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lItE 1. ND. ONGOINGS OF THE REVOLIIT (Front the Dublin Statesman. ) The panting_ press toils in vain after the agitator. The importann of Clar Repeal demonstration" at E 111 l is, in the county According o toThunday last, surpassed all its predecessors. 150 the . Limerick Chronicle there were present 150,000 —according to the Freemen's Journal 500,000 —and according to the Clare Journal 'OO 000 at Ennis, to discuss the repeal of an act of of thousand. ofparliament co'nsti.tutionally. Hundreds their people, it is also stated, could not hear the sound of even O'COnnell's practised voice! Such " dis cussion ," ditions .f The usual paraphernalia were in use, with ad (ri e occasion. Garlands, banners and devices, bands an n abounded. colours, and green scarfs, and greeu facings An hundred bands, it is said, were in attendance ; and eighty stand of colours on the ground. One Roman Catholic bishop, arl' el na tem e ent, seven two French gentlemen, two members of justices of the peace, and the without poetry and eloquence which was of the ordinary inflammatory species; but the following significant morceau from a Father Sheeby_e deserves notice. He said : Th Liberator had, besides the prelates, 3,000 of the se cond order of clergymen. (Hear.) We shall give you (said the reverend Speaker, addressing the liberator, at least twelve hundred pounds—(immense cheers) —and we have take . n i care that there shall be a hea rt and a hand behind every shi lling we shall present to you. Mr. O'Connell.—Two hands. (Laughter and cheers.) ne Rev. Mr. Sheehy.—And let me describe those three millions of repeaters to you. They are sober and peaceable — they are determined —they are not drunkards — and they have resolved to burst their country's chains or die. (Vehe r_entapplause.) They are not afraid of Pee ech o ellng Cheers.) Priest though I be, I think I their senti ments. And there is not in that three millions of repealer: one man who is afraid to shed his blood for his country. _ Mr. O'Connell (risiro, f rom his seat , the entire companngy doing likewise) -1 said bef ore lam not that one. (Deafeni applause.) All this is significant ; and the Bishop, Dr. Kennedy, made a ferocious speech, worthy of a native of the Cannibal islands, in which he attributed the numerical decline of the Irish po pulation returns to the wholesale murders of the extermi nating landlords. But we away f the contemplation of t he diabolical wickedness pass os of the rom pretended priests to a point in than Mr. O'Connell's speech , which has something more in it mere absurdity. He said — He would tell them that the t h e r career. and m oment be had threehe millions of Repeaters he would gin ano might as be well then announce that the principal impediment which ex isted against emancipation does not at all exist as regards a repeal of the union. (Cheers.) It was necessary for an En lish parliament to pass a law granting emancipation, but in thecase of repeal it was not necessary. The House of Lords at first threw it out, but the people gave a little chirp, and it was soon allowed to pass without any very strenuous loppo siio. The Queen's prerogative could revive the Iris par liament. as James the First when he created forty-four bo roughs in Ireland, e.:.cing Suffrages to twelve Pprotestants, and Ennis was one of the bad bargains. (A laugh.) The time bad arrived for her Majesty to order new writs for the Irish Parliament, and be assured them he was not talking of imaginary things when be told them distinctly and emphati °Bll9, that by the aid of the Queen's name, and without any appeal to parliament, they could obtain a repeal of the union. In aid of the policy of this manoeuvre, he repeated the ten-times told tale about the royal declaration : As to the Queen's declaration, somebody had the kindness to c ommunicate to me —although mind I dont say she knew it would be done—that her Majesty made no such declaration and for which lam truly grateful. He had it from her own lips, and I have it from him, who heard her declare in his presence that she never authorised Peel to make such a de claration. (Loud and long-eontinued cheering.) I want to know now who is the loyal man —Feel, who calumniated his amiable and lovely Sovereign. or the agitator, nell, who would die for her. (Cheers and laughter.) Danel O'Con- We couple these matters with the sting in the tail of Lord John Russell's speech, and we feel assured that some in trigue is in act aootit the court. At the weekly meeting yesterday, at the Corn Exchwaa!ee., there was little worth noticing, except the rent,thistti (ah amounted to £3,103 7s. 61d. An American s nip priest,) who spoke a little too practically about Ycivtlawar and American aid, was immediately taken to task by the Head Pacificator, in a characteristicaily absurd speech, according to the Baconian plan of employing " an absurd man for a business that bears itself not well out. than drew in his horns a little, though the exp " Of c°nrsel; 1 jiantnioan scarcely bettered the original escapade : • The Rev. Mr. Hacker explained, s ee a sanguinary was further from his mind than to wish to d and said that nothing struggle take place in Ireland; but he n i ten . inten d ed to sae the remark in precisely the same m anner as If (i t i tCooi drive ne l l had done —namely, that if the English party dare Irish people from their final stand on the constitution, the American people would be found ready to extend their sym pathy for them to something to learn. Ah, Jonathan, Jo natha n you have • . • • You have verge of the law, yet to take your degree in the Li nivei say of trea sonable loyalty, sour neck treason to t he without noosing your neck or forfenteg d hire treason accord is was too plain breaking :it soun your allegiance. ing to the books : so Mr. O'Connll fasrtotifetrhdei We have not yet received any account . of the of the Clam bath desecration. The following descrip tion a paper not meeting is is from the Limtrick Chronic e. posed at all to magnify the affair :-- The stupendous mass of human being hat of Clare in that congregated in such formidable strength to the repeal leo cal authority, con only obeyed the stern surnroons coped to them the previous Sundnafy language ; and in country chapels, in the most icon c a t " vtehe altars of all the some places under the threat of deenrUniciatiV3,e free will or self-opinion at utter detiancei. w c l O i n e s h ecr enacie of this extraordinary influence was epdi from an area of more than one hundr,, day and night from cinitilseusbtulheispsei°ansa.:tn4 gathered to the rendezvous. travellin; more, from not only every village and hamlet of Clare ---11 the confines, but more central parts Countyhaving rick, Tipperary, Galway, and even al:t-I o"l:tohge,:ounties of Lime for the purpose so crossed the Shannon in different multitude a certainly that it i s no t strange, under conePabi jed and simultaneous movement, there should be and after being wit not less than one hundred and fifty thousa nd person!, man y of whom have not vet reached their home., nesses and actors in this unpreee 0 magnify the numbers demonstration. Partisanship will be eager enottigehnt 1 lation may be de ted repeal, above ea c" present to one million, but the eended on ; and it is miraculous n There were a bout six separated without accident or inju drs'l...nd the cavalcade of cars b w such a vast ineetin:g thousand horsemen on the groun s • might satisfy the largest cototniseriat staff, re ace ix niiles. There having extended from Ennis to Newmarket, a di stan- bands in but re upwards of one hundred telnPSr..ao,connell; but his ance and the lion of the •day leas gi'• PS " could not be beard voice, however familiar with " s— ' being left to the plat. by more than half the concourse that surr form, in an area of several acres, • an d other serine, with imagine what was said by him O'Connell received .£l2OO repeal rent at the ate • is eed the othenrus nteiteilders. Mr. of physical force ce a promise of more. The character of the speechs It n less toe xpatiate on, but the boastful meta Pilafthadresses o a was never more pointed, and especially l° A.ctly novel Roman Catholic priest and his bishop•a ofe h occasion was and striking incident in the perform of anceet respectable appear the presence of two Frenchmen mo - .., an d w he held an ance, but like most foreigners, moustach; ' n lies t 1 earnest conversation with Mr. vole — ° ..., to be M. 11'ng "in—' h is We have since ascertained their trave I, m. Dessau _,... Lisbre, advocate of the Royale, Paris, an ajo Limerick OvrieCiviarer companion. They have never been seen iioeo3oo in before. There was not a aoldier hearing of the immense re than En nis ' a 6 n earer peal aseensbleee troop of the 10th Hussars not being Fiona twelve to three at allycoree, tnhoe. the 36th and 81st at Clare Castle. . o'clock in the morning the Limerick vi ' bets of the Glee;.lbe from the scene of agitation, and the sr"), , c d. t oosic " I lieges were broken, by the indecent dieleule siters were returnil streets at such unseasonable lwil2.s. Three men from Tullaroan, county of to essWToans committed to gaol, charged with A C0118.13.10r. Da niel ' Mr. William F. Finn, brother in law of P . ` IKraiclkyenny, ere .fultly nell. the gee . dard "" Mr. Ala. O'CoThe Derry Siat;or Prose verncnent are watching the materials _ __oob, minis te O'Connell for high treason. The lierala..l_t: ea os this state- O'Connell - organ among ment " fudge." the morning papers of Lonny. e time The contributions from the Unite d flan a t the sato of America to e Dublin the Irish Repeal Fund amount to e a; de d t o tlie - •an 3 that contributions hare also been or! • ti North American the tates Association from some parts of the Dritis colonies. tes resided in tt, s'll''' wa s in- On Sunday evening a man namedca used the parish of Mydow, four miles sougoollthie having bee n latform terred in the church-yards here, his de posite the c. __av to from the pressure and injries received oP • th e eeth M. : on Sun aaY ' lass week, and at the repeal meeting in this town i, t ! l is .to.rrtotiasne time. A woman named Ferrell aleo died her death is attributed to injuries received a. Longford Journal. 7",,PItOTESTANT LOYALTY. —At a nurnotereosusincoeeting officers and masters of the Orange C I . , ig o • t resolutions were the eattonft:lioef d Cavan, held on Thursday last , a 6 ri r:n o f those logie n ' I ?! drawn up, expressive of the determinati 0 the approacint„, to abstain from walking into rocessioe ' e bnest endeavours. 0 anniversaries In July, and use 0.0., badges from taking prevent any procession or the wearing oi place. w that there ought to be OF REPEAL.—ShaII we saY o°/reiand, at a time be a separation between England 80dPd in tbre: country when, as I•contend, a ll t h a t h a s late Ptu!st,.r, per than less shows that the objects in view are than these—that an de g he hould bennielt"- adeate Parliament, • of the union, pt s and under the power of a O ..aoperee of to di • te et h e P under the repeal mute the two countries con fi sca all Englishmen who have properlY once, the United Pl* 4io establish i ar lament, a n..., . rinited ,Empir •e, of the King, Lords, and Commons ofiftethr ee---: o.nvetritieurpii laceat gentleman l e arned some Parliament of which the on and should be the leader and chiql— sell, Feb. 6, 1833. .--On Sunday Speech of Lord John /Oa ALARMING EXcrralsittNT IN CARLOW : a r: week the inhabitants of this town unusually excited owing to a rumour that Prevaild take Place and neigliblerbdo,oadndwwe very generally believed, that an outbreak woe . .. ,; „ ar „ that night,while the Protestants were enjoying: m 1 ,.. .; try tranquii. security, and the general appearance of the coon . .. their famines In some parishes the Protestants did not send to church, but occupied the forenoon of the Sabbath in tabord tifying their houses and preparing for the insurrection ; on that night few of those whose apprehensions were thus so painfully excited slept until sunrise on Monday morning• In the neighbourhood of Bagenalstown, where the repeal rent is being collected, in two instances parties have recently called at houses to demand fire arms at a late hour at night.--Car /ow Sentinel. PRICE OF BRBAD.--EXTRAORDINARY COMBINATION The high price of bread, considering the to price of flour, has been, frequently commented upon, and notice has been many occasions in this journal, but without taken of it upon contrary we the desired effect. On the have noted an ad rice of the made article, 'when the price of the vance in the p for this no visible cause existed, nor material had fallen, and Circumstances, however, haveitnade us was any We d . ass dare by which this injus acquainted wi the nth mode of proce • A baker bad been dealing for tice is inflicted on the public. • • ' me miles from the city. In the flour with a miller residing so beginning of the last month (May) the miller told his cus apply him with flour, unless tom that he could no longer s 'be customer refused, he joined the body of master bakers. 1 . him he b aker's T and the miller discontinued to supplY • • •th at . price for a 41b loaf was 4d, the master bakers requiredeeei.t should be 54d. Being thus refused biller, te miller his n s living also some eery supply, he resorted to another m . an d from it, miles out of town, but in the opposite direction but this obtained &ambits), for a few days, what be wanted ; miller, under some influence, also discontinued . his supply' and, with money in his band, he went to a thrd, who r%- fused resupply him unless he joined the general bodya, fifth, then rpaired to another, who also refused; and to who did the same, and on the same grounds. He then re paired to a miller, in a town some twelve or thirteen miles from Cork, who also refused to supply him against the wishea of the Cork trade ; and repulsed here, be had to go to ano ther town, still more remote by several miles, from whence bonacompelled, with much difficulty, and at great addi til expense, to draw his supplies for current nee, and these , he naturally fears may be stopped through the same influ- , ence which has hitherto interfered with him. This is a case, we submit, ofthe r very worst species of combination that eve i eame before the public.—Sonthern (Cork) Reporter. 011. A - p '4 NP tak icerj. . -:.7cif - I ~, 4 :44 %.z .Itkive_ ...: i A",I ' ?:,:-. tiaritalothtivp Vrotreoolo, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAy. In reply to a question from Mr. I - lINDLEY. Sir R. PEEL said he was strongly in favour of tie ....k.11 , e pursued by the Spanish Regent, who, although surrounded by the greatest difficulties, had still maintained with credit the high position to which he had attained. Should he be forced to abandon that position, he would stilt retain the consolation that he had mainly contributed to lay. the - foun dations of constitutional government in Spain. In reply to another question from Mr. 1 - IINDLRY. SIR J. GRAHAM said that it was the intention to go on with the Factories Bill, though some alteration it•. the details would be necessary, owing to the withdrawal of the educa tional clauses. Mr. CHRISTOPHER complained that many of the names signed to a corn law repeal petition from Epworth, in Lin coln:43lre, were forgeries, and moved that the petition be re ferred to a select committee. Sir G. STaicKLAND said that he had presented the peti tion, and he had since made inquires upon the subject, and found that some of the signatures were forgeries. H e had, however, received a communication from the Secretary to the Doncaster Anti- Corn-Law Association, the party who had sent him the petition, intimating that many of the names were given under the impression that they would not be given to the public, and such was the timidity of people in the rural districts, that they feared to avow their real sentiments on the subject of the corn laws. It was then agreed to refer the subject to a select committee Mr. BLEWITT asked if it were right that the King of Hanover should still take his seat in the House of Lords and exercise the duties of a peer of the realm and a privy councillor ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was disinclined to answer the question, unless called upon by the house to do so. On the motion for going into committee on the Factories Bill. Lord ASHLEY deeply regretted that the educational clauses of the Factories Bill should be abondoned. Much had been conceded by the Church in the way of concilation, hut in vain. Doubtless the Government had done everything which it be lieved to be its duty, but the parties who had no reason to be satisfied were the unfortunate objects of ignorance. For his own part he would say, that unless a very great alteration should take place in the temper of opposing parties, he would not again be a party to any scheme for endeavouring to bring antagonist bodies to act in harmony. Mr. M. GIBSON said that the teal cause of failure was to be traced to the assumption of the Established Church, which sought a supremacy, and would willingly apply the money of the dissenters to teach the doctrines of the Esta blished Church. They should take up the subject on the principles of commen sense, and treat all classes equally as fellow-citizens. Sir R. INGLIS was of opinion that if the government had taken a more decided tone as to the kind of education to be given to the people, it would have received a more cordial support from the. members of the Establi hed Church. He hoped that in the course of next session the government would introduce a measure similar to the present, upon which the house had not had the opportunity of giving any opinion. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the government, having just abindoned a long and well-considered scheme of education, were not prepared to say that they had another under consi deration. In the course of his communications with the heads of the church, they had displayed a great desire to con ciliate the dissenters and respect their rights. The house soon after went into committee, pro forma, on the bill, in order to make the necessary alterations, after which the house resumed, a n d th e adjourned debate on the Arms (Ireland) Bill was resumed by Mr. GISBOR.NE, who strongly opposed the bill. Mr. COLQUI4OIIN contended that the state of Ireland pre sented serious obstacles to the administration of justice. It was impossible to yield to the demands of the Roman Ca tholic priesthood, and it was necessary that some steps should be taken to put a stop to the demonstrations of physical force which were now continually taking place, and which were as obnoxious as the No-popery riots of London, in 1780. Mr. WILLIAMS said be had visited Ireland in the course of last year, in order to ascertain its condition, and he be lieved it to be the most wretched country in Europe. lie also believed that the discontent of the people of that country might at once be removed by the conLession to them of common justice. The chief grievances were the Established Church anti the state of the law as regarded the relations be tween landlord and tenant, and the sooner those evils were taken into the consideration of parliament the better for thy peace arid tranquillity of Ireland. Lord J. MANNERS thought that Mr. O'Connell was gov erned in the the course he was pursuing by sincere and hon est motives, but he could not agree that the Catholic Church should he the established Church of Ireland, merely because it was the church of the majority. because the present Cath olic Church was not the same as the ancient Church of Ire land. which had always resisted the authority of the Pope until the country was conquered by the English. It was through the Established Church alone that any benefit could be conferred on the people, if proper steps were taken to supply the body of clergymen caiable of instructing the people in the Irish Language. lie was of opinion that Gov ernment should enter into diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome. They might do so with as much propriety as with the Sultan or any other infidel Sovereign. They should also find employment for the people, by reclaiming waste lands and improving their condition. Sir H. W. BARRON condemned the policy which had been pursued towards Ireland during the last half century, and said it was a monstrous absurdity that a church should be maintained in districts where no people professing its doc trines were to be found. He did not object to the proper maintenance of the Established Church, because though ire believed his own religion to be the best, yet be did not feel himself justified in forcing it upon others. He condemned the conduct of the conservatives, whether in or out of office, as unconcilatory or obstructive to measures beneficial to the people of Ireland, and contended that the discontent and agitation which prevailed were but the natural result of such a course of action. If instead of treating the people of Ireland as aliens in blood, language, and religion, they adopted an equitable arid liberal course of policy, they might rest assured that the result would be harmony and peace. Mr. E. ELLICE said he originally intended to vote for the Arms Bill, but his intention was changed by the speech of Sir James Graham, who had declared that conciliation had been carried to its utmost extent, thus leaving the people of Ireland nothing more to hope for, and leading every one to look at the present bill as the first step in a system of coer cion. He contended that Mehemet was more merciful than was England to Ireland. Mahomet slaughtered or converted, but England, with more ingenuity, allowed the neople to live, but took from them the means of maintaining their own cler gy, and as an additional grievance applied those means to the maintenance of a religion to which they were opposed. The Government could never hope to maintain its position unless it undertook to remedy the chief grievances of Ireland—the Established Church and the tenure of land. Mr. M. MILNES contended that it would be an indication to the people of Ireland of weakness on the part of the Gov ernment it they were not to persevere with this bill. Ireland stood out before all the milting of Europe as essentially a religious country, arid it was impossible to govern Ireland with advantage without the sanction and assistance of the Catholic priesthood of that country. He did not think it was requisite that the Established Church of Ireland should be done away with, for he did not conceive that it was a prac tical grievance to the people. A recent law had given a por tion of Church property to the Landlords of Ireland, and he did not feel disposed to make them a present of the remain der. He thought they had got quite enough from the country already. At all events it could be no grievance to the people that it should go to the clergy of the Established Church instead of to the landlords, inasmuch as that in either case it must be paid. The Government should act with justice and impartiality towards Ireland—they should place one foot on Protestant ascendancy, and the other on Catholic emancipa tion, and by adhering to such a course firmly and honestly they would succeed in pacifying and satisfying the people of Ireland. Sir C. NAPIER said if be believed' tbe Arms Bill would do any good to Ireland he would support it cheerfully; but, be lieving it would increase the agitation ten-fold, he would give it every opposition. He condemned the language used by Mr. O'Connell at public meetings in Ireland, and contended that the Protestant Church of Ireland should be reduced to the wants of the Protestant inhabitants, in which case a large surplus would be left towards the maintenance of the Catholic priesthood of that country. Mr. L. Fox said he was of opinion that the Esatblished Church must fall if tire repeal of the union should take place, and he believed Mr. O'Connell would be able to carry the repeal. lie was of opinion that the law of the land prior to 1829, when the Emancipation Act passed, was as much the law of God as the law given to the Israelites on Mount Sinai. He believed the time had arrived when the sword must be drawn in defence of the church of Christ, and in the words of Scripture he would say, that he who had not a sword s hould sell his garment and buy one, fie was prepared to prove that the late Emperor of France was the seventh head from the Roman power as foretold in the Apocalypse. Rome was more terrible in the present day than she had ever been since the days when the old she wolf had been wet-nurse to Romulus and Remus. (Immense laughter.) The hon. member then referred to other passages of Scripture, con tending that the coming of Elias was at hand. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL condemned the whole purport of the speech of Sir James Graham, which was calculated to create great excitement in Ireland. It load led to an addi tional night's debating, but with that he did not quarrel, for the two nights debate had got them well rid of two of the most obnoxious clauses of the bill ; from which arose the n ice question in political arithmetic, if two nights' debates get rid of two obnoxious claims how many nights' debating will it take to get rid of the whole bill? The very fact of their g iving up the two Onuses proved that the bill was prepared with haste and preeinitanpy, and that it should therefore be referred to a select committee., Mr. MusTz thought these Arms Bills disgraceful to the country, and he vindicated the right of the Irish people to a gitate for the repeal of any law they thought injurious. He had himself been one of the most active agitators in England, and while so had, as one of a deputation, been most graciously received by Earl Grey, Earl Spencer, (then Lord Althorn), and Sir James Graham, who was now seeking to put down i n Ireland a similar agitation to that which he hail encouraged in England. He believed that this was not a question of the church. On the contrary, he believed it was a question of e sto mach and nothing but the stomach, and if so treated the re medy would be discovered. The gallery was then cleared fora division, and the amend went of Mr. Wyse was negatived by a majority of 276 to 122. On the motion that the Speaker should leave the chair, The house went into committee, and on resuming the chairman obtained leave to sit again on Friday. likaip k 1 partio wbUra thc isctg of o,t, govArtiment rilo* Injure they were tha verb Nipes nest entitlpd to protection. The SauerTon-GE/sot/a, was decidedly of ;;pinion that, this was a case in which the gqfernment eauld not interfere, He contended that the partte4 had not an equitable claim upon the country for coMpensatipP• Mr. Hu . ' T supported the ruction of Mr. Hawes, and said a great portion of the money bat, Peen squandered in build ing palaces. Mr. AGLIONBY also supported the motion. Colonel SurTmottP said the gnvernment should be just before it was generous, and instr ad of spendite; money on pictures, statues, &c., they should apply it to the payment of just claims like the present. On a division the motion was del . ( tated by a majority of 57 to 42. Mr. S. CRAWFORD then rose to rn ove for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the act of the let ye. tr of Geo. I, statute 2, c. 38, for extending the duration of pal iiament to seven years. The hon. gentleman said he would be • content to accept, at present, the smallest concession, and w 'mid, therefore, ask for triennial parliaments only, though he \ vas himself in favour of annual parliaments. Dr. BowurNo seconded the motion. Sir J. GRAHAM said the motion was neither wise, politic, nor convenient, and was an abandonrn( mt of the principles laid down by the Reform Bill, by which the duration of Par liament was retained as a balance to t 6e democratic power which was established by the provisim is of that bill. He should oppose the motion, and would, th erefore, move, as an amendment, the previous question. The gallery was cleared for a divisiot I, when the motion was defeated by a majority of 46 to 23. Captain BERKELEY then drew the att ;ention of the house to the inexpediency and danger of emplo Ong the old class of 10-gun brigs under commanders, and re-, :stablishing them as sloops-of-war in her Majesty's navy. These 10-gun brigs, which were called sailing coffins" in the: navy, were wholly unfit for the service to which they were • about to be applied, and were condemned by the surveyors ( if the Navy Board. They were a class of vessels neither capa' ble of sailing, fight ing, or swimming, and yet such were d e vessels they were about to place in competition with Awe :ken vessels on the coast of Africa. The American vessels w ouid run these gun brigs out of sight, leaving nothing but mortification to be endured by all on board them. Forme ;fly, when a naval officer obtained promotion, his joy was ai ways enhanced if it happened to be impossible that he cou Id be appointed to those " floating coffins." Of 22 vessels which we.e lost in a given period, no less than one-half wer 10-gun brigs, six were vesaels of a smaller class, and out c f the remaining five two went on shore, only three foundering at sea, while of the " sailing; coffins" not one went on sh , ne—all went down at sea, and all hands perished. With sue b a fact before them he would ask if they would perservere in a the employment of such vessels.. The gallant captain con , :luded by moving a resolution to the effect that the house vie :wed with apprehen sion the employment of these vessels after the experience which had been had of their dangerous c onstruction. Captain PECHELL seconded the motio D. Captain GORDON did not think this cl; ass of vessels so very bad as was supposed, and thought the 1 olmiralty would not be justified in declining to use them. rile coast of Africa, he thought, best adapted for their capabilities, as calms and light breezes usually prevailed there. Mr. S. HERBERT said that a new class of gun-brigs was being introduced into the service, super.sedins , : the old vessel, not, because of their being dangerous, but because of their bad sailing qualities. He hoped the house would not, there fore, confirm an abstract proposition found•ld on a miscon ception. and which would scarcely be doing justice to the Admiralty, to whom such details were necessarily entrusted. Sir C. NAPIca was of opinion that our deficiency in naval architecture and the mismanagement of our naval service, was to he chiefly attributed to the constitution of the Admi ralty Board, which was half a century behind the rest of the world. After some further discussion the motion was negatived by a majority of 75 to 41. Lord CLEMENTS moved for a return of the correspondence connected with the disbanding of the yeomanry corps of Ire land. Sir V. BLAKE seconded the motion, which was opposed by Lord ELIOT, who contended that it would be extremely inconvenient to produce the correspondence between one de partment of the government and the other. He had no ob jection to the production of all the orders for the disband ment of those corps. Lord CLEMF.NTS accepted the return, as suggested, and it was accordingly ordered. The report on the Princess Augusta's Annuity Bill was then brought up, and the house soon after adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnAy. Mr. JAMES WORTLEY moved the second reading of the Townshend Peerage Bill, and in doing so, said that there was not a single shilling of property at stake—the only question • being as to the honours of the peerage. Mr. C. BuLLER moved that the hill should be read a second time that day six months. lie would not dispute the facts; but his opposition was grounded upon general principles. He thought that the law which denied relief to Lady Towns bend ought not to be made to Jo her further injury by render ing her children illegitimate. It was an unprecedented bill of pains arid penalties against particular individuals. On a division, the second reading was carried by a majority of 153 to 49. Mr. aw Es moved for a committee of the whole house to consider an address to her Majesty praying that her Majesty would he graciously pleased to advance to the claimants for losses sustained by the seizure of British ships and cargoes by the Danish government in 1807, the amount of their respective losses as ascertained by the commissioners appointed for the investigation of Danish claims, and re ported upon the 12th of May, 1840, and assuring her Majesty that this house would make good the same. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered into a statement of the circumstances out of which these claims aros e, which have been repeatedly placed before the public, and said he felt himself bound to offer the most determined resistance to the motion. The question was, whether they were to lay down the new principle that the owners of vessels c aptured at sea during war time should be entitled to com pensation, and if this principle were admitted the claims which would be made would be as innumerable as they would be irresistible, if allowed in this instance. Mr. H awEs did not think his arguments on a former evening bad been fairly grappled with. There was a large fund raised out of the confiscation of Danish property in this country, from which fund the claims of these merchants should have been paid, wore particularly as that fund was larger than any amount of this sort which could he made against it, and as merchants and shipowners were the very • HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNEsnAr. The Princess Augusta's Annuity Bill was read a third time and passed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that on Friday next be would move for a committee of the whole house upon the Excise Acts (Ireland). He said that there could no longer be any doubt but that the additional Is. duty on Irish spirits had led to an increase in smuggling, and he should propose on Friday that it should be with drawn. Mr. G. W. WOOD moved the second reading of the Scien tific Societies Bill, for the purpose of relieving from local and general taxation the buildings used by such societies for their collections of hooks, statues, preparations, &c. Lord SAN VON seconded the motion, which was agreed to. The house then went into committee on the Coroners Bill pro forma, for the purpose of making some amendments, after which it was arranged that the bill as amended should be printed and re-committed that day fortnight. Lord Wonstity moved the second reading of the Com mons Enclosure bill (No. 2). Colonel SIBTHORP said it was impossible that such an im portant measure could he properly considered during the present session, containing as it did no less than 137 clauses. tie therefore moved that it should be read a second time that day six months. Mr. - S. WORTLEY supported the propriety of postponing the bill until next session. Lord WORSLEY said he thought the measure too import ant to allow him to assent to its postponement. lie believed there were over two millions of acres of land in this country which might he redeemed and enclosed at an expense of about £l2 are acre, to the great advantage of the poor and labouring classes of the community. At present parties were deterred from enclosing by the great expense of enclo sure acts. He contemplated to carry his measure into ope ration by the aid of the tithe commissioners, who upon the application of two-thirds of the interested parties should send assistant commissioners to examine and report on the circum stances. The commissioners should make a report twice a year to the Home Office, and the House of Commons should have the power of stopping any enclosure if one-fourth of the interested parties should oppose it. Under the present sys tem the expense of enclosure acts amounted to from £lOO to 4300, while under the operation of this bill the expense would not exceed . - C-10. He felt satisfied that his bill would confer great benefit on the agricultural interests, and on the country generally also. • Mr. FERRAND opposed the bill on the ground that it would deprive the poor of England for ever of their rights of com monage. He felt satisfied, however, that some measure should he adopted for the purpose of reclaiming the waste lands of England. The measures of Sir R. Peel had, he contended, proved to .be failures, for food was still beyond the reach of the labouring classes. Machinery was still throwing thousands out of work, and the state of the work ing classes in the manufacturing districts was most deplora ble. He admitted that the bill before the house would be beneficial as far us that it would give employment, but he could not support it for the reason he had stated ; but he would waive his Opposition if the principle of the allotment to labourers were incorporated with it. The bill was supported by Sir C. BURRELL and Mr. M►LES. Mr. ROEBUCK contended that, if the allotment system were carried out, they would have throughout England a pauper agrarian population. lie would prefer seeing a labour ing population dependant upon wages. The hon. and learned gentleman advocated the necessity of maintaining these lands as commons, rather than presenting them to the adjoining landowners, and said, that if the noble lord would repeal the corn laws he would give more employment to the people than he would ever give them by his bill, which, if it passed, would prove to be the parelit of many law-suits. Lord J. MANNERS wished to see the labourers dependant on wages, but the allotment system would enable them to eke out their subsistence. Mr. RoEutioic—" Eke out their subsistence!" Lord J. M ANNERS said yes—the expression was, unfortu nately, a just one as applied to the present state of the la bouring classes in the manufacturing counties. Mr. C. BULLER said the principle of this bill was so simple that the only wonder was that the House of Commons had not long since acted upon it. He strongly advocated the propriety of passing the bill. Mr. S. CRAWFORD objected to all enclosure bills as rob beries of the poor, and he objected to this bill in particular, as a bill for general plunder of the poor without the inter vention of parliament. It was not his wish to see the poor dependent altogether on wages, for he wished to see them in a great measure independent, by being dependent noon their own labour on land, It was not the small holdings of land in Ireland that caused distress in that oountry, but the peculiar circumstances under which they held them, and the injustice and tyranny under which they laboured. Mr. DLVETT supported the bill, as did also Mr. AG LIONBY. The house then divided, and the second reading was carried by a majority of 64 to 4. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house ;tdjourned. PENSIONS.—By the death of the Earl of Cathcart, and of Sir Charles Bagot, two diplomatic pensions have fallen into the government, amounting together to the sum of £3,486; but, by the accession of Lords Beauvale and Ponsonby, pen sions of a similar nature, amounting together to £2,568 have accrued, so that a saving of £9lB only will take place in the diplomatic pension list, which contains 43 members. The total amount of payments being £43,138 12s. 4d` for the year ending January 5, 1843, for retired pensions; and £140,408 for ambassadors in active service, for the same period ; being in the whole the sum of X 183,138 I ls. 4d.•for this one branch of the public service. THE LATE DR. MAGINN.—An erroneous opinion appears to be entertained as to the proceeds of the subscription, some time since set on foot for the destitute family of this highly talented and much-lamented gentleman. We regret to find, that up to this time it has fallen far short of what was ex pected, and of what it ought to be. The whole amount paid into Coutts's bank scarcely exceeds £5OO, nearly one-half of which has already been expended in fitting out the only son of the deceased as n cadet for India—an appointment which did great honour to the feelings of Lord Fitzgerald, and was, we believe, the last official act of his life. This, however, is the only thing the conservative administration, which owes so much to Dr. Maginu as a political writer, has done for his family.— Times. HER MAJESTY'S ACCESSION.—Tuesday being the fifth anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne, in 1837, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of a merry peal at the different churches throughout the metropolis. The royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, Somerset Douse, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, St. Margaret's, Westminster, St. Giles, and the usual public buildings. At one o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired a royal salute, which was responded to by the batteries at Woolwich, Tilbury Fort, Chatham, Deal, and Dover. The vessels in the St. Katha rine's, London, West and East India Docks, had their colours fairly flying in the breeze, as well as those up and down the river, English and foreign, which presented a variegated and lively appearance. The 28th instant will be the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation, in 1838. THE BIRDS AND BROUGHAM HALL-MUCh interest has recently been excited in Cumberland, and other places, re specting the visit to Brougham Hall, of some persons of the name of Bird, who claim to be the rightful owners of Brougham Hall, the residence of Lord Brougham, and which was formerly called " Bird's Nest." The Birds were seized upon, and put in Appleby gaol, on a charge of tres pass, for a fortnight. One of the parties resides in this town, and he has sent us the following communication on the sub ject, with the orthography and general style of which we take no liberties : " Preston, June 8. " Sir, —Having of late observed repeated paragraphs in your papers respecting brougham hall we beg to make they fowling statement on they 29 of may birds went into brougham hall they place of their ancestors they went in peacably and that they can prove in any court and that Lord Brougham has not had peacable possession for thirty yeares they further further beg to state that we can show a right and gust title to the mansion house of Brougham in they house of Lords or in any court of justice in they three kingdoms and that he lord brougham has no title bnt a fictions one. 9 THOMAS Bum" —Preston Chronicle. OYAY , it 13 e lid s nttEtki. bEegtfilt I SIRE - TN consequen ce © f the brilli4;4 reaeptliui giden to HERR J iii,"AUDIGL. an engtigerhont inn:beep ;Cade for ONE CONCEPT, rostl'iy:o' 4ig LAST APPEAiLANCE 14 Liverpool. pre‘iions to his dep arture from England. O n ITID Ar EVENING, June 30, HERR STAUDIGL will repeat, by particular desire, " Reven7e," and introduce Schubert's Romance of the " Erl King" ; Mozart's beau tiful Aria " in Dicsen Heiligen Flatlet'," and choice selec tions of °Owl- celeiirat,d pieces. kssisted by Madlle. PAULINE LANG, From the Grand Opera Vienna, and other talent. Doors open at half -past seven, commence at eight o'clock, Reserved Seats ss. ; Body of the R oom 45.; Gallery 2s. Programmes and Tickets to be bad at the Rooms, and prin cipal Music Shops. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the 'Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels arc thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. Ebe Riberpool rttanbatt. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1843. Man is, by his nature, perverse and obstinate; but your peculiarly philanthropic specimen of the genus homo is obstinate above all other created beings. To effect the object of his pursuit is not sufficient for him. He must effect it by his own peculiar method ; and he will persist in that method, with unexampled pertina city, long after experience has demonstrated its in ability to ensure the end in view. There is perhaps no body of men who have more strongly illustrated the truth of the above position than a certain dissenting section of the Anti-Slavery Society. These men set about the emancipation of the negro population in our West Indian colonies ; pursued their object with a zeal unquestionable, but with motives, with a passion, and with instruments, far from being so pure and holy as those which should have been brought to bear upon such a cause. The planting body stood be tween them and the realisation of their first proposition, which was one of undeniable spoliation, and forthwith all the powers of calumny and misrepresentation, written and oral, were directed against them. They were de nounced from platforms—they were assailed through the columns of a partizan press—as something little better than fiends in the shape of humanity. They were held up to popular execration as brutalised mon sters—human ogres—whose most familiar plaything was the cart-whip, and whose sweetest music was the shrieks of tortured men, women, and infants ! The entire white population of our British West Indies—a few agitating Mawworins of the Schobell tribe ex cepted—were men steeped in iniquity and blood, whilst the negro race were patterns of suffering virtue —miracles of grace and beauty—worthy to be doated upon by lovesick damsels, and held up to the admira tion of elderly spinsters and dowagers. Well, we have secured--all that British justice and philanthropy ought to have asked for—the emancipa tion of the negro population of these colonies, accom panied by just and equitable remuneration of those whose capital was embarked in their ownership. Not a human being draws the breath of slavery in the Bri tish dominions ! Our tropical products are now being raised exclusively by free labour; but the difficulty, which all reasoning men contemplated as the result of emancipation, is becoming daily more and. more ob vious. We cannot, with our existing coloured popu lation in the West Indies, supply adequately the mar kets of Great Britain, whilst from those of the rest of the world we are entirely excluded. Another consi deration, too, presses itself upon the really humane. We have extinguished the comparatively mild system of . slavery in the British colonies ; but we have added tenfold to the horrors of slavery, and the horrors of the slave trade, as existing amongst the people of other lands. To meet this difficulty we have doubled our preventive force in the African seas. We have nego tiated treaties with the native chiefs of the African coast. We have attempted African colonisation; but in all these misdirected efforts we have failed—signally failed ! And, as the alterative course to be tried, it is asked by practical men, as the only means of securing the objects which British philanthropy has in view, to establish a system of emigration of free labourers from the African coast to the colonies of Great Britain, and to enable the West Indian planter to put down slavery by cheapening, by means of free labour, the products of the tropics, the high price of which furnishes the in centives to the cruelties which we deplore. • The futility of our past efforts, and the advantage of adopting the course suggested by the advocates of free immigration, under the supervision of government, are so forcibly put in an address of Mr. Macgregor Laird to the Anti• Slavery Convention, now sitting in London, that we make no apology for transferring it to our columns. Mr. Laird, in rising to propose a series of resolutions upon the subject, of immigration, " Regretted be could not congratulate the meeting upon the progress of the cause of the African race since the Anti- Slavery Convention held three years since. If they looked to the western hemisphere, or the condition of the slaves of Brazil, Cuba, and the southern states of America, he would ask them did they witness any alleviation in the condition of the negro ? Did they see any improvement even on the coast of Africa ? (Ilear, hear.) The system of treaty-making for the suppression of slavery had most signally failed. (Hear, bear.) When treaty-making was commenced by this coun try, it began with bribery. In 1811 a treaty was made with Portugal, and this country had given to it a bribe of £600,000 to give up nominally the slave trade, except for the supply of her own colonies. In 1817 another treaty was made with the same power; the mixed commission courts were estab lished, and so matters remained, the sea swarming with Portuguese slavers until the year 1839, when the law was taken into our own hands, and an act was passed which authorised our cruisers to treat Portuguese slave traders cailtured by them as British subjects. That was repealed last year, and we got another treaty or piece of parchment, and the result of all the bribing and treating was, that in 1810, 48 Portuguese slavers were condemned at Sierra Leone. (Cheers.) The speaker then referred to Spain and the vari ous treaties which had been entered into with that and other countries to put down slavery, the whole of which bad been inoperative. He was not going to propose a general war to put down slavery, although he believed it would be the holiest cause which had ever induced a war. (Hear, hear.) These slave-trade treaties which had been so much talked about were only attempted to be justified by the alleged good they effected amongst the African race. He denied that they effected any good, or could he justified under any circum stances. (Cheers.) The chief object of these treaties was, that in pursuing trade we should have nothing to do with slave traders ; but this was done in a way which inflicted far deeper cruelties on the unfortunate uegroes than when slavery was in the height of its glory. (Shame.) Slavery was car ried out with iucreased rigour under another name, and the slave trade would be carried on as long as there was a demand for slaves, even if every ship in the British navy were manned against it. (Hear.) It would continue to be carried on, for the profit on it was so immensely great. The only way to remedy the evil was to take measures for underselling the slave trader. (Hear, hear.) This was easily to be done, if the government were sincere in carrying out the abolition of slavery. (Hear.) It was true there had been a commission established on the coast of Africa, at an expense of £229,000 per annum to this country ; and for what? To increase the cruelties of slavery there. (Shame.) The feelings of this I country were such, that they would pay £20,000,000 again to effectually abolish the slave trade—if millions would do it; but it would do no such thing. (Hear.) His plan was, that ' there should be a bridge between Africa and the West Indies, toll free. Ile was convinced, that if a market for free labour were opened, it would soon put an end to slave labour. He knew that it was the principle of the convention to oppose every proposition that was not morally religious and pacific; but would any one say that was not the case when he de manded that we should open our colonies for the reception of the poor creatures who ran away from the bondage of th'ir Cask-masters, and wherever the British flag was hoisted o % . 1 3 4 141 1 1 tlOrft Mow!, The 664, uptiaron who ITO* for near{; two how s, and who wed much intHrupted byerieg of " que4tiorr" and " time, time," concluded by moving a series of resolutions to the effect that it was the duty of the convention to support all plans which would carry out the principle of free labour in opposition to that of slave labour, provided such plans are consistent with the moral, religious, and pacific principles avowed by the convention. That the slave trade carried on upon the Atlantic was caused by the demand in the western world for slaves to cultivate sugar, coffee, and other tropical productions, and to destroy that demand for slaves it was necessary to produce, at a cheaper rate, by free labour, which could be carried out by the pur chase of unoccupied lands in the West Indies. That to effect this it was necessary that all restrictions on the free emigra tion of the negro race should be abolished and emigration carried out by her Majesty's government. That at all times the emigrant shall have a right to demand a free passage from the colonies to the place whence they came ; and that a petition to this effect be presented to parliament." Can anything, we ask, be more reasonable—more strikingly conclusive—than the desirableness of the course suggested in Mr. Laird's resolutions ? Nothing ! Emigration of African free labourers to our West Indian colonies is obviously the legitimate carrying out of the measure of emancipation itself. We have in those colonies a vast , field for the d eve l opmen t o f the principle of free labour. We can there, aided by a copious supply of such labour, undersell the whole world in the markets for tropical products. We can there strike a blow at the very heart of the monster slavery; and, surely it would have been conceived that a policy so plain and practical could not have been ob jected to by any sincere friend of the African race ! But no ; it is too direct—too practical for the ultra philanthropic section of the anti-slavery body. These gentlemen have minds too deeply embittered against the white colonists of the British West Indies to sanc tion a measure of amelioration which might possibly be of benefit to those colonists. Zeal for the happiness of the African race throughout the world is a feeling less active in their breasts than hostility towards the former owners of the now emancipated negroes of Jamaica, Trinidad. and British Guiana; and hence they would rush to any Quixotic scheme—they would go to WAR, even, rather than adopt a policy which, they affect to believe, might lead to practices assimi lating to those existing before the abolition of the slave trade ! Thus, at the meeting of the convention in question a Col. Nicholls, although not entirely hostile to the plan of Mr. Macgregor " believed it the easiest thing in the world to put down slavery, if the government of this country thought proper, and suggested that the most effectual mode was to establish an armed force and military posts along the coasts of Africa" ! ! and, in explanation, remarked, very unnecessarily, we sub mit, that what he wanted was to prevent Africans from being dragged away to slavery from their own land, and to improve them on their own soil"—of course, by means of " an armed force and military posts along the coast of Africa"! The Rev. Mr. Scohell, however, displayed, even more forcibly, the animus of the opposition offered to the plan of government migration. " Fault," he remarked, " had been found with the trans mitting of African labourers to our West India colonies. They were all agreed on the point, that the plan was open to the most serious objections, and could not be supported by tile people of this country. The West India planters had prevailed upon yovernment to carry this measure for their own interests (!), without regarding the interests of our co lonies, that of the people of this country, or of the Africans themselves. If money was given to the chiefs of Africa, they could find free emigrants enough; but not without that could any Africans be found free." The obnoxious West India planters again ! Ano ther speaker— " The Rev. John Clarke, of Fernando Po, proceeded to give a shocking picture of the present mode of exporting labourers from the coast of Africa to that place, under the plea that they were free emigrants. He expressed his con viction that the only way to benefit Africa and destroy the slave trade there was to enlighten her children." And Mr. Lewis Tuppin, of New York, supported the latter view of the question, and declared it to be his conviction that as education spread in Africa, in exactly the same ratio would slavery decrease, until at last it would be entirely abolished—(hear, hear)." Of course these reverends would be delighted to volunteer as " the schoolmasters" who are to enlighten, by some patent process hitherto unexplained, " the children of Africa " ! As a conclusion, we find that, after some explana tory remarks from Mr. Laird, " the resolutions were put and negatived by a very large majority, and the convention dam adjourned." How long, we ask, will the British nation consent to be misled by these transparent fooleries of the Anti-Slavery Society ? Our contemporary of Tuesday appears at length to have discovered—or has some kind friend drilled the fact into him ?—that the publication by a Liverpool paper of all the twaddle which is indited by amateurs upon the subject of our warehouse system is not quite consistent with the course of any party who honestly seeks, or ought to seek, the advancement of the pros perity of the town. In his last publication he re marks— "We see that the Manchester papers, especially the Guardian, take care to bring all disgraceful facts, which are now coming to light al:nost daily, respecting defects of the Liverpool warehousing system (if system it can be called) before their readers, and that they do not fail to draw from them arguments in favour of the introduction of the bonded warehousing system in that town." Of course, the Manchester papers do this ; and in so doing they are perfectly justified. If journalists in Liverpool, for the sake of gratifying a paltry personal spite, or of creeping up the sleeve of a dominant party in the management of dock affairs, will persist in the course which our contemporary has bten pursuing— will persist in deliberately offering weapons to the op ponents of the prosperity of Liverpool, to be used in an effort to strike at the very existence of our port, they cannot complain if those opponents as readily seize hold of those weapons, as they ignorantly and wan tonly tender them. And, moreover, they cannot corn. plain if the world at large estimate the amount of their ignorance by the extent of their perseverance in a course so suicidal. We have little expectation that our contemporary will be deterred from the perpetration of further silli nesses by any consideration of the injury thereby in flicted upon the interests of their fellow-townsmen. There are some people who, like the incendiary of Ephesus, would rather live in story, as the ,author of calamity, than not be known. By a reference to our report of the proceedings of the Dock Committee, yesterday, it will be perceived that some explanation was gone into, upon the subject of the probable cost of the warehouses now erecting upon the quays of the new dock. In our last publica tion, we stated that the estimated cost of erection of these warehouses was £36 per square yard ; and, for making this statement, we had the authority of our own report, and another (the Mercury's), of which the following is the substance : " The sub-committee of works presented their amended report on the subject of the warehouses, in which they recom mended that all the floors should be constructed on the prin ciple of the brick arch, according to a model prepared by the surveyor. Some discussion ensued on the propriety of im mediately adopting the report, Mr. Evans contending that an estimate of the entire expense should first be laid before the committee. The chairman said the surveyor estimated the cost, according to the; plan now submitted, at -.C36 5s per square yard. On the motion of Mr. Ripley, the motion was adopted." This report appeared in our publication of the 19th ult., was repeated in a letter in our publication of the 2d instant, and remained uncontradicted or unex plained until, stirred up perhaps by the use made of it in our last publication, we had yesterday what pur ports to he a final clearing up of a matter so striking. We give here the explanation verbatim from our re port : Mr. BOLD said he wished, as there was considerable mis apprehension on the subject, to ask the surveyor what was his estimate of the cost of the Dock Warehouses? The SURVEYOR replied, that he had the memoranda to answer Ida question in his pocket last week, hut the subject passed over. The estimate was £ll Ils. per square yard. Mr. BOLD.—Does that include the vaulting ? The SURVEYOR.—Yes. Mr. BOLD. —And the piling ? The SuaveYoit.—Yes. The CHAIRMAN said he did not press the question last week, because he thought Mr. Hartley seemed hardly certain. It was, however, an important question, for by the news paper accounts the estimate had been mis-stated from week to week, end the pablia thrrAy fief oded, The fai4t4ke rfa# in making the (most three tines the amount, The SURVEYOR did not know how the mistake Gould have arisen. The CHAIRMAN said it probably afose from the Surveyor having made use of the term " square," when he was under stood to mean the square yard. Instead of £36, it should have been something short of a third of it. The SURVEYOR having repeated that he could not tell how the mistake had occurred, and made some explanations to Mr. BRAMLEY IVIOORE, which could not be heard by the re porters, the subject dropped. We must confess that all this is not very clear to us. The estimate, including piling and vaulting, is here given us as £ll 11s. per square yard. How it ever came to be given as £36 55., is quite as mysterious to us as it appears to have been to the surveyor. Nor does the explanation of the chairman, that for " square yard" must have been meant the " term square," throw any great light upon the subject. A " square," in en gineering phrase, is, we believe, 100 square feet, or 11 1-9 square yards; and it never can have been meant by the surveyor that this space could be covered by building, such as that of the dock warehouses, for an amount so very much below the mark as £36 ss. The remark of the chairman, that "he did not press the question last week because he thought Mr. Hartly seemed hardly certain," ahhough that gen tleman declares that last. week " he had the memo randa to answer the questions in his pocket," suggests the possibility that he may be scarcely certain even yet ! In the meantime, however, even taking the surveyor's present estimate—(how many have we had ?) —to be his last, let us see how the case stands. We stated on Tuesday that the cost of erection of a pile of eight-story fire-proof warehouses in the town, was £9 per square yard. Mr. Hartley's estimate of the cost of the dock warehouses (five stories) is £ll. lls. The cost, therefore, per square foot of superficial flooring in the first-named warehouses will be— £1 2s. per square yard And in dock warehouses . 6s. „ or more then double. LGCAL NEWS. We believe the 'apprehension entertained that the Rev. Hugh M•Neile was about to leave this town for Belfast is unfounded, though it is true that the offer of the vicarage was made to him. Mr. Henry Lawrence, one of the representativea of Rod ney-street Ward in the Town Council, was presented to His loyal Highness Prince Albert by Lord Sandon at the levee held on Wednesday, held by the Prince at the desire of Her Majesty. SIR CHARLES BAGOT.—The remains of this lamented gentleman arrived at this port yesterday in her Majesty's steamer Monkey, from Falmouth, where they were taken from the Warspite. We understand that the remains of Sir Charles are to be deposited in the family vault in Stafford shire. LADY PEEL'S ASSEMBLY.—On Wednesday Lady Peel held an assembly at the family mansion in Whitehall-gar dens, when her ladyship was honoured with the company of the King of Hanoyer, and other members of the royal family. At least 800 of the nobility and gentry ascembled at her lady ship's re - union, comprising most of the leading aristocracy. Amongst the names of the company present, we observe the names of Lord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas. FIRE IN TOXTETH-PARE.—On Wednesday morning, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the work shop of Messrs. Roberts and Parry, joiners, Lodge-lane, Toxteth. park. It flamed very fiercely for some time, and communicated to the cottage adjoining. There were numbers of workmen on the spot who exerted themselves manfully to reduce the flames. They succeeded before the arrival of the engines, which had been sent for on the first alarm, in completely extinguishing the fire, Mr. Hewitt soon arrived with fire engines, but his services were not required. INEQUALITY OF THE BUSINESS IN THE POLICE-COURT. —A great inequality in the daily weight of business in the Police ..court frequently occurs. On two days of the present week the cases were not got through with until nearly .six o'clock. Yesterday the whole of the cases, including assaults and applications to the magistrate, were concluded shortly after one o'clock. The average duration of the public busi ness is, we should think, from about half-past ten to half past two, or towards three o'clock. But there arc frequently cases of minor delinquency —the parties being remanded with a view to their parents or friends being brought, so that they may, if possible, reclaim them —which are heard in the magistrate's room from ten o'clock until the opening of the court. THE LATE FIRES IN THIS TOWN.—The magistrates of this borough had another meeting on Tuesday at the -Ses sions-house, where some highly important evidence was brought .forward. The investigation was again private, it being considered unwise in the present state of the inquiry to make public the information which has been elicited. There is now, we may observe, dir ec t ev id ence t h at incen diaries have been at work. Certainly an attempt has been made in a recent instance to set file to a warehouse, and the presumption is, that all the recent fires have had a similar origin. —On th morning of Tuesday last, as the locker of a warehouse, situated in Dundee -street, was proceeding, ac cording to his usual custom, to open the concern, he dis covered inside the front or.main entrance a piece of cotton with some lucifer matches in the centre. The cotton bore evident marks of having been ignited, for it was partially burnt round the edges; and as it was placed about the length of a man's arm inside the hole in the doorway, which is called the cat-hole, and which has been made for the purpose of affording ingress and egress for cats and also for rats, there cannot exist any doubt but that it was so placed by some wickedly-disposed villain or villains, for the purpose of setting fire to the premises. The attempt was, however, most providentially defeated, owing to the cotton not having continued to burn after it had become ignited. The ware house which has thus been preserved from destruction is one of a pile of several magnificent structures of the same de scription recently erected, at very considerable cost, in Dundee -street. At present they contain some thousands of bales of cotton, and a large quantity of palm oil—materials of such a combustible nature, that had the diabolical attempt he T 1 successful, the probability is that the whole pile would have been destroyed. IMPORTANT TO ASSIGNEES.—A case came before Mr. Commissioner Skirrow lately, at the Liverpool District Bankrupt Court, in which a dividend had been ordered in October last by the old Commissioners, and there remained in the hands of the assignees, at the time the file of proceed ings was transferred into the new Bankrupt Court, a sum of 4:21 odd, being dividends unpaid to several creditors, and which sum the assignee had paid over to the official assignee. The learned Commissioner ruled that this money vested by the new Bankrupt Act in the official assignee as part of the assets belonging to the bankrupt's estate, and that the soli citor to the fiat was bound, by the 24th of the new orders, to make out three lists of the unpaid creditors, in alphabe tical order, &c., sign them, and then deliver them to the official assignee. The solicitor refused to do this, on the ground that the unpaid dividends did not vest in the official assignee, being no part of the bankrupt's estate, but money belonging to A, B, &c., the unpaid creditors, who could call upon the assignee for payment at any time within twelve mouths from the date of the order of dividend, after which I he must pay the money into the Unclaimed Dividend Fund : and further, the 24th order did not apply to dividends made by the old Commissioners, but only to dividends to be made by the new Commissioners, which appeared from the general tenor of the new rules, and from the form. of schedule given in which the lists of debts were to be made out (namely, " Dividend made this day by Mr. Commissioner ") and that, supp os i ng h e ( the solicitor) must make out the list of debts, there was nothing in the rules which said he was to make out a list of unpaid dividends, the knowledge . as to which he did not possess, and which the assignee or ac countant should be asked to give information upon. The learned Commissioner said he was quite clear upon the point, and that his course would be to make an order for the soli citor to sign the lists, who must bear the consequences of disobeying the same. We understand that the opinion of a barrister in the Court of Review has been taken, which is directly opposed to the law as laid down by Mr. Commis sioner Skirrow. REGISTRATION OF PORTERS, &c.--The registration of, and granting of certificates of the same to, porters, ware housemen, lumpers, and stevidores, still continues in the grand jury -room of the Court-house, in Chapel-street. Up to yesterday afternoon, Mr. Thomas Tyson, who is appointed by the council of the borough to keep the registry, had registered nearly 4,000 persons, who had made appli;ation to have their names entered ; and as those whose surnames commence with L, M, or N were not then concluded, it is probable that from eight to ten thousand men in all will receive certificates. The clauses of the local act by which these are granted are to the effect, that any person register. ing under a false name or incorrect description, or being guilty of felony, indictable !misdemeanour, habitual drunken. ness or disorderly conduct, shall have his name expunged from the registry, and publicly exhibited in a list fixed up for the space of three months,—that any person whose name is so expunged, and who shall thereafter represent himself as still registered, shall for each offence forfeit a sum not ex ceeding 40s.,—and that persons plying as porters without being registered shall be amenable to a like fine. The act does not, however, extend to porters and others employed by the dock trustees, under the recent act relating to the transit sheds and other new works at the docks. The charge made for the certificates was at first one shilling each; but this has since been reduced to sixpence, including a small tin case given to each person, in which to hold his certificate; and those who paid a shilling have sixpence returned to them on producing their certificate before the registrar. THE WEATHER.--Since our last the weather in this dis trict, and those surroundin g it, has, f or t h e most part, been sunny and delightful, and consequently highly favourable for the growing crops. On the afternoon of Wednesday— the longest day—the sky became overcast, portending rain, and the temperature inclined to cold, with a breeze from the north-west quarter; but the barometer suffered little or no depression, and it again became fine. In the evening the wind having died away, a gentle downfall took place, merely sufficient to moisten the surface of the ground, and to lay the dust in the highways. A refreshing shower also fell yes terday morning, and was succeeded by a bright summer's day, agreeably warm, without being sultry. The whole country even in this, in some parts, comparatively unpro ductive county, presents a flush of verdure which it has rarely been our happiness for witness. The crops with the except i on o f patches of potatoes here and ther generaelly, on the low grounds, th at had partially suff ere d from the long. continued rains, are well forward and highly ptotnising. The wheats, in particular, (of which there isino very great breadth in this immediate neighbourhood,) are unusually strong and thick on the ground. The plants have already shot into ear in kindly soils; and we have seen many fields in Walton, W est Derby. Gateacre, and Woolton, where they have attained a height of four-and.a-half to five feet. The harvest of " the golden crop" may, therefore, should the season con tinue favourable, be anticipated a fortnight or three weeks earlier than last year. We . can scar ce l y say so much for the generality of the spring corn, though we have seen some promising specimens. Culinary vegetables are abundant and fine, and it is expected that Dew potatoes will to-morrow (our market-day) be down to Id. and lAd. per pound, ac cording to size. The mowers and hay-makers, availing themselves of the sun shining, are busily employed in the fields. The yield in this valuable article far exceeds the usual average, amounting, indeed, in s ome places, to nearly three-fold that of last year. A considerable quantity has already been stacked in prime condition from forward grounds. The gardens look beautiful. F ru it , h owever, and particularly apples, will probably f a ll rat h er short, much of the blossom having been destroyed by th e l ong rains and cold winds in May and during the first part of the, present month. The same cause has operated slightly to raise the price of bread ; but this, with the favourable c h ange in the weather, together with the fine appearance of the wheat fields, cannot, we should think, long be maintained. ' leek DIERADruf, ACZIPIENT AV g54,....At holi'P a*t ‘" f)() 3 in Friday morning the Mersey steamer, from telverPani, 1 4 down a Baldoyle fishing boat, which was at anchor 4 .. rig miles off the Howth Light - ho use. Of the crew ging; f sav; mere, six saved themselves by clinging to the seventh was unfortunately d rowned..—Publin Advertiser' EATON HOUSE, CHESTER.—We have aut hority to tatte: that, through the liberality of the M W arq uis of est mins u e b r y nip splendid mansion, Eaton Hall, is all owed to 'be se e hp SUCar aer parties visiting Chester, every day during .- , l o ck months (except Saturdays and Sundays,) from elev en o c till four. Parties have already been numerous. DGBuFE's PICTORES.— Since the price of admission to these pictures has been reduced to 6d., still greater throngs. have inspected them. The working classes a ppear to aP,lf_ e e.. ciate these beautiful works of art quite as highly as l , a° bettF:rs ; and by the remarks frequently exhibit a truer feeling for the " sublirne and beautiful" th the more educated. . highly in- BEBINGTON FLOWER SHOW• —A roeeting of a r id y, teresting character is to be held at Bebingtan, on F h : he the 30th instant. A flower show is to take place , wh ie Th e made, oftentiroaeas gentry of Wirral have warmly promised to patronise. . county members have each exressed their wish for its sac cess, and most liberally encouraged the exertions of the I lectors. Stubb's band is engaged, and a very agreeale_ ota,Y may be expected by those who wish to enjoy a pleasant day 6 recreation in the country. • SIEGE op AMOY.—The representation of the " Siege of Amoy," at the Zoological Gardens,. continues each. Tueso.2. and Friday evening to attract crowds of visitors. ce" s7. ertion n is made to render the Gardens a pleasant public r.e.°e,, I the day time a capital Camera Obscura is O b i t c lt ee u .„ which presents a most pleasant and curious effect. 1, ve trifugal Railway, which is put in operation continually dune& the day, surprises while it startles the spectator, bY t -e z o e locity which the carriage obtains in its progress. This l __. weather has induced numbers to erambulate the GOOD' both by day and in the evening. P 50 MR. WILLOUGHBY WEISS.—We see by the report of be Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover-square Rooms, i , b , Morning Herald, that our townsman, yr. Willougo Weiss, has pade a very pleasing impression uponi,the all r ' k s pe-' dience. Tus society, it should be borne in mind, ran r , haps the highest of its kind in London. Our Coate:lWO:4 splendidly d w i a d v l y e s , a ' c ' says—Mr. m Weiss (pupil of Balfe) made a very ,Fab lat p a r t ession in Sir Henry Bishop's steno—Recitative;, which scored. It iss Bellamy,. the celebrated basso, and is quite a poetical ioliPt;, IStterwnasmownrairttechaof the winds. , for ration. Mr. Weiss has an organ of very superior q" te and, with more poliih in • will be a first-rs his style, artist. (as we beliecni 9 e, I, , ,, s terclaYr . DEATH BY BEING RUN OVER By A CART. -- . -,... t h oi an John i inquest was held before. Mr. Curry, touching the o '7, (the 9th h in Price, a carter, aged 67. On Friday night weer'hatse instant), the deceased was driving along Cornwallis-street. He was sitting 00 the sidebo . . was g oing the cart, with th • ' e reins in his hands. The noise „,„ so rt l us " d at a slow pace, and deceased his cart with . c ar d of appeared to be sober. . A ra oa and observed and a man who was standing near it turou: e o der the deceased lying on the ground, ( o ', frolo under the wheel. Deceased extricated himself a little theo der the wheel, but the horse (which was blind) ie s o f his started beaci , and the wheel went partly over the right sideAowiog He was cut over the right eye, and blood W e e p+ same from the wound. His right cheek was qu ite cut oe'aittch . . bones in the head were broken, and he was otherwise „at; a o ured ict? injured. He was taken home and attended by but lingered until Tuesday last, when he died. Ver " Accidental Death." anti . .Our readers attention is directed to the following .I‘„sors, nication (translated from the German) addressed to es'''''' CO' I Rowlands' agent at Cologne :--" 13, Strait: Euggbale oyne, May 23, 1841.. Mr. Thomas S. Ditoes,---Sir, freeo much 43,,. pleasure in informing you of the extraordinary ears e i t ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL :' for above nine o ff had not a particle of hair on my head, when I W 3s i c . a ;ord; recommended to give this celebrated oil a trial. 1 ' ono inely purchased two bottles at your establishment,,4o strictly folwed the printed directions; in the course of 4 0 months my head was covered with fine short hair, wh of ei the then had cut off, and continued to persevere in the 125 e I CS 9 oil. The result is, that after five months perseverance city. now boast of as good a head of hair as any man in thl s t s od In justice to the inventors I make this acknowledgolsishite shall feel great pleasure in satisf in any inquirYTLa - ''" you with respect, ADAM BAC; 3 gh Artilleryl3"g-de* ER, St See advt. V e cifle s ' DEATH BY BURNING.—An inquest was held on 1 Ao ° day before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the bodY4iegio Robinson, aged 78, the.wife of a cabinet maker, ee'„stant, a Pembroke-street. On the night of Friday, the 9t5,1 "0f t he street, female named Cover, who lived on the opposites ioe of de treet, observed a strong light through the windole idea ceased's house, and becoming alarmed ran up, Pus h h e „ s hea d ; the door, and found the deceased all in flames. Hr " 1 , - , - sa u t ' at the time, was coming down stairs, with a quit " n d l .g iS ii itt A man who lives in the yard came in, and wraPP e s' i bur' round her, and the fire was pnt out. She S and evereiYo,ol6 over her right arm and side. She was dressed a A ft .. e e r 'o t he taken to the infirmary. There was but a poor J" -10 grate at the time, and deceased informed Cover that s he ., her in the act of picking a piece of paper off the floor whe"r. thattable. de' shawl took fire from the candle which was on t the i 9 lnrnan, house-surgeon of the Infirmary," said ; re" ceased when brought there on Frida week was 1, - ,, 1 10 4 burnt, as stated, and that. she lin ered until Teesku,7,llieg' when she died of the injuries she receivedg by the v"" Verdict, " Accidental burnt." d ter ° THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.--The ~- i t S O S ) state of the northern districts of Wales, caused screen'''. :Or the early prices of the English securities. However' a s s , ral good purchases followed, a reaction occurred, 0 : 6 ,, oe g This quotatnhea sols from 93a advanced to 931 to t• maintained till just previous to the close of bus' half Peir the sale of about £50,000 Reduced Threet-an 93 to another fluctuation, and d 3 u k ee to I. Bank Stcck is 179 to 180 ',Three per Ce v e ts aace d ,; d, 94* to a; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. P e rSs• I 6 1 th O oos ll u. ' gp ; hr L eom o n n ly g . Annuities, 12 9-16 to -a; India ra• e s . , and Exchequer-bills, 525. to 5 4 5• f d r r e id gi: ie s• one day later, the accounts from ''- e r 'be more favourable bearing to dealings in Spanish se :ill ~ Events appear to confirm the opinion that Esparterkgeoeli quite equal to the present movement against the D. ,P' The Actives closed 184 to i; the New PerThrelePfarrCederY.l°l to i ; Mexican finally left off 28 to 1 ; the 1) the f l ' e 4; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents.. 541 to i; . _ 2. , 3_01 Cents.,Brazilian, 99 to 1031. 1 7 1 :0007437; Danish; 85 to 86' Coloinillia'dosr_' : a ikl' ; Portuguese Converted, 41 tu ' 10 9 ' We EXHIBITION AT THL COLLEGIATE INSTITW.,eS"- are glad to say that the attendance at the Polytechni d Oa' bition—opened on Monday—has been numerous, and cave to increase daily, and that allh. ha ve visited Veil expressed (if we may believe who, a 1 thei r e 5 an ex genera, report, - ~ a tiS surprise and gratification, at witndeingsorlinultitualf fieoee' a rt o' 6- tic/I?' varied a collection of the rare au ancient and modern ; in practiciAl.emechandicis: a 7 0 ;. fa er ;Ise beautiful . tie _ ;n on ._,, e ( antiquities, and curiosities. n an ot d ice that the exhibition had never been :Vatted ill:10004 v i a n riety in the provinces, and, perhaps, ne cer a s t a oo b t: .evene.n our cede commendation. We learn from i t a r sequalearCh 1 11 ,iit O acei o fni ne th e r s o h u i g b h i o ti u o t n . in the metroPe lis ana r Ot to it extent, or in the talent e n . e a re e re Of this s c and alittle . proud. We paid a short visit to it las o t e n a ie t t h i e h picg a r a i : much delighted. 'We had but time to l gallery only, which shows, we think begttearatbay.g_e,s;blitgo-;01; by day. We were summoned to the co a nc a er ria r t h trea"der t h -: by the sound of the gong, and en performances of the excellent instrumentaleye band, hal l. l' " a l leadership of Mr. H. F. Aldridge in the lectureoh,3' set . audience was numerous and highly r s ectable. r-Oe:oht an d pieces selected for the evening, (to ehePrepeated to e"svabe r. and were waltzes, quadrilles, &c., by distinguished ee nlr bat we played n with great taste, precision, and effect thel ob°,,e' hav re e ot time or room to particularize. A solo op da s, ~,,w; played by Mr. H. E. Browne. was loudly appla,,"de '&0; 1 ' w deed, were the whole of the performances. I , l ' e , in no" - ti e has also been a great attraction. P We had intencieo v- bee.- the exhibition somewhat in dtail . this day , Init have 13*'e precluded from doing so from circumstances to *c hic may perhaps hereafter advert. ,/ eel e i ! „ li ar, . b e, CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS . — The nor"°`.,,abh' At bration of the national schools connected with the e.''' -- C (fr of the 131"0„10 Church took place on Tuesday. The children . _ (ro t o , b ` ie el School assembled at an early hour in the area to ,_ „ s ent r is i i n n s s ti t t . u p ti e o t n e , r, a a mi those of the various other s chool s ° and s 'o l Church-yard. The Bfue Coat b 0 95 fou ls, filed off into procession shortly after ten o' ol°k ' ho I° ' d by the children of the other Church of Engla nd sc r - oe °erd ,, e te t t o he ti n t,e uT ,o b w er n ! h f u m n a , ny thousands. The procession P jo 6t , and the principal various schools where ole it was joined by the N.laili°irscoe're was escorted to St. P depaer r tt g oe y rd, in their canonicar. ,;;.,re, 01..4 school-houses,. there to break up for the Mgt ° well , a s i o C hpurrotswsirtot h . e t ; e l 1 1 r : rare : i p . e v e a ' ac t ::i tion. The children looked extremely happy an ., e r l ,or o,, ter s e t , the line was of vast and imposing len,,th. The °:,`", 10"; t. St. Peter's Church at ten minutes ' past °eve- a c l' l ' tended by the clergy, the churchivardens and othere'hia the form . was erected, as is usual on these o'ccasions, I; . e e ofie r , schools, on which were a number of children fron day' t'' Tre , __ a who took part in the vocal services of th? OW h ' ivl ybrick presided at the organ with his usual A in ' " 111I f i e the commencement of the service the children se"i' free" one consent let all the earth," in a very pleasing t th e r e es_ci t il l i f,: manner. The Rev. Rector Brooks officiateu ..• ~ i no , t oo desk, and read the * psalms, lessons, • o 0 h. pressively. The services were varied by the slat c hurc h ' and pray f other selected pieces and several of thews ef t "" iv, ' cl • The sermon was preached by the Rev.a C. A. Thal° roe• took “ as his text the 23d chapter of Matthew 36th e Mee this I say unto you, all these things shall c°131 5 - or ti. ttgeneration." A collection was made at the c lo 0 service. Upwards of £55 was contributed. 000° 1'5 ' pi TO A ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBER. OF CHILDREN • 641 T r•SEi ON ti DAY OF THE ANNIVERSAR Y, 20T0 !SUNDAY. `INFANTS f- •Al" 1.0 1 • SCHOOLS Blue Coat Hospital Female Orphan Old Church Hunter-street St. James's Welsh Charity St. Paul's St. Mark's, Everton and Kirkdale Mill-lane, Everton St. Simon's Edge-hill St. Clement's, Windsor St. Michael's t. Andrew's Nall Church of Englnd South Ditto St. Bartholomew's St. Augustine's. St. Bride's St. Jude's • St. Catherine's St. Luke's Christ Church St. John Baptist All Saints' St. Barnabas's St.Thomas',T'xteth-pk Mariners' West Derby Union Liverpool Workhouse 41 0 33 9 23 5 317 2i° 0,1 o , 3D, 4i. 13601 1 672 735, n O. P. RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL. — T he the ..... 0 riots in London suc ce.s : ni l u`iatig4ol. 0• in occasioned a laudable spirit of o an " 1 /0. ( Liverpool, h where a❑ attempt was made to earrY ? ii thisl bf rioters erws were prosecuted aed K n a i I , , the , Lb bettaer_l„es, 004,, The Mr. Baron Graham a u n t c a b s y t e t r h e s .v s wi l a b ae g o j e st ri b es 06 t , was of opinion, that the ~.►d ie petalscu' sufficiently bat, 35 b i g hly to the proof of a conspiracy; quences of a conviction for that offence were 0 ~...0 for t o hrecommended that th t ' the informaiwd tot... conspiracv should . e "a n 1". • agree , fial i .. be given up n which being ~, a id 11 , defendants • were found guilty of the riot.ve cellany. . F at t f i 4tNfi ''tt4 th red