The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

iimprrial parliament. HOUSE OF COMMONS MONDAY :f-Sir H. DOUGLAS rose, purseant:to notice, and at con siderable length called the attention,of the house to the case of medical officers, surgeons, arid paymasters of regi ments, who have not been included inthe warrant issued in July, 1846, consequent upon theuxotion made in April, -1845; for an improved retirement to a-limited number of medical officers, and all officers efuteghnental staff, to ex tend .to them, in limited numbers, thehenefits conferred by warrants dated 1840 to limited numbers of officers of all other branches and arms of the service; which motion appeared to receive the unanimous approbation and sup port ofthe committee, and was °My withdrawn on an ex press assurance that the proposition, for an improved re tirement-to all officers of regimental staff, would be taken into favourable consideration. The hon. member con eluded his address by stating, that having called attention to the subect he felt satisfied in leaving the result to the consideration of the house and her Majesty's government. ,Mr...F.4lAutu said the question was 'flue of such vast importancoin relation to the public semice,that he called upon the house to pause before it agreedtto any motion of the hon. member for Liverpool. After a short conversation the subject dropped. Mr.Wimitt intimated th a t it was i n t e nded—to limit the time of service for ships on that station to two years. The Houseo.aen went into Committee of ',Supply upon the, nayy e.stunr.tes, whereupon Mr. WlLiAdosii called the attention of the committee and Government to the in efficient state ekmany of the ships in the , service, and in ,veighed against the yearly increasing estimates for the naval departments, which he mainly attributed to the ogross, jobbing, wlrich took place in the dockyards., and to rthe extravagant wienditure of which they were thescene. Lord Its6EsTniz agreed with the honourableAnd gal lant gentleman ; that in some instances our doOkyards had .bean the _scene. of ; gross and wasteful expenditure,., and conwhipented the, Oevernment on the efforts which they ,were making to put, an end to an extravagance which was tirAin upon the, exchequer and a detriment to the ser vice. He then addnoEd several instances in which he maintained that our naval architecture had been at fault, And: poioted out the, necessity of having none but scientific men : acting in the capacity of officers in our dockyards. He concluded by suggesting to the Admiralty the pre priety of procuring a naval survey to be made of the Islands ,composing .the colony of New Zealand, without which, life,and property:l)6ll,2ot be safe upon its coast. Mr. WAAL, would not ent. into the vexata guestio of shipA3uilding, on which such .e diversity of opinion ap waxed to ,prewil, but intimated that the suggestions of the nahle ,lord „embraced .points which were already re ceiviaff the.a4,Niats attention of :tile Government. .14OUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY Mr. WA,LPQLE attained leave to bei,az in a bill to amend the law 4 r the registxation of persons entitled to vote for the electian of merabeza to serve in parliament for England and Wales, Mr. Mmerz then moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable retail brewers, in the midland counties, to keep open their hoases till twelve o'clock at night, the me tropolitan brewers Are permitted to do. Sir G. GREY did not see the necessity for such -a mea sure, and could not, therefore, assent to the motion. It did not necessarily follow that the time for which zeta,ll brewers in London were allowed to keep their houses open would be a reasonable time to extend to those in the country districts. Mr. MUNTZ would not give way, and on pressing his motion to a division, it was negatived by a vote of 77 to 4. Mr. CHRISTIE then moved for leave to bring in a bill to remove doubts as to Quakers' and Jews' marriages, solemnised before the 2nd day of March 1837. Leave was given. HOUSE OF COMMONS .-WEDNESDAY On the order of the day for going into committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, Sir R. INGLIS renewed his opposition to the measure, On the ground that it had a direct tendency to un-Protes tantize England, and to degrade its church. He appealed to the Attorney-General as the first law officer of the Crown, and asked him to declare whether this bill did not virtually endanger the security which the country enjoyed for the maintenance of the Protestant character. He wished to know how far the Bill of Rights would con tinue to bind the sovereign, when the whole of the act containing the Protestant declaration, exacted from the sovereign on tip first day of his meeting his parliament after his accession to the throne, and framed in conformity with that celebrated bill, was repealed ? 'The bill, as he had formerly stated, carol for nobody but Roman Ca tholics ; it provided fully for their ease; but, so far as others were concerned, it left tbem quite unnoticed. Be sides, it was one of a series of aggressive measures against the Church of England, and was calgaated, though not intended to strengthen the church of Rome, which for the last three centuries had been its unchangeable foe. Hav ing entered into some historical details, to prove that the pretensions of the Pope to absolve subjects from their al legiance to their sovereign had been asserted during the last 50 years as broadly as in the time of Gregory VII., he called attention to the civil disturbances which had been recently created in France, Switzerland, and Germany by the order of the Jesuits, which this bill sought to legalize, and which the act of 1821 sought to suppress, in this country. After calling upon Lord J. Russell to remem ber the dying words of his illustrious ancestor, and not " to assist in the progress of Popery," he concluded by moving " That the house resolve itself into committee on his bill on that day six months." - The Earl of ttratay, Mr. ATIEIL, and Lord JOHN MANNERS spoke in favour of the bill. _ _ Mr. GOUL - BURN observed, that having been one of the parties who introduced the Emancipation Act of 1829, he could not lightly consent to violate the compact which was then made. At present there was no great and ma nifest grievance to be redressed, for every speaker had ad mitted that the restrictions of 1829 were inoperative. He did not think that the state should part with all power of interference with the religious orders, or that it should entrust well-educated individuals, dependent on a foreign power in respect to their conduct, with every privilege in this kingdom. When no practical evil existed, even in the imagination of the supporters of this bill, it was im prudent to agitate a question of this kind, as it begot ill will and hostility, which did not pass away with the dis cussion. It was more especially imprudent to agitate it now, when Protestants and Roman Catholics were aiding each other in their efforts to relieve the distresses of their common countrymen. After statinc , his objedio ns i n detail to several clauses of the bill, he ' de', l- "red his inten tion to support the amend--- Lora .3ANDONT could not oppose the motion for going into committee with the view of doing away with these inoperative enactments. After Mr. Watson had replied, the house divided, when there were—for going into committee, 119 ; against, 158 ; majority against 89, and so the bill was lost. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TRURSDAY The House to-night occupied their splendid new house for the first time. We give a description of it in another column. There was fortunately very little business, for so great was the throng of visitors, that it was scarcely possible for the few peers who did speak to make them selves heard. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. To questions put by Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord J. RUSSELL replied, that no alteration had been made by the education minutes of 1846, relative to grants made to schools not in connection with the National and British and Foreign Societies. Previous to 1839 the rule was that aid should be given only to schools in connec tion with these two religious societies. in 1839 it was laid down by the committee of council, that they were ready to consider other applications, but that such were to be considered as specific cases. With respect to the use of the authorised version of the Scriptures being made the condition of aid to Roman Catholic schools, the Lord President of the Council did not think that he was precluded from considering particular cases, in which that condition might not be dispensed with. But no such determination had as yet been arrived at. The minutes of 1846 excluded schools not using the authorised version of the Scriptures from aid, although the minutes of 1839 did not. Therefore, no part of the vote to be taken on Monday would be applied to schools not using the autho- rised version of the Scriptures. The question of the Roman Catholic schools would be considered, and should it hereafter be decided to give them aid, minutes to that effect would be laid on the table. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY Lord BROUGHAM, on the authority of petitions he had to present, called the attention of his noble and learned friends to the fact, that by the abolition of imprisonment for debt acts, power.was reserved of arresting debtors who were about to quit the country ; but its exercise was limited as to the granting of the writ, inasmuch as an ap plication for that purpose was necessary to a judge sitting in Westminster Hall. !It was urged by the petitioners that this power ought, to be extended to judicial authori ties in the provinces. Lord CAMPBELL thought the judges of the New County :Courts would be the most proper parties to exercise it. kOn Earl GREY'S moving the first reading of the Army -Service Bill, a conversation ensued as to when the next stage should be taken, which was fixed for Monday HOUSE OF: COMMONS—FRIDAY. "Mr. WARD, in answer to :Sir C. Napier, replied that the Admiralty had suspended the further proceeding with the works of the three 72-gunships at present on the stocks. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Hindley, observed that the reports of the school inspectors appointed by the Com mittee of the Privy Council would be laid on the table when they were made, whieh was not yet the case; and •that he had taken care there should be given with the estimates the detailed am:wilts of the proposed distribu tion of the grant, so that the,house might see the manner in which it was to be expended. And, in answer to Mr. Muntz, the noble lord stated that her Majesty had directed, as a ; proof of the high sense she and the Government en tertained of the heroic conduct of Captain Camp, of the Span ish.brig Emilio, in rescuingtthe survivors of the Tweed steamer from the Alacranes reef, that he should be pre sented with a medal, on which would be inscribed the meritorious services performed.; awl, further, that the sum of £5OO should be placed at his ‘disposal in the manner most acceptable to him. Mr. B. £scorr, in answer to Mr. Lefray, intimated that he should abandon his bill for the abolition of duties on butter and<cheese for the present, thinking -it necessary to keep the Sinews of war unim paired. The LORD ADVOCATE, in answer to Lord Duncan, replied that it was his intention, if possible, to bring in a bill for the sale of encumbered estates in Scotland during the present -Session. The question of the third reading of the Irish Poor-law Bill originated a further debate on the condition of that country, and of the conduct of the land lords, their tenants, and the people generally ; after which the bill was read a third time, as was also the Landed. Property (Ireland) Bill, Colonel RAWDON moving an ad dition to clause 4, that the commissioners should authorise the erection of corn mills to be worked by water-power, wbJ.ch proposition yeas rejected on a division by.a majority of 69. Lord G. BENTINCR moved an amendment to the same clause, that they should be enabled to advapje money for the erection of substantial farmhouses, which was ne gatived by a majority of 56. The bill then passed. COURT AND FASHION, The Court remains at Buckingham Palace. On Tuesday the Queen and Prince Albert attended the perforip_ances at the Italian Opera. Heajesty and Prince Albert visited the new House of Lords on Wednesday. The elegant apartments were used by their Lordships for the first time last week. In the evening, the royal dinner party included the Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess Spencer, and Viscount Morpeth. On Thurgday afternoon, the Queen held a drawing room in St. James's Palace. The Queen gives a Bal Costume in the month of June, to represent the Elizabethan period. The Countess of Elgin, daughter of the late Earl of Durham, took leave of the domestics of the household and other dependents assembled at Lambton Castle on Thursday evening, previous to her ladyship's departure for Canada to join her husband, the Governor-General. The christening of the infant heir to the Rufford estate, the seat of Sir Thomas Hesketh, was solemnised with great splendour at the picturesque church in the village on Thursday. A fashionable party dined at the Hall, a dinner was given to the tenantry, and a grand ball took place in the evening. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of the Rev. H. G. Bunsen, son of the Chevalier Bunsen, his Prus sian Majesty's minister at the Court of St. James's, to Miss Battersby, daughter of Mr. Abraham Gray Harford Battersby, the wealthy banker of Bristol, took place on Tuesday at the parish church, Westbury-upon-Trim. The nuptial ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. After the mar riage the happy pair set out for Barley-wood, Wrington. FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA The steam-ship Hibernia arrived on Thursday from Boston and Halifax, bringing the usual mails of the Ist instant, and important accounts of a severe engagement between the American force, under General Taylor, and that of Mexico, under Santa Anna. The scene of the action was at Buena Vista, a hacienda about six miles west of Saltillo. The fightinc , commenced on the 22nd of February , and ended on the 23rd. Santa Anna retired to Agua Neva, a distance of ten miles. The American accounts state the Mexican loss to have been 4,000 killed and wounded ; that on their own side at 700. The numbers of the respective combatants are given as 15,000 Mexicans against 5,000 Americans, the latter being chiefly volunteers. General Taylor engaged Santa Anna, it is stated, contrary to the orders of General Scott, the commander-in-chief. . The account of the battle only reached New York on the evening of the 30th ultimo. Up to that moment the rumours of victory and defeat were generally current, General Taylor had advanced as far as Agua Neva, and had subsequently taken up " a less advanced position." Other reports represented him as cut off from Saltillo, and his insulated position was said to account for the absence of official or authentic intelligence from the seat of war. It now appears, however, that he did retire for the purpose of choosing his ground, and, according to Santa Anna's despatch, he selected his position with skill and judgment. He drew the enemy into a place where they could not use very well their artillery, where there was no water, and where they wanted food. Reports had been received from Santa Fe that the New Mexicans bad risen and massacred the Americans in the city, together with the American Governor, Bent, and his officers. Accounts from Alexandria of the 29th ult., announce that on the 22nd upwards of 40 vessels laden with corn sailed from that port, mostly bound for England. A letter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 2nd, announces that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill, and that his journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed. In 1846, 1010 slaves were emancipated at Martinique, 1115 at Guadaloupe,* 177 in French Guiana, and about 300 at Bourbon. A man named Daniel Aitken, lately . died in Wexford, Canada, at the age of 120 years. During his life he had contracted seven marriages, and he left five hundred and seventy grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Private letters state that no uneasiness about the sup ply of corn existed in Paris. The orders given for foreign grain were more than adequate to the wants that will be felt before the arrival of the growing crops in the market. They add that " never in the memory of man was a spring more propitious in France than is the present." MR. COBDEN.—Mr. Cobden, at the date of the latest advices, had returned to Rome from Naples, and was in " the eternal city" on the 23d ult. A house at Pompeii had been excavated in the hon. gentleman's presence and in his honour; but we learn that nothing particular was found during the excavation or clearing of the long-en tombed residence of some ancient Pompeian. DEMOCRACY IN NEW YORK.—The " Democratic City Government of New York, it is said, let out of the city prison on Blackwell's Island, sixty convicts, on election day, in order that they might vote against giving coloured people the right of suffrage ! Thirteen of these worthies were arrested by Alderman Benson and Justice Merritt on their way to the poll." EXECUTION OF CORN-RIOTERS.—The three individuals condemned to death for their participation in the corn riots at Buzangais, were executed on the public square of that town on the 12th inst., amidst an immense concourse of people. A great display of military was made, troops having been sent to Buzansais from Bourges, Nevers, and Chateauroux. There is a perfect glut of wheat in the markets of the Russian capital. There was on hand a superfluity of supply sufficient to load 900 to 1,000 vessels. In the mar kets of Russia foreign orders to the extent of 3,000,000 Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving for leave to bring in a bill lof hectolitres had been executed. Navigation, was still for the punishment of vagrancy in Ireland, observed that I impeded by the presence of the ice, and the utmost his object was to have vagrants in that country punished anxiety for its break up was expressed. as in England. His bill would also apply to such per- Mr. O'Connell arrived on the 11th at Lyons, where he sons as deserted their wives and families. He declined was likely to remain some days before he can resume his to enter further into the particulars of his bill at present, journey to Rome. The Journal des Debats is authorised as it might lead to discussion, which had better be de- to state that, during his stay at Paris, Dr. Chomel never ferred to a future occasion, was desired by Louis Philippe, or any member of the Leave was given to bring in the bill ; and it was sub- royal family, to express to the honourable and learned sequently brought in and read a first time. gentleman the interest they felt in the prompt recovery of Mr.,HINDLEY moved for a select committee to inquire his health. into Sunday trading in the metropolis. He had been de- THE JESUITS IN SWITZERLAND.—The Augburq Ga sired by the parochial authorities to bring this subject zette states that letters from Rome, of the 31st of March, forward, and his object was rather to check Sunday trad- say there had been an expectation that the Pope would ing than to promote the better observance of the Lord's recall the Jesuits from Switzerland, in order to restore Day, for he had no notion of making persons religious by tranquility to that country, but that no decision had been act of Parliament. He wished to ascertain what could be come to on that point, notwithstanding the continued done with propriety on this subject before he ventured to efforts of Count Rossi, the French Ambassador. But legislate upon it. there would be nothing extraordinary in his Holiness After some objections to the motion from Mr. Hume, taking a sudden decision leading to happy results for both Mr. Escott, and one or two others, the committee was the Catholics and Protestants of Switzerland. carried by a majority of 51 to 19. The Spanish Government is at issue with the Bishops On the motion of Mr. HUME, after a short conversa- on the thorny question of University Education. A de tion with Mr. Ward, a copy of the instructions from the funct Administration (we do not remember which) pro- Board of Admiralty to the Committee of Naval Construe- posed to revise the lists of books in use in all the princi tion, appointed to inquire into the state of naval archi- pal colleges, with a professed intention of' giving a stimu tecturer was ordered t o b e l a i d upon the table. Mr. lus to the study' of divinity, and "preserving the purity of Hume had placed on the paper a number of other returns Catholic doctrine." The bishops were invited to draw up relative to the construction of the ships built according a theological course, and after some difference of opinion, to the plans of Sir W. Symonds; but, in consequence of they agreed in recommending the list adopted in the Se a desire intimated to him by Mr. Ward, he postponed minary at Rome, as comprehending a more extensive his motion for their production till Thursday fortnight, range of subjects than any other with which they were when he threatened to prove that £20,000,000 of public acquainted. Since Pacheco came into office, however, a money, which had been voted for the building of ships in list has appeared under the Queen's sign-mannual, which the time during which Sir W. Sy mon d s h a d b een surveyor not illy differs widely from that suggested, but contains of the navy,_had been completely wasted. He did not blame W. Symonds for s but the different Boards i several worksprohibited as unsound in France, as well as of Adm Sir iralty under which he thi had served. n Italy. The Bishops have presented a remonstrance, Mr. F. 1 41 AuLE then moved that the Army Service Bill with what success we have not heard. OPENING OF THE FIRST PRUSSIAN Th m be read a third time. hers of the palace of Frederick the Gr e at have never wit- Sir H. DOUGLAS persevered in his opposition to this nessed a more imposing scene or a more memorable event than the solemn inauguration of the United Diet of Prus measure, repeated the objections which he had formerly. urged against it, and moved that it be read a third time sia by King Frederick William IV. on Sunday the 11th of that day six months. April. The ce remony, wh i ch had b een purposely ap- After several members bad spo ken, th e House di- pointed for that d ay o f the week which is usually set apart vided, and the amendment was lost; there being 42 for for the service of God, was preceded by the religious rites it, and 91 against it. of both Churches destined to consecrate and, we had al- The bill was then read a third time, and subsequently most said, to sanctify this new compact between the So divided into two parts, as Mr. F. Meade had previously vereign and the Prussian nation. The King, on his way proposed. The first bill, relating to limited enlistment, from church to the castle, was greeted by the acclama was then passed. The other is dropped fora time. tions of the assembled multitude, and was received with the same enthusiasm in the saloon by the members of the, Diet. The royal speech was delivered in the great cham ber of the old ,palace, in presence of the'iihole Diet, the royal family, the diplomatic body, and of all that is most illustrious in the ,kingdom. The King has spontaneously promulgated, justr before the assembly of the Diet, seve ral of the most important laws which had been under the consideration a the Government. He has in his ',speech, ,proclaimed the principle of complete religious freedom to all sects ; he has granted the publicity of the proceedings in the civil and criminal courts of justice; and the Prus sian Envoy at'Frankfort has been instructed to bring be fore the Federal Diet the question of the liberty of the ,press, with a,view to the complete execution of the pledge contained in the 18th article of the federal compact of Germany. At the same time the regulations forthe con duct of public business by the United Diet of Prussia are conceived in a .liberal spirit, more akin to the practice of 'Parliament in this country than to that of the French Chambers ; and complete freedom has been secured to the publication of the debates, with the names , of the speakers. The king went from the castle to church on foot, and,returned the same way, his subjects lining the road the whole distance. THE LIVER ' Pb'OL !,81ANDARD. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, Capt. :Codrington, the government inspector, passed over the Kendal and Windermere railway, on Tuesday, and was satisfiedwith his observations of the line. The railway station at Tourcoing, on the French North ern Railway, was wholly destroyed by fire, on the night of the 9th ult. A drunken man, whilst wandering on the Sheffield and Manchester railway, . a few nights since, was run over by a train and killed. The opening of the Trent Valley line has been delayed until July. By means of this railway the journey from London to Manchester will be performed in less than five hours. The Leeds and Manchester Railway Company are at present engaged in laying down the electric telegraph from Normanton to Manchester. It is expected that the tele grtiphsyillbe completed in about a fortnight.' In Mr. Hume's a statement on' his motion last Tuesday for the amendment of the Act for the Taxation of cost of Private Bills, the preliminary expenses of the. London and York were stated by him at £432,620. Lord Torrington has been feted with splendour by his lated brother directors of the South Eastern. The meet: ing was a very brilliant one, and abundantly complimen tary. The noble guest declared that the South-Eastern had made him a man of business. The Preston and Longridge divide 19s. per share, clear of income-tax, 7s. being payable on the 17th inst., and 12s. on the 31st July. The transfer to the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction is completed. The annual rent-charge to be £3,000, less income-tax, KENTISH LINES—LAND EXTORTIONS.—The Ashford and Hastings line, with an expected traffic of £5,000 a year, will cost £20,000 a mile to make. The North Kent, for the first 6 miles out of London, will exceed the Par liamentary land estimate for the whole length. Some of the claims average £20,000 an acre for land. The total laud estimate for the 26 miles, with stations, was about £300,000. The bricklayers employed by Messrs. Branson and Gwyther, the great contractors, on the extensive works of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and Great Wes tern Railways, near Birmingham, have struck for wages. The strike was occasioned by the masters desiring the bricks to be wheeled in barrows, for the sake of expedi tion, instead of carried in hods, and thus dispensing with the hodmen. enteral Aliorellaiw. Dean Swift's snuff-box is nnounced for sale at Bristol The Vicar of Newcastle has a third time been presented by his parishioners with a sum amounting to £5OO as a voluntary Easter Offering, in augmentation of his salary. There is a great number of men at present employed in deepening Peel harbour. Vessels of a light draught of water may now go up to the mill. A boy died last week at Tettenhall, near 'Wolverhamp ton, from the effects of a surfeit of " pig nuts," of which he had gathered and eaten a large quantity. On Tuesday, the Metropolis was so glutted with mackarel that 12, and in some instances 14, were - sold for Is. At a bazaar held at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, last week, the sum of twelve hundred pound# was collected in aid of the destitute Irish. Samuel Garrett and James Downes, late keepers at the Grove House Lunatic Asylum, Bow, Middlesex, have been committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter of a lunatic pauper named William Rank. The affairs of Viscount Arbuthnot, the lord lieutenant of Kincardineshire, are said to be irremediably deranged ; and it is added that some circumstances have rendered it advisable for him to leave the country. The Caledonian Mercury states that the Roman Ca tholics of Edinburgh have bought a large piece of ground on the Lothian-road, and intend to erect a magnificent cathedral upon it. A copy of the work written by Henry VITT., in answer to Luther, which had belonged to the celebrated Cranmer, and contained his autograph, was sold in London, last week, for £36 10s. The Halifax Guardian mentions that a gentleman who left that town by the railway train for Huddersfield, fell asleep in the carriage, and was brought back to the sta tion from whence he had started. Mr. Joseph Allday, of Birmingham, is to be presented with a testimonial by his friends in that town. lle has long been attached to the press there, and has dole much for the spread of Protestant principles. The working classes met at Halifax, Yorkshire, on Fri day, in immense numbers, and a resolution in favour of the government education scheme was carried by a majo rity of three to one. Catherine Foster, who poisoned her husband three weeks after marriage, was hanged on Saturday, at Bury St: Edmund's. She walked unsupported to the drop with a firm step, and never quailed up to the last fatal moment. She made a full confession of her guilt, but gave no insight into her motive. Viscount Cantilupe has issued an address to the electors of the eastern division of Sussex, offering himself as a candidate at the ensuing election. He holds himself unpledged ; is an advocate for religious toleration ; and is prepared to advocate the repeal of the malt tax. It was ordered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, on the motion of Lord Morpeth, that no private bills re lating to town improvements, or to public cemeteries, or to sewerage, be further proceeded with by the house be fore the first day of May next. The Queen has directed that ten shillings a week be paid to the widow of James Blake,_ the *orkman killed a short time ago be an accident at Osborne-house, and that her two children be placed in a school in London, where they will be fed, clothed, and educated. EXPORTATION OF GRAIN. — This week the rare and, we believe, almost unprecedented circumstance has oc curred, of a vessel loading wheat at Perth for France. The grain is part of a cargo imported from the Baltic last winter. —Perth Courier. The Lord of the Isles steamer will commence plying on Monday week, for the accommodation of the public on Windermere, between Ambleside and Newby Bridge, calling at Bowness and the Ferry to land and receive pas sengers. _ , - - - - . News has been received of the loss of the iron ship Ironsides i corn laden, from New Orleans to Cork ; crew saved. Also the loss of the brig Salem Alva, bound to Islay, from Inverness, with barley, which struck on the Durmet Sands, and all on board perished. Mr. George Carr . Glyn, the chairman of the London and North-Western Railway Company, has issued an address to the electors of Kendal, in consequence of his having been named by the liberal committee as a candi date qualified to succeed Mr. Warburton in the represen tation of that borough. _ _ _ Last week Mr. Gale again ascended in his balloon from Peckham, accompanied by two gentlemen. When the machine had attained a great height, it was seen to lose its form, to collapse, and descend with fearful rapidity. The spectators were terrified, but they soon learned that the voyagers had descended safely on Penge Common. IMPORTATION OF lIERRINGS.—The ship Ina, arrived in London, from St. John's, New Brunswick, has brought in addition to an extensive cargo of wood goods, the very large number of 637 boxes of herrings in a preserved state, and four firkins of butter, the production of that British province of North America. PENNY OMNIBUSES. - Several new omnibuses were on Thursday exhibited in the metropolis, the property of the Economic Conveyance Company, and which will, on Monday next,, commence running from St. Paul's to the Bank, and thence to the Brighton, Dover o and Greenwich Railway Station, London-bridge; the fare for each pas senjer outside being only one penny. _ _ - . THE GAME LAWS.--At the recent Bucks Quarter Session, Dr. Lee's motion, praying that game-law prose cutors should pay their own costs, was overruled by 10 to G. Not one of the magistrates defended the laws, but Dr. Lee, Sir Harry Verney, Lord Nugent, and the Rev. J. Harrison spoke against them. Lord Nugent, said he wanted to see the Game Laws altogether abolished. SHIPWRECK. — The schooner native, of Cork, John Macintire, master, from Kinsale for Newport, with 137 sheep, 50 lambs, and 2 horses, with 20 passengers, and a crew of 5 men, was driven on shore on the night f Wed nesday, the 7th ult.. under Milford Cliff, about two miles west of Hartland Quay, and ten miles N.B. of Bude. Crew and passengers with one horse saved. Mr. Gibson has executed his statue of the Queen, which is now exhibited in his workshop at Rome. He has given her robe a narrow-coloured border of pink and blue, a novelty about which the artists in Rome are di vided in opinion. The work is considered fine, for the attitude is easy and graceful, the drapery well arranged and executed, and the likeness good. Ship-building on the Wear is unusually brisk. No fewer than 80 vessels are in progress of construction on the banks of this river; and every ship-building yard is employed. This is the highest number of ships that has ever been in progress at the same time, with one excep tion, which occurred a few years ago, when the ships building amounted to the amazing number of 120. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. — A few days ago, as one of the gentlemen commoners of Winchester College was discussing a barrel of oysters with a friend, he was sur prised on finding in his mouth something harder than the general nature of the oyster. It turned out to be a very large pearl, valued by a Winchester jeweller at 200 guineas. The jeweller affirmed that it was the largest he had ever seen. EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—There have lately died some of the sheep on the farm at Whitley Abbey, near this city, and seven lambs have been left without the care of their natural parents. It occurred about the same time, that a large bitch, of the shepherd breed, had a litter of whelps, which were immediately taken from her an d drowned, and the lambs placed under her care and pro tection. It is not more extraordinary than true, that the bitch immediately adopted her new charge, and suckles and nurses them with the greatest fonthiess.—Voreary Standard. Rumours of dissensions in the cabinet, touching the I IMPORTATION OF ITALIAN MUSICIANS AND MlCE dissolution, prevail in the dubs; it is said to be a struggle Boys.—A few slights since another band of poor savoyads between the Greys and the bßedfords. -The Irish Secre- were landed at FOlkstone :from the Princess Helena taTy, Mr. Labouchere, is said to be bent -on resigning. steamer. The hand consisted of 50 wretched-looking The new Poor Law for Ireland is thezreat bone of con- ragged beings, who are to wander about our streets and tention. perambulate the country as musicians or mice-boys. They The corn markets, which a fortnight ago,were reported were landed in charge of a man who had the modesty to as falling throughout the country, are again on the ad- offer 4s. 6d. for a lodging for the whole of the party for Nance ; and, after this last attempt at -moderate prices, one night. Eventually they found a resting-place in some most parties appear to have yielded themselves to the stables, where they huddled together like so many swine. conviction, that all hopes of such a blessing, at least until We think some means should be adopted to put a stop to the next harvest, must now be abandoned. Unfortu- such a cruel traffic. nately, this fact goes far to deprive us of any hope of THE . IRISH ENGLAND.—SeveraI hundred unfortu- THE GREAT-WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—We believe we may now venture to state that this noble vessel has ceased to be the property of a Bristol Company. We hear that Captain Chappell, Secretary to the West India Mail Steam . Packet Company, has com pl e t e d t h e purc h ase of her, f or the sum of £25,000, exclusive of her plate. The Great Western will leave her berth on this present Saturday morning, and proceed to Pill for the purpose of shipping her paddles, previously to going to Southampton. From that port she will sail for a five months' voyage, and, at the expiration of that period, we hear that it is the Com pany's intention to lay her up, and expend a large sun - upo . n . her (report says £10,000) in repairs, refitting, amelioration of mriafinancial difficulties. , nates, in addition to the swarms that have already been Bristol Mirror. SUSPECTED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Considerable ex- thrownupon Newport, Monmouthshire, have been brought The learned recorder of Hull, Matthew Talbot Baines, citement was cauqpil in W arm i ns t er on M on day by an oc- over from the south of Ireland by collier vessels. Many Esq., Q.C., took care, in his address to the grand jury, cis currence which led to the suspicion of a murder perpe- are afflicted with fever, and ail have gaunt tokens of Friday last, to remove any suspicion which might have trated by a father on his son. Th e name of the former is famine. Upwards of one thousand poor creatures have existed of his participation in the editor of the Leeds- Matthew Keene, a pensioner, w h o li ve d i n the neighbour- been relieved within a very short time, but several Mercury's abhorrence of thekG overnmen t sc h eme of Na hood. The lad was found i n a wa t er -ditch, w ith his head death s h ave occurred.--Among the crowd' of applicants tional Education. Though we expected that such would under the water, and suff oca t e d ; an d th e f a th er wa s dis- for r e li e f a t St. P eter ' s Hospital, Bristol, on Friday last, be the case, we con f ess we were ras h er apprehensive that cons f i r d o e m rat e i x on pr s ea w ai o l u il l ; d hi h m a s v e e lf p w re it v h en al ted l thteheellearnneedas was one person wh o , it h as b een ascerta i ne d , p l ace d fif covered near him, with his throat' cut, and dead. gentlemanfamily CHEAP METROPOLITAN TRAVELLING.—On Monday, teen sovereigns i n th e h an d s of a companion b efore pre- omnibuses commenced running from Battersea to Hoxton, renting himself as a " starving Irishman." demanded at such a juncture. In charging the grand greatly n l i p m o p s r s o i h v l e e d toprospectsconceive anational subject greater tion a conveying passengers the entire dist a n c e, a bout nine miles, IRON STEAM-SHIPS.—William Crawshay, the great jury, the learned reco r d er sa id—" I, for one, rejoice for sixpence. The Ant and Bee steam-vessels, running iron merchant, i n a l etter to the London Times , of last from Loudon Bridge to the West-end, reduced their fares week, says,—" I hop e th a t th e rap id breaking up of the for i t ja over quite to one halfpenny ; and the Citi zen -sham-boat Company Tweed steamer, a woo d-b u il t s hi p, and the consequent limit education at importance. So f ar f rom w i s hi ng to commenced running their vessels to Hammersmith, dreadful loss of lif e , w ill b e contrasted in the pu b l i c all, if I had my o wn w ill, I would make it accessible to every human being ; because, in proportion as you dm' - Wandsworth, and Putney, at reduced fares. mind with the holding together for six months (and pro- every the blessings of a sound religious and moral FORGING THE GOLDSMITHS' STAMP.—At the Glouces- bably until got off), and the consequent preservation of education, in exactly the sameproportion do you provide ter Assizes, on Saturday, Josiah Gregory, a silversmith, every soul on board, of the Great Britain steamer, an iron for the dearest interests of the üblic at large. and Edward Bynes, his shopman. were convicted of forg- built ship. A comparison of the situation of th ground- for HAS VOLUNTARYISM P DONE FOR EDUCATION . -- Goldsmiths ing the mark for stamping silver used by the Company of ing of the two vessels might probably be favourable gr to The Rev. R. Burgess at a meeeing in London, last week, Goldsmiths at Exeter, within whose district Gregory's one or the other ; but under any circumstances I am in shop was situated. They had carried on the practice for dined to believe that had the Tweed been an iron-built said, `lt was stated by Mr. M'Cullock that in 1833, the s to ei ta pi l ions number was o 6 f l children ; en in r in th D e iss N er a it t e io r n s' al sc s h e o h o o ls ols of itall as w a considerable time. G regor y was sentenced to imprison- ship, eve r y sou l o n b oar d wou ld h ave b een saved, and de ment, with hard labo ur , f or e i g ht een mon th s , an d B ynes muc h , if not all, of the i mperishable part of the cargo for twelve calender months. . also. The boilers, which are of similar construction to 324,045 ;up to 1833, then, what had the voluntary system yet tas with much all itnhdeeeb exertions to .ona then ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BlLL.—Among th e mem - an iron vessel, are still st a ndi ng en ti re ." hers who voted, on Wednesday, i n f avour of this bill EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—O n Th urs d ay, a meeting done? Nobody had done more for e d ucat i on than the f W or e t s h le e y ir an s s, un th da e y co a m eh m oo ur s i ; ty y going into committ e e were L or d S an d on , T . Th ornley, " of the members and friends of the Leeds sub-division of W. Brown, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, W. Ewart, Lord the B r iti s h O rgan i sa ti on o f the Evangelical Alliance" Wesleyans could make it appeared that last y ear th ey h a d P R. Grosvenor, Sir J. J erv i s , L or d J. R usse ll , &c. We was held in the Music Hall, Leeds ;Sir Culling Eardley only 30,686 in England wa s rec k one d at 1 ,200,000, 30,686 children in th e daily schools. Th e num b er find among those who vot e d aga i ns t it, Si r H. D oug l as, S m i th, Bart in the chair. The admission was by ticket,W of J. Tollemache, W. T. Egerto n , W. B. F erran d, C apt . an d there w" as a large attendance of the dissenters of which gave only one child to 40. As to government i n - Gladstone, Right Hon. H. G ou lb urn , G. H u d son , H on . L eeds and the neighbourhood present. We believe six- terterence, when they ca ll e d on it to repress and pu n ish G. D. Ryder, Col. Sibthorpe, &c. pence each was asked at the doors for the admission of crime, they could not debar it from l spending NARROW ESCAPE OF A MULTITUDE FROM DROWNING. persons who were without tickets. The proceedings preveLt it. But he would ratli t p i l ee ied . on H l e y ltoootkheed cfhorurarchtdh;atotothhtaehdreubeaocqsinwgertehcoesme money to —On Easter Monday, an overloaded canal boat, on the commenced at six o'clock, and did not conclude till after mterferance. fa fa t, the contr er l ea m i, d ti ' lis insp aB ec si ti sta on n w ce as tha a p l . p m ara ea t s i ur velz canal between Tipton and Birmingham, was upset by the ten. Amongst the speakers, besides the chairman, were foolish pranks of some young men. Thirty or forty per- the Rev. Dr. Bates, of Glasgow • the Rev. J. A. James, sons on the roof were shot into the water, and the boat of Birmingham ; the Rev. T. Scales, of Leeds ; the Re v , as the greatest blessing sank. For some time, upwards of one hundred and Jos. Hargreaves, of Sheffield, &c. No resolutions were The people had shamefullybeenge'ver l e e fallen . the country. teventy persons were in great danger of being drowned, proposed, but several sentiments in favour of union the government never gave any neg d,up to . 1833 assistance, never furnished but at length all were safely rescued, though drenched amongst different denominations of Christians were pro- a shilling for the purpose cf education. France applied and in a miserable plight. posed. The general object of the meeting appeared to be between X 600,000 and £700,000 a - ear to t h is purose ; AN UNFORTUNATE HARE.—A hare was killed last to encourage the friends of the " Alliance "to continue even slow-moving Austria was before y them • England was week on the Railway near Barton Moss, by one of the in its ranks, and to obtain recruits for the same. the only country that saw, with folded arm' s , its people railway trains. When taken up, it appeared to have only THE WESLEYANS.—It is astonishing to perceive the driven into eternity in hopeless ignorance." three legs, and, on examination, it was found that one of amount of virulence and ignorance that is brought to bear FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FUNDS. —The quotationsff' °i / fore legs had been cu t o , as cleanly as if with a knife, against th a t hi g hly- respec t a bl e b o d y o f Ch r i st i ans, k nown consols for money at the en d o f February, when the las but that the cut had healed. It is supposed that this had as Wesleyan Methodists.—When the Dissenters find them account closed, was 904. From that point it graduall been done in a previous railway a cc id en t, i n one o f p ussy ' s ac ti ng i n an i n d epen d ent course, they attack them with i mprove d t o 904 t o 4 ; b ut i mmed i ately after the co ncu 1 y - excursions from the Worsley woods to.the Barton turnip all their available weapons of calumny and ridicule • but sion of the new loan of 4:8,000,000, the market began to fields. , the next day the same Dissenters find they cannot blink exhibit much weakness, owing principally to the intelli- THE JUDGMENT OF LEEDS ON THE GOVERNMENT the fact of the wealth, extent, and growing influence of gence from America, and the consequent export of b u s_ SCHEME OF EDUCATION.—The nineteenth report of the the body, and they seek by every artifice to produce con- lion. From 904 to 4, the price of consols in the early committee of the House of Commons enumerates four ciliation. For our own parts we are free to own that we Part of March, they declined to 874 in the middle of the petitions from Leeds in favour of the Government look upon the resolution of the committee of privileges month, but afterwards rallied to 884, and suddenly fur scheme. The petition of the " Magistrates, Aldermen, of the Wesleyan body, as indicative of independence and ther advanced, on the announcement of the Russo-k rench and Councillors" has 36 signatures attached to ; that of nobility. Feeling that the people must be educated, and convention, to 894. This rise was not long ma i n t a i ne d, the " Clergy and Ministers of the Gospel," 31 • that of that there is no radi ca l ev il i n s t a t e ass i s t ance , w h en not and speculative sales continuing to increase, are-action to " superintendents and teachers of Sunday school's," 351 ; connected with servility ; and finding that the authorised the old quotation took place. At the close of the month that of the " inhabitants," 24,747. " Think of that, version of the Scriptures is a lo n e to be rea d ; an d th a t no of March consols stood at $Bl to a, and between • . this time Master Baines !"—Daily News. inspector will be allowed to enter a school in their con- and the 7th of April they declined to 874. On the Bth The free church synod of Glasgow and Ayr has, on the nexion without the previous sanction of their body, they instant the bank directors having augmented their mini motion of Dr. Buchanan, resolved, by a majority of 60 have resolved to offer no further opposition to a plan mum rate of discount to 5 per cent., an additional fall o f to 16, to petition against the education scheme. This which is founded on liberality and based on truth. For nearly 2 per cent. follo we d ; an d on the tll h consols stood synod is the largest provincial court of the body; and as this we find they are abused in almost every quarter. So at the low point of 854. Since then a re-action of 2 p e r Dr. Candlish sat in it as a corresponding member, and much for liberality ! So much for Evangelical Alliance ! cent, has taken place, but that a improvement has not bee voted in the majority, there can be little doubt that this — Birmingham Advertiser. fully supported; the p r i ce ha • tng again given way to 86. decesion will exercise a considerable influence over, or at THE MURDERERS OF MR. JOHN RILEY.—This unfor- In consol scrip the early bargains were about 4to 1 pre all events may be predicted as indicating pretty correctly, tunate gentleman, it will be remembered, was murdered mium, and as soon as the luau was taken, the price ad the opinions of the ensuing general assembly of the free on the 11th of January, while on hi s roa d h ome f rom vanced to 2 premium. Thi s was not long sustained, ed, and, church. The free presbytery of Arbroath have without Sheffield to Grimesthorpe-lane: On getting into his house under the pressure of sales, the quotation declined to 1 a vote come to a similar resolution. he exclaimed, " Mary, they have almost murdered me." discount; but the Russo-French convention brought the WHOLESALE INCENDIARISM. — On Thursday night, a This was said - to his wife ; but he could not identify his Price from 1 discount to par to 4 premium. With the fire broke out in an extensive farm yard at Burnham, murderers. He was attacked on the Monday, and died subsequent decline in consols scrip has, however, also kept Essex, and whilst it was being extinguished, the p er s ons the S a t ur d a y f o ll ow i ng . E ar l y next d ay h i s watch was Pace , an d from that point has gone down in about the engaged in doing so, were half paralyzed by the sudden found, wrapped up in some cloth, in Mr. Riley's garden, same ratio, till it has in one case been quoted 4 discount. bursting out elf flames on a second, and then on a third where it had been placed during the night. From infor- It has now a better market, being between 24 and 2 dis farm, so that there were at the same time, and scarcely mation received by Mr. Raynor, superintendent of police, count. — Times. more than half a mile distant, the property at three farm he caused two men, named William Challiner and James THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.—At a meeting in homesteads all blazing. Altogether, eight or nine stacks, Bradley, of Grimesthorpe, to be apprehended on Saturday London, on Thursday, for the purpose of supporting four barns, stables, and various other outbuildings, with week. It appears that the grounds of suspicion were, that the Government Education Scheme, the Bishop of Nor in one instance the dwelling of one of the labourers upon a Sheffield man had been discovered who had purchased wich stated that,—•' On a very low computation 2,125,000 - the premises, fell a prey to the flames. Much of the pro- Mr. Riley's watch of the prisoners, and who, on hearing children ought to be found in tuis country in the schools perty, it appears, was insured. of the murder, had gone and placed the watch in Mr. for the elementary education of the working classes • but DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—A most distressing event, Riley's garden, as before described. The man, it seems, that instead of this, scar ce ly more th an 1,000,000 of connected with the loss of the Tweed West India mail had kept the s ecre t un til Friday week, when he admitted children were to be found in them, so that considerably packet, occurred at Southampton about a week since. A the facts of having purchased the watch, and placed it in more than 1,000,000 were left without the instruction they poor woman, the wife of one of the crew of that ill-fated Mr. Riley's garden. The prisoners were taken before the had a right to demand. lie held in his hand a letter he vessel, the mother of six children, and several months mayor on Saturday week, and remanded in order to corn- had received from a clergyman in Staleybridge, near Man advanced in pregnancy, dropped down dead on being told plete the evidence against them. It seems, at present, cheater, in which he stated that the district under his - abruptly by a neighbour that the Tweed was lost, and that Bradley is suspected of having been the most guilty superintendence contained 10,000 immortal beings ; that that all hands had perished. What renders the circum- party in the horrible transaefon. nine-tenths of his parishioners were in a state of avowed stance the more affecting is, that the husband arrived THE M.P. AND THE TAILORS.—" Berkeley, Brothers," or practical infidelity ; and that there was not one single . safely at Southampton in the Avon pa c ket o n Th urs d ay are b e f ore th e pu bli c once more w i t h t h e i r di sreputa bl e school within th e w h o l e di s t r i c t i n w hi c h a goo d edam last, being one of the persons whose lives were so provi- quarrels. The younger member of the firm having been tion was given. Then take a parish in this neighbour - dentially saved. dunned by his tailors, Stultz and Co. for the settlement hood—that of St. Paueras ' • that parish was recently si.u .- LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—On Friday morning, of an account, rushes int o pr i nt w i t h a long correspond- veyed flora house to house by gentlemen connected with between ten and eleven o'clock, as one of the labourers ence b: t A een himself and the patient tradesmen, from the City - NI• ion, and among 25,000 inhabitan ts in one of E. F. Colston, Esq., was passing near the newly' formed which Le deduces the conclu s i on th a t L ord Fitzhardinge d i strict it vices found that' there w ere between 2 and 12 - fish-ponds in Roundway Park (the seat of Mr. Colston), has been guilty of some villairams " unconstit u ti ona l " ye, r 3 of a ge mor e than 15,000childr e e ci out of these he discovered the body of that gentleman floating in the proceeding in declining to pay for a gay yeomanry unif orm , but 7,000 w,re in the h a bi t of al t i .:;Llin n g school, whe water. Prompt assistance was obtained, but it was un- with which the gallant and brawny member decorated his ther Sunday or Cay school, so that there were more than availing. It is supposed that the deceased, who was a brawny person. We do4't think the, public will care very 8,000 children between the years of 2 and 12 who were magistrate for Wilts, was taking the shortest way by the much about this trumpery piece of business : the present Provided with t 0 education what ver. These things - fish-ponds across a steep bank, upwards of twenty feet, quarrel may be summed up in half-a-dozen words. Mr. Proved the inefficiency of the voluntary system ; and let when, either from apoplexy, to which he was predisposed, Grantley Berkeley declares that his noble brothu r inferen- them romember that the voluntary system had not stood or from stumbling, he fell down into the water. Deceased tially promised to hear certain charges for yeomanry uni- alone and en iided in its work, but that, year by year, was tall and corpulent, and by no means likely to recover forms and personal expences, to be incurred by the for- large grants had been given by the state to meet volun himself under such circumstances.—Bristol Mirror. mer : his noble brother practically den's); that any such tary efforts, and that in these grants dissenters and church- ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.—We are gratified to promise was made; and with le t a•s f oil tailors, writs men had alike shared." perceive that Mr. Watson's Popish Bill was defeated in from one tradesman, and threats of writs from another, A JUST REBUKE.—The Times of Wednesday, with be the House of Commons, on Wednesday, a majority of 39 the M.P. thinks the case one for the edificatToa of the coming honesty and truth, makes the following remarks having voted against allowing it to go into Committee, so world in general and the electors of We If; Gloucestershire about the shameful desecr a tio n o f th e S a bb at h caused by that the measure is rejected for the session. Lord Arundel in particular, and straightway indites a tong, long letter, the steeple chase in Paris on Sunday week.—" We pub boasted during the debate that the Romish Church would wherein he lays bare transactions inconceivably shabby, lisle to-day an account of a steeple-chase which was run continue to exist and flourish when the name of Protestant- and such that even we could hardly have believed of the near Paris on Sunday, and in which disreputable ism should be forgotten ; but we do not attach much weight distinguished and moral Whigs of Berkeley Castle. We scene, we say it with shame, nearly all the actors were to the predictions of one who may, after the example of presume the electors of West Gloucestershire will, for our own countrymen. It was only the locality in which it his sire, Lord Shrewsbury, have been so besotted as to their own credit's sake, throw off the disgraceful conned- occurred that justified the title of a French steeple-chase believe in the " lying wonders" of " the ecstatica." The tion between themselves and the Berkeleys at the very being given to apr o2eeding got up and carried through, name of Protestant may, indeed, become extinct, but it is earliest opportunity. chiefly, if not entirely, by Englishmen. The horses, as only when the proclamation . shall have gone forth,— INCONSISTENCY OF DISSENTERS.—The dispassionate well as their owners and riders, were, with very few ex " Babylon is fallen, is fallen," and when Papal Rome shall and reasonable among the dissenters cannot fail to re- ceptions, exclusively English ; and, there cannot be a be no more. mark that Mr. Baines, and we fear Sir Culling S m ith, are doubt th a t, h a d suc h a d esecra ti on o f t h e Sa b bath de- THE FISHERMEN OF WHITBURN.—SERIOUS Loss qoitting . on the education question the ground they to o k Fended on the French themselv e s, it never wou ld h ave OF LIFE.—The fishermen of Whitburn went to sea on in the Anti-Maynooth controversy. They then said, happened. In their own country none of the persons Thursday week to visit their lines, and were caught in the " Though there is an establishment of truth in the coun- concerned would have dared to outrage public opinion violent hurricane that came on between eight and nine try, to which we are averse, that is no reason why we by an indecency for which there is no excuse, and which o'clock. Five of the boats were not able to return to should tolerate the establishment of error also. There- seems to have been prompted by a spirit of vulgar Whitburn ; one belonging to William Young got i n to fore we will cor di a lly j o i n w ith Ch urc h men, to conten d bravado towards those rules of decorum which it is con- Hartlepool,—when just on the point of landing, James against the Maynooth grant, as an endowment of Popery, venient for the unscrupulous to set down to the score of Young, his son, aged 20, fell down from fatigue and ex- and because we di s lik e p o p e ry!' Dr. R ee d an d hi s prejudice. We are sure that not one of the individuals haustion, and died. Another boat managed to get into friends wished to protest at the same the against the es- who rode his horse, or allowed it to run, in the ste e pl e . Black Hills. The crews of the two other boats, belong- tablishment of truth and the establishment of error. chase of Sunday w ee k, wou ld have ventured to t a k e a ing John Purvis and Cuthbert Dobson, were taken up But to this Sir Culling Sm ith and Mr. B ai ne s would not p art in such a pastime on such a da y in En g l and , unless to by the Adam White, scatooner, of Leith, and were landed consent; and therefore Dr. Reed withdrew, and began he were prep are d t o forfeit his position in society at o nce , at Bridlington ; their boats went down soon after being " the Crosby Hall conference. Now, however , Humblest we fear and sink into a c l ass w ith whom resp ec t a bility o f th e ver y abandoned. The fifth boat belonging to Cuthbert and that both Mr , B aines and Sir Cullin g Smith have gone rank would feel it a degradation to hold corn- Edward Hutchinson, has never been heard of since, and over to Dr. Reed's view. Viewing this Educational panionship. We do not see that th e distance of a fear there is great reason to fear that she also has gone down , Scheme as —to use their own words—" a Subsidiary Re- hours' journey ought to make any difference whatever in and that the three men on board in her have unhappily ligious Establishment," they insist upon it that it will be the manner of viewing a proceeding which would be fatal perished. The poor fishermen who have returned home, more objectio n a ble to establish or endow tr u th alone , than to character at home, and we therefore consider the par having lost their boats and their lines and fishing-tackle, truth or error unitedly. In 18 4 5 they distinctly said, ties in this affair as blameable as if th ey had perpetrated h ave no w no means of li v elihood, except through the- "We disapprove of a Church Establishment, but still their profanation of the Sabbath at N ewmar k e t or Don. charity of the benevolent. more do we detest and abhor an establishmentofP o p er y." caster." ST. BEES HOTEL. — On Saturday last, the timber was They now say, "If there is to be an extension of the ' A POSER.—In the course of Sir R. H. Inglis's speech raised on' the New Hotel, St. Bees, belonging to Mr. Church Establishment by schools, there shall b e an ex - on Wed ne sday, on M r . W a t son ' s R oman C at h o li c R e li e f Thomas Tyson, builder, of this town, on which occasion tension of Popery also." "To exclude the Roman Ca- Bill, the hon baronet addressed the Attorney-General he entertained his workmen with a sumptuous repast. On tholics,"—we use Mr. B.'s words,—" would be an ad- and said :—" What he wished to know was specifically passing through the village, the other day, we were glad ditional reason for opposing the measure." Let men this :—By this bill, as it then, and as it originally stood to find that the roofing was nearly finished, and on inquiry, once establish themselves on a false principle, and an un- (this part being untouched by any of the subsequent alter we were informed that the work will be completed in christian position. as has been so long the case w ith th e ' ations of the hon and learned member), it was proposed to about four months time. From present appearances, the Political Dissenters, and it is impossible to limit the repeal the whole of the statute of the 30th Charles 11., building will be both substantial and magnificent, and its depthsof error into which theYmaYnot bePermittedtosink. also to repeal the whole of the statute of the 25th of position is such as to command a very good run of trade. ANTAGONISM OF POPERY AND , PROTESTANTISM. — In Char les 11., also to_ repeal the wh o l e o f t h e statute of t h e The western front, on which is to be placed a broad and the House of Commons, on Wednesday, the Earl of seco nd session of the 30th - of Charles H., entitled An beautifully finished verandah, looks over the Solway, so Arundel,. son of the Duke of Norfolk, and of course a Ro- Act for the more effectually Preserving the King's Person that the shipping, as well as the packets plying both ways, man Catholic, declared emphatically that the contest be- and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in, either house of parliament, and his (Sir I lis's/ may be seen to advantage. The northern front, on which tween the Churches of Rome and England must go on, is also to be placed a large verandah, is within a few yards until the " extinction of Protestantism was effected ;to point wasthis :—By the statute he mentioned the last of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, and commands • which Mr. Plumptre replied as follows— ' They (the Pro- every person on being admitted to take his seat in either a fine view of the Old Abbey Church, Bishop Grindell's testants) were Prepared,to onposethis measure (the Roman house of .parliament..was..to.xnalco a. certain declaration. school, the windings of the river Po, through Catholic Relief Bill) because they thought it was part of Every one knew, however, that under the act of 1829 the grammar h the noble lord told them was decidedly to make such a declaration had ceased, and the flowery vales of St. Bees, as well as the great road that system which by his church • t•P • obligati on admitted into .- t forward agains • rotestantism that members were leading into the village. On the eastern side of the house being carried were alive to thissubject—they . could not making any such declaration. But that was not the case is to be a large bowling-green, the extremities of which The Protestants are to be planted with choice flowering and other fancy help seeing what had been going on on the part of Popery with respect to the declaration required by that statute shrubs. Fresh and salt water baths, hot and cold, are in this country of late years. Before the bill o f 1829 was f rom t h e sovere i gn an d b y th e Bill o f Ri g h ts — a sta t u te also to be fitted up, as well as good tabling, so that the I passed, they were told by the Roman Catholics, " G ran t w hi c h no one, notwithstandi ng th e spirit of innovation, inhabitants in this locality, as well as tourists generally, us this bill to remove our civil disabilities (hear, hear), we porceptible in modern legislati on , h a d h a d th e h ar dihood will soon have excellent accommodation for both man and will be thankful to you, and you will receive no further hitherto to touch. The sovereign, at the first meeting horse.— Whitehaven Herald. trouble from us ;" but, from what they had seen of the of parliament after each accession, was bound to recite, in A BOLD TOWN CLERK. — At a meeting of the Durham acts of the church of Rome since that time, could they say an audible manner, sitting on the throne, that declaration/ Town Council, last week, Mr. Tiplady, the town clerk, that the Roman Catholics were pacified by that measu re ? and they all knew that their present most gracious Sover' alluding to some circumstances relative to the election of He believed that reflecting men were of opinion that they eign, sitting on the throne, in the hearing of many whop clerk to the magistrates—for which office Mr. Tiplady was 1 would be anything but satisfied with it. They believed, and he was then addressing, e recited that declaration soon aftl' a candidate—said, with reference to an interview which he he thought it had been verified, that it would be a bonus her accession to the throne. He wished to ask whethe; (Mr. T.) had had with Mr. Bramwell, a magistrate and for further agitation. And now they were told plainly her Majesty's Attorney-General would be pleased to stat e member of the Coun c il,—" I now s a y distinctly that, th a t the contest was going on, and should go on, until how far that famous Bill of Rights would hold good in 07, in the interview in my office, you told me that they—who Protestantism was extinct, and Popery was reascendant. respect to bind the Sovereign, when this measure of th; ' they' were I cannot tell—that they have made it a party (Hear, hear.) That was the language of the noble lord, hon. and learned member for Kinsale (Mr. Watson) ba s question : I must stick to my party.' These were your who, he supposed, might be looked upon as a fair repre- repealed, as it now proposed to do, the whole of the _ o '_, words.—Mr. Bramwell ; I never said them.—Mr. Tiplady: sentative of the church of Borne. But they who differed in which that declaration was included ? And w hethai These were your own words, used in my office. I most in opinion from the noble lord, entertaining for him as an anything would remain for the Bill of Rights to svor a distinctly repeat them ; and as solemnly as you repudiate estimable man every feeling of respect, were determined upon, so far as that declaration was concerne d, w hich I e them do I reiterate them, and assert that they are those to maintain that contest so far a s t he y had strength and imposed upon the Sovereign, and which he trusted thea which you uttered. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Ald. Shields: power to do so. They believed that there was a steady house would recollect was a national testimony bor . !, Well, what does it amount to ?—Mr. Tiplady : It amounts and increasing feeling in this country upon the subject, against the Roman Catholic religion (hear, hear). beU,:r s " to this, that Mr. Bramwell is to be heard without inter- and they would meet their opponent s face to face in th at mad e by the first magistrate of the state — as a republi _a ruption, it seems, and the town clerk is not. (Applause, contest, and would do all in their p ower to stand forwar d would call it, but, as he (Sir R. H. Inglis) said, by 7, and interruption.) Mr. Bramwell has stated, in the course for Protestantism, and for the cause of truth. (Hear,) most gracious sovereign ; and being a declaration of Pr! oo hof Rome might create, ciples enforced as one essential condition of the occupati o f of his observations, that I had informed some persons that He was not afraid that the dairy ouse he had promised me his vote. It is a falsehood.—Mr. as in times past, great trouble, much unhappiness and of the throne,—the principles on which the h 00 Bramwell : lam glad of that.—Mr. Tiplady : It is a base misery ; she might becomepersecuting church, and the Brunswick had been called to the throne. If the th r° 0. a that there was • ared t 'falsehood. From what you said, and what transpired at noble lord seemed to think - were not occupied by them as Protestants, prep ,to the time, I did not expect that, instead of remaining quiet, tion for her being so. He said that the church of Rome maintain the doctrines of Protestantism ; prepare but carrying on that contest, and might be disposed, maintain not merely the doctrines of Protestantism , u a l and taking no active part in this business, you. should be might be it convenient and found ' Protestantism • fes se ' that she had of that peculiar form of which was Pro e• the person actually to establish a novelty in magisterial when she thought on in red r that you might not be deprived of the the power to do so, become a persecuting church. She by the Church of England, he (Sir R. H. Inglis) for 00 e voting, e be disposed to give this country and others, in pro- knew not what right they had to the throne. Ever y of opportunity of recording your vote in favour of Mr. Mar- might -11 trouble, shall.—Mr. Bramwell ; y ou oug ht no t to st i gmat i se me por ti on a s she regained power, and such as might that heard him knew that they were a younger braoa_ t at with that.—Mr. Tiplady : When you found that you could lead to great misery ; but when the noble lord spoke of the royal family of England who h a d b een s e lected oaf re ss not be present personally t o recor d your vote i n f a vour o f th e resu lt of the contest of Protestantism becoming , throne beoause they were Protestants, and on the Mr. Marshall—which I, for one, should not have objected extinct under the foot of the church of Rome, he 1 condition of making this declaration. '1 hat deal-7 1 0a ' to, had you honestly told me—notwithstanding your state- (Mr. Plumptre) was not afraid of such a result. He was was a national protest against the Roman Catholic an_u o ea ments that von did not want to vote, you and another gen- satisfied that Protestantism was founded on a rock. He essentially interwoven with the constitution ; andnf h eld, tleman I see present passed a resolution to do what—why only of Rome shrank from and deprecated the struggle which the tended tnat it was intended to be, and ought to or a l of to enable you, by the most unconstitutional means,inviolable.But this, to do , church b the D 1 learned that against which you had expressed such an antipathy," 1 not of that church were in- th e i r measures promo ti ng by the lion. and learned member, for the lion. an d a . c a tld, The matter terminated with no other result than that Mr. 1 advocating such a bill as that now before the house ; he member repealed the whole of the statute in wro.,la of the P s . a, Tiplady persisted in saying that - Mr. Bramwell had . used , took no part in such a measure—it was only parcel of that declaration was imposed, leaving, in deed , as ,_ a ( .a• .17, tively repudiated contest which was to be carried on against Protestantism Rights, but leaving it so that no declaration, he o the words, whilst the latter geutlenarm posit verag' them. unto the end, and on that ground he should oppose it." 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