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imperial Varliawant. 'HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAv Lord DEN in moving the second reading of the Protection to Life (Ireland) Bill, stated his objections to sever%l of its clauses. His lordship was of opinion that a murder, or an attempt to murder, afforded no pretext for the proclamation authorized by tie Government bill; and that the treatment it was supposed to inflict on persons who might refuse to keep within their own dor, , r7t, after a certain hour, was much too stringent; that it ought to be a sine qua noon, that more than one megis'rate should be preQent, in order to warrant the committal of an offenl:•r, and that transportati at for 15, or seven years, was too se vere a penalty for a conviction under the law. unless for a rept-titi •n, for a 2nd and 3rd time, of the offence. With regard to a clause which empowered a change of the rpriue, he thought it ruht to be adopted, and that a distinct - nidation of wit enac'meilt for th reventi the int nesses ought to be fr treed. The tun v , as read a second time, Lord St. Germains stating that he would give every attention to the sugges tions of the Lord Chief Justice. SE OF COMMONS -MONDAY Sir ronytt-r PE EL stated that it was intended to reduce the dutics on rice, Indian corn, and buck wheat to one nearly nominal Irma the period of pas,ing the act; but as regardrd Indian corn and buck wheat, it k,as intended to adroit them duty free, for a limited period, from the d ty when the report of the committee should be agreed to, taking securities for the payment of the duty should the bill not ultimately be sanctioned by parliament. The house then resolved into committee on the corn importation resolutions, and after some conversation it was rqtreed that in the committee all further opposition to _ _ the measure of the government should be wi'hdrawn, and that all the obj:•ctions on controverted points, such as brandy and silk, should be reserved until the report should be brought up. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsoAN Mr. WILLIAMS moved, pursuant to notice, for an ad dress fotnquiry to he made into the state of education in the principality of Wales. especially into the means aff_Tded to the labouring classes of acquit ing a knowledge of the English language. lie adverted to the impoverished state of the clergy, which rendered it impossible for them to remedy the defect, owing to the extraordinary manner in which the church property of \Vales had been despoiled by Henry VIII., Edgard VI., and Queen Elizabeth. lie gave several instances of verdicts recorded contrary to evidence, and menth ned the case of a prisoner, who was sentenced to death with,ut understanding a syllable of the .evidence given against him, or of the sentenceunder which he was condemned to die, until they were subsequently explained to him hr an individual in court, whom he had asked why the judge was looking so grave and speaking so solumnly Sir JAMES GRAHAM said government were now en gaged in a coroprelnen.:ive plan for improving the social condition of the woriiing cla-ses of Great Bri t ain. He despaired of est-011'46dg a general system of education, but hoped to eq,:blish a separate scheme (T education for all sects of Chri,tans among the labouring classes iu Wales. The moii-n was witl,drawn. Mr. DUNCOMBE moved an address to the Queen to consider the petitions of the people in favour of Frost, William..., and Jones. Tile motion was negatived by a ma jority of 166 to 31. Mr. NEWDEGATE obtained the appointment of a select committ , e to ingoire into alleged fraudulent and vexatious objections and claims afforded by the present system of registration of county and borough votes. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The following fills were read a second time :—Coven try, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway ; Amb-rgate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junc tion Railways ; Leicester and Bedford Railway ; Shoji shire Union 'seaways and Canal (Fhrewsbury and Stafford Railway) ; Starnf. , rd and Spalding Railway. Colonel RoLr.v.sroN presented a petition, praying the House to legislate so as to prevent the operatives in lace manufactories working mere than sixteen hours a day. The Friendly Societies Bill went through Committee pro forma, it having been arranged between Sir James Graham, Mr. Duncombe, and other hon, members must immediately concerned in its progress, that with a view to the consolidati to of certain clauses the further considera tion of the bill should be postponed for a fortnigt.t. The Salmon Fisheries Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on the 6 , 11 of May. Mr. B ESCOTT moved the, second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. A measure of a similar nature had already been introdur•ed into the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor; the provisions of his lordship's bill, bowever, did riot entirely correspond with the provisions of the b:11 before the House; but as the character of the two were identical, it might be preferable to consolidate them, and form out of them one measure. He detailed, at some length, the grievances still suffered by persons professing the Roman Catholic faith within tne United Kingdom ; such, for instance, as inability to practise in the ecclesiastical courts, or to teach, unless upon each taking an oath, w'-): t was repulsive to many conscientious individuals. These inconveniences were acutely felt by numbers upon whom they pressed, and it was due to the Roman Catholic population, no less than to the interests of the Established Church, to remit at once this unjust and disgraceful stigma. Sir R. Bor.'s was anxious to return to the practice of the Augus►an age in England in reference to religious matters. That practice was whol'y irreconci'eable with the contents of the bill before the house, which appeared I to be based upon the legislation of 1829, and succeeding years, the dark' ages, as they might be called, in this country. No practical grievance had been substantiated by Mr. Escott ; for as tor what he had stated about the obstructions in the way of Roman Catholics teaching, they were notoriously unreal, as any person might have a licence granted upon application to the bishop of his di ocese. Our colonial legislation might be regulated in re ligious matters by the doctrines of the Established Church, and then no v..lid complaint could be made, be cause the Roman Catholic Bishop of Malta was precluded taking his se ,t in the Legislative Council of that Island by the imposition of a religious test. The present mea sure would in effect repeal the Act of Supremacy, as well as the law for the expulsion of the Jesuits, and would af ford encouragement to various public processions adopted in the ceremonial of the Romish Church. He moved that the bill he read that day six months. Lord MORPETH rtferrel to various provisions in the ' existing law which the Bill before the House would annul as practically inoperative, though not on that account un deserving legislative notice. The statute against preach. ing, for instance, was notoriously ineffective, the obno xious doctrines being promulgated without let or hindrance in all parts of the land. Still that enactment, while it re mained upon the statute-book, might be appl'ed to a ma licious purpose, and so of others of a Itke kind. Sir R. Inglis had anticipated, from the passing of this measure, the prevalence of various public ceremonies, such as the Procession of Corpus Christi, and the Procession of the Bost. But what was the fact in America, where the ut most toleration was afforded ? There these ceremonies were never known. So, likewise, he believed the threa tened inundation of the Jesuits would he found to be a mere chimera when this measure became law. lie urged upon the House to abolish all such restrictions as those against which this Bill was directed ; and as England was the asylum of political refugees, so let it be also the haven for persons of every variety of religious belief. Mr. FINCH would subscribe to that part of the bill which repealed the law against Roman Catholics exercising the office of teachers; but to other portions there were grave objections. He feared, for instance, the danger that young and indiscreet persons might be prematurely conmmitted to religious vows from which they would have no subsequent means of escape. There was also great in convenience to be apprehended from the license which would be afforded to Roman Catholic b'shops, to assume the titles of prelates of the Established Church. He ex pressed himself particularly solicitous, respecting the zeal of the Sisters of Mercy. He should oppose the bill. 'Mr. ( . 01.0.1)11011N, though approving - of that portion of the bill which related to the means of Roman Catholic education, yet disapproving of other parts of a more im- „ • .. portant character, should give the bill his opposition. Be reprobated the principle of rersecution, and would not recognise its aid in suppor tof the Established Church. But he feared so much the evils which would result from any recognition of the. Pope's authority in temporal mat ters, that he would never consent to repeal the Act of Elizabeth, which vindicated the sovereigns right in these dominions. He als ) dreaded the influenceof the Jesuits, and in consecr.ence of that dread, would have all legal means enforced for restraining their power. Believing the present measure would interfere with their safeguards, he intended to gise the second reading his opposition. On a division the second reading of the bill was carrier► by a majority of 66 to 43. HOUSE OF CONIMONS.-FRIDAY The following bills were read a second time:—Rear Dock Railway ; Bath Waterworks ; Rt:yal Asylum of ' St. Anne's Society ; Trent Valley Railway (Alrewas Branch); London and South-Western Railway Acts (Amendment); Manchester and Birmingham Continua tion and Welsh Junction Railway ; Liverpool and Pres ton and Manchester and Southport Railway; Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway ; Willingham Inelosure and Drainage; Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction Railway; Norfolk Railway Extension (Stowmarket, Wy inondharn, and Attleborough Branch) ; Manchester and Leeds Railway Extensions ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor chester Railway ; Birmingham Cemetery ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, and North Wales Mine- Aral Railway Amalgamation, North Staffordshire Railway (Pottery Line); Dundee and Arbroath Railway Exten sions (by order); Southport Improvement (by order.) Sir J. GRAHAM took an opportunity of stating to the Louse that he had yesterday received a communication from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, re9ncting the ex tent of the failure of the potato crop, and consequent dis tress and fever in that country, which rendered it impe rative upon him to move at once for leave to bring in a bill to make temporary provision for destitute persons la bouring under fever in Ireland. He regretted to say that not only in all the provinces, but almost in every county in Ireland, this melancholy state rf things prevailed ; and it therefore became necessary to make temporary provision for the difficulty. By the bill which be was about to move, power would he given to the Lord Lieu tenant to establish a board of health in Dublin, consisting of not more than five commission rs, who were already in the public service, and to whom, therefore, no additional salaries would be paid. To there a medical officer vi uld be added, and on the report of this board the Lord Lieu tenant would have power to appoint a medical officer to each union at the public expense. He would also be glen power, nn the report of the medical officer of any uhioii, to direct the building of temporary fever hospital;, or taking houses vu'table for the purpose, at the exi.ense of the union ; and also to have provided the necessary m. dical « istance and attend,..nts, &c. The bill would be of tempcory duration, bin to exvire in SeptewLer, 1817 ; bit power would be given to the Lord Lieutenant to suspend its operation at any time in those di,tricts in which the fever would be reported to have ceased. Mr. \VAKLEY reminded the house that Ireland was in want of food rather than of physic, and that a timely supply of the one might obviate any necessity for the other. _ 1 Mr. W. SMITE! O'BRIEN suggested the propriety of taxing the absentee landed proprietors of Irela: d, and said that Ireland only asked for a proper appl mion of her own resources. If she 'attained that she would scorn the generosity of England. Sir R. PEEL regretted that those hon. members from Ireland who had lin t' house wio-- only appearec. ie Diu the last few evenings, and during whose absence seve:;=l mea sures had been adopted with the sole view of conteuing benefits on their country, should now, when they did at length ni,he their appearance, taunt them as if they had been negligent, and declare that the generosit y of England was scorned by the people of -Ireland. A desultory debate ensues, in the course of which Mr. J. O'CONN ELL and other Irish gentlemen bore testimony to the feelings of sympathy apparent in the measuris hitherto adopted towards Ireland during the present session. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN took occasion to qualify his ob , and to say that his meaning vvas that Ireland med of four or five millions annually by absentee proprietors, and they could not view a sum of J.:100,00U voted for their relief as any rqnivalent to this. Ultimately leave was given to bring in the bill. Sir J. GRAHAM then obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the , aw of settlement in England. On the motion for bringing up the report on the Cus- servations _ toms resdations, _ Mr. SPOON ER moved as an amendment that the report be received that day six months. The hon. gentleman strongly advocated the principle of protection, and attri hutei the greater portion of the evils of the country to the Currency Bill of 1819. Sir G. CLERK was s urprised that in the present uncer tain state of the commercial and mercantile feeling of the country, which was eccasioting s, much tnischief, the hon. membPr should seek to prolong that uncertainty by moving its continuance for at least six months longer. After some observations from Mr. Newdegate, Mr. SPOONER withdrew his amendment. _ _ Tire corisiderhtiou of the duties in tie various aricles in the tariff was then proceeded with. On the proposition for the reduction of the duty on butter, . Mr. GROGAN proposed as an ecnenan ent, that the ar ticle he excluded altogetht r from the tarff. _ This was opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir G. Clerk, and supported ny ord George Ben t nck and other hon. members. On a division. however, the amendment was defeated by a tr., jority of 213 to 111. The article of cotton hosiery also led to Considerable dis- ettsion ; and Sir El ti:NRY lIALFoan moved, as an amendment, its oroi6sion from the tariff. A division ensued, and the amendment was defeated by a majcirity of 190 to 102. Mr. BANKES then moved the adiiurnment, and was supported in so doing by Mr. MILi s and other hon. - - -- - Mr. LABOUCHERE suggested that they might go on with the articles unobjected to, in order that there might be no derangement in the commercial concerns of the country by the delay of this measure. A discussion ensued, which was terminated by Sir R. PEEL declining to press the further progresa of the tarlf that night. Ile also suggested that he should propose that the tariff should be proceeded will) on Mon day, provided that the corn bill, as c , ntraeistingushed from the tariff, could he taken on Tuesday, if honoutah!e gentlemen who had :Lotions for that day would give it precedence. FOREIGN AND C'OLOAIAL. UNITED STATES The news which came to hand on Thursday by the Ro chester, Captain Britton, which sailed from New York cn the 21st, is more pacific than the previous accounts. Sir Robert Peel's financial scheme had arrived out hy the Cambria. The commercial classes were highly elated by it. and it had gone far to allay the war fever about Oregon. Most of the papers express their gratification at its " li beral and comprehensive features." In the Senate the chairman of the committee on foreign relations had introduced the joint resolution from the House of Representatives, abrogating the convention of 1827, but it was very doubtful, even before the arrival of the Cambria, whether these resolutions would pass, On the 19th ult. the question was further adjourned to the 23d. A dreadful snow storm, and gale had swept along the American coast, which destroyed a great number of ves sels, and upwards of sixty lives. The amount of property sacrificed was likely to exceed a million of dollars We have the following rich scene in the reoorts of the senatorial proceedings of the state of New York. It is truly characteristic. It is a correct report : " Dlr. Clark.—You dodged on the Convention Bill. " Mr. Young.—You lie, sir. " Mr. Clack.—You owned stock in thirteen banks. " Mr. Young.—You lie, sir. " Mr. Clark.—You have a princely fortune from the country. __ - " Mi. Young (with his foot on the desk).—You lie — you lie—you lie, you old hypocrite. " All the Senators.—Hooray hit him again, Buck, he hain't got no friends." By the Cambria steam-ship, which arrived here on Sa turday, we hive received New York papers to the Ist instant, and the news, though unimportant, is of a more peaceful nature. The discussion in the senate on the question of notice as to the Oregon territory, was resumed on the 24th ult., and carried on for several days. Two resolutions bad been brought forward by Mr. Colquitt, and it is said they met the views of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Crittenden, and others of both parties. They were to the effect, " that the notice be given at the close of the present session of con gress, unless the president, in his discretion, consider it expedient to defer it ; and that it was earnestly desred that the long standing controversy be speedily settled by negociation and compromise, in order to preserve the friendly relations of the two countries." After several dis cussions, the senate adjourned to the 2d March, without coming to any decision, but the speeches, generally speak ing, are of a pacific zharacter. The New York Herald, of the 28th February, states, upon the authority of its Washington correspondent, that, on the 25th, Mr. Pa kenham had submitted the ultimatum of our Govern ment, in reference to Oregon, to Mr. Buchanan, and that the Cabinet at Washington met the same evening and rejected it, Considerable doubt, however, is expressed in Liverpool as to the correctness of the Herald's cor respondent. The Washington correspondent of the New York Advertiser says that a rumour was cur rent at the former town, that " 111. r. Crampton brought out instructions to Mr. Parkenham to re-open negociaticns by an offer of the 49th parallel, the whole of Vancouver's Island, and the navigation of the Columbia fiat twenty years. It is said that Mr. Polk will not take the responsibility of accepting the offer, but will submit it to the senate for advice." The news of the Government commercial scheme bad been received out at Canada, and had caused a great stn sation, "mingled with no little consternation and alarm." The Board of Montreal hail determined to memorialize the home Government to admit Canadian corn and flour duty free, without a certificate of origin, and other ad vantages. There are 48,981 dogs in Paris. Earl Cathcart has been gazetted as Governor-general of Canada. The regiments selected for Indian service are the 10th Hussars, and the B,h, 24th, and 32nd Foot. The 18th and 28th Regiments are also under orders to move from China to Benpl. A tremendous fire has taken place at Philippopoli (Syria), and besides the destruction of about 2500 houses. numerous stores filled with rice, produced there in large quantities, were consumed. The French Government has established a school at Athens. for the purpose of enabling a certain number of young Frenchmen to stady the monuments which stll render that capital so interesting. A professor will be sent from Paris to preside over this establishment. Attempts have been made to take advantage of the pe culiar wording of the finnan for the election of the Eng- lish Church at Jerusalem for rendering it unavailing. These difficulties, however, have been overcome by the vigour find decision will which they have been met by Sir Stratford Canning. NIOODKEE.—Moodkee is a large village, sixteen miles from Bbooga Poorana, belonging to the Lahore Raj, con tains about 001) houses (many of brick) and 4,000 inhabi tant,, Sikhs, Maltomedans, and Hindoos. There are 30 shops in the village, and 100 Lahore sepoys arc on duty at the place. The French Government has at last come to the deter mination of reducing the exorbitant charge upon the postage of letters, which has so long been complained of by the public at large. The Minister has presented his prnjet de loi stir Ia reforme po.stale to the Chamber of Deputies, and will, no doubt, be carried by a large majority. We hear from Italy that a tumult took place at Pia cenza on the 25th February, owing to the raised price of corn, and that the populace went to such 'excesses, that the Austrian► troops found themselves at the necessity of using their arms. Four persons are said to have been killed, and twelve or fifteen wounded. A RICH .JOKE.—We are informed by the Paris papers that two works on galvanism were seized the other day by the blind and bigoted Pontifical Government at Rome. The Government actually imagined, in its besotted igno rance, that the works bad something to do, not with gal vanic electricity, but—ceedat Judceus I—with Calvinism. This beats the seizure of Plato's works in Russia. On the 29th ult., the damming of the Sig, 12 leagues from Oran, was completed in the presence of General Lamoriciere, his staff, and a numerous assemblage of the natives. At six o'clock the flood-gates were let down, and a salute of ten cannons was fired. By means of this work more than 15,000 acres of land may be irrigated, and rendered fertile. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN RUSSIA.—The Journal • des Ee'bats publishes a letter from St. Petersburgh of the ; 22d ult., which states that the Emperor had commanded that all foreign Jews, even those of Poland, who are ,at present in Russia, should quit the Russian territory within three months, should they even be established and pos seas landed property in the country. In future no foreign Israelite is to be pc:mated to reside in Russia without a special permission from the Government. PRESIDENT Pot K PRISONRR OF WAR" TO ENG LAND.—It is a curious fact that the President of the Uritte'd States, the warlike and pugnacious Polk, was a prisoner of w rin the ear 1812 to the " Britishers " Mr, Pi,lk was then a subaltern in the United S!ates' army, arid was captured on the ice near Detroit, by a party a the , Ilst Regiment of Foot, under the.mnanand of Capt, Bullock. Gen. Cass, the bellicose military orator in the American leg•slature. also fell by the f, rtume of war into the hands of the English forces in the woe y6eAr. March 17, 1846._ The Paris papers of Monday are almost exclusively oc cupied with the insurrection in Poland. Their contents, corroborated by private letters, show that this movement of despair was virtually at an end. The insurgents could not stand against the combined troops sent to oppose thrm ; and we fear these unfortunate men will ere long fall victims to their patriotic enthusiasm. Letters reach ing Paris from Warsaw on Monday state that the mist pet feet tranquility reigned there, aid that the Russian authorities had no fear of an outbreak in that city. CHARITAALE BEQUESTS.—Feb. I.—Among other chit- ritable bequests made by the town council, Jonas Frankel. a Jewsh philanthropist, who died on the 27th ultimo, and . . left unwar r ds of a million and a half dols. iab ut £230,030), are 15,000 dollars to the Jewish Hospital and Orphan As ylum t rested by the Brothers Frankel, 25,000 dollars to be applied by the authorities to the erection of a chari table institution for his Christian brethren. 150 dollars to every charity existing in the town, besides many legacies of 10,000 dollars each to the Jewish and Cbri=tian friends of the deceased —Allepeineine Zeitung des Judenthums. NEW ZEALAND.—Letters ft orn Wellington, in New Zealand. to the 12. h September last, mention the warlike condition of that colony, but with strong hopes that the THE TRIAL OF THE ORANGEMEN.—TIIC trial of the Orangemen charged with the riots at Armagh. on the 12th of July last, has just concluded in the conviction of irree persons of " aiding and abetting at a manslaughter." There are two or three circumstances in the trial worthy of remark. First, no persnn of the Roman Catholic mob was put to the bar. A. far as appears from the measures taken to vindicate the law, the riot was p-culiarly national, there being but one party to the quarrel. Yet it seem, from reading the report, that even the witnesses called for the prosecution, all Rorranists, admitted that the Orangemen, bring cogged in a procession legally and peaceably, made no hostile movement whatsoever until they were assailed by their opponents. They had been marching in proces-ion to some distance from Armagh, and in the evening.found the Roma❑ Catholics posted in lane numbers in a certain fruition of the city which they principally .inhabited. The latter attacked the Orange men, putting, according to the old Romish and Celtic custom, women and " lumps of boys" (as a witness de scribed them) in'front. The assault was made with stones —one man's head laid open, and others injured. The Orangemen, being there in the exercise of a consti►utional right, now did what the police and military have been aei'lauded by the Government for doing under similar circumstances—defended themselves. The result was the dealt of one individual. The police in attendance. and all others who:e information the Government was likely to take upon the subject, could as easily have seen the aggression of the Romanists as the defence of the Orangemen. Indeed the witnesses all admitted the ag gression, yet for the riot the Orangerr placed upon their trial and convicted.—Britann:a demonstrations of military force on the part of the settlers prove an eff,ettud check upon the natives. The in. habitants of Wellington are anxious to live on arnic Ode terms with the New Zealanders, but find it twcessary to stand prepared for hostilities if provoked. Thry have formed a body of mititie, horse and foot, and have re views weekly. Governor Fitzroy appears to be very un popular, and is charged with great want of tact in the ex ercise of his functions. Tne di satisfaction felt by the Duke of Wel!ington and Mr. Justice Torrens, in opening the commission at Omagh Assizes last week, said that, " in passinz through the country he bad not been snuck with any appear:ince of starvation or misery. He had observed the potato fie!ds and the hagpres of the farmers, and Mt extrernelY havpy in beinz able to say, that there was rot more than the usual, if so much. appearance of misery or destiution throughout the country." the other heads of the army at Sir John Littler's report of the retreat of the 62d Regiment in front of the bat- teri,s of Ferozeshah, is likely to accelerme the long-ru moured amalgamation of the British and East Indian ar mies. It is thought that the jealousy between the two services is injurious, and would be diminished by placing the officers both of the Queen's troops and the Company's entirely under the same control. The intervention of the THIS IRISH FAmINE.—The following pithy letter was address?d to the editor of 7'he S , +torflav last your Parliamentary report of to-day. I read, under the head of " Famine in Ireland." some observai ions of Mr. O'Co nell's. lie concht 'es by saying—" For the Irishman was always ready to share his last potato with his poor destitute Companv, although nearly nominal, is still considered calculated to separate the two services more than is de- sirable SHIPWRECK.—OD the 28th ult., a dreadful shipwreck occurred at the Bugio lighthouse, on the bar of Lisbon. A Freuch brig, laden with silt, sailed out of the river, in defiance, we are assured, of the advice of the pilot, in the teeth of a stiff westerly breeze, and of a heavy surf lashing the bar. The captain is said to have been too daring, and notwithstanding all the exertions of the pilot and crew, the brig struck on the sandbank under the lighthouse, and was dashed to pieces. Unfortunately the very nature of lier cargo immediately waterlogged her. The pilot and six of the crew were lost; the captain, a seaman, and two boys saved. THE AMERICAN AnetY.—The standing army of the United States consists of one regiment of dragoons, one regiment of riflemen, four companies of artillery, and eight regiments of infantry. The whole number of troops now in the service is 9,847, exclusive of 781 commissioned officers. An act of Congress of 1842 reduced the rank and file of the army to 3.920 myri ; th's rednetion is now proceeding, and when it is comoleted standing army will consiet of 7,593 non-c mmissioned officers, musicians, and privates. if the standing army, hoeever, not overwhelming, the deficiency is made up by the The Army Rvisfer for 1843 contains the appal ling announcement, that this multitudinous host is com mand. d by 627 generals, 2,670 gen , rat staff officers, 13,813 field officers, 44,938 company officers, being in all €2,205 officers; nor are these numbers at all excessive, when we learn that the forces under their command con sist of 1,385.645 men ! PRI FSTS, WOMEN, AND FAMILIES.—A trial took place at the List assizes of the Herault which created great sen sation. The following are the circumstances of the case, as stated in the indictment. Emilie Vidal, the daughter of a man of large property at St. Pons, was married to Corbiere, a physician, and in due time had a child, of which she became so fond as to neglect all her other duties. To divert her mind into the right channel, she was placed particularly under the direction of M. Dousset, the cure of the village of Felines d'Hantpool, near St. Pons, in which the Corhieres lived, with the hope of exciting in her the religious sentiments in which she was deficient. Soon afterwards the child died, and the priest took the opportunity for turning the affections, or rather the pas sions, of the mother towards himself, and ultimately suc ceeded in seducing her. Availing himself of the influence he had thus acquired over her, he got her to sign notes of hand in his favour, and at last to make a will, leaving him a large part of her fortune, over which she had the con trol, under the pretence of saying perpetual masses for her soul. The husband was at last 'made acquainted with these infamous proceedings, and went to the house of the priest to reproach him with them. During the altercation which ensued, Dousset made an attempt to stab M. Cor bierre with a knife, but he escaped unhurt out of the house. As he was going away, the enraged priest took up a gun and fired at him. Again he escaped, the charge having only touched his coat. Another violent scene took place between them some short time after, and the paramour struck the husband a violent blow on the breast with an iron bar. M. Corbiere was immediately seized with, phthisis, which he attributed to this injury, and soon after died. Dousset then conceived the following strata gem for securing to himself the whole of Madame Cor biere's fortune. He prevailed on her to consent to marry his own father, a very aged man, to whom her property was to be made over, and which he, the priest, would in herit on his father's death. But this plan could not be carried into execution until the legal term of her widow hood was expired. To overcome this difficulty,. and the consequences which delay might produce, he made the two parties sign a mutual contract of marriage, under very heavy penalties. This was on the sth of -March in last yt ar, only a month after the death of M. Corbiere. He at the same time made each of them sign a bond for a sum, left in blank, to be paid to him in case the Marriage should not be solemnized. This he afterwards filled up himself with a very large penalty. These transactions, on being made known, excited suspicion that M. Corbiere, the iusband, had been poisoned, and the magistrates or dered an exhumation and an autopsy of his body. No traces of poison could be discovered ; but DousSet was indicted for an attempt to murder the deceased by the blow with the iron bar, and also for endeavouring by frau dulent means to deprive M. Vidal, the brother and heir of Madame Corbiere, of the property to which be would succeed on her death. After a long hearing, in which all the facts stated were fully investigated, the jury delivered a verdict declaring the prisoner guilty of fraud, but ac quitting him of the charge of attempting murder. The Court condemned him to close confinement, with labour, for eight years, and to be exposed on the pillory in the market-place of Montpellier. When this judgment was pronounced, Dousset spoke not a word, nor did he show the slightest emotion.—Galignani's Messenger. neigtotour.' , Is Mr. O'Connell an Irishman ? if so, has he no potatoes. F. J Another correspondent in a subsequent pa , e er a tys that it is the la t potato that an Irisionao is ready to -hare, and that the agitator has not reached the last in h's stock. A Rock notice, written and signed by " Captain Moon light," was sent to Miss Maria l'eacocke, of Dooneen, commanding the young lady never to be seen with her sis ter Eliza, as his company intend "to shoot her as they would a mad dog," and that they will watch her both day and night with that design. These miscreants conceive that the benevolent Mr. Peacocke would remit the entire rent of his potato ground, after considerable reductions heretofore, hut for one of his daught• rs, and the notice concludes—" Peel is now at eur side—Hurra for Repeal and Old Irelantl."—Lirnerick Chronicle. Nei her O'Connell nor his clique—no, nor his press— can check the desire on the part of the more hotost re peaters to know what has been done with their m ley subscribed to the " rent." The Pilot (Mr. O'Connell's organ) opsnly avows that " the people of Ireland use never paid one shilling to the repeal fund for any other decide on the propriety or desirableness of the continuance purpose but that the Liberator racy have it to apply to of Orangeism. A stubborn fact llt dto deal with, which any purpose, or to every purpose. which to hint may ap- supplied the premises which have led to the conclusion to pear most conducive to the ends of the associ rtion." which I have come, namely—that a legal, loyal conledera- Such braz'n assurance as this is anyt bine but sitiefactery tion, of a defensive character, animated by the principles to a large body of subscribers, and hence the continued of the Reformation and of the Revolution of 1688, would bickerings amongst them, which are daily increasing. continue, under the name of ORANGE, (and utiikr none Mortnen. AND THE MURDERER RECONCILED.—We other,) to unite the Protestant yeomanry of Ulster, wee are no alarmists; but if ever the gentry of all religious liter the gentry of its counties joined thernielves to it or denominations (especially of our own communion) had not, a determination which my extenei‘e experience ena reason to be alarmed for their lives and properties, they bles me to pronounce unalterable; and which is stretteth have good cause to be so now, by the awful and horrify- ened by late acts, both of the legislature and the, xecutive, ing disclosures in the letter of the Rev. Roderick Ryder, to which (as my object is rather to allay than to irritate in our columns this day. Mr. Ryder was lately a priest your feelings) I shall neat further allude. of tire church of Rome, and he has brought home the " Having thus presented to use, engraved on the mind crime of murder to the priests of that church. It appears of the Protestant North, in characters not to be erased, a that that horrible crime may be committed with impunity deep sense of the necessity of PROTESTANT organiz :Von by the members of that church, when the perpetration of in days, on the one hand, of national abandonment of the it (according to the theology and morality of M a y noo th) principles of the Reformation and Revolution, and on the is likely to advance the interests of popery. Mr. Rydet's other, of increasing peril to Protestant life and property, testimony and proofs are unanswerable. Every doubt growing out of a widely-spread and deep-rooted conspire respecting Seery's criminality is removed by this letter ; cy. so organized and so encouraged by the disaffected, as it shows how the murderer and murder are recnnciled at to baffle the ingenuity of those who would apply a legisla the gallows, and bow the former is duped to believe that tive remedy to it; having, I say, these data presented to he is about to die a martyr for his holy (?) ligion, arid I me, while the delicacy of my health, and my di s relish of to atone for the sins of his whole life ! Oh ! pop er y, in a contact with the stormy scenes of political life would the very gibbet even, you make merchandise of men's haVe caused me to retreat into a cherished privacy. my souls !—Dublin Slut sman. conscience could suggest nothing to me, either as a chris- REPeAL LOYALTY.—At the repeal meeting on Mon- them or a patriot, why I should shrink from my position day, Mr. 0. Mahony (a barrister) made a speech, in the under the standard of loyalty and Protestantism which course of which he said, that it was a most disgraceful po- they who revere the memory of William of Orange, have sition for her Majesty to have placed herself in, to have planted in that province which was the theatre of so many met the bloated tyrant of France, Louis Philippe, in a of his victories. Under such peculiar circumstances, to bathing box at Treoort. Mr. Steele (a bead pacificator) draw back would land me not only in a retirement which —I protest against any gentleman saying that her Majesty I love, butin an act of cowardice, and an abandonment was ever, under any circumstances, placed in a disgrace- of duty which would ill accord with the character which ful position ; and I call for a retraction of the word " yourkindness has conceded to me. graceful." (Cheers.) Mr. 0. Mahony explained, and said " I have said that your organization is defensive. For his observation was only intended to apply to her Ma- physical purposes it is purely so in the theory of your jesty's Ministers. Mr. Steele, again interrupting, said— system, and I now assume your leadership on the faith of Sir, you must withdraw the word " disgraceful " as ap- its being really so in practice. To the executive govern plying to the Queen in any way, directly or indirectly. ment, and to those who, like myself, are entrusted with (Cheers.) Mr. 0. Mahon)! did so, and was rather preci- the commission of the peace, and not to any self formed pitate in winding up his speech and resuming his seat. body, however loyal or legal, belongs the institution and Mr. Grattan having then made a speech, in which he gave prosecution of aggressive proceedings rgaii.st those who it as his opinion tbat the association would make very lit- wculd individually assail, or collectively combine against tie of itself to give any account of their expenditure, the the lives or properties of others. The least intrusion, rent for the week was announced to be £283. therefore, into the province of the constituted authorities, THE CAsE or BRIAN SEERY.—A letter from a cor- on the part of the Orange Institution, would meet with respondent, which appeared in the London Times of Sa- my unqualified condemnation, and, if persevered in, my turday, gives what we greatly suspect to be the correct separation from it. But her Majesty's government need version of the case of this marl,, concerntegwhose execu- fear no such movement by the Orangemen of Ireland. tion so much hypoceoical and'priegly sympathy has been However they may differ from, and protest against much , paraded before the public. The writer remarks that,— of their legislative proceedings, they know and reverence "The statement respecting Seery's tenancyand subsequent the authority of that blessed book, which declares, that in settlement with Sir Francis Hopkins is true, and the their executive character, the government of a country treatment of the latter produced in Seery's mind respect I are the ministers of God,' and bear r co, the sword in and gratitude, hut Seery was a ribandtpan. The members vain ; revengers to execute wrath upon him who doeth of that society take an oath of implicit obedience to the evil.'—Rom. xiii. 4. I have no hesitation, therefore, in committee or superiors ; and by reason of its being volun- tendering to the government, its the name of the Orange tary, and invested, as they suppose, with a religious hue, men of Cavan, our institution, (with all the esprit de ; they esteem it more sacred than any other obligation. corps imparted by the talismanic name of ' ORANGE,) as I Sir Francis Hopkins was tried, found guilty, and sentenced ancillary to the present or any future efforts of the legis to death for some subsequent eviction of cottiers i • and lature to remove the stain of human brood from, and re lots were drawn among the parties supposed to be eg- store a sense of security to, our wretched land. grieved at a meeting of the society—the lot fell on Seery. " But we tell our legislators and the government, that I His companion, the second man at the offence, was ap- the utmost which they can do, will still leave a work pointed to see that he did not flinch from his duty; his for Orangeism to effect. The ex'remities, the hands and own death and violation of his oath, which he more ab• the feet, as it were, of MOLLY M ',Gom la, may be within horred, would be the consequence of refusal ; Seery, there- their reach ; but I know of nothing so calculated to strike j fore, resolved to undertake the supposed duty, but, true to at the heart of this mother of murder, as the known exis the lax morality and jesuitical teaching of his pastors, re- fence of Orange organization in and around the different solved likewise to fire wide of the mark, which he accord- localities where she has established her bloody code. My ingly did. This fact will account for the declaration, oft own experience (and it has not been small) enables me to • • repeated, of his innocence of the crime of which he was testify my firm conviction that, under God, to your insti- ALLEGED PERSECUTION OF ROMAN CATHO- accused, namely, firing with intent to kill." Were the tution, and to the wholesome dread of its " bone and LICS IN RUSSIA. priesthood, who held up this man before the people of I sinew," is mainly attributable the fact, that peace is in M. de Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador at Rome. Ireland as an innocent martyr, aware of the miserable any measure restored to our once troubled herder—that has presented a note to the Pope relative to the alleged evasion of the truth, amounting to a falsehood, the utter- Ribbonism is not now desolating our country, and prie s ty depositions of the Abbess Micuislawska, lately published ance of which was his last act before he left the world ? agitation (as at Killeshandra last autumn) insulting and by the Univers. He first gives an outline of the story : T HE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the maddening the Protestant peasantry by its monster arrays. " According to this journal, the nuns in question, to landed proprietors and other inhabitants of the union "So much for the physical purposes of our organize- the number of forty-seven, were seized in the night-time, etectoral divisions of Cloyne and Agheda was held, in tion—defensive, purely so, except when required to tender by cossacke, forced to walk to Vitebsk (a town which it is the Court-house at Cloyne, on Tuesday last. for the pur- cur co-operation to those who have authority to demand pretended is twenty miles from Kowno), shut up in an or- pose o f taking measures to meet the approaching famine, it. But as regards great political, or rather religio-poli thodox convent, reduced to aCt as servants to the Russian by procuring employment for the people, either by the tical ends, we are an aggressive organization ; amid it is no nuns, who every Friday administered to each fifty blows establishment of public works under the Government, or small item in the amount of satisfaction which I have in of a cane. It is next declared that the Archbishop threw iin any way that might he suggested. A great number of joining you, that there is not, as I believe, one member of them into irons, condemning them to such hard labour as gentlemen were present, and the chair was taken by Mr. your body who is not prepared, on all fitting occasions, to is assigned to felons ; they were made to suffer hunger and Roche, M.P., who, after stating the lamentable condition I record with myself, his solemn protest against that minis thirst; and to render the privation of drink more severe, of the people with respect t o f oo d, noticed the several I terial policy which systematically deals out "hard blows they were fed on salt herrings. It is added that some bills now before parliament proposing grants of money for and sore discouragement" against our loved and common were obliged to take part in the construction of the Epis- safety harbours, piers, &c.. which would tend to give em- Protestantism, " starving scriptural education that it may copal palace, often remaining in the water up to their ploymeht to the people to a certain extent. The staple gorge Maynooth," and rearing superstition and error on neck ; that others were employed i n th e mines; that:eight food of the country was rotted almost every where, and it the ruins of the truth of God. My friends, viewing our h a d their eyes forced our ; that thirty fell victims to this behoved them to do all they could to alleviate the threat- Government in two such totally different aspects—bound odious persecution, and that only three had succeeded in i coed sufferings of their fellow countrymen. He rtcom- by the solemn sanction of God's word to tender all sub effecting their escape into Austria ; as to the superior, she I mended that the grand juries should make presentments mission to, and cri-operation with them, as " bearing the had arrived in Paris. In the recitals of this woman, the of work. necessary to be done. Resolutions were carried executive sword," and yet bound, as we conceive, by an number of nuns is no longer confined to forty-seven ; they to the effect:—That the attention of the Government he equally solemn sanction, to offer the most firm though are at once quintupled, reaching the number of two huts- I called to the necessity of giving relief to able-bodied per- temperate resistance to them, when, as is too often the d re d and forty, of whom one hundred and twenty are j sons, by carrying on public works • that presentments case, we behold them in their legislative policy rejecting s t a ted to have been exiled to Siberia ; out of that num- should be made; that the Board of Works be memorie- the stand. rd of God's revealed will in great questions le• h er , upwards of one-half are alleged to have miserably pe- I lizsd on the necessity of building piers, safety harbours, gitiroately capable of reference thereto—under such cir rished on the road, and the rest are represented as about o l &c., along part of the coast ; that the same board be re- eumstances, need I say, that as Prat slants, and at i n all probability, to speedily share the same fate. The quested to send a competent person to meet the gentle- the same time loyal subjects, yoer situation is one of grea t na mes of Wawrzecha, Konarska, and Pomawnoeka are I men of the country, to decide on the lines of road and difficulty ; you feel it to be so. and therefore you ask for those by which the three nuns who took refuge in Austria I other works now deemed necessary, and to which those guidance. or, to use your own words, " government and are designated. gentlemen were ready to subscribe; that another meeting control." If a spirit thoroughly imbued with the doctrines " Now," continues the Ambassador— be called of the Union of Middleton, to carry out the pro- which I have laid down, and a firm resolve that, with "No convent of Basilian nuns ever ex'sted in the town visions of the relief act, &c. A committee was appointed God's blessing, it shall be the spirit of the Orangeism of of Kowno, nor in time whole extent of the province of that to carry out the objects of the meeting, which then Cavan, be a sufficient qualification for assuming the hon name. The present Bishop of Lithuania, Joseph Sitmas- separated. orable post which you have assigned to me, you have not zko, has never been confessor of any convent of Basilian I OUTRAGES.—On Sunday, (alas! that this day is so mistaken your man in your selection of me. It is as a nuns. No prelate in Russia, whatever may be his grade often chosen for such deeds,) two men well armed, named j religious man I accept your invitation, and conscious of in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, has cossacks at his orders I James Flynn, uncle and nephew, with their feces black- i the purity of my motives, and the singleness of my aim at lor dispo s al. Kowno happens to be not twenty miles erred, entered the house of a farmer named William Bro- the peace and well-being of my native county, I can cons ; from Vitebsk, hut double that distance, about three hun- i derick, residing at Kiltane, near Freemount, in this ; Portably feel that I carry the premce and blessing of God dred verats. No Basilian nun has been transferred to a county, and ordered him to give up possession of the land I with me, and I can look to Him to make Elis weak un- IRussian monastery ; they have all remained in their own he had lately taken. One of them shot the house dog, 1 worthy servant an instrument of good." convents, except such as, having a desire to go and live and threatened Broderick to serve him in the same way Mr. Maxwell, at the conclusion of his letter, says with their relations of the Roman Catholic religion, oh- if their commands were not immediately attended to. that be has every reason to hope that the other gr an d tained permission from the Archbishop alluded to above. They then went to the house of a man named John Sul- offices of the institution will be filled by gentlemen The means of existence of the Basilian nuns have not been liven, a caretaker on the same lands, and threatened to of the highest character and standing, and addres ses reduced, but, on the contrary, have been augmented by shoot him if he did not quit the place the following day. the Orangemen in an affectionate and solemn man new grants, which convents of this order have of late years On leaving Broderick and Sullivan, the fellows said that j ner on their responsibilities and privileges, and u rges been accorded in Russia. The Archbishop of Li t h uan i a th e y w ere "Captain Kilfoyle's men" (the leader of the ' on them the practice of patience, forbearance, and the has never exercised any authority over the converts in Vi- gang that lately attached the police at Kilfinnan, county I other Christian graces advocated in their laws and tebsk and Polotzk, inasmuch as they belong to another Limerick). The police were soon apprised of the outrage, 1 ordinances. diocese. Throughout the whole extent of the empire of and succeeded in capturing the miscreants, and they have Russia, the criminal jurisdiction and the infliction of cor- bean committed for trial. On the same evening, (Sun poreal punishment fall to the lot, not of the ecclesiastical day,) about the hour of six o ‘ clock, two men with their authorities, but exclusively of the secular power. Never faces blackened and well armed, one of them having four are women employed in Russia in works relating to build- pistols strapped round his body and a gun in his hand, The Queen and Prince Albert and the royal children ing, and never has the A rc hbi s hop, Joseph Siemaszko, the other with a pair of pistols and a blunderbuss, called left Osborne House on Friday morning, and reached erected a palace, He, f or t h e mos t part, lives at St. Pe- at the house of John Dobbins, of Elm-mount, a work- Buckingham Palace about noon. tersburg, and possesses n o hou s e of hi s own, The archi- man of Patrick Galvin, between Newtown and Free- The Queen has presented a pair of milk-white Cach episcopal palace a t \Vilna, d est i ne d to his use, was pu r - mount. A f ter ca l l i ng out D o bbi ns they d es i re d hi m to go mere goa t s , p a rt of a flock sent to h er M a j es t y b y t h e chased by the Crown in 1 843 f rom C oun t Mostowski, on his knees, which he at first refused, but afterwards Shah of Persia, to the 23d Welsh Fusileers, to replace the Marshal of th e no bili ty of t h at government . No person, complied, when one of the ruffians discharged a pistol at venerable Cambrian coat which accompanied that gallant in modern ti m e s , h as h ear d o f any cr i m i na l whatever, and him ; the powder burned his hair and whiskers. They regiment, and which lately died at Barbadoes. still less of any poor women , b e i ng f orce d to undergo the were shown the way to Galvin's house, which is but a A large meeting took place on Monday at Lord Foley's, torture of hunger and thirst; of their being wetted with short distance from Dobbins', but, fortunately for Gal- I Grosvenor-square, to enter into arrangements for the for ' iced water, er p l unge d i n t o it; or o f h av ing their eyes put sin he was at the time in the cow-house, at the rere of I motion of a new club, of which the Duke of Wellington out. There are no m i nes in Russia, exc ept in Siberia and the dwelling, tying up the cows, or in all probability his I is to be me of the patrons. in the government of Olodetz. No Basilian rtun could life would have been taken. Galvin's daughter told her The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and have been e m pl o yed i n t h e m i nes , i nasmuc h as none were father that those persons were in the house, when the family are not expected at Grosvenor -home, from Eaton transported from the western provinces• of the empire, poor man, frightened as he must have been almost to hall, until the first week in April. The dowager nearchio where there are no m i nes . P rev i ous l y t o 1839 there were death, hid under a large quantity of straw until they left ness is expected to leave Grosvenor-square at the end of in Russia nin e convents of Basilian rune, orliabited not the house, which was near an hour. They could get no the month, to pass the Easter recess at Moor-park, near by kg() hundred an d f or ty women , but by only fl ty-five, light to search the house, or else they would have got Rickmansworth. of whom thirty-five belonged to the d i ocese o f Lithuania. Galvin's gun, which was laid on a table in the room. I ARRIVAL OF SIR T. G. lIESKETH AND Tits BRIDE.— No one of these ever fled frinn the cloister, and no men- When DohLins thought they were gone horn Galvin's he On Tuesday, this hi g hly- esteeme d young gen tl eman w as ' tion has been as y e t ma d e ,„ any report o f any of liaise went to see was he shot, but on the way the two fellows , united to Lady A tabella Fermor, daughter of the late Earl who went to live with their relations having fled to a to. met him and gave him a most unmerciful beating, inflict- I Pomfret, and on the same evening the worthy couple pro reign country. It is an ii,disputable tact th at in Russia leg, with their guns , four deep cuts on his head and a , ceeded to Rufford-hell in a magnificent chariot, drawn by • there have Lever been Basilian runs known by th e names severe contusion on the eye, together with . several bruises frier high-mettled steeds, and were met at Sollatn, two of Mieezielaweina, Wawrzecha, Konaeeka , a nd Ponaw. en the body. After leaving him for de ad, the y went on miles from th e h a ll,.b y a numero u s . body of th e t enan t ry !locker, attributed by the periodical pre-* to these pre- their way t owar d s Freemount, calling at one house to , many of whom were mounted on horse ack. tended martyrs. A; to the pr ., ten d,d Abbess Mieczis- sm o k e an d rest t h emse l ves , as if not in the least dread of 1 point of the road the horses were taken from the carriage, I lawska, the Itusiala g•Overnmeutiscomple-t.es ignorant of b e i ng appre h en d e d. Th e y were, however, captured soon and ropes a tt ac h e d, b y w hi c h it was i n t en d e d to d raw the V);19 s lip al,e).—C.ork:QoA I ttitution. sappy couple the whole remainder of the journey. A nu- irr, alone were THE REORGANISED ORANGE SYSTEM IN I RE LAND The Hon. Somers't Maxwell, brother to Lord Farn ham, has accepted the Grand :11a,q,.rdlip of the Oraoce. men of Cavan. In responding to the invitation to accept that high dignity, Mr. Maxwell enters at great length into his reasons, amongst which are the following, which do him the greatest honour : " In order to induce tee to this step, I had no need to artificers militia THE C...URT (5- FASHIONABLE WORLD. At this - ------- ---- - -_ ______ . W IRELAND. DrsEAnFut, MURDERS, — James Cane, a f armer , hold- merous and very heart-cheering kind of processton g :::, ing twenty-four acres of land at Gorttoore, was beset on here formed, headed by a band of music, and made . dtfloatint The Irish Society of London proposes to allow the is way home by !hree ruffians, and so dreadfully beaten with a great variety of liar's and banners proud ly - e t h 1 00- Mayor of Derry £2OO, and th e Recorder £l5O annuities, that he died on Saturday. The deceased has left a widow in the wind. On arrivin g a t the park entrance , - -- i E kb, Two hundred additional polide are to be stationed in the and six children.—On Sunday night a party of men, con- cession passed under a splendidly formed triumpha l tw o county of Clare. sisting of six in number, one armed wi:h a pistol, entered end between that portion of the road and the ban d. in There were 678 car loads of potatoes at market last the house of a man named Meara, near Cloghjordan. other arches of a similar description had been erecte d week, of which 40 were diseased. The price —white, at They first knocked Meara down with a stone, inflicting a the evening an immense bonfire was made, and a ben __. 3? r el. ; cups, 4-id. to sd. per stone.—Limerick Chronicle. deadly wound ; they then, with savage ferocity, heat him display of fireworks took place, and there were numerindeaci No less than 11l houses were inundated by the flood at tin the head until his brains were dashed out. This foul other demonstrations of the heartf e lt respect enter ta boat Cork. The furniture in nearly the whole of them was deed was committed between the hours of seven and eight towards the worthy baronet, by all classes among ! o bis. destroyed. o'clock, and within a few yards of another house; but, he resides, which could not fail to be highly pleasing' ~,. OU The bill for protecting life and property in Ireland, was though the shrieks of the inmates were heard, no one came feelings, and they must lave been dearly delightfu l .. to L?owl read a third time in the 1 - louse of Lords, on Friday, and to their assistance. Meara's family consisted of his wile, Ilesketh—the young stranger —whom all were 50 1" passed two sons, (one of them a grown man, the other a boy,) and happy to honour on her arrival among them. Sir Robert Peel says that Government has already ex- and two daughters, who were in the kitchen the tiobe the . _ . _ _ peruled £lOO,OOO in the purchase of maize and rice, fur the !. arty were heating the father. The son attempted to get relief of the people of Ireland. to the father's assistance, but was held by the mother. UNIVERSITY (.5- CLERICAL NEWS- The High Sheriff and seventeen of the Grand Jurors of Meara is father to the man that killed Kennedy on last ha l Tipperary have sent petitions to both houses of parliament Patrick's Day, on his return from the fair of Burrisokane. R. Walker, Esq., M.A. of Li nco l n C o llege, Ox f o r d against the proposed reductions of the ditties on corn, on Seven men have been arrested for this murder.—Newegh con'oimed to Popery, fatbe the grounds that vast quantities of land will be thrown Guardian. The Archbishop of Armagh has subscribed £ lO O let out of tillage, and that consequently an annual want of THE TRIAL OF THE ORANGEMEN.—The trial of the f un d now ra i s in g f or th e f ami l y o f th e l a t e Bishop A potato lend will be felt by the population, producing most Orangemen charged with the riots at Armagh. on the ander. 12th of July last, has just concluded i n the conviction of The Vice Chancellor of Oxford has published a notic e • calamitous results. ~ ty At a meeting of the Repeal Association. last Monday, three per s o n s of" a idi ng an d a b e t t i ng a t a manslaughter." calling the attention of junior members of the litiive• - ts Mr. G r attan, M.P. stated his belief that the Irish Coercion There are two or three circumstances in the trirl worthy to the statute against hor s e.i acin g , and stating tha t ' Bil would never become law ; and if it did, th e peop l e o f of remark. First, no person of the Roman Catholic mob penalties will in future be strictly enforced. Ale Ll 3 Ireland—the e ight millions of people—had only to remain was put to the bar. A. far as appears from the measures Cnumert Fort rhi,-; SEAM! NOF LoNDON ,- .•- -- i t is out all together, on the came night, and no police force taken to vindicate the law, the riot was peculiarly national, Cubitt h av e c omm en c ed the b u ildi ng o f thi s edifice. ki d, could arrest them at all; and, even if arrested, the prisons there being but one party to the quarrel. Yet it seem.- estimated to co,lta:n 80') fee sittings, and to cost, hi e-- would not hold them. from reading the report, that even the witnesses called ing the site and endowment, £9,000 a ter Sill' Mr. Justice Torrens, in opening- the commission at for the prosecution, all Rotranists, admitted that the A young gentleman, un d ergra d uate of Oaf rd, —• estimated to coAa:n 800 t: e. ing the site and endowment, A young gentlerran, unde,graduaie of Oxf -rd, Mr' Si n : gleton, was unfortunately killed on Saturday week in n $ sequence of his horse throwing him by springing on tuinpike-gate whilst raeit.g with a ampanion. The treasurer of the London Scripture Readers' SO ‘ cl h ; ety has recently teccived, among other donations , __„'" sum of 1700 from Lady Olivia Sparrow, in furthe raP '' of the objects of the above-named society. r. BISHOPRIC OF JERUSALEM.—The death of the Re a Dr. Alexander having left this see vacant, it has Dr`a filled up by the appointment ofcol il. Belson, a rie Jew, be the King of Prussia, who holds - the right of alter' nate appointment with the Government of England. • ST. JAMES'S ClluacK, La CHFORD.—A sermon ° L i e preached in this chinch. on Tuesday t vening last, Wit" ~ Rev. Hugh 111`Neile, M.A., after which a collection made, for the purpose of meeting a conditional ~g r ae ? . made by the National Socit,ty, towards liquidating debt on the Sunday school in connection with the chu rc The amount alleeted was upwards of £2B. r of CAsE OF THE REv. C. H. Horicsos.—ln the Cou-t.n, Arches, on Tuesday, Sir H. J. Fust gave judgment I° ttis case, which was a proceeding by articles again't m Rev. C. H. Flodcs,n, chaplain of the county gml of lisbury. charging him with serious offences against roorgot lily. The learned judge h Id that the articles had I ' been proved, and dismissed the suit. On Sunday last, the Rev. Miles Barton, son of V: respected townsman, Miles Barton, Esq., preaCheiLvid first sermon St. John's Church, Liscard. He acqat'„a himself in a most pleasing and satisfactory manner , tt bids far to be an ornament to his profession. His tea t 9 .nd chapter of the lo , 1 he is apPoiated was tak from the 9:h verse, ge P:f.r II nda, a living at Bolton. ,orf TESTIMONIAL OF REsnrcT.—On 'Monday, a moo- if of Bag, ter's Polygh:t sup,rbly hound, 8 f anli ka bible, a silver teapot, with the accotopanimeots of cre a der jug and sooons, were presented to the Rev. Alex° Read, A M., curate of the Parish Ch urc h o f Rtinc °r 4 as a testimonial of the regard in which he was held b 1,4 congregation. A vock,t communion service is hereo n* to he added, it not bei, g couipleed at the time of Pre. sentation. The largest numiter of copies issu?d by the Manchea„ A n ter B:bte Society in any year previous to the last. was 15,0v":' In tctober last the number sued was 9,618 ;in Noventbe.lt; 20.776 ;in December, 16.695; January, 13,043; it February. 12,814; and in th.z. first week of the Prel l 4 l s' month, 2,749 : making a total, in five months, of 7 5 .:*: 6 c , •pies of the Scriptures which have bean circulate° / d Manchester, Salford, and the immediate DeighbOD , l )°° : DR. POSEY'S NEW LITURGY AND R EGIS TRATIOi. OFFICE.—The real olject (of this new liturgy and rub is betrayed in a single paragraph pactrd into the first Paa 4 in lieu of a title page, running thus—" These prayers n't be had, and names registered, if desired, on applicati,°" by letter to the Rev. Dr. Poser, Christ Church, 0x ... ,,r 0 7.: or the Rev. C. Marriott, Oriel College, Oxford." this registration is for, may by some be doubted ; the prayers are for, is clear. To secure a reg istratio n s of the purpose of which all I can gather is from Pag e ;$ where I learn that " those who wish may have their na ol- , registered, in order that they may be informed of P!' i i; ticular objects of general interest, or connected SD themselves or their friends!" n f be ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—From repot., o ft be Ecele,iastical Commissioners just printed, it appears tit:' up to the 25th June last, the unconditional nabgrats in hi s inrs are 510, the annual augmentation of ott. he £2 ' 6,782. The total number of livings is 585, nod the total actual amount of permanent annual augnientatio n. o . the clergy is £31,354. The general result of the augut e ,_. 6 c harcrl t , e t d h a a t t the return is made of the districts under the Church End to numbert at on list , 585. with a ud reference t haauuu t a o l s d u io m ce i s s e s s ta is t went Act. It hence appears, that 76 districts and Ile", parishes have been constituted under that act, and turn the ther' the aggregate population provided for is 266,988; the Are besides 120 districts under the consideration or . 0 1 Commissioners, and intimation has been given of 11 6 .. more intended to be made, and amongst them of 1 ' • n. tricts in the parish of Leeds. The Board of ConamisalLe era now includes, ex officio, the two archbishoPs,l" a members of the Government, all the bishops of E 4 g-sn et and Wales, three deans, and six common law , eq n n ,,' la n ce ecclesiastical judges, together with might Pe ri " — t the commissioners, six of whom 'ire in the appointment of Crown, and two in that of the Arch-bishop of Cantaboll' LAW INTELLIGENCE. The Liverpool Spring Assizes will commence on M °°. day, before Justices Matteson and Coleridge. The action for crirn. con., which was to be tried at : ° , approaching Cork Assizes, in which Mr. Browne, of moy, was plaintiff, and Major lbhetson defendant, P 1 been settled, the gallant defendant having paid £750 111' that It ha; been held by Courts of Quarter Sessions - - th o where a farm-servant takes oats, without leave, f° t. .. purpose of feeding his master's horses, he is 8 5 1 ". eO , guilty of larceny , or robbery, as if he appropriated t d d li f, to his own benefit. At Winchester assiz , s, on Tues i eh however, Mr. Justice Erie expres , ed a different 00" e iftt and reserved the point for the consideration of the tW judges. „ re %.,.1-11 , A CASE FOR THE LONG ROBE.—A bill i n hi p has been filed by Sir Edmund de B eauvo i r , Bart.... qtri Richard Benyon de 13eauvoir, Esq., of Culford the recovery of a sum of mo ne y, an d ot h er pro perty, "bol value of £1,000,000 and upwards. 'Mr. de Beauvoir mo. some years ago a long and protracted law suit wit h o to Rhodes, which rend ere d th a t else memorable. Theel+ smt, it is expectad, will be equally fruitful to the s t ir' Sir John claims as next heir, in virtue of his wife• jo hn de Beauvoir is a widower, without children, and Sir has an only brother, Mr. C. Browne. • a s e ' CHIM. CON.—At Bedford Assizes on Tuesday , ! g ift tion cf this kind was brought against the Rev. Dr. , ct by his groom, John Coultas, whose wife, the so l v e " the action, was also in the service of the defendant. ~.et O'Malley stated the case for the plaintiff, and detslZo,o series of suspicious circumstances extending Oyer 'erg years. In 1845 (continued the learned counsel) t he 4it p i t duct of this guilty man was such 10; to excite the t ie ttv the kitchen ; doubts became convictions, and the P lo f sought around his fellow-servants frr witnesse s s. wa tce r i a eft shame and dishonour. He emploNed them to from September to November did they keep a gi l l, the house; but it was not until the 29th of that that anything like proof of guilt was discovered. 1 "; t illw fell on a Saturday, and on Monday the plaintiff talit i clls master with his guilt in terms of manly reproof °,`: f ief, nation. The defendant met the imputation 01 n' tio css with meekness and humble remonstrance, prates-vtow innocence before God, when the plaintiff vowed he te eit remove his wife from hi s roo f. Thi s was in the mo d e , At night he called for that purpose, but his wife hl hot, removed from the house in the meantime, ar . :,e, Though the defendant. in the most earnest lenge e o Glared his ignorance of the wife's movements, a n t rt..ff pacified the plaintiff as to induce him to write t° ft e er t 'd, soon as his back was turned , he sent a messenger a ot, to warn her of her husband's pursuit, and afterto;belL dressed a letter to her in Yorkshire, thus showitez 15, was cognisant from first to last of her moYelalti lt° ;;ol7,l evidence on both sides was very lengthy. and th e ; I ,lOU f cupied two days. The Attorney-General was elOr for the der-lice. The jury gave a verdict for th e P damages £250. WALLASEY SCHOOL IN CHANCERY."—VI CIS O/1 1 7,r , CELLOR WIcRAM'S COURT, THURSDAY, 121 11 " e f —THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. nE A I.IN G. - " A j ttorle oration and bill in this case was filed by the 4 ',„iot-d General at the relation of Mr. Winch , to rac er— collt' e ol ther some lands in the parish of Wallasey, the, In e E ch which is applicable to the maintenance of the tr e ke f tu in that parish, together with the appointment ° debi t- A ter of the school, is legally vested in the rector 0 .0010 wardens of the parish of Wallasey, or in the Parligol'ibi at large. The earliest notice of the school aPP tit ifl o f will dated in 1644, bequeathing £125, to be laid ° Olt , land, the rents to be paid to the master of th, m bero grammar school, to teach the poor children . ‘ " no t,e o e' were afterwards made by other persons. A d '; I P tb e il time ago arose as to whether the property was, - t ff 0- 00: for or the vestry. Mr. Winch was also a plalodo bill. He was a purchaser of a part of seine. b Of , had formerly belonged to the charity, and wh2 c l ot ptA had been exeh mged for others. Mr. Lown ue- rere f lf" r r e Sm:th appeared for the information, and Mr • , 01 Mr. Bnzalgette for the rector and churchwarneoptej as well as boys had been admitted ; but it wit, i is es igeo t.- o e by the latter gentlemen that it was a lways " t re bole' " grammar school," and that girls ought n? . .,,d 0 1 ' elf,. mitted. Another question was, whether the 1 7 1 - t f o rce" to had been legally exchanged. The lands t i ; We e p, belonged to the charity had become of erea tlY - eo f value. If the rector and ehurchwardeps vrelloitioer trustms, the exchanee was not valid, and the t be c oif entitled to recov e r th e f orme r prop e rty. (- 11 10,0 0, _de' band it was conte n d e d th a t th e w aster of tbe this sys' oe lf entitled to the rents of the charity lands, bu,., esito Ft t j Died by Mr. Bazalgette, who said he cour,„„tlid.,oo_ £BO a-year. His Honour mace decree e reference to the trusts and the nature of th e a beffita„ also of what the lands of the charity hu:"„ftP excliqrr; , e, and of what they now consisted, sv i nv .d 0 - p er report any circumstances specially. It sv"s tV,4 pv plaintift was the purch a ser of a very stroll r h '..ers 'fro 0,. ‘ perty only. and there were many other Pur e " ; woulo r f; hindre the parties e r)ur their in i honour absenc saide, andthe t t n r c r i b i ,fls filed. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.