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Empcnal Varliantent. 110 USE OF LORDS.—MoNDA.r. Lord Bnon GlsAxi moved the second reading of the Criminal Laws Consolidation Bill, the object of which is to effect a complete digest, not only of the statute laws, but also of the common law, reducing it to written prin ciples, so that the whole might form a certain criminal code easily understood and easily carried into execution. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the subject was a most important one , and upon the propriety of the first part of the bill—that relating to the consolidation of the sta tute law—a doubt could scarcely be entertained. Upon the second past, however, he felt so much doubt as to in duce him to pause. He therefore recommended to his noble friend to have the bill read a second time that night, and thus to pledge their lordships to the principle of his measure, after which he ought to take no further step this session, but to give time for inquiry and re-introduce it in the next session of Parliament. In the meantime the government would take up the matter in conjunction with his noble friend, and every effort would then be made to render the measure as effective as possible. It might also be adviseable immediately to repeal a number of dor mant statutes, the revival of which might lead to incon venience. Lords Dc:;MAM and CAMPBELL concurred in the pro priety of this course of proceeding. Lord BROUGHAM assented, and the bill was read a second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNnAy. Mr. M. 11111NEs resumed the adjourned debate on the Factory Bill, designating the labour for long hours as the white slavery of this country, and contending that we should be ready to make as great sacrifices to check it as we bad done already for the emancipation of the slaves in our colonies. Mr. WARD said, as it had been shown, that the factory labourer was better off than any other class of workpeo ple, there was no pretence of any interference with them. By the adoption of the principles of free trade, he felt confident they would cause the demand for the ten-hours limitation of labour to cease altogether. Mr. WGEACRY said the operatives were of opinion that the additional wages paid for the long hours went into the pocket of the doctor and not into their own, and that they were willing to submit to a restriction of wages for the sake of mental improvement and recreation. Mr. BRIGHT opposed the motion, contending that Lord Ashley was proceeding upon incorrect information, and that a gross delusion had been practised upon the opera tives. Mr. F. 'SHAW said he had upon all the divisions which had taken place on this question voted with Lord Ashley, and he had heard no argument of sufficient weight to in duce him to think he was in error in the course he had pursued. At the hazard, therefore, of breaking up the government he should-vote for the motion of the noble lord. Sir R. PEEL said it might have been wrong on the part of the Government to limit the hours of labour to twelve in the day, but that error was no apology for those who proposed to limit them to ten. The right hon. baronet entered into a series of calculations, in order to show the immense mischief which be contended would be effected by the reduction of the hours of labour from twelve to ten. • In England, the hours of labour were already con siderably less than.in any other country in Europe or the United States. If the house thought, after all that had been said, that they should prrsevere to enforce the res triction to ten hours, they must do so under other guides, for he could not conserrt to hold office for the purpose of carrying out a policy which he believed to be so very in jurious (Cheers.) Lord J. RussELL 'thought it not right to mix up this great question with a ministerial question of confidence, for there was an end to argument if it was converted into such a question in a - house in which the Government must have so large a majority. Sir R. INoms and Mr. COLLET addressed the house, which then divided, and the motion of Lord Ashley was defeated by a majority of 29.7 to 159. On the question that the bill do pass the.motion was agreed to by a majority of 136 to 7. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. The house was principally occupied in the discussion of a motion by the Marquis of NORMANBY for certain pa pers which, it was supposed, would illustrate what is termed the " spy system" in Ireland, by explaining the proceedings in the case of the two ballad singers accused of singing and vending seditious songs. The motion was agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill, having for its object to extend the parliamentary suffrage, and secure the free representation of the people. Dr. Bows ING seconded the motion, and the house di- Nived without any reply being made to the speeches of the honourable gentlemen, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 97 to 31. Mr. WATSON moved for a committee to inquire into the compensations awarded to the persons filling certain lately abolished offices in Chancery. The annual sum which was now to be paid for compensations and salaries, and which was to come out of the pockets of the suitors, was £73,000 a-year. He referred most particularly to the clerks in court, some of whom were now receiving .£7,010 a year. They had had no fixed interest in the fees for the abolition of which large compensation was given ; these were fees which the Chancellor had power to alter from time to time. Mr. Watson showed that no duties were dose for them, and quoted a speech of Mr. Pemberton Leigh, condemning them as an enormity and an iniquity. The gentlemen in Chancery-lane received more than the First Lord of the Treasury or the Speaker or the House of Commons. The bill giving these strange compensa tions had been hurried with remarkable celerity through parliament, taking some of its stages after 12 o'clock at night, in the month of August, when the house was very thinly attended, and most of the lawyers were on the cir cuit. Compensations ought not to fall on the suitor's pocket or the suitor's fund ; so much as ought to be paid at all should be paid out of the consolidated fund. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Mr. Thesiger) in opposing this motion, admitted that the state of things in the Six Clerks'•office at the date of this bill had been a state of abuse. The office of the Six Clerks was then little more than a sinecure. Each had power to appoint ten persons, who were called the 60 or sworn clerks. They did only part of the duties, and employed agents under them, who, though they had no vested interest in their employments, were practically officers for life. The abuses connected with the establishment of the Six Clerks and 60 clerks were generally felt, and it was judged to be necessary that, in order to make way for a remedy, the then existing in terests should be cleared away. The clerks, whose offices it was thus proposed to abolish, lent their aid to the whole scheme of Chancery reform, on the distinct understand ing that they were to receive a full and fair compensation. This was done under the supervision of a commission composed of very distinguished men—Lord Langdale, Vice. Chanceller Wigram, Mr. Pemberton Leigh, and the late Mr. Sutton Sharp. The interest of the sworn clerks, though it had originated in abuse, was a vested interest, and bad long been recognized as a matter of purchase and sale, of succession and of family arrangement. The atten tion of Lord Cottenham was specially called by Mr. Wainwright, the sworn clerk who prepared the bill, to the compensation clauses, while the measure was in progress through the House of Lords ; and Lord Cottenham saw no ground of objection. The bill did not pass su b silentio through the House of Commons, where Mr. W ard made the same observation which had been repeated to-night about the disparity between political and professional re muneration, and Mr. Hume stated that he had examined the bill, and had found it quite correct both in principle and in detail. Thus fairly and carefully was the act of parlia ment passed ; and if there was any blame, which he did not, however, admit, it was the blame of the whole legis lature. He quoted previous compensation acts, to show that the act now complained of proceeded upon precedent. It was a mistake to suppose that these compensations were thrown upon the suitors' fund ; it was only from the suitors' fee fund that they were to be taken. The suitors would equally have borne this burden if the reform had not been made; with this difference—that then the bur dens would have been permanent, whereas now it would pass away as the lives should fall in ; but, at all events, there was no reason why it should be shifted from the suitors who were liable to it all along, upon the consoli dated fund, or, in other words, upon the public who had nothing to do with it. He explained the liberal way in which the Chancellor had waved his own patronage in the new appointments under this bill, for the sake of a saving to the suitors. He concluded by appealing to the justice of the house whether it was reasonable, when a settle ment had been fairly made, and the arrangements of a do mestic life completed on the faith of it, that a committee should be appointed to seek fresh grounds for the repeal of the act of Parliament. Mr. JERVIS said that the Solicitor-General had fur nished additional reasons for inquiry, by showing that the bill had been prepared by interested persons. If there was so good a case , why resist inquiry? He mentioned instances in which the Chancellor had, of his own autho rity, abolished fees takes by the GO clerks, and argued thence that their interest was not a vested one. There was no vested interest but that of the Six Clerks, whose offices were patent ones ; to the case of the sworn clerks the principle of compensation was inapplicable. But still looser was the way in which the amount of it was calcu lated ; for the new judges were appointed who cleared away the arrears ; and there was consequently an end to all those profits which the arrears had yielded, but which profits were yet calculated into these compensations. At all events this was a case for inquiry. Sir J. GRAHAM and one or two other members then addressed the house, a ft er w hi c h M r. W a t son ' s mo ti on was negatived by a majority of 84 to 68. Sir D. NORRErs then brought on a motion for a select committee to inquire as to the acts for th e re li e f of the poor in Ireland, but his motion was negatived. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-.WEDNESD&Y. On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, it was ordered that the time for making reports on turnpike-road bills be enlarged till the 21st of June. Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from English Presbyterians near Liverpool, signed, among others, by t h re e magistrates, in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The house was soon after counted out. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. Sir C. NAPIER requested the attention of the house to the state of the Navy List, with reference to the expedi ency of establishing a retired list for a fixed number of officers above 60 years of age. He recapitulated his own former endeavour■ to get such a list established, and the discouraging answers 'alai, iron time to time bad been given to him. Thus baffled, be thought it his duty now to press the subject once more upon the house. After 60 years of age a man was not generally fit for the com mand of a ship ; his strength was not sufficient to go through the conduct of an action, and follow it up to its full results. He gave a variety of instances from our naval history of disadvantages which he considered as having accrued from the advanced years and exhausted energies of commanding officers. At this time there were no officers above the rank of Rear-Admirals—and only to even of that rank—who were under 60 years of age. In order to facilitate promotion, he proposed that old officers should be permitted to sell their commissions, and that officers purchasing them should be allowed to do so after a shorter term of service than might be required from officers getting promotion without purchase. He Filtered into a variety of professional details on the sub ject of promotion, and took occasion to mention the great distinction which a son of Sir R. Peel had just attained in his examination for Lieutenant. Sir R. PEEL expressed his gratification at so flattering a notice of a young officer from so eminent a man as Sir C. Napier. Ile said that in the time of the late Govern ment the whole subject had been referred to a commis sion, upon which were two noblemen who had been First Lords of the Admiralty, and three Admirals. They had specially considered the proposal for a retired list; and they had reported that it would not confer any public benefit commensurate with the expense it would entail. If the option of retirement were given to a certain number of captains, it would have no effect in clearing the list from old officers ; the oldest, being nearest to the chance of getting their flag, would, of course, remain, and only the younger captains, whose promotion was very remote, would retire. He hoped the house would not express an opinion which should fetter the discretion of the Govern ment on this subject. Captain BERKELEY enlarged upon the disadvantages arising from the great length of time during which an officer's talent and experience must rust on shore before he could obtain any promotion under the present system. Sir G. COCKBURN observed, that the great number of old officers now unemployed in the high ranks of the navy was the natural result of the extensive appointment re quired by the war, and the necessary discontinuance of employment during the subsequent peace. He thought that when a subject of this kind had been carefully con sidered by a competent commission, it was inexpedient to rescind the decision pronounced by them. He was satisfied, from his personal knowledge of the navy (and he had lately been serving in the Mediterranean), that a fleet of 50 or 60 sail-of-the-line could be sent out at this time as well manned as in his younger days. He was favourable to the principle of purchase, though not with a shorter term of service; but he had not pressed that principle, because the commission had given their judg ment against it. . . Captain PEcHELL supported Sir C. Napier's proposal. He complained that under the present system all Boards of Admiralty, whip or tory, were under an undue pressure from political influences; and then went at large into subjects of naval architecture, and other nautical matters having no apparent connexion with the motion before the house. The Government asked the house to let them alone ; but he did not intend to do that. He believed the present Board of Admiralty were very well inclined to fulfil their duty ; but he thought they would do better if they would follow the example of the Duke of Clarence, who, when Lord High Admiral, saw every officer per sonally. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said, that if they gave the op tion of retirement, they would have the old men on their active list, and the young ones on their retired list. A few years would make a great change, by the deaths of very many officers now in advanced age; and in the mean time it was not desirable to fix a peat expense on the country, more especially when any plan that might be proposed to please some of our officers was sure to be very unpalatable to others. He hoped Sir C. Napier would withdraw his motion. _ . Sir C. NAPIER replied. He did not care for the com mission which had been quoted as so strong an authority; it had decided one way one day, and another way the next; there was nothing like it, except the late divisions on Lord Ashley's motion. He admitted that the officers at the very top of the list, who were near to getting their flags, would not retire ; but between them and the young ones there were very many who would. An old captain of 70 could no more do his work as he did at 40, than a fox-hunter of 70 could ride with the nerve of a youngster at a five-barred gate. . . The house then divided, when the motion was lost by a majority of 71 to 28. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. The Bishop of EXETER introduced a bill, which was read a first time, for the purpose of checking the facilities for seduction in the metropolis. A discussion arose respecting the progress of the new houses of parliament, which resulted in a reference of the whole subject to a Commission of the Board of Works, with the supervision of the Lords of the Treasury. Their Lordships adjourned soon after. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. Mr. LABOUCHERE brought under the consideration of the house the state of the cooperage trade, which was un able to compete with either foreign or colonial com petition. Mr. GLADSTONE admitted that a strong case had been made out in favour of the coopers, but was prepared to prove that there was considerable exaggeration in their statements, for their difficulties were to be chiefly attri buted to the present short supply of Baltic staves, and the consequent temporary high price to which they had at tained. After some discussion the house went into committee on the Customs Duties Bill. A discussion arose as to the policy of differential duties, which Mr. EWART contended ought to be done away with; but the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER insisted that our colonists, as British subjects, were entitled to share in the protection invariably afforded by the mother country. After some discussion, Mr. Ewart's proposition of re ducing the duty on foreign coffee to the same amount as that on colonial was negatived by a majority of 39 to 28. A discussion took place upon the abrogation of the wool duties, but ultimately all the clauses in the bill were agreed to with amendments, and the house resumed. The report was brought up, and ordered to be received on Monday next. In committee on the Stamp Duties Bill, Mr. FOSTER proposed larger reductions of the duty on marine in surances than those contemplated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A discussion ensued, and on a division the amendment of Mr. Foster was negatived by a majority of 69 to 22. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. By the steam-ship Acadia, Capt. Ryrie, which arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday morning, after a fine pas sage of ten days nineteen hours from Halifax, we have received New York papers to the Ist instant inclusive. The Acadia brought home 101 passengers, viz. : From Boston.—Mr. C. Rollins, Miss M. Goodwin, B. C. Morse, B. Bradley, Hector Morrison, J. W. Pierce, Charles Falkner, Mr. Burke, J. Copeland Zigonala, Rev. Dr. Cunningham, A. Comstork, John Hartley, R. P. Kensington, H. B. Ferguson, A. Woods, Miss Smith ' J. M. llutton, Mr. Brown, Mr. M'Kee, R. L. D awson' J. Tryon, S. W. Bent, Geo. Atkinson, C. W. Th omas B. 0. Vignald, Mrs. Buchan, Rev. E. L. Magoon, M rs . Mary Pares, A. J. Lewis, G. B. Brower, Lieut. Laure, B. Graham, J. Moses, Mr. Cleveland, J. Hilliard, C. F. Baxter, W. L. Beal, Autonis Salgado, Manuel Ose, and servant man, W. Moore, J. A. Roberts, Louis Potestad, Lady, Master Potestad, and servant man, Thomas Hill, Peter Johnson, Joseph Blackwood, Stephen Crocker, John Nicholson, George Urquhart and servant man, P. Charman, E. C. Richards, S.W. Connell, Mr. W. Adgar, Lady, child, and servant maid, Franklyn Scavers, Wash ington Scavers, Mr. H. Thompson, B. W. Roberts, C. Oxley, J. C. Pickersgill, F. W. Franktykee, It. Salor, F. Almy, Charles Clarke, C. Cartlidge, H. Q. Ferguson, F. W. S. Coolidge, Z. S. Henry, D. H. Loudon, J. F. Cole, P. Delata, Mr. Butterfield, E. A. Pierce, Lewis George, C. F. Powell, R. B. Jay, and S. P. Williams. From Halifax.—Mr. R. S. Allan, Mr. Pennington, Mr. Satlock, Lady, and child, Capt. Middleton, Arthur White, Mr. Reade and attendant, Capt. G. A. Bedford, Lody, two children and servant, Miss Minchin, Mr. G. Minchin, Mrs. Bagges, Mr. Sandon, and Rutherford. The question of a treaty of annexation with Texas oc cupies the papers to the exclusion of almost every other topic. The New York Post publishes the treaty and a variety of accompanying documents ; and from that paper we take the following extract :—" 1. The treaty cedes to the United States the whole territory of Texas, to be an nexed as a territory, subject to the same conditions as other territories. 2. The citizens of Texas are to be ad mitted to all the privileges of citizens of the United States, as soon as qualified according to the federal constitution. 3. The United States are to undertake the settlement of all titles and claims to real estate in Texas. 4. The pub lic lands of Texas to be subject to the laws regulating the public lands of other territories. 5. The United States assumes the public debt and other liabilities of Texa s , estimated not to exceed ten millions of dollars, to be paid in successive instalments. 6. Four commissions to be appointed to examine into the validity of certificates and claims to lands." The rema in ing provisions are merely formal. A disgraceful affray took place in the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Rathbun, of New York, said, not in debate, but in conversation, tnat " we," him self and friends, could prove a certain assertion. Mr. White, of Kentucky, who sat near him, sa!(_l, ' Of o can prove a lie, then ; swallow that—you!" course a rencontre followed, both striking at each other. They were instantly separated. Great confusion arose, which was interfered in by a man named Moore, of Kentucky, who is not a member of the house, and h ad no business in it. Mr. M'Causlin, of Ohio, took ho ld of him, and thrust him out of the ball, as he had been interfering with the officers. As he went out, he fired a pistol at Mr. M'Causlin, which missed him and hit Mr. Wales, one of the police of the capitol, in the tbigh. The wound is painful, but not dangerous. Moore was arrested. Seseral motions were made in the confusion. Mr. White, who gave the insult, requested to be heard. He made a sincere and feeling apology to the house, express ing deep regret and contrition. Mr. Rathbun instantly followed his magnanimous example, and the two shook hands by a movement apparently spontaneous with each• On the following day Mr. Barnard offered a resolution, which was agreed to, the substance of which was, that the act which had occurred met the unqualified reprobation of the house ; that th e h ous e h a d li stene d to t h e a pology of thepartr a s o , d an th d ot wi i t t ne d s e s c r o.re t d be t ir he re v c io o l n e c o i o li o at o io f reconciliation with satisfaction they had been guilty admitted of no palliation, and me rited and received the se v e res t censure o f the house. Moore was ordered to be kept in the custody of the Sergeant. at-Arms until further orders. The Legislature of Pennsylvania aims to be quite as dignified and peaceable a body as the United States Con gress. There was a row in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg. Mr. Smith, of Berks, it appears, rose in his place, and interrupted Mr. Cooper, of Adams, with the remark "It is false " Mr. Cooper ddinanded whe ther the gentleman from Berks intended to apply the re mark to the evidence, or to himself. Mt•. Smith replied that he intended to apply it to the gentleman himself. " I pronounce you," said Mr. Cooper, " a scoundrel and a coward ! " The Speaker with manliness and energy then interfered, and compelled the gentleman from Berks to apologise to the house, and the gentleman from Adams. This settled the affair. The accounts from Havana stated that more than a hundred negroes had been shot at Matanzas for having taken part in the late insurrection. A large number of prisoners were still in confinement at Havana. The New Orleans Bulletin says, the British ship Wel lington, Capt. AV Intyre, which cleared on the 29th March for Liverpool, went ashore upon the Tortugas Shoals on the 31st, and was a perfect wreck. Her cargo consisted of 1642 hales cotton, 160 barrels lard, and 3 cases linen. About 600 bales of the cotton were taken off by the wreckers in a damaged state, and carried to Key West. No lives were lost. Judge Baldwin, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at the Mer chants' Hotel, in Philadelphia, of paralysis. There was a want of animation in the cotton market at New York. Anticipating unfavourable accounts to be received by the steamer to leave Liverpool on the 4th instant, prices gradually receded, resulting in a decline on fair and grades below, up to the 22d instant, of I tol a cent. per lb., when it was announced that the steamer Acadia had arrived at Boston, with accounts of a decline in Liverpool of id on all grades below fair, and Id on fair and the grades above, which being more unfavourable than was counted upon, operations were suspended; but on the day following a further reduction of lc. per lb. on the grades below fair was submitted to, and 1000 bales were disposed of at the decline, which being established, purchasers had freely entered the market; and since the announcement of the steamer's news to this date, 10,500 bales had been taken, principally for export. Fair Up lands are quoted at 8 to 34 cents per lb. as the extreme, while New Orleans and Mobile command + to 4c. addi tional, being preferred particularly for shipment. The stock of cotton at New York was about 170,000 bales. EXECUTIONS IN ITALY. (From Me Courier Francaise.) A frightful event occurred on the 7th May, in Bologna. Six of the persons capitally convicted by the military commission as implicated in the political affairs of last year, have been put to death, almost without the know ledge of the population, the sentence having been notified to the condemned last evening at a late hour. This morning, at sunrise, they were shot, in the centre of a nu merous square of troops, who surrounded the place of ex ecution, and prevented the people from approaching it. Scarcely was that barbarous act known, than a cry of genaral indignation was raised through the city. The whole garrison is under arms, and the streets are traversed by large patrols. A manifestation on the part of the peo ple is apprehended, and the fears of the government are the better founded, as it has set to it a terrible example of revolutionary measures. The executions of this morning, carried into effect in virtue of a sentence delivered by a special and purely mili tary commission, can only be viewed in the light of poli tical murders. They are contrary to legality and to the provisions of our codes. The following is the sentence, which has been posted up on the walls of Bologna : In the name of His Holiness Pope Gregory XVI., &c. " The Military Commission sitting at Bologna, insti tuted by an order of his Excellency Cardinal Ugo Spinola, legate of the province, under date the 26th of August, 1843, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Feddi, Command ant of the Carabineers of the four legations ; Lieutenant- Colonel Allegrini, Commandant of the Pontifical Dra goons ; M. Sampierri, Captain of Carabineers ; M. Savacinelli, Captain of the Line; M. Martinelli, Captain Commandant of Fort Urbino, and assisted by Councillor Fontana, extraordinary commissioner and reporter, and Dr. Piselli, Chancellor, has been convoked to examine and try the case of insurrection and rebellion against the Sovereign and the Government, in which the accused have taken an active and culpable part : " 1. In the armed band, composed of upwards of 60 individuals, which rose on the Bth of August, 1843, and traversed the mountains of the province until the 24th. " 2. In the engagement which took place on the 15th of August between that band and the loyal force of the Carabineers, and in which a captain, four carabineers, and a volunteer were killed, and a sergeant of the volun teers dangerously wounded. "3. In the armed band which marched from Bologna towards Imola in the night of the Bth of September, 1843. " 4. In the encounter on the evening of the 3d of Octo ber, 1843, at the Borgo San Pietro, between several armed individuals and a patrol of Carabineers and Swiss, three of whom were wounded. (Here follow the names, age, and professions of the ac cused, all belonging to the class of the people.) " Having examined all the acts relative to the case, and heard the report and charges ofthe reporting commissioner, together with the defence of the accused. presented by Professors Giacomelli and Carlo Monti, the military com mission has pronounced ajudgment, by which 20 are con demned to the penalty of death, 13 to the galleys for life, three to 20 years, two to five, and all to the confiscation of their property." By a sovereign rescript of the 27th of April, 14 of the condemned to death have obtained the commutation of their penalty into that of the galleys for life ; and as respects the six others—namely, Ludovic Manari, Joseph Veronesi, Raffaele Landi, Joseph Rabbi, Joseph Ming hetti and Joseph Gavoni, the sentence was executed this morning at six o'clock, at the place called it Prato de St. Antonio, where they were shot in the back. Six others accused had been set at liberty pro tempore for want of proofs. The contumacious offenders being considered the chiefs of the conspiracy, the sentence orders that the most diligent measures be adopted for their apprehension. These are Count Zambeccari, the Mar quis Tanara, Count Biancoli, the Marquis de Pietramel lara, the two brothers Muratori, Turris, Maczari, Zanardi, Lambertini, Giugni, and several others. Councillor Galletti, who was arrested on the Ist inst., has been sent off to Rome under a strong escort. Pia] LIVERPOOL STANDARD, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton (late the Newha ven) Railway Bill passed the committee on Thursday. The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill was read a third time and passed the House of Commons on Thurs day night. The railway from Oxford to Didcot will be opened on the 10th of June. The railroad between Brunswick and Hanover is to be opened on the Ist of June next. The experiment of an atmospheric railway is about to be made on a line 21 miles in length, from London to Croydon. The Railway Record hints at the probability of a new London and Birmingham Railway being formed under the auspices of the Great Western and Grand Junction Companies jointly. DEFEAT OF THE BOLTON, PERCY, AND HARROGATE RAILWAY BlLL.—This bill, after having been for six days under the consideration of a numerous committee of the House of Commons, was rejected, on Thursday last, by the votes of eleven to one. There seemed to be a very strong feeling amongst the members of the committee in favour of the Leeds and Thirsk line. RAILWAY FROM SHREWSBURY DIRECT TO BIRMING HAM.—A new and important feature has arisen in the pro jpercot i e d o t r e a r i s l w o a f y t h e o e m r a m i l u w n a i ) e , a t f i r o o n m t h s r h o r u e g w h s b S u h r r y o p t s o h i 0 v T e he h a mpton, have arranged with the Directors of the Lon don and Birmingham Company that the line of the for mer company shall be extended through the densely-popu lated districts of Cosely, Tipton, Dudley, and Oldbury to Birmingham. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—We under stand the engineers are now surveying a line of railway from the Lancaster and Preston line, keeping on the west side of the town altogether, crossing the canal near the Canal Company's packet-station and Meeting-house lane, a short distance below the Friends' Meeting-house ; then crossing the Lune near the Gasworks, and again coming into the present line near Williamlands. We learn that this will cause a saving to the company of nearly £20,000, and, in addition to avoiding the great curve by Skerton Mill, will be half a mile shorter than the parliamentary plan.—Lancaster Guardian. YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS.—The new lines of railway in Yorkshire, at present projected, are the following :—From Leeds to Harrogate and Thirsk ; the Bradford and Leeds (Valley) line; the Bradford and Leeds (Sh or t) li ne ; th e Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds line; the Dewsbury and Leeds line; the Bolton, Percy, and Harrogate iine ; the various branch lines from the Leeds and M anchester railway, in connection with the Huddersfield Canal Navigation ; the Lincoln and Wakefield Railway ; and the York and Scarborough Railway. These ten new lines will require for their construction about five millions sterling. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The line of the con templated Great Northern Railway (a meeting respecting which was held in London on Wednesday), according to the plan, proceeds from the metropolis to St. Neot's, where there is a branch to Hertford ; to Stamford, Gran tham, Newark, Retford, Bawtry, and Doncaster, thus keeping close by the great north road. From Doncaster the line proceeds to South Milford, where it terminates, and joins the York and North Midland, proceeding in a straight direction to York. At or near Pontefract there is a branch line to the North Midland ; and there are also branch lines to Lincoln, Huntingdon, and other principal towns. • ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE RAIL WAY DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.-Thil report, for 1843, has just made its appearance, with a co pious appendi x of statistical matter. It appears that there has been a b eau tif ul i llustration of the safety of railways under good management. About 24,000,000 persons have been carried an average distance of fifteen miles each, and out of them only one passenger has lost his life, namely, on the North Midland Railway, on the 12th of January, 1843. The state of the accidents for the last four years stand thus Killed. Injured. IE4O, last f our mon th s of .. 22 131 1811, for the year .. 1812.... 5 14 ...... 1833 ... 3 3 These accidents comprehend all sorts of a public nature. It appears that 944 miles of railway were inspected and opened during 1813. UNIVERSITY CLERICAL IVEIVS. OxFoRD.—In a congregation holden on Wednesday the following degrees were conferred:— Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. Thomas Nicholl, 'Worces ter College. Masters of Arts. —Rev. Henry Mitchell, Lincoln College; James Carden, Merton College; Rev. Matthew Hale Estcourt. Exeter College; Rev. George Henry M`Gill, Brasenose College. Bachelors of Arts.—Thomas C. Garth, Christ Church, Grand Compounder ; Frederic Bagot, Christ Church ; James Thomas Barlow, Christ Church ; Robert Vaughton, New Inn Hall; John Satter Eaton, Worcester College; John Wadham, Wadham College ; George Augustus Al ston, Wadham College ; George Frederic Butler, Exeter College ; Edward France Perceval, Brasenose College ; Monier Williams, University College; George Ferguson Bo wen, Scholar of Trinity College. A lady, under the initials of A. 8., has this week left at the chambers of the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels a Bank of England note for £lOOO. Mr. M`MULLEN.—On Wednesday, at Oxford. Mr. M`Mullen' s grace was re f use d f or the 'third time. When should submit his reasons to congregation, and leave that gttbhuroeandesyre England,itagiogshajt again gt n in see d rt tn N he r to i sh c r o e ei tf - y C i t h h o a ep n muc c t o e ah t l tui l 0 0 0 r oc r nh h f o a oo s rff ha t o r ue m i Popery. He has supported the Protestant decision of For : Hampden, in refusing to Mr. M`Mullen his degree. This con!istent integrity and firmness, which is at all time . s so important in the authorities of Oxford, is more opa ffsrt okettirteheadett : ihwro t eei h ;: r e agolhfi rdteti soth :yeu. statutes hed os, ficr, require that the objector particularly valuable in our present times CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—This society held its eighth annual meeting in the Great Room, Exeter 'hall on Tuesday week. Lord Ashley was announced as the Chairman of the day, but his lordship being unable to attend, the Hon. Captain Waldegrave was moved into the chair. The secretary read the report, from which it ap peared that forty-four new grants had been voted during the past year, amounting to £3,940. These grants had been made to Incumbents who had under their charge an aggregate population of 424,410 souls, being an average of 9,837 each. During the past year sixteen grants have been made in augmentation of the incomes of Incumbents of district Churches, or to districts in which new Churches are being erected. The amount required to pay the grants now in operation is £16,384, £4,602 being still required to enable those Incumbents whose grants have not yet been filled up to obtain Curates. These sums with £3,449 raised from local sources form a total of £24,399. The total amount of income received on the 31st of March, 1843, being £17,562, 19s. 11d., whereas the receipts to the corresponding period of the present year have been £21,288 ss. 6d., showing an increase of £4,266. Extract from a speech delivered by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel at a meeting held in Exeter Hall, on Thurs day se'nnight, in behalf of the London City Mission : " I find it noticed in one of the Anglo-Catholic journals of this country, which I hold in my hand, and I have seen it repeated in several other publications of similar princi ples, that a letter has been written to the students of a particular college, intreating them to leave the established church and to join a new society ; that new society being stated to be a project for forming another Episcopal Church, not connected with the State, and over which newly-elected bishops should be set. This letter, it is said, upon authority on which the writer places implicit confidence, was written by myself. Now the answer that I have to make to this is, that respecting the society itself I had no intelligence whatsoever, and I did not know of its existence ; that the letter itself I suppose to be an invention,—certainly, at least, I know not its author, and was not the author myself; and that if I had known of the proposal to which it alludes it certainly would never have received any countenance from me. (Cheers.) I love the Evangelical clergy, and the Evangelical mem bers of the Church of England, more dearly than I love any other body of men in the world. (Renewed cheers.) I love them so, because I have had frequent opportunities of knowing their worth and kindness. It is the regiment of Christ's army in which he has assigned my lot ; and both the Evangelical officers who lead it, and the Evan gelical fellow-soldiers with whom I am called to combat Christ's foes, are dear to my heart. Nor do I mean to ' leave that Church of England, which has been, and I trust will be, an important bulwark to Protestantism throughout the world. (Cheers.) BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETY.—The seventeenth annual meeting of the members and friends of this society was held on Tuesday last, at the Hanover-square rooms, London. The report of the committee related chiefly to the progress and effects of the Tractarian movement. It was stated that the religious world might now be consi dered as divided into three classes—Romanists, Tracta rians, and Protestants. Whilst the doctrines of the Church of Rome remained unchanged and unchangeable in hostility to the diffusion of scriptural truth, another party bad unhappily sprung up in the Reformed Church, which, by adopting some of the worst errors of Popery, had produced results most unfavourable to the cause of true religion. To that painful question the committee had given serious consideration, and, by the circulation of tracts, active efforts had been made with a view to counteract the pernicious effects which the writings of the Tractarians were calculated to have upon the public mind. Those insidious writings, the productions of able and gifted men, were being spread amongst the aristo cracy, the younger clergy, and the undergraduates of the universities; and it was suggested, as regards the two latter classes, that the course of education in use at the universities contributed very materially to the adoption of Tractarian principles, because the exaction of great at tainments in the classics and mathematics left the student little time for examination of the Scriptures. It was re marked, that while the aristocracy bad in too many instances adopted Tractarian tenets, the gentry, mer chants, and the lower classes generally, were untainted. The society's receipts during the past year amounted to £1084; the expenditure to £1076. He was not surprised that it should have been opposed by Roman Catholics, but the indifference manifested by members of the Re formed Church had in a still greater degree a tendency to retard its operations, in Ireland more especially ; and the sanction to Popery in another place, by a grant to pay the priests of the Romish Church to teach idolatry, was one of those anomalies for which he could not account. The report, together with some resolutions in furtherance of the society's views, having been agreed to, the meeting separated. ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. We alluded in our last to a meeting held at Exeter Hall on Friday week for the purpose of promoting the foreign missions of the established Church of Scotland, and to the eloquent and unanswerable speech of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile on that occasion. We purpose now to give as much of the Rev. gentleman's argumentative address as we can find room for—were we to give the whole it would occupy two pages of our paper. Mr. M'Neile in the first place amidst loud marks of approbation vindicated his consistency, as an episcopally ordained minister, in taking part in the question, as it related to Church Es tablishments, and on the grounds of Protestant sympathy. He then proceeded as follows :—" The resolution which I have been requested to support is this :—` That a na tional Protestant Church Establishment, with fixed creed and ecclesiastical authority, and protected alike from the dictation of the patron and the domination of the people, is not only the greatest safety to the state and security for civil freedom, but also, when blessed by the Spirit of God, eminently calculated to deepen religion in men's hearts at home, and to carry it to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile abroad.' In defence of the advantages, and even the necessity of the established church, we were favoured but a short time since with the talented advocacy of many of the most distinguished leaders of the present secession. It were easy to multiply passages from the writings of Dr. Chalmers, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Cunning ham, and others, strenuously supporting the principle of ecclesiastical establishments, and pointing out, in very decisive terms, the practical evils which would necessarily arisefrom the absence of a well-defined alliance, between the Church and state. True it is, indeed , that in their descriptions of such an alliance,they never failed to include, as an essen tial feature, what they called the spiritual independence or liberty of the Church.—(hear.) And however rashly some individuals may have expressed themselves more recently on the general principle of a church establishment, it is only fair to suppose that the more cautious and creditable advocates of the secession justify their consistency by the plea that in the present alliance between the Church of Scotland and the civil power, the spiritual independence of the church is not respected ; but they now, as before, advocate a Scriptural alliance; but that, painful as it is to their feelings, and opposed as it is to their general principles and preferences, still they must incur a separa tion with all its risks, rather than submit to an unscrip tural alliance. (Applause.) They maintain that there are duties inculcated upon the Christian church by the Lord Jesus Christ himself; and that no human laws, no secular tribunal, no civil ma g istrate, under plea of vested rights of patrons, safety of the state, dignity of the crown, or any other plea, should he allowed to supersede, or for one moment or in the slightest particular to contravene those sacred duties—(cheers)—that if any civil power attempted to do so, it becomes a persecuting power; and that the members of the true Church of Christ should stand aloof from all alliance with such a power in spiritual matters, refuse its endowments, and cease to recognise its authority. (Renewed cheering.) Nav, further, that if, under such circumstances, ability and providential opportunity were afforded to the members of the Christian church, they should depose such a persecuting power, and erect in its stead one that would practically acknowledge the authority of Christ in his church. (Loud applause.) Now, my lord, in all this they are, in my opinion, right, quite right. We also .hold these principles—(hear, hear) ;—and are prepared to defend them. (Cheers.) To the exercise of them we are indebted for an event in our history which some, indeed, have lately ventured to deprecate as a re bellion, calling the church to humiliation and sorrow, but which our church celebrates as a signal mercy from the God of nations, and which the genuine sons of our church as she is hail with grateful praise as our glorious revolution and settlement of 1688. I say this now because I feel it to be of real consequence that our seceding friends should see that we are not incapable of understanding and appre ciating their position and principles ; that we are careful to avoid exaggeration ; and that, in point of fact, the question between us at present is not one involving these high principles, but only the legitimate application of such principles to particular circumstances. It is not whether a easur belli for spiritual liberty can or cannot arise. We assert that in times past it did arise. We are prepared to meet it if, in our time, it should arise. (Cheers.) But the question is, has such a case actually arisen at this time in Scotland? To this I venture, in the face of all that has been said and done, to answer No. My con viction is that the recent disruption, as it is called, in the Scotch Church has been a misapplication, a practical mis application of great and sacred principles—(a cry of " no," and " Lear, hear,")—conscientiously made. Oh yes, the sacrifices endured are a full proof of sincerity but sincerity is no proof of truth or sound reason. It is doubtless ) the scriptural duty of the church, or rather: to avoid ambiguity, it should be said of the executive of the church, the clergy, to preach with all plainness and earnestness the faith once delivered to the saints; to ad minister the ordinances which Christ himself has insti tuted ; to determine who are and who are not to be admitted to those ordinances ; to fill up and add to their own body as occasion requires ; to appoint their own suc cessors; and to urge upon all the members of the church the Christian duty of using their influence, whatever it.tnay be, public or private, and of consecrating a portion of their substance to the support and multiplication, as the people multiply, of Christian ministers. For each of these plain warrant of Scripture may, I think, be cited. But this is not necessary. It is not denied that these are scriptural duties of the clergy. 1 have enumerated them for clear ness' sake, in order to say that if the civil magistrate in terfered to prevent the performance of these duties, or any of them, by the ministers of the Church, there would, I think, immediately arise a crisis demanding resistance against human authority for the preservation inviolate of allegiance to divine. The ministers of the Church would then occupy the position of the apostle when he said, "We must obey God rather than men." But has this been done by the government in Scotland ? No, nothing like this. (Hear, hear.) To allege that the clergy of the Scotch Church are coerced in the matter of ordination by the rights of the patrons, whose nominees they are at li berty to reject, is to make a mistake, losing sight of the first, the important first step taken by the presbytery. That first step is granting a licence to preach. (Hear, hear.) In this there is no manner of interference with the freedom of the Church courts to exercise their judg ment upon the qualifications of every candidate. Prac tically this licence to preach amounts to what we call deacon's orders in the Church of England ; and in this the presbyteries are entirely uncontrolled, because no man who is not already a licentiate can be selected by a patron as his nominee to a parish. In all these things, therefore, the Church of Scotland is free. (Applause.) Mr. M'NEILE then proceeded to that part of the argu ment which relates to the particular point of non-intrusion, and in doing so he met the late arguments of Mr. Baptist Noel. That gentleman had argued as follows : By non-intrusion it is meant that no minister is to be forced upon a reluctant Christian congregation, but that the assent of that Christian congregation is to be re ceived in the formation of the pastoral :relation. The relation should seem to be one of the simplest common sense. When there is no relation so important as this, which is to determine the welfare of a village, in which a father sees so much of the happiness of his children in both worlds depends, it does not seem reasonable that a Christian people should be debarred the right of protest ing against the introduction of an unspiritual, unconverted minister, I do not doubt that the world would sneer at that statement. An unspiritual and unconverted minis ter they may not comprehend. But, when our Lord has told us that many will at the last day claim to have preached in his name, to whom he will say "I never knew you ;" when St. Paul has told us that the ministers of satan may assume the garb of the ministers of Christ ; when our Lord has told his people that they must "beware of false prophets," that come to them " in sheep's cloth ing ;" and when there is no doctrine more vital to the happiness of mankind, more legible in the pages of in spiration than this, that " except a man be born again be cannot see the kingdom of God ;"—I do say that a chris tian people have the right of protesting against the intro duction among them, to lead them and their families, of a minister whose levity of life, whose whole character, and all his ministrations, may prove to them that he is unspiritual and unconverted. This principle is clearly laid down in the Scriptures. It is laid down in all those pas sages, into which 1 shall not enter, which declare that Christians must " take heed what they hear "—which say to us that the sheep of Christ " know his voice, " and will not listen to the'' voice of a stranger ;"—which tell Christian men, if any man come to them and bring not the doctrine of Christ, they must "not receive him to their houses nor bid him God speed " as a minister for fear they should be guilty of partaking of his evil deeds. So far Mr. BAPTIST NOEL ; but Mr. M'NEILE suggests the very opposite, and, not least, common probability : It is here taken for granted that the people are Chris tian, and the ministers unspiritual, unconverted. But is this always the case ? And what becomes of the conclu sion here hastily drawn, where the facts of the case are precisely the reverse of those here supposed ? The por tions of Scripture here referred to do not seem to me to have any special application to the subject in hand. In proof of this I would venture to turn this argument to the other side by the insertion of other passages of Scripture equally relevant, or, as I anticipate will be said of them, irrelevant, Thus, by non-intrusion is meant that no minister is to be forced upon a reluctant congregation, but that the assent of that congregation is to be received in the formation of the pastoral relation. This, as a prin ciple, would seem to be fraught with the greatest hazard, to say the least of it. When there is no relation so im portant as this, which is, under God, to determine the welfare of a village in both worlds, it does not seem reasonable or safe that a worldly-minded, dissipated peo ple should be invested by law with the right of protesting against the introduction of an enlightened scriptural minister. Some may be disposed to sneer at this. A worldly-minded people they may not comprehend. But when our Lord has told us that faithful witnesses for him shall be rejected, and their names cast out as evil; that they shall be hated of all men for his name's sake ; when St. Paul, anticipating the progress of this evil in the Church, has told us that the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but shall heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; when our Lord has plainly declared that because he told the people the truth, therefore they do not believe him, and that, as it was with the master, so it shall be with the ser vant; and when there is no truth more important to the salvation of mankind, or more legible in the pages of in spiration, than this, that faith comes by hearing, and hear ing by the word of God; and no duty more imperative upon Christ's ambassadors than to tell the truth even to reluctant people, whether they will bear, or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house—(applause)— I do say that a worldly minded people ought not to have the right of protesting against the introduction among them (to lead them and their families) of a minister whose piety of life, whose whole character and ministrations, may prove to them a blessing from God. This principle is clearly laid down in the Scriptures. (Hear, hear.) It is laid down in all those passages which declare that faithful ministers must persevere, " reproving, rebuking, exhort ing, with all long-suffering," whatever reception they may meet with from the people ; and they are not to be afraid of the people, either of their words or their looks, though briers and thorns be the consequence of such fidelity, and they dwell among scorpions; though they be compelled to say, " Am f become your enemy because I tell you the truth ?" (Loud applause.) This principle is exemplified in the ministry of prophets as well as apostles; prophets to the Jews and prophets to the heathen. Had the Holy Spirit in Jeremiah respected the non-intrusion principle, and waited for a call from the men of Judah and Jerusa lem, the prophet would never have uttered among them his faithful warnings of the approaching invasion by the Chaldeans. (Cheers.) Had Jonah waited for a call from the Ninevites, he had never preached repentance in that great city. Ido not advance this as a proof that the peo ple should not choose their ministers. It will not bear so much. But I think it as truly proves that they should not, as that the passage I have read to you proves that they should. (Renewed cheering.) Mr. M'NEILE then proceeded with a very lengthened and minute argument on the subject of ordination and choice of pastors from Scripture and antiquity, in reply, step by step, to Mr. BAPTIST NOEL. We confine our selves to the few following valuable general deductions from the whole subject : Leaving the safe guidance of the inspired history, and advancing into the records of uninspired antiquity, I con fess I become comparatively less anxious, either about the citations which may be made, or the conclusions which may be drawn from them. (Hear, hear.) The writings of the fathers supply abundant materials for ecclesiastical as well as theological contention : and I think if there be one lesson which they inculcate upon us all more strongly than another, it is mutual forbearance. (Cheers.) Even where God himself has spoken, and spoken plainly, as la matters of doctrine, men have never been able to arrive at unity of interpretation. How, then, can it be expected, and why should it be demanded, that where God has not spoken, as in the details of church government, men should come to uniformity of practice ? Surely they who would enforce a uniformity which God has not enjoined are the real disturbers of that unity which all agree in commending as a theory, and wtdch might be enjoyed in happy practice if uniformity were not insisted on (cheers). In every Christian nation, indeed, there ought to be arrangements of order, made by authority, and adopted for conscience sake. Such arrangements should be made with due, i.e., supreme regard to the Holy Scriptures, so that in nothing shall they oppose the word of God. And being so made, to refuse compliance with them on the grounds of personal preference, thereby leading to divisions in the nation, is more culpable than it is generally believed to be. But to require all nations to have exactly the same arrangements is plainly to seek a quarrel. To insist upon it, limiting true religion and valid sacraments to it, is narrow-minded bigotry. To enforce it, as Rome did, and would, if she could, is anti- Christian tyranny (cheers.) THE COURT. The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday afternoon, escorted by a party of Lancers, for Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince of Wvles and the Princess Royal, accompanied their parents. On Thursday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed walk in Claremont Park ; and in the afternoon of the same day, her Majesty and Prince Al bert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, arrived in town at twenty minutes before six o'clock, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Lancers, from Claremont. His Royal Highness the Pri n ce of Wales was in the next royal carriage. Previously to departing from Claremont, the Queen commanded tha t the mansion should be pre pared for the reception of the Royal family on Thursday, ed that neither th e Q ueen nor Prince .'a birthday will be celeb ra t e d at C laremont. o n which day the C our t w ill leave town. the AH letrtelr is tidBs willji understood ttdy.rstoo honour Epsom races (which commence on Tuesday next) nor the forthcoming meeting of Ascot with their presence this year. Norris Castle is actually purchased for the royal marine residence of the Queen and Prince Albert. The amount of the purchase is stated to be £60,000. Osborne House will also be occupied, but will be for the exclusive use of the household. [This paragraph has appeared in all the London, and many of the provincial papers ; but the Observer of Sunday states that the Castle has neither been purchased nor hired for her Majesty, nor are any negociations pending respecting it.] May 21, 1841, IRELAND. The Metropolitan Conservative Society of Dublin has dissolved itself. The price of butter in Cork last week advanced 10s. in the cwt. It is a fact worthy of observation, that since the eleva tion of Lord Chief Justice Pennefather to the bench, not one decision made by him at Nisi Prius, has been over ruled by any of the Courts sitting in Banco. DAN'S PLAGIARISM.—A correspondent in Galignan's Messenger accuses O'Connell of having presented him with a copy of the celebrated lines which have been the subject of controversy between the Liberator and D'Ar lincourt, as having been written by himself. The Dublin Evening Mail states that the judges are unanimous in declining to grant the motion for a new trial, as against the parties convicted, with the exception of the Hey. Mr. Tierney, and that Mr. Justice Crampton stands alone, and upon some minor point, with respect to that individual. On Wednesday last John Cordery, who was lately con victed of the murder of Sergeant Dodd, was executed at Carrickfergus Gaol. He met his fate with the most per fect firmness. On the falling of the drop, several of the soldiers of the 66th fainted ; and one of the dragoons fell from his horse in a fainting fit, and was severely cut. The friends of Mr. O'Connell deny the report that be is to be married to the sister of a Fellow of Trinity Col lege. The Liberator is an admirer of Miss M'D , a most interesting and accomplished lady, in her 23d year, but her connections laugh at the idea of her entering into hymeneal bonds with the Father of his country, now in his 72d year. BARBAROUS MURDER AND ROBBERY OF ARMS.-- On Sunday last, the sth of May, a most horrid murder was perpetrated in the parish of Cloone, in the county of Leitrim, by a gang of assassins during the time of Divine Service. In consequence of the illness of his wife, Mr. Thomas Nash, a respectable protestant, was obliged to remain at home, contrary to his custom of attending church ; and at midday he was surprised by an armed party entering his house, and demanding his fire-arms. The gallant fellow resisted the demand of the lawless ruf fians with noble determination, which cannot be too highly commended ; but, grievous to relate, he fell in mortal combat with his assailants. His poor wife crept from her bed of sickness, and with his sister, Mrs. Brown, assisted in the combat with the assassins, one of them struck Mrs. Nash on the head with a pistol, and another at the same moment darted a sword through the body of Mr. Nash. Mrs. Nash, (as we learn) exclaimed " I am mur dered !"—her husband responded, " I am gone!" and almost instantly breathed his last. An inquest was held on the deceased onTuesday by Lord Clements, and a verdict of" wilful murder against a person or persons unknown" was returned. Nothing calculated to lead to the disco very of the monsters has been elicited. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. 2 to 1 against Mr. John Day's Ugly Buck.—offered. 7to 2 „ Mr. Crockford's Ratan.—taken freely. 12 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's Orlando. 12 to 1 „ Mr. Scott's Bay Momus.—taken. 17 to 1 „ Mr. Lichtwald's Leander.—offered. 20 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar. 20 to 1 „ Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein. 20 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's T' Auld Squire. 25 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's lonian.—offered. With the exception of a good amount of money being laid against Ratan, and the partial advance of The Ugly Buck, owing to the success of The Devil to Pay at Gor hambury, and the spring of Bay Momus to 12 to 1, to gether with the decline of Leander, very little has been done worthy of observation since our last. The principal bets laid were, on Wednesday, 2 to 1 to £5O against The. Buck, 20 to 1 against Akbar; yesterday, 12 to 1 against Orlando ; and to-day, 30 to 10, and 7 to 2, t. near £2OO, against Ratan, and 12 to 1, in scores, against Bay Momus. 500 to 200 would have been taken about The Buck, but 2 to 1 was the most offered. THE OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestone's Sister to Martingale. off 7to -1 „ Mr. Gregory's Barricade.--offered. 12 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's The Princess.—offered. 12 to 1 „ Lord Exeter's Merope. 12 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's All-round-my-Hat. 20 to 1 „ Mr. J. Robinson's April Noddy. 25 to 1 ~ Mr. J. Rogers's Moorhen filly. There was not a bet laid on this race to-day, and verr few either yesterday or Wednesday. Bto 1 was takes freely about Sister to Martingale, y es terday, 12 to 1 ags Merope, and 25 to 1, several times , about the Moorhe n i filly. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY EVENING. —DERBY.- sto 2 against Ugly Buck ; 7 to 2 against Ratan—taken ; 12 to 1 against Orlando ; 12 to 1 against Bay Momus; 15 to 1 against Leander, 20 to 1 against Running Rein ; 20 to 1 against Ackbar ; 25 to 1 against lonian; 30 to I against Qui Tara. OAKs.-7 to 1 against Barricade; 7 to 1 against Princess ; 7 to 1 against Sister to Martingale; 11 to 1 against Merope ; 12 to 1 against All-round-my- Hat ; 20 to 1 against The Bee. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening last, about nine o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred to Peter Kenyon, a plate layer, who has lately been working at the railway tunnel now constructing at Birkenhead. He had been at a " camp meeting," held on Sunday afternoon at Upton Heath, and, basin.' afterwards been drinking in company with some friends,' he lay down on his return home, on the Chester and Birkenhead line of railway, in the vicinity of Messrs. Dickson's nurseries, near Ches ter, and fell asleep. While in this state, the engine of the train running from Birkenhead struck him with such force as to tear open his side, and he died instantane ously. The poor fellow, who has met with this melan choly death, resided in Pitt-street, Newton, Chester, and has left a widow and six children. MIL'NER'S FIRE-RESISTING BOXES.—II will be re membered that a considerable time ago a series of experi ments were made in this town, testing, at very high tem peratures, the boxes and safes for the preservation of books, deeds, &c., from fire, invented and made, on a new and improved principle, by our townsmen, Messrs. Mil ner and Son, to the great satisfaction and astonishment of a number of scientific gentlemen who witnessed the va rious trials,—which resulted in proving beyond a doubt their great superiority over every other previous or con temporary contrivance having the same object in view. Mr. Samuel Woods, it will be remembered, afterwards read an interesting paper detailing the whole of the expe riments, before the Polytechnic Society, the substance of which was afterwards published in a pamphlet. Since that period the fame of these boxes has continued rapidly to spread, not only in the neighbourhood. but throughout the kingdom ; and the demand for them has been so great, that Messrs. Milner have been induced to enter upon new and very extensive premises for their manufacture. Num bers of experiments have also been tried in other towns from time to time, and all confirming the extraordinary power of these cases to resist fire of great intensity, and thus to preserve their contents uninjured. One of the most interesting of these trials was made, last month, at the Camden Station of the London and Birmingham Rail way, and is detailed in the Railway Record, in letters signed by parties who witnessed the various tests,—in eluding Mr. Henry Watt, of the Railway Co., our mem ber, Sir H. Douglas, Colonel Cunningham, of the Royal Engineers, the Superintendent of the Railway, and a num ber of other gentlemen of eminence. The experiments were successively made with boxes of various sizes and thicknesses, which were each subjected to fires of intense heat for a long time, and the contents—including b ank notes—were taken out uninjured. Some of the boxes were taken out of the fire red hot, but the inner chambers and contents were perfectly fresh and unaltered. We may remind our readers, that these safes are strongly made s betwheen otn f e aul tt stances. nn n c dei enneeseigd. alkalinestbA i hp r ytae o tacsmn:e.plates.optil certainalto lirreotwith ly filled T glert e h l od e dta ebv: gesexternaliinteriorrortehrebs urneoicnfteatbatsbaoenlixseioc, heat,no having fluid, tuac h c bov h eine n a stdsr m :au bntbefihetdle non-conducting toas i gh s np eNse s avu U cri bete r : d h by one lose the power of retaining the liquid, which, running out, saturates the absorbent substance that surrounds them, and a steam or damp vapour is produced that pre serves the inner case and papers from being ignited. W e need scarcely say that no companies or private individuals who have valuable books, deeds, or other documents in their possession, should be without them,—especially as they are not only handsome and commodious, but cheaper and more portable than the ordinary cast or beaten iron safes. The TEETH have ever been considered as forming one of the most pleasing ornaments of the human counte nance, and their preservation demands our utmost care and attention. Indeed, if there be any loss that more particularly affects the countenance than another, it is that of the Teeth ; which the dentist, however ingenious, must ever vainly hope satisfactorily to replace by artificial con trivance. The DECAY of the TEFTH and Gums arises from various causes ; but, principally, it may be attributed to early neglect, ill health, or the use of Tooth Powders containing mineral substances and deleterious acids, which give temporary whiteness to the Teeth, while they corrode the enamel. To this fact, indeed, is principally to he attributed the long Botanical Research, which was happily terminated by the most felicitous discovery ever given to the world for the PRESERVATION of the TEETH, GligS , and BREATH, viz.,—ROWLAND'S ODONTO, o r PEARL DENTIFRICE. Prepared from Oriental Herbs with unusual care, and transmitted to this country at great expense, ROWLAND'S ODONTO is no less distin guished for its powerfully efficacious, antidotal, and puri fying virtues, in immediately arresting caries, or deca9 the Teeth, than for its stimulative properties in fill them (when loose) firmly in their sockets, and in girl ° , a healthy redness and firmness to the Gums. Its corree, tive properties are in particular most pleasingly displale.ns in respect to the BREATH—to which it imparts a swee tu Ts and fragrance not a little gratifying to its posses sor-, the the most efficient and fragrant aromatic cleanser 01 „ 4 , , s Mown!, TEETH, and Gums ever known, RowLl e d ODONTO has now for a long series of years °coil)! a nd distinguished place at the Toilets of the Sovereigtib;na Nobility throughout Europe, while the general held by for it at once announces the favour in which it is th o the public at large. It should never be forgotiThes i n when used early in life, it effectually prevents l o uration the Teeth and Gums—effaces all Spots and Disco s u re whatsoever—eradicates Scurvy—and, in a word, °U --•- sutY a li z es the chief attribute of Health and 9d. per eui e a r t t t i o c BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH ! Price 25- Box. A. engraveothers" (by a_t_..e thority) on the Government Stamp.*** others Fraudulent and The Sow, " Gn 20, Hatton-garden," Counterfeits ! ! ! a le" b r a d s en,,, the w ords A"