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proreettings in parliament. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY Lord J. RUSSELL said, in reference to a question front Mr. Henley, who urged the great alteration in the value of real property since 1841, that it was not intended to propose any alteration in the Income Tax. Mr. DISRAELI brought forward the motion of which he had given notice with regard to the Poor Laws in connection-with agricultural distress. Government had no sympathy with agriculture, and prospects in the rural districts were becoming more gloomy. The most effectual remedy for the existing distress, he and his friends believed to be the re-enactment of Protective Duties, and they still believed that the timewould come when the house would acknowledge the truth of that pro position. He was, however, desirous that they should at the present moment discuss objects of immediate attainment. In case he should get the House to .go into committee, he should propose, first, that a considerable sum should be re mitted to the real proprietors of the •country. He would look for the basis of this to the established charges •of the United Kingdom, which were scarcely connectethwith local adminis tration. This would amount to nearly '1,500,000. In the second place he would propose to *deal with all the poor rates. It was unjust to tax real property alone forthose rates r and . he would propose that all rates not connected with the absolute maintenance of the poor, and the abrogation of which would not interfere with the system ef local government, should be defrayed by the general revenue of the country. The registra tion of births, &c., costing .e 60,000 a year, was paid from real property. Jury list-charges were also similarly charged, and then came valuation acts, parochial and assessment acts, -Sze. He would recapitulate them, and as a second resolution he would propose that all rates levied under the machinery of the laws for the relief and maintenance of the poor, other than county rates and police rates, inconnection with county rates, and other than the establishment-charges, should be defrayed by the Consolidated Fund. The hon. member concluded his speech by moving for "a. committee of the whole House, to take into consideration such revision, of the laws providing for the relief of the poor of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as may mitigate the distress of the agricultural classes." After several members had spoken, the debate was adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY A great number of petitions were presented against Sunday labour; petitions were also presented praying for agricultural protection, and some relating to other subjects. In answer to a question from Mr. DtvErr, _ _ Mr. HAWES said that although no official statement of mis conduct on the part of the of of the barque Indian to wards the female emigrants had been made to -GovernmPnt, the attention of the emigration commissioners bad been called to the subject, and if the reports proved correct, the severest penalties would be inflicted upon the offenders. The second reading of the Bankrupt and Insolvent Members Bill having been moved by Mr. Moffat, seconded by Colonel Sibthorp, and supported by Mr. Mullings, it was supported by 241 r. Goulburn and Sir G. Grey, and was negatived on a divi sion, by 73 to 34. Mr. HALSEY moved the second reading of the Small Tene ments Rating Bill. Mr. P. Scioyx opposed the bill on the ground that it would increase the rent of occupiers of small tenements, and would prevent the building of comfortable cottages for the poorer classes. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. After some further discussion. Sir G. GREY said he should take care that no occupier should be deprived of the franchise by any provison in this bill. The second reading was then carried by 182 to 2,. The Benefices in Plurality Bill, iijobject of which is that no clergyman shall hold two benefices unless contiguous to each other, was, after a short discussion, read a second time. The Larceny Summary Jurisdiction Bill, and the Tenants at Rack Rent Relief Bill, were read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TnuRsimy Sir GEORGE GREY, in reply to Mr. Stuart Wortley, said he could not promise whether a bill would be brought in during the present session to amend the law of settlement and remo val, but government were of opinion that the existing law would require revision at the earliest practical period. Mr. M. MILNER obtained leave to bring in a bill for refor mation and correction of juvenile offenders. Bill read a first time. The adjourned debate on Mr. Disraeli's motion respecting the relief of the poor and the burdens imposed upon agricul ture was resumed by Mr. STAFFORD, who gave his decided support to the motion. He demanded either that free trade should be granted in alt its fulness, or that it should be admit ted to be a mere party measure. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the real question was a very large one—it was whether we should commence an entire review of the whole fiscal burdens of the country, should reverse the relief policy of the last six years, and should change the admin istration—a question which had never fairly been put to the house. He (Sir James) had no hesitation in admitting that recent legislation had brought difficulty and distress to the agricultural interest; but the question was, who would be relieved by the proposed remedy ? Only the tenant under lease, and he only until his lease had expired. But, as a mat ter of justice, he could see no equity in proposing to reconsider our legislation, and transfer to labour the burdens now resting on property. With the community at its back, the landed interest was irresistible —without it, powerless. That interest bad made a most improvident bargain in 1819, when they ac cepted a depreciated standard of value in consideration of an exclusive market in corn, and they were now anxious to com mit another improvidence. He then showed the diminishing character of the burdens on land (especially dwelling upon the advantage of railway-rating), and also upon its exceptions, and contended that it was not the interest of the landowner to open up the question. But there were reliefs to which he thought the agricultural interest entitled, in regard to bricks, -timber, the income-tax, and the law of settlement. He de clared the general condition of England to be prosperous and improving, and concluded, amid ministerial cheers by opposing the motion. Mr. GLADSTONE, agreeing with much that Sir James Graham bad said, should vote differently from him, inasmuch as he did not see that the great questions alluded to by Sir James were involved in the decision on this motion. The tendency of this motion was to draw off many from the protection agitation. He should vote for it on the grounds of its justice. He believed, from the moral relation of our landlords and tenants, the tenantry at will would be benefited as well as the leaseholders, and that English landlords would not seek to take that benefit from it. It was no valid objection to the motion that ultimately the landlords would gain by the change. He did not affect to estimate the amount of gain which those measures would give to the agriculturists ; but amount was no element of a question whose basis is justice. He ended with a strong appeal in behalf of the farmer, the yeoman, and the peasantry of England. Sir ROBERT PEEL bore testimony to Mr. Disraeli's ability and moderation in bringing forward this motion, but announced his intention of taking an opposite course to that of Mr. Glad stone. He did not deny the existence of agricultural distress, for which be felt very sincerely. [Here Sir Robert was inter rupted by a curious noise, apparently expressive of a certain honourable member's doubt of this sincerity, and amid the cheers of the house he said he should take no notice of these " inarticulate sounds" which he intimated were, no doubt, as good arguments as any others the member who made them was able to utter.] Sir R. Peel then proceeded to express his con viction that the agricultural distress was " exceptional" ; and in proof that it had some special cause, he adduced evidence of similar agricultural distress in France and Belgium, which were " protected" countries. He (Sir Robert) had been charged with acting treacherously towards a certain interest. What reason, (he asked, amid loud cheers,) personal or political, could he have for such a course ? He alluded to an attack made upon him by Lord Henry Bentinck, who had accused him of having a pecuniary interest in supporting the funds as against land. Lord H. Bentinck, in describing his (Sir Ro bert's) fortune, should, if he wished to speak truth, have exactly reversed the account he gave of it. He then defended himself for his course upon the corn-law ,• a course which, he said, he believed had b een hi s d uty to God and to his country, and of the wisdom of which he was more confirmed than ever. Protection never could be revived ; and the landed aristocracy would one day see that the abrogation of protection had esta blished their just influence more firmly than ever. Lord HENRY BENTINCK said he wished to answer a few of the remi rks of the right hon. baronet, the member for Tam hon. baronet had accused him (Lord H. Bentinck) of having charged him with falsehood and treason. Sir R. -PEEL.—Treachery. Lord H. BENTlllicoTiUdered that much the same thing. If the right hon. baronet would now say that he had three fourths of his property in land, and one-fourth in money (oh, ohlhe would be satisfied. Sir R. PEEL (cheers).—Sir, I am really quite ashamed at troubling the house. (Hear, hear.) If it is a satisfaction to the noble lord, I will tell him that I have not onesingle shilling upon mortgage. (Hear, hear.) What I said to the noble lord was, that if he had just reversed his statement, and said that I bad three-fourths in land and one-fourth in the funds, he would have been nearer the truth. (Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI replied. He complained that his propositions had never been discussed on their merits. Opponents had gone abroad upon questions of principle, the doctrines of free trade, and the law of settlement. Their criticisms, in fact, were directed against his speeches of last year. On those cri ticisms Mr. Disraeli proceeded to comment, and raised the repeated laughter of the house by his piquant allusion to various expressions employed by Mr. Wilson, Sir J. Graham, Sir R. Peel, and Lord J. Russell. The noble lord (Lord J. Russell) bud written a letter in which great hopes were held out by him to the agricultural body; and when he (Mr. Dis raeli) endeavoured to extract from him some definition of what he meant, he got under the gabardine of the right hon. gentle man (Sir R. Peel) and said he meant exactly the same as that right hon. gentleman. (Laughter.) The house had discovered that evening what both of them had intended. By compensat ing the land for the reversal of the old commercial system, the bon. gentleman meant taking off the duty on bricks. (Laugh ter.) The hon. baronet the member for Ripon was in the secret—it was a cabinet secret—he, too, was for removing the duty or. bricks. But the noble lord was against interfering with bricks, and was for remitting the duty on stamps. Could the distress of the agriculturists be relieved by such remis sions ? The right hon. gentleman the member for Ripon, himself a great landed proprietor, said he had a specific loom ing in the distance, which would set the landed interest on its legs—he would relieve them from paying the property tax. And yet they were told by others, who talked much of cheap bread, that the only new interests they were to regard were the interests of labour. (Cheers.) He confessed he looked with confidence to the Irish members, and recollecting how oft en they had to complain, h e did not hesitate to ask them to ac cept what he was offering them. (Laughter.) That laugh showed the Irish members how they were treated in that house on such snbjects. (Hear.) The right hon. baronet, the mem ber for Tamworth, had thought fit not alone to vindicate the policy of late pursued, but also to vindicate his own character —which, indeed, he had been vindicating for the last four years —that night. (Laughter.) And he might say to the right hon. gentleman that it became him to do so. (Renewed laughter, gad" hear, hear," from the Protectionist be n ch es. ) For, emi tient as the right hon. gentleman was, he was not too great a man not to do so. or to exclaim with Cosmo di Medici, though got often with success, " I will in future appeal to posterity." (Laughter, and prolonged Protectionist cheers.) He emphati cally denied that this was a measure intended to assist land lords...3r one of a series of measures the object of which was to foster the interests of the aristocracy.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Above all, it was the commencement of an era that would increase the resources of the cultivators of the soil of England, and it was the forerunnerof measures of policy which should result in alleviating the condition of the peasantry of England.—(Loud cheers, amid which Mr. Disraeli resumed his seat.) The hou s e then divided. For the motion. 252; against it, E 3; majority, 21.. The result of the division was received with vehement cheer ing from the Prot ectionists , which was met by s i m il ar c h eers from the ministerial benches, and the house adjourned at half paatone o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS. —FRIDAY. On the motion of lard BuotiGitAat, who made a statement of the objects of the measure, the Criminal Law Consolidation Bill was read the second time, In reply to a question froth the Earl of Harrowby, the Mar LANSDOWNE said a treaty had been sic-ned with Gen. , the president of the Argentine Republic : but he could not at present lay it on the table, as it bad not arrived in the country. The Earl of ABERDEEN expressed a decided opinion that he should have done absolutely nothing in signing a treaty With General Rosas, unless he secured the independence of toe Ar gentine Republic. He thought the treaty should have been agreed upon in connection With the French government. HOUSE OP COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The Bolton Improvement Bill, and a number of other private , hills, were read the second time. Mr. J-I TIME gave notice of his intention to move, whenever a vote should be asked for the army or the navy, that no vote be agreed to until after the general financial statement of the country should be made to the house. J.4rd joLIN Ru.ssijj, postponed the Australian Government Bill till the Bth March, in order to enable the house to receive all the information which it-was possible to obtain, before de ciding on the question of-e single or double chamber. Mr. HAWES, in reply to Sir D. Norreys, stated that an official account had been received relative to the outrages on females on board the ship Julian, and that the matter was under the consideration of the emimitioncommissioners.—ln answer to other questions Mr. Hawesi eaid it was true that outrages had been committed on female emigrants on board two other ships; but as the emigrants on board had not complained in time, the officers of the ship had received the usual gratuities, and he did not know that there was any way of punishing them. The Party Procession (Ireland) bill was read the third time, and passed. Several minor bills were advanced a stage. _ Lord J. RUSSELL brought in his proposed measure for the better management of the Woods and Forests and land revenues of the crown. The noble •lord detailed at some length the principal points of the measure, the object of which is to pro vide, under the administrations of the existing departments, a more efficient control of the crown estates. A brief discussion ensued, in the course of which several members expressed their satisfaction at the nature of the mea- The bill was read a first time FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. INDlA.—lntelligence was received on Wednesday in anticipation of the Overland Mail, from India and China, the dates being—Bombay,_January 17; Calcutta, January 7; and Canton, December:2B. The commercial advices from Bombay state theta good deal of uneasiness had been caused by the Bank of Bombay having further raised its rates of discount, and its example having been followed by the other banks. A general depression of prices had taken place in all kinds of imported goods, owing to large arrivals; and altogether, it is remarked, the state of-trade in Bombay is anything but cheering. The reports from Calcutta are of a somewhat more favourable character, so far as the export trade is -concerned; but the import trade is represented as being extremely dull and languid. On the morning of the 6th of January, the ship Dartmouth was burnt, as is believed, by incendiaries, in Bombay har bour, being the seventh in the port, and the ninth belong ing to it that has thus perished within these eight years, the value of property thus destroyed exceeding a quarter of a million. The Overland Friend of China has the follow ing,:—" Victoria, Dec. 29.—1 n the early part of the month it was currently reported that Shap-ing-tsai was again at the head of a formidable fleet; but, though it is quite possible that such is the fact, the rumour has not been confrmed, nor was it thought advisable to send an other force against him until authentic intelligence was received. In the meantime, cases of- piracy are almost of weekly occurrence in this harbour, and in the town rob beries are frequent." WEST INWAN MAIL.—The Trent steamer, arrived at Southampton, brings 45,000 dollars. 81,392 on account of Mexican dividends. At Jamaica the trade was very dull. The cultivation of cotton was proceeding with energy and the quality was declared excellent. Crime was on the increase. HAVANNA, 28th Jan.—Sugar firm, supplies becoming somewhat abundant, but demand took off all the produce,. Coffee scarce and dear. Freights dull. No news from Mexico or Cuba. Weather very wet at Demerara .; crop seriously affected. At Barbadoes business dull. Crop prospects favourable. Trinidad was quiet and healthy. Cocoa much in demand for export. Coffee in demand for Barbadoes. It St. Lucia, favour able change in weather. Sugar crop going on well. More labour wanted. At Tobago, weather very favour able, and crop commenced. A decree has been issued for erecting a 'monument where Marshal Ney fell. Thomas Meashain, who lately died at Hopkinton, U.S., is said to have killed, during his life in that neighbour hood, 2,550 deer, 219 bears, 214 wolves, and 27 panthers. The accounts brought by the last West India Mail speak of a frightful increase of crime in the island of Jamaica. Letters from Marseilles of the 4th announce that twenty-two merchant vessels were totally lost during a terrific hurricane which prevailed on the coast of Algeria on the 27th and 28th of January last. Letters from Jura of the 20tlistate that Mazzini has de finitely quitted Switzerland, and has proceeded to London. Tranquility has been restored on the Swiss frontier. Every British colony in the southern hemisphere, from the Cape to New Zealand, is threatened, not only with commercial ruin. but also with social disorganization, from the want of labour. A letter from Arad states that the military authorities of Pesth have issued a warrant for the arrest of Mr. C. Pridham, a correspondent of the Times. He had returned from Transylvania, and was secreted somewhere in Hun- gary. The National contains a letter from Bucharest of the 4th, announcing that the Russians are about to evacuate completely the Danubian provinces, for the sake of indu cing Turkey to cease her warlike preparations, and of stopping the retaliatory proceedings of Great Britain. Advices from St. Michael's, Western Islands, state that the gathering of oranges had been so abundant this season as to make their value in the market almost nominal, and it was feared that a considerable quantity of the fruit must perish. _ _ A fire broke out in the treasury of the Palace of Prince Peter of Oldenburgh, by the bursting of one of the heat ing flues, on the sth of this month. The immense stock of plate belonging to the prince was melted, and a great number of valuable documents, among them several state papers, fell a prey to the flames. Surprise has been felt among the English residents in Paris by the announcement made, within the last two days, that Lords Palmerston and Normanby have deter mined to appoint an English clergyman, who is an utter stranger in Paris, to the office of chaplain of the British Embassy. The place has been vacant ever since the death ,of the late Bishop Luscombe. A CONVERT.—The conversion of a Miss Cavendish, at Rome, and her reception into that church by the cardinal vicar, was noticed in the papers some weeks ago, with an intimation that she belonged to the Devonshire family. The lady turns out to be the confederate of a soi disant Mr. Cavendish, who has been lodged in the Castle of St. Angelo, for attempting to swindle the bankers by forged bills. THE TRUE )Eris--His Holiness the Pope having as serted to the Bishops of the Pontifical States, that the restoration of his temporal power ",ought to be ascribed to the protection of the immaculate Virgin Mary," we have the highest authority for denying that statement. The Virgin Mary had nothing whatever to do with the massacre at the gate of San Pancrazzio ; but the Pope's authority could not live one hour in Rome without the protection of General Buaraguay d'Hilliers. AN UNHAPPY LOVER.-Mr. W. P. Anderson, a young man of about twenty-four years of age, had been paying attentions to a daughter of Mr. W. A. Moore. On Wed nesday, he proceeded to the residence of her father, in Van Buren, ten miles from Bolivar, with the intention of carrying her off to marry her. When he approached the house, the father appeared at the door armed with a gun, and warned him off. The bridegroom elect continuing to approach, the father shot him dead.—Memphis (U.S.) Eagle. GREECE.—The Constantinople correspondent of the Times has written a very remarkable letter on the effect which the outrageous proceedings of Sir W. Parker in Greece, are likely to have on the mind of the Emperor of Russia, smarting under the wound inflicted on it by the intervention of England relative to the extradition of the Hungarian refugees.—On the 10th inst., two captured Hellenic sloops-of-war were brought to Corfu, and the English steamer Rosamond has brought two Greek mer chantmen to the same port. ITALIAN BANDITTI.—Romagna continues to be infes ted by armed bands. • One of them, consisting of about 150 men, lately entered the district of Brissighella, the population of which amounts to 3,000 souls, and where posts of carabiniers and revenue officers are stationed. The latter were disarmed, and their muskets thrown into wells. The houses of the richest inhabitants were plun dered ; and the banditti having entered a ball-room in the town, forced a priest and a canon to join in a country dance. THE LATE REMARKABLE CRIME IN BOSTON. —We learn that Dr. Webster has made frequent complaints to Mr. Andrews, the gaoler, that the occupants of the cells in his immediate vicinity are in the habit of shouting out to him at nights, uttering all sorts of unkind epithets, such as " You're the man that cut up Dr. Parkman," "You're a murderer," " You're a blood-thirsty scoundrel," &c. This is all a delusion, the result of unpleasant dreams. Dr. Webster has lost much of the buoyancy of spirits that sustained him when he first became an inmate of the gaol. —Boston Mail. SNOW STORM IN GREECE.—THOUSANDS OF SHEEP LosT.—A snow storm commenced on the 23d ult., and continued the two following days. The thermometer fell in Athens to 25 degrees Fahrenheit, the oranges were frozen to the core on the trees in the gardens, and the mandarins could be broken to pieces with a hammer. Thousands of sheep perished in Attica, so suddenly did the storm come on, and even the shepherds were sur prised, and many were lost in the storm. The loss is said to amount to a fourth of the total number of sheep in Attica alone ; and in northern Greece it is presumed that the loss has been considerably greater. A CAREFUL MAN. — Yesterday evening an English gen tleman, while strolling along the Boulevard Montmartre, became a rich booty to some of the light-fingered gentry, for on arriving at his hotel he found himself minus his pocket-book, containing bank-notes amounting to £435, and two bills payable to order for £133 6s. Bd. He had had the precaution to take the number of the notes, but, like the Irishman who, in order that he might always know where to put his hand on the crooked sixpence, without which he could not open his snuff-box, put it in the inside and shut down the lid, he had put the list in the same pocket-book with the notes.—Galign.ani. THE AMERICAN BAR —Dr. Webster's friends applied to the Hon. Daniel Webster, to conduct the defence, and ' offered him £2,000 to commerce, but he absolutely re fused, and would not touch the money. They then went to Rufus Choate, but with no better success. Mr.Choate, even with all his legal acumen and ingenuity, thought Webster's a desperate case; he said he could conceive no other defence to be set up, than that Parkman went into Webster's private room, was there seized with a violent fit of the ague, and shook himself all to pieces, one part of his body going here and another there—some parts down the privy, and others in a furnace, or box. DREADFUL EVENT.—A dreadful explosion and fire oc curred at Naples, on the 6th ir.stant, which threatened extensive destruction. The cellars of the Darsens, or closed port, extend from the water's edge to a considerable distance under the principal buildings of the city, includ ing the magnificent palaces of the princes of Salerno and Capua, and the King's palace. In these cellars were J ware.housed 277,000 cantara of coal, and on the morning of the 2nd an explosion of fire-damp took place underneath the pala,les of the princes of Salerno and Capua, which threw don:n large portions of the walls, and it was with great difficulty that the inhabitants escaped. It was as certained that the coal had ignited, and that there was every reason to fear that the King's palace and the church oa t . Franc e sca de Pad would be destroyed. WRECK 'OF'' AN AMERICAN BARQUE AND SHIP.— Bermuda papersrof the 23rd ult., brought by the Niagara steam-ship, report that the American barque' Mariette, Captain Varmard, from Bath, Maine, bound to Havanna, with a cargo of shooks, was wrecked upon the Long Bar, at the west end of these islands, on the previous Sunday. Whilst running close to the-reef, under a fresh gale from the N.N:W.,`to gain a - port, she struck a point of rock and sprung a leak, when, as the only means of- saving the lives of those on board, the captain was compelled to run the vessel fast upon the reefs, where she speedily became a total wreck. His object in calling there was to land seventy persons whom he had rescued from-the American ship L.Z:which he met with in a sinking condition, in lat. 38, lon. 67. The L.Z. was from New York for Liver pool. During a gale on the 13th she had sprung a leak, which the crew were unable to stop, her pumps had become choked, and she sunk soon after the crew and passengers, seventy in number, had been removed to the Mariette, only to encounter again the perils of shipwreck. SAD FATALITY.—The following extract from the report of the ship Macedon, records a fearful accident that befel her on her way out to Port Adelaide from'Liverpool with emigrants.:—" The Mahomed Shaw, which arrived at Melbourne on the 4th of October, 1849, with emigrants from London, September 3, met with a dreadful disaster. All hands were aloft : they had been close reefing the fore topsailvsome of them were reefing the foresail, and the re mainder on their way down to assist on the foreyard, in all 25 men aloft, when suddenly a tremendous squall struck the ship nearly dead aft, carrying away the =three masts, when the whole 25 men were precipitated into the sea. Seventeen were rescued, but the remaining eight perished —viz., the carpenter, five able-bodied seamen, and two apprentices. The hull of the vessel sustained-some slight injury, but did not make more water than before the acci dent ; -the ship hove to under the mizen ; she strained and rolled fearfully. but none of the emigrants were hurt by those disasters." It is astonishing that none of the emi grants were injured by the sudden fall of all the masts, for some of them must, we suppose have been on deck at the time. A 'RkLL BY FIRE-LIGHT TO THE MUSIC OF VESU *VIITS.-A correspondent at Naples writes on the 12th : " At this moment the royal palace is between two fires ! About a fortnight ago a shock of an earthquake was felt during a great storm, and a few days since the store of .coals (250,000 quintals) became ignited. They were de posited in a vacuum extending from the arsenal to the palace of the Prince of Salerno, a vast hollow like the catacombs : of course all the inmates immediately de camped, and the sapeurs pompiers are at work, having cleverly• run up a wall to save great part of the coals from ignition-if possible. On the other side is Vesuvius in full eruption, presenting a finer spectacle than has been wit nessed for many years. The lava flows in a north-eas terly direction, over the estate of Prince Ottiano, doing great damage. The Carnival gaities are now transferred from the Toledo to the saloons. Some fifty couples ap peared in costumes of the reigns of Louis XIV. and XV., and formed quadrilles at the soirees of La Marquise da Ronda, Prince St. Antimo, and Princess Dentici. These brilliant parties closed the festive season. while the thun ders of Vesuvius shook every window in Naples." THE LIVERPIOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. ORDINATION BY THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, ON SUNDAY LASE, IN THE CATHEDRAL. CHURCH OF CHESTER. DEO N S Pilling J. Rushworth, B.A. Magdalen Hall College, Oxford, Burd Frederick, 8.A., Christ v r PP Burrow Roger, 8.A., Queen's ~ ry Dampier Wm. Norris, -8. A., Lincoln „ PP Perryn Gerrard Alex., M.A., Brasenose „ FP Royds Fras. Coulman, 8.A., ~ I, ~ Scott John Haigh, .-B.A„ New Inn Hall , .., Cann Henry Foster, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, Jones Peter, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, Lowe William, 8.A., If PP Prescott Thos., 8.A., ~ 12 Wilson Joseph, 8.A., , PP Battersby James, Theological College, Birkenhead, Nadin Joseph, PP If Rundell William Joseph, ~ Whitehead Henry, PP ft By Letters Dimissory. Eddowes John, 8.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge, ,PRIESTS Glazebrook John Kirkland, M.A., Magdalen Hall,Oxford, Prout William Smart, 8.A., Worcester College, „ Chadwick James, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge, Gwyn Richard, 8.A., Magdalen ~ ft Hockin Fred., 8.A., St. John's ~ ft Waddingham Thomas, MA .ff ft Woodhouse, Henry David, Christ's Day Edward, 8.A.. Trinity College, Dublin, Jones Charles, 8.A., ff Jump Thomas, BA _ Humphrey Francis, Saint Bees College, Leyland Leigh, 9 f ~ Sharpe William Leggatt, ~ Sedgwick Abraham, ~ ~ By Letters Dimissory. Rudd Thomas, B.A„ Trinity College, Dublin, Ventris Edwd. Favell, 8.A., Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge. The following gentlemen were afterwards licensed by the Bishop to the cures set opposite to their respec tive names : Battersby James to .. Saint Simon's, Liverpool, Burd Frederick... . Lymm:with Warburton, Burrow R0ger.............. Windermere Cann Henry F05ter....... ... Preston Patrick, Dampier William Norri s .... Preston Patrick, Jones Peter Lowe William .... ;.. Handley, Nadin Joseph .. Middlewich, Piling John Rushwortb ...... Cheadle, Perryn Gerrard Alexander.... Grappenhall, Prescott Thomas Nantwich, Royds Francis Coulman Sandbach, Rundell William Joseph Scott John Haigh Wilson Joseph Whitehead Henry Day Edward . Woodhouse Henry David Glazebrook John Kirkland to the perpetual curacy of Melling, in the county of Lancaster, void by the death of the Rev. Miles Formby, on the nomination of the Rev. Richard Leigh, rector of Halsall, patron thereof in right of his rectory. OXFORD, FEB. 20.—1 n a convocation the following de grees were conferred :--Masters of Arts.—G. S. Whit tock, Scholar of Brazennose ; Rev. R. M. Benson, Stu dent of Christ Church; Rev: M. W. Barston, Christ Church ; J. Conington, Fellow of University ; F. Chalker, Scholar of Corpus ; Rev. E. T. Austen, Fellow of St. John's ; B. D. Compton, Fellow of Merton ; E. G. Richards and Rev. J. F. Anstey, Oriel. Bachelors of Arts.—W. D. Stanton, Exeter; Thomas H. Michell, Oriel. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 20.—At a congregation the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of .Arts.—J. Ttitson, Jesus ; J. Hicks, Downing.—Bachelors of Arts.—A. H. Pechell, Trinity ; G. F. Allfree, St. John's ; H. Norton, Magdalene ; W. Crane, Queen's ; S. East, St. Peter's ; F. Blomfield, Trinity ; B. R. Keene, Trinity ; T. H. I. Bagge, Downing. Vie . Bishop of Llandaff has appointed five chaplains, three of whom are examining chaplains. One examines exclusively in Welsh. The Loi.d Bishop of Ely has been pleased to license the Wesleyan Chapel at Long Melford, Suffolk, for the cele bration of divine service according to the rites of the Church of England. The Rev. Henry Bailey, 8.D., Fellow and Hebrew Lec turer of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been admitted Warden of the Missionary College of St. Augustine, Canterbury. _ _ _ It is rumoured that his Grace the Archbishop of Can terbury has written a letter, that is said to be already in type, upon the doctrine of Regeneration id Holy Baptism. If this be so it will no doubt appear immediately after the judgment delivered in the Gorham case. MUNIFICENCE.—A lady has presented, through the Bishop of London, to the committee for the build ing of a new church and school in the Trinity district of St. Pancras, the munificent sum of £l,OOO in aid of the funds now raising for their completion. Miss Burdett Coutts has given £lOO, and a lady has placed £lOO in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Laing. Dr. Achilli attended a meeting of a newly-formed Bible Society, in the parish of St. George, Bloomsbury, on Tuesday. He proposed a resolution, which was carried unanimously, affirming that, in consequence of the energy and activity of the Roman Catholic Church, it was desir able to send copies of the Scriptures to all parts of the world, in order that the people of each nation might he enabled to read in their native language. TITHE RENT CHARGE.—The Rev. Mr. Lund, of Mor ton Rectory, Derby, has addressed a letter to the editor of the Cambridge Chronicle, of which the following is an important extract :—" Allow me to say that, by omitting the farthings in the average prices of the grain, the fixed corn-rent for £3OO is not quite correct for all purposes, although sufficiently so for some. The exact figures are— Wheat, 284'86 bushels; Barley, 505'26 bushels; Oats. 727'27 bushels. And this being the corn rent of £3OO, of course one third of these numbers will give the corn-rent for £loo—and proportionately for any other sum. I admit fully that the Tithe-owner's income is thus made to depend with singular disproportion upon barley and oats, and little comparatively upon wheat. But so it seemed good to the Legislature to enact—a Legislature chiefly composed of landowners—and the clergy are in no way whatever to blame for it." THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The Earl of Chichester presided on Tuesd , ty last at the anniversary meeting of the Cheltenham Training Schools. His lordship entered largely into the questions at issue between the Committee of Privy Council and the National Society, and defended the management clauses imposed by the government as a condition of assistance, representing those which had been opposed by the party of the Rev. George Denison as necessary to secure to the church laity a fair influence in the control of the schools. The views of the noble earl were loudly cheered, and were supported by all the other speakers, both of the clergy and of the laity, who took part in the proceedings. The Rev. Mr. Close, the incum bent of Cheltenham, in the course of his remarks, com mented in strong terms on the misrepresentations of Pro fessor Sewell and others at the late educational meeting in London, and expressed his conviction that such princi ples as were there broached would not meet the assent of the members of the Church of England generally. The attendance was numerous and most respectable, compris ing a considerable number of the elite of the place, and the demonstrations of applause were such as must have convinced the most sceptical that the anti-supremacy party in the church is not likely to find much favour in the eyes of churchmen.—Church and State Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE, Lord Denman has resigned the Chief Justiceship of the Queen's Bench, which he has adorned for eighteen years. He will be succeeded by Lord Campbell. AGES OF THE LAW LORDS.—Lord Plunket is 86 ; Lyndhurst, 78 : Brougham, 72; Denman, 71; Campbell, 71 • Cottenham, 69, Langdale, 67. in the case of Taylor v. Simpson, tried in the Irish Court of Exchequer, the plaintiff, who is a daughter of the celebrated John Philpot Curran, and the sister of the betrothed of the hapless Robert Emmett, recovered a ver dict against the defendant for £307 10s. The action was brought to recover the portrait of her father, now in the possession of Sir Robert Peel, who purchased it from the defendant for £l5O. TRIAL FOR LIBEL.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, an action was brought by a Mr. Thomas Holbrook Coyle, a clerk in the employ of a firm with which t he late Sir Felix Booth was connected, against the registered proprietor of The City of London Protection Circular, to recover compensation in damages for a libel published in that paper in the month of July last. The libel was contained in a paragraph of that paper, which charged the plaintiff with being a " notorious swindler," and alleged that he had decamped from certain lodgings in the City under circumstances of a most dishonourable character. The defendant, in respect to the libel con tained in the words " notorious swindler," pleaded justi fication, but in respect to the other parts of the libel withdrew the plea of " not guilty " which he had first put in. After a long trial it was ultimately agreed upon between the counsel on both sides, that there should be a verdict, upon the first plea of not guilty, of is. nominal damages for the plaintiff, and that a juror should be with drawn upon the other plea of justification. IRELAND. Letters from Ireland announce the failure of a firm in a principal city with liabilities of upwards of £lOO,OOO. Trade is miserably bad at Limerick, Sligo, Galway, Wexford, Waterford, and other seaports, which are filled with unemployed able-bodied labourers. The Westmeath Guardian reports two more inquests held on the dead bodies of an old woman and a man, who died in that county within the last few days of destitution. The Limerick Examiner of Wednesday states that serious apprehensions of an outbreak were entertained in that city for the past few days, owing to the largo number of workmen at present without employment, as the dock works are suspended, and less employment than usual afforded in stores. Dr. Slattery, the Popish "Archbishop of Cashel and Emly," has published a manifesto declaring the atten dance of the faithful on the Godless Colleges to be unlaw ful. STARVATION.—Another inquest has been held in Clare, in a case of starvation, for want of out• door relief. The case took place in the union of Ennistymon, and the ver dict was " Died from starvation, in consequence of being turned out of the workhouse, and getting no out-door relief." The Leinster Express gives a curious account of a man sion and three hundred and fifty acres of land. near Dur row, in Queen's county, formerly the property of Mr. Richard Lalor, who has abandoned it for America. The mansion is being dilapidated and spoilt of its marble chimney-pieces, and other fixtures, and the timber on the estate cut down and destroyed without interference by the peasantry. ABDUCTION.—The house of Pat M'Garry, who resides within two or three miles of Ballintogher, was at midnight on the 7th instant broken into, and his daughter Mary, a girl of about 21 years of age, forcibly carried away, with the express determination of the assailants to compel her to marry a man named Pat M`Loughlin, a rejected suitor. Her father was severely beaten in his endeavours to resist them in carrying out their purpose. The girl was, a few hours afterwards, found in the house of James M`Lough lin, about a mile distant from 111`Garry's house. Several persons have been committed for trial.—Sligo Journal. OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY DOWN. — Several outrages in this county are related in the Belfast papers. As, for instance, a number of armed men having surrounded the house of Mr. Anketel, near Ballpnahinch, Mr. Kerr's agent, and fired five or six shots through that gentleman's bedroom window, though fortunately without wounding or injuring any person in the house. Several landlords and agents in the county have been served with threaten ing notices, and an incendiary fire took place near Dun donald, and it is supposed another occurred in the neigh bourhood of Danaghadee. A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—CoIoneI Blacker, of Carrick, near Portadown, lately held a meeting with his tenants, when the subject ofitreduction of rents was freely dis cussed between the parties. The gallant colonel at length frankly told the tenants assembled that, having full confi dence in their own sense of justice, he would leave it to themselves to fix the rent which in the present circum stances of the country they could afford to pay, and for this purpose he would appoint them as a jury to act con scientiously in the matter. The tenants accordingly con sulted, and fixed upon £1 per acre as the sum suited to their own means, and this arrangement was immediately confirmed by Colonel Blacker. FIRST SALE OF LAND UNDER THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.—The lands of Kinlough, county Mayo, the property of Mr. Balfe, were put up for sale by the Commissioners in Dublin, on Thursday. This was the first sale under the Commission, and much interest was felt respecting the result. The property consisted of 236 acres and 15 perches, Irish plantation measure, held by a single tenant, J. Kirwan, Esq., at the yearly rent of £192 Is. ld. It was subject to a quit rent of £1 109.101-d., and rent charge of £ll 7s. 24d. The rent was paid with the utmost regularity, and the lands were described as worth fully Bs. more than was paid for them. They were favourably situated and in fine heart. After some spirited biddings, Mr. Pierce Joyce was declared the purchaser, at £3,500, which is estimated as 23 years' purchase. This is a favourable beginning. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning the inha bitants of Mill-street, Newry, were awoke about three o'clock, by a terrible noise which occasioned the greatest alarm. It was soon found that the house occupied by Mr. Michael Downey had fallen in, carrying with it a por tion of another. The family of Mr. Downey were all in bed at the time. Mr. Downey himself, and his son, a very fine young man, were noth killed. Miss Downey and a female servant who slept in the front of the house, escaped, and a young man was also saved, the particular corner of the house in which he slept being the only one that stood. The adjoining house was occupied by a per son named M'Kevitt, who, with his family, was in bed at the same time also. A young child was killed in this house, but the remainder of the family were uninjured. Another of the children, after being buried in the ruins for two hours, and when all hopes of its !recovery were given up, was taken out without a scratch on it. CONTINUED PERSECUTION AT DINGLE.—The state of society in Dingle is become barbarous in the last degree— it is more like Rome under Romish laws, or Algiers or Tunis under the rule of pirates, than like a part of the British dominions. if a stranger from a quiet Christian town in England or Scotland had been there for the last three months, he wo u ld h ave f oun d it difficult to persuade himself that Dingle was under the protection of English law. On Saturday week, the Rev. Mr. Lewis went to visit a man in typhus fever—immediately the house was surrounded by a mob, composed chiefly of the boys of the monks' school, shouting, whilstling, and blowing horns, so loud that he could not raise his voice shave them. Sunday was one endless scene of riot and disorder. It is stated that the priest harangued the people in inflamma tory terms, but be this as it may, the boys of the monks' school waited for Mr. Lewis's appearance in the streets, and collecting a mob of several hundred persons, followed him yelling, whistling, and calling names in a most riotous and disorderly manner; he was literally borne along by the mob. At the evening service ifirailaritceue took place also. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Lord Albert Denison, M.P. for Canterbury, who inhe rited the great bulk of his uncle's immense wealth, is to be raised to the peerage. Sixty-two members of parliament have claimed to be wholly excused from serving on election committees, on account of being more than sixty years old. Already, we perceive, the petitions presented to the House of Commons for the stoppage of post-office labour on Sundays, amount to nearly six hundred. On Friday night, LordAsiileyg;;;;;tiCe that on an early day after Easter he should propose an address to the crown on post-office Sunday labour. The educational proceedings of the Privy Council are expected to be brought before the House of Lords very shortly by a noble lord universally respected. AN ENGLISH BULL.—The Weekly Chronicle says, in reference to a proceeding in parliament :—" Resolutions were moved, and, after a rambling discussion, which led to no results, they were carried." During the past week a deputation of Irish Peers and Commoners waited upon the First Lord of the Treasury to urge the abandonment of out-door relief in Ireland. Lord John Russell replied, that the measure was justified by an existing, but gradually decreasing, necessity. Lord Feversham had an interview with Sir Geo. Grey, at the Home Office, and presented petitions to the Queen from Malton and Reydale, in the North Riding of York shire, representing the depression of agriculture, and praying for an early dissolution of Parliament. In the present House of Commons there are the Whigs proper, or Ministerialists, numbering about 260 ; the Peel section, numbering about 90 ; the Cobden and Hume radical reformers, numbering about 50 : the great agricul tural party, numbering about 265. EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE.—Considerable sensation has been caused in East Lothian by one of the Marquis of Dalhousie's principal tenants having sold off his live and dead stock, and disappeared, leaving his noble landlord minus £lOOO in rent. On the agent hearing the report, he instantly hurried to the farm, and on upbraiding the tenant's wife with her husband's conduct, she replied, " It was muckle better for the laird, who voted for free trade, to lose his rent, than for my gude man to lose his capital." This is a system of deep draining hitherto un known in this celebrated agricultural county ; but no one knows what is to be the end, for wheat last Friday only averaged 335. 7d. in Haddington market. Protection meetings have been held during the past week at Hinckley, Goole, and Reigate. At the last-named place, on Tuesday last, Mr. Paul Foskett addressed the members of the Reigate Protection Society, and expressed his conviction that Protection must be restored, or national bankruptcy will be the inevitable result. I make not this assertion (said Mr. Foskett) unadvisedly,--it is my mature conviction—a conviction also of thinking men in every part of the kingdom, expressed at 183 great public meet ings which have recently been held on this subject, and which were attended by 200,000, at the very least, of our fellow-sufferers. Resolutions pledging the meeting to in creased exertion were proposed, and there was exhibited a growing feeling of discontent at the operation of " free trade" amongst the tradesmen of the town, who are gra dually losing their best customers. Two or three instances of failures amongst agriculturists were spoken of with :egret. • "Thei Duke of Richmond had an audience of her Majesty, , to present the thirty-four Protection addresses to the 'Queen -the issue of the recent meetings—praying far a dissolution of Parliament, and attributing great distress as :prerfilent from the operations of Free Trade. His Grace also presented twenty-five memorials in favour of the " Ten Hours Act." and praying that it might not be eva .l:led by the relay or shift system. THR CITY OF LONDON ELECTION PETITION.—We un .derstand that this petition will be actively prosecuted, with every chance of success. The counsel engaged are Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and Mr. Merewether. In the .present stage of the affair, it would not become us to enter into any further statement on the subject ; but we have every,:reason to believe that the decision of the upper branch of the legislature will, from the result of the in vestigation, derive such an accession of moral strength as to quash for ever the unseemly and unconstitutional suit of " Baron Rothschild v. the House of Lords."—Jo hn Bull. PROTECTION MEETING AT DORCHESTER.--A meeting of landowners, tenant farmers, and others, was held at Dorchester on Wednesday, to petition for a restoration of Protection. The proceedings were interrupted by dis graceful outrages, committed by a mob of fellows, who broke the windows of the place of meeting, and severely wounded many persons with stones. Everybody arriving at, or leaving the place of meeting, was pelted. Two large stones were flung into the high sheriff's carriage, but he escaped unhurt. It was said that a boy amongst the rioters was mortally wounded by a blow from a cudgel inflicted by a farmer, but he was anaounced to have revived before the night train left. One man, as will be seen from a paragraph elsewhere, was so hurt that he has since died. A few prisoners were made of the mob, which appeared to be composed principally of grown up boys and young men of the lowest grade. On the farmers adjourn- I ing to the open air, the several resolutions were put and carried unanimously, and an address to the Queen was adopted. SIGNS OF THE SESSlON.—Strange rumours were afloat, in the early part of the week, which the division of Thurs day night has tended getatly to confirm, to the effect that two of the most distinguished allies of the present admi nistration, in the Upper House, have determined for the future to withhold their support from Lord John Russell's cabinet. One of these, the noblest head of an old Whig family, appeared among the proxies in the division on the address, but it is understood that was the last occasion when such use will be permitted to be made of his name. The name of the other, a noble Earl, who has rendered eminent services to the cause of the Whigs, did not appear in that division at all, and will not, we believe, ever again appear in such questionable company. Another ominous fact is the absence of the name of " The Duke " from the list of the division on the address. Considering how great a stickler the illustrious veteran is for all matters of eti quette towards the Crown, the omission of his name on the muster-roll on the occasion of acknowledging " her Majesty's most gracious speech," seems to indicate a growing conviction in his Grace's mind that the Queen's government may be carried on, even though her Majesty's pre sent governMent should be turned out.—John Bull. MR. DISRAELI'S Monorr.—ln the majority against this motion we find E. Cardwell, Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, A. Henry, J. Heywood. J. Bright, J. Bro therton, Sir E. Buxton, R. Cobden, J. E. Denison, Marquis of Douro, H. Goulbourn, Sir J. Graham, T. Green, Lord E. Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, L. Heyworth, J. Hume, W. Jackson, Sir J. Jervis, G. F. Muntz, Sir R. Peel, R. Thicknesse, T. Thorneley, Sir J. Walmsley, and J. S. Wortley. Among the minority were J. W. Patten, J. Hornby, Sir P. Egerton, G. C. Legh, W. T. Egerton, J. Bailey, J. Bailey, jun., Hon. G. Berkeley, S. Blair, E. S. Cayley, W. E. Gladstone, H. Grattan, G. Hudson, Sir R. H. Inglis, Lord Jocelyn, Hon. Colonel Lindsay, T. Meagher. F. O'Connor, G. Gandars, J. Sanders, Col. Sibthorpe, R. Spooner, E. Stanley, Sir F. Thesiger, J. Tollemache, and Sir. W. W. Wynn. No fewer than 23 whigs voted against the government, among whom Lord Anson, Lord Nugent, and the Earl of Euston are the most conspicuous. One hundred and five representatives of agricultural constituencies voted with government. How many will be returned at the next election ? Twenty-four protectionists were absent from the division. Twenty-three Peelites voted against the motion, the chief of whom we have noted above, as we have those of this party, amount.. ing to seventeen, who voted against their chief. The fact that, Viscount Anson, son of the earl of Lichfield, and nephew of the clerk to the ordnance, and the Earl of Euston, son of the Duke of Grafton, who has a near re lation in the royal household, both voted with Mr. Dis raeli, is sufficiently expressive of waning confidence in the principles of Lord John Russell's cabinet, even among his natural supporters. And among those who have hitherto followed the footsteps of Sir Robert Peel, how many noble defections are there from personal partisan ship to the country's cause ! To say nothing of Mr. Gladstone, who, as usual, spoke on the wrong, because he intended to vote on the right side, there are several other conspicuous members of Sir Robert Peel's admi nistration and of his party among the minority. We need only mention such names as those of Viscount Jo celyn, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Villiers, Sir Robert's son-in-law, Lord Claude Hamilton, the Honourable Ro bert Clive, the Honourable Edwin Lascelles, the Right Honourable Henry Lowry Corry, Sir Thomas Dyke Ac land, who, with several others, supported Mr. Disraeli's motion, in opposition to their quondam leader. But among the names which have thus resumed their proper position, there is one which will be hailed with singular satisfaction. We allude to the name of Sir Frederick Thesiger, the Attorney. General of Sir Robert Peel's ad ministration. A RAP AT THE MANUFACTURERS.—In the House of Commons, on Thursday, Mr. Drummond said. he could not help contrasting the way in which the manufacturing and trading interests were treated when they were whining suppliants. (Loud cheers.) Had they been sneered at or mocked ? Had they been laughed at for not under standing chemistry ? (Cheers.) The counsel of the hon. member for the West Riding amounted to this,—that the present race of farmers should try agricultural experiments, that they should pass into the workhouse, and then let a happier and more enlightened lot of men succeed them. (Laughter.) But was it not notorious that not a single English manufacturer had ever made a single discovery in the arts ? (Cheers and laughter.) They had, to be sure, the Manchester school, with its peculiar doctrines. Did any one ever hear of a Lavoisier or of a Fourcroy in Man chester? (Laughter.) Could they quote the name of any one manufacturer who had written on the scientific principles of his own business ? No ; it was notorious that, to this day, these Manchester manufacturers knew no more of the chemical nature of their dyes and pigments than the blocks on which they were printed. (Cheers and laughter.) Had not the house taken pity on their dense stupidity and vulgarity when then confessed that nothing but the cheapness of their wares enabled them to find a market, for that there was not a man in England who would not prefer the better taste and more beautiful ma nufacture of France, or even of the Chinese ? (Cheers and laughter.) In mercy to them the house established a school of design, but so little had they been enabled to profit by it, that the last report stated that they drew as bad as ever. (Laughter.) . . . . Some honourable gentlemen seemed to think that a farm could be shut up, or worked for three days in the week, like a cotton-mill. (A laugh.) When honourable gentlemen opposite were asked what they wanted, they said they wished the taxes upon advertisements to be taken off. Yes ; they wanted to be puffed in the newspapers. (Great laughter.) He insisted that the tax upon beer should be removed, but honourable gentlemen opposite said " No." When a poor labourer, who got wet through in 2ao out of the 310 work ing days in the year, went home, instead of a glass of ale, they would give him a newspaper to read. (Loud laughter. This was their love for the poo r ! (Ren ewe d l aug h ter.) This was the way in which free trade benefited the poor man. He found it said in a publication of the Manches ter school—" We are not an agricultural country ; it is manufactures that gives us our wealth—our population." Wealth first, and the people afterwards ! (A. laugh.) He would support the motion of his honourable friend the member for Buckinghamshire, but this was nothing to what they meant to have. (Loud cheers and laughter.) They would have the excise done away with. The old cry of " faith with the public creditor" had lost much of its force. (A cry of " Oh, oh !" from an honourable gentle man on the ministerial side.) Whenever he saw gentlemen with white waistcoats and brilliant eyes, he knew it was quite impossible to control them. (Great laughter.) For his own part, he did not care- for any insults to the land, for land was as superior to manufactures as an oaken cudgel was to a cotton thread. (Loud laughter and cheers.) RAILWAY AFFAIRS. It is said that Lord John Russell intends to make government advances to some of the Irish railways. The York and North Midland directors recommend a dividend of 10s. per share or 20 per cent. A serious rupture is likely to take place between the authorities and the engine -drivers of the Great Western Railway. l On Saturday the Lord Chancellor pronounced a deci sion in the case of " The Shrewsbury and Birmingham , Railway Company v. the London and North-Western Railway Company," reversing the decision of the Vice . Chancellor, and deciding that the contract between the l companies should now be executed. A road across the Menai Straits has been obtained through the vast iron arcade. It is said that the formal l opening will take place in March, that Prince Albert will be there, and there will be any amount of festive fun, . that Mr. Stephenson is to be created a baronet, and that his inauguration will probably shadow forth the institu tion of a new order of knighthood, to be conferred on men of eminence in literature and science. RAILWAY GOSSIP.—At the half-yearly meeting of the London and North-Western Company, Mr. Tart, one of the proprietors, as an instance of the expenditure of money, stated that the room in which they were assem , bled was " more like the splendid banquetting-hall of some Italian palace than a place for the transaction of business among mercantile men." Another proprietor, Mr. Du Boulay, alluding to the fortunes of opposition branches, thought they could not be in better hands than the present board, who combined " the keenness of Liver pool with the intelligence of London." CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—At the meet ing of the London and North Western Railway Company, Mr. Dean contended that the Chester and Holyhead line would never return them a sixpence on their outlay, and that it was the most bankrupt concern in the kingdom. Mr. Jackson, one of the Chester and Holyhead Directors, denied that that Company was in such a position as to excite any alarm among the proprietors. He did no t deny that the Company was in difficulties, but he held in his possession a proposition from three eminent men, offering to lend them £290,000 to pay off their liabilities, and to take a lease of the line, giving to the proprietors half the profits. On Saturday, at the adjourned meeting of the proprietors of the London and North Western line, the scrutineers declared that there were for approv ing of the bill to authorise the Chester and Holyhead Company to lease their line to the former company 105 ; sgaind 18. The bill was therefore approved. Feb. 2kij ) 18 D " ISSOLUTION AND ABANDONMENT Or _ a . On Wednesday a bill, originated in the lis u Se by Earl Granville, to facilitate the abandone provisions are to the effect, that railway m,"' tap,, nl - " 4, make application to the commissioners 0 1 _ 0 ,, se - ' 11 ,,s o f i Thel h ' e ,it. !ank a Z the se ways incorporated by act of Parliament , o 'l , a g leave to abandon their undertakings. rant, authorise the abandonment of eitheet ~,,e tg the portion of the railway, and, upon issue of . lts L t i' o , d b y ',lsst we are to be released from liability to m aKe.,,, e$ te r , n " . ,r. R. ' • Compensation is to be made where. contra!•e, o ), letile r i ai 'Plerot entered into, and to landowners (by arbitrate-I.a 4 a i nst the tia s h, „, Sd A, yitltn ern de s e n ' derit l, was held in , the Clarendon-rooms, on Tul l es ti d with a a a statement from the deputation appointe bo o b ap orel , su me M e t A i nNge of the T E R I: i v S e H r ;Le l I e s h e a r u , e h A 0 1 n d e L rs et e i D e ? ay ,: to ,n t meeting to wait, in conjunction with sbefecioe li e' ! Ga:l enth other towns, on the directors. Mr. J. C; J i a too V gb -A ic ,.... , 11 n to the chair, and read the minutes of wue' v er a'lliin g fi " 1 the meeting of the deputations at WiSlic i iete „_4e Purpose rne 14th instant. The board resolved to Pisc' ; s cter' t ' w4 i ° disposal of the proprietors, and the six d-r e L e e. p ea No to i w o e m re e, ll , a i n e d ssr ß s ia W ke i ; ll l i e a a m v s in , gTohnortohled,boHaredneLaogae: yalt ' rni3e ti s ,,,.. forl), Mr. Chapman, Mr. Turner, Mr. Greig, IT ( the aliens. '" 00l and Mr. Fllison. It was agreed that W I , ee' e h tion sa b Al o r t; u C g . seats should be filled b Mr. Alderman 1 1 .,Z,b1e, II had a shit's tit h F ; . Y m o r u . n iv g e n I , o . f Hutton,Sheffield wa s ce 'p at H. Brooke, Lincoln •, leaving a seat easaloll, 8 :all& ' 4 ISI Ga;.teMßrllart.o7,l3fliodt• 111 t at , e ild .e' consideration. On the motion of Mr • k ce go, 11 4 `;' ? day A i resolved by the present meeting that the e t ., 0 , , ..eta, wh eht named should form part of the new dire C ec t i 10 te e m il a w ar ° r r e , S understood that the alteration in that Se S P A c oeY IN a Stat e I ' do away with the necessity for the propose' , e. was of ed 4 killed investigation. , oiv ,on rm e•iday 0 BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND C s 0' 3 SOc e °I th e TION.—The half-yearly general meeting ~,0 j, , '.artd a N‘'as rot was held at Birkenhead on Saturday. et r i e j, 1 4 I las lady, r, the chairman, presided. The report , s t a ted, '' Ne se 'tee h e receipts from passengers, notwithstanding 1 14 It C, t l 7. by omnibus from Chester, has increased abe; iB ''ln.d 4 s lY t, / upon the corresponding previous halt-year. .., 50 0 ta, iris a tilLe and merchandise returns show the following,'`.-fe,loa at 4 )4 ' half-year ending the 31st of Decembers , 1 84 7 0 : 2 2,eeet h 'ore ll ; s i tt tf u ll receipts, £18,003 ; goods, £4,154 ; total, .7 0 t fi o Nir eat . in 1849, passenger receipts, £18,682; fi e ,,, the* ~t'x jj 4 4(1;4 total, £24,593 ; increase, £2,430. Duri„ r t anP,Ulia,:'lll,,, tt N, months the coal and iron carried on the un' n( j4 3lll sl 4 ;"Ps.jed 4 in the docks have amounted to 22,700 tons , e- e Prate 1 40eet '' containing 3,400 tons of raw material, ba c co dote .' 1 •41., i m of In charged at the docks, and conveyed by the no el: C . ' 4 44 , 4 4 tre a lPi the Potteries. The items marked *in the reread tio ee tie„ en , 4 If be f o contain charges made by the Shrewsbur9 I s orres s aPp h ,„'lss k , ' Company for terminal expenses to which thi s no o:B t. ,u.ty , Priate `',., Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. Per, sn n , tb e t t: 4, ,h a b j the - e el £27 10s. and the £22 shares will be payabl e - i 00 ''ti t's Ch'''' March, and it is recommended that interest aO, , o nl ackh, r , lir 4 per cent. per annum on the £3l shares be m ro pae .4 9 5. B d 4 t th e '? at on the 9th of March. The report of Alr' ti e I n't e; and ° ,,, r e engineer, stated that since the Bth of A ll .gitp I V er 3 , 4 l.t'' t works had progressed with considerable reP,,,robe i tlti highly 1: consent of the landowners and the Board o'.* . g ht y , il g of I T o f alterations of the levels, a considerable' sO,V e eb!,' , t s , e4 ilee'rs. effected in the work between Chester and P o re teit t ,'„cote ib lrth bridges in this district were also in a f c c:bf Ill i i h 't er ith " , ' Between Helsby and Walton very rapid Pr°g„ r- j . e'' 43 10 th e 1 4 made. In answer to questions, the chairloa" le f ore ,d rairah l i everything connected with the concern 09 ee. teA 'e mising ; that timber would be taken ileeg t ,e• t ia 4 , 4 -at Q Manchester on the same terms as by th e n 0 k',,, a ecot i li f t ms North-Western ; and that Mr. BrasseY s ‘ . 4 - 00 1 A t '''l'''''"etil 3 - °f completing the line to Walton was about e' c it e! ' 4 iti, h ° l . l ( as ' '"abbe b the amount of the contract to Warrington,eb,,e;re, rip t tb l 'atic Lht exclusive of lands and rolling stock. -1-"'',5,01.,' pig Pas -- e . „ 411 accounts were then passed. Mr. Bryen, s , ~O' sqle; also s - g timber came to Birkenhead Docks, it wow"' r t it•'' b all bf' 4in, c O ll and the trade would save as much as the r en t thi N t lt tle i; al)t was resolved, on the motion of the cbairres e ,'ec' • . ' S ept! SEA ip l eant ehares should be declared forfeited •, 3,0 m i ; e eo b ee 1 ;•q, ...It, are in a similar position, on which £lO ho e . 1 eti npi k i t day - I .:• ts , LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN 8A. 11 ,:C -, 4 bl,s2 l ook i t t . l half-yearly meeting was held at Euston-sc1, 11 `" e 1 11 i 'kert ai : (wi le ' tl nesday. It was very numerously attendew ds' • s t wk - ed,) man, Mr. G. C. Glyn, M.P., presided, O o tt 14 1. It 'ioll h n w i,' the meeting at considerable length upon she e p il l t ' l dea"e de - '''' undertaking. He admitted that he had be pt ~.te„l 3ld no4 ea , nority upon the board with respect to the 0:00' 'l ie, rt.% t ,‘ tel dividend, and entered into reasons for his' I'''',,,ot ,Pl e h‘ ti 'illi c i t : l ;l,U added that he should take no part in any su bs- l i t eC 4 giStra;": cussion upon it. Mr. Booth, the secretare 'cli ]rationtitisrPot -- report, which was very long. It alluded tee , c ri , tont: PiPes fur tion in the passenger traffic, and, after e e ' it h t s en d Med i e 'er relations of the company with other bodi es .' , ;1, f e erth e IV into a statement of the half-year's earning; Y I the'. which ,I,r' posable balance was stated to be £532,7 49 l' i bsJ," ';Nti o , ! ) ,ve ts ,:"' dividend of £2 15s. per cent. for the six me n ' or I . ° auLtoat i Xs ing to £489,112 7s. 3d. would leave a bala t ' ee f % ' t 't 1,:, '3 th "e 4s. 2d. to be carried to the next half-F e6 ',e' , '''iee' r eboi s , e 1 On the motion that the report be adopted,o9; ' I. °I th e -es • ~,F a, n ., was moved by Mr. Tartt, to the effect that t" u t ' 'l'4., "'I report relating to the dividend be received, b ps' nff o l.",() remainder be taken into consideration at th e bei , N 4i rs th e nT, t'O N td John orr of the company after parliament have estab lis JO cient system of audit and control.—This se,„, el' ote l : t4 k ea' w l'„' ) d'd i ‘ l ,.,‘ seconded by Mr. Galloway, but it was uw - h or ' a ll y .!,.' 1 le , - „" 11 drawn in favour of another by Mr. Dean, ‘ 1 ;j0, Oi isirt: ° ,,,, - a as an addition to the motion from the chat`' pe t 0 11 t' °n e ° Was g' r s' payment of calls now in arrear the capital en i , ei ,to and " l in company be forthwith closed, and that no re t 'tl? a t :',ss he ad n d,cir be made to it unless a meeting is called ft t tc 410?ed .-- . 7 '''' purpose, of which notice should be given. P' i l e ek tc;(lB'N et'7, ened discussion the amendment was lost bY e ;e ifloiN s t th, P l ,e jority, and the report was consequently cig a r' r • ; 1 14 e : of I nn. next resolved. on the motion of Mr. Locke, 4 • 1,/ ' f 0 1 ',N,1 11 ,0 - I .Z e ; l auditors be instructed to prepare a statcrc e A'l g b!NI - •LZ... e ''''' half-yearly meeting, of th e di s b urseme nts - Ac y . ~` i Ni t ,„„- ~, e r ; c count.—The Chairman proposed that a di t „i7e - ~,e tt ill fields e t ' I dared at the rate of 51- per cent., upon whi''' f ii o I 'le - etc -a r a• .....n ord took place, several persons expressing an °, 0 0 1,i e t i Illf t „`-'4 't h a n' would be better for the permanent interest s d` ' h ttii 4 ; whi - nr: pany that it should be 5 per cent. An aw e ' oc i t'' , o Neel -4 ' ever, was proposed ; but, when the questio,tbe tits , 11 1•V ed 3 ' wit was decided by a majority of 106 to 84, tha t ,V 4,„Na; 11 ~n e„ s d ' should be declared at 5 per cent. per annen li', 1 .1 1. ' uttn i- s i vl man stated, in the course of his speech, tribe ei ,11.. 4. , Illy it would tend to the ultimate prosperity o' , t bi ' Nc t t, seat' foi that 5 per cent. only should be divided, the'i t 4 4le e , l () lce e j t eral over a good surplus, and preventing an i % e li s d t " ad' tied Gitrti tion of dividend from that amount. N''' s br r'oe l 'era, i"r reached the Stock Exchange, it sent the 0' ? ,, 4 4' e acli n -r°lll from 1084 to 107 sellers, at which price roe • lta, dry. - g froi ~ 0.1 ~ L -., in, New Quarter shares were quoted at par, sill'P n ecty .4 fla n s Oi l • C A dividend of 54 per cent. was generally Or . w as n e the 1 genera ..., 00 jj II 0 , th s, and Si'. HELEN'S CANAL AND RAILWAY' ,15 'i t ,:Ps t i e p en ., the half-yearly meeting of this company 't,c e eV„ V' Rii f 'o l. ..'„ Helens, Mr. Gilbert Greenall, M.P., in ''' 9. Sheenfrom . 41 - th s srl N ls al report stated, that during the past six mon ( i r pi Rh ace was in the receipts over the corresponding pen° kir () wa g at sixso £1676, while the working expenses have ae,,,i 0 .0 1 tt,e, l •4,en t , There is an increased surplus of £2,444, ag es °' I e t " 4 --e 1 0 ,11 5 f N arid r tled extra charge for interest on shares and .° , 5 0 r it e e (I N Pre,,, ; thus showing a net profit of £1321 in eS ee l i lf i f i '" 11 Q,.! , VNZgis —.' responding period of 1848, and a total surP"ipt` t ov ', ll el B jory ~,'"; for the present half-year, after paying f o r ke . el 1) I ° l l eo 1)k , - of guaranteed dividends. The gross revenu e rs,,,r• 1 , s l agu,. year was £16,057, and the working charge 9 ; e cely , t i Pleta. Far and rents, £6,004, or 374 per cent. th e ' l'it ir s On hi ‘ „g T , ing a surplus of £10,053, deducting from 11 'lOl „: 0 10 W e , eat on loans, £2,665, there remains for r,, ; " ~c, ...• k i ." - ' 4 ,4 other dividends, £7,387 ; out of which the " th e i j Ot Fl th e • ‘-', pose that a dividend should be declared 01 e el? I VSt I ,. ° P, th e ,' ending 31st of December, 1849, of 17s. 6 u,Vet ' 1 4 i4 -I , 4 's. I.tl of Bs. 9d. per half share; of £3 17s. di r t h 4W t ,th l, ference share, and 6s. 3d. £25 ''''''' Pi c ' "av' e - r O A I Ri, e ttod les together to £7,129, leaving £258, from "" 11. a / /1 • ro e be ~ Lt ~,,0„ mad rectors recommend to he reserved for Ill'i h 'lost naknent way, £l5O ; showing a balanc e per. V'l ?,i ti . h ' to the next account of £lOB. Of the ; - w he pq) A h '''rq - .., Ni, , ";l! share, divided in July last, 15s. 6d. was frog' t „ ti t'7, ', '' l ; ai 4 7,e, half-year ending in June, and thus the BO A - 0 0 rli ti Lp,,lke i i ,; - '• accruing to the shareholders from the Pr° '' ho re , ,: 4 4„, tl er .. a rds ,; f ll 1849 is—per old share, £1 103 per ball ,s'', to ;• ,'li il leteas „-',. £lOO preference share, £6 10s . . ; ; in addit_, l° i b y I ' , ° p r , '', l ' 7 er;",b cent. on the £25 shares. The Blackhru",.,,o • 4 , ee th rile e t' directors have every assurance from the l' i ;4o ee sa, ae and a be opened by the end of March, when the Est " h, t t' , l , Tii er e „ traffic waiting the completion of this imP°"„ o t r A are t4 d • A'r . be brought on the line. The capital see°, ~"e e e 1 1. I 'l l - ,' ' and c of December showed that £447,513 hatilAf ,ik i ;k t ., t leaving a balance against the company °' 0 v. l i e'ak`Jerl Il ke , Chairman congratulated the shareholders 'l or e 0 1 ,1 ~,,1 4 t l ; 3 l ', a ', l ---, of their affairs, and reminded them of th e „ft,be 1 041,. e h , he had expressed on the bbl eess" t 'lt: (1 "ha cc ' s ' time a e sue ~ t o e 4 4 , a ) , to ing. He thought the not far 015 be tt 'et '4l or s was f t De Ip, , tl i 13 3 SO should avail themselves of the 'power 0„a t.i ti,,) , e n, ' 11 1 tei 1 t's railways to the town of Warrington ''''. 0' , . b , o il kut , Garston. It was , a source of very great sBti ne'l e't ' Ad ' h tlp the that this railway, at a period of great o ld , , ' t 'Os - at aOlc f r other railway property, was beginning to r a , • a p',;:e I , P_, ti att endi and to take a position in the railway o c ie r 0 ' I ta ti lli`%4, 4l rl3 , its enormous traffic it was entitled. -L'i i , . Il i k t h hi ed s !N u tt ,' moving the adoption of the report, sl' i 'dsf' • tVY - ' 4 41 'eh - and carried, as were resolutions for they.4 l o 4 e f ie r asp l , f eei t dividend on the Ist of March, and authelioe i j , ti lejl , s ta eii fli ed, i t tors to proceed with the extension of th,,, e , o f l'eti'llp\isoll'tqy he might think it right. The gross reeei,P' 0 itele PN"lthfli,s t . e 0 k NOt th e). 41 1 January last were £530 in excess of ,- rei ' tl, a' 'III month last year. a' 3 tlli trh, _...ad 4.‘90T . OCCl,..'er( ascon O ue bd: U esope ß ntrr hii h T pneete ireAoi Albertl7 D f t intention t F,AatStl:: 30:.,,,‘ ,01:: - .41 1 4 i b i, ' l :1 4 :1 t,.;‘ , 5 %. 1:: : t11t e I,tlift ` 40 : 0 :: :re een, . H we o n ly t r t o o od th p e ad L n ala C y t ceum T—heanretree—nuorohumrs:o_ooo:;ll:44,l4l,,eli,::::loCtlitoll:k4a:e4 1,011 Abi A i ik t k k h tt s t h: 41 1 ' 6 a Q mba pm tueat u oT H Tll l ye e ltut rn am hi h ei men l s i dns e t es geß n :a Q d s to t n t oh u u 7 arrived t s nob of e : ftl it: 9 o P : 4 : il e li t tli: " 04 :: 1 4 11 : 0:: ::h: 4 4 0 1 : :: 1) 1 .. 1. 1, s 11 11.8 : 250 °f to tiitil :O irr , l ' eP P:i i.l : : : : ° l s e i : yal d Prin n c n e f A th lb e e ci rt n w ee il n l hatolßdutchkeinfigrsntaralevereal:ce°°lol ::;:tit,4(`-1.:04114 Adolphuso on Fni ti night, rehefnnrAeocslmebs. ePtrhttthe. eDu Continent, of S a e°l(' C jo ° g l'i' l '' , t ti- 4 0 ' . t(11) t la , 4 11 1 I eet ttit:t l't to ef e ° .LI: Cownsi Ji H sii‘tucli e hseo r t nba lk dbu l aien a lyi j d.eo e irn s ea t g y at has presented a don at i °li ra' P . I° Ili Rh h4l ttetatlf The arm-chair in whichl off I N itI LI t "l cs 0 Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport Ge lle t . 0 711 II 4 h,;:tle t ill'es . tember, 1847. A , i o h , re,.. NI k VIP ' P) h() ( 0 4 4 1 , te A ufar lb nt e Albert gf William rialtihaadosemrtophcillesogyritinh. fed jail - joeibiti 0:: : : ' 4 1 " 1 ):01:pliti : ::: : ::0tttticy :htihtietiti Leis:o e t, 8401: el eet s ce Park, s t era l e' t the royal r e residence to het jv 0.0144E1: arse ; the London and Windsor Railway, Da tc ' o se t :, l ep On4l B h, first tree was planted by her Majesty cloclre b e fi Ely°lt,f e th t i'llaii lane. The Prince Consort, the royal c o til t r i c tl e i ,106 ) , 4 11d 4 e1 e ()cc visitors present, also planted one each,utb Pr It 'll th a ot 'lusi, number was completed. By means 01 „ ov P t y, ,' l , tr it , t ' , et i t'll. 1 ! tev s , which has been formed her Majesty call ' to f' kli e v ,%ivote ti * lves the Castle through the royal domain, 0 0 1 4 1 74 4 ; try dist terminus, without having to travel ra°r° Il e o 'bTillt wal o * lo I'll' yards on a public road. it4t 4 k t tet e 'ell o t , r.i„ he in 14 ste t