The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

Varliamentarp Vrorett ings. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY, On the resolution for continuing the income tax for three years, a long debate took place. Sir R. PEEL spoke in favour of the proposition, and ably justified the first imposition of the tax and renewal of it in 1845. In the course of his address the hon. baronet expressed a 'hope that whilst every hospitality was shown to the French exiles now in this country, care would be taken that En gland was not made the focus of intrigues against the Republic of France. Lord G. •BENTINCK replied with considerable effect to the observations of Sir Robert Peel. Mr WILSON, the editor of the Economist, endeavoured to address the house, but members would not listen to him, and•the debate was ultimately adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY Lord AaHLEY reported from the Lyme Regis election committee that T. N. Abdy, Esq., had been duly elected. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. Hume, stated, with reference to Van Dieman's Land and Australian colonies, that the Government hoped to be able, before the close of the session, to propose measures for extend ing free institutions to these colonies. His answer not being satisfactory to Mr. Hume, he gave notice that he should bring in a bill himself on the subject. After a short discussion, Mr. S. Crawford obtained leave to bring in a bill for securing the rights-of outgoing tenants in Ireland. Mr. LABOUCHERE, at the instance of Lord George Eentinck, explained some recent transactions which had taken place in.Demerara relative to the state of labour in that colony. It was true that some incendiary fires had taken place, but measures had been immediately adopted by the governor to restore order, which he hoped would be effectual. A conversation ensued between Mr. Milnes and Sir G. Grey relative to the proceedings in Trafalgar-square, the right hon. baronet stating, with regard to the collisions between the people and the police, that the consequences which bad followed had all been comprised in the break ing of some lamps, which the police most effectually, but most moderately, suppressed. On the bringing op of the report on the Passengers Bill, Mr. LABOUCHER.E intimated that he had amended it, in conformity with the suggestions of the previous night, by providing that sick passengers landing on any part of our shores should have the right to be conveyed back to the place of embarkation, and that in the case of persons lanqing in consequence of sickness the passage MOT Lould be returned HOUSE OF COMMONS.- -WEDNESDAY On the motion of Mr. ANSZEY, the house resolved i self into committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. Sir R. INGLis objected to that portion of the first clause which went to repeal the Ist of Elizabeth, enjoin ing the oath of supremacy. At present Roman Catholics from taking that oath, but the penalties were retained at common law, an immunity not enjoyed by their Protestant fellow-countrymen ; he therefore moved the omission of the words " shall be repealed." Considerable discussion took place nn this amendment; but it was negatived on a division by a majority of 94 50 voices Mr. HENLEY then moved that part of the clause be ginning at the 17th line, at the words " so much of an Act passed in the Ist year of the reign of Queen Eliza beth," down to the words " in any wise concerns the Roman Catholics," be omitted, as it was that part of the clause which repealed the said Act of Eliiabeth. Considerable discussion also took place on this amend ment ; but it was negatived on a division by a majority of 155 over 119 voices. After agreeing to some other clauses, the committee got involved in an angry polemical discussion of no im portance in itself, but of some importance as to its con sequences, when a motion made by Sir G. GREY was put and carried that the Chairman shoyld report progress and ask leave to sit again on Wednesday next. On the motion of Mr. CoLvILE, the Game Certificate time, and ordered to be committed Bill was read a se( that day fortnight HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY • The Archbishop of YORK presented a petition from a place in the county of York against the admission of Jews to Parliament. Similar petitions were presented from the Bishop of OXFORD, from places in the county of Oxford. The Earl of EGLINTOUN presented a petition from Ber wick against the Currency Act of 1844. Some little conversation ensued, in which the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Stan ley took part. relative to the street disturbances in the metropolis. It was admitted that the mobs were rather of a thievish than of a political character, and that the police had acted well in dispersing them. HOUSE OF COMMONS -THURSDAY A great number of petitions on the different subjects 'true presented. Mr. BIUGIST postponed his notice of motion for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the Game Laws till that day fortnight. BRITISH MECHANICS AND WORKMEN IN FRANCE. Mr. A. STAFFORD wished to ask a question of the go vernment relating to the expulsion of mechanics and artizans from France since the commencement of the revolution, and if such had been the case, whether the British government had taken any steps to relieve their wants and procure means to convey them to their re spective homes. (Hear, hear.) Sir G. GREY said, on Sunday morning he received the copy of a letter sent to Lord Palmerston by the British Consul at Rouen, stating that the French populace had demanded the immediate discharge of all British labour ers and mechanics employed in factories or on railroads, and that a considerable number in consequence were ordered to leave France almost without clothes, and in a state of great destitution. He (Sir G. Grey) immediately sent orders to the British Consul to engage a steam-boat to convey the parties so circumstanced to England, and he also gave instructions to the Mayor of Portsmouth, on their arriving in that port, to make necessary preparations and arrangements to convey them to their respective homes. (Hear.) These arrangements had been made, and the unfortunate individuals alluded to, some of whom belonged to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places in Scotland, appeared (he was informed) very grateful for the attention which had been shown to them. (Hear, hear.) They had means provided for enabling them to return to their homes. (Hear.) , Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Irish Poor Relief Extension Act, with a view to repeal the 10th section, commonly called "The Quarter acre Clause." The hon. member contended that this preliminary clause, which forbade relief, out-door or in door, to all persons in possession of a quarter of an acre of land or upwards, inflicted the grossest injustice on many who could not get rid of their occupancies. Sir WM. SOMERVILLE opposed the motion as unneces sary, as it was held that the guardians had power to give relief to such persons as tendered their occupancies to their landlords, whether accepted or not by the landlord. Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. Fagan, Mr. P. Scrope, Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. Clements, Sir. G. Grey, Col. Conolly, Mr. E. B. Roche. Mr. Aglionby, Major Macnamara, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Alaunsell. Mr. Wakley, Mr. Drummond, Colonel Dunne, and Mr. M. O'Connell, took part in the discussion which followed. The house divided—For the motion 21, against it 114 —majority against the motion 93. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. F. Scott, stated that t t Colonial Secretary hoped, before the close of the ses sion, in consequence of representations from Australia, to bring in a bill for separating the government of New South Wales from that of Port Philip. His noble friend had also under his consideration whether it would not be ne cessary in that bill to introduce certain other alterations in the constitution of New South Wales. Sir B. HALL, in reply to Mr. Hamilton ' stated that it was his intention to take the sense of the house, in com mittee of ways and means, upon the proposition of which he had given notice, for extending the income tax to Ire land. The house went into committee.of ways and means on the income tax resolution ; but the debate principally re solved itself into one of free trade and protection, accord ing to the views of the various speakers. The votes of the hon members, however, would be thus distributed : In favour of the government proposition of continuing the tax for three years—Mr. J. Wilson. Mr. Miles. Mr. Bro therton, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone ; for Mr. lilume's amendment, of limitation to one year—Mr. J. B. Smith, Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr. Disraeli; the debate standing adjourned, on the motion of Mr. Mac regor, till Monday. The Passengers Bill was read a third time and passed FOREIGN AND COLONIAL ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. The Royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, from Boston and Halifax, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday morning, at half-past one o'clock. She brought advises from New York to the 27th alt., £40,000 in specie, and thirty-four passengers.. - On the 21st ult. the venerable John Quincy Adams was seized with apoplexy in his seat in the llouse of Repre sentatives, and died on the following night. Another account states that he died in the house, in the Speaker's room, and adds—" Congress marked its sense of the mournful event by immediately adjourning for a week. All the party bickerings that had passed between the members but a moment before were hushed on the in stant. The citizens of the capital partook of a like feel ing, business was suspended, and a general gloom took possession of every one, so much so that several persons put on mourning.' All the cities of the Union had tes tified their respect for the memory of the deceased. His public career commenced in 1781, when he was but 15 years of age. - The meeting of Gen. Taylor's friends, at New York, which had been adjourned to the 22d, was held on that day ; it was attended by 15,000 persons. Various reso lutions in favour of Gen. Taylor being the next President were proposed, and carried unanimously. The Courier and Enquirer says : ' Money is easy, but there is not much activity in exports. Our stock of flour is so small on the seaboard as to prevent any such fall in prices as might benefit shipments ;. and the last accounts for cotton were so lift). - is not any Nt there The ~...uuruging, Mak eat disposition to operate in that staple. been larger than pr so to advance the rate; ill a downward aspect. sales fur export to England ha oiisiy, but not sufficient) freight. The market has change on London rt The total exports treasury oonus. UC,ICU institutes ?t. to February 19, were— at Paris a "Comptoir National d'Escompte " W 7th a .6; wheat, 211,217; corn, capital of twenty millions. The city of Paris hie eilbscri- bed a third of that sum, promises another third in obliga tions, and the State affords the third third. Another decree restores to the island of Bourbon its republican name of " Reunion." A decree fixes at five per cent. the interest on the sums deposited at the Savings Banks of Paris. The payment of the dividends on the Four, Four-and a-Half, and-Five per Cents. commenced on the 6th, on whiCh day - 3,893,916f. were paid on 5843 inscriptions. According to the Constitutionnel, the following diplo matic appointments are to take place :—M. d'Harcourt, London ; M. Boissy, Rome ; M. d'Alton-ShO, Turin ; General Fabvier, Constantinople ; M. de Tracy, United States.; M. Beaumont, Vassy, Denmark ; M. de la-Mos kowa, Spain. All these gentlemen were, if we mistake not, Members of the late Chamber of Peers. The, Journal du Havre announces the arrival, on .Fri day, from Rouen, of the steamboat lately named the Louis Philippe, but now the Sesostris, with 238 Irish workmen, who had been employed in the great spinning mill at Rouen, called the Foundre, and who, in consequence of the late events, had been discharged. These men went to Pont Audemer, hoping to be received into a manufac tory established there by one of their fellow country:nen, but were disappointed, and therefore came on to Havre to obtain from their Consul the means of returning to their own country. The Minister of War is making arrangements for the relief of the National Guards of Paris from their onerous duties, bye the recalling of the regular troops, and the Mi nister of the Interior in preparing for the elections. A commission is appointed for distributing fundsmeces sary for the service of religion, and the preservation and restoration of churches. On Wednesday, a highly-respectable and numerously attended meeting of English residents at Paris was held at Meurioe's Hotel, Col. Fletcher in the chair, when an ad dress to the French Provisional Government, drawn up by Captain Boyle, R.N., was agreed to. - The address, whilst cautiously abstaining from an expression of opinion as to particularforms of government, congratulated the people upon their courage in vindication of a just, right, and their moderation in the hour of victory—the National Guard upon their admirable exertions in protecting life and property—and the Provisional Government for the wisdom of their measures in critical and trying circum stances. The address expressed strong hopes for the con tinuance of amicable feeling between the people of both nations. Many of those present bore testimony to the kindly spirit manifested towards the English by all classes since the late change of government. One gentleman who held a considerable amount of investments in French Se curities, declared his intention of not sacrificing one pen nyworth of what he bad purchased, and his hopeful and confident tone was responded to by others. Our Paris despatches, dated Thursday evening, confirm the account of the resignation of Prince Metternich, in consequence of the emperor having rejectediiis advice to grant concessions to Lombardy, Bohemia, and Hungary. Much apprehension of disturbance is felt at Vienna and throughout the imperial dominions. The Provisional Go vernment have issued a proclamation advising the people to pay their taxes, that the government might be relieved. Tranquillity prevailed. The Palais National, formerly the Palais Royal, is given to the Minister of War to establish an etat major and battalion of mobilised National Guard. CommuNtsm.—The omnibus drivers and . cdnchicteurs have all struck. They demand to be set on a footing with all the employei of the Northern Railway—that is to say, be allowed their dividend or profits on the receipts, ac cording to amount of salary. M. Lambert, who was attached to the household of the ex-King Louis Philippe, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3rd Legion of the National Guard of Paris, has blown out his brains. The day after the late events he gave in his resignation as lieutenant-colonel and entered the ranks as a private. THE WORKMEN. -On Wednesday, the paviours of Paris struck for an increase of wages : they refused to re sume their work unless the government gives them Bf. a day in place of 4f. the ordinary price. The goVernment, not being inclined to yield to such a demand, has em- ployed journeymen maims to repave the streets. RETRIBUTION.—In 1830, no sooner bad the Dey of Algiers arrived in France as a prisoner of Charles X. than the King was dethroned and exiled ; and in 1848, no sooner had the Emir Abd-el-Kader reached the shores of France as the prisoner of Louis Philippe than the King of the barricades was dethroned and exiled ! The Dey, at the fall of Charles, exclaimed, " God is just : he has avenged me !"—and who would prevent the Marabout, Abd-el-Kader, from making the same assertion of provi dential retribution ? SYMPATHY FOR LOUIS PHILIPPI —The Presse.says —" A considerable number of journeymen joiners who had assembled to converse upon their own situation were alluding to the 1,000,000 f. of the Civil List, which the Provisional Government had promised to distribute among them, when at the moment the arrival of Louis Phillippe and his family at London in a state of depriva tion was announced. Upon hearing this news one of the men present said, Sacristi! that is very hard upon them. I tell you what should be done. The advice of Beranger should be followed. A million distributed amongst us would be but very few francs a-piece. Well, then ! Let it be sent to the ex-King. The arlms of the poor do honour to misfortune ! ' " A BRAVE GIRL.—The following is from the Presse " A young girl was present at the late massacre of the Municipal Guard of the post of the Place de la Concorde, which fired on the sth legion. There remained only one of these unfortunate men. ' Mademoiselle,' cried M. de V—, commandant of the firemen, ' you may save this man ?" What must Ido ? lam ready !' "fhrow your self into his arms, and claim him as your father !' The young girl threw herself at the same moment into the arms of the municipal guard, and, weeping, cried, Gen tlemen, in the name of God, spare m y f a th er , or kill me with him 1' At the same moment the quiskets of the as sailants were lowered, and the municipal guard, protected by his liberatress, was saved. THE MEN AND WOMEN SERVANTS. — Among those who have suffered most from the revolution are men and women servants. There are an extraordinary number of these poor creatures out of bread. With the domestics of the court must be reckoned those of ministers and aides-de-camps, officials, and foreigners, English, Russian, German, &c., leaving Paris, with the reduced establish ments of people whose means have suffered, as well as those who, even if they could, would not like to make an ostentatious display of wealth. The peers are abolished —the deputies broken up ; and, consequently, the number of men and women servants not knowing what to do is truly pitiable. The war department gives great dissatis faction to the National, which blames General Subervie for the character of his appointments. All important commands and trusts are conferred upon men who are amongst the most devoted servants of the late Govern ment. MISERY BEGINNING.—PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING:— How to support public credit is the question of the day. The failure of the bank of Gouin and Co. has profoundly touched the public sentiment because of the name of Jacques Lafitte, and by means of certain associations pro ducing sadness has given a tendency to alarm rather than actual alarm itself; for we are still under the influence of hopeful expectations. The revolution of 1830 ruined Jacques Lafitte, who publicly asked pardon of God and his country for the hand he had in placing Louis Philippe on the throne. That throne is destroyed, and the suc cessor of old Jacques is the first to be swept away in the storm. The public are clamouring for relief. Trade is at a stand-still. The look of the shops, except those which sell the mere necessaries of life, is gloomy. Propositions of various kinds, for the relief of people of business unable to meet their engagements, abound. As no one will think of laying in new stocks of goods, the manufacturers must soon begin to feel the pinch. If manufacturers, then workmen ; and workmen have been taught to expect the advent of a new era. The State ha s taken a v o l un t ary pledge, and it behoves it not to tr ifle , with hungry sto machs and inflamed minds. THE PROSPERITY AND FALL OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. The following extracts from the leading articles of the Times are interesting, the one setting forth the immedi ate cause of the success of the mob in Paris ; the other pourtraying Louis Philippe in the plenitute of his power. First, the cause : "After Count Mole's failure, the King sent for M. Thiers. That gentleman may be said to have actually formed a Cabinet in conjunction with M. Odillon Barrot and M. Duvergier de Hauranne, for they instantly pro ceeded to the discharge of the highest possible duty which could devolve on Ministerial responsibility. The one act of their government was the publication of that incon ceivable proclamation stating that no further resistance should be made, and the promulgation of orders to the officers commanding regiments to withdraw them. This was, of course, the capitulation of the Monarchy. Mar shal Bugeaud, who had the command of the troops, and had now completed his preparations for a general attack on the barricades, and was confident of success, protested most energetically against this extraordinary order, and said that if it was acted on all was lost. The King's then Ministers, M. Thiers and M. Barrot, insisted; the King took their advice, and Marshal Bugeaud resigned the command of the troops, observing that it was useless for him to retain it if nothing was to be done. General La moriciere was therefore named to the, command of Paris, and M. Thiers and his friends proceeded to effect their pacific arrangements. The effects of their orders were immediately perceptible, although the declaration of their names was certainly not followed by the consequences they had anticipated. The officers of the army, indig nant at so unexpected a. termination of their duties, sheathed their swords, the men allowed themselves to be disarmed by the mob, whom they had been ordered not to resist, and the people encountering no serious opposi tion from the M un i c i pa l G uar d, w hi c h was cu t to pieces, rushed on to the conquest of the Palais Royal and the Tuileries. To sum up this narrative in two words, the dismissal of the Gnizot Government rendered it impossi ble for the Executive Government to act effectually ; the subsequent advice of M. Thiers and the resignation of Marshal Bugeaud rendered it impossible to act at all. If this be, as we have every reason to believe it is, a correct narrative of these transactions, we are not surprised that M. Thiers and his colleagues should not have made them- selves conspicuous in the subsequent passages of this re volution." Now the picture : _ " This day fortnight Louis Philippe was the most prosperous, the most powerful, and accounted the ablest Sovereign in_ the world. If the reader will just think of it, he mill find that this wonderful man had attained the very acme of success, consideration, and power. It is a work of time to enumerate the many circumstances of his splendid condition. His numerous, handsome, and dutiful children : • the brilliant alliances—one of them recently concluded—which brought into one family infer. est the vast region from Antwerp to Cadiz ; the near prospect of an event which would probably make .his grandchild tile st:rcrifigu, his don the Kepi t of Spain ; the great cross and drawbaa of his reign just removed— Algeria pacified after eighteen years' war ; his immense private fortune ; his eleven or twelve palaces, unequalled for situation and magnificence, on all of which he had recently spent immense sums of money; his splendid army of four hundred thousand men, in the highest dis cipline and equipment ; a Minister of unequalled energy and genius, who had found out at last the secret of France ; a metropolis fortified and armed to the teeth against all the world ; the favourable advances recently made by those powers who had previously looked down on the royal parvenu ; the well-balanced state of his foreign relations, and the firmly-grasped reins of the political car—all these gifts of fortune, and more, if we had time to go on with the list, were heaped upon one man, in such profusion as really to pall the imagination. What crowned it all was, that Louis Philippe was allowed the entire credit of his success. It was all the work of his own hands. He might stand like the ancient king on the walls and towers which he had drawn round his city, and contemplate the perfect work of beauty and policy which himself had made. The balance of Europe, the causes of peoples and kings, the issues of peace and war, were in his hands. If there was an amari aliquid in this garden of roses and delights, twenty impregnable forts and a hundred thousand armed men were no insignificant watch upon a few disorderly subjects. Solon himself himself would hardly have ventured to preach upon his envious text, ante obitum nemo, to a safe a man." Nought strong as the imagination to draw the reverse. It must be familiar to the minds of all. THE ORLEANS FAMILY. The Globe states that, on quitting the Tuileries, the ex- King and Queen of the French left behind them one of their grandchildren, to whom they' were devotedly at tached, in the charge of some of the ladies in waiting. This child was nursed under the care of the aged queen, and when her majesty arrived in England, she inquired most anxiously whether any tidings of her little favourite and the ladies had been received. It was rather remark able, and was highly gratifying to the queen, that Mr. Laurence and Lady Jane Peel (who were the first of our nobility, in company with Lady Henley, to visit the royal exiles on their landing at Newhaven), should be able to relieve this anxiety. Lady Jane Peel had received letters to the effect that the royal child and the ladies had been permitted to remain in the Tuileries till after the revolu tion, when they were conveyed to a place of safety. It is scarcely necessary to add that her majesty expressed her self highly delighted with the intelligence. Before they separated, the ex-queen informed Lady Jane Peel that she felt happy omarriving safely in England. She did not care how humble life she led there, for it would be bliss to the anxious moments which she had latterly passed in France, and she hoped that now she should end her days in peace. Her majesty seemed sensibly affected by her situation. Another paper gives the following particulars respect ing the Duchess de Montpensier :—" She suffered more than any of the royal family. Having been left behind in the Tuileries she took refuge in a wood closet, and put on a servant's clothes and apron, whilst the mob got posses sion of her blue bonnet, and bore it about on a pike. In disguise the duchess succeeded in reaching, on foot, through the invaders of the château, the embassy of Por tugal, from whence she was conducted to England by Colonel Thierry. It has proved a sorry match for the In fanta—she has lost for ever the two millions of francs wrung from the Spanish government at the time of the marriages. The last of this money was paid away but a week ago for the purchase of a forest near Poitiers, now under seques tration. So much for the fate of one of the royal heroines of the Spanish marriages." Irela ni flour, 10,903; corn meal, 70,2 1,004,983. To France—flour, 213 ; wheat, 3,392 ; corn, 10,588. In flour there had been an advance of• 12/ to 25c. per barrel. Rumours of -a probable peace with Mexico were preva lent. The boundaries proposed by that country to the United States were Texas to the Rio Grande, New Mex ico, and Upper California. It was, however, expected that Congress would not agree to the conditions reported to be stipulated by Mexico, that slavery should not be permitted in any part of the ceded territory, and it .was doubted that such stipulation had been made. Neither men nor money could be voted .until the question should be settled, though the 16 millions loan bill was in the Senate, and might be passed when needed—the cash being easily obtainable at par for 6 per cent. stock, having 20 years to run. The petty quarrels of the King of Musquito with the Nizaraguans had been taken up•by the British naval com mander on that station, which'bad led to a great deal of unpleasantness. The Vixen, British steamer, having on board the aforesaid king and Mr. Walker, the British consul, anchored in the port of San Juan de Nicaragua, landed a small force, took possession of the town and fort, struck the colours of Central America, and hoisted those of the Musquito king. The steamer departed, and a counter revolution took place. The commander of the Vixen returned, but, finding threats unavailing, sailed away for Jamaica for reinforcements, The King of Prussia, in closingthe session of the state on the 6th, made a remarkable speech in favour of peace ; but he added, if treaties be broken, or an attack made on his territories, or on those of the Germanic Confederation, he should •• prefer the dangers of war." 21. young lady named Blackwell, who is 26 years of age, is now studying medicine at Boston ; and on her applica tion for admission to the medical class, she produced re commendations from several eminent physicians of Phila delphia, and certificates from her tutor, the professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the New York University. AuSTR/A .—Prince Matternich has resigned. The Prince!had declared himself decidedly favourable to con cessicns in Lombardy, as well as in Bohemia and Hun gary. The loan by the Emperor of Russia to Austria of thirty millions has been completed, and the money paid. A terrible panic exists on the Bourse at Vienna. There are rumours of rising in different parts of the empire —in Galicia, in Bohemia, and in Hungary, not to speak of Lombardy. FEARFUL CONFLICT AT THE FEEJEE ISLANDS, 800 KILLED.—By the arrival of the Sydney mailer Saturday, we are informed of a most severe battle having taken place on the 4th of September, at the Feejee Islands, between the chiefs and the people of Mbau and Rena, in which the latter were defeated, but escaped with a num ber of their adherents to Java harbour, about seven miles west of Rena roads, where they intended to settle, all the habitations of Rena being burned to the ground by the chiefs of Mbar]. The number slain on both sides amounted to upwards of 800, the bodies of whom still remained exposed there. Fortunately for the missiona ries, the scene of warfare occurred at some distance from their location. AMERICA.—The Washington, from New York, arrived at Southampton on Tuesday, having left on the 21st ult. She brings 17 passengers, and 5000 dollars only in specie. The stock market in New York was much depressed, al though money was much easier, with symptoms of im provement. The exports of bread to England had been on a limited scale. Preparations were making for the election of President, which was to commence on the 22d nit. The news from America is of no great importance. The principal topic discussed is, " Who will be President ?" Strong efforts are being made to crush Mr. Polk, and bring in a Whig of moderate principles. The dates from Vera Cruz are to the 29th of January. The accounts and prospects of peace there were very contradictory. Orizaba had been captured by Col. Lane, at the head of 500 cavalry OXIANISM AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.—What says the French Church ? She holds out her hand to Democracy, but with a timid boldness, as a man might do who found himself face to face with an unchained wild beast, watching all the while its glistening eye and restless limbs. The Archbishop of Paris, seemingly of his own accord, but really after receiving a significantly lge from a republican club, issues directions or substituting the name of the Republic for that of the King in the daily prayers. He goes with his archiepis copal cross and in full costume to visit the sick in the hospitals, and finds himself greeted with respect. Pas toral letters are published in every diocese. In all, the clergy are desired to inculcate peace and order, and to accept whatever form of government it may please Pro vidence to set over them. pressing messa GERMANY. — The German Franefort Journal of the 3d contains a letter from Berlin of the 22th ult., stating that the treaty of alliance between Austria, Russia, and Prus sia, for supporting in common Austria in Italy has been ratified. Three corps d'armee have received orders to be mobilised ; the fourth is to march from Saxony and Thu ringia into Westphalia ; the seventh is to descend from Westphalia to Cologne ; and the eighth to move to the frontier of France. The third corps d'armee in the march replaces the fourth in Saxony. The Journal de Franc fort denies that foreign troops are to quarter in the city. At Heidelberg there had been some troubles on the 29th. The Duchess of Orleans, with her two children arrived at Coblentz on the Ist. Her Royal Highness arrived at the Hotel du Giant, and immediately after set out for Ems. Among the persons of her suite were the preceptor of the Princes t.nd the French general. The German Diet has decided upon authorising each state of the Germanic Diet to regulate the question of the liberty of the press as it may think fit. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.—The Paris Union points out the following curious coincidences between the cir cumstances attending the fate of the two French monarchs who preceded the republic :—" As in 1830, three days, and the same three days of the week, Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday ! As in 1830, a man of the people taking his seat on the royal arm-chair ! Louis Philippe was dethroned in the same month as the Duke of Berry was assassinated 1 Raised to the throne by barricades, he was hurled from it by barricades ! Like Charles X., Louis Philippe had a grandson, and this grandson was of the same age as the Duc de Bordeaux in 1830. Like Charles X., Louis Philippe, at the last moment, wanted to abdicate in favour of his grandson, and he likewise received for answer, 'lt is too late !' Charles X. fell shortly after Hussein Pacha, the dey of Algiers ; the fate of Louis Philippe arrived soon after the day on which Abd-el-Kader was brought a captive to France. Now for Louis Philippe as for Charles X., we say the ex- King. But there exists a difference, which the people in their justice acknowledge aloud. Charles X. departed poor into his exile, and Louis Philippe will in his, enjoy his immense wealth." THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. The events of to-day (says the correspondent of the Daily News, writing on Monday) have been untoward. The Provisional Minister of Finance has resigned. The Bourse was to have been re-opened, and all the agens-de change were assembled, ready to commence business, when, unexpectedly, soon after one o'clock, an order ar rived from the Minister of the Interior, forbidding its opening till further orders. It is understood that bargains had been made for purchases and sales of the Threes at 60. Gouin's bank stopped payment to-day. This bank had done much business for the petit commerce of Paris. It is reported that its liabilities are fifty-five millions. Con tradictory reports are circulated as to its assets. I am told in one quarter that they are considerable, while I hear hear from another that they bear but a small proportion to the liabilities. However it be, this failure must pro duce great temporary distress. Gouin was banker to the conservative party in the chamber, who have withdrawn their capital, which is assigned as the immediate cause of the failure. Gamier Pages takes the Ministry of Finance. Advices from Paris of Tuesday evening announce that the Bourse had been re-opened amidst great excitement. A melodramatic deputation of Americans waited upon the Provisional Government on Monday, and, according to the custom of republicans, taking upon tbem to speak in the name of the United States, they presented M. Arago with an American and a French flag united. The news from the departments is generally favourable. Public tranquility is everywhere maintained. The miners in the north who had revolted, have resumed their work. Great commercial distress however is reported in the chief towns of the provinces. The armed band which occupied the Tuilleries, and made it the theatre of their disorders and orgies, were in duced en Tuesday to evacuate it. It seems that a hand of some four hundred armed indi , viduals had, after the capture of the Tuilleries, resolved to remain in it, and snake it their quarters. They slept on the sofas, such as were not broken, got camp beds, slept, lived, cooked, and made themselves at home in the Tuil eries. The authorities occupied the guard houses with the , National Guard, but one of this band always stationed himself as sentry alongside of the National Guard sentry. It was soon found that these gentry were not of the most honest kind. For they contrived to force open doors and drawers, and to pass objects of value through the gra ti ngs of the Tuileries, to corn! anions outside. At first food was sent to them, as to soldiers on a post, but this being with held, they contrived to procure some. At l as t th e P re f ec t, Caussidiere, begged them to dislodge. They refused flatly, declared that they had fifty rounds of ammunition per man, and would first set fire to the Chateau, if attacked, and then fight their way out. How dislddge these des perate men ? An assault could scarcely be asked of the good citizens who compose the National Guard—police there is as yet none. The soldiers have declined to at tack the people. The only corps that could be got were the youth of the College of St. Cyr—i.e., the sons of the best families of the kingdom. The prefect accepted their offer of reducing the brigands ; and the latter was sum moned last night. In reply, they offered to decamp on condition that each one of them was to have a pension of 800 francs a-year, and that none o f th em were t o b e searched on marching out. The Prefect refused the honest terms, and gave them until ten this morning to submit. At ten this morning the boys of St. Cyr, well armed, marched into the court of the Tuileries, with a crowd of Parisians gathered thousands strong, to witness the fun of the chateau taken by stop]. They were in partdisap po , inted • for the brigands, frightened at th e d e t erm i ne d , aspect of the St. Cyr scholars, consented to march out without setting fire to the palace. Some were searched ; all had dollars in abundance. Some were marched to the Hotel de Ville, and some escaped The 11 zteur of Wednesday contains a decree of the Provisional Government, whereby , in all the industrial and commercial towns, a " Comtoir National d'Eseon,pte7; is to be created, destined to . spread credit to a ll b ranches of production. The capital of thee. comptoirs is to vary. according to the wants of the localit ies, and the capital is to consist of a third, in cash, contributed by the 1... THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COURT AND FASHION, The Court remains in town, and during the last few days Her Majesty and Prince Albert have taken their ha bitual exercise, as the weather has permitted, in the gar dens of Buckingham Palace and the Park. It is fully expected that the Queen Dowager will arrive at Spithead, from Madeira, about the 25th of May. The Count and Countess de Neuilly, (alias Louis Philippe and his Queen, alias Mr. Wm. Smith and his lady,) visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace on Mon day. LAW INTELLIGENCF DRUMMOND AND OTHERS V. THE ATTORNEY-GE NERAL AND OTHERS.—This was an appeal before the House of Lords, against a decision of Sir Edward Sugden, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in 1842, in a case some what similar to that of the Attorney-General v. Shore, ivhich was so long before the English courts. It appears that, about the year 1665, five Protestant Dissenting con gregations were established in Dublin, agreeably to the Presbyterian form and discipline, and funds vested under a trust deed for the support of ministers, &c. Of these five, two situated in Eustace-street and Strand-street, Dublin, have become Unitarian, and proceedings being instituted in the Irish Court of Chancery, the decision of that court was, that the fund was originally intended for the benefit of those who professed Trinitarian doctrines, and that it should be so appropriated in future. The ar guments on appeal, which occupied several days, were brought to a conclusion on Tuesday. Judgment post poned. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The consecration of the gallop of Hereford is fixed for Sunday, the 26th, at Lambeth Palace Chapel. The Rev. A. Tighe Gregory, T. C. D., has been insti tuted to the vicarage of Bawdsey, in Suffolk, by the Lord Bishop of Norwich. Patron—the Lord Chancellor. Lord John Russell said on Friday night that it is not the intention of Government to fill up the vacant stall in Durham Cathedral. An address, signed by nearly all the tutors and lecturers at Oxford, has been presented to the Hebdomadal Board, in favour of some extensive alterations in the present system of university examinations. The Rev. Dr. Ellerton, senior fellow of Magdalen Col lege, Oxford, has founded i n th e U n i vers i ty o f D ur h am, scholarship a of the value of £2l a year, to be held by a na tive of the north riding of Yorkshire. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been pleased to appoint Felix Knyvett, Esq., of the city of Chester, his secretary. Mr. Knyvett has filled the same office for the diocese of Chester for the last ten years. The stamp duty paid on the probate of the will of the late Archbishop of Canterbury was 1,5001., the personal estate of this venerable prelate having been valued for that purpose at 120,0001., which is exclusive of freeholds. His Grace has left the whole of his property absolutely to his wife. _ _ . _..... The Rev. W. F. Wilkinson, late Theological Tutor of .,... Cheltenham:College, hag been presented to the living of St. Werberg's, Derby, through the kind offices, we believe, RAILWAY AFFAIRS. of Mr. Strutt, M.P. for that city. The living is in the —44-____- gift otthe Lord Chancellor, and is worth, nett, £4OO a- Seven arches on th e A r d w i c k Branch of the M anc h ester year. and Leeds R a il wa y f e ll i n on W e d ne sd a y m orn i ng. This -- The Bishop of London consecrated the new church of branch was i n course o f cons t ruc tion. St. Mark's, Shoreditch, on Thursday, making the thir- The damage done to the line, engine, carriages, &c., by teenth church entirely built by the Metropolitan Churches the accident on the Caledonian Railway, will exceed Fund—the whole of the seats are entirely free. On Satnr- . 42,000 - day his lordship consecrated the new district church, Mr. Thomas Wright, of- the establishment of Joseph dedicated to the Holy Trinity, at Hoxton—it has two Locke, Esq., M.P., will shortly proceed to Barcelona, in thousand sittings, all free. Spain, with engines, carriages, tools, materials, &c., for DURHAM.—RaIph Lindsay, E sq ., h as p re sented to th e working the first railway in that country. University of Durham the advowsons of the Rectory of The Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Ickleford, and of the vicarage of Pirton, both in the Railway, and the Hartlepool Dock Companies, have autho county of Herts. The annual value of the two livings is rized the leasing of their concerns to the York, Newcastle, understood to be about £6OO. Mr. Lindsay has already and Berwick. founded in the University a scholarship of £4O a year, to The Chester and Holyhead Railway Company received be held by a student educated at Durham grammar school. their report announcing that the Conway tube had been A scholar will be elected to fill that scholarship in Octo- safely floated to its destination, and that the line for the ber next. entire distance to Holyhead, saving the passage o f t h e Menai Straits, might be ready by the Ist of May. The THE BIBLE SOCIETY.-011 M on d a y a deputation f rom directors were authorised to subscribe to the Stea m -b oat the Bible Society wa it e d on th e A rc hbi s h o p o f Canter bury, to congratulate him on his elevation to the Primacy, Company. and present him with an Impe r i a l Q ua rto Bible. Hi s DELAY OF A MAIL TRAIN. - Considerabl e anx i ety prevailed in Liverpool onTue day morning, in consequence Grace replied as follows :—Gentlemen, I beg to express the satisfaction with which I receive your kind congratu- of the non-arrival, until about four hours after the usual time, of the early mail-train from London. The delay was u c a t th s h i ,oe containing n e o d t h b e y r t h sidee heavyot Crewe tar ,and luggage n ergirders, , both oa thl 01 trainutilines nnets f n r 000mf rail milesahi el lations on the high Ecclesiastical dignity to which in the Providence of God I have been called ; and I especially occasioned value youraddress, because it is accompanied by the present became so blocked up in consequence that the mail train of that Book, to which I owe everything. Whatsoever I am as a man, or as a writer, or as a minister, that Book has made me ; and the only hope which I now entertain could not pass, and had to wait the arrival of the 6 30 of realising the expectations of kind friends, and dis- up-train from Liverpool, when the mail, passengers, and charging with any degree of faithfulness the duties which luggage were transferred from one train to the other. lie before me, depends upon the Bible ; for there lam TRANSMISSION OF MONEY BY RAILWAY.—At the last assured, that He who dispenses to men their respective meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. Chubb stations on earth, will also give stren g th f or th e p er - exhibited an iron box f o r th e t ransm i ss i on o f money , bul - formance of what those stations require. a n d t oge th er lion, &c., on railways. A wrou g ht iron box, lined with the trial, will furnish grace to meet the trial. It may throughout with hard steel plates, is locked down at the `happen that the new circumstances in which I am placed terminus to a strong iron plate in the guard's carriage. may render me less able than I have been hitherto to The key of this lock, and also the key by which access i attend the public meetings of your Society, to which I can alone be obtained to the interior, is kept at the prin have, been attached f o r more th an f or t y years ; b ut not hi ng cipal terminus by th e officer who has ch arge o f the cash.. can change my opinion of the excellence of that Society, Each station-master is provided with a key, which op ens which will always find me f a ithf u l t o it s i n t eres t s an d a small lid at the top ; wh en h e h as money to send, he un anxious for its prosperity. And now, gen tl emen , i n bid- locks the lid, places his bag of mon e y or parcel in an open ding you farewell, permit me to express, to g ethe r with drum underne a th, moves a h andle which turns the drum, my thanks for your kind feelings towards me, an earnest and the cash is dropped inside. Before he is able to take prayer for your welfare, both spiritual and temporal. out his key, he must move the drum back and see that the May you be guided through life by the principles of the money is gone. It will be observed that he cannot leave Volume which you have presented to me, and experience the lid unlocked. When the box arrives at the terminus, their support when everything else has lost its value. it is unlocked from the frame, taken into the office, and CONFIRMATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. placed on a similar frame there. The cash-keeper only —On Friday morning the confirmation of the Right Rev. can, with his key, then get access to the money. Dr. Sumner to the Archbishopric of Canterbury took BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNG. place in the parish church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, TION RAILWAY.—The following letter has been sent to London. The Commissioners appointed were his Grace us in reference to a statement made at the recent meeting the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London, Wi n _ of this company : " According to the published report of the meeting of the chester, Oxford, Rochester, St. Asaph, Peterborough, Chichester, St. David's, Bath and Wells, Ely, and Lichfield. The Archbishop of York presided. The pany t , io N n lr ;.e l ca ko n t t h a elcZi n tn e t n o t th b e y company, 1 1 ;a i n r I t i n n ra ar t i n swAr e to a Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Corn. g Archbish o p El ec t an d th e Bishops having put on their lle u n e tead Dock Company, stated, that the transaction took place robes in the vestry, and the Advocates and Proctors, the before he became solicitor to the railway company. It b e i ng Vicar-General, the Registrar, with the other officers well known that prior to Air. Lloyd's appointment our firm having assembled, and the Archbishop Elect havin g con - held that office, it has been inferred, and consideri ng t h e im. sented to the election, they were conducted into the F a r aonrcne myself we t r r e an c s o tc n t i i z e a %n o l it u , n a r n e - b ra o d n vlse l At i e 'a ciir s l e . ir. directo rs For Sla 1 church, where morn i ng prayers were read by the Venera- to ? I ts legality, I therefore lost no time in writing to atertoatais tile A rc hd eacon Hamilton, the Rector. The Right Rev. laby to ascertain wh a t h e k new of the matter. Owing to his Commissioners then proceeded from their pews to a table being in France I have but just received his answer, which is, that lie was totally ignorant of the loan until after the first prepared for them near the chancel. The Proctor of the meeting of shareholders und t er e th i e na a n m w atam m at4en bill had taken Arches Court prayed that the letters patent might be raad, which was accordingly done by the Registrar. After known it, he would at atheathme e is e l3 . till cjuite lave which th e L or a Archbishop Elect took his seat at the strongly protested against r il l a l l e e . daArskto Had he oro h it. I have only to add that in m g table, o pp os it e t o th e President of the Commissions ; his ignorance on the subject was and is equal to that of Mr ) . ' lgl n - I am, Sir, your obedient servant. lauy. Grace being presented to their Lordships by the Rector, J. TOWNSEND, who, at the same time, presented to their Lordships the liabY and Self. Liverpool, March 7, 1848. original mandate, whereupon the President directed the rail- Apparitor (J. T. Barber, Esq.) to make proclamation RAILWAY " SprAN it . i:L k E i ß er . ,,, for thethe Stoningten purpose of watering calling upon all persons who should object to the confer- the track and road thereby diminishing the friction /nation to come forward and make their objections in duethe track, of the cars upon preventing the boxes and jour form of law, and they would be heard. At this stage of way they carry a` "spr i nkler, by varnishkeeping. away the dust, pre the proceedings, a manifest sensation was produced serving the paint and by not having to clean the through the church, and the ceremony was proceeded - cars so often, relieving the passengers from great annoy with. The Archbishop of York then read the several do-' cements which were afterwards signed by the Commis- ante, eels . from a and ticking bei n labour at the through stations f h r e o m t heated, the This improvement has stoners. The Archbishop of York then rose, and an- i been fully tested for the past . two months upon the road, Bounced the confirmation of the election. and the sett. 1 mid found to be 2,060 all f popular with travell ers. I t requ i res a b out team of confirmation having h -cen signed .b,r she Como; : :- . gallons or the Stonin g t on roa d ( 47; miles.) The ,Boners, the praceedinss terminated. . s oac hoc ia uttiliChC4 t 9 14 Win bellied the usual wrier- March 14, 184$ tank, and is un d er th e contro l of the engine-man by PO bY . rope attached to a val v e w hi c h h e s h uts and opens p• sure. When it is i n o p era ti on not r. particle of dus t pears inside or outside of the cars. In warm anddry !Tr a , ther the car windows can be left open without objeo% v Tbis is a useful invention where there are tracts ruel'" through sandy districts.—Providence Journal. w A S BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION. —Vag 111 OF THE GAUGES.—RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES. half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this connia adjourned a second ti me f rom t h e 4 t h i nstant, was f lat on Saturday, at Bi rm i ng h am . I t w i ll be recol le c ted the object of the last adjournment was to receive the suit of the negotiations stated to be in progress WS: the dissentient shareholders of the Birmingham aluL t , ford Company and the directors of the Great We'l — t : founded upon the propositions made by Mr. Dobier , solicitor to the former body. After a long discries_, / Mr. Mozley moved " that the Great Western C010,.....r" be forthwith formally called upon to deliver to the no holders of this company who have paid their calls , At securities now due to them under the agreement of 12th of Nov., 1846, and i n a ll ot h er respects to c olt that agreement, and that Mr. Dobie write to them 'e quiring their compli ance w i t h such demand withi° 0 week from t'ais date." This resolution was earriekly the meeting was adjourned to the 23rd instant, et •Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. After this, meeting, an 0 , journed special meetin g was h e ld , to consider a bil l t o , e , , able the company t o ma k e d ev i at i on lines from Leal; ton to Warwick, & c . A resolut i on, moved by Mozley, that the bill should be opposed, was c arried , , was another, that th e p resent sol i c i tors of the coniPann'o be no longer empl oye d, b ut that Messrs. Cohnore Beale be retained as such. This meeting was also o urned to the same day and place as the other. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. -fla' LINCOLN. —The parliament ar y comm i ttee h ave r e ed that Mr. Charles Seely was not duly elected for '— borough, on account of bribe. ry Mr. Itumtrey, the eminent Queen's Counsel, is about,ri oppose Mr. Hobhouse, at Li nco l n , w i t h every chance" success. • t le , CARLISLE ELECTION.—On Mond a y th e comm ittee dared the election of Mr. Dixon, for Carlisle, to be O l on the ground th a t h e was a government contractor e t ibe time it took place; and that Mr. Hodgson's elect for the same place was void, on account of bribery bY agents. - LYME -REGIS.—In the H ouse o f C ommons on Tuesds9o Lord Ashley, as chairman of the Lyme Regis Elec t , e le Committee, reported t o th e h ouse t h at Mr. AbdY,,',,, sitting member, h a d b een d u l y e l ected. The comtilir,d also made a special report, complaining that Mr. Attot d had been in the habit of bribing the electors who ‘v°' vote for any candidate he might recommend. ;ne st fa therefore, recommended that a law might be passed, ",,f better securing the freedom of election of members " parliament. COMMITTEE.—The ~,,ittee BEwinEy ELECTION COUI, for have declared that Mr. Ireland was not duly elected the borough of Bewdley. That it was proved to the C° 1 mittee that Edward Price was bribed in the sum of by James Banks, an agent of the said Mr.' Ireland ; bet was not proved that the act of bribery was committed wi 7o the knowledge or consent of the said Mr. Ireland. the said Mr. Ireland, by his agents, was guilty of tres . :a the electors for the purpose of corruptly influenc l them. KINSALE E LECTION .—At t h e nomination on Thu od a the show of hands was declared in favour of Mr. 1 111 ":0 and a night, p a o b l o l u w t a fi s dftyemfeallnodwesd airninfaevdowurithofblLuodrgdeoCnlsi,nastossn.ol the house of a man named Sisk, in which it was W e d that some of Lo r d Cli nton ' s humbler supporters 1;4 located for prote c ti on . H av i ng b roken in the door ti-e, dragged out three of them and carried them off. Imp diately after Mr. Fitzsimons, the conducting agent of ` k lordship, had info r m a ti ons sworn b e f ore a justice of he 4, 'peace, and having got the a id o f th e m i l i tary and potj recovered the parties " kid napped, " and again pl y them in Sisk's house, which was defended by treePs- polling was to take place on Saturday. The result give in another column. 0 FREE TRADE AND REPUBLICANISM.—RepubIicans, and Free Trade d on 't appear to comport exactly in Fran'ii, It will be noticed th a t t h e E nglish labourers on the ra, way, and the En g li s h wor k ers i n the mills, have beeqbe ceremoniously dismissed from their employment. supremacy of home industry has been rather widely N'_„ 1 ". 0 0 cated amidst the revoluti onary f uror. N o frat ernisylo, has been evinced, so f ar as l a b our i s concerned-110 P.A4 pagandism if we except the re-diffusion of the j o boia: - 0 in the old localities as unemployed paupers. Th) e r , was exceedingly mean, h ear tl ess , an d unworthy, coesl.4o ing our hospitality to foreigners, and levelling priee're l e where they are concerned. It is with much jostle!, o Standard remarks on this sole( i-m, under the re.9" l "co' republicanism :—"lt is perfectly disgraceful to the to vernment of France and to the people of Fratleetd to multitudes of poor men, invited to the country to a ti ott its convenience and its wealth, should be driver' 04/ naked and penniless, like repelled invaders, as the El ti ird labourers have been, and this at a time when every t jyt shop in London is (thanks to free trade) filled wit°i/ produce of French labour. This, however, 'raust,7l ' have an end, and its end will be the end of " free trsa; o s4 THE RASCALITY OF THE RADICALS.—We anxious to impress upon out readers the fact, the alio, sure of which appears the most important result _ 0 w ell recent in q uiry. That the Radicals bribed we were,, to aware, so that the proof of that was no " aisclosuriewied us. however it may have been to such simple-" were persons as believe in the purity of Liberalism. I . l` ;4r not prepared. however, f or proo f so positive of the — b9 mous practices which appear to have been resorted toto the Radicals for th e p urpose o f falsely proving wlia „of perceived they could n o t t ru l y prove — the commisslsvo, bribery on the part o f th e C onservat i ves. It is ;11,i• from the evidence of their own witnesses, that the ,• 11 % berals " resorted to the t reac h erous pract i ce o f t'l r ;is; some treating or bribery in th e name o f their onoP' and tried bribery again to i n d uce the parties to ticyc weril to the stories so shamefully t rumpe d up. Comment the/ superfluous ; the facts speak for themselves. What ° oat inference can be drawn from the unanimous decision o f bribes had been proved, but not against Mr. Bollinf o le his agents l We declare our conviction that the, f o y , history of electionee r i ng i n i qu i ty never exhibited fele thing so nefarious and inf amous as the proceedings ° " Liberals" at the last election.—Bolton Chronicle. MANCHESTER. Ct mostaElsTs suspension s rt p . e — n unsatisfactoryosi ou A iri T onfab ruk O sei ctn F oends T dus ir ß ftioi no A rgnt 7 ht heEt there eoprne a b l e m e treme. depression to which we alluded on Tu rt e ei sd hsneae a nyn y titn ; l l: u l w4 ,i lice l by apprehensions regarding the present political movennitr!' France and other countries, as well as by the monettoloh culties prevailing in various parts of Europe, continueo i o& minished. Continental shippers are operating for e to diate and pressing orders, and these operations are Co nn o, the narrowest possible limits. The cessation in the givingone 01 of continental orders thus removing from the markets._ the most important classes of buyers, the consequence gree of stagnation which throws a general gloom over trm Ac il , trict. In the present state of the market, nothing like ; el f nite statement can be made regarding pnces, which Cit i es!' fluctuating and irregular. Many p ro d ucers s h ow n o 0 10', tion to make any material co n c ession , b e li ev i ng that aqtrole cal excitement abates, confide nce w ill b e restore d , an wed again revive. The Greek buyers who a few weeks ag°,05 1 ,;" operating freely, are now limiti ng th e i r purchases very derably. The home trade, alth oug h somew h at b e tt e r I : to rp was some weeks since, is y e t f ar f rom b e i ng satiattoly considering the advanced state of the season. A very.giVolei minution in the employment of factory hands seems well from the present aspect of our commercial affairs. ,ef ROCHDALE.—The flannel market this week was he7ceiv tended. Several manufacturers sold more goo d s th an fors t , weeks past. Prices for both goods and W oo l are IWO' A same as usual. le LEEDS.—The woollen trade of this to wn an d neighbont.,o remains in a somewhat inanimate state. Speculation 3 , 13 .4 - eo,' completely discarded both by merchants and manUfac"oler and the latter do the largest portion of their business to Q.,1111 We may add, however, that although little is doing eitheg"gii home or the foreign trade, prices are steadily maintain there are no heavy stocks of goods on hand. n BRA Iwo RD.—Woof : There conti nues great dulness°,itev i part of the buyers. Noils an d b ro k es are only made in '" ( 1 , quantity, and command full prices. Yarn*: The dons; o, steadily on the increas e , w ith very reduced stocks on he"' AS'' those of numbers not in immediate request. Pieces : 10 1g , cannot remark any m ar k e d i mprovement. The recent re.gol' tion in France, and th e n i stur b ances in London and Gitctlis. have engrossed the att en ti on o f t h e merchants, who aiWeipectblci; posed to pause till thi ngs h ave assumed a more steady , as it is yet too early to buy for any but the spring seas r ot, is not usually of sreat moment so far as quantity is conce vet HALIFAX.—Ptecea : Our m ar k e t t h is d ay h as bee': ( bar nearly at a stand; scarcely anythi ng d o i ng an d a ver y fl Aste' ers attending. Yarns still continue in the same languid Wool very quiet, but much the same in price. ~„t t btg VDDERSFIELD. —There has been a very thin market ser week, and not an aver age amoun t of business done, for _ A son of the year. Prices are without any alteration. recte" Nowt:CODA:H.—Lace There have been but fe w sales: dal'' this week, and those of small amount. The home der„ ii - g tits ' i pears to remain in the same inactive !late as for o .2",. e viV.'si past. Passing political events will n o t ten d to Its Some foreign orders are in course of execution, for the I ' ay, tj fair; others have been suspend e d , or are countermanur'eage confidence is restored. The vital interests of the peoPi e ortli ged in every departm en t of trade, including those of th e ca _ zans themselves, a re now depending upon the maintells'.'oo._,Sl peace abroad and qu i et at home. Any serious interruPilw either, would so injure or destroy credit as to withdrs n etr, means necessary f or g i v i ng regular employment to the ° ,t' i lltr i tive classes. It i s f ortunate that there is not much stock in this market ; yet prices are so unprofitable as to l a less rath er th an a larger production. Holder! : There tie change to no ti ce i n the trade, since our last, altbt a l hear, on some s id es , t a lk o f a slight improvement; 2 2 ,16,:i must be very partial, and confined to a few particular is t t; 11 we cannot learn that there is any improvement to waulii , f givinx out of more work. On the contrary, there is et, e ver, at this period of the year (which ought to be the busiesth ‘e , disposition to curtail and reduce stocks on hand, beca o ; o l!A the present, our trade will have to depend upon the holl e ro,',i kets, and these are in a very stagnant state, with a (. so o ' scarcely sufficient is carry off even the small amount of • now producing. 4 .6 0 LEICESTER.—The home demand continues in them en state as it has been for some time, and there has scarcely go anything done in the warehouses. The French revolutl s goo o f the failure of several large continental houses, has Pllbea l :s plete stop to our European trade, and we do not asit,e idol any American orders having arrived. There is but lit Pip c o t in yarns ; spinners complain of not being able to obts ie s price at the rate they must give for wools. Forced s titiw made at extreme low rates. Vools continue steadY. ' „ tio alteration in price. GLASOOW.—The riots, in the earlier part of this w e ll) 'pc the effect of literally suspending business • and, filth°, 0 , c prehensions of their renewal no longer exist', our markgo* no means recovered_ from the interruption. It Now' -,Ds' that the present condition of France, and its possibleorP, r ,,e ° Y, results, are extensively regarded in a very favourable,aqins,',Zi, merchants here and on the continent. Business with u`„ e piri o f Holland, Italy, and the Mediterranean is almost g ligr jerS I( and every post, so far from bringing its usual list of 0r:,,, c e1! manufactured goods, conveys recommendations to c' eie ct=ll. possible, orders in process of execution. In other re%tr e re more settled and hopeful feeling continues to gab t",es. The country trade increases as the season advances, 'old i to is now somewhat more activity in the wholesale war in A fair amount of business has been done this weel' , 1 ;00500 staple descriptions of grey cloths, the calico printers, . 0 00, principal purchasers. Prices of goods remain withOol,; R tio%A, alteration. In cotton woo!, .spinners operate very 4 43 Will i and a decline of about id. per pound may be quoted Money is plentiful, and the rate of discount for VP" Catitmes at fire per cent. IRELAND. At a special meeting of the Dublin Corporation, on Tuesday, an address of congratulation to the French people was carried by a majority of 42 to 5. The priests, notwithstanding the rescript . of the sacred college, continue to infest Conciliation-hall in great force. No fewer than eight were in attendance on Monday last, and of the £77 subscribed as rent, no less than £42 were contributed by priests. TULLAMOORE.—A letter, dated Tullamoore, March 11, received by a respectable lady in this town, states,—" I hope we may soon leave, before the troubles set in ; no thing is expected here but rebellion. The protestants who would not illuminate on the downfall of monarchy in France had their windows broken. LORD STANLEY AN EXCELLENT LANDLORD.—There are only two maiden ladies getting relief in Cogerg, Lord Stanley's estate, comprising 400 acres, and upwards, the people being in such comfortable condition that they do not require parochial relief. Strange to say all his ten antry are Roman Catholics. The Repeal Association have just issued another mani festo "to the People of Ireland," signed by Mr. Maurice O'Connell and Mr. Secretary Ray. This document con tains the average quantity of slang advice to abstain from acts of outrage, to beware of Government spies, and not to be hurried into excesses " by the wild speeches or writ ings of any party whatsoever." At Clonmel assizes, on Thursday, John Hayden was found guilty of the murder of William Crawley, a con stable, and on the following day John Brien was convicted of the murder of Honoria Boyle. They are both to be executed. At the time Brien was tried, his brother was convicted in ar.other court of sheep stealing, and sen tenced to seven years transportation. The Countess of Clarendon, with a view to encourage the Irish poplin trade, has ordered a Dublin manufacturer to supply, from her own designs, a gold tissue dress, whi c h the intends to wear on St. P a t r i c k s night ; and she has also intimated a wish that all ladies who may attend the festivities at Dublin Castle on that occasion should wear dresses of Irish poplin. EXECUTION.—On Saturday week Daly, for the mur derous attack on R. U. Baily, Esq., and Corby, for the murder of Greeson, the Process-server, suffered the ex treme penalty of the law at Clonmel. All the prepara tions were made inside, previous to the appearance of the unfortunate men on the fatal drop ; they came out with the ropes fixed round their necks, and the caps on ; both appeared perfectly resigned to their fate, and penitent. The Conciliation Hall authorities are organising a great demonstration in honour of the successful insurgents of Paris. St. Patrick's-day has been fixed for simultaneous meetings throughout all Ireland ; and we may expect upon the day appointed a perfect hurricane of sedition from shore to shore. We presume that the next step will be to send deputations to tender fraternity to the revolu tionary government of France, and probably to invoke their sympathy for Ireland in return. REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—Nine persons, including the Rev. James O'Sullivan, late a parish priest of the diocese of Kerry, and John Fitzgerald, Esq., renounced the errors of Popery, and received the Holy Communion on Sunday week in St. Thomas's Church, Dublin. The Rev. T. P. Magee:Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh, preached, and the Rev. Thomas Scott, with the efficient curates of the parish, assisted in the sacred services of the day. Each of the converts was presented with a handsome Bible and a copy of the Book of Common Prayer by the Priests' Protection Society. THE Marquess of Londonderry has been requested by a Meeting in Wexford (a county with which he has no connection) to present to the House of Lords a Petition on the subject of Tenant Right. His Lordship, in ac knowledging that he feels gratified by the selection, states his desire to see an honourable confidence prevailing between landlord and tenant, and says that on his estate this confidence exists, as well on the part of those who have not leases as of those who have, but adds that, though he will present the Petition, he " cannot go a l ong with, or advocate the total measure" of its prayer, and doubts " whether the case is one which admits of legisla tive interference." INTERESTING SCENE.—On Thursday, the 24th ultimo, the interesting ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new castle, half-way between Glenarm and Cushendall, on the maternal estates of the Marchioness of London derry, took place in presence of a large assemblage of the tenantry and of the clergy and gentry of the neighbour hood. The site selected is amid the grandest natural scenery of the romantic coast of Antrim, close to the ancient fort of Dunmall, on the well-known headland of Garron Point, whose bold white cliffs stand perpendicular to the sea. The Marquis of Londonderry, accompanied by his noble lady, went with an escort of carriages and horse men to the ground, where the neighbouring farmers had been previously collected. Her ladyship then caused the stone to be lowered, and with her own hand assisted in its adjustment. FINE LANGITAGE. — Under the head of " Waterford," the United Irishman remarks,—" A correspondent writ ing yesterday says, the tricolor is flying from the parapet of the Wolfe Tone Club in great glee! " The correspon dent adds, " I am burning to be up with you, we must bring matters to a crisis ;" If the tricolor instead of " flying with great glee," should only hang, we wonde r whether the correspondent" would burn to be up with it " in order to undergo the same pleasant operation • We must conclude, however, with our Irish friend—" Now is the time; if not, we shall appear in the valley of Jeho sophat, still biding our time." We hope, for his sake, that now is the time. We should be sorry to have him wait in "the valley of Jehosophat," biding its coming. The tricolor would no doubt float "in great glee " when he got out of so dull a valley. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The attendance at Monday's meeting was fully as crowded as on that day week, and the proceedings partook of the same character, being oc cupied wholly with reference to the late triumph of revo lutionary principles in Paris, and exhortations to Irishmen to embrace the •` glorious opportunity 7 of delivering their country. The duties of the chairman were divided be tween the Lord Mayor, who presided at the opening of the meeting, and Mr. John O'Connell. Mr. Maurice O'Connell. was also present, and, with several other speakers, addressed the meeting. During the observa tions of a Mr. Hyland, of Kilkenny, an amusing mock fight was got up between the " leader " and the speaker, who, referring to the probability of a French invasion, said if such an event were to happen he knew whom the people of Ireland would assist. He was immediately called to order, and Mr. J. O'Connell indignantly threat ened to leave the chair if such sentiments were expressed. After considerable tumult, Mr. Hyland retired from the meeting, and order was restored. The rent for the week was announced to be £77 13s. Bd. 14 tic A 6 een; tiv e for Vo, Scar dui bee, erii