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itmptrial Varliamtnt. isor HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TirupsnAY. The following railway bills were read a second time : London and Croydon Railway (Enlargement); London and Croydon Railway (Chatham and Gravesecd); London and Croydon Railway (Maidstone, Ashford, and Ton bridge) ; London and Croydon Railway (Orpington Branch) •, London and Croydon Railway (Chatham to Chilham) : the Great Western Railway, Ireland (Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone) ; and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Wolverhampton line). Mr. WAKLEY, in pursuance of h's notice, brought under the consideration of the house the management of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and also the charter granted to it in the year 1813. He thought that Sir J. Graham was now well aware that he had made a false step in granting that charter, and regretted that he would not retrace that false step by making those changes in it which the profession required. The hi-tory of the conduct of the Council of the College of Surgeons was one of continued injustice from the year 1826 down to the year 1843. During all that time their conduct had been incriminated by the profession, and medical associations and clubs had been formed in every part of the country to guard against its arrogant and oppressive regulations. In 1843 the profession was informed that a new charter had been granted to the College, in which new and extra ordinary privileges were conferred by the crown on that very council whose conduct bad proved so very obnox ious. He pointed out the various hardships, which this new charter inflicted on more than 10,000 members of the profession. It was laughed at by every member of the profession who did not suffer by its injustice as one of the most absurd and irrational measures that had ever been concocted by the wit of man. They felt deeply dis contented at its arrangements, and they had shown their discontent by petitions to parliament, by remonstrances to the council, and by memorials to Sir James Graham. Nobody was satisfied with it, not even Sir James himself. The language of Mr. Guthrie, himself a member of the council, was worthy of the consideration of the house. That eminent surgeon denounced several of its provisions as illiberal, exclusive, and unjust; and yet all the memo rials directed against it, and sent to the Home-office, had been answered secretly there by a minister of the crown, who allowed himself to he deluded by some member of the council, on whose judgment he unfortunately relied. After condemning the obnoxious power of self-appoint ment, which was given to the council, be proceeded to point out at great length the different grounds on which the profession complained of this charter, and to insist that if prerogative charters were to be thus recklessly granted, it was fitting that they should be rigidly scruti nized by parliament. He would reduce the whole ques tion now in dispute to this issue—" the charter having been granted, ought it to be continued in force?" On the face of the charter itself he said that it was evident that inquiry must be granted, or that the minister must say that the charter could not stand. He therefore asked Sir James Graham whether it was his intention, first, to re fuse inquiry into the management of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and, secondly, if it was his intention to refuse that inquiry, whether he intended to maintain the charter in its present odious and obnoxious state? He could not believe that Sir James would voluntarily take such a course ; but he had made one ;false step. and would per haps endeavour to redeem it by making another. Mr. Wakley then proceeded to make a most violent attack upon the council of the college, and accused them of hav ing betrayed the trust reposed in.them, and of having in jured the interests. and of having attempted to degrade the character, of the great majority of their professional brethren. He insisted that it was a matter of great im portance to the nation at large, and more particularly to the poorer classes of it, that there should be dispersed over the whole surface of the country a large body of well educated and competent medical practitioners ; and enu merated several lamentable cases in which irreparable in jury, and even death itself, had been inflicted by the in capacity, inexperience, and downright ignorance of indi viduals who had been permitted to exercise surgery, phy sic, and midwifery, under the existing system. He pointed out several defects in the medical bills recently introduced by Sir James Graham, and concluded by mov ing two resolutions, inculpating the management of the Royal College of Surgeons, and calling for investigation into the circumstances which led to the grant of an addi tional charter to it in 1843, and into the effects produced by its operaton on the profession at large. If those reso lutions were negatived, he should propose another resolu tion to the effect that the general practitioners were fully entitled to enjoy an equality of professional station with the newly created fellows, and that a deep injury would be inflicted if a College of General Practitioners were to be founded as an institution inferior to the College of Sur geons. . _ The house was counted out when the hon. gentleman had concluded his speech. minutes before four p.m. the oscillations began, from north to south, and lasted two minutes, giving a succes sion of shocks more severe and terrible than was ever felt there before. The throng of people in the streets instantly prostrated themselves in prayer and terror, the trees were swayed, buildings oscillated, and everything presented the appearance of immediately impending ruin. Almost every house is said to bear in arks of the catastrophe. It is mentioned in the paper from which the account is taken, that San Lorenzo, La Misericordia, Tompeate, Zapo, and Victoria streets and the Grand-street have particularly suffered. The aqueducts were broken in several places. The bridge of Tezontlade is demolished. The hospital of Saint Lazarus is in ruins, and the churches of San Lo renzo and San Ferdinand greatly injured. The magnifi cent chapel of Saint Teresa no longer exists. At the first shock the Cupola, a building of astonishing strength and great beauty, fell, and was soon followed by the vault beneath the Tabernacle and the Tabernacle itself. The multitude inside this church succeeded in escaping. Seventeen persons had been taken from the ruins to the hospital. At a quarter before, and a quarter after seven the shocks returned, but they were much milder. The annexation of Texas continues to be the topic of general discussion. On the evening of the 29th instant, the Bowery Thea tre, at New York, was for the fourth time laid in ruins by fire. The properties, wardrobe, banners, scenes, &c. all belonging to Mr. Hamblin, fell a prey to the flames, as also the extensive wardrobe of Mr. Scott, valued at two thousand dollars. No part of the premises was insured. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bill, and the Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Extension) Rail way Bill, were severally read a second time. Captain BERKELEY called attention to the present s}s• tem of manning her Majesty's navy, and the difficulty that arises in procuring able seamen for her service. The gallant officer contended that, under the present system, there was no opportunity for training able seamen, and that, consequently, the navy was gradually losing its characteristics as the main defence and power of the country. The regular army of the United States amounts only to 9,012 men, but the militia numbers upwards of 1,5C0,000, and of these 300,000 are annually armed and trained. The will of the late John Randolph, of Roanoke, Vir ginia, giving freedom to 300 negro slaves, has just been established by an act of magnanimity on the part of Judge Leigh, who relinquished a large property under the will, in order to bear testimony to the sanity of the testator. The Morning Herald reiterates its stateme It, that in the district of arrondissement of Cogniac forty communes have conformed to the Protestant Church of France, the good old Huguenot Church ; and, that, in several in stances, these communes have followed their clergy. CANADA GOLD.—GoId, in "almost its virgin purity," has recently been found on the margin of a small lake in the wilderness in the vicinity of Sherbrook, C. W. The fact, however, does not at present open a very brilliant prospect to the adventurer, as it is found in very limited quantities, in a locality exceedingly difficult of access, being under the side of a shelving mountain only to be reached by ladders. BURIED ALIVE.—On the 18th ult.. the whole popula lation of the little town of Augoisse, France, were placed in the utmost alarm and consternation, by a report that mysterious sounds had been heard to issue from the ce metery of that place. At last it was suggested that it might be Pierre Malet, who had been buried the preced ing evening, and who twice previously had been thought dead, but had returned to life. Acting on this idea, his friends repaired to the church-yard, when a dull but con tinuous noise was heard proceeding from Pierre's grave. Spades were speedily obtained, and the coffin dug up and opened, when the unhappy Pierre was found still living, although in a most deplorable state, his bands and feet bleeding from the violent efforts he had made to call the attention of the passers by. The poor youth was not restored to life again for long, as he had scarcely breathed fifteen minutes when he rendered up his last sigh, and this time in reality.—Paris Constitutionel. A ROYAL FETE IN SPAIN.—The guests were invited at half-past four, p.m., and it was not till after ten at night, by which time most of the guests, who had taken nothing for twelve hours, were perfectly ravenous, and many of the ladies really ill, that any refreshments were to be had. The rush that was made to the supper table, and the scramble that ensued as soon as the eatables and drinkables were in sight, beggars all description; and in a few minutes there was not a crust of bread nor a glass of wine to be seen any where. The nature of the passtirnes in which the early part of the evening was spent was of a very simple and innocent description ; they were unfor tunately attended by one or two untoward accidents. The venerable Duke of Castroterreno, a man of 84, was enjoying the diversion of riding on a woode❑ horse in a merry-go-round, when he unfortunately became giddy and fell off, injuring himself considerably, so that he had to be bled on the spot. The Countess of Montijo and a party of eight others were upset in a boat in the canal, which runs through the grounds, but escaped with a se vere ducking. The Duke of San Carlos, and Senor Mar tinez de la Rosa amused themselves with wheeling the Queen about in a light carriage, to the great admiration and contentment of all parties.—Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle. Sir O. COCKBURN defended the existing system as quite adequate for the necessities of a peace establishment. The character of the navy was rapidly rising in estimation ; the seamen were protected from the plunder of crimps, and the supply through the medium of the merchant ser- IRELAND On Friday week, the corn lofts of Messrs. Ronayne, at Youghall, fell in, and several workmen were buried in the ruins. One man was killed. On Sunday, as a boat containing four men and one woman was proceeding from Cahirciveen to Dingle, the boat was upset in a sudden squall of wind, and all on board perished. DESPERATE ATTEMPT.—On Tuesday James Gallagher, the bailiff of Colonel Enery, was shot, near Ballyconnell, about duskish, by two men, as yet unknown. He pur sued them, but fell with loss of blood.—Fermanagh paper. On Saturday week Colonel Shelton, an aged officer, who has seen much service, was thrown from his horse in the Barrack-yard, Dublin, and so seriously injured that he died on Tuesday. Colonel Shelton commanded the vice would . tie found adequate to any emergency that 44th regiment, stationed in Dublin. might arise. MR. O'CONNELL'S REPEAL LEVEE.--The Drogheda A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Somes, Mr. Lamb- Journal makes the following announcement :—" We ton, Captain Rous, Captain Pechell, Lord Ingestre, Sir have just learned that Mr. O'Connell will hold a levee on C. Napier, and Mr. Williams took part, after which the 30th of May, for the purpose of receiving addresses, Lord PALMERSTON drew attention to the state of the congratulating him on the result of the late prosecutions. slave trade, contending at some length that the late and renewing the pledge of the Irish people to continue, government had exerted itself strenuously to effect treaties under his guidance, their struggle for the repeal of the with a view to its suppression, and had in effect concluded legislative union. The corporations of Ireland will at no less than thirty such treaties with various countries in tend in their robes. Members of the 'B2 Club in their all parts of the world, while the present government since uniform ; all others in evening dress. The trades of it came into power had not concluded a single treaty on Dublin will have a public procession on that day." the subject. On the contrary, by its supineness it bad THE IRISH ACADEMICAL BILL.—The Freeman's Jour lost the opportunity of obtaining the concurrence of stai, the Romish organ for Ireland, denounces this bill in France, for had they signed a treaty which had been ne- fierce terms ; another proof, amongst a thousand others, gociated by him (Lord Palmerston), as they might have that no concession will ever satisfy the rapacity of Po done before the meeting of the French Chambers, they eery. That paper says—" Each college is to be a collec would not have exposed that treaty to all those intrigues tion of lecture halls—not a living being, except the prin. by which it had been subsequently defeated. They had cipal, is to reside within its precincts. Not even a pro also lost the opportunity of obtaining the accession of lessor is to find a home there. The hundreds of young Hanover, Belgium, and Greece, and, in fact, the whole lads who may be attracted to it are to be cast out upon course of their proceedings was calculated to neutralise or the city in which the college may be located, to find sub defeat much of that which had been effected by their pre- stitutes for homes where they can, and to pick up religion, decessors. He hoped that Ministers would take a wore morals, and good habits just wherever they may light upon lively interest in this matter than they had hitherto done, them, the officers of the college being strictly forbidden in which case they would, if they did not extinguish the even to inquire whether they ever enter a place of wor limits slave tr thou . Godless education.' We cannot disagre e w ith hi m . P ro - Sir R. PEEL said the noble lord had passed a very testantism having failed to allure Catholics, the trial is strong eulogium, and a very deserved one, upon himself now to be made what virtue there may be in infidelity. (Lord P.), but he seemed to think that his exertions to Mr. O'Connell also condemns the plan in hi s usua l coarse s uppress the slave trade, which certainly were ver y great language. and very creditable, were, nevertheless, no t su ffi c i en tl y appreciated by the house or public, and he, therefore, THE QUEEN'S VISIT T L IRELAND.—The Lord M a yor came down about once a month to insi s t u p on th e mee d of Dublin, with several members of the Corporation, had of praise due to his merits. When, however, all the papers an interview with Sir James Graham last week to invite connected with the subject should be on the table, he her Majesty to visit Ireland. Sir James, after hearing would find that the present government had not been the deputation, said, " that he was not aware of her Ma lukewarm on the subject. As to any steps likely to be jesty ever having expressed an intention, as yet, of visit taken by this country, in conjunction with France or any ing Ireland ; she had never expressed such intention to other nation, his lips were of course sealed, but he would him, nor had there been any communication made on the observe that when France declined to ratify the treaty al- subject to the Irish Government." He added, that he luded to byithe noble lord, it was not thought advisable to did not see " bow it could be expected that he would ad ask for a ratification on the part of Belgium, Hanover, and vise her Majesty to proceed to Ireland, after it had been Greece, particularly as no vessels under the flags of those announced that the horses under the royal carriage were countries were in any way engaged in the African slave to be affrighted in the streets of Dublin with the shouts trade. He denied that the present government had un- of repeal—that the sound was to force like a shot into the done any thing which had been done by their predeces sors , royal councils—that certain gentl emen were t o appear i n ~ .., or that they were at all indifferent to the great object of suppressing this monstrous evil, which was a disgrace to the civilised nations of the world. FoREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA The steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, arrived in the Mersey at a quarter to twelve o'clock on Tuesday night, bringing nine days' later news from America. The tone of the commercial portion of the New York press, for nothing of an official nature has yet been published, is of a peaceful, conciliatory nature, as our extracts will show. The following article is from the New York Courier and Enquirer of the 30th of April : " We have an abiding conviction that fairly informed, appealed to, and consulted—the common sense of this nation would decide, that in respect to the Oregon ques tion there is nothing in it that should lead to, or can jus tify war with England. " The language of Mr. Polk's inaugural address, as we remarked at the time, was strong and not in good taste — not so much because it repeated what had been over and over again declared as true in congress and out of it, as because the matter to which it related had been committed to amicable negotiation, and therefore any official execu tive declaration, which might be construed as implying, that although made a matter of reference our claim was past all doubt and could not be modified, was ill-judged and misplaced. their repeal uniform of the Eighty-Two Club at her Ma jesty's Levee. If her Majesty went to Ireland, and were to be met in this way, did they imagine she could give any assurance on the question but the one her Majesty had already communicated through her Minister to Parlia ment ?" " As the language, moreover, of a president just come into power, and who in this address was foreshadowing bis views and scheme of public policy, which might or might not tally with those of his predecessor, it assumed a grave character, and being his first official act moreover —official as to the people of this country—it can hardly be wondered at that it attracted the notice of the British parliament. " At present it is notorious that our military and naval armaments are sadly inadequate to the emergency. We have not the means of defending ourselves, in any quarter, where we should probably be attacked. Our whole At lantic seaboard is open to an enemy ; our western frontier is exposed to the fury of some sixty thousand Indians, which the intrigues of a wily foe might easily bring upon us ; and on every side as far as repelling hostilities is con cerned, as yet we are essentially weak." The Courier further says :—" With Brazil we have got into trouble, though it is almost impossible as yet to un derstand its nature and extent. It seems clear, however, that the vessel of a Brazilian merchant was forcibly seized by the United States vessels of war, on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade ; that it was finally surrendered, at the formal demand of the Brazilian government, and that her re-surrender to the American minister has been refused. We have as yet seen no sufficient data for ad- judging the case, nor can we form any opinion as to the extent of the misunderstanding from the few farts which have hitherto reached us from a reliable source." A very severe shock of an earthquake visited, and terri- Wy alarmed, the city cf Mexico on the ith. At a few ACCOMMODATION AT MAYNOOTH.-It was stated by Sir 11. Peel, amongst other grievances which the students ! at Maynooth had to endure, that they sometimes slept " two or three in a bed." The following short extract, however, from the letter of a gentleman, who has visited that college within the last three weeks, represents a very different state of things :—" I went through its chapels, refectories, class-rooms, library, and into some sleeping rooms. There is not one solitary instance of more than one student sleeping in one bed; and, if I am to believe the Dunboyne student who politely attended me over the building, such a thing had not occurred during the eight years he had been there. This is the arrangement I found,—each student has a separate bed, but all have not separate rooms. The Dunboyne students have, moreover, fires in their rooms. The exception to separate rooms are ten good large rooms, in which are four beds each, about thirty other rooms, in each of which are placed two beds ; but in every instance only one person sleeps in each bed. The remainder, as I understood, had separate beds and separate rooms. The rooms are light, airy, and of a good height." THE CALL OF THE HOUSE.—At the repeal meeting on Monday, Mr. O'Connell alluded to this subject, and said that he had made up his mind that the speaker had no authority to issue a warrant to call the members over from Ireland. He said that the act of the Irish Parlia ment of 'B2. declaring that no power on earth, save the Sovereign of Great Britain and the Irish Houses of Lords and Commons, had power to make laws for Ireland, was still unrepealed, for those concerned in framing the Union Act did not take the trouble of repealing it. The new le gislative body created by the Act of Union obtained no authority over Ireland but that which it acquired by the express words of the statute. It could not have any power over this country at common law, for the institution of the Imperial Parliament did not go beyond the memory of man. The Imperial Parliament being a fact within the memory of man, it was clear it enjoyed no power by pre scription or in virtue of immemorial usage, or any other than what was defined within the four corners of the union statute. The British Parliament might have power to issue warrants in England, but he utterly denied that they had any such power in Ireland. (Cheers.) If the Court of Queen's Bench in England were to send a war rant into this country against a person for contempt, it would expose itself to ridicule. Just so it was with the British Parliament, and for his own part his resolution was already taken. The moment the Sergeant at Arms approached him, armed with Mr. Speaker's warrant, he (Mr. O'Connell) would desire him to carry his authority into operation by laying hold of him as his prisoner, and when that was done he would apply to the Court of Ex chequer for a writ of habeas corpus, and try the question. The repeal rent last week was £420. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY 4 CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, MAY 14.—The following degrees were con • (erred to-dry. Masters of Arts.—The Rev. J. I. Well don, St. John's College, Grand Compounder (incorpo rated from St. John's College, Cambridge); Rev. J. U. Robson, Magdalen Hall, Grand Compounder; Rev. W. L. Collett, Queen's College, Grand Compounder ; R. Blayney, Exeter College, Grand Compounder ; Rev. J. H. Bushnell, Worcester College, Grand Compounder; Rev. T. H. Ravenhill. Worcester College ; W. S. Vale, Worcester College; Rev. W. H. Jones, Queen's College ; Rev. F. T. M'Dougall, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. F. W. Vaux, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. T. Helmore, Magdalen Hall; Rev. W. B. Hole, Exeter College Rev. R. Wea therell, St. Edmund Hall ; Rev. S. W. Stevenson, St. Mary Hall ; Rev. F. Kenny, Christ Church ; Rev. B. Belcher, Wadharn College; Rev. W. Bushnell, University College ; C. E. L. Wightman, Lincoln College ; Rev. W . Beusefield, Fellow of Lincoln College; Rev. G. M. Houghton, Lincoln College; H. Fort, Balliol College; Rev. P. S. Ashworth, St. Alban Hall; C. T G. Price, Jesus College ; V. G. briffield, Scholar' of Brazennose College ; G. F. de Teissier, Scholar of Corpus Christi College; Rev. H. E. Pettman, Trinity College; Rev. T. Pantin, Pembroke College. Bachelors of Arts—J. J. Ebsworth, St. Edmund Hall; E. Bittleston, St. Ed mund Hall ; J. D. Johnson, St. Edmund Hall ' • J. J. G. Graham, Queen's College ; E. B. Mynors, St. Mary Hall; J. H. Thompson, Magdalen Hall; W. De Porre, Magdalen Hall; J. H. Bainbrigge, Wadham College; T. B. Ludlow, Christ Church ; H. A. Douglas, Balliol College; C. T. Tufnell, Balliol College; C. J. Stuart, University College ; A. W. Mountain, University Col lege; G. Jebb, Lincoln College ; H. Hayman, Fellow of St. John's College ; C. G. Gambier, St. John's College ; T. A. Walker, St. John's College ; G. Pardoe, St. John's College; A. W. Green, Trinity College; W. Brown, Trinity College; P. Smith, Trinity College; W. John. ston, Trinity College ; T. Hughes, Oriel College ; W. Buckle, Oriel College; F. W. Peel, Worcester College ; D. Price, Jesus College; C. Chambres, Jesus College. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.--The Rev. J. Roberts, M.A.,to the rectory of Llansrdwrn , Anglesey , vacant by the eath of W. Thomas.—Rev. W. S. Brick nell, M.A. to the vicarage of Eynsham, Oxford, void by the death of the Rev. T. Symonds.—Rev. W. L. Bevan, M.A., to the vicarage of Hay, Brecon, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Bowen.—Rev. J. Cumberlege, to the vicarage of Tilsworth, Bedfordshire. vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. L. J. Sunderland.—Rev. G. G. Williams, to the curacy of Tenbury-cum-Rochford, Hereford.—Rev. H. Pearson, M.A., to the curacy of Atlowe, Derby.—Rev. E. Addenbrooke, to the curacy of Smethwick, Stafford.—Rev. H. Palmer, to the curacy of Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucester.—Rev. E. C. Harrington, incumbent of St. David's, Exeter, to be prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, in the room of the Rev. Dr. Medley, bishop of Fredericton.—Rev. E. Edmunds, M.A., curate of Chester-le-street, Durham, to the curacy of Lesbury, Northumberland.—Rev. J. G. Angley, M.A., to the curacy of Great Munden rectory, near Ware, Hertford shire.—Rev. C. Ivers to the rectory of Glenarm, Antrim. —Rev. R. Jebb, to the vicarage of Ballinderry, Antrim —Rev. C. J. Echlin, to the vicarage of Killinah, Cavan. —Rev. H. Flemying, to the vicarage of Kilcosky. Ros common.—Rev. M. Leathern, to the rectory of Upper Langfield, Tyrone.—Rev. W. N. Willis, to the vicarage of Corcomhide, Limerick.—Rev. J. H. Groome, M.A., to the rectory of Earl Soharn, Suffolk.—Rev. R. H. Groome, to the rectory of Monk Soham, Suffolk.—Rev. _ _ T. Massey, 8.A., to lie minister of Rowley Regis Chapel, in the parish of Clent, Worcestershire.—Rev. W. T. Worship, M.A., to the rectory of Beeston St. Andrew, Norfolk.—Rev. J. E. Daniel, M.A., vicar of Wevbread, Suffolk, to the perpetual curacy of Wingfield, in the same county.—Rev. F. Bourdillon, 8.A., to the curacy of Fenstanton-cum-Hilton, Hunts.—Rev. J. C. Reynolds, BA. to the rectory of Holten, Suffolk.—Rev. E. J. Barrow, 8.A., to the curacy of Little Stukdly, Huntingdonshire.— Rev. J. D. Gilbert, M.A., to the rectory of Cantley, Nor folk.—Rev. H. Hill, 8.A., late curate of Rock, to the vi carage of Ocle Pitchard, Herefordshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. T. Apperley.—Rev. J. H. Howlett, M.A., to the rectory of Meppershal, Bedfordshire.—Rev. W. Keeling, 8.D., to the rectory of Barrow, Suffolk.— Rev. J. W. Blakesley, M.A., to the vicarage of Ware cum Thundridge, Hertfordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. 11 : Coddington.—Rev. A. W. Ivatt, 8.A.. to the curacy of Cottenhani, Cambridgeshire.—Rev. R. Pul leine, M.A., to the rectory of Kirby Wiske, Yorkshire — Rev. W. Du Sautoy, M.A., to be chaplain to the gaol, Richmond, Yorkshire. TRACT 90.—The Church and Stale Gazette states that nine hundred members of Convocation► have proclaimed their dissent from the doctrines of this tract. Dr. Haggard, Advocate of Doctor's Commons, will succeed the Rev. Dr. Dealtry in the Chancellorship of the diocese of Winchester. NEW CHURCHES.—On Tuesday the first stone of a new church was laid at Birch, in the parish of Rusholme, near Manchester; and on Friday a similar ceremony took place for a similar erection at Audenshaw, near Ashton under-Lyne. The Bishop of Salisbury presented some petitions in the House of Lords, a few days since, against the in creased grant to Maynooth ; and in so doing, took occa sion to state, that he did not concur in the sentiments of the petitioners. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev. C. B. Dalton, his lordship's chaplain; the Rev. R. W. Browne, M.A., professor of classical li terature in King's College, London ; and the Rev. T. G. Hall, M.A., professor of mathematics in King's College, London, and rector of St. Benet's, Paul's-wharf, to be prebendaries of St. Paul's Cathedral. A deputation of the inhabitants of St. Leonard, Shore ditch, waited on the Bishop of London on Friday, with a petition recently adopted by the parishioners against the Maynooth grant, and which they requested his lordship to present to the House of Lords. The bishop not only consented to do so, but expressed his entire agreement with the prayer of the petition. CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY.—A large number of the members of this society have withdrawn from it, and have issued a statement of their reasons for so doing. This document is said to have already received the signa ture of every Head of a College who now belongs to the society, and of every professor who has yet had an oppor tunity of seeing it, and of far the greater proportion of Tutors and Fellows of Colleges who are still members. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. —At the last general meeting of this society it was an nounced that her Majesty had graciously presented a do nation of one hundred guineas towards its funds. This society. which has enjoyed the countenance and support of the Sovereigns of England from the time of its foun dation in the reign of William 111., continues to pursue its course of usefulness in this country, and throughout the colonies and dependencies of the empire. The following extract forms part of a communication to A gentleman who had requested the Bishop of Exeter to take charge of a petition against the Maynooth bill : " London, May 2. I shall have much pleasure in pre senting the petition which you mention. 1 return to Bishopstowe on Monday or the following day. I shall, however, if God give me health, co me aga i n hi t h er , f or the sole purpose of joining in a resistance (however hope less of success) to the Minister's measure, when the bill shall reach the Lords." OXFORD MOVEMENTS... There has been a gathering in Oxford about something. Messrs. Tickell (the con vert to Romanism), Oakeley, Ward, and others have met there. At the same time, it is, curiously enough, again rumoured in the clubs in London that Mr. Newman had conformed to the Church of Rome. It is said that some of the younger members at Oxford are hesitating to take orders, doubting their validity on English ordinations. We do not believe the report affecting Mr. Newman ; but it is strange that it should be current in London while there was a gathering in Oxford of some of the principal men of the movement party, and one of them a Romanist.—Church and State Gazette. THE EPISCOPAL FUND.—The following accounts, is sued by order of the House of Lords, show the intended average incomes of Archbishops and Bishops, as they become subject to the Act 6th and 7th Will. IV., cap. 76, with the charge imposed, or the augmentation granted, and the period of commencement Sax. Canterbury York London Durham... Winchester St.Asaph and Bangor Income. Charge. Incrse. Commencement £15000.. -- 10000.. 1100.. 10000.. 5000. 8000.. 11200. Aug. 1, 1836 (when united ; Bath and Wells Ely Worcester Carlisle Chester Chichester . St. David's Exeter Gloucester 6. Bristol 5000.. 700 Hereford ..... 4200.. 1460 .. Sept. 1, 1837. Lichfield Lincoln 5000.. 1250 Llandaff 4200.. 3150 Manchester, when St. Asaph &Bangor unite 4500.. —.. 4500 Norwich Oxford Peterborough Ripon 4500.. —.. 2200 .. Oct. 13, 1836 Rochester 5000.. 3000 Salisbury 5200„ 4750 April 5, 1837, April 24, 1841 149300 *38750 *3OBOO a The ultimate balance, appearing from these two items, is diminished by a permanent charge for augmenting certain liv ings in Durham. Those items attached to the places printed in italics are merely estimates no order in council having yet passed. LAW INTELLIGENCE usages ADMIRALTY COURT, TUESDAY, MAY 13. THE IRON DUKE.—COLLISION. This was a cause of damage, brought by the owners of the late brig Parana against the steam-vessel the Iron Duke, belonging to the Dublin Steam-packet Company, to recover for the total loss of the brig in a collision with the steamer on the morning of the 10th of Septem ber last. The Parana, a vessel of 200 tons, with a valu able cargo of general merchandise, left Liverpool on the Bth of September, bound on a voyage to Montreal. About 2 o'clock on the morning of the 10th, the course of the brig being S.W., and the wind moderate from N.W. to W.N.W., being close-hauled on the starboard tack, going at the rate of four or five knots an hour, with all sails set, she was struck by the Iron Duke, and almost immediately went down, with her master and five of the crew, who were drowned. The steamer, a powerful iron vessel of 600 tons, had left Kingston harbour on the evening of the 9th, with the mail and upwards of 70 passen gers. She had three strong lights, one at her foremast head and one at each bow, she was going at her full speed, from 10 to 12 knots an hour, and there was a man on the look-out standing upon a raised forecastle, the bulwarks of the vessel being so hi g h ( a bout seven feet) as to pre vent a person walking the deck from looking over. The night was dark, but not hazy. The place of collision was off the Welsh coast ; Point Lynas light bearing W. by N. distant 10 miles, and Beaumaris light bearing right a-beam of the brig. The action was entered for £lB,OOO and was carried on, not as usual, by summary petition and affidavits, but by plea and proof. The Court was assisted by Trinity-masters, Captain Wellbank, and Capt. Gordon. After the Queen's advocate for the owners of the Pa rana, and Dr. Adams for the steamer had addressed the Court, Dr. Lushington, addressing the Trinity Masters, ob served that as the Parana was closehauled in the star board tack, she was not required to do anything on des crying the steamer, except hoisting a light. The first question was, whether she ought to have carried a light. That question had been discussed over and over again, and it had been decided that there was no general rule that merchant vessels were bound constantly to carry a light. It was said, however, that if it was not the duty of the brig to carry a light, she ought to have exhibited a light. Now, the mate Nickell, who, a priori, was a credible witness, expressly swore that he took the light from the binnacle, and exhibited it, and he was confirmed by the two men on deck. It was admitted by the steamer that she was going at her full speed, 12 miles an hour, through the water; that there was one man on the look-out and no more, and that she did not see the brig till she was actually upon her, the night was so dark. Now the question was, whether blame was at tributable to a steam vessel going at the rate of 12 miles an hour, in a dark night, and running down a vessel under these circumstances. He (Dr. Lushington) ad hered to and repeated the doctrine he had laid down in the case of the " Rose," that " it may be very convenient for a part of the public that these steamers should pro ceed with great rapidity ; but the law will not allow them to proceed with this rapidity, if the property and lives of other persons are thereby constantly endangered." He had no hesitation in saying, that if the lives and property of her Majesty's subjects were so perilled, the owners of the steam-vessel would be civilly and criminally responsi ble upon the ground stated by Lord Ellenborough, in the case where the driver of a mail-coach was indicted for manslaughter, having ran over and killed a man. He (the learned Judge) requested the Trinity Masters to give him their opinion, whether the Parana was to blame in any part of her conduct, or whether the iron steamer was to blame. The Trinity Masters retired for a short time, and on their return, Captain Wellbank said they were of opinion that the Parana had done nothing but what was right; that she did show a light ; and that sailing vessels are not re quired to carry lights ; that with regard to the steam-ves sel, the night had been described by both parties as dark ; notwithstanding the darkness the Iron Duke had pro ceeded at her full speed, 12 knots an hour, in a track where there were many sailing-vessels, one man only be ing on the look-out at the forecastle, the captain and chief mate being in bed ; sbowing an indifference to responsibi lity perfectly inexcusable ; and that consequently, she had not been navigated with that degree of caution which ought to have been observed in such a night and in such a neighbourhood. _ . . _ Br LUSHINGTON pronounced for the damage, with costs. Lord A. Hervey is the only barrister off the bench who can be addressed as "my lord." His lordship goes the Norfolk circuit. In the Court of Exchequer, last week, a female servant sought to recover a month's wages, on the ground that she bad been dismissed, without notice. But it appearing that she hid stayed out all night, contrary to her master's orders, she was nonsuited. Two cases of breach of promise of marriage were tried in the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday and Thursday. In the one a juror was withdrawn, i❑ the other the de serted fair one, a barmaid at an inn, received £4OO da- The judges in the Court of Queen's bench on Thurs day decided in the case of Howard v. Gosset (an action against the Serjeant-at-Arms for arresting Mr. Howard, in obedience to an order made by the House of Commons,) in favour of the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded the Speaker's warrant ; but the judges held both the warrant and the plea to be bad, and gave judgment for the plain tiff accordingly. NEW AUCTION REGULATIONS.—In the new Auction Regulations Act, it is provided that it shall not be neces sary for any person selling any goods or chattels by auc tion, in any of the cases mentioned in the fifth clause, to take out the usual license. In the following matters, where the sum is under £2O, sales may be effected with out an auctioneer's I;cense ;—Selling goods or chattels by auction under a distress for non-payment of rent or tithes to a less amount than £2O, or under process from courts in Scotland and Ireland, or under authority of any other act or acts of parliament now in force, in which the like exemption as by the act is given to the proper offi cers of courts executing the process of such courts to sell the effects seized by him by auction, without taking out any license as an auctioneer, provided the sum for which such process is enforced is under £2O. London and York Railway, and at its rising on Saturday had got over 110 of the 186 miles, which is the length of the line. DD has spent the same number of days over the Scottish Central Railway. In fine, the se 18 railway committees, sitting on an average about six days, have got through about 28 or 29 of the most unimportant bills before them, many of which were unopposed. At this rate the close of the session must leave many projects in a state of abeyance. RAILWAY INTL LLIGE CE. It is in contemplation to form a branch railway from Chorley, to join the Blackburn and Preston line. The shareholders of the Bristol and Exeter Railway have presented a splendid silver salver and £llOO in mo ney, to Mr. Badham, their secretary. The Great Western Line via Gloucester, Stroud, and Windsor, to London, was opened for the first time on Monday. The Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Company have con firmed their amalgamation with the Manchester and Leeds, and the Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale have confirmed their extensions. INCREASE OF TRAFFIC.—The revenue of the London ACCIDENTS FROM SWINGS.—On Sunday w eek, i n and Birmingham Railway Company, for the past week is London,cl,ed —On Tuesday a young woman at Deptford was of last. This is entirely exclusive of th e num e ro us ex - a girl, 14 years o ld, was pit c h e d ou t o f a sw i ng , greater, by £2,800, than that of the corresponding week and suddenly taken ill in a swing, and falling out of the car cursion trains, and certainly speaks loudly in favour of low w hen at its greatest hei g ht, rec ei v ed suc h i n j ur ies th a t s he fares, the charges on this railway having, in the interim, is not expected to recov e r. been reduced nearly 25 per cent. A gentleman named Gregerly, on Tuesday night, shot himself on Southwark bridge, and died of the wound soon WHITSUNTIDE HOLYDAYS.—During last week it is after. The pistol was loaded to the muzzle with powder, calculated that upwards of 10,000 persons have availed and fourballs, and onbeing themselves of the cheap trains from Manchester to visit happy man was the brother of a respectable solicitor, but fired exploded. The on- Liverpool. Upon the Leeds line, the amount of travelling was depressed from reduced circumstances. has been enormous ; and not less than 20,000 persons, per day, have been conveyed to or from Manchester on these Mr. DOUGLAS JERROLD.—On a recent visit of this rails. Alderley Edge, and other places on the Birming- gentleman to Birmingham, the working jewellers present( d ham line have also presented great attractions, and on him with an elegant gold ring, with an onyx stone in the Thursday the numbers who traversed that line is estimated centre ; and in an address expressed their admiration of at 20,000. The Sheffield, and the Bolton lines have also his talents, and their gratitude for his literary advocacy cf had a great accession of business. In the numbers men- their own class. tioned above, several Sunday-schools are included, both We learn by the official returns that there is in fact no in Manchester and the country. The numbers resorting individual named Payne in the eminent London banking to Dunham-park have also been very great; on Thursday firm of Smith, Payne, and Smiths; nor any partner named morning upwards of twenty boats, full of passengers, took Jones in the firm of Jones, Lloyd, and Co. There are their departure from the Knott Mill packet station ; and five persons in the first-named firm, all of the name of a large proportion of these were destined for Dunham. Smith. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A special As the pension granted by Sir Robert Peel to the widow meeting of this company was held on Wednesday. The of the late Mr. Hood has been pretty much forestalled, a meeting was convened for the purpose of taking into number of noblemen and gentlemen have determined on consideration the various bills now before Parliament con- raising a sum by subscription, to enable her to educate netted with this company. They consist of the London, her family and to make some slight provision for them in Worcester, and South Staffordshire project, with a branch case of her decease. to the Grand Junction; the Dudley and Wolverhampton ; THE NAVY.—THE SCREW v. PADDLE-WHEELS.— the Trent Valley ; and two branches from the London The greatest triumph ever achieved by the screw over the and Birmingham line, one to Dunstable, the other to Bed- paddle-wheel has been effected by the Rattler steam-sloop, ford. The Churnet Valley and Manchester Amalgamation commander Smith, beating the Vesuvius steam-sloop, bills have been rejected on Standing Orders. The Peter- commander O'Callaghan, five hours in the run from borough line was opened as far as Northampton, on Tues- Greenhithe to the Frith of Forth. day last, and by about the second of June would be open ANTI-MAYNOOTH MEETING.—On Monday night a throughout, having been completed within the specified meeting was held at Manchester to oppose the endow time and the estimates. The chairman took occaEion to ment of Maynooth College, and to receive a deputation observe, that the directors were willing to make pecuniary consisting of Sir C. E. Smith, the Hon. B. Noel, and sacrifices to obtain an amicable arrangement of the differ several ()flier gentlemen from the Central Auti-Maynooth ences with the Grand Junction R a ilw a y C ompany. Committee. Several eloquent addresss were delivered, MIDLAND IVAILWAY.—On Tuesday last a special and the meeting was very enthusiastic. general meeting of the shareholders in this Company was DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN COUPLE.—It is but three held at Derby. Resolutions were passed unanimously or four weeks since we gave an account of the extraordi confirming the following extension bills :—Ely, March, nary age of Mr. and Mrs. Plaisance, tken living in Red- Boston, and Lincoln Line ; N o tti ng h am , N ewar k , and moor-fen in the Isle of Ely, the husband of the age of Lincoln, and Syston and Pete r b oroug h. Th e meet i ng 107, the wife 105. On Wednesday, strange to relate, after also approved of the bills for consolidating the Shef field and Rotherham with th e Midl an d, f or forming ah short affliction, both expired on the same day. They have left one daughter, who lived with them, of the age of the Erewash Valley Line, and f or l eas i ng th e Birming eighty-four.—Bury Post. ham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Lines. The chairman stated that the bill for making branches to ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY.—On Friday last a hand- Elsecar, Wakefield, &c, had been abandoned, in conse- some young woman, of South Stoneham, eloped with a married man, taking with her the sum of £37, belonging quence of the landowners on th e li ne b e i ng oppose d to it; and that the agreement to lease the Sheffield and to her father. A description of them was forwarded to Manchester had fallen to the ground. The original pro- London by the magnetic telegraph, and they were appre moters of the Erewash Valley Li ne h a d agr e e d t o t rans - handed immediately on their arrival, amazed at their fer their right to the Midland Company, for £145,000 of proceedings being known at such a distance from home. Midland stock, and to receive 6 per cent, on the whole of They were taken before a magistrate, and remanded. their branch stock. The directors had secured a fourth THUNDER STORM.—On Saturday last, Bristol was interest in the Matlock Line; and they had directed sur- visited by one of the heaviest thunder storms experienced veys to be made for a line from Nottingham to Mansfield. for many years past. Several trees in the villages adja- They had no connection with the Leicester and Birming- cent to the city were struck by the electric fluid, and a ham, Northampton and Leicester, Derby and Crewe, vessel called the Joseph, of Kinsale, which was lying on Grand Union, or Stafford and Birmingham schemes. the Quay, near the Swivel Bridge, waiting to discharge a They were about to consider measures for improving the cargo of potatoes, had her mast split in two. Some sea connection between the Birmingham and Gloucester and men, on the deck at the time, narrowly escaped destruc- Birmingham and Derby Lines. They had taken posses- tion. sion of the former line. SINGULAR OPERATION.—A short time ago a farmer PROGRESS OF RAILWAY COMMITTEES.—The Corn- near Sedgefield left one of his sheep to die in the field, as mittee on group B has sat for fifteen days, and has dis- it had the sturdy or water in the head, which was consi posed of five railway bills—the Manchester and Leeds dered incurable. A servant boy having heard of it im branches, the Huddersfield and Manchester, the Leeds mediately procured a gimlet, with which he returned to and West Riding, the Leeds and Dewsbury, and the the field, and, without practice or skill in the art, oper- West Yorkshire. Committee C sat six days—passed one ated upon the head of the animal, by boring a hole ex unopposed bill and rejected another. D was occupied actly upon the top of the scalp, by which the water oozed five days in passing three unimportant bills. Committee out of the head of the sheep, which, in a very few minutes E has been hearing evidence from April 29 to May 9, and got upon its feet, and began to eat grass, and is now doing has not as yet done anything else. F has been equally as well as any of its owner's flock. unsuccessful, having spent the interval b e t w een May 5 SUSPICIOUS CASE.—A short time since a fashionably and May 9on one bill. the London and South Stafford. attired young female was taken by two equally well-attired G and G 2 has reported two bills and entered on the evi- men to lodgings at Hampstead. On Friday loud screams dente for two more since April 29. L passed two bills in were heard proceeding from her room, and, on the mis five days. M was fortunate enough to have only one bill, tress of the house going thither, she was found in convul which took it but a single day to despatch. N has been sions, with a dead newly-born child near her, the body of engaged five days in hearing evidence on the West Corn- which was quite black. There was some medicine on the wall schemes, which has not yet terminated. 0 got table, which, the girl said, when she came to herself, had through two bills in eight days. Q has succeeded in been left by the gentlemen when they visited her on the coming to a decision on four bills in five days. S took preceding Wednesday. Shortly afterwards she died, and four days to make up its mind on the Belfast and Bally- her body also became black. The wife of a surgeon in the mena ; whilst three bills were passed by Tin six days. neighbourhood called and took away the medicine • and, The Gre a t G r i ms b y an d Sh e ffi e ld emp l oye d U f or seven b y some means or other, the parties who had brought the days, when it was passed ; whilst the Nottingham and deceased to Hampstead were made acquainted with her Lincoln has now been before V for six days, without any death. They gave directions for the immediate interment result at all. Committee X, having managed to pass the of both mother and child, adding, at the time, to the un- Ely and Whittl esea bill b y some ex t raor di nar y exert i on d ertaker, that money was no object, so that the burial on the first d a y o f meet i ng, h as now b een em pl o y e d f or could be promptly effected, with secrecy. The case is to nine days in li s t en i ng to the speeches and witnesses for the undergo investigation. THE COURT cf FASHIONABLE WORLD, It is said to be the intention of her Majesty to pay the Earl of Ellenborough a visit at Southam-hall. On Thursday, her Majesty, with Prince Albert and the royal family, left Cowes on their return for Buckingham palace, which they reached at half-past six, P.m., accom plishing the journey in four hours and a half. On Saturday night her Majesty and Prince Albert at tended the Italian Opera, when II Pirata was performed. Her Majesty remained until the close of the performan ces, a circumstance altogether unusual with her. There is to be a magnificent royal bal costume at Buck. ingham Palace on the 6th of June. The period selected for illustration by the costume worn upon the occasion is that from 1740 to 1750. The Marquis of Salisbury received a select party to lun cheon, on Wednesday, at Hatfield House, Herts, when the yeomanry races took place in the park. The Earl of Harrowby, accompanied by Viscount and Viscountess Sandon, has left Grosvenor-square, on a visit to the Hon. Granville and Lady Georgiana Ryder, at Westbrook, Herts. The Duke of Wellington has arrived at Apsley House from Strathfieldsaye, Hants, where the noble and gallant duke has been passing the recess in comparative retire ment. His grace is in the enjoyment of most excellent health. GENERAL MISCELLANY, There are 1,200,000 female servants in England, of whom 110,000 are in London and its suburbs. Among the many new things that steam brings from abroad are new potatoes, some of which have been brought by the steamer Clyde from Bermuda. DOUBLE SUICIDE.—On Tuesday week, a man named Bishop, at Doynton, near Bath, after taking a quantity of poison, deliberately shot hitrs-.lf. Father Matthew, in a letter acknowledging a contribu tion, says " £7,000 have been raised, and my debts are liquidated." Few persons are aware that from 1700 to 1844 there are on record 101 shocks of earthquakes in England, 138 in Scotland, and 17 in Wales. THE ST. GILES MURDER.-011 Friday, Joseph Con nor was found guilty of the murder of Mary Brothers, in a brothel, in March last. He was sentenced to death. In a recent police case in London, it appeared that the box-keeper of the Victoria Theatre pays £lO a week for his place. William Wilkinson, a boy thirteen years of age, has been committed to York Castle for killing his playfellow, aged eight, by throwing him violently to the ground in a sudden quarrel. SFVERE SUMMER WEATHER. —The Breconshire bea cons and the neighbouring hills were covered with snow during last week, and the weather was unusually cold. Four valuable horses were suffocated in the stable of the Crown Inn, at Bellericay, near Ipswich, on Thursday se'nnight, the straw or litter having been set on fire by an incendiary. SUICIDE OF A BOY.—An errand boy, in the employ of a druggist at Sheffield, hung himself on Thursday. He had been seen to take some money from his master's till, and feared the consequences. It is seriously contemplated to undermine all London and excavate a railway —one or more—which is to com mence at Hyde Park Corner, and have intermediate sta tions at each chief thoroughfare, with a street frontage ! In the year 1840 no fewer than 3,884 males, of twenty years and upwards, died violent deaths in England and Wales. Of these 532 were killed by carriages, carts, and horses, and 110 on railways. AWFUL VISITATION.—A man, named Evans, at a per forming gallery at Stockport, fell down dead while in the act of performing a part, on Tuesday night, in which he represented the semblance of death. The trial of Martha Brixey took place, in the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, for the murder of her master's child, by cutting off its head, at Greenwich. She was acquitted on the ground of insanity. The grand jury threw out the bill against Mr. Meyer. The greatest alarm has been excited in military circles by her Majesty having chosen the period 1740-50 for her bal costume, as at that time neither whiskers nor mous taches were worn, and those facial appendages will, there fore, have to be shorn. The editor of a midland paper, animadverting upon the manner in which one of Shakapere's plays was lately performed, seriously cautions his readers against supposing that he has " the least intention of detracting from the well-earned reputation of the great dramatic author." On Tuesday, as one of the Greenwich steamers was proceeding down the Thames with 300 or 400 passengers, she was run into by a Yorkshire " billyboy," whose bow. sprit swept her decks, killing on the spot a boy of ten years, and seriously injuring several others. On Sunday evening, Mrs. Jane Thomas, aged 64, re siding at Poplar, died from a rupture of one of the vessels of the brain, caused by a fall on the pavement, in conse quence of her having stepped on a piece of orange-peel. She fell heavily, her weight being 15 stone. TREASURE TROVE.—On Thursday week, as two la bourers were grubbing up a fence between Laycock and Melksham, they dug up two thimbles, w:th their open ends together, and found in them a note of a Bristol bank, for £BOO, bearing date about forty years ago. May 20, 1815. At the Central Criminal Court, on WednesdaY , v,CY Lowe, in the employment of Messrs. Samuda, at BLanoi wall, was tried for manslaughter, for having occasio, the bursting of the st eam -b o il er on the late exP l° ' r e. The jury found him not guilty ; and Baron Alderson marked, th a t th oug h th e catas t rop h e was a n awful 00 he believed it to be purely accidental. MORTALITY IN TH E C OLONIE S.—At a late mept- log os the Statistical S oc i e ty, an i n t eres ti ng p a p e r was re ad s. the mortality of th e arm y, i n th e course o f which tif lowing tabular result was given in regard to the 0 1,40 establishments :—" Annual mortality per 1,000; 4 0 South Wales, 14.1 ; Cape of Good Hope, 15.51 aoa dy Scotia and New Brunswick, 18; Malta, 18. E (Upper and Lower), 20 ; Gibraltar, 22.1 ; lonian Isla 28.3 ; Mauritius, 30.5 ; Bermuda, 32,3 ; St. Helena,4 ; Tennaserim Provinces, 50 ; Madras Presidency , • Bombay Presid enc y, 55 ; C ey l on , 57 . 2 ; B enga l P r esto; cy, .65_; Windward an d L eewar d comman d, 85 ; Jam 143 ; Bahamas, 200 ; Sierra Leone, 483. TAWELL'S CHILDREN.—At length there is a cer t. " loti that a pro v i s i on h as b een ma d e for the children of the ceased culprit Tawell and Mary Hart. On ThursdaYolo brotheruart, and oncall s e t d ated that the a will motherwl w of as the made m by murdered ered hi m the previous to his execu ti on i n w hi c h h e b equea thed to tt. children a life i n t eres t o f £l5 a-year each ; but Mr. To well added th a t th e property out of which the beg; was made is forfeited to the crown, and that it was ne e r& sary to memorialise for a remission of the forfeitil.,t when, no doubt, such remission in so far as this becioeiii was involved, would be made by the crown. Mr. T avi „ij further stated that the widow of his late brother sc°" oi a make a provision for the children, if this property , ee not be made available for their support, to that extent. CIRCULATION OF PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK. BAI4 —The Bankers' Magazine gives the following a s the t r t b, rage weekly circul a ti on , f or th e f our wee k s en ding the J, te, 12th, 19th, and 26th A pr il, as pu bli s h e d i n the Gaz 6 ks , viz. :—Private Banks, £4,681,211 ; Joint-stock 13 :166, £3,306,255 : t o t a l average f or t h e mon th, .£7,9 8 "' a s As compared with the circulation in March, there is of increase of £386,708 ; but a comparison with that p, April, 1844, shows a decreased circulation of £1,06 0, nb On comparing the above returns for the past month vl be the total fixed is sues , it appears th a t th e f o llowing I s l ore comparative state of the circulati o n, vi z . : —The cb banks are below their fixed issue £329,886 ; joint-sq' banks are bel ow th e i r fi xe d i ssue £171,066 : total be ° the fixed issue, £500,952. THE SMALL Pox AND VACCINATION.—The sn 3 pox has lately been so p reva l en t i n N orw i c h, that a c,? re o i mittee of health was fo rme d t o d ev i se means for chea l the ravages 2,170 individuals—s ofthedisease.From their researches it 813; pears, that, in 531 f am ili es ( ta k en w i t h ou t s electioal i comprising Not Vaccinated. • 3 -„ 1 664 persons have had th e sma ll pox : of t h ese 1536 84 1 425 "; 506 „ escaped the disease alto g eth e r 4 „ died from its effects l4l 2170.. Total. Only four of this large number died after vaccination! One of these wa s a man 93 y ears o f age ; the other tbree were suffering from teethin g , or otherwise ill when ° lf cinated ; and were never properly under the influenc e the cow pox ! ! t THE DUTIES ON GLASS.—We have ascertained tb a ue the green bottle trade has dealt perfectly fairly by ,6, public. Immediately upon the repeal of the duties, t tt e , i t reduced their prices from 425. per gross to 265., an ll the duty being )55., they gave their customers the '- and instant benefit of its removal, and something more. The duty on plate-glass was 2s. 101 d. a foot, or the re A i abouts ; therefore every square foot ought to be solute; 2s. 101 d. below the price which it bore immediately fore the sth of April. Up to that time 2s. Md. a I ° - 8 was paid to government by the maker ; after that tilt the 2s. 101 d. was no longer paid. If £lOO was a c. a b , price for a given quantity of sheet-glass three ein n 'ut since, the honest charge for the same quantity now ong" of g lass to be £33 Gs. Bd. ; or, in another form, a square Aor which formerly sold for Is. will produce to the yen. , the same rate of profit if now sold for 4d.—Gardeners Chronicle. _ _ MR. D' ISRAELI'S NEW WORK " SYBIL ; OR, 1 4 Two NATIONS," has just appeared. The Morning says, "If ' Coningsby' be the most brilliant of n''" D'lsraeli's works, assuredly Sybil' is the most patrioded and interesting. The Two Nations represent the divi de d power of the state, capital and labour—the oppressor an the oppressed. In Sybil' Mr. D'lsraeli presents to till public eye—vividly but veraciously—the actual state an a condition of the working classes of this country. He. 14 11 bare the wide-spread social evils, the appalling neo n-- grievances that have been created and entailed on r e country by a rule of successive factions. The work b ef q , " us bears in every part the full impress of Mr. D'lsra eli better genius; it is original, sparkling, eloquent, t erse, and passionate ; but it is free, or nearly so, from in D'lsraeli's worse quality—individual bitterness; not of that there are lifelike portraits and personal sketches rr public men, the originals of which may be easily guessed. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—During the Thunder storfe_ on Saturday last, a remarkable circumstance occurred t`i two sisters, daughters of a professional gentlema n Bristol. One of them was at a house in Bristol when th lightning entered the drawing-room in which she wa s 6it ; ting, and struck her on the head, causing a lump to rtbt upon it almost instantaneously, depriving her of the sig ehe ' of the left eye for a considerable time, and drawing mouth aside, as if she had been attacked by paralYrit With the exception of a degree of numbness on tile le , side, she has recovered from the effects of the Her sister wai at a friend's house, about five miles 6° . - 0 here, and, at nearly the same period at which the ab e tt occurrence took place, the lightning entered the room 1 0 which she and the family were at dinner;—the paper 1 1, 0 torn from the walls, part of the skirting boards also te e d away, and a gun which was in the room (happily cbargl with powder only) exploded ; but, providentially, none the party sustained any personal injury.—BristolJour na The meteorological table for the quarter, compiled fr°lll the weekly tables furnished to the Registrar-General bit Professor Airy, of Greenwich Observatory, show, est the mean height of the barometer was 29.788 ; the h i g h e st 4 point of the thermometer, 59.0 Fahrenheit; the lo w . point, 8.8 (in February) ; the mean of the highest Pn'no in each day, from six observations, 40.0 ; and the O en , of the lowest on each day, 30.9 ; being a difference of 9,.."; the mean of 72 observations was 35.4. The average i t,, g e t point (mean of 72 observations) was 31.7 ; the high 8, point of the self-registering thermometer in the sun, t'u'b., and the lowest on the grass, 6 8 ; the mean of seven, t h e servations being respectively—highest point 49.6, an d lowest point 23.8. The general action of the wind in January, N.E., S.S.W., and S. ; in FebruarY , N.N.W., and variable ; in March, N.E., N.N.E" 8- 1 W.S.W. The average te m pe ra tur e in t h e m onths o f February and March was exce e di ng ly low, whilst that o f January was tolerably high for the season, the loge age° r point of the thermometer having been 29.8. The ave amount of horizontal movement of the air was miles ; mean amount of cloud (0-10,) 7.5, and the rla n " ' tity of rain, 4.80 inches. THE IRON TRADE.—The reduction of 40s. per ton , a r t i; nounced last week, has been general throughout the S° of Staffordshire district. The present price is probab l y / t i t l e higher than can be steadily maintained until some e` is heavy orders for rails are cleared off. The speculat le 'a a pig iron in Liverpool which has existed has receive ti tle very serious check during the past week. Many nf , of needy holders have pressed sales, and large parc els Scotch pigs have been offer dat 755. ' per ton. Ea rlY t he March purchases were made at 110 s., and none of . 0 makers would take orders under 120 s. The price of e in this neighbourhood has not been subject to the s `',. e s. fluctuation. The above reduction was decidedly ne t id sary to prevent a very awkward state of embarassm en " O f several branches of trade. Moreover the feverish stat.eoo the present year's market is expected to occasion the I t o trade a permanent injury, in the fact that the Arner i . c o e. are now strenuously endeavouring to produce more Ir a to The produce of iron last year in the States arnoun t . e , i cli 500,000 tons ; the estimate for the present year is larger; and in ten years it is calculated that the mo' n e r eat reach a million of tons, unless the fall in prices in t he Britain should be such as to render it cheaper for „ l e Americans to purchase our produce than to manu faey" for theinselves.—Wor BA cester Journal. LONDON PRIVATE NKERS.—The following is —,- e t o n • of the firms which attend the Clearing House in 'Loh bard-street, with the number of partners in eac h et, viz., Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., Lombard -str b - ill , 6 partners ; Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 50, Coro pa 4 partners ; Barnett, Beares, Barnett, Bradsha w, :its, Co., Lombard-street, 6 partners ; Bosanquet, Fr a 00, and Whatman, 78, Lombard-street, 3 partnerS ; B rn o; Janson, and Co., London (Ahcburch-lane), 5 p art lier Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill, 5 partners ; Denison, era' wood, Kennard, and Co., 4, Lombard-street, 4 pat t Alyet Fullers and Co., 65, Moorgate-street, 2 partners ; ,`"era; Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, 6 partyart' Hanburv, Taylor, and Lloyd, 60, Lombard-street, 6,Pnest ners ; Hankey, 7, Fenchurch -street, 4 partners; qui); Lloyd, and Co., (Lothbury), London, 4 partners ; 0 bock, Forster, and Co., 11, Mansion-house - s tren t ,;:rk partners ; Martin, Stone, and Martins, 68, lOS: s ter street, 5 partners ; Masterman, Peters, Mildred , i vi " man, and Co., 34 and 35, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-0;0d. 6 partners; Prescott, Grote, Ames, and Co., 62,11° 10 0 needle-street, 4 partners ; Price, Marryat, and Co.,,ttirtiO, William-street, London, 3 partners; Robarts , and Co., 15, Lombard-street, 4 partners ; Rogers, v barn' Sharpe, Boycott, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, L o °,, Col street, 5 partners ; Sapte, Banbury, Muspratt , an ° L e 77, Lombard•street, 4 partners ; Smith, P a y ne ' At. Smith, 1, Lombard-street, 5 partners ; Spooner' w er s, wood, and Co., 27, Gracechurch-street, 2 p ar .. t pete ; Stevenson, Salt, and Son, 20, Lombard-street , 3 Pa'.oo.'ol Weston and Young, 6, Wellington-street, St. Sella- CgAd Southwark, 2 partners ; Deacon, 9 ‘ , 0 ,, , Birchin-lane, 6 partners ; Willis, Percival, and tc'siiiioP, Lombard-street, 6 partners ;—in all 26 firms► 01110 re; 112 partners. Of these, six firms have each ' 6 P,,, A ,;r 11 0 , 1 6 six have 5 partners each ; seven have 4 eac h ; 'r ul a tP a 3 each ; and 3 have two each. In the following ti r e 8 0 ,, partners are all of one name, viz., Smith , Pall' ' S a l Smith, 5 Smiths : Hankey, 4 Hankeys Stevensontopen. and Co., 3 Salts ; and Fullers and Co., 2 Fullers. cfistarli the clearing firms carry on business at any grea t g . the• ° g from the clearing-house, which forms a part 0 . e fille r Post-office in Lombard-street. Twelve of the° side.; are located in Lombard-street itself, and the reg i tis pi' in the streets surrounding. %Resides carrying n° on 1 1 in sin eLondon,ssin Manchesteress r . Jon es underLl Lloyd, and Co. ; end Messrs. Brown, Janson, `,milli carry on business at Leeds under the firm nt s ba re o e y fi d r , m and of M C o e s . , sr c s a . r.t.( r.: returned all 11 8 the business is carried on. Three other firms u n it o tb e tb e theirrow n p , a a r n t n d e r C s oa.s residentT h r Three banking kt the g i fi ha ff es, etv eats b s e cr u s two partners resident on the bank premises, so e t of •,r i‘jos have each a partner resident at the bank. e asY t he other bankers reside in London, or within an i> ltance. Some reside at a considerable d istance country.