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D r A Nclu VitblicationZ Just . Published, Price Bs. 6d. Cloth Beards, the - FOURTH EDITION of the ETTERS -TO A DISSENTING MINISTER o f th e 4 V INDEPENDENT DENOMINATION, Containing Re marks nn the PtincipleN of. that Sect, and the Author's reasons for leaving it and conr , irtning to the Church of England. By L. S. E.—The Rev. M. A. .GArtiElicoLE. . . _ . . " The acute and vied-informed author of this volume has pre sented tts withso many and so curious illustrations of the work ing of the principles ef.dissent from his own knowledge, thathis book ought to be generitilyknowu."—British Mayazine. `! A short time ago we earnestly recommended admitable work_ entitlgd " Letters to a Dissentin g Minister,' &c. by L., S , This truly able a nd spirited writer has experienced mu c h " keen hatred", and note " little round abuse" from the faction whiise. mischievous pranks and malicious proceedings he has'so ably exposed to the public gaze and to gen al abhor- • pence. For ourselves we offer the author our be thanks for his truly valuable and reasonable. production • t ought to be extensively circulated in these furious Churc attacking days." .—Boston Herald.. . • . "This work has come very opportunely o clip the wings of certain wild fancied dissenters. —Wheeler's Manchester Chro nicle: ' "The friends of the Church would do well to circulate this book. It has created an immense sensation wherever it has been read." 7. Newcostle Journal. Also, by the same Author, :Price 2s. 8vo.: • A LETTER TO CHARLES LUSHING'TON, Esq. M.P. in Reply to a Remonstrance addressed by him to the Lord 'Bishop of London,'4l3 account of his Lordship , having recom mended to the Clergy of his Diocese, th e Letters 'to a Dissenter;" signed L. S. E. With au- Appendix, containing Answers to the Dissenting Reviews, &d. • • . Lendon . := , --Whittaker and Co., and Greorebridge, Panver alley; - add sold by Hatchard and Son ; Seeley and Burnside ; and by all Booksellers. • Of the same Publishers may also be had, THE CHURCHMAN, A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, price Twopence each Number, and commenced on the Ist of January last, for the.purpose supplying at a cheap rate the mass of the people with Arguments in Defence of the Established Church. It has already . ob tained a wide circulation, and is earnestly recommended to the true 'friends of the Church. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. REPORTS OF FRENCHANTERVENTION. • PARIS, May 18.—The letters of the 9th instant state that Martinez de la Rosa has refused to admit of any concession or overture being made to Don Carlos. He has therefore retired, in consequence of the impossibility of his coming to auy art app. ments with his colleagues. Some members:of the council demand the execution of the treaty of the quadruple alliance, with all its consequences, that is to say, the inunediate entry of 10,000 Portuguese on the 'Spanish territory ; th e naval assistance of England for watching - the,coasts ; and the conceutratiou of a -corps of 50,000 French soldiers, ready to:cross the frontiers, if required. All these , measures are even said to have been resolved upon by the meat : +ers of the counts]. of ministers, and of the council of the regency, at whieh*Many of the mostinfluential peers and deputies were -present. Five deputies only (of whom Arguelles, Las Navas, and Istusitz, are said to be th ree ) opposed these measures. A new, immediate, and large loan is also to be made, in order to meet these additional expenses. In order to satisfy foreign bankers - and capitalists, the coupons of the Cortes 13onds are to be consolidated on more favourable conditions, and the Differes of 1831 are to be converted according to their origin. The letters containing the news adMit that the public mind was greatly agitated. Cordova has declared, in the name of Valdez, that One of two things was necessarv, viz., either a foreign in tervention or an arrangement with Dots Carlos. Martinez de In Rosa will not consent either:to the one or the other, but he stood alone iq the couucil,,and therefore he retired. The Meseager des Cliarab . res of last night says--" We can to day -annortnee, that the reiult of the pacific nogociations at Madrid has • been to send to Paris Lieutenant-General Marsplis . de las 2\s:tsarinas, Prekident 'df the 'Council of Regency, said ot . the Chamber of l'roceres, charged with the mission of currying or., as well in the nause of the government and of the regency, as of the two chambers of Proceres and PrOcuradares, the nego ciatiops begun at Madrid, and' also charged, if necessa r y, t o proceed to Lond on . - It'i s also thOugh,t that the Carlist geueral, Montenegro, will also arrive at 'Paris for the saute object, and that Pranee and England, with 'the consent of the tat) other Eurcipean courts, will endeavour, if possible, to reconcile the contending parties. In the mean time, the military operations in Navarre are to be suspended.". . • The following is the latest news from the frontiers We learn at the tnoMent of the courier starting for Paris, that the • Count d'Eseagne entered last night into Navarre." THR "tlocrs.mossrne." The Journal des Debate of this morning has a long and ver bose article, to' show, that as M. de Corinenin and M. Audry de Fuyravaau, have both deniedhaving signed the letter which was published in the Tribune, there-is no reason fir continuing the presecnti4n, as far as they are cenceined, and that the Chamber of Deputi es s h ou ld nut accede to the demand of the Chamber of Peers. The Peers have shown courage at a che a p . .rate, and the arti c le reflecting on the Peers is denied by the two deputies whose names were affixed to it. But what will he dune with the rest-of.the individuals who have sigue.l this letter ? It is thought that they will be cited, and that all but two will deny any knowledge of th e ma tt er: Th ese two, and the two directors of the journal; will be tried and punished. suseurstsNuons. To-morrow the 122 decuSed will, it is expected, be brought np,before the court of peers to Meet the witnesses for the prose cution, andthea, it is believed, that about 30 or 40 in ail will agree to defend themselves by contisel. These will be, not the political,, but theslabooring and Working class portion of the prisoners. -Still it is doubtful whether this course will be fol lowed by so many - as 30 or 40. The Phare states that Zitinalacarregny entered Estella on the 9th with eight battalions, and was received with shouts o welcome, and Merry heals from the bells. THE COURT, &c., .WlNosou May 19,—Prince Esterhaty and his son Prince • .• Paul, his sister the Princess Leichstenstein, With her daughter •.- i -and suite, had, the honour of visiting the beautieS of Virginia Water with their majesties yesterday. The Baron d'Ompteda arrived Yesterday morning, and had an audience of his majesty, after which his excellency left, fur tun. ' The royal dinner party yesterda:y consisted of their majesties, Prince Esterhazy and his son, Princess Leichstenstien, her, .• daughter, and suite, Misses Mitchell, Hasson, Wilson, Lord . James O'Brien ( who arrived yesterday), Lord and Lady- F. PitacJarenee, Lord and Lady De Lisle, Lord and Lady balk laud, Sir H. Taylor, Sir A. Barnard,. Lady Clinton, and the fticerB of the regirrients on duty here. . Doran, May excellency Namik Paiha the Turkish Ambassador, and suite, arrived at A r orthington'§ Hotel, from Londou.,to-day i and 'embarked onlioard the Wellington steam vessel, Captain M. Bushell, for. Bciulogue, under a salute. from • the guns at the heights. ' Maclaine Zumalacarregni has addressed a .rnernorial signed • by herself and several of her coon trytnen, to Lou! Eliot, requeq :. • - iughis lordship to interfere in their behalf by virtue of the treaty signed in Navarre. !Therdernand to re-enter Spain, and -tat be , protected-, agreeatitrtttllie ni-title 'which prevents the punishing with death for political opinions, with certain ex . eeptions. The Duke of Newcastle, at his rent day, hell last week at the. White- Hart,' near Twyford, directed that 20 per cent, of the rent paid by his tenau.s should be returned. This liberal act of' his grace has been duly appreciated by his numerous tenantry.' . • .Earl - Beauchamp, at his audit, held on Tuesday last, most graciously redured the rent's on bis numerous estates 15 per cent-.• The Rev.•W. C: Penton has been preferred by the Archbishop .of York to , the living of Mattersea. near Doncaster. TIMID ELECTION. • LOrttlolin;ititieell walked over the course" at Strand, en • Tuesday, 00 that day - elected to serve in Parliament for this borough, lathe room of Colonel Fox. ' After the :u ceremonie s had been performed, his lordship ' - addressed his constituents at great length. The speech, how , ever, possees-e . d ne peculiar feature of 'novelty or interest. He commenced with' retit rn ing the electors his most grateful thanks for the honour then had conferred upon him, an honour of which be was papute! I).,"vittse he had always highly. esteemed the in • telligence, the wealth o f the iuLtbitants Stroud, sec., &c. The nest kubject alltided to was Cut puratin reform, for which he had'prepared.ameasure which he hoped would b e w o rthy of the support of his constit uen t s , and' eUth e approbation of 'the -country.'This reform his hardship thought could not be safely •entrusted to•abli other hands thou his own. Speaking of his administration his lordship said-- • • "I believe - our wish is to preserve the Monarchy in all its splendour, to preserve everything necessary for the due workiug of the institutions of the country, but we will not allow persons to call themselves the props of the monarchy who are it s wors t enemies; we will not allow abuses whi c h are injuri o u s to the church to be associated with the church itself. We wish to pre . 'serve our-institotions, we wish to de that Which has long been r-equired„and'which nothl rig but prejucie. erinterest has hither to laeen Able to prevent. In doing so, far he it from me to say . :that weioan give to this country sudden prosperity, or that w e ,can bring upon this -Country an immediate' burst of haPpineas in such and content,-lant what we cando is thisl—Wuit ttilog s a train that the people of this coontry : '4llf nave a . due control h 9 iiiigilisto s t - • laver the. representation' and 'over' t ion of the . .airy. • . In the -course erthe day Lord John'' gaired,:'ard. at T o u r O'clock about ‘4(X) persons sat doWn to a cold dinner at the sub scription-room. His lordship was accompanied to the dinner by Lord Agrave, Lord Docie, and the Hon. Mr Moreton. CALEDONIA ILLUSTRATA. OCOTLAND, Illustrated in a Series_ of VIEWS taken et , • L..7 2 p+essly for 'this Work - , by T. A ta.ost and W. IL BA RT LETT' Engraved by Air,• RDD REIT Watt.: &c. Each part, ye r • conta i ning Your hignly-finished engravin nd s;xteen imps of letter.press, written expressly for t • ork by Dr. BEA TTIE, till aPpear monthly, uniform with itzerland, and at the Un itecedentedlylOW price of Two Shi is each- part. London: published by G eorge -Vi rtue, 26, 'lvy-lane,. Sub scribers names received in Liverpool by Ross and ;Nightingale, :.Chronicle-office, 12, Lord-streeV . Tact published, in three volume's, price als. 6d. boards, • 1 91114 A-N SFUS-lON, by the late W‘t. GO'DWIN, Jun., with a Memoir of his Life and Writings, hy,his Father. . Some noble spitits—judging by themsel ' . May.yet conjecture what I'might hav _en." ...`ThiS is a - remarkable book, and it star s out in as rlistinct a relief 'from among the novels gener •urrent at present, as a cedar with its black-green foliage • d a plantation of coin -li:toner trees, The family spirit, the same whwh so,g.gested the gloriou s n ove l o f St. Le o n, is- to be traced i n every page. Like-thq.se novels it is based upon a conception tirigintit'and extravagant; its characters and scenes are wrought out with a stern vigour which lays hold of the reader's mind at once, and holds it captive till the tale is told."—.4tltenfeum. "This romance differs- from the thousami-and-one fictions which are poured upon the public, in its quality of unity.' It is not a patch-work, made up of bits stolen here and there, and huddled together. What is not his own by acquisition he has a right to, for he takes it by inheritance."-Spectator. "Poor: Godwin (whose premature death excites a powerful sympathy.) -has produced a•mork of sufficient interest to chain tile...attention of readers, and. s er v e as , a fit Monument to en shrine his memorv."--,Liter a ry G aze tt e .' LOndin:..John'Slacrimie: Liverpool: W. Grapel. the first volume of a Standard National Edition of Tll . ',POETICAL 'WORKS OF 'MILTON, with a new. Blography,..and Notes, original and selected, by Sir EGERTON Bayri.4..;as;. Bart., and imaginative Illustrations, by 'J. M. W. Turner, Esq, executed expressly for this work, will appear in a few days. London: J. Macrone. ..Liverpool: W. GrapeL i Eirtperial Vartiainart. lIOUS) O 1? LORDS.MoNnar. .• " Captain At.aacaat hionght - u - p the Croydon railWav bill. A great number of - petitions were preaented to thi; House by several noble lords, praying fur protection to the church of ' Scotland, and for a parliamentary giant to increase church ac, comumidation in that country. • The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that two noble lords (Wharnelitle and Lyndhurst) who had been members of the building committee ex rirtate rigica, having resigned their re.• spective ofaees. and thus - ceased to be members, should be ad ded to that - tommittee.—Agreed to. The Earl of WILTON said he had the honour to present to their lordships a petition from certain i n h a bi tants of Mauches ter and Salford and the immediate neighbourhood, in which, after conveying their assurances of support to that house, and expressing their confidence that their lordships would maintain the indepeudeitce of that branch of the legislature, they humbly prayed that their lordships would withhold their consent. froth any measure calculated to weaken and - impair,. either in its , temporal or spiritual capacity, the established church of Eng land and Ireland. '(h aar, bean) To this petition were ap pended the signatures of nb less than 10,500 individuals; and, whether it were considered in 'volition to the numbers i. or to the high character, the intelligence, the wealth, and the Indepen- • dence of those who had signed it, the petition equally possessed a claim, upon the favour and attention of the house. But the circumstance to which he was more particularly anxious to call their lordships' attention was this—namely, that the individual whose. name stood at the head of this multitude of signatures (and let their lordships bear in mind that it was a petition in favour of the established church) was that of a gentleman of large landed possessions and great independence of character, who was a Roman catholic (near, hear,) a Roman leatholie, who availed himself •of these means of publicly testifying his disapprobation of the attempts that had recently been made to weaken and impair, to undermine and to destroy, the-protestant establishment in these kingdoms. (Hear, hear.) He had the honour to be personally acquainted - with that gentleman, and sure he was, that he had been actuated upon this occasion by no other motive but an anxious desire to record the grateful sense he entertained of his full and ampl e p ar ti c ip a ti on i n th e benefit s o f .our hi t h ei to free constitution, and of his enjoyment, to its.greatest extent, of that real practical liberty which was the linthright of every 1 4 .1ngligfunan.. (Hear, hear. He had been deterred by no menaces, influenced by no tear of the abuse that it was more than probable would - be lavished upon him in consequence of this act; but disregardine., that vain glorious boa s t, th a t t h e I r i sh cathol i c members had a overpowered the English protestant - representatives, he now boldly an&man fullv, and in a manner whichhe (the Earl of Wilton) must say , did him both credit and honour, came forward to place his amine among the signatures to this important petition. (Hear.) • Lord SKELMERSDALE said it .would appear invidious, when" one RfAiliflicatholic gentleman was praised, and justly praised, , fo r having taken this public-spirited course, if he did not de (Aar., that many other Roman - catholic gentle Men, residing 'in the neighbourhood front which the petition emanated, enter- Mined the saute opinions. (Hear.) Ile had reason also to know that the aignatures to this petition were wholly unsolicited. ~The 'Earl, of WILTON. presented a similar petition from the I parish of Middleton.7-Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The Speaker took the chair at half-past three o'clock. Lord Morpeth took tbe oaths and his seat. The London and Croydon railway bill was read a third time and 'passed. THE CHURCH. • Lord STANLEY rose to present a petition which he said he un willingly brought forward, because it contained very serious charges against a person of very high rank in the church, who, he understood, was, and had been for along time, suffering wi der pecuniary and family distress. The gentleman to whom he alluded was Dr.' Webber—formerly chaplain to the house —pre bendary (A - Westminster, Dean of Ripon, and Rector of Kirk-' ham, in Lancashire. From the , great extent of this parish it would lie seen that it was impossible that any one cleiegyman could discharge the spiritual duties connected with it beneficially. The parish contained 12,000 inhabitants, distributed over an agricultural district of eight miles - in length and two in breadth, comprising an area of one hundred and thirty square miles; it Was' divided into seventeen townships, and, so long ago as 1650, a division of it into smaller parishes had been recommended. It appeared that for two of the seventeen townships there was sufficient accommodation in the parish church; that five others. had chapels of ease; that there was one chapel the gift of the vicar and endowed by him; that the endowment of these chapels averaged £l9O per annum for each; ie 1 that there were eight townships without the means of religious instruction. It appeared from the statement of the petitioners that, in theyear 1814, Dr. Webber Was inducted into the palish, he receiving the small tithes of eight townships, whil e Ch r i stc h urch received the great tithes of all and the small tithes of nine townships. The small tithes appropriated to the rector amounted, at the to £2st) a-year; on th a t oc 'made with th e par i sh i oners in c p a e s rLo n d o th f e D re r. „„ \ ,, V is e a b n be a r r ' r s a i4d e u in ct e i n on t consequence of which the rectorial small tithes were increased from £250 to £1,090 a-year. At the time of that arrangement being made, Dr. Webber expressed himself, in letters now in his (Lord Stanley's) possession, deeply grateful for the libe rality of his parishioners,. and he voluutecied a statement to his . parishioners, to the effect that no alteration should be made during his hacumbeacy in the amount of those tithes, and that nothing shwa¢ induce him to become non-resident, or to absent himself from the discharge of his parochial duties. Phis was tbe.coasideratiou which he promised them in return for their liberality to him oh that occasion. From 1814 to 1829 Dr. Webber resided amongst his parishioners; but in the latter year he was presented with a prebend in Weetniineter. At the same period, unfortunately for his parishioners, be was inducted into the deanery of Ripest; and limn that tame to the present, with the exception ofoue single occasion, he had aever set foot in the parish, though, the petitieuers observed, lie - had at the time the small tithes were raised mule residence one of the con ditions under which he voluutetrily - placed himself. The peti tioners did not object to the fair and equitable emoluments of their pastor, but they were anxious. to see ,st larger amount of them appropriated to the providing sorsiciefet religious instruc tion for the parishioners. In the reeept instance it appeared, that of the t wo cura t es employed 'by the rector, one was the master of the grammar school at Kirkham, one of the funda mental rules of which was that the master of it should attend to no other business but that -of tae school. The appointment. moreover, was protested against -by four of Ale visitors of the sChool... .This gentleman, De. Webber, notwithstandin g this protect s appointed to the discharge iif parochial duties, which the petitioners alleged were inconsistent with .the discharge of his duties at the schtiol. 'rho petitioners further complained, or they rather made au appeal to the. liberality and justice of Christchurch College, .with regard to the impropriate tithes of the parish, - It appeared that many years ago those impro priate tithes were valued at three thousand live hundred a-sear. Now the petitioners conceived that Christchurch, lookiugat the enormous extent of this. parish, and seeing that the rectorial tithes wer e no t sufficient to provide adequately for the religious instruction of the parishioners, should, with a view to fulfil the purposes for which those tithes had been - granted, allow a por tion of the great tithes received by it for that object. It ate peered that so long ago as the year 1650, the great tithes of this parish were let to a person specified in the lease as a delinquent papist —a person Of the name of Clifton, of a most respectable family its Lancashire, whose descendants, curious eno u gh, be ing all eatholi c s, continued to hold those tithes under lease from Christchurch Coile e ee.. The present lineal descendant of tliat gentleman was high sheriff of Lancashire, and had only lately become a protestant.. 'rile petitioners complained that of these great tithes, amounting to £3,5(X) a year, the college of Christ church and their intermediate lessee enjoyed all the benefits,. while none of them went to the supporting of the parochial mi nister, or the endowment of the parish. Now, the college of Christchurch must surely be anxious to see the object, for which those tithes were granted fulfilled. - The petitioners stated, that if-Christchurch would adopt a different mode of leasing those tithes, for which he (Lord Stanley) understood that they hadon one occasion received . £lO,OOO as a renewal fine for seven years—that if sects a system were acted upon, adequate means would be supplied for the maintenance of clergymen for the discharge of the parochial duties, while a su m as l arge as the present would still go into the pockets of Chhh. It appeared from the statement of the petitioners, ristc that in the year 18.39, Dr. Webber returned to the parish, but under circumstances not .of a very conciliatory nature. He returned, notwithstanding the arrengement which he had made in 1814, feeling it his duty, and he (Lord • Stanley) be lieved that he did feel it his duty to his successor to du so, to set aside those moduses with whichhe had formerly expressed him self so satisfied, and to raise those tithes which hail then already so greatly increased. l'he parishioners naturally resisted this attempt on his part. He then made a proposition to the effect, that lie would 41hstain from all legal proceedings, provided the parishioners would defray all the expense which he had already incurred by those proceedings; that they would pay a certain suns for the improvement of the rectory-house; and that they would raise the tithes from £1,090 to £1,600 a year, Ile added to them, that upon these terms Christchurch would be willing to enter into terms to divide the parish, but upon no other. The parishioners felt deeply aggrieved that Christchurch should .thus be found to act contrary to the spirit that had dictated the original grant, and that it would not make an appropriation out of. this £3,300 of great tithes, so as to enable the parish to be divided in - conformity With the report of the commissioners in 1650. The petitioners prayed the interference of the house for two specific purposes. ,The first was,—and lie (Lord Stap ler) trusted that his majesty's ministers would,-without loss of time, introduce a measure with that views—that snore especially where clergymen were adequately provided far, residence sheuld be strictly enforced. , (General cries of "Hear, hear.") The next was, (and he was afraid that practically it would be more difficult to accede to it,) that the hiship of the diocese,' or some other competent authority, should make it imperative on ins prupriate rectors and vicars to make endowmeots, in conform ity Leith the 4th OT - Willihm IV., for chapels of ease in the parishes belougingto them, where they were necessary. (Hear.) After some further observations the petition was read. On the question " that it do lie on the table,' Sir ItoneriT Iteolos 'said his noble friend had stated the amount of tithesreceived from this parish, bnt the amount of tithes in a given parislr; or I heir reasonableness, or whether the parishioners paid inure than they ought for the spiritual benefit they re ce i ve d , or w h ether the vicar Should receive £loooa-year, or Christchurch, Oxford. £3.500 u-year, was not the question before the house : the question was, whether, as the law re mained, the patties entitled to those tithes called for or received a single shilling more than their value, or than they had a right to. His noble friend had said that it was only reasonable to re quest the college.of Christchurch to • snake over those tithee, or a portion of them, to the purposes for which they were origin ally destined. Now, he, (Sir R. Inglis) was perfectly willing to rest the case of the vicarage of Kirlshani on those grounds only, provided that his noble friend on his part would engage to endeavou r to make th e property of every other proprietor of church -property convertible to the Caine purposes. ("Hear, hear," from the opposition.) He did not see the noble lord the secretary for the home department in his place. (A laugh.) - Ile hardly knew,. indeed, whether at present that mible lord would find any place to return bins to parliament. If, however, th a t noble lord was i n hi s p l ace, and if his noble friend the member for North Lancashir e should make a motion to the following effect, he was sure his noble friend would find a ready seconder for such a motion in the male lord the secretary for the home department—namely, that all wh o h e ld c h urc h property u n der grants of Henry vim were bouud to provide for the spiritual benefit of the ziariehes f ront w hi ch such property was derived. (Cheers from the opeositie„. Ile wa s ex t reme l y sorry that on the present occasion the noble lord the secretary for the home department was net iu his place. At the fitting time he (Sir Inglis) would be ready to meet him on the question. The question in the present instance. was not whether the amount paid was too much or too little, but whether the petitioners were made to pay more than they were legally b oun d t o pay. With regard to what had been .said by his nade friend as to the com pact entered into by-the rector of Kirkha m with his parishioners, he (Sir ft. IngliS).appeeheuded that.the .character of that agree- Meta this-=that: if, t'ney, the parishioners of Kirkham, should' give bins, the vicar, LIAO a-year to be paid without li tigation, •he promised on his part not to ask for an increase of Ndaf that condition had not been bond fide adhered to by the parishioners of Kirkham, and he (Sir R. Inglis) believed that the vicar had been obliged to issue summonses in many in stances to enforce the payment of his tithes. His noble fiiend lied stated the difficulty of providing spiritual instruction in this parish, owing to ite great extents He (Sir It. Inghs) felt that THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD s iifficClty as march as his noble friend. He was as desirous as he (Lord t;tanley) was- - that there should be a resident minister in every parish iu the kingdom, .but this he would say, that in creasiu as the population of England was, it was not inure pressed for spiritual than it was for material subsistence.' He would venture to say that there was no parish in the north of Eng,land that, in proportion to the amount of its. population, was better supplied with spiritual iustruction than this parish of Kirkham. 'I he population of the parish amounted to 11;000,• there Were three churches, 'four chapels of e a se , i tro l t h e a c tual vicar had fitted up one at his own :expense in another township for public worship. had been stated by his noble friend that the actual wicaraeas'a nun -resident, and the petition stated that he was non-resident without. cure of souls. Now, in point of fact, from the time that he had, become dean'of Ripon he hatt duty to perform in the church of Ripon, vrhich'wes the parish church of the town. He hack; in fact, to discharge the duty of rector of Ripon. - Dr. Webberalischarged at present all the duties of a parish minister in Ripou.. could not be said, therefore; th a t he was nob-resident', for he had the cur e o f sou l s. With respect to the appointment of the master of Kirkham school to one of the curacies of tire parish, he would observe that the visitors of the school were elected annually, and that if one set of visitors disapproved, another might approve of that appointment. So far from the office of schoolmaster and curate of the church of Kirkham being separated by law, there was actually a decree in Chancery, in 1763, by which the master of the school is compelled to preach Once a month in that church, and the reporttpf the charity commissioners stated that the master performed that duty. His noble friend bad sa id th at t h e vicar ne ver came to the parish from 1829 till 1832, and that he came then under peculiar circumstances not tending to his era dit. Now the fact was, that Lord Tenterden's bill came into operation that year, and the vicar came tnKirkham, not with a view to his own benefit and advantage, but, as' he distinctly andemphatically stated, for the benefit of his successor, and to prevent the rights of that successor from being compromised by any agreement as to moduses which he (the vicar) might have made with the parishioners. Now, unless the house was prepared to adopt the doctrine that the right of property was to be compromised and sacrificed because a party had spiritual duties to perform, but that the right ofproperty was to be mails tained where there were no spiritual ditties to discharge -at all, unless, ho said, the house was prepared to g o that lehgth, neither his noble friend nor the house could blame the vicar of Kirkham for protecting the rights of his successor. (Hear.) He understood from a letter which he had in his haul, and which he received from the curate of Kirkham, that he had never heard of thilitcomplaint of his being also the master of the school until he had seen it stated in this petition. With re spect to the conduct of the vicar, this gentleman stated in his - letter what the vicar had done towards providing adequate means for spiritual instruction for the people of Kirkham, and that he haddone it all at his own expense. He (Sir R. Inglis) would repeat that this was not the case of a vicar deserting his duty.without taking care of souls elsewhere. (Hear.) Neither .was it the case of a vicar neglecting the spiritual instruction of his people, for he had provided two curates for the parish, sides other eurates for the four chapelries; and histly, it was, not the case of a man who hail sought emolument Int . -himself, thotigh ie laviiit had a right to it, 'but the case of,a man ..who; seeing the rights. of his successor placed in jeopardy, stepped forward 'to protect and preserve them. (Hear.) His noble' friend the member for North Lancashire would allow hint to say, that he was the last person in that house that he (Sir R. Inglis) would accusehf being willing to sacrifice the rights ofthe church. His noble friend and he had differed, two years ago, in respect to a proposition regarding the Irish church; but his noble friend had since made a stand upon the subject, and he was stile that upon principle his noble friend would al ways defend the united church of the two' countries. (Hear.) His noble friend would, however, excuse him for saying that when he brought forward a petition of this kind he should have guarded himself more than he did on this occasion in his state ments. The question, he repeated, here was not whether £l,OOO a year was too much to pay the vicar, or £3,000 a-year too much t 9 pay Christchurch College • The. question was, had . they a right to it? He cou ld no t h e l p t hi n ki ng, that whenever they should come to take the question of the plus or minus of church property into their hands, the security.',,r all property would b e endangered. (H ear .) Th e v i car of Kirkham neither neglected his duties nor was he avaricious in the amount of tithe that he sought. He was willing to repeat the statement he had made in the outset, that if all the holders of church property s h ou ld b e bound by one and th e same ru l e , the University of Oxford, which had a inure direct and visible interest in the maintenance of the church of Engliind, would be ready to act upon the new rule which his noble friend would apply to the church property iu the possession of Christchurch College. But his nob:e friend was wrung in supposing that a new principle. One college in Oxford that he:e £2,000 a-year impropriate tithes had surrend ered the leases so as to increase the value of the livings in the various parishes from £:1,000, which they were in the aggre gate, to £B,OOO per annum. He was aware that legal difficulties might operate in other cases, but he stated this fact to show that the principle advocated by his noble friend had already been adopted and recognized In Oxford. The University of Oxford, therefore, had n o t t o l earn t h at lesson even from his: noble friend, whom they had highly respected. After a few observations from Mr. Harvey, Mr. Cobbett. and another member, the - petition was °Meted to lie on the table. THE LATE MINISTRY. Mr. E. BOILER presented a petition from a parish in Staf fordshire, expressing regret at the resignation of the late minis try. Their intended measures were, in the opinion of the petitioners, calculated to benefit the country, while the appro priation resolution, in reference to the Irish church, which the late ministry had ineffectually opposed, would, if acted upon, tend to the encouragement of papery and the danger of the na tional church. The honourable tuember observed that the petition was numerously and respectably signed. r. O'CONNELL.—It would have been only becoming, then in these respectable persons, if they had been a little more de , cent in their languege. The petition being presented, Mr. O'Connell desired the clerk to read the paragraph in which the ivied "popery" was contained. This was dote amidst some laughter; and, no fur ther observati ons b e i ng made, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. • Mr. C. FERGUSSON presented a petition in support of the es tablished church of Scotland, and then gave notice that on the 27th instant he would present a petition from the East India Company for a reduction of the duties on sugar and other arti cles, the produce of the Vast Indies Mr. S. CaawFott D presented a petition from the presbyterians of the parish of Killehigh, in the county of Down, praying f o r the extincti o n o f ti t h es , T he petition was signed 'by 800 .pres byterian landholders, and the signatures to it were exclusively presbyterian,in.order to disprove the statement which the noble lord (Castlereagh) had been understood on a former occasion to make, that the presbyterians of the north of Ireland were favourable to the syStein of tithes. Lard CASTLEREAGH observed, that he should.not have said one word on this occasion had he not been pointedly alluded to by the honourable gentleman opposite. hie denied that he had ever-said that the presbyterians m the north of Ireland were fa vourable to the present system of tithes, and asserted that the. statements to that effect which had been put into his mouth by the newspapers were altogether incorrect. He admitted that the petition, from the signatures attached to it, was deserving of respect. It came from a body of presbyterians, from when' he differed most conscientiously, and. it went to the establish ment of the voluntary principle, not only as regarded the minis ters of their own creed but also as regatded the ministers of the established church. He differed from the petitioners entirely on that point, though be admitted their respectability. Ire thought that it was a - little too much for the honourable member for Dundalk to sa,y, that a petition coming from the presbyte rians of two parishes, and signed by not more than 800 persons out of a population of 15,000, represented the feelings of the presbyterians of the county of Down. The petitioners com plained of the tithe system. He had expected that the bill introduced by the late government would hare removed the complaints and mitigated the prejudices which existed upon that subject. He was sorry to find that his expectations were' disappointed. Now that the honourable member had gone over to the other side of e house, he (Lord Castlereagh) hoped that he (Mr. S. Crawford) would he able to support that tithe bill, with the appropriation clause inserted in it, on the ground, that, if carried, it would give satisfaction both to presbyterians and to catholics. After a further short discussion this petition was laid on the table. THE BOROUGH STAFFORD. An hon. Memb er moved for a ` writ for the borough of Stafford,. in the room of Sir P. H. Goderiche, who had accepted the chiltern hundreds. Mr. DrvEvr moved as an amendment, that the writ be sus pended until Monday the 22d of June. The hon. gentleman grounded his motion upon the bribe r y w hi c h ex i s t e d a t th a t place in the e l ec ti on of 1832,. the details of which he stated at some length. - Mr. H. BULWER seconded the amendment. A short debate ensued in which Sir R o b er t P ee l su pp or t e d the amendm en t. The right hon. baronet after stating his rea sons for doing so, said that he should reserve to himself the right of adopting what course he might think it best to pursue with respect to the graver question of disfranchisement, when that subject came before the house. The amendment - of Mr. Divett was agreed to. THAMES TUNNEL re COMPANY. Mr. WALT ER begged to new the subject to which he was about to call the attention of the right hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday. Ile had recently seen a statement that a considerable sum of money—he believed upwards of £30,000 —had been advanced to the Thames Tunnel eoinpany, this sum being only - ia portion of a gross amount of £270,000, which it appeared governme.t. was entitled to advance to the company under act 'of parliament. - He was ignorant, as he believed many otherinctividuals were, that such an act had been passed; but he now understood that it was passed on the la s t d a y o f t h e session of ISM. As he consider& the remaining 1:2.10,000 in some jeopardy, if advanced to the Company, he now wished to ask the right hon. gentleman whether he had any objection to lay before ttre-itoosu all the information that the government had received; encouraging them to make that grant; or if be. would allow hint (Mr. Walter) to make such a selection from the papers respecting it, as might appear necessary in case he should feel justified in making a motion upon the subject. Mr. Rice said that on Friday he had requested the hon. Member for Berkshire to postpone his question till h e (M r. Rice) should h ave an opportun i ty o f inquiring into the subject; and on looking,at the - acts of the fait session be saw that Mower had been. given to government to grant the Thames funnel Company the sank mentioned in Excheque r hill s. A sum of. £30,000 had been already issued under the restriction that it was only to be applied to the " under water" works, by way of experiment, previous to a further issue. The advanc e was made on- the security of the whole property of the company. He should feel no difficulty in letting the hon. member have a copy of the Treasury minute under which the advance had been mink, and if other documents. were required to elucidate the subject, the hon. member could have them. I he houSe then resolved itself into a committee of supply. BRITISH MUSEUM. Sir Eciußtur PEEI. moved that the sum of 417,705 should he granted to defray the estimated expenditure of the British Mu• sewn for the ensuing veal. OUDNASZCE ESTIMATES. Colonel L. !Inv rose to bring forward the Ordnance esti mates, but spoke in so low a tone as to be nearly inaudible. We understood him to say that the estimates haviu ,, been prepared by the late government, the first thing he had done on his ac cession to office was to direct his attention to them, With the view of ascertaining whether they had been framed so as t o secure the efficiency of the service, and at the same rime with a due regard to economy, and he was pleased to find that in both particulars they were perfectly satisfactory and such as the house ought to receive and pass. Since the estimates were passed last year no material alteration had taken place with respect to the establishments connected with the Ordnance, and therefore no considerable saving could be effected. The reduc tions had certainly been carried as far as, under existing cir cumstances, it was possible to proceed with them. It should be recollected that Sir J. Kempf was Master of the Ordnance from 1830 to 183.1; no less than 600 offices of different descriptions connected with the civil department were abolished by which Means a saving o f £46,691 w a s e ff ecte d , b es id es which the sala ries of the remain;rig officers were reduced, making a total an nual saving of £55,097. The transfer of the doprit in Tooley street to the Tower had commenced and although this would occasion an additional current expense, the prospective saving would he considerable. There was, in the present estimate, as compared with that of last year, an increase of £26,298 under the head of the commissarial supplies, which was owing to the - - • rise in the price of forage ~but notwith s t an di ng t hi s t h e estimate for the pres ent.year was less than that for.the last. The hon.. and . gallaut member concluded by moving the first vote—namely, that the sum of £71,193 begranted`for defraying the salaries of the master-general and principal officers and clerks belonging to the offices in the Tower, Patl-mail, and Dublin. • This and the other sums applied for were granted. .The - `..oathS abolition the'`.‘ merchant-seamen's:hill" were forwarded a stage in coliirrritteu. DowialtGEn SEAMEN. Sir-J. GRAHAM roofed that a return might be , laid on the table froin the foreign consuls of the seamen tha(had been dig, charged'abroad sinee,tbe year 1830. ANNUAL. INBRAINITY BILL. 11Ie. BARING brought up the annual indemnity bill, which was read a first titue, and ordered to be read a second time on Mon day next. Adjourned at a quarter past nine o'clock. ROUSE OF LORDS—Tuusn 111. The Earl of ABOYNE presented a petition from the parish of Kincardine O'Neal, in the county of/Aberdeen, praying for ad ditional church accommodation in Scotland. Lord' BEXLEY presented a similar petition from a parish in Scotland. Conyers' Divorce Bill went through a committee. The Earl of Itosstmay presented several petitions from pa rishes in Scotland against any grant of public money for addi tional church accommodation in that country. The Earl of Shaftesbury then put the qnestion, " That this house do adjourn to Thursday next," 'when LordBROCGHAIr said, before the house adjourned ho wished to offer an obseriatien relative to some statements that had been made elsewhere, and which had appeared in the ordinary chan nels of daily information, - on the sUi ject. of the new Poor Law Bill. It had been asserted that certain provisions contained in that bill enabled the overseers of workhouses to separate man and wife; and those who objected, to suCh a power were repre sented as intending to propose that the enactment upon this poiut should he taken out of the bill. Now., one reason against a proceeding of that description was this—namely, that it was impossible to repeal such an enactment, as the bill contained nothing of the kind. There was not one tittle in the new bill relative ,to any such power for the separation of husband and wife that did not exist before the preient act was passed; and he could positively state, after the roost minute inquiry amongst the commissioners and assistant commissioners, that no such separation had taken place under the authority and conditiOns of the new act; but that whatever ciicuinstances of that kind might have occurred were entirely separate from the authority of the board of commissionet s r the provisions of the act, and must have taken place under the old law, which had existed time out of mind. The matter had been discussed, and had been discouraged, in that house; and there was nothing in the new act that autho rized parish officers to send husbands away from their wives. It was a fiction, a pure and absolute fiction, of some person's imagination. It was never intended by any human being con nected with this bill, or by the board of commissioners, either with reference to the metropolis or to the proVinces; that such a power should be. given. That, however, the overseers should claim the right of separation, not under the new law, but under the old law—that there might be such a desire, on their part, Was very possible. But let those who objected to this principle please to recolletit e circumstances which led to the necessity of a species of sepa n—that of placing the wives in one part of a building and the bands in another. There was no ques tion about th e f ac t, th at marr i e d couples could not have'sepa rate rooms. There was, then, in the workh ouse , a room like a. barrack, with a row o f 36 or 40 beds on each side; and he would ask whether any decent modest woman would like to undress herself at nightond to dress herself in the morning, in the pre sence of all the inmates of such a place ? Finding that poor hilt modest women were adverse to such a plan, the overseers applied themsel ves b ) t h e o ld l aw, an d , in conformity with it, they placed the husbands in one ward and the wives in another. Now, if those gentlemen who complained of thii system would advance or give a draught for £900,000 to effect the object which they had in view, he was certain that the overseers would be exceedingly obliged to them. The calculation was, that to give to each married couple a separate room would require nearly, if not wholly, £900,000, and that being subscribed, there would be no necessity for the overseers to act upon the old law. —The house then adjourned to Thursday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnay. NEWSPAPERS. Mr. Roast:ex presented several petitions praying for a re peal of the stamp duty on newspapers. Mr. II ALFORD presented a petition from the town of Leices ter against the ecclesiastical courts hill. Colonel L. liar presented a petition from inhabitants of the borough of Peterhead against a grant of money to provide fur- Aber accommodation in the churches of Scotland. • Captain Alsacee presented a petition from the inhabitants of Clapham ago t the appropriation of the revenues of the Irish church to an ut ecclesiastical purposes. A number of petit] Were resented from licensed victuallers in different part s of thengdom, praying for the abolition of the iucteased.duties on spirit licenses. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Mr. Wes 's moved fur leave to bring in a bill for the amelio ration, general diffusion, and permanent support of the educa tion of the people of Ireland. The hon. geutlenian disclaimed any factious views in taking up this question, and, in urging the necessity for the adoption of the measure he meant to propose, he said, now, when steam was pouring forth its wonders—w,hen population was increasing with great rapidity—when unions for vile purposes (hear, hear) were increasing among the pr!Pula lion with equal rapidity —when they had taught tltepoptuati o n in the three countries which const i tute d their empire at home that they were entitled to a share in their own government, and when they had actually given them a share in ;t, the tine had come when it was the -duty of the legislature to see that the pen pie were qualified to use that pover with which they were in vested—to see that they could administer to the future destinies of the country in good and not in evil; and that they did not convert to mischief those instruments which, after a long strug gle, had been placed at last in their hands: By the bill which lie intended to introduce he proposed to establish in Dublin a hoard of national education, to be presided over by the chief secretary for Ireland. He would constitute the board by taking a catholic and a protestant archbishop, a-clerical representative of the Presbyterian body, a layman, from each of, the four pro vinces, and another lay member front Dublin. The appoint. ment of the members of the board to he in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant of It eland. The board to be empowered . to -bnild schools, school houses anti residences for teachers—to , es tablish and matt:min schools for teachers and fie. the hurribler classes generally, and to annex to those schools model schools. The hoard was also to he empowered to build schools, but the parishes should he cnmpelled to keep them in.repair and to - pay or contribute towards the masters' salaries. The hon. gentle man said, in conclusion, they might found institutions, change laws, and build up-new forms of government, but if they did not proceed on the basis of religion, by which alone men's minds could be prnperly trained, they would merely construct a Babel. If Ireland was to be regenerated, it must he effected by en lightening the minds of het people. On that alone he rested his hope of ameliorating the condition of his country, and the motion with which he was about to conclude would show whether pledges were to be redeemed and,hopes and aspirations to be re alized. He was satisfied that there were no means of cultivat ing ally country, except through its sympathies and its know ledge.• The people of Ireland were informed but not educated, and in order to improve them it was necessary to begin not with words, but things. It was not enough to teach the people mere readin g an d wr iti ng , th e y must obtain knowledge in eider to enable them to enjoy freedom. • The hon. gentleman con cluded with moving for leave to bring in a bill for the ameliora tion, general diffusion, and permanent support of the education of the people of Ireland. (Cheers.) • Mr. O'BRIEN seconded the motion. ' Lord MioRPET/1 said that he certainly could not, at present, pretend to possess any official knowledge of the details of the subject into which the hoe. member for Waterford had travelled. Ile undoubtedly approved of the board of education founded by his noble friend the member for North Lancashire, which it ap peared to be part of the hon. member's scheme to confirm and extend. At all events, looking to the paramount imp o rt ance o f the subje c t, h e wou ld no t t h row any impediment in the way of the introduction of the bill, Tho ug h part o f the groundwork of the h on . member's plan tippeared somewhat ambitious; he hoped that his bill would be found to contain provisions calcu lated to promote the public benefit. (Hear, hear.) Leave was given to bring in the bill. SLAVE TRADE. Mr. P. BUXTON rose to move an address to the crown, on the subject of the slave trade in place of the address which he moved last Tuesday, but which, on account of some objections taken to its form and length, was ultimately withdrawn. The hon. member, after briefly recapitulating the grounds which on that occasion he urged in support of the motion, proposed the following address, whieli he thought was couched in very tem perate language:—" That an humble address. be presented to his Majesty, to inform his Majesty that this house has learned with deep regret, from the documents which have been laid be fore it, that the traffic in slaves still continues to be carried on, under the protection .of die flags of foreign nations, particularly ander those of Spain and Portugal, to an extent almost as great as at any former period of its existence, and attended with cir cumstances of additional cruelty and horror; that this house particularly calls the attention of his Mejesty to the :conduct hitherto pursued by the governments of Spain and Portugal, who are bound, not only• by the most solemn treaties, hut by the payment oflarge sums of money, and the remission 'of debts :due to this country, totally to abolish this nefarious traffic ; that this house, with a view to put an end to this iniquitous 'and de testable trade, hutntity beseech his Majesty to enter into nego ciations with his allies, for the purpose of revising all the treaties having for their object the suppression of this traffic, in order to reduce the terms and stipitlaCons contained therein into one solemn league lietween all the high contracting parties, and to introduce into such general treaty, Ist—an extension of the limit to the right of search 1,1.11,4 whole.of the western and eastern coasts of Africa and the Island of Madagescar, and to such.distance from these coasts as shall insure the capture of all slaves ; and an agreement. that this right ofe,earch shall be reciprocal between all the high contracting:parties: 2d—that the right of seizure shall he extended to vessels etinipped for the purpose of trading. in slaves, although not actually having slaves on board : 3—an agreement that all such veseels ns may be condemned by the mixed commission courts shall forthwith te broken up, or otherwiseseffectually destroyed • and, 4th—a stipulation that the tr a d e i n slaves shall be declaredpiracy." Mr. H uste 'seconded the motion, which, after a f ew wor d s from Mr. O'Connell, M r. Robinson, and Mr. F. Buxton in re ply, was agreed to. Mr. F. Bux•rox postponed a motion which stood on the paper, relative to the state of the aborigines in the British settlements, to the 14th of July, in cons•Enence of certain papers connected with the subject not being yet printed, WRIT LICENSES. • Mr. Dsvxrr, after presentingpetitions froni the licensed vic tuallers of Exeter and other places, praying for the repeal of the additional duty on spirit licenses, observed that he 'intended to move that the act by which that additional dutv.was imposed, and which he was sure the house would never have passed, if they could have anticipated the extensive injury and oppression it had led to, should be taken into considerati(,n in a committee of the whole house. It would be in the recollection of the house. that under the 6th (b - Age Iv;, c: 81, a scale of duty was im posed on spirit-houses,. e'pmmencing with houses rated under £lO., and ending with houses rated at £5O. all houses rated above that sum Paying no increased duty. During the last ses sion the then Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, that an addi tional duty might be imposed on retail spirit-dealerS with,' advantage to the revenue; and he succeeded in persuading the house that he should be able to raise the amount of duty to the extent of £I6OIX/0. He believed that the noble lord was mis takes; in his calculations. Ile believed that the increased, tax would he found to have.the effect of diminishing the revenue, and of encouracing in a very greet degree the practice of smug •g!ing. After remarking upon the inequality of the pressure of this tax, th e honourable member concluded - by moving, that the house should resolve itself intom committee of the whole house . to consider th e operation of 4 5 William IV., c. 75, whi c h increased the amount of the duty on spirit licenses 50 per cent., and of the statute 6 Ge ,, rge IV., c. 81. Lord SAN nom seconded the motion. The noble lord. owing to the new position in which the Speaker's chair has been pb,e' ed, it having been advanced several feet into the body of the house, was not seen at 'all, and was very imperfectly. heat(' by our reporter. He objected to the present system under which the tax was levied, on account of the gross inequality with which the tax operated. He was mot opposed abstraelealy to a tax DIVISIONS OF THE MOUSE. Mr. WARD called the attention of the house toqbe report of the select committee appointed to take into consideration the best mode of publishing correct and authentic lists of the divi sions of the house. A conversation ensued on this subject, but nothing resulted from it. CIVIL 11 , L1. COURTS (IRELAND.) Mr. LYNCE moved •for leave to bring in a bill to extend the jurisdiction, and to regulate the proceedings of the Civil Bill Courts in Ireland. After some observations from Mr. She*, Mr. S. Rice, and Mr. Sitc?il, leave was given to bring iu the bill. COHN TRADE. Mr. P. THOMSON moved for a s elect commite to inuire - into the present state of trade in corn between thp cha q nnel islands and the united kingdom. The right hon. gentleman was for s o m e ti me i nau di ble; when heard he was understood to say that it must be in the recollection. of the house that in the course of the past year an inquiry was set on foot relating to this subject, and that in consequence of it Lord Ashburton, then Mr. Baring, had given notice cf n motion for prohibiting the importation of corn into the united kingdom from the chan nel islands., Notwithstaniing that notice, he found it neces sary to delay presenting the bill to the house, rot upon exami nation it appeared, that itr the report made by the customs there • was a gross error. Instead of the quantity imported being as was represented, (1000 quarterS on the average of the preceding five years, it only in fact amounted to 2100. A serious change of course took place in the views of the noble lord en the disco very of that error, and the inhabitants of the channel islands, naturally enough, felt alarmed at the threat of being deprived of a privilege which they had so long enjoyed, and which had been secured to them, both by charters from the crown and by 'acts of parliament, for with respect to this matter they hail at all times been treated as if they formed an integral part of the empire: it was therefore no matter of surprise that they should desire to, have, their case again considered, that it should un dergo some further inquiry; an a compliance with their re quest would be, in his opinion, nailing more than justice. He had no hesitation, then, inlpeposing that •the subject be re ferred to a committee up-stairs, and there was reas o n t o be lieve that L o rd-A s hb urton intended to have made a Motion to that effect, had he remained in the House of Commons. He concluded by moving for a committee to inquire into the state of the trade in corn between this country and the channel islands. Dr. Bowring, Mr. Tynte, Mr. Ileathcote, Mr. Pease, and two other hon. members, severally expressed their thanks to the right hon. gentl eman f or mov i ng for this inquiry. The motion was then agreed to, and the committee appointed. SUPPLY. The report of the committee of supply was brought up, and the resolution read and agreed to. The other orders were then disposed o f , and the house ad journed to W e d n esday, at half-past eleven o'clock. • - In the debate on Mlday night, after the house was cleared for the division on the Stafford borough, Al r. S. RICK proceeded to ask hi s h on. f r i end the member for York s hi re , (I‘.lr. Cayley,) if he Wo u ld not, on account of the Absence of Lord John Russell from parliament, consent to post pone his motion fur Tuesday on agricultural distress?' The noble marquis on the other• side of the house (Chandos) had kindly given his consent to post[ one•hiS motion for to-day, and he trusted the same favour would be granted by his hon. friend. The government would haVe every disposition to facilitate his object on an early day. Mr. CAYLEY.—Of course he had e very di sposition to facilitate the progress o f his majesty's present government, especially in its early progress. At the same time he must confess he con ceded the point most unwillingly, for such was the appalling state of British agriculture, that its case could brook no delay. However, as he understood that the noble marquis (Chandos) had made his (Mr. Cayley's) concession of his motion for to morrow a preliminary condition to his own concession to-day to the request of his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the tx chequer, het4 , 4lr. Ceyley) had no alternative but to give way . likewise, lest it ittruld be said that more was conceded to the ministers by theiemies than by their friends. He gave no tice, therefore, that he vould bring on his motion on Monday, the Ist of June, as he wished a week to intervene between the noble lord's (Chandos's) motion and his own, that standing now for Monday, the 25th of May. He would take the liberty of then stating, that to the original terms of the motion, which were, " That (on the parliamentary acknowledgment of agricultural distress) a select committee he granted to inquire if there be not within the reach of parliament effectual means to rfford substantial relief to the agriculture of the united kingdom," he should add these, words, " and especially to recommend to the attention of such standard f silver and gold." committee the subje c t o f a s il ver or conjoint o HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MEDNESDAY, SCOTCH CHURCH. A great number of petitions were presented for and against any grant to the church of Scotland, for the „purpose of extend ing church accommodation in that country. THE DORCHESTER LABOURERS. • Lord ERNEst Bituou presented a petition frim 3,600 persons in York, the Dorche prayisternuuionists. g for a remission o f . the sentence passed upon IRISH POOR LAWS. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that on some day in June next he would bring under the consideration of the house a bill he had.prepared for providing a poor rate for destitute "families in Ireland. The hon. member gave notice of another motion he intended to bring fdrward, the substance of which was not heard in the gallery. TAXES. Mr. RoniNsoN begged to ask the Chancellor of the Exche quer if it would be suitable to his convenience, on an early day, for him (Mr. liobinsor9 to bring forward his motion for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the propriety of commuting and revising the public' taxes. He bad intended to bring forward his ruation on the sth of May,' but was prevented, as happened to him during the last session, by l'ortuitous cir-. cumstances. Ile gave notice that on :Friday, the sth of June, he would bring forward his motion, and he begged bon. mem bers to understand that he would take the sense of the house on the motion *he proposed. The CLAANcELLoit of the EXCHEQUER requested the hon. member to reserve his determination 'to any particular day for submitting his - Motion, until Ais noble friend (Lord John Rusell) would be in his place, which, as lie said before, he expected to morrow. Mr. RoBINsON acceded to this request. LORD'S DAY OBSERVANCE BILL. On the motion that the Speaker do leave time chair :-11.1r. B. HAWES moved that the bid be referred to a select committee. Mr. Poo LTER called upon the house to assist him in carrying this bill, which was so tar from being objectionabl e , that if it was passed it would be called the "Poor Man's Bill." If the ordinary traffic of the Sunday was suspended, it would be a ()Teat blessing to th e working classes. " Sir A. AGN ESP thought the bill had much better be discussed in the house than in a committee up stairs. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was opposed to referring the bill to a select committee up stairs. The house was then in as good a condition to discuss the clauses of the bill as it would be after the proposed referente. Delay would be the onlyie suit of such a proceeding, and as the house had affirmed the principle of the bill, it was unnecessary to refer it. Mr. WARBURTON considered the tendency of the bill would be to bring legislation into contempt, and consequently the observance of the Sabbath itself. Sir R. PEE I. said that no roan in the House felt more of the importance of observing the Sabbath than he did, for he was, convinced that no one had a right to shack _the public feeling by violating it-e-(flear, hear)—but he would say be entertained very serious doubts whether it could be prevented by acceding to this measure, and whether it would not be better to trust to influence of measures, and thus check by the force of p u bli c opinion any viol a ti on o f the Sabbath, that course would be better than to have ittobservance dependant upon a new law that will be difficult of c'etef;ution, the tendency of which would only be to bring the law Mtn disr?pute, and the sacred object for which that law would he eceleted. He had flu dbjectiou t o all ow th e 1 Bill to go into Committiresand make 'it as perfect as possible,. and then he would feel lifebself at libertl to vote for it or oppose, as he should thick fit. Mr. POcLTER rose to explain, and was left speaking. An active canvass is going forward at Poole in favour of Lieutenant -General Sir Colquhoun Grant, who lia•. be , ln hl ought forwara by his•frionds on the Consorvative interelq, in oppeosi tint: to Mr; George Byng, upon spirits. As a luxury they might'f a i r l y b e f ated, prOvided it did not p ress unequally ou those who enjoyed them, and the [node of collecting the impost was impartial and even. He ex pressed a hope that the right hon. gentleman. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would. be induced to remove this grievance. As the hon. member for Exeter,:.had gone so fully into the de tails of the qnestiou, it would be less necessary for him to enter open it at length, and he should therefore content himself with seconding the motion of the hon. member. Mr. S. Ram,: said, that it woull be in the recollection of the house that the hon. baronet who preceded hint in the office he had the honour to hold had estimated the probable surplus of the year to be £250,000 and the next point to which he wish ed to direct their attention was, abat. it the proposition of his hon. friend was adopted, no less than £150,000, arising from the increased duty on spirit licenses, would be lost to the revenue. Now to that proposition he . for one was not prepared to ac cede. At a fit and a proper time (hear, hear), he should he ready to examine the question of the propriety of equaliziug the duty on - spirit licenses, but the present was not a suitable oppor tunity. He could assure the house that it was at the present moment under the consideration of the Excise, and if he was sufficiently informed on the subject, he should not hesitate to enter upon it at once; but in the mean time he hoped the house would agree with hint in thinking that there wis nothing so ill advised as to make an incomplete statement. He should endeavonr•to give his best attention to it, for a snore difficult question, small as it was, could hardly be found. He begged therefore his hon. friend would not press his motion; but while he did so, and While he was prepared to state thiit a scheme for equalizNg the duty on spirit licenses was under the considera tion of the government, he should he very sorry that it should go abroad that it was the intention of ministers that any thing snore than the inequality should be removed, (Hear, hear.) The exchequer-could not afford to part with £1.50,000, collected from this'source. By the way, he must remark, that in one re spect. his hon. friend was in error, when he said that the calcula-' lion of the noble lord (Althorp) when he laid on this tax had not been verified by tbe result. Now, in no one• instance did lie (Mr. S. Rice) remember, in any case that he had looked into, so close au approach to perfect calculation. Ho (Mr. Rice) had stated the amount of increased duty to be £150,000, but the real amount fur the first year was £163,000, and the noble lord had estimated the probable revenue from that source it'El67,WO. The great difficulty was to provide„.at substitute for that tax, and the great obslacle in the way of these who wished to commute taxation was, .that they were pledged to the repeal of the tax which they had once announced their intention to take off; but it; unfortunately, the new tax pressed heavily on any class, the n ex t y ear th ey were asked to repeal that also. He had' no snore to say than that he threw himself upon the indulgence of the house, trusting that it would give him an op portunity of bringing forward the question under more advan tageous circumstances than the present moment afforded. After a short discussion the motion was withdrawn. SCOTCH COURTS BILLS. Mr. WALL.ICE rose to move, .according to the notice he had given for leave to bring in certain bills. In doing so, it was his intention to be Very brief in the observations he had to make. He would, however, be reporter] to answer any queStions any hou. members might be pleased to put to him on the subject of the bills. In taking upon himself this duty he did not mean any disrespect to the law officers of the crown, and he should dis charge it to the utmost of his ability. The bills he proposed to move for leave to bring in were—"A bill to improve the courts of session, teinds, and justiciary; also to regulate and define the duties of. the judges, and of the clerks and other officers, and to abolish the fee and fund, and other duties of the said courts. 2. To regulate the forms, shorten the delays, and diminish the ex panse to the above courts, and in appeals to the House of Lords. 3. To explain, regulate, and improve the practice and jurisdic tion of the sheriff and burgh courts. 4. fo amend the Small .Delat Act, and enforce the holding of small debt circuit courts by sheriffs; also, to extend its provisions to the amount of £lO, and to abolish the arrestment of workmen's wages, and impri sonment for debt f or sums un d er £10." Leave given. v 22; 1834 .-~.~, LONDON POLICE REPORT. PrIARLBOROUGH-STREET —TuEsDAY• oedo A. PAUPER.-A little o ld woman bl`i , yeti, comforfa ur c ; - t he named Tomkins, came before M r . C onant, to complaie tout parish officers of St. Jam es ' s h a d turned her out of the po ur house. Mr. Bryant, the overseer, having Caused her to be sworeit t ' e following dialogue ensued. Mr, Bryant.—Have you been receiving relief twenty Ye a ' s from thi s par i s h ? Pauper,--Q6, more than twenty years. I have had relie f since 1811. • Mr. Bryant. —How long have you been in the_workil"s' Pauper. —About ten years. Mr. Bryant.—What sum of money have you in the flinde Pauper.—Only £l4B. Mr. Bryant.--Vill you swear it is not £218? Pauper. -1 don't think it is so much. Mr. Bry ant .—D oes not your relations allow you £lO al e besides-? Pauper.—Not so much. I get one or two sovereigns at "ft Mr. Bry an t.—Y ou are one of the money-lenders to t h e p pens, for which you get large intere s t, I thi n k ? Pauper.—l don't know any thing about that. Mr. Bry an t.—Are there not several persons in the workbag. now who have funded .property ? Pauper. —I don't trouble my head with other people's b usid ness. Mr. Bryant said he would not take up the magistrates' 6 ' l : by going further into the case. He would re-admit the old ►r ry . man, and take the sense of the parochial board as to the P propriety of re t a i n i ng her in the workhouse. A BaBRIDESMAID.—Among the night c h arges brought ht the Mr. Chambers was a young female, who placed herself at the bar like Niobe, "all tears, adorned with a splendid blue sa.: h bonne', pink feathers, and white muslin robe, trimmed added pink and blue, to match. To this attractive exterior she a cc b, the taking name of Miss Julia Arabella Divine, agaiust in the police sheet, was placed the unpleasant words of and incapable of taking care of herself." Mr. Chambe rs . —Wh y, h ow is this, Misr Julia? Y" were found drunk last night. Miss Julia.-1 vas invited out to hact as bridesmaid at friend's nuptial vedding. Mr. Charnh ers .—B ut t h at was no reason wh you should get drunk. y Miss Julia (l oo ki ng d own and blushing)— Unfortunately I took too much Vito vine on my wittles. Mr. Chainbers.—What are you ? Miss Julia.-I'm assissant ironer at a laundry. lf 14 Mr. Clianhbers.—W e ll, get Iloilo, Miss Julia, aad don ' me see you here.again. Miss Julia di it'd up her tears and tapped out of the bar rata a very graceful movement. .MURDER AND .SVICIDE.-LONDON. On Tuesday evening, at seven o'cl uc k, an inquest was h el i , d , m a long room at the buck of the G eorge I nn , Aldermalib u Lj e before Mr. Payne, the city coroner, and a highly-respeet a e d jury, on view of the bodies of Samuel Holden, aged 72,, 0 010 Prances Ann Holden, his wife, aged 42; the former of len ch, was gravedigger lead the latter sexton at St. Mary's Ch e u „: B ,l Aldertnasehury, botgeof whom were on the same morning i° , with their throats cut in a dreadful manner, in the vestry- 0 ° be of the ch urc h a b o t e - named. The horrid at'". 'r has cause , ' .. , most intense int eres t i n t h e par i s h , and the inquest-rooth crowded almost to suffocation. ll , * The first witness examined was the daughter, Elizabeth • e den, who was led into the room in a fainting state, and o n bet% seated she, in the' course of a few minutes, her evidence, as follows:—I am the daughter of Samuel and Ann Holden, with whom I resided at No. 28, Alderinanb t qi was enabled t° We'd This morning, about seven o'clock; after my father and mother were gone to the Church, where some repairs had for some titil_7, past been going on, I proceeded thither and found the ottle ti l t door ajar ; I then went in, and walked on up the aisle with ° ; seeing any one. On arriving at the vestry door I discovere d „„ l y to be shut; . I then opened it ' and entered; and there beheld ",, parents lyiug in the manner in which the jury have seen Owl's quite dead, and surrounded by a pout of bloo . d. (Witness pa here so overpowered b y h er feelings as to be for some little time unable to preceed; as soon as she could in some measure rega in her self-posseision sh e cont i nued.) I rail out of the r(1,,,r ., screaming for assistance, and fell dow n i n a s td e o f i nse nsio l ''e in the passage. Menan came up so on after, and ceeeied me° .e of the church. I didtot go in afterwards. her The witness on' her cross-examination said that her We ar had been married to his late wife only two years ; that her flt" i ; and mother went to bed about haltepast eight on the pre r T e e evening, and appeared very comfortable together her fat D e had within the laehiortnight said many strange 'things' a h often expressed an opinion that be should die in prison • co n tiered that his distress of mind was owing to the losses he o a te . sustained by the non-payment of remit by his lodgers; went td the church for the Purpose of breakfasting with her father 7 0 mother, and to assist in cleaning out the vestry and other Part of tire building. Mr. Lenuiker, a surgeon, residing in Aldermanbere, " .3 examined. He said, "At twenty minutes after seven & ga4 „A called into the church by a person who told me that a men . s a. ,. a woman were lying in the vestry-room murdered. I itti",, h ' e diately went thither, and found the deceased woman lying 7 . 0 her back and bleeding from'a wound in the throat ; the in was there also simil ar ly woun d e d , b y the side of his wife , l e head, hand s , an d k nees rest i ng upon the floor; they were rtn:ih dead, but con s id era bl e warmt h was still remaining in b(c.et bodies. -O n exam i n i ng t h e woman I ' found the winde the through to the s pi na l b one o f t h e neck; the large vessels on .right side of the neck were severed, as I imagine, by only on cut from left to ri g htt e ette length of the wound was f ro m 11" 1 six inches, an d the depth an inch and a half f rom the front (;, i, the neck to the spi na l co l umn. I su b sequently made an e/e., ruination of th e man ' s woun d , and found that the windpipe k. partly cut thr oug h, b u t none o f the large vessels of the ve t e, were divided. Th e wound was three i nc h es i n l engt h , a nd I" depth ni,t more than half an inch." Cross-examined by th e C oroner. —Did not discover any ma rk le of violence on eitherof the bodies ; imagined that no Strtigg; took place on the p ar t o f t h e woman fromthe app e a ra nce of th e pent of blood which sursounded her; believed that the marl if,,' tlicted the wound on -himself with a c a rv i ng knife found ill the vestry-room while in a.kne e li ng posture; from the extent 0 , , t" - wound on the ri g ht s id e o f t h e woman's seek he would decidediY, say that she mild not have inflicted it on herself; thought I w I I oman was sitti ng in the chair clo se t o where she was faun lying, and Chet the man came behind her, seized her by t htt chin, and having cut her throat, she fell directly to the floor. ; Mrs. Reynolds, an- aunt of Mte. Holden, sa id th a t h e r hill. had been ill-treated by her h us b an d , w h o very often retur n home in a state of drunkenness. - Joseph Russell, a journeyman painter and glazier, was ne xt examined.--I was this morning, at work in, the church, and ar rived there at fi ve minutes .past six o'clock, when I found the door ajar, and no key in it. I went up the right hand aisl e ' -facing the vestry door, which I saw was shuteand I then Pro ceeded into the belf r y t ower; soon after this I went down u 'i. some purpose an went again; at a quarter-past so t " heard a loud scree and immediatelv descended from the tower , when I beheld afe •le ten distracted from the Yestry-rooin el . : , Iti back claiming "My God, my father and mother are murdered! , having uttered which sh e san k senseless to the floor. Anoth er workman, who was up s t a i rs w i t h me, also came down, a nd o h °, our entering the ro o m in q,nestion we found the d ecea sed Ina" and woman in the situations previously deferibed e I also be held a htrge carving knife, covered with blood, lying by the man's left hand, and directly sent my fellow -workman for a s ur ; geon, who promptly a rr i ve d . T he d aughter in a few minutes soinewhat recover e d, an d was removed to her home; in addi tion to what I have s t ate d , A o b served a silk handkerchief whir , had evidently been recently worn round th e nec k hang i ng over the chair near the bodies. Coroner.—When did you last see them alive? Witness.—On the day before, in the church, and they W l ' seemed en excellent terms with each other. William Holden, the son of the deceased, and other witneo rg were examined as t o t h e state of Holden'e mind; they 0 ' curred in stating that for some time past he had conducted hin l i self in such a manner as to lead to a reasonable supp o sition ili a his intellects were impaired.. The jury re t urne d the following verdict :—" W e find tha t , Samuel H o ld en ' cut the throat of Frances Ann Holden, I°E wife, and a ft erwar d s his own, he being at the time in a state ° f temporary mental derangement." EXECUTION OF CARROLL FOR MURDER. Patrick Carroll, the man Who was convicted at the Cent" Court, Old Bailey, on Friday, of the murder of Mrs. Browning' t by stabbing her with a bayonet, at Woolwi c h, was on Merida"; . executed at Maidsttsue, in 'the pre sence of between three 03 ` four hund re d p ersons, amongst Whom•were an immense nuall'el, of females, some o f t h em w i th children at the breast. Ther , were also a large number of soldiers present. The unfortunate prisoner arrived on Friday evening. ° during th e w h o l e ti me th at h e remained in the priion,.he ev iocr , t the greatest po s sible res i gnat i on and penitence. , He was ass i st ed in his r e li g i ous d u ti es b y t h e Rev. Mr. Rolfe, second pr i eT t of the Roma n C a th o li c Chapel, Muorfields, wh o u sua lly avow' catholic prisoners at Newgate. and who paid him the most se"; lous attenti o n, an d S ucceede d in bringing his mind to a pro'''. sense of his unhappy situation. Mr. Rolfe had been sent dutfn expressly for this duty. The prisoner usually prayed for a, ll , hour on his knee s p rev i ous l y to going to rest, and slept soun" , ') every night that he p asse d in t h e prison. On Sunday night be went to bed at twelve o'clock, and slept well until about,„,, ,°' quarter-past six o' c l oc k on Monday morning, when he awok e and spent th e s h ort rema i nder of his existence in devotion. a few moments before twelve o'clock he was assisted from k' s * cell to the place of execution by Mr. 'Rolfe and Mr. Mea , the catholic. priest-, of-Cliattiam, -who a rr i ve d the nY shortly before execution. He appeared firm and resigned. When he had taken his qi position on th e dr, and the r o p e h a d b een adjusted'' at his req ues t-M r. H . A. Wades, the under- s h er iff, read wit' great distin c t ness t h e f o ll owing confession and exhortation', which he bad made to Mr. Rolfe on the previous evenieg:e - I acknowledge the justice of my sentence. I admit that have'deseryed to forfeit my life to the offended laws for having shed another's blood. I now abhor the crime of which I was and can scarcely account to myself what could have impelled me t o commit it. I can only attribute it to ungovernable passion Milani' ed by excessive indulgence it drink. But that 1 should thus hav e been led to take the life of a fellow-ereature, and to hurry tier un was ned int o e t ern ity, I no w d eep l y and bitterly deplore; and 11 '1 pardon of God and man both for th e cr i me I h ave comm i tte d an ti for the scandal I have thus brought on my country and religi' l !: I trust, however, my sad fate will not be witnout its benefit tO others—that. it will act as a warning to all to avoid my esacnPic —to avoid indul gence i n d r i n k —to avoid the excesses of pas , ' ° 'i Had I studied to practise temperance and restrain auger , should never have met this ignominious end. May God e ver , keep from takin g t o ways which may l ea d t o i t . Aslb a myself, I own I scarce deserve to be pitted: but if any kli eg Christian feels compassion for me, at this my last hour. 1 that he will show it by joining with me in praying that GA Il i his infinite goodne s s, throughlthe mei itsAf -Christ, will ocneP my late repentance and have mercy on my poor soul, "PATRICK CA R ROLA- During the time that this was being read the prisoner 1 1 maimed perfectly erect, and apparently undismayed. As sn°" as it was finished the pri es t s prayed with him f or a s h or t time' and the prisouer earnestly joined them. The extempore pra,,Ye r of the Rev. Mr. Rolfe was exceedingly eloquent and impressives They then retired, the signal was elven, and in a few Inin ut b e e he. ceased to exist. He- was considerably convulsed after t . e drop fell. After hanging for an hour he was removed into th . jail, in the privies is of which, according to the terms of his sen tence, he was to be interred. Carroll Was u native of King's county, Ireland, aged thir l s: - twq years, about five feet - nine inches in height, and of r nary. appearance. • He had formerly served ia the 7th Ftlfsiice: . l " . for r,ev en ers, at the end of whi c h term he was discharge Ho then ;_ilis,,ed into the Royal 'Marines, at Woolwich, ut e which he had remained for thre—veArs previouily to the act for which - he'fOrfeited his life. He liad known illrs.l3rowninZ fo r two Years,-• It - rippeared'that he had been d• - inkin,g for a day or two before the„cic:currenee, had' - rem a in e d out o f barracks be" yond his leave; and the fear of Icing reported for misconduc t, combined with the effects of inebriety, and a naturally irritable disposition, is supposed to have e:inged him to murder the tto" fortunate widow in a moment of freto.y. He was extremell Wilwn he wished to be i'eP rusfirred S'(' »0•(1'1_ hi , wine'! 4;tlcrLtrok nt bi tYll th ( fie Pc't WI! flat nf @► him g ovi tn g hay( 11 04 t at t h rl tili wiii, c oentc, th at, 41144