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was founded on the supposition that the supply
from this source would be inexhaustible. He

considered that the sale of lands at a
certain price was a sound principle, and
he regretted that the application of that fund to
immigration should not meet with approbation.
He attributed the failure to the faulty structure
of the Act of Parliament. He would propose to
place the colony under the control of the Trea-
sury, not under the control of Commissioners,
and to give the Crown a direct agency in the ap-
pointment of its Governor. Though it was not his
opinion, if the House decided that it should have
have a representative Government he would as-
sent to it.

Lord STANLEY had thought that this subject
was one which ought to have been brought be-
fore the House, on the responsibility of the Go-
vernment, before it was referred to a Committee.
It was the duty of Government to come to
Parliament with a definite proposition. He
described the self-supporting principle as
a bubble which had burst. The revenue
of the colony was, he said 20,0001. a
year, the expenditure 100,000/. ; and the Go-
vernment House cost 24,0001. The Noble Lord
was very severe on the whole scheme, particu-
larly on introducing all the luxuries of civilized
life into the wilderness. He advised Lord JOHN
RUSSELL to allow the Chairman to report pro-
gress, and postpone the measure for a week or
two, till Lord JOHN could lay before them the
details of the measure it was necessary to intro-

duce.

Lord JOHN could not acquiesce in delay, be-
cause the colony was perishing.
Sir R. PEEL suggested that the resolutions
should express that the loan should not be im-
mediately paid.
Lord HowicK explained that bills bad al-
ready been given, on the faith that the Trea-
sury would pay them. lie suggested that
Government should receive the authority to raise
some money to meet the present difficulties, and
take time to adjust the affairs of the colony.

Mr. HUTT defended the Australian Commis-
sioners from Lord STANLEY'S attack.

Mr. VERNON SMITH thought the affairs of the
colony were not so discouraging.
Sir R. PEEL pointed out a contradiction
between two statements of Colonel TORRENS,
which shook his confidence in what was reported
of the colony.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed his surprise at
the course adopted by Lord STANLEY, who in
Committee had proposed a resolution that delay
would aggravate the evil.
Mr. GROTE was for dispatch, that the news
might go out to the colony.

Lord ELTOT concurred with Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL in feeling surprised at Lord STANLEY'S con-
duct, and said that .there, was no difference in
the Cofnmittee as to the necessity of immediate
steps. This is another example of the Tories
quarrelling among themselves. Lord STANLEY
is quite enough to set a. whole camp by the
ears.

Ultimately the House resumed without the
Committee having adopted any resolution. No-
thing was done but to give the explanations
made by the several gentlemen.
On the Report of the Ordnance Estimates, Cap-
tain BOLDER° drew the attention of the House
to the supplies we had furnished foreign States;
when Sir 11. VIVIAN assured the Hon. Gentleman
that we had only furnished the SULTAN with
24,000 stand of arms, with ammunition.
The Report on the East India Rum Bill was
received, after an amendment had been intro-
duced including date-tree sugar.
The Registration of Voters (Scotland) Bill was
read a second time after a short debate.

The Drainage of Lands Bill was opposed, and
the second reading was carried by 31 to 19.
On the motion of Sir W. RAE, leave was given
to bring in a Bill to erect a monument to Sir
WALTER SCOTT, in Edinburgh. Mr. Fox
MAUL supported the motion, which has the
'consent of both parties.
Some other matters of course were transacted,
and at Half-past Eleven o'Clock. the House Ad-
journed.

We have to announce, which we do with very
great pleasure, that the Bishop of EXETER last
night withdrew his motion for an Address to the
Crown not to give its assent to the ordinance for
incorporating the Seminary of St. Sulpice. We
are delighted at the result, because we are con-
vinced that had the Bishop of EXETER been
successful, the consequences would have been
very injurious in Canada; because bigotry was
defeated, and above all, because the defeat came
in this instance from the better part of the
Tories, who, as we expected, refused to hurl the
firebrand which Bishop PHILLPOTS had pre-
pared into the peaceful and reposing community
of Canada.
Our readers will recollect that we stated on
Saturday that " the Earl of RIPON, the Earl of
ABERDEEN, and Lord ELLENBORUGH would
discountenance the attempt to represent
the House of Lords as the determined
enemies of all the Catholics of the empire." We
were then aware that the Duke of WELLINGTON
had pledged himself to support the Bishop's mo-
tion ; and though we were unfeignedly astonished
to hear his Grace give that pledge, after the
pl tin, sensible speech of Lord MELBOURNE on
Friday week, we did not expect that he would
have joined his rational friends in opposing the
Bishop of EXETER'S motion. It appears, however,
that since Friday evening the Duke has looked
into the question for himself. He was then capti-
vated by the easy, flowery elocution of the Right
Rev. Prelate, and by his positive assertions.
Forgetting much of the past history of these
transactions, he had suffered his judgment to be
hastily ensnared by the fervour and sincerity of
the holyman. But on remembering that he had
been in office with Lord BATHURST in 1821, when
the letters patent for incorporating St. Nicolay
were issued ; and in 1834 and 1835, when
Lord ABERDEEN adopted the despatch c f
the Earl of RIPON, he was at once convinced
that he could not in honour throw overboard,
as foolish and illegal, the acts of his own col-
leagues, and acts to which he had himself been a
party. The Noble Duke, therefore, when he
consulted his own judgment, came to a correct
conclusion, and, beyond our expectations, not
only combated some of the arguments of the
Bishop of EXETER, particularly his wild assertion
of the enormous income of St. Sulpice, but de-
clared his firm determination to oppose the
Bishop's motion. That was decisive of the
question. The Right Reverend Prelate
felt he had not the smallest chance on
a division ; and, therefore, adroitly seizing hold
of a staff held out to him by the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, lie crept out of the pool into which he
had foolishly plunged, and withdrew his motion
for an address.

We were glad to perceive, by the reference
whiCh the Duke of WELLINGTON made to the
Ethaerl of ABERDEEN, that those two noblemen
,were acting with one common- accord; and
that the Noble Earl would have accompanied
pressed to a division.
doubt hadiihe
Earlthe of
fmßoltpi oorivi
lebfteneno
jsuibslfiefies
Noonbtlleie subject,puke'
for he made a manly, sen-
pdeielicshow against the Bishop's motion. He
the
thought
leintelligadideasp:tch of 1831, admitted that
the een
virtually
before, ridiculed incorporated
idea Seminary,
of taking away the pro-
iiifieli•loeeinnshould
have
of
bry, .which, he said, had
3'' any statesman, and,
g the question, he could
preferred his own plan of
tret, he observed, for
settling
nevereitortutlyign•
which
boeridi inance, which
one moment think oropposin,
was based on principles to wit hadpreviouslylt
pure
given his solemn sanction.
Ited out, also,
principle
the
agalii
against the
the inconsistency of the Bilsiheolpx)oc'
the ordinance,
and then making it a matter of '
Pecuniary
Protestantfli.st conte
n dpirni gn
c,
consideration, leaving to the Papists a
part of
the sum, instead of the whole. The Noble Earl
gave no quarter to the Bishop's assertion that
such an ordinance was a national crime
and contrary to the principles of the
Constitution. On the contrary, he regarded
the settlement of the question as essen-
tial to the prosperity of Montreal, and would
on no account allow his respect for the Protes-
grotEmxdEToEf
tant religion, which he professed to revere, to
overrule his conviction of what was due to sound

policy. The Bishop of EXETER, therefore was.'
defeated by his own friends. He was opposed,
certainly, by the Marquis of NORMANBY j but he
was defeated by the Duke of WELLINGTON and
the Earl of RIPON. As he accused the Minis-
ters of being favourable to Popery, he must
henceforth class his own party as the enemies
of Protestantism and the allies of the Papacy.
What the Times and what the Standard
will say to this heavy blow, inflicted on them
and their party by their own friends, we can-
not possibly conjecture. On Friday the latter
denounced Lord BATH URST as having done
"many foolish things," and it included in them,
especially, the letters patent for incorporating St.
Nicolay, in Canada. Last night, however, the
Duke of WELLINGTON st2ted to the House of
Peers that he was in the Cabinet when these
letters patent were issued, that be knew very
well then what was going on, and that he must
have been cognizant of them at the time, though
he had fbrgotten them on Friday week, when
the Bishop of EXETER made his first speech ; so
that his 6"race must also be regarded by the
Standard as one of those foolish Tories who,
in the good old Tory times, did a great many
fbolish things. Again our Contemporary pre-
pared his readers for the result of last night's
debate by sneering at some " of those who call
themselves Conservatives, and are sillily calU
Conservatives by others," whom he described '
as conservative of nothing bu,i; their own paltry
titles. But now the Standard -Must class the
Duke Of WELLINGTON with those who
are sillily called Conservatives by others,
for he took the course which the Standard de-
precated by its sneer, though it then hardly
supposed that such a course woull be followed
by the Duke of WELLINGTON.

Again, the Times has been labouring zealously in
the cause of the Bishop of EXETER, and, like the
rest of the bigots, was thrown overboard last
night by the _Duke of WELLINGTON. No longer
ago than yesterday that journal drew' a fine dis-
tinction between incorporating trustees, being
officials of the Roman Catholic Church, alias " a
certainßoman Catholic Bishop and certain Cures,'
and incorporating ecclesiastics themselves. We
were astonished at this boldness of assertion, even
in the Times, not to call it impudence ; but the
Duke of WELLINGTON, after having had the
benefit of this fine distinction, and after having
heard the Bishop of EXETER. endeavour to
establish a perhaps still finer distinction between
the purposes of the two incorporations, the ole
being tp educate the people by Catholic priests,
and the other to teach them the Catholic reli-
gion—the Duke of WELLINGTON, laughing to
scorn the airy distinctions both of the
Bishop and the public writer, declared
that he saw no difference between the two, and
that he, having been a party to the letters patent,
could not oppose the ordinance. So his Grace
threw overboard the bigots both of the Bench
and the Press, and the good resolutions of his
more vigorous days having been recalled to him,
which he confessed he had forgotten, he told
the Bishop, and he manfully told the Peers,
that he had been in error on Friday week. On
former occa,-,ions, the Duke has given the bigots
some severe back-handed blows, but never did
the whole crew so reel and rock under his
blows as they did last night. They expected
they had caught him in their net, and were pre-
paring to show him about as their last great
prize. Their hopes made their disappointment
the more bitter, and his refusal last night to sup-
port an address, which was artfully described as
intended to save Protestantism from the heaviest
blow struck at it since the Reformation, will
redound to the discredit of the bigots throughout
the empire.

We did not expect that the Post would an-
swer, though it notices, our article of last Fri-
day; and notices it to declare that it is wide of
the mark. Our Contemporary, we are afraid,
has forgotten what and 11 herea!)out the mark
was. It was assnmed by our Contemporary that
the amount of exports was the measure of the
value of foreign trade, and, taking that test, he
treated with contempt the doctrines which would
promote it, and insisted on statesmen cherish-
ing agriculture, to the ruin of trade. We showed
that our Contemporary was thoroughly ignorant
of the nature of foreign trade, which, we proved,
gave value to agricultural produce, to which our
Contemporary placed it in opposition. We en-
tered into the controversy for the sake of esta-
blishing a principle, and pointing out that dread-
ful combination of ignorance and presumption
which is embodied into commercial restrictions.
We have not the smallest intention of flattering
the Post, when we describe it as much better
informed, and much more careful in its reason-
ing, ignorant though it be, than the herd of
country gentlemen, Right Hon. Members o
Parliament, Noble Lords, and Right Rev. Pre-
lates, who have made, and now uphold, restric-
tions on the production of wealth, the vast, com-
plicated, and beautiful phenomena of which they
are totally unacquainted with. To illustrate their
still greater deficiency, we pointed out the igno-
rance of the Post on a subject which it neverthe-
less aspired to regulate. That our Contemporary
can afford no answer to our remarks, is for us a
satisfactory proof that it is not easy to answer
them.

We have received Malid Papers of the 7th
iast., which being Sunday, there was no Bourse.
The following extract from a letter shows the
little reverence that is entertained for the laws
in some districts of Spain :
XERES DE LA FRONTERA, MARCH I.—The following ex •
traordinary fact occurred here three days back. 'I he Alcade
published a Lando, in which be stated his intenth n of doing
his utmost to prevent smuggling. The smugglers assemble
in great numbers and fell upon the crier, whom they beat most
sev: rely, tore down his proclamation, and ordered him home, if
he valued his life. The Alcade called out the militia, both
foot and horse • this last was insulted and attacked s) grossly
that it nas obliged to charge the people. In this conflict two
men were killed, one by a lance, and the other by a sabre. The
foot mil,t4 sided with the smugglers.

At nine the municipality met, and it was decided that the
bando concerning smuggling should be published. At hzlf-
past ten the members of the municipality, escorted by half a
company of grenadiers, and by a detachment of cavalry, came
•ut, but no sooner was this body in the s'rect than .ICO
persons assembled at the door of the municipal hall, voci-
ferating that they would oppose the bald.), and that the horre
militia men were assassins who had charged the pi ople, &c.
The Alcade hastened to the barracks of the t aTalry, and
100 men immediately began to pursue the infantry and popu-
lace, who bolted in every direction, and order Ra 3 at length
restored.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached
us. The Presse has a long and, sa-far as regards
England, hostile article on the differences be-
tween England and the United States. As the
Presse is the organ of Count MOLE and the Con-
servative party in the
,French Chambers, this
article is important as indicating their views.
Though pressed for space, we make room tt,r a
long extract from it :
The Americans are serious in pushing matters to extremi-
ties, because they fully understand that sooner or later alm. st
the whole of Europe will be f reed to take a part in this war,
as the grand question whether the flag covered the merchan-
dise must be disputed. France, at all events will dispute this
principle, for two reasons, first, from honour, because she has
taken the initiative in protesting against the right of search
claimed by England, and, secondly, because imperious ne-
cessity will oblige- France to resist the application of
the principle stigmatised by Napoleon in the Berl n and
Aldan decrees. It would be exorbitant despotism to shut out
French commerce from the coast of America by the declsra-
ration of an Order in Council that 1,600 leagues were block-
aded. Neither our dignity nor our interests could permit such
a toleration. There would be no other part left to us but ag-
gression, and in this we should soon include all the other
maritime Powers, for our cause would be theirs. The United
States know this. They are well aware that the people of
Europe, especially of France, would not be free to remain
simile spectators of this stupendous struggle, and this is
the reason, independently of the local and inherent.
causes of the Americin charactcr, that there is
such daring and decision in America, which agitate
public opinion in England, because she is struck with the same
truth The London Stock Exchange has been more seriously
affected by the news than at any periad since the July Treaty,
whilst the French Funds remain stationary instead of falling
twenty per cent., as they did some mouths since. For all
these reasons, our firm belief, is, that England, as in the affair
of the capture of the Vixen, will yield. In this dispute
with Russia she had as much ground to demand repa-
ration as in the 111•Leod affair. The British press in
vain rnenaced Russia with war. She never yielded, but
England did, and the Czar cajpled Lord Durham, who in
turn was prodigal of flattery for the Emperor. 11I•Lcod will
be hanged, and the British Government will not wi-ge war
against the United States, because England is not certain of
gaining anything by a conflict. She will bide her time, .for
she never forgets nor forgives an injury, and sooner or later
she will be revenged, but she will be in no hurry for reprisals.
She is selfish and not warlike. Ske has no love of war. She
is inspired only with interested considerations. She is prodigal
of blood and treasure, and will make war for a quarter of a
century provided she can gain ultimately. his is the
secret of her still increasing strength. Our fault is to
give way to blind passion. We wish to decide everythin; by
the enthusasm of the moment. It is a brilliant and chivalric
fault, but it is a defect. Let us leave to the English their per-
fidious habits, which render their policy so often odious; but
let us endeavour to borrow from them the calm and persever-

ing character of their combinations, since they have afforded
them so many advantages over us up to this moment."
Upon this extract we will not waste a word of
comment. That the writer and his party do no::
love us with the fervor of passion which distin-
guished the friendship of Davin and JONATHAN,
may, after all, be no great misfortune., But we
never allow ourselves to retort the vulgar abuse
of prejudiced ignorance.
Of general news there is an absolute dearth in
the French journals. The Report of the Com-
mittee on the supplementary credits for 1840 is
the subject of an article in the Debats. It ap-
pears from the Report that the contracts made
after the Treaty of July were fran 14 to 16 per
cent. higher than those made previous to the
signing of that document.

The journal des Debats publishes a report dated the Ist
inst., from M. Hesse, the Royal Commissary of Saar-
bruek, which states that a fire had broken out at Hannaveiler,
in the Prussian territory, which would halve consumed the en-
tire village but for the prenipt assistance by the inhabitants of
the French frontier, and particularly the Ist Regiment of Lan-
cers, in garrison at Sarreguimenes.
The prosecution of the National before the Court of As-
sizes, for an attack on the King and for bringing the Govern-
ment into contempt, has been again adjourned until next
term, in consequence of the continued illness of M. Dela-
roche, the publisher. The indulgence of this Court is con-
trasted by the papers with the severity of the Chamber of
Peers, which condemned him to a month's imprisonment
and the maximum of the fine. M. Delaroche's agree-
ment with the National was to receive one thousand
francs per month (forty pounds) during any imprison-
ment he might have to endure. This covenant during the
secret sitting of the Peers became a matter of conversation,
anti it was strongly urged to sentence M. Delaroche to the
maximum of the imprisonment as well as that of the fine, be-
cause the National would have had to pay for three years
36,000 f. to its incarcerated publisher, and the Republican
print would probably be unable to stand the outlay, and a for-
midable enemy in the press would thus have been disposed of.
It was with great daeulty that the more merciful Judges pre-
vented the application of the utmost p, malty of the law.
The Monzteur of this morning contains in its official part a
Report of the Minister of Menne to the King, proposing to
determine that the roward promised to the crew of the Astrolabe
and the Mee, if they reached the 75th degree of south latitude,
should be given to the officers and c-ews of these two vessels,
and to the heirs of those who died during the expedition.
The sum total will amount to 15,000 francs. The King ap-
proved of the proposal.
The following letter from Blidah is dated Feb. 24 :
" The ditch intended to enclose the plain, is three quarters
finished, and extends not merely half-way to Mimish, but to that
place itself, which enlarges the circuit by twenty kilometres.
The whole plain will be enelosel in a fortnight. There wil:
remain to be done, the works on the mountains, where the
block-houses, are already placed, and we shall be able to circu-
la'e freely in the finest plain in Algeria, which is ill be co-
vered with harvests this very year, and will no more be as it
has been—a theatre of carnage and destruction."—Le Con!cti-
.
tutionnel, March 14.

The Scntinelle de Toulon says,_
A report is in circulation among persons conrected with the
navy that a French squadron, composed of six frigates and one
74 gun ship, will be formed in the Indian seas, under the com-
mand of Hear-Admiral Laine. The Belle Polite, commanded
by Ihe Prince de Joinville, will, it is supposed, form part of the
squadron.

A let, er from the Turkish frontiers of 26th February to the
Augsburg Gazette says, that several refugees from Candia, who
were in Greece, have left it with arms and proclamations, in
order to favour the insurrection against the Turkish Govern-
ment, which is preparing in Candia. English agents are sup-
posed to favour in secret these projects.—Le Commerce.

, REPORT OF THE IMPORT DUTIES COMMITTEE.
NVe understand that this now for-ever-cele-
t)rated document, or some abridgment of it, ha:
seen reprinted at New York, and is circulated ii
imerica very largely. We are heartily glad of
this, for the knowledge of the inutility, or rather
the mischievousness of what is calledprotection,h•
Is much required in the United States as here. It
_nay reach that country in time to warn the people
by our example against the commercial suicide,
by a tariff, which they are meditating. We are
much pleased also to learn that the abridgment
of the Report, published by a weekly Contempo-
rary, has been reprinted at Carlisle, and sold to
a very large amount. The very useful informa-
tion supplied by that invaluable Report is spread-
ing all over the country, indeed all over the
world, and is producing an effect such as never
Parliamentary document of that nature produced
before.

At the recent Quarter Sessions for the county
of Hertford a man named David Sams, about two and
twenty years of age, was triad before the Marquis of Sa-
isbury and sentenced to be transported for life for felony.
Although so young in years the career of crime of this
individual has been of an almost unprecedented character,
and his case will show how unavailing are the most solemn
arnings t ) the mind naturally adeicted to crime. The
first offence alleged against Sims was that of the robbery
Ind mureer of an old pensioner named Bent'. ti, at Tewin,
near Hertford. He was tried with two other young
men, named Rorch and Fletcher, at the Hcrts Assizns,
when, although there appeared to be v. ry little moral
doubt that he had been the original coneoetor of the
scheme, and bad azt:vely assisted in the perpetratign cf
the hcrrible crime imputed to him, owing to a failure cf
the necessary evidence as to his identity, he was acquittee',
and 1 h two unhappy companions were convicted, and sub.
sequently executed. Almost immediately after this aafui
avirning Sams committed another robbery, and was
tried and convicted, and sentenced to six months'
imf I.:mulct-it. Shortly after this period of im-
prisonment had expired a young min named
Thomas Taylor, who had also been charged with
being concerned in the robbery and murder of the old real,
was taken into cut idy, and upon his tii.l Sams wa;
mitted as witness for the:Crown, and he then &tad ed all
the circumstances of the murder, and stated that it was
committed by the two men who were executed, Taylor,
and himself, and that they divided the money, between
' therm after the dreadful deed had been committed. Upon
.his evidence and other corroborating testimony, Taylor
was convicted, and he was also executed. It would have
I ean thought that such circumstances as these would have
induced Sams to change his wicked courses, the more
especially as some of the gentry of the m ighbourbood of
Hertford interested themselves in his behalf, and obtained
him employment, whereby he might have earned a
,espectable subsistence; but he speedily took to his
old course of life, and his employers could keep
him no longer. He then left this part of the
country, and it has been ascertained that be was
afterwards tried and convicted upon two charges of felony.
He then returned to Hertford, and in a very short time he
and tyro of his companions broke into a farm-house, near
Ware, and for this offence be took his trial at the Quarter
Sessions as above stated, and the case being clearly
brought home to him, the Jury found him and his
companions Guilty. The Marquis of Salisbury, in
pa!sing sentence upon Sams, observed that he never
knew an instance of so hardened a criminal as he ap-
;.eared to be. He had had the most dreadful warning on
a former occasion, but it appeared to have bad no Mei t upon
him, and be had gone on his career cf crime until jus-
tice had at length overtaken him. The Noble Marquis
then observed, that he thought he should be neglecting
ais duty to the public if he did not pass upon him thn
severest sentence of the law, which wAs, that ho be trans-
a-rtel for the term cf his natural life. The convict
-
heard the sentence with the greatest coolness, and at its
conclusion he nodded to one of hi: old companions in the
body of the Court, and then walked away laughing from
the bar.

LOCIIGILPHEAD--THE DEAD ALIVE.--. 011
ti e ,neek before last Allan M'Dougall, mason there, re
c i el a letter from Captain David Morgan, of the Sir
John, of Newport, thted Kingston by Dublin, the 6th
February, informing him that Colin M‘Dougall, his son,
was employed along with some others in lashing the
long-boat in the midst of a heavy gale, when a tremen-
dous sea broke on board, which tore the boat from her
fart-ni. gs and drowned all therein—infermation which
of course plunged all his friends in Lochgilphead in
the deepest grief. About one o'clock on the morn-
ing of Friday last, the family were alarmel with a
knock at the door, and on those within inquiring who
was there, the answer was given in the voice of
the ton whom they mourned as drownel. On the
r being opetel, the mother fainted away, believing
that it was a phantom she saw, and on recovering she was
not satisfied that it was her son in life till she had felt
him all over. It appeared Orrat Colin and two others had
beAl carried off the deck of the Sir John in the boat.
They were, without sail or oar, food or water, borne away
out to sea by the violence of the wind, it requiting unre-
mitting baling to keep the boat from swamping. In this
:•3nclition they cor.tinutd for three days, when they were
p'cked up by a vessel bound to Bordeaux, from whence
they were transferred to England, and last Friday Colic
arrived at his home with no covering but
.a shirt and
trousers. About six months ago, the same lad and
another were the only persons saved from a vessel which
was wrecked on a lee shore.

THE RAILWAY FROM PARIS TO ROUEN.---
Th 3 Cuurrier de ['Sure says the Pc: is and Rouen Com-
pany have commenced the works. The Company have
just made a contract for the construction of very part
of he railro cd, frJrn Poses to Asnier where, as is
known, it will tirinch off en the road of St. Germain.
This line comprises the construction of two large bridges
over the Seine, one to Besons, the other to Maisons. -A
sccind line is also unde,.taken on similar terms for the com-
pletion of two of c most important and difficult works in
the whole line ; the tunnel of 3,000 metres, between Rol-
lebeLc and Bonni2rcs, arid the excavation rt Venables (in
the arroi,dissement of Leuviers). A third contract is
goirg to be enteiel, ict immediately for the portion in
R i..sy end MaLt.:s ; indeed all the plans are arrang,d, and
e% cry prvparaticn made for commencing the roan f ore
Mantes to Paris in the ye ir 1842, that is in the course c. f
15 months ; and it is c spec tel that the wilt le line will
Gnisl.ed in 1843.

E oP Em EN T.--The Commerce Beige announces
the c!opement of a PGrtugue:c Jewish l;eutl•aman, who
has for many years resided t Brussels, with one of the
most wealthy !Hi-es:es of B.lgium, who had refused SM..
ral splendid offers. Tt.c fugi ices were supposed to have
proceeded to London.

We have this day learnt that our Government,
in older to prepare fur any emergency that may sptiog cut
cf the case cf M`Lcod (and if the republic execute him,
me do not think thcie is a man in this Uri ei Kingdom
but mill demand jamice), have directed Fix regiments to
hold themselves in readiness to cmhark for Nerth Amc.
rica—two of nhich are the 191 r and 84th regiments, now
in Irchnc. It h rho stated in private letters from the
fist circles in PaW, that Lcrd Granville, on the 27th
tat., cfilehtlly anneunced to M. Guizot that the English
Government would find it ni'ccsary to send t n sail of the
line t,) the same quarter. Of course a fleet of steamers
mill ferra put cf such an expedition.—Hampshire Tele-
graph. 4,

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NEW

COMEDY.

Sir Harcourt Courtly, of Stow-in-the-Wold,
Was an Exquisite, upwards of sixty years old,
And he wanted a wife,
To plague out his life
(A very strange want for an elderly man,
Whose love is at best but a flash in the pan)
So he went to a friend, and he told him his case,
Who replied, '° I've a niece with a sweet, pretty face ;
" She's brisk as a bee,
" Has a plum in the Three
" Per cents., and o'erllows so with frolic and glee,
" That ste'll suit you, I'm sure, my old buck, to a T ;
" So if you'll leave town
" At once, and come e.own
" To my seat at Oak Abbey, of sporting renolTn—
" Where stretches for miles a magn:ficent park away—
" I'll splice you, as sure as my name is Max Harkaway !"

Sir Harcourt as-ented, and"thought it an age
'Till he reach'd his friend's seat by the six o'clock- stage ;
He was figged out in st, le,
Wore a natty French We,
And smelt so of musk you might nose him a mile.—
With a world of grimace
He bowed to Miss Grace,
Who no sooner caught sight of his shrivelled old face,
Than she muttered, " Oh my
Eyes, what a Guy !"
While Max Hai kaway whispered in answer, " Oh fie !
Were he tall as a May pole, and lean as a rat,
" You should wed him, you saucy young baggage, that's fiat

But there's many a slip
Twixt the cup and the lip,
And 'twas fated Miss Grace should not wed such a rip,
For while he was wooing,
And billing and cooing
With his sweet-heart, the Devil's own mischief was brewing
And wherever there's mischief, I've heard people cry,
A woman is certain—l cannot tell why--
To have one whole finger at least in thepic

It chanced that at dinner Sir Harcourt, one day,
Sate next to a dashing young Bel:e, Lady Gay,
Who La 1 lately dropped anchor
Be-ide an old banker,
And of course took her husband's queer surname of Sranker
She wai wondrously witty,
Coquetti h and pretty,
Could turn a man's head with an amorous ditty;
Could leap hedge and ditch,
No matter whi..h,
Was a capital that, and (abounding in pluck)
Could dive like an otter, and swim like a duck,
And was said—but perhaps the report may be scandal—
To box quite as well as the late Mr. Randall !

Now the instant Sir Harcourt got sight of this Belle,
He bade to Miss Grace an eternal farewell,
For he thought to his strict sense of honour 'twas due,
To be off With the old love,
Which now was the ce ld love, •
Before lie was handsomely on with the new ;
Having sonthed thus his conscience, he flirted away,
Like an a,s as he was, with the arch Lady Gay,
And whenever she sung,
(WLieh she called, giving tongue)
He was always the first to wake up from his snore,
Appr, ach the piano, and cry out " Encore !"
Thus he flirted, and simpered, and sighed, 'till one night
By the lady's soft glances bewildered outright,
He dropped on one knee,
And, chuckling with glee,
Said, " Alay I request, my divine Lady G.,
That you'll make your Sir Harcourt the proudest of men,
By eloping to-morrow precisely at ten ?"

" Elope !" quoth the lady, her cheeks in a glow,
Elope!—well, I never !—My stars, here's a go 1—
" Does your mother, you lout,
" Know that you're cut,
" And the very unprincipled tricks you're about?
" Elope !—And with you ?
a Curse me, if I do,
" Were you even as rich as old Rothschild the Jew !"
So saying, she fetched him a slap in the face,
Rang the bell loudly, and summoned Mis Grace!

The rest of the plot may be easily guess'd ;
Sir Harcourt, and justly, came off second best,
For he lost both his wife and his mistress, whose lauglitCr
Rang shrill in his memory many weeks after,
And he learned this sad fact
(Which ends the Fifth Act)
That a man must be either a knave or a dunce,
Who attempts to make Lve to two women at once !

We understand• Lord Crewe is abut to be
married to the Hon. Miss Littleton, eldest daughter of Lord
and Lady Hatherton, and sister of the Countess of Cavan and
Viscountess Newark.
Viscountess Canterbury left last wet k for Paris.
The Noble Vivcount remains in this country until the close of
the season.

HA IiEWOOD HOUSE.—The Earl of Harewood
leave, for town the week af er Easter. The Hon. W. S. Las-
cell 5, M P., and Lady Caro'ine Lasee'les, left early in the
past week f.r too n. Lady Louisa Cavendish and family ar-
rived on Wednesday from Ashford Hall, Derbyshire. The
Hon. George Cavendish, M.P., will join his lady next week.
By the demise of the Earl of Rothes the families
of the Earl and Countess of Devon, Mr. and Lady Mary Ha-
worth, Hon. Henry Hugh and Lady Anna Maria Courtney,
Dowager Countess of Rothes, Captain and Lady Elizabeth
Wathen, and the Hon. and Rev. henry Leslie, are placed in
mourning.
BANKRUPTCY OF SPARKS AF. D Co.—Yes-
terday was fixed for the final exaniination of one of the
partner, which, pf«r some discussion, was postponed.
It appeared that in 1814 the bank was solvent, but that in
1827 there was ad, ficiency of upwards rf 30.000/ On

the 14th ef June, 1838, the day prior t) the death of
Richard Sparks, the bank debts were no less than
209,247/ 9e., while the assets were or ly 42 230/. 13s. 9d.,
and the a-nount of stock. sold out (the property of others)
was upwards of 77,000/,
ToB ACCO.—'lhc amount of duty paid last year
on this article amounted to nearly 2 859,000/. Of the
three kingdoms, the respective proportions of duty are—
Engl tntl, 1
,973.0001 ; Ireland, 613,0001. ; Scotland,
273,000/.

EXPECTED NEWS FROM THE UNITED

STATES. —The Royal mail st, amer Columbia, which
would sail from Boston on the Ist and Halifax. on the 3tl
instant, is expected to arrive every tide. No intelligence
of her Apr roach had teen received at the hour at .which,
to secure the transmission of our papers to the couttry by
the early mail, we a e compellel to put our journal to
rresq.—Liverpool Albion.
We !egret to have to announce the death of
Arthur Browne, Esq., of G!e.corrib, fattier of Mr. R.
D. Browne, M. P. for this county. The deceased was a
gentleman of the best privati. charecter, and his death will
b.t much regrette,'.—Mayo Constitution.

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILROAD.—The
prin-
cip•l inh bitai t. of Havre have authoii,ed a notary of that
town to neg ti,tc with Companies who may be willing to
contiouc the Paris and Rouen Railroad as far as Havre.
The municipality of lLvre some tine ago voted 20,000'.
towards the preliminary surveys, and agreed to devote
50,000 f. towards the execution of the line.

The Temps says that the Prince de Joinville is
to be sent to the Chinese seas, where it is necessary that
the French flag should be in a sta'e of obseivition.
REPRESENTATION OF NORT IT A MPTON-
SHIRE.—Fur some months past it has been well known that
rd Maidstone would to t again le brought forward as a
candidate f the northern division of th:s county ; though
the announcemeat of his Lordship's intended retirement
was uncler:ood to be delayed till the Conservative party
should have fixel upon his successor. That reason for de-
lay has now been retail:met!, am(' the public have, in con-
sequence, at length been inforn ed that, at the rest
ge!.eral election, Lord Maidstone will not present him-
self again for the cuff. ages of the electors, and
that Mr. Augus:us O'Brien will receive the support
of the Cone•vatives, in conjunction with Mr. Mann-
sell. We are ftr from helieving that the two last con-
tests for Nor:h Northamptinshire have decided irrevoca-
bly the future character of the rel reset.tltives. We
still remain unsatisfied that the corstitue%cy which, only
eight years ag placed Lcrd Fitzwill,am at the head of
the pall, and afterwards twice returrel his lamented son
without even a contest, can be so comple:ely changed as
to deliberately prefer Itt•presentat!ves whose political prin-
ciples lead the n to counte act almost every object which
the Nt:ble a2;l cr the late Lord Milton sought to promote.
We belicv2 that the registration since the last general
election has added not inconsi terably to the strength of
the Liberal party, making the present list of electors a far
mert accurate represent ,ti )r. of the feelings of the district
than that of August, 1837. And we trust that, come the
gezeral election when it may, the seat vacated by Lord
Maidstone will be filled by a successor of widely different
politics, and the large Liberal body in this county once
more again •,r
thi fair weight in the choice of its Reprc- •
seLtative,.—Northamptore Mercury.

On Monday afternoon, between twelve and one
o'clock, as some of the Thames police were rowing in a
boat up to the Penitentiary at Milbank, they discovered
tie body of a young woman floating on the surface, off
Lambeth Palace. The deceased was attired in a black
►.1:1( dress and black beavc r bonntt, and had a ring on her
finger. It is supposed thq it is the bo,ly of the unfortu.
nate young woman who some time since, in the day time,
anew herself from London-bridge.

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH ABOLITION BILL.
—This B 1!, brought in by Lord John Russell ,and Mr.
Fox Maul-, proposes to abolish the capi'al penalty in the
following C.IEC3 of felony :-1. Embezzlement of notes,
bills, money, bonds, Ste., by officers of the Bank of Eng-
land and others. 2. Certain frauds on the revenur, such
as forging stamps, dice, marks on gold and siver plate,
&e. 3. In the case cf persons, who have been
transpoit-d from St., Helens, returning to that island or
procurriog to Grert Britain or India before the expiration
of th, i term of punishment. 4. Under this Act, principals
i i the second f'egrie CIO cases of felony), and accessories
bef re the will be liable to the same punishment as
pint i,),As in the first degree under the said Act ; and ac-
cessories after the fact ate tube punished by imprisonment,
not exceeding two years, &c, This Bill, in comparison
with that of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, is unobjectionaUe, ina2_
much as stabbing, or assaulting with it.tent to Murder,
rape, ourniog shipping, &c., and other grave offences.
are v ry properly not c xempted from capital punishment
by ti:e Bill c f the Government.
SOAP MADE OF FLINT.—The manufacture of
silex soar, wh tie Excise a year
was put a stop to by
or tan ego in Et.gland, has sprung up and is flourishing in
Ireland. The.e is an extensive manufactory a: Cork,
dor the management of the pateatees.