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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1945.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.
On themotion of Lord MONTEAGLE, certain returns
relating to the sugar duties were ordered.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second read-
ing M the Bail in Error Bill.

Lord CAMPBELL said that he had himself introduced
this very Bill last session, when it had been opposed
by the Lord Chancellor, who now himself proposed it.
After a few words from tit? Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
Lord BROUGHAM, and Lord DEN MAN, the Bill was read
a second time.

The Earl of DAt.noustE presented returns from the
Railway Department of the Board of Trade, and the
House adjourt.ed

The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.
Mr. W. B. BARING took the oaths and his seat for
Thetford ; and Mr. C. TOWER took the oaths and his
seat for the county of Bucks.

After the prewntatiou of various petitions,
6ir T.' Far MANTLE said it was the intention of the
Government, to introduce a measure on the subject of
mixed marriages in Ireland.

Mr. RoCHE, who had come all the way from Ireland
for the purpose, was about to put a question to Mr.
ROEBUCK on the subject of his statement that the Irish
Members had run away from their posts, when he was
interrupted by the SPEAKER, who informed him that it
was irregular to allude to a debate Is bleb had taken
place during the present session.
Mr. T. DuNcomßE then rose to direct the attention of
the.liouse to the proceedings of the Post-office officials
in opening his letters. At the time that he ha I pre-
sented.M. Mezusfs petiticn last year, he had no idea
that his own letters had been opened, and it was only
410410 weeks afterwards that be bad leJrueci, through M.
fiaszurt, that such had been the fact. He had brought

down to the House several letters which had the
appearance of having been " operated on," but their
contents were not of a treasonable character; and if any
treasonable letters had been directed to him they must
have been kept back by Sir JAMES GRAHAM. He bad
obtaiced his information by no tinderhasid or dishonour-
able means. He feared not inquiry, and let the odium of
cowardice rest on those who refused it. He concluded
by moving that Colonel MABERLY be ordered to attend
at the bar of the House.

Mr. D'lsHAEsi supported the motion. The warrant
ought to be produced in order that its validity might be
tried.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the motion, but stated
that no circumstance had come to his knowledge, in re-
lation to the Hon. Member for Finsbury, which cast any
imputation on his character as a loyal subject of the
QUEEN, or derogated from his dignity as a Member of
that House.

Lord HowlcK had hoped that the Government would
have introduced some measure to guard against these
abuses for the future. As they had not done so, he felt
bound to support the motion.

After a few words from Lord SANDON and Mr. WAR-
BURTON,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, as the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet had distinctly declared that nothing had transpired
to show that the Hon. Member for Finsbury had acted
otherwise than ara loyal subject of her MAJESTY, and
that nothing had come to his knowledge that affected his
character as a Member of that House, he thought that
the position of the question was materially altered. He
was ready to take the declaration thus made. Had it
not been made, he might have felt that, considering the
circumstance that a high privilege of that House had in
his opinion been violated, a further investigation was ne-
cessary. But he thought that that declaration made a
material difference, and he now conceived that that in-
vestigation was now uncalled for.
At the conclusion of Lord J. RussELL's speech the
House became very impatient for a division, and Mr. M.
MILNES, Mr. HUME, Mr. WATSON, Mr. AGLIONEY, and
several other Hon. Members, spoke amidst much con-
fusion.

Sir R. PEEL then rose and defended himself and his
Government against the attacks of Mr. T. DuNcomnx
and Mr. D ISRAELI.

On a division, the motion was lost by a majority of
75, the numbers being—for the motion, 113 ; against
it, 188.
On the order of the day being read for the House re-
solving itself into a Committee of Ways and Means on
the subject of the sugar duties,
Mr. Hoc° brought forward his resolution for im •
posing an equal duty upon East and West In Tian
Sugar.
After a lengthened discussion, the motion was with-
drawn.

The House then resolved itself into Committee, the
resolution was agreed to, and the report vas ordered
to be brought up on Monday.
The House adjourned at One o'clock.

In the House of Lords, the debate of Thursday night
last was productive of same passages of extraordinary in-
terest. Lord BEAUMONT addressed a few stringent
questions to the Earl of ABERDEEN on a subject on which
we have often bad occasion to appeal, not without senti-
ments of profound grief and indignation, to the sympa-
thies of our readers. We allude to the miiitary execu-
tions summarily inflicted on a handful of Italian re-
fugees, who, under same treacherous information or en-
couragement, and the influence of their own unaccount-
able infatuation, had made a rash and ill. concerted
descent upon the coasts of Calabria, and a dis-
orderly march upon Cosenza, in June, 1843.
It w ill be recollected, at among the victims
who perished by decree of the " Commission," erected
for the trial, as it was called, of tbese ill-fated martyrs
to the cause of " Young Italy," were the two nobly-
descended brothers, BANDIERA, sons of the Admiral
commanding the fleet of' the Emperor of AUSTRIA..
'The untimely fate of these- distinguished young
patriots—for such they were, if an enthusiastic
and disinterested devotion to the country of their birth
nnd connexions be of the essence of patriotism—did not
fail to attract that degree of commiseration throughout
Europe, and especially in this country, which its touch-
ing and mournful appeal to the most generous feelings
of our nature was so wt 11 calculated to excite.
How the gallant and accomplished brothers can have
been induced to embark in an attempt so romantic as
that of releasing by a demonstration of physical force
some colleagues, who had been taken prisoners in the
same political cause which they had espotsed, from the
State Prisons of the Neapolitan or of the Austrian Go-
vernment, against the organized power of eithe: of
those ancient and established monarchies, with means
so utterly inferior to the boldness of their undertaking,
and resuurees to fall back upon in case of failure, or
even of temporary exigencies so falsely calculated, as
those which they commanded, or those which titsy were
induced to expect from the aid and concurrence of their
southern compatriots ;—all this is to a great extent an
unexplaii ed mystery, the key to which is buried in the
grave of the unfortunate sufferers. M. MAZZINI (whose
nainc has been so often brought up in recent Post-
office debates, as the " Magnus Apollo " of the move-
ment, and the destinies of Young Italy), has shown that
so far from encouraging the design of the BANDIERAS,
he used every means and all advice to dissuade them
from carrying it into execution. But he' has adduced,
without absolute proofs, or the very strongest presump-
tions, to establish the fact, that they were betrayed into
the snare of concocting the exp,.dition to Calabria by pre-
tending colleagues in their schemes, who were, in
fact, spies upon their counsels and actions, in the pay of
the Government of Naples ; and a ho, at Corfu, had per-
suaded these refugees (after abandoning, in conformity
with M. MAZZINI'S remonstrances, their original design
of an attempt to effect a using within the States of the
Church) to embark in a new scheme for effecting a
landing, with the same purpose of bringing about a
political reaction, in the Neapolitan dominions. The
story of their disasters, their utter disappointment of all
co- operation, their defeat, their dispersion, and the bar-
bare us judicial murder of their leaders, must be
still fresh m ithin the memory of all English-
men. Now, certainly, in relation to the dis-
graceful precedents of this affair and its catastrophe
which had happened in this country—to the
case charged and established on behalf of MAZZINI,
against the English Government, of habitually violating
the seals and purloining the intelligence confided to the
safe and honourable custody of its Post-office Depart-
ment ;—these transactions did assume a most suspicious
appearance of a preconcerted kidnapping of brave,
though, it may be, misguided men, into the toils set for
their lives by a perfidious foreign Court, with the as-
sistance and complaisant turpitude of the British Go-
vernment. Lord BEAUMONT, therefore, had reason to
assert, that if the truth of the facts which had gone
abroad should be established, the " British Government
had been conspirators in one of the foulest deeds of
treachery that had ever been perpetrated by the most
absolute and qrannic States."

But we are bound to acknowledge—and we do so
with unfeigned gratification (not having been slow to
impute to the Noble Foreign Secretary a degree of cul-
pable complicity in lending himself to the sanguinary
resentments of the Courts of Austria and Naples)—that
the Earl of ABERDEEN, last night, completely vindicated
himself, Lord SEATON, the Lord High Protector of the
lonian Islands, and the GOvernor of ➢ialta, from every-
thing in the shape of preVious knowledge of, or subse-
quent participation in, aniof the measures which led to
the concoction of the Calabrian expedition, the
betrayal of the unhappy parties into the power of the
Neapolitan Emissaries, the failure of the design, and
the extermination of the BANDIERAS and their
companions. On all these points we most frankly
and cordially acquit Lord ABERDEEN, whose speech of
Thursday night—pervaded as it was throughout by a
tone of high moral feeling, ingenuous frankness, and
humanity—was concluded by protestations, the impres-
sive earnestness and solemnity of which have Hot had
many parallels in Ministerial addresses delivered within
the walls of Parliament. The great moral lesson it has
taught, however, is that to which we adverted in a
recent paper—namely, that the dishonest tampering—
the sham- less larceny-like practices of the Government to
which Lord ABERDEEN belongs, with the sealed corre-
spondence passing through its Post office,—havo resulted,
as all guilty means result, the specious pretext fur
which is the attainment of a presumed good end. Evil
beginnings have led to evil Conclusions. Let the wire-
drawn distinctions botween giving tip the suspected let-
ters themselves, and only communicating the sum of
their pilfered contents, go for the utmost at which it
can be put by those who rely Upon it—what then ?
Certain it is. that what intelligence was communicated by
England to Austria (with the the view even of diverting
the latter Power from putting into execution her menace,
that, in the alternative of our giving refuge and protec-
tion in our colonies to the Italian subjects proscribed by
her Government, she would march troops into the Papal
States, and take military possession of such posts as she
might consider requisite guarantees for her own peace
and safety) ; that information was reciprocated between
the Courts of Austria ani Naples, and sealed the bloody
doom of the young and brave BANDIERAS.

We are very glad that Mr. BRIGHT has renewed the
Parliamentary discussion of the Gaznw4aw3. Under
Weyer aspects or relations these lays are viewed,
they muss be considered an anomalous ezmscence upon

any system of constitutional rights which leaves, as to 1
all actions in themselves morally indifferent, a large
latitude to the discretion of every individual in the
exercise of those rights and that liberty of action
which are assured to him—expressly, or by im-
plication—by the general law under the protec•
tion of which he lives. If nature left to him
a species of inherent right over theferce natures—the wild
fowl of the airand the unreclaimed beasts of the forest—
the civil organization of most conditions of society, in
their early beginnings, has aimed rather at fortifying
and extending this right than at repressing it by arbi-
trary and exclusive limitations. The accidents of social
inequality, in the first place produced by the creation of
feudal and political distinctions, of more modern pro-
perty in lands and manors, subsequently acquired
by the multiplication of capital and the channels
of its distribution, have since operated with the
usual effect of accumulated distinctions and
wealth. They have displaced general rights in favour of
the exclusive title. The most inveterate game-preserving
squire of our days will hardly deny that there can be no
greater moral &Engin ncy, in 1845, in Thomas SMITH or
JOHN JONES—the one for his pleasure (as Mr. G BARTLEY
BERKELEY would say), the other out of a landlord's
conservative regard for his poultry—in coursing a
hare and shooting a pheasant, or in trapping a
fox, than was incurred by the best descended
heirs of the Norman blood of the DE VERES, er the DE
Bnaous, of the 12th and 13th centuries, in pur-
suing the roebuck, or flying their hanks at the heron (a.
the partridge. But there are strange vicissitudes in
legislation, as well as in all other human affairs. The
most rooted prejudices of society, and of custom (which
are stronger than those of society),. may be made, by a
continuous series of encroachments and an unrelaxing
exertion of exclusil e powers, not merely to give way to,
but to assist in, the substitution of other pretensions in
their stead. It was soon found when aDE VERx was
firmly installed in the fee of hia broad lands in Ox-
fordshire, or when aDE BIGOD was well settled in his
all-but regal demesnes in Norfolk and Suffolk,
that actions, in other na:n, till then considered indiffer
ent, and within the law, had assumed a sudden character
of the most criminal offensiveness. Your DE VERES and
DE BIGODS loudly protested to the obseqsious law-
makers and the intitnieated estates of the realm that, if
the hind, PETER, or the yeoman, GODFREY, {VHS to be per-
mitted any longer to cat venison, or to kill mallards, the
safety of the monarchy was irretrievably compr- raised ;
and it was accordingly enacted, not by one di claratory
statute, but by many Acts of many Parliaments, " byand
with the consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal,"
that what was law as to any other species of property, in
its nature not realisable, should nod be law with regard to
game.

From those times, through all the subsequent mutations
of society, Government, and institutions, in this country
the same singular distinction has prevailed in all legis-
lation in reference to game. It can only be possessed
by men having certain landed estate or rights.. It
can only be protected by a class of proprietors having
a certain " stake,"-as it is called, in the soil. And what is
more whiriisical still, the privilege of killing it is still
mere strictly reserved ; more capriciously guarded ;
more vexatiously, offensively, and vindictively, enforced,
than the right to possess or the privilege to preserve it.
Fora man, whose happy fortunes, patrimonial or acquired,
have invested him with the peculiar rights and qualifica-
tions created bylaw, over animals that, beingferce natures,
are, therefore, in terms witiout the pale of the law to exter-
minate, for his amusement either birds or beasts coming
within this ca egory, is deemed the indication of a
good country gentleman—a man of mark and character.
For him who has no acquaintance with fortune, either
inherited or acquired by himself, who rejoices in none of
the favourable conditi=ns we allude to, but kills, sv:th
uncertificated and unlicensed eye, haply for his own
subsistence, haply for the support of his helpless
children, a head or two of these animals over which he
claims absolute dominion tinder the authority of
sacred writ itself, in common with the noblest born
and largest :landed proprietor in the kingdom—
for such a man to do such an act suffices to put him to
the ban of society ; to deprive him of his liberty ; to
subject him to imprisonment ; and to brand him wi:h a
felon's infamy. Mr. BRIGHT has done very well in so
emphatically directing, as he has of late done, the atten-
tion of the public to the enormous number of convictions,
fines, imprisonments, &c., which have taken place under
the game-laws within a given period. But there are
other unqualified persons, who are in a condition of
worldly competency, and destroy game, not for their
amusement nor yet for their subsistence, but on a fair,
economic principle of self-defence against the ravages
the game commit on their crops. To this agricultural
aspect of the question, again, Mr. BRIGHT has power-
fully turns d the astonished notice of many incredulous,
or heretofore uninformed, on such subjects. In the pre-
sent day we are inclined to think the days of these laws
are pretty well numbered. Mr. BRIGHT, on Thursday,
conducted the case with much skill and judgment. He
has obtained one of the great objects of his solicitude,
a Committee for full inquiry into the abuses of the game-
laws ; and we therefore confidently anticipate that he
will be ultimately successful.
In the meanwhile it is amusiny, to observe the per-
tenacity with which inveterate habits wilful), close the
eyes of some men to the most palpable abuses. Mr. GRANT-
LEY BERKELEY, we perceive, is not satisfied with the
really forbearing generosity of the Press towards his
pamphlet on the game-laws, from which we lately ex-
tracted—we trust with no want of fairness or good feel-
ing—a few exquisite mo-ceau fur the delectation of our
readers. In that production the Hon. Pamphleteer
seamed content simply to uphold the game-laws as a
very useful integer of our entire tcheme of statute law.
In the "Reply to the Press, or the Reviewers Reviewed,"
DOW before us, this author takes higher ground.
He identifies the maintenance of this outrageous
code with the upholding of the happiness and
welfare of the poor. He deprecates its abrogation
as ono of the most mischievous innovations which the
fraudulent quackery of pseudo-politicians, popularity—
hunting demagogues, and specious cheats, can attempt
to palm upon the country. But he unfortunately is given
to be very figurative ; and we hould surmise, if he as-
sisted at Lie EGLINTOIJN Tournament, that he has never
since got over the excitement and associations of that
spectacle. He will talk of himself as if he were a
belted knight, riding at tourney, and notwithstanding
occasional lucid moments, in which he "gabbles of green
fields," the ring, and Bell's Life in London, still the
pervading hallucination of his mind is, that he is in the
"lists, strewn," as he says, "piecemeal with the
vaunt piece and braces of his armour." He
runs a tilt at poor Mr. BRIGHT with the
tremendous weapon of " buttonless arguments," which
he constantly imputes to him, intending probably a
severe reflection on the costume of • that gentleman,
whose straight c Mar and malformation of coat-skirts
appear to be equally heinous offences in his e) es. He
talks of the liberty of the press being abused " under"
the " sanctity of his situation as a reviewer." The
sanctity of a reviewer is a new phase of literary charac-
ter, never discovered till detected by Mr. BERKELEY'S
magnifying lenses. CHARLES DICKENS is furiously as-
sailed touching the " pro-poor" advocacy which per-
vades his " Chimes"—and we may add, all his other
works. What he means by " surface seekers" we can-
not divine, but the phrase perpetually recurs throughout
these pages. But there is so much fun to be had out of
this " solemn fooling," that we must find another day
another opportunity of noticing it.

The question of Puseyism formed one of the subjects
' of discussion in the House of Lords on Thursday. It was
introduced by Earl FORTESCUE, who, in his usual calm,
dispassionate, and impartial manner, adverted to the
commotion excited in the diocese of Exeter by the mis-
chievous pastoral letters aed ecclesiastical edicts of the
Bishop. His Lordship justly said, " It is not a mere
dispute about forms, and rites, and dresses, and decora-
tions; of a perfectly indifferent kind ; but about such as
arc looked upon as the first steps towards the esta•
blishment of principles and practices for the intro.
duction of which their advocatts hope thereby to
open, and their opponents. are resolved, if possi-
ble, to stop the way. The warfare is between Popish
tendencies, clothing tLemselves wish the name of Ca-
tholic, on the one hand, and Protestant tendencies, aim-
ing to carry out the Reformation to its full extent, on the
other." The Bishop of EXETER defended himself pre-
cisely in the way that might have been anticipated, and
added little in his justification to what has already ap.
peared h. his numerous epistles addressed both to clergy-
men and laymen. On referring to his speech every reader
must be struck with the peculiar and offensive f ature in
this prelate's character; he cannot make a speech or
write a letter without giving offence, and claiming
for himself power and authority, which all reasonable
men hold to be inadmissable. He told the House,
in substance, that out of courtesy he addressed them,
but still he would not permit himself to ask their Lard-
ships to hear his defence. He was a spiritual Lord, and
responsible only to the Church. Lord BROUGHAM, in a
few words, laid down the law on this point, and he was
loudly cheered by the House. He differed from the
Bishop of EXETER. He held the " high and
paramount authority of Parliament in all matters
which could be the subject of discussion, and
he utterly protested against the doctrine—against
acting on the opinion—that there was anything,
spiritual or temporal, from which the jurisdic-
tion of Parliament was excluded." The Bishop
again protested, as he did in the recesses of

his episcopal palace, that he did not know
what caused all the noise and tumult, but in a manner
still more offensive to the flock under his charge. He
complimented the Noble Earl at the expense of the Pro-
testants of Devon. " I have a great advantage row,''
said he, " considering the description of persons I have
lately been brought in contact with, in meeting so
noble and generous an opponent. Perhaps the
Noble Earl will tell what all this is about." The
gravity of their Lordships was disturbed, and loud and
general laughter was the answer. However, it is needless
to advert further to his Lordship's speech. One' thing
is clear. The rubrics are made a pretence for innova-
tion, and pretended obedience to obsol.ete and contra-
dictory canons is urged as a plea for changing
the national religion. The brief remark of the
Bishop of NORWICH spoke the truth. The
rubrics cannot be obeyed. His words are :
"The Right. Rev. Prelate had said. That as members of
the Church they were under a stringent order to obey the
rubrics or the Church. A stringent order to obey the
rubrics ! why none of us do obey them—none of us ever
have, because none of us ever can obey them."

Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th inst state
that Commissioners have been appointed to inquire into
the Tripoli claims. On the part of the Porte they are—
FoAD EFFENDI, lately ambassador in Spain ; 'PALTER
BEY, ZlEtf of the customs ; BEKER BEY and USSOF
ll.icGAn, Turkish merchants—for France, M. D. GLA-
VANNY, a French merchant—and for England; the lion.
Mr. WELLESLEY, Mr. AusoN, and Messrs. liertsost,
WATSON/ and LAFONTAINE, merchants.

Madrid Journals of the 20th inst. have been received.
It ii stated that among the military prisoners made at
Vittoria is the nephew of the unfortunate DIEGO LEON,
and that the reported insurrection at Burgos was with-
out foundation. Some riot had taken place, but it was
met., ly of a local character. The Heraldo states that the
Emperor of Monocco.was at Tangiers, with the view of
inspecting the fortifications erecting under English en-
gin( ers, and, according to this journal, with money lent
by England.
The Three per Cents. closed at 33i for cash, and 334
at 60 days ; the Fiver per Cents. at 24i at 60 days ; and
the Debt without Interest, at 64 fur cash.

The French Chamber of Deputies has for some days
confined its labours entirely to internal affairs. On
Tuesday a lengthened discussion took place on the Coun-
cil of State Bill, a hich was adjourned. The Chamber of
Peers did not sit. According to the .Reveu de Paris,
the object of M. ROSSE'S mission to Rome has reference
to the religious differences which agitate Switzerland,
and which begun to be felt in France. The Govern-
ment are desirous that the Form should put some re-
straint upon the Catholic clergy of the two countries,
and interpose his authority especially with respect to
the Jesuits. The accounts from Switzerland are to the
22d. A letter from Berne of that date contains the
following :—" In compliance with the decision of the
General Council of Zurich the Council of State has dis-
banded the troops whom it had called out for the pur-
pose of opposing the apprehended invasion of Lucerne
by the free corps of Argau. This invasion was pro-
jected, but on the remonstrances of the most influential
Liberals of other cantons, and in the prospect of a prompt
decision of the Diet for the expulsion of the Jesuits,
he volunteers, amounting to more than 12,000, re-
nounced for the present the idea, of bringing the ques-
tion t an issue by force of arms. Thus, while the two
great cantons of Berne and Zurich are Waiting for the
decision of the Diet, that of Lucerne seems to be re-
solved to commence the conflict alone ; for it has
shown a great increase of ardour since its troops have
been placed under the command of General SONNENBERG.
The Deputies from the Vaud passed through Berne yes-
terday, and were entertained with a grand banquet, at
which several members of the Government of Berne
were present." . _

Marshal S has given very general satisfaction by
his lenity towards the seventeen refractory students who
had been expelled from the Polytechnic School. They
have all been recalled, and the only punishment now in-
flicted upon them is the loss of one year of their stand-
ing as compared with the other pupils.
The French Funds were more firm on Wednesday.
The. Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 95c.; the Five per
Cents., 121 f. 90e.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1 217 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,117 f. 50e..; Havre, 922f'. 50c.; Spanish Three
per Cents., 40g; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 62.

LONDON IN THE REIGN OF ELIZADETPI.—A little
interesting map of London about 300 years since has
just been published. It has been drawn with much care
and research, by a private gentleman, who has devoted
much attention to the subject, and engraved by J.
Steven,on, Clerkenwell. What strikes the observer
most is the small compass of the ancient city, tometber
with the extensive open space now occupied by the
principal buildings in the west end, and " busy with the
hum of men." We find only two houses in Pal-mall
(then spelt Pell M.. 11), one on each side. Piccadilly
is a blank, and between that and Oxford-street isasolitary
windmill, which had given the name to the street.- On
the other side of the river, with the exception of South-
wark, from Winchester Palace, at London-bridge, to
Lambeth-house, near the Marsh-gate (and that too has
departed), there appears almost a continued marsh.
Only four buildings are visible, and these are known to
lame—namely, the Globe Theatre, the Bull Bayting, the
a6veisrn,shaot
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de.o "trt
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andgre a tthefirFeailneonl
6T6
extent Bear
B tnhge'
line. The map will be fount.' very useful in reading
events which took place in the days of " good Que?n
Bess."

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths during the week ending Saturday, Feb. 22, was
1,121, exceeding the average of the five preceding win-
ters by 82. The increase is chiefly among diseases of
the lungs and other organs of respiration. The follow-
ing are the numbers, with the averages :—Bronchites,
63, 24; Pneumonia, 104, 97; Asthma, 55, 47; and Con-
sumption, 156, 148. Deaths from Small-pox are still
numerous-30, average 19. These occurred at the fol-
lowing ages :—Nine under 1 year; four, 1-3; two, 3-5;
six, 5 10; three, 15 20; five, 20-30; and one 50 years.
The number of violent deaths is 15, of which 5 were
caused by burns and scalds. The returns show no
deaths from suicide or murder.

STATE or TRADE.—The news from India received
by the intermediate mail, yesterday, though not con-
sidered very favourable, has not produced any injurious
effect upon our market. The demand for all descrip•
Lions of yarn, and especially for those suitable to the
eastern markets, was very good yesterday, and prices
continuo to advance. There was Oso a fair demand at
good prices, for nearly all descriptions of- manufactured
goods, except twenty•seven-inch printing cloth, which
has begun to accumulate in the hands of the manufac-
turers.—Manchester Guardian.

SLAVERY IN THE UNITED •STATES.—The New
Orleans papers publish the following trial, and sentence
passed upon the offender :—"Pauline, a slave belonging to
Peter Reppeneck, was tried at New Orleans on the 21st, on
charge of having struck her mistress so as to cause the shed-
ding of blood. It was proved that about six weeks before, Mr.
Reppeneck went to St. Louis, leaving his wife, whom he repre-
sented to the neighbours as being crazy, and children, with 200
dols. in money, in charge of Pauline, who it was proved was his
paramour. Immediately after his departure the slave took pos-
session of her mistress's rooms, and removed Mrs. Reppeneck
and her three young children to a back cabin. Mrs. Reppeneck
testified that Pauline frequently came and beat her severely
with a leather thong and her fist, and that her knowledge
of her husband's intercourse with the slave had frequently
led him to strike her. Her testimony was corroborated by
that of Dinah, another slave, who had witnessed the brutal
treatment of Mrs. Reppeneck and her children on several
occasions, and who finally informed a gentleman of it,
through whose interference it came to the knowledge of the
police. The testimony was so direct and undoubted, that
Pauline was convicted and sentenced to be hung on the 21st
of February, though the sentence was postponed until the
28th of March, 1846, in consequence of the fact that she is
now pregnant"
PUSEYISM IN THE CITY.—A vestry tnec,ting of
the parishioners of St. Lawrenee Jovry and t. Mary Mag-
dalen, Milk-street) wee held on Thursday, to receive the report
of a deputation appointed to wait on the vicar, to endeavour
to induce him to discontinue the use of the surplice, the
reading of the offertory sentences, and the prayer for the
Church Militant. To these two last points the Rev. Gentle-
man adhered, although he professed himself willing to yield
the surplice and resume his gown. A somewhat lengthened
and spirited debate took place, and eventually resolutions
were adopted, appointing a committee to wait on the Bishop
of London, requesting his interference to desire Mr. Burgh,
the vicar, to dispense with the objectionable ceremonies.
ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FUR SAVINGS.—The 15th
Annual. General Meeting of this institution was held on Thursday,
the 27th of this month, at the office, No. 76, Welbeck-street, Caven-
dish-square, the Rev, J. H. Spry, D.D., in the chair. It appeared
from the several reports read to the meeting, that the progres.l of
this bank continues to be of a very favourable description ; no less
than 2,684 new deposits having been made in the last year ; 15,124
deposit accounts remained open on the 20th November last, of which
no less titan 9,503 held balances averaging le3s than 41. ss. 10d. each.
Upwards of 350,069/. was then invested with the Commissioners for
the Reduction of the National Debt ; tills amount has since risen to
353,089/. 4s. 7d., and is rapidly on the advance. The continued evi-
dence thus afforded of the strong and growing disposition of the work-
ing classes to provide against the casualties of life, will prove a source
Of gratification to all reflecting minds ; and it may indeed be hoped,
that this provident disposition has its influence in improving the cha-
racter and conduct, materially contributing to this class of workmen
being the last to be discharged whenever establishments are reduced,
from scarcity of work.
THE NEW ROYAL HUNT.—It has been held—as
the lawyers have it--that a cat may look at a king ; hut it is not to
be tolerated that a set of untnanne;ly curs should poke their noses
under the bonnet o a Queen, as was the case the other day at
Brighton. It is very hard that her Majesty and her Royal Consort
cannot walk abroad, like other people, without having a pack of in-
bred dogs at their heels, hunting them to the very gates of the Pavi-
lion. The illustrious couple, whom the Brightonians seem to re-
gard as fair game for their idle curiosity, were started by a young
hound, ofthe butcher-boy breed, who commenced the view halloo, and
a IoL of little puppies, beginning to give tongue, the peek was j,,lned by
a number of mongrels, who were all soon in full cry together. Some
of the dogs were so very ill-bred, that they head- d the game, and it
was much to be regretted that there was no whipper-in at hand to
keep the hounds at bay,for they ran their prey literally to earth after
a chase of nearly half-an-hour.—Purtelf.
CORN-MILL BURNED DOWN AT HAWICK.--
About four o'clock on the morning of Sunday last, the corn-mill at
Damside, Itawick, belonging to Messrs. William
Wilson and Sons,
manufacturers, was burned to the ground. Some hundreds of bolls of
corn and meal tell a prey to the devouring element at the sante time ;
but by the well-directed efforts of the firemen, the corn -mill immediately
in contact escaped untouched. To account tbr the origin of the tire is
altogether beyond our power. We understand the mill is insured;
therefore the principal loss will fall upon the bakers of the place
whose corn was deposited in the mill at the time, and upon the tenant,
who is much esteemed by all, and has been thrown destitute by the
fatal occurrence.—Edinehrgle Menem.