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Emptrial HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Mospay. The following members of the Government took their seats :—Lord John Russell, premier ; Sir George Grey, tome sec retary; Col. Fox, Sir J. C. H o bh ouse , L or d P a lmerston, fore ign secretary; Mr. Jervis, attorney gene ral ; Mr. Labouchere, secretary for Ireland ; Admiral Dundas, Mr. C. Wood, Lord Marcus Hill, and Captain Berkeley. After several railway bills and other business had been disposed oi, in reply to some remarks f-om Sir J. Graham addressed to Mr. T. Duncombe, Lord JOHN RUSSELL.—After what has passed, I think it will be necessary for me to state to the house what are the intentions of her Majesty's Ministers with respect to the Poor Removal Bill, dud I hope it will tend in acme degree to remove the despair of my Honourable Friend the Member for Finsbury. It is our fixed intention to proceed with it, but with respect to the provisions as to the residence of the poor, there is certainly some doubt. I can assure my honourable friend that it is our determination to proceed with the bill without delay. (Hear, hear.) I certainly voted with my hon. friend the member fur Malton as to the instructions to be given to the Committee, because of the existence in the minds of -many of no great doubt as to the expediency of the provi sions with regard to the residences of the poor. (Elear, hear.) I would like very much to have a general com mittee with respect to the law of settlement, which was most complicated and difficult (hear, hear) and I do trust the bill will get all the benefit of such a com mittee. Having said this much, I have a short statement to make to the house. Her Majesty's ministers having very lately accepted office, and not having all of them as sembled in consequence of the necessity of vacating their seats and attending on their elections, I do not think it would be wise to state the particular measures which we propose to carry out, or in what respect we propose to alter the bills at present before the house. ( Hear, hear, hear.) I will make a statement on Thurs day with reference to what period I propose to bring for ward the Sugar Duties Bill. lam quite aware of the in jury which would result to trade and commerce generally should this question remain unsettled, and I will, there fore, when I fix a day, give notice for a further continu ance of the sugar duties for a short period, as the mea sures which I may introduce may meet with very great opposition. At the present moment I have no further statement to make to the House. HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY Earl Pow's and the Bishop of SALISBURY presented several petitions against the union of the bishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor. In answer to a question from Lord Brougham, the Earl of CLARENDON had no hesitation in assuring the noble lord there would be no delay in introducing the sugar duties. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice of his intention to call the attention of the house to a subject arising out of the appointment of Sir T. Wilde to the Lord Chief Justicesbip. He alluded to the compromise between Lord Denman, and the government, whereby the former agreed to re ceive only £BOOO per annum, instead of £lO,OOO, the latter being the sum named by act of Parliament. Earl GREY reminded the noble lord that he was Chancellor at the time, and it was his duty to have in quired into the matter. Lord BROUGHAM was astonished to hear one noble lord contradict, on his own knowledge, what he had just now asserted on his honour that he was ignorant of. The truth was, that nobody knew anything about that which concerned everybody, and for which nobody cared. Such was the case, according to the noble earl's notion, but it was not his notion ; and as he was not roboey, but some body, he believed that this was a matter which required a careful investigation. Lord CAMPBELL regretted that his noble friend had not brought in a bill on the subject. He knew that his noble and learned friend bad carried bills despite of the large majorities with which his measures were threatened, and he also knew that if he had introduced a bill on this subject, it would have passed both houses of the legislature with perfect unanimity. His noble and learned friend could not say that he had disapproved of the arrangement, and continue to hold the Great Seal, and he (Lord Camp bell) knew his spirit and his courage too well to suppose that if he had failed in carrying such a measure he would not have continued to hold office; he would not suffer his opinion on such a subject to be overruled. The noble and learned lord, therefore, appeared to him to blame himself, after the manner of the Pope, who said, "Judico me eremari." He acknowledged himself to be in the wrong Lord Baal:Guam said, that if he took a stare of the blame to himself, so must his noble and learned friend now on the woolsack, who was his successor in office, and who bad likewise failed to introduce such a bill. The Loan CHANCELLOR disclaimed having any share in the blame ; and the subject then dropped. HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY The Bishop of LONDON moved that the order for the committee on the Clerks Correction Bill should be dis charged. He did this in consequence of the noble and learned lord on the woolsack having informed him that there were certain provisions in the bill of which he could not approve. He hoped that the Government wouldeon. Rider the subject, and by next session prepare a measure to give the bishops some more effectual power of punish ing clerks. The Bishop of NORWICH presented a petition from the Undergraduates and Bachelors of Arts of Cambridge, intended for the ministry, praying for an alteration in the Ecclesiastical Criminal Law. The right rev. prelate stated two cases, showing the difficulty which the bishops bad in dealing with clerks, who by their conduct brought a scandal on the Church. The Lord CHANCELLOR said that there was no one in the house who felt more deeply than he did the ineffi ciency of the law in this respect as it stood at present. The fact was, that the bishops had not the power to do their duty. However, he thought it would be inexpedient to discuss the measure, now that the right rev. prelate intended, and, in his opinion, most properly, to withdraw it. He should merely add, that he should feel it his duty to give the right rev. prelate every assistance in his power, - with a view of framing, by next session, a measure which would attain the objects intended by the right rev. prelate. The order was tl;en discharged. The Earl of RADNOR pointed out that ten or twelve peers had signed the protest against the Corn-law Repeal bill who had not been present at the discussion, which was at variance with the rule. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, on bringing up the re port on the Annuity Bill of Lcrd Hardinge, moved its restoration to the state in which it had been brought up to that house.—The Duke of RICHMOND oppcsed the amendment ; but after a discussion, shared in by the Earl of Ripon, Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Clanricarde; and the Earls of Galway and Wicklow, the amendment was carried, on a division, by 47 to 18. The annuities granted to Lords Hardinge and Gough will therefore not be payable to those noble lords during their lifetime, but will commence with their descendants. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TtipitspAY Lord J. RUSSELL stated the course which the Govern ment meant to pursue with respect to the measures to be proceeded with during the present session of parliament. He would on Monday next lay before the house his plan for the settlement of the sugar duties, asking, at the same time, for leave to bring in a bill to continue the duties for one month beyond the sth of August, or until parliament 'should otherwise determine. With respect to the Poor Removal Bill, Le would only proceed with that portion which gave a right of industrial settlement. With respect 'to the Irish bills, he would proceed with the Ejectment Bill, with some alterations, but preserving the clauses which prohibited the distrainiug of growing crops ; also with the Leases Bill, but the Compensation for Improve ments Bill was too complicated in its machinery to be proceeded with before bestowing upon it a very careful consideration. He proposed to lay before the house a bill to facilitate the improvement of waste lands in Ireland, with a view to make known the intentions of the Govern ment on the subject, but it would not be proceeded with antil next session. ..,g into committee on the Poor E. DENISON said the quest:- On the question of g Removal Bill " ion of union settlements was one of the greatest importance to .agriculturists as well as manufacturers, and he regretted, from the avowed opinions of many members of the Go -vernment, that it was not likely to be taken into favour able consideration. Although desirous to see the Govern ment of the noble lord (J. Russell) a lasting one, he would frankly declare that its composition was not such as to inspire him with confidence. After some observations from Colonel WOOD, Mr. T. DUNCOMDE complained of the vagueness of the declaration of Lord John Russell, as to the principles upon which the government would be conducted—vague mess the more suspicious, owing to the rumours which -were afloat as to his having applied to Sir R. Peel for the loan of three members of his government. This, it is true, was contradicted by the Secretary at War (Mr. Ward), in the Weekly Chronicle, but it was affirmed by the Times, which he supposed was to be the government organ in stead of the Morning Chronicle, which was, as was said in military circles, superseded. This was most ungrateful to an organ which bad faithfully adhered to the Whigs through their years of depression, and who, in their hour of triumph, had a fair claim to any authority to be de. rived from such a position. He also asked what were the intentions of the government with respect to the Irish church. Did be mean to adhere to the proposition which be bad once supported, that the increased grant to May nooth should be paid out of the surplus revenues of the Established Church in that country ? Would he favour 'isln extension of the franchise, or did he still mean to con tend for the finality of the Reform Bill ? Would he, now that he was in office, bring in a bill to limit the hours of labour in factories ? It was right that all these things should be understood, for the support the noble lord would receive would be in proportion to the liberality and comprehensiveness of his measures. Lord J. RUSSELL said be thought it quite sufficient to refer to his past life as a member of that house, during which his opinions had been always openly and unre servedly expressed. With respect to the questions of the bon. gentleman, he had no hesitation in saying that he ,bad asked the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Dalhousie, ard Mr. Sidney Herbert to join his government. He had found himself for several years acting in harmony with the general opinion of those individuals, and he did not tkink any difficulty would arise from their uniting with him. His proposals had been declined ; but he saw nothing to regret in having made the application, for it was not absolutely essential that the members of',l govern ment should agree in every particular. He might iostanee the fact that he could not agree with Earl Grey in his opi nions respecting the Irish Church, and even his own sen timents were looked upon as extreme by some members of the cabinet. He thought it advisable to deal as soon as possible with the social evils of Ireland, and he would not b Ird away from that practical object by subjects •• 'upon which nothing could at present be effected. He would endeavor that the people of Ireland should have a political franchise in every respect equal to that possessed by the people of England. He had voted with the hon. member for Sheffield that the increased endowment for Maynooth should be furnished from the surplus revenues of the Irish church, and he still adhered to his opinions on that subject as well as upon the subject of the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches; but he did not think it wise to urge these opinions to the delay and perhaps de feat of practical measures of improvement. The de struction of the Protestant Church of Ireland, he thought, would be a fatal proceeding, for it would be the immedi ate signal fora religious war. He thought, however, that Mr. Pitt was right in thinking that the Catholic priest hood might be endowed by the state, and he (Lord J. Russell) believed that great advantage would have followed that measure had it been carried out at the time. Now, however, it was impossible to think of it, for all religious denominations, and even the Roman Catholics themselves, would strenuously oppose such a proceeding. At the same time he would say that the ecclesiastical state of Ireland was very unsatisfactory, but still he did not see in it that urgent necessity which should induce him to bring it forward before redressing those social evils which were easier to be practically dealt with. He had never con tended for the finality of the Reform Bill, but still he could not agree with the five points of the charter. With respect to the hours of factory labour, he would vote for limiting them to eleven. Mr. Labouchere, how ever, was against any limitation, and though he would always vote for the restriction to eleven hours, he would not require the other members of his cabinet to do so. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The bills for granting annuities to Lord Hardinge and Lord Gough, were severally read a third time and passed. The Duke of RICHMOND took an opportunity of stating his impression that the services of Sir C. Napier had been overlooked. He has fought successfully two great battles, and had since then governed Scinde, which he had conquered in a way which secured its peace and tranquility. Lord BROT3GII wat took a similar view of the services of Sir C. Napier. The railway-guage resolutions led to some discussion, but were eventually agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Lord PALMERSTON, by command of her Majesty, laid upon the table the treaty which had recently been con cluded between this country and the United States of America respectine the Oregon boundary. He had bad that day the gratification of exchanging ratifications with the American Minister in London. On the order of the day for the hours resolving itself nto a committee of supply, Mr. EWART moved the following resolutions : " That it is expedient that an annual statement o❑ the state and prospects of education be made to a responsible Minister of the Crown on going into committee on the education estimates. "That it is expedient that the formation of additional training schools for schoolmasters be encouraged. " that it is expedient to encourage the formation, of public libraries, freely open to the public, in large towns. "That it is expedient that appointments to the subor dinate offices of government be made, as far as possible, on the principle of open examination of the respective qualifications of the candidates." Mr. CHRISTIE seconded the resolutions. Lord SANDON said he could not agree with the whole of the recommendations of the hon. gentleman, but thought the time was come when some general and com prehensive plan of education should be devised by the government, it being evident that private contributions and charitable donations would no longer carry out the objects they had, all of them, in view. As all parties were willing to give the government of Lord John Rus sell a fair trial, he thought that that noble lord was in a position to carry out a liberal and extensive system of public education. Sir IL INGLIS hoped that in any plan of education brought forward by the government religious instruction would be combined with secular education. Mr. WA.RBURTON was opposed to any religious interfe rence wi.h the general education of the people. Mr. WILLIAMS regretted that pclitical rancour and re ligious animosity should have so long interfered with the education of the people. Sir li,. Peel had promised the house that a committee should be appointed to inquire into the system of education throughout the country—that promise had not been fulfilled : but he felt satisfied that Lord J. Russell would give the subject his earliest consi deration. Mr. Hume complained that the Dissenters were more opposed to a national system of education than the mem bers of the Church of England. He quoted some statis tical tables for the purpcse of showing that education was I , ss generally diffused in England than any part of Eu rope. If they only voted one-half the sum they annually psid for the punishment of crime in this country for the education of the people, they would soon find the benefi cial results in the improvement of the rising generation. After some observations from Mr. H ORSM AN, Lord J. RUSSELL said he agreed with Mr. Ewart, that an annual statement ought to be made to parliament, not only as to the mode in which parliamentary grants had been expended for the purposes of education, but also as to the beneficial effects which bad been produced. The whole sub3ect was one td which be would give his best at tention, feeling that a scheme of public instruction at once liberal and comprehensive was due to the country. After a few observations from Mr. Borthwick, Lord JOHN MANNERS expressed himself highly grati fied at the observations which had fallen from Lord John Russell, After some remarks from Dr. Bowring, Mr. Esteourt, and Mr. Hindley, the resolutions of Mr. Ewart were ne gatived without a division, and the house resolved itself into a committee of supply. RAILWAY INTE'LLIGEN'CE. Preambles proved in Lords last week.—Eastern Coun ties station enlargement ; Huddersfield and Sheffield ; Manchester and Leeds amalgamation ; Grand Junction— Huyton and Aston, and other branches ; Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich extension). The number of bills which have passed the Standing Orders of the House of Lords is 38. Twenty-one bills went through a select committee on merits ; and, in the cases of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and Bir mingham extension, their lordships decided that the Standing Orders had not been complied with. Bills lost in Lords.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Mid land Junction; Midland and Eastern Counties (Cam bridge and Weedon). The number of railway bills read a second time in the House of Commons was four; a third time, 17 ; and the reports of 12 agreed to. Bill lost in Commons.—Lancaster and Preston Junction. At a meeting of the Preston and Wyre Railway Com pany last week, it was resolved to amalgamate with the Manchester and Leeds Company. GRAND UNlON.—Forgeries Of scrip are said to have been discovered in this line, and the directors are calling in the certificates to be stamped. PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS.—On Thursday last, no fewer than siztv-seven railway bills received the royal assent. Among these were the Amalgamation Bill of the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Man chester and Birmingham Companies ; the bills for various branches of established Companies; and those for several Irish lines. Middlesborough, the railway between which and Redcar was lately opened, presents a striking proof of what enterprise can effect. Six years ago it had but one house ; now it has its well-built houses, its large iron foundry, its potteries and other manufact , ries, and its docks. The number of its inhabitants is estimated at about 9000, a great part of whom have left other towns on the York shire coast. At a meeting of the scripholders in the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway, held on Friday, at the Clarendon-rooms, a committee was appointed to com municate with the directors on the affairs of the company, and report thereon, to another meeting of shareholders. In case the committee cannot obtain the information sought, the holders of 1735 shares agreed to give one billing per share to carry out whatever might be necessary RAILWAYS' AND CANALS' AMALGAMATION.—The second report of the committee on this subject has just appeared. It impresses "upon the attention of the Com mittees to whom Bills, whether for the amalgamation of canals with railways, or the conversion of Canals into rail ways, may be referred, that a most searching inquiry should be instituted into the merits of each case ; arid that their sanction should be given only in those instances in which it shall have been clearly proved that the amalgama tion can be effected without prejudice to the public." RAILWAY La*.—A cute came on, on Monday week, at chambers, before Mr. Justice Wightman, of consider able interest. A director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Company had pleaded to a claim that another director had been proceeded against at the same time, for the same cause of action. Mr. Justice Wightman laughed at the plea, though supported by its author, Mr. Gibbons, and gave to Mr. A. A. Fry, the counsel on the opposite side, an order to have the costs under such a plea, what ever the event of the tat' might be. RAILWAY AMUSEMENT.—The youngsters who haunt about the railway crossings in and near Canterbury amuse themselves, when the policeman's back is turned, with laying small articles on the iron to be crushed by the train passing over. Pins placed lengthways are thus curiously flattened to an extreme degree of thinness, and bear a premium in the charity school exchange far above the original value. A juvenile speculator having sub mitted a fourpenny piece to the process, found that he could pass it for sixpence : elated with the discovery, he placed another, which he had received in change for the r first, on the newly-discovered mint, but to his astonish ment the wheels of the carriage carried it entirely away, and he thus remained minus twopence by this luckless exercise of his ingenuity.—Dover Telegraph. LAW INTELLIGENCE. BEDFORD ASSIZES.-TUESDAY, JULY 14 COULTAS V. BOWES, CLERK • This was an action of trespass, in which the plaintiff charged the defendant, who is a beneficed clergyman and magistrate of the county, with criminal conversation with his wife in November last. both she and the plaintiff being then, and having been for many years before, in the defendant's service. The case came on at the last spring assizes, when, after a protracted trial of two days' duration, a verdict was obtained by the plaintiff, with £250 damages. Subsequently to that event the Court of Common Pleas was moved for a new trial, and the rule having been made absolute, the parties now came down again in pursuance of that rule. On Thursday, after a protracted discussion, the jury, being unable to agree, were discharged, and the question wii again have to come sub ludic". THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FO REIGN AND COLONIAL. Don Miguel has publicly announced his determination never to surrender his claim to the throne of Portugal. A Popish mission is just about to start for the interior of Africa. _ _ _ The strawberries annually raised by one of the market gardeners near Amsterdam, are said to be worth £3,000. The Sydney papers recently received are chiefly filled with the prospects of railway adventure affording means for constructing those undertakings between various im portant points in the colony. An afflicting catastrophe has occurred within the last few days on the coast of Almeira, in Spain. A steamer carrying, by orders of the general of the district, 600 troops on board, was unable to bear the weight of so many men, and went to the bottom, only two escaping. The murderers of Sir Lawrence Jones have been tried at Constantinople. The Greek escort of the victim bore witness distinctly against them, and part of the stolen pro perty was found on their persons, but as Christian evi dence is not received in Moslem courts of law, the mur derers wer e acquitted. DEEPEST ARTESIAN WELL IN EUROPE.—In the Duchy of Luxembourg, a well is being sunk, the depth of which surpasses all others of the kind. Its present depth is 2336 ft. nearly 984 ft. more than that of la Grenelle near Paris. It is said, that this immense work has been under taken for working a large stratum of rock salt. On the Ist of July, the pope went on foot, accompanied only by a few prelates and some Swiss soldiers, to the church of the Salesian nuns, where the festival of the Vi sitation was being celebrated. The inhabitants of Rome, who were surprised to see the pope walking through the streets, a circumstance which had not been witnessed since the days of Ganganelli, received him with great enthusiasm. THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC CANAL. — The engineers despatched by the French Government to take the requisite surveys for the projected canal across the Isthmus of Panama, which is to join the two oceans, are stated in accounts from thence to have successfuly accomplished their mission. The preferable point for the end of the canal on the Pacific side was selected at Vaca de Monte, a few miles west of the city of Panama, in the valley of the Caimito. On the Atlantic side, the Bay of Lemon was fixed upon as affording superior convenience for ship ping to the port of Chagres. The total cost of construction of the canal was estimated at 125,000,000 francs, or say five millions sterling. The total length would be 761 kilo meters. There would be the necessity for cutting an "immense tunnel," which, for shipping, must form an important portion of the estimated expense. The depth of the canal was to be about seven yards, the width of the bottom twenty yards, and on the surface forty-five. REVENGE.—A letter from Calvi, in Corsica, of July 3, contains the particulars of crimes which put out of coun tenance all that the records of Clare or Tipperary could adduce :—" A person of the name of Horace Savelli, living at Calvi, had applied to the tribunals to render null some bills of exchange for a large amount, which he had signed in favour of a man named Michelini, on the ground that they had been extorted by fraud and violence, after a gambling transaction. Acquitted of the charge by one tribunal, Michelini was nevertheless condemned to two months' imprisonment by the Royal Court, which exas perated him exceedingly, and he swore not only to avenge the affront on Horace Savelli himself, but on all his family. He has unfortunately realised his terrible threat but too soon. In the afternoon of Thursday, Michelini and one of his relations, armed with guns and pistols, went to the farm of Savelli, where the latter and his brother were occupied in thrashing corn. A double re port was heard, and the two unfortunate men fell down dead. Without losing a moment's time, the assassins continued their course in the direction where three men of the family of Savelli were similarly engaged in thrash ing. Surprised like the former, one of them was killed instantaneously. The other two were mortally wounded. This terrible act of vengeance being executed, the as sassins, covered with blood, fled to the mountains, where they are now sheltered from the pursuits of justice. The five objects of this frightful butchery were all young, and in good circumstances. One of them alone had been in dispute with Michelini, who had nothing for which to blame or reproach the others." IRELAND. At the present time there are fourteen thousand able bodied men receiving employment at the cost of the pub lic, in the construction of public works in Ireland. ThE POTATO DISEASE.—There are some accounts from Ireland of further failures in the potato crop, but generally the reports in the provincial journals are still favourable. ...........-.... MURDER.—At Ennis a-sizes, on Wednesday week, Patrick O'Brien was convicted of having murdered his wife and infant daughter, by throwing them from the cliffs into the sea, at Kilkee. The prisoner was sentenced to be hanged. At Cork, an establishment in connection with an exten sive Glagow house has been opened, in which 400 young girls will be gratuitously taught embroidery and the most useful and elegant needlework. The Relief Committee have contributed £2OO towards this establishment, and committees, composed of ladies, clergymen, and laymen, have been formed to superintend its management. A. loud explosion of powder ocourrod at laallinoollig powder mills last week. The mills are so constructed 1 that it is almost matter of impossibility for a general ex plosion to occur ; and, on the present occasion, it was found that but one mill had been blown up; but how the accident occurred as yet cannot be accounted for. Only two accidents occurred, neither of which was, or is likely to be, attended with fatal consequences. The sufferers are two men who were employed in the identical mill at the time of the occurrence, one of whom had his clothes set on fire, from which, however, he was quickly relieved, and the other, though at some distance from the spot at the moment of the disaster, had his back severely hurt by the bound of a short, thick block of timber, propelled by the ignition of the powder. THE ORANGE ANNIVERSARIES.—The anniversary of the 12th of July has been observed almost invariably throughout the north of Ireland, and nearly in the manner contemplated in the various districts. At Lisburn, there was a very large muster of the brethren. On Sunday, they almost everywhere attended church in a body, but reserved the marching in procession to next day. The Newry Telegraph states that the demonstrations were imposing, but passed off in the most orderly manner in that quarter. The Armagh Guardian describes the pro ceedings in that locality, which appear to have been of a very animated yet decorous character. It states that, " during the whole procession, the strictest regularity was observed by the Orangemen, who were, without excep tion, as sober, respectable. and orderly a party as ever we saw. On the part cf the magistrates, every precaution was made to guard against a breach of the "peace, and their exertions were perfectfully successful." After the procession was over at Lisburn, and whilst the brethren were dispersing to their various lodge-rooms, they were attacked by a party of ruffians who had supplied them selves with every species of missile before the appearance of the Orangemen, who bore the assault without any re taliation. The magistrates at length succeeded in driving back the assailants, but not before serious injury had been inflicted on several of the Orangemen ; arid the magis trates were also assaulted in the most brutal manner. The police also suffered much abuse, and Mr. Verner, tha magistrate, was left streaming with blood from wounds in the head. The military continued in the streets until an early hour in last week, when peace was restored, and tie town was again quiet. Several of the rioters, who had been arrested, were brought before the magistrates at the police office this morning, and received summary and just punishment. Two of the Roman Catholic party, for an assault on an Orangeman, were fined £2, or a month's imprisonment. Three of the party were fined in the sum of £2 each, or imprisonment, for throwing stones and assaults ; and three more were fined in the sum of £3 each, or imprisonment. Those therefore of the rioters who have been arrested have, at the least, received sum- rnary punishment. THE FLEET AT COVE.—The land exercises of the sai lors and marines belonging to Sir Francis Collier's squa dron of evolution were resumed on Tuesday. The fine ness of the day, with a cloudless sky and pleasant breeze, enabled visitors to enjoy t! le exquisite scenery of the har bour from the heights of Carlisle Fcrt. All the river steamers and boats in harbour were fully freighted with citizens of all ranks, who were lanced under the fort. About 20t0 marines and 400 sailors were landed at Fox Cover, near the fort, shortly after ten o'clock. The land ing was accomplished in an expeditious and skilful man ner. The boats, which were of all sizes, numbered about 40. The smaller craft were brought in near the shore, while the larger, in proportion to their draught of water, drew alongside the heavy launches lying outside, thus forming a kind of marine bridge. The order being given, the marines moved along the boats in military line, and on being landed quickly gained the heights and formed into three squares. The evolutions took place in a large field, the marines charging, retreating, firing, forming columns and squares with :the various tactics usual in battle. While they were thus occupied the blue jackets were bard at their work, dragging : a l ong th e dismounting, and limbering an fi d rin u g n . limb T e h ri e ng, greatest mount ingheavyanfideld admiration was expressed by the spectators at the speed and dexterity with which they dragged the guns along the uneven ground, up and down heights, and over rocks and trenches. The crowds of people who witnessed the evolutions of the day were immense. In the course of the manoeuvres a sailor, named Griffiths, belonging to her Majesty's ship Vanguard, had his hand shattered by the too ready discharge of one of the guns. The field pieces had been dismounted, the wheels and all the ap purtenances taken from the carriages, when the order was given to mount guns, and fire. In this there was a rivalry between the men of each gun, and every one went to work determined if possible to discharge his gun the first. Griffiths' gun was mounted, and he had rammed home the cartridge, but before he had time to withdraw the rammer the powder was ignited, the rammer was blown high in the air, and his hand was shattered. He is a Welshman, and was lately married in Cove. — Cork paper. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday the usual weekly meeting of the members of this body was held in the Conciliation Hall, which was crowded in every part for some hours previously, from an anxiety to hear the result of the conference of the committee, who met on Thurs day, to consider the course to be adopted through Ire land, as to the proposal of repeal candidates in such counties and boroughs as vacancies might occur in before the next general election. The chair was taken by the Lord Mayor. After an address from whom Mr. Ray read the minutes of the last meeting, which were con firmed, and subsequently a letter from Mr. O'Brien, in which he said, as regarded the elections, " I have no he sitation in saying that the association ought to call upon the several constituencies to put forward repeal candi dates in opposition to Whig piacemen, and ought to sup. pert such candidates with all the aid and influence which it can command." Mr. O'Connell in his address insisted on the necessity of abandoning all idea of physical long. He would tell them he would never relax his exertions for repeal until he walked into a parliament in College Green. Lord Miltown wanted him to postpone the repeal cause for a time, and to give a trial to the new ministry, but he (Mr. O'Connell) would not postpone the repeal for an instant. In reference to the Dungarvan election, Mr. Meagher positively declared that he, for one, objected to Shell's having been suffered to obtain the vacant seat at all, but certainly without a contest. He dwelt on the shameful abandonment of principle, involved in such a dishonest and truckling course, and observed that Messrs. Sergeants Murphy and Stock, whom be highly eulogised, had been scandalously treated by the Repeal managers, in being forced to resign, while the Whig placeman was exempted, by special favour from a similar necessity. Great interruption and confusion resulted from this state ment. Messrs. O'Gorman and Mitchell attempted to pursue a like strain of indignant reclamation, but could scarcely obtain a hearing. After great confusion Mr. O'Connell proceeded to read a long report of the commit tee on the best mode of advancing the repeal cause,which disclaimed any connection whatsoever with any newspaper or newspapers, and denounced, in the strongest terms, the employment of any but peaceful, lawful, and consti tutional means, under any circumstances whatever, as foreign to the object and constitution of the association, and certain to bring defeat upon the cause. Mr. O'Con nell adverted to the list of eleven bills which he sug gested on the last day of meeting. If the government passed them they would make the country happy and prosperous, and he would admit they would remove the necessity for repeal—but there was no means of waking their present had and inefficient laws good ones, but by a native parliament. He alluded to a measure about to be introduced by the government with respect to Ireland—a measure which if carried into effect would give much sa tisfaction to the people. From all he had seen he con fessed he was not disposed to consent to the Catholic clergy being paid by the state. Mr. O'Connell announced the Repeal rent for the week to be £136 ss. THE C:..1.111T 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD, The Court still remains at Osborne House. On Tues day, the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen and the Royal suite, visited South ampton Water, returning in the Fairy steam yacht to Os borne House in the afternoon. The Queen was expected to return to Buckingham Palace yesterday. The Hon. Sydney Herbert is soon to lead to the Hy menial altar Miss A'Court, daughter of Lord Heytesbury. It is said thot the Marquis of Salisbury will shortly be united to the daughter of Earl Dalawarr. VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO IRELAND.—The Ballinasloe Star, says that her Majesty will visit her Irish subjects before the close of the present autumn. It is said that the visit of the grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz to this country, arose from an in vitation to their Royal Highnesses to be sponsors for the infant Princess. Sir William Masey Stanley has during the last week been entertaining a succession of guests at Hooton Hall, Cheshire, for the Liverpool race meeting. Among the visitors at Hooton have been the Earl of Uxbridge and Lady Constance Paget, the Earl of Granville, Viscount Maidstone, Viscount Canterbury, Lady Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Hon. St. George Foley, Hon. Chas. S. Cowper, Sir Jos. llawley, Captain Blair, Mr. Graham, Mr. Sturt, Mr. and Mrs. John Stanley, &c. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was brought down from her moorings up Portsmouth harbour to the buoy opposite King's Stairs on Friday. He; decorations, both exterior and interior, are complete her crew and officers have been placed on board, so that she is fit for immediate service. Her appearance altogether is:decidedly improved, and she looks a splendid vessel. It is expected that both the Victoria and Albert and the Fairy will start to Liver pool this day, (Tuesday.) UNIVERSITY 6• CLERICAL NEWS. The Rev. R. P. Buddicom, we find, died at Great Alne, Alcester. The lamented gentleman was 65 years of age. Yesterday morning week, the Bishop of London per formed the consecration of St. Jude's Church, in the Old Bethnal Green-road, being the seventh of the ten, for the erection and endowment of which the liberal subscription of £lOO,OOO was made a few years since. St. MARY'S CHURCH, BOOTLE.—The Rev. J. Glad stone, for many years incumbent of this church, has been inducted to the rectory of Stoke, in Shropshire, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Osborne Leycester, who held the living for more than half a century. _ THE ANY-THING-ARIAN COLLEGE.—Francis New man, Esq., late fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, whose appointment to the Latin chair at University College, London, is announced, is a brother of the Rev. J ohn Henry Newman, now of Oscott; Mr. F. Newman resigned his fellowship at Oxford many years since, in consequence of some scruples as to the ordination services of the Church. ORIEL COLLEGE.—The Rev. R. Simpson, of Oriel College, Oxford, and Vicar of Mitcham, Surrey, has re signed his preferment into the hands of the Lord Bishop of the diocese, preparatory, it is understood, to the step of joining the Roman Catholic Church. Two of Mr. Simpson's brothers, one late of Cambridge University, and the other late of Jollieshave College. been for some time members of th e ttomish Church. The latter, we understand, is studying for the priesthood at Oscott. NATIONAL EDUCATION. The Rev. Dr. Hook, Vicar of Leeds, has published a letter on this eubjeot, Borne of the acntimenta of which will surprise those who are acquainted with his theo logical opinions. It is addressed to the Lord Bishop of St. David's, and after an earnest appeal on behalf of the people, a complaint of the inadequacy of the means pro vided for their instruction, and an aver eent that the State cannot be required to vote funds levied from all denomi nations of its subjects for the benefit of one denomination, he says : " It is a pure fiction to assert that the State, by any act of Parliament, has established the Church of England, or any other form of Christianity, to which it is exclusively bound to render pecuniary support, or to afford any other support, than such as every class of her Majesty's sub jects have a right to demand. This is proved by the impossibility of producing any act of Parliament by which this establishment was ordained. The Church has in herited property, together with certain rights, and it has a claim upon protection, precisely similar to the claim for protection which may be urged by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London, who are also invested with certain rights and property handed down to them from their predecessors. The Church has no more claim for exclusive pecuniary aid from the State, or for any pecu niary aid at all, than is possessed by any other of those many corporations with which our country abounds. To call upon Parliament to vote any money for the exclusive supp2o of the Church of England, is to call upon Par liament to do what is unjust. The taxes are collected from persons of all religions, and cannot be fairly ex pended for the exclusive maintenance of one. I may, indeed, in passing, observe, that the outcry is unjust which is sometimes raised against government for nut establishing bishoprics in the colonies. It the govern ment is to support our bishops, it is equally bound to sup port prelates of the church of Rome, and Presbyterian ministers, and by seeking, therefore, for, such support, we should only fare the worse. If the Church has a right to demand protection from the State, the State has an equal right to demand of the Churco that, with her ample endowments, she shall make provision for her wants, without seeking grants from the public funds, which are raised by the taxation of the people. I think that our colonial bishops ought to be supported, not merely by private subscriptions, but by the more wealth✓ bishops at home; but, be this as it may, we have certainly no right to make a demand for such a purpose upon the state. And if the Church of England claims a right to the exclusive education of the people, it becomes her duty to seek to supply the deficiency of the funds re quired, by appropriating her property to this purpos Our bishops are, on this principle, bound to go do the House of Lords, and seek powers from the legislature to sell their estates, and their example should he followed by the more opulent of the inferior clergy. The help of the laity would be then sufficient. It would be better for the Church to hare a pauperised hierarchy, than an un educated people; and never could the hierarchy be more respectable than when pauperised in such a cause. But, though I shrink not from ceclaring what must be, and ought to be, the consequence of asserting the principle that the education of the people, secular as well as re ligious, pertains exclusively to the Church, I admit that such a measure is not to be required, because the country will not accept the education of the Church; and for the religious education of those who will receive education at our hands, we have at present sufficient funds, though they are insufficient for that which it is useless for the Church to attempt—the general education of the people. His plan for carrying out his principle of State edUcafion may be collected from what follows : Having concealed and asserted the principle that in any , measure of education the State must admit the co-opera tion of Dissenters as well as that of the Church ; let us proceed to consider what religious men of all parties would require before they would submit to the direct interfe rence of the State. They would require a recognition on the part of the State on the solemn importance of religious training—training is what is called special or doctrinal religion. Now, if the State were to establish a school in which literary and scientific instruction only should be given by the master appointed by government, would not this principle be sufficiently affirmed, provided it were required by every child to bring on the Monday of every week a certificate of his having attended to the Sunday school of his parish church, or of some place of worship legally licensed, and also of his having attended for similar religious instruction, at some period set apart during the week. Let this, then, be a principle laid down—that the State mi:!ht endow schools in which in struction purely literary or secular should be imparted, with due care to impress upon the minds of the children the fact that this instruction is not in itself sufficient ; but'that, to complete the system of education, religious instruction is also secured for them, in accordance with those traditions, whether of church or of dissent, which they have received from their parents. To effect this object, there should be attached to every school thus established by the State a class-room, in which the clergyman of the parish, or his deputies, might gibe religious instruction to the people, on the afternoon of every Wednesday and Friday, another cl3ss being pro vided for a similar purpose for dissenting ministers. Sup pose this to be done, in addition to the requiring of the children an attendance at some Sunday school, and I do not ask whether such an arrangement would be preferred to any other by each party, for each party would prefer having everything in their way ; but I do ask whether there could be any violation of principle on either side ? I ask whether for the sake of a great national object, there might not be a saCTifiCg, not of principle, but of prejudice on either side? POLITICAL MISCELLANY The amount of the Cobden testimonial has reached £37,000, exclusive of the amount collected in London and Liverpool. To the Bright Testimonial £l2OO have been subscribed ; Mr. Cobden contributing £lOO. Air. Edgar A. Bowring, son of Dr. Bowring, has been appointed private Secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, the President of the Board of Trade. Colonel Anson was returned for South Staffordshire on Wednesday, unopposed. The hon. candidate immediately after the election left Lichfield for Liverpool. EDINBURGH ELECTION.—rhe polling took place on Tuesday. At the close of the poll, the numbers were : Macaulay, 1375 ; Smith, 832 ; majority, 903. Mr. V. Smith, one of the members for Northampton, has, it seems, been is vited to take office under Lord J. Russell, but has declined doing so. At a meeting held at Stockport, an address of thanks to Sir R. Peel, as a convert to free trade, was changed into an address to those who converted him. The Dublin Illail says that the personal friends and political adherents of the Duke of Wellington in the upper house have, with the full assent of his Grace, ranged themselves under Lord Stanley as their leader. The Earl of Ellesmere declines to contribute to the Cobden Testimonial, on the ground that to do so would imply an approval of the whole scheme and operations of the League ; a feeling which he does not entertain. Sir Robert Peel met with a slight accident on Monday morning, which has prevented his attendance in the House to the present time. Resting his foot on a China basin, it broke by the weight of his person, and lacerated his foot. The return of Mr. Smith for Dungarvon was unop posed. The proceedings connected with the election only occupied a short time. Mr. Shell did not deem it neces sary to go down to meet his constituents. Repeal was mute, although Mr. O'Connell has so often pledged him self to contest every place in favour of a repea!er. The following members of the former Whig Govern ment have not taken office under Lord John Russell : Viscount Melbourne, the Right Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Kinnaird, Richard More O'Ferrall, Esq , the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, Lord Seymour, Sir William Clay, Bart.. &c. A deputation of merchants of Liverpool, trading to East 'Ala and China, had an interview with Lord John Russell on Wednesday, at his official residence in Down ing -street, upon the subject of a reduction of the duty on tea. The deputation consisted of Mr. Wm. Potter, Mr. William Rathbone, and Mr. Henry Winch, and was ac companied by Viscount Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas. FREE TRADE REJOICINGS.—The Mayor of Manches ter, in compliance with the request of a body of the in habitants, has izsued a public recommendation that Monday, the 3d of August next, be celebrated as a general holiday, in commemoration of the triumph of free trade. In Ashton-under-Line a public dinner is to to take place. In Bury, a procession, dinner. and ball will grace the 25th and 27th instant ; and the ex-Premier is said to have been invited to the festivities. WEST-RIDING ELECTION. - The election for this Riding, occasioned by the acceptance of office by Lord Morpeth, as her Majesty's Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, took place on Saturday, at Wakefield. The Noble Lord was re-elected without opposition. None but the personal friends of his lordship, and his warm political partisans were present. Lord Morpeth was pro posed by Lord Milton, and seconded by H. Stansfeld, E A . most most comical mistake occurred in the transmission of the new Irish Chancellor's appointment. As Sir Frederic Pollock sat after dinner ruminating on the sad mutability of parties, a letter on her Majesty's service was brought to him, which conveyed the startling intimation that my Lord Chief Baron was to consider himself henceforth Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In the haate of initiatory pro ceedings the envelope had been addressed in error, and the Chief of the English Exchequer was thus subjected to the torturing tantalisation of a momentary clutch of the Irish seals. _ _ _ _ ----- THE NEW AND LATE MINISTRY.—In the present ministry as well as in the last, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer is not united with the office of the First Lord cf the Treasury. This course, however, is at variance with the established practice. '1 he rule until within the last five years was that the Premier, being in the Lower House, must not only be first Lord of the Treasury, but also Chancellor of the Exchequer, The instances in the present century, to go no further back, are Sir Robert Peel himself in 1834-5, Mr. Perceval, Mr. Pitt, and Mr.' Addington. The other Premiers within the same period were members of the Upuer House, and therefore could not discharge the duties of Chancellor of the Exchequer. The new practice not only diminishes the labour of the Premier, but increases his patronage, by enabling him to bestow the Chancellorship of the Exchequer upon one of his adherents. HUMOROUS INCIDENT.—On Monday night week, when the ex-Premier was delivering his valedictory speech in the House of Commons, Mr. O'Connell sat beside a member whose name we are not at liberty to give, but who vouches for the authenticity of the following statement : Mr. O'Connell sat listening to Sir Robert - for some time in deep attention. At length he raised his glass to his eye, and looked at him for a minute or two through it. " And is that Pale," says he, " that is spaking ?" Not receiving any answer, he listened a while longer, and then, putting his hand to his ear as if to catch the sounds more distinctly, he repeated his question still more em phatically. "Is that Pale, I say, that is spaking ?" and being satisfied that it was " Pale that was speaking." " By the powers," he added, " the fellow will rob me of regale !" The scene, we are assured, was extremely gra phic—the rich brogue and earnest gestlcutalun of the lion. member for Cork contributing greatly to its interest. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. An accident of a very dreadful character, whereby nearly 20 persons were more or less seriously injured, and 2 or 3, it is feared, fatally so, occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway between 4 and 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. _ _ The scene of the accident was the Stratford station on the Colchester line, the melancholy occurrence arising from a train of empty trucks having been driven into a passenger train while stopping at that station. The Stratford station (Colchester branch) is situated about three miles and a half from Shoreditch, and about 500 yards below the point where the Cambridge line di verges. In the immediate vicinity of the station the rail way is on a level, but a few yards further east it enters a shallow cutting, perhaps half a mile in length. A bridge is thrown across the line within a few yards of the station, immediately after passing which the railway makes a curve of considerable radius. At a distance of about 300 yards another bridge is thrown across the line, which latter, however, is not visible from the station. A signal on Eialle's principle is erected about 150 paces from the second bridge, and this is intended as a guide to all dri vers traversing the up line. The accident occurred, as stated above, between 4 and 5 o'clock ou Saturday afternoon. The up-train from Ipswich, due at Stratford at 56 minutes past 3, did not arrive at that station until some minutes after its usual time. Various estimates as to the exact period are given, but the general impression seems to be that the train was about twenty minutes after its proper time. Several pas sengers had alighted, others were in the act of entering carriages, and the engine-driver was taking in a supply of water, when a train was observed passing the signal-post before alluded to, and coming rapidly towards the station. Mr. Ilich/rdson, the station-master, was upon the plat. form at this moment, superintending the dispatch of pas sengers, &c. The noise of the approaching train at once attracted his attention, and, looking eastwards, he saw the imminent danger in which the passengers of the stationary train were placed. lie immediately ran towards the en gine, intending to induce the driver to go on with the train then at the station, but before he could explain his ob ject the collision took place, and on returning along the platform a scene presented itself which almost baffles de- sorption. The train, which, but a moment previous, had con sisted of seven or eight first and second-class carriages and two horse-boxes, now presented little more than a mass of broken frame-work and rubbish. Of a second class carriage which had been attached to the train at Romford, and placed in the rear of the two horse-boxes, there was literally nothing left, and the unfortunate pas sengers which it had contained were seen, bleeding and wounded, lying about the railway in various directions among the fragments. Two other second-class carriages were so crushed as to be rendered entirely useless, scarcely one of their hapless' inmates escaping some serious fracture or contusion, and of the remaining car riages all were more or less broken, and their inmates seriously shaken and otherwise injured. When, the first momentary shock had subsided, the station-master, with what assistance be could procure, proceeded to collect the wounded persons and assist them into the passengers' waiting-room. Medical aid was im mediately procured, and the worst cases were sent to London Hospital. One gentleman had a fracture of the right leg, another fractured his collar bone, the bones of several ladies were broken, and one gentleman had a con cussion of the brain. Mr. Roney, secretary to the com pany, happened to be at Cambridge, and immediately commenced an investigation into the circumstances. Mr. Richardson, the station-master said, that the passenger train was about starting for London, when witness ob served a train of empty trucks approaching the station. Witness ran towards the driver of the passenger train, carriagesd furtherestr destroyed yed described an d passengers the man nerthrown about the line. H e sa id , the passenger tra i n con sisted in tending to hasten his departure, but before witness could reach the engine the collision had occurred, an d th e fire man of the passenger train was throw off th e eng i ne on to the the of an engine and tender, r i a n i whichwa l‘lr. Richardson were two horse boxes, a coach truck, a first-class carriage, and several second-class carriages. The train which caused the accident consisted exclusively of empty trucks drawn by one engine. The driver of the truck train, the stoker, the signal man, and an under fireman have been given into custody, it appearing that the accident had occurred through their negligence, the simple question in deciding which will be, whether the signal to stop was properly exhibited. The bulk of the evidence goes to prove that the signal was properly lowered, hut it should also be stated that the ne gative assertion of the driver Clare is supported by his stoker, and also by the man Nicholson. The station is said to be built in a most dangerous locality, and a new one is now erecting about half a mile nearer London. Among the passengers in the Ipswich train was General Sir D. Lacy Evans. The back of the carriage in which the gallant general was sitting, was completely driven in, and a fragment passing upwards, tore his coat and trou sers, and severely injured his hack and legs. He was removed to the Swan Tavern, Stratford, in a chaise, and, in the course of the evening, was taken to his residence. Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., M. Cotton, late governor of the July 21, 1846. bank, and several othei• well known gentlemen, are also described to have been passengers in the same train. On inquiry at the hospital on Sunday evening, it was ascertained that the only two individuals in a really dan gerous condition are Mr. Hiram Morris, of the Hoop Inn, Deptford, and William Prentice, one of the company's porters. All the rest are stated to be going on favourably. Mr. Hudson, M. P., chairman of the company, was on the spot at seven o'clock on S un d a y morn i ng , ma ki ng minute examination of the locale of the accident. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING FIRST DAY-WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 The CROXTETII STAKES, of 15 sous. each, with 30 added. Lord Sefton ns b c 'the Conjuror... Mr Aleiklam's br m Inheritress 2 The PRODUCE SWEEPSTAKES of 50 Boas each. Mr Green's Lady Harkaway, by Harkaway 1 Mr Ferguson's ch f Danceaway, by Harkaway .. 2 The BICKERSTAFFE STAKES of 100 SOVS each. Colonel Anson's b c lago, by Don John.... walked over. The MERSEY SrAxEs of 25 sous each, with 50 added ; the second to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. Lord Eglinton's hr c Van Tromp. .... Lord Caledon's cby Simoom out of Cassandra .. 2 MATCH, 200 sovs. Lord Stanley's c h Abdiel, by Arcuratb, out of Verbena 1 Lord Glasgow's bk f by Retriever, out of Canada 2 The SEFTON STAKES for 30 sovs each Mr Irwin's ch Danceaway, by Harkaway walked over A PLATE of 60 sovs for horses that never won £5O. Mr Green's ch f Lady Elarkaway 0 1 1 Mr Lancaster's ch c Monsieur Perrot.. Mr Smith's b cby Jerry, out of The Maid Mr R J Mostyn's ch c Chartist .... THURSDAY A FREE H ANDICAP of 1U Soca. each, with 25 added, for three-year-olds and upwards. One mile and a quarter. Lord Stanley's br f Tour de Force, 3 yrs .... (Irvine) 1 Mr Arnold's b m Alice, 5 yrs (h b) ...... Won by a length. Alice led off at a rattling pace until the last turn, when Tour de Force came up, challenged. and a good race home ensued. The FOAL. STAKES of 100 Sovs. each, 'n ft, for foals of 1813, colts, Bst filb ; fillies, Bst 31b. Once round and a distance. Col. Anson's b c lago Walked over The LIVERPOOL CUP, or PLATE, of 300 Sovs. given from the Racing Fund, add-d to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 Sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 Sc.e. The second to receive 50 Sov. out of the stakes. (90 subs.) Mr E. G. Hornby ns br hLightning,s yrs (Templeman) 1 Lord Eglington's h f Plaudit, 4 yrs .... Lord Warwick b h Yardley, 6 yrs . . .. 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Mongrel, The Baron, Intrepid, Highwayman, Satyr, Mendicant, The Conjuror, My Mary, As - you.like-it, Robin Burns, Cranebrook, Best Bower, Tragical, Driffield. Betting-5 to 4 agst Mendicant ;6to 4 on the field ; 12 to 1 agst Yardley ; 10 to 1 agst The Conjuror; 12 to 1 agst Lightning ; 100 to 6 agst Plaudit ; 100 to 8 agst Best Bower ; 16 to agst The Baron. The horses got all well off together, Highwayman leading, with My Mary and Cranebrook in his wake, with most of the others well up, Mendicant being in the middle. The race con tinued in thi s o r der, w ith slight variations, until entering the straight run, when Plaudit, Yardley, and Lightning came in front, and a fine race home took place between the three, which ended by Lightning being the winner by a length ; Plaudit beating Yardley for the secuid place by a neck, the others well up. Her MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas. Three-year olds, ist 51b ; four, 9st 111 b ; five, 9st 111 b ; six and aged, lOst 21b. Two mile heats. , Mr Meiklam's br m Inheritress, 6 yrs (Templeman) I 1 Hon E. M. Ll. Mostyn's bc by Revolution, 2 yrs 2 2 Beal heats won easily The DERBY HANDICAP of 10 sous each, p with 80 sous added by the Right Hon. the Earl of D er b y . V oEre mile. 22 subs. Lord G. Bentinck's bk f Blackbird, 3 yrs .. (Abdalc) I Lord Eglinton's b f Plaudit, 4 yrs.. .. • • . Mr Worthington's ch c Sh ars t on , 3 yrs .... The following also started, but were not placed :—My Mary, Coheiress, Burlesque, Gannet, Best Bower, Al liance, Tour de Force, Ironmaster, Lady Alice. After one false start the horses got well cff, Tour de Force leading, closely followed by Blackbird, Lady Alice, Burlesque, with the rest well up. When at the last turn, Sharston went in front, Plaudit next ; at the distance chair Blackbird came up, winning by a length. _ _ 3 to 1 agst Lady Alice ; 3 to 1 agst My Mary; 50 to 5 agst Ironmaster ; 20 to 3 agst Blackbird; 100 to 12 agst Alliance ; 30 to 5 agst Plaudit ; 110 to 5 agzenst Burlesque. FRIDAY The STANLEY STAKES of 15 sous each, 10 ft, for two and three-year-old 12 subs Mr H. Wadley ns b c by Simoom, 2 yrs. (Crouch) Mr Cranston's br I Corime-it-faui (Adda!e) A dead heat. The stakes were divided, and SimoOra walked over. Nine others started. The LIVERPOOL ST. LEGER of 25 sovs each, with 100 added, for three-year-olds. Colts Bst 81b; fillies Bst 31b. The second to receive £5O out of the stakes. 29 subs. Mr T. Dawson ns b c Brother to Si Lord Maidstone's b c Torn Tullocb Lord G. Bentinck's b c Binnacle r Henry Ilarson) 1 Four others started. Won by a head The KNOWSLEY DINNER STAKES of 100 sous each, h ft, for three-year-olds. 5 subs. Mr Merry's bl cby Don John, out of Peri (Cartwright) 1 Mr Jaques's ch c Spur ... The GROSVENOR. STAKES of 15 sous each, 5 ft, for three and four-year-olds. 9 subs. Lord Eglinton's Plaudit walked over. Match for 200 sovs. Lord Stanley's Meeanee received forfeit from Lord Glasgow's f by Sir Hercules. The BENTINCK TESTIMONIAL, a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 5 forfeit, &c., with a Piece of Plate of the value of 100 sovs a dd e d. For all ages. 25 subs. Mr B. Green's b e The Conjuror, 3 yrs, 7Ec 10ib (W. Abdale) Mr Meiklam's br m Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 8113 Mr Maber's b c Highwayman, 4 yrs, 7st 81b ...... • • 2 Six others started. Won by a length. The SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs added, with 60 added• Heats one mile and a half. H. Johnstone's b g Blind Hookev, Mr W aged. Mr Lancaster's ch c Monsieer P (Marlov;') 2 1 1 Three otl rs started SHEFFIELD ASSAY OFFICE.—We have no doubt that many of our townspeople, as well as our readers gene' will be surprised, in common with ourselves, at learning the amount of business done at this office. We think they will be gratified when we tell them that from Mid summer, 1844, to Midsummer, 1815, the weight of silver assayed and marked at this office was 61,398 ources ; and from Midsummer, 1845, to Midsummer, 1816, the silver goods on which duty was paid amounted to no less a weight than 66,382 ounces, showing an increase over last year of near 5000 ounces. The weight of silver above named has been manufactured into tea-urns, epergnes, c baskets, &c. In addition to these heavier kind s o f goo ds. between 5000 and 6000 small articles, su c h as tea a nd t a a b n l d e e - l s ab po r o a, n sc,akn knives, v e e s s t candlesticks, k i s c: b p l a a i d l s e , fruit, and b r ead blades, have been mole in this town during the last t we l ve months, and we call assure cur readers, on offi c i a l aut h ority, that the silve r used by our manufacturers is purer in quality than evert the law requires.. The fact is known to her Majesty's Assay Master, and to every officer at the Royal Mints and we have no doubt this is an inducement for pur chasers to prefer Sheffield plate to that of any other town in the kingdom, London not excepted.—Sheifield Mer cury. ABSURDITY OF THEATRE AUDIEN evenia lately, the beautiful dancer, Madlle. Cerito, was ill- - too ill to dance in the ballet of Ondine, as advertised:. Bills stating this were put up at the doors, in the form of apology, with notice that another ballet, including yell beautiful dancing, was substituted. The luxurious people who attend the opera do not seem to have remembered, 0 1 this occasion, anything to the purpose ; and they behave d so foolishly that it would be charitable to hope that none of them were yet in their teens. They do not seem to have remembered that they themselves are sometimes ill —that they might be so oftener if they had stage dancing to do in extremely hot weather—that when a performer engages to perform for a certain term, he does not engage to live and be well, but comes under the ordinary condi' tions of all contracts. Nor do they appear to have re' membered the inhumanity to the sick person, nor the in" suit to her substitutes, of quarrelling with the m , instead of with the decrees of fate. They made a disgraceful lilt' and kept it up till the curtain fell. One dancer, Perrot , was grossly insulted, made a scolding speech in French , tore his hair, and rushed off the stage. Madge. Gralitl; another dancer, implored mercy, by clasping her hands e t the stage lamps, poor thing ! They let her dance, b there was no more peace —no more enjoyment for any on e i The Opera public showed itself an insufferable spod e ' child that evening. Here we have an instance of the eSi treme that bard, luxurious selfishness can reach.- -2 / 4 1 Martineau, in the People's Journal. if The anxiety that a man feels for the want of funms called capital punishment. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—During the past week there gardens have been attended by thousands of delighted c ,,,j sitors, who have been att rac t e d thith er by th e combines attractions of the fireworks,and admirable poses Plas tiqu e• and tableaux vivants of Professor Keller and his troop The more these tableaux are seen the better are they e; preciated by the numerous au di ences w h o encore ibe o f almost on every occasion—particularly the Ariadoe. e . Madame Keller, to see w hi c h a s hilli ng i s a sma ll Fri e, From the great success which has attended tin ir colq e r went, the prop r i e t ors h ave engage d th em f o r an ° ,',i e n week. Prof essor K e ll er i s succee d e d b y Mons. Ju' l ti e and the elite of hi s ce l e b ra t e d b an d, o f whcseell capabilities it is needless to say known in Liverpool.—See advt EXTRAORDINARY RETURN )F HEALTH IN A F cis EW SE OF HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, TB E A9 - S. TIENT HAVING BEEN IN AN ILL STATE FOR SIX 1.6- —Mr. Benjamin Hawking, eruplcyed in the Iron-No!„-,3: and well known at the Crown and Cushion, High Wednesbury, Staffordshire, had, to use his own P lir gd " been a sad afflicted creat ure , a nd that no one but •-"ogi and himself knew what he suffered from'aches a nd Pal ed in all his joints and shins ; likea ise from a disorJel„, liver and stomach, with scarcely strength I,uffieit:nt to inr o about." Here, again, have Holloway's Pills restorete'd health an individual labouring under the most ct)mplica diseases,—See adv. DAYS BY l'H