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intperial Varliamint. HOUSE OF LORDS.--MONDAY. • The house sat for a short time, but all important busi ness was postponed in order to allow the arguments on the writs of error bi ought by Mr. O'Connell and Lis fillow prisoners to be proceeded with. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. In reply to questions from Mr. SHEIL and Sir C. NA -PIER respecting the present position of affairs between France and Morocco, Sir R. PEEL said he was desirous of avoiding all discus sion that mil ht give rise to counter ohs* rvations in the French Chambers upon subjects a hich were still under regociation between the governments of Legland and France. The British Cr nsul at Alg.ers was not acting under a French exequatar, but was precisely in the same position as under the late government. He als - i observed that the me,liation of this country was not rejected by the Emperor of Morocco, for Mr. Drummond liay'was still with the Errp ror, acting under instructions frOm the British government. Mr. iiLADSTONE moved the order of the day for the second reading of the railways bill, and in so doing en tered at considerable length into the details of the measure, which, he said, had been more miseepreseutcd as to its objects than any bill which he remembered to haVe been brought under the consideration of the house. The chief objects of the bill are to enforce, for the convenience of the humbler clas-es. conveyance in carriages "protected from the weather at the rate of once penny..per mile, and to reserve the opton of the legislature otpui chasing r..il ways if at some future period it should Ate, necessary to do so, without being tarred by the pleA ,41 ! vested interests. He denied that the bill.was calculate fo give a shock to railway property, for they had not even tend a dull day in the money market, notwithstanding all l ikKitipps.which parliamentary agents (for they were,,itsfeahopponents) bad got up against this bill. With resee,ct to to wish on the part of many hon. members to poStrione the bill, he must say that, owing to the very nature cf the opposition raised against it, he was more than ever persuaded.of the necessity of immediate legislation for the purpose of pro tecting the interests of the people. Mr. ENi•WISLE said that the low fares professed to be for the advantage of the pc or man, but if the hill passed they would find many members of the house travelling in third-class cart aces. He moved that the bill be read a second time that d.y six month*, Colonel SIIITtIORP denied that he bad lost confidence in the government, end tendered his most sincere thanks to ministers fur the bill before tie house, though it was not so perfect as he could wish. The gallant member in the e , ,, , -.e of his remarks, Paid lie hated railroads as be hated the devil. Mr. bKiGHT moved the adjourn meat, which, after some a3nversation was acceded to. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. All the business likely to occupy time was postponed in order to allow the arguments to he proceeded with in the writs of error in the case of Mr. O'Connell and others. At the F west on of the Duke of Welling►on, tl-e Bishop of EXETER withdrew the Brothels Suppression Bill. Some other bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which counsel were called in, and the ArrouNer- GENERAL for Ireland proceeded with his arguments against the writs of error. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. Mr. M. D. Hill was beard as counsel against the Sud bury Die-franchisement Bill. After his address, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL gave his opinion that a ma jority of the eVciors had been clearly proved corrupt. He adverted to the details of the particular corruption ~,reval ent in that borough, and pressed the house to concur in the second reading of the bill. Mr. BLACKSTONE gave notice, that be should move an instruction to the future committee, directing them to include the aclpeetit hundreds in the franchise, rather than aholieh it utte,lv. Mr. TUFFNELL, Mr. Dtr.t.oll BROWNE, and Mr. WYNN, each gave a blow to the tailing borough ; and the bill was read a second time. At five o'clock, to which hour tbe house adjourned, Mr. CHRISTIE brought forward the oft en-discos-ed subject of Danish claims. After some debate, in wi ich Mr: H UME seconded, and Colonel SIBTDORP, Mr. HAWES, and Sir C. NAPIER suoported, the motion, and :.Jr. GOULBURN and Sir R. PEEL opposed it, the house divided, defeating Mr. CHRISTIE by a majority of 3. Mr. LIDDELL obtained a committee for inquiring into the depr?dations of the dog-stealers of the metropolis. Mr. Hosts was proceeding with a motion upon the subject of the Royal Academy, when the house was counted out. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Exemption Bill, and the Vagrants' Removal Bill, were read a third time and passed. The •reports on the Colonial Postage Bill, and the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, were brought up and agreed to. The house went into a committee on the Joint Stock Companies Hegolatit,n and Registration Bill, and the first six clauses wire agreed to. The Joint Stock Companies' Remedies at Law and in Equity Bill was also considered in committee, and the clauses were agreed to. S;r JAMES GRAHAM, in answer to Mr. Crawford, said Fe should certainly proceed with the Poor Law Bill on riday. Mr. COWPER moved the second reading of the Field Gardens Bill, which, after a short discussion, was so read, and ortered to be committed on Wednesday next. The Sudbury Di-franchisement Bill went through com mittee, and was ordered to be reported. The house ,went into committee on the Actions for Gaming Discontkuince Bill, and after very considerable uninteresting discussion, the various clauses were agreed to. The report to be received on Thursday. Adjourned at twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock, and proceeded with the usual legislative business, no judgment in the O'Con nell writ of error haying been pronounced, as had been expected. . Earl Powrs said. in consequence of the consent of the Crown having been withh-ld from the bill relating to the separation of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, he. after mature - deliberation, had thought it advisable to withdraw the bill rather that press it fora ard against the report of the committee with the prospect of being ultimately beaten. The Bishop of SALISBURY recommended her Majesty's government to consider this question. He very much regretted that the noble earl had been compelled to with draw this bill, for he felt that if it had been passed it would have beer► found to be a very beneficial measure. He trusted, however, that the government would in the next session of Parliament introduce a bill themselves upon this subject. A discussion of some length followed, in the course of which an attempt was made by Lord Lytlelton and the Marquis of Clanricarde to fasten a charge of unfairness on the government in the course it bad adopted in respect of this bill, which charge, however, was rebutted by Lord Brougham, Lord Wharnoliffe, and Lord Monteagle; after which the bill was withdrawn. Some other business on the paper was then disposed of, and their lordbitips, adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. - - - On the motion of Sir G..CLEuk, the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was read a third time.—ln answer to a question from Captain Pechell, Sir G. Clerk said the present measure was a mere continuance bill. The Colonial Postage Bill was read a third time and p-ssed. Mr. FERRAND wished to know whether there was any objection to 14y on the tab's of the house the evidence taken before the coroner on the steam-boiler explosion at Bolton. - Sir J. GRAHAM. said he was , not aware that it was in the power of any authority to compel the coroner to pro duce the evidence taken in his court ; but he would make inquiries on the subject, and if the hon. member would repeat the question, he would endeavour to reply to it. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Railways' Bill was resumed by Mr. BRIGHT, who sup ported the amendment for reading it -a second time that day six months. Lord Seymour, Mr. Wallace, and itir. J. S. Wortley spoke in favour of the bill; and Mr. Bernal, Mr. Col quhoun, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. Milner Gibson for the amendment. Sir R. NEL was very merry at the expense of poor Mr. Gibson, whom he designated as " Ingenui vullus puer ingenuique pudoria." Mr. Ward, Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Muntz subsequently spoke against the bill. and Mr. Sharman Crawford gave it his support. The house having divided, there were—For the second reading, 186; against it, 98; majority, 88. The bill was read a second time. and its committal fixed for Saturday next. The Turnpike Trusts (South Wales) Bill was read a se cond time. The reports of the Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill, and of the Sudbury Disfranchisement . Bill were re ceived. The committee on dog stealing was nominated, after an unsuccessful division on a motion for adjournment. Sir GEORGE CLERK obtained leave to bring in a bill to continue certain of the allowances of the duty of excise on soap used in manufactures. Mr. J. W. Hoyle obtained leave to bring in a bill to eontinne an act of the 10th Geo. IV., for providing for the government of her Majesty's settlements in Western u "collo, on the Western Coast of New Holland." H OUSE OF LORDS .—FRIDAY. --_ RIDAY. In reply to questions from the Marquis of CLANRI CARDE, respecting collection of forces under Sir C. Napier on the frontier o f said,the Punjaub, The Earl of RIPON that the rumours which had recently reached this country India, to the effect that an army of 80,000 menrz f ciallecting on the banks of the Sutledge, for the purpose e a large and conquer ing the Punjaub, greatly .exaggerated tandin truth. The fact was, that it was necessary to bay which were concen trated in the north-western provinces, r e s te e n t roost likely to he suddenly attacked, and ili distressed state of the Punjaub it would he nothin p of insanity to leave that portion of our Indian fgrontiel unprotected. There was, Eovverer, no desire on the part of the government, either ahroad or at home, to add one inch of territory to our possessions in that quarter, though it was quite moil* that we Blight be culled upon to - defend ourselves from attack: There was no intention to enlarge our territory further than it now-extendA beyond the Indus. With respect to the revenues• Scinde and their sufficiency to meet the expenses of the armament required for i.s subjection, he was not in a tosition to give information required by the noble marquis. The Fad of RIPON then moved the committee on th e Bai.k Charter Bill, and entered into a lengthened state ment w tie various detaili of that measure. A discussion ensued, in which Lord Nlonteazle, Lord Ashburton, and the Earl of Radnor took pelt, after which the hill went through committee. Some bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY In reply to a question from Mr. Gibson. , Sir R. PEEL said he bad seen a statement of the new tariff which was to c,rne into operation in the Brazi!s in November next, and had sent to t,hs Ft reign Office to as certain if any official communication upon the tri-ject had been received. The answer was in the neeativc. There was a con est ondence goieg on with the Dutch Govern ment' respecting certificates of origin with regard to sugars; but he was not in a condition to lay that correspondence on the table of the house. In reply to a question from Mr. Liddell, the right hon. baronet said it was his intention to introduce a bill on the `subject of the law of settlement, hut he would not press it through the house during the pi est nt session. The Sudbury' 'Disfranchisement Bill was read a third time and passed. •' On the . mtition of Sir J. Graham the house resolved it self into committee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill, the consideration of which occupied the remainder of the evening. 0, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY. The House met at twelve o'clock fc r tie furtherance of public business, now that the session is drawing towards its ciose ; and its a , tention was, chiefly recopied by the discussion of the clauses of the Poor Law Amendmert Bill in committee. Some progress was made, and t vrn- Nally the chairman obtained leave to sit again this day,, at twelve o'clock. After the house had resumed, some observations made' by Mr. WODETIOUSE, conveying a personal attack on Mr. WAKLEY while in committee, drew from that hon. aentleman a con plaint of the uufairio as and injustice of the attack upon his private 'character, and an explanation of the c rcumstin.ces so often yuliiiclv aquthd to respect ing the unfortunate conflagration of Lis premises soon after his first arrival in London. Mr. Woodlouse admitted that he had alluded to the occurrence referred to by the hon. member, said he was perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and apologised for what had fallen from him in the course of the discussion. The house then adjourned. FOREIGN AAD COLONIAL. ANIERICA. Since our last we have received New York papers to the 30th ult. Cong. ess adjourned on the appointed day, the 17th ult., after having, upon the recommendation of the Com mittee on Foreig a Relations, rejected the Zoilverrin Treaty of commerce. The grounds upon which the re commendation is made are, that a measure such as the one in question, revising the great subjects of trade and revenue, should originate with Congress, not with the executive, whose duti' s appear to them to be, to fulfil the wishes of the people, as expressed through the agency of their representatives ; and that the cotters-ions made by the United States are not repaid by those of the Ger man Unions. If, however, they say, Congress approves of the 'arrangement, let them pass a law imposing the duties contemplated in it. The Senate had also confirmed several nominations, and, amongst others, the long-pend ing one of Mr. Cushing; as Minister to China. Colonel Thompson, the special messenger to Mexico, had returned to . Washington shortly after the close of the session; but the reply of the Mexican Government, in respect of annexation, had nrt been made known. We may, however, judge pretty accurately cf its general tenor by a perusal of the following :—On the 18. h ultimo a messenger arrived with dispatches tr m Senor Bocanegra to General Almonte, the Mexican Minister to the United States; of which the Spanish journal published in New Yo. k, the Noticioso de A 'Mos Mundos, gives the text. Senor Bocanegra infarms the general, in the most empha tic terms, that Mexico wilt nev, r assent to the annexa tion; that the Goveinunerit anal the nation are immovably determined to resist the prOj , a and reject all proposals for its consummation, whether accompanied or not by offers . of compensation ; arid General Almonte is author ised and instructed to contradict, in the most formal man ner, soy assertion or intimation of a different character, which might be' dissemi ated by the partisans of Presi dent Tyler for the purpose of producing a change in the hostile feeling with which the people of the United States generally regard the measure. %%e learn, further, that the Diario del Gobierno, (the Mexican Government paper) of the 14th alt., contains an official notice in relation to an extraordinary session of Co, gress, which had been ordered to meet on the first of last month. The decree of Senor de Bocarregra, Minister of Foreign Relations, and which has been approved by Valencia Canalizo, the acting President, sets forth, th.t the time of the Con gress will be occupied on the following important points : " 1. In re'eeiving th'd oath nf=the President, so that he can enter at once upon the duties of his office. "2. In giving to the g,etrarnent the power to increase the army, and furnish the necessary means for so doing. " 3. In empowering the Governinet.t to procure ample pecuniary means and everything else Slut may be deemed necessary in order that Mex.i`co may - recover Texas, and preserve the entire naviv•nat,dotinain: "4. In taking into eensideratuin everything that the Government may send to the Con g ress, to the end that the Republic may be secured, and its independence and honour preserved." NI & Such is the substance of the measures which wino y the attention of the extraordinary session of Congra 7 Of 'the Ist of June; thus marerially lessening, at least 'for the present, the chance of a peace:lble and amicable set tlement of the difficulties existing between the two re publics of Texas and Mexico. The Diario is filled, for the most part, with govern ment documents and articles upon the all-engrossing sub ject of the annexation of Texas to the United States.. The Mexican editors, one and all, say that Texas ala ays was, and always shall be, part and parcel of the republic, and that the p ople will contend to the death before an inch of the territory will be relinquished. General Tonnell had resigned his station as Minister of War and Marine. A new minister would be appointed on the arrival at the capital of SanraAnna, who nos on his way thither. Various cnnfliciing opinions were prevalent as to the probability of an extra session of Congress being called. The Washington correspondent cf the New York Journal of Commerce says, that the question was considered at a special meeting of the executive, held on the 22J ult. The Oregon question has been left in the same situat'on that it was at the meeting of Congress, no legislative measure in reference to it having been adopted. The is as it should be. So long as friendly negotiations are pendng, nothing calcu'ated to produce unkind feelings should be done by any party. The treaty between the United States and France, for the mutual surrender of criminals, callers than polit'eal, escaping from one country to the other, is now finally ratified and completed. Governor Polk has accepted the nomination of the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. It ap pears that the friends of the three candidates for the Presidency are determined to sustain tt • respective.) nominations; viz., Mr. Clay, anti-anne el • r ti re'sPec M ve . Tyler, and dr . Po - lc, annexation. Whethe x r a th o eN nl vo'll d r at' remain in the field to the end is matter of doubt; ‘ hut, whether they do or do nut, the result will be the fame,: Henry Clay will, undoubtedly, be the next' T L% ; the United States. • Philadelphia continues quiet. 10 .1 President Tyler was married , at Ne w Y o r k, on dm ult., to a daughter of th elate lion. D. 0 , riner,,o4 Rr i tt!,e victims of the explosion on heard the :.team-ship Pitnee-1 ton. The bride is described as young and bumf fel, aud twenty-four years of age. The President is upwards of fifty. Money continued abundant. The Exchange on Lurope dull at 1C94 premium. In the Stock-market "fancies," had fallen, but stable and dividend-paying stocks had ex perienced improvement. The New York American reports, that the yield of wheat is likely to be immense. Extensive conflagrations have occurred at Boston end Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the losses by which are estimated at 100,000 dollars and £30,000. The Canada parliament has been .further prorogued until the 3rd of August, and then to meet for the "despatch of business." Sir C. Metcalf made his public entry into the seat of government, Montreal, on the 24th ult. Information has been officially received, that, by a de cree of the Mexican government, dated 31st March, the towns of Tatra, in New Mexico, and Paso del Norte and Presidio del Norte. in Chihauhua, are declared open to foreign trade. All articles which can be introduced into the Mexican Republic may enterthose,places on payment of the duties prescribed by the tariff and laws. The Government paper of Havana, of June the 10th, contains an official announcement, that, in consequence of the late calamitous drought experienced in the island, the Custom-house duties on various articles of food are reduced to one-half of the previous rates. Letters had been received in Jacmel, one the Ilth ult., from Aux Cayes, stating , pointed one of his black that the new Prsident had ap generals governor of that town, and that the new official had plundered the mulattoes and put a number of them to death. President Gurrier had chartered the Dutch brig Napoleon, put an ambassador on board, and sent her to the city of St. Domingo, to the Spanish, to induce them to acknowledge the Hay. tian flag; but they refused, and wished the Presi dent to acknowledge their independence. Still later accounts from Aux Cayes state, that affairs were some what settled, but it was thought that tranquillity would not long continue as the rebel chief Acaua manifested con siderable reluctance to submit to the authority of General Guerrier, who appears to act with considerable ene_rgy. His cabinet consists of Mons. Hypolite,, Minister of War of the Exterior; Mons. Paul, Ministe r of the Interio r and Agriculture ; Mons. H. Ferg. Minister of Public In struction and Justice, and. Religion ; Mons. Landin, Minister of Finance and Commerce ; all coloured men, well educated and influential, and popular with all parties. On the 6th June the British barque Dominican,Captain Salter, from London for Jamaica, was wrecked on the Folic, a coral reef in the vicinity of Aux Cayes, about twenty miles distant from the port, and was found to be totally abandoned. It, is supposed the crew and passen gers took to the boats and steered for Jamaica. SUMMARY JUSTICE.—At — GAIdo, Texas, on the sth ult, a man was taken, chalged with murder, and hung by the people, without trial. He confessed that he had been hired by some Texans to murderfive men I for 1,000 dollars. The King of Prussia has accorded a renewed grant of fifty thou-and thalers (X 7,500) for the cornph lion of the (lonian Catholic cathedral of Cologne. His majesty has , moreover, dedicated a sum of ten thousand thalers (X 1,500) to the works on the north tower. At the assizes for the Department of the Seine, E. P. Cadot, a youth of 18, was charged with procuring the murder of his father, a tick banker, by the promise of 100,000 frat.es to his assass'n. The temptations were his father's wealth, and his father's mistress, the latter a servant girl, to whom both were passionately attached ! The son was acquitted—the assassin convicted. THE ITALIAN INSURGENTS.—The Gazette of the Two of tie 25th ult. states that five more of the in-n'gents who landed in Calabria have been arrested, and th all arc now in custody, but the panics of only a few of them are given. A Leghorn letter states that the two sons of Admiral Bandie'a are among' the insurgents who have been arrested in Ca'abria. It is stated inletters from Turin that the railway be tween that city and Genoa, two branches between Venice and Milan, has received Royal sanction. It is to be executed at the expense of Government, and the Coun cil of State have given directions that it shall he immedi ately marked out. .1; Industriol Calaisien alludes with regret to the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of the branch line from Hazebrouck to Arras, even on the second application. Monocco.—According to some of the Paris papers au thentic accounts have been received of the dismissal, by the Emperor of Morocco, of the two general officers who headed the Moorish troens• in their late attacks on the French camp at Lalla Magronia. It is also said that strong hopes are entertained of a speedy arrangement, as the French government does not demand the eXpulsinn of Abdel Kader from the Moorish territory, but his immedi ate removal from the Algerian neighbourhood.- and the assit nation of a fixed residence for him under the respon sibility of the Emperor, in one of the towns of the most distant frontier. • QUICK TRAVELLING.—EXtrRet of a letter dated Co ltyrne, Monday evening, July B.—" The rapidity of tra velling between this place and London is now wonderful in the extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven o'clock, and here 1 actually am on the second evening at Cologne on the Rhine. There has, besides, been nothing like ' hot haste' in the matter ; on the contrary every thing has been done quietly and comfortably. You are aware that I embarked on board the steamer Antwerpen, having been assured at the office in London that we should arrive at, Antwerp on Monday morning in ample time for the railway - . train for Cologne, and I certainly' VMS . not misled. Vve landed before eight o'clock, and all of our passengers who wished to do so. and they were certainly almost the whole. including many persons of high rank, got away by the train and reached Cologne with me alter about 30 hours' travelling. Who would have believed this even 10 years ago ?" NEW ZEALAND CANNIBALISM. The Jou►nal des Debals publishes the following from Akaroa, in New Zea land, dated January 28 :—" Probably, before my 1, Ver ar rives in France, you will have learned that the Mahouris, a tribe of Zealanders, have killed thirty English of this colony; but you, perhaps, wilt not know that the bodies of these unfortunate men were eaten. This is but too true. We had been out on a hunting party for a week, when, one evening, we arrived among the friendly tribe of Terauparaa, or Mahouris, and found them regaling on human flesh. We all conceived that they were eating some captives or slaves of their own nation. As I under stood the language I could not resist expressing my indig nation, and tl•reatened them with chastisement from the crew of the corvette. The savages, alarmed, endeavoured to arpease me by saying, • They are not men of Mahouri that we are eating, but some Yes, yes,' for it is thus they call the English. They then showed us the head of their victims, and among them I recognised that of Captain Wakefield, one of the distinguished inhabitants of Port Nicholson, who had ent , rtaioed us at his own house when we went to the town to procure provisions. I was seized with horror at the sight. My companions blamed tne for having risked irritating the cannibals, as we were only five against two hundred. But they gave us con fidence by saying, ' 0 ! the Oui, oui, (for so they distin guish u. , ,) are good penile, but the Yes, yes are very wicked.' They then related that they had killed the Eng lish because they wished to establish themselves in a bay which they had not purchased, and which the Mahouris are unwilling to give up. We then retired, with our hearts full of horror and disgust." The Indian papers, brought by the last overland mail, record a shocking instance of mortality in a " Cooly ship," employed to bring back from Mauritius a number of Coolies whose time had expired. When she left Calcutta to go to the Mauritius with 210 Coolies (the full number permitted,) she only lost three of them, including a wo- - man, who died in child-birth. When she returned, she brought 270 Coolies—nearly a third more than her per mitted number—and of these she lost 17. To the fact that so much more than the proper number were carried, do the local writers, who take the humane view of the question, attribute the increase of mortality, and the melancholy event gives them an opportunity of contrast ing the conduct of public authorities at the Mauritius with that of the authorities at Calcutta, to the disad vantage of the former. At Calcutta, as we have seen, no more than the right number could be shipped, and there are at the same place a variety of regulations concerning the supply of provisions for the voyage. 1 At the Mauritius, on the contrary, no such regula tions seems to exist, or, if they did exist, they are completely inoperative, and ,the assertion is well borne out that afrt r the engagement of the Coolies have expired all concern for their welfare ceases. There appears to be no necessity for providing medicine or medical attendance, and all that the c-ip•ain is bound to furnish is a pound and u half of lice tinily, two pounds of salt fish per week (which is bound positively it jurious) and some salt and wood, with accommodations for cooking. No regard is paid to the number of COches put on board, and the owners may cram their vessels as much as they think fit. Thus, while every precaution is taken on the voyage from India to the Mauritius through the humane exertions of the Bengal authorities, the very reverse is the case on the voyage back. The Government of India, is totally powerless in this matter, and the local writers urgent) , call for inter ference of the home government. IM two ships, it seems, no less than 61 persons have perished. EXECUTION BY THE GUILLOTINE.—On the Bth inst., Pierre Lescure, who was accused of the murder of his fa ther, but not brought to trial for want of sufficient evi dence, and who has since been condemned to death for making away with his uncle, was executed at Rionn (Puy dc;-lime.) The circumstances attending the execution were most horrifying. Being a man'of herculean ttrength, he was bound in prison with an unusual weight of chains. It required at least half an hour for the smiths to utirivet them. Lescure was much weakened by his confinement, and assistance was offered to him in walking to the scaffold ; but he declined it and went forward, and even ascended the ladder with a firm step. Fearing resistance, the executioners of St. hleur and Moulins were called in to aid the executiotser of Rim. When Lescuie at peered on the 'platform, his tall and athletic pet son t iwered above theM arid the priest who attended him. Unfortunately he was not bound with sufficient force to the swing -board, which was also too short for his length, so tt.at his neck went beyond the groove, and the axe, when loosened, fell on the wood of the frame, and only w'cunckd its intended victim. Upon this, the execnt'oner from Fleur gi t astride on the head of Les(ure, but the convict struggled from the grasp, and breaking hia bands, rose again, with his shoulders and breast covered w.th his Wood, his faCe flushed, and his eyes haggard, uttering Mies that s'ruck terror to the breast of every spectator. Tre prie . st approached the. wretched man, and,. presenting; to hint the image of Christ on the cross, , r sueeeeded by his exhortations in prevailing on him to again submit' to be bound. Again the axe fell, and again Missed its mark, only enlaigingtl , e first wound. Lescure's cries became st h more astounding. 'I he people shouted rwith' indignation, and, pressing round the scaffold, were 'On the 'point of cveeo ruing tl.e Gendarmerie in attend 'since; w bile 'the priest, whose s.urptce was covered with Wood en,titraced and did alt in his Tower to console the 'mutilated man: The three executioners were for a time paralysed tut a last one of 'them mustered resolution ta fix the devoted head in a proper prndtion, and the axe, already sireaming witb blood, fella third time, and com pleted its task. The thi . ee executioners are, it is raid, to . be dLtnissed froM their offices.—Galignanz's Me.iienger. THE LIVERPOOL STAND k R IRELAND. It is calculated that the O'Connell tribute this year will reach £30,000. TtErEAt. ASSOCIATION.—The proceedings at the Con ciliation Hall, on Monday, were totally devoid of all in terest, save the amount of the rent, which was X 2,135.- .On the 24th ult. two soldiers and a girl of bcd charac ter were drowned in the Shannon by the upsetting of a boat. • Loin DE GRE Y . —The Earl and Countess De Grey will.leave the Viceregal Lodge this (Tuesday) morning, and go by railway to Kingstown, and embark at half-past eleven for Liverpool. Lord Heytesbury is expected to enter on the duties about the 21st instant. "On Saturday morning," says a writer in the Warder, "Mr. O'Connell commenced his great literary labour — his Life and Times,' or by what other style and title his projected autobiography is to be distinguished, employing Mr. O'Neill Daunt as his amanuensis." BRUTAL OUTRAGE. --The Claddah men, as a race of fishermen, in Galway, are called, brutally attacked a rev. gentleman and others, last week, for attempting to fish in the bay, the monopoly of which they claim. They cut away the sails, &c., and sent them adrift. Fortunately, the rev. gentleman and his companions were picked up by a vessel passing. Discovartv or PIK/M—On the 25th ult. a girl named Murphy went into Kildavin Grove, Carlow, to gather broken sticks, and while walking on a ditch in the grove, she saw secreted among the briars some iron bound up with hay ropes. On unfolding the parcel, she discovered, to her astonishment, two , newly-made and completely finished pikes, such as those so much in requisition in 1798. POTATOE RIOTS.—On Thursday a very serious riot took place at the Quay. Mr. Thomas Dobbin was ship ping potatoes for Liverpool on board a vessel, and the quay-porters and townsmen gathered, andTrevented the shipment. The police were sent' for, and directed the Owners of the potatoes to proceed with them to the ves sel, and that they would be protected. They refused to do so, being afraid of the Moly. Had they go on with th e s hi pmen t t h e conseq u en ces would have been serious. —Sli go Jou r nal. a ttempted to 1 3AnnEntsfso PAtteens.—We often said—God help the poor ! Anil who is there that will not reepond Amen, -wl:ett we tell him of the prison discipline of the Dorman way giardian s o f the poor ? It was resolved last Satur day by those humane, Christian Ezentlerren, that all the women were to be " cropped," their lair cut close—thus uniting degradation ar d poverty. •shaved poles and por ridge ! It was further resolvt d. that if the mast- r's wife had not (lopped every ferna'e bead in the house by the Bth (this day), she w,s to Meet' .Cl. Cork Examiner. GALLANT RESISTANCE.- On Sunday Fist, doting the hour. of Divine st rv'er, a ' , Li* y of four melt, one aimed with a hlunde.busa. , he it he , s with pistols, went to the dwelling-house it Mr: GI, y, of Sopwell, a respechible Prole•tant, and atter' pted to force an entra• ce for the ose rrhhing the house of at ma ; but were bravely resisted by Mr. Grey's two ors. one aged a! out twenty ears, tf.e other a tine little lad of about thirteen. and in tie contlct that ensued received store severe wounds — the forintr received a woi,n6 in the left hand, Dom the discharge of some of their fire-atrus. and a poor old woman, a servant in the house, ret eived a violent blow of a stone on the herd from ore of the party. infiit ting a severe wound. Alt, r the party possessing themselves of a pistol, the brave young fellows coo.ti.med the struggle— re-took the pistol, and fi reed the miscreants to d-camp without eff, et Mg their I lino se, end sou ethitig the wot se of the attack.—Nerragh Guardian. CLERICAL AEW.s. The Bishop of Chesterhvs licensed a place of worship on the winch les of ti e Established Clutch in the viliage of Oxton. The Rev. Joshua King and his nephew will officiate until t minister is appon,ted. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A supolem ent to the London Gazette, published on Finlay night, cent:rips an an nouncement that the Ecclesh.stical Conm'ssioners for England have, in virtue of powers intrusted to them by Parliament, p re p are d a sc h eme, w hi c h i s exp l a i ne d at great length, for c on s tit u ti ng a separa t e di s t r i c t for spiri tual purposes i n eac h o f t h e parishes of Astbury and Prestbuty, in the county and diocess of Chester. Seve ral other places are named. in a hick it is proposed that separate districts of this kind should be constituted. FALL OF THE TOWER OF HALLSTEAD NEW CT-react'. —On Wednesday afiernm n last, the be antifil tower a, d steeple of this chur. h, (width was to have been eouse , crated on the 31st instant,) which had been completed to a height of 115 feet, till with an awful crash, w ilia must have bren heard tor miles round.. The first impression was, that all the labourers wi re tit neath the ruins, and the shrieks end screams of the women aid thlliti en were dreadful. It was a most 1.10% ideutial interposition that such was rot tt e case. It appears that Mr. Johnstone, the builder actually saw the towr r sinking. and I e imme diately ordered the workmen off, when the tower . fell s'arilriwo'labourer4 Were 'their upon the scaff Id, one of whom is severely injured, but it is hoped may ultimately recover; the other is con paratively hut sl ghtly hurt. The Bev. Archdeacon Burial and G. Syerlieg, Esq.. ex perienced a very narrow etc re, as did also Mr. and Mrs. Arden, who were in tie body of the church at the time of the accident, 'a portion of the ruins falling into that . r.rt of the structure. The church itselt has received btit little injury. LECTURERS AND PARISH CLERKS. , -A bill has been recently passed by the 'House it' .Lord', and Irotight down to the Low( r Chamber, entitled "An A ct for bet ter regulating the Offices of Lecturers and Parish Cie' ks." It hi.s been, we believe, already'read mfirstliine in 'the . House of Commons. The preamble recites thefact than are now in dives parishes, &r., certainleettireis or preachers elected to deliver or prea, h turesbe settvidow only, without.the obligation 'of tjt'tforming other clerical or ministerial duties, and declares 0 - tit it is "expedient" that, in many cases, such lecturers should be required to, perform other clerical' duties, arid act, if necessary, as assistant-curates - imsuch parishes, &c. We need-hardly sta'e that the enactments are in strict accordance with, the requirements of the preamble. Lecturers or 'preachers (so called) may be required by the bishop of the ditieese to perform such other clerical or ministerial duties as the bishop, ac ing in conjunction with .the incumbent of the palish, may think fit, under pain of suspension or re moval. An appeal may be made to the archbishop of the province within fourteen days. This enactment, how ever, is not to affet t or be deemed a t pl;calle to any lec turer appointed prior to the passing of this act, unless such lecturer shall consent to be bound thereby. Power is given to the rectors or incumbents of parishes by the second clause to fill up vacancies occurring in the office of church or parish clerk, by the appointment of persons in the holy orders of deacon or priest of the united Church of England and Ireland, such persons to act as assistant curates if required. The appointments of assistant-clergy •under this act are not to exempt incumbents (now liable) from the duty of providing curates. Power is given to archdeacons and other ordinaries to remove sucks parish clerks, not in holy orders, as may be guilty of misbehavi our or neglect of duty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. LAW OF MORTMAIN.—The Bishop of London, the Bevthr. 7 homas Sherburne arid Francis Trapues, two Roman Catholic priests, and Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Brindle Lodge, near this town, were examined before the select committee of the Law f Moitmain List week. Mr. Eastwood's evidence occupied the whole bitting of the committee on the Thursday. In the Court of Bankruptcy, William Bromley under went another examination, which disclosed facts of a most painful nature, and frauds to • an enormous extent. The debts and liabilities amount in round numbers to about £140,000, principally through breaches of trust, and some of them appear to have extended so. far back as 1824. The Right lion. Dr. Lusicington, and the Rev. Arch deacon Brymer, of Bath, were present on the bench, they having. in ;heir capacity of co-trustees with the bank rupt in te Wilkinson, been defrauded of no leers a sum than £:29,01.10. 'I he further bearing was adjourned. CAUTION TO PERSONS MAKING WILLS —On Wed nesday last, Dr. Lushington, the Judge of the Preroga .tive Court, set aside as invalid under the statute of Wills, I•Vic. 26; sec. 9, a will which had been signed by two witnesses neither of whom had seen the signature of the testator to the document, he having brought the doru .ment into the room to ask their signatures with the paper so folded that it is impossible they could have seen the signature if' it had been there. The leered judge held that insufficient. They had seen no signatori,, and'they could not witness the acknowledgment cf that they did not see. THE BAR.—In consequence of the recent chang es which have taken place at the bar by promotions and death, and which have bad the effect of causing a great arrear at Nisi Prins, the Lord Chancellor and the Judges, have caused the following gentlemen to be called within the bar, and on Monday they obtained their silk gowns : Mr. Kinslake, of the Northern circuit; Mr. Alexander, of the Western circuit; Mr. Whitchurst, of the Midland, one of the juniors of the Oxford circuit Land Mr.. Chad wick Jones, tf the Home circuit and the Central Crimi nal Court, is made a Serjeant, and was invested with the coif before the Lord Chief Justices and Judge of Com mon Pleas. ACTIONS FOR GAMING DISCONTINUANCE BILL.—A bill further to stay proceedings in certain actions under the provisions of several statutes for the prevention of excessive gaming, and to prevent any similar proceedings being taken under those statutes during such further limited . time, has been brought in by Visccunt Palmers ton and Mr. Tufnell, M.P. By the first clause qui tam actions for the recovery of gaming penalt'e3 ale further suspended until the end of the next session of parlia ment—that is, we presume, until about the month of August, 1845. The second clause enacts, that in any case where actions nre prosecuted contrary to the provisions of Ibis act, a verdict is to be found for the defendants. The bill is, we believe, awaiting a second reading on the tMe of the house of which Lord Palmerston is so distin guished a member. foofr T m h s e eacr M or inaadgriernisagig,:e, cichurches u . Celebration r.ct:es d ea,tti ß i just,talti c ha p e l s two introducedir:lisipc.ehatiiinni districts r i t te h ht e es House of Lords by the Bishop cf London, and "waiting publication d . of . banns of matrimony, and the celebration shall have been assigned under certain of the Church Building Acts." The preamble recites the acts 1 and 2 William IV, c 38; 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 107, and .3 and 4 'Victoria, c. 60 ; and then continues to set forth, that "doubts are entertained whether banns of matrimony can be published, or marriages be celebrated or solemnized, in churches or chapels to which districts have been as signed, or may hereafter be assigned, under the said acts, or either of them, and that it is expedient to remove such doubts." The clauses enact, that where,districts have been assigned under the recited acts, the Church Building Commissioners, or the Bishop, may decide as to the pub lication of banns and celebration of marriages. Mar riages solemnized in •churches or chapels built under the said acts are declared valid, but nothing in the bill is to affect licenses for solemnising marriages in churches, &c., under:the act 6 and 7 William IV, c. 85. YORKSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES.—The Yorkshire Suni mer Assizes commenced at York on Wednesday last. The arrival of the High Sheriff, Timothy Hutton, Esq., of Clifton Castle, was announced by a sonorous peal from the Minster new bells on the previous evening, about half-past five o'clock. Up to a late period it was not known in what manner the learned Judges of assize would enter the city, but in consequence of an intimation then received from their Lordships, the High Sheriff and the City Sheriff (James Chadwick, Esq.) proceeded to Dring houses, with their respective retinues, to meet them. The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Creswell arrived at the Copmanthorpe station, on the York and North Mid land Railway, by the afternoon train from London, whence they proceeded in their private carriages, each drawn by tour horses, to Dringhouses, %here they were received by the High Sheriff for the county, and having taken their seats in his carriage, the cortege returned to the city, and thence proceeded to the castle, where the commissions of assizes were opened and read. The High Sheriff then duly made the returns to the writs to him directed, and the court wits adjourned to the following day (Thursday), at noon. Their lordships then proceeded to the Guildhall in the city, where the assizes for the city were opened with the like formalities. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JULY G.—At:RAMAN v. COO PER AND OTHERS.—This was an action of trover, to re cover, £10,300, the alleged value of the scrip for 300 shares in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The defendants, who arc barkers, claim a lien on the scrip for advances made upon this and other securities deposited with them by Culls, Thompson, and Co., the plaintiff's bill brokers. The case was tried at the sittings after last Michaelmas Term by Lord Abinger, one of the jurie s found for the defendants, and the seco nd for the plaintiff. The two cases were afterwards brought under considera tion of the Court of Exchequer, and a new trial was &- rested in the present cage. The Lord Chie f Baron opinion that if the plaintiff was aware when he deposi was of the scrip with Coils, T h rn pfon, and Co. , it wasp a trar!s feyable secur ity u p li n t h e bill broke rs miht ratse money, the aetkon could net be trainta i ne d.—Af!( ran ab. B ,enee of nearly an hour the j ur y returned a verdict for the uefendarts. Th e foremen at the same time stated that ted al , hnukh the jury felt themselves constrained, after the evidence of the hill brokers, to return a verdict for the de fentlant-i, they had heard: with extreme surprise that it 'was the prat tice of the bill brokers to rai,e money on col lateral securities, I deed with them. Thry thought it a most dangerous prectice for the mercantile world to rai.e money upon collateral securities, whilst tl.eoriginal secu rities were still running and available.—The Chief Baron asked the jury it they considered the scrip receirts a trans. ferahle security ? 7he toren an replied that the jury con sidered it a transferable hut not a negociAle secuiit y, and thrt the mercantile world were ignorant rf the custcm de post dto by the brokers. lhe verdict was then entered fur the detcndants. THE COURT. The Queen he'd a Privy Council on Wednesday after noon, at Buckingham PAlace. Her IVlejesty in Conned cl'a, pleased to declare the Right Hon. William Lord Heyteshury Governor-General r f Ireland. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace in an open carriage and tour, for the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, escorted by a party of Light Cavalry, and arrived at indsor Castle at twenty-fife minutes before six o'clock, At an early hour on Thursday morning, the Queen and Prince Albert took an aieng in a Cony carriage. The Princess Royal was also taken an airing in the pleasure grounds and slopes of the castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the castle at eleven o'clock. to pay a visit to her Majesty, and afterwards returned to her residence at Frogmore. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left the castle for a drive in an oven pony pheaton, the Prince driving. The royal tarty lett at five o'clock and returned to the castle at seven o'clock. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice were taken an airing in the pleasure grounds in the after noon. The Duchess of Kent joined the royal circle at the castle at dinner in the everairg.—The accouchment of tt e queen is expected to take place at a very early period, and every necessary prepdraticn for the auspicious event has been made accordingly. Her Majesty was extremely desirous of remaining in London sonic days longer than she did, in order that the trade of the metropolis might not suffer from the absence of the court, but her Majesty's medical advisers were urgent that the journey to Windsor should not be further delayed. : Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Froamore Lodge, at halt. gast eiglit o'ciork , on Wednesday evettirg, in a carriage and tour. Toe oyal Duchess landed at Woolwich dockyard, from the Coritnent, from the Princess Alice steauo-packet, at half past lour o'4 I 'ck. RAIL INTE LL IGE CE. The projected railway from 'Beverley to Hull, in con nection well The Hull and Selbf„' is prorosed to h , constructed on 'Alr. l'rosEer's plan'tif wooden rai!s and bevel wheels. EXPLOSIOI'i ON A RAILWAY.- 7 -Yesterdßy week, at 13rigir'tori, the non-arrival of ti:e last tria fr ni London 'causer:ll6W e alarm anti a pilot rnginelqs 'srnt n to ceriain ihe cause, win n it was faticilfk at Hayward's Heaila S ation cne of the ly,iler tube 'h:rd borst, and enveloped the train in steam. NO me was . r juredby the The pilot Lrutight up the train atter a delay of tin hour. A meeting of the inhabitants of Banbury was he d on ErWay,to disQlssthe,mer:ts of four projects. if railway, which liire . been submitied as advantageous to that tuvvo, and the one selected by ,a large majority was the Great 6terii, l 'frorri Oxford to It !Jaw: The other three were the OxrtiM, Wotcestcr, and - Wolverhampton I ne; the Ltindon and Birmingham, frorri Weedon to Woreesver ; and the Birmingham, Bantmry, and Oxford line. Depu tations were present in behalf of the respective projects, and a very animated d. bate wa, entered into. BRISTOL AND GLOUCEt:TER RAILWAY.—ThiS railway, 371 miles in length, was opened on Monday let, and the event was marked with the usual demonstrations cf re joicings. On Saturday the directors and their friends made an excursion on the line by a special train, and par took of a deyturver a mi:Gurchertp at Gloucester. By the opening of this line tie inconvenience hitherto experienced by the rubEc from the diss; ver . e.nce of the chain railway between the west and noith of England is at length ob viated. At the Ulster Railway meeting held on the 3d inst.. the shlreliolders resolved to complete the orig nal plan of the company by carrying on the line ,from Portadovin to Armagh. The engineer stated that the expee,se would be about £lO,OOO per mile, including the cost of Ale bridge across the river Baun. Traffic appears to brEN. xpected irom the adjoining districts, and Armagh being a town of greater population than Pottadown, it has been thought more desirable to make the terminus there. An extension as far as Monaghan was spoken of by some parties, but this did not ro?,et. with the approbation of the meeting. DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRTAGE.-011 Thursday morning, Mr.. Thomas. Anthony Tuelon, aged 81, of Deni•hfield, Surrey, died very suddenly in a railway car nage in which he had just taken his seat at the London station to return home, after transacting a good deal of business at the Bank and other places. His two sons were by him at the time. A physician who had attended him for some years said that his health was generally ex cellent, but, from symptoms of disease of the heart, he warned the family two or three years ago that he night die suddenly. Verdict—" Died by the, visitation of God." MISCHIEF AND DISTRESSING CALAMITY.—About two days ago, Mr. ..lt.tph Crawshaw, contractor on the Silt ffield and Manchester Railway, having gone to York to look after another contract, and,detained,longar than expected, some malicious persons raised a rumour tltht he had, been thrown on the rails and killed. his relations in alarm sent his brother hichard in search of him to York, when he found him well, and also that he had been successful in hisfenders for 44 miles of road. On Mr. Joseph reaching home, being elated at his pros pects, and employed in the viaduct at Blacktcoor, went too near to a stone.that was jest slung, and: it fell upon him and crushed him to, death .The.outrageous fabrica tion of his death was.thus in some measure confirmed... Low FARES ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—It appears from Mr. Lang's paper, appended to the select committee's report, that at• present the London and Birmingham Company carry 780,000 passen gers per annum, and average distance of 66 miles each. Of this number, 37 per cent: p4y 3d. per mile; 54 per cent., 2d. ; and 9 per cent., lid. 'Supposing the com pany to run third-class carriages at Id. per mile, with all their trains, and allowing that ls.rer cent., raid 3d. rer mile, 30 per cent. paid 2d.. and 55 per cent. ld., they would require to carry 2,979,670 persons (or newly four ' times the present number,) an average distance of thirty miles each, to secure the same gross returns; or, as the expenditure would be increased, the number must be increased to 3,500,000 to retain the existing amount of net profit.—Railway Record. YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE the last few days, public meetings hare been held at • obtainedproposedlines,communicationfromßrad fordsubject'proposede vicinity f during the present session, are anxious to extend it to . b in u e r t t e t, rs f n o r '. the making h which, ne oan railway has only F " enen to n Burnley, Colne, and the. Yorkshire Railways; and that the promoters of the Bradford and Leeds : Railway are equally desirous to carry forward their line. to .Keighley, and through Craven, into Laneashire„but that,there is a considerahleslifference of opinion betwe.en,the two parties as to the best line to be taken for the purpose. Tite Leeds and Bradford Company prppose to continue their,line from Shipley to Bingley, and thence up the valley of the Aire to Skip'on, with a branch to ,Keighley, and from Skipton to make a junction line to Blackburn. The Blackburn Company recommend a line through Burnley and,Colne to Shipley, to effect which it will be 'necessary' to make a long tunnel, with steep gradients in other parts of the line, sometimes to the extent of 1 in 80. Nothing has been decided, but the surreys are proceeding ; and a meet ing held at Keighley, on Monday; for the purpose of se lecting the site fur a station, declined to do so until the line was fixed upon. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. DUE II AM.—The pastures, which previous to the rains presented a melancholy aspect, have again assumed a healthy lock, end a good second crop of grass may be rea sonably expected. The rams have also been of immense service to potatoes and other root crops ; whilst turnip sowing has progressed antler the most auspicious circum stances. • As regards wheat, sufficient moisture has now fallen ; and in some districts, that which was particularly luxuriant, has been partially lodged by the heavy thunder showers ; with this trifling exception the rain has been most beneficial, and when it as taken into consideration the enormous difference it must make in the produce of all spring corn, we may . well say the prospects as to the fu ture have brightened sufficiently to encourage the hope that there will be no deficiency of the crops as the aspect of affairs indicated about the middle of June. In short the prospect is now one of universal abundance in all the fruits of the earth.—Durham Advertiser, July 12. GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— With the exception of a few u or drops which fell yesterday, no rain has fallen since mhe last, but the weather continues warm and geni.al-iy im copious rains of last week have not only a_ g of growing crop, but have produced a con • 51 ,7 the drought the price of butter and vegetables. Dor in the price has butter was selling at 15d. ; since the rainhas fallen to 6d.; ranged from 11d. to 13d. The Jamb ofthe bust description, h as proved pasture grounds and benefited e ve a yy de rn rd:ebisuicer fall l io i n n matton is also lower. Hay,er . dlu r g cester Chronicle, fallen from £6 to X 5 108. P the past week has which fell so copiously a few DEVONSHIRE.—The weather y days giving rich frui gefields are looking more than a hu7. The consequencea complete days previously. freef been t. d cut the i n the appearance of the country and thanwarm confidenttheydidin hopes a few weeks ' been atinoanfta m ovb o oty s : t , rsea d ub e ngl l ese i I in g cii h athi t le f a u nts h owers the wheat and pots dred per cent. better arntot holderscew ron: Cowley bridge), n i I a n c ea n e e yr d d.e ; now . green that were then b the meadows are corn offer the crops of spring considerable promise. fol lowedVheins mornirtg there were some refreshing showers, that the a pproaching harvest, which, indeed, has already bridge), will be of abundant yield. The natural conse hPatvien RlDlNG.—.Notwithstanding No t declined, w ' i : thst a a n s i d i n n g e v e t the commencedqir,usetconse quence iisn that YORKSHIRE,wh( al a i ti field chrEr siAc; o ls.es f Ts wheat ha t o having b e t obliged to submit to a r eduction.—Fieter Gazettp, conlilwed drought, the wheat crop is in tire condition all around ai -, and gives promise of an early 1 arvest. There is a field of al heat, ef six or seven Sores, in the parish of Southcna and adjoining the Moll and Mattleet ro,id. which is so forward as to seem likoly to be ready for the hasbeenare e ' July 16, 1811. se x l pe b c y the end t,dtoyie o h yield tuiewmaortnisth, ofa ndseven s ev eti () g a n h a U r n t edrasnat an that h a a c t It re. The crop of wheat, however, is not considered a particn. lady large one this par, generally speaking, though its condition is excellent. Neither ow s nor barley, it is be lie,ed, will reach an average; bnt they are in good order. Beats will he the roost abundant crop that there has been for a long tim' t ast. Hay is everywhere a complete fai lure; there will scarcely, we are told, be more than three quarters of a ton an acre. The turnip crop is at present in rather a critical state : should the weather be unfavor able, it will be exceedingly defective, if nt.t altogether lost, in which case the want of provender, both for cattle . arid ship, will be severely felt. The stork market is al ready feeling the effect of these apprehensions.—Hall Packet, July 12. YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING.—We have this Week bad an opportunity of taking rather an extensive slit vey of the progress of the crot s in the west riding of York, and the southern division of Lancashire. The hay harvest in these districts has become very general. The crops are exceedingly light, not more than one-third an average; and the meadows, both upland and by the sides of the rivers, will afford but little employment for either the mowers ot haymakers. The cats are hip rt in the straw and somewhat deficient in cern, but not nearly to the same extent as in the dry summer of 1826 when commercial and agricultural distress was so prevalent. The potato crop has tailed in some parts of the country, but the quality of this invaluable root will probably be generally good, and free from that ex cessive moisture which is often complained of in wet sea sons. The turnip crop is unpromising; in many fields the seed has never geiminated, and in others the fly has been very destructive. Beans are generally stunted in the straw, but tolerably well padded. The wheat crop looks uncommonly well, and will, according to present appearances, yield more than an average produce. There is scarcely a field in this part of the comatry where it is laid, there is no rust or mildew, and the verdant hue of the ears arid the straw is quite refreshing. This will be thought extraordinary, seeing that in the months of March, April, and May, there has only fallen one inch and a half of rain, while in those three months, in an average of, years; the quantity is upwards of four inches. The corn harvest will, this year, to present appearances, be two or three weeks earlier than usual. This is generally a great advantage, from the days remaining long and the sun powerful, and it may accour.t for the depreciation in the price, in our principal markets, of b ith the I.llichaelmas and Lent sown, corn. There has been some rain since Wednesday evening, but, the laud is still thirsty, and there trange a z.i. n x p o i il r t g , s u t , s t h e7 o f a a s it mi n ill d st f ora n d , s o t ,0, go od general thewish f rain r v es o t r, from o ther crops, and to the after gros , , than it will do harm to their scanty and easily secured crops of hay.—Leeds Mercury. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. Friday Evening. 'RA DESMEN'S CUP. 18 to 1 agst Best f Three 20 to 1 „ Trueboy (off) 20 to 1 „ Armytage 20 to 1 „ The Ne 11 (off) 20 to 1 „ The Caster 25 to 1 „ Brit. Tar (offers to take) 25 to 1 „ The Squire • 133 to 1 „ dickey Free (0 33 to 1 „ Whistle Binkie f e • THE LIVERPOOL T 1 ( to 1 agst The Era 7to 1 „ Aristotle Bto 1 „ Pompey 9to 1 „ Poor SolcFer 10 to 1 „ B. Yeoman (t f) 10 to 1 „ Yardley (t) 12 to 1 „ Pan 16 to 1 „ thario (t) 16 to 1 „ Queen of Tvnc (20 to 1 taken) . . . . Aristotle and Pompey have been in much request since Tuesday, and backed to win a good stake at vat iius prices.- Aristotle was yesterday backed 8 and 7 to 1 several times, and Pompey at 10 to 1 in ponies. then 9 to 1 was taken, and afterwards 8 to 1, in small au.' s ; at which latter prices we quote them to day, few inquiries being made respecting them. To-day. Poor Soldier sprung up to 9to 1, the off, rs during the week averaged 20 to 1, but he was backed to very little money at any price. at:d not a bet laid about him to-day. 33 to 1 was laid asst Mickey Free; he was b , seked yesterday to a score at 20 to 1.- Offers to-day to take 25 to about British Tar, and to hack him for £5OO each agst Truebov and Rueen of the Tyne. 500 even was laid between British Tar and Mickey Free. G OODWOOD STAKES. 6to 1 agst Franchise (uffd. 12 , o 1 agst Red Deer to take) 14 to 1 „ The Cureer 9to 1 „ Cioton Oil 20 to 1 „ Lucy Banks 10 to 1 „ Canton 20 to 1 „ Flettance filly 12 to 1 „ Parthian (t) 25 to 1 „ Puussin Parthian was hacked at 12 to 1 to a small sum, being the only horse upoii which business was done. 6to I would have been taken about Franchise. 4 to 1 agst The Cure 6to 1 „ Ithuliel 9to 1 „ Princess 10 to 1 „ Red Deer 10 to 1 „ Bay Momus THE LEGER. 15 to 1 agst Morgeth (off) 15 to 1 „ Foig- a-ballagh (offered) 25 to 1 „ Devil-to-Pay There was not a bet laid tl was backed in scores at 4 to times at 8 to 1, and Bay Mo ;.dny. The Cure, yes'erday'v 1, The Princess two or three mus in scores at 11 to 1. TATTERSALL'S.—THURSDAY. The attractions at Newmarket were not sufficient to in duce a large proportion of the usual frequenters of the room to stay away; and many who had gene there ha‘tened back, in the forlorn hope of meeting those whose absence on Monday had excited so much regret. Nothing oc curred, however, to lessen the feeling of dissatisfaction the windinz.up of the Pm - ming Rein affair had produced. In fact, " the absentees" w, re a. 'lamer us as ever, and t! - ,e complaints *ere " loud and deep" at the want of principle di.playrd by persons in whom the' fullest eon& deuce had been placed. •A wort of vague impression still remains that some of the lost sheep may be found at Li- verpool, and a tacit understandi ng existed against a publit - announcement of defaulters till after that opportunity of "coming to the post" had gone by. All delicacy will then cease, and the names of the unprincipled will be made public without scruple. The dissatisfaction which prevailed had an obvious influence on the betting - , and the buiress done was not only limited, but confined to a veil !harrow circle. - The following were the closing prices:-- THE LIVERPOOL CUP. 5 to 1 agst. Mr. Johnstene's The Fra Bto 1 „ Mr. Jacques's British Yoeman (taken to £5O) 10 to 1 ~ Lord Chesterfield's The Poor Soldier (taken) 10 to 1 Lord Eelington's Pompey (taken) 14 to 1 „ Colonel Cradoek's Paean (taken) 14 to 1 „ r. 1). Cook's Trueboy (taken) Two or three bets were laid against the Poor Soldier. at a point or two less than the quoted odds. • GOODWOOD STAKES. ( to 1 agst Mr. Wrefocd's Franohise (taken to £25) 12 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's P..rthi4n (taken) 13 to 1 „ Duke of Itchtnond's The Currier (taken) 17 to 1 „ Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks (taken) ST. LEGER. 13 to 1 „ Mr.4l. Ro*ison's 1111rpeth (taken) 14 to 1 „ Mr. Irm in's Foig-a-b-411.11) (taken) THE KING OF SAXOHY.—II is 'Majesty continues his tour through England, .visiting most of the remarkable places and sights. On Sunday last his Majesty, attended by his usual sule.,.vis:ted the city of Brist6l, and proceed ed to the Bath Had, Clifton. His Majesty after at tending Divine service at the Roman Catholic chapel, proceeded to view the various beauties of Clifton , On Monday morning he proceeded to view the steam ship Great Britain, on board which his Majesty was received by the Bight Worshipful the Mayor, and others, by whom.-his Majesty was conducted through every portion of the ship, which excited the most marired commendations from the royal personage. Bis .Majesti theu proceeded to r Leigli Court, the seat of Mr. J. P. Miles, which has' lAn . so often visited by royalty, where he viewed the superb, galleryof paintings, and partook of a &gainer. In the evening his Mr..jesty depart-A for Wales. to view the 'Dowlais ironworks, the property cf Sir J. Guest ; and alter a tour through the southern and on M onday wat2o numerou s s n r hem portion of the Princ'p , lity, arrived at Chester, whence his Majesty proceeded to this town, which he reached on Sunday, as noticed elsewhere. • meet ing of the pitmen was held on Shaclen- hill, more generaly were l‘lEpr:e p rn resent; OF P n d m o l u E r N — n:e n s known as the Black Fell. It was said that 25,000 persotii about the number at the meeting. Nearly all' the MO lately employed in the , pits of the Tyne and Wear were oer present, and each colliery was distinguished by a fl•rg.or banner, bearing upon it the name of the colliery and.a suitable inscription. Mr. Thomas Hay was called to the chair. He said,---since tbe strike, the march of intellec t has been advancing, and the people are thinking for the selves. I never saw such a host of moral - force men (tugl see assembled hereto-day. Oh ! the voice of this reee will produce a wonderful effect , and will he heard by the tyrants of the co al-office.—One of the reiolutions " That in the opinion of this meeting, the strugFritee.sn: which we are eng a g ed is one of justice and rigi " e° r7u s rn ph and based up on these p rinc iples, it cannot 110 I to t c e holy contest this meeting pledges itself to continue, , h holy contes t until our just C l a i ms are acceded to. — Tyne Mercury THR WOOL. TEAH L —It was fully expected by the graziers generally throughout the kingdom that the re duction in the duty on ,f ore ign wool imported into this country would have the effect of very considerably re ducing the price of .that staple commodity at the several wool fairs generally held at this period of the year in the agricultural districts. These forebodings, however, 00 the part of the graziers do not appear likely to be realised, At the Ilsley wool fair, which was held last week, at which upwards of 4,500 tods were pitched, and more than 4, 000 tods sold, the prices realised were far greater tban in 1843; and when it is considered that the prices obtained by the graziers for their wool at this celebrated annual mart or ! e looked upon as a fair average standard of the value of thf, important article of commerce in other districts, it doe not appear that the wool-growers have much cause for fe . r e or alarm, at. least at present. The following were,t,R„ prices obtained by the growers this year :—Teg wool, ' l l , to 325. 6d.; ewe wool,. 275. to 28s. • and mixed so,_ ° _, being about one-third part teg, 28s. to 295 . 6d. Lastxg_'; the same qualities obtained the following prices tr, 255. to 255. 6d. ; ewe, - 235. to 235. 6d. ; mixed, 2 3 5. 6 d . 245. 6d. Ever since 1838 (when wool was nearly highest) the prices have gradually declined, down to 1?7,b when it was at its lowest price. In 1838, the pric es wi V:l , were obtained by the growers at Ilsley fair were :8;7.; lows :—Teg wool, 425. to 45 5. 6d. ; ewe, 365. to 39 mixed, 40s. to 41s. Several extensive buyers fro m I°l 4 shire and other parts of the country attended the fairf made considerable purchases. At the Abing 4 lo o v"'" !ere held last week, business was exceedingly brisk, and p 0.,, from all parts of the country were present. Nearly whole of the wool hitched was purchased befor e the ci7a, of the day. The pricts obtained by the growers we r e ditto, follows, at per tod :—Teg wool, 30s. to 335; Vet" 275. to 298. ; mixen ditto., 295. to 335. .