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plained that there were three elements in the expense ;
first, the tolls; secondly, the propelling power; and thirdly,
the carriages ; and on calculating these several items, he
conceived that the total expense of carrying goods would be
2s. 6d. a mile.
The CHAIR3IAN then suggested that Mr. Skidmore should
look over his evidence, and correct anything which he
thought needed amendment, at the next meeting, and the
Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow.

When these gentlemen told him that Protestantism was
going to ruin, he could not help thinking how miserable
and small this English Protestantism must be. With
their Universities at Oxford and Cambridge, and with
all the revenues of the richest church in the world, and
a bench of bishops in the House of Lords to watch over its
interests, he could not see how they could justify coming
trembling and wining to that House for assistarce upon
the ground that the small sum of 26,0001., was about to
be voted to the Catholics of Ireland. He dismissed this
part of the question at once, and he thought he had get
rid of the charge of anything like bad faith. His prin-
ciple had been too long before the world to render it
likely that such acharge could be maintained or supported
He had never taken the low tone that religious conces-
sion to Catholicism in Ireland as a matter of grace or
favour. With him it was a matter of right. He had
always considered that as the Catholics were the majo-
rity in the sister country, they bad just as
good a right to a Catholic Church establishment
as they had to a Protestant Episcopalian
Establishment in England, or a Presbyterian Church in
Scotland. Their truth was not our truth, their church
was not our church, and they had just as much right to
resist Protestantism, as England would have a
right to resist the introduction of Presbyterianism,
or Scotland to resist the introduction of Episcopacy.
into that country, and it was now time for doing away
with the Established Church in Ireland, which only re-
mained as a monument of England's conquest and Ire-
land's disgrace. lie entertained the warmest sympathy
with what the Hon. Member for Newark the other night
called " Inde fininite Protestantism," and so he believed it
was called during the last hunnred pears by such men as
Swift, Burnett, and William HI. His own principles were
sanctioned by the leading dignitaries of the Irish
Church, and were clearly and explicitly laid down in an
important work published by Archbishop Wheatley.
Those were his sentiments ; and though he could not'
help honouring the name that first asserted the rights of
mind against the Papal power, he could not less honour
the men who, in spite of revolution and of the change
which had taken place in the aspect of their creed,
still clove to the faith of their ancestors. It had
been told the House by the Honourable Member
for Elgin the other night, and he (Mr. Ward) could not
avoid referring to it, for he considered this but an ad-
journed debate, that the
.Catholics ought not be admitted
to the same privileges with the professors of the
Reformed religion, and it was added that the
Duke of Wellington might say then, what the Duke
of Ormond said two hundred years ago, that he hod
been acquainted with the Catholics for twenty years,
and that in that period he found them destitute of truth
and unworthy of trust. It was time they dropped their
prejudices, for they made their inquiries weak, and the
Legislature ridiculous. He said it was time to discon-
tinue this one-sided policy, but they should take care in
altering their courses that they should at last adopt the
right course—that they should not again embark in
what would ultimately prove to be a ruinous course.
As to the fact that they had taken a new
course, he had never seen a point on which
such a mass of evidence had been brought to
bear in that House. They had first the Noble
Lord, the Member for the City of London ; then they
had the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Davenport;
they had the Secretary for the Home Department, and
they had the First Lord of the Treasury. The Right
Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department,
had told them that this was the fisst of a series of
measures for the amelioration of her Majesty's Catholic
subjects in Ireland. The First Lord of the Treasury
had told the House that this measure was a Government
one, and by it the Government would stand or fall, and
the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, who ought to have been the most cautious,
proved himself on that question the most incautious ;
They might have occasion to admire the courage of the
Right Hon. Gentlmen, but they could not all give credit
to his sagacity. He (Mr. Ward) would like to see what
they were likely to do. He appealed to the House, if
they were not establishing here a progressive prin-
ciple ? and if they took this step at all,
they must be passed for all that would fol-
low. The question was simply this. How they
could best settle the necessary and just claims of
Ireland, and how they could best reconcile the people of
Scotland and England to those principles which they
considered necessary end right for that purpose. The
Government were about to do that in a way which he
thought the most likely to prevent any legitimate objec-
tions which might be urged by those parties. The ques-
tion involved some of the most important principles
that Government could propose or Parliament sanction.
It involved a principle of endowment as contradistin-
guished to the voluntary system—it iinvolved the
principle of endowment out of the general funds
of the country. As the particular funds which would
be properly applicable were under the authority of
Government otherwise applied—he would not say mis-
applied. As to those who objected to this measure, on
the voluntary principle, he might safely leave them
in the hands of his Honourable Friend the Member
for the City of London, and the Noble Lord
the Member for Liverpool. They, at least, had nothing
offensive in their views ; they say that religion was
never so healthy, that the power of truth was never so
great as when disconnected with the State. They al-
leged nothing offensive to the Catholic principles or the
Catholic rights. He (Mr. Ward) admitted that
it. was a great principle, it was his own prin-
ciple some years ago, when he brought forward
a motion with respect to the Irish Church.
Equality was to be attained in Ireland, but he had no
hope of obtaining that in the way they proposed. Was
he to go on from year to year without any attempt to do
away the anomaly of an endowment in Ireland which
placed the clergy of one-eighth of the population in the
possession of all the church property ; they provided
another one-eighth with a regium d4num, and the re-
maining six-eighths had nothing. That appeared to him
to be a sort of lop-.sided liberality ; at the same time, it
and it might succeed probably
would not be denied that the voluntary system had not
pwyetbeenroerpsaer,as
ad sufficientlyfotrhei
L professors
r oisEs triedon rgsof religion in England, who ; Ireland had not yet been
would depend on the voluntary system for their sup-
port, would be farther from degrading themselves by
pandering to the passions of their flocks. What did it
do in Ireland ? What did it do in the United States ?
He always turned with pleasure to the speech made by
his Noble Friend the Member for the City of London,
on the debate for the motion which he (Mr. Ward)
brought forward last year, when he (Lord J. Russell)
dealt with the voluntary principle in that highly philsophic
spirit, which was almost peculiar to himself in that House.
Here the Hon. Member read the passage from the
speech to which he had referred, and which was
to the effect that in th.e. United States there were
ai;venebriuetnutpuhthpet9lsdn. could not be the case,
ministers of various religious . sects who were sup-
ported by the voluntary;
apnrdinw.c,hipylew;as yetthis
?evbeencaubsyer
those men was the cruel, and unchristian and accursed
isopular voice for their
placed in a position that would
theyB73as
maintenance
they
ne were
werecdseel
make them independent of their flocks. The
same speaker then went on to say that it would be of
immense importance to the Roman Catholic clergy of
Ireland if they were placed in a position that would
put them beyond the reach of the influence
of popular passion ; and if the appointment
of those clergymen was entirely unshackled it
would be of great importance, for then they would be
in some measure independent." Now, he did net think
that their experience of Ireland, from last year, fully
bore out the fact that such an altered state of things
would be for the benefit of that country. What had taken
place in Ireland, in reference to the Bequest Act ?
The Most Rev. Dr. Murray, who had taken office
under that Bill, bad been exposed to the most violent
hostility and assault for having done so; but he held his
ground until the storm had blown over, which would
have continued much lonerthan it did but for Mr.
O'Connell, who stopped it, . seeing that it would
lead to r.o good to let it go on any longer.
But insteed of citing D. r. Murray, who held
a deservedly high character in public estimation ; as an
instance, he would ask, why should even the most humble
Roman Catholic clergyman be exposed to such
tribunal. Ile now came to the motion of endow-
ment, which he looked upon as one of the greatest
importance. It was a question which had
taken a fast hold of the minds of the people of
England, and also of the people of Scotland ; but in
England it had so perverted and warped the minds of
the people, that it made them insensible to the many
wrongs their laws had inflicted on Ireland.—(Hear.)
The Hon. Baronet admitted that he could not pretend
to govern Canada or Malta on the same terms that he
would undertake the government of Ireland to morrow.
They were, he said, bound by capitulation, and they
were bound by compact, but they were bound by
something much higher, they were bound by
common sense, and common prudence, and
common justice. The Honourable Baronet knew
that a religious establishment was no p
inculcating .art of
Christianity it was only a means of it. A n
establishment depended upon its utility, and its utility
as was seen
the Church and State depend,
was bounded by its extent. The alliance bettweenid
by the Hon. Baronet depended on its extent. How did
the Established Church in Ireland bear out this ? Was
the Church in Ireland in accordance with Hallam's
beautiful definition of a State Chur that it
ch,
ought to exist by the will of, and for the people
In some parts of Ireland the members of the
Established Church were but as one per cent. by the
whole population, and yet every attempt .at
change every attempt to give a proximation
of justice for the present measure was not
intended for anything more than proximate justice—
every attempt of this sort was met by the Hon. Baronet
with an appeal to the principles of George the 'Third,
and Mr. Percival. He (Mr. Ward) had been favoured
with a pamphlet written by Mr. Percival's son, in which,
speaking of the Hon. Baronet, ho said, " Sir R. 11. Inglis,
the man s hose public and private character mostnearly re
sembles the character of that statesman whose prophetic
foresight these pages are intended to illustrate, and who
.
is occupied, like him, in endeavouring to save his Queen
and country from disgrace and danger. Why the ar-
guments in the pamphlet must be as chstasteful
to the
to the
Hon. Member for Elgin (Mr. C. Bruce) as
Catholics of Ireland. It went to prove that there was
but one true church, and that church was the Protestant
church.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]
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Preachers, from Castle-street Chapel, Reading ;
Sway, Boldoe, Hants ; West George-street Chanel,
Glasgow (Dr. Wardlaw) ; Salem Chapel, Ipswich ;
Falkenham, Suffolk; Sutton, Suffolk; Sidbury, Devon;
Romford, Essex ; Blaenafor, Monmouth ; Billesden,
Skeffington ; Maidstone, Kent; Tintwistle , Tredw-
ston, Brecon ; Brechfa, Brecon ; New North Free
Church, Edinburgh; the First United Secession Con-
gregation at Alloa, Clackmannanshire; Wesleyan Me-
thodists, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire; Neath, Glamor-
ganshire; Seven Oaks, Kent; Deptford, Kent; Inverary,
Aberdeenshire; Shoreham, Kent; Molina and Killalea;
May's-lane, Antrim; Knockbolt, Kent; Bingham, Nor-
folk ;;Calvinistic Methodists, Hill's-lane Chapel, Shrews-
bury; Cwrnian ; Baptists, Zion Chapel, Bradford, Wilts;
Hales Owen, Worcestershire ; Redcross-street Chapel,
Cripplegate ; Sunday School Teachers, Hollinworth ;
Hatherton Chapel, Stockport ; Woodley, Berks ; Buii-
gay, Suffolk ; Padfield; Sidbury, Devon ; Tintwistle ;
inhabitants of Spade, Norfolk ; Southminster, Essex ;
Lingfield, Surrey ; Protestant Dissenters, Zion Chapel,
Cwm Cvin, Glamorganshire ; Poultry Chapel, London ;
Wimbledon, Surrey ; White.stone Chapel, Withington,
Herefordshire ; Old Chapel, Llantyn Mair, Montgo-
meryshire; Elswiele, Lancashire; Chowbent, Lancashire;
Bedford- street Chapel; Stroud, Gloucestershire; Cross-
street Chapel, Cheshunt ; Ebenezer Chapel, Boston ;
Rowley Regis, Staffordshire ; Pengllys Llanfe haenyal,
Montgomeryshire ; Sammah Chapel, Comities, Mont-
gomeryshire ; Creigfryn Chapel, Cams, Montgomery-
shire ; Baptists, Stockwell-gate, Mansfield ; Union-place,
Longford, Warwickshire ; Llaunefydd, Denbighshire ;
Chester-street, Wrexham, Denbighshire ; Teachers of
Sunday school, Barking, Essex.
Mr. PATTISON presented several petitions to the
same effect.
Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the
Presbyterians residing within twelve miles round Lon
don in favour of the Maynooth Bill, and two petitions
from certain individuals against the grant.
Mr. PARKER presented a petition against the grant.
PETITIONS.
Mr. EVANS presented a petition from Derby against
the desecration of the Sabbath.
An How. MEMBER presented petitions against the
London and York Railway Bill and against the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway Bill. The petitions were
ordered to be referred to the Select Committees on the
Bills.
Lord MAHON presented a petition against the plans
of the Eastern Counties Raile ay.
MAYW)OTH.
Mr. GEORGE BANKES presented petitions from
five parishes in the county of Dorset against the
grant to Maynooth. He also presented several peti-
tions from landowners and labourers respecting the exist-
ing agricultural distress ; and petitions from the county
of Dorset against the Poor-law Settlement Bill.
CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he would, on Monday
next, state the terms of his motion in reference to the
condition of the labouring classes in this country.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said, in answer to a question
from Mr. E. Denison in reference to the law affecting
the terms of leases, that the Hon. Member must be
under some mistake with regard to the time he had
spoken of. But he begged to assure the Hon. Member
that the subject to which he had alluded had been under
the consideration of a Committee ; that Committee had
made a report ; and as the rule adopted upon that
report did very materially affect the interests of many in
this country, he would not have the least objection to
lay it upon the table of the House.
LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION (SCOT-
LAND) BILL.
Mr. LABOUCHERE begged to know from the Lord
Advocate of Scotland when it was his intention to lay
before the House the Lords' amendments on the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Bill of Scotland?
The LORD ADVOCATE said something in reply,
but it was inaudible in the gallery.
ACADEMICAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
Lord ASHLEY, in postponing till Friday next
the Committee on the Calico Print Works Bill,
said—Sir, I take this opportunity of put-
ting a question, of which I have given notice,
to my Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Government.
Sir, in reference to a communication made by my Right
Hon. Friend last year to this House, and in refe-
rence to the opening statement he made in the
grant to Maynooth, I wish to ask him whether
it is his intention to propose any further plan
of academical education in Ireland, and if so,
whether he could, before going into Committee, or im-
mediately afterwards, state the simple outline of the
schemes which he is inclined to propose?
Sir R. PEEL—I am much obliged to my Noble Friend
for having given me notice of this question, and I beg
to state THAT IT IS THE INTENTION OF HER
MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT TO PROPOSE
FURTHER MEASURES WITH REGARD TO
ACADEMICAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. It
was my intention to proceed with this Bill now
before the House, and to bring it to a close
before any other business was gone into, with the excep-
tion of that of which I have given notice for Friday ;
but I will undertake to say with respect to the measures
which we intend to propose, having the same bearing as
that at present under discussion—l will undertake, be-
fore the third reading of the Bill, that either myself, or
some other member of the Goverment, shall give a gene-
ral outline of the measures we intend to propose.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented four petitions against the
Maynooth grant.
Mr. B. ESCOTT presented a petition from a place in.
Somerset in favour of the grant.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a petition against the
grant.
Sir R. PEEL presented four petitions in favour of the
measure, one from a body of English Presbyterians,
signed by persons of very high respectability. The
petitioners stated that they bad the strongest feel-
ing against the tenets and doctrines of the Roman Ca-
tholic religion. They did not think that they were vio-
lating any principle in supporting an increased grant for
religious education in Ireland. Another petition was
from the ministers and elders of the Old Presbyterian
Church of Affieck ; the third petition was from the_
Presbyterians of Armagh ; and the fourth petition was
from the north of Ireland also.
MAYNOOTH—APPROPRIATION OF THE IRISH
ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES.
On the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair,
Mr. WARD said that they had now reached
that stage of the Bill at which, in concurrence,
he believed, with the wishes of a large number of his
friends, and in perfect accordance with those principles
which, as a party, they had advocated for the last ten
years in that House, it became his duty to
place on record—not their hostility to the Govern-
ment plan, because in every measure of concession
of Roman Catholic rights—in every expression
of justice or of kindness which had fallen from either
side of the House towards those whom they called fellow- ,
countrymen and fellow-christians, they cordially
and entirely participated, but they refused as to
the mode in which the measure contemplated
for their benefit might be rendered one which would '
give permanent satisfaction to Ireland ; and he must
beg to remind Hon. Gentlemen on his side of the House
that they had a double duty to perform on this
occasion— they had not only to look to the
natural desire of conciliating -Ireland and sooth
ing and healing the wrongs which had been done
to that country for three centuries, but they must
also look to England—they must not do away with one
injustice by committing another ; and they must be
aware of counterbalancing the good which they
all hoped to do to Ireland by sowing the seeds
of just discontent in this country.—(Hear, hear.)
He remembered, when the Noble Lord the Secretary for
the Colonies came forward in this House with what he
called a great measure for Catholic relief by taking off
the vestry cess in Ireland, that Noble Lord designated
the vestry cess as a galling blister to the Catholics, but
be said that the Irish Church, which would
benefit most largely by this cause of discontent,
ought to hear the whole charge. He wished
to amend this Bill by the principle included
in his amendment, and not by any means to throw it
out ; and he had given some proof of his sincerity, b)
submitting to the obloquy which he received by refusing
to concur in a movement, the object of which was to
throw out the Bill on the second reading. That
party had, by the result of last week, proved
itself hostile to the Government measure. A Mem-
ber of Parliament had, in these times, quite enough
to do to answer charges against him founded upon
truth, without submitting to misrepresentation. He had
been accused, by implication, of having betrayed a cause
in which he never embarked. He had bad a long ac-
quaintance with the Hon. Gentleman, who had taken a
very active part on the Anti-Maynooth Committee, and
placed himself, at a very early period, in commuica-
tion with him (Mr. Ward)—in fact, as soon as
he understood the nature of his motion. He
suggested various alterations in the form of the motion,
so as to make it more palatable to those who acted with
him ; but he (Mr. Ward) declined to accede to every
one of them, assuring him, at the same time, that the
motion he intended to move had no reference to religious
grounds. They wished that time might be given to the
country to express its opinions, but he told these gentle-
men that he entirely concurred in the opinion of the Right
lion. Baronet at the head of the Government, and in that of
the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, and
added that he would not live half an hour more than
the forms of the House absolutely'' required. [Here the
noise in the HOW became so great, and the bustle at
the bar so love., that the Hon. Gentleman ceased until
the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms cleared the bar, and order
was in some degree restored.] He proceeded to
se7, that he said so because he considered,
with the gentlemen with whom he acted, that
during the time which had necessarily elapsed since
the introduction of the measure, the parties who opposed
the Bill had succeeded in lighting up a flame dangerous
and even discreditable to the country. How anybody
after that could take into his head to write to the Times
to express the grief of the Anti-Maynooth Committee
which had expressed that he would push on his motion,
but instead of doing so bad withdrawn it, and thus
prevented the measure being defended by the corn
bined votes of " true Protestants," and some of
the adherents of the Whig party. He had
the greatest respect for his Noble Friend
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SUB-COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
DISS AND COLCHESTER RAILWAY.
Mr. HUNT, for the opponents, called an engineer to prove
that the miles and furlongs were not correctly marked on the
plans and sections for a distance of twenty-five miles.
The room was cleared on the allegation, and upon our re-
admission,
The CHAIRMAN said the Committee were of opinion that
though the plans and sections did not exactly agree, yet the
inaccuracies were not such as could mislead the owners of
the property comprised in the allegation.
Bill referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE (WITH BRANCH)
RAILWAY.
This line of railway is to be thirty miles in length on the
main line, with a branch of seven miles. Estimated cost
500,0001. Engineer, Mr Robert Stephenson ; agent for the
Bill, Mr. Ellicombe.
The formal notices having been gone into, a petition
against the scheme from Josiah Dimsdale, draughtsman, of
No. 3, West's-place, City-road, was put in.
Mr. BARER appeared as agent for the opponent, and stated
that certain owners, occupiers, lessees, and joint lessees, had
not received notice of the intention of the promoters to take
certain property on the proposed line.
The first allegation was that Mr. Dimsdale, as one of the
undertakers of the Loughfoyle Reclamation Company,
had not received notice of the slab of Loughfoyle being re-
quired for the purpose of the railway.
Mr. ELLICOMBE maintained that the allegation could not be
sustained, inasmuch as it was not proved that Mr. Dimsdale
was an undertaker on the 30th of November last.
Mr. BAKER was unable to adduce evidence to that effect.
Allegation was not sustained.
Mr. BAKER submitted that no subscription contract had
been lodged in the Private Bill-office with reference to the
branch line, and that consequently the standing orders host
not been complied with.
Mr. ELLICOMBE explained—The subscription contract
had been included in the 500,0001. for the construction of the
railway.
The Committee were of opinion that the standing orders
in this instance had been complied with.
Mr. BAKER said the subscription contract was invalid,
inasmuch as the parties signing the contract were not suffi-
ciently bound.
Mr. suffi-
ciently/
of Guildhall, argued against the allegation.
The room having been cleared after deliberation, the
CHAIRMAN said, the standing orders had not been
complied with inasmuch as the parties subscribing
do not bind themselves, their heirs, executors,
and administrators, for the payment of money
subscribed as respects the present Bill, the contract
bearing date the lith day of February, in the present ses-
sion of Parliament, and all the signatures also bearing date
in the present session, but the contract applying to an Act of
Parliament, to be applied for in the next session of Parlia-
ment.
The effect of this decision is to throw the Bill out for this
session, unless the Select Committee on standing orders shall
see fit to dispense with the non-compliance.
The Committee adjourned to twelve o'clock on Friday.

SHAPWICK MURDERS

(BY EXPRESS.)

EXECUTION of SARAH FREEMAN.
(TIIIS DAY.)
This wretched culprit expiated with her life, at Taunton
this day, the diabolical crime of which she was convicted.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that the
unhappy woman was committed upon four distinct
charges of murder, viz , for having administered arsenic
to her husband, her illegitimate son, her mother, and
her brother (of whose murder she was convicted at the
late Spring Assizes), which caused her death.
On Sunday the condemned sermon was preached by
the chaplain from the Ist and part of the 2d verse of the
14th chapter of Hosea. A most impressive discourse was
delivered, and every one present except Sarah Freeman
appeared to feel its power. The individual who, to all
human knowledge, stood most in need of spiritual conso-
lation, was the only one who evinced indifference.
She rather courted than avoided allusion to the
crimes with which she was charged, but invariably pro-
tested her innocence. Ever since her condemnation she
slept soundly and ate heartily. On Monday last she
asked permission to dispose of her clothes to the pri-
soners with whom she had been classed previous to her
trial—this being granted, she wrote the names of the
articles and the persons to whom she wished them to be
given.

The Board of Customs having reason to _Ave that
extensive smuggling transactions have been successfully
carried on by vessels engaged in the coasting trade, and
that there has been a
great laxity on th and rummaging
surveyors at some ports in the boarding an
such vessels, have issued directions that the officers of
.the
part of the tide
waterguard be strictly enjoined to rum ma ge coasting
vessels as frequently and thoroughly as possible, and to
keep a record at their respective stations of the vessels
so rummaged, for the inspection of the Surveyors-Geno-
ral of Customs on their official visits to the different

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY- EVENING, A PRIL 23, 18-15.

ports of the kingdom. The Commissioners have also di-
rected the respective Collectors and Comptrollers of the
Revenue to be impressed with the necessity which exists
of enforcing a due compliance with the instructions con-
tained in this order, and have called their attention p.ir-
ticularly to a general order, dated December, 1822, by
which they are desired to report specially any informa-
tion which they may have been enabled to obtain with '
respect to runs of smuggled goods, with the result of
their inquiries, and which there is ground to believe has,
in some instances, been entirely neglected.
CAUTION.—A man of the name of Robert Ward
(or at least calling himself so) is travelling about Suffolk
with a petition, stating that he has lost two horses by
death, and begging the contributions of the benevolent
in order that he may be enabled to replace them. A
number of signatures were attache d to the ono he showed
at Ipswich; some of them have proved to be forgeries,
and we warn the public against such an impostor.
Should any of our readers happen of him, we should re-
commend them to put a label on his hack and direct him
to the police, at Ipswich, at whose hands he would be
sure to get some cheap fare and loding.—lpsevich

Express.
COTTON FACTORY.—A Company is about to be
formed to erect a cotton factory on the Clyde, river,
which w ill be the first ever established in the county of
Cot k. The capital is proposed to amount to 750,0001.
in 50/. shares. The site proposed is on the lands of
Quartertown, within a mile and a quarter of Mallow,
and within 400 yards of the proposed Great South
Western Railway station, and within nineteen miles of
Cork. It is said at this point there can be commanded
the most powerful head of water in the South of Ireland,
being a fall of 361 feet—and equal to a steam-engine of
120 horse power. y It is estimated that a steam-engine of
equal power would cost near s,oool.—with an annual
expenditure, calculating coals at 6s. per ton, as in Man •
chaster, of 1,3001., while a water-wheel and tanks would
cost but 1,500/., with an annual expenditure of 101.—
Constitution.
ANTWERP, APRIL 18.—The General Steam Navi-
gation Company's steam-ship Soho, Captain Whitcombe,
arrived this day, and landed her passengers at the quay,
among whom were the Baron de Lange'', and Colonel
Maltby. The wind had been at E.N E., with much sea,
which protracted the passage only a couple of hours
longer than usual.
We have to announce the death of Mr. James
Balfour, of Whitt ingham, N. 1&, father of Mr. J. M. Balfour,
M.P., who died at Whittingham House, Dunbar, on Satur-
day, after a protracted illness. The deceased gentleman
married in 1815, Lady Eleanor, second daughter of the late
Earl of Lauderdale, by whom he leaves issue a family of
several children. Mr. J. M. Balfour, M.P., succeeds to a
very considerable funded property, as well as landed estates,
by his father's death. Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley, the
Earl of Lauderdale, the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, C. 8.,
and several families of rank, are placed in mourning by the
demise of that estimable gentleman.