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illiptsriat ijaUlialliCllt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MGNDAY. Lord DENMAN, in moving the second reading of the Protection to Life (Ireland) Bill. stated his objections to several 6f its clauses. His lordship was of opinion that a murder, or an attempt to murder, afforded no pretext for thevraclamation authorized by the Government bill; and that the-treatment it was supposed to inflict on persons who might refuse to keep within theii , own doors, after a certiin hour, was much too stringentl , that it ought to be a sine qua non. that more than one magistrate should be present, in order to warrant the committal of an offender, and that transportation for 15, or se.en years, was too se vere a.penolty for a conviction under the law. unless for a repetition, for a 2nd and 3rd time, of the offence. With regard to .a clause which empowered a change Of the venue. he thought it nught to be adopted, and that a distinct enactment for the prevention of the intimidation of wit nesses ought to be framed. The bill svai read a second time, Lord St. Germains stating that he would give every attention to the sugges tiotwof the Lord Chief Justice. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. Sir RcrnEat•r PEEL stated that it was intended to reduce the duties on rice, Indian corn, and buck wheat to one nearly nominal from the period of oas,ing the act ; but as regarded Indian cern and buck wheat, it Has intended to admit them duty free, for a limited period, from the dty when the report of the committee should be agreed to, taking securities for the payment of the duty should the bill not ultimately be sanctioned by parliament. The house then resolved into committee on the corn importation resolutions, and after some conversation it was a;recd••that in the committee all further opposition to the measure of the government should be withdrawn, and that all •the objections on controverted points, such as brandy and silk, should be reserved until the report should be brought up. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEcoAY Mr. Ni : lLLlAll3moved. pursuant to notice, for an ad dress forinepriry to be made into the state of education in the principality of Wales, especially into the means afforded to tlr labouring classes of etecoiring a knowledge of the English language. He adverted to the impoverished state of the clergy, which rendered it impossible Clr them to remedy the defect, owing to the extraordinary va:mner in which the church property of Wales had been despoiled by Henry V 111.., Edoard VI., and Queen Elisabeth. He gave' several instances of verdicts recorded contrary to evidence, and mentioned the case of a prisoner, who was sentenced to death avithout understanding a syllable of the evidence given against him, or of the sentenceunder which be was condemned to die, until they were subsequently explained to him 1)7 an individual in court, whom he had asked why the judge was looking so grave and speakirq so solemnly. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said government were now en gaged in a comprehensive plan for improving the social condition of the working classes of Great Britain. He despaired of establishidg a general system of education, but hoped to establish a separate scheme of education for all sects of Christens among the labouring classes in Wales. The moti , n was withdrawn. Mr. DUNCOMBe moved an address to the Queen to consider the petitions of the people in favour of Frost, Williams, and Jones. The motion was negatived by a ma jority of 166 to 31. NEWbRGATO obtained the appointment of a select eomrrdttee to inquire into alleged fraudulent and v exatious objections and claims afforded by the present system of registration of county and borough votes. 1847 ; .bit power would be given to the Lord Lieutenant . to suspend its operation at any time in those districts in which the fever would be reported to have ceased. Mr. WAKIXIS reminded the house that Ireland was in want of food rather than of physic, and that a timely supply of the one might obviate any necessity for the other. Mr. W. SMITE! O'BRIEN suggested the propriety of taxing the absentee lauded proprietors of Ireland, and said that Ireland only asked for a proper application of her own resources. If she obtained that she would scorn the generosity of England. Sir R. PEisL regretted that those hon. members from Ireland who had only appeared in the house within the last few evenings, and during whose absence several mea sures had been adopted with the sole view of conferring benefits on their country, should now, when they did at length make their appearance, taunt them as if they hail been negligent, and declare that the generosity of England was scorned by the people of Ireland. A desultory debate ensued, in the course of which Mr. J. O'CoNN aw. and other Irish gentlemen bore testimony to the feelings of sympathy apparent in the measures hitherto adopted towards Ireland during the present session. Mr. SMITII O'BnIEN took occasion to qualify his ob servations. and to say that his meaning was that Ireland was drained of four or five millions annually by absentee proprietors, and they could not view a sum of £lOO,OOO voted for their relief as any equivalent to this. Ultimately leave was given to bring in the bill. Sir J. GRAHAM then obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law of settlement in England. On the motion for bringing up the report on the Cus toms resolutions, Mr. SPOONER moved as an amendment that the report be received that .e.ay six months. The hon. gentleman strongly advocated the principle of protection, and attri buted the greater portion of the evils of the country to the Currency Bill of nl9. Sir G. CLERK Was surprised that in the present uncer tain state of the commercial and mercantile feeling of the country, which was l•cc asi otiing so much mischief, the hon. member should seek to prolong that uncertainty by moving its continuance for at least six months longer. After some observations from Mr. Newdegate, Mr. SPOON ER withdrew his amendment. . . The consideration ot the duties in Lie various articles in the tariff was then proceeded with. On the proposition for the reduction of the duty on butter, Mr. GROGAN proposed as an emendrr ent, that the ar ticle be excluded altogether from the tariff'. Tois was opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir G. Clerk, and supported by Lord George Ben tinck and other hon. members. On a division, however, the amendment was defeated by a majority of 213 to 111. The article of cotton hosiery also led to considerable dis cussion ; and Sir HENRY HALFORD moved, as an amendment, its omission from the tariff. A division ensued, and the amendment was defeated by a majority of 190 to 102. • Mr. BANKES then moved the adjournment, and was supported in so doing by Mr. MILES and other hon. gentlemen. Mr. LABOUCHERE suggested that they might go on with the articles unobjected to, in order that there might be no derangement in the commercial concerns of the country by the delay of this measure. A discussion ensued, which was terminated by Sir R. PEEL declining to press the further progress of the tariff that night. He also suggested that he should propose that the tariff should be proceeded with on Mon day. provided that the corn bill, as contraeistinguished from the tariff, could be taken on Tuesday, if honourable gentlemen who had motions for that day would give it precedence. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The following 'Lilts were read a second time:—Coven try, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway ; Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junc tion Railways ; Leicester and Bedford Railway ' • Shrop shire u nion it ail ways and Canal (Shrewsbury and Staffor d Railway); Stamford and Spalding Railway. Colonel ROLLESTON presented a petition, praying the House to legislate so as to prevent the operatives in lace manufactories working more than sixteen hours a day. The Frieodiy Societies Bill' went through Committee pro forma. it having been arranged between Sir James Graham, Mr. Buncombe, and other hon. members most immediatelyzoncerned in its prcgress, that with a view to the consolidation of certain clauses the further considera tion of the bill should be postponed fot a fortnight. The Salmon Fisheries Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on the 6th of May. Mr. B ESCOTT moved the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. A measure of a similar nature had already been introduced into the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor; the provisions of his lordship's bill, however. did not entirely correspond with the provisions of the before the House ; but as the character of the two were identical, it might be preferable to consolidate them, and form out of them one measure, lie detailed, at some length, the grievances still suffered by persons professing the Roman Catholic faith within the United Kingdom; such, for instance, as inability to practise in the ecclesiastical courts, or to teach, unless upon each taking an cat'', wi t was repulsive to many consciention; individuals. These inconveniences were acutely felt by numbers upon whom they pressed, and it was due to the Roman Catholic population, no less than to the interests of the Established Church, to remit at once this unjust and disgraceful stigma. Sir R. INGLIS was anxious to return toile practice of the Augustan age in England in reference to religious natters. That practice was whory irreconci!eable with the contents of the bill before the house, which appeared to be based upon the legislation of 1829, and succeeding years, the dark ages, as they might he called, in this country. No practical grievance had been substantiated by Mr. Escott ; for as for what he had stated abcut the obstructions in the way of Roman Catholics teaching, they were notoriously unreal, as any person might have a li ce nce granted upon application to the bishop of his di ocese. Our colonial legislation might be regulated in re ligious matters by the doctrines of the Established Church, and then no valid complaint could be made, be cause the Roman Catholic BisLo of Malta was precluded taking his seat in the Legislative Council of that Island by the imposition of a religious test. The present mea sure would in effect repeal the Act of Supremacy, as well as the law for the expulsion of the Jesuits, and would af ford encouragement to various public processions adopted in the ceremonial of the Rorni4h Church. He moved that the bill be read that day six months. Lord MORPETH referred to various provisions in the existing law which the Bill before the House would annul as practically inoperative, though not on that account un deserving legislative notice. The statute against preach ing, for instance, was notoriously ioeffective, the obno xious doctrines being promulgated without let or hindrance in all ,parts of the land. Still that enactment, while it re mained upon the statute•book, might be appl'ed to a ma licious purpose, and so of others of a like kind. Sir R. Inglis had anticipated, from the passing of this measure, the prevalence of various public ceremonies, such as the Procession of Co-pus Christi, and the Procession of the Host. But what was the fact in America, where the ut most toleration was afforded ? There these ceremonies were never known. So, likewise, be believed the threa tened inundation of the Jesuits would he found to be a mere chimera when this measure became law. He urged upon the House to abolish all such restrictions as those against which this Bill was directed ; and as England was the asylum of political refugees, F o let it be also the haven for persons of every variety of religious belief. Mr. FINCH would subscribe to that part of the bill which repealed the law against Roman Catholics exercising the office of teachers; but to other portions there were grave objections. He feared, for instance, the danger that young and indiscreet persons might be prematurely conmmitted to religious vows from which they would have no subsequent means of escape. There was also great in convenience to be apprehended from the license which would be afforded to Roman Catholic bishops, to assume the titles of prelates of the Established Church. He ex pressed himself particularly solicitous, respecting the zeal of the Sisters of Mercy. He should oppose the bill. Mr. CoLconouisr, though approving of that portion of the bill which related to the means of Roman. Catholic education, yet disapproving of other parts of a more im portant character, should give the bill his opposition. He reprobated the principle of persecution, and would not recognise its aid in support of the Established Church. But he feared so much the evils which would result from any recognition of the Pope's authority in temporal mat ters, that he would never consent to repeal the Act of Elizabeth, which vindicated the sovereign's right in these dominions. He also dreaded the influence of the Jesuits, and in conseq':ence of that dread, would have all legal means enforced tor restraining their power. Believing the present measure would interfere with their safeguards, be intended to gise the second reading his opposition. Oit a division the second reading of the bill was carried by a majority of 66 to 43. _ FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. UNITED STATES. The news which came to hand on Thursday by the Ro chester, Captain Britton, which sailed from New York on the 21st, is more pacific than the previous accounts. Sir Robert Peel's financial scheme had arrived out by the Cambria. The commercial class's were highly elated by it. and it had gone far to allay the war fever about Oregon. Most of the papers express their gratification at its " li beral and comprehensive features." Li the Senate the chairman of the committee on foreign relations had introduced the joint resolution from the House of Representatives, abrogating the convention of 1827, but it was very doubtful, even before the arrival of the Cambria, whether these res-dutiorss would pass, On the 19th ult. the question was further adjourned to the 23d. A dreadful snow storm and gale had swept along the American coast, which destroyed a great number of ves. sels, and upwards of sixty lives. The amount of property sacrificed was likely to exceed a million of dollars. We have the following rich scene in the reports of the senatorial proceedings of the state of New York. It is truly characteristic. It is a correct report : " Mr. Clark.—Yon dodged on the Convention Bill. " Mr. Young.—You lie, sir. " Mr. Clark.—You owned stock in thirteen banks. " Mr. Young.—You lie, sir. " Mr. Clark.—Yuu have a princely fortune from the country. " Mr. Young (with bis foot on the desk).—You lie — you lie—you he, you old hypocrite. " All the Senatcra.—Hooray hit him again, Buck, he hain't got no friends." By the Cambria steam-ship, which arrived here on Sa turday, we have received New York papers to the Ist instant, and the news, though unimportant, is of a more peaceful nature. The discussion in the senate on the question of notice as to the Oregon territory, was resumed on the 24th ult., and carried on for several days. Two resolutions had been brought forward by Mr. Colquitt, and it is said they met the views of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Crittenden, and others of both parties. They were to the effect, " that the notice be given at the cloze of the present session of con gress, unless the president, in his discretion, consider it expedient to defer it ; and that it was earnestly des'red that the long standing controversy be speedily settled by negotiation and compromise, in order to preserve the friendly relations of the two countries." After several dis cussions, the senate adjourned to the 2d March, without coming to any decision, but the sveeches, generally speak ing, are of a pacific character. The I'Vere York Herald, of the 28,h February, states, upon the authority of its Washington correspondent, that, on the 25th, Mr. Pa kenham bad submitted the ultimatum of our Govern ment, in reference to Oregon, to Mr. Buchanan, and that the Cabinet at Washington met the same evening and rejected it. Considerable doubt, however', is expressed in Liverpool as to the correctness of the Herald's cor respondent. The Washington correspondent of the New York Advertiser says that a rumour was cur rent at the former town, that " ivlr. Crampton brought out instructions to Mr. Parkenbam to re-open negociations by an offer of the 49th parallel, the whole of Vancouver's Island, and the navigation of the Columbia for twenty ye Ira. It is said that Mr. Polk will not take the responsibility of accepting the offer, but will submit it to the senr.te for advice." The news of the Government commercial scheme bad been received out at Canada, and had caused a great sen sation. "mingled with no little consternation and alarm." The Board of Montreal had determined to memorialize the home Government to admit Canadian corn and flour duty free, without a certificate of origin, and other ad vantages. HOUSE OF COMM ONS.—FRIDAY. The following hills were read a second time:—Wear Dock Railway ; Bath Waterworks ; Royal Asylum of St. Anne's Society ; Trent Valley Railway (Alrewas Branch ); London and South. Western Railway Acts (Amendment); Manchester and Birmingham Continua tion and Welsh Junction Railway ; Liverpool and Pres ton and Manchester and Southport Railway; Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway ; Willingham Inclosure and Drainage; Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction Railway ; Norfolk Railway Extension (Stowmarket,Wy- Inondbam, and Attleborough Branch) ; Manchester and Leeds Railway Extensions ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor chester Railway ; Birmingham Cemetery ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, and North Wales Mine ral Railway Amalgamation, North Staffordshire Railway (Pottery Line); Dundee and Arbroath Railway Exten sions (by order); Southport Improvement (by order.) Sir J. GRAHAM took an opportunity of stating to the house that he bad yesterday received a communication from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, respecting the ex tent of the failure of the potato crop, and consequent dis tress and fever in that country, which rendered it impe rative upon him to move at once for leave . to bring in a bill to make temporary provision for destitute persons la bouring under fever in Ireland. He regretted to say that not only in all the provinces, but almost in every county in Ireland, this melancholy state of things prevailed ; and it therefore became necessary to make temporary provision tor the difficulty. By the bill which he was about to move, power would he given t o the Lord Lieu tenant to establish a board of h ea lth i n D u bli n , cons i s ting of not more than five commissioners, who were already in the public service, and to whom, therefore, no additional salaries would be paid. To these a medical officer would be added, and on the report of this board the Lord Lieu tenant would have power to appoint a medic a l o ffi cer t o each union at the public expense. He would also be given power, on the report of the medical officer of any union, to direct the building of temporary fever hospitals, or taking houses suitable for the purpose, at the exiense of the union ; and also to have provided the necessary mAlieal assistance and attendants, &c. The bill would be of temporary duration, being to exp i ire n September, The Paris papers of Monday are almost exclusively ne copied with the insurrection in Poland. Their contents, corroborated by private letters, show that this movement .Of despair was virtually at an end. The insurgents could not stand against the combined troops sent to oppose them ; and we fear these unfortunate men will ere long fall victims to their patriotic enthusiasm. Letters reach ing Paris from Warsaw on Monday state that the most perfect tranquility reigned there, aid that the Russian authorities had no fear of an outbreak in that city. CIIARITAALE BEQUESTS.—Feb. I.—Among °therein ritable bequests made by the town council, Jonas Frankel, a Jewish philanthropist, who died on the 27th ultimo, and left upwards of a million and a half dols. about £230,050), are 15,000 - dollars to the Jewish Hospital and Orphan As ylum erected by the Brothers Frankel, 25 ; 000 dollars to be applied by the authorities to the erection of a chari table institution for his Christian brethren, 150 dollars to every charity existing in the town, besides many legacies of 10,000 dollars each to the. Jewish and Christian friends of the deceased —Allegemeisze Zeitung des.ludenthurns. NEW ZEALAND.—Letters from Wellington. in New Zealand, to the 12th September last, mention the warlike condition of that colony, but with strong hopes that the demonstrations of military force on the part of the settlers will prove an effectual check upon the natives. The in habitants of Wellington are anxious to live on amicable terms with the New Zealanders, bat find it necessary to stand prepared for hostilities if provoked. They have formed a body of militia, horse and foot, and have re views weekly. Governor Fitzroy appears to be very un popular, and is charged with great want of tact in the ex ercise of his functions. The dissatisfaction felt by the Duke of Wellington and the other heads of the army at Sir John Littler's report of the retreat of the 62d Regiment in front of the bat teries of Ferozeshah, is likely to accelerate the long-ru moured amalgamation of the British and East Indian ar mies. It is thought that the jealousy between the two services is injurious, and would be diminished by placing the officers both of the Queen's troops and the Company's entirely. under the same control. The intervention of the Company, although nearly nominal, is still considered calculated to separate the two services more than is de sirable. SHIPWRECK.—On the 28th ult., a dreadful shipwreck occurred at the Bugio lighthouse, on the bar of Lisbon. A French brig, laden with salt, sailed out of the river, in defiance, we a.-e assured, of the advice of the pilot, itethe teeth of a stiff westerly breeze, and of a heavy surf lashing the bar. The captain is said to have been too daring, and notwithstanding all the exertions of the pilot and crew, the brig struck on the sandbank under the lighthouse, and was dashed to pieces. Unfortunately the very nature of her cargo immediately waterlogged her. The pilot and six of the crew were lost ; the captain, a seaman, and two boys saved. THE AMERICAN ARMY.—The standing army of the United States consists of one regiment of dragoons, one regiment of riflemen, four companies of artillery, and eight regiments of infantry. The whole number of troops now in the service is 9,847, exclusive of 781 commissioned officers. An act of Congress of 1842 reduced the rank and file of the army to 3.920 men ; this reduction is now proceeding, and when it is completed the standing army will consist of 7,590 non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers. and privates. if the standing army, however, is not overwhelming, the deficiency is made up by the militia. The Army Register for 1843 contains the appal ling announcement, that this multitudinous host is com manded by 627 generals, 2,670 gen.-ral staff officers, 13,813 field officers, 44,938 company officers, being in all C 2,205 officers; nor are these numbers at all excessive, when we learn that the forces under their command con sist of 1,385,645 men I PRIESTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES.—A trial took place at the last assizes of the Herault which created great sen sation. The following are the circumstances of the case, as stated in the indictment. Emilie Vidal, the daughter of a man of large property at St. Pons, was married to Corbiere, a physician, and in due time had a cittld, of which she became so fond as to neglect all her other defies. To divert her mind into the right channel, she was placed particularly under the direction of M. Dousset, the cure of the village of Felines d'Hantpool, near St. Pons, in which the Corbieres lived, with the hope of exciting in her the religious sentiments in which she was deficient. Soon afterwards the child died, and the priest took the opportunity for turning the affections, or rather the pas sions, of the mother towards himself, and ultimately suc ceeded in seducing her. Availing himself of the influence he had thus acquired over her, he got her to sign notes of hand in his favour, and at last to make a will, leaving him a large part of her fortune, over which she had the con trol. under the pretence of saying perpetual masses for her soul. The husband was at last made acquainted with these infamous proceedings, and went to the house of the priest to reproach him with them. During the altercation which ensued, Dousset made an attempt to stab M. Cor bierre with a knife, but he escaped unhurt out of the house. As he was going away, the enraged priest took up a gun and fired at him. Again he escaped, the charge having only touched his coat. Another violent scene took place between them some short time after, and the paramour struck the husband a violent blow on the breast with an iron bar. M. Corbiere was immediately seized with phthisis, which he attributed to this injury, and soon after died. Dousset then conceived the following strata gem for securing to himself the whole of Madame Cor biere's fortune. He prevailed on her to consent to marry', his own father, a very aged man, to whom her property was to be made over, and which he, the priest, would in herit on his father's death. But this plan could not be I carried into execution until the legal term of her widow hood was expired. To overcome this difficulty, and the consequences which delay niieht produce, he made the two parties sign a mutual contract of marriage, under very heavy penalties. This was on the sth of March in last year, only a month after the death of M. Corbiere. He at the same time made each of them sign a bond for a sum, left in blank, to be paid to him in case the marriage should not be solemnized. This he afterwards filled up himself with a very large penalty. These transactions, on being made known, excited suspicion that M. Corbiere, the husband, had been poisoned, and the magistrates or dered an exhumation and an autopsy of his body. No traces of poison could be discovered ; but Dousset was indicted for an attempt to murder the deceased by the blow with the iron bar, and also for endeavouring by frau dulent means to deprive M. Vidal, the brother and heir of Madame Corbiere, of the property to which he would succeed on her death. After a long hearing, in which all the facts stated were fully investigated, the jury delivered a verdict drclating the prisoner guilty of fraud, but ac quitting him of the charge of attempting murder. The Court condemned him to close confinement, with labour, for eight years, and to be exposed on the pillory in the market-place of Montpellier. When this judgment was pronounced, Dousset spoke not a word, nor did he show the slightest emotion.—Golignoni's Messenger. ALLEGED PERSECUTION OF ROMAN CATHO LICS IN RUSSIA. M. de Bontenieff, the Russian Ambassador at Rome. has presented a note to the Pope relative to the alleged depositions of the Abbess Mieczislawska. lately published by the Univera. He first gives an outline of the story : " According to this journal, the nuns in question, to the number of forty-seven, were seized in the night-time, by cossacks, forced to walk to Vitebsk (a town which it is pretended is twenty miles from Kowno), shut up in an or thodox convent, reduced to act as servants to the Russian nuns, who every Friday administered to each fifty blows of a cane. It is next declared that the Archbishop threw them into irons, condemning them to such hard labour as There are 48,981 dogs in Paris. is assigned to felons ; they were made to suffer hunger and Earl Cathcart has been gazetted as Governor-general thirst; and to render the privation of drink more severe, of Canada. they were fed on salt herrings. It is added that some The regiments selected for Indian service are the 10th were obliged to take part in the construction of the Epis- Ilussars. and the Bth, 24th, and 32nd Foot. The 18th copal palace, often remaining in the water up to their and 28th Regiments are also under orders to move from neck ; that others were employed in the mines ; that:eight China to Bengal. I had their eyes forced out ; that thirty fell victims to this A tremendous fire has taken place at Philippopoli I odious persecution, and that only three had succeeded in (Syria), and besides the destruction of about 2500 houses. I effecting their escape into Austria ; as to the superior, she numerous stores filled with rice, produced there in large had arrived in Paris. In the recitals of this woman, the quantities, were consumed. number of nuns is no longer confined to forty-seven ; they The French Government has established a school at are at once quintupled, reaching the number of two hun- Athens, for the purpose of enabling a certain number of I dred and forty, of whom one hundred and twenty are young Frenchmen to stedy the monuments which still stated to have been exiled to Siberia; out of that num render that capital ao interesting. A professor will be ber, upwards of one-half are alleged to have miserably pe- 1 sent from Paris to preside over this establishment. rished on the road, and the rest are represented as about, Attempts have been made to take advantage of the pe- in all probability, to speedily share the same fate. The culiar wording of the firman for the erection of the Eng- names of Wawrzecha, Konarska, and Pomawnocka are lish Church at Jerusalem for rendering it unavailing. those by which the three nuns who took refuge in Austria These difficulties, however, have been overcome by the t are designated. vigour end decision with which they have been met by Sir " Now," continues the Ambassador — Stratford Canning. " No convent of Basilian nuns ever existed in the town MOODKEE.—Moodkee is a large village, sixteen miles of Kowno, nor in the whole extent of the province of that from Bhooga Poorana, belonging to the Lahore Raj, con- name. The present Bishop of Lithuania, Joseph Si6MBS tains about 600 houses (many of brick) and 4,000 inhabi- zko, has never been confessor of any convent of Basilian tang, Sikhs, Mal-n:sedans, and liindoos. There are 30 nuns. No prelate in Russia, whatever may be his grade shops in the village, and 100 Lahore sepoys are on duty in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, has cossacks at his orders at the place. or disposal. Kowno happens to be net twenty miles The French Government has at last come to the deter- from Vitebsk, but double that distance, about three hun mination of reducing the exorbitant charge upon the dred verats. No Basilian nun has been transferred to a postage of letters, which has so long been complained of Russian monastery ; they have all remained in their own by the public at large. The Minister has presented his convents, except such as, having a desire to go and live projet de loi sur la reforms ?postale to the Chamber of with their relations of the Roman Catholic religion, ob- Deputies, and will, no doubt, be carried by a large majority. tained permission from the Archbishop alluded to above. We hear from Italy that a tumult took place at Pia- The means of existence of the Basilian nuns have not been cenza on the 25th February, owing to the raised price of reduced, but, on the contrary, have been augmented by corn, and that the populace went to such evcesses, that new grants, which convents of this order have of late years the Austrian troops found themselves at the necessity of been accorded in Russia. The Archbishop of Lithuania using their arms. Four persons are said to have been has never exercised any authority over the converts in Vi killed, and twelve or fifteen wounded. tebsk and Polotzk, inasmuch as they belong to another A RICH JOKE.—We are informed by the Paris papers diocese. Throughout the whole extent of the empire of that two works on galvanism were seized the other day Russia, the criminal jurisdiction and the infliction of cor by the blind and bigoted Pontifical Government at Rome. poreal punishment fall to the lot, not of the ecclesiastical The Government actually imagined, in its besotted igno- authorities, but exclusively of the secular power. Never ranee, that the works had something to do, not with gal- are women employed in Russia in works relating to build vanic electricity, but—credal .114cm:1—with Calvinism. ing, and never has the Archbishop, Joseph Siemaszko, This beats the seizure of Plato's works in Russia. erected a palace. He, for the most part, lives at St. Pe- On the 29th ult., the damming of the Sig, 12 leagues tersburg, and possesses uo house of his own. The archi from Oran, was completed in the presence of General episcopal palace at Wilna, destined to his use, was pur- Lamoriciere, his staff, and a numerous assemblage of the chased by the Crown in 1843 from Count Mostowski, natives. At six o'clock the flood-gates were let down, Marshal of the nobility of that government. No person, and a salute of ten canons was fired. By means of this in modern times, has heard of any criminal whatever, and work more than 15,000 acres of land maybe irrigated, and still less of any poor women, being forced to undergo the rendered fertile. torture of hunger and thirst; of their being wetted with RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN RUSSIA. — The Journal iced water, or plunged into it; or of having their eyes put des Debate publishes aI, tter from St. Petersburgh of the out. There are no mines in Russia. except in Siberia and 22d ult., which states that the Emperor bad commanded in the government of Olodetz. No Basilian nun could that all foreign Jews, even those of Poland, who are at have been employed in the mines, inasmuch as none were present in- Russia, should quit the Russian territory within transported from the western provinces- of the empire, three months, should they even be established and pos. where there are no mines. Previously to 1839 there were MIS landed property in the country - . In future no foreign in Russia nine convents of Basilian nuns. inhabited not Israelite is to be per►ritted to reside in Russia without a by two hundred and forty women, but by only flay-five, special permission from the Government. i of whom thirty-five belonged to the diocese of Lithuania. PRESIDENT POLK . .PIIISONFR OF WAIL" TO ENG- No one of these ever fled from the cloister, and no men- LAND.—It is a curious feet that the President of the tion has been as yet made in any report of any of those United States, the wariike and pugnacious Polk, was a i who went to live with their relations having fled to a fo• prisoner of wr in the year 1812 to the "Britishers." Mr. reign country. It is an indisputable fact that in Russia Polk was then a subaltern in the United Stews' army, there have never been Basilian nuns known by the names and was captured on the ice near Detroit, by a party of of Mieczislawska, Wawrzecha, Konarska, and Pornaw. th e 41st Regiment of Foot, tinder the command of Capt. nocka, attributed by the periodical press to these pre- Bultock. Gen. Cass, the bellicose military orator in the I tended martyrs. As to the pretended Abbess Mieczis- American lee;slature. also fell by the fortune of war into ; law aka, the Russian Government is ignorant of the bands of the English forces in the same year. ' who she is." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRE LAND. The Irish Scc!ety of. London proposes to allow the Mayor of Derry £2OO, and the Recorder £l5O annuities. Two hundred additional police are to be stationed in the county of Clare. There were 678 car loads of potatoes at market last week, of which 40 were diseased. The price —white, at ; cups, 4td. to sd. per stone.—Limerick Chronicle. No less than 11l houses were inundated by the flood at Cork. The furniture in nearly the whole of ►hem was deQtroyed. The bill for protecting life and property in Ireland, was read a third time in the House of Lords, on Friday, and passed Sir Robert Peel says that Government has already ex pended £lOO,OOO in the purchase of maize and rice, for the relief of the people of Ireland. The High Sheriff and seventeen of the Grand Jurors of Tipperary have sent petitions to both houses of parliament against the proposed reductions of the duties on corn, on the grounds that vast quantities of land will be thrown out of tillage, and that consequently an annual want of potato land will be felt by the population, producing most calamitous results. _ _ At a meeting of the Repeal Association, last Mond4v, Mr. Grattan, M.P. stated his belief that the Irish Coercitin Bill would never become law ; and if it did, the people of Ireland—the eight millions of people—had only to remain out all together, on the came night, and no police force could arrest them at all; and, even if arrested, the prisons would not hold them. Mr. Justice Torrens, in opening the commission at Omagh Assizes last week, said that, " in passing through the country he had not been struck with any appearance of starvation or misery. He had observed the potato fields ar d the haggards of the farmers, and felt extremely happy in being able to say, that there was not more than the usual, if so much. appearance of misery or destitution throughout the country." THE IRISH FAMINTE.—The following pithy letter was addressed to the editor of the Times nn Saturday last : Sir,—ln your Parliamentary report of to-day. I read. under the head of •' Famine in Ireland." some observations of Mr. O'C9 .nell's. He conchs 'es by saying—" For the Irishman was always ready to share his last potato with his poor destitute neighbour.'' Is Mr. O'Connell an Irishman ? if so, has he no potatoes. F. J Another correspondent in a subsequent paper says that it is the la:t potato that an Irishman is ready to hare, and that the agitator has not reached the last in It's stock. A Rock notice, written and signed by " Captain Moon light," was sent to Miss Maria Peacocke, of Dooneen, commanding the young lady never to be seen with her sis ter Eliza, as his company intend "to shoot her as they would a mad dog," and that they will watch her both day and night with that design. These miscreants conceive that the benevolent Mr. Peacocke would remit the entire rent of his potato ground, after considerable reductions heretofore, but for one of his daughters, and the notice concludes—" Peel is now at our side—Hurry for Repeal and Old Ireland."—Limerick Chronicle. Neith , r O'Connell nor his cliqu3—no. nor his press— can check the desire on the part of the more honest re peaters to know what has been done with their m ney subecrihed to the " rent." The Pilot (Mr. O'Connell's organ) openly avows that " the people of Ireland have never paid one chilling to the repeal fund for any other purpose but that the Liberator may have it to apply to any purpose, or to (very purpose. which to him may ap pear most conducive to the ends of the association." Such brazen assurance as this is anything but slticfactory to a large body of subscribers, and hence the continued bickerings amongst them, which are daily increasing. MURDER AND TUE MURDERER RECONCILED —We are no alarmists; but if ever the gentry of all religious denominations (especially of our own communion) had reason to be alarmed for their lives and properties, they have good cause to be so now, by the awful and horrify ing disclosures in the letter of the Rev. Roderick Ryder, in our columns this day. Mr. Ryder was lately a priest of the church of Rome, and he has brought home the crime of murder to the priests of that church. It appears that that horrible crime may be committed with impunity by the members of tbat church, when the perpetration of it (according to the theology and morality of Maynooth) is likely to advance the interests of popery. Mr. Ryder's testimony and proofs are unanswerable. Every doubt respecting Seery's criminality is removed by this letter ; it shows how the murderer and murder are reconciled at the gallows, and how the former is duped to believe that he is about to die a martyr for his holy (?) religion, and to atone for the sins of his whole life ! Oh ! popery, in the very gibbet even, you make merchandise of men's souls !—Dublin Slat: swan. REPEAL LOYALTY.—At the repeal meeting on Mon day, Mr. O. Mahony (a barrister) made a speech, in the course of which he said, that it was a most disgraceful po sition for her Majesty to have placed herself in, to have met the bloated tyrant of France, Louis Philippe, in a bathing box at Treport. Mr. Steele (a head pacificator) —1 protest against any gentleman saying that her Mejesty was ever, under any circumstances, placed in a disgrace ful position ; and 1 call for a retraction of the word " dis- . _ graceful." (Cheers.) Mr. 0. Mahony explained, and said his observation was only __intended to apply to her Ma- jesty's Ministers. Mr. Steele, again inierruptioz, said — Sir, you must withdraw the word " disgraceful " as ap- plying to the Queen in any way, directly or indirectly. (Cheers.) Mr. 0. Maboily did so, and was ratber preci pitate in winding up his speech and resuming his seat. Mr. Grattan having then made a speech, in which he gave it as his opinion that the association would tn,ke very lit tle of itself to give any account of their expenditure, the rent for the week was announced to be £283. THE CASK OF BRIAN SEERIr.—A letter from respondent, which appeared in the London Times of Sa turday, gives what we greatly suspect to be the correct version of the case of this man, concerning whose execu- tion so much hypocritical and priestly sympathy has been paraded before the public. The writer remarks that, — "The statement respecting Seery's tenancy and subsequent settlement with Sir Francis Hopkins is true, and the treatment of the latter produced in Seery's mind respect and gratitude, but Seery was a ribandenan. The members of that society take an oath of implicit obedience to the committee or superiors ; and by reason of its being volun tary, and invested, as they suppose, with a religious hue, they esteem it more sacred than any other obligation. Sir Francis Hopkins was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death for some subsequent eviction of cottiers •' and lots were drawn among the parties supposed to be ag grieved at a meeting of the society—the lot fell on Seery. His companion, the second man at the offence, was ap pointed to see that he did not flinch from his duty; his own death and violation of his oath, which he more ab• _ ..-.-.. - horred, would be the consequence of refusal ; Seery, there fore, resolved to undertake the supposed duty, but, true to the lax morality and jesuitical teaching of his pastors, re solved likewise to fire wide of the mark, which he accord ingly did. This fact will account for the declaration, oft repeated. of his innocence of the crime of which he was accused, namely, firing with intent to kill." Were the priesthood, who held up this man before the people of Ireland as an innocent martyr, aware of the miserable evasion of the truth, amounting to a falsehood, the utter ance of which was his last act before he hft the world ? THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the landed proprietors and other inhabitants of the union e'ectoral divisions of Cloyne and Aehada was held, in the Court-house at Cloyne, on Tuesday last, for the pur pose of taking measures to meet the approaching famine, by procuring employment for the people, either by the establishment of public works under the Government, or in any way that might be suggested. A great number of gentlemen were present, and the chair was taken by Mr. Roche, M.P., who, after stating the lamentable condition of the people with respect to food, noticed the several bills now before parliament proposing grants of money for safety harbours, piers, &c., which would tend to give em ployment to the people to a certain extent. The staple food of the country was rotted almost every where, and it behoved them to do all they could to alleviate the threat ened sufferings of their fellow countrymen. He recom mended that the grand juries should make presentments of works necessary to be done. Resolutions were carried to the effect:—That the attention of the Government be called to the necessity of giving relief to able-bodied per sons, by carrying on public work.; that presentments should be made ; that the Board of Works be memoria lized on the necessity of building piers, safety harbours, &c., along part of the coast ; that the same board be re quested to send a competent person to meet the gentle. men of the country, to decide on the lines of road and other works now deemed necessary, and to which those gentlemen were ready to subscribe; that another meeting be called of the Union of Middleton, to carry out the pro visions of the relief act, &e. A committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting, which then separated. OUTRAGES.—On Sunday, (alas! that this day is so often chosen for such deeds.) two men well armed, named James Flynn. uncle and nephew, with their f- , ces black ened, entered the house of a farmer named William Bro derick, residing at Kiltane, near Freemount, in this county, and ordered him to give up possession of the land he had lately taken. One of them shot the house dog, and threatened Broderick to serve him in the same way if their commands were not immediately attended to. They then went to the house of a man named John Sul livan, a caretaker on the same lands, and threatened to shoot him if he did not quit the place the following day. On leaving Broderick and Sullivan, the fellows said that they were " Captain Kilfoyle's men" (the leader of the gang that lately attached the police at Kilfinnan, county Limerick). The police were soon apprised of the outrage, and succeeded in capturing the miscreants, and they have bean committed for trial. On the same evening, (Sun day,) about the hour of six o,clock, two men with their faces blackened and well armed, one of them having four pistols strapped round his body and a gun in his band, the other with a pair of pistols and a blunderbuss, called at the house of lohn Dobbins, of Elm-mount, a work man of Patrick Galvin, between Newtown and Free mount. After calling out Dobbins they desired him to go on his knees, which he at first refused, but afterwards complied, when one of the ruffians discharged a pistol at him ; the powder burned his hair and whiskers. They were shown the way to Galvin's house, which is but a short distance frcm Dobbins', but, fortunately for Gal vin he was at the time in the cow-house, at the rere of the dwelling, tying up the cows, or in all probability his life would have been taken. Galvin's daughter told her father that those persons were in the house, when the poor man, frightened as he must have been almost to death, hid under a large quantity of straw until they left the house, which was near an hour. They could get no light to search the house, or else they would have got Galvin's gun which was laid on a table it: the room. When Dobbins thought they were gone from Galvin's he went to see was he shot, but on the way the two fellows_ met him and gave him a most unmerciful beating, itact- • with their guns, four deep cuts on his head and a severe contusion on the eye, together with several bruises on the body. After leavina him for dead, they went on their way towards Freemount, calling at one house to smoke and rest themselves, as if not in tce least dread of being apprehended. They were, however, captuted soon after.—Cork Constitution, DREADFUL MURDERS.—James Cane, a farmer, hold ing twenty-four acres of land at Gortmore, was beset on is way home by three ruffians, and so dreadfully beaten that he died on Saturday. The deceased has left a widow and six children.—On Sunday night a party of men, Con sisting of six in number, one armed with a pistol, entered the house of a man named Meara, near Cloghjordan. They 4rst knocked Meara down with a stone, inflicting a deadly wound ; they then, with savage ferocity, beat him on the head until his brains were dashed out. This foul deed was committed between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, and within a few yards of Another house; but, though the shrieks of the inmates were heard, no one came to their msistance. Meara'a family consisted of his wife, two sons, (one of them a grown man, the other a boy,) and two daughters, who were in the kitchen the time the party were beating the father. The son attempted' to get to the father's assistance, but was held by the mother. Meara is father to the man that killed Kennedy on last Patrick's Day, on his return from the fair of Burrisokane. Seven men have been arrested for this murder.—Nenagh Guardian. TII E TRIAL OF THE ORANGEMEN.—The trial of the Orangemen charged with the riots at Armagh, on the 12th of July last, has just concluded in the conviction of Ihree persons of " aiding and abetting at a manslaughter." There are two or three circumstances in the trial worthy of remark. First, no person of the Roman Catholic mob was put to the bar. As far as appears from the measures taken to vindicate the law, the riot was peculiarly national, there being but one party to the quarrel. Yet it seems from reading the report, that even the witnesses called for the prosecution, all Romanists, admitted that the Orangemen, being engaged in a procession legally and peaceably, made no hostile movement whatsoever until they were assailed by their opponents. They bad been marching in procession to some distance from Armagh, and in the evening found the Roman Catholics posted in large numbers in a certain potion of the city which they principally inhabited. The latter attacked the Orange men. putting, according to the old Romish and Celtic custom, women and " lumps of boys" (as a witness de scribed them) in front. The assault was made with stones —one man's head laid open, and others injured. The Orangemen, beinz there in the exercise of a constitutional right, now did what the police and military have been applauded by the Government for doing under similar circumstances—defended themselves. The result was the death of one individual. The police in attendance, and all others whose information the Government was likely to take upon the subject, could as easily have seen the aggression of the Roreanists as the defence of the Orangemen. Indeed the witnesses all admitted the ag gression, yet for the riot the Orangemen alone were placed upon their trial and convicted.—Britarazia. THE REORGANISED ORANGE SYSTEM IN IRELAND. The Hon. SoMerst Maxwell, brother to Lord Farn ham, has accepted the Grand Mastership of the Orange men of Cavan. in responding to the invitation to accept that high dignity, Mr. Maxwell enters at great length into his reasons, amongst which are the following, which do him the greatest honour : " In order to induce me to this step, I had no need to decide on the propriety or desirableness of the continuance of Orangeism. A stubborn fact I h-id to deal with, which supplied the premises which have led to the conclusiun to which I have come, namely—that a legal, loyal confedera tion, cf a defensive character, animated by the principles of the Reformation and of the Revolution of 1688, would continue, under the name of ORANGE, (and under none other,) to unite the Protestant yeomanry of Ulster, rche- !her the gentry of its counties joined themselves to it or not, a determination which my extensive experience ena bles me to pronounce unalterable ; and which is strength ened by late acts, both of the legislature and the executive, to which (as my object is rather to allay than to irritate your feelings) I shall not further allude. " Having thus presented to me, engraved on the mind of the Protestant North, in characters not to be erased, a deep sense of the necessity of PROTESTANT organization in days, on the one hand, of national abandonment of the principles of the Reformation and Revolution, and on the other, of increasing peril to Protestant life and property, growing out of a widely-spread and deep-rooted conspira cy, so organized and so encouraged by the disaffected, as to baffle the ingenuity of those who would apply a legisla tive remedy to it; having, I say, these data presented to me, while the delicacy of my health, and my disrelish of a contact with the stormy scenes of political life would have caused me to retreat into a chetished ptivacy, my conscience could suggest nothing to me, either as a Chris tian or a patriot, why I should shrink from my position under the standard of loyalty and Protestantism which they who revere the memory of William of Orange, have planted in that province which was the theatre of so many of his victories. Under such peculiar circumstances, to• draw back would land me not only in a retirement which I love, but in an act of cowardice, and an abandonment of duty which would ill accord with the character which your kindness has conceded to me. " 1 have said that your organization is defensive. For physical purposes it is purely eo in the theory of your system, and I now assume your leadership on the faith of its being really so in practice. To the executive govern ment, and to those who, like myself, are entrusted with the commission of the peace, and not to arty self-formed body, hoerever loyal or legal, belongs the institution and prosecution of aggressive proceedings egaitist those who wcu!d individually assail, or collectively combine against the lives or properties of others. The least intrusion, thetefore, into the province of the constituted authorities. on the part of the Orange Institution, would meet with my unqualified condemnation, and, if persevered in, my separation from ic. But her Majesty's government need fear no such movement by the Orangemen of Ireland. However they may differ from, and protest against much of their legislative proceedings, they know and reverence the authority of that blessed book, which declares, that in their executive character, the government of a country are ' the ministers of God,' and bear ro' the sword in vain ;' 'revengers to execute wrath upon him who doeth evil.'—Rom. xiii. 4. I have no hesitation, therefore, in tendering to the government, in the name of the Orange men of Cavan, our institution, (with the esprit de corps imparted by the talismanic name of ' ORANGE,) as ancillary to the present or any future efforts of the legis lature to remove the stain of human bl.ood from, and re store a sense of security to, our wretched land. " But we tell our legislators and the government, that the utmost which they can do, will still leave a work fox Orangeism to effect. The ex'remities, the hands and the feet, as it were, of MOLLY MAGUIRE, may be within their reach; but I know of nothing so calculated to strike at the heart of this mother of murder, as the known exis tence of Orange organization in and around the different localities where she has established her bloody code. My own experience (and it has not been small) enables me to testify my firm conviction that, under God, to your insti tution, and to the who', some dread of its " bone and sinew," is mainly attributable the fact, that peace is in any measure restored to our once troubled border—that Ribbonism is not now desolating our country, and priestly agitation (as at Killeshandra last autumn) insulting and maddening the Protestant peasantry by its monster arrays. " So much for the physical purposes of our organiza tion—defensive, purely so, except when required to tender cur co-operation to those who have authority to demand it. But as regards great political, or rather religio.poli tical ends, we are an aggressive organization ; and it is no small item in the amount of satisfaction which I have in joining you, that there is net, as I believe, one member of your body who is not prepared, on all fitting occasions, to record with myself, his solemn protest against that minis terial policy which systematically deals out "hard blows and sore discouragement" against our loved and common Protestantism, " starving scriptural education that it may gorge Maynooth," and rearing superstition and error on the ruins of the truth of God. My friends, viewing our Government in two such totally different aspects—hound by the solemn sanction of God's word to tender all sub mission to, and co-operation with them, as " bearing the executive sword," and yet bound, as we conceive, by art equally solemn sanction, to offer the most firm though temperate resistance to them, when, as is too of:en the case, we behold them in their legislative policy rejecting the standard of God's revealed will in great questions le gitimately capable of reference thereto—under such cir cumstances, need I say, that as Pret -slants, and at the same time loyal subjects, your situation is one of great difficulty ; you feel it to be so, and therefore you ask for guidance. or, to use your own words, " government and control." If a spirit thoroughly imbued with the doctrines which I have laid down, and a firm resolve that, with God's blessing, it shall be the spirit of the Orangeism of Cavan. be a sufficient qualification for assuming the hon orable post which you have assigned to me, you have not mistaken your man in your selection of me. It is as a religious man I accept your invitation, and conscious of the purity of my motives, and the singleness of my aim at the peace and well-being of my native county, I can cow -1 fortably feel that I carry the presence and blessing of God with me, and I can look to Him to make His weak un worthy servant an instrument of good." Mr. Maxwell, at the conclusion of his letter, says that he has every reason to hope that the other grand offices of the institution will be filled by gentlemen of the highest character and standing, and addresses the Orangemen in an affectionate and solemn man ner on their responsibilities and privileges, and urges on them the practice of patience, forbearance, and the other Christian graces advocated in their laws and ordinances. THE C .URT 4 FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Queen and Prince Albert and the royal children left Osborne House on Friday morning, and reached Buckingham Palace about noon. The Queen has presented a pair of milk-white Cach mere goats, part of a flock sent to her Majesty by the Shah of Persia, to the 23d Welsh Fusileers, to replace the venerable Cambrian goat which accompanied that gallant regiment, and which lately died at Barhadoes. A large meeting took place on Monday at Lord Foley's, Grosvenor-square, to enter into arrangements for the ft r mation of a new club, of which the Duke of Wellington is to be on of the patron. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and family are not expected at Grosvenor-house, from Eaton hall, until the first week in April. The dowager marchio ness is expected to leave Grosvenor-square at the end of the month, to pass the Easter recess at Moor-pork, near Rickmanswort h. ARRIVAL OF SIR T. G. HESKETH AND HIS Munn, — On Tuesday, this highly-esteemed young gentleman was united to Lady A t abella Fermor, daughter of tire late Earl Pomfret, and on the same evening the worthy couple pro ceeded to Rufford-hall in a magnificent chariot, drawn by four high-mettled steeds, and were met at Sollam, tw•o miles from the hall, by a numerous body of the tenantry, many of whom were mounted on hors& ack. At this point of the road the horses were taken from the carriage, and ropes attached, by which it was intended to draw the j happy couple the whole remainder of the journey. A nu merous and very heart-cheering kind of procession was here formed, headed by a band of music, and made gal. with a great variety of flags and banners proudly floating in the wind. On arriving at the park entrance, the pro ceEsion passed under a splendidly formed triumphal arch, and between that portion of the road and the hall, two other art:hes of a similar description had been erected. In, the evening an immense bonfire was made , and a beautifu l ' , display of fireworks took place, and there were numerous other demonstrations of the heartfelt respect entertaine d towards the worthy baronet, by all classes among whom he resides, which could not fail to be highly pleasing to his feelings, and they must gave been dearly delightful to Lad! Hesketh—the young stranger—whom all were so proud" and happy to honour on her arrival among them. UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. R. Walker, Esq., M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, has conformed to Popery. The Archbishop of Armagh has subscribed £lOO to the fund now raising for the family of the late Bishop Alex ander. The Vice Chancellor of Oxford has published a notice , calling the attention of junior members of the University to the statute against horse-racing, and stating that its penalties will in future be strictly enforced. CHURCH FOR THE SEAMEN OF LONDO/11.—MeSFrg• Cubitt have commenced the building of this edifice. It is estimated to contain 800 free sittings, and to cost, includ ing the site and endowment, £9,000 A young gentleman, undergraduate of Oaf rd, Mr. Sin gleton, was unfortunately killed on Saturday week in con sequence of his horse throwing him by springing on A turnpike-gate whilst racing with a companion. The treasurer of the London Scripture Readers' Soci ety has recently received, among other donations, the sum of £7OO from Lady Olivia Sparrow, in furtherance of the objects of the above-named society. BISHOPRIC OF JERUSALEM.—The death of the Rev- Dr. Alexander having left this see vacant, it has been - . filled up by the appointment of M. Belson, a converted Jew, by the King of Prussia. who holds the right of alter• . nate appointment with the Government of England. ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, LA , CHPORD.—A sermon was preached in this church, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, M.A., after which a collection Was made, for the purpose of meeting a conditional grants made by the National Society, towards liquidating the debt on the Sunday school in tonnection with the church-- The amount collected was upwards of £2B. CASE OF THE RF.V. C. H. HODGSON.—In the Court of Arches, on Tuesday, Sir 1-1. J. Dust gave judgment in tnis case, which was a proceeding by articles against the Rev. C. H. Hodgson, chaplain of the county pot of Sa lisbury. charging him with serious offences against mora lity. The learned judge hid that the articles had not been p-oved, and dismissed the suit. On Sunday last, the Rev. Miles Barton, son of oar respected townsman, Miles Barton, Esq , preached his first sermon at St. John's Church, Liscard. He acquitted himself in a most pleasing and satisfactory manner, and bids fair to be an ornament to his procession. His text was taken from the 9th verse, 2nd chapter of the Ist Epistle of St. Peter. We understand he is appointed to a living at Bolton. _ TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—On Monday, a folio coil of Bag,ter's Polyglot Bible, superbly bound, a family bible, a silver teapot, with the accompaniments of cream jug and spoons, were presented to the Rev. Alexander Read, A.M., curate of the Parish Church of Runcorn , as a testimonial of the regard in which he was held by the congregation. A pocket communion service is hereafter to be added, it not being completed at the time of pre sentation. The largest number of copies isswd by the Manchester 13ible Society in any year previous to thP last. was 15,000. In October last the number i: sued was 9,618 ; in November. 20,776 ; in December, 16,695; in January, 13,043; ja February, 12,814 ; and in the first week of the present month, 2,749: making a total, in five months, of 75,695 espies of the Scriptures which have been circulated in Manchester, Salford, and the immediate neighbourhood. DR. PUSEY'S NEW LITURGY AND REGISTRATION' OFFICE.—The real object (of this new liturgy and rubric) is betrayed in a single paragraph pasted into the first page in lieu of a title page, running thus—" These prayers ma/ .be bad, and names registered, if desired, on application by letter to the Rev. Dr. Poser, Christ Church. Oxford; or the Rev. C. Marriott, Oriel College, Oxford." What this registration is for. may by some be doubted ; what the prayers are for, is clear. To secure a registration of the purpose of which all I can gather is from page 5, where I learn that " those who wish may hove their names registered, in order that they may be informed of par' ticular objects of general interest, or connected with themselves or their friends l" ECCLESIASTICAL COMNIISSION.—From a report of the Eccleiiastical Commissioners just printed, it appears that, • up to the 25th June last, the unconditional grants in are 510, the annual augmentation of which 1 5 £26,782. The total number of livings is 585, and the total actual amount of permanent annual augmentation tO the clergy is £31,354. The general result of the augmen tation list, with reference to dioceses is, that the churches number 585, and the annualsum is stated at £31,354. A return is made of the districts under the Church Endow ment Act. It hence appears, that 76 districts and new parishes have been constituted under that act, and that the aggregate population provided for is 266,988; there are besides 120 di s t r i c t s un d er th e cons id er ation of the Commissioners, and intimati on h as b een g i v en of ma . " more intended to be made. an d amongst th- m of 14 dis tricts in the pariah of Leeds. Th e B oard of Commission ers now includes, ex officio, the two a r chbi s hops, five members of the Government, all the bishops of Englan d and Wales, three deans, and sit common law, equity, an d ecclesiastical judges, together with eight permanent l aw commissioners, six of whom are in the appointment of the - Crown, and two in that of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury. March 17, 184 a. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • The Liverpool Spring Assizes will commence on Mon day. before Justices Patteson and Coleridge. Tne action for crim. con., which was to be tried at the approaching Cork Assizes, in which Mr. Browne, of Fee' moy, was plaintiff, and Major Ibbetaon defendant, has bean settled, the gallant defendant having paid £750 and costs. It ha; been held by Courts of Quarter Sessions that where a farm-servant takes oats, without leave, for the purpose of feeding his master's horses, be is as much guilty of larceny, or robbery, as if be appropriated tivets to his own benefit. At Winchester assizes, on Tuesday' however, Mr. Justice Erle expressed a different opinion, and reserved the point for the consideration of the twelv e judges. A CASE FOR THE LONG Rohe.—A bill in Chancel , : has been filed by Sir Edmund de Beauvoir. Bart., toil , " Richard Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq., of Colloid Hall, for the recovery of a sum of money, and other property, to tile , , value of £1,000,000 and upwards. Mr. de Beauvoir ba n some years ago a long and protracted law suit with All'• Rhodes, which rendered that case memorable.. The pre snit, it is expectad, will be equally fruitful to the lawyers. Sir John claims as next heir, in virtue of his wife. Mr . de Beauvoir is a widower, without children, aed Sir Joh n has an only brother, Mr. C. Browne. CRIM. Co``.—At Bedford Assizes on Tuesday, an ac tion of this kind was brought against the Rev. Dr. Boval. by his groom, John Coultas, whose wife, the subject 0' the action, was also in the service of the defendant. M r ' O'Malley stated the case for the plaintiff, and detailed $ series of suspicious circumstances extending over son° years. In 1845 (continued the learned coup e 1) the eon duct of aria guilty man was such vs to excite the talk f; the kitchen ; doubts became convictions, and the plainllff sought around his fellow-servants for witnesses of shame and dishonour. He emplot.ed them to watch, o n „ from September to November did they keep a guard c". the house; but it was not until the 29th of that m oot " that anything like proof of guilt was discovered. That dal fell on a Saturday, and on Monday the plaintiff taxe d I. ' i_ master with his guilt in terms of manly reproof and indir nation. The defendant net the imputation on his e irt 4s e with meekness and humble remonstrance, protesting ld innocence before God, when the plaintiff vowed he %yo u remove his wife from his roof. This was in the morning; At night he called for that purpose, but his wife had b e f removed from the house in the meantime, and hol e , Though the defendant. in the most earnest language. % I . dared his ignorance of the wife's movements, and so 1 . 0 pacified the plaintiff as to induce him to write to her,. ' er soon as his beck was turned. he sent a messenger after S A , to warn her of her husband's pysuit, and afterwards .04 dressed a letter to her in Yorkshire, thus showing thilri'3o was cognisant from first to last of her move msnts• evidence on both sides was very leng.hy, and the trial °ea copied two days. The Attorney-General was erePiqff,, for the defence. The jury gave a verdict for the plaini damages £250. r ,„ A S' WALLAsEY SCHOOL IN CHANCERY.—VICE CELLOR WIC RAM'S COURT, THURSDAY, 12TH Al llt ror , —THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. HEALING.—The 11-e. mation and bill in this case was filed by the Attorneh,e• General at the relation of Mr. Winch, to ascerta in *%. of Cher sotne lands in the parish of Wallasey, the ioeoltol which is applicable to the maintenance of the tre e as' in in that pariah, together with the appointment of th e 11 : c h• ter of the school, is legally rested in the rector and eh , ' 4 0 wardens of the parish of Wallasey, or in the pari shion i; at large. The earliest notice of the school aePe ar : o th e will dated in 1644, bequeathing £125, to be laid oat !least land, the rents to be paid to the master of the VVa"-ift. grammar school, to teach the poor children. Othee:000 w..re afterwards made by other persons. A disPn te fee' time ago arose as to whether the property was in ,tr tu n e o tbe , tor or the vestry. Mr. Winch was also a plaint' " A ; tha t bill, lie was a purchaser of a part of some haw" OW had formerly belonged to the charity, and which ir! ci gr : had been exchanged for others. Mr. Lowndes att e Smith appeared for the information, and Mr. TOO' 0 00 Mr. Bazalgette for the rector and churchwarde ns• ten ded as well as boys had been admitted ; but it was e° %ted by the latter gentlemen that it was always designiie add "grammar school," and that girls ought not to ~t j eti milted. Another question was, whether the land to had been I..gally exchanged. The lands tha t • r es e l belonged to the charity had become of greatly tn e t e legst value. It . the rector and churchwardens wer e " r 7ty trustt.es, the exchange was not valid, and the () the; entith dto recover the former property. On t rel hand it was contended that the master of the se t e . .. 0 tit entitled to the rents of the charity lands, but this .7 °WY nied by 111 r. Bazalgette, who said he could clgro, 1:80 a.yer.r. His Honour made a decree for i" 1 :,01, 50 0 reference to the trusts and the nature of the robeo ibto also af• what the lands of the charity consis t e d li b e rtf exclninze, and of what they now consisted, pa w r i t ti L. th , at t btoe report any ci: cumstances specially. It Was gat 1 , 1 1 1, e Fr plaintiff was the purchaser of a vrry perty only, and there were many fee the court. His honour *aid the inquirV hind parties in their absence, and other bills I filed. other purchaser.sollid to ; 'slot COr tip ! 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