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were few. He had beheld her shores indented with harbours ;
and, While he admitted the majestic ocean, inviting to her sci
ence and enterprise, that admiration was clouded with hitter
melancholy when he beheld the waves rolling back again totell
the listening world that where Heaven had distributed plenty
man had spurned at its bounty, and introduced anarchy, deso-
lation, and want. (Cheers.) He had seen the peasant go
forth, at Heaven's bidding, by industry to meet his wants ; he
had seen him water his path with the sweat of his brow, and re
turn disconsolate at night to his breadless and almost shelter-
less children, telling them in moving accents that man had
interfered between him and his God, who had covenanted that
man should live by the sweat of his brow. (Hear, hear.)
This and more he had seen; he had shared with the sufferer
in his last potatoe, and was it to be supposed that he could
entertain any other feeling than that of affection for a
country, of whose kindness and hospitality this was an
example. No. But, whilst he deprecated the municipali-
ties and powers which had assisted to bring those evils upon
Ireland, his feelings should not so far get the better of his judg-
ment as to induce him to assist in leading men from one evil to
a greater. He knew the angry feelings, the political prejudices,
and the religious bigotry that pervaded all parties, and the mea
sure proposed by the conveners of that meeting would only he
to transfer the means of tyranny from one party to another.
Let them abolish corporations—a term he had always con-
sidered synonymous with nuisance—and both parties would be
upon a level. Before he concluded, he wished to make one
other remark. Flatterers were always dishonest, and he would
give the same advice to a multitude as to an individual friend
" Depend upon it that he who flatters you means to use you
for his own advancement." (Cheers.) He had some time
since attended a meeting at Exeter-hall, in London, which was
convened for the purpose of national education. At that meet-
ing, Lord Brougham, in one of the most eloquent of his elo-
quent speeches, drew so humiliating and appalling a picture of
the ignorance and consequent depravity of the lower classes
that he (Mr. Wilkins) had almost brought himself to believe
that England was centuries in the rear of European nations.
This picture was drawn to excite the sympathies and loosen the
purse-strings of his audience. Judge, then what was his (Mr.
Wilkin's) astonishment a few nightS afterwards at hearing
Lord Brougham equally eloquent in
such
of the growing
intellect, the march of mind, and such Brougham-like cant
when advocating the necessity of granting greater politi-
cal privileges to the people. Now he would adopt neither
of the noble and learned lord's positions, but he would
be honest enough to tell them that he did not believe that the
larger portion of that meeting had brought with them sufficient
reseaich and deliberation to decide upon so grave a subject as
that which they proposed to decide. He himself belonged to a
profession which imposed upon him the necessity of making
himself acquainted with the constitutional history and law of
his country: but with all his leisure and frequent opportunities
he daily and hourly became/more and more conscious of his
inadequacy to so mighty a task; and yet they were called upon,
to suit the party. views and prejudices of a junto, amidst the
uproar and feverish excitement of that meeting, a tithe of the
proceedings of which they could not be acquainted with, to decide
a question upon which, after very grave deliberation, a most im-
portant portion of the House of Commons and a lane majority
of the House of Peers had arrived at a different conclusion.
He was not one of those who joined with the thoughtless in their
unmeaning claniour against the peers; he knew them to be in
the aggregate a valuable component of the British constitution,
and, as men,:high-minded and honourable. With these views
he most cordially seconded the motion of Mr. Horsfall, and
lifted up his voice against this most unwise and unconstitutional
interference. (Cheers.) '
The Mayor here apprised Mr. Wilkins that the motion of
Mr. Horsfall had already been seconded, to which Mr. Wilkins
replied, that being the case, he could only cordially offer to it his
support. The speech of Mr. Wilkins was cheered throughout
in the most striking passages.

Mr. COGLAN rose, amidst the impatience of the meeting. He
said their meeting to petition was a constitutional measure, and
was not an insult to the House of Lords. The interests of Eng-
land and Ireland were connected, and the Irish people would
never rest satisfied till they had got equal justice.—(lnterrup-
tion.) They were indebted to one gentleman in the gallery,
(Mr. Wilkins) who might he termed of the juste-millieu party
(a laugh) for his eloquent speech, and who had at last come to
the conclusion that both parties were wrong, but that he would
support one side.—(Great laughter and applause.) Mr. Coglan
then referred to Mr. Horsfall's remarks upon the recent corpo,
ration appointments, and contended that they were filled by
gentlemen at half the salaries of the old officers.
Mr. TAYLOR rose, amidst loud cries of divide. He said the
measure of the Lords, if carried into effect, would invest the
Crown with a very dangerous and unconstitutional power.
Mr. LAWRRNCS HEYWORTII, amidst cries of question, con-
tended that it was foolish for the Lords to act as they bad done,
as it would give such power to the liberal ministers as would
enable them to destroy the House of Lords altogether.
The MAroa then read Mr. Horsfall's resolution and Mr.
Bolton's amendment, and proceeded to put the amendment.
On the division, he declared it to be his opinion, strengthened
by that of the town-clerk and his assistant, that the amendment
was negatived. His worship then proceeded to put Mr. Hors-
fall's motion, which he declared as his opinion, together with
that of the town-clerk, to be NEGATIVED (!)also. (Laughter)
The Mayor said he had expressed his opinion to the best of his
judgment, and should be ready to divide on the question again
before the meeting separated, if it was wished.
Mr. BRANCKER then moved an adjournment, amidst great
confusion, which was seconded by Mr. Rowr. M‘NEILE.
Mr. Ron INsoN moved, as an amendment, that the meeting
do dissolve, which was seconded by Mr. HORSFALL.
On the question being put, three-fourths of the meeting held
up their hands in its favour; for the motion for adjournment
only three hands were held up, amidst loud laughter.
Mr. RoitiNsoN then, seconded by Mr. BRANCKRR, proposed
a vote of thanks to the chairman, for his impartial conduct in
the chair, which was carried by acclamation.
The MAYOR shortly returned thanks, and the meeting sepa-
rated at half-past three o'clock.

THE GREAT REFORM MEETING IN CLAYTON.
SQUARE.

On Friday evening, in consequence of the defeat of the re-
formers at the meeting at the Session's-house, the band, at
whose instigation the Mayor was induced to call and preside
over that meeting, issued a proclamation calling upon the re-
formers of Liverpool to assemble in Clayton-square on Mon-
day, (yesterday) at 12 o'clock, in order to address the King
and the House of Commons, respecting toe Irish municipal
corporation reform bill.
At the appointed hour there might have been a thousand per-
sons collected in front of the Bull Inn, and in the room of that
house which opens upon the balcony, we found Messrs. Coun-
cillors Coglan, Blackburne, Egerton Smith, Shiel, and Thomas
Bolton, together with Dr. Collins, Messrs. James Mulleneux,
R. V. Yates, Lawrence Heyworth, and some other radical
philosophers less known to fame. With respect to the gross
number in attendance in the square—this is always a sore sub-
ject at reform meetings—we pronounce •that it did not at
any time exceed two thousand. We came to this conclusion by
actually counting the number of persons who stood in two lines
where the crowd was most dense, namely, from the front door
of the hotel towards the centre of the square and in the opposite
direction. In the first we found 40, and in the second 50 per-
sons. However, as we hate even the semblance of illiberality,
we will call the length of the crowd 60, which will give, sup-
posing the mass had been formed into a perfect square,
2,400; but, allowing for the roundings off of the corners, when
we name 2,000, we do so out of pure charity and comeassion
for the cause of reform; indeed, were we to award strict and
impartial justice in this matter we should be compelled to de-
duct at least 20 per cent. from that estimate.
Mr. James Braucker at half-past twelve o'clock was called to
the chair and opened the business of the day. The speech'of
the worthy gentleman was delivered with his usual fervour and
elegance of expression. He told his auditors that they were
called together in consequence of the defeat which he had. sus-
tained in another place on Friday. The Sessions-house had
been packed by the villanous tories on ,that occasion. The
Mayor, in the course of the proceedings. at that meeting, had
said that he would not dissolve it, and had also said that he
would not preside over any other meeting which might be.
called at any other place. He (Mr. Brancker) .was one of
those who thought that the Mayor of Liverpool should meet his
fellow townsmen and preside over them whenever and where-
ever they chose to assemble, and he hoped that no future Mayor
of Liverpool would ever hold a meeting in the Sessions-house
again. Mr. Braucker, after talking some time about tory
trickery, and the House of Lords as opposed to the rights of
Ireland and of the right of Irishmen to govern themselves, who
the tories considered were only fit to be beasts of burthen, said
that the English municipal reform had fixed a dagger in their
hearts, and that the Irish bill would, if carried, complete their
destruction. •

Colonel Williams moved the first resolution, and was followed
by Mr. William Earle, who re-echoed what his gallant leader
had uttered, namely, some very stale abuse of the House of
Lords and of the old corporation of Liverpool, of which he (Mr.
Earle) Was a Member. This resolution having been put and
carried nem. con., the Chairman announced that the next speaker
would be " that old warrior, Thomas Bolton," who immediately
advanced to the front of the balcony, and in his appparance and
address to the audience forcibly reminded us of a rag fair
old clothesman. The speech of the "old warrior" did not,
lidwever, contain a single sentence worthy of being repeated.
He concluded by moving the secon I resolution, which was se-
conded by Mr. Crawford Logan, and put and carried by ac-
claination.

Mr. Richard Vaughan Yates, the next bufo who made his
appearanCe in this serio-comic drama, moved the third resolu-
tion, the substance of which was, as far as we could catch its
import,. " the deep regret of the meeting that the lords should
he opposed to the passing of the Irish municipal reform bill,
&c. &c." This gentleman informed the meeting that he had
actually been in France, and, therefore, knew a. great dealabnnt
Plena corporatiOns which, as they were under the immediate
and direct control of the government of that country, possessed
in his estimation an immense advantage .over those of England.
We have neither time nor space to notice the remaining
speakers, 'except "in a hump." All that was said by them
consisted of nothing more than dull variations of the same tune,
unenlivened by 'the slightest spark of genius or talent, and with-
mit posse'ssing a single original idea. Had the first speech of
the chairman been read over deliberately and distinctly in the
aviary of the Zoological Gardens, the least talented parrots of
that establishment would have spoken as effectively as Mr. Law-
rence Hey Worth; Mr. George Vandenhoff,'Mr. Wood, (who was
introddeed to the meeting as the brother of Mr. Alderman Wood,
of London,) Mr. Hornby, or Mr. Egerton Smith, the gentlemen
who successively. addressed the very meagre assemblage of per-
sons who were cMitent to listen and applaud what they heat d.
All the other resolutions, together with the address to the King
and the petitiOn to the House of Commons founded upon them,
were put and carried without a dissentient voice. The meeting
was altogether the most contemptible thing of the kind we have
ever seen. The 'managers" or it felt that it was so—they felt too
that their attempt to agitate a question about which the people
generally care nothing whatever, was a signal' failure, and that
they had lost, .as a party, any little ephemeral importance which
they might have possessed in more stirring times.

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SELF-DESTRUCTION.

Ode of the most dreadful and premeditated murders which it has
ever been our duty to record, was committed in this town last Satur-
day. • As several incorrect accounts of this horrid transaction have
been given to gratify public curiosity on the one hand, and to put
money into the pockets of catchpeimy printers and the vendors of
such trash on the other, we simply give the evidence of the various
witnesses, (in addition to one or two facts which have come to our I
knowledge) taken subsequently upon oath before W. F. Curry, Esq.,
and a respectable Jury, yesterday, at the Session's-house. At three
o'clock on Saturday, a jury was summoned, who, after having been
sworn proceeded to the house of Mr. Jones, Rodney-street, in whose
house the unfortunate woman had been for about four months as cook.
Her body was laid upon the floor of the front kitchen, and presented
a most shocking appearance. The right side of the face was covered
with blood, and immediately underneath the right ear a wound of the
size of a shilling was observable. The other side of the face did not
present any other than a perfectly natural appearance. Her cap was
laid upon a basket which was placed close to the spot where she was
standing when she received the wound. Upon examining it there was
a hole made, just above one of the strings, by the pistol ball some-
thing larger than a penny piece. The jury minutely examined the
body and then retired. After a short consultation it was agreed that
they should meet again yesterday for the purpose of investigating the
melancholy circmstances attending the death of the deceased. Ac-
cordingly at half-past nine they assembled in one of the rooms in the
Session's-house, in Chapel-street. The coroner immediately pro-
ceeded to take the evidence.

The first witness called was the daughter of the person in cus-
tody charged with the murder. Sheesaid—My name is Sarah Diann.
I am nineteen years of age, and live servant with Mr. Jones, at
No. 46, Rodney-street ; I knew the deceased, her name was Grace
Avery, she also lived servant with Mr. Jones, she was M years
of age ; my father's name is William Dalin, I don't know his age ex-
actly, but think he is about 37 or 38, he lived in Nottingham formerly
where he was employed in a lace-warehouse, he last lived in Man-
chester ; my father lies eight children living, seven living at home at
Nottingham, and I make the eighth, the eldest is about 21 years of
age, and the youngest is between two and three years of age ; I first
became acquainted with the deceased in London, about seven years
ago ; my father, mother and our family then lived there ; my father
and mother lived together with the family hi London, they were not
separated at that time, I am not aware that my father and the deceased
were intimately acquainted in London ; the deceased was living in
service in London, and she used sometimes to come to our house ;
when we left London we removed to Nottingham, to which place the
deceased also came, and where she had also been before several years
in service ; the deceased used to come to our house in Nottingham, as
she used to do in London ; I did not live at the same place in Notting.
ham that the deceased did ; after I had been in Nottingham about
twelve months I left and went to Manchester, where the deceased had
removed to, she took a house at leusholine, near Manchester, where
she took in washing, and I went to her to assist her ; my father used
to come over from Nottinesham to Rusholme to see the deceased ; I
lived with the deceased in Rusholme about six months and then left
to Clive with Mr. Jones, in Market-street, Manchester; I lived with
Mr. Tones in Manchester about three months and then came to Liver-
pool where I have been about five weeks in the service of Mr. Jones.
in Rodney-street ; the deceased had been in Mr. Jones's service about
three months, where I found her when I came to Liverpool ; my fa-
ther came several times to Manchester from Nottingham to see the
deceased, and once or twice staid all night, hut he slept in a different
room from that of the deceased with whom I slept during the time he
staid; my father was employed in Manchester by Mr. Mills, the drug-
gist, in Market-street, whose shop is about a mile or a mile and a half
from the house in which the deceased formerly lived at Rusholme ' • I
have heard that my father had annoyed the deceased very much when
we lived in Nottingham; I have hoard my mother say that he did so
as well as the deceased herself ; my impression was that an improper
attachment existed between deceased and my father; I think he paid
her more attention than he should have done ; I have heard deceased
frequently complain that he annoyed her by following her from place
to place ; my father has been twice in Liverpool since I have lived
with Mr. Jones, in Rodney-street ; the first time was about a month
ago ; the deceased told me when we lived in Nottingham that my fa-
ther wanted her to go away with him ; sho also told me that he wanted
her to go away with him from Mr. Jones's, in Rodney-street, the first
time I saw him here about four weeks ago ; my father came to Mr.
Jones's, in Rodney-street, when I saw him first in Liverpool, which
was about a month ago, I cannot recollect the day ; I did not let him
in, but upon going down stairs into the kitchen 1 found him and the
deceased together, they were in conversation together, he staid about
an hour upon that occasion ; I don't recollect what they were con-
versing about ; my father appeared in a good temper, he was not an-
gry, to the best of my recollection there was no altercation between
them ; when he went away he did not say where he was going nor
when he should return ; a day or two after my father had left, the de-
ceased told me that my father had made a proposal to marry her, but
she said she never would; that was the answer she (deceased) gave
him ; I never heard my father threaten, " that if the deceased would
not marry him, he would destroy either himself or the deceased ;" I
never heard any ono else say that they had heard my father say so.
At the beginning of last week I saw my father pass the window of the
house in Rodney-street ; I cannot say on what day that was ; I was
standing at one of the bed-room windows ; I did not see my father
again till he called at the house on Saturday last ; he called on that
day between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon ' • I do not know
who let him in ; I was upstairs when he came in; when I came down
he was in the back kitchen, which is used as the cooking kitchen, not
the kitchen to the front of Rodney-street, the other ; the deceased
was there ' • I did not know that my father was there till I went down
and found him ; I don't know how he entered, whether through the
front door or hack ; when I went dawn he was standing with his back
to the fire, and deceased was going about the kitchen about her work ;
they were talking together when I went down ; my father asked me
how I was ; I inquired how he got in ? he replied, " the way I don't
intend to go out ; ' they were conversing together, hut I do not know
what about. I asked my father if he was cross, but received no re-
ply ; I judged he was angry from the answer he gave me ; I observed
nothing in his manner different from his usual conduct, a little cross,
but nothing further. My father was not in the habit of taking liquor.
1 heard him ask the deceased " Will you have me ?" I don't recollect
whether these are the exact words he , used, but they were to that
effect ; deceased replied, " She never would."
• [A note was here handed- into court, stating that, Duffin, the pri-
soner, had7atteropted to hang himself in Bridewell, but was cut down
before life was extinct.]
Evidence continued.—Soon after this time deceased went into the
scullery to clean her candlesticks ; she was standing at the time ; my
father went into the scullery and stood. for some time with his hands
behind him ; she passed into the scullery two or three times during
the time he was in the kitchen ; I also went into the scullery after
the deceased and my father; I had no particular reason for going
there ; they were not in conversation at the time • deceased was
standing close to the boiler, near where the chips are kept, and which
is fixed against the wall; I did not take notice of my father being
agitated ; deceased and I were both cleaning candlesticks; we were
about a yard asunder; it was about four or live minutes after I went
into the scullery that the circumstance took place ; I asked my father
if he would go home, as soon as I got into the scullery, but he gave
no answer ; my father had his hands behind him, under his coat, and
drew out a pistol ; he was not talking to any one at the time; I saw
my father hold his arm out and level the, pistol at deceased, he fired
immediately. As soon as deceased fell I ran out of the kitchen, lent
was so much alarmed that 1 cannot say whether I or my father ran
out first ; I did not see any pistol till after nay return to the kitchen ;
it was lying on the floor ; I ran to the street door and saw a police-
man ; there was no person in the house but myself, deceased, and
my father ; I gave no alarm until I saw the policeman ; I did not tell
him at that time what had happened, but merely asked him what
time it was; I did not know whether I ought to tell him, or leave it
till my mistress came home from market. The policeman then went
to the end of Mount Pleasant, and I called after him; he came into
the house with me ; I went with him into the scullery ; deceased was
in a sitting position on some sticks which were in a box near the
boiler, and her head reclined on a knife board; she appeared to be
quite dead; she appeared to be in the same place where she had
fallen ; I saw blood on the neck of the deceased, and against the
boiler •, I did not know where the wound was, but saw blood running
down the neck ; my father was not in the kitchen ; I cannot say how
he got out ; there is a road from the kitchen into the yard ; I saw the
policeman take the pistol up from the floor ; my father left his watch,
ten sovereigns and four shillings and sixpence, there was a piece of
paper in the purse, but I cannot tell what was written upon the pa-
per ; all the articles were in the purse ; he laid it down on the dresser
a short time previous to going into the scullery, but did not say any
thing at the time ; I gave the purse into the hands of my mistress
when she came into the kitchen, I have not seen it since. It was
examined in the parlour in the presence of a policeman and my
mistress? I had never seen it before.
Richard Kenney sworn.-1 am a policeman; I was on duty in Rod-
ney-street on Saturday last ; about twelve o'clock at noon I was called
to by a young woman, (the first witness,) who inquired what o'clock
it was? I told her about five minutes to twelve; she went immedi-
ately into the house of Mr. Jones, and shut the door ; in a few minutes
afterwards she came after me a second time, and told me there was
some one in the house, but did not say what had happened. I went
into the house, along the lobby, and saw the back doors open ; I asked
her what was the reason of their being open, and she began to cry ;
I went hit° the back cellar but saw nothing wrong there ; she then said-
go into the front; I went and saw the deceased- sitting on the box of
chips, with her bead leaning against tee wall ; she appeared to be
quite dead; I saw blood on her neck and arms and on the floor; I
thought it proceeded from her right ear ; I went out and called another
policeman; we went in and laid the deceased out upon the floor. I
found 'the pistol about a yard and a half from the deceased; the one
now produced is the same; it appeared to have been lately fired.
After we had laid the deceased upon the floor, 1 went to Mr. Jones's
office to acquaint him. I asked the young woman why she let the
woman kill herself ?—she said it was a man that did it ; I said is it the
man that I have seen loitering about some time,' and she answered
yes. I' had frequently noticed the man about that neighbourhood,
and had inquired his business ; he told me that he had a sister living •
in service with a family in the neighbourhood, and was in the habit of
sending out his clothes to wash with those of the family; I have not
seen him since, but could recognise the man whim I have seen loiter-
ing in the neighbourhood of Mr. Jones's house.
William Thomason sworn.—l am a policeman ; I was on duty in
Falkner-street, on Saturday last; about twenty minutes past twelve
I found the prisoner in Falkner-street, opposite Bedford-street; I first
saw him walking along Falkner-street, and then cross over towards
some waste ground, where there was a cart ; he attempted to sit upon
the shaft hut fell backwards ; he was proceeding towards the railway
station before he attempted to sit down ; he appeared to be lame and
walked very slow ; I asked if he was sick, but he made no reply' ; I
asked him if he had had any liquor, and lie said"no ;'.' I asked w'here',
he lived, and he replied " where.", He made a very strange noise
in his throat, and I took his handkerchief off; I then weneto,get a
doctor, (Mr. M'Culloch,) and by his directions took him to the In- ,
firmery.
Thienas Roberts, constable, sworn.—l received information of the
circumstance from Kenney, who brought the information to the
court, and produced the pistol ; I was then ordered to go in search of
the prisoner, mad after some time learnt that a man had been sent to
the Infirmary, supposed to have received his injury by falling from a
house ; took 'the witness, Sarah Duffin, with me in a car to the In-
firmary, who immediately reaog,nizecl the prisoner as the man who
had committed the act. On his recovery took him into custody, and
lodged him in Bridewell. The bottle containing the liquor was given
into my charge. •
James Coglan, surgeon, sworn.—l examined the body of the de-
ceased on Saturday' afternoon last. I found a large lacerated wound
on the right side of the head, close to the fore part of the ear. I exa-
mined the wound, and found the ball had proceeded in the direction '
of the neck close to the base of the skull. -There was no other wound
but that one. 1 opened the head, and found that the bones at the
base of the skull were very much shattered—several pieces of bone
were driven into the lower part of the brain. Both the internal and -
external carotid artery were severed, and I found a pistol ball lotl*ed
in the Sphenoid bone in the centre of the base of the skull. he
brain was not injured by the ball, but by the pieces of bone which
were driven in. From the nature of the wound I should judge that
the pistol was fired close to the head. The ball is.a pistol ball, and
bore marks of the screw. In my opinion death was produced by the
injuries above stated.
The depositions were then read over to the prisoner ; and, upon
being asked by the coroner if he had anything to say to the Court
touching the death of Grace Avery, he replied, after a ereat deal of
hesitation and questioning by the officers who stood with him in the
prisoners' box, " I don't know what you mean." The Coroner then
inquired whether he wished to ask the witnesses any questions, to
which he replied, in the same hesitating*ay, " I don't know—l can't
understand you."
The jury, after consulting together for two or three minutes, found
a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against William Dalin, and he was
accordingly committed upon the Coroner's warrant to take his trial
at.the ensuing Liverpool Assizes.
The prisoner was brought into court about two hours after the pro-
ceedings commenced. He was accompanied by four of the officers of
the prison,*and had a very wild and agitated appearance. His eyes
were almost continually directed to the skylight of the building. He '
would sometimes open his hands, and then stare
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persons present. When the jury returned their verdict he attempted
to get away from the officers, saying " Don't keep me here all day,
my good men. I want to he going."
During the progress of the investigation, the coroner very properly
cautioned persons present connected with the press, not to insert any
opinions of their own which they might gather from the evidence, and
which might, at present, prejudice the prisoner before the public. We
quite concur in the justness of that observation ; and, we have re-
frained from giving anything in addition to facts as they were detailed
in evidence before the court. It is high time, however, that the
dreadful accident and penny-a-line nuisance was put an end to. The
public mind' is frequently misled and the ends of justice sometimes
defeated, by the labours of persons going about the streets selling what
they call " full, true, and particular accounts " of certain events which
are false and exaggerated from beginning to end.

DUTIES UPON MAN I'FACTU OED GOODS.--We.haVe it on good
authority that it is, in contemplation to raise the duties upon all
uiat,,;lured goods imported into the East Indies from this
country, should ministers any longer delay to equalize the du-
ties upon Eat and West India produce.
PLEASURE EXCURSION.—We feel great pleasure in directing
the attention of our readers to an advertisement which will be
found in another part of our paper, announcing that the Cole-
raine, steamer is about to be dispatched on a pleasure excur.;
sion to the north coast of Ireland., and the Western Hebrides
of Scotland. The parties who embark on this trip will in the'
'course of a week have an opportunity of visiting. the Giant's
Causeway, and the Testing places of the ancient kings of Scot-
land, and of viewing the magnificent scenery -of the western
coast of that section of the United Kingdom.

Entptrial Varliament.
HOUSE OF LORDS.--THURSDAY.

ARBROTH AND FORFAR RAILROAD BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of Camperdown, this bill was read
a third time and passed.
Some other bills were respectively advanced a stage. The
reception of petitions was the only other business brought for-
ward this night.---Adjourned