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red up. Dows- Id up out of their dark and narrow 0 bONIAL INTELLIGENCE DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE , E RMUDA off Bermuda rred._ !t' use who Iti V. at 10 ing on ;gal ; Lncc ea Mail S FATRERI R•N I Mail Steam Ship Forth, Feo. 14, 1843 Asession tend to_alart. e frien Colon ad pass, t. Our respec ,TICU gaol SO Female Jiene srs. Matthew! 3"ui'lnt. ..h: . T.._e, d furriitU theMissesfalin falling A in rc o h ha stores c there Is sear( _..,a of the interim ...c standing, a mere shell. ...ad also suffered severely, especially in the northeas dward, quarter. The sugar-works of Mr. Peter M are said to have• been totally demolished, those of Mr 1 Matthews greatly damaged. The dwelling-hous , - - gif Bevan Island estate, situate .hed xterior. 1 to atoms ; consi.-- ....,ain. h a d also —... h i c ,rt Geo! . .g e '.::,l t LI, and a 2 ff down the &tSanaypo iike a beaten ro Sir GillW- er'a Church n a cliff nto the top, which, apOur t airly P The ba :lace from tcL d it of verdure n an estate called been openedin f which sprung fumes of sulphu larrouscoin( a fter. It w as ..area nas a sinzu -...r5. i ts hat day though r iated to A inv.. troyed PrOpf, 0 sterling, but, iart unal.. 'miss H face ?t f wal►s ) the a rvart Ot sh, but a r s age oov - 'use of Mr... 1: ner, all_rou adjacent wood :ar-v;orka of d. The s J. Henle ; nf M mo!eu ,e evening, a similar sbocK so severe. The loss of property .€lOO,OOO sterlin, but this was '-vestigation g had yet taken her e seemed to have been expended wes t to nort heast, and was supposed ty to the namount of from .C 40,000 to o lives were lost. The s, an im mense pile of the strongest a rising ground, and Atilt with square blocks ^ - -e •L.,,. ~1_ _ in the southwest keystones die- blocks of stone the Court-house is still standing. it, the under story d in an horizontal The house demolistiet I; Or HO injury Li to retire tr ggns ne, i vni li nhabitable and must oe , r. been T he dwelling -house, mill, and 1 _ . 'Mynardch dam aged. utterly ged. de - - 1 - very mu of Mr. Hal- Bowring s s e I believe are th D be re. r:esteitiy. _diistivvnaclt re nottin 're and in )alance wharf-f DWOrli , ANTIGC parth ne e riven Lbe brunt of t pon the walls to fall. Tht !red 1339 30 injtr. r 150 yea that numbers of the int 'Etted, t to the ping for a temr aid to have lost 'lean an - cl broken en down. I 1 2 it was r! and dea' ChaPV , Bathb..:,dici:t:hc:;, and is otherwise so mi ..-- • e Methodist Chapel recently .g, and was adapted to contain pi eces. The Tower, Court-bonse, office, Lunatic Asylum, Gaol, BaF md, indeed, every public building in G ov ernment-house, have us In fact. it may be summed up by ;e• in taut., ou se or building composed of rnas , less. whilst those of wood h - • '- I built in ri:r;nt NTSEBILA' Indeed, lliav houtth y Doc ough it is su ,--01 t )mas's, E! am, surro as tavourea ST. VINCI TRINIDAD. -1 : ad pass Prince. by I borated by th, If State although con(.l ,t Indies plan of i is made known, diffuse by last pack versal joy. lice was convened at a few Hope, of the Colonial-offs to Mr. ( overnme inder solution clay, b ent ha 3 that eve gh with the hope of the mother count s to be done cannot be done too quick fives of real property in tl frightful ; and rnmigrants preL duties before a c the change, we may well g Guiana Times FO REIGN INT.ELLIGENCI UNITED STA' By the United States Packet-ship, we have received New York papers to the 16th ult.; being ten days later than those received by the George Washington. The United States landed her papers and. letters at Belfast. and 'Jur Bill" bad been again introduced into the ayes to 24 Representa The Navy Bill ha , who had rejected t y of the offi f Franklin, were ion in t they were present( f his countr An impr is the tra penal character, a r under one pound, ex( bound books t Martia id it was ge nat qrdeal as ally thought that he would of bad been oy the Court of Enquiry. Che small-pox was rapidly on the inct ease at New York I the attention of the board of health was called to the subject. The feeling at the s better, and prices One of the New posed to be the North America packet-ship, w.s asiv , r Shrewsbury Inlet, with nothing but the stump of her wizen mast and bowsprit standing. She had painted ports, and a double stern. The latest advices from Canada state, that the Governor General of Canada still continued in a very precarious btate EXTRAORDINARY PRES I a sheep which was drifted up, and ekness of snow. As a matter of con )ught to have perished ; but during o I it, and after a mass of snow had been removed the sheep was found, which still retained life, after having laid three weeks in its dismal situation, and is likely to do well, and regain all its former —Westmoreland Gazette THE CORK POST-OFFICE.—The informations respe of Mr. George Harris. clerk of the Cork Post-offic Mr. Eustace H arris, merchant, of this city, taLen befc Francis Bernard Beamish, mayor, and Messrs. John l and Richard Coppinger, magistrates, on the 9th ult in January mencing e lane, I London Post-office, remitted the proceeus cu rusutuc, bv uniformly handed the same to the accused. Mr. Webb is bound to take trial at the approaching assizes, himself in a of £2OO. and two securities in £lOO each.— Southern Reporter. NEW POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMI of the numerous applications that II merchantu in the city, Liverpool, anc ther, the Postxaster-General, tor a r 01ComErtukocation between this country, the israzns, ante Buenos Arves, negotiations have been for some time pending on the subject. We have, by means of the Royal West India mail packets, a regular communication twice a month (the Ist and 15th) by steam with all the British as well as foreign West India islands, Mexico, Carthagena, &c., and as a commercial treaty is about to be concluded with the Emperor Don Pedro 11. and Great Britain, an early means. of correspondence between that part of South America will be of great advantage to the mercantile interest. Contract: transmissisn of the Madeira, Brazils, and Bueno probam seven 1 ens Ayr mails by t here be a t, the deceased came across I my watch, his own being ut it there was something strange in h r _ired dull and in deep thought, and ;some observations to him upon the subjec him_ Whilst the decease r persons confirmed the above evideno ary returned a verdict of" Accidental death." .d, with t The acco concluded, and in _ 131 azas menu, tits • - the merchants. The new French West I pany are also going to have a regular line of packets bet, Havre and the Brazils, besides touching at all the West In, islands. The first packets will commence running in Ma 3 Uct EXTRAORDINARY RA II lay, an inquest was held a , ody of Thomas Maitland Y ACCIDENT.—Un eat ratford, Essex, on view of !d 40, a police constable iu Horn, h down tram was ou me to get the cur of o rder- I fanci man r but that 1 was rearm, vi Was talking to me the train I did, but did not `a which was exhibiting I will be here on can once crossing le then was vex having been abed u ' 7411ADALOtIP8, &c wernor ,uld disce 1 has occ ) have su ,nd we k r. 'bonded abot o be t'ne T INUIE Incomi e hulk of istam 'rom Africa to lip., to g been s 4~.rltnl LORD C called for conside Lord with him in framing SC )ENMAN felt the necess of the matter bein re of the Government, than that it should nybody else. He could assure their lordshii stance that could be given by the judges wou afforded, and in his place, in their lordship , uld render all the aid in his power. observations from Lord CAMPBELL and Lo matter dropped. 41 AFTESBURY read the report of the s, . , . iven to the petitioners except by a recommending that a private bill f ntroduced ships then adjourne FUSE OF F COMMON MONDAY motion for the house resolving itse )unt of the sums expeni ing 1841 and 1842, and k performed for such expenditure. The hon. member raver. withdrew his motion on hearing from Sir J. Gut 3n account of the to that there were no )rk performe In reply to a question frc t. PEEL said that all inforar nninm ,nnfiscated in Chin; 1 of LEICEST complained of Mr. J. A. SMITH, hould he laid before the iciest son of the Marquis taken by .to Act, b of the Church in opposition to t that the Church c ara brougham of his case on Friday night in the House of ords. It was an ex parte statement, and he hoped the )use would suspend its judgment on the matter. Mr. FERRAND moved that Mr. Clements, the poor law immissioner, should be called to thetar to explain his con ,,or in hpinm nresent at a meeting in H alifax, when the board n thit hou ;olunon censuring observations made Sir J. GRAHAM influen , ion which was un justice to the services of Mr. Cle- a division, the motion was del a majority of The Earl of LINCOLN, in reply to a question From Jur. Hume, said that the rumour of new stables being about to Claremont at an expense of thirty or forty thou- Stables were about to be erected but not at the public expense, and the cost nt into co uiittee of suppl th. mates were proceede and the uld nev i to lesseti it by the st ch vas productive of tl and the principles o of £10,006. His STEWART f ich resu nd to rest d to then, yu...... -- He contended, that there was a marked distinction Scotland. There 1 coun ,ch prevatle i‘ionarct In Engle gainst the d the reform!tior was, howevc heurs of labo land is tno amendment to that effe idependent jurisdiction of the HOUSE OF dOIMMONS.- ited, that 1,750 quarters of corn had Wolgust last year, of which 150 )s per quarter; the remaining -WEDNESDAY In reply to a question from Mr. GLADSTONE r. BLACKSTONE come into the Thames from quarters had paid a duty of 1,600 quarters were still in tk Mr. HUTT moved the second rt )f Foreigners Bill, and, referring ing of the Naturalisation o the practice.of other n ► the words of a isos orle Britannos said that this country respected tment of foreigners, and he had little :hina would, ere long, outstrip us in that even C defeated by a majority of 71 to 22 cket service, irteution to the irregu sels of the Royal Wes arity of ti I India Mail ated one, and it was therefore not very surprising ors of calculation should have been committed. Re :w scheme had been adopted, lessening o be traversed, and he hoped that hence bviated. ntly, however, a ne aving been disposed of TREATRV. ILOYAL, 'WILLIAMSON .SQuAitL MRS. CLARKF most respectfully announces that her BENEFIT is appointed ' - place ON MONDAY NEXT, thel3thinstplit, on which occasion the celebrated 17formers, Mr. NV: FARREN, Mrs. GLOVER% of the Theatres Royal , Drury-lane, ovent-garden, and Haymarket, will make their appearance. First Night of the New Drama of reformation in GRANDFATHER 'WHITEHEAD, distinction led to one the most popular production of the last season at theTheatre a the reformation Royal, Haymarket, in which ~ wish of the people, Mr. W. FARREN s effected by the people will sustain his original character of " Grandfather White : consequence has been head," and •chial while the Church n. gentleman then sup- • • STUART his original character of " Langley." , orted at great length ~,—. Mrs. TERNAN Church of Scotland. (late Miss Jarman,) of the Theatre - Royal , Covent - g arden. Mr. C. Bauce moved the adj ournment of the debate, Mr. BROWNE, which was immediately agreed to. of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, and of the American Sir J. GRAHAM then brought in a bill for regulating the Theatres, will also appear ih principal characters, and employment of children and young p ersons in factories, and Miss FANNY TERNAN, tor the better education of children in factory districts. the Juvenile Actress, only seven years of age, will appear, Lord ASHLEY expressed his concurrence to the greater for the first time, as " Edward Drayton," in the Drama of sill, but hoped some further restrictions on the G RANDFATHER WHITEHEAD," and will also perform in the ir would be adopted by the government; if not Farce of THE YOUNG ACTRESS. ne should certainly, when the proper time came, move an . d -AN MONDAY next, the 13th instant, will he revived the ki favourite Comedy, called THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Sir Bashful Constant .... Mr. W. Farren, the second character performed by him at the Theatre- Royal, Covent-garden. Lovemore .... (first time)._ Mr. Stuart. Sir Brilliant Fashion Mr. Browne. The Widow Belmour Mrs. Glover. Mrs. Lovemore (first. time) Mrs. Ternan. Muslin Mrs. Clarke. After which, the highly successful Drama, as performed Seventy Nights in succession last season at the Theatre- Royal, Haymarket, called GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead Mr. W. Farren. Edward Drayton.... (his Grandson) Miss Fanny Ternan. Langley Louisa Mrs. Seymour. To be followed by a Drama, in one Act, adapted from the " Actress of all work," expressly for Miss Fanny Ternan, called THE YOUNG ACTRESS; OR, THE MANAGER PERPLEXED. In which Miss Fanny Ternan will sustain Six Characters Tickets to be had of Mrs. CLARKE, 1, Houghton-street, Williamson-square, and of Mr. CooKE, at the Box-office of the Theatre, of whom places may be taken from Ten until Three o'clock : no Places can be secured unless Tickets are Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Perform ances to commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Lower Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'clock :—Lower Boxes, 2s. Gd. ; Upper Boxes, 25.; Pit, is. Gd. ; Gallery, 6d. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it a f fords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their csre.l Ziturpool &tanDatl. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1843 The result of the trial of the unfortunate man— M`Naughten—is one which is calculated to give rise to serious reflection, as to the state of the law which can permit crimes, such as the murder of Mr. Drummond, to be committed with impunity. With the correctness of the verdict returned we can find no complaint. With the evidence adduced before them, we cannot see indeed how an intelligent jury could have given any other decision than that the prisoner was absolved, by virtue of the monomania which possessed him, from the consequences of what was only, in fact, the working of a paroxysm, or, as the medical witnesses termed it, "the climax" of his disease. M`Naughten was a perfectly sane urn, for all the ordinary purposes of life, and upon every other subject than the delusion with which he was afflicted; but, that delusion once brought into activity, every sense of right and wrong was at once extinguished in a sense of fear or of hatred towards his imagined persecutors. It is quite possible, too, from the evidence adduced, and the discredit, justly we think, thrown upon that of the inspector of police who deposed to the confession of the prisoner, that Sir Robert Peel was the party whose life he ima gined he had taken, that the offence may have been the mere work of a momentary frenzy, and not the premeditated deed which the circumstance of his hav ing waited for weeks about the neighbourhood of Downing-street at first appeared to constitute it. The workings of an ill-directed mind are hard to trace. There may have been floating in his thoughts some wild notion of protection to be acquired by communi cating his fears to some member of the government, similar to that for which he had applied to the autho rities of Glasgow in vain ; and whilst in pursuit of this object, the criminal deed may have been accelerated by circumstances, or by a distorted imagination, as d-2scribed by himself to Dr. Munroe when he said that " the person at whom he fired gave him a scowling look, and that all his previous feelings rushed to his mind." A medical gentleman, it must be remembered, accus tomed to the treatment of persons insane or afflicted with morbid delusions, was .much more likely to elicit truth from the unfortunate prisoner, than a police in spector. . The verdict of the jury, therefore, we conceive to be perfectly in accordance with evidence, and with a humane interpretation of the law as applied to the case; and we rejoice therefore that we are spared the pain of witnessing the terrible spectacle, which would have been the execution of a man notoriously, as the prisoner was, of, at the least, imperfect sanity. But, may we not ask, are there not many cases in the cri minal records of this country which, did ali the cir- cumstances attending them receive ; the same strict investigation as this case of WlNaughten, might re solve themselves into theLaesult of mental delusions more or less strongly displayed ? Is the boundary between mental and moral disease so accurately de fined that any man can declare where the evidences of one shall not be taken as evidences of the other ? Can the murderer, whose deed of blood is committed under the overpowering influence of jealousy, be esteemed a perfectly sane man ? Or is the, drunkard, labouring under the influence of delirium, which is a disease, quite as much as any of the countless forms in which insanity presents itself—a man capable of controlling his actions ? We suspect that all great criminals are more or less afflicted with disease of mind; and that strict application, in a number of cases, of the same lavishness of expense displayed in the defence of M‘Naughten, would be successful in developing facts, bearing upon the mental condition of the accused, which would startle at least, if they did not entirely convince a humane jury, who had before them only the alternatives of acquittal and the doom of death by the executioner. At this moment there can be no doubt that there are hundreds of monomaniacs roaming at large upon the highways of the world—men of perverted intellect, exciteable to the wildest and most dangerous passions, and in whom the distinctions between right and wrong are so faintly traced that a momentary influence may extinguish them altogether. Apply to the crimes which may be committed by such men, the same mer ciful consideration which has been applied to those of Oxford and M`Naughten ; and society will become almost divested of protection. On the other hand, compel a resort to a preventive system. Shut up such men in lunatic hospitals —as M`Naughten ought to have been shut up, if the authorities of Glasgow had done their duty ; and those establishments must be augmented to the size and number of our union work houses. Two things are clearly deducible from the result of the case before us, If we are to give that wide exten- avy estimates sin BOLDERO brought forward the ordnance est as compared ith the el on Of tLe estimates occupied the - remainder of KER read the reply ( Sir Gordon Bremer to the 1 to him by the house for his services s ordered to be insert ,ed on t HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY rought under their lordships' considera he question.of the poor law, with the view of obtaining roeation of that portion of it which separates man and Lord TEYNHAM in our workhouses. He contracted the principle acted by our ecclesiastical and civil courts of not allowing a even a mensa et thoro, except on the ground of and vet, in the face of such a law, the or cruel ice of the union workhouses was to divorce Both .tically for no other caus than povert and for an indefinite period may be for yen fo reatment but it may also be for years. or rved. too, that the same )lied to all ; the drunkard ly as well as the unfor- ed prec • Dverty bad overtaken. He was not call ships to r opinion upon the object was to pre d if their lordships ,o . or law, di Dr by removin )ught to m — on sense and propriety from the law, 'ord in the way of su ;estion as to the wa Tied out livorce in the in the army and navy to ameliorate some of the hardshii. and would be certainly brou before I their lordships them to nothing c] noble lord f WELLINGTON complimented II m which his maiden speech had created in the the exercise of his public duty he felt himself nnrin,e the motion. The noble lord had never There w•as no .se ; there was only a in the day time the members of a might see each other ac often as they wished. Officers 're compelled to submit to separations • •• time been undrr consideration with a rat poi eparation of r ere desirOus of maintaining the resolution t ition of all to for t said o uld hot ag 3 China, he value ates of 58,129. After s HAM the Their lord t tee of reply Mr. WALTI )ut-doo n had b, aken steps to ac= li e quite subject v ation, and he rhould feel great pl, measure f hat 11 bill i )r th: ity of tb feed it v s heart beat auspice Certaini be Dub a the attenti Under these circus ee to resolutions which bound nite, and might fetter their better ider the measure under t. The noble duke con ded by moving, as an amendment, that the house do ent when they came to cc the consideration of the governmen HOPE contended that there was no a of officers the army and navy when sepa- rated from their families, and those of persons entering a workhouse, for the officers might refuse to serve if they dis liked to be separated from their wives and families. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he might take the case of the seaman, which was quite in point. Earl STANHOPE then proceeded to condemn the existing poor laws, and quoted the opinion of Mr. Pitt, who had made it his boast that he had steered the vessel of the state through the most fearful storm that ever had assailed it, by a ttending to the feeding and to the comfort of the people. • After some observations from Lords. LYTTLETON and C OLCH ESTER, the amendment of the Duke of Wellington was carried without a division. HOUSE OF COMMON TUESDAY to the address of the Her Majesty's most gracious muse, in consequence of Lord Ashley's motion on the sub ct of the education of the people, was brought up and or :red to be inserted on the journals. Mr. Fox MAULE then moved the following resolution : That this house will immediately resolve itself into a dun ittee to take into consideration the petition of the commis on of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and to matters therein contained." The petition was to be msidered as that of the Assembly of the Church of Scotland, ir the commission of the General Assembly was similar to committee of the whole house in the House of Commons. it petition complained of the infringement of their juris ion by the civil courts, and also of the evil of patronage. tter signed by Sir James Graham showed that the Secretary had fallen into the mistake that the General claimed to be exclusive judges in ecclesiastical matters ; the fact beinz that it only claimed to be independent re, and to have the right of defining in them the limits between the civil and in its own s itual juns The right hon. gentleman quuted va roving that it was the intention and ramers to secure and perpetuate the ablished religion, and to give an to its courts in all ecclesiastical mat- sas so nearly balanced in the snpreme of Scotland, it was, is thority, to ov dverted na. Tt The Court of Se 11 its juri*diction by attemptic -rule another court claratory act to put an end to t opinion, the dnty of )ssesbing al that parlia ion of its ri first forced ), and, t ghts of ju age, which nt of a gh at the time Pres- , arm, it was yet strongly protested hers by Duncan Forbes, of Culloden, It was not until the evangelical 'id that it vassed f 1834 w s spin re le. General hts of the unless parliament now interfered there would be a large se cession of both ministers and people from the Established Church of Scotland, an effect which would by disastrous to :. , rests Of the country. He had no wish to see ..00lished, but he was desirous that the ...intrusion should be so tar recognised as .sty the people and srve the Church of Scotland shock which might re-act upon other institutions. AMES GRAHAM said he was fully alive to the import ' , t subject, which had been so calmly, ably, and dis c brought under the consideration of the house by hon. gentleman. Parliament was bound to regard ' • passionatet spirit or the act of unior lecision of the government in tt 3 the moc r of the General mbly, he had taken care to do so with all respect forth :hurch and people of Scotland. iNo other insi :fleeted so much good at so little cost, and until =ate controversy broke out the church had tl possible bold on the affections of the people so consistently with principle, there was ertion which, as an individual, he would ► ye this unhappy dispute in sow red th rcely any ex inguage of the General As- ,e the inde- !nClence of the church of Scotland was secureu oy statute, It in the solemn compact between the state end the church land a condition was inserted to the faith and doctrines of that church, and securing to it certain adv ate to- ..ages so long as it continued to tructor of toe people. The real gut— was the supremacy of the civil law with which lispnte the decision was ultimately to rest. Assembly was not bound by the decision of the Coe . . on at issue however The General jurisdic- the church bad juris- a over ecclesiastical matters, but the questior arose as to what was a civil and what an eccles )n. With respect to patronage, he was of opinion that r of Scotland recognised as coincident with the right patron to represent a right on the part of the people rt. and it was the duty of the presbytery to eiamine The cliffieulties, there- :ate upon these objections d not be removed by a declaraiory act, tor disputes a riflf. between 'co-ordinate jurisdiction, which )tion of the ) a higher auihority than either. fore a bill could the crown was necessary if wider the necea y of res . 3t hon. gentleman Dwelt at SODI Length on the evils re een the Church of Scotland and the motion. He culled upon !es whic , institution as the LI Mr. COIATYBOUN stated an instance in which a pious, arned, and popular preacher had been Sgt wide by the In order to rescue it from this ►t bill to afford greater fa- • position, he proposed in the cilities to the naturalization of foreigners, by empowering the Privy Council to grant lette s patent of natural id the Government had decided 711e - propiietl;OCopposing the further progress of the Ele denied that the hon. gentleman bad pointed out led by the present law, and ll.before the house, because any great inconvem he was decidedly opr permitted t s in the legislature. . Stock, Mr. Aglionby, vations fr Mr. LABOCCHERE Sald be COUIU DOL suppurt. Luc; wiL fore the house, but at the same time he was far from say Ation of the law was not required. dE supported, the bill, upon the principle that trade was benefited by the immigration of foreigners. lie hailed the bill as another link in the happily lengthened chain Mr. SMYT of universal toleration. Mr. EWART supported the bill ; which was, however, un fortunately negatived without a division. The adjourned debate on Mr. Fox Maule's motion re specting the Church of Scotland was then resumed, by Mr. C. BRUCE. who opposed the motion, because the Church of Scotland not only claimed jurisdiction in ecclesi astical matters, but it also claimed the power of deciding what were ecclesiastical matters. He believed that the whole Scotland, and the majority to the claims of the He con- of the upper classes of society in of the middle classes, were opposed dominant party in the church of that country demned the course taken by some ministers in Scotland, one of whom told his congregation that they had to choose be tween Heaven and Satan, and those who signed the paper he had prepared was deciding in- favour of Heaven. Another told his congregation that the King of the French was in correspondence with Queen Victoria for the purpose of ay were the lower classes bringing back the Pope_ _._ in Scotland deluded by many of their pastors, who ought to be ashamed of resorting to such means to carry out their views. He had no doubt but that the government were anxious to settle this question favourably to the Church of Scotland, but it was impossible that they could settle it by the concession of everything that was claimed by that church. He hoped a better spirit, a spirit of peace and unity, would yet, ere long, influence the Church of Scotland, and that it would be once more a blessing to the people of that country. Sir G. GREY hoped crimination and recrimination would not be indulged in at a moment when the Church of Scotland was in actual peril, but that no effort would be left untried to restore that Church to peace, to harmony, and efficiency. He agreed in a great measure, though not altogether, with his right hon. friend (Mr. F. Maule); and he would, there fore suppOrt his motion for going into c ommittee; _formn com mittee some means might be devised to Aettle the differences which prevailed. He believed this might have been accomp lished if Parliament had interfered at an. earlier period, and given effect to the Veto Act passed in 1834. The practical working of that act proved that it conferred benefit on the people of Scotland without producing any of the evils which it was predicted would result from its adoption. He entirely concurred with Sir J. Graham in the jealousy which he ap peared to entertain of the aggressions of ecclesiastical courts ; and he was not prepared to set them free from the supervision of the civil courts of judicature. He would not object to giving ecclesiastical courts a current jurisdiction with the civil courts, in deciding as to what matters were civil and what ecclesiastical ; but there were many difficulties in the way in endeavouring to give a definition upon that head. Mr. J. WORTLEY supported the view taken by Sir James Graham of the subject, and opposed the motion of Mr. F. Maule. It was impossible that the system of patronage which had produced such beneficial effects in Scotland could, if calmly considered, be viewed as an injury and a detriment to the Church of Scotland, which had allowed its exercise to go on unmolested for upwards of a brindred years. Sir A. L. HAY, in supporting the Oition, said that be might not have been so zealous on this question if the majo rity of the clergy only were about to secede from the Church, but, knowing that the people would follow their ministers, he called upon the house to avert so terrible a calamity. Mr. B. COCH RANE Said, that no one could desire a more • form of Church government than that which now a He maintained that the only ground amnority in the people was to be found in the first book of discipline, and that had never been sanctioned by any act of parliament. It was his opinion, that all the clamour about non-intrusion was for the purpose of gather. ing temporal power into the hands of the Church. If they spiritual `pctwer predominant, lie would prefer tue arrogance of Rome 16 the hypocrisy of the Kirk. LordJ. RESSELL considered, with great pain, that a great calamity was pending over a large portion of the people of this empire, in the secession of the clergy of the Church of Scotland. The clergy had given the strongest proofs of their sincerity in the conscientio us feelin g s the y ente rt ained. He confessed, however, he did not see any advantage to be de rived from the adoption of any resolution which dealt in mere abstractions. Ele could not assent to the claims now put forth by the Church of Scotland, nor could he permit it by an act of 1834 to change a state of things which bad reached up to that time, and had never until then been ob jected to by the Church. Mr. A. CAMPBELL supported the motion which asserted a principle essential to the very existence of the Church of Scotland. Sir W, FOLLETT concurred entirely in the view taken by Lord John Russell of this important question. He regretted that the Church of Scotland had not adopted the opinions of the hon. member for Leith, in which case there would have been spared all the difficulties which had since arisen, and that house would have been spared the pain of being called upon to sanction claims which it could not listen to without overturning every principle of the constitution, which recog nised the supremacy of the law over every institution, civil or ecclesiastical, in the empire. When the House of Lords decided that the act of Queen Anne was the law of the land, the General assembly should have at once repealed the Veto Act of 1834, which was in contravention of the act of Anne. lie could not believe that it could be the liw of Scotland that there could have been concurrent jurisdictions. Sup pose the Church declared certain matters to be within ec clesiastical jurisdiction, while the civil courts insisted that these same matters were within the jurisdiction of the civil courts, who was to dacide between them ? It was quite im possible that anything so absurd could have prevailed as law in Scotland. A power of decision must rest somewhere; and if the civil courts exercised a jurisdiction that did not belong to them. or if they improperly interefered with the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, there was an appelate jurisdiction which would decide between them—the House of Lords. Ile could not give his sanction to the claims and pretensions of the Church of Scotland, and therefore, with all respect for that Church, he should oppose the motion of the right hon. gentleman. Sir R. PEEL said it was unnecessary for him to detain the house at any length after his opinions had been so exactly stated by Sir William Follett, Sir James Graham, and Lord John Russell also. Still his position demanded that he should not give a silent vote upon such an important occa sion. A state of things existed in Scotland not contemplated by law, and, of course, not provided for by law, and the re sult was that there was great danger that the courts in Scot land would become paralysed. If it had been proposed to bring in a bill to settle uch a state of things, and to settle also the question of patronage--provided it did not interfere with the privileges of the crown—it might be that ministers would not object to going into committee upon such a mea sure ; but to go into committee with no definite object to be übmitted for their consideration, would be to countenance a It was a paltry argument to ask the house to go into committee as a compliment to the Church of Scot- i in Scot were to have mere delusior land, taking the chance of some remedy suggesting itself in that committee. The real question was whether the claims of the Church of Scotland %ere such at parliament ought to agree to, and looking at it in this point of view he was pre pared to vote against the motion of the right hon. gentleman. He dissented altogether from the position taken by the Church Scotland upon the question of the abolitionof patronage. The )gnised the abolition of pati onage as necessary to the Church of Scotland. In fact, the maintenance his on the welfare of of patronage was recognised in statutes passed with the con currence of the Church itself—which had only contended for the right of examination of the persons presented. He could not assent even to the policy of abolishing the right of patronage, for there were grave objections to making the presentation of ministers depend upon popular election. It was impossible for parliament to define the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical and civil courts. They could not foresee circumstances, and any attempt at drawing a line of demar cation would be entirely frustrated by some occurrence ho. contemplated beforehand. The only safe was to pay obedience to the highest The Church of Rome before in the country the reformation never lai(Cclaiin to greater or more dange rous power than that which was involved in the claims made by the Church of Scotland at the present moment. The Church of Scotland should at once have repealed the Veto Act as soon as it had been solemnly pronounced to be illegal by the House of Lords. The Strathbogie' case proved the absurdity of concurrent jurisdictions. The civil courts gave the stipend, while the ecclesia,tical courts interdicted the performance of the duties. Who in such a case was to decide? Certainly the courts which were einprivvered to administer the law of the land, subject to the appellate juris diction of the House of. Lords. Such was his reasons for opposing the claims of the Church of Scotland, although he fully admitted its right to ascertain the opinion of parliament upon a subject so imp ortan t. Mr. F. NIAULE r e pli e d, a ft e r which the house divided, and his motion was def eate d b y a majority of 211 to 76. —,more bound to Per nam buco, t'h, United State s papers contain the particulars of 'le. atrocious att emp at murder and piracy on the high In this instanc e the attempt was on board a merchant for cause unknown con- The first and secon d mate of the brig Po u l tne y o f spired to murder the captain. After going on deck late at night to see that the watch and 100k -out was properly kept, captain retired to his birth. Awaking after a short time •=nrprised to find the cabin lights extinguished. upon nse to ascertain the cause, when he was felled with a marling spike by the second mate; the chief mate who was standing by then walked off. Fortunately the •ew were not in the plot, at least so far as appears, although had been invited, and he was rescued by his steward. • at Perm-- . be affair was investigated by the ~,e second mate taken into custody, carried ou to Rio Janeiro, to be dealt ..., place could not be supplied at Pernambuco, Altman requ i re d assistance to navigate the ves. mother a blow with On arrivi United St h there, and Capta eel. sion to the plea of lunacy, as a bar t 6 the exeeu the law upon criminals, which is now colas endel by medical men ; if we are to treat " hallucination, " morbid delusions," and other partial disorders of t. mind, as sufficient to absolve from the consequent: . . e are sufficient lof crime ; and, more than this, if tiles (and we shall not pretend to d the lights which improved science has thrown up( our criminal jurisprudence, as applied to this subjec —then, most assuredly, the juryman in a criminal ca is placed in a position of awful responsibility. Nothing, but the notoriety of his crime, the rank of the victim, ante the correctness the quasi-political circumstances of the case, and the array of talent and influence brought to bear upon the defence, could have saved the life of M`Naughten ; and how many cases similar may come before our judicial tribunals, in which honest and humane men may have to incur the risk of dooming to an ignomi nious death fellow-beings, to whom their Creator has denied those protections from the violence of their pas sions, which belong to other men, and whose inherent imperfections a deficient or perverted education, or in- cendiary agitation, have guided on to crime ? Another, and a strong conviction, grows out of evidences circumstances attending this case, and the There are hundreds, given by the medical witnesses we repeat, of monomaniacs—men of distorted minch men labouring under delusions different in descrip tion, but equal in degree, to those of Daniel M`Naughten—delusions, too, which may equally be driven to result in the commission of crime- - ti and every community. Turn for a moment to the state of society and feeling developed in the trial now taking place at Lancaster. Are the deluded men, we ask, who crowd the manufacturing districts of Lanca shire and Cheshire, and look up from the midst of their misery, to the realisation of the wild theories of the Charter, or the equally wild promises of the Anti- Corn-law League, as to the coming of a social and po litical millnium, beings amongst whom the firebrands of agitation ought to be wantonly thrown ? Are these men burning with savage passion, and smarts: the lash of poverty, the parties amongst whom incen diary placards ought to be circulated, imputing, in let ters that he who runs may read, " MURDER, MURDER, MURDER," to any individuals or class of their fellow-subjects ? Undoubtedly they are not ; and here at least a system of prevention of possible evil results may well be applied. The authors of such incendiary appeals may be restrained far more easily than their possible results can be arrested or even ghom t'f imagined ! Since the above remarks, intended for our Tuesday's,l publication, were written, another almost similar case to that of M`Naughten has come to light,--a Mr. John Dillon, who alleges some injustice done to him by that department of the Government which is under Mr. Goulburn, having threatened the life of that gen tleman, and a warrant having been issued for his ap prehension. Verily, the principle of " individual and personal responsibility" progresses apace ! It is con fidently asserted that Dillon was remarked in the lobby of the House of Commons on Monday night last, making eager inquiries for the Right Hon. Gentleman in question—with what view may almost be surmised by the violent tone of his letters, which will be found elsewhere. We know not whether or not he has taken out the necessary qualification for Bedlam ; but, doubt less, he could be proved to possess insanity sufficient to enable him to commit murder, with immunity from its ordinary penal consequences ! We are of course unacquainted with the precise terms which are being offered by Sir Robert Peel, in the negociation which is going on with the govern ment of Mexico. We know not what may be the pro posed modifications to which that statesman is willing to submit in the differential duties levied upon sugar, the produce of Brazilian cultivators, as compared with West Indian sugar ; but we are afraid, if the most recent accounts from Brazil can be relied upon, that the views expressed by our contemporary, the Jamaica Standard, can scarcely he those contemplated by the British Government. The Standard claims, on behalf of the West Indian interests, that " no remission of the differential duties in question shall be conceded whilst slavery exists in the Brazilian possessions:. We are perfectly sanguine that Sir Robert Peel wil make no such remission, unaccompanied with, at the least, a satisfactory assurance with respect to the early termination of the system of slavery in the Brazils. Its termination, at once, we can scarcely hope for, vs we do not know that the machinery exists in the Brazils which would be necessary to render such a step one of safety. Again, our contemporary main tains that the remission of duty upon the produce of Brazil shall be no greater than that upon the produce of British colonies—in other words, that the diffe- rential duty shall remain as before, the whole dut: upon both being reduced six shillings. Such, at least is the interpretation which we put upon the somewlia obscure language used ; and it is plain that, if Brat' has anything to give in return, she can never be satin fled with such terms ;—for how could she be tbereb placed in a much better position in the Britis market ? We repeat, that we cannot tell, except from his past declarations—and they are confined to his course with respect to the question of slave cultivation—the terms which Sir Robert is prepared to grant ; hut if the con- cessions which he requires from Brazil be anything approaching those which have been communicated to us by a recent arrival from that country, his offers must convey to Brazil something well worthy of acceptance. No minister of such a country, in which the slaveholding interest is paramount, would venture to moot the question of the cessation of slavery, without some worthy equivalent to offer ; still less to countenance a proposition such as the following, whi, is given by a correspondent of the London Times of Wednesday, who dates from Marauhao, a northern Brazilian port, on the 21st January : " The Finance Minister, Viscount d'Abrantes, has published a pertaria to the president of the commission charged with the organization of the new tariff, esta blishing differential duties by imposing an additional twenty per cent. upon all goods imported into the Brazilian territory, with the exception of Great Britain and its possessions, to whom an exemption was con ceded." This proposition, it was said, had created a great sensation on the Exchange at Rio ; and, amongst the non-Britannic merchants, " a perfect storm of indig nation :" whilst an opposition paper says, that " it is feared that the machinations of England will too soon follow this up with a lasting convention, which will establish, in favour of her commerce, a monopoly." Here, then, is a large measure of favour offered to us —with what prospects of its being carried into execu tion we know not—and it is perfectly clear that a measure of substantial advantage to the staple trade of Brazil is meditated as its equivalent. It is also clear, from the hostility with which the formation of a British commercial alliance was regarded by the slaving interests of the country—and we are told that the British Envoy had been grossly and personally insulted by their journals—that the negociations going on must contain stipulations, with respect to the question of slavery, which, if carried out, must lead to divest the public mind of any objections which it might entertain on the score of the impetus to be given to a system against which we are nationally pledged, by the admission of the produce of Brazil to compete in the British market with the produce of our own free colonies. Such is, so far as our present information extends the state of the question, as between the present go vernment and the West Indies. We have stated it fairly and freely, that our fellow -countrym en in the West Indies might prepare themselves for the result. No rash legislation, we trust, will be attempted by Sir Robert Peel's government; nothing calculated mad seri ously to compromise the interests of those co l on i es, of nigh which Whig fraud and incapacity have shipwreck. At the same time, we feel convinced that the time has approached at which we must extend our consideration to the important markets of the Brazils; and if we can do this without sacrificing the interests of British subjects in our own colonies, or compro mising the interests of humanity, it will be a consum mation devoutly to be th ankful f or. We cann o t, however, consent toraeccceoivmepaenvieend by y is in j b u o s o t n ice to to our suffering suffering commerce, if British planter, and the sacrifice of those pr o f ess i ons of humanity and that noble sacrifice in the cause which we have made in the face of the whole world. The aid() liberals of iit &)C yr, Virg emnlves, as of late they have done, in the Work of lander, misrepresentation, and mockery of the suffer ngs of their fellow-countrymen in the West Indies, nay run to wallow in the abomination of slavery — nay run to smear themselves in the sweets which have drops with the blood of the suffering negro : we shall not follow them. The flimsy reasoning with which avarice strives to hide its past hypocrisy from tmankind shall not blind us. We ask, for " our bond," for national consistency, and, above all, honesty, with respect to this question! Our "Liberal" contemporaries have seized upon the fact of another insubordination at the Workhouse having been brought before the police magistrate, to insinuate against the Select Vestry the same charges of criminal indifference, and neglect in the performance of their arduous duties, with which, some weeks ago, the public was dosed, usqzte ad nauseam.. Notwith standing the promptitude with which those gentlemen have set about the alterations of discipline and classifi- cation, recommended by the poor-law authorities, the circumstance that the additional means adopted for the purpose of repressing disorder have proved still below the requirements of the case, is attempted, by the Journal of Saturday, to be perverted into evidence that they have wantonly and wickedly neglected to take any precautions whatever to abate irregularities, which none can regret should exist more deeply than the Select Vestrymen themselves. We do not, however, think it worth our while to comment upon attacks, which every candid man in the community knows to be unjustifi able. 'We know the animus with which they are made, and the purpose which they are intended to serve; and, what is more, the public mind has arrived at the same perceptions. Let the Jotirnal and the Times therefore bray their loudest. The identity of their " sweet voices " will not be mistaken ! There is something, however, in these continual disturbances, and especially in that which was the subject of examination on Friday, which, if our brother journalists would divest their minds of the mists of _ . . political partizanship, and unworthy personal spite, is well calculated to excite their serious attention to the working of the law itself, under which scenes so dis- graceful to a civilised state of society can occur. The she-ruffians brought before Mr. Rushton were shewn to have displayed a ferocity which few, even of the brute creation, could have equalled. Girls, from IS to 20, were proved to have scaled walls two and twenty feet high !—crept through the most disgusting localities, and when attempted to be restrained, shewn evidence of a disposition the most savage and brutal,—and this in the pursuit of crime, and in the open light of day I Former examinations into the state of things amongst the inmates of our Workhouse, have brought to light the fact that many of these wretched beings—these un sexed girls and women—have passed their whole lives within its walls, and shew no disposition for any other kind of existence than that of the virtual slavery in which they were, held. And yet this is the boasted " Workhouse Test" which was to rid us of pauperism, and work a moral revolution in the condition of our labouring poor! These debased and reckless women are the fruits of its application ! Can any unprejudiced mind affect a doubt that, as regards such demoralized beings, such a " test" is the most fallacious possible ? These girls and women are idle, vicious, and disorderly. They are also destitute; and, as the condition of their receiving relief, we give them good food, warm clothing, fire, and shelter, whilst, at the same time; we have the conviction before us that their minds are of that degraded order, and their sense of shame so totally gone, that animal comforts are all which they require ! We required previouslY no test of their destitution—no test of their unwilling ness to pursue the paths of industry and honesty for subsistence. These were perfectly ascertained cir cumstances, or are, at the least, fully ascertained now. And yet we persist in applying to them a mode of treatment which we 'acknowledge to be perfectly in efficacious for the purpose for which it was designed! And what, we ask, is the evident result of a perse verence in such a system ? Why to establish in every workhouse a source or moral pollution by which the unfortunate and deserving poor must inevitably be contaminated, or horrified, from the first moment of their entrance within the walls of a union workhouse' Admit that this evil can be mitlgaceil, so far as regard s its effects upon the condition and morals of the de' serving poor, by strict classification ; but by how much will such classification aggravate the depravity of the vicious inmates, shut out as they will be from th e possible good effect of communication with the deserv ing and virtuous, and condemned to a species of moral perdition ? No classification, however - strict, can en tirely abate the evils which must result from th e wcample of such wretched beings upon the young amongst our unfortunate poor ; and the preservatio n of a perpetual contact amongst the vicious themselves —that closing of the door to all improvement in their condition, which must be the result of a condemnatio n of any number of human beings to fester in crime in one revolting mass—is an alteration which is perfectly horrible to contemplate. Is it too much, then, to ask now whether—at least in such cases as the one before us—the application O f the workhouse test, as that by which to regulate th e propriety of giving relief from the poor-rate, is tf t open to exception ? For what is its operation ? T he test in question deters the virtuous and worthy among the po or —d r i ves t h ousan d s to per i s h b y f am i n e an suicide—hurries thousands into the paths of vice , . iI it self, whi c h i s almost preferable to contemplates f comparison with th e sure u ltimate contamination °, the w or kh ouse ; whilst able-bodied criminals, debased below the level of the animal world, embrace with eagerness the animal comforts which the workbotre affords, an d , i t i s notorious, would unwillingly qu it its s walls to p ursue a life of industry, however cer tain 1 ` rewards. The questions may indeed be put to us—wh at re ; medy would we apply ? Would we turn loose le g , society these demorali se d f e males ? It is not, 13°1 ever, in cum b ent upon us to answer. If t h e w° 1.1,, house t est i s a failurr', it is for the philosophers wllO uprooted th e anc i ent law of t h e l an d , an d ga ve us t ho tbe new-fangled thi ng i n i ts stea d , to prescr ibe for disease which they have created. This much we ve b e t ore to predict for their consolation. If that tes indiscri m i nate l y applied for much longer, every sv:trbe house in th e l an d must be, in the strictest sens e o' n e word and in it s regu l at i ons, A PRISON. O ur hu rria o forefathers de s i gne d such buildings only for As-'l4lj. FOR THE lIOUSELESS AND DISTRESSED ! L.OC iL, NE WS 1 t P :l ° FALL or Two P. OUSES.—On Tuesday night -B rt s t 9° , - ; houses, situate in Prince's-place, Great Howard-str e ".'n J .°- denly fell to the ground, in consequence of an excavattod to o the foundation of a new warehouse having been ear rie „ s de , much under them. The furniture in both houses w - t , stroyed, but we are happy to say that no lives were l os j the MRS. CLARKE'S B ENEFIT.—MrS. Clarke has se ctire si °s powerful aid of Mr. Farren and Mrs. Glover o the oe c • 1 . 1 r ain t of her benefit, on Monday night, when a treat of no °, vere s a kind will be provided. Mrs. Clarke is one of the e , _e .t, actresses in her line on the stage ; her on tale_ilorite, unceasing good humour have rendered her a" first fav°, lo o3 s ' and give her claims for support from the lovers of th e of TRIBUTE 01 , RESPECT.—On Wednesday last, f i e o li th e the pupils of Mr. W. J. Eishop, late d ra wing-mas te i n stit il i; Mechanics' Institution, and now of the Collegiat e : , sc ori ll they hold him. tion, presented him with an elegant silver flower va s ., wil l ., about seventeen , mineas, as a token of the r espect „ Distnore, silversmith, of I3old-street, bore the follow i ' 3i , lot o f scription :—" Presented to W. J. Bishop, E s q" bY toke n The vase, which was manufactured _ il j g it; pupils at the Mechanics' Institution, as a small 0 their respect and esteem. Liverpool, 1843." d o'clock, a sum of money, in bank notes, HONESTY. —On Tuesday afternoon, between on ca n o t ( I !, to the £l,BOO, wa s p i c k e d up in Preeson ' s-row, by Mr. •" io sta" o f ray, publi can , o f A therton-street. M r . Murray . 0 011! o f took the m oney South Castle- s t ree t, w h o made a recor d of the 11 %0 to his nei g hbour, Mr. Thomas Taut:ober/or. the notes. M r . T attertall ' s b oo kk eepe r accomP a b y Murray to th e o ffi ce of Messrs. G ore a nd Son' was he notices of the occurrence were issued. The ntoneY an d stored to the o wner i n t h e course o f the afterno on ' made Mr. Murray a present of £2O for his hones"' v 0 g1 16 .,, thC raised the value of the leadi THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING• - 1“ - A Wig "ties' stock market the amount et business transacte,..o, ir e • • qit . tsroP e ... ng government _on& were freely dealt in at the advance. The Govern '. r br" o is • n othe G took his usual parcel of Consols at 961, and • purchased £97,000. New 31, per Cents, at ^Os• Co for account closed 96%; Exchequer-bills , ' o r eign ra ther mium ; and India Bonds, 70s. preminno• T he v i t h have preserved the buoyancy of yesterday au d '-'ll advance in quotations, and Spanish, Mexican• , to 8 0 0 ' bian are the favourities of the speculators , ° the 102 g. pro ' pearances, are the most extensive dealers • _ opt as 5 . ;00 5' The improvement to-day ing an increased disposition to enter into stock o f tb,,, r ta• There was much firmness in prices at the cies__ 22; Ku big or Spanish New left off 29 ; ditto Actives , 21i 3 t° colti ‘ TV! guese, converted, 404 to ; Mexican, 314, to putt 25 ; Chilian, 85 to 1; Brazilian, 73 to 7 'l per L' and-ahalf per Cents., 56 to 4-; and ditto, Fiv" 1024 to 1. • was not important, operse„ao, ids the