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About 1000 riotously assembled, and attempted institution to Brampford Speke ; and we doubt not the July, 1847 and 1848, showing the Increase or Decrease I D B. JULY 5. 1 1 Incr. Deer. duties, and the first set of resolutions having been put, e sp ec i a lly o f it s p r eamble containing the declaration of to destroy it by fire. The soldiers and inhabitants turned suit will be carried forward to a successful issue. thereof. Sir J. PAKINGTON rose and moved as an amendment th e r i g ht s o f man . I n th ree of the bureaux this declara- . turned out, and saved the town from destruction. It had THE COLLECTS IN VERSE. - Messrs. Hatchard have YEARS ENDE that the duty i on West India Muscovado sugar should, ti on was a lt oge th er re jected, in some others, it was post- been set on fire in several places. When the steamer left just published this little work. The poetry is singularly from the sth instant, be 10s. per cwt., instead of 135., as pone d un til a ft er th e discussion of the articles. The the inhabitants were hourly in expectation of another at- pure, and the adherence to the precise language of the 1847 . 84 contemplated by the resolution; his intention being, if declaration of the right of every citizen to employment tack; if so, fears were entertained for the safety of the all but inspired" originals strikingly close and faithful. that amendment was carried, further to move that the excited the strongest objections in all the bureaux, town. The consul bad written to Commodore Bennet, at M. Guizot has declined .the offer of the Chair of r £ £ £ £ duty on foreign sugar of the same class be continued at grounded chefly upon the manifest impossibility of the Jamaica, for assistance. Many families, who had fled Modern Languages made to him by the Curators of the Customs 18,792,348 17,888,988 .... 903,360 205., the same to continue for a period of three years. state answering such a claim. The right to relief, how- from Martinique in consequence of the'late disturbances, Taylor Institution in Oxford. M. Guizot declined the Excise 12,733,998 12,263,233 .... 470,765 The amendment was supported by Mr. H. Drummond, ever , i n th e cas es of inability to labour, was generally had arrived at Porto Rico, and had taken up a temporary offer from personal motives, with every sense of the corn- Stamps 7,201,797 6,449,108 „ „ 752,689 Mr. B. Cochrane, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Godson, Mr. Man- a d m itt e d. The committee on labour has resolved to pro-. abode there. The accounts from the West India islands pliment, which we still think was paid to him by the Taxes 4,325,732 4,306,703 .... 19,029 gles, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Oswald, Mr. T. Baring, and p ose th e r evocation of the decree of the Provisional are still of the usual desponding character. There is a Curators at the expense of the trust confided to them by Property Tax 5,491,936 5,411,253 .... 80,623 Mr. Disraeli ; and opposed by Mr. V. Smith, the Chan- Government which limited the hours of work. great depression everywhere, and, in fact, no business be- the University. Post Office 854,000 787,000 .... 67,000 cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. M. Gibson, and Lord John General Lebreton has been elected Questeur of the ing transacted whatever. Demerara was, in particular, in On Tuesday week, the new church at Hixon, within Crown Lands 112,000 71,000 .... 41,000 Russell. N a ti ona l Assembly. The Reforme shows some pique at a very distressed state. Great quantitiesof rain had fallen five or six miles of Stafford, erected at the expense of Miscellaneous After some explanations, the committee divided, when thi s nom ination, as affording an additional proof of the at Jamaica, which had been useful to the sugar Planta- Earl Talbot, was consecrated by the Bishop of the diocese. China Money 227,644 455,021 227,377 „ „ the amendment was negatived by a majority of 62-the military mania. " Nothing shines no w ( sa y s thi s jour- tions, the crop being expected to be a very good one, but A collection was made, amounting to upwards of £134, Imprest &other numbers 169 to 231. na l) b u t the epaulette,-there is no sound but that of the the rain had been disastrous in another way. The (Plan- which will be added to the endowment provided by Earl Moneys After some debate as to proceeding with the resolutions, sa b re . It is a Pleiad of generals ; the soldier is Minister tity which had fallen had caused inundations, and led to Talbot and the vicar of Colwich (Archdeacon Hodson), Repayments of Lord J. RUSSELL said, as it appeared that the question -th e soldier is Representive-he is the leader of party, great destruction of stock and property of all kinds. The in whose parish the church is situated. A parsonage- Advances 804,843 422,485 .... 382,358 could not be settled before the sth of July, he would the Chairman of Committees, he is diplomatist, he is ques- rivers rose to a great height, carrying down in their course house, adjacent to the church, has also been erected at propose that the Chairman should report progresslo sit teur. One would say we had the Empire over again, with to the sea large trunks of trees and dead animal 3, whose the noble earl's expense. Total Income. 51,060,109 48,722,400 227,377 2,815,086 again on Friday. „ the exception of its epopees." bodies were to be seen floating, in vast numbers , on the OXFORD COMMEMORATION.-The Enecenia, or corn- Deduct Increase . Mr. GLADSTONE was desirous of knowing what would The Minister of War brought in a Bill for the formation surface. The damage to the railway is stated to have memoration of founders and benefactors, was held on be done in reference to the duties which would come into of a battalion of gendarmerie, which excited some emo- been immense. Wednesday in the Theatre, when the honorary degree of Decrease on the Year .. £2,587,709 operation on Thursday. It was not a question affecting con, from the belief that this corps is destined to act in It appears that the number of persons killed at Naples D.C.L. was conferred on the Earl of Harrowby, Baron QUARTERS ENDED JULY 5. merely those who had sugar in bond, but those who had La Vendee. The reporter of the Committee on the Bill on the 15th of May and carried to Campo Santo amount- Hugel, Sir G. Arthur, Bart., W. E. Gladstone, Esq., - it on its way to this country. said so without hesitation ; but the Minister of War eva- ed to 1,354, amongst whom were 891 Swiss and 200 bour- M.P., Sir C. Morgan, Bart., J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., 1847. 1848. I Incr. Deer. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it had been ded the explanations he was called on to make by stating geois. The wounded taken to the hospitals were 1 , 2 07. A. J. B. Hope, Esq., M.P., H. Hallam, Esq., the histo the invariable practice to give directions for the alteration that this corps was destined to act against all the enemies So common are fires at Constantinople, where the rian, W. Cotton, Esq., A. Leyland, Esq. All these indi- £ - £ £ £ of duties on a simple resolution of the house. By the (4 the Republic. houses are generally built with wood, instead of brick or viduals were received with unanimous applause, except Customs 4,519,119 4,447,832 .... 71,287 course now pursued, all the sugar that came in between The Gazette deFrance appeared on Thursday in mourn- stone, that landlords are said to calculate that their pre- Mr. Gladstone, who was received with mingled cheers Exci5e........ 3,291,052 3,473,803 182,751 .... the sth and the time the resolution was reported, would lug for the death of the celebrated M. de Chateaubriand. mises will be burnt down once in seven years, and to fix and hisses, the former predominating. M. Guizot, with Stamps. come in at the reduced duty. The following letter has been addressed by the well- their rents in conformity with that supposition. his son and two daughters, was present, and received a Taxes 2,075,001 2,034,133 ~ .. 40,868 Mr. GLADSTONE urged Lord John Russell to give no- known Abbe Beguerry to the Journal des Debats :- The steam-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, arrived in the most enthusiastic reception from all, which he appeared Property Tax 1,036,517 988,401 .... 48,116 tice of a resolution for Tuesday, for continuing the pre- " Paris, July 4. Mersey on Wednesday, w ith N ew Y or k papers to the to feel most sensibly. The name of the Queen was re- Post Office 215,000 136,000 .... 79,000 sent duties for the interval that would elapse before the " Monsieur,-France has lost one of her noblest sons. 21st ult. She was detained ten hours, between New York ceived in a manner beyond all precedent, and the cheering Crown Lands .... 10,000 10,000 .... other resolutions were reported ; but Lord John Russell M. de Chateaubriand died this morning, at a quarter-past and Halifax, by fog. She brought £26,000 in specie. from every part of the theatre and the ladies standing and Miscellaneous did not respond to the desire thus expressed. eight o'clock. We received his last sigh. He died in The Britannia bad sailed from Halifax for New York waving their handkerchiefs, combined to make a scene China Money .... .... .... .... full possession of his faculties. So fine an intelligence did previous to the arrival of the Acadia. that never will be forgotten by those present. As soon Imprest &other HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. of right conquer death and preserve in his grasp a visible THE CHOLERA. - Letters from St. Petersburgh con- as the procession entered the theatre, the organ struck up Moneys The Game Certificates for Killing Hares Bill was read liberty. The death of Madame de Chateaubriand last firm the accounts of the fearful progress of the cholera- the national anthem, and the whole of the assembly rose Repayments of a third time. year, affected him so much, that laying his hand on his morbus. The malady broke out in the Russian capital and sung it through, before they would allow the business Advances . 137,944 86,813 .... 51,131 A conversation took place consequent upon the presen- breast he said,-• I feel my life attacked and dried up in on tho 24th ult., and an immense number of patients of the day to commence. A grand horticultural fete took - . tation of petitions by the Duke of RICHMOND relative to its source ; it is now only a question of some months.' have already succumbed beneath its virulence. Six hos- place in Worcester College Gardens ' and was attended by Total Income. 13,240,190 12,912,449 1 274,485 602,226 juvenile offenders. The death of M. Ballauche. which followed immediately pitals have been prepared for the reception of cholera an immense number of persons. Mr. Green made an as- Deduct Increase T.,,,1 IC7VTIAII2II remarked that the subiect was well after. was the last blow for his illustrious old friend. pationt. alone I.= I , luse.m a.. pestilence is decimating .ont in his balloon, accompanied by two ~.......i..... ur the 4 4 - A conversation took place consequent upon the presen tation of petitions by the Duke of RICHMOND relative to juvenile offenders. Lord KINNAIIID remarked that the subject was well worthy of attention. There were 100,000 children in the metropolis without education, and 30.000 who were va grants, and who herded together in dens of iniquity. In Aberdeen it had been proved that children could be kept in a school, with a view to their reformation, for £5 a year, and they could be maintained in London for £6 ; and this would be much cheaper than transporting them. Earl GREY said the boys who had been sent to Park hurst were often forwarded to Western Australia as ap prentices, and the system had been found to answer re markably well. They must be careful not to place chil dren who had been neglected by their parents in a better situation than the children of poor honest people. A complaint against the North Wales Railway Com bany by a shareholder, embodied in a petition, was stated y Lord MONTEAGLE, the noble lord intimating that be should move for a committee to inquire into the circum stances alleged by the petitioner. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. In committee on the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, Sir L. O'BRIEN moved that it be an instruction to the committee to extend its operation to England and Scot land. The motion was resisted by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL. After a discussion, in which Mr. NAPIER and Mr. IONSELL joined, the debate a•as adjourned till Monday. Mr. BANKES moved for leave to bring in a bill to re peal the Railway Commission Act. Mr. LABOUCIIERE resisted the motion; which, after interesting speeches from Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. V. SMITH, and Lord J. RUSSELL, was negatived by a majority of 73 over 62 voices. Mr. URQUHART was proceeding to move two abstract resolutions on the impolicy of interference in the internal government of other countries, when the stream of his eloquence was cut short by the discovery that 40 mem bers could not be prevailed upon to stop to hear him. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--WEDNESDAY. After the presentation of a number of petitions the House went into committee on the Places of Worship Sites (Scotland) Bill. This measure, after considerable discussion and two divisions, in which the Government were successful by very narrow majorities, passed through committee, and the report was ordered to be received next day. On the question being put for resuming the adjourned debate on Mr. O'Connell's motion for the Repeal of the Union, Mr. REYNOLDS moved its further adjournment till that day three weeks, which was agreed to. (This " important measure" was introduced as far back as the 11th of April last, and since then both the mover and seconder have ab sented themselves—while at the time of its introduc tion there were not more than a dozen Irish members present !) Mr. KEOGH denounced the motion for a repeal of the Union as a false pretence, and accused the Repeal mem bers for playing with the question, holding it over the House in terrorein, without having any serious intention of bringing it to a vote. After some observations by 11Ir. REYNOLDS, Mr. KEOGH charged the Government with having laved fast and loose with the Repeal question during didates in order to obtain supporters douse. Sir G. GREY emphatically denied the charge. On the motion of Mr. EVELYN DENISON a select com mittee was appointed to consider the, beet means of pro moting the dispatch of public business in the House, to consist of seventeen members. " Monsieur,—France has lost one of her noblest - sons. M. de Chateaubriand died this morning, at a quarter-past eight o'clock. We received his last sigh. He died in full possession of his faculties. So fine an intelligence did of right conquer death and preserve in his grasp a visible liberty. The death of Madame de Chateaubriand last year, affected him so much, that laying his hand on his breast he said,—• I feel my life attacked and dried up in its source ; it is now only a question of some months.' The death of M. Ballauche, which followed immediately after, was the last blow for his illustrious old friend. Since that time M. de Chateaubriand seemed rnther to rush than to descend to the grave. A few minutes be fore his death M. de Chateaubriand, who had received the sacrament on Sunday, embraced once more the cross with the emotion of a lively faith and firm confidence. One of the expressions which he repeated most frequently of late years was, that the social questions which agitated nations at present could not be solved without the Bible, without the soul of Christ, whose doctrines and example have denounced selfishness, this gnawing worm of all con cord. Thus M. de Chateaubriand hailed Christ as the Saviour of the world, even in a social point of view, and he loved to call him his king as well as his God. A priest and a sister of charity knelt at the feet of M. de Chateau briand at the moment he expired. It was amidst prayers and tears that the author of the Genius of Christianity rendered his soul to God. di / have the honour, &c., "DEGuEnity, Curate of St. Eustache." M. de Chateaubriand was born on the 4th of Septem ber, 1768. He has left ten volumes of Memoirs, which he could not be induced to publish during his lifetime. M. Emile de Girardin was liberated on Wednesday after an imprisonment of twelve days, eight of them au secret, and two-and-a-half hours of the time in a cell under ground. The journals of Thursday are still occupied with the late insurrection, notwithstanding the continued existence of the state of siege. The prevailing impression is that the lite revolt has inflicted a death-blow on communism, socialism, and ultra-republicanism. All who in Paris were not in the ranks of the National Guards are disarmed. Those who fled into suburbs or departments are tracked, hunted down, and captured. 100,000 soldiers are in the capital, as well as 100,000 volunteers from the provinces: These give a sense of security to the most timid, but the epoch of the trial of the prisoners, and of the punishment (trans portation for those that may be convicted), is looked to with anxiety and misgiving. " Their friends and asso ciates may not be able to effect their release by force," say the alarmists, " but they are capable of feat ful acts of revenge !" The I?eforme states that nothing has yet been decided with respect to the place to which the insurgents are to be transported. The Marquesas have been rejected on account of their sterility. It is asserted that a number of unemployed operatives, who did not take any part in the insurrection, have united in a petition to be permitted to form part of the new colony. They only require that the Republic shall provide them with the instruments ne cessary for agriculture. It is said that, according as the judicial authorities who are investigating the causes which led to the late insur rection proceed with their labours, the facts developed become more serious. Thirty-four additional warrants were issued on Wednesday last, not against obscure insurgents, but against persons who appear to have per formed an important part in the revolt, and who exer cised a decisive influence on the facts which preceded it. The Paris papers of Thursday announce that the fune ral procession of the victims of the late insurrection, which it was intended should proceed from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille, would stop at the Madeleine, and that the bodies of the deceased would be placed in the vault s uf L tkt y pAtgclasjoiiehndir um n? .•-•. July were not yet ready for their reception. It was re ported, however, that this alteration of the programme had been occasioned by information that the partisans of the late insurgents intended firing upon Gen. Cavaignac and other distinguished persons in the cortege. . M. Carnot, an ultra-Republican, has been replaced, as Minister of Public Instruction, by M. Banlabelle. General Bedeau has declined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Of the insurgents who escaped being shot or taken, many are reported to be scouring the country, hunted like wolves by dragoons through the woods and fields. Others lurk in Paris, in numbers which it is impossible to ascertain. Nightly assassinations and crimes of a still darker dye (even poisoned lint has been sent to the hos pitals) prove that the deadly spirit of mischief is even now alive in the city. A ruffian named Manchon, who turns out to be a grocer's shopman, has been seized by the police in conse quence of his having boasted that he is the one who fired the bullet at Dennis, the sainted Archbishop of Paris, displaying, in proof of his share in the assassination, a portion of the pontifical belt, known to have been worn by the Archbishop ou the day when he was murdered at the foot of the barricade. It appears that the number of persons killed at Naples on the 15th of May and carried to Campo Santo amount ed to 1,354, amongst whom were 891 Swiss and 200 bour geois. The wounded taken to the hospitals were 1,207. So common are fires at Constantinople, where the houses are generally built with wood, instead of brick or stone, that landlords are said to calculate that their pre mises will be burnt down once in seven years, and to fix their rents in conformity with that supposition. The steam-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday, with New York papers to the 21st ult. She was detained ten hours, between New York and Halifax, by fog. She brought £26,000 in specie. The Britannia bad sailed from Halifax for New York previous to the arrival of the Acadia. THE CHOLERA.—Letters from St. Petersburgh con firm the accounts of the fearful progress of the cholera morbus. The malady broke out in the Russian capital on tho 24th ult., and an immense number of patients have already succumbed beneath its virulence. Six hos pitals have been prepared for the reception of cholera p a tiont. alone 1.. muse, m , bl.o pc.tilence is decimating the population. In two days (the 11th and 12th June), of 222 patients, 122, or more than one-half, succumbed. Orel, a town in Russia, was destroyed by fire on the 7th of June, and most of the inhabitants lost all they possessed. Upwards of 1,237 houses, including 50 of stone, 80,000 tschetwerts of grain, 100,000 poods of flax, and four bridges, were destroyed. The four stone churches were much injured. The whole of this loss is officially estimated at 3,425,000 silver roubles. The Diaperor has forwarded the sum of 50,000 roubles to be distributed amongst the poorer people, and the Ministers have also sent 10,000 roubles for the same purpose. IRELAND. True bills were found in Dublin, on Monday, against D. Reilly, on a charge of illegal training and drilling. Malignant typhus fever is making fearful ravages in the county of Cavan. Within the last week three medical men have fallen victims. The anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, on Friday week, was celebrated with rejoicings in Enniskillen, Dun. gannon, and other towns in Ireland. Mr. Mitchel has arrived at Bermuda in health, though' rather depressed in spirits. On his voyage he was re markably silent and reserved. Mr. Sergeant Warren died in Dublin on Thursday. This eminent counsel was called to the bar in 1806. The equity law courts were closed for the day in consequence. The Limerick Examiner gives a list of fifteen land owners in Clare against whom the poor-law guardians have commenced proceedings in the superior courts. Orange flags have been placed on Louggall church, Caledon, Killelea, Grange, Dungannon, and almost on all the churches in the counties of Tyrone, Monaghan, Down, &c. • UNANIMITY OF POPERY.—The Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland have• republished the resolutions against the clerical agitators, but the hierarch of Cashel, Dr. Slattery, has written to say that he had nothing to do with the meeting in question. The Rev. William Archer Butler, rector of Raymaghy, and late professor of moral philosophy, in Dublin Uni versity, fell a victim to typhus fever last Wednesday. The lamented gentleman died at Sharon rectory, near Londonderry.' He was only thirty four years of age, and was possessed of brilliant talents and commanding elo quence. THE JULY ANNIVERSARY. —Preparations on an ex tensive scale are being made in Ulster for the celebration of the Aughrim anniversary, but government, after de luding the Orangemen into anti-repeal declarations, are now going to play the old game of coercion once more. Troops are pouring into Ulster from every quarter south of Dundalk, and an immense staff of stipendiary magis trates have been despatched to the north with orders to put down the processions. ROYAL IRISH YACHT CLUB.—The Dublin regatta took place on Wednesday and Friday. The prize of £5O, for yachts of 25 tons and upwards, was won by Mr. Hodders' cutter Enchantress, beating Water Wyvern, Druid, Ata lanta, Charm, and Enigma. The prize of £25, for yachts under 25 tons, was won by Mr. Sweetman's Daring, beating Moonbeam and Zephyr. The £3O plate, with 20 , 471- • -.1 .44.00 by Mr. Sweetman's Daring. The best body guard that the Lord Lieutenant could receive on his visit to the Great Southern and Western Railway was afforded to him in the assemblage of the navigators of the line. A heavy shower of rain fell as we reached the junction, says the Irish Railway Gazette, where the labourers of the company were drawn up in a line parallel with the railway, with their spades and picks on their muscular shoulders. They received the Earl of Clarendon with a loud and hearty cheer, which was raised with the strength of non-consumptive lungs again and again. THE CROPS IN IRELAND.—At the meeting of the pro prietors of the Bank of Ireland last week, the chairman said it would be gratifying to the proprietors to hear that Sir J. Young, one of the directors then at the board, who had just returned from Ireland, stated that in each dis trict through which he had passed the crops appeared in a very luxuriant condition, and that there was every pros pect of a most abundant harvest. The statement fully confirmed the advices which the directors had received from every part of Ireland. SENTENCES.—The trials of the persons charged in Dublin with illegally drilling and training took place last week. The jury came out three times to take the judge's opinion as to the intent. It was supposed that they would have finally disagreed, but the result has been very differ ent. At half-past four they found them guilty, and the sen tence was, " Gogarty, the chief, to be transported for seven years; English to be imprisoned for two years, and the other eight for twelve months." The wailing of their friends was pitiable. All the prisoners were strongly recom mended to mercy. THE LATE MR. STEELE.—The remains of the Head Pacificator were consigned, on Monday, to their last resting-place in Glasnevin Cemetery, beside the ashes of his great leader. The funeral was announced to be a public one, and no pains were spared to render the cere mony as imposing as impossible. But, alas for mob mob popularity ! The corse of poor Mr. Steele, who bad services to point to, and who lost his whole worldly sub stance in hunting after shadows, was followed to the grave by just 16 carriages and about as many jaunting cars, and accompanied by a noisy group of mere boys, whose at tendance at the ceremony might have been advantageously dispensed with. IRISH AGITATION.—A number of peers and members of parliament connected with Ireland have presented to the Home Secretary a memorial drawing the attention of the government to the present alarming state of Ireland, and arging that measures be taken to suppress the con federate clubs, to prohibit the manufacture and sale of arms, and to afford protection to loyal subjects. The memorialists urge the government to enforce to the utmost extent the powers afforded by the law, and if those should be insufficient to apply to parliament for other means. The memorial is signed by thirty-five peers (among whom are Lord Monteagle and the Earl of Devon) and thirty-six members of the lower house. The " trainers and drillers" in Ireland have got a lesson. One of the scoundrels is transported, and two others are imprisoned for periods that will cool the " felon" fever in their blood. Some others, we hope, will be sent to keep them company. They were the initiators in the assassin system, and Government has done well to place the cul prits at the Bar. But it should not stop here. It is mockery to be seizing the humbler instruments, while the preachers of sedition—that is, the inculcators of assassin ation—are suffered to escape. Lay hold on them, but do it impartially, without distinction and without exception, and the land will soon have peace, notwithstanding the bleating of what Mr. O'Connell used to call the bell wethers. The Rev. Mr. Gorham is prosecuting his suit in the Ecclesiastical Court against the Bishop of Exeter, for institution to Brampford Speke ; and we doubt not the suit will be carried forward to a successful issue. THE COLLECTS IN VERSE.—Messrs. Hatchard have just published this little work. The poetry is singularly pure, and the adherence to the precise language of the all but inspired" originals strikingly close and faithful. M. Guizot has declined . the offer of the Chair of Modern Languages made to him by the Curators of the Taylor Institution in Oxford. M. Guizot declined the offer from personal motives, with every sense of the com pliment, which we still think was paid to him by the Curators at the expense of the trust confided to them by the University. On Tuesday week, the new church at Hixon, within five or six miles of Stafford, erected at the expense of Earl Talbot, was consecrated by the Bishop of the diocese. A collection was made, amounting to upwards of £134, which will be added to the endowment provided by Earl Talbot and the vicar of Colwich (Archdeacon Hodson), in whose parish the church is situated. A parsonage house, adjacent to the church, has also been erected at the noble earl's expense. OXFORD COMMEMORATION.—The Enecenia, Or COM meinoration of founders and benefactors, was held on Wednesday in the Theatre, when the honorary degree of D.C.L. was conferred on the Earl of Harrowby, Baron Hugel, Sir G. Arthur, Bart., W. E. Gladstone, Esq., M.P., Sir C. Morgan, Bart., J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., A. J. B. Hope, Esq., M.P., H. Hallam, Esq., the histo rian, W. Cotton, Esq., A. Layland, Esq. All these indi viduals were received with unanimous applause, except Mr. Gladstone, who was received with mingled cheers and hisses, the former predominating. M. Guizot, with his son and two daughters, was present, and received a most enthusiastic reception from all, which he appeared to feel most sensibly. The name of the Queen was re ceived in a manner 'beyond all precedent, and the cheering from every part of the theatre and the ladies standing and waving their handkerchiefs, combined to make a scene that never will be forgotten by those present. As soon as the procession entered the theatre, the organ struck up the national anthem, and the whole of the assembly rose and sung it through, before they would allow the business of the day to commence. A grand horticultural fete took place in Worcester College Gardens, and was attended by an immense number of persons. Mr.i Green made an as cent in his balloon, accompanied by twn t,f the University, from an adjoining close. PEW RIGHTS.—The right of the possession and occu pation of particular pews in churches having caused va rious disputes in different parishes of the country, we annex the following statement from a proper ecclesi astical authority :—" Cases have occurred of pews being let, and of claims being set up by an individual to the ownership of several pews. The right as to this matter is plainly set forth in all the common treatises of ecclesi astical law. Nothing can legalise the selling or letting of pews in old parish churches, except a special act of Par liament, such as that which has been obtaincd for St. Alkmund's Church, in this town (Shrewsbury). The pews in a parish church belong to, and are for the free use of the parishioners ; and it is the duty of the churchwar dens, as the parochial officers of the ordinary, to make all seats available, as far as may be, for the accommodation of the parishioners, according to their respective stations. The ordinary may indeed, by a faculty, grant to the in habitants of a particular house an exclusive right to the use of a particular pew. This privilege, however, is al ways annexed to the house, and not to the person; and, therefore, it cannot be granted to a man and his heirs, nor (inasmuch as it is a privilege conferred on inhabitancy) can it belong to a man in respect of his owning a particu lar estate in a parish."—FromArchdeaconAllen'sCharge, 1848. Decrem There is no political news in the journals of Friday 'of any interest, which had not been anticipated in the de spatches the day before. M. Lamartine has addressed a letter to the editors of the Constitutionnel and the Journal des Debuts, in con sequence of a paragraph which appeared in the latter jour nal, accusing the late government of conniving at the late insurrection. M. Lamartine replies by a general dis avowal, expressed in indignant terms. M. de Girardin has addressed the following protestation to all the Paris journals :—"Arrested without motive, and imprisoned ' au secret' for eleven days on the most vague grounds, and released in fine after a merely formal ex. amination, and without any document produced against me by which I could know why I was deprived of my liberty on the 25th June, and why I was enlarged on the sth July, my first act is to protest solemnly against this sequestration of my person, and against the suppression of the journal La Presse,—a double attack on my liberty and property, which I reserve to myself the right of discussing when La Presse shall re-appear, the bureaux and print ing -offices of that journal being now under the seals of the government." Contrary to what was expected, it was announced in the Salle des Conferences, by General Lamoriciere, that the state of siege would cease on Friday, or rather that it would be seriously relaxed. Some restrictions will be re tained respecting the erection of barricades and the free dom of the press. It is said that the two journals La Presse and L'Assemble Nationale, will, for the present, continue suspended. LAMARTINE.—M. de Lamartine is ostricised ! A por tion of his luggage has already proceeded to Marseilles, whence he is going to cross the Mediterranean, accom panied by Madame de Lamartine, on a second pilgrimage to Palestine. THE FORCE OF HABIT.—An illustration of this and of the spirit of the times was strikingly exhibited in a late sitting of an association, recently formed in Paris. The members were discussing the rules to be established, when it suddenly became known that fighting; was going on in the streets of the capital. A member immediately proposed that the debate should be adjourned, as blood was being shed in Paris ; but he was opposed by M. Chaissaignac, who coolly observed that circumstances of this description ought not to interfere with their pro ceedings, as their frequency would occasion too many in terruptions ! SAVED BY PorsoN.—During the late insurrection in Paris, a vivandiere, accused of selling poisoned brandy, was on the point of being killed. Two members of the national assembly, MM. G. Sarrat and A. Mie, for some time sought in vain to save her ; at length, M. Sarrat, seeing that it was useless making further attempts to appease the exasperation of the crowd, exclaimed, " Wretch ! if you have poisoned the defenders of your country, you are unworthy of death by the sword ; you deserve only to die by poison ; swallow your own liquor." The poor vivandiere eagerly seized upon this means of safety, and being set at liberty, joined the regiment to which she belonged. ;e on the Quarter 4 .. £327,741 The total decrease of ordinary revenue on this quarter, as compared with the corresponding period last year, is only £276,783. That is the main fact in the table. The decrease in the customs has been £71,287. This depart ment, however, has been effected by temporary causes of contrary kinds, and the naked figure tells its tale but im perfectly. There have been large receipts on foreign grain, but, on the other hand, colonial sugar has been extensively held back for the lower duties expected to come into oper ation this day. In the Excise there is an apparent in crease to the amount of £182,751, and on several articles, such as malt, soap, &c., there has been an actual increase. As already mentioned, however, there has been a change of accounts which renders it impossible to draw exact in ferences from these figures. The carriage duties, it is said, have been transferred from the stamps and taxes to the excise. It is evident, therefore, that there must be a considerable decrease in some articles of excise, otherwise the apparent increase in the table would be far greater. In the stamps there is a decrease to the amount of £311,824, which is accounted for partly by the above change of accounts and partly by the abatement of railway speculation. The taxes exhibit a decrease to the amount of £40,868, and the property tax to the amount of £48,116. In the present instance, as the assessment would be pro bably the same at the two dates, one cannot help looking to ruined fortunes and pecuniary embarrassments for the account of a deficiency which, supposing it to consist of unpaid half-yearly assessments, represents income to the amount of £3,000,000 per annum. In the Post-office there is an apparent decrease of £79,000, which everybody who knows the great increase of letter writing will at once as cribe to some adventitious cause. In fact, it arises not from any falling off in the correspondence of the country (though the rate of increase has been seriously checked by the badness of trade), but from the payment of arrears, greatly exceeding the deficiency in question, to one of the railway companies for the conveyance of mails. Under " Crown Lands " and " Miscellaneous Items " there has been an increase respectively of £lO,OOO and £Bl,OOO. THE BLOCKADE OF TRIESTE.-It is said in the ac counts from Augsburgh of the 2d instant, that through the intervention of the Bavarian and Prussian Ambassa dors, the blockade of Trieste has been withdrawn, and that the only control hereafter to be exercised will be confined to the prevention of the transport of the mate rials of war. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. A warrant was issued on Monday under the Treason Felony Act, against Mr. Martin, proprietor of The Irish Felon newspaper. The officer entrusted with the warrant has been unable to execute it, in consequence of the dis appearance of Mr. Martin, who is evidently keeping out of the way to avoid capture. On Saturday, Mr. Martin surrendered himself to the police, and was brought before the magistrates, and, after an examination, was told that he stood committed for two articles which had appeared in The Irish Felon. He said that the reason he had got out of the way was, that he wanted to get something like a fair trial. The police had previously received orders to inchotfhetyhateoudlda discover. Mr. Reilley Y. and had accordingly have declared thems e l ves t h e aut h ors o f ho andseizeds e z seize J. T everyFh The Irish / L r a i: oh w rp copy the articles complained of, and that they are ready to take the consequences, providing Mr. Martin be liberated. _4_. The receipts on the Chester and Holyhead Railway for the week ended Ist July, amounted to £lO5l 6s. Bd. THUNDER STORM.—On Friday, Londonderry was visi ted with a dreadful thunder storm. At the Rev. Edward Bowen's mansion, Bogey, an electric bolt struck a stack of chimneys, over the bed-room in which that gentleman was sleeping. shattering them to pieces, a great quantity of which fell down the flue, into the room. The fluid then took the direction of the bell-wires, which it com pletely melted throughout the whole house, and marked its track round the ceilings in a most fantastic manner. So completely was the room filled with a sulphureous gas, that when Mr. Bowen attempted to light a candle, he found it would not burn until he got the windows and doors opened. Another part of the fire struck the kitchen chimneys, breaking them in pieces; on its way down the flue it tore the wall, which is four feet thick, in several places, smashing the bricks, which are of the hardest kind ; it also tore out the nails that were in the walls and ceil ings, finally making its way through the flags down into the earth. The house is considerablydamaged, but no personal injury was systaingd. A jury has awarded to Sir Edward Bulwer £7,533. as compensation for land in Hertfordshire, taken by the Great Northern Railway Company. DIRECTORS AND THEIR SHAREHOLDERS.—The House of Lords will, it seems, grant Committees of Inquiry into the proceedings of the North Wales Company, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Company. Other Companies are likely to be subjected to the same ordeal. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE RAIL WAY.—The adjourned meeting of this company was held in London on Thursday. Mr. France took the chair, and stated that the dissolution bill of the company had passed the House of Commons without alteration, and stood last evening for the second reading in the House of Lords, and would no doubt be passed. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Newton proposed a resolution, hoping that the Lords would throw it out ; those gentlemen themselves , only voterl fo. th, motion ; there were 16 against it. INCREASE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The traffic re turns on the railways in the United Kingdom during the first half of the present year amounted to £4,477,000, and the number of miles open at the end of that period was 3,830, giving an average return of £1,169 per mile. For the corresponding period of last year the traffic returns returns amounted to £4,002,740, and at the end of :that time 3,150 miles were open, giving an average of £1,270 per mile. It shows that while the mileage was increased nearly 22 per cent., the traffic only increased 11.9 per cent. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, an accident of a frightful character, and attended with the loss of three lives, happened on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway, about a mile and a half from Ashton-under-Lyne. A number of workmen being engaged to take down a tunnel at North-bridge, a short distance from Guide-bridge, were at work, when a workman of the name of Bromley fell in with the top of the tunnel. The barrow he was wheeling was smashed to atoms, but he remained unhurt. In a short time after, he was engaged with two other persons of the names of Law and Jackson, in excavating, when a large lump of earth, with stones, bricks, &c., fell upon them, and completely buried them alive. The rest of the men set to work immediately to clear away the rubbish. The poor fellows were dead when found, and presented a sad mutilated spectacle. GUNPOWDER CONVEYED BY RAILWAY.—It may not be generally known that large quantities of gunpowder are frequently and safely conveyed by railway, as much as 11 tons in one day ; and in the course of a few months above 100 tons of gunpowder have been carried on the London and North-Western line to Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and other places. The waggons in which the gunpowder is conveyed are made expressly for the purpose. There are eight of these waggons on the London and North- Western Railway, constructed in accordance with the patent of Mr. Henson. The body of the waggon is formed with sheet iron on the outside ; the inside is lined with two-inch plank, between which and the iron outside a thickness of felt is carefully placed. These are screwed together from the outside, so that there is nothing but wood inside ; except on the floor which is covered with sheet-lead. The door fits close with a double rabbit, so that it is almost air-tight, and it is therefore impossible for for any fire to get to the powder inside the waggon. The axles are cased with wood. The comparative absence of the usual noise and vibration in the movement of these powder-waggons is very remarkable.—Herapath's Jrnl. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET MEETING. DENMARK AND GERMANY.—ACCOUTAS from Ham burgh of the 4th July state, that it was generally believed that an armistice of three months had been agreed to between Germany and Denmark on the following condi tions :--1. The Swedes withdraw from the Danish terri tory. 2. The Germans withdraw from that part of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, called Schleswig. 3. Schleswi ,, to remain neutral ground. 4. The blockade by the &nes of German ports to be raised immediately. 5. The vessels captured by the Danes to be released after settlement of the act of contribution levied on Jutland by the Prussian army. TUESDAY. — Tamarind won a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, beating Eothen and ten others.—St. Rosalia won a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, beating Banshee and Chawryddes.—The Flying Dutchman won the July Stakes of 50 sovs each, beating Sister to lodine and six others. —Radulphus wan a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, beating lapis and Tophana.—Matches : Festus received forfeit from Maiden's Blush, and Querida from Harkaway. WEDNESDAY. — The Flying Dutchman won a Sweep. stakes of 100 cove each, beating Cracow and Chicot.—St. Antonio won a Sweepstakes of 10 says, beating Passion Flower and two others.—Epirus won a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, beating Caesar and six others.—Sotterley won the Town Plate of 50 sovs, beating Swordplayer and two others.—Tufthunter walked over for 50 sovs.—Match : Miniver received forfeit from Francesca. THURSDAY. — Vanguard won the Grosvenor Stakes of 100 sovs each, beating a colt by Cotherstone.—St. Ann won a Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs each, beating Carrissima and five others.—Farthingale won the Chesterfield Stakes of 30 sovs each, beating Czarina and eight others. —Match : Circassian Maid beat Touchy.—Kangaroo won a Sweep stakes of 10 sovs each, beating Coronet and other:— Match : St. Rosalia beat Jereed. LIVERPOOL RACES.—The number of acceptances for the Liverpool Cup amount to twenty-one. Lord Stanley is the new steward of the Jockey Club in the place of Lord George Bentinck. THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT V. THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND.--This grand cricket match took place on Mon day and Tuesday, at Lord's, the result of which was that England won by five wickets. GREAT FEAT OF LEAPING 1000 HURDLES IN THREE HOURS AND A HALF.—The above extraordinary feat, un dertaken by Robert Coates, of London, came off at the Red Lion, Knowle, near Bristol, on Monday. The hur dles were of the usual height, and placed at ten yards apart. He started at five minutes to five, and jumped the first 300 in fifty minutes. The fourth hundred was done in 16} minutes ; the fifth hundred in 20 minutes ; the sixth hundred in 241 minutes ; and the seventh hundred in 22 minutes. At the 752 d leap he was again obliged to rest, showing evident marks of distress ; but having taken a cup of strong tea, be again started, saying he felt con fident of winning. The eighth hundred was done in 37 minutes. During the ninth hundred, which was finished within the third hour, he shewed such evident signs of weakness that many thought he could not finish his task within the time, but having again refreshed himself with strong tea, he accomplished this, the greatest of modern feats, in 3 hours, 19 minutes, and 20 seconds. A few days since, a boy about fourteen years of age, who was fly-fishing in the river Greta, near Bowes, caught 104 trout during his day's sport. Two fine young golden eagles were lately captured near Tongue, Sutherland, and have been sent alive to a gentle man in the neighbourhood of London. THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—The royal mail steam-ship Teviot, arrived at' Southampton on . Tuesday, from the West Indies, with the usual mails. On her homeward HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. The debate was resumed on Mr. Hume's notable scheme for disarranging and dislocating the representative system of the country. On a division there were found —For Mr. Hume's motion, 84 ; against it, 351 ;—majo rity, 267. The speakers in favour of the motion were Air. B. Osborne, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Locke King, Mr. O'Connor, Lord D. Stuart, Mr. Muntz, and Mr. Villiers ; but some of these only gave a qualified support, though they voted with Mr. Hume. The speakers against the motion were Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Mr. Newdegate. _ _ _ Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD declared, and declared truly, that Mr. Hume's resolution is founded on no principle, attains no end, and is but an instance of delusive and mischievous quackery. Mr. COBDEN made a violent and unscrupulous chartist speech. He declared that 130 meetings have already been held in favour of the scheme (we have never before heard of them), and that it has already excited as much feeling in its support as had been acquired by the Anti- Corn Law League after five veers' agitation (this too is new to us). HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Bill was, on the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, read a second time. After some discussion, the Public Health Bill, which stood for committal, was referred to the consideration of a select committee, the noble lords urging the latter course, stating that their object was not to impede the progress of the measure, but to render it more perfect. The Duke of BuccLEum recommended that the bill should apply to Scotland, or that a similar measure appli cable to that country should speedily be introduced. The Usher of the Black Rod reported at the bar that baying made every inquiry for Viscount Arbuthnot, or dered to be arrested under a warrant of the house conse quent upon a charge of the commission of forgery, he could not be found, and there was every reason for believ ing he had left the country. The Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill was read a third time. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. In answer to Mr. HUME Sir G. GREY further stated that if desired he would at once lay on the table the state ment of the commissioners as to the great addition to the labours of the police. He might mention that between 1830 and the present time no fewer than 200 miles of new streets had been added to the duties of the metropolitan force; and, in reply to Sir R. H. INGLis, that instead of the increase being 4000, it was only 500 men; and that the report respecting a greater proportion of resignations than usual in the force was wholly unfounded. A discussion on the subject of fees in county courts ensued at the instance of Sir J. DUCKWORTH. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr. Bouverie, said he was not prepared to allow foreign sugars in transitu to be admitted at a lower rate of duty, if the resolutions were not reported before they arrived. Mr. S. WORTLEY intimated that on an early day he should move that the law forbidding marriages within cer tain degrees of connexion should be repealed. Mr. A. STAFFORD moved a new writ for Derby; but on a notice from Lord Jorr RUSSELL that he would on Monday move that the writ do not issue until the 15th of August, in order that the question might be fully an d fairly discussed the motion was withdrawn. After some observations as to the memorial from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, at the instance of Mr. BRIGHT, and to a despatch from Lord Harris at that of Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, the house went into com mittee on the sugar duties, Mr. BARKLY moving as an amendment on the government resolutions the following scale of duties : British plantation, from and after July sth, 1848, to July sth 1854, inclusive—double refined, &c., £1 Is. ; single refined, 18s. Bd. ; muscovado, 14s. ; and molasses. ss. 3d. Foreign for same period : double refined, &c., £1 7s. 9d. ; single refined, 4s. Sd. ; brown clayed, or equal thereto, £1 ls. id. ; muscovado, 18s. 6d. ; molasses. 6s. lid. ; and after the sth July, 1854, same rates as British plantation. He did not make this Proposition in any hope that it would meet the views of the colonists, but because he thought it a better plan than that of the government, giving the British producer an average protection of 6s. per cwt. for six yeprs. The amendment was supported by Mr. W. GLADSTONE, in a financial and want of confidence speech, Mr. CAYLEY, Mr. CAnnwELL, Sir GEORGE CLERK, Mr. C. BRUCE, and Mr. 11. B AILLIE , t h ough not in preference to the scale which he himself intended to propose. The speak ers in opposition to the amendment were, the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHE QUER , M r. LABOUCHERE, Mr. WIL SON, and Mr. GODSON. Mr. Mow Arr expressed his intention of not voting either way, after which L or d G EORGE B ENTINCK moved the adjournment of the debate, which was negatived by a majority of 131 ; the numbers, 82 to 211. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, however, on condition that the house would go into committee of supply, consented to he adjournment of the debate until Monday. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.---sOme doubt is entertained respecting the passing this session of the bill proposed by the government, for the purpose of virtually repealing the Navigation-laws. A committee of the House of Lords has been sitting, during the greater part of the session, to investigate the question ; and there appears, as we are in formed, an obvious desire on the part of the Protectionists to protract this inquiry, in order that its non-completion may serve as a legitimate excuse for laying the government bill on the shelf, when it reaches the upper house.— Whig paper. MR. HUME'S MOTION FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. —The Lancashire members 'among the ayes, are Dr. Bowring, Mr. Bright, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. Fox, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Henry, Mr. Hindley, Mr. Pilkington, Sir G. Strickland, and Mr. M. Wilson—total, eleven. The following Lancashire members voted with the noes :—Sir Thomas Birch, Mr. Bolling, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Duncuft, Mr. Greene, Mr. Hornby, Colonel Lindsay, and Mr. Wilson Patten, thus giving the ayes a majority of three as far as concerns this county. The absent members were Mr. Armstrong, Mr. James Heywood, Mr. William Brown, Mr. Walker, Mr. Greenall, Mr. Thicknesse, and Mr. Greenfell, making seven. Of the Cheshire members the following voted with the ayes :—Mr. Kershaw, Mr. John Williams, whilst the following voted among the noes, Sir P. Egerton, Mr. W. T. Egerton, Mr. Heald, Sir J. Jervis, Mr. G. C. Legh, and Mr. Tollemache. Earl Grosvenor and Mr. J. Bocklehurst were absent. RUINOUS LOSSES IN THE WEST INDIES.—It is to be deplored . that there are many worthy persons to be found in England who, from the enjoyment of incomes of £lO,OOO and £20,000 per annum, have been reduced to actual penury by ar. nets of the Government,—that Govern ment:by thooo act., Jopm-an i , fie., its former professions, and so, in some sort, breaking faith with its own subjects. We met, only the other day, with a gentleman who for merly derived £17,000 a-year from his West India pos sessions, and whose whole income now, is not a hundredth part of that sum. We heard of a mortgage of £200,000 on such a property, actually offered for sale for £1,500, and the safety of giving so much as £1,500 greatly doubted. The grand absurdity and crime of the present system. is, that after giving £20,000,000 to abolish slavery ; and while we now spend half a million per annum in striving to put down the slave trade, we do, at the same moment, by our commercial code, give a prodigious encouragement to the increase of slavery, and the over-working of slaves, in Cuba. It if a fact, we believe, that the passing of the Sudar Bill of 1846, was hailed in the Havana, by a general illumination. It is a fact not denied by any, that while our own sugar plantations in Jamaica are becoming rapidly stripped of plant and machinery, from sheer poverty and bankruptcy,—the Cuba planters are eagerly buying up this machinery, to supply the increasing demand of the English markets. Yet these same planters were described in the House of Commons, the other night, as never venturing abroad without the guard of a brace of mastiffs and a pair of bouble-barrelled pistols ! Such is the state of things which we are now countenancing and encouraging ! A FEW PLAIN FACTS.—MONARCHY v. ECONOMY MONGERS.—George 3rd gave up to the public all his hereditary revenues; and the parliament granted him first £BOO,OOO, and subsequently £960,000 per annum, for the support of his civil list ; and according to Sir William Blackstone, the public was then gainer of £lOO,OOO per annum. From a report made in December 1837, by a select committee of the House of Commons, it oppears that the total amount of the hereditary and temporary revenues of the crown, from the accession of George 3rd, to the accession of her present Majesty, arising from the net produce of the customs, excise, post office, and small branches of the hereditary and temporary revenues, and also from the sums settled on the sovereign in lieu of duties on various articles repealed by George 11., is, X 101,338,877 10s. 7., while the total sums received during the same period by the reigning sovereigns in lieu of those revenues, including the sums granted for the civil list debt and the fees from suppressed offices, amount to £69,385,931 15s. 101 d., being a gain to the nation during that period of a sum of nearly thirty-two millions of pounds, (X 32,000,000.) As to the annual loss or gain by, or to, crown or nation. For the first year-and-a quarter after the accession of George 111. the hereditary and temporary revenues of the sovereign amounted to £886,381, 10s. Ord. ; and the annuity received by the king in lieu of those revenues amounted to £965,317 4s. 91d. The proportion between these revenues, and the annuity settled on the sovereign in lieu of them, every year afterwards changed in favour of the nation, and in the last year of the reign of his late majesty William IV., the amount of the crown revenues was only £3,248,208 ls. lid., while the annuity granted to his majesty for the civil list, in lieu of these revenues, was only £510,000 ! Her present most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria, has also placed, without reserve, her interest in the revenues of the crown, at the disposal of the nation ; and the par liament have =anted her majesty in lieu of those revenues an annuity, amounting in the whole, to the sum of £385,000. The revenue of Queen Elizabeth was £600,000, that of King Charles I. was £BOO,OOO, and £1,200,000 was granted to Charles 2nd, while that of Cromwell was £1,500,000; a further convincing proof, if any were wanted, that the people are not gainers by violent revolu tions. LAW INTELLIGENCE. NEW COURT. (Before Baron Parke.) IN THE CASE OF THE ABDUCTION OF THE REV. MR. HARVEY OF THAXTED'S DAUGHTER. M. Clarkson, who appeared to prosecute Thomas Bux ton Barnes for the abduction of Miss Harvey, applied to the court for leave to withdraw the charge. He said : My lord, you are aware that this is a prosecution for the abduction of the daughter of a rev. . gentleman of the highest respectability. The abduction in question was followed by a marriage, and there is every reason to beli eve that this marriage is a legal and legitimate one, and that it cannot be put aside under any circumstances. I there fore respectfully ask leave, my lord,. to withdraw from . offering any evidence against prisoner, seeing that the effect would be that the punishment inflicted upon him would fall unhappily on the unfortunate girl who had been abducted. Under these circumstances I respectfully ask permission to withdraw the prosecution, and I am sure that the court will kindly grant me this permission. After a few words from Mr. Ballatine the court assented, and the jury, by the direction of the presiding j u d ge , re turned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was in consequence discharged. IMPORTANT TO CREDITORS AND INSOLVENTS.—A most important case was argued before the Court of Exchequer last week, in which the much-debated judg ment of the Common Pleas in Toomer v. Gingall has been overruled. The decision of the Common Pleas in the case referred to decided that a final order in insol vency, under statute 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 96, protected the person but not the, property of the insolvent. In the case just decided in the Exchequer, the court has ruled that the case in the Comm= Pleas had been misunder stood, and that the statutein qwtion operated to protect both pioperty and person. July 11, ISt CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,INDA O Stn,—Unwilling to trespass on the " liberality': of the editors of the Mercury, I ask the favour of being per: mitted, through the medium of your widely circulated paper, to rectify some of their misconceptions in the re: marks they made on my letter of the 15th ult., winch appeared in the Mercury of the 4th inst. They assert that my reasoning, that no education 15 better than secular education not based on Christian i 0 ". struction, is equivalent to saying that no bread is pref 4 ' rable to half a loaf ; but this illustration is not aPPr e ' priate. The comparison should have been between f+ stone and bread, not between no loaf and half a one'. Mere secular education is the stone, which the editors of the Mercury prefer giving their fellow-men to no e duce' tion at all ; whereas Christian instruction is the breaa, that came down from heaven and nourishes unto eterna l ' life. If Ido not give a starving man bread, is it better' to give him a stone ?—or rather, if I do not supPlY with food, is it better to administer to him poison ? These gentlemen suppose that the inhabitants of au` island instructed by philosophers, mathematicians, astrre; th nomers, anatomists, and botanists, and having press, &c., would more readily receive Christianity an the men f another island, who were totally untaugh t f who cracked children across their kn ees , suc k e d then blood to slake their thirst, and then devoured their fles',. ' to satisfy their hunger ; but this supposition exhibit', great ignorance of human nature, and an oversight of facts. Had not the Greeks and Romans among them philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, anatomists' and botanists ? and had not the Chinese, in addition to these, a free press ? But did these nations receive Chris: tianity more readily than the untaught and uncivilise a heathen ? Certainly not. The Gospel was to the win learned, civilized, and polite Greeks, foolishness ; $ ll Rome Pagan, as well as Rome Papal, was and the greatest opponent and enemy Christianity ever had ; $ ll , l as it was formerly, so it is now. For one Brahmin a n " for one Chinese converted to Christianity, ten Pariahs and ten New Zealand savages have been made wise unto salvation, Just in proportion as you spoil a human being through philosophy and vain deceit, so increases the (Bill" culty of making him a convert to Christ. ttie l dT a n m roac s int e ao v r e ri rely censured for asserting that Papists ar e idolators, and they are defended from the charge by being said pictures imagesthan Protestants (I excep t in church-windows. or than I do the Royal arms of England set up in churches . This is a very poor apology. Neither do I nor sound Protestants ever make use of the Royal arms of E n gland' or the pictures in church-windows, as coadjuvants in our devotions ; but Papists do avowedly, and Tractarian s silently, make use of pictures, and especially of cruci fixes, as helps in their devotions to God. They use, therefore, an image, graven by art and man's device, in the exercise of their religious worship ; and so they trans ' gress the second commandment, and cannot escape the charge of idolatry. Besides, they actually worship the host, which constitutes a grosser act of idolatry than los ever practised by the heathen. An attempt is made to relieve transubstantiation from the pressure I laid upon by an insinuation that the catechism of the Church of England asserts the same thing as the Church of Rom e on this subject; and the question is triumphantly asked' " Have words meanings ?" I reply that they have, espe cially those composing the constitutions of the Council °' Trent, and pretty heterodox meanings they have; but the words of our catechism have meaning perfectly orthodox and plain. It asserts that the inward part or thing sigi nified by the bread and wine is the body and blood o f Christ; ; and these certainly are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper ;- --- h ll how are they received ? Doubtless after a spiritual ins s ,; ner ; that is, apprehended by faith as bruised and she" for the remission of sins. They cannot be, taken after $ carnal manner, for they are not here kut in heaven. The Church of England says that the body and blood of Chris t are verily and indeed taken and received, but the Chur l ' of Rome maintains that what is taken and received, i ll the Lord's Supper, is the bread and wine transubstali c i tiated or changed into the substance of Christ's body $ ll ,, blood—yea, more, his soul and divinity ! Hereby the corrupt church destroys the property of a body, which 1 6 to be only in one place at one time, and overthrows tile nature of a sacrament, which is a sign of an absent o r e invisible reality, and makes the infidel equally with believer a partaker of the body and blood of the R e " deemer ! I do not call Papists idolators out of any I he ar , them, but from a desire of provokinz them to examin e their principles and test them by the 'Word of God. using crucifixes in their devotions, in worshipping. the host, in invoking the aid of the Virgin Mary, the saw"' and angels, they do not intend any idolatry ; but I E l l that though they do not intend idolatry by the aho y 55 acts, they are nevertheless guilty of it by the exPr e declaration of the Scriptures, which, if they were anot ee t to search without a license from the church and with c T Douay notes,—to search, I say, as God gave them, with out out note or comment, they would not wrest them to 67. destruction, but read them unto edification and salvati on ' I remain, sir, your faithful servant, SAMUEL FENTON. Wavertree, sth July, 1848. INSTANCES OF THE ORIGIN OF TYPHUS FEVE R FROM DEFECTIVE SANITARY CONDITION• to sanitary investigation are l e d t o ca ll i n BY GEORGE C. WATSON, M.D., LIVERPOOL. Persons who have not had their a tt en ti on peculiarlY di rected the putsihinty or typhus ungmatlng trona specific local causes, and well marked cases in which there can be no reasonable doubt on the subject, are therefore valuable . The causes to which typhus is usually ascribed are conta gion, cold, defective food, bad clothing, depressed moral condition, and other similar circumstances. One or more of these acting together will unquestionably produce fever ;•-• and medical men, whose attention is chiefly directed t 0,.. such causes, are apt to overlook others of equal, if not et superior, importance. The instances to which lam about to call tention occurred in a family where there was 1 1 S, contagion, and where the physical and moral condition of the inmates was as good as need be, except in one parti cular, and we shall see the result. out of In one of the airy, open thoroughfares, leading Liverpool, and at the corner of a. street, stands a clean, well-ordered house and shop, in the occupation of a bakeri The family were temperate and industrious, they kep i their house in the best condition, they were well fed an well clothed, and belonged to the superior grade of trade s : people. The house, in short, was apparently one of Ow last which typhus would have chosen to visit. This I '- assert confidently, having had ample experience of the re ver localities of the town ; and I may also state that the' baking of bread was not done on the premises. Let us next examine the topography of this house. - question stands on the slope of a hill, and there is a populoal neighbourhood higher up, part of which, with the 1 10 '7 itself, as I have been informed, is built over the site an old stone quarry, such as still exist in some l o calities , These quarries are usually filled up with fragments 01 stone and other matters when as much has been got frg i them as will pay the cost of quarrying. They not uriP;:i quently form receptacles for the accumulated drainag e :4, the cesspools of houses built upon their sites, and I ba,', no doubt such would be found the case in the present L ll O - stance, for there was no other drainage at the time wci, fever broke out. The streets in the neighbourhood, no drain of any kind ; and all the fluid refuse from then"and also from a shippon, where cattle are kept, had to P 3 ' the house in finding a lower level for itself. The coa s t ° quence was that a great deal of refuse accumulated in t,,11 gutters and holes in the paving, and at times the ar' 3 ` r was horrible beyond conception. Scavenging did little it, because of the want of sewerage ; and the neighbour; were constantly complaining of the nuisance. In tn house in question the evil reached its climax, because , be ing a corner house, it received the contributions of til l , whole neighbourhood as they passed it. The smell in t house compelled the inmates to have the windows opt'. day and night, and to burn gas, in the vain attempt at de' stroyinc , the odour. he Such was the state of matters when, in June last , brother of the occupant was seized with spotted typhu s : Everything was done that could be done to save bit °. but in three weeks lie died. In the following September, the other brother, who married, and who occupied the house, was similarly fected. He was a man in the prime of life and liealtPl and was exposed to no other cause of fever than tilos! mentioned. He was watched with the most assiduon care ; but in fourteen days he, too, died a victim to T., infringed majesty of one of the organic laws establishe d i4 the Creator for the regulation of His universe. He widow and one little child as living witnesses of the Pto Now it appears to me, that in this case, the connect i ce r between cause and effect was just as well marked as it ! he t is or can be in any vital phenomenon whatever, and " er e to deny or doubt the conclusion, that both these men /Lir cut off in their prime by the violation of the laws of tf existence, (not by themselves, but by others,) is to a!„i„. the whole evidence on which the fabric of medical ence rests. COURT AND FASHION. A he The Court remains in town, and her Majesty V. t o, Royal family have taken their accustomed out-door el— cise since our last. The Queen gave, on Wednesday, at Buckinghar a lace, a state ball, which was very numerously atte o " oo .... the invitations exceeding eighteen hundred, and conii. ce s ing the members of the Royal Family, the foreign F A r rio• and foreigners of distinction in this country, the no matic corps, the Ladies of the Queen's Householarose.. Officers of State, and the principal Officers of the 0° tile hold of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and most of bit , nobility and gentry in town. The Queen wore aes in crape dress, trimmed with white bugles and grailP . .„. e ; crape and frosted leaves, the whole of British ma nufac ' n r al her Majesty's headdress to correspond. Her iZAss highness the Duchess of Kent wore a black crape csirof over satin, trimmed with bugles. The head- 411 40 0 ; black lace, ornamented with bugles and white fell' all the articles of British manufacture. a stir Lady Charlotte Egerton is actively engaged in 5 , die ing a " Lace Quadrille" for her Majesty's ball, tl,diee tinguished feature of which will consist of th e a or taking part therein being attired in dresses fe rule elusively of lace of Nottingham manufacture. Earl of Prince and Princess Metternich received th e an d " Wellington, the Marchioness of Douro, the -08`,.,ight, Countess of Wilton, and a select party, on INlonclaY at their residence in Eaton-square. ' ot e goal A FRENCH MARE'S NEST.—The Journa/ de rit y states, as a fact which can be proved by the majo rity brig' the inhabitants on the French coast, that € ll brig , days preceding the recent insurrection a steam boat' ov er and cutter, belonging to the British Royal Na V Y' O l the ceased to cruse along the coast of the departmentAuliarj‘ north, the Pas de Calais, and the Somme, Crow v to Treport.