vt. ra tbe'od 'OO l The Luna is fitted with two boa'-' U,, en d e re that is to say. she has a rudder at e l i i l e c o 'd . In oo y 0/9 4 the same which of these goes .. a ns idere d 0 0 10°4 ocean, however, this was not cu ether fee t,' pdo gale. Captain Gentle did not altog, so bon. be .4i saw that the Luua was a canital,wi c k, on i s in n;rl i advantage; and hence, in encountering ii i e ! gi s i i f the duty. The Luna sailed from 4 5 to° t ber o ), with 35 tons of coals on her deck a__ rse vvl oc laf o nn ers ; and, notwithstanding the n e°i',, o os, D of ... Lenelrt rseoc . was AacHe es" Mansfield, alluded to, arrived at Elsineuri nil; o leot o e v i l at the rate of 71 knots, or 8 Eng.. b a nd 0 °, 4 ,1; 1 10 rig being a single mast, with one! _„ 1 , n ho" str ov" From Elsineur to Cronstadtz she RP" tity of time, and then she was „ wi tn P sisal crew, who were much delighted Constitutional. left undet.ch,,, AN. Aug. 2v, 1851,