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. -.SiION \\ imperial 13 arliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MO AY. The house sat for a short time, but all important busi ness was postponed in order to allow the arguments on the writs of error brought by Mr. O'Connell and his fellow prisoners to be proceeded with. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. In reply to questions from Mr. SEIEIL and Sir C. NA PIER respecting the present position of affairs between France and Morocco, Sir R. PEEL said he was desirous of avoiding all discus sion that might give rise to counter observations in the French Chambers upon subjects which were still under negotiation between the governments of England and France. The British Consul at Algiers was not acting under a French exequatar, but was precisely in the same position as under the late government. He also observed that the mediation of this country was not rejected by the Emperor of Morocco, for Mr. Drummond Hay was still with the Emperor, acting under instructions from the British government. Mr. GLADSTONE moved the order of the day for the second reading of the railways bill, and in so doing en tered at considerable length into the details of the measure, which, he said, had been more misrepresented as to its objects than any bill which he remembered to have been brought under the consideration of the house. The chief objects of the bill are to enforce, foi the convenience of the humbler classes, conveyance in carriages protected from the weather at the rate of one penny per mile, and to reserve the option of the legislature of purchasing nil ways if at some future period it should be necessary to do so, without being barred by the plea of vested interests. He denied that the bill was calculated to give a shock to railway property, for they had not even had a dull day in the money market, notwithstanding all the petitions which parliamentary agents (for they were its real opponents) bad got up against this bill. With respect to the wish on the part of many hon. members to postpone the bill, he must say that, owing to the very nature of the opposition raised against it, he was more than ever persuaded of the necessity of immediate legislation for the purpose of pro tecting the interests of the people. Mr. ENTWISLE said that the low fares professed to be for the advantage of the pcor man, but if the bill passed they would find many members of the house travelling in third-class carriages. lie moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Colonel SIBTHORP denied that he had lost confidence in the government, and tendered his most sincere thanks to ministers for the bill before the house, though it was not so perfect as he could wish. The gallant member in the entirse of his remarks, said he hated railroads as he hated the devil. Mr. BRIGHT moved the adjournment, which, after some conversation was acceded to. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY. All the business likely to occupy time was postponed in order to allow the arguments to be proceeded with in the writs of error in the case of Mr. O'Connell and others. At the suggestion of the Duke of Wellington, the Bishop of EXETER withdrew the Brothels Suppression Bill. Some other bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which counsel were called in, and the ATTORNEY GENERAL for Ireland proceeded with his arguments against the writs of error. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TIIESDAY. Mr. M. D. Hill was heard as counsel against the Sud bury Disfranchisement Bill. After his address, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL gave his opinion that a ma jority of the electors had been clearly proved corrupt. He adverted to the details of the particular corruption preva lent in that borough, and pressed the house to concur in the seccnd reading of the bill. Mr. BLACKSTONE gave notice, that he should move an instruction to the future committee, directing them to include the adjacent hundreds in the franchise, rather than abolish it utterly. Mr. TUFFNELL, Mr. DILLON BROWNE, and Mr. WYNN, each gave a blow to the falling borough ; and the bill was read a second time. At five o'clock, to which hour the house adjourned, Mr. CHRISTIE brought forward the often-discussed subject of Danish claims. After some debate, in which Mr. HUME seconded, and Colonel SIBTHORP, Mr. HAWES, and Sir C. NAPIER supported, the motion, and Mr. GOULBURN and Sir R. PEEL opposed it, the house divided, defeating Mr. CHRISTIE by a majority of 3. Mr. LIDDELL obtained a committee for inquiring into the depredations of the dog-stealers of the metropolis. Mr. Hums was proceeding with a motio9pon the subject of the Royal Academy, when the house Was counted out. • ,It; ' 4 4lk HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Exemption Bill, and the Vagrants' Removal Bill, were read a third time and passed. - The reports on the Colonial Postage Bill, and the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, were brought up and agreed to. The house went into a committee on the Joint Stock Companies Regalatiqn and Registration Bill, and the first six clauses were agreed to. The Joint Stock Companies' Remedies at Law and in Equity Bill was also considered in committee, and the Clauses were agreed to. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in answer to Mr. Crawford, said he should certainly proceed with the Poor Law Bill on Friday. Mr. COWPER moved the second reading of the Field Gardens Bill, which, after a short discussion, was so read, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday next. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill went through com mittee, and was ordered to be reported. The house went into committee on the Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill, and after very considerable uninteresting discussion, the various clauses were agreed to. The report to be received on Thursday. Adjourned at twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock, and proceeded with the usual legislative business, no judgment in the O'Con nell writ of error having been pronounced, as had been expected. Earl Powis said, in consequence of the consent of the Crown having been withheld from the bill relating to the separation of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, he, after mature deliberation, had thought it advisable to withdraw the bill rather than press it forward against the report of the committee with the prospect of being ultimately beaten. The Bishop of SALISBURY recommended her Majesty's government to consider this question. He very much regretted that the noble earl had been compelled to with draw this bill, for he felt that if it had been passed it would have been found to be a very beneficial measure. Be trusted, however, that the government would in the next session of Parliament introduce a bill themselves upon this subject. A discussion of some length followed, in the course of which an attempt was made by Lord Lyttelton and the Marquis of Clanricarde to fasten a charge of unfairness on the government in the course it had adopted in respect of this bill, which charge, however, was rebutted by Lord Brougham, Lord Wharncliffe, and Lord Monteagle ; after which the bill was withdrawn. Some other business on the paper was then disposed of, and their lordships adjourned. "r►~~ i HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. - - On the motion of Sir G. CLERK, the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was read a third time.—ln answer to a question from Captain Pechell, Sir G. Clerk said the present measure was a mere continuance bill. The Colonial Postage Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. FERRAND wished to know whether there was any objection to lay on the table of the house the evidence taken before the coroner on the steam-boiler explosion at Bolton. Sir J. GRAHAM said he was not aware that it was in the power of any authority to compel the coroner to pro duce the evidence taken in his court; but he would make inquiries on the subject, and if the hon. member would repeat the question, he would endeavour to reply to it. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Railways' Bill was resumed by Mr. BRIGHT, who sup ported the amendment for reading it a second time that day six months. Lord Seymour, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. J. S. Wortley spoke in favour of the bill; and Mr. Bernal, Mr. Col quhoun, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. Milner Gibson for the amendment Sir R. PEEL was very merry at the expense of poor Mr. Gibson, whom he designated as " Ingenui vultus Auer ingenuique pudoris." Mr. N ard, Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Muntz subsequently spoke against the bill, and Mr. Sharman Crawford gave it his support. The house having divided, there were—For the second reading, 186 ; against it, 98 ; majority, 88. The bill was read a second time, and its committal fixed for Saturday next. The Turnpike Trusts (South Wales) Bill was read a se cond time. The reports of the Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill, and of the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill were re ceived. The committee on dog stealing was nominated, after an unsuccessful division on a motion for adjournment. Sir GEORGE CLERIC obtained leave to bring in a bill to continue certain of the allowances of the duty of excise on soap used in manufactures. Mr. J. W. HOPE obtained leave to bring in a bill to continue an act of the 10th Geo. IV.. for providing for the government of her Majesty's settlements in Western Australia, on the Western Coast of New Holland." HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. In reply to questions from the Marquis of CLANRI CARDE, respectin g the collection of forces under Sir C. Vapier on the frontier of . the Punjaub, The Earl of :aid, that the rumours which had recently reached this country from India, to the effect that an army of 80,000 purpose were collecting on the banks of the Sutledge, for the ex : g ose of invading and conquer ing the Punjaub, greatly to ga v ated the truth. The fact large . force was, that it was necessary e w ci ht i ch were there concen trated in the north-western provinces, which present most likely to be suddenly attacked Indian nfg short distressed state of the Punjaub it would be n n the . of insanity to leave that portion of our unprotected. There was, however, no desire on the of the government, either abroad or at home, to add parton e nch of t ,rtitory to our possessions in that quarter, tho ug h it wan quite possible that we might be called upon to a ~,-~--- violk defend ourselves frgm attack. There was no intention to' enlarge our teriitort further than it riow extended beyond the Indus. With respect to the revenues of Scinde and their sufficiency to meet the expenses of the armament required for its subjection, he was not in a position to give the information required by the noble marquis. The Earl of RIPON then moved the committee on the Bank Charter Bill, and entered into a lengthened state ment of the various details of that measure. A discussion ensued, in which Lord Monteagle, Lord Ashburton, and the Earl of Radnor took part, after which the bill went through committee. Some bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. In reply to a question from Mr. Gibson, Sir R. PEEL said he had seen a statement of the new tariff which was to come into operation in the Brazils in November next, and had sent to the Foreign Office to as certain if any official communication upon the subject bad been received. The answer was in the negative. There was a correspondence going on with the Dutch Govern ment respecting certificates of originwith regard to sugars; but he was not in a condition to lay that correspondence on the table of the house. In reply to a question from Mr. Liddell, the right hon. baronet said it was his intention to introduce a bill on the subject of the law of settlement, but he would not press it through the house during the present session. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Sir J. Graham the house resolved it self into committee on the Poor Law. Amendment Bill, the consideration of which occupied the remainder of the evening. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY. The House met at twelve o'clock for the furtherance of public business, now that the session is drawing towards its close ; and its attention was chiefly occupied by the discussion of the clauses of the Poor Law Amendment Bill in committee. Some progress was made, and even tually the chairman obtained leave to sit again this day, at twelve o'clock. After the house bad resumed, some observations made by Mr. WODEHOUSE, conveying a personal attack on Mr. WAKLEY while in committee, drew from that hon. gentleman a complaint of the unfairness and injustice of the attack upon his private character, and an explanation of the circumstances so often publicly alluded to respect ing the unfortunate conflagration of his premises soon after his first arrival in London. Mr. WODEHOUSE admitted that he had alluded to the occurrence referred to by the hon. member, said he was perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and apologised for what had fallen from him in the course of the discussion. The house then adjourned. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AM ERICA. Since our last we have received New York papers to the 30th ult. Congress adjourned on the appointed day, the 17th ult., after having, upon the recommendation of the Com mittee on Foreign Relations, rejected the Zollverein Treaty of commerce. The grounds upon which the re commendation is made are, that a measure such as the one in question, revising the great subjects of trade and revenue, should originate with Congress, not with the executive, whose duties appear to them to be, to fulfil the wishes of the people, as expressed through the agency of their representatives ; and that the concessions made by the United States are not repaid by those of the Ger man Unions. If, however, they say, Congress approves of the arrangement, let them pass a law imposing the duties contemplated in it. The Senate had also confirmed several nominations, and, amongst others, the long-pend ing one of Mr. Cushing, as Minister to China. Colonel Thompson, the special messenger to Mexico, had returned to Washington shortly after the close of the session; but the reply of the Mexican Government, in respect of annexation, had not been made known. We may, however, judge pretty accurately cf its general tenor by a perusal of the following :-On the 18th ultimo a messenger arrived with dispatches fr an Senor Bocanegra to General Almonte, the Mexican Minister to the United States ; of which the Spanish journal published in New York, the Noticioso de ARbos Mundos, gives the text. Senor Bocanegra informs the geneild, in the most empha tic terms, that Mexico will never assent to the annexa tion; that the Government and the nation are immovably determined to resist the project and reject all proposals for its consummation, whether accompanied or not by offers of compensation ; and General Almonte is author ised and instructed to contradict, in the most formal man ner, any assertion or intimation of a different character, which might be dissemi sated by the partisans of Presi dent Tyler for the purpose of producing a change in the hostile feeling with which the people of the United States generally regard the measure. We learn, further, that the Diario del Gobierno, he Mexican Government paper) of the 14th ult., contains an official notice in relation to an extraordinary session of Congress, which had been ordered to meet on the first of last month. The decree of Senor de Bocanegra, Minister of Foreign Relations, and which has been approved by Valentia Canalizo, the acting President, sets forth, that the time of the Con gress will be occupied on the following important points : " 1. In receiving the oath of the President, so that he can enter at once upon the duties of his office. "2. In giving to the government the power to increase the army, and furnish the necessary means for so doing. "3. In empowering the Government to procure ample pecuniary means and everything else that may be deemed necessary in order that Mexico may recover Texas, and preserve the entire national domain. _ _ . 4. In tb.t. ttie Government may send to the Congress, to the end that the Republic may be secured, and its independence and honour preserved." Such is the substance of the measures which will occupy the attention of the extraordinary session of Congress of the Ist of June; thus materially lessening, at least for the present, the chance of a peaceable and amicable set tlement of the difficulties existing between the two re publics of Texas and Mexico. The Diario is filled, for the most part, with govern ment documents and articles upon the all-engrossing sub ject of the annexation of Texas to the United States. The Mexican editors, one and all, say that Texas alcviys was, and always shall be, part and parcel of the republic, and that the people will contend to the death before an inch of the territory will be relinquished. General Tonnell had resigned his station as Minister of War and Marine. A new minister would be appointed on the arrival at the capital of Santa Anna, who was on his way thither. Various conflicting opinions were prevalent as to the probability of an extra session of Congress being called. The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says, that the question was considered at a special meeting of the executive, held on the 22d ult. The Oregon question has been left in the same situation that it voks at the meeting of Congress, no legislative measure in reference to it having been adopted. This is as it should be. So long as friendly negotiations are pending, nothing calculated to produce unkind feelings should be done by any party. The treaty between the United States and France, for the mutual surrender of criminals, others than political, escaping from one country to the other, is now finally ratified and completed. Governor Polk has accepted the nomination of the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. It ap pears that the friends of the three candidates for the Presidency are determined to sustain their respective nominations; viz., Mr. Clay, anti-annexation; Mr. Tyler, and Mr. Polk, annexation. Whether they will all remain in the field to the end is matter of doubt ; but, whether they do or do not, the result w ill b e t h e same: Henry Clay will, undoubtedly, be the next Preaylent of the United States. Philadelphia continues quiet. President Tyler was married, at New York, on the 26th ult., to a daughter of th elate Hon. D. Gardner, one of the victims of the explosion on board the steam-ship Prince ton. The bride is described as young and beautiful, mid twenty-four years of age. The President is upwards of fifty. Money continued abundant. The Exchange on Europe dull at 1691 premium. In the Stock-market "fancies had fallen, but stable and dividend-paying stocks had ex perienced improvement. The New York American reports, that the yield of wheat is likely to be immense. Extensive conflagrations have occurred at Boston and Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the losses by which are estimated at 100,000 dollars and £30,000. The Canada parliament has been further prorogued until the 3rd of August, and then to meet for the " despatch of business." Sir G. Metcalf made his public entry into the seat of government, Montreal, on the 24th ult. Information has been officially received, that, by a de- cree of the Mexican government, dated 31st March, the towns of Taos, in New Mexico, and Paso del Norte and Presidio del Norte, in Chihauhua ' are declared open to t foreign trade. All articles which can be introduced into the Mexican Republic may enter those places on a menl of the duties prescribed by the tariff and laws. pay The ment of paper of Havana, of June the 10th, contains an official announcement, that, in consequence of the late calamitous drought experienced in the island, the Custom -house duties on various articles of food are reduced to one-half of the previous rates. Letters had been received in Jacmel, on the 11th ult., from Aux Cayes, stating, that the new President had ap pointed one of his black generals governor of that town, and that the new official had plundered the mulattoes and put a number of them to d eath. President Gurrier had chartered the Dutch brig Napoleon, put an ambassador on board, and sent her to the city of St. Domingo, to the Spanish, to induce them to acknowledge th e Hay tian flag ; but they refused , and wished the Presi dent to acknowledge their independence. Still later accounts from Aux Cayes state, that affairs were some what settled, but it was thought that tranquillity would not long continue as the rebel chief Acaua manifested con siderable reluctance to submit to th e authority of General Guerrier, who appears to act with co nsiderable energy. His cabinet consists of Mons. Hypolite, Minister of War and of the Exterior; Mons. Paul, Minister of the Interior and Agriculture ; Mons. H. Ferg. Minister of Public In struction and Justice, and Religion ; Mons. Landin, Minister of Finance and Commerce ; all coloured men, well educated and influential, and popular with all parties. On the 6th June the British Larque Dominican, Captain Salter, from London for Jamaica, was wrecked on the Voile, a coral reef in the vicinity of Aux Cayes, about twenty miles distant from the port, and was found to be totally abandoned. It is supposed the crew and passen gers took to the boats and steered for Jamaica. SUMMARY JUSTICE.-At Caddo, Texas, on the sth ult, a man was taken, chit, ged with murder, and bung by the people, without trial. lie confessed that he had been hired by some Texans to murder, ive men 1 for 1,000 dollars. uai .....T,Ja_King of Prussia has accorded 4 a renewed grant of fifty - tEousand thalers (£7,500) for the completion of the Roman Catholic cathedral of Cologne. H is majesty has, moreover, dedicated a sum of ten thousand thalers (£1,500) to the works on the north tower. At the assizes for the Department of the Seine, E. D. Cadot, a youth of 18, was charged with procuring the murder of his father, a rich banker, by the promise of 100,000 francs to his assassin. The temptations were his father's wealth, and his father's mistress, the latter a servant girl, to whom both were passionately attached ! The son was acquitted—the assassin convicted. THE ITALIAN INSURGENTS.—The Gazette of the Two Sicilies, of the 25th ult. states that five more of the insur gents who landed in Calabria have been arrested, and that all are now in custody, but the names of only a few of them are given. A Leghorn letter states that the two sons of Admiral 3andiera are among the insurgents who have been arrested in Calabria. It is stated in letters from Turin that the railway be tween that city and Genoa, with two branches between Venice and Milan, has received Royal sanction. It is to be executed at the expense of Government, and the Coun cil of State have given directions that it shall be immedi ately marked out. L' Industriel Calaisien alludes with regret to the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of the branch line from Hazebrouck to Arras, even on the second application. MOROCCO.—According to some of the Paris papers au thentic accounts have been received of the dismissal, by the Emperor of Morocco, of the two general officers who headed the Moorish troops in their late attacks on the French camp at Lalla Magronia. It is also said that strong hopes are entertained of a speedy arrangement , as the French government does not demand the expulsion of Abdel Kader from the Moorish territory, but his immedi ate removal from the Algerian neighbourhood, and the assignation of a fixed residence for him under the respon sibility of the Emperor, in one of the towns of the most distant frontier. QUICK TRAVELLING.—Extract of a letter dated Co logne, Monday evening, July B.—" The rapidity of tra velling between this place and London is now wonderful in the extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven o'clock, and here I actually am on the second evening at Cologne on the Rhine. There has, besides, been nothing like hot haste' in the matter ; on the contrary , every thing has been done quietly and comfortably. You are aware that I embarked on board the steamer Antwerpen, having been assured at the office in London that we should arrive at Antwerp on Monday morning in ample time for the railway train for Cologne, and I certainly was not misled. Ike landed before eight o'clock, and all of our passengers who wished to do so, and they were certainly almost the whole, including many persons of high rank, got away by the train and reached Cologne with me alter about 30 hours' travelling. Who would have believed this even 10 years ago ?" NEW ZEALAND CANNIBALISM. The Journal des Debuts publishes the following from Akaroa, in New Zea land, dated January 28 :—" Probably, before my letter ar rives in France, you will have learned that the Mahouris, a tribe of Zealanders, have killed thirty English of this colony; but you, perhaps, will not know that the bodies of these unfortunate men were eaten. This is but too true. We had been out on a hunting party for a week, when, one evening, we arrived among the friendly tribe of Terauparaa, or Mahouris, and found them regaling on human flesh. We all conceived that they were eating some captives or slaves of their own nation. As I under stood the language I could not resist expressing my indig nation, and threatened them with chastisement from the crew of the corvette. The savages, alarmed, endeavoured to appease me by saying, They are not men of Mabouri that we are eating, but some Yes, yes,' for it is thus, they call the English. They then showed us the head of.their victims, and among them I recognised that of Captain Wakefield, one of the distinguished inhabitants of Port Nicholson, who had entertained us at his own house when we went to the town to procure provisions. I was seized with horror at the sight. My companions blamed me for having risked irritating the cannibals, as we were only five against two hundred. But they gave us con fidence by saying, ' 01 the Oui, oui, (for so they distin guish us,) are good people, but the Yes, yes are very wicked.' They then related that they had killed the Eng lish because they wished to establish themselves in a bay which they had not purchased, and which the Mahouris are unwilling to give up. We then retired, with our hearts full of horror and disgust." The Indian papers, brought by the last overland mail, record a shocking instance of mortality in a " Cooly ship," employed to bring back from Mauritius a number of Coolies whose time had expired. When she left Calcutta to go to the Mauritius with 210 Coolies (the full number permitted,) she only lost three of them, including a wo man, who died in child-birth. When she returned, she brought 270 Coolies—nearly a third more than her per mitted number—and of these she lost 17. To the fact that so much more than the proper number were carried, do the local writers, who take the humane view of the question, attribute the increase of mortality, and the melancholy. event gives them an opportunity of contrast ing the conduct of the public authorities at the Mauritius with that of the authorities at Calcutta, to the disad vantage of the former. At Calcutta, as we have seen, no more than the right number could be shipped, and there are at the same place a variety of regulations concerning the supply of provisions for the voyage. At the Mauritius, on the contrary, no such regula tions seems to exist, or, if they did exist, they are completely inoperative, and the assertion is well borne out that after the engagement of the Coolies have expired all concern for their welfare ceases. There appears to be no necessity for providing medicine or medical attendance, and all that the captain is bound to furnish is a pound and . a half of rice daily, two pounds of salt fish per week (which is found positively ir)urious) and some salt and wood, with accommodations lor cooking. No regard is paid to the number of Coolies put on board, and the owners may cram their vessels as much as they think fit. Thus, while every precaution is taken on the voyage from India to the Mauritius through the humane exertions of the Bengal authorities, the very reverse is the case on the voyage back. The Government of India is totally powerless in this matter, and the local writers urgently call for inter ference of the home government. In two ships, it seems, no less than 61 persons have perished. EXECUTION BY THE GUILLOTINE.—On the Bth inst., Pierre Lescure, who was accused of the murder of his fa ther, but not brought to trial for want of sufficient evi dence, and who has since been condemned to death for making away with his uncle, was executed at Riom (Puy de-Dome.) The circumstances attending the execution were most horrifying. Being a man of herculean strength, he was bound in prison with an unusual weight of chains. It required at least half an hour for the smiths to unrivet them. Lescure was much weakened by his confinement, and assistance was offered to him in walking to the scaffold ; but he declined it and went forward, and even ascended the ladder with a firm step. Fearing resistance, the executioners of St. Fleur and Moulins were called in to aid the executioner of Riom. When Lescure appeared on the platform, his tall and athletic person towered above them and the priest who attended him. Unfortunately he was not bound with sufficient force to the swing -board, which was also too short for his length, so that his neck went beyond the groove, and the axe, when loosened, fell on the wood of the frame, and only wounded its intended victim. Upon this, the executioner from St. Fleur got astride on the bead of Lescure, but the convict struggled from the grasp, and breaking his bands, rose again, with his shoulders and breast covered with his blood, his face flushed, and his eyes haggard, uttering cries that struck terror to the breast of every spectator. The priest approached the wretched man, and, presenting to him the image of Christ on the cross, succeeded by his exhortations in prevailing on him to again submit to be bound. Again the axe fell, and sgain missed its mark, only enlarging the first wound. Lescure's cries became st ll more astounding. The people shouted with indignation, and, pressing round the scaffold, were on the point of overcoming the Gendarmerie in attend : ance, while the priest, whose surplice was covered with blood, embraced and did all in his power to console the mutilated man. The three executioners were for a time paralysed but at last one of them mustered resolution to fix the devoted head in a proper position, and the axe, already streaming with blood, fell a third time, and com: pleted its task. The three executioners are, it is said, to be dismissed from their offices.—Galignani's Messenger. IRELAND. It is calculated that the O'Connell tribute this year wil reach £30,000. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Tbe proceedings at the Con ciliation Hall, on Monday, were totally devoid of all in , terest, save the amount of the rent, which was £2,135. On the 24th ult. two soldiers and a girl of bad charac ter were drowned in the Shannon by the upsetting of a boat. LORD Dc GREY.—The Earl and Countess De Grey will leave the Viceregal Lodge this (Tuesday) morning, and go by railway to Kingstown, and embark at half-past eleven for Liverpool. Lord Heytesbury is expected to enter on the duties about the 21st instant. " On Saturday morning," says a writer in the Warder, "Mr. O'Connell commenced his great literary labour — his Life and Times,' or by what other style and title his projected autobiography is to be distinguished, employing Mr. O'Neill Daunt as his amanuensis." BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—The Claddah men, as a race of fishermen, in Galway, are called, brutally attacked a rev. gentleman and others, last week, for attempting to fish in the bay, the monopoly of which they claim. They cut away the sails, &c., and sent them adrift. Fortunately, the rev. gentleman and his companions were picked up by a vessel passing. DISCOVERY OF PIKES.—On the 25th ult. a girl named Murphy went into Kildavin Grove, Carlow, to gather broken sticks, and while walking on a ditch in the grove, she saw secreted among the briars some iron bound up with hay-ropes. On unfolding the parcel, she discovered, to her astonishment, two newly-made and completely finished pikes, such as those so much in requisition in 1798. PoTA.TOIC RIOTS.—On Thursday a very serious riot took place at the Quay. Mr. Thomas Dobbin was ship ping potatoes for Liverpool on board a vessel, and the quay -porters and townsmen gathered, and prevented the shipment. The police were sent for, and directed the owners of the potatoes to proceed with them to the ves sel, and that they would be protected. They refused to do so, being afraid of the mob. Had they attempted to go on with the shipment the consequences would have been serious.—Sligo Journal. BARBERISING PAUPERS.—We often said God help the poor ! And who is there that will not respond Amen, when we tell him of the prison discipline of the Dunman way guardians of the poor? It was resolved last Satur day by those humane, Christian gentlemen, that all the women were to be " cropped," their hair cut close—thus THE ‘ LIV,,,ERPOOL STANDARD, uniting deg rad-..ation and poverty, shaved poles and por ridge ! It was further resolved, that if the master's wife had rut cropped every female head in the house by the f.'n (this dq), she was to forfeit £l.—Cork Examiner. GALLAN RESISTANCE.—On Sunday last, during the hours of Divine service, a party of four men, one armed with a blunderbuss, the others with pistols, went to tht dwelling-house of Mr. Grey, of Sopwell, a respectable Protestant, and attempted to force an entrance for the purpose of robbing the house of at ms ; but were bravely resisted by Mr. Grey's two sons, one aged about twenty years, the other a fine little lad of about thirteen, and in the conflict that ensued received some severe wounds— the former received a wound in the left hand, from the discharge of some of their fire-arms, and a poor old woman, a servant in the house, received a violent blow of a stone on the head from one of the party, inflicting a severe wound. After the party possessing themselves of a pistol, the brave young fellows continued the struggle — re-took the pistol, and forced the miscreants to decamp without effecting their purpose, and something the worse of the attack.—Nenagh Guardian. CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Chester has licensed a place of worship on the principles of the Established Church in the village of Oxton. The Rev. Joshua King and his nephew will officiate until % minister is appointed. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A supplement to the London Gazette, published on Friday night, contains an an nouncement that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in virtue of powers intrusted to them by Parliament, prepared a scheme, which is explained at great length, for constituting a separate district for spiri tual purposes in each of the parishes of Astbury and Prestbury, in the county and diocess of Chester. Seve ral other places are named, in which it is proposed that separate districts of this kind should be constituted. FALL OF THE TOWER OF HALLSTEAD NEW CHURCH. —On Wednesday afternoon last, the beautiful tower and steeple of this church, (which was to have been conse crated on the 31st instant,) which had been completed to a height of 115 feet, fell with an awful crash, which must have been heard for miles round. The first impression was, that all the labourers were beneath the ruins, and the shrieks and screams of the women and children were dreadful. It was a most providential interposition that such was not the case. It appears that Mr. Johnstone, the builder, actually saw the tower sinking, and he imme diately ordered the workmen off, when the tower fell; only two labourers were then upon the scaffold, one of whom is severely injured, but it is hoped may ultimately recover ; the other is comparatively but slightly hurt. The Rev. Archdeacon Burney and G. Sperling, Esq., ex perienced a very narrow escape, as did also Mr. and Mrs. Arden, who were in the body of the church at the time of the accident, a portion of the ruins falling into that part of the structure. The church itself has received but little injury. LECTURERS AND PARISH CLERKS.—A bill has been recently passed by the House of Lords, and brought down to the Lower Chamber, entitled " An Act for bet ter regulating the Offices of Lecturers and Parish Clerks." It has been, we believe, already read a first time in the House of Commons. The preamble recites the fact that there are now in divers parishes, &c., certain lecturers or preachers elected to deliver or preaclectures or sermons only. without the obligation of performing other clerical or ministerial duties, and declares that it is " expedient" that, in many cases, such lecturers should be required to perform other clerical duties, and act, if necessary, as assistant-curates in such parishes, &c. We need hardly state that the enactments are in strict accordance with the requirements of the preamble. Lecturers or preachers (so called) may be required by the bishop of the diocese to perform such other clerical or ministerial duties as the bishop, acting in conjunction with the incumbent of the parish, may think fit, under pain of suspension or re moval. An appeal may be made to the archbishop of the province within fourteen days. This enactment, how ever, is not to affect or be deemed applicable to any lec turer appointed prior to the passing of this act, unless such lecturer shall consent to be bound thereby. Power is given to the rectors or incumbents of parishes by the second clause to fill up vacancies occurring in the office of church or parish clerk, by the appointment of persons in the holy orders of deacon or priest of the united Church of England and Ireland, such persons to act as assistant curates if required. The appointments of assistant-clergy under this act are not to exempt incumbents (now liable) from the duty of providing curates. Power is given to archdeacons and other ordinaries to remove such parish clerks, not in holy orders, as may be guilty of misbehavi our or neglect of duty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. LAW OF MORTMAIN.—The Bishop of London, the Relic's. Thomas Sherburne and Francis Trappes, two Roman Catholic priests, and Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Brindle Lodge, near this town, were examined before the select committee of the Law of M °amain last week. Mr. Eastwood's evidence occupied the whole sitting of the committee on the Thursday. In the Court of Bankruptcy, William Bromley under went another examination, which disclosed facts of a most painful nature, and frauds*to an enormous extent. The debts and liabilities amount in round numbers to about £140,000, principally through breaches of trust, and some of them appear to have extended so far back as 1824. The Right Hon. Dr. Lushington, and the Rev. Arch deacon Brytner, of Bath, v ere present on the bench, they bavirur, in their capacity of co-trustees with the bank rupt in re Wilkinson, been defrauded of no less a sum than £29,000. The further hearing was adjourned. CAUTION TO PERSONS MAKING WILLS.—On Wed nesday last, Dr. Lushington, the Judge of the Preroga tive Court, set aside as invalid under the statute of Wills, 1 Vic. 26, sec. 9, a will which had been signed by two witnesses neither of whom had seen the signature of the testator to the document, he having brought the docu ment into the room to ask their signatures with the paper so folded that it is impossible they could have seen the signature if it had been there. The learned judge held that insufficient. They had seen no signature, and they could not witness the acknowledgment 'of that they did not see. THE BAR.—In consequence of the recent changes which have taken place at the bar by promotions and death, and which have bad the effect of causing a great arrear at Nisi Prins, the Lord Chancellor and the Judges have caused the following gentlemen to be called within the bar, and on Monday they obtained their silk gowns : Mr. Kinslake, of the Northern circuit; Mr. Alexander, of the Western circuit; Mr. Whiteburst, of the Midland, one of the juniors of the Oxford circuit ; and Mr. Chad wick Jones, of the Home circuit and the Central Crimi nal Court, is made a Serjeant, and was invested with the coif before the Lord Chief Justices and Judge of Com mon Pleas. ACTIONS FOR GAMING DISCONTINUANCE BILL.—A bill further to stay proceedings in certain actions under the provisions of several statutes for the prevention of excessive gaming, and to prevent any similar proceedings being taken under those statutes during such further limited time, has been brought in by Viscount Palmers ton and Mr. Tufnell, M.P. By the first clause qui tam actions for the recovery of gaming penalties are further suspended until the end of the next session of parlia ment—that is, we presume, until about the month of August, 1845. The second clause enacts, that in any case where actions are prosecuted contrary to the provisions of this act, a verdict is to be found for the defendants. The bill is, we believe, awaiting a second reading on the tible of the house of which Lord Palmerston is so distin guished a member. The Marriage Celebration Bill just introduced into the House of Lords by the Bishop of London, and " waiting for seconding," is "to declare the law respecting the publication of banns of matrimony, and the celebration of marriages in churches and chapels to which districts shall have been assigned under certain of the Church Building Acts." The preamble recites the acts 1 and 2 William IV, c. 38; 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 107, and 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 60 ; and then continues to set forth, that " doubts are entertained whether banns of matrimony can be published, or marriages be celebrated or solemnized, in churches or chapels to which districts have been as signed, or may hereafter be assigned, under the said acts, or either of them, and that it is expedient to remove such doubts." The clauses enact, that where districts have been assigned under the recited acts, the Church Building Commissioners, or the Bishop, may decide as to the pub lication of banns and celebration of marriages. Mar riages solemnized in churches or chapels built under the said acts are declared valid, but nothing in the bill is to affect licenses for solemnising marriages in churches, &c., under the act 6 and 7 William IV, c. 85. YORKSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES.—Tbe Yorkshire Sum mer Assizes commenced at York on Wednesday last. The arrival of the High Sheriff, Timothy Hutton, Esq., of Clifton Castle, was announced by a sonorous peal from the Minster new bells on the previous evening, about half-past five o'clock. Up to a late period it was not known in what manner the learned Judges of assize would enter the city, but in consequence of an intimation then received from their Lordships, the High Sheriff and the City Sheriff (James Chadwick, Esq.) proceeded to Dring houses, with their respective retinues, to meet them. The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Cresswell arrived at the Copmanthorpe station, on the York and North Mid land Railway, by the afternoon train from London, whence they proceeded in their private carriages, each drawn by four horses, to Dringhouses, where they were received by the High Sheriff for the county, and having taken their seats in his carriage, the corteue returned to the city, and thence proceeded to the castle, where the commissions of assizes were opened and read. The High Sheriff then duly made the returns to the writs to him directed, and the court was adjourned to the following day (Thursday), at noon. Their lordships then proceeded to the Guildhall in the city, where the assizes for the city were opened with the like formalities. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JULY 6.—ACRAMAN v. COO PER AND OTHERS.—This was an action of trover, to re cover £10,300, the alleged value of the scrip for 300 shares in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The defendants, who are bankers, claim a lien on the scrip for advances made upon this and other securities deposited with them by Coils, Thompson, and Co., the plaintiff's bill brokers. The case was tried at the sittings after last Michaelmas Term by Lord Abinger, one of the juries found for the defendants, and the second for the pla intiff. The two cases were afterwards brought under considera tion of the Court of Exchequer, and a new trial was f di rected in the present case. The Lord Chief Baron wa.sto t or ie in s i c o r n ip th: ,i t u i l f CthoenspAaihnotniff,pwsoaisl,aawnadrecwob,eint I w l e a c a pos . ede trans ferable security upon which the bill brokers migh ale money, the action could not be mainttuneci.—A !!er f an a l t• d sc e n fe c n e d o a f n n ts e . arl T y h a e n the h fo o r u e r man j a n t r y th r e e t t s i a r m n e e d verdict t a iule st dte do rtht et although the jury felt themselves constrained, after the evidence of the bill brokers, to return a verdict for the de fendants, they had heard with extreme surprise that it was the practice of the bill brokers to raise money on col lateral securities, lodged with them. They thought it a most dangerous practice for the mercantile world to raise money upon collateral securities, whilst the original secu rities were still running and available.—The Cbief Baron asked the jury if they considered the scrip receipts a trans ferable security ? The foreman replied that the jury con sidered it atransferable but not a negociable security, and thrt the mercantile world were ignorant of the custom de posed to by the brokers. The verdict was then entered for the defendants. THE COURT. The Queen held a Privy Council on Wednesday after noon, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty in Council was pleased to declare the Right Hon. William Lord Heytesbury Governor-General of Ireland. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace in an open carriage and four, for the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, escorted by a party of Light Cavalry, and arrived at Windsor Castle at twenty-five minutes before six o'clock. At an early hour on Thursday morning, the Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in a pony carriage. The Princess Royal was also taken an airing in the pleasure grounds and slopes of the castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the castle at eleven o'clock, to pay a visit to her Majesty, and afterwards returned to her residence at Frogruore. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left the castle for a drive in an open pony pheaton, the Prince driving. The royal party left at five o'clock and returned to the castle at seven o'clock. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice were taken an airing in the pleasure grounds in the after noon. The Duchess of Kent joined the royal circle at the castle at dinner in the evening.—The accouchment of the queen is expected to take place at a very early period, and every necessary preparation for the auspicious event has been made accordingly. Her Majesty was extremely desirous of remaining in London some days longer than she did, in order that. the trade of the metropolis might not suffer from the absence of the court, but her Majesty's medical advisers were urgent that the journey to Windsor should not be furtber delayed. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Frogmore Lodge. at half. past eight o'clock, on Wednesday evening, in a carriage and tour. The Royal Duchess landed at Woolwich dockyard, from the Continent, from the Princess Alice steam-packet, at half past four . o'clock. RAILII AY INTELLIGEACE. The projected railway from Beverley to Hull, in con nection with the Hull and Selby, is proposed to be constructed on Mr. Prosser's plan of wooden rails and bevel wheels. EXPLOSION ON A RAlLWAY.—Yesterday week, at Brighton, the non-arrival of the last train from London caused some alarm and a pilot engine was sent on to as certain the cause, when it was found that at Hayward's Heath Station one of the boiler tubes had burst, and envelloped the train in steam. No one was injured by the explosion. The pilot brought up the train after a delay of an hour. A meeting of the inhabitants of Banbury was he'd on Friday to discuss the merits of four projects of railway, which have been submitted as advantageous to that town, and the one selected by a large majority was the Great Western, from Oxford to Rugby. The other three were the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line; the London and Birmingham, from Weedon to Worcester ; and the Birmingham, Banbury, and Oxford line. Depu tations were present in behalf of the respective projects, and a very animated &bate was entered into. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—This railway, 37 miles in length, was opened on Monday last, and the event was marked with the usual demonstrations of re joicings. On Saturday the directors and their friends made an excursion on the line by a special train, and par took of a dljeuner ala fourchette at Gloucester. By the opening of this line the inconvenience hitherto experienced by the public from the disseverance of the chairt railway between the west and north of England is at length ob viated. At the Ulster Railway meeting held on the 3d inst., the shareholders resolved to complete the original plan of the company by carrying on the line :fro m P or t a d own t o Armagh.. The engineer stated that the expense would be about £lO,OOO per mile, including the cost of the bridge across the river Baun. Traffic appears to be expected from the adjoining districts, and Armagh being a town of greater population than Portadown, it bas been thought more desirable to make the terminus there. An extension as far as Monaghan was spoken of by some parties, but this did not meet with the approbation of the meeting. DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Thursday morning, Mr. Thomas Anthony Tuelon, aged 81, of Denchfiehl, Surrey, died very suddenly in a railway car riage in which he had just taken his seat at the London station to return home, after transacting a good deal of business at the Bank and other places. His two sons were by him at the time. A physician who had attended him for some years said that his health was generally ex cellent, but, from symptoms of disease of the heart, he warned the family two or three years ago that he might die suddenly. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." . MISCHIEF AND DISTRESSING CALAMITY.—About two days ago, Mr. Joseph Crawshaw, contractor on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, baying gone to York to look after another contract, and detained longer than expected, some malicious persons raised a rumour that he had been thrown on the rails and killed. His relations in alarm sent his, brother Richard in search of him to York, when he found him well, and also that he had been successful in his tenders for 44 miles of road. On Mr. Joseph reaching home, being elated at his pros pects, and employed in the viaduct at Blackmoor, went too near to a stone that was just slung, and it fell upon him and crushed him to death ! The outrageous fabrica tion of his death was thus in some measure confirmed. Low FARES ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—It appears from Mr. Lang's paper, appended to the select committee's report, that at present the London and Birmingham Company carry 780,000 passen gers per annum, and average distance of 66 miles each. Of this number, 37 per cent. pay 3d. per mile ; 54 per cent., 2d. ; and 9 per cent., lid. Supposing the com pany to run third-class carriages at Id. per mile, with all their trains, and allowing that 15 per cent., paid 3d. per mile, 30 per cent. paid 2d., and 55 per cent. ld., they would require to carry 2,979,670 persons (or nearly four times the present number,) an average distance of thirty miles each, to secure the same gross returns; or, as the expenditure would be increased, the number must be increased to 3,500,000 to retain the existing amount of net profit.—Railway Record. YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE RAILWAYS.—Within the last few days, public meetings have been held at Keighley, Colne, Burnley, Haworth, and other places in the vicinity of the proposed lines, on the subject of the proposed extension of railway communication from Brad ford to the North of Lancashire. It seems that the pro meters of the new line of railway from Preston to Black burn, for making which an act has only been obtained during the present session, are anxious to extend it to Burnley, Colne, and the Yorkshire Railways ; and that the promoters of the Bradford and Leeds Railway are equally desirous to carry forward their line to Keigbley, and through Craven, into Lancashire, but that there is a considerable difference of opinion between the two parties as to the best line to be taken for the purpose. The Leeds and Bradford Company propose to continue their line from Shipley to Bingley, and thence up the valley of the Aire to Skipton, with a branch to Keigbley, and from Skipton to make a junction line to Blackburn. The Blackburn Company recommend a line through Burnley and Colne to Shipley, to effect which it will be necessary to make a long tunnel, with steep gradients in other parts of the line, sometimes to the extent of 1 in 80. Nothing has been decided, but the surveys are proceeding ; and a meet -1 ing held at Keighley, o n M on d ay , f or the purpose of se lecting the site for a station, declined to do so until the line was fixed upon. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. DURHAM.—The pastures, which previous to the rains presented a melancholy aspect, have again assumed a healthy look, and a good second crop of g rass may be rea sonably expected. The rains have also been of immense service to potatoes and other root crops; whilst turnip sowing has progressed under the most auspicious circum stances. As regards wheat, sufficient moisture has now fallen ; and in some districts, that which was particularly luxuriant, has been partially lodged by the heavy thunder showers ; with this trifling exception the rain has been most beneficial, and when it is taken into consideration the enormous difference it must make in the produce of all spring corn, we may well say the prospects as to the fu ture have brightened sufficiently to encourage the hope that there will be no deficiency of the crops as the aspect of affairs indicated about the middle of June. In short the prospect is now one of universal abundance in all the fruits of the earth.—Durham Advertiser, July 12. GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—With the exception of a few drops which fell yesterday, no rain has fallen since our last, but the weather continues warm and genial._ The copious rains of last week have not only amazingrliYptlion proved pasture grounds and benefited every !s andtetlhot, weee newm f d a ptheh v ebea o erady u t coc r srwae l oen b onvdt l ss e . bo c ibf. b e, potato et:tpetaorrhtnfi ofiwhe e wa al war r h d v m he s eears aw aett r tand e ucwe i a ec c l rnvh oinit o - t l t h i o i C ynoc kei nehni.s,id-ablce fall in of growing crop, but have produced a cot! poring rice drought the price of butter and vegetables. po- i n n- the price has butter was selling at 15d. ; since the rain has fallen to 6d.; ranged from 11d. to 13d. The a Gloucester Chronicle, fallen from £6 to £slos. perth niatton is also lower. Hay, of ton. — *during the past week has DEVONSHIRE.—The weath er sunny days giving rich frui cern offer considerable promise. been most delightful, fell so copiously a few tion to the genial showers tinge in the appearance of the country ; The consequ a complete i bnhagasstmdboeeresecntrhi p a t n i o a n , hun dred days previously. hopes are entertained theydid a few weeks since; slightly een are now green that were then brown, and indeed, has already abundant yield. The natural con,e rown, prices have sl This morning there were some refreshing s h owers, fol. EAST R nd t g h c an onfi sales have to be effected th declined,cut at as C i n o w'l ey every c o in m holders arc ~ and IDING. --Notwithstanding the which is so forward as to seem likelyt i o fi b n e e Exeter Gazette, instance je, that o:.site dit inagi ~,cti obligedel heec)nere:e Isc dwtieno YORKSHIRE, iddtwhi drought, oabuhatieb:gmohpie, approaching rflit submit , around us, and gives pr •of promise an early harvest. Mei e is a field 01 a heat, of six or seven acres, in the p.ri , llLf atijoiuing the Bull and Marfitet road, Soutlicoatt,, r e e o a t d i condition t f i o u r n tall July 16, 1844. sickle by the end of the month, and so abundant that it is expected to yield upwards of seven quarters an acre. The crop of wheat, however, is not considered a particuz larlv large one this year, generally speaking, though its condition is excellent. Neither oats nor barley, it is be lieved, will reach an average; but they are in good order. Beans will be the most abundant crop that there has been for a long time past. Hay is everywhere a complete fai lure ; there will scarcely, we are told, be more than three in rather quarters of a ton a critical an acre. T s tat e: s ho h u e ld t u t rip h n e crop is weather baet unfavornt able, present able, it will be exceedingly defective, if not altogether lost, in which case the want of provender, both for cattle and ship, will be severely felt. The stock market is al ready feeling the effect of these apprehensions. Hull Packet, July 12. YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING.—We have this week bad an opportunity of taking rather an extensive survey of the progress of the crops in the west riding of York, and the. southern division of Lancashire. The hay harvest in these districts has become very general. The crops are, exceedingly light, not more than one-third an average; and the meadows, both upland and by the sides of the rivers, will afford but little employment for either the mowers or haymakers. The oats are short in the straw and somewhat deficient in corn, but not nearly to the same extent as in the dry summer of 1826, when commercial and agricultural distress was so prevalent. The potato crop has failed is some parts of the country, but the quality of this invaluable root will probably be generally good, and free from that ex cessive moisture which is often complained of in wet sea sons. The turnip crop is unpromising ; in many fields the seed has never germinated, and in others the fly has been very destructive. Beans are generally stunted in the straw, but tolerably well padded. The wheat crop looks uncommonly well, and will, according to present appearances, yield more than an average produce. There is scarcely a field in this part of the country where it is laid, there is no rust or mildew, and the verdant hue of the ears and the straw is quite refreshing. This will be thought extraordinary, seeing that in the months of March. April, and May, there has only fallen one inch and a half of rain, while in those three months, in an average of years, the quantity is upwards of four inches. The corn harvest will, this year, to present appearances, be two or three weeks earlier than usual. This is generally a great advantage, from the days remaining long and the sun powerful, and it may account for the depreciation in the price, in our principal markets, of both the Michaelmas Wednesday n and f Lent acspianr sownuas persuasion t corn. h evening,atbui will i e d land m isre good still rom thirsty, other alid o there exists the strange a noma ly f or a genera l w i s h for rain among the farmer s , i n th e m id st o f t h e hay harves t, crops, and to the after grass, than it will d o h arm to the ir scanty and easily secure crops of hay.—Leeds Mercury, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. Friday Evening. THE LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CUP. 6 to 1 agst The Era 18 to 1 agst Best of Three 7to 1 „ Aristotle 20 to 1 „ Trueboy (off) Bto 1 „ Pompey 20 to 1 „ Armytage 9to 1 „ Poor Soldier 20 to 1 „ The Neill (off) 10 to 1 „ B. Yeoman (t f) 20 to 1 „ The Caster [0 to 1 „ Yardley (t) 25 to 1 „ Brit. Tar (offers [2 to 1 „ Pagan to take) [6 to 1 „ Lothario (t) 25 to I „ The Squire [6 to 1 „ Queen of Tyne 33 to 1 „ Mickey Free (t) (20 to 1 taken) 33 to 1 „ Whistle Binkie Aristotle and Pompey have been in much request since Tuesday, and backed to win a good stake at various prices.- Aristotle was yesterday backed 8 and 7 to 1 several times, and Pompey at 10 to 1 in ponies, then 9 to 1 was taken, and afterwards 8 to I, in small sums; at which latter prices we quote them to-day, few inquiries being made respecting them. To-day, Poor Soldier sprung up to 9to 1, t he offers during the week averaged 20 to 1, but he was backed to very little money at any price, and not a bet laid about him to-day. 33 to 1 was laid agst Mickey Free; he was backed yesterday to a score at 20 to 1.- Offers to-day to take 25 to about British Tar, and to back him for £5OO each agst Trueboy and Rueen of the Tyner 500 even was laid between British Tar and Mickey Free. GOODWOOD STAKES. 6to 1 agst Franchise (offd. 12 to 1 agst Red Deer to take) 14 to 1 „ The Currier 9to 1 „ Croton Oil 20 to 1 „ Lucy Banks 10 to 1 „ Canton 20 to 1 „ Elegance filly 12 to 1 •„ Parthian (t) 25 to 1 „ Poussin Parthian was backed at 12 to 1 to a small sum, being the only horse upon which business was done. 6to would have been taken about Franchise. THE LEGER. 15 to 1 agst Morpeth (off) 15 to 1 „ Foig- a-ballagh (offered) 125 to 1 „ Devil-to-Pay 4 to 1 agst The Cure 6to 1 „ Ithuriel 9to 1 „ Princess 10 to 1 „ Red Deer 10 to 1 „ Bay Momus There was not a bet laid to-day. The Cure, yesterdays was backed in scores at 4 to 1, The Princess two or three times at 8 to 1, and Bay Momus in scores at 11 to 1. TATTERSALL' S.-THURSDAY. The attractions at Newmarket were not sufficient to in duce a large proportion of the usual frequenters of the room to stay away ; and many who had gone there hastened back, in the forlorn hope of meeting those whose absence on Monday had excited so much regret. Nothing oc curred, however, to lessen the feeling of dissatisfaction the winding-up of the liunning Rein affair had produced- In fact, " the absentees" were as numerous as ever, and the complaints were " loud and deep" at the want of principle displayed by persons in whom the fullest confi dence had been placed. A sort of vague impressiqn, S remains that some of the lost she e p may b e foun d at verpool, and a tacit understanding existed against a public announcement of defaulters till after that opportunity of " coming to the post " had gone by. All delicacy will then cease, and the names of the unprincipled will be made public without scruple. The dissatisfaction which prevailed had an obvious influence on the betting, and the busine,s done was not only limited, but confined to a verf narrow circle. The following were the closing prices THE LIVERPOOL CUP. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstene's The Era Bto 1 „ Mr. Jacques's British Yoeman (taken to £5O 10 to 1 ~ Lord Chesterfield's The Poor Soldier (takenl 10 to 1 „ Lord Eglington's Pompey (taken) 14 to 1 „ Colonel Crad.tek's Pagan (taken) 14 to 1 „ Mr. D. Cook's Trueboy (taken) Two or three bets were laid against the Poor Soldier, at a point or two less than the quoted odds. GOODWOOD STAKES. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Wrefoed's Franchise (taken to £25) 12 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's Parthian (taken) 13 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's The Currier (taken) 17 to 1 „ Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks (taken) ST. LEGER. 13 to 1 „ Mr. H. Rl:obi-Ism:es Morpeth (taken) 14 to 1 „ • Mr. Ir.in's Foig-a-ballagh (taken) THE KING OF SAXONY.—His Majesty continues bit tour through England, visiting most of the remarkable places and sights. Orr Sunday last his Majesty, attended , by his usual stile, visited the city of Bristol, and proceed ed to the Bath Hotel, Clifton. His Majesty, after at tending Divine Service at the Roman Catholic chapel, proceeded to view the various beauties of Clifton. On Monday morning he proceeded to view the steam ship Great Britain, on board which his Majesty was received by the Right Worshipful the Mayor, and others, by whom his Majesty was conducted through. eve ry portion of the ship, which excited the most marked commendations from the royal personage. His Majesti theu proceeded to Leigh Court, the seat of Mr. J. r• Miles, which has been so often visited by royalty, w here, he viewed the superb gallery of paintings, and partook 0' a dejeuner. In the evening his Majesty departed for Wales. to view the Dowlais ironworks, the property 0 Sir J. Guest ; and alter a tour through the southern and n r hero portion of the Principality, arrived at Chester. whence his Majesty proceeded to this town, which he reached on Sunday, as noticed elsewhere. ing uno of known the a s thepit m ß e l u a, w , MEETING OF PITMEN —On Monday a numerous meet ka .. r e held il. n It n w S a li s a d s a e i n d - h thati ll , more generally p ers s were present; and our impression was that 20,000 were about the number at the meeting. Nearly all the meo lately employed in the pits of the Tyne and Wear were getahegteiesnedg pledges itself present, and each colliery was distinguished by a flag or banner, bearing upon it the name of the colliery and 5 suitable inscription. Mr. Thomas Hay was called to th e chair. He said,—since the strike, the march of intellec t has been advancing, and the people are thinking for thenn• selves. I never saw such a host of moral-force men as A see assembled here to-day. Oh! the voice of this meeting will produce a wonderful effect, and will be heard by the -office.—One of th a e nd re r s i o g lu ht t e io o n u s: e ; tyrants of the coal struggle in to continue the holy andtwhl eiircebhfaowsreeedtauhreipsoenir,: contest until our just claims are acceded to."--nne Mercury "That pisrioonfriceitpholiefss justice ts e tc e iac t ne in n g o , t f t a h i Twa Woor.. TRADE.--It was fully expected by the graz i ers generally throughout the kingdom that the re' duction in the duty on foreign wool imported into this country would have the effect of very considerably 11 _1 clueing the price of that staple commodity at the seven' wool fairs generally held at this period of the year in thf, agricultural districts. These forebodings, however, e the part of the graziers do not appear likely to be realised' At the Ilsley wool fair, which was held last week, at wki . e' uuwards of 4,500 tods were pitched, and more than 4,U, tods sold, the prices realised were far greater than in 184 3 t; and when it is considered that the prices obtained by th graziers for their wool at this celebrated annual mart ar e ble looked upon as a fair average standard of the value of t ... e l to triump. important article of commerce in other districts, it don: not appear that the wool-growers have much cause , for fen or alarm, at least at present. The following were t 4: prices obtained by the growers this year :—Teg wool , 3 '4 • to 325. 6d. ; ewe wool, 275. to 28s. • and mixed 'rev.; being about one-third part teg, 28s. to 295. 6d. Last Y ea 7 the same qualities obtained the following prices : ,—V P to 255. to 255. 6d. ; ewe, 235. to 235. 6d. ; mixed, 235. 6 0 ' ;to 245.'6d. Ever since 1838 (when wool was nearly Lt s , highest) the prices have gradually declined, down to 1 ;1/ when it was at its lowest price. In 7838, the prices whil, were obtained by the growers at Ilsley fair were as ~.i . ; lows :—Teg wool, 425. to 455. Gd. ; ewe, 365. to 38s. °l t , mixed, 40s. to 41s. Several extensive buyers from Ye r „,l shire and other pal is of the country attended the fair, sr made considerable purchases. At the Abingdon wool re e P r ; held last week, business was exceedingly brisk, and b0Y, 1 , 0 from all parts of the country were present. Nearly i '; ‘ - so whole of the wool pitched was purchased before the ew a s of the day. The prices obtained by the growers vre A tF tto , follows, at per tod ; —Teg wool, 30s. to 335. ; ewe " I 275. to 295. ; mixen ditto, 295. to 33e.