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majorit The Roman Catholic Charitable Trusts second time, and ordered to be co HOUSE OF LORDS FANLEY said he under: Stanley) wished to t had iec t in addition to the correspondence already communication had been rec because all diplomatic relations 1 Snain had ceased. Snain had n ween this conntr Lected to avail its the opportunity it had of stating its case. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of the Cri minal Law Consolidation Bill, and proposed to refer it to a select committee, to which he would submit a statement of twenty-four alterations which he intended to make. He would leave the bill for the consideration of the legal pro fession during the long vacation. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the s."- r- " d ' 'eading of ne uopi , pass& .o►. ...franchisement Extension Bill. The bil oy 31 against 16. HOUSE OF COMMONS, - Tll lIRSDA If iORING moved for the issue of a new writ for the borough of Horsham. A short discussion took place on the subject, in which Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. G. Bankes supported and Mr. Hayter opposed the motion. On a division the writ was ordered to be issued by a ma jority of 54 over 50 voices. A long discussion followed on a question relative to the reducing the differential duties on colonial rum from 9d. to 4d. a gallon put by Sir L. O'BRIEN, the opposition mem bers contending that something very like a corrupt bargain had been made between the government and the Irish members to make the differential duty 6d. per gallon. Ultimately ; the debate on the West India project of the government proceeded, Lord JOHN RUSSELL declaring that the government would adhere to their original proposition. Mr. GLADSTONE objected to the ministerial measure on the grounds that it was less than the exigen c ie s o f th e co lonies demanded, and that, in the present state of the finances, it would be most unwise to make experiments with the sugar duties such as those proposed. The West Indies had equitable pecuniary claims on this country on account of apprenticeship and immigration, which the measure of relief brought forward by the Government did not satisfy ; and until the imperial finances should be brought into a healthy state, the tampering with the sugar duties would be inexpedient. The right honourable gen tleman controverted the calculations made by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and contended that the proposed alteration of duties would involve a loss of between three or four hundred thousand pounds this year, and a hundred thousand pounds the next, and so on for several years. The question of finance was one of serious and growing difficulty, and it was the first duty of the house to restore the equilibrium between the revenue and the expenditure. When that was done, then would be the time to do full 'ustice to the colonies. The right hon. gentleman sup ported the amendment. Mr. JAS. WILSON followed in a long and able speech. He had a strong desire to put an end to slavery and the slave trade, and to remove the distress now existing in the West Indies ; but nothing could be more prejudicial to all those objects than to adopt, as was now proposed, an in creased protection for sugar. The debate then stood adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The Administration of Justice, the Protection of Justi ces from Vexatious Actions, and the Joint Stock Compa nies Bills, were read a second time. The LORD CHANCELLOR drew the attention of the house to the case of Viscount Arbuthnot, who was charged with the commission of forgery in Scotland, true bills baying been found, and the proceedings removed by writs of certiorari to that house; he, therefore, moved for the appointment of a committee to search for prece dents, in accordance with the usual practice, for the pur pose of advising their lordships; and, inasmuch as the accused was not at present in custody, he further moved, that the Black Rod be directed to take the necessary steps for effecting that object. The case of the Poles at Posen was brought under the notice of the house by Lord KINNAIRD, but the papers asked for were refused by the Marquis of Lansdowne, not for want of sympathy with the motion, but because he deprecated interference on matters of foreign policy with which the country had nothing to do. Lords HARROWBY, BEAUMONT, and ELLENBOROUGH took part in the discussion. Earl FITZWILLIAM concluded a speech on the state of Ireland by moving the resolutions given in the parlia mentary report. The Earl of LANSDOWNE, after replying to the argu ments of the noble lord, moved the previous question, which amendment, after some observations from the Earl of GLENGALL, was agreed to, and their lordships ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. Sir G. GREY, in reply to Mr. FORSTER, stated that there was nothing whatever in the conduct of the police magistrates, in reference to the Chartist disturbances at Bishop Bonner's Fields, which called for his interference as home secretary, or that of the government. He con sidered that the magistrates had exercised a sound discre tion in remanding cases of an aggravated character until further evidence could be produced, with a view to send ing the parties for trial to the Central Criminal Court. On the maim that the house, at its rising, do adjourn luntil Monday, Sir B. HALL brought under the note the house the alleged misappropriation of the me, a , e y *a _ N anced under the Landed Property Improvement, (iretand) Act by Lord de Freyne and a Mr. I. O'Neill, After explanations from the CHANCELLOR OF TPA Ex- CHEQUER and Mr. F. FRENCH, with respect to the pro ceedings had on these cases, the subject droppc.l, and the motion was agreed to. The CHANCELLOR OF THE Excnn4trEn, in reference to the application made by thp . de . putatien of Irish mem bers, on the subject of the spirit duties, said he had con sulted his colleagues, and it was considered that no suffi cient grounds had been laid for making any such change I duty on rum at sixpence as had been suggested. ad of fourpence a rerentia] gallon) moved issuing of new writs for Derby, and in the course of the debate which ensued, Sir J. Tyrell having made an attack upon Mr. Hume, and other members acting hi concert with him, that hon. member was warmly defended by Mr.. Ellice and La bouchere, the latter stating that no man ever sat in that house who had brought to the public service a purer or more disinterestedness. Had the hats. member's object, on the contrary, bean a sordid and personal one, and had he devoted to that sinister purpose one tithe of the in defatigable industry, the fearless energy, the powerful ability that he had devoted to the service of the people, Varliamoitarp 43rortrbing5. HOUSE OF COMMONS Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved ti Louse resolving itself into a on the sugar duties. :Sir J. PARINGTON —MONDAY. order of the day for the ttee of the whole house __Ned an amendment to the effect that the remedies proposed by Government would neither afford relief, nor check the slave trade, to which the dimi nution of the cultivation of sugar in the West Indies had given so great a stimulus. Sir E. BUXTON' seconded the amendment, end after a :iscussion, i. whin th ad Mr. Hume took part Mr. Seymer iancello: adjourned to 1 tion of I On th i MORPETH the Health of Towns Bill was read a third time and passed. HOUSE OF CO3 -TUESDAY Mr, HUME concluded a spee hove two hours' du ; of Commons, as at Tation by moving present Constituted, d Lion, the property, or the•ind ry, whenc has arisen great and i t in the minds of a large portion of the people ; and it is therefore expedient with a view to amend the national representation, that thi the duration of P, and that the app shall bi hall not exceed t went of members to population seconded the motion Mr. H. DRUItnIOND followed, in opposition to the re solution, contending that political power should be con fined to those who had property, to the exclusion of those who had none .d that a particular constitution of t , cure a diminution of ritiernal expenses, then it w presentatives w Sad gone on tc d local ob Ld honour their own as they ph powerless as regarded relieving the dist it would be a gross delusion to tell t of Parliament could wive them constitute the House misery was the lot of the great r that misery could be relieved by any h Lord JO - 14N RUSSEL charter or the plan arose, but against al having ex term, he I or fiscal, which it contained in the reach had bee espial to ma majes f 59 to 47 , our of t at Ares' the national interests sed, still it would be people, m that any reform ,ss of mankind, oi."that !gislation commenced his speech by corn tv,ierprtrnenntorl by the hnri rn PM The not ,ht to a( pressing his hope that. at such a time, t coons of England would not think it rig did, indeed he principle of t could not stop si 3 vague t whir+ great char in the c that they would t e to inherit—that tt other branch of tt He would rather ho due to the people whom they represen fast negative to the motion then befo: Mr. W. J Mr. DISK lowed in had been zot up; viz. t ture and the increase it e resolution cation was 1 every cas for this chan measures on proceeded 'to explain the results to necessity lead. The movement was c class movement, and was int, of that body, which had told Government was a middle ch should work out middle c] merry with a ludicrous de eluded a speE full of wi nation to vote ag Le expen Our ex lst Mr. Hume's resolution HOUSE OF COMMONS r. STAFFORD moved for the issue of a new writ for Mr. ANSTEY, and WEDNESDAY Cheltenham, which v carried by a majority Parliamentary to the payment of raies was carried by a Bill was ted. THURSDAY read a tood that within a very aim had do mtrose, however, had .acted upon other and far 'ent principles, and be had his great reward in the ect and esteem of all parties alike within and without the walls of Parliament. un a mvinon the motion for issuing the writ, contrary to the views expressed by Lord John Russell, was nega tived by a majority of 15, the numbers we r e 97 t o 112. The adjourned debate on the sugar duties was, after ex anations between Sir J. Pakington and Mr. J. Wilson, sunied by Mr.y. MILES, the other speakers being Mr. B. Hawes and Lord G. Bentinck, the debate standing still further adjourned until Monday, on the motion of Mr. G. THOMPSON. Lord G. BENTINCK having in the course of his obser vation reiterated the charge of the withholding of the Ja maica despatch by the Colonial-nffiee from the rommitt.,- Lnrd J6RN Ru - ssELL took occasion, on speaking to the question of adjournment, warmly to defend the noble Colonial Secretary. and, in the strongest terms and per sonal allusions, to condemn the nerseverine assiduity with for L 3.7 was devoid of all foundation whatsoever. was continued for some time, the house state, amidst deafening cheers and FOREIGN p United States arrived at Southampton way to Havre. The former left Halifax nd the latter left New York on the same AND COLONIAL. on Friday, on her Congress had adjourned over to allow the members to tend the Whig National Convention at Philadelphia. n its re-assembling, the adoption of a territorial govern ient for Oregon will be brought forward. which ive - find ti i later news from California, from 'as an explosion of the magazine by which four men were killed unded :ens of ,t Puebla de I .ngelos .4.-4ew York have had another de monstration in that city in behalf of the " Cause of Ire hmd." The meeting was held in the Tabernacle, and it not less than 5000 persons were assembled on r -"nr of New York presided. ; held in New York on the 9th• teship of Gen. Cass, and the Alier in favour —one in favour indeed eniuuslastic, so much so, , was the latter, that a riot ensued between the par _ans of Taylor and Clay, which was only put an end to by the badness of the weather, copious showers drenching the dis• putants, altou4 mai act. way nrm on the 9th, with a slight advance in prices, but sales not large. The transactions embraced the usual variety of western brands. There was Sales of Ohio were freely made. nand. Provisions unaltered, with only the United States brings £300.000. and more do. Corn in in wheat on for avre, being the first shipment the revolution express was received at New York on the Btl t the steamer Jetzel had arrived at New Oz leans with advices th 25th, by a vote of General whilst tl Cruz. Ch,pr.tn, rrom the city of Mexico to 4 p.m. on The treaty had been ratified on the ' 2.3 to 5. General Kearney succeeds Smith in command of the troops, at Mexico, e latter superintends the re-embarkation at Vera and Clifford arrived at ,sioners S aluiy were au oraerea to be on the march in ten days. The New York Herald says General Taylor will be elected President of the United States. The Acadia from Liverpool arrived at Halifax on the 7th of June, and her news reached New York by express on the morning of the 10th.—The West India mail steamer Great Western reached New York on the 10th, having left St. Thomas on the Ist, and Bermuda on the Gth.—The Niagara would sail from Boston on the 14th, and the United States mail steamer Hermann was intended to leave New York for Southampton an d B remen on th e _ _ with -8'500,000 specie on freight. The Ame- Captain Judkins, performed an unprecedented run and reached Boston on the evening of the 13th, thus making the trip in ten days ten hours, notwithstanding a TT_l, Austral duct a A cl nominged by the president, and are dismissible at his will and pleasure. A council of state is to be appointed out •df the members of the assembly, to consist of 40 per ms at least, and chosen by the assembly itself, the office elf that body being to consider and draw up the laws which it may be deemed 'advisable to bring in. The punishment of death is interdicted for political offences ; slavery is abolished in all the French colonies ; the press is to be free, and every man has a right to print, or cause to be printed, whatever he pleases, subject to such guarantees to the state us may be deemed necessary ; all religions to he allowed in France, and the various ministers are tq be paid by the state. Public instruction is to be free, but subject to the superintendence of the state. Substitutes are to be interdicted in the army and navy. The national debt is declared sacred property, and is inviolable. Gra tuitous education is to be given to the working classes, so as to prepare them for their different callings ; and the right of the people to have work is proclaimed. Algeria Is declared an integral part of the French soil, and is to be administered by laws peculiar to itself. The same is to take place in the other French colonies. Trials are to be public ; the judges, when once appointed, are to be irremovable. Each department is to have a prefect, &c. LOMRAR ITALY. from InnsprnFk of . the 14th, in the Ausburg Gaeztte, states, that after the taking of Vicenza Marshal Radetzki had returned with the first army corps to Verona. The loss of the papal troops at Vicenza is stated to have been 1,800 killed and wounded ; the loss on the Austrian side 500 to 600 killed. It was gene eyed at Innspruck that an armistice would be concluded between the contending parties. King Charles Albert signed the deed of union between Lombardy and the kingdom of Sardinia on the 10th inst., at his head quarters at Garda. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 15th gives official news from Milan of the 13th, stating that Vicenza, after a noble resistance, had fallen, on the 11th, into the hands of the Austrians, after a loss among the papal troop of 1800 killed and wounded, while the loss of the Austrians was only a third that number. The last advices from Rome bring the declaration of the Roman Government, in which is resolved the difficult problem of the separation of the spiritual and temporal powers of the Pope. It he.c heen read in the two Cham bers and has produced on the Deputic the best impression. The Minister Mamiani, on being asked by a member if it contained the sentiments of the Pope. replied, " I can assure the Deputies that the declaration I have read has been written with the consent of the Holy Father, and with his entire approbation." Unanimous applause fol lowed this statement, and the greatest joy is exhibited at The steamer Rob Roy, which left St. Petersburgh on Saturday week, arrived at Hull on Saturday. , She brings passengers, a genera cargo, and ie exportation of but- 116 r; is forbidden to the merchants The Swedes, 10,000 strong, were at Funen, and the Danes, 25,000 strong, in Alsen and Jutland. The most decided feeling of resistance exists among them, a n d th ey insist on retaining Schles w i g . A Swedish squadron of five ships was lying in the Sound ; the Russian squadron was supposed to be about the centre of the Belt. The Baltic is alive with Russian, Danish, and Swedish men-of-war. From Copenhagen we learn that the Danes have con demned several Prussian ships. Their crews are conti nued in a prison ship, under the guns of the Kronen bat tery, they having plotted to fire the ships in the harbour. So great is the scarcity of lawyers in the colony of Swan River, that a suitor was forced to s en d to S outh in order to procure a solicitor qualified to con 'n equity. members of ti ItTERPOOL STANDARD. 7 *** - gmezazu LATER NEWS The steam- p Niagara, captain Ryrie, arrived at an early hour on Sunday morning, having left Bostcin on the 14th, and Halifax on the 16th, instant. She has brought the quickest run across the Atlantic on record, having accomplished the passage from Boston to this port in ten days eight hours, by chronometer, including the usual stoppage at Halifax. The news of the ratification of the treaty with Mexico had produced a rise on the New York stock exchange, but not to any very great extent. Gen. Taylor is nominated as the Whig candidate, with good prospect of success. Exchange was tending downward, 110+ to 111 being the motes. Trade was very stagnant, and the export closing pc,lc LU E urope was at iengtn Devilling to create an unfavourable impression on the mercantile community.— The shipments of cotton continued on a liberal scale. The transactions in this staple at New York had been only to a small extent, at a decline of k to 4- cent per pound, since the sailing of the Hibernia. Flour was advancing, and was too light for our markets. The news of the rise in the price of Indian corn, on this side, caused that article to advance at New York ten cents per bushel, equal to a rise of about 3s. 6d. per quarter. Cotton, at New Orleans, had declined about 4- cent per lb., in consequence of the news by the Hibernia. INDIA AND CHINA.—The Overland Mail has arrived, and brings no news of importance beyond the confirma tion of the rising in Mooltan and assassination of our officers. , It appears, after the first quarrel, our men had retired to a small fort outside the walled town of Mooltan, where for twenty-four hours they considered themselves protected, but the troops from Mooltan hastened to attack the fort. Lieutenant Anderson being severely wounded, was unable to rise from his bed; Mr. Vans Agnew shook hands with bin!: and bade him an eternal adieu. He then prepared to defend himself, but his pistols had been tam pered with ; and as the crowd of soldiers with which his soldiers had " fraternised " entered the room, he cut down the first assailant, but he was instantly shot, and his body, like that of his companion, Lieutenant Anderson and that of their apothecary, Mr. Wilkinson, hacked to pieces; and treated with great indignity. The new governor, Chan Singh, was wounded and made prisoner by the troops of Mooltan. There is no additional intelligence as to the preparations for vindicating our honour, but those mentioned at the time the news arrived are being carried out. Mooltan is the strongest town in the Pun jaub, and it has been deemed advisable, considering the hot weather and the approaching rains, to postpone the expedition against the insurgents until October or No vember. The other parts of India are quiet. Commer cial affairs, both at Bombay and Calcutta, are somewhat I better than they have been for some time past ; and still FRANCE. they have an upward tendency. There is little intelli formedMADAME LAFARGE.—A committee is about to be • gence from China but that is highly satisfactory the in the Paris house of representatives, to inquire ‘ ' . , Shanghae dispute having been brought to an amicable into the state of prisons in Paris and the departments, termination. with a view to the release of prisoners who can establish, a OHEMIA.—AWPIIL CRUELTIES.—On the 15th, Prince any claim to that preference on doubts of their guilt, or - V Windsch atz was in complete possession of Prague. other favourable cause. Amongst those whose chances of g r T favour are considered the most sure, i s M a d ame L a f arge , The insurrection is ascribed t o th e mac hi na ti ons o f t h e and the measure is suspected to h ave or i g i na t e d w i t h a Swornost faction. The Wi ener Z e it ung g i ves th e fol lowing interesting detail s :—" O w i ng t o th e re f usa l o f t h e fore the revolution of February, in h er p r i son a t Montpe view to her benefit. She had been r e c k on i ng u p on thi s b e - Prince to give arms to the people on th e 10th, the Swor lier, where she is regard e d as a sa i n t an d mar t yr . Si x nost faction proceeded in l arge num b ers t o th e res id ence of the commander-in-chief, w h ere th e y sang songs insult the part of the queen, to w ho m s h e h a d app li e d f or some months ago an official personage was sent to v i s it h er on ing to the Prince, a ccom p an i e d b y h oo ti ng an d t h reats . prints and books to relieve her solitude, she basing her The military on duty having in vain called upon the mob claim upon the relationship between them. The gentle- to be orderly and disperse, and the fatal shot being fired man employed found her engaged in forming a hortussic- at this moment which deprived the unfortunate Princess ens, composed entirely of all the poisonous plants used in of her life, the Prince with grea t di gn it y an d ca l mness advancedin the midst o f th em, an d a dd resse d them to medicine. Around lay some odorife r o u s fl owers , some the following eff ec t :—" Gentlemen—lf it is your d es i re fresh and some faded, and the g e n tl eman , w ith F renc h gallantry, endeavoured to turn a compliment by congratu nu do there as you may think fit. I will even give you to a insult me, because I am of noble birth, go to my palace, a guard t. that you may not be disturbed in your amuse „ her upon being thus surrounded with flowers. ' Ah, monsieur," exclaimed she, with a deep sigh, " do you not ßut if t d if you act thus because I am commander of gen Purpose making a demonstration in front of perceive that they are withered ones ? She took up a men t. of the beautiful belladonna which lay near her, and r building, u ' tell you candidly that I shall iprevent such handed it towards him with so much grace, that he who means at my command. My wife now l at i h e ria s atse a p li w fe i l t e h ss ev c e o7 e above stairs, and yet I address you in came to reprimand became from that moment her devoted slave, and seized the gift with avidity, declaring that he words of kindness. ps hearken e d ren t a d , in w g tentlemen, do not drive me to would keep it as long as he should live ! It is now this After this noble speech, under cir very official who has drawn up the report on the " dossier severe measures." cumstances of so heart roughly nature, seizedth e Lafarge," and who is to take that special case in hand be instead of being asa fore the Assembly. The Paris correspondent of the Atlas, by two Czechs, and dragged to the next lamp-post, where from whom these curious facts are derived, furnished a cu- arope was soon procd at this moment the Prince's rious account of the apartments, or " cells," - occupied by grenadiers advanced with fixed bayonets, and in less than the lady ; one of them replete with every article of ele- a g second cleared the square and delivered the Prince. gance and luxury, including many of her own paintings Five minutes afterwards the artillery swept the streets. and drawings, and amongst others a likeness of her hus- Prince Windischgratz is spoken of as one of the most band (for the alleged poisoning of whom she is now con- distinguished Generals ' . . in the Austrian service. The fined), with his own autograph at the bottom. This looks most awful atrocities were co • mmitted. Among others, out upon a beautiful country, embracing the chateau where a paper merc h ant, was crucified in the crime t oo k p l ace. The other, containing her little bed, Wilhelm the true sense of the word. He :lad shot a couple of is gloomy and austere in furniture, having an air of the in his capacity of students . Burgher Guard, for which his most rigid monastic penance. The writer of the article house was first demolished, and himself literally nailed to exclaims—" Is this womanguilty is she • t • or she a most injured martyr, or a most fiendish and con- scarcely a house there is summate comedian ? The debates upon her future fate from the bombardment. are expected to be carried on with as much passion, and to excite as great a curiosity as those to which her trial itself gave rise. The mysteries of social life in France are too deep to fathom; and it would be presumptuous to dare to condemn even those against whom the most mi nute proofs of guilt can be brought with success in a court of justice. M. Marrast presented the draft of -the constitution, which occupied nearly an hour in the reading. It must be borne in mind that this is only a project, which may fill the greater part of the session before it is settled. There is to be a president for four yea rs , to which every French citizen, thirty years of age, and of fair character, is eligible. A vice-president is to be elected by the Na tional Assembly, which is to consist of 750 members. There is to be but OTIQ chamber. ,'he miniaters.are to be WEST INDIES.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Tay, Captain Sharp, arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. His Excellency Sir Henry Light, K.C.8., has returned to England in the Tay. The Tay brings intelligence of the wreck of the barque Lady Huntly, which was lost at sea on her passage from Liverpool, on the 18th May, crew saved, part of whom returned in the Tay. There is no news in particular from any of the islands. The accounts from Jamaica are still extremely unsatisfactory, business being completely at a stand-still. The weather, however, which for a long time had been very dry, had changed for the better, and on the day the packet left copious showers had set in, with every prospect of their continuance. The Tay brings information of a serious insurrection having taken place in Martinique. One family of whites had been burnt to death by the blacks. The freedom of the slaves had been proclaimed at Martinique and Guadaloupe, and very great fears were entertained of the consequences. SHOCKING AccrnENT.-43n Wednesday, two brothers were amusing themselves at Byker, near Newcastle, by jumping across an old pit mouth,•when one of them lost his balance on the side and fell in, and , the other, observing that, made an attempt to sq.ve him, and fell in also. The accident was observed by an engineman, who was sitting in the engine house getting his dinner at - the time, and he instantly rushed to the spot, and, by great daring, suc ceeded in saving one of , the youths, who-was upheld by a beam across the shaft, a few feet from the-top. In at tempting to rescue the other, the unfortunate.roan sacri ficed his own life, both having fallen t oge th er ,to the bottom of the 031:ftf iu then' WaS . seventy, feet of rater. IRELAND. Lord Ffrench has given in his adhesion to the Irish re peal league. Mr. Steele's remains will be removed to Ireland, with the view of his being buried near his great leaderO'Connell. , The last meeting of the Repeal Association was ex pected to be held yesterday (Monday). John O'Connell is laid on the shelf, and the physical force repealers are now resolved not to halt in their course. The Queen has sanctioned a pension of £2OO a-year to Mr. William Carleton, the Irish novelist, and another of £lOO a-year to the sisters of the late lamented Professor M'Cullagh, of Dublin University. THE REPEAL ALLIANCE.—The Bishop of Dromore has given in his unconditional adhesion to the Irish League. A rumour strongly prevails in repeal circles that Mr. John O'Connell will decline joining the League. Nearly 400 emigrants sailed in two days from Limerick last week. The emigrants who have left the Shannon since the season commenced, carried on an average £l5 each, which would cause a drain from the district of £60,000 in specie within three months. ON DlT—that the worthy Member for Limerick, find ing himself "too childish-foolish for this world," is about to retire into a monastery for married gentlemen, among the Trap formations of Dalkey Island. The private letter of the Sainted BLAKE may have hastened this wise resolution. A Dublin jury have returned a verdict, with damages of £5OO and 6d. costs, against the proprietor of a Waterford newspaper, for libellous remarks upon Mr. Usher, a Waterford landlord, who it will be remembered, was fired at by an assassin last year, and whose conduct to his tenants the newspaper represented as cruel and vindictive. OUR LEASE OF IRELAND.—The Tribune, one of the treason papers of Dublin, gives, in its number of Satur day, the rules for the new Confederate clubs. The article concludes as follows :—" With five hundred clubs, of five hundred men each, founded upon such a basis. and ani mated by such a faith, we will give the British govern ment just three months' lease of this island from the date of their formation." PROTESTANT REPEAL ASSOClATlON.—Postponements seem to be the order of the day. The Protestant repealers have deferred their third sitting, with a view, no doubt, of catching a few presentable recruits capable of taking part in the next evening's performances. Lord Cloncurry, they say, is to take the chair ; and for the twentieth time it is asserted that Mr. Butt, Queen's Counsel, is to attend and avow himself a repealer, MR. JoRN O'CONNELL'S EXIT.—The deposed leader has addressed a ponderous and stupid missive " to the people of Ireland," conveying his ultimatum with respect to the union of repealers. He has no stomach for the thing—let his bishops and clergy say what they may. For the life of him he cannot digest the " clubs," with their pikes and rifles, and threats of physical force, with the distant view of a colonial settlement floating before his distracted vision. The postscript—like that of a lady's letter—contains the whole marrow of the tfivo mortal columns of the Freeman's Journal. Here it is :—" P.S. By way of postscript I add, that I should perhaps not have used the word retirement,' but rather that of refusal to join the new league.' I trust to labour still for Ireland as a member of parliament, and as home by writing—where I am precluded from speaking." PREPARATIONS FOR REBELLION.—The Dublin Mail of Monday, after condemning the spa' hy of the Govern ment since the conviction of Mitchel, closes with the statement that * there are organised in Dublin alone 40 clubs, each counting on the average 400 men, and com prising in the whole 12,000 fighting men well armed — that the progress of the new club was rapidly extending— that there existed in Ireland, at present, 100 such batta lions, with daily and weekly additions to their numbers— that when 600 of such foci of rebellion, or 108,000 fighting and armed men, shall have been organised, then will be the time for the National Convention of 300 to be called into action—and then will the signal be given for the ge neral insurrection by a declarhtion of independence, to be carried on by that body as the Provisional Government of Ireland. It is also expected that all these preliminary steps will be taken before the middle of autumn. A CRUEL HOAX.—A few days since some Brazilians arrived at the Victoria Hotel, Cork, and by some means got noised through the town that Ledru Rollin and La martine had reached the island. This spread like wild fire, and in the evening simultaneous meetingsof the Confederate Clubs of Blarney Lane, riallinthamause, Blackpool, and other " fashionable" localities assembled, and addresses and duputations as the order of the day were resolved on, and a numerous deputation from these clubs waited on Mr. M'Cormack, requesting him to intro duce them to Ledru Rollin and Lamartine. " I don't know them," said the worthy host : "they are not in my hotel !" And pray are they not of the party of French men that arrived here yesterday ?" " No, gentlemen," was the reply, " you have been shamefully hoaxed. Those gentlemen are not Frenchmen but Brazilians, residents of Bahia, and they have just left in a coach and four for Dublin, on their way to London." The astonished De putation looked petrified, but of course withdrew.—Cork Constitution. FIGHTING PRIESTS .—Father Kenyon, of Tem plederry, has addressed a letter to the Limerick Reporter, denying a statement in that paper to the effect that he had retired from political strife. He thinks that no honest Irishman ought to retire until the country is delivered from her two plagues or calamities, namely, Her subjection to a cruel and greedy government of foreigners, and the prevalence within her own borders of .a .system. of trickery and trea chery, of tyranny and tergiversation, unexampled in all past history, and known at present throughout the world as balmy O'Connellism." He adds, that he will continue to combat these twin monsters for eight months, but if after that time, the peopl e o f I re l an d h ave not " Decent habitations and national freedom," and the dignitaries of the church do not cease to blow hot and cold ;" and that, " If John O'Connell be still encouraged by a weekly stipend and letters from the highest quarters, to rattle his father's bones for our amusement; if we go on renewing his bills upon our gullibility, and lend him our ears as often and as long as he may need them ; then I, for my part, will abandon politics, and occupy my future leisure in cynical writings and amassing coins." In the Limerick Examiner, a priest named Vaughan, uses equally violent language. He thus concludes :—" A great occasion, based on the union of Repealers, is now offering itself. The country should rise with and assume again the colossal attitude of '43. The moment the first field in Ireland ripens into fertility, then up with the million host of Mul laghmast, and the daring of Mallow ;_ and shame eternal on the recreant who will not be for Erin and Repeal." The writer of this epistle is one of Dr. Kennedy's clergy, and will that bishop suspend priest Vaughan ? and if not, why not ? EXTRAORDINARY BALLOON ASCENT.—On Wednesday Mr. Hampton made one of his most successful ascents from the Rotunda Gardens, in Dublin. It was announced that he would cross the Irish Channel, but this did not prove a great attraction, and from the haze the object could not be accomplished. The aeronaut was accompa nied by Sandham Symes, Esq., of Dominick-street, and Mr. Bateman, of the " Shades." It continued to ascend to a great altitude until the great body became almost be yond the range of observation, at which point it appeared stationary for a considerable time. In fact no instance is on record of so great an altitude having been attained in Ireland. The balloon descended in the vicinage of the Ashbourne road. The aeronauts landed in perfect safety and with great. ease. They first touched earth in a corn field, but afterwards trailed into a meadow, where they were immediately surrounded by a joyous and astonished crowd of haymakers. The country people behaved with the greatest civility, and used every exertion to aid in se curing the balloon. By some accident or mistake, in those engaged in holding the prodigious bubble, it escaped from the netting, and rose to such a height that it was soon lost in the clouds. The voyagers returned to Dub lin. Mr. Hampton has written an interesting account of the voyage, from which it appears that a gust of wind hav ing thrown over the balloon on one side, the men holding on the netting got alarmed, and let go. Mr. Hampton and Mr. Bateman were left hanging on to the netting ; but at length the balloon slipped out of it, and having no thing but the silk to carry, it ascended very rapidly. It was afterwards recovered in a field at Athearne, eighteen miles from the town. It was safely folded up, and taken to Athearne Castle. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. In Whitsun week last year, the average earnings of the railways per mile was £6l ; this year they were £52. The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead railway, for the week ending June 17, was £llll 14s. id. During Whitson week no fewer than one hundred and sixteen thousand individuals left Manchester by the re• spective railways. On Monday that portion of the East Lancashire railway which connects the town of Accrington with that of Black burn was opened to the public. When the line through Ormskirk is finished the distance from Liverpool to Black burn will be performed in about an hour. The North Staffordshire Railway have agreed to give a bonus of £4OO to Messrs. F. and J. Mills, for injury done to the salt works of those gentlemen, at Sandbach, Cheshire, and to pay damages if the works are not put in working order within a prescribed period. The requirements of a railway when detailed with any minuteness appear absurd ; for instance, three million of bricks, says the Railway Record, will be requisite in the formation of a viaduct of 300 yards, in progress at Brier ley Hill, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line. _ _ _ It is stated that Mr. Creed, who from the first projec tion of the London and Birmingham Railway, has been the secretary to the company, has resigned his office. Mr. Henry Booth, who . now holds the j o i n t appo i n t men t of secretary, together with Mr. Creed, will, it is presumed, be his successor. The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway have received the sanction of the shareholders to the imme diate consolidation of their share capital. Any means, said the chairman, that could bring up their stock to nearly its proper value, so as to enable those to sell who wanted the money to meet engagements for calls on other stock, would be a great advantage. At the special meetings of the shareholders of the Bir mingham and Oxford Junction, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, the bills for confirming the agreement of November, 1846, for the sale of the line to the Great Western, &c., and for the loop line from the Birmingham and• Oxford Junction, through Leamington, were approved of. The ancient Collegiate Church of Edinburgh has been purchased by the North British Railway Company for a waggon shed. The antiquaries made a stout resistance, but the company have at. length possessed themselves of the edifice, the tombs of the Scottish Queens, for X 17,000. The remains of the loundress, Ziary of Guelders, Queen of James the Second, .have been removed to the Abbey of Holyrood. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. On Saturday week, The Bishop of Manchester conse , crated Christ Church, Ashton-under-Lyne. The Rev. Herbert Jones, incumbent of St. Augustine's Church, in this town, has been elected a Lay Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. The Rev. Richard Loxham, M.A., of University Col lege, Durham, licentiate in theology, has been appointed to the curacy of Rufford, near Ormskirk. The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed Thursday next for the consecration of the chapel of the new College of St. Augustine, Canterbury. The Cambridge Prize for English verse has been awarded to Mr. G. J. Cayley, of Trinity College, son of E. S. Cayley, M.P. The subject was " the death of Balder" (son of Odin.) On Thursday last, the Bishop of Manchester consecra ted two churches near Bolton,—St. Paul's, in the town ship of Halliwell, and Astley Bridge church, in the village of Astley Bridge, Sharples. One hundred and eight clergymen in the diocese of Hereford have presented to the zealous and right rev. bishop thereof a congratulatory address upon his lordship's elevation to the ancient see over which he now so exem plarily presides. The Professorship of Modern Languages at Oxford has been offered to a distinguished foreigner. The circum stances under which this selection has been made are of a nature so peculiar, that we must for the present abstain from any remarks.—Morning Chronicle.—ls it M. Guizot ? There is a strong probability of Kenyon House, in the parish of Winwick, being purchased for the Bishop of Manchester's Palace. The mansion cost the present owner, H. K. Lacy, Esq., M.P., £17,000; and it is no w offered for £lO,OOO, and will probably be obtained for something less. DURHAM CATHEDRAL .—A number of exquisitely carved stalls have recently been erected in the choir, during which operation the slab of Bishop Beaumont has been discovered. As a specimen of brass work, it must have been the.largest tombstone of its kind in the king dom ; but every vestige of the plates is gone, only the matrices remain. The Dublin Mail says that the Bishop of Killaloe, Lord Riversdale, is to be translated to Cork, that the Provost, Dr. Sadleir, will probably accept the united see of Killaloe and Clonfert, and that the vacant provostship will be con ferred on Dr. Elrington.—[Our contemporary is, in this instance, misinformed, though he is usually correct. The appointment has been given to Dr. Wilson, Precentor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.] The Rev. Ernest Hawkins, 8.D., Secretary of the So ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, has just issued a circular to the members, with reference to its condition :—" During the last four years, it appears, the annual expenditure has been reduced from £BO,OOO to little more than £60,000. This reduction has been effected without recalling or diminishing the salary of a single missionary. First, by the cessation of payments which had been guaranteed for a limited time ; second, by the discontinuance of grants towards the. building of churches and schools ; third, by withdrawing from the support of schools and schoolmasters, more especially in the West Indies." ORDINATIONS.—On Sunday week ordinations were held by the Archbishop of Canterbury and by several other bishops. The following are the numbers ordained : by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 6 priests, 11 deacons ; by the Bishop of London, 9 priests, 19 deacons ; by the Bishop of Worcester, 25 priests, 15 deacons ; by the Bishop of Gloucester, 9 priests, 4 deacons ; by the Bishop of Manchester, 11 priests, 11 deacons ; by the Archbishop of York, 13 priests, 13 deacons ; by the bishop of Oxford, 18 priests, 19 deacons ; by the Bishop of Exeter, 17 priests, 13 deacons ; by the Bishop of Peterborough, 11 priests, 5 deacons ; by the Bishop of Chichester, 8 priests, 5 dea cons ; by the Bishop of Ely, 12 priests, 5 deacons ; by the Bishop of Hereford, S priests, 6 deacons ; by the Bishop of St. David's, 2 priests, 6 deacons ; by the Bishop of Lichfield, 21 priests, 26 deacons ; by the Bishop of Lin coln, 3 priests, 4 peacons • by the Bishop of R oc h es t er , 10 priests, 8 deacons ; by ihe Bishop of Ripon, 6 priests, 13 deacons : making a total, by seventeen bishops, of 189 priests and 183 deacons. CHARGE OF THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—The Lord Bishop of Exeter commenced his triennial visitation on Monday last, in the cathedral of Exeter. In his charge his lordship adverted to the postponement of the Clergy Offences Bill, and to the proposed insertion in it of a clause making " the Thirty-nine Articles to be the sole test of heresy, or false or unsound doctrine, on any points treated of therein." The altieles, his lordship observed, were designed " for the avoiding of diversities of opinions, and for establishing consent touching true religion." They were chiefly employed in declaring the judgment of the Church of England on the matters then in controversy with the Church of Rome; together with a disclaimer of certain unsound tenets, which were maintained by some ultra Protestants of the day, and with the odium of which the advocates of Rome were eager to load all her oppo nents. Any particular which was not the subject of such controversy was not set forth in much of detail. At the time when the articles were drawn up the point on which, of all others, there was the least of difference, either be tween us, or even the German Protestants, and Rome, was the doctrine of Baptism. The formularies set forth in this country during the reign of Henry the Eighth, the early confessions of faith of foreign Protestants, on this great particular all agreed, not only with each other, but with Rome itself. Of Baptism, every one of them asserted the cardinal doctrine of its being the blessed instrument in God's hands of conferring spiritual regeneration. Our 27th article, therefore, having little to controvert, ex pressed the same doctrine briefly. The 25th had already asserted generally of the Sacraments, " that they are sure witnesses, and effectual signs of grace and God's will to wards us, by which He doth work invisibly on us." The 27th said of Baptism, in particular, that it was such an effectual sign —a sign effecting that of which it is a sigh, namely, " regeneration or new birth." For these and other reasons, which his lordship stated at great length, he maintained that, even if the articles were our sole test of doctrine, they did not afford any real support to the denial of spiritual regeneration in Baptism. But he must resist the claim of their being our sole test ; be must insist on the Book of Common Prayer and administration of Sacraments being at least as authoritative as the articles themselves. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON EDUCATION.—A deputation from the disqpnters of Mancheste r wa it e d l ast week on the Bishop of Manchester, no doubt with the ex pectation of feeding his lordship an advocate of merely se cular education, but were sadly disappointed. His lord ship said that " he could not consent to the ex c l us i on of allinstruction in peculiar religious doctrines. He be lieved it was perfectly impossible that any teacher could gain any living influence over the hearts and minds of his pupils, if he was interdicted from communicating with them on the most important subjects. He spoke himself (his lordship said) from an experience of sixteen years as an educator ; and he reminded the deputation of the influ- ence whiCh the late Dr. Arnold gained over his pupils by his constant appeals to their religious principles. Ad mitting that many of the children would elsewhere re ceive instruction in the doctrines of the denomination to which they belonged, were the deputation and their friends, he asked, prepared to sanction the constant asso ciation of young people thus carefully trained, with those who are under no religious influences whatever ? T hese objections his lordship considered fatal to any such scheme of education as that now proposed. Having thus stated his views on the plan of the association, the bishop went on to explain his own opinions on the best mode of effectively providing for the existing educational destitu- tion. His - lordshipobserved that in King Edward's School at Birmingham, with which he had been recently con nected, instruction in the doctrines of the Church of Eng land was given at fixed periods of the week ; but from at- tendance on such occasions, the children 'of dissenting parents were excused. At the same time, his lordship re marked, he had always distinctly stated that he would never permit himself to be precluded, by the presence of dissenters, from alluding to any religious matter which might present itself in the course of a lesson ; he would never intrude such a remark, hut, at the same time, he would never go out of his wa y t o avo id it. Duringthe eight years of his residence at Birmingham, he had pupils of almost every sect, and he never received a complaint respecting the nature of the religious instruction given in the school. Now this was a practical proof of the possi bility of having a system of education whi c h wou ld b e re- ligious withoiit being exclusive. He would provide schools in which instruction should be given on the prin ciples of the Church of England, while dissenters should be excused from attendance at the doctrinal lessons ; and in places where dissenters were numerous, he would also affo - rd them the means of giving an education in accord- ance with their own views." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Earl of Rosse has published an admirable letter— temperate, rational, and full of the truest principles of political wisdom—against the repeal agitation. A decision of the Dublin Election Committee, last week, has upset 198 of Mr. Reynolds, the Repealer's votes. Mr. Hume's proposed reform is called the " Four-point Charter." viz., retrenchment, household suffrage, triennial parliaments, and vote by ballot. In the present session of Parliament more members have been unseated on charges of bribery than in any preceding one. A bookcase and library, valued together at £1750, have been presented to Mr. John Bright by his free-trade friends. The Times says of John O'Connell: " He reels to and fro, he staggers like a drunken man, and is at his wit's end." The purpose of to-day is the no-purpose of to morrow. He shuffles, he twists, he wriggles, but there is no ascape. Resolution is fatal, and irresolution perdition. Meetings continue to be held in all parts of the coun try in favour of Mr. Hume's proposed measure of reform. They, however, excite little attention, the Daily News being the only journal that thinks them worthy of mere record. At Liverpool, Leeds, and one or two other large towns the Chartists have succeeded in carrying their six points as an amendment. June is passing away ; in July, people will be counting the remaining days of the session. Yet even the Budget is still to be produced ; while Church reform, sanitary reform, and many other important subjects are rapidly falling into the danger of being " postponed from want of time," before anything effectual is done. The House of Lords has now been in attendance for several months, with scarcely any important business placed before iz. Very few statesmen of modern times have produced such strange feelings in the minds of both friends and foes as Lord John Russell is constantly producing. The leader of "the :Reform movement" one year ; the next, " the chief obstacle" in the way of Reform. At one time, regarded by Churchmen as their most dreaded enemy ; anon, looked up to as the Church's firmest friend I The Dissenting.leader at one,period ; in a few years after, the object of the greatest disgust to all Dissenters ! Scarcely ever, certainly, did such opposites meet in the public life of one not cli2honot nouveTyjnconsistent man. June 27, Ilt E - a-OTN THE NEW REFORM MOVEM ENT. —At the rn eeti/4 at the Portico, in this town, on Monday evening, p port Mr. Hume's motion for Household Suffrage', Electoral Districts, Vote by Ballot, and Trienni;# ments, the supporters of th ose measures w ere ~ the Universal Suffragists, who succeeded in coin Lazar oral hours the lutions in favour of the six points of the Charter; tp , Chartists are miserably weak in Liverpool, this,,ct; ORS that the Humeists must be still weaker. The ' 3 ),c lING OF'- la Y, and Which there is no party in Liverpool, except a little Chartists, that desires organic changes of any In P , o fr those who are most disposed to them on 3 gener . elos St. consider the present period of political confusl s s nie nei and commercial depression, (caused by that cia . tev. ghbourlioe home, extremely ill chosen for reconstructing V i e i d al ; been terrific tution of the country.—Liverpool Times.—( ll ; I li it CHEESE -PARING PATRIOTS, -- It is not by f four ) t4 e Paul ) and unmerited pensions that the resources °f n itearg St are drained. Curtail all the expenses of the ,' 1 0.; eirre ano c ' e ck, Thi: Her Majesty's attendants on board wages—ea" ts' (Sse 'larrast, ma Chamberlain's and Lord Steward's departn 3 e9s. penurious as you may be, you would not save 4 fith e to every tax-gatherer throughout the empire , ro i, i r i e, a stronghold the establishment of the Palace that is enn s S9 h a ,je now in po subsistence of the householder at Stockport an ham : and, while in many departments we we d; Paris. see reduction, it is not by saving a few thouss''.,, that the merchant can be rendered p ro seeruly artizan kept in full work. W e are as w illing ' , t ; the army and navy exp enses as th ey can b e; but not break up the a pp ara t us an d appendages °f j; empire as we would the stock of a bankrupt t •b ra tlit) We cannot forget-the d u ti es an d th e respong,v6 rule just at a moment o f acc id enta l pressure . ` eit i ; i l fling Canada, Aust ra li a , I n di a to t h e w i n d s ; 13 t we keep them and a ll th a t t h ey g i ve us veithcal and sailors. We ca nno t a ff or d to surren der j / ot position and pre eminence in the eyes of the .` 1 , 9 1 , is part of our st oc k i n t ra d e . I t i s our caP, goes we go too. But we canno t k eep i t withun't!, that by which it w as o bt a i ne d— an a d equate flee V adequate supply of brave and well-trained troops' vc men leaguers, be careful what you are doing• ra agitate, and declaim, aga i ns t super fl uous an d, e% 5 expense. Petition against and denounce every t sary outlay in the army, the navy, the state ; b • of going too far. You may do much misehl e , meaning it. Your country is engaging the salo n , the world. Secure, and hardly shaken, she is 40 an asylum to the exiles of less happy lands,,", victims of less healthy institutions. Slowly an'y she will reap the reward of great actions a n d gre . 3 4( ings. Mar not the completion of a glorious iii"`i? under the pressure of a temporary distress try t' 3 , ll j wound which no time can cure, but which all w° reason to deplore.—Times. P rt DECLINE OF MR. COBDEN'S POPULARITY.' t i o , are naturally imposed u p on b y super fi c i a l i n f o rt of it has been truly remar k e d th at even the speech ;1 Duncombe and Mr. Wakley are read by e t :, statesmen as if they carried with them all e which belongs to some o f our great party leade P u itt ; i flattery heaped upon M r . C o bd en was t h ere fore ,4 4 4 tural, and he enjoyed it. He came back to Be' h his ears still ringing with the cheers with %not. been greeted at publi c di nners an d public nlee,,,pe he had any misgi v i ngs as t o t h e sta bi lity of 11;3,10; at home, these mu s t h ave b een remove d news that greeted his arrival in England was Il l ?, el for the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was le ,J for Yorkshire that pl ace d L or d B rougham o n sack; and had he declined that honour, might, ' v r i t ee llo i able management, have made him ultimately p u g] nister. It was an honour that turned Lord P n ' t . c le" o 4 head, and has been the forerunner of his down',', 4l I, D e 0 1 The glory of Lord Brougham culminated W'',coro returned for Yorkshire, and we think Richaru he ,l star has not been in the ascendant since the ( 13 p, ° t o elected to sit for the West Riding. He has unexpectedly, that the burst of enthusiasm n'n'',;prey his success as an a g it a t or , h as di e d away i n to t y je , silence : he no longer fi n d s hi mse lf,. as f orm erl) , e peo p r o , of the day, feted by the aristocracy, courted by t Lef C e lt' and listened to with mute attention by the 11 1 - 1 0,,";at mons. His passage through the gay circles of b r an d square and Belgravia, has been scarcely more 0 0 1 ;0 more evanescent than those of George Buds°, 9 ,.c113',4J Ferrand. Out of doors the agriculturists can B a . 0 6 0 4 c o ti i ck, A him as a friend, whilst the manufacturing oP e . clubbed their,shillings and half-crowns to roe,,nstt At 4 i for the idol of their masters, now find, to their l 'i r ierl' es tr they had a far truer and much more econonlie, a ,dia tor Lord Ashley, who never sought for such sP ie a tP l 4 monials to his more effective and more consistie, 5 thropy. It is obvious that Mr. Cobden c ad and mortified by the decline of his populantY'colol more by the manner in which the House nf l van' received the killing exposure made by Admira t hiogye his attack on the British navy at Malta. Soke e s , 50" done. A new league was to be got up. A Pe arliV , of agitation was to be raised, and reform in r ti ll)' seemed to be the most promising. It has sig. l o,oe') and the people have but too recently raised z. 3 l _, d poly,,d Mr. Cobden himself, and several hundred thous to or/ more for a whole army of hungry a favour any unusual exuberance of enthusiasm Recur a gitators , ot s. new league, having such costly appendage Stand ( LATE it Th e 1\ Gaz ette of ttted that Durand, Nict ru of Vizen za w iklted at th e sound o kke of Savoy, at th bridge at Roneo, and' in concert 0 brought from 4,1 4strians, who i n thi comb at. killed. O ne of T he Risorgime ntc Nee have opened h citi zens as de rich Government his wards gaining the step had been t ettrizteat, but likewi Ye st t,,.. e1.c1 aY the Par '4ll, It t . - gales Townie lIIRI , 1111°0 1 , Si Sao ' n o , and all t tqt 4 e 4 ; 4: c B 4l on s Oti t ks e e' * • 1,4 • f t -, ; "uerate sale k..l)tiatinf iZri ar s c ia 4 1t4 id Per bushel 1 , nomina ?rn general 144:41 Parcels w( .4 .With oti e t al Particip an Y itopr Ifajbeesitnyganp present sen t Prince at COURT AND FASHION. irl : " t e n H t i e o r n A o -op-- d tbeiloo 3rd July, on the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Cl' benefit. t A th l e be H rt ay h m ave rk sir r i i teet oi i je, Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended her M i llo, Theatre on Thursday night, to see Jenny Lind Pl'Y si le' in Robert the Devil. The audience obtained kl'°j of their presence at the conclusion of the opera , 911 0 for " the Queen !" " the Queen !" resounded frld parts of the house. Her Majesty at length acknoweto the call amid one of th e m ost deafening demonstra I'ol loyalty ever heard. The National Anthem Ira 0 Each stanza produced it s salvo of applause : and pi close her Majesty was aga in saluted with ro h ul the' round of affectionate res p ec t, accompanied wit ving of hats and handkerchiefs. o „ •,, was howl' On Tuesday the Chinese junk "is-er" di" by a visit from the Duchess of Kent, accompadie Duke and Duchess de Nemours and farnilY• r t a / Mrs. Hudson gave her first ball at the Albe ,e 0 London, on Tuesday evening, on which occasion she d . " Me '"l t honoured with the presence of nearly 600 lea ,Infn'riteei of the fashionable world. The Conde de 1 " — poo accompanied by his Royal Highness the Infante re se nando of Spain, honoured the reunion with his„ Pt ti The D u k e of Wellington was amongst the eareefroa rive. Hi s G race was l ou dl y c h eere d on aliglit igg ion 1 carriage. The guests arrived in rapid success half-past 11 until nearly 1 o'clock LAW INTELLIGENCE• ! vim A London journal says tnat th e number o f !v olv London is not less than 4972, and that the an lo° costs, in 1846-7, was £16,210,165. vpne li v - An action for libel was tried i n the Queen P f t os Saturday, at the suit o f M r . Ki e l y , aga inst .d Chronicle. Chronicle. The jury found f or th e plaintiff, £5OO damages. ,tob In the Court of Queen's Bench, , on Sati lr- t be c awarded to the Duke of B r u nsw i c k damages cb 3 int of £l5OO, for sundry atrocious libels on n' c loot',.. which have appe ar ed i n th e S a ti r i s t, th e defen action being Mr. Ghislen, th e p u bli s h e r of tha,,t,' 1 0 c In the Dublin Queen's B enc h, l as t week, l' o cie" Q.C. moved for a mandamus to co mpel th e th eit f Friends, to restore a certain Mr. Jelico to from which they had ex c l u d e d hi m . The renslosture plaintiff's expulsion by the Q ua k ers w as so no ye of bet e i serve record. Mr. Jellico, as agent for a no i re sons in Kilkenny and Tippera r y, h a d paid tuernesV charge to the various incumbe n t s on the proP e o f t his control. This being a violation of the la ss ci lhott ) ?? 1 ciety, they expelled him. M r . N a pier argil: , r blo only the servant of another, and n ot actin,, J l ibeo ro ct the Quakers had n o r i g ht t o ex p e l Mr• e t b eg ti o Chief Justice disagreed with Mr. Napier, on s soc 4 , that the Society o f F r i en d s was avoluntary iii - ettw ja `of and, therefore, th e p l a i n tiff was b oun d, a s a 7,161w,,W its rules. Th e C our t h a d no power to i ss ue a or compel any body, or any individual, to do the sort required. Rule refused according'''. STATE OF TRADE e c MANCHESTER.—The general aspect of our M a sO l9 , of dulness. A moderate inquiry, indeed, exists fc . , 0 0 of goods, but it is not generally accompanied S;# may be the effect upon the market of th e tent amount of business. It is not yet possible _ L o r i? it i the East, which are somewhat favourable; but x t,r . l . e, s ; d e ti_ of returning activity in some quarters where ii!Ot has long prevailed. Yarns continue without cna,"4 the vial concession having been made prices ducn" goo v " e e o , The amount of business doing is still limited• has been less inclination to give way in prices thn;ng „I) .. e last acc,,,,e case for some time past. We cannot expect an) 0 1 L' terially better in the market while our continental t i , 4 ,14 themselves obliged to operate on so small a se? bu t provement we may have will not be abrupt' gradual. Ji had ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—We h ave ,de e dance in the flannel market this week, and tr e ` on O t .,ll, l dull ; many of the small manufacturers hat f ices, ° ,,voi hay harvest, and did not attend the market. 'bow 1 of goods are same as last report. No alteration e in the wool market this week. g ia LEEDS.—There have not been many buye r : go° to e a r goods market this week. The expectancY ii se ein s , lower, through a fall in the price of wools,otl o _,.pe o i buyers. There is, however, no great stock ,: nip ro,:ge ; , as the season for the purchase of winter stoch i ' ie , 0700' the prospects of the harvest continue favonra,,uttnni ~.1 opinion of the trade is that there will be ageou' b ett e p done. for t be ti tio il ,, BRADFORD.—WOOI: There is no chang wool continues as depressed as ever. The C ° " o nir" fr're 4 so limited that our staplers are loud in their st ocl , r s def lonial wools are dull sale, and the augment fortb e ilig_ d i' d sales in Liverpool and London will tend to 3 e l;, v. g t tion in price. Yarns : This as well as last w r e o daq iin eq day, has tended to diminish the cillant it Y P the s P i roV et :iCi production is now very low; the prices det,er,, e ;DA? nye ego working except to actual order. Pieces ." " 10 0, , ', of the weather gives a tone of cheerfulne.s,?* te nd. pect of good and early crops, which Nig" t ne " maintenance of our home trade, which, for s in wlo 1 been almost the only trade of the town, a u u tl l 'tt tinue t have a good busi n th e er s. HAL o ' vwx. Although s e were more Per s : e rl ot l lot f . ` 1 , 11 Hall on Saturday than we have been used P c ,7 5 , don; t oo, does not appear to have been much buslei' s the . r ers 9 ,1 ?, description of goods, either plain or fancy, de/ that can be called a 'demand, and the 111 ,7.7 i, yaoe tailing production as much as possible. 04,„ e re flues In the same state of extreme depress 1 4,-,. add to their stocks as little as they can I , ' I n fa ve few transactions in wool, and those ratl!e_r_ to t he ,; buyer. Short wool keeps up in price, ovroT o plY ,e p t y the o int ! quantity produced; and, limited as kefps pace with the demand. , t cD HUDDERSFIELD.—We have to repo! _ pric y wt he, , business this week, with a slight reduction w oo . fa ll no doubt that the expected fall in the pr c r_e_v sn oiliq s cer in all probability, be followed by a c price of goods, has kept buyers out of the A"' as are in immediate want of goods, . ble sensation has been caused amongst the Jockey Club, and the sporting circles of fans, by the announcement of Baron N. de Rothschild's intention of selling off his stud, which includes several of the best racing horses in France. _ WHEAT IN lAMERlCA.—Authentic calculations of the produce of wheat in the United States of America show, that upwards of forty millions of bushels are .grown be: yond the average consumption of the population of that country Dr. Wiseman, Bishop of Melipotamus, has addressed a circular letter to all the Roman Catholic Bishops in France, Belgium, and Germany, requesting their attend ance at the opening of St. George's, in July. They are requested to bring a mitre, and a " Chape rouge." Accounts from Berlin of the 16th represent the disturb ances as entirely at an end, and the city more than usually tranquil. A change of ministry had taken place, Baron Arnim having given in his resignation, which was followed by the resignations also of Count Schwan, Minister of Justice, and Count Konitz, Minister of War. On the 11th instant, Mr. Henry Coxwell, the aeronaut; made a perilous ascent in a balloon at Brussels. A post- pont:menu naving 'maw' putt.. uu a pleviuus Clay, h e was resolved that there should be no further disappointment, and, accompanied by a friend, ascended when the weather was in a most boisterous state. The balloon was carried a distance of 55 miles in 20 minutes, and a safe, though somewhat difficult, descent was made near Herenthals. THE CHOLERA.—The last accounts from Moscow state that the cholera morbus is making frightful progress. Of four hundred and sixty-four persons attacked, from the 23rd to the 29th of May, no less than two hundred and five died. The number of new cases on the 29th of May alone amounted to eighty-nine, and the number of deaths to forty-two. The cholera has also broken out with great intensity at Jaroslau, Robinski, and Kalouga, 'and thus appears to be gradually advancing westward ; it is, in fact, approaching St. Petershurph. COMBINATION OF CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY.--A Methodist preacher last fall took a load of produce down the river. Amongst other things he took down five slaves. He sold them at New Orleans ; he came up to Natches, bought seven there, and took them down and sold them also. Last March he came up to preach the gospel again. A number of persona on board the steam boat; the Tuscatora, who had seen him in the shambles in Natches and New Orleans, and now, for the first time, found him to be a preacher, had much sport at the expense of "the fine old preacher who dealt in •slaves;"—Ameri- can paper. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—Dr. A. J. Burmester, B. professional gentleman at Malta, was very fond of prac tising pistol-firing, amongst other exercises, and used to fire at a target in his dressing-room, and at night practise at a candle. On the morning of the 29th of May he was practising as usual. when his male servant entered, and showing a disinclination to pass between the doctor and the target, the latter jocularly turned the butt-end of the pistol towards the man, and the muzzle towards himself. In a very short time the piece went off, and the ball en tered the region of the doctor's heart. Medical assist ance was in vain. No 27, 18