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- s=MEttr Varliamentarp Vroreebingcs. FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE POPE AND THE Swtss Wan.-=We regret to see —*— it stated, that the Three Powers have agreed to recom * THE POLISH CONSPIRATOR S .—Eight of these conspi- mend the Swiss to consult the Pope in their arrangement HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. rators have been sentenced by the Court of Berlin to be of inter-religious differences. Now this can only apply Lord FARNHAM inquired whether it was the intention beheaded as principals, and others to confiscation of pro- to th e Romish cantons, for surely it would be preposter e the government to adopt proceedings against those Ro- pertv and various periods of imprisonment. (Ills for England tojoin in such advice if addressed to =an Catholic priests who h a d d enounce d i n di v id ua l s f rom „„ ,sr j —..ven addressed to the Romanists it is --, an advice in which England thould take no part. The cre crossing the Elbe a few days ago, in a light boat, Jesuits have been proved to be the enemies of civil govern near the village of Sebousci, in the district of Aussi, in l merit all over Europe ; they are watched with jealous Saxony. ' _A uStria ; they are' anished from France, and Pope - --- vur - Clement XIV. suppressed the Order as a public nuisance. ~..,.16 reforms in the Jewishes obvervances Under such circumstances, if the Swiss Diet chooses to .id rites, have separated in consequence of their not being dismiss the Jesuits, what right has Austria, or France, or Able to come to an understanding on some of the leading England, or all three combined, to urge the Swiss to re points, but a new ass e m bly h a d bee n convoked for May taro a body of men, who have ever conspired against civil next. and spiritual liberty, and who have been in Switzerland An. English baronet, travelling in the United States for convicted of :opposing education, plotting against the Go the benefit of his health was lately refused admission into vernment, and justly meriting the confiscation of their fh. —.bp,. ..,1,;".;,-;,,-. ...,A essirriacraa ~f \T"..... 17--7- , _ lway from Tesden to 'rogue, were drowned_ as they attracted the serious attention of the Lord Lieutenant, who was in communication with the law officers upon it. lie (the Marouis) thought that the two acts_ nth and Int), care in parties inciting or der liable to the penalty of death, but in these cases there were no sworn informatiohs upon which to proceed. The government, however, would not fail to attend to such ---, -- property. But, whilst we deprecate any aid being given cause he was forced by a paralytic - affection to walk with to the Jesuits, we lament that the wild ungodly Liberalism the support of a black man, who has lived in the baronet's of the Federalists, and their hatred of all religion, are family from his childhood. calculated to inspire alarm and distrust with re g ard t o MILITARY EXECUTION IN INDIA.—The p rogress o f in- their future movements.—Record. ordination amongst the European soldiers of Her A REMORSELESS CREDlTOR.—Creditors are a some sty's corps in the upper provinces has not been at what implacable race, but they rarely proceed to the ?.cked by the threats of severity that have been held lengths to which a dealer in furniture, named Bitter, jut, and the Commander-in-Chief, after issui ng a l ong living in the Rue St. Antoine, has just ventured. This order, framed with the object of dispelling the delusion man sold some furniture to a clerk in the War-office, prevalent with respect to the treatment felons receive on which was to have. been paid for by instalments; but Bit transportation, has found it necessary to order the sen- ter having become bankrupt, the clerk had to pay the tence of death to be carried into execution out in two in- money to his assignees. Bitter nevertheless insisted on being paid, and on the clerk's refusal, he laid wait for LAND. — Private letters from Berne of the 4th him, as he was leaving- the War-office, seized him by the that General Dufour returned t o that capital on collar, and, assisted by three of his men, thrust him into Triumphal arches, decorated with red and white a cart, and drove him off to his residence in the Faubourg erected for his reception on the bridge of St. Antoine. The clerk resisted as much as he could, la Vue Croisee ; but the general declined but the four men overmatched him,and, to prevent his , and arrived at Berne in a close cries, held their hands over his mouth. Arrived at Bitter's Iby a small detachment of cavalry. The i residence, the poor clerk was dragged up stairs, and im -4 n. note to the foreign powers to i peratively required to sign an order on his wife for the iosion of the Souder- immediate payment of 500 f., or at least to sign a promis- mours had addr sory note forth On Thursday, ti amount. Having refused eated, and threats suspension of C. de he was sugar refining establishment, at Antwerp, death were made. Ai. ed ; the liabilities being £250,000, with a cruel persecution, the unfortunate cie, arplus of £BO,OOO shown in their balance sheet. fled that he consented to give a promissory note. £70,000 of the amount is said to he due to he had drawn it up, a creditor of Bitter's entered, udon.—Thc failure of Messrs. Gates, Coats, apparently under the belief that he was warranted in dolt 'nd Co., calico printers, of Watling-street, what he had, Bitter cried, " Look at this swindl er 1" , ced, with debts under £2o,ooo.—The af- have had a great deal of trouble to make him pay the 50( Malleable Iron Company are under- which he owed me !" and he related what had occurrei >f putting him - if bout four hours me so terri itated t On ti with Sc ars:therefore, he will have not been attained by ans ted that the victim shot Aced rather sheepi fundar time of LC Great, ar ggressw( 1 1 Warr )r the arr y was to lay a complaint against liin !st of Mr. Bitter and his men, wh Martin, and Stiglett, were imme ,o maintain himself on the thro questration and extor mini's Me id of b tabbed or si MAISO.-"J on the wt his splendid port, without ester )le western coast of South Arne r. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The East Line( Inshire specially authorised the The guaranteed interest of o per cent. will probably commence next July. The Court circular in the Times of Friday had the fol ce of a Board, new, we imagir... ' " The Ecclesiastical Commis . lowing noti 3ners for railway The net capital stock . of the London and North-Western be corm li.lated, as the company have just lment of £5 on the £25 (late hares, under the power's of Amalgamation Act ,h Company have determined ihie line ft.om London to Man- NORTH STAFIORDSH RAILWAY.—It is confidently expected that the Potteries will very shortly enjoy the ad vantages of a railway communication with the London nd North-Western line, that portion of the North Staf e2n Stoke and Norton Bridge, next. ly lying 1 being r Wl3O HAS TO PAY The Court of Common Pleas, in inst attorneys for work done, last week decided that attorneys were only agents for Railway Com panies, well known to he such, and not to engage, or be liable, as principals; therefore, the employed (a surveyor in one case, a local lawyer in the other) must ordinarily stances presented anything special ! From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,227 miles of railway, was £155,227, thus accounted for :—X73,309 for the conveyance of passengers only, £46,888 for the car riage of goods, and a remainder of £35,030 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ' • being an increase of £21,107 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was about 2,505. MALIGNANT TRICK.-A malicious outrage has been perpetrated on a railway in South Wales. The lock of a switch was broken off at night, and the points were wedged back, so that any train coming up would dash into a siding. At nine o'clock a long goods train, on its way to Merthyr, arrived at a high speed ; it rushed into the . and rams into enlii4inn with anrinn lrsad.ri ma Its“, VVII.J.V I W ILI. SSUillt, UlleU waggons. Of course the crash was frightful. The driver and fireman RNILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday an umbrella hind the private carriage of the Earl of Zetland, took TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND A verdict of wilful murder has been found against Robin Sullivan, at Bandon, for roasting his child alive, as re ported in our last. On Wednesday as Mr. Waldron, of Dublin, was out shooting, he became immersed in a bog-hole, and his gun going off he was shot dead. Tgere are upwards a - ;lnindred and fifty prisoners in Clontnel gaol, and the approaching assizes there promise to be the heaviest on record, as there are already nineteen murder cases. The storm last week was severely felt at Cork. Seve ral houses and stores were much injured, and a young woman was killed 'by the falling of a stack of chimneys. Some trees were broken down. At Galway, the nephews of a deceased farmer and his adopted son quarrelled about the deceased's property, and during the affray a young man, assisting the adopted, received a violent blow from a spade, and he soon died. Since the murder of Mr. Lucas, the tenants whotn he dispossessed have entered on the lands, and refuse either to surrender or pay any rent; and Mr. Lucas, who has been threatened, is afraid to proceed against them. The brother of the murdered Rev. Mr. Lloyd dares not go out even to church, unless attended by four policemen. This is the case with several of the clergy in the district, and the Bi-hop of the Diocese is about applying to govern ment for their protection VALUE OF I IN IRELAND.—Some of the insurance a.nt policies in Ireland on any, Ind even then at increased offices have refused to except the most select lives igned is the system of assassina- Two men have been taken up on suspicion of the mur der of Mr. Lloyd. The wadding of the gun was found. and turned out to be part of a leaf torn from a manuscipt book which was found and led t o th e a pp re h ens i on o f t h e prisoners. On Sunday night _ fired into the window of th hairs. The bullet passed do , a gun loaded with a bullet was Rev. E. Mayne, of Bally to the head of the servant e, and, striking under the t• Mr. S. boy, who was sitting at the fir grate, dashed the ashes a.. ..layne. NOVEL EXPORT.—Mr. John Cranitch, of Cork, last week, exported a hogshead of the .berries of haws to Auckland, New Zealand. They were remarkably fine berries, and collected in that county. The purpose for which they were intended was to introduce this useful quickset la the now civilized colony of New Zealand. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting a letter was read from Mr. John O'Con ne ll, ca lli ng f or an ex- the return of )üblin. The rent for t t Commons, am £lO towards the fund There was a meeting on aroeeedings were of or the city of Dublin, of the A report WS.S adopted suggesting modifications in the poor law, inclu ding the question of a maximum rate, beyond which local taxation should not go ; that all expenditure beyond that hould be borne by a general rate in aid ; and that the of the infirm should be distinct from that of the able4-bo IRISH CHEW:ION BILL -The following are the name -oted against the second rend 'ng of the Out Callaghan, W. S:CrLiwford, J. T. Devereux, W. Fagan, R. M. Fox, J. Greene, R. Keating, T. Meagher, H.K.G. Morgan, J. O'Brien, T. O'Brien, M, O'Connell, A. O'Flaherty, N. Power, T. Reynolds, E. B. Roche, F. Scully, and T. Wakley. Tellers, M r . F gargus O'C onnor and Mr. John O'Connell. CLERICAL FIREBRANDS.—A meeting was held at Cas tlebar, at which Roman Catholic priests appear to have been the principal speakers. Father Hughes said, " The sacrificed to the rapacity of the rich, and nought remains to the poor but the wild execution of revenge ! not interfering to remedy your griev- poor are The proprietor: ance. I hope, therefore, you will do so yourselves." The worthy minister of a God of mercy, concluded by de nouncing several landlords to the armed and excitable A correspondent of the. Times. in describing the funeral of the late Rev. Mr. Lloyd, in Ireland, says, " I saw the near relative, the respectful strangers, the admirers of the r,rir. deceased, attend his funeral with desperation in every countenance, fully armed with double-barrelled rifles, &c., the son walking or riding by the side of his father, the faithful servant armed, close by the side of the agent, the police constables in every direction, looking out for another murderer. Such was the funeral procession of the good Mr. Llo , } d as it approached Elphin churchyard." MORE MURDERS THREATENED.--A gentleman from the vicinity of Strokestown, the scene of the late Major Mahon's murder, w , -he had nere neen endeavouring to col lect rents on a property of which he is the agent, states that he saw a list posted on the road, containing the names of several persons who are to be murdered. The first name was that of a Roman Catholic gentleman, who holds a considerable property in the county of Roscommon. It was also very generally reported that a Roman Catholic magistrate, of the county of Kildare, was murdered adja cent to his residence. It is asserted that two resident noblemen, whose lives have been threatened, have deter . extensive estates The Earl Fitzwilliam, although an " absentee," :s not inattentive to the wants of the poor on his Wicklow estates, as rreh ,as to the necessity of keeping down the rates, by affording . epiployment remunerative to Rropri 7 eta r, occupier, and labourer . The noble lord, who . is Well seconded by his prosperous tenantry, has joined with them a volun four months. The subscriptio'n is one pound on the poor lE.w valuation. The rate having been collected, a list was Conduct The Earl of MALMSBURY said that the denunciations were uttered in presence of hundreds of persons. Lord STANLEY thought the answer of the noble mar- quis very unsa , life was at stale factory in a case here innocent human Lord CAMPBELL and Lord BROUGHAM agreed in their view that the matter ought to be left in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant HOUSE OF COMMO MONDAY On the motion for the order of the day, for the second readinp of the Irish Coercion Bill, Mr. J. O'Co nne ll an d •.•. • ~. • ... • a muitli they all other Irish r ..... ht not to pass before what they called easures," had been brought forwarc some " remt for Ireland. l'he on ever, ulti lecond reading should be takeii on another night HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Turn ly to Sir G. Grey, Mr. J. O'CoNNo ticcede t 6 the ion to postpone his motion for a relect committee to inq mockery The i.n a was rejected by 23 to 252, HOUSE OF COMMONS.— Mr. C. ANSTY moved the second reading of the Roman lie Relief Bill. Ills reason for bringing in the bill WEDNESDAY n the preamble, which recited that, not withstanding. the passing of former acts for the relief of the RoMan Catholic subjects of her Majesty, still a num- injustice of trusted that be now move Sir TNC luence of the Church t ,t of ti one of a of Ror portior lean) macv c te Protestant Church e opinion of the AttoinE point. The Catholics of this country had Bruvn at Zile year in t] they had enjoyed most extensive privilege,,.. and, before extending those privileges, the house would do - Cons well to see whether the provisions of the bill did not which directly endanger the ri g ht s o f th e crown an d tL of the &Ashfished Church. He concluded by movin g ,, -I% that the bill be read a second time that an amendm !day six mor Mr. GLADSTONE thought that the allegation of wounded feelings •by the Roman Catholics, although they com plained of no practical grievance, was a good reason for - removing, obsolete statutes, provided no valid reasons for retainin% them existed. He thought, too, that though there might he danger in openir tlement of the act of 1829 that or yet, if it were just to open iuld look to the justice of the 'he appreheno: avannah f c., having _overntnent, instead of Santiago, which will enable the r to carry out the great ong been proposed for this flourishing portior of the New World. To the mi n i ng ca pit a li s t, Chili offer: vements coded resources, as it is rich in the precious metals, las copper, platina, and other metallic ores. Coal, msiderable extent, is also known to exist, and only judicious ap, lication of capital and enterpri remuneration to the adventurers, and be national treasure, for the coaling of the iich frequent t TERRIBLE SUFFERING AT SEA.—The New York Herald gives the following, taken from the report of the Splendid, at Philadelphia :—" On the Bth inst. th the schooner Caroline, of Saco, Smith, from Bath, with a cargo of lumber, dismasted, experienced a violent gal 2. Samuel Lockwood, se 26th ult., in lat, nail, confined tc ickness, was drowned in the above ga seaman, a native of Wales, v the prevalence of a high s pverboaid du . rir he gale their provisions were all washed overboard ; consequently when fallen in with by the vors (three in number) were in the edition ; in fact, so desperate had he m that they were obliged to adopt the of sacrificing Gne of their number for oath to the rest accordingly lots were cast, aud wful decision fell upon one - of the seamen named [es . Brown, who was killed, and upon whose fl e sh the poor wretches lived until picked up." SOLUTION OF MURDERERS.—A correspondent sends e following story :—Some thirty years since there lay a regiment in Malta, formed chiefly of Irish. Re peated cases of assassination had occured ; at last there was one in which the culprit was taken with " red hands." He was put under arrest, with positive orders that no person should be allowed to visit him. He was tried, convicted and condeunizd. The priests went, and were excluded under the general order. They urged their office, but were still refused, and the affair looked very serious. They reported it to the bishop ; the bishop went to the governor; and he said si►nply, that his orders were definite. The day of execution arrived ; the man was led e governor, Sir Was on the ground minister the rites of religion. The man threw - him - self on I his knees and besought that he might not be sent out of Ishould tiot be deterred b respect to that portion of the bill whicl 1 of old statutes, he wished to have tlx propose the rep, opinion Of the law ()them of the Crown, particularly touched .the Act of Supremacy. With respect to tht clauses of the Emancipation Act, called securities, he I• • • . • . of opinion t was not just absoltitely to exclude from this country sub jects of her Majesty for the simple reason that they be might 1 aught t e religious orders ; same distinction of orders ased. He also thought that greater liberty given to religious ceremonies. Mr. SHEIL instanced, as one pract. Roman Catholic barristers were exchl Chat Mr. CARDWELL cordially supported it, and urged upon the Home Secretary the necessity of considering seriously the real condition of the Roman Catholics, promising him that if they laboured under real grievances the House of Corn 'ship of Ir ove them Mr. J. STUART could not avoid expressing his extreme - surprise at the opinions expressed by Mr. Gladstone. He (Mr. Stuart) objected to the first part of the bill, because it trenched upon the supremacy of the crown in matters ecclesiastical and, therefore, he could not vo t e f or the The honseilivided—For thesecond reading, 168 ; again it, 136. Majority for the second reading, 32 The bill was read a second time =Wed this ,ntl ordered to be cote- Mould then be further-pokponed. HOUSE OF COMMONS THUR3DAY sked Sir G. Grey if he could afford Mr J. O'CONNELL UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. The Rev. Geo. Wilkinson to the rectory of Whicham, in the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev. Alexander Scott ; patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. Value, house, £243. The Rev. Arthur Wilkin to the rectory of Bootle, in the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev. Alexander Scott ; patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. Value, house, £525. The Rev. William Armitstead to the perpetual curacy of Whitbeck, in the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev. Thomas Caddy; patron, the Earl of Lons dale. Value, house, £i6 per annum. There is no truth whatever in the assertion that sixteen bishops have protested against Dr. Hampden's promotion. The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge has refused to pro pose an address to the Queen, deprecating the appoint ment of Dr. Hampden. The Rev. G. L. Parsons, student of Christ Church, Oxford, and incumbent of Benson, has been appointed vicar of Kirkham. The confirmation of Dr. Musgrave to the archbishopric of York took place on Friday at St. James' Church, Lon don. The bishops present were Winchester, Exeter, Salisbury, Chester, and Ely. SCOTCH CATHEDRALS.—At the Glasgow Cathedral, workmen are engaged in taking down the clumsy tower, to a certain extent, at least.—The erection of a thedral catnea on a grand and magnificent scale at Perth, is talked of. It is said that the Rev. R. Burgess of Chelsea is to t appointed " Bishop of the Channel Islands, with Franc and the Netherlands annexed." The Bishop of Londoi is about to proceed there for the formation of the diocese The nine assistant masters of King Edward's Gramma School, Birmingham, have presented a flattering congra tulatory address to the Right Rev. J. P. Lee, Lord Bishoi elect of Manchester, on his promotion .o that see. The new Archbishop of York may be considered orastnreman by education, being one of the 'many dis tinguished pupils whom the late master of the Richmon( Grammar School, the Rev. James Tate, afterwards thi canon of St. Paul's, sent to the university of Cambridge. At a meeting of the Bath Board of Guardians, held or Wednesday, the Rev. Henry S. Whitley, son of the latf Rev. Leah Richmond. author of " A 00,,L r.f liter," the " Dairyman's Dau b __ to the Union Workhouse atc., was elected chaplai ion - and the fellows of Jesus College. 0; 200 years ago, a n lowsbip in fesns College for persons educated at Llandaff and made it a condition that the holder of it might b( sent abroad as a missionary, if the Bishop of London thought fit. The Bishop of London has determined tc enforce the provision for the first time, in conseouenep ni the great demand for colonial clergymen ; but the Rev. Mr. Morgan Davies, who now holds the fellowship, refuses either to go abroad or resign, and the college support him. Mr. Davies resigned the curacy - of Ramsgate, and ob tained an appointment as chaplain to a man of war, to escape the dilemma, b u t th e Fi rs t L or d o f t h e Admiralty, on the representation of the bishop, has cancelled the ap pointment. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH parliamentary paper, iursday, on the motion of Mr. Hume, from the diocesan return of 1847, contains some interesting statistics of the Established Church. It appears that the total number of resident clergy in England and Wales amounts to 7,445, non-resident and exempt 1,625, licensed to be non-resident 781, non-resident without license or exemption 950, number of non-residents who perform the duty of their parish 1,177, sequestrations and supensions 43, total numoer of glebe houses 7,785, total number of benefices 11,386. The total number of curates serving benefices on which the incumbents are non-resident is 2,048, of these 276 live in the glebe houses, 350 in the parish, and 1,817 are licensed. The stipends vary from £lO per annum to £3lO. The number of assistant curates who receive the whole income of the benefice is returned as 5, paid by pew rents 8, allowed 10s. a Sunday 5, allowed 20s. a Sunday 1, allowed 21s. a Sunday 3, paid by volun tary contributions 2, paid by fees and a house 1, without stipend 4. The rcntal paid by curates for the use of the glebe house varies from £5 to £4O per annum. The Rev. Mr. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, Birming ham, has issued an appeal to his parishioners for help in his parochial work. He proposes to employ four Scrip ture readers for two years certain, at an annual stipend of £75 each, and asks his flock, th ere f ore , t o ra i se hi m £6 OO or £3OO for each year. The following is an extract from Mr. Miller's appeal :—" Let it be remembered that the Rector of St. Martin's, aided by a few district visitors, walks to and fro along the streets of his parish ; those streets branching into courts on evpry QM'. • Choir onurfa ..cay oauC l:vue 46 swarming with life —immortal life. Go up that entry, it is a narrow one. It leads you to a wide court-yard —a day's hard work is before you. And every such court of every such street—every house of every court—every room of every house should be visited. By every family should the clergyman —or at any rate the Scripture reader, as the clergyman's emissary —be known. With every family should the tract be left. Every living soul should know that he has a comforter in sorrow, a visitor in sick ness. The faithful minister feels—z -1d hp They are my peopt,, derers I am to gather in.' " Dr. Hampden, who is rector of Eweline, has received from his parishioners an address on his elevation to a bishopric, in which they say,—" You have ever made the great doctrine of justification by faith in the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ a prominent feature in your preaching. You have laboured to - of the ripnr.,.4,.. • LIT sheep I am to fe ed, the wan- ue necessity lox the renewing and regenerating influence of God's Holy Snirit nn 11 PAl+ V/11l Bann darwrinovrnm.r..l f.. rvcrysi ••;•• Dee. 14,1847 clear, must make a pretty good sum out of such a course of proceeding, at all events. Baron Parke remarked, that the question had under - gone very considerable discussion out of doors, as to whether a large debt could be split into small sums, so as to bring them within the operation of the new act. Mr. Martin.—Supposing the defendants were liable for the debt, it was manifest there had been but one order given by them ; and it was scarcely possible for one mo ment to conceive that the legislature could ever have in tended that a debt arising out of one single order might be divided and split into 3,000 parts, and then that s• separate action should be had in respect of each part. Baron Alderson said there was another thing, too, that was quite clear. The legislature never could have meant that a man should be allowed to be a witness in his own case when the debt amounted to £3,000. Baron Parke wished to know if he rightly understood that there was but one order given ? Mr. Martin.—One order only—that was all. Baron Alderson observed, that if this principle were to be admitted and to be carried out. an apothecary might bring a separate action against a patient for each ingredi ent of each pill that he might chance to send out in one pill-box. - The Lord Chief Baron said that the learned counsel might take his rule ; and then went on to add, that if such a course as had been described by the learned gen tleman were to be permitted and pursued, it was quite clear that the act had been misnamed ; for, instead of its turning out to be, as was understood to have been its in tion, an " Act - for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts," it ought to have been entitled an " Act to Split Large Debts into Small Amounts, and for the Purpose of Increasing Costs." Rule granted. Mr. Justice Burton, one of the judges of the Queen's Bench, Ireland, died on Friday. THE REV. THOMAS SCOTT'S OPINION OF MARRIAGE WITH A DECE Leviticus xviii. 17, he says, " The prohibition of marrying a brother's wife, is absolute to us ; rnd, by parity of rea son, that of a woman marrying the husband of her de ceased sister." A LADY ACTING AS COUNSEL was tried before Mr. Justice •An action for libel mutiy, which the plaintiff was a Miss Hoare, and the A.van defendant was the proprietor of the Nautical Standard, The lady, who sat within the bar amongst the Queen's counsel, 11 1 • rrelevant matt The jury returned a verdict fo . r r the 1 40s. Mr. Newton, the barrister, I just sustained two de rst in the Court of Common Pleas, on " Newton and Wire v. Boodle and others," in which he was ordered to pay costs; and the second on - Thursday last, in the same Court, in an action brought by him against Lord Albert Conygham, to recover the sum of £275 paid by Mr. Newton as deposits on 100 shares in the projected Galway and Ennis Grand Junction Railway Company, which Mr. Newton alleged he had been induced to take by the fraudulent representations of the directors, of whom the defendant was one. Plaintiff non-suited. VIGNOLES V. PARK.—COURT OF EXCHEQUER, THURS DAY LAST.—This was an action by which the plaintiff, and engineer, sought to recover the sum of about £5,000 for work and labour, and for money due on an account stated. The payment of £l5OO . was admitted to have been made. It appeared that in the month of June, 1845, a number of gentlemen in Lancashire formed themselves into a company for the purpose of constructing a railway, with the view of connecting Blackburn with Liverpool; and the plaintiff was engaged to make the requisite sur veys. He was subsequently appointed engineer to the company, whose bill, however, was defeated in parliament, and plaintiff's claims for services were never discharged The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for +1.,. sought ; but the question of actual am, to and to be determined by a gentleman at the bar. ANOTHER INNOCENT CONVICT !—ln August, 1845, a man describing himself as "Mr. Drewery, of Hull, mer chant," hired a horse and gig at Wakefield, which were never returned. Mr. Thomas Drewery, of Hull, druggist, was apprehended as the felon, tried, convicted, sentenced to ten years' transportation, and borne over the seas to Sydney. His protestations of innocence were despised; the evidence of a witness who swore to an alibi was disbe lieved ; and further evidence procured after the trial was not listened to at the Home-office, because "to miles.- le sum .eferred lint was acquit a prisoner upon evidence corroborative of alibi pleaded at the trial was without precedent." The law must " take its course," although the man was innocent. A convict, named John Webster, now in Australia, having heard of Drewery's conviction and transportation, has been stung by conscience into confession. He states, in a letter to a clergyman of Tasmania, that in Julyor August, 1845, being then resident in Newcastle, he went by train to Wakefield, and there hired a horse and gig in Drewery's name, with which he returned home. On the Saturday following. the gig was sold by auction in Newcastle, and he shortly afterwards exchanged the horse at Newcastle fair. Drewery, we presume, will now be pardoned ! Gateshead Observer. .....,.,... POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The London corporation intends to petition in favour of the removal of Jewish disabilities. Mr. C. Buller is the chief commissioner of the Poor Law, and has resigned the office of Judge Advocate. The election for South Lancashire will take place on Monday next at Newton. Mr. Henry is the only candi date. made out of all who required support and were able to work. Their names were then drawn by ballot, and as signed to the subscribers in proportion to their subscrip tions. If a proprietor has not work, he may assign his right to any person he pleases. There is a re-ballot of labourers each week. STATE OF IRELAND.—The following is an extract of a letter from a clergyman in Tipperary to a friend in Oxford : " We are retrograding fast here in Ireland ; really, I heard an official congratulating himself that no murder was reported for the last two days ! A letter lately from New Zealand, detailing some atrocities there, contained the writers consolatory reflection, that, bad as things were they might be worse. He explained, " but New Zealand is not Ireland !" Think of having that said of us, and what is worse, deserving it. I see that an orator of Con ciliation Hall declares that there is not a more pious, learned, and amiable priest in Ireland than Archdeacon Laffan ! This is, indeed, but a sorry character of the whole, given by one of their own people, who ought to know." A SERIOUS CHARGE.—In the House of Lords on Mon day, Lord Farnham alluded to a denunciation of Major Mahon by a Roman Catholic Priest. the Rev. Michael M`Dermot. His lordship said that the expressions used by Priest M`Dermot in denouncing Major Mahon from the alter, on the 31st of October, were :—" Major Mahon is worse than Cromwell, and yet he lives." A respectable person coming out of chapel, remarked, " If the major lives a month after this, he is immortal." And on the 14th of. November ult., the same priest (Rev. Michael M`Dermot) stated from the alter, " That there was a Pro testant conspiracy against his life, and made palpable allusions to two persons in the town of Strokestown as heading the same." The language used by the priest was of the most violent description ; and he left it to their lordships to say whether it was not of such a character as to demand punisi.ment by the law." Freeman's rev gen tl eman r. has published a letter in the Dublin Jou rnal , in abj uo tr n emphatically andot i deniest satisfied would thatrt have e h e pbu e e r v eg e ni denouncedrng well hish aodw hown itr c rille o se n "t d .eihl u dii- c ef t lhal , ether l eed ie goes on to give a highly coloured picture of the miseries Major Mahon,witnessed,heand ex bythecparseessseos h f ejectment o onthe estate that DEATHSSTARVATION.—On Saturday, at his murder was FROMowing there' o. Mel mount, near Strabane, an inquest was held before Dr. Hamilton, on the bodies of Thomas Gilroy, sen., and Thomas Gilroy, jun., his son. The wife of the deceased, and her family of six children, belonged originally to Manorhamilton, in Leitrim, and had gone to Scotland in August last. About November, they were seized with fever, and were greatly neglected, so that, in a half-dying state, they were shipped by the steamer for Derry, on the 24th ultimo. During the passage they had only one roasted potato each amongst them, and on their arrival in Derry, three persons gave them 10d., with 7d. of which they paid for a miserable lodging, and with the remaining 3d. they purchased some meal. They next applied for admission into the Workhouse, but were refused, and, in a state of utter exhaustion, they crept onwards to Stra , bane. Here, too, the Workhouse was shut against them, and with great difficulty they procured admission into a hovel without fire, and filled with wet and mud. •In this hovel the man died during the night of Thursday week, and his son expired during Friday. The jury returned a verdict of "died from starvation," and were about to append to it a strong expression of censure upon the Workhouse authorities, but this, at the instance of the foreman, was withdrawn, as the parties had not been heard in their own vindication. Another boy, also a son of Gilroy, died on Saturday, in the Strabane Workhouse. —Derry paper. ROMAN ekTROLIC MISSIONS.—It is a rernarkable fact, that at the very time when, on the score of poverty, Government endowed' Maynooth, Ireland was remitting about £B,OOO a year to Paris, for "the Propogatioti of the Faith, a missionary Institution, which, according to Roman Catholic profession, is soon to boast of an annual income of X 600,000. Just at that period also the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin succeeded in opening the Roman Catholic Missionary. College of All Hallows, Drumcondra, Dublin, "a splendid building, (says the ad vertisement,) standing in a demesne of 24 acres in the immediate vicinity of Dublin, and capable of accommo 'dating 200 students." The Nation, Irish newspaper, for 3rd October last, contains an advertisement of nearly four columns of subscriptions to this Roman Catholic Missionary College amounting to £1,126, in which sum the English and Scotch subscriptions are not included. The Dean of Ardagh, an ultra whig, and utterly un connected with the landlord and tenant question, has written a letter to the Dublin Mail, in which he says that he has received a notice threatening him with the fate of Major Mahon for selling " turnips at too hi g h a rate." The de an then goes on to 'say—" Same day as the letter reached me 'by post, a friendly notice was left in Inv yard, warning me not to return by the same road I had gone to Tubbercurry, and not to be on the roads without a policeman. It may providentially have saved my lifer as I took a different road back from the petty sessions—my steward having sent the notice to me while I was still sitting on' the bench—and 1 took two armed policemen with me on my car. Since then I have two policemen in my offices every night; and even going to and from the church (at foot of the lawn, •and within 400 yards) I am obliged to have their protection ; and, Ivhen going lately to Sligo, in my carriage, was obliged to take.an.armedpoliceman on the box." sent you executed, and from that day the regiment lost its mur- Morning - Paper THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'; HEALTH. — Experience, says the Madrid correspondent of the Morning Post, has demonstrated that the clique, into whose hands the un fortunate Queen of Spain has fallen, is as remorseless as it is unscrupulous in the pursuit of its darling object—the accession of the Duke and DUchess of Monfp . en;ier to the Spanish throne. Isabel IL's health has lately declined, . . feeding, and an immoderate addiction to sweetmeats, and by not a few to all the above-mentioned causes, except the first. I thought the same, but within the last twenty four hours I had reason to change my opinion, although there is little doubt but that the Queen's present mode of living is calculated to shorten the existence of a person of a scorbutic habit of body. It is not certain that she is enceinte ; her symptoms, instead of being such as are peculiar to that state. may prove indications of a general break up of her constitution. I have a suspicion respect ing the real state of Isabel Il.'s health, as well as of the eventual results of the medical treatment she is undergo ing. Time will clear up the mystery, and let us hope that the denouement will not be a terrible and a startling one. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—ProbabIy one of the most remarkable feats of a newspaper enterprise, is the result of that which appears in this morning's Herald—the reso lutions of Mr. Clay, delivered at Lexington the day before yesterday. The distance is nearly one thousand miles. Knowing the importance of Mr. Clay's opinions and movements in the popular contest now about to take place in this country, we made extraordinary arrangements last week to run an express exclusively for the Herald. We have, however, taken into the enterprise, since our arrangements were made, two of our contemporaries, who will also publish the same this morning. About 11 or 12 o'clock, the day before yesterday, the meeting was held at Lexington. Our reporters were there, and when the re solutions were read, and Mr. Clay had delivered his speech, our express started on horseback, running 84 miles, to Cincinnati. At Cincinnati the notes of our reporters were written out, and the whole was sent on through the electric telegraph, to this city, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles. The, speech and resolutions were received early yesterday morning, and, but for the intervention of Sun day, we should have been able to have published the whole Lexington proceedings in less than ten hours from their delivery in Kentucky.—New York Herald. WEST INDIES. The steam ship Forth arrived at Southampton on Tuesday with the West Indian and Mex ican mails. She has brought upwards of 300,000 dollars. In lat. 43 18 N. lon. 35 40 W., on the 30th Nov., she fell in with the wreck of the Amity of Liverpool, timber laden, but no papers on board. In Jamaica things were still very flat, and no improvement whatever had taken place. The markets continued in the same sluggish state as per last advices. In Trinadad they were beginning to recover from the effects of the late hurricane. At St. Christophers on the sth ult. the Weather changed, and that showers had been general , throughout the island. Although the rain was late for the season, it was never theless expected that the supply would benefit not only the old, but also the young canes. The weather at An tigua, previous to the 20th ult., was also exceedingly favourable for agricultural operations, and the next year's crop would, it was thought, prove productive. Barba does on the 6th still suffered from the want of water. " This," it is remarked, " is the hottest November we have ever experienced. For the last ten days, not a shower has fallen in the city to refresh the earth, or im part the slightest coolness to the air. There is a great dearth of American arrivals, and we fear this scorching weather will materially affect the present supply, so that probably this description of provisions will again rise high in price. SANGOINARY AFFRAY ON BOARD A SLAVER.—On the 22nd July, H.M.S. Waterwitch, in company with an other, captured a Brazilian brigantine, which was subse quently given in charge in Lieut., W. Cr. Mansfield, R.N., and four seamen, to be conveyed to St. Helena for adju dication. Cluing to adverse winds, he bore up for Sierra Leone. On the 11th of August, about midday. while the crew were all engaged, the lieutenant, being at the mo ment pulling a rope which had been recently spliced, was murderously assailed from behind by one of the prisoners (who were four in number, and during the day time al lowed the liberty of the vessel) with an axe used for chop ping firewood. At the same moment the other prisoners furiously attacked the sailors in the hunks, who, from the unexpected nature of the assault, were driven from their post wounded and unarmed. Lieut. Mansfield, laying hold of a p i ece of firewood, gallantly, b ut unequally, contended with a Brazilian armed with a cutlass.. In the course of a desperate struggle, the officer received no fewer than nine ounds. With the assistance of two men, who had been up in the shrouds, the crew rallied, and three of them rushed aft upon their antagonists, whom they speedily overpowered, one of the prisoners leaping overboard and perishin g iu the waves. The lieut. himself was dangerously wounded, and one of the crew had been previously killed. Lieut. Mansfield fortunately reached Sierra Leone, and the prisoners were brought to trial, but acquitted, as the Court found that the alleged crime had been committed in an attempt to recapture their own vessel, then under the Brazilian flag, and not amenable to British jurisdiction, the sentence of the Court of Admiralty not having be e n then pronounced. I In was proceeding at the rate of forty miles an hour. Within four miles of Rugby, the Countess of Zetland and her maid, who were in the carriage, got out on the truck, when the maid threw herself on the railway. On the ar rival of the train at Rugby, an engine was sent back, when the young woman was found severely injured. Lady Zetland remained at Rugby, where she was joined by his lordship and the family physician last night. rHE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH versus TIM E.-TIMEDEAD -In a letter received by a gentleman of this town, riend in Indiana, United States, is the following relative to the electric telegraph in that state:— wonderful invention, the magnetic telegraph, _ s through our country from the eastern cities, com municating intelligence almost instantaneously : news has been transmitted from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, a distance of 750 miles, on one unbroken chain of wires. Of course, as Cincinnati is ten degrees west of Phila delphia, or 40 minutes of time later, the news is that much a-head 'of time ! " OUR MILITARY DEFENCES.—A few days since, there appeared in the Times newspaper an article, in which the writer earnestly pressed on the government and the public the great importance of forming an immediate junction between the London and North-Western and London and South-Western Railways, with the view, in the event of any military exigency occurring, of enabling us to tran sport troops from the midland and northern counties to the south-western coast, without the delay which would be at present caused by the break between the Euston-square station and the station at Vauxhall. It is a curious coin cidence, that the views of the writer had not only been anticipated by a gentleman of high distinction in the railway world, but that a company was then actually in the course of formation for carrying those views into effect. It is proposed that the new scheme shall unite the two great lines we have named, by the construction of a line running out of the London and North-Western, and joining the 'Brantford branch of the London and South-Western. This junction will be seven miles in length, and of easy construction. It has already met with the special sanction of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the engineer ; and in addition to its great advantages in the manner already mentioned, there is an excellent prospect of a most ample revenue from the traffic, both in goods and passengers.—Railway Record. ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS. (From the Cork Constitution.) Our, remarks on Tuesday on the speech of Priest Hughes we concluded with these questions :—" Is it any marvel that murder is the pastime of the peasant ? And will any sane man tell us that the Priests are blameless ?" After what has recently occurred, few, we apprehend, will be disposed to deem these questions so uncharitable as once they might have thought them- but should there be one still sceptical, let him read the ' following, which we take from the Dublin Evening Herald:— "We happen to know a very recent case of altar denun ciation, the particulars of which are now before the govern men, and will soon be, we trust, before the pubic. In this instancethe 'Clerical instigator' is stated to have distinctly indicated two 'individuals for assassination. This was done without any kind of reserve or mystification. He simply stated what his line of conduct would have been bad he been placed in the shoes of the evicted tenant. His language was exquisitely simple, and perfectly adapted to the comprehension of his audience. He would have taken,' he said, a loaded gun and done for the villain that turned him out of his land.' To this was, a few days subsequently, superadded language directly, addressed to the denounced individuals, and so frightfully menacing that they are, we believe, immediately about to leave the country—in the belief that by doing so they are consulting their only chance of safety. It is, indeed, high time that this priestly prerogative should be a little clipped." Until the'exercise of it be prohibited, and the Pope's sub jests be stripped of the power of obeying it, by being de prived of the "gun" which they are ready to " load" for any person " indicated" et the altar, the legislation which consumes so much time and temper will be of little use. But it would be unconstitutional ! Unconstitutional to wrest from a Priest the "prerogative" of preaching murder and from his disciple the means of committing it ! Be it so; but the sooner both are put beyond the pale of the Constitution—in short, hanged by the same halter, the better for the country. Is there any rational Roman ist who will say us nay ? In Tipperary, Father Laffart's county, they have got a safe mode of carrying out the councils of priests of this stamp. • A man who has a grudge against another encloses a sum of money to a club, whose members meet at " a shibeen -house, ') by the way these "shibeen houses" ought to be looked after, for many a murder is hatched in them), and there sit in diabolical deliberation on the mea sures necessary for compassing the death of individuals doomed by their atrocious law. There is a regular scale, we are informed, - and this scale is said to be well known among the population. A Pound is stated to be the price of a caution or a threat, and on its receipt a " Notice" is despatched that -curdles the blood of the denounced. Three Founds are the " consideration" for a beating, and for Five, the assassin is sent on his bloody mission, and the `victim is dogged until, unsuspecting and unpee pared, he drops dead under, perhaps, the aim of an eye that ought to have looked on him with gratitude and affection. This, we are told, is,the system in Tipperary. the Irish mernbc any id his promiied remediarmeasu Sir G. GREY replied, in substance, that they were still under consideration, and that they would be introduced as soon as they had attained a shape in which they could be presented - to the house. It was now the intention of the government to remove by the bill the existing limit on the increase of the police force, to leave the increase of that aurce LO De ettecteu in any Disturocu oistrict, to toe Dis cretion of Lord Lieutenant, to charge the whole ex pense of the extra force upon the disturbed distri c t to which it might be sent, and quate to meet the exigencie right honourable gentleman state of the law In England as regards accessories, to which the law in Ireland had several years since been assi milated. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL had listened with patience, amazeraept, and sorrow, to the speech of Sir G. Grey, reland was concerned, as the lightest thing in the After alengthened debate, Mr. SHARIAN CRAWFORD said that if he could per suade hiniself that the bill would repress crime in Ireland, be would.give it his ready support ; but it was because he believed that instead of repressing it, it would only aggra vate it, that he felt himself bound to vote against it. The system of Irish landlordism was the true cause of Irish crime. They heard much of the rights of property, but were they- to have no respect for the rights of labour ? in Ireland the poor man had no security for the fruits of his labour. Hence the crime which they all deplored. Mr. MbowE supported the bill, severely criticising the conduct of certain organs of public opinion, which " pan dered to the vile animosities of race, and poisoned the social virtues of the English people." After a few words from Captain llarris and Sir W. Verner, the house divided, and the numbers were—For the second reading, 296 ; against it, 19 r majority for, 277. The bill was then read a second time. 4:> _ OUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. Sir R.lNGLisinqiiirW;TWiiWit was true that the Earl of Minto was now at Rome, and whether he had signed a-convention with the Court of Rome for the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Sovereign of Great Britain. Lord PALMERSTON said he was happy to have an op portunq of answering the question. The Earl of Minto bad been, as was well known, for some months in Rome, but he was not there in any official capacity whatever. He had no instructions to negotiate any convention with the Court of Rome, nor was he in any way accredited to that court. The rumour alluded to by the right hon. baronet Was therefore, wholly destitute of foundation. He would add, that as long as any doubts remained of the legality of holding diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome, her Majesty's advisers had too much respect for the law to do anything which would be construed into an infringenient of it. The doubts he referred to rested upon thetconstruction to be placed upon the word " com munion." The law forbids the Crown to hold " com munion" with the Court of Rome, and the question was, whether this " communion" had reference only to the sacrament of religion or to diplomatic communion. It was not for him to state his opinion upon the subject, but he had no difficulty in saying that until Parliament should have cleared up this doubt as to the law, her Majesty's government would take no step which could by possibility be construed - into a contravention of the law. A short discussion arose out of a statement made the previous evening by Mr. B. Cochrane to the effect that Dr. Ryan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, had in his address to his clergy incited the' people to assassi nate their landlords. The Earl Of LincoLN, Mr. LABOU CHERE, and other hon. members spoke h very high terms of Dr. Ryan, and spoke also in high terms of eulogium of the general' conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy. The house went into committee on the Crime and Outrages (Ireland) Bill,•and the discussion of the clauses occupiectthe remainder of the evening. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ALTAR CUP,'MEETING, DEC. 9 Aiin 10. The SEFTON CLTV WaS won by Mr. Woolf's Major ; Mr. Graham's Lion ran up. The MOLYNEUX PLATE was won by Lord Sefton's S ea Breeze ; ;Mr. Swan's Scorpion ran up. The C,ROXTFTR PURSE was won by Mr. Taylor's Tiny Salute; Mr. Woolf's Nimble ran up. GOOD SPORT. — During a short stay at Redeastle, D. Baillie, Esq., and A. Baillie, Esq., shot 1200 head of game. The list includes six red deer, five roe, pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits, a good many couple of wood cocks, and last, though not least in the bag, four seals. Some of these huge aquatics find their way up the firth ; their general place of resort is a sandbank nearly opposite to Redcastle, where the performance of their uncouth gambols is occasionally arrested by the arrival of a few well-aimed rifle-bullets.—lnverness Courier. T H E CHASE, _ THE CrIES HIRE HOUNDS—On Wednesday (to-morrow), at BunkeloW; Thursday, at Cholmondeley ; Saturday, at Wrenbury— at half-past ten. SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS—On Tuesday (this day), at Kennels; Thursday, at Queen's Head ; Friday, at Carden—at half-past ten. us the scriptural view of the incarnation'of our Lord Jesus Christ, showing how the divine, as well as human nature must have met in the spotless sacrifice for sin. His birth, his life, his passion, his death, his resurrection, and his ascension, have formed the constant subjects of your preaching among us ; and on these subjects your teaching has been in clear conformity with the doctrines and arti cles of our church ; while without intolerance you have upheld her claims and asserted her rights. It may be some satisfaction to you to be assured, that if elsewhere your views have been misrepresented, or your meaning perverted, here at least you have not been misunderstood • while your personal kind nes s o n all occasions has end eare d you to those whose constant intercourse has given them the best opportunity of knowing and appreciating you." COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty and the Court still sojourn in the Isle of Wight, and the Royal Family take exercise in the grounds of Osborne House, and on the beach, at such times as the weather will admit of. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton are at Worsley. Hall, where they purpose to pro long their residence until after Christmas. The Lords Chancellors of England and Ireland, and the Premier and his lady, have laid up for several days with influenza but are now better. THE QUEEN-DOWAGER AT MADEIRA.—The Queen- Dowager has a very convenient residence above the Loo Rock, commanding a fine view of the bay, as well as the south side of the island. Her Majesty goes about a great Majesty's deal,soe s t t i a m y e i s n ri t t i l i i e ng is , la a ti n d d:s;e i r li y b fr e eq u u n e tu nt , l lp w ri a l! king. Her whenthe Howe, 920, is expected to arrive ; she will then embark on board her, take a view of the Peak of Teneriffe, and return to England by way of Cadiz, &c. A LITTLE - ROMANCE.—R. C. Wood, Esq., who was appointed one of the pages of the presence to her Majesty in 1840, died suddenly, at Broadstairs, on the 2nd instant. A curious circumstance is connected with the first intro duction of Mr. Wood to the notice of royalty. It is stated that when the Duchess of Kent and the young Princess, her daughter, now Queen Victoria, were sojourning at Ramsgate, they one afternoon found Mr. Wood, then quite a youth, sleeping on the sands. The Duchess awakened him, and upon asking him if he should like to enter her service, the lad readily assented. Within a few days afterwards, he was appointed to a situation in the Duchess of Kent's establishment, where he remained until he was promoted to a lucrative appointment in the house hold of her Majesty. LAW INTELLIGENCE, COURT OF EXCHEQUER, SATURDAY, Nov. 13 PRACTICE IN THE,COUNTY COURTS. SPLITTING DEMANDS-CHEAP LAW - GRIBILEY V, ACROITD AND ANOTHER, Mr. Martin moved in this case for a rule to skew cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue, directed to the Judge of the Worcester County Court for the reco very of small debts, to stay all further proceedings, and to return into this court the plaint which had been heard before the learned judge in this case, upon the ground that the subject-matter of the action was beyond the amount in reference to which the County Court had jurisdiction. The learned counsel stated that the defen dants were rallway contractors, and it was alleged by the plaintiff that, they, had given orders to supply the.men who - were engaged on the works with certain articles ; 'and in this way the claim had arisen which was brought before the judge of the County Court. This court would, perhaps, be astonished to hear that, no less than 3,000 summonses either had issued or were about' to issue from the County Court, in respect of the debt claimed by the plaintiff from the , defendahts; and if all these summonses were proceeded with in the ordinary manner, the costs consequent upon them would amount to no smaller a sum than about .454,000. The case that has been already heard in the court in question was for the recovery of £ll 55., and-upon which the costs were as much as` £8 Bs. Bd. Chief .Baron Pollock inquired whether, even if the e costs did amount to so' large a sum as £8 in each of coststh 3,000 actions commenced in the County Court, would not greatly exceed that amount ? - d ca ef s e eci ndant (as was of a similar number of actions in the sup if there chanced Mr. Martin said, no:doubt; but then, • hi m self submitted to an examina tion, be 3,000 actions brought, as would de c a de the. common-law court, the decision in one was a reply upon the, part of the remaining 2,999. It seems . o f the defendants de trial on the 23rd of August. - One add uceea:mitoti came on question, in n o i u nf r o t ra s fended in person, and, .•after havinthge_see an addressed the judge, plaintiff, who in the end obtained a verdict. Now he should contend, that if the defendants were - liable at all, und a t f o te O r d . ) w t - i a c s h th t e h n ere proceeded to call two witnes they could. only , be liable to one action at the suit of the same plaintiff, seeing that whateve r the order was, it was given at one time, and that on the 10th , of July, On the s;lis.at. The 17th of September, the phiintiff t004,0ut.28 summonses against the defendants for'lin aggregate amount not ex ceeding £303, whilst the various sums of which the total was composed ranged from ss. to less than .f.. 5 each. Baron Alderson. —Some person or persons, then, it was . AMWORTH. - nere 15 every pronamlity that Capt Townshend, a whig, will be returned without opposition in place of Wm. Yates Peel, resigned. The only English member who voted on Tues in favour of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's mo day night committee, was Mr, Thomas Wakley, the ecce n t r i c coro ner for Middlesex. ment of diplomatic relations between Englinda;:ciVQ. It is said that Cardinal Breffondi, " a man of very liberal mind " is to be the Pope's represent a ti ve in London. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Thursday Lord J. Russell announced that the measure respecting the navi gation-laws alluded to in her Majesty's speech, would not be brought forward until after the Christmas recess. The London correspondent of the Scottish Press, giving a description of the scene at the opening of parliament, says, "C. J. Fox, lately Unitarian minister, and Anti- Corn-law lecturer, sat on the bench immediately behind Mr. T. Duncombe, who was not present." NEW SANITARY COMMISSION.—Mr. Chadwick, it is expected, will be at the head of some such board. The Morning Chronicle describes him as having "been in duced, by his great zeal in this investigation, to traverse upon his brown pony countless miles of 'the London sewerage." An ably-reasoned memorial against the Colonial Immi gration scheme has been presented to Lord John Russell, by the British and Foreign Anti slavery Society ; and a series of resolutions, to the same effect, has also been for warded to his lordship from the Birmingham Anti-slavery Committee. Fate TRADE OPERATIONS.—The value of corn and provisions imported into Great Britain during ten months in 1845 was only £4,410,091, while in 1847 it amounted to £31,241,769. The value of British and Irish produce exported in the same months of 1845 was £41,732,148, which in 1847 had diminished to £39,975,207. At the personal request of Lord John Russell, in con sequence of the indisposition that at present renders him unable to attend to public business, Lord George Bentinck has postponed for a short time his motion on the state of the West Indies , of which he ga ve no ti ce i n t h e H ouse of Commons a few days ago. In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Lord Arundel—a Roman Catholic—said that the bull, In Ccend Domini, had not been published—and was not therefore in force in this country; but he added, with his usual candour, that the publication of it mattered little, for he was ready to admit that this bull was not stronger than other canons now in use, by which all are excommuni cated who differ from the Church of Rome. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC " RELIEF " BlLL—Amongst those members who voted for this bill were Sir T. B. Birch, E. Cardwell, Sir J. Walmsley, W. E. Gladstone, W. Ewart, Sir J. Graham, J. Heywood, Sir J. Jervis, Lord R. Grosvener, Earl of Lincoln, and T. Thorneley. We find the following amongst those who voted against ; Lord Ashley, Sir R. Inglis, H. Goulbourn, Sir P. Eger ton, W. T. Egerton, J. C. Herries, G. Hudson, Col. Sibthorp, Lord Seaham, and J. Tollemache. COMMERCIAL DISTRESS.—The following are the names proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to compose the committee to inquire into the causes of the recent commercial distress :—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir It. Peel, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Herries, Mr. Goul burn, Alderman Thompson, Mr. Labouchere, Sir James Graham, Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Spooner, Mr. W. B ec k e tt, M r . C ar d w ell, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Hume, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Glyn, Sir W. Clay, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Thorneley, Mr. James Wilson, Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Cayley, and Mr. Tennant. M.P. n for Wakefield, whether they intendedpro pose asked the governmen t to the suspension of the Corn and Navigation Laws beyond the first of March. The President of the Board of Trade House CORN of ANDC Com m ons, A M T r I . 0 N Sanders; LAWS.—On Am —On Monday, in the replied that it was not the intention of her Majesty's go r wer e ourteiatr ordered, e eu a lf s . o e dr e n , g,ae consequent regaining o ietes g i net v i e ausp t t o ei incommer cial vernment to propose any' further extension, so that on Onrten Wednesday, in the House of Corn the first of March free trade must be handed back to move by the gradations' prescribed in the Corn Bill towards its, final consummation. The effect will be to check wild has y. returnsniN s pe c u la t i onnnms va creditn w h Fg i an s wi e t. t gPS e t. rs—P C t ao t °vri election to sit for West Yorkshire ; Stockport' in the room of Mr. Cobden, who kenny in the room of Mr. John. O'Connell, who sits for Limerick; f e_ and South Lancashire, in the room of Mr. C. P. Villiers, who sits for Wolverhampton. New writs were also ordered for Liskeard, in the room of Mr. C. Buller, who has accepted the office of chief commissioner for carrying out the administration of the law for the re lief of the poor; for Weymouth, in the room of Mr. Christie, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds ; and for Edinburgh, in the room - et Mr. Cowan. The Times says that Sir. R. Peel's late speech- was an irresistible appeal to the " honesty of the nation," and then tears him piecemeal for his ignorance on other points, and for not travelling with the Times, in the same "line" of causation. Sir Robert sought to make the house merry with the poor bankers, who were going from plaCe to place trying to borrow money; and meet ing everywhere with no effects This; we are told, excited, "roars of laughter."' Very funny, to be sure, for • the scores of firms ruined —partly by his free trade with fOreigners and slave-grown sugars, and partly by the de pletion of his currency bills. 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