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imperial Varliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY In reply to a question from Lord The Earl of ABERDEEN said that, observing the conci liatory spirit of the resolutions of the American •Senate and Representatives some time hack, he lost no time•in preparing a draft of a convention for the settlement of the Oregon question, which he sent forthwith to Mr. Paken. barn, dated the 13th of June, informing him that by the advice of the Senate, the President of the United States bad accepted the proposition thus transmitted to them without the alteration or addition of a single syllable. lie felt bound to bear testimony to the friendly course always adopted by the French minister of the United States in this country, who had by every means in his power contributed to this•happy result. RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. The Duke of WELLINGTON—I have to announce to your Lordships, - that ter Majesty's - servants have tendered to her Majesty their resignation of the offices which they have held in her Majesty's service. 'ln consequence of that, her Majesty has sent.for a Noble Lord,ak - ith a view to form an early administration of the 'Government of this country, As the affairs of this country are now, any Lords, this information will -probably induce your Lordships to think that it will he desirable to suspend the discussion of those measures which are likely to be come measures of controversy in this House until those who have the honour of being her Majesty's servants, shall have an opportunity of forming their arrangements, and shall be able to.came down to this House to transact the public business. The Noble Duke then suggested that the house should 'sot adjourn, :but ccntinue us sit. tings from day to day, for the purpose of passing the short Sugar Bill, for the continuation of the sugar duties for a month. . This was immediately agreed to, and several nolale.lortls , signified their readiness to postpone motions which they bad on the paper. The house then broke up. EHOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY, The house never presented such a thronged appearance. At twenty minutes past three Sir Robert Feel entered -the house with .an anxious air, and proceeded to deliver his statement. After stating that in consequence of the louse having refused to give to the government those Towers which were deemed necessary for the protection of life in Ireland, her Majesty's servants had come to a linanimousresolution, and adopted without hesitation, to tender their resignation, he acknowledged with gratitude -the many occasions on which the house had rendered their ,cordial -support, _and he would. say nothing which could by possibility provoke any controversy. Her Majesty had been pleased to accept the resignation, and he assured the house that he did not. propose his late commercial mea sures without foreseeing the great probability, whether those measures succeeded or not, of the dissolution of the government. The right hon. gentleman then made the g statement :—" Sir, I rather rejoice that her Ma 3overnment has been relieved from any doubt, by :sty's n of this house, as tckthe course which it was their duty to pursue ' for I do not hesitate to say that I would not, even if the late vote had -been in our favour --I would not, .even then, have consented to hold dice by the sufferance .or wrmission of any party--(loud , cheers)—believing, as I dp, that :t is for the public interest .that a government remaining in power should be enabled the early de to give practical effnt to the Mez„sures which they may believe it necessary to,introduce for the pubiic good; and and I do not think that, in a position in which her overnment was 'placed by the vii drawal— perhaps the natural withdrawal—of the confidence of many of those wiio had hitherto supported them-1 do not think it improbable that, even if that vote had been in our favour, ber Majesty's Government would be enabled, with credit do ,themselves or with advantage to the inte rests of the country. to continux in the administration of We therefore f4t .it public aff .our duty to ad se her Majesty to accept our resigna fit have been without adopting that alternative which m _ adopted, namely, recommending in the Crown to exerci its prerogative : 4l4 to dissolve the present Parliamec We prefeired the immediate tenderingof our resignations to the adoption of that course Sir,.l do not hesitate to say, speaking with that franl offend no one, that if her M. failed in carrying through Parliiin which I am sure car ,ty's Government hat any duty to recommend. I do not hesitate to say that there was no exertion which J would not have made—(tremen rig)- if not to ensure their success, , an opportunity of pro ( awn upon them. In that case I myself justified in advising !HT Ma- e the country nonncina should 11 a v,e 14] . jesty to the extreme course of dissolving, the present Par liament ; but there was no necessity for such a course." The tight hon. bart then proceeded to say that he did not feel justified in adyising her Majesty to exercise CrL prerogative for the purpose of enabling the government to pass an inferior measure, for he felt utrongly that the Crown should not resort to a dissolution unless there be urgent reason. Be deprecated any argument being drawn from the government having introduced the Coercion Bill, that their opinions with reference to Ireland had un dergone any change; "speaking of myself," said he, "I do not hesitate to say ;hat thereon ht tc be established i Ireland, complete equality (loud c' at institutieng. (Cheers.) I say complete equa as far as it is practicable to carry it out, in the pre sent political .and religious aspect of the country. (H ear, bear.) It may not be possible to carry out complete po litical and religious equality according to the letter of the terms, but it may be do: .e according to the spirit. But I speak of the spirit and not of the letter, in regard to the franchise, in regard to the municipal rights, and in regard to other great questions relating to Ireland. (Cheers.) There is a strong desire In the minds of many that the people of Ireland should be placed in possession of the same political and religious rights as those of England and Scotland, and I admit the correctness of this principle. Not only do I admit the justice of this prin ciple. but I am of opinion that a complete assimilation of Ireland to England and Scotland in political and religi ous priviliges, should not be defeated by any jealousy and suspicion on oar part. With regard to any question involving the rights and privileges of the people of Ire land, I say distinctly that there ought not to be a different rule applied to Ireland to that which is'applied to the people of this country. (Cheers.) It is impossible for me to say that there should be submitted wih regard to Ireland a different role of action to that which is ap plied to Englan - 2. (Cheers.) Regarding the Executive Administration in Ireland, I think the powers of the Crown should not be exercised so as to occasion any real ground of complaint in regard to religious distinctions. It may be that we have given offence in some instances in availing ourselves of the opportunity of appointing Roman Catholics to office. It may be said that we should have taken different means to carry out our policy ; but to that I will answer, that I hold it to be the best and wisest po licy to carry on the affairs of Government without refe rence to any differences on religious questions, and that it should make its appointments accordingly. (Cheers.) With regard to the spirit in which legislation must be di rected, I must say, for one, I am prepared to co-operate with those who feel that the present social condition of the people of Ireland in respect to the tenure of land, and the relations of landlord and tenant, and are anxious to remedy the existing state of things. (Hear, hear.) It may be impossible by legislative enactments to apply an immediate remedy to the state of things which now exists ; but even if the benefit to be derived from legislation be extremely remote, yet if the benefit be of a permanent character, then I shall feel it to be my duty to support them. (Hear, hear.) Sir, I have reason to believe the noble lord, the member for the City of London, has been commanded by her Ma jesty to repair to her Majesty's presence for the purpose of hearing her Majesty's commands upon the subject of forming that government. (Hear, hear.) Sir, I presume that the general principle upon which the government to be formed by the noble lord, will—that is as far as its commercial policy is concerned—be to continue the appli cation of those princieles, which tend to give us a clear and unrestricted intercourse with other vaintries." The right hon. baronet then adverted to our foreign relations, which he said he was leaving in a most satisfactory state. France and other countries were impressed with a feeling of confidence towards this country, and it was only that very morning that the cheering intelligence had arrived from the United States that the efforts of the Earl of Aberdeen to settle the Oregon question had been entirely successful, and upon a basis which he thought would be entirely approved of. The right hon. baronet then stated the terms of the treaty agreed upon by Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Pakenham (which are in substance the same as those given in our American news), and triumphantly stated that the convention dtawn up by the Earl of Aber deen had been agreed to by the American Government and Senate without the alteration of a single letter. Be could not help rejoicing that before he relinquished power he should have had the satisfaction of making this announcement. Before he sat down he would say, in justice to an honourable member, whose pure and disinterested motives and natural eloquence, aided by an untiring perseverance, bad led to the adop tion of the late commercial measures, that the credit of them was to be attributed to Richard Cobden ' and not to either the Whig or Conservative party in that house. He had succeeded by appeals to the reason of the people, which there was no resisting. He was aware that, in re tiring, he would leave a name censured by many, who thought conscientiously that it was necessary to keep to. gether a great party ; and he would be execrated by those monopolists who maintained for their own interests the principle of protection. He trusted, however, that-his name would be remembered in the dwellings of the la bourer, while he recruited his exhausted frame with a more abundant supply of food—all the sweeter because no longer seasoned by injustice. The right tiononrable baronet having finished his observations on the po licy which had been pursued by his government, in the course of which he stated that it was the last time he should address the house as a minister of the crown, sat down amidst loud cheering. The right hon. baronet immediately afterwards rose and said he had received a communication from Lord John Russell, and he hoped that, agreeing with the wishes of the noble lord, the house would agree with the motion he was about to make, and which was that the house, at its rising, do adjourn to politic lily, Friday nest. Lord PALMERS policy of the views rs expressed his grail of the rig n. baronet ation at the as respected the legislation for Ireland, ?appy settlement of the qua lative to the Oregon Mr. HUMF r with so right hon. much of the public sympathy upon the country n it was HOUSE OF COMMONS.—_ On the motion of Mr. Tufnell, new writs were issued for the election cof members to serve in the city of Lon don, for Tiverton), for Devonport; ,fcr Halifax, for the West Riding of:Yorkshire, for Taunton, for the town of Nottingham, for 'Edinburgh, for the city of Worcester, for the borough-a€ Dungarcort, for the borough of Perth, for Plymouth, forthe Leith District of Burghs, and for Kirkcudbright ; in the room of LordJ. Russell, appointed First Lord of the Treasury ; of -Lord Palmerston, au pointed Secretary of State for Forekn Affairs ' • of Sir G. Grey, appointed Secretary of State for the Home De ' ; of • Mr. C. Wood, appointed Chief Commis toner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests ; of M r. La- partment bouchere, who his accepted the aEce of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds; of Sir . J. Ci Hobhouse, appointed 'President of the Board of Control ; of Mr. Macaulay, appointed Paymaster of the Forces; of Sir T. Wilde, ap pointed Attorney-General •, of Mr. Shell, appointed Mas ter of the Mint; of Mr. Fos Maule, appointed Secretary at War; of. Lord Ebrington, appointed a Lord of the Treasury ; of M.r. Rutherford, appointed Lord-Advocate:; and of Mr. T. Maitland, appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland Several private bills were forwarded a ttage ; but no public business vas transacted, and the house. on its rising, was adjaeined to Monday. FOREWN AND COLONIAL. DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF ST. -JOH ' N'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, BY FIRE. The following appeared in a third edition, and we now give a few additional particulars : By the kindness of a passenger who arrived- this morn ing by the sehooner Rozelle. Capt.-Wilkinson, from St. John's, we have information of the total destruction of that town by fire. At about half-past 9in the forenoon of the 9th instant. the fire broke out, from -what cause is not precisely ascertained, and spread with great fury, not wit.hstanding the efforts made to arrest its progress. The majority of the buildings being composed princi pally of timber,. course assisted the spread of .the con flagration. Some of the stores, however, of the leading merchants are substantial stone erections ; and it was ex pected that these .rould withstand and check the fire. They shared, however, the common fate. By six in the evening the whole -town, with the exception of some -suburban streets, was in ashes, only a chimney here and 'there raising its head above the common ruin . ; and be tween seven and eight thousand human beings were left without a shelter for their heads, or an item of property to call their own. So universal has been the destruction that not even . a newspaper-office was left with type sufficient to tell the tale, the only printed account pub lished being a slip composed from a few handfuls of type saved from the general wreck. The loss, in money, is .said to be upwards of a million sterling; but of course that must be taken as a rough guess, and is probably below the mark. The number of buildings destroyed .is frost 1.500 to 2,000. The loss of life bat pity has been but small, only two persons being known to have perished. One was an artillery -mart. who was crushed severely in attempting to arrest the flames, and afterwards died, and the other an inhabitant, who rushed into the fire from desperation or to save some pro- 1--- 0 i course an appeal mast be made to the generosity of Englishmen, for the inhabitants of what was so lately a to the comforts and support of the British nation. The Rozelle left St. John's on the Mb instant, and more detailed intelligence will be received by the nest arrivals. t is saic fire firs maker's shop; and that, atter communicating with other buildings, (fish stores, &c.) containior, oils and other highly combustible matter, it spread In four directions, and the flakes were circulated by the wind in all direc tions. various parts of the town being thus ignited at once, many of the inhabitajtts of which were ignorant that any other than their own immediate locality was affected. In some cases rnvitations•to home and shelter were given by parties who, in a few kaurs, discovered that they bad no homes themselves. We_may explain that the bulk of the fish stores tire built of wood and upon piles, as maze fitted for the business of fish curing than other kinds.of erec tions. pears tilat the cat commenced i was that of et.tnaker's shop, wherethe.fire Hamlin, in Chattleworth and eastward, it eeding north engines kept all the time in front of the fire, taking up positions where .they thought a stand could be made. and often driven from post to post. The following is a detailed account of the property con- sumed : um"; ED BONION,' All east of Newman and Co.'s, on bitith sides Outer street, to Wm. Roslin's, Magotty.Cove. All east of El utching's new houses and Brazils houses, on both sides of Duckworth street, to the Ordnance Yard. STREET • On the town side of Clower-street, and east from Ce lery-street to Cochrane-street, and above Gower-street, up the King's Road, half way to the Military Road. All the Fishing Rooms from Magotty Cove to Crow's Nest, three rooms only left to Chajn-lock, Warden-roof, near the brick arch-work of the Powder Magnine All the Fishing Rooms to Crow's Nest Mary king's Room.) y Wjl- Old EuiscnpaiClTurcir,eCiUrE-E,;W5e,.6;;01, Sheriff's House, British North American Bank, Colonial Trea sury and Savings' Bank Offices, Custom-house, Ordnance Store and Wharf, Exchange-buildings, Post. office, Office of Road Commissioners and Board of Control, Office of Light-house Commissioners, all the Printing-offices, Nunnery, Convent School-house, iVarine Insurance Company, Theatre, roof of Powder Mapzine. PRINCIPAL MERCANTILE HOUSES DESTROYED Hounsell, Schink, and Co., Stabb Rin and Co., William Grieve and Co., Wilson and Macneill, Robert Alsop and Co., Rennie Stuart, and Co., William Warren, jun., Boyd and M'Dougall, Peter Rogerson and Co., James William Stewart, C. F. Bennett and Co., J. ii. Warren, Langley and Tissier, P. and W. Carter, W. E. Taylor, Shea and Murphy, Thomas Glenn, John E. and N. Stabb, Pierce Grace, John and James Kent, R. O'Dwyer and Co., Neil M'Dougall, Begg, Ker, and Co., Bowring Brothers, R. and J. S. Rutherford, Mathew Stewart and Co., M`Briile and Kerr, Richard Howley, Samuel Mudge, Warren Brothers, Baine, Johnston, and Co., Wilson and Co., James Cliff, S. G. Aichibald, F. Trimingharn and Co., James Fox and Co., Robert Prowse. W. and H. Thomas and Co.. J. M. Rendell and Co., Gilbert Clapp, J. B. Baines and Co.. Job Brothers and Co., Hunter and Co., Tobin and Co., John O'Donnell, John Omara, Laurence O'Brien and Co.. Michael Foley, Parker and Gleison, James Morris, Nicholas Gill, G. F. Bonn, John Cussack and Sons, Walter Dillon, Dunscomb and Harvey, Robinson, Brooking and Co., John Brocklebank, William Boden, Michael Now lan. Pope Pius IX. was crowned on the 21st ultimo. Fremont the American explorer, has been elevated by President Polk to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. A lady, named Trimble, has recently been appointed clerk of the Kentucky Circuit Court, in the place of her deceased husband. A dreadful tornado has nearly destroyed the town of Grenada, in Mississippi, killing thirty-six, and grievously wounding fifty-two_ persons. _ _ _ Private - ad;ices fr r om New Zealand state that at the latest date the settlers were fast recovering from the alarm occasioned by the recent hostilities with the natives. The Prussian Courts have recently pronounced a sen tence of divorce between Mr. and Mrs. Aston, English persons settled at Berlin, on the ground that Mrs. Aston had made open profession of atheism. Immediately after the judgment had been confirmed, Mrs. Aston was ordered to quit the Prussian territory within a week. STEAWBERRIES AND CREAM.—On Monday, 31,100 baskets of strawberries, and 35,600 quarts of milk were brought to the city on the Erie Railroad. An extra train is run every night to accommodate the strawberry busi ness.—New Yerk Express, June 15._ _ _ _ . . COW H IDING AND SHOOTING.—We learn that last Sa turday Mr. Dennis Murphy, of Benton, rode to Mineral Point and chastised Mr. Crawford, an attorney, by whip ping him in the street with a raw hide; that the next time Crawford met Murphy, which was last Wednesday, at the Salcon, in Benton, he shot at M. with a rifle loaded with buck shot, and wounded him mortally.—Lancasler (Wu con.) Herald (American Paper.) ENCOURAGING THE RISING GENERATION.—At a re cent examination of a district school in Blaine, among the visitors was the worthy and very eccentric Parson 8., who, after asking many questions, calculated to show the profi ciency of the scholars, expressed his gratification in no measured terms, and exhorted them to persevere. "My young friends," said he, " persevere, and you cannot fail of success ; some of you may yet make Washingtons, Franklins, or Websters,—all of you can make Polks !" New York Express. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major General Sir Patrick Ross, K.G.C., St. M., and St. G., to be Governor of St. Helena; William Thomas Denison, Esq., captain in the corps of Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman's Land; the Hon. Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, to be Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland ; Murrell Robinson Robinson, Esq., to be Second Assistant Surveyor for the colony.of the Cape of Good Hope ; Daniel H. 0. Gordon, Esq., to be Chief Justice for the Virgin Islands; Sinclair Bryan, Esq., to be Treasurer for the said islands. HONESTY REWARDED.—On Friday, as the King of the French was stopping to change horses at Essonne, a poor woman presented herself with a petition, stating that she had fallen sick at a public-house, and incurred a debt of Bfrs., which she could not pay, and as a guarantee for which the publican had detained her dog, which was her only companion and friend. She owed the publican 18fra, but had 10frs. in her purse, and could not, she said, de ceive th e kine by asking for more than she actually wanted to pay the debt. The king shortly afterwards returned the petition, with several pieces of gold wrapped in it. IBRAHIM PACIIA'S VISIT. A letter from Alexan dria of the 20th June, states that Mehemet Ali was very much gratified with the accounts received of the reception given to Ibrahim Pasha in England. He, however, ex pressed his surprise, that instead of a palace being placed at his disposal, as at Paris, he should have had to take up his quarters at a public hotel • but on its being explained to him that the Emperor of Russia occupied the same apartments at Mivart's, and that Her Majesty's Govern ment bad no apartments reserved for the accommodation — ustrioos visitors, his Highness was satisfied. The s expected to lease for Constantinople . i lein, of i Viceroy towards the expense of the trip, but it is rstood that his Highness would require double that 'CUs COI nm CD the ilirra4e of t e serious impediments in ti.:u way of k Or t been prov ti:e Alahmoudivli LiCatIODS 0 were believed to be t such an undertaking. TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CAPE OF Gooss HOPE.—Thetteam-sloop Vixen, which arrived at Portsmouth on' Tuesda7. has brought advices from Cape Town down to the Bth of May. The intelligence from Graham's Town reaches to the 2nd of May, several days later than the dates brought by previous arrivals, The Kaffirs appear to have turned the flanks of the troops employed on the frontier, and to have penetrated into the colony in their rear. Scveral sharp skirmishes bad been fought between the armed inhabitants and the irsradess, with various success ; but the Kaffirs had captured nume rous herds of colonial cattle, and bad burned and plun dered -many houses. •Those settlers who reside on remote farms appear to have abandoned their homes, and to have entrenched themselves rand their flocks and herds at vari ous defensible posts. -Martial law had been proclaimed, and the armed contingents of the various districts had been called out -and- to-arched towards the frontier. A Fingne, who- bad succeeded in making his way through the Kaffirs, reported that the hostile tribes intended to attack Graham's' Town ; but as Col. Somerset had arrived there with. 300 men._ there could be no doubt that any attempt upon - that place would be easily defeated. At Salem, near the residence of a Dr. Livingston, an attempt was made by a body 0f.300 armed Kaffirs to carry off a herd of 2000 to 3004 cattle, and which at first was partially successful. To oppose this force there were only twenty mounted colonists,- aided by about twenty Zingoes ; 'but such was the spirit that animated the little band, that, after a desperate conflict. in which several of the enemy were slain, the whole of the cattle were recovered, and the Kaffirs repulsed. Wom AN KILLED' BY YHEE, lILSBAND, AT HER OWN REQUEST.—The following curious case of murder occurred 14tely in a small village, in Wurtemburg:—Adam Gayring, shepherd, a man of sixty-four years of age, of honest and upright dealings, loved and respected by all who knew him, presented himself, on the Bth instant, before the authorities of Meidenheim, and stated calmly' that he had just killed his wife. .His declaration was immediately taken, as follows :—'lly wife,' he said, ' as every one knows, has been suffering for a long time from illness, and at times the pains she had to endure were such as to affect her reason ; she latterly gave up a'l hopes of reco very, and continually repeated, that not only was 'fife torment to her, but that she feared that if I died before her, she would be reduced to misery. This morning, after we had read together the 4th chapter of the Book of Judges, (they were devoutpeople, and read the Bible every day.) she requested me to drive a nail into her temple, as Jael did to . Sisera, as such a death seemed to her short and easy, and would put an end to her sufferings; she said she forgave me beforeband for the act, of which she absolved me before God and man. A nail, she said, would not cause a great hemorrhage, and would cause but a alight wound. 'As soon as 4 am dead,' she added, 4 you can close the wound, put me on a clean cap, and no one will know anything at all about it.' After long resistance (continued Gayring) I gave way to the wishes of my wife. I took a nail and began to drive it into her left temple with a hammer, but the nail was too weak, and the point, instead of entering. flattened itself on the bone. I then .took a small drill, but was equally unsuccessful. My wife grew impatient, and requested me to kill her at once with the hammer, which I did accordingly, by knocking inthe skull. The body of my wife is at my house, where you can examine it at your leisure.' The magistrate immedi ately proceeded to the house with a medical man, and Gayring ,under a strong guard. They found the body On the left temple there were two wounds, and the right side of the skull was knocked in as low down as the temple. Beside the bed was a table, on which was a:Bible, the nail, drill, and hammer alluded to. ' On the ground was a basin of water, in which the mur- derer, according to his own declaration, washed his hands before presenting himself to the authorities. Gayring is now in prison.; -Le is perfectly calm, and convinced that he acted well in fulfilling the wishes of his wife, by put ting an end to her.4ufferings. Some Wurtemhurg papers state, that the inhabitants of the village of Gussenstadt, where the murder was committed, left their work as soon 's V — beard - mure- _aey - of tno der, and spent the day in the church, fasting and praying for the s oul of the departed. IRELAND. A thousand tons of Indian meal are issued weekly from the government defots at Cork alone, at £lO a ton. Lord Downes has resigned his command of the Lime rick District, and Major-General Prince George of Cam- bridge_is immediately to. be appointed his successor On Wednesday, Captain 3wabury M'Clintock, R.N., was elected for the county Carlow, without opposition, in the room of the late Wm. Bunhury,Esq., deceased. The Dublin " Society of Arts " have given the lard gold medal to Mr. O'fitien ' a baker, in that city, tpri, having procured an excellent bread from Indian corn, at one penny per lb. Alderman Staunton, proprietor of the Dublin Weekly Regialer, has been nominated Lord Mayor of that city for the ensuing ymo.r. He is a Roman Catholio and re pealer. - - - - MUNIFICENT BEiauEsT.— Mrs. Magee, of Dublin, lately deceased, has left £20,000 to trustee for the erection of a Presbyterian College in Ireland. The deceased w•as relict. of Mr. Alagee, of Lurgan, sister of Major General Steuart. Two yesselS of large tonnage, the Alvardo and Taro !iota, have arri►•ed at Belfast, direct from New York, with full cargoes of Indian corn and other" bread stuffs," and small consignments of cured beef, &c. The Tarolinta alone has 15,423 bushels of wheat, and 13,234 bushels of maize: REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this body took place on Monday. Mr. Smith O'Brien was present, and received an enthusiastic welcome. Mr. M. O'Connell read a long letter from his father, relative to the political position of Ireland contingent upon the pre sent state of parties. They had seen, the letter stated, the last of the coercion bill. He strongly urged repeal, and enumerated the benefits the country would derive from it. The rent for the week was 1259, including £77 from America, and £7 from Liverpool. The principal speakers were Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Henry Grattan, who urged the usual topics. CORN LAW AND REPEAL.—The passing of the corn law was celebrated last night in the city by a moving illumi nation. Bands paraded through the streets, striking up cheering, and exulting strains, preceded by a broad and brilliant line of torches. Lighted tar barrels were borne along in other directions, followed by crowds, who pro ceeded from one baker's shop to another, and by signifi cant exclamations announced the joy they felt at the ap proaching abundance of the "staff of life." One party bore long poles, on some of which large loaves were mounted, and in front of another was a platform carried along, on which " Bothered Dan," in cocked bat and plume, was seated, grasping in one hand a long stick, on which the fragment of a masssive loaf was emblematically fixed.—Cork Reporter. SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—One of those dreadful occur rences, at the very mention of which the blood runs cold, arising from the use of intoxicating liquors, has taken place in Dublin. The unfortunate victim to the fury of a man mad with drink, named Jane Boland, resided in Loftus-lane, near Capel-street. It appeared that she was confined on Tuesday, of a dead child ; and a witness swore that she confessed that her husband, when in a state of intoxication, on Sunday, came into the room where she was lying ; that he struck her with a stick several times across the belly, and pointed to a stick that was used for drying clothes out of the window ; she added that, immediately after she. was struck, she was seized with severe vomitinx, and acute pain. The coroner's jury returned the following verdict:—" We find that Jane Boland's death was caused by extensive peritonitis, pro duced by blows inflicted on her by her husband, William Boland, while in a state of intoxication." DREADFUL MURDER.—A terrible outrage, which ended in murder, occurred on Monday, at Belturbet, near Fermanagh. Three men came to the house of Tom Burns, dragged him out of his bed, in which were his wife and three children, one carrying him by his feet, the other two by his arms, and murdered him in a most cold blooded manner. Two of the ruffians held Burns by his arms, against a table at his own door, while the third de liberately groped for his short ribs, and discharged a pistol filled with duck shot ! The shot spread upward, and took effect in his lungs and heart. Poor Burns lived from one o'clock on Monday night, until some time the following day, and on the police being sent for, he gave information against the three men, neighbours, whom he knew, and identified. They are now in Cavan gaol. Their names are Smith, Farrelly, and Reilly, who fired the shot. Burns had ceased to worship as a Roman Catholic, attended the Church of England, and had given information respecting Ribbonism, fur which he has been murdered. what hmeant -by the equality he spoke of. There was, however, a view of the subject *bids rendered his state ment altogether sophistical. Certainly, the religion of the-•majority was established in lEngland, but then that religion was true; and the religion of the majority was established in Scotland, but that religion was also true. Now, if the religion of the majority was established in Ireland, that religion would be false—a delusion—a snare —(cheers) ;—and therefore its establishment, instead of placing this country in point of religion in a like condition with England and Scotland, would create a most in jurious inequality between the three countries. As it was, there might be said to be a religious equality between 'England, Ireland, and Scotland namely, because the true religion was established in each. (Chess.) But if Ireland were made an exception, and the false established here, then, indeed, there would be created an injurious inequality—an inequality infinitely greater than could be created by any discrepancy in point of mere numbers. ( Hear, hear.) There were two ideas before the world. One was the 'American idea of liberalism ; the other was the English idea, much more stern and severe of rectitude. The American idea was, that the state bad nothing to say to any man's-religion ; that whether he were Jew, Turk, or Atheist, worshipped God or worshipped Belial, was a matter that the government should not interfere with. The English ides, instead of growing out of that which could scarcely be denied to be a convenient indifference, -was grounded upon some chapters of Deuteronomy, and other parts of the Scripture, which commanded the ruler that if any one bowed down and worshipped strange gods, he should be stoned with stones until he was dead. That was unquestionably the principle of the Old Testament Scripture, and he repeated that on that was founded the English idea. Yet here he felt it necessary to draw a most important distinction. The English princi ple did not warrant the persecution of individuals for conscience' sake, but it did warrant, and demand, too, the extirpation of. false principles by the exclusive pro mulgation of the true. It held unquestionably that the eradication of religious error was a function of the state. He (Mr. Gregg) took it that the only effectual way where by error could be eradicated was by sound educational 'laws—laws to diffuse and propagate right principles. The English idea, then, presented a government raising, re fining, chastening, correcting the national mind, and ele vating its subjects in the scale of being, by an active in terference to increase the spread of truth amongst them. The American idea allowed every man to do in religion what was right in his own eyes. Of that idea Sir Robert Peel seemed to have become enamoured, and in con sequence, he, was bound on letting the religion of the majority in Ireland—that religion being false —a free course through the cnuntry without ob stacle, opposition, or protest. He (Mr. Gregg) as an individual, most humbly said that he regarded such a design as utterly wrong ; and he could not help recol lecting with much satisfaction a bold and manful state ment which had been made some time since by the men of Fermanagh, in an address to the Queen. They boldly stated that they would sooner die than see popery estab lished in Ireland (great cheers). He (Mr. Gregg) was not the man either to approve of violence or to advi•e it, and there was nothing that he should expect less from than from the encounter of battalions in a religious war. But he should have little hope for Ireland if he did not believe that there were thousands of protestants who would take up the language of the men of Fermanagh, and in the spirit of martyrs resolve to provoke death in the most painful form, rather than tamely allow idolatry to he made the national religious profession of Ireland." UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS, The Rev. M. A. Gathercole has commenced another action against the proprietor of the Nonconformist. It is said that the action is founded on some passages in a speech delivered by the defendant at a dinner given to him. On Saturday week the Bishop of Chester consecrated St. Stephen's Church, Andenshaw, and on Wednesday his Lordship consecrated St. James's Church at Birch, near Manchester. A subscription has been entered into to raise funds for the endowment of a Chinese professorship and scholar ships at King's College, London, as well as for the pur chase of a Chinese library. The amount already sub scribed exceeds £l,OOO. UNIVERSITY HONOURS.—Our young townsman, R. G. Williams, son of Mr. Williams, Basnett-street, has this year again distinguished himself at the University College, London, having obtained prizes and certificates of honour in the higher senior Mathematical Class, senior Greek, junior Mathematical, Natural Philosophy, and tH istory. PRINCELY MuNtricENcE.—Trinity Church, Tewkes bury, lately built by subscription, is about being erected into a district church, with the consent of the Rev. Da vies, the rector of the parish. The endowment is fur nished by a gentleman named Terrett, who has subscribed the handsome sum of £4,000 to be applied to that pur pose ; to this will also be added a previous subscription of £l,OOO by a lady. . . SECESSION.—The Rev. John George Wenham, 8.A.,' demy of Magdalen College, is announced as having apos tatised to the Church of Rome. Mr. Wenham was re cently sent out to Colombo as chaplain ; his Romanistie opinions were well known previous to his departure from England. Amongst the topics of congratulation con neuted with the resignation of the Peel administration, will be the removal, we trust, of the nn-Protestant staff accumulated at the Colonial-office, which we know has operated most unfavourably in the appointments to the Colonial t hurch.—Church and Slate Gazelle. PRESENTATIONS.—The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of Christ Church, took leave of the congregation on Sunday week, and entered upon the duties of the incumbency of St. Thomas's Toxteth-park, last Sunday. The Rev. Gentle man was presented, last week, by the Sunday school teachers, with a handsome silver :inkstand, pencil and gold pen, in testimony of their gratitude for his faithful and aff ctionate labours among them ; and on Tuesday he was waited on by a deputation from the congregation at large, who conveyed to him a purse containing £Bl, to gether with a costly silver salver of bFautiful workman ship, which was executed by Mr. Wordley, of Lord-street. INDELIBLE ORDERS.—The case of the Rev. Mr. Shore has brought up again the curious question of the indelibility of orders ; but there seems some difficulty to know what orders are indelible, and by what virtue they are so. Mr. Shore is " a priest in holy orders" of the Church of England, and, therefore, by the canon law, he is subject to the bishop, and he cannot secede. Mr. Shore Ras the minister for some ten years of an unconse crated and unendowed chapel, built by the Duke of Somerset, in the Parish of Berry Pomeroy. The duke was willing to endow the chapel, provided he retained the patronage. Two successive incumbents agreed to Mr. Shore's ministry, but the third refused to permit him, un less the chapel were endowed, and the patronage vested in the incumbent. Hereupon the duke turned the chapel into a dissenting meeting house, and licensed it under the Toleration Acts; and hereupon Mr. Shore took the oaths as a dissenting minister. The bishop prosecutes him in the Arches Court ; and, because orders are indelible, he is prevented from becoming a dissenter. But now the question arises as to Mr. Newman, Mr. Ward, and all the other seceders to Rome. Were not their orders in delible ? Could not they be prohibited by the Arches Court ? We can fancy the enormous hubbub about " liberty of conscience," which the whole corps of Popery in the House of Lords, the House of Commons, at the press and elsewhere. as they swarm through the land, would raise, if the " seceders to Rome" were assailed in the Arches Court. and imprisoned for contempt, because they exercised their liberty of going to Rome.—Statesman. COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—The committee appointed to arrange measures in concert with government for the erection and endowment of additional bishoprics in the colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, have just issued their third annual report. It appears that the diocese of Australia is to be subdivided into three distinct bishoprics, by the establishment of one see at Morpeth, for the northern division of New South Wales, and of another at Melbourne, for the district of Port Philip. During the five years which have elapsed since the com mittee was formed, nine new sees have been created. Of these, two, namely, Gibraltar and Fredricton, derive their endowments almost exclusively from the fund placed at the disposal of the episcopal trustees; and four others, namely, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melbourne, and Mor peth, receive assistance from the same source. The re maining three, namely, Antigua, Guiana, and Colombo, have been endowed by means of a different distribution of the funds at the disposal of the imperial or colonial government for ecclesiastical purposes. It is intended to sub-divide the diocese of Calcutta, by the erection of a bishopric at Agra, for the north-western provinces. The committee recommend the immediate formation of bishoprics in the following possessions of the crown : Sierra Leone, Western Australia, the Mauritius, and Prince Rupert's Land. Appended to the report is an abstract of receipts and payments from the commence ment of the fund in January, 1841, to May. 1846. The receipts, it appears, have been £81,890 lls. 4d.; the ex penditure less than that sum by £6 19s. id. ; which balance remained to the credit of the fund, at the Bank of England, on the Ist of May last. THE COURT (5- FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Queen returned to Buckingham Palace from Os borne House on Thursday. Sir Robert Peel left town for Drayton Manor on Thursday. A morning paper states that the Duke of Wellington, at the express request of her Majesty, retains his office of Commander-in-Chief. The Earl of Egliotoun has purchased the spacious man sion of the Earl of Lovelace, in St. James's square. The price was £14,000. PROMOTIONS.—Lord Francis Egerton was on Tuesday gazetted as a peer under the titles of Viscount Brackley, and Earl of Ellesmere, and the following gentlemen were Promoted to the dignity of beaonet :—The Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, of Harpton-Court, in the county of Radnor; John Somerset Pakington, of West wood Park, in the county of Worcester, Esq. ; John Gladstone, of Fa , que and Balfour, in the county of Kin cardine, Esq.; James Weir Hogg, of Upper Grosvenor street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; William Fielden, of Feniscowles, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq.; William Verner, of Verner's Bridge, in the county of Ar magh, and of Inismagh, in the county of Tyrone, Esq. ; and Sir Moses Montefiore, of East Cliff Lodge, in the Isle of Thanct, and_county of Kent, Knt. , LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—In the Gazette of Tnesday evening it will be seen that his lordship has been elevated to the peerage by the title of the Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley. Both those titles had belonged to the )use of Bridgewat and virtuous Sir :c r, ler his 1 centuries eendatits of the celebrated rton, whom Queen Elizabr.th made her Lord conferred other guisuca anilines, particulany ni tne suppressio❑ conspiracy of the Earl of Essex. On the acce James 1., he enjoyed the favour of that soveri whom, in 1603, he was created Earl of Ellesmere, and, subsequently, in 1616, he was further raised to the dignity of Viscount Brackley. and the king further intended to have conferred an earldom on him ; but be died before the patent wasmade out. The earldom was, however, imme diately conferred upon his son Viscount Brackley, the munificent patron of Milton, who wrote his " Comus" expressly for the earl, when Lord President of the Princi pality, who had it performed by his family at Ludlow Castle, in Wales. The viscounty and barony became thus merged in the superior title of the Earl of Bridge water, and were enjoyed in direct succession until the death of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last earl, and ninth Viscount Brackley and Baron Ellesmere, who died in February, 1829, and whose titles became extinct. It is generally known that Lord Francis Egerton, then Lord Francis Leveson Gower, nephew of the Earl, inherited a large portion of his extensive estates, as well as his valu able collection of paintings, familiar to all connoisseurs of the fine arts as the Bridgwater collection. In 1833, he assumed the name of Egerton, in lieu of his patronymic Leveson Gower. In 1820 his lordship was returned to the House of Commons, as member for Bletchingly, and in 1826 was elected to represent the county of Sutherland, which he continued to sit for until 1830. In 1835, he was returned for the southern division of Lancashire, in conjunction with the Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, in opposi tion to Viscount Molyneux (now Earl of Sefton) and Mr. G. W. Ward. His lordship was chief Secretary for Ire land, from 1828 to July, 1830, when he was appointed Secretary at War, and filled that office till the succeeding November. The noble lord was offered a high appoint ment by Sir Robert Peel when he came into office in 1841. but declined the honour from his unsettled state of health. DUBLIN PROTESTANT PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. The members and friends of the above association met on Wednesday evening, Ist of July, in the ball of the association, Whiteriar-street, for the purpose of cele brating the anniversary of the victory of the Boyne. The meeting was originally to have been held in the Rotundo Gardens, but owing to the broken state of the weather and other unforeseen circumstances, the place of meeting was changed to the hall, which was very tastefully deco rated for the occasion with shrubs and flowers, and amongst the latter was a great abundance of orange lilies. Several banners, representing William 111. on horseback, which were placed in various parts of the building, had also a most striking and pleasing effect. There were also inscribed in gold letters, over the chair and on the front of the galleries, such mottos as the following :—" God save the Queen"—" Lord Lorton and Protestant Ascen dancy"—" Earl of Roden and the Orange Institution," &c. A vast number of Orangemen were present, who wore their scarfs and insignia of office. The meeting, which was thronged to excess with a most respectable audience, was most orderly and regular all through. Amongst the speakers on the occasion was the Rev. T. D. Gregg, who moved the following resolution, "That we are convinced that if all Irish Protestants, without ex ception, organized themselves in order to show the nature of Christian laws, and constitutionally to demand their enactment, the power of truth, and the numbers on their side would soon convince the Protestant community in Great Britain that the path of safety ran side by side with the path of duty, and that both led to the ascendancy of truth, its sole maintenance, encouragement, and counte nance; and that we are further convinced that so long as British swesmen ;re led by an expediency to counte nance religious falsehood and to pension idolatrous apes tacy, they need not expect aught bnt overthrow, disaster, and disgrace." The rev. gentleman at much length urged on those present the employment of renewed exertions to create a great party in Ireland, who should be witnesses for the truth. (Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel had gone out of office, and, as far as he could make them Such was the sense which t in England and Scotl.nd, so should the religion of the majority be established in Iceland. That, no doubt, was RAILWAY IN TA LIA GEA CE. In the House of Commons the preambles of the follow ing bills have been proved : Wilts, Somerset, and Wey mouth, except the branch from Basingstoke to Salisbury ; West Riding Union, No. 2; Vale of Meath, Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford; Birmingham, Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley; Grand Junction (Porto Bello Branch); Shrewsbury and Birmingham ; Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Birmingham Extension); Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick (as far as Leamington); London and Bir mingham ; Birmingham Extension ; Newry, Warrenpoint, and Radstrevor ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston; and Lancaster and Preston Junction. The preambles of the following bills have this week been proved in the House of Lords : London and Brighton (Wandsworth) branch; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc tion ; Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole (Methley, Askern, and Oakenshaw) Branch; St. Helen's Canal and Railway; Wishaw and Coltness (Greenhill) Branch; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Duckinfield, Worsborough), and other Branches. The following Bills have been thrown out :—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, in the Lords; and the London, Newbury. and Bath, the Huddersfield and Man chester (Bradford Branch), and Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, in the Commons. The Grand Junction Company are laying the electric telegraph on their line of railway. The Leeds and Bradford Railway was opened on Tues day last. It is rumoured that Pope Pius Bill be as favourable to railways as his predecessor was opposed to them. The North British Railway, extending from Edinburgh to Berwick, has now been completed, and was opened yesterday for general traffic. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, IVIATLOCK, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION.—The preamble of this bill was on Monday declared proved. The amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1800 miles of railway, was £151,055.. thus accounted for : £92,369 for the conveyance of passengers only. £29,391 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £29,295 for passengers and goods together, not respectively appor tioned ; being an increase over the corresponding week of last year of £14,024. _ •N "EST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—The committee on this railway decided on Monday that the preamble was not proved. Amongst the witnesses were Mr. Thos. Sands and Dr. Duncan, of this town. The latter stated that he had made the medical stati'tics of Liverpool his study for several years, and considered that as the rail way would lead to the erection of villas about Crosby, the air of which was most salubrious, it would be extremely desirable for the people of Livrnpool. . . . • Til E GUAGES. —The London and Birmingham has lost, during the week, the Warwickshire bills, which it pro moted, whilst the broad gauge interests have obtained, in the committee, their bill from Oxford to Birminghom. This event, says the Railway Chronicle, practically re opens the whole question of the guages ; for to suppose that the broad gunge, being allowed to go within 30 miles of Birmingham, will stop at the little village of Fenny Compton, is quite absurd. The House of Lords and an Act of Parliament have still to sanction the Board of Trade's reversal of the Guage Commissioners' Report. The long-pending contest between the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Stour Valley Railway Companies on the one hand, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley on the other, was terminated on Tuesday. An arrangement has been made, in virtue of which the upper line, by West Bromwich and Wednesbury, between Bir mingham and Wolverhampton, is apportioned to the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley ; while the lower, or canal line, is given to the other two companies. The select committee have decided to allow two stations in Birmingham. LAW INTELLIG EN CE. Dr. Bateman, chief clerk to the excise, has been ap pointed to the solicitorship of that department. The following gentlemen of the Chancery Bar have been appointed Queen's Counsel :—Mr. Walpole, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Willocks, and Mr. Rolt. In the District Court of Bankruptcy, at Newcastle upon-Tyne, on Thursday week, the learned commi,ioner took an opportunity to announce, for the information of practitioners, that in future the practice of allowing, in certain cases in the discretion of the Court, the sum of six pounds to a bankrupt out of his estate, on obtaining his certificate, would be discontinued. RIGHT OF STOCKBROKERS TO RECOVER IN ACTION FOR DIFFERENCES.—ILLEGALITY OF TIME. BARGAINS. —The case of Whitmore and others v. Radcliffe came on in the Court of Exchequer on Monday. It was an action by stockbrokers to recover from a clergyman resident at Salisbury, the sum of £1420 for commission, and differ ences paid in respect of purchases of consols made upon the retainer and by the orders of the defendant in the months of October and November of the last year. The purchases amounting to £40,000 consols, were made in the month of October for the settlin g -day in November, and the panic in the money market having set in between the day when the purchases were made and the settling day, there was a large sum to pay by way of differences, which sum was duly paid by the plaintiffs, who sought to recover it in the present action. There was no actual transfer of stock completed, arid the witnesses called to prove the sales to the plaintiffs, and who were of the class denominated in the market " jabbers," admitted that they bad no stock in their own names in the funds equal to the amounts sold to the plaintiffs, and that if the consols had got up instead of falling, they should only expect to be called upon to pay the difference, and not to make an ac tual transfer of the stock. The witnesses, however, stated that upon the settling-day, if they thought fit, they might have called upon the plaintiffs to name the party for whom they bought instead of taking " the difference," and asking no questions. It was contended for the de fendant, under these circumstances, that the transactions were illegal under the stat. 7 Geo. 11., chap. 8, s. 5, and that the plaintiffs could not recover as for money paid to their use, inasmuch as the plaintiffs were under no legal obligation to pay the differences.--The Chief Baron left it to the jury to say, if the transactions upon which mo. nies were paid by the plaintiffs to " the jobbers," from whom they purchased on behalf of the defendant, were " time bargains," and the jury having found this question affirmatively, a verdict was entered for the defendant, on the counts raising this defence, and for the plaintiffs on the remaining counts. THE REVENUE An Abstract of Britain. in tl July, 1845 at crease thereof the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great ,he Years and Quarters ended the sth of nd 1816, showing the Increase or De- YEARS ENDED JULY 5 1845. I 1846. I Incr. I Deer X I £ 115,00 f, 125,000 100,000 19,807,044 17,688,461 1 .... 2,118.583 12,074,999 12.025,112 49,887 78,024 6,846,883 6,98 8 , 940 142,65 7 • 4,228.441 4, 229,899 1 , 45 8 5, 6 26 79 1 : 9 0 5 00 4 5, 7 1 9 83 4; 9 000 12 • • • • 25,000 658,819 1,384,096 725,27; 49,682,140 48,391,420 983,792 410,145 215,523 .... 2,271,512 194,622 975,571 1 1,446,1401 470,5691 Total Income.. 151,067,856 150,056,083 1,454,36112,466 , 13 4 Deduct Increase Decrease on the Year 1 011,773 QUARTERS NDED JULY 5 1816. I Incr. I Deer. X £ 4 523,391 23,813, 3,104.711 139,027 1,730,495 . 2,006,427 . 5 . ,860 1,009,162 99,171 181,000 26,000 3,013,187 i 738 106,581 ); 136,581 70,7.17 4.499,548 2,965,684 1,837,076 2,000,567 969,91 155,000 30,000 13,652 .2,411,518 29,262 Increase on the Quarter, Customs..... Excise Stamps Taxes Property Tax Post Office Crown Lands Miscellaneous Total Ordinary' Revenue.... Imprest &other Moneys .... Repayments of Advances .. Customs ... Excise Stamps Taxes Property Tax Post Office . Crown Lands leous 1 Total Ordinary Revenue Repayment:: Advances 1:375,599 July 7, 1846. POLITICAL NOTABILIA. Amongst Sir Robert Peel's new batch of baronets is a Radical, a Jew, and an Orangeman. One of the last ministerial acts of Sir Robert Peel was to confer an appointment of £lOOO a.year as Commis sioner of Stamps and Taxes on Mr. Allred Montgomery, a Whig. It appears that Lord Stanley's son is not twenty years of age, and cannot therefore be a candidate, as stated, for the representation of Preston. The Manchester Advertiser says that it is proposed to invite Sir Robert Peel to allow himself to be put in nomi nation for the southern division of Lancashire. A Whig correspondent of the Morning Herald expresses his sorrow in being obliged to state that the Whig govern ment promises to be of very short duration. The Tories, he says, will be wanted again before February. At a public meeting of the League, on. Thursday, it was resolved to present Mr. George Wilson, the late chairman, with a sum not less than £lO,OOO for his services. The amount is to be paid out of the league fund. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd was sworn in on Thursday, as Queen's Sergeant, before Lord Lyndhurst. The honour was unsolicited, and was the last judicial act of the retired chancellor. The League newspaper has announced that its next number, which was to be published on Monday, (yester day,) will be its last. Even its office, it is said, is announced to be let. Mr. Macaulay, the new Paymaster of the Forces, will meet with a very formidable opposition on presenting himself to his constituents at Edinburgh for re-election, an account of his votes in favour of the Maynooth A public dinner in commemoration of the repeal of the - Corn-laws was held at Birmingham. Amongst the toasts were the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Cobden, Sir Robert Peel, &c. The toast of Mr. Spooner and Mr. Muntz, the members for the borough, was excluded from the list. It is expected that the Whies, not liking at first to try their hands with the Irish Church, will endeavour to make themselves popular by passing a modified ten hours' bill, and by doing something to amend the present state of the beershops. The fact that Sir James Graham is not to be called to the Upper House, is considered symptomatic of Sir Ro bert Peel's not intending to retire from public lite ; just as Lord Stanley's premature elevation is now understood to have been preparatory of the repeal of the Corn-laws. It is an amusing fact, that whilst the negociations were pending relative to Lord Lincoln's acceptance of office under Lord John Russell, a party of his friends met to gether at a Richmond dinner, to congratulate him on be coming Irish secretary under an administration now defunct. CREATION OF PEERS.—The Conservatives have been five years in power, and during that time there have been no more than five creations, and two promotions, in the Peerage. The list is a somewhat remarkable one :-1842. Lord Hill advanced to a Viscounty. 1844. Lord Ellen borough advanced to an Earldom. 1845. Sir Charles Metcalf, created Lord Metcalfe. 1845. Mr. Daly, created Lord Dunsandle and Clanconal, in the peerage of Ireland. 1846. Sir Henry Hardinge. created Viscount Hardinge. 1846. Sir Hugh Gough, created Lord Gough. 1846, Lord Francis Egerton, created Earl of Ellesmere. Of these seven creations, only two can be said to have been made except on urgent grounds of public service. A subscription has been set on foot for a testimonial to Mr. Cobden. At the first meeting, on Thursday, nearly £15,000 were subscribed, which has since been increased to upwards of £20,000. The list includes four contribu tions of £l,OOO each ; nine of £5OO each ; four of £400; eight of £250; eleven of £2OO. Amongst the subscribers we find the following :—Brown, Shipley and Co., £1000; the Mather family, £1000; Mr. John Brooks, £5OO ; Rathbone Brothers and Co.. £250; James Mulleneulr, £200; 0. and J. Rawdon, £250; James Mellor, £250 ; John Finch and Son, £l5O. The Manchester Guardia* suggests that, as Mr. Cobden is by no means an opulent man, the testimonial should be in the shape of a pecuniary offering, which, it is expected, will reach £lOO,OOO. On Wednesday evening, the Irish Society gave a splen did banquit, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, Surrey, to the Earl of L'ncoln, now retiring from the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland. A large and distin guished party was invited to meet the noble arl, Among the Irish members of parliament who were preser.t, we observed Lord C. Hamilton, the O'Connor Don, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, and Mr. Grogan ; among the English, Sir C. Napier, Mr. Hume, Mr. Kemble, and Mr. Williams. There were also in the company, Alderman Sir C. Mar shall, Masnay, H. Hughes, Wood, Hu Moon ; Mr. Sheriff Lauriel. 2 2l 'Waste of the chief City Companies;SZ Br General for Ireland ; Sir G. Larper Times Commissioner for Ireland," & The following is a list of the Whig Minis ewster; tl ; Mr. F 1841 :- First Lord of the Treasury Chancellor Lord Melbourne Lord Cottenham Sidney, and the Clerks Le Solicitor ter, The a cffice in President of the Council ..... 11: n ar G q e u o is rg o e f G L r ans . dOWrie Lord Privy Seal Chan Lancaster or of the Duchy of s _ ) q. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary Fore'gn Secretary Mr. F. T Baring. Marquis of Normanby Lord Paltnerst— Colonial Secretary Lord John Russ(ll. Mr. T. B. Macauiay. Secretary at War. First Loid of the Admirtilty.... Earl of Tinto President of the Board of Trade. Mr. H. Labou President of the Board of Control Sir J. C nley (not Paymaster of the Forces. f Mr. E. J. S. 1. in the Cabinet). Commissioner of Woods and 1 Lord Duncannon (now Forests .. Irish Secretary Lord Morpeth. GOVERNMENT INTENTIONS.—III Lord John Russell's address to the electors of London, offering himself for re-election, occurs the following passage—" I trust that the measures of commercial freedom which still remain to be accomplished will not occasion the renewal of angry conflict. The government of this country ought to be hold with an impartial eye the various portions of the community engaged in agriculture, in manufactures, and in commerce. Th., feeling that any one of them is treated with injustice provokes disturbs legislation, and diverts attention from many useful and necessary reforms. Great social irnprovemen;s are required; public education is lamentably imperfect ; the treatment of criminals is a problem yet undecided ; the sanitory condition of our towns and villages has been grossly neglected. The ad ministration of our colonies demands the most earnest and deliberate attention. Our recent discussions have laid bare the misery, the discontent, and outrages of Ire land ; they are too clearly authenticated to be denied ; too extensive to treated by any but the most comprehen sive measures." SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. --On Friday a nu merous meeting of the friends of free trade and reform took place at Eastwoods' Hotel, Dale -street, to devise measures to secure the election of Wm. Brown, Esq., as representative in Parliament for South Lancashire, a vacancy having occurred by the election to the peerage of Lord Francis Egerton. Robert Ellison Harvey, Etq., was called to the chair. He said they bad now, for the first time a candidate selected, and all they had to do was Thetvt i o a secure eoorcnceucciarouesf requisition whichorr nd e F u h r .a n siE . t bspee t rer l ent : oe c nnm o tt n eoo g ds rtteahft the H ouse lr numerouslyatltt e uo d ur ns e t i n h og e tm. signed, o go n nr ed t ds h e aa nn e dd - Mr. Brown. they had but to exert themselves to ensure success. .Mr. \Vm. Rathbone moved a resolution pledging the :reefing to use every constitutional means to effect the object in view. He believed, indeed, that little exertion would be required, for he did not anticipate any opposition. The motion was seconded by Mr. :James Holmes, and carried unanimously. Mr. Blackburn paid a high compliment to Mr. Brown for the cheerful manner in which he accepted the requisition, and to his merits as a merchant and a man. The duties would be onerous, and would require a sacrifice from Mr. B. at his time of life, but be (Mr. Blackburn) believed he would faithfully represent the southern division, which was more to be considered as one large town than as an agricultural district. .Mr. Browne had done much for free trade, and he (Mr. Blackburn) trusted that through their candidate they would be enabled to celebrate the triumph qf those plum pies. He moved the thanks of the meetinglo Mr. Brown for his promptitude in accepting the requisition, which was seconded by Mr. C. Holland, and carried with cheers. The election of a committee and officers was next dis cussed. Mr. C.'H. Ran tins proposed, after a warm eu logy, Mr. Rathbone as chairman. This was seconded, but opposed by Mr. Rathbone, whoproposed as an amend ment their present chairman, Mr. Harvey, under whom, and him alone, he would act as a committee-man. The amendment was seconded by Mr. Mulleneux. A variety of compliments and badinage was banded about, both Mr. Rathbone and Mr. Harvey declining the post of ho nour. Finally, Mr. J. C. Ewart was named, and con sented to serve. A committee was then appointed, and after some routine business the meeting broke up. At a previous meeting on Wednesday a requisition signed b y 9000 electors was presented to Mr. Brown, when be con consented to become a candidate for the representation of this division of the county. FASHIONS FOR JUNE (Fro►n the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.")_ The fashionable morning toilettes are redingotes of foulards, or high dresses of coutii; the coreoges of the waistcoat or casaque form, with buttons. Peignoir: of batiste e'crue, embroidered in small designs in red, green, or lilac ; the revers on the body to match. For the pro menade lighter materials are preferred, fancy barepes, shot silks, &c. ; the corsages are not high; five flounces of graduated widths ornament the skrit. Fur the even ing, India muslins, grenadine:, mousseline: de soie, pa pyrut, colpaly:, in pale tints, pink and white, lilac and white, &c. These dresses lace in front, with revers the whole length to the waist; five flounces are the favourite number just now, and frequently edged with fringe, whicil, is also much i n f avcur f or ornamen t ing th e s ki rt , several rows being laid en. Light colours are fashionable for dresses as well as bonnets, ecru, lilac, pale green. Pain e ' sky blue,. Marcassite and other buttons of graduated sizes are still used. For the lighlar dresses, a new kind of pardessus, the Suedoise, is made of rich materials, taffetas velonteg, dames Chine, or brocatele e they do not reach below the waist, and are trimmed with a b lack lace and half long sleeves, finished with lace. Mantelet and visiles of embroislered muslin are fashionable f ; i man:, are made of white ta f fetas, trimmed with broad fringe sky blue, headed by bands of narrow velvet , of a deeper rm of b mnet has been introduced in :ceess• The fancy are the favou7 Paris, but s yet withc straw, wi!il lace, srar used on str I iusertions of wo St just 1 to the waist ; and others are in,. .k lace, with long sleeves to match