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Varliantrittary VroritTinigs. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the first reading of the bill to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, and pro ceeded to explain the circumstances which had rendered the measure necessary. He referred to the acce'erate I speed with which the clubs had advanced, the necessity tor proclaiming several districts, the progress of conspirators in reviewing their forces ; and the fiendish instructions issued by the rebel papers on Saturday last. To meet these circumstances, the government had thougit it ne cessary to introduce the present measure, which they trusted would, in one day, be passed through all its ttagcs. One of the writers to whom he had alluded asked " who will strike the first blow, and who will draw the first blood ?" If their lordships did not wish any one to strike the first blow or draw the first blood, let them pass the present measure without delay, and without delay it would receive her Majesty's assent. The noble marquis con chided by moving that the standing orders be suspended, in order that the bill might be read a second time and pass through all its stages. Lord BROUGHAM, in seconding the motion, gave his most cordial assent to the proposition of the government. After a few words from the Earl of WICKLOW, Lord LENBOROUGH, and the Earl of GLEN GALL, the standing orders were suspended, and the bill went through its se veral stages, and passed nem. con. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. On the motion that the house should resolve itself into a committee of supply. Mr. FAGAN resumed the adjourned debate on Mr. Keogh's amendment, for the appointment of a select com- Inittee to inquire into the circumstances antecedent to the empanelment of the jury which tried and convicted the insurgent Mitchel, but it was negatived without a division, and the house resolved itself into a committee of supply. The house was then engaged for a considerable time in discussing the items of the army estimates. On the house resuming, the Encumbered Estates (Ire land) Bill was read a third time almost without discussion, and passed. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TtiEspAy. The royal assent was given to the Habeas Corpus Sus pension Act. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TIIESDAY. Sir W. MOLESWORTH called the attention of the house to the subject of the expenditure and government in our colonies, and entered into a long statistical statement of the carious amounts expended in order to support the different colonies, some of which cost us more than the total amount of our exports to them. The hon. baronet concluded a very lengthened speech by stating that if large sums of money were to be spent on the colonies, they might he much more advantageously applied in promoting the emigration of all classes of society, so as to make-the colonies as much like the mother country as possible. The hon. gentleman then moved—" That it is the opinion of this house that the colonial expenditure of the British empire demands inquiry, with a view to its reduction ; and that to accomplish this object, and to secure greater contentment and prosperity to the colonists, they aught to be invested with large powers for the administration of their heal affairs ;" and added that if the house agreed to it, he should, in the early part of the . next session, move for a select committee on the subject. Mr. HUTT seconded the motion ; and after speeches from Mr. HAwus and other hon. members, the debate wa4 adjourned. Mr. ANSTEY then rose, upon which the house was im mediately counted out. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. On.tbe reading of the order of the day for resuming the debate on the repeal of the union, Mr. R. M. Fox did not feel inclined, in the present condition of Ireland, to raise a debate on this subject. He therefore moved that the order of the day be discharged. An objection in point of form was taken to this motion by the SPEAKER, Mr. R. M. Fox therefore moved that the debate be ad journed to that day six months After some remarks from Mr. ANSTEY, Sir B. HALL thanked Mr. Fox for having saved him the trouble of making the same motion. It was batter that the order should be discharged, or the debate adjourned on the mo tion of the repeal leaders, inasmuch as that step would show the fallacy and absurdity of their whole proceedings. He taunted Mr. John O'Connell with not having the moral courage to argue the question, which he had himself brought forward, and to take the sense of the house upon it. He begged to remind Mr. Fox that the commence ment, origin, and progress of the republican movement in Ireland could be traced to the Repeal Association. He hoped that after this the house would hear no more of hon. gentleman going over to the other side of the water, and saying that the House of Commons would not enter tain the subject of repeal. A discussion of some interest then took place, in which Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. GRATTAN, Mr. ANSTEY, Mr. UR QUHART, Mr. RICE.. Major BLACKALL, and Lord J. Rus- SELL took part. The motion for the adjournment of the debate was then put and carried. On the motion that the house resolve itself Into com mittee on the Waste Lands (Ireland) Bill, some discussion took place between Sir J. WALSH, Mr. P. SCROPE, COL DUNNE, Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. FRENCH, Mr. 0. GORE, Sir G. GREY, and Sir D. NORREYS ; but as Mr. FRENCH declined to divide upon his own bill, the motion was ulti mately negatived without a division. On the motion of Mr. W. FAGAN the Life Assurance Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday next. The Sale of Beer Bill went through committee. The report was ordered to be received on Wednesday. HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY. Lord BRogionam asked the Marquis of Lansdowne whether there was not ground to suppose that the accounts received in London the day before respecting an out break in Ireland, and the defeat of the troops, were not grossly exaggerated. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was happy to be able to state that there was almost a certainty either that the re ports in question were altogether unfounded, or that they rested on the slightest possible foundation. He assured the House that the Government were in possession of a despatch from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, dated 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, which came to them by a Queen's messenger, and which contained nothing relating to any outbreak. A letter had also been received by the Government, dated 6 o'clock in the evening of the same day, which was equally silent as to any such event. Cir cumstanced as Ireland was at present, it was of course very probable that an outbreak might occur; but he trusted it would be attended by consequences far different from what had been reported. After some observations from the Marquis of LONDON DERRY in praise of the ministerial policy in Ireland, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that since he had last spoken he had received another letter from Dublin, dated seven o'clock, Wednesday evening, which made no mention of any outbreak ; he felt, therefore, warranted in believing that no such event had occurred. The Health of Towns Bill was read a third time and passed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Sir GEORGE GREY entered into a long explanation as to the way in which the account of the alleged outbreak in Ireland had been received in Liverpool. [We have no ticed this subject elsewhere.] Whilst noticing the sub ject, Sir George took the opportunity of stating that he had advised Irish members, who had invited his opinion anon the subject, to take up their residence in Ireland, and do all in their power to aid in preserving the public peace; and later on in the evening Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed his approval of that advice. and postponed for a fortnight the order of the day for going into committee on the Landlord and Tenant Bill. His lordship emphatically declared that government was determined, if necessary, to devote their whole and undivided attention to the condi toin of Ireland. The house was afterwards occupied with the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. In answer to Sir H. BROOK, respecting calling out the yeomanry of the north of Ireland, as he could himself rase 500 loyal men, Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that he had communicated with the Lord Lieutenant on the subject, and the affair was to be left to his discretion. He had the greatest con fidence in their loyalty. In answer to another question, Lord JOHN RUSSEL declared his intention to proceed with the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill. Sir G. GREY said, with reference to the late reports respecting Ireland, the man who carried the parcel to the news agents had been discovered, and he was prepared to identify the parties who gave him them. On the motion for going into supply, Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved that the present distracted state of Ireland requires that full and ample justice should be done to her claims, &c., and after several members had spoken, the debate was adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATTIRDAY. - - The adjourned debate on the state of Ireland was re sumed by Mr. J. O'CONNELL, who remonstrated at con siderable length on the " doing nothing " policy of go vernment. There seemed no union of will amongst the government as to the measures necessary for the present condition of Ireland. He should give the motion his cor dial support. Major BLACKALL said a few woids in opposition to the motion, and Mr. P. &ROPE said he believed the social grievances of Ireland were at the bottom of the dreadful movement which was now taking place there, and that it behoved the government to make the strictest inquiry into the subject. Sir G. Gasy said the government were prevented bringing forward any measures for Ireland from the pecu liar circumstances which now existed. He alluded to the want of union which was exhibited amongst all who spoke on the subject as to the adoption of any practical remedy. Colonel Duivx, Mr. R. M. Fox. Mr. CLEMENTS, and 3. 1 1 r. D. NORREYS having addressed the house, Sir W. SOMERVILLE defended the measures which had been introduced by the government for Ireland. Mr. F. O'CoriNon. ascribed the whole of the distress of Ireland to the neglect of the landlords, and to the non performance of their duties : hence they were always com ing to the house for measures to enable the government to do what they had neglected to do themselves. The house was addressed by Mr. NEWDEGATE, Mr. REYNOLDS, and Mr. A. STAFFORD. On a division there appeared, for Mr. Crawford's amend ment, 24 ; against it, 101; majority for going into a Com mittee of Supply, 77. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE OVERLAND MAIL. The Overland Mail has arrived, bringing dates from Calcutta to the Ist, Madras to the 9th, and Bombay to the Ist June. At Lahore, General Khan Singh, of the Sikh Artillery, had been discovered heading a plot to allure our Sepoys from their allegiance, and had been hanged by order of the Resident, along with a Moonshee of the Ranee, simi larly implicated. -It was expected that important infor mation would be gleaned from a third culprit, who had been reprieved at the gallows on that condition. About twenty other persons were in custody on the same charge. The engineers were occupied in raising a parapet around the whole inner edge of the rampart at Lahore, and by every possible means strengthening and isolating the works occupied by the troops. A large magazine ot•arms in the city, furnished of old by Runjeet Singh, had been undermined by order of the Resident, and blown up. It was said that the populace had begun► to help themselves to arms from 'that arsenal. The strictest garrison duty was being maintained, and every officer had been called in from the districts. There are no grounds of serious alarm as to the ultimate issue of affairs at the Sikh capital. INDIA. We have received by express from Marseilles our ad vices from India- in anticipation of the overland mail of the 19th of June. The dates thus received are—from Calcutta to the Bth, Madras to the 10th.. and Bombay to the 19th of June. This mail brings the satisfactory intelligence of decided successes, on two separate occasions, by the Sikh troops and irregulars under the British district officers, over con siderable bodies of the Mooltan rebels. To explain this news in detail, we must premise that the force under Lieutenant Edwardes, alluded to in our advices by the former mail, had early advanced with success some dis tance into the Mooltan districts and occupied Leia, where the gallant lieutenant met intelligence of the death of his friends at Mooltan and. orders from Lahore to recross the Indus, and to content himself with securing his position in the Bunnoo provinces. His Sikh force, which at first was greatly weakened by desertion, he subsequently re organized by enlistments of Patans and Mussulmans. The Rajah of Bhawalnore also bad rendered important service in co-operating in favour of the corps, and had 1 given a check to a party of the enemy sent against it. Subsequently, a body of lately enlisted Patans, whom Lieutenant Edwardes had detached to attack one of the petty chiefs, ably performed that service, taking the enemy's only gun, and putting the hostile body to flight with some loss. After this Lieutenant Edwardes joined Colonel Cortlandt, commanding in a contiguous district of the Dera, and who had.also been able to enlist a good number of Patans in his corps. A second engagement took place on the same day (20th May), this move ment was effected, and its success, on our part, was deci sive. The enemy suffered great slaughter, with the loss of two guns and five swivel pieces ; their chief was killed, and one of second note-taken prisoner. The corps under the British officers now hold possession of the forts of the Dera and the fine of the Indus. The enemy's force in the field at present consists of about 3000 men and eight guns ; while that of Edwardes and Cortlandt com prise three mixed Sikh regiments, 1000 Irregular Horse, eight guns, and 20 swivel pieces. Their levies are said to have fought bravely, to be under good control, and show no disposition to fraternize with the rebels. A small body of Beloochees, under one of their chiefs, had joined the English standard and done excellent service. FRANCE. On Thursday the Government seized the journal La Patric., and others which published the petition of M. Emile de Girardin to the Assembly. On Monday 134 insurgents were arrested in the Ban lieu. The bodies of several of the insurgents, who have died of their wounds, have been found by the reapers in the corn-fields in the environs of Paris. The Paris papers announce the death of General Dam esme on Saturday. GERMANY. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen left London on Friday for Dover en route to Berlin, whither he has been called by the Prussian Government to take part in its de liberations on the great crisis now pending. in Germany. It seems not unlikely that the important post of President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Provisional Executive may be offered to his Excellency. The Austrian assembly was opened on the 22d by Arch duke John. The most important point in-the Archduke's speech is the announcement that peace can only be attained in Italy by force of arms. Lieutenant-Colonel Prokesch has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs. The minis try and the regent have written to Inuspruck, to request the Emperor to return to Vienna. A considerable force of the Austrian army, amounting to about 20,000 men, made a sortie from Verona on the 18th. The advanced guard, consisting of 3600 men, al lowed itself to be surrounded by two Piedmontese brigades, and was obliged to lay dOwn its arms. A general engage ment then ensued, in which a body of 17,000 Austrians were defeated at all points. Another sortie wus made from Mantua by 7000 Austrians, who were repulsed by a body of 4000 troops, composed of Romans, Tuscans, and Neapolitans. ITALY. At Turin fears wore entertained for the monarchy. The Austrians had completely succeeded in all their operations, and, with 20,000 men who had marched to join Radetsky, they had passed the Mincio at several points. Even the fortress of Peschiera was clOsed to the Piedmontese troops. A fearful panic prevailed throughout Lombardy. INsunuccrroN AGAINST THE POPE.—The legations have broken out in open insurrection against the pope. The cause of this movement, which menaces a complete separation of the legations from the Pontifical States, is the part which the pope has taken with reference to the war of independence in Lombardy. A provisional govern ment has been formed at Bologna, charged with the con duct of the war so far as concerns the legations, quite independent of any authority derived from Rome. The question of the annexation of the legations with Tuscany, or their union with the new kingdom of Upper Italy, has been debated. Our Spanish letters state that the Queen was better, and that 2,000 convicts at Valladolid revolted, murdered their guards; and fled into the country with the intention of joining the Montemolinists. THE CHOLERA.—We have just received advices from St. Petersburgh by the Rob Roy. When she left the worst stages of the disease were past, people's minds were more easy, and business and activity were again visible. The general impression is, that the effects of the disease have been far more terrible than in 1831. It is calcu lated that 100,000 persons fled from the city of pestilence in terror and alarm, the larger proportion of whom were of the lower orders, who perished by thousands by the road side, from exposure and famine, the villagers refu sing to succour them ; these will not be included in the city returns. The public works had all been stopped. The accounts from the interior are very distressing, par ticularly from Astrachan, where the chief and two sons had perished. At St. Petersburgh, for some days the cases were 1200 daily, and in the earlier stage very few recovered, but latterly almost all were restored. It is mentioned as a curious fact, that all the crows, with which the city abounds, left when the cholera appeared, and returned when its virulence ceased. There was a violent thunder-storm on the 11th, which would have the effect of arresting the disease, if there be really any faith to b e placed in the alleged cause , that it arose from the absence of electricity in the air. The Emperor has behaved nobly. He visited the city nearly every day, and suppressed by his presence the risings of a popular tumult in his usually decisive and well-judged manner. Fourteen of the Eng lish residents have died. The total number of cases from the 4th of June to the 3rd of July (old style) was 15,414; deaths, 8,700. On the 4th July, 3,843 cases were under treatment.—Hull Packet. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - GOODWOOD RACES.—TUESDAY, July 25.—The Craven Stakes : The Hero walked over. The Levant Stakes : Glauca, 1; Wet Nurse, 2 ; Czarina, 3. The Drawing room Stakes : A dead heat between Swordplayer and Glendower. The Ham Stakes : Palmyra colt, by lon, 1; Honeycomb, 2; Belus, 3. The Gratwicke Stakes : Dis taffina, 1; Surplice, 2; Hornpipe, 3; Wiasma, 4. The 300 sovs. Stakes: Van Tromp, 1 • Cossack, 2. Won in a canter.—WEDNESDAY.—Goolwood Stakes : Chanti cleer, 1 ; Plaudit, 2 ; Remembrance, 3. Queen's Plate : Footstool, 1 • Hero, 2. Stewards' Cup : The Admiral, 1 ; Landrail, 2 ; Prior of St. Margaret's, 3. 28 ran. — THURSDAY.—Sweepstakes of 50 sovs.: Archery walked over. Sweepstakes of 200 sous.: Picaroon filly, out of Blue Bonnet, 1 ; Cynthia, 2 ; Flycatcher filly, 3. The Sussex Stakes : Glenalvon, 1 ; Syrup, 2; Touchy, 3. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs.: Helter Skelter, 1 • Malmes bury, 2. Duke of Richmond's Plate : Swordplayer, 1 ; Maid of Lyme, 2. The Mole6omb Stakes : Mr. Milner, 1 • Uriel, 2; Highland Fling, 3. The Goodwood Cup : Van Tromp, 1; Armin, 2; Miss Sarah, 3.— FRIDAY. —Sweepstakes of 200 sovs.: Canada filly walked over. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs.: won by Highland Fling. The Chesterfield Cup : won by Marquis of Conyngham. The Nassau Stakes : won by Canezou. The Richmond Stakes of 25 sovs. each, won in a canter by Hornpipe. The Derby Plate of £2OO, &c. : won by Flycatcher filly. The Chichester Stakes : won by Passion Flower. Sweepstakes of 15 sovs.: won by Pyrrhus the First. SHERDON AND JACKSON'S SIX-MILE MATCH FOR £2OO AND THE CH AMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND.—This exciting event, whi c h h as b een l oo k e d f orwar d t o w ith lively interest, came off yesterday week, at Hyde Park, Sheffield, and attracted such a concourse of spectators as rarely, if ever, assembled together on any similar occa sion. At the time of the start there could not be far short of 10,000 persons on the ground. Soon after Jack son had entered on his last round he gave up the race, and left Sherdon to finish the distance alone, which he did in 33 minutes, amidst shouts of applauge from his friends the Sheffielders, who win a pretty good stake. COCK FIGHT EXTRAORDINARY.—A person noted in the training of cocks for the above pastime went to a farm house in the neighbourhood of Lee Fair, near Alverthorpe, to purchase two game cocks. After the bargain was struck, the " gentleman" commenced swaggering of the good qualities of a cock of his training, whereupon the lady of the farm house challenged, that one of hers should fight his for a load of wheat, which was agreed upon. The fight came off on Monday week, and to the astonishment of the ," gentleman" his cock showed the white feather, and ran away ! It afterwards turned out that it was a hoax on the part of the lady, who had applied the pepper box pretty freely under the wings and feathers of her bird, which, at the " meeting in combat" bad blinded its op ponent. Of course the proprietor of the vanquished feeL'3 himself terribly aggrieved, and has since killed the bird. —Cambridge Chronicle. %AA*. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. [The following is from our Second• Edition of Tuesday last A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. Smith O'Brien, but he left Duolin, it will be seen, for Wexfcrd on Saturday. The clubs " talk" of rescuing their leader. We shall see. The squadron under Sir Charles Napier has been ordered for service on the Irish coast, to co operate with the authorities. The Irish Privy CJuncil have proclaimed the county of Kilkenny, city of Kilkenny, county of Meath, four baro nies in the county of Waterford, and 'thirteen baronies in the county of Cork. The city j of Waterford is still fearfully excited. Strong reinforcements of military have arrived. The Lord Lieu tenant's proclamation, ending with the usual phrase " God save the Queen," has been posted over with a counter proclamation, signed T. F. Meagher, and ending " God save the People." The police, according to their instructions, tore down the latter, and in doing so re ceived every possible annoyance and obstruction. There are several smithies hard at work making pikes; and all the young ash trees near the town have been cut down for pike-handles. The Waterford Chronicle says that the influence of such of the Roman Catholic clergy as do not sanction the clubs has been declining apace, and their ad monitions are without effect. THE PIKEMEN. — Within the last few days a sturdy application was made by some persons, in the adjacent town, for a small piece of iron, and a bit of steel, to make a few , pikes, to a Quaker gentleman in the iron trade. The merchant, more kind than merchants usually are, gave the poor applicants iron and steel sufficient to make two thousand pikes ! Honest quaker, that, say we. Other gentlemen in the same neighbourhood volunteered to supply handles gratis for the pikes, and now, we under stand, there are no less than 4.000 armed men ready to take the field with arms weli calculated to turn the tables, and what's better, without much drilling.—Waterford Chronicle. It is said that informations have been sworn against Mr. Doheny for a seditious speech. Infantry and cavalry are daily arriving at Carlow, Kil kenny, and other places. The Rhadamanthus steam fri gate arrived at Waterford on Friday. The sale of pikes, guns, blunderbusses, and pistols, is still very brisk in every town in the disturbed districts. Mr. John O'Connell has issued a letter to the repealers of Cork, again advocating his moral-force doctrines. The Agricultural Show in Kilkenny is described as in differently attended, in consequence of the unquiet state of the times. The accounts from nearly all parts of Ireland, received this week, represent the potatoes as in a very flourishing condition. Mr. M. T. Baines, M.P., being nailed as a member of the Dublin Election Committee, has been prevented, so far from attending the northern circuit as usual. Several parties have been arrested in Drogheda on a charge of " training and drilling." Amongst these was the editor of the Drogheda Argus, and Messrs. Hart and Drew. The parties were subsequently bailed, and were met by a crowd, who shouted " the Queen and Repeal ! " As the sentry at the barrack-gate in Youghal was walking his usual post on Monday night, he was fired at by some miscreant. the adjutant saw the flash of the intended murderer's piece, and the sentinel at the same time heard the ball whistle by him. A person named Flanagan, a noted pike-maker, has been arrested in Dublin. In is house were found swords and cutlasses. In the houses of other suspected parties were found various weapons of warfare, as well as bullet moulds, wadding, and ammunition, and also documents showing the connexion of the parties with the clubs. Some of the country banks are refusing discounts upon the most solvent securities. A gentleman possessing pro perty to the extent of .f 5.000 a year, has been refused ac commodation by a bank in the province of Connaught. In consequence of this refusal he was compelled to sell, at great disadvantage, a vast quantity of live stock in order to meet his engagements. THE CLUBBISTS' AMMUNITION.—On Thursday a large parcel was delivered at a mercantile establishment in Dublin, directed to a clerk in the house, who is connected with the clubs. It was marked " with care" on the out side. On account of suspicious appearances the proprie tor opened the parcel, and found that it contained several pounds of gunpowder, which he at once delivered to the authorities. ASSAULTS ON SOLDIERS.—On Tuesday, at the head police-office, Dublin, two persons were summarily con victed of aggravated and unprovoked assaults on two sol diers, one a sergeant of the Enniskillen Dragoons, the other a private in the 55th Regiment. One of the pri soners was fined £6, and the other £3, or two months' imprisonment, and the fines were paid. These cases exhibit the growing feeling of hostility against the sol diers amongst those classes infected by the revolutionary mania. _ _ On Thursday, at two o'clock, a car, containing five persons, was stopped at the Blanchard's town turnpike gate, by a constable and one of the police of that station. On examining the car, they found three guns, three pistols, two bullet moulds, and two pike heads, with a large quantity of ball cartridges, loose powder, balls, &c. The parties were arrested, and the car taken to the station house. The prisoners gave their names at AL' Ke t n a n a i ~, t O n ' r lt ,, o w r n k e i ~ 37 H 1 a 2 y m e s o , 1 L m e t e e , d a n n o d li e F e a l o iy f force, at four o'clock next morning. . the Th r e e y se w rv e ed re The Dublin correspondent of the Times, writing on Monday, says :—" A well-circumstanced estate in the west of Ireland, producing a rental of £7OO a-year, was put for sale in the Master's-offices on Saturday last. There was not a single bidder, and the sale was adjourned without a day being named for another trial. Negotia tions for loans, which last week were about being made on the faith of solvent security, have been suspended within the last twenty-four hours. Lenders button up their pockets, and look to the chances of a transfer of their persons and properties to countries more likely to afford adequate safety to both." NEW POTATO 'S.—Scarcely at any season, and during the most plentiful years, were there more potatoes to be seen in market than on Saturday. They were remarkably fine, and free from discoloration or disease. Really good ones were purchased at so low a figure at 71d. per weight of 21Ib ; inferior ones were disposed even at 6d ! It is some years since new potatoes could be bought. at this season of the year, at similar prices to the present, and there is every probability of their being lower—many are inclined to think that they will be sold so low as 4d. per weight generally. In a few of the country towns, on Sa turday, the top price was 6d. per weight.— Cork paper. AN IRISHMAN'S NOTION OF CRIME.—At the Cork , Assizes, last week, the following colloquy took place be tween a counsel and witness ;—I was in the dock before now, but it was'nt for much. Mr. Wallis—What was it for Jerry ? Witness it was only for stealing a pig. (A laugh.) Mr. Bennett—Did you ever steal a pig since ? (Loud laughter.) Witness (shaking his head at his Lord ship).—By dad, my Lord, many a good man stole a pig before now. (Great laughter.) Court—What ! Do you mean to say that good men steal pigs ? Witness—A good man, my Lord, might whip away one pig if he did'nt go higher. (Loud laughter.) MURDER.—On Sunday the 23rd of July, a man of the name of Timothy Sheehan,. of Garnavella, near Caher, left his house for the purpose of going to mass in the cha pel of Caher ; when within a short distance of the town he was joined by another man, whom he knew, named Gilli gan, and while both were walking on the high road, a man leaped over the hedge, with a pistol in his hand, and or dered Gilligan to go on. He then presented it at Shee han and fired. The contents of the pistol were lodged in his abdomen ; and when the villain perceived that he yet lived, he drew the butt of the pistol and struck his victim on the skull, saying at the time, " There's Leamy's ground for you." The poor man was killed on the spot. This occurred in the presence of several persons who were on their way to the chapel. We have not yet heard whe ther the murderer has been arrested.— Clonnzel Chronicle. THE NEW ACT TO SUPPRESS REBELLION IN IRELAND. —The new act to suppress rebellion in Ireland (11th and 12th Victoria, cap. 35) has just been printed. It contains three clauses. The preamble declares that a treasonable and rebellious spirit of insurrection now unfortunately exists in Ireland, and therefore for the better preserva tion of her Majesty's most sacred person, and for securing the peace, the laws, and liberties of this kingdom, it is enacted by the first clause, " that all and every person and persons who is, are, or shall be, within prison within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland, at or on the Jay on which this act shall receive her Majesty's Royal Assent (25th of July instant) or after by warrant of her Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council of Ireland, signed by six of the said Privy Council, for high treason or treasonable practices, or sus picion of high treason or treasonable practices, or by warrant signed by the Lord-Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, for the time being, or his or their chief secretary, for such causes aforesaid, may be detained in safe custody without bail or mainprize until the Ist day of March, 1849, and that no judge or justice of the peace shall try any such person or persons committed, without order from her said Majesty's Privy Council until the Ist of March, 1849, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding." By the second clause it is provided that persons to whom warrants are directed shall detain persons so committed in safe custody. Per sons charged with custody, as also the place of detention, may be charged with warrants by the Lord Lieutenant or Privy Council. The third clause directs that copies of such warrants respectively shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Crown for Dublin. This Act passed the House of Commons on Saturday, the Lords on Monday, and received the royal assent OR Tuesday, when it came into force—the quickest possible time of legislation in the annal 3 of parliament. The following letter, dated " Waterford, July 26th," is important : Sir Charles O'Donnell, who has a special command in this district, has received an application for reinforce ments from Carrick-on-Suir, where Messrs. Smith O'Brien and Meagher have for the moment established their head quarters. The request, which was founded on the excited state of the town and the immediate danger of an out break, was at once complied with. One hundred soldiers were landed from the Rhadamanthus steamer in the har bour, and marched without delay for the spot where their services were required. They took their departure amidst the hearty cheers of their comrades, to which they themselves as heartily responded ; and though the move ment created some excitement and infinite curiosity among the inhabitants, not the slightest attempt was made to impede them in their progress. The men were full of alacrity and zeal, and at a later period of the day were met half-way to Pilltown, proceeding on their route at a smart pace. Carrick is inhabited by a wild and law less race, ripe for any scheme, however desperate, and likely when called on to fight with steady ferocity. Though the population is rot more than from 5,000 and 6,000, the neighbourhood is densely peopled, and within a very short time its own natural resources for an outbreak would be swelled by the sanguinary peasantry who surround it. For days and weeks past it has been in a state of incipient insurrection, 'which accident has alone prevented from be coming open rebellion. Club organization has been car ried there to ft high state of perfection, and every art bas been used to aggravate the excitement of the population. There yesterday Mr. Smith O'Brien proclaimed the Re bellion of 1848, and offered himself as leader in its 'despe rate hazards. In a highly inflammatory speech he re minded the people that there was a time when the name he bore would have aroused the whole country in his be half, and he invited them to follow him now. His address was rather coldly received, and it was probably from a perception of this that he gave them two hours to decide on the proposition which he had made to them. At the end that period the terms were, I 'suppose, accepted, and to-day it was generally reported and believed in Wa terford that he had betaken himself to the hills, with 100,000 followers. The departure of reinforcements for Carrick-on-Suir was taken to be a confirmation of this rumour, and it was almost amusing to see the solemn ea gerness with which this foolish fabrication was communi cated and received by the gossips and idlers of this city. " Waterford itself remains undisturbed. The clubs met to-night in unusual force, but, after showing the same restless and uneasy spirit, they dispersed quietly. For the military defence of this city the most ample pro vision has been made. The steamer in the harbour, is placed so that its guns command the principal street. Cannon will be posted so as to sweep the quays. an en campment is to be formed on the heights above the bridge, and the barracks, which are also situated above the town, complete a strong chain of fortifications against which even the drilling and training of the clubs must prove powerless. " While the timid are flying from the threatened dan ger, the great landowners in this neighbourhood are re turning to their estates, and preparing to lend their aid in defending the Crown and Government of the empire. The Earl of Bessborough has set an example in this respect worthy of imitation. The military force at Pilltown is encamped within his grounds, and Bessborough-house serves as an ammunition store, while the noble earl him self is actively engag ed in providing for the comfo r t o f the troops and the safety of the town of Carrick. The Mar quis of Waterford is also expected to visit his estates here immediately, and, it is said, intends to raise his tenantry for the defence of the country. In such a cause as the present, when Ireland is threatened with a servile as well as a civil war, it is not only for the honour but for the in terest of the great landowners to take their share in the struggle." STATE OF IRELAND. The projected crusade of the Protestant Repealers in Ulster has been abandoned. A rumour prevailed that the whole of the deputation from the body had been arrested in Drogheda. • A diabolical attempt was made by three clubbists at two o'clock on Wednesday morning, to murder a policeman, in South Great George-street, Dublin. The victim, John Byrne, met three young men, one of whom had a pistol in his hand, and the officer asked him, on the weapon being waved across his own face, to give it up, or show him his license for carrying it. He refused, and a scuffle ensued, in which the officer got possession of the pistol— when the young man turned round and plunged a dagger into his groin. The constable knocked him down, but soon after, when some other police officers came up, he fainted for loss of blood and was taken to the hospital. He is not likely to recover. The assassins were taken. Two of them bore the name of Moran, and are brothers. On the ground were found two other pistols, fully charged, and another dagger. Their houses were searched, and at Morans' a helmet was found ; also papers shewing that both were contributors to the Nation. The further hear ing of the case before the magistrates was postponed. Patrick O'Hipgins (the first arrested under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act) was committed to Kilmainham on Thursday on a charge of high treason. About a thou sand gunstocks in the rough were found on his premises. A gentleman named Fitzgerald was apprehended early on Tuesday in Westmorland-street, Dublin, with a pike in his possession. He stated before the magistrate that he was bringing it home after vainly applying to have it re gistered. Prisoner was committed for trial, but bail was accepted. Newgate Gaol, Dublin, is placed in a state of military defence. Instructions have been given to the keeper to prevent the continuance of the practice of parties therein writing treasonable articles to the Felon, the Nation, and other papers. Henceforward, the wives and children of the prisoners and their legal advisers only, will be permit ted to visit them, and they only, upon a previous pledge being given by each of them, upon the occasion of each visit, that no papers or other communication will be taken from the prison by them for publication, or for any pur pose except for the purpose of defence of the prisoners, when being tried for the offences for which they stand charged. The arming of the people throughout Tipperary and Waterford is reported to be proceeding rapidly. At Carrick, the cry of the whole population seems to be for war ; and: Smith O'Brien has told his benighted dupes there that "if the government attempt to arrest him, they shall have only his lifeless corpse." Mr. Meagher added that " the assistance of the people might be called into requisition in a couple of hours, if the authorities at tempted to arrest him." It was rumoured on Wednesday in Dublin, that Trinity College and Birmingham Tower were to be converted into prisons. ARRIVA , ireAS CORPUS The Banshee left Liverpool on Tuesday, with the offi cial documents empowering the Lord Lieutenant to put the act in force, and arrived early on the following day. His Excellency forthwith issued his proclamation to en force the provisions of the suspension of the act. At the mere touch of that well-tempered weapon the Con federate forces began giving way in numberless directions, abashed, crest-fallen, and confounded. Dublin, it is needless to say, has from the commence ment been the focus and stronghold of these felonious combinations ; at once their bulwark and head-quarters. The clubs disappeared on Tuesday, their machinery having been broken, and the feeling amongst them being " sauve qui peut." One member is afraid of impeachment by another, and none safe. Were a Congreve rocket thrown into the centre of each club-room, it could not have caused greater consternation, or a more thorough dispersion than guilt and a dread of betrayal have produced among the Dublin rebels. A salutary terror also seized the disaffect ed in many of the provinces, and a number of clubs were dissolved. Carrick-on-Suir and Carrickbeg were amongst the most excited, after a meeting on Sunday week. The peasantry then cut down the plantations for pike handles. Clonmel was in a very excited state, but though great alarm prevailed, the rumour that the insurrection had then broken out (as stated in the Liverpool Times of Thursday) happily proves to be incorrect. The Freeman's Journal gives the following account of Mr. Smith O'Brien's progress through Wexford : " ENNISCORTHY, July 24.—Mr. Smith O'Brien arrived in Enniscorthy by the Dublin coach on Saturday evening, en route to visit John Maher, Esq., D.L., with whom he immediately after proceeded to Ballinkeele. During the few minutes he remained in town he was waited on by many members of the club, and others, to whom he ex pressed his desire to see a cordial union amongst all classes of Repealers, and an active organisation of the national party into clubs. In the evening a large bonfire was kindled in Vinegar-hill, to celebrate Mr. O'Brien's first visit to the county of Wexford. On Sunday morning, Messrs. T. F. Meagher and J. B. Dillon arrived from Dublin by the night mail, and proceeded to join Mr. S. O'Brien at Ballinkeele. At eleven o'clock a.m., the three gentlemen came to Enniscorthy, when, after Messrs. Meagher and Dillon had heard mass, an immense con course of people surrounded them in the market-square. They addressed the assemblage in spirit-stirring and most effective speeches. Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher, and Dillon then left Enniscorthy for Kilkenny, and were attended nearly to the bounds of the county of Wexford by a few gentlemen. It was expected that Mr. O'Brien would have remained here a few days, to begin an effective organiza tion of the repeal party in this county." From Enniscorthy Mr. O'Brien and his staff proceeded to Kilkenny, where they addressed the people, and were received with great enthusiasm. Yesterday week they ad dressed the people in Carrick-on-Suir. The police of Nenagh have been re-inforced, and a large military barrack is to be erected. An encampment is also contemplated. Mr. O'Gorman hss been trying to enlist the clergy in behalf or the rebels. He tried Dean Vaughan, but that functionary declined to accede to his wishes. In New port, Tipperary, he was rather more successful. Addres sing a vast mob there on Saturday evening he indulged in such language as follows :—" He said he came among the men of Newport, not for the purpose of making a speech, but to remind them of the duty which they owed themselves, their wives, and children, and their country, and to be prepared in the event of ie worst, to sustain them with their lives.—(Loud cheers.) He wished to know whether the men of Tipperary were content to lie down calmly for another year and behold the teeming produce of their country sent to foreign lands, and they left to starve.—(Cries of " Never.") This is the policy of a paternal government, and will continue to be their policy until human endurance shall be exhausted; and, thank God, a spirit has at length arisen in the land which proclaims that human endurance has its limits.—(Cheers.) For the bold and fearless expression of those sentiments (and which I here openly avow,) Mr. Mitchel has been convicted, and punished as a felon."—(Loud cheering for Mr. Mitchel.) The city of Limerick was visited, and the clubs inspected, by Mr. O'Gorman on Saturday. The Reporter gives a glowing descriptiOn of the " General's" reception on the occasion :—" Words cannot express the buiefing enthu siasm with which he was received in every club, while he described the deadly tyranny under which the nation groans, and pointed out the duties and kindled the hopes of the people. The Limerick Reporter states that the clubs now meet every night, and that their numbers are rapidly increasing. A letter from Carrick-on-Suir states, that among other extensive preparations on the part of the people of that town, 12 anvils ring night and day with the sound of the pike, in defiance of all legal consequences" and the pre sence of police and military. In South Tipperary the suspension of the Act has had a good effect. At Clonmel and Nenagh, a yeomanry force was being organized. Great apprehensions of an outbreak were, on the 21th, entertained at Waterford. O'Brien and Meagher had been there harrangueing the peopleininflamatorylanzune. The -Bishop of Dromore, the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, Lord French, and his eldest son, the Hon. F. F renc h, have sent in their adhesion to the Irish League. Rathkeale was also greatly disturbed. The Nenegh Guardian says :—" The several out-stations surrounding the town of Borrisoleizh have been ordered to be broken up, and the entire force in that district are to concentrate in the town of Borrisoleigh. This step has been taken in consequence of information received of a general slaughter of the constabulary in that locality." At Clonmel, all the fire-arms in the gunsmith's estab lishments have been removed by the police. A letter from Dublin, dated July 25th, says :—" The ac counts from the South this morning are really most alarm ing. The confederate leaders appear to be so insane as to contemplate an insurrection ; and, indeed, already they have gone little short of an actual outbreak. The deepest anxiety and apprehension prevail amongst the gentry and well-disposed of all classes. The danger is imminent, but the Lord-Lieutenant is well prepared and determined promptly to crush, any insurrection forced on by the wicked men who are now endeavouring to produce a con vulsion. Troops are constantly arriving from England and departing from the South, where the danger is most pressing." . _ The Dublin Mail of Friday calls earnestly on the go vernment to arrest the rebel leaders without fear of con sequences and in the midst of any mob they can raise. Our contemporary says, " A pistol held at Mr. Smith O'Brien's ear, by a brave and determined man, with a tool intimation that the brains of that criminal lunatic would be blown out upon the first indication of an attempt to rescue him, would, we have no doubt, terminate in a moment all danger both of a temporary collision and of protracted rebellion. A single troop of horse artillery, and one squadron of light dragoons, would be more than sufficient support .to the captor of the King-designate of Munster; but, if the over-caution of the authorities deem that more force might be needed, have they not an army of 40,000 men at their command ? The capture of Smith O'Brien, and some two dozen of stripes upon his back with a boy's cat-o'-nine-tails, would, to-day, terminate a farce of insurrection which, a week hence, may grow into a tragedy, from the catastrophe of which the empire would suffer for half a century." On Thursday, Mr. O'Brien addressed the mob at Ur lingford, in the county of Kilkenny, and called on them to rescue him in the event of his being arrested. The mails leaving the Post-office, Dublin, have double guards mounted on them. Eigle: members of a Confederate club were charged on Thursday, at the Dublin Police-office, with a conspiracy to murder three inspectors of police. They were re manded. An Irishman, n traveller for a highly-respect able English house, but connected with the club £ ystem , was followed last week from Liverpool by an officer, and has probably by this time been arrested. His trunks were seized, and one was found to contain a full suit of green uniform; with a commission in the rebel forces, to-• gether with some arms. We take the following from the Dublin Herald of Thursday evening :—" Messrs. Reilly and Brennan, of the Felon, have absconded. A great number of warrants are known to have been issued for the apprehension of others. A blacksmith has been arrested in Kingston for forging pikes, and three persons for purchasing them. Several of the shopmen employed in the large mercantile houses in this city, being deeply implicated in the insur rectionary preparations have absconded through fear of arrest under the new act. The police have been, since the arms act came into force under the recent proclamation, engaged in a diligent search for arms throughout the city, but as yet with very inconsiderable results. The utmost care and cunning have been employed in concealing the weapons, and with but too much success. This naturally -adds greatly to the anxiety and alarm which has hitherto prevailed. In one instance, however, they have been suc cessful to a considerable extent. Thirteen hundred musket stocks were taken in the house of Mr. O'Higgins, whom we have mentioned having been arrested. We have elsewhere alluded to the attempt to assassinate the sentry on duty at Aldborough house, on Sunday night. The musket-hall, which was fitted at the soldier, has been found, but no clue whatever to the detection of the cow ardly assasFin." The following extract from a letter written at Kilkenny, on Saturday, by a respectable gentleman in that town, though favourable to repeal, was received yesterday by a house in Liverpool. The information is important, and the sentiments of the writer, though strongly expressed, are reciprocated by no small proportion of the Irish public of all political denominations Kilkenny, 29th July, 1848. " O'Brien was obliged to retire (from the neighbour hood of Carrick-on-Suir) to the foot of a mountain called Slievenamon, where for a few days he was followed by perhaps a thousand men, who were to some extent armed. Since that. even these men have deserted him, and he moved further towards a place called Killenaule, a few miles further on ; and, although this is onl, fifteen miles from here, all we can hear of him is, that he has about seventy men along with him. A collision may occur in arresting him, but there is not the least danger of anything lik e a revolutionary movement taking place. I think this country will be in a more quiet state in another week than perhaps it has been for a long time. We have our faults, but we have also serious grievances, of which the English people as a body are utterly ignorant, and which an English ministry, at least the present one, are unwilling to redress; but, God knows, we cannot so much blame them, when the fact is before us that a greater set of rascals never entered the Hall of St. Stephen's than the present representatives of unfortunate Ireland, call them what you will—whig, tory, or repealer. They have all played false to their colours when a job was to be per petrated. The troops are, I suspect, trying to hem in O'Brien." The Cork Constitution of Saturday says, " Everything is quiet at Cork and the neighbourhood. As to the 4,000 men whom the Clubbists believed to be encamped with Meagher at Slievenamon, they wert " men in hi - Irk - - ram. — rrot one wousanu, nor a undred, nor even a dozen were visible, and as to Meagher himself, a letter in a Dublin paper says that he was in Waterford on Tues day, looking very bad, and not unlikely, should opportu nity offer, to be off. As to his vaunted sword," a wooden one would suit a hero of his kidney best. Perhaps, however, he would have ventured a brush • but he found that the people would'nt stand by him, and he must therefore either fly or meet the fate of a felon. It is nearly all " up" with the clubs in Cork. They are at " sixes and sevens." Suspicion has crept in among the leaders ; and suspicion among the leaders will be followed by dissension among the members (indeed, we hear, that on Sunday evening one of the Vices was either thrown out of the window of his club-room, or hurried down stairs). We noticed on Thursday the " curious fact" that the names of three Pre sidents were missing from the Appeal which had been posted through the City ; but there was a fourth missing also, and that fourth the name of one of the earliest and most prominent, and, it was supposed most resolute promoters of the insurrectionary scheme. It is even said that he was the originator or the mover of the appeal ; but be this as it may, he refused to sign it. Out of fifteen Presidents, the names of only eleven appear ; and we should like to know whether even those eleven were all written by the owners, or whether the owners were even consulted ? " A proclamation has been issued against the printers and publishers of all seditious and treasonable newspapers, or other publications of a similar tendency. The Lord Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore has given orders that for the present the occasional prayer to be used in time of war and tumults shall be read in all the churches and chapels under his lordship's super intendence. Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, a rather prominent leader of the Confederates, surrendered himself on Friday to the au thorities, on the compulsion of his father, a respectable solicitor, who accompanied his son to the Police-office. The prisoner is an extremely prepossessing young man. On Saturday, Mr. J. F. Lalor, of Felon notoriety, was arrested by a body of about thirty of the constabulary, within six or seven miles of Nenagh. On Friday evening, the printing-office of the Nation newspaper, in Sackville-place, was visited by the police, who arrested the printers there, (eleven in number,) and took them before the magistrates at Henry-street police office, when they were remanded. All the papers, types, and machinery were seized. The publisher's office of the Nation newspaper, in D'Olier-street, was about the same time taken possession of by the police, who seized all the papers. &c., found on the premises. At Clonmel at Carrick, the John Mitchel clubs re ceived O'Brien and his confederates with great shyness, and the Carrick clubbists requested him to begin some where else. The Clonmel Mitchel club has since dis solved itself. The vendors of weapons at Carlow have abruptly fled with their caravan. They were desirous of making a stand in Tullow. Here, to the credit of the inhabitants, they manifested a determination to break the van, and throw the arms it contained into the river Slaney. The opposition was so vigorous they fled from Tullow to New townbarry, subsequently were compelled to decamp to some other town, or, what is more likely, they crossed the channel to Bristol. Thus terminated the crusade of the rebel commissaries. Further arrests took place on Saturday. including some members of the Irish Confederation and the Dublin clubs. In Clare, Kilrush, and other places, the clubs which were hut recently established have been disolved. Lord Clarendon has followed up the suppression of the clubs by a similar blow against the " Irish League." Its secretary, Mr. Halpin, with other leading members of its council, have been arrested, and all the books and docu ments belonging thereto have been captured and safely lodged in Dublin Castle. On Saturday proclamations appeared in the Gazette, offering rewards as follows :—For the arrest of William Smith O'Brien, £5OO ; for Francis T. Meagher, John R. Dillon, and Michael Doheny, each or either, £3OO, " to him who shall secure and deliver into safe custody the persons aforesaid." The charge alleged in the proclama tions was, "having taken up arms against her Majesty." The Hue and Cry published on Saturday contains the following notice : " Dublin Castle, July 28th, 1848. " Whereas, the under-mentioned persons stand charged with having been concerned in treasonable practices, and have absconded : Michael Crow, late of the city of Dub lin ; Thomas M. Halpin, ditto ; Francis Morgan, solicitor, ditto ; John H. Dunne, ditto ; James Cantwell, ditto ; Thomas D'Arcy M`Gee, ditto • Joseph Brennan, ditto ; Thomas Devin Reilly, ditto ; john Cantwell, ditto ; Ste phen J. Mostly, ditto ; Henry Shaw, printer, ditto ; and James F. Lalor, of Tinnikill, Queen's County. " Inspectors of police, constables, and sub-constables, are authorized to apprehend and cause to be committed into safe custody the before-named offenders, to be dealt with according to law. And inasmuch as they respectively stand charged with having committed felony, all persons are warned against incurring the penalties to which in such case they will become liable, under the provisions of an act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of her pre sent Majesty, chap.' 2, entitled 'An Act for the Better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in Ireland,' by har bouring or sheltering them or any of them !" A determined effort is being made to secure the person of Mr. S. O'Brien. At six o'clock on Saturday morning, a special train was despatched from the terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway for Thurles, con taining the 74th Highlanders, the 60th Rifles, and a park of Artillery, for the purpose of this day, if possible, effect ing his arrest. Attempts have been made to form clubs in Belfast, and though a number of parties have joined, yet the affair is slightingly regarded by the majority. The town is well provided fox by a strong and effective force of military,— iingust I, 1848. infantry, horse, and artillery ; but it requires it not. The loyal Protestants of that great town would, in a single hour, put to flight the whole of the rebels of the county Antrim, including the " murderous boys of Hercules street." As a confirmation of this statement, we Way observe that the Befast Protestant Association, commenced only a few weeks ago, is progressing with great rapidity. It now numbers 700 members. DEFEAT OF THE REBELS. - COLLISION WITH THE POLICIC. We have received accounts from authentic sources, which state that the rebellion had actually commenced. It was known to the authorities -it Callan, that Smith O'Brien had taken refuge among the colliers in TipperarY- They accordingly despatched a body of 60 police in pun' suit on Saturday morning, who went up to the collieries. When on the common of Boulagb, near Ballingarry, they were compelled to take shelter in a large house, which was blockaded by a large body of insurgents, headed by Smith O'Brien, with whom were Doheny, Reilly, and Dillon. The rebels, in their endeavours to dislodge the police, attempted to burn and tear down the house over their heads, but were fired upon by the police from the upPe.r stories. This compelled the insurgents to make a preci pitate retreat, after three of their number were killed, and several wounded. It was rumoured that Dillon was slain. Smith O'Brien fled in he direction of Urlingford. When he left the scene of action he was completely de serted by the rebels. His immediate capture was expected. a large body of police being in close pursuit. Major-General Napier and Colonel Doyle took their departure from Limerick for Thurles, on Saturday, at place they were to meet the Seventy-fourth High landers, two hundred of the Sixtieth Rifles, two hundred of the Eight Hussars, and the Dragoon Guards. These forces have been despatched in pursuit of Smith O'Brien and his associates. Messrs. Duffy, Doherty, and Martin, who were arrested some time ago, and who are now in custody, will be tried at the next commission, which commences its sittings on the 18th August next. UNIVERSITY AND. CLERICAL NEWS. The Archbishop of Canterbury has intimated his in tention to contribute £5O a-year for a time to the Welsh- Education Fund. A correspondent of a weekly paper states, that the Bishop of Chichester refused to attend the Oxford Com memoration till he had ascertained that Bishop Hampden was not to be present. IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL CHANGES.— The ar rangements which are in progress for rendering the Pri-- mate of all England independent of Episcopal control over any particular see will create some changes in the dioceses of Rochester and Winchester, while the limits of the present see of Canterbury will remain compara tively untouched, consisting as heretofore of the Arch deaconries of Canterbury and Maidstone. Over this diocese a Bishop will be appointed who will rank with the other suffragan Bishops in the order of consecration. The diocese of Rochester, at present comprising part of Kent, and the whole of Essex and Hertfordshire, will, under the new arrangement, comprise that portion of Kent at present under the jurisdiction of its Bishop, the whole of Essex, and part of Surrey now under the diocese of Winchester. The part of Surrey which will be added to the diocese tf Rochester will comprise Southwark, Lambeth, Camberwell, Battersea, Kingston, Epsom, Dorking, Weybridge, Walton. Charlwood, Kew, and all the intermediate towns and villages. Hertfordshire, which now forms part of the diocese of Rochester, will be erected into a new Episcopal see, deriving its name from St. Albans. Tt is stated, but whether with ant degree of certainty we are at present unable to say, that the Hon. and Rev. Robert John Eden, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, and brother to the Earl of Auckland, will be transferred to the see of Canterbury, and that the Hon. and Rev. H. D. Erskine, Dean of Ripon, will be appointed Bishop of St. Albans. Morning paper.- - [Notwithstanding the circumstantial character of these details the Times states that there is no truth in them.] RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Dissolution- Railway Bill was thrown out by a committee of the' House of Lords on Wednesday. The key-stone of the last arch of the Wharfdale Via duct, on the Leeds and Thirsk Line, was placed on Monday. The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, for the week ending July 22, was as follows :—Coaching traffic, £1,356 17s. 9d. ; goods and cattle, £9B Bs. 2d.; do. excess, £24 19s. 9d. ;—total, £1,480 ss. Bd. At the special meeting of the Dutch Rhenish the share holders agreed to refer all their differences between the board and the Liverpool party to a conference between three of the London directors and three of the Liverpool deputation. During the present session 55 - railway :bills receive t d ,, the royal assent, the aggregate capital amounting " I £8,588,466 ; and the loan to £3,515,550 ; making a O tt' ' '. of £12,104,016, authorised to be raised, in some c ases, as additional capital to complete - lines in course of construc tion, and in others for making new railways and branchea to the extent of 323 miles. The wooden bridge over the Tyne at Warden, about, two miles west of Hexham, an d w hi c h f orm s a portion of the Newcastle and C ar li s l e R a il way , was destroyed by Piro on 'Phnr.lny morning , , iginitiort bccn etnthtd, iG is supposed, by the falling of some hot c i n d ers f rom the fire of the engine of a luggage train which had passed over it but a short time previous to the fire having been dis covered. The report presented to the half-yearly meeting of the North Staffordshire proprietors declared a dividend of 4s. per share, from the interest received on capital and the surplus proceeds on the canal. The works appear to have been actively carried on, and the passenger traffic on „he portion of the line opened from Stoke tc Norton Bridge is satisfactory and promising. The report and accounts were adopted unanimously. From our official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 4040 miles of railway , wa s £223,107, thus accounted f0r:—£120,983 for the convey ance of passengers only, £45,560 for the carriage of and a remainder of £56,564 for passengers and goods to-_ gether, not respectively apportioned week being an increase of £28,591 over the corresponding of last year, when the mileage was 3158. The average earnings per inue were £55, whilst in 1847 they were £6l. OBSTRUCTION.—At the Cambridge Assizes, a null , goods, named Creek, was indicted for having placed an iron chair on the Eastern Counties Railway, and having thereby obstructed an engine, and endangered the safety of per sons travelling on the line. The jury at once returned a • verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Maule wished it to go forth that if any life should be lost in consequence of obstruc tions placed on the line of railway, the persons placing the obstructions would be guilty of murder, and fit objects for the infliction of capital punishment due to this crime. I ° the present case, though no life was lost, it was impossible to award any but a severe sentence, and the prisoner must be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. JOBBING IN RAILWAY SHARES.—In the late applica tion for the dissolution of the Liverpool and Newcastle Junction Railway, Mr. Wilson, the secretary, detailed before the Parliamentary Committee the "jobbing" with the shares, which excited the indignation of a crowde d room. That in August, 1845, 100 shares were allotted to each provisional committeeman; that 10,000 shares wer e set apart for members of the managing committee equally 2,000 to solicitors; 200 each to local solicitors ; 500 to bankers; 2,000 to members of parliament; that the share° were then at a high premium ; that the second allotmen t was on 26th of August, 1845, of 4,200 to the committee of management, 1,565 to the provisional committee, 1,100 to solicitors, 200 to surveyors, 300 to bankers, 3,500 " to the friends of the committee of management," an d ,t 6 , 085 to the general public !"—making in all 23,800 allotted. In September there was another allotment to directors. B ut at a meeting of February, 1847, these allotments wer e questioned, as refusals of shares to landowners were 111 existence. That in November, 1845, there was a further allotment to directors (promoters of this bill,) but these allotments of September and November were cancelled, or only half to be used. That 23,700 shares were allotted to officials of the company, and they only registered fo r 12,080, leaving above 11,000, sold in scrip. That all tb e directors hold now but 4,796 shares out of 70,000 ; th e y had signed the subscription contract for £695,002. °u . the amalgamation in 1845, each company took 35, shares and divided them amongst its company. Since thi 9 bill was in contemplation, purchases of shares had befo made by directors and solicifors, and were included in tnf_ assents to this bill (now 42,000.) The price of shares 1845 was proved to be sto 7 premium, and now ss. -nri Ffrance (the Chairman) admitted that in 1845, 20,T, shares were allotted among the committ ee o f man agenae° ; but, on subsequent complaints, half were to remain t h to company until the act passed, and o n ly 250 were issued each at that time.—Railway Times. LAW .IN7'ELLIGEISTE. MARRYING A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.—OR TIOV: day night, the Bishop of L on d on , i n th e H ouse of Lor,7; in expressing a wish that no bill on this subject shout ° "„1, - • discussed this session, intimated that there existed I'V t ' g , difference of opinion on the law, as it at present eV t i.: l'' among the clergy as well as the laity. In reply, the ;b0 quis of Lansdowne assured the right rev. prelate tha t `,. Government would not refuse their assent to the jar a, duction of the measure proposed by Mr. Wortley e ; a , at the same time, confessed that it was very undesi ra "„ict in the present state of public affairs, that the bill sb be passed, or even debated, this session. We may ell/esTer that the measure will be introduced, and then stall , ' °' to next session. Q tisb . MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND.—The question of ',cot tin marriages, performed under circumstances free from :oil' ceremony of law or religion, was decided by the 1 1 ° 11 , 5 og ee Lords on Wednesday. Henceforward Gretna Greea;is, its privilege, and all its celebrity will belong to Pa s t i, of tory. The opposition of the Presbyterian Churc,,"vre Scotland to this measure is most inexplicable, wh e ''' elves recollect the reputation which they claim for th em old on the score of gravity and severe virtue. Under ttiac,.,,, law or custom if two persons of either sex, the m ale at ofthe mature age of fourteen, and the lady hav i l l a tamed the discretion which is supposed to resiaee t a wo Scottish lady in her last year before her " teens o f a such persons met in the streets, and, in prege n q, c d, it third individual acknowledged that they were ml r :arY was lo—they were actually, by the common customee, law of the land, man and wife ! It was the perforT log'' of similar scanty ceremony between runaway. Eng lis Gre tna ere, in the presence of an unclean blacksmth at co _ Green. that has been productive of boundless ..e_ am repentance never-ending to so many families in t/ 115 c h country. The Presbterian Church did not sanctionsecato marriages, it is true; but it strangely the Legislature abolishes tLem ! The latter pro l- I_, grumbles ribou all such ceremonies as void in law ; and d e clare s faces riages legal in Scotland but such as are peformeil e % t ties ecelesioz, or by the licensed registrar, after throP___d. have resided a certain space of time on Scottish g uu usa occu Heb gran One gran Ca of by