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Elrip trial Varitament. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY EDUCATION The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved for the return of mi nutes of proceedings before the privy council on the subject of education, which he said would be satisfactory to all who took an interest in the important subject of education. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY expressed satisfaction at what had fallen from the noble marquis, and was gratified that all the differences that had existed on the subject be tween the authorities of the church of England and the com mittee of the privy council, with respect to the appointment of inspectors of schools, were likely to be removed. HE REGENCY The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose and said, my lords I trust your lordships will ,be of opinion that the importance of the subject to which I am about to call your lordships' atten tion justifies me in departing from that which is the custom of this house, not to make a statement on any bill until it comes to the second reading. But my lords, I am anxiour that your lordships should be put in possession of the general provisions of this bill before it is placed in your lordships hands. Your lordships will recollect, that immediately be fore the accession of her present majesty to the throne, it was thought necessary to make a provision for the only con tingency which might at that time occur, and which ap peared a possible event—of the crown descending to an illus trious individual who, from his important position as the sovereign of another country, might not be in these domini ons at the time of his accession to the throne. For that con tingency your lordships and the other house of parliament thought it proper to make a provision for the government of the country until the sovereign himself should arrive to fulfil the duties and prerogatives which so devolved upon him. That is not the only contingency, my lords, which isto be guarded against now. An event may occur which for a long series of years may leave the country in this state that the heir to the throne may be an infant of tender years, and incapable of dis charging the duties and of exercising the rights and preroga tives of a sovereign. That is a contingency which your lordships do not contemplate—(loud cries of hear, hear) — and if the prayers of a nation be heard, it will not occur. (Much cheering.) The nation hopes, my lords, that the life of her majesty may be prolonged, far beyond the term when the presumptive heir may arrive at a majority. But it is needful for your lordships, with all desire to trust in Providence, to guard against the possibility of that event which might hap pen at any term within a long series of years, during which the heir to the throne would be in a state of infancy. Your lordships have therefore to consider whether it is not expe dient to guard against this possibility, and to provide the means by which, in such an event, the royal functions should be exercised. If that should be your lordships' opinion of the duty of parliament, and if any of your lordships should think it expedient now to make the provision, the question then will be—First. To whom the important right of exercis ing the royal powers, during the infancy of the sovereign, shall be confided. and whether there shall be any provision made as to the mode in which that individual shall exercise those functions. It is a relief to me, in submitting a mea sure for this purpose to your lordships' consideration, to find that, under circumstances very similar, the, opinion of par liament was declared in an act passed in the year 1830. I great satisfaction to me, because that act passed _.:r circumstances which entitled it pre-eminently to the consir leration of this house, and not only received the sanc tion of both houses, but became the law of the land. It was introduced by a noble and learned friend of mine, a member of the then administration. It made but little progress be fore that administration change.!, but it contained provisions so much approved of by parliament, that it was taken up by the government which followed, and became law by the unanimous approbation of all parties in parliament. I said it was a great satisfaction to me to find that precedent, be cause it enables me to recall to your lordships' recollec tion the provisions introduced into that measure on the two subjects I have referred to, and therefore supersedes in a great measure the necessity of travelling back to an ear lier period of our history, and to the discussions of former parliaments. The act of 1830 was passed on the accession of his late Majesty, her present Majesty being then of tender years; of years that would have been impossible for her, if the crown had descended to her, for her personally to have administered its duties. The provisions of that act were, that in that event the illustrious mother of her Majesty should have the guardianship of the person of the Queen, and exercise the duties of, and act as regent for, her Majesty, un til she attain the age of 18 years, under certain restrictions. This act contemplated the crown descending on a minor, and making provisions for the government. That to which I now call your lordship's attention also provides for the possible event of the crown's decending to a minor ; and in that pos sible event there is a possibility, at least, of the infant's sur viving its parent. My lords, that surviving parent, so iden tified with the interests of the infant sovereign, is the person to whom you would naturally look as the proper person to have the care and guardianship of the infant, and to have the administration of the duties of office. It was so considered in 1830 ; and I trust your lordships will entertain the same opinion now. (Hear, hear.) Another question remains, whether the regent so appointed should be fettered by any parliamentary restrictions, or whether the regent should be permitted to exercise all the power, all the duties, and all the functions of the sovereign ? My lords, a case may un doubtedly occur, in which parliament may think it necessary, for some temporary absence, or some temporary illness, of the sovereign, to provide the means of exercising the royal authority, and yet the great object may be to preserve the royal authority unimpaired to the sovereign when he may re turn. Such was the object of the bill to which I have before adverted, and which passed in the first year of her Majesty's reign. The bill did not appoint a regent ; it appointed lords justices ; and the object of the bill was to do as little as might be, but to preserve things in that state, that the sovereign, on coming into this country to assume the reins of government, might find public affairs in the same state, as nearly as possible, as they had been left by the preceding sovereign. But, my lords, when your lordships are making provision, the object of which must be to provide for the government of the country for a long series of years, your lordships will be of opinion, that it is not prudent, that it is not safe, and that it is not con sistent with the principles of the constitution, that the sove lower should be fettered in the bands of the regent.— ir ' hear, hear," from Lord Lyndhurst, and other noble The power and prerogatives of the crown are given to the crown to preserve the balance of the different parts of the consititution of the country,—they are given to the crown in that state in which it is most beneficial to the pub tonld be preserved. They are not, therefore, given to for any other purpose than being exercised, and, occasion may require, of adding to or strengthening the power of the crown, or dealing with the affairs of the state in such manner as it is the duty of the crown, according to the constitution, to exercise or deal with them. They are not larger than the constitution of the country thought ne cessary.; and if they are necessary so to be exercised, in the person of the sovereign sitting on the throne, in his right band, and in the plenitude of the power which a sovereign exercises, how much more necessary must they be when the powers of the sovereign are exercised, not by one in his own right, but by a person with the diminished powers and au thority of a regent. (Hear.) After some further observa tions, the noble and learned lord moved that the bill be read a first time, which was agreed to nem. con. The bill was then ordered to be read a second time on Monday. The noble lord then moved the third reading of the admi nistration of justice bill, which was carried after a few words from Lord DENMAN. The grammar-schools bill and the convicted infants' edu cation bill were afterwaids read a second time, and the house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TnURSDAY. BISHOP OF CARLISLE'S ESTATE BILL. On the motion of Mr. KEMBLE, this bill was read a second time; and on the question that it be committed, Mr. DUN. COMBE rose to oppose the motion. He could not understand why this bill had been kept back so long, and why it was to be forced on at the present period of the session, when it was impossible there would be time sufficient to discuss its pro visions in committee. Now, what was the object of the pre sent measure? It was to permit the sale of the estate belong ing to the prebend's stall in St. Paul's Cathedral, the property of the Bishop of Carlisle. The value of that stall was £l4BO. a year, for which the only duty to be performed by that bishop was preaching two sermons annually. The present bishop had granted a lease of that property, of which 274 years were unexpired, to the city of London ; and the bill was to enable the .sale of the whole property to the city for the sum of £240,000., £40,000. of which was to go to the present Bishop of Carlisle, and the remainder was to be paid to the governors of Queen Anne's bounty ; but that amount was afterwards to be taken out of their hands, and given to the present Bishop of London, to be by him appropriated as he should think proper. Now, he (Mr. Duncombe) could not see wby such a distrust should be shown of the governors of Queen Anne's bounty. The real secret of the bill was, that it was intended to defeat the provisions of the ecclesiastical duties and re venues bill. Such being the case, he could see no reason why the bill should be passed through the house during the present session ; and he should therefore move, that the bill should be committed that day tnree months. Mr. WAKLZY seconded the motion. Mr. KEMBLE thought that which had been stated by the hon. member showed the necessity for its being referred to a committee. The object of the bill was to enable the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury to enter into the sale of the property to the corporation of London, anti to apply the moner_to the endowment of churches fi ve m il es west of St. Paul's and five miles east of Westminster ; and, according to the provisions of the bill . , the whole amount of any endowment was not to exceed £3OO. He trusted, there fore, that the house would allow a bill, having such laudable objects in view, to proceed. (Hear.) Mr. WAKLEY said, that by this bill he was called upon to alienate from the church a property which, when the lease expired, would produce £47,500 per annum ; and he was called upon to legislate upon the bill in total ignorance of all the facts of the case. It was not fair, either to the house or to the public,- and there was no reason_ fur such haste. At all events, delay it till next session, and, during the recess, members might have an opportunity of making themselves acquainted with all facts relating to the property. It ap peared to him to be an unjust proposal ; and even if the bill went into committee, it was impossible that it could pass during the present session. Why should not the property be put up to public auction. He was aware that £200,000 was to be paid as the purch ase money ; b ut they were sacr ifi c i n g an income of £47,000 for one of only £7,000. He trusted the house would agree not to proceed with the bill during the present session. Mr. FRESHFIELD said, it was true that the property would produce an income of £47,500 at the end of 274 years • but that would be only provided, that some party had such a' n in terest in the property as to keep it in good repair. He would assure the house, that there was no improvidence in the bar gain, nor would the church suffer any damage ; for the full present money value of the whole property was to be paid down. Members voting for the amendment would do so be cause of the want of information, yet they would take the only means to prevent it from being supplied. There was plenty of time for the consideration of the case, and he trusted the house would refer the bill to a committee. Sir R. INGLIS said, the fact was that, if the present Bishop of Carlisle should live so long as 274 years, he would lose £47,000 a year ; but, unless they identified him with the church, the church would remain unaffected by the bill. Captain PECHELL asked the right hon. baronet to consent to the postponement of the present bill, until they had ascer tained what was the feeling of the house with regard to the Farnham Rectory Bill. It appeared to him, that, the Bishop of Carlisle not being a consenting party to the bill, more time should he given for inquiring into its details. Mr. DARBY said it appeared to him that the Farnham Rectory Bill was based upon a totally different principle from the present measure. _ Sir S. LUSHINGTON was also of opinion that the bill differed essentially fro m th e F arn h am R ec t o ry Bill. He confessed that he had some difficulty in believing that the present was by any means an advantageous bargain for the church. He did not, however, mean to vote for the amend ment of his hon. friend, beca use h e thought the o bj e ctions which had been urged could be just as satisfactorily discussed in committee. He thought it extremely injudicious to give up public property to the amount of £17,000 per annum for the sake of a sum of £200,000, more especially when he con sidered that it twenty-seven years that property would be worth £1,200,000. It was not wise, in his opinion, to make such a sacrifice. Mr. GOULBURN said he should vote for going into com mittee on much the same grounds as the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets. He had over-estimated the future value of the property ; but lie concurred with him, that the bill should go into committee. The house then divided, and the'numbers were—For the motion, 85 ; for tilt amendment, 11; majority, 74. The report of th e committee on the Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road Bill was brought up. / 'W7 *--.40 NOTICES OF MOTION Captain PECREL7iiBWjoiiceoiliiiintention, in the com mittee on the county constabulary bill, to move amendments on the 20th clause. Mr. ESTCOURT gave notice that to-morrow he should move for a committee to revise the standing orders of the house. Lord SANDON gave notice, that to-morrow, on the order of the day for the house going into committee of supply being read, he should call the attention of the house to the state of our commercial relations to Portugal. RATING STOCK IN TRADE Mr. WILSON PATTEN wished to know whether the Rating Stock in Trade Bill would come on to-night. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was anxious to proceed with the bill as speedily as possible ; but he feared there was no chance of its being brought forward to-night or to-morrow night; but as the house would probably sit on Saturday— (cries of " No, no")—it might be brought on that day. Mr. GOULBURN objected to the bill being taken on Sa turday. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL hoped the right hon. gentle man would not object to take the bill on Saturday, as it was of importance that the defect in the law should be remedied as speedily as possible. Mr. GOULBURN hoped the amendment to Mr. Poulett Scrope's act would not be considered until the bill of the hon. and learned gentleman had been disposed of. The County Constabulary Bill was read a third time and passed. BANK OF IRELAND The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER moved, in pursu ance of his notice, for leave to bring in a bill touching the charter of the Bank of Ireland. That charter, he said, was terminable at the end of any year on notice from the govern ment, by whom two sums would then be payable—one of about £1,000,000, and the other of £1,500,000. These sums could not, in the present state of the subject, be paid off without the simultaneous determination of the charter; and it was necessary now, either to pay the money in 1841, or to provide for the further continuance of the charter. A committee on joint-stock banks had been appointed at the beginning of the session, and he had waited to see whether there was any likelihood of a report from that committee during the present year ; but it was now apparent that no such report could, be expected before the prorogation. He was, therefore, under the necessity of calling for some legis lative arrangement, but not for a permanent one. He would rather leave the house free to adopt such course as it might deem most expedient after the committee's report ; still it was not necessary, in order to retain this power, that the payment of the money should be postponed year after year. He therefore proposed to consolidate the two sums, one of which bore interest at four per cent, and the other at five, taking a power to repay at any time on six months' notice, but without the present obligation of determining the charter whenever the payment should be made. After some observations from Mr. Hume, Mr. Sergeant JACKSON (who expressed his approbation of the course pro posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer) and another hon. member, leave was given to bring . in the bill. MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR Mr. AGLIONBY moved for copies of any reports or other papers relating to the treatment of Mr. Feargus O'Connor in York Castle. Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion, and read a long and violent letter from Mr. O'Connor, representing his health as having been injured by his confinement. Mr. F. MAULE could not consent to produce the returns which had been moved for. Mr. O'Connor had been con victed of publishing a seditious libel of an aggravated kind ; for the jury were expressly told, that they were bound to acquit the prisoner if they were not satisfied that he had published a libel calculated to incite the people to subvert the constitution of the country. For this Mr. O'Connor had been condemned to imprisonment in York Castle. On Tuesday, at two o'clock, Mr. O'Connor arrived in York, spent the afternoon in seeing the city and visiting the minster, and did not repair to the prison till ten o'clock at night. It had been admitted in former debates, that Mr. O'Connor was not, at his first reception in the prison, placed in that sort of confinement in which it was fit that he should be placed. But as soon as this became known, the Secretary of State interfered, and instructions were given that Mr. O'Connor's situation should be ameliorated, and that he should be allowed various indulgences, but not that of continuing to carry on in prison the paper in which he had published the libel. A doubt having been suggested whether those instructions were carried into effect, a person was sent down to inquire how far those instructions, which had been given to the visiting magistrates, had been carried into effect; and he found that Mr. O'Connor had really re ceived those indulgencies which were directed to be granted to him. As, however, the examinations were not conducted by this gentleman, the only answer which he could return was a simple affirmative or ne gative. With regard to any correspondence which had taken place between Mr. O'Con nor and this gentleman, he (Mr. F. Maule) was not aware of the existence of any such correspondence ; and as to the medical certificates which were moved for, they referred merely to the question of Mr. O'Connor's having been in a fit state to be removed from the Queen's Rench prison to York Castle, and therefore could not be used to show what Mr. O'Connor's condition was in the latter place of confine ment. The marshal of the Queen's Bench prison had given him (Mr. F. Maule) an account of Mr. O'Connor's diet while in the Queen's Bench prison, and also of his exercise, of which racket-playing formed part. Mr. HusrE said, that this was the first time that lie had ever heard of a public officer who had been sent down to make an inquiry returning merely a verbal answer. How ever, if no report in writing had been made, of course none could be produced. After a few words from Sir C. Douglas, General Johnson, and Mr. Aglionby, the gallery was cleared for a division, but there not being 40 members present, the house adjourned at half-past one o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY Lord ABERDEEN, in presenting a petition from the holders of Spanish indemnity bonds, observed, that although mini sters had promised some time since to use every exertion in procuring a settlement of the claims made by the petitioners, nothing had yet been done for their relief. The whole sum for which the bonds were granted amounted only to £300,000, but the interest due upon them had ceased to be paid since 1836, and the holders had of course suffered considerable in convenience. An attempt had been, indeed, made last year to effect an arrangement, but the bills which were issued for the purpose had, when they became due, been protested. As the claims of the petitioners rested on a treaty entered into specifically for the purpose of securing their payment, they were deserving of especial consideration ; and as the exertions of the government had been successful in the case of the aux iliary legion, he hoped they would not be spared in behalf of the petitiOners. Lord MELBOURNE hoped that the time would soon arrive when the claims in question would be liquidated, but he thought that the embarassed circumstances of the Spanish government furnished a sufficient reason for the delay which had taken place, without any blame being attached to her Majesty's ministers. The sum was indeed a small one, but the resources of the country were in the same proportion. He believed that the government of Spain would act fairly in all their engagements, and that the arrears would be paid up with as little delay as possible. Lord Wronow moved for a copy of the instructions given to Sir G. Arthur, on assuming the government of Upper Canada, but Lord Melbourne declining to produce it, the motion was withdrawn. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second reading of the Scotch law of evidence bill, which would abolish the rule at present observed in Scotland, by which witnesses within a certain degree of consanguinity with the parties concerned were excluded from giving evidence. Such a rule must obviously tend to the frustration of justice, and he could not anticipate any opposition to so rational a measure. Lord HADDINGTON, however, thought that the bill should meet with more attentive consideration than it could receive in the present session, and moved accordingly that it should be read a second time that day six months. A short conversation afterwards took place, but when the gallery had been cleared for a division, the amendment was withdrawn. The sale of beer bill was then read a second time, and re ferred to a select committee ; and the report on the settled estates drainage bill having been brought up, their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FmnAy The Farnham Rectory bill was the first question which was discussed in the Commons. After a long and somewhat angry conversation it was ultimately decided by the casting vote of the Speaker that the final debate should be adjourned till Monday. Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice of a motion for Thursday next on the report on the railways bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL asked a question respecting newspaper stamps, but did not explain his object in his usual perspi- cuous manner A new writ was moved for West Surrey On the order of the day for going into committee of sup ply, Mr. FIELDEN moved for a committee to inquire how far the inspectors and superintendants of factories had been employed in other than their appropriate business, and par ticularly in the business of Government spies. From the evidence given before the committee on mills and factories, and particularly from a letter addressed by the London su perintendent to an inspector in Scotland, Mr. Fielden de duced a complaint, that these officers had been unduly and unconstitutionally employed, by the authority of the home department, for the purpose of watching the meetings of the working people, and reporting upon them to Government. The greater part, however, of his speech was quite inaudible. General JOHNSON seconded the motion, expressing a strong disapproval of the spy system. Mr. Fox MAULE could not imagine how the letter, which was strictly confidential, had come into Mr. Fielden's pos session ; it could scarce have come to him fairly ; and if not, the house would be very slow to sanction the use of it. As representing the home department, he had no difficulty in stating that the inspectors had directions from government to add to their factory returns some reports upon the condi tion of the labouring people, and upon the prospects of the harvest, subjects which could not, and ought not, to be in different to any ministers ; but he could not conceive how such instructions could be misconstrued into an employment of the inspectors as spies. Upon Mr. Fielden's principle, public functionaries should learn nothing from their subor dinates ; and thus the best government would be that which should be the least informed. Much responsibility would attach to Mr. Fielden, if his misrepresentations should lead to the ill treatment of any of the persons thus held up by him to public odium as spies. The real friend of the work ing classes was not the man who inflamed them, who taught them to regard the government as their oppressors, and who yet left them unprotected and unempl o y e d i n t h e h our o f e xcitement and distress. With these feelings he must op pose this motion for a committee. Mr. DISRAELI observed, that the Under-Secretary of State had distinctly confessed the inspectors to be employed on duties other than those devolved upon them by parlia ment. He ridiculed the phrase " confidential," a s a p p li e d to a letter like that which had now been read. It might be true that spies were employed in troubled times by every' government, but the present was the only administration which had disguised such acts under the hypocritical and pharisaical pretext of solicitude for the harvest. The Under- Secretary had lectured those who inflamed the people, hav ing first, however, looked behind him to make sure that Mr.. O'Connell was not in his place. Was not this too much froni a ministry which was itself the child and champion of sedition ? . . LOW ASHLEY regretted this motion, which he thought was not likely to serve the people labouring in the factories. They would be great sufferers if a popnlar cry were raised against the inspectors employed to protect them ; nor would it be a decorous proceeding to examine subordinate officers before a - committee for the purpose of getting from them a betrayal of their principals. He hoped Mr. Fielden would not press the subject further. Mr. HINDLEY recommended it to Mr. Fielden to withdraw his motion, and Mr. M. PHILIPS concurred in that recom mendation. He acquitted the government of all blame, and was convinced that the tendency of such imputations as Mr. Fielden had advanced must impair the usefulness of the fa ctoryact. HUMS thought that, after the suspicion thrown upon the inspectors by. Mr. Fielden, the subject should be pursued somewhat further. The letter had surprised him. It directed an officer to report, not upon factories, out upon certain questions of a political character, and the subject could not be suffered to remain where it was. Had this indeed been a solitary letter, the affair might be of little moment; but if it was a circular, as it appeared to be, it called for further inquiry. Sir ROBERT PEEL referred to his own official experience , and to the recent events at New p ort and elsewhere, as illus. !rating the advantage to a government of accurate and timely information. He should not hesitate, were he again in office, to take all legitimate means for procuring such intelli4 genre. There might be a fair doubt whether the factory officers were the fittest instruments for obtaininiit ; but the selection of the parties was a mere question of expediency. He did not believe that either the present or any former government had ever employed spies for the odious purpose of leading the people into crime, with the view of betraying them ; and he hoped that those who were now the ministerial party, if they should again be in opposition, would remember what he now said, and give credit to those who might then be in office for an intention to protect the public peace by legitimate means. _ _ Lord JOHN RUSSELL observed, that the disturbers of the peace always gave the name of spy to any man who furnished information against them, however openly and fairly. These inspectors being officers of government, could never be per sons to whom the seditious were likely to make communica tions confidentially, and would not therefore properly deserve the name of spies. But in 1817 there were men, not osten sibly, but secretly paid by the government, who did not per haps confine themselves to report what they saw and heard, but went so far as to instigate the people to insurrection for the very purpose of betraying them. Those were what might be justly called political spies—a description of instruments to be employed only in cases of extreme necessity. He ab solved the ministers of 1817 from any base intention, but not from some imprudence. Mr. WAKLEY said that he had yet to learn that a man, paid with public money to do one duty, could properly be employed in another. The inspector perhaps did not attempt to attend suspicious meetings himself—his person probably was too well known for that—but he employed agents, and those agents were the immediate spies. Mr. BROTHERTON regretted the imputations advanced by Mr. Fielden. Mr. MUNTZ solicited Mr. Fielden to withdraw his motion. These were not spies. The government ought to have infor mation, and there had been no blame to them in this affair. Mr. EWART lamented that the inspectors should have been employed on a duty tending to debase their characters, and impair the confidence which ought to subsist between them and the people. Mr. SLANEY vindicated the employment of inspectors, whom he considered as more suitable agents for the acquisi tion of intelligence than the magistrates, clergy, or any other class he was aware of. Mr. FIELDEN declined to withdraw his motion, which was then negatived on a division. Lord J. RUSSELL next proposed the third reading of the Poor Law Commission Bill, but, as it was now past midnight, Mr. W. ArrwooD objected. The Government continuing to press the third reading, Mr. W. ArrwooD moved an ad journment. After some conversation the house divided, and negatived that motion. Mr. FIELDEN forthwith renewed the objection against then proceeding with the bill, and ano ther conversation arose, which terminated in the postpone ment of the third reading to a future day. The House of Commons met at 12 o'clock on Saturday last, there being then a few more members present than is sufficient to form a house. The number, however, rapidly declined, and in the course of an hour scarcely 30 remained. On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the oyster fisheries (Scotland) bill, was read a second time, the Gaol of Newgate (Dublin) bill and the Caledonian Canal bill were then read a third time, and the Irish insolvent debtors' bill navin afterwa.ds passed through committee, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a resolution to the effect that all sugar manufactured in this country should be subject to the same duty as is levied upon that made from beetroot. The resolution was agreed to, and the Wast Indian relief bill having been read a third time, that relating to court-houses in Ireland went through committee. After a short conversation on the subject of the Caledonian canal bill, which had been just passed, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a bill for regula ting the postage, a power which at present rested.only with the treasury. The bill was read afterwards a first time, as were also two others introduced by Lord Palmerston, the one on the slaue trade treaties, and the other on the linen manufacture in Ireland. The house then adjourned. INDISPOSITION OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON Our readers will learn with deep regret, that the Duke of Wellington has had another attack of illness, similar in cha racter to those which have already occasioned so much alarm and anxiety respecting him, and arising, we are assured, as on former occasions, from over fatigue, and an inattention to those earnest injunctions which his medical advisers have so frequently imposed upon him. It appears that on Wed nesday afternoon the noble Duke returned home after walk ing about fur a considerable time under a burning sun. On his arrival at Apsley House he found himself so unwell that he was unable to write a note which he was desirous of despatching at the moment; and, feeling that symptoms of his last alarming indisposition were coming on, he was in duced to send for Dr. Hume, who, with Sir Henry Halford and Sir Astley Cooper, has been in close attendance on him ever since, though from the first they were of opinion that there was no danger. Fortunately, the attack was much slighter than on former occasions, and yielded immediately to medical skill ; so much so, indeed, that after passing a fa vourable night, the Duke was sufficiently well yesterday to leave his bed, and would have attended the House of Lords on the occasion of the introduction of the Regency Bill, had not his physicians imperatively forbidden his incurring such a risk. _ . The answer to inquiries at Apaley-house this (Friday) morning was, that his grace bad nearly recovered his usual health, and was so much better, that it was expected he would be able to attend the House of Lords this (Friday) evening. His grace's physicians say, that their illustrious patient only requires a few days of rest and quiet to restore him to his usual health.—Standard of Friday. We knew that the Duke of Wellington had been indisposed on Wednesday evening, but knowing the attack to be slight, and not willing to alarm our readers, we did not allude to the fact : now, as it is published in every paper, we make known this gratifying addition, that his grace was last night entirely recovered.— Times of Saturday. We regret to state that the Duke of Wellington experien ced on Wednesday an attack of disease similar to those which on' ormer occasions have excited the deepest anxiety of the British' people. It is satisfactory to know that the present is slighter than the former attacks experienced by his Grace, though, like these, it is to be ascribed chitfly to the absence of that care which his Grace's age and constitution require. On Wednesday afternoon, a little after five o'clock, the noble Duke returned home, after walking for a considerable time under the influence of a hot sun. On attempting to write a note, he found himself unfitted for the task, and the symp toms of his former indisposition became so apparent that it was thought necessary to send for Dr. Hume, who, in con junction with Sir H. Halford and Sir Astley Cooper, has since that time paid unremitted attention to his Grace. Dr. Hume slept at Apsley House on Wednesday night ; but yes terday the illustrious Duke, after passing , a tranquil, night, was so much better that he was desirous of rising from his bed, in order to attend the House of Lords on the occasion of the introduction of the regency bill. This, however, his Grace's physicians absolutely prohibited. The reply to our inquiries at Apsley House, at twelve o'clock last night, was that his Grace's health was progressively and rapidly im proving. The Marquis of Douro spent the greater part of yesterday at Apsley House, but did 'not remain there during last night. We need scarcely add that yesterday the inqui ries as to the state of the illustrious Duke were numerous and anxious.—Morning Post of Saturday. On Saturday evening, on enquiry at Apsley-house, Picca dilly, as to the state of the Duke of Wellington's health, the answer was, that his grace continued better. The answer in the morning to the numerous applications of the nobility and gentry was, that " his grace passed a good night, and is much better this morning."—Times of yesterday. TILE PRINCESS !AUGUSTA.—On inquiry at Clarence-house, St. James's, on Saturday evening, we were informed that her royal highness was no better. The bulletin issued in the morn ing stated, that " her royal highness has not passed a good night, and remains much the same." In the course of the day the inquiries made by the nobility, &c, at Clarence house were most numerous, and several members of the royal family visited her royal highness in the afternoon. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, LONDON WEDNESDAY IN THE MATTER OF JOHN DAVIS Mr. Cooke applied on the part of Mr. Davis, a solicitor at Liverpool, for an order to restrain his assignees from selling his real estates. Mr. Davis was discharged some time ago, when his debts in the aggregate were set forth at £26,000, of which sum 20,000 was secured on his estates, and he had some law costs arising on Chancery suits, and his simple con tract debts were .about £2OOO. in his affidavit he stated his real estates were worth £50,000, and he expected a decree in a Chancery suit in the course of next year, by which his cre ditors would be paid in full. He therefore prayed that his property might not be sold, and that the assignees should be restrained for the reasons he had mentioned. Mr. Commissioner Bowen said he had heard the case, and was aware there was a good deal of property. He asked the clause under which the application was made. Mr. Cooke referred to the 48th section of the present act, under which the court had the power to restrain the sale of property in cases where it was detrimental to the interests of insolvents. The court granted a rule nisi on the assignees OPENING OF THE PRESTON AND IWYRE RAILWAY This railway, which is about nineteen and a half miles in length, was formally opened on Wednesday last, by . the di rectors, proprietors, and their friends, preparatory to its being opened to the public, on the following day. About ten o'clock, a.m.. the Fleetwood engine was sent from Fleet wood with four commodious carriages to Preston, in one of which was Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart, M.P., and several other gentlemen, in order to meet the other directors and their friends, previous to the grand procession from that place to the populous and thriving town of Fleetwood-on-Wyre. Before the arrival of the train at Fleetwood, a large concourse of people (we should say nearly three thousand) were assem bled from the adjacent country, to witness the novel and in teresting sight. About 1 p.m., the grand train arrived from Preston, in which were Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, W. Garnett, Esq., besides a large number of gentlemen. In fact, nearly the whole of the respectable people in Preston were there. The carriages were crowded, and the trains were greeted with enthusiastic applause by the assembled multitude. Imme diately after the arrival of the train, a party of about 600 took an excursion in the steamers " Express," " James Deniston," and " Cupid," from the port round the new light-house, at the mouth of the Wyre. This was a most satisfactory treat to the parties. On returning, a salute of three or four rounds of cannon were fired. At three o'clock, a most respectable party of about 400 sat down in a splendid pavilion, the new Station-house, at Fleetwood, which was fitted up on this interesting occasion with all the glitter of a banquettng hall, to a most excellent dejeuner. It was a cold collation, including everything the most fastidious could de sire. The: wines were plentiful and excellent—sparkling Champagne, Madeira, &c. After ihe'repast. Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood (who presided) in an appropriate speech proposed the health of her Majesty the Queen, which was heartily responded to by the company with three times three, and was followed by a succession of toasts—" Prince Albert," " The Queen Dowager," " The Army and Navy," " Sir H. Fleetwood, Bart.," " Prosperity and Success to the Preston and Wyre Railway," on the an nouncement of which three rounds of cannon were fired ; T. F. Brockholes, Esq., High Sheriff of the County," "The Rev. C. Hesketh," " Manchester and Liverpool Railway Company, " Mr. Stevenson, the Engineer," by Mr. Gar nett, which was responded to most enthusiastically. The day passed off' completely to the satisfaction of all present until the departure of the seven o'clock train to Preston, when, we are sorry to relate, a most melancholy and fatal accident happened to a young man named William Dean, a tailor from Preston. When the train had proceeded about one and .a half miles from Fleetwood, the unfortunate man was seated in one of the Ist class carriages, and in an attempt to get upon a carriage before, he accidentally fell down be twixt the carriages, and, awful to relate, his head was com tshaemedasyeattthis was on the . in p qu al e m st a w r, as E h s e q l . l polfetceolaytsseevtehreedcofnrsoemgabeniaceb.odyci,ahnedwirnisttearnotafntepus death was coroner, and a respectable jury, when a verdict of " followings po or at fellow Fleetwood, fell Acci dental death" was recorded, and at the same time the jury fro b n ettre A ß n wished to record that no neglect on the part of the engineer, guard, or any other servant in the service of the railway company, was to be attached.—Lancauter Gazette. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. TURKY Our accounts from Constantinople are to the 28th ult. in clusive. They state that the intelligence received from Syria was of a nature so unfavourable for Mehemet Ali, that the inclination of the Sultan and his ministers for an ar rangement with the Viceroy had suddenly become cool, in somuch that the resident agent of Mehemet . Ali at Constan tinople had been prohibited communicating with Sami Bey, the private secretary of the Viceroy, who (as our readers al ready know) had arrived with a proposal for the restoration of the'Turkish fleet, and who was under quarantine. This intimation having been communicated to Sami Bey, he (on the 28th of June) despatched one of his secretaries to Alex andria by a steamer, to announce it to his master. SMYRNA The Smyrna Journal of the 30th ult. mentions the arrival and subsequent sailing of the Powerful, to join Admiral Louis's squadron. The anniversary , of the Queen's corona tion was observed the day before by the British vessels of war at Smyrna ; they were dressed out in their flags, and fired royal salutes. The American corvette Cayno had ar rived at Smyrna. Another account states that Admiral Louis has ordered three sail-of-the-line to proceed to the coast of Syria. EGYPT, It appears that an eminent British merchant (Mr. Briggs, of the firm of Briggs and Co., of Alexandria) left Damascus for Beyrout, with an escort of 50 men, and that finding him self deserted by his escort, he learned for the first time that the country was in full insurrection. He was, however, with his lady, treated with the greatest respect by the insurgents, who conducted them in safety to Beyrout. Intense anxiety prevailed in Alexandria respecting the issue of the negotiations with the Porte. Our intelligence from Malta is dated the sth inst. The Malta Times of that day gives under date Alexandria, June 26, the following paragraph :—' We are all bustle ; about 8,000 men have been sent to Syria, and more are to be em barked. The Nile steamer has taken Abbas Pasha to Bey rout to take the command of the troops in that quarter. They sailed this morning. Altogether about 19 sail of fri gates and sloops of war have sailed to Syria." ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) In a Convocation holden on Saturday last, Oliver Har grave, Esq. M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, was ad mitted ad eundem. _ In a Congregation holden at the same time, the following Degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Arthur Robartes Adams, Fellow of St. John's College BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW BY COMMUTATION. John Whitlock, Nichol!, Jesus College. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Frederic William Briggs, Magdalen Hall. Rev. Orlando Haydou B. Hyman, Fellow of Wadham College. Rev. Charles Wadham Diggle, Scholar of Wadham College. BACHELORS OF ARTS William Hombersley, Christ Church, grand compounder. John Thadeus Delane, Magdalen Hall. John Nicholson, Scholar of Brasenose College. The Examiners (appointed by the Board of Control) of Candidates for the East India College, for the ensuing Term, are the Rev. Thomas Dale, M. A. Vicar of St. Bride's ; the Rev. Robert Eden, M.A. late Fellow of Corpus Christi Col lege ; and the Rev. C. W. Saxton, M.A. of Christ Church, in the room of Professor Key. We have heard that it is likely the Rev. Connop Thirlwall Will be the new Bishop of St. David's.—Globe (Ministerial paper.) It is reported that the Archdeacon of Cardigan will be the new Bishop of St. David's. We hope the on dit will prove correct. The worthy Archdeacon is the facile princeps of Welsh scholars : he bore away the first honours at the Uni versity, is a profound scholar, and a most amiable worthy man.—Hereford Journal. The Rev. Henry Vane, B.D. Fellow of Dulwich College, Clerk of the Closet to Her Majesty, and Domestic Chaplain to Lord Holland, has received the appointment of Dean of Durham.—Globe [This is contradicted by the Morning Chronicle.] The Rev. Abel John Ram, M.A. of Oriel College, has been presented, by the Trustees of the late Rev. C. Simeon, to the principal Curacy of Beverley Minster. The Rev. G. Waddington has appointed the Rev. Thomas Charles Wilson, B.A. of Magdalen Hall, to the Curacy of Kirkby Malzeard, West Riding of Yorkshire. The Countess of Warwick has appointed the Rev. Thomas Parry, M.A. of Balliol College, Perpetual Curate of Baunton, in the county of Gloucester, to be one of her Ladyship's Do mestic Chaplains. The Rev. John Meredith, M.A. of Christ Church, and of High Ercall, Shropshire, to the Mastership of Donnington School, and the Incumbency of Uppington, Shropshire ; patron, the Duke of Cleveland. PROMOTIONS His Grace the Duke of Marlborough has been pleased to appoint the Rev. S. G. B. White, M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, Curate of Biddenden, Kent, one of his Domestic Chaplains. Rev. Orange William Nassau Stirling has been appointed to the Curacy of Belper, Derbyshire, by the Pastoral Aid Society. _ _ Rev. J. Allen Smith, Perpetual Curate of Udimore, to the Rectory of Pyecombe, Sussex, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Penfold ; patron, th Lord Chancellor. Rev. Saml. Matthews, M.A., to the Incumbency of Hang ing Heaton, Yorkshire; patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. Rev. Geo. Rose, M.A. to the Incumbency of Earls Heaton, Yorkshire; patron. the Vicar of Dewsbury. Rev. Brabazon Ellis, B.A. late Perpetual Cnrate of Tur lough, to the Incumbency of St. Paul's Burslem ; patron, the Rev. Edward Wheeldon. _ _ _ —• Rev. William John Williamson, M.A. to the Curacy of Killard, county of Clare. Rev. John Denny Gilbert, M.A. of . St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Hellington, Norfolk, void by the death of the Rev. W. M. Hurlock, B.A.John's College, Cambridge ; patron, Win. Alexander Gilbert, Esq. • Rev. R. C. Wilmot, to the Living of Edensor, lately held by Archdeacon Hodgson; patron, the Duke of Devonshire. (From the Durham Advertiser.) The Lord Bishop of Chester held an ordination in the ca thedral of tnis city oh Sunday morning last, when the follow ing gentlemen were ordained, viz.:-- PRIESTS. James Dickson Dixon, M.A., Brazenose, Oxford. Philip Ranliu Robin, M.A., Brazenose, Oxford. Philip Walter Copeman, 8.A., Queen's, Cambridge. John Kitton, 8.A., Queen's , Cambridge. John B. Broderick, 8.A., Queen's, Cambridge. John Jones Dixon, 8.A., Magdalen, Cambridge. Henry Berkeley Jones, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge. Charles Boughton St. George, B.A, Jesus, Cambridge. Jeremiah Stoddart, 8.A., Corpus Christi, Cambridge. Jabez Jones, 8.A., Corpus Christi, Cambridge. Joseph George Venables, 8.A., Jesus, Cambridge. John Charles Whish, 8.A., Trinity, Cambridge. Thomas Booth, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. William Brewster, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. Frederick Jefson, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. Edmund Boteler Chalmer, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. John Gore, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. Webster Frederick Henry Hooper, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. William Townsend Hozier, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. Farmery Predam Epworth . Luscomb, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin John McGregor, 8.A., Trinity. Dublin. Ralph Tagert, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. James Wittaker, 8.A., Trinity, Dublin. John Lowthian, Lit. St. Bees. David Seddon, Lit. St. Bees. DEACONS. James Alexander Hamilton, B.A. B.lliol, Oxford John Rendred Scott, B.A. Baliol, Oxford Edward Matthew Pickford, Brazenose, Oxford John Lomas, B.A. Worcester, Oxford George Thistlewaite, M.A.,Brazenose, Oxford John Slatter, B.A. Lincoln, Oxford William Buckley Graham, B.A. Mag. Hall, Oxford Bulkeley 'Henry Birks, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge Adolphus Robert Vaughan Hamilton, B.A. Cath. Hall, Ca . Alexander Woodward, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge Thomas Jones Burton, B.A St. Peter's, Cambridge Arthur Christopherson, MA. St. John's, Cambridge Edward Dean, B.A. St. John's, Cambridge Ralph Congreve, B.A. Corpus Christi, Cambridge Broome Luke Wilts, B.A. Corpus Christi, Cambridge James Campbell Home, B.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge Thomas Chubb Howes, B.A. Trinity, Cambridge Albany Rofrendale Lloyd, B.A. Trinity, Cambridge George Sandford, B.A. Magdalen, Cambridge Allan Wallace, B.A. Pembroke, Cambridge St. John Wells Thorpe, B.A. Queen's, Cambridge James Charters, B.A. Trinity, Dublin Charles Birkmore, B.A. Trinity, Dublin James Supple Dodd, B.A. Trinity, Dublin Arthur P. Irwine, B.A. Trinity, Dublin William Morgan, B.A. Trinity, Dublin John Harrison, M.A. Trinity, Dublin Martin Twiss, B.A. Trinity, Dublin Robert Thomas Wheeler, B.A. Trinity, Dublin Archibald James Douglas, Lit. University coll. Durham Samuel Cavan, Lit., St. Bees. By Letter Dimissory. Walter Irvine, B.A. Trinity, Dublin Eugene O'Meara, B.A. Trinity, Dublin. ~,~. WELSH BISHOPS. (From the Morning Herald) A vacancy having occurred in the diocese of St. David's, by the demise of Dr. Jenkinson, the late bishop, the natives of Wales are stirring both in the principality and elsewhere, with the view of urging on her Majesty's government the necessity of elevating to the vacant see a clergyman fully conversant with the Welsh language, and not unacquainted with the predilections and habits of the natives. With the exception of a small part of Pembrokeshire, the diocese of St. David's extends over a great extent of country in which the Welsh language is vernacular, and most of the livings in it are in the gift of the bishop. It is therefore a matter of the highest importance, both to the church and to the inha bitants, that an efficient bishop be appointed. A public meeting of the Welsh residents in London was held on Tues day last, at which it was agreed to petition the Queen on the subject ; and we have been informed that a deputation from Liverpool has arrived in town for the purpose of conveying to Lord Melbourne the strong feeling which exists among the numerous and influential body of Welshmen residing in that town, whose friends and connexions in Wales must be deeply interested in the issue of the appointment. It has been the custom for the last 130 years to sacrifice the spiritual interests of the principality to political partisanship, and to force upon the Welsh people an English supporter of the existing ministry, utterly regardless of the injustice thereby inflicted on the national religion. We trust, however, that some deference will at length be paid to the feelings of the loyal and long-injured inhabitants of Wales, and that her Majesty will be advised to wipe off this stigma from the his tory of the Welsh church. In justification of the line of conduct hitherto pursued, it has been latterly insinuated that Wales has no native clergy qualified to fill the episcopal office. In refutation of this unfounded charge we beg to subjoin a list of reverend gentlemen, who, among others, in point of piety, learning, and moral worth, are eminently qualified for the office of a bishop. The Rev. Henry Parry, vicar of Llanasa, canon of St. Asaph, and rural dean of Tegengl (whig). Rev. J. Williams, archdeacon of Cardigan, and rector of the high school (new) at Edinburgh, (supposed to be a mode rate conservative). The Rev. Archdeacon Newcome, warden of Ruthin, (whig.) The Rev. Bruce Knight, chancellor of Llandaff, (conserve- tive). The Rev. W. W. Thomas, rector of Dinas, Pembrokeshire, (whig). The Rev. Dr. Llewellyn, principal of St. David's college, (conservatiye). The Rev. J. Hughes, vicar of Llanbadarn and Aberystwith, (liberal). The Rev. W. Davis, rector of Llanrhaiadr, Montgomery. shire, (conservative). The Rev. W. J. Rees, rector of Casgob, Radnorsh're, and a prebend (politics unknown.) The Rev. Wm. Jones, vicar of Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn, (politics unknown). The Rev. David Parry, vicar of Llywell, (politics unknown). The R. M. Williams, rector of Halkin, (whig). The Rev. Thomas Price, Crickhowel. INSTITUTION FOR THE RELIEF OFTHE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN WHO HAVE OFFICIATED WITHIN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF CHESTER. On Thursday last the ancient town of Warrington was en livened by that gathering of the clergy and gentry of the surrounding districts, in the archdeaconry of Chester, which in former times used to be of annual recurrence in that town, but which now, by mutual arrangement and for general con venience, is held alternately in Manchester, Liverpool, and Warrington. The business of the day commenced by the solemnization of divine service in the parish church. The appeal from the pulpit was made by the Rev. J. Gunning, and, although the unfavourable state of the weather, and the inconvenience of the day of meeting in other respects, caused the attendance to be less numerous than on fan mer occasions, the sum of £46 was collected. After service, the business of the day was transacted in the Infant School-room, and several new calls were added as pensioners both to the widows' and the orphans' lists. It was mentioned that the third Thursday in July was an inconvenient day of meeting, on account of various sessions being holden at this time, and also from the lateness to which the parliamentary sittings are now pro longed, and in consequence of this it was arranged that in future the annual meeting shall take place on the first Thurs day in August. At three o'clock there was an excellent muster of the clergy and laity in the National School-room, where most ample provision had been made for dinner, covers being laid for about one hundred persons ; nor can we take a better opportunity than this of recording our praise of the manner in which the entertainment was provided. We do not think we ever sat down to a better dinner on such au occasion, and we think Mr. Taylor, of the Ring-o'-Bells, the caterer of the day, has reason to feel gratified with the gene ral satisfaction he afforded. The dessert was also in very good taste. The chair was occupied by the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, the indefatigable treasurer and secretary of the in stitution, and the official locum teams of the president for the day, in the case of his absence. Mr. Egerton was on this occasion unavoidably kept away. Mr. Powys was sup ported on his right by the Rev. Mr. Gunning, the preacher of the day ; the Rev. John Horton, of Ormskirk ; Rev. Robt. Masters, Burnley; Rev. James Slade, Bolton, &c. &c.; and on his left by the Rev. Dr. -Unger, principal of St. Bees, and prebendary of Chester ; Rev. R. Parkinson, Fellow of Christ College, ' Manchester; Hugh Hornby Birley, Esq. &c. &c. In addition to the above, we observed the Revs. John Moss, James North, Cecil Wray, and J. Stanniforth, Esq. from Liverpool ; the Revs. Joshua Lingard, George Dugard, Isaac Robley, Richard Wood, Alex. Watson, and J. W. Harter, and H. H. Birley, Esq., Elias Chadwick, Esq., of Swinton Hall, &c., from Manchester; as also Rev. Thos. Blackburne, rector of Prestwich ; Rev. T. Prescot, rector of Stockport ; Rev. G. B. Sandford, Rev. T. Corser, Stand ; Rev. N. Milne, Radcliffe ; Rev. T. Hutchinson, Lymm ; Rev. J. Driffield. Prescot ; Rev. G. Greenall, Stretton ; Rev. C. Legard, Great Budworth ; Rev. Streynshans Masters ; Rev. Ainsworth, Hartworth ; Rev. Gibbon, Rev. J. Stewart, of Hale ; Gilbert Greenall, Esq. ; A. Nicholson, Esq. ; Thomas Lyon, Esq., Appleton; John Clare, Esq. &c. &c. &c. The cloth drawn and grace said, the CHAIRMAN gave the good old toast of " Church and Queen," accompanied with a wish that it might long continue the leading toast of every English Christian assembly. As the company consisted mainly of clergy, it is unnecessary to add that so loyal a sen timent found a ready echo. The next toast was the " Health of the Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Family." Then followed the " Bishop of the Diocese," as president of this institution ; to this succeeded the " Health of the Pre sident of the day, W. Egerton, Esq." These toasts were severally proposed by the chairman, but with great brevity, it being evident that he was suffering under a very severe cold, which made his duties very irksome, physically. These toasts having been received with marked goodwill. Dr. AIN GER rose with permission to propose a toast. It was the health of a gentleman who filled several important offices in this institution, discharging them all with fidelity and effici ency. He was sorry that it was necessary to wish the better health of their treasurer and secretary, and president for the day. The toast was very warmly received, and at the sugges tion of the Vicar of Bolton, was drank by the company standing. Mr. POWYS returned thanks in a speech full of feeling, and very much to the point, expressive of the warm interest he took in the welfare of this society, and concluded with pro posing the health of the preacher. Mr. GUNNING acknowledged the toast. The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the toast of the even ing, "Success to the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy Charity," and previously to committing the toast to the meet ing, he laid before , the company a statement of the financial condition of the institution. In doing this he made most honourable mention of the lead Manchester had taken in bringing this charity beforethe public, by means of sermons, the collections after which had, last year, produced £l6O, and this year nearly the same sum. The financial report on the whole was satisfactory, though there is much force in the chairman's observation, that with a little exertion far more might be raised for the purposes of the institution. This toast was followed by a very important appeal from Mr. Powys, in behalf of a Branch Institution, which it is pro posed to form in connexion with this charity, for the purpose of clothing, maintaining, and educating the orphans of cler gymen within the archdeaconry, as also of affording the like benefits to the sons and daughters of living clergy, who from the narrowness of their incomes, are not enabled to give to their children that training which their own habits would dictate.—lt will be impossible to define the contemplated ar rangements more satisfactorily than in the following extracts from the secretary's circular : " In compliance with directions received at the last anni versary of the Institution for the relief of the Widows and Orphans of Clergymen who have officiated within the Arch deaconry of Chester,' I beg to inform you that, in the year 1838, the following resolution, proposed by H. H. Birley, Esq., and seconded by John Clare, Esq., was unanimously passed : " This meeting is of opinion, that a branch Institution for the maintenance and education of the Female Orphans of Clergymen would be a very desirable addition to the benefits accruing to the Archdeaconry from this charity, and propose that the balance now in the treasurer's hands, and such a portion of the income of this Institution as may hereafter be thought proper should be applied in furtherance of the above object.' I ` A committee was then appointed to make inquiry into the best mode of carrying the above resolution into effect, and to report to the next general meeting. " In pursuance of the duty undertaken by them, the com mittee have made inquiry into the necessity of such an Institution, with a view of extending its proposed benefits to the Children of needy Clergymen now officiating within the Archdeacmiiy of Chester, after provision should be secured for Orphans. They find that there are at present in the - . Archdeaconiy, 187 small benefices varying from £157 to £34 per annum, and 163 stipendary curates whose stipends vat y from £3OO to £5O per annum. Making altogether 350 Clergymen, whose means, as derived from their profession, are wholly inadequate in securing to their children an educa tion which their.station in life should entitle them to. "To remedy this crying evil, and to guard against its re currence (a danger which the rapid multiplication of ill endowed churches necessarily produces,) the committee have laboured to ascertain the best mode of carrying into effect the resolution passed at the last anniversary. " From inquiries at Brighton, Bristol, London, and Cas terton, where Insitutions similar to, the one proposed have been for some years past in efficient operation, it is ascertained that the expense would not be so great as to render the establishment of such a school for the Archdeaconry of Chester impracticable ; and upon a calculation founded on the experience of the above named Institutions, it is esti mated that an income of £5OO per annum, added to the payments of the pupils, would be sufficient to maintain an establishment containing fifty children, to which number the committee would recommend admissions to be limited in first instance " Of this £5OO it is estimated that ' the Institution for the Relief of Widows-and Orphans' will be able to contribute aunually £l5O, and is hoped that the remainder will be forth coming the moment that the want is made known to a Christian public, which has shown itself heretofore always ready to sympathize in the distresses of the clergy. " A further sum will be needed at the outset, for the pur- chase or erection and fitting up of a suitable building.— Towards this fund the balance in the treasurer's hands last year (£709 4s. 3d.) will be applicable so soon as sufficient addition thereto can be obtained to cover the first expense of the establishment. This must necessarily be a considerable cost, but the committee do not apprehend that there will be any difficulty in raising the amount which may be wanted fo such a purpose * * From this it will appear, that when once the matter is fairly started, £3OO a-year will keep it in operation. Surely this sum will soon be forthcoming. Efforts are at once to be made to ensure success, and we feel sure our readers will not require to be asked twice to further designs so thoroughly in consonance with the temper, and so imperatively called for by the needs of our church. Mr. PARKINSON, in acknowledgment of the praise which had been meted to Manchester, expressed his conviction that £l5O of the £3OO would be annually forthcoming from dial town. Their chairman bad spoken of the necessity of zeal and faith ; for his part he was prepared to say, " Begin sc necessary a work at once ; there is no fear of its being car• vied through." Ile altogether differed from the idea that pressing these charities impoverished the treasury for local purposes. Mr. CLARE concurred in this view Mr. SI.ADE was prepared to urge the claims of the new society, and wherever he got a guinea for the widows' fund he should ask for one for the orphans' school. Mr. H. H. BIRLEY was sure the matter had only to be urged to succeed ; he for his part should be ready, and he hoped that a decided effort would be at once made. Success to the new project was then drank with much en thusiasm. Mr. PARKINSON then proposed the health of the " Rector of the Parish in which they were met," in terms of well merited eulogy.. Mr. POWYS returned his acknowledgments in a very able and cordial manner, and concluded by proposing the health of the ".Laity." Then followed " Prosperity to the town and trade of Warrington," which having been acknowledged by Mr. J. CLARE, thus ended an exceedingly agreeable meeting. We shall hope hereafter to enforce the paramount claims of the new institution for the education of the orphans and children of the clergy. Meanwhile, we conclude with an ex pression of our ardent hope that the laity will henceforward take a still more active part in this most excellent of our many excellent institutions ; for surely if the apostle could ask—" Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own cost ? or who,planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? who feedeth a flock, and drinketh not the milk of the flock" —we may fairly say, where is the love for the brethren which will allow the captains of our spiritual hosts, the hus bandmen of our spiritual garden, and the shepherds of our flocks, to have their dying hours embittered by the racking consciousness that even probable provision in the world there is none for the tender and confiding wife whom he is about to leave a widow—that maintenance and education there is none for the sons and daughters which the Lord has given him, and which he is about to leave without an earthly father. Such, we doubt not, will put their trust in God, who will not desert the home of righteousness; but can cha rity wing a higher or a nobler flight than when she obeys the Christian com man d, " Let him that is taught in the word minister to hi m that teacheth in all good things," and thus enables the dying soldier of the cross to occupy his faith with thin gs unseen , rat h er t h an w i t h t he painful contin gencies of an offspring's daily wants. We need not say more, than that the Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Pupil affords scope for the exercise of this exalted charity.—Man chester Courier. It is stated that the nuptials of Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, and the Hon. and Rev. F. Grey, son of Earl Grey, are fixed to take place in the course of this month, at Castle Howard, the seat of the former noble earl, in Yorkshire. We hear it said among those who ought to know something of the matter, that Mr. Thiriwall is to have the deanery of Durham, and not the bishopric of St. David's. The deanery of Durham is an important and valuable preferment, and if it be bestowed on the Rev. Connop Thirlwall, a very learned man will have it.—lt is also reported that the bishopric of St. David's has been offered to Mr. Williams, the Archdea con of Cardigan, well known as one of the profoundest scho lars and divines of the present time. But as the archdeacon is of conservative politics, we are inclined to receive this last rumour with extreme suspicion. It is, however, certain that a strong feeling in favour of Welsh Bishops prevails through out the principality, and there can be no doubt that Wales has several native clergymen not unworthy of the bench.-- Morning Post. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Last Night but Three of Madame VESTRIS, Mr. C. MATHEWS, and Mr. JAMES VINING. THIS present TUESDAY, July 21, 1840, the perform ances will commence with the favourite Comedy of the SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Charles Surface Mr. Charles Mathews. Sir Benjamin Backbite.. Mr. J. Vining. Lady Teazle.... Madame Vestris, in which she will intro duce the favourite Song of " no Submissive Wife." After which, the Farce of CHAOS IS COME AGAIN. Jack 13unce Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with the Musical Drama of WHY DON'T YOU MARRY? Lisette Gierstein.. (her original character). . Madame Vestris. On WEDNESDAY, for the Benefit of Mr. JAMES VINING, on which occasion Madame VESTRIS, Miss ELLEN TREE, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, and Mr. ANDERSON have kindly offered their valuable service, the Play of _ LOVE will in consequence be repeated with the same cast of characters as on Monday evening, To conclude with the Petite Comedy of a HANDSOME HUSBAND. Mr. Wyndham, Mr, C._ Matheyrs; Henry Fitzherbert, • - Mr. James Vining. Laura Madame Vestris, (As originally performed by them in London.) EXHIBITION MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, MOUNT-STREET. riIHOSE who have not seen this most extensive and magnificent Exhibition ought to lose no time in visiting it, as, on account of the opening of the SchoWs on Monday, the 3d August, it cannot possibly remain open longer than Saturday, the Ist August. The Exhibition consists of a most splendid Collection of Paintings, Statues, Mechanical and Architectural Models, Philosophical Apparatus, Machi nery, Manufactured Goods in their various stages, Specimens of Natural History, Antiquities, Curiosities, and interesting Articles of every description. Sixteen Rooms, five of them about ninety feet each in length, are occupied with the Col lection, nothing similar to which has ever been seen in Liverpool. At One and Eight, p.m., every day, Philosophical Experi ments, &c., &c., are exhited in the Lecture Room, and illustrated by short Lectures. The Exhibition gill remain open a fortnight from this date. Admission, from Nine to Four, One Shilling ; Children, Sixpence; from Four to Ten, Sixpence, for Persons of all ages. Season Tickets (of which 6000 have been sold,) Two Shillings and Sixpence. FIRE CLOUD.—During the two remaining weeks of the Exhibition, this splendid Spectacle will be exhibited EVERY • EVENING at Nine, in the Lecture Room, without any extra charge. July 17th, 1840. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary EXHIBITION CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WA TERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater street, Bold-street. Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad mission, One Shilling each. 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. CONSERVATIVES, OBSERVE! 11l notices of claims to be inserted on the list of voters for the county must be given to the overseers of the township in which the property is situate on or before the 20th instant, otherwise the claimant will lose his right for the ensuing year. One shilling must be paid to the overseer: with each claim, as a registration fee, or the claim will be of no service Voters who were on the list last year are not required to make a fresh claim, if they possess the same qualifi cation, and reside in the same place, as they did when the last registry was made ; but if they have changed their place of residence, or any change has taken place in the nature of the qualification, it will be neces sary for them to send in fresh claims, and to pay the registration fee in the same manner as though they had never been registered. Persons claiming to vote for boroughs must pay all the poor rates and assessed taxes which were due on the Gth of April last, on or before the 20th of July, otherwise they will be disqualified for voting in the ensuing year. They need not send in any claim, as the overseers are bound to place upon the list all £lO householders who have paid their rates in due time. IMPORTANT TO FREEMEN, Those Freemen who are entitled to their Freedom must be Sworn in and Enrolled on or before the 31st instant, otherwise they may not be enabled to yet upon the Register this Year. 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 a house, cRo., by descent, marriage, demise, 4-c., is entitled to reckon as his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or through whom he succeeds. TO CORRESPONDENTS We shall endeavour, in future, to supply the information which " The Wife of a Subscriber " wishes to see in our columns. rbt 7Litirrpoof g9tantiarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1840 We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. 8., Weekly Chronicle of the 12th of June. It does not contain any news of importance We have received our files of the Sydney Gnzette and of the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 18th of January, inclusive. They have been already antici pated by former arrivals to a later date. We have received our files of the Berbice Advertiser to the 18th of May, and of the Guiana Chronicle to the 25th of May, both inclusive. As we have pre viously received a file of the Guiana Times to th latter date, we have no extracts to make, Our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette and Standard reach to the 9th of June. They furnish us with a more correct account of the recent disturbance in the island than those furnished by the American papers. 'We give the particulars elsewhere. The island was, at the latest dates, in the enjoyment of comparative tranquillity; but great complaints are still made of the deficient shipments of produce from the different ports. There is in Liverpool, and throughout the kingdom, a large and influential class, composed of persons who, whilst sincerely attached to the established religion and institutions of their country, have hitherto allowed themselves to be dragged along, by the influence of early predilection, or by sincere—although, we think, mistaken—conviction, in that march of democracy whose aim and end are the subversion of that religion and the destruction of those institutions. Linder the guidance of such an administration as that of Earl Grey—an administration to whose very emrs we cannot refuse the palliation of integrity of purpose and purity of motive—this section of re formers might consistently feel at ease. They saw at the helm of the vessel in which they were embarked men who had a determinate object in view—who were bound to a fixed port, on their arrival at which they hoped to be allowed to drop their anchor, and to ride calmly in a quiet sea, after the turbulence of their tempestuous voyage. But since an unruly and mu tinous spirit drove the commander in whom they had confided from his post, and, one by one, the ablest and most trusty of his crew were displaced by inexpe rienced and reckless men, with wild objects in view, and without either principle or prudence to check them in the means adopted to attain them, that confi dence has in a great measure ceased ; and the want of it, in many instances betrayed, is only. prevented from being more loudly and plainly manifested by the mor- Al fear of drawing upon themselves and upon their Lotives the ribald sneer of the unreflecting or wicked isociates of their past political career. To this section of the reform party—to this rem- nant of the constitutional reformers of the present generation—we wish to address ourselves ; to point out their position and its tendency, and to phew the course which it behoves them to pursue, as real and true friends of their country and its institutions, if they wish, as we fervently believe they do, to preserve that country from anarchy and its institutions from overthrow. In performing this duty, we shall abstain from any attempt to excite needless alarm, or to raise a false sympathy. We appeal to their judgment, and not to their passions ; and however conscious of our inability to lay before them, in fitting terms, the strong and urgent necessity which calls upon them to retrace, so far as they can, their past steps,—to pause upon the threshold of revolution—not perhaps a bloody, yet still dc facto a revolution,—and to take their stand upon the rock of Protestantism, as the only position from which the constitutional liberties of their country can be effectually asserted; yet we trust that we shall be able, at the least, to induce some—the reflecting portion—of our countrymen to look ahead before they embark in the new voyage, upon which they are in vited to set out by the crimps of the revolutionary fac- There must be, we submit, some limit to the objects of the constitutional reformer. There must be some point beyond which the constitutional reformer cannot advance, without hazard to those principles which he has been accustomed to regard as essential to the ex istence of a well-organised state of society. We are not prepared to argue that the progress of improvement should be altogether arrested, for such a doctrine would go to impugn the designs of a beneficent Creator, who has made mankind capable of the greatest amount of moral happiness and civilisation ; but we do argue that reform, in the modern and conventional sense of the term, is not always synonymous with improve ment, and may be pushed so far beyond its proper bounds as to become a positive injury instead of a substantial good. As depletion or the use of stimu lants are occasionally required to correct the irregula rities of the human frame, so amelioration or increased stringency of legislation are required to correct those of the political frame : and that man is equally an un skilful practitioner or a desperate quack, who bleeds his patient to death or stimulates him to delirium, as he is an incapable or dishonest statesman who, by relaxing the bonds of the law, introduces anarchy and revolution into the state, or, by too stringent and harsh policy, drives its members into rebellion. The class of reformers to which we address ourselves had in view the moral and political happiness of the community, so far as it could be carried without dan ger to its existing institutions—to that Protestant church and to that form of governmult of which they were component members. To enable them to effect this object they called for a large measure of parliamentary reform ; and this they have had conceded to them, to au extent admitted to be beyond their wildest expecta- They called for a change in the municipal in stitutions of the country ; and that also they have gained. By these two great measures they secured into their own hands both the legislative and muni cipal governments, and proceeded to carry out their own views and their own principles into the financial and social regulations of the empire. Every great measure contended for at the outset of their onward march has been passed—every leading principle as serted; and the objects which now remain to be ac complished—which form the theme of reform agitation and the subject of the diatribes of their press, daily and weekly, metropolitan and provincial—are no longer great objects, founded upon universal principles, but mere desultory matters, upon not one of which they can depend upon the support of a decided majority even in a reformed House of Commons—reformed upon their own plan, and elected during their own admi nistration. The position, then, of the whig or reform party is, in effect, this. Their legitimate objects, as reformers of the constitution, are effected, so far as public opi nion will allow them to be carried ; and the very tern reform, in its true acceptation, has lapsed. A reformer is now merely a whig—a supporter of whig measures and a whig government ; or has become a radical, and clamours for ultra measures and a democratic govern- And so it ought to be, and so we wish it to remain. We have, as a community, established the form of that constitution under which we wish to be governed ; and we are now, as members of that con stitution, to decide upon the measures and principles best fitting to be introduced amongst us, and upon the men—call it the party, if you please—best able and most ready to carry those principles and those mea sures into effect. We must no longer be deluded by a name—by a name, too, of which it may now be said, " Stat nominis umbra" ; we must no longer follow a jumble of inconsistencies, because it is chosen to be designated " reform." We must now look to distinct and tangible objects—to objects that may be weighed ar.d valued; and not run blindly after a meteor, which shuns us as we pursue it, and may be worthless when attained. We have come, then, to that point at which those men who set out as constitutional reformers may with perfect consistency pause, and examine the ulterior objects and the character of the party which urges them still onward. With the present House of Com mons and the present constituency, it is evident that the existing ministry are at a " dead lock." They can no longer propel the political machine in those reck less and dangerous courses to which their inclination leads, and in the effort to effect which the public bubi ness of the country is impeded or altogether neglected. Beset on one side by needy sycophants, whose support is only afforded them as a matter of barter, and bullied on another by a wild and desperate set of men, whose avowed objects are revolution and anarchy, and whose support is only given when their measures insidiously tend to the realisation of those objects ; they are alone restrained from plunging more deeply and irremediably into difficulty by the imposing array of conservative strength, which the country is pouring in at every vacancy, to stand by and defend from innovation the " ancient ways " of the constitution. In this dilemma the administration party are anx- iously casting about for the means of recruiting their thinned ranks; and to effect this object fresh baits will be held out to entrap the thoughtless and unwary ; new principles will be broached, and new alliances entered into. Of what nature those temptations and those principles may be, we must confess it is difficult to determine ; but the new alliance—if indeed it he a new alliance—is sufficiently manifest. That alliance is with Popery and with Repeal—with a mendicant agi tator wielding the power of Popish Ireland, and bought at the price of a dismemberment of the empire ! It becomes now, therefore, the duty of the sincere reformer to determine whether he will ally himself with this new Popish crusade—for it is a Popish crusade- - against the institutions of his country—against its Protestant church and Protestant form of government; or whether he will fall back into the ranks of those statesmen of his party, who, having gone their contemplated length in reform, are now seeking to strengthen and to fortify their position from its ex treme principle—democracy. It becomes his duty, too, to lose sight for awhile of mere theoretical changes, and examine the practical working, the a ctual administration, of the powers of the political machine