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to
,I)e ashamed of, but that the funds were made to
the fullest extent available for the purposes for which
they hail been bestowed. In others, as in the case of
the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the
University of Oxford, on the grounds that it could
not be shown that the expectations on which the
endowment 'mid been granted had been frustrated,
and that, therefore, both prudence and justice, in
their highest forms, demanded the maintenance
of the endowment. We do not, however,
coincide with either of those parties. Their
objects may be laudable, but their acts are im-
politic. The only possible results ofLthe inquiry will
be the introduction of a new element of strife and
dissension into the polling-booths, and perhaps the
exclusion of many estimable and experienced persons,
and the substitution of others of far inferior qualifica-
tions, who will readily truckle to the popular outcry,
however unreasonable. There should, then, be no mis-
understanding on the subject. The demand is really
for the abolition of the grant to Maynootb, and no
person should support it who is not favourable to
and desirous of that result
_speedily following the
success.

After all, what are the grounds on which the
withdrawal of the grant is advocated ?—that there
are errors in the doctrine of the Roman Ca-
tholic, and that those errors are taught in the
Roman Catholic College, and again that the Ro-
man clergy were strongly imbued with Ultra-
montane feelings, and, therefore, that the means
of home education should be denied to
them, and that they should be driven to
foreign universities, where, of course, feelings
of dutiful allegiance and affectionate loyalty
to the British SOVEREIGN would be strongly incul-
cated. Was there ever greater nonsense ?
For what was it established but for the
purpose of teaching the :tenets of the Roman
Catholic creed, and fitting youths for the
ministry in that Church ? It was considered desirable
that they should receive their education at home, and
not at Douai or St. Omer,*and for that purpose a sum
was voted, the only objection to which consisted
iq the penurious spirit and niggardly band
with which the State bounty was doled out,
rendering the college a sort of Do•the-boys Hall
in place of a great national establishment, conducted
on a scale of liberality that would excite the gratitude
and conciliate the feelings of the students and
professors.
Why should we complain of the errors of Popery
when we support Hindoos and Mahomedans ?
Why, as the Hon. Member for Middlesex perti-
nently inquired, should we " strain at the Roman
Catholic gnat, and swallow the Brahminical camel ?',
Why should we alienate the feelings of the people of
Ireland, and play into the hands of those who would
excite animosity to this country ? The withdrawal of
the Maynooth grant could not stand alone. The
Parliament that refused to sanction the 26,0001. per
annum fur that purpose should necessarily go far-
ther, and we should look forward to a speedy re-
enactment of the penal code, accompanied or preceded
by an internecine conflict of the most formidable
character, which would diminish the strength and
resources of the nation, and render the fear of
foreign invasion something more than a mere
bugbear.

AMERICAN NEWS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 5 .tyr.

By the United States mail steam-ship Arctic, which ar.
rived in the river shortly before four o'clock, we have ad
vices from New York to the Ist inst. She brings 150 pas.
sengers and 12,0001. in specie.
The steam-ship Niagara, with the mails of the 17th, ar-
rived at Boston on the 29th ult.

... _
The shock of an earthquake had been felt in several parts
of the -United States on the afternoon of the 30th; it was
very sensibly felt at Washington, Baltimore, and throughout
Maryland.
A banquet had been given at Boston to Kossuth on the
30th ult.
_.

Late accounts from Newfoundland report that a dreadful
storm had visited that coast, whereby upwards of sixty
sailing vessels had been lost, in addition to many other
vessels.

Vera Cruz advices to the 17th ult. state that the Tehuan-
tepec Railroad project had been defeated in the Mexican Con-
gress, there being only one vote in favour of it.
Advices from Cape llaytien to the 17th ult. state that a
severe shock of an earthquake was felt there on the Bth, bat
no damage was done.
The New York stock market was active, with an upward
tendency. The money market was abundantly supplied.
Foreign exchange had advanced. Bills on London 110 to
1101; aris, 5 171 to 5 16,i, ; Amsterdam, 4O to 40& ; Ham-
burgh, 35i to 35i ; and Bremen, 78 to 78i.
The Cotton market was very active, and prices had been
advanced per lb. Sales since last steamer, 12,000 bales.
Iron was more active. Breadstutis active, but prices un-
altered. Naval stores very scarce, and held at high rates.
Freights to London—flour, Is, 6d., and turpentine 2s. per
barrel; measurement goods, 20s. to 30s. per ton.
NEW ORLEANS, Arum 29.

Cotton market much excited on receipt of Niagara's ad-
vices. Sales 12,000 bales, at an advance of ie. per lb.— Times.

CRIMINAL COURT -(THIS DAY )
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
MußDEE.—Thomas Cathie Wheeler, aged 29, who stands
charged with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Wheeler, his
own mother, was put forward to plead to the indictment. The
prisoner displayed evident symptoms of insanity, and
laughed and giggled in the dock like an idiot, seemingly
quite unconscious of the awful situation in which he was
placed, not paying the slightest attention to the proceedings
going on around him.
Mr. EtnTos, who had been retained for the defence, said
before the case was gone into the prisoner's friends, who
were highly repectable people, wished to have the issue of
the prisoner's insanity tried. He was, in fact, not in a state
of mind to be able to plead, and it would save time if this
pleliminary inquiry was at once entered upon.
Mr. Baron PLAIT—By all means. Well go into that
matter now.

Mr. Cathie, uncle of the prisoner, stated that the deceased
was his own sister, and he had known the prisoner from in-
fancy. In 1848 the prisoner went out to South America,
but soon afterwards returned, when he exhibited undoubted
symptoms of insanity. He was accordingly placed under
restraint, and ultimately he became an inmate of a lunatic
asylum. He remained there some time, and having partially
recovered he was allowed to go at large again. Ile was,
however, never able to resume his business, while from time
to time he had renewed attacks of his dreadful malady.
One of these attacks came upon him a few days before the
murder, and had he delayed his terrible purpose a few hours
he would once more have been placed in an asylum, but it
was not to be, and he committed the offence of which
he now stood charged while in a state of undoubted
madness. The insanity was attributed to over-exertion and
anxiety in business, for previous to 1848 the prisoner was a
kind and industrious man, and the whole and sole support of
his mother and family. Since he had been in Newgate the
witness had seen him more than once, and he had no hesita-
tion in declaring his conviction that the prisoner was wholly
unconscious of the situation in which he at present stood.
hlr. PAYNE, who appeared for the prosecution, cross-ex-
amined the witness, bat the cross examination only con-
firmed the assertion that the prisoner was mad.
Mr. Jones, the landlord of the house in which the prisoner
with his mother had lived for some time past, also gave it
as his thorough belief that the prisoner was not in his right
senses, nor had he been sane ever since he had known him.
He always thought the prisoner was harmless until the day
before the murder, when he returned home, raving as a
madman would do, insisting that he was going to fight Ben
Caunt.

Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, said he had had re-
peated opportunities of observing the prisoner's manners and
conduct since he had been in prison, and it was his decided
opinion that if the prisoner was asked to say whether he was
guilty or not guilty, he would not understand the nature of
the question.
Mr. Baron PLArr thought the evidence was conclusive,
but it was for the jury to decide the issue.
The jury immediately returned a verdict that the prisoner
was of unsound mind.

Mr. I AYNE applied to the Court to have the pri:ioner do-
tamped during her Majesty's pleasure.
Mr. Baron PLATT-1 it so. _ _

The prisoner was then removed from the dock.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

Richard Ambler, a respectably-dressed young man,
pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with
attempting a felonious assault on Al aria Newbery, aged 18,
one of the inmates of the Servants' Home, on the 2d of April
last. The prisoner was described as a surgeon, of Portland-
place, Regent's-park.
Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine
and Mr. Gifford for the defence.
The particulars detailed in the evidence have already ap-
peared in our police reports.
After Mr. Ballantine'a address, the Assistant-Judge
summed up at considerable length; the jury then retired to
consider their verdict, and in the course of half an hour re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, in a very impressive address, sen-
tenced the prisoner to eighteen months' hard labour in the
House of Correction.

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTLIDAY.—To-morro w, being
the day appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birth-
day, will be observed as a holyday at all the Government and
public offices (the Post-office excepted), and no business of
any kind will be transacted at the great dock establishments
and other places of commercial intercourse in the metropolis.
In consequence of the influx of foreign shipping into the port
of London, and the consequent pressure of business which has
accrued at the docks and wharfage premises generally at the
waterside, this temporary interference with the usual course
of business, but more particularly with the discharge of the
vessels in process of being relieved of their cargoes, so long
detained by adverse winds at sea and in the British Channel,
will necessarily lee more than commonly inconvenient on this
occasion.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--In consequence of the
indisposition of Cruvelli, the Cenerentola was last night sub-
stituted for Norma, the opera that had been previously an-
nounced.
TUE REPRESENTATION OF GUILDFORD. Mr.
James Bell, understood to be the brother of the Hon. Mem-
ber for St. Alban's, has announced himself acandidate for the
represer Cation of the borough. In his address to the electors,
and vote by ballot.
he declares himself a Free-trader, an advocate
mon of the suffrage of the exten.