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Varriamtnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY , Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Rev. M'Ghee, Dublin, praying the house not to sanction the in.troduction of papal bulls into this country. With reference to the Religious Opinions Relief Bill, the BISHOP of EXETER proposed that two questions should be submitted for the consideration of the Judges— first, whether independently of the acts of the first and fifth of Elizabeth it was a punishable offence to deny the 'Queen's supremacy, or to maintain the jurisdiction of the Pope in these realms ; and secondly, whether independ ently of the first named act it was an offence to put in execution any bulls emanating from the See of Rome ? The Lord CHANCELLOR did not think it necessary to -take the course pursued. There was a clear distinction between ecclesiastical and spiritual, and civil and tempo- 'ral authority, and the oath administered to Roman Catho lics had been altered so as clearly to recognise her Majesty as the supreme head in the latter respects. Lord BROUGHAM quite concurred with his noble and teemed friend's view of the case. observations from Lords DENMAN and CAMPBELL, affirming the supremacy of the Sovereign from time immemorial, Lord BEAUMONT explained to the House the difference between dogmas of faith and matters of discipline, and de nied most explicitly that the Roman Catholic Church at the present day held that the Pope tad power to depose Princes or absolve-subjects from their allegiance. The Bishop . of EXETER again solemnly warned the House of the dangerous breach they were about to make in the constitution of the empire, but ended by withdraw- !fter so ing his motion HOCSE OF COMM 0N5....-.M01 , 713 On the motion for the third reading of the Corn Bill, Marquis of GRANBY, after an animated speech in opposition to the bill, moved that it'be read a third time that 'day six months. - Mr. M. G ASK ELL seconded the amendment. After some discussion, in which Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Vioyer, and Sir J. Easthope took part. 'Mr. M-rt.ms argued that it was impossible, comparing *he taxation of this country with that of others, that we vould enter into competition with either Russia or the United States in the 'production of grain, and he was 'therefore confident that the House of Lords would never sass 'tbe bill then under the consideration of the house. Sir .J. GRAHAM said he had no doubt that the bill would be passed by a decided majority in the House of Lords. The question had upon all hands been narrowed into 'one as to whether the removal of the protection would or would not be prejudicial to the tillers of the soil, 'and if it should be apparent that the existing corn-law would be injurious to the labourers, he, for one, would loot advoeateit,'but he was satisfied in his conscience, that the'changein the law would be as beneficial to the agri cultural as to the commercial portion of the community. Ile wished, however, that it should be understood, that le had never advocated the repeal of the protecting duties because of the distress in Ireland ; for, in his opinion, that occurrence had only precipitated that which was in ' Mr. CAYL EY contended, in a very argumentative speech, that the abolition of protection must be equally injurious to the small farmer and the agricultural labourer, as well HOUSE OF COM INIONS.—TVESDAY. e on the third reading of the Corn Bill was 11r. Newdegate against it, and Mr. G. Palmer, Benett, Mr. Plumptre, Sir J. ,ptain Polhill Mr. S. Crawfor .110-USE OF COMMONS -WEDNESDAY debate on the second reading of the Fac it on th moral interests that experience proved that a reduction abour of the operatives had proved not lv_beneficialto their physical, social, and )re recommended the legisia- gry feeling existing I i Cat o weremakiogecor - mous I , Ett. contended, on the authority of the ed in favour of this bill, that beat it than they did about lore than they did about the re- Their delegates bad published a they had stated the readiness of the classes to accept a reduction of the hours of la and to leave the value and the price of labour to be ed between themselves and their employers. They were ready to run all risks if this change were but made. The corn-laws, he trusted, were on the point of being re pealed, and therefore the advocates of this measure, acting on the admissions of Mr. Henry Ashworth and Messrs. Marshall, were justified in expecting, that though the money was number of petitions present the opera cared more a asure—ay -laws. peal of the CO Inf Drial, in whic s of the operatives might be somewhat lower in case it were made law, the labourers themselves would not be worse off in consequence of th imultaneous re mluction which would take place in the Thee of food. At the same time he was not prepared to admit that there must be a diminution of produce as a result of the dimi nution of the hours of work. If the master manufactu rers continued to withhold their assent from this bill, they most expect to be told, as they had told the landowners, that their interests could not be allowed to stand in the way of the interests of the great mass of the people. Lord J. MANNERS considered that this question was virtually settled out of doors, inasmuch as the affections and passions of the people, as well as their deliberate opi nions and convictions, were enlisted in its favour. He then proceeded to examine the facts, figures, and inqui ries into which Sir J. Graham had plunged, in order to vindicate his opposition to this bill, and pointed out the inconsistency of the matter manufacturers, in boasting, on the discussion for the repeal of the corn-laws, that they did not care for the miserable protection of 20 per cent. upon manufactures, and in declaring on the present Occasion, that so great was the press of foreign competi tion that they could not stand against it, if the protection, which they enjoyed in working their operatives twelve hours a-day, were taken from them. He also trusted that the house would not forget the ceaseless ridicule of the bugbear of foreign competition which it bad recently heard night after night from the master manufacturers, who supported the doctrines of free trade. He denied the assumption of Sir J. Graham, that this bill would reduce the wages of the working man, and treated with some scorn his calculation that it would be tantamount to the imposition of a tax of 16 per cent. on the working people. He believed that, instead of wages falling in consequence of the adoption of this bill, they would only be spread wore equally over the surface of the whole year's labour; and that instead of a period of intolerable toil, followed by a period of no work at all, there would be an equal - flow of labour from one end of the year to the other. Mr. CARDWELL opposed the bill, on the ground that it would be deeply injurious to 800,000 hardworking manu facturers, whose subsistence was directly dependent upon the wages which they received for their labour. He called upon the house not to curtail the amount of wages on the one hand, whilst it was diminishing the price of the ne cessaries of life on the other. This measure, if passed into law, would bring about first a contention between masters and men on the subject of wages, and afterwards a period of common suffering to both. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY After some conversation on the order in which the pub lic business would be taken next week, and which Sir R. Peel declared would be that which he had previously stated—viz., to give preference to the tariff, and afterwards to take one discussion on the Poor Removal Bill, it was arranged that the adjourned debate on the Factory Bill should be taken on the first vacant government day after- Wards. . . - - - Mr. SPOONER brought forward the case of Mr. Toni min Smith, a barrister, whose house was searched for a private still on anonymous authority ; but Mr. Cardwell defended the course pursued by the Excise, and the mo tion for a select committee was negatived by A majority of 134 to 125. _ _ Lord G. BENTINCK, in moving "for copies of the speech of Earl Cathcart, the Governor-General of the Canadas, to the Legislative Assembly of those provinces —of the despatches which be had addressed to Mr. Glad stone, the Colonial Secretary. remonstrating against cer tain presumed changes in the Imperial commercial policy, —and of any petition from the Quebec Board of Trade addressed to the same high functionary, on the subject of apprehended changes in the Imperial tariff affecting the produce of the Canadas," observed that he considered it - very important that the attention of the house should be called to these documents, before it finally decided on the fate of the corn bill. He believed that the facts con nected with these documents were shortly these. Early in March last, Mr. Gladstone had addressed a letter to Earl Cathcart upon the measures recently propo,ed to Parliament by Her Majesty's Government. It appeared from the letter that Earl Cathcart had previously ad dressed a letter of remonstrance against that policy to Mr. Gladstone Acting upon the same principles, Earl Cali• cart had, in his address to the Legislative Assembly, ob served that the last intelligence from the mother country indicated that important changes were to be made in the commercial policy of Great Britain—that he had pressed onthe Imperial Government the necessity of preserving the existing relations between the Canadas and the mother country unimpaired—and that he had recommended the i Canadians' until they received further nfo rmation from Great Britain, to anticipate that their claims to a just measure of protection would not he overlooked. Earl Cathcart bad since assured them that in every measure calculated to secure to them that just protection, they should have his hearty co-operation. Surely it was a matter of serious consideration for that house, when they found the Governor-General of the Canadas telling their Legislative Assembly that lie would co-operate with them against the policy of the mother country. Besides this declaration, there were other indications of the dissatis faction which was felt in the Canadas in consequence of the recent adherence of her Majesty's minister to the -trines of free trade. A meeting had been held at To few days before the meeting of the Legislative which there was a distinct intimation given, • a our new commercial policy might ❑adas into annexation with the United States wage had also been employed by the Attor he province, and this language he quoted It therefore became the house adopt measures which New Yori The Irish Catholic Directory and Al k claimed for the Pepe the exercise of power in this it now stood there could be no doubt that he had repeat mpted to exercise such power. H is lordship then referred to the allocution of which he had formerly spo n, and which declared certain acts of the Spanish Go tto be null and void. His lordship alluded also try, anC to a striking instance of interference on the part of th Pope, and called upon their lordships not by the proposed bill to invite from him a repetition of the same sort of in terference. Their lordships ought not to consent to sur render securities without being fully satisfied that an equivalent would be given for them, and without being informed of the precise nature of the proposed equiva lent. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the right reverend prelate had been misinformed, if he supposed that every one was bound to take the; oath of supremacy, without qualification, when tendered to him. An Act for the Relief of Roman Catholics was passed in 1791, in which there was a distinct clause relieving persons of that per suasion from the necessity of taking the oath as formerly prescribed. After the many laws which bad been passed for the relief of the Roman Catholics, no person of that religion ought to be debarred from moderately and tern- peritely asserting the supremacy of the Pope. His right reverend friend ought to have given notice of his motion, in order that the law lords might have been in their place to reply to the new points he had urged against the bill. His lordship repeated, that until it bad passed he would not touch upon the subject of oaths. Even if oaths were allowed to continue on the footing on which they now stood the bill ought to pass. The only questionable point in the matter was with respect to the oath of abjuration ; but, as there were no descendants of James II in existence, the oath was superfluous. Their lordships had acceded to the second reading of a bill repealing Way acts, and ought not, at the eleventh hour, to retrace their steps. Some of these acts were to the last degree oppressive. Any Roman Catholic who maintained theeeeles . i;stical or spiritual authority of the Pope, in Ireland was liable, for the first offence, to the forteiture cf his goods, for the second to a premunire, and for the third to be tried for high treason. The Bishop of St. DAVID'S regretted that he had not been present at the discussion which preceded the second reading of the bill. He entirely approved of the measure. The acts which it proposed to repeal were unjust and ini quitous, and involved gross violations of the liberty of the subject. There might be a justification for prohibiting the importation of Papal bulls, but nothing could justify the continuance of such acts in the statute book. H e did not think that there was any force or efficacy in a Papal bull, and was therefore not prepared to consider it as dan gerous as it had been represented. The change made by Pope Pius VII. in the Galilean Church ought not to have been referred to as bearing upon the case, seeing that he was induced to make them on the imperious demand of Napoleon, contrary to his own wishes and cokviction. He (the Bishop of St. David's) would not be alarmed should a :Papal bull be smuggled inte this country and affixed to the gates of the city of London and Bucking ham Palace. His lordship in conclusion stated that he was prepared to carry the principle of the bill even further than the learned lord by whom it had been brought forward. The Bishop of OXFORD denied that those points of the bill which were good and salutary had been received with coolness or disapprobation by himself or his right reverend friend. He was prepared to vote for going into committee, but although he approved of some parts of the measure, there were others which completely staggered him. The bill, as the commissioners had stated, wJuld allow and re cognise the power of the Bishop of Rome within this realm. If it were passed, their lordships would be called upon to give np the national declarations which their an cestors bad made; and the right of the pope to exercise spiritual power in this country would be recognised, with out any corresponding safeguard. He was of opinion that the question of oaths ought to have been considered along with the measure then before their lordships. Lord STANLEY gave the measure. both as to its prin ciple and details, his cordial approval. He did not con sider that the proposed bill would alter the position of her Majesty's Pi otestant subjects in the slightest degree. It did not legalise the jurisdistion of the see of Rome in this country, but simply remitted special penalties for commu nications, otherwise innocent, because they came from Rome. The law, as it now stood, repudiated the power of excommunication on the part of a priest, and gave the subject a remedy against the party attempting to exercise this tyrannical influence over him. The law denied that the Pope has any supremacy in this country, and was in no respect affected by the proposed bill. He did not, therefore, see the necessity of mixing up the question of oaths with that of penalties. After a few words, by way of explanation, from Lord Brougham and the Lord Chancellor the committee was agreed to. The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed that their lordships should first proceed with the clauses to which no opposi tion was likely to be made, This suggestion having been adopted, the house went into committee, and the unop posed clauses were verbally amended and agreed to: after which their lorships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY, The debate on-the third reading of the Corn Law Bill was resumed by Colquhoun. Mr. D'ISRAELI, at great length, contended that the prosperity of all cla.ses of the community, tested by the consumption of tea, coffee, currants, and other imports, was almost invariably concurren t with, and might there fore be attributed to, the high price of corn, which gave to the people high wages, and enabled them to purchase more largely, not only of the necessaries but the luxuries of life. In reference to the change of opinion of Sir R. Peel, the hon. gentleman alluded to the right honourable baronet's defence, when he said that he had in a former session given information of the change in his sentiments upon the corn laws. It was true, said Mr. D'lsraeli, that in the course of the last session Lord Grey found him out, but be might, nom - unmanning, congra his complete success in having entirely deceived his He (Mr. D'lsraeli) was not deceived ; for two years ago he bad proclaimed that protection was then in the same state as Protestantism in 1828. His friends were angry with him for making that declaration, but the result proved that what was then considered as a calumny, turned out to be only a prophecy. The right honourable baronet had been a trader on other people's intelligence. His life was, in fact, one great principle of appropriation —the political burglar of other men's ideas; and, after deserting his friends, acting as if they had deserted him. The hon. gentleman proceeded to describe the gentlemen on the Treasury benches as political pedlars, who had bought their party in the cheapest market, and sold in the dearest, and contended that this betrayal of their friends whether it wou , bAr of those valuable provinces. I published in ral extracts from pa r the purpose of show pression as to the results of our new policy had been created in_tba winds of the thinking people of the United %ft : au ' THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR'i), States. He reminded the house that if this country were would lead to the loss of all confidence in public men. to lose the Canadian provinces, it would lest a trade On resuming his seat the cheering was vehement and pro which more than any other encouraged and promoted onr 'uttered. maritime power and greatness. He then diltted on the Sir R. PEEL said that on such .an important question injury which we were going to inflict on the Canaclas, by he should feel that he was offering an insult to the house, adopting the system of free trade, and quoted the letter and an inst:lt to the country, if he condescended to bandy of a Mr. Pemberton, which appeared in The Mies, to personalities with any hon. gentleman. In the course he show that Mr. C. Buller was guilty _of a great error, had pursued he was prepared for many painful conse quences. but the smallest of any of them he would now declare to have been the continued venomous attacks of the hon. member for Shrewsbury, who, although believ ing him to have been all his life a pilferer of other men's, ideas, yet had given him his support, and offered to un'.ce his fortune with his, on his accession to office in 1841. The right hon. baronet then repeated many of the argu ments which he had previously used in the discussion on when he asserted that the Canadians did not materially care for the protection which they received from our sys tem of duties on corn and on timber. He showed that there was a dispositicm on the part of the United States, especially when the effect of such relaxation was likely to be the loss of the Canadas. Mr. ROEBUCK, in seconding the motion, was of opinion that it would have been for the advantage of Lord G. Bentinck's reputation as an orator, and also for the ad vantage of the 'house, which had listened to him very re luctantly, if he had compressed his speech, and that which he would inevitably deliver to-morrow night, into this measure. Mr. D'lsnAgm denied that he had been an applicant for place in 1841, as was insinuated by the right hon ba ronet, or at any other time, although he had been once communicated with, not at his own desire, by a gentle man who he believed was sanctioned in hs object by the right hon. baronet. He also denied that he had ever asked for the ministry to Madrid, or anything , else for himself, either directly or indirectly, from the govern one. He cotigratula:ed Lord G. Bentinck and - his - party on the new tone in which they now spoke of the pro ceedings of the Canadian Parliament. What was the reason of his sympathising with the Canadas now, when the Imperial Government was in a minority of seven in the Canadian Parliament, when he paid no attention to its wishes formerly, when out of 88 members only 8 sup ported that Government? Formerly there were no stronger opponents of the Canadian Corn Bill than Lord G. Bentinck and his party; what was the reason which induced them to stand up for that bill now, as if it were the Magna Chaita of the Canadas? He could not be lieve that Earl Cathcart had embarked upon that course of opposition to the Government which Lord G. Ben tinck had described ; and expressed his deliberate convic tion that - the opinions of the people of Canada, if fairly taken, would be found decidedly in favour of freedom of t rade. I went Sir R. PEEL said he had certainly received what he un derstood to be an intimation from the hon. gentleman that he was ready to give the proof of his confidence in goverement which W 65 implied from the acceptance of office. 'Lord BENTINCK addressed the house in opposition to the third reading, which was supported by Mr. Villiers, after which on a division the bill was carried by a majo rity of 327 to 229. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Sir G. CLERK observed that there was no intention on the part of the government to oppose the present motion, Rs Lord G. Bentinck bad been informed nine days ago. He only rose to state that he proposed to add to the pa pers now moved for, a despatch from Mr. Gladstone to the Governor-General of the Canadas, in reply to the papers for which Lord G. Bentinck had moved. After a few remarks from Mr. H. Hinde, who com plained that he had been unable to procure an answer from her Majesty's government to a question which he had re peatedly asked in the course of these discussions—namely, what it intended to do with the colonies ?—and who in sisted that the house should compel them to answer it, AMERICA By the packet-ship Liverpool, which arrived here on Tuesday, we received New York papers to the 22nd ult. Serious riots took place at BrOoklyn on the 20th ult., and following days, in consequence of the Irish labourers baying struck for an advance of wages. The men assem bled in large numbers, and the military had to be called out, and were, according to the last advices, actively en gaged in quelling the disturbances. About 500 Germans are now engaged at the dock-works at Brooklyn, and the employment of these persons offended the Irish. One of the Germans has been seriously injured. The Caledonia steamship arrived at Boston on the 20th ult., with the important intelligence of the British victo ries over the Sikhs. The ❑ews from this country was con. sidered favourable to the continuance of peace, and the amicable adjustment of the Oregon question. The news from Washington is to the 20th ult., and is important. It seems that the House of Representatives has refused to recede from the amendments to the Oregon resolutions, by a vote of 89 to 64. The Senate refused to alter the resolutions, and the certainty then was, that the resolutions giving the notice must either pass in the form in which they came from the Senate, or entirely fall through. In either case, the Senate of the United States, acting in an amicable spirit, will have accomplished a most pregnant victory over the President and the House of Representatives. _ The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The Bishop of EXETER moved that their lordships hould resolve themselves into a committee on the Reli- 'us Opinions Relief Bill that day three months 3e would not, after his oath of supremacy to his sovereign, become a party to a measure for giving supremacy to the Pope. (As the right rev. prelate was about to enter on the specific grounds of his objection to the bill, and controvert the opinions of the law lords in regard to its effect, he was called to order by the Lord Chancellor, who reminded him that there was no question before the house.) His lordship then explained in detail the reasons which led him to doubt the accuracy of the opinion which had been given by the noble and learned lords. The statute of Queen Elizabeth positively inter dicted foreign jurisdiction. Every subject of this realm because From Mexico we learn that General Almonte bad ar rived at Havana, en route for England. Immediately on landing at Havana he went to Santa Anna, with whom he positive was closeted, for several hours. Mr. Slidell had received his passports, and had left the country. It is said that the Mexicans were on the eve of 'mother revolution in favour of Santa Anna, who was expected daily at Vera Cruz. A ship arrived at New Orleans, which left Vera Cruz on the 3d April, reports that on that day the Repub ner, that no foreign prince, prelate, state, or poten h, :or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, or me:. in this realm. Was be to be told this con .; to be remitted by an act of parliament ; and dition v le law furnishing a violation of this principle in stain quo. If we abandoned the oath of an and Santa Anna party united were to dee!are aga . inst , and it was said that Mr. Dimond, the they could no act against of the Pope, and would not allow it to be exercised with out due restrictions. He wished for nothing that was free exercise of the Homan Catholic the insurgents. Further and more complete advices from this quarter will therefore be most anxiously looked for. Two American soldiers have been seized by the Mexicans, and thnnvh their release wax demanrleri if wan derlineri t with t but he did expect that ti were imposed upon the Pope in other countries still be imposed on him in this. His noble friend Campbell) had spoken of the " formidable danger" A letter from an officer in the United States army on the Mexican frontier ssys, " Everything betokens the greatest he opposite side of the river; two redoubts were up by them during the night, and two more are ctivity on tt hich would be created It was riot pretended tt•at the Roman promenading on the bank, nd the gay streamers of ancers are waving in all d ur infor- mation is correct in relation to raeir forces, & Gen. Ampudia is some two or three days' march distant, with 3500 or 4000 regulars, and a few militia ; besides these, conscripts are daily arriving, which will probably swell their numbers to some 7000 or 8000. We siderably less than 3000 effective men." The arrival of the Caledonia in the Mersey, on Thurs day, furnishes us with the authenticity of the narrative of the Liverpool, which brought down the proceedings of congress on the Oregon question to the 18th. The house on that day amended the senate resolution, and returned it to that body, asking a conference. The subject was taken up in senate on the 21st. Mr. Allen moved that the senate recede. On this mo tion the yeas and nays were--yeas, 20 ; nays, 31. A committee of conference, c.nsisting of three mem bers, was then ballotted for, and stood : Mr. Berrien, of Georgia ... 3O Mr. Corwin, of Ohio Mr. Haywood, of North Carolina Mr. Allen, of Ohio . _ Mr. Cass, of Michigan.... have con- On Thursday, the 23d, the committee of conference re ported an unimportant amendment to the senate's reso lution, which resolution was adopted by the house—ayes, 142; noes, 46. It was then agreed to by the senate. An unsuccessful effort was made in the house to get rid of the phraseology submitting the notice to be given at " the president's discretion." His friends wished to free him from that responsibility, and to place it on congress. Another effort was made to exclude the words " amica ble settlement." It, too, in like manner, was defeated. Since this official notice the president has signed the re solutions. It is generally believed that it will be trans mitted to Mr. M'Lane, the American minister, by the steamer which brings this intelligence. The Oregon question has thus assumed a better aspect; public opinion has taken a turn—an amicable adjustment appears to be the wish of all parties, and the act of Con gress requiring notice to be given is expressly and design edly pacific for the accomplishment of so desirable an ob ject. - The relations with Mexico and the United States re main unsettled. General Taylor, with his army, has taken up a position in the Rio Grande, opposite to M atamoras, Ind it is fully expected that hostilities will commence be fore many days elapse. The mercantile interests have suffered severely of late, but the prospects are now brightening._ _ _ The Great Western arrived at New York on the 28th The tariff bad been fixed for discussion on the 11th May. Committees of inquiry have been appointed by the House of Representatives to inquire into the charges ad vanced by Mr. Ingersoll against Mr. Webster; and also into the conduct of the former gentleman. The affair continued to excite the highest interest. Mr. Ingersoll received universal condemnation. CANADA.--I 0 the sitting of the Canadian Parliament of the litb ult., on a division upon the Free Trade Corn Bill sent out by Sir Robert Peel, the Government was defeaterl by a majority of seven. The Canadian Ministry will retire. A petition has been presented to the Legis lature, from the coloured inhabitants of Toronto, praying that it may t o made penal to use to any of ber Majesty's black subjects in Canada the opprobrious epithet of " nigger.' MONTREAL, APRIL 18. The St. Lawrence is now fairly open between Montreal and Quebec, and the first steamer commenced running between the two cities last evening. Huge piles of ice still remain upon the wharfs, some of which are damaged. Politics are now engrossing much public attention. Lord Cathcart appears to govern sensibly and smoothly, and manages to please all parties tolerably well. A correspondence published in the newspapers as having taken place between a leading member of the Government and a leading member of the French Canadian party, slows that strong efforts have been mode to conciliate that section, but events, recent as well as passed, show their impracticability and utter aversion to co-operation with the British portion of the community, in the administration of public affairs. These dissensions, however, are merely local, and it is believed all would cheerfully unite in the defence of the province or any other purpose that became a question of loyalty, The recent intelligence from England and the States, in reference to the Oregon question, has created some alarm in the breasts of the timid, but no sensible pepon seriously anticipates any interruption to our amicable relations. The speaker of the House of Assembly, Sir Allan APNab, has been compelled to return home by the illness of Lady M`Nab. The Hon. A. Morin, a leading man of the French Canadian party, has been elected to officiate during the remainder of the session. A petition has been pre sented to the legislature, from the coloured inhabitants of Toronto, praying that it may be made penal to use towards any of ber Majesty's black subjects in Canada the oppro brious epithet of " nigger." By an act of the legislature, framed this week, the order of " Odd Fellows" is em powered to hold real estate in the province. A bill was read a second time, on Wednesday. for erecting an internat;onal bridge over the Niagara river, at or near the Falls of Niagara. FRANCE.-- On Wednesday the budget was before the Chamber of Deputies, when the chapter which rendered necessary a grant for the Morocco expenses called up M. Billault, and the La Plata question called up M. niers, who attacked the government with much warmth. He drew a tender picture of the unprotected state of the French inhabitants of Monte Video, abandoned by the French Cabinet; protested that France was bound to side with Monte Video; declared that unless some more de cided steps were taken England would abandon the River Plate, and that then d struction would fall upon the heads of the deceived Monte Videans, and their brave dis avowed French legion. To this M. Guizot replied by quoting the instructions forwarded by M. Tbiers to Admiral Mackau, in 1840, and which were in direct contradiction with the doctrines propounded by the same nerson ever since he had been relieved from yen M ing of his 'own desp . atches. His anger was not lessened when Admiral Mackau rose and confirmed M. Guizot's reading of the instructions forwarded to him (the gallant admiral) by the same M. Thiers. The Marine Mi. ulster then proceeded to show that to land a French army on a wild-goose chase over the Pampas would only expose the French families dwelling in the open country to serious danger, without doing the least good. That the command of the river by the unite( land could not fail of eventual sum 'orces o: posed the plan of campa gn invented Of the Empire" to deriiion". M. Thier;, touched in that tender point, his military genius, lost all temper, am], we are obliged to say with regret, so far forgot himself as to address insulting Anguage to M. Guizot, whomhe pointed out as on a "assuming airs of pride." M. Guizot, with calm dign...n., assured the Chamber that it need not apprehend i f ,„ lasingar,s 'retort from him in such language. M. Thiers, as all presence of mind, challenged the to a vote deciding between him and his gread ad vCehrasmarbye: by the proposition of an amendment reducing the sum e.ev;nasded by only 1000 f., and suffered a defeat by a ma),ority of 85. There having voted—For ministers, 188; fox M. "Thier's amendment, 103 ;—majority, 85. Srmx.—Accounts from Madrid are to the Bth. The province of Galicia had been relieved from martial law, but Malaga was put into a state of siege, on account of the assassination of the colonel of a regiment by a group of persons, who immediately escaped. The Herald() says that this act was the result of a political conspiracy, whose ramifications extended to Granada and Valmeira, and the focue of which was Gibraltar, where Nogueras had, ac cording to this journal formed a junta. We say, "-ac cording to this journal," for the assertion is entirely unsupported. The Impartial states that the Galician insurgents who had taken shelter in Portugal had been sent to Perriche. The accounts from the provinces generally were satisfactory. The total number of vessels reported stranded on New York pilot ground since 1829, is reported to be 220. SOMETHING TO. BE GRATEFUL FOR.—The Record of last week says, "The King of the French has received letters of congratulation on his recent providential escape from the Pope". COAL IN EGYPT.-A letter from Syut,in Upper Egypt, states the discovery of extensive coal mines in the oasis of Ghenne, on the Arabian side of the Thebaid. The mine ral is represented as being of excellent quality. DANTZIG—May 2 : Freights—The arrival of several ships has caused some freights though at low rates, to be closed—for Newcastle at 35., Leith at 3s. Bd. to 3s. 3d., Guernsey at 4s. per qr. wheat; Hull at 193., Grimsby and Dundee at 18s., Grangemouth at 17s. 6d., Portsmouth at 20s, Shoreham at 20s. per load, timber. In India, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebboy, bas made a further donation of £5.000 to the District Benevolent Society ; and purchased, besides, a plot of ground, on which to build rooms for the reception of 230 people-70 to be lep ers. The expense of the land and buildings will be £8,500 —making a total of £13,500 given away in a single act of charity. ROMISH EXERTION.—A correspondent' writing from Swan River says—" We have had a large importation of Roman- Catholics within the last few days, no less than ten priests and a bishop and several nuns. We hear it is their intention to found a college for the education of the rising generation. What a blessing such an establishment of our own Church would be to the colony." RIGA, APRIL 22.—Our merchants are in the greatest anxiety. Our harbour of Dunamunde is choked up with sand, by which above 100 ships, richly laden, are pre vented from entering Riga, and a great part of them have already put back, hoisting a black flag. This is a dread. ful blow to our commerce. The Emperor has assigned a million of roubles, to provide the means for remedying this misfortune. A LADY DUELLIST.—The following is a copy of a challenge lately sent by one New Orleans lady to another: —" Miss , I trust that you have not forgotten the quarrel that took place between us last night. As I am not satisfied in the manner it terminated, you will confer a particular favour on me by giving me immediate satisfaction. If you do not do so, you may anticipate a cotvhiding the first place I meet you. I do not wish to meet you in a public place and do not wish for an expo sure, and I suppose you are of the same opinion. I re quest an answer of you as soon as possible, and do re quest of you to keep this private. Yours, &c." The challengee entered a complaint against the challenger be fore the Recirder, and he promised to do all he could to protect the threatened party from harm. mbers of Con- themselves with all sot. greys have recently been amusin of recriminatory charges. Mr. Ingersoll against Mr. Webster, and 11.1 r. Ashmun against Mr. Ingersoll. During Mr. Ashmun's speech, charging Mr• E. J. Ingersoll with have served, Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll came to the de fence of his brother. Mr. Ashmun resumed, charging Charles Jared substantially with picking the locks of the lepartm ,, nt, with having told divers falsehoods, with being guilty of divers equivocations, and wit having tampered with the friends of John Tyler, to procure from said Tyler testimon gainst Mr. Webster. Upon this ❑rred :—Mr. C. J. Ingersoll : Do the following sc von Know it asnmun : aes ; i nave peen told so, Ind have seen it in the prints. Mr. Ingersoll: Do Mr. Ashmun : Yes. Mr. Ingersoll sir; a lie, sir—the lie of a coward ! you accuse me? (rising) : It is false (A Voice : That's right.) The Speaker (rapping) : The gentleman will take his seat. Mr. Ashmun : The aged gentleman from Pennsylvania said- Mr. Ingersoll trithhincr his hands) c Aged ! ;wed ! vatinir ennnah air Mr. Aslimun : I come from a section which neither be lieves in duels, nor bowie-knives, nor pistols—(hisses). Mr. Ingersoll : Nor getting drunk ? Mr. Ashmun : But —(a Voice : You won't fight)—let the member try it, and he will find it out.—Subsequently, a committee of five members was appointed, " to inquire into the truth of the charges thus made by Charles J. Ingersoll." ENLIGHTENED ROMANISM.—Mr. O'Connell frequently boasts of the progress of Belgium in enlightenment, but a recent event in that kingdom gives but a sorry sample of it. A person named Retsin, after numerous ineffectual attempts to suppress the prosecution, was found guilty of embezzlement, and sentenced to five years' imprison ment. He appealed, and the sentence was confirmed, when he openly declared that he defied the law, and that he would not remain in prison six months. His protec tion was this : he had been an ancient domestic of the Papal Nuncio, and subsequently a vender of relics—among others a skull of St. Dorothea, since proved to have be longed to a man. His trade was authorised by high authority; and in his possession were found many docu ments from Archbishops and Bishops, to certify that his relics were accredited by the Church. Although an igno rant and uneducated fellow, he had heed promoted from his place as servant to an office in the Ministry of Finance, of 1,000 francs per annum, and, in succession, to others of 1,900 francs, 2,400 francs, and, lastly, was made re ceiver at Jemappes, with a salary of 6,000 francs, in which latter he had committed the embezzlement for which he was tried and found guilty. Well, he was sentenced to be confined in the prison of St. Bernard ; but, in place of this he was removed to Brussels, where he daily held levees of all the devout and faithful—persons of the highest rank visiting and proffering their services to him ; and at length, after some weeks of this parade, was set at liberty by an order of the Minister of Justice, and not declared merely free to go where he pleased, but provided with a government order for 350 francs on the treasury ! This is all literally and strictly true. It is an event, the time of which is our own day ; the liberation took place on the sth of April last.—Dublin Mail. THE MORMONS.—We copy the following particulars from the Hancock Eagle, a weekly paper published at Nauvoo, a copy of which, we have received by the Cale donia :—" The ' Camp of Israel!—Tbis is the title and address' which has been adopted by the company of Mor mons now on their way westward. A mail carrier arrived here, on Monday last, from the camp, and reported the pioneer party, or head of the column, as having crossed the tributaries of the Chariton river, over 150 miles dis tant. By this time, they are probably on the banks of the Missouri. Thus far, everything has gone favourably, with the exception of the breaking down of a few over laden waggons. The party is in good health and spirits ; no dissensions exist, and the ' grand caravan' moves on slowly, but steadily and peacefully. Their progress has been materially retarded by the want of fodder for their live stock ; the grass not having fairly started, reduced them to the necessity of labouring for the farmers on the route, to supply the deficiency. They travel in detached companies, from five to ten miles apart, and, in point of order, resemble a military expedition. We visited the camp before it broke up, on the opposite side of the river, and, with other strangers, were highly interested in the romantic and exciting display of border enterprise. It bore the appearance of a moveable town ; the waggons and tents being arranged on either side of large streams, and public squares left for the cattle, as we see in some of our river cities. Tattersalls never turned out such a lot of such broken down nags as are to be found attached to this expedition. If they ever reach California, their de pendence must be partly upon slow travelling, and partly upon miracle but chiefly the latter. Our visit was made during the intensely cold weather of February ; and notwithstanding the tents were blocked in by the snow drifts, and their occupants subjected to the rigour of a hyperborean tempest, the scene presented a cheerful and animated aspect." LAW INTELLIGENCE Amongst the gentlemen called to the bar a few days since by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn was Charles Cardwell, Esq., of this town. Mr. Watson stated in the House of Commons, on Thursday night, that, though Lord Denman's salary is £lO,OOO a year, he bas never taken more than £B,OOO. A movement is now being made, at the suggestion of Lord Denman, to secure the proper payment to petit jurors, in civil cases, for their loss of time. POWERS OF 7HE " COMMISSIONERS" UNDER THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS BlLL.—Take Lold Cottenham's objection to their power of selling, mortgaging, and ex changing lands. What a means of unlimited jobbing would not this be in the hands of a corrupt or careless Commis sioner! The power of diverting trust property from its original purposes, without regard to the will of the founder, is even still more alarming. Are the only vested rights in the empire to be the rights of private proprietors? Are the Government or their nominees to alienate, because they may consider a trust has been mismanaged, the ves ted interests which a testator has created? Who will de clare that a man shall not found a charity to be employed in any way he thinks best, so long as the foundation is consistent with the law and with public morality? Trus tees, constituted guardians of public funds, have vested rights as sacred as those of any private land-owner. How, then, can your Lordships admit in such cases this princi- alienat ti . . nction between private estates held by intlividuals for family purposes? The nomination of trustees is equally a private right. The original trustees of a charitable estate copra nnrn;nnhori tiv *ha tadatotnr ne !Int I ies in whom he Vv 11 V 11111 l 01, 1.11611 7,11,;GDa1/113 ell Asa ••• ,•••,• I ••••• administrative body representing the original donor has always been supplied. Why should the testator's direc tion be, departed from ? What good purpose would it answer? What benefit can be expected to result from it? body for the e corpor casts ; in the iy prescribed the mode in I:vh To wh purpose, then this arbitrary infringemen of a tes performed without their interference? Surely when the bequeathers of charities thought of the poor and needy, they never thought of Lord Lyndhurst's Commissioners IXOSlta.gsw,iftret3 IRB LAND. The Rhadamanthus war steamer arrived at Galway last week with 1200 barrels of Indian meal. The only person says the Almanac of the Month, who is safe in Ireland; is the Cove of Cork. The number of emigrants who have already passed through Drogheda this season to take shipping for Amer ica amounts to no less than 3,144. Eight vessels have left this port within the last two or three days for Glasgow and London, with cargoes of grain and provisions !—Limerick Examiner. GOVERNMENT DONATION.—The Lord Lieutenant has contributed £1,550 towards the fund raised in Cork for the relief of the rioor. Mr. P. Scrope gave notice in the House of Commons, last week, that on Thursday, the 21st, he should submit a motion to the effect that it is expedient to extend the poor-law of England to the able-bodied poor of Ireland. Five tons of Indian meal have been imported to Arran, and a new quay is to be constructed there, to which Mr. Digby, the proprietor, contributes £6OO, and the govern ment £l5OO. On Friday, a dish of very fine potatoes was exhibited for sale in a shop in Montgomery's-market, Belfast. The potatoes were a good size, appeared ripe, and were raised by Mr. Ewing, of Ballynafeigh. The dish was sold for 2s6d. There is such a magazine of Indian meal corn at present stored in Limerick by the commissariat, as would supply the market for twelve months to come. It is believed that half the quantity on hand will not be required for con sumption. The porters employed in discharging the French barques at Waterford of Indian corn, " struck" for increased wages. They were receiving 2s. Bd. per day, with 4d. a day allowance. Conceiving this not adequate, they de manded 4s. per day, and refused less. DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—At a meeting at Cork, Father Mathew gave it as his opinion, that the distress would not continue as long as might have been anticipated ; and far ther, said that the early potatoes were coming up luxuri antly, without any apparent failure, and that the wheat crop was also very fine. The Leinter Express contains an appalling account of an atrocious conspiracy to murder a farmer, named Mur tha Murray. Revelations have been made, tending to implicate a woman, who is stated to have hired the men to perpetrate the assassination, who supplied them with arms, and who concocted an alibi. She has been iden tified by a gunmaker in Carlow, as having purchased from him a pistol; and 46 was to have been given for the " job." FATAL ACCIDENT TO A PAlEST.—Tuesday evening, as the Rev. Daniel Freeman, junior curate to the parish priest of Aghada, was riding along the Marsh road, about a mile from the village of Aghada, he was thrown from the mare he rode, and killed. The unfortunate gentleman was dead nearly two hours before he was discovered. The mare was standing near the corpse. She was a skittish animal, and deceased was frequently advised to be cautious of her.—Cork Constitution. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The Repealers met, on Monday, in considerable force—young Dan presiding. That dullness and dearth of interest characterised the proceedings will be sufficiently evident, when we announce that the principal speaker was Captain Broderick. The yourg Irelanders did not present so formidable an array as was presented on this day week, and the enthusiasm which was then exhibited on behalf of the martyred O'Brien, seemed to have altogether evaporated. Rent for the week, £154 ss. 4d. The Ribbonmen of Limerick have taken advantage of the famine cry to carry on their depredations. Threaten ing notices have been served, cautionine farmers not to charge more than £1 a barrel for potatoes, on pain of death. A local paper says, "Notices were posted at all the Roman Catholic chapels on Sunday, calling on the people to assemble in thousands, to devise means for pro. curing food for their starving families, and to ' settle the blood sut rs,' who are living in lu x ury, regardless of their wants." THE FIRING AT SIR DAVID ROCH —Our readers House of Commons, that the gentleman who accompa nied Sir David Roche at the time, had informed him that Sir David had not been fired at at all. This assertion has led to a correspondence between Mr. Powell and ' lCfr. - .1. D. Lyons, the gentleman in question, who maintains that what be stated was, that, from the slanting direction in which the gun was levelled at the carriage, be was induced to think that the object of the_person who fired the shot ing stated that no shots had been fired at Sir D. Roche. Contous PnEsomENoN —The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Loughbrickland, county of Down, have recently observed a very singular phenomenon in the lake, the water of which had, for three days, assumed a blood-red colour, returning afterw ar d s t o it s or i g i na l h ue. .... . . riod of this chime of colour. a whirlnnni May 19, 1846. UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD.—On Thursday the following degrees *ere' conferred :—Masters of Arts—H. S. Stratford, of Christ Church ; Rev. J. Burrow, Rev. J. H. Shephard, and Rev.- T. H. Smith, Queen's College; Rev. E. R. Horwood, and Rev. C. B. Jackson, Brasennoze ; Rev. J. L. Prior, Exeter CoPege ; E. L. Davis, Jesus College ; J. M. Leir, New Inn Hall ; W. W. Hull, St. Mary's Hall.—Bache lors of Arts—S. Brandram, of. Trinity College; B. J. Gibbons, Wadham College ; R. P. Cornish. Christ Church ; W. H. R. Merriman, Brazennose; W. Bul lock, St. Mary's Hall.—Grand Compounders—Hon. H. D. Curzon, Hon. A. Wrottesley, and L. C. Randolph, Christ Church ; A. Dendy, Wadham College ; R. E. Formby, and J. A. Orle, Brazennose College ; W. Bran— de, H. Morgan, and G. Saunders, New Inn Hall; J. Hall, Liocoln Hall ; W. Bree, Merton Hall ; J. Bush, St. Mary's Hall ; Rev. J. Stretch, F. Woodman, and J. Glazebrooke, Magdalene Hall ; R. Menzies, and G. Al ford. Queen's College ; R. Hole, W. Hautenville, and S. Hansard, University College; H. Farmar, H. War burton, H. raced. and T. Sergeant, Exeter College; W. Acton, and M. Bere, Balliol College; C. de flaviland, H. Savory, J. Moor. and R. Arrowswitb, Oriel College ; W. David, Jesus College ; W. Brewster, W. Colston, and W. Feetham, St. John's College, H. Pruen, Pem broke College ; G. Quirk, C. Walter, A. Hensley, and F. Morgan, Worcester College. CAluiiatUGE.—The following degrees were conferred on Thursday :—Doclor of Law—S. T. T. Bartlett, Clare Hall.—Maalera of Arts—W. Franks, G. Nugee, F. W. Gibbs, C. Sargent, and G. Chance, Trinity College; T. Tanqueray, Pembroke College.—Bachelors of Arts—W. Coleman, St. John's College ; E. J. Furnival, Trinity Hall; R. S. Baker, Magdalene College; C. Riley, St. John's College ; J. P. Haines, Trinity College ; H. James, King's College ; W. D. Snell, Downing College; E. M. D. Payne, Emanuel College. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11--HORSE RACING.—The Vice- Chancellor has just called the attention of all persons in stain pupillari to the following order, which was is sued in the April Term of the year i840:—" Whereas many students have of late been engaged in riding races, and otherwise promoting racing in the neighbourhood of the University ! We, the Vice-Chancellor and heads of Colleges, hereby order and decree, that, if any person in stalu pupillari be hereafter found guilty of either of the offences above described, he shall be liable to the punish— ment of a rustication or expulsion, as the case shall ap pear to the Vice-Chancellor and heads of Colleges to , require." The Queen Dowager has contributed £lO towards the erection of St. Simon's Church. The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland will meet on the 21st inst. The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of Christ Church, bas been appointed to the incumbency of St. Thomas's Church, Toxteth-park, by John Gladstone, Esq., patron. A public meeting of the Anti-State-Church Association was held at Leicester. last week, when Dr. Cox and the Rev. J. Burnet uttered the most vehement protestations to persevere in their endeavours to obtain a separation of church end state. Mr. Norris's prize for the best prose essay on a sacred subject, has been adjudged to John Herbert Jones, 8.A., (1844,) Jesus College, Cambridge. Subject : Hath God cast away his people ? God forbid.—Rom. xi, i.—[Mr. Jones is a son of the Rev. John Jones, of St. Andrew's, in this town.l TheVen. and Rev. Wm. Forbes Raymond, Archdeacon of Northumberland, was installed at Durham, on Tuesday last, as one of the Canons of that Cathedral, vacant by _ • . . - sae auttn of the late Rev. Thos. Gisborne. By this appointment, Mr. Raymond resigns the living of Howick, which isnow at the disposal of the Bishop of the Diocese. Now '.—On the Thursday before Easter, the r , s', London, received from a Christian, PRESENT of St. Gl le beautiful be - taunion Tab!e), a most chaste and valuable entire service 3y a hundred pound note Id napkins for the Cotn- of silver gift pl accomptin to be put into the plate at the offertory on Easter Sunday towards the endowment of the New Free Church in Et: dell Street. Lord Sandon presided at the meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in London, on Wednesday. Ad dresses were delivered by the Marquis of Cholniondeley, the Bishop of Calcutta, Lord Ashley, and others. The entire receipts of the year amount to £101,305 155., and the expenditure to £105,851 25. 9d. The issues have amounted to 1,441,(i51; from the de- 1,104,787 sitory at home, from derOts abroad, 336,861; being 525,81( s more than the preceding year RIVES V. SHORE.—The Que n's Bench decided last week, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Sh;;;,-iiitTiaCrergi man cannot, merely by proclaiming himself a dissenter, discharge himself from the restraints, nor is be merely bi WEIL EICL strippea of the privileges of his order. The pro ceedings on which that judgment was given have been cal culated and intended to rid Mr. Shore of certai❑ vows which he once solemnly took, and has since very deliber ately broken, to release him from obligations which it it his practice to violate, and to deprive him of a character which he owns he cannot conscientiously sustain. A NOBLE OFFERING.—The Rev. W. - J. E. M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, at the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, referred with satisfaction to the efforts which had been made by his congregation in aid of a fund to erect a new church in that di,trict to he dedicated to St. Barnabas. The rev. gentleman said that on the previous Sunday he bad an nounced that the money given at the offertory that day would be applied to the object alluded to, and he had the pleasure to announce that £2,300 had been subscribed for that pious purpose, and that during the week he bad re ceived various additional sums, amounting to £9OO. — London Paper. FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. —This ancient festival, coeval with the Restoration, was cele brated on Thursday, as usual, at St. Paul's Cathedral. The sermon was preached by the Dean of Lincoln. Be sides the dignitaries of the Church, Prince George of Cambridge was present. In the evening a large number of the friends of the Church dined at the Merchant Tailors' Hall. Amongst the company were—the Arch bishops of Canterbury and Armagh, the Marquis 01 Westminster, the Bishops of London. Ripon, Chester , Chichester, Oxford, Bangor, Llandaff, Calcutta, an d Jamaica; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr Justice Erle, Lord Bolton , the Lord alayor, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir George Cerro!. Sheriffs Laurie and Chapman, the Chamberlain, Alderme n Marshall, Challis, Farebrother, Thom pson, Moore, Gibbs; Hughes, &c. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, atT, proposed as the first toasts, " the Church and Queen , " her Majesty the Queen Dowager ;" " the Crown Prince of Hanover, Royal Steward of the year." The Rev. Jelf returned thanks for his royal highness, and said th at he could d ec l are th a t h e h a d never k nown hi s royal big"' tress to do anything unworthy of his station as a Prim or a Christian gentleman. Th e L or d M a y or t h en Pig " Prince Albert. Albert Prince of W a l es , an d th e r est ca the Royal Family." CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—The annua l meet • ing was held on Tuesday. Lord Ashley was in the chair" and the numerous assembly was addressed by the Bistlol of Winchester, Llandaff, Chester, and Norwich, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Stowe ll ' Fielding Hugh Stow' Fielding Ould, W. Pollock, &c. Lord Sandon w rote! , note, regretting he could not attend, for, added his 10e° ship, "there is no society in England that does nit.r , good." The Bishops of Oxford and Calcutta, and l ° , Earl of Effingham, have accepted the office of Yle e , , patrons. The income of the society last year was £ 22.5 being an increase of £2,079 over the preceding year, aDi £677 over any former year. The society's recent apPe have met with the liberal response of £2,079, and it o°, provides 272 incumbe n t s w ith th e means o f su pportlt i 266 curates, and 57 lay assistants, a t an annua l c h a rge ~ 4 £25,418, when all the grants shall be i n o p era ti on a population of 2,012,643 thereby have conferred en tbt, the blessings attendant on so man y a ddi t i ona l f a ithful ' c if bourers of Christ. The grant s o f th e soc i e ty h ave alrel i t led to the erection or opening of 103 churches and t e s rooms licensed for public worship; and, in the paris! c a or districts now aided by this institution. 408 additiliff services on the Lord's-day, 142 on week-days, and e ar school-room or cottage lectures are regularly maintain t be besides which there h as b een secure d f u ll y d ou ble amount of pastoral visitation. an d super i n t en d ence o' , the y et various parochial schools, and ma nagemen t o f 132nevore and religious local societies. Multit u d es o f i nstan ces n'd detailed by the speakers, in which th e soc i e ty cclit) the very greatest blessings on neglected districts. n or reference to the constitution of the society the Bien ° ,"ioe Winchester said. " My Lord, I feel a peculiar satisfac` c bil in being permitted to attend your Lordship's biddil a be day, because I deem it to be my especial duty not , e tie wanting upon any occasion , when this society suin'T y t me to attend its Meetings, to perform the twofold du ,.jetf' expressing my gratitude and my con fi dence in the Sot ho ge 1 am happy to say, that I hav e n ever b een o ne of "t e e who have looked upon the society with any other eYet bar that of unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God, M r to° ing raised up friends to as s i s t th e clergy in duties i ll . ( le' onerous for them. and wh o h ave i n carrying out oalf signs of the society, expended its funds in a roan. r l e g o culated to draw forth the sympathy sod thaiisal c ;:bee li f every friend of our Church. M y Lord, I have nec,, e t ee tl, able to see anything in the principles or in the 0 ° 1 . 1 0 07 this Society which ought not to be dear to a chore l ' ¢ heart. And I should be most ungratefulindeed, if I C ' ili er c ipiq to add, that its conduct has been as excellentes its r• ot iesi L , have been pure. Connected as I am with many s° c ' e on" Ater t er confess, that there is none in which I repose ere od ,( „., e dente than that which has assembled us this day. g reto r . Bishop of Llandaff added, " Nothing gave Ilim ale ye s pain than the complaints which were current s° be c oo'" ago against the agents who had been selected by 'had olio mittee. But according to his judgment, they but . 0 performed a sacred o ffi ce in making that seltction, to sc, duty the trustees of a fund , it was their bounden a p ro) , ci that the funds were not misapplied, but placed l°, 15( 1 be, e o cl:annel for rarryiog on the work for which they ir• gr ofanted. He had never kn own an instance 1.1 -5 . s s e h c o t w io n n — o a f ny t the disposition . elusive teaching of certain doctrines —a faul t : fau lt e . tb fis e , 1 ' 612 zealous people were sometimes liable. _ FrclT . :i r t c io h n , e tc; a f r a i ; o e u n r co a u rpoegc,umbeanr boebeic: 'ved the Societ entirely tree. - bia ti cn ot n ' ‘ e j announces e n " v o u t Ong:es Calignanr Ittesse authority visit Paiii tit fate fu DN A PA RT re is no doubt t hat his dislike caused for rat meth , h is that persons cannot be too watchtut health, and being always provided wi th a safe 3" s my medicine, such as Frampton's Pill o f ilealth----0-1„: two greatest blessings of this world , health sad I" During ti was remarked in the centre of the lake, and the commotion may have caused the suspension of sedimentary reddish earth, thus giving the blood-red hue to the water. The curiosity of the scientific and the wonder of the supersti tious have been alike aroused by the circumstance, but as yet there has been no satisfactory attempt either to des cribe the phenomenon, or to account for it.—Bedfast News Letter. CHARGE AGAINST A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE.— An important investigation commenced in Dublin Castle, on Monday, under a commission from the Lord Lieute nant, granted at the instance of Sir Francis Hopkins, who charges Arthur French, Esq., the magistrate who took down his deposition atter the recent attempt upon his life, with having purposely omitted from that deposition the name of Bryan Seery, the man by whom he was fired at. Sir Francis States, that previous to the committal of B. Seery, two informations were taken on the same day by Mr. French, the first at eleven o'clock, a.m., the second at five o'clock, p.m. In the first information the name of Seery was omitted ; in the second information it was in serted. He had stated on oath on trial, that he had men tioned the name of Seery at the time the first information was taken. Mr. French, the stipendiary magistrate, who took those informations,swnre that he had not mentioned any name. Sir Francis also charges Mr. French with having been some time previously aware that Bryan Seery was to shoot at him. Mr. French appears to have acted with good faith, and says he omitted the name, as Sir Francis did not seem as if he could confidently identify his assailant. The decision of the gentleman to whom the matter is referred is deferred. THE REPEAL AGITATION (?) The whole Repeal press are at loggerheads respecting the conduct of Mr. Smith O'Brien. The organs of " Old Ireland," from the Pilot downwards, are palpably chuckling at the hon. member's dead fix; while the handful of genuine native Repealers, represented in the person of " Young Ire land," now, more than ever, regard Mr. O'Brien as the fit and proper leader of the people—even to the setting aside of the reigning dynasty—and the man selected to achieve the apochryphal blessing of legislative indepen dence. In the mean time, the long quiescence of Mr. O'Connell, and the almost total subsidence of the agita tion, are beginning to excite suspicion, which vents it self in occasional undergrowls, such as the following : "The country expects an onward movement for the national cause. 'Tis idle to deny that a continuous pro gress in the snail-like ineffectual course we have pursued these months past will produce apathy and coldness, if not indifference and despair, in the Irish heart. The pro mises made in 1843 must be in some degree fulfilled. We placed great reliance on the 'B2 Club. It has actually done nothing fur Ireland. In that body, we are free to say, is to be found the flower of the Irish Repeal party, and yet they have remained quiescent since its formation. We have to except a pageant or two, and a few dinners." Such are the opinions of the Limerick Examiner, a clever, honest, but withal simple-minded organ of bond fide Repeal and no compromise. RAISING THE WIND.—A few days since a person, genteelly dressed, was observed standing at the window of a respectable jeweller of Dublin, as if admiring the rich works displayed for sale inside. He had an umbrella placed carelessly under one arm, and, while he was gaz ing, another individual who was passing, apparently prompted by a love of mischief, contrived adroitly to thrust the umbrella through the glass, and escape, while the unfortunate gentleman stood on the spot stupified with astonishment. A shopman rushed out, and demanded why he had broken the window; he denied that he had done it, but appearances were against him, and he was obliged to enter the shop to settle the affair. The pro prietor of the establishment demanded payment for the damage done, and when the other talked of his complete innocence, threatened to send for the police. The pane of glass was strong plate, and the cost 408. "It is enor mous," said the unfortunate. " I paid it, and you must," replied the jeweller. "El ere is 2s.fid," said the stranger. " Send for a constable !" indignantly ejaculated the man of metal. He was inexorable ; and the other at length submitted, complaining bitterly, but observing justly that a gentleman couldn't go to a police-office for a trifle. He took out three £2O bank -notes, gave one of them to the pacified jeweller, received £lB 10s. sterling as his balance, and retired. A friend dropped into the shop shortly after —the occurrence was mentioned—the note was shown as a corroborating proof ; it was a forgery I—Dublin Register. TIIE POTATOE MIRAGE —We have now come to the middle of May—the predicted acme of famine and pesti lence—and all the artifices of the minister and his agents are not able, says the Dublin Mail, to keep up the baro meter of supply to anything like an indication of scarcity. On the contrary, the mercury in the tube having reached its maximum some three weeks ago, without creating any alarm, has since continued to subside and settle down to a determined position of plenty—and all that is now want ing to the repose and comfort of the people seems to be an efficient method of diffusing and equalising the sup plies, not by interfering with the markets, but by giving sufficient employment to labour. Local failures of the potato crop have been balanced by general superabun dance; and in all other respects, the produce of the year, far exceeded the average, and husbanded with more than usual prudence, leaves no room, under the Divine bles sing, for doubt or despondence. The London 7'irnes of Saturday says, "The- reports from almost every quarter are favourable." The aonmel Constitution of Thursday is- says, that the new potato crop looks healthy. and gives promise of an abundant return to the farmer. The market of that town was well stocked on Tuesday, and prices lower than the previous week. The Kerry Post, pub- Uglier] At Trala. L:1 :6-1 Astiper tilts town presents weekly an animating scene— tundance is exhibited every Saturday. On last ty there were 800 sacks; 6480 pecks of cho d of at from Is. to 1 were dispi peck of fo in quan brought in. The dem for oatmeal, of whicli there were three or four half of it beine left unpurehased on Saturd rid the two previot dred. liet days it sold from 15s. to 15 Carlow, and Leitrim, there are to-day accounts quite as favourable. In Clare and Limerick the want of potatoes is supplied by Indian meal, and there is full employment for the people.