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other native idlers were busy with a game of cards or
dice. Along the shore hundreds of pedlars vended
their wares, whilst, intermingled with them, were seen
people from almost every eastern land, habited in their
splendid national dresses of the most beautiful and gor-
geous colours. We paid our landing lee of a dollar a
piece exacted by the Chinese authorities, notwithstand-
ing Macao is virtually a Portuguese port, and went at
once to the chief hotel, kept by a native, and fitted up
with every oriental appliance of luxury, coolness, and
comfort. Bidding adieu to " salt beef and potatoes"
for a while, we ordered a dinner of fish, capons, and
fruit ; and rolling about till the cool of the evening,
then strolled to the eastern portion of the town, through
a bazaar or two, and over a beautiful green lawn be-
fore one of the many churches which make Macao at
once pious and noisy. At the city gates we found no
guards, and passing through to the open country we
struck npon a path leading to an eminence, where we
found several of our countrymen enjoying the sea breeze.
From this spot the whole peninsula is distinctly visible,
and the narrow isthmus which connects it with the main,
across which the Chincse have built a wall to prevent
a foreign incursion. The back harbour of Macao lay
at our feet on the right, filled with vessels ; and, on
every side, extended groves and gardens, bending with
the prolific oriental vegetation now in the fulness of
perfection.
As we were admiring the richness of the scenery,
over which the setting sun was throwing his parting
rays, a European lady passed us in a sedan chair,
borne by two Chinese servants. It was the first white
woman we had seen for four months. The dove was
not more welcome to Noah with the olive twig ! A
Chinese female passed nearly the same moment, step-
ping along with the aid of a staff, on her " small feet."
But we bad no eyes for her or her queer " conti-
nuations." We gave the fair-haired European a part-
ing stare—ran after the chair a hundred steps—and
kissed our finger-tips until it was lost in the folds of

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF—TrritirNS, JUNE 29.
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.
WEAVER CHURCHES BILL.

On the motion of Mr. CHOLMONDELEY that
the debate on the Weaver Churches Bill be resumed,
Mr. WILBRAHAM opposed the clause which was
proposed to be introduced, on the grounds that the
funds in question had hitherto been devoted to pur-
poses connected with the county-rates, and that they
should not now be appropriated to a different purpose.
Sir R. H. INGLIS spoke in favour of the clause.
The House then divided, when the numbers were—
For the clause 7O
Against the clause
Majority
Mr. JERVIS gave notice that he would postpone
the clause which he proposed to introduce for remodel-
ling the constitution of the Trustees, till the third read•
ing of the Bill.
Mr. WILBRAH AM then moved as an amend-
ment that the minutes of the evidence taken before
the Committee be laid before the Ilouse.
The Honourable Member, who spoke amidst
cries of " Divide," anti was very imperfectly heard
in the gallery, said that there never was an occa-
sion on which such a measure as this now before
the House was less called for. The groat body of
the population for whose accommodation the churehes in
question were intended, were all Dissenters, extremely
attached to their peculiar mode of worship, and to their
own ministers. As far as there was any want of ac-
commodation for religious worship and instruction ac-
cording to the Church of England, it could be ade-
quately supplied by voluntary contribution.
Sir C. LEMON said a great deal of spiritual desti-
tution and ignorance prevailed in the district, and
there were two fanatical women who were followed by
large numbers of the ignorant and uneducated classes.
Te' question was whther they would endow these
women, or the Established Church was to be endowed.
—( Great laughter.)
Sir PHILIP EGERTON believed the amend-
ment had merely been moved for the sake of delay, and
therefore he should oppose it.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HOBHOUSE next addressed the House, but
amidst such a buzzing noise, that scarcely a single sen-
tence he uttered was heard in the gallery. We under-
stood him to say, the House ought to have all the
evidence before it previous to its coming to a conclusion
upon what he deemed to be a proposal for a breach of
truit. It was not for delay that they had taken the course
hey had done, but because they thought a great prin-
ciple was involved in it.
Lord R. GROSVENOR thought that the evi-
dence ought to be laid before the House.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided.

the path among the trees. No one knows the value
of woman—of the 'true worth of female society—until
he has played " fish out of water " on a Chinese
voyage.
It was growing dark when we retraced our steps
after this romantic rhapsody, to our hotel, and sipping
ourkrst cup of tea in the herb's native land, we again
sallied forth, along the now cool beach in front of the
factories. During an hour or more we clambered among
the gloomy monasteries, silent streets and tottering walls
of Macao, arid mounting the hills at the west of the
town we passed through several groves to the city
gates. The moon shone brightly over the unclouded
eastern sky, and upon the still surface of the sea. The
town was noiseless ; even the church bells were silent.
The sentinels as they relieved each other were the only
disturbers of the peace, until at last some love-sick
officer stole out from his close military quarters, and
strumming his " light guitar," serenaded his dulcinea
in fancy, among the vine-clad hills, and olive trees of
far off Portugal.
Romance is a capital thing in its place--,but at eleven
at night after a day of fatigue, it requires a vast deal of
passion or enthusiasm to keep one out -of beid. We
were unable to resist the drowsy god—so nodding to the
mocn as our only permitted lady-love, we said our first
• night's prayer in this heathen land, and
unstirring—till the morning. •

Ayes
Noes... 136
Majority 3O
. .

Mr. HUME gave notice, that to-morrow he would
move the amendment which he had formerly placed
upon the books, upon the motion of the Right Hon.
Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford,
for Church Extension.

Captain PECHELL gave notice, that on Thursday
ae would move for a return of the mates of the Royal
,iavy, with the dates of their passing the Board.
Colonel SIBTHORP begged to ask the Right Hon.
.e Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the
.4ention of the Government to bring forward the
tivil Contingencies on Friday.

COURT OF REQ

TOWER HAMLEU

AN limn Row,—Upon the nanal •
gan and Tim 111.Shanc being called, a_
pisintry" elbowed themselves forward as , ..
defendant. Paddy Hegan's (the complaining party)
right eye was in " mourning," and he displayed oth
symptoms of having come off second best in a recen
" shindy."
" God save ye all, gentlemen," said Paddy, folding
his arms a la Dan O'Connell, " and the likes iv all as
ull dale out satisfaction to an aisy soul like mcself wets
been murthercd and insulted by a spalpeen and a blag-
gard."
COMMISSIONER—What is all this about ; who has
been murdered ?
Paddy—Meself, dead as a herring, by Tim M'Shane,
the hather ; sure me own blessed eye was clane blocked
up for more thin a w
COMMISSIONER—That was very unfortunate ; but
how did it all happen ?
Paddy—Yer riverance, =self and Tim went to poor
owld Macarthy's wake, pace to his sowl ! whin Tim tuk
a dhrop too much iv dhrink, which same is mighty de-
saving in itself, when all in a suddent he jumps up and
tuk off his coat, and axes me to have the purliteness to
thread on it.—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—WeII, did you do SO ?
Paddy—Faith an I did ; not wishing to be oncivil.
COMMISSIONER—After which, I suppose, a fight en-
sued between you ; was it not so?
Paddy—That's tissue, and sure I'd bate Tim illegant
hadn't he sthruck me onawares whin I was dhrinking a
thrifle in whisky wid the deceased's widdy.
COMMISSIONER—But what assistance do you want
from this Court, for we have nothing to do with these
rows or " shindies."
Paddy—Yer riyerance, it's a matther in siven shil-
lings I'm salting, as Tim tore me coat up the middle.
It's not aisy I'll get another one equal to it ; ounly take
a sight iv it. (Paddy here handed the remains of a
bright blue coat with brass buttons, nearly as large as
the lid of a warming-pan, such as is usually worn by
Irish labourers on a Sunday, to the Commissioners for
inspection.)
COMMISSIONER—Was your coat torn during the
fight.
Paddy—He tuk howld on me be the two tails iv me
coat, and parts them from each other in no time at all.
COMMISSIONER—WeII, M'Shane, what have you to
say about this affair ?
Defendant—Yer wortchip, Paddy towld me I was a
thaif, in regard to Mike Donovan's shovel ; and who'd
like to have his caractur tuck away intirely, I'd like to
know ?
COMMISSIONER—But teasing his coat off his back
would do no good in vindicating your character.
Defendant—Paddy struck me first, yer wortchip, as
the witness will prove, and thin called me a thaif.
The defendant's witness, one Peter Shaugnessy, a
" hodman," was here introduced.
COMMISSIONER—.NOW, what do you know about this?
Witness—Yes banners, I carrys the " hod" for
Misther Parkins.
COMMISSIONER—WC don't want to hear anything
about your " hod." Do you know anything abciut the
quarrel between the parties?
Witness—Yer honners, we were at the wake iv ould
Macarthy, all iv us, as good a crathur as iver bruk the
wurld's bread! barrin that he tuck a thrifle too much
dhrink now and thin—
COMMISSIONER—My good man, we don't want to
know whether Macarthy was a tee-totaller or a drunkard.
What do you know about this coat being torn ? What
did you see of the affair ?
Witness—Paddy called Tim a thaivish spalpeen, and
said he tuck Mike Donovan's shovel.
COMMISSIONER—Oh, you saw that did you?
Witness—Faith an I did, yer hanner.—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—WeII, what else did you see ?
Witness—Be me sowl nothing more at all, yer
banner. The'dhrink takes away the sight and hear-

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—
Yes.

Col. SIBTHORP would renew the notice he had
before given, that be would then call the attention of
the House to the case of Dr. Bowring. He had given
the notice before, but by some means or other it was
not entered in the book.

The SPEAKER informed the House that the exa-
miners had reported to him that the sureties for prose-
cuting the petition against the return for Sudbury, were
unexceptionable.

ing too.
COMMISSIONER—Oh, you were drunk, I suppose ;
and the others were probably in the same condition?
Witness—A thrifle that way, yer banners.
The COMMISSIONERS said that the various tales were
so conflicting that it was utterly-impossible to ascertain
who were the aggressors in the affair. They should,
therefore, dismiss the case.
Paddy Hogan, the plaintiff, left the Court in dudgeon.

NITRATE OF SODA AS MANURE.--ThiS sub-
stance is, as its name implies, a compound of nitric-acid and
soda, and in many respects is similar to common nitre (nitrate
of potassa). It has been chiefly procured from Hindostan,
where it is found in extensive natural beds. In the spring it
was sold at 18s. per cwt., but it has now reached 225., and
even in some places, we believe, a higher figure. It is sown
by the hand, early in spring, at the rate of a cwt. to the acre ;
and as yet it has only been applied to grass lands, and, in a
few caws, to oats. Although in a crystallized state the crys-
tals arc very small, and in colour and appearance they
very much resemble dirty herring salt. From its metallic
base and large proportion of oxygen, the nitrate of soda weighs
well to its bulk, and indeed a couple of cwts. may be put in a
common wheelbarrow. It has thus the advantage of being
very portable. When sown upon grass lands, its effects are said
to be most rapid. Where tried, the rest of the field has been
either left untouched or manured with bones or lime, and within
a few days the land which had received the quickening influences
of the Eastern manure took a start in vegetation, which it has
fairly kept ever sinee. Where bones are used as a top-
dressing, cattle cannot be induccd for long after to touch the
grass, but the application of the nitrate of soda is said
to haven such effect. • The powerful acid which tu'ers
into its e nnposition, appears to be an effectual extir-
pator of grubs, snails, and other ground insects, the
source of so much annoyance and loss to the farmer. Like
other salts, the nitrate of soda is a powerful agent in attracting
moisture from the air, and the grass upon which it is sown
has been observed to be "impearl'd with dew" when other
fields were hard and dry. Probably this curious fact may have
had no small influence in stimulating vegetation in such asea-
son of drought as the present. These are the qualities as-
cribed to this manure, the most important of which is undoubt-
edly its power of producing food for stock early in spring_ An
extended trial of it will be necessary before any proper judg-
ment can be pronounced. It is as yet unknown whether its effects
are lasting, and until this, of itself, is ascertained, caution must
be used. It may be easily adulterated, but of course this will
not be got over by tests ; a simple one will be to apply a red-
hot cinder to a small quantity, which, if pure. will give off oxy-
gen so rapidly as to produce, almost instantaneously, a full corn-
bustion.—Dtanfries Courier,

DEPRESSION OF TRADE.—We regret to
state that for some time past a very serious depression of trade
in the weaving department has been felt here, and that a con-
siderable number of hands are out of employment. The exact
number of these is not known, but we may state, that of the
schedules prepared and laid in the Chamberlain's office for the
unemployed to take out and fill up, 160 have been taken out,
of which 100 have been returned, filled up in a way showing
the state of destitution. Means are at present in operation for
re-establishing the Work Committee, to give out plain work to
such as apply. The greater number of sufferers, as might be
supposed, are to be found in the weaving department; but in
various other trades connected therewith, several unemployed
hands are to be found. The prospects of the Autumn trade
are, in the opinion of several of our most intelligent manufac-
turers, of a very gloomy tinge.—Paisley Advertiter,

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1840.

dress be presented to her Majesty, representing that
this House, before proceeding to pass vny Bill for the
regulation of Cathedral establishments, desires to re-
ceive further information as to the duties and general
purposes which are contemplated by the statutes o f the
respective foundations, and which the capitular Clergy
in conformity therewith, may beneficially discharge ;
and humbly praying that her Majesty will be graciously
pleased to authorise and direct the Visitors of the Ca-
thedral and Collegiate Churches respectively, and the
Bishops of the dioceses wherein they are situate, after
consultation with the members of their several Chap-
ters, to lay before her Majesty such plans as may in
their judgments be best calculated to render each of
those Churches ' most conducive to the efficiency of the
Established Church,' and to ' providing for the cure of
souls.' " In doing so he assured the House that
he would trespass as shortly as possible upon their
time. He knew that the Bill came recommended
upon very high authority, but still there were
authorities upon the other side. In the county
which he had the honour to represent, the Clergy
were unanimous in their opposition to the Bill—it was
approved by thirteen Bishops, and by every Chapter in
the country—not from interested motives, for they
stated their willingness to give up part of their reve-
nues. They objected to the accumulation of the funds
of the Chapters into one common fund, and he con-
tended that under the present law they were as much
corporations, and as such entitled to their property, as
any one Municipal Corporation in the kingdom. The
clergy were opposed to the Bill because it took from
them those dignities which would be beneficial to the
Church, even although they were not paid for. He
was opposed to the Bill, because it made no mention of
the duties of the Chapters. They were very ancient
institutions, and if they meddled with them at all they
ought to give them some plain and substantial duties
to perform. He trusted the House would agree to his
amendment, for if the delay were granted, he thought
the Biil might be greatly improved, and in any case the
delay of one year could not be of much consequence.
Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the amendment.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was exceedingly sorry that
the Hon. Gentleman had made such a proposition, and
certainly if it had come from a member generally less
sincere in his objects he should have thought it had been
made merely for the sake of delay. No valid reason
had been urged why they should not proceed with this
Bill.—( Hear.) The Commission upon which this
Bill was founded, was appointed upon the advice
given to the Crown by the Right Hon. Gentleman op-
posite in 1833. That Commission comprised, as the
Hon. Gentleman had stated, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London,
and two other eminent prelates of the Church. The
Commission devoted great attention to the duties they
had to undertake, and they made a Report on the 24th
day of June, 1836—four years ago. The Report, almost
as soon as received, was laid before Parliament, and he
had brought in different successive Bills on the subject.
In the course of last year, after various religious pam-
phlets had been published, some grave and learned, and
others exceedingly lively and facetious—(Laughter)—
there was a sort of Committee appointed by the Chap-
ters of the different cathedrals in London. He did not
think that the proposition of the Hon. Member had met
with any assent from the Deans and Chapters them-
selves ; he thought it could not be said that Parliament
had not the means of coming to a decision upon the sub-
ject. He trusted, therefore, that the lion. Gentleman
would not persevere in his motion, as he could net see
that any useful purpose would be obtained by it. As
to the allusion made by the Hon. Gentleman with re-
spect to consulting the Bishops when the Bill went to
the Upper House they could there state their opinions
upon the subject.
Mr. PUSEY said that in the allusion he bad made
to the Bishops he did so, not in their spiritual capacity,
but in their character of visitors.
Mr. ES TC 0 UR T supported the motion of the Hon.
Member for Berkshire.
Mr. A CLA ND also supported the motion. He had
not heard one word of valid objection against further
inquiry on the subject, and he also understood that
above two-thirds of the bench of Bishops had signed a
protest against the Bill. The Hon. Member observed
that the supply which the Universities might afford
could no longer meet the growing demand for clergy
throughout the country ; and it' they got over the
difficulty, of which a solution was then offered to the
House, he believed they might conciliate the feelings
of the clergy on the subject then under discussion. It
was very justly complained of that cathedrals were not
now as efficient as they might be ; but the patrons were
responsible for that state of things, end that could be
no reason, in his opinion, for destroying those institu-
tions. The Hon. Member then at some length went
into a detail of the destitution in the Church, and ex-
pressed his anxiety that some means should be adopted
to put an end to them, and he did not think the Bill

he Noble Lord was calculated for that purpose,
and therefore it was that he felt bound to support the
motion of his Hon. Friend the Member fer Berkshire.

Mr. GOULBURN admitted that great difficulties
surrounded this question, for,up to the prusent_naoment.
no plan had been brought forward on the subject which
had received general approbation. He for ono was not
prepared to vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend,
because he thought it was not for further safety of the
Cathedral Establishments, that they should go on from
year to year without coming to some definite arrange-
ment, with respect to them, which would be the effect of
the motion of his Hon. Friend. He agreed with the
Bill of the Noble Lord as far as it adopted the report of
the Commissioners, but there were many parts of it in-
consistent with that report.
Mr. GLADSTONE said he was glad at the very
outset to say that the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell)
had approached this subject in a spirit, and with a de-
termination to make it as good a measure as possible—
( Hear, hear)--but while he gave that credit to the
Noble Lord and those on his side of the

House, he hoped he would receive the same
while he felt it his duty to offer his op-
position to the Bill. He did so, because the
measure came with the recommendation of very high
authority. He was aware that there were five Bishops
in the Commission, but he believed that it was a well-
known fact, that in the Report upon which the Bill was
founded they wore divided as three to two ; and the
Archbishop and the Bishop of London had frequently,
previous to the appointment of the Commission, ex-
pressed themselves as opposed to the principles of the
Bill. They had then thought that they would be ini-
mical to the best interests of the Church. He thought
the amendment of the Hon. Member for Berkshire

ought to be agreed to, because discussion was wanted
upon the subject, and from the opposition which it was

sure to meet with, it was impossible to expect that i
would become law during the present Session. He ob
jetted to the Bill, because it gave a great shock to
property. He did not think that they had any case
strong enough to warrant them in disturbing or vio-
lating the charters of the founders of cathedrals. They
ought not to violate or invade such property, but rather
do all in their power to carry out the intention of those
pious individuals. It was impossible that the Bill could
ever accomplish its object—that of providing for spiritual
destitution. The Bill confiscated the property of the
cathedrals, and gave a preference to the parish in
which the Cathedral was situated ; but it could not
supply the general want of spiritual instruction
throughout the country. There, no doubt, were
abuses in the Cathedral, but the Bill before the House
was not calculated to remedy them in a proper man-
ner. The Bill did not define or give substantial duties
to the officers of the Cathedrals, which would be the
only fair manner in which to carry out the intentions of
those pious individuals who bad bequeathed funds for
the establishment of cathedrals. The Chapters were
intended to be a council to the Bishop, and although as
such they had fallen into desuetude, in his opinion,
so far from abolishing or weakening them, they ought to
be restored to their pristine power ; the exigencies of
the present day required that these functions ought to
be restored, for the isolated position of the Bishop was
very detrimental to the interests of the Church, while
they were reforming by weakening the Church ; he was
informed that the Church of Rome in England,—a poor
and a voluntary Church—was now engaged in reorga-
nizing these chapters, for the purpose of restoring them
to their useful labours. Complaints were frequently
made of the exclusive character of the clergy of the
Estalished Church, and he admitted thas it was most
desirable that every means should be taken for the pur-
pose of strengthening the clergy by the accession of
those virtues and that learning which were to be found
among the poorer classes in this country. It could not
be denied that sufficient facilities were not at present
afforded to persons in humble life, to enter into the pro-
fession of the Church. It appeared to him that the
great want in that matter was that of an organ who
might watch over the funds of cathedrals as well as
their application, and he was persuaded that if they
bring forward an efficient measure on that subject, they
would do more to make the Church independent of the
pecuniary assistance of the State than they could do by
any other means. The Hon. Member proceeded to say
he could not depict in language sufficiently strong his sense
of the mischief of the Bill then under the consideration
of the House. He was not so much opposed to it for
the positive evil which it did, as on account of the posi-
tive good which it intercepted. The greatest advantage
might be derived from the institutions with which the
Bill proposed to interfere, if instead of being mutilated
they were turned to proper purposes, and to their muti-
lation he could not consent.
Lord J. RUSSELL wished to address a few obser-
vations to the House in reply to the objections made to
the Bill. It was said that the measure would interfere
with property, and would divert it to purposes which
its original owners could never intend. But it appeared
to him that it was no violation of the spirit of the inten-
tions of those who, in former times, had founded chap-
ters and cathedrals to devote the funds attached to
them to the propagation of that form of Christianity
which the nation in the progress of time and enlighten-
ment might 'adopt. It was on • that principle alone
that they could justify the uses to which the funds in
question had been converted at the time of the Re-
formation, and which uses were in many instances