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imprrial Varlianunt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Rev. R. Nl`Ghee, Dublin, praying the house not to sanction the introduction of papal bulls into this country. With reference to the Religious Opinions Relief Bill, the Btsecr. of EXETER proposed that two questions should be submitted for the consideration of the Judges— first, whether independently of the acts of the first and fifth of Elizabeth it was a punishable offence to deny the Queen's supremacy, or to maintain the jurisdiction of the Pope in these realms; and secondly, whether independ ently of the first named act it was an offence to put in execution any balls emanating from the See of Rome? The Lord CHANCELLOR (rid not think it necessary to take the course pursued. There was a clear distinction between ecclesiastical and spiritual, and civil and tempo ral authority, and the oath administered to Roman Catho lics had been altered so as clearly to recognise her Majesty as the supreme head in the latter respects. _ _ Lord BROUGHAM quite concurred with his noble and learned friend's view of the case. After some observations from Lords DENMAN and CAMPBELL, affirming the supremacy of the Sovereign from time immemorial, __ Lord BEAUMONT explained to the House the difference between dogmas of faith and matters of discipline, and de axied most explicitly that the Roman Catholic Church at the present day held that the Pope had power to depose Princes or absolve subjects from their allegiance. The Bishop of EXETER again solemnly warned the House of the dangerous breach they were about to make in the constitution of the empire, but ended by withdraw- ing his motion HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY On the 'notion for the third reading of the Corn Bill, The Marquis of GRANBY, after an animated speech in ;opposition to the bill, moved that it be read a third time that day six months. Mr. M. GASKELL seconded the amendment. After some discussion, in which Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Plover, and Sir 3. Easthope took part. Mr. MILES argued that it was impossible, comparing the taxation of this country with that of others, that we could enter into competition with either Russia or the United States in the production of grain, and he was therefore confident that the liouse of Lords would never pass the bill then under the consideration of the house. J. GRAHAM said ,he had no doubt that the bill ssed by a decided majority in the House of luestion had upon all hands been narrowed o whether the removal of the protection t be oreiudicial to the tillers of the soil. would be p, Lords. Thl and if it should be apparent that the existing corn-law would be injurious to the labourers, he, for one, would notadvotwe it, but he was satisfied his conscience, that be had never advocated the r distress in Ireland ; for had only precipitated t which was is CAYLEY contended, in a very an umentative speech n of protection must lie equally injurio rmer and t HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnA Letate on the third ing of the Corn Bill was st it, and Mr. G. Palmer, r. New ill, M Captain Poll) Wakh, Mr. I Mr. Sevaler, Scott, Lord Brook Captain Vyse, and Mr. S. Crawford spoke on the same your of the measure, when the -WEDNESDAY HOUSE OF COMMONS djourned de to on the second reading of the Fac, The a tory Bil it on cht d by Mr. Colquhoun, injurlou moral ii tare to supported 11 UM b tr, tauutir or me operatives had proved not 13 but ilighly beneficial to their physical, social, and. nterests. He therefore recommended the legisla . uld mit • • • J `.• - tigate the sore and angry feeling existing uring districts on the part of the opera- Ley were c e earth by dimi- Mr. W. - Coiypaa contended, on the authority of the number of petitions presented in favour of this bill, that the operatives cared more about it than they did about any other measure—ay. more than they did about the re- peal of the Corn-laws.' Their delegates had published a memorial, in which they had stated the readiness of the working classes to accept a reduction of the hours of la bour, and tb leave the value and the price of labour to be arranged between themselves and their employers. They were ready to run all risks if this change were but made. The corn-laws, he trusted, were on the point of being re pealed, and therefore the advocates of this measure, acting on the admissions of Mr. Henry Ashworth and Messrs. Marshall, were justified in expecting, that though the money wages of the operatives might be somewhat lower in case it were made law, the labourers themselves would not be worse off in consequence of the simultaneous re duction which would take place in the price of food. At the same time he was not prepared to admit that there must be a diminution of produce as a result of the dimi nution of the hours of work. If the master manufactu rers continued to withhold their assent from this bill, they must expect to be told, as they had told the - landowners, that tlieu. interests could not be allowed to stand in the way of the interests of the great mass of the people. Lord J. MANNERS considered that this question was virtually settled out of doors, inasmuch as the affections and passions of the people, as well as their deliberate opi nions and convictions, were enlisted in its favour. He then proceeded to examine the facts, figures, and inqui ries into which Sir J. Graham had plunged, in order to vindicate his opposition to this bill, and pointed out the inconsistency of the ma: ter manufacturers, in boasting, on the discussion for the repeal of the corn-laws, that they did not care for the miserable protection of 20 per cent. upon manufactures, and in declaring on the present occasion, that so great was the press of foreign competi tion that they could not stand against it, if the protection, which they enjoyed in working their operatives twelve hours a-day, were taken from them. He also trusted that the house would not forget the ceaseless ridicule of the bugbear of foreign competition which it had recently beard night after night from the master manufacturers, who supported the doctrines of free trade. He denied the assumption of Sir J. Graham, that this bill would reduce the wages of the working man, and treated with some scorn his calculation that it would be tantamount to the imposition of a tax of 16 per cent. on the working people. He believed that, instead of wages falling in consequence of the adoption of this bill, they would only be spread more equally over the surface of the whole year's labour ; and that instead of a period of intolerable toil, followed by a period of no work at all, there would be an equal flow of labour from one end of the year to the other. Mr. CARDWELL opposed the bill, on the ground that it would be deeply injurious to 800,000 hard•working manu facturers, whose subsistence was directly dependent upon the wages which they received for their labour. He called upon the house not to curtail the amount of wages on the one hand, whilst it was diminishing the price of the ne cessaries of life on the other. This measure, if passed into law, would bring about first a contention between masters and men on the subject of wages, and afterwards a period of common suffering to both. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY After some conversation on the order in which the pub lic business would be taken next week, and which Sir R. Peel declared would be that which he had previously stated—viz., to give preference to the tariff, and afterwards to take one discussion on the Poor Removal Bill, it was arranged that the adjourned debate on the Factory Bill should be taken on the first vacant government day after wards. Mr. SPOON ER brought forward the case of Mr. Toul min Smith, a barrister, whose house was searched for a private still on anonymous authority; but Mr. Cardwell defended the course pursued by the Excise, and the mo tion for a select committee was negatived by a majority of 134 to 125. Lord G. BENTINCK, in moving "for copies of the speech of Earl Cathcart, the Governor-General of the Canadas, to the Legislative Assembly of those provinces —of the despatches which he bad addressed to Mr. Glad stone, the Colonial Secretary, remonstrating against cer tain presumed changes in the Imperial commercial policy, —and of any petition from the Quebec Board of Trade addressed to the same high functionary, on the subject of apprehended changes in the Imperial tariff affecting the, produce of the Canadas," observed that he considered it very important that the attention of the house should be called to these documents, before it finally decided on the fate of the corn bill. He believed that the facts con nected with these documents were shortly these. Early in March last, Mr. Gladstone had addressed a letter to Earl Cathcart upon the measures recently propo-ed to Parliament by Her Majesty's Government. It appeared from the letter that Earl Cathcart had previously ad dressed a letter of remonstrance against that policy to Mr. Gladstone Acting upon the same principles, Earl Cath cart had, in his address to the Legislative Assembly, ob served that the last intelligence from the mother country indicated that important changes were to be made in the commercial policy of Great Britain—that he had pressed on the Imperial Government the necessity of preserving the existing relations between the Canadas and the mother country unimpaired—and that he had recommended the Canadians until they received further information from Great Britain, to anticipate that their claims to a just measure of protection would not be overlooked. Earl .Cathcart had since assured them that in every measure calculated to secure to them that just protection, they _should have his hearty co-operation. Surely it was a matter of serious consideration for that house, when they found the Governor-General of the Canadas telling their Legislative Assembly that he would co-operate with them against the policy of the mother country. Besides this declaration, there were other indications of the dissatis faction w-kich was felt in the Canadas in consequence of the recent a dh erence o f h er M a j esty ' s • m i n i ster to t h e doctrines of free trade. A meeting had been held at To ronto a few days before the meeting of the Legislative Assembly. in which there was a distinct intimation given, that the adoption of our new comm erc i a l p o li c y m i g ht drive the Canadas into annexation with the United States. Similar language had also been employed by the Attor ney-Gent ral of the province, and this language he quoted at considtrable length. It therefore became the house gravely to reflect, whether it would adopt measures which would deprive us altogether of those valuable provinces. He then quoted several extracts from papers published in New York, for the purpose of showing that a similar im. pression as to the results of our new policy had b een created in the minds of the thinking people of the United States. He reminded the house that if this country were to lose the Canadian provinces, it would lose a trade which more than any other encouraged and promoted our maritime power and greatness. He then dilated on the injury which we were going to inflict on the Canadas, by adopting the system of-free trade, and quoted the letter of a Mr. Pemberton, which appeared in The Times, to show that Mr. C. Buller was guilty of a great error, when be asserted that the Canadians did not materially care for the protection which they received from our sys tem of duties on corn and on timber. He showed that there was a disposition on the part of the United States, especially when the effect of such relaxation was likely to be the loss of the Canadas. Mr. ROEBUCK, in seconding the motion, was of opinion that it would have been for the advantage of Lord G. Bentinck's reputation as an orator, and also for the ad vantage of the house, which had listened to him very re luctantly, if he had compressed his speech, and that which he would inevitably deliver to-morrow night, into one. He congratulated Lurd G. Bentinck and his party on the new tone in which they now spoke of the pro ceedings of the Canadian Parliament. What was the reason of his sympathising with the Cansdas now, when the Imperial Government was in a minority of seven in the Canadian Parliament, when he paid no attention to its wishes formerly, when out of 88 members only 8 sup ported that Government? Formerly there were no stronger opponents of the Canadian Corn Bill than Lord G. Bentinck and his party; what was the reason which induced them to stand up for that bill now, as if it were the Magna Charts of the Canadas? He could not be lieve that Earl Cathcart had embarked upon that course of opposition to the Government which Lord G. Ben thick had described ; and expressed his deliberate convic tion that the opinions of the people of Canada, if fairly taken, would be found decidedly in favour of freedom of trade. Sir G. CLERK observed that there was no intention on the part of the government to oppose the present motion, ns Lord G. Bentinck had been informed nine days ago. lie only rose to state that he proposed to add to the pa pers now moved for, a despatch from Mr. Gladstone to the Governor-General of the Cauadas, in reply to the papers for which Lord G. Bentinck had moved. After a few remarks from Mr. H. Hinde, who com plained that he had been unable to procure an answer from her Majesty's government to a question which he had re peatedly asked in the course of these discussions—namely, what it intended to do with the colonies ?—and who in sisted that the house should compel them to answer it, The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Bishop of EXETER moved that their leirdsbir gious Opinions Relief Bill that day three months. He did so because he would not, after his oath of supremacy to his sovereigri, be to the Pop he right rev and controvert the opinions of the law r by the Lord regard to its effect, he was called to ord _ Chancellor, who reminded him that there was no question before the house.) His lordship then explained in detail the reasons which led him to doubt the accuracy of the opinion which had been given by the noble and learned of Queen Elizabeth dieted foreig❑ jurisdiction. Every subj positively inter ct of this realm was bound, when required so to do, to take the oath of supremacy. That oath asserted, in the most positive 'inner, that no foreign prince, prelate, state, or poten hath, .or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, or '.is realm. Was he to be told this con ,e remitted by an act of parliament : and pre-eminence in il yet that I in stain QUO a violation of this princil wind - oiled the constitution. The Roman of the Pope, and would not allow it to be exercisedwith out 'due restrictions. He wished for nothing that was inconsistent with the free exercise of the Roman Catholic religion; but he did expect that the same restrictions which were imposed upon the Pope in other countries THE LIVERPOOL STA-I,a),kito. I FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA Lord Campbell) had spoken of the " formidable danger" hich would be created by the proposed measure, and fished to know why any such danger should be called By the packet-ship Livernool, which arrived here on Tuesday, we received New York papers to the 22nd ult. Serious riots took place at Brooklyn on the 20th ult., and following days, in consequence of the Irish labourers having struck for an advance of wages. The men assem bled in large numbers, and the military had to be called out, and were, according to the last advices, actively en gaged in quelling the disturbances. About 500 Germans are now engaged at the dock-works at Brooklyn, and the employment of these persons offended the Irish. One of the Germans has been seriously injured. The Caledonia steamship arrived at Boston on the 20th ult., with the important intelligence of the British victo ries over the Sikhs. The news from this country was con sidered favourable to the continuance of peace, and the amicable adjustment of the Oregon nuesti,)n. The new; from Washington is to the 20th ult., and is important. It seems that the House of Representatives bas refused to recede from the amendments to the Oregon alter the resolutions, and the certainty then was, that the resolutions giving the notice must either pass in the form in which they came from the Senate, or entirely fall through. In either case, the Senate of the United States, in an amicable spirit, will have accomplished a most .. g oant victory over the President and the House of Representatives. From Mexico we learn that General Almonte had ar rived at Havana, en route for England. Immediately on was closeted for several hours. Mr. Slidell had received his passports, and had left the country. It is said that the Mexicans were on the eve of another revolution in favour of Santa Anna, who w expected daily at Vera which - left COAL IN EGYPT.—A letter from Syut, in Upper Egypt, states the discovery of extensive coal mines in the oasis of Ghenne, on the Arabian side of the Theb lid. The mine ral is represented as being of excellent quality. DANTZIG—May 2 : Freights—The arrival of several ships has caused some freights though at low rates, to be closed—for Newcastle at 35., Leith at 3s. Bd. to 39. 3d., Guernsey at 4s. per qr. wheat; Hull at 19a., Grimsby and Dundee at 18s., Grangemouth at 17s. 6d., Portsmouth at 20s, Shoreham at 20s. per load, timber. In India, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, h as ma de a f u rth er donation of £5,000 to the District Benevolent Society ; and purchased, besides, a plot of ground, on which to build rooms for the reception of 250 people-70 to be lep ers. The expense of the land and buildings will be £8,500 —making a total of £13,500 given away in a single act of charity. Romisn EXERTION.—A correspondent writing from Swan River says—" We have had a large importation of Roman Cathollos within the last few days. no less than te❑ priests and a bishop and several nuns. We hear it is their intention to found a college for the education of the rising generation. What a blessing such an establishment Cruz on the 3d April, reports that on that day the Repub lican and Santa Anna party united were to declare against the governmtnt, and it was said that Mr. Dimond, the the insurgents. Further and more complete advices from this quarter will therefore be most anxiously looked for. Two American soldiers have been seized by the Mexicans, and though their release was demanded, it was declined. A letter f rom an o ffi cer in the United States army on the of our own Church would be to th;colony." RIGA, APRIL 22,—Our merchants are in the greater. anxiety. Our harbour of Dunarnunde is choked up with sand, by which above 100 ships, richly lade n , are pre • already put back, lioistriag . a black flag. This is a dread ful blow to our commerce. The Emperor has assigned a million of roubles, to provide the means for remedying this misfortune. A LADY DUELLIST.—The following is a copy of a challenge lately sent by one New Orleans lady to another : —" Miss , I trust that you have not forgotten the quarrel that took place between us last night. As I am not satisfied in the manner it t erm 4- .4 fla. P.. vtm mill confer a particu 'rontier says, " . . into existence. It was not pretended that the Roman Catholics h; q 1 sustained any inconvenience from the law Everything betokens the greatest Ictivity on tt ppoiite side of the river; two redoubts were constructed to-day. (Hticers in splendid uniforms are promenading on the bank, and the gay streamers of the lancers are waving in all directions. Our infor- ar favour on me b satisfaction. If you do not do so, you may anticipate a cowhiding the firbt place I meet you. I do not wish to meet you in a public place and do not wish for an expo- --- . quest of you to keep this private. Yours, &c." The challengee entered a complaint against the challenger be fore the Rec,rder, and he promised to do all he could to protect the threatened party from harm. BOWIE KNIVES AND PISTOLS.—The members of Con- gress have recently been amusing ... of ' recriminatory cha r ge s . M r . .. Ingersoll agai ns t Mr. Webster, and Mr. Ashm un against Mr.lngerson. During Mr. Ashmun's speech, charging Mr. E. J. Ingersoll with bringing a number of actions at law where one wmald mation fence of his brother. Mr. A Charles Jared substant'ally wi power in t wuMICK ciaimea tor the rope the exercise ol .11113 country, and there could be no doubt that he had repeat edly attempted to exercise such power. His lordship then referred to the allocution of which he had formerly spo ken, and which declared certain acts of the Spanish Go vernment to be null and void. His lordship alluded also to a at•'. 2500 regulars and 600 militia are quartered in the town Gen. Ampudia is some two or three days' march distant, with 3500 or 4000 regulars, and a few militia; besides these, conscripts are daily arriving, which will probably swell their numbers to some 7000 or 8000. We have con siderably less than 3000 effective men." Arrking instance of interference on the part of the The arrival of the Caledonia in the Mersey, on Thurs‘ Pope, and called upon their lordships not by the proposed dav, furnishes us with the authenticity of the narrative of bill to invite from him a repetition of the same sort of in- the Liverpool, which brought down the proceedings of terference. Their lordships ought not to consent to sur- congress on the Oregon question to the 18th. The house render securities without being fully satisfied that an on that day amended the senate resolution, and returned equivalent would be given for them, and without being it to that body, asking a conference. The subject was informed of the precise nature of the proposed equiva- taken up in senate on the 21 s t. lent. , Mr. Allen moved that the senate recede. O n thi s mo - The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the ri g ht reverend tion the yeas and nays were--yeas, 20 ; nays, 31. prelate had been misinformed, if he supposed that every A committee of conference, consisting of three mem. one was bound to take the, oath of supremacy, without hers, was then ballotted for, and stood : qualification, when tendered to him. A n A c t f or th e Mr. Berrien, of Georgia Relief of Roman. Catholics was passed in 1791, in which Mr. Corwin, of Ohio there was a distinct clause relieving persons of that per- Mr. Haywood, of North Carolina .. suasion from the necessity of taking the oath as formerly Mr. Allen, of Ohio prescribed. After the many laws which bad been passed Mr. Cass, of Michigan for the relief of the Roman Catholics, no person of that , On Thursday, the 23d, the committee of conference re religion ought to be debarred f r o m mo d era t e ly an d tern- ' ported an unimportant amendment to the senate's reso perately asserting the supremacy of the Pope. His right lution, which resolution was adopted by the house—ayes, reverend friend ought to have given notice of his motion, 142 ; noes, 46. It was then agreed to by the senate. in order that the law lords might have been in their place An unsuccessful effort was made in the house to get rid to reply to the new points he had urged against the bill. of the phraseology submitting the notice to be given at His lordship repeated, that until it had passed he would " the presidedt's discretion." His friends wished to free not tetra] upon the subject of oaths. Even if oaths were him from that responsibility, and to place it on congress. allowed to continue on the footing on which they now Another effort was made to exclude the words " arnica stood the bill ought to pass. The only questionable point ble settlement." It, too, in like manner, was defeated. .in the matter was with respect to the oath of abjuration ; Since this official notice the president has signed the re but, as there were no descendants of James II in existente, solutions. It is generally believed that it will be trans the oath was superfluous. Their lordships had acceded mitted to Mr. M`Lane, the American minister, by the to the second reading of a bill repealing thirty acts, and steamer which brings this intelligence. ought not, at the eleventh hour, to retrace their steps. The Oregon question has thus assumed a better aspect ; Some of these acts were to the last degree oppressive. public opinion has taken a turn—an amicable adjustment Any Roman Catholic who maintained the ecclesiastical or appears to be the wish of all parties, and the act of Con spiritual authority of the Pope, in Ireland was liable, for gress requiring notice to be given is expressly and design the first offence, to the forfeiture cf his goods, for the edly pacific for the accomplishment of so desirable an ob second to a premunire, and for the third to be tried for high treason. jest. The relations with Mexico and the United States re- The Bishon . of St. DAVID'S regretted that be had not main unsettled. General Taylor, wfth his army, has taken been present at the discussion which preceded the second up a position in the Rio Grande, opposite to M atamoras, reading of the bill. He entirely approved of the measure. . In d i t is fully expected that hostilities will commence be- The acts which it proposed to repeal were unjust and ini- fore many days elapse. quitous, and involved gross violations of the liberty of The mercantile interests have suffered severely of late, the subject. There might be a justification for prohibiting but the prospects are now brightening. the importation of P a pal b u ll s , b u t no thi ng could justify The Great Western arrived at New York on the 28th. the continuance of such acts in the statute book. He did The tariff had been fixed for discussion on the llth May. not think that there was any force or efficacy in a Papal Committee& of inquiry have been appointed by the bull, and was therefore not prepared to consider it as dan- House of Representatives to inquire into the charges ad gerous as it had been repres en t e d. Th e c h ange made by vanced by Mr. Ingersoll against Mr. Webster; and also Pope Pius VII. in the Gallican Chu r ch ought not to have into the conduct of the former gentleman. The affair been referred to as bearing upon the case, seeing that he continued to excite the highest interest. Mr. Ingersoll was induced to make them on the imperious demand of received universal condemnation. Napoleon, contrary to his own wishes and conviction. He (the Bishop of St. David's) would not be alarmed should a ,Papal bull be smuggled into this country and affixed to the gates of the city of London and Bucking ham Palace. His lordship in conclusion stated that he was prepared to carry the principle of the bill even further than the learned lord by whom it had been brought forward. came to the de. mun _resumed, _charg with being guilty of divers equivocations, and with having tampered with the friends of John Tyler, to procure from said Tyler testimony against Mr. Webster. Upon this the following scene occurred :—Mr. C. J. Ingersoll : Do you know it ? Mr. Asbmun : Yes ; I have been told so, and have seen it in the prints. Mr. Ingersoll: Do you accuse me ? Mr. Ashmun : Yes. Mr. Ingersoll (rising) : It is false, sir; a lie, sir—the lie of a coward ! (A Voice : That's right.) The Speaker (rapping) : The gentleman will take his seat. Mr. Ashmun The aged _ _ kentleman from Pennsylvania said— Mr. Inger;;11 (rubbing his bands) : Aged ! aged ! young enough, sir. Mr. Ashmun : I come from a section which neither be lieves in duels, nor bowie-knives, nor pistols—(hisses). Mr. Ingersoll : Nor getting drunk ? Mr. Aanun: But —(a Voice : You won't fight)—let the member try it, and be will find it our.—Subsequently, a committee of five members was appointed. " to inquire into the truth of the charges thus made by Charles J. Ingersoll." EICLIG HTEN ED ROMAN ISM.—Mr. O'Connell frequently boasts of the progress of Belgium in enlightenment, but a recent event in that kingdom gives but a sorry sample of it. A person named Retain, after numerous ineffectual attempts to suppress the prosecution, was found guilty of embezzlement, and sentenced to five years' imprison ment. He appealed, and the sentence was confirmed. whe❑ he openly declared that he defied the law, and that he would not remain in prison six months. His protec tion was this : he had been an ancient domestic of the Papal Nuncio, and subsequently a vender of relics—among others a skull of St. Dorothea, since proved to have be longed to a man. His trade was authorised by high authority; and in his possession were found many docu ments from Archbishops and Bishops, to certify that his relics were accredited by the Church. Although an igno rant and uneducated fellow, he had heed promoted from his place as servant to an office in the Ministry of Finance, of 1,000 francs per annum, and, in succession, to others of 1,900 francs, 2,400 francs, and, lastly, was made re ceiver at Jemappes, with a salary of 6,000 francs, in which latter he had committed the embezzlement for which he was tried and found guilty. Well, he was sentenced to be confined in the prison of St. Bernard ; but, in place of this he was removed to Brussels, where he daily held levees of all the devout and faithful—persons of the highest rank visiting and proffering their services to him ; and at length, after some weeks of this parade, was set at liberty by an order of the Minister of Justice, and not declared merely free to go where he pleased, but provided with a government order for 350 francs on the treasury ! This is all literally and strictly true. It is an event, the time of which is our own day; the liberation took place on the sth of April last.—Dublin Mail. THE MORMONS--We copy the following particulars from the Hancock Eagle, a weekly paper published at Nauvoo, a copy of which, we have received by the Cale donia :—" The ' Camp of Israel!—This is the ' title and address' which has been adopted by the company of Mor mons now on their way westward. A mail carrier arrived here, on Monday last, from the camp, and reported the pioneer party, or head of the column, as having crossed the tributaries of the Chariton river, over 150 miles dis tant. By this time, they are probably on the banks of the Missouri. Thus far, everything has gone favourably, with the exception of the breaking down of a few over laden waggons. The party is in good health and spirits ; no dissensions exist, and the ! grand caravan' moves on slowly, but steadily and peacefully. Their progress has been materially retarded by the want of fodder for their live stock ; the grass not having fairly started, reduced them to the necessity of labouring for the farmers on the route, to supply the deficiency. They travel in detached companies, from five to ten miles apart, and, in point of order, resemble a military expedition. We visited the camp before it broke up, on the opposite side of the river, and, with other strangers, were highly interested in the romantic and exciting display of border enterprise. It bore the appearance of a moveable town ; the waggons and tents being arranged on either side of large streams, and public squares left for the cattle, as we see in some of our river cities. Tattersalls never turned out such a lot of such broken down nags as are to be found attached to this expedition. If they ever reach California, their de pendence must be partly upon slow travelling, and partly upon miracle but chiefly the latter. Our visit was made during the intensely cold weather - of February ; and notwithstanding the tents were blocked in by the snow drifts, and their occupants subjected to the rigour of a hyperborean tempest, the scene presented a cheerful and animated aspect." CANADA.—In the sitting of the Canadian Parliament of the 17th ult., on a division upon the Free Trade Corn Bill sent out by Sir Robert Peel, the Government was defeated by a majority of seven. The Canadian Ministry will retire. A petition has been presented to the Legis lature, from the coloured inhabitants of Toronto, praying that it may to made penal to use to any of her Majesty's black subjects in Canada the opprobrious epithet of "nigger." The Bishop of OXFORD denied that those points of the bill which were good and salutary had been received with coolness or disapprobation by himself or his right reverend friend. He was prepared to vote for going into committee, but although he approved of some parts of the measure, there were others which completely staggered him. The bill, as the commissioners had stated, would allow and re cognise the power of the Bishop of Rome within this realm. If it were passed, their lordships would be called upon to give up the national declarations which their an cestors had made; and the right of the pope to exercise spiritual power in this country would be recognised, with out any corresponding safeguard. He was of opinion that the question of oaths ought to have been considered along with*the measure then before their lordships. Lord STANLEY gave the measure, both as to its prin ciple and details, his cordial approval. He did not con ,ider that the proposed bill would alter the position of her Majesty's Protestant subjects in the slightest degree. It did not legalise the jurisdistion of the see of Rome in this country, but simply remitted special penalties for commu nications, otherwise innocent, because they came from Rome. The law, as it now stood, repudiated the power of excommunication on the part of a priest, and gave the subject a remedy against the party attempting to exercise this tyrannical influence over him. The law denied that the Pope has any supremacy in this country. and was in no respect affected by the proposed bill. He did not, therefore, see the necessity of mixing up the question of oaths with that of penalties. After a few words, by way of explanation, f rom. Lord Broughain and the Lord Chancellor the committee was agreed to. MONTREAL, APRIL 18. —The' St. Lawrence is now fairly open between Montreal and Quebec, and the first steamer commenced running between the two cities last evening. Huge piles of ice still remain upon the wharfs, some of which are damaged. Politics are now engrossing much public attention. Lord Cathcart appears to govern sensibly and smoothly, and manages to please all parties tolerably well. A correspondence published in the newspapers as having taken place between a leading member of the Government and a leading member of the French Canadian party, shows that strong efforts have been mode to conciliate that section, but events, recent as well as passed, show their impracticability and utter aversion to co-operation with the British portion of the community, in the administration of public affairs. These dissensions, however, are merely local, and it is believed all would cheerfully unite in the defence of the province or any other purpose that became a question of loyalty, The recent intelligence from England and the States, in reference to the Oregon question, has created some alarm in the breasts of the timid, but no sensible pelson seriously anticipates any interruption to our amicable relations. The speaker of the House of Assembly, Sir Allan M`Nab, has been compelled to return home by the illness of Lady M 4 Nab. The Hon. A. Morin, a leading man of the French Canadian party, has been elected to officiate during the remainder of the session. A petition has been pre sented to the legislature, from the coloured inhabitants of Toronto, praying that it may be made penal to use towards any of ber Majesty's black subjects in Canada the oppro brious epithet of nigger." By an act of the legislature, framed this week, the order of " Odd Fellows" is em powered to hold real estate in the province. A bill was read a second time, on Wednesday. for erecting an international bridge over the Niagara river, at or near the Falls of Niagara. The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed that their lordships should first proceed with the clauses to which no opposi tion was likely to be made. This suggestion having beers adopted, the house went into committee, and the unop posed clauses were verbally amended and agreed to: after which their lorships adjourned. FRANCE.— On Wednesday the budget was before the HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY, Chamber of Deputies, when the chapter which rendered The debate on the third reading of the Corn Law Bill necessary a grant for the Morocco expenses called up M. was resumed by Colquhoun. Billault, and the La Plata question called up M. Thiers, Mr. D'lsßAzu, at great length, contended that the who attacked the government with much warmth. He prosperity of all classes of the community, tested by the drew a tender picture of the unprotected state of the consumption of tea, coffee, currants, and other imparts, French inhabitants of Monte Video, abandoned by the was almost invariably concurren t w ith, a n d might there- French Cabinet; protested that France was bound to side fore be attributed to, the high price of corn, which gave with Monte Video; declared that unless some more de to the people high wages, and e na bl e d th em to purchase cided steps were taken England would abandon the River more largely, not only of the necessaries but the luxuries Plate, and that then d• struction would fall upon the of life. In reference to the change of opinion of Sir R. heads of the deceived Monte Videans, and their brave dis- Peel, the hon. gentleman allud e d t o th e ri g ht honourable avowed French legion. To this M. Guizot replied by baronet's defence, when he said that he had in a former quoting the instructions forwarded by M. Thiers to session given information of the change in his sentiments Admiral Mackan in 1840, and which were in direct upon the corn laws. It was true, said Mr. D'lsraeli, that contradiction with the doctrines propounded by the in the course of the last session Lord Grey found him out, same person ever since he had been relieved from but he might, notwithstanding, congrat u l a t e himself on the cares and responsibility of office; and then M. his complete success in having entirely deceived his party. Thiers attempted to explain away the palpable mean- He (Mr. Disraeli) was not deceived ; for two years ago ing of his own despatches. His anger was not he bad proclaimed that protection was the n in the same lessened when Admiral Mackau rose and confirmed M. state as Protestantism in 1828. His friends were angry Guizot's reading of the instructions forwarded to him (the with him for making that declaration, but the result gallant admiral) by the same M. Thiers. The Marine Mi proved that what was then conside re d as a calumny, nister then proceeded to show that to land a French army turned out to be only a prophecy. The right honourable on a wild-goose chase over the Pampas would only expose baronet had been a trader on other people's intelligence- the French families dwelling in the open country to serious His life was, in fact, one great principle of appropriation danger, without doing the least good. That the command —the political burglar of other men's ideas ; and, after of the river by the united naval forces of France and Eng deserting hi s friends, ac ti ng as if th e y h a d deserted him, land could not fail of eventual success, and in fact ex- The lion. gentleman p rocee ded to describe the gentlemen posed the plan ,of campaign invented by the " Historian on the Treasury b enc h es as po liti ca l pedlars, who had of the Empire" to derision. M. Thiers, touched in that bought their party i n th e c h ea p est ma rket, and sold in the tender point, his military genius, lost all temper, and, we dearest, and coA t gn d ec i th a t thi s b e t ra yal of their friends are obliged to say with regret, so far forgot himself as to May 19, 1846. would lead to the loss of all confidence in public men. I addl.- - On resuming his seat the chee r in g was ve h emen t an d pro- pr gas insulting language to M. Guizot, whom he tracted. Anted out as one "assuming airs of pr id e. " M. Guizot, The Rhadamanthus war steamer arrived at Galway last OXFORD.—On Thursday the following degrees were Sir R. PEEL said that on such an important questio• eeith calm dignity, assured t h e Chamb er . t hat it need not m. week with 1200 barrels of Indian meal. conferred :—.Masters of Arts—H. S. Stratford, of Christ ___a apprehend any retort from hi m in s uch . l anguage . The only person says the Almanac of the Month, who Church • Rev. J. Burrow, Rev. J. H. Shepherd, and Rev. he should feel that he was offering an insult to the ho - .eitve " a ll Y e C ve h rs am ar b y • _: . .....7., Tillers, as if losing all presence of mind, challenged the and an insult to the country, if be condescended to er h t y o t a he vo p t r e np decid . ing between him and his grad ad osition of an amendment reducing the is safe in Ireland; is the Cove of Cork. T. H. S ' mith, Queen's College; Rev. E. R. Horwood, personalities with any hon. gentleman. In the e had pursued he was prepared for many pa - ,41 ( al ,conte. sum demanded ended by only 10001., and suffered a defeat by a The number of emigrants who have already passed and Rev. C. B. Jackson, Brasennoze ; Rev. J. L .Prior, through Drogheda this season to take shipping for Amer- Exeter College ; E. L. Davis, Jesus College • J. M. Leir, neences, but the smallest of any of them ' ae-. wee - ad now majority of 85. There ' havin voted—For ministers, 188 ; ica amounts to no less than 3,144. New Inn Hall ;W. W. Hull, St. Mary's attn.—Bache declare to have been the continued v , en , . amities attacks of for M. Thier's amendment, 103 ;—majority, 85. Eight vessels have left this port within the last two or lors of Arts—S. Brandratn, of Trinity College ;B. J. the hon. member for Shrewsbury, w , me, alitheugh believ- SPAlN.—Accounts from Madrid are to the Bth. The three days for Glasgow and London, with cargoes of grain Gibbons, Wadham College ;R. P. Cornish, Christ • attfet•er 'o'f other men's province of Galicia had been relieved from martial law, d Provis ions ! —Limer i c k E xaminer. Church ;W.H. R. Merriman, Brazennose; W. Bul myettohhaadvgeibveeennhailml his hia l a if u e i a evret, ;arid offered to unite but Malaga was put into a state of siege, on account of as GOVERNMENT DONATION.—The Lord Lieutenant has lock, St. Mary's Hall. --Grand Compounders—Hon. H. necessinn to o ffi ce in u nite the assassination of the colonel of a regiment by a group contributed £1,550 towards the fund raised in Cork for D. Curzon, Hon. A. Wrottesley, and L. C. Randolph, ii h dn i g s ea f h Ortune with his, on his the relief of the poor. Christ Church ; A. Deady, Wadham College • R. E. The right hon. baronet meats which he had pr .ev i„g y t .“ - en repeated many of the argil- of persons, who immediately escaped. The Heraldo says used in the discussion on that this act was the result of a political conspiracy, whose Mr. P. Scrope gave notice in the House of Commons, Formby, and J. A. Ogle, Brazennose College ;W. Bran this measure. ramifications extended to Granada and Valcneira and the last week, that on Thursday, the 21st , he should submit de, H. Morgan, and G. Saunders, New Inn Hall; J. a motion to the effect that it is expedient to extend the Hall, Lincoln Hall ;W. Bree, Merton Hall ;J. Bush, Mr. D'lsnar.l.l denied that he had been an applicant focue of which was Gibraltar, where Nogueras ' had, ac for place in 1841, as was insinuated by the right hon ba- cording to this journal formed a junta. We say, " ac- poor - l aw of Englan d . to the able-bodied poor of Ireland. St. Mary's Hall ; Rev. J. Stretch, F. Woodman, and J. ronet, or at any other time, although be had been once cording 'to this journal," for the assertion is entirely F ive tons of Indian meal have been imported to . Arran, Glazebrooke, Magdalene Hall ;R. Menzies, and G. Al and a new quay is to be constructed there, to which Mr. ford, Queen's College ; R. Hole, W. Hautenville, and co et, not at his own desire, by a gentle- unsupported. The Imparcial states that the Galician Diaby, the proprietor, contributes £ 6OO, and the govern- S. Hansard, University College ;H. Farmer, H. War man who he believed was sanctioned in his object by the insurgents who had taken shelter in Portugal had been right hon. baronet. He also denied that he had ever sent to Perriche. The accounts from the provinces button, H. Tweed . and T. Sergeant, Exeter College • meat £l5OO. himself, a dish of very fine potatoes was exhibited W. Acton, and M. Bete, Balliol College ; C. de Haviland,. asked for the ministry to Madrid, or anything else for generally were satisfactory. himself, either directly or indirectly, from the govern for sale in a shop in Montgomery's-market, Belfast. The ff. Savory, J. Moor, and R. Arrowsmith, Oriel College ;, The total number of vessels reported stranded on New potatoes were a good size, appeared ripe, and were raised W. David, Jesus College ; W. Brewster, W. Colston, ment. York pilot ground since 1829, is reported to be 220. Sir R. PEEL said he had certainly received what he un by Mr. Ewing, of Ballynafeigh. The dish was sold for 2s 6d. and W. Feetham, St. John's College, H. Pruen, Pem- SOMETHING TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.—The Record of There is such a magazine of Indian meal corn at p resent broke College; G. Quirk, C. Walter, A. Hensley, and derstood to be an intimation from the hon. gentleman that he was ready to give the proof of his confidence in last week says, "The King of the French has received stored in Limerick by the commissariat , as would supply F. Morgan, Worcester College. letters of congratulation on his recent providential escape the market for twelve months to come. It is believed that CAMBRIDGE.—The following degrees were conferred n g ffi ov e e e r . ement which was implied from the . acceptan ce .. of from the Pope. half the quantity on hand will not be required for con- on Thursday :—Doctor of Law—S. T. T. Bartlett, Clare Lord BENTINCK addressed the house in opposition to sumption. Hall.—lllasters of Arts—W. Franks, G. Nugee, F. W. The porters employed in discharging the French barques Gibbs, C. Sargent, and G. Chance, Trinity College; T. the third reading, which was supported by Mr. Villiers, after which on a division the bill was carried by a majo at Waterford of Indian corn, " struck" for increased Tanqueray, Pembroke College.—Bachelors of Arts—W. rity of 327 to 229. wages. They were receiving 2s. Bd. per day, with 4d. Coleman, St. John's College ;E. J. Furnival, Trinity a day allowance. Conceiving this not adequate, they de- Hall ;R. S. Baker, Magdalene College ;C. Riley, St. mended 45.. per day, and refused less. John's College ; J. P. Haines, Trinity College ; H. DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—At a meeting at Cork, Father James, King's College; W. D. Snell, Downing College; Mathew gave it as his opinion, that the distress would not E. M. D. Payne, Emanuel College. continue as long as might have been anticipated ; and far- CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11 - -HORSE RACING.—The Vice tiler, said that the early potatoes were coming up luxuri- Chancellor has just called the attention of all persons antly, without any apparent failure, and that the wheat in state pupillari to the following order, which was is crop was also very fine. sued in the April Term of the year 1840:—•' Whereas The Leinter Express contains an appalling account of many students have of late been engaged in riding races, an atrocious conspiracy to murder a farmer, named Mur- and otherwise promoting racing in the neighbourhood of tha Murray. Revelations have been made, tending to the University ! We, the Vice-Chancellor and heads of implicate a woman, who is stated to have hired the men Colleges, hereby order and decree, that, if any person in to perpetrate the assassination, who supplied them with Oulu pupillari be hereafter found guilty of either of the arms, and who concocted an alibi. She has been iden- offences above described, he shall be liable to the punish tified by a gunmakcr it, Carlow, as ha v i ng purchased from ment of a rustication or expulsion, as the case shall ap him a pistol; and £6 was to have been given for the pear to the Vice-Chancellor and heads of Colleges to id o b:r J tannin ~ IRE LAND. the Rev. Daniel Freeman, junior curate to the parish priest of Aghada, was ridir:g along the Marsh road, about a mile from the village of Aghada, he was thrown from the mare he rode, and killed. The unfortunate gentleman was dead nearly two hours before he was discovered. The mare was standing near the corpse. She wasaskitti animal, and deceased was frequently advised to be cautio of her.—Cork Constitution. 1 UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. erectic a Dowager ha [en me Monday, in considerable force—young Dan presiding, That dullness and dearth of interest characterised the proceedings will be sufficiently evident, when we announce that the principal speaker was Captain Broderick. The VOIMIT freintiapre did nnf LI of St. Simon's Chow bated £lO towards the ted or The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland will meet on the 21st inst. The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of Christ Chnrpt, , .Esq., patron. was held at Leicester, last s to perseve hurch Ksiociation which Was then exhibited on behalf of 'the martyred O'Brien, seemed to have altogether evaporated. Rent for the week, £154 ss. 4d. . •..,.• ara, V.J2I UUU Luu Rev. J. Burnet uttered the most vehement protestations in their endeavours to obtain a separation of church LAW . INTELLIGENCE. Amongst the gentlemen called to the bar a few days since by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn was Charles Cardwell, Esq., of this town. _ Mr. Watson stated in the House of Commons, on Thursday night, that, though Lord Denman's salary is £lO,OOO a year, be has never taken more than £B,OOO. A movement is now being made, at the suggestion of Lord Denman, to secure the proper payment to petit jurors, in civil cases, for their loss of time. POWERS OF THE "COMMISSIONERS" UNDER THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL .—Take Lord Cottenham's objection to their power of selling, mortgaging, and ex changing lands. What a means of unlimited jobbing would not this be in the hands of a corrupt or careless Commis sioner! . The power of diverting trust property from its original purposes, without regard to the will of the founder, is even still more alarming. Are the only vested rights in the empire to be the rights of private proprietors? Are the Government or their nominees to alienate, because they may consider a trust has been mismanaged, the ves ted interests which a testator has created? Who will de clare that a man shall not found a charity to be employed in any way •he thinks best, so long as the foundation is consistent with the law and with public morality? Trus tees, constituted guardians of public funds, have vested rights as sacred as those of any private land-owner. How, then, can your Lordships admit in such cases this princi ple of alienation ? On what principle can you draw a dis tinction between private estates held by individuals for family purposes? The nomination of trustees is equally a private right. The original trustees of a charitable estate were nominated by the testator as the parties in whom be reposed his confidence. He directed thesurvivors of them to nominate their successors; and thus, in perpetuity, an administrative body representing the original donor has always been supplied. Why should the testator'a direc tion be departed from ? What good purpose would it answer? What benefit can be expected to result from it? In the eases of chartered corporations, they can, and in fact always do, furnish an administrative body for the e x ecution of the trusts ; in the cases of municipal corpora tions, the law has already prescribed the mode in which vacancies shall be filled up. To what good purpose, then, this arbitrary infringement of a testator's direction, by a body of Commissioners whose purposed task is already performed without •their interference? Surely when the bequeathers of charities thought of the poor and needy, they never thought of Lord Lyndhurst's Commissioners Mr. Norris's prize for the best prose essay on a sacred subject, has been adjudged to J o h n Herbert Jones. R. A._ :ollege, Cambridge. Subject : Huth God cast e ? God forbid.--Rom. xi, i.—[Mr. Jones Rev. John Jones, of St. Andrew's, in this. is a son of the TheVen. and Rev. Wm Le Canons of tt ;dral, v ant by le death of the li By this gns the living of Howick, he Bishop of the Dioc e se. ..... Rev. Thos ppointment, Mr. Raymond resi )sal of t (iisborne which is now at the d ther with two beautiful books, a damaskc munion Table), a most cha of silver gilt plate accomphi ins for the Com- iste and valuable entire service nied by a hundred pound note rtory on ter Sund towards dell Stre e endowment of the Free Church in EL- e 7 , e o ti n ng ‘i o ,e f e t n h e e s ß da ri v tish and quis of Chokm Ind other iresses were deliv ,he Bishop of Ci utta, Lord As )ndeley, .s. The entire receipts of the year amount to £101,305 155., and the expenditure to £105,851 2s. 9d. The issues of bibles have amounted to 1,441,01; from the depository at home, 1,104,787; f r o m d ep ot s a b roa d , 336,864; being 525,846 copies more than the preceding year. BARNES v. SHORE.—The Queen's Bench decided last week, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Shore, that a clergy- man cannot ..buudrge mn3seit from the restraints, nor is he merely by that act stripped of the privileges of his order. The pro ceedings on which that judgment was given have been cal culated and intended to rid Mr. Shore of certain vows which he once solemnly took, and has since very deliber 'tely broken, to r-' ase -( f -- vtions wt Jim from obliga itch it is his practice to violate, and to deprive him of a character which he owns he cannot conscientiously sustain. A NOBLE OFFERING.—The Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, at the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, referred with satisfaction to the efforts which had been made by his congregation in aid of a fund to erect a new church in that district to be dedicated to St. Barnabas. The rev. gentleman said that on the previous Sunday he had an nounced that the money given at the offertory that day would.be applied to the object alluded to, and he had the pleature to announce that £2,300 had been subscribed for that pious purpose, and that during the week he had re ceived various additional sums, amounting to £9OO. — London Paper. . - FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. —This ancient festival, coeval with the Restoration, was cele brated on Thursday, as usual, at St. l'aul's Cathedral. The sermon was preached by the Dean of Lincoln. Be sides the dignitaries of the Church, Prince George of Cambridge was present. In the evening a large number of the friends of the Church dined at the Merchant Tailors' Hall. Amongst the company were—the Arch bishops of Canterbury and Armagh, the Marquis of Westminster, the Bishops of London, Ripon, Chester, Chichester, Oxford, Bangor, Llandaff, Calcutta, and Jamaica ; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr Justice Erle, Lord Bolton, the Lord Mayor, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir George Cerro', Sheriffs Laurie and Chapman, the Chamberlain, Aldermen Marshall, Challis, Farebrother.Thompson, Moore, Gibbs, Hughes, &c. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, and proposed as the first toasts, " the Church and Queen," " her Majesty the Queen Dowager;" " the Crown Prince of Hanover, Royal Steward of the year." The Rev. Dr. Jeif returned thanks for his royal highness, and said that he could declare that he had never known his royal high ness to do anything unworthy of his station as a Prince or a Christian gentleman. The Lord Mayor then gave " Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family." CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—The annual meet ing was held on Tuesday. Lord Ashley was in the chair, and the numerous assembly was addressed by the Bishops of Winchester, Llandaff, Chester, and Norwich, Mr. .1 , Labouchere, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Revs. Hugh Slowelb Fielding Ould, W. P o ll oc k, &c. Lord' Sandon wrote a note, regretting he could not attend, for, added his lord ship, " there is no society in England that does more good." The Bishops of Oxford and Calcutta, and the' Earl of Effingham, have accepted the office of vice patrons. The income of the society last year was £22,50 5, being an increase of £2,079 over the preceding year, and £677 over any former year. The society's recent appeals have met with the liberal response of £2,079, and it now provides 272 incumbents with the means of supporting 266 curates, and 57 lay assistants, at an annual c h ar ge of £25,418, when all the grants shall be in operation :—and a population of 2,012.643 thereby have conferred on then , the blessings attendant on so many additional faithful la° bourers of Christ. The grants of the society have already : led to the erection or opening of 103 churches and 111 rooms licensed for public worship; and, in the parisbet or districts now aided by this institution, 408- additional services on the• Lord's-day, 142 on week-days, and 2 6 8 school-room or cottage lectures are regularly maintained besides which there has been secured fully double the amount of pastoral visitation, and superintendence of th e various parochial sc h oo l s , an d management of benevo len" , and religious local societies. Multitudes of instances wer e detailed by the sp ea k ers , i n w hi c h the society conferr the very greatest blessings on neglected districts. With reference to the constitution of th e soc i ety t h e Bishop f Winchester said, " My Lord, I feel a peculiar satistactio. n in being permitted t o a tt en d your L or d s hi p ' s biddi ng 0 ; 1s _ day, because I d eem it to b e my espec i al duty not t o F . ; . wanting upon any occ as i on , when this society sumai° 7 '/- me to attend its. Meetings, to perform the twofold duty. . 0 , expressing my gratitude and m y con fid ence i n t h e Socie o t_Y, I am happy to sa y, th a t I have. never been one of thho'fi-, who have looked u p on th e sociely with any other eye , that of unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God, for 13 ,, 0 ing raised up f r i en d s to assist the clergy in duties far 1 4,, onerous for them, a n d w h o h ave i n carrying out t he sign§ of the society, expended its funds in a manner csiof culated to draw forth the sympathy and thanksgiving o We e ' every friend of our Ch urc h. M y L ord, I have never heed able to see anythi ng i n the principles or in the obje t " , 6 this Society which ought not to be dear to a churchm a n n o heart.. And I should bem os t ungra t e f u li n d ee d , if were to add, that it s con d uct h as b een as excellentas its prilsie. l l 1 have been pure. C onnec t e d as I am with many societi'_%, confess, that th ere i s none i n w hi c h I repose greaterccio 7'i e • deuce than th a t w hi c h h as assem b led us this day . " And Bishop of Ll an d a ff a dd e d , " N oth i ng gave him gr•eare pain than th e comp l a i nts w hi c h were current some)0001• ago against th e agen t s w h o b a d b een selected by th!,, 0 019 mittee. But accordi ng t o hi s j u d gment, they 1317,0 t performed a sacred offic e i n ma ki ng t h at se l ec tion, • f ee the trustees of a fund, it was their bounden duty ▪ et that the funds we r e not m i sapp li e d , b ut p l ace d in a P d 'b e elv channel for carrying on the work for which they 11 1 ic h 11 1) granted. He had never known an instance in R' ciatit 9 Improper inquisition had been exercised, or any PT OO or shown— any dispositi on t o f avour a pecu li ar elv" section of the Church, or any encouragemen to t u ;bich elusive teaching of certain doctrines—a fault to fi ats, zealous people w ere somet i mes liable. Fromtbese he be-' these defects in the administration of theirfunds, lieved the Society to be entirely free." Galignani's --- 111essenger announces unquesit on au N th . o lp ri o ty L , E " ON tha ri t o h N e A r p N A l ß aj T e E s . t_y HQiuseefnate V i ctor ian w ill not 13° visit Pari s d ur i ng the present year. re' rearkable in s t ance o f t h e instability of hu lu m rn an isi g 'erea ' t o n t e e sls l ' ' and there i s no d ou b t t h at hi s d i s lik e to m edicine reu"onie' caused his early di sso l u ti on ; f or ra ther than take da nd simple remedy he allowed disease to ghin the asce,Asus over his constitution, and death was the result. A'ato of is that persons cannot be too watchful of tbeir,:m c ient health, and being always provided with a safe anu'r„ . the medicine, such as Frampton's Pill of itealth--.7:l,bre. two greatest blessings of this world, health an d 1 " ng notices have been farmers not t charge more than LI a barrel for potatoes, on pain of death. A local paper says, "Notices were posted at all the Roman Catholic chapels on Sund a y, ca lli ng on the blood -- suckers,' who are living in luxury, regardless of their wants." THE FIRING AT SIR DAVID Rocu ;t that Mr. C. Pow( ouse of Commons, that the gentleman who accompa ed Sir David Roche at the time, had informed hi m th a t • D. Lyons, the gentleman in question, who maintains that what be stated was, that, from the slanting direction in which the gun was levelled at the carriage, he was induced to think that the object of the person who fired the shot was to intimidate and not to kill ; but totally denies hav ing stated that no shots had been fired at Sir D. Roche. CURIOUS PHENOMENON —The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Loughbrickland, county of Down, have recently observed a very singular phenomenon in the lake, the water of which had, for three days, assumed a blood-red colour, returning afterwards to its original hue. During the period of this change of colour, a - whirlpool was remarked in the centre of the lake, and the commotion may haie caused the suspension of sedimentary reddish earth, thus giving the blood-red hue to the water. The curiosity of the scientific and the wonder of the sunprsti_ tious have been alike aroused by the circumstance, but as yet there has been no satisfactory attempt either to des cribe the phenomenon, or to account for it. —Belfast News Letter. CHARGE AGAINST A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE.— An important investigation commenced in Dublin Castle, on Monday, under a commission from the Lord Lieute nant, granted at the instance of Sir Francis Hopkins, who charges Arthur French, Esq., the magistrate who took down his deposition after the recent attempt upon his life, with having purposely omitted from that deposition the name of Bryan Seery, the man by whom he was fired at: Sir Francis States, that previous to the committal of B. Seery, two informations were taken on the same day by Mr. French, the first at eleven o'clock, a.m., the second at five o'clock, p.m. In the first information the name of Seery was omitted ; in the second information it was in serted. He had stated on oath on trial, that he had men tioned the name of Seery at the time the first information was taken. Mr. French, the stipendiary magistrate, who took those informations,swore that he had not mentioned any name. Sir Francis also charges Mr. French with having been some time previously aware that Bryan Seery . was to shoot at him. Mr. French appears to have acted with good faith, and says he omitted the name, as Sir Francis did not seem as if he could confidently identify his assailant. - The decision of the gentleman to whom the matter is referred is deferred. THE REPEAL AGITATION - (?) The whole Repeal press are at loggerheads respecting the conduct of Mr. Smith O'Brien. The organs of " Old Ireland," from the Pilot downwards, are palpably chuckling at the hon. member's dead fix;- while the handful of genuine native Repealers, represented-in the person of " Young Ire land," now, more than ever, regard Mr. O'Brien es the fit and proper leader of the people —even to the setting aside of the reigning dynasty—and the man selected to achieve the apochryphal blessing of legislative indepen dence. In the mean time, the long quiescence of Mr. O'Connell, and the almost total subsidence of the agita tion, are beginning to excite suspicion, which vents it self in occasional undergrowls, such as the following : " The country expects an onward movement for the national cause. 'Tis idle to deny that a continuous pro gress in the snail-like ineffectual course we have pursued these months past will produce apathy and coldness, if not indifference and despair, in the Irish heart. The pro mises made in 1843 must be in some degree fulfilled. 'We placed great reliance on the 'B2 Club. It has actually done nothing -for Ireland. In that body, we are free to say, is to be found the flower of the Irish Repeal party, and yet they have remained quiescent since its formation. W' have to except a pageant or two, and a few dinners." Such are the opinions of the Limerick Examiner, a clever, honest, but withal simple-minded organ of bond fide Repeal and no compromise. RAISING THE WIND.—A few days since a person, genteelly dreised, was observed standing at the window of a respectable jeweller of Dublin, as if admiring the rich works displayed for sale inside. He had an umbrella placed carelessly under' one arm, and, while he was gaz ing, another individual who was passing, apparently prompted by a lave of mischief, contrived adroitly to thrust the umbrella through the glass, and escape, while the unfortunate-gentleman stood on the spot stupified with astonishment. A shopman rushed out, and demanded why he had broken the window; he denied that he had done it, but appearances were against him, and he was obliged to enter the shop to settle the affair.- The pro prietor of the establishment demanded payment for the damage done, and when the other talked of his complete innocence, threatened to send for the police. The pane of glass was strong plate, and the cost 40s. "It is enor mous," said the unfortunate. " I paid it, and you must," replied the jeweller. " Here is 2s. 6d," said the stranger. Send for a constable !" indignantly ejaculated the man of metal. He was inexorable ; and the other at length submitted, complaining bitterly, but observing justly that a gentleman couldn't go to a police-office for a trifle. He took out three £2O bank-notes, gave one of them to the pacified jeweller, received £lB 10s.• sterling as his balance, and retired. A friend dropped into the shop shortly after —the occurrence was mentioned—the note was shown as a corroborating proof ; it was a forgery !—Dublin Register. THE Por.vros MIRAGE. —We have now come to the middle of May—the predicted acme of famine and pesti lence—and all the artifices of the minister and his agents are not able, says the Dublin Mail, to keep up the baro meter of supply to anything like an indication of scarcity. On the contrary,- the mercury in the tube having reached its maximum some three weeks ago, without creating any alarm, has since continued to subside and settle dnwn to a determined position . of plenty—and all that is now want ing to the repose and comfort of the people seems to be an efficient method of diffusing and equalising the sup plies, not by interfering with the markets, but by giving sufficient employment to labour. Local, failures of the potato crop have been balanced by general superabun dance; and in all other respects, the produce of the year, far exceeded the average, and husbanded with more than usual prudence, leaves: no room, under the Divine bles sing, for doubt or despondence. The London Times of Saturday says, " The reports f rom a l most every quarter are favourable." The Clonmel Constitution of Thursday says, that the new potato crop looks healthy, and gives promise of an abundant return to the farmer. The market of that town was well stocked on Tuesday, and prices lower than the previous week. The Kerry Post, pub lished at Tralee, says, the quantity of potatoes exhibited at the last market was very large, quite equal to that of any preceding yea r a t t hi s period.' The Sligo Journal says.—" This town presents weekly an animating scene— A superabundance is exhibited every Saturday. On last market day there were 800 sacks ; 6480 pecks of choice sound potatoes were disposed of at from Is. to Is. sd. per peck of four stone; diseased ones are rapidly diminishing in quantity, few being brought in. The demand was slack for oatmeal, of which there were three or four tons, one half of it being left unpurchased on Saturday and the two previous market days ; i 4 sold from 15s. to 15s. 6d. a hun dred. From the counties of Down, Armagh, Kilkenny, Carlow, and Leitrim, there are to-day accounts quite as favourable. In Clare and Limerick the want of potatoes is supplied by Indian meal, and there is full employment for the people.