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TH®E LIVERPOOL STANDARD. imperial Varltaintitt. He did not know whether Sir John Tyrell was authorised days a cargo of eleven hundred bales of American, princi to speak as the organ of th a t interest; but even if he were, pally dew-rotted, hemps has been shipped to Scotland, he (Sir R. Peel) would not purchase back again the con- but this is the first entire cargo ever sent out. I t is itn- HOUSE OF LORDS.--MONDAY. fidence which he was said to have forfeited by uttering the possible to predict what the export of this article will be. Lord COTTENHAM moved the second reading of the slightest expression of repentance for the course which he but there is every prospect that it will, ere long, be cue of Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. The nobl e a n d lear ne d lord had pursued. When he contrasted the condition of Eng- grcat commerce. The growth of the article in this country detailed, at some length, the proceedings that bad taken land in the winter of 1842 with its condition at the present is very great, and it is yearly increasing." place in parliament during the last few years on the sub- moment, he never would admit that he had pursued any CANADA. — Advises have been received from Montreal ject, and explained the provisions of his bill, which were other course than that which became him as a minister of to the 13th ult. The measures agreed upon by the Uni nearly similar to the measure brought forward by the the crown, and as the head of the great conservative party, ted States, to allow drawbacks on the duties upon goods present government in 1813. He was not prepared to alter the existing corn-law. He passing through New York, destined for Canada, is ren- The Bishop of LINCOLN would not oppose the bill, but had proposed it after due deliberation ; and nothing could dared nugatory by the decision of the Inspector General thought the inconveniences of the present system some- be more mischievous to the country than to be always of , Customs in Canada, that full duties must be charged what exaggerated. He was most anxious to support any tampering with such a subject. He believed that that law on all articles entering Canada that have passed through measure by which the convenience of the public might had been beneficial so far as it had prevented any increase the United States, even though imported from England. best be promoted. in the price of corn. The welfare of the proprietors of The Welland Canal was opened on the 10th ult. It is The bill was read a second time, and their lordships land did not depend on the nominal price of the quarter stated that despatches were lately received by the adjourned till Friday. of corn. if he could read to the house the accounts Governor General from the Colonial Office, stating, in which he had received in 1842 of the distress, privation, 'reply, to the address of the House of Assembly, that her HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAY. and crime which prevailed at that time in the manufac- Majesty's Government had no intention of imposing a The resolutions of Mr. WORTLEY, subjecting all rail- turing districts, he could convince the most decided ad- tax upon colonial built vessels. Sir Charles Metcalfe. way bills to the provisions of any general measure which vocate of the anded interest that it was threatened with had contradicted the rumour, that he contemplated retir might be hereafter introduced, were adupted,,with some greater danger from the continuance of that distress, pri- ing from the Government. At Montreal, on the 12th, amendments. vation, and crime, than it ever had incurred from any the banks drew on London at 103 erreal, cent., sixty days; Lord J. RUSSELL brought forward his resolutions on other cause. He knew that the decision of the house • private bills, 9 to 10 per cent., ninety P days. the general condition of the labouring classes of the would be governed by higher motives than its hopes of country. The subject, he admitted, was o f vas t ex t en t pecun i ary remuneration ; but if it were not, he should MEXlCo.—According to t h e most recent a d v i ces, t h e and of the highest importance, a n d h e a d m itt e d hi s i na - emphat i cally declare, that the state of things in 1842 committee of the M ex i can C ongress on t h e Texas no ques bility to deal with it ; but as no o th er person h a d ta k en could not have continued long without affecting most tion had report e d th at t h e l aw of the United States for it up, he felt it hi s d u ty t o b r i ng t h e quest i on f orwar d , materially the interests of land. It was said the govern- the annexation of T exas to the American Union in He regretted being obliged, am id s t conflicting views, to mea t h a d l os t th e con fid ence of its supporters without respect impairs th e , r i g h ts w hi ch M exico possesses and , bring the subje c t b e f ore t h e h ouse i n t h e way o f genera l gaining that of its opponents. If that were so, it could will maintain to th a t d epartment. Furth resolutions, embodying hi s o wn v i ews as t o th e b es t means not l ast long ; but he once more repeated, he would not, United States h av i ng di sregarded the princermorei that the ples, on of relieving the ind us t r y o f th e country f rom t h e tram - to regain the confidence which he had lost, utter one ex- which are based t rea ti es o f am i ty, commerce, and naviga mels and burdens whi c h o pp resse d it. With ou t i mprov - preasion of regret for having proposed the measures which tion, and more esp ec i a ll y o f b oundary, C ongress cons i ders ing the physic a l con diti on o f t h e peop l e , it was i mposs ibl e had induced that loss of confidence. The principles on them violated by th e U n i ted States. And, f i na l ly, that to enlarge their ment a l, or ra i se th e i r mora l, c h arac t er . wh i ch those measures were based were sound, and to the unjust usurp a ti on o f w hi ch i t i s sought to make After referring to the conditi on o f the i n d us tri ous c l asses , t h em government was prepared to adhere. They would Mexico the victi m , ma k es i t h er d uty to ta k e up arms more especially the a gr i cu lt ura l p o p u l a ti on , w h ose wages carry them into execution with deliberate caution; but, in her defence t o oppose such usurpation, and w i th the averaged only 7s. or Bs. p er wee k, th e no bl e l or d p ro - f or the protection of individuals, and for the promotion full and rightf u l d e t erm i nat i on to use all her resources ceeded to trace the causes o f th e i r p resen t con diti on , of the cause which he and Lord John Russell both had at and power to pre vent t h e annexat i on decree d b y the After referring to the r i se an d gra d ua l ex t ens i on o f th e heart, they would avoid that precipitate course which United States. It i s ev id ent that the government and national debt, a n d th e B an k R es t r i ct i on A ct o f 1797 , t h e these resolutions recommend, but which was unsanctioned people of Mexico are decidedly i n di spose d to surren d er tendency of which he m a i n tai ne d was t o d egra d e th e I a- either by prudence or by justice. Texas, and the tone of . th e p u bli c j ourna l s i s excee di ng l y bourer, he w en t on t o d escr ib e t h e or i g i n an d operat i on After Lord J. Russell had replied, Mr. S. Crawford's warlike. of the modern system of restriction and monopoly—a amendment was negatived by a majority of 253 to 33, and I Buzeros Ayaes.---Fromßuenos Ayres and Monte Video system which was supp ose d b e some t o b e of such anti- Lord J. Russell's resolutions were negatived by a majority advices to the 22d March were received in Liverpool on quits , as to be interwoven with the constitution of the of 182 to 104. Sunday. We lea rn th a t an attac k was made on C erro country, and which h a d b een t erme d protect i on to nat i ve ______„•___ b Largo by Rivera, preceded y the burnin industry. The t en d enc y o f t hi s system was, i n his opi- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. houses in the entrenchment. By the lightoff the fort fla y mes nion, to impair the efficiency of labour, and they bad The following railway bills were read a third time and the besieged were. enabled to direct a brisk fire against now arrived at that period when they must maintain the passed :—The Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth ; the the parties outside, who returned it with grape and round protection laws in their full power, or abandon them as Exeter and Crediton ; the Eastern Counties (Ely and shot. After two hours unavailing efforts to carry the vicious and unsound. Abstractedly, parliament had no Whittlesea Deviation). town, the enterprise was relinquished. Rivera's supply right to interfere with the choice of a man as to the The Soli itor-General brought up the report of the se- ;of ammunition, as well as his military stores generally, cheapest or dearest market for his labour or produce; lect committee appointed to inquire into the proceedings i had excited a st rong f ee li ng at Buenos Ayres against the but, in removin g res t r i c t ive l aws , i t was man if est l y unjust in the action of Howard v. Gossett. The repot t was read ' Brazils, whence the supply is supposed to have come. An to apply free-trade principles to the humbler and opera- by the clerk at the table. It recommends that a writ of attempt had been made at Monte Video to reinstate Mar tive classes, and to leave monopoly in operation on all error to the House of Lords aeainst the judgment of the tinez and Lamaz in the war and police departments, but articles in which individuals of great possessions and an- Court of Queen's Bench should be brought, but the corn- it was frustrated by military demonstration. Lavandera cestral honours were concerned. The noble lord then mittee are of opinion that no means should he adopted to had succeeded Bauzo as Minister of War; and Cesar referred to the origin of the corn laws and the fluctua- prevent the execution of- the verdict obtained by Mr. Diez had been appointed Chief of the Staff, in the place Cons that bad taken place in the scale, and contended Howard in the Sheriff's Court. of . followamongst other vessels were that the result of th e s y s t em h a d b een to create specula- After some discussion the report was ordered to be IcingCorreaßuenos at Buen The Ayres r ag the latest date :—Chilmark, tion and enhance the price to the consumers, without printed, and to be taken into consideration. Catherine, Aristocrat, William Pell!, Camilla, Content, benefiting the revenue. Even at present the owners and Fame,and Waterville, for Liverpool. Exchange was at occupiers of land, with a protection of 46 per cent. on HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. 4 to 44-; Six per Cent. Stock 80. Several vessels, the ordinary and common food of the country, were not amongst which we notice the British barque Sultana, Lord RADNOR moved the second reading of the Post- from Liverpool, satisfied with their position. He maintained that the rom Liverpool, the British brig Palestine, from the Office Offences Amendment Bill, the object of which was Coast of Africa, in ballast, and the brig Cestus, from argument of the rate of wages being dependent on the to regulate the practice of the Secretary of State in open-price of corn was entirely erroneous, and he felt satisfied •Hull, with a general cargo, having touched at Monte ing certain letters. Nobody . knew what . the state . ofthe that the corn laws could not be continued in their prese nt Video were not allowed entry at Buenos Ayres. What law really was, the committees had elicited no informs shape. The only suggestion he could make would be for tion • course would be adopted by the French and English autho on the subject. Lord Radnor spoke of the moral rities in thecasesot these ships (they having protested against a fixed duty, but he did not think that corn should be effects of the system, and denied that it was legal. taxed at all. At present he should be in favour of a fixed the decree) does not appear. But the French schooner of Lord STANLEY opposed the bill, and defended the cue- war Eclair, Lieut. Mosier , was immediately dispatched duty of 45., 55., or 65., as being preferable to a vanishing tom as a necessary engine of state policy. scale, commencin g a t 10 s . an d a b at i ng annua ll y until the y The House divided, when th ere appeare d f or t h e secon d for orders t o th e F renc h commodore, at Monte Video. had arrived at total repeal. The noble lord then referred to the existing p oor l aw, an d strongly urged the necessity reading, 9 ; against it, 53 ; majority, 46. of a more equitable adjustment of the law of settlement, and recommended a well-considered scheme of emigration and a more general diffusion of education. While pious men were in the present month meeting day after day to send missionaries to China and the South Seas, there were masses of their own population utterly ignorant of the common elements of the Christian faith, and sug gested the voting a sum of £150,000 in the present par liament to place our national system of education on a more extended and effective footing. The noble lord concluded by moving the first of his series of resolutions. Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved an amendment to the effect that the present time of tranquillity afforded a favourable opportunity for giving immediate attention to the claims so repeatedly urged in the petitions of the people for an extension of parliamentary suffrage. Sir J. GRAHAM was ready to admit that Lord J. Rus sell had referred to the various matters comprised in his comprehensive speech with fairness and good temper, but he complained of the unspecific nature of the resolutions. The great object of Mr. Huskisson had been the substi tution of protective for prohibitive legislation, and such was the policy of the present government. He contended that a fixed duty in corn would operat; injuriously, and in times of scarcity could not be maintained ; while, un der the present system, prices were equable and the sup ply of corn steady and regular. Protection arid improve ment in agriculture had been coincident, and the increase in the produce of the soil had been commensurate with the increase of the population. By their recent measures for the reduction of protective duties, the present govern ment had gone to the verge of throwing land out of culti vation, and masses of the agricultural population cut of employment. He admitted that there were great difficul ties in grappling with the question, as since the present 1 government had come into power the population had in creased one million and a half. The right hon. baronet then referred to various returns, for the purpose of show ing that the labouring classes, in amount of wages and command over the necessaries of life, were in a very dif ferent position from what they were a few years since. Admitting the influence of a good harvest, be thought the government was entitled to some credit for the change. The right hon. gentleman then referred to the improved position of our commercial affairs, and the large amount of capital invested in railway and other speculations. He 'disapproved of any government plan of r migration, inas much as voluntary emigration was at present going for ward fully equal to the wants of our colonies. He believed the education of the people had been of late years mate rially improved, and that the means at present adopted for the purpose were carried out in the most efficient manner. After expressing the anxiety of the government to do everything in their power to promote the physical and moral welfare of the people, he concluded by meeting the proposition of the noble lord by moving the previous question. The debate was adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The following railway bills were read a third time and passed :—The Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton ; the Chester and Holyhead ; the Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch) and Heywood and Oldham Branches Extension ; the Huddersfield and Manchester; and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction. Mr. WATSON was anxious to proceed with the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, but he was entirely in the hands of the house. (Go on.) As it appeared to be the wish of the house, he begged to move that the bill be now read a second time. Sir J. GRAIIAM.—If it was the pleasure of the house that the bill should I - e read a secon d t i me on the present occasion, lie should not oppose it. But he was bound to state that there were portions of the bill to which he had decided objections. To the principle of it he was friendly. He had not the slightest wish to impose penalties on Ro man Catholics on account of their creed. H 4, objection to the present bill was that one of its clauses went to repeal certain provisions of the Relief Act of 1829, with reference to monastic orders. The bill was then read a second time. The debate on Lord J. Russell's resolutions as to the state of the country was then resumed, and, alter speeches from several members Sir R. PEEL denied that there was any apathy in the house to the distresses of the people, and admitted that, if such apathy existed, a stronger proof could not be givers of the incompetence of the house to discharge its duty towards the country. But the absence of Lord Ashley arid other members, upon which Lord Howick had commented so severely, was not owing to apathy, but to the deep and prevailing conviction of the house that Lord John Rus-ell had not brought forward this subject in a manner likely to lead to any practical result. Ile was not going to discuss all the various measures contained in Lord John Russell's resolutions, because each of them, if justice were done, would require consi derable time for discussion. He should have thought that those measures were sufficiently numerous; but some gentlemen, following the course to which the noble lord had invited them, thought otherwise, and proposed to add to them the subject of the poor-laws and universal suffrage. Independently, however, of the number of measures contained in these resolutions, he objected to any abstract resolution upon any one of them, without knowing something of the substitute which Lord John Russell intended to provide for the present law. After making some observations on the noble lord's resolutions upon colonization and education, and after justifying the recent proceedings of government on both those subjects, be called attention to the wide difference existing between Lord John Russell and Lord Howick on the subject of the resolution on the present corn-laws. Lord J. Russell proposed a fixed duty of 45., 55., or 68. ; but Lord Howick was against all duties whatsoever, and was for a perfectly free importation of foreign corn, because he thought that nothing else would tend so much to restore a healthy condition to the labouring classes. He (Sir R. Peel) did not wish to underrate the importance of this object, but he must say that if the house should agree in these reso lutions, and should determine to communicate them in an address to the crown, it would evidently imply distrust in, and pass a censure upon, her Majesty's government. It was for the house to decide whether the government deserved such a censure. The government had relieved industry from many of its burdens, and had made greater efforts in three years to relieve the social condition of the working classes than had ever been made within the same time by any preceding administration. The improvement of the country was admitted on all hands; but some gen tlemen asserted that it was not owing to the measures of the government, but to the favourable seasons of the last few years. He admitted that the seasons had been fa vourable; but he pointed to the tariff, and to the remis sion of duties which he and his colleagues had made, as a proof that they had not been remiss in the discharge of their duties. If the house were determined to enter upon the discussion of the corn-laws, it had better do so when the motion for their repeal was regularly brought before it by its able and consistent advocate, Mr. Villiers, for a partial discussion of them could be productive of no ad vantage. With regard to Lord John Russell's resolution for the abolition of protective duties, he believed that his object would be more successfully obtained by pursuing the cautious and gradual course proposed by her Majesty's government. In pursuing their cautious and gradual course, the government, according to Sir John Tyrell, bad forfeited the confidence of the agricultural interest, SPAIN.—The Paris papers of Saturday contain the HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRI DAY . letter of Don Carlos t o hi s son, w i t h his formal abdication The York and North Midland R a il way (B r idli ng t on of the rights of hi s crown i n f avour of the latter. The documents are dated Bourges, 18th May. " From this Branch) Bill ; the York arid Scarborough Railway Devia- day," says he, " I assume the title of Count de Molina, lion Bill ; the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Bill ; the which it is my intention to bear hereafter." The Times Bristol and Exeter Railway Branches Bill ; the Hull and also gives the reply of his Royal Highness Charles Louis Selby Railway (Bridlington Branch) Bill; the Bradford, the Prince of tbe Asturias, expressing his obedience and London, and Birmingham Railway Bill; the Dunstable submission, and declaring his determination to assume, and London and Birmingham Railway Bill, were each henceforth, the title of Count of Monternolin. The read a third time, and passed. prince, under the date May 22, published a manifesto ad- A long discussion took place as to whether the debate dress to the inhabitants of Spain, disclaiming any inten on the privilege question (Howard v. Gossett) should be Lion of casting amongst Spaniards a brand of bloodshed, taken into consideration then or on Monday week ; but and setting forth the policy under which he would govern ultimately the latter day was carried. if he had the privilege. " 1 cannot forget," says he, Sir J. GRAHAM then moved the second reading of the " what I owe to my personal dignity, nor sacrifice the New Colleges (Ireland) Bill. dignity of my august family; but I assure you from this Lord J. MANNERS rose to move the rejection of this moment, Spaniars, that it shall not depend on me if the bill. He rested his opposition to it on the ground that it dissension I deplore be not for ever extinguished. There made no proviion for the religious instruction of the students to be brought together withi n th e wa ll s of these is no sacrifi ce compat ibl e w i th my honour and my consci ence to which I am not di sposed in order to put a conchs new colleges. if it p asse d i n it s p resent s h ape, it would sion to civil di scor d an d to hasten the reconciliation of be a curse, and no t a b oon t o I re l an d. H e move d that it the royal family. U n d er every circumstance I depend be read a second ti me th a t d a y s i x mon th s. on your sense of right, u pon our love for th Lord SANDON observed, th a t if it were to b e supposed royal fa mily, and correct on the Assistance of Divine Providence.e satisfied with ever of he could not soil of , his assent to it ; b u t as h e did no t cons id er hi mself pledged y ou loyalty and amy countryff I wish only to b e surroun d e d b y ection." to support it in ev er y particular because he voted f or the CHEAP POSTAGE IN IN DIA .—II i s a pos i t i ve fact, that second reading of it, he wou ld support i t i n the pre sent stage, in the hope s o f ma ki ng suc h a l terations in the the natives of the nor th- wes t carry the spirit of economy to next as would r en d er it more per f ect. He did not consi- se such a degree of i n t ens it y , t h at ten letters are often der the bill as a s y s t em o f " go dl ess education ;" on the sent under one cover , w hi c h d oes not weigh more than of contrary, it was a bill on th e r i g h t roa d of legislation for the tenth all the letters dispatched f rom a town d ur i ng the day, is, Sir J. GRAH AM d e f en d e d hi mself against the charge of according to the l as t pr i v il ege, conveyed 100 miles for half having propounded i n thi s bill a gigantic scheme of an anna, or l ess th an t h e tenth of a penny each. What is "godless education." He was certain that no measure the penny postage to this ?—Allen's Indian Mail. which provided theological instruction for the students in JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC. —The re these colleges by a State endowment, would be accepts- port lately presented by the engineer, Garella, to the ble to the people of Ireland; and he thought that by es- minister of foreign affairs, contains precise information tablisbing a Roman Catholic college in the south of Ire- relative to the Isthmus of Panama, which that engineer land, a Presbyterian college in the north of Ireland, and had been charg-al to explore, relative to the cutting it a Protestant college in Dublin, a fresh stimulus would be through. The chain of the Cordilleras sinks in the isth given to those unhappy religious disturbances which dis- taus for a distance of about 40 kilometres, so as to pre tracted Ireland too much at present. He then proceeded sent several rising grounds of scarcely 120 kilometres. to vindicate the scheme which the Government bad de- Our canals habitually clear more considerable elevations. vised for separating religious from scientific education in The Rio Chagres could aliment the canal, but a tunnel these new institutions, and to show that no injury had would be required 5,350 metres in length, with a height accrued to the students in similar institutions in Scot- of 30 metres above the water line, and 37 metres from the land and Ireland from that separation. He had himself bottotn of the canal. Should the tunnel not be made, a been educated at Christ Church, Oxford ; and the course cutting of 84 metres, with six locks, would be required. which had been pursued whilst be was a member of that The cutting would be six kilometres. At the extremity University had been most extraordinary. At that time of the canal next to Europe, the course of the river students, on their ad m i ss i on , were not examined as to Chagres would be used, and the end would be in the Bay what they knew, bat as to what they believed. They were of Lenion, near Chagres. On the other ocean it would called upon to subscribe to certain articles of belief; but be impossible to come out at Panama. M. Garella found for the two years and a half during which he was at 18 kilometres west of Panama, at Vaca de Monte, an an- Christ Church, with th e except i on of a compulsory at- chorage of small extent, but safe, where it would be easy tsndance at chapel, he had never been called upon to at- to bring the southern extremity of the canal. The dis tend the lectures of any theological professor—he had tance between the two seas:would be 76 kilometres. The never received any religious instruction whatsoever—he expense would be 130 ,000,000 f. and M. Garella calculates had never heard a single sermon. He had already stated that with a toll of 10f. the ton, the canal would produce, that he did not contemplate any alterations in this bill at all expenses deducted, an interest of five per cent. on the variance with its principles; but there were one or two capital laid out.—Paris paper. alterations in its details which he thought would improve it, and which he would therefore briefly mention to the - House. The first change which he had proposed to make was with regard to the visitorial power of the Crown. He had learned that the crown could not delegate its visitorial power to any person but the Keeper of the Great Seal, unless authority to delegate it were given by statute. He therefore proposed to insert in the bill a clause, giving the Crown a power of appointing visiters. These visiters would have authority to inquire into any abuse which might rise up in these institutions, and to apply an effective remedy thereto. He had already said that he could not recommend the House to make any en dowment for any theological professorship or for any re ligious attendance at these colleges. He thought, how ever, that there ought to be attached to each of these new colleges a hall or halls in which religious instruction might be given to young men by pastors of their own religion ; and lie, therefore, should not be indisposed to add to that clause of the bill which gave increased facili ties for making religious endowments a proviso which would give faculties to the erection of such halls. He then adverted to the memorial of the Roman Catholic Bishops, which, he said, contained several demands, to which it was impossible for him to give his assent. Sir ROBERT INGLIS felt himself called upon to repeat, because he had been taunted with having preferred, the charge, that this bill was a gigantic scheme of godless education. He had not, however, accused Sir James Graham of considering it as such, nor of having intro duced it forthe sake of giving encouragement to infidelity, and therefore be thought that Sir James Graham might have spared the gentle reproof and the pointed appeal which he had made to him upon that subject. He did not think that Sir James Graham's defence of this mea sure on the ground that a similar scheme of instruction had been successful in Scotland and Ireland would carry conviction with it to the people of England. Sir James was mistaken, if he wished the House to consider that the state of things to which he had referred as prevailing at Oxford in his time, prevailed there now. If it did pre vail then, it ought not to have prevailed, and certainly was different from anything which prevailed during his (Sit R. Inglis's) residence in Oxford. He declined to enter upon a description of his own university career, but wished that the new colleges in Ireland might enjoy such advantages, both for classical and scientific knowledge, and also for religious instruction, as the University of Oxford. He agreed with Mr. O'Connell in thinking that these new institutions would be deficient in that species of education which was the only legitimate one for an immortal being—education in the duties which every man had to perform, and in the principles on which those duties rested. He contended that theological instruction ought to be made the basis of all other education ; and as that was entirely overlooked in this bill, he must give it his decided opposition. The debate was adjourned. IRELAND, DIOCESE OF DOWN AND MAYNOOTH.—The petition from the clergy of:the diocese of Down has been forwarded to the House of Lords. It contains, exclusive of the bishop, the signatures of no less than one hundred and forty-seven of the clergy of that diocese. So much for Sir Robert's assertion about the clergy. BELFAST AGAINST MAYNOOTH.—The petition from the town of Belfast against the Maynooth bill contained 12,901 signatures ; of these, were twenty-eight clergy of the Established Church, twenty Presbyterian ministers, three deputy-lieutenants, and two other magistrates. So much for one town in Ireland. THE IRISH COLLEGES.—Last week the Irish Romish Bishops waited upon the Lord Lieutenant with their me morial against these colleges, when his E xce ll ency sa id the governme n t wou ld pay the utmost attention to sug gestions coming from such a quarter, and that no serious obstacle was likely to arise on any point but one—the vesting of appointments in trustees. DOUBLE MURDER. —On the 14th ult., in daylight, at the end of the town of Ballyconnell, Mr. Gallaher, under agent to Colonel Enery, was shot on the middle of the road, near his house. H is lifeless remains being taken to his habitation had such an effect on his unfortun ate wife that she died on the following Sunday, leaving three or phans to lament this double murder. THE SPLIT AMONGST THE REPEALERS.--This affair came to a crisis on Monday, and as usual ended in the trurnph of Ould Ireland as incarnated in the person of Mr. O'Connell, and in the breaking down of the spirit of the Nation. Mr. Davies wept and Mr. O'Connell shed tears in abundance and forgave, and so Young Ireland having promised to be a good boy, Ould Ireland shook bands with him in a kind and parental fashion. ---• THE IRISH COURT: LEVEE.—On Friday last, the an niversary of the liberation of the Irish agitators from pri son, the business of Dublin was completely at a stand still, and O'Connell sat in state in the throne-room of the Rotunda to receive the addresses of the corporate bo dies, the nobility, and the gentry of his peculiar dominion. At four o'clock, a.m., says the Dublin Mail," the country people began to pour into town in great numbers ; and from nine o'clock until twelve, the different trades, pre ceded by bands of music, for the most part seated in large vans, drawn by six horses each, and accompanied by ban ners, great and small, with several pike- men—performing the parts of riashals—marched from their several halls and lodge-rooms to the general rendezvous at the Rich mond Bridewell. There the procession was formed and proceeded with all the discipline of a perfect drill, through out the several streets laid down in the programme. What the number assembled on the occasion was we have no means of ascertaining ; but some idea may be formed from this fact—that marching four abreast,and in much more ra pid time than th.it in use with regular soldiers, t hey took one hour and seven minutes to pass this office. We are bound in justice to say, that they were, for the most part, athle tic, fresh young men —perfectly respectable in their ap pearance, and well clad—presenting a very formidable array as the raw materials of an efficient army, ready, doubtless, to " be up and at us," whenever it suits the purpose or the caprice the vanity or the hate—of Field Marshall—Daniel O'Connell•--either to elevate himself one step higher on " ambition's ladder," or to enact another slaughter—for the love of God—similar to that of St. Bartholomew." There were forty bands in the procession, every one of which forms part of the staff of a temperance society, Soon after twelve o'clock O'Con nell arrived at the rotunda, and was received with loud cries of " Long life to your Irish Majesty." The mockery of royal state then took place in the presentation of a multitude of addresses. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting, yesterday week, Mr. O'Connell said he came there to denounce the New College Bill from end to end. He spoke authoritatively in condemning this execrable bill. They were all united on the point ; there was no dissen sion among them. He admitted the value of education. The foulest part of the penal code was that it prevented education ; but be saw no redeeming quality in the new FOREIGN AND COLONIAL, UNITED STATES, &.c The steamship Hibernia arrived here on Saturday last, having accomplished the passage from Boston in fo - urteen days and a half, having been detained by the ice. The tone of the American press is pacific and con3i liatory, and it is said that President Polk wishes Mr. Calhoun to visit this country to treat " both on the Oregon territory and a commercial treaty on the basis of recipocity and equal duties." The Albany Senate had passed the bill incorporating a company for the purpose of establishing lines of steam boats between New York and Liverpool and New York and Havre. The capital of the company is two million dollars, and it is intended to build seven ships, of 2,000 tons burthen, to form two separate semi-monthly lines to Liverpool and the Continent. It is expected that it will require eighteen months to complete the ships for sea . State securities had improved considerably. There was a better feeling manifested for Pennsylvania funds. There is still some question whether she will meet her interest in full in August without the help of checks, which will be issued to be held temporarily. The Express, of the 15th ult., says " Within a few bill, except merely that it recognised the imp education. He sought nothing for the Cat hol would not concede to the Perorst tnts. He dia not un derstand mixed education. EC= 'Lion, if religious at all, must he exclusive. A more at ocio is bill was never at temptel 1 would not bid at a 1 for it. A fouler at tempt at ' , II:Ai:7 profligacy was never made. It was a bill to bribe and corrupt. It was replete with horrors and abominations. He pronounced his empliutical denuncia tion of it. It was altogether a graft from the French system of Louis Philippe. He read the resolutions agreed to by the Roman Catholic bishops at their synod held in Dublin the previous week. He thanked the Catholic bishops for the explicit manner in which they had con demned this abominable bill. Education, he insisted, must be religious ; any other might corrupt, but could not enlighten. He would go to London, if necessary, to oppose the bill. He objected to every part of it except the money part. As to Trinity College, he repeated his opinion that the Protestants ought to have it to them selves. He wished the Catholics to have one also for themselves. Under present circumstances, Trinity Col lege proved a sort of snare to many Catholics, who were tempted to recant by the good things it had to offer. As to Lord J. Russell, his political hardihood—not to say impudence —was unmatched. He was himself the first repealer; for it was his unjust partial Reform Bills which had first greatly excited the repeal agitation. No living statesman had done such injustice to Ireland as Lord John Russell. They were all agreed about the bill. The government refused to alter the bill ; this he knew ; but they would all unite and rally—all Ireland together—to defeat the atrocious measure. UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, MAY 28.—1 n a congregation held this day the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor of Di vinity.—The Rev. James Morris, Brasenose College.— Bachelor of Arts,—George Seton, Exeter. • PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. T. Davy, to the curacy of Tideswell, Derbyshire.—Rev. J. Y. Booker, to the curacy of Hathersage.—Rev. J. Glen dall, M.A., to the office of morning preacher in the Foundling Chapel, in the room of Archdeacon Robinson, who is appointed to the mastership of the Temple.—Rev. T. G. Hall, M.A., to a prebendal stall in the cathedral church Jf St. Paul.—Rev. D. Haigh, M.A., to the in cumbency of Trinity Church, Halifax, vacant by the re signation of the Rev. F. Russell.—Rev. G. E. Winslow, to the rectory of Alexton, Leicestershire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Lord Berners.—Rev. R. N. Wood, M.A., to the curacy of St. Martin, Salisbury.— Rev. J. I. Smith, M.A., to the vicarage of Marsworth, Bucks.—Hon. and Rev. J. Gifford, M.A., to the curacies of Grimley and Hallow.—Rev. M. Wright ; curate of Sun derland, to the perpetual curacy of Ingleton, near Stain drop.—Rev. John William Devlyn, 8.A., curate of Bod ney, to the, vicarage of Stanford, Norfolk, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George Miller, M.A., prebendary of Ely. M4YNOOTll.—Within the last two or three weeks, an address to the Archbishop of Canterbury, praying him to lead the opposition in the House of Lords against the Maynnoth grant, has been signed by three hundred and sixteen clergymen of the diocese of London. Similar ad dresses are in course of signature in various parts of the country. So much for the agitation against the measure being " a dissenting movement." The Rev. T. S. Escott, the suspended vicar of Gedney, in Lincolnshire, " has addressed to the clergy a statement of the expenses in the late burial case of ' Martin v. Es cott," and of the subscription raised by the fifteen thou sand clergymen of the Church of England to relieve the burden of that trial," in which be says—" The sum ex pended by the defendant in costs, &c., is £lOl7, and the sum subscribed by the clergy. as far as it has reached the hands of the defendant, is £137 ss. 6d , being the muni ficent sum of rather more than twopence farthing, but not quite twopence-halfpenny each." CHURCH Ex•rENstoN.—The annual meeting of the incorporated society for building, &c. churches was held on the 26th ult. The report stated that the applications for aid during the year just completed was 192, exceeding the number received in any preceding year, with the exception of the years 1840 and 1844. The number of grants voted has been 140. Of these no less than 61, it appears, have been for the building of new churches and chapels; a remarkable fact, deserving of great attention. The remaining 79 grants were—for rebuilding, with en largement, 19 ; for simple enlargement, 28 ; and for re arrangement of seats and internal improvements, by which increased accommodation has been obtained 32. The amount of churchroom provided by the grants thus made during the past year is, it appears, sufficient for 42,800 persons; and of these sittings 36,196 will be free of ex pense, which is a larger number by above 1000 than has been provided in any preceding year. Thus it is evident that nearly six•sevenths of this number are free and unap propriated. Last year it appears that more than four fifths of the whole additional churchroom provided was made free, and this year not less than 25 of the new churches, containing accommodation for 11,813 persons, will be wholly free and unappropriated. The report ststes the important financial fact, that in its anxiety to aid all the cases brought before it, the society has rendered itself Fahle for the sum of £4019 2s 6d beyond its present means ; the amount of outstanding grants on the 31st of March last being £59,432, while the sum at its di•p-sal was only £55,382 17s. 6d., and that the balance against the society has been increased by the grants made at the last meeting to upwards of £6,000. Of the increasing demands upon the society's funds, the report observes that the annual average amount of grants voted in the seven years ending in 1831 was only £12,192; while in the seven years ending in 1838, it had increased to £16,647; and in the seven years ending on the 31st of March last, it has amounted to £21,600 per annum. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland commenced its sit tings on Thursday week, in the New-hall, Edinburgh, the Marquis of Bute presiding as Lord High Commis sioner. Dr. Alexander Hill was unanimously appointed Moderator. The sittings of the General Assembly of the Free Church commenced the same day, in the hall at Cannon -mills, and Dr. M'Farlane, of Greenock, was ap pointed Moderator. The contributions to the five schemes of the church and college were £82,398 Is. 2d., an in crease of upwards of £50,000 compared with the year preceding. The Moderator, in his opening address, de nounced the Maynooth Bill, and called upon all Protes tants to unite against the Church of Rome, whose pro gress in every country he thought most alarming. A petition against the bill was carried by a large majority. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT.—HOWARD v. Gros- SETT.--The issue to assess the amount of damages on a judgment delivered by the Court of Queen's Bench on the above case terminated in an award of £2OO to the plaintiff. COMPLIMENT TO THE IRISH BAR.—In the case of Viscount Dungannon v. Smith, Lord Lyndhur,t, at the request of all the judges, intimated to Mr. Napier, one of the counsel engaged in the case, the high sense enter tained by the H ouse of Lords of the ability with which he argued. Such a compliment is, we believe, unprece dented. SUMMER CIRCUITS. —Norfolk Circuit: Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams.—Home Circuit: The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (Sir N. C. Tindal), and Mr. Justice Coleridge.— Oxford Circuit: The Right Hon. Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Patteson.—Midland Circuit : The Lord Chief Baron (Sir F. Pollock), and Mr. Justice Maule.— West ern Circuit: Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Baron Platt.— Northern Circuit: Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice Cresswell.—North and South Wales and Chester: Mr. Baron Parke, North Wales, and Mr. Justice Coltman, South Wales; to meet at Chester.—Mr. Justice Wight man will remain in town. SHIPS' APPRENTICES.—A question having been raised respecting the power of magistrates to cancel indentures under the Merchant Seamen's Act, the Commissioners of Customs have obtained the following joint opinion of Sir W. Follett, Sir F. Thesiger, and Mr. Godson :—" We are of opinion that the parties to an indenture of appren ticeship cannot by mutual consent cancel the indenture, without the consent, or in the absence of the registrar of seamen, or of Cie collector or comptroller of the Customs. We think that the powers heretofore possessed by jus tices of the peace to discharge an apprentice in case of misconduct of the master, are not affected by the provi sions of the statute 7 and 8 Vic., cap 112. BLOW AT GRETNA GREEN. —The first clause of Lord Brougham's Bill, " for amending and declaring the law of marriage," declares that after the Ist of January next, no marriage solemnized in Scotland shall be valid, either in Scotland or any other part of the United Kingdom, or of the dominions belonging thereto, unless both the parties were born in Scotland, or had had their most usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for three weeks next preceding such marriage; "any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.' The bill also proposes to enact that all children who are legitimate by the law of Scotland, shall he deemed to be so in all parts of the United Kingdom ; and, further, that all marriages and divorces valid by the law of Scotland, shall be deemed to be so in all other parts of the United Kingdom. The Bill finally declares that all persons forging marriage cer tificates are to be liable to transportation for life. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. On Thursday, the Birkenhead and Manchester line was rejected by the Standing Orders Committee. LIVERPOOL AND BURY LINE.—The committee on this line adjourned on Saturday to yesterday, after examining a number of witnesses from this town and other places, as to the sufficiency of the traffic, &c. NEW RAILWAY.—We know of a most important line in progress, in combination hctween the London and Bir mingham and Great Western, and another traversing a most populous district, and affecting all the great compa nies.—Raitivoy Herald. The proposed bridge across the Tweed, for the connec tion of the North British and Newcastle Berwick Rail ways, will be seven hundred and twenty yards in length, one hundred feet above high water mark, and will cost, inclusive of a viaduct on the south side, £95,200. MR. HUDSON. —Of the many railway promoters who now throng the committee-rooms of the House of Com mons, Mr. George Hudson is unquestionably the most successful. Up to Friday he had so far succeeded in not fewer than thirteen bills, while in one only had he been defeated ! The success of the Newcastle and Berwick over the Northumberland (Atmospheric) is perhaps the most decided of Mr. Hudson's victories.--Railway Re cord. NEW RAILWAY TO LIVERPOOL.—II is rumoured that a line is proposed from Blackburn through Chorley and Ormakirk to Liverpool, and that this meets with the c,,n currence of the North Union and Liverpool and Man chester Railway Companies. In the case of a collision on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, last week, between a luggage train and an engine, which did not involve any sacrifice of life or limb, or pro perty, a fine of £5 was imposed upon the engineman, by the magistrate at the New Bailey, and the fireman was discharged. RAILWAYS AND THE INCOME TAX.—The speculators in railway shares have been somewhat startled by a clause in the income-tax papers just issued, which enumerates the profits made by " b u yi ng an d sell i ng shares in rail. ,ways among the items of income. Some who have made their thousands during the railway mania will find this a most inconvenient clause. RAILWAY COMMITTEES.—It is understood that not much under £50,000 has been expended in the comroitTee on the rival Newcastle and Berwick and Northumberland Railways, and that in more than one of the committees now sitting the expenses cannot fall short of from £l,OOO to £1,500 per day ; these committees in few cases sitting for less than ten days or a fortnight, and many for five or six weeks. COAL IN LONDON.—Mr. Pease, who owns most ex tensive coal fields in the Stockton and Darlington Railway district stated in his evidence on the London and York Railway that, at the charge of three farthings per ton per mile, which be considered remunerative, he could deliver his coal at the London terminus for 21s. per ton—viz., 6s. the original cost and 15s. expenses—whereas it now cost from 28s. to 325. He said he had told the projectors of the London and York line that he could ensure them 5 per cent. upon their capital by traffic in coal only, or be was willing to pay them £250,000 or £300,000 for the privilege of carrying what coals he liked on their line. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—The follow ing terms are said to be those offered by Mr. Hudson to this company, and accepted by the directors, subject to the sanction of the shareholders :-10 per cent. per annum on the £lOO shares : 10 per cent. on the £4O shares, al lowing the outstanding unpaid amount on these shares to remain uncalled for five years. dating from May, 1844; 5 per cent. at present on the £3O shares, but 10 per cent. after the expiration of two years, whether the lines for which these shares were raised shall he made or.not. He further proposes to purchase the £lOO shares at £250 at the end of five years, and the £4O shares at £lOO when the £35 uncalled for is paid up. GENERAL MISCELLANY: The Lieut. Governor of the Isle of Man is so ill that little hope is entertained of his recovery. A part of Dublin -street, Edinburgh, under which la bourers are excavating the tunnel from Scotland-street to Princes -street, fell in on Thursday. The Harlestone Association for the Protection of Pro perty, regularly keeps bloodhoundefor the purpose of de tecting sheep-stealers. It is rumoured that the Parliamentary session will close about the middle of July, and that her Majesty desires that such should be the case. Mr. Austin, Queen's counsel, stated that strawberries were sent from Cologne to Manchester, and that water cresses were imported by the ton ! Messrs. Penn and Son, engineers, Greenwich, have re ceived orders from the King of the French to construct a pair of engines, with the screw propeller, for a new iron yacht, building in France. A London cabman has been committed for manslaugh ter, for having run over and killed a man named Holt by a light cart, which the cabman was driving at a furious rate. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against Dr. Hunter, a London physician, for having caused the death of a young woman through improper treatment. The doctor has disappeared. - - According to the report issued on Wednesday, there were 8,922 petitions against the Maynooth Bill, signed by 1,121,470 persons. There had been no petition in favour of the grant since the last report. On Wednesday last some workmen found, in a cleft of a transept of the Glasgow Cathedral, a stuffed fish with a ring in its nose, which is supposed to have lain there at least 300 or 400 years. Mr. Emerson Tennent, it is said, has been appointed to succeed Sir Colin Campbell as Governor of Ceylon. Lord Chichester, son of the Marquis of Donegal, is likely to succeed Mr. Tennent in the representation of Belfast. A fellow named Norton is in custody in London, charged with a most brutal attempt to murder his wife on Monday night last, by beating her on the head with a poker. The poor woman lies in a hopeless state. A young lady at Crediton, Devonshire, Miss Ann Par. tridge, destroyed herself a few days ago by swallowing oxalic acid. The act was induced by nervous depression caused by an improper assault committed upon her by a young man now undergoing imprisonment for the offence. CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—Last week a spark from the en gine on the Birmingham and Derby Railway fell upon some straw in a carriage attached, in which were twenty pigs. The carriae wa set on r, and all the pis were rendered unfit for sale s ; five were so much injured that the owner killed them. SUSPENSION OF A CLERGYMAN.—On Saturday, the Court of Arches sentenced the Rev. John Jones, vicar of Halrsowen, near Birmingham, for tao years to be de prived from doing duty, and from the receipts of the emoluments of the rectory for the space of two years, and condemned in all the costs, for improper conuuct. OUR WOODEN WALLS.—The naval force of Great Bri tain consists of 680 ships of war, carrying from 1 to 120 guns each. Of this number, there are 125 armed steam vessels constructed on the most approved principles. This immense fleet employs in time of peace 23,000 able-ho lied seamen, 2,000 stout lads, and 94 companies of Royal Ma- EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—OD Tuesday &at a young man and woman who had hired an apartment the previous evening at a public-house in Cross-street, Lea ther-lane, London, attempted to commit suicide by swal lowing oxalic acid. The poison proved fatal to the wo man, and she died in a few minutes after she had taken it. Her lover, for such he turns out to be, survives, as the poison did not take effect upon him. FREE TRADE CONSISTENCY.-It is wonderful how free traders wish the principle of free trade to be applied in every case except to the particular article in which they deal. Our contemporary, The Tyne Mercury, is a speci men of the genus. He wishes free trade in corn, free trade in sugar, and free trade in we don't know what be sides ; but there is one thing should not be touched and that is coal, because, we presume, the price of that ar ticle affects the pocket of himself or some of his friends. A man who had been entrapped into poaching on Prince Albert's grounds, was last week sentenced at Windsor, after conviction on the evidence of the Prince's keepers, to four months' imprisonment —a sentence as unjust as il legal. The Prince himself appears to have thought so, for after the man had been imprisoned a day or two, his Royal Highness transmitted to the proper authorities the amount of fine and expenses (above £10) and the captive was forthwith released. BITE OF AN ADDER.—On Tuesday a youth named Hesketh, in crossing the fields from Hampstead, was sud denly bitten in the lower part of the leg by an adder, which lay concealed in the grass. The youth took no no tice of the occurrence for some time, when his leg began to swell most alarmingly, causing acute pain ; he was in stantly sent home by his employer in a cab, when medi cal aid being obtained the effect of the poison was neu tralized, and the youth is gradually recovering. Ala. C. MATHEWS AND HIS CREDITORS.—On Satur day week a dividend of Is. Bd. in the pound was declared under the estate of Mr. C. Mathews, arising from a por tion of his professional earnings being set aside for the creditors. The debts proved amount to upwards of £6,000. The payment of a part of Mr. Mathews's in come jointly with his wife's will be continued, and now that the debts have been ascertained the creditors will be paid as the funds are placed in the hands of the official assignee. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, on board the sloop Jane, Mrs. Skelton, wife of Robert Skelton, master of the vessel, became the unconscious cause of the death of her youngest son, a lively infant of ten months, who was playing upon the bed in the cabin, while she was at tending to her domestic duties, when the bow of her cap string caught the trigger of a loaded fowling piece which had been hung up in the cabin, and caused the instarita• neous discharge of its contents upon her smiling babe, who only lived for about half an hour.—Hull Herald. PROCESSION OF THE HOST IN ENGLAND.—On Sunday week was revived at Nottingham, the idolatrous popish ceremony of elevating the host, and carrying it in pro cession. This (as the ministering priest did not fail to tell his hearers,) is the first attempt of the kind made in Eng land since the reformation. The occasion of this shame ful proceeding, was the opening of a large chapel in that town, and the solemnization was pro hac vice, performed within the chapel, but it will not long remain in obscurity. It will soon take the air. The affair is minutely de scribed, even in Conservative Journals, as a " grand Roman Catholic ceremony." DISTRESSING ACCIDENTS FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE-ARMS.—On Friday last a youth named Crouch went out with a fowling-piece in the neighbour hood of Sand with, Cumberland, and by some unaccounta ble circumstance the gun acc id entally went off, and the con. tents lodging in his head, he expired almost immediately. On the same night, and in the same neigh bon rhood, a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Jenkins, aged 14 years, took up a powder flask, which she imprudently took near the can dle, when a spark from the latter ignited the powder in the flask, which :exploded, sadly mutilating the hand of the young lady. Her face is very much burnt, and it is not yet ascertained whether her sight is lost or not. On Saturday she was extremely ill, and may be said to be in a very dangerous state. SPIRITS. —It appears from a parliamentary return that the total quantity of foreign brandy retained for home consumption in Great Britain amounted, in 1844, to 1,007,527 gallons, against 1,023,219 in the year 1843; and the whole quantity of geneva, or foreign gin, to 13,119 gallons, against 12,448 gallons in 1843 (impe r i a l measure. ) In 1841 th e consumption of brandy was only 494,716 gallons, since which period it has gradually risen to 1,000,000 gallons per annum. On the other hand, the consumption of foreign gin has decidedly fallen off; for, when as there were 149,302 gallons retained for home consumption in 1814, it appears that at present the con sumption is only about 1-12th of that quantity. The quantity of proof spirits distilled during the year 1844 amounted--in England, 10. 5,433,813 gallons, paying a duty of X 3,225,155 ; and in Scotland, 8,321,306 gallons, paying a duty of X 1,085,873. June 3, ISIS, FOREIGN SEEDS.—From and after the Ist of June, tb' duties now chargeable upon the importation of the follorov, ing foreign seeds into this country will cease, viz., for t; ty gardenani seed ü b n o e n n n u e m t , er c a o t l e e d h ) i c l u e n n3 t , i ecs lettuce,min fe l t i l n u s g e r e ec d rack, and seed, lupine, maw, millet, parsley, quince, shrub or tr'', and worm. DECREASE OF MARRIAGES.—It is a curious his f ac t tha t the number of marriages in England and Wales jo greatly decr ease d o f late years. though the populati on / annually increasing. Thus, in 1833, there were 120,1; marriages in England and Wales ; i n 1834, 121.8, 84 ; i tt 1835, the number fell more than 2.000, being 119. 5 v n ': 1836 they r ose aga i n to 120,849 ; but in the 1011047 rt year d ecrease d more than 8,000 being only 112,72 ho i ' 1 838 there we re 113,123 marr i ages; in 1839, 116'''tiat and in 1840, 115 , 5 48. The number of burials in 1837, la 336,994 ; in 1838, 292,650 • in 1839, 286,855; 2° ' ai 1840, 304.407. Th e num be r o f b apt i sms i n the latr" year was 364,440, some 5,000 fewer than in 1823. ter CONDITION OF LABOURERS.—A case a t the sessions gives some insight into the mode in which lo cultural lab o u rers are " managed. " The ample° ji farmer beener by y " t h e parish allotted" at vestry,th e beginning a t ll three of last winter e riv l : o. 9s p AO wages, and he h a d so wor k e d f or hi m till a f ew tfe back. Th ree s hilli ngs per week was the price pu t on at,• A single m en at t h e sa i d " allotment. " —One of t h e ni t gistrates thought such wages temptations to crim, 4 o : o 4 , was not enough for a man to live on, and he was on r t that or the poorhouse.—Complainant :—" I'd r atberW e tet • at low wages t h an go i nto the house. " —Ma elstt4l;. " There is no wonder at workhouses and gaols being 1 1 00 you drive p eo pl e to crime—you hold out a temP` to it." • betU Moans; LAL.—The services o f thi s diating ll6l .„„: moonshee, who, it will be recolle c t e d, was the chief lie strument of effecti ng th e restoration of the cant lo6 44 ati tamed by Akb ar Kh an, have been honourably recogura'j by the East India Company. On his return to Inn' s . donation of 15,000 rupees will await his acceptanee;,„ addition to a personal allowance of 6,000 rupees Per Airt bs ' num, commencing from the date of his quitting, „ a a,' nistan. He is already in the receipt of an al 10115 ,.,," 0 .( amounting to 3,810 rupees annually, and this he will : fa . tinue to enjoy so long as he shall remain without tro v ,; - 0 1,, meta -employment.- - The additional and larger ner s ",,d o ' allowance is granted absolutely, and will be drawn in t te dition to the emoluments of any public emplo'rn en . which his talents and character may recommend 1 11 °' Allen's Indian Mail. Two OXFORD S TUDENTS ' D ROWNED.— O n T uesda evening, James Frederick Ede, 8.A., scholar, sod m op ward Harris, commoner, proceeded in two light skilfa et the Cherwell, as f ar as. Islip, where th e y w er e to hav e T a a two fellow collegians. They did not appear at the P' appointed, and search being made for them• w and . t 11 .. b, two miles of Oxfo r d the t wo b oats were f oun d, o ne wi ars4 broken oars a n d one d ou bl e d up. I t i s supposed tbat,9ba having brok en hi s oar , h a d j o i ne d hi s companion 1n.t00.,9 other boat, a n d th a t, th e n i g ht b e i ng stormy, d ar k n ess i 0 around them, and the stream rapid, they l' ° „„ some cause or other, being unable to avoid a tree, Pr ; (4 jecting parti a lly across t h e r i ver, were upset ; ands the water being ve r y de e p, M r . Ed e , una bl e to sw i m , and unfortunate compan i on t ry i ng to ass i st hi m, b o th wei t drowned. The bodies were found next day. Ale RARE COPY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.—At a 5 last week of a po r ti on o f a no bl eman ' s library, at Flet e h, 0 er's rooms, Pi cca dill y , an e di t i on o f t h e H o l y Sail: ol 4 % a of exceeding r ar ity was so ld. It i s t h us d escr ib e d in,,i da catalogue :—" H o ly B i bl e , i n w hi c h i s contayne d the '-'„to and Newe Testament, t ru ly an d p ure l y t rans l a ted h i rs English by Thomas Matthew, black letter, morocco e% gilt edges, by Cla r k e; 1537. Th e rea l name o f the Lean „ .'tilator was J o h n R ogers , w h o was t h e fi rst M a rtyr Queen Mary's reign. The present copy is perfect, the exception of the following defects, a letter or two e' t , off at the bottom of the first title, the title to the Prophe, 4B is repaired a t th e b o tt om , t wo l eaves i n t h e ta bl e a nd t" ; imprint are in facsimile by Harris, the corner of Gq w , torn off, and a few leaves repaired." It was purchase" Mr. Thorpe for 105 guineas ! RESULTS OF SABBATH OBSERVANCE.—At the anno meeting of the Lord's Day Society in London, last wee ks , G. Burns, Esq., of Glasgow, said, th a t f or more twenty years be ad been connected with steam naviP.', tion. It was nearly as l ong ago t h at h e an d hi s brottL; were engaged in the management of steam-vessels P1Y,41 between Glasgow and Belfast. In the process al:mil" some of those vessels they discovered that the partiesiBr Belfast inte n d e d t o se l ec t S un d ay as one o f t h e regn days of sailing; they immediately entered their Pre t t against that arr a n gemen t, an d ret i re d f rom a ll connes'ag with it, statin g th a t alt houg h th ey cou ld not h o ld inte ( l'„e k , as proprietors they were wi lli ng t o ac t as manag ers, vr ) ing from Monday morning to S iturday night as vier he ously as the other parties pl ease d. Th ere they left t oe matter, and their services were dispensed with. fr i teee t course of a few years events occurred which had the eu ds . of placing almost the whole concern in their own be n • and he attributed that circumstance to the Divine bles sin resting upon their declaration of principle and adher e°ce to it. pole SOMNAMBULISM.—A rather singular occurrence t et .. place, early on the mornin g of Th urs d a y l as t, to a resPe able cowkeeper, living in the neighbourhood of Ches ter field. The servant bay got up between four and r the' :,to' o'clock with a vi ew o f go i ng t o m ilk ; on go i n g into ` alc" 4 ,11 kitchen he was much surprised in not finding the 01 cans. The lad then went to the stable to see if the P i 1',4 was there, but it was a l so m i ss i ng . H e t h en proceeS, to the field some distance from home, when he was 1114 7,74 , ably surp r i se d a t fi n 4i ng hi s master i n the act o f driv, 4 t l all his cow s i n t o a corner, as h e supposed, for t h e purl" - of milking, the pony standing at a distance with the ch o . o l and other missing arti c l es on it s b ac k. O n ap proa' o his master, the lad thought he looked " very clu eer 4 ; 4: which terrifi e d hi m so muc h th at h e was a f ra i d to go ne.: 4 4 . but, having at length got the better of his fears, he ael j o g his master by the arm, and so awoke him from sleep in in that state he had been busying himself as before statle", The same individual, some years ago, when in the ser v cer of a gentleman, got up in his sleep, harnessed the 1 10 ,r: or and put it to the carriage, and drove it to the front au ' before he awoke.—Derby Mercury. n , Raggett's Hotel, D over - s t ree t, Piccadilly, Lon Jo hi was totally destroyed by fire last night week. S° rap was the progre s s o f th e fl ames , t h at M rs. R oun d, w' ,. Mr. Round, M.P. f or M a ld on , M r. R aggett, t h e pr 0 •00. 4. for of the h o t e l, hi s d aug h ter, t h e nursemai d o f Lord P a ss , tingdon and thre e o th ers , l ost t h e i r li ves. The '4'o wa s v ery iti f ie ul s l s at th th e e p ti r m aw e, in a g n_d ro s o ev in er o a n l p T a u rt e i s e d s ay ha , vieg ° a' s up to w f e ars 0 , entertained that pr o b a bl y th ere may b e other bodies the ried in the ruins. Mrs. Round was not undressed at ee j time of the calamity. Th e pecun i ary l oss will °eit £3o,ooo. On Thursday, w hil e t h e fi remen wer e end ha s vouring to discover the body of Mrs. Round, whi n , l) ,, to' I not yet been done, one of the toilet-bases belonging , , the Countess of Huntingd :n was discovered, contain a r 4 jewellery of the value of £250. The box was burnt ea , - cinder, but the jewels were very slightly injured. A n .. t r her of diamonds and jewels belonging to the late unto nate Mrs. Round were also discovered. A large oll es t be • plate belonging to Mr. King was also found amongs t d.• ruins; but just as it was a b ou t b e i ng remove d, the la i " f re • lord, a Mr. Abbott, a pp eare d, accompan i e d b y a sr.,lle„rastt officer, and after stating th a t th e d ecease d Mr. lobo owed him four years rent, amoun ti ng to £lOOO, refuse let the chest of plate go. The jury, at the coroner 6 quest, returned a verdict of accidental death. 4 . has DISTRESSING ELOPEMENT.—Great exc itement ht been produced by an occurrence w hi c h h as b e en br?'; e a rs , under magisterial cognizance, in N orwic h. I n conga v ie Lion for the feelings of two highly-respected fam ilies, °- shall not name the o ne p ar ty i n th e transact i on , but . t.', e et tent ourselves with stati ng , th a t F re d er i c k FyddY"' o n Wells, aged twenty-five, late in the service of a gen tle the of rank, in this county, was on Monday, reman ded bY or , city magistrate s on th e c h arge o f h av i ng o b ta i n ed 3 010 riage license by me ans o f p er j ur y. W e ll s h as , till v i c eva so the last three w ee k s , b een i n th e serv i ce o f the ge,nt,„iag in question, who is marr i e d t o a w id ow l a dy, o s e ' f ger daughter by a for mer h us b an d, on l y s i xteen years Lon' a ward in Chancery. The family are at present "'„ a trf: don, but the young lady was at the mansion in the ° ° " y erto and Wells has been o b serve d t o v i s it t h e house o n s e ei sr• occasions. On Sunday morning, havin g procured the riage license, he by some means contrived to ta'''' St' young lady to No rw i c h, an d they were marr ied ,s t d to Benedict's Church. After the ceremony they rePa lt o al a low public-house, called the Two Quarts, but the I ce ol lady having been missed from the hall, and interne° lice her route being obtained, they were traced to their P o et' of retreat, and, the fact of the marriage having'been dthe trifled, Wells; was lat once taken into custody , " n 4 4( bet young lady was co nve y e d b ac k t o t h e residence _ - ------- stepfather.—Bury Post. 4 Of NATIONAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The annual mee ti h n ,7p 4 this society was held on Wednesday, the Archliroteo Canterbury in the chair. About thirty childrent.,.7,7o l t in the schools were examined by the Bishop Ors4u.-,410° and showed great proficiency. The report, after 0 0- 0 to to the want of skilful teachers, stated, " that £2,000 was set apart for the purpose of providing 8 : e tions for eligible young women, to be educated at t" b0 o0 stitutions of the s oc i e t y an d t h e di ocesan tra i n ing I' or upon condition of taking charge of schools in th ose g o lf ters for which the s p ec i a l f un d was intended. BY 'l e ' d t° of these exhibiti ons , many young women ac custoreior 2 the manufact ur i ng an d m i n i ng di str i cts h ave been inu . . n der, to become candid a t es f or a d m i ss i on i n t o t r aining ii o o o . the Society at Whitelands, and under the Cheste r tit at Warrington; and there seems every probabiatlere are they will prove valuable teachers. Your comeo n i tt a drol happy to report that the model factory school a t '"„LjOia e n t is proceeding entirely to their satisfaction. The for ," A extract from letter of the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, ` 1 ,7 0 OA" Bradford, contains some striking facts relative,. ',rill educational means provided for that large mane far gib er parish by the society and the vicar, assisted Faring friends of sound education. On the 26th of r e r ing last Dr. Scoresby writes as follows :--` In Pr e p m e report of our parochial schools. I have obtained ° no ss,..e e teresting returns of all the children that have the through the schools at Stott-hill, Eccleshill, V 4 l l, ar model school. The numbers to December 31, 25 4 13 ! at Eccleshill, factory children, 220; day schnie r- i,33'" total, 478. At the model-school, factory childreetetorfi day scholar s , 270 ; t o t a l, 2,602 . At St o tt-hill , u` trotl ) 3 o children, 1,765 ; day scholars, 1,030 ; total, 2.7 9 , 5 ; i t of the whole e n t ere d a t the schools, of which eu ° , wb tl d remain, 5.875. Adding the school at Manningbe. op erlei under my charge, at Ne w L ee d s , an d a t Daisy-bi l ':,teach 4 a few month s ago , th e w h o l e amoun t would r e ' ar s a ti o f believe, to about 7,000 c hild ren i n a b ou t three Y co rit a half.' On the 23d of this month, t h e entire a r° , l o 0 0 th e special fund was £151,985, of which al s7sA b e £116,500 has been paid t o th e th e t rea surer, an d e. 'de have been exp en d e d an d vo t e d b y your commit. te ., s ut a m whole amount of the proceeds of the collecii, froT o riven 9 249 i p o l a s c p e o s o . under the authority of her Majesty was X 32 ‘ .' Olaf i a 1 I n d donations £33,383." t 0 0 0 t tp i r e s, fo th o e d ,sroutnal,ioorg OP' 11 14 4 h t l ;00 1 4kA "11;4 ,y~p a ~ ~a P 4~d