The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

Kinper tat Varitamtnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIVAY. Lord BROUGHAM, on the authority of petitions he had —t. tlled the attention of his noble and learned ' to present, canto ..le a—_ HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. f r i en d s t o th e f ac t, th a t by the abolition of imprisonment Sir H. DOUGLAS rose, pursuant to notice, and at con- for debt acts, power was reserved of arresting debtor s who 2iderable length called the attention of the house to the were about to quit the country ; but its exercise was ease of medical officers, surgeons, and paymasters of regi- limited as to the granting of the writ, inasmuch as an ap ments, who have not been included in the warrant issued plication for that purpose was necessary to a judge sitting in July, 1846, consequent upon the motion made in April, in Westminster Hall. It was urged by the petitioners 1845, for an improved retirement to a limited number of that this power ought to be extended to judicial authori medical officers, and all officers of regimental staff, to ex- ties in the provinces. tend to them, in limited numbers, the benefits conferred Lord CAMPBELL thought the judges of the New County by warrants dated 1840 to limited numbers of officers of Courts would be the most proper parties to exercise it. all other branches and arms of the service ; which motion On Earl GREY'S moving the first reading of the Army appeared to receive the unanimous approbation and sup- .Service Bill, a conversation ensued as to when the next port of the-committee, and was only withdrawn on an ex- stage should be taken, which was fixed for Monday press assurance that the proposition, for an improved re- -- tirement to all officers of regimental staff, would be taken HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. into favourable consideration. The hon. member con- Mr. WARD, in answer to Sir C. Napier, replied that the eluded his address by stating, that having called attention Admiralty had suspended the further proceeding with the to the subject he felt satisfied in leaving the result to the works of the three 72-gun ships at present on the stocks. consideration of the house and her Majesty's government. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Hindley, observed that Mr. F. MAULS said the tv of question was one such as - - -- .. . _ the same enthusiasm in the saloon by the members of the Diet. The royal speech was delivered in the great cham ber of the old palace, in presence of the whole Diet, the royal family, the diplomatic body, and of all that is most illustrious in the kingdom. The King has spontaneously promulgated, just before the assembly of the Diet; seve ral of the most important laws which had been under the consideration of the Government. He has in his speech proclaimed the principle of complete religious freedom to all sects ; he has granted the publicity of the proceedings in the civil and criminal courts of justice; and the Prus sian Envoy at Frankfort has been instructed to bring be fore the Federal Diet the question of the liberty of the press, with a view to the complete execution of the pledge contained in the 18th article of the federal compact of Germany. At the same time the regulations for the con duct of public business by the United Diet of Prussia are conceived in a liberal spirit, more akin to the practice of Parliament in this country than to that of the French Chambers ; and complete freedom has been secured to the publication of the debates, with the names of the speakers. The king went from the castle to church on foot, and returned the same way, his subjects lining the road the whole distance. importance in relation to the public service, that he ca upon the house to pause before it agreed to any motionef ;hen they were made, which was not yet the case ; and the hon—member for Liverpool. that he had taken care there should be given with the After a short conversation the subject dropped. estimates the detailed accounts of the proposed distribu- Mr. WARD intimated that it was intended to limit the tion of the grant, so that the house might see the manner time of service for ships on that station to two years. in which it was to be expended. And, in answer to Mr. The House then went into Committee of Supply upon Muntz, the noble lord stated that her Majesty had directed, the navy estimates, whereupon Mr. WILLIAMS called the as a proof of the high sense she and the Government en attention of the committee and Government to the in- tertained of the heroic conduct of Captain Camp, of the efficient state of many of the ships in the service, and in- Spanish brig Emilio, in rescuing the survivors of the Tweed neighed against the yearly increasing estimates for the s t eamer from the Alacranes reef, that he should be pre maval departments, which he mainly attributed to the sented with a medal, on which would be inscribed the gross jobbing which took place in the dockyards, and to meritorious services performed ' • and, further, that the sum the extravagant expenditure of which they were the scene. o f £5OO s ho u ld be pla c ed- at his disposal in the manner Lord INGESTRIR agreed with the honourable and gal- most acceptable to him. Mr. B. Escort, in answer to hut gentleman, that in some instances our dockyards had Mr. Lefroy, intimated that he should abandon his bill for been the scene of gross and wasteful expenditure, and the abolition of duties on butter and cheese for the present, complimented the Government on the efforts which they thinking it necessary to keep the sinews of war unim were making to put an end to an extravagance which was paired. ' The LORD ADVOCATE, in answer to Lord Duncan, a drain upon the exchequer and a detriment to the ser- replied that it was his intention, if possible, to bring in a vice. He then adduced several instances in which he bill for the sale of encumbered estates in Scotland during maintained that our naval architecture had been at fault, the present Session. The question of the third reading of and pointed out the necessity of having none but scientific the Irish Poor-law Bill originated a further debate on the men acting in the capacity of officers in our dockyards. con diti on o f th a t coun t r y, and of the conduct of the land- He concluded by suggesting to the Admiralty the pro- lords, their tenants, and the people generally ; after which priety of procuring a naval survey to be made of the the bill wa s read a third time, as was also the Landed islands composing the colony of New Zealand, without Property (Ireland) Bill, Colonel RAWDON moving an ad which, life and property wiil not be safe upon its coast. dition to clause 4, that the commissioners should authorise Mr. WARD would not enter into the vexata questio of ship-building, on which such a diversity of opinion ap peared to prevail, but intimated that the suggestions of the noble lord embraced points which were already r ceiving the anxious attention of the Gove the erection of corn mills to be worked by water-power which proposition was rejected on a division by a majorit: of 69. Lord G. BENTINCK moved an amendment to till for the erection of substant gatived by a majority of 56 farmhouses, which The bill then passed HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TIIESDAY Mr. WALPOLE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law for the registration of persons entitled to vote for the election of members to serve in parliament for England -- and Wales. The Court remains at Buckingham Palace Il 'V .I.l_ 11. 1 D_ Mr. MTNTZ then moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable retail brewers, in the midland counties, to keep open their houses till twelve o'clock at night, as the me tropolitan brewers are permitted to do Sir Gir t OREY did not see the necessity fox sure, and could not, therefore, assent to the motion COURT AND FASHION. performances at the Italian Opera. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the new House of Lords on 'Wednesday. The elegant apartments were ie sta- ar was .Rumours of dissensions in the cabinet, touching the I IMPORTATION OF ITALIAN MUSICIANS AND MlCE dissolution, prevail in the clubs ;it is said.to be a struggle BOYS.—A few nights since another band of poor savoyads between the Greys and the ftedfords. The Irish Secre- were landed at Folkston' from the Princess Helena tary, Mr. Labouchere, is said to be bent on resigning. steamer. The band consisted of 50 wretched-looking The new Poor Law for Ireland is the great bone of con- ragged beings, who are to wander about our streets and tention.` perambulate the country as musicians or mice-boys. They The corn markets, which a fortnight ago were reported were landed in charge of a man who had the modesty to as falling throughout the country, are again on the ad- offer 4s. 6d. for a lodging for the whole of the party for vance ; and, after this last attempt at moderate prices, one night. Eventually they found a resting-place in some most parties appehr to have yielded themselves to the stables, where they huddled together like so many swine. conviction, that all hopes of such a blessing, at least until We think some means should be adopted to put a stop to the next harvest, must now be abandoned. Unfortu- such a cruel traffic. nately, this fact goes far to deprive us of any hope of THE IRISH IN ENGLAND.—SeveraI hundred unfortu amelioration of our financial difficulties. nates, in addition to the swarms that have already been SUSPECTED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Considerable ex- thrown upon Newport, Monmouthshire, have been brought citement was caused in Warminster on Monday by an oc- over from the south of Ireland by collier vessels. Many currence which led to the suspicion of a murder perpe- are afflicted with fever, and all have gaunt tokens of trated by a father on his son. The name of the former is famine. Upwards of one thousand poor creatures have Matthew Keene, a pensioner, who lived in the neighbour- been relieved within a very short time but several hood. The lad was found in a water-ditch, with his head deaths have occurred. — Among the crowd of applicants under the water, and suffocated • and the father was dis - for relief at St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol , on Friday last, covered near him, with his throat cut, and dead. was one person who, it has been ascertained, placed fif CHEAP METROPOLITAN TRAVELLING.—On Monday, teen sovereigns in the hands of a companion before pre omnibuses commenced running from Battersea to Hoxton, seating himself as a " starving Irishman." conveying passengers the entire distance, about nine miles, IRON STEAM-SHlPS.—William Crawshay, the great for sixpence. The Ant and Bee steam-vessels, running iron merchant, in a letter to the London Times, of last from London Bridge to the West-end, reduced their fares week, says,—" I hope that the rapid breaking up of the to one halfpenny; and the Citizen steam-boat Company Tweed steamer, a wood-built ship, and the consequent commenced running their vessels to Hammersmith, dreadful loss of life, will be contrasted in the public Wandsworth, and Putney, at reduced fares. mind with the holding together for six months (and pro- FORGING THE GOLDSMITHS' STAMP.—At the Glouces- bably until got off), and the consequent preservation of ter Assizes, on Saturday, Josiah Gregory, a silversmith, every soul on board, of the Great Britain steamer, an iron and Edward Bynes, his shopman. were convicted of forg- built ship. A comparison of the situation of the ground ing the mark for stamping silver used by the Company of ing of the two vessels might probably be favourable to Goldsmiths at Exeter, within whose district Gregory's one or the other; but under any circumstances I am in shop was situated. They had carried on the practice for dined to believe that had the Tweed been an iron-built a considerable time. Gregory was sentenced to imprison- ship, every soul on board would have been saved, and ment, with hard labour, for eighteen months, and Bynes much, if not all, of the imperishable, part of the cargo for twelve calender months. also. The boilers, which are of similar construction to ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BlLL.—Among the mem- an iron vessel, are still standing entire." bets who voted, on Wednesday, in favour of this bill EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—On Thursday, a meeting going into committee were Lord Sandon, T. Thornley, "of the members and friends of the Leeds sub-division of W. Brown, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, W. Ewart, Lord the British Organisation of the Evangelical Alliance " R. Grosvenor, Sir J. Jervis, Lord J. Russell, &c. We was held in the Music Hall, Leeds ; Sir Culling Eardley find among those who voted against it, Sir H. Douglas, Smith, Bart., in the chair. The admission was by ticket, J. Tollemache, W. T. Egerton, W. B. Ferrand, Capt. and there was a large attendance of the dissenters of Gladstone, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, G. Hudson, Hon. Leeds and the neighbourhood present. We believe six- G. D. Ryder, Col. Sibthorpe, &c. pence each was asked at the doors for the admission of NARROW ESCAPE OF A MULTITUDE FROM DROWNING. persons who were without tickets. The proceedings —On Easter Monday, an overloaded canal boat, on the commenced at six o'clock, and did not conclude till after canal between Tipton and Birmingham, was upset by the ten. Amongst the speakers, besides the chairman, were foolish pranks of some young men. Thirty or forty per- the Rev. Dr. Bates, of Glasgow ' • the Rev. J. A. James, sons on the roof were shot into the water, and the boat of Birmingham ; the Rev. T. Scales, of Leeds ; the Rev. sank. For some time, upwards of one hundred and Jos. Hargreaves, of Sheffield, &c. No resolutions were ' proposed, but several sentiments in favour of union amongst different denominations of Christians were pro posed. The general object of the meeting appeared to be to encourage the friends of the " Alliance ' to continue in its ranks, and to obtain recruits for the same. THE WESLEYANS.—It is astonishinc , to perceive the amount of virulence and ignorance that is brought to bear against that highly-respectable body of Christians, known as Wesleyan Methodists.—When the Dissenters find them acting in an independent course, they attack them with all their available-weapons of calumny and ridicule ; but the next day the same Dissenters find they cannot blink the fact of the wealth, extent, and growing influence of the body, and they seek by every artifice to produce con ciliation. For our own parts we are free to own that we look upon the resolution of the committee of privileges of the Wesleyan body, as indicative of independence and nobility. Feeling that the people must be educated, and but at length all were safely rescued, though drenched and in a miserable plight. AN UNFORTUNATE HARE.—A hare was killed last week on the Railway near Barton Moss, by one of the railway trains. When taken up, it appeared to have only three legs, and, on examination, it was found that one of fore legs had been cut off, as cleanly as if with a knife, but that the cut had healed. It is supposed that this had been done in a previous railway accident, in one of pussy's excursions from the Worsley woods to the Barton turnip fields. THE JUDGMENT OF LEEDS ON THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. — The nineteenth report of the committee of the House of Commons enumerates four petitions from Leeds in favour of the Government scheme. The petition of the " Magistrates ' Aldermen, ' r -Mors" has 36 signatures attached to ; that of M' 'st-- the Gospel "31 ; that of .iergy and _imsters of .- " superintendents and teachers of Sunday schools," 351 that of the " inhabitants," 24,747. " Think of that, Master Baines ! "—Daily News. The free church synod of Glasgow and Ayr has, on the motion of Dr. Buchanan, resolved, by a majority of 60 to 16, to petition against the education scheme. This synod is *he largest provincial court of the body; and as Dr. Cr me , 'ler. -andlish sat in it as a corresponding n voted in the majority, there can be little doubt that this decesion will exercise a considerable influence over, or at all events may be predicted as indicating pretty correctly, the opinions of the ensuing general assembly of the free church. The free presbytery of Arbroath have without a vote come to a similar resolution. - • - .... ----- WHOLESALE INCENDIARI3III.—OH Thursday night, a fire broke out in an extensive farm yard at Burnham, Essex, and whilst it was being extinviished, the persons engaged in doing so, were half paralyzed by the sudden bursting out of flames on a second, and then on a third farm, so that there were at the same time, and scarcely more than half a mile distant, the property at three farm homesteads all blazing. Altogether, eight or nine stacks, four barns, stables, and various other outbuildings, with in one instance the dwelling of one of thelabourers upon that there is no radical evil in state assistance, when not connected with servility ; and finding that the authorised version of the Scriptures is alone to be read ; and that no inspector will be allowed to enter a school in their con nexion without the previous sanction of their body, they have resolved to offer no further opposition to a plan which is founded on liberality and based on truth. For this we find they are abused in almost every quarter. So much for liberality ! So much for Evangelical Alliance ! —Birmingham Advertiser. THE AtiJRDERERS OF MR. JOHN RILEY.—This unfor tunate gentleman, it will be remembered, was murdered on the 11th of January, while on his road home from Sheffield to Grimesthorpe-lane: On getting into his house he exclaimed, " Mary, they have almost murdered me." This was said to his wife ; but he could not identify his He was attacked on the Monday, and died folio- • ' • - murderers :remises. fell a prey to t —aturclay following. ,arty next hay his watch was round, wrapped up in some cloth, in Mr. Riley's garden, where it had been placed during the night. From infor mation received by Mr. Raynor, superintendent of police, he caused two men, named William Challiner and James Bradley, of Grimesthorpe, to be apprehended on Saturday week. It appears that the grounds of suspicion were, that Sheffield man bad been discovered who had purchased Tr. Riley's watch of the prisoners, and who, on hearing Much o: he pro- THE GREAT-WESTERN STEAM-SHIP. — We believe we may now venture to state that this noble vessel has ceased to be the property of a Bristol Company. We hear that Captain Chappell, Secretary to the West India Mail Steam Packet Company, has completed the purchase of her, for the sum of £25,000, exclusive of her plate. The Great Western will leave her berth on this present Saturday morning, and proceed to Pill for the purpose of shipping her paddles, previously to going to Southampton. From that port she will sail for a five months' voyage, and, at the expiration of that period, we hear that it is the Com pany's intention to lay her up, and expend a large sum upon her (report says £10,000) in repairs, refitting, ece.— Bristol Mirror. perty, it appears, was insured. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE of the murder, had gone and placed the watch in M: Riley's garden, as before described. The than, it seem connected with the loss The learned recorder of Hull, Matthew Talbot Baines, Esq., Q.C., took care, in his address to the grand jury, on Friday last, to remove any suspicion which might have existed of his participation in the editor of the Leeds Mercury's abhorrence of theLGovernment scheme of Na tional Education. Though we expected that such would be the case, we confess we were rasher apprehensive that family considerations would have prevented the learned gentleman from expressing himself with all the clearness demanded at such a juncture. In charging the grand jury, the learned recorder said—" I, for one, rejoice greatly over the improved prospects of national education ; for it is quite impossible to conceive a subject of greater importance. So far from wishing to limit education - at all, if I had my own will, I would make it accessible to every human being ;' because, in proportion as you 'dis seminate the blessings of a sound religious and moral education, in exactly the same proportion do you provide for the dearest interests of the public at large. A. most distressing event, of the Tweed West ndia ay week, when he acimitteh purchased the watch, and placed it in iley's garden. The prisoners were taken before the mayor on Saturday week, and remanded in order to com plete the evidence against them. It seems, at present, that Bradley is suspected of having been the most guilty ible transaction. , poor woman, the wife of one of the crew of that ill-fated vessel, the mother of six children, and several months advanced in pregnancy, dropped down dead on being told he secret unti. WHAT HAS VOLUNTARYISM DONE FOR .EDUCATION. — The Rev. R. Burgess at a meeeing in London, last week, said, " It was stated by Mr. M'Cullock thatin 1833, the total number of children in Dissenters' schools of all de ip sc • dons was 61,828; in the National schools it was 324,045 ; up to 1833, then, what had the voluntary system done ? Nobody had done more for education than the Wesleyans, the community was much indebted to them for their Sunday schools ; yet with all the exertions the Wesleyans could make it appeared that last year they had only 30,686 children in the daily ,schools. The number of Wesleyans in England was reckoned at 1,200,000, which gave only one child to 40. As to government in terference, when they called on it to repress and punish crime, they could not debar it from spending money to prevent it. But he would rather call this assistance than interferance. Ia fa.t, the control and inspection was ap plied only to the church ; other bodies were comparatively free. He looked forward to the carrying these measures as the grc atest blessing that had ever befallen the country. The people had been shamefully neglected ; up to 18:33 the government never gave any assistance, never furnished a shilling for the purpose of education. France applied between £600,000 and £700,000 a-year to this purpose; even slow-moving Austria was before them ; England was the only country that saw, with folded arms, its people driven into eternity in hopeless ignorance." FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FUNDS.—The quotations of consols for money at the end of February, when the last account closed, was 901. From that point it gradually improved to 90i to ; but immediately after the conclu sion of the new loan of X 8,060,000, the market began to exhibit much weakness, owing principally to the intelli gence from America, and the consequent export of bul lion. From 90a to the price of consols in the early part of March, they declined to 87/ in the middle of the month, but afterwards rallied to 884, and suddenly fur ther advanced, on the announcement of the Russo-French convention, to 894. This rise was not long maintained, and speculative sales continuing to increase, a re-action to the old quotation took place. At the close of the month of March consols stood at 88k to 4, and between this time and the 7th of April they declined to 87k. On the Bth instant the bank directors having augmented their mini mum rate of discount to 5 per cent., an additional fall of nearly 2 per cent. followed ; and onthe 11th consols stood at the low point of 851. Since then a re-action of 2 per cent, has taken place, but that improvement has not been fully supported, the price having again given way to 861. In consol scrip the early bargains were about -1 to 1 pre mium, and as soon as the loan was taken, the price ad vanced to 2 premium. This was not long sustained, and, under the pressure of sales, the quotation declined to 1 discount ; but the Russo-French convention brought the price from 1 discount to par to 1 premium. With the subsequent decline in consols scrip has, however, also kept pace, and from that point has gone down in about the same ratio, till it has in one case been quoted 4 discount. It has now a better market, being between 21 and 2 dis count.— Times. .o."HE M.P. AND THE TAILORS.— ,erkeley, Brothers," are.btfore the public once more with their disreputable quarrels. The younger member of the firm having been dunned by his tailors, Stultz and Co. for the settlement of an account, rushes into print with a ion.. correspond ence be t seen himself and the patient tradesmen, from which he deduces the conclusion that Lord Fitzhardinge has been guilty of sJme villairoas " unconstitutional " proceeding in declining to pay for a gay yeomanry uniform, with which the gallant and brawny member decorated his brawny person. • We don't think ill?, public will care very much about this trumpery piece of business : the present THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.—At a meeting in London, on Thursday, for the purpose of supporting the Government Education Scheme, the Bishop of Nor wich stated that,—" On a very low computation 2,125,000 children ought to be found in this country in the schools for the elementary education of the working classes ; but that instead of this,, scarcely more than 1,000,000 of children were to be found in them, so that considerably more than 1,000,000 were left without the instruction they had a right to demand. He held in his hand a letter he had received from a clergyman in Staleybridge, near Man chester, in which he stated that the. district under hiS superintendence contained 10,000 immortal beings ; that nine-tenths of - his parishioners were in a state of avowed or practical infidelity ; and that there was not one single school within the whole. district in which a good educa tion wns given. Then take a parish . in this neighbour hood—that of St. -Pancras ; twit parish was recently sur veyed fiom house to house by gentlemen connected with the City Mission, and among 25,000 inhabitants in on e district it v c a3 found that there were between 2 and year; of age more than 15,000 children : and out Ofthe but 7,000 w..-re in the habit of attending school, WllC th2r bunctay or Cay school, so that there were more than 8,000 children between the years of 2 and. 12 who were These thine ,ed nnin half-a-dozen words I with rm educatioii alone and un sided in its work, but that, year by year, la-ge grants had been given by the state to meet volun tary efforts, and that in these grants dissenters and church hs ete steeple-chase disrepu tableplhorses,e -e h ass e men had alike shared." A Jusr REBUKE.—The Times of Wednesday, with be coming honesty and truth, makes the following remarks about the shameful desecration of the Sabbath caused by the steeple chase in Paris on Sunday week.—" We pub lish to-day an account of a steeple-chase which was run scene, we say it with shame, nearly all the actors were neare h ieti occurre d y P , our own countrymen. It was only the locality in which it being given to a pio:Reding got up and carried through, well as their owners and riders, were, with very few ex ceptions, exclusively English ; and, there cannot be a doubt that, had such a desecration of the Sabbath de pended on the French themselves, it never would have happened. In their own country none of the persons concerned would have dared to outrage public opinion by an indecency for which there is no excuse, and which seems to have been prompted by a spirit of vulgar bravado towards those rules of decorum which it is con venient for the unscrupulous to set down to the score of prejudice. We are sure that not one of the individuals 17 . haustion, and 'died. Another boat managed to get into menus wisneu to piotet .... ~.....___ . _ _, es- who rode his horse, or allowed it to run, in the steeple- Black Hills. The crews of the two other boats, belong- tablishment of truth and the establishment of error. chase of Sunday week, would have ventured to take a ing to John Purvis and Cuthbert Dobson, were taken up But to this Sir Culling Smith and Mr. Baines would not part in such a pastime on such a day in England, unless by the Adam White, schooner, of Leith, and were landed consent ; and therefore Dr. Reed withdrew, and b egan he were prep - ared to forfeit his position in society at once, he Crosby Hall conference." Now, however, we fear and sink into a class with whom resctabt of the very se iron ship at Bridlington ; their boats went down soon after being that both hA B• and S' C Ring Smith have gone humblest • k would fl • degradationhold _, rr I, ~ 441-1, linat hPhinaino• to Cuthbert and ot Ir. ames ir u ian ee it atocom- VT• • ... 4-1.:,, V.1....,•4.Z.,.,..1 rIerIL - ",c1.;.-. TIT- , . ..1_ .. 1.1- - -1:-4.-- -- _e _ e t title Englishmen. s f inhaml: rne .n whichehT —,zed to bear certain charges for yeomanry uni and personal expences, to be incurred by ,the for mer : his noble brother practically den'e3 that any such promise was made ; and with le t rs f o n tailors, writs from one tradesman, and threats of writs from another, the M.P. thinks the case one for the edificat:on of the world in general and the electors of We s' Gloucestershire in particular, and straightway indites a long, long letter, wherein he lays bare transactions inconceivably shabby, and such that even we could hardly have believed of the distinguished and moral Whigs of Berkeley Castle. We presume the electors of West Gloucestershire will, for their own credit's sake, throw off the disgraceful connec tion between themselves and the Berkeleys at the very earliest opportunity. lrtcoNsisTENcv OF DISSENTERS. — The dispassionate and reasonable among the dissenters cannot fail to re mark that Mr. Baines, and we fear Sir Culling Smith, are tially pior: THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR% RAILWAY AFFAIRS, Capt. Codrington, the government inspector, passed over the Kendal and Windermere railway, on Tuesday, and was satisfied with his observations of the line. _ _ The railway station at Tourcoing, on th6French North ern Railway, was wholly destroyed by fire, on'the night of the 9th ult. A drunken man, whilst wandering on the Sheffield and Manchester railway, a few nights since, was run over by a train and killed The openin of the Trent Valley line has been delayed until July. By means of this railway the journey from London to Manchester will be performed in less than five hours The ne Leeds and Manchester Railway Company are at present engaged in laying down the electric telegraph from Normanton to Manchester. It is expected that the tele graph will be completed in about a fortnight. In Mr. Hume's statement on' his motion last Tuesday for the amendment of the Act for the Taxation of cost of Private Bills, the preliminary expenses of the London and York were stated by him at £432,620. Lord Torrington has been feted with splendour by his lated brother directors of the South Eastern. The meet ing was a very brilliant one, and abundantly complimenr -- "n truest declared that the South-Eastern had. made him a man of business. The Preston and Longridge divide 19s. per share, clear r` 12s. on the 31st July. The transfer to the Fleetwood, " Preston, and West Riding Junction is completed. The annual rent-charge to be £3,000, less income-tax, KENTISH LINES—LAND EXTORTIONS. — The Ashford and Hastings line, with an expected traffic of £5,000 a year, will cost £20,000 a mile to make. ThQ North Kent, for the first 6 miles out of London, will exceed the Par hc liamentary land esti- t- ~....mate•for the whole length. Some of the claims average £20,000 an acre for land. The total laud estimate for the 26 miles, with stations, was about £300,000. The bricklayers employed by Messrs. Branson and Gwyther, the great contractors, on the extensive works of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and Great Wes tern Railways, near Birmingham, have struck for wages. The strike was occasioned by the masters desiring the bricks to be wheeled in barrows, for the sake of expedi tion, instead of carried in hods, and thus dispensing with the hodmen. etneral Biatllany. Dean Swift's snuff-box is announced for sale at Bristol. The Vicar of Newcastle has a third time been presented y his parishioners with a sum amounting to £5OO , as a voluntary Easter Offering, in augmentation of his salary. There is a great number of men at present employed in s of a light draught of aeepemng Yeel harbour. V esse, water may now go up to the mill. A boy died last week at Tettenhall, near Wolverhamp ton, from the effects of a surfeit of " pig nuts," of which he had gathered and eaten a large quantity. On - so gl Tuesday, the Metropolis was so glutted with mackarel that 12, and in some instances 14, were sold for ls. At a bazaar held at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, last week, the sum of twelve hundred pounds was collected in aid of the destitute Irish. Samuel Garrett and James Downes, late keepers at the Grove House Lunatic Asylum, Bow, Middlesex, have been committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter of a lunatic pauper named William Rank. _ lire, are said to be irremediably leranged have rendered it :ountry The Cali ______ - • lonian Mercury states that the Roman Ca- on the Lothian-rO'ad, and intend to erect a magnificent cathed answer week, for £36 lOs The Halifax Guardian mentions that a gentleman who left that town by the railway train for Huddersfield, fell asleep in the carriage, and was brought tion from whence . started. Mr. Joseph Allday, of Birmingham, is to be presented with a testimonial by his friends in that town. He has long been attached to the press there, and has done much for the spread of Protestant principles. The working classes met at Halifax, Yorkshire, on Fri igua Neva, and day, in iinnir- numbers, and a resolution in favour of went education scheme was carried by a majo- timer reports represemeu mm as cut, uli 'rum nulLlj uv, and his insulated position was said to account for the absence of official or authentic intelligence from the seat Catherine Fosk She walked unsupported to the drop quailed up to the last fatal - guilt, but weeks after rnarri var. It now appears, however, that he did retire for purpose of choosing his ground, and, according to who poisoned her husb was hanged on Saturday t Bury or from stumbling, lie ?ell down into the water. was tall and corpulent, and by no means likely to recover himself under such circumthnces.—Bristol Mirror. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.—We are gratified to perceive that Mr. Watson's Popish Bill was deteated in the House of. Commons, on Wednesday, a majority of 39 having voted against allowing it to go into Committee, so that the measnreis rejected for the session. Lord Arundel boasted during the debate that the Romish Church would continue to exist and flourish when the name of Protestant ism should be forgotten ; but we do not attach much weight to the. predictions of one who vrtay, after the example of his sire, Lord Shrewsbnry, have been so besotted as to _ believe in the "lying wonders" of "the ecstatica." The 0 one iabt, ub name of Protestant may, indeed, become extinct, but it is The Queen has directed that ten shillings a week be only when the proclamation shall have gone forth, — paid to the widow of James Blake, the workman killed a I " Babylon is fallen, is fallen," and when Papal Rome shall short time ago be an accident at Osborne-house, and that be no more.. her two children be placed in a school in London, where THE FHIIRMEN OF WHITBERN IL be ' doe.' - ed —ted. OF LIPE.— IS The fishermen of Whith with a firm step, and nev ais posi' ;a Anna's despatch, he se An the orders, o, entrust well-educated individuals, dependent on a foreign and judgment. He drew the enemy into a place when, power in respect to their conduct, with every privilege in they could not use very well their artillery, where there this kingdom. When no practical evil existed, even in was no water, and where they wanted food. the imagination of* the suppo r teig ?f* this bill, it was im- Reports had been received from Santa Fe that the New Prii4.ollto agitate a question of this kind, as it begot Veneani It"d risen and massacred the Americans in the will and hostility, which did no t p ass awa y w ith the dis- city, together with the Aillerican Governor, Bent,- and his It was more especially imprudent to agitate it officers. Viscount bantilupe has issued an address to the electors of the eastern division of Sussex, offering himself as a candidate at the ensuing election. He holds himself unpledged ; is an advocate for religious toleration ; and is - • prepared to advocate the repeal of the malt tax. It was ordered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, on the motion of Lord Morpeth, that no private bills re lating to town improvements, or to public cemeteries, or to Kwerage t in further proceeded with by the house be for.. 4LA 4 . - e - st day of May next. cussior now, wnen rrmestants aria noman uatnolics were Dating each other in their efforts to relieve the distresses of their Accounts from Alexandria of the 29th ult., announce common countrymen. After stating - his objections in that on the 22nd upwards of 40 vessels laden with corn ietail to several clauses of the bill, he declared his inten- sailed from that port, mostly bound for England , tit% to support the amendment. A letter from St. Petersburg!i, dated the 20, announces Lord SANDON could not oppose the motion for going that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill, and that his into committee with the view of doing away with these journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed. inoperative enactments. In 1846, 1010 slaves were emancipated at Martinique, After Mr. Watson had replied, the house divided, when 1115 at Guadaloupe, 177 in French Guiana, and about there were—for going into committee, 119 ; against, 158; 300 at Bourbon. majority against 89, and so the bill was lost. A man named Daniel Aitken, lately died in Wexford, Canada, at the age of 120 years. During his life he had contracted seven marriages, and he left five hundred and HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSD The House to-night occupied their splendid new house seventy g_ for the first time. We give a description of it in another Private letters state that no uneasiness about the sup column. There was fortunately very little business, for ply of corn existed in Paris. The orders given for foreign so great was the throng of visitors, that it was scarcely grain were ` more than adequate to the wants that will be _ 1, 1 • -1 4., Monday week, for the accommodation of the public on Windermere, between Ambleside and Newby Bridge, calling at Bowness and the Ferry to land and receive pas- .s who did spec never in ae memory o: man was a spring more propitious in France than is the present." MR. COBDEN.—Mr. Cobden, at the date of the latest advices, had returned to _Rome from Naples, aid was in HOUSE OF COMMONS iestions put by Sir J. GRAS THURSDAY Ironside saved. en I " the-eternal city" on the 23d ult I been excavated in the hon. gen J. RUSSELL replied, that no alteration had be by the edudation minutes of 1816, relative to grants I h house at Pompeii an's presence and n connection with the National and his honour but a e learn t rat_nothing particu British and Foreign Societies. Previous to 1839 the rule found during the excavation or clearing of the long-en was that aid should be given only to schools in connec- tombed residence of some ancient Pompeian. tion with these two religious societies. In 1839 it was DEMOCRACY IN NEW YORK. — The Democratic City laid down by the committee of council, that they were Government of New York, it is said, let out of tLe city ready to consider other applications, but that such were prison on Blackwell's Island, sixty convicts, on election to be considered as specific cases. With respect to the day, in order that they might vote against giving coloured use of the authorised version of the Scriptures being people the right of suffrage Thirteen of these worthies made the condition of aid to Roman Catholic schools, were arrested by Alderman Benson and Justice Merritt the Lord President of the . Council did not think . that . on their way to the poll." . —Tlta airno address to the electors of Kendal, in consequence of his having been named by the'liberal committee as a candi date qualified to succeed Mr. Warburton in the represen- Last week Mr. Gale again ascended in his balloon from Peckham, accompanied by two gentlemen. When the machine had attained a great height, it was seen to lose its form, to collapse, and descend with fearful rapidity. The spectators were terrified, but they soon learned that .—SERIOUS Loss quitting on the education question the ground they took dey mi. . tea, led, anc. Luca , . urn went to sea on lin the Anti-Maynooth controversy. They then said, EXPORTATION OF GRAIN.—This week the rare and, Thursday week to visit their lines, and were caught in the " Though there is an establishment of truth in the coun we believe, almost unprecedented circumstance has oc- violent hurricane that came on between eight and nine try, to which we are averse, that is no reason why we curred, of a vessel loading wheat at Perth for France. o'clock. Five of the boats were not able to return to should tolerate the establishment of error also. There- The grain is part of a cargo imported from the Baltic last Whitburn ; one belonging to William Young got into fore we will cordially join with Churchmen, to contend winter.—Perth Courier. Hartlepool,—when just on the point of landing, James against the Maynooth grant, as an endowment of Popery, nn t-11 -I-- g..,..-., f.4-in,lo anti PY. and because we dislike Popery." Dr. Reed and his over to )r. Iteee peen received of the loss or corn laden, from New Orleans to Cork ; Also the loss of the brig Salem Alva, bound to • Edward riutcrunson, Has Hever Heen lICLUAL V 1 oaaa,, , , from Inverness, with barley, whi c h s t ruc k on th e there is great reason to fear that she also has gone down, Scheme as—to use 'their own words—" a Subsid.iary Re- hours' journey out g to amprao k ceeaendi y no d m iff w e hriee n hcowowu h lad t ebve e f r at i a ri l Durmet Sands, and all on hoard perished. and that the three men on hoard in her have unhappily ligious Establishment," they insist upon it that it will be the manner of vie Mr. George Carr Glyn, the chairman of th e L on don perished. The poor fishermen who have returned home, o bjectionable te establish er endow truth alone, than t 9 ebarae:ter at home, and we therefore cons id er the ar A 14.7,...44. Pailyvalt VANtvirtnriv_ has issued an having lost their 'boats and their lines and fishing-tackle, truth or error unitedly. In 1845 they distinctly said, ties in this affair as blameable as if they had perpetrated „ , t - vtr, disapprove of a Church. Establishment, but still their profanation of the Sabbath at Newmarket or Don- have now no means of charity of the benevolent. • ST. BEES HOTEL. — On Saturday last , the tim ber was 1 They now s raised on the New Hotel, St. Bees, belonging to Mr. Church Este which occasion I tension of I ore do we detest and a lhor an establia to be an extension of the y schools, there shall be an ex ' "To exclude the Roman Ca- Liment of " If there A PCSER.—In the course of Sir R. H. Inglis's speech on Wednesday, on Mr. Watson's Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the hon. baronet addressed the Attorney-General Thomas Tyson, builder, 01 tnis tow., he entertained his workmen with a sumptuous repast. On thuhes. — we use Mr. B.'s words,—" would be an ad- I and said :—" What he wished to know was specifically passing through the village, the other day, we were glad ditional reason for opposing the measure." Let men this :—By this bill, as it then, and as it originally stood to find that the roofing was nearly finished, and on inquiry, once establish themselves on a falie principle, and an un- (this part being untouched by any of the subsequent alter we wer e informed that the work will be completed in christian position. as has been so long the ca s e w ith th e I a tions of the hon and learned member) , it was proposed to nrac:ant onnonronnaa +h. 1 3 .14;,.1 niccAnt.ra iimincsiblP to limit the reveal the whole of the statute of the 30th Charles 11., L I f• . • stance the more affecting is, that the husban safely at Southampton in the Avon packet on Thursda last, being one of the persons whose lives were so provi- arrived iy savec LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—On Friday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, as one of the labourers of E. F. Colston, Esq., was passing near the newly formed fish-ponds in Roundway Park (the seat of Mr. Colston', he discovered the body of that gentleman floating in the water. Prompt assistance was obtained, but it was un availing. It is supposed that the deceased, who magistrate for Wilts, wa a mea- I used by their Lordships for the first time last week. It In the evening, the royal dinner party included the - Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess Spencer, did notmecessanly tollOw that the time tor wmcn retail and Viscount Morpeth. brewers in London were allowed to keep their houses On Thursday afternoon, the Queen held a drawing open would be a reasonable time to extend to those in room in St. James's Palace. the country districts. The Queen gives a Bat Costume in the month of June, Mr. MUNTZ would not give way, - and on pressing his motion to a division, it was negatived by a vote of 77 to 4. to represent the Elizabethan period. Mr. CHRISTIE then moved for leave to bring in a bill The Countess of Elgin, daughter of the late Earl of to remove doubts as to Quakers' and Jews' marriages, Durham, took leave of the domestics of the household and nthar thanemrlanfe accombliwi at. inmhtnn Castle on solemniE Leave evening previous to Lad yship's_depart I for Canida to join her husband, the Governor - General. The christening of the infant heir to the Rufford estate, WEDNESDAY oing into committee on tne seat of Sir Thomas Hesketh, was soiemnisea witn great splendour at the picturesque church in the village on )sition to tne measure, "-11 1°"uy. ~- 1 .. 11 u... 1 u P.. ~Y u...v. .' '"`-' '-`"—' -- tendency to un-Protes- dinner was given to the tenantry, and a grand ball took —h. He appealed place in the evening. - , MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of the Rev. i H. G. Bunsen, son of the Chevalier Bunsen, his Prus- HOUSE OF COMMONS.-- On the order of the day f tholie Relief Bill INGLIS renewec on the ground that it had a d tantize England, and to degrade its chu to the Attorney-General as the first law officer of th not virtually endanger the security which the country sian majesty's minister at tne court or ot. JUILICZ ~ I, enjoyed for the maintenance of the Protestant character. Miss Battersby, daughter of Mr. Abraham Gray Harford He wished to know how far the Bill of Rights would con- Battersby, the wealthy banker of Bristol, took place on tinue to bind the sovereign, when the whole of the act Tuesday at the parish church, Westbury-upon-Trim. The containing the. Protestant declaration, exacted from the nuptial ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. the sovereign on the first day of his meeting his parliament Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. After the mar after his accession to the throne, and framed in conformity riage the happy pair set out for Barley-wood, Wrington. with that celebrated bill, was repealed ? The bill, as he bad formerly stated, cared for nobody but Roman Ca- FOREIGN 4 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. cl, it left them quite 'unnoticed AMERICA it was one of a series of aggre libernia arrived on I.4lnrArirr +ll. ay from the Ist gthen the dint of Rome, which for tl last three centuries had been its unchangeable foe ing entered into some historical d pretensions of the Pope to absolvi _ legiance to their sovereign had been ass e l instant, and important accounts of a severe engag between the. American force, under General Taylor that of Mexico, under Santa Anna. Hav tails, to prove that the subjects from their al ted during the ,e of Gregory VII., he ,ne of the action v miles west of Salt at Buena Vista, a hacienda 3ruary, and ended he 2:5N.1 recently created in France, Switzerland, and Germany by American accounts state the the order of the Jesuits, which this bill sought to legalize, 4,000 killed and wounded ; th Mexican loss to have been Lt on their own side at 700. country. After calling upon Lora J. Russell to remem- 15,000 Mexicans against o,utio itmv......-..,, ____ ber the dying words of his illustrious ancestor, and not c hiefly vol un teers. General Taylor engaged Santa Anna, -4 ` to assist in the progress of Popery," he concluded by it is stated, contrary to the orders of General Scott, the moving " That the housa resolve itself into committee on commander-in-chief. his bill-on that day six months." The account of the battle only reached New York on The Earl of SURREY, Mr. S H EI L , and Lord JOHN the evening of the 30th ultimo. Up to that moment the MANNERS spoke in favour of the bill. rumours - of victory and defeat were generally current .. Mr. GOULBURN observed, that having been one of the General Taylor Had advanced as far as varties who introduced the Emancipation Act of 1829, he had subsemientiv 1,1:‘,„ ___ - - ''er being was then mad( At present there was no great and ma nifest grievance to be redressed, for every speaker had ad mitted that the restrictions of 1829 were inoperative. He G did not think that the state should part with all power of tl interference wit" " "-iou- - 'r that it should S, flames April 20, 1847. was precluded from considering particular cases, in which EXECUTION OF I,ORN -.nau that condition might not be dispensed with. But no such condemned to death for their participation in the corn determination had as yet been arrived at. The minutes riots at Buzancais, were executed on the public square of of 1846 excluded schools not using the authorised version that town on the 12th inst., amidst an immense concourse of the Scriptures from aid, although the minutes of 1839 of people. A great display Cf military was madam did not. Therefore, no part of the vote to be taken on having been sent to Buzancl, Monday would be applied to schools not using the autho- and Chateauroux. rised - version of the Scriptures. The question of the There is a perfect glut of wheat in the markets of the Roman Catholic schools would be considered, and should Russian capital. There was on hand a superfluity of : 4.e. 44,n+ clIfAn;0111 . n lond WO to 1.0041 cpccple In th,, e, troops , Nevers, is from - Bourges, it hereafter be decided to give tnem am, minutes LU LLULL I supply minium., • 'ifect would be laid on the table- . I kets . of Russia foreign oxders to the extent of 3,000,000 Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving for leafe to bring - in va bill lof hectolitres had been executed. Navigation was still by the presence of the ice, and the utmost A that a have vagrants in that country punished I aniiety for its break up was expressed. His bill would also apply to such per- Mr. O'Connell arrived on the 11th at Lyons, where he sons as deserted their wives and families. He declined was likely to remain some days before he can resume his to enter further into the particulars of his bill at present, journey to Rome. The Journal des .IMbats is authorised as it might lead to discussion, which had better be de- to state that, during his stay at Paris, Dr. Chomel never ferred to a future occasion. was desired by Louis Philippe, or any member of the Leave was given to bring in the bill ; and it was sub- royal family, to express to the honourable and learned sequently brought in and read a first time. gentleman the interest they felt in the prompt recovery of MF. HINDLEY moved for a select committee t o inquire his health. into Sunday trading in the metropolis. He had been de- THE JESUITS IN SWITZERLAND.—The Augburg Ga sired by the parochial authorities to bring this subject zette states that letters from Rome, of the 31st of March, forward, and his object was rather to check Sunday trad- say there had been an expectation that the Pope would ing than to promote the better observance of the Lord's recall the Jesuits from Switzerland, in order to restore Day, for he had no notion of making persons religious by tranquility to that country, but that no decision had been act of Parliament. He wished to ascertain what could be come to on that point, notwithstanding the continued done with propriety on this subject before he ventured to efforts of Count Rossi, the French Ambassador. But legislate upon it. there would be nothing extraordinary in his Holiness After some objections to the motion from Mr. Hume, taking a sudden decision leading to happy results for both Mr. Escott, and one or two others, the committee was the Catholics and Protestants of Switzerland. carried by a majority of 51 to 19. The Spanish Government is at issue with the Bishops On the motion of Mr. HUME, after a short conversa- on the thorny question of University Education. A de tion with Mr. Ward, a copy of the instructions from the funct Administration (we do not remember which) pro- Board of Admiralty to the Committee of Naval Construe- posed to revise the lists of books in use in all the princi tion, appointed to inquire into the state of naval archi- pal colleges, with a professed intention of giving a stimu tecture, was ordered to be laid upon the table. Mr. lus to the study of divinity, and " preserving the purity of Hume had placed on the paper a number of other returns Catholic doctrine." The bishops were invited to draw up relative to the construction of the ships built according a theological course, and after some difference of opinion, to the plans of Sir W: Symonds ; but, in consequence of they agreed in recommending the list adopted in the Se a desire intimated to him by Mr. Ward, he postponed urinary • t Rome, as comprehending a more extensive Isis motion for their production till Thursday fortnight , range at fsubjects han any other with which they were when he threatened to prove that X 20,000,000 of public ac uainted. Since' Pacheco came into office, however, a money, which bad been voted for the building of shi ps in has appeared under the Queen's sign-mannual, which the time during which Sir W. Symonds had been surveyor not only differs widely from that suggested, but contains of the navy, had' been complete l y wasted. He did not several - works prohibited as unsound in France , as well a s bl a me Sir W. Symonds for this but the d i ffe r ent Boards in Italy. The Bishops have presented a remonstrance, of Admiralty under which he had served. with what success we have not heard. Mr. F. MAUL E t hen moved that the Army Service Bill O PENING OF THE FIRST PRUSSIAN DIET.—The cham a third time. bers of the palace of Frederick the Great have never wit- Sir H. DOUGLAS persevered in his opposition to this nessed a more imposing scene or a more memorable event meassieeepeated,thql ec tions which he had formerly than th e so l emn i naugurat i on o f t h e U n it e d Di e t of Prus urged a enst mat wed that it be read a third time sia by King Frederick Willi a m IV. on Sunday the 11th of g t thaeda,y/ six fa ontha,T April. The ceremony, which had been purposely ap- After severiL:rn-erfbers had s poken, the House di- pointed for that day of th e wee k w hi c h i s usua lly se t apart vi4eaf Strid the ataetidment was lost ; there being 42 for for the service of God, was preceded by the religious rites it, n 04.91 against of both Churches destined to consecrate and, we' had al tTha ijl was_then`read a third time, and subsequently most said, to sanctify this new compact between the So vidll4, to two e artsaas Mr. F. '_Mule had previously , vereign and the Prussian nation. The King, on his way Pr7,Pett. , 'The nrArbili. relating to limited enlistment, from church to the castle, was greeted by the acclama w" thSA T'assed: `,_th¢ other is dropped for a time. I tiont of the assembled multitude, and was received with as in England be ree the voyagers had descended safely on Penge Common. IMPORTATION OF HERRINGS.—The ship Ina ' arrived in London, from St. John's, New Brunswick, has brought large number of 637 boxes of herrings in a ireseived state, and four firkins of butter, the production of that British province of North America. PENNY OMNIBUSES. Several new omnibuses were on Thursday exhibited in the metropolis, the property of the Economic Conveyance Company, and which will, on Monday next, commence running from St. Paul's to the , and thence to the Brighton, Dover, and Greenwich senger outside being only one penny. THE GAME LAWS.-At the recent Bucks Quarter Session, Dr. Lee's motion, praying that game-law prose cutors should pay their own costs, was overruled by 10 to 6. Not one of the magistrates defended the laws, but Dr. Lee, Sir Harry Verney, Lord Nugent, and the Rev. J. Harrison spoke against them. Lord Nugent, said he wanted to see the Game Laws altogether abolished. SHIPWRECK. — The schooner native, of Cork, John - Macintire' master, from Kinsale for Newport, with 137 sheep, 50 lambs, and 2 horses, with 20 passengers, and a crew of 5 men, was driven on shore on the night f Wed nesday, the 7th ult.. under Milford Cliff, about two miles west of Hartland Quay, and ten miles N.E. of Bude. Crew and passengers with one horse saved. Mr. Gibson has executed his statue of the Queen, which is now exhibited in his workshop at Rome. He has given her robe a narrow-coloured border of pink and blue, a novelty about which the artists in Rome are di vided in -opinion. The work is considered fine, for the attitude is easy and graceful, the drapery well arranged and executed, and the likeness good. Ship-building on the Wear is unusually brisk. No fewer than 80 vessels are in progress of construction on the banks of this river ; and every ship -building yard is employed. This is the highest number of ships that has ever been in progress at the same time, with one excep tion, which occurred a few years ago, when the ships building amounted to the amazing number of 120. SINGULAWCIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days ago. as one of the gentlemen commoners of Winchester College was discussing a barrel of oysters with a friend, he was sur prised on finding in his mouth something harder than the general nature of the oyster. It turned out to be a very large pearl, valued by a Winchester jeweller at 200 guineas. The jeweller affirmed that it was the largest he had ever seen. EXTRAORDINARY FAcT.---There have lately died some of the sheep on the farm at Whitley Abbey, near this city, and seven lambs have been left without the care of their natural parents. It occurred about the same time, that a large bitch, of the shepherd breed, had a litter of whelps, which were immediately taken from her and drowned, and the lambs placed under her . care and pro tection. It is not more extraordinary than true, that the bitch immediately adopted her new charge, 'and suckles and nurses them with the greatest fondness.—Coventry Standard. about four months time. r rum pruzuuu uppuisrance, Me aunt 11111.11100.1.11 G La, alt.]. Luc --, building will be both substantial and magnificent, and its depthsof error into which they may not hePermittedto sink. also to repeal the whole of the sta position is such as to command a very good rim of trade. ANTAGONISM OF POPERY AND PROTESTANTISM.—In • Charles 11., also to repeal the whole western front, on which is to be placed a b r o a d an d the House of Commons, on Wednesday,, the Earl of second session of the 30th of Cho yt. A +1,., more effectually Preservi Lute of the 25th of of the statute of the tits 11., entitled An ....„,,,,voi F me tving s rerson beautifully finished verandah, looks over the Solway, so Arundel, son of the Duke of Norfolk, and of course a Ro- Act that the shipping, as well as the packets plying both w ays, ma n Catholic, declared emphatically that the contest be- and Government , by. disabling Papists from s itti ng i n may be seen to advantage. The northern front, on which tween the Churches of Rome and England must go on, either house of parliament, and his (Sir H. Inglis's) is also to be placed a large verandah, is within a few yards until the " extinction of Protestantism' was effected ; to point was this :—By the statute he mentioned the last of the Wliitehaven and Furness Railway, and commands which Arr. Plumptre replied as follows—" They (the Pro- every person on being admitted to take his seat in either a fine view of the Old Abbey Church, Bishop Grindell's testants) were prepared to oppose this measure (the Roman house of parliament was to make a certain declaration. grammar school, the windings of the river Po, through Catholic Relief Bill) hecause they thought - it was - part of 1 -Every one knew, however; that un4er the act-of 1829 . the ~,..... --.4.,. i;, , t, the noble lord told them was decidedly I obligation to make such a declaration had ceased, and ... b-- , the flowery vales of St. Bees, as well as tbe great road that system wm ....... —.....- Lis church against Protestantism. that ding into the village. On the eastern side of the house being carried forwar d by I n - members were admitted into both houses without "-- - --" - ---;*; , -a a which The Protestants were alive to - this subject—they could not making any such declaration. But that was not the case fancy help seeing what had been going on on the part of Popery with respect to the declaration required by that statute ntry of late years. Before the bill of 1829 was from the sovereign and by the Bill of Ri g hts—a statute . _ .., a large bowling-green, tne extremities (11 'e to be planted with choice flowering and nth( shrubs. fresh and salt water baths, hot anu cow, are iii ilaio ..5. , ....•--, also to be fitted up, as well as good s t a bli n g, so t h a t t h e _ passe d, th e y were told by the Roman Catholics, " G ran t w hi c h n o one, notwithstanding the spirit of innovation inhabitants in this locality, as well as tourists generally, us this bill to remove our civil disabilities (hear, hear), we porceptible in modern legislation, had had the hardihood will soon have excellen t accommodation for both man and will be thankful t° you, and you will receive no further hitherto to touch. The sovereign, at the first meeting horse.—Whitehaven Herald. trouble from us ;'' but, from what they had seen of the .of parliament after each accession, was bound to recite, in A BOLD TOWN CLERK.—At a meeting of the Durham acts of the' church of Rome since that time, could they say an audible manner, sitting on the throne, that declaration, T own Council, last week, Mr. Tiplady, the town clerk, that the Roman Catholics were pacified by that measure ? and they all knew that their present most gracious Sover.. alluding to some circumstances relative to the election of He believed that reflecting men were of opinion that they eign, sitting on the throne, in the hearing of many whom c lerk to the magistrates—for which office Mr. Tiplady was would be anything but satisfied with it. They believed, and he was then addressing, recited that declaration soon after a candidate—said, with reference to an interview which he 'he thought it had been verified, that it would be a bonus her accession to the throne. He wished to ask whether (Mr. T.) had had with Mr. Bramwell, a magistrate and for further agitation. And now they were told plainly ' her Majesty's Attorney-General would be pleased to state member of the Council,—" I now say distinctly that, that the • contest was going on, and should go on, until how far that famous Bill of Rights would hold good in this in the interview in my office, you told me that they—who Protestantism was extinct, and Popery was reascendant. respect to bind the Sovereign, when this measure of the ' they' were I cannot tell—that they have made it a party (Hear, hear.) That was the language of the noble lord, - hon. and learned member for Kinsal e (Mr. 'Watson) had question : I must stick to my party.' These were your who, he supposed, might be looked upon as a fair repre- repealed, as it now proposed to do, the whole of the act words.—Mr. Bramwell ; I never said them.—Mr. Tiplacly: sentative of the church of Rome. But they who differed in which that declaration was included ? And whether These were your own words, used in my office. I most in opinion from the noble lord, entertaining for him as an anything would remain for the Bill of Rights to work distinctly repeat them ; and as solemnly as you repudiate estimable man every feeling of respect, were determined upon, so far as that declaration was concerned, which it them do I re it era t e them, and assert that they are those to maintain that contest so far as they had strength and imposed upon the Sovereign, and which he trusted the which you u tt er ed. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Ald. Shields : power to do so. They believed that there was a steady house would recollect was a national testimony borne Well, wh a t d oes it amoun t to ?—Mr. Tiplady: It amounts and increasing feeling in this country upon the subject, against the Roman Catholic religion (hear, hear), being to this, that Mr. Bramwell is to be heard without inter- and they would meet their opponents face to face in that made by the first magistrate of the s t a te—as a republican ruption, it seems , an d the town clerk is not. (Applause, Contest, and would do all in their power to stand forward would call it, but, as he (Sir R. H. Inglis) said, by our and interruption.) Mr. Bramwell has stated, in the course for Protestantism, and for the cause of truth. (Hear.) most gracious sovereign; and being a d e claration of prin.- of his observations. that I had informed some p erso ns that He was not afraid that the church of Rome might create, ciples enforced as one essential condition of the occupaticol, he had p r omised me his vote. It is a falsehood.—Mr. as in times p ast, g reat trouble, much unhappiness and of the throne,—the principles on which the house 0 1 Bramwell :I am glad of that.—Mr. Tiplady ,Itis a base misery ; she might become a persecuting church, and the Brunswick had been called to the throne. If the throne falsehood. ..Prom what you said, and what transpired at noble lord seemed to think that there was some justifica- were not occupied by them as P ro testants, p re pared to the time, I did not expect that, instead of remaining quiet, tion for her being so. He said that the church of Rome maintain the doctrines of Protestantism ; prepared t° and t a ki n g no active part in this business, you should be m i g ht be carr y in g on that contest, and might be disposed, maintain not merely the doctrines of Protestantism, bl the person actually to establish a novelty in magisterial . when she thought it convenient and found . that she had of that peculiar form of Protestantism which was professe voting, in order that you might not be deprived of the the power to do so, become a persecuting church. She by the Church of England, he (Sir R. H. Inglis) for orle , opportunity of recording your vote in favour of Mr. Mar- might be disposed to give this country and others, in pro- knew not what right they had to the throne. Every o °l shall.—Mr. Bramwell : You ought not to stigmatise me portion as she regaine d p ower, trouble, and such as might tha t heard him knew that the y were a younger branch with that.—Mr. Tiplady : When you found that' you could lead to grea t miser y ; but when the noble lord s po k e o f the ro y al famil y of En g land who had been selected for d 0 i , : not be present personally to record your vote in favour o f the result of the contest of Protestantism becoming ' throne because they were Protestants, and on the exP re l. Mr. Marshall—which I, for one, should not have objecte d extinct under the foot of the church of Rome, he condition of making this declaration. that declaratiT: ' to, had you honestly told me—notwithstanding your state - (Mr. Plumptre) was not afraid of such a result. He was was a national protest against the Roman Catholic churco 'meats that you did not want to vote, you and another gen- satisfied that Protestantism was founded on a rock. Ile essentially interwoven with the constitution ; and he c ini ' den= I see present passed a resolution to do what--why only shrank from and deprecated the struggle which the tended tnat it was intended to be, and ought to be 0c...i. to enable you, by the most unconstitutional means, to do church of Rome was Promoting, and which hon.inembers inviolable. But this, lie said, was risked by the bill ic o ci ,that against which you had: expressed such an antipathy." I not of that church were in their measures promoting by the hon. and learned member, fo r the h o n. and lear t l u i g The matter terminated With:no other result than that Mr. , advocating such- a bill as that now before the house ; he member repealed the whole a the statute in which , o f Tiplady perSisted in saying that Mr. Bramwell had used I took no part in such a measure—it was only parcel of that 1 declaration was imposed, leavinff, indeed, the % K; ' the words, whilstthe latter gentleman positively repudiated . contest which was to be carried on against Protestantism 1 Rights, but leaving it so that no declaration, as he ." 11. , them. . unto the end, and •on that.groundle Should oppose it." I H. Inglis) apprehended, was binding on the Soverog