The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OFCOMMONS.-FRIDAY,

After the Speaker had read her Majesty'a answer to the
address,
Mr. O'CONNELL stated that when it should be moved to
go into committee on the registration of electors (Ireland)
bill (Lord Stanley's), he would move an instruction to the
committee to introduce a clause defining the franchise.
Mr. -MACLEAN asked whether it could be stated, without
injury to the public service, what was the position of the
negotiations between France and Buenos Ayres, relative to
the blockade of the latter place?
Lord PALMERSTON answered that the negotiations with
France were—that some time ago Admiral Dupotet set out
from France to take the command of a squadron. He pro-
ceeded to Buenos Ayres, and, on his arrival there, a com-
munication took place between the authorities there and the
French Admiral at the Buenos Ayres government. Certain
propositions were made with a view to an arrangement be-
tween France and Buenos Ayres. Another interview took
place between Mr. Mar.deville and the French Admiral, the
result of which was that the French Admiral returned,
stat,ing that he had no authority to accede to the proposition.
Mr. Mandeville then considered it to be his duty to refer the
matters to the. French government. They had been referred,
but the result of the determination of the French govern-
ment was not yet known. _ _

Colonel BAILEY asked when there would be any report
presented to the house from Mr. M`Gregor, who six months
ago had been sent to negotiate a commercial treaty with the
Neapolitan government.
Lord PALMERSTON answered that there was no report.
There had been a negotiation between the English and Nea-
politan governments as to a commercial treaty, and Mr.
M`Gregor had been sent out to examine the tariff with the
Neopolitan authorities, and endeavour to effect certain modi-
fications and arrangements, to he afterwards submitted to
the two governments. Those negotiations had been 'suspended
in consequence of the proceedings on the sulphur monopoly.
Mr. MACLEAN asked if the government had received ac-
counts authenticating the fact of the late victory of the Cir-
cassians over Russia.

Lord PALMERSTON said that from our lonsular agents on
the shores of the Black Sea such accounts had been received.

Lord J. RUSSELL said, in answer to Mr. T. Duncombe's
inquiry, that he could not now name a day for further pro-
ceeding with the poor-law amendment act.
The house then proceeded with the third reading of the
"Canada government" bill. After an extended discussion,
it was read the third time.

Lord J. RUSSELL in answer to Sir R. Peel's inquiry, said
that the despatches regarding British Guiana would have
been presented to the house, hut that he desired to add to
them some other documents. They would shortly be pre-
sented.

The deferred report of supply, and other orders were after-
Wards considered, and the house adjourned till Monday.

DEATH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

The Hamburgh papers received on Friday contain the fol-
lowing account of the death of the King of Prussia :
" BERLIN June 7.

" The King died this afternoon, at half-past 3 o'clock, in the
70th year of his age. This morning the Emperor of Russia ar-
rived from Warsaw, and proceeded immediately to the death-
bed of his father-in-law, whom he found in full possession of his
mental faculties, and who took leave of him pressing his hand.
" This evening, at 7 o'clock, the troops of the garrison
took the oath of allegiance to the Crown Prince, his Majesty
Frederick William IV.

" An extraordinary supplement to the State Gazette of
to-day contains the following paragraphs :
" By the inscrutable decree of God, our beloved King,
His Majesty Frederick William 111., the father of his people,
terminated his mortal career this afternoon, at half-past three
o'clock.

" The effects of a repeated attack of influenza, under
which his Majesty has been suffering for some time, produced
latterly a great prostration of strength, and in consequence a
state which, in 'defiance of all the efforts of nature and the
skill of experienced physicians, put an end to the valuable,
highly blessed, but also severely tried life of his Majesty,
amidst the tears of all his children, assembled round him at
this moment, and all the other Princes and Princesses of the
family.
' "' His Majesty's latter days were cheered by the presence
of the Empress his daughter, and her children, and at the
last moment by that of the Emperor his son-in-law.
" The country, though in mourning and tears, raises its
eyes to his Majesty's august successor on the throne of his
glorious predecessors, full of hope and confidence. The
heir of renowned ancestors, educated in the storms of an
agitated period, early inculcated into the duties of his high
destination, and called by his father in the days of his sick-
ness to direct the affairs of government, his Majesty will dif-
fuse the blessings of order and peace. which are thelot of a
faithful and happy people, and the recompense of the anxious
efforts of a good and noble sovereign.'
" Frederick William 111. was born on the 3d of August,
1770, and had, therefore, not completed the 70th year of his
life when he was gathered to his fathers. He succeeded his
father, King Frederick William 11., on the 16th of Novem-
ber, 1797, arid has left four sons—th:epresent King, born the
15th of November, 1795 ; Prince Frederick William Lewis,
born the 22d of March, 1797 ; Frederiek Charles Alexander,
born the 20th of June, 1801; rt:nd Frederick Henry Albert,
horn the 4th of October, 1809 ; and three daughters :—The
Empress of Russia, born tfie 13th of July, 1793; the Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, born the 23d of Feb-
ruary, 1803 ; and PrinceSs Louisa, born the Ist of February.,
1808, married to Prince Frederick of the Netherlands."

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE OF
FRIDAY, JUNE 12.

THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE
LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL, AND COMMONS, IN
PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED ' • PRESENTED TO HER MA-
JESTY ON FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1840.
" Thursday, June 11, 1840.
" Most Gracious Sovereign,

" We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the
lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in Parliament
assembled, beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty's
throne, to express our horror and indignation at the late
attrocious and treasonable attempt against your Majesty's
sacred person, and our heartfelt congratulation to your Ma-
jesty, and to our country, on your Majesty's happy preser-
vationfromso great a danger. •. •

" We desire to express to your Majesty the deep concern'
which we feel, at there having been found within- your Ma-
jesty's dominions a person capable of so flagitious an ash;
and that we make it our earnest prayer to Almighty Cod,
that he will preserve to us the blessings which we enjoy un-
der your Majesty's just and mild government, and continue
to watch over a life so justly dear to us.

" JOHN WILLIAM BIRCH,
" Dep. Cler. Parliamentor."

HER MAJESTY'S MOST GRACIOUS ANSWER

" It is with heartfelt satisfaction that I receive, upon the
present occasion, this address from both my Houses. of Par-
liament.

" I am deeply sensible of the mercy of Divine Pr, nidence,
to whose continual protection I humbly commend myself,
and I trust, that under all trials, I shall find the sa the conso-
lation and support which I now derive from.the loyal and
affectionate attachment of my Parliament and my people."

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.

. .„
(From the Oxford Herald.) , •
George Eddison Morris, Esq., 8.8., of Worcester ca..,
lege, son of the Rev. George Morris, of Penzance, Cornwall,
has been appointed, by the Society for Propagating: the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, to the Head Mastership of the
Grammar School at Madras, worth upwards of £5OO per
annum, with a good house and other advantages.
The Rev. Henry Handley Brown, M.A., late Scholar of
Corpus Christi College, has been presented to the Rectory
of Howell, Lincolnshire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
George Savile.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has instituted the Rev. H.
S. C. Crook, M.A., of Lincoln College, to the Vicarage of
Uphaven, Wiltshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
Pyke ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
The Lord Bishop of Worcester has presented the Rev. D.
Cameron, M.A., late Fellow of Wadham College, to the
Vicarage of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, vacant by the death
of the Rev. W. A. Pruen, 8.D., of Worcester. College.
The Rev. R. Ward, M.A.., of Oriel College, and some
time curate of the parish of Leeds, has been, appointed to the
Incumbency of Christ Church, Skipton.—St. James's Citron.

PROMOTIONS.

Rev. W. L. Coxhead, of Trinity College, Cambridge to
the Vicarage of Okehampton, Devonshire, vacant by the
cession of the Rev. J. R. Whyte.
Rev. T. Nayler Bland, late of Trinity College, Cambridge,
Rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks, to the Vicarage of
Osgathorpe, Leicestershire, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. W. Hastings Kelk ; patron the Marquis of Hastings.
Rev. Denis Tucker, M.A., late of St. Peter's College,
Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Taunton St. James,
Somersetshire ; patron, Sir Lethbridge, Bart.

(From a Third Edition of the Oxford Herald.)
The Prizes have just been determined by the Vice-
Chancellor, the two Procto rs•, Public Orator, and the
Professor of Poetry, as follows:;:

'—Edward

Latin Verse—" Pestis Lc), idinum devastans."
Arthur Tickell, Scholar of BaMot College.
English Essay—" Do State s, like Individuals, inevitably
tend, after a certain period of maturity, to decay."—Arthur
Penrhyn Stanley, Fellow of U niversity College.
Latin Essay—" Miles Roma zus quando primum, et quibus
de causis, coeparit libertati civium obesse 1" —William
Charles Lake, Fellow of Balliot'College.
English Verse—" The judgn lent of Brutus."—Lewis
Gidley, Scholar of Exeter College .

THE WEAVER CHURCHES Bit L.—We are glad to see
that Mr. Tatton Egerton, the conservative member for North
Cheshire, who had given much ca use for dissatisfaction -to
his supporters by opposing the in troduction of this bill to
parliament, has made the amende A onorable to his constitu-
ents, by voting for the preamble in, committee. The radicals
are terribly chagrined at this triun Iph of reason over preju-
dice.

THE EARL OF DURHAM.—Up -to Thursday morning the
noble earl was improving in health, though slowly, and was
suffering much from a pain in his b ead. We learn that the
noble earl has taken Norfolk-house, once the property of the
Duke of Norfolk, in the Isle of WI ght, where his lordship,
with the countess and family, leave for this day or Monday
next. It is said the noble earl ha only taken the above
mansion for a month.—Times of So turday.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.-0 n Wednesday, between
nine and ten o'clock in the eveniti g, as three young men,
journeymen tailors, were taking an e vening walk in a field by
the village of Horwich, near Bolton. 4e-Moors, one of them,
a fine looking young man, named i William Gilmore, about
twenty years of age, suddenly fell eta wn, and expired in a few
minutes. A surgeon was itnrnet lit ttely on the ground, but
life was quite extinct. He was a n; dive of Belfast, and had
only left home about a month sin ce with his two companions
who were with him when he died . -Wigan Gazette.
THE MOORS.—We have recei• veil intelligence from several
parts of the grousing localities, ii I t'ais county, and all concur
that in consequence of the mil( lni.ss of the weather during
the process of incubation • they citing birds are both plentiful
and very forward, and that the approaching season will be
the best known for a number of years past. The rain which
fell in. April was not at all inju riiaus to the birds, in fact, it
had a tendency to cause them to hatch their young with more
certainty, and less danger. TI le reports from Scotland are
that broods are large and num ;rocs, and the birds particu-
larly strong.—Newcastle Joan al-
WEIGHTS.—We are informed ;that by the late amended
act of parliament, no particular sl tape of weight is required,
and as it is not practicable to cast • weights to correspond with
the standard, consequently those ~of cast-metal have either a
space on the top round the rinu, .or a hole in the bottom for
holding lead to adjust the wimgb t and bear the stamp, are
perfectly allowable. It may also be remarked, that the act
does not point out whether the le ad should be on the top or
bottom.

LIGHT-HOUSE -AT FLEETWOOI ).—On Saturday last (as
was previously announced) the lif ht-house lately erected at
the mouth of the Wyre, by the 3 lessts..Alex. Mitchell and
Son, of Belfast, on the screw systt an, was lighted for the first
time, at about a quarter past nit o'clock p.m. The firing
of cannon, a display of tire-work s, and the cheers and plau-
dits of the people assembled, hail 2cl the first appearance of
this most brilliant light, which I be of infinite benefit, not
only to vessels entering the Wyre„ but to all those navigating
Morecambe Bay.--Preston Pilot, .

THE DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT ON THE

QUEEN'S LIFE.

(From the London Standard of Thursday.)
This morning at daylight the police recommenced an ac-
tive search for the bullets fired out of the pistols, but their
exertions were not successful.
The prisoner throughout the night slept very soundly. and
was frequently visited by Inspector Partridge. Mr. M`Cann,
the surgeon, had a conversation with him this morning, but
he still obstinately refuses to give any explanation of the mo-
tive that let to the attempted committal of so fiendish an
act.
The police have made a further search of the prisoner's
lodgings, but have not discovered anything to throw anymore
light upon the subject. It appears that he resided with his
sister, Mrs. Phelps, whose husband is a baker, but who made
a successful application to the commissioners to be admitted
into the police a few days ago, and who is to commence duty
on Monday next. The prisoner's mother is at present in
Birmingham, staying with some friends, and she has been
there for the last month.
He left home about three o'clock yesterday afternoon, but
the officers have been unable to trace his steps until the time
he attempted to take the Queen and Prince Albert's lives,
and he maintains a sullen silence in reference to his connec-
tions, and the manner in which he has been engaged during
the last month, when he quitted the Hog and Pound public-
house in Oxford-street.
The letters referring to Hanover and a secret society. ad-
vising the members to provide themselves with arms, are
signed with the name of Smith, but they bear no date either
as to time or place, which tends to throw greater suspicion
on them, and to confirm the opinion that exists that the
prisoner has been made the tool of some secret or unlawful
society.
The prisoner called upon Mr. Lenton, butcher, of the
Waterloo-road, on Tuesday night, and, in a conversation
that the reporter had with Mr. L. this morning, he said, in
reference to Oxford, that he was a good boy, and his impres-
sion was that he must have formed a had connection and be-
, come the dupe of some depraved party. This opinion is
strengthened by the words of an intelligent officer who re-
marked, " I have no doubt, when the excitement has passed
away, it will turn out that a diabolical conspiracy exists."
The police, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent May,
are most active in endeavouring to trace out the author of
the treasonable letters, but they refuse to disclose the result
of their activity for obvious reasons, and they state their be-
lief that the signature " Smith" is an assumed name.
The prisoner this morning partook of a hearty breakfast,
consisting of coffee and bread and butter, and he told Inspec-
tor 'Partridge that he was very comfortable, adding, " If all
your station-houses are as comfortable as this, they are very
different from what I have read of them in the newspapers.
About ten o'clock his sister, , Mrs. Phelps, called at the
station-house, for the purpose of seeing, her wretched brother,
but she was not allowed to do' so, as Mr. May had given
strict orders that nobody should have an interview with the
prisoner. She appeared so be in great distress. of mind.
Soon after the time stated, Mr. Lowe, of Copthall-court ;
Mr. W. Clayton, of Princes-street, Soho; Mr. J. Clayton.
Mr. Perks, Mr. George Skearce, and the police constable,
besides a number of other witnesses who volunteered to give
evidence, assembled at the station-house in Gardiner's-lane,
which was at this time (as well as the Home Office) surround-
ed by a dense crowd of persons, anxiously waiting to catch a
glimpse of the prisoner.
The names of the several witnesses were entered by In-
spector Partridge on the police charge-sheet, which stated
the prisoner to have been brought in at three quarters past
six o'clock last evening, charged " with maliciously and
unlawfully discharging two loaded pistols at her Majesty and
Prince Albert." The prisoner's name and address were
thus recorded—" Edmund Oxford, 6, West-street, West-
square-18.!'
A few Minutes before 11 o'clock the prisoner was brought
out of-his ,cell. He was dressed in a blue frock-coat and
velvet collar and dark trousers ; he smiled as he passed through
the station-house, and appeared to be in good health and
rather good-looking. Previous to his removal Mr. M`Cann,
the surgeon, cutoff a lock of his hair.
In consequence of the crowds round the station-house it
was arranged that the .prisoner should pass out as quick as
possible, and turn. to .the left, and proceed the back way
through Downing-street passage to the Home Office, and
this was so excellently managed that scarcely those who were
admitted inside the station-house saw him pass along. He
did not wear handcuffs, and as soon as he got into Gardiner's
lane, he took to his heels as fast as he could, and was followed,
as preconcerted, by Inspector Pierce and Hughes.
These arrangements prevented any confusion in the public
streets, and the prisoner reached the Home Office immedi-
ately before the clock struck 11.
At that hour the folldwing noblemen and gentlemen had
arrived to conduct the investigation :—Lord Normanby, the
Hon. Fox Maule, Mr. Philips, the Under Secretary, Mr.
Hall, the chief magistrate of Bow-street, and Mr. Burnaby,
the clerk of the same police court. There were also present
Lord Uxbridge, Lord Cardigan, and other noble personages,
whose names did not transpire.
Several reporters to the public press were waiting to be ad-
mitted into the Council Chamber, but it was understood that
the examination, as in Captain Goode's case (who was charged
with threatening her Majesty), would be strictly private.
It should be mentioned that when the prisoner passed, or
rather ran, through the station-house, his sister exclaimed
with bitter agony; " Ah ! there he is—there he is," and
Inirsting into convulsive sobs nearly fainted away.
[The Globe of last night mentions a rumour that the pri-
soner is a Birmingham chartist, and a member of the Lon-
don committee.]