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HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
This day several bills were advanced a stage, and the
house immediately adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

-MONDAY

The 12 o'clock sitting was occupied in Committee on
the Health of Towns Bill.
At the the 5 o'clock sitting, Lord J. RUSSELL declared
his intention to withdraw, for the present session, the
Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, the Prisons Bill,
and the Parliamentary Electors Bill.
On the order of the day for the house resolving itself
into a committee of supply,
Mr. B. OSBORNE drew the attention of the house to
the present posture of affairs in Portugal, and moved, a

-resolution, by way of amendment, to the effect that the
British Government having interfered in the late insur-
rection, were bound to see that the Portuguese people
should be secured in the exercise of their just and legiti-
mate freedom. His chief reason for bringing the matter
once more before the house was to give an opportunity to
Lord Palmerston to make the speech which he had been
unable to deliver, owing to the counting out of the house,
when the subject was formerly under discussion.
Lord PALMERSTON objected neither to the substance
nor to the spirit of the hon. member's resolution, because
he was resolved to obtain for the Portuguese peopl.e a
faithful performance of the articles of the convention
-which had been entered into. The object the Govern-
ment had in view from the commencement was to induce
the Portuguese Crown to make of its own accord such con-
cessions as the people were justly entitled to. That course
they pursued as long as possible, until, in fact, France
and Spain had determined upon interfering. England
had then no alternative but to unite with those coun-
tries, not to crush the liberties of the Ts^.- but t-

had originally calculated. Of this sum £3,700,000 was
on loan, £1,270,000 on the security of lands and works
of utility, and £4,380,000 grants. The right hon. gen-
After a lengthy conversation, in which Mr. P. Borth- tleman maintained that the operations were eminently
wick, Mr. Flume, Lord J. Manners, Mr. B. Escott, Sir successful, and that the condition of Ireland was very
Delacy Evans, Mr. Ewart, Lord J. Russell, and Lord G. materially improved.
13entinck took part, the motion was withdrawn. The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. HUME then brought on his motion on the case of The CHANCELLOR of the Exert-Eau-En then proposed a
the ex-Rajah of Sattara, and asked for the appointment resolution to exonorate certain counties in Ireland, liable
of a Select Committee. As soon as he had resumed his for the cost of public works and drainage, from the pay-
seat the debate was adjourned. The orders of the day was ment of one-half the amount.
then disposed of, and the house adjourned. After observations from Mr. S. O'Brien, r. P
The house then resumed, and immediately afterwards borne, Mr. Callaghan, and Mr. Poulett Scroi the reso-
resolved itself again into
_a committee of the whole house I lution was agreed to.

the people, „o give
tore to Portugal a consti-

Wakley, and Mr. Hume made some suggestions for im-
proving the future measure.
Mr. HENLEY could not avoid saying that, fora question
introduced in the Queen's Speech, it had not received from
the Government that consideration which it ought.
Lord MORPETH would feel bound to bring the question
forward early in the next session.

Lord G. BENTINCK trusted the Minister would ex post
facto exonerate the Opposition from any blame for having
opposed such a bill.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he brought no charge of factious
opposition against any one ; therefore he did not think it
necessary to exonerate any one.
The bill was finally withdrawn.

At the evening sitting, Sir J. HOBHOUSE stated, in
reply to a question from Mr. EWART, that a despatch
had been sent out to India containing a plan for changing
the system of the civil servicoxfurloughs, which was pre-
paratory to a Change of the system of military furloughs.

aswer to S.

The right ho
INGLIS, that a voluminous body of 'evidene(

to idol worship in India was pr'epareci,Tiiiniiiiiidsai
examined he was not prepared to discuss the question.
To a question put by Mr. V. SMITH,
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the minutes of education
relative to Roman Catholics were not yet sufficiently for-
ward to be placed on the table. There was no intention
to ask for any money during the present session for the
education of Roman Catholics. He had been in commu-
nication with the Catholic Institute ; the Government
and the Institute had agreed on many points, but there
were some on which they differed in opinion.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole
house to consider a resolution for a further loan of
£300,000 cn the security of rates for the purposes of
Irish relief. The whole amount expended and to be ex-
pended up to the close of the proposed operations would
amount to £9,350,000, being £650,000 under what he

thern a parliament, and to res

tutional government

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ge to the Irish landlords, and to charge

it on the consolidated fund

HOUSE OF LORDS

-TUESDAY

The business was limited to the presentation of peti-
tions, and the house adjourned early.

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HOUSE OF

LORDS

FRIDAY

Mr. B. 0

The Royal assent was given to an immense number of

A motion of the Earl of RODEN, complaining of the
third report of the Irish Relief Commissioners, which
imputed misconduct to certain chairmen of committees
and justices of the peace, was withdrawn.
Some other business was then disposed of, and their
lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

The house sat at three o'clock

On moving the order of the day for going into com-
mittee of supply,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL called the attention of the house
to the notice of motion which Lord G. Bentinck had put
on the paper, relative to the position of the statue of the
Duke of Wellington on the top of the triumphal arch.
He asked the noble lord to postpone that motion till
Monday, in order that he might ascertain in the mean
time the Duke of Wellington's feelings on the subject ;
for her Majesty was most anxious that nothing should be
done that could be considered disrespectful to the greatest
and most celebrated of her subjects. He was authorised
to state, that if the Duke was adverse to the removal of
the statue to the pedestal proposed to be raised for it,

jesty would rea

ily consen

remaining in I

present position. .
Lord G. BENTINCK was cognisant of the feelings of the
Duke of Wellington on the subject, and rejoiced at the

assurance that the statue was to remain where it now
stood, with the free consent of her Majesty and the ap-
probation of her people. _

Lifter a few words between Sir F. TRENCH and Lord J

SELL, the cons

Lord G. BENTINCK was postponed till
A considerable portion of the attention of the house
was next devoted to a discussion of the complaint of Mr.
Spooner against Mr. Hump at he had used intimidatory
language t as the 1- ber for Birmingham, on

londay

.owaras mem
t of his conduct in dividin

accoun'

Mr. Hume's
-Rajah of

motion for a committee on the subject of the e _
Sattarah, in the course of which Lord John Russell ex-

pressed himself ye
gunge used by Mr. Hum(
siderable laughter throu{
Sir D. NORREYS rene,

majority of 80 over 19 voice

,tion excited

Mr. PERRAND, after expressing his astonishment that
Mr. Roebuck was not in his place that evening to hear the
contradiction which he was about to give to his (Mr.

Roebuck's language on a former occasion, asked Sir G.
Grey whether the statement of Mr. Roebuck was correct,
that " the medical officer of an union had the power of
recovering the price of the drugs distributed by him
among the poor of the union from the union itself."
Sir G. GREY.believed the practice of the_lny:4,,

medical officer for the medical attendance on the poor

I.lpply of medicine

therefore, the medicine required was of an exp
inter t)

D medical officer m
In case of sudd

pocket

llness the magistrates had the

power of ordering extra relief, and in case of such order
he believed that the medicine was not chargeable on the
medical officer, but on the poor-rates.
After a few words from Mr. P. BORTHWICK, the house
resolved itself into a committee of supply. _

In the committee the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated that the salary of the chief commissioner of the new
poor law board would be £2,000 a-year. He would have
two secretaries, who would each have a salary of £1,500
a-year. The whole expense of the board would therefore
be £5,000 a-year, which was £2,000 a-year less than the
expense of the Nor law commission.

A discussion tlfen took place in the committee on the
inefficiency of the present medical relief for the poor. In
the course of it Mr. WARLEY expressed his reluctance to
vote these salaries, because the house had not the New
Poor-law Bill before it, and because he understood that
that bill had been mutilated in the House of Lords of two
of its most humane and important clauses, and that, too,
without any effort having been made by government to

retain them

The vote for the Poor-law Board was then agreed to

without division

On the vote for granting £lO,OOO to defray the ex-
penses connected with the capture of slave-trading vessels,
Mr. 'P. BORTHWICK called the attention of the house

to the great evils and cruelties resulting from the system
adopted under our treaties with foreign powers for sup-
pressing the slave trade. He showed that that system
cost us more than a million a year—that it produced no
advantage—and that it retarded the progress of civilization.
Furthermore he contended that the loss of life among our
seamen and officers employed on the coast of Africa was

very large, and was perfectly useless ; and, lastly, he
maintained that for every thousand negroes sold into sla-
very, seven times that number died in the most excruci-
ating agonies. He concluded by calling on Lord Palmer-
ston to consent to the repeal of the statutes enacted for
carrying out our treaties with foreign powers in reference
to the slave trade, to abrogate the treaties themselves, and
thus to free humanity from the terrible curse which they
had entailed upon it.
Lord PALMERSTON supposed the object of Mr. Borth-
wick to be to legalize the slave-trade, and observed, that
under the guise of great regard for humanity he had in-
sinuated that conclusion by every means in his power.
He believed that the slave-trade could never be entirely
and permanently stopped until the condition of slavery
was itself abolished. He then took a review of the va-
rious measures which the government had taken for the
suppression of this abominable traffic, recounted the va-
rious treaties by which we were bound to co-operate with
fcreign powers, and showed that we could not suddenly
abandon them without great loss of honour and national

reputation
Conside

)le discussion afterwards took place on this
subject, but the grant was at length agreed to without a

division

The rest of the evening
other estimates.

was taken up in discussing the

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The opening of the railway from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
o Berwick will enable travellers to make a journey from

London to Edinburgh in 13 or 14 hours.
The bill for the amalgamation of the Chester and Bir-
kenhead, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire
Junction Railways, has passed through all its preliminary
stages in both houses of parliament, without the intro-
duction of the restrictive clauses. The bill has therefore

passed in its integrity, and is quite safe,

LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OE A RAILWAY

TUNNEL.—On Friday, the first stone of the tunnel, about
to be made under a considerable extent of the north part
of the town, for the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding
Railway, was laid at the corner of Great George-street, by
George Corry, Esq., one of the directors, M the presence

of the contractors and other friends

LONDON AND YORK CALL.—The banking house of
Smith, Payne, and Co. was so completely besieged on
Wednesday, by parties coming to pay the call, that many
of the shareholders were obliged to wait full an hour
before they had an opportunity of paying their money
and getti

iOn the day n question no
;paid into this bank by the share-
Northern Railway.

g their receitits
less than £lBO,OOO
holders of the Grea
CAUSES OF P

EFECTIVE RAILWAY WORE

Away
engineers have become too speculative, too self-sufficient,
and too careless: and railway directors are often toc

exigent. The endeavour to keep within the estimate, and
to keep
within the time, has produced much bad work;
sufficiency to have led

and want of car

to more. Premiums have been of
and contractors to slight the work
be wondered at that in many cas
taken without objectiOn. 'There

gyred both to engineers
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FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE

THE WEST INDIA MAILS

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Med-
way, W. S. Andrews, commander, bringing the West
India mails, and 120 passengers, arrived at Sonthampton
on Wednesday morning. Her dates are Tampico, May
20 ; Chagres, 26th ; Carthagena, 28th ; Vera Cruz, June
2 ; Havanna, 10th ; Nassau, 12th ; Beamuda, 24th ; De-
merarah, sth ; Barbadoes, Bth ; Trinidad, 6th ; Grenada,
9th ; St. Thomas, 18th ; Jamaica, Bth. Her freight con-
sists of 252 serons 'of indigo, 84 tons of arrowroot, 219
cases of cigars. 47 live turtle, 149 serons of cochineal ;
also 27,749 dollars, 73,619 in silver bullion, 1,794 ounces
of gold, 64,348 ounces of gold for merchants' account, 351 b.
of platina, 131 boxes of pines, and 110 sundry packages.
The steamer experienced fine weather on her passage.
By this arrival we learn that the islands generally were
healthy, and the weather favourable. The agricultural
news from the various islands by the Medway is very sa-

tisfactory. A great increase in .the crops could be relied
on, the best estimates giving a quarter more than usual,
and much exceeding that at Jamaica and Demerara. The
weather was extremely dry at Puerto Rico, and also at St.
Thomas; indeed St. Thomas was suffering for water, and
the crops on the south side.of Puerto Rico had generally
failed.

auction

In Jamaica the crop was estimated at an increase ove
last year, amomiting. to 15,000 hogsheads. The
of prices, however, is so great, that the money

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less by £250,000. The following are the only interesting
particulars received from Mexico :
So sickly was Vera Cruz when the Medway left that all
the hospitals were full, and 20 to 25 persons were dying
daily. The town was under the command of Colonel
Wilson, with about 400 men in the Castle of St. Jean de
Ullot. Tampico was strongly fortified on all sides. Col.
Gates had about 1,000 regular troops and a number of
volunteers under his command in the latter place At
both places a very efficient police was kept up by the inha:.
bitants.

It was stated at Vera Cruz thnt General Scott was at
Puebla, 75 miles from Mexico, with 4,800 infantry, 200
cavalry, 15 pieces of. artillery, 3 mortars, and 200 waggons
with provisions ; he left Colonel Childs and 200 men at
Jalapa. General Taylor was at Monterey with 5,000 or
6,000 troops, mostly volunteers. General Taylor is ac-
knowledged by the Americans to be " in a fix "—much in
want of provisions, ammunition, and money.

General Scott's army had five months' pay due to them,
were very discontented, wanted many necessaries, and as
) per day are said to be lost from sickness. His
rmy was composed of Yankees, Irish, Germans, and a
e few Spaniards and French. The rain had commenced in

many as

The valuables of the city of Mexico are all removed.
Gold was fast disappearing, and 17 and 18 dollars were
given for doubloons. The lower orders are burying what
little wealth they possess.

The foundation of the first German catholic church ever
built in Prussia has been laid at Leignitz, in Silesia.
In the year 1828, the quantity of caoutchouc exported
from. Brazil, did not exceed 20,000115; but in the year
1845-6, it amounted to upwards of 800,0001 b, besides
415,953 pairs of shoes. _ _

The English workmen employed in some of the iron
works in the state of Virginia have ceased labour, because
their masters have refused to raise their wages, and have
also employed slaves as "puddlers."

The increase of banks in India during the last ten years
has been seen so rapid, that while in 1837 the aggregste
paid-up capital of all the banks was only £875,000, it now
amounts to upwards of £5,000,000.
The palace being built by the Viceroy of Egypt at
Beycos, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, will have
more than 400 feet of frontage. The construction will
require three or four years, and the cost is estimated at
6,000,000 f. _ . -

The last papers from Ceylon contain the official appoint-
ment of Sir J. E. Tennent, as Lieutenant Governor of
that island during the period intervening between the de-

parture of Sir Colin Campbell and the arriv
appointed Governor, Viscount Torrington
DREADFUI

3IPWILECH.-

of the newly

'CANDLE:, JUNE 8

•A Tur-

small Island of Cufonem, and only 68 persons saved.- The
pilgrims were all natives of Algiers.
A normal school and a university are now being built at

end naval schools of the Turkish government, it has been
resolved to appoint a professor of the English language in

w university

,ummer is at hand, and what are the husbandman's
spects ? The cattle everywhere dying in hundreds—
farm horses too feeble, from starvation, to perform the
my of nlnuehinc : and, lastly, more than three-fourths

rs-in tiie country wholly destitute of potatoes
n for seed. The condition.of the country is fright-

of the fa:

)ve picture over coloured or exaggera

Of 200 cattle, we
food in +1

re informed, have died from want of
,tlement of Middle River alone. Many far-
a other parts of the country have lost their live
—Cope Breton Speculator.
OTTON MANUFACTURES IN MEXICO.-The Gioriza/e
del Lloyd Austriaco states, that the cotton trade of
Mexico is increasing in importance every clay. There exist
at present, in the province of Mexico, 12 spinning facto-
ries, with- 30.156 spindles' in full operation ; in that of
Pueblo 21, with 35,672 spindles in operation, and 12,240
0, , 1.. of Ctuhclulwiarali J, with

11,312 in operation, and 6,500 in course of construction;
in that of Queretaro 2, with 7,620; in that of Durango 4,
with 6,520; in that of Guaninato 1, with 1200; and in
that of Sonora, one with 1,000 ; in a 1153 spinning factories,
with 135,280 spindles, of which 23,940 are in course of
construction. The daily consumption of cotton (continues
our Italian contemporary), is at present 39,7551 b., and it
will increase to 48,6221 b. when all the projected spindles
are constructed; the daily production of yarn now amounts
to 35,780, of the value of 39,358 reals. The number of
spinning establishments in operation amounts to 8,753,
employing altogether 17,000 persons. The annual con-
sumption amounts to 14,585,6661 b., and as the indigenous
production only amounts to 50,000 quintals, it follows that
there is a defidiency of about 95,666 quintals. In order
partly to cover this deficiency the importation of 60,000
quintals has been allowed at a duty of six reals per quin-
tal. The carriage from Vera Cruz to Mejico—a distance
of about 94 leagues, which is traversed by muleteers (car-
rieros) in 18 to 20 days—is from 18 to 22 reals per load of
four quintals and upwards. The importation of cotton
yarn and cotton tissues of not more than 30 threads woof
in a square of quarter of an inch is prohibited. Smuggling
is carried on extensively, especially on the shores of the
Pacific Ocean.

UNIVERSITY

AND CLERICAL NEWS

The Cape of Good Hope is constituted a Bishop's see,
to be called the Bishopric of Capetown, the Rev. Robert
Gray, D.D., being appointed thereto.
The Bishopric of Australia is subdivided into four epis-
copal sees, viz. :—Dr. Wilson, Bishop of Sydney, Dr.
Tyrrell, Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Shortt, Bishop of
Adelaide, and Dr. Perry, Bishop of Melbourne, which
were all gazetted on Tuesday.
RECTORY OF SPOFFORTH.—The Rev. James Tripp,
rector of Kirkby-Overblow, near Leeds, has been ap-
pointed to the rectory of Spofforth, Yorkshire, vacant by
the demise of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, LL.D. late
Dean of Manchester. Mr. Tripp is nephew of the late
Dr. Tripp, who held the rectory previously to Dr. Her-
bert.

MISSIONARY COLLEGE AT CANTERBURY.-The new
College of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, founded by A.
J. Beresford Hope, Elq., M.P., is to be opened in Octo-
ber, for the education of a colonial Clergy. At present
the principal quadrangle only has been completed, in-
cluding the Chapel, hall, library, and apartments for 50
students, with the requisite accommodation for the officers
and servants of the establishment. The Institution will

be formed on our Collegiate models, and his Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury has consented to give statutes
for the future government and regulation of the College.
INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT AS CHANCELLOR
OF CAMBRlDGE.—Yesterday morning week her Majesty
and Prince Albert, with their suite, left London in three
open carriages, by rail, to be present at the installation of
his Royal Highness as Chancellor of Cambridge Univer-
sity. They reached Cambridge by one o'clock. Shortly
afterwards her Majesty entered the hall of Trinity College.
where about 300 persons of the first rank, among whom
were Prince Waldemar, the Duke of Saxe Weimar, as
well as learned doctors and beautiful ladies, were present.
Then occurred a scene which, considering the position in
which his Royal Highness stands to her Majesty, excited
some amusement. Robed as Chancellor, Prince Albert
advanced to the dais, or throne, on which the Queen sat,
and in a distinct voice read to her a congratulatory ad-
dress on her arrival. This was very graciously received
and replied to, after which the Prince and those around
him retired, walking backwards until they had reached the
door. In the Senate-house the Chancellor conferred se-
veral degrees, after which was delivered the Latin oration,
which lasted a whole hour, and much exhausted the pa-
tience of the company. In the evening the Queen, his
Royal Highness, and a portion of their suite, dined with
the Vice-chancellor in Catherine-hall, and at night there
were fire-works on Parker's Piece. On Tuesday morning
the Prince Chancellor proceeded to the Senate-house, and
was shortly afterwards joined by the Queen, to hear the
Prize Poems—Latin, Greek, and English. The Installa-
tion Ode, by the Poet Laureate, Wordsworth, the music
by Dr. Walmisley, was then performed in admirable style.
The Royal Pair partook of luncheon at Trinity College,
after which they proceeded to the Floral Fete at Downing
College. The Royal Pair left the Gardens, and returned
in state to Trinity, where a grand banquet was given by
the Master and Fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Green ascended
in a new balloon from Parker's Piece at six in the even-
ing. On Wednesday morning the Prince Chancellor held
a levee at Trinity Lodge, at which all the Heads of
Houses, Fellows, and Masters of Arts were presented.
His Royal Highness stood the whole time of the reception,
a period of a couple of hours at least. When this cere-
mony was concluded, his Royal Highness proceeded in
one of the state carriages to visit colleges which he was
unable to take in his round on the previous_day. At

f Trinity and St. John's were
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