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• trwtrial HOUSE OF LORDS—THURSDAY. The business consisted almost entirely of the presentation of petitions, and discussion on some of them. The vagrants' removal bill went through committee. The Earl of WARWICK presented two hundred and three petitions from Warwickshire, against any alteration in the corn laws. He supported the petitions, and denounced the agitation on the subject as mischievous, and calculated to set the farmers against their landlords. The Duke of RICHMOND observed, that he was delighted to find that the farmers of Warwickshire were doing their duty. He hoped their petitions would operate as a stimulus to the farmers throughout the country, and that farmers would not allow themselves to be deluded by a parcel of agi tators, who were going about the country disseminating doc trines that would be ruinous to the farmers, and to the la= bourers that obtained a living under .hem. The noble duke also presented petitions on the subject, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Dukes of SUTHERLAND and RICHMOND, and the Earl of ABERDEEN, presented many petitions respecting the disturbed state of the Church of Scotland—a state of disturbance caused by the collision that has taken place between the civil and ecclesiastical authori ties. His lordship remarked, that he knew Lord Melbourne was much pressed from many quarters to bring forward a measure upon the subject, and that the government were much blamed for the delay which had taken place. He was more afraid of hesitation than of delay. He earnestly called upon the noble viscount to consider the motion most calmly —to deliberate maturely upon the nature of the measure he might bring forward. The government never had a more dif ficult subject under consideration, or one deserving and de manding more calm deliberation. Abo ve all, it re q uired ho nesty of purpose. The measure proposed might not be a wise one ; but he did trust that it would be an honest one. From what he saw passing upon the subject, he was perfectly aware of the immense difficulty of the question, and he most earnestly called upon the government not to bring in any bill until it was fully and deliberately considered, and care fully prepared. The Earl of GALLOWAY afterwards presented a petition on the same subject, from a parish in Scotland, and at the re quest of Lord Melbourne read its prayer, which was to the following effect :—" That their lordships would take mea sures for promoting an equitable adjustment of all civil rights, without encroaching on the principle of non-intrusion, or on the entire independence of the church in all spiritual mat ters." The noble earl then remarked that he perfectly and conscientiously concurred in this prayer, anxious as he was for the welfare of the church. Lord TEYNH AM presented a petition from Newport, signed by 1500 out of 6000 inhabitants, in favour of Frost, Williams, and Jones. Lord MELBOURNE presented a petition, signed by 8000 rate-payers in London, for a reform in the Corporation of London, on the same principle as the reforms that had already b e en effected in all the other corp ora ti ons i n thi s country. HORSE RACES BILL The Duke of RICHMOND moved the second reading of this bill, which was read a second time and ordered to be com mitted on Friday.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY. Mr. ELLIS gave notice that on Tuesday evening next he should submit a motion regarding the trade of Cracow. The CHANCELLOR OF the EXCHEQUER in answer to Mr. Fitzroy's inquiry, said that the subject of the postage of letters crossing the channel between Dover and Calais was under the consideration of the two governments. Captain POLRILL then endeavoured to bring forward his motion regarding Mr. Sheriff Evans, but he was met with loud cries of " no, no;" and as the speaker ruled that the motion should not be brought forward out of its turn, except with the sanction of the house, the question not being one of " privilege," the hon. member was compelled to resume his seat. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET moved for a series of returns regarding persons appointed to be commissioners of arbitra tion, &c., more especially having reference to the case of Mr. Stephenson, who received (according to the admission, on a former occasion, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer) a salary of £1,200 a year, as a commissioner of arbritation, while he was at the same time holding the office of commissioner of excise. The papers, with some alterations, omitting the last paper required, were ordered. Mr. EWART moved his resolution declaratory of the ex pediency of " the ENTIRE ABOLITION of the PUNISHMENT OF DEATH," contending that if they humanised punishments the people would be likewise humanised. Mr. HAWES seconded the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL admitted the good motives and forcible arguments of the hon. mover ; but, favourable as he ever had been to ameliorating the criminal code, he could not approve of the present unqualified motion, or of the mode adopted. He thought that the better course to pursue would be to ask for leave to bring in a bill ; because, if that were granted, its several provisions and propositions could be discussed in de tail in committee, and on other stages of the bill. Dr. LUSRINGTON strongly supported the principle of the motion ; but, after the objection taken, he would move as an amendment, that leave be given to bring in a bill for such purpose. Mr. EWART, it was understood, intimated that, if it were the wish of the house, he would withdraw his motion, and thus make way for the amendment. Considerable debate ensued, after which a division took place on Dr. Lushington's amendment, namely, for the en tire abolition of the punishment of death. The numbers were—ayes, 90; noes, 161 • majority against the bill, 71. Sir E. SUGDEN having deferred his motion, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after a lengthened statement, de claring that he did not seek to abate the claimed privileges of the house, but to render more efficient and practicable the mode of enforcing them, moved for leave to bring in a bill to give summary protection to persons engaged in printing par liamentary proceedings. It was, that the production of a certificate by the Lord Chancellor, or the Speaker, of the paper having been ordered to be printed, should be received in bar of any action. The debate was eventually adjourned till Friday. Captain POLHILL withdrew his notice of motion regarding the sheriff, as the subject would be again brought forward by Sir J. Graham on Friday, that the sheriff be enlarged upon bail. He was prepared to state that the sheriff would give bail to any amount. The house then adjourned at half-past one o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. Lord DUNCA s.. N.ZTON, by command of her Majesty, presented correspondence relating to China. The Duke of BLCKINGHAM, on presenting several peti tions from Berkshire, earnestly praying the house not to con sent to any alteration in the existing corn laws, observed that it was unnecessary for him to assure their lordships that he heartily concurred with the petitioners, and he hoped that the much-talked-of " anti-corn-law league" would meet with the defeat it merited. Lord FITZGERALD and VESEY, on presenting, a petition from freeholders, clergy, and gentry of the county of Clare, against any alteration of the corn laws, remarked that those who took the most active part in discussin g this question overlooked its peculiar application to Ireland. His lordship said that he made this observation not with a view to the par ticular interest of the landowners—although the interest was important—but the interests of the whole people of Ireland would be materially affected by any alteration of the law. Nothing, his lordship earnestly declared, could be a greater calamity to that country than any disturbance of the present tenures of land, and that would inevitably be the consequence of such an alteration of the corn-lasts as was so much called for by certain parties. Many other petitions against the repeal of the corn laws were presented. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY Asked when the papers re lating to Bergara would be presented ; and also whether the government had received any information from our ambassa dor in Spain relative to the declared state of seige of its capital. Lord MELBOURNE answered that the papers would be presented as soon as they co u ld possibly be made out. He believed the gov ernment were not in receip t o f an y informa tion respecting late events in Spain. On motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, the Horse Races Acts in part R e p ea l Bi ll went through comm i ttee, and i t was ordered to be further proceeded with on Monday, to which day their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Sir G. SINCLAIR gave notice that, on the motion of the third reading of the municipal corporations Ireland bill, he should propose, as an amendment, that it be read the third time that day six months. In answer to his inquiry, it was stated by Lord J. Russell, that it was proposed to move such third reading on Thursday next. Lord J. RUSSELL said, in answer to inquiry as to when it might be known whether the government intended to propose a duty on salt, that the subject (the financial statement alias budget, we presume) would be brought forward immediately after Easter. Mr. HuME having inquired about the Chief Justice of Up per Canada, as he had been absent for Lord J. Russ Era. said that he would r i e n t e ur t n im t e o'his judicial duties in April next. Mr. GOULBURN made inquiry regarding the accuracy o f a sta t eme nt that the interest on exchequer bills had been ad vanced from lid. to 24-d. per diem ? Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that he presumed the statement to be correct. The adjourned debate on Lord J. Russell's motion for leave to bring in a bill to give summary protection to person s employed in the publication of parliamentary papers, was then resumed, it being opened by Mr. O'Connell. After considerable debate, the house divided, and the num bers were, for the motion 203, against it 54, majority in fa vour of Lord J. Russell's motion 149. On the question that the house resolve into committee of supply. Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved , by way of amendment, that on consideration of the evidence of Mr. Freeman and Dr. Chambers, given at the bar of this house, with respect to the present state of the health of Mr. Sheriff Evans, who is in custody, the sergeant-at-arms attending this house do take such bail of Mr. Sheriff Evans as shall be approved by Mr. Speaker, for th e a t ten d ance o f Mr. Sheriff Evans on th e House of Commons, during the present session of Pa rliament, whenever he shall b e th ereunto requ i re d b y an y order of the house, notice i n wr i t i ng of such order b e i ng l e f t a t the ing g house of Mr. Sheriff Evans; and that Mr. Sheriff Eva ns, upon giving s uc h b a il , b e discharged out of the custody of the sergeant-at-arms attending this house. This also led t o considerable, n s d e discussion ; but which was in . realityoau.in some parts curious SELL observing that h e objected closed by Lord J. Rus present form, as it also mi g ht g i ve tothe proposition in its rise to ques ti ons before a court of law, and suggesting th a t it would he ilec better to release r t weeks. the sheriff for some specified period, say t Sir J. GRAHAM, it was understood, •al ered his amend ment to the effect that the sheriff be Ire eased , and directed to attend that houte on the Gth of April. ...---- After this two divisions took place. After the first of those two divisions Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE proposed to omit from the amended amendment " to attend the house on the 6th of April ;" and it was understood that was negatived, and Sir J. Graham's amended amendment carried. The remaining business being disposed of, the house ad journed till Monday. " WHAT'S IN A NAME."—The name of our gracious Queen's illustrious consort is a " tower of stength" to the host of enterprising tradesmen who never omit to avail them selves of passing circumstances as a means of puffing off their respective commodities. Everything is now Albert i sed, from a line-of-battle-ship to a washing-tub. No one ever heard that the yo ung p r i nce was a t all addicted to dram drinking, and yet, notwithstanding, the proprietor of a gm palace, in the New -cut, Lambeth, advertises " Prince Al bert's cream of th e va ll ey on l y 4d a quartern." At another of those Bacchanalian temples, in Shoreditch, there is the following notification : " Albert cordial 2d a glass." An in genious ironmonger locati ng i n t h e v i c i n i ty o f t h e new pa l ace , Pimlico, has recently invented a newfangled gridiron, which he denominates the " Albert gridiron." And a dog-fancying penny pieman in the same neighbourhood treats his custom ers to " Albert pies ". at a cheap ra t e . A k night of the bod kin and shears, residing near th e Ed geware-road, exhibits a placard in his shop-window to the following effect, " Trou • secs cut in the Halburt stile, thurty shilli ns a pare, 2 appren tices wonted.—N.B. Loggins to lett." A loyal tobacconist, near Battleabridge, presumes upon the prince's attachment to the odoriferous weed, inasmuch as h e dispenses " Albert Ch er oots, also a snuff which he is pleased to t erm " P rince Albert's mixture." This loyal spirit prevails as strongly on the river as ashore, there being already a vast numb er o f coal and dung barges dignified with the title of prole? Albert." And it is said that two steam-boats are now buildin g to run to Gravesend this next summer , which are to be called Victo ria and Albert.—Herald. ~~ PERTHSHIRE ELECTION. (From the Edinburgh Evening Post.) PERTH, THURSDAY, sth March, 1840.—This day being appointed for the nomination of candidates for the representa tion of this county, at 12 o'clock the candidates, with their respective friends, appeared on the hustings in front of the County Buildings. Although the day was beautiful, the as semblage exhibited a great falling off in numbers from most previous contests, and the want of bands and banners, which were wont to grace former occasions of the sort, indicated the greater apathy of the public as to the result. Near Mr. Home Drummond, of Blair-Drummond, stood Mr. Campbell of Monsie, Mr. Smith of Deanstone, Hon. Captain D. Murray, Hon. John Gray, Hon. Mr. Rollo, Sir P. M. Threipland, Sir J. S. Richardson, Mr. Smythe of Methven, Mr. Belshes of Invermay, &c. &c. Mr. George Drummond Stewart of Murshly, was sup ported by the Hon. Fox Maule, M. P. Robert Steuart, Esq. M.P. Mr. J. C. Colquhoun of Clathick, Mr. Nairne of Dunsinane, Mr. Stewart of Ardvorlich, Mr. Bowie Campbell, W.S. The sheriff having read the writ of election ' and the act against bribery, enquired whether any one had a candi date to propose? _ _ _ The Hon. Fox Maule then proposed Mr. G. D. Stew art, who was seconded by Mr. Wm. Harris, of Inche wan. Alexander Campbell, Esq. of Monsie, proposed Mr. Home Drummond. James Smith, Esq. of Deanstone seconded the nomination. GLORIOUS CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH ! PERTH, FRIDAY, 6th March.—The opening of the poll here to-day was waited for, and its progress watched with great anxiety till mid-day, when the triumphant position of the conservati ve can did ate at a ll t h e poll i ng stat i ons , with . the exception of t wo , t h e B r id ge o f E arn an d Blairgowrie, left room for speculation only as to the extent of his eventful majority. Sir George Murray received a hearty cheer in passing through from his polling station. Close of the First Day (Friday.) DRUMMOND. STEWART. 257 183 161 167 277 146 175 189 125 139 412 179 179 124 Perth polling place Bridge of Earn do. Crieff do. Blairgowrie do. Weem do. Doune do. Dunk eld do. Total for Mr. Drummond Do. for Mr. Stewart.... 1586 1127 Majority for Mr. Drummond Nine o'clock Friday evening.—Mr. George Stewart has just intimated from the windows of his committee-room, that HE HAD RETIRED FROM THE CONTEST ! To show how the non-intrusion ministers acted at the pre sent election, we subjoin the names of some of those who voted for, and zealously supported Mr. George Stewart, on the ground that his declarations as to the church were per. fectly satisfactory, while those of Mr. Drummond were not so.. Mr. Stirling of Cargill Mr. Macdonald of Blairgowrie Mr. Drummond of Kirkmichael Mr. Allan of Little Duukeld Mr. Grierson of Errol Mr. M`Laggan of Kiufauns Mr. Drummond of Porgandenny Mr. Thomson of Monedie Mr. Cumming of Dunbarney Mr. Stewart of Aberdalgie _ _ Dr. William Thomson and others did not vote at all, while Mr. M`Kenzie of Comrie, Walker of Muthill, Kessen of Lethendy, Sze., who are not voters, used their utmost exer tions on behalf of Mr. Stewart. INVERNESS ELECTION. INVERNESS, MARCH 3.—The polling commenced at eight o'clock, by which time the street was thronged with indi viduals, who manifested a strong interest in the proceedings. Expresses have arrived with intelligence from the other burghs, and the following is, we believe, the state of the poll in each : Inverness Morrison. Fraser. ... 236 .. 183 ... 36 .. 30 ... 55 .. 70 ... 26 .. 24 Nairn Forres.. Fortrose 353 307 Majority for Mr. Morrison the liberal candidate, 46.—1 n verness Courier. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—AII the staple branches are still in a state of de pression, without immediate prospect of amendment, as the state of the money market and the recent failures have ren dered money scarce, while those possessing superfluous capi tal act with great caution. The only consolation we have is, that matters are not worse than they have been for some time past. A great number of persons of both sexes, are still out of employment. But for the well-directed labours of the Poor Relief Committee and Visitors, the sufferings of our industrious population must have been more severe than at any former period of the town's history. BRADFORD MARKET.—The same inan:ty and gloom which characterised last week's market, prevailed in this market last Thursday. The buyers of stuff were few and spiritless ; there is not the least chance at present of prices advancing ; the amount of business done in every department was very limited. Yarn continues stationary in price ; and wool has not materially raised from last week ; fine wools, such as down and H. B. hogs are scarce ; upon the whole, the market was very flat. HECKMONDWIKE.—The blanket trade continues in a de pressed state, both as regards the demand and prices ; a great many looms are standing and many hands are out of work, w!th but a poor prospect of amendment. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MARCH 6.—There are still no symptoms of immediate improvement in any branch of the wool trade ; and notwithstanding the very slight stocks in the hands of most dealers at market, they arc more than sufficient to supply the demand, and consequently a still fur ther reduction in price is submitted to.—Leeds Intelligencer. LEICESTER TRADE. - The demand for goods for the home trade is lessening, and there is, we am sorry to say, but a gloomy prospect as to any demand for export. In wool there is still less doing : the farmers hold firmly, and ask higher rates than the trade can give. The manufacturers buy with great caution and only for present wants. Farmers are asking from 33s to 35s ; staplers are buyers at from 31s to 33s.—Leicester Chronicle. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) LINCOLN COLLEGE.—Three open scholarships will be filled up on Saturday, March 28th. Candidates are required to present testimonials to the Rector on or before Tuesday, March 24th. On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred : MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. Henry Powell Foulkes, Balliol College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Hon. Charles Somers-Cocks, Christ Church. Granville Sykes Howard Vyse, Christ Church. Charles Whitaker, Brasenose College. A vacancy having taken place iu the Laudian Professor ship of Arabic by the resignation of Dr. Knatchbull, an election of a proper person to fill the same will be holden in the President's lodgings, St. John's College, on Monday, the 16th of March, at eleven o'clock. On Thursday last, William Duncan Bathurst, Esq., Scho. lar of New College, *as admitted Actual Fellow of that So. ciety. On Wednesday se'nnight, the Rev. Edward Hill, M.A., Student of Christ Church, was admitted ad eundem of the University of Cambridge. The Rev. John Anthony Partridge, M. A., of Christ Church, has been instituted to the Rectory of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk • patron, John Thurston Mott, Esq. The Rev. John Clarke Jenkins, M.A., of Lincoln Col lege, has been instituted to the Vicarage of Ashley St. Led ger's, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Benson, on the presentation of Mrs. Gaitskell and Mrs. Senhou se. The Rev. F. E. Paget, M.A., and late Student of Christ Church, Rector of Elford, Staffordshire, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford, has been appointed, by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, Rural Dean of the Deanery of Tam worth, Staffordshire. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) At a congregation on Monday last, a grace passed the Senate to present addresses of congratulation to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent. • At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following de grees were conferred : -- • MASTER OF ARTS. Thomas Cockburn Dawes, Corpus Christi coil. CIVIL LAW. Henry BACH ELO RWhit e,BAC HELORS r n Tr inity H y coil. T E OF ARTS. Charles E Reginaldvans, Trinity Coll. Burnet, Trinity coll. William Frederick Russell Mills, Trinity coll. John Mason Neale, Trinity coll. Conway Lucas Rose, Trinity coll. Julius Lucas Brenchiey, St. John's coll. Corm Campbell, St. John's coll. John Watson Hepworth, St. John's coil. Thomas William Hulkes, St. John's coll. George Henry Ray, St. John's coll. Henry Charles Seller, St. John's coll. Robert Charles Willy, St. John's coll. Gardiner Guion Guyon, St. Peter's coll. Alfred Lambert, Pembroke coll. Henry Annesley Hotchkin, Clare hall. Hugh Weightrnan, Trinity hall. Joseph Lawson Sisson, Jesus coll. Edmund Stanley Stanley, Jesus coil. Charles William Selby Lowndes, Christ's coll. Joseph Spence, Christ's coll. Walter Allnutt, Catharine hall. Benjamin John Armstrong, Caius coll. John Birch Reynardson, Corpus Christi coll. James Young, Corpus Christi coll. Dr. Ne,vcome's Prize, at St. John's College, for the best proficient in Moral Philosophy among the commencing Ba chelors of Arts, whose names have appeared on the Tripos, was adjudged on Wednesday last to Dr. h Calder. The lN psrauhlb:y-- jects of examinationof w m -er o e ra P ls a , e a y n ' d s N M e o v r i a le l, s P D i e o fe s n O c p e b o y t ,. baj.teioctlions of Whewell and Sedgwick. M. Arnold, 8.A., of St. John's College, in a w g e Ta l i l hn 's est F ßt o he u ve n .o d c this university, has been presented to the perpetual curacy of Lower m ar n D u t a d r w u k e e n c , c a k n i c n a , s h E i r s e Esq., Patron, n,ari, nAo. thesoiyf Q ueen's ey ec elected o t r ed of Blackburn. to c tohlleege third in this university, h a s beer! t st Mastership On t unteMonday byt o h f e Itahset LordC t o hß l e l i e sß g h i oe a pv e. HenrySf c G h l o o o u l c, Cooper,eSshteerffid e and m. Bristol Aw to as the r , () o f f N t V b i e lle ß rs e e y y . , BGelonujacrnesitnershpirreee,dyvlcapnat tr b o y ne t s h s e , r m esi r g s: Cooper, of Bengeworth. wasO ninSstaittiuldedayt o las ti t ie , the rectoryß ev . 0 f J John in nG y g w G i t i b r d s l a e t t h o o n i ru e ds . tN C O o . n L re folk, on th e presentation of Mrs. Phoe b e Maria Girdlestone, of Kelling aforesaid. TshtaeffEoradsrlboifreß, Bradford b has y t g b iv e en de t a h tb e benefice o f the R o e f y B Thomasm hi l l 1 in Pigot, to the R ev. H. Dickenson M.A., of St. Pete r's C o lege, in this uni vers i ty, who hasp been curate of the par ish more than twenty years. On the 27th ult. the Rev. Henry Strabam Dickinson, M.A. of Trinity College, in this university, was instituted to the vicarage of Chattisham, i n Suffolk; on the presentation of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Eton College. The Rev. Wilfred Lawson Jarrett, 8.A., of St. John's College, in this university, has b een instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the rectory of Camerton, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Skinner.—Patron John Jarrett. Esq. Camerton-court. On the 14th ult . . the Rev. Sir George S. Robinson, Bar M. A., of Trinity College , i n this university, was by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, to . the rectory of Cran ford St. John, Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Daniel Basely ; on the presentation of the Bishop of Lincoln. POST-OFFICE PAPER FOR STAMPED COVERS.---The con. tract has been giien to Mr. John Dickinson, whose tender Was lowest in price, and who undertook to supply the paper earlier than any other manufacturer. —Ministerial paper. STEAM COMMUNICATION TO AND PROM THE WEST INDIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD• • SIR,—As your respectable journal is widely circulated in the West Indian colonies, and amongst the commercial: classes in this country, you will oblige me, and also greatly serve the cause of truth and the public interests, by inserting the following remarks upon the manifesto issued by the committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow, on the 21st of January last, in reply to remarks ou their previous remarkable memorial, addressed to the lords of the treasury, against the whole combinations and arrangements as fixed for the conveyance of the mails to, and from, and in several places of the wester►► world. It is painful and unpleasant to me to occupy my time from other duties on such subjects, but the document alluded to is couched in such terms as to render this step on my part indispensable. I ain, &c., JAMES MACQUEEN. London, 28th Feb. 1840 REMARKS. The manifesto from the- committee of the Chamber:of Commerce of Glasgow is chiefly of a personal character. I shall not descend to the same course of proceeding, out take the statements and the principles advanced, not the indivi duals who advance them, as the proper subjects for remark, animadversion, and refutation. The fallacy, the disingenuity, and the dishonesty of the whole will, it is hoped, be estab lished without going to school again, or having recourse to the counsels and the assistance of any' schoolmaster for that purpose. The chief object held in view by the writers is not the vin dication of what had been previously stated by the chamber, that being impossible, but to attempt to show that Mr. Macqueen is wrong in certain distances, without reflecting that even did they succeed in establishing this, they are only strengthening his case and weakening their own. Further, although the authors of the document alluded to "have sailed in these seas," they distinctly inform us that they could neither direct their course nor measure their distances in this seas; hut that they were compelled to apply to their tutor, who never " sailed in these seas," to do this for them, adding significantly, "if these" (his) " calculations are correct," &c., thus showing distinctly that they could not tell whether he was right or wrong in his labours. Samana to Portsmouth, say they, is only 3671 geo. miles, not 3800 as Mr. Macqueen had stated. Be it so for the sake of argu ment ; then it is plain that the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steamers will both get out and home sooner than has been calculated upon, saving nearly two days in the ge neral voyage : thus neutralising the effect of their attempted shortened distance between Antigua and Liverpool. That the tutor should not see this I can easily believe, but that his employers should not perceive it appears to me to be very extraordinary. The Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow may have sailed in West Indian seas, yet not have a perfect knowledge of them and what is in them. Take in proof : they first pirate my map, and then, to show that I am wrong, abstract or sink Barbuda in the deep, and remove Montserat to its place—a deed for which Sir Bethel Codrington has a good action of damages against them, as the chamber is rich, it would be but prudent in Sir Bethel to look after his property, and make the abstractors to pay the value thof; the deer in cluded. Alter this specimen of geographical accuracy, no one in search of a West Indian island will think of applying to the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow for infoiiiition about it. The map just alluded to is, most strictly speaking, my own. It was constructed for my work about two years ago, and was, I feel certain, at the time the only one in England wherein the coast of Central America, from the River St. Juan to Yucatan, standing, in all previous maps, one degree too much to the eastward, was corrected from Capt. Owen's survey, shortly before published by the Admiralty ; and the coast southwards, from St. Juan's to Chagre, with an error equally great, laid down correctly from old Spanish charts in my possession. These things cost me not only much trou ble and labour, but also expense ; and, on all correct mer cantile principles, no one has a right to take my property without an equivalent and without my consent. The chamber have given us their tutor's distances between Antigua and Liverpool, and between Samana and Southamp ton ; but they have wisely withheld from us, by the same authority, admitting it to be unquestionable, the distances between Samana and Liverpool, and between Antigua and Southampton. Yet the true point at issue depends upon the difference that is betwixt these latter places and the for mer. But let us take things their own way, and see on which side error lies, and the extent thereof. Geo. Miles. Antigua to Liverpool, distance "as the crow flies" .. 3480 Sacnana to English Harbour, Antigua, by St. John's.. 470 Total 3950 Samana to Portsmouth, by the " crow" line 3671 Increased distance But this is not all. The accurate authorities referred to have forgotten three most important things in their deduc tions and calculations. First—Mr. Macqueen never stated that the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company contemplated carrying the West India mails and passengers by " crows; " consequently they cannot t a k e the course " as the crow flies !" Secondly—Neither did he ever state that the company had procured steam-vessels to carry these mails, which could travel over the land as easily as they could move through the water ' • consequently they cannot take the straight li ne prescribed by the tutor and the chamber. To do this, the authorities alluded to would most assuredly run their noses against St. David's Head. (harder than theirs) and the rocky coast adjoining ; next, if they at this place escaped destrut tion, enter the land about Aberystwith, and run over North Wales, the Dee, the Mersey, the Liverpool Custom-hotise, coaches, cars, &c., to St. Paul's Church, where, unless the tutor intends the steamers to anchor, be must add one mile more to correct his distance to carry them to the Clarence. Dock ! Thirdly—To the preceding increased distance, be tween Samana by Antigua to Liverpool, must be added at least ninety miles more, on account of the circuitous course which every vessel coming from the westward must take by Cape Clear, Tuskar, Holyhead, &c. Next, the chamber proceeds to show that it is fifty miles less sailing from Samana to Southampton than Mr. Mac queen makes it. Let us see how they do this. The distance stated in the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's routes are taken from anchorage to anchorage-3800 miles. The authorities referred to admit, that from their points the sailing distance is 3753 miles. To this they must add four teen to sixteen miles, according as the anchorage may be chosen at a point in the Bay of Samana to the west of the Cape, which they erroneously take for Cape Samana, and where, indeed, only " crows' would think of casting anchor ; and at least twenty to thirty miles more for the circuitous navigation round the Isle of Wight, or through the Needles, up to Southampton, which, by the bye, is twelve miles further west than Portsmouth, the point to which the distance, 3800 miles, from Samana was taken in the Royal Mail Steam packet Company's chart. The distance stated, moreover refers to Fayal being made a coal dep6t, in order thereby to accelerate the voyages of the steamers, both outwards and inwards. Cape Samana is not marked in that chart. The tutor and his scholars have taken the name of the town (it is a fortified town, not a village) for the Cape, and the most eastern point on the north side of the entrance into the bay, as the Cape itself ; which, if they had seen or looked into the Admiralty charts constructed from Captain Owen's late survey, they would have found that it is not. The town of Samana stands in 69 20 W. long.—one degree to the west of Point Eugana, and fourteen min. further west than the point taken from Cape Samana. It is sickening to wade through such miserable quibbles, and to be pestered by assertions and statements thus made without 'correct information. They may be worthy of the cause, but are certainly unworthy of the names that subscribe to them as being correct. The inter-colonial distances taken in the Glasgow memo rial, say the committee, for their calculations, are the same as those given in the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's chart. What ! stick by my other labours, after the tutor had shown them that I had erred in the main lines ! But it was their inter-colonial periods taken, not the distances, that the allusion of error was made. The Glasgow memorial gives the time from Antigua to Parimaribo, by Barbadoes, Tobago, and Demerara, and that from Parimaribo back by the same rate, to be the same, viz., six days. No man who ever sailed in those seas will maintain, as they thus maintain, that the voyage going up can be performed in the same time as the voyage coming down. It is impossible, the currents are so very strong ; and for half the year, moreover, the course is in the teeth of the south-east trade wind, that it cannot be done. _ No one at all acquainted with these seas can possibly main tain that the nearest road from any given point in England, say Falmouth to Porto Cabello, is by Antigua, and the chain of islands southward, round by Trinidad ; and further, that the nearest and best road from Porto Cabello to Fal mouth, is back by the same route. Yet the Glasgow me morial sturdily recommends both. The distance outwards by Antigua, &v. is 4374, and by Barbadoes, Grenada, &c. 4202 miles, being 172 miles less. The distance homeward by Curassoa, and Samana is 4220, being 154 less, or 324 miles on the general voyage ; and in the inter-colonial parts to Samana and from Barbadoes, certainly through a much quicker and easier navigation than beating round by Trinidad. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's arrangements also give greater, even double facilities, to the places from Porto Cabello to Trinidad inclusive, because they can for ward letters both ways, and reply to their European letters also both ways and still be in time for the packet which brought these from Europe ; but by the Glasgow memorial the former could not be done, and the latter only be forwarded by one way, and this too at greatly restricted time. How the delusion has arisen that Trinidad and these places cannot reply to their letters by the same packet which brought them, I know not ; but it is a delusion of a very extraordinary kind, while the reverse is plain to any one who will reflect for a moment. By the Glasgow proposed arrangement, Trinidad would just have six days, the time elapsed till the steamer returns from Porto Cabello, to reply to and forward them by the northern steamer coming from Santana to Grenada, which place she reaches three days before the next outward packet arrives ; secondly, she would also, and at pleasure, have fif teen days to reply to them by the next steamer from Grenada with the outward mail, and to forward them by her to Sa mana, where she meets the SAME PACKET that brought them from England, then on her way to Europe from Jamaica, and the SAME PACKET too, be it observed, that their letters sent their way by Grenada, &c. would only meet at Antigua. Porto Cabello would, by the one way, have, instead of rive days and by the other fifteen days, to reply to her letters, one day, as the Glasgow committee approves and prescribes. It is astonishing that these facts cannot be seen by every one connected with Trinidad, Laguayra, &c., &c., together with those obvious advantages of which they are persuaded and seek to throw away. As regards Honduras, Mr. Macqueen has stated, from the outset, that the proposed communication could be made v course aii, n ab o n f i laa p u through the Havannah more easily and speedily for the mails and the company, and may at any time at the pleasure of the government be done, but without any gain in time as to the post. One Honduras, Trinidaddor as d s a sailing d l c i ntugbbeay.e other ss T e h l couldo Gbetweeni Glasgow g r u o wnivlsooMontego betweenteemgoe givesßH a a y -, with England the reply to letters by th h to Jamaica, Honduras noro any y va o n t tage whatever in . the course of post f ß o o rw ya a i rd m ed ai b l y st t e h a e u r l et ur mail of the month exactly e er fi p r l a a t c m e, ai la o m f excepted, t a h ic o a aio ot h can boenclayubs be . packeet s tl t y e c a n m osm e tb r ea w no h o i n ch rs b e r i i s ng p s re o s u o t ri t b h e e d s t e o co t n b d e outward the generalward mails a i l line o t steamers fo n u ali v , t i tnd y take Honduras he i t G iusl Gulf impossible of from Jamaica to Havannar n t Vera Cruz on N iiil e theirxiMexico, n , that wanady for every North mail from America, t rcondly, without de taining detaining—first, the on the east, and from Nassau on the northleest to Parimaribo those to Valparaiso on the south, six days longer to Panama, nay, dies than they would otherwise be ; whi in the West In bring them to England at the end of sixty-three days, the outward packet would be gone, and all the e o outward when cor respondence cut off for fifteen days beyond that which be. Unless the government give two lines of steamerisittwhiall is, three more than has been contracted for, involvino• an ex_ e of £160,000 additional capital, and7o,ooo pens Xadditi 1 give to Honduras a steamer, 151,000 additional yearly expense ; or yearly additional r ' ' l,OOO expense, entirely capital, and £25,000 the replies ~ to herself (even with whichlatter, the same packet which brought them;) and be forwarded by stated 'is submitted t and unless the vast detention just o, which, if it could be, it is scarcely . necessary to observe, wou ld be most prejudicial to the public interests, and to the m a il Honduras wants, however much company m particular, what it may be desired, cannot be obtained. These are the real is challenged. facts of this case, and to which contradiction . for the censure so There is no necessity nor any ground Let those this matter. Let un guardedly cast upon Mr. Macqueen those connected with Honduras go to the government, and try if they will give the additional steamer, or if the govern- ment will agree to the general detention of all tq mails above alluded to ; - which detention cannot be avoided if Honduras is to receive one steamer of the number at present contracted for, and so as to gain the course of post, add while to do so is really to detain all the windward mails, as the Glasgow Cham , ber complains and asserts is now the case, for that time longer in the colonies. Honduras is unquestionably a place of very great import ance. It imports from Central America 600,000 dollars yearly, and some indigo ; a portion of the dollars—about 54,000 (see Porter's Tables and Commt. Accounts)—are sold to govern ment, and the remainder exported, it is supposed, to Cuba, where a high premium is obtained for the African trade. Now, the Royal Mail Stearn-packet Company would be as happy to be the carriers of these as Honduras would be ready to give them ; and as their spare steamer for the WeSt In . - dies will be stationed either at the Havana or Jamaica, so they could readily, and would cheerfully, when the dollars, &c. are collected, run her over occasionally after the arrival of packets, and send the , whole on their'.travels in the qutick est maner possible, either to Havana, to England, or to New York. The " ar ithmetic " of the question—that is, the price of coals required against the freight to be obtained, and the insurance on account of the very dangerous naviga tion—would be the only points to be considered. The whole of the Glasgow memorial proceeded upon the basis, that the arrangements for the Royal Mail Steam-pac ket Company were not framed for the advantage of the gene ral interests of the public. The general statistics, " arith metic," by which all good merchants calculate and are guided, of the places comprehended within its wide combina tions, were adduced to prove the reverse. The Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow can neither deny the accuracy nor re fute the points which these establish. They cannot do this ; but, in order to weaken their force, they insinuate that Mr. Macqueen produces them in order to make them " subser vient to his views "—meaning, of course, " views " hostile to the public good. Mr. Macqueen retrains from repelling this ungenerous insinuation in the terms which it deservea ; but rather reserves the charge that he may, as he fairly may, judge his accusers by their own judgment ; simply observing, in refutation, the undeniable fact, that the plan selected for the operations of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company is in all its parts, that which was at the out-setrecommended to the government as the most proper plan which the govern ment itself could adopt. " Arithmetic." It is singular that a committee of mer chants should express so much horror at having their lucu brations taken to pieces by " arithmetic." Why was not their memorial based upon it? With hasty arithmetic they came forward and attempted to shew that, as regarded the public service and interests, and the interests of the company, the plan prescribed was wholly wrong, and that, by adopting theirs a great saving would accrue. Arithmetic was honestly and correctly applied to these statements, when it was found and shown that in every point the results would be exactly the reverse ; facts which they cannot dispute, and do not at tempt to refute or deny. The statistics of the West Indian postages were adduced to show that these colonies, such as Barbadoes, Demerara, and Trinidad, which paid most postage (the year being taken in which the chamber could not charge the letters sent by ships, as proceeding from the late change in the mail routes) from their having, as a matter of course, most traffic, had, in con sequence, an invincible claim to have their mails as early as these could possibly be forwarded to them, and not as the Glasgow memorial would have placed them, at the bottom of the scale; and further, that Jamaica, which paid inure postage than all the other British colonies put together, should not be neglected, and left in a worse situation than any one of the others ; but which would most assuredly have been the case could the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow carry their point. The separation or the detention of the Jamaica mails, or both, has in fact all along been the point at which the Glas gow committee have been driving, although at the outset it was attempted to be concealed. It is now, however, openly avowed. The letters," says the memorial, from " every country district" of that colony (Jamaica) " seldom being of an urgent nature ; accordingly they propose, as " a reasona ble adjustment," that the windward colonies " should have their communication in forty-six or forty-seven days," al though by this regulation " the course of post with Jamaica would be sixty-one days." If this proposition and avowal is not " selfish"—a system required "subservient to their own views"—why, then, mankind have hitherto been ignorant of the correct meaning of these terms. It is the business and the duty of the government of the parent state to unite as closely as possible all the colonies to gether, and not to disunite them ; and it is the business and the duty and the safety of the colonies to embrace, with the greatest cordiality, every measure that tends to unite them more closely to each other and to the parent state. More over, all this hubbub about the detention of the windward island mails on account of those from Jamaica is absolute nonsense. Excluding Parimaribo altogether, it was still im possible by sailing vessels, as under the late system, to col lect all the mails, from Demerara to Porto Cabello inclusive, at St. Thomas, in less than twenty-one or twenty-two days, which would bring the course of post between London and these windward places to be, as at present, at least eighty four days. Take a separate packet and send her direct by Cape Henri to Jamaica, and allowinc , her to remain in the island eight days, and then come to England, even by the Havannah, she would make out the voyage in probably even less time. The same proportion would take place were the mails conveyed by separate lines of steamers ; nay, the gene ral voyage to and from Jamaica would probably be performed in a day less than could be done to and from the windward colonies; thus, the windward colonies, 16 days out, 16 days in the colonies, and 18 days (taking in St. Thomas) home — together, 50 days. Jamaica, direct, 19 days out, 8 days in the island, and 21 days home—together, 48 days. Let us hear no more, therefore, about the detention of the windward island mails for the sake of Jamaica, when the reverse, if they were separated, would be the fact. The time that the Royal Mail Steam Company's vessels are in the West Indies,—that is, the time from the date of their arrival at Barbadoes and the date of their departure from Samana, will be 21 days, bringing up every mail from Parimaribo to Havannah and Panama, inclusive, and giving all Jamaica.time to answer her letters. The steamers by the Glasgow project cannot be a shorter time in the West Indies. The chamber'adrnit 19 days, but to which they must add one day each way at Antigua to take in coals, change mails and passengers, &c., while, even to get away at the end of this time; they will deprive three-fourths of Jamaica of the op portunity of replying to their letters, and leave behind for fif-• teen days all, the. Cuba and all the South American mails, from both the 'Coasts of the Atlantic and the coasts of the Pacific. If the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow cannot see these things, an unprejudiced and reflecting public most certainly Will. • The Chamber of ComMeree, or 'rather their committee, complain of the want of courtesy evinced to them on my part. In what it is wanting, I know not. They chose, as a public body, and on public grounds, to come forward in support of certain schemes,with a variety of erroneous statements and injurious projects, in opposition to a great undertaking, the whole arrangements for which had ben concluded. The whole of their statements and projects have been cut to pieces, overthrown, and refuted, without leaying them one point to stand upon, and without the use of one uncourteous word, or any language used, except such as was necessary to convey the truth, and to refute the errors so publicly and pointedly advanced. The want of courtesy is, in fact, all the other way. One of the most magnificent and comprehensive un dertakings for the benefit of the commerce and colonies of any country, or of the commerce of the world, that ever was undertaken by any set of men in any country, or bestowed on British colonies and British commerce by any government (a plan welcomed by all the colonies with delight, and hailed as a boon of incalculable value to them all,) had, after two years' rigid inquiry and attention to the subject, been brought to a conclusion ; when, up starts the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow, and without the slightest communication made with any quarter, and without seeking any explanations, which they could not fail to know would have been most readily given, forward they come, as if they were superiors and sole paymasters, and proclaim to the world the combina tion in all its parts is wrong, and you must, according as we prescribe and dictate, alter and remodel the whole. This is done also, without, as it appears, the slightest consideration for the vast private interests embarked in the undertaking ; or how far,;or how greatly, these, together with the public in terests, might, especially the former, suffer from what they ask and prescribe. The Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow do not lend the undertaking the slightest assistance. If tey did, they would act a different part. Want of courtesy ! Why, the scheme was sent to Glas gow as soon as it was matured; my remarks on their me morial were instantly forwarded to the chamber, a courtes which, neither in their memorial nor in their remarkable answer to these remarks, they have condescended to show unto me. Common civility might have dictated the pro priety of seeking my consent before they took, as in the case of the map, my property ; but this did not suit their pur pose. No one knows better than their chairman the labour and trouble which I have had in this matter. It is more than two years since I unreservedly laid before him in London the plan while engaged with the government in examining it, and at the same time informed him how anxious the govern ment were to improve the West Indian mail communications, by extending steam navigation to these, and that they viewed the plan laid before them in the most favourable light. And here I might be tempted to ask, was it in consequence of this information, and similar information conveyed at subsequent dans, that the plan for the mail communication with the West Indies was attempted to be got up in Liverpool and Glasgow, in which the leader in the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow was engaged ? He therefore well knew where to obtain information and explanations on every point, had these been wanted; but instead of this, since he has been in London, he has studiously avoided every communication re garding the subject. Will the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow say such conduct on their part is proper, or a proof of the goodness of their cause ? The Glasgow second manifesto returns to the subjot of " inequalities" as regards the delivery of and stay far - mails. It is utterly impossible in any arrangement to give every colony and 'place the same time to reply to letters, European or inter-colonial ; but in all the vast and comprehensive com bination, every place, from Parimaribo to Havannah from east to west, and from Nassau to Panama from north to south, have abundance of time (the Glasgow memorial com plains that in some they have too much) to reply to their let ters by the same conveyance by which they receive them. It is not so in the Glasgow scheme ; therein every place has greater and more numerous inequalities, and all tending to limit and reduce time for correspondence, not to aid or ex tend it ; While they take from Barbadoes, the head-quarters for the navy, the army, and the civil government of most islands, and the Post-office head-quarters, the advantage of replying to letters in forty-two days' course of post, and give that to Antigua, Nevis, St. Kitts, &c., where the same fa cility on account of the public service is not urgently required. The Glasgow committee, or those who stand forward as the committee,. say, in reference to the communications be tween Curassoa and Santa Martha and Carthagena, "that none is required." This from the pens of merchants might be supposed to be impossible, had it not been signed, printed, and published in the Glasgow memorial. The steamer re turning from Chagre to Jamaica carries, by their plan, the outward mail for Carthagena and Santa Martha. She does not stop for answers. Consequently the replies to these letters, whether for Europe, North America, or the colonies, can only be forwarded fifteen days afterwards by the next steamer from the same quarter ; which steamer, be it ob served, reaches Jamaica after a second steamer had departed for Europe and America, consequently the letters from Car thagena, &c. for these places mentioned remain till the arrival of another packet before they can be forwarded from Jamaica, thus creating a delay of a month. Is it possible that any mercantile men can say that such a system is right, or that conveyance is not wanted to places where from one (Cartha gena) only £450,000 in specie yearly is exported chiefly to Jamaica and England, and by which all the official corre spondence between the great and rising state of Venezuela and Great Britain is and must be sent ? Yet so it is said ! By the plan adopted by the Royal Mail Steam-packet Com pany, the two places mentioned receive their outward European correspondence by way of Curassoa, about six days before the steamer comes up from Chagre, and thus they are enabled regularly to reply to their letters, and the government despatches to be carried forward without unne cessary delay. Mr. Macqueen, says the committee, " recommended" a change in the existing packet system in the colonies which has proved more tedious than the former, and injurious to the public interests—consequently for this is the inference intended to be drawn, that as he has been wrong in the one he must be wrong in the steam combination also. This is bad reasoning. It is moreover not the fact. Mr. Macqueen is, how ever, glad that this charge has b een pu bli c ly ma d e , as , while it displays the animus which directs the other proceed ings, it enables him to place the whole matter in its true light, in order thereby to do away with numerous and sense less misrepresent a ti ons that have been widely circulated on this subject, and, above all that the Glasgow to show from undeniable evidence as in the other, most e Chamber of Commerce is in this instance , gregiously wrong, and that it is not general but partial interests that direct them in the very strange course which they have chosen to pursue. When in the West Indies a few years ago, I was strongly solicited by many individuals to do all I could, on my return to England, to get the packet system improved. In course of my communications with the government about the gene ral mail communication now in progress, the defects of the system then existing were laid before the government. These were readily admitted, and the utmost anxiety evinced in the proper quarters to remedy these to the utmost in their power, consistent with' the means then at their disposal, and with such as it was clearly known they could only procure for a considerable time to come. To understand the matter fully, it is necessary to advert to the chief defects which existed, and which required alter ation, and which were as follow : Demerara and Berbice never could reply to letters by the same packet which brought them. The most important agri cultural districts of Trinidad were in the same situation. With the exception of Kingston and Spanish Town, and their immediate neighbourhood, the rest of the island of Jamaica was in the same state; while even with her mail communi cation so restricted, almost every second Jamaica mail was left behind at St. Thomas : the first packet of the month alone waited there till the mail from Jamaica came up, how ever long it might be, and the second packet of the month stopped first one day only, and subsequently the time was extended to three days, yet the Jamaica and St. Domingo mails were as Often left behind as before. Under this state of things, the advice given was, that until larger steamers, and steamers of equal powers, could be got, it would be adviseable, first, to place the small steamers, which were quite unfit to stem the current and seas interven ing between Jamaica and Barbadoes, on the Demerara and Barbadoes station, by which means they would always enable Demerara, &c., to reply to her letters by the same packet by which she received then. ; secondly, that the packet herself, instead of remaining ten days (Sunday included) at Barba does, should proceed on by Tobago to Trinidad, and there stop five or six days (instead of two days, as the mail's schooners did), by which means the whole of the colony could reply to letters received by the same packet ; next, that the packet should proceed to Grenada, there meet the Demerara and Tobago return mails, and thence go direct to St. Kitts, thereby avoiding as far as possible the hurricane islands and calms amongst the islands. At St. Kitts the packet would meet the other Windward Island return mails, and proceed thence with the whole to Tortola, St. Thomas, Porto Rico, and Cape Henri, where she would meet the steamer from Jamaica, instead of waiting at St. Thomas perhaps six days, till the steamer alluded to came up to that place. The Jamaica, St. Thomas, &c., mails were, on the arrival of the packet at Barbadoes, recommended, until a sufficient number of larger steamers could be procured, to he instantly forwarded direct to St. Thomas by the best sailing vessels, which would generally make that passage as quick as the small-class steamers could do. By this mode St. Thomas would generally receive its outward mails in three or four days, instead of eight days, and sometimes more as before. At St. Thomas, the largest class steamers being ready to take the Jamaica, &c., mails, they were recommended to proceed to Porto Rico, Cape Henri, and St. Jago de Cuba, three places which never had any packet communication before to Jamaica; return from thence by the same route to St. Thomas, meeting and delivering the Jamaica-European mails to the homeward-bound packet at Cape Henri, which place was recommended instead of Samana, lest inconveni ence might arise to passengers from the limited number which the sailing packets could only convey. This was the regulation recommended, and, after strict investigation, adopted ; and this was the advice given, which, if ever asked , under similar circumstances, would be so tendered again, as I the only mode which could be adopted to benefit the general interests without inflicting any material loss upon any place. To disprove this, and to show the public that it is preju dicial to the interests of some colonies, or rather some mer cantile concerns in them, the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow ostentatiously adduce a comparative statement of the voyages of the packets for a certain period under both systems, making it appear that the Leeward Island mails are ten days longer on their voyage, and those of Jamaica one day longer, than formerly. To ascertain the force, or rather fallacy of this production, it is necessary to show what different places have gained, without any loss to others, and how many important facts the Glasgow committee have suppressed, in order to make their case out. First, then, by this arrangement Jamaica obtains eight days instead of four, Sundays included, which enables every part of the island to reply to letters in course of post, the government readily agreed to the additional ex pense of an express mail over all the island, when the packets arrived at such periods as answers could not be returned by the regular internal weekly post. Again, St. Jago de Cuba, and Porto Rico, and the best parts of St. Domingo, have, under the new arrangement, direct mail communication which these places had not before; and further, Demerara and all Trinidad reply to their letters by the same packet which brought them, but which they could not do before, and all this without curtailing any one of the other colonies of the time they formerly had, or of sufficient time to reply to their letters ; and all this, too, even according to the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, so far as Jamaica is con cerned, with the apparent loss of only one day on the general voyage, thus showing, as clear as words can make it, the superiority and judicious nature of the new arrangement over the old. It is said, " apparent loss of only one day," because, when minutely considered, there is not only no loss, but on the contrary, rather a gain :—Thus, from Cape Henri to a given point in England, say Falmouth, is 3720 miles ; while from the former place to Falmouth, by St. Thomas, is 3920, with 420 miles for the steamer to beat up against the strong trade wind and current—at least three days work. By all the rules and chances of navigation, and by the averages of voy ages from these quarters, the general voyage is done, and can be done, sooner from Cape Henri than by St. Thomas, even taking in the aid of steam betwixt the two latter places. If the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce would turn to the Jamaica journals, they would find numerous complaints, that even with the time lengthened to eight days, many places in Jamaica and distant parts of parishes in that island do not know of the arrival of the packet until it is too late,to write, and even until she is gone. This may readily be conceived to be the case in a country where post-offices are not so nu merous as in this country, and where country communica tions with such post-offices as are there, are both distant and difficult. But this is not all. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce have lengthened the leeward voyages as arising from the change of system, by omitting or suppressing the following undeniable facts, which they might ha v e k n own, and which, ° if they did not know, it was their bounden duty to know, be fore making the statements which they have done. No fewer than four government steamers came to England last season within a short period of each other, damaged, while about the same time two were under repairs in the West Indies. One steamer from the Demerara station was obliged to be sent down from Barbadoes to Mexico with important public despatches. Sir Lionel Smith detained on the same account one of the steamers two days beyond her time at Jamaica. Admiral Paget, in a dying state, took away one of the mail steamers (elle Tartarus) from Jamaica to Bermuda. On the arrival of the Spitfire at Barbadoes from England, instead of sending her down to St. Thomas and Jamaica, where she was so much wanted, the commander of the forces took her first with him on a tour of inspection through the windward islands. By all these occurrences (occurrences scarcely ever likely to recur) closely following each other, and added to the unprecedented tract of easterly winds which prevailed from March to June in last year, the packets were deranged and detained much beyond their regular time ; because they are very properly directed not to leave the West Indies until every mail is brought up ; yet even this important truth it did not suit the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce to state. How dishdnest and disingenuous is it on the part of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce to pass over all these facts. Into what a blunder does their prejudices and their interests lead them, by adducing as evidence against me that which in reality floors themselves, and justifies in the strongest man ner the course which the Amu ally has pursued ! According to their own showing, during the latter part of last year, when the serious derangements above mentioned to the re gular course of the packets were removed, they arrived ge nerally, within their time. Besides, after accomplishing all the good above mentioned, even according to the way the Glasgow Chamber has made out the comparison, the loss beyond the time when the packets became due was on the year sixty-three days, the gain forty-nine days, making a loss of fourteen days, while of the general loss forty days can be traced to easterly winds alone, of twenty-six days in the year. The Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow—the gentlemen who have sailed in these seas—who trade with these parts, surely know, though their tutor and his mail-carrying crows may not know, that the packets with the leeward island mails, whether sailing packets or steamers, cannot leave St. Thomas, or any where else, until the Jamaica and St. Do mingo mails come up, so long as there is only one line of packets to keep up the communications with all the West Indies ; and why, instead of publicly venting these bitter and distempered complaints against an individual who had no personal interests in the matter, do not they come to the point at once, which they really have in view and say to the government—You must either give us two lines of packets, that is, eight more, if sailing vessels, and five, if steamers, or else, as formerly, cut of three-fourths of Jamaica from the course of post, and at the same time also leave her mails so curtailed at St. Thomas, for two or three- weeks, cut off British Guiana and the best part of Trinidad from their re gular course of post; because those from the leeward islands and St. Thomas cannot and must not be detained, even for a few days, on account of the former. This would bring the question fairly to an issue. The public would then see and understand the true state of things, the object kept in view, and the real cause of complaint in certain quarters. The answer would, no doubt, be speedy and decided, invincible in principle, and conclusive and satisfactory to the public. Their chairman, surely, can inform the chamber on these points. He went to the Admiralty last summer to complain about and to instruct on these matters. Surely he has told, or can tell, them the reply he has received. If lam not much mistaken, he found that the gentlemen there knew as much of the subject as he did, and probably a great deal more. With steamers in the West Indies of the power when the change alluded to tookplace, the periods in the colonies mak ing St. Thomas or Cape Henri the port of departure, would be as under. First, St. Thomas : Barbadoes to Jamaica allow Stop in Jamaica Jamaica to St. Thomas, most probably 8, but say 7 " 9 days 8 . 24 days Making Cape Henri the port of departure, then Barbadoes to Jamaica Stop in Jamaica Jamaica to Henri 3 ~ 20 -days Difference and as the passage from Cape Henri to England cannot occupy above one day more (if so much) than the passage from St. Thomas, it is clear that upon the w h o l e p ac k e t voyage there is a gain in time, besides bringing forward every mail as by the regular conveyance. " The government steamers were inadequate to the voyage" from Jamaica to St. Thomas, says the Glasgow committee. Be it so ; but why not then candidly state the fact, that the derangement and the delay of the pa c k e t s t o ok place from this cause, and further, that government were exerting them selves to the utmost in order to get a better class—that within these few months, three or four of a superior power have gone out, when the work will be expedited? Thus, take the comparison by the last and by the previous mail, the Hecla carried the latter from St. Thomas to Jamaica in five days, while the Tartarus took eight days to carry the former. Here it is clear, that while such inequalities remain, packets must be deranged and delayed, and the fact mentioned 13 an invincible proof that all the steamers employed in such a service must be strong and of equal powers. The sneers of the committee of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce cannot alter the great features of nature, nor change the physical construction of this globe; they cannot change the course of the trade-winds and the current. Every navigator knows, and will tell them, that the direct road from one place to another is not always the nearest ; else why do ships in general which are bound to ports within the Gulf of Mexico, such as New Orleans and Mobile, run down be tween Antigua and Guadaloupe, making that great land mark, Montserrat, which the Glasgow Chamber have removed from its place, and of which Lloyds had better take cogni zance in time ; a n d thence down within the islands, passing between Jamaica and Cuba, and next round Cape Antonio ? The committee have proved the propriety of a similar course of navigation in other parts, when they state that a steamer from St. Thomas to England, by Bermuda and Halifax, would make the voyage as soon as she could perform it direct. The committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow are wrong, greatly and decidedly wrong, in this matter. "They are wrong in their principles, wrong in their statements, wrong in their deductions, wrong in their calculations, wrong in their arithmetic, wrong in their geography, and, really being so, they :must not get angry, nor take offence when coming unnecessarily and gratuitously forward to proclaim the faults of others, they should be met by a disclosure of their own. They ought, in fact, to sorrow even to death, for what they have done. The most comprehensive and magni ficent scheme of mail communications ever devised or entered into by any country ought to have been cheered by them, hailed by them, and welcomed by them with more than ordinary pleasure, instead of coming forward to tell the government you are all wrong, such a communication is " not required," and " the interests of British commerce do not require any regular intercourse between Havannah, New Orleans, and Mobile," &c. No ! confine the communica tion within a narrower sphere, such as appears best for our immediate interests, and to a circle which tends to give us a decided preference to other merchants and colonists. This is their language and object, openly avowed in their second manifesto ; and are these proper princiiiles to be advocated and promulgated by the Chamber of Commerce of the second city of the kingdom ? Whatever extends the mail commu nications between Great Britain and the rising states, espe cially the Atlantic states of South America, must tend not only to extend British commerce, but to connect the interests of these states more closely with the interests of this country, and, by improving these fine countries, enable them sooner to repay the vast debts which, for loans, they owe to this country. LECTURES ON THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. (From the Morning Herald of Saturday.) Yesterday the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, M.A., minister of St. Jude's, Liverpool, delivered, at the Hanover-square Rooms, the first of a series of lectures " on the Scriptural character of the English national church establishment and the duty of the Legislature so to extend it. as to maintain its national dimensions, together with some of the circumstances which impede its practical efficiency, and the best remedies for such defects." The room was crowded, and among those present we observed Lord Calthorpe, Lord Galloway, Lord Ashley, Sir R. Inglis, Sir Thomas ochrane, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Ainsworth, M.P., Mr. Pringle, M.P., &c. The lecture having been prefaced with prayer, The Rev. Lecturer presented himself to the crowded audi ence amid loud cheering. He said there was a very general conviction that some means should be adopted, speedily and on a national scale, for the instruction of the people of this country. The ascertained ignorance of multitudes had long been the subject of painful consideration to the thoughtful, and certain late exhibitions of its fatal consequences had ar rested the attention of even the habitually careless men of all political parties, who seemed to be agreed in the conclu sion that something must be done, however widely they differed in their views as to the mode of proceeding. (Hear.) The most obvious mode would be to make use of the ma chinery which was already distributed largely, though now inadequately, over the face of the country, and to communi cate the required instruction through the instrumentality of the Established Church. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) This would not only meet the exigency in the most obvious, easy and economical and in every practical point of view,.the safest and most efficient way ; but the church occupied much higher ground. (Hear, hear.) She claimed the direct authority of the word of God—(cheers), and cordially they solicited an extension on the broad national scale of the for mularies of the church. This demand aroused, very naturally, the opposition of men who did not approve of our church, and not only so, but of men, who, though they themselves approved of it, and also of its extension by those who preferred it yet shrunk from any scheme that would enlarge its efficiency at the cost, in the slightest degree, of those who conscientiously dis sented from it. They 'proposed a system ofeducation, to become national, that should combine with secular instruction the • Christians of all parties, and at the same time keep so entirely aloof from everything sacred, as not to interfere with the re ligious views of any. This system naturally aroused the op position of those who considered that the material of the in tellectual constitution of man was so alienated from all that was good as to be compared with a weed in a hot-house, and that, consequently, religious instruction, whose object and whose prerogative it was to change the nature of the plant and make the tree good, should form the basis of all sound education. It was the only element which could render the possession of secular intelligence either a personal blessing to the individual, or, if widely and nationally extended, com patible with the superintendence and safety of a community. (Hear, hear.) But the controversy did not end here. Some of our opponents not only objected to the extension of our established church, but demanded its total extinction—(hear, hear,) alleging that its existence was a hindrance to the spread of true . religion ; and in support of this assertion they had eagerly attacked the constitution of the church as opposed to the Holy Scriptures. This left us to grapple with funda mental principles, a consequence in which we heartily de lighted, because it was our matured conviction that to inat tention and want of information on this vital point, might be traced our present perilous position. (Cheers.) The num ber of intelligent men who, atter deliberate inquiry, were hostile to our established church would be found to be com paratively insignificant—(hear, hear;) but what they lacked in numbers they possessed in activity and decision. (Hear.) They seemed to think, and they certainly said without hesi tation, that our system was wrong, that as a church she was unscriptual, as an establishment unjust, and that she owed her origin to priestcraft ; and they represented our church establishment as a nuisance to be swept away by the rising progress of knowledge, and the manly decision of intrepid reformers. (Hear.) This imposing tone had produced its effects where they' could be least expected. It had excited doubts in men who little suspected it of themselves, but who had been rendered lukewarm thereby—(hear, hear,) and now it was not from the strength or activity of our avowed oppo nents that we had to apprehend real danger. (Hear, hear) ; but when we harkened to the tone taken by many of our professed friends and defenders, then it was that our hearts trembled, when we perceived men known for their discretion, and judgment, and moderation, maintain a for bearance both in word and deed which was misconstrued into the betrayal of the great cause, if not of disaffection, and defending our established church on the bare grounds of her prescriptive title, her legal claims, her usefulness, and her comparative- economy. These, however excellent in themselves, and however sufficient in times past, were not the grounds upon which the friends of the church should now take their stand—however valuable as bulwarks, they were of man's construction, and might be demolished by man. There was a higher position to be taken—the scrip tural character of our church, and challenging enquiry into her unshaken principles. (Cheers.) The apparent shrink ing from this position caused a feeling to be propogated that the defenders of our church had of themselves sonic doubts about her character, and were, in consequence, —l;uthalf hearted in their advocacy. He could not, therefore, but feel strongly that we were called upon to do all in our power to vindicate the scriptural character of our church, and distin guish between what she defines as indispensible to Christian ity and what she adopts in preference for her own private management. If our adversaries pointed to the differences which existed among us, our answer was ready. We were freemen, each exercising his private judgment—(cheers,) — and we were not prostrated on any Prochistean bed of slav ish uniformity. (Cheers.) And yet we had substantial uni ty. Whatever might be the differences in some respects, we were as one Man in our attachment to and defence of our holy house where our fathers had worshipped. (Cheers.) His distinguished predecessor (Dr. Chalmers) had felt it right to confine himself to a particular view of the subject, and we had been taunted with not coming, and we had been challenged to come to the law and to the testimony. He (the lecturer) accepted the challenge. (Cheers.) The first and greatest object of the church, considered in its instrumentality among men, was connected with the revealed purpose, and progres sive purpose—on earth—of Almighty God In the Divine purpose there was no, progress ; the end was present from the beginning in absolute perfection. All that had been, all that is, all that shall be, should be rather the response, the faithful acts of the comprehensive design which occupied the everlasting mind antecedent to the first exercise of creative power—" Of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things ; He hath made all things for Himself." It was not to be understood that the created world could in any way add to the glory or happiness of the great Creator. His absolute perfection rendered this impossible. With Him everything is infinite, and infinity excluded gradations. What then could creatures be or do for God ? They could be so many channels in which should flow forth into mani festation the essential perfection of God. Some of them could be intelligible witnesses of the divine character so ma nifested. The performance of the divine purpose differed in this respe,:t essentially from the purpose itself. It descended among creatures, and its uniformity—which became pro gressive, would, of course, be incomplete till the very last step should be taken. The rev. gentleman then dwelt at great length upon the Scriptural meanings of the church, which, he said, were from the church mystical, the church visible, the church local, and the church collective. He was aware that, in thus describing the church, he was encoun tering opposition in some minds. He therefore had much pleasure in quoting the language of the judicious Hooker as a shield for himself against the imputation of novelty, and a defence of his argument against facility of refutation. (Hear.) " That church of Christ, said Hooker, " which we properly term the body mystical, can be but one; neither can that one be sensibly discerned by any man, inasmuch as the parts thereof are some in heaven already with Christ, and the rest that are on earth (albeit their natural persons be visible) we, do discern under this property whereby they are truly and infallibly of that body ; only our minds, by intellectual con ceit are able to apprehend that such a real body there is—a body collective, because it containeth a huge multitude ; a body mystical, because the mystery of their conjunction is removed altogether from sense. Whatever we read in Scripture concerning the endless love, and the saving mercy, which God sheweth towards his church, the only proper sub ject thereof is the church. Concerning this flock it is that our Lord and Saviour bath promised, " I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hands." They who are of this society have such marks of distinction from all others as are not objects unto our sense only unto God who seeth their hearts, and under standeth all their secret cogitations, unto him they are clear and manifest. All men knew Nathaniel to be an Israelite. but our Saviour, piercing deeper, giveth further testimony of him than men could have done, with such certainty as he did, ' Behold indeed an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.' He would now proceed to another scriptural meaning of the church. In every age of the world since the days of Abra ham there had been a portion of mankind separated from all the rest, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of man. A man of Mesopotamia was selected by God to be the organ among a selected society among men. That society was to bear a family aspect in the household of Abraham. It afterwards assumed a national aspect, and eventually in cluded many nations. The mode of admission was carried into the national aspect of the society, and all the children of Israel were circumcised. When our Lord Jesus Christ sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, the mode of admission was 'altered; circumcision was abrogated and baptism adopted. This society had been the visible dwelling place on earth of the church mystical in its successive gene rations. The society thus called contained not only mem bers of the church, but also men who had neither part nor lot in any of the spiritual blessings of the church. In the language of St. Paul, " All are no t Israel that are of Israel." The reverend lecturer then proceeded to refer to the parable of our Lord of the company at the marriage supper, " many are called, but few are chosen," and to his prophetic an nouncement, " and they went out and gathered all, both good and bad, and the wedding was furnished with guests." He wished, he said, his dissenting brethren, who deny the true scriptural warrant for a visible church, to pay attention to this. It was not the mere definition of man, but the command of God to his disciples to go and get as many as they could find (hear). Here we recognised scriptural authority for what our opponents denounced as wholly anti-scriptural— viz., a national chu rc h (h ear ). O ne of the most able writers of e dissenters (Dr. Wardlaw) in a series of lectures deli vered last year, said that the Jewish nation was a type of the spiritual or mystical church. Now he (the lecturer) asked if it was correct to represent the Jewish nation as a type of the church mystical (hear, hear). The rev. gentleman then, at considerable length, p rocee d e d t o examine Dr. Wardlaw 's argument on the" visible" church. It had been said by Dr. Wardlaw that the Jewish nation was a type of the mystical church, and he affirmed without the least apprehension of refutation, that the Jewish nation did not correspond to, and never was designed to be a type of the church mystical (hear, and cheers) ; and he charged Dr. Wardlaw, and all who agreed with him, as guilty of the offence of declaring the Jewish nation, with all its mingled abominations, contained the divinely constituted type of the spiritual church (hear). There was another scriptural application of the expression— " The church." It was used to denote any subdivision of the baptised; a subdivision so small as might assemble in a private house. Under this meaning of the word " church" might be considered the exhortation of the Lord, in St. Matthew, chap. 18. t " Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone ; if he shall hear thee thou halt gained thy brother, " But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two pr three witnesses every word may be established. " And' if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church." What church did He mean? The whole baptised society ? Absolutely physically impossible. How could the Christian of Antioch go to that of Crete, of Ephesus, or of Ronie ? (hear) ; which was the allegation made by a very large party of our opponents. Our Lord was here represented as ex horting- a Christian under peculiarly • distresSing circum stances to do what it was utterly impossible to attempt to do. (Hear.) " Take it to the church." Again we asked what church. If it were alleged that'our Lord intended the minis ters of the church of the place, then He was represented as constituting His ministers judges in secular trespasses. It was carefully to be remarked that the case in question was one of supposed dispute among brethren in an individual trespass, and not a case of spiritual controversy. Now, the allegation that he thus constituted his ministers judges, was to say that he commanded them to do, what, under similar circumstances. he refused to do himself. (Hear.) " Tell it to the church." Again we ask, what church ? and we answer clearly, that subdivision of the baptised society that is within our reach, " the church local." There was yet d fourth meaning as to the word church. It was used to signify a geographical combination of the divisions or congregations of the baptised, each having its own minister, and all under the general superintendence of one chief pastor. This mean ing was denied by all those who regarded as anti-scriptural the essential constitution of a Christian church. It was a fact capable of detailed proof, that episcopacy was uniform at the time of the reformation, and the reformers of Germany, Switzerland, and Scotland would not have departed from it had their bishops, like ours, led the reformation instead of resisting it. (Cheers.) But no arguments derived from any other source than the Scriptures would have full effect with the class of objectors to whom he addressed himself, and who perpetually appealed to the Bible. He was anxious that the - question should be thus argued, and to the Bible let us go. (Hear, hear.) In the 19th chapter of the Acts of the Apos tles we read, with respect to the exertions and increase of the. Christian church, and spoken of by Jews and Greeks, it was said—" And many that believed came and confessed, and showed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men ; and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver." Compare this with the fact that they had then no large public buildings for Divine worship, and that the Pagan authorities were too jealous of their own superstition to allow the believers in Jesus to carry out their worship in one large company in the open streets. Where and how could the increased multitudes of the Christians worship ? Clearly in private houses ; an answer deducible from the circumstances of the case, and confirmed by the repeated mention of churches and families. In the 20th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, we, read of the elders or presbyters of the church of Ephesus assembling at Miletus to receive St. Paul: " And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church." In the 28th verse St. Paul said, " Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you over seers, to feed the church of God, which he bath purchased with his own blood." " And when he had thus spoken. he kneeled down and prayed with them all." We saw here that there existed at Ephesus thus early a company of Christian teachers, and we had seen the necessity that existed of a com pany of Christians congregating in different places. Accord ing to the views of certain dissenters, there was at Ephesus a number of independent churches, each having its own pas tor ; and it would have been anti-scriptural for any one indi vidual to have claimed pastoral authority at Ephesus, com bined them all into one church, and called himself their chief. The reverend lecturer theu.went on to observe, that what he claimed was this—the selection of some individual to whom our Lord calls, not an angel, or a presbyter of a church in Ephesus, but the angel of the church in Ephesus. The question then was, what was this intended to convey ? Did it mean one only of the many congregations, each having its own pastor ? or was it intended for the geographical combi nation of congregated Christians, as one church, under one chief pastor, or angel? If it was intended for one only con gregation and pastor, then how could it have been ascertained for which ? (Hear.) How would the angel have made the invidious selection, where all were on a perfect equality ? And what rivalry and confusion would have resulted ! (Hear.) Each would have claimed !t, and each would have had as good a right to it as the other. If, on the contrary, our Lord's address was intended for the geographical combination of congregated Christians as one church under one chief pastor, as the angel of the episcopal church, in which there are many pastors, we have the very constitution of episcopal superin tendence in existence among ourselves at this day. (Cheers.) It was such a combination that he ventured to designate the church collective as distinguished from the church universal or catholic. The rev. gentlemen next touched upon the epis copal constitution of the established church, and observed, in reference to his view of the subject, that all was easy, na tural, consistent, harmonious ; we wrest nothing, conceal nothing,—we explain away nothing of its scriptural doctrine ; but he did assert it appeared to him that the opponents of episcopacy certainly seemed to require some ingenuity to avoid the power of such scriptural argument. Suppose a renewal of miraculous gifts were to take place, and an angel to preside over the established church in London was to be chosen, we should have no difficulty in at once selecting the individual — (cheers)—but he would ask under such circumstances to whom would the dissenter forward such a communication. (Hear.) He then briefly remarked upon the essential diffe rence between the Church of Scotland and the Church of England, as exhibited in his lecture. was seen to be the church mystical and visible, and local and collective. The reverend lecturer retired amidst loud cheers. COURT CIRCULAR.-FRIDAY. The Queen held a court and privy council at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The council was attended by the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President. of the India Board, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint Mr. Myddel ton Biddulph to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Den bigh, that gentleman took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon. The Queen having been pleased to appoint the Honourable Edward Most!, n to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Merioneth, Mr. Mostyn took the oaths appointed on such occasions. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting, • The Council being ended, and her Majesty having retired - from the throne-room to the royal closet, the Rev. Henry Pepys, D.D., was introduced and did homage to her Majesty, on being appointed Bishop of Soder and Man. The Marquis of Normanby, her Majesty's Principal Secre-.. tary of State for the Home Department, and the Rev. 3. Vane, Deputy of the Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the ceremony. The Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of the Queen. The court was attended by Lady Barham, Lady in Wait ; Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold ,Stick in Waiting ; The Treasurer of the Household ; Col. Armstrong, Groom in Waiting; and Col. Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting. The Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, was presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, yesterday, at an audience at Buckingham Palace, by Viscount Palmer ston, G.C.B. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viscount Melbourne had an audience, yesterday, of the Queen. The royal dinner party at the palace last evening included M. Guizot the French ambassador, the Bishop of London, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Erroll, the Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount Duncannon, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord George Lennox, and Sir Hussey and Lady Vivian. The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was in attendance at the palace during the evening. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went yesterday after noon to Goldsmiths' Hall. His royal highness was accom panied by his brother, the hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and was attended by Lord Robert Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole; Viscount Boringdon, Gentleman of the Bed chamber; Col. Wylde, Equerry; and Mr. Seymour, Groom of the Bedchamber. The hered►tary Prince was attended by Baron de Lowenfels and Baron de Gruben. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of Kent yesderday, at Buckingham - Palace, Her Majesty also visited the Princess Sophia, at Kensington. The Duchess of Kent took a drive yesterday in a carriage. Her royal highness also walked in the gardens of the palace. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Earl and Count ess of Jersey with her company at dinner, yesterday, at their residence in Berkeley-square. The contemplated marriage between the wealthy capitalist Baron Anthony de Rothschild and the accomplished Miss Montefiore, daughter of Mr. Ma ntefiore, of Great Stanhope street, is fixed to take place early in the ensuing month. The baron has taken the spacious mansion in Grosvenor-place, lately occupied by Sir John Mordaunt, and adjoining Viscount Mahon's, for his future town residence. A letter from Frankfort, in the Augsburgh Gazelle, states that Count Survilliers and the Prince de Montfort (Joseph .and Jerome Bonaparte) have met in London, by appoint ment, for the purpose of terminating the differences which have arisen on the subject of the will of Cardinal Fesch. The writer adds • that there is no truth in the report that Prince Louis Bonaparte is to marry his cousin, the Princess Ma thilda de Montfort, a very different marriage being contem plated for her. In preparing a vault a few days ago in the churchyard of Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, a running sand was discovered about five feet below the surface, in consequence of which the foundations of the chancel gave way, and the entire wall fell down, carrying the eastern window in its descent—pro videntially the persons employed in the vault escaped, during the interval that elapsed between the first indication of dan ger and the moment when it occurred. A DISGUSTING GLUTTON.—On Saturday last, at the Butchers' Arms, in this city, a man named William Webber, undertook, for a trifling wager, to eat a roast pig of 10lbs. weight, with half a quartern loaf, and a quantity of potatoes. The pig was procured and dressed, and the fellow actually succeeded in eating all but l lb., but could get no further. A limited time was allotted for the accomplishment of the task, and in the intervals of eating Webber amused himself by drinking beer and smoking his pipe outside the door of the house, and having thus refreshed himself, he would re turn to the work with renewed vigour. He is notorious in feats of this description, and cleared a pig of 81bs. weight on Christmas Eve.--Western Luminary. THE NAPOLEON DUEL.—The following is the account of the circumstances leading to this meeting ,—" Three weeks since Count Leon arrived in London, and called at the house of the Count de Survilliers, ex-King of Spain, at that of the Prince de Montfort, ex-King of Westphalia, and that of Prince Louis Napoleon, by neither of whom was he received, for reasons with which we are not acquainted. A few days ago the Count Leon wrote a letter to Prince Louis, com plaining of this refusal on the part of the family of the late Emperor to receive him. This letter was written in so of fensive a style that the Prince would not condescend to reply to it, but he sent Colonel Parquin to him to explain the rea sons that prevented the family from receiving him. This explanation Count Leon refused to receive, and he sent a challenge to the Prince by Lieut.-Col. Ratcliffe, of the In niskillen Dragoons, a distinguished officer in the British army. In consequence of this challenge the Prince Louis, accompanied by Count d'Orsay and Colonel Parquin, went to Wimbledon Common to meet the Count, who having re fused to fight with swords ' it was agreed to use pistols. Be fore, however, this could be accomplished the police inter fered and prevented any further proceedings."—Standard. TiE MINISTRY.—The conservative opposition is nobly redeeming the pledge it gave at the beginning of the session, to coerce the folly, and bane the designs of our truckling government. Thrice already has it hurled defeat upon mi nisters, and abased them to a condition from which any other set of men would thankfully retire into oblivion. But w here virtue is not, there is no sbame. So far the promise made by Lord Stanley during the " No-confidence' debate, has been fulfilled to the letter. " Measure by step, failure after failure, we will watch, and we will mark, and we will control the government." Failure after failure !—we have witnessed the third in the space of, a few short weeks —downright, hu miliating, flagrant failtires—the last, worst of all, tit retribu tion for unprincipled jobbing. Truly the declaration made by Lord Stanley was, something more than a promise"-it wag a prediction; and in its continuous fulfilment, the O'Con nell Cabinet is tasting the bitterness of delayed but inevitable destruction.—Cheltenham Chronicle. T unit Pric Pric o'ci Ti Rill Sato Ines title In t: The MR: Fop ....... We t tio is , •••••••••• B: Woc recei is tw 18 CO kieasc news it jrn mate 011 tl Pr, ir at a th e 1) B ept( flews in g a Colo] Port e re -err ttie ric that, Sy dn settle arras) of till profit at £1 a yea of ti " " we strut the c tran s expe h folk Th 'lust