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Vroreellillgs in paritamtnt. HOUSE OF LORDS —TUESDAY. Earl NELSON postponed the second reading of the Foreit Chaplaincy Bill till after Whitsuntide, in compliance with tl wishes of several distinguished friends of the Church. The Alarquis of LANSDOWNE was glad that the noble Ea bad post!) , ned this bill, as lie should have been obliged 'oppose the second reading of it, as the bill itself was an i Vattion of her majesty's prerogative. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY In answer to Mr. H. Millie, Sir GEORGE GREY could not give the country any preci information as to toe time the Lord Chancellor tnigot be c pected to resume the duties of his office, but stated that 1 lordship was much better in health, and at present attended busines do ans.. Air. LAB( r to Mr. Arkwr aid - that it was not his intention with the Exhibition of 1851. and believed that t 'anal: exhibit 3N, on the part of Mr.•Cayleyg-al.:en;fiCeq 11(1 bring on his mo ti on for the ' repeal of the ra day, May 30. The tatter tax on TM Sir E. N. hi oN stated that .he had arrantred with IA to bring on the sugar duties motion on Frid by Mr. GI I of the advert relawny and the Ch; 'ed on a division by a r , mmittec could be taken to improve "sanitary condition of t liy Mr. Stafford, Lord Dad! Mr. S. Crawford, and nuns, G. Grey and Air sha•-red to stand tter salt and him always putting as rejected by a u.sjority of WEDNESDAY y of Stat to the effect ti: now asked to, if they v On a division, the HOUSE 'OF -COMMONS Mr. F. O'Co y truth hi the 'Motion of the hon. mei d as one of confidence or want of confidence in the ,ent, and if any corre pondence had passed between Lo ssell and Mr. Cohdfn.upon the subject, in which t ported to shed the hatei to GREY said t With rE .1 only say he subject ) a questi( W. SOMERVILLE Slid unr lP7 'v f 20 or .30. r. A NST sinners the A snmf•a EY moved the second reading of the Irish Fishe - object of which was to repeal ?he legislation • and to transfer to a board of conimi )11 the Irish fisheries. discussion followed, after which tived by I LAcv moved the second reading of his Extramur cots Bill, which relates to the inetrnnnli. t of the Gove7i;m7a,l - • - .„ .„ ..v,.,,tWWIIrc•. HP propositio only found four supporters in a house of 127 members. --~-_. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. H. DRUMMOND VaVe niktira NVolliti move a tro(ince, foi t After a short conversation, in the course of which the Lois ADVOCATE stated that the police hill was n•.t intended supersede the ordinary police acts of towns, the house wel into rnmrnittaannnn .11 bole of the clai fern desultory s, about three hundred in number , cussion, agreed to. scot land) bill - Passed through committee cotland) bill was postponed for a fort railway abandonment bill also passed Hu The house next went into a committee on the electoral (Ire land) bill, when Mr. MA Imre': O'CoNNELL moved the insertion , of words at the end of the clause of one enactment, that Iris! elections should in future be taken by ballot, but the• Chair. man, ➢tr. Bernal, decided that the motion was irregular it point of form. It was consequently withdrawn —Mr. O'Con• bell announcing that on the third reading be should repeat t h e notion I remaining clauses were agreed to without any materia .discassion The remainder of the questicns (Ireland) bill passed througi Committee. On the motion for going into committee on the factory bill, Lord W. Manners announced that on bringing up the report, be should move to substitute half-pastfive for six o'clock as the 'hour for closing work. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Duke of ARG YLL moved a series of resolutions with re --spect to the injustice with which Mr. H. Ryland, late a clerk 10 the Executive Council of Canada, had been treated, decla ring that his claims for compensation had been acknowledged by successive Governors, and insisting that he was entitled to compensathtt at the hands of the British legislature. Earl GREY said that the question was purely a colonial one, and moved the previous question as au amendment. The Duke of ARGYLL having assented to withdraw two of Op resolutions, at the suggestion of Lord Stanley and Lord 23roughaut. Their lordships divided, and the remaining resolutions were carried by a majority of 22 to 19—being a majority of 3 against the government. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. On the motion for considering the Manchester rectory divi tion bill, as amended, Mr. GOULBURN moved, as an amendment, that the salaries 'if the canons of Manchester should be .4750 per annum, in ;stead of 4600, as proposed by the bill. Mr. M. Ginsox said the subject had been carefully consi -tiered by the committee, who had decided upon the sum of 600. He should, therefore, oppose the amendment, the effect of which would be to reduce the surplus from which it Was intended to increase the salaries of the minor clergy. The house divided, and the amendment of Mr. Goulburn was negatived by a majority of 163 to 90. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that, on Tuesday next, he would move that the house at its rising do adjourn until Thursday, in order to admit of the celebration of her Majesty's birthday on the Wednesday; and the noble lord also gave .notice that, on Friday next, he should move that the house at its rising should adjourn for the Whitsuntide holidays until the Thursday following. In reply to a question from Mr. FAGAN, The CH ANCEI 1.0 R. of the EXCHEQUER said that he proposed by the new savings banks bill to make government respon snide for all monies paid by depositors to the treasurer or Ws clerk. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated the course he meant to pursue with respect to the Stamp Duties Bill, stating big reasons for originally submitting his scheme, and the de cision of the house, which rendered it necessary that he should device a new one. He therefore proposed that the pre sent hill should be altogether discharged and a new one intro duced, establishing ao ad valorem duty of 1 per cent. on all conveyances and transfers of property. He also should pro ose that mortgages and bond. should he subjected to a uni form duty of per cent up to .t 'so He proposed to leave leases as they now stood, with the exception of leases with Aries in Ireland, which should pay per cent. He should also propose a stamp duty of ss. per cent. on settlements, or on monies raised on lano, and a stamp duty 2s. 6d. on memorials, instead of 10s. as at presere. He should likewise propose that "followers," or what he might call progressive duties, should be reduced to one uniform duty of -el as at present. He would also give a power by which, in cases of doubt as to the right stamp, the proper one might be affixed on payment of a duty of 10s. These were the chief points of the new bill, which he would move for leave to bring in on Monday next. On the motion of the right honourable gentleman, the order of the day for the committal of the stamp Duties Bill was then discharged, and he gave notice for a committee of the whole house upon the subject for Monday. The third reading of the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill was carried by a majority of 254 to 186 RAILWAY AFFAIRS. "RATING OF RAILWAYS.—DEPUTATIO N TO MR. LA- I:WC/IEILE AND SIR G. GREY.—On Friday a numerous and highly influential deputation waited upon Mr. La bouchere and Sir George Grey, at the Board of Trade, for the purpose of laying before them the grievances under which the railway companies labour with respect to local and general taxation. The deputation was so numerous that it was found necessary to receive it in the Privy Council Chamber, where it was met by Mr. Labouchere. and (on behalf of Sir George Grey, who was unable to attend) Mr. G. C. Lewis, Mr. Baines, (chief poor-law commissioner,) and Sir E. Ryan. Deputations of share. ]holders were in attendance from various towns. Those from Liverpool were Mr. Bramley-Moore, Mr. James Aikin, Mr. William Nicol, and Mr. J. Ewart. The di. rectors present belonging to the London and North Western were Mr. Lawrence, deputy-chairman ; the Hon. Capt a i n C arneg i e, M r. Cropper, Mr. Benson, Mr. Boothby, Mr. Tootal, Mr. Booth, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Watkin, and Mr. Swift. Mr. Labouchere expressed his sense of the imp or t ance of the deputation, and regretted that Sir George Grey w a s una bl e to be personally present to meet it. Sir G. Grey had, however, desired him to assure the deputation that his absence did not arise from any indifference to the i mportant interests which it repre sented, but in consequence of inevitable engagements elsewhere. Mr. C. Russell (the chairman of the Great Western Railway Company) then stated that the object of the deputation was again to call the attention of go. vernment to the grievances under which railway comps_ .Hies laboured as regarded the local taxation levied upon them, and he entered fully into the details of the case. Mr. Labouchere said, that if the railway companies could make out a strong case of injustice, as they stated it was in their power to do, it would be the duty of government to inquire into the matter of complaint. He then ex. pressed his adherence t o th e pr i nc i p l e of rating, but said Ise should not be unwilling to consider and support any further improveme n t s i n th e mach i nery of the law which might be found to be advantageous, though he had no idea at present of any measure with that object. Mr. Russell replied, that if government were not prepared to initiate a measure of relief, surely they could not object, with any show of reason, to allow the shareholders of rail ways to make out their case before parliament by the in troduction of a measure of their own ; and the deputation wished to he informed whether a nromise to that effect could be obtained. Lord Kinnairdhaving spoken strongly of the anomalous position of the law of rating in Scotland, Mr. Labouchere, in reply to Mr. Russell, stated that he would consult oth(r members of the government, and at the'earliest possible pentad give a distinct answer to the question put to him by that gentleman. The deputation Van withdrew. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. The first of Collins' line, the stupendous ocean steamer, the Atlantic, Captain West. was telegraphed off Holyhead at eleven o'clock on Friday morning, but owing to the state of the tide, she was unable to enter the river until eight o'clock in the evening. She has thus made the passage in thirteen days, and would have accomplished the voyage in twelve days but for two unexpected acci dents. At Sandy Hook her paddles were injured by coming in contact with somes piles of wood ; and on the sixth day out, the condensing valve broke, and she lay to until her engine had been converted into a high- pressure engine. In doing this, it was necess a r y t o erect another chimney. Taking these circumstances into ( onsideration, the Atlantic may be considered to have realised all reason able expectations. She brings seven days' later news, have sailed on the 27th ultimo, and 125 passenger. . 2 2 The intelligence is not important. The Senate had 'jeered Colonel Benton's amendment, and determined to refer the subject of admitting California, and forming a territorial government for New Mexico, to a select committee of thirteen . no - steam-ship Ohio had arrived at New York, from Aarges, with gold dust to the value of 120.000 dollars. She does not bring any later news from California. The British steam-ship New Granada, from the South Pacific coast, had arrived at Panama with 65,000 dollars old dust We have Jamaica advices to the 19th ultimo. The weather was not favourable for planting operestions, being very dry. The Royal Mail steam-ship Medway arrived at Mobile on the 19th ultimo, from Vera Cruz, with 500,000 dollars in gold dust. had taken place in the city of Mexico, by which y to the amount of half a million of dollars had The Neth York Herald, referring to the Nicaragua treaty, intimates that it lays the foundation of a complete evolution in the commerce of the world, and also sows he seeds of a naval struggle between the United States nd England which will surpass anything of the kind rhich has ever taken place in the history of the human ace. It refrains, however, from publishing particulars DREADFUL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.—ONE HUNDRED PERSONS LOST. —Cincinnati, April 23.—The Ohio river has again been the scene of a most. dreadful and heart- rending catastrophe. This morning the steamboat Belle of the West, while on her way down the Ohio, - one mile below Warsaw, Ky., caught fire, and was almost wholly consumed, together with every thing on board. All ef -4,, check the flames proved unavailing. She had on board, when sh t Cincinnati, a great number of erni • ire supposed to have been eitt death. So sudden and over the flames, that es, e seemed utterly impossible preserved t juropith _..rd, and swimming ashore. The Belle et the West was bound to St. Louis, and was insured at Cincinnati for 8000 dollars. The total number of passen gers on board was about 400, among whom • were two California companies, and thirty families, who were re moving to the west. g overbi M. Guy Lussac, the great naturalist, of Paris, died on Friday. and incendiarism are on the increase in the uth at F The Arc bishop of Turin has been arreste the citadel, for contumacy towards the civil power. Se.veral gentlemen at New Orleans have presented 750 liars to Fat her Matthew. The popularity of the Pope is fast waning, and Rome 's falling back into that lifeless apathy which prevailed for 'now hs before his arrival. He' is - constantly in public, )ut is scarcely noticed. SWITZERLAND.—The democratic government of the Canton de Vaud has confiscated and sold the property of the Roman Catholic endowments within the Canton, to thc amount of 180.000 francs. Prince Adalherr of Prussia has contracted a morganatic or " left-banded" marriage with 111dlle. Therese Elssler, the sister of the celebrated danseuse, with the consent of the king and his family. The navigation of the St. Lawrence has opened, and vessels have arrived at Quebec at the unusually early period of the 18th April, that date being the earliest during the period of upwards of twenty years. A German paper, the Abendpost, reports that at Lei sic, on Thursday week, ..x per- , .n Englishn. a successfu ent in the art of flying with a machine of his am: 'rom the St. Thomas' A RED (HOT) REPI rice traverFed is stated to have been s tower to the tower of the Schlosq. The criminal Ayme, who stress, and was the sent some poisoned cakes to his th. cause of the death of several persons in consequence, suf fered execution by the guillotine last week. At his death h shouted " Vive la Republique democratique et sociale !" " Mort aux Rois!" The large possessions of General Earnest Kiss, judicially murdered at Arad, on the 6th of October, have been con ferred by the usurping Austrian on Jt Ilachich, and to Haynau have been given the estates of the murdered Count Louis Bathyany. Ahab-like Haynau, hath not only slain hut taken possession. The steam-boat H. S. Smith was burned on the Chatta hoochee River, Alabama, on the 17th of March ; and Gen. Irwin, another passenger, and two negroes were lost. Gen. Irwin. who was a weafthy planter, leaped overboard with a bag containing 8,000 dollars in gold, the proceeds of his crop, and was drowned. Two officers of the Spanish staff have been appointed to proceed to the spot where the battle of Baylen was fought, and to acquire all the information and data the 3 can re specting the affair, " for the use," says a Madrid paper, " of the commission which is to refute the erroneous asser tions of M. Thiers respecting that glorious feat of arms." A body of native police, composed of about 35 of the aborigines, has been raised in the colony of Port Philip, for the purpose of replacing the European mounted con stables. These men are said to have made more progress towards civilization than any of the Australian blacks have ever before done, and are described as making a somewhat martial appearance, and being mostly excellent horsemen. GREECE.—We learn from Greece of the 28th ultimo, that the mission of Baron Gros bad en irely failed. The negociations between that plenipotentiary and the English minister (Mr. Wyse) were consequently at an end • and Admiral Parker immediately or d ere d a renewa l of the blockade, with a threat to bombard the Piraeus. The former was carried out with rigid effect for two days, when the government of Greece submitted unconditionally to the demands of England. Mr. Wyse then returned to Athens, and the country was perfectly quiet. The correspondent of the Globe announces the arrival of Lola Montes in Paris accompanied by her husband, of whose recovery the writer gives the following particulars : " She had sent two persons to London charged to discover him, and use every possible argument to get him to join her, and on their failure even to obtain an interview with Mr. Heald, she placed her interests in the hands of a shrewd and able man named L------, who had on several occasions been her homme d'affaires. This person not only contrived to have an interview with Mr. Heald, but also to induce him to return to the Countess, and make reparation for the way he had left her in Spain, without fr ends, and, at that time without pecuniary resources. Mr. Heald kept his word, joined the Countess at Boulogne, and, by means of an agent at Paris, took a lease, at a rental of 16,000 f. a-year, of a beautiful house at Beaujon, on the Champs Elyst eq. This house he has furnished at an outlay of at least £3,000. and he has also paid several old debts of the Countess. They have a large establish ment of servants ; but Mr. Heald is, they say, a man of order, and takes care to live within his income. As to that of Lola Montes, it is by no means so large as had been supposed, Her settlement from Mr. Heald scarcely exceeds one-fifth of the amount which has been stated in the journals, and her pension from the King of Bavaria, which was at first £l4O per month, has been reduced by the King one-half, in consequence of her having married without his consent!' DiscaAcEwus. Sersm.—Another shameful fracas has occurred in the New York Senate. between two of the " Senators," Messrs. Benton and Foote. The scene is thus described in the New York Herald:—" There was a breaking of glass, a movement among the desks, a rising of the crowd in the galleries, a sort of crashing in the neighbourhood of Benton's seat, as if a table had been turned over, and, looking down, we saw the Senator from Mississippi passing rapidly outside the aisles, and several Senators following, to the seat of the Senator from Mis souri, which is in the outside circle, some fifteen or twenty feet off from Benton's desk. As Benton ap proached, Foote left his desk, and proceeded from the outside to the interior of the Chamber, with one of his hands in a very ominous position, till getting near the centre aisle, he whipped out a pistol, which appeared to be of the usual size of a duelling pistol, and pointed it at Rpnton. S.nator. interfering cut on the approach of Benton, and he passed rapidly round to his own seat, and was approaching Foote in that direction, when a crowd of Senators rushed between them. Benton had thrown back his coat, as if he was in earnest, but the crowd of Senators were in the way.—Mr. Benton : Get out of the way, and let the assassin fire. (Very loud and angrily. Cries of ' Order 1 order ! order !') Let the assassin fire. (` Where is the Serjeant-at-arms ?')—The Vice- President : The Senate will come to order. The Ser jeant-at-arms must enforce the order of the Senate. Where is the Serjeant-at-Arms ?—Mr. Butler: Order, gentlemen, for God's sake ! Senators will take their seats.—Mr. Benton: Let the assassin fire! Let the scoundrel use his weapon. I have no arms. I did not come here to assassinate. (Order, order.)—Mr. Foote delivered his pistol to Mr. Dickinson.—The Serjeant-at- Arms, who had been keeping order at the doors, when some sort of order was restored in the Senate, came forward.—Mr. Dickinson : What is the question before the Senate? (Very coolly.)—The Vice-President: It is nn the amendment.—Mr. Benton (in a towering passion) No, sir : you are not going to get off that way. There must be something done. An assassin has drawn his pis tol in the Senate. I believe, sir, we cannot assassinate or commit murder in this body. A scoundrel has threat ened a murder in the Senate. He has exhibited his pis tol, like an assassin. I carry no arms, sir. I have none about me. But, sir, it was my wish to let the assassin fire.—Mr. Foote: I only meant to defend myself.—Mr. Benton : He is armed, like an assassin, and has threat ened to assassinate a man in the Senate. (Order, order.) I carry no arms. (Order, order.)—Vice-Piesident : The people will take their seats. The Senate will come to order.—Mr. Foote attempted to speak ; but Mr. Ber.ton interposed : T hope the Senate will take cognizance of this. The assassin has brought a pistol into the Senate, and has used it like a scoundrel.—Mr. Foote desired a word :He was simply armed for self-defence. I appre. headed that the Senator from Missouri would stab me or shoot me. I thought that he was armed. I have never attacked any man. I have acted on the defensive all my life. And repeating these protestations, he declared be fore God that he thought the Senator was armed.--This kind of altercation was carried on for some Li me l onger, but at leegth th e ma tter dropped." genuine eloc urge —we throug hC cowar THE COURT. _ • .•., of Lords, on Monday, "a bill for amending the adminis tration of justice in her Majesty's Privy Council in all cases of appeal on ,uest.ions of false doctrine, heresy, and schism the fruit of the Lambeth conference. It leaves intact the appellate jurisdiction of the Queen in Council ; but provides that in the cases specified above, it shall be imperative on the Council to refer the question, in the shape of a case in writing, to the bishops of both pro vinces, who are co be convoked for the purpose by the primate, to sit as a court, to hear the parties personally or by counsel, and to certify their opinion in writing, subscribed with their names, such opinion to be binding on the Council, and to be duly reported to the Queen. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—OrI Tuesday, the fifteenth annual meeting was held. T,nra g ot:►,,,. LAW INTELLIGENCE, ...-••••4• U 'presided, and was supported by the Earl of Waldegrave, Mr. Labouchere, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, the Rev. W. W. Champneys. the Rev. R. Bickersteth, the Rev. J. Harding, and other gentlemen. The Bishop of Manchester had retired from connexion with the society. The names of the Bishops of Victoria and Prince Ruert's Land hat.'p oeen added to the list of vice-patrons. Ile receipt. of tho year 44. in., including a munificent legacy of £5,000 Three per Cent. Consuls by Mrs. Elizabeth Frank, who during her life had been a generous contributor to the society's funds. The total expenditure of the year had been £33,808 165., including the purchase of Long Annuities. By the exertions of the society as many as 2,144,000 persdns had been provided with increased pastoral visitation. THE REV. MR. MASKELL.—A large assemblage of clergy connected with the Archdeaconry of Exeter, was held in the College Hall, on Friday last, the official of the Archdeacon in the chair. Although the meeting was con sidered a private one, we believe we are correct in saying that the object was to determine whether any, or what, notice should he taken of the very objectionable second letter of the Rev. Mr. Maskell ; and that a resolution strongly censuring its dangerous and Romanising tenden cies was moved, in a forcible speech, by the Rev. Preben dary Coleridge, and ably seconded by the Rev. P. Carlyon. A very animated discussion took place, hut as on the pre vious day a correspondence had been published in some of the London newspapers, in which it appeared that the letter in question had been noticed by the Lon! Bishop of Exeter, the meeting determined, by a small majority, that it was not expedient to entertain the subject.—Exeter Luminary. TRACTARIANT DISLOYALTY.—One of the worst fea tures in the agitation has been the reckless and disloyal attacks made by the Tractarian agitators on the personal conduct and character of royalty. We have heard it corn plained of that Prince Albert interferes with the educa tion of the Prince of Wales, as though his Royal Highness, as a parent, would not deserve the severest censure if he acted otherwise. We believe the real objection to be that his Royal Highness and her most gracious Majesty do not allow the interference of certain personages who imagine they have acquired a sort of official right to interfere. Another absurd report has been that the Prince objects to the heir-apparent being taught the catechism ; and that his Royal Highness's tutor is about to leave in conse quence. The simple answer which we give on the best authority is, that his Royal Highness does learn the cate chism, and that his tutor is not about to leave the palace in consequence; but we refrain from noticing any more of this disparaging gossip. Church and State Gazette. Mr. GOODE'S ANSWER TO THE BISHOP OP EXETER.— An able contemporary remarks that "The demand for Mr. Goode's letter to the Bishop of Exeter has been very great. We discharge a most welcome duty in reiterating our strong sense of the extreme value of the letter. We reiterate our most cordial thanks for the inestimable ser vice which its author has rendered, not only in laying bare the wild mis-statements as to matters of tact which have been ventured upon by the Bishop of Exeter, but in defending those great truths which have teen handed down to us by the martyrs and confessors of the English Reformation. Seldom, indeed, in the annals of religious controversy, has so complete and crushing a demolition of pretended facts and sophisticated arguments been known, as that which Mr. Goode has effected ; and seldom has an overthrow been so abundantly merited as in the case of the Bishop of Exeter. It is a blow long to be remembered by the friends and opponents of scriptural truth. It is amusing to see how the Tractarian party littledeal w i th aoou t t h i i t s , and admirable would n h e a r v f e nro p p a ,, s7a . w a y r Like like a w s :17, y s brook. But one of the most curious arts by which they seek to turn its force and diminish its influence is to com plain of its bad spirit ! (As though th e sp i r i t o f the Bishop of Exeter's letter to the archbishop was not the worst that could be !) The spirit of the bishop's letter was very well in their esteem a little caustic, perhaps, though scarcely beyond the severity of the truth ! To have a spirit to vindicate the truth with energy and power is of the essence of Christianity. To unmask the pre tender, to detect the ringleader in error, to denounce, in terms appropriate to his offence, the man who would pervert the faith of the gospel, are works eminently Christian." _ •.••.••• • .{../.••/ 411 G octitoG .I.JCIAKer t yeoman, roe even into a higher style in his closing sen tences. 'He ended thus—" If this had been a calamity brought on in the Providence of God—by the failure of the seasons, or by something which was above legislative controul, we would have humbly bowed down to it. •.wrtruuess or mm SWIM we considered to be the greatest of modern statesmen ; and when the his tory of the age that is pasting has been recorded, it will tell us that at the same period there was in Italy a man who had been appointed minister of the Pope; that he was the witness of a rising tumult and a coming desola tion; and that on the very morning of his death he was told not to go to the senate, for if he did so there would be danger attending him. His reply was, ' I have taken office, and when I did that I took not only its honours and emoluments, but its duties and its dangers.' He' went to the senate, and perished upon the steps of the forum. But our statesman saw the approach of the storm, quailed at the tempest, bowed down to the lower ing cloud, dishonoured the country, broupht infamy upon his own name, and poverty upon the people. (Great cheering.)" deeply interested in the subject. At the forty-second annual meeting of the London So ciety for the Conversion of the Jews, Lord Ashley, sup- Her Majesty's recovery is complete. ported by Sir It. H. Inglis. presiding, the Bishops of It is confidently announced that her Majesty proposes to Chester and Llandaff were elected vice-presidents. pay another visit to Ireland in the course of the summer. The Bishop of London laid upon the table of the 11".”.. _ C V • .. .. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The last three years of protection were better years for Manchester than the first three years of free trade. Friday, the 31st instant, has been fixed for Sir E. N. Buxton's motion with respect to slave-grown sugar. A petition from the ladies of Gloucester has been pre sented in the House of Commons against the Marriage Bill. Fourteen Protectionist meetings, to which Mr. Paul Foskett has been specially invited, will be held during this and the ensuing month. MR. FERRAND IN YORKSHIRE.—Mr. W. B. Ferrand addressed a meeting of farmers at Mahon, in the North Riding, on Saturday, by special invitation. The theme of the hon. gentleman's discourse, as of several of his pre vious speeches, was the Farmers' Wool League, a project by which he proposes to ruin the cotton trade of Lanca shire. In support of this plan, he dwelt strongly upon the horrors of American slavery, maintained, he said, to supply cotton to England, and on the ease with which a supply of wool, ample for all purposes, might be obtained here, and from Australia, and the Cape. lie also weat into detail, to sh,vv that flax might be grown at a consi derable profit. Mr. Ferrand insisted, at great length, upon the degrading moral influence of the manufacture of cotton, and the misfortune of living under ministers with " cotton souls ;" and concluded by appealing to the meet ing to join the wool-league movement, in favour of which he moved a resolution, which wae carried unanimously, ADMIRALTY COURT—Fan:we THE SUSQUEHANNA- This was a cause for damage by collision, brought by the owners of the late sloop Elizqbeth against the Ameri can ship Susquehanna. It appeared the smack, on its voyage from Carmarthen to Liverpool, with a cargo of tin plates, was proceeding off the Great Ormshead, at eleven o'clock, on the night of the 12th January last, on the lar board tack, steeripg E. by S., with the wind free, when she perceived a flash from a light a considerable distance ahead : this light proved to belong to the Susquehanna, which was on the starboard tack, close-hauled. The sl oo p according t^ '-• -" 'OLLISION o her statement, ported her helm, and bore away, the other vessel, instead of keeping her course, also bore away for a short time, and then ran into the sloop. The master of the American ship attributed the collision solely to the darkness of the night. The court, after consort:- ••, Trinit-- by such repeated and wide-spread suffering as the thirty years which have elapsed since the cheapening system was begun by the contraction of the currency of 1819. Witness the three dreadful monetary crises of 1825, 1831, and 1847, and the repeated recurrence of agricultural dis tress. Look at the effects of this system. It has left its traces deeply furrowed and for ever marked in English annals. It has produced consequences which will never be forgotten, and to which the historians of future times will point as the turning point of British history, an eternal warning to future ages. it has produced the The Court of Common Pleas will not deliver judgment revolution of 1832; disfranchised our whole colonies; displaced the g o vernment o f property, talent, and intelli in the cas e o f th e Bi shop of Exeter r. G.)rham until next term. gence, in the ruling island, and installed that of buying In the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday. Lard and selling in its stead. It has severed the public I policy f r o m th e pro t ect i on o f t h e lands and native indus- Campbell ruled th a t in a civil c as e a b arr i s t er cou ld l ega ll y receive a brief without the intervention of an attorney. try. the real inheritance and only sure patrimony of the The Court of Common Pleas have ruled to deprive a nation, and anchored it instead on the shifting quick plaintiff of costs for improperly suing at assizes, when the sands of commercial prosperity. It has destroyed the action could have been tried at the county court. West Indies beyond the possibility of redemption, and The rule for a criminal information against the pro- spread discontent so widely through our other colonies, prietor of the Western Times for a libel on the Sisters of that it is universally known they are only waiting for Mercy at Plymouth, has been discharged, the defendant some serious disaster to the parent state, or the advent of having apologised and expressed his regret. a protracted and hazardous war, to declare themselves A motion for a criminal information on behalf of Count independent. It has rendered every seventh man in Pulski, against the publisher of the Quarterly Review, Great Britain and Ireland, taken together, a pauper. It has been refused on the ground that the article, alleged to has driven from 250,000 to 300,000 industrious citizens, be a libel, was not necessarily pointed against the Count, for the last three years, annually into exile from their and, therefore, not calculated to injure his c'.aracter, native land. It has raised the poor-rate in both islands In the Consistory Court, on Tuesday, Dr. Lushington to an unprecedented height, and, when measured by its pronounced for the divorce of the Earl and Countess of true standard, the price of subsistence to double what it Lincoln, at the suit of the former, on the ground of ever was before. It has implanted the seeds of ruin in adultery. Drs. Haggard and Jenner, on the part of the our mercantile navy, by the rapid growth of foreign ship- Countess, having considered the evidence, put a stop to ping as compared with British in carrying our own trade. the case by saying they felt they could offer no effectual It has rendered our shores defenceless as they were in resistance to the suit, the days of the Saxon Heptarehy ; and made one of our On Wednesday, in the Bail Court, Sir F. Thesiger first admirals, Sir Charles Napier, thankful when the moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information winter frosts closed the Baltic harbours, and secured our should not be granted against a person named Frederick capital from the insulting visits of the successors of the Watmough, for writing threatening, bullying letters to sea-kings of the north. It has rendered our means of the Duchess of St. Alban's, in order to obtain the coati- raising a revenue so hopeless, that the "greatest bill bro nuance of an annuity, allowed by the late Duke, against ker in the world," Mr. Gurney, has declared that it whom illegitimacy was insinuated. A rule was granted. must end in a national bankruptcy •, and that the leader The defendant alleged in the letters that the late Duke's of the free traders himself, Mr. Cobden, has publicly said father had had improper connexion with his (defendant's) that there is vo resource but to disband our troops, sell mother. This was in some measure a d m i tted by the our s hi ps o f war, and trust the national security to the plaintiff's counsel. The defendant alleged that the late justice and moderation of our enemies, and the total ab- Duke's father was married to hi s (d e f en d ant ' s ) mother. sence o f envy i n our rivals. Such. and not public and NOLAN V. MOULDING.—In this case, Mr. Aspland ap- passing felicity, is the p r i c e whi c h th e nat i on h as pa i d for peared in the Court of Exche quer , on Monday, to show cauge the ruin of its finances, the abandonment of the sinking why a verdict should not be entered against the-plaintiff, fund, and the imposing of the public debt, for ever, as a to give a peremptory undertaking to go to trial at the next burden, hopeless of redemption, on the country.—Bloek assizes. Dr. Nolan did not like to proceed with the trial wood. last assizes because there was so much prejudice created against him by the former trial (Nolan v. Pettigrew).— Mr. Baron Alderson, after consulting with the learned judge who tried the case (Mr. Baron Rolfe), said the rule must be made absolute for a judgment, as in case of non suit. The plaintiff had not assigned a sufficient reason for not proceeding to trial. The learned judge added that Mr. Baron Rolfe had told him that he was by no means dissatisfied with the verdict in the first case. THE AGAPEMONE AGAIN.-011V readers will remem ber the extraordinary revelations respecting a society of religionists, living at a place they called the Agapemone. near Taunton, in Somersetshire, which were disclosed some months ago, in the course of an action brought by Miss Nottidge against her relations, for false imprison ment in a lunatic asylum. Further disclosures were made by a petition and suit which came before the Vice-chan cellor's Court, on Tuesday and Wednesday; Sir T. cue plaintiff in the previous action, had, as it then appeared, three sisters, all of them married to members of the Agapemone com munity. One of these ladies, Mrs. Thomas, is the mother of the infant petitioner in the present case, and the object of the petitioner was to remove the child from the controul of his father, and place him during minority under the care of guardians appointed by the court. In the allegations of the petition, and in the statements of the learned counsel, it was represented that the father and the brotherhood to which he belongs were altogether under the influence of the founder of the sect, Mr. Henry Prince, and that they adopted blasphemous doctrines and pratices. The petition then recounted very fully the circumstances of the formation of the community by a knot of Welsh clergymen, which have been published before. It went on to say that Mrs. Thomas was married under the influence of Prince (they officiating at a chapel in Brighton), who told her and her sis ters that "it was the mind of God, who intended to confer a special blessing upon her, that she should marry Brother Thomas." Mrs. Thomas lived with her husband about six months, and was then banished from the com munity for insubordination, arising it seemed from her refusal to acknowledge Prince as God, and returned to her mother, under whose roof the child was born. Mr. Thomas then made forcible attempts to get possession of the child, but failed, and both mother and child had since continued to reside with Mrs. Nottidge, the grandmother, who had provided for the infant. There were other allegations re specting the mode of life observed at Agapemone, but they contained nothing new. The foregoing statements were supported by affidavits, and by an address of Mr. Goldsmid on behalf of the petitioner. On 'Wednesday last, Mr. Thomas, the respondent, addressed the court. He con tended that he was the natural guardian of the child, and had a right to its custody, and to superintend its educa tion. even if the allegations in the petition were true. He denied, however, that he was under the influence of Prince, or that either Prince or himself held blasphemous doctrines, He repelled with indignation the charge that Prince arrogated to himself the divine character, and de fied the whole world to prove any act of unchastity or immorality a ,, ainst the sect. The Agapemone was a work of God, pure, holy, glorious. The council on the other side having replied, his Honour took time to consider his judgment ....it.. ne Masters, said that both vessels were .oring in fault; the Susquehanna for not keeping a good look out, and the other for not actintr more promptly, Consequently the usual decree must issue that both vessels were to blame. Chronic Ili (From the Cambridge _ II, , , At the Linton Petty Session 9, Aloi l l a i l i l ai St ,Y4 brooks was charged by James Standing:. b oiar ol o gregation of Primitive Methodists, with Wes' the G e o congregationlge Standing at deposedtlieniee meeting that h b o e u „rs ea,840e11:11.5):0;, I gious service at the meeting house B ', l falli l l about t i going to him said- -he did not care a , , s i f ; ia ~ ,,t,„ when he saw the defendant laughing ay ..... ." fo is t , William Marsh was also exhorting, wi'" i s ial`" o f TAXES : HOW TO LESSEN THEM CONSIDERABLY. STRONG ARGUMENTS AND STARTLING FACTS WHICH s t a he i CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED. —The numerous and llCCU mutated profits which real consumers have to pay for gregation laughed. Witness never „, c ioc A i e ‘ r E ns l e e cl etr p i r c ev i c e h le e s r e ; op h e e i m u a l dl%n s , tt o_ t ? ni , various articles, afford a good opportunity of laying bare open late ; had been there till eleven (" ho l,: 1 ; ‘ L the position of so me hou s es compared with others; and had heard of it being kept open later. ~e diet;pt . j it is our purpose to elucidate how and why it is —convinced his congregation violent, when under til yr a ck ir that we shall be enabled to throw a strong light on this hitherto and on' ba neglected subject, and prove the enormous taxation thus laidunconscious, a believed them to be 0_ their ti o f on domestic expenditure. In order to hold this system up to Power ; had seen women he down on _ threats hu m , o,:ttio ', of fflie' ki public investigation, we shall endeavour to show, in the first their legs up. member O hes i place, simply the number and extent of the profits that all Thomas Newman, labourer, a .,,v; 9 0 opilkil l'e 1 classes are really burthened with :--lst, profit arises from ma- tion, and licensed preacher . , was preachins oo tb b l qe , Ili , I ,tet e nufacturers buying articles in the raw state; 2nd, profit arises tau hod •• saw him put a bottle to his 11) ,d t° oft !I I NN . ~,q,..5 1 . from merchants purchasing from the manufacturers ; 3rd profit arises from London or wholesale houses buying from our remonstratedf with him, when he 4,. _ d ___ ~...j , N 1 .478 merchants; 4th, profit arises from small retailers having to eyes, and he called Thomas Marsh a s ,_,„, taa,,it 1 ,„. t 4 , 5 „ 0 purchase from wholesale houses; sth, profit arises from small witness appeared in a very excited 0 . 7 to ' 1 i Vi4 ) ,0 4 ,, 4 40 '4 , 1 1 . 1 N fo the consumer! Now, upon ejaculated in the most solemn manner a , # l 3 O ,ty , ~, , , %,:‘, r .Whist ‘dietuation, these five profi . amount to at least 50 per thp troth lr. it— r ........." of his Maha l . ; r of " - VW , I,'Wlll igh 1 tradesmen's exorbitnot charges to .' ""s" ''' ----" "'''' ' ` 1 " - - 1 "“'" 1 " 6 " 1 " 1 "" Joseph Frost, labourer, is a mom e den t Id II s j l . )10ti 41 4 ciple so extravagant to the pockets, that it needs only to be enquired without to e th• mighty understood. allude there is no rule a, exception, we will next Marsh was preaching about the ' J' l ", o f le',F7 0, 4 4, N' 7cl to one establishment wh a the artizan can get his cloth- saw the bottle in his hand ; took hola bee ew .5,4 r, ,, 1 4 ik De li , inq at first cost, and wh e the proprietor has no intermit- and ~o es out exhorting. Saw the , cLef i e ee n trio. A fl o d ~t ; , h t -4 Il l s 4 b ; diate profits to pay; ne.. we say that we allude to B. Hvsst, • the constable at the meeting, who bee 6 , f/ ' t' t 'tt' national tailor and cl, ier, 63, Lord-street, Liverpool. He t he hce 0 0.. r l't,g and a aa fr manufactures extensi •ly for his own branches in every stage Thomas Marsh, a labourer, a _ d o ic i d . 0 , Ip' from the raw materi• to the most superbly finished coat, at was requested by Mr. Standing to gu anc l to o e' 1 1 "one cost" and at one profit." This, then, accounts for his the people to be quiet ; and he went,.. t arblt o bli d/t vast success and t e extraordinary low prices at which he can dant it was not a place to make a t i t 0 36 0 • society to attend to quell disturbanq Il s .4 1., 5 t afford to sell li' clothing; in fact, it is well known by the public that he s, Is the most superior description of garments be , co pc ° 01 . , Is• lower, infinite • lower, than any other smaller establishment not see the beginning; has seen t"`• boe t , Chapel. ide 0 p 0 'I N charge for in rior. Now, we ask the reader a simple question Mr. Jackson called several witnesses, the el w e 4, , 9i f ro —Does it n' sound to reason that HYAM has advantages for defendant, who altogether disprovetrughtel.'oololf, 10'',_4•; ; 4 ,, th,, supplying e million 40 per cent. lower than others? Certainly stated that Joseph Frost and his ue nrer l bit ° ifi It! I V. w'ttlt" he has I .' d this he unquestionably does— thus saving the seized the defendant, who had been r gg ed n ple ..i 'i h tt th:i d. 4 ( pockets , all, more than any person could imarine, did they not dive nto the minutia of them ysteries of clothing. Aain that t of t t, I . it,l 5 6 °I N sitting in the chapel, and forcibly erli be Plittliy (,',,it •ki ba • HYAM having twelve of the largest tailoring and clothing eats - seat. All the witnesses proved ~ ha bit . ,of of , t a,. .. t , 17 8 2eZblishments in the United Kingdom, viz.: —London, 36, Grace. neighbourhood were in the constant, ... e tic. 6 l_ f N.VV4 t. Id'. this _ urch- Market stre street e L t i Liverpool, er p Birmingham,ool,63att d 6 2 5 3 , , Lord-street New - e t reet ;; Glasgow,Manchester : the g r eg chapel t t h o a see he th c e on e s x t t a ra bi o e rd fr i e n q a u rY ,en P tol Ty eir cle t r j :o beo , P r iv lv; / $ i ': t t i ).7 ,l l9 , l: . co a i b : to tie it i l :, street ; Dublin, 30, Dame-street ; Bristol, 42, Argyll-street ; Exeter, 193, High-street ; London, 86, Oxford- to . quell disturbances—that one of the )we ot'ot e , :k - 'it 4 e ]t ' of Ginn, ee l ' Sib qv 0 Der, d ,p 4 ,,. Pt Bristol, 6, Union -street ; Leeds, 42, Briggate ; Hull, 17, Mar- with a wooden leg, (of the name defended her._„ „it of 4 Itu Itig ket-place—and all in active operation, it makes it worth his Wine-street ; the floor of the meeting, had ~deo l e g they (~, iq: I tu te Li while to manufacture his own goods of every description ; thus constable by " sticking up her Vl° `',loll e u ji 0' 0 ;0 / kj i ,lo t i l ti llt i to combining in himself the true title of manufacturer, merchant, and women had been frequently seen:worn c od; of t 5 0 t o tl cPe wholesale and retail vendor for his own immense nd widely- during service, and the clothes of ,th e indec o rale „ o r 4 ( ktipto c k.kp li spreading temples of commerc. Another point etampnce andaltogether • proved that the e the Reel AIN, psi • it was we next take up : a tradesman in a gigantic line of 'msiness /to its- o st, e ye to I: Oi. , flid like IlvAm, even net possessing the advantages above stated, lent conduct of the congregation ,„ ne r ,_ t a , e ,s ti 141 . (it titinfluence of have a shop, shopmen, gas. rent, and numerous other expenses promoted anything but a religiou 3 !u cons ta to It. o 0,, 4 , ,3 11 , d e incidental to business, which nearly amount to as much as a Mr. Charles Crime, miller and n t for d ;l111 Ai; t ' ll itict.2r d larger shopkeeper (such as Hyam), whose returns are probably Colville, stated he had often been se t elosi 0 Ply 'UN) senate ' a hundred times as much. Again, look at the immense ex ley occasionally n ° joclis ° , , Ob e fo4/ , qq. * rience, the sound judgment, and the unbounded capital a pro- at the chapel. It was , in g r . ..,,j„ 0 0 13 ot,Cltli 'ks23 ( prietor of tsve;ve such mammoth establishments must possess one o'clock in the morning. `-' ~,ewelis se a, 0 I vq ) L„, 44 4 in making up goods, to a small tradesman, who only has to him to state what he saw there , lie i on i pc o 5 I t. , /3 „ ,, 11 1 21 make a handful at once ; why, it is like comparing a molehill know what to tell ou what I have to 614). ; 10 oe S fr k) . ,'. pi.. Pk ''.. to a mountain. Whilst purchasers at " small" shops must would scarcely believe if you wer e fyiqg itY ,' l ti lit 44 A i lk t ali Pave " small" choice to select from, "small" chance of getting°W en • wag tit ~' it; tin 4 st and the w toe • ‘ ' 0 suited, and a much " smaller" one of obtaining satisfaction, people jumping about, ~.,,0 . ,_ _ , 'guild ~ (._ Let all, therefore, who would only pay " one profit," 00 TO sometimesa PY Air , l j 1 •tt "'" backs and their bellies,.clothe , b y . ,oi t ki ..% nt 1 HYAM'S. Those who wish to throw money away, certainly and then the other, with their._„„ e a , bir.., o r, I ~,r5,•41,1 % , should go to small tradesmen ; but it is the public's interest to witness was proceeding, but Was St u y.'"botil_ 01 1 O i ror AA° t rid 1 ; 1 Patronise an establishment raised for the good of the 'nimbi- th the ease ' slce Iv / 'ti tZB 1 e magistrates dismissing ..y, a es c h p 0 cl, ti ti 7 4 tents of this populous district, and, in return, the proprietor "n an 1-1- 611 - tell N i ptii 1 i ;„, to ~, tib and the Rev. J. Graham pledges himself to work his talents and immense resources for their benefit. and never forsake the cause and customers who damning the practice° 11 0/1 0116. - itt Lave proclaimed Wu the "national tailor and clothier of the "fun," and cautioning II great Dritain.". a religious congregation. 1 l e 4 ' 1 , 4 1; no Yal l e fe y th _ ~t l ll e 4.:'ioire .il, it 114 l '::,_ 31alltk; t. :11tIl t Lite 1,, De 6:4te Tint LIVERPOOL STAADARD. out protection when laws have been enacted that r THE PROTECTIONIST PARTY.—On Monday, the dele gates deputed by the various agricultural societies throughout the United Kingdom, to confer with the acting committee of the National Association, assembled at the offices of the association, at the South Sea House, London, the Duke of Richmond in the chair. An ad dress was unanimously adopted, of which the following is the principal point :—" A dissolution of parliament can not now be remote, and may occur much earlier than is generally imagined. If protection is to triumph, pro tectionists must be prepared for the struggle a dissolution must bring. The two great points on which preparation is indispensable to success are—close and untiring atten tion to the registration of electors, and a timely sele c ti on of fit and proper can did a t es ." The address proceeds with recommendations " for the efficient performance of these requisites," concluding with a hint that. though nominally applied to county representatives, the sugges tions are equally applicable to boroughs. The meeting was so numerous that an adjournment took place to the great room at the London Tavern, where the proceed ings were continued under the presidency of Mr. G. F. I("Dung. The principal speakers were the Duke of Rich mond, several tenant-farmers, Professor Avtoun, from Edinburgh, a strong opponent of free trade in Blackwood's Magazine, Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., the Earl of Eglinton, and Lord John Manners. The delegates from Liverpool were Messrs. Richard C. Naylor, H. Cleaver Chapman, Charles Turner, Lawrence Peel, Thos Bold. All the speeches were eloquent and stirring. A. plain Cambridgeshire farmer, Mr. Edward Ball, of Bur well, spoke thus—" But we are told that our landlords cannot now reverse this policy—that they have gone too far to recede—and Cobden, in that celebrated speech of his, which he made at the close of last year in Leeds, said, ` Only let the agriculturists come forward arid put on one shilling in the shape of a corn duty, and I will create such a tumult as shall shake the kingdom to its centre.' (Lau.thter.) Most deliberately and dispas sionately my answer to that is—The sooner the better! (Tremendous cheering, the whole of the vast assemblage rising to their feet, and waving their hats and hands.) I say that we have a conscience, that we have a superin tending Providence, that we have laws violated, that we have all these things which will sustain and give endu rance to us in any conflict. that may approach ; and that, therefore, we may l aug h a t a ll t h reatenings, and set them at defiance. (Loud cheering.) But what have the tenant-farmers to fear from the approach of discord ? Can you be worse off (No, no.) Can any alteration damage you ? (Renewed cries of No, no.') All is lost ! Persevere in your free-trade laws, and there is no concealing the fact that, as a class, we are swept away. (Hear.) Persevere in those laws, our homes will be taken severe in those laws. our wives will be with- Persevere in those laws, our children •.., , a uroiten-nearted man, passing into poverty and my family degraded, that I shall fear the threats of a demagogue ? (Much cheering.)" We ask, without hesitation, whether the leaguers, in all their performances at Covent-garden, ever produced a passageof mote heartfelt, • ' uence than that ? But the same sflp.v." IRELAND. Fourteen of the Orange lodges in the county of Derry have been dissolved in consequence of the continued un constitutional conduct of government. Two Roman Catholic clergymen, the Rev. Messrs. O'Rourke and Colgan, whilst celebrating mass at White friars-street Chapel, Dublin, on Sunday, were suddenly attacked by a madman with a heavy bludgeon, knocked down, and severely injured. The hierarchy and clergy cf the Roman. Catholic Church in Ireland haVing abandoned the repeal agitation—just be cause their flocks would no longer contribute pennies to wards its sustentation—are w activel-- 111). , _ y engaged in the agitation, against the rights of the proprietary of the soil. On Wednesday, some bailiffs seized a young lady on leaving a railway carriage, at Kingstown, under a writ fir £65 ; but, unfortunately for them, they had captured the wrong lady; and, as they bad used ruffian'-- ,iy violence, they were taken before, a magistrate, and committed for the assault. THE NEW TRASH APPOINTMENTS.—The government measure abolishing the office of th e I r i s h v i ceroy. contem -1... .• • pia,,n um, creation of three new crown appointments :' a secretary of state for Ireland, at a salary of £5.0(10 per annum, arid two under secretarieS. one with a seat in par liament and the other without legislative duties. The salary of the parliamentary secretary is to be fixed at £1,500, and of the latter at £2.000 a-year. Lord Claren- - don will accept the chief -secretaryship. IRON SII IP •BITILDING IN CORR.—At the close of this month the largest vessel ever built in Ireland will be he launched from the steam factory of the Cork •Steam Ship Company, on the Glanmire-road. She is to be called the P.-li‘ an, and is to be propelled, by the screw. She is over 800 tons burden; and is built on the lines of the Ajax, which is declared the best steamship afloat of her class. The boilers, steam-engine, screw, and fans intended for the Pelican, are nearly completed, and will "Amy • tie plats on ooard the day she is launched. This vessel is intended to trade between Liverpool and Rot terdam.— cork C'onstitution. STEAM FROM IRELAND TO NEW YORK.—We have already mentioned the enterprise which has given rise to the formation of a line of steamers from Galway to New ork ; and, from the spirit with which the project is re garded, we hope that it will prove as remunerative to the projectors as it will be advantageous to the public and to commerce. The announcement of the sailing of the Viceroy will be found in our advertising columns. The distance is 350 miles less than from here. _Sir Philip Nugent, and several other Members of Parliament, in tend to sail in the Viceroy. The Dublin Mail . says "the Postmaster-Gefieral has most handsomely recognised the Viceroy as a packet-shin for T,•;.1. _ s and newsp Ts posted at the G onaence. Tal Post- in Dubin up to the evening of th e 31st i uthorised to state, that this is no . • • • ~...-c tillizt•natit.n o 3? toe - • „ 'Dublin, Glasgow, and Cork Steam Packet Company,' encouraged and aided by the Midland Great Western Railway, the inhabitants of the town and county of Gal way, backed as we know it to be, by the warm sympathy of the country at large. Nor is this trip to be reg• • vApri-iwo r , out rattier as the opening of the port of Galway as a packet.station, from which ere long we trust we shall nave a weekly steamer taking her de parture for the American shores. Her colonial connex .-seow what she is, and may we not hone ions made GL that Ireland ar . UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, The Rev. Richard D-twes, vicar of King's Sombourn, h a g been appointed Dean of Bristol. The bishops have declined to issue any declaration on the subject of baptismal regeneration. The Bishop of Bath and Wells continues seriously in disposbyed. The confirmations announc e d as about to be he!cl his lordship will be held by the Bishop of Guiana. Magdalen College, Oxford, have voted the sum of 100 guineas to the Bishop of Ex-ter towards paying the ex penses in his process with Mr. Gorham. The Bishop is a member of Magdalen College. Some of the heads of colleges in Cambridge have waited on Prince Albert to represent their objections to the pro noged rommiacifs” t • mess, it is known. is l I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES. TUESDAY. MAY 7. CROSVENOR STAKES.-Mr. Rolt's Colling,wood, aged, I ; Mr. Howlin's Bl , ster, 2. PALATINE STAKES.-Mr. Merry's Baroness, I ; Mr. Gre ville's Estafette, 2; Mr. Copeland's Lass 4, f Underley; Mr. Meiklam's French Suev. • MOSTYN STAKES.—Lord Chesterfield na f by Slane, out of Rsceipt, 1; Mr. Halford's Mr. Merryman, 2; Mr. Merry's Louis Napoleon; Mr. Worthington's Harlequin; Mr. Jaime son's The Anchorite. Mr. E. Buckley's Greenfield. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 Boys each with 30 added.—Mr. Watt's Posy, I ; Mr. W. Stebbing's OstiaWeston, 2; Mr. Mangan's Portia, 3; Mr. W. Wright's f by Coronation; Mr. Cowell's Repulse. CHESTERFIELD STAKES.—Mr. W. Moseley's Alonzo, I ; Mr. S. Lord's hrocoli, 2; Mr. B. Green's Seignor of Holderness, 3 ; Mr. It. H. J ones ' s S tepp i ng -stone : Baron Rotbschild's c by Pantaloon ; Mr. Cowper's f by Pantaloon; Mr. Lawson's Col leen Mate. OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES.-Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Cupid, I ; Mr. Pedley's Prior of Lanercost, 2; Mr. Barton's Gold Dust ; Mr. Bell's Ormsby; Mr. Blacker's Theory; Mr. G. Barton's Leonidas; Mr. ArKenna's King Fergus. -- - WEDNESDAY. S CRAMBLE HANDICAP.-Mr. W Jones's The Mease, 1 ; Mr. Bell's Ormsby, 2; and nine others started. SIXTY GUINES.-Sir. C. Mnnck's Vanguard, 1; Mr. Jamie soti's Tower, 2; and nine others started. • T , ADESM AN'S PLATE.-Mr. Pitt's Mounseer,l ; Mr. I Day's Dockermouth, 2. The following 24 als,) started ;—Cossack; Peep.o'•day Boy, John Cosset., Ellerdale, Glauca, Woolwich, We•tow. Fugleman, Osterley, Miss Ann, Chantrey, The Knout, Grief, Whim colt, Keleshea, Fleur de Seine, Minimum, c by G!adiator, Roland, G eneral Sale, Emma, St. George, Rodney, The Miner. - Mostyn's b c by Lane west, 2 ; Mr. Wortbingtor mr. Scott's Cametides, 4. ROODEE PRODUCE STAKES.— Cost, 1; Mr. Howlin's Shimatier Boadicea, 3 '" HER MAJESTY PLATE Of 100 r.s.—Sir C. Mone'sVanguar I • Sir J. Barley's Fernhi 1, 2 ; M r. Carroll's Oscar, 3; Mr. Hargrave'sf The Irish Ambassador, 4. THURSDAY. THE CHESHIRE WELTER CUP.—Capt. Pattat's b g Ea Plume, 1 ; Lord Chesterfield's b m Mrs. Taft, 2; Mr Green's b h Flatcatcher, 3. THE DEE STAKES.— . Mr. Gordon's b c The Beehunter, I Mr. Dawson nab c Mark Tapley, 2, Lord Rutland's br c Car tab, 3. TH E MARQUIS OF WESTM I NS, ER'S PLATE.—Mr. B. Green' br c Seignor of Holderniss, 1; Mr. Payne's br c Saucy Diet 2; Mr. Robson 's ch f Laura, 3. TnE DEE STAND CUP.—AI hlangan's br f Portia, W. E. Hobson's b f Gl a di o l e, 2; Mr. It. H. Jones' br c Ster ping stone, 3. Mr. Lawson's ch c Caurie. 1 Mi 'fr. M. ny's b f Countess, 3. lAr. B. S. Stopforth's ch c, 1 _ ong's b , 0 • -- iHE :ELLIN° STAKES Foster's I, c Osoaldwick, THE SCURRY HANDIC.r.— Mr. Wright's ch f by Coronat Chieftain, 3. FRIDAY, ; or 25 soy Mr. I Day's Cock ernioutli, I ; Gulliver, Diana • V ,I 1,1). VI II 11 411 auutu.—str. r Nicoll's Woolwi c h, ; Will - nont and The Auttean. A FREE. HANDICAP Of 10 stirs each, with 50 added.—Lon Warwick's Grief, 1; Gaffer Green, Kele.hea, and Fleur d seine. THE THIRD YEAR OF THE CESTRTAN STARES of 10 soy each.—Lord Chesterfield's b c by Lanercost, 1; Rybinska an, Sir Phiiin_ . - THE GRAND STAND CUP.—Priestess, I ; Joc-W-Scot, Rod ney, Portia, Gaffer Green, Acomb, Gulliver, General. Sale, an Sister to Cupid. THE WIRRAL STAKES of 10 sovs eneh, with 30 added.—Mr Jamieson's The Anch or it e, 1 ; Candlewick, Margaretta, ant Forest Deer. 'HE LADIES PURSE, VII ue ..*'•so. Mr. Lister's Siste ne &lease, Gratitude, Wilmont, Charlotte Ormsby, Titty, Osbaldwick, Boauicea, Pomona, May Day, ant The ➢lagnet. POLITICAL EXTRACTS, ENGLAND'S GREAT EXPOSITION IN 1851. The end of Fi ee 1 rade is HOW pretty clear, All cla , ses left in the lurch; While nothing bat rags are seen far and near, !tagged schools, ragged homes, pigged Church. FFFECT OF FREE TRADE ON IRELAND. — Our own British possessions get their supplies cheaper from the United States than they can from Great Britain or our North American colonies. They expend the property of their own colonies, and of ours too, which they get there, in fosterink the trade of our rivals, to the destruction and exclusion of their own. What has been the effect of free frna. T •• . _ _ zu t yrur CYILI or 1645. there were of acres cultivated in wheat in Ireland 1,059,620; but in 1847, the blessed year that followed the consummation of free trade, the number was reduced to 743.871, and in 1848 it was still further reduced to 565,746, thus showing a decrease in three years of the Palmy days of free tract of no less than 500,000 acres of wheat, equal to the '' ` 2,10 n fin^ action o, „au quarters, and in value, at what ought to he the price of wheat, upwards of £60,000,000 sterling. This shows with a vengeance that capital is flowing from the hanks of the Shannon, and is going to the shores of the Vistula. What will you, farmers, your wives and your daughters, say to this? In the year 1833 the export of salt butter from Ireland was 25,000 tons, in value £3,000,000 sterling, and it would take 260,000 cows to produce that quantity of butter. Now, let the free tra ders tell us what has been the export of salt butter from Ireland during the last year. Ireland has broken un her oht pastures, and has sown wheat upon them, and yet with all that forced and ruinous cultivation, the foreigner beats her out.and-out.—Mr. Booker's Speech. EFFECTS OF OUR PRESENT CURRENCY period in the annals of our history which ha —There is no ~~y 14. ~~ ~~ 1 4 l~ CORRESPONDEN CE. LANSDOWNE'S " EXPERI3IP --- nO S T TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVBRP-L bp SIR,—I have anxiously watched the ru:be; of " the great experiment," which is nu„„,, i , aca lowen ic d vre;: f ea o in r byui - t rte l o i ot e nitynm u ,teo n y a rstEh d Tfel from wlottmseornCtwotiil wait ivstern bwt innocentlyl the nw i enlrodeouksttionrbligdae been fwno r or e wu s a o ti id : : ai r nst c mg e p s i rlf o eoo s f rpu ettphrhoieont ysßritish innocently been waiting for those lial7bav e r tret i l I A LL ' le which we were ALI, to realise; I h ave h the t t ; h o e ntentment which was to reigc througo charms of our example , which 6 .1 „,reo nor alleviates in any way the breakiug °Vier built' his iron car bursts thecastles I had _. 0 seems they were, of vanour and delusi,T,ftll hopes !! ! ~,,i W e ' blessednesspatijyvi i L o lb ... ee t : tlhetrulustlehdlai' wen'T of a Go! talk of spring to the tra'rPl eu " - Of light to the fallen star. , boor Of glory to those who in danzer s Lie cold on the fields of wt.r; but mock not the distress of disapPoil a 7n nor prove by y our con d uc t to m e, e ut creates my only crime. That " exP er .'„ I a failure, b u t it i s an i mpos i t i o n iniqu it iflrs cies, and un-English in its operation• d t he yet began, we k now i ts ev il s have ;• 811 b r more likely to con ti nue , th an the ot esio place. Taxes which recently were freelY,P. pounced as intolerable, and the Chancelr'. quer, though defeated at every turn. P r° ,f weed no m ore . E conomy h as been °- Piously, both i n pr i vate an d pu blic esP en been . reduced ; seats of splendour have the owners h ave ret i re d to the C'ontine fit j stooped, and waße9 , b ot h agr i cu l tu ral an have fallen with th e markets, •---In • the f a " have more than once„ot. that the news should be deemed ne i Ap o country is prosperous, and the peo ple 0 - to e It is a poo r s i gn o f prosperity wh en t he. , dangered, an d tra d e c i rculars spea k It is a poor proof of happiness when p ce ,l , pursuits. It would be well for gration are, as they now are, remuner a r4 . 6 to ponder over the justification of theirfro. pronounce it, for fear posterity should IV them other than that which their 3P would desire. o ° ' Cobden, Russell, and Peel, mav f° A r iv ios pledged to maintain it ; they m ay :... • , ministe impulse of " one idea,' ; 'on ciinunouto t combinations (unn a t ura l an d fi c titiou ci r e only prove th e i r own m i sgivings, and d 1 sciousness o f th e i r opponents ' actual!' The many discrepancies in their doctrin" hate r de venom with which they suli7ort; venom, and thos e discrepancies, " I ' AO them at no di s t an t d ay the unmeour-, deceived and offended people. The p 9 and sordid covetousne' r' —those who le -o, wealth, irrespective of happiness or vi r not, even here, escape a just, a certaio tribution.—l am, sir, &(.•, A BANKRUPT — ENO Liverpool, Bth May, 1850. CHURCH MISSIONARY S°v TO THE EDITOR OF THE rElzP O° SIR —A letter in to-day' 's Mail, urf Presb% • - sets forth tie disgracefu l l e - 1 0 our townsmen (and, fr om t h e t e nor clergy are included)have allowed our nob' vital to be placed at present,and the wr it ' truth and zeal, set before them the s ate of Vauxhall-road and its t. cannot at all see the occasion of his DIP' Missionary Society, or of blarnit: distressin 2 state or things. st He seems quite envious and al ru 'e there should be simultaneous sermon s (he , society in twenty churches to.morro w ite been more correct had he said in fiftY),',i f , Society, during last year, had, very sc l ' ij i l ibe' sermons on a given Sunday, (thirty in of which their report, just delivered , 59 ;bell' i mud yet " Presbyter" made no o utcry di e not sit in judgment upon the rnetn i b : ers e tei I Missionary Society for their w ell -a „q c ee' d promoting the good cause they have a , - t , ' happens to have another good cause at bears ,1 so well as he could wish. 00 1 11 If we are to desist from a good canse, a d out of Liverpool until we have evangelfooll in Liverpool, we may be quite satisfied tu rt tb i ti children will not be called upon to t‘uPP: r oo°o ociety of 1701—the Society for the Gospel in Foreign Parts—nor its ki t younger growth—the Church Missionarld_i subscription t o b o th soc i et i es, i n t he T e st tress around us, ari d my conc l us i o n bes t neglect our fi llow-creatures abroad 0 0 00 not by Ate a ht s e n g o o dt o h d inaet Presbyterl o di r m e c e t a os s ne we which ht o i oc u h g d h soa t y t ; o : hand findeth t o do," &c. missionary cause on the eve of its ant," } i 'ade' mate that th e su b scr ib ers i n Liverpool.,';ecig priate I heir moiley to ti le tienevolent btr until he has lo o k e d over t h e li st o f subs‘; ll ti eej, tamed that they have disobeyed the Sc riP pl e t he himself quo t es —" Thi s oug h t ye t°fil P( not to leave the o th er undone"—and ;:•011 r that, while they assist the Church 3) ;,;6 ,1 ,.' . 0 they are u nm i n df u l o f t h e Bibl e So' Society, Blue Coat School, Provident ce ll '1 Orphan Asyl ums , S a il ors ' H ome . C" u p toe School So c i e ty, S un d ay Schools, °er" Dispensary, Infirmary, and such like. r t heid I have no doubt if h e ma k e t h e a tten 3 p b 311- v grounds of his opp os iti on to t h e Ci t uru re aiarj ciety quite untenab!e, an i w ill j us tify a e our rectors, th a t a ll our pu bli c c h ar ities s o il the same individuals. to b is o ri With these remarks I leave the writer, bet' I , t.ions, but would suggest to hint 00 0 .70 1 4 0 list of subscribers to the various instittlq,, ael o v tioned, aided by a Liverpool Directory) _.. 1 ),0 of merchants, shopkeepers, and others Too ,self scribe to any of th ose goo d causes , and 04(0 the list will be a very long one, and the° oe ° AO use of such list, as hi s warmt h i n the e a blue coat boys, and his kind zeal for the S P b e r P r et pot-al good of Vauxh a ll- roa d an d m arl o i l bell town will dictate to hi m , b ut l et him Pauesietia any insinuations aga i ns t any re li g i ou s loc i slight grounds. Liverpool, Yours, VVJIt° May, lf, 18'50, STRANGE SCENES AT A CHAPEL METHODISTS' CHAPP-' n II -eti' s b. , r t ' e a holiarrd r)a SIP rF :I,est J ' the n,`tone "" e e• Pot i•st - ""age r t o . • s oofst , a L,P of Ch es t p„'Y $. est, ' 44 h' pi h ee ,, _ don Par t 'Y ows f a o i l s pa Y i ne th P r) th i s stta'2., t ss;loth ur ,Pa ets th. 1 , 1)„t4e li ver . ;; , lett , s " of e has (') Iw s areh d and i eo t h l'rn b y tiv an )0, t r a d t p " i I th . 44 Is hi;' 14 1 I,J (3 r s, t ilE 4 in g t Ste atti Op' 6 ' krollj, E e p l o C la I t d • n th A t Ot t I ,a?‘. 14,,: t en 4 r e3 N • a t ot„, 1 t 41 14 b p e , fA tt l ,! , zi, 4 l 4 t o ll f be V„lk t e t i ;iS l * ct lt ' o I ,"N'titti i 4. a t , O rLI„, Cq i e st ' l / 4 op t, 0 rrt e , , este E .5, ' k4 rht Trio LtV l ait ed a Nii r ° : 'oj w se h 4 tie e , k. c P I P: / ' 1 1.). 3 ' tnor t ' i h b it ' r lht f ,,,.' l. th e - 1 ,,, k t , ed - 'halet r.r In 6' l 'Pee Yth e ezt Lid Nt tt tli 14 4 t o ; ) II s l , ch hp c t i tP AT p , ar t , ' I Dtrl'Sat 4 °Ta c o af at'lat th e th. 14i v 5( C O% er i !h4: l ? t eN;_ til itt ) 114 41 ; ail ae, a rc Upic ~ tia c ' : l,: : )f 41, lop,"e h o Fro eith, tth 14 gel rpc'eSo 'lfli;, l4 °d t, ° I t Nt,140:- bey : t Pre ,ke4teacit _,~~ ... 9 1)ij 4 1 t:d toe ve ,.. al ; ,nrt; eB s