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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1845.

The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack at
Five o'clock.

Before that hour, however, the Church Acts Amend-
ment Bill had been read a second time, and, on entering
the House,

The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his astonishment
that such an important Bill should have been forwarded
a stage before he had entered the House, and before the
usual hour for commencing public business.
On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the
Maynooth Bill, which had been brought up from the
Commons, was read a first time, and the second reading
was fixed for Monday, June 2.
Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a Bill for securing
the payment of small debts, which was read a first time.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE :presented a petition
from the conference of delegates against the Maynooth
Bill.

The Earls of CHARLEVILLE and of WINCHILSEA both
wished that a later day should be fixed for the second
reading of the Bill; but the Duke of WELLINGTON was
inexorable, and said that the Bill should be read a second
time on the 2d of June.
Earl FITZWILLIAM moved for a Committee to con-
sider how far it was practicable to introduce a better
mode of valuation of lands taken for railway purposes.
Lord STANLEY, on the part of the Government,
would not oppose the motion; which, after a few words
from Lord BROUGHAM, the Earl of WICKLOW, Lord
HATHERTON, and the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, was
agreed to.

The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.

The second reading of the Lady's Island and Tacum-
shin Embankment Bill was opposed by Mr. REDING-
TON. On a divison, however, it was carried by a ma-
jority of 96, the numbers being—for the second read-
ing, 113 ; against it, 17.
Mr. S. WORTLEY moved—That the following clause
be inserted in all Railway Bills passing through the
House :—" And be it further enacted, that nothing herein
contained shall be deemed or construed to exempt the
railway by this or the said recited Acts authorised to be
made from the provisions of any general Act relating to
such Bills, or of any general Act relating to railways,
which may hereafter pass during the present ,or any fu-
ture session of Parliament. And that the said resolution
be a standing order of this House."
After a short discussion, the debate was adjourned till
Monday. _ _ _

Mr. H triuE withdrew his notice of motion for a call of
the House.

The second reading of the Academical Education
(Ireland) Bill was postponed till Friday next, as was
also the second reading of the Poor-law Amendment
(Scotland) Bill.
On the motion that the order of the day be read for
the House resolving itself into Committee of Supply on
the Navy Estimates,
Sir C. NAPIER complained of the manner in which
the money voted for building ships had been squandered,
and entered at length into the merits of the various ex-
perimental ships which had been recently sent to sea.
Sir G. COCKBURN briefly replied ; after which the
House went into Committee, and several sums were
voted for the service of the navy, without material
discussion.

The Chairman then reported progress, and the House
adjourned at Half-past One o'clock.

maintained by a tax levied on the whole people ; and to
some considerable extent popular education is provided
for in a similar manner. Pro tanto the income of the hie-
rarchy and clergy of the Established Church are relieved
from two heavy charges ; and the third ]s legally one to
which the parochial community may be readily made liable,
according to the modern reading of our Ecclesiastical
lawyers, where you find a well-beneficed dean disin-
clined to discharge this sacred trust towards a sacred
edifice, in the manner of his Romish predecessors in the
same dignity. What is the case brought before
the House of Lords by the Marquis of NORMANDY?
A disgraceful one, we must say, to a high functionary of
the Established Church. In a petition which he presents
from the parishioners of Wokingham, in Berkshire, they
complain that whereas the population of their parish
(extending over 8,000 acres) is 4,000, are prevented
from attending divine service in the parish church by
reason of its dilapidated condition, especially as to the
chancel ; and yet that they are singularly prevented
from levying a rate upon themselves, for the purpose of
repairing the church, by a functionary who is in his own
person the Rector, Patron, and Ordinary of the church,
and likewise Dean of Salisbury. The tithes of his in-
cumbency had been commuted for the modest sum of
1,6001. a year only ; and at the last renewal, he received
a sum of 2,0001., although the annual rental in the King's
Books appeared as 261. only. His curate's salary is 1501.
only. Out of this, 401. is contributed out of Queen
Anne's Bounty. Owing to the circumstance of the
Dean being the Ordinary also (that is, the incumbent
being his own visitor), years had rolled on withont any
visitation being made, and the church had become so
dangerously out of repair that the parishioners were
afraid to assemble in it. (One would have thought the
" Ordinary" must have been the very Venerable the
Dean Glints of Walbrook !) A vestry, by unanimous
vote, addressed the Dean, Ordinary, Patron, Rector of
Wokingham Church, to cause the necessary reparations
to be made. Mr. Ordinary referred them to his own
lessee ; the lessee sent the case to his own architect,
who, of course, reported the reparations to be not
necessary, or at least not indispensable. Learned civilians
were then applied to ; and they subscribed an opinion
that the parishioners might repair the nave, the Rector-
dean the chancel, and that there might be a rate levied
for these purposes with the consent of the parishioners,
but not without it. The Dean was again applied to for
his consent to this arrangement, but then it was found
the lessee could only preserve the fabric "in its present
state." On the strength of this quibble, the parishioners,
disgusted with the Dean, were anxious to repair the
nave ; but this object could not be accomplished,
it was found, without tumbling down the remainder
of the edifice. And so the 4,000 parishioners of
Wokingham are without a church to assemble in, because
they are blessed with this multiform parson, whose many
offices and large income cannot expand his sense of duty
to a level with that which was doubtless entertained by
the now most despised of those among his predecessors,
who were of the faith and the church which this very
Dean and his pharisaical friends would, if they could,
commit Maynooth "ad inferos," for nurturing and up-
holding I

"It is all very well," to use a familiar phrase, for the
Established Church of this country to transpire through
every pore, with a holy horror at the progress of hostile
innovations in the shape of increased grants for the pur-
poses of Roman Catholic education at Maynooth and the
building and endowment of new universities in Ireland
for the benefit and instruction of the seven-eighths'
Roman Catholic proportion of her whole people. It may
be that the more orthodox Protestants in both Houses
have reason for their alarms about the stability, not only
of the Established Church, but of its established faith,
when they find that Unitarianism and Deism are emu-
lating, but with unequal energy or success, the aipbitious
strides of Popery. " A voice of wailing," raised by
Sir ROBERT INGLIS in the House of Commons, not
unnaturally awakens the responsive echoes of Exeter-
hall to the denunciations of STOWELL, or the valedictory
apostrophes of Mr. PLusirraE. We have no doubt of
the sincerity of such apprehensions, however we may
dispute the assumptions on which they are founded. We
entertain every respect for the conscientious expression
of hostility to these measures of relief and protection
and educational provision to be granted at the instance
of her MAJESTY'S Ministers to her MAJESTY'S Roman
Catholic subjects of the sister kingdom ; although not
even the extensive sympathy which this feeling of dis-
approbation and reluctance has awakened throughout
the length and breadth of the land, can shake our
opinion either as to the expediency of the enlarged
grant to Maynooth, or of the imperfect understand-
ing of the subject on which so much animosity
has proceeded. But giving the fullest measure of credit
for the honesty of these scruples, let us be allowed to
wonder at their inconsistency with the latitudinarian
indulgence extended to the lax deportment in some, and
the dereliction of duty in other, members of that Church
establishment, as well by the general body of the laity
as by its hierarchy and the inferior orders of its clergy.
Before the cry of " anathema" is raised against the cor-
ruptions and the pollution of the Church of Rome,
as the certain consequences that must follow in the train
of intended aid to Maynooth, and large foundations and
endowments of still more important establishments for
the teaching and diffusion of the doctrines of
Romanism ; why did not the " watchmen " of
the Protestant Church righteously and manfully
denounce the corruptions and deficiencies of their
own host ? Within the last few years have
there occurred no parallel examples of moral pravity to
make good company for that which has been so lately
the subject of examination before an ecclesiastically
approved commission of investigation? Do people ima-
gine that the Rev. Mr. MONCKTON'S case is one suigeneris
—singular and unmated ? It shall not be our invi-
dious task to open up recorded cases ; but we could well
evoke from the records of the Spiritual Courts in
Doctors' Commons, certain suits, in which clergymen of
the Establishment were the defendants, that would
somewhat still the cry, we suspect, about what the
morals of that other clergy must be who recognise
such class-books as " DEN'S Theology," or such
text authorities as SANCHEZ'S " Lex matrimonii."
But let these pass. We profoundly and sin-
cerely respect the Established Protestant Church, for
it has, in its day, done good service to the cause of civil
liberty and the rights of private judgment, in those evil
times when their integrity was most endangered in this
country. But whilst we would thus do full justice to the
constancy of the seven bishops who bravely and piously
withstood the tyrannous bigotry of the last of the
STUARTS, we can afford to do justice to their ancient
predecessors of the older faith, who as vigorously and
valiantly, like Archbishop LANFRANC, braved the me-
naces, and defeated the aggressions of sterner and more
determined despots of the blood of PLANTAGENET. And
when we are thus unwittingly reminded of those haughty
ages of English chivalry, of "fierce wars and faithful
loves," in which the English peasantry, with all the oc-
casional suffering, spoliation, and even slaughter to
which the contests of feudal ambition and kingly rapa-
city from time to time exposed them, were yet that
stalwart race, whose good fare and varied sports and
pastimes procured the appellation of the " merry Eng-
land" for their native land—we are also reminded of the
English poor of the same ages. When we consider the
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insignificance of the hostile risings on the part of our
poor.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 15th inst. On
that day the Senate was engaged in discussing the
budget, and the other Chamber did not meet. The
Bourse was closed on account of the feast of St. Isidore.
The following paragraph appears in the Gibraltar paper
of the 7th inst. :

"We are happy to announce, that the treaty between
Spain and Morocco was signed on the 6th inst., at Larache,
by Sidi-Ben-Salem Ali, by M. Boramendi, Consul of Spain,
and Mr. John Drummond Hay, the Consul-General of Eng-
land, in his capacity of mediator. The ratification of the
treaty by the Emperor had been previously received."

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday
the discussion on the Great Northern Line was resumed,
when the 13th clause was unanimously adopted. It is
as follows:—" The Minister of Public Works is autho-
rised to open a credit of 13,000,000 f. for 1845, and
of 6,000,000 f. for 1846, to cover the advance which the
State may yet have to make for the completion of the
road and the settlement of acceunts." Three divisions
took place on the question as to the time during
which the concession of this line to a company
was to be limited. One Member proposed
twenty .five years, another thirty-three, but both
were negatived. The Chamber finally adopted
forty-one years as the greatest length of time for which
the concession of the Northern Railroad can be adjudi-
cated to a company ; it also fixed seventy-five years for
the Creil and St. Quentin Railroad, and for the branch
line from Fampoux to Hazebrouck, adopted the preceding
day. In the Chamber of Peers the President read five
royal ordonnances raising to the dignity of Peers of
France MM. DE RULHIERE, LE SERGENT DE MONNE-
COVE, LECLERE, VINCENS ST. LAURENT, and the Mar-
quis LE RASCONO. According to the Constitutionnel,
the Duke DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHINGTON have agreed
on the terms of the new treaty for checking the slave
trade. That journal says :—" It is stated that the Go-
vernment have just received by Capt. BOUET the news
of the conclusion of the negotiations between the Duke
DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHINGTON. The principal sti-
pulations of the convention that have been agreed to
have for object, as we have already said, to substitute
for the right of search, in its present form, the crea-
tion of two squadrons on the coast of Africa, to exercise
an active and combined surveillance over the vessels of
their respective nations and the slave markets held by
the negro kings on different points of the coast. M.
GunoT is to present a Bill on this subject to the Cham-
ber in a few days. After the session M. GUIZOT will
again take a two months' leave of absence. It is said
that on that occasion he will not have any one to take
charge of his portfolio." The Commerce announces
that a serious difference exists between the Prince
DE JOINVILLE and Admiral MACRAE'', relative to the
management of the navy. The Presse confirms
the statement in these words; and adds that the Prince
proposes to publish another essay on the navy, but
chiefly on the steam war-ships.
The New Gazette of Zurich states that the case of
Dr. STEIGER was heard by the Superior Tribunal at
Lucerne on the 17th. Dr. STEIGER made an eloquent
defence, but the tribunal confirmed the sentence of death
that had been pronounced upon him.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday at 86f. 25c. ' • the New Loan, at 86f. 60c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 70c. ; Orleans Shares, 1,247 f. 50c. ;
Rouen, 1,132 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 822 f. 50c. ; Havre, 921 f. 25c ;
Avignon, 1,072 f. 50c.; Basle, 273 f. 75c.; Spanish Three
per Cents., 41i.

Shall we be told of our ultra-Churchmen, our most
inveterate anti-Romanists, our Maynoo-th grant-execra-
tors, that that older Church was more ex
amount of actiong than the
present Reformed Establishment in the
con-
tributions demanded from the laity ?
admit the fact. But how, then, did she disburse
ursus
the larger funds thus surrendered to her ?
Long before any general statute was passed
for the compulsory relief and maintenance of the poor,
she provided munificently, if not universally, for their
support. Her tithes she appropriated to this charity, to
the poor, to the education of youth, and to the repairs of
the chancels of churches. Well, the poor are now

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South Wales 2ll 512
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 212. . .
Trent Valley 2 .... .
Trent Valley and Holy-
head-Junction -
West Cornwall
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and North Midland 50 106
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A mien5... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Great North. of France.. 4
Louvain and Jerneppe ... 2 ... . 3% 4
Lyons and Avignon
gamur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 15 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 11%1A v 2 vs...
Over Yssel 4135 4d %l/z %
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ... ..
Paris & Lyons, (Caton's) 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Do. do. (Hainguerlot') 2
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 2
JOINT S'fO
Colonial 25
1 ondon and Westminster 20
COURSE OF EXCHM
Amsterdam CF. 12 84
Ditto, at sight l2 64
Rotterdam 2U. 12 9
Antwerp 26 20
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0
Altona —
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 95
Ditto. 3 months 26 15
Marseilles 26 15
Bourdeaux 26 20
Frankfort on Maine 123
Petersburgh, 3Us —
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 4
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i
Cadiz
Bilbao

Barcelona —
Seville —

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Leghorn 3O 80
Genoa .. 26 15
Milan ...... ............,
Venice .... •••
Naples ....... ., 391
Palermo, pe, oz ll9
Lisbon .........
Oporto...
Rio Janeiro-- 23;
Bahia
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NewYoi k -!dys sight
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PRICEs F BULLION, PER OZ
Foreign ;00, bars.. £3 17 9
Portuga! Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dc4lars 0 4 91
Silver is Sara 0 4 10]

FRID.A.Y NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 23, 1845.
Ist Dragoon Guards-Lieutenant 11, 0. Travers to he
Captain, by pyrchase, vice Pipon, who retires; Cornet T. M.
Riddell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Travers ; J. R.
S. Sayer, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Riddell,
May 23.
15th Light Dragoons-Lieutenant J. Brett, to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Chambers, deceased ; Cornet J. L.
S. Lumsdaine to be Lieutenant, vice Brett, Feb. 9.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards-Ensign W. E.
H. Vere, from the 49th Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Lord Paget, who retires, May 23.
7th Regiment of Foot-Captain V. IL Mairis, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major W. Hope,
who exchanges ; Lieutenant W. L. Grant to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Mairis, who retires; Ensign the Honourable
F. C. G. Fitz Clarence, from 73d Foot, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, rice Grant, May 23, 1845.
12th Foot-T. G. Vereker, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Walpole, promoted in the 77th Foot, May 23.
13th Foot-Lieutenant the Honourable E. J. W. Forecter
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Sinclair, deceased,
May 23.
20th Foot-Captain J. Powell, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice Murray, appointed to the 38th Foot,
May 23.
28th Foot-Ensign J. W. Shelton to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Staveley, who retires; F. B. Drew, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Shelton, May 23.
29th Foot-Lieut. L. Farrington, from 39th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Johnston, who exchanges, Feb. 22.
32d Foot-Lieut. E. W. D. Lowe to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Campbell, who retires ; Ensign I'. Maunsell to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowe ; Gentleman Cadet
R. E. L. H. Williams, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Maunsell, May 23.
38th Foot-Major J. Campbell, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Major, vice H. K. Storks, who exchanges ; Captain R.
S. Murray, from the 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice D. O'Con-
nell, who retires on half-pay Unattached, May 23.
39th Foot-Lieut. J. Johnston, from 29th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Farrington, who exchanges, Feb. 22.
40th Foot-Captain H. R. Seymour, from 63d Foot, to be
Captain, vice Oliver, who exchanges, May 23.
41st Foot-B. J. Lennox, Gent. to be Ensign, withoutpur-
chase, vice Jackson, deceased, May 23, 1845.
44th Foot-Major the Hon. A. A. Spencer to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Shelton, deceased ; Capt.
A. W. Gray to be Major, vice Spencer; Lieut. W. MacMahon
to be Captain, vice Gray; Ensign A. Greene to be Lieute-
nant, vice MacMahon, May 17, 1845 ; G. L. Ottley, Gent.
to be Ensign, vice Greene, May 23, 1845.
49th Foot-H. Rocke, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase,
vice H. Vere, appointed to the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of
Foot Guards, May 23.
63d Foot-Brevet Major J. B. Oliver, from 40th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Seymour, who exchanges, May 23.
69th Foot-Ensign C. W. Parker to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase; Sergeant Major D. Dunne to be Ensign, vice
Parker; Lieutenant W. J. B. M'Leod Moore to be Adjutant,
vice Sutton, appointed to the 4th Dragoon Guards, May 23.
73d Foot-J. W. Ramsay, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Fitz Clarence, promoted in 7th Foot, May 23.
77th Foot-Capt. E. Wolfe, from half- pay 28th Foot, to be
Captain, vice Algeo, promoted ; Lieut. E. H. L. Crofton to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Wolfe, who retires ; Ensign
R. S. Walpole, from 12th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Baillie, who retires ; Ensign F. Kennedy to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crofton ; G. J. Borne, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kennedy, May 23.
78th Foot-T. Anderson, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Maclain, May 23.
80th Foot-Ensign W. F. A. Colman to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, March 10; Sergeant-Major G. Bodle to be
Ensign, vice Coleman, May 23 ; Lieut. H. A. Welman to be
Adjutant, vice Lightbody, promoted, March 10.
83d Foot-J. S. Molony, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Portal, promoted in the 3d Foot„ May 23.
87th Foot-Second Lieutenant J. Doherty to be First
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holmes, who retires ; Arthur
Megan, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Doherty, May 23.
Ist West India Regiment-R. B. Wigstrom, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Machardy, deceased, May 23.
BREVET.-Captain E. Wolfe, of 77th Foot, to be Major in
the Army, Jan. 10, 1827 ; Captain V. H. Mairis, of 7th Foot,
to be Major in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841.
HOSPITAL STAFF.-Assistant-Surgeon R. J. O'Flaherty,
from 83d Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice
A. Smith, M.D., deceased, May 23.
MEMORANDUM.-The date of the appointment of Lieut.
H. T. Walker, to be Adjutant of 25th Foot, is 15th December,
1843, and not 23d February, 1844. Lieutenant E. U. Coxen,
of 60th Foot, has been superseded, being absent without leave.
The Christian names of Ensign Dallas, of 46th Foot, are
George Frederick.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 16th instant.
Commission by the Lord -Lieutenant of Durham.-For
" Frederick Milbank, Esq.," to be Deputy-Lieutenant, May 3,
Read, " Frederick Acklom Milbank, Esq.," &c.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire.
The Right Hon. Charles Lord Blantyre, A. Campbell, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Colonel D. 11. Macdowall, to be
ditto ; Captain R. J. M. Napier, jun., to be ditto ; T. Spier,
Esq., to be ditto; A. Gilmour, Esq., to be ditto, May 19.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry-Cornet
W. A. Sanford to be Lieutenant, vice Blake, promoted
May 20.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—FRIDAY.
Although only a bye day, the room was well attended,
and some reasonably brisk business transacted on a few of
the Derby favourites. Idas was backed for several hundred
pounds at 5 to 2, and Alarm for nearly a thousand at 6
to 1, the layers having the pull in the first instance, and
the backers in the other. Weatherbit was in demand at 8
to 1, and Winchester at 1,000 to 12 and 15; and the Lot
(J. Day's), at 4to 1. The investments on the whole not
heavy. Takers of 12 to 1 about The Libel, of 20 to 1 about
Doleful, of 30 to 1 about Mentor, and of 40 to 1 each about
Kedger, Pam, The Merry Monarch. and Jinglepot.
Offers to take 1,000 to 15 about the Cobweb colt!
Nothing of consequence done on the Oaks:
DERBY.
5 to 2 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas
4 to 1 agst J. Day's lot—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit
10 to 1 agst Forth's lot—taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa
20 to agst Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England
30 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken
35 to k agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch
40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—taken'
40 to 1 agst Mr. Waller's Columbus—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken
40 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Jinglepot—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way
50 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Gully's Winchester—taken
IC3O to 15 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen—t.
10C3 to 10 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy.
OAKS.
5 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair
10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere.
SHREWSBURY RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Wynnstay Stakes of 10 Sovs. each, with 20 added, for
three yrs old, 7st ; and four yrs, Bst 91b. Nearly a mile.
(Four Subs.)
Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat, 3 yrs walked over.
The Queen's Plate of 100 gs. ; for three yrs old, 7st 21b ; four
yrs, 9st 21b ; five yrs, lOst ; six yrs, and aged, lOst 51b.
Vhree miles.
Mr. Critchley's Coeur de Lion, 3 yrs (Francis) I
Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 4 yrs
Mr. Davis's Princess Royal, 3 yrs
Mr. Herbert's Little Taffy, 4 yrs ... 4
Won easily by a length.

HENLEY GRAND REGATTA.—This great aquatic
event, at which the gentlemen of the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge will again contend this season, is appointed for the 6th
and 7th of June. The entrances closed on Tuesday night, and pro.
mile excellent sport. For eight.oared boats, open to any crew
composed of members of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or
London, the schools of Eton and Westminster, the officers of her
Majesty's army or navy, or to any club established at least one year
previous to the time of entering :,-Oxford University Boat Club,
and Cambridge University Boat Club. A New Challenge Cup :
For eight.oared boats, open to the college and other amateur clubs,
except university clubs, subscription-rooms, or clubs similarly con-
stituted: Oxford, St. John's Club; Cambridge, the Black Prince
(Ist Trinity) ; Cambridge, the Lady Margaret (St. John's); and
London, St. George's Club. The Stewards' Challenge Cup : For
four.oared boats, the same qualification as for the Grand Challenge
Cup Oxford University Boat Club (the holders) ; Cambridge
University Boat Club; Windsor, Windsor and Eton Boat Club;
and London, St. George's Club.
MR. DISRAELI'S NEW WORK " SYBIL, OR, THE
Two NATIONS."—" If Coningsby," says the Morning
Post, " be the most brilliant of Mr. D'lsraeli's works,
assuredly ' Sybil' is the most patriotic and interesting.
The Two Nations represent the divided power of the
State—capital and labour—the oppressor and the op •
pressed. In Sybil,' Mr. D'lsmeli presents to the
public eye, vividly but veraciously, the actual state and
condition of the working classes of this country. He
lays bare the wide-spread social evils, the appalling na-
tional grievances, that have been created and entailed
on the country by a rule of successive factions. The
work before us bears in every part the full impress of
Mr. D'lsraeli's better genius ; it is original, sparkling,
eloquent, terse, and, passionate ; but it is free, or nearly
so, from Mr. D'lsraeli's worser quality, individual bitter-
ness—not but that there are life-like portraits and per-
sonal sketches of public men, the originals of which may
be easily guessed."
ECCENTRICITY.--A respectable correspondent in-
forms us that in the neighbourhood of Dudley a gentleman
has recently offered to give the munificent sum of 5,0001.
from his own resources, for the purpose of erecting a new
church, provided that penny postage stamps to the amount
of 2,0001., which have been obliterated by passing through
the post .office, are sent to him within a limited period. Several
ladles in Dudley are endeavouring to compel the gentleman to
fulfil his offer, by collecting Rostage stamps from the various at-
torney's offices and counting-houses in Dudley and neighbourhood,
and we trust their present sanguine hopes will not be disappointed.
—Worcester Journal.

VERY SIMPLE.—A gentleman last week became a
member of the Royal Humane Society, under the impression that
he could have one of their drags to go in to Epsom races.—
Punoh.

Lord Lincoln's Inclosure Bill, which stands for
second reading to-night, is one of the most important measures of
the session. Agricultural improvement has been most seriously
retarded, from the fruitless opposition which has been given to
Lord Worsley's Bill on the same subject in the last two sessions.
We say fruitless, because the House of Commons has twice ap-
proved of it by large majorities, and the Committee appointed at
the close of last session reportel all but unanimously in favour of
its leading principles. As to the clamour which it has excited in
some quarters on behalf of the poor, nothing is more certain than
that Lord Worsley's Bill could never have been read by
those who have thus spoken of it. If there is one feature
in it more marked than another, it is that it pro-
tects and provides for the poor, and those having small
interests, to a degree quite impracticable and unknown
under the present system ; and as to its encouraging im-
provident inclosures, to the injury of the public at large, it might
more properly be entitled a Bill "to prevent such inclosures." It

Is useless to reply to arguments and declamation which have no
sort of foundation in fact. Let the objectionable principle or pro-
vision in the measure be pointed out, and then discussed, as it will
now be, if any, In Committee, and that will be time enough to
reply to the objections. A correspondent strongly objects to the
alterations made in this Bill from that of Lord Worsley, and in
much that he urges we fully concur, but this is mere detail which
may be dealt with in Committee. In rendering the Bill less effi.
dent, it may be less objectionable to thcse who wish to throw ob-
stacles in the way of all further inclosure; but so senseless a course
we are satisfied will not have the support of Parliament, and we
expect to find the details efficiently corrected by the full experience
and inquiry which the subject has received in the House of Com-
mons.—Chronicle of yesterday.
The Hon. John Gifford, brother to Lord Gifford,
and son of the late peer, who was Master of the Rolls, has taken
holy orders, having been ordained by the Bishop of Worcester on
Sunday last.

FIRE IN LINCOLN'S INN -FI ELDS.— Yesterday,
shortly before two o'clock, a fire broke out In the tool.house, at
the eastern corner of Lincoln's Inn-square, facing the new dining-
hall. The firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished
until the building and its contents were burned to the ground.
BATHS AND WASHROUSES FOR THE LABOURING
CLASSES.-A numerous meeting of the friends and supporters of this
Institution took place on Thursday at Willis's Rooms, King-street,
St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge occupied the chair, and
amongst the gentlemen on the platform we observed the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Earl Fortescue, the Earl of Eldon, Viscount
Sandon, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord John Manners, Lord
Radstock, Sir T. D. Ackland, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, Mr.
Matheson, M.P., Mr. P. Borthwick, M.P., Mr. G. Byng, M.P.
for Middlesex; Dr. Southwood Smith, Alderman John Johnson,
Mr. Cotton, Mr. Ridley Colborne, M.P., &c. Several speeches
were made in favour of the scheme, and the following subscrip-
tions were announced at the close of the proceedings :—The Duke
of Cambridge, 50/. ; the Bishop of Durham, 10s. 10s. ; Sir T.
D. Acland, M.P., 102. 10s.; Mr. Matheson, M.P., 101. 10s.;
Mr. Percival, 5/. 55.; Mr. Gregory, 5/. ss; Viscount Ranelagh
(second donation), 51. 55.; Viscount Sandon, 10/. 103. ; Mr.
Partridge, 3/. Ss., &c. _

WHITEHALL, MAY 17.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Brooking, of
Dartmouth, in the county of Devon, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
Richard Evans, tallow chandler, Broseley, Shropshire.
BANKRUPTS.

Robert Kimble, boot maker, Great Marylebone-street, May
30, at half-past one, and July 4, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall- street ;
Strick, Doughty-street, Bedford-row.

Alexander M'acdonald, merchant, Leadenhall-street, June
4 and July 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol-
lett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basiughall-street ;
Keddell and Co., Lime .street.

John White, currier, Warminster, Wiltshire, June 3, at
two, and July 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Galsworthy and
Nichols, Cook's-court, Carey-street.
John Feaviour, hotel keeper, Liverpool, May 29, at two,
and June 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur-
quand, official assignee, Old Jewry. chambers; English, Old
Jewry.

Thomas Sims, licensed victualler, Whitechapel-road, June
3 and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur-
quand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Wire and
Child, St. Swithin's• lane.

John Cann, bricklayer, Woolwich, June 3 and 30, at half-
past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee, Coleman. street ; Bowers and Co., Chancery-lane ;
Colquhoun, Woolwich.
Thomas Wood, wine merchant, Little Queen-street, Hol-
born, June 10, at half-past twelve, and July 4, at half-past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assig-
nee, Abchurch-lane • Collins and Rigley, Crescent-place,
Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

Thomas Harris, currier, Newton, Montgomeryshire, June
3 and 27, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row,
London; Rogerson and Radcliffe, Liverpool.
Dyer Berry Smith, merchant, Liverpool, June 4 and July
8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee, Liverpool; Parkes and Co., Bedford-row,
London; Greatley, Liverpool.
William Lowe, ivory turner, Bristol, June 9, at half-past
eleven, and July 4, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston,
official assignee, Bristol ; Makinson and Sanders, Temple,
London ; Haberfield, Bristol.
Richard Holloway, innkeeper, Evesham, Worcestershire,
June 10, at half-past twelve, and July 5, at twelve, at the
Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ; Eades, Evesham ; Motteram and Knowles, Bir-
mingham.
Henry Priddey, upholsterer, Droitwich, Worcestershire,
June 5 and July 2, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Parkes
and Co., Bedford-row, London ; Motteram and Knowles, Bir-
mingham.
John Barker, maltster, Gayles, Yorkshire, June 5 and 26,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official as-
signee, Leeds; Spiller, Gray's Inn-square, London; Hut-
chinson, Barnard Castle; Courtenay, Leeds.
John Thackrey, dyer, Leeds, June 5 and 26, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ;
Milton and Nealor, Southampton- buildings, London ; Dun-
ning and Co., Leeds.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
weekending, May 20, 1845, is 30s. lOid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
ortation thereof into Great Britain

The remains of Mr. Charles Armstrong, the late
British Vice-Consul at Caen, whose sudden death at Abbeville we
have already announced, were interred on Friday last at Ma.
thiou, near Caen. Nearly the whole of the population of the
village, to whom Mr. Armstrong had endeared himself
by his kindness and benevolence, and an immense
number of persons from Caen, English and French,
including several of the authorities of that town,
followed the body to the cemetery. A short but very affecting ora_
tion was pronounced over the grave by M. Marie, who is now the
acting British Vice-Consul at Caen. Mr. Armstrong succeeded the
celebrated Beau Brurnmel as Vice-Consul, and it was through his
exertions that Mr. Brummel, whose imprudence had involved him
in great pecuniary difficulty, derived the means of procuring the
comforts which surrounded his last days.—Galignani.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—Mr. Fitzroy Kelly,
Queen's Counsel and M.P., has received the appointment of stand-
ing counsel to the Directors of the Bank of England, in the room
of Mr. Justice Erle, their late counsel.