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Emperial Varllamint. heir. The clause prohibiting the regent's marriage with a foreigner, had been introduced into the former bill because illustrious persons to whom the high office was to be intrusted HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. were both females, and it was thought that they would be he motion of Lord puricaNNoN, the East India Mu- able to exercise their duties less sul juris if under any foreign ,c. Bill was read the second time. influence. This, however, could not operate in the present Marquis of NORMANBY, after the Bishop of Lichfield case. The regent was prohibited from leaving the country, esented a petition on the subject, said that next ses- and it could not be supposed that he would, if a foreign alli swn, in consequence of the information he had received, he ance were contracted, be so much under the contraLof his would move the appointment of a select committee respect- consort as to be incapable of exercising rightly the powers ing the Sunday traffic on canna The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a bill to con for a limited time the Bill of Exchange Act, exempting cer tain bills of exchange from the operation of the usury laws. Lord WHARNCLIFFE condemned the act as oppressive and injurious in its operation. The bill was read the first time. The select committee on the Sale of Beer Bill, on the mo tion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, were nominated. - On the motion that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland Bill be read the third time, Lord DUNGANNON stated that several certain lords oppo site were disposed to view this bill favourably, if there_could be introduced into it some other provisions regarding the boundaries and regarding compensation. With the view of making such amendments, lie proposed that the third mad ing should be deferred till Monday next. The Duke of WELLINGTON repeated that he could not withdraw his opposition, especially after what he saw passing in Ireland, in reference to this subject, as well as regarding other matters. He could not vote for the third reading if there were retained in it the present large powers of im posing local taxation. He should require that there be introduced some such limitation as existed in the Scotch Corporation Act Lord DUNCANNON said that he would endeavour to pre pare a clause to meet his grace's views. Lord LYNDHURST cons►dered that it was meant to be im parted that the proposed arrangements regarding compensa tion and boundary would be in accordance with the amend ments that had been heretofore proposed. Lord DUNCANNON answered that such would be their character. The County Constabulary Bill was read the second time, on the motion of the Marquis of NORMANSY, and ordered to be referred to a select committee, that being the wish of several peers. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY FARNHAM RECTORY BILL. This bill was again discussed ; and the motion of Sir R. Inglis, that compensation should be made to the lessees for actual loss, was negatived by a majority of two. The ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill was, after con siderable discussion, and the addition of some isuses, read a third time and passed. WARDENSHIP OF MANCHESTER. Mr. GLADSTONE, in avowing himself opposed to the eccle siastical duties and revenues bill, said that one ground on which the bill had been opposed was, that it placed the establishment of cathedrals on an insecure and precarious foundation, and only prepared the way for more extensive spoliation, and he feared that this was the danger which was really to be apprehended ; for he did not believe that any cathedral institution was secure, whether it consisted of twelve prebends or only two, unless the patronage connected with it was exercised with fidelity. He should be the last man to complain of the government employing its power and influence in favour of those who concurred in its political opinions; but there was an appointment which had been made within the last few weeks to which he must advert — he meant the appointment to the wardenship of Manchester. He thought the hon. member for Kilkenny %%Ts justified in saying that ministers did not go far enough, if, when they suppressed half the dignities of the church, they retained, with regard to the rest, the system of abuse which had been acted upon in former times. Of the gentleman who had received the appointment to which he had alluded, he had no wish to speak in terms of disrespect; he was a poet and a scholar; but poetry and scholarship were not precisely what were required in order to perform the duties of warden of the collegiate church of Manchester, which was, in fact, the parish church of Manchester, that was to say, of 200,000 souls, who resorted daily to it for baptism, marriage, and burial. The government ought to have been glad to take the opportunity of appointing to such a situation a person who would have comprehended a position invested with a respon sibility of this important character. What had been really the case? Why, that a gentleman had been appointed whose distinctions, whatever they might be, were not distinctions earned in the service of the church, and who, moreover, was said to hold another charge of an important character in the diocese of York, consisting of 2,000 souls, and having an in come annexed to it of £1,500. He (Mr. Gladstone) thought the noble lord, the secretary for the colonies, had shoWn so much anxiety to render cathedral and collegiate establish ments conducive to the welfare of the church, that he did not ascribe to the noble lord the responsibility of this ap pointment to an important office of a strictly parochial confided to him cliaracter. Lord J. RUSSELL said, that with regard to the preferment which had been alluded to by the hon. member opposite (Mr. Gladstone), he (Lord J. Russell) was not acquainted with the gentleman on whom it was conferred, having never seen that gentleman in his life; but he could not, as the hon. gentle man seemed to expect him to do, disavow all responsibility in the appointment ; for it had been intimated to him, that the appointment was proposed to be made, and, as he knew of no objection to it, he had not made any. UPPER CANADA CLERGY RESERVES BILL. On the question of committing this bill, a short discussion The he Sir JA en read a second time without opposition. The law of evidence (Scotland) bill afterwards went through committee. The turnpike trusts bill was read a second time, and after a somewhat angry conversation between Lords Westmeath and Normanby, the house adjourned. TUESDAY HOUSE OF COMMONS.—_ After the presentation of a few petitions, Mr. GRIMSDITCH, on the question for the third reading of the poor-law commission bill, moved that it should be read a third time on that day three months. He moved this amend ment, he said, not with any expectation of carrying it, but in order to elicit the intentions of government. He hoped there was no design to establish a permanent board. The exist" - ' , t be a •-• one as far as _mg law migu, —a goon le unions were concerned; but the workhouse system should be relaxed with respect to the unfortunate, and enforced only against the idle and dissolute. The expense too of the officers was enormous, and must be reduced. e having resolved itself into committee, GRAHAM objected that the bill dealt only with s of Upper Canada, and not with those of the Mr. SLANEY drew a comparison between the state of Eng land as she had been before, and her state as she was since, the enactment of the present poor laws. These laws, he said, had quieted the country, and reduced the rates from seven millions sterling to three. General JOHNSON said this reduction was a a fallacy; and condemned the whole system, as an attempt to introduce a principle of centralization, incompatible with the liberties of man. Even the promised advantage of uniformity had not resulted from this law : and the old and the poor had been consigned by it to a premature mortality. Mr. HODGES was of opinion, that if all the particulars were taken into account, the saving would turn out to be but little. He would, however, support the third reading of the bill on this occasion, hoping that there would be found no necessity to renew it. Mr. lircK, approving the principle of the poor-law, yet regretted the continuance of the commission ; Mr. WIL LIAMS declared such continuance to be a mere waste of public money ; but Mr. WARD, considering the new system preferable to the old one, expressed his intention of support ing the third reading, though not without adding a hope that the whole measure would receive further improvement. Mr. DARIIY complained of the peculiar hardships suffered by those who, after marrying on the faith of the old law, were left helpless under the new. Mr. WAKLEY imputed much of the evil which had existed under the old system to the mismanagement, idleness, negli gence, and ignorance of the magistrates. He objected to the continuance of the powers of the commissioners for a single day. Sir C. DOUGLAS and Mr. EATON supported the amend ment, as did Colonel SIDTHOILP, who said that Ministers, a most inca pable set, had directed all their efforts against the country's institutions, assailing the church, undermining the navy, and oppressing the poor. Mr. F. MAULS told the gallant Colonel that his invectives against Ministers, though amusing in the house, had little effect in the country. For the present, the Government asked merely a renewal for one year, and early in the next session they would be prepared to consider the requisite lower proN ince. Lord JOHN RUSSELL intimated a disposition to introduce some provisions touching the unsold lands in Lower Canada. Sir C. GREY gave his view of the reasons which had caused the agitation upon this subject in the upper province to be greater than in the lower. On the second clause, enabling the governor in council to invest the proceeds of the sales in Canadian securities, Mr. GOULBURN moved an amendment, substituting the British funds.' Sir C. GREY thought it important that the money should be left in the province, which was greatly in need of circulat improvements. Sir F. BunnErr thought that the period of the session formed of itself a sufficient objection against the present pro gress of a measure so serious. That measure had increased, instead of allayed, the evils it dealt with, and had created an ill feeling between labourer and employer, between rich and poor, which it would be very difficult to heal. Mr. W. ArrwooD, who had seconded the amendment, complained that the commissioners had acted in opposition to the report of the committee which had been appointed to inquire into the poor laws ; and he could not but think it fit tin;; to oppose the renewal of powers to such commissioners. Lord J. RUSSELL said, the commission had been intended as a permanent one, though the first experiment of it was con fined to a period of five years. Further powers would be re quired from parliament for the useful working of the system. but the pressure of other business in the present session had obliged him to postpone the subject until a future one. Mr. MUNTZ considered the poor law as a great oppression to the labouring classes, especially in the manufacturing dis tricts, where they could obtain no relief but on condition of selling off their all, and going intothe workhouse. t „ The third reading washen carried on a division by a ma jority of 74 against 16, the ministers having swept all the public offices for votes. Several bills were advanced a stage, aad Lord MORPETU obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide for the compensa tion of corporate officers in certain cases in Ireland. The house then adjourned till 5 o'clock, when there not being 40 members present, it stood adjourned till next day. HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY The House of Lords did not assemble to-day. ing capital. - Mr. HUME said that the adoption of the amendment would increase the discontent of the colonies. Lord J. RUSSELL was adverse to the amendment. The colonists, he said, had a strong feeling upon the subject, and would be much disl)leased by a measure reflecting upon the validity of their securities. After a few words from Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and another speech from Sir C. GREY, the house, by a division, negatived the amendment by 58 to 28. On the seventh clause, enabling the governor in council to appropriate three-eighths of the fund produced by the re serve sales " for purposes of public worship and religious in struction in Upper Canada, Mr. GLADSTONE proposed to leave out the words in inverted commas, so as to give the governor a general discretion of applying this fund to secular HOUSE OF COMMONS WEDNESDAY Many petitions were presented ; among them were several (presented by Messrs. T. Duncombe, Wakley, &c.) for the dismissal of her Majesty's ministers. Lord MURPETH brought in the municipal districts (Ire land) and compensation to corporate officers in certain cases bill—measures rendered necessary by what passed on Mon day between the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Duncannon, in the House of Lords, in reference to the municipal corporations (Ireland) bill. Mr. E. TENNENT said that he should bring forward his motion regarding the delay in adjusting the British claims on Brazil on the 4th of August. Mr. HUME intimated that he should on Friday direct at tention to the mode of keeping the public accounts—his ob ject being to secure the adoption generally of the system now practised at the Admiralty and Navy Pay-office. He also gave notice, that when the clergy reserves Canada bill should be again brought forward, he should submit a resolution de claratory of the expediency of selling the clergy reserves, and applying the proceeds to the purposes of education. Mr. AGLIONJY stated that on Friday he should move the consideration of Feargus O'Connor's petition. Sir J. GRAHAM, in answer to Lord J. Russell's inquiries, said, that, in consequence of the delay that had occurred in printing the papers, he fe•tred he should have no chance of bringing forward, this session, the question of taxing rail ways ; but he hoped that•during the recess the subject might have the most earnest consideration of her Majesty's minis ters. purposes. Lord J. RUSSELL assured the house that the words in question were introduced with the specific sanction of the Az chbishop of Canterbury. Mr. PARKINGTON was satisfied with that authority • But Sir R. INGLIS thought himself bound , notwithstand ing so high a sanction, to express his disapproval of the pro posed appropriation, seeing that it was in the teeth of an act of parliament, granting the whole fund to the uses of the Protestant churches. The clause for guaranteeing from the consolidated fund the annual sums of £7700 to the Church of England, and £l5OO to the Church of Scotland, was opposed by Mr. H umE, but carried on a division. The clause was then agreed to, as were also the remaining clauses, and the report was ordered to be received on Thursday next. The church temporalities (Ireland) bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. The canal police bill was read a third time, and passed. The notices of elections bill was read a second time. On the motion of Mr. SHELL, the linen manufactories (Ireland) bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the house adjourned at a few minutes before two o'clock. The affirmation bill called forth a good deal of discussion. The question of going into committee was carried on a divi sion ; and in the committee -several amendments were pro posed. The marriages act amendment bill, the punishment of death bill, the constabulary bill, &c. were afterwards for warded a stage. _ On the question that the house resolve into committee of supply, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE claimed the right to bring for ward a motion respecting Thorogood, of which he had given notice ; but it was eventually decided that Lord Sandon's notice had precedence. Lord SANDON then called the attention of the house to the state of our commercial relations with foreign countries. In the first place, he desired to know how much' longer the blockade of Buenos Avres was to be continued ? The pro perty locked up by it, he said, was of the value of a million sterling ; and in Monte Video, likewise, there were large British interests at hazard. He next adverted to the differ ential duties of Portugal, by which our shipping had been almost wholly displaced from the commerce between that country and our own; and blamed the government that they had not applied to parliament for powers which would have enabled them to retaliate with effect. He complained of a similar displacement of British shipping in the trade with Spain, and urged that England's great sacrifices for the pre sent Spanish dynasty gave her especial claims to a more favourable treatment. If Lord Palmerston had any assu rances to afford to the house of a more satisfactory nature than his former vague statements, it was time, at the close of this long session, that such information should be produced. Lord PALmERsToN contrasted the tone taken by his op ponents when exciting government to adverse dealings with foreign nations, against the tone of the same parties when censuring government for running into the hazard of hosti lities. Mr. MACLEAN observed that Lord Palmerston had care fully abstained from distinguishing how much of the increase HOUSE OF LORDS—WEDNESDAY. The bishops of ELY and SALISBURY presented several pe titions aga nst the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, in which some of the petitioners prayed to be heard by coun cil before the house. Lord MELBOURNE observed that it would be better to avoid any discussion upon the merits of the bill at present, but he would offer no opposition to the hearing of counsel in support of the opinions which the petitioners held. He thought that Friday would be the most convenient day for that purpose. _ _ . The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a petition in favour of the bill; Lord Devon, and the Bishops of Winches ter. Chichester, and Exeter, other petitions against the mea in our exports and imports proceeded from the trade with our own colonies; and that he had taken, on the score of pacification in Spain, a credit which was properly due, not to the policy of England, but to the energy of France. Mr. HAWES reproached the tory party with narrow views on commercial subjects, and a constant unwillingness to cheapen the great articles of consumption, such as bread, timber, and sugar. Mr. E. TENNENT adverted to some of the evils which had followed from ;our too long endurance of the now abandoned blockade of Mexico, and from our still unsettled dispute with the government of Brazil about the affairs of Para. Mr. Sheil, Mr. D'lsraeli, Mr. Ewart, and others then took part in the dscussion. The house afterwards resolved into committee of supply pro forma, Dlr. BARING stating that at so late an hour he would not propose any resolutions on the estimates. The loan societies bill, &c. were then forwarded a stage. The Loan CHANCELLOR having then moved the second reading of the Regency Bill, The Duke of Sussex thought it incumbent upon him, from the position which he occupied, and hi s near re l a ti on to her Majesty, to express his opinion upon the measure , o f w hich in its general principles, he highly approved. He had had some experience in regency bills, and had taken an active part in the discussions which took place upon that by which George IV. had been appointed regent during the life of his father, and he was happy to observe, that there now exist e d none of the acrimony which was then exhibited on both sides of the house. Although, however,. he concurred with the framers of the bill in its main features, and especially as to the extent of power to be intrusted to the regent, he thought, that as its object was to secure the direct succession to the throne from every possible contingency, they had not gone far enough, no provision being made for the custody of the heir in case the regent himself should be re moved. However improbable so lament able an event might be, it was s till no t i m possible, and, while providing for one contingency, it would be surely impolitic to neglect another of equal importance. The Lord Chancellor had congratu lated the hou se u p on th e f ac t th a t it had now to legislate upo n this very delicate question when every portion of the consti tution was in full efficiency ; but in the case which 'he had supposed, the magistracy of royalty would be wanting, and the difficulty would in consequence be increased. He would appeal both to his illustrious brother the Duke of Cambridge, and to the noble lord at the head of the government, to vin dicate him from the supposition of being actuated by any motive of personal ambition, and in fact he had until that moment abstained from any mention of the subject, in order to avoid an imputation of the kind. Ihe clause by which the regent was precluded from giving his assent to any bill which would alter the succession to the throne was — a j most wise one, and in the one which went to protect the interests of the churches of England and Scotland he perfectly concurred; but he thought that some additional restrictions should, under his peculiar circumstances , be imposed unonthe prince. In case an event, which would be universally deplored, should take place, it would be probable, and indeed perhaps expedient, that the regent should contract another alliance, and the considera tion would then arise as to whether an union with a subject would 1".! desirable. No law existed to prohibit such a mar riage, mid even if a foreign alliance should be contemplated, partiament could not interfere, unless the prince should ap ply to the other house to make some additional provision for her support. He thought, therefore, that a restriction should be introduced to the effect that no marriage which the prince might contract should be legal, unless after a de_ claration of his intention had been communicated to both houses, and had received their approbation. He laid the more stress upon this point, because in the bill which had been passed in the reign of his late Majesty a similar restric tion had been imposed upon the Queen Dowager and the Duchess of Kent. By the observations which he had made, he did not intend to offer any opposition to the bill ; he thought that everything should be done which would tran quillise the mind of the illustrious person most immediately concerned ; and if he had had an opportunity, he should have made the suggestions he now offered before the measure had been introduced to the house. The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his satisfaction at the approbation which the general principles of the bill had met with from the illustrious duke. With respect to the objec tion that it did not provide for every possible contingency, he thought, however, that it was scarcely consistent with the wisdom of parliament to legislate by anticipation for a longer period in advance than was absolutely necessary. He trusted that, under Providence, the office contemplated by the bill would never be required ; but even if it should, the house would then have an opportunity of providing for the more remote contingency to which the illustrious duke referred. Parliament had in every former case on record adopted that course, and even if the casualties to which two lives were subject were provided for, it would be impossible to do more than lessen the probability of a failure in the custody of the COURT CIRCULAR.-TUESDAY Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes terday. The Duchess of Kent honoured the Duchess of Sutherland with a visit yesterday, at Stafford-house. _ The Duchess de isternours visited the Duchess of Kent yes terday, at Ingestre-house. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours honoured Mr. Ross, A.R.A., with sittings yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, for their portraits. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Oa rence7house, St. James's. . _ A deputation from the coachmakers, respecting the win dow tax, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing -street. The Earl of Gosford, Major Lewis, high sheriff of Cardi ganshire, and Mr. Ward, M.P., had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Oswald, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. The Queen gave a state ball, last evening, at Buckingham Palace, which was atten numerously ded. WEDNESDAY. _ Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening. Prince Albert and the Duke de Nemours, attended by the lion. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bonverie, Colonel Wylde, and General Colbert, left town at half-past nine o'clock yes terday morning, for Wimbledon Common, and inspected the 2d Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards, and the 12th Lancers. The royal party returned to Buckingham Palace in two carriages and four. The Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess de Nemours yesterday at Buckingham Castle. Lady Charlotte Dundas has succeeded Lady Anne Maria Dawson as the lady in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. The Earl of Warwick, Mr. Crawford, and 'qr. Charles Forrei - ter, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home -office. The Prussian Minister and Earl Granville transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign -office. g l - e s f t t re et Mrs. Me lbourne yesterdayand Hiss in Goulburn Do w nin Sir William Clayt on h a d an interview with Viscount Montagu House yesterday for their seat, Bletchworth House, Surrey. There was an extraordinary sensation in Wakefield Cattle Market, on Wednesday last, in consequence of the notorious p tha r t om fact, that a flock of nearly 800 diseased sheep were Lincoln shire, being exposed for sale ! It seems afflicted with the prevailing epidemic, and that t w te e e r j e y oney there had brought the disorder to a crisis. They by scores i❑ the pens ; and many were speedily taken dying in carts to the Great Bull yard to be killed, to prevent their dying under the influence of the attack. The terms we have ir used to express the slaughter will be understood. The stench arising from the breath of the poor animals is described as almost beyond bearing.—Doncaster Chronicle. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SYRIA Private letters from Malta contain some further particulars relative to Alexandria. The last expedition to Syria was of 24 vessels of war, each carrying 20,000 charges of gunpowder, with provisions for five months. They were accompanied by 18 transport ships loaded with provisions and ammunition. The number of men who attended this expedition was 15,400. The cost is estimated at 50,000 taleris. Abbas Pacha, grandson to the Viceroy, who is to be generalissimo of the expedition, has been furnished with 1000 purses in money, and provisions to the value of 15,000 piasters. Many other vessels are destined for Syria, and no more than the fleet of Constantinople and about four Egyptian vessels will remain in the port of Alexandria. A Bedouin chief of Upper Egypt has been presented to the Viceroy, who decorated him with a vestment of honour, and appointed him head of the Bedouins, with the office of furnishing 6000 Arab horsemen, who were to go to Syria. The Viceroy requested the English and French consuls to order their agents in Syria to have no thing to do with the insurrection, as he had learned that the Christians of Lebanon had revolted and had set up the French flag. The French consul wrote, it is said, to Syria to that effect, but at the same time warned the Viceroy that France was the protectress of Catholicism in the East and of the convents of Lebanon, and that he would do well not to inter fere with them. The Russian consul, as well as the English, is said to favour the escape from the fleet of the Turks, who are anxious to return to their own country, and even to pay their passage. In Syria there is as much activity as in Egypt. Soliman Pacha was in Seyda with 5000 infantry and 1000 cavalry, be sides three regiments at Acre ready to act at his order. Mehemet Pacha of Haleb was advancing towards Zaleh with 8000 men, where 5000 mountaineers were to join him. These mountaineers from Sichem are bitter enemies of the people of Lebanon. At present Lebanon is inhabited by the descend ants of idolaters who took refuge there from Syrian cities when persecuted by the Roman Emperors, who had become Christians. Their neighbours are the Maronites, who are all Christians, descended from persons who fled from the perse cutions of the Saracens. These two nations have a good un derstanding with each other. Intelligence from Arabia shows that the Egyptian troops had retired from Yemen to lljedda. . . A letter from Beyrout states that the insurgents, who are at the very gates of that city, are daily on the increase. They demand, as a condition of peace, that no higher taxes shall be levied than under the dominion of the Porte, that they shall not be liable to the conscription, and, above all, that the soldiers who have quitted the Egyptian Hag and sought re fuge with them shall not be claimed back. They further in sist that these requests, if granted, shall be confirmed by the European powers. _ MEXICO The Mexican packet brings accounts from the city of Mexico to the 26th of May, and from Vera Cruz to the 29th. This packet brings only 230,000 dollars on merchants' ac count. The republic was in a state of tranquillity, excepting in the far distant province of Yucatan, where the federalists were still carrying on operations. But that extensive ter ritory is so thinly peopled, probably not . exceeding 50,000 souls, and those almost altogether aboriginal Indians, and withal at so great a distance from Mexico, or any powerful state of the federation, that the turmoil there created in the capital or government no greater sensation than a chartist riot in a country town would here. If the federalists suc ceed in gaining the ascendancy, they will probably proclaim the independency of the country as a sovereign state, and after the farce has been carried on for a few months, another bloodless revolution will bring matters back to their former footing of a reunion with, and submission to, the republic. Merchants will be glad to learn that the government had it in contemplation to abolish the 15 per cent. additional duty on goods for internal transit and consumption which had been so much complained of, and in effect had contributed to paralyse the trade and diminish the receipts of the custom-houses at the ports. An amount of certificates given here in exchange for coupons, in pursuance of the conversion of the debt ef fected by the agents, had been received and presented at the custom-houses of Vera Cruz and Tampico, equal to nearly £lOO,OOO, nearly the whole of which had been taken in and absorbed in payment of customs duties. Hereafter, accord ing to previous agreement, and to avoid the inconveniences of not being able to make remittances as provision for the dividends here, from the uncertainty of the proportion which might be wanted of the custom-house receipts set apart for the purpose, to meet the admission of their certificates in Mexico, their emission is to cease and the remittances are to be made direct, which will tend beneficially to simplify the business for all parties. The Mexican government has so far fulfilled its late engagements with honour and punctuality, and so long as those at present at the head of affairs remain there is every reasonable guarantee for the public confidence in future. BRAZILS We have received the Jornal do Commercia, via" Rio de Janeiro, to the 23d May, by the Gipsy. A change of ministry had taken place in consequence of the chambers not having approved of the estimates. Those sent up from the Chamber of Deputies had beef► augmented in the Senate, of which nearly all the ministers were members ; the deputies rejected those amendments on the ground that the senators had no right to alter a money bill, and . demanded a conference with the' Senate ; neither chambers would give way, and a union of both chambers took place in consequence, in which those amendments were again discussed, and a majority of the members (of both chambers thus united) decided against all the amendments, except that of the minister for foreign affairs, Senhor C. M. Lopes Gama; all the other ministers accordingly resigned, and Senhor Lopes Gama formed the following new administration : _ _ _ Enipit 7 e, J. J. Rodrigues Torres ; Marine, Ditto, (pro tempore ;) Justice, P. J. Soares de Souza ; Foreign, C. M. Lopes Gama ; Finance, J. A. da Silva Maia ; War, L. I. Maciel. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE THE WEST INDIES By the Hope packet dates have been received from Jamaica to June 16, from Trinidad to the 9th, from Barbadoes to the 6th, and from Demerara to the sth. They are uninteresting from all these colonies but Jamaica. The accounts from thence add nothing to previous 'information respecting the late commotion headed by some of the Baptist missionaries, which therefore may be considered, through the resolute conduct of the authorities, to have had no worse results so far, although it must be considered as an example of insub ordination and disobedience to the laws, fraught with very perilous consequences. It may be hoped, from the exami nations which have been taken, and the lengthened investi gation already gone into upon this affair, that-the principal parties really guilty, whether on the side of the Baptist peo ple or the police, will be brought to punishment, as a warning against future offence. So far the weight of the evidence is decidedly, and, as it would seem, irrefutably, against Ward, the Baptist missionary, and his particular relatives concerned with him in the disturbance. The accounts of the crops are exceedingly unfavourable, both in Jamaica and the other West India colonies. From 16 out of 20 of the agricultural parishes of Jamaica statements had been received, showing a very disastrous state of affairs. From the remainder no par ticular details were forthcoming ; but it was apprehended they would not prove much more favourable. It is proper to add, however, that, so far as appears, this unfortunate as pect of things was owing chiefly to the excessive drought with which the island had been and continued visited. It is no ticed that the Colonial Bank was about to issue bank notes payable to bearer, and redeemable in specie on demand at the option of the holder, and this, it was considered, would tend beneficially to place the currency of the island on a more stable and satisfactory footing. The colonial paper now in circulation was not redeemable in any coin whatever, which was a prevailing cause of the vicious system, of currency by which the island was oppressed and business embarrassed. The island checks, it is clear, must now be called in and otherwise provided for, since, inconvertible as they are, it would be impossible to keep them in circulation alongside bank paper convertible on demand. The recommendation was that they, with the whole debt of the island, should be funded at once, and so withdrawn from circulation. As a floating debt they cckuld only be a source of continual em barrassment to the treasury. Whilst on the subject of the West Indies, it may be properly mentioned that an associa tion now formed here, under the title of the " West India Emigration Society," is powerfully calculated to advance the interests and welfare of these late valuable colonies. Occa sion will be taken to explain the objects of this meritorious society more fully on an early day. In the Barbadoes papers there is a statement of sugar and molasses shipped from that island up to the sailing of the packet ; of sugar there was 9,482 hhds., 470 tierces, and 194 barrels ; and of molasses, 1,462 puncheons, 90 hhds., and 33 barrels. . It appears by the Trinidad papers that a meeting of cocoa planters had been held there for the purpose of petitioning for the removal of the restrictions fettering the commerce of Trinidad with Spain, and for a further reduction in the duty on cocoa. The result was the adoption of a petition to the Home Government on the subject, and an expression of hope that this would be accepted as worthy of suggestion in the proposed new treaties of commerce which it was understood were about to be entered into the between Great Britain and Spain. A return of the commerce of the island had been published for the year 1839. According to this, the value of imports on which duties were paid during that period was £397,020. On the imports of foreign articles the customs had received £95,336 12s. Bd., and the official value of the exports was £424,343. The amount of sugar was about four fifths of the whole. NOVA SCOTIA From Halifax, Nova Scotia, the dates are to the 21st of June, but they refer to nothing of interest. According to accounts from St. John's New Brunswick, in these papers several extensive failures had occurred there, which had na turally created a great stagnation of business. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE By the Hawk, arrived at Deal, advices have been received from the Cape of Good Hope to the 17th of May. The small-pox still continued its ravages. From an abstract of the revenue accounts it appears that the customs for 1839 showed an increase of £5,000 above those for 1838. The singularity is recorded of a Caifre chief applying to the courts of justice for damages on account of injury, done to his cha racter flora libel, which was regarded with favour as an ap proach to civilization in preferring the legal and authorised mode to more violent and barbarous means of revenge for wrong inflicted NEW SOUTH WALES Sydney papers to the 3d of March mention that Sir George Gibbs, the Governor, was introducing " Normanbyism," as it was there called, into the colony; that is, granting free pardon and letting criminals loose on society who had been duly tried and convicted by jury. - . . These papers in the shape of extracts from South Austra lian journals and annotations contain certain passages which may be usefully extracted here for the information, if needed, of the jobbing people in the Adelphi and their dupes most concerned. There is no occasion for comment as what is here found is no more after all than a repetition of what has been urged at various times respecting that colony. "The thing is a whig job—the colony is a bubble which will burst. We have said so often, and we repeat it now. The bubble colony pretends to stand before the English people a specimen of all that's bright and beautiful in the theories of colonisation !—of all that is free and beneficial in the annals of population and in the relations of commerce. The consequence is, that many have committed, and many more may commit themselves, with all their wordly wealth, to those distant shores, to meet only with—disappointment. It may be said of planting a colony, that ' the man who sows an ear of corn where only rank weeds had flourished before, had done more than the mightiest conqueror to benefit man kind ;' but, as we have already said, there must be no forcing —the colony, as well as the corn, must ripen by natural means. But, with respect to South Australia, there already seem misgivings about a public debt. It is said that the government, commercially speaking, is in a state of insol vency—that it neither does, nor can pay its way. It is said to be dependent on the sale of bills to meet its daily neces sities. Will those bills be honoured with cash when they become due ? If not, which does appear likely, public credit must sustain a shock. The bills will be thrown back upon hand ; and then how unfortunate will be the condition of tradesmen who may happen to hold them ? Already a depre ciation in the value of property has taken place—there exists a conviction in the minds of all persons interested in the sub ject that the state of things at South Australia is any thing but sound. All, all is " bubble." The government is in a state of trepidation, and does not know which way to look e fo i d r e a d i d i i! theirand few nd of n ? y e a s a ctots promoteof that government rn m permanente tit ar g es e o o There are accounts besides of the p revalence of robber y tendency t. and bushranging, too long for insertion , but which ma y serv e to enlighten those who are trusting to the specious represen tations of the emigration agents, as to the real state of the country and its prospects.—Morning Herald. AWFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE OF THE MUR DERER, IN LAMBETH. On Monday morning, about ten o'clock, the greatest con sternation and horror were excited in the neighbourhood of St. George's Road, Lambeth, by the intelligence that the above tragical event had occurred at No. 4, Caroline Build ings, near West-street, West-square, Lambeth. The parti culars obtained at the station house, in Tower-street, Lam beth, are as follow : The house in which this melancholy event took place is inhabited by a man named Wetherley, who obtains a preca rious subsistence by showing a seal about the streets. We therley's wife some few days since left her home, and lived with a shoemaker named William Heeley. On Sunday night, the misguided woman changed her mind, and, meeting casually with her husband, she listened to his promises of forgiveness, and assurances of renewed comforts, and re turned home. The husband kept his word, and not a sylla ble of her error was addressed by him to her ; and at an early hour on Monday morning, Wetherley quitted the house, with his seal and barrow. William Heeley, upcn assuring himself that he was deserted by his paramour, and that she had returned to her natural protector, vowed vengeance on her, and he was seen before light on Monday morning, try ing the temper of a carving knife. At ten 'o'clock the neighbourhood was alarmed by piercing screams proceeding from the residence of Wetherley ; and before the cause could be discovered by breaking open the door, Mary Wetherley rushed out, with her throat dreadfully cut, and the blood gushing over her dress and upon the pavement around. The poor creature could not cry for assistance, the blood choking her utterance ; and, after running a few yards, she sunk dead on the ground. The murderer now appeared at the door, and it was evi dently his intention to follow his victim, and, if necessary, finish the deed ; but the sight of some of the neighbours caused him hastily to close the door—not before he had flourished the bloody knife, and with dreadful imprecations vowed instant death to any person who dared to follow or ar rest him. The police now arrived, and, a forcible entrance being obtained, they proceeded to search for the murderer, whom they shortly after discovered lying upon the floor, with .his head, except a small portion of flesh, severed from his body. The place was all the forenoon perfectly inaccessible from the dense crowds congregated upon and around the spot, and multitudes were every minute arriving to obtain a glimpse of the scene of this tragic occurrence. The neighbourhood is a low and mean one, through which there is no thorough fare ; and it is but a short distance from the spot where Oxford lodged. In the confusion which necessarily attends so horrible a transaction as this double deed of blood, it is very difficult to ascertain the precise facts of the case; and the different ac counts received consequently disagree in some of the details. The brother of the unfortunate woman who has fallen a victim to the unhallowed passion of her paramour, states that We therley was a fishmonger; that formerly he was doing very well in that business, and was possessed of money ; but that, through his intemperate habits, he had latterly been very much reduced in his circumstances, and had hawked fish about the streets in the neighbourhood of Greenwich, where he and his wife had lived for the last three years. About two years ago, Heeley, who is a shoemaker, came up from the west of England, and took lodgings with Wetherley and his wife at Greenwich, where he attended to his business, with out any thing occurring to disturb the harmony of the family beyond the occassional drunkenness of the husband. He had not, however, lived long with them before he became very much attached to Mrs. Wetherley, and, in the language of the brother of the deceased, " was so fond of her that he doated upon the very ground on which she stood." His attachment and attentions to the wife soon excited the lealousy of Wetherley, and frequent quarrels among the three were the consequence. They still, however, con tinued to_ live together; and although both Vtrether- . ley and his wife often attempted to induce Heeley to get lodgings elsewhere--for the poor woman was wearied with the constant dissentious to which his unfortu nate attachment gave rise—he still persisted in retaining his ground, and would not be persuaded, by kind words or other wise, to quit the house. Finding that all their efforts to eject him from the lodgings were useless, Wetherley and his wife agreed that they would take lodgings in London un known to Heeley, and leave him in possession of the house at Greenwich. This they had done about a fortnight ago, to the great annoyance of the infatuated Heeley, who hnme diately resolved upon finding them out. On Saturday he met the wife in the neighbourhood of the New Cut, Lam beth, and tried to make her divulge the place of their retreat. This, however, she refused to do, and did all in her power to induce him not to persist in a course which interfered with the happiness of her husband and herself. He was bent .upon revenge, and on Monday morning dogged the steps of the husband home, by that means discovering their dwelling. He then watched him (the husband) out with his barrow an% seal, and thereupon proceeded to the house, when, finding the wretched woman alone, he despatched her as above de scribed. The passage of the house in which the Wetherleys resided resembles the floor of a slaughter-house, deluged with blood, and_ the window-frame on the ground floor bears the marks of the blood-stained hand of the ill-fated woman, whose first act, after she received the fatal wound, was to throw up the window to alarm the neighbours. Heeley, after he had killed the woman, deliberately stood before the lookin g - glass, and cut his own throat from ear to ear. He then sat down iu a chair opposite the glass, but was seen by a pot-boy of a neighbouring public-house, almost im mediately to fall lifeless from the chair. The wound in his own throat is one of the most desperate that could be inflicted by a man's own hand. THE HERRING FISHEItY FOR 1839 The following remarks on the last report of the proceedings of the Herring Fishery, laid before parliament in June last, are from the Dumfries Herald. We are happy to learn from it that the fishing on our shores is every year increasing in the quantity caught, cured, and exported. From a comparison of this report with the preceding one it appears that the quan tity cured during the year ending April, 1839,-was 555,5591 barrels, while the barrels cured the preceding year were only 507,7741. Notwithstanding the great decrease in the quan tity exported to the West Indies, since the emancipation of the negro population, the total quantity exported is also still gradually increasing. The total number of barrels exported during the year, embraced by the last report, is 239,730. Of these, Ireland has taken 150,000 barrels ; other places in Eu rope, 64,780 barrels ; and places out of Europe, 24.943 bar rels. The remainder of the barrels cured have, of coures, bee consumed at home. The growing prosperity of this great national fishery will be best understood, however, from the fact that in 1810, when the Board was instituted, the total number of barrels cured was only about 90,000; whereas the number now cured, as already seen, is 555,559. This is one way of estimating the value of our herring fishery. As a nursery for seamen it has a still higher value. At present it employs 50,000 fishermen, men and boys, and 11,357 boats ; to say nothing of the crews of the various vessels which carry salt, &c. to the fishing stations ; and take our herrings thence to all the ports in Great Britain, and to the Irish and foreign ports to which we send them. The number of persons directly engaged in this navigation, cannot be under 20,000 effective seamen. From this nursery, we know that many of the best of our sailors, during the time of the war, were drawn. And no wonder ; for so difficult and dangerous is the coasting trade of the British seas, that we have heard experienced nautical men say that a boy who has made six or seven voyages round the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and especially through the Pentland Frith, must know his profession as well as the young man who has made the like number of voyages round Cape Horn. Another point must not be forgotten in estimating the value of our herring fishery ; we allude to the great number of vessels it employs, many of them belonging to the ports in the three counties of our own district. To these vessels the Herring Fishery gives the great staple of their trade from the beginning of June to the end of October. At present there cannot be under fifty sail of these vessels of ours carrying salt from Liverpool to the various fishing stations on the East Coast of Scotland, preparatory to the commencement of the catching season. What makes the thing better for them is, that while some of them bring return cargoes of timber from Inverness-shire for railway purposes in England and Wales, others have taken in cargoes, on the spot, of the celebrated Caithness flags, for various ports in Scotland, England, and Ireland. After their next cargo of salt shall have been discharged, the catching will be going on, and all of them will be loaded with herrings in return. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—The demand for yarn on Tuesday was nearly the same as for several weeks past, and prices remain without change. For goods, however, there was rather less demand • and though the general market prices might be said to be unaltered, many sales were made by necessitous manufacturers at rather lower rates than during the prece ding week. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 20. — We have had a very dull market to-day, quite as gloomy as the last. There has been a great deficiency of buyers, and those who have sold have obtained lower prices. The wool market has been much the same as that of last Monday. Little business done, and prices giving way.. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JULY 21.—This was a duller market than many of late, there being few buyers and few sales effected ; but prices remain nominally the same. The spirits of all parties begin to be seriously affected, and if a speedy change for the better does not take place, the worst consequences are inevitable.—Manchester Guardian. DUNDEE. —Our flax market keeps firm, partly from being barely supplied, as also from prices keeping up abroad. Li nens continue to go off pretty freely, as do yarns, but at the same prices as before. We think the stocks are rather di. rninishing, particularly of good dowlas, of which considerable quantities have lately been bought; but we are sorry to say both spinners and manufacturers complain of want of remu neration: _ _ PAISLEY.-It affords us pleasure to state that the trade of Paisley, which has been rather more spirited for two or three weeks past, has undergone a decided improvement this week. During the last eight days great numbers of weavers have been engaged at various kinds of work, and a good deal of it of that description which will give employment to the female portion of the community, as well as to the weavers. —Edinburgh Evening Post. EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF FOXHOUNDS.—The most re markable sale of hounds ever known took place a few days ago at Hyde-park-corner ; the lots were thirteen in number, making 127 hounds, exclusive of whelps ; their produce was 6,511 guineas, or upwards of one hundred pounds per couple! The pack that realised this enormous sum was " the Osbaldeston," which has hunted the old Berkeley country (Hertfordshire) under the mastership of Harvey Combe, Esq ; the Earl of Cardigan was one of the principal buyers. DARING ATTACK UPON A GENTLEMAN AND HIS SER VANT, AND ROBBERY OF FIRE-ARMS. — This morning the following outrage was communicated to us :—On Wednes day night last, as Mr. Daniel Mansergh, one of the high constables for this county, was returning from Dualla, the residence of Mr. John Scully, to Ilallysheehan, he was attacked by four fellows, who demanded the cess that he had collected that day. Mr. Mansergh told them he had lodged the money in the bank at Cashel. They then pulled him and his servant out of the gig, threw them down, and to o k Mr. Mansergh's watch and whatever was in his pocket. They marched them to Mr. Mansergh's house, and told him to bring out the double-barrelled gun he had, whi c h h e refused to do. They then placed him on his knees, and threatened to shoot him. Mrs. Mansergh heard the horse outside, upon which she immediately brought out the gun ; but, not satisfied, they beat Mr. Nlai . isergh and his se rvan t, and made off.—Tipperary ConstilOon. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. — PrivaIe letters from Naples bring accounts of a s hocking accident which t oo k place on the 26th of June, on the railway constructed be tween Naples and Portici. Although the rail was not en tirely finished, notice was given that a journey was td be performed on that part which was finished, and the public went in crowds to obtain tickets. His . Majesty and all th e royal family were anxious to join in the journey, but, owing to its being of a dangerous nature, were persuaded not to venture. The Prince of Salerno was also prevented, havin g been taken ill an hour previous to the starting of the train ; the number of persons who entered the carriages is not as yet exactly ascertained, but suppoied to be from 100 to 300 persons. A short time after their departure the conductor was seized with apople x y ; th e machine, being deprived of its guide, went with great rapidity to the end of the railway which was finished ; unfortunately there was a bridge not half covered which went over a torrent, when the carriage, with the whole of the persons in it, were precipitated into it. It is stated that twenty persons were killed on the spot, and all the others dangerously wounded. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL For the Benefit of Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, on which occasion Madame VESTRIS, Miss ELLEN TREE, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, Mr. ANDERSON, and Mr. JAMES VINING, will sustain the principal characters in the Entertainments of the evening, being positively their last appearance this season. THIS present FRIDAY, July 24, 1840, will be performed the Comedy of the RIVALS; OR, A TRIP TO BATH. Lydia Languish Madame Vestris. Julia Miss Ellen Tree. Bob Acres Mr. Charles Mathews. Faulkland Mr. Anderson. Captain Absolute Mr. James Vining. After which, the Drama, called FAINT HEART NEVER WON. FAIR LADY. Ruy Gomez Mr. Charles Mathews, As originally performed by him in London. Duchess de Torrenueva Madame Vestris, As originally performed by her in London. To conclude with the Drama of the YOUTHFUL QUEEN. Steinberg Mr. James Vining. Christine.... (the Youthful Queen).... Miss Ellen Tree, As originally performed by her in London. Mr. J. G. VANDEN H OFF, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent- Garden, is engaged for TEN NIGHTS at this Theatre, and will make his appearance on MONDAY NEXT, in the Tra gedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff ; The Ghost, Mr. Stuart; Polonius, Mr. Baker; Horatio, Mr. Chaplin ; Laertes, Mr. W. Howard •, The Queen, Miss Cleaver; Ophelia, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—With a favourite Afterpiece. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS THE GRAND BOMBARDMENT of ALGIERS will take place THIS DAY, (Friday,) and MONDAY next. To be repeated EVERY MONDAY and FRIDAY during the Season, weather permitting. An excellent BRASS BAND in attendance every day. Admittance, One Shilling. SPLENDID PICTURE OF THE "PRESIDENT" STEAM SHIP. The readers of the STANDARD, and the public generally, are respectfully informed, that on Friday, the 31st of July instant, will be presented gratuitously to subscri bers and purchasers of the paper of that day a beau tiful Picture of the PRESIDENT, the largest Steam ship in the world, to be lithographed by a first-rate Artist, from a splendid painting by Mr. S. Walters, a gentleman of the highest celebrity as a Marine Painter. This Picture will be accompanied by a full and authentic description of the vessel, her construc tion, engines, and equipments. The production of this work of art will be attended with very considerable Cost ; but the liberal patronage with which the STANDARD has been honoured, in duces us to make this sacrifice, in testimony of our gratitude, and in the hope that to a commercial and nautical community such a present may be found acceptable. As we anticipate a large sale on the day in question, a more favourable opportunity could not be presented for the wide circulation of advertisements, which we respectfully solicit. To parties desirous of obtaining Pictures, we suggest an early application at the office, where a book will be kept for the insertion of names, in order that the earliest and best impressions may be secured. Standard-office, July 13th, 1840. IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the following is the necessary qualification, namely : " The occupation on the ensuing 31st August, and during the two preceding years, of a house, warehouse, counting-house„ or shop, within the borough, for which the occupier is rated, and on which all rates due thereon, except those becoming due within six months before the 31st, have been paid before that date." The occupier must also, during the whole of that pe riod, (say two years and nine months,) have been an in habitant householder within seven miles of the borough. The day on which claimants' qualifications must be completed, and the last day for payment of rates, is the 31st of August. The sth of September is the day on which the overseers are required to make out the burgess lists, and to deliver them to the Town-clerk, who is to fix a copy of them on the Town-hall, during the week preceding the 15th of September. A ` person succeeding to the occupation of ouse, by descent, marriage, demise, 4-c., is entthed to reckon as his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or through whom he succeeds. Ebt Lthcrpoot &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1840 We have received a copy of the Halifax (N.S.) Journal of the 22d of June. The news which it con tains has been anticipated by the arrival of the Great Western. Very genial weather had been experienced throughout the province. The crops were looking re markably well. We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. 8.) Weekly Chronicle of the 19th of June. It contains no news of importance. The province had been for some weeks favoured with the most propitious weather that the farmer could desire. There was every prospect of an early and abundant harvest. Our files of the Sydney papers reach to the 28th of March. They contain an account of a destructive fire which occurred there on the 18th of March, and 'which destroyed property to the amount of £20,000. It broke out on the premises of Mr. Blanch, an iron-foutider, and afterwards extended to the Royal Hotel, the Old Theatre, and several other buildings. The United States ships Vincennes and Peacock had arrived at Sydney after a successful voyage of discovery in the southern seas. The Peacock obtained soundings in a high southern latitude, but the Vincennes ran down the coast of the southern continent from. 154 deg. 18 min. to 97 deg. 45 min. of east longitude, about 1700 miles, within a short distance of the land, often so near as to obtain soundings with a few fathoms of line. Since our last another West India mail has arrived, bringing papers of a few days later date than the last. In another column we have given a summary of the news. We learn from the Demerara papers that the first instalment of immigrants had arrived at George town from Baltimore, through the instrumentality of Mr. Carbery. We addressed a few words in our last publication to the moderate or constitutional reformers of Liverpool, urging them to pause and reflect before they embarked in a new course of agitation. Our immediate object, we need scarcely remark, was to prepare them for an approaching election ; to prevail upon them to look, at such a crisis as the present, not to the mere watch words of party—not to professions, however plausi ble—but to the measures placed before them for their approval, the means by which those measures are pro posed to be carried out; and THE MEN with whom they are to be associated in securing them. It will be admitted, we think, that there.never was a period in the history of our country which more im peratively called for the formation of an able, an honest, and a strong government, than at the present crisis. Abroad and at home we are alike beset with difficulties which require such a government ; and the question which the moderate reformer will have to decide at the approaching election is, whether that government shall be one of an ultra democratic character, or conserva tive of the entireness of the empire and its institu tions ; whether we are to push forward the progress of the movement beyond the pale of our Protestant con stitution, or TO MAKE OUF. STAND NOW, AND TO STAND FAST UPON THE ROCK OF THAT CONSTITU- TION WHICH HAS BORNE US lIITHERTO SAFE AND UNSCATHED, AND FROM WHICH, BY THE BLESSING OF GOD, WE HAVE BERN ENABLED TO DICTATE PEACE TO EUROPE AND TO THE WORLD This is, we maintain, the question which the mode rate reformer will be called upon shortly to decide. It is no longer one of mere party interest—whether the existing constitution Khali be administered by Sir Ro bert Peel or by Lord Melbourne--but whether, for the purpose of perpetuating whig rule, that constitution shall be broken in upon—whether the government shall he allowed to ally itself with those who are actually seeking a dismemberment of the empire and its power to be wielded by a traitor, the foul libeller of this coun try and the tyrant of his own. This question, then, we call upon our fellow-townsmen calmly and dispassion ately to weigh and to decide upon ; and if there be still that high-toned - moral feeling in the British character which was handed down to us from the better days of the constitution, we have no fear that the result will not be one of triumph to every true lover of his father land. We have in another article laid before our readers, the insidious movement by which the ministerial and anti-English party are endeavouring to swamp the sound constituency of Liverpool and to convert this loyal town into a nomination borough in the gift of the profligate Irish demagogue who sways the government of fallen England. Good God !—the commerce, the wealth, the enterprise of this great community repre sented by the elected of the brogueless and tattered oc cupants of cellars, courts, and alleys from Marybone to Clarence Dock—from Brick-street to the Potteries ! Can such utter contamination be allowed ? Can men who have boasted of such names as those of Brougham, Canning, Huskisson, and Sandon as their candidates or their representatives, submit to crawl through the degradation of a base subserviency to a mendicant im postor, or mingle their breath with those " most sweet voices" which, from lips reeking with the fumes of whisky. will rise to hail the triumph of Popery and O'Connell over Protestantism and the loyal British feelings of their fellow-townsmen ? We trust not. For the honour and credit of Liverpool we trust not ! The merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool have great and important interests at stake—interests which demand the prompt and undivided attention of the le gislature. Their object should he to obtain a vigorous and, above all, a working, practical government—one composed of business men and disposed to enter upon business questions. That the present is not such a go vernment we need scarcely waste words to prove ; and that a further infusion of Popish and democratic ma terials will not make it such a government we need as little endeavour to demonstrate. The modern liberals, as a party, have shown themselves utterly incapable, if they had not also been indisposed, to legislate upon commercial and financial questions ; and any addition of strength which they may acquire from an election will be exercised to press forward innovation and theo retical change, rather than to disentangle the intricate and, to a ‘ whig-radical patriot, the dry and uninterest ing details of business questions. It may indeed be argued that such a man as Sir Joshua Walmsley—the candidate, in whose behalf popery and Whig-radicalism are making such strenuous exertions in Liverpool—is a man of business, tho roughly versed in our commerce and in the local matters of our town. This may to some extent be true—although it is wonderful under what a small bushel the worthy knight has hitherto contrived to hide the lustre of his shining abilities, even as a com mercial man ; but in the House of Commons, how ever useful such a man might be, the individual would be at once sunk in the mass, and, bound up amongst the thick and thin supporters of a government, which is not a business government, Sir Joshua Wahnsll, even as the representative of Liverpool, would be only a prominent joint of the Tail which ornaments the per son of the methber for all Ireland—a unit of the majo rity which on every occasion will be found arrayed against the constitution and the liberties of English- We call, then, upon the friends of the constitution ; we call upon every true reformer to vote and use his influence at the approaching election, not upon per sonal, but upon public and national grounds ;—to sup port not the individual but the cause. It is time—full time—that we possessed a government able and willing to attend to the internal state of the country; to adjust and correct the evils which afflict our commerce and our manufactures. The blood-thirsty " Nero fiddled whilst Rome was burning." Our present government, and the party which supports them, dangle in the saloons of Buckingham Palace, and court the favour of grooms and bedchamber women, whilst commer cial stagnation and wide-spread ruin are sapping the foundations of their country's prosperity ; the present parliament of Great Britain agitates paltry theories— spending night after night in debating upon the case of a church-rate martyr or a detected demagogue—a Thorogood or an • O'Connor—whilst the insidious enemies of Great Britain are hourly cutting off the sources of her strength, casting dishonour upon her hitherto stainless banner, and bringing down upon the very name of " Englishman" the contempt and ex ecration of mankind ! We would also respectfully, but strongly, warn our fellow townsmen, of the dangerous consequences to them and to their country, of a victory gained in Li verpool, by popish aid, over the protestant feeling of Great Britain.. The contest, about to be entered upon, is not merely one of 'party.:--3f whig - or conservative politics—but a contest of antagonist principles ; a con test, which is to decide whether the British constitu tion is to be perpetuated as a protestant constitution, or weakened and betrayed into the longing grasp of mingled popery and infidelity. A victory of repeal and O'Connell principles in Liverpool would be hailed in every popish court in Europe—would resound through every den of Romish France, from Maynooth to the Vatican—as the avant-courier of the universal domi nion of superstition, and a notice to whet the dagger and sharpen the sword of persecution. The fangs of the Romish wolf have of late been displayed too openly in this protestant state. Take care, protestants of Li verpool, that the truculent and savage monster is not blooded and let loose upon society by your own blind and wilful infatuation ! It is abundantly disgusting to observe the alacrity with which the arch-hypocrite O'Connell denounces the ribbon conspiracy, now that its objects and work ing appear likely to be betrayed to public execration — now that it has served his unholy purposes, and when his continued countenance might endanger the impu nity which has hitherto attended his own treasonable machinations. Cowardly by nature as he is unprinci pled, the impostor is as ready to consign to the gallows his ignorant dupes, as the most depraved burglar to turn king's evidence for the purpose of saving his con temptible life, or the baffled gamester to drop a card from his hand for the purpose of saving, by a. wrangle, his paltry stake. In the midst of the condemnation however, which, with a view to effect, he took an opportunity on Friday last at the Corn Exchange, to deal out upon the mem.. bers of the Ribbon Society, it is impossible not to no tice that a feeling of disappointment in the subject is the all pervading sentiment of his mind. It is not the existence of ribbonism which O'Connell deprecates, but discovery ! And as a proof of this, he breaks out into a frenzied attack upon the press—for what—do you suppose reader ? Why for reporting the proceed ings and. especially the speeches of the counsel, Mr. Brewster, and Mr. M`Donough, at the trial of Jones, the ribbon secretary. " I found"—he says—" that on the trial of Jones, Mr. Brewster was first counsel for the defendant, and Mr. M‘Donough, an able man, was second counsel. They ought to bring an action—l do not often advise the bringing of actions—but they ought to bring an action against the papers for misre presentation of their conduct, for Mr. Brewster, as the senior counsel, is responsible for the acts of his juniors, and the representations of the newspapers must be un true. Mr. M`Donough is represented to have examined a witness so as to bring home the guilt to his own cli ent. That was answering a political purpose to show that ribbonmen were murderers. What counsel would sacrifice his client to a political purpose ? The repre sentation must be untrue. At the Irish bar an occur rence of the same kind never took place before. Coun sel cross-examined witness to show that his client was involved in the guilt of the murder of Ganley. Ido not hesitate to say that every one of the counsel who are represented in the newspapers as acting in this way to their own clients, have but one remedy to clear them selves of the imputation, and that is to bring an action ' against the newspapers." We are really not aware what are the political opinions of the gentlemen thus denounced for the strict and bold performance of their duty as advocates ; but we perfectly understand the motive which prompted this attack upon their honour. Our readers, we dare say, will remember that upon the trial in question a miscreant named Kennedy—a rib bontnan—was cross-examined by the counsel for the prisoner, and admitted that he had been implicated in, and an eye-witness to many " slatings " committed by the orders of the Ribbon Society ; and that, in partic -1 ular, he was a party to the murder of a man named Ganley who was beaten to death by a ribbon-gang, in the egg-market, in Dublin—the guilt of which offence was foully charged by O'Connell himself upon the trades' unions of Dublin. The object of the learned counsel in cross-examining this wretch, was doubtless to save their client by show- . ing how immeasurably infamous was the character of the government witness ; but not to save life—not even in the performance of their duty to their. client should counsel, in the opinion of Mr. O'Connell, examine a witness whose testimony might let out the awkward fact " that the ribbonmen were murderers." No, no ! Let the detected criminal pay the full penalty of his incaution. Let him hang or be transported ; but let not the hidden mysteries of ribbonism be laid bare to the public gaze ! Let no irreverent eye be permitted to intrude into the inner chambers, from whence her blood-stained agents send forth their death-dealing warrants, and direct the sharpened dagger to the heart of their unsuspecting and unofFending victims We cannot conclude without noticing the following " rich " passage in the address of this double-dyed scoundrel—O'Connell, not the murderer Kennedy—to his Corn Exchange auditory. " How often "—he ex claims, the innocent lamb !—" How often and often have I cautioned those who belonged to associations of ribbonmen that the time would come when their fellows would betray them, and the arm of the law would reach them ? " The fear of being betrayed—the fear of the arm of the law, and not that of God, was the fear held out by the hypocrite to the poor ignorant beings who were risking life and soul for the furtherance of his villanous schemes—" more than twenty-live years ago I denounced the system to Saurin, and put him in pos session of the means of prosecuting the system with success ! " Where, we ask, did he get the means— where and how did he gain admission into the myste rious secrets of this dark and hellish conspiracy ? And why has that knowledge slept for twenty-five long years, and only oozes out at this time, when it is convenient to disavow sympathy with those traitors whose bungling has rendered further concealment next to impossible ? It is a mockery to ask the cause of all these things. That cause is too evident and too palpable. A few months ago, who so ready to deny the very existence of ribbonism as O'Connell and his press ?—his press, for that is his which does his work. Yet for twenty-five years this traitor and hypocrite has possessed a full knowledge of the secret workings of ribbon treason, outrage, and murder ; and that knowledge has been allowed to sleep undisturbed in the darkest and most polluted depths of his malignant mind ! Protestants of Liverpool This is the man with whom you are called to ally yourselves at the approaching election. Oh ! if you love your own peace of mind— your own self respect ; if you love quiet dreams and an undisturbed conscience, spurn the contamination which such unheard-of infamy is calculated to bring upon your names and the character of your fellow-townsmen I Well ! after all the pamphleteering of Alderman Evans—after all the speechifying in the Council Room—the Dock Warehouse Bill has been withdrawn. The lateness of the session is the ostensible reason for this procedure ; but we apprehend that the powerful opposition which was anticipated in the House of Lords was the strongest argument in favour of the so-called " suspension" of the bill. We heartily con gratulate the warehouse-owners and the mercantile interests of the town generally upon the defeat of this measure. We have little fear of its re-introduction next session into Parliament. If the promoters of the bill should have the temerity to make a second attempt we confidently venture to prophesy for it the same fate as that which the late bill has experienced. It is pro bable that the expences attendant upon the futile en deavour of the majority of the Town Council and the Dock Committee will amount to considerably mere than ten thousand pounds. What will the public say to this lavish waste ? The money might as well have been thrown into the Mersey. Freemen of Liverpool ! Once more we call upon you to see that your names are upon the register ; and once more we call upon the influential conservatives of Liverpool to strain every nerve for increasing the roll of freemen. There is no time to be lost. Surely, the wealthy and powerful phalanx of conservative mer chants and tradesmen are not prepared to hand over the representation of Liverpool to the treasonable rib bonites of the Protector Association. It is not yet too late to rescue the town from this degradation. If pro per exertions are used much may be accomplished, during this and the following days, in neutralising the efforts of your opponents. See that every reasonable facility is offered for the registration of the freemen. Their rights must not suffer from any trickery on the part of the functionaries at the Town-hall. Again we say FREEMEN ! REGISTER ! ! NEW MAP OF LIVERPOOL.—We have received a copy of Mr. Wyld's beautiful map of Liverpool and its environs. It is most beautiful, correct, and minute ; but we have not room to notice it at length until Tuesday. NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIPS.—The second of these fine vessels, named the Acadia, arrived here yesterday, having made, we understand, a very rapid passage from the Clyde. She starts on the 4th August, with the mails and passengers, for Halifax and Boston. The Queen has 'been pleased to appoint Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., and Lieut.-Gen. Sir. 11. Douglas, Bart.► companions of the most honourable military order of the Bath, to be knights commanders of the said order. NORTHERN DIVISION.—We have heard that the radicals intend to start one of the Burlington family for the northern division, and that the person selected holds a place at court. This must be the Hon. Col. Cavendish, clerk marshal to her majesty.—Lancaster Gazette. COURT OF PASSAGE.—The court of passage for the trial of causes in the borough of Liverpool was held yesterday in the sessions house, before Charles Crompton, Esq., assessor. The cause list contained 25 issues and two writs of trial, but none of the cases possessed the slightest public interest. We perceive that a reward of thirty pounds has been offered to any person who will produce the watch worn by the late Mr. John Bibby on Friday last. It is described as a double bottomed silver lever hunting watch, with engine-turned cases, and engraved on the outside with the initials " J.. 7.. B." It is jewelled, has a hard enamelled dial, and bears the maker's name—" R. Roskell, No. 41,668." THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.--This line vessel has been visited since her arrival from Ireland on her trial-trip by many persons, who have expressed theii high admiration of her great size, beautiful sea-going model, and splendid accommodations. We are informed that the vessel, before her departure to America, will he shewn to the public, at a small admission sum,—the proceeds to be given to the prin cipal public charities,—an object highly creditable to the pro prietary, and which will, at the same time, give great gratification to the public. [Several typographical errors appeared in our account of the trial-trip of the President, arising from the hurry of the occasion, but they are such as do not require a list of errata.] THEATRE-ROYAL. —Last evening the comedy of the " Merry Wives of Windsor" was revived at the Theatre- Royal, and received by the audience with hearty welcomes. Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Anderson, and Miss Grant, were loudly applauded in their several parts. Mr. Baker played Sir John Falstaff: and we must say that much was wanting in his execution of the character, although his conc t eption of it was good. Mr. George Horncastle's Pistol was excellent. Taken altogether, the stock company acquitted themselves with credit. Next Monday. Mr. Van deuhoff makes his first appearance this season in the charac ter of Hamlet. THE LATE MR. Binwe.—There being some inaccuracy in our report of the evidence given by Mr. Wainwright, the surgeon, who examined the body of the late Mr. Bibby, we have been requested to insert the following, which has been revised :—Mr. Thomas Wainwright, surgeon, stated that he had made a complete examination of the body of the de ceased. There were several round ecchymosed spots on the inner side of the right arm, and a similar but larger spot on the outside of the forearm, and at the back of the same wrist. The colour of the surface of the body was pale, ex cept of the face, which was rather livid. The eyes and mouth closed ; pupils slightly dilated ; countenance placid ; no froth about nostrils or mouth. The ventricles of the brain contained a considerable quantity of clear serum, and some was found also at the base of the brain. The vessels of the brain not distended. Diaphragm in its na tural position. Liver indurated and of a redder colour than natural. The bag of the pharynx contained a quan tity of fluid mixed with mucus. The trache was ex amined to its bifurcation, and contained a large quantity of a similar fluid, which was slightly frothy near its divi sion. The lungs were distended, filled the chest, and were of a .dark colour. A considerable quantity of bloody serum on both sides of the chest and in the pericardium. The right side of the heart, and the large vessels connected with this side greatiy distended, with black blood in a perfectly fluid state. The stomach contained at least a pint of thin fluid, mixed with some undigested food. From all the facts, he should infer that the deceased was alive when he fell into the water, and that death was instantaneous. If he had been thrown in when in a state of deep sleep, he might have died quietly. He (witness) felt sonic difficulty in accounting for the marks of violence. [The persons who had taken the de ceased out of the water suggested that the spots might have been caused by the pitchfork, because they caught hold of the body by the arm.] The witness thought that the marks could not have been produced after death. He thought they were just such spots as would have been made by the pressure of fingers. He did not think the deceased had been suffo cated before being thrown in the water. If such had been the case, he would_ expect to find some marks about the mouth and nose. He K•as decidedly of opinion that the cause of death was drowning, and that the deceased was not throws into the water after death. LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.—The next assizes will commence at Lancaster on Tuesday the 11th August, and at Liverpool, on Monday the 17th August. The records in causes to be tried at Lancaster, and at issue on or before Monday, the 27th of July should be ordered on that day. The last days for making up issues in time for trial at the next assizes, will be in causes to be tried at Lancaster, Saturday, the Ist of August. In causes to be tried at Liverpool, Saturday, the Bth of August, on which day the records must be ordered. Eight exclusive days' notice of trial in all personal actions must be given for the next assizes in causes at issue in time for trial at the last assizes. The jury process for the trial of causes at Lancaster, will be issued at Preston, on Tuesday morning, the 11th of August; and for the trial of causes at Liverpool, on Monday morning, the 17th of August. Rule day before the assizes, Thursday, the 16th of July instant.-- Rule day after the assizes, Thursday, the 17th of September next. Declarations against defendants in gaol on writs of eapias, must be filed on or before Thursday, the 13th of August next. In pursuance of the general rule of court of September assizes, 1824, the causes intended to be tried at Liverpool, will be entered in the following order .-Ist list, West Derby Hundred ; 2nd list, Salford Hundred.. The business of the public offices will be transacted at Preston during the assizes.