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any exposition of the inferences which are alone to be
drawn from it would be in literal truth a matter of the
most complete supererogation.
The fair name of our fellow-men are surely not to be
trifled away with every idle or partisan whim ; even
lAGO esteemed it as more precious than lucre or other
mundane rickts ; and it is not surprising that the mem-
bers of the free-trade committee of Nottingham are
aroused at the ruthlessness of such an attempt They
may feel satisfied, however, that in the eyes of their
dispassionate countrymen they are fully exonerated from
the charge by the correspondence just published.

on a moonlight night, seized the assassin by the collar.
held up his face to the light to see if he was known,'and
distinctly recognised his old tenant. There could be no
mistake as to the identity in a case of this kind; Sir
FRANCIS HOPKINS could have no interest in swearing
away the life of an innocent man, and he in
the most solemn manner, and with the fullest
conviction of the truth of his statement, distinctly de-
clared on oath that SEERY was the assassin. His evi-
dence was firmly believed by almost every respectable
person in the neighbourhood, and no one whose opinion
was unbiassed had any doubt whatever of the man's
guilt. The priest SAVAGE, however, took a different
view of the case, raised this assassin to the rank of a
martyr (without the slightest intention, of course, to
encourage other assassins), and has been engaged ever
since in collecting subscriptions " for the protec-
tion and support of the afflicted widow and
helpless orphans of the late martyred BRIAN
SEERY." These are the terms used by this parish
priest in a letter addressed to a Mr. DEVITT, of
Limerick, thanking him for the receipt cf 6/. 3s. 3d.
towards this patriotic purpose. But that is the least
striking part of the letter, and we therefore give what
follows, to show the dangerous spirit which animates
certain of the lower Irish clergy, and the determi-
nation to destroy all community and all friendship
between Protestants and Catholics. The letter is
published in a Dublin paper of Liberal politics,
with the words marked in italics as we give
them, the underlining, we presume, having been made
by SAVAGE himself:—" SEERY was a man of the best
character. Six respectable Catholic witnesses proved
at the trial that he was nine miles from Rochefort at
the hour the attack was made on Sir FRANCIS HOPKINS.
The man who actually fired the shot at Sir FRANCIS
openly declared his own guilt, but a Protestant baronet
having sworn—no doubt conscientiously—that SEERY
was the man, a Protestant jury believed the Protestant
baronet, an outcry is raised, hang him, hang him,'
and he was hanged, having declared with his
dying breath that he had neither act, nor
part, nor knowledge of the crime." Here we
have the loose and unauthenticated saying of the
" man who actually fired the shot," according to this
priest, placed in the balance with the oath of a gentle-
man highly respected in the neighbourhood, and the
solemn verdict of twelve jurors. It is a well known fact,
that ninety-nine out of a hundred of these self-accusa-
tions of murder are without the slightest foundation,
and put forth solely for some temporary purpose, and it
is equally well known that one-half of the persons con-
victed of capital offences on the clearest evidence
declare their innocence to the last. But that is
a matter of trivial importance compared with the awful
consequences of the principles upheld by this Catholic
priest, for he distinctly tells the people that SEERY was
innocent, that the Protestant baronet had declared a
falsehood on oath, and that the Protestant jury were
guilty of murder, in condemnihg a man of the "best
character," on the evidence of one Protestant, distinctly
contradicted by " six respectable Catholic witnesses."
According to SAVAGE, no Protestant witness and no
Protestant jury ought ever to be believed or trusted when
a Catholic is tried. Need we wonder that so many
assassins escape, or that so many Protestants are mur-
dered, when we find such doctrines laid down by a
teacher of the people, who, it appears from the accounts
of the execution, had the
_lower classes of the district
around Mullingar so completely under his control, that
the whole of them stayed away in order to mark their
conviction that this assassin was a "martyr?" A
martyr to what cause ? A martyr to the pa-
triotic and Christian principle of expelling Pro-
testants from Tipperary by assassination. Need we
wonder that Catholic peasants when murder
is committed in broad daylight " stand laughing by,"
and that not one of them will bear evidence against
another for crimes the most disgraceful to human na-
ture, perpetrated against a fellow-creature, merely be,-,
cause he is a Protestant, and claims the privilege o
occupying his own land? Is the important business of
the session to be stopped because a few Irish Members
are opposed to any legislative Act for abating such a
ruinous and barbarous system?

ticular case that was to be made against him. His agent
had been served with ninety-six cases cf objection, but what
these objections were he could not even surmise.
After some short discussion,

The ATTOR.NET-GENERAL said the House :had nothing to
do with the question—it lay with the Committee.
The Committee was then ordered to meet to-morrow at
eleven o'clock.

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Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. B. Coch-
rane, said that the Government had done all it could for the
relief of the families of Captain Stoddart and Captain Co-
nolly, and that any further relief must be looked for to the
East India Company.
On the motion for the resumption of the adjourned debate
on the Customs and Corn Importation Bill,
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN wished to know from the Noble Lord
the Member for Lynn whether, supposing the Government
were to bring in a Bill proposing to allow corn to be brought
into Ireland duty free, he would support that measure. The
Hon. Gentleman, in putting the question, went again at con-
siderable length into the alarming condition of Ireland, and
the state of want and misery existing among the people in
different parts of that country.
Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Roche, Mr. Stafford
O'Brien, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. P.
Scrope, and Mr. Cobden, having addressed the House,
Mr. S. O'BRIEN wished to know if the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman waswilling to accept the terms of his offer?
Sir R. PEEL said that he had no hesitation in at once say-
ing that he could not accept them.
Mr. DISRAELI rose to charge the First Minister of the
Crown with cheering an expression in the Hon. Member for
Stockport's speech, namely, that the inhabitants of the
"towns should rule the country party." The Hon. Gentle-
man having
PAt:EßnicsEaiod,c"olNNtoEtu,allymdoe;leydtthheefaacdtj.
man having very warmly adverted to the circumstance,
adjournment of the
'base.

The Commissioners of the Woods and Forests have
at length, we are rejoiced to find, turned their attention
to the important subject of the embankment of the
Thames. Among the notices given on Thursday in the
House of Commons, we find the following, by Mr. J.
YOUNG, the Secretary to the Treasury:—
" A Bill to empower the Cotninissioners of her Majesty's W oods
to fonn a royal park in Battersea-fields, in the county of Surrey."
" A Bill to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods to
construct an embankrilent and roadway on the north shore of the
river Thames, from Battersea-bridge to Vauxhall-bridge, and to
build a suspension-bridge over the said river, at or near Chelsea
Hospital, with suitable approaches thereto, including a street from
Lower Sloane-street to the northern extremity of the bridge."
This is excellent as far as it goes. As to the advan-
tages to be derived from the formation of a park in Bat-
tersea, we presume there can be but cne opinion ; and
the embankment of the Thames from Battersea-bridge
to Vauxhall-bridge is a plan which, as the com-
mencement of a grand series of embanktnents,
is deserving of every support. But why do
the Commissioners stop at Vauxhall-bridge ? Surely,
if the public accommodation requires the em-
bankment of the Thames from Battersea to Vauxhall,
still more urgently does the public accommodation re-
quire the embankment of the Thames from Vauxhall
to Westminster ; and most of all is an embankment re-
quired from Westminster to London-bridge. Such an
embankment would act as an easement to the great tho-
roughfare from the West-end to the City, via the Strand,
Fleet-street, and Cheapside; and let those who entertain
the least doubt as to the absolute necessity of some such

A warm discussion then arose, as to the previous misun-
derstanding, in which several Hon. Members joined in stating
that Sir Robert Peel did not cheer at the time alleged.
Mr. DISRAELI then explained, and apologised for his
mistake.

The adjourned debate having been resumed, Mr. JOIIN
O'CONNZLL addressed the House at some length, after
which, on the motion of Mr. M'CARTUY, the debate was
aijourned to Monday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the
House adjourned.

The Earl of DALuotsia in the Lords, and Sir R.
Paw Lin the Ccmmons, on Thursday brought forward the
resolutions of which notices were given on Tuesday
evening, and in each case they were received with the
most perfect unanimity. Every one seemed to feel the
imperative necessity for their adoption, and to acquiesce
in the justice of the reasons on which they were
founded.

easement, attempt to pass through Fleet-street or
Cheapside, at any time of the day between the
hours of eleven in the morning 'and six in the even-
ing, and their doubts will have vanished before
they shall have persevered in their attempt halt'
an hour. Some months since a scheme was propounded
for the formation of a company fur making such an em-
bankment, which should at the same time afford rail-
way accommodation to the inhabitants of the metropolis.
It was stated at the time that the proposed plans
met with the approval of the Government, but the
November panic affected this, as it did several
other less worthy proposals. It was a plan, however,
which, if carried out, would have conduced largely
to the public accommodation, an I it ought not to be
abandoned.

As we stated in The Sun of Wednesday evening, the re-
solutions to be adopted as sessional orders are quite distinct
from the Bill of which notice was given previous to the re •
cess. The latter provided for the winding-up the affairs of
the company snd returning the amount of the deposits,
less the fair expenses, to the parties entitled thereto.
This can only be done by active measures to be adopted

by the shareholders, expressive of their desire of such a
result ; but it was manifest that much opposition might
be given, and time consumed, before the signatures
of the number of persons required by the Bill could be
procured, and consequently, though a strong feeling might
exist on the part of the shareholders to avail themselves
of the provisions of the proposed Bill, the project might
still be actively pressed on, and actually receive the final
assent of the Legislature before the feelings of the scrip-
holders could receive an adequate expression.
The governing body might, and frequently have, in-
terests other than, and distinct from, those of the scrip
holders. As Lord DALHOUSIE well stated, "there

We have read in one of the essayists of the last can
tury, that where two politicians of opposite views have
been for some time discussing the chae aCter and stabi-
lity of a Government, if the disputant, who is unfavour-
able to its continuance, should feel that his different
views and arguments have been well challenged and re-
futed, his dernier resort is, not unfreqaeutly, to take a
familiar hold of one of the buttons of his adversary's
coat, and sinking his voice into a confidential whisper, to
assure him that he has good information of the Pre-
mier's health being in a most unsatisfactory state.
If such a conversation should happen whilst Parliament
is not sitting, a few days suffice to set aside the gratuitous
assumption ; if it should occur during the session, a few
hours establish the same thing. In the mean while the
discontented politician has beaten his retreat, rejoicing
that whilst his own mind is rank ling with his failure in
nut having combined another'. with his own prejudices,
ne has, at least, started a presumption, calcu-
lated to disturb for the moment the triumphant
composure of his antagonist. Much in the same
way has a morning Contemporary been driven to
a miserable expedient. After beating the air for several
months with every c,ceivable weapon drawn from the
armoury of ancient and exploded prejud:ces, after using
up every species of invective, and hurling its missiles in
every direction against the Government, to stamp it with
the degrading marks of incompetency, treachery, and
national suicide, it confidently announces that there is
to be an early, if not an immediate, dissolution of Par-
liament. In cases of galloping consumption there is
generally what is known to be a "lightening before
death"—the surest sign of the patient being near his end,
is the sudden•impression he is under, that his health is
fast returning to him. The same delusion has ever-
taken our Contemporary. He takes it into his head that
a state physician can be found to uphold a worn-out
constitution by the power of the corn-laws ; that the
House of Lords will still find means to prolong life by
the continuance of the same stimulating regimen in
which it has so long indulged, and without which
it is fancied existence must immediately close. Such
is the tenacity with which he clings to his own
opinion, that he astonishes everybody by the strength
of his hopes when they can only recognise
the elements of despair. The dying monopolist builds
his chance of recovery first upon his belief that aiter
July the W higs will be strong enough to check the
further progress of Sir R. PEEL as Prime Minister, and
next upon the assurance he gives us that the Peers wil
reject the Corn-lawßill. We look in vain for any suffla
cient grounds for the latter opinion, and, without some
specific reasons, we cannot concede the likelihood that
the prophecy of a speedy dissolution comes from
a quarter better enabled than others to judge
of such a contingency. On the contrary,
we confess that the vaticinations upon which he yen-
tnred during the past year do not inspire us with suffi-
cient confidence to receive implicitly the augury pro-
mulgated for the future. These are not the times when
the House of Lords would willingly repudiate any great
measure passed by a powerful majority in the Commons.
They tried such a course under Lord GREY'S Govern-
ment, and were obliged to recoil from the shock
that emanated from their inconsiderate policy. Sub
sequently they refused their consent to several
measures sent up by the Commons ; but
then these were measures not of the first magnitude
(with the exception of that which provided for the ap-
propriation of ecclesiastical revenues to secular pur-
poses), and one and all had only been passed by ma-
jorities far below the number of placemen having seats
in the popular branch of the Legislature. Tne corn-
law is a measure second to none in its importance. Its
necessity is lilt to be so great, that it has
effected a revolution in the sentiments of the
Premier—a man whose mind is of the highest
order, and whose individual interests are bound
up with the proprietors of the soil. A similar
change has been wrought upon the minds of many other
senators. And the conviction is the more' valuable
from having been arrived at free from the excitement of
candidates upon the hustings. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON h a similar convert. His Grace stands aloof
from any other influence tave that of a patri tic desire
to act for the good of his country. Other Peers, like
Lord ESSEX, &c., are daily swelling the ranks of the
disciples of free trade. The country at large, as
stated by the Minister, has within the last twelve mouths
raised its voice in the same cause. That vast associa-
tion—the League—already confident in the speedy
triumph of the great principle it embodied, seems con-
tent to remain passive. On the other hand, their oppo-
nents have tried every means, and tried them in vain,
to turn the scales of public, opinion by any counter-de-
monstration. These are matters the House of
Peers will not heedlessly rtflect upon, and are
to us assurances that their judgment will
unite with that of the House of Commons.
What the Whigs will do in the month of July, and after
honourable
the Corn-law Bill shall be enrolled on the statute-book,
it is not perhaps so easy to predict, though this also
has been made subject of speculation. Considering,
however,
to the btahnedyndare supporters
tlow
givingof
the tlae
Ministry,
in
opposition
monopoly, it argues the improbability of their hereafter
taking a line of policy tending politically to strengthen
thosewhose discomfiture is as marked as their
news supportare selfish and narrow. If these and
such hairbrained speculations are the only vouchers for a
dissolution, its rumour is a ricketty abortion indeed.
Such Members, also, of the House of Peers, as might
desire a continuance of the corn•laws, must feel uneasy
under the weight of the cumbersome and spurious ar-
guments by which their ciuse is thus wantonly upheld.
If ever they have felt themselves coaxed, flattered, and
praised by their auxiliary of the press, awl, in turn,
have lent their approving smiles, they must already be-
gin to be sensible that zeal may deg:nerato into indis-
cretion, and recognise the full force of the adage—
" Pessiratun genus initn'etoruin laudeates.",

were local interests which influenced them ;
there were means of profit during the passing
of the Bill, which were not without their weight. Be-
sides, there was the point of honour, which made them
unwilling to give way to rival schemes. The governing
bodies, therefore, bad often a sensible interest and a
benefit in getting their Bill passed through both Houses
of Parliament. It relieved them from a certain weight
of responsibility, and enabled them to get the deposits,
which, up to that time, remained in the hands of the
Accountant-General. It was obvious, therefore, that
the governing body had a direct interest in forcing on
these Bills, and there could be no doubt that they were
doing this contrary to the general wish of the great
mass of the shareholders."
It is impossible to doubt the truth of this statement,
and there can scarcely be a second opinion but that the
wish for the dissolution of the several companies is much
more universal amongst the scripholders than in the
managing committees. The former, too, are scattered
in divers and, in many instances, remote parts of the

A correspondence, whichis just now published by the
Mayor of NOTTINGHAM, and which consists of some
half-dozen communications between himself, as chair-
man of Lord LINCOLN'S election committee, and Mr.
T. B. T. HILDIARD, induces us to make some retro-
spective remarks concerning the recent contest for the
representation of South Nottingham. The circum-
stances to which this correspondence hears refe-
' rence, and to which our observations are here
applied, are simple enough in themselves ; and the
deductions which must necessarily be drawn from
them are so obvious, that we shall content ourselves with
a mere narration of them, unaccompanied by any indig-

kingdom, and frequently their interests are so
trivial as not to make it worth their while
to take the trouble of attending a meeting
or sending their proxies ; and they may else be un-
willing to have it known that they have dabbled in and
mixed themselves up in railway speculations, of which
so holy a horror now exists, and by which, if generally
known, their credit might be seriously injured. For
all these reasons the Bill alone might prove insufficient
for attaining the end proposed ; and it was wisely consi-
dered that some active step on the part of the general
body of the proprietary should be taken to show
that they were still convinced of the prudence,
of the advantages of the undertaking, and expressive of
their desire for its continued progress. Hence the reso-
lutions now proposed as sessional orders, and few means
could have been devised more equitable, or better cal-
culated to attain the desired object. They provide for
a meeting taking place, of which due notice shall be
circulated, wafted on the wings of the press, through
all parts of our empire, and that full and sufficient
time shall be given to every patty interested to appear,
either in person or by deputy, and express his opinion;
that such a number shall be present at such a meeting
as that the general feeling of the shareholders may be
fairly ascertained on the one hand, while on the other it
is not so great as to offer any insuperable difficulty to
the further progress of any well-digested and desirable
project. The proposed Bill varies in some respects from,
and is, in our opinion, an improvement on, the plan
brought forward before Easter ; it provides that
the provisional directors, or governing body, may call
a meeting for the purpose of taking into consideration
the propriety of dissolving the company. In the event
of their neglecting so to do they were compelled to take
such a course, on receiving a requisition, signed by a
small body of shareholders for that purpose. Precau-
tions, similar to those in the resolutions, are to
be adopted, for the purpose of securing full
publicity to the intended meeting, and a rea-
-1 sonable time to enable all parties interested to
be represented thereat. At this meeting no ques-
tion but that of the dissolution of the company can be
entertained ; there are minor details as to the manner
of the election of the chairman, and the taking the sense
of the meeting en the question, the constituency to con-
sist of the actual holders of the shares, and the produc-
tion of the scrip certificate to be evidence of the right
to vote. A further provision is given to enable
those who may wish to vote by proxy to
deliver their votes before a Master Extraordinary
of the Court of Chancery, or a justice of the peace—a
very proper regulation, as there may be many persons
unwilling to undertake a journey to the place of meet-
ing, and who might be unwilling to entrust their scrip
to parties who could attend, of whom they might have
little knowledge. Should a clear majority of the stock be
i favourt of
represented at that, meeting, and that a majority thereof
voted
a propositionthe
eonfocerrnwisnhdoiunlgd beu
pthe
affars
o in
fhe company,
ipso
facto dissolved. The scale of voting is to be in con-
formity wi •th the provisions of the Joint-Stock Comp 2 •e
Regulations Acts of last session—viz., every sharet 11 esr
five should each confer a vote; every five shares above
ten, and less than 100, should confer an additional vote,
and every ten shares above 100 an additional vote.
Our readers will recollect that when the measure
was first brought forward we strongly urged in The
Sun the necessity of having the right of voting given
according to this rule, which had been adopted on mature
consideration as the most equitable, as giving their
due weight to the small holders, and preventing their
wishes from being overruled by those who may have
ether interests to consider besides those of the share-
holders—as, for instance, an existing company to whose
lines the proposed one might act as a feeder ; or, on the
other hand, might possibly prove a rival. A clear ma-
jority of the whole stock should give the power of disso•
lution, but as it might be impossible to procure such a
declaration of opinion, there is a further provision, that
in the event of one-third of the whole stock being re-
presented at a meeting the question of dissolution may
be entertained ; and if three-fifths of the stock repre-
sented at the meeting should be in favour of the dissolu-
tion, that should be sufficient, and the company dissolled
Both plans appear to have been well matured, and we
are convinced that they will be received by the country
at large with the same unanimity and approbation with
which their introduction was last night hailed in both
Houses.

nant or irate commentaries. We do this solely because
we are desirous of presenting our readers with a speci-
men of the kind of moral (?) force with which a rotten
cause is attempted to be bolstered up, and because, more•
over, we conceive the facts themselves are the most bitter
reproof which can be pronounced against the culpable.
A brief but significant episode in the electioneer-
ing contest of South Nottinghamshire will possibly
be remembered by most parties ; it transpired upon the
declaration of the state of the poll at Newark, and bore
reference more particularly to the opposite candidates.
Lord LINCOLN taxed his antagonist with having accused
himself or his committee of bribery in canvassing ; be
stigmatised this accusation as " a deliberate falsehood,"
though he did not apply that expression of rebuttal to
Mr. lIILDYARD personally, seeing that that gentleman
must "of course have stated it on the authority of

another ;" he required the announcement of tha
authority from his opponent as a gentleman and
as a Member for the county ; or, at the least, he re-
minded him that the enactments against bribery were
still open, and inquired if he intended a prosecution ?
Mr. HILDYARD in reply, acknowledged having charged
(not his Lordship, but) the free-trade committee of
Nottingham with the grossest species of corruption; that
charge he wished again most distinctly to asse-
verate ; he was prepared, in fact, to prove by
the most incontestible evidence that those free-
traders had tendered a bribe of 23/. to two of his
own constituents, for the purpose of engaging their votes
for the opposite interest; at the same time, however, he
declined divulging his authority, while he cautiously ab-
stained from pledging himself to a presecution of the
accused committee. This latter evidence of prudence on
the part of the newly-elected legislator, nevertheless
elicited from the mob of his supporters a valiant decla-
ration of their resolve to carry out the prosecution.
Since that period, up to the present moment, nothing
whatever has bean heard of any proceedings, however
small, having been taken to substantiate so sweeping
and damning an accusation against a large body of re.
spectaole gentlemen. Nothing whatever. Not a single
whisper of elucidation ; not ono solitary indication of
the proofs which had been so loudly and ostentatiously
vaunted I The accusation, however, had been uttered
A gross, a most heinous, and most despicable crime had
been imputed to the free-trade committee of
Nottingham. They stood before their fellow-
men branded with a supposed guilt. Silence,
under these peculiar circumstances, was of course
impossible; the members of Lord LuscoLN's committee
had characters individually to defend, and a character
collectively to maintain. These considerations im-
pelled their chairman, Mr. Tnomas HERBERT, Mayor
of Nottingham, to address a communication on the 12th
of March to Mr. HILDYARD, inquiring therein if the parti-
culars of the election proceedings at Newark, above enu-
merated, and published in the Nottingham Journal, were
accurately reported, and it so, requiring Mr. lIILDTARD
either " to substantiate the same, or openly to ackowledge
that he had been misinformed on the matter," accompany-
ing this requisition with a most absolute repudiation of the
charge as false, both on his own part as chairman, and
his colleagues, as members of the free-trade committee.
To this letter the lion. Member for Nottingham returns
a laconic answer on the 14th March, stating the "re-
port" in question to be " substantially correct," and
declaring that he can perceive no reason for altering his
opinions as therein expressed. Two other letters were
thereon forwarded by Mr. HERBERT at different times
to Mr. HILDY A. RD , " onceyon,anl,niitntdhillaaemerr;asddsoeiNy,rmroretaeupaotgrnile:udireti
reropeuti
ernhfnepasgawrucitsritbi
tfilcsnlrl aiietoatnlasm.l
unwilling
denying
ehltheLlaiher,
seeat truth,ur,Bo.lg bwtfehe,
irlt
of
hafroaet
the
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present
charge,"
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of Nottingham to his former communicationtht rihheaaei Teta:::
only explanation it was his intention to make," and
which amounts in fact to no explanation whatever. One
other letter terminates this epistolary squabble--a letter
from the chairman of the free-trade committee, ad-
dressed to Mr. T. B. T. HILDYARD, and couched in the
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following language:—
"In bringing to a close this correspondence, and sub-
mitting it to the public, in vindication of myself and
those who acted with me during the late election,
it only remains for me to express my deep regret that you
should be so far mistaken in what is due to your recently
acquired elevation, to say nothing of your personal character,
as to commence your public career with a wretched libel on
a respectable portion of your constituents."
True to our original announcement, we shall not add
to this narrative the addenda of our disgust, or the ap-
pendix of our indignation. Such additions are super-
fluous
adorned with its divets characteristics, that
fithueoutas the moral is already so pointed in itself, and
le;
so

We know not whether there are many such priests i❑
Ireland as the Rev. J. SAVAGE, of Mullingar, the patron
of the murdered martyr and the sainted SEERY ; but if
only a few such firebrands are scattered throughout each
county, all the mystery of the numerous assassinations
that degrade the Irish people may be easily cleared
up. This SEERY, it will be remembered, was con-
victed of attempting to assassinate Sir FRANCIS
110PKINS, and convicted on evidence about which there
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additionaniorlg theto new
e
Itit is said that the Ministry are disagreed
was troombeoopreudrsutehdat
intrigue an regard toat:ieolofouortt
to
set General SERRANO at the head of the new Ministry,
infi which M. SALAM kI'ICA would have the portfolio of
,nanc". M. Ismarz' 'had beea sent for several times by the
,ita:Ex, on the 15th and 16th. The Esperanza announces
that General VintAwaGA, the Captain-General of Galacia,
had occupied the place had fled to Vigo and Pentevedra,
on the llht, and that the insurgents who
both which lac were in their po3seLsiwa. It is stated that

Tll.'! SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 25, IMO.

the Portuguese Govssie-nent have adopted NI tres to pre-
vent them from receiving succours from that country.
El Tiemp) publishes a letter from M. EGANA, in which
the worthy nominee of CHRISTINA denies that he is an Abso-
lutist, and takes credit to himself for having for the last
twenty years rendered essential service to the Liberal party.
The Eco d.d Comercio says, " It is reported that the whole
Ministry has resigned, and an old Minister of Queen CHRIS-
TINA sent for to form a new Cabinet refused that honour."
There was a report of a Ministry under GONZALES Batr°,
whilst others talk of PAcitEco, and rumours are afloat that
the powers in the highest places were at a loss what course
to take.
NAnvatz has left Bayonne for Paris, where he was ex-
pected to arrived on Wednesday. Don ENRIQUE was still
at Bayonne.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 16.—Three per Cents., 3074 for
Money • Five per Cents., not quoted ; Bank of St. Ferdinand,
280 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ;
Company of Iris, 130 ; General Assurance, 85 ; Alliance, 160 ;
Anchor, 168 ; GasCompauy, 600. Exchanges—London, 37%;
Paris, 16 3.

The Paris papers of Wednesday have been received. The
Journal des Debats publishes the following particulars of th

first examination of LECOMTE :--

" At 12 o'clock this day Lecomte was conveyed in a hack-
ney-coach from the Conciergerie to the prison of the Lux-
embourg. Ile has been interrogated by the Chancellor and
the six Commissioners appointed by the Court. At 5 o'clock
Lecomte was brought back to the Conciergerie, the prison
of the Luxembourg not being 3 et completed, notwithstand-
ing the exertions of the operatives, who labour night and
day. It is believed, however, that the prison will be ready
for his reception to-morrow. Lecomte affects a tranquillity
which his features belie, whilst, on the contrary, he appear}
to be internally agitated in no small degree. The gun with
which the crime was effected was likewise brought to Paris
yesterday. Lecomte, in the examination which he under-
went at Fontainbleau,is said to have exhibited a degree of de-
jection, which is not in accordance with the energetic character
attributed to him. It is now certain that Lecomte a sports-
man by profession, when committing the crime did not use
his own gun, which was found at his lodgings. He procured
the gun, which he tired on the day of the crime, by means
which will be revealed during the course of the trial."
The Journal de Toulouse, of the 18th, subjoins the follow-

ing to the publication of the telegraphic dispatch, dated
Paris, April 17th, announcing the attempt of the previous
day :
"The following fact, which appeared at first as insignifi-
cant, acquires some importance in consequence of the at-
tempt mentioned in the foregoing telegraphic dispatch.
An elevated functionary of our City received three days
since a letter dated Paris, the 17th of April, and signed with
a fictitious name. In this letter the death of the King was
announced."
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Lord PALmEnwroNhaa recived an autograph letter from the
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KING, in reply to the one he had addressed to his MAJESTY on
the occasion of the attempt of LEcoMTE. His Lordship on

Wednesday presided over a meeting of the English resi-
dents in Paris, assembled for the purpose of drawing up
an address to the KING, on his escape. The meeting,
which was very fully attended, was held at Lawson's Hotel.
Imtartrat PACIIA was expected in Paris o❑ Friday, lie
will reside in the Elys6e Bourbon, and during his
stay there will give a series of reviews, on a large scale,

The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, appointed to
examine the Bill for extending the law relating to foreign
refugees, have made their report, which gives numerous sta-
tistical details as to the number and state of the refugees at
present in France. The Committee adds, that it availed it-
self of the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to de-
mand some explanations relative to the occupation of the
free town of Cracow by the troops of Austria, Prussia, and
Russia. The Minister replied that he was assured the oc-
cupation was merely a military measure induced by neces-
sity, and that it would cease with the necessity which gave
rise to it.
The Epoque, the Ministerial paper, publishes a long ac-
count of a conspiracy which had been discovered in Greece,
to dethrone King Onto, and assassinate COLETTI, which
conspiracy it attributes to the machinations of Russia. The
conspiracy was to have broken out, according to the Epoque,
which probably speaks from the inspiration of M. PISCATORY,
on the 6th of April. As to the reliance which is to be
placed on this story, we leave our readers to judge when
they shall have perused the following extract from the arti-
cle in question :-
"The Government was informed of all that was preparing,
but, having no proof, it could not proceed against the con-
spirators."
The Funds remained stationary on the Paris Bourse on Wednes-
day, and but little business was transacted.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 55c.; the Five per Cents
119 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,228 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,0371.
50c. ; Havre, 7501. ; Great Northern, 763 f. 73e. ; Avignon, 916 f. ?sc. ;
Vierzon, 6sot. ; Bordeaux, 625 f. 50e. ; Boulogne, 505 f. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 420 f. ; Basle, 230 f. ; Dieppe, 457 f. 50c.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 511 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 541 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons,
570 f. ; Spanish Tree per Cents., 36% ; ditto Domestic Debt, 30%.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :-
Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 510 f. ; ditto (Le-
cointe), 50f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 503 f. ; Charleroi, 495 f.
LYONS, APRIL 20.-Marseilles and Avignon, 898 f. 75e. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,203 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,025 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 568 f. 75c.
SUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espleta), 2% -Dutch Rhenish, 6 -Great Northern of France Con-
stituted, 151%-Lyons and Avignon, 2-Luxembourg, 1% -Over
Yssel, 31y dis.-Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 5%-Sambre and
Meuse, 5 -Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6%-West Flanders, 2.

ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETY.—The Right Hon. Lord
Ashley will preside at the anniversary festival of the above excel-
lent society, which is announced for this evening at the Albion
Tavern.
Ou Tuesday afternoon an infuriated cow escaped from
the Liverpool slaughter-houses, and in its furious progress
through the streets, tossed a boy from fifteen to twenty feet
in the air. Fortunately no bones were broken, and he is not
dangerously hurt —Manchester Guardian.
OXFORD, APRIL 21.—A formal contradiction has ap-
peared of the statement that the Duke of Marlborough is
about to let Blenheim Palace to the Queen Dowager. The
Rev. Mr. Sibthorp is now here on a visit to some of his
old college friends. It is said that he has imposed on him-
self a silence of three years from his usual pulpit minis-
trations, as a mark of penitential regret for having, in a
moment of ill-judged excitement, joined the Romish coin•

a anion
A monument has been erected at Stoke Church,
Berkshire, to the memory of the late Lord Montague.
The Earl of Glengall is suffering • from indisposition
at his seat, Caher Castle, country Tipperary.
Mr. C. B. Hamilton, M.P. for Aylesbury, has been
detained at Nice, and prevented attending his Parliamentary duties
in London, by a severe attack of fever, from which the honourable
gentleman is at present slowly recovering.—Galignara's Messenger.
The Right Honourable Richard Lalor Sheil, M.l'.,
will arrive at his mansion, Eccleston-square, Pimlico, in tha course
of the ensuing week, from Madeira, where he has been staying for
some months.
Captain Sir James J. Gordon Bremer, K.O 8., left
town on Thur.day afternoon, for Portsmouth, to hoist a commodore's
broad pendant on board the Queen, 110, as second in command of the
Experimental Squadron.
PUNISHMENT FOR CONJUGAL INFIDELITY.—A very
novel and extraordinary procession took place on Thursday, the 2d
instant, at King's Coed, in the parish of Llandenny, near Pontypool.
On the morning of that day, Elizabeth, the wife of a farm labourer
of the name of Cole, and a farmer residing near, had been found to
sin against the seventh commandment.' The husband immediately
communicated the knowledge of his rib's infidelity and of his own
injury to some !limb, who, upon due deliberation, advised him to
seize the aggressor and his paramour, and bind them back to back.
This being accomplished, they were placed upon a hurdle, and fas-
tened to a ladder. They were then mounted upon the shoulders of
some lusty rustics, accompanied by about fifty persons, who appeared
delighted with the fun. They visited every farm-house in the vil-
lage, thus elevated—" Sure such a pair was never seen." The farmer
and his paramour seemed regardless of the degradation they were
undergoing, and appeared quite at ease, the former smoking a pipe.
The attendants in the procession imagining that he displayed too
much levity and indifference in the situation be had by his indis-
cretion placed himself, insisted he should no longer indulge in the
pleacure he derived from the fumes of the weed, and he Is as reluc-
tantly compelled to relinquish she solace he experienced from its
enjoyment. From ten in the morning till darkness drew a veil over
the proceedings were they thus publicly exposed 133 such Lynch law.
—Monmouth Merlin.
SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE'S ARRIVAL AT ST. PETERS-
BURGII.—Letters are in town announcing the arrival of Sir Moses and
Lady Monteflure and suite at the Russian capital, in the night before
the let of April. Tho paragraph, copied from some foreign source,
which reported two audiences granted by the Emperor to the noble.
hearted knight, was at least premature— Voice of Jacob.

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THE 1.,,ND0N HOSPITAL—The anniv-rsary festival
of this hospital took place ou Thursday evening at the London Tavern,
ltishopsgate-street. About one hundred gentlemen sat down to
dinner, amongst whom were his royal highness the Duko of Cam-
bridge (in the chair), the Lord Bishop ut Lichfield, Sir William Clay,
M.P., William Colton, Esq., David Salomons, Esq., William Davis,
Esq., Robert Danbury, Esq., and other munificent patrons of the in-
stitution. The amount of subscriptions announced was the follow-
ing : His Royal Highness the Duke of CambrAge, 201., the East and
West India Dock Company, 1501. ; H. C. Telly, Esq., 30 guineas ;
William Colton, Esq., 101. 10s. ; the London Dock Company, 100/. ;
St. liather;oe Dock Company, 211. ; by R. Hanbury, Esq., treasurer,
_ .

1681. ; by J. Dityls, Esq., 2771.; by the gentlemen of the Hebrew
2281. 12s. 16.1. ; Sir William Clay, M.P., 51.; Colonel Fox,
M.P., 101. ; Thomas Masterman, Esq., 31. P., 30 guineas. The total
amount of the collection announced was I,On.

Mr. Jones, carver and gilder, of this city, has in his
possession a canary bird, gifted with the power of articulating clearly
several wori.s. Mr. Jones had the honour of presenting the bird to
her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday week,
when her 'Majesty expressed herself much pleased with the feathered
curiosity.—Huth Chronicle.
lEEE " No House' OF NrONDAY.—The names of Mr.
Lockhart and Lord John Chichester were by mistake omitted
among the list of those present, which appeared in our Tuesday's
iiispression.
On Thursday morning some thousands of brent geese
passed this town, about a mile at sea. There was a continuous
stream of them for at least two hours ; and their course was from
east to west. Our fishermen say that their passage is indicative of
stormy weather. Porpoises were also seen
planing about the Chain
Pier at the same time.—Brighton Gazette of Thw'sday.
ANCIENT HORNS.—A correspondent to a morning
paper announces that in excavating the ground at Goulstoee-square,
Whitechapel, for the large tank for the first model establishment of
public baths and washhouses, the workmen came to a stratum of
the horns of cattle, covering an area of at least fifty feet square, and
varying from three to four feet in thickness. How, when, and why
can this large deposit of horns have been made ? They are gese-
rally of a large size, and do not appear to have been broken when
they were deposited. It most be long since, probably centuries, that
they can have been thrown aside in such numbers as valueless. The
discovery is au unfortunate one for the committee who are construct-
ing the baths and washhouses, as it necessarily adds considerably to
their expense in making the tank.
A SMALL RATIL—On Thursday mornint, a vestry-
mceting was held in the vestry-room of Christchurch, Illackfriars •
road, to make a Minister's rate ; the Hector, the Rev. Mr. Mapleton,
in the chair. Mr. Churchwarden Powell said, they were required to
pay the Rector the sum of 601, annually ; that last year the rate
was made at three-eighths of a penny in the pound, 301. of which
remained to be collected. Besides this, there was a balance ill
hand ; therefore a rate of one farthing In the pound would be suffi-
cient for the ensuing rate. Mr. Ho* son then moved, "that a
farthing rate be made, which, being agreed to, ten of the inhabitants
then signed tile deed, and the rate was declared robe duly made.
COMMEMORATD,N OF SFIAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY--
The celebration of this interesting festival took place on Thursday at
Stratlord-sn-Avon. A meeting of the Royal Shakspereau Club was
held in the morning, Dr. Thomson in the chair. At twelve o'clock a
concert of sacred music was given in the Collegiate church for the
benefit of the infirmary, and at three o'clock, a dinner got up
iu
honour tf the occasion by the old club, took place at the Falcon, the
landlord of the hotel In the chair. But the great feature of the day
was the dinner of the lt•ayal Club at the Sbakspere Rooms, presided
over by Charles Wren Hoskyns, Esq., and attended by upwards of a
hundred members, among whom were the Mayer of Stratford,
Phillips, Esq., )LP., \V. It. Harding, Esq., J. R. West, Esq., H.
Granville, Esq., J. B. Freer, Esq., D. Gallon, Esq., R. J. Alty, Esq.,
T. Thomson, .D., W. 1). Hunt, Esq., It. Greaves, Esq., D. Rice,
Esq., W. C. Lucy, Esq., W. Rusman, Esq., E. D. Ford, Esq., P. F.
Flower, Esq., &c,, &C.
114xTR404p/s4". Sincipg.—Yesterday morning a
woman named Fite, residing at No. 2i, Greer,street, Stepney, com-
mitted a very singular act of self-destruction. The deceased was the
widow of a captain of a merchant ship, who died about three months
ago. She had ever since been in a low and desponding state of mind.
On Thursday morning her father, a very aged man, whose breakfast
was usually prepared by his daughter, missed her on coming down
stairs, and on making search for her he found her in the waterbatt
in the yard, quits dead. bite had only her nightgown on.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a fair business doing in Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, and the sales reached nearly 7,000 bags, nearly all
to the trade. Prices were steady. Shares continued to im-
prove, and a good business was done.
The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Wickham was well
attended yesterday, and very good price a were obtained,
2,700 shares being purchased :—Cornwall and Central Devon,
308 6d—South Midland, 39s—North Staff .rdshire, 85s—
Bridgewater and MinPhead. 19s—Eastern Counties York
Extension. 311 6d—.Ditto, 80s—East Indian, lls—London
and Manchester (Remington), 18a—Sheffield, Buxton, and
Leek Potteries, 13s 6d—Goole and Doncaster, 30s—North
Kent, 26s—Oxford and Salisbury Direct, 7s—Great Kent
Atmospheric, 33s—Midland and Eastern Counties, 19s—
Metropolitan Railways Junction, Bs—Louvain and Jemeppe,
25s 6d—South Eastern and Dover, No. 4. 46s—Warwick and
Worcester, 15s—Shrewsbury and Birmin4ham, 41s—London
and York, 35s—Waveney Valley, 15s—Northumberland and
Lancashire, 23s 6d—Northern and Southern Connecting, 17s
—Cornwall and Central Devon, 30s 6d.
There has been an arrival from Hobart Town, with ad-
vices of January 10. The colony Was still annoyed in par-
ticular districts, Prosrer's Plain's, for instance, with small
bands of bushrangers, but we are glad to find that the police
were more on the alert, and that captures were inure frequent.
The war steamer Driver had arrived, en route for New &a-
land. _

The Stock Market has not undergone much variation, and
the quotations are maintained at the advance of yesterday
afternoon. Consols realise 96 to 96% for present transfer,
and 96% to 93% for time. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been up to 255. and 275., and money is certainly
easier already on account of the Railway Relief Bill. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 96% to 97%.
Bank Stock is steady, at 204% to 205.
The Foreign Stock Market, has been very quiescent.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been 361:; to 36% ; Brazil
Stock is marked 81 to 82; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent.
are 591/9.
The Share Market has been very firm. The new and old
lines are all likely to benefit, it is thought, by the " weed-
ing," and are certainly much more buoyant this week.