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Darliatnertao ......-...41...- HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoN w men tiered it that it House Lorc to be wri i DENMAN rose to ...pectlng a ping a lately. The para- f the v on the Intradict a stater Morning Chronicle Lord Denman of was, that ence whether " The noble a most unqualified contradiction to ,able and learned a matter of in ad in prisons s speech ga he earliest ad ever us Commons that it AN said tha es, what was ed to have been used n mplimented tb irtunity of refuting so gross T. W . ' ' ' :er from Sir spressions in the course of on the jud rnmented at some lengt of Stockdale v. Hansard, and stated tlemen in the the house ad the power of en- pa!sing the from Lord BROUGHAM and the Duke iect was dr ire had been dis- business of a trifling r character and a -law commission in Ided to the present number, which was only DN defended the commissioners. from Lord CAMPBMLL, the sub- e house OF COMMONS.—MoNDA f the chartist he subjec ord Gac ad a letter from the of the magistr t had occurred in he thot e magistrates of what J. Gitaxam said the proceeding was p ed to la report of the prison inspec e house. The Home Secretary had no control over twent or removal of the chaplains of gaols, which as vested in the magistrates. Mr. WILLIAMS asked why the rates of interest on exche ler bills was not reduced, seeing the current rate for money the market was not more than one per cent. . . • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied t luctnatin he mark ed itself into a committee of scion on the high rate of inters was taken of £18,182,000 to The votes for the commissariat raised Hume and Mr. Williams objected to the establishment Sir R. Pe ponement of the xtravagant scale of at having I contingencies on account ( T the amount and natu R. PEEL assented, remarking in reply to Mr. Williams, who had complained of the rapid manner in wnich t mates were hurried forward, it the Government had taken the house by surpris atent of the reductions which they had been enab that it was no wonde and thereby commanded universal acquiescence. house then resumed, and after some further business been transacted, adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TuESDAT Lord MONTEAGLE ga notice that on Tuesday next he ald move for returns relative to the importation of cotton and said he should call attention to the subject of and woc Lord BROUGHAM called the attention of their lordships t a publication which had appeared relative to Lord Lynedocl —a publication of a nature, for the pur- malignant of 10 - wering the character of two peers of that to create a quarrel between them. He was now ing to trace the author, and if he could discov assuredly would have him called to the bar, parliament had or had not the privilege of punts proceeding. The noble lord stated the facts place, denying that any hostile message had ever been sent to him by Lord Lynedoch ; but, on the contrary, asserting that Lord Lynedoch's letter was full of the kindest and most friendly feeling towards him, merely requesting that he would contradict the misrepresentations which had been made of his speech in that house. The misrepresentations of facts would have been ridiculous—if not despicable, hateful, and execrable—were it not that this sort of interference by the press with private society was no longer to be endured. In reply to a question from Lord BEAUMONT, The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was the intention of Government during the present session to bring in a bill to carry out the objects of the bill which had lately passed the Canadian legislature, for the purpose of admitting American corn into Canada at 3s. duty. Their lordships soon after adjourned. ideavour- im he most and try whether as they had HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY Sir T. WILDE referred to what had passed on the previous evening in the House of Lords relative to observations al leged to have been made by him upon Lord Denman, and said that though that noble lord had not been very guarded own expressions, yet that he (Sir T. Wild e ) i n us i ng Js that " the noble word's judgment in the case of Stockdale and Hansard contained little law and less common " had used words which he most certainly would not the word ave advisedly chosen Lord PALMERS' )11 moved for copies of all communica- •••••••10 IT 1.”.... a.......... -.lkea place between the governments or plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and of the United States with reference to the treaty signed at Washington the 9th day of August, 1842, and to the negotiations which led to • ..• ____ ..._ or extracts of all communications on Same subjects between her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Lord Ashburton. Various opinions, he said, were entertained of this treaty, but as a bargain no thought it advantageous for Oat country, while many. was one of the number, thought it a bad one, and of blame. The first disputed point arising from 1783, which was the St. Croix, there being of that name. The second disputed " the highlands," the British " the St. John, while the St. Lawrence. that treaty and co re near the WU) , also arose as to the meaning of the e Americans contendinkthat it was by geometric tion. The King British nor Or .Ifixed upon an intermediate the British governmet England. al- Ty disadvantageous to g ,ed States rejected the decision, e d to them that Great Britain ;r. The British claim was instead of by astro- Netherlands decided ,can lines met the 782, and Df the I St. John falling into the c river according to the terms en d e termined in favour of Netherlands; and although ~act refused to re-open the question, .-.equently agreed that a convention should be _..ied to re -investigate and decide upon the disputed aoundary. The proposition, however, that the state of Maine should appoint commissioners to be associated with roissioners was rejected by the British go ;ad of continuing to rest on the justice of the Americans were perfectly aware were corroborated by the reports of the British commissioners, Colonel Mudge and IVIr. Featherstonhugh, and conducting the negotiations through the ordinary channel of our am '-- at Washington, a special mission was appointed, was so far disadvantageous, because omp a t hus going out w ith great parade and p would feel a natural reluctance to return without doing some thing. With respect to the person selected for this negotia tion—Lord Ashburton, be wished to speak of him with all consideration for his private virtues ; but he laboured under great disadvantages in being connected with America, and in being wholly unacquainted with diplomacy. When Lord Webster A s hb u rton arrived in America he was met by Mr. with the demand of " What proposal he eous po had c mesitio oto make e " thus at once tak in g an advantag which the British negot iator was ultimately checkmated. Lord Ashburton made his proposal, but he was skilfully one co played with ; the Am ericans obtaining concession after another, until the noble lord was at last brought to a stand still by h av i ng nothing more to concede. The negotiation was t o h ave been conducted on the principle of mutual con still and mutual equivalents; but Lord Ashburton flung down his bag of concessions at once, which Mr. Webster eagerly took up with a profusion of thanks ; and when Lord Ashburton subsequently asked for concessions on the part of America, he had no equivalents ' '''-r, for he had g iven lord then con- Bay of aims which as an Ada to °fit. them away in the first instance. The noble . - tended that all our foreign transactions, since. the present government had come into power, were a continual sliding backward from the position which this country had taken with respect to the abolition of the slave trade. The first step back had been in the non-ratification of the treaty with France; the second, the treaty with America ;the third, the letter written relative to the burning of the baracoons on the coast of Africa, which was conceived to be, be believed erroneously, a recinding of the former or ders up the sub ject of these baracoons. The n est step ba onck was in the ord As corr espondence between Mr. Webst and Lhbtart?n, erhe course relative to the case of the Creole, in t of which Lord Ashburton seemed to admit that sltives on board.Amed rican ships, even in British ports, were not to he considered in any other light than as stand still upon American territory. otwithstanding, however, all the concessions that. haq been made, Lord Ashburton was told that all questions in dispute had not been settled, and as if to prove this a bill had since. been presented to congress with which,ew to take immediate possession of the Oregon territory, if it Passed, would be tantamount to a declaration of war against this country. Sir R. PEEL said that the noble lord had occupied upwards of three hours in endeavouring to show that government bad acted unwisely in the selection of the plenipotentiary sent to America to bring to a close a negotiation which had lasted upwards of twenty-five years, and that the whole of that ne gotiation was badly managed. He, in short, denounced the t re aty and all conce r n ed with it, and then concluded w ith a motion for papers which he knew it was impossible for go vernment to produce. Had he been o p en and manly enough to move for a vote of censure he would have met it with an amendment, and the house could then have decided whether uch censure was fairly attributable to any party. The course followed was unworthy of one of the leaders of a great party that house, for he might have even moved to confirm the aty and condemn the parties who had m ade it. step He ied that the treaty with America was any retrograde ectii olition of the slave trade. On then f contrary, amer i can s nad unde rtaken to keep up a cer.ta the slave iorce on oas t of Afric a for the purpose of suppressing —a step in advance considerably greater than any which government d been able to induce the American ~-, adop t. ha The re fusal of the French to ratify to be attributed to the noble d to e feeling of the French against in the coast of Syria, and who had •0 the very verge of war. With treaty and condemn the lat, 3 g the a,l3' rn men lord, who had el! d, was Q to the destruction of the barra- respect to the letter refer , t the principles of al law, b ;(3 to t end to th limiis of defeat their own obj by treatir )ulatlo t :Altogether at Lord Ashburton at home, but / laid down the !soaping into Brit f. there was no w genera territoi it was ayes to takt advantage of ery poir led, and Lord .Ashburto weep the r so iong 'estering The American govern so to a conclusion it na p erhaps ) usies and rod. The uestion upon which s constantly on I decided upon s, k as 18:55, taut nown to eauently Lord Ashburto. n a ques ing to the convenience and treed to by both as the most chief object was at for that purpose they issioner to the United States—a gentleman certainly not so skilled in protocols as the noble lord, but who bad, nevertheless,_brought this difficult subject to a satisfactory conclusion. The noble lord (Palmerston) had proposed to have three scientific com missioners chosen by the Kings of Prussia, Sardinia, and Sicily, to settle this boundary ; but Mr. Fox exclaimed and Mr. Featherston- _ ropc haugh had also said thit such a commission would last eig .. ~ so extraordinar or ten years, in which case the expense of the commiss would be far greater than the value of the territory in c r all the c •cumstances to tak, 'bile tl: , nsiderable I and for strip a, Aw to pr 9 i3rortrbirio ;as. Under such active steps to endeavour at once to bring conclusion. In fact, in the month of Sept cnmstances admitted of no further delay, for encroach had taken place on the disputed territory which would have gone on until the territory had been gradually lost, or we must have plunged into a war in order to preserve it. The government was responsible for all that had been done, and if blame was to be attributed to any one it was to be faste—A on the government which made its own of all that had t done by Lord Ashburton ; but, so far tended that they were entitled to claim pursued and the success which had attended that far as related to military security, we had obtained under a treaty of Lord Ashburton much greater advantages than we should have derived under the treaty of the King of the Netherlands ; and with respect to extent of territory, it was equally advantageous. The King of the Netherlands gave to America three-fifths of the disputed territory, and two- •om blam hanks for the cours, aty gave sev ngland. "W twelfths to Amer ossession of Mr. Webstc say that Mr. Webster ad been ye ad no right, a t, for L to the usual rules of d point outtl hand there - ns own cas, at that map was the one din. If the noble lord referred to in the 1 ssed his motion to a d of censure on the ent for the selection of Lord ,nd he felt confident that the Ashburti house never ald consent thus to a a man who had rendered his country most ntial service Mr. MAcA n and Mr. \% firmer unworl been ratified in London n ca it was viewed as mpressions of its r an abandonment of the right of of the treat aile in Englant such it Sir H. Dot .h the treat made by Lord Ashbur 'ted in another column The debate was then a HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAI Mr. DIVETT wished to know whether tht e had been any mrties who had Customs s in raw silk, as bad corn The CHANCELLOR Of t EXCHEQUER said he thougt ;, and found that then compromise made, an to inquire of the Cu was, nor would there be, a to them, never had any o they listen to any for a compromise Upon the repor )sed and n they; had made f the Dogs Bill, two amendment w€ and the bill was ordered to be read a ihiid time this day (Thursd The adjourned m Tre Sir R. Peel on the be- ch, in s expo- ate of the borders of Vermont an( ining New Bruns- . _ ng portion of land formed by the sources re had. in exchange, a considerable ter- 'thee on the Ashb Sir C. NAPIER, who complime which, however, as nt 1 ' , 4 that Lord As contende ~s of Mr. Webster it Lord Palmerston's spec Mr. D'IiRAELT th or ins eloquence, which had prevented I Napier) from hearing Mr. Macaulay's srP.- h- had read it, he perfp,-' ‘. , urton had nP mar deal' previous evenin s - itions he case e Hamps We had given of the Connecticu ritory forming an important military frontier—that is, we had given up one hundred thousand acres and had received one million. The navigation of the St. John gave the Americans it portion of the river run t he subject to British law, ges, as on a in British territory they mus _,...iiug of house's Point was of no consequence as it did not command the entrance of Lake Champlain, and He had seen the celebrated " red neover was in ruins i was very smal Map, wt D'Anville, oftt too minute to an authorit Franklin, as published by his grandson, in which it was clearly stated that the map used by the negotiators was Mitchell's. The British negotiator who conducted the treaty of 1783, Mr. Oswald, had been objected to on grounds very similar to those on which the appointment of Lord Ashburton had been questioned. In concluding, he criticised Lord Palmerston's foreizn policy. Mr. H AWES proceeded to address the house, bat an hon. member stating that there were not fdrty members present, the house adjourned at a quarter past seven. only eighteen inches of North America, He then read a from the correspondence of Dr CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—The polling at this borough took place on Monday last. At eleven o'clock Mr. Foster was 68 a head of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, but this majority was gradually reduced until two o'clock, when it was 49, but between that hour and three o'clock the conservatives made a spirited rally, and at the latter hour Mr. Kelly had a majority of 28, which was increased at the close of the poll to 33. Mr. Kelly was therefore declared duly elected. He is a well known and firm cons STEAM AT SO nage at this port is worthy of notice steam-vessel was known only by name, and years back the steam tonnage was limited to but a few hun dred tons, whilst on Sunday last we observed in our river, in commission, 24 steamers (which is no unusual occurrence), measuring in the aggregate 12,000 tons, and giving employ ment to 800 men, which, with the officers of the different companies, servants, &c., causes the expenditure of at least £50,000 per annum amongst the trade of this town.—Hamp shire Advertiser. The revolting outrage in Montgomeryshit tailed a week or two ago, in which man named Samuel Poppet, was throw his own cottage, and a consume him, has res' some weeks of which we de- a poor, aged, inoff Ito the flames, in od a fire made on his breast, whereby to ~,alted in the death of the victim, after parralled suffering ; the flesh of his body, being so much consu - Ad stomach was visible, motive can be assigned for plunderers were disappointed im of money which the old from the neck to below the stoma( med that the action of and the bowels expost this wanton cruelty, ex„, of their prey,—a consider man possessed being so concealed among that the thiefs could not find it. Strong ,st a parcel of rags, to a gang of vagabonds who fortunately are nOw in custody —Chester Courant. MURDER.—On the night of Wednesday last, the 15th instant, a young man named Brock was twice fired at in the village of Tuam, within four miles of Strokestown. We are sorry to say that both took effect, and immediate death was the result. It is difficult to assign a reason for the committal of this murder, and we understand the most feasible assigned is, that he had got the land held by another tenant who was changed to an adjoining farm. He was tenant to R. Irwin, Esq., of Rathmile House, one of the best and most indulgent landlords in this county. Brock was a young man of good character, mosttioffensive, and his murder has excited con siderable alarm and horror in the neighbourhood. We sincerely hope that the perpetrators of this dreadful outrage may be discovered, and that the magistracy will use every exertion in bringing them to justica.—Boyle Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday se'nnight the miller of Newtown Mill, near Melrose, having observed the supply of water in the darn suddenly diminish, went to a large and un enclosed pond, situate by the road side, where the sluice is placed, to ascertain the cause. For this purpose he thrust in a dung-fork, when to his astonishment and horror, be drew up the body of a little girl, the daughter of a person named Jane Mein, who resides in the village. Another girl, the daughter of Adam Thompson, labourer, being missing, her mother, on hearing of the occurrence, came CO the spa and expressed her apprehension that her child had shared the same fate. Unfortunately her fears were too well founded, for the next moment the lifeless body of her offspring was dragged to the side. The two little girls, who were insepa rable companions, had, while playing together, fallen unob served into the pond, which is of c3nsiderable depth, and were drowned. — Caledonian Mercury. TEMPERANCE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.- spectus of -a new company under this title appears as an advertisement in the London Times of Monday. The capital is to be £500,000, in shares of £25 each. The object of the company as stated is " to establish a system of underwriting, new to London, but not new to other parts of England, or to America, where the plan has been tested, and found to be eminently successful. Evidence has been submitted to par liament, and select committees have reported in its favour, that a very large proportion of losses at sea arise, either di rectly or indirectly, from the use of ardent spirits. Sir Ed ward Codrington, Admiral Brenton, Mr. C. Purnell, the Dockmaster at Liverpool, the Hon. Capt. Rous, and many other influential and experienced individuals have stated to parliament that a very large proportion of all the losses at sea are occasioned from this cause alone ; taking, however, the losses so occasioned at but 20 per cent. of the whole, it is clear that a system which allows (say) 5 per cent. a bonus to the proprietors of all the insured vessels or cargoes, navigated under temperance regulations, on safe return voyages, must add to the ordinary profits of underwriting to the extent at least of 15 per cent. in addition." THE REPEALERS.—These gentry have been violating the Sabbath by a repeal demonstration on the last Lord's day in Trim, where 30,000 persons, headed by numerous Popish priests, are stated to have assembled at a political meeting of the morning, with Henry Grattan, M.P., in the chair; and what Mr. O'Connell terms a " strong dinner" ensued after wards, graced by the presence of the Popish Bishop of Meath. By a" strong dinner" we understand that repeal treason was strong as well as the fare. One new feature seems to be anxiously put forward at the recent repeal statements of the rent—viz., that contributions from Presbyterians and other Protestants are beginning to flow in more freely. We don't place too much faith in these representations, but they are strongly asserted. At all events the rent increases : that of the week is £351 Os. Bd., being above seven hundred pounds in the fortnight last past. Agai❑ we ask, are our governors asleep ? Is impunity to be the reward of treason, sedition, and crime, henceforth? Is danger to be steadily winked at till it becomes no longer danger but dismay? Truly, if things are permitted to go on in their present track, it will soon be time for the Protestants of Ireland to anticipate the coming anarchy by the formation of a provincial association of some sort.—Dublin Statesman. M'NAUGHTEN.—The effect or example, in deterring lu- N pro- natics from committing murder, has been found to be consi derable, if we may judge from the lives of madmen h--- few instances in which ficed by the law, while the influence of example, in promoting the pi( , murder and suicide, has been most strikingly s 1 1 I metropolis within the last two or three year 1 . Bellingham, unquestionably a lunatic, was h 'or a murder of Mr. Perceval. and from that time mu.._ 1, n sh a single political assassination was perpetrated in this coun .. . • '' ' nown in th In 1812, ave long been known in E l 1r his late attempt on the (1 ' 1841, not ing and troubled times that [and. Oxford was acquitted round of insani though with a very doubtful propriety ; and other similar at tempts almost immediately followed. Not a week had elap sed from the trial of M'Naughten, for the murder of Mr' Drurnmond,,and his acquittal on the ground of insanity, ere another madman openly threatened the lives of her Majesty and Sir R. Peel; and that of Mr. Goulburn was menaced by a person for whom, had ne put his threats into execution, ►ha nlea of insanity would probably have been set un.—Lan- THE BOUNDARY QUESTION for his papers re., )rdship was replied to by Sir Robert _ale very high character and diplomatic ..sceuent representative Sir Howard Douglas. Premier had closed his speech, Sir Howard rose merston brou-g' in the Hon Commous, Loy Ashburton treat Peel o, in the cours .ents to the Lii f his speech, paid s d, " That having been alluded to in so marked a man- ner by the right hon. baronet, he felt called upon to trouble the house with his observations upon this subject. He _ _ail many of the circumstances with which he was connected during the time he had the honour of hold ing the situation of Governor of New Brunswick. Had he first to been called upon ten or twelve years ago to state his opinions with respect to the expediency of compromising the great question they were now considering, he should have been disposed to have expressed his dissent to such a proposition ; but since then the question had undergone most material al terations. In 1794, by a question of arbitration between the two countries, the St. Croix was declared to be the point from which was to be drawn the north line which was to form the north-west boundary. In 1839 a certain boundary was insisted upon by the government of the United States, which, they, said, was their territorial point ; and for the purpose of preventing any encroachments being made upon their terri tory then, they sent some land agents from Maine and Mas sachusetts to traverse the country. He protested against hose proceedings. In the summer of 1827 it was said that he British possessions there were not exclusive. One of us sent to guard their territory stopped the n, took the bag from him, but afterwards de- these agents t British post livered it I k to him with awarning that he was not to be permitted to traverse that part of the country again without the concurrence of the American authorities. As soon as this outrage was reported to him, he (Sir H. Douglas) felt that he was placed in a difficult situation ; that if some vigor ous effort was not made the question of possession was alto gether lost to the country ; and on the other hand he felt that if he used too much vigour he might involve the two countries in war. The only instruction on which he then had to act was a letter he bad received from Lord Bathhurst, not to relinquish any act of sovereignty. Soldiers were some times accuselPof resorting too speedily to harsh measures, but instead of the adjutant-general sent he sent for the at torney-general, whom he desired to issue his precept to the high-sheriff of the county to apprehend those parties that were engaged in this seditious conspiracy, to put them into the gaol of Frederickton, and to let the Cass go to the supreme court for judicature. He received a letter afterwards from the governor of the state of Make which he would read to the house. That leter was to the effect that the government demanded the release of those parties, and the granting those parties full indemnity for the imprisonment they had suffered. He felt very reluctant to get into any correspondence with the governor of Maine, or with any other subordinate autho rity, but, nevertheless, he wrote a letter, in which he stated that it was not for him to doubt the propriety of the Governor of Blaine entering upon a correspondence with a foreign power, but that for himself he know too well his position to keep up such a correspondence; and that, if there were any thing in his (Sir Howard Douglas's) conduct of internal af fairs which was open to objection, it would be better that the Governor of the state of Maine ahould refer the matter to his own general Government ; that for himself he hoped the American functionary would recollect the importance of keeping up unbroken the friendly relations between the two countries; and he suggested that the best way to maintain that was to leave matters in dispute to their respective go vernments ; that on the question of possession he was deter mined to maintain it inviolate on the part of the government of Great Britain. Upon this a proclamation was issued by the American authorities of Maine, calling out a large body of the militia. A person was scot by them who insisted on coming into his (Sir Howard Douglas's) presence, for the purpose of insisting upon the demands which had been made. The a.rswer made by him through his secretary was, that he must positively refuse to recognize this person in an official capacity, and he refused also to enter into any cor respondence with the Governor of Maine, who wrote to Washington to insist on his (Sir H. Douglas's) recal, ar.d the same Governor ordered him to release Mr. Baker. The home Government supported him in his views, and their answers to him were couched in the same tone in which he had expressed himself. Upon this a large de tachment of troops came within forty miles of Frederick ton. Mr. Baker was brought to trial and a lenient sen tence was passed upon him in the shape of a moderate term of confinement and a fine. Threats continued to be made and the excitement proceeded ; everything was done to intimidate him, but he saw that it was expected he would call out the troops. After Baker had expiated his term of imprisonment, he refused to pay the fine. Upon the payment of this fine he as governor of the province insisted. Troops were threatened to be marched into the town, but he did not move a single soldier or constable ; and the result was that Mr. Baker, after remaining in gaol two or three r w e e ig ek n s ty l o on f g t e h r e , B p r a i i t d is t h he c fi ro n w e. n, t a l n e d th a u s svi long nd n ic s a h ted ew t a h s e ovisnthee province not one person dared to intrude. In the spring of the next year it was declared by the Governor of Massachu setts that a road would be made to run from Mars-hill to the disputed territory. He, therefore, wrote to Sir Charles Vaughan, who did his duty manfully. Now it happened that upon the very identical spot where he apprehended Baker and his associates, and where he (Sir H. Douglas) had vin dicated the exclusive possession of Great Britain, on that very spot had the noble lord opposite who had raised the motion that night permitted the Americans to erect the forts of Jarvis and Fairfield, on the north line, a little short of where it met St. John's River ; was not that concession ? Why it was the concession of all that he (Sir H. Douglas) had contended for,—it was relinquishing the possession—it was capitulating the whole case—it was allowing the Ameri can force to take military possession. And then the Ma dawasca settlement—that was an encroachment, and the peo ple were handed over like so many serfs to the Americans. He was fully determined, if the Government had commanded the release of Baker, to have regarded the injunction. This, however, could not have happened, for Government had cor dially approved of the course taken by him. He would have disregarded it, because he well knew that one encroachment, if acquiesced in, soon led to others. The order was sent, however, by Mr. Livingstone, from Washington, to Sir A. Campbell, to release these parties, a proceeding which was protested against by the local government. In gust, 1837, a person was sent to this Madawasca settlement, which he and his successors had protected with so much firmness, to make a census of the population, as part of the inhabitants of Penobscot county ; a correspondence was opened with the Governor of Maine, and the result was, that the person was released, on his giving an assurance to the colonial govern ment that he would desist from these practises. He was re leased on August 5, 1837 ; and what was the consequence of that weakness? The consequence was that he immediately reappeared in the Madawasca settlement on the 26th of the same month, and proceeded with the census. Of course, it would be expected that he would have been brought to trial and visited with condign. punishment. But what did the house think ? He was again released, at the instance of the American Government—of course, under the orders of the noble lord. This was followed by a series of encroachments and aggressions from New Hampshire into the Canadian ter ritory. Considering the lateness of the hour he would not trouble the house with details extending from the 83d to the 192 d page of the printed papers. He had brought this cata logue of weaknesses to the year 1838. Turning to the cor respondence in 1840 and 1841 he found that a proposition was made to the British embassy at Washington, and transmitted to the noble lord, to the effect that, considering the disorders that prevailed, it would be better that each country should send into the disputed territory a settled posse of equal strength. His (Sir H. Douglas's) answer to a similar appli cation was that he would look after his own affairs, and would make his own arrangements with regard to the military and police. The noble lord, however, thought differently in 1840 and consented to the arrangement, the consequence of which was that an equal force was sent by the United States and Great Britain into the disputed territory for the purpose of keeping peace. Why that was surrendering the very point for which he (Sir H. Douglas) had contended, by permitting a concurrent jurisdiction on the territory which we claimed as our own. The United States then complained that Great Britain still possessed an exclusive military jurisdiction, and therefore requested the withdrawal of our troops, a n d our troops were withdrawn. The United States suggested the substitution of detachments of national troops on the part of the two countries. " A very good idea,' said the noble lord, " we will ;" and concurrent military possession was forthwith established; another surrender of those rights for which he (Sir H. Douglas) had struggled. After this, it was of course impossible to dispute their right to make a military road, which was completed all the way across the disputed territory up to the St. John, and the erection of forts followed as a natural consequence, for the forces em ployed must needs have some abiding place, and the forts Fairfield and Jarvis were built forthwith, by which means the United States obtained concurrent possession of the whole territory. To sum up all, the noble lord left the whole of the territory, the whole jurisdiction, and the whole sovereignty subverted; instead of maintaining in it an ex. elusive jurisdiction, he had permitted a concurrent power, and a surrender of the territory became inevitable. The noble lord spoke of the arrogant tone adopted by the United States, as though they were the actual possessors of the soil; but he could not see what other course could have been ex pected after the events to which he had referred. But did the noble lord think that after having gone up they would have gone up without a war? Did he think the United States would, under any circumstances, have withdrawn from the disputed territory they had usurped ; That they would destroy the fortifications they had built or pull down the flags they had hoisted, or that they would be satisfied • with any conventional boundary short of the line the noble lord had permitted them to take? No such thing. They I were determined to take their stand there, and to meet Lord Ashburton in the manner which the concessions of the , noble lord only enabled them to do. What were their terms? r They had yielded nothing, and if concessions had been made to them derogatory to the honour of the crown and the in • terests of the country, it was not by the present govern , ment, but by the noble lord, for he had left no choice to his successors but to make a conventional line or go to war. With respect to the treaty itself he thought the proximity of the frontier to the line of communication would be a great inconvenience. The line across the St. John, he admitted, was an eyesore (hear, hear) ;—and i; Lord Ashburton could have got that point and omitted to do so, he was much to be blamed for it ; but if the demand for it would have I ruptured the negotiations, it was not worth that, for, in a military point of view, it was insignificant. Rouse's Point L was a military point only, on account of the facilities it t afforded for offence ; but this was precisely the reason the t Americans were anxious to get it, and we should have been anxious to retain it. The great defence of New Brunswick as the territory on the right bank of the St. John. So long as St. Andrew's bay was held, no irruption could be r made into New Brunswick, no attack could be made on St. f John's. For all these reasons he avowed that he entirely I approved of the arrangements of the treaty which had been • so happily concluded. He recognised in the strongest terms . the eminent services rendered to the country by the distin ; guished individual who had negotiated and concluded it, and he felt that gratitude was due to the government for having ! selected him and given him those instructions to a satisfac tory termination. Whatever might be the wishes or desires of the country, there was nothing left but to adopt the conventional line. Government could only do what they r had done. He felt it his duty to support arrangements which he would not have advocated 12 years ago, but he I thought it the best that could be done under the circum stances, particularly as the noble lord had let slip out •, of his hands the actual possession of the whole of the territory. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES. — From the valuable report of the Hon. H. L. Ellsoorth, com missioner of patents to the congress, we have extracted the following item, showing the total amount of the principal agricultural products of the country fur 1812 Wheat..... Indian Corn 102,317,340 bushels 441,829, 150,883, 22,762,952 Ntatoes Hemp and Flax Tobacco Cotton . 135,883,382 158,565 194,694,811 683,333,231 94,007,484 142,445,199 Cocoons 244,124 ~ 130,748 gallons ng States Ohio is the greatest producer— Jeing over twenty-five millions bushels. argest is New York, being sixteen millions. The zt in order are Pennsylvania and Virginia.—New York The next ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE NOVELTY, LAST WEEK BUT ONE. A GRAND CONCENTRATION OF VARIETY, AND TALENT. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. J. SLOAN, (IN MONDAY next, March 27th, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, March 28th and 29th, the Perform ances will commence with agraild Spectacle, entitled ESMERALDA ; Or, The Deformed Bell-ringer and Paris Dancer of 1482 ! After which, the laughable Interlude, entitled THE ATTIC STORY. The whole to conclude with the Romantic Drama, entitled THE WREN BOYS; OR, THE MOMENT OF PERIL. Dennis O'Donnell Mr. Sloan. 9 5.; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d. Boxes, ~ TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. DR Eibgrpaal ktaziDarTi. FRIDAY MORAING, MARCH 24, 1843 If it must be conceded that the ex-Whig Secretary for Foreign Affairs is a somewhat clever personage, an excellent Parliamentary gladiator, and a ready master of the tactics by which Opposition skirmishes are made to tell out of doors, as well as in the House which he adorns, it must be conceded, too, that he combines with these properties a degree of assurance—impudence would be the better word—which is perfectly unap proachable. Any other man occupying the position of the noble lord —any other man who, for ten years, had held the seals of the Foreign Department, and so con ducted the business of his responsible office that the wonder of nine-tenths of 'the world—of men of every party—is that the country has escaped being embroiled with every foreign nation with whose Government he had the slightest opportunity to bring himself in con tact ;—any other man of whom it can be said with truth that, during ten years of protocoiling and nego-. ciation, he succeeded only in unsettling every thing which he found settled, and settling nothing which he found unsettled—would have shrunk from such a mo tion as that of Tuesday last, by which it was sought to censure the Ministry and the diplomatic agent, who have succeeded in arranging, satisfactorily, the most pressing points of our differences with the United States, aggravated though those differences were by his own embroiling finger—any other man situated with respect to the question as Lord Palmerston is situated, would have blushed to utter the opinion that the negotiation conducted by Lord Ashburton was an ill-conducted one, or that the terms of settlement were unfavourable to Great Britain ; for it must have oc curred to such a man that he himself had, at all events, conducted it worse—conducted it to no good, unless a state of almost open hostilities and bitter exasperation between two powerful nations be the end in question's-- and that, with respect to the terms of settlement, if these are not all that we could wished them to have been—all that at one time we could and ought to have insisted upon—the cause is to be found in the deterio rated position in which we have been placed by Ms own acts, or ofd Palmerston,mi ssin o r mission. L however, is not an ordinary man, omission i but, as we have already stated, possesses and exercises a degree in his Parliamentary movements, which h is of quite impudence, ex traordinary. His lordship did not scruple, on Tuesday , to hold up his own transatlantic i i i p te ude n policy in advantage ous contrast with that of Lords Aberdeen and Ashb urton. No doubt can hencefor th exist that had the d estinies of Great Britain been still controlled by a Whig Government, and hi mse lf b een still protocolling, our differences with the United States would to this moment have remained unsettled, and that, in all likelihood, we should have been carry ing on a fanatical war with that country, for our escape from both which inflictions we have abundant reason to be thankful to the present Administration. But let us come to the ground of his lordship's com plaint. We are told, broadly, that Lord Ashburton went to business in a very undiplomatic style. He did not ask about twice as much as he was willing to take. He did not throw out an advanced post of protocols, as skirmishers, designed to throw dust in • Brother Jona than's eyes and ruffle his temper into a false move. He entered upon no series of manoeuvres, made no feints, threw up no temporary outworks to mask his main position; but, in a word, declared the terms upon which he was prepared to negotiate. The answer to this objection is simple. Lord Ashburton went out to settle the question. He adopted a plain business mode of effecting his object; and, instead of haggling like a fishwife, or a west end smuggler of silks and laces, proposed the terms upon which he was disposed to ratify. He adopted neither the "sic volo, sic jubeo" style, favoured by Mr. Thomas Macaulay; he did not descend to the cringing view, of which he is accused by that voracious fish; nor did he stoop to the equivo que by which Lord Palmerston would have had him tantalize, and, if possible, overreach the Yankee ; and, in consequence of his doing nothing of this description, he e f fected his object ! With that, we and his fellow countrymen are satisfied. Upon the detailed cavillings against the various points of the treaty—the settlement of the right of search and the Creole questions—we shall not enter. Those cavillings were sufficiently given to the winds by the able and convincing reply of Sir Robert Peel. We come, therefore, to the objection that the terms of the Ashburton Treaty, by which the Boundary question is settled, are unfavourable to Great Britain, derogatory to her honour, and prejudicial to the security of our Canadian possessions. There can be no doubt that, by the settlement of this Boundary question now, we have secured less advantageous terms than we were entitled to have granted us—less advantageous terms than we could have made good our title to, during any of the ten years of Lord Palmerston's trifling with the question. Upon this point we have had an ex cellent evidence in our valued representative, Sir Howard Douglas—himself for many years, as Go vernor of New Brunswick, actively engaged upon a portion of the disputed Boundary. At the period of Sir Howard's recal in 1831, the position of Great Britain, with respect to the territory disputed by the State of Maine, was the following :—We held at that time the military possession and claimed the sovereignty of the territory in question, pending negotiations upon the subject of its final settlement. The Government of Maine, however, had, a little previously, mooted again the question of Right ; and Mr. Baker, the agent of the State, with a view to establish directly his autho rity, had seized upon the postman, when passing over the territory, and, after a short detention, formally " warned him off." What was the course which Sir Howard Douglas thought it incumbent upon him to pursue, in vindication of the rights and honour of his Sovereign ? We give it in the graphic language of the gallant officer himself, a report of whose convincing address will be found in another column. It will be seen, from that report, that, in 1831, we held sovereign possession of the disputed territory, and were enabled —and resolved too—to keep in check the insolent pretensions of Maine and the prcedatory in roads of her borderers. But Sir H. Douglas resigned ; a Whig Government at home came into power; Lord Palmerston veered round to the opinions of the Reform party, and shortly occupied the Foreign office : and from this time mark the changed position of Great Britain in this quarrel. We had the award of the King of Holland, repudiated by the American Govern ment, and up to 1835 pressed on their acceptance by Lord Palmerston—an award containing the most ob . . jectionabie points urged by himself against the Ash. , Burton Treaty, Then we had six years more of pro tocolling, surveying; and negociattng ; and, in the mean time, what became of the disputed territory it self for which we were at issue ? Why, it had been, inch by inch, conceded to our opponents ! " I hope," said Sir Robert Peel, " to hear from a late high commissioner, the gallant officer near me, his testimony as to what was the result of the delay respecting the dis puted territory. (" Hear, hear," from Sir H. Douglas.) Did we gain by this procrastination ? No. America was nearer at hand. Every month that passed was undermining our dominion over that continent. I ask my gallant and hon. friend (for instance), whether in 1828 he did not ap prehend an American subject and bring him to trial for encroachments on this disputed territory, and whether on the very spot on which he was taken, a fort was not erected by the authorities of Maine? (" Hear, hear," from Sir H. Douglas.) The vast tide of population—that rapid and resistless tide which knows no ebb—pressed on from day to day, and each month that passed saw our territory further encroached on—the dominion we had in 1838 we retained not in 1840 (hear, hear;) and had we postponed the settle ment for another five years, the question would have settled itself by a contest for actual possession." (Hear, hear.) First, the concurrent Civil Jurisdiction was conceded to the blusterings of Maine. Then a demand was made for the withdrawal of our military forces ; and acceded to! "And thus," remarks Sir Howard Douglas, " The concurrent civil and military possession for which he (Sir H. Douglas) had struggled had been abandoned. After the Americans had obtained these concessions, of course there was no disputing their right to make a military road, and this was accomplished all the way to St. John's. When the American troops arrived there, it was asked where they were to live ? and accordingly the two forts of Fairford and Jervis had been erected for them, and thus possession of the whole territory was given to them. So that when the noble lord left office the whole jurisdiction and sovereignty of the dis trict had been, by his consent, subverted, and instead of its being held concurrently, it was held conclusively ! " Yet this man, Lord Palmerston, who has tamely looked on whilst the entire possessions in dispute were conceded—so effectually conceded that nothing less than a war of extermination against the American sett lers could make them ours again—complains that be cause they have not rushed into such a war, it is the negotiations of this treaty, and not himself by whom the honour and the safety of Great Britain have been prejudiced! How much further could the force of impudence have carried even Lord Palmerston than to the propounding of such a motion as that of Tuesday night ? The leading members of the League party display just now considerable eagerness to draw down upon themselves the reprobation of well-regulated minds. By the prompt exercise of a more than ordinary amount of bluster, they succeeded in implicating their whole body as abetters of their project to carry the repeal of the corn-laws, by threats of " personal responsibility" levelled at the Premier. The incen diary language of Mr. Richard Cobden, and the tone of fierce rancour with which that language was deli vered, have been justified and applauded by public ga therings of his associate dupes throughout the king dom—gatherings at which even females were not ashamed to present themselves, and to join in tributes of thanks to the incendiary ! And now a bolder flight of hardihood is resolved upon. The amiable Leaguer, dissatisfied with the amount of his unenvia ble notoriety, entertains an ardent longing to appro priate that of the rev. dissenting preacher who pre dicted that, in case of the death of Sir Robert Peel, " there would be few to shed a tear over his grave ;" and accordingly, on Wednesday last, from the boards of Drury Lane, in the presence of some thousands of his fellow-countrymen, and with the public press to record his sayings for the benefit of the world, that personage deliberately came forward to take upon his own shoulders—nay, " took shame to himself that he had not sooner taken upon his own shoulders"—the full responsibility of a speech the most shameful which ever fell from the lips of an advocate of this or any other public question ! Far from disavowing this gen tleman's sentiments, he is extolled as an " amiable and warm-hearted" lover of hi& - kind, possessed only of one failing, " a want of tact in discussing political questions." We shalt hear no more now, we presume, of the hardship and injustice of charging the language of this rev. dissenter upon the League. The language in question is now adopted by that body ; and in behalf of it every member is now irrecoverably pledged. The glee of the " warm-hearted" individual, who luxuriated in the notion that "few would shed a tear over the grave" of the Premier, is the glee of every man and—proh pudor !—of every woman who from this day forth countenances the Anti-Corn-law agitation ! And for what consideration—for what quid pro quo —has the League embraced this astounding defile- Mark, reader—watch the filthy Mammon creeping out, as the moving cause of this shameless piece of hardihood ! The rev. gentleman, sought to be whitewashed, is one of those " ministers of all de nominations" who, in the words of the League's apostle, came forward, " in defiance of the declared wishes of their congregations," to throw the weight of their sacred character into the anti-corn-law agitation —who preferred the smiles of the rich factory lord to the entreaties of the humble objects of their ministry. The ministers are useful men, fluent of speech, able to fawn upon public assemblies. The " drum ecclesias tic," though beat only by dissenting hands, was not to be spared from the noise of League dinners, tea-drink ings, and conventions ; and, moreover, there was work to do, in which the personages in question were calcu lated to be useful agents. A bill, it will be remem bered, has been introduced by Sir James Graham, for providing the advantages of education for the children of the poor in the manufacturing districts. By the same bill, the time of working for children in facto ries, from the age of eight to thirteen, is proposed to be reduced to six hours and a-half per day —surely a sufficient duration for the toil of children, in the debi litating atmosphere of a cotton-mill ! But so think not the virtuous and humane Leaguers. The trade in infant flesh they cling to with a tenacity passing be lief ; and the bill in question is therefore to be opposed by every appliance of craft and cant which the party can bring to the task; and in such an effort what agents so ready as your dissenting ministers ? The education to be given, is education in Church of Eng land principles—education to some extent directed by the clergy of that church ; and, to obstruct the pro gress of such education, need it be doubted with what zeal dissent will labour, or how eagerly its aid is em braced by the " liberal" cottonocracy, which sees, in the measure proposed, the infant health and strength of the country wrested from its oppressive gripe ? Well, here then is the evidence of the compact en tered into by the worthy twain—the League and their rev. dissenting tools ! On Wednesday the latter were formally cleansed, by Mr. Cobden, from the stain which the assassination speech had cast upon their skirts ; and on Thursday they hastened to enter upon their crusade against Sir James Graham's bill, by a meeting held at the London Tavern, the resolutions of which were duly given to the world in the advertising columns of the Times on the following mcrning ! Of course those resolutions contain a world of complaint of the " sectarian nature" of the education to be given; but the main ground of objection against it is the injury inflicted " upon the factory-owners," and superhuman impudence !—upon the poor children them selves, by the reduction of the period of labour from eight hours per day to six hours and a-half ! We shall watch this agitation with interest. It will afford us some little insight into the peculiar morality (.1) of political dissent, and the nature of that humanity which vents itself in nauseous cant from anti-corn-law platforms ! On the subject of this bill of Sir James Graham, our metropolitan namesake made the following remarks on Monday : " The political dissenters are again busy in obstructing the advancement of education among the humbler classes. For twenty years they have laboured in the same perverse course, and it will not be their fault if the people are ever educated by public aid. The measure now before Parliament is suffi ciently liberal—at least more liberal than many of our readers may like, but it is not liberal enough for the liberal dis senters. flow, indeed, can any measure be liberal enough for those who think all but their own particular sect wrong, and who make a conscience of bringing all whom they can within their own fold ? We do not blame them for either their opinions or their conscience ; but we blame them for making the triumph of both the necessary condition of the education of the people. Ample provision is made to protect dissenters from wrong by the provisions of the national sys tem of education, but to allow them a place in that system would be a contradiction in terms. They dissent from the chinch, Where conformity and obedience are iequired, H can they claim to belong to the churchi where authority is to be exercised ? We might stand upon the principle of all social government, that the minority is properly bound by the majority; and it is unnecessary to take this ground, ex cept for the purpose of soothing the sore consciences of too sensitive dissenters. It is unnecessary to take this ground, because any other system of religious education than that through and by the Established Church is impracticable — the legislature which should agree to such a system would practically unestablish the church and de-christianise the country. We hold that as long as a system of national education reposes confidence in the church, acknowledges the prima' facie claim of the church to be considered as the ex officio superintendent of all religious education of tha people, there is no harm in allowing very liberal exceptions under particular circumstances." The world has been amused during the last week with an unfortunate mistake of that somewhat erratic genius, Lord Brougham. His lordship—who, from the acquaintance he has had with the fraternity, ought to have known better—appears to have laboured under the impression that it was within the power of ability such as his to extract a direct answer to a direct ques tion, from—a quaker ! That he has been disappointed is to us no marvel. We never met with such a lusus naturce as a quaker so di? ectly communicative; and we should certainly not have expected to meet with one in the ranks of the Anti-Corn-law League, or in the person of that anomalous production of mingled nature and art—a quaker cotton lord. Lord Brougham, therefore, if he is convinced now of the quibbling pro pensities of members of the Society of Friends, has ar rived at his convictions rather late in life ! It will he remembered that some month or two ago, his lordship—somewhat after the manner in which a lively tiger lashes his tail through the bars of his cage at some presumptuous urchin whom he cannot at the moment reach with his claws—inflicted, from his place in the House of Lords, a rather handsome castigation upon the gentlemen (!) of the Anti-Corn-law League, being the first—except, as Mr. John Bright, of Roch dale, affirms, the Quarterly Review and the members of the " monopolist press"—to connect that body, through " the assassination speech" of the Rev. Mr. Bailey, with the crime of A/I'N aughten. At the time that this castigation was delivered, we positively trem bled for the ex-chancellor. Nothing less than to be devoured at some anti-corn-law tea party—to lie cut up in plates of bun-loaf, and washed down with de coctions of saloop, spent sloe-leaves, and coffee grounds —was the doom which, in our mind's eye, we predicted for Henry Brougham and Vaux. But no : such was not to be his fate. The League could neither eat up the lively lawyer, Burke him or get rid of him in any other:effectual and expeditious manner ; and so they— only libelled him ! The Anti-bread Tax Circular taxed its ingenuity to fabricate a damning charge against the offender, and at length screwed up the necessary power of face to assert, first, that the said learned lord had, at some period last year, prayed and beseeched the League to be permitted to bring on a motion in the House of Lords, on the subject of the . corn-laws ;—to be permitted to act as its standing counsel in that assembly; secondly, that the deputation from the League were disinclined to entrust their brief in his hands ; thirdly that, in most moving terms, he per sisted in his entreaty ; fourthly, that the deputation reluctantly consented; fifthly, that he invited them to his own house ; and sixthly, that after all this patron ising condescension of the cottonocracy towards so very humble a personage as Lord Brougham, his lord ship had turned out a very ungrateful fellow ! We would really have given our cigar-case, or any other valuable we possess, to have witnessed the effect of the first reading of this impertinence upon the learned peer. We rather imagine the contortions pro duced by theishock would have been a subject worthy of the pencil of H. B. The first transports of his rage over, however, his lordship proceeded to write two letters, containing a reasonable quantity of Cayenne, Chilies, and other hot seasonings, to the gentlemen who composed the deputation, and from whOm the alleged facts, as to the entreaties, &c. of his loi : dship, must have come to the ears of the Anti-bread tax per sonage. And here was the instance of his lordship's marvellous folly ! One of the gentlemen in question was Mr. Hamer Stansfield, of Leeds—a leaguer and a mill-owner, but a man habited like other men—and it was reasonable enough to ask from such a man for an explanation; but the other was Mr. John Bright, of Rochdale—a leaguer and a quaker—and it was palpably absurd to expect that from such a man an intelligible explanation, or an answer, at all direct, and in intelli gible English, could be drawn. The result has been the publication of the corres pondence, and just such a correspondence as all the world would have expected. The reply of_Mr. Stans field to the question, as to the truth of the representa tion put forth by the Anti-bread Tax man, was a frank and manly admission that the statement was through out untrue—that his lordship's own recollection of the circumstances of his interviews with the League depu tation was throughout true: in short, it was almost as complete a negative to the scribe of the League, as we remember to have met with. The reply of worthy John Bright, however, was of a more undecided colour. The honest quaker could not remember " that thou did show any reluctance," or that any urgent en treaties were used on the part of the deputation. He could in fact afford to remember nothing calculated to impeach the veracity of the slanderer of his lordship. His mind retained no impressions of anything favour.. able to the character of Lord Brougham. He opined, however, (in direct contradiction to his fellow deputy, Mr. Stansfield) that, the deputation were rather in disposed than otherwise to accept his lordship's advo cacy, (though they waited upon him to pray for it !), and finally assured his lordship—John Bright of Roch dale assured Lord Brougham !—" more in sorrow than in anger," that he John Bright P:TIED Lord Brougham ! The substance of this correspondence will be found elsewhere. As a sample of epistolary style, they are rare. This much, however, they esta bli s h . Lord Brougham and Mr. Hamer Stansfield have spoken what is true, or they have not. John Bright of Roch dale has spoken what is true or he has not. The world has the opportunity of deciding between them. We are compelled to withhold a few remarks in reply to our contemporary the Manchester Guardian, who has somewhat misunderstood a recent article in the Standard on the Corn-Law question. On Tuesday, however, we hope to be able to pay our respects to him ; and we shall do so with the greatest pleasure because we observe, in our contemporary's remarks, a little abatement of his ordinary supercilious tone. We can assure him that we have nothing to conceal upon this or any other question. To one portion of the Guardian's article we must, however, reply at once, as we are unwilling to remain, even a day, misunderstood with respect to it. Our contemporary, out of some assumed coldness of our advocacy of a sliding scale, infers that the mercantile body of Liverpool are becoming converts to the argu ments in behalf of a fixed duty. Now, highly as we do and ought to appreciate the value of the opinion of a body of men, so well worthy of deference being paid to them as the merchants of this great port, we must inform the Guardian that such a conversion on their part is not to be inferred from any remarks of ours. We think and act for ourselves, and would feel de graded in our own estimation if we could, as the Guar dian implies. trim our course to jump in with the changed opinions of others. Our mercantile friends, we are sure, expect no such time-serving policy at our hands. ng such a and had ma LOCAL, NEWS. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION EXHIBITION.—As we inti mated last week, a polytechnic exhibition will take place at the Collegiate Institution at midsummer, and a prospectus will be found in our advertising columns. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—It will be seen that on Sun day next, two sermons will be preached at St. Andre w ' s Church, in this town, by the Rev. H ugh Stowell, in aid of the funds for supporting the schools in connection with that church. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM AND JERUSALEM BISHOP RIC FUND.—On Sunday next, as may be seen from an ad vertisement, sermons will be preached in St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, for the benefit of these interesting and important objects. A sermon will also be preached in St. Mark's Church, on Sunday morning, by the Rev. Mr. Marshall, in aid of the funds of the former institution. COTTON MARICET.—It will be seen from our brokers' circular, that our cotton market has experienced a sudden and extraordinarily increased l demand. Y esterday and on Wednesday upwards of 2 ,o 0o bales were disposed of, by far the greater proportion of which. have. been t a k en on con sumption. Buying continued spirited until the close of the market yesterday, and the orders are not yet completed. Prices were firm, and the market is healthy. CON iti but -.,,uuttneet t •s place this ening at the A fashionable anti d) at lags, Mr. Braham's concert ROyal Assembly Rooms. is expected. DUBLIFE S ADAM AND Evu.—The beautiful picturg bY Dubufe, now exhibiting at the Postoffice-place Rooms, aref daily and nightly attracting crowds of visitors, one an d all 0 whom declare them to be fine specimens of modern art. CAUTION TO SHOPKEEPERS IN MARKETs.--Yes terelaY t: Charles Parsonage, a shopkeeper in St. James's Market was fined 10s., with 4s. 6d. costs, for leaving the market a' night without extinguishing a gas-light in his shop. , d THEATRE ROYA L—The theatre has been well atort ed !: . during the week. There was an excellent house on Tues.!l,l night to witness the " Poor Gentleman." To -night NI William Farren, the most finished and talented act or of ta: present time, tak his benefit, when the beautiful little draT_ of " Grandfather es Whitehead" will be represe nted for 6e last time. AMPHITHEATRE.—It will be seen elsewhere that Mr; Sloan's benefit is fixed to take place on Monday nexrt, lv Ze the highly-interesting drama founded on Victor H u g o of " Notre Dame " will be represented. Mrs. Leclerq Pe r ; sonates Esnzeralda ; and, from her versatile talents as, u"; clever actress and graceful dancer, she will no doub t ably the character. TIIAME a HAVEN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The powers of, the company having been extended by a further Aet obtain.: during the last session, and since solemly recognised, aft argument, by the unanimous judgment of the Court of Cot?' moo Pleas, the Court of Directors have determine d to tall advantage of the present promising state of the shar e mark ; to commence the undertaking with a single line of rails , ,„„ ferring the excavation of the dock. They are as sure their present egineer, that on their reduced plan the expen,", l tore will not exceed £21,000 for the railway and landing lue" ANCIENT LIVERPOOL—A new work bearing in the course of publication in this town. The a uthor oul artist is Mr. W. G. Herdman, who sometime ago publisheu. a beautiful portfolio of continental sketches, in which tale; of the first order was exhibited. Mr. Herdman it seem wishes to secure the memory of the old buildings from 02.. e vion, and has been many years in collecting materials. list of subscribers is already a large one, and includes the fir i s ., names in the town. Holden, Ranelagh-stseet, is the O w lisher, where subscribers names are received. We ELECTION OF GOVERNOR OF THE WORKHOUSE . stated, in our paper of Tuesday last, that at an adjourn% meeting of the select vestry held on the previous Wednesutb% a deputation of three gentlemen was appointed to visi r ui ,h various workhouses in the south, the governors of w" t i i e this title were amongst the nine remaining candidates from who m e . governor of our workhouse was to be chosen ; and tb at a 5P, 0 cial meeting was directed to be called on their return , o f hear their report. As the subject of the election is 9 . l ' e u p considerable public interest, we have now to state Oa" t be to last night, the deputation had not returned, but that b., are expected this day, or to-morrow, so that, in all p roba lity, we shall be enabled to furnish the final resnit of th e P r ceedings in our next number. THE FUNDS : WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Saks of gt e and Exchequer-bills to some amount caused a declin e in 'id value of both securities, but the extent of operations en, not be clearly traced. The secret manner in which the ufuie ness was transacted was among the brokers a subject 0 sole probation. Before the close of the day, however , C e l for money and the account recovered, and left off 8 0 1 '1 0 : Exchequer-bills were last quoted 655. to 675. premium ; to , ' dian Bonds, 77 premium ; New Three-and-a-half per In dia 1024- to 4- ; Bank Stock for opening, 183 to 184; and .1"45 Stock,26Bl to 91. Bargains in. the foreign securities se r e not extensive ; they were sufficient, however, to give se ,? P od to the issues of the Peninsular Governments. Dec. j o Maxican, on the other hand, were rather flatter. SP eri e se Actives closed 221 to ditto New, 311 toi ; Portugged, Converted, 391 ; Mexican, 291 to 30k ; ditto R.,e fe „ rr ; s b. 84 to ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 102 to 1; 861 to 871; Belgian, 101?. to 1051 i Brazilian, 80 to S 1; Columbian, 261 to 4. - „, STEALING WRECKED Goons.—Yesterday, threesea-eht belonging to the Triton, now lying in this port, were brouPor before Mr. Ru s ht on , ch a r g ed with stealing a quart tsel wrecked goods. It appeared from the evidence that a ., il end called the Emily had bee n wrecked at the Scilly islanjloo , that the bale goods had been re-shipped on board the in the forecastle of which a quantity of h an dkerchiefs , , the belonging to the Emily, was found, the prisoners her'rjog only parties wh o lived there. Mr. Rushton, after De f e r og the case, said sailors and others ought to know 110w : - tlA t the provisions of the law were on this subject. It w e '' 'tech if any goods belonging to any ship in distress, or or% not be found in the possession of any party, who shad th at satisfy the justice before whom such case shall be he ar he came lawfully in possession of them, the justice ruaY,:f the a fine not exceeding £2O, over and at)ove the value it bia articles, and if the fine be not paid immediately, 01 ,... - 00 3 ' such time as the justice may decide, the Parties may u' W hen witted to gaol for any period not exceeding two month s ' does the fine does not exceed £5 ; four months when the fin e th at not exceed £lO ; and six months when the fine is above With sum. Mr. Rushton then ordered each sailor to pay l orf ; to b e 30s. the value of the goods, and £lO as a penalty, or imprisoned three months. f t ij :t e , THE WINDSOR CASTLE.—Mr. O'Brien, agen-,..,0nti0- Dnblin Steam-packet Company, left Kilrush, with v, 3 ,1 0 CU , Triphook of the Hamilton, revenue cruizer, at ten, ° ; four on Monday night, and got down to " the Heads' 8v o'clock, next morning. The Windsor Castle Was rheetight side the Heads, and the conduct of the pilots Nan br lad her in was most praiseworthy. When Captain Tripheede Mr. O'Brien boarded the derelict vessel, th ere was s r oer between the pilots in charge and the shore people; the''nertl' anxious to save, the others to destroy the vessel and P r° ` v icegt The names of the principal persons who rendered serborei were taken down, and the intruders were then put 0 0 5 ., after which, Captain Triphook got the vessel under Win brought her up in tow of the Hamilton, until tbe backed a wa y t o the east, and then fortunately, t b li e t ,s o , 4l steamer, from Kilrush, Captain Kennedy, hove in s i gl i ie°' took the Wi n d sor i n t ow . M uc h p ra i se is given to digt, Triphook, Mr. Baldwin, of the Kilkee Coast-guard rousdell, for their exertions, as also to the pilots Of go o who first boarded her within a few miles of land 0 , or al and whose conduct all through was of a most Pr° is t e e 'v r , character. The Windsor Castle is 721 tons reg , s' i ," °ore; owned by Chaloner and Co., Liverpool. She is nn w r o us°l in Scattery-roads, and is in charge of the Coasv" cl 0 ' There are 35 claimants for salvage. The value is state £90,000 Cy S f t oi ;e l APPEALS AT THE SESSION'S.—At the sessions' , after the disposal of the criminal cases, two case s - Q ° ,cort le h r. °u Theytl the part o th arose publicans se ot of eo were nv et broughtconvictions by b e i‘ f a r e . the • fr a Rus btou ni l so tg oFfece charged in both cases being, that the then defe suud, a d i (now appellants) had sold liquors at an early hour e n b i e lt morning, contrary to the local act of parliamen t /3 ,0 e for some time been in operation in this borough. ,_„ 1- strcs'A case was that of Joseph Clayton, publican, At ! ' o cla" h e Scotland-road. Inspector Moore said, that at cold at on Sunday morning, the Bth January, liquor was se` ;t h it appellant's house. He found the party coming otitsve'ircars, a bottle, but did not see it sold. The evidence was d he a Cg stantial, but sa ti s fi e d th e R ecor d er o f th e fact, an -- 4 1 cordingly co n fi rme d th e conv i c ti on , £5, with eeconeti,• other case was that of James Smith, publican' of 0 , 10 street. Police- o ffi cer C unn i ng h am , w ho was the ° t he ness, stated, that soon after eight o'clock, on Sun da ! th,e, ar f ; of January last, he saw three women standing ne' r b e s pellant's house. He was in coloured clothes at t brod, having been sent to watch the premises. He leuk ec li t ,..e tb r re the window for about a minute, and there observed ,-„,cl women in the house, standing outside the counter, o f tbe tit i" landlady (appellan's wife) inside of it. He saw 13ae k it f ri) l y wrap a bottle in a handkerchief, and went in and too t it c o f her, It was a ginger-beer bottle, and he found th c a a rri c r e d tamed some rum. He did not see the women, ah tsn b at bottle in with them—The counsel for the appellan t - .ye& - 179 that there was no direct evidence of the sale or deli c oy to had no hope that this case would be viewed dif fe . r oue e h , o ,l6 the bench from the last, to which it was similar, in' a f the Recorder appeared to consider it a su ffi cient Pre late W I that a party should be seen coming out of such ti,P a , of e 0 liquor, He spoke strongly against the odious sYsl o thes',, g er ploying police-officers, in the disguise of plain o f es pini t y, spies in such eases. It was undoubtedly a system 0 .. c ondo which he regretted had been introduced into tin: te r, j a r and, he thought, the sooner it was dropped the be w ith Piot Recorder said he could not decide • usistentlY . t he self ; the sale , he th ' onght,was sufficie ntly lne clear Co rn v icti sil ease, and he similarly confirmed Mr. Rushton's ll f p. £5 and cos t s . T ,achy ing, a f ew FIRE AT WEST DERBY W t ORKIIOHSE. — n -" s he l° t.-h e fi minutes beforethree o'clock, aO re bre „ the drying house of the West Derby WorkhnnAi;coeco, vicinity of th e Z oo l og i ca l G ar d ens . It was firs t "oo She by one of the female inmates in the invalid wa rd 'iiglit' d it through ill ness, up at t h e t i me, an d o b ser ved the iar , ° w ife' immediately gave the alarm to those around his b id' soon reached the ears of the governor 09'01100V e T a h r e ry d in ry g ing house is in the north-east angle of the tbe ` l 'fb e the a tnis al e!: encloses the buildings, and immediately adjoin s t her• a h n o d us b e u i t n fw o o n ra e ttei d lre i ii rection, and the laundry on people, one and all, exerted themselves n. t b n e the 1 lin their strenuous a b t u re c n k n e o ts n , a & e c io a r n ta d , t a b g ro r w ea i t ng po t r t t ? o - 09 o r f a , t i tio th t l ii range of buildings round the outer part of th e ~iteu tof i '" part of the quadrangle would have been so far ig f could not have been saved even by the PlaYi":ol, - ' 1 ,,,,0 0 engines, speedily as they were got upon the gr ° en tre ~for '' deed, the main pile of the building in the e a d. ,itli ts not have been in imminent danger of being hur n „ ar ts,,,, t nif four o'clock, three eng ines and several water rjoci" strong body of the fire- b olice reached the adia e 'horo, e ea; Mr. Whitty was immed ia tely on the ground , gOf t he t he ) and in less than half an hotn ) , through the plaY i %al ,te 0 1 ' rgoinoefs, and th t e h a e d e j x o e i n rt i n i o g n l s o o w f b t u h i e l d i p n o g l a i e ( nwi e l l 1 7 i l ld a ni s cs ic a e g i b i t t s o s t t h b e e and cut off the communication of the flames , ma ihli nt e a t i o, jes efforts of th e i nmates, the fire was confin ed drying-house, which, with its roof, and most n' o ttl s rr . ie, was entirely consumed. The wind was blowing P h iell c bi nlP . ; at the time, but, luckily, from the southward, o f the the blaze clear of the main and higher portion,s "jtli . .,her ings. A considerable quantity of bed and boa a atn'ob ii e e destroyed, including 60 to 70 pairs of blankel s 'been s i c o r quilts, and much of the clothing that had no cle rtir'a on the previous day. The house is the rec c e teth ar e T% Wit the poor of twenty-two townships , including A f o ur o. t he and there were between three hundred an',. he ol. - lo inmates. Great alarm was at first created in " -- 0 on' ..110"• governor and his wife, lest the fire had brnk e dr ying t Co on dormitories, the beds being of straw. T ; ll :,,iples , :cl3,_`` e , s. was constructed on the most approved gri n apPe-„jorill, siderable cost, and appears to be a neee t s h s ::' on in se te b r y - o s: r so large an establishment, particularly in The fire-place is separated from the drying " Vie P e a ! ti g and it is not known how the fire originated•ie, e in a b el io mates of the establishment, male and fel: ti n e t he setic' best spirit throughout the emergency — el e e - u hde t ,, s ioce' seen staggering under buckets of water. w hat " premises were insured, but have not heard at o. th e 109 ro e . , re e_ ore P oo , THE CROPS.--The wheat 'plant everywh most promising appearance. Nothing ea n t , h e e sTring ous than the present weather for getting in t " Maidstone Journal. of bus'some importance DE su bjec ti o The oprf ecaiernctuleaernodfi condition 'Messrs. s t h . e C a r k o i f n t s trade, ,Cfou.r,floi sobebbsetfrist;oosllo hands of the Fren the resent ployed in thee w it tho t he t ' o t oe from the East Indies. in rawm. From what they assert, it appea rs gon e io he de' chglo v t e o m t haousuefaccotnunreecrtse, d exeeidds not kid skins from all" arts has graduallY a la t o ii eas c i advance will b e partment connected with the heavier Tusen kids r ue ell' other hand, there ket is . eisno manufacture T.h e of a gloves, eek et. laanmd b d r s k i t e ,i.:‘,lo r e Ia : bas t t re s s ; sonai stated at about 150,000, all good qua",.'eted ..., itsli p w r i ic ll es e , e b e u u t r i i i t i does not oatinsceeerhetoerboep etriiiyt;ls.ooe,tolifit the Bordeaux lambs havrg a ree e good in quality and abundant in quan,..',. &P I ~0 0 0 d' pect 0 1 P, 0 tic. , „ ; 0 0 at. the • • prices of last year. The trade in French tr, l isl in . % immediate r )t s for pcigrie l solto p s . a , continues, it is said, to be of a steady char Ac ., c ear s r th eir vncing prices. The imports of the last tvco aloe for aiminished, it is inferred that the demand in.''' . ' of 64 9 1 ra ll° 4 ' s own glove manufactories has increased in the,, w ere ( g lv e , crease here. The imports for the vear IS'''' o s •oport skins ; but of this quantity about 5-8,000 dal,' 0 0 1 A re; would be manufactured, while the legal dutY tr ic or" he the alone of French gloves last year was 117,425,.. 5 or ! q 3 the turn of the imports of raw lamb and kid 04-1° in 1 ,0 91 ' ten years shows a vast decrease in our favoqi eking i s o tO number of lamb skins were 2,358,457, and b a d dee /e8 while last year the number of lewd, skins 1 . 1 " 760,242, and of kid skins to 66,942.