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tinptrial tiarltanunt. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY Lord BROUGHAM brought forward his bill for the amendment of the jurisdiction of the country. He pro posed several bills for facilitating the conveyance of pro perty, and the granting of leases; for the admission in evidence of certain official and other documents ; for the administration of criminal justice, &c. After a few remarks from Lord CAMPBELL, the bills, nine in number, were laid on the table, and read a first time. - HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. A. select committee of inquiry was appointed to consi der the question of privilege in the case of Howard v. Gossett, as decided by the Queen's Bench. Sir R. PEEL then moved the third reading of the May nooth College Bill. Mr. EWART moved an amendment, deprecating the endowment of any religious denomination. Mr. H. MARSLAND seconded the amendment, which was subsequently withdrawn. Mr. BANKES moved that the bill be read this day six months. He took a review of the decisions to which the house had come upon all the previous stages of this bill, for the purpose of showing that the majority of its mem bers was not a fair representation of the wishes of the majority of their constituents upon this subject. He complained of the manner in which the Home Secretary had introduced the name of her Majesty into this discus sion, and said that be knew of but one other case in which the name of the Sovereign had been similarly introduced by a minister of the crown to influence the debates of the House of Commons. In that case it was introduced to forward the wishes of the people; in the present it was introduced to counteract them. He considered the in troduction of the Sovereign's name in the former case to have been most injurious to the constitution; but he ap prehended that the introduction of it into the present case would prove most injurious to the crown. He then ani madverted with some smartness on Mr. Ward's tactics in Postponing his motion for taking the funds for defraying the increased grant to the College of Maynooth out of the property of the Irish church until after the second reading of the bill, and observed, that if Mr. Ward had not run away from the " sham fight " which he then threatened, in pursuance of the advice of that Nestor of the house, Mr. Hume, whom everybody consulted when in difficulty, he would have thrown his ministerial friends into inextricable confusion, and would have totally de feated their bill almost at its very outset. In reply to Sir R. Peel's observation that be had sent this bill as a messenger of peace to Ireland, he asked, how had the messenger returned ? Had he returned with the olive branch of peace in his mouth, or with the letters of Bishop ll'ggins and John of Tuam under his wing, filled _ ..,„, -. .fast England which he would not dis house by reading ? He regretted the manner in had been received in Ireland ; for if it should unfortunately be passed, the pain which he should feel would be aggravated by the certainty that it would not give to Ireland that peace which was hoped for from this most dangerous concession—a concession inevi tably leading to angry annual discussions for another still more important one, which would never be discontinued until the appropriation of the property of the Irish Pro testant Church was settled in a way which he was certain that that house would never sanction. He repeated, that the voice of the eeople of England was against Sir R. Peel and his measures ; and since to beseech him was useless, he now, in the name of the people, defied him to dissolve the parliament. vectives gust thc, which this measur Several members spoke in favour of the bill, and the debate was adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. The debate on the Alavnooth College Bill occupied the whole evening, and was again adjourned. HOUSE OF OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY The debate on the Maynooth College Bill was resumed Mr. COLQUHOUN observed, that the religious part of this question had been so completely exhausted that he would not say one word upon it ; on the contrary, be would arraign this measure on grounds of state policy alone. Ile then proceeded to show that there were three parties in Ireland.—the moderate party, the republican party, represented by the Nation, and the O'Connell party, supported by 3,000 priests, which he would call the party of Conciliation-hall. On some points the two par ties which he had mentioned last, differed essentially from each other ; for instance, the party of the Nation sup ported, and the party of Mr. O'Connell condemned the Bequests, Act of last session. On the New Colleges Bill of this session the party of the Nation had already placed the stamp of their approbation, whilst Mr. O'Connell had said, that he must receive the imprimatur of the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland before he gave any opinion either upon its wisdom or the reverse. But these two parties—the Roman Catholic hierarchy on the one side, and tie Nation on the other—differing widely on points like these, cordially united in their wishes and exertions to obtain a repeal of the union. It had been said, that the Secretary for Ireland had of late been converted into a mere clerk of the Home-office. Now, if this were so, it was not wise to make the government of Ireland a mere appendage to the Home•office ; on the contrary, it would have been much wiser to have placed in Ireland a firm, and able, and enlightened administrator of law, like Lord Morpeth. The consequence of placing a weak govern ment in Ireland had been that the two parties to which ne had been referring had resumed their agitation, because they felt that they could agitate with impunity. At last the government was compelled by the speeches made at the monster meetings to interfere, and as soon as it con fronted the agitation it was put down and disappeared. He next called the attention of the house to the services which the Irish Protestants hail rendered to the govern ment, and to the ingratitude with which their services had been requited. Such was the condition of the North of Ireland at the time of those monster meetings, that the Irish Secretary entertained the greatest alarm lest the peace of Ireland should be disturbed, and had the greatest difficulty in preventing an outbreak. He applied to the clergy of the established church in the north of Ireland to use their influence over their flocks to prevent an out break on the one side, which was certain to be followed by an outbreak on the other, and then atter no long in terval by a civil war. They did use their influence, and the Irish Secretary thanked them for their successful use of it. Did they in return ask for any of the sordid gifts of office or for laws of increased severity against their Ro man Catholic fellow-subjects ? No such thing : they asked only for security—they asked the government to put down the Riband as it had put down the Orange asso ciations, and to prohibit monster meetings, as it had pro hibited Orange processions. They did not ask for the abolition of the National Board, but they did ask for the extension to them of the same powers for education which were given to the Protestant Dissenters of England, viz., to have their own schools. What was the answer which they received from Sir James Graham ?—an answer, hardly civil, couched in the most haughty terms, amount ing to a peremptory refusal of their application. All that was then required in Ireland to continue the tranquility which had thus been restored was ,a firm, temperate, and equal administration of the law. But was that the policy pursued by her Majesty's Ministers? No. Their policy was to introduce this measure, which, according to their statement, was to unite to the British Crown all the differ ent parties into which Ireland was divided. To show that ministers had been completely disappointed in the results which they expected to flow from it, he read several ex tracts from the Nation newspaper and from the letters of Bishop Higgins. He contended that a greater blunder had never been committed by any government; and what made that blunder more inexcusable was, that it had been committed after ministe s had become fully acquainted with the state of difficulty in which the government of France was placed by the conduct of its hierarchy on the subject of eduction. After quoting a long extract from the Edinburgh Revise', explanatory of the dilemma which the French Government had recently found itself invol ved, he called attention to the language used by Sir Ro bert Peel in 1838 respecting the dangers to be apprehended from the progress of a party in the Church of Rome which wished to make the civil subordinate to the ecclesiastical government in foreign countries. To the correctness of that language ample testimony had been borne by Mr. Pringle, who had recently made the sacrifice of place to principle, unlike another gentleman, who had recently made the sacrifice of principle to place. He therefore asked Sir R. Peel whether, with the example of France in addition to that of Prussia before him, he thought that the conduct of that party in the Church of Rome was so mitigated as to justify him in denouncing the fears which he had once himself entertained as childish and fanatical. He told Sir R. Peel that his present measure was opposed to sound policy in Ireland, for it tended to increase the strength of that party with which he must have to contend if it was his intention to govern Ireland well. It placed in the hands of a hierarchy, which he neither controlled nor paid, a power which in France was now shaking a powerful government to its centre. He asked Sir Robert Peel, whether he intended to make the Irish priesthood amenable to the law, or the law amenable to them ? If Sir It. Peel should answer, as no doubt he would, that he intended to make them amenable to the law, then lie (Mr. Colquhoun) would point out to him the difficulties which he would have to encounter. You had in the Irish priesthood the friends of repeal. Unless Sir Robert was prepared to grant repeal, be could have no peace with that priesthood, for they were to a man swore to obtain it. Did he mean to protect the converts from the Roman Catholic teligion in Ireland unharmed ? Then he referred Sir Ro bert to the trials which took place at Tralee, to show that he would have to enfo rce th e l aw against them, for they were hostile to what they called proselytism, but what he called liberty of conscience. Did Sir Robert mean to tolerate the conduct of the priests in denouncing individu als from the altar, and in thus affecting their property and even their lives? If he did not, then must be again come into collision with the priests ; and thus, if his object were to govern Ireland through the priests, his scheme was a total failure. He contended, that in this scheme there were three great blunders. First of all, this bill was a great blunder as to Ireland. The country had now had 50 years experience of the fruits of the doctrines taught at Maynooth, and he said that those doctrines had pro duced a priesthood the most illiterate in Europe, and the most inimical to the government and institutions of Great Britain. This bill gave you no control over the College at Maynooth, and yet you were preparing to stereotype it among the permanent institutions of the country. That was the Irish blunder. The English blunder was, that the government had taken up this college, which it sought to endow, and from which the people of England wished to withdraw all endowment, and was endeavouring to thrust it down the throats of that Protestant people. The third blunder was, that Sir R. Peel, who at the commence ment of this session was the powerful minister of a pow erful party, which tendered him a disinterested support, bad riven his party in twain by introducing this unlucky measure. Mr. Colquhoun concluded by expressing his deep regret that Sir R. Peel should have driven from his side sincere and honest friends, for the sake of living a short and inglorious life on the forbearance of his foes, After severarother members had spoken, the house di vided, when there appeared—For the third reading, 317 ; against it, 184 ; majority 133. Mr. DUNCOMBE then submitted a clause limiting the operation of the bill to three years, whith was opposed by Sir R. Peel, and rejected by a majority of 243 to 145, HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY Lord BEAUMONT moved for certain papers connected with the state of affairs in Greece. He complained, that the real interest of the country were lost sight of in party. quarrels, and that, not content with internal strife, the government had allowed its troops to make incursions across ►he Turkish frontier. The noble lord then pro ceeded to describe the position of the three parties into which Greece was divided, and quoted passages from Lord Aberdeen's despatches to Sir E. Lyons, from which he tried to prove, that from the principles there laid down the British Government was bound to interfere in the af fairs of Greece. Lord ABERDEEN begged to assure the noble lord that he was quite in error in supposing the marauders on the Turkish border to be Greek troops ; they were, in fact, a band of two dozen robbers, who bad crossed the frontier, robbed a house, and killed two people. This was the in vasion which the noble lord called on the three powers to unite in repressing. It was true that the Turkish Go vernment was incensed at incendiary proclamations printed in Greek newspapers, but, as the press in Greece w:is free, the government could not prevent such publications. In regard to the sketch drawn by the noble lord of the inter nal affairs of that country, the state of things might be lamentable, but if King Otho chose to have a bad mi nister, the British Government could not be expected to interfere in the matter. The noble lord went on to deny that British interests were sacrificed in Greece, and con cluded by refusing to produce papers which in fact did not exist. The motion was then withdrawn. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second read ing of the Charitable Bequests Bill. In 1818 a com mission had been appointed to inquire into the charitable trusts in England and Wales, which had been renewed at various times till the year 1837. It had discharged its duties with the utmost ability, and its reports contained a digest of all information that could be brought to bear on the subject ; but, having only powers of inquiry, no prac tical result has yet followed from its labours. The pre sent measure was intended to remedy the abuses which had been detected in the superintendence over charitable trusts. At present the Court of Chancery was the only tribunal which took cognizance of breaches of trust, but, though eminently fitted for fulfilling this office in the case of large endowments, the machinery of the court was in applicable to small charities. The noble lord then proved the truth of this by several cases taken from the report, and proceeded to state that his measure would consist in the appointment by the Crown of commissioners who should have the power of filling up vacant trusteeships. It might be objected that considerable political influence was attached to these offices, and that the commissioners would use it in favour of the minister for the time being; and every precaution should be taken to make them inde pendent, and to raise them above the temptation of per verting their influence for political purposes. He sug gested that the funds for the support of these officers should be raised by one per cent. levied on the charities, or, if, this were insufficient, the deficiency should be charged on the consolidated fund. The bill was read a second time, on the understanding that it should be referred to a select committee. --e. HOUSE OF LORDS. —FRIDAY. The Duke of WELLINGTON moved the first reading of the Maynooth Bill, and fixed the second reading for the 2d of June. The Earl of RODEN presented a large number of peti tions against the bill, and gave notice that on the second reading of the bill he should move the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the nature and character of the text books used at Maynoeth College. The Earl of CHARLEVILLE thought the second read ing of the bill should be further postponed, to give time for the presentation of the numerous petitions against the bill. The Duke of WELLINGroN, considering the advanced period of the session and the length of the discussions that had taken place in the other house, did not think it could be further postponed. Earl FITZWILLIAM moved for a select committee to inquire into the practicability of establishing a definite principle of compensation to owners of land taken for railways. Lord STANLEY feared it would be impracticable to establish a definite rule to indefinite circumstances, but he would not object to the appointment of the committee if it was thought that any good could be derived from it. The committee was then appointed, and the house ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Mr. STEWART WORTLEY brought forward a resolu tion to compel all railway bills passed by that house to abide by any regulations that might be adopted in any general railway measure to be hereafter enacted. Lord Howicx approved of the resolution and moved an amendment to include a revision of the rate of tolls and fares. Mr. LABOUCBERE hoped the government would state what plan they meant to adopt with regard to the nume rous railway bills then before parliament, and without which it will be impossible to pass them during the pre sent session. After some discussion, the debate was adjourned till Monday. Sir V. BLAKE gave notice that, on the 16th of June, he would move two resolutions—first, that it was indeli cate and inexpedient for the enemies of the government to sit on the ministerial benches; and secondly, that members habitually using language inconsistent with the usages of civilised society, ought for the first offence to be reprimanded by the speaker, and, if found incorrigible, expelled the house. Mr. HLME intimated his intention not to press his mo tion for a call of the house ; and, At the request of Sir It. INGLIS, Sir J. GRAHAM said he should postpone the second reading of the Academical College (Ireland) Bill till Friday next. On the order of the day for going into committee of supply, _ _ Sir C. NAPIER called the attention of the house to the state of the navy generally, and insisted more particularly that the construction of our armed steamers was so faulty, that they would be quite inefficient in action, and no en gineers would venture to work them, from the danger of their blowing up in the event of a shot reaching their boilers. Mr. SODS ES contended that the steam navy of Great Britain was superior to that of any other country in the world, and that all the large class of steam-frigates now building would be able to carry stern guns on their main deck. Captain PECHELL thought the country was much in debted to Sir C. NAPIER for bringing the state of the navy before the country. He strongly urged upon the Admiralty the necessity of establishing places for the re ception of sailors when not employed afloat. Sir G. COCKBURN could only repeat a hat he had on several occasions stated in reply to Sir C. Napier, that the smaller steam-vessels of the navy were not intended to go into action, but to assist in manoeuvres and convey troops and stores. There was, however, a larger class of steam-frigates now constructing, which would carry much heavier guns, and be much more efficient in naval warfare. After some further conversation, the house went into committee of supply on the navy estimates. POREIGN AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. The Royal Mail-packet Company's steamer Avon ar rived at Southampton at half-past five, p.m., on Friday last. She brings mails of the following dates From San Juan Nicaragua, up to March 30; Chagres, April 3; Carthagena, April 8 ; Santa Martha, April 9 ; San lago de Cuba, April 18 ; Jamaica, April 23 • Demerara, April 20 ; Trinidad, April 21 ; Barbadoes, April 21; Grenada, April 25 • Antigua, April 27; St. Thomas, April 30; and Fayal, May IG. On freight 300,000 dollars, on mer chants' account, and sixty-nine passengers. The news relative to the crops is of an encouraging character. In all the islands the progress of sugar mak ing was very satisfactory, and the appearance of the crops for the next year was as good as could be expected. At Trinidad the exports from the Ist of January were 9,000 Idids., and about the same quantity was supposed to be on board the vessels which were loading. The entire crop would, it was feared, be rather under previous estimates, but yet, nevertheless, 23,000 hhds. appear to be reckoned as the gross product of the season. Labour was in demand in some of the districts, and wages were advancing. Here, as well as in Demerara, they were waiting the arrival of the Coolies. At St. Lucia there was scarcely sufficient rain for the young canes, which were not in a first-rate condition. Vessels were fast loading with new sugar both there and at Do minica. The weather is described as sultry in these lo calities, and at Castries, the capital of St. Lucia, the shock of an earthquake had been experienced. At Ja maica and Barbadoes the yield of sugar is stated to be on the whole satisfactory, both in quantity and quality. The political affairs of the West Indies are not of a character to attract interest at home. A scale of new im port duties had been published at Demerara, but it excites no comment in the papers. The judgment of the Supreme Court ordering the " retaking and resale" of 11 estates, for which the purchasers had neglected to pay the stipu lated prices, had been stayed by a notice from Lord Stanley. The money, upwards of 200,000 dollars, to re lieve the several properties from the disadvantages of sale had been offered and refused by the authorities before the arrival of the order in arrest of judgment, so that the parties interested have very luckily escaped pay ment for the present, through the refusal of the law officers to take the money when asked. The inha bitants of Guadaloupe and Antigua have very hand somely subscribed for the sufferers by the fire at Barba does, and the thanks of the Assembly of the Barbadians have been voted them for their seasonable gift. The French corvette Proserpine had arrived at St. Lucia from Martinique, with Lieutenant-General Daulle on board, who was paying a visit to several of the English settle ments. The cause of Lieutenant-General Daulle's pre sence at Martinique was to investigate, in his character of Inspector-General of French finance, accounts in the en gineering department of that island, which were not con sidered perfectly agreeable to the Finance Commission in Paris. The Missouri papers speak of extensive lead caves re cently discovered in that state. They are in Jefferson county, about six miles from St. Louis, and riot far from Herculaneum. They are so rich, according to the ac counts, as to seem " made out of lead." Five have been already discovered, but there is reaso❑ to belieie that a great many more will be found. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE OVERLAND MAILi.), In anticipation of the hi-monthly Indian mail, intelli gence has been received from Bombay to the sth of April ; Calcutta, the 7th ; and Madras, the 14th. The intelli gence is not of a very important character. Sir Charles Napier's expedition against the Pindarees has been crowned with complete success. Bejar Khan, the leader, and a considerable part of his followers, have been captured. The Punjaub remains in a very unsettled state. The Khalsa troops have come to an arrangement with Goolah Singh, who is to pay them 36 lacs of rupees. Phond Savant and his confederates continue to find sanctuary in the Goa territories. The Portuguese gover nor still refuses to allow our troops to follow the rebels within his frontier, and is unable, even if be were willing, to drive out the fugitives. The measures for concentrating a body of troops on the north-west frontier of the Sutlej are nearly completed. Sir H. Hardinge will visit the Upper Provinces during the year. Cholera is prevalent in Calcutta, but is not of a nature to create more than customary alarm. From China there is no news of interest. There is a floating rePorithWACleW6;been surprised and captured, but no reliance can be placed on a report which has become proverbial by its frequency. The court-martial on Col. Wallace had not commenced. _..... . .......... The express frnm Madras, with the first part of the Eng lish mail of the 20th February, had not reached Bombay on the sth of April. COMMERCIAL REPORT, APRIL 7. CALCUTTA.-Our market remains in much the same position as on the 19th ult. The late news from England has scarcely at all affected this market.—The money mar ket remained quiet. The Antigone of Sophocles, is to be brought out by Mr. Vandenhoff, at Palmo's Opera House, New 'York. Twenty-six persons are said to have perishe d in Russia in March by a terrific snow-storm. About 140 persons perished by an explosion of fire damp, which took place in a coal mine at Bouesu, near Quirrain, in Belgium, the other day. The East India Company have granted a pension of £lOOO a-year to the distinguished Oriental, Mohun Lal, who was mainly instrumental in rescuing the captives of Akhbar Kban. SWITZERLAND.—THE LEADER AGAINST THE JE SUITS.—The case of Dr. Steiger was heard by the supe rior tribunal at Lucerne on the 17th. Dr. Steiger made an eloquent defence, but the tribunal confirmed the sen tence of death that had been pronounced upon him, by a majority of seven to three. DUEL—It is said that the Baron Espiard de Colonge, the attache to the French Legation at Munich, has been suspended from his functions by M. Guizot, for having been engaged in a duel. His adversary was M. d'Almeida, Chamberlain of the Dowager Empress of Brazil. The duel was fought with swords, and M. Colonge received a slight wound near the eye. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.—The prominent event of the past fortnight is of a fearful character ; a tragedy of a hor rible description, which occurred on Saturday night. We allude to the murder, arson, and attempt at suicide, committed by one of the Emancipados who lately came to this country from the Havana ; the unfortunate victim having been the murderer's benefactor, and the other n - ran equally so, as well as the three women ; all of whom this monster, in his savage fury, has more or less seriously wounded. We may here observe that no cause has been assigned.—Jamaica Times. IRELAND. The Cork Reporter, of Tuesday, states that Mr. Wyse, M.P. and Dr. W. Cooke Taylor, are likely to be ap pointed as the principals of two of the projected colleges. - - The Cork Committee of Merchants have petitioned in favour of the line of railway by which it is proposed to connect Liverpool and Bury. The line is an important one for Ireland. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly meeting was held on .Monday, Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P. in the chair. Mr. O'Connell addressed the meeting, and stated that, as the Roman catholic bishops were to meet on Wednesday, he would decline entering upon the ques tion of the new colleges bill, adding that he would abide by whatever decision they might come to respecting the religious portions of the measure. The amount of the rent is over £4OO. THE TARA DEMONSTRATION.—On Wednesday this long-talked-of meeting took place. According to the repeal papers, there were 50,000 persons present. After the ceremony of the Alass, a procession was formed to the Valley of the Boyne, the temperance band playing, at the request of O'Connell, " The Boyne Water." Having passed through the town of Navan, the proceed ings of the day commenced by a resolution that a petition in favour of repeal should be presented to the House of Commons. O'Connell then addressed the meeting in a long speech, but there was no particular remark made by him. The banquet then took place, and was, like the other proceedings, evidently a dull affair. The only member of the Romish hierarchy present was Dr. Cant well. O'Connell, in the course of one of his speeches, said that " Sir Robert Peel was doing twice as much for Ireland as any whig government that ever existed. The whigs are gone—the radicals are beneath contempt—the Protestant dissenters have disgraced themselves for ever. Lord J. Russell is now nothing in political life. Peel can now laugh at the opposition of the whigs." Dr. Cantwell said that " he felt justified in saying, that there was not a Romish bishop in Ireland who did not sympathise in the object of the evening's banquet." He then went on to fling hack with energy the concessions of Sir Robert Peel, and solemnly asserted, that instead of appeasing the Papists, they would only serve to increase their exertions for repeal, &c. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-It is with feelings of more than ordinary pain that we record a fatal accident which occurred on Monday last to Albert Enery, Esq., of this city. As Mr. Enery was riding towards Thomastown, at the police barrack of Bennett's-bridge, he met the Thomas town car, at which his horse shied so violently as to throw him from the saddle. He, however, re-mounted, unin jured by the fall, and proceeded to inflict punishment on the animal, which being of a very sulky and vicious tem per, immediately turned homeward, and proceeded at full speed through the village. In turning the sharp angle of the bridge, the animal lost his legs, and with its rider was violently dashed to the earth. The horse, which was very severely bruised, upon regaining his feet, end, avoured to continue his course at the same speed, dragging with him for a short distance the body of Mr. Enery, whose foot had remained fast in the stirrup-iron. The animal having been at length arrested in his mad course, Mr. Enery, whose head and face were found to be dreadfully bruised and mangled, was carried into a house, where every ne cessary medical assistance was afforded him ; however medical skill was found to be unavailing, Mr. Enery hav ing breathed his last within two hours after the accident, during which period he had remained in a state of total insensibility. Mr. Enery was the only son of a widowed mother, the relict of the late Captain Enery, of the Kil kenny Militia. It is an extraordinary and melancholy coincidence, that Mr. Enery had on that morning deter mined that he would never again ride the horse—a predic tion which was indeed speedily and fearfully accomplished. —Kilkenny Moderator. UNIVERSITY c - CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, MAY 22.—The following degrees were con ferred to-day :—Bachelor in Civil Law.—Mr. T. F. Crosse, Exeter. Masters of Arts.—Rev. W. Savage, Queen's ; Rev. R. S. Sutton, Fellow of Exeter ; J. Ren dall, Fellow of Exeter ; P. A. Kingdon, Fellow of Exeter; Rev. T. F. W. Walker, Exeter ; Rev. E. J. G. H. Rich, Fellow of New College ; Rev. G. T. C oo k e , D emy o f Magdalen ; Re v . E. Royds, Brasenose ; Rev. G. S. Munn, Trinity; J. F. B. Blackett, Fellow of Merton; R. M. Richards, Merton; Rev. H. J. Gore, Merton.— Bachelor of Arts.—W. J. Ripley, Wadham, Grand Com pounder; H. G. Faussett, Student of Christ Church ; R. V. 'Williams, Christ Church ; B. Bluth, Magdalen ; J. Hughes, Oriel; Rev. T. W. Redfern, Magdalen-hall ;J. Burnard, Magdalen-hall ;W. S. Ferrers, Exeter ;G. R. W. Andrews, St. John's; C. T. Corrance, Trinity; R. Higgins, Worcester ; J. L. H a ll ward, Worcester ; A. Joseph, Brasenose.—Samuel James Bowles, from Rugby, was this day elected to the exhibition at Queen's. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 22.—At a congregation just held the following degrees were conferred :—M.A.—G. Boden, Trinity College; W. L. Scott, Caius College ; R. street, Queen's College; E. Gilpin, Trinity College.—Hon. M.A.—Hon. W. Stuart, Trinity College ; R. Clive, St. John's College.—LL.B.—Rev. J. Macdonald, Trinity Hall.—B.A.—C. D. Butterfield. St. John's College; C. W. Palm, Catherine Hall; Orlando Manley, Trinity College ; W. C. Roberts, St. John's College ; W. T. Cookson, St. John's College; H. Cooper, St. John's College ; L. Brockelbank, Queen's College ; J. Younge, King's College ; H. Strickland, Trinity College ; J. Merest, St. Peter's College ; El. T. Brunwin, Jesus Col lege; R. C. Douglas, Corpus Christi College; J. Down ing, Corpus Christi College; W. H. Brunton, St. Peter's College; R. Harding, Corpus Christi College; L. Bige, St. John's College ; J. Stephens, Trinity College ; W. Franklin, St. John's College ; J. Gr a y G oo d r i c h , S t. Catherine's Hall; A. W. Wilson, Queen's College; J. Y. Robins, Clare Hall ; G. C. Pease, Magdalene College ; T. F. Salmon, St. Jobn's College ; E. Wilson, St. Ca therine's Hall ; A. Barr, Emmanuel College ; G. D. Rowley, Trinity College. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. C. 0. Kenyon, to the rectory of Habberley, Salop.—Rev. H. Gipps, M.A., vicar of Corbridge, to the stall in Carlisle Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Dean of Wells.-- Rev. F. W. Sanders, rector of Harford, to be chaplain of the Plympton St. Mary Union.—Rev. J. Thompson, 8.D., chaplain of All Saints', Oxford, to the rectory of Cublington, Bucks.—ltev. R. Williams, M.A., late per petual curate of Stokenchurch, to the vicarage of Aston- Rowant, Oxfordshire.—Rev. J. Banks, 8.A., to the curacy of St. James', Glocester.—Rev. F. Darling, 8.A., to the curacy of Trinity Churcb, Tewksbury.—Rev. H. M. Walker, 8.A., to the curacy of Hardenhuisn, Wilts. —Rev. J. D. Gray, 8.A., to the curacy of St. Peter's, Bristol.—Hon. and Rev. W. W. B. Ponsonby, M.A. to the curacy of H a th erop, Gl ocester. — Rev. E . A. Brooks, M.A., to the curacy of Christian Malford, Wilts.—Rev. J. Carden, M.A., to the curacy of Oddington, Glocester. —Rev. E. Clifford, 8.A., to the curacy of Alderton and Littleton Drew, Wilts.—Rev. A. G. Munro, 8.A., to the curacy of Baunton, Glocester.—Rev. J. Penruddock, 8.A., to the curacy of Westport, Wilts.—Rev. C. F. S. Money, 8.A., to the curacy of Cheltenham, Glocester.— Rev. A. Turner, 8.A., to the curacy of Amberley, Glo cester.—Rev. A. Wilkin, M.A. to the vicarage of Barton, Westmoreland. —R ev . J. Mockler, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Cowley, Oxford.—Rev. F. E. J. Valpy, M.A., to the rectory of Garveston, Norfolk.—Rev. W. Hulme, M.A., to the rectory of Pangbourne, Berks.--Rev. E. Phillips, M.A., to the new church of St. Mark, Tuibiton, in the parish of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey.—Rev. C. B. Lockwood, M.A., to be chaplain to the Thingo Union Workhouse, Suffolk.—Rev. E. H. Barnett. M.A., to the curacy of Twyford, Hants.—Rev. W. 0. A. Dupre, to the curacy of Ashmore, Dorset.—Rev. J. Bliss, to the curacy of Rushall, Wilts.—Rev. J. Stewart, to the curacy of Longhorn, Suffolk.—Rev. B. Spurrell, 8.D., to the curacy of Deddington, Oxon.—Rev. L. B. Clot terbuck, to the c uracy of Stanley, in Wakefield, York shire.—Rev. G. W. Robinson, to the curacy of Elland, in Halifax.—Rev. A. R. Webster, to the curacy of Broughton, Yorkshire.—Rev. F. Tonkin, to the curacy of West Lulworth and Burton, in the parish of Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset.—Rev. F. Fisher, to the curacy of Highway and Fozham chapels, in Bromhill, Wilts.—Rev. A. B. Barnett, to the assistant curacy of Alderbury, with Petton and Farley chapels. Wilts.—Rev. M. Holmes, to the curacy of Hasilbury Bryant, Dorset.—Rev. R. N. Ward, M.A., to the curacy of St. Martin, Salisbury.— Rev. C. A. Hall. to the curacy of Yafforab, in the parish of Danby Wiske, Yorkshire.—Rev. J. Arrowsmith, to the curacy of Trinity church, Wakefield.—Rev. A. B. Nicholls, to the curacy of Haworth, Yorkshire.—Rev. J. Weighell, M.A., of Pembroke College, to the rectory of Cheddingtoo, Bucks.—Rev. N. P. E. Lathbury, 8.A., to the curacy of Denton, Norfolk.—Rev. W. Cresswell, 8.A., to the curacy of Fawkham, Kent.—Rev. F. Hop kinson, to the curacies of Walcot and Willoughby Scott, Lincolnshire. VICARAGE OF WARE.—The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, have appointed the Rev. J. W. Blakesley, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of that So ciety, to the vicarage of Ware. The new incumbent is opposed to the innovating spirit which has kept this parish in a ferment during the last two years. ANTI-MAYNOOTH PROTEST.—OR Tuesday a protest was presented to Mr. Goulburn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Law, the representatives of Cam bridge University, signed by nearly 600 members of the senate; and the importance of the document may be estimated by a few of the names. For example :—Alfred 011ivant, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity ; Samuel Lee, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Bristol ; James Scholefield, Regius Professor of Greek ; Charles Wordsworth, D.D., formerly Master of Trinity College; Chr. Wordsworth, D.D., late Fellow of Trinity College, and Public Orator of the University, and Pre bendary of Westminster; Christopher Benson, Canon of Worcester, late Hulsean Lecturer, and late Master of the Temple; Dr. Scoresby; Hon. G. D. Ryder, M.A. ; Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, &c. &c. BURIAL OF DISSENTERS IN CHURCH YARDS.—The following is Dr. Lusbington's opinion, on cases submited to him by the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, the rector of Burton Latimer, and the baptist minister of the same place, as to the right of a dissenting minister to precede a corpse into a church-yard, give out a hymn at the grave, and afterwards to offer up a prayer and deliver an address outside the church-yard ; which seems has been the prac tice in that parish, in the case of persons of the baptist connection dying unbaptised :—" I am of opinion that the law recognises no distinction as to the burial of dis senters. Unless the person to be buried falls within the prohibition of the Rubric, as unbaptised, the duty of the incumbent is to bury the corpse with the usual funeral service, without regard to whether the person when alive was a dissenter or not. I think, when the friends of the deceased apply to the clergyman to ab stain from performing the funeral service, on the ground that the deceased when alive was a dissenter, the clergy man may comply with such request; but I am of opinion that the dissenting minister cannot claim a right to pre cede the corpse to the grave in the church-yard, and sing a hymn over the remains, though he afterwards retires outside the walls, and there offers up a prayer and delivers an address. 2d. It is true that the freehold of the church-yard is generally, but not always, in the in cumbent, but the law does not rest particularly on that foundation. The principle is that the ground is conse crated for divine offices according to the rights of the Church of England, and that the incumbent has the sole and exclusive right, as well as duty, of performing such offices. Even a clergyman episcopally ordained could not perform any ceremony within the church-yard without the leave of the incumbent ; nor even then, except accord ing to the form of the church." CHURCH BUILDING Acrs.—We have received a copy of a bill introduced into the rouse of Lords, by the Bishop of London, "for the further amendment of the church building acts." The first clause enacts that when a new church has been built in any parish, the bishop of the diocese and the patron and incumbent of the parish may at any time certify to the ecclesiastical commissioners that it is advisable that this new church should become the parish church ; and that the old one should be pulled down ; and the commissioners may then order this sub stitution to take place, and all rights connected with the old church shall be transferred to the new one. Claims to pews in the old church shall be examined, and, if found good, the parties shall have pews in the new church allotted to them. All tombstones, monuments, &c. shall be preserved, and, if the bishop thinks proper, removed. When the substituted church shall be built wholly or in part with funds at the disposal of the ecclesiastical com missioners, they shall only have power to fix the rents for such a number of yews as the new church shall contain more than the old one. Two churchwardens shall be annually appointed for every district or consolidated cha pelry—one by the incumbent and the other by the rate payers. When no district is attached to a church, one of the wardens shall be elected by the pew holders. The duties of these wardens shall be confined to the manage ment of the church, and they shall not in any way interfere with the duties of the churchwardens of the parish. When there are populous places at the adjacent extremities of different parishes, the commissioners may, with the con sent of the bishop of the diocese, represent to the Queen in council the propriety of forming these places into a consolidated chapelry, and may advise in whom the pre sentation shall be vested. The minister shall be a per petual curate with exclusive cure of souls, unless before the consolidation he was either a rector or vicar. The offices of the church shall be performed in it, but, during the life of the incumbent of the parish in which it is si tuated, the fees shall belong to him after, however, the living has once been voided, the fees shall be retained by the incumbent of the chapelry. When the ecclesiastical commissioners have granted money for the erection of a church, the pew rents may be applied wholly or in part to the payment of the minister and clerk's salary. The commissioners may make grants in aid of the erection of a church for a consolidated chapelry, provided the popu lation shall exceed four thousand, with church accommo dation for not more than one-fourth. Unless o•herwise provided, the freehold of sites for churches, burial grounds, &c. shall vest in the incumbent. Hereafter, the commissioners may alter the boundaries of new parishes or districts within five years. The church of a district chapelry, or a church augmented by the commissioners, shall be a perpetual curacy, with exclusive cure of souls. THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. The King and Queen of the Belgians are expected to ar rive in a few weeks, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Majesty gave a State Ball yesterday evening week. The whole of the diplomatic corps, and all the foreigners of distinction at present in town, were present. Two thousand invitations had been issued. At ten o'clock the Queen opened the ball by dancing in a quadrille with Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar; Prince Albert and the Countess Deitrichstein, the Austrian Ambassadress, forming the opposite couple. In the course of the even ing, the stop polka and the Bohemian polka were danced, together with the pas de fleurs. On Wednesday afternoon, her Majesty held a court for the reception of an address on the throne from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin. In the course of her Majesty's reply to the address relative to her Majesty visiting Ireland, the Queen said, " whenever I may be enabled to receive in Ireland the promised welcome, I shall rely with confidence on the loyalty and affection of my faithful subjects." This puts an extinguisher upon the expectation of her Majesty visiting Ireland this au tumn. A grand banquet was given by the London Fish mongers' Company, on Wednesday last, on the occasion of presenting the freedom of the Company to Lords Melbourne, Fortescue, Palmerston, and Cottenham. Prince Albert was one of the guests on the occasion. BANQUET TO PRINCE ALBERT.—On Saturday evening the Goldsmiths' Company entertained his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and a distinguished party of guests, at the Goldsmiths' Hall. The entertainment was given on the occasion of the " pis," or assay of the current coin of the realm, which takes place periodically. WORDSWORTH AT COURT.—Among the thousand titled and untitled personages at the Queen's grand state ball, the most noticeable, perhaps, was the venerable poet, Wordsworth, who went up all the way from the lakes of Cumberland, by express royal invitation, to do homage to his sovereign as her poet laureate. RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. The Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Railway Bill has been reported to the House of Commons. On Wednesday the parliamentary committee decided that the preamble of the Lancaster ansi Carlisle Bill was proved. The Kendal and Windermere Bill was also ap proved. RAILWAY PROJECTS.—It appears from an official re turn of the railway projects, submitted last November for the consideration of the Board of Trade, that no fewer than 248 railways were projected up to that period. Only 18 of those projects remain to reported upon by the board. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last night week Mr. Thomas Cooley, wine merchant, Glasgow, engaged a special engine and carriage to convey him to Edinburgh. In consequence of some accident to the engine it pro ceeded at a very slow rate, and was overtaken by the or dinary train, when the engine of the latter dashed through the carriage in which the unfortunate gentleman was seated, crushing him to death instantaneously. The Blackwell Railway directors have been authorised by the shareholders to proceed in parliament for the for mation of the proposed branch to Epping, and also to convert £160,000 of the money now borrowed on deben tures into capital, by the creation of new shares. The re port presented on these subjects was unanimously adopted, and the concerns of this company now wear a much more flattering aspect than they did two or three years ago. A new line, called the Newcastle and Lancashire Rail way is contemplated, the object being to place Newcastle town and the adjoining counties in direct communication with North Lancashire, the manufacturing districts, and Liverpool and Manchester. The line will commence on the south side of the Tyne, and proceed along the Team Valley, by Birtley and Chester-le-street, to Durham, where it will join the Sunderland, Durham, and Auckland Union Railway, and, using that line for ten miles, will pass through Staindrop, Greta-Bridge, and join the York and Carlisle Railway at a point eastward of Stainmoor. A NEW RAILWAY —the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction—is it is said contemplated. It is to run from Woodside, by Wallasey, Leasowe, Hoylake, West Kirby, Parkgate, to Neston, and from the latter place across the Dee, to Flint, where it will join the Holyhead line. It is said that 8000 acres of land will be reclaimed by an em bankment at the Dee. It is also propose to make a har. bour of shelter at Dawpool. The line will shorten the distance from this town to Holyhead about eleven miles. At a meeting of the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Company on Tuesday, it was agreed io unite with the Sankey Brook Navigation. By this amalgamation 1,440 new shares, to be called preference shares, are created, 960 of which are at the disposal of the company, and the remaining 480 are taken by the Canal Company. The company will therefore now consist of 1,440 preference shares of £lOO each, 1,200 original £lOO shares, and 1,056 new shares of £2O each. RAILWAY AMALGAMATIONS.--On Tuesday, a special meeting of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Com pany was held, for the purpose of approving of the fol lowing bills :—For enabling the company to make certain branch railways, and amending and enlarging the former acts ; for amalgamating the said railway and the Grand Junction, the North Union, the Bolton and Leigh, and the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway Companies; and another bill for making a railway from the city of Chester to Preston-on-the-Hill, in the parish of Runcorn, to be called the " Chester, Manchester, and Li verpoo l Junction Railway." The Chairman mentioned that the last-named bill would not, he believed, get so far as to require their sanction at least this session. This closed the business.—The Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh, St. Helens and Runcorn Gap, and Sankey Navigation Companies, afterwards met to consider the bills in which they were respectively interested, which were all approved of. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly has been appointed standing counsel to the Bank of England, in the room of Mr. Justice Erle. One hundred and sixteen persons applied to be admit ted as attorneys during Trinity term, which commenced on Friday. There are, in addition, 21 applications for renewal of certificates. RUMOURED ASSIZE CIRCUIT CHANGES. — Though the Commissioners have not yet made their report, we learn that they are in favour of changing Hilary Term (to be hereafter called Advent Term) so as to fall before Christ mas. By this means they propose that the Spring As sizes shall occur earlier in the year, probably soon after Christmas. As to a new division or arrangement of the great Northern Circuit, it is said that the Commissioners were equally divided upon the question of cutting it into two equal portions, Yorkshire, Durham, and Northum berland, being comprised in one of the new circuits, and Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, in the other. It is further said, that there was a majority against sepa rating Yorkshire from the Northern circuit, but in favour of separating Liverpool, and adding it to the Norfolk Circuit ! nis, however, we cannot vouch for, nor does it seem very probable that an important assize town like Liverpool should be appended to a circuit from which it is locally so entirely isolated. If such a proposition really exist, we may cease to wonder why our ancestors have left to us the anomaly of a little fragment of the county of Durham in the very heart of the county of York.—Leeds Intelligencer. [ln the House of Lords, on Friday, Lord Brougham ridiculed the notion of joining Liverpool to the Norfolk circuit as the most absurd thing possible, and the Lord Chancellor declined saying anything until the com missioners made their report.] GENERAL MISCELLANY. The statement that Sir R.Peel has purchased the estate of Closeburn, in Dumfriesshire, for £200,000, is untrue. Lord Brougham is said to be one of the best Polka dancers in London. The Leeds Anti-Maynooth petition received 20,400 signatures. The investigation into the mysterious case of the death of the lady and child at Hampstead, mentioned in our lest, has been anjourned for a week. It appears that the gentleman who was found dead at Hampstead, in the field where Delarue was murdered by Hocker, died of apoplexy. The Royal Agricultural Society of England have fixed upon Newcastle-upon-Tyne as the place in which they will hold their meeting next year. THE IRON TRADE.—At the monthly meeting of the ironmasters, held in Glasgow on Wednesday, the price of pig-iron was fixed at £4 10s. per ton. It is said that C. R. S. Murray, Esq.. late M.P. for Buckinghamshire, is about to erect a Roman catholic church at Great Marlow, at his sole expense. A sale of new potatoes, imported from the Bermudas, took place in London on Tuesday ; they fetched rather less than 2d. per lb. A bill is before the House of Lords to enable Mr. Heavyside, with whose wife Dr. Lardner, it will be re membered, ran away, to marry again. Four Brahmins of high caste have arrived in this coun try for the purpose of studying medicine at University College. On Thursday last, the ostler at the Bull Inn, Aldgate, London, hung himself, in consequence of the misery he endured through the misconduct of his wife, to whom he had long allowed Bs. per week. On Friday se'nnight Mr. Edward Hughes, aged GO, Mayor of Llanidloes, and a very extensive flannel manu facturer, put a period to his existence by piercing his neck with a penknife. TEA DUTIES PAID IN 1845 UP TO LAST WEEK.— London, 8,721,5371 b. ; Liverpool, 1,858,2091 b. ; Bristol, 311,7311 b.; Hull, 132,4211 b. Total, 11,')26,8981b. Same time in 1814, 10,365,1181 b. One of the swans in Dunham-park was found dead last week, having been suffocated in an attempt to swallow a young wild duck, the legs of which were found projecting from its throat. THE CHIMPANZEE.—A male of this interesting species, the nearest approach in the monkey tribe to the human species, has just been added to the colleCtion at the Zoolo gical Gardens in the Regent's Park. On Monday night last, a man, named William Howarth, of Leeds, had some words with his wife, who afterwards refused to sleep with him. This took such an effect on his mind that he went to a beerhouse and hanged himself to a bedpost. A house was set on fire at Hull, a few days ago, by a quantity of lucifer matches, which were laid upon the floor of the garret, being ignited by the concentration of the sun's rays upon them through the glass skylight of the apartment. SENSE OF THE NATION ON THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. —By the 24th Return laid before Parliament last week, we learn that there have been 8758 petitions presented against the Maynooth Grant, signed by one million one hundred and six thousand seven hundred and seventy-two persons! NEW TREATY WITH FRANCE.—The friendship be tween England and France has just been further consoli dated by a treaty in reference to the slave trade. The rid it of search will be abandoned, but the English and French fleets will unite in operations against the slave trade. NOVEL USE OF LITHOGRAPHY.—On Tuesday a hand bill appeared containing the por,rait of a gentleman said to be missing from Dublin. It is well executed, and, if like the person, must greatly aid the police in the en deavours to trace him. This plan no doubt will be gene rally adopted, where practicable. GUANO.—In the House of Commons, on Friday, Mr. Hope said, that representations had been made from the Cape of Good Hope that guano had been found in an island within the jurisdiction of the Cape; that a license duty had been imposed on taking it, which the authori ties at the Cepe were perfectly at liberty to do; and that the amount levied went into the colonial coffers. SINGING IN A WORKHOUSE PUNISHED. —Four young girls were committed for fourteen days each, by the ma gistrates of Rochester, on Saturday, for singing in the union workhouse. There did not appear to have been any thing improper in their songs, but the master ob served that simple singing was prohibited by the rules of the new Poor Law. REPARTEE OF A LITTLE GIRL.-At Huddersfield ;fair last week, a brace of Irishwomen were quarrelling, and very hanchomely biackituarding each other, when one of them bade the other to "Go to H—ll." A little girl who was attending a small stall of toys instantly rejoined, " You had better have sent her to Heaven : she would be more out of your way there." Some sensation has been caused in the village of Hag ley, near Stourbridge, owing to the death of twin children, the daughters of a waggoner, from the effect, it is alleged, of an immoderate application of corrosive sublimate by a druggist named Welch, for ringworm on the head. The coroner's jury recorded a verdict of " Manslaughter against Mr. Welch." DREADFUL EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday morning early, the steam-flour mill of Mr. Walters, Old Kent road, London, blew up with a tremendous explosion, the cause of the disaster being the bursting of the boiler. Mr. Walters, the proprietor, was the only person in the mill at the time, and he has been severely, though not dangerously, hurt. WEEKLY MAKE OF SCOTCH IRON.—It appears that in the various iron districts of Scotland there are at this time 135 furnaces, 88 in blast, and 47 out of blast. 88 furnaces in blast, produce at the rate of 105 tons per week, 9,240; deduct what is used up for bar iron, 2,175 ; weekly produce for sale, 7,065 ; annual produce for sale, 367,380. 1844, Oct., 58 furnaces, at 110 tons weekly, 331,760. 1845, April, 88 furnaces, at 110 tons weekly, 503,360 ; August, 135 furnaces at 110 tons weekly, 772,200. The weekly produce of the bar iron works is from 1,900 to 2,050 tons, requiring of pig iron 2,176 tons weekly for 1,450 t ons, b e i ng 20 cwt. of pigs to make 20 cwt. of bar. ACCIDENT TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The Duke of Wellington appeared at the Marlborough-street Police -court, on Saturday, to complain against a man who endangered his life by furious driving. The duke stated that he was walking on the left side of Park-lane, going out of Piccadilly, when he was passed by a heavy four wheeled cart, under cover of which lie attempted to get the other side of the street. As he was crossing he received a severe blow on the shoulder from another cart, which came up, unperceived by him, at a furious pace. " I did not fall," said his grace ; " if 1 had, I must have been under the wheels of both carts. Now, I have no further complaint to make against the man at the bar, who drove the cart, than that he was going• at such a monstrous pace that he had no controul over his horse." The de fendant was ordered to pay a fine of 41, or be imprisoned one month. May 27, 1845. ELECTRICITY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE.--S°n : Lt e O in' f teresting experiments are now being tried in Stint. forcing crops by conducting to the soil on which theteo grown the free electrlcity present in the otroosPo..iti, Similar experiments last year in Surrey were attended 'O4 great success, the increase of the crops having been MT 0 all expectation. The experiments first alluded to W o o the land of a scientific amateur farmer within a feWe l o s of Brighton ; th e crop w i t hi n t h e influence of the has already a very strong and vigorous appearance- 0 A new method of cleaning windows is now coming 11 '0 general use, possessing many advantages over theo system of using whiti ng , & c . Th e w i n d ow i s firs hen with a bu nc h o f f eat h ers, or a dusting brush, and - sail' all the dust i s th oroug hl y removed, place a bowl of i d n i g at - e hot w co a v t e e r r s at th th e e g b l a a s s e s, of w t h h ic e h wi i n s d r o e w m , o th ve e d st b ea y m a s leather, and finished off with another quite clean and d The method save s ti me — prevents t h at c l ou d y aPPe*--ble left by whiting, an d pro d uces a more b r illi ant an d du i. ' polish than any other. CHOLERA AT SHEFFIELD.-011 a ti n died in the Sheffield workhouse of Asiatic Cholera, the nine other inmat es were su b sequent l y attac k e d, but the last reports were favourable. The boy had visited on_i, day he died the s p o t w h ere t h e v i ct i ms o f t hi s diseld 1832 were buried, an d th e groun d h av i ng b een l a tely over, whether, in the course of this operation, all s of fissures have been opened, through which contagio n ,st have been emitted—after a lapse of thirteen Ye aril of whether, in the visitations of Providence, the disease 0 01 have come through o th er c h anne l s , i s b eyon d our It o , of deciding. To say the least, the fatal illness of the ri s e boy, im me di ate l y a f ter v i s i t i ng the Cholera G ro und' singular coincidence. „ tbe THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—A wrar 1-01 Art Union has drawn attention to a number of a L st e att heraldic blunders which appear on the exterior of t u ,!•;ltln Houses of Parliament. H e states that many of the no r 7 oo . were charged with devices copied from coins of " 0, Sovereigns, and we re never i n t en d e d t o re p r esent 81 4 and that it would be as reasonable to take St. George : 0 0 the Dragon for the arms of George IV. as to adopt , tu ge devices for the arms of the monarch on whose 01 . 13 . 0 0 they appear. He points ou t, t oo , amongst o th e r 0bjee"...,,, that supporters have been ass i gne d t o ever y Sovere t ro beginning w ith th e C onqueror, t h ough i t i s k n own„ t be supporters were not used by the Kings of England till reign of Richard 11., 300 years after the Conquest. be PENNY POSTAGE.—The finance a c coun ts just public show a l arge i ncrease i n t h e revenue o f t h e Posto7 l6 l, The gross revenue for the year 18-14 was £l,7 os t w itit giving an in crease o f more than £84,000 as comPafe", „,:slB 1843_• the net reven ue was £719 , 957 , g i v i ng au in—,esin of £BO,OOO as comp are d w i t h 1843 . Th e appare nt trie"" t he in 1844, taking the Post-office returns for 184 3 ! g a ble standard of compariso n , i s , i n eac h case , mor e than °° . ro e, the amount here given ; b u t, as we s t a t e d at the L l ico r those returns gave the revenue both gross and net t oo in by about £85,000. Th e ac t ua l incr ease o f n et reve e 42s, 1814 is greater than f or any year sin ce th e war , except ', when it was £92,000 , an d 1836 , w h en i t was £B l ' ooo t he From 1840 (the first year of p en ny p os t age ) to 18 .1 4' increase of net revenue was nearly 50 per cent. SALE OF FAT STOCK.—Between twelve and one - . 0 e business comm ence d a t A uc h encr i e ff, w h er e 6 1 ' 13 '1 3 80 beautiful bullocks and heifers of various breeds, nn e hir et Short-horns, Crosses, Galloways, and pure A9 lB l O. were sold one by one to the chime of Mr. Dunbar tner. From Auche ncr i e ff th e com p an y repaired to ol o foot, where forty more s pl en did ca ttl e were so ld sin , Yoe before. The highest priced animal brought £3O 45; second £29 lO s ; th e thi r d £2B ; th e f our th £ 27 A while £26, £25, £24, and £23, were common figurentoa good deal of business was done by persons from the t° t to of Liverpool and M anc h es t er . T oge th er the 71 c. lll realised £1,573 55., or, on an average, better then a . per head. From Rigfoot the company returned to Au e " c ll crieff, where 340 fat sheep, placed in pens of twentiee,og of the pure Cheviot breed, were sold at prices vary from 45s 6d to 47s per head.—Dumfries Courier. c t ELECTRIC CLOCKS.—Th e f o ll ow i ng accoun t of a e ; lo ie of this description, constructed by Mr. Alexander contained in a letter from Mr. Finlaison b 1 has succeeded to admiration in working e l ectr i c cloeo e se t the currents of the earth. O n th e 28th of August, be bieb a stnall clock in my drawing ro om , th e p en d u lum of 'l v dig is in the hall, and both i ns t rumen t s on th e vo ltaic ctroirio as follows :—On the N.E. side of m y house tyc o on plates, a foot square, are su n k i n a h o l e , an d st l sPe n , io ltan a wire : this is passed th roug h th e h ouse t o the Pen o se. first, and then the clock. On the S.E. side of the O r al at a distance of about forty yard s , a h o l e w a s dug fou r o ' o % deep, and two sacks of common coke buried in it; al :c t t he the coke another wire was secured, and passed in g e t a t drawing-room window, and joined to the former w lr n dcr the clock. The ball of the pendulum weighs nine Pc ° , o ir but it was moved energetically, a nd it h a s ever since," ti tinned to do so with the self-same energy. The ti " . 019 to perfection, and the cost of the motive power we s a lt, 7s. 6d. There are but three little wheels in the ci . 0 be and neither weights nor spring ; so there is nothing wound up."—Mechanics f Mirga zine. rao r. pla A STRIKING FACT.—It may appear somewhat Ro w dinary, but it is true, that, although the hyena, je c f l e sb and pariah dogs of India, greedily devour human. tig to whenever they may come across it, yet do they, o wI „SoO some instinctive and inherent prejudice, invariablYao a ; in the hands and feet of such corpses as they may 1' 8 413 0 every other respect consumed. And this remark " n a6 generally good in all parts of the East. On the art 5 5 44 of Juggernaut, where the pilgrims die by husdreds thousands throughout the year, from the effects of di s i o gi and famine, and w h ose rema i ns are d evoure d by th e b 6 B oJ and other obscene animals (there being no human 60 3 near that will, on the p re j u di ce o f cas t e , afford ;d' burial,) the former f ac t i s f u ll y esta bli s h e d an d coeur - „ a ble The fact cannot fail to brin g to recollection the realotteo passage contained in the a Book of Kings, which r e ,. e ior to the unhappy fate of Jezebel, who, it is recorded th e ' bat " was devoured of dogs, and nothing remained ofbe l f il i sS the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet: „ c oe' the truth of the above pa ssage i s suppor t e d by sim„,"", t er o currences borne witness to in modern times by P 3" travellers.—Morning Post. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Wednesday, An n a middle-aged woman , was b roug ht b e f ore Mr. ki ° " o ,4 o ham, at Southwark P o li ce - o ffi ce , c h arge d w ith crea ° je ts disturbance and u s i ng th rea t en i ng l anguag e to 1 - 48 . 1 0 1!t Ann Calvert. Mr. Games, on the part of the comPl a . l t 1,1 0 said the case was o ne o f ra th er a s i ngu l ar na ture ; t ° ,; de' client was a young lady on property which she rived from her rel a ti ves i n S ou th A ustra li a a nd A w ` t ho• se and which was transmitted to her regularly from , her countries. That the d e f en d an t h a d b een living wit'', bat for some considerabl e ti me i n th e capac it y o f sersan",per had of late conduct e d h erse lf i n suc h a ver y im,l ir- a olt manner that she was comp e ll e d t o g i ve h er n otice s ° bat her service. The defendant said : lam her mothertloe, from circumstances I have lived with her for some and passed as her servant, and that is the reason she 5 00 wants to disown roe. There is no disputing the fa ct 'ob a here is the reaister of the baptism of my two sons,roh were born at Otley, in Yorkshire, who a re now J ib gr' and from whom my daughter derives her propertP, or Cottingham said the case was enveloped in so mu,_e u ve4 o l tery, that he really did not know scarcely whom to n e i o ac°,, that it was certain that there was a strong resemb po' t between the parties. But, however sorry he was i ,ipab t the law in force, it was his duty to protect the comP,.` e p art and prevent her from any further molestation on t" e , of the defendant, who must find bail to keep the P ea tac o SANGUINARY DUEL.—A sanguinary duel took plr; near Gosport on Wednesday. The combatants we i r e y Seton, late of the 11th Hussars, and Lieut. 1 - 1 0 , e - a i t ag', the Royal Marines. At a soiree, the preceding M„ Mr. Seton had paid more than ordinary attention f or me d wife wife of Lieut. Hawkey, and the latter insulted the.' ao in the room, called him a blackguard and a villan i ;Oc told him if he would not fight him, he would h ets , firr him down the High-street of Portsmouth. Th e ,.: s be t twice, and at the second shot Mr. Seton • r 8 e1 1 ,!„'",, lieved mortally wounded in the abdomen. Hawkey, without waiting to see the result 0 1 „ 1 ar ch or going up to his antagonist, immediately nodes ar e his second, saying, `•l i I'm off to France." r bac iP t g now entertained of Mr. Seton's recovery, the ba ll te as°, passed clear of his intestines. It is said that isie ° , o oti b ; Hawkey and his second had been p rac ti s i n g at a 7 / 4 1,',' m orn i ng gallery for an hour on th e of the clu e ' Hawkey's friends stat e th a t h e h a d amp l e caus e ,be P o re p manding " satisfacti on ," w hi c h w ill transp ire at Y r , per time. On the other hand, Mr. Seton ea,"pact ° o Stewart to his bed-side last evening, and said, Y° l' I know I'm in great danger, and I solemnly t on'sta`',, s ti t , that 1 never gave Mr. Hawkey the slightest pro v° ',,re I° o Under the new army regulations all the officers 1 1 00 ir feited their commissions. On Sunday Mr. $ e pi slightly better, but still in imminent danger. f life d' THE YARMOUTH ACCIDENT.—The total loss ° , er ststo the falling of the bridge appears to have been ° % er ent e s It may now be correctly estimated at 78. The c „g P,ia of the interment of a number of the sufferers t ° l s os°,4 l , in the church of St. Nicholas ; the coffins were , , 1) he' A a row of four or five, at the other end of t°'., C ao• t eli, There were twenty-seven buried in one afte r- LP" oi dumb peal was rung in the morning, and im;bole e S preceding this unusully solemn occasion; th e per °Or the service appointed by th e Ch urc h wa s read " e or i body, the worthy minist er bei ng as sisted by th re e Oe'v t glY lie clerical friends. The residents of the place CS to e eg bourhood describe the continual passing of 13 0 °, 1 ,4 %rt# church, taken in connection with the melaneu'diitt e 4t which was the cause of death, as one of the mos t eto ia o so ing ever witnessed. Mr. James Walker, th e rep engineer, has been directed by Sir J. Graham „ e neeisi upon the state of the bridge previous to its occu' re hty re , The coroner's jury on one of the bodies (the have po been some informality respecting the others/ d, V ;0 0: turned the following verdict:—" That the deeeft 6e s peo 9 ,'o o Utting, came to her death by the falling of the s ° last , tell bridge across the river Bure, on the 2nd of M aY t oed i° 6o' that the falling of the bridge was attributable 4° that ofitt to the defect in the joint or welding of the h e and ipP gave way, and to the quality of part of the irn°,,eorltbe manship, being inferior to the requirements of y be o contract, which had provided that they 5 11 ° °1 tbf best quality." a bi t o ▪ n od , 6 CLASSIC SCULPTURE.—The perfection atta!a ll y o f nations of classic antiquity in the arts, perfection s to flefeer sculpture, is too well known and appreciated further eulogium at the present day. We ra d, ish All d I a y boo n 1 4 1 cease to wonder at the excellence thus attain e e P tt ie!, learn the extent to which it was practised , si" of eta l' recorded by an ancient writer that the nurnbF t r itri ts• ac co o l ; at Rome exceeded that of its living nlll°,l and Pesiel well known that the master-pieces of Gree. skill have constantly supplied modern artists ?lob sttart and examples ; and we have recently been ° f an d with the adaptation of a beautiful specimen ° b r• ill by those distinguished artists Messrs. Pericles _A eel Soo who, for the protection of an article of d es erse:; o l_' ; 0 —the KALYDOR, prepared by Messrs. Rowls°,,,,lcWje' of Hatton-garden—have produced a classic group of eminent grace and beauty', tieolor° scription of which appears in our advertising label o;irribero,