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men in that room that it bad been far better had that question
never been carried. (Tremendous cheering.) That was
another point which of course it would be travelling out of
his way to discuss on the present occasion. He only thought
it fair to state that he (Lord Darlington) certainly felt other-
wise on that occasion, (we suppose allUding to the disappro-
bation of the measure manifested by the meeting) and he had
always voted for catholic emancipation till that bill was car-
dad. The first question that was made an open one by the

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gitated the eouptry,. he _wee w

from one end to the other, he referred to the co
(Hear, hear.) In the year 1836, when Lord Gr

was at the head of the government, Mr. Hume brought for-
ward a motion for abolishing, the corn laws, and for substi-
tuting a fixed duty of 10s. in its stead, with a declining scale
of one shilling per annum till it ended in nothing. The
whole of Lord Grey's cabinet were directly opposed to the
introduction of the question ; they declared themselves in
`avour of the law as it stood at the present moment. (Hear,
-.) As that was the case with the whole of the cabinet
Grey, it might Jinary

ce said, was it not extraort—
.stlon should have been made an open one
It really was so, but it was made al,
open question to accommodate one individual, an one
alone. That individual was certainly a great man, of
whom he would speak with great respect, inasmuch as
be was now no more. He alluded to Mr. Poulett
Thomson, (the late Lord Sydenham) who was then
Vice-president of the board of trade and member for Man-
chestor, because he happened to represent that place ; but
then came a question, whether a minister of the crown, who
happened to be a representative of a large constituency, was
to obey the will expressed by a large Majority 'if the nation,
or the will expressed by that particular class of the commu-
nity who happened at the time to represent, (hear, hear.)
Now, as he had always thought that it was the duty of every
minister of the crown to promote to the utmost of his power,
the interest of the nation at large, and not that of any one
particular class, so he would say that the government of the
day should have given but one option to Mr. Poulett Thom-
son, either to resign his office as the minister of the crown,
or as the representative of the town of Manchester, (hear
and cheers.) That, gentlemen, [continued the noble Lord]
was the only thing that could have been done, but all those
difficulties were fully foreseen by the wisdom of their
ancestors, who established that wholesome and salutary
measure, and constitutional doctrine of compelling every
member of Parliament on accepting office under the crown,
to vacate his seat, and thereby give to his constituents an
opportunity of re-electing him or not as they think fit. But
was it possible to suppose that such a question as the Ballot,
that such a question as universal sufferage, or Triennial
Parliaments, the corn laws, or any such questions as these
were to be left to mere chance, and not to be taken up by
government in some way or the other, as it was imposible
that those questions could be finally settled unless they were
taken up by government, so be, (Lord Darlington) would
say, that it was their duty to take some distinct line of action
or other, and so strongly did he feel on that point that he
would never give his support to any government who should
make open questions of such measures as these (cheers.)
But he confessed he had a higher opinion of the present
Premier than to suppose that he would deviate from that
line of conduct which he felt to be right for the purpose
of hooking a few wavering votes for the purpose of
his own conscience, or at the expense of his own good
sense and ind (enthusiastic cheering.) Hr
-Aced that

(Hear,

'ependence

he (Lord Darlington) put greater confidence
in the known integrity of Sir Robert Peel, in his sincerity,
and in that fertile genius with which by nature he was en-
dowed. (Loud and long-continued cheering.) He must
also, at the same time, put great confidence in the composi-
tion of his ministry, for never, he believed, in the history of
the country, did they possess an administration endowed
with more eminant or statesmanlike views than the present
government. (Applause.) Never, he believed, did it fall to
the lots of a statesman to form a stronger cabinet, without
succumbing to political opponents, and at the same time
without making any sacrifice or concession of principle ; and
if any proof were wanting that the country approved of the
choice. it would be found in the circumstance that of the
twenty-seven members who vacated their seats on the ac-
ceptance of office, not only the whole of them had been
re-elected, but not one of them had been opposed. (Great
cheering.) With these observations, and knowing as he did,
how many others there were who equally with himself,
thought it their duty to address them upon the occasion, he
would not trespass further then on their patience ; but he
was anxious to take that opportunity of stating, that it has
long been his intention, (a purpose which was known to
many of his friends,) of not seeking again at their hands
that trust which, for a period of nine years, had been so
kindly entrusted to him. In making this brief announce-
ment, he assured them that it was done with feelings of the
deepest regret. (Hear, hear.) How was it possible for
him to feel otherwise in alluding to a political separation
which had existed so long, and he trusted that they would
believe him that this expression of feeling was not affected
on his part, but that he entertained a lively sense of
the kindness manifested towards him, by every individual
elector of the county from the highest to the lowest, although
however their political connexion might be severed, he hoped
that as long as life lasted he would never be separated from
them in the interchange of their social relations of private
friendship. The noble lord concluded an eloquent and most
effective address amidst enthusiastic and general applause.
George Tomline, Esq., M.P. also effectively replied to the
toast.

Several other admirable speeches were delivered on the
occasion.

FUNNY.—By a typographical error in one of our exchanges,
we learn, " that two cows were completely cut into ceelves by
the railroad train."—Globe.

There is a decrease of no less than 41,924 quarters in the
consumption of malt, between the 10th October, 1840, and
the 10th October, 1841, in London alone.
MEN AND WOMEN.—fit woman's head is always influ-
enced by her heart ; but a man's heart is generally influ-
enced by his head.
THE WEATHER.—Nothing can exceed the beauty of the
weather, and as there is every prospect of its continuance,
we may look forward to the best effects being produced upon
the potato and other crops.—Dublin Mail.
EXCHEQUER MLLE.—The number of the exchequer bills
which, up to yesterday, had been received, examined, and
stamped as authentic, and re-issued to parties, was 25,709,
and their value £15,865,300.
Dr. Longfleld has resigned, for the present, his views on
the representation of the University of Dublin. There will
be but one candidate, and Mr. Jackson will be elected with-
out a contest.—Dublin Evening Mail.

There is now grovvinglin the garden of John Sturdy, Esq.,
of Boston, a pear tree, bearing a great quantity of blossom,
and also a number of small but perfectly formed pears.—
Boston Herald.
A highly beneficial change has taken place in the weather
. .

throughotit the north of England

The husbandman is busy

in casting the winter wheat into the ground, and there is
now every prospect that that important operation will be got
through under favourable auspices.—Newcastle Journal.
Sir Clifford Constable and Sir John Gerard, both Roman
Catholics and staunch conservatives, are shortly to be raised
to the peerage. Sir Clifford Constable, who has extensive
property and influence in Yorkshire and other counties, had
a seat in parliament previous to the passing of the Reform
Bill, and recorded his vote against that measure.—Courier.
During the exhibition of Wombwell's collection of wild
beasts at Northallerton, a few days ago, one of the young
leopards, in a sportive mood, put its foot out of the cage,
which was immediately seized upon by a panther in the ad-
joining cage, and literally torn from its body. The poor
aftimal.was instantly killed.

Last week two fires broke out in the vicinity of St. Ives—
one at Hemingford, the other at Fen Stanton—in both cases
the acts of incendiaries. A youth not more than 16 years of
age is committed to take his trial at the next Huntingdo❑
assizes for the former ; and for the latter two persons of Fen
Stanton are committed for further examination.—Stamford
Mercury
Perhaps the best indication of the high merits of the Dub-
lin University Magazine, is the fact, which has recently come
within our knowledge, that an eminent bookseller in New
York has announced his intention to republish it monthly,
within two days after it reaches him.—Salopian Journal.
TRING PARK.—The beautiful and much admired mansion
at Tring Park, built by Charles II for his favourite, Nell
Gwynne, is undergoing the most substantial and complete
repair, with a view to its being let for a term—the present
possessor being a minor. King Charles's bed and some
other pieces of furniture are still remaining.

DREADFUL MURDER.—Robert Charles Walsh, Esquire,
a magistrate of the county of Waterford, who had issued a
habere to dispossess some tenants, was beaten to death on
Saturday last, on his return from Dungarvon petty sessions.
The notice of his servants having having been attracted to his
horse and car returning home alone, 'they proceeded in
search of him, when they found his body about a mile from
his house, his head beaten into a mummy.—Dublin Evening
Mail, Nov. 8.

A correspondent of one of the morning papers observes,
with much truth, that had a floating fortress (ship of war)
been destroyed by fire, a court-martial or a court of naval
inquiry would have instantly followed it, and the character
and commissioners of the ship would have been at stake on
the issue. In the case of the Tower of London there is
nothing but thanks and compliments, and no inquiry at all.
ANOTHER MURDER.—The war " goes bravely on."
Wexford vies with Waterford—the " liberal " lesson receives
another illustration, and the blood of another landlord lies
red• upon the earth. The Associators should be satisfied.
Two victims slain upon the same altar ought, for a time at
least, to sate them. In Wexford the sufferer is Mr. Bolton
—we presume of " the Island," though his residence is not
named in the paragraph which announces his assassination.
—Cork Constitution.

The Birmingham manufacturers are now receiving some
large orders from the United States. These orders had been
suspended while the MiLeod affair was pending, hut were
issued after the trial had concluded. The calamitous fire at
the Tower will also give employment to a considerable num-
ber of hands in the gun trade. Upon the whole, the prospects
of the Birmingham artisans for the winter are more cheering
than could have been anticipated a short time since.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE WYRE RAILWAY.—On
Saturday evening last, as the last train was proceeding from
Preston to Fleetwood, an innkeeper of the name of Hornby,
formerly of the Ship Inn, Preston, but latterly of Fleetwood,
fell from one of the carriages on the line, and was so dread-
fully injured by some of the wheels passing over him as to
cause his death on the following day. We have been unable
to learn the full particulars of the accident, but we have
heard that both the legs of the unfortunate man were cut off
by the train. He was a remarkably stout, powerful man,
and in the prime of life.
SWEARING IN OF THE NEW LORD MAYOR.-011 111011-
day Alderman Pirie, the new Lord Mayor, was sworn in
with the usual ceremony at Guildhall. There were numbers
of persons present. His lordship was warmly congratulated
by his brother aldermen, the members of the company to
which he belongs, and the principal city officers. The late
Lord Mayor was very heartily applauded upon retiring from
office, the fatigues of which he had borne, and the character
of which he had supported, in a manner that gave great
satisfaction, and showed that, at the advanced age of 77, a
man of energy and resolution can do a great deal. A splen-
did dinner at the Mansion-house followed.

STATE OF PAISLEY.—The number of persons on the sup-
ply list of the relief committee is unhappily still on the in-
crease. The number is now 1,170, with 3,000 dependents.
The number supplied with soup yesterday, a separate class,
amounts to 694 ; some of whom got two, or three, or four
quarts of soup, according to the extent of their families ; a
half-penny scone is given with each quart of soup. The
iotal number of quarts issued, would be about 1,300. It is
a most cheering feature in society to see those who are able
showing themselves equally willing to extend their aid in re-
lieving the existing distress. We trust one and all of the
kind donors will experience the truth of the axiom, that it is
more blessed to give than to receive. Total number re-
quiring aid, s,9o2.—Paisley Advertiser.

M ELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—At Bevercotes, near
Retford, resides a cottager of the name of the name of Mark
Whittington, who has had a large family, and amongst the
rest an idiot girl. On Sunday morning Mrs. !Whittington
leftthe house to serve the pig, when, melancholyto relate, by
some means, the child's clothes caught fire, and on the mo-
ther's return she found her enveloped in flames. Her first
thought was to go into the parlour for a blanket to wrap the
child in, in order to subdue the flames, but on her way thi-
ther, the child, who was about fifteen years old, suddenly
seized and clung to her, and held her so firm that she could
not disentangle herself. The child held her hold until she
fell a blackened a lifeless corpse. Previous to this the mo-
ther's clothes had caught fire, and eshe was considerably
burnt before she got the mastery of the flames. Death, how-
ever, bad done his worst. Terror seized upon the unfortu
Hate
iedparent, which, coupled with the injuries she had re-
ceived, had such an effect upon her nervous sensibilities that
atetvenn' 'clock the same evening she breathed her last. An
inquet was held on the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers
the morning of Monday last, when, after hearing the evi-
dence, the jury returned a verdict in both eases, of " Acci-
dental death."—noneaster Gazette.

UNIVERSITY AWD CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the azforil Herald.)

On Wednesday last Arthur Henry Anson, Student of Civil
Law, of Balliol College •, John Henry Wynne, Student of
Civil Law, of Christ -Church ; George Edward Murray,
8.A., of hrist Church ; and the Hon. 'Henry Pitt Choi-
mondeley, 8.A., Student of Christ Church, were admitted
actual Fellows of All Souls,•being of kin to the Founder.
On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS

Henry Smith Lawford, Christ Church.
Rev. George Ayscough Booth, Exeter College.
Rev. John Gregson, Brasenose College. •
Rev. James Macdougall, Brasenose College.
Rev. John Leigh Hoskyns, Demy of Magdalene College.
John Bickley Hughes, Demy of Magdalene College.
William Charles Lake, Fellow of Balliol College.
Rev. James Glencross, Balliol College.
Rev. Charles Adolphus Row, Pembroke College.
•
BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Charles Kemble, Wadham College, grand compounder.
Jos. Henry Stephenson, Queen's Coll., grand compounder.
John Henry Warneford, Worcester College.
James Alexander Birch, New Inn Hall.
Henry Mellish Stowers, St. Edmund Hall.
John Broomfield Winckworth, St. Edmund Hall.
Edmund Wood, Magdalene Hall.
John Fuller Maitland, St. Mary Hall.
Thomas Jackson Milnes Townsend, Lincoln College.
Leonard Morse, Lincoln College.
Edward M. Macfarlane, Lincoln College.
James Chestaton Bradley, Queen's College.
Hon. John St. Clair, Christ Church.
George Woolicombe, Christ Church.
William James Jenkins, Fellow of Balliol College.
James George Watts, Balliol College.
Cadwallader Coker Beck, Balliol College.
William Fox, Balliol College.
Edmund Round, Balliol College.
John Harford Battersby, Balliol College.
Matthew Hale Estcourt, Exeter College.
Robert William Hippisley, Exeter College.
Bryant Burgess, Exeter College.
Marischal Keith Smith Frith, Exeter College.
Frederick. Selwood Bowles, Exeter College.
George de Gruchy, Exeter College.
Philip William Godsal, Oriel College.
Henry Bannerman Burney, Oriel College.
Thomas Nowell Twopenny, Oriel College.
Walter Halliburton, Brasenose College.
John Charles Walker, Trinity College.
William Nelson Lucas Trinity College.
Herbert Samuel Hawkins, Jesus College-
George Sydney Davies, Jesus College.
William Davis Wilson, Wadham College.
Robert Bowden, Wadham College.
Edward John Chapman, Wadham College.
Rowley Young Lloyd, Pembroke College.
Sir John Dodson, D.C.L., of Oriel College, bas been ap-
pointed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Master
of the Faculties, in the room of Dr. Nicoll, of Christ Church,
now Judge Advocate General.
A Scholarship on the Foundation of John Lord Craven
being now vacant, the election will take place on Thursday
next.

On Thursday nevt, at two o'clock. a Convocation will be
holden for the purpose of electing a Clerk to be presented to
the Rectory of Draycott-le-Moors, in Staffordshire, the pa-
tronage of which, for this turn, under the provisions of 3 Jas.
I , chap. 5, and other subsequent Acts of Parliament, is
vested in this University. Dr. Stocker, of St. John's Col-
Colege, and Professor of Moral Philosophy, is now the only
candidate, three other gentlemen, who were his competitors,
having resigned.

It being Well known that a vacancy in the professorship of
Poetry must take place at the end of the present Term, two
candidates have already been announced by their respective
colleges—Mr. Williams, Fellow of Trinity College, and Mr.
Garbett, late Fellow of Brasenose. It is thought that the
contest will be a very severe one. •

The Rev. George Archdall, D.D., Master of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, is appointed Vice-Chancellor of that
University.

The Rev. William Thorold, M.A., of Worcester College,
has been instituted to the Rectories of Warkleigh and Sutter-
leigh, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Baw-
den, M.A., of Exeter College ; patron, James Gould, Esq.
The Rev. George Moyle, M.A., of Lincoln College, one of
the Masters in King Edward's School, has been appointed,
on the nomination of the Rev. Dr. Warneford, Chaplain to
the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham.
The Rev. C. E. L. Wightrnan, 8.A., of Lincoln College,
has been instituted to the Vicarage of St. Chad, Shrewsbury ;
patron, the Lord Chancellor.

PROMOTION'S

Rev. G. F. Fessey, Curate oFiarCiebigg, to the Perpetual
Curacy of Redditch ; patron, Lord Aston, Vicar of Tardebigg.
Rev. M. Mills, Perpetual Curate of Lougstone, to the
Rectory of Knipton, Leicestershire ; patron, the Duke of
Rutland.

Rev. Edward Baines, M.A., Rector of Clipstone, North-
amptonshire, and Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of
Ely, to the Rectory of Bluntisham-cum-Earith, Hunting-
donshire ; patron, the Bishop of Ely.
The Bishop of Meath has given the Living of Banagher to
the Rev. J. Kennedy, and Galen to the Rev. W. Holmes.
The Rev. Drought succeeds to Mr. Kennedy's Incum-
bency.

Rev. Charles Verney Shuckburgh, M.A., Curate of Rox-
well, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Countess Nelson, to
the Rectory of Langford, Essex, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. Charles Matthew ; patroness, Miss Wescomb,
Thrumpton Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Rev. Thomas Pitts, 8.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge,
and Curate of Otley, has been presented, by the Venerable
Archdeacon Musgrave, to the Church of St. George's, Sower-
by, vacant by the cession of the Rev. G. M. Carrick.
Rev. F. T. Blackburne, 8.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge,
to the Perpetual Curacy of Cannock, Staffordshire, vacant by
the death of the Rev. John Shiel ; patrons, the Dean and
Chapter of Lichfield.

Rev. Charles Lendon, M.A. Curate of Kensington, to be
the Sunday Evening Lecturer of that Parish.
Rev. George Fleming Lamb, of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge, to be a Chaptain to the Hon. East India Company
at Bengal.

Rev. John Field, Rector of Braybrooke, Northampton-
shire, to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Forester.
Rev. John Lloyd, Rector of Llanyckil, Monmouthshire,
to the Rectory of Cerrig-y-Druidion ; patron, the Bishop
of St. Asaph.

Bev. T. G. S. Suther, 8.A., to St. George's Chapel, York-
place, Edinburgh; patron, Bishop Terrot.
Rev. Jas. White, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Bruton,
Somersetshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. S. H. Cas-
son ; patron, Sir_H. R. Hoare, Bart.

Re;. W. G. Wilkinson, to the Perpetual Curacy of Eller-
ton, Yorkshire, void by the death of the hey. J. Wilkinson;
patron, Sir C. B. Codrington, Bart.

Rev. John Phaye, to be Curate of Stanford-upon-Soar,
Nottinghamshire.

Rev.-Thomas T. Lewis, late of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Bridstow, Herefordshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. Love Robertson ; patron, the
Bishop of Hereford.