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Emptrtat paritaintat. OF LORDS-TBURSDA sion to the Slave ......____. __ ation) Bill, and other ppression of the slave the attention of the rnrn this country and government would iven by the House a public wor 3, there was no intention, art front any of the poratibn Act Amendment Bill Marquis of LoNDoND ERE 3e bill prohibiting the em- ht from the House of Commons, Customs Acts (new tariff) Bill, and ordered to be read a second ,t on Tuesday week he use to the general distress eir lordships )F COMM ONS—Tnu RSD AY .opies of the ratified trea- Colonel VERNER, it was inti- here was no intention of in- laynooth this yew ated, in reply to a question from Mr. .e was no intention to alter the standard ley by the adoption of a silver one. :ply to a question from Mr. M. Milnes, ces of the Prussian government caused )ort of its intention to raise the duties mixed cotton and wool. He had also Prussian ambassador had received no of any such intention called the attention of the house to the pre law with respect to the drama, as set forth ,m Mr. S. Knowles, Mr. D . Jerrold, and ints complained of by the petitioners were, ossessed by the patent theatres, which was ;hem and prejudicial to the public: and the They prayed that drama- egulated - liy equal laws KNIGHT supported the prayer of the more petition. nments r he had not devoted any portion of his and was not, therefore, prepared edy the evil complained of. lf, mber, would ire to r lo;d, o t session bring forward a r I give it his best consideration 2 moved for a copy of ukas ian government, respecting the admims- The hon. member regretted that Poland nationality, and said that in his opinion or the interest of Russia to have acted r towards a country it had conquered. i. seconded the motion 1 his wannest sympathy for the fate wave men who had sought at every id - he believed it was the intention of ssia to annihilate the liberties of Poland, ins by which he could be prevented from but the life of man was limited, and a sovereign arise who would feel the justice and policy of re ationality which brute force was scarcely sufficient ror of R Sir R. PEEI rther di motion Jr. WA )ne of t ART did not think such motions as the r be wholly useless. It was of some rmpatby of the house should be re s, when it was considered that this )se which guaranteed the liberty of )f Vienna. s said that no country in Europe could pre mount of wrong sustained as Poland, but still xi that they should not ask for documents not the jurisdiction of the house. The right of the part of this country arose from a treaty, herefore, only interfere diplomatically. I that in 1832 a motion similar to the one as brought forward, which motion was iimously. and he could not, therefore, think of different course on the present occasion. fle )eaking as a public man, that he could not think cy pursued by Russia towards Poland was safe r it was neither wise nor safe to treat a gallant ss and injustice. To hold out any ex es of interference on our part would be Dn ; but he sincerely hoped the Emperor Id adopt a policy towards Poland calculated to condition of the people and to redound to his able members expressed similar senti- 12 the motion was agreed to. called the attention of the house to the wich Hospital Schools, and moved the fol :—" That in the opinion of the house the o the Royal Hospital at Greenwich should to the inspection of inspectors appointed of Privy Council on Education, and that ,pection should be annually laid upon the The schools as at present conducted ,d, inefficiently supplied, both in quality relicious as well as civil instruction. To inefficiency prevail, that boys were I write who were supposed to be receiving regarded the lower school, ntleman were quite con solutely disgraceful ; but case with the higher school, which sbly conducted boys, who were a be attention of the admiralty was .eat improvements had been made 1, and it was the intention to have I make other arrangements to render as possible. It was also the intention )Dint an inspector, and to have an an- Mr. COWPER withdrew the mo- _ ointment of a select corn thninistration of the grand jury I that the noble lord was pro g connected with grand juries in nts upon which his motion rested • oos from Mr LITTON, Sir W. So- i. members ed the motion, which was negatived were then disposed of, and the HOUSE 0., COMMONS.—FRIDAY. that t , house should resolve itself into .ie bribery at elections bill, the SOLICITOR 4ested that the bill should be referred to a se •iew to get the bill into the most un- tion that tht on, this suggestion was adopted, and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the order of day for the house resolving itself into a committee of wir. WALLACE moved, as an amendment, several resolu as affirmatory of the severity and extent of the prevailing istress—the patience with which the working classes had orue their sufferings ; and concluding with a motion for an ddress to her Majesty, praying that parliament might not be rorogued until an investigation had taken place into the auses of that distress, with a view to an efficient remedy eing provided. Mr. WALKER, in seconding the motion, dwelt upon the epressed state of trade in Lancashire ; and expressed his elief that the only remedy would be found in the removal of lose commercial restrictions which were the original cause F the prevailing distress. BoWIUYG took the same view, and thought that very d measures were required to meet the evil. AGLIONBY also supported th e mot i on. J. GRAHAM said that every one must sympathise with ,e people ; but that distress could only be Vise tone of despondency which hon. gentlemen .ier side were so apt to indulge in. He could not serving that the whole object of those two who brought I motions like the present was to obtain a change in laws as a remedy for the distress ; and if he believed .ange would have an effect so beneficial, he would, le all other considerations, at once join in obtaining He felt convinced, however, that the effect ely the reverse, and he would therefore oppose s of tL D said, that what the people wished was to see rnrnent carrying out its own principles —to see it n• restrictions which it had already condemned as It' parliament separated without any a or toe corn laws, the government would be porn o open the ports to admit corn free of duty before the D'ISRAELI said, that the causes leading to distress u --c complicated nature. The trade of u „atteld would have been greatly relieved r al treaty with France, which had been so ,cessful termination ; but its non o be attributed to the late government, the ht to a suc t us. Rum ated tl LY that of which was a great primary cause of the di - - • • - - )licyby which not only the French, and th 6 Levantine markets were closed attributed the distress to the corn laws, and principles of free trade as the most certain vrr woon 'Was convinced that all the notions 'en recently taken up respecting free trade and r ere utterly fallacious, and were repudiated by ; who maintained the protective system in their believed the distress was great and extensive, ais in its character, and was therefore of opinion Lent ought not to be prorogued until they bad ered u pon an inquiry to ascertain what could be ove or ameliorate it. He thought the govern -1 not have accepted office without being prepared ae public distress, and it was now bound to take d step to relieve it. said the government had erred in making :ountry their primary, and its trade and mdary consideration, when, in fact, they stance to have given a stimulus to trade hen turned their attention to the financial le lord then contended that government res they brought forward, acted con liples they avowed, and contended that duty on corn would have done much, o relieve the distress, w hi c h too un enormous extent. The right hon. pursuing an erroneous co urse w i th , licy of this country. lle ~se they might be made matters e foreign markets to our manu- tof this policy ? France at a high duty, and there v on French wines and French government iFrance, therefore the Ceoole of this country considering the the government upport, yet hecoult in a motion pc honourable member for ought that such an kcal result - he should •lier period of the s &ld not be right to g ion of the motion, of affording ht be unable to realise. He was Attwood, who had means as .ment to judgeof the measures ~iie condemning those measures he ,zst a remedy. By his negation, bow ie might be supposed to entertain, he .) to infer that his favourite remedy a paper currency not convertible into gold. The 101, Wonet then proceeded to defend the measures of 'A 1 int R. Peel interest sing to mat they 441 proaeeded as go without so far interfering'with existing s to lead to greater evils ; and in judging whether they ought to have gone further, the house would do well to remember the difficulties by w hi c h t h ey were surrounde d . In conclusion, he condemned the anti-corn law agitation, as calculated to disturb, to no purpose, the patience with which the people bore their sufferings. Mr. M. GIBSON defended the anti-corn law agitation, and said he had no better mode of creating a public opinion through the country, than by sending missionaries to teach and enlighten the people. He would not say that the corn laws were the s o l e cause , b ecause t h ere were other mischie vous restriction s , b u t th ey were , i n hi s op i n ion, the main cause of the distress. Mr. Wn.mAms then moved that the debate be adjourned until Monday next, which was assented to by Sir R. Peel. The other orders of the day were then dis Posed of, and t e house adjourned. PRIVY COUNCIL.-SATURDAY THE VICAR OF GEDNE AND THE WESLEYAN METRO- Escorr V. MASTIN.—Their lordships gave judgment in this case, which was argued last week, and which has excited so much interest in the church and among the dissenting bo dies. It was an appeal from the Ecclesiastical Court in a suit against the Rev. Mr. Escott, vicar of Gedney. in Lin colnshire, for refusing to read the burial service over the body of a child, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Cliff, the 16th and 17th December, 1839, on the ground that she was un baptised, i.e., had been baptised by a Wesleyan minister, which, according to the appellant's construction of the canons and rubrics of the church, amounted to no baptism at all. The foundation of the suit was the canon of 1603, entitled, " Ministers not to refuse to christen or bury," by which it was ordained, that •' no minister shall refuse or delay to christen any child according to the form of the Book of Com mon Prayer that is brought to the church to him upon Sun days or holidays to be christened, or to bury any corpse that Is brought to the church or churchyard, convenient warning being given him thereof before, in such form as is pre scribed in the said Book of Common Prayer ; and if he shall refuse to christen one or bury the other, (except the party deceased were denounced excommunicated majori excommu nicalione for some grievous and notorious crime, and no man able to testify of his repentance,) he shall be suspended by the bishop of the diocese from his ministry for the space of three months." The sentence of the judge below was, " That the Rev. Thomas Sweet Escott, clerk, be accordingly suspended for the space of three mouths, from all discharge and functions of his clerical offices." Lord Brougham went at great length into the arguments on the part of the appellant, on which it was contended, that baptism, by a person who had not received episcopal ordina tion, was of no more effect than baptism by a layman, and forbidden by the canons and rubrics from to ; that, consequently the rite so performed performing this,ri, rson receiving it un baptize( the ministers of the Church were not only justified in refu vere bound as were of to do so under sever opinion, that, taking Wesleyans and other ministers, not episcopaly ordained, to have no more authority to baptize than laymen, there was nothing in the canon of 1603, or the rubrics of Edward the Sixth and Elizabeth, to show that lay baptism was invalid. There were passages in each which showed that cases were contemplated in which the attendance of aslergyinan could not be procured, from want of time and distance of place ; and, although lay persons were subject to ecclesiastical censures, if they obtruded themselves unneces sarily into this or any other office of the Church, it was plain that the rite was valid by whomsoever administered, if done in the prescribed form. viz., by the sprinkling of water in the name of the Trinity. After going very ably and elabor ately into the other points, his lordship concluded by ex pressing their Lordships' strong disapprobation of the lan gnage in which a judgment of Sir John Nichol in a former case (in which he had come to the same conclusion) had been spoken of by the appellant, and " other reverend persons," and which he could only ascribe to " that heat of temper which is unfortunately too commonly found in theological controversies" ; and stated that the sentence of the Court below must be affirmed with costs. 1 #.O NS DEATH OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER This noble earl expired shortly after five o'clock on Thurs day morning, at Longford CaseN, the seat of his lordship, between Sudbury and Ashburne, Derbyshire. We under stand that for nearly six months the deceased had been gra dually sinking, from his great age, and that he had removed from Holkham Hall, Norfolk, for the benefit of the change of air, having for some years past derived considerable ad vantage from his residence in Derbyshire. The deceased, Thomas Wm. Coke, was son of Mr. Wen man Roberts Coke, who assumed the surname and arms of Coke, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle, Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester; he was born on the 4th of May, 1752, and was, consequently, in the 91st year of his age. He married first, sth October, 1775, Miss Jane Dut ton, youngest daughter of the late Mr. James Dutton, and sister of the late and aunt of the present Lord Sher borne, by whom he had issue Lady Jane Elizabeth, born December, 1777, and married 21st June, 1796, to Viscount Andover, brother of the present Earl of Suffolk, who died in January, 1800, without issue, her ladyship since remarried, in April, 1806, to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Digby, K.C.8., heir presumptive of the Earl of Digby ; Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina, married, sth December, 1822, to Mr. John Spencer Stanhope ; and Lady Anne Margaret, married, 15th September, 1794, to Viscount Anson, father of the Earl of Lichfield. After Mrs. Coke's death, in 1800, the noble earl remained unmarried until 26th February, 1822, when he married, secondly, Lady Anne Amelia Keppel, third daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, by whom, who survives him, he leaves issue, ThOmas Wm. Viscount Coke (now Earl of Leicester), born 25th December, 1822 ; the Hon. Edward Keppel Wentworth Coke, born 20th August, 1824 ; the Hon. Henry John Coke, born 3d January, 1827 ; the Hon. Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke, born 13th July, 1828; and Lady Margaret Sophia Coke, born 7th March, 1832. The late Earl was descended from Sir Richard Coke, Knight, the celebrated lawyer, who was recorder of Coven try and Norwich, and represented the county of Norfolk for some years, and was subsequently chosen Speaker of the House of Commons. He filled the high offices of Solicitor and Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and as the Lord Chief Justice of England, was the last person who bore that title. His late lordship represented the county of Norfolk from 1774 till 1832, during that long period maintaining a cordial friendship with Fot, Grey, and the leading whig statement and zealous opponents to the American and French revolu tionary wars. In consideration of his uniform support of whig principles of government he was elevated to the House of Lords by the whig administration, in July, 1837, by the title of Earl of Leicester of Holkham,' county of Norfolk, and Viscount Coke. The principal portion of the late earl's long and valuable life bad been employed in the advancement of agricultural science, and it is but in justice to his memory to say that he was instrumental to many and great improvements in that branch of our native industry. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald.) In a Congregation holden on Thursday, the following De grees were conferred : BACHELOR AND DOCTOR OF DIVINITY BY ACCUMULATION. Rev. Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College, grand compounder. DOCTOR IN CIYIL LAW John Lane, Queen's College. BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. Holled Darrell Cave Smith Horlock, Magdalene Hall. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Abraham Kerr Thompson, Queen's College Rev. Thomas Calvert, Queen's College. Henry Symonds, Magdalene Hall. Henry Duncan Skrine. Wadham College. John Dobree Dalgairns, Exeter College. BACHELORS OF ARTS Thomas Evetts, Scholar of Corpus Christi College, grand compounder. Francis Hugh Deane, Magdalene Hall. The election for Fellows at Exeter College has termi nated in the choice of the following gentlemen : The Rev. Matthew Anstis, M.A., Exeter College. James Anthony Froude, 8.A., Oriel College. Frederick Fan s h awe , 8.A., Scholor of Balliol College. Richard Cowley Fowles, Scholar of Exeter College. George Butler;Scholar, of Exeter College. - On Monday, Mr. Edward West, Mr. Henry Longueville Mansel, and Mr. Leopold John Bernays, Scholars of St. John's College, were admitted actual Fellows; and at the same time, Mr. Edward Thomas Austen, Mr. Robert Win tle Gilbert, and Mr. Edward Victor Lewis Houlton, all being of kin to the Founder, were elected and admitted ac tual Fellows ; and Mr. Thompson Podmore, and Mr. Christopher Cookson, were elected and admitted proba tionary Scholars of the same Society. On Thursday last, Mr. William Charles Lawrence, Scholar of New College, was admitted actual Fellow of that Society. CRAVEN SCHOLARSIIIP.—A Scholarship OD the Founda tion of John Lord Craven being now vacant, it will be filled up on Thursday next, the 7th of July. The Electors are the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professors of Divinity, Law, Physic, Hebrew, and Greek, and the Public Orator. Per sons of the name or kindred of Lord Craven, being poor, and Scholars of the University, are entitled to a preference; and such persons are required to transmit to the Vice-Chan cellor, before ten o'clock this day, satisfactory documents in proof of their said kindred, an account of their standing in the University, and testimonials from the College or Hall to which they belong. Mr. John Collingwood, t.A., of Pembroke College, has been appointed Second Master of the Free Grammar School, Abingdon. . _ _ The Rev. John Maynard, M.A., c k g Exeter College, Cu rate of Dursley, Gloucestershire, has been appointed Chap lain to the Marquis of Hertford._ The Rev. John Puckle, M.A.,of Brazenose C o ll ege, Curate of St. Mary's, Dover, as been elect e d b y t h e parishioners Perpetual Curate of that Church. PROMOTIONS Rev. James Kendall, formerly of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the Vicarage of Lantigler by Fowey ; patron, J. Kendall, Esq., of Helston. Rev. William Nassau Molesworth, M.A., formerly of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Andrew's, Manchester. Rev. John Murphy, to the Living of Kilmocomogue, Ireland, vacant by the promotion of the Hon. and Rev. C. B. Bernard to the Prebend of Kilbrogan. Rev. Weeden Butler, Curate of Creaton, Northampton shire, to the Vicarage of Wickham Market, Suffolk, vacant by the :death of the Rev. J. E. Bell ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. H. B. Illingworth is appointed Chaplain to the Mada gascar, on t h e C oast o f Af r i ca. The Quee n h as been pleased to present the Rev. Donald Jackso n to the Church at Lochgilphead, in the parish of Glassr Y, in the pres b ytery o f I nverar y an d s hire of Argyll, vacant by the death of the Rev. Peter M'Kichan. INCOM E the income C which was held i l tax AAX OsN introducedP li c intoo At P discussionA N t E s. Th a e t t s h u e b subject annual o when one of meeting of t heshareholders of the South Australian Bank, been in cornmunicati the nthe city of London on Wednesday last ; directors e (Mr. Divett, M. Y.), who has stated that Mr. communication the Chancellor of the Exche quer,the government would (l'ulb.urn had intimated to him that source from which to ook . to . the company itself as the receive , its impost without any reference whatever to individuals.va the e amount paid would, therefore, fro rata dividend paid to the shareholders, but in this the ahnecellor have to be deducted from might their own conve .said nothing, leaving conve nience. Another director said it them to arrange that matter as smt pere i t n i e e s a s to the amount happen that parties s wo o ud h gve tax , as : in we re not beneficially interested inpeebrgusos: t w h h a i t c e h as b e ro h u e g a h u t pp t e h a e e m d t w h i a t t hin sua th h e former times, to get a certificate from government and back to the b ank and get the amount deducted from cometheir dividend remit ted. The principle as to the imp os i t i on of the . income tax set f orth a t this m eeting of course a pp lies to all a pu r b e i t i ti e rn of their companies, which, it is understood, will have t o ma k e g ross profits, irrespective of the appropri ation of any monies fora reserved fund, or other contin gencies, and will on that return be taxed. ARRIVAL OF THE ON LRLAND ( From yesterday's Times.) We have received, by express from Marseilles, files of Indian and China papers, in anticipation of the overland mail, which left Bombay on the 23d of May. It will be re marked that, in order to avoid the monsoon, the mail was despatched ten days earlier than usual, and thj period over which our intelligence usually extends is therefore consider ably diminished. We rejoice to state that, although the events which have occurred since the dates of our last advices are not of so striking a character as those of which the news has been communicated by the last six mails, the intelligence is, on the whole, highly satisfactory, and fully bears out the brief statement of the telegraphic despatch which we pub lished on Saturday. CHINA, Our news from China is to the 4th of April. The prepara tions for the defence by the Chinese of the river between Wbampoa and Canton were still in progress, although now nearly completed, and their officers were unremitting in their exertions to practise their artillerymen in the use of great guns. Ningpo had been attacked on the 18th of March by a Chinese force, estimated at from 10,000 to 12,000 men. They were allowed to enter the town without opposition, but upon reaching the market-place were attacked on all sides by our troops, and instantly routed. About 250 are said to have been left dead on the field, while on our side not a single casualty took place. _ This - appears to have been only part of a concerted attack, as at the same time fire-boats were launched against our ships, and an attempt was made upon the garrison of Chin hae, but in each case with signal ill success. Several skirmishes had also taken place along the coast, but with no decisive result, although in each the enemy had suffered considerable loss. More vigorous measures were, it is said, in contemplation, and a movement to the north ward was intended upon the arrival of the expected reinforce ments. Trade appears to have been carried on as usual, but, with the exception of cotton, not upon remunerating prices. Bar ter was the only means of commercial intercourse. The following official notification of the success of the Bri tish forces has been promulgated by her Majesty's plenipo tentiary : " CIRCULAR. TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA " Her Britannic Majesty's plenipotentiary in China has great pleasure in announcing to her Majesty's subjects the complete repulse of two bodies of Chinese troops, which at tacked the British positions at Ningpo and Chinhae, at day light on the morning of the 10th of last month. -" During the wale of February almost daily intelligence reached the head-quarters of her Majesty's forces, showing that the Chinese high authorities contemplated some active operations; but they were from time to time deferred on such frivolous pretences, that it appears their excellencies the naval and military commanders-in-chief hove gone over to Chusan, to make arrangements at that place preparatory to a forward movement of a portion, at least, of leer Majesty's combined forces " In this state matters remained until the date and hour above-mentioned, when a considerable body of Chinese, esti mated at from 10,000 to 12,000 men, advanced upon the south and west gates of Ningyo, got over the walls, and pene trated to the market place, in the centre of the city, where they were met by our troops, and instantly driven back with great loss ; in fact, it would seem that the moment the Chi nese troops found themselves so warmly received, their sole object was to get out of the city as fast as possible, and in their retreat to the south gate, the field guns, drawn by po nies, came up and opened on the dense mass with grape and cannister, at a distance of less than 100 yards. Above 250 dead bodies were found inside the walls, and when the ac counts came away, her Majesty's 49th regiment had not re turned from the pursuit of the discomfited and flying enemy. " Whilst these operations were progressing on shore, a namber of fire-boats (sampans), lashed together with chains, were floated down the river, and were tossed into the mud by the boats of the Sesostris steamer. In the meantime a gun was brought down a lane in the eastern suburb (across the river), and as the inhabitants had been previously warned that any such attempt would bring chastisement upon them. Her Majesty's ship Modeste opened her guns, and did great execution in that quarter. " The attack on Chinhae was much more feeble. The enemy advanced to the north gate, where they were driven off by the guard, and followed by one company (afterwards reinforced by three others) of her Majesty's 55th Regiment, who killed 30 men and two mandarins in the pursuit. " Simultaneously with the attack on the city of Chinhae, fire sampans chained together were set adrift to burn the shipping at the anchorage, but they all went on shore above the ships of war and merchant vessels, and did no sort of harm. " Shortly before these repulses occurred, the Nemesis steamer was sent from Chusan to reconnoitre the island of Taisam, where it was understood Chinese troops were col lecting with the purpose of attacking her Majesty's forces at Tinghae. The steamer sent her boats into a creek, where they were fired on, and in consequence Commander Collin son and Lieutenant Hall landed the steam-ship's company, when the Chinese fled with the loss of about 30 killed and a number wounded. The steamer's boats then set fire to a number of junks which had also fired on her, and returned to Chinhae. " Their Excellencies the naval and military Commanders in-Chief had gone back to Ningpo, and proposed to follow up the repulses the enemy had experienced by aative measures. "It affords her Majesty's Plenipotentiary the highest satisfaction to close the circular by stating that in these at tempts of the enemy, her Majesty's combined forces had not lost a man. " The latest intelligence from the head-quarters of the Chinese army south of the Hangchow River speak of the troops being in almost a state of insubordination, and in want of supplies, &c. _ " The Emperor had ordered, that the provinces which are the seat of the war should bear the expenses of it; and as the inhabitants seemed resolved to make no further sacrifices, there appears every probability of the army dissolving itself, and becoming totally disorganized. "'God save the Queen. " HENRY POTTINGER, " Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary. " Dated at Macao, on the Ist day of April, 1842." We subjoin another notification by his excellency, from which it appears that the Chinese will be suffered to use their own discretion in fortifying the banks of the river be tween Whampoa and Canton ; but if they venture to erect new works below the former place, hostilities will be imme diately resumed : "Government-house, Hongkong, March 22,1842. " Gentlemen,—You are aware that some of the Hong merchants lately paid a visit to Macao, and it is probably by this time known to most of you that the object of that visit was to find out whether the provincial government of Canton would be allowed to rebuild the Bogue and other dismantled forts, or to erect new ones on this side of the Whampoa anchorage. " Although I have of course declined having any sort of intercourse with the Hong-merchants, I took advantage of the kindness of a friend to let these individuals know in dis tinct terms, that orders had been long issued to prevent the repair of the old, or the erection of any forts lower down than Whampoa, and that the consequence of any attempt of the sort would be the renewal of hostilities in the Canton river, the stoppage of trade, and the consequent distress to the province and city. " I trust this warning will have the desired effect, and that matters will be allowed to go on in their present tranquil course; but 1 nevertheless think it my duty to acquaint you with what has passed, a s we ll as w ith my r eso l u ti on , which has been fully approved and confirmed by the experienced judgment of the senior officer of Her Majesty's navy in the Canton River; and in so doing so I would request you individually and collectively to give the earliest possible no tice of any collecting of material, assemblage of workmen, or other apparently defensive (though in reality offensive) pre parations that yourself or your agents may perceive on the river below Whampoa. It is superfluous for me to observe that the safety of the shipping and their crews at the anchor age imperatively demand every precaution and vigilance, and 1 feel assured you will cheerfully aid me in the manner I have pointed out. " I am, gentlemen, " Your most obedient and faithful servant, " HENRY POTTINGER, " Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary The Mercantile Community of Hong Kong, Macao, 8;9." The following mercantile circular contains the latest com mercial news. It was written on the morning of the Ist April, at which time the intelligence of the Chinese having been repulsed in their attacks on Ningpo and Chinhae had not transpired. The state of trade at Canton appears to have improved, many sales having been effected during the latter part of the month of march. Opium is still sold at very low rates " Macao, Ist April, 1842. " We avail ourselves of the despatch of the Anonyma, for Bombay, and Cowasjee Family, for Calcutta, to continue our general advices from the 3d ultimo. " Nothing has occurred to disturb the tranquillity which has for some time past prevailed in this province, and trade goes on as usual. At Canton a considerable business has been done in cotton during the last ten days. Sales of Bom bay having been effected at 8 to 9 4, and of Bengal at 8 5 to 10. Cotton manufactures exhibit a tendency to recover from their late extreme depression, but no decided rise in prices has yet taken place. _ _ Woollens continue without inquiry, and the near approach of the hot season precludes the prospect of any early im provement. We have no change to notice as regards tea. The season's export from the Ist of November to the present date amounts to 20,218„3101b. of black, and 3,723,7901 b. of green ; total, 23,912,1001 b., and there are few shipments in pro- gress. Of raw silk the quantity which has yet reached Canton is small, and held at exorbitantly high prices. Freight to England is scarce at £4 10s. to £5. We have r.o recent news from Amoy or Chusan. Sir H. Pottinger remains here, waiting the arrival of the December mail from England, daily expected. The depression in our opium market continues. Malwa is selling at 325 dollars to 330 dollars ; New Patna, 400 dole.; and Benares at 390 dollars. Our latest dates are from Bombay to the 15th, and Cal cutta to the 23d of January. AFFGHANISTAN General Pollock arrived at Jellalabad, and effected a junc tion with the troops composing the garrison of that fortress, on the 16th of April. The British force met with no oppo sition or annoyance after passing Ali Musjid, except that arising from the attempts of a few marauding bands of Ky berries to plunder and carry off the baggage. With the exception, however, of a few camels, everything belonging to the troops was brought in safety to Jellalabad. General Pollock would have arrived there two or three days sooner, but as the defeat of Akhbar Khan on the 7th of April had secured the safety of Jellalabad, and rendered rapid improve ments on the part of the advancing force unnecessary, the general halted on the bank of the Cubal river, and sent strong detachments of cavalry and infadt r y to Liillpoora on the opposite side, for the purpose of restoring Torabaz Khan in lights over that place. This chief has invariably been faiendly to the British. He supplied Gen. Sale's force with provisions for a considerable time. By this means he drew on himself the enmity of Ahbar Khan, and was compelled to fly to Peshawur. The worthy chief was reinstated in his possessions without difficulty, but we regret to say that three men belonging to her Majesty's 3d dragoons were swept away by the current and drowned in attempting to cross the river. On the 27th of . April. Captain Cohn Mackenzie. of the Madras army, arrived at Jellalabad. This officer had been has fine dn ino t two released on his parole by A bkar Khan, a nd was the hearer of proposals from that chi ef and Mahomed Schah Khan, the Ghilzie, to General Pollock, floirtshtreoin•eslearseettoeef tthferolmadicesabul. and disastrous other persons taken in the c How far the negotiation has progressed, , or what may h ave prisoners Pollock s w r e e t p e l y cOn small forts in the Tezeen valley , and were toler ably well t b r e e e n n s p t i h t e e d . nature ih e wholeo f General of t be treated by their captors. Captain Mackenzie brought intel ligence of General Elphinstone's death, which took place either on the 23d or 24th of April. The General's remains were to be brought to the British camp for interment, Akhbar Khan having offered to forward the body to Jellalabad, which place it was expected to reach on the ni g ht followin g Captain Mackenzie's arrival. The day previous to his death the unfortunate General signed a document containing a de tailed account of th e procee di ngs connec t e d with the Cabal insurrection. Thi s narrat i ve cannot b u t p r ove highly inte resting; and, as Lord Ellenborough seems laudably desi- I givin ) every recent transactions beiond the Indus, we trust ere long to be able to lay the deceased General's account before our readers. All dofibt as to who took the most active part in the assassination of Sir William Machaghten is now at an end ; Captain Mackenzie having asserted that he saw Akhbar Khan perpetrate the murder. _ The brigade under Colonel Bolton, consisting of Her Majesty's 31st foot, one troop of horse, and a half battery of Foot Artillery, the 6th Bengal Native Infantry, and the 3rd Irregular Cavalry, having under their charge a large quantity of treasure, together with the whole of the ordnance and commissariat stores, as also the greater Art of the pri vate baggage of General Pollock's army, reached Ali Musjid on the 20th of April, without having experienced the slightest molestation from Kbyberries. On the following day Colonel Bolton effected a junction with Colonel Monteath; the latter officer having been detached by General Pollock with the 33d and 35th Regiments Native Infantry for the purpose of assist ing in guarding the passage of the stores and treasure through the defiles. It was generally understood at Jallalabad, that immediately the convoy arrived, preparations would be made for the advance of the army towards Cabul. There is no doubt of Shah Soojah having been murdered. The city and adjacent country is in a state of anarchy consequent on the dissensions between the rebels and the partisans of the late Kihg. It is not probable, therefore, that the British will meet with any serious opposition in their progress to Affghan capital. The numerous followers who formerly adhered to the standard of Akhbar Khan have dwindled down to a small party of about 100 horsemen. GIIIIZNI.—The following officers who were quartered in Ghuzni at the time of its capitulation are said, on the au thority of a native horsekeeper, to have escaped with their lives, and now to be in the hands of some of the insurgent chiefs :—Colonel Palmer, Captain Alston, Ensign Williams. Lieutenant Harris, Lieutenant Barnes, Lieutenant Crawford, of the Bombay establishMent, a doctor, and another officer, whose names were not known. Lieutenant Lumsden and his wife were killed. The greater number of the Sepoys, after having been plundered and otherwise maltreated by the Ghilzies, were permitted to take shelter in the adjoining villages. SCINDE.—From Scinde our latest intelligence is also of a favourable nature. Pursuant to peremptory orders from Ge neral Nott, Brigadier England with 2,500 men left Quettah, on the 26th of April, for Candahar, a portion of the force at the latter place having been detached so as to meet General England, and aid him in getting the convoy through the Ko juck Pass. On the 29th of April the General reached the heights of Hykulzie, the scene of his late discomfiture (re ported in our last summary). No time was lost in attacking the enemy's position, and we are happy to say the attempt was successful. A well-directed fire from the artillery com pelled the insurgents to evacuate their outposts whilst the British infantry were ascending the hill. The enemy lost five standards, and had: above fifty killed. The casualties on our side were very trifling, no lives having been lost. Lieut. Ashburner, of the 3d Light Cavalry, was severely wounded. The following letter from our correspondent at Sukkur, dated May 8, contains some further information on the sub- " The troops under Brigadier England left Quettah agree ably to orders from General Nott, on the 26th ultimo, and on the 29th came up to the heights near flykulzie, the place of their late reverse. I have only time to say that they were carried in the most gallant style, the enemy flying in all di rections. They must have suffered very severely. Our troops succeeded in taking five standards, sundry match locks, &c. The 41st are amply revenged for the fall, on the previous occasions, of their brave comrades; the whole, both Europeans and Natives, stuck to the fighting part of the bu siness like bricks. Casualties are as follows : " Lieutenant Ashburner, 3d Light Cavalry, severely wounded. " Her Majesty's 41st Foot.-2 privates wounded. "3d Light Cavalry.-6 troopers and 8 horses wounded " Native lnfantry.-2 Sepoys wounded." THE PRISONERS.-It will be recollected that on the eva cuation of Cabul on the sth of January, 1842, about 300 sick and wounded soldiers were left behind the retiring army, the charge of whom was undertaken by the provisional Go vernment ; and that besides these, six officers were detained as hostages for the immediate abandonment of Jellalabad, Ghuzni, and Candahar. These hostages were Captain Drummond, 3d Cavalry ; Lieutenants Airie, 3d Buffs ; Connolly, 20th Native Infantry ; Warburton, Artillery ; Walsh, 52d Madras Native Infantry ; and Webb, 38th Madras Native Infantry; Doctors Balfour, Berwick, and M'Kinner remaining in charge of the sick and wounded. Of this party little has been heard for five months ; they have written very rarely, and all we know of them is, that they are alive, and said to have been tolerably well treated. In the course of the retreat which, commenced on the 6th, terminated about the 13th of J anua ry, by the total annihi lation of the army, the following fell into the bands of the enemy, and were detained prisoners : Major-General Elphinstone, Commander-in-Chief of the armies ; Brigadier Shelton, her Majesty's 44th Foot ; Major Pottiuger, Captain Anderson, 59th Native Infantry ; Capt. Boyd, 65th Native Infantry ; Captain Johnstone ; Captain Lawrence, Captain Troup, 48th Native Infantry ; Surgeon M'Grath, Lieutenant Eyre, Artillery; Lieutenant Macken zie, Madras Army ; Lieutenant Waller, Artillery ; Ensign Mien, Her Majesty's 13th Regiment ; Captain Bygrave, sth Native Infantry, Paymaster; Captain Gray, Her Majesty's 44th Foot; Major Griffiths, 37th Native Infantry; Lieu tenant Souter, Her Majesty's 44th Foot. So far as our information extends, these appear to have been withdrawn from the force, that their lies might be preserved, when the army was in the act of perishing amongst the mountains by cold or the hand of the enemy. A letter has been received from Lady Macnaghten from Buddiabad, dated the 27th ult., in which she says that Akhbar Khan has treated her most kindly, and promises that she and Mrs. Trevor shall be immediately released. The time is approaching when we shall know whether these accounts result from the genuine facts of the case, or from apprehen sion of compulsion. He might have restored his prisoners long ago had he chosen.—Delhi Gazette. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Bombay Times, May 23.) SHIPPING PROSPECTS.—On no former occasion has the harbour of Bombay been so crowded with shipping as it is at present. During the brief interval which has elapsed since the departure of the last mail, 21 days, no fewer than 43 ships, aggregating about 28,000 tons, have arrived, which, added to those previously here, and dedivning those which have sailed, make the number of merchant vessels at present in harbour, exclusive of small country craft, to be 90, and their aggregate tonnage about 54,000 tons. The greatest difficulty is consequently experienced in procuring freights, which will be further aggravated by the near approach of the monsoon, when no further supplies of producetrom the coast and interior can be received. The ra t e of freight to China has fallen to 10 rupees per candy, while to England scarcely any can be procured at all; indeed, the price of cotton, on the Bombay Green is at present higher than in the English mar kets, and would leave a loss even if it could be laid down in Liverpool freight free. Nor do matters appear to be much better at any of the other eastern ports. Prospects for ship ping in this country are not, therefore, at present very &a tering; and the shipowners must make up their mi n d s t o run their ships at a loss for some time to come. Their case is a very hard ode, o ccurring, too, at a time when, fro m th e reduction in the timber duties, the value of shipping pro perty is depreciated by a sum equivalent to about 255. for every load of timber used in the constructi on ; an d w h en there is at this moment in the various ports of England an amount of tonnage laid up, almost in a state of confiscation, which has cost the possessors many milli ons s t er li ng . At home this tonnage incurs comparatively little expense, whereas in this country the expenditure will be heavy, BOMBAY MARKET. (From the Overland Price Current, May 23.) OBSERVATIONS. — The continued depression of almost every branch of our import trade leaves but little room for rcmark or speculation. For some descriptions of gray and bleached piece goods, indeed, there has been rather more enquiry than was the case last month ; but prices have not rallied in the slightest degree, and still exhibit a downward tendency. The market for metals has been very dull ; and prices are uniformaly lower than b efore. The arrivals of shipping have been unprecedently numerous, and cotton having risen in price, freights, both to Great Britain and China, have considerably declined. Looking at the unfavour able state of commercial affairs at home, the probability of a protracted straggle in China, and the little likelihood of any speedy resumption of trade with the countries to the north west, the prospect which presents itself is anythiug but cheering FREIGHTS Since the date of our last number, freights, which we then quoted at £2 Iss. to £3, have gradually declined, and £1 17s. 6d. has been accepted within the last few days. The highest rate now offered is £1 15s, and we are doubtful if even this could be obtained for a full cargo. Freight to China has also fallen considerably. Our former quotation was 16i rupees per candy, and it is now as low as 10 rupees, with every prospect of a further decline. There is no ship for the Clyde. OVER-PRODUCTION AGAIN, (From the Citg Article of Thursday's Standard.) The accounts received from the great centres of manufac turing industry in the northern countries, are of such a seri ous character that they are producing considerable disquietude in the minds of the moneyed interest in town that are in daily communication with the suffering districts. Since the arrival of the last Indian mail the gleam of hope which had sprung up for the two or three preceding weeks, has entirely disappeared, and the demand for goods is to the full as limited, and prices as low as at any period since the com mencement of the year. Accordin g to the letters received this morning, the accounts brought from the United States by the Columbia steamer are not calculated to have any im- rnediately favourable effect upon business ; for, although they have removed all apprehension of an ultimate rupture arising out of the political points in dispute, there is no pros pect held out that there will, for months to come, be any ma terial increase in the demand for our manufattures. The uncertainty that prevails respecting the course that will be taken with the American tariff is no doubt increasing the evil, as a similar state of uncertainty, we have seen, has in jured our home trade, but the main cause of the difficulty arises from the market being overstocked with all the prin cipal articles adapted for American consumption, so that additional orders are not to be expected unless they are ex ecuted on credit, and the result of forcing business on that basis requires no illustration. It appears, however, that nothing short of the literal ex tinction of a number of our manufacturers, will teach the remainder to apply the only remedy which, in the nature of things, can ever better their condition, namely, the regula tion of production to the means of obtaining equivalent values, whether the exchange be made ;abroad or at home. It seems that the slight improvement which took place in the prospect of business in the early part of last month immedi ately led to the re-employment of nearly the whole manufac turing power of Lancashire and Yorkshire on full time ; and the result, as might have been expected, is an increase of stocks in Manchester and other towns sufficient to preclude all hope of an advance in prices throughout the remainder of the season. The futility of the reduction of wages is also again palpable, and those that have had recourse to the un wise expedient find themselves in no better position in res pect to profits, than they were at the point from whence they started. They have gratuitously increased the misery of their labourers without the consolation of a single week's addi tional profit, or of selling one piece of goods more in conse quence of the red uc ti on . It is preposterous to talk o f foreign competition in this race of cadicity of prices. it i s entirely a domestic affair into which no foreign competition can enter, and it more clearly illustrates the fallacy of th e free trade principle of levelling than has been exhibited in all the past experience of civilised communities. No fore sight on the part of the working classes can guard thew against the consequences of the tremenduous power that is brought against them ; and all their ;hopes must rest in a limit being fixed to its operation by legislative enactment. This is the view which was early taken by the most acute observers of the working of the system, who laboured in the vineyard with the late Mr. Sadler, to shorten the hours of labour as the only remedy, and which subsFquent experience has fu r th er an d f urt h er con fi rme d. This is enc ouragement for Lord Ashl ey to persevere in the effort, and, fro m w h at we have occasion to know, there is no reason to doubt but these efforts will at length be crowned with the desired and deserved success. Every day disarms hostility, and gains converts to the cause o f h um anity and true national great- ness. The branch railway line from Leamington and Warwick to join the London and Birmingham Railway near Coventry, is now sure to be constructed without delay. SUSPECTED ATTACK UPON HER MAJESTN (From the Times of yesterday.) On Sunday afternoon a feeling of most intense and painful excitement was occasioned throughout the metropolis, by the circulation of a report that another treasonable attempt had been that day made upon the life of the Queen, as Her Maje Sty was proceeding from Buckingham Palace to the Chapel Royal, St. James's, to attend divine service in ac cordance with her usual custom. To describe the feeling of indignation excited among all classes on hearing the report is beyond our powers of description. The following evidence may be relied upon, as being the major part of the statement of the witnesses examined by the Privy Council, it having been obtained from a source the most authentic, and will sufficiently explain the facts of the case. The first witness examined was police constable John Partridge, A. 136, who deposed as follows :—About twelve o'clock at noon this day I was on duty in the Green-park, but proceeding down to the Mall in St. James's-park, on seeing the Royal carriages leaving Buckingham Palace to go to the Chapel Royal. After the entrance into the garden gate of St. James's Palace, by which Her Majesty usually proceeds to the chapel, I returned towards the Green-park, when my attention was attracted to a crowd of about 300 persons near the Duke of Sutherland's residence, and on proceeding to the spot I saw a young man, whose name I hare since understood to be Dassett, standing with 'a pistol in his hand. I asked him what he was doing with the pistol, when he replied, that he had taken it from a boy with a humped back, because he had presented it at the last carriage of the three, in which carriage the Queen was sitting. I immediately took possession of the pistol, and also took Dassett with me to Gardener's-lane station. He told me that his brother and uncle were present with him when he seized the boy and took from him the pistol. I looked down the barrel of the pistol, and could distinctly see some paper and grains of coarse gunpowder. Charles Edward Dassett, aged 16 years, was the next wit ness examined, and being sworn, said—l reside with my father, who is an oil and colourman, at N 0.42, New Church street, Portman-market. At about ten minutes before 12 o'clock, I was standino- in the Mall, St. James's-park, about half way between Buckingham Palace and the milkhouse gate, when a hump-backed youth, about 16 years of age, dressed in a long brown surtout coat, elbowed his way to the front. There was at the time a great number of . persons collected, and the line of spectators was t w o or three deep. The second royal carriage had passed, and the third, which contained her Majesty, was coming up, when I saw him pull a pistol from the breast pocket of his coat. I saw him pre sent it at the carriage —I should say the b ac k of the carriage, because it was passing quickly at the time. I distinctly heard the "click," and saw the hammer go down. There was no flash in the pan and no explosion. I immediately seized him by the wrist of the hand which held the pistol. I at the time made the remark to my brother Frederick, who was standing near me, " Here's a young gentleman going to have a pop at the Queen." Seeing two policemen walking along on the opposite side of the Mall, I took the youth _ with me over to them. I showed them the pistol, and said to them. " This lad has been attempting so shoot the Queen." They laughed at me, and Hearn, 56 A, said it did not amount to a charge. The greatest portion of the popu lace sided with the hump-backed youth, and cried out, " Give the pistol back to the boy ;" others said, " Give it to the po liceman ;" and some said to the lad, "Put it into your pocket and run away with it." I still continued my hold of the hump-backed youth, and had proceeded some distance down the Mall, when the pressure from the crowd became so great that I was obliged to let him go, otherwise my arm would have been broken. Soon after this, Partridge, 136 A, seeing me with a pistol in my hand, took me into custody. Just before this•l saw the youth go into the Green-park, and I believe he went through that gate by Stafferd-house which leads into- Cleveland-row. The policeman took me to the station-house, and told the inspector on duty that he had found me in the park with the pistol in my hand, and trying to ex cite the mob, I then said to the inspector that I had taken the pistol from a deformed boy, who had attempted to shoot the Queen. I afterwards gave a description of him. Cross-examined.—l think the boy was two or three yards from the carriage at the time he attempted to fire the pistol. I am certain he was not more than three yards off. The next witness was an officer attached to the recruiting department, who proved that he had attended at the station house and examined the pistol, which had an old flint, lock with screw and rifle barrel. Upon detaching the barrel, which was done with some difficulty, from the screw having become exceedingly rusty, owing to its long disuse, he found in it a portion of very coarse powder, a piece of tobacco pipe, and some paper wadding. The pistol was decidedly in such a state that it could have been discharged. William Jones, an old man of impoverished appearance, was next examined. He said,—l am a wood-turner, living in Paul-street, Finsbury. I was in the park about ten mi nutes to twelve o'clock to-day, and saw the young man, Chas. Dassett, take a pistol from the hand of a deformed boy. When I saw Dassett taken into custody by a constable, and heard the people tell the constable that he (Dassett) had been attempting to shoot the Queen, I followed him to the station-house to refute that statement. Cross-examined.—l did not see the attempt mAde by the deformed boy, nor do I know how he got away ; but it was very easy for him to do so, as there were 500 or 600 persons collected. Frederick Dassett sworn.—l am in my 15th year, and am brother to Charles Dassett. I was in the park with him to day, and standing on his right side, when I saw him suddenly lay hold of a deformed youth's wrist, who I saw had got a pistol in his hand. He addressed me, saying, " Look here, Fred, this chap is going to have a pop at the Queen—l think he wants to be provided for for life." My brother took the pistol out of his hand, and said, "We 'll go over to those two policemen." We went over. The remainder of this witness's evidence was confirmatory of his brother's. He added, that he had also given a description of the accused at the station-house. Mr. W. Abereromby, an independent gentleman, being sworn, said—l witnessed the taking by Charles Dassett of a deformed boy to two policemen. I heard him charge that boy in their presence with having attempted to shoot the Queen, and I heard them refuse the charge. When I found Dassett was taken into custody, I accompanied him to the station-house, and told the inspector on duty what I had seen. I left my name and address there, and was afterwards sent for to give evidence here. Mr. John Jones sworn.--I am uncle to the witnesses Charles and Frederick Dassett. I was with them in the park this morning. I stood rather behind them. My at tention was attracted by Charles laying hold of a pistol in a deformed youth's hand. I then saw him cross over to the police, and heard him charge the deformed youth with shoot ing at the Queen. The police refused to take the charge, and treated the matter with the greatest possible contempt. This witness was questioned most minutely as to the dis tance the boy might have been from the carriage when it passed by him. The witness said, certainly not more than three yards. The police constables, Hearn, 56 A, and Claxton, 134 A, were afterwards called in, and having been severely repri manded by the Council for their conduct on the occasion, were informed that they must consider themselves sus pended for the present from further duty. The Council concluded the inquiry at eight o'clock last evening. At this time Sir James Graham, the Secretary for the Home Department, through Mr. Taylor, the office-keeper, desired our reporter to state, from authority, that the Coun cil had most fully investigated all the circumstances of the case, that the pistol was loaded only with a small portion of coarse powder and paper wadding. APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED ASSASSIN. The supposed assassin was apprehended ab ou t seven o ' c l oc k near King's-cross, - Somerstown, having been identified as a person who had recently been in the employ of Mr. Simpson, surgeon, of Skinner-street, New-road, where he was employed as an errand-boy. After undergoing an examination before the Privy Council, he was remanded, and will, it is stated, be examined again this day.—Morning Herald of Monday. It appears from the report of the council of King's College, that the total receipts of the past year amounted to £21,569 and that the number of students who matriculated was 813: VALUABLE RECIPE.—It is said that life is to be prolonged by inhaling the breath of young women. We have no ob jection to take some of that medicine, if the ladies have rich strawberry lips. Out of 2,787 houses in Pontypool and the parish of Tre vethin, nearly one-half are at present unoccupied, the late residents having emigrated. The subscription raised for the purpose of erecting and endowing an episcopal college in Scotland, amount, at pre sent, to £17,000, including £l,OOO from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., has contributed £5OO, and H. H. Williamson, Esq., £3OO, towards the erection of a church, parsonage-house, and school, at Brown Edge, Nor ton-in-the-Moors, Staffordshire. THE MURDER OF MR. HALL IN IRELAND.-At the Tipperary special sessions last week, Patrick Byrnes was found guilty of the murder of this venerable gentleman. Wiiliam Kent was found not guilty as the accessory. It is stated that there has not been a single death, with the exception of two young children, within the last month in the whole chapelry of Barnard Castle, Durham, containing a population of upwards of five thousand persons. The united vicarages of North Newton and West Knoyle, Wilts, 22 miles distant from each other, have, for the inter ests of religion, been disunited by an order of her Majesty in Council. The livings will therefore henceforth be distinct benefices. An adjourned special meeting of the proprietors of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr Railway Company was held last week in Glasgow, at which it was resolved, under powers arnntod 11.7 their ~..t ....., ". I ,A GU/ vl 'uU ULRIC' - taking to the extent of £156,250, by the creation of 12,500 new shares of £l2 10s. each. SNAILS.—The present rainy weather being likely to pro duce a large quantity of snails, persons whose gardens are infested with them may easily get rid of them this season by placing small heaps of bran—say a good handful in each — near the crops which are liable to be attacked. On carefully examining these heaps night and morning, they will be found to have attracted great numbers of snails, which may be readily collected and destroyed. Such is the fondness of these reptiles for bran, that they will desert any growing ve getable, however succulent and palatable, to feed upon it.— Birmingham Advertiser. THE CONVICT FRANCIS.—The Times of Saturday says, " The following announcement appeared in an evening paper on Saturday. The intelligence is perfectly correct : " We are enabled to state upon authority that Her Majesty has been most graciously pleased to signify her commands that the life of John Francis, the convict in Newgate under sentence of death for high treason, shall be spared. The sentence of this prisoner will, therefore, be commuted to transportation for life, and under such commuted sentence he will be forthwith transported, and subjected to hard labour in the most penal settlement iu the Australian colonies.' " COURT OF EXCHEQUER, SATURDAY.—THORNTON V. BYNG AND OTHERS.—This action (which, from its connec tion with what is called the " Gurney:affair," appears to have excited a very unusual degree of attention amongst those interested ;in sporting affairs) was brought to recover com pensation in damages for the publication of a libel reflecting on the tcharacter of the plaintiff, by the defendants, the Right Hon. G. S. Byng, the Duke of Bedford, and Colonel Anson, as the stewards of the 'Jockey Club. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and also justified on the ground that the alleged libel was true. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £2OO. FATAL ACClDENT.—Wednesday morning, between three and four o'clock, one of the Fisherrow fishing boats coming home from the white fishing with their foresail full reefed, when about a mile a half off lnchkeith, the crew consisting of five men, while employed in hoisting the aft sail, a sudden gust of wind blew right ahead of the boat, and turned her on the lee bow, when she almost instantly sunk. The men swam for some time, and endeavoured to catch hold of anything within their reach ; one of them, James Hamilton, got hold of two bladders, which he fastened under his arms, and thus kept him afloat ; another, Andrew Banks, laid hold of an oar, by which he sustained himself until a Newhaven boat came to their assistance. The men in the boat were drawing their lines when they saw the accident ; but they immedi ately cut their lines and hastened to the spot; but , before they reached it half an hour had elapsed, and by that time three of the crew of the unfortunate boat had sunk—they were Robert Langlands, 22 years of age, Archibald Banks, 18 rears, both unmarried, and William Brown, a married man who has left a widow and five children. The two men who were saved were conveyed to Fisherrow in the Newha ven boat. --Edinburgh Standard. THEATRE-ROYAL. MR. C. SELBY AND MR. J. RUSSELL. rtinis EVENING, TUESDAY , J u l y sth, the favour i te I Drama of ASK NO QUESTIONS. After which, HIS LAST LEGS. To be followed by the Melo•Drama of THE VAMPIRE. The whole to conclude with TIIE GRAND DISSOLVING VIEWS. THEATRE ROYAL. MR. CHARLES 'SELBY' S BENEFIT. TO -MORROW, (WEDNESDAY), JULY 6TH, FIVE NEW PIECES. CHRISTMAS EVE. SECOND ACT OF JACQUES STROP. CAPTAIN STEVENS. BEHIND THE SCENES. SONG, by Mr. J. RUSSELL. THIRD PART of MAXIMUMS and SPECIME.NTS. Tickets to be bad of Mr. C. SELBY, at Mrs. Gunn's, No. 56, Seel-street. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS THIS popular and pre-eminently attractive Resort is open 1. Daily, from Seven A.M. till Dusk. The GRAND EVENING FETES take place every Monday and Friday during the Season, with THE ROMAN FESTA. At Dusk, THE GRAND ILLUMINATION OF ST. PETER'S. This inconceivably magnificent Spectacle is succeeded by the Pyrotechnic Wonders of the GIRANDOLA OF ST. ANGELO, with all its splendid incidents, terminating with the gorgeous Cascade of brilliant Fire, and tremendous Flight of Rockets. To enliven the Evening's Promenade, MR. STUBBS' ROYAL HARMONIC BAND will perform the following selection : GLEE—" Red Cross Knight." I " Valse La Caille".Jullien GLEE—" Hail, Smiling Morn." " Hark ! the Vesper." " Rondo Finale." CoßA—Scena E Cavatina Nell Opera—" Beatrico de Tenda" Bellini " Corma Me Sereno" Opera, La Sornnarnbula " Dunque E Vero Io Nen Mingano".. B Barbiere di Seviglia GLEE—" We Three be Farmer Lads" Aldridge QUADRILLE—" Sur Les Huguenots" With other - Selections of English, Irish, Welsh, and Scotch Airs ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY MR. RUMBALL' S CHALLENGE TO MR. BRINDLEI7. TN consequence of Mr. Brindley's late Lectures in London and elsewhere, in which he has again repudiated the Doctrines of Phrenology, I HEREBY CHALLENGE that Gentleman to a fair and full DISCUSSION of its Principles and Deductions, in the Town of LIVERPOOL, where I purpose delivering a COURSE of FIVE LEC TURES, to commence in a few Days. J. Q. RUMBALL, M.R.C.S. Sl. Alban's, June 24, 1842. MR. I3RINDLEY'S REPLY. Mr. RUMBALL'S Challenge having been referred by me to a Committee of Professional Gentlemen, who have consented to act on my behalf, and it being considered that that Chal lenge is couched in such terms as to warrant the conclusion that a fair and candid inquiry is contemplated, I HEREBY ACCEPT IT, on such conditions as may be hereafter mu tually agreed upon. (Signed) JOHN BRINDLEY. Chester, June 29, 1842. In accordance with the above recited Challenge and its acceptance, it is hereby announced that THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY WILL BE CONTINUED BETWEEN MESSRS. RUMBALL . AND BRINDLEY, AT THE PORTICO, NEWINGTON, ON THE EVENINGS OF TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 6th, FRIDAY, the Bth, MONDAY, the Ilth, and WEDNESDAY, the 13th instant, commencing each Evening punctually at Seven o'clock. Admission to the Body of the Room, One Shilling ; to the Gallery, Sixpence ; Reserved Seats on the Platform, by Ticket only, Two Shillings each ; to be bad at the News paper Offices. M•••••M.••••••IM Elit iLibrrpool tanDatt. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1842 If there is one public question more completely es tablished than another, it is the almost universal pre? valence of severe commercial distress, and the cause, as well, from which it has originated. Whatever may be the differences amongst us, with respect to the pro per remedies to be applied,—although one may pre scribe a free trade in corn, another a free trade in su gar, another an action upon the currency of the coun try, and another extensive emigration,—the fact that suffering is rife throughout the land is admitted by all ; and there is not one man in a hundred competent to form an opinion upon the subject who is not, in his own secret soul, ready to admit that at the root of all this suffering is the late over-production of manufac tured commodities, the undue stimulus afforded to commercial operations of every description by false credits, the stoppage of foreign markets, and the reck less competition which these causes combined have in troduced into every branch of trade. Yet, with these facts before us, we have a member of the House of Commons deliberately proposing, and a large minority of that house supporting him in the proposition, that her Majesty be requested not to sanc tion an adjournment of the legislature until an inquiry, conducted by the House of Commons, shall have been instituted into the existence of distress, its cause, and the remedy to be applied, and until that house " shall have been assured by her ministers that effectual means are secured to provide sustenance for the un employed and their destitute families, until their suffer ings shall be terminated by a demand for their industry and wages for thetr labour ! "—an inquiry, in fact, which will enable every demagogue in that house, every trader in agitation, to rake up and foist upon the world his exaggerated statements of distress, the reality of which is already amply provocative of sympathy and alarm, and every philosopher and state doctor to pro pound his particular nostrum for its alleviation or cure! Surely, a madder or a more mischievous course could scarcely be adopted than this, which was pro posed on Friday night by Mr. Wallace, the member for the borough of Greenock. If the commerce of the empire is to continue in its present ruinous state; if the revival of confidence amongst mercantile men is to be retarded; if the salutary operations of the mea sures already passed to promote industrial prosperity is to be impeded ; if the patience, under suffering, of the industrious classes of our population is to be in terrupted ; if the hopes of the well-disposed are to be blasted, and the bad passions of the evil-disposed are to be stimulated to outrage and crime ;—what instru ment so powerful to effect these ends as an agitation carried on within the walls of the House of Commons, which may excite expectations, but cannot, by any pos sibility, conduce to any useful or definite result ! There can be none ! Unmitigated evil,—disappointment and exasperation, --must inevitably be the result, and the only one, produced by such an inquiry. And yet, although brought forward at a moment when pressing public business cats for the action of parliament, and necessarily, if not intentionally inter rupting that business, we cannot regret that the pro position has been mooted. Absurd as it is in itself, we are satisfied that, from the discussion upon it, im portant truths which it behoves the country seriously to weigh, will be elicited, and have already been elicit ed, by its discussion. The speech of Sir Robert Peel on Friday night will be read with satisfaction by every dispassionate man, and the convincing statements with which it abounds will afford ample arguments to en able Conservatives to tear into very tatters the flimsy sophistries by which they are assailed ; but the most striking remarks during the debate, and to which we beg here the particular attention of our readers, were those which fell from Mr. D'lsraeli, with respect to the operation, in producing commercial difficulties, of the foreign policy of the late administration. For years past it is well known that a commercial treaty with France has been one of the favourite hob bies of the government of Lord Melbourne. To pro mote the attainment of this object the illustrious Dr. Bowring voyaged, wrote lengthy reports, and received his pay; to promote this object Lord Palmerston proto coiled and diplomatized. By its operation the vast markets of France were to be thrown open to the cut lery of Sheffield, to the hardwares of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, to the linens of England, Scotland, Ireland, to the woollen cloths of Leeds, and to the cottons and yarns of Manchester. The treaty, i n question, was all but signed; the markets, in question, were within the very grasp of our manufacturers. What, then, prevented the realization of the great be nefits thus held out to our hope ? The intermeddling of Lord Palmerston with the affairs of the Mediterra nean powers ! By the treaty, for settling the affairs of Syria, which placed the French government for a time in a state of isolement, the vanity of that people and their growing attachment to amicable relations with Great Britain were dealt a blow which years will not efface from memory ; and to the estrangement, thus produced, we owe not only the loss of the particular good held out to us as the result of tedious and ex pensive diplomacy, but those measures of absolute ex clusion from her markets with which France is at the present moment visiting our commerce. To the result of the same policy we owe the deterio ration of our commerce with Syria and Egypt, both of them important inlets for our manufactures to the markets of Asia. By the same mischievous policy o the For2ign-office, the vast markets of China have for three years past been closed to us, whilst the reckless expenditure of onr Indian Government, which has prostrated the financial strength of that great conti nent and scattered throughout it distress and embar- rassment, in order to carry out its mad projects beyond the banks of the Indus, has ruined, for years to come, our commerce with India herself. In every eastern market, the goods of British manufacturers are abso lutely a drug—unsaleable even at prices below the cost of their production at home; and this, not because the necessities of the population of India no longer re quire them—not because that vast field for British enterprise is permanently lost to us—but because the exactions which have been rendered necessary by the warlike and aggressive policy of the Foreign-office have withdrawn from the people of British India the means to consume, and plunged their industry into in extricable confusion and suffering. And yet, these men, this party it is, whose foreign policy has been thus disastrous to our commerce in every quarter of the globe, which has had the insuf ferable assurance to turn round,—when they felt the corning of that popular indignation which has hurled them from office,—and point, as the cause of the distress which covers the face of the country, to our agricul tural policy—to the corn laws ! We must shut our eyes to the causes which have deprived thousands of our manufacturing population of the means of earning bread for their children ; which have spread bank ruptcy and insolvency amongst the trading classes; which have dissipated capital like a morning mist, and plunged merchants, millowners, bankers and shop keepers into one wide abyss of ruin ; and this in order to enable baffled Whiggery to scramble out of the odium and disgrace into which it has fallen, by the sacrifice of the only interest in the empire which its mischievous hand has not as yet been permitted to involve in the distress which tracks the march of its legislation ! If the proposed inquiry into the condition of the working and trading classes, and the causes which have led to that condition, was at all likely to be con ducted in a spirit of earnestness after the truth, we should willingly agree to the attempt being made, because we are satisfied that nine.tenths of the distress existing could be traced to the botching policy of Whiggery at home, and its meddling and insolent in terference abroad. If we thought that the demand for such an inquiry came from any large mass of the peo ple, we should certainly be disinclined to refuse that demand, however unproductive of benefit we might feel such inquiry to be. But when we know that the object sought is only to get up a clamour upon the corn laws—to enable Whiggery and Radicalism to hold up their various nostrums to the public eye, and in terrupt, if they can, the return of the community to a state of social and commercial tranquility—we are heartily glad to think that, by the firmness of the Conservative body in Parliament, they will be baffled and deprived of their cherished purpose. It was not our intention to have noticed a statemen t which appeared lately in a local contemporary, respect ing the resignation of the Rev. C. F. Wilson, of St. Thomas's Church, Toxteth-park, had it not been for the number of communications on the subject with which we have been favoured by correspondents justly indignant at this attack upon Mr. Gladstone; and in justice to them and to Mr. Gladstone, the extent of whose endowment of this church is stated by our con temporary to have been " trifling," we have been in duced to seek information, and to lay the same before our readers. On no other grounds should we be tempted to reply to an article which we consider a con temptible libel. The facts, then, we have ascertained to be these : the endowment required by law, where the patronage of a church is vested in the builder of it, is £1,000; in the case of St. Thomas's, Mr. Gladstone endowed it with £2,000. With respect to the pew rents, after paying the necessary expenses of the establishment of the Church, for Clerk, Sexton, Organist, &c., the sur plus is to be paid to the Minister as stipend, in addi tion to what he receives from the endowment, so that not one farthing reverts to the Patron, nor does he re ceive any consideration whatever for his outlay in building the Church and providing the endowment, thus, in reality, making a free gift, to this extent, to the town of Liverpool. During the six months Mr. Wilson officiated, notwithstanding the extent and nu merous population of the district assigned to the Church, only about one-eighth part of the pews were taken, although the rates of rent were low indeed; not half the sum necessary to pay the current charges was received. Under these circumstances, Mr. Glad- stone seeing no prospect of a congregation being formed, or the good he contemplated being effected, when Mr. Wilson tendered his resignation, postponed for several months his acceptance of it, in the hope of a further trial producing a more satisfactory result. This however, unfortunately, had not the desired effect. Mr. Gladstone provided 160 free sittings in this Church for the poor and for seamen. We have ventured to lay these particulars again before our readers, and leave the public to judge of the conduct and motives of the writer of the article in question. LOCAL NEWS, FRAUDS ON HOTEL KEEPERS.—On Friday, at the Po lice-court, a car drive was brought before the sitting magis trate, Mr. Booth, by Mr. Towers, of the Angel Hotel, Dale street, under the following circumstances :—Mr. Towers stated that having to bring a party of three from the Railway to his house, the defendant charged three shillings for his fare, while the legal fare was only one shilling. But the most annoying circumstance was the attempt on the road to persuade them to go to another Hotel, falsely stating that the Angel was full. Some hotel-keepers in the town, in order to bring " grist to the mill," give the car-drivers a premium of sixpence per head for every customer so brought, and hence the inducement, for the sake of this bribe, to in jure the respectable tradesman, whose house has given un qualified satisfaction t o parties frequenting it, and to which they would gladly return, if not prevented by malicious falsehoods like the one in question. Mr. Towers stated that the system was very general, and ought, if possible, to be stopped. The magistrate strongly condemned the conduct of the car driver, and expressed his regret to hear that the un fair practice complained of was systematically acted upon. The case was dismissed, after a severe lecture had been read to the defendant, owing to a technical informality, SIR GEORGE HATTER'S PICTURE OF THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE, NOW EXHIBITING AT MR. BURLAND'S, CHURCH-STREET.--NO event has taken place of a public nature which might influence the welfare of Great Britain more materially than the marriage of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Every Englishman, from the first whisper of such an event being likely to take place, felt a deep interest in the matter ; and the most unthinking could not but pause to reflect that vast changes might occur in consequence. Her Majesty's choice has been, thanks to the Ruler of the Uni verse and Disposer of all Mundane affairs, a most happy one, and while we congratulate our countrymen on the selection made by her Majesty, we cannot but feel satisfaction in the knowledge of her Majesty's domestic felicity and the excel lence of her consort, not only for his amiable manners, his unobtrusiveness on all occasions, but for the good feeling he has shown towards the arts, sciences. and literature of our country. The marriage of her Majesty then, as a great na tional event, deserved to be recorded, and the scene enacted to be placed imperishably before the eyes of the British na tion. Sir George Hayter has had the honour of doing this confided to him, and admirably has he executed the task. Proud may he be of it, and proud may he feel that he'has kept faith with her Majesty for the distinction conferred upon him : he has proved himself well worthy of it. In the picture before us we are struck at once with the harmony and skilful arrangement of the colours--the graceful and picturesque positions of the figures--the ability of the group ing—the loveliness of the women, and the manliness of the men—the distinguished actresses and actors in a scene of such thrilling interest. To the right of the spectator is the communion table, at which the Archbishop of Canterbury presides ; behind him is the Archbishop of York ; outside the further rail stands H.R.H. Princess Augusta, the Duke of Cambridge, the Bishop of London, the Duchess of Kent, the Bishop of Norwich, and the Earl of Belfast. On this side of the railing may be noticed the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Princess Sophia Matilda ; and in the corner, on his knee, Sir George Hayter is seen sketching the solemn scene before him. Next to the Duke of Sussex, who wears his caul cap, is the Earl :of Uxbridge, and Viscount Mel bourne, holding the sword of state. Pre-eminent on the picture, as by right, is her Majesty the Queen, in all the pride of beauty and costliness of attire, in the act of giving her good right hand and true loving heart to the husband of her choice, who is dressed in scarlet uniform, wearing a knot of white ribbons pendant from his shoulder. Around the royal pair are grouped twelve beautiful daughters of the nobility, her Majesty's bridesmaids, in the persons of Ladies Paget, Villiers, Cowper, West, Grimstone, El eanora P aget, Lennox, Howard, Hay, Bouverie, Howard, an d S tan h ope. The next conspicuous personage is the good and virtuous Queen Adelaide. Near her stands the Duke of Saxe Gotha and his son, Prince Ernest. Groups are seen in this part of the picture, consisting of the Duchess of Sutherland, Duchess of Cambridge, Sir William Woods, Garter King at Arms, Princess Mary, Duchess of Cambridge, the Lord Chancellor Cottingham, the Pages of Honour to Queen Adelaide, Earl Howe, and Prince of Saxe Weimar. At the back of this portion of the tableau are discovered the Duke of Welling ton, Marquis of Anglesea, Marquis of Westminster, and Duke of Sutherland. By the reading-desk are Dr. Wesley, R ev . C. H a din, and Rev. Dr. Sleath. The details of the picture are all admirably worked up —not a point is forgotten —nor the most minute incident omitted—the faces are all portraits. We cannot but pronounce this a most charming work of art, replete with ability, possessing but few faults, and those hardly worth naming. It is, indeed, a pleasing record of a heart-stirring, mind-absorbing, and deeply affecting ceremony, one in which, for weal or woe, all Eng land,—weall E urope, — aye, all the world, could but have m ay ave ta y k s e a na direct or i n di rect i nterest. The p i cturs notb is to be engraved, and we hope to see it hanging on the walle o f m any and many a home of England