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2 i , FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. mperial iaatlianunt. _____._. INDIA AND CHINA.—We have the intelligence hrou HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. from India and China by the Overland Mail, which The royal assent was given to-day to no less thancighty Bombay on the 20th of May last. The mail was d bills, among which were the following :—The Officers' patched thus early-11 days before its ordinary time Qualification Indemnity Bill, the Military Savings Banks departure—in order that it might escape the violence Bill, the Privy Council Administration of Justice Bill, the monsoon. As, however, only eight days had elap the Maynooth College Better Government Bill, an Act to since the date of our previous advices by the intermedii Regulate the labour of Children and Women in Print or Calcutta mail, the intelligence is of no political imp Works, an Act to empower Canal Companies to vary tance, and scarcely even of commercial interest, as their Tolls, Chester Improvement Bill, the Claughto n - little change had taken place in the aspect of the mark( cues-Grange St. Andrew's Church Bill, the Claughton- The hot weather had set in, and this, too, added to cum-Grange St. John the Baptist Church Bill, the Ches- general stagnation both in politics and trade. To sup ter and Holyhead Railway Bill, the York and North this vacuum, the Indian newspapers amuse themsel Midland Railway (York and Scarborough Branch) Bill, with rumours respecting the Punjaub, the state the Manchester, Bury, Blackburn, and Burnley Railway Scinde an d Cabul, diversified with a few of the lo Bill, the Leeds, Lewsbury, and Huddersfield Railway squabbles which are always rife in India. Sir Her Bill, the Leeds and B ra df or d (Shi p l e y t o C o l ne Branch) Hardinge was still at Calcutta, and, in spite of t Railway Bill, the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction heat, as active as ever in plans for the internal i Railway Bill, the Yarmouth and Norwich and Norwich provement of Bengal. From China no farther advit and Brandon Railway Consolidation Bill, the Shrewsbury, bad been received since the date of the last mail. T Oswestry, and Chester Railway Bill, the Blackburn, Dar- only article of news is the decision of the court-mart wen, and Bolton Railway Bill, the Midland Railway up on Colonel Wallace, who has been convicted of disot Company's Extension to Nottingham and Lincoln Bill, dience of orders, and sentenced to a suspension of the Kendal and Windermere Railway Bill, the Man- months from rank, pay, and allowances. It was sr chester and Leeds Railway (Burnley and Oldham Branch) that the Commander-in-Chief considered this too lenie Bill, the Midland Railway Company (Syston and Peter- a sentence, but public opinion was still much in the gi borough Branch) Bill, the Whitby and Pickering Railway lant Colonel's favour. The Bombay Times says that Bill, the York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington mysterious silence is maintained on the state of t Branch) Bill, and the Birkenhead Docks Bill. revenue of Scinde, which is said to be as far as possit The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of the from being satisfactory, and that the troubles in t Banking (Scotland) Bill. Punjaub continue unabated. The Ameer of Cabul The Earl of RADNOR opposed the bill on the ground said openly to have abandoned all idea of invadit that it was an unnecessary interference with private pro- Peshawur—moved chiefly thereto by the belief that v perty, and that the whol e o f th e p o p u l a ti on o f S co tl an d are about to occupy the Ponjaub. Gwalior, and tl were opposed to it. The bill was however read a third other places in which, little more than a twelve mont time by a majority of 47 to 15. since, such wild disorder reigned, are all tranquil. TI kingdom of Oude is fast approaching that state i HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNnar. anarchy and confusion in which it will become imperativ A new writ was moved for the borough of Abingdon, in on our government to interfere in its affairs. the room of Sir F. Thesiger, who has accepted the office FIRE AT CALCUTTA.—The accounts from Calcutt of Attorney-General. Several rail wa y bill s were rea d a t hi r d t i me an d Passe d ; state, that on the 9th M ay a d es t ruct i ve fi re b ro k e out i the office buildings of Messrs. Macvicar, Smith, & Co. after which the house went into committee on the Colleges which, with all they contained, were entirely destroyed (Ireland) Bill. books, papers, and all. The fire soon afterwards seize There was a good deal of debating and dividing, but all upon the premises of Messrs. Somers and Co. adjoining the proposed amendments were rejected by large majori- which quickly shared the same fate. Here, however ties. ~ time was happily a ll owe d f or th e rescue o f t h e b ooks &c., and a portion o f th e property i n t h e warehouses Captain LAY A R D ca ll e d th e HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. Messrs. Kilby and Co. a l so were su ff erers , t h e fl ame attention of the house to having seized th e i r b u ildi ngs , an d d one t h em some da the necessity of limitin g th e d ura ti on o f service in the merge. The total lo ss o f a ll i s est i ma t e d at a b out s or to her M army, and moved that an humble add r e ss b e presented lads of rupees, includi ng th e b u ildi ngs . Th ese are corn ajesty, praying tbat she will be gr a c i ous ly pleased plete wrecks ; even the outer walls are tottering and fall to direct inquiry to be made how far the reduction of the ing. Such a thing has not b een k nown i n C a l cutta s i nc , period of service in the a rm y, f rom th e presen t un li m i te d it was taken by Surg-00-dowlah in 1756. term to ten years, would tend to procure a better class of recruits, diminish desertion, and thus a dd t o th e e ffi c i ency WEST INDIES. m ost —The Medway steamer brings favourer ble accounts from of the West India islands. It of the service. Jamaica, however, the ra i ns h a d f a ll en so h eav il y as t i Mr. S. HERBERT said th a t grea t i m p rovemen t s h a d been effected in the army within the last few years, to an inundate several parishes ; and the dwellings of the poorer extent which bad caused the service to become now popu- classes were, in numerous instances, considerably nudes la: with the community. The attention now paid to the water. Several lives had been a l n os d t, , and there was SOME feelings, comfort, and respectability of the men, rendered amount of property destroyed, awa hundred by the flood. two" The colonists, the service superior to the military service of other na- goats were carriedwere in good s y pirits, as the Coolies were work tions. Such being the case, he thought the motion alto- however, ing well, and there was every reason to expect that, when a gether unnecessary. larger number arrived, they would p rove a mos t i mpor t an t DonoLas, and Mr. W ILLIAMS , t h e mot i on was even t u - After some observati ons f rom M r. H UMS, Si r H . means of restoring the prospe r ity o f th e island. From Barbadoes we lea rn th a t re f res hi ng ra i ns fell in the town ally negatived witho u t a di v i s i on . Mr. M. MILNES th en b roug ht f orwar d a m otion r e l a - just before the pa c k e t l e ft, an d w hi c h , it was hoped, had tive to the evil eff ec t s o f pu bli c execu ti ons , hi s obj ec t been pretty general in th e coun t ry di str i cts. I n Deme being to obtain le ave t o b r i ng i n a bill to give power to rare matters were goi ng on muc h t h e same. A meeting the judges to direct executions to take place within the of the inhabitants was to b e h e ld t o ta k e into considera precincts of the prison whenever it should seem proper lion the necessity of r e f orm i ng th e constitution of the to them to do so. While the hon. gentleman, however, colony. The Roger Stewart h a d arr i ve d with another lot was still addressing the house, it was counted out. of emigrants from Sierra Leone. Th e E ast C oast R a il way - 4 .-- seems likely to be prosecuted w i t h sp i r it. I n H ayt i HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. affairs are evidently settling do wn , as G enera l I ng i nac i h as been recalled from his exile by i nv it a ti on o f t h e new go- The London and South Western Railway Bill, (No. 2) was read a third time and passed. vernment. Rivers Herard was said t o b e a t St. Th omas. A large amount of bullion br oug ht b y th e steamer f rom The Lunatic Asylums Bill was committ e d, an d t h e clauses up to the 45th agreed to. Mexico is chiefly on merchants a n d par tl y on m i n i ng account. Nothing definite seems to have been arranged Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Mr. Parrott, respecting Texas, though Mexico was ready to acknow stating that an action had been commenced against him ledge its independence. General Santa Anna, banished for evidence given before the Committee on the Medical from Mexico, arrived at Havana in the Medway ; and Bill, and praying the protection of the House. Bustamente, the ex-president, an d enemy o f S an t a A nna, The Field and Gardens Bill was comm i tte d , and several clauses agreed to. who was also at the Havana, sail e d on th e 10 t h o f J une i n The Scientific and Literary Soci e ti es (E xemption for the steamer Dee for Mexico. Rates) Bill was comitted. The packet-ship George Washington has been sold, in __ is ._ America, for a whaler. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The number of emigrants arrived at Quebec this year In the House of Lords the first two of Lord Brougham's up to the Ist of June, was 7,278—an increase of 2,967 railway resolutions were agreed to. compared with last year. On the motion of the Earl of RIPON, the Irish Bank- A considerable quantity of machinery has lately been ing Bill went through committee. imported into Lisbon from England for the Portuguese After which Lord Denman moved the second reading ootton factories, which are said to have been much im of the Bill for the Administration of Criminal Justice; proved by the skill of English workmen. • and, after a short conversation, in which Lord Brougham, THE POPE.—In the late encyclical letter of his holiness, Lord Campbell, and the Lord Chancellor took part, the the adherents of the papacy were warned against reading bill was read a second time. the history of the Reformation. One consequence of this Several bills were then forwarded a stage, and their notice is, that a translation of the work is being made for lordships adjourned. the purpose of enlightening the inhabitants of the Italian HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSD AY . States. The earlier part of the eveni ng i n th e H ouse o f C om- TfIE GREAT FIRE IN Q UEBEC .—L a t er arr i va l s f u ll y mons was occupied by the discussion of the course to be substantiate the first appalling accounts of this fire. It pursued in reference to the p e titi on o f M r. J . P arrott, originated in the bu rs ti ng o f a b o il er . F rom 1,500 to who complained that an action of libel had been brought 2,000 buildings were burned, and 18 schooners. The less against him upon evidence which he had given as a witness of movables and buildings will not be less than £400,000, e before a committee of the h ouse . M r. D IVETT, who p insured perhaps £60,000. have been re covere d. They The whole loss near £700,000. rented the petition, moved th a t th e plaintiff in the action The bodies of twel ve p erso n s be brought to the bar, and treated his conduct as a breach perished in the fire. £7,500 was immediately subscribed of privilege. for the relief of the sufferers, and bakers and others sent A long conversation, in which Mr. C. WYNN, Sir R. to distribute provisions to the destitute. PEEL, and Sir G. GREY took part, ensued, the result of INDIA AND CHINA.—We have the intelligence brought from India and China by the Overland Mail, which left Bombay on the 20th of May last. The mail was des patched thus early-11 days before its ordinary time of departure—in order that it might escape the violence of the monsoon. As, however, only eight days had elapsed since the date of our previous advices by the intermediate, or Calcutta mail, the intelligence is of no political impor tance, and scarcely even of commercial interest, as but little change had taken place in the aspect of the markers. The hot weather had set in, and this, too, added to the general stagnation both in politics and trade. To supply this vacuum, the Indian newspapers amuse themselves with rumours respecting the Punjaub, the state of Scinde and Cabul, diversified with a few of the local squabbles which are always rife in India. Sir Henry Hardinge was still at Calcutta, and, in spite of the heat, as active as ever in plans for the internal im provement of Bengal. From China no farther advices had been received since the date of the last mail. The only article of news is the decision of the court-martial upon Colonel Wallace, who has been convicted of disobe dience of orders, and sentenced to a suspension of six months from rank, pay, and allowances. It was said that the Commander-in-Chief considered this too lenient a sentence, but public opinion was still much in the gal lant Colonel's favour. The Bombay Times says that a mysterious silence is maintained on the state of the revenue of Scinde, which is said to be as far as possible from being satisfactory, and that the troubles in the Punjaub continue unabated. The Ameer of Cabul is said openly to have abandoned all idea of invading Peshawur—moved chiefly thereto by the belief that we are about to occupy the Ponjaub. Gwalior, and the other places in which, little more than a twelve month since, such wild disorder reigned, are all tranquil. The kingdom of Oude is fast approaching that state of anarchy and confusion in which it will become imperative on our government to interfere in its affairs. FIRE AT CALCUTTA.—The accounts from Calcutta state, that on the 9th May a destructive fire broke out in the office buildings of Messrs. Macvicar, Smith, & Co., which, with all they contained, were entirely destroyed, books, papers, and all. The fire soon afterwards seized upon the premises of Messrs. Somers and Co. adjoining, which quickly shared the same fate. Here, however, time was happily allowed for the rescue of the books, Sec., and a portion of the property in the warehouses. Messrs. Kilby and Co. also were sufferers, the flames having seized their buildings, and done them some da mage. The total loss of all is estimated at about sor 6 lacs of rupees, including the buildings. These are com plete wrecks ; even the outer walls are tottering and fall ing. Such a thing has not been known in Calcutta since it was taken by Surg-00-dowlah in 1756. WEST INDIES.—The Medway steamer brings favoura ble accounts from most of the West India islands. In Jamaica, however, the rains had fallen so heavily as to inundate several parishes ; and the dwellings of the poorer classes were, in numerous instances, considerably under water. Several lives had been lost, and there was some amount of property destroyed, and two or three hundred goats were carried away by the flood. The colonists, however, were in good spirits, as the Coolies were work ing well, and there was every reason to expect that, when a larger number arrived, they would prove a most important means of restoring the prosperity of the island. From Barbadoes we learn that refreshing rains fell in the town just before the packet left, and which, it was hoped, had been pretty general in the country districts. In Deme rara matters were going on much the same. A meeting of the inhabitants was to be held to take into considera tion the necessity of reforming the constitution of the colony. The Roger Stewart had arrived with another lot of emigrants from Sierra Leone. The East Coast Railway seems likely to be prosecuted with spirit._ In Hayti A long conversation, in which Mr. C. WYNN, Sir R. PEEL, and Sir G. GREY took part, ensued, the result of which was, that Mr. Parrott's solicitor was called in and examined as to the fact of an action being brought. This being proved, an order was made that the plaintiff and his attornies should attend at the bar on Monday. The LORD-ADVOCATE then moved that the house should resolve itself into committee on the Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) Bill. Mr. OSWALD moved that the committee should be postponed until that day three months. He reminded the house that this bill had been sent to a committee upstairs, and that many amendments had been made to it. It had since been printed ; but the contents of it were so little known to the people of Scotland, that he thought further time should be given for them to become acquainted with its contents. He admitted that something should be done to improve the condition of the poor of Scotland, which was disgraceful, but objected to the mode of assessment, and considered that the community would not suffer by the bill being postponed. IRELAND, _ . Mr, ELLICE concurred with Mr. Oswald in his opposi tion to the bill. He wished to have local management of the poor. Mr. S. CRAWFORD commented severely upon the con dition of the district of Sutherlandshire, as exposed by the Times reporter. What he most disapproved of in the present bill was the clause taking away from the poor the right of appeal from the Court of Session. It would de pend upon the Lord Advocate's determination to perse vere in moving that clause whether he should give his clause his opposition, .. Mr. Locx repeated his contradiction of the statements as to the condition of Sutherlandshire. A lengthened conversation followed, after which the amendment was negatived on a division by 76 to 33 votes, and the house went into committee. and clauses up to 35 having been passed, the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Irish Banking Bill was read a third time and passed ; and the Irish Jurors' Bill was read a second time. _ _ The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, in moving for returns relating to the coasting coal trade, said he feared that this trade, which had been the great nursery of British seamen, would be annihilated by the facilities given for bringing inland coals to London by railway conveyance. The Earl of DALHOUSIE thought such fears gnund. less. By railway coals would cost d. tier ton per mile, which, for 250 miles, would be 155., while seaborne coals were carried from Newcastle fur 7s. 6d. Lord H ATHERTON thought that coals would be carried by railway at d. per mile, which, for 150 miles, for that would be about the distance, would be only Bs. 3d. for the entire carriage. He was desirous of seeing the me• tropolis cheaply supplied with coals, yet would be sorry to see the coasting trade diminished, as it was th e means of supplying our navy with the ablest seamen in the world. After some other remarks from one or two other peers the subject dropped. sorship of Ecclesiastical History, and the Rev. Dr. Rus sell, the Professor of Humanity, has been selected to fill the new chair. The late president, Dr. Montagu, has re tired, and a Dr. Renehan has been elected in his stead. The Rev. Dr. Whitehead. a relation of Lord French, is elected vice-president. We are informed that in addition to those free places already existing, there are to be two hundred and fifty more provided out of the increased funds, which are to be thus allocated :—Ulster, seventy five ; Munster, seventy-five ; Leinster, fifty • Connaught, fifty ! These are exc l us i ve not only of the former free places, but of private funds. The addition of several hun dred priests per annum to the stock of raw material, to which the existing machinery was already adequate, is one way of elucidating Archbishop Whateley's argument in fa- I your of increased funds to Maynooth. DEVASTATING FLOOD.--A frightful deluge (it could be called by no other name) occurred on Friday to the tract of country lying between Bcoadford and Glesco mera, a distance of nearly five miles. Such was its awful violence, that it swept before it three bridges, two of whose names we could for the present only learn, viz., Kilbawn and Ballymacdonnell. Flocks, herds, houses, and tillage, including immense quantities of wheat and potatoes, were alike victims to its ungovernable fury. It swept by the old chapel of Kilbawn, and laid part of it prostrate. Amid the general ruin we have yet heard of the loss of only one life. Above 700 acres of meadowing have been completely ruined, the mountainous waters leaving mud scattered upon it, so as to render it perfectly useless for the present season.—Clare Journal. NOBLE FORBEARANCE OF THE ORANGE MEN OF ULSTER. At a time when the principles of Protestantism in Ire land are virtually proscribed by Government, whilst popery is fondled and fed—at a time when the protection of the law may almost be said to be withdrawn from the loyal and peaceable portion of the inhabitants—it is a noble confirmation of all that we have said of the obedient loyalty of the Orange body in that country to be able to announce, in their name, that not all their persecutions by the state, and the insults and menaces of the disaffected opponents of their principles and faith will be permitted to impel them to a ny con d uc t, on th e approac hi ng anni versary of their great deliverance, which can afford to their enemies a pretext for any breach of order. The " party processions act" ostensibly passed for the repres sion of all party demonstrations, but which has been worked solely for the repression of demonstrations of loyalty and Protestant strength, has expired. There is no legal bar to the celebration in Ireland of the landing of King William, or of the Battle of the Boyne. Yet, though rebellion holds its orgies in the scenes of its past defeats or triumphs—though Tara has its monster meet ing, and Limerick its display of bitter rancour towards the Saxon—the Orangemen of Cavan and of the whole of Ulster have determined that they will not follow the evil example; that they will not verify the taunt of their revilers by shewing that the stringency of the law has alone restrained them. They will not afford a recreant and apostate minister the pretext for further legislation insulting to their loyalty, and thus hand him the cord by which to fetter their liberties. Unfeignedly we rejoice at this resolve. We point to the example with pride, and ask of the revilers of the Orange body to point to a similar one. Especially we look with pride to the conduct of the loyal men of Cavan. On Sunday week their Grand Master, Mr. Bell Booth, was murdered in cool blood by a Ribbon assassin. And yet even with this black deed fresh before their eyes —a deed which, from the time chosen for its perpetration, may almost be presumed to have been committedfor the purpose of driving them to retaliation and outrage—they are calm but firm, and defer the gratification of a display of their principles and strength, to the wishes of the authorities, and for the sake of peace and good order. Shew us such a spectacle as this, liberals, if you can! UNIVERSITY 4^ CLERICAL NEWS. CAMBRIDGE, JULY I.—The following gentlemen wer, admitted to the degree of M.A. yesterday :—E. Alanford Trinity College ; G. H. Deff e ll, T r i n i ty C ollege ; W. Wright, St. Peter's College; W. B. Turner, Caius Col lege ; E. E. Bowes, Trinity College ; T. Lighton, Trinity College; J. R. Pit man , S t. J ohn ' s College; W. S. Chalk, Caius College •, J.Taddy, Clare Hall ; W. Elliot, Queen's College ; T. R. Drake, Corpus Christi College ; D. S. Hodgson, Corpus Christi Colle ge ; E . A . C amp b ell, Trinity College ; E. J. Wallace, Trinity College ; B. W. Wright, Clare Hall ; A. F. Baucher, St. Peter's College ; A. W. Hall, St. Peter's College; E. Gillett, Emmanuel College ; J. P. Beauchamp, St. John's College; S. Cum ming, St. Peter's College ; C. L. Maltby, St. John's College ; H. V. Broughton, St. Peter's College ; G. D. W. Ommaney, Trinity College; C. J. Tbrupp, Trinity College; A. W. Mactier, Trinity College; G. D. Dawes, Trinity College ; S. K. Webster, Emmanuel College; W. L. Onslow, Emmanuel College; G. Ridout, Emma nuel College; C. Parker, Emmanuel College; R. W. Sheldon, Trinity College ; W. Shackleton, Catherine Hall ; J. Green, St. John's College ; G. Norman, Tri nity College ; W. Crouch, Trinity College ; S. Charles, Trinity College ; J. G. C. L. Newnham, Trinity College ; N. Bridges, Trinity College •, C. T. Simpson, St. John's College ; J. G. Lonsdale, Trinity College; G. C. Gor don, Corpus Christi College; J. B. Turner, Trinity Col lege ; C. Sangster. St. John's College ; C. M. M'Niven, Trinity College; W. H. Johnston, St. John's College; H. Langdon, St. John's College. PR LiFERMENTS AND AFFOINTMENTS.—Rev. G. Pro thero, B A., to the vicarage of Clifton-upon-Teme, Wor cestershire.—Rev. W. Cartwright, M.A. to the vicarage of Itchingfield, Sussex.—Re v . H. Wilkinson, M.A., to the vicarage of Walton wirh Felixtow, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Nairn,—liev, R. Chatts, M.A., to the vicarage of Rockfield Monmouth. Rev. R. M. Smith, 8.A., to the parish church of Rathmel, York. Sergeant Murphy, M.P. for Cork, has refused a request —Rev. D. Meredith, late chaplain to the British residents of his constituents to join the R epea l A ssoc i at i on. at Bourniebat, near Smyrna, to th e p erpetua l curacy of Last week the floor of the Sessions-house, Mullin- Meltham Mills, A linondbury, York.—Rev. 11. Moekler,. shone, near Tipperary, gave way, w ith a b out 500 persons, 8.A., late curate of Eastville, Lincoln, to the rec t or y o f Little Beating s , Suffolk.—Rev. W. A. B. Cator, B. A.,. many of whom were seri ous ly i n j ure d . late mate of West Wi c kh am , K ent , to t h e rectory of The statement that the child o f M r . B oot h B e l l, who Carshalton, Surrey.—Rev. W. Keeling, 13. D. to the had his arm fractured by a fall from the gig when his rectory of Barron, Suffolk.—Rev. G. G. Harter, , N.1.A., to father was shot, had since died, has been contradicted. the rectory of Cranfield, Bedford.—Bev. A. De la Mare, A carman, at Crossdoney, who said something disre- M.A., to the district of St. Thomas, Woolwich, Kent.— spectful of the " Molly Maguires," on the 23d ult., was Rev. G. Lowden, B.A. to the curacy of Stainland, York stabbed in the market-place. It is feared the wound is shire.—Re v . B. J . V ernon, M .A. to the curacy of Wheat mortal. ley, Oxf or d.—R ev . F . C . Vi ret, 8.A., to the curacy of TRADE IN IRELAND.—The L on d on d erry Journa l gives Sutton Court ne y, B er k s. —R ev. J. Barker, 8.A.. to the a very gratifying repo r t o f i ncrease d employment in that curacy of Berkswell-cum-Barstou, Warwick.—Rev. J. F. I3ick e rdik e , 8.A ., to the chapel of Stockingford, quarter, in consequenc e o f th e weav i ng an d sewing of ar ticles of linen a n d co tt on t exture, upon commission, for Nuneaton, Warwick s hi re .—R ev. J. W. Evans, 8.A., to y, icton, Devin. —Rev . ev. G. fast. Scotch and English ho uses . S evera l new establishments the perp e t ua l curacy o f Costesse Nor K —R for the manuf ac t ure o f fl ax mach i nery are erecting in Bel- H. empe, M.A. to the rec t ory of B T. A. Parnell, 8.A., t o t h e curacy of Bedworth.—Rev. Mr. W. S. O'Brien an d M r. J o h n O ' Connel have re- C. Rolfe, M.A., t o t h e rectory of Orlaston, Kent.—liev. J. Richardson, to the new church at Miln's Bridge, Al spectively written letters to Mr. Creed, the summoning mondbury, Yorkshire. s, H. W. Sullivan, MA., to officer of the Select Committees of the House of Corn- the curacy of All Saints, So in Berks.—Rev. J. J. T. mons, refusing to attend on committees appointed on S. Cocks, 8.A., to the rectory of Sheviock, Devon.—Rev. business other than relates to Ireland. Mr. O'Brien ex- Rev. W. Williams, M.A., rector of St. Bartholomew, pressly disputes the power of the House to compel the Winchester, to the office of master of Magdalen College, attendance of Irish members ! Winchester.—ev. R. Evans, curate of Aberpegwrn to , APPALLING CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Monday last John the living of I Nantcwnlle, near Llangeitho, Cardigan- Hamilton, a respectable farmer, of Drumads, near Coagh, shire.—Rev. S. Brigstocke, to the curacy of Holine Ireland, took down a blunderbuss, to which was affixed aII ohne Lacy, Hereford.—Rey. W. Collett, 8.A., to be bayonet, and shot his servant, after which be plunged the one of the chaplains in ordinary to the Duke of Cam bayonet into a man who witnessed the act. The servant bridge.---Rev. C. F. Wordsworth, 8.A., rector of Fifield died, and the other is not expected to recover. The far- Bavant, near Salisbury, to the curacy of Ebbesborne mer is supposed to be insane. Wake.—liev. W. P. Williams, to the curacy of King_ ston Seym our , S omerset —Rev. N. Morgan, jun., to the The reverend ge n tl eman, ca lli ng himself the Archbishop Perpetual curacy of Hall-green chapel, Y ardley, near of Tuam, has published a letter to Sir Robert Peel, wherein he states that the Romish hierarchy in Ireland momingfT.m.—Rev. C. B. Auber, 8.A., to the curacy of of j , lo a ri e. t ickney.—Rev. J. Cartwell, 8.A., to the curacy are determined not to have the College Bill ; and that they do not petition against it, because, at the hands of an of v, :,kisrone.—Rev. J. F. Hinds, 8.A., to the curacy English parliament, they are sure to meet with nothing y rr , ! Leicestershire —Rev. B. Harris, 8.A., to the curacy . ( 1 )f 1 ichmarch, Northantptonshire.—liev. W. Mur but insult. ton, 8.A., to the curacy of Sheepshead, Leicestershire.— containDREADFUL AFFAIR IN IRELAND.—Th e Irish papers Rev. A. Slight, 8.A., to the curacy of Dalby-on-the. an account of an affray between the police and the \Voids, Leicestershtre.—Re v . R. W. Geldarr, B.A. to the peasantry, at a place called Ballinhassig, near Cork, in curacy of Little Billing, Ncrthamptonshire.—Rev. E. which the police fired twice and killed ten of the people. Holmes, 8.A,, to the curacy of Tinwell, Hu tland.—Rev. A night fair came on, two was held at thmene villabe ge gan to on the fight. 30th of police ,ar- June. and,ar- ces as W. Mills, .A., to th e curacy of Kirby-Mallory, Lei rested one of the parti es , an d conveyed him to a place of EXTRAORDARY PROCEEDING S .—The vicar of Leigh firearmscustody. The Peasantry th rew stones, and grew very vio. (the Rev. J. Irvine) having by his innovations driven the lent, when the police di sc h arge d their firearms with the respectable part of his congregation to worship in the fatal effect we have mentioned. The affair had, of course, neighbouring churches, has served notices on all the excited the greatest alarm. Several others of the pea- neighbouring clergy, threatening them with legal proceed santry were wounded, some of whom are in imminent ings if they administer any sacrament of the Church to danger. We have alluded at some length to this subject any of his parishioners. They are consequently debar in a leading article. red fro obtaining th of bati r THE REPEAL ASSOC IATION. —Th e usual weekly meet- and the m consolations of the right Lord's p sum for their children for themselves. ing of this association took pl ace i n t h e Conciliation Hall, Church and State Gazette. ppe Dublin, on Monday, Sir S. Broadstreet, Bart., in the .........................._„...................-,--....._. chair. A letter was read from Mr. D. O'Connell, in THE COURT 4:5- FASHIONABLE WORLD. which, speaking of his speedy return from London to Ire land, he says—" I return, therefore, to Ireland, more The Berlin correspondent . of the Morning . Reralel states deeply convinced than ever of the necessity of the repeal Positively that . Queen Victoria will visit that capital in of the union—l return to that struggle with unabated ar- August, and will be joined there by Louis Philippe dour and continuing perseverance —to seek, first, by legal, It is positively stated in the higher circles that Sir peaceable, and constitutional means, and none other; but It Wilde is about to conduct to the hymeneal altar to seek for it with a determination and continuousness 4 ' 4 d'Este that, before long, must ensure success. " The amount of Madlle. ursda ,daughter o f t h e l ate Duke of Sussex. the week's rent was stated t o b e £ 382 Ils. 3d. On Thy evening L or d an d L ady Stanley gave a IRELAND.—The acc oun t s f rom U lster are of a very dis. square, George t o of Cambridge. the Duk e an d D uchess of Cambridge and Prince the law is set at defia nce , an extensive system of outrage On Monday week a review of the household troops took 1 has been organized, many houses have been robbed of place in Hyde Park, in the presence of Prince Albert, the arms and money, and the inhabitants subject e d to all King of the Belgians, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince i hardships and injuries usually inflicted by lawless ban- George of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Mar ditti. According to a memorial addressed to the Lord quis of Anglesey, Marquis of . Londonderry, Lieutenant, by Lord Farnham, the deputy-lieutenant of Combermere, Lord Somerset,anda brilliant and numerous the county, and thirty-eight magistrates, describing the st a ff. disturbed state of the district, these depredators are con sidered to be Roman Catholics, and fea rs are entertained as the Lady in Waiting to . the Queen ;the Earl of Mor that the indignation excited among the Protestant popu- ton has succeeded Lord Rivers as the Lord in Waiting to lation by their atrocities will be visited upon Catholics in- Her Majesty ; Admiral Sir R. Otway has succeeded Mr. discriminately. R. 0. Gore as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty ; THE JULY ANNIVERSARIES.— Some of the Irish Colonel Buckley bas relieved the Hon. Colonel Gray in papers are still urging the Orangemen to reject the advice the duties of Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; and Col. of those friends who have wisely counselled them to ab- Bouverie has relieved Major-eneral Sir Edward stain - stain from availing themselves of the expiration of the ter, in the duties Waitingin to Prince Albert. Procession's Act, and thus to avoid the moral certainty of being placed in a false position by adopting the sugges tions of such blind guides as the wisdom of Conciliation hall for its own purposes may think proper to select as At four o'clock on F r i day afternoon Mr. Fitzroy Kelly the instructors of the Irish Protestants. I n a ddi t i on to received the app o i ntment of Solicitor -General. This will the sensible letters of Lord Farnham, and C o l one l V erner, timely addresses to the Orangemen of Fe rmanag h , Down, render necessary a new e l ection for Cambridge. and Armagh, have just issued from the Earl of Ennis- The Benchers of the Middle Temple have excluded Mr. killen and the very Rev. Holt Waring, Dean of Dromo re , b N e e fo w r t e on th , e a p b o a b r l r . i c s t i e n r , l i t w i g h a o t s i o e n i name owh i h e h a s he fr w eq a u s en e tly son b a e l en y concerned,onal" conduct. the "hall" f or two years, on tphergrounl lates assembled at Maynooth devoted th e i r a t tent i on to d of unprofessional" deprecating T HE I Rls p u r ° R e . : Ls A i oN B n s. ISHOPS.—On Thursday th e pre- from the New Colleges Bill, and the modifications proposed by In the Court of Exchequer, last week, Mr. Wood, pro the government. H av ing already, at the synod held in prietor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle, was cast in £5O Dublin, unanimously adopted a memorial embodying damages fora libel on the Rev. Mr. Smith, master of the their opinions, and suggesting the changes which they Lichfield Grammar School. The alleged libel was an considered indispensable, the prelates did not deem it ad- extract from the report of the Charity and School Com- The visab prelates have under circumstances determined , to establish to take any a f new Profespurther ste- 1 . , the plaintiff i o government, attr ib uting undue severity to LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. In reply to a question from Mr. BOUVERIE, Sir T. FREMANTLE said the Government had received accounts of an affray near Cork, in which several lives were lost, and he was informed that the police had fired on the people, under the impression that their lives were in danger. The coroner's inquest was to take place im mediately, and instructions had been given to watch the proceedings, in order to ascertain the fact of the unhappy occurrence. . _ _ _On the motion for the house resolving itself into a com mittee on the Commons En c losure Bill, Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved that the bill be committed that day three months, on the ground that it would con duce only to the benefit of the landowners and the lords of the manor. The house had no right to barter away the rights of succeeding generations ; but he would not object to the enclosure of commons, if it could be effected on equitable grounds, though he would never assent to the bill before the house. _ . Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the amendment. The house divided, and the amendment of Mr. Crawford was negatived by a majority of 121 to 11. HOUSE OF LORDS.-SATURDAY The following Railway bills were read a third time and passed :—The Eastern Counties (Ely and Whittlesea) Deviation, Manchester and Birmingham (Ashton branch), Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction (Ardwick and Guidebridge branches), Ulster Railway Extension, Manchester and South Junction and Altringham, Trent Valley, North Wales, London and Brighton (Horsham branch), Londonderry and Enniskillen, and Chester and Birkenhead. The London and South-Western, the Cockermouth and Workington, and the Scottish Midland Junction (the last is opposed), were severally read a second time. AN OVER-DOSE OF ETHER.—A gentleman, named Goddard, who resides in London, was brought before th e m ag istrates on Monday, and chaTed with trespassing in the grounds of C. Pemberton, Esq., and refusing to give an account of himself. The explanati on given of the affair was that the defendant, who was a gentleman of great respectability, had taken an over-dose of ether, which had affected him so much as to render him perfectly unconscious of what he was doing, so that he fancied him self in some of the college grounds.—Carnbridye Chron, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, The York and Scarborough Railway was to be opened yesterday (Monday). The first batch of railway bills received the royal assent yesterday week. The first on the list was the Chester and Holyhead. During the floods caused by the late heavy rains, one of the bridges of the North British Railway, near to the village of Reston, was thrown down. The opening of the Eastern Counties Railway—the en tire line from London through Hertford, Bishop-Stort ford, Cambridge, Ely, and Norwich, to Yarmouth—will take place on Wednesday next (to-morrow). At a meeting of the London proprietors in the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway, on Friday, it was resolved to co-operate with the Liverpool and Manchester share holders in obtaining an alteration in the directorate. The directors of the Sheffield and Manchester line have resolved to open the line from the Sheffield terminus to the eastern mouth of the tunnel, on Monday the 14th of July. The Glossop branch was opened on Tuesday last. The projected bridge across the Severn, for the Bristol and Liverpool Junction Railway, would only be two miles in length, and that across a tidal stream—the cost, that is, the estimated cost—£Boo,ooo. A BUSY RAILWAY STAION.—The daily arrivals and departures of passenger trains, at and from the North Union Railway Station, Fishergate, Preston, at present amounts to the extraordinary number of 56, On Thursday last the Vice-Chancellor refused an in junction, moved on behalf of the mayor and corporation of Chester, to restrain the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company from carrying their line near the Chester race course. FIRE IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Saturday, a spark from the engine, on the Glasgow and Greenock Railway, fell into one of the third-class carriages, and set fire to the dress of a lady, one of the passengers. Fortunately the flames were speedily extinguished. RAILWAY ACTS AND BILLS.—A parliamentary return has been ordered " of all acts passed for the construction of railways in Great Britain and Ireland, in each year, from 1824 to 1845, inclusive, specifying the name, length, and estimated cost of each. Also, a similar return of bills for the construction of railways brought into parlia ment, but not passed into law, from 1824 to 1845 in elusive. PROGRESS OF RAILWAYS.--The preambles of the fol lowing hills were proved in the Lords last week :—Cale donian; Newcastle and Berwick; Leeds and Thirsk ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale ; Trent Valley ; Whitehaven and Furness ; Eastern Union (Bury St. Edmunds) ; North Woolwich; Dundalk and Enniskil len ; Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (Cumnock Branch); Guildford Junction ; Manchester and Birmingham (Ash ton Branch) ; Londonderry and Enniskillen ; London and Brighton (Horsham Branch) ; Chester and Birken head Extension ; Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction ; Ulster Extension ; Manchester and South Junction ; Eastern Counties Branch. Rejected—Glas gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle.—The preambles of the fol lowing bills were proved in the Commons last week Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells; London and Croydon Extension and Widening; Greenwich Widening and Ex tension ; South Wales (as far as Chepstow). The fol lowing have been postponed—North Kent; South East ern (Kentish lines) ; Croyden (Kentish lines) ; Cambridge and Bury. PROPOSED MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. Under the above title an advertisement appears in our paper of this day, of a line of railway to be brought be fore parliament next session, to the leading features of which, in accordance with our custom with respect to projects of the merits of which we have any personal knowledge, we take the liberty of directing the attention of our readers. A project was put forward last year for connecting Sheffield and Rotherham with Gainsbrough, and, by the Great Grimsby line, with the HuMber. The promoters, however, were not in a position to go before parliament. They were enabled, however, to submit the line to the Board of Trade, who stated it to be " deci dedly preferable to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire, or the Sheffield Branch of the London and York ; " and that " it afforded a better connexion, also, with the important market town of Rotherham, and with the North Midland Railway ; and gave as direct a communication as could be desired with Gainsbrough and Lincoln." Encouraged by this favourable report of their imperfectly -got-up line, the promoters applied themselves to the task of procuring for it still further claims upon public approbation. It was judged to be of the highest importance to shorten as much as possible the communication between the two coasts ; and by a line, of which sections of a very favour able character have been taken, from Rotherham to join the Sheffield and Manchester line at Wortley, it was found that the distance between these two points (by the existing lines of railway, vid Sheffield, 144 miles) could be shortened to nine miles, and a corresponding reduction made in the distance between Manchester, Liverpool, &c., and Rotherha m . Thi s i s especially an advantageous feature in the improved project, Rotherham being the market from which Manchester and the manufacturing districts are supplied with live stock ; and it is a conside ration of still greater importance when it is seen that the whole distance traversed from Wortley to Rotherham passes through one of the finest coal-fields in Yorkshire (the Parkgate and Silkstone), at present unprovided with either railway or canal accommodation; that it passes through the celebrated Greenmoor quarries at Wortley, and that at Thorncliffe and Chapeltown it accommodates most extensive ironworks in active operation, thus pro viding for these great desiderata in manufacturing pursuits the best route to their places of greatest consumption, and, at the same time, opening to an important agricul tural district a direct channel for its produce, and for manufactured commodities in return. A reference to the map of England will shew that, as at present laid out, this line, with its auxiliaries, the Sheffield and Manches ter, Liverpool and Manchester, Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, and Sheffield and Huddersfield, at one end, and the Great Grimsby on the other, forms the middle portion of what may be fairly ranked amongst the trunk lines of the kingdom. It forms also an important feeder to the Bolton and Manchester, Bolton and Preston and North Union, &c. It ought to be added, as forming an opportunity of judging of its probable passenger traffic, that the pop u l a ti on o f t h e west en d o f t h e line (in the West-Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire) is 2,321,988, and at the east end (Nottinghamshire and North Lin colnshire) 431,485. It can scarcely be conceived that such a line, power fully supported as it will be, and having already been favourably reported upon by the Board of Trade even whilst in an i mper f ect state, can, w i th any probability of success, be n ow oppose d, espec i a ll y as a l most every line which this session might have pretended to compete with it, has been adversely disposed of by parliament. GENERAL MISCELLANY On Saturday week a boat was capsized in the river Medway, and two parsons—father and daughter —were unfortunately drowned. CO INCIDENCES.—It is ascertained that Mr. Moore Capes paid a visit to Littlemore, immediately after join ing the Roman Catholic Communion. - ------•—• A gentleman who took a large dose of laudanum, re cently, at Nottingham, and was apparently dead, was re covered by the application of galvanism. At a meeting of the iron masters at Glasgow, on Tues day last, the price of pig iron was fixed at 80s. The speculators' prices were 675. 6d. LONDON AND NEWCASTLE AGAIN.-It is understood that a match is being made on the part of the Claspers, against the picked London Watermen for £2OO. The Lords of the Treasury have refused to incur the expense of a weekly mail to Spain, Portugal, and Gibral tar, o❑ the ground that the object is not of sufficient im portance to justify the increased expenditure. The steam-ship Queen, which arrived at Southampton on Friday, brought over a very fine tiger, as a present from the Queen of Portugal to her majesty Queen Vic toria. Two privates of the 4th Dragoons quarelled, in Glasgow, on Thursday last, and fought. One of them, Searson, struck the other, Cunningham, a blow behind the ear. Cunningham fell and expired. The curious have inquired as to the manner in which the crew of the Great Britain distinguish her six masts. We are told that they are jocosely called after the days of the week, beginning with Monday. The Caledonian Mercury mentions the death of a young man from a swelling of the face and throat, supposed to have been occasioned by the bite of a bug, near the eye, a fortnight ago. A young woman, named Fanny Long, from St. James, has eloped with a fellow of the name of Foster, of the same place, the former taking with her about £3OO, and the latter leaving three children and a wife nearly ready to be confined, unprovided for. ELECTRIC AGRICULTURE.-Dr. Foster, of Findrassie, near Elgin, produced one hundred and four bushels of chevalier barley from a single acre by the application of electricity. The cost of the electric apparatus was £1 per acre, and it will last twenty years. The coat and waistcoat which Nelson wore when he fell at Trafalgar have been discovered in the possession of the widow of a late alderman of London, and purchased by Prince Albert for £l5O. They are to be presented to Greenwich Hospital. • ---- THE MEDICAL BILL.—We may congratulate the pro fession on the abandonment of Sir James Graham's Me dical Bill. It is asserted, on the very best authority, that this obnoxious measure will be one of those t he desertion of which will be officially announced by Sir Robert Peel on M onday.— Times of Saturday. On Sunday week, upon the congregation assembling a t the Independent Chapel, Swansea, they found the doors fastened by a padlock, which had been put on by five in dividuals of the church, who disagreed with their preacher as to certain points of doctrine: and were, moreover, averse to him because he was a teetotaller. Loss OF THE ()RHINE, OF BOSTON.—The above un fortunate vessel was lost near Filey, on Saturany week. Up to the present time only one body has washed on shore. It is believed that the other four sufferers were gentlemen on a pleasure trip ; nothing, however, has yet washed from the wreck to identify them. On Friday, a meeting, convened by the Lord . Mayor, was held in London, for the purpose of promoting the s ubscription for the sufferers by the fire at Quebec. Several members of parliament and many of the leading merchants in the city attended. A handsome sum was raised in the room. THE CARLTON CLUB.—Notice has been given at this " Conservative" establishment, respecting a costly ex tension of the club house, and a meeting of the club is summoned to consider this measure. A noble duke and another trustee ha ve meanw hi le posted up at the club no tice of an amendment to the effect—" That no proceedings be taken involving such outlay until after the next general election;" a signal of a split, which has created no little consternation, accompanied as it is, with a loud rumour, that a new party, headed by Mr. Bankes and others, is organising upon the Protestant and Constitutional basis, and to whi c h a b ove 1 00 M.P.'s have already given in their adhesion. MONEY SENT BY POST. —On Tuesday an application was made to one of the metropolitan magistrates to see if any redress could be afforded to the applicant, who had remitted £lO to his father, at Aberdee n , in a lett er w hi c h he had duly reg i stered at the General Post -office. The letter came duly to hand, but without the money, which had been abstracted, as was ascertained, before the letter left London ; but the actual thief had not been traced. The magistrate said he could not advise or assist the ap plicant. It appears that the registry of a letter is merely a guarantee for the delivery of such letter only, and has no reference whatever to the contents, of which the post office cannot be cognizant. FRAUD BY A STOCKBROKER.—A cruel case of fraud has been discovered, in connection with the recent insol vency of a member of the London Stock Exchange. The broker in question was employed by a lady to invest £5,000 in the Three per Cent. Consols, which he did, and handed her the usual receipt. He, however, intimated to her that she had better, to prevent fraud, accompany him to the bank and accept the stock. In the meantime the broker sold the stock, had a transfer ready, and, when his unsuspecting employer accompanied him to the bank to accept the stock, as she believed, she actually signed a transfer, by which the broker was enabled to receive and appropriate the whole amount. By his insolvency the party thus defrauded is precluded from all chance of ever recovering the money. PRIVATE BILLS. —F rom a par lii mentary return it ap pears that the gross total estimate of the expense of the various undertakings proposed to be carried out by pri vate bills introduced in the course of the present session, amounts to the enormous and almost astounding sum of £95,748,529; the projectors proposing to raise £96,566,893 by capital stock, and £32,168,782 additional, by borrow ing in case of necessity. Of the above sums of £95,748,529, £92,921,779 is required for railways ; £176,190 for navi gation and canals ; £613,452 for water-works ; £1,653,000 for ferries and docks ; £331,050 for piers and harbours ; £49,500 for bridges ; and 3,558 for roads. The capital stock proposed to be raised for railroads alone, amounts to £94,812,813, or about one-ninth part of the entire na tional debt. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON DUELLING.—The Duke of 'Wellington has addressed the following note to one of the hon. secretaries of the "Association for the Discouragement of Duelling," in reply to the circular is sued by the committee suggesting a measure for deciding disputes on points of honour by reference to arbitration: —" London, June 20. F.M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Captain Hope. The duke having been the person who, in the performance of h is duty, recommended t o h er M a j esty the issue of the rules referred to in Captain Hope's letter, his desire to put an end to the practice of deciding disputes by fighting duels cannot be doubted. Every gentleman can form as correct a judgment as the duke can upon the benefit likely to be derived from an association such as is described." POST. OFFICE MONEY ORDERS. —The increase in the number and amount of money orders issued and paid in England and Wales, since the reduction in the charge, and the introduction of the penny postage, is enormous. From a return, ordered on the motion of Mr. Hawes, the member for Lambeth, dated 29th May, 1845, we give the following facts : Quarter Number Amount en din g Money Ord ers . s. d. sth April, 1889 .... 54,623 .... 92,734 0 5 sth April, 1844..., 1,146,192 .... 2,495,423 11 11 sth Jan. 1845 .... 1,276,209 .... 2,572,661 5 6 The commission on money orders was reduced, on the 20th November, 1840, for any sum not exceeding £2, from 6d. to 3d. The penny rate of postage came into operation 10th January, 1840, and with stamps 6th May, 1810. "Beauty soon fades," says an ancient adage ; and the preservation of a gift so fair yet so fragile becomes an ob ject of first-rate necessity and importance. No surer foes to beauty ; no causes calculated more certainly to dim its lustre and hasten its decay, exist than those which affect the skin, and, by inducing freckles, tan, sun-burns, and the long list of cutaneous evils, shorten the triumphs of the fair one, and bring her empire to a premature termi nation. It is fortunate, that modern ingenuity and per severance have discovered a remedy for these evils, and that a specific has been discovered, composed of choice exotics culled by the hand of science and skill, which affords a safeguard against the dreaded result. Row- LAND'S KALYDOR needs only to be mentioned, to insure, in its praise, the suffrages of the fair sex, and the general encomium of the public."—See addl. July 8, 184 AMATEUR N EWSPAPERSHIP.—In a bankruptcy case On Monday, in London, a man named Chalk' 1 . 1 , last week, it came out th a t th e T en Towne messenger : committed to prison for having killed his own sony v a fie u i paper sunk capital to the amo un t o f £750 i n eighteen thirteen years of age. The parties worked in a b ri " k months, or between £9 a n d £lO p er wee k. The Rev. and the boy having disobeyed his father, the latter knochi Mr. Eckersale, rector of All Saints, Worcester, was pro- him down, kicked him, and jumped upon him, of if prietor and editor—rather an unprofitable speculation. injuries he died. I,address' PROGRESS OF ROMANISM.--It is said th a t th e Roman THE LATE FATAL DUEL.—Mrs. Hawkey ..as be is Catholics have obtained a lease of a large portion of ground a letter to the Morning Post on the subject o f h t nt M at the head of Burntsfield Links, Edinbur g h, for a semi. fatal duel at Portsmo u th, i n which her husban d s ts " - s at nary on an extensive scale. Their prese n t c o ll ege a t Seton. Of course, her object is to absolve Mr. Lis , i Blairs will be removed to it. The plans includ e th e de- as much as possible from blame. She says e co sign of a magnificent cathedral.deuce at the inquest was very one-sided, and th 00 SUICIDE BY A COACH PASSENGER. —On Monday week lenge emanated from Mr. Seton, and not from M r n % 0 41 a gentleman named Stalker, who was a passenger on the key- Mrs. Hawkey leaves it to gentlemen converse ~e to Rapid coach, which runs between Lancaster and Carlisle, such affairs to determine how far the second of M.r:f„ si got off the coach at Milnthorpe, and immediately ran off was, by the understood laws of duelling, justified. 1.1 Pei to the river at a short distance. The driver and a pas- mitting his friend to deliver a second shot after n' s _„ s l senger followed him, but when they arrived at the river shot had been received and not returned by his antag_u o m o. l the gentleman was drowned. who thereby received two shots but delivered only u Hawkey then enlarges on what she calls " the mbar; SINGULAR DEATH. --A man died in Guy's Hospital on Mrs. second " ant manner" in which her husband and his , s Wednesday whose death, in the opinion of the medical _ been pursued, in their absence, by „ certain p erso ns' heel attendant, had been occasioned by a ani o n , which had been ' Portsmouth, both "due and undue means havi ng set to his arm, creeping into a wound, where it died, and prosecution. employed to procure witnesses for the , undo! was not found till some days afterwards. The wound became poisoned, inflammation ensued, and the poor CLUB LUXURY FOR LAZY SENATORS.—The it ze th fellow's death followed. clubs are furnished nightly with a novel species of g. b ib t who, w it for the convenie nce of members of parliamen, to k' 3° SUDDEN GAIN OF WEALTH.—A poor woman, named indulging themselves at their clubs, are anxio us es s f o al Boothby, living in Seven Dials, has been discovered to be what is going on in the house. The gazette ap p r A the rightful owner of very extensive freehold property, eaP d ' times every evening : it contains all the sp eec hes ker ; s li situated in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, which densed ; marks the time occupied by each spea ker; 13y she will shortly be put in possession of, the value being announces . by what hour a division may be expe cted. eat by tbe'l £30,000. She was previously gaining a precarious living this means, absent members are enabled to e nj oy .100 by needlework, and was at times unable to procure food. club luxuries till the latest moment ; and, as the eiv r e 1 .. / 8 APPALLING MURDER.—A few days ago, a poor woman is to them the rno - it important part of the evening, t "% s te. named Lees, aged 82 years, was murd ere d by her daughter enabled to be present at it without enduring the deua at Galashiels, in Scotland. The murderess was labouring or making any other personal sacrifice. We have b e es , a under a fit of insanity at the time of committing the of arguments for the abolition of the house altogeth to dreadful deed. She pounced on her mother while the but it is clear that the lazy members d avouring f that thetes latter was in bed, and thrust her hand into her mouth afford one for the abolition of the debate. As " a s loe and throat, producing death by suffocation. the times," and the progress of selfish luxury, we 's o p SHORT HOURS.—We understand that the Kelvin, thought the above worth recording.—Cihurch 0' Rock Villa, and Burnside Weaving Company, have re- EDUCATION BASED ON RELIGION.—The recent e_ i i, duced their time of labour half-an-hour per day, and fession of Sir James Graham of having received noW it contemplate a further reduction of another half-hour per gious instruction at Oxford is perfectly in keeping wi jt day in a short time.—Glasgow Argus. The Glasgow declaration of Lord Althorp regarding Cambridge; air Guardian publishes the names of six more weaving firms will be remembered that when the dissenters in 1 83 1 e s. in Glasgow who have consented to abridge the hours of deavoured to induce Parliament to open the two tie'. . rai labour by half-an-hour or an hour daily. sities to them, they were opposed on the ground of P e ha CUBA AND PORTO Rico SUGAR.—On Tuesday even- ciple, to the effect, that one definite creed could L ilo!) t i; ing Sir Robert Peel laid before the House of Commons recognised by the Universities in connexion ya!t ic a. the application made by the Spanish government for the Church, and the cry was loud and frequent that " ef; t he admi.eion of the augers of Cuba dud Port o itic,o i.e o thin tin mu , / ”. 4 . h. bond 0 . .. ,7 ;.9;.” " w"t I .: ate country, on the terms on which free-labour sugars are meaning of this cry ?" asked Lord Althorn, the" t hat now admitted. The answer of the English government is leader of the House of Commons. " I can only sa e y, o 010 in the negative, and denies the right of Spain, under the all the time I was at Cambridge nobody ever spok f t e _ eo provisions of the treaties alleged to be in force, to demand about religion ; and I dare say that if other gen l u l' it or were as candid they could say the same." No like admission for the sugars of her colonies. member of the house had the candour to make a ,_„ REPORTED Loss OF THE APOLLO TROOP SHIP.—Ac• confession at that time ; but au excellent and witty c.!c a counts received at Lloyd's on Friday from Newfoundland hat nobodl il a gyman afterwards expressed his regret t , _.. o ke contain information relative to the Apollo troop ship, had the presence of mind to say, " Then, if noboaVF noble from Quebec for Canada, which gives reason to believe to him about at Cambridge,why did the 1 10 his religion ~ y that she has been lost, with from 60 to 80 persons ma t lord k tutor a bishop ?' drowned. The Apollo left Quebec on the Ist June, with artillery and drafts for Canada, and on the 6th informa tion was received at St. John's, Newfoundland, of her having been lost at St. Shots. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning, a man, named Whalley, was accidentally shot at a public house in Blackburn. He was sitting up all night with some companions, when one of them took hold of a gnu, and, putting it to his back, said in a jocular manner, " If thou doesn't hush, I'll shoot thee." Unfortunately the Sr Slate ti gun went off, and the contents passed in a sloping direc tion right through the neck, coming out in front of the throat. Death was instantaneous. The Rev. Dr. Wolff continues much indisposod from the effects of his perilous mission to Bokhara. We lately stated that he h d suffered much through swellings in his feet occasioned by the worm called rishta, the nature of which we !have described. Latterly' his right hand has been disabled by a most painful sweiling in the wrist. Fortunately Sir Benjamin Brodie called upon the doctor, and opened the wrist where it was most affected, when a long Bokhara worm made its appearance, which Sir Ben jamin extracted by winding it round a piece of paper. To LESSEN THE COMBUSTIBILITY OF HOUSES.—A correspondent of the Builder proposes the substitution of iron for wooden lathing in all cases where wooden laths are now used for partitions, ceilings, studding, &c. In every hquse that is burnt the lathing supplies the train. The fire creeps up the walls, ignites the joists and floors, and, in short, prepares the bonfire with perfect pyrotech nic art. No fire could possibly pass from a room without combustible laths on wall or ceiling (or wainscotting, which is rare in modern houses) to any other room. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. —On Saturday week, Mrs. Hounsfield, the wife of a gentleman at Huddersfield, was accidentally killed by a gun-shot wound, the gun acci dentally going off while the stock of it was in the hand of her son. When he we into the room where his mother and a young lady were sitting, his mother asked him if the gun was charged. He repli e d i t was, and she said, " Pray take it away. " He said he would, and was going to clean it a little, and fetched a little rag out of the kitchen to put some oil on ; he took the gun up, and in doing so it went off, and shot his mother. MAYNOOTH.—The following is a cop y of the letter from the Archbi s h op o f C anterbury to the Bishop of Ripon, dated June 16th, 1845 :—My Dear Lord,—On my return from Kent, on Saturday evening, I found on my table the memorial which your lordship transmitted from the clergy of the diocese of Ripon, expressing their disap probation of the permanent Endowment of Maynooth College. I received with much satisfaction this proof of their attachment to our church, and of their dislike of a measure which tends, in their apprehension, as well as my own, to perpetuate the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome." TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. On Wednesday, the usual monthly meeting of t he council was held at the Town-hall. The Finance Committee recommended the approPlt tion (subject to legal considerations) of 1,000 yards land, at the east end of Canning-place, as a site for th Sailors' Home, at one-half the price at which such lan may be valued by two surveyors. Mr. G. H . r proceedings, of the Sailors' Home had repudi a t e d th e f orego i ng Pr°P% e W x RE e N s s C e E ci i h s e o g v r i e n t g t t h h a e t c t o h n e fi r c in o t in i o i n tt o e f e the sition, becau se th e s i te was not offered to them as a fre t gift. He s t a t e d t h at the committee were unable to grB„—f it freely. Th e 1 , 0 00 yards of land were: worth from it' ll ', guineas to £5 per square yard ; and by only charging !,,g half of that sum , t h e corporation were, in reality, gitl' the committ ee o f th e S ailors ' Home a valuable done°n of £2,500. A very long conversation followed, and questions artore as to the le ga lit y o f complying with the wishes of committee of the Sailors' Home. The TOWN -CLERK was of opinion that the surplus of the corporation a t t h e c l ose of the current year would o , e " ° exceed 2,soo—th a t i n any grant which might be tra der the surplus c ou ld not b e exceeded, and that, in his °it, nion, the Sail ors ' H ome would not be a public buil di ng within the meaning of the Municipal Act. Several amendments were submitted and withdravi th and, eventually, t h e w h o l e subject was referred back to the Finance Committee. THE COUNTY RATE. The following was entered amongst the proceedings of the Finance Committee The Town-clerk reported thy 11011 particulars of an arrangement made with theCo Treasurer and Clerk of the Peace for the county, in re spect of the county rates, wh i ch have been in disP n t since the year 1836, s h ow i ng that the orders made 11P°0 , the borough, du r i ng that period, amounted to £3 2 0 „. " 1 Is. Id., which had been reduced, by the adoption of til e principle laid d own b y M r. N e i lson, on his late examil!!: tion of the accounts at Lancaster Castle, to £25,7,11 11511 id., and that the payments made by the Council amount!, to £26,000 ; th a t th e correctness of Mr. Neilson's s' A count had been admitted by the County Treasurer an!: X 2P Clerk of the P eace , acid that an overp a id b a l ance o f ~ Is. lid. now remains due from the county to the borougn• Mr. TINNE asked what arrangement had been come td with Mr. Abbott. of Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said that at a former meeting e the council M r . Abb ott was requested to discont i n s private p rac ti ce. W ith that request he had cornPlie, He had dis connec t e d hi mself entirely from his business d - a law st a ti oner , and now devoted his time to the business of the Town-hall. Mr. TlN:NE—;ked whether a new contract had bee n made for lighting the public lamps of the town. Mr. HUGH HORNBY replied in the negative. - e l company refus e d t o li g h t t h e town at the rate of £4 2s• " for any short er per i o d than seven years. The Ligh tal; ; Committee cons id ere d t h at such an arrangement wou ld be very undes rable. The Old Gas Company were to light at the rate of £4 55., but the committee were 011.. willing to give that sum, seeing that they had an offer bei fore them for £4 2s. 6d. He thought the committee be d, not been fairly used by the Gas Companies. He hoped that at the next council meeting a detailed report would be submitted on the subject. the Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE, in moving the adoption of Dock Committee proceedings, said he had great gratific i r t tion in announcing that there was a surplus upon the p as t year of £42,000, and an increase of tonnage to the ext e l c of 318,819 tons. There was a decrease in the extra do c rent of £1266, and this showed that there had been I n .; creased prosperity and activity in shipping. He " - c 1 happy also to state that the act of parliament obtaine,, during the present session would be found exceedingly useful. For instance, the transit sheds had hitherto he e ht comparatively useless. They had cost much and brou n g to in nothing • and persons might turn merchandise i w illing them and keep it there. Now, p.iwers had been taken! pass merchandi se th roug h t h e sca l e, after it had la i n ther e for forty-eight hours, and to compel the owners to P a li penalty rent. The difficulty relative to the half-deck the dock w are h ouses had been got over, and the half-den;ci was now legalised, The light dues for many years been collected illegally, but their collection was now ~0 3 galised. This was a su bj ect wh i ch he could not %It brought before th e counc il on any former occasion,, 00 now that the matt er h a d b een sett l ed he was in a 11°5'1 to state it publicly. (A laugh.) The MAYOR.—You were afraid to make it W WII before. Mr. MOO RE s a id th e d ues h a d certainly been expended _ de o . for the benefit o f th e pu bli c, b ut as the lights were evie, strutted without any authority, it became necessary te o f galise them, an d t o put a ll to r i ghts, lest the refunding o a large sum of money might be involved. Then there ,cith 7 es , no power heret o f ore t o perm i t li g h ts on board steam sels. Now p erm i ss i on cou ld b e legally granted- for the view of t es ti ng th e qua lifi cations of the voters to members of the D oc k C omm i ttee, a regular registry ot in future be kept. The erection of a landing star- George's Pier, ab ou t w hi c h so much difficulty had aris-be,, was now in process of being overcome. A stage wa s t he ing made by Mr. Cubitt ; it would be satisfactory t° 4 4; public, so far a t l east as the contracted site would e"-tiop and it would b e completed in time to receive the eall;er, of the Admi ra lt y an d t h e Lords Conservators of the r-be- It would be a floating stage. He had every reason toory lieve that the transit sheds would now become 0f „ o rsr great public u tilit y, an d that none of the shifwW"hosi• finding that th e i r f re i g h t would be secured, would s f•• tate to avail themselves of the accommodation therebY forded. tbe I Mr. TURNER sa id h e h a d seen an advert i semen t n th e uies papers, making it compu l sory on the parties to s tate names of the pe rsons b y or f or whom dock rates o r d ' ar t were paid. He thought this a little arbitrary on the P oo r of the Dock Trustees, particularly as there were 131 merchants who would not like their names to Wee r ' 00 Mr. MOORE said the clause was so plain that 13 ,e surprised to fi n d it h a d b een misunderstood. l ined name were not d ec l are d , t h e party would be disci" f Tbe from voting, his name not being on the register. t he object of re qu i r i ng t h e name was to discover whethe r t of person coming to vo t e h a d pa id rates to the amew".,„ £lO. In reply to a question from Mr. G. H. LAwnEl 4c i l j;ert Mr. MOOR E sa id h e was una bl e to say w h en the A' e ct Dock wareh ouses wou ld b e opened. He saw no pros' of having them opee for some moths. A memorial was n pr d esented from the occupiers of the slate yards near the Prince's Dock Basin, pray!",g, b e U'g " council not to acce d e t o any application that of made by the D oc k Committee for the appropria tion that land to other purposes. singlestrate t t o en t s h b e le m p e n m in o t r n ia r li s s r t g s n t m h e a n t t t i h n e for Mr. MOORE said that if the land should be required on' dock purposes, as he believed it would, he should dew ed $ •ttee; The memorial was referred to the Finance Corn,,re_ l , o 9 Resolutions of the Committee of the Health of I 'ht Association, relative to the supply of water to the bor u , i tl) were read, and referred to the Health Committee, " instructions to report upon the subject. e 5 97 The Education Committee reported that there w, e , r ,9 on children on the books of the North School, and the the books of the South. The average attendance ' 0 " past month was--North 693, South 508. ddition al The Health Committee recommended that athe baths and wash-houses should be built as earl Y -ban corporation finances would admit, as great ben efit t here, their h ad in n e o tn t oardi avla.ne resulted from those now in use. They reported u se d had been a decrease of 2519 in the number of bat" e re. • during th e past year, b ut an i ncrease o f £5O in , r of ceipts. Th ere was an i ncrease of 6 3 9 i n the nualu; t bSo tubs of clothes washed during the pas t twelve ol ur ce• and an increas e o f £2 i n the receipts f ro m this 6 0 D e' The proceedings we re con fi rme d, and the CO counts, amou n ti ng t o £77, were referred to th e Committee for payment.