The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

HOU.E OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY imptrial HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY The Duke of WELLINGTON moved that the " Corn-law Repeal Bill" be read a first time. _ The Duke of RICHMOND rose, and, with considerable emphasis and warmth, entered his protest against the mea sure and the mini.ters by whom it had been introduced. Be regretted to see the distinction which was drawn be tween public and private honour. Sir Robert Peel was a man of strict pettehyb!e; an be did not co as a vublic w lour; Tarriworth his word was unim- is bond. But der it to be inconsistent with his honour to abandon all the principles he had ever 'aers to violate promises . _ pledges. The present parliament, elected or the support of protection, had no right to abrogate it ; and he trusted that the House of Lords would sustain their character with the country, and stop rash and dangerous legislation, full of peril bolt; to great interests and public confidence. ... . He, ho - wever, reser cond reach tig ed his formal opposition till the se- Lord BROUGHAM thought that a conscientious change of opinion on the part of a statesman was honourable, hmond that hc ber of the g Advising a di i the form Bill vernment which, in 1831, never dreamed of solution of parliament till it rejected the Re- After an exchange of explanations from Lord Brougham and i.e Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of LONDON DERRY deprecated personal attacks upon Sir Robert Peel for a change of opinion, seeing the Duke of Richmond had himself very frequently changed his position in that house. _ . ft; Duke of Rion MOND assured the house that he had on the second reading of the bill, he intendec to abstain from perscnl considerations. The Earl of RIPON was glad to hear this assurance, partly for his own sake [this raised great laughter, the rol.le earl, as Mr. 146binson, being the author of_the altogether _. . , Corn Bill of 1815,1 and patt o y n . account of Sir R. Peel. Ile was. however, ready to meet any atta , ks which might be made upon him for his share in the awful responsibility of the pr t rror. Cassius. in your threats, atit ution- hill Mr. FERRAND put four questions to Sir R. Peel, relat ing to the present state of the Bingley poor-house, and Sir R. Peel gave to each of them a distinct reply. The result was, that notwithstanding the remon.trances of Mr. Ferranti, Sir R. Peel refu s ed to retract the charges which he had preferred in June, 1842, against the Board of Guardians of the Krighley Union. A number of que-tions were then put to her Majesty's government of so miscellaneous a character, that Sir R. Peel wished to have them placed on record, in order that the public might he aware of the multiplicity of topics to which the prime minister of England was called upon to turn his attention in the course of half-ao-hour. The questions related to our own tariff, to the German Zoll- verein. to the Binglry workhouse, to the visit of Ibrahim Pachi to this country, and to the erection of an cwt.-stri a', statue to the Duke of Wellington at the top of Con- A desultory conversation on the conduct of Mr. Mur- _ the-secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commission, with regard to a private bill before the house last week, then took place, in which the Attorney-General defended the proceedings of that functionary. The defence, howeVer, produced in reply a still more severe attack foci Mr. E was a ' Lem " Denison. In the conrse of the conversation, a letter, which had been addressed to the members of the House of Commons by Mr Whyte. a sulicitor of the same Commission, and which had been declared by the Speaker, in pzivate, to he a high breach of privilege, was put in by Mr. Hume, but'was not read to the house in consequence of Sir J. Graham's having expressed, on be half of the commission, their regret that one of their offi• cers should have so misconducted him-elf. The conver sation, which from its commencement to its close was al lowed to be most irregular, was stopped at last by Mr Flume's withdt swat of the letter which he had put in as a breath of privilege. The SPF AK R then read to the house a letter addressed to himself by Mr. S. O'Brien, dated that morning, from the prison of the House of Commons. The substance of . it was, that the committee of selection had not been for mally appointed this session—that its order enjoiniv.ghitn to attend as a member of a certain committee, and his im- prisonment for non-compliance with that trder, were both informal and illegsl, and teat he was therefore entitled to his immediate di..charee. On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, i Mr. S. O'Brien's letter be printed and circulated wit ordered that For 1 am so armed in steadfast honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind." The hill was then ordered to be printed, and to be read a second time on Monday. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of the Char;iable Trusty' 13;11. His lordship entered at great length into the details of the measure, and the advantages His lordship also rotPr nto a v urinous ex the : provi•ions of the bill. of er 1 - 1 he called upon their lordships to t Lord COTT lertnit it to be read a second time. EN HA M said that-the bill h , id been two year It had been before them in its present dry last ; bnt the noble lord had not stated Ida eseltide fr inns in regard to it It was proposed to we operation of the hill all charities buy- He re- ported or assiqed by voluntar_ coinmended that all applications, in cases of charitable trusts, to the c , urts of equity, should he exempt frvm fees. Meanwhile, he would move that the bill should b read t Alter several ott had add sued the home, their lordships led, when there ap red a majority of on rejecte In repl the votes, and taken into consideration net day. Mr. C. BULLER withdrew his motion respecting thi state of the Colony of New Zealand, but asked Sir R Peel to give the house such information on the subject a he might deem expedient under existing circumqa,,ges. EEL COO. :ion at r an intimation of the intention of her Majesty's mini,ter as would enable him to bring forward his t distant period. The house would hear ,ccurred 10 session upon this ,übject to the opinions which he had then e Principles on which the c.lony of N he govert ed; and no exertion shot effect to those opittion,:. Ministers nd what h Captain Fitzroy had been recalled from, an Captain Grey had been , pra , inted to. the government New Zeal:intl. At th , - period when the I reived by her Majesty's mini-ters wer Grey had only been a few weeks in hi he was happy to say that, from the t written, Capt Timent, be couots, the favourable opinion w ter ained of Captain Grey's ad f thoQe Low fufly confirmed. The last reports from ind stated that he was about to leave Auckh 3ay of Islands, with all the naval and milita W ary force r, 40 ; against, 41 lONS.—MoNDAT. on from V. Smi►h, Sir J. GRAHAM HOUSE OF COM States that it as air Intent o n a Bill to ttriv)le th throughout r It to incrodu Privy Council to est and al.ci Wales couits lor the recovery of g Small debt.; up to effect or the turrtF,ure Of the cour ble of tees. good e He could not Oo the order of the day for brim. the Customs' Dut . es Bill, Lord GEORGE BENTINCE, in ing up the report on ther information than that which He expre 'd, however, a doubt a speech it urged that the reductions propose f countries commerciall the tariff we, hostile to us, .1 we did nothing in favour of such coup- tries as CI a, which received our manufactures on fa- 6 overnalent, especially with reference to our movcd that the report be taken into conbidera- _...v0541, to attack not Herki, but a chief who ha ,cted in concert with Herki in that neighbourhood. Fror the force employed we had a right to exit northern island would soon he reduced tc ~-,g m ate the procedure and then, but not till then the w rsally, and to establish a regular ta- proving the government of the clo t that 0 ork of forming and lir ri the hope policy of th colon Lion that (lay six months Mr. Lawson and Mr. Alderman Humphrey having ad. dres•ed the house, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER vindicated the c , ,mmercial policy of the government as conducive to the interests of the consumer, favourable to ree and trade, and beneficial to every interest of the country. Mr. BANKES contended that the measures of the go vernment we. e wholly distasteful to the country. Mr. HAWES asked, if that were so, why no one con nected with malufactores had that night joined in the op position to measui es which ri..mit as seriously affect them as others ? The commerce and trade of the country were really beriou:ly affected by the delay, and therefore he urged the importance of arriving at a definite conclu:ion. Mr. Peer Borthwick, Mr. Plumptre, Dr. Boarring, Colonel Sibthorp, and Mr. Henley spoke. as did also Mr. Dodson, who opposed the me.sure, and elicited some amusement by ol:ierving that he had listened attentively to the whole of the speeches in these unprecedentedly long and heavy drbates:_ Lord GEORGE RENTINCK then withdrew his amend ment, a little to the surprise of the house, and the report was brought up. In committee on Lord Hardinge's Annuity Bill, Sir A. L. HAY moved that the pension should not be withheld during the lifetime of Lord Hardinge, because of the an nuity of £5,000 awarded to him by the East India Com pany. A desultory conversation ensued, after which Sir A. L. BAY withdrew his motion, and the bill passed through committer. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY The Bishop of St. DAVIDS, in presenting a petition from the borough oft ardigan, prayine that more ex tended meal's may be adoptei for diffusing the blessings of moral and indu•trial education among the poor of the principality of Wales, bore testimony to the pressing want of eduction in the district referred, and called upon their lordships to aid in remedying the evil. He felt a sincere conviction that if means had been taken a few years ago to improve the moral and intellectual condition of the people of that part of the country, so many soldiers and police would not have been required to preserve its tran- quility. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE entirely agreed with the right rev. prelate, and said that the coal(' ission appointed to inquire into the proceedings of the tiebeccaites had re ported that in those parts of Wales in which the Welsh language was chiefly spoken there was an almost total want of edlic4tion. Parliamentary grants were of ccmpa ratively htle use unless such a system were adopted in administering them as would call forth local exertions. The Duke of BUCCLEUCII moved the first reading of the Customs Duties 13,11. The Duke of RICHMOND opposed the introduction of the measure, as adding insult to injury. Their lordships werenow invited to consider two bills withdrawing pro tection from the agricultural interest, when the remedial bill had not been read a second time in the (An r House of Parliament. The government had promi-rd free trade, but excep'ing against the agriculturists there was not a line on the subject in the bill before them. If they al lowed corn to come from the United States into this coun try free of duty, to the prejudice of the Canadas, they should allow Canada to purchase cotton at the cheapest rnarke• Even Mr. Gre7 .g, one of the leaders of tt] Corn-Law League, had admitted that More long Ameri can coarse cottons would eff• ctually compete with our own cottons, even in Manchester. After a desu►rn thos ) spoke clep iite;uhject,the bill . was read a first time ; and on the sug gestion of Lord Stanley, ordered to be read a second time on Thursday, the 28th instant. In answer to a question from Earl Grey, Lord Lyttle ton stated that the government proposed to foond a terri tory in North Australia, to be settled partly by emanci- pated co r Mr. Fox MAuta obtained leave to introduce a bill to enable Christian congregations in S, otland to obtain sites for building pl.ices of worship, manses, and ,chool- houses, —The bill was brought in and read a first time. Sir. G. Clerk, Sir R. Inglis, Lord G. and Mr. W. Miles, the Customs Dut third time and pass ca. Ittilwa s y Companies Dissolution Bill passed through Com mit tet P jesty that t:I discus 1, in which the majority of ated any premature discussion on WILING moved for a humble address to her Ma . would be graciously pleased to direct such - - tine laws. as 11 s taken place with foreign governments since the last returns to parliament, to be laid on the ta- ble of the haus After a short discussion, the motion was agreed to .....‘111..... HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY T. DUNCOMB presented a r ham, s ea by 4.984 operatives in the lace manufacture, in favour o' the Bill Lord J MANNERS pres ted a petition to the same Orers in Nottingham and*Derhy. Mr. T. DoNcomnF. moved the second reading of the T 0141. Fanteirt, Rill and in iinine so. observed that though 0 , , 141 •••••., •,0 the work in the lace factories began every Sun day night at 12 o'clock, and was conii.nue•i with little intermission till the same hour on Saturday night, a great portion of the labour was carried on by the aid of children of very ten- der years, as there was no r age at which children tri4 i4lat►y children employed th on at present as to the introduced into them. han six or eight years old, Trhen their it out the injur w a bed, but slept on the floor ent was over. Having pointed uch a system on the health of these infan , s, and h iving quoted t Spector and huh-inspector of facto ❑ support of th, fering in their beha'f, of labou thctori. s in the mo o'clock at he keeping of then s object was also to Whit al►oge t of children under eight y infantile L opinion it obj,oti,n but if the hou s e should he ihould make no In cone! the hou 1e it. in. by a majorit Vi PC( were re, 1 Lord Gough's Annuity Bill third time and passed w ou )ad 7,Brea of parliament was necessary in this case. Mr. Hums had come down to the house that minis►ers would make an explanation the the general volley be which they intended to colonie, in future. He was sorry that they h so. as onr present system of colonial administration w most defective He•e the matter dropped. Lord EBRINGTON svms entering into a statement of the reasons which induced him to move an address for the re appointment of the Real Property Commission, when An hon. member moved that the house be counted. Not more than 27 members being present, the house stood adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The Duke of CAMBRII GE presented a petition from the members of the Art Union of London, praying their duced into tipeHou-e of Commons for that purpose. Similar petitions from other bodies connected with the fine arts were presented by several noble lords. Viscount Hardirige's and Lord Gough's Annuity Bills were read a first lime. The Marquis of NORMANBY then, in moving for a re turn of the numbrr of murders, and attempts at murder, committed in Ireland since the Ist of January last, a d the hours at which they had been committed, availed himself of the opportunity to assert that the coercive measure which had passed that house, and was then in the House of Commons, was not calculated to meet the evil to counteract which it had been framed. The mea sure, if necessary, bad been improperly delayed by Go vernment; and if it became law it would come in force about midsummer, when there was no real right, although the bill provided that in the disturbed districts people should remain 'in their dwellings at night. The Earl of Sr. GERMANS said that the bill had not been introduced at an earlier period because the Govern. ment had vainly hoped that the allusion made to it in the' Speech from the Throne would have res•ored tranquillity in Ireland. Besides this cause of delay, the M,strueimii offered to the measure in the other house had induced' Government to give precedence to the Corn Bill ; but he hoped that the state of public business would soon allow them to proceed with it. The Earl of WICKLOW said that unless her Majesty's Ministers had determined upon abandoning the bill, they ought not to have allowed any other measure to interfere with it. The Earl of HADDINGTON vindicated the course ptir sued by Government, and after a short conversation the return was ordered. The Explosive Substances Bill was then read a first time. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the order of the 27th April, for the committal of Mr. W. S. O'Brien, be dis charged, on the ground that the committee of selection which had directed his attendance on a private bill con►- mittee was not itself properly constituted, not having been re-appointed at the commencement of the session, according to the " standing orders" of the house. His refusal to attend an order from a body thus improperly constituted was no reasonable ground for his detention. Mr. ESTCOURT contended that it was not necessary to renew the motion each session for the re-appointment of the committee of selection. It had been done I.st ses s!on, but that was not according to the usual course of proceeding. Mr. W AttnuaToN said the standing orders of the house were imperative for the re-appointment of the committee of selection at the commencement of each session, and he was there ore of opinion that the committal of Mr. W. S O'Brien was intornial A di,cussion ensued, shared in by Mr. Strurt, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Aglionby, the Attorney-General, Lord Pol boron, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, Sir R. Peel, and other hon. members ; atter which the house divided, and the motion of Mr. O'Connell was negatived by a wajoiity of 180 to 36. Mr. O'CONNELL was then about to move that Mr. 'W S. O'Brien be discharged fri m custody; but Lit ihe aug- gestion of Sir K. Peel, he agreed to await the result of Air. Shaw's motion on Monday. The arijourned debate on the second reading of the Factories Bill was the() resumed by Mr. BANKI, S, who supported the bill, contending that parliament had a right to interfere with the hours of la bour, if they exceeded the ordinary powers of human nature Mr. - WARD argued that the house had no right to in terfere with the hours of labour. The subject was one ngetrien _ posed by lAnd MoncETH. Mr. MACAULAY contended at considerable length, and with felicitous illustration, that Ipgislative interference with labour, if inconsistent with commercial principles, was justifiable and necessary on considerations of public health and morality. The principle had recognised by modern legislators, but it was recognised by the ancient regulation of one day's cessation from labour out of seven, a regulation esteemed so necessary even on merely economical principles, that when the reli gious observance of holidays was abolished by the Long Parliament in England. and the National Convention of t only been France, they found it necessary to set apart other days for relaxation from labour. The superiority of a nation depended on the health and intelligence of the people. Iu the countries where it was said the peopl- vans ked so much more than ours, it was the complaint of the autho rities that they could hot find a man fit for a soldier. It ever England was deprived of its superiority, it would not as these ae more difficult question, however, was the question of degree; and, alter the best consideration, he could not consent to a reduction to less than eleven hours. It had been sid the period of inter ference was ill chosen, but he could not but think it dt rable that. at the same period they should r twofold error they had committed, that of to err- tam " wow:* naa oven their bane, and withholding it from those in which tl iblic health and mot A leng , hrlied disc r J. Hanalei ty required it on ensued, which was c by Denit•on, Sir Murez arid th against It, I J. Russell Ir. Bright, Mr.B , Cobden, Mr and Mr. Fie'deo, aft In 1814 tthere 2m-boat t During 1,000 Br z to the nuv yille, Kentucky, is f pleted, wilt c It is, in tact on wi,h the f three lin. i at Cc " great father of waters" from ti to the Gult of Mexico—a contil more On 3,000 wiles in extent I of Lonis will not revive the system which once prevailed, of allowing the introduction of goods from colonies at co lonial duties with reference, not to their origin, but solely to their places of export, or in other words doing away with the certificate of origin." Accounts from Vera Cruz to the 18th of April have been received. Mexico is stated' to conti❑ue uneasy. The threatened return of Santa Anna had called forth go vernment measures of protection. Accounts received from Oregon and California, via' the Sandwich 1-lands, are unimportant. Rio ineltigence to the 19th of March had been re ceived. The blockade of Buenos Ayres still continued. THE WEST INDIA MAIL The mail steamer Thames arrived at Southampton on Tuesday night with the West lodia mails. She brought 70 passengers, ineluding his Excellency Sir Henry MacL lend, late Governor of Trinidad, and on fri-ight 58 tierces of cofite, 126 barrels of ginger, and 283 packages of arrow- 'e our usual file of papers by the Thames, In they are very barren of intere,t; some of them, hoWevet give a more favourable account of the weather than w have learned from private mourres ; indeed, almost at the time of the mails leavin , z the drought appeared to be reak iug up. Coolies Fad arrived in several colonies, and had produced some eff-ct in causing more regular labour; in Jamaica and Trin . dad they were much prized. and work ing steadily, showing great aptness ; as were the Portu guese einigrants front Madeira at Drmerarb and Sr. Vin cent. Tne colonial newspapers have little interestine local news, if we except those of Trinidad, which are filled with regrets on losing their governor, Sir Henry Macleod. who, it appears, had resigned his office in consequence of sorne misunders'atiding with the Colonial Minister. His successor. Lord Harris. left Grenada on the 28th ult., and would arrive next day at Trinidid. General Richi, the new President of Hayti, was still in the northern part of the island, where all was quiet at the last daies. Pierrot, the late President, had retired to his plantation ; it is rumoured he will not be allowed to re main there (as a few partisans may still cherish the hope of his return to power), but be compelled to reside nearer l'ort-au-Prince, where all his movements can be better watched. In the south, a few hundred men, chiefly cul tivators, had risen againSt Richi's Government; their object, it Seems, was to pillage the town of Aux Cayes. They commenced by mas-acreing several persons of re spectability, who fell into their hands, arid committed all sort, of depredations; but General Jaffrsn, at the head of six regiments, had obtained signal advantages over them in three different combats, when from 500 to 600 of the banditti were killed. Nothing had been decided upon re specting the Dominicans. Despatches had been received from Santa Anna, the President of the Spanish port, and it is believed that a suspension of hostilities will take place until something more decisive is deter mined on. The foreigners thought well of the present Government, hay ing in office, clear•beaded minister, who had been abroad, and bad held intercourse with foreign rowers. ME LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN Advice% have arrived from the United States to the 7th inst., inclusive, by the Great Western; Captain Mathews, which arrived in the Mersey shortly after four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, after a fine run of fourteen days. The Great Western conveyed special messengers from the American Government to Mr. M' Lane, and from Ca nada to the Home Administration. his stated, and con fidently so. that the former brings the Oregon notice to Mr. M 'Lane, with instructions for its due delivery to the British Government. The bearer entertains that belief. "The form in which the notice was sent (says the Wash ington correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer), was to set forth the preamble and resolution as it passed Con gress, and then to append to it a formal notice on the part of the Government of the United States The proceedings in the House of Congress are entirely uninteresting. The Webster and Ingersoll committees had sent into Maine for witnesses. Relations with Mexilo had assumed a more threatening aspect. The latest accounts from Rio Grande state that Matamoras was blockaded by General Taylor. Lieute nant Porter and three men had been phot by the Mexi cans. Further desertions had taken place. Fears for the safety of the American force prevailed at Washington. The receipts into the United States Treasury during the quarter ending the 31st of March last were 7,808870, dollars; expenditure, 4,483,897 dollars. It wouli appear that considerable doubt exists as to the payment of the interest due on the debt of Pennsylvania. The Princeton steam-frigate was under orders for the Gulf of Mexico. _ _ Late accounts from Canada have reached us. The journals publish an additional despatch from the 1 - 1011. W. E. Gladstone, dated April 1, upon the memorial of the Montreal Board of Trade :—" It announces (says the Montreal Courier) that should the repeal of the corn laws pass the British Legislature, the Canadian Parlia ment will be allowed to do as it pl,,,ses with the 3s. duty on American wheat. And it does i , ot appear that any op position wilt be shown to the repeal of the 2ii imperial duty onflour. It also enunciates plainly the principle that Great Britain will not in future grant better commer cial terms to her colonies than she allows to other coun whs proclaimed in the opening speech of the chief officer of the State : this spirit, in action, we now see before our The Conslitutionnel announces that Ibrahim Paella is about to visit London in about a fortnight —a visit which our contemporary looks upon with nn small jealousy. The Chinese " Tale" of Robert Thom, Esq., British Consul at Ningpo, China, has just been translated into German, by Professor Botteer, of LeiPSiC. DISSECTION IN THE EAST —The Grand Seignior has just promulgated an order that the bodies of female slaves whoitie in the markws shall be given up by the owners to the students in medicine for dissection. Letters and papers from Newfoundland, to the 18th ( f April, bring very disastrous accounts of the seal fish e ry. a umber of vessels baying been lost or dathaged, an tnanv lives sacrificed The committee for the relief of the sufferers by the Quebec fire, bad received 1:162.182 up to ,April 20, paid £68,774, had a balance of, X 93 408 and he. deposited, at three per cent. interest, £73.371. SCARCITY OF SERVANTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—A letter has been recently received in this town from a lady in Port Adelaide who states that servants are so scarce In that part that she pays her servant 16s. per week ; one morning the woman came to her and intormed her that she was about to leave, and on being asked the reason, she said that the wages were not enouzh, that she had been offered ss. a day by another person.—Poole Herald. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A letter from Bre men of the 2511. ult. arinnu: ces the arrival there of eeveta► Protestant ministers fr( , m America on their way to Lon- INDIA AND CHINA We have recei;ediriielligence from Calcutta to the 7th, Bombay to the 15th ult.. and China to 30th March. Tranquility prevailed throthr.httut India. Tne hot sea son had commenced, and the armies had taken up their permanent stations until the season for campaigns opens again in Octob , r. . . . . - - The affairs of the Punjab remain in the same unsettlNi state. The city of Lahore was in possession of the divi sion commanded by the British General, and the . Sikh soldiers who were found out within the wall- were ordered to quit instantly. An idea existed of the disbanded Sikhs having contemplated an insurrection similar to that ot Cahill, but the utmost vigilance prevails, and no danger is apprehended in a well guarded place within 50 miles of tit , British territory. The intrigues of Gholab Singh, which have raised him to the grade ot a Maharajah, and placed him on the musnud (throne) of the Kohistan of the Pun jab. are highly unpalatable to the Ourbar and Wuzeer of Lahore, as well as to the disbanded Khalsas. The former find themselves outwitted; the lattßr are indignant at their defeat, yet they cannot trust either the eovernment, for the Queen-Mother betrayed them as much as Gliokb Singh did her cause. The Lahore government is endea vouring to raise a body of troops from amongst the dis banded Khalsas; while the new Sovereign of Jamoo is also strengthemng his position. A fertile source ot quar rel subsists in the regulation of the frontiers between the new Rajah ot the hill country and the young one of the Dhuleep. It will require the most guarded atten tion on the part of the'British to prevent. an otrbreak be tween parties who hate each other with such intensity. The newly-acquired district, which is called the Doab, that is, "situated between the two rivers," viz., the Bess and the Sutle was Un Tgoing a s different places were selected for cantonments for the Bri tish troops. Joßinder is the chief town, and there the principal part of the troops are to be stationed. The fer tility of this district is highly praised, and the inhabitants, heartily tired of t he oppressions of the Sikhs, are dr lighted at becoming subject• to the British, from whom they ex pect justice The Governor-General has gone towards Simla, from which place he be able with ease to watch the progress of events. The Commander-in-Chief ac companied him to Uoiritsir, and thence returned to La hore. He had sinee entered the British territory at Nug_ gur Ghat. _ . . . Scinde is profoundly quirt, and it is also healthy. Sir Charles Napier w, , s corning down the Sutlej and Indus to to Kurrachee, where he exnected to spend the monsoon. His health was impaired. The military positions in Scinde were occupied altogether by the Bombay regiments, all the Bengal troops having gone to strengthen the army in the north-west provinces. _ _ The news of the late campaign between the Sikhs and the British appears to have excited the notorious Akhbar Khan into attempting some operations against Peshawur, but the rapidity of the defeats experienced by the Sikhs and the occupation of Lahore have neutralised his move- The freebooters of the Khlber Pass were al,o en- Ilion, w Augvst. They are about to travel in Germany, in order to study the state of religion in that country, and-estabthh Germany and the same ei - yureti in A meric GREAT Buti.nis;os IN GERMANY. —The building of the new picture gallery at Dresden has been approved by both houses of the legislature, arid Professor Semper ap pointed the architect, of whose work on Protestant churches we gave a short account to our readers. As Berlin has been hitherto destitute of any wriking church tructure, his Majesty the King of Prussia has given or ders that a vast cathedral should he raised in the very centre of the city. It will consist of ahu mounted b% two steeples, each 300 feet high e nave, sur Builder ROP.-' Vesterr brinks accounts of another week'i receipts of cotton at the ports ;. from which we are glad to find that the deft= ciency, as compared with the rt ceipts of last year, has been considerably diminished. At the date of the ad- s by the Hibernia. the deficiency was 40.5,01)0 bales It is r;cv reduced to 380,705 bales statement of the receipts at the different ports to the New Orleans Mobile . . .... 5 April, 920.556 854.761 397.478 123.633 502 564 4'22.585 )74.280 132.076 Florida. Georgia 1 May, 148,759 265.173 308.1/63 South Carolina, North Carolina 197,967 7,644 9 923 11,370 18.400 lther port: 1,812,464 2,193,169 1.799,8! The exonrts to Great Britain were 683.114 bah, 1,048,130 bales at the same period last ys At the time Great Wes tern, prices were vt firm; at the rat which at c ot the It on Frei ceding month. The, purc - hases w nt ; vets , little Lei ropebpvter Guar-diaz THE CZ:URT TA.SHOAABLE WOR Her Majesty completed her twenty-seventh year on S4turdAv. The Gazette of Tuesday announces that her Majesty's birthday will be ceb-hrated on the 9 h June. Captain Somerset having announced his intention of standing for the county of Monmouth in opp Lord Granville Somerset , a member of Her t NI ihister_ the walla M mjest y' has res'gned h's appointment as Equerry in the House. hold of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Earl of Erroll had an audience of the Queen at the Court held at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, to deliver up the insignia of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistie worn by his late father. The vacant green riband will, it is understood, be conferred upon his Grace the Duke of Aron. RAILWAY LlJltiLev, CE. The North Br,tish Railway is to be partially opened on the Ist of June. The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway went into committee on Monday. On Tuesday the clanses were settled, and the preamble declared proved. The Great Northern Railway of France will be opened next week. This line will confer great bent fits on the South Eastern Railway. The f“undation stone of the new tunnel bridge over the river Conway, for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, took place a few days siiice anaid,t great rejoicing. The site of the foundation is close to the base of the rock on which the venerable castle stands. The preamble of the Ashton and Hnyton branch of the Grand Junction Railway was declared proved on Friday. The line crosses the Mer-ey at Runcorn. The company have arranged with Lord Fritnei4 Etterton, and his lord ship has withdrawn his Preston Brook line. A correspondent of Herapath's Journal 'states, that, Mr. Austin, the eminent Parliamentary counsel, hating refused a £5OO tee to plead for the Eastern Counties Rail way, had a cheque for £l.OOO presented to him, but be refused the briet unless £l,BOO were paid to him, which ent4itinus sum he actually received. LAWYERS AND ENGINEERS.—Before one of the Se lect Committees of the House of CoMmons on railways, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, on Thursday last. observed—He knew very well that there were no difficulties in the eyes of the engineers, for when Mr. Stephenson was asked in another Committee-room, a few days ago, wbethrr he could make a tunnel under the Alps, he replied, " Under the Halps, mon ? why yes, ye could make a tunnel under the world if ye liked ; it's merely a question o' pounds. shillings, and pence." (A laugh.) But though no diffi culties in the eyes of an engineer, they were great difficul ties in the eyes of lawyers. _ Six thousand pounds have been devoted by the legisla ture of Jamaica to the buildinz of churches; £3OO has also been set apart for erecting schools. The Earl of Derby has presented the Rev. Edward Hornbv, M.A., of Merton k. °liege, Oxford, to the vicar age of Ormskirk, Chest ire. The Treasurer of the Church Extension Fund last week acknowledged the receipt of a donation of £lOOO GLASGOW STAGE COACH V. RAILWAY.—The first pounds front X Y. stage coach from Edinburgh to Glasgow was established, ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH.—We are requested to state by contract between the Glas g ow naa z istrstes and William that the Rev. E. Edwards, curate of the parish of Wrex Hume. a merchant of Edinburgh, in the year 1678. He ham, was not a candidate for St. Thomas's Church, in was to have "in readiness ane sufficient strong coach to this town, but another gentleman of the same name. run betwixt Edinbro' and Glasgow; to no by sax able The Hon. and R,-v. Lord Augus.u,i Fiizelarence, rector hor s es, to leave Edinbro' ilk Monday and return again of Maple Durham, Oxfordshire, has been spoken of, in (God willing) ilk Saturday night. The burgesses of Gins- political vi'c'es, as the probable successor of the late Dr bow always to have a pri-ference to the coach." Probably Hobart, to the valuable dean, ry of Windsor at this tine the passengers weekly, to and from Glasgow No per coach, would number about twenty-four. In one. day a one last week, the passengers by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway numbered 2,000. So much for the MUNiFICENCL.- A paragraph has recently ap peared in must of the papers, statirar t that two persons had placed at the disposal of the Archbishop of Canter bury, a sufficient sum for the endowment of two more tnareli of improvement. LIVERPOOL AND NEWCASTLE.—At a meeting of the scripholders in the Liverpool, Manchewer, and Nevrcas tie.o,)-Tyne Junction Railway, last week, a gentleman present mentioned many circumstances to show the mill , y Colonial Bishoprics. The statement vthich we have heard, and which we incline to think correct, is, that one indivi dual has remitted to hia Grace, for the above purpose, the aum of forty thousand pounds —Record. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—The ceremony of ported into Liv, ;Tool in larger quantities than to any other English port, not even excepting London, on account of C;)neje Hospital, Gower-street, London, took place on Wednei•day. The main body of the building was erected in 1833 and 1834, the south wing was added in 1838, and the wing now commenced will complete the building, and afford accommodation for 50 additional beds. Lord the intercourse with America which Liverpool possessed. The arlcle was largely used in the Tyne, where there were more extensive chemical works, than were to be found in he ertic ;he country ne price c any other part of London, a short time ago, was £l6 10s. per ton ; in Liver rool it was only £l3 10s. per ton, for the same quality, but as Newcastle had no direct communication with Liver pool, it was entirely dependent on London, for the circni- Brougham. t performed the ceremony. and oroceeden to the couneit room, where he was received by the Bishop of Norwich, the Marquis of Northampton, and a numerous body of the CoOmit. ollegi., twins route on the one hand, and the high charges on the other, rendered it impossible for the manufacturers on the Tyne to eo to Liverpool for it." LIVERPOOL AND'BURY RAILWAY meeting of this coml. CLERICAL AltiNutcs.Not.:.—The late Rev. Thomas Gishorne, M.A., Canon of Durham, late of Yoxan Lodge, Stafford, has directed his executors to apply the cl , ar sum of £lOOO to religious and charitaNe purposes within the diocese of Durham. A portion to be expended in the ri special gen ral gina! notes of a bill were read for making a railway from the Liverpool and Bury Railway to the Niqth Union Railway, and from Southport to the North Union Rail way, and from the North Union Railway to the Man chester, Bolton, and Bury Railway, with certain branches to be called the Liverpool, Preston, Manchester,•and Southport ha lways; and, also, for constructing a per and Other works at North Meols. The object of this bill, it was explained, was to enable the Liverpool and Bore Company, if they should think proper, to take" 9.000 district church unolher portion in aid of puolic infirmaries for the sick and lunatic; and the remainder for the encouragement of societies and associati , ns formed for the purpose of circu lating the Holy Scriptures at home and abroad on the fundamental principles of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He has also bequeathed to the Stafford Aux,- liary Bible Society, the Stafford Church Missionary So ciety, the Lichfi?ld Church Building Society, and Or London Society tor the Conversion of the Jews—£lot each . . . shares, 01 £2O each, in the undertakings mentioned. The directors were authorised to subscribe towards and to be come shareholders in the undertakings. A bill was then read for incorporating the company with the Manchester and Leeds. This was opposed by Mr. Holland, Mr. Fin - shim, arid other gentlemen, and there appeared, when the votes were taken, 17 for it, and 24 against it. A poll To the poor of Yox;411. the poor of Barton. the poor of Itothley—X2C to each place; and £lO to the poor of Cossinat‘m. INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE Es LARGEMENT. &C. OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.-0 Monday. a meeting of this society was held in London the Bi,l►oo of Durham in the chair. Orders were issue( in a body, and when the poll as taken, there were in twelve cHset , , wb , re the churches have been built or e larged with the aid of this society. The returns from t favour ottheamalgainalion 3,870 votes. representing 8,418 shares; against it, none. The chairinan declared it carried u animously pari:hes a•sisted show that for an aggregate po of 99 942 souls, church accommodation was previ 'e suitable to only 12,790 persons; of a only 2330 were free ; and that additional cburcb been obtained for 4040 persons, includin, THE BRIDGE AT RUNCORN.—Before the parliamentary committee, last week, .on the Aston and Huyton branch of the Grand Junction Railway, Capt. Evans was called to proce that the navigation of the Mersey would not be existtlic room has 3101 free interfered with by the erection of the bridge at Runcorn 1,11.11116, 4.1c - nr ••••• churches at Portwood, mar Southampton, Leek castle, Burnley, and Oldham, Neweas le, it . Chin, and the new districts of St. Jame East Compton, in the parish of Oldham The gallant captain said he was formerly a master and pilot, and Was well aequa . nted with navigation. Had examined the plan of the proposed bridge at Runcorn, and had reported thereon to the Admiralty. In his opi nion the bridge would be iavourable to the navigation. But ()I These triets; ta.:en together, contain 13,787 souls at the t time, without any a T means of attending Divi •. 4 • - The hit:i;ht; ;if the arches was one C. )St (a- vourable points. The arches also would cause the cut rent to run 6tronger,:and the excavation of the rocks would cause a greater body of water to run up, and the channel would be made more straight. As to the difficulty of tical coon- than such temporary accommodation as may be furnish by rooms hired for that purpose. The cede, missioners have endowed the new district par manhay ; St. Luke, Lrek ; St. James, Burnt , , Compton ; incumbent ministers are appointed to Ten other grants are made for rebuildi merit, the.chapel of St. Ann, Bis parish churches of Tretherr es of Cut steering through the arch 811 nonsense; ile had seen an old in sen p AUctila ear Dorsky, at ugh a much•more d:fficuit passage, and if any of th could not steer through that bridge he wt,ut d Brimin; JesuA Ch balgeff' - , ieir being sent to that old woman - to be taught ton, near Chesterfield, likecise for oel, St. Mary extra. Southampton lent. Wellington ; Also the seats in churches at. Mc ould not cans , St: flelen'o,. nent to the 1 Hemvoc addirigi In fact, it would improve them all, by c y of water to flow op.—The witness wa Sui.ton-on-Derwen amount of M r. SrriPant King ht n g un p now voted. the ha value of the property ,BF9 4s. Id., leaving, ther but without avail aid the riv 10,982 15, 11d. Tip- ,treasurer rep 637 15s. id. from the Winchrster 1): frOm Charles H a. sum of the sat ator ; and a lega of him i 'd by 0 Miss Susanna Letitia Archer H a, of Epping, in Surrey ROME'S RIGHTS.—h ha ner in ?wt often been o him agal. olio, and 813°4 J is in the that ou MU not re-ign my chaplaincy, nor did 1 give up the pro vision which I had raised for it in th e d ays o ' my dark ne use for which I had pursuaded t—although unfortunately at that knew how to accomplish what we God. And I have ever since hap ke and to preach through the sup :red me, the precepts and minci aristian Church. "I do not think ) my hiend, " after this full true int, that 1 have perverted the purpose )a phrpo,e different d to accomplish." , ort which it has renc 4' my er LAW ID LIG ENCE ssion on the list of y Term is 147 thard, a bardsier of the home circuit, rsday, in Sc. James's park, by _falling 4PORTANT TO BANKING COMPA'NIES.—The Lord --tier gave judgement in th, nt P, V. Page, Common Pleas, I was an htowtht to re( er the balance of a 4nestion raised on a Grantham, aK 111 , - compa d he SL on Friday ot the t king compares, on ,ideted to have of the firm of t were of opinion that, tock copartnei,hip, eta- it, it oucht not to be rules, arid, therefore, s known bv one part- by that which erdict should t' foie, be entered gen- ylly ft.r the pla BIG WIGS.--I the knowledge of all our on the first day of term for !Ito appear in full-bottomed first day of Trii iFy term, ►he Barons the jud wigs. On Friday, t I appeared in wigs of rd-hips had gobe through as called on. Mr. Martin „ ed to be allowed t o mention the case of Stocks:Lie and a. and Benn and Stockd 91e, the learned c , :unsel having on his ordinary wig at the t , me. The Lord Chiet Baron --- Martin, I question whether pit are visible today." and Queen's c he bar the peremptory paper artin said he was about t , state to their lordships that he found it a considerable inconvenience to wear the heavy full•bottomed wig. The Lord Chief Baron.--4 fear, Mr. Martin, that you must appear in costume. Mr. Martin.—l really cannot wear these wigs, my I. rd. I sal sensible of the ill effects of it for a week after. Mr. Baron Alderson.—You should bear the inconvenience on account the increased dignity, Mr. Martin. (A laugh.) It may appear to you a custom more hot mired in the breach than the observance Mr. Martin.—lt really does, my lord. Mr. Baron Alderson.—But you cannot appear without having ordered your martiage garment. (A laug) .) Mr. Clambers paid they had been misled by the judges in 'he Queen's bench having come into court in tie ordinary small wig. Mr. Martin here bowed and retired shipment to Enula ,,, i whn end niter. the Sub-Sheriff had recot merits gaged in conflicts with their neighbcurs, and all the effects produced be the Affghans were, as far as ae have heard, Peshawur; which have ended in nothing The attention of the public was attracted to the railways which were about to be formed from Calcutta and Bom bay into the interior of the country, and from which the greatest public benefit was anticipated The Fr , nch diplomatist M. de Lag had formed a treaty at Canton with Keying, proceeded on rene, who, after fie bort visit to Bombay: gooi•ted' that place en voyage for the Red See, on his return to Europe. had, after Great, scarcity of water existed in different places, and the cholera was raging in othe Mercantile accounts from Monte Video to the 6.1 t March, received rid t'ernanibuco, announce the impor tant intelligence that the Bilenos Ayrean force under Ur quirt had been compelled to retreat in disorder from the province of Corrientes, Ultil loss of horses and baggage, before the combined army of Corrientes and Paraguay and r General Paz. The official despatches rectived from that chief express an anticipation that the Dictator's force would he completely deep , reed. P-z's army was est:mated at 17,000 meo,—an overwhelming force for that e must son drive the adherents of If osas out. of Entre Rios, and ren der General Oribe's position in the Monte Videan terri- itreme AUSTRALIA.—We have received Sydney papers to Jan. 22 ; their contents are devoid of political Interest, if we except the dispatch of more troops from Sydney to New Ze . aland. 100 of the 99th Foot, under Maj , T Laqt, Capt. Arm.trong. Lieut. De Winton, and Ensign IVlenzies, hav ing sailed in the Lloyd's on the 12th of January. Tt e re fusal to admit Australian wheat into this country at the same duty as that from Canada had caused rpnefid _ and tome anger in the colony, and Sir Robert inken of with considerable harshness; the'Aus. Jid not. calculate on the minister's sudden wheel bout, nor will they, perhaps, feel much gr,,titude for a &cession- which only places them on the same footing its areigners some twelve or fourteen thousand miles nearer Iminimer Peel is sF AND MEXICO THE UNIITH STATP _ _ _ —The present _._ _ ipolous advance of the Americans on Mexico (hay •eviously despo led that comparatively c-lererless . . of TVXEi9, by no eredilahle ni their present Mexico and sweep in , o the Union „;e territory which was never fancied to Texas; the near approaches this le mines of Mexico, ;,;id to the bea rued - ti of California. both reur of their covetous d res; the exhibition c , orlant results, is supposed t tten;ion, not only of the Er but of the French Government, upon these grasping pro ceedings of the American Repot)lie. the grasping Spirit 25 or 1 m water's in- old wortian might take a bare at Runcorn th t times to ked confuted IRA LAND. Wednesday, some brutal wretches maliciously cut off the tails of seven cows, at Newcastle, near Limerick, the property of Mr. Seward, of Cork. On Friday night last, two shots were fir the hull door of Edwin Sadlier, Esq., at Derry, about two miles from Nenagh. Mr. Sadlier was olvieed to re move his family into town some months ag notices being posted on bis gates and doors in thrnugt o, threatening MURDER:—As a man named . Cleary was returning from the fair of Ennistymon, on Friday evening, he was attacked by a number of men who had hr en lying in wait for him, and brutally murdered; his brother also, who was with him Attie time, is despaired of .—Clare Clare Journal. _ . On Sunday, the Rev. M. Walker, of Elphitk Chapel, read along lecture to the Mollies, in his sermon, de'scri bing their signs, pass-words, &c., and advising them to give up such a nefarious system, which only had the (-fleet of producing a most irreverent shout of laughter from the Mollies then in the chapel. _ _ A CONTRAST.—Guerusey contains five times as many inhabitants to the F wire mile as Ireland does; 'while the soil is naturally less fertile, and only two-thirds of it can be cultivated. Every Guernsey man has a comfortable hou-e to live in, a clean bed to sleep on, and plenty to rat and drink every day in the year—a beggar is not seen.— [But it must be recollected that in Guernsey there is not a patriot like Daniel O'Connell, who pockets from £20,000 to £30,000 a-year.] RESISTANCE TO THE LAWS.-DISASTROUS CONSE- and the agrarian code has taken place in Tipperary. Two lives have been lost. Mr. Maunsell, of Bird-bill (about ten miles distant from Nenagh), ejected from a h holding forcible pr;s;ession, he fortified arid barricaded proper directions to that end-, to some of his servants and followers, he himself, accompanied by his wife, went out of doors to rrp-et the Sub-Sheriff on his arrival to execute a writ of liabere, and foimally refused him an entrance. The Sub-Sheriff, warned of the resistance he was likely to meet, came to the pl#ce with a sufficient force of consta bulary and military to carry the writ (on which he was 9ctins) into execution ; and having demanded entranr nd been refused- moreover, in va n warned r. Maunsell of the conSeguences, he proceeded to obtain entrance, and was resisted from within4de with stones And other missiles. The temper of the inmates, at the rime, may be inferred from their infuriated conduct, and their constant threats of a renewal of the massacre of Car rickshock, to which an air of likelihood was given by the multitudes who had assembled on the neighbouring, hills, either to witness the transaction, or to intioddate the ad. ministrators of the law, or possibly, if necessa4v, to take cart with those who were bent 4 n rP Forcibi possi.ssion, as WP I'""" • •• sistance. a aim d by of missiles from the wi ws (the sashes of whic ion); the riot act wt had been removed for t and after repeated u,e to order a to the arms of the constabulary, tir,t firing of the house, and afterwards at tb windows; nor was 1 Mr. Maur ier to desire his servants to surrender the h4inse. One rithusimstie female, a servant of the family, fell; tLe other victim of lawlesmess w The usual wTekly meet distin TH E IiEPRAL MSOCIATION nig of the Rrpeal As,oetatiun on Mon _ guished by a rrgular row between the two s - iich that "witlona! body" Nation of Saturday 1 has fair, drawn the s ,), , uneed by implication the old leader—and unfurled the fl , g in favour of Mr. Smith O'Brien and Young Ireland. From this position the party cannot recede—and with this imprerssion abroad, the public were fully prelared for the outbreak of the smnnldering embers of discord which took plac- on Monday. Mr. J. O'Dowd, barrister, was called to the chair. Mr. Ray read a long letter fri.m Mr. O'Con nell, upon the subject of the second reading of the Coer- eton Bill, Which is fixed by Sir R. Peel for Monda.% , the 25th, the Queel,'s birthday, or at least the day on which that event is to be celebrated. After which the hon. and peet of tle extension of the poor-law srstem. and the con -rqurnces o! such a measure upon the properties of the Irish landlords, whom he thus emphatically warns :—" let but'the landowners of Ireland recollect that if the poor law relief be extended at all, it can have no practical or rational limit, until it comprises all the pauper population ; —a population at some times of the year, amounting to a quantity of destitution c•irnprising more than 2,300,00(1 &in's • and for the entire year tieing never less than 1,500,000. Such are the burdens, landowners of Ireland ! yin, in your foolish resistance to the repeal of the union, will necessarily impose upon yourselves. To be sure you can in the meantime indulge your contemptuous disregard for the wretches liable to the clearance system ; you can also indulge your feelings of bigotry against your Roman Catholic fellow•countrymen. You can revel in the en joyment of many a bad passion ; but the avenger is at hand—the sweeping, the all-comprehensive poor-law is approaching—an increase of the numbers and an augmen tation of the authority of the poor-law cooanissioners— insolent dominati , m ! are rendered by your apathy and va•sions inevitable!" Mr. Doheny handed in £2l from Liverpool ; £2 l ) from Clonmel, received from the Rev. Dr. Burke, P. P.; and also £lO from Clonteel, received by another parish priest. He was proceeding to read the letters in which the latter sums were inclosed, and which warmly approved of the conduct of Mr. Smith O'Brien. —Mr Clements rose to order.—No letter should be read that was not submitted to the approval of the committee. Mr. Doheny asked was this association a place in which public opinion should be enshrined (great uproar).—After a good deal of argument between the gentlemen of the. cotton ittee—the O'Connellites being opp-sed to Mr. Do heny's views, the Young frelanders stubbornly in favour, Mr. Doheny read the letters, which elicited loud cheers from the body of the hall. The rent was announced to be £l4B 18s. Id. UNIVERSITY 4 CLIMICAL NEWS, popish pn pert the question. May 26, 1R46. The following very clear remark ,olves It is out of a monthly - publication that has bad an extensive circulatinn—" Free Though•s on Pro- Matters," by the Rev. Tresham Gregg. chaplain' of St. Nicholas Within, a chaplaincy endowed by Roman Catholics inthe reign of Richard 11., as certainly many of our Church living, were. It is as follows :—I recollect tat a Roman Catholic gentleman cnce attacked me on he charged me with taking money to say stead of this, petformiug for its services, t the donors would have thought heretical. 1 met his oljection thus :—"Sir," said 1, " you charge me wrought% : and if you knew my history, you would see I am a remarkable character, sir. 'I hough iranre. I am now in reality about My friend started at this in . Be not surpris (I. sir," said I, " you shall hat your,el 1,400 years of age mati on hear my story. I was ordained by St. Patrick shortly after his arriYal in this country, and prcaehed the very same doctrines that I do at .present. Things went on very pleasantly with me for about 7CO years, at which time the English, at the instigation of the Pope, invaded'this our native land ; they did all they could to .educe me from that simple faith which I had learned from the great apostle Of Ireland ; and. alas! nith too much shccess !_ My mind b: came corrupted by the su- rerstilions of Popery, and at last I br came qui, a bigot in that time; aril in those days of my darkness, I not only myself had a zeal which was not according.to know— ledge, but I thought I was doing G d service, when I sncceedrd in persuading the people trideVote almost all their. subqance to the maintenance of those idolatries through which I was bewitched. In the reign of Richard 11. I was appointed chaplain of St. Nicholas Within, and I took great pains to induce the pari,bioners to make a ucb, persuaded as they were of the importance of my Popish principles, they really did. I ejnved the provision which they made for me, blindly practising the errors which I was imbued with, for above 100 years, until the period of the Reforma tion. Then, for the first time, I began to perceive the de lusions of which I had been the victim—that I had alto gether departed from the faith of St. Patrick. and not only gone wrong myself, but had been a blind leader of the blind. I-I oc ever my eyes were now opened. and when they were, I ,• , `or my Oil age, w ZOOLOGICAr, GARDENS The third gala of the season, at this picturesque resort, took place yesterday evening and if we may estin ate qie succe s from the attendance or from the unbounded satts faction evinced. the attractions have been more triuM . phant than those of any previous year. The wetch. r, had been for some days showery, was fortunately propiti ous, and, from the number of pedestrians who thronged the approximating thoroughfares, arid the rattling of ve• hides. it was evident that the interest manifested was un usually great. On entering the gardens, every visitor seemed struck with the order and regularity they pre sented, and, though there are few flowers yet visible, nature seems to have smiled on every plant, each variety displaying its peculiar and beautiful rich tint of green, and filli..g the air with perfumes. Amongst the improve merits first noticed 13 the extension of the centrifugal rail way, which now runs round the parterre, forming a crow' plete circle, so at those who wish a turn in railways way now be gratified; but, like most circuitous lines there is no end to it, for the passengers are landed at the pla c e from which they originally atartedl. To the menagerie several important additions have been made, amongst which are'enumerated four splendid lions, panther, tigers , &c. ; and so successful has the keeper been in doineffr ticating many of them, that lions and leopards are not only together in the same cage, but he often pays them t visit, and while in the dcn, they obey trim as a faithful spaniel would its master, showing an almost incredible om is erecied-neer —ompleted io about It will be capable of containing about three The refreshment roorns.are under the management of Mr. Fi4c, of Castle-street (an exci-llent, caterer), rind are supplied by Messrs. Bird and Crank, 0 ' Lord-street, with their famed beverages. For the lake representation it would he diftiCult to select a piece of greater interest. (anticipating, as we do,' the visit of royalty,) or one off-ring greater capabilities for diversity of Fernery or for illunirrition, than the metro polis of Scotland during Her Mal.stv's visit. Its sitf! docility. the cnarg ten days. A very spacious cor jo of the lake, and thousand perso quailed in panorarritc, _it by any capital in Europe. Evety p rospec t is 0 ' sitieu'ar beauty .end grandeur—the nobl e estuai y of the Forth expanding from river into ceean ; the solitorl i beauty of Arthur's Seat ; the varied funk and woodlow 3laek. is admiittd to be of the neighbouring low' es of the extending voles, ,pe, combining it► one " 9t ments of the beautiful and 1" .owy splendor s of a landscl some f he riches the land cape lies ty stretching vrid reen acciivities -1 its azure tide— ing through ,mid the cone of green, risible is most imposing. s' ll t e ' que confusion of the old (", ins of the new. In no to tter maintained, tor if tl , e: ; , by its 1 113 4 1 .0 0 1' he imag North Ber And B 1 arehitectur ird the piclui ther we! or the sv is the standard of ex trade, th re id taste by their defer' , lv have the nd so admi to view reet in t it will b ments lee, bar rden sc 511 the f aced, and 1' previot 1 innurrieg bsnc giving the view frot•4it scarcely an inw(! r o ot rdetn Athens taken frnuc. the ens in the foiecrot.oo and the lligh.rtri e r are beantifulN d" I nf the an ything -• the , in every tU;:h.-filfdjed it. are so faithfully O r ' to for m,ny to I.),,r,nade tifetbq :anvax. The Firth of Il~an' that mellow caste, tiof . f!. the - - s in its delicacy with the stern n ott ca,tle is erected. V e pa rr' 'le foliage, i ns fi n e, o' ol mus t of the artists, to Whom 97° 1 credit of nor I that l e ndi a into view sP• er o shop' anti r toe 04i,L .1, di,PV.l:e5- lo a m e !' t ' - i r re ; d [ ,,,ire • tier riY 1 it eve ry 340. n. ra" au" s `; . ;a nd as the an bo bay Id advibe all vi selves ti the ship' away build I day, W opportunity to become subscr