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or the rc The rem of Rep of fort Commit stated tc it is a t purpose r inhabiter. plains the to her No: Mr. D. Webster At an adjourned m Bank, r lature of Peusylvania to prc fice of their proper fully into tl The following circum of the Falls of IS and though that the a Ve hasten to a event in its r that has ever The Falls of Niagara• the centralization of theme of poesy and t of the :nnuee e The feel details are and ful regret that glories, and our c It has always I was once prolong Lion ; tha similar precipita that 0- elev;.ted bed corroding, tritura in the lapse of minus over whit On Satur mornir the first symptoms ( sued. Mr. Arnold the foot of ti ordt the jutting a appear rnateri D execut mous sub m arm dron underneat In the c abrupt] ber of s and then followed of What was actually taking place could only be the great confluence of water hid the imme operations from sight. But it was plain to all that the sup porting fabric of the cataract was fast wearing away the tremendous enginery. Its immemorial dur.ml;* yen owl .t that had always y r to the Tower and nearly a. The tower sun ing wave. ranean passa. instantly th, the cc! which r farther E land, throughc border, t It still stands, thong iture being removed. 0 .plf unmolested ; but th it being divert Here t loss of MONEY I\ FEB. 18.--Th Market retains t so long a period continue ti 1 in opera sink in v tion, and there influence th ceasing at• 25. Vicksburg oe,. Trust and Banking Co. ; Delawa► Long Island per ct.; Harlem delphia 31 a 4 dis.; Baltimore _ improved 1 per cent., closing at 53. Indiana ... per et.—sales at 54 ; U. S. Bank notes 11 a 12, Money continues easy, and the banks have been decidedl Foreign exchange is a little better ° • Otheis are offering at 8 aSi nd Hudson 1* per Bills on' Phila Illinois 6 per cent - s declined more liberal to-da Southern bills rang The banks south and as there is a d( rye their int for specie, there is every p surned will stand firm. funds continued to advanc Bank is a buyer for her irr spect t . In N leemabl which, under the circumstanc saction, and would be must have been stop he failure of the ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA. (From the Morning Herald.) We have received by e seines, accounts f the Prometheus st Canton to Decer ber 18 ; Calcutt s in China, r un. T b lon by t sequenti terial feat ration of Admiral Ella( 1 his flag from the A and sailed immec of the fleet to C coma= and the x the moutt der of the fleet, under ( released report had been Made, but t r W illot by, who r Our accounts f (Turkish steamer from Constantin tured,Wice too har4 Syria was entirely bealth•was said to 7 precarious _ Damietta. The evacuating army appears to have severely ; some accounts estimate the loss at 4,000 men ,hiri I of the thes I the ne .t of the E statutory decl had only to say t Mr. Em a state to all its offic Mr. HAMILTON Cc 8. - r advocated tf ffered I r ant. Mr. M. MILNES would r At half-i water f II the C ) place t. 1 a prof ited to 1 description of the destruction I i of tl ,de, to ch have latte still to i ch had ial t of Majt--)-G 'e, for tt Ter said uted into C intend SE OF CO for Frid Cardigan :eived from t th anot uirv. He tho Lord Cardiga Mier on an ec of votes vi ) 4d. Th( to mal adverte lite (M England mth Sea Cor ions, than ti llaltec nt of d tion of jurie not fes he would take a futur ,o obtain ae subject fror fence to the tim, ,ch went much fa] d one, he would embodying several of I the bil and the hot HOUS stop to and he that de The Co principally lawyer upon it that the hot ent to get rid of the Upon the motion prls am KELLY C resisted the !notion hered to the was nega le I ott 3 I they c .rito pa: e been ( and yet t J. tor tt re agreed ly termir , the hou: my guilty s to convic of the TI las of t] when the 1; and bel OF LOR my rec )F COM lawyers IC shat Mr• be comps 'ed to refer ssion, the A) ority c ill, Mr. in BODLERO represented Light to pay the a's use. If he ht pay in saltpeti • had been adopt .e and grain. ed in the in- r. Hurst, one vote w :0 answer th e the incompetency of witnesses by reason of interest, ,tornev-General made some technical suggestions, -and hewed by Mr. Hume and Sir George Strickland, who examination of the plaintffs and defend- PitYME thought that such a provision irate bill. Mr. HUME objected to 1 not be obliged to criminate him- to allovv t lernselves. a witne supported, ob which was that of- the -GENERAL that Mr. Hu had the c f embarrass- in inconsistencies, oit to extricate ti aselves by ngenious !s might 3 might the inecen' id a few words in disapproval of the pro- , n now extended to w•itnesse OXFORD TRACTARIANS DITOR OF TIID " TRA FOR THE TIMES Sir,—Our attention having been called to No. 90 in the series of Tracts for the Times, by Members of the Univer sity of Oxford, of which you are the editor, the impression produced on our minds by its contents is of so painful a character, that we feel it our duty to intrude ourselves briefly on your notice. This publication is entitled, " Re narks on certain Passages in the Thirzy-nine Articles ; and > these articles are appointed by the statutes of tha Univer ty to be the text-book for tutors in their theological teach ye hope that the situations we hold in our respective of presumption in from the et, lat certain very importai Of the Ch s do not contain any cond emnation of the doctrines- pping and adoration of images and relics, Of the mas taught authoritatively by the Church of Rome ; practices and opinions, which in- Romanists repudiate as much as we do. It inti oreover, that the declaration prefixed to the articles, )ul only of certain absu ...0 • so far as it has any weight at all , sanctions this mode of in terpreting them, as it is one which takes them in their " li -4 and grammatical sense," and does not " affix any new The Tract would thus appear to us to have , te, beyond what charity requires, and to the prejudice of the pure truth of the Gospel, the very serious lifferene,es which separate the Church of Rome from our and to shake the confidence of the less learned mem - - " the Church of England in the scriptural character of tendency to mitig ilaries and teaching sity of allowing that liberty in of our church which has been rued bishops and other and new and start- which that liberty may be car ar apprehension of the author's at security would remain, lily recognize that the most .nd practices of the Church of in the lecture-rooms of the is of cur churches. 11 your attention to the im- :reated in an anonymous ss a❑ earnest hope that you may be Considering Sultan, a not the Britishpeoy le suggestion o In conclusion, we venture t ning last, the neigh- market C4,-IRKE, `Sole Lessee EAR. NI As a proof of the justice of this opinion, let us exa mine only two questions which have been introduced by government during the present session—which have been brought forward, not with the most remote ex pectation of their being passed into a law, but with a view simply of their being • thrown upon the turbid waters of democracy, to excite and to madden with wild hopes those restless and reckless agitators whom the settlement of the great measures of 'parliamentary and municipal reform had reduced into a state of tem porary quiescence. With respect to the first of these —the bill of Lord Morpeth--will any man have the hardihood to maintain that such a bill—a bill which engrafts upon the representative system in Ireland a franchise little removed from universal suffrage—was demanded, or even dreamt of, by any considerable por tion of the people ? Assuredly not. For what object, then, was so open a breach in the finality of the Re form Bill proposed, if not to be carried into execution? For this, we reply : to give an impetus to agitation for a similar boOn to he extended to the constituencies of the entire kingdom—to enlist under the banners of the Melbourne administration, or of an administration to succeed it formed of still more ultra materials, the ac tive sympathies of the whole body of democratic re formers; and to throw insuperable difficulties in the way of a practical and common sense administration of the existing constitution of the kingdom by any other hands. to five instead of ter hey wer court-r end of colony threat- ial oh Cap- nk in the army. e necessity of inqui it of a court o Vith re. t no, at. ian ordi of a co. the ordnance es exceed those of incipal heads of incre, little di e to bri J . Kusst :r of 0: .ses of v against t usportation, the numt sed to aboli A the larger number of c escape owing to. where they knew that de i the ne est puni that the Te the chief proves s of brin, Which, however laws during the npetent persor A gratit He did is .hat of ti - orward I of de at his own measure, e noble lord, was a asider of the propriety of )ns in his own bill , leave was gi to bring in DS.-T~ ded Viscount Melbourne of Tiller occasion, that enactment of new ones differences in that country, how he could reconcile with nt of the Rev. Mr. Candlish igs in Strathbogieo:ll commu nan were closed until further aen went through committee hat very s 1 after the Easter be consideration of t Ir:Gou LBURN insi nerally found it very conveni- W. 0. STANLEY should have ,round of urgent private the house was about ted that the motion should be inning that hereafter no such :d with unless upon singularly the reqiiired lean• .ound that they had strictly ad practice of all former govern- house divided, and the motion )f 38 to 27-, ay were then disposed' of, and -WEDNESDAY consclenc )m Carlile was en they returned ith full knowledl was the bat 4ontefiores A civilly unfit fcir municipal Tests of this countr n to med were to be excluded cillors, and anjcipalities pie non-, pprehension that he digit •eserve himself on the subject of lint; of the County Corc of such questior ,u6lication, and to ear ke known the writer's name e and solemn the whole subject is, we cannot t both the church and t university are to ask, that some person, besides the printer and Ler of the tract, should acknowledge himself responsible are, sir, your obe C. T. CHURTON ent, humble servants, M.A., Vice-Principal and Tutor of Brasenose College, . B. WILSON, B.D and Senior Tutor of St. John's College JOHN GRIFFITIIS, M.A., Sub-Warden and Tutor of Wadham College. _ C. TAIT M.A., Fellov and Senior T 3alliol College March 8 ATTEMPTED tDER AND S _..wn into a state of con- not on account of such anti-social, disloyal, or immoral —.Jo alarm, by a report that a woman named Frances tloStock had had her throat cut. A great crowd collected in tenets ascertained to he maintained therein, being con front of the house in which she lodged—a beer house, kept trary to the religion of Romanism, but because they are by a person named Redford, in Liverpool Road. Mr. Alcock, superintendent of police, who happened to be quite congenial with it ;. We'seek to withdraw the grant, passing at the time, went into the house, and found the poor simply because we repent of the original act, because woman weltering in her blood, with her throat cut in a fright ful manner, nearly from ear to ear, by a man named William the college is Popish, and because we committed a Hampson, who hod made his escape. Alcock sought for z ievous error in. ever having instituted or endowed a Hampson ; and, about an hour and a half after the deed was —r committed, found him concealed in an old saw-pit. in Quay- Popish institution?' • - street. He was crouched down in one corner of the pit, with a pocket handkerchief tied with a noose round his neck. and By taking this plain and broad ground , Lord Mor the handkerchief tied to a pair of braces , w hic h appeared peth is answered—and we stand on good P rotestant to have . been suspended to something ; and it was evident terra firma —avowing, indeed, a great mistake commit-. that he had been endeavouring to hang himself, but the had broken. When taken, be did not say anything, ted, but deriving from that • avowal the immense ad did not ask him any questions. vantage of carrying on the contest afterwards in the cold he would not have done it but for best possible position. But the noble secretary proceeded to illustrate his meaning, and did so in the following terms, according to the reporter of the Times : " He (Lord Morpeth) would state a case by way of illus tration. Suppose the College of Maynooth was not a Catho lic, but avowedly a Protestant establishment, for the purpose of educating persons for the ministry, not of the Roman Ca tholic Church, but of the Established Church ; and suppose it were alleged, and could be proved by clear evidence, that some of the preceptors in that establishment, so far from pursuing the propor objects and avowed ends of the establish ment, were constantly employed in disclaiming the doctrines of the Protestant Church, to which they belonged—(cheer ing),—and denouncing what they called the crimes of the reformation—(hear, hear) ;—that with these notions some of their pupils (as there was no wonder) had become imbued, detaching themselves in fact from the pale of the Established Church, and embracing the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church—then he (Lord Morpeth) thought it might be suc cessfully contended that such an establishment did not an swer the purposes for which it was instituted, and that there was much in its management and system of tuition which o'clock on Vioncta toad was ti bourhood of Liverpoo Ihe p l'he pri we believe, a itood with gil lwright lived with him as a servan y trade, but called for, and would ju stify, the interference of parliament." (Hear, hear.) Then his lordship takes a case exactly the opposite of what he supposes to exist at Maynooth, and says, here are Protestant professors teaching Popish doc trines—here is a Protestant university inculcating the youth of England with Papistical heterodoxy; the col lege has therefore violated its charter, arid forfeited all right to further grants. In this instance I agree that a good case of _forfeiture has been established, and I shall vote for the abolition. His lordship was at once understood to allude to Oxford and the Puseyite school of teachers in that uni veniity ; but he overlooked the trifling fact that the " Oxford Tracts" are not Oxford class books, and that of the gentlemen whose names have come before the public as leading men in the school, two only, (as we learn from a London contemporary,) Mr. Sewell and Dr. Pusey, are in any way connected with the instruc tion of youth, Dr. Pusey having only a very limited class of students in Hebrew. l'he case supposed does not exist in fact. The press, as Sir Robert Inglis observed, is free at Oxford as it is at London or Liverpool, and gentlemen at Oxford may certainly publish whatever commentaries their fancy dictates on the Church of England, (provided they be not seditious or blasphemous,) without fear of punish ment, or making either the Church or the University responsible for their opinions. But, of course, we may suppose the case described by the noble lord for the sake of illustration, without reference to realities; and then the question is, what does it illustrate ? " 7:here, then," he would argue, "is a clear case of The college is P r otestant — the teaching is j —the discrepancy between what it was intended should be taught therein, and that which actually is taught, is so glaring, that we are bound to extinguish the institution itself." But, in the case of Maynooth, can you, do you show anything of this kind ? " have heard," said his lordship, [we quote his exact words,] "no such allegation brought against the Col lege of Maynooth ; whatever faults might be imputed to it, laxity of discipline, and opposition to the doctrines of the church which it professed to uphold, were not amongst the charges alleged against it.—(Hear, hear,") Thus, for all the exposures made of Maynooth in struction—however shocking, demoralising, and de testable such instruction may have been shewn to be— his lordship has one short, cut-and-dry answer : " Oh I it's ONLY POPERY !" The name of popery is his salve for every iniquity—his universal remedy. Its very sanctum of unsocial and demoralising principles is his tower of defence ; and by skewing that it approves of all that is abominable in the Maynooth class-books, you only furnish him with the better excuse for con tinuing the grant. He would have all institutions pur sue the design of their founders, and punish only the one which departed from it. If a Protestant univer sity taught popery, he would come down upon it with a recal of its charter and muniments, and so far he would be right ; but—even-handed and impartial gen tleman—he would act precisely in the same way by a forfeiture Popish ries in Smithy Door i that, about two years go, lie wife [me the sufferer In this case On inquiry at the Infirmary, . _ last night, we were informed that the poor woman still re mains in a very dangerous state ; and that it is not at all pro. bable that she - will recover DEATH BY BURNING.—An inquisition was held yesterday, before Mr. Curfy, touching the death of Margaret Davlin. The deceased, who was but two years and a half old, lived with her parents at No. 78, Freeman's-row. On Friday it the deceased was left in a room eating her break was shortly afterwards heard to scream, and found with her clothes in flames. As soon as the fire was put out, she was taken to the Dispensary, where she was dressed ; but she never appeared to get better, and died on Tuesday morning last. The jury returned a verdict—that the de ceased died from burning, but how her clothes became ig no evidence to show. CASE OF SlllClDE.—yesterday an inquest was held before P. F. Curry, Esquire, coroner, on view of the body of Wm. Booth, who had been found dead in his bedroom. Margaret Alexander, being sworn, said she was niece to Mrs. William son, who keeps the Legs of Man Tavern, London-road. The deceased had been staying there since Friday last. Yester ty morning, (Thursday,) about eleven o'clock, witness went ) to his bedroom, and knocked at the door, but receiving no pushed it a little open, and saw the deceased up bed-post, apparently hanging by a rope. She 6. v the alarm, and one of the ostlers was sent up, and cut him down. She afterwards saw him lying dead on the bed room floor. The deceased when cut down was hanging by a rope to the top rail of the bed. His head was clae to the rail, and he had his right knee on a chair which was by the bed side, and his left foot on the floor. He was quite dead, but his hands and cheeks were a little warm, and his face a little black. H e was hanging by what is called a packing cord. Mrs. Williamson stated she had known the deceased for about 18 months, as a casual customer coming to the house. Neither she nor the ostler had ever observed anything in the manner of the deceased to lead them to think that he was out of his mind. On Sunday last he had his dinner with the family, and talked a good deal of a Mr. Little, who lived at Knowsley, with whom he had lived ; he said they had had a quarrel. The deceased was very tipsey when he went to bed the night before. Thomas Mathews, a livery-stable keeper in Parr-street, said he had known the deceased for some years back. He was addicted to drinking, and when in that state was very obstinate. Witness never perceived any appearance of insanity about him. Witness got him into the employ of Mr. Little, who is a farmer residing at Knowsley, and had been informed that he had had a few words with that gentle man, who consequently discharged him. The jury returned rdict of felo de se; and the coroner issued his order for erment of the body between the hours of nine n 24 hours after the date of mer, sh POSSESSION OF SPURIOUS COIN.—A MAN FINED £2442 AT TUE POLICE COURT.—A remarkable case was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, at the Police Court. A. man named John Jennings, keeper of a beerhouse, was placed at the bar an a charge of having had in his possession a quan tity of base coin, in breach of a stringent statute of George 111. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had become possessed of a great number of coins, made of a white metal, in imitation of Spanish and American dollars. They e produced in court, and were fastened two and two to ier with a single oblong link, inserted through a stalk lered to each, like old-fashioned sleeve-buttons, but er, as if intended to be used for keeping together a tight Mr. Ortt, a master butcher, said that the ught tho large quantity of coins produced to ety, and that he had stated that they were )0 to £3OO. He had accordingly put them . key. They were called for by the police, mg the prisoner's house, were told by him The prisoner had also sold six of them, to a man for half-a-crown, and refused to :y when the man repented of his bargain.- 1 ; who appeared for the defence, called Joseph , rth from they were s clerk, whose employer served the pii itated that he had frequently seen the ing about the prisoner's house ; that , he made no se hem, and never passed them off for, or said they He (the prisoner) stated that he had bought them, in exchange for cloth, from a man who had bought them at an auction some months ago, and was not aware that it was illegal to have them.—Margaret Eaton, the pri soner's housekeeper, also stated that she had seen them lying about the house ; that the children were allowed to play with them ; that the prisoner never represented them, or sold any • .R silver; and that he seemed to put no value upon .1 some of them to orange-girls and ,or oranges and other trifling articles.— , the statement that the prisoner considered iner with of them le hai nge for oranges them of no value did not agree with his representationto Mr. Ortt that they were worth from £2OO to X3OO. He should convict the prisoner under the statute for having them in his possession. He must pay a fine of 40a. on each piece found above the number of five, or be imprisoned for three months. —The number of coins found was 1226. De ducting 5 from this, left 1221, which, at 40s. each, made the amount or the fine £2442 sterling ! Had the full fine of £5 on each been required, in place of the minimum amount he act, the amount would have been £6,105 ! The ^ourse, was, in default, sent to gaol.—Mr. 3, that it was well that the coin had been , would no doubt have been disposed of to money, vho bad no perfect knowledge of American „„_ tit be deceived by it. He gave orders that Lieut. Henry, of the government emigration-office, should be informed of the case, so that emigrants might be put upon their guard, lest any of it should already have gone abroad. —The whole of the " buttons " will be sent to the Mint, where it will doubtless be destroyed. xed by t discovered ; for 1 ,OYAL, LIY meat FIT OF MR. J. S. BAI.,LS cond week of I Mr. G. VANDENHOFF. larch edy of 1841, will be per- FOR TEI formed Shakspeare's Tra KING Edmund, l on t his occasi o n , { IM 1 Vandenhoff. . . Oswald, Mr. J. S. Balls. al. Mr. Stuart. Earl of Kent.. Mr. Baker. Regan.... Miss Cleaver Goneril.... Mrs. Baker. Cordelia Mrs. W. H. Bland. r which, for the first time in this Theatre, the Farce of THE RAILROAD STATION. Jack Robins Mr. J. S. Balls, )riginally played by him at the OlympicTheatre, London Mr. Samuel Jones.. - . Mr. Aaker. Mrs. William Smith; Madame Simon. ro conclude with, by particular desire, and for the first time at thfs Theatre, an original Drama, written expressly for . Mr. 3: S. Balls, entitled PAUL THE BRAZIER. Paul Legay.. (his original character).. Mr. 1. S. Ball TO-MORROW (Saturday), Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Richard, Duke of Glo ster, Mr. Elton ; Earl of Richmond, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Queen Elizabeth, Miss Cleaver ; Lady Anne, Mrs. W. H. Bland. With the new Drama of PAUL THE BRAZIER. —Bose s, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. Gd.; 3ast Six, and the Performance Prices of Admission Pit, 25..6d. ; Gallery, Doors to opened at Half-r to commence at Seven. The Box-office will be opened daily, when Places in the Boxes may be taken of Mr. MINSTER, from Ten until Three. A limited number of Season Tickets to be disposed of.— Application to. be made at the Box-office. The nevz7 Farce now performing with great success at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called 808 SHORT, in which Mr. J. S. Balls will sustain the character of Bob Short, will be traduced on MONDAY next. In addition to the list of auxiliaries already announced, an arrangement has been made with the popular performer, Mr. JAMES WALLACE, of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, who will commence an engagement for a limited number of nights immediately upon the close of the Ilaymarket Theatre, being his first appearance here since his return from America. Ebe LtbetpoOt &tanbari). FRIDAY ORNING; LARCH 12, 1841 The Secretary for Ireland made use of an argument in the debate on Mr. Colquhoun's motion, but not then for the first time, which we think deserving of atten tion. He contended that it was of no use to say any thing on the doctrines taught in the College of May nooth, unless it would be shewn that they were some thing extra—something contrary to those tenets which it was understood would be taught there when the col lege was founded. This argument has been treated with contempt by some of our brethren of the press ; but, we think, erroneously and undeservedly so. To us it appears to be a fair, legitimate, and proper argu ment, which ought to be answered, not with railing or contumely, but with substantial and solid reasoning. His lordship says, " talk not to me of the class books of the college—of Builly and Antoine, of Me nochius and Devot6, of Reinfenstuel, of Maldonatus, or Thomas Aquinas—or their morals ;be they as false and as foul as the arch fiend himself could make them, I have nothing to do with them, unless you prove to me that they inculcate dogmas which the Church of Rome.does not sanction and approve . of. These ex pounders of Romanism are no new teachers—their names were known when •. Lord Castlereagh_ and Mr. Perceval voted the annual grant—and, indeed, with re gard to Popery itself, which boasts of being semper idem, we have nothing new to learn. The sum of the matter then is this—you have endowed a Popish col lege, and, having done so, you have nothing to do with what the professors in it teach, provided it be good Popery—proVided it be not repugnant to the spirit and genius of the Roman Catholic religion, or what you had a right to expect they would teach as professors of that religion for whose support and encouragement you instituted the college." _ - - Such is .the substance of the argument of Lord Morpeth; and the reply which it demands, it strikes " We seek to withdraw us, should tie to this effect he`annual grant from any recent discoveries wit .h . regard to its class books— reason Again, with respect to another bill, which has been oo little noticed by the public and the press—viz., the bill to amend the system of registration in England and Wales—will it be maintained that the enactments con tained in that bill—the abolition of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act, the shortening of the period Maynooth, not on account of I for which a voter must have been in occupation before registry, and other provisions of a similar nature — have been loudly demanded, or are necessary ? It will not. The entire measure has been introduced solely to unsettle what was previously settled—to bewilder the public mind, and to call the attention of the people of Great Britain to a comparisou between the system of registration and the franchise in this country, and those proposed to be introduced into the sister king dom ; and we defy any man, no matter of what party, to produce a satisfactory reason why the boon which such,a comparison would shew was about being con ferred upon Ireland, should not be extended to the people of England and Scotland. The country at large, it is notorious, is dissatisfied so far with the working of the Reform Bill—and with That measure has confeisedly disappointed the expectations of even the most sober-minded of its promoters, and will continue to do so, so long as the government is administered by a faction which is nei ther able nor willing to legislate for the practical ad vantages of the community. Is it wise, then, we ask, for the Conservative party to allow the present race of incapables to turn against the constitution itself, as settled by the Reform Bill, the dissatisfaction which is due to their own incapacity and to their own dishonesty alone ? We humbly think not; and we would im press upon the consideration of Sir Robert Peel and the Conservatives the fact, which we believe to be un deniable, that, every hour in which the Melbourne ad ministration is allowed to usurp the seat of government is pregnant with danger to the best interests of the country. We might have adduced, in corroboration of our views upon this subject, other and perhaps more im portant evidence contained in the proceedings of party out of doors, acting doubtless upon the prompting of . government and its satellites. At present, however, we are obliged to be satisfied with merely glancing at dan gers which we cannot but fear are approaching the constitution; and which—unless arrested by a timely intervention on the part of Conservatism, and a return to sound principles of government—will shortly assume a more startling aspect. On a future occasion, how ever, we may be tempted to treat the subject more at length than our space at present allows us. It may be well to repeat, that at the meeting on im port duties, held on Monday, it was understood that the corn laws should not be discussed, and that many gentlemen, decidedly opposed to the repeal of those laws, were induced to take part in the proceed ings, or to permit their names to be mixed up with them, expressly on this condition. This is necessary to be borne in mind, because if the resolutions alone were looked at, it might be inferred that the meeting included the corn duties in that tariff whose revision they were seeking for. Such an inference would be warrantable from the general terms in which the reso lutions were couched ; but the meeting took place ex pressly upon an agreement. It was thought desirable to collect gentlemen of all shades of politics ; and in order to insure this object, it was stipulated, and gene rally concurred in, that the corn duties should not be alluded to, nor in any wise included in the topics dis cussed. The resolutions are, therefore, to be read with this understood reservation. This is the key to their facile adoption, and it must be seen that the con dition " corn duties excepted," though not expressed, does as truly belong to them as if the words were set forth at length, by way of superscription or postscript. They were " in the hand" previously executed, and we are bound to look at the execution of the treaty by the light of the preceding stipulation. This view of the business is confirmed by what took place at the Court-house. There Mr. Charles Holland, who is a great anti-corn man, felt the temptation so strong upon him to wander into his favourite pastures, that at last he fairly leapt the hedge, and took a small nibble just along the boundary. But the trespass being so mani fest a violation of the articles, did not pass unnoticed, and our excursionist got immediately pulled up for the same by a gentleman, of whom it may suffice to say that he is no member of the "Anti-corn Law League." This is a pretty strong proof of the existence of the treaty of which we have been speaking, and of the strict enforcement of it that was looked for, and, we may say, insisted upon. But there was more evidence of this kind; for ano- ther great anti-corn law man, Mr. Duffey, the tailor, one of the " giants" of Clayton-square, having, in the same way, broken loose from the trammels of law and equity, and shewn an evident disposition to give his goose an airing on the common, got very properly checked by his worship the Mayor, who presided• The Irish tailor actually began to reproach the mer chants of Liverpool with having entered into such a 'ou were iostituted, he wo,uld say, to popialt on teach disloyalty, irreligion, and, immorality; clO you continue to do so ! Riht, very right ; stick to your rinciples, and however bad they may be, nobody can tit with you Mr. Colquhoun has, however, taken the right method to meet this sort of . argumentation, by going back to the original statutes by which the Maynooth institution was founded, and proposing their repeal. That is the proper way to meet it. It goes to the root of the mat ter, and brings the question back to first principles ; and though we grant it may be fairly contended that these statutes did not pledge Parliament to continue the grants, yet, as the question to be discussed is essen tially the same, whether we oppose the mere grant or seek a repeal. of the statutes, we think the latter mode . of proceeding is, on this ground; preferable. We have again and again urged upon the leaders of the COnservative party in the House of Commons, the necessity of throwing off' the lethargy by which they appear to be actuated in their conduct towards Lord Melbourne's administration; and at once, in their full power, and in the name of the people of England, as serting their claim to be entrusted with the destinies of this great nation. We repudiate, with all respect, the views of those of our contemporaries and of our coun trvmen who maintain that the Conservative and con stitutional party are gaining strength—moral and per manent strength—by delay. On the contrary, we ar firmly of opinion, that during the present session only notwithstanding the little progress made in the mare] of Liberalism within the walls of Parliament, the Minis terial party have succeeded—and their attempts have been artfully directed to this very object—in laying the foundation of a fresh career of agitation out of doors, the result of which may be to fasten upon the country for years to come the evils of a mob-directed govern .. ment—to disturb • the finality of measures which b yesterday were considered as settled portions of the constitution, and to scatter the seeds of disruptic amongst institutions and principles which the hand of the leveller and the democrat had not hither dared to cemplet, and with keeping their *fig, He said it was iilvaneful." The merchant of Liverpool, how ever, have not, in general, had the benefit of a May. nooth education, and conceive them selves—unfortu nately for Mr. Duffey—under an obligation, both of honour and conscience, to keep faith with all parties, and under all circumstances, even though it should be to their own loss, when once they have passed their word. Mr. Rosson, indeed, attempted to pacify this valiant knight of the thimble, by a jesuitical gloss on the resolutiOns. He said that nob Ody who heard them could suppose for a moment that they did not include the corn duties—and he begged the angry artist to smooth his ruffled feathers, and console himself with this assurance. Two or three other gentlemen of the liberal school also adverted to the matter, with obser vations of nearly similar import ;—from all which we draw the obvious and indeed necessary inference, that the party would convert this meeting—which was de signed to be a perfectly open one, and one in which the discussion of the corn question was distinctly pro hibited—into one at which the repeal or modification of the duties was directly or inferentially recommended ! Now we say that this is unfair, and, moreover, a breach of faith. It is t a mere " keeping of the word of promise to the ear"—and scarcely that—but a "break ing of it to the sense"—and calls for reprehension. We do not mean to charge all the Whig gentlemen with so insidious a policy; but it is manifest that some have practised it, and that their acts, therefore, tend to the discouragement of meetings convened under con ditions such as were annexed to the one in question. Our look-out abroad is by no means comfortable this week, and is such as leads us to fear that the luck of the whigs is nearly run out. We regret this, we need scarcely say, not so much for the sake of our ca- linet directors, as on account of our beloved country The China expedition proves to be something ye ike, if not in reality and altogether, a failure. We lave been humbugged, grossly humbugged, by the I,ongtails—that's the truth of it. The fellows might lave been brought to their senses easily at the first; but a spirit of conciliation—a besetting sin with the whigs—came over our commander, and the mandarins completely got round him with their palaver. What is the consequence ? Why, that our expedition is treated with contempt, and no longer feared—that our Hpldiers are dying off by hundreds at Chusan—and that no progress whatever has been made with the ne gociations. Nay, it is an incident among the latest events of which we have tidings, that the Queen steamer was fired at from the battery when entering the Bogue, having the Captain Plenipo Elliott on board, bearing a diplomatic chop for the Emperor's high commissioner. It is true some apology was af terwards made for this, as a mere inadvertence; but the occurrence, trifling as it may seem, leads us exactly to the same conclusion with that drawn by a writer on the spot, who says, " I have always been of opinion that we began at the wfong end. We should have well cudgelled the Longtails at first, and reasoned (treated) with them afterwards." ry Admiral Elliott has resigned his command to Sir J. Gordon Bremer, and set sail for England, on board the Volage, on the 29th of November. It remained a matter of the utmost uncertainty whether our " com plications" with this extraordinary people woulLl be settled by negociation, or whether their movements would not have to be quickened at last by active mea- The Egyptian news is also in a slight degree embar rassing. The Pasha vows that he will never submit to have the hereditary successor to the government ap- pointed by the Sultan—a nomination which the peror seeks to retain in his own hands. And in we think the Pasha only insists on what is reasonable. If his pashalic is to be hereditary, it would be a strange and unnatural power to give the Sultan, to select such member of the Pasha's family as he might choose to prefer to the government. As to our western complications, they get more a more perplexed and perplexing, and leave us nothi. but to prepare for the worst. The hopes of the French war party have been revived by this business, which perhaps may be owing to an influence exerted by them in the States. The Si.cle of Monday gives the first in timation of their hopes, and contends that France ought to be more than ever cautious in signing any treaty, as it was 'evident, from the late debate in the House of Commons, that the friendly language used towards France was induced by apprehension of a war between Great Britain and America. It is pretty plain, then, that we are surrounded by enemies willing and anxious to find an occasion of quar- •elling with us The popish agitator in the House of Commons—oul great domestic. foe—does not fail to take advantage o these signs of the times. All his demands are nov made, not as favours that he hopes to win, but as con cessions that we should tremble to deny. The act o '29 is forgotten. He is still as much as ever the Papi• neau of Ireland, but a far more cautious and skilfu hero of the school moral feelings, On last Sunday evening he reviewed his male troops in a repeal gathering at some place in Theobald's road, London, and told the assembled Patlanders that on that day week he would review a hundred thousand of them on the Curragh c,f Kildare, in Ireland. Can miscreant, treasonable audacity go further ? But let not Eng land be alarmed. She has One above to protect her; and with a just cause, she will, if it please God, fear none of her foes. We are sorry that the length of our report precludes us making any observations upon the speeches deli vered yesterday, at the meeting convened for the pur pose of preventing the infliction of, the grinding tyranny of the bashaws of Somerset House, upon the poor of Liverpool. The petulant outbreaks of Mr. Earle, under the rebukes which were administered to him for his foolish exposure of himself and party, and for his second-hand misrepresentations of the working of the new poor-law, will afford us a little amusement for an idle hour before Tuesday, whilst the taking ur of the subject by the public will afford us an oppor tunity of showing the real principles and working of this abominable, unchristian, un-English, devilisl measure. In the meantime we recommend the perusai of the speeches which will be found in other columns together with the letter from a correspondent on tin same subject. We must, however, offer up our heart prayers that the objects of the deputation will bi realised, and the poor thus saved from the blows aimec at their comforts, their religious scruples, and their MELANCHOLY Loss OF THE BARQUE HECTOR. — We deeply regret to state that intelligence was yesterday received by the schooner Flora, Captain Warren, from Terceira, of the total loss of the barque Hector, East Indiaman, of this port, off that island on the 17th of February, and of the cap tain, the mate, and another man. The Hector recently Un derwent a thorough repair here, and was considered equal to a new ship. On her homeward voyage from Calcutta, with a cargo of sugar, she touched at the island of St. Helena, and afterwards encountered a gale of wind, which induced the captain, as she had become leaky, to make for the island of Terceira, in the Azores. She came to anchor off the island on the 15th February. The gale continued violent, and as the leak increased, the crew abandoned the vessel next day, in the long-boat, leaving on board the captain and the mate, and, it is supposed, the steward, both of whom were much attached to him, and resolved to remain with him to the last. The leak at length defied all their exertions, and the ship be came in a sinking state. They did not, however, leave her until the water had reached the deck, and there was no longer a hope of saving her. They then took to the remaining small boat, and the vessel went down in 50 fathoms of water, at her an chors. The distance to the shore was but short, but the gale was still severe, and the sea running high, and, lamentable to relate ! the boat swamped, and the three faithful fellows found a watery grave together. Capt. John Johnson was a man highly respected by all who knew him, and much be loved by his friends and intimate acquaintance, for his manly disposition and general good qualities. He was but 38 years of age, born in England, and was an admirable and fearless man. His father is an interpreter of this town, a respectable old man ; and his distress on learning the melancholy fate of his son, as may well be conceived, is most poignant. He has left four sisters, two of whom kept his house here, and two others are resident in Dautzig, the birth-place of father. His memory will long be affectionately cherished by a large circle of friends, who were strongly attached to him as an excellent man, and a cheerful and engaging companion, The Hector was a vessel of 395 tons burden, the property of Mr. Close, of Nottingham, whose agent here is Mr. Jame! Aikin. We have not been enabled to ascertain the names O the mate and steward, who perished with their gallant corn• wander. THE BRITISII QUEEN.--This vessel left London on the 10th instant as advertised, but we understand orders have been despatched from the Foreign Office to detain her at Portsmouth for a short time, in order, we presume, that sh may carry out the despatches of Lord Palmerston's bite, tions, with reference to the important and warlike intelli;e• recently received from America. The British Queen ca, out nearly seventy persons, and an extensive and valua. cargo of merchandise, and upwards of fifteen thousand le , ters and newspapers, which will acquaint Brother Jonatt , of the feelings entertained by Englishmen of his war b' gadocia. touch PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMEN'T London Correspondent.) LONDON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 'oceedings in parliament on Monday and Tuesday (From our ogs present nothing particularly worthy of comment, the exception, perhaps, of the announcement made in - louse of Commons on Monday, by Lord John Russell' intention to modify the terms of his new poor-lav‘ t ore. The public were, however, to some extent pre- n abatement of the ministerial demands upon this question, by a leader iu the Morning Chronicle last week, the writer of which professes to have discovered that many fea tures of the'existing system, as administered by the Somerse House officials, are " distasteful" to the feelings of the grea mass of the people, and are too grinding to be endured with patience—a discovery which nine out of every ten men, who are not either malthusians or images of stone, have made many years ago, and which, I imagine, the ministerial writer has only made " upon compulsion" at last. The concessions in question do not after all amount to much, but, I suppose, we must be thankful for what we can - . get. It is no easy matter to screw humanity out of a whig. The duration of the poor-law commission is limited, in com pliance with the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, to five years instead of ten, the period fixed in the original draft of the bill. An English pauper, too, is to he allowed Christian burial beneath the shadow of the church in which, perhaps, ,ave worshipped in the better days of his existence, and not, as at first proposed by this tenderhearted faction, to be interred like a dog, in some hole attached to the bastile in which he has breathed out the last hours of his miserable will be scarcely credited, perhaps—it is indeed as ;--that such a proposition could have been seriously made in a Christian age by the government of a Christian country—that a portion of the sentence inflicted by our criminal law upon a convicted felon after execution—viz., the burial of his body within the walls of his prison, should be at tempted to be forced upon the wretched victims of poverty, age, and disease, who crowd the union workhouses. Yet such is, or rather was, the case. The bill of Lord John Russell proposed to enact this monstrosity—to deprive the surviving relatives of the unfortunate pauper of the trifling consolation of following the ashes of their father, their mo ther, their brother, or their sister, to their last resting-place in that spot of consecrated ground where they have hope& through life to take their last sleep—by proposing that the union workhouses should be provided with grave-yards— (having been already well supplied with pork broth and cheap doctors)—in which the punishment and degradation, awarded to poverty during life, might be extended beyond that period where all earthly punishments and distinctions should ter- And it is a concession (1) we are told, that such a provision—so devilish and harrowing in its position—is not ed in by " the friends of the people—the libel ty-loving minate It will be observed in adclition, that the bill is not as yet to be extended to those towns which already possess local acts for the government of their poor—in which category, I pre sume, Liverpool will be included—a fact which, I have no doubt, will be hailed with satisfaction by your community, and for which their thanks are due, above all, to the conserva tive press throughout the kingdom, which has so unceasingly protested against the entire principle of this inhuman and wicked measure. The arrival, last night, of the overland mail from Egypt and India, has dashed the cup of hope and exultation from the lip of whig-radicalism most effectually. But a few hours ago did any daring wight presume to doubt the sagacity of whig statesmen—to impugn their principles—to impeach their honesty, or to question their success, he was told forth with by the " uppish " and stilted supporters of the faction to admire the superhuman genius displayed in their foreign policy. " Have we not settled the Syrian question '" were asked—" Have we not got over our misunderstanding with France ? Have we not frightened his sublimity, the brother of the sun and moon, out of his seven senses, dam-foundered all his mandarins, scattered his great warriors, and planted the British flag triumphantly upoh the walls of the capital of Chusan." Alas for the mighty ! Alas for whig-radicalism. The boasted settlement of the affairs of Syria is found at length to be no settlement at all. Lord Palmerston's Egyptian acquaintance has still a lingering fancy for a kick up ; and has provided as pretty a ground for the interference of French bobadilism as could be wished for. His sublime highness, after our indulging him with the sight of a British man of war, within the waters of Pekin, is not frightened at all.' His mandarins are laughing until their very tails shake, to see " the barbarian islanders" dying like sheep in a murrain amongst the swamps and mias mata of their magnificent conquest, the island of Chusan, whilst commissioner Ke- shin is amusing them with " chops." Admiral Elliott has got the heart-ache; and is coming home to narrate the story of a British steamer being fired upon whilst conveying his own " chop " to Canton, and to publish, perhaps, the written apology which was " promptly made" by this conquered and humbled people for the commission of such an indignity. Altogether as pretty an assortment of glorious news as ever blessed the eyes of a cabinet minister is, by this time, in the possession of the guardian genius of the foreign office ; and Lord Palmerston is, I have no doubt, as heartily sick of himself and his "_ genius" (!) as the people of Great Britain have been of the same valuabl e articles years ago. It is perhaps scarcely fair to attribute to Lord Palmerston or to government the impediment which has been thrown in the way of the settlement of affairs in the Mediterranean. But in the case of the failure, so far, of the Chinese expedi tion, it is impossible to lay the blame upon any other shoulders than those of the authorities at home, and of the officers who have had its chief direction abroad—upon Lords . ?almerston and Minto, and the Elliotts. The whole Chinese affair ought :o have been, and might have been, settled within a week of :he arrival of the British force off Pekin, in June or July last ; and yet, so late as the date of the last arrivals, December, the negociations had not advanced one step, and the whole of the work (?) of six months was to be commenced anew. In the meantime, the troops on board the fleet, and those located in Chusan, have been decimated by the miserable unhealthi ness of the climate ; and we are informed, from the letter of an officer on the spot, that of a force at Chusan numbering originally 3,420 men, " only about 500 or 600 men could now be collected for service !" "The 26th regiment," says the same authority, " exists but in name. They muster only 100 men for duty, and 500 are still in the hospital ; the cases of many, too many, are quite hopeless." Another authority (a military officer) writes of the regi ment to which he is attached—" We brought 900 men on shore, and never were men in better condition ; all we have now remaining, taking off the non- conamisioned officers, band, and servants, is about 100 men for duty, and many of these more or less ill. Graves are for ever open, and those who assist in paying the last duties to their ill-fated companions seem as f they would soon follow." May not her Majesty with justice echo the language of the Roman Emperor, and exclaim to Lord Minto and his imbeciles—" Vare redde mihi Legiones ?" The British flag floated proudly enough, I dare say—to use what was the language of the admirers of whig-radicalism a few months ago—from the walls of a city of the imperial empire; but it waves now only over the mouldering ashes of the dead, or the sickly and ghastly forms of miserable ague-stricken men who have scarcely strength left to defend it against the onset of a battalion of women. Will the country contemplate such a calamitous state of things, without requiring a strict and a severe reckoning with those by whom it has been brought about ? Surely not ! It will scarcely be wondered at that the feeling which has been excited to-day in all circles by the general tenor of the advices, is one of gloom mingled with the deepest indigna tion. Only two days ago the British people were insulted by the publication of one of the most malignant and men dacious documents ever put forward by the government of any civilized country. The democracy of America dared openly to vindicate their right to commit, under the forms of law, the cold-blooded and deliberate murder of a subject of her Majesty ; and the only source of hope in which we could indulge, for the preservation of peace between the two coun tries, was the expectation that by the speedy settlement of affairs in Syria and China, we should be placed in possession of such an imposing force, by the withdrawal of our fleets from the Mediterranean and from the Chinese seas, as would effectually deter attack, even from a country which no other consideration except prudence could restrain from letting loose upon us the envenomed feelings of the people towards the very name of Great Britain. Can we indulge in such A hope now ? Dare we venture to withdraw one ship from the Mediterranean or from China, to beat back the assault which threatens us from the other side of the Atlantic ? Assuredly not. Hedged round as we are with enemies on every side' we have nothing on earth to look to for support but the spirit and idomitable resolution of the people of England and Scotland —would that I could add of Ireland too !—and tha t spirit, it is to be feared will not be put forth, until some nobler hearts are found to direct its energies than those mean and mercenary ones which beat beneath the breasts of her Majesty's present advisers ! MURDER.—A driver, of the name of Billane,_ _seized som e potatoes for rent, belongi n g to a man named Magrath ; an altercation immediately ensued, when Magrath, who held mallet in his hand (with which he had been breaking clods), struck Billane in tire temple, and he never s poke after. Davi e , Duff. S.M., and the chief-constabl e , shortly after attended to take Billane's depositions, but he could not speak ; be lingered for five days, and died. Magrath was taken thee same day, and will be tried at the assizes of Nenagh, which commence the 15th of this month. The occurrence took place at Redwood Castle, the property of Major Bloomfield' —Dublin Evening Mail. A REASON.—At our assizes, a woman from the " fat west," so mewhere about Stainmo or , on b e i ng asked bl l ong she lived in Barnard Castle, replied th a t she really co ol no t tell because " she was no scholar."—Durham Advertiser' EXTRAORDINARY FACT.---On Friday last, a fine CO' b e l o nging to Cornelius Riordan, of Johnstown, near 1 0 , 5° ' ro om (a tenant and driver to Sir Richard Cox, Bart.), 'w e„ . a bout to calve, became so very unwell, that her owner it ; obliged to send for a " cow-doctor," who resided in t '" neighbourhood. This man drew fro m her, on Friday ell ; i n g, four calves, and a fifth on the f o ll ow i ng even i n g !! The poor poor cow died very soon after, and was b ur i e d i n a pit 11 1 °7 with the five calves on Monday morn i ng .—Kilk enn y 110d e ratoi Should the £5 qualification clause in Lord Morpeth's. 1 1; gistration bill for Ireland become the law of the land, it a to understood to be an instructio n o f p o liti ca l unions, to p etiteu parliament immediately for an extension of the franchise all the parliamentary boroughs of Great Britoin.-514P r shire Gazette.