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imprrial 13arliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNnAv. On the motion for going into committee on the Auction Duties Bill, The Duke of RICHMOND moved as an amendment, that it should be committed that day six months. The noble duke said he objected to the repeal of the auction duties, because it was uncalled for. and because, if the revenue could hear a loss of £300,000, the agricultural interests had a fair claim to that amount of remission from the burthens that peculiarly pressed on them. His grace said he was much pleased that a similar amend rent had been made in the other house ; for it showed who there were who would vote for measures—not for men. If a want of confidence in the government were proposed, as far as agricultural measures were concerned, lie (the Duke of Bichmond) would be prepared to vote for it. . . The Earl of DALitousie contended that the farmers had received their full share of the reductions made in the articles of timber, coffee, cotton, sugar, glass, &c., and treated as ridiculous the idea that the importation of corn and cattle under the Canada Corn Act and the tariff would ever materially affect the prices of agricultural home produce. Several members spoke for and against the amendment, when, on a division, it was rejected by a majority of 33 to 15. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. In answer to a question from Captain Hoes, Mr. G. W. HOPE said that Captain Fitzroy had been superseded in the government of New Zealand. but not on any grounds connected with the charges made against him by the New Zealand Company, or at all air_ cting his personal character or honour. On the motion for receiving the report on the May nooth College Bill, Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment, " That any provision for the separate or exclusive education of any particular religious denomination, or for the support or endowment of any religious sect or sects, by state grants or funds raised by compulsory assessment, whether under the uame of tithes, rents, ceases, taxes, regium donum, or under any other name or form whatever, is a ♦iolation of the rights of conscience, detrimental to reli gious truth, anti dangerous to civil and religious free dom ; and that all such establishments, grants, or endow ments, now in existence in the United Kingdom, ought to be discontinued with as little delay as may be consis tent with a due regard to the rights of those who have life interest in the same." Sir R. 11. Iscus said the Roman Catholics were taxed in common with the rest of the community to maintain the established church, which was the depository of the religion of the state. After some explanatory remarks from Sir R. PEEL upon the exclusive nature of the education at Maynooth, Mr. H INDLEY defended the conduct of the dissenters who had supported the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, al though they telt that the present question stood upon a principle wholly different—that of the endowment of the Roman Catholic church. The amendment was negatived by a majority of I 11 to 2 The house having resolved itself into a committee of supply on the navy estimates, Lord PALMERSTON drew the attention of the house to the alarming increase of the slave trade in Cuba and Brazil, and impressed upon the government the necessity of active interference by destroying all the barracoons of the west co as t o f Af r i ca ; an d at the same time insisting upon the liberation of all those slaves in Cuba Rho have is land. sir unlawfully detained in slavery in that .ciir R. PEEL complained of the noble lord's bringing this subject forward without giving him the slightest in timation of his intention. He did not despair of seeing a cordial union between France and England for the sup pression of the slave trade--a union which would be more effectual for that object than any other measure whatso ever. He would rather decline for the present giving any opinion respecting the state of the slaves referred to in Cuba ; but he feared that the loss of General Valdez, as governor of the colony, had not as yet been adequately supplied. With respect to the proposal of destroying the barracoons, whether contrary to national law or nut, he must say that he did not think they would serve their object by acting illegally. He thought it probable, how ever, that the consent of the native chiefs might be ob tained for the destruction of these barracoons by negoci atii n. After some further conversation, the matter dropped. The discussion of the estimates was then proceeded with, and occupied the remainder of the evening. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Sir J. GRAHAM stated, that in consequence of the in terference of the Marquis of Normanby, the City of London had established regulations prohibiting the ad mission of the public to the " condemned sermons" in Newgate. Those regulations appeared to have been vio lated in the case of Hocker, and he had therefore directed one of the prison inspectors to make a searching inquiry, and upon his report he would, if necessary, introduce a legislative measure on the subject. In reply to a question from Mr. BOUVERIE, Sir J. GRAHAM said, last Tuesday he had received through the Foreign-office the explicit opinion of the judge and public prosecutor on the trial of the supposed assassins, declaring that nothing had been elicited in the slightest degree inculpating Mr. Mazzini. Had he known this sooner he would have refrained from his statement of a former evening, but having made it he could now only express a hope that his retraction would be made as public as his original accusation. „.• the re-rommittal of the Phy. sic and Surgery Bill pro forrnd, with the view ur clueing alterations which he conceived to be necessary to the success of the measure. He complained of the diffi culties attending legislation on this subject—difficulties which, if he could have foreseen them at starting, might have prevented him from taking up the subject at all ; but, having devoted so much attention as he had done to the subject, he was unwilling to abAndon it without ef fecting some improvement beneficial as well to the pro fession as to the public. The right hon. baronet then stated at cons:derable length the nature of the alterations which he was prepared to carry out. If he should not succeed in this effort at a satisfactory arrangement, he confessed lie should despair of accomplishing the task by any future exertion. The bill went through committee, and the house ad journed. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. Lord BROUGHAM, on presenting a petition from a gen tleman in Rutland, complaining of the Syston and Peter borough Railway, provoked another of tbos conversa tions on railway speculation of late so prevalent in the Upper House. The Dukes of Wellington and Grafton, and Lords Fitzwilliam, Redesdale, Campbell, and Win• chilsea, took part in the discussion. The general result of their lordships' observations was, that though every reasonable facility ought to be afforded to railway compa nies, yet care should be taken to secure full compensation for proprietors, especially for such of these as were poor, and unable to assert their rights. Lords Stanley and Dalhousie defended the principle of the Railway and Land Clauses Consolidation Bill from an attack made on it by Lord Beaumont. One or two bills were then forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned till Friday, the 16th inst. HOUSE OF COMMONS. —THURSDAY. Mr. Hurl' moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, for the purpose of considering the following resolution :—" That it is expe dient to permit grain and flour, the produce of Australa sia, to be imported into the United Kingdom on payment of the same amount of duty as is now levied on grain and, flour the produce of Canada." He commenced by ob serving, that those who impugned this motion must prove either that the resolution was incompatible with the wel fare of Australasia, or that the advantages which Aus tralasia would derive from it were insignificant in cornpa.- rison of the evils which it would produce upon the inte rests of agriculture at home. Australasia was very fa vourably placed for the production of wheat, and actually did produce wheat of superior flavour, quality, and weight. Aloreovcr, it produced more wheat than its inhabitants could consume themselves. All that they wanted to make this beneficence of Providence a source of inestimable advantage to them was a market. That market they fan cied they had found in this country. The voyage was long, but the fineness and dryness of the Australasian climate rendered its wheat able to endure so long a voy age without injury. It was true that we did not prohibit Australasian corn in the British market, but after it had traversed 15,000 miles of ocean, we placed on it a duty which was equal to 20 or 25 per cPnt. on its original value in Australasia. The peope of Australasia complained of this duty as unequal and unjust. They saw all the pro ductions of Great Britain imported into Australasia duty free, and they complained that their only staple produc tion was placed on its importation into Great Britain under a duty which, in point of fact, amounted almost to a prohibition. In 1843 the Imperial Parliament had passed a law admitting Canadian corn into Great Britain duty free. In 1844 the Imperial Parliament refused this same boon to Australasia. This was not only unwise and impolitic, but also a monstrous injustice. He now brought forward once more the motion which the house had rejected last year, and called upon hon. gentlemen to consider the responsibility whi c h t h ey wou l d incur in sanctioning again such an act of injustice and misgovern ment. He then reviewed the arguments employed last year against his motion, and, in reply to the observation that it was unfair to bring it forward again because the corn law was a settled question, reminded the house that the corn law was, above all others, the great unsettled question of the day. It had likewise been said, that Ca nada had asked for this boon, but that Australasia never had done so. He read a memorial from Mr. Grey, the Governor of South Australia, and also from Sir Eardley Wilmot, the Governor of Van Dieman's Land, to Lord Stanley, for the purposeof sho w i ng t h at the colonists were fully alive to the importance of this measure, and were most anxious to obtai n it. li e i nsisted that, by im posing this discriminating duty on Australasian w h eat, you were placing a brand of inferiority on the inhabitants of Australasia, and were telling the world and them that they were less worthy of encouragernent and protection than their brother colonists of Canada. He then pointed out the advantages which would accrue from acceding to his present proposition. It was due to Australasia as a matter of justice and good government. If acceded to, it would be twice blest: for it would bless b o th t h e par ties that gave and those who received it. In Australasia it would open new avenues to improvement and prospe rity. In this country it would extend our commerce, give an impulse to our manufactures, and tend to relieve the distress of agriculture. It would do more—it would knit together Great Britain and her Australasian colonies in the bonds of mutual interest and affection. Sir W. JAMES seconded the motion. Sir G. CLERK was compelled by a sense of public duty to meet the motion with a direct negative. Tire hon. gentleman Ind greatly exaggerated the benefits which would accrue to Australasia from the course whirls he wished the house to adopt ; for it was almost impossible that the corn trade could be advantageous to such distant Possessions of the crown of Great Britain as our Austra lasian colonies. Besides, he considered it unwise to be perpetually tampering with an article like corn, o n w hi c h FO large a portion of the proprietors of Great Britain had expended so large an amount of capital. He might be asked, if that were so, why had the government made this exception in the year 1842 in favour of Canadian wheat? He jtistitied that exception by showing that Lord Stanley had introduced it on special and peculiar grounds which did not apply to any other of our colonies ; for instance, the peculiar situation of the Canadas at the time, their contiguity to the United States, and the permission then accorded to the United States to introduce flour into the Canadas free from duty. On the authority of Sir E. Wilmot, he affirmed that the colonists of Van Dieman's Land did not produce sufficient corn for their own con sumption ; for in the very document which Mr. Hutt had read, Sir E. Wilmot admitted that the people in Van Dieman's Land could import and did import corn from Valparaiso cheaper than they could grow it in their own country, and that such importation enabled them to send their own corn, which was of superior quality, to this country. He therefore contended, that Mr. Hutt had not made cut such a case for the Australasian colonies as ought to induce the house to alter in their favour the ex isting corn laws. Such an alte ra ti on wou ld create great alarm in the agricultural interest at home, and would not be productive of any great traffic in corn with such distant colonies. . .... Sir R. PEEL, in declaring his intention to vote against this motion, observed, that there were now two proposi tions on the subject of the corn laws in the notice-book— one for a total repeal of them, to be brought forward by Mr. Villiers; and the other for a modified alteration of them, to be proposed by Lord John Russell. Not satis fied with the prospect of the extensive proposal of Mr. Villiers, and of the more limited proposal of Lord John Russell, Mr. Hutt had thought it expedient to submit to the house a motion still more confined in its extent, viz., a proposal to admit the corn of Australia to the same pri vilege which belonged to the corn of Canada. Sir R. Peel then explained at some length the reasons which induced the government to pass the Canada Corn Bill, and ex pressed a doubt whether it would be for the advantage of the Australasian colonies to fulfil the conditions which Canada was called upon to fulfil on receiving the privilege conceded to her. The Australasian colonies now received foreign corn duty free. It was now proposed that they should bring into Great Britain corn duty free ; but Nlr. Hutt had not called upon the Australians, as government had called upon the Canadians, to levy a duty of 3s. per quarter on all foreign corn brought into their country. He thought that that gentleman, from allowing his mind to dwell long upon this subject, had greatly over-rated the benefits which the course recommended by him would confer upon Australasian agriculture. He would rather consider the question of allowing the introduction of corn duty free from all our colonies, than that of allowing it to come in duty free from any one colony in particular. He considered the present motion to be the precursor of many other motions of a similar character, introduced for no other purpose than that of producing a constant dis cussion on the corn laws; and as such he would meet it with the most decided opposition. His belief was, that as this motion, if carried, would excite great alarm among the agricultural interest of this country, and would not create any additional trade in corn between the colonies and Great Britain, the evil would far outweigh the ad vantage anticipated from it. He repeated, in conclusion, that the case of Australasia was not ideni ical with that of Canada—that Australasia had no claim in justice to the boon now asked for her, and that on grounds of expedi ency and policy it was not fitting that he should disturb the settlement of the corn laws, to which parliament bad assented in 1812. --- On a division, the motion was negatived by a majority of 147 to 93. HOUSE OF COMMONS,—FRIDAY. Sir J. GRAHAM stated the plan contemplated by the government for the promotion of academical education in Ireland. Various attempts had, he said, been made to extend the blessings of education to the people of Ireland, and he had no hesitation in saying that these attempts had failed whenever they were based upon the principle of interfering with the religious belief of the people. This was the opinion of the commission appointed to inquire into, the subject of national education in Ireland in 1812, and it was in accordance with this opinion that the plea sure he was now about to introduce was founded. The tame opinion was held by the commission which was ap pointed in 1826, and in 1828 a committee of the House of Commons recommended separate religious education for Protestants and Catholics, the literary education being combined. The matter was again referred to a committee of the house in 1830, and by that committee the sugges tions of the committee of Itb;2B were adopted, and in the course of the following year the present system of na tional education in Ireland was agreed to. Previous to its adoption large sums of money had been voted for edu cation in Ireland, of which the great bulk of the people had declined to avail themselves. In the year 1839, after its adoption, there were 1581 national schools in Ireland, and 2u5,000 scholars ; and at the close of 1811, the num bea of schools was swelled to 3151, and of scholars to 395,000. The proposition he was about to make would only affect the middle and higher classes of society, and thus all classes would now have the benefits of education within their reach. Upon the principle he had stated, her Majesty's government were now prepared to recom mend the establishment of three provincial colleges in Ire land—one of them in Cork, another in Limerick or Gal way, and the third either at Belfast or Derry. Ile esti mated the outionig and founding each of these col leges at about £30,000, or in round numbers at £lOO,OOO for the three. The annual endowment of each college would be about £6OOO, which would include for the pre sident a salary of £lOOO, and for each of the ten or twelve professors a salary of £3OO per annum. As he attached great importance to the establishment of medical schools, the professors would include lectures on anatomy, &c. Ile proposed that the professors should be nominated by the c . own, and that they should be removable for cause. This latter power was deemed requisite in order to prevent any undue interference by the lecturers with theological opi- Mons. He proposed that the president should reside in the college, and that the instruction should be by lectures and daily examinations. He did not propose that there should be any professors of theology or lectures on di vinity in any of the colleges, but the crown would not ob ject to the private endowment of such professors, subject to the inquisitorial visitation and controul of the crown. A question would arise as to whether there should be one central college for granting degrees in arts, science, and medicine, or whether the crown should endow all three colleges with that power. On that question, however, it , was unnecessary t o come t o any d ef i nite arrangement, but 1 his opinion was decidedly in favour of one central col- lege. The question was, however, full of difficulties ; one of which related to Trinity College, with which they were resolved not to interfere. It was a strictly Protes tant foundation, established by Queen Elizabeth for avowedly Protestant purposes. Mr. O'Connell, himself, in his evidence before the House of Lords, had given it as his opinion that the scholarships should not be given to Roman Catholics. He feared that any attempt to in troduce Roman Catholics into the college would be at tended with the greatest difficulty and inconvenience. The bill, however, did not propose to establish a univer sity, and it would be open to the wisdom of parliament hereafter either to endow the three colleges, or establish a central university in Dublin. The right hon. baronet then complimented Mr. Wyse upon his long-continued efforts to promote education in Ireland, and said that to his exertions must fairly be attributed much of the merit of the benefit which the present measure was calculated to confer upon his country. He then concluded by moving for leave to bring in a bill to enable her Majesty to endow colleges for the purposes of academical educa tion in Ireland. Mr. NYSE approved of the Government proposition, but suggested several modifications of some of its propo sitions. Mr. E. B. Rocus:, repealer as he was, felt thankful for the proposition, though he did not think it sufficiently comprehensive, and in one point objectionable—in not opening Trinity College. Si , R. INGLIS was entirely opposed to the measure of the Government, on the ground of the total absence of all provision for religious instruction. It was a gigantic scheme of godless education undertaken by a Protestant Government, and it was a matter of regret that such mea sures as had recently been introduced had not been advo cated at an earlier period of the political lives of those who now proposed them. If he stood alone, he should say " No" to the proposition, and would endeavour to defeat it as far as was within his power. Mr. SHEIL contended for the justice and sound policy of throwing open Trinity College, for so long as its pre dominance continues, so long wo u ld t h e C athol i cs be dis contented. The right hon. baronet (Sir R. Peel) had said that Ireland was his difficulty, hut such was not the case —his difficulty was the established church, which met him at every step, and sought to thwart and render nugatory every beneficial measure of conciliation which he attempted to confer upon the country. He agreed with Sir Robert Inglis that the absence of religious education was a defect in the plan, but that might be remedied by some commu nication with the Catholic bishops. He, however, cor dially praised the plan on the whole. Sir It. PEEL said the right lion. gentleman had proved the truth of what he (Sir R. Peel) had predicted, when he said that Ireland would be his chief difficulty. It was impossible to give Ireland the bentfit of academical edu cation if they combined with it religious education, and yet the right hon. gent. united with his hon. friend Sir R. Inglis in asserting that the absence of this religious edu cation is a defect in the plan. Ile attached every import ance to religious education, but under the circumstances it became necessary either to give up the idea of giving the advantage of academical education to Ireland, or to leave the religious education of youth to their parents and guar dians, by whom, of course, it would be attended to. They were not to live in the college—they would reside with their friends or relatives, and the government did not pro pose to relieve the parents and relatives of the children from the obligation of paying attention to their religious instruction. Leave was given to bring in the bill. THE IRON TRADE—BIRMINGHA M , May B.—The ex travagant height to which the price of iron had reached has been followed by a reduction equally suth'en, ah hough by many persons confidently expected. This, like pre vious events in the iron trade, shows that little faith is to be placed in the declaration of prices fixed at the quarterly meetings. One great house in the district has issued a circular., intirnrting a reduction of 10 s . per ton on pig iron. The reduction, however, according to the best au thority, may be taken at 20s. Pigs were stated at the last quarterly meeting to be £6 10s. ; they are now to be bought at 1:5 10s. In merchant iron there is a reduction of .1:2 per ton. It is altogether unnecessary to speculate upon the cause of this sudden depression. PutLEIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The tine steam-ship Great Western, Captain R. B. Matthews, left the Wharf at New York, at 3 P.M. on the 24th ult., was telegraphed at Liverpool early On Thursday afternoon, and arrived off the Rock at half-past nine o'clock, thus making the passage in fourteen days one hour. She brings 141 p assengers. T ne papers by the Great Western are ten days later than those previously received. The Caledonia arrived out on the 21st ult., containing the important debate on the Oregon question. The New York Herald of the 23d ult. gives extracts from the English papers, but there is nothing beyond the blustering of the newspapers upon the subject The New York Herald and all the democratic papers " go the whole hog " for Oregon, even at the hazard of war with Great Britain. Under the head " The crisis come at last. War with England !" the following occurs :—" President Polk and Sir Robert Peel have assumed diametrically opposite po sitions with respect to the Oregon territory. It is impos sible for either to recede, and the crisis, which we have been anxiously awaiting for some time past, has at last arrived. As for us, we go for Oregon at all hazards. If war is to come, let it come. As we have said a hundred times, the day must come, sooner or later, when a trial of physical strength will take place between Great Britain and the United States. Oregon is unquestionably ours, and we are surely not to be bullied out of the assertion and vindication of our claims by the threats of the British Minister?" Under the head " Our foreign relations," the New York Herald of the 24th ult. says—" From Mexico, by our last accounts, down to the 29th of March, it appears that the Mexican Congress are deliberating on certain resolutions, proposed to suspend all commercial and diplomatic inter course with the United States, in consequence of the passage of the Texas resolutions by the Congress at Wash ington. * * * With regard to Texas, our accounts from thence, relative to annexation, are somewhat contra dictory. No doubt the general feeling of the people there is favourable to annexation, but the official classes are ap parently not in favour of it. Then there is the Brazilian empire, with which we have a very important quarrel on hand, affecting the principles of honour, which generally is more troublesome than even acres or dollars and cents. * * * * We do not, however, apprehend any diffi culty there, and leave it. But the greatest comes the last. Our difficulty with England is a matter that will create a deep feeling, greatly increasing, festering, fermenting, from this until some serious collision takes place. Peace able and moderate men think it can be settled very easily, either by compromise, or by the interference of Russia or France as a mediator, or in some such way ; but we greatly fear that the government of the United States will not venture on a second edition of the Ashburton treaty. War is a serious thing ; but there are errors in history where the conflict of great passions and general principles cannot be arbitrated but by physical force. We feel under some alarm for the future, in every aspect in which the question presents itself." Again, the same paper says—" A prodigious effort will indeed be made amongst all intelligent men of this coun try, engaged in commerce, to influence our government in relation to this matter, so as to preserve the peace of the two countries. All rational men connected with the foreign trade mid commerce of the untry, of course, regard it as the most preposterous and wicked idea to think of going to war with England. But yet the position assumed by both governments is such that that denoue ment cannot possibly be averted by any negotiations be tween themselves conducted in the ordinary mode. It is proposed, therefore, that some third party—France or Russia—should step in to act as mediator. With what success such an effort at arbitration is likely to meet, it is difficult at this moment to predict." COTTON MARKET.—The advices received by the steamer Caledonia do not appear to have strengthened the market, which is well supplied with all descriptions. The sales for a day or two past have been small, and in some instances at offers which were refused previous to the ar rival of the steamer. The demand is principally for Li verpool. Our advices from the south confirm the impres sion that the crop now coming in will be full as large as any precious one. The receipts already known amount to 2,178,2.51 bales. Out of this, 2,039,542 bales have been received at the principal southern shipping ports, against 2,('37,329 arrived at the same ports for the same period the season before last. INDIA AND CHINA.—The overland mail has been anti cipated by express which arrived this morning, the dates being to the 19th of March from Calcutta, the 10th of February from China, and the lst of April from Bombay. The political intelligence describes a state of great confu sion in the Panjaub, but the rest of India was in a tran quil state. The mercantile accounts are universally dull; iu the Chinese ports the greatest scarcity of money pre vailing, and cotton goods, metals, and hardware, were in excessive stocks, which was also the state of trade gene rally at Calcutta and Bombay. Shipping alone was in de_ wand, the rates of freight to Europe having advanced about ss. per ton in the course of the month. NEW ZEALAND.—On Monday, a parliamentary docu ment was printed, showing the claims for land in New Zealand. It appears that the Church Missionary Society have made claims to .1,8384 acres. The quantity granted was 3,295 acres ; and the consideration given to the na tives was £1,814 Os. 6d. The total of other claims is 366,874, making the grand total 371,714 acres. The quantity granted was 124,528 acres ; and the consideration given to the natives was £39,780 19s. 7d. By another branch of the return it. is stated that the total number of claims to grants of land referred to the commission ap. pointed was 1,037, which claims are now under investiga tion, and are expected to be examined and reported upon by the commission in a :port time. WEST INDIES.—The Clyde steam-ship arrived at Southampton on Monday evening, bringing 85 passengers and a valuable freight, including 486,635 dollars, 27,000 being on account of the Mexican dividends. The Clyde brings advices frost Mexico to the 2d April. The whole country is represented as being in a most unsettled and disturbed state, and from this fact may be attributed the comparative small shipment of dollars on account of the dividends. Nothing is yet decisive as to the ultimate fate of Santa Anna. The mercantile community, in particular, were highly dissatisfied in regard to the promised altera tions in the tariff, which had not yet been ceded to them. We learn from Jamaica, that the settlement of the sugar duties, the more the subject is discussed in the island ap. pears to increase in general satisfaction among the plan ters. Indeed, throughout the whole of the colonies, the matter has made a very favourable impression. FRANCE.—On Friday week M. Thiers brought before the Chamber of Deputies the motion of which he had given notice, demanding explanations from the ministry for not having enforced the laws affecting the Jesuits and religious societies generally. His speech on the occasion, which was an elaborate one, was unusually moderate. After tracing the progress of the Jesuits in France, and of the laws for their prohibition, he insisted that the ex istence of the society, even on sufferance, was dangerous to the security of the nation. The discussion was re sumed on Saturday, and disposed of by the Chamber pas sing '' to the order of the day." The Paris papers of Monday are chiefly occupied with the bill for providing the cannon, mortars, and gunpowder for the fortifications of Paris, the discussion on which, in the Chamber of Deputies, commenced on Monday. General Leydet, who opened the debate, expressed his astonishment at the enormous warlike preparations in progress, at a moment of profound peace, and when there appeared so little chance that that peace would be disturbed. lie professed to consider the bill as perfectly unnecessary, seeing that the Government had at Vincennes enough materiel to arm the ramparts of the capital. He added that he had been friendly to the erection of the fortifications, but was op posed to their being armed. Other deputies, among whom was M. l.asteyrie, who bad been parties to the erection of the fortifications, expressed opinions similar to those of General Leydet. A speech from M. Arago closed the proceedings on Monday, after which the debate was adjourned. On Tuesday the Minister of Marine applied to the Chamber of Deputies fur a grant of ten millions of francs to be applied to the improvement of the roads of Toulon, and another of two-and-a-half mil lions for works to be executed at Port Vendres. The Chamber then resumed the debate on the arming of the fortifications, and on Thursday last the first clause of the hill for this put pose was carried by a majority of 227 to 14 I. On Friday and Saturday the Fortifications Bill was discussed bs the Chamber, arid on the latter day it passed by a majority of 227 to 131. THE JESUITS IN FRANCE.—The French Chamber of Deputies, who, as will be seen, have been engaged in de bate on the subject, have unanimously resolved after two days' debate on the motion of M. Thiers, that the laws against the society of Jesuits shall be carried into execu tion. This is a strange and refreshing contrast to the proceedings in the British legislature. The speech in which the mover called upon the chamber to authorize tbe government to execute the laws is described by an excel lent rie, judiciously managed paper (La Patrie) as full of precision, vigour, and argument ; and the orator com pletely established that the Jesuits exist, as a society, in France at this day, and that they are rapidly extending their pernicious influence. lie showed that they were proscribed by the ancien regime, by the revolution, by the restoration, and that they are still under the ban of the law which ought to be immediately applied, if the legisla tion had any regard to the permenent safety of the state. The defenders of the Jesuits were rex ; " and " says La Patrie, " they form, in France, a new school of liberals, who put forth strange ideas. According to them, none but themselves comprehend the true meaning of liberty. But M. Thi ers did ample justice upon these hypocritical intenders; and the unanimous decision of the chamber has dissipated the fine terms in which they would define our liberties—liberties founded upon our laws." The laws of France, which will now be put into execution, forbids the existence altogether of the " Society of Jesus," and declares that no such society shall acquire, in that country, any property whatever, real or personal, under considerable penalties. The whole debate on the subject is worthy of attentive perusal in the present crisis of Protestantism in England. DREADFUL FIRE.--A dreadful fire took place in Pitts burg, America, on the Bth ult. Twenty squares, com prising from ten to twelve thousand houses, were de stroyed. Several lives were l ost. Th e l oss i s est i mate d at two millions. Pittsburgh is a rising and important city in ptnnsylvania• it i s t h e next largest city to Philadel phia in Pennsylvania. Its population is about 25,000, and was becoming a place of great commercial importance. Independent of the manufactures of edge tools, which were by far the most extensive in the union, an idea may be formed of the progress made in the heavier branches of machinery from the fact, that during last year no fewer than 29 steam-boats were built and completed with their engines at Pittsburg. The town may, therefore, be con sidered both the Sheffield and Birmingham of the United States, and the extensive destruction a severe blow to the Irma manufacturers. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MONTE VIDEO.—The following is an extract of a letter from Monte Video, dated 27th February, 1845, received per packet on Saturday last :—" On the morning of the 11th instant, two of Brown's vessels commenced throwing shot into the city. After firing about forty to fifty, doing a great deal of damage, they sheered off. One of the schooners belonging to this place went out and fought them both and drove them off. After fighting about an hour she hulled one of them twice. I was on the house top all the time, and the balls flew over my head. Some came very near. Two or three people were killed, and others wounded. By what we hear from Buenos Ayres we may expect to be bombarded very shortly. If that be the case we shall have to leave, but I do not believe they can do it. We have fourteen or fifteen vessels of war, small and large, belonging to this government, and I think, with these and the forts, which all have furnaces to make red hot shot, Brown will not be able to stand them." MEXICO—The accounts brought by the Great Western from this qua-ter are to the effect that General Almonte's communication of the passage of the measure of annexa tion produced very considerable excitement in the capital. On the 22d of ISlarch, Senor Cuevas, the Minister of Foreign Relations, addressed a circular to the governors of the different departments, in which he appeals to the patriotism of the authorities of the departments and all their citizens, to forget all divisions, anti to stand by the President, and co-operate with him in defence of the rights and the honour of the nation. Upon the reception of the official notification, a very stormy cession was held in the House of Deputies, during which Senor Cuevas submitted the following decree, prefacing it with the re mark, that the Government felt strong enough for the emergency, without the grant of additional powers, and he trusted that instead of a grievous calamity, annexation might really prove a blessing to Mexico, by uniting all her people in a determined effort to maintain their rights and preserve the integrity of the teritory of the Republic. BRAZIL..—By the arrival of her Majesty's schooner Viper at Falmouth, we have accounts from Rio Janeiro to the 23d March, which are of very great importance. The Brazilian ministers, it appears, have made up their minds to go the whole hog to produce a quarrel with this country as far as commercial relations are concerned. They have officially announced that as the treaty confer ring the right of search to British shins of war, of the ves sels of Brazil for preventing the importation of slaves, ex pired on the 13th of March, it shall not be resumed until Brazilian sugars are admitted into the British dominions at the same rate of duty as that from any other country. A Brazilian slaver may henceforth, therefore, cross the bows of a British man-of-war, with her cargo in full view, without her daring to offer the slightest molestation to the nefarious traffic. The commissioners appointed to treat with Mr. Hamilton on the subject of the law of Brazil af fecting the property of deceased foreigners, had had their first meeting. The conclusion come to in this case was on the same principle as the above, namely, that their in structions were that nothing should be done until the duties on Brazil sugars are placed on the same footing as other foreign produce. There is consequently no mincing of the matter, and ministers must consequently make up their minds on the course they will pursue, for it is easy to see that these resolutions have greatly agitated the merchants resident in Brazil, and those connected with them at home. The mail steamer had arrived from Rio Grande at Rio Janeiro on the 20th ult., with intelligence that Baron Cazias had concluded a treaty with the late insurgent leaders, which will finally pacify that province. The terms of the treaty are in the Rio papers, and the measure had produced great satisfaction in the capital. The report that Ronge, the German priest, who has se ceded from the Romith Church, had been murdered is contradicted. Monday, being the anniversary of the death of Napo leon, the masses for the repose of his soul were said in twelve of the principal churches of Paris. Letters from Lucerne of the 3d instant state that Dr. Steiger had been convicted of high treason, and sentenced to be shot. The llamburgh expedition round the world is to leave that city on the 15th of August. The route which has been chosen has been so arranged as to secure continual summer to the voyagers. MoNs, MAY 6.—Yesterday morning about forty men were killed by an exploion in a mine in this neighbour hood,.belonging to the Anonymous Society of the Wood of I3oussu. About thirty other persons were dreadfully injured. One of the best and most substantial cotton factories in the United States has recently been erected at Cincinnati. It has one thousand three hundred and twelve spindles, and one hundred looms. It wilt employ three hundred persons, and make about two millions of yards of sheeting per annum. FIRE IN CANADA.—The Toronto papers give full de tails of a fire in London, Canada West, the most destruc tive and terrible ever known in Canada, which impover ished and ruined hundreds of people ; at least 150 families were rendered bouseless. The entire loss was estimated at 200,000 dollars. MAGNIFICENT PRESENT.—A silver fountain of extra ordinary magnitude, and exquisite workmanship, intended as a present to Mehemet Ali from the East India com pany, has just been completed. It is upwards of ten feet high, and contains 10,400 ounces of silver. It is richly ornamented with fruits and flowers, the likeness of beast, bird, or fish being scrupulously avoided, in deference to the feelings of the Nlatiornedans. The fountain has an inscription on each of the four sides, simply, and in excel lent taste, recording the titles of the givers and the re ceiver without any addition. The language on each side varies ; the four languages employed arc English, Latin, Arabic, and Persian. IRELAND. On Tuesday, two workmen, whilst repairing the man sion of Colonel Bryan ; near Kilkenny, were killed by the fall of the scaffolding. The report as to the suicide of Dr. 'Loughlin, the R , lnanist Bishop in Derry, and his alleged insanity, is with , ,ut foundation. The doctor has been ill, but is con valescent. Sir Henry Pottinger was entertained at a public dinner in Belfast, on Wednesday, by upwards of 200 of the gentry of that, his native town. The chair was occupied by Andrew Mulholland, Esq., Mayor of Belfast. The Dublin Nation, alluding to the Queen's visit to Ireland, calls her Majesty "a foreign potentate," and says if she goes to that country, the cry of repeal shall make her coursers tremble, and break in upon her revels like round shot." REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—On Sunday twelve per sons—eight men and four women—abjured the errors of popery in St. Audcen's Church, in the presence of a densely-crowded congregation : and, after solemnly par taking of the Lord's Supper, signed the renunciation roll. REPEAL DEMONSTRATION AT DUNDALK.—The pro cession by which Mr. O'Connell was escorted into the town is said to have consisted of 50,000 persons. The repeal banquet took place in the evening. There were about 600 guests. Letters of apology were read from various Roman Catholic Bishops, but none were present. NEWS FOR Sin R. PEEL.—The Rev. R. J. M'Ghee and the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan will attend the great annual meeting of the Protestant Association of England, to be held in Exeter Hall to-morrow (Wednesday), and a similar association for Ireland will shortly be formed, which will carry the genuine principles of the Refo►ma tion into every village and Protestant family within her shores. " THE CALL OF THE HousE."—Mr. O'Connell and his tail have hurled their high and haughty defiance at the Speaker of the House of Commons, and laugh to scorn the notion of the Serjeant-at-Arms daring to show his nose within the four walls of Conciliation -hall ; and, truth to say, a less perilous task might readily devol:e on Sir William Gosset than an attempt to enforce his autho. city contrary to the wishes of a crowded auditory at a Monday's meeting of the Irish Parliament. Seriously, however, the Repeal members have taken their stand, and budge one inch they will not. This grand resolve is offi cially announced in the organ of the Association.—The Freeman's Journal. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting, on Monday, Mr. 0 Colwell gave another proof that the mea sures of the present government are little calculated to allay agitation. lie said "We shall have meetings in Meath, Cork, and Dublin itself to celebrate the 30th of May. (Hear, hear.) They shall be all legal and peace able. We shall have millions of petitions against the next session of parliament. Thus we shall have an exhi bition of the popular mind in a legal and constitutional way. Meanwhile Sir Robert Peel is striving to take the Irish away from me. He is bidding against me. " May nooth," says he. Well, I say, what next ? " The glass duties." Good ? Bid again. " The bankers' bill," says be. Good again. But what next? I wait to see it be fore I thank him fcr it. But against all this, I have just one word to say, and that is—Repale. (Cheers.)" The rent amounted to £4(i6, STATE OF IRELAND.—On Thursday week a desperate attack was made at the fair of Mountain Castle, Water ford, on Dr. Fitzgerald, the stipendiary magistrate, who had made himself obnoxious to the people by some recent convictions. The doctor and thirty police had to leave the assailants in possession of the field. On Sunday week, a young man named Waters, a ploughman, was barbarously murdered near Nenagh, as he was returning from a neighbouring dance—a general amusement of the Roman Catholic peasantry on the Sabbath evenings. On Saturday week, a man named Henzie, steward to Mrs. Bennett, of Monaquill, being out on the lands, saw a man approach him with a pistol in his breast. Henzie rushed on the stranger and they both fell, on which another fellow jumped from a ditch and snapped the pistol, but it missed fire. Both miscreants then beat Henzie with stones, and the butt-end of the pistol, and left him, as they conceived, dead. The poor man was a prosecutor at the late assizes. On Sunday morning week, as the clerk of Monsea church, aoout two miles from Nenagh, was pro ceeding to his duties, he was attacked by six men and dreadfully beaten. On Thursday night week, some mis creants set fire, in three different places, to the dwelling_ house of a poor woman named Judy Cawley, at Kilriflit, within four miles of Nenagh, whilst the widow and her five orphans were in a profound sleep. One of the party cried out, are you within Judy ? Upon her answering yes, another said, hasp the door and keep them in ; ac cordingly they put a plug in the hap outside and fastened the untortunate family in, with a flaming thatch burning in three places about them. Upon perceiving the house in flames, the widow jumped out of her bed, and, taking a spade, which was fortunately in the house, and in the deperation of a struggle for life or death, forced a passage with the spade, by the jam of the doer, large enough to put out the hand of one of the children, who unfastened the hasp outside, and gave life and freedom to the unfor tunate inmates. Two of the children were much scorched —and the widow herself had the few garments she threw over her almost burned to cinders. This outrage occurred in the same locality where the form of a grave was cut on the lands of Lieutenant Kennedy. It is impossible, how ever, to enumerate all the outrages of this kind which have taken place; hut these are sufficient for one week to show the sort of results which our parliamentary tacticians are bringjng about in the rister country. UNIVERSITY (5• CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, MAY 10.—The following degrees were con ferred to-day :—Bachelor in Civil Law: T. Spinks, St. John's College.—Mastert of Arts : W. Milton, Exeter ; Miley Crewe, Merton ; F. W. Garnett, Balliol.—Bachelore of Arts: C. W. Cavendish Bentinck, New Inn Hall; J. Willington, New Inn Hall; J. Milner, Queen's J. Tombs, Queen's ; H. Jacobs, Michel Exhibitioner of Queen's ; W. E. Batty, Queen's; A. Taylor, Queen's ; J. C. Lowe, Queen's ; E. Green, scholar of Queen's G. W. Dixon, Quee n ' s ; G. R . H . Somerset, Christ Church ; Trehawke Kekewich, Christ Church ; H. M. Austen, Christ Church ; D. Robertson, Christ Church ; E. A. Freeman, scholar of Trinity ; G. Merewether, Wadham ; W. W. How, Wadham ; E. P. Eddrup, Wad ham ; T. Naish, Lincoln ; G. Smith, demy of Magdalen ; Pakenham, Brasenose ; W. S. Hoole, Brasenose; T. C. Layton, Pembroke ; F. J. Ede, Pembroke ; J. H. Eld, fellow of St. John's; C. Hartley, St. John's ; J. Henly, Exeter ; J. R. Major, Exeter ; A. H. Estcourt, Exeter; F. C. Walsh, University; W. Haydon, Uni versity ; G. W. Winter, University ; E. Walford, scho lar of Balliol ; Hon. Stephen W. Lawley, Balliol ; M. F. F. Osborne, Balliol; H. Dalrymple, Des Vceux, Balliol; G. R. Mackarness, postmaster of Merton ; E. S. James, postmaster of Merton; J. B. Hayley, Worcester; Arthur Hinckley, Worcester. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 9.—At a congregation just held the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor in Divinity. —John Robinson Hutchinson, St. College. Masters of Arts.—Hon. George Denman, Trinity College ; Horatio Mansfield, Trinity College ; William Williamson New hould, Trinity College ; William Baliol Brett, Caius Col lege; John Fenwick, Corpus Christi College; Richard Sturtees, Corpus Christi College i • Thomas Bennett, Queen's College; John M a th ew Ridley, Jesus College. Bachelor of Law.—James Blencowe, Christ's College. Bachelors of Arts.—Charles Bethune Ewart, Trinity College; Mortimer Manley, Queen's College; Henry Thomas Veness, Queen's College ; John Barthclomew Vale, Emmanuel College. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. E. W. T Chave, to the rectory of St Pancras, Exeter.—Rey. W. Dealtry, D.D., chancellor of Winchester, prebendary of Southwell, and rector of Clapham, Surrey, to the arch deaconry of Surrey.—Rev. A. Shafto, curate of Houghton le-Spring, to the incumbency of the new district church of Byers' Green, Newcastle.—Rev. C. Hockin, curate of St. Mary, Truro, to the perpetual curacy of Chacewater.— Rev. C. Chichester, 8.C.L., to the living of Barton Mills. —Rev. E. Harston, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Tamworth, Staffordshire.—Rev. G. R. Medley, M.A., to the curacy of Burston, Hants.—Rev. C. B. Lockwood, to be chaplain to the Thingoe Union.—Rey. R. W. Pierpoint, M.A., to the curacy of Kirkby-Overblown, Yorkshire.—Rev. R. M'Neill, M.A., to the vicarage of Shitlington, Bedford.—Rev. W. B. Rayne, M.A., to the divinity lectureship in the parish church of Ashbourne.— Rev. C. R. Pettat, M.A., to the rectory of Ashe, Hants. —Rev. J. Samuel, to the rectory of Heythorp, Oxford.— Rev. C. 0. Kenyon, to the rectory of Habberley, Salop. —Rev. W. C. F. Webber, to the perpetual curacy of St. Botolph's, Aldersgate.—Rey. W. J. Hamilton, M.A., to the vicarage of Ivinghoe, Bucks.—lieu. F. Swanton, 8.C.L., minor canon of Winchester Cathedral, perpetual curate of St. John, in that city, and rector of Piddletren thide, Dorset, to the vicarage of Barton Stacy. The stone altar has been removed from St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, and a wooden table substituted. The Church Extension Fund for new churches, the pa tronage of which shall be vested in trustees, now amounts to upwards of 12.15,000. On Wednesday the Court of Queen's Bench, on the application of Mr. Kelly, granted a rule against the Uni versity of Oxford, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue ordering it to re tore the Rev. George Ward to his degrees of B.A. and M.A. All accounts agree that Mr. Newman has declared him self a Papist ; but doubts seem to exist Ps to the numbers, if any, that have followed his example, though it is added, it is only a question of time when they shall pronounce, as they have made known their intention. TRACT XC.--The Hebdomadal Board have returned a negative to the memorial of members of Convocation, calling upon the board to pass a formal censure upon Tract 90 as the Board consider that the recent proceed ings against the Rev. Mr. Ward have sufficiently ex pressed their opinion. THE SEES OF BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.—On Friday there was issued art account of the ecclesiastical revenue. of all digniti,s and benefices of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, on an average of three years, ending 1831. It thence appears that the total amount of the average gross yearly income of the sea of Bangor was £6,580; and of St. Asaph, £7,408. That the permanent yearly pay ments made out of the revenues of the former see were £2,116, leaving a net yearly income of £1,464; and that the permanent yearly payments out of the revenues of St. Asauh were £1,107, leaving a net yearly income of £6,301. CHURCH LE ksEs.—The church commissioners, on Tuesday, came to an important determination—namely, to conclude and bring to a termination all leases held under the church, &c., &e. Valuators are forthwith to be sent out, to estimate the actual value of the lease holders. The holder will he given the right of pre-emp tion at the full value, his interest to be calculated on the lives existing, at their insurance computation—no allow ance to be made to him in consideration of the increased fines he may have paid on renewals, from the supposed security that the renewal was at his discretion and in his power. It, therefore, behoves all who hold bishops' or ecclesiastical leases, to put their houses in order, and be prepared. FATHER CONFIRMED BY HIS SON.—In the beginning of November, Bishop Cobbs consecrated a new church, in East Rossell parish, Bedford county, America, and held confirmations in several parishes in that vecinity. The Southern Churchman furnishes the following touch ing incidents :—lt was an interesting fact, that the first person upon whom the bishop laid his hands in the apos tolic rite of confirmation was his own slaughter; and most de( p'y affecting beyond all description, when, on the following day, at St. Stephen's, he confirmed his own father—a venerable greyheaded old man now upwards of eighty years. But only one or two words at a time, with long pauses between, could the bishop, with falering, choLirg voice, audibly utter. He was almost entirely overcome, and we feared he would sink under his agitated feelings. What a sight ! The son, as bishop in the Church of God, invoking heaven's blessing on the father ! We know not that there was a dry eye in the large assem bly. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meet ing of this society was held in Exeter Hall on Tuesday. Among those who were present and spoke were the Earl of Chichester, in the chair, the Bishops of Chester and Cashel, Lnrds Ashley, Sandon, and Glenele, Chancellor Raik, s, Sir George H. Rose, Sir R. H. Inglis, Revs. H. 11I'Neile, H. Stowell, J. H. Stewart, &c. The total re• ceipts of the year amounted to £105,249, being an in crease of nearly a thousand pounds on the previous year. 'I he expenditure amounted to £89,093. The committee fixed the maximum of expenditure for the current year at £92,000, which would enable them to enlarge the society's operations in Western Africa and India. The mission in West Africa was going on prosperously. In Sierra Leone the number of missionary stations, attendants on Divine worship, baptized adults, comsounicant , , and edu cational measures had been increased. The schools in the island of Syra (Greece) had been in operation fifteen years, during which 4,222 children, 2,213 of whom were girls, had enjoyed the blessing of Christian education. In Asia Minor the labours of the Missionaries had steadily pro ceeded. During the past year 9,264 copies of the Scrip tures had been circulated in Egypt. The Coptic Insti tution at Cairo contained twenty students, and had re ceived the public sanction of the Patriarch. The accounts from East Africa were cheering. In New Zealand the mission was encouraging. In 1835 the number of com municants under the charge of the society's missionaries was below 900; this year it was 10,100. Each year there has been some increase, and now more communicants are added in one single year than were collected during the first thirty years of the society's existence. The report showed that if the committee had now sixteen Missiona ries at their command, they could all be introduced to the work of gathering in those who are waiting to enter the fold of Christ, and of building up believers in their most holy faith. And these are exclusive of any addition to the China Mission. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Hull and Selby Railway Proprietors agreed, on Friday, by an icr.rnense majority, to lease their line to the York and North Midland Company. The distance between London and Birmingham (110 miles) was lately performed in an hour and forty-five minutes. The Railway Record says, that by further improve ments and more confidence, the distance between Liver pool and London will be completed in four and a half hours. The report of a railway meeting, held at Portsmouth, on Wednesday evening, was transmitted to town by the electric telegraph, being the first example of the telegraph being used for such a purpose. The operation was com pleted in little more than half an hour. MIDLAND RAILWAY ENGINES.—The Midland Com pany have been running an excellent new engine from Leicester to Rugby during the last fortnight. The dis tance is exactly 20 miles, and with a load of 19 carriages, it has been accomplished in 21 minutes ! This certainly is good work. One million six hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred shares, embracing a capital of forty-three millions one hundred and five thousand pounds, are offered to the public, for the formation of thirty-three new lines of railway in all parts of the world, in one newspaper of the 3rd instant ! ! ! The electric telegraph on the Paris and Rouen is com pleted. It is said to be the intention of our government to lay down, in conjunction with the Chester and Holy head, a continuous line of wires between London and Holyhead, embracing Liverpool, Manchester, and Bir mingham. STEPHENSON'S IRON TUNNEL ABOVE GROUND.— One of the wonders of the day is the scheme of Mr. Rohr. Stephenson to pass the Menai. He proposes to do it, in the Chester and Holyhead Railway, by means of two cast iron tubes, rivetted together, of an oval shape, twenty five feet high by fifteen broad. May 13, 1815. line.the projectors T be terms of PRESTON AND LONGRIDGE RAILWAY.—An W alle t; ment was last week made for the sale of this rail Riding hare. el o i the agreed Preston upo , n C a l r i t e hl r 3 o s e , 7 a s n . d p e Nest s a elusively of the recently declared dividend, and a ba.... that sum as premium on each of the new £l2 sin; created at the last general meeting. This sum wil l ;e t paid in the scrip of the new company, or in cash, sub) to a discount of £lO per cent. THE BOARD OF TRADE ON RAILWAY AM A LGAMAI I I e —The board h ave i ssue d a report on this su bj ec t for the purpose of guidi ng par li amentary comm i ttees i n their , d a. cisions. Th e report i s advers! to the proposed amaig a ' - er , tion of the G ran d Junction, Liverpool and Mancliest, and North Union railways. It is also opposed to tot lease of the Sh e ffi e ld an d M anchester, to the midAto and Manchester, and Birmingha m com p an ies; un7' r be the amalgamation of the Manchester and Leeds with •ee Hull and Selby and the Bolton and Bury comPa n ."l The board i s a l so aga i nst the union of the Chester,rbe Holyhead with th e Ch ester an d Bi r k en h ea d . It 01" r , seen from a p aragrap h e l sew h ere t h at the Parlian3entswio Committee h ave re j e oted the bill for the u n ion of tbe t .0 latter co m p an i es. Th e B oard of Trade has repo rted i d favour of the amalgamation of the Birmingham as Gloucester and the Birmingham and Trent Valley. RAILWAY PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.—The week ha s b een f ert il e i n P ar li amentary events. Tbiert, have bee n p rove d i n comm i ttee the pream b le o f the ;),), lowing bills :—Grand Junction (Potteries Branch) Southampton and Dorchester; the Whitby and ri,c k : t h ' ing ; th e Y or k an d Scarborough • the York and . 0 :, 19 a, Midland (B r idli ng t on Branch); Hull and Selby (o r ' p lington Branch); Exeter and Credlon ; Soutnararte and Dorchester Chester and Holyhead (Mold Brane_bn)i Chester and Holyhead; Shrewsbury, Oswestry , s , be Chester ; and Edinb urg h an d Gl asgow B ran ches ;-` O , Scottish Central and Leeds and West Riding Jun : The following h ave b een th rown out on S tan di n g Ordets r, Glasgow H ar b our U n i on ; Ki ngstown an d B ra y ; pool, Ormskirk, and Preston ; and the Midland Brune" - o f The Standing Orders have been suspended in the the Irish Great Western (Dublin and Galway), and the pensed with in the Cambridge and Lincoln, a nd in • coo' Birmingh am an d Gl ouces t er , prov id e d no r i g ht is ferred on the Midland to take lease. The BIRKENHEAD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. --.. , re Birkenhead an d M anc h ester Bill was aga i n b roug ht bei ° d to the House of Commons on Wednesday, and referrelje the Standing-orders Committee in the usual course• at promoters of the bill have been able to do this, an n 'i e the same time, brin g th emse l ves w i t hi n t h e ru l e s of t. e b house, by aband on i ng th ose par t s o f t h e li ne o n Wh i l) . they were thro wn ou t on th e standing-orders; ";tn:hest, the part betwe e n W arr i ng t on an d Stockport, ariliiae also, betw e en Ch es t er an d th e j unc ti on at E ton . The " will now run from the Birkenhead and Chester, at " t l l Sutton station, and j o i n th e G ran d J unc ti on a t the So u r , of Warrington, thus giving, from Birkenhead and Ches te n , a complete communication, by means of the North iirneg, Liverpool and Manchester, and Kenyon junction lin._ with the populous manuf a ctu r i ng di s t r i c t s o f Lancashooll &c. That part of the original line covered by the sec t : of bill happens to be the only portio n i n w hi c h any .he to work or engineering difficulty exists ; the extensionery Stockport and Manchester requiring works of a of light and inexpensive character. Should the promot be e r i t ie the bill be successful, of w hi c h th ere seems to doubt, in inducing the L eg i s l a t ure t o pass th e present bilk doubt, the whole of the line would be co m pl e t e d s i mu ltaneou the year which mould elapse between the passing of present bill and that for obtaining the act for the brave be being necessary for the heavy works contained in revived measure.—Railway Magazine. 5 , n1 b1 6 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The pre-- 0 , of this bill having been proved on W e d nes d a y, the O e mittee proceeded to consider the cla uses . On ciao . ' 0 , being read, Messrs. Stevenson and R en dall, e , gineers, were examined at length rel a ti ve t o the Pr°P ° B , e 4, construction of a bridge across the M ena i Strait, at , n ts tannia Rock, to support the railway carr i ages . DeP° D )je. recommended the formation of two large tubes or cY ders of iron, to be supported by the rock in the centre o re the shore on either side, The t u b es wou ld b e , from ris to shore, about 900 feet in length, and about 25 feet L ' t be feet in diameter; and as the length of the tube fronl, e re rock to the shore would not exce e d 450 f ee t, they r e d, satisfied that no additional supp or t wou ld be requ ir ist , although the chains fixed to sustain the temporary P form might, and probably would, be left as a further tat curity.—General Pasley expre s sed hi s c o ncur rence ru, tis t plans detailed by the engi n e e r s , an d s t a t e d hi s belief l ' o o the tubes would be found thoroughly secure. The ela itl was agreed to.—Mr. Austin explained the positl by which the promoters of this p r oj e ct h a d been Place n i the directors of the Birk e nhe a d an d Ch e w e r ComP 3- 0 ; who, after agreeing to an amalgamation with the r i r le a company, bad broken their engagement. The l ea ,, r o ed counsel read the correspondence and resolutions 1,3",i,e -during the early part of 1844, showing the terms and racter of the agreement, which was pending when B P OO , cation was made to Parliament for the bill, and c the merited in strong terms on the " dishonesty " ° f 0 10 Birkenhead Company in withholding the minute-beoj which they were asked to produce in evidence. It sc °, of seem that after the agreement had been ratified, ' 0— n g of the shareholders had a notion that the bargain was ri fi n eri the most satisfactory kind, an d th e y th er efore deei e w sanctioning the proceedings of the di rec t o r s of the 13ir o re bead Company, i n a s pi r it ( sa id t h e l earne d co unsel) 01 la worthy of the Pennsylvanian than the Englishman. rig' courts of law no agreemen t s o f t hi s ki n d cou ld be re de nised, and therefore he looked with confidence to th e ay cision of the c omm it tee on t hi s occas i on. On Wed.,,l le- or the learned counsel ex am i ne d Willi am P ot t e r, -5 I"the Liverpool, as t o th e na t ure o f th e ama l gamat i on , an t bo committee adjourned to Thursday. On 'PliursdaY , committee set aside the amalgamation. • e to rl SHARE-GAMBLING.—In order to prove the deseri , , 5 0 of people who write for shares, and who get rh eM iedY, pledge ourselves to the f o ll ow i ng 'l' h e b u tl e r of a p s tea of our acquaintan c e, w ith many a h um an d a h a , requ' t to that she would l oo k out f or onot h er, as h e was a" ti d for retire from •` service " altogether. On being pre' e ,,ber his reason, he said—" Why, ma'am, I have been 1 % 1 4' fortunate in railways: I have ma d e .£1,000.' y " 131,,11.0 could you h ave ma d e so muc h ? " ‘• Why, ma B e i rrf dates my letters from house, and it b • 'n a 'll' your swell situation, I gets my shares ; for, if they M ax ' s , — I` lo quiries, you know, ma'am, I answers them myself. , n os doubt this inimit a bl e " Bl a i ses " d oes no t s t a nd 8 ', : 7 ; if no doubt he will b e f oun d w h en t h e ca ll s are requir e , to we mistake not, the Di rectors o f some li nes w ill ba° " call " very loud indeed.—Era. THE CO[ RT 4 FASHIONABLE IVOR LP' The Prince of Leiningen arri ve d a t B uc ki ng ham t-t, lacer on Monday, from Brussels, on a visit to her I‘l 9 :l e3 "st , On Wednesday her Majesty held another levee at It James's Palace, which was most brilliantly attende d , i '„ad is now confidently stated that th e Q ueen h a s abso"" t her intention of visiting Ireland this year. Albe r On Thursday evening, her Majesty and Prince mi e; honoured the St. James's Theatre with their pre' most On the occasion of Rivers last appearance—thi6 oyei amusing comedian appeared in four of the French I ) Re' which obtained for him his great popularity quenters of these entertainments—her MajestY an age' illustrious consort appeared to derive the greatest 8 , - c or ment from his acting, and were frequently aln;os‘.otl vulsed with laughter. Oa Thursday aftt rnoon her M 8) 8 0 4 visited the Queen Dowager, at Alarftorouttit Ii ()° ,, e ;4 8 :1 in the evening she attended the Italian Opera, ac e- sa d nied by his Serene Bigness the Prince of Leiningea, attended by hrr suite. with th e ci her Gs' The Court remained at Buckingham Palace u nt darin' turday, and the Queen and Prince Albert have , o o• the week, freely participated in the gaiety of the ' ea . ric e9l Her Mjesty and Prince Albert, with the r ri c , e Royal and Prince of Wales, lett Buckingham Pa la - t iat i Saturday for Cowes, where they w ill remai n Thursday. 0 0 er , At the Covent-garden Theatrical Fund D. B- ac e „ • the Duke of --- and an°`'- Friday, the .Juke of Cambridge presided, and at. he her Majesty's continued kindness to the fund; scriptions were about £lOOO. to The operative jewellers of Birmingham intend oe A p d sent to her Majesty and Prince Albert a vah",' ) ( o - r unique specimen of their handiwork. The prese"' r eto ( Queen consists of an armlet, a brooch, a pair ° ,. t of, drops, arid a buckle ; and that for Prince Abe o f 0/- seal, key, and chain, afrer the substantial fashion " fine old English gentleman." LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—Tovits°l'. el PAREE.It V. MAME. ge th A Mr. Russell and Mr. Turner moved in this c3ll-iscd the defendants, Joh n M ac fi e an d R o b ert Andreo r !, ( 0) 1 0 might he committed f or b reac h o f an i n j u nction l' r ig s ,'( on the 16th of S e pt em b er l as t, b y us i ng i n their o o b Bachelor -street, Li ver p oo l, di vers se t s o f aePa r l i gli fr o f cooling heated ch a rc oa l, w ith ou t pass i ng it thr ° " - c, atmosphere until suffiziently cool for use. The Ilefe' s l ) 6 the plaintiff alleged to have been invaded by the, f o r t o ( ants was one for " revivifying animal c h a rcoal% flo ia,g, purpose of the same being again used in the r f ' t he sugar. The motion lasted the gr e ater part c", t he v d tl and at the close of the a rgume nt s i n support or tion, His Honour directed that the motion sh °° over until the first day of next term. Oe ° ' t Al e 'jte The verdict in the Crown prosecution a gains t t L ite Smith, the eminent distiller, after a trial of e' 7 „ l g was guilty on the second count, viz.: with 11 01 0 .- ,.e . tillery within a quarter of a mile of a rectifying I;sr uu 7,3 ' d a communication between the two. Damages decl THE CIRCUITS.—The Commissioners h ave ell° si% that in future the spring circuits shall c ()W il t doYlce varialdy on the Ist of Fehr nary, and that on tbfball till weeks the sitti ngs i n L on d on en d ;Middlesex t'erargiiir place. By this arrangement it is believed the , rny be not be disturbed, and the winter circuits r° ' , jeti pensed with. ( T ej o ( The Chief Judge of the Court of Review' bakers, ire in the case expa r te Cla r k re Il arr i s , t h a t the h. 3 0 , o ' tb friendly society cannot be considered as c' fbe lt,. il.l l o4 ,l 6 ry society ; and that, therefore, the society e jt „' l e I E t , event of the bankers becoming bankrupts, c i . o ;i i e A f 0 6 other creditors, inasmuch as the provisions ( " v , t tit], be Geo. IV., giving friendly soci e ties, in the ..11110 bankruptcy of their officers, a right to be Pai d fore o .her creditors, do no t viol to bankerS• Y tO'"eti ~er •nt-, It will be seen by an advertisement in our P 3 r o po l ,, that Mr. Pedrone, of Lord-street, has beel l ec ori c i p iol agent for the sale of the patent pantoscooic ° P. btin i tat talon highly spoken of in the numerous le n Mr. P's possession. th a ale I Gr E Of I of I no; to n son P car lava Pull to 0 .ta t , CON born azei 2 te e th e /to n Ala ct lag.