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'f ITUTION tirt).MORROW (v. past seven, CHM Author of 'rule ti.ccues Third of a COUE.SE of FOU LECTU POETS OF THE GUELPHIC ER A Shelley, and Byron. The next Quarter HIGH SCHOOL will the Ist of April. Department, .E 1 17s. per quarter, pectuses may be had at the Institution. For the sum of One Gui uea p er annum tn... entitled besides the right of borrowing Books from the 1 lofat the public Lectures, which are delivered on every vr eunesuay and Saturday evening, to attend the Evening Schools, which a fford instruction in Engl i s h, Writin g , Arithmetic, Niathe • - Mechanical Philosophy, Navigation, Astronomy, matics Naval Architeetnre, tvieenanicai, 1.0 num.. pc ? 111,131“,,6a, “., and Ornamental Drawing and Painting, Modelling, and Practical Perspective ; and, for an extra charge, in Chemis try, Natural Ph►losophy, French, German, Classics, ,Vocal Music. Rhetorical Delivery, Phrenology, Gymnastics, and Dancing. A Donation of Ten Guineas, or upwards, constitutes the Contributor a Life Member. Annual Subscription, (entitling to Lectures, Library, and Evening Schools,) One Guinea ; Lady's Do. (admitting to Lectures and Library), Half-a- Guinea ; Sons or Apprentices of Nlembers, Apprentices of Non-Members, Half-a-Guinea. W. B. HODGSON% Secretary ive Shi BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. ELECTION OF A COUNCILLOR FOR SAINT ANNE-S'T'REET WARD. /SHE Mayor, and the Alderman and Assessors of the 1 above Ward DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the ELECTION of a COUNCILLOR for this Ward, to supply the present Vacancy, and to serve in lien of Mr. William Slater, and continue in office so long as Mr. Slater would have continued, viz., until the Ist day of November, 1843, will be held on WEDNESDAY nest, the 23d day of March instant, at a Building late the Shop of Mr. Teer, shoemaker, on the east side of Christian-street. The time allowed for Polling is from Nine o'clock in the Forenoon to Four o'clock in the Afternoon ; but the presiding Officers have power to close the Poll at any time before Four o'clock, if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote shall have been tendered for any candidate. By order, RD. RADCLIFFE, Town-clerk Town-Hall, 18th March, 1842. TO THE ELECTORS OF ST. ANNE'S WARD GENTLEMEN, AVING been waited upon by a deputation from the Conservative Association of your Ward, with a request that I would allow myself to he nominated as a Candidate for your suffrages, to supply the vacancy in the Town Council caused by the retirement of Mr. Slater; having also been confidently assured, that upon my consenting, for the good of our common cause, I should rally round the Conservative banner every friend in your Ward ; I feel deeply sensible of the kind confidence reposed in me. However unwillinz, from various circumstances, to obtrude myself upon the Electors of any Ward, much more upon a Ward in which I have never resided, 1 hesitate not on the present occasion to make you a tender of my services, feeling persuaded that no exertions will be wanting on your part to return me as your Third Conservative Representative to the Town Council ; and in the event of my being so returned, I will endeavour, honestly and impartially, to act and vote so as to give satisfaction not only to my personal friends.. but also to my political opponents. • I remain, Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, THOMAS BRASSEY. West Derby-street, March 16, 1842. MAKE NOTICE, that, from this date, EDWARD NEWTON will not be answerable for any Debt or Debts his Wife, SARAH NEWTON. of 61, Portland-street, contracts. EDWARD NEWTON. Witness—JOHN WORTHINGTON. 22d March, 1842. GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN "GENTLEMEN'S DRESS," OF FIRBT.AATZ QUALITY, SUPERIOR CUT AND WORENI AN- SHIP, AT THE CIVET CAT, No. 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL D. MYERS, NAVY AND ARMY TAILOR, TROUSERS MAKER. WOOLLEN DRAPER AND GENTLEMEN'S OUT- FITTE R SHE STOCK of this Establishment has just been reple nished from the first houses in London and Paris, with description of Fashionable Material for Gentle men's Dress, suitable for the Winter Season, consisting of Patent Waterproof Cloths. Pilots and Beavers, &c., for Top Coats, Superfine West of England Broad Cloths, of the most fashionable Shades and Colours, for Gentlemen's Dress, Frock, and Riding Coats ; Cassimeres, Diagonals, Plaids, Tweeds, Doeskins, &c., for Trousers ; French and English figured Silk Plushes, Velvets, Satins, Silks, and Shawl Vest ings, of the most approved and really beautiful designs, all of which having been purchased upon most advantageous terms, so as to enable the CIVET CAT TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT to maintain its fame of MAKING FIRST-RATE ARTICLES OF GENTLEMEN'S DRESS AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE D. M. tenders his sincere thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Professional Gentlemen of Liverpool and county of Lancaster, for the great encouragement he has received, and begs to assure them that the advantages which have so much signalized his Establishment (viz., that of making the best articles at a very moderate price), will ever be adhered to ; and as experienced Foremen are engaged from the West of London to superintend the CUTTING DEPARTMENT. A TRUE, EASY, and SCIENTIFIC FIT is WAR- RANTED D. M. particularly solicits the attention of Gentlemen who find it difficult to procure an easy and good-fitting Trousers, as a Foreman is' employed for this branch only, and whose attention is entirely given to this important part of Gentle men's Dress ; and as every branch of this Establishment is carried on by separate Foremen, due and proper attention is given to all orders. D. MYERS resnectfullv submits the following List of his Prices for the ensuing Season : Gentlemen' Travelling __ Coats 0 0 Waterproof Top Coats 2 0 0 Superfine Waterproof In Taglioni, Top Corts, Velvet I D,Orsay, Collars and Cuffs .. 210 0 r or Best Waterproof Bea- Chesterfield ver Top Coat, Velvet style. Collar, Cuffs, and Facings.. £3 0 0 to 4 4 0 A full-sized Spanish Cloak of Su- Superfine Cloth, measuring from seven to nine yards round the bottom, from Superfine Dress Coats Ditto, best quality, _West of Eng- £3 10 0 to £7 0 0 2 2 0 „ .2 10 0 land Cloth, wool-dye . Superfine Frocks; Silk Lined .... The Best, any of the most Fashion- 0 0 0 ~ 3 0 0 210 0 „ 3 0 0 able Colouis, or Blacks ..... . 0 0 0 , 310 0 Good Winter Trousers, all Wool.. 0 0 0 „ 015 0 Plaid & other Fancy Trousers, from 017 0 „ 1- 4 0 The best Dress Trousers, of Doe skins, Diagonals, waterproof, fancy materials, and superfine Kerseymeres Shawl Vests .. ... French. German, and Turkey Pat- 1 6 0 „ 110 0 011 0 - „ 014 0 - tern, ditto The very best Genoa Velvet Vests 1 6 0 „ 110 0 Elegant tigured, or embroidered ditto. most beautiful designs Rich Silk Plushes, in every colour —best quality The largest assortment in Liver pool of French, German, and English figured and embroidered Satins, from E 0 „ 210 0 160„ 0 0 0 016 0 „ 116 0 Young Gentlemen's Spencer Suits (Jacket, Vest, and Trousers) of the best quality Tunic Dresses, elegantly made 2 2 PI 210 0 A Plain Suit of Livery complete at 4 0 0 „ 0 0 e D. M. being a pupil of her Majesty the. Queen's Habit Maker, Ladies requiring Riding Habits will find this estab lishment equal to any in London, and which are made in the most elegant style, from £1 4s. Od. to £8 Ss. Od. Gentlemen contracted with by the Year upon the following terms : 3 Suits per Year.... Zll 14 0 4 Ditto ditto .... 15 4 0 5 Ditto ditto .... 18 10 0 Best Qualit y. 6 Ditto ditto .... 21 10 0 By returning the Clothes after the usual time of wearing. NAVAL AND MILITA RY UNIFORM EXACT TO REGULATION. A choice selection of Gold Epauletts, Swords, Belts, Gold Lace, &e., is kept in the Stock of this Establishment. Merchants and Captains supplied with every article of Dress, suitable - for all climates, at wholesale terms, not to be rivalled by any House in the Kingdom. The greatest variety of Macintosh's India Rubber Fa brics, and of Patent Waterproof Cloths, Cashmeres, &c. This Establishment is Closed on Saturdays. THE CIVET CAT, 72, LORD-STREET. A young wife remonstrated with her husband, a dissipated spendthrift, on his conduct. "My love," said he, ." I am only like the prodigal son 1 shall reform b and-by." " And y- ; I will be like the prodigal son too," she replied, arise and go to any fathe r ;" and accordingly off she f w o e r n l f. will A MISER MOUNTED PO RTRAVEL.—It was seven o'clock on a March morning as the door of the hall creaked on its one hinge, and Isaac P eppercorn, followed by Biddy the housekeeper, and Cupid the terrier, came forth into the light. L ame was equipped for travel: He carried—we cannot say wore—a coat of forgetton black ; made for him in the days of his belly, be having many years since subdued that deformity. The coat met in one wide wrinkle down the back, pocket yearned to pocket ; and _the large cuffs hung lik e horse-col lars on the wrists of the hearers ; who had ventured himself. into breeches coeval with the coat, and had armed his legs with boots — ev idently made, but found too big , for some i giant—as hard as horn. A broad-brimmed hat, tied over his : ears w ith a red hankerchief, secured the beaver Vora the sud- I d e n prancings an d car i c olings of the horse, sho u ld t h e animal indulge therein. „ Alas . much was the gravity of th a t ancient quadruped but that little looked ver y l i k e a withered a pple. He cam scandalised by the p recaution. Little o f Isaac's w hip with a handle a yard-and-a-half face was to be seen, but a long, and a thong t h e reto —fortunately the horse was blind— enough to appal the heart o f a Bucephalus. Isaac said a fe w words in a voice between ac he oug r h ap a r n n u n a , wwidheisnteled her m i ddy who who crossed her thin arms over The horse, held by a boy, into a smile, and said nothing. was at the gate ; living steed. the spectre of a horse than a . it was of a drty white, an4 h l a o t ok h e a d ir r it at h h a e d r was as rough as a rug, twitched it to catch the eye of its heart the horse continually t. but its tail—and in the ignorant vanity of the spectator —was bare as a carto that at last it had got to champ the bit, with a satisfaction . The animal continued something in its mouth. Isaac, his legs in his mounted the horse, touched the rein, rattled two the horse with inhuman placidity, boots, plied his whip, and in a minute or ga thered itself up and shambled off—much to the apparent an noyance of a party l e f t at t h e H a ll ; w e mean, Cup id the Cuter rier. Now, the d og was as l ean, nay ev en leaner than the horse, but there was a something in its spirit—it m ust have been hope—that as it sometimes loo k e d a t th e white horse on the common, made it cheerful, nay, even gamesome. This morning, however, it was but too plain that all was not right with Cupid. As the horse stood saddled, waiting for the rider, Cupid as on tip-toe walked round it, now looking in its face, and now at its ribs, and now gazing mournfully at its master. When, however, Peppercorn was fairly mounted, -and the steed s after due consideration, stumbled into a trot, Cupid tried to bark t but its voice failed, and it only wheezed at the departing horse-flesh ; and yet, as plainly as legacy linuter ever mourned his disappointment, did Cupid exclaim —" There go my long-nourished hopes of many, many din ._piers !" The neighbours had long marked the attention of . -pi 1" ,. .r he , o the horse—had often d we l t upon the friendship of ' :Sr.oo . rieudship ! in this world how hard it is to discover ' , :o•-4,.• .., " aOf even a dog.—Jerrold's " Cake: and Ale." 1 •.... • - i'Ae , , d• *-. . . . I ~t~~:rl 4J:1111;.:i he had given notice on Mond It of the H led wi state of Le and hat increase lead to an increase of revenue ultuna could not be expected in sufficient tinie to extrics venue of the country from its present difficulties. .te the re- It was a the hot then - proccedea to, cot] ndemniDg t tiele, however small, there mu was no advantage to the country in the proposed alterations in the tariff at all equivalent to the evil of the imposition of an in- (3t I come t Sc. in his o: the pro- which was as obnoxious as it was mine , assal rces of financial suppl 1 income tax. which he could look upon in 110 minister who e country. It ght it do mitt to the n unequal tax ; and the right hon. , ion of the fact that the bank of and that the country regarded it with dismay. - The right hon: gentleman concluded by decla ring, that if he stood alone he should record his dissent from such an unjust and oppressive tax. t I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended for the mistake to suppose that an incouiv v. r - -. press upon the labouring classes of the community. • necessity of an income tax, owing to five consecutive years of thing that reduced the fund from which they were injuriously aggravated deficiency, which it was hopeless to supply by necessarily produce an effect materially and any additional taxation upon articles of. consumption. The affecting them. There seemed to be several errors prevalent right hon. gentleman replied seriatim to the objections of amongst those who supported, and also arnongst those who Mr. Baring, and insisted that any increased taxation upon opposed an income tax. One party were in the habit of ad- art i c l es o f consum pti on wou ld f a ll muc h heavier upon the mitting the propriety of an income tax, if it were confined to community than the proposed income tax. He could not property in land and money in the funds, and_ those persons understand ti-- 'At -ticu' - tax should I, Every- e argument tth . any par ...Jar war tax. If the revenue was deficient the ne ereat for taxation in time of peace as iu time favour of taking the funds than the •e utterly ignorant of th position in Amongst the ola Is averaging £lOO per scar Is society of those whom they proposed to to fundholders there were 240,000 pers .._. _ Lord Hoi,viCK said, if there were other sources from which ..,venue could be obtained, they were not justified in impo the funds there were only 600. The noble lord then argued sing upon their constituents taxes of so very objectionable a that though it was just to make all classes pay in proportion nature as those proposed. The revenue might have been to their income, there could be no justice in increasing the considerably raised by a fixed duty on corn; and here he rate of per centage in proportion to the largeness of income. might remark, that the landlords might yet find they had It would, however, be arn,ther matter to lower the rate of per made a false calculation, and that the sliding scale had cost centage as you descended to the smaller incomes, according them more by occasioning the imposition of an income-tax to their nature, and this he thought quite proper. Those than if they had adcpted a fixed duty. A similar application who contended for a graduated scale of taxation contended of the same principle to other articles of consumption might for this, that the revenue should be collected from classes of be found very productive. As an instance he would take the community, and not from the whole community itself. the article of sugar—and he would observe that the country i It was his firm belief that this income tax was absolutely ne- must now see how fallacious was the argument that a reduc cessary, and therefore it was that he wished to have it dis- tion of duty on foreign sugar would lead to an encourage cussed by their lordships before it came before them in a bill, ment of slavery ; for the very same thing applied with equal for then alteration and modification would be wholly out of f orce to t h e re d uct i on o f the duty on coffee. The noble lord the question—they could not alter an " and" or a " nor," then contended that there was no necessity for the income they must take the bill as it came before them or reject it tax, which would press with dreadful force upon the middle altogether. The noble lord then proceeded to argue that it classes of society ; and, he predicted that if such a tax should was manifestly unjust not to make a distinction between the be imposed, when its';weight should be felt, the right hon. nature of incomes arising from different kinds of property, baronet would find the stanchest of his supporters shrinking and equally unjust not to make a similar distinction between from his support. as they had formerly shrunk in 1816 from such incomes and the income derived from the professional supporting a government of which they generally approved, labour. He then dwelt upon the inquisitorial nature of the in the maintainance of this tax. income tax, which was bad enough in compelling the land- Lord J. RussELL said it was a great omission not to have lord to disclose his incumbrances or pay a greater amount of included sugar it' they meant to advance largely towards tax than he ought. but which was a thousand-fold worse as commercial freedom. Corn was another omission; and the man, who d coant or tradesman, whose disclosure of the losses of one year would almost inevitably lead him the ensuing year into the Gazelle. The noble lord concluded by expressing his regret that they should be compelled by dire necessity to re sort to a war tax in time of peace, and hoped that it would not be retained one hour beyond the existence of the abso lute circumstances which called it forth. He then moved his first resolution, to the effect that nothing could justify the income tax but hard necessity, and that when that ne cessity had passed away the tax should cease. The Earl of RIPON said he agreed in a great deal of what had fallen from the noble lord, and nobody could deny.the to touch those two articles, because they touched the inte rests of great merchants and landholders by whom the pre sent government was supported. It was a mischievous and wanton course to create a number of new protective duties, totally uncalled for, as it appeared was now to be done by the new tariff. There was no emergency so great as to wra rant the imposition of an income tax, for had the measures proposed by his government last year been adopted, the pre sent deficiency would have been only .-Elioo,ooo, and even the £2.500,000 might be supplied by a revision of taxation. The noble lord then adverted to the inquisitorial nature of the income tax, which he contended rendered such a tax parti cularly odious and mischievous. The strongest objection. however, he had to this tax was, that it was telling the world that this country was driven to its last resource—that it was struggling for existence, and that war would find it unpre pared. He should for these reasons vote against the income tax in the committee ; and should it come back to the house in another shape, he would move resolutions in order to place on record his opinions of the financial state of the country, and of the impolicy of an income tax. The house then went into committee, and Sir R. PEEL proceeded to address the house. He was not, he said, surprised at the course the noble lord announced his intention of pursuing. He felt confident that whatever course lie pursued, or whatever he proposed, he never could hope for anything but opposition from those whose malad ministration of the finances of the country had led to its pre justice of the resolution he had moved. Indeed all the reso lutions were abstractedly true ; but he did not think that they had been brought before their lordships in a convenient shape or time, because the* , might have the effect of fetter ing their lordships' proceedings when the bill now before the House of Commons should come under their consideration. The resolutions, if agreed to, would create much awkward ness in the transaction of business between the two houses of parliament, as such agreement would be in effect an intima tion to the House of Commons that their bill must contain certain principles, or it wculd not be received by their lord ships. Under these circumstances, he considered himself absolved from folloWing the noble lord through all his argu ments, and he should therefore conclude by moving the pre vious question. The previous question was then put and carried without opposition, and their lordships adjourned. sent embarrassments. Since he 'had last addressed the hOuse it had become necessary to send additional reinforcements to India in consequence of the way in which they had misma naged the affairs of that country ; and he should have to move, in consequence, for additional army estimates, thus increasing the existing deficiency of £3,000,000, including the cost of the expedition to China. The other measures in contemplation would occasion a total deficit of £4,200,000, which could only be met by an income tax, which would press on those who, though jn some instances not rich, yet were in circumstances sufficiently easy to meet this demand upon them. With respect to an income tax, could any one be deceived by the cry that it was a war tax ? It was the exigencies of the country that demanded it ; but even if it were a war tax, was it because that they did not hear the cannon sounding in their ears that they could therefore per suade themselves that they were at peace ? Let them look to China and to India, and such a delusion would cease on the instant. He thought the sum each person would be called upon to contribute under this tax would be very small, for the cost of living would be so very much reduced, if his whole plan were adopted, that the payer of the income tax would receive considerable compensation in the cheapness of articles of consumption. The right hon. baronet then pro ceeded to explain the machinery by which he proposed to collect the income tax. He proposed to adopt the machinery laid down by the act of Lord Lansdowne, in 1806, in the ad ministration of Lord Grenville and Lord Grey. The com missioners of the land tax should be_ required to appoint com missioners for general purposes, who would have the selection of others, to be called additional commissioners, and those latter would have the charge of the assessment of the property tax. There would be, as there were in that case, special pro visions respecting the assessment of Bank and East 1 ndia stock and other public securities. This tax he meant to be under the control of the commissioners of stamps and taxes. Local commissioners should appoint assessors, who would deli- ver blank forms of return, containing minute instructions as to the tilling up of the blanks, with a return of the annual value, whether of lands, rents of houses, &c. With respect to the profits of trade, he should propose, as in the act of 1/306, that those profits should be taken upon the average of the three preceding years, and with respect to professions upon the profits of the preceding year. The chief difficulty of the tax was with respect to trades and professions, and it was in reference to these that the tax was said to be inquisitorial, and this difficulty he would endeavour to meet. H e proposed that the returns when filled up should be sent to the assistant commissioners, and be accessible to the surveyor, and to these parties it should be competent to make a surcharge upon that assessment. The appeal from this surcharge should be read before the general body of commissioners, who would have very extensive powers to demand precise information. To meet the objection as to the exposure of a man's affairs to his neighbours, he proposed to give to the party appealing an option of appealing to the general commissioners or to spe cial commissioners appointed for the purpose, who would be hound to secresy by oath, and whose decision should be final. There would be also a provision to enable parties to com pound for the assessment for the whole period of three years that the tax was to last ; and an arrangement should be made to enable the possessors of landed property to pay into the Bank of England, so as to prevent their friends and neigh hours from knowing the exact amount of their income. With respect to making any distinction between terminable an nuities and other property, he could not assent to make any such distinction, for if he were to do so he must be compelled to make remissions to a much greater extent. The object was to levy the tax upon the whole inc ome o f the co un t r y, and he could make no discrimination as to the source from whence it was derived. Mr. LABOUCHEPE said that the whole tone of the right hon. baronet betrayed a consciousness that his plan was not received by the country as favourably as h e a ff ec t e d t o be lieve. Strong as were his objections to the income tax, if the right hon. baronet had brought forward fair and just commercial alterations he would be disposed to enter upon flying at the w eak its consideration ; but when h e found hi s commercial tariff and passingdef defenceless, e t l h e e s s strongbe could ulandd notpo powerful, u s l u , anda commercial reform consent to fetter the country with an income tax. Lord WORSLEY wished to ask the right hon. baronet what amount of revenue he expected to derive from the importa tion of foreign corn under the sliding scale of duties. The noble lord took that opportunity of condemning the injustice of placing the same rate of tax upon the income derivable from terminable annuities and other species of property. Sir 11. PEEL said it was impossible to form an estimate of the amount of revenue, for it depended altogether upon the harvest. Lord WORSLEY said it was reported that from that source there would be a revenue of £1,200,000. On the motion of Mr. HAwEs , the chairman then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY When the Wigan election committee were called upon to be sworn at the table, it appeared that Sir James Howard was absent, whereupon the sergeant-at-arms received instructions to take the hon. member into custody. _ _ Mr. LINDSAY moved, that on April ith the house should resolve itself into a committee, for the purpose of addressing her Majesty, prayinc , that a sum of money equivalent to the losses of those merchants whose opium had been destroyed by the Chinese authorities, at Canton, who had surrendered no less than 20,283 chests of opium, on the assurance of Cap tain Elliot that they would be paid for it by the government at home, should be granted to them. Sir G. STAUNTON seconded the motion, and said that the loss was so serious as to have driven several of the merchants, whose property had been destroyed, to commit suicide. He thought the government was bound in honour to make com pensation. Sir G. LARPENT took a similar view of the case, and hoped that no financial difficulty would prevent the Government from doing justice to the sufferers. After some observations from Sir C. NAPIER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the Bri tish merchants were in the power of the Chinese, their lives as well as property being at stake. Under such circum stances, although the course pursued by Captain Elliot was honourable to him, yet still neither the late nor the present Government considered the pledges given by Captain Elliot binding. •Compensation could not be obtained from the Chinese government until the cessation of the war, but in the meantime inquiries were proceeding as to the value of the opium destroyed, which lie feared had been greatly ex - Under these circumstances he opposed the aggerated motion. ' Lord PALMERSTON admitted that the merchants had re ceived pledges that her Majesty's Government would en deavour to obtain restitution from the Chinese government, and had been informed that in that case it was only the true value of the opium whiCh could be made good. Under the peculiar circumstances, however, of a great many of the suf ferers, he was of opinion that the money obtained from the Chinese government might be drawn upon to afford them provisional relief. Mr. M. PHILIPS said that until brought to be given up as a ransom for British subjects, the opium was not within the Chinese jurisdiction. Mr. JARDINE said that if the question were viewed in a mercantile light, all the argument lay on the side of the mer chants, who would, he hoped, receive justice at the hands of the Government. Mr. J. A. SatrrH was decidedly favourable to the motion. Mr. C. W. WYNNE was of opinion that if the merchants had not a strictly legal right, they had at all events an equi table claim to compensation. Sir R. PEEL said he rose for the purpose of doing justice to another party—namely, the people of this country. We were embarked in a war with China, with a view to obtain redress for injury and insult, and also to obtain compensa tion for our merchants. Surely, then, the ransom paid for the city of Canton should be appropriated, in the first in stance, to meet the expenses of carrying on the war with vigour; and if compensation should be given at once to the merchants, why, he would ask, should it not be done by a parliamentary grant. Lord J. RUSSELL was of opinion that there were circum stances which entitled the merchants to favourable consider ation, which might be given in a committee of the whole house. On a division the motion was lost by a majority of 87 to 37. Lord G. SOMERSET moved for leave to bring in a bill for the more effectual inspection of houses licensed by the ma gistrates in quarter sessions for the reception of insane per sons in England and Wales. Mr. WAKLEY thanked the noble lord for the attention he had given to this subject ; but his proposal, after all, amounted only to the appointment of two barristers to inspect hospitals for the medical treatment of persons labouring under this dreadful disease. He requested the noble lord to name a distant day for the second reading ; and he (Mr. W.) would then be prepared to enter into the whole subject fully. Lord ASHLEY expressed a wish that Mr. Wakley would enter upon his proposed analysis of the conduct of the me tropolitan commissioners as soon as possible. He thought the appointment of legal examiners a matter of immense importance, and likely to be attended with beneficial results. Lord G. SOMERSET said he should move the second read ing before Easter; but he would give ample time before going into committee. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for a select committee to in quire into the administration of relief to the poor in parishes incorporated under Gilbert's Act, and to report whether it would be expedient or just to repeal those acts for the pur pose of substituting in lieu thereof the Poor-Law Amend ment Act. Captain PECHELL seconded the motion. Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the motion. He had already given notice of a bill on the subject of the poor laws, to be brought in immediately after Easter, which bill went to make several alterations in the existing law, and until that bill was introduced, he did not think it would be well to state the nature of those alterations. MY. WAKLEY said he did not approve of this secret prac tice, the result of which would be to prevent the possibility of ascertaining the feelings of the country upon the proposed alterations before they should have become the law of the land. Mr. C. COLVILLE also disapproved of the silence of the government as respected their intentions relative to the future existence of the Gilbert unions. It was not a manly mode of treating those unions to keep them in ignorance of what they had to fear, in order that they might be unprepared to resist the attack when made upon them. Mr.'S. WORTLEY was not disposed to blame the govern ment so much as other hon. gentlemen on the ministerial side had done, for not disclosing prematurely its intentions. There was nothing unreasonable in the motion, and he should therefore support it. Sir R. PEEL said it was requisite that the house should take an early opportunity of stating explicitly whether it would stand by, or abandon, the principle of the new poor law. As far as the convenience of the government went, it would have been easier for them at once to have agreed to the motion ; but be felt that the new poor law act could never be advan tageously carried while there was a feeling through the coun try that it was doubtful whether the principle of the law itself would be maintained by parliament. It was therefore that he deprecated this committee, as the very worst course that could be pursued, for its effect would be to paralyse existing authorities. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE t in reply, said he was glad to see so many hon. gentlemen, on the ministerial side of the house, prepared to redeem the pledges, respecting the poor laws, which they had given on the hustings. On a division, the motion was rejected by a majority of 108 to 41.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY. The Bishop of DERRY took the oaths and his seat. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from a Roman Ca tholic, who was imprisoned for declining to swear to his ba lance sheet, having conscientious objections to taking an oath. The noble lord th oug ht t h at i n consc i ent i ous scrup l es , affir mations might be allowed, as in cases of Quakers and Mora vians. The Duke of WELLINGTON said the object was to get to the truth, and before he came to any decision on the bill placed upon the table by Lord Denman upon this subject Ile should like to hear the opinions of the judges. In reply to a question from the Earl of MALNIESDURY, as to whether the new timber duties would come into operation on the sth of April, The Earl of RIPON said that the progress of the measure in the other house was so much slower than had been antici pated, that there was little doubt but that the period of those duties coming into operation must be postponed. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. The Hon. James Howard, who was taken into custody for non-attendance at an election committee, was brought up sergeant-at-arms, and after an explanation on his part, was discharged, on payment of his fees. On the motion for going into committee of ways and by the means, Mr. F. BARING entered at great length into the financial condition of the nation, contending that the right hon. bart. had fallen into an error of £lOO,OOO in his statement of .the deficiency in the finances, the deficiency being less by th at amount than the right hon. baronet's calculation. This £lOO,OOO he begged to present to Sir R. Peel as his (Mr. CRUELTY IN A FACTORY The following case came before the bench of magistrates at Halifax, on Saturday last—George Pollard, Esq., being the chairman : A respectable-looking young man, named Jonas Booth, was charged with assaulting Mary Haigh, a delicate little child of about twelve years of age. She said she worked at Mr. Ambler's mill, in Shaw-lane, Ovendon, at which Booth was an overlooker, and the assault consisted in " setting her up," that is, making her hold a brush above her head for an hour and forty minutes ; and when her arms began to be tired and dropped a little, he hit them up again. Her sister proved the case; she said it occurred on Tuesday morning. She herself worked in another room of the mill , but the hands kept coming up and telling her what Bcoth was doing to her sister; and "she bided as long as she could," but at last went down and saw her little sister "set up." In de fence, Booth said the girl "had committed some offence" for which she was turned away, but bee father wanted her to come to work again, and therefore she was accepted on con dition that 'she was first to be punished for what she had done. A - kr. Thomas, the bookkeeper, had set her on the steps, and given her the brush because she was a delicate child and he-thought could not hold the maul, which was generally used in this punishment. He admitted that she stood there above an hour, but said it was her own choice— she might have come down, if she would have submitted to him, and gone on her knees to beg pardon ; but she would not. She was put up at a quarter-past 6, and stood there till after 7. (The sister said it was until about 20 minutes to S.) He denied knocking her arms up when they flagged, but admitted he took hold of the arm and made her hold it The magistrates gave Booth a very severe repri- To " set up " a delicate child for even an hour was a piece of very - great barbarity, which neither Booth nor his master had a right to practice on any working person in the mill. As for ordering the child to go down on her knees 'to beg his pardon, it was a very impudent thing indeed. Work ing people were never intended to go down on their knees to beg pardon of anybody. When they did kneel it was for a different purpose. The sooner, therefore, that practice was discontinued in the mill, the better it would be. The ma gistrates did not sit there for the purpose of saying anything that could lead either children or servants to be refractory, but they must be required to do what they have to do in reason. The father of the child and the constable of the township both testified that Mr. Ambler, the millowner, had declared that Booth - had kept the child up too long; a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes was the time he al lowed. The father also begged the magistrates to hear the " offence" the girl had committed. She had been seized with a looseness while in the-mill. and had gone to the privy rather than stay at her, work and dirty the floor. And for this she was to he punished ! He had a wife and eleven children living; and he could assure their worships he had hard "to keep th' band in t' nick ;;"but he did no wish to work break the laws of h i s country. The magistrates, after some consultation, said that as Booth had acted not from sheer barbarity, but in a very mistaken sense of what he conceived to be his duty, they would (after the lecture he had received) be satisfied with his paying ss. to the little girl's father for the loss of work of his two children, and Gs. the other expenses of the case. bearing • Loss op A SCHOONER WITII ALL BER CREW. — Captain Thoburn, of the Rose Castle, belonging to Blyth, arrived in the river with a cargo of coals, reports that "on. Sunday morning, 'at seven o'clock, the 13th instant, Scarborough, in, with the wind' S.W the wind suddenly changed with a W.S.W. distance from ten to twelve miles, reaching . heavy squall from N.N . '.W , a schooner, about five keels, immediately ap parently all black, with ; standing bowsprit, small topsail and topgallant-sail, was taken all aback, upset, and went down he could not render the crew of the ill-fated schooner the with all on board." Captain Thoburn adds that least assistance, as his vessel " was under no command when the fatal catastrophe happened." 114. at it UtiA AdAriv i v from Lisbon have been received to the inst. After the stirring events which accompanied the proclamation of the gharter, the political horizon had again become serene and 4anquil. The re-establishment of the Tribunal of Cum ciltors of the Treasury, a tribunal which is stated to be quite useless under present circumstances,'as it served only t , • crease the public expenditure and create a larg pert. „ liad produced great division amongst mid fc )veers of the . late chartist movement :e amount of leaders Amongst the new council are several individuals particularly obnoxious to the chartists, amongst whom is Dr. Albeno, who served under Don Miguel ; and another person, who exercised the functions of a magistrate during the usurpation. The chartists, seeing such men preferred to themselves had begun to be clamorous ; and a rumour was abroad that the ministry would resign should her Majesty continue td refuse her sanction to the many decrees, titles, and stars to be distributed amongst the followers of Costa Cabral. The quantity of port-wine ex ported during the month of January last appears by the official returns just published to have been 884 pipes. Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 531 d per milree. The British schooner Alert, Griffin, master, from London to Gibraltar, last from Falmouth, out 20 days, laden with a general cargo of merchandise, put into this port on the 13th instant, leaky, and short of provisions, and will probably have to discharge. TURKEY AND SYRIA The Augsburg Gazette of the 14th instant publishes ac counts from Constantinople of the 23d tilt. The Porte had not yet replied to the note of the Ambassadors relative to the appointment of a Turkish military governor in Leba non. The divan had held a few days before an extraordi nary council, at which all the grand dignitaries of the empire were present, in order to discuss that affair, tut the assembly separated without coming to any decisive resolution. It was, however, decided that Omar Pasha should retain the military governorship of the mountains, until further reconsideration of the matter. If we are to judge from a conversation which had occurred between Sarim Effendi and one of the Euro pean diplomatists, the Porte was determined to evade acqui escing in the demand of the Ambassadors. Sarim had an .nounced to that diplomatist that Ali Effendi and Akif Effendi would shortly depart, the one for London and the other for Vienna, and that they would be both fur nished with the necessary instructions and powers to adjust the Lebanon question in a satisfactory manner. The two envoys, however, would riot, it was expected, leave Con stantinople for two months, and it was calculated that no so lution could be arrived at for at least six months. In the meantime the Maronites were making preparations, should their reclamations be rejected, to attack Omar Pasha in .Der el-Kamar. Several engagements bad already been fought between them and the Druses, of which Omar Pasha had re mained a quiet spectator. It was not believed, however, that he would long observe that neutrality. Since the arrival of the last despatches from Syria, the utmost anxiety seemed to prevail among the ministers of the Porte. Tahir Pasha.elaily repaired to the arsenal to stimulate the zeal of the workmen, whose number had been more than doubled. Sir Stratford Canning was said to be displeased with the reception given to the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem by Tayar Pasha, the governor. He had addressed a formal complaint on the sub ject to the divan, and insisted on the immediate recognition of the bishop by the sultan. The prelate had declined ac cepting the offer of an apartment in Tayar Pasha's palace. in consequence of that functionary affecting to treat him as a mere English traveller, and refusing to recognise him in his episcopal character. AIAURITIUS Mauritius papers to the 25th December have arrived. Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, had opened the secret sittings of the legislature to the public, who were much gratified at thus having the opportunity of watching the proceedings, or re ceiving the sentiments of the members through the medium of the press. A strong effort was made to diminish the vice of drunkenness, and the subject had undergone much discus sion in the assembly. The suggestions to suppress this vice —which had become so extensive as to prevent the possibility of labour beine effectually done—were various, but the most salient was one which went to the gradual decrease, under government regulations, of the spirits allowed to the labourers, for without government intervention it was said there would be little chance of effecting any remedy. The high rate of wages had increased the desire for luxuries among the co loured population. Sugars were rather lower; freights, dis counts, and exchange, the same as last arrival. UNITED STATES The packet-ship Garrick, Captain Skiddy, which sailed from New York on the 28th ult., arrived at this port on Sun day, after a passage of twenty days. In the senate, on the 21st ult., a message was received from the president, transmitting a communication from the secre tary of state, in reply to Mr. Walker's resolution, calling for information relative to the action of the government in the case of the Creole. The documents were read. They con sisted of Mr. Webster's instructions to Mr. Everett, the United States' minister at the court of St. James, in regard to the case of that vessel, and the argument on which the United States' government rests for a demand for redress from the government of Great Britain. The argument was considered able, and it seemed to be perfectly satisfactory to the senators from the south. Mr. Walker expressed his gra titude at the tone and principles of the instructions. They were entirely satisfa c t or y to him, and would be so, he be lieved, to the country. Mr. Calhoun bad heard the docu ments read with great pleasure. The argument occupied the whole ground, and, coming from the source it did, it would put, he hoped, an end to this dangerous and unpleasant con troversy. The documents were referred to the committee on foreign relations. Mr. Webster' s d espa t c h to Mr. Everett first sets forth mi nutely the facts of the case, as they had been officially re ported to the United States government, and it is stated, that the subject will be fully en tered nto with Lrd Ashbur ton, if his powers should be broad enough to o embrace it. The secretary directs, that the attention of Lord Aberdeen shall be called to the case, with a distinct declaration, that, if the facts turn out as stated,- the United States government consider it a clear case for ,indemnification. It is argued, that Nassau being a friendly port, and the brig having been carried thither by force, it was the dut, of the authorities to have assisted in restoring control to the vessel. A mul titude of reasons in favour of the views of the United States government are urged. The United States and England, the two greatest commercial nations in the world, touch each other at innumerable points, and with systems of general jurisprudence essentially alike ; but they differ so widely in their laws respecting personal servitude that, without the exercise, to the fullest extent, of the doctrines of non-interference, the peace of the two countries, and, there fore, that of the world, will always be in danger. Consider ing the many British possessions which lie in the track of the American traders, and the great liability of the American ships to be wrecked on British islands, it is quite essen tial, says the secretary, that the manner in which such vessels and their cargoes shall be treated, whatever the cargoes consist of, should be clearly and fully known. The despatch concludes in the following words :—" In all your communications wi th h er majesty's government, you will seek to impress it with a full conviction of the dange rous importance to the peace of the two countries of oc currences of this kind, and the delicate nature of the question to which they give rise." In the House of Isepresentatives, on the 21st ult., Mr. Allen, of Maine, offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling on the President of the United States, if not in compatible with the public interests, to communicate to the house the state of the negotiations between the United States and Great Britain, in relation to the northern boundary, in the state of Maine ; and also all correspon dence on the subject between the two governments not here tofore communicated. The president sent, on the 26th, a message in answer to the resolution. He informed the house, that, in his then judgment, no communication could be made by him at that time, on the subject of the resolution, without detriment and danger to the public interests. The governor of Massachussets bad sent a message to the legislature also relating to the northeastern boundary. Deeming it probable, that Great Britain might shortly pro bable, that Great Britain might shortly propose a conven tional boundary, he had thought it his duty to bring the sub ject under their consideration, that provision might be made for making known the sentiments of the commonwealth, in case terms of compromise should be discussed with a view to a settlement. " The sentiments of Maine and the United States are unknown to me," said his excellency, " except as disclosed to the public ' • but I do not view it as an impossi bility, that terms may be proposed which will meet the ap probation of both ; and it is for this event 1 would have the 05mmonwealth prepared, that she may assert and vindicate her just rights, and, at the same time, do whatever is consis tent with them to promote an amicable adjustment of the controversy." The money and stock markets of New York had been quiet during the week preceding the sailing of the Garrick. Money was sufficiently abundant, and foreign exchanges were in such a state as to allow of only small shipments of coin. A mode rate business had been transacted in foreign bills. On Eng land the rate was 107 to 108: on France, sf. 27/ to sf. 28/. A run had taken place on the Lafayette Bank, one of the safety-fund banks of New York. But, though it had met the run promptly until noon, the Bank Commissioners served an injunction on the establishment, and its doors were closed. It was expected, that its assets would be more than sufficient to meet its liabilities. _ _ - The State Legislature of Pennsylvania had not finally agreed to the Resumption Bill. It had passed the Senate by a vote of 20 to 11, and been returned to the House of Repre sentatives, where, after having received some amendments, it was ready to be sent to the Senate for concurrence. No doubt was entertained of its becoming law, and the banks of Philadelphia were preparing for the resumption of cash pay ments. Money was, therefore, scarce, and bank facilities were restricted. A bill had been reported in the Assembly from the Committee of_Ways and Means, providing for the prompt and certain payment of - the State interest. -Tel-effect this it is proposed to levy an additional tax to the amount of one and a half millions, which is required to be paid into the Treasury semi-annually, ten days before the first of August, and a like time before the first of February. A meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of the United States had been held, on the 21st ult., at Philadelphia. It was exceedingly stormy, and the proceedings caused great excitement. The first resolution offered was to the effect, that the assignments made by the directors were in violation of the acts incorporating the bank : to which an amendment, or substitute, was offered, to the effect, that the assignments were made in pursuance of authority vested in the directors, and for the best interests of the bank. After a very warm debate, the resolution was carried, on a division, by 204 to 109. After the regular meeting had adjourned, that portion of the stockholders opposed to certain of the proceedings h . eld a meeti ng , an d passe d resolutions for the call of a meet ing on the second Monday in April next. At Philadelphia, United States Bank notes were selling at 60 per cent. below currency ; Pennsylvania Bank 12 to 15 ; Girard, 38 ; country relief notes 13 to 15. Mr. S. Jaudon and Mr. Dunlap, two of the alleged bank conspirators, had been 'released on habeas corpus. The House of Repr esen t a tives of Louisiana had passed, with but one dissenting voice, a resol utio n , declaring that " the state of Louisiana holds her pledged faith as sacred and inviolable : and that they regard a repudiation of State obli gations as unconstitutional and unjust, as repugnant to every principle o 7 honour and common honesty, and as having a direct tendency to deprave private integrity and to corrupt the morals of the p eo pl e ." The Locofcco Committee of the House of Representatives of Mississippi had, on the contrary, made a report on the subject of the State bonds, and had ap pended a resolution solemnly denying any . obligation of the State or the people to pay the bonds. Dui-I'lga debate which succeeded, a Mr. Murchison (Whig), made some remarks which offended one Flournoy, a pro-swindler, who waited till the adjournment, and, providing himself with a large leaden inkstand, threw it at Mr. M. as he was descending the steps. It missed its mark, and struck another person. - Buenos Ayres papers, of the 23d of December, had been received at New York. The Monte Videan brig of war, captured by Admiral Brown's squadron and carried into Buenos Ayres, was the Cagancha, of 14 guns. The crew consisted of 103 persons, of whom five seamen were killed, and eight seamen and one officer wounded. The prisoners were landed, and marched to the Cabildo prison. At the latest date, Brown was off Monte Video, waiting for Coe, who was cruising in the environs of Point Piedras. Few persons, we believe, a re aware that there is a statute unrepealed ( v i z ., 10 Ed w . in., s. 3) which ordains that no man shall he served at dinner or supper with more than two courses, except on great holidays (those specified), on which he may be served with three. COLTIIT CMUCTLitt—Soxtmv The Queen Albert honogred the Arch'o,2 Canterbury and Mrs. Howley with a visit on litaturciaY, at Lambeth Palace. Her Majesty and his royal Buckingham Palace, attended by the Collates of QhArle- ont, lady in waiting ; Lady Caroline Cocks, maid of honour in waiting ; the Earl of Jersey, master of the horse ; the Marquis of Exeter, groom of the stole to his royal highness; Viscount Hawarden, lord in waiting ; Sir Frederick Stovin , g room in waiting ; Colonel Buckley, equerry to his royal highness. The royal partyoccupied three carriages. Her Majesty and Prince Albert partook of a dOeline, to including the Duke of Wellington, the twit and Lady Peel, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomtield, had been honoured with invi tations. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite, afterwards returned to'Buckingharn Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert attended Divine ser vice, yesterday afterndon, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Mr. Haden read the service; Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. Lord Colville and Sir Edward Bo water were in waiting on his royal highness. The MaTquis of Salisbury; the Earls Delawarr and Sheffield, and Lords Lovaine, Ashley, and De Tabley, were among the nobility present. Her lioyal Highness the DucheSs of Kent visited her Ma jesty on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, rode out on horseback on Saturday. The royal dinner patty at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday evening, included the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Baron de Neumann, the Marquis of Anglesey, Lady Fanny Howard, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Lady Catherine Jermyn, and Viscountess Villiers. Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge visited the Queen yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lord Col ville and Sir Edward•Bowater, and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cam bridge, visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Prince George of Cambridge paid a visit to her Majesty on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Augusta and Mary of Cambridge at tended divine service yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured Christ's Hospital with a visit yesterday evening Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the National tiallery on Saturday, _ _ - Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge honoured. the Countess of Jersey with their company on Friday even ing, at her residence in Berkeley-square. THE INCOME-TAX (From yesterday's Times.> The strong feeling of opposition to the income-tax, which. was so manifest a few days ago, seems to have somewhat abated in the city. That the tax is in itself an odious one,. and that no modification of its details can render it free from. causing much personal inconvenience, is, however, admitted. as strongly as ever. Some, who it. should be observed are• persons of the highest standing in the city, have been heard. to remark that they hope the precautions taken against frauds in the returns will be sufficiently stringent, so that while conscientious persons are paying their full amount, those who are fraudulently disposed may not cast the bur den from their own shoulders. The placing of commissioners at the \Vest-end of the town, and the selection of such men as would not naturally feel a great interest in the affairs of their neighbours, may possibly alleviate the dislike which.' many felt to the working of the old income-tax, when parties. in the immediate neighbourhood of the taxpayers could use their position as a means of gratifying an idle curiosity, or perhaps of carrying out some important object. These are, however, such mere details of the measure that it is scarcely possible, until the machinery of the system is better known, to test public opinion fully on this head. The opinion re specting the line of demarcation to be drawn between termi nable and permanent annuities, which was so prominently brought forward at the Bank meeting on Thursday, and on which Sir Robert Peel so decidedly expressed his views last night, does' not seem at all altered. since while a permanent annuity is looked upon as income in the legitimate sense of the word, a terminable one is considered .a payment of capital in instalments. On this day se'nnight the speech of Sir Robert Peel had taken the public by surprise, and all were disposed to admire it ; then came reflection on the personal inconvenience of the income tax, which produced a strong reaction, and a pretty marked dislike of the measure. Both these feelings seem to have subsided, and to have been succeeded by a de termination to wait patiently for further details to balance the different effects of the proposition, and, if it can be proved that a greater good can be produced by a lesser evil, to submit quietly to the latter, or at any rate only to aim at modifications in such parts of the machinery of the system as may seem oppressive or anomalous. ACTION BY A BETH LEM PATIENT FOR FALSE IMPRISONM ENT. HOBDAY V. DAVIES AND OTHERS At the Maidstone Assizes on Saturday, an action was brought by the plaintiff, a tallow-chandler at Woolwich, who had been twice an inmate of Bethlem Hospital, against Thomas Davies, his father-in-law ; James Bassett, his brother-in-law ; and James Bull, one of his most intimate friends—for falsely and maliciously confining plaimiff in Bethlem as an insane person, and keeping him for the space of twelve weeks, from the 29th of May, 1841. The plaintiff, who is about forty years of age, of short stature, conducted his own case, assisted by an attorney. _ . _ .. Mr. Platt, Mr. Ryland, and Mr. Simon were counsel for the defendant Davies; Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Es pinasse, for Bassett and Bull. __. The plaintiff made` an opening speech to the jw-y. in which, he detailed the injuries he conceived himself to have re ceived. He said the jury were aware that for the Bethlem Hospital, like other public institutions, there were public dinners, et which . the 'number of patients adinitted and those discharged cured were paraded, and, of 'course, the' more sane persons were admitted the more Fane persons would be discharged. On this account it was thqtiie attri buted there being no opposition to his own,reception, which was effected by means of a petition 'from his wife. On his re lease, however, he found that it was not his wife who had been instrumental in procuring his incarceration, but the de fendants. He also asserted that the officers of Woolwich garrison were concerned in it, and, indeed, he believed that the Admiralty authorities had conspired against him, and also the Board of Ordnance. He then called his witnesses, not fewer than thirty-nine in number. The first was the coach man that drove the party to Bethlem on the second occa sion when plaintiff was placed there, to which alone this action referred. The next witness was Mr. 'Appleby, formerly inspector of the Woolwich Dockyard police, who, with other policemen, assisted in taking•plaintiff to Bethlem, acting by the instructions of the defendant Davies, who accompanied the party. On the 29th May, 1840, he went to the plantiff 's house, where he saw Mrs. Hobday, who said she hoped her husband would not be taken away, for there was nothing the matter with him, and she was sorry for what she had done, referring to her having signed the petition for his removal. On being made acquainted with their business, plaintiff trade no resistance, but voluntarily entered the coach, saying " she had done it all, and would repent of it." He.was taken to Bethlem ' and after being examined by the apothecary, was admitted. This witness, as well as several others, who gave similar evidence, said they saw no symptoms of insanity about the plaintiff. Matthew Evans stated that he bad been a patient at Beth lem, where he saw the plaintiff, and, like him, he had com menced an action against the parties who put him there. His examination by the plaintiff afforded a most extraordinary scene—the witness, in a state of the most painful excitement, describing his supposed :wrongs. He declared with great earnestness and gesticulation that the papers, on the strength of which he had been confined, had all been signed, as a matter of course, by parties who had never known him— that he had been three times hanged by the neck till anima tion was suspended—that he had been drugged with tarta rised antimony, and that now his relations had quarrelled, and were going to law amongst themselves for confining him. Samuel Davies, another Bethlem patient, was next called. Baron Alderson.—Mr. Hobday, I am desirous of serving you. Your calling such witnesses will not tend to convince the jury that you are of sound mind. Plaintiff said he was desirous of showing that what were attributed to him as delusions were realities. He then went on to ask the witness about some revelations which lie as serted had been made to him from heaven in dreams. Baron Alderson.—Do you really believe that these things were revealed to you in dreams? Plaintiff. —Undoubtedly, my lord. Baron Alderson.—Gentlemen of the jury, here is a person who says that it was revealed to him in a dream that his wife had cantharides administered to her for un infamous purpose —what do you think ? However, the jury made no sign, and the cause proceeded. The witness stated that Mr. Hobday told him he was one day going to Herne Bay in the steamer when he saw Abra ham on board, and also a younger person with a glory round his head, who was our Saviour. His Lordship.—The cause ought to be stopped. I think it is quite wrong to let it go on. Plaintiff.—My lord, suppose St. Paul were living now, he would assuredly be considered a madman. _ _ His Lordship.—He was considered mad, but he proved his authority by working miracles. Plaintiff.—ls it not a miracle to tell a man his propensi ties? Don't yon remember what was said to Elynias, " thou seed of the evil one." This was known by looking in his eyes. My lord, we profess to he Christians in these days. The early church possessed this faculty. The confessional proves that—because it was not, as is now the case, that the penitent told the minister his sins, but the minister told the penitent his propensities. One of the Jury.—Have we no power to put an end to this, my lord ? His LORDSHIP.—I have, gentlemen, and I shall do so. Call the plaintiff. Plaintiff. —My lord, I claim my right to bring forward evi dence to prove my sanity. May Idoso ? His LORDSH I P.—l caniwt prevent you./ Have you any further evidence against Basset and Bull? Plaintiff replying in the negative, His LORDSHIP directed a verdict to be taken in favour of those two defendants. Plaintiff then called John Sharp and several other wit nesses, who said they had never seen anything in him indica tive of unsound mind • but on being asked by his lordship what they thought of his present exhibition, some said they had no doubt now that he was . insane, though others consi dered him merely excited. Mr. Platt then addressed the jury for the defendant. The learned counsel called a witness in support of his case, but while he was under examination the jury intimated that they had heard enough ; but his lordship said they must now hear it out. Some other witnesses were then called. The jury again expressed their full conviction that defend ant was entirely justified in what he had done, and a verdict to that effect was then given. At the conclusion of this case, his Lordship said he hoped he should never again see a court of justice transformed into an additional ward of Bethle►n Hospital. At Covent Garden market last Tuesday there was a very good supply of new potatoes, at from 9d. to 2s. per lb. PICTURES IN NEWSPAPERS.—Some journalists delight in presenting their readers with ugly engravings of murderers, favourite race-horses, royal christenings, and other objects of .publie interest. The following facts which came out on a trial in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday last, will sbew the public how they are gulled and imposed upon by many of these productions. It appeared that an engraving, speciniens of which were shewn in court, was executed in 1839, of a mare called." Bee's-wing," well known in the sporting world. The engraver was Mr. Charles Hunt, and the owner and publisher the plaintiff. The defendant was the publisher of a weekly newspaper, and in the publication of the Gth of June, 1841, the defendant gave what was en titled, " a portrait of Coronation, the winner of the Derby in 1841," which turned out to be an accurate and exact copy of the plaintiff's engraving of the mare " Bee's-wing." This reminds us of the editor of a local journal who being anxious to have an engraving of a celebrated murderer, and not hav ing the opportunity of obtaining a likeness of that individual, volunteered his own amiable self to the artist, and was duly called " to the bar." TRACTATLIANISM ANT) PROTESTANTISM. IS TUE WAY TO ROME (From the Record.) most lamentable controversy has been carried on for same weeks past between Mr. Sibthorp, on the one hand, and Messrs. Dodsworth and Palmer, on the other. Lament able, we mean, for the cause of truth and of the Church of nil/land. which, in the hands of such champions as these last-named gentlemen, cannot but suffer the most open and manifest defeat. We purpose not. however, to enter into a question, the full merits of which, within our confined limits, could never be made intelligible. Vse merely allude to it fi.r purpose of noticim^ a most fallacious, and, we cannot help saying, very impertinent passage, which Mr. Dodsworth places commencement of his first Letter. Indeed, from the, em phasis with which it is given (with italics, capitals, &c.,) we cannot help suspecting that its publication was a chief object with Mr. D., in addressing Mr. Sibthorp at all. " You have-omitted to state circumstances which, I have no doubt, seemed to you unimpertant, but which must be regarded as exercising a very important influence on your recent change. You do not mention •ritit SCHOOL OF RE LIGION into which you were thrown for by tar the larger period of your ministration in the Church of England. This omission, the privilege of formerly enjoying your acquaint ance, enables me in a measure to supply. You were or dained, I believe, as curate to the Rev. John Scott, of Hull, the son of the Calvinistic commentator on the Bible, who inherited, along with his father's piety, the peculiar doctrines of his school. I remember you at that time an ardent, de voted minister, zealously preaching (so called) Low-Church doctrines, a great favourite with Dissenters, and an eloquent speaker at Bible Societies, &c. * * " In a later period of your Protestant life you became the colleague of Mr. Baptist Noel, in the ministry of St. John's College, Bedford-row. * * * " Why do I recal these incidents in your religious history ? Not, 1 am sure you will believe, that I may remind you of anything personally offensive to you, but because a knowledge of these facts is essential in order to show the nature of your transition from Protestantism to Romanism, and because these circumstances will, in the minds of many p k ersons, . afford the best explanation of the change. " It is nothing new to say, that one extreme leads to ano ther, or that the way to Rome is through Geneva."—p. 6-9. Mr. Dodsworth here asserts, that his object in adverting to these circumstances, is, "to show the nature of Mr. Sibtlirp's transition," and to remind us " that the way to Rome is through Geneva." To which we reply, that if Mr. D. has really so far injured his reasoning powers, by the study of Tractarian casuistry, as to be capable of seriously believing that Mr. Sibthorp's " Low Church" opinions led him into Romanism, it is quite time that he left off inflicting his advocacy on any cause. But it is indeed taxing one's credulity to an extreme point, to be obliged to deal with such representations with gravity and courtesy at all. Let us try the same mode of reasoning on a different case. A. B. goes to Mr. Dodsworth's chapel, perhaps from 18'31 to 1835; joins the congregation in all religious ordinances; cultivates Mr. D.'s acquaintance; expresses an interest in serious things • and, in short, is reckoned by all who know him as one of ? Mr. D.'s followers. A. B. in 1836 gets into some attractive but dangerous ' society ; loses his relish for religion ; becomes first gay, then dissipated ; and by degrees falls into open profligacy, joined, as it usually is, by a profession of infidelity. Now what would Mr. Dodsworth say, if the relatives of this last young man were everywhere to declare that the real cause of his ruin was to be traced to his connection with that congregation ? What, if they were gravely to assert, that " the best explanation of the change" was to be found in " the school of religion" to which he had attached himself some ten years back ? Yet this would be exactly the same sort of reasoning which Mr. Dodsworth himself applies to Mr. Sibthorp's case. The " best explanation" of his change of views, we are told, is not to be found by inquiring, as all reasonable men would, what he had been doing in 1841 ? what in 1840 ?_ what in 1839? &c., but by going back some ten or fifteen years, to find out what was then his bias. Every one sees at a glance that this is not a rational mode of proceeding, nor would it be convenient even to Mr. Dods worth himself or his Oxford friends. It was of Dr. Pusey himself that t.._ observed, in 1828, that— " Mr. Pusey avows what, in the cant phrase of the day would be called, very liberal opinions' in theology." Nor was Mr. Newman, we believe, at that time reckoned at all a " high churchman." Was Mr. Dodsworth himself; when he first became resident in London, quite free from Presbyterian and Irvingite con nexions? His friend, Mr. Drummond, assuredly was not. lie also, like' Mr. Dodsworth, is now becoming a zealous Tractarian. But how many " conventicles" has he been instrumental in raising? Surely Mr. Dodsworth must see that in this way no satis faction is to be obtained. Instead of "furnishing the best explanation" of any man's change, a reference to his views a dozen years since will generally only lead to delusion and a mistaken view of the case. Any man of common sense and ordinary experience, if he found that a friend of his had been seduced into Romanism, would not waste his time in asking what he had been doing ten or twelve years back. " Tell me," he would say, " what books he had been reading—what companions he had been associating with, RECENTLY." Now, the facts of Mr. Sibthorp's case, as every one knows, are these. A dozen years ago he was what Mr. Dodsworth calls `,`. a low churchman." If he had remained in that mind he would never even have approximated towards Romanism. He would have known no danger, no seduction of the kind. It was when he was " a low churchman" that he preached and printed that sermon against Popery, which recent events have naturally recalled into notice. But during the last five years lie has been gradually changing into a " high church man." H e has become a student of the Tracts for the Times, and a follower of their instructions. He has setup down the candles, and crosses, and an " altar" in his chapel ; put singing of hymns, and substituted chaunting by a hired choir; and, in a sermon at Oxford, he designated the miserable woman who burnt to death in England. in the short space of about five years, an archbishop, four bishops, twenty-one clergymen, fifty-five women, and above two hundred other persons—" the calumniated Mary I" Mr. Sibthorp, then, had changed from a " LOW Church man" into a " High Churchman ;"—from a supporter of the Bible and Tract Societies, into a student of the Oxford 1 7 racts ;—from a preacher of Reformation doctrines, into an apologist for Queen Mary. Now, upon Mr. Dodsworth's hypothesis, he ought to have been thus getting further and further from Rome, and rendering his apostacy to Popery more and more improbable. But, in our opinion, he seemed to be rapidly approaching Rome, and rendering his fall into her arms a thing to be expected.. Which of these views has been justified by the event ? One other observation, and we have done. " Low Church principles." according to Mr. Dodsworth, " lead men to apostatize to Popery ; the way to Rome is irough Geneva." Of course, then, all the " Low Churchmen," to whose party Mr. Sibthorp formerly belonged, are in danger of fall ing into Popery. Mr. Baptist Noel, for instance, and the Scotts, and the abettors of the Religious Tract Society, upon whom, specifically, Mr. Dodsworth lays the blame of Mr. Sibthorp's secession—these must all be, themselves, in great danger ! We would seriously ask Mr. Dodsworth—Does he really believe all these absurdities? On the other hand, safety against the blandishments of Rome is to be looked for in " High Church principles." Had Mr. S. been brought up in High Church views, argues Mr. Dodsworth, he would never have become a Papist. But what say the facts which on every side surround us ? Does experience indeed show, that Tractarianisna keeps peo ple out of Popery ? or does it. not show quite the reverse ? Dr. Pusey, and Messrs. Newman and Keble, are among the leading members of a committee, lately formed, for print ing what they term a "Library ofAnglo- Catholic Theology." This library is to consist of the works of Laud and Heylin ; of Hickes and Leslie and other Nonjurors ; of Hammond, Thorndike, &c. We turn to Dr. Pusey's recent Letter to the Primate, and at page 36 we find that Mr. Gooch, of Oxford, who has recently left Mr. Newman's church for the Popish chapel, ascribes the change to his private study of Hammond, .he late Mr. H. J. Rose Thorndike," §Lc. - Again, we take up the British Critic* of October, 1841, and there we read the following panegyric : " Mr. Sibthorp's sermon on the commemoration of foun der:3 and benefactors, preached in Magdalen College Chapel, on the feast of St. John the Baptist, is a beautiful instance of the revival of Catholic recollections," &c.—P. 510. In less than three months after, we find this same Mr. Sibthorp becoming a professed Papist. Once more :—On the very same page of the October Bri tish Critic, we meet with another notice in these words : " Bishop AV Ilvaine's work on Oxford Divinity has raised up a very sufficient antagonist in the person of Mr. Vanbrugh Livingstone, of New York, whose Remarks on the Oxford Theology, chiefly in connexion with the doctrine of justifica tion by faith, appear very much to the purpose." Again we find the road to lie, not " through Geneva," but through Oxford, to Rome. Mr. Livingstone, to the great satisfaction of the Tractarians, replies, or professes to reply, to Bishop M'llvaine. But what follows? Mr. Livingstone finds, like Mr. Sibthorp, that Tractarianism and Church-of- Englandism are not reconcilable. Mr. Livingstone, like Mr. Sibthorp, has become a Papist We trace all these parlies, then, distinctlyirom Tractarian ism into Popery. Can Mr. Dodsworth furnish us with a single instance of a low churchman who has lapsed into Ito_ wish error, except by first yielding to the selections of Tree tarianism * A. publication advocating extreme tractarian views CHASE AND CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR (Fronz the Preston Pilot.) On Sunday morning, about half-past 'five o'clock, the attention of Joshua \Yardley, the Market-place watchman, was attracted to a light which seemed to be moving backwards and forwards in the shop of Messrs. Wilson and. Jesper, tailors and drapers; Cheapside, which be regarded for some time, and on going near the premises he felt satisfied ticat some.unlawful visitor had gained admission, whereupon he dispatched a person to Mr. Jesper's, in Cross-street, to give notice of the discovery, he himself going to the back part of the premises, to watch the exit of the marauder if he should attempt to make one. On looking up he saw one of the room windows open, through which it is supposed an entrance had been effected, and at which the man intended to make his escape ; as, however, on corning to it for that purpose, he perceived that his motions were observed by Wardley, he suddenly retreated, and presently afterwards was heard break ing the skylight on the roof, and he succeeded in getting through it on the house top. His next attempt was to gain a sale footing on terra firma ; but as he was closely pursued by Wardley and others who were drawn to the spot, he fore bore to hazard a descent for a full half-hour, during which he wandered along the roots of different houses, but could never succeed in baffling his pursuers, amounting by this time to about twenty in number. As, however, further delay seemed only to increase the difficulties by which he was sur rounded, lie determined at all hazards to make a descent, and he accordingly effected one from the roof of Mr. Thorn ley's house, arid having gained the ground he went with all speed into Mr. Sumnet s yard, and made his way into a building used as a clogging shop, closely followed by the watchful pack in pursuit. Finding then that the clogging shop lc as no safe retreat, he bolted through one of the win dows and thence made his way into Mr. Wren's yard, and by this double he succeeded in putting his pursuers at fault for a short time ; but the trick was not to be permitted to be ulti mately successful, for although he had baffled the biped pack, a more sagacious quadruped, a dog of Mr. Burrow's, gun smith, gave note of alarm that he had intruded himself into forbidden ground, and the musical sound at once attracted Wardley to the spot, when he had his game in view• and again the exciting chase was resumed, the pursued and pur suers almost clearing the wall dividing the back premises of Mr. Burrow and the garden of Mr. Manchester, into which they both got, and then on a shade at the end of the garden, on which they were both at the same time. It now became evident that the sport must speedily terminate, as all possible chance of escape was cut off, Wardley being close up in the rear, and others of the pursuers ready to snatch him the moment he made the fatal leap off the shade. But he deter mined to die game, and, like the " 'prentice boys of Derry," make " no surrender," and acting on this desperate resolve, he boldly dared to gain the ground, and was then captured by a man named Brown, a nailor. A meeting of the friends of Mr. Oastler was held in Lon don on Thursday last, Lord Feverslnim in the ch a ir, for the pur p ose o f-forwarding the subscription now raising for the benefit of Mr. Oastler and his family. The formation of committees in the various towns through the country was strongly recommended. DEATH OF' THE EARL OF MACCLESFIELD ri urn Yeslt t.lor:eing Herald We regret to announce the demise of the above venerable nobleman, who expired last evening at 20 minutes past seven, at his town residence in Conduit street. _ . — The earl has for some-months past been confined to his bed, indeed ever since his paralytic attack last summer, by which he completely lost the use of one side. Since then the noble earl, although he enjoyed an excellent appetite, was considered, perhaps, one day rather better, and another worse, hut Dr. Holland, and his other medical attendants, held out no hopes of his ultimate recovery, from the advanced age of their noble patient. On Wednesday the noble earl bad a relapse. and the Countess of Haddington (his lordship's only child), wiis im mediately sent for, and since that day her ladyship has been a constant attendant on her venerable father. _ Yesterday the countess stayed with her father the whole of the day, and about six o'clock returned to the Admiralty to. dine. At seven o'clock the most alarming symptoms made their appearance, and a messenger was despatched for the countess ; but although her ladyship instantly left the Admi ralty for Conduit-street, the earl had expired. The deceased, George Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, county Chester, Viscount Parker of Ewelme, county Oxford, and Baron Parker of Macclesfield, in the peerage of Great Britain, was eldest son of Thomas, third Earl of Macclesfield, by Mary, eldest daughter of the late Sir William Heathcote, Bart. Ile was born the 24th of February, 1755, and had con sequently attained the great age of 87 years. The deceased, who succeeded to the title 9th of February, 1795, married 25th May, 1780, Mary Frances, second daughter and co-heir of the late Rev. Thomas Drake, D.D., and by her ladyship, who died in 1823, the noble earl had issue, Lady Maria, born 23d January, 1781 (the Countess of Haddingtou), and the Hon. George, who died when an infant. ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY Mr. Pim's important letter fo the Earl of Ripon, praying an investigation into the system of atmospheric locomotion on railways, has had the effect of producing a very interesting report on the subject, which has just been presented to both Houses of Parliament by the noble President of the Board of Trade, and which we lose no time in laying before our readers. The prayer of Mr. Pim's letter, to which we owe this im portant investigation, was couched in the following terms : " May I, therefore, beg your lordship, in your official ca pacity as President of her Majesty's Board of Trade and Plantations, to submit this letter to your right honourable board, accompanied by my respectful but earnest request, that they may be pleased to refer it to such persons as their lordships may select, to inquire into the several statements herein contained, and to report to your lordships fully thereon, and particularly, whether this invention is entitled to a fur ther and more extended trial, under suitable superintendence; and that your lordships may also make such other and fur ther orders in the premises, as the important interest here with condected may appear to your lordships to demand." In order, therefore; clearly to follow the report of Sir Frederick Smith and Professor Barlow, to whom the conduct of this inquiry was entrusted, we must shortly recapitulate the statements of Mr. Pim's letter, and for this purpose our own original summary of its contents will probably suffice : " We have here all the conditions required for avoiding the various inconveniences to which the present system is sub; ject. We have, first, a moving power which loses no part of its efficiency in consequence of pulling up-hill; and which, therefore, will admit of such inclines as at present no engineer would think of surmounting, and so in the very first step save an outlay - of at least sixty per cent. in the primary construc tion of the works. Next, we have a power which works, pro tempore, only in one direction, hod so precludes collision. It holds the carriages down to the railway itself while it moves them along, and thus prevents any chance of their slipping off the rail. It has no travelling furnace, and so no risk of explosion. It gets rid of the enormous cost in wear and tear of moving its own weighty machinery backward and forward at every trip. Occupying a pipe on the bed of the road, it requires bridges and tunnels only large enough to admit the carriages ; it works with ordinary fuel, and saves the immense expense of making coke ; and, finally, it is capa ble of attaining a much greater velocity than can at present be attemped.'—Dublin Evening Mail, Dec. 24. Any one who will take the trouble of referring to the ob servations which we offered on this subject on the above date, and on the succeeding 27th, will perceive that, in the condi tion which we have stated first in our category—namely, the fact of the proposed moving power " losing no part of its effi ciency in consequence of pulling up-hill"—lies the founda tion of most of those alleged advantages, in point of cheap ness of construction, for which the advocates of the atmos pheric system contend; for it is expressly in conseqiience of that loss of power in pulling up-hill under the present sys tem, that our engineers are forced to cut so deep and to em bank so high, in order that the locomotive may have as little up-hill as possible to contend with. Now, the report expressly admits the two material facts— first, that this loss of power does affect the locomotive; and, secondly, that this loss of power does not affect the atmos pheric system : " That a great part of the power of a heavy locomotive engine is expended in overcoming its own gravity and re sistance in ascending steep planes, is certainly true; and it is equally true, that on the atmospheric principle the whole additional force is exerted on the load itself" This granted, we would have concluded that the consequent and, as it seems to us, inseparable advantages which we have enumerated in our summary, would have been conceded as a matter of course • but this the report seems t o ques ti on ver y much ; for, immediately after conceding the first proposition, it goes on to say : " This is, unquestionably, an advantage, but still we think its importance has been greatly overrated. . "The patentees propose to work steep inclines by means of larger tubes, but this would involve the "necessity of stop ping the train at the foot.of such planes, and of having.again to overcome the inertia of the load, in both instances causing loss of time." Certainly, stopping the train at the foot of every incline would be a very bungling proceeding ; but we see no neces sity for concluding that such is the proposal of the patentees frOm anything contained in Mr. Pim's letter, and certainly no necessity whatever for so stupid a proceeding need exist in practice ; so that, as this is really the only one of the al leged advantages flowing directly from the first conceded principle that has been at all called in question in this re port, we must conclude that the allegations of Mr. Pim's letter, in respect of cheapness of construction consequent on the principle alluded to, stand admitted. Next, as a consequence of having got rid of a heavy Iced motive, the patentees'allege that they have got rid of the ne cessity of employing rails so weighty and expensive as those now in use. The report, in a very singular manner, admits and denies, and re-admits this all in a breath : _ . " It is said that, having got rid of the heavy locomotive en gine, the rails will admit of a very considerable reduction in weight. We believe that the atmospheric principle will be found to present no such great advantage, for the heavy rails which, in the progress of the railway system, have been in troduced into use, have not been adopted solely for the pur pose of strength, hut also for the sake of the firm and steady bearing they afford, and the consequent easiness of motion and correspondent diminution in the wear and tear of the engine and carriages." [This is curious reasoning ; in the propoSed system there is to be no engine.] •` Mr. Samuda claims a reduction of thi4 amount in con sequence of the diminished weight of rails which he pro poses to use, but we cannot concur with him in thinking that the rail can be reduced with safety from .731bs. to 301bs. per yard. We are ready, however, to admit that it may be re duced to 561b5." Really these objections seem to be of little, if any weight ; and we can only attribute them to the cautiousness natural to men dealing for the first time with an untried subject. The remainder of the report exhibits ability and candour. It corroborates the allegation of Mr. Pim's letter as to the almost perfect safely of the system, and suggests a very use ful addition to the apparatus, which would wake it perfectly and absolutely safe.—Dublin Evening Mail. ULSTER RAILWAY On Wednesday last there was a meeting of the proprietors of this company, held at the directors board room, Belfast, James Goddard, Esq. in the chair, who read the notice con vening the meeting, after which the chairman proceeded to read the report. _ The following is a summary of the traffic for the last six months, distinguishing the several periods during which it was conducted, on portions of the line different in extent: Passengers. Ist Sept. till 7th N0v.... 64,120.. 43,688. Bth Nov. till 30th Jan... 66,056.. 3,042, 31st Jan; till 28th Feb... 37,364.. 1,262. Parcels. Total. .. £66.... £1,755 .. 379.... 3,242 .. 272.... 1,535 Amounting t 0.... 167,540 £5,994 £7lB £6,712 To thiS total the directors have the following items to add, viz.: Amount of former dividends declared upon 688 shares, which have been forfeited, and cannot now be claimed And amount of register fees received 226 5 0 51 15 0 Making in all £6,990 15 1 Deducting therefrom the amount with which the " Traffic Account" is to be debited, as per annexed statement 4,696 11 6 There appears a balance, applicable to the pay n ent of a dividend, of £2,294 3 7 And out of this sum, the directors feel themselves at liberty to recommend to the proprietors, the declaring of a dividend of 4s. per share, as that will leave a balance of .f. 192 Ils. id. to be added to the reserved fund, which already amounts, as appears by the statement of accounts, to £764 17s. 11d. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (Prom the Oxford Herald.) NEW PROFESSORSHIPS.—Whereas, her Majesty has gra ciously intimated her royal will and intention to found two new Theological Professorships in this University, and by an act of parliament passed in the session holden in the 3d and 4th years of her Majesty's reign, it is provided that the said professorships shall eventually be endowed with two car on ries of Christ Church ; and whereas it is earnestly desired that letters patent should be obtained as soon as possible constituting the said professorships, and enabling the uni versity to make regulations for the due government thereof, and that with a view thereto stipends should be provided ad interim for the two professorships after their nomination by the crown : in a convocation holden on Thursday last, at twelve o'clock, it was agreed to grant to each of the said professors the sum of £3OO per annum, as a stipend ad interim, to be paid to each of them by half-yearly payments from the time when he shall be appointed to his office, to the time when he shall succeed to the canonry assigned to his professorship by the above-mentioned act of parliament; the sum to be provided out of the moneys transferred in the year 1836 to the general purposes of the university from the fuuds of the university press. The Rev. Frederic Pyrular Lowe, M.A., Fellow of Mag dalene College, has been presented by the President and Fellows of that society to the Rectory of Saltfleetby, All Saints, in the county of Lincoln, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Wheeler. The Rev. Beresford Lowther, 8.A., formerly of Exeter College, Rector of Vow Church, Hereford, has been ap pointed Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Lowther. The Rev. R. C. Windham, 8.A., of Brasenose College, has been appointed by his brother, the High Sheriff of Nor folk, to be his Chaplain. The Rev. Edmund Larken, M.A., of Trinity College, has been appointed by Lord Monson one of his Lordship's Do mestic Chaplains. The Rev. F. A. Marriott, M.A., of Oriel College, to the ii ectory of Cottesbach, Leicester shire ; patron, the Rev. R. Marriott. PROMOTIONS Rev. George Carter, formerly Fellow Commoner of Queen's College, Cambridge, Minister of the Upper Town Chapel, Boulogne, has been appointed by Viscount Canterbury to be one of his Lordships Chaplains. _ . Ray, formerly a Preacher among the Inde pendents, having been ordained Priest by the Bishop of Chester, has been appointed to the Curacy of the Parish Church of Kendal, and will commence his duties on Trinity Sunday. Archdeacon Wilberforce has been appointed Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Yorkshire. Rev. T. \Vhitworth, to the Rectory of Addlethorpe, Lin colnshire; vacant by the resi gnat i on of the Rev. T. Bain bridge ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. Charles Miller, Curate of Derrynoose, to the Perpe tual Curacy of Ballymakenny ; patron, the Lord Primate. Rev. W. Badbam, to the Curacy of Magherally, county of Down, Ireland.