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Ktitptritit parlianunt. HOUSE OF LORDS -THURSDAY After the royal assent had been given by commission to several bills, The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from the University of Oxford against the ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill. His opinion, however, differed entirely from that which the petitioners had expressed, and he thought that the measure would be beneficial alike to the public and the church itself. He should give it his most cordial sup port. _ Lord KEN ON, in presenting a'petition to the same effect, regretted that he was obliged to withhold his concurrence from the sentiments which the noble duke had declared. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Bishops of DUR HAM, SALISBURY, ROCHESTER, and CHICHESTER also pre sented petitions against the bill. A conversation then ensued upon some petitions presented by Lords CHICHESTER and MOUNTEDGECUMBE against the encouragement of idolatrous practices in India, and espe cially against the employment of British officers and soldiers in such ceremonies. Lord MELBOURNE said that orders had been sent out in reference to the subject referred to, but as he was not fully informed as to the details, he must hesitate in making any statement in reference to the petitions. Lord STANLEY (of Alderley) defended his sons from an imputation which had been cast upon them of having pro cured certain persons to be appointed commissioners on the lines of mad between London and Holyhead; and after the presentation of several petitions, a short discussion took place on the Weaver churches bill. The regency bill, the turnpike trusts bill, and the assessed taxes bill, then passed through committee; and one or two other bills having been forwarded a stage, counsel were called in on behalf of the petitioners against the ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill. Mr. K. Bruce and Mr. Hope appeared, but their arguments were not concluded when the house ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TIiuRsDA/ The third reading of the Farnham rectory bill was, on the motion of Sir R. INGLIS, postponed till Monday. The house having then resolved itself into committee on the railways bill, Mr. EASTHOPE pressed the postponement of all legislation until another year should have supplied more information than the house yet possessed with respect to these important undertakings. Mr. HUME doubted the expediency of interfering in the present year ; but admitted that, as the parties enjoyed monopolies, there was not here the same objection which existed against a legislative meddling with undertakings strictly private. Sir RO BERT PEEL thought it f or t h e a d vantage, not only of the public, but of the proprietors themselves, that the sub ject should not be left unsettled till another session. The committee then proceeded with the bill, clause by clause. This lasted till a quarter before twelve o'clock. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the committee on the bill for rating stock in trade. On the question that the Speaker should leave the chair, Mr. GOULBURN objected to the principle of the bill, as exempting stock in trade, now l ega ll y li a bl e t o ra t es . H e said he had received many complaints from occupiers of pasture lands in the neighbourhood of London, and they were assessed to rates for the maintenance of, a police very little benefitting them but mainly useful for the preservation of stock in trade. The bill would be a great hardship to many occupiers, not only in parishes where it had hitherto been customary to rate stock in trade, but in other parishes also where compromises had been made under the recognised liability of such stock. He felt that it was desirable to introduce some general measure which should deal with all the difficulties of the case ; but he could not assent to one of partial operation, which suddenly altered the relative position of parties, and inflicted an especial hardship upon owners of ecclesiastical tithes. There had been two decisions at law, one of which gave a benefit to the tithe-owner, while the other imposed a burden on him. The present bill went to take away the benefit, yet left the burden unalleviated. When parliament lately commuted tithe into rent charge, they gave the tithe owner a distinct pledge that he should not thereby incur any liability to increase of burden. A tax upon tithe was a tax upon the wages of the clergyman's labour ; it formed the only instance in which labour was taxed, and yet the clergyman was ti :e only party precluded, and very pro perly, from increasing his means by any auxiliary profession br trade. If this bill were pursued, it would at least be fitting to introduce some deduction in the rate on tithe, correspond ing with the benefit of the proposed exemption to stock in trade. The poor's rate was not now confined to the relief of the poor ; it embraced a large demand for bridges, for police, and for a variety of important and expensive objects. If, then, other classes were to obtain a certain relief from that heavy impost, a proportionate relief would be extended to the tithe owner. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that, in the present com plicated state of the law, no rate at all could be made against a litigious parishioner, and that such a condition of affairs could not be suffered to continue. By the strict law, all stocks in trade are rateable, but the practical inconvenience of rating them was such, that they had been omitted in almost all the parishes of England, and the object of the present bill was to fix the general usage into a positive law. There was no distinction between the landlord and the lay tithe-owner ; and he saw no reason for any distinction be tween the lay tithe-owner and the ecclesiastical. He would oppose any attempt at, such a distinction, and all attempts to omit coal mines, gas works, and other similar classes of occu pied property. Sir E. WILMOT said, that some bill ought to pass ; but that there should be a clear definition of what constituted real property—especially with reference to machinery. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that any attempt to codify on such a subject would let in a flood of litigation. Mr. DARBY thought the question ought to be heard in all its bearings early in the ensuing session. The present bill ought to be made merely a temporary one. _ _ Mr. WOOD (of Middlesex) ascribed the whole difficulty to the circular letters of the poor law commissioners. Mr. P. SCROPk denied that there was any such equity for the tithe-owners as had been suggested by Mr. Goulburn. Mr. MUNTZ said, that as a large owner of machinery, he had been for many years in constant collision with the parish officers ; and that the law required alteration. The bill then went through committee. The Canada clergy reserves bill was reported ; and the house, at a quarter before two o'clock, proceeded to dispose of the other orders of the day. It adjourned at two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY The insolvent debtors (Ireland) bill, the soap duties bill, and the turnpike trusts bill were brought up by messengers from the House of Commons, and severally read a first time. _ _ The regency bill, the turnpike trusts bill, and the assessed taxes composition bill were read a third time and passed ; the West India relief bill, the poor law commission bill, and that relating to the continuance of the bills of exchange act, were then read a second time ; and after several petitions, both in favour of and against the ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill, had been presented, Mr. HOPE appeared at the bar in support of the petitioners against the measure. The learnedeounsel's speech occupied the attention of their lordships for some hours, and at its conclusion the second reading of the bill was fixed for Monday. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY On the order of the day for committee of supply, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE recurred to the often-repeated history of Thoro good's church-rate grievance, which he diversified by the relation of an amusing dialogue between the martyr and Sir Robert Inglis. Lord John Russell, Sir R. Peel, and others, thought it advisable that the man should be released, if his release could be legally effected, for the purpose of depriving him of that factitious consequence which he enjoyed from his assumption of the character of martyrdom. On the ex pression of their opinions, Mr. Duncombe thought it expe dient to withdraw his motion. After some animadversions by Mr. Hume, on the manner of keeping the public accounts, and a few words from Mr. Goulburn, the house, which was very thinly attended, went into committee of supply on the navy estimates. Mr. HytitE, on the vote for 2,000 additional seamen, asked some questions of Lord Palmerston about the state of affairs in the east, which questions Lord Palmerston courteously declined to answer; and Mr. Hume, a little nettled, declared that he abstained from dividing against the vote only from the consideration that a division would demonstrate the want of the 40 members requisite to make a house. Lord J. RUSSELL said, it seemed to be thought that British interference alone had prevented the existence of amicable relations between the two parts of the Turkish em pire. This was a total misapprehension, and if England and the other powers had not taken the course which they had adopted, a jealousy would have arisen of the Turkish inter position in the affairs of the Porte, which would almost inevitably have involved Europe in war. On the vote of money to defray the conveyance of mails between different parts of the Mediterranean, Colonel DAW SON DAMER, who has recently passed some time in that part of the world, proposed, that instead of carrying the mails, as at present, by contra c t s w ith i ndividuals, th government should employ armed steamers of its own. This description of marine, he observed, would be our only efficient resource in the event of any sudden outbreak of war. The French had already acted extensively upon this policy. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that what ever might be the wisest policy for France, England, from the extent of maritime capital end enterprise among her subjects, found greater advantage, and a greater probability of secure defence, in encouraging and assisting private companies for these great undertakings. He believed the general opinion to be, that private companies would manage the transit of letters and of passengers better than it could ever be done by any government. Mr. GOULBURN said the question turned, not upon mere convenience and economy in the present transmission of let ters and passengers, but upon great considerations of national defence in a sudden emergency. Captain PECHELL concurred in the suggestion of Colonel DAMER. Mr. Molex O'PERRALL said, that every contract for the conveyance of letters had been made at a rate more economi cal than that at which the same object could have been effected by the government itself. It was now provided in the contracts made by the Admiralty, that the vessels should be built in a manner which would leave them available for warlike purposes in cases of exigency. Lord INGESTRIE urged, in support of Colonel Damer's suggestion, the importance of familiarizing the officers of the navy with the practical details of steam navigation. The navy estimates having been gone through, the militia estimates succeeded; and then the remainder of the miscella neous. On a vote to the National Gallery for the purchase of pictures, Mr. HUME and Mr. EWART ingrafted a great deal of ir relevant discussion about the character and conduct of the Royal Academy ; after which Mr. GOULBURN complained of of the proposed vote of £11,300 for legal expenses incurred in the execution of the act respecting the river Shannon : and Mr. E. TENNENT suggested that these expenses had been in- creased by a job in favour of a particular solicitor, which Ministers sharply denied. The grant for the expenses incur red in suppressing the Canadian insurrection was passed with only a few words from Mr. HUME. The grant for the ex penses occasioned by the rupture with China came next, and was passed with some general explanations ‘ from th e CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and Sir J. HonstousE. On the vote of £30,000 for public education, Mr. Gout,- BURN said that the late minute of council had greatly im proved the arrangements upon this important subject. H e rejoiced th a t i t was i n hi s power , th ere fore, to concur in this grant, although he certainly should have preferred to see the object effected by a legislative measure. Mr. liumE said, that the Government bad been obliged to yield; but, however he might regret this, he would interpose no objection to the grant. Lord JouN RUSSELL expressed the satisfaction of Go vernment at having been able to concur with the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject of inspection, and trusted that there would now be au improvement in the quality as well as in the quantity of the national education. Mr. LANGDALE lamented the uninstructed state of the lower Irish in the metropolis, almost all of whom were Roman Catholics. They were left uneducated when chil dren, and when adults they were thrust into gaol for offences the consequence of that want of education. Even in the gaols they had no religious instruction from clergy of their own faith. They could obtain it only by apostacy. Instead prisons, you sh ou ld i nv i te of excluding the priest from your him to visit them. Mr. ROCHE con erred in the opinion of Mr. Langdale. Mr. BAINES asked whether the veto of the Archbishop upon the inspector was to extend to the schools of dissenters. To which - - Lord J. RUSSELL answered, that an inspector, constituted for the schools of the Church of England, would not inspect tie schßli 01 dinontan, orbera Any oWestion on their part might (mist Against ilia performing that function. Two or three other grants were allowed to pass, at a quarter after 1, on the understanding that the discussion of them should be taken on the report ; but, on the vote of money to build a hall for the General Assembly of Scotland, Mr. GILLON, much against the inclination of the house, persisted in making a speech. This was the last of the esti mates, and the report was fixed for Monday. Adjourned. HOUSE OF OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY The regency bill was brought from the Lords. It was not, however, read the first time. The committee on the churches' discipline bill was defer red, in consequence of what Mr. WARBURTON deemed ob jectionable provisions—provisions that leave clergymen too much at the mercy of their superiors, without power of ap peal to their peers. Mr. F. MAuLE admitted that debateable bills ought not to be pressed at a Saturday's sitting. The committee was named for Thursday. Mr. Fox MAuLi withdrew, for the present session, the bill regarding the employment of dogs as animals of draught or burden. The Blenheim Palace repairs bill was read the third time and passed. The infant felons' education bill, on motion of Mr. Fox MAIILE, was read the second time, and ordered to be consi dered in committee on Monday. .......,. On motion of Lord J. RussaLL, the slave trade treaties bill went through committee; and on the motion of Lord PALMERSTON, the slave trade (Venezuela) bill was read the second time. The house having, on the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, resolved into committee on the sugar excise duties bill, Mr. EWART objected to its provisions, as being calculated to impose additional restrictions on the manufacture of sugar in this country. Mr. HAWES added, that it would also have the effect of very seriously injuring our fruit growers. On the motion of Mr. E. J. STANLEY, the metropolis improvement bill, " No. 1," was reported, arid ordered to be read the third time on Wednesday. The fisheries bill (regarding the long-disputed questions between the French and English fishermen) was read the third time and passed. The notices of elections bill. on the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, went through committee pro forma :—the report to be considered on Monday. Dr. Nrcuou. stated, in reference to the case of John Thorogood, that, according to law, not only is payment of the demand requisite, but compliance with the claim for sub mission ; nothing short, indeed. of submission to the law can procure the prisoner's liberation: The submission required is to appear in court, and recognise its authority. It such a course were neglected, he undertook to say that should Thorogood appear before the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets (Dr. Lushington), that learned judge could not liberate him. Lord J. RUSSELL observed that he had understood the Attorney-General's opinion to be, that the churchwardens could make such an application as would have the effect of securing the release of John Thorogood ; but he would in quire whether he had correctly understood his hon. and learned friend. If it should appear that Dr. Nichol' was right, then his lordship submitted it would be for the house to determine whether it might not be advisable to bring in some short bill extending the act (Sir E. Sugden's) regarding contempts in chancery to cases like Thorogood's. The house then adjourned. COURT CIRCULAR.-SATURDAY Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, arrived at Buckingham Palace, at half-past. four o'clock, yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four, with outriders in scarlet liveries, escorted by a party of lancers, from Windsor Castle. The Hon. Colonel Cavendish, clerk-marshal, and Colonel Bouverie, equerry to Prince Albert, occupied a chariot and four. Two open carriages and four also followed, containing the Coun tess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, and Countess d'Oraison ; and Lord Byron, Hon. William Cowper, and General Colbert. Her Majesty was received at the palace by the Earl of Belfast, vice -chamberlain, and the Earl of Surrey, treasurer of the household. The royal standard was hoisted immediately on the marble arch. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at Bucking ham Palace. The company consisted of their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Nemours ; Mon. Guizot, the French ambassador ; Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese minister ; Baron GersdoriT, the Saxon minister ; the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham, the Duke of Wellington, Marquis and Marchioness of Lans downe, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl of Liver pool, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Earl of Erroll, Earl of Surrey, Lord and Lady Seymour, Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Countess ofd'Oraison, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Byron, Hon. William Cowper, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, General Colbert, and Mr. Francis Seymour, The band of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards at tended at the palace during the evening. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived at Ingestrie House, Belgrave-square, at half-past two o'clock yesterday morning, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's, from the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir William J. Newton with a sitting, yesterday, for the coronation picture, which he is painting upon a large surface of ivory. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—This morning, at half-past two o'clock, the Queen and Prince Albert, with their distinguished visiters and suite, proceeded from the castle to the Home Park to witness the review of the Ist regiment of life guards and the 2d rifle brigade ; both regiments were under the com mand of Col. frown. The royal party proceeded to the ground in the following order :—Pony phaeton and four.— The Queen and the Duchess de Nemours. Pony phaeton and four—Countess of Surrey, Countess d'Oraison, and Lady Mount Edgecumbe. Pony phaeton and four—Lord Robert Grosvenor and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. Pony phaeton and four—Lady Robert Grosvenor and Lady Mary Howard. Pony phaeton and four—Lord Byron and the Hon. Misses Paget and Anson. Prince Albert, the Duke de Nemours, the Marquis of Conyngham, and Lord Duncannon rode on horseback. After the review, which lasted upwards of two hours, the royal party returned to the castle in the same state they came on the ground. Shortly after two o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, left the castle, for town, under an escort of the Ist life guards, commanded by Lord Robert Clinton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the whole of the distinguished visiters and suite, took their departure in the course of the afternoon. COURT CIRCULAR. -M ONDAY The Queen held a court on Saturday afternoon, at Buck ingham Palace. Count Bjornstjerna, Envy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Sweden, had an audience of her Majesty to deliver a letter. Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary from the King of Bavaria, had au audience of the Queen, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign. Count de Pollon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Sardinia, and from his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, had an audience of her Ma jesty. Baron de Moncorvo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from her most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves, had an audience of her Majesty to deliver a letter from his Sovereign. Their excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The court was attended by the Hon. William Cowper, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The service for the evening was read by the Rev. Messr. Pack man and Barham. The musical service was Travers in F. The anthem was " In Jewry is God known," arranged by J. B. Sale. Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. The Dean of Hereford was the deputy clerk of the closet in waiting. The roy a l su it e consisted of Lady Barham, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Byron, Earl of Morley, Earl of Surrey, Hon. William Cowper, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Seymour. After attending the service, her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, took an airing in an open carriage and four. The Hon. Col. Cavendish and Colonel Bouverie attended the royal party on horseback. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, and attended by Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, C oun t ess D'O ra i son , L or d B yron , E ar l of Surrey, Hon. W. Cowper, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and General Colbert, honoured the Italian opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences of the Queen on Saturday. Her Majesty and the Duchess de Nemours took an airing, on Saturday afternoon, in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert and the Duke de Nemours rode out on horseback at the same time. The Hon. Colonel Cavendish was in attend ance on the Queen, on horseback ; and Colonel Bouverie and Count Colbert attended their royal highnesses. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours attended Divine Service, yesterday morning, at the French Chapel, in George street, Portman-square. Countess D'Oraison and General Colbert were in waiting on their royal highnesses. Saturday was the birthday of the Duchess of Cambridge. Her royal highness received visits of congratulation in the course of the day from their royal highnesses Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, (attended by Countess d'Oraison and Count Colbert). In the after noon the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by Lady Augusta So merset, paid a visit to the Queen, at Buckingham Palace. The foreign ministers and many of the nobility called during the day, ,at Cambridge House, and left their names for the royal duchess. The answer given yssterday, to the nobility, at Clarence House, St. James's, was "The Princess Augusta has had some refreshing sleep during the night, and is rather better The Duchess of Kent, the D uc h ess of Gloucester, Sophia Matilda, and the D u k e of Cambridge, Saturday. visited her royal highness on theto to-day" Princess The litichess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dnndas, and the Princess Sophia Matilda, attended by Miss Coates, visited the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours (attended by Countess d ()raison) visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Ingestre House, Belgrave square. The Princess Sophia Matilda paid a visit to the royal duchess on Saturday. mo T r h n e in, Duke G eof ro Cambridge attended divine service yesterday The Lord Mayor haCdhaanpeallidSioeunteheAlbert on A o u f d I p e r y i - n s c t e r e et. Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Ne mours hono ure d M r. Ross, A.R.A., with final sittings for their miniatures, on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge took an airing yesterday after noon, to Kew. The Commerce says that ten of the rabbis who were accused of the murder of Father Thomas, at Damascus, have been released, and that only one, Antebbi, remains in prison. THE NEW HOUSES op PA RLIAMENT.—M r . Charles Barry, the architect of the new houses, has had several in terviews with Viscount Duncanuon and the Hon. Mr. Com missioner Charles Gore, on the subject of l a yi ng the founda tion-stone of the buildings for the ords and Commons, and it has, we understand, been definitively arranged that the ceremony is to be postponed until early in the ensuing year, when it will be laid by her Majesty. Mr. Barry stated to the commissioners that the houses will be completed by the corn mencement of thesessionofleBm44p.loy'erd underheworktmheenc,oonftrwachtoomrs there are nearly 500 are still in constructing the speakers house, usher of the black rod's, and parliamentary offices, which by the end of the present year will, in the opinion of the architect, be 29 or 30 feet from the basement.—Times. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. (From the Morning Herald of Saturday.) We have just received the following official intelligence, by extraordinary express, from our correspondent at Paris : " PARIS, Thursday Evening, Nine o'clock.—Though the postcript to my letter of to-day announced the important in telligence received from Barcelona, I do not hesitate to send you an extraordinary express, with the Moniteur Parisien of this evening, as I consider the official confirmation of that news too valuable to be a moment delayed from your readers. " The .Moniteur Parisien, just published, says— " ' Government has received from Perpignan telegraphic despatches of the 21st and 22d, 'which give the following news from Barcelona : " On the 18th Espartero, after vain efforts to force the Queen to revoke the sanction given to the law on the muni cipalities, announced that he would leave the city. " Van Halen, sent for, arrived at Barcelona at the same time with Ayerbe and Carbo, whose divisions are cantoned in the neighbourhood. " In the evening a bloody tumult took place, and the military force, disclaiming the authority of ministers, did not prevent these disorders. " Espartero returned to the palace. obtained the revoca tion of the sanction given to the bill, and the formation of a new ministry. lie re-armed the battalions called •` the Blouse," and it is said that he named as president of the new ministry, Onis or Campuzano. " Barcelona is in the greatest excitement. The Queen Regent is incensed. M. Perez de Castro, the General Cleonard, and others of the old cabinet, took refuge on board the. French brig, the Meleagre. They arrived at Port Ven dres on the 22d. " Our ambassador, the Count de la Redorte, who left on the 21st, learnt this sad news at sea. Government for warded to him to-day such instructions as are rendered.ne cessary by this change of circumstances.' " RUSSIA It seems to be certain that the Emperor of Russia, after the reviews of the Guards are ended, will return to Poland, and then go to the southern provinces of the empire. The following statement of the amount of the troops assembled there, since the camp at Bordino, is given from an authentic source. Immediately in the vicinity of the Turkish frontiers and of the Black Sea, about 50,000 men were assembled. Of these from 15,000 to 20,000 men may have by this time been landed on the Circassian coast. Along the frontiers of the principalities in Poland, and in the interior of the southern province, about 150,000 men were cantoned. A part of these is already appioaching the frontier to take up the position of those that have been sent to Circassia, and to be in readiness to act in case events at Constantinople should render it ne cessary. TURKEY TURKISH FRONTIERS, JULY 5.—A letter from Bucharest of the 27th June states that the changes in the Divan at Constantinople, and the late events in Servia, bane induced Prince Milosch to give up his intended journey to Vienna, and he will for the present remain in Wallachia to watch attentively the further course of events in Servia, because he may be called upon as mediator and peacemaker, and may even.be applied to for that purpose by the supreme and pro tecting powers, because the call for him is becoming more and more general in Servia; others, however, affirm that Prince Milosch will, not set out on his journey. because he fears that when riZ has once quitted the Wallachian territory he will not be allowed to return to it. Letters from Constantinople say that the prospect of a direct arrangement between the Porte and Mehemet Ali is becoming more and more probable—that perhaps the only point in dispute is the territory of Arduna, and that it is not doubted that Mehemet Ali will be induced to give it up. Lord Ponsonby, indeed, continues to urge the Porte not to renounce Syria, and very ably adduces as an argument the new insurrection in Syria • but this will probably be already quelled when Sarni Effendi comes out of quarantine, and the negotiations begin to be more serious. A. mercantile letter from Constantinople says that Khos rew Pacha has been ordered by the Sultan to put himself at the head of the caravan which is to convey the annual pre sents from the Sultan to Mecca.. It is said that the only object of this is to remove the old fox to a distance from the capital, where he is supposed to be the soul of continued Intl igues. The Sultan's commissioner, Musa Effendi, who arrived on the 26th of June at Alt Orsonda, on board the Argo steamboat, has a suite of 20 persons. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BRISTOL. AND EXETER RAILWAY.—This important line is proceeding steadily, though slowly, onwards, and will shortly be receiving important benefit from the opening of the Great Western line ; the completion of which must turn public attention to this railway. Although the shares have been low, it is our firm belief that the time is not distant when they will be a favourable investment, and fetch high premiums.—Bristol Standard. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We are informed that notwithstanding the fall of the three arches at the terminus in Temple Meads, the probability is, that the line will be opened between this city and Bath by the 16th of next month, as intended by the directors. The falling in of these ' arches was produced by an immense weight placed on them to test their solidity. They are being rapidly replaced. The scene at the terminus is one of stirring industry, and when completed it will be a magnificent piece of architecture. The style is Elizabethan to accord with the older buildings of Bristol, and all the internal arrangements promise to be of the most complete character. There will be a long shed with a beautifully modelled cast-iron gothic roof of 120 feet span, supported with 80 hollow pillars of great height, connected by cast-iron gothic arches, under which the passengers will proceed to and from the several trains. The ground in Tem ple Meads is now almost wholly covered, and the extent of the terminus, into which the Exeter line will run, and most probably the line from Gloucester also, may be estimated from the fact, that nearly twelve acres are occupied by The appearance of the various portions of the line from this to Bath is very favourable, the embankments, bridges, &c., being in good condition. The oblique bridge across the Avon at Bath near the old bridge, is being built of trussed wood like the bridge near the Cotton Works. When we look to the approaching termination of this magnificent effort of enterprise and skill, we feel not a little pride in being fellow citizens of the public-spirited individuals who formed the plan and carried out the design of this, the noblest work of the kind in this country. This line of railway, we are confident, will take the lead of all the other great lines. In comparing the present amount of traffic, though now but partially open, with that of the London and Birmingham, long since in full work, it will be found that the receipts show that the Great Western has considerably an excess of passenger traffic. And if we compare the receipt of the Great Western line partially opened to Steventon or Read ing, it is seen that for the first six months after the London and Birmingham line was opened throughout its length of 112 miles, the comparative return per mile per week of the Great Western was greater than that of the London and Bir mingham line. It must also be borne in mind, and it is no trifling matter, that the Birmingham line passes through but few towns, being supported principally by the towns at a dis tance and beyond its terminus, while the Great Western takes Reading, Marlborough, Cheltenham, and Bath, and will derive much traffic from the populous clothing districts of Wilts, Gloucestershire, and Somerset. —Bristol Standard. It is expected the Manchester and Leeds Railway will be opened throughout the entire length in the month of Novem ber next. RAILWAY FROM LEEDS TO BRADFORD.—There is ano ther scheme in embryo to construct a railway from here to Leeds, and we understand that a survey of the country through which it is proposed to carry it is now going on. The line thought of is quite different from those previously contemplated, and if our information be correct, is in most respects superior. The gradients are more eligible, the dis tance shorter—shorter even than the turnpike road—and though a tunnel of some length will be required, there is rea son to suppose that in making this tunnel an abundant sup ply of good water may be obtained for the use of the town.— Leeds Intelligencer. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A viaduct over the valley of the River Dane, of dimensions nearly as gigantic as the one over the valleys on each side of the river Mersey, in this town, is about to be contracted for on the line of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, between Wilmslow and Crewe. It will ha ve 24 arches, of 63 feet span each, at an elevation of about 80 feet, and will be up wards of 1700 feet in length. There will be but little dif ference between the one here and the one over the Dane, ex cept that the former has 26 arches, and the latter 24, with an altitude of several feet less. We suppose the cost will be much the same ; the one here being, we believe, £BO,OOO. — Stockport Advertiser. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—We understand the negotiation between this Company and the Great Western for the leasing of the line has every prospect of terminating mutually advantageous to both parties. It is said thEt a novel mode will be had recourse to in the disposal of the for feited shares. Whatever sum may have been paid on them they are to be pro raid distributed, as if £4O had been paid on them, gratuitously among the shareholders who shall have paid up £5O, the present amount of calls, by the next half yearly meeting, on their own proper shares. It is considered that this will be far preferable to any preference share scheme. For when shares are offered at a discount the loss goes out of the punctual shareholder's pocket, and if he cannot or does not choose to take the discount shares allotted to him, into that of the speculator, whereas by the proposed plan what comes out of the punctual shareholder's pocket, in the way of difference between the amount paid on each share and £4O, will return to it by the allotment, and there will be no difficulty in receiving shares that are given to him—Railway Times. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) PROMOTIONS. The Duke of Sutherland has, been pleased to appoint the Rev. Thomas James R ows ell, B.A. o f S t . John its College, Cambridge, and assistant minister of St. Mark's, Kenning ton, to be his grace's domestic chaplain. Rev. B. Young, M.A. to the vicarage of Tuddenham St. Martin, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. W. Fonnereau. Rev. James Cutting Safford, B.A. vicar of Mettingham, to the perpetual curacy of Ilketshall St. Laurence, Suffolk. Rev. W. M. Dudley, B.A. of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, curate of Poole, has been licensed by the Bishop of Winches ter, to the curacy of Broughton, Hants. Rev. Henry Vane, B.D. fellow of Dulwich College, clerk of the closet to her majesty, and domestic chaplain to Lord Holland, to be dean of Durham, in the room of the late bishop of St. David's. Re;r. E. Baines, fellow of Christ's College, Cam bridge, to the rectory of Clipstone, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Hanley. Rev. James F. Roberts, M.A. of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the rectory of Llandulas, Denbighshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. L. Roberts ; patron, the bishop of St. Asaph. Rev. G. A. Clarkson, M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Amberley, with Houghton Chapel, void by the cession of the Rev. J. C. P. Tuffnell ; patron the bishop of Chichester. Rev. C. Burne, B.C.L. has been licensed by the bishop of Exeter to the perpetual curacy of of the Chapel of St. Luke, Wear, on the nomination of the Rev. H. Thorp, incumbent of Topsham, patron thereof. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) The Rev. Connop Thirlwall, formerly fellow of Trinity College, in this university, has been appointed the new bishop of St. David's. The Rev. Robert Beauchamp Tower, B.A. domestic chap lain to Lord Western, has been instituted to the rectory of Moreton, Essex, vacant by the appointment of the Rev. H. Pepys, to the see of Sodor and Man. This living is rightfully in the patronage of the master and fellows of St. John's Col lege, in this university, but it lapsed to the crown by the ele vation of Dr_. Pepys tc) the episcopal bench. The Rev. Robert Llewellyn Caley, of St. John's College, was omitted in the list of masters of arts created oncoin_ mencement Tuesday. — YTS. Ackland, Esq. B.A. of St. John's- College, in this university, has been appointed senior mathematical master of the Royal Institution school, Liverpool. The King of Greece has, it is said, lately had a narrow escape from drowning in the attempt to ford a rivulet. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, we under stand, have made arrangements to pass the ensuing winter at Naples. THE UNITED STATES By the packet-ship Patrick Flenry we have repeived New York papers to the Bth instant, inclusive. The following are the most important extracts STATE OF TRADE. NEW YORK, JULY 6. The past week hag evinced no increase of animation in the different markets. The foreign imports continue very limited ; in fact, as there are no orders abroad, and the state of our markets give no margin to the enterprise of foreign merchants, we cannot reasonably expect any great increase of imports. The receipts of produce from the interior con tinue large. Our canals are sending quantities of broadatuffs heretofore unparalleled. The following is the official report of the canal collection, at Buffalo, for the month of June, as compared with the receipts of the same month last year The amount of the Buffalo Flour and Wheat cleared, and toll received at the Buffalo-office, in the month of June, 1839 and 1840, is as follows : Us. flour. bushels wheat 115,104 114,951 51,722 135,071 toll. dol. 54,855,48 33,769,14 Increase, dol. 21,076,U The receipts of cotton. at all the ports of the United States, have been large, and, although the shipping of the United States have made but small freights home, the freights out were never better, and the voyages out and home have made an exceedingly good average. The prospect for the shipping interest is, however, not very flattering, after the present crop shall have been sent forward. Freights are already be coming less firm. _ CorroN.—The cotton market during the week has been moderately active, without any great alteration in prices. The southern markets are getting heavy as the season advances. At some points the price has declined, and at others advanced. The following is a table of sales, stock, prices and remarks, at the different points, for the week previous to the date affixed. July. Stock. Sales. Prices. Remarks. New York.... 3 16,500 New Orleans 24 102,517 19,000 51 a 111 advance * Mobile Montgomery l5 2,200 Columbia Augusta JP 25 7,000 600 6 a 9*. firm Hamburgb.. Savannah .. 26 10,515 607 6* a9l decline 4 Charleston 26 10 , 808 2,114 6f a 9- 1 - „ a NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 29 The weather is dry, clear, and warm bince the rain : it is every thing that the planter could wish. New cotton will begin to arrive at New Orleans next month. Planters will be free sellers, as, by some, the crop is estimated at 2,500,000 bales. There is more planted than last year. The overflow has done so, little harm that it is not worth noticing. THE CC:4I'ON IN THE MISSISSIPPI.—We are to learn, that the cotton prospects are grand, almost beyond parallel, in MiSsissippi. Both on high grounds and on river bottoms the growth has been astonishingly rapid ; and, if serene, dry weather should come on, as expected, great quan tities f cotton will be picked in Adams County, and in the parish of Concordia, opposite side of the river, in the month of July. The cotton crop is the main stay of old Mississippi, and a good crop this year, with the increase of prices por-. tended, will straighten many a " crooked cane" in the for tunes of the cotton state_ ; especially as we are likely to lose little this year by the bank swindlers. (From the New York Daily Express.) _ . There has seldom been a period when the amount of unem ployed capital has been as great as it is at present,—and yet there is a most extraordinary inconsistency in all this matter. The Banks have large, uncommonly large balances remaining with them. The amount of specie in their vaults is at least five times their circulation, or five dollars for one. The rate of Exchange on all parts of the world, and particularly all parts of our own country, is most decidedly in favour of New York. So abundant is money, that first-rate merchants' paper has been and still can be discounted under six per cent. per annum. New York State Stocks, bearing an interest of five and a half per cent. sells by auction at par. The Banks have not near as much good paper offered to them as they would gladly discount, and yet, with all this superabundance of un employed capital, strange to say, loans on the very best secu rity—that which ought to be preferred to all others—cannot be made without great difficulty; and only to a limited extent : we mean mortgage security. There is every reason why this kind of security should be preferred to all others. Real Es tate will not and cannot disappear. CANADA The Unicorn steam-packet arrived at Quebec on the 29th ult., in 80 hours, from Halifax, for the purpose of conveying the Governor General and suite to Halifax. The Governor arrived from Montreal the same evening, "and was received," says a correspondent of the Montreal Herald, " by a guard of honor, and by a number of citizens, silently but respect fully." Great numbers of the citizens and the garrison of Quebec crowded the ramparts, the citadel and the wharfs, when the Unicorn was coming in. " All seemed anxious," says the Quebec Gazette," to get a sight of this precursor of the line of steamers which is to introduce so important a change in the communications of the North American provinces with Europe and between each other, and every one was delighted again to meet a friend and old acquaintance in Captain Doug las. Just after the Unicorn came to the wharf a royal salute was fired from the citadel in honour of Her Majesty's coro nation, suiting well two joyous occasions." (From the Montreal Courier.) We beg to point attention to an article under the commer cial head, extracted from a Buffalo paper, respecting the large quantity of American wheat, making its way into Upper Canada, for transmission to England, in the form of flour. The Americans, very naturally, want to have the advantage of the carrying trade, with all the profits of shipping; ware housing, &c., for so much of the important supply of bread stuffs to the British community, as seasons of scarcity admit of; and they are desirous of getting the same import duty placed upon Canadian imported flour, as is at present levied upon the article in England, when coming from a port belonging to the United States. Our neighbours are ob viously fully awake to the advantages of this carrying trade by the St. Lawrence, and we cannot but regret that acttve measures should not be taken to bring on the enormous glut of flour now lying at Kingston for shipment. This stoppage paralyses the trade to its source. We know not what good reason there can be against the construction of temporary flat-boats for the purpose, such as are used on the Mississippi, and as were formerly in vogue upon similar emergencies, upon this very route. MONTE VIDEO Dates from Monte Video are to the 27th April. General Lavalle had beaten and entirely dispersed the Buenos Ayrean under Echegue. General Rosas had accepted the Presidency for six months only. Flour was quoted at 19 dollars. Ex change 45d. Another emission of twelve millions funds at 60 per cent. was sanctioned, which caused 'a further depreciation of the currency, although the emission does not take place immediately, but in all the year, as may be required. Doubloons were sold at 360 dollars currency each. The quantity of hides held by German houses alone, was estimated at 450,000, besides many other large parcels by other foreign houses. The quantity of wool, skins, and other produce also very large, and sufficient to load two hundred and fifty or more average sized vessels. THE HEALTH OF THE NAVY (From the Morning C h ronicle.) We have received infinite gratification by statistical reports on the health of the• navy, for the years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836, from the South American, West Indian and North American, Mediterranean, and Peninsular commanders, ordered by the House of Commons to he printed 2d March, 1840. The improvement in the health of seamen of late years is so surprisingly great as almost to stagger belief. On the West Indian► and North American station, for instance, the mortality for 1836 was only at the rate of 72 per cent., little more than semen per thousand of mean force of squadron. In latitudes with respect to which the notion of great un healthiness is associated, it appears that in the navy, in consequence of excellent arrangements, the mortality is actually less than in England. The changes in the system of the navy which have led to these results only began in 1797. " It cannot be questioned," says Dr. Wilson, in a well written introduction, " that the abundant and excellent pro visions supplied to ships of war, contributed largely to the high degree of health now enjoyed in the Royal Navy. For merly a ship of war was, on many accounts, an .object of aversion : destructive disease under various forms, being one. Scurvy, putrid ulcer, malignant dysentery, and fever allied to that of gaOls, suddenly swept off the greater por tions of many ships' crews, and well nigh depopulated fleets. Many causes, no doubt, concurred to occasion those mala dies ; but in the production of the first and worst, the most fertile and constant, was insufficient nutrition, resulting from scanty and unwholesome food. It is matter of sur prise not less than of regret now, that the pervading agency which led to such disastrous results on health in those days, should not have been known, or, if suspected, was not counteracted. Till the year 1796, scurvy continued to in fest the fleet, to cripple its power by the number it affected, and in many instances to produce a large amount of mor tality. In 1797 the victualling was changed, greatly im proved, and strictly regulated; and consequent, immediately to the change, the health of seamen improved strikingly. Scurvy, typhus fever, dysentery, and ulcer, which up to the period of change had produced great havoc, became compara tively rare in occurrence and. light in impression. Some ships in particular circumstances suffered from one or more of those diseases ; but the sweeping epidemics of former years, which often rendered individual ships, and sometimes entire fleets totally ineffective, became unknown. Since 1797, various improvements have been introduced into the victual ing of the navy ; such as giving cocoa in lieu of gruel (burgo) for breakfast, issuing salt meat at a much earlier period after beingeurea, thesuppltof better articles, and the substitu tion of tea for the afternoon allowance of spirits ; and with every improvement in these respects, as a general result has there been further improvement in health, till the four forms of disease at no distant date so destructive, are scarcely known except by name." . . One of the means of improving the health of the seamen, which has been resorted to with admirable effect, is the es tablishment of libraries on board her Majesty's ships. The healthful state of the mind is necessary to the healthful state of the body, and without agreeable mental occupation, the mind necessarily droops. " By an admiralty order, dated August 1838, libraries are directed to be established in each of her Majesty's ships, for the use of the crew, furnished at the public expense, and placed in the charge of the schoolmaster. The books, amount ing to 270 volumes for large, and 100 for smaller ships, ex clusive of bibles, are judiciously chosen, with the view of combining amusement and instruction, and making the first. subsidiary to the last. Besides the accomplished men now appointed to instruct the junior officers, it is further directed by an order from the Ad m iralty, May, 1837, that a fit person shall be appointed to give elementary education, comprehend ing reading, writing, and arithmetic, to the sailor boys, and other seamen and marines, who may require it." Boring for coal in many parts of the North Riding of York shire has commenced, and in some instances that valuable mineral has been found, and at no great depth from the sur face. COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPERS.—We inserted a paragraph, last week, extracted from the Derry Journal, stating that a Mr. Jackson, cf Moy, Ireland, had in his possession a very large and curious collection of about 800 copies of different papers. We have since been informed that a gentleman in our own imm e di a t e neighbourhood, Mr. P. L. Simmonds, of Chichester, Sussex, has collected in the progress of a work on which he is engaged, treating of the history of newspapers of every country, a much larger and more valuable collection, amounting nearly to 5,000 separate numbers of different papers, from almost every island and country on the face of the globe, in addition to many old and very curious foreign and other files. So valuable has this large collection of news papers been deemed for the illustration of contemporaneous commercial enterprise, and comparative civilization of diffe rent countries, that the trustees of the British Museum have concluded an arrangement with Mr. Simmonds for the pur chase of his collection, and a large portion has already been transferred to the library of that public institution for the benefit of posterity." The work on newspapers, on which Mr. Simmouds is engaged, will, we feel convinced, from the research and labour which he has bestowed upon it, and the popularity of the subject, prove of a very useful and interest ing description.—Salisbury and Wiltshire Herald. COURT OF REVlRW,,,g4vvapxy EX PARTE BATESQN, IN RE WOTHERSPOON In this case an important question arose under the statute of limitations. The petition was presented by the assignees of the bankrupt, who was a broker at Liverpool, praying for an order of the court to expunge a proof of £1,656, made by the assignees of Messrs. Fletcher,• Roscoe, and Company, who were formerly bankers at Liverpool. In 1830, the bankrupt was in partnership with a person named Donald son, since deceased, and a composition was accepted by their creditors, of ss. in the pound. Alessrs. Fletcher and Roscoe were at the same time creditors to a large amount, and were paid £220 on account of the composition, which amounted to £440. They sent a letter to the bankrupt, stating that they would sign a release in full on the payment of the second instalment, which instalment, however, had never been paid. In 1832, the Messrs. Fletcher and Roscoe failed, and, in 1836, the present bankrupt acknowledged the composition sum in writing, and in 1839 sent a check for .£lOO, requesting it to be placed to his balance, and to be sent a receipt as part payment' made on the sum agreed to be taken as the composition. The assignees of the bankers refused to give the receipt required, and had proved under the fiat against Mr. Wotherspoon, for the original debt with interest, and hence arose the present petition. Mr. ANDERSON (with Mr. DIxoN.) for the petitioners, contended that the assignees of the bankers, who were the respondents, could only prove for the balance of the compo sition sum, and cited cases to show that an acknowledgment of a debt, without a promise to pay a particular sum, would not carry more than nominal damages. Mr. SWANSTON (with Mr. SHARP) urged for the re spondents, that as the composition had not been paid, the original debt still existed. There was only one debt, and the payments had been made on the sum on which a composition had been proposed, but never carried into operation. Mr. ANDERDON said this was a very important question, and the recent decisions in the courts at Westminster had established the principle under Lord Tenterden's act, that a party must, in addition to acknowledging the debt in writing, state the sum he would pay, and the bankrupt's letters had reference to the composition. Sir GEORGE RosE was of opinion (which he expressed in an early stage of the argument) that the original debt was in force by the letters, and therefore the proof was a valid one. Sir Joitx CROSS reserved his opinion until the case had been fully argued, and then held that the letters had refer ence to the original sum, inasmuch as though one referred to the composition, yet, that as it had not been paid, there was but one debt—the original sum. The COURT dismissed the petition, with costs, ont of the bankrupt's estate. COMMERCIAL POLICY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE. (From the M9rnig The discussion ably opened by Lord Sandon on Wednesday last upon the disastrous results of the commercial policy, or rather the monstrous impolicy, of the foreign office, has naturally excited considerable attention in the trading circles of the city, where, although every merchant front experience in his own business could produce substantial comment from his ledger on the scandalous ignorance and incapacity of Lord Palmerston, yet few or none had conceived, or had the means or time for, estimating, the items of the long bill of costs in all other ilepaftments of trade, as well as his own, which is saddled on the nation as a yearly and increasing charge of pains and penalties resulting from the faults and follies of the same special quarter. The list is sufficiently lengthy and the materials abundant all the world over where British commerce extends and used to flourish, in proof of the same mischievous consequences found everywhere equally to result from the one radical vice of the administration of foreign affairs. From the strenuous efforts made out of as well as in the House of Commons to gloss over and patch up the blundering system of foreign misrule it will be the more useful, if not edifying, to diffuse as widely as possible the bill of particulars of damage so far as presented by Lord Sandon on the one occasion only referred to, and which might readily be swelled, were it not startling enough by itself, with sundry large additions under other heads, such for example as the losses incurred by the infraction of the indemnity treaty with Spain. The following is the summary ready at hand and arranged in the Courier. First, then, the amount of British property in duresse and daily deterioration at Buenos Ayres, by the blockade, is for three years challenged as above The annual interest upon which lost without chance of indemnity .. Requiring, besides, for the preservation of the perishable articles of which composed, an out lay per annum of British eipital embarked and locked up in local funds there, 5,000,000 dollars, or more than In the National Bank there capital invested for 2,000,000 of dollars more, or nearly 500,000 Involved besides in Monte Video All which we are told is depreciated, extra of the outlay required, " one-fifteenth" in value. The case of Portugal comes next, where three years ago a differential duty of 15 per cent. was imposed in favour of goods shipped in Portuguese vessels from British ports. The effect is thus stated : In 1838, Portuguese vessels shipping cargoes from Liverpool, two cargoes worth In the same year, of British vessels, 70 cargoes of which 887,000 In 1839, when the duty began to tell, of Portuguese. vessels 40 cargoes 292,000 Cargoes sent the same year by British vessels fell to 509,000 Spain, moreover, a sister pet with Portugal of Lord Pal merston, imposed discriminating duties on various articles borne in British shipping, varying from 30 to 200 per cent. by way of favouring national vessels. Let us see how these operate in respect of Havannah alone, and as between that port and Liverpool. The duties come into operation in 1834. In 1839 six British vessels carried to Havannah, of British goods Eleven vessels of other nations Spanish vessels In 1834, the exports from Liverpool to Havannah, in British vessels, reached in nominal value to.. £382,724 In 1833 the amount declined to. 205,202 1836 to 1837 to 1838 to 61,487 1839 the amount fell to Such are the downard commercial achievements of Lord Palmerston in respect of British shipping ; on turning to his patronage of Spanish, we arrive at the following consumma tion of results : In 1834 cargoes carried out in Spanish bottoms were in value. In 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 £13,204 123,602 264,928 279,278 318,534 269,106 Facts and figures illustrative like these of the sinister somnambulism or destructive dallying of the Foreign Office need no comment, and none shall we offer. To this list, long as it is, must be added another grievance of the same• quality on the side of Mexico, the amount of which cannot be so conveniently reduced to, the shape of profit and loss account in figures. " In the first place, he had to remark that a short time ago he had called the attention of the noble lord to the cir cu►nstance of Mexico having imposed upon British goods in some instances a duty of 100 per cent.. without that notice of six months to which they were entitled by the tariff. The attention of the noble lord had been called to this circum atance in the month of February in this year. He could assure the house that great injury had been done to British manufactures by this. The last time he had referred to this subject, he had desired to know whether the noble lord had issued instructions, and what remedy had been provided for the evil that had been done. What than did he find? That it was not until two months after that An order had been sent off, and the consequence was that he hoard great complaints of the British merchants and British manufacturers against the noble lord for not at once taking steps that were neees sary, and even yet they were not aware what the tone of remonstrance had been. Now, in connection with this point, and with regard to the duties imposed in 1837 by Mexico in a similar manner, they had received the assurance of the noble lord, that as to the Mexican government, it would re store the excess of duties that had been levied by it. They were told this ; they were assured of this, and yet no reim bursement had taken place. That, then, was a grievance of three years' standing.' THE WEATHER AND CROPS CARLISLE.—The weather in this neighbourhood continues very unfavourable to the crops.—Carlisle `Patriot. PRESTON.---The almost daily prevalence of heavy showers of rain greatly retards the progress of the hay harvest, the crops of which, generally speaking, are found to be cutting somewhat light. Wheats are now generally in ear, and as well as oats and barley, are looking well; but in this neigh bourhood they are not as heavy crops as in the early part of the season was expected. Turnips promise a very abundant and good crop.—Preston Chronicle. LEEDS.—Since our last, the weather has been extremely showery, and though occasionally warm, has not been near so sultry as during the previous week. This unsettledness of the temperature bgins to excite considerable apprehensions for the harvest ; but if the weather should happen to be fine and dry during the next and subsequent weeks no great alarm need be felt as to the state of the crops. Our correspondents from various quarters represent the stocks as looking ex tremely good and promising. A little hot weather is all now wanted to make them ready for the sickle . .—Leeds Intellig. NEWCASTLE.—The state of the weather has become the most important of all topics ; and certainly a much longer continuance of rain cannot fail to create'uneasiness. So far as this district is concerned, there is, generally speaking, a fair crop of corn on the ground, and nothing but a dry, warm autumn is wanted to bring it to maturity and into the barn yard in a satisfactory way. But there is at present decidedly too much moisture and too little heat. The crops of corn, it is understood, have not ypt suffered any injury, but appre; hensions are beginning to be entertained, and, even with fa vourable weather, itis to be feared that the harvest must now be somewhat late. But even in this district the rains are par tial, and whilstone part of the country is flooded with "many waters," in another scarcely a drop of rain is falling. —New castle Journal. ' GLOUCESTER.—The rain which has fallen since our last, and which appears to have been pretty general, and the im provement in the temperature, have been very serviceable to the crops, particularly to the wheat; and from all that we can learn there is every probability that the crop will he very nearly an average one in this district. The Hereford Jour nal says that the warm rains have produced most cratifying effects in that county, " on the wheat, and all descriptions of grain, and potatoes, on the pastures, orchards, and even the hopyards." On Saturday wheat was cht near Stratford Bridge, Herefordshire. A letter from Oxfordshire describes the appearance of the corn crops in the Burford and Witney . districts as•fully an average one.—Glouce s t ers hi re Chro n icle. ISLE OF MAN.—The weather daring the past week has been varilble ; the sky much overcast with clouds, and scarcely a day has passed without rain. The grain crops have bad plenty or too much moisture, and a change to sunshine would be most welcome, in order to facilitate the feeding and maturing of the Corn in the ear. Apprehensions for the se curity of the hay, which is now generally cut, are beginning to be entertained from the same cause. Rain has fallen oc casionally with great impetuosity, accompanied with violent wind. We trust, however, that a speedy a lteration is des tined to " come o'er the spirit of our dream, and that a succession of sunny days and genial nights will confirm those bright prospects of abundance, which the face of the country still generally affords.—Manx Liberal. In a few days Power returns to the United States. He is rapidly accumulating a fortune. Webster has in his hands a new drama, by Serle, which is to be brought out after the departure of Power. It is rumoured that her Majesty and Prince Albert will visit Brighton about the 14th of August. We have good reason to believe that his royal highness will review his regiment here some time in that month, but whether it will be as early as the 14th we are unable to say ; it will depend, we under stand, on the completion of the order for the new regiMental clothing, which is now being executed with all possible dispatch. His royal highness had a variety of patterns submitted to him, and had some difficulty in deciding as to the colour, being anxious to see this fine regiment second in appearancelO' none in'the service. We understand that his royal highness has fixed upon crimson over-alls. The interior of the palace is now undergoing very extensive re-embellish ment ; and a considerable number of workmen are employed. —Brighton Gazette. THE WEST. INDIA IMMIGRATION SOCIETIi (From the Morniug Herald.) Attention, has already been called to the establishment of a " West India Immigration Society" in the city, an event which may be hailed as most opportune in support of the best interests of the West India body at large. It may be proper to add, that it has received the sanction and the writ ten accession of almost every firm of any standing connected with the West Indies, of which the prospectus bears testi mony by the list of names and subscribers appended. In considering the objects of this society, which laudably seeks to accomplish them by facilitating voluntary emigration only from hence and elsewhere, it must be borne in mind that the government, well disposed as it was to lend its sanction and to encourage, so far as the state of public opinion permitted, immigration into the West Indies, to supply the deficiency of labour notoriously existing, and so to increase the produc tion on which the receipts of a large branch of revenue were contingent,.were not able, nevertheless, to carry the measure they proposed into effect, from the conflict of opinion and prejudice arrayed against it in one quarter, and from the ini mical combination of another quarter in opposition ; inimical only because the projected licence of immigration being con fined to the Mauritius solely, was too partial in its propor tions and operation to benefit the West India interest in the least. The measure, indeed, was announced to be one of trial only, the successful results of which might lead to its extension to the West Indies ; but, as the old saying has it, whilst the grass grows the ox starves. Such are the ne cessities, such the destitute position of the West Indies, for want of an adequate supply of labour hands, that unless instant, not prospective and distant, relief be afforded, the colonies daily declining in productiveness, may be ruined past re demption before the day of promised succour arrives. This is no disputed question of freedom for the negroes, or coercing them to work. The price of their redemption has been paid, and large as it was, cheerfully paid by the nation in the sense of humanity and for the consummation of the success of a great and sacred principle. The coercion of negro or late slave labour is happily quite out of the question. But it must ,not be lost sight of that, in the free state, it is little likely they will exert the same physical energies as when in the slave state of comnutqbry labour. All history and experience is there to teach that the masses work only as far as the means of subsistence compel the application of industry, and that few and far between are the instances in which provident ha bits lead to continuons labour and the saving and accumula tion of its profits for the benefit of families. That which is true of civilised communities like England, is of more strin gent truth still as referrable to the West Indian labouring population. For their wants, from physical organisation, ha bits and climate, are so few and so easily satisfied, that at the present rates of wages ruling there two days work per week are amply sufficient to provide for every emergency, and therefore the negro, from temperament peculiarly careless of to-morrow, and characterised by a certain slothfulness and insouciance, works, and will work, only so far as necessity enforces, the measure of which may be easily estimated by what has been already remarked. The fruits of the earth. growing almost spontaneously, form his chief food, and with the banana, fig banana and potato, cultivated or procured with the slightest cost of labour or expense, ho is satisfied and dreams of nothing more. This is the real reason whir with the same number of hands or population, production Is on the decrease, and is likely so to continue, as the example of Hayti is there to demonstate. And it is from the pressure of these considerations that the West India body are uniting their efforts in the " West India Immigration Society" to increase the number of labourers in a field so ample, and so little explored and cultivated hitherto, so as not only to com pensate for the deficiency of labour now experienced, but to augment its amount commensurately with the vast territories till now lying waste ; whilst at the `same time by the fair com petition thus brought to bear, the present race of emancipated workmen may be stimulated to greater industry, when the inducements to sloth are taken away by the virtual abolition of the labour market now enjoyed. To the mother country it is of incalculable importance, both politically and commer cially, that the West Indies should be maintained as an im mense field of production for the tropical products, equal to the supply, not of this empire only, but of the whole world. And these colonies possess the peculiar advantage of more close proximity to the parent state than any other portion of the British dominions from which the same products can be derived, and therefore are so much more secure of pos session, while they.form the very best nursery of a commer cial marine, which must ever be the basis of naval ascendancy. The system and regulations laid down for the promotion of immigration on the most wise and humane principles, with the view to the introduction only of a working population of the best moral, religious, and sober habits, are greatly cre ditable to the society, and the strongest assurance of its suc cess and beneficial working to all parties, both in the profit sense to the shareholders and liberal remuneration secured to the immigrants. RATES OF POSTAGE The following are the rates of postage on letters fixed by the bill for the regulation of the duties of postage : On all letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight trans mitted by the post between the United Kingdom and foreign parts, or between any of the places out of the L nited King dom hereinafter mentioned, there shall be charged and taken the following rates of British postage, that is to say : By packet-boat between Dover or any other port in the United Kingdom and Calais, or any other port in France, a packet-rate of Between France anti any place in the United King dom distant from Dover or other port in the United Kingdom not more than eight miles, a rate (the packet-rate included) of Between France and any place distant from Dover or other port as aforesaid, more than eight miles and not more than fifteen miles, a rate (the packet-rate included) of 0 6 Between France and any place distant from Dover or other port as aforesaid more than fifteen miles, and not more than twenty miles, a rate (the packet-rate included) of Between France and any place distant from Dover or other port as aforesaid more than twenty miles, and not more than thirty miles, a rate (the packet-rate included) of 0 8 Between France and any place distant from Dover or other port as aforesaid more than thirty miles, and not more than fifty miles, a rate (the packet-rate in • eluded) of 0 9 And between France and any place in the United Kingdom distant from Dover or other port as afore said, more than fifty' miles, or between France and London or any place in the United Kingdom, through London, artuniform rate (the packet-rate included) of 0 10 Between any part of the United Kingdom and Spain, otherwise than through France; an uniform rate of 2 2 Between London and the following places, by way of France, viz., Malta, the lonian Islands, Greece, Syria, and Egypt, an uniform rate of 0 10 Between London and Germany, by way of France 1 4 Between London and Switzerland, by way of France 1 2 Between London and Spain, by way of France 1 7 Between London and the following• places, by way of France, viz., Italy, Sicily, Venetian Lombardy, 'tur key, the Levant, and the Archipelago. Between London and Holland Between London and Belgium.. Between LOndon and Switzerland 1 8 Between London and Germany 1 8 Between London and Denmark . , 1 8 Between London and Sweden, and other parts of the North of Europe 1 8 Between London and the following countries, through Belgium, or Holland, or Germany, viz., Italy, Sicily, Venetian Lombardy, Malta, the lonian Islands, Greece, Turkey, the Levant, the Archipelago, Syria, or Egypt Between any part of the United Kingdom, and any place in the East Indies, via France, in addition to the Red Sea or Persian Gulf packet-rate, hereinaf ter mentioned Neverthelsss, all foreign letters herein rated between Lon don and a place abroad, which shall be sent to or from any place in the United Kingdom, without coming to or passing through London, shall be charged as if they had been sent from or to London ; and the rates of British postage for every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted by packet-boats, shall be as follows Between any part of the United Kingdom and the s. d. United States of America, an uniform rate of 1 0 Between a port in the United Kingdom and Lisbon, or any other port in Portugal 1 7 Between a port in the United Kingdom and the king dom of Greece, or any port in Syria or Egypt, but not including letters transmitted between the United Kingdom and the East Indies 2 3 Between Suez or Bassora, or any port in the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, and any port in the East Indies (letters transmitted by her Majesty's Mediterranean packet to or from the United Kingdom only except ed) . Between any of the ports or islands or places situate upon the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Archipelago, the Black Sea,. in Turkey in Europe and Asia, in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, or the Mediterranean, and upon the northern coast of Africa, whether in the Mediterranean or in the Straits of Gibraltar (not having been first brought or conveyed from the United Kingdom, or not being intended to be conveyed to the United Kingdom .'. 0 6 Between any of the ports or places last aforesaid and any port or place in the East Indies, by way of the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf, in addition to the aforesaid Red Sea or Persian Gulf packet-rate Between a port in the United Kingdom and the Island of Madeira Between a port in the United Kingdom and any port in the Island of Cuba in the West Indies, or any port in Columbia or Mexico Between any port in the British possessions in the West Indies and any port in Columbia or Mexico 1 0 Between any port in the United Kingdom and Brazil. 2 7 Between any port in the United Kingdom and Buenos Ayres, or any other port on the continent of South . America (other-than Columbia, Brazil, or Mexico). 2 5 Between anyport in the United Kingdom, and any port in the Island of St. Domingo And in addition to the aforegoing rates (except on letters between the United Kingdom and France, and between the United Kingdom and the United States of America, there shall be paid on every such letter as aforesaid an inland rate of postage of twopence for the distance any such letter shall be conveyed within the United Kingdom ; and on every letter so transmitted as hereinbefore mentioned, exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged and taken progressive and additionairates of British postage, according to the scale of weight and number of rates in this act con tained as to letters, estimating and charging each additional rate at the amount hereinbefore directed to be charged and taken on every letter so transmitted, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and charging the inland rate as aforesaid, but so that letters herein rated between London and a place abroad shall not be charged any inland rate for the distance between London and the outport at which the packet-boats conveying the same shall be stationed. And on every letter between foreign countries or between any foreign country and any of her Majesty's colonies trans mitted through the United Kingdom, there shall be charged and taken for the distance any such letter shall be carried within the United Kingdom (in addition to the packet or ship letter rates to and from the United Kingdom, to which such letter will be liable under this act, any such inland rate or rates of postage not exceeding one shilling on any letter not being more than half an ounce in weight, as the commis sioners of her Majesty's treasurer may, by warrant under their hands, direct ; and on any letter exceeding that weight, progressive and additional rates of British postage according to the scale of weight and number of rates in this act con tained as to letters, estimating and charging each additional rate at the sum which any such letter would be charged with under this schedule, if not exceeding half an ounce in weight; but so that no such letter be transmitted through the United Kingdom, unless the British postage chargeable thereon be paid before the same b e sent out of United Kingdom,'or unless there be a treaty between the postmaster-general and the postoffice of the foreign country from which it shall have been forwarded, or to which it shall be addressed, for collect ing and accounting for the British postage on such letters. Whiggery and Radicalism are often confounded. Between the two there are no doubt several points of resemblance ; but though agreeing in some respects, they differ in many. They are the respective creeds of two different sorts of men. Generally speaking, whiggery is the faith of men who have got something to lose—radicalism is the faith of those who have got nothing. Such a thing as a rich whig is possible ; but a rich radical is a contradiction in terms. The ruling principles of the men being different, their tactics of course differ.—Chester Courant. MISCELLANEOUS, " Your friendship is very dear to me," as the merchant said, when he had to pay the endorsements for his neighbour. We learn from Athens that a violent shock of earthquake was felt in that city about midnight of the 11th ultimo. The bazaar held last week in Manchester, for the benefit of St. Andrew's Sunday School, realised the sum of .£l4OO. The borough of South Shields, which recently established a chamber of commerce, has now formed a company, with a large capital, to trade with the East Indies. At a meeting of the proprietors of the St. Katherine's Docks, on Tuesday, a dividend of 2 1 per cent. was declared for the half-year ending at Midsummer. A formal union has been effected between the Synod of Ulster and the Secession Synod, numbering together 700,000 Presbyterians. The Earl of Shrewsbury contemplates purchasing Ashton hall, near Lancaster, belonging to the Duke of Hamilton, for the purpose of a catholic college. It is stated, on pretty good authority, that there are no fewer than 1,500 houses untenanted in the borough of Brad ford. A writer in the Quarterly expresses his belief, that the weight of suspicion points to Lord Sackville, and not to Sir Philip Francis, as the author of Junius. On Thursday, the 16th instant, an unfortunate man named George Hardy was killed by one of the trains of the North Midland Railway. CON. THE LATEST.—Why is the queen's portrait on the Postoffice envelope, like a remedy for corns? Because it is a " Sovereign Plaister." During the year 1839-40, as many as 192 fires occurred in New York. New York it is likely to be if all its houses are to be burnt away in this manner. In consequence of the refusal of a church-rate, last week, by the inhabitants of Rochdale, the clock has been stopped, and the bells have not since been suffered to ring. EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.—During the last month three sows, of the Chinese breed, belonging to Mr. William Labrey, of Higher Broughton, have produced the amazing number of sixty-one pigs. THE LANCASTER PACKET BOATS.—We understand it is now fully agreed upon to have the Archirnedean screw pro pelling principle introduced into these boats at a very early period, and not later than the coming October.—Lancaster Gazette. It appears by the bill authorising a new census of Ireland, that the constabulary are to be the numerators, " with such assistants as may be deemed necessary." The perambula tion is to occur in May, 1841. LAW.—The Right Hon. Thomas Lefroy has been served with a latitat for £5,742, at the suit of Mr. Vignoles, the civil engineer, for a projected railway, called the Great Wes tern Irish Railway,—Lirnerick Chronicle. The purchase of horses need not only always be requisite in future for ladies desiring equestrian exercise ; as an adver tiser in the Morning Post, gives notice that he assists ladies in mounting their needlework. The high sheriff of Cork has invited Mr. G. Standish Barry, M.P., to act as foreman of the grand jury for that county, at the approaching assizes. The hon. member will be the first Roman Catholic who has filled that office in the county of Cork since the reformation. It is calculated that there are eight hundred millions of yards of cotton goods manufactured annually in Great Bri tain ; being nearly one yard for every supposed human being ou the globe. The trade has, from within ten years of its commencement in this district, increased twenty-four fold. At the Carlow assizes an action for libel was brought by the Rev. Priest Tyrrell, of election notoriety, against the Carlow Sentinel, a staunch conservative paper. The jury could not agree, and were discharged. We regret to learn that there prevails in this neighbour hood a disease among cattle and pigs, which has in many in stances proved fatal. Among the former the feet and throat are attacked, and among the latter the throat only.—Bath Herald. The sheep-breeders of the mountain districts in the neigh bourhood of Appleby, state that those useful animals were hardly ever known to be in so good a condition, in carcass and fleece, as they are at the present time.—Kendal Mercury, PRODUCTIVE FOWL.—Mr. Thomas Seed, of. Poulton-le: Fylde, has a young,duck that has this season laid inwards of 100 eggs, eleven of which were double•yoked, two of which weighed four ounces each; she has occasionally produced three eggs in two days. The Augutta Chronicle gives the following picture as an exemplification of hard times :—" To see two bank presi dents riding into the town in a salt box on a dray." " The times are harder and harder," says a western editor: " we have not heard of a single steam-boat explosion in two weeks."—American paper. THE REPRESENTATION OF ROCHDALE. — During this week, a requisition to Mr. Wm. Sharman Crawford has been in the course of signature, requesting that gentleman, in case of a dissolution of parliament, to allow himself to he put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of this borough. This requisition has been headed by Mr. Fen ton, the present member.--Manchester Guardian. A FACT FOR NATURALISTS.—Under the eaves of the Boot and Slipper public-house, Southwingfield, a swallow had built its nest, and hatched several young ones. Some one unfeelingly knocked it down ; the humane landlord im mediately placed the young birds in a cage near the place from whence they had fallen, and the old ones, continuing to feed them, immediately began to build another nest, and by some means have carried the young ones into it, where they are now comfortably lodged.—Derby Reporter. -- GREAT FIRE IN LEEDS.—On Wednesday last an alarm ing fire took place on the premises of Mr. Land, druggist, Leeds. It originated in an explosion of gas in the shop. The whole of the property was quickly consumed. The flames spread right and left, and nearly destroyed the shop, &c., of Mr. Harrison, book-seller, and to save the property from the element, the stock and urniture were thrown into the street. It also destroyed four butchers' dwellings in the shambles, and greatly endangered Beckett and Co.'s bank, which received considerable injury. NOVELTY IN A ROSE TREE.—In the garden of Mr. Machan, of Fartown Green, near Huddersfield, there is at present a rose tree of the cabbage kind, bearing from one bud or envelope, a couple of perfect roses of the ordinary size. The heads of both are, from mutual pressure, bent a little, and one faces due east, the other due north. The curiosity is enhanced by the rose facing due west possessing two hearts or mosses of different forms and size. The tree contains an average quantity of roses, and was transplanted early in the year, being part of a larger one four years old, growing from a number of stems. A learned clergyman in Maine was accosted in the follow ing manner by an illiterate preacher, who despised edneation : " Sir, you have been to c o ll ege , 1 su p pose ?" " Yes, sir," was the reply. "I am thankful," rejoined the former, "that the Lord has opened my mouth to preach without any learn ing." " A similar event," replied the latter, " took place in Balaarn's time, but such things are of rare occurrence in the present day." THE SPINNERS' TURN-OUT AT WIGAN.—The disagree ment between the manufacturers and their spinners, respect ing wages, still exists ; and at present we hear of no likeli hood of their coming to terms. On the contrary, it is ru moured that the hands at one or two mills are going soon to make a similar strike. and the number of persons then out will be deplorable.—Wrgan Gazette. A commission of lunacy sat the other day, in London, to inquire into the sanity of the venerable Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly, K.C.B. The inquiry was a long one, and the jury, after some consultation, returned the following verdict . " That Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly, K.C.8., was of unsound mind, and had been so since the 15th of November, 1839, and incapable of the management of his own affairs." A day or two since, Smyth was holding forth at great length to Jones on the manifold excellencies of the wooden pavement :—" Capital thing, Jones—excellent thing; what a pity that all the parishes don't adopt it." "True," replied Jones " and so easily effected, to o . A woo d en pavement ! why, if only some of the pari s h au th or iti es wou ld b ut l ay the i r heads together, all London might be covered with it." Madame Von-der Luders, one of the most beautiful and accomplished actresses at Hamburg, destroyed herself in that city last week, but from what cause is entirely unknown. Early in the morning she rose, dressed herself in her richest toilet, put on all her diamonds, and then sent out her servant to buy some fruit for breakfast. As soon as she was -alone. she laid herself on a sofa, put a pistol to her mouth, and blew out her brains. A second pistol, loaded, was found by her side.—Galignani. COMMERCIAL BANK Of ENGLAND.—WC hear that the Commercial Bank of England have disposed of the business of their branches at the following places, viz., Chester, Black burn, Burslem, and Liverpool, which have been taken over by other joint-stock banks. The committee of deputies of joint-stock banks in London have received a communication from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. informing them that the law regarding embezzlement by shareholders would be placed on the same footing as it is in Ireland, agreeably to their wishes, and that a clause for that purpose would be in troduced accordingly into the bill now before parliament, re gulating the law connected with the rights of partnership iu those estabishments.—Morning Chronicle City Article. " Two days ago," says the Audience (French paper), " a country girl, who had spent all her money at a lottery of handkerchiefs, collars, and other articles, on a public pro menade at Versailles, offered ber umbrella to the keeper of the stall, as security for some more tickets. The man refus ed to comply with ber request, but told her that, if she would allow him to cut off her hair, he would give her in exchange for it twenty tickets. The poor girl, in the hope of redeem ing her fortune, consented, and in a minute the sci ss o rs of the despoiler h ad deprived her of this ornament of her sex. The girl played on until nineteen of her tickets came up blanks. The twentieth was a prize. On opening the paper, the lottery-keeper read it aloud to the persons who were crowding around him, and who were convulsed with laughter —it was a comb." . . STATE OF THE WEATHER.—On Tuesday last, between ten and twelve o'clock, a.m., the clouds 'accompanied . with lightning and thunder, poured forth their contents most pro fusely. The rivers Lune and Wenning had swollen to a great extent, and even the little brooks passing through Tar leton and Claughton, were never known to run with greater rapidity. A root of a tree having been borne down by the violence of the current, stuck in the arch of the bridge, close by W. Luin's house, stopped the water, and turned it out of its proper course, so that the road was made impassable at the time for cattle travelling from Hornby to Lancaster and Preston. It is conjectured that a water spout had' burst, and emptied its contents on the summit of the hills above.—Lan caster Gazette. BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of the committees of the British Association, held on Monday in the Royal Exchange, it was reported that the number of members ad mitted was in all 353 ; that fourteen foreigners of the highest distinction, as promoters of science, had accepted in vitations to the forthcoming meeting of the Association. Hutchisons' Hospital was fixed on as a general office for the reception of strangers, and for answering all inquiries with respect to the business of the meeting, this building being considered the most eligible, from its central situation be tween the College and the Exchange, and from the accom modation which it affords. Various sub-committees. were named to make the necessary preparations commensurate with the magnitude and importance of the occasion. which is looked forward to with increasing interest.—Scottish Guardian. RE-ERECTION OF SHAWE HALL.—On Wednesday last, the foundation-stone of the new building of Shawe-hall was laid, with the usual ceremonies, by the Rev. Thomas Moss, Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill. In the cavity of the founda tion -stone .5 glass bottle was deposited, containing two Preston newspapers, and the respective coins of the present reign, when the rev. gentleman expressed to Mr. Farington, in an appropriate speech, the gratification he felt upon the occasion, with many good wishes for the happiness of the family, and the continuance of the hospitality for which Shawe-hall has ever been so justly noted. Mr. Farington thanked Mr. Moss for his kindness, and hoped that all present would be spared to meet when the building was completed. He trusted the hospitable feelings which had existed at Shawe-hall, in days gone by, would be handed down to whoever might succeed him ; and while he should ever open his doors with a hearty welcome to his friends, he trusted they would never be closed against his poorer neighbours. The workmen, about fifty in number, were re galed with bread, cheese, and ale, and several loyal and appropriate toasts were drunk with much acclamation; The village bells rang merry peals at intervals during the day.— Preston Pilot.