The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

I %'• .impr • HOUSE OF COMMONS Aftir a brief renewal of the Andover controvers which Mr. Christie, Mr. Disraeli, and Lord Courtena MONDAY it would out inc Govern cnt of ti rent had I had t in the next, a the very unc Lord G. BENTI most co: t the order c contents of the bill under t le to ea m it fo: ie public had ent, if in which the Government his int6ntion of giving his Irish Railway Bill. His that it did not go further and plan which I 11 and economical than that The Gov( spent X 10,600,000 on their y have to spend was still uncertain review of the noble lord th ness, and intimated that, though he should not oppose the third reading of the Corn Importation Bill, he should feel it necessary to oppose the second reading of the Nal lion Bill The order of the day' for the second reading of the Railways (No. 2) Bill was then discha Mr. WAKLEY said that no otl at this peri of the Go` . .Medical It for the present s was left him, r the example to follov ierefore, withdraw his Amendment Bill Ettion and Medical Las, HOUSE OF LORDS -TUESDAY The Bishopric of Manchester Billy wrought up to be committed. Lord REDESDALE MC mendment, that a clause be insE until her ME shall b bishop that se p 1 led to demand as of right a writ of summons to. Parliament After. Lord CI brief discussion, in which Lord Stanley, the cellor, and the Bishop of London took part, their Lordships c the amendment, 14 HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY Mr. VILLIERS once more directed the attention of the Rouse to the issue pending between himself and Mr. Christie, in reference to the nature of the questions put A Sir F. Lewis, who was examined as a 'kit e Andover committee, and read several ex tracts from the journals of the house, which he contended justified the allegations which he had made with respect to the improper nature of the questions alluded to. Mr. CHRISTIE observed that after the distinct denial which he had on the previous evening given to these alle gations, and the testimony which was then borne by se veral members of the Andover committee to his con duct as a member of that committee, he did not think it necessary to pursue the subject any further. It was then dropped. Mr. MIJNTZ then moved that the house resolve itself into a Committee of Customs to consider the duties upon the importation of copper (act 5 and 6 Victoria, c. 47), with a view to their reduction or abolition. Mr. Ewart seconded the motion; and after a few words from Sir Charles Lemon, . by the latter ness before tl THE CHANCELLOR of the FXCHEQUER, without enter ing into the question involved in the motion, felt himself called upon to resist it, as he was not then in a better si tuation than he was at the commencement of the session, when he resisted similar motions presented by other ho nourable gentlemen, to sacrifice any item of the national income. A desultory conversation ensued, after which the house divided, and the numbers were—For the motion, 19 ; against it, 59 ;—majority against, 40. Mr. Poin.Err SCROPE was then proceeding to address the house on the motion, of which he had given notice, in reference to waste lands in Ireland, when the house . was counted out. HOUSE OF COMMONS -WEDNESDAY The Seduction and Prostitution Bill went tluoughcom rnittee in spite of a good deal of opposition. Mr. G. BANKES then moved the second reading of the Poor Removal Act Bill. Captain PECHELL and Mr. R. PALMER complained of the operation of the act last session, as repealing some of its most obnoxious provisions. Sir J. PARINGTON defended the Poor Removal Act, and opposed this bill. Sir G. GREY followed on the same side. The Marquis of GRANBY supported Mr. Bankes. Mr. SPOONER called urson tlica hem., rats tek rpnestl the existing law. Mr. V. 6iurra and Mr. RICE were also in favour of the bill. Sir J. GRAHAM defended his measure of last year, which, however, he admitted had in some instances worked injuriously to the ratepayers. He hoped that this bill would be rejected by a large majority. Mr. MILES spoke in favour of, and Mr. C. BULLER, as chairman of the committee to which Sir J. Graham had referred, against this bill ; and upon a division the second reading was lost by a majority of 105 to 102 votes. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. On the motion for the third reading of the Poor Law Amendment Bill, _ _ _ _ Mr. WARLEY moved as an amendment that the bill be read a third time that day three months. The hon. member denounced the bill as a desperate attempt to bolster up the present Poor Law system, which was hateful to the people. Mr. J. FIELDEN supported the amendment. Mr. FERRAND charged the Poor Law Commissioners with having caused the murder of the people, and in stanced a case in which a medical officer had informed him that he could have saved the life of a female pauper, only that the pittance allowed him for attendance and medicine was so miserably small that he could not afford to give this pauper what she required. Mr. ROEBUCK delivered a lengthened and fierce attack upon Mr. Ferrand, accusing him of wildness of assertion, of want of understanding, and of disregard of truth. Mr. HENLEY, Captain PECHELL, Mr. BORTHWICK, Mr. BANKES, and Colonel SIBTHORP supported the amendment. Sir G. GREY defended the bill, and the house divided ; =For the third reading, 105 ; against it, 35 ;—majority, Mr. SPOONER moved the addition of clauses providing for the granting of relief to able-bodied paupers out of the workhouse, and enabling boards of guardians to pro vide work out of the workhouses for such paupers, also annulling all rules heretofore made prohibiting relief to able-bodied persons out of the workhouse. Mr. FERRAND took this opportunity to repel the attack made upon him by Mr. Roebuck, who, he said, indulged in personalities with impunity, because it was well known he would claim the protection of the house, as he did for merly, should he be called to account out of the house for the vituperative language used by him within the walls of the house. The house divided--for Mr. Spooner's clauses, 37 ; against them, 109 ; majority against the clauses, 72. Sir GEORGE GREY proposed the addition of the clauses of which he had given notice. It being now twelve o'clock, Lord GEORGE BENTINCK moved the adjournment of the house, on the ground that, as the house was to meet again at noon, it would be im possible for hon. members to sit night and day. After a short discussion, Sir GEORGE GREY said he would not press his clauses, and on that condition Lord G. BENTINCK withdrew his motion for adjournment. Mr. BORTHWICK proposed the addition of a clause to prevent aged married persons, above sixty years of age, from being separated in the workhouse. Sir G. GREY thought that making the rule imperative in every case would frequently cause much inconvenience. Mr. HUME, Mr. ROEBUCK, MT. BROTHERTON, and Lord G. BENTINCK urged on the Government the pro priety of consenting to this clause. Lord J. RUSSELL yielded, stipulating for such an amendment of the clause as would leave the matter dis cretionary, not peremptory, with the boards of guardians. The noble lord moved such an amendment to the clause. Mr. BORTHWIcx refused to accept the amendment pro posed by the Minister, and the house divided—for Lord J. Russell's amendment, 55 ; against it, 70 ; majority against Government, 15. The tu.nouncement of this division was hailed with loud cheers. Mr. Borthwick's clause, as originally proposed, was agreed to, and ordered to be added to the bill. On the motion of Mr. ErwALL, a clause, enacting that meetings of boards of guardians be opened to the rate payers, was added. Mr. BANKES moved the addition of a clause enacting that the rules and regulations of the present poor-law commissioners shall cease to have force six months after the appointment of the new commission. Lord JoHN RUSSELL opposed the clause, and the house divided. For the clause, 35 ; against it, 71; majority against the clause, 36. Amendments proposed by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE and Mr. WAICLEY were rejected after divisions, and the bill finally passed. SE OF LORI FRIDAY sent, by commission, was given to various The royal bills. Lord Stanley retracted an accusation he had made on a former occasion against the directors of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company. The Earl of DEVON moved that the petitions in refe rence to this subject be referred back to the standing orders committee for a report as to whether or no the standing orders in this case had been complied with. unnn thia niipqtinn the bon..,iividod. when the motion atived by a majority of 12. the numbers being 35 to 47. Lord REDESDALE moved a resolution for an inquiry by the railway commissioners as to the accommodation af forded by the several lines of railway open to Birming ham, with a view to definitely settling the question of the !Pages. OF commowa HOGii -F,E,IDAI. INeNse limitzded.444ll,4heAlighwN Bill incomN mittee. Mr. Bucx moved that t eilis 4 4l4NilltrAty'tft exercised under the bill shoul bested the justices of the peace, and not in commissioners, the amendment being carried by a majority of 2, the numbers being 50 to 48, upon which Sir G. GREY withdrew the bill. The Thames Conservancy Bill, on the motion of Mr. WARD, it being met by a.counter one from Mr. liumu, was, on a division, ordered to be recommitted by a ma jority of 63. I INGEST= moved for gate Cal report of the commissioners appointed to inves ptain Warner's invention, but which invention xoloded by the speeches of Lord J. he noble mover withdrew his Mr. FERRAND brought forward a case of prisonment of a female at Keighley, in Yorkshire d illegal but, in consequence of a denial of the truth of statements made by the honourable member, by Sir G. GREY, on the authority of an affidavit, he took nothi ng by hi s mo tion, it being negatived without a division. Mr. flumE moved for copies of a despatch and papers relative to the case of the E to some debate, and an intimation from M__ bringing the subject forward, in a different form, on Rajah of sett FOREIGN (3•• COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE ILAN! CHINA The overland mail from Calcutta has arrived by extra ordinary express ; its dates are—China 12. It brings in telligence that the repeated insults and annoyances to which British subjects had been suljected by the Chinese, and the refusal of the authorities to give any redress, had at length compelled Sir John M. Davis to resort to hosti liti( kccordingly, his excellency, accompanied by Major General D'Aquilar, left Hong Kong on the morning of the 2d of April, at daylight, with an expedition composed of her Majesty's steamer Vulture, the Company's steamer Pluto, a chartered steamer the Corsair, and her Majesty's brig La Espiegle, with 906 troops, Captain Macdougall being senior naval officer in command. In the course of 36 hours, General D'Aquilar had captured all the forts in the Bogue and Canton river, having destroyed the gate- ways, blown up the magazines, and spiked - 879 piejes of I cannon. The general was about to assault the city of Canton, when Keying waited upon the British plenipo tentiary, and agreed to the terms dictated by him, and i in his excellency's dispatch, which we hick will be fotiric Lbjoin. The expedition returned on the 9th, Navin_ sent one week and twelve hours. All has been quiet ice at Canton, and a small force left at the factories, in ase of any disturbances from the mob On the 6th of April, Sir J. Davis issued the following government notification " His Excellency her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., has the satifaction to announce, that at the last moment, Canton authorities have - assented to his reasonaae de mands, and the impending ruin of this populous place has been happily averted. " The following are briefly the heads of the new agree ment : " 1. At the fixed period of two years from this day, the 6th of April, the city of Canton shall be opened to British • subjects. " 2. Her Majesty's subjects shall be at liberty to roam for exercise or amusement in the neighbouring country without molestation, returning the same day, as at Shan gai, and any person molesting them shall be severely punished. " 3. The aggressors on the two seamen, in Octoberlast, and on Colonel Chesney and others, at Fushan, on the 12th March, shall be made examples of. The latter being already apprehended, will be brought to Canton and punished in the presence of persons deputed by her Ma jesty's plenipotentiary. " 4. An adequate space on the Honan side of the river shall be granted on lease to British merchants and others, for the erection of dwellings and warehouses ; and his ex cellency will ascertain the site and extent before he quits Canton. " 5. A site for the erection of a church shall be granted on lease in the neighbourhood of the space now occupied by the foreign factories ; and spaces for burial-grounds shall also be allotted to Whampoa. " 6. The flying bridge and another building between the two gardens shall be erected, as desired, and sheds shall not be permitted against the walls. " 7. For the better preservation of order, and for the general convenience, the river front before the factories shall be kept clear of boats. " :By order, "A. It. JOHNSTON " British Consulate, Canton, April 6 The French also have not been Idle, for the Victorieuse corvette, Captain Genouille, has arrived in the harbour from Cochin China, having been at Thourane, with Commodore La Pierre, iP bis most Christian Majesty's frigate La Gloire, of 52 guns, to demand redress for im prisoning the French bishop (who had been sent to Singa pore by the Cochin-Chinese) and probably also to make a treaty. They were received apparently in a friendly man ner, but information was given of some treachery, and of their hostile intentions, which was confirmed by the seizure of some papers, and great preparations in the forts, and five large. Cochin-Chinese men-of-war being in readiness, with a multitude of armed boats, which put the Admiral La Pierre on his guard. Insult was soon tered, se -c . 4 •••*•43.4 • tha Pr.nnh rarnmnArirt, self -detence, was compelled to attack them, and after an hour and a-half's hard fighting, two men-of-war were blown up, two abandoned and afterwards burnt, and the Cochin-Chinese Admiral's vessel was taken and burnt also. The forts fired all the time, but only a few shots hit. After this event, the French frigates withdrew; from the multitude of troops on board the vessels and in the forts great slaughter must have been committed. Only two or three were killed, and some wounded in the French frigates INDIA The news brought by this mail from India remains of an uninteresting character. The Governor-General is at Simla, as is also the Commander-in-Chief. Much regret had been created by the rumour that Lord Hardinge was about to quit his government at the beginning of the next year. Chief Justice Pollock had been suffering from a severe attack of liver complaint, but was recovering. Two atrocious murders have been committed by a Malay sai lor : on coming back from sea he went to the house of a former mistress and was refused permission to reside with her. He left the house, and shortly after returning found another man had taken his place. Upon this he stabbed the man, who died on the spot ; wounded the woman, who died almost immediately afterwards ; injured a third and fourth, one of whom lies in a dangerous state in the Jee jeebhoy Hospital. The man at once permitted himself to be made a prisoner. The sum subscribed towards the Irish Relief Fund at Bombay amounts to £9,300. Up wards of £22,000 have been collected throughout India. The political news is of no importance. PORTUGAL The Iberia arrived on Friday at Southampton, with dates from Lisbon of the 19th, and Oporto of the 21st. The British squadron, hourly expected at Oporto, to compel the submission of the Junta, had not arrived when these accounts came away. It appears, however, that the in surgent body intended at once to surrender 'to the English admiral whenever he should make his appearance off the port, but were determined not to yield to the Queen's general, Saldanah, nor to the Spanish arms, except by force. Nearly all the prisoners captured off Oporto still remained at Fort St. Julian, but some few of them had managed to effect their escape. Several of the troops, under Sada Bandeira, who fled from Setubal with a de termination to take shelter at Evora, were pursued by a portion of the Queen's dragoons, and slaughtered with out mercy. A decree making Bank of Lisbon notes legal tenders for only one-third of each payment, had been is sued by the government, and had caused much dissatis faction and confusion, among the commercial community particularly. CANADA A fire was raging at Kingston, Canada, on the.lst of June, when the last accounts left the city. The extensive warehouse of John H. Grear was destroyed. The Canadian parliament was opened on the 2d by Lord Elgin. The following passage occurred in the speech from the throne :—" By a statute passed during the last session of the imperial parliaments, the colonial legislature are em powered to repeal differential duties, heretofore imposed in the colonies in favour of British produce. It is proba ble that by exercising this power you may be enabled to benefit the consumer without injury to the revenue. I commend the subject to your consideration, and I shall lay before you certain communications relating to it, which I have received from her Majesty's Secretary of State for the colonies, and from the lieutenant-governors of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick." AMERICA AND MEXICO -SIX DAYS LATER American news of importance reached Liverpool on Thursday morning, by the splendid packet-ship Henry Clay, which left New York on the 7th instant, and has made an extraordinary fine run, of sixteen days and a half, from port to port. The Mexican intelligence by this arrival is interesting, though nothing more decided has occurred to lead to the expectation of an early peace than we have already received. The town of Puebla, on the route to Mexico, had been entered and taken posses sion of by General Worth's forces, after a skirmish with some few of Santa Anna's cavalry, who still hover about the American army. Santa Anna was himself in the city at the time, but immediately left and proceeded to the capital. The force under this general is variously estimated at from 1,500 to 10,000 ; it is shrewdly sus pected he intends this force to maintain his personal posi tion and secure the presidency. The result of the presi dential election was not known. Santa Anna, Herrera, and Elloriaga were candidates among others. Herrera is understood to be favourable to peace. We quote the following from the American papers :—" Capt. Mayo, of the navy, Governor of Alvarado, started on the 13th inst., for Talascoya. The town surrendered to him with out resistance. On his return he was fired upon, and Passed Midshipman Pringle and five seamen were badly wounded. The Extra Picayune, published on the 27th, says, it was reported that Santa Anna had halted at San Martin, 26 miles from Pueblo, but it had been generally conceded that his main force of 12,000 men was at Rio Frio, preparing for another engagement at this naturally . strong point. The latest adviees'received in the city of Mexico from SantillOann announced that the Americans had arrested the Vice Governor and other principal citizens. Their offence is not mentioned." Later accounts from General Taylor at Monterey, dated May 7, bring no news of interest. The health of his army continues good, excepting one regiment suffering from small-pox. COMMNRCIAL. — Tite Iliberma's outward advicce of the THE., 14.INEIMOOL STANI)ARI. 19th'bf :May reactkd New York by telegraph• on the 3d .intent, and produced'ititefite excitement in the flour and cornitszlyestern eapal flour reaching 9 dollars and lama a litchiclif ?hbsetiuently~eceded however to 9+ an dollars. The receipts of 'bread stuffs by the canals and r ers to the eastern ports are °man unprecedentedly itphr large scale compared with formeryears. The growing crops are generally reported to be in fine condition. The Journal of St. Petersirurgii publishes a letter from the Caucasus, dated Bth May, which states that on the sth of 'May Colonel Stepstoff defeated Schamyl on the banks of the river Assa, and forced him to retreat to Fortanga. In the sittings of the three orders of the Prussian Diet, on the 18th, a proposition for authorising marriages be tween Jews and Christians was carried by a majority of 2SI to 142. The crops throughout Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Ge many, and Italy, ar promise to yield an abundant harvest. In the kingdOm of Naples the harvest is nearly ended. The harvest in Egypt also is expected to be very plentiful, and the produce will probably far exceed that of 1846. ACTIVE BENEVOLENCE.—It is stated In the German papers that the principal merchants and the senate of Bre men have entered into a subscription of a million dollars for the expense of public works, undertaken with the view of affording occupation to the poorer of the labouring classes, until the termination of the prevailing scarcity.— The amount in sterling will be equal to £150,000. The funeral of the son of Mehemet Ali took place at Alexandria, on the 29th of May. A procession of 50,000 persons followed the body. Part of the procession was formed by 1000 camels laden with provisions, and a num ber of live oxen driven by butchers, who slaughtered their herds at the cemetery and distributed them to the poor, and one hundred blind boys in white surplices, who chaunted the funeral cry. The mob was excellently dis persed by an officer riding in the rear distributing small coins. ROME, JUNE 15.—Pope Pius IX., on the 15th. gave an dience.to the son of the Liberator of Ireland, and made a eulogy of Daniel O'Connell in terms which must have ex cited the gratitude and admiration of the young member for Dundalk. According to what has been stated, at the moment at which the visitor rose, after having kissed the feet of the " holy father," the Pope said to him :—" Since I am deprived of the happiness so long since desired of em bracing the hero of Christianity, let me, at least, have the consolation of embracing his son !" And, at the same time the holy father' pressed him twice to his heart. It is known that the Marquis Dragonetti, a Neapolitan, received orders to leave Rome on the 21st. In an audience with his Holiness, Ni. Dragonetti requested the revocation of this measure. Pius IX. replied that he desired that the orders of his ministers should be executed. When this reply reached the knowledge of the people, great discon tent was expressed, and the preparations for the fete on the anniversary of the ascension of Pius IX. were sus pended. M. Grasselini, governor of Rome, seeing these dispositions, caused M. Dragonetti to be sent for, and promised to obtain for him from his Holiness, a prolonga tion of two months for his sojourn. It has just been as certained that the words of the Pope were wrongly inter preted ; and confidence has re-entered the hearts of the inhabitants of Rome, and preparations for the fete have been resumed. UNIVERSITY AND 'CLERICAL NEWS. The Rev. E. R. Jones. M.A., Fellow of Brazenose Col lege, Oxford, eldest son of the Rev. J. Jones, - of this town, has beenappointed to the incumbency of St. John's, Derby. During May and June last, 163 priests, and 166 deacons were ordained for the Church of England. The. Rev: Mr. Brooks, vicar of Nottingham, and the churchwardens, having determined to remove a pic ture presented to St. Mary's Church through Archdeacon Wilkins, thelate vicar, that gentleman has written to the churchwardens, desiring them to abstain from any such act, on pain of immediate proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court. INCREASING NUMBERS IN THE CHURCH OF SCOT LAND.—The Home Mission Report of the Church of Scotland describes the very rapid recovery of those con gregations of chapels of ease in Scotland whose ministers constituted a chief part of the secession of 1843. The re-action in - Scotland in favour of the Established Church is most striking. The Bishop Of Bristol has written to Lord Kenyon as a leading promoter of the " Powis testimonial," to ask to be admitted as a contributor of £lOO. His lordship says that "it is true that he, as one of the church commis sioners, concurred in the recommendation of the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, but that his assent was given solely by reason of his sense of the importance of the foundation of a bishopric of Manchester, and a con viction that it could not upon any other condition have been admitted." The Protestant Elector, a new publication, applicable peculiarly to the present crisis, is advertised to be pub liihed in London three times a week. It is worth the support of every friend to the continuance of our Protes tant constitution. IRELAND. The body of O'Connell will arrive in Dublin about the 20th July. The 'Oriental Steam Packet Company has engaged to carry the body, free of all charge, and the Queen steamer has been engaged for the purpose. AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—A man and a calf were found drowned, in a small shallow stream, near the town of Newbliss, county Monaghan, on Saturday morning. There is every reason to suppose that the unfortunate in dividual had stolen the calf, and was in the act of removing it to his own house, as it belonged to a person living at some distance from the place. To add to the awfulness of the event, the brother of the drowned man dropped dead at the side of his brother's coffin, as they were placing him in it.—Newry Telegraph. ORANGE FUNERAL.—The funeral of Mr. John Millar, District Master of Benburb, County Tyrone, took place on Friday, the 11th June. Eighteen lodges attended, out of which there were six belonging to the Killylea district, who are ever ready to pay a tribute to the memory of a deceased brother. The deceased had been District Master for a long period of time, and was always a steady advo cate for the Orange cause. He is greatly lamented by the district over which he presided, as the members had always found in him a warm friend in the day of tribulation. He was interred in Benburb church-yard after the usual ceremony on such occasions. FEMALE HEROISM. — Last week, a house in Ennis, be ing attacked by an armed party:a servant barred the door in front of them amidst a shower of bullets. The woman then defended the door with a crow-bar, but was at last overpowered ; the door was burst in, and she was struck senseless by a blow from a gun. It happened that her mother and a child were at one of the windows, keeping the shutter closed, when she saw one of the villains ap mntch the windOwT She ran dcwil, and fortunately dashed the mother and child to the ground together, when the contents of a blunderbuss were discharged through the lo aver part of the window, and lodged in the opposite side of the shutters; there were 13 slugs so lodged. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual Meeting of the Repeal Association took place on Monday at Conciliation hall. The chair was taken by Mr. Kelly, a member of the Corporation. Several addresses from various parts of the country were read, conveying - the condolence of the writers an a tite-severer. uistrin nenair - or WiIICII tlley spoke to the family of Mr. O'Connell, professing in every case to adhere to his policy and maintain the association. Mr. John O'Connell responded to those several ad dresses. Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P., was present, and in an address avenged himself for certain attacks made upon him in the journals of the Young Ireland party, more especially the Nation. The rent for the week was over £3O. The secretary of the association, Mr. T. M. Ray, is alarmingly ill. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, There is no truth whatever in the rumour circulated by the Worcester Journal as to any apprehensions about a bridge on the Trent Valley railway, There was a grand ceremony on Thursday, at Helm shore near Haslingden, on the occasion of laying the foundation-stone of the viaduct there, on the main line of the East Lancashire Railway. IMPORTANT DECISION.—The committee of the House of Commons on the Leeds and Thirsk (Leeds, Durham and Newcastle Extension), and the York and Newcastle (main line improvement and extension) have decided that the preamble of the Leeds and Thirsk Bill was not proved, and that the preamble to the York and Newcastle Bill was proved. LANCASHIRE RAILWAYS.—The Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Bill passed the Standing Orders Committee of the House of Lords, on Saturday last. The Ormskirk branch of the London and North Western Company also passed the Standing Orders Committee of the Lords on the same day. The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Bill passed the House of Lords on Friday week, and only waits the royal assent. _ _ FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON RAILWAY.-Mr. Buckmaster, a remarkably fine young man, aged only nineteen years, was in the act of crossing from a hay-field to his father's tavern on Thursday evening, when a pilot engine on its way to town at a rapid pace struck the young man, who was thrown to a distance of several yards with his skull fractured to a frightful extent. He was removed to Guy's Hospital, but was found to be quite dead. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-011 the ques tion that the Chester and Holyhead (Extension at Holy head) Bill be read a third time on Thursday last, Mr. Hume moved that it be read a third time that day three months—on the ground that the Government ought not to spend money on Holyhead Harbour; and being con tended by other honourable members that by the bill a money partnership was established between the Railway Company and the Government. On a division, the third reading was carried by a majority of 90 to 30. OPENING OF THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—The Trent Valley Railway was opened on Saturday, with great ceremony. At Tamworth the trains were received by a large concourse of people and bands of music. A com modious tent was beautifully fitted up for the reception of the company, who were entertained at a sumptuous cold collation, to which 1500 persons sat down. Mr. Tootal, chairman of the company presided, and among those pre sent were Lord Sandon, Lord Ingestre, Lord Anson, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Cardwell, the Bishop of Lich field, Sir P. Egerton, Mr. G. C. Legh, &c. Sir Robert Peel made a very excellent speech on the occasion, and proposed " Success to the Trent Valley Railway," coup ling with it the names of G. C. Glynn, Esq., C. Lawrence, Esq., and the Directors of the North-Western Railway. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A man of the 'time of Robson, a joiner, of York, attempted to get out of a carriage on the Whitby and Pickering railway, before the train had actually stopped, last week, and he fell. Several carriages passed over one of his legs, and after a mputation bad taken place tha t day he only lived a few hours. John Maw, a guard on the York and Scarbro' Railway, whilst stepping either up or down one of the carriages, whilst a train was in motion from Scarbro' to York, and near the Heslerton station, on Monday last, accidentally fell to the ground, and received severe inju ries by some of the carriages passing over his legs. He was removed to the county Hospital at York, where he expired the same evening. SAVING OF TIME BY TILE TRENT VALLEY LINE.—The saving of time to be effected as between London, Liver verpool, and 141anehester, by the opening of the Trent Valley line, will be nearly as follows:—The present 6h. 15m. morning down train arrives in Liverpool at 3h. 15m. and allows the commercial traveller who desires to return to the metropolis the same day, 1 hour and 15 minutes in which to transact his business. The Trent Valley line will enable him to arrive upwards of an hour sooner in Liverpool, and leave nearly an hour later; so that, in fact, he will have, for the performance of his duties three hours, when he now has but an hour and a quarter. The 6h. 15m. morning train to Manchester arrives at 2h. 40m., and, as the express train leaves that town at 4h. 55m., the travel ler who requires to return on the same day can therefore remain two hours and a quarter in the place. By the Trent Valley line he will, starting from Euston-square at the same time, viz., 6h. 15m., ar rive in Manchester about 'ten minutes before two o'eck, and be able to leave by the express train, which is, we understand, to depart abbut sh. 40m. and arrive in London about 1011. 30m., so that he will be allowed to remain in Manchester near four and a quarter hours and reach London half an hour sooner than by the present up express train. The ten o'clock Post-office express mail train will, with fourteen stoppages, run from London to Manchester within six and a half hours, and to Liverpool, with twelve stoppages, within seven hours. The five o'clock afternoon express train will run to Mjlnchester in a few minutes over the four mid a half hours, and to Liverpool in.Lve _hours. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN, JUNE 21 ACTION FOR SLANDER AND DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER THE REV. DENIS LANE BRASDIE V. THE REV. LAWRENCE F. RENNEHAN, PRESIDENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH.—The declaration in this case alleged that the reverend plaintiff had been a Roman Catholic priest, and had discharged the duties of that office with propriety ; that in July, 1844, lie thought it right, from conscientious conviction of the errors of that religion, to renounce it, and become a member of the Established Church ; that, having done so, he was about being employed by the Rev. 8.,8001e, of Birming ham, as an assistant curate, at a salary of £lOO per an num, and would have been employed were it not that the defendant wrote a letter, the alleged libel, to the Lord Bishop of Worcester, in whose diocese the curacy was si tuated, falsely stating " that he (the plaintiff) was a de graded or suspended clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, and was unfit to be a clergyman of any church." Damages were laid at £5OOO, and the defendant pleaded not guilty, and the general issue. The' jury were locked up all night, and at eight o'clock the following morning agreed to a verdict for the plaintiff of £25. POLITICAL GOSSIP, Sir J. L. Goldsmid is a candidate for Beverley Two Conservatives, Messrs. J. Masterman and Alder man Johnson have come forward as candidates for London. General Sir Harry Smith has been invited by the Con servatives to stand foi the borough of Cambridge, but declines on account of ill health. The Hon. Colonel Lindsay, T. B. Crosse, Esq., and R. Thicknesse, Esq., will be the candidates for Wigan at the approaching general election. Mr. Cardwell has resigned as a candidate for the repre sentation of the Uriversity of Oxford, and the contest now lies between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Round. Messrs. Jones and Miall are the only candidates for the borough of Halifax. Mr. Jones comes forward as the chartist candidate, and Mr. Miall is the well-known non conformist. _ _ On Saturday, Mr. Thomas Rimmer, timber merchant, a conservative, was elected, without opposition, for Pitt street Ward, in the placc of the late lamented Mr. James As pinall. BOLTON.—Dr. Bowring, Mr. John Brooks, and Mr. P. Ainsworth are the candidates. The Conservatives will support Mr. Ainsworth, and are endeavouring to get Mr. Bolling or some other gentleman to stand with him. DUBLIN CITY.—Mr. Ferrand, it is said, will stand for the city on ultra-Protestant principles. The Mail says there will be no contest. The Packet says—lt is rumoured in certain government circles that a Whig candidate will offer himself to the electors. NORTH AND SOUTH CHESHIRE.-Mr. Tatton Egerton and Mr. E. J. Stanley are the candidates for North Cheshire ; and by some sort of an inexplicable " arrange ment," Mr. Cornwall Legh has been put on one side, For South Cheshire we hear of no opposition to Sir P. Egerton and Mr. Tollernache. _ CAMBRIDGE. - Mr. Sutton, the Conservative member for Cambridge, met his constituents on Monday evening, to give an explanation of his parliamentary conduct. The hon. gentleman entered into a long defence of the policy Gir Robert Peel and concluded by declaring his inten tion to retire from the representation. LEEDS.-Mr. Sturge, after visiting the various wards of the borough during the last fortnight, has declared his ac ceptance of the invitation to become a candidate for the representation of this borough, and has issued an address offering his services to the electors. The friends of Mr. Wm. Beckett met on Tuesday, to promote his election. - -D;;;;= — O;lll;site , invvey.-:On ' Thursday the govern ment experienced a defeat in the Commons, through the carrying of an amendment moved by Mr. Borthwick, in the Poor-law Bill, that married paupers, both above 60 years old, shall not be separated in the workhouse ; and on Friday the house decided against the central authority proposed to be given to the commissioners by the Highway Bill by 50 to 48 votes, on which the bill was withdrawn by the government till next session. MAIDSTONE:—Mr. Salomons has issued the following pithy address to the electors. It is understood that the circumstances" alluded to, are a demand that Mr. Sa lomons should pay the whole amount of the outstanding debts contracted during the contest in 1838, before he commenced his canvass :—" Gentlemen,—lt is with re gret I this day learn that circumstances, in connexion with the election of 1838, for which I am not, and ought not in any way to be made responsible (my connexion with your borough having only commenced in 1841), are to be presented as an obstacle to damage my prospects of a successful canvass for the honour of representing you in the House of Commons. I, therefore, decline to enter upon a canvass, and withdraw my pretensions to repre sent your town." Vv THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. — We may now venture to state it as an ascertained point, that it will be necessary to defer the prorogation of Parliament to a date somewhat later than that which a short time since was contemplated. Friday, the 23d of July, is the day which will, in all probability, witness the termination of the session. With respect to the dissolution, that is a matter of more uncertainty, and will depend in a great degree upon the weather. Should the crops ripen rapidly, it will be necessary that they should be gathered in before the country is thrown into the turmoil of a general election, and in that case the dissolution will not take place until the autumn is well advanced ; but should the harvest prove a late one, advantage will be taken of the compara tively idle interval, and the dissolution will follow imme diately upon the prorogation.—Britannia. MR. COBDEN. — This gentleman has addressed his con stituents in a letter dated " Venice, June 15," soliciting their suffrages for his re-election. The address is mainly occupied in enforcing the principles of free-trade, which, he says, has not yet had a fair trial. Towards the conclu sion of the address, Mr. Cobden observes—" Should you honour me with your confidence , I shall hope to be found with renewed health at my po st, prepared to show that p t a h nn e . ne cx p i e r p e lp s e e ts o t na n s t t o d ate tt hh atoeofr thed t i r n a ca d nr e yn i so s epge n ur o nat f .t a o i rn r eo- e fa x cf p rtt e ne ri n t m rwaid en l el t of bwn hI o ne u hl y r , when fairly tested by time, will, I firmly believe, promote the prosperity and harmony of the whole community; and I shall return to England confirmed in my opinion by the sympathy expressed for our principles by the best and wisest men in other countries, that if we continue with firmness to offer to the world a good example, it will be eventually followed by all other civilised nations." CANDIDATES AND THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—The rapid approach of a general election naturally suggests inquiry as to what the questions are on which the choice of candidates will depend. With the commercial and shipping interests evidently the questions are the policy of the navigation laws, and the laws which regulate the cur rency of the nation. Of the first, much as we have written, we have not, nor are we able to give it all the attention its importance deserves. At present we would call the attention of the electoral body connected with the shipping interest to the necessity which exists for making right opinions on the navigation laws the first and almost only qualifica tion of the candidate to whom they will give their support. Hitherto the shipping interest has neglected this duty most shamefully. In almost all the outports, the shipping in terest has allowed itself to be divided and defeated by the mere war-cries of party. We do trust that, at the forth coming elections, the ports will do their duty. If they hope to maintain their present position, they must one and all send members to sustain the navigation laws. We say, deliberately, pledged, because it is the cant of the present day to call it unconstitutional to demand pledges. For our own part, we take it for granted, that the candidate who refuses to afford that assurance in a case of national importance, intends to betray the interests of his consti tuents whenever it suits his own convenience or interest. —Shipping Gazette. REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL. — It is with no or dinary satisfaction that we make the announcement of a large and influential meeting of electors having been yes terday held at Liverpool, at which it was resolved that Lieut. Colonel Sir Digby Mackworth should be invited to come forward as a candidate to represent that vast con stituency in the ensuing Parliament—determined opposi tion to the Romish Church, and a firm support of the Navigation Laws, being the two points on which the reso lutionists insisted. The gallant colonel's sentiments on both points being ascertained to be entirely in unison with those of the meeting, a requisition was immediately de- spatched to him, his . reply to which was as immediate. Having left London by the early train this morning, he is at this moment in Liverpool. May every success attend him. He is, we believe, a perfect stranger to Liverpool. The selection of him as their wished-for representative, has proceeded entirely on their appreciation of his proved integrity and consistency of character, as an unflinching champion of Protestant truth. The selection of such a man, at such a moment, is as honourable to Liverpool as it is to him. The importance of such a bold decisive movement by the second great town of this great empire it is impossible to overrate. The adoption of such a can didate, coupled as it is with the rejection of such a man as Lord Sandon, speaks a language that will be understood ,nd, we, trust, reap -London Standard, kingdom COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY, The market for money, like that for most other com modities, is just now influenced mainly by the state -of the barometer. At present we are happy to say that it is flattering, and holds out an excellent prospect of auspi cious weather for the growing crops. A fortnight's warm sun would produce a wonderful effect in every part of the d restore the spirits alike of the moneyed, country the commercial, and the manufacturing interests all the prophesies of increased trade to arise from in creased imports of food, it seems still to be recognised as a great fact, that our best and surest source of prosperity is a good harvest at home and a diminished dependence upon the foreign grower. improvement was not maintained, and, after some unim portant fluctuations, Consols closed at 88k. Extreme flatness characterised the market on Wednesday, and prices receded to 881, at which they closed. On Thurs day the decline continued, and Consols fell to 88+ ; but a rally took place, and they finally left off at 88k. On Fri day the market opened with rath e r a wea k a pp earance a t 88 1 , but they were subsequently done again at 881, and the closing quotation was, buyers, at 881. The Scrip of the Loan has at the same time been done at + premium. Three per Cents. Reduced have been sold at 88 1 to ; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 90+ i; Exchequer Bills remain at 6 9, the small 12 17; and India Bonds, A. slight decline has taken place since our last in the stock of bullion in the Bank coffers, the account pub lished in Friday's Gazelle giving the amount at £9,632,575, being a decrease since our last account of £60,350. Our cotton market for the week has been lively, with a large and healthy business doing ; and prices may be quoted *d. per lb. higher, without being influenced by speculative operations. This advance is, however, prin cipally in fair and middling American, which are most in request. The sales for the week were 54,490 bales, of which speculators took 5700 bales American, 4000 Surat, and 100 Nrnambuco ; and exporters 3880 bales American, 960 Surat, and 690 Pernambuco. The spinners appear to have made up their minds that the rise in price has not been so unwarranted by circumstances as they maintained a short while ago. The imports during the week have been light, the total arrivals being 16,954 bales. The estimated stock in Liverpool is 474,450 bales, against 765,500 bales last year. It is not, however, generally thought that this affords a fair criterion, from which to judge of our prospects of supnli , 4 ' the c' - is undoubtedly held back, its transmission having been prevented by the scarcity of freight, and the deficiency of means of internal conveyance, occasioned by the large shipments of breadstuffs to Europe from the United States. Nevertheless, it is becoming more and more an important desideratum that our sources of supply should be timely increased ; and hence the conduct of the East India Company towards the projectors of railways in their territory is severely commented upon. It is contrasted with the ardour with which the Sultan of Turkey is en couraging the cultivation in his dominions. The market for manufactured goods is improving, and prices of cotton goods are being regulated to those of the raw material. Some of the mills are increasing their hours of working ; and there is every probability that if the harvest is productive we shall shortly have to notice a return to full activity throughout the manufacturing dis tricts. The advices from the United States by the Henry Clay are very encouraging ' • and a large busin e s s i s pro mised with that country. From our East India markets, however, the accounts by the last Overland Mail are most unsatisfactory. From Bombay it is stated that "an in quiry stil, exists for grey jacconets, but it has not produced any improvement in prices, and with termination of the season, we may expect that it will cease. There is not the slightest demand for any other goods, and dealers will. take only of a few descriptions when tempted by the ex treme cheapness. Woollens continue neglected as before, not a single sale that we are aware of having been effected." In Calcutta there is little change to note. Our Corn mai kets during the week have only been kept from a serious decline by apprehensions of the effect of broken weather upon the grain crops. The seasonable change of the last few days must tend to dispel such ap prehensions, and to bring prices down to a reasnable limit. The arrivals, too, continue to be heavy both from Europe and the United States ; and from the latter quarter are likely to be to an extent, after the getting in of harvest, as to bring prices below the point at which they will pay the British farmer. The New York Morning Herald, received by the Henry Clay, says of the prospect of our American supply : " The receipts of produce, via the Erie canal and Hudson river, have, mice the resumption of canal navigation, been immense, exceeding those for any former year, without regard to time. The opening of the lakes and canals this year was un usually late, notwithstanding which, the supplies, up to the Ist instant, were nearly double to those of the same date last year. The surplus of the western country, of last year's crops, has hardly commenced coming forward yet. The annexed table, showing the receipts at Buffalo and at Tide Water, gives us the quantity received from.this state: — Receipts of Produce to June 1, 1847. Receipts at Buffalo Receipts at Tide to June 1. Water toJune 1. Flour 519,032 Pork 16,120 Beef. Ashes 4,001 Wheat 1,192,654 Corn A large portion of the wheat received at Buffalo has no doubt been manufactured into flour in this state. More than 700,000 bushels of corn have beer► shipped to Tide Water from the interior of this state. The small receipts of corn at Buffalo show that the west has not commenced sending forward the immense quantity, of that grain there must be on hand. The shipments of produce from the valley of the Mississippi this year have been nearly double those of last, as will be seen on reference to the receipts at New Orleans. The receipts at Cin cinnati and St. Louis have been about double those of last year, and there is every indication of the receipts continuing through out the season in the same ratio. The growing crops are in a very promising condition. A greater breadth of land has been cultivated this season than ever before known in the history of the country. As an evidence of the movement in this vicinity we will give an instance. On Long Island, within two miles of the Brooklyn ferry, there is a lot of scarcely five acres, having a fine growth of corn on it, which has heretofore been running to commons. In New Jersey, it is estimated that 100,000 acres of land have.been put in cultivation this season, over and above the quantity cultivated last year. The same spirit that has in fluenced the efforts of farmers in this vicinity has spread all through the country, and with favourable weather we shall have enormous crops. Breadstuffs will be low enough in a few weeks to satisfy all classes of consumers." There appears, moreover, little doubt that our dollar loving brother Jonathan is quite disposed to stint him self, and be content to eat a coarser kind of food than wheaten bread, so long as Europe offers him profitable markets. It is stated on the authority of private letters, received per Henry Clay that, to pay for our farther ex clusive importations the drain for specie is expected to recommence in August : and that, besides breadstuffs, we have got a large quantity of cotton to receive, which has been held back for high prices. A petition to Parliament, praying for an alteration in the law restricting the Bank of England from issuing paper against silver - bullion, is in course of signature in the City. The remedy proposed against a crisis like the pre sent is to lodge a dispensing power in the hands of Go vernment to allow the Bank, in case of emergency, to issue notes without reference to its stock of bullion. The arrival of the Hibernia, mail steamer, yesterday, brings our advices from New York down to the 15th inst. The money market was easy. The following is from the New York Morning Herald of the 15th : It is estimated that the value,of agricultural produce alone (excluding cotton and tobacco)' shipped to Great Britain and Ireland from this port, since Ist Sept. last, amounts to the enormous sum of thirty-two millions dollars. The rise which occurred in the rate of exchange-bills on Eng land early in May was sustained to within the last few days, now giving way: the tendency is again to a decline; and as shipments of bread-stuffs will continue as long as such high prices are paid in England, and orders for manufactured goods will not increase in proportion, we shall again see rates at which it will be profitable to bring coin to this country. Six millions barrels of flour and corn meal have already been sent in a little over three-fourths of the year to Great Britain and Ireland ! All that can will be sent in the remaining quar ter: 1,250,000 barrels meal, or the equivalent thereof, will be sent. There are'thirty-eight vessels on the berth loading . for Great Britain, and, as freights have rather a tendency to rise, shipments will be hurried. The river and canals are taxed to their utmost to bring to the seaboard the surplus of the interior. Already we have received flour and wheat, reducing it to flour, • near 270,000 barrels more than in any preceding year at this time ; and of Indian corn an excess of one million bushels ; and this will go on. The United States ship Macedonia sailed this morning. Her cargo, contributed by private benevolence, is composed as fol lows :—Clothing, 30 packages ; rice, 200 tierces ; peas, 6 bags ; oats, 1,132 bags ; corn, 1,115 bags, 8.5 i barrels; beans, 2,103 bags, 122 barrels; meal, 1,047 bags, 5, 1 79 barrels; rye , 8 bar rels ; potatoes, 7 barrels ; beef, 4 barrels; pork, 6 barrels ; flour, 14 barrels; tea, 10 chests. Exchange on England to-day is somewhat flrmerrand 6is obtained for bills on England. "Tuesday, 15th June, One, p.m. " CorroN.—Nothing of importance has been done in cotton to-day. Shippers show no disposition to purchase at present, and holders are not pressing their lots upon the market. The arrival of the steamer of the 4th instant is now looked for. The sales since the 29th ult. are estimated at 6,500 bales. "FLOUR, &c.—Western Canal flour is in fair demand at 8 dollars 75 centE!; prime Genesse is held at 1 dollars 874 cents ; a few lots of Michigan, &c., which have been exposed to the weather have been sold at lower rates; sales Georgetown and Baltimore Howard-street have been made to arrive at 9 dollars 25 cents. Meal is rather dull; 300 barrels sold at 5 dollars 62i cents. 7,000 bushels wheat sold at 1 dollar 99 cents to 2d. for Ohio, and 2 dollars 8 cents to 2 dollars 10 cents for Genessee. 5,000 bushels Ohio corn, 115 cents to 114 cents ; 6 z ooo ditto round yellow Northern, 118 cents to 120 cents. Rye is dull at 130 cents. Oats, 60 cents to 63 cents. "Provisions are steady, mess beef is held at 13 dollars 75 cents to 14 dollars; prime 9 dollars to 9 dollars 50 cents; pork 17 dollars 124 cents to 17 dollars 25 cents for mess , an d 9* cents to 9i cents, and kegs at 104 cents. Cheese 64 cents to 74 cents. " The rates of freights are, to Liverpool, for cotton, 3-16 d. per lb. ; flour and turpentine, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per barrel grain, Ild. to 12d. per bushel. To London, 3s. 9d. to 4s. per barrel for flour, and other articles in proportion. To Havre, nomi nally, for cotton, if cent per lb. ; flour, 75 cents per barrel; ashes, 6 to 8 dollars per ton." From Montreal the latest date was the 11th, when Flour was quoted at 40s. and Wheat from Bs. 6d. to 9s. 3d. The following tabular statement exhibits the immense I extent of our imports from America since the Ist of Sep- - Export of Bread Stuffs from the United States to Great Bri tain and Ireland, front Sept. 1, 1846 to June 5, 1847. Corn I Flour.l Meal. l Wheatl Corn. I Rye rls Oats.lßrley -- , From 1 brls. 1 bush. 1 bush. 'bush bush. , bush. I....____ New York.. 8 52634 277852 , 10864361 5041729 401631308239 171682 Philad'lphia 204779 ; 187690, 4407811 858871 5662 3047 .. B a ltimore.. 2622411 61600, 68838; 1595440 .. 62443 .. Norfolk.... 447371 21289 .. 1 1362761 .. .. • . N.Orr.J o ne 2 5092311 23512 1 274507 i 3452247 .. .. 520 Boston . 65620 1 23085! .. 558413 .. .. Other ports.' 49648 475081 32457 517628 346 250 .. Total Some important facts as to the state of the crops is union will be found in another so: June 29, 1547. OBJECTS OF PROTESTANTS The Rev. John Dodson, vicar of Cockerham, near Lan caster, thus concludes an admirable letter to the Lancaster Gazette, on the subject of the approaching election : " I would ask, what conceivable object, (party or per sonal, political or sectarian) is of that importance as to justify us to our own consciences, in pursuing so suicidal a course ? We desire no persecution of Papists ;itis a weak invention, a mere trick, to impute such a thing to us. We claim liberty of conscience for Papists as for ourselves. We desire to see them fully protected in all their just rights. But we must protect ourselves, alike from the wrath of a jealous God, and from the unquench able hostility of Rome herself. We must, therefore, be faithful to our convictions of the duty we owe to God,. continuing to protest firmly and decidedly, individually and nationally for Bible truth and against Roman e' or ' ^t t ti' , and a, ae same time, we must, as prudent men, take means to secure to ourselves and - to our children the mercies we at present possess, withholding our consent from those measures, or those men, who would confer on , that itome that ascendancy, to which she incessantly aspires, and to which she has of late so rapidly attended, but which she never has used, and never can use, but for the subversion of the civil and religious rights of nations. Despite the charge of bigotry, we will be zealous for the truth. And despite the inputation of intolerance, we must decline surrendering ourselves to Rome's tender mercies. We have no sectarian objects. We have been misrepresented. Therefore, let us once more say, we contend not for Church of Englandism, but for Protes tantism. It is to uphold our common Christianity, that we invite Protestants of every sect to join with us. If they doubt us, let them bring forward a man of their own, and we will support him. We will support him, be he Churchman or Dissenter, or whatever be his general po litics—if only he is a Protestant—if only he comes for ward as a sincere champion of that truth, which we hope will always be dearer to us than anything else in this world. Of the Church of England, we once more say, if she needs reform, reform her, and we will help you. If she is exclusive, throw her open • cast down every barrier which Christ has not raised. Let her terms of commu nion be made as few and as simple as the Gospel leaves them. Every plant in her enclosures that God has not planted, let it be rooted up. If you think she is secu larized by her state connection, you can still pursue your own course, and s ee k t o h ave her divorced from the state. But, whatever you do, do not betray the ark of Chris tianity—the Protestantism of England ! Whatever you do—whatever be your particular objects or opinions— may God in his mercy, avert, that private ends, secular politics, or a sectarian spirit, should blind you, or any of us, to; the dangers that menace the Protestant religion (the religion of the Bible—the religion of Jesus Christ— the religion of all truly Christian sects) : or render us in different to the guilt we shall incur, and the ruin that must befall us, if we shall be found, at this great crisis, not merely defying every lesson of experience, and every dictate of prudence, but even fighting against God!" COURT AND FASHION, The Queen and Prince Albert intend leaving town for Cambridge on Monday, the sth of July, and will reside, during their stay at the University, at Trinity-lodge. The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived on a visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday. ROYAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—The Britannia " under stands" that it is her majesty's intention to proceed to Scotland before the end of the season, and that during the royal progress the Marquis of Abercorn will be honoured by a visit from his sovereign. CORRESPONDENCE, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR S I send you an extract of a letter from a highly esteemed lay friend, together with its enclosure, and if you agreed with me, in approving the sentiment it ex presses, I shall feel obliged by your inserting it in the next publication of your excellent journal.—l remain, sir, your's respectfully, A PROTESTANT LAYMAN. Liverpool, 18th June, 1847. Doncaster, June 10, 1847 , MY DEAR FRIEND,—I have just received another most in teresting letter from poor Ellis, of which I cannot resist send ing you the enclosed extract, as to the poor persecuted Roman Catholic pedlar woman, to whom he seems to have been sent "as an angel of God," first to open her eyes to the truth of the gospel, and then to be a protection to her against her persecu tors; who are giving us a specimen there of what we may ex pect here when they have the power, which I greatly fear the Lord will too surely grant them, shortly, as a righteous judg ment on this sinful land, for our abominable national apostasy. The young and ignorant are being drawn away from the faith of the gospel by these Jesuitical Puseyite teachers; and there does not seem to be a man amongst those having authority, either in church or state, to stand up openly to resist them Surely "the god of this world bath blinded their minds, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them ;" for, how otherwise can we account for the infatuated conduct of our bishops, and, I must also add, of the whole body of Evangelical Clergy, that they do not rise in a body, and, by united addresses to the hierarchy of the throne, publicly declare their protest against these abominable apostates, that they may be ejected from that sound Protestant church, on whose resources they are being supported, while they are undermin ing her foundations. If we ask the question, " Who is on the Lord's side ?—Who ?" where shall we find the faithful men ready to rise up against " the church itself?" or rather those bold pretenders who arrogate to themselves her name and pri vileges, while they are preparing to betray her into the hands of the enemy, who is truly "coming in Like a flood" through their supineness or treachery. How strikingly applicable are the warning words of the prophet Jeremiah to the times in which we are living—"A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; the prophets prophecy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people"—my people, observe— "love to have it so, and what will ye do in the end thereof?" The time is past, my dear friend, depend on it, for doing any good by delivering public lectures, or making speeches on platforms. The clergy must act,—and act unitedly— on openly avowed Protestant grounds, in support of the Protestant faith. Let them unfurl their banner, Who is on the Lord's side? Who ?" Let them assemble in county or dio cesan meetings, and prepare, and draw out, and sign a declara tion, containing a distinct avowal of their determination, by God's help, to maintain the principles of the Reformation both in church and state. Let it be signed by all who are true to "the faith once delivered to the saints," and let it be presented, by deputations, at the foot of the throne. We shall then be "able to discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not." (Mal. iii. 18.) We should then see whether "seven bishops" could be found, now, who have the holy boldness to stand up, as in the days of the Papist James, before the throne, or, if needful, at the bar of a court of justice, to maintain their Christian prin ciples, according to their solemn obligation at their ordination. 0 ! my dear friend, surely . we have fallen on "perilous times," when it becomes every sincere Christian patriot to be in con tinual prayer to the Lord of Hosts, to raise up some God-fearing men, "after his own heart," who shall rule this people in righteousness, and deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, until He shall come, who is "the Prince of the kings of the earth ;" who " shall indeed be as an hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of waters in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." (Is. 32, 2.) Have you seen a printed circular from Ramsgate, soliciting subscriptions for a new church there, of which Mr. E. Bicker steth and Mr. Bates are to be two of the trustees? The account of the ravages which popery is making amongst the families in that neighbourhood is quite appalling. see and hear, it is the . same every c w e r a e: n if a n n i t liT id r m ole o a s t ta c v i c e a a r r n n e sitting at ease, them. 01 that‘'istaymiTgghrel7eceilfr Lord's will to "stir up the things that remain and are ready to die," in the body of the evan gelical clergy! All other bodies combine against the church: the Puseyites unite; the Dissenters unite. Why do not the evangelical clergy also unite ? The are the only tr ue representatives of "the establish e d church." Let them, shake off the incubus of the tractarian party, and so a t once deprive the political di ssen t ers o f t h at only weapon w hich they can with truth an d j ust i ce b r i ng aga i nst t h e c hurch, and whereby truly pious churchmen are almost driven to leave her in despair, rather than be identified with such a caricature of Christianity! then, THE REGISTERED PALETOT CASE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In your report of the proceedings before the Vice- Chancellor of England on Saturday, June 12th, you describe ourselves as receiving the protection of the Court in respect to an infringement of our patented right to an invention, and by an assumption of the title by which it has been publicly known. From the great popularity we have attained by the sale of the subject of the injunction, a garment styled the Registered Paletot, of Llama Cloth, it may be assumed that the public will be somewhat interested with the precise facts of the case. It has already been described, that, when first introducing our invention, we with much care selected a name hitherto un known in this country; as, tracing the origin of the word pa letot, it was shown that it was derived from the Greek, adopted by the Roman, and afterwards by the French linguists. " Cir cumjicitur corpori pallium habitus Griecorum" ; by Bayley, thus, paletoque, or pallescote, a coat with sleeves. That we exercised due caution in selecting an unusual name has, by the result of these recent proceedings in the Court of Chancery, been fully proved. For such, unfortunately, is the state of competition of trade, or the envy of individuals engaged in it, that, should eminent patronage and success attend any member in particular, he is immediately subjected to the like injury of which we have had cause to complain. Now, had we advertised our invention simply as a new overcoat, it is more than probable that, ere this, we should have been confounded with the many advertisers that since our appearance before the public have assumed a somewhat similar description to that which from the first has been employed by us. The defendant in this case, being perhaps more conspicuous than the rest, was first selected to be an example, as we are now determined to enforce our rightful claim to the originality (as far as regards the English language) of the title Registered Paletot of Llama Cloth; but yet being unwilling to proceed against those who may have unguardedly used a similar title without first giving them notice. We would, therefore, respect fully beg permission, through the medium of your columns, now to notify this our intention with regard to all present Or future copyists; for it would appear from the affidavits made by Messrs. llawbarn and Son, of Liverpool, Messrs. Waring and and Son, of Birmingha as, also, many of our other influential agents, that they have' experienced equal inconvenience with ourselves through so many tradesmen in their neighbourhood assuming the same, or a similar unauthorized, title to that of the Registered Paletot of Llama Cloth. It may be judicious here to explain, that we believe that, had a continuance of these unfair proceedings been allowed, we should have been seriously injured should purchasers have been induced to believe that these piracies were articles of our manufacture, the moderate charge and excellence of which has induced patronage, extend ing from the Royal families, both here and on the continent, together with the principal members of the court and the pro fessions, as, also, general favour with the great middle classes of this country. Being well aware of the interest taken by the press in discou raging all grievous annoyances that may affect industrious energy or deter persons with capital from developing any new manufacture. we unhesitatingly present this matter to the notice of your readers, some of whom may, perhaps, be on the point of introducing to the public some patented improve ment upon some other article of highly useful, yet ordinary, nature, that they may be thus forewarned to select some original or distinguishing title. Otherwise, so many merits as the invention may possess over anything else of its kind in existence, so many envious competitors will it excit e to us e L Pirpry means in their rower, be they fair or unfair , to Oa re _ some porLloll ul A.M., TV vw _ their false imitations are similar only in name, and that tlie) dare not actually infringe the patent or design. Trusting you will esteem these remarks worthy of insertion we have the honour to be, your obedient servants. 11. and D. NICOL. 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