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there was little doubt that it would be thrown out in
the House of Representatives. A substitute was to
be offered for the bill by a Southern Democrat.
New York has been visited by another great con-
flagration, which destroyed upwards of 300,000 dots.
of property.
A terrific steam-boat explosion occurred at Hart-
ford on the 3rd instant, shattering an entire building,
and laying it in ruins.
The Pmpire City had arrived at New York frith
the California and Pacific mails, and 046,001 dols.
in specie on freight. The intelligence relating to
the progress of the Darien exploring expeditions
shows that the country is impracticable for A canal.
At Panama a new steam company has been got
up, for the purpose of opening trade with the ports
of Central America. The railway is now open to
Obespo. It is expected it will be completed to
Panama by the let of August. •

AUSTRALIA.
The river Murray has been explored, and ita navi-
gation by a steam-vessel accomplished with awe,
without obstructions to the distance of 1,440 miles
from the sea. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Henry
Young, who accompanied the expedition himself,
gives it as his opinion that " the Murray prowls
navigable from the Gooiwa to Albury, that is, for a
space of 1,000 miles.'
The size and power of the Chusan and S?iangltiti
having been found too limited to contend with the
heavy weather on the Australian coast, it has been
decided by the directors of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company to place the Bombay and Madras
screw steamers, of 1,200 tons and 270 bonie-power,
on the line between Sydney and Singapore.

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tout laskion.
HF.R MAJESTY held the third levee of the year on
Wednesday last. In the evening the Queen had a
dinner party at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty
and various members of the Royal Family have visited
the Zoological-gardens in the Regent'slark, the
Olympic and Princess's Theatres, on different days of
the past week. Last week the Queen honoured the
performance of Mozart's Requiem by the Sacred
Harmonic Society at Exeter-hall with her presence.
THE COURT will return to Windsor for the Easter

holidays on Saturday, the 15th proximo.
PRINCE Ammer presided on Thursday afternoon
at a meeting of the governors of the Wellington Col-
lege.
THE DUcIIESS OE GLOUCESTER was better on
Thursday, and received a visit from the Queen, at-
tended by the Countess of Mount Edgeumbe.
THE QUEEN having been pleased to command
Lieutenant Samuel Gurney Crest:well, formerly of the
Investigator discovery-ship, and the first to accom-
plish the north-west passage, to attend at Bucking-
ham Palace, that officer on Monday submitted to her
Majesty his sketches made during his service in the
Investigator. The Queen examined the drawings
minutely, and put numerous questions to Lieutenant
Creaswell, who remained upwards of halt an hour in
the royal presence, and the sketches are to be by
special permission dedicated to her Majesty. Lieu-
tenant Cresswell is now serving in the Archer, 14,
screw steam-corvette, and leaves fur the 13itltic in a
few days.
THE PRUSSIAN GENERAL. GROEBEN, on a special
mission, left the embassy on Carlton-terrace on
Monday, for Berlin.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON has been suffering from an
attack of gout. His lordship is now better.
THE SPEAKER gave his sixth parliamentary dinner
on Saturday last, and held a levee afterwards. On
the same evening Lord Palmerston gave a political
banquet, after which the viscountess had an evening
party. Both were attended by many members of the
corps diplomatique.
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR and the CorsTEsa
WAI.EWSKI gave a grand dinner on Tuesday at
Albert-gate, the new residence of the embassy, to
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
Lord Raglan, preparatory to their departure to join
the expeditionary army in the East. After the ban-
quet the Countess Walewski held a select reception.
THE EARL. or Wiexiow gave a grand musical
soiree on Tuesday evening, in Cavendish-square,
which was attended by a numerous circle, and passed
off with the greatest éclat. The programme, se-
lected from Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini,
Donizetti, &c., was chosen by Sir H. Bishop, who
presided at the pianoforte. A young contralto,
Signorina Vestvali, from the Scala in Milan, was
first heard by an English audience on that evening,
and very warmly applauded.
SIR CHARLES AND LADY MARY WOOD gave a
banquet followed by an assembly on Thursday
evening.
Tue MAantas or BATH has purchased the spleii-
did mansion of the late Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., in
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ditto! and 'Strand.
Ma. CROWDER, Q.C., of the Western Circuit, has
been appointed judge in the place of the late Mr.
Justice Talfourd.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE WAS 011 Thursday elected j
President of Christ's Hospital. Lord Mayor Sidney
was a rival candidate for the post, which has, it
seems, since the year 1552, been invariably filled by
a member of the City Corporation, and generally by
its actual chief upon the year of election. The con-
test was carried to a poll, resulting in 210 votes for
his Royal Highness, and 87 for the Lord Mayor. In
the evening the Duke of Cambridge underwent the
ceremony of installation.
THE SPACE ROUND THE TOWER OF LONDON, for-
merly used as a moat, is now used as a place of exercise
for the military quartered in the fortress. The 19th
Regiment, at present stationed there, previously to
departing for the East, are daily drilled and instructed
in this place.
THE FESTIVAL in aid of the Benevolent Fund of
the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland
takes place on Thursday, the 30th instant, at the
London Tavern, under very distinguished patronage.
THE WAGES MOVEMENT IN PRESTON has acquired
new interest, through the decisive conduct of the
local authorities. During Saturday the borough
magistrates remained in consultation with closed
dcors, occasioning much uncertainty among the
strikes-men as to their intentions. In the evening
warrants for the apprehension of twelve ringleaders
in the movement were issued, three of whom, Cowell,
Grimshaw, and Waddington, were arrested early on
Monday. Six men were taken into custody on Wed-
nesday, and the whole batch, nine in number, were
examined before the bench, and committed for trial
on charges of conspiracy. Bail was, however, taken
for their appearance at the sessions. The town
presented a scene of great excitement, but has
remained quiet. The " strikes" subscriptions for
the week ending Saturday last amounted to 2,1001.
THE RELEASE OF MR. BELL, the English engineer,
is again announced in a letter from Brody, of the
14th inst., which states that he had arrived in that
town, accompanied by a Russian officer. Although
it is long since the Czar professed to give Mr. Bell
his freedom, he has only just been released, and his
friends have remained uncertain even as to the fact
of his existence. Offers were made to him while a
prisoner to enter the Russian service, but be refused
them. He is now on his way to Trieste vid Vienna.
Letters to the officers of the Baltic fleet will be
conveyed at a postage of sixpence each.
THERE is a report in Van Diemen's Land that a
new office is to be created in England in conse-
quence of the cessation of transportation to that
colony, entitled " Director-General of Convict Dis•
cipline for the United Kingdom," and that Sir Wil-
liam Denison is to be nominated, with a salary of
4,0001. a year.
THE Indus left Southampton on Monday afternoon,
with the heavy portion of the East India and China
mails, 70 passengers, 255,0001. in specie for India,
and 29,0001. for Alexandria and Malta.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH has been completed
from Bombay to Tanna, and messages are now trans-
mitted from the presidency to that station. A year
hence this communication will be established all the
way to Agra.
A DEPUTATION on the subject of the Medical
Practitioners Bill, now before Parliament, to state
objections to that. measure, and to recommend a
comprehensive measure of medical reform, had an
interview with Viscount Palmerston ou Tuesday.
MRS. CHISHOLM, to whose philanthropic efforts in
the cause of Australian emigration many persons
have reason to ascribe their success in those colonies,
is on the eve of leaving England to join her husband,
Captain Chisholm, in Melbourne, the country of their
adoption. Mrs. Chisholm's passage has been taken
on board the Ballarat, which will sail for Port
Phillip on the 3rd proximo.
THE REGISTRAR OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES re-
ports a list of :339 companies provisionally registered
in 1853, and 124 completely registered. The two lists
comprise 59 assurance companies, 80 railway, 93 gas,
37 for other public works, 50 mining companies, 40
companies for conducting manufactures or working
patents, 28 shipping companies, 3 land conveyance
companies, 4 fishing, and 9 trading companies.
A MEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS was held On
Tuesday in St. Martin's-hall, for the purpose of ex-
pressing their sentiments in regard to the threatened
interference with religious houses. About 700 per
sons were present. The chair was taken by the Hon.
Charles Langdale. The proceedings resulted in the
adoption of the following resolutions :
That the proposed inquiry is an unworthy concession to afac-
tion animated by a blind hatred of the Catholic religion, and a
step towards the subversion of religious liberty.
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That the proposed inquiry cannot fail to excite the deepest in-
dignation amongst the Catholic population of Great Britain and
Ireland, and to inthune religious animosity at a crisis when the
union of all classes of subjects is required to resist the foreign
foe.
A DEPUTATION OF MERCHANTS connectedwith the
Russian trade waited on Lord Clarendon on Monday,
with a view of obtaining some more precise informa-
tion regarding the views of the Government with
i respect to Russian produce in the event of war. The
substance of the answer given by Lord Clarendon
was :
" That the Government hoped to put the question of
neutral trade on a liberal basis.
" That it was not proposed by Government to inquire into
the origin of goods, or to require certificates of production,
in the event of goods coming from neutral ports.
" The Government was not prepared to lay down any
specific proposition regarding the course which would he
pursued in the case of goods shipped after a declaration of
war (should such declaration take place). This part of
the subject was underthe consideration of the law advisers
of the allied powers."
LORD BATEMAN, lord lieutenant of Herefordshire,
has, upon the unanimous solicitation of the directors,
accepted the chairmanship of the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Railway Company, vacant by the decease
of Robert Clive, Esq., M.P.
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS registered in the metro-
polis in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,188,
exhibiting a decrease on that of the preceding week,
when 1,343 were registered. The deaths returned
last week are less by 46 than the calculated average.
THE BISHOPRIC or SALISBURY will be conferred on
the Itev. Walter Kerr Hamilton, M.A., canon
residentiary of Salisbury and precentor.
THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH is erecting a range of
first-class dwellings at Eckford, in Itosburghshire, to
be occupied by the day labourers, foresters, and
others on his estate of Eckford Barony. Each house
contains five apartments, and is constructed on
the most approved style of sanitary and household
comfort.
A COMPANY is now in course of formation for con-
structing a railway from the northern counties to
London, for the exclusive carriage of coals and
other minerals, bulky goods, and agricultural pro-
duce. The estimated capital required is 4,000,(XX)/.
IT is proposed in Manchester that any one who
likes to turn "jarvey " may do so, obliging him, how-
ever, to have painted upon his coach, in legible
characters, what he will run for per mile, and to that
he must adhere.
A WHALE,of the finner species, measuring between
seventy and eighty feet, has been captured in the
North Sea, by two smacks. It was towed into the
Humber on Saturday morning.

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A CASE OF LIBEL was heard at Maidstone, on the
Home Circuit, on Tuesday, the plaintiff being Mr.
John Hooper Hartnall, formerly the proprietor of a
newspaper published at Greenwich, called the Kentish
Mercury, and conductor of a weekly publication called
the Post Magazine, which devoted its attention exclu-
sively to matters connected with insurance comps •
nies. The defendant, Mr. Durham, was the chair-
man of the board of directors of a company called
the " Unity Fire Assurance Association." It seems
that Mr. Hartnett, in the course of a series of articles
on assurance companies, had questioned the sound-
ness of the Unity Fire Association, declaring that
many of the subscribers had not paid up their shares
towards its capital, and that the expenditure in ma-
nagement, Sc., was exorbitant. The defendant
replied to this attack in a pamphlet containing the
libel complained of. It was entitled "An Address to
the Shareholders of the Unity Fire Association, in
reply to the unwarrantable attacks made upon it •by
the Assurance Moni►or." The plaintiff was classed
in it as a journalist with the writers in the Satirist,
Age, Paul Pry, and other disreputable prints, and
described as a hireling writer, like those who had
formerly written in the publications referred to, who
lived by extortion, and levying "black mail" from
his victims. It also charged him with having made
statements respecting the company which he knew to
be false, and stated that he was not actuated by any
desire for the interests of the public, hut solely by a
desire of gain, and was merely the paid agent of the
old insurance companies, who were jealous of the
success of a young rival. The proceedings, which
occupied the court for the entire day, involved chiefly
the determination of the motives by which both
plaintiff and defendant had been actuated in their
respective writings. At the close the jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff, but gave him only nominal
damages.
SEVERAL GUNSMITHS HAVE BEEN ROBBED by two
fashionably-dressed foreigners, distinguished by pro••
digious beards, who have visited their shops in com-
pany. One of the men asked for something in
broken English, or in purposely unintelligible phrase,
and while he contrived to distract attention his col-
league secreted revolvers, pistols, or any article

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lying within reacß beneathliir eToZc. —Wink caught
at length the pair were charged at Bow-street with
felony, under the names of Antonio 13nchiazo and
Thomas Jarazzini, and committed for trial.
A FIRM OF NIEILCHANTS, having establishments
both in London and at Natal, and trading with
Africa under the denomination of Bergtheil and
Jung, have had their estate vested in the Court of
Bankruptcy, where one of the partners came up for
last examination on Wednesday. In June, 1852, the
house possessed a capital of 27,0001., and claim now
a large surplus of property on the balance-sheet,
where debts to the amount of nearly 30,0001. are in.
serted. The property consists chiefly of assets in
distant parts of the world, and comprises 50,000 acres
of land in Asia, said to be of considerable value. The

bankrupt passed.
Joint BURLEY, described as a farm labourer, was in-
dicted at the Surrey Sessions for stealing one swede
turnip, the property of Charles Hampden, farmer, of
Godstone :-
The only interest in connection with this case was its
frivolity, and the curious method in which the jury inti-
mated their appreciation of the felonious intent. The
prisoner was seen by a policeman to take up, in a field
belonging to the prosescutor, a turnip belonging to the pro-
secutor. When he saw that he was detected in the act, he
cut the turnip into two pieces, and threw them away. The
evidence of the fact was quite clear, and the chairman
having explained that the taking of a turnip out of the
ground amounted only to a misdemeanour, whilst the taking
off the ground constituted a felony, the jury. after a short
consideration, returned the following sapient verdict :-" We
find the prisoner guilty of taking the turnip, but we don't
think he meant to steal it " (Loud laughter.)
Chairman : Why, that is virtually an acquittal.
Foreman : We believe he took the turnip to eat it because
he was hungry, and threw it away when he saw the police-
man.
Chairman : That is a verdict of guilty, and in pursuance
of that opinion (addressing the prisoner) I sentence you
to seven days imprisonment.
The value of the property in the above case, which
amounted next to nothing, entailed on the county the
expense of a counsel and two witnesses, and the
charge may be taken as a sample of the majority of
ninety-three cases tried at the same sessions, the
absurd nature of which called forth some strong
remarks from the grand jury on their being discharged
from further attendance.
THE: LESSEE OV VAUXHALL GARDENS, ROIIERT WAR-
DELL, applied on Saturday to the Insolvent Court
to be liberated from the Queen's Prison till his
hearing. There was no opposition to the applica-
tion. The schedule filed by the insolvent exhibits
debts extending over a period of several years, to
8,4801. 17s. 4d., of which sum no consideration had
been received for 5391. 12s. 2d. He had no debts
owing to him. The insolvency was attributed "to
the inclement weather for the last two seasons the
gardens were open." In 1848, 1840, and part of
1850, there were no profits. In 1851 (Exhibition
time) the profits of the "royal property " were 2,000/.,
whilst in the seasons of 1852 and 1853 be made
" nothing," and had heavy expenses to pay. He had
been in prison since the 2nd of March inst., and his
schedule numbered about ninety creditors. The
applicant was discharged till the day of hearing.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-A parliamentary paper just
issued contains a statement of the sums paid into and out
of the various funds of the Bankruptcy Court during the
year 1853. It appears that 656,283/. 3s. 7d. was paid into
the general account of bankruptcy estates by official
assignees, exclusive of 87,6371. 10a., the proceeds of stock
from the fund account. The following sums were paid
out :-By order of the Lord Chancellor. 5161. Os. 6d.; by
order of the Lords Justices, 3031. Ills. 2d. ; and by order
of the Commissioners, 196,4801. 14s. Bd. On the dividend
account the sum of 540,4001. 10s. 54. was transferred, and
the sum of 533,3631. Os. 9d. paid. The sum of 1,2471.
16s. 2d. was paid in to the unclaimed dividend account.
On the chief registrar's account 61,8061. 7s. Bd. was paid
in by official assignees, including interest, &c.. 10,5921.
Os. 2d. by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and
14,8681. 15s. accrued from the proceeds of sales of stock.
The net balances on the Ist January, 1854, were as
follows :-General account of bankrupts' estates, 64,116/.
2a. 6d.; bankruptcy fund account, 1,132,9261. ss. 5(1.; un-
claimed dividend account, 1,4361. is. 3d. • (thief registrar's
account, 4,7961. Os. An appendix added to the returns
shows the amounts paid for salaries, compensation, and
allowances, &c. It appears that 59,7591. 15s. 9d. was
paid as salaries, 21,865/. 4s. Id. as compensations, 2,600/.
as annuities, and 6,3161. for expenses, making a total of
90,541/. 2s. There are five commissioners in the London
district receiving 2,0001. per annum each, and six regis-
trars receiving 1,000/. per annum each. The accountant
receives 1,5001. a year. The chief clerk to the registrar
receives WO/. ; three of his other clerks 4001. each, one
3201., four 3001. each, three 2.501. each, two 2001. each, and
three 150/. each. The chief registrar receives 1,200/. a
year. His chief clerk receives 500/., and four other clerks
200/. a year each. The taxing-master receives 1,2001. a
year, and his two clerks 300/. and 1501. respectively. In
the country districts, twelve commissioners receive 1,800/.
per annum each, and twelve registrars 800/. per annum
each. The registrar has a salary of 8001. The compensa-
tions include five payments of 2001. to the late London
commissioners, 3861. to the late clerk of hanaper, 300/. to
the late clerk of enrolments, and 7,352/. lb, fid. to the
Rev. T. Thurlow, as patentee of bankrupts.


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A lionmer7. MURDER was perpetrated in St. Luke's,
oti"Satarday, by a stonemason named Hennen, of
Whose insanity there seems to be no doubt. The
victilti was his Wife, for whom he had always testified
mach affeetion, and the unhappy woman was found
lying dead In bed, with her skull shattered to pieces.
A hatchet covered with blood and hair was near the
body. The man has been committed both by the
verdict of a jury and on a magistrate's warrant for
wilful murder, and awaits his trial.
THE NEW TRIAL OF DR. Starlit for the murder
of M'Donald, at St. Fergus, in Aberdeenshire, is
fixed for Wednesday, the 12th of April next.
A Seamus Ronaxalt OF JEWELLERY has been com-
mitted on the premises of Mr. Cordeux, watch and
chronometer maker, at Clifton, near Bristol. The
house was entered on Sunday, during daylight, by
some burglars, who succeeded in carrying off an
immense number of gold and silver watches, guard-
chains, bracelets, diamond rings and brooches, ear-
rings, and money—amounting in all to the value of
1,3001. or 1,4001.
Merry Presoss AT Ptymotrrit have been made the
dupes of a man, of gentlemanly manners, a fltient
tongue, and soft voice, who pretended to have come
to buy the copyright and printing establishments Of
the Devonport Independent and Western Courier
newspapers. He engaged solicitors, visited houses
on the pretence of becoming a purchaser, entered
into literary and business engagements, lived in
good style, and obtained several articles of luxury
from various tradesmen, but one day last week, after
ordering a dinner for himself and a friend whom he
said. he expected, left Nyithout paying any of the bills,
,leaving only one old coat, behind. His score for
board and lodging was 171. 10.5, During his stay he
advertise,d in the London papers, offering a situation,
with a liberal increasing salary, to any one who would
advance taking the 'Copyright of a provincial
newspaper as security. These advertisements are
known to have brought letteis, brit no dopes.
A DEarnectiVe FIRE occuruten Ar Bataret: oh
Sunday, when the extensive vegetable oil and grease
manufactory of Mr. Lewis' SL Philip's, was burnt
down. At this factory resitilifilia distilled, and by
some proeeis manufactured into vegetable oil or
grease. Froth' the inflammable nature of the mate-
rials, the !Seines spread with a fury perfectly uncon-
trollable, add the eti tines coed mate no head
against them. A Incifer.mateli manufactory, abut-
ting on the other factory, was fortunately saved, as
was also a portion of the dwelling-house, but the
greaseworks were totally deStroyed. The damage
is heavy.
MR. FREDERICK De /dolma, formerly member
of Parliament• far the county of Kerry, and nephew
of an Irish peer, died suddenly in Newgate on the
17th instant. He was committed by the Lord
Mayor, from the Mansion-house, on the charge of
uttering a forged power of attorney, and obtaining
thereon the antolanti of 1,500 t. stock, in the Bank of
England, vested in the name of a Mr. Simpson.
Mr. De Molyns was unable to procure the extent of
bail demanded (4,0001.), and was, in consequence,
conveyed to Newgate. On Friday, the 17th, a disease
(under which he bad long laboured) took a fatal
turn, and, notwithstanding every aid on the part of
the medical officers of 'the prison, he gradually sank
and expired 'late the sera...evening. Ali
auinqest was
held on Saturday by kir. y. Payne, when verdict
of "Natural Death" was recorded.
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THE EARL OF LICHFIELD, whose name will be re-
membered in connection with a well-known political
event, "the Lichfield-house compact," died on Sunday
last at the family residence, •No. 2, Stanhope treet,
Mayfair. The deceased peer,. Thom as William Anson,
D.L, was them' of the first Viscount Anson, by the
third daughter of the celebrated Coke, of Holkham-
ball, Norfolk, e first Earl f Leicester. He was
born in 17 and o
o*, and married in 1819 the youngest
daughter of the late Nathaniel Phillips, Esq.,
he of
Slebeek-hall, in the county of Pembroke, by
whom
has had eightchildren. He succeeded his father in the
viscounty in 1818, and. was raised to the earldom in 1831.
The deceased peer was always &strong adherent to the
Whig party, and frornlB3s to 1841 held the office of Post-
master-General under Viscount Melbourne's Adminis-
tration, having beenlyrevionaly Master of the Buck.
hounds. His lordship at one period of big life
friend
was a
warm supporter of the turf, and was the intimate
ins porting matters of the late Lord George Benti n o k
He won the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster in
1836 with Elis. The penny post system was intro •
ducted during the time Lord Lichfield held the office
of Postmaster-General. He is succeeded in the title
and estates by Thomas George Viscount Anson, 34. P.
for Lichfield, in the representation of which city a
vacancy consequently occurs. The present earl was
precis writer to Lord Palmerston in 1825, whilst his
lordship was Foreign Secretary.

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LORD GILBERT GROSTilfeli, R.N. lieutenant of
the Boscazren, 70 (one of the North Sea fleet),
died suddenly on Monday last. Lord Gilbert,
who was but 21 years. of age, was tenth child. and
second son of the Marquis and Marchioness of West-
minster. He took leave of his parents in London only
a few days previously,, when he appeared to be
in vigoreus health and spirits. Indeed, there were
no iudicatiens pf any kind of the near approach of
death, and the intelligence came as a shock upon his
family and friends. Through Lord Gilbert's death
the families of the Marquis of Westminster, Dukes of
Northumberland, Norfolk, and Sutherland, the Earls of
Ellesmere and Macclesfield, Lord and Lady Leigh,
and some others are placed in mourning.
Mn. DANIRLIi, one of the eotamissionnees of the
Court ofßanloruptcy at Birmingham, expired suddenly
en Tuesday at his residence, Meriden-honse. He
presided in his court on the previous Thursday in his
usual health. Mr. Daniell was appointed a bank•
ruptcy commissioner by Lord Lyndhurst when the
act passed in• 1849; and•in that capaeity opened the
court at Birmingham. In private life the deceased
was a kind-heeded and a benevolent man.
Coroner, Gonnos, brother to Sir James A. Gordon,
K.C.B. , Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who had
for' stint 'thee 'been on a 'Mit to his brother, left
GreeAwieh oh' the 15th instant to proceed by the
Birmingham Balboni, and was found dead in the
railway carriage. '
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THE DUBLIN PROTESTANT AS/Pa/ail:oN held a
crowded meeting! on Tuesday, at which a. petition to
Parliament, Setting forth the duty of wtthdrawing all
State encouragement from institutions in which
Rornieh doctrines are inculcated, and of taking steps
to arrest the progress of Popery, was moved by the
Rev. T. Gregg, and unanimously adopted.
~, Tux. Ilos, so.4ruisn E. cwasw, late of the, Bth
.Idusears, has.been appointed lieutenant-colonel of
!the Wexford Militia, vice Lieuieoant-Colonelyigott,
deceased.
IN the midst pf most extensive operations for
spring agricultural work, and general complaints of
a deficient supply of laboUreril, em ration. still PrO•
coeds with an unchecked. course. ,The remittances
from friends in. America,cbutillue to arrive, and those.
who receive them are ready, at the shortest notice, to
obey the oral and cross the Atlantic. The last!
steamer from Waterford to Liverpool .toolt oliq, KO
emigrants bound for North Amer&ca. , _ ~ /
THE CHOLERA has appeared in a malignan it
'eft in 1
Limerick, and, according to an account in aGiNray
paper, has broken out in the military barracks and
carried off a sergeant and two or three of the men.
A SPLENDID DONATION of 800/. for the Catholic
Vniversity of Ireland has been received by his Grace
the Archbielicifof Dublin from "Anonymous." •
. Soie labotiters employed on the works of the
Limeridk)Mcl Ennis Railway, in the neighbourhood
of Ballyidlty, in the county of Clare, last week dis-
covered &deposit of ancient gold ornaments, consist-
ing of collars, rings, itc,, which they speedily appro-
priated. One man sold a hatfut of the treasure,
weighing 1104 ounce's, And worth, it is supposed,
nearly 4001., for the sum of 301. to a person at New-
market. The gold is all of the purest quality.
A CONCERT on an nnprecedentedly grand scale,
has been projected to be given in the Musie-hall,
Dublin; fbithe purpose of realising a sum in aid of a
&rid fee' thif relief end Support of the Wive* and
childrend the soldiers who have teteettli embarked
for the 'East.
A Coruesrosorscs: has passed lately between the
Lord Lieutenant and the Lords of the Treasury on
the subject of an application for a gettnt of motley to
carry on certain inprirrements in the city of Dublin.
His excellency had recommended a grant of 80,000/.,
but the Treashry, though " ftilly alive tothe advantages
Which VrolikUresult from the acebnplishment of the
'various plans suggested, regret that they are unable
to cotaply with the request, as they could not ask
Parliament to grant Money from the general revenue
:dfthe country for the Purpose of effecting local Mt-
irovetaents, however desirable they may be." Not-
' Withstanding this reply, the corporation are about to
send a deputation toLondeti, to renew the application
to the Prime Minister.
AT THE LAST IftEtINCI i'le TrE ROYAL FLAX ISl-
rnovEwrrr Sorrerv, held in Belfast, a communication
was read notifying that the Treakury had granted
1,000/. to be expended in the praCtical instruction of
flax piterh'in' the` counties of Cork, Kerry," Clare,
ti` erait " Geier) y, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, and Res-
C 6 men, hi certain proportions recommended by the

society. •
t
ittttion fltittiajtittt.
New writs have been moved far during the week
for the count of WePrrnoircasn, vacant by the death
of Alderman Thompson ; for the borough of Lis-
KEARD, whose representative, Mr. Crowder, has ac-

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cepted a fpniarte jißgesitiPi; Ibk:o7lllborough of
TYNEMOUTH, where the late return of Mr. H. Taylor
has been declared void by the decision of an election
committee.
In bromism the Hon. F. Calthorpe, son of Lord
Calthorpe, is the candidate in the Liberal interest to
succeed Lord Anson, now become Earl of Lichfield.
At lustexan, on Tuesday evening, a meeting of
the Liberal party was held, at which Mr. R.W. Grey,
late member for Tyneinonth, ar.d private secretary
to Lord Pahiterttin, WIN introduced as a candidate
by Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., his father.in-lavr.
Mr. Grey announced that he considered Lord John
Russell as hie model statesman. Mr. J. H. Reade,
Mr. W. J. S. Trelawny, Mr. Carpenter Rowe, Q.C.,
recorder of Plymouth, and Mr. White, hon. secretary'
to the Ballot Society, are &Ist mentioned as can-
didates.
TRAFFICKING IN PLACES.
THE committee appointed to investigate the charge
against the Irish members are pursuing their
inquiries, and have during the week examined some
important witnesses. Among these, Mr. Ford, •
Dublin solicitor, was questioned en MOnday,revipeet-
ing an alleged conversation with the late Mr. Shell,
to the effect that on a remark being made as to
Lord John Russell having made a mistake, and what
he would do with the Irish members, that Mr. Shell
replied, " Oh, as to the Irish members, a secretary
of the Treasury, Mr. —, holds them in the palm
of his hand ":
The Chairman asked Mr. Ford if ho had any recollec-
tion of any snob observation?
Mr. Ford, iu explanation, said he might have used it
himself in an after.dinner speech, and Mr. Shell might
have assented to it. Ile did not remember using the exact
expression that Mr. --, a secretary to the Treasun,
held the Irish members in the hollow of his hand. His
general observations were on the sahjectof patmnage. The
longest thing he remembered was that of an Irish member
Who having promised a place to a supporter, and having
failed to do .tios and given it to another, had to pay to
his supporter 1,0001., an arbitration, tor his failure in
doing so. .
Mr. Butt, having referred to another statement alleged
to have'been made by Mr. Shed. charging the Irish dem-
ben with corniption, asked Mr. Ford if he had any recoil•
leetion of Mr. Shed having made thew, observations ?
Mr. Ford said he was certain that be bad nut.
To Mr. Moore: .Ide bad used the expression that Lord
John Unasell held the Irish members in a leash like grey-
hounds, and that observation was Mad(' by him In conse-
quence of its being mentioned that when Lord John Russell
brooglit in the Reform Bill for Ireland, and being In.
fornied that It wmild dirtier the 'Whole infinence into *e
hands of the priests, replied that he aid nos care shoat
that, as they etyma voted for him.
Mr. Keogh : Lo you know of any member of the pre-
sent Parliament receiving 60,0001. for Ms parliamentary
services ?
Mr. Ford Indeed T do not, and I should think no
member *mild take it.
On a later day Mr. Mowbray Morris, manager of
the Times, was called and questioned very search-
ingly as to the authority on which certain articles
had been published in that paper, in ,September and
February last, accusing the Irish members of cor-
ruption, or of purchasable compliance with the
wishes, of the Minister. After much, persistence on
the part of the committee, Dlr. Morris positively
refnaed to give any information upon the required
sukject.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuuday, Minvh 21.
_Al4l.EntirTetEs ANNULLED.—.toss Stranis, Relh-
illifess, Poplar, leillder—Jeuss PriLDING, (3100G0p,
*Mon *planar.
ji3ANKBUPTS.—Josspn SEAGNR, Ramsgate, Kent, draper—
HENRYY CIIARLEN PALICFN, Iliiroluth, retell hatter
'4.-CitAIII.IIIIEDWAID REINUAIID, Rochester. Kell, cost merchant
—Smolt itrZsates, Char It Pimlico. buikier—Mrsa
Exrnr, Brighton, licensed victualler—PMCDSßlelt fluor*,
Kltham, Kent, grocer—Tease Fivicf.ws, Coventry, ribbon mann-
feetursr—Jesarn WADDINGTON, Knottinglee, Yorkshire. shoe-
Ultawitifair, Wakefield, torkshire, draper—
Grottos, Hivsliocic and MAfreSw h axJAxrx Itossos, Monk-
weiniontb, nintsin, itim builders.
HCOTOH • KRQUEORATLOMit.--Jaxis K'Dotioal.l., Glas-
gow, dryselter--Cos)tai MAGAILLAT, Oreenockelothier.
Pride& Mink M.
BANKRUPTCY ANNBI.I.EB.—Hicen Bratios and Mans
Co /TES, Manchester, stuff merchants.
BANKHUPTK—Press Lnicsaisa, Birebin.lape, Cornhill,
iron merchant—Wm:oars Brags& Great Saint Helen's, mar-
ctaut—lionsnr Bitowe and .ports flOnmesx, Patton, Bedford-
ire, brewers—Joww SAGAN, Birkenhead, brewer—Roma?
Jinn:swoon and STItITHILL YODUN, Liverpooi, IV
wool sad ashen
dealers—ii Lusty Ituiumx De Klee, Bristot, bookseller—/LUSA
LIVESEY. Vauxhitlllirldge-rnad, bell.hanget and gas-fitter—
wiLLlA‘i isiLLtrion, lttatnitiil, TA/1,11.4t0r, Fume mason and
builder—FnAlfel• QUICK. Bristol, jeweller and silversmith—
JAMS, 1100*INI, Paddiagton, reason and Wilder—WlLlAM'
SHUMALWORTH, Stlatford-upon-Avon, licensed victualler—
W raralf ckutrio. Ludlow, innkeeper.
SCOTCH ISEGBJESTRATIONti.,--THoirte BRAID, Glasgow,
builde.r—Awn*kw °Liven and Courser, Glasgow, merchanta—
PArriamon and Nititaos, Linwood, Paisley, calico printers.
AccoRDING to the LimerickChronicie, the Emperor
of Russia is proprietor of several stores and house
concerns in that city, purchased many years ago from
Harman and Co., of London.
Tear. Sreknza Maim' arrived in Southampton yesterday
with the heavy Indian mails.