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THE ZOOLOGICAL BAND.—We have received a letter from
Mr. William Emidy, denying the statements made by Mr.
Grooby before the Liverpool Election Committee with re-
ference to the Zoological hand. We cannot enter into any
discussion on the truth of matters deposed to on oath, and
any letters on the subject can only be inserted as advertise-
ments.

The great pressure on our space, owing to the proceedings be-
fore the Liverpool Election Committee, of which we have
given a full report, has compelled us unwillingly to omit
several literary notices and interesting communications.

"FOREIGNER" enquires for the best way to learn the method
of book-keeping in use generally by retail shopkeepers. He
says he has consulted treatises by Morrison, Chambers,
Tuck, Jones, Hutton, and Wallace, and neither of them gives
so much as even a meagre illustration, so far AS he can see,
of the system upon which he wishes to be enlightened.

Eiberpoof Ritanbarb,

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1853

THE ROMANISTS AND THE ESTAB-
LISHED CHURCH.
ONE of the strongest objections raised to the
admission of Rornanists into Parliament was the
doubt how far they could be bound by oath not
to make use of their legislative power to injure
the Established Church. It was this apprehen-
sion, entertained by many friends of what is
called Civil and Religious Liberty, that so long
delayed the consent of Parliament to the Eman-
cipation Bill, passed in 1829 ; but several of
the leading members of the Romish Church
were examined before a Committee of the House of
Lords, and so solemnly asseverated that the in-

dulgence might be granted, without injury, that a
special form of oath was devised, and the opponents
of the measure consented to forego their objection.
It had been said that no form of oath could bind
the conscience of a Romanist, because he could
readily obtain absolution for any violation of it,
more particularly if it had been violated in order to
advance the interests of Rome; but this opinion
was strongly denied by those who were then
believed to be gentlemen and men of honour, and
the Legislature, with too ready credulity, which
was intended for magnanimity, gave up the ob-
jection. In vain did the late Earl of ELDON warn
the country of the consequences of opening the
door which they might never be able to close
again : in vain did the people who had profited by
the experience of history petition Parliament against
the concession : that Minister was in power, of
whom it has been said that he never advocated a
cause which he did not ultimately betray, nor
oppose a measure which he did not ultimately
support; and Sir ROBERT PEEL, who had
been returned for Oxford University, as the
especial champion of Protestantism, was found the
foremost in persuading a too pliant Parliament to
grant Romanist Emancipation. Not six years had
elapsed since the passing of the Bill, when Sir
ROBERT PEEL was himself driven from office, by
the very men whom he had admitted to power
voting for the celebrated Appropriation Clause,
Which was to the effect that any surplus of the
revenue of the -Church of Ireland, not required for
the spiritual care of its members, should be applied
to the general education of all classes of the people,
without religious distinction. It mattered little
-that the succeeding Ministry were unable to carry
Pout the measure upon which they obtained office.
Lord MELBOURNE acknowledged that it was a
heavy blow and great discouragement to the
'Church, and the majority was obtained through
the votes of those who had solemnly sworn that
they would never exercise any privilege to which
'they may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the
Protestant religion,or Protestant Government in the
United Kingdom:; and that this declaration was
/made in every part thereof, in the plain .and or-
dinary sense of the words of the oath, without any
*evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation what-
soever. This manifest violation of a solemn
engagement was made when party feeling ran
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havee.ssing
since elapsed ; time should have brought reflection ;
and we might have expected that, with no ,pressing
emergency, men would have paused before they
wilfully committed deliberate perjury. Alas ! for
the folly of relying upon the honour or honesty of
those who are under the thraldom of Romish,priests !
On Tuesday last, a resolution was submitted to the
House of Commons, having been moved and seconded
by Romanist members, " That a Select Committee
be appointed to inquirelinto the Ecclesiastical Re-
venues of Ireland, with the view of ascertaining
how far they are made applicable to the benefit of
the Irish people." The motion was cunningly
worded, but no sane man will doubt its scope -and
tendency, and yet we find 'Romanist members, who
had taken the oath which we have referred to,
voting for its adoption, thereby proving that their
strongeet oaths are straw, when the object is to
establish the ascendancy of Rome upon the ruins a
Protestantism.

The motion was opposed by 'the Ministers, who
for once felt ashamed of their allies, and, with the
aid of the Conservatives, who are the only true
friends of Protestantism, it was 'rejected by a ma-
jority of 26i to 100, the minority =being swelled by
the votes of ultra-Radicals and ,professing Dis-
senters, who care not with whom they join, so long
as they can injure the Church. The division
afforded a lesson which ought not ,to be lost sight
of in agitation for future legislation..

MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES.---'BREAK-UP
OF TEE COALITION..

THE present ministry commenced with she inherent
weakness of being composed of every phase of
political opinions, excepting only the hest of all,
and already it has commenced to tumble into decay.
One of its worst features,, however, was that traitor-
ous truckling to Rome, by which it was hoped to
secure the votes of the Brass Band, and the mis-
chief of such an unholy alliance is apparent in the
first untoward discussion. The motion for a new
appropriation of the ecclesiastical revenues of Ire-
land, upon which we hove commented in another
article, was opposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who
was, it seems, in an ultra-Protestant mood, and he
has given such great offence to his Romanist col-
leagues, that the defeat of the motion was followed
by the resignation of Messrs. KEOGH, MONSELL,
and SADLEIR, and subsequently by Sir THOMAS
REDINGTON. The matter, however, has been
hushed up, as will be seen by the correspondence
which we have given in another column. Lord
ABERDEEN, to save his Irish friends, has repudiated
Lord JOHN RUSSELL ; but though the wound has
been salved over, it is strongly suspected that the
next resignation will be that of the little Lord.
Such a weeding of the Ministry would he in itself,
no doubt, an improvement; but it is deeply signi-
ficant of the disgraceful position of parties. The
adhesion of these men to ABERDEEN Conservatism
was not without some understanding, with which
the negotiator for their support has been unable to
comply, and their resentment is displayed in a
wholesale defection, designed for a twofold purpose.
It serves to prove to their own party their fidelity
to the interests of Rome, and, by reuniting the
faction in hostility to the Government, to enforce a
concession to their demands for the intelligible
consideration of a parliamentary majority. When
will the electors of England be convinced of the
importance of returning Conservative representa-
tives, in order to spare the humiliation of a British
Government being at the mercy of our worst foes,
the emissaries of Rome ?

THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION PETITION.
WHEN sometime since we referred to the Petition
against the election of Messrs. TURNER and MAC-
KENZIE, and confidently expressed our opinion of
its being a mere party manoeuvre, which there could
be no serious intention of prosecuting, we were as-
sailed with a storm of exulting defiance from our
Radical contemporaries. A nest of corruption had
been discovered, and would be laid bare to public
indignation, and the Representation would then be
at the disposal of those whom the Radicals delight
to honour. The prospect was almost too flattering
for Radical credulity; and the hopes which had to
be supported on so slender a foundation, were fed
with ingenious rumours, insidiously circulated, of
the sitting members having declined to defend
their seats against such an overwhelming mass of
evidence; with an occasional milder version, to the
effect that one only of the seats was to be sur-
rendered to a Radical nominee. So clever were
our opponents in thus foreshadowing the fate of
Messrs. TURNER and MACKENZIE, and so con-
fident was the tone which our Radical contempora-
ries had been instructed to assume, unless, indeed,
the invention were all their own, that we sometimes
doubted our own identity. We began to entertain
a vague apprehension that an extraordinary dis-
covery had been made of doings of which the Con-
servatives were themselves unaware; and as there
were also among the chances, the new Whig-Radi-
cal zeal for political purity, and the "glorious uncer-
tainty of the law," it was barely possible that a
favourable Committee, judging from precedents,
might be found to carry out the designs of Messrs.
RATHBONE and Co. We were content, therefore,
to bide our time until the opening of the proceed-
ings, at the commencement of last week, should
afford some insight into that all-important accu-
sation which was to annihilate Conservative
ascendancy in Liverpool ; and we only express the
feeling of nine-tenths of the community, when we
say that contempt and shame are struggling for
the mastery. Months have elapsed since this
charge of bribery and treating was first made ; the
mountain has been painfully in labour, and the
issue is so ridiculougly insignificant, that a mouse
would be too dignified a comparison. This was
evident from the first, in the laboured address of
Mr. Serjeant KINGLAKE, who, finding no ma-
terials, yet feeling himself bound to say something,
indulged in reiterated allusions to the number of
freemen—to what had been done twenty years ago—
and to the monstrous enormity of not allowing a
labouring man to lose the day's wages he would
otherwise have earned, and of conveying him to the
polling-booth in a one-horse carriage. The ex-
posure of the plan of the campaign excited a
general laugh of derision at its utter imbecility,
among all who were interested in the decision,
while even the Radicals felt ashamed of a cause in
which their sympathies had been wantonly en-
listed. They looked with natural anxiety for those
exposures of gross corruption which had been so
confidently promised, and upon which they built
their hopes of the profits of another election, and
to their mortification they dwindled down into the
mere reimbursement of the day's wages lost by
those who attended the election, and paid for at the
current rates of the day. It was seriously doubted
whether a Petition, to be thus supported, was ever
really designed to be submitted to investigation ;
but the intention was soon made apparent when
the ostensible prime-mover was examined as a
witness. He was compelled to admit that he had
made a proposal some two or three months since
to withdraw the Petition, upon condition of one of
the members resigning his seat; and it was only
when the offer was rejected, with the contempt and
indignation which it merited, that a subscription
was made in order to bear the necessary expenses

of prosecuting the inquiry. The final step was
not, however, determined upon until after the
selection of the Committee; and it was only
because it was believed that the political opinions
of three of its members were favourable to the pe-
titioners, that they decided on proceeding. It is
clear, therefore, that the whole affair is a mere
party manoeuvre,—an electioneering trick to in-
timidate the chosen Representatives of Liverpool
into an abandonment of the seats which they
obtained by the votes of such large majorities of
their constituents ; and after the unwilling admis-
sions of MT. WILLIAM RATRBONE, jun., the
Electors of Liverpool will know how to appreciate
his zeal for their interests, and to estimate the
zealous exertions of the Radicals for the purity of
their body. Had it been a closely-contested
election, in which a few votes only had turned
the scale ; had the majority been obtained by
inducing men who were pledged to Liberalism
to become sudden converts to Conservative prin-
ciples; had the votes been secured of those who
were not above the temptations of bribery, we
could have made some allowance for the mortifi-
cation of a defeated party finding a safety-valve in
a petition of inquiry. But such charges have not
a shadow of foundation upon which to rest. The
majority was too overwhelming to require the
slightest approach to anything beyond that judi-
oious organization which is always necessary to
ensure success; and when it is notorious that there
is no election for Liverpool on record which was
-freer from corruption, or conducted on purer prin-
ciples than the last, the conduct of the petitioners
is without the slightest excuse, and should brand
them with infamy and the detestation of every
elector, to whichever party he may belong, who
has any confidence in the correctness of his own
views or the purity of his own motives. We do
not charge the party generally who supported
Messrs. ,CARDWELL and EW&RT with the dis-
grace of these proceedings. Many among them
are men of high and honourable character, and the
majority, we believe, are thoroughly ashamed of
the course which has been pursued, though it
should teach them a lesson of the folly of allowing
themselves to be mixed up with such characters in
order to gain political ends. Mr. CARDWELL had
forfeited the confidence of the electors by the poli-
tical treachery in which he shared with the late
Laws
—and
—y ihnisthseuapbproorgtatoifonthoef
Rthome Nishaveigoaltleiogne
Sir ROBERT PEEL, by his surrender of the Ship-
ping
Maynooth. The question at issue was therefore
placed upon an intelligible basis, and it is the
grossest falsehood, and a foul libel upon the inde-
pendence and common sense of the electors of
Liverpool, for any man, or body of men, to assert
that their votes were obtained, as the petition alleges,
by corrupt practices.

We cannot believe, until the verdict has been
pronounced, that Mr. INGHAM, the Chairman of
the Committee, upon whose decision it will ulti-
mately depend, can be so utterly oblivious of
common sense, and even common honesty—so com-
pletely the tool of party prejudice in forgetfulness
of every other consideration—as to pronounce it
adversely to our present Representatives, upon the
flimsy pretexts which have been advanced on behalf
of the petitioners. But whatever may be the result,
the stain of the infamous proceedings will remain in-
delibly upon those who have promoted them, and
Liverpool will thus far have benefited, in having
discovered the traitors within her own bosom. If
she should obtain that bare measure of justice to
which she has an undoubted right, the execrations
of her foes may be drowned in the congratulations
for her second triumph ; but should she be called
upon once more to assert her privilege of electing
two Constitutional Representatives, it will be by
such a majority as to render hopeless
all attempts at
further opposition,

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

THE Ministerial scheme for the future government
of India has at length been propounded, and Sir
CHARLES Wool) laboured through an oration of
five hours to render palateable a measure which it
is impossible to believe that the House of Commons
will sanction. It was a voluminous preface to so
small a production, and in its very prolixity be-
trayed a consciousness of the weakness of the cause.
He entered into an elaborate statement of almost
all that concerned our Indian empire, interspersed
with numerous quotations from writers on the sub-
ject, as though he were reciting an historical treatise
on British India, and then brought forth the
Government proposition, to continue the anoma-
lous system which at present prevails for an
indefinite period, with some slight modifications, in
order to get rid of the more prominent objections
to the wholesale patronage of the Directors in
Leadenhall-street. The want of direct responsi-
bility he proposed to remedy by a promise that he,
as the President of the Board of Control, would
lay an annual statement of Indian affairs before
Parliament. The rest of his measure may be briefly
stated. The twenty-four directors chosen by the
holders of India stock are to be reduced to twelve, and
the Crown is to nominate six more from Indian
servants of ten years' standing. The appointments
to Haileybury College, to the scientific military
branch at Addiscombe, and to assistant-surgeons,
are to be thrown open to public competition, and
the rest of the patronage is to be left in the hands
of the directors. Some minor alterations are also
proposed in the local government of India. So
paltry a reform, which, in some particulars, would

render matters worse, is by no means satisfactory,
and it is to be hoped that the House of Commons
will show sufficient independence of ministerial
control as not to permit the present opportunity to
be thrown away for effecting so important an im-
provement as might be accomplished by placing our
Indian possessions under direct Imperial control.

THE CONTEST FOR BIRKENHEAp

COMMISSIONERS.
THE election of eight Commissioners for the
Township of Birkenhead takes place this day
(Tuesday). The excitement on the subject has been
increasing in intensity, and announcements in blue
and red have been issued almost hourly. It is,
however, much to be lamented that crimination and
recrimination should have been so largely resorted
to, the more especially when the merits of the case
lie almost in a nutshell, and would have long since
received a satisfactory solution, had the parties been
as ingenuous in their statements as they have proved
themselves to be ingenious in mystifying them.
The sympathies of many of the ratepayers appear to
have been enlisted on the side of the Reds, from a
belief that the ascendancy of that party would lead
to the establishment of factories on the banks of the
Pool. They say that if the choice be between the

completion of the Docks and the occupation of the
banks with hives of industry, they prefer the latter
as being the most conducive to the welfare of
Birkenhead. This is not, however, the alternative ;
for, if the Blue party be elected, the Docks will be
completed, and the other object also attained, the
only obstacle being a legal difference as to the
respective rights of the Dock Trustees and the
Dock and Warehouse Company to the conservancy
of the dock walls, and the question is left for the
decision of the Vice-Chancellor on Monday next.
Whichever way this question may be decided, the
difficulty will be removed from carrying out the
wishes of those who think, by voting for the Red
party, to see the long-desired occupation of the
banks, whereas by voting for the Blue list they will
equally secure the same end, and at the same time
further the equally important object of the com-
pletion of the Docks.

COUNTY Y COURT.- - ESTERDAY.

(Before Joseph Pollock, Esq., Judge.)

His Honour having disposed of several fraud sum-
monses, which possessed no feature of public interest,
proceeded to take insolvency cases.
NON-PAYMENT OF COURT FEES.—CHARGE OF NEG-
LECT AGAINST AN ATTORNEY.—An insolvent, named
Thomas Hesselgrave, came before the court on his final
examination. The case had been before adjourned on
the application of Mr. Bluck, insolvent's attorney. Mr.
M'Oubrey, barrister, appeared for the insolvent, and the
application was opposed by Mr. Grocott, solicitor, on be-
half of certain creditors.

It appeared from an intimation made by his Honour to
Mr. M'Oubrey, that Mr. Bluck, insolvent's attorney, had
not paid certain court fees, although he had received the
money. His Honour complained of this conduct as irre-
gular. The case had been adjourned twice, for the ac-
commodation of the insolvent, when the opposing creditor
was present ; and now, when the case again came before
the court, it appeared the fees had not been paid. His
Honour was determined that the proceedings of the court
should be regular, and would not allow the case to pro-
ceed in its present state.
The insolvent here said that he was not aware the fees
were not paid, and offered to pay them now.

His HONOUR said he would not permit the arrange-
ments under the act of parliament to be interfered with.
The act required that the fees should be paid a certain
time before the hearing of a case, and they must proceed
in the usual way. His Honour added, that if these things
were repeated he should feel it his duty to declare that he
would not hear any practitioner in that court who did not
fulfil his engagements.
The petition was then dimissed, his Honour stating
that he would not again hear it until the regulations of
the court had been complied with.
On the application of Mr. Grocott, the opposing cre-
ditors' costs were allowed.
ALLEGED NEGLECT OF AN OFFICER OF THE COURT.—
John Muir, a flour-dealer in Scotland-road, appeared
before the court on his final order. The insolvent was
supported by Mr. Hill. solicitor, and opposed by Mr.
Dewhurat on behalf of Mr. Arthur Henderson, who had
advanced the insolvent certain sums of money on the se-
curity of a policy of insurance and a promissory note. It
was alleged against the insolvent that he had obtained
from Mr. Henderson a second sum of money on the repre-
sentation that he had paid the premium upon the policy
of insurance, which was not so.
His Hor oug. stated to Mr. Dewhurst that he was not
certain whether, under existing circumstances, he had
jurisdiction in the case. It appeared, when the case was
last before the court, that the necessary advertisement
had not been inserted in the Gazelle in due time, and the
case could not proceed. Since that time another case of
a similar nature, in re Hughes, had come before him, and
the disposal of! that case had been deferred, pending the
decision of the insolvent court in London by the practices
in which it was laid down that the county court judges
were to be guided. The present case had, therefore,
better stand over until a decision in Hughes's case was
before him. It had been submitted to him by the attorney,
in Hughes's case that, in consequence of the advertise-
ment not hating been duly inserted in the Gazette, he had
no jurisdiction, and that the entire of the proceedings
must commence de novo.

Mr. HILL said, in the present case he had himself
paid the money to the officer of the court.
His HONOUIL—He did not say that the insolvent had
not a right of action against the officer of the court, if the
fees had been duly paid, but still he (the judge) must be
guided by the construction of the Act of Parliament as
laid down in the practice of the Insolvent Court in Lon-
don. If the money was paid to the officer of the court in
time for him to have advertised it in the Gazette, no
doubt he ought to have done so; but the question was
whether, in consequence of the advertisement not having
appeared, he had now any jurisdiction in the case. It
was! very important case.

The case was adjourned accordingly, after Mr. Hender-
son had been examined respecting his claim.

WAVERTREE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY SCHOOL.
—On Thursday last the scholars belonging to the Church
of England Schools at Wavertree had their annual treat,
under the auspices of their esteemed president, the Rev.
W. Badnall, M.A. In the forenoon, the children, to the
number of 175, and about twenty teachers, met at the
school rooms in Wavertree-road, and headed by the Rev.
W. Badnall, and the Rev. W. Kewley, the vice•president,
with an efficient band, and upwards of a dozen flags bear-
ing appropriate inscriptions, they walked in procession
through the village to Wavertree-green where they sang
a hymn, and then entered four omnibuses, which bad
been kindly placed at the disposal of the promoters by
Messrs. Mattinson and Dilworth. They were thus con-
veyed to the Landing-stage, where they embarked on
board one of the New Brighton boats. Theday being beau-
tifully fine, they greatly enjoyed themselves; the Rev.
Mr. Kewley and the teachers joining in the festivities of the
day. They were regaled during the day with a plentiful
supply of buns, beef, &c., and in the evening returned
home in the same order as that observed in the morning.
The schools were re-modelled about eighteen months ago,
under the auspices of the Rev. Mr. Badnall, together with
the Rev. S. Fenton, the Rev. J. W. ,
Ihler, jun., the treasurer; Mr. John Fulford,
secretaryllr j
and superintendent of the school, and an efficient staff of
25 teachers. It then numbered only 60 scholars. It has
continued to increase, and now boasts of nearly 200
scholars. We understand that the success of the school
has led to the determination to erect Ei new and more
commodious building for the pupils.

CONFIRMATIONS YESTERDAY BY THE
LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER.

The Right Rev. Dr. Graham, the Lord Bishop of
this diocese, commenced a series of confirmations in
Liverpool yesterday, which his Lordship will continue
during the week.
In the forenoon his Lordship attended at the parish
church of St. Peter, in Church-street, where it had been
arranged that the candidates for confirmation belonging
to the several districts of St. Peter, St. Nicholas (parish
church), St. George, St. John, St. David, St. Stephen,
the Mariners' Church, and the Workhouse, should assem-
ble to have the rite administered.
The young people presented by the clergymen having
charge of the respective districts numbered about 300.
In the afternoon his Lordship proceeded to St.
Mi, had's Church, where he administered confirmation to
between 300 and 400 children belonging to St. Michael's,
St. Thomas's, St. Barnabas's, St. Bride's, St. Mark's, and
St. Andrew's.

After confirmation, the usual services in connexion with
the rite were performed, after which
His LORDSHIP addressed the children in eloquent and
affecting terms, peculiarly appropriate to the occasion.
His Lordship's observations at both churches were much
to the same effect. He said—My dear young friends, this
solemn service of your confirmation has now been com-
pleted. I have laid my hands upon you as the Church
directs, in order, by that sign, to assure you of God's
loving kindness and gracious favour. I have also, as the
Church directs, prayed that God will bless you—that he
will extend to you his heavenly grace, and at last bring
you to his everlasting kingdom. I have offered up this
prayer for you with true sincerity and earnestness of
heart, and I hope that that prayer will be answered by
God's good gifts descending on you all. I am sure that
you have been well instructed and prepared for this solemn
service by your ministers, for your own behaviour here.,
which has been so very orderly and reverential during
the whole of the service, would itself point to me
t hat you feel yourselves the great importance of the
step that you are now taking in your Christian life.
Still I wish, before I bid you farewell, to say a few
words to you, both as a token of my own good will and
kindness to you, and also because being addressed to
you on this very solemn occasion in your lives, what I
may now say may, through God's blessing, sometimes be
called to your remembrance afterwards. Now when you
were little children, your parents or friends took you to
the Church of God to be baptised in the name of the
Father, the Son. and the Holy Ghost. You were thereby
openly admitted into the Christian covenant of grace. Now,
in that very covenant there is a very great and preciouspro-
mise made to you. You had the promise of being delivered
from a state of condemnation to which all men have been
brought by sin, and of being received by the favour of
God, through the atonement which Christ Jesus made on
the cross for the sins of the whole world. You had the
promise of Gad's Holy Spirit to make you his children by
adoption, and to renew and sanctify your hearts and lives,
and you had also the glorious promise of everlasting life
in heaven, through the merits of the Holy Saviour Jesus
Christ. But, my young friends, the Christian covenant
to which you were admitted at your baptism has duties
and engagements which it imposes upon you, as well as
the promises it makes and the privileges it confers.
Those engagements and duties you could not, when you
were little children, make for yourselves—they were made
for you by your godfathers and godmothers, who acted
at your baptism, and became sponsors on your behalf and
for your good. But, then, all this was with the
understanding that what others did for you, you
should yourself adopt as your own act and deed as soon as
you were able to understand its meaning. You, are now
able to do this, and as you have arrived at years of suitable
discretion, the Church calls upon you to renew in your
own persons the engagements made for you by those on
your behalf, that, by the blessing of God and the help of
his grace, you would renounce all ungodliness, believe
God's Holy Word, and keep his commandments. You
have now, this day, openly, before the Church, made
this profession, and entered into these engagements in
your own persons, and with your own voices. Do not,
however, suppose, that you are thereby binding your-
selves by some tie from which you would otherwise have
been free. Do not suppose that you are thereby taking
upon yourselves a responsibility to answer for your sins,
for
winch
you were not accountable before. No such
thing. It never can be a matter of choice with
you whe-
ther you will be bound to obey God's commandments
He is the righteous governor of the world, and if you had
never made any such engagement as you have done to-
day, yet because he is the righteous governor of the
world, you would have been equally bound to keep his
commandments and to obey his laws. Neither will it
ever be a matter of choice in you whether you will
answer for your own sins or not. God is the righteous
judge of the world, and if you transgress his laws,
you must answer for your disobedience. No one else
can answer for you. You must answer for your
own sins yourselves ; arid the time when you become
answerable is not at the time of your confirmation, but
as soon as your understanding enables you to know the
difference between good and evil. His Lordship, in con-
tinuation, pointed out the Christian duties and respon-
sibilities which they had now openly imposed upon them-
selves, and feelingly urged upon them the vast importance
of adhering in practice to the Christian profession they
had made.

The proceedings closed by his Lordship pronouncing
the benediction.

To-day, at eleven o'clock, his Lordship will hold a
confirmation

At St. Luke's Church.—For St. Luke, Liverpool, St.
Philip, St. Clement, St. Saviour, St. Catherine, St.
Simon, St. John the Evangelist, St. Mary (for the blind).
At St. Jude's Church, three o'clock, p an.—For St.
Jude, Liverpool ; St. Silas, Trinity, Christ Church, St.
Anne ; St. James, \Vest Derby ; St. Anne, Stanley ;
Edge-bill, St. Mary ; Edge-hill, St. Stephen ; Fairfield.

...
,
At St. Paul's C hurck, Wednesday, at eleven o'clock,
p.m.—For St. Paul, Liverpool ; St. Matthias, St. Martin,
St. Bartholomew, All Saints, St. Matthew, Bevington,
Vauxhall.

At Walton Church, at three o'clock, p.m.—For Wal-
ton, Kirkby. Aintree, Bootle, West Derby ; Trinity,
Walton Breck ; Kirkdale Industrial School.
At St. George's Church, Everton, on Thursday, at-
eleven o'clock, a.m.—For St. George, Everton ; St.
Augustine, ditto ; Christ Church, ditto ; St. Peter, ditto ;
St. Mary, Kirkdale.
At St. John Baptist Church, Toxteth, on Thursday.
at three o'clock, p.m.—For St. John Baptist, Toxteth ;
St. Michael, ditto ; St. Paul, ditto ; St. James, ditto ; St.
Thomas, ditto ; St. Matthew, ditto.

VAUXHALL CHURCH AND SCHOOLS.—We are glad to see
that the contributions for these important objects go for-
ward with spirit; and we hope that all who sympathise
in the effort will be prompt in affording their assistance,
that full advantage may be taken of the summer season
in forwarding the work.

BODIES FOUND.—On Sunday, the body of a woman,
unknown, was found in the canal. It appeared to have
been in the water for some time.—On Saturday, the body
of a man, unknown, was found floating in the river
twelve miles N.W. of the Bell Buoy, by the steam-tug
Tartar. The body was brought by the steamer to the
Seacombe Ferry, and thence conveyed to the dead-house.
Inquests will be held on the bodies to-day.
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.—It will be seen, by adver-
tisement, that a public meeting will be held this evening
to receive a deputation from the London Sunday School
Union, and to celebrate the jubilee of that society. The
Sunday School has been in existence half a century, during
which period it has been conducted by the friends and
voluntary unpaid labours of the London Sunday School
Committee. Its operations, which are conducted in &
truly Catholic spirit, have been very extensive. Exclusive
of grants for the colonies, the society has given £7,000
since 1832 towards the erection of 300 Sunday School-
rooms. They have also granted 2,750 libraries of books
for Sunday scholars and their parents at a prime cost of
upwards of £12,000. Their annual profits they invari-
ably spend in assisting schools in various localities which
require their aid. The arrival of the fiftieth year of the
society has suggested the necessity of still more extended
plans of usefulness, and it is to explain and develop these
that the deputation visits this town.

AN UNFEELING SON.—On Wednesday an inquest was
held upon the body of William Williamson, aged 48, mate
of the schooner Fanny, of Ramsay, who died from the
effects of excessive drinking. The deceased went, on
Monday afternoon, to the house of Mr. John Carrol,
Salthouse-lane, after which, being intoxicated, Mr.
Carrol accompanied him to the Prince's Dock basin,
where they found the Fanny, in tow of a steamer, going-
up to Runcorn. Williamson being too late to get on
board, they returned to Salthouse-lane, and the deceased
lay upon a sofa in the parlour. Carrol went out to watch
goods on the Queen's Dock quay, and remained there ail
night. When he returned to his house, on Tuesday
morning, he found Williamson still on the sofa. He
tried to rouse him, but, not succeeding, he called in Dr.
Bruce, who pronounced life extinct. A son of the de-
ceased, who had that morning returned from India,
appeared in court, and owned his father ; but, although
he had taken a watch out of the dead man's pocket, and
pawned it for 55., he refused to have anything to do with
burying the corpse, and said the parish must do it, for he
would not. The burial order was consequently sent to
Mr. Gray, at the parish-office, and the body removed. A
verdict of `• Died from excessive drinking' was returned.

THELOVERS OF LAUGHTER are a 9 numerous as the stars
of the firmament, and those who cater for their atnusement
need be as watchful as Argus to catch the passing whim
of the moment and tickle the risible faculties. Those who
succeed best in this are amongst the greatest benefactors
of society, for wholesome mirth is the best dyspeptic
medicine ever yet discovered—" laugh and grow fat is
an adage as old as the world—the hyena, the most vora-
cious of animals, is obliged to laugh to digest his meals.
Go, then, ye dyspeptic; go, ye victims of the bile—go
to Eastbaro, and see the Catageloseum, whose proprietor,
if he has not had as much audacity as Prometheus, to
steal fire from heaven to endow his ludicrous figures with
life, he certainly has had brass enough to make machinery
for the niost
achmogmohrteerwwoohdicehn,
life-like movements ever
of yet communicated
to to wooden figures ; indeed, we have seen very many
figures of real flesh and blood with much
aFte. At first the CatagCatageloseumorry
movements than those of the Temple
beautifully-picturesque.
made
grounds
we
usgl
alatut attractsthe
ei thousands
E heartilya
sthm
and hold our sides, for very fear
of the consequences, but after a long and patient inves-
tigation of the figures, we were led more to admire the
ingenious resemblance to real life—each is so true that the
ridiculous scion gives way to the perception that it is no
caricature,
which
we arbeuitooakg.
an accurate personification of life upon
this now popular a\mVuesecmattennott. too strongly recom-
mend

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stn.,—We are very much in want of an early Commu-
nion in one of the churches upon the North Shore
(Bootle, Seaforth, or Waterloo), and our clergy would
confer a great favour upon us if they would arrange to
afford the opportunity for one on each Sacrament Sunday,
sayat especiallyenjoyedin
during the summer months.
This Liverpool and at Birkenhead,
and great numbers avail themselves of it. Will you make
privilegeelt a.m.,
is
the suggession with all due respect, and oblige yours
faithfully, E. C.
Bootle, June, 6, 1853.

FOREIGN

NEWS

FRANCE.—The Corps Legislatif closed on Saturday.
So pressed for time were the members, that notwith-
standing their unanimity on all points, they were obliged
to postpone the Literary Property Bill. The bill making
attempts on the life of the Emperor, or members of the
Imperial Family, capital crimes, does not, as originally
proposed, extend the punishment of death to crimes
against the state, which are to be punishable by confine-
ment in a fortress, or by transportation to a penal colony.
It is now understood that a change has taken place in
the intention of the Empress, who no longer purposes
journeying to the Pyrenees this summer.
It is in contemplation to establish at Lyons a camp of
observation, which will make the third in France—the
other two being at St. Omer and Satory.
The Prefect of the Bouches de Rhone has imitated the
conduct of the Chinese Imperialist authorities, by issuing
an edict against gossiping. This functionary has in-
structed the police at Marseilles to arrest persons who
propagate false news, whether with good faith or not.

AUSTRIA.—There is a report at Vienna favourable to
the 'Pope that negotiations will shortly be re-opened
between Austria and Switzerland. If not, and in the
event of any fresh complication arising either in the Swiss
question or in that of the East, very disastrous conse-
quences, in a financial point of view, are immediately
apprehended.
SWITZERLAND.—M. de Buol has notified to the
Swiss Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, that the recall of M.
de Karnicki has not the signification of an international
rupture, and that if Switzerland desires such a rupture she
must bear its consequences. In consequence of this
information the Swiss Envoy, who had been recalled by
his Government, has applied for fresh instructions, and
the Federal Council, in reply to his application, has in-
structed him to remain at his post, and to continue his
diplomatic relations.
PRUSSIA.—Among official quarters at Berlin there is
a strong conviction that no war will take place between
Austria and Switzerland. A conference which took place
between the King and Prince Menschikoff is much talked
of. The latter is stated positively to have declared that
peace must be maintained even at the expense of some
sacrifices.
RUSSIA.—A most important telegraphic despatch,
with every appearance of authenticity, has arrived. It
bears date Berlin, June 2d, and positively states that
Gen. Danenberg had received orders from St. Peters-
burgh to proceed with the 4th corps d'armee of Poland,
by forced marches to Bessarabia, and to replace the
Russian army encamped on the frontiers of Moldavia,
which is destined to invade the Principalities on the 10th
instant. The French squadron has anchored in the Bay
of Berica.
Differences have now arisen between Russia and
Persia, as it would appear from the following intelligence
received from St. Petersburgh :
The Czar demands from the Shah of Persia either the
immediate repayment of the loan of 50,000,000 f., or the
cession of the territory of Asterabad, on the shores of the
Caspian. The Shah has refused compliance with either
demand.

It is said that the Prince Dolzomki, Secretary to
Russian Embassy at Teheran, has given a blow to
secretary of the Shah, and that Ahmet Effendi,
Turkish Ambassador, who took the part of the insul
dignitary, has addressed a letter to the Foreign Cons
at Teheran.

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sole

TURKEY.—The particulars of events which led imme-
diately to the rupture at Constantinople are now stated
with sufficient appearance of accuracy to be in the main
reliable. Prince Menschikoff's ultimatum, if such it be,
was presented on Monday, the 16th. In terms as harsh
as its spirit was hostile and overbearing, it demanded
a favourable answer in three days, with no other alterna-
tive than an appeal to arms. The Turkish Ministers were
prepared to give an immediate refusal, but the Sultan, by
Imperial decree, ordered the convocation of an Extraor-
dinary Council of the Ministers, the Mushirs, the Ulema,
the Viziers, both military and civil, and all the Effendis,
to the rank of Caala. Fifty-seven Pachas, nineteen
Effendis, and twelve Kazaskiers attended the council,
under the presidency of the Grand Vizier, who had the
venerable Hosref Pacha seated at his right hand. After a
protracted deliberation they came to a unanimous decision
that they could not comply with the demands of Russia.
Redchid Pacha, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, then had
a long conference with Lord Stratford, and on the follow-
ing morning Redchid Pacha communicated verbally to
Prince Menschikoff the adverse decision of the Porte.
The official reply to the Russian note was not given till
the 19th, but relations were broken off the day before.
The Extraordinary Council met again on that day (the
18th), and drew up a " fetva,'' or assent of the law. The
" fetva" is simple and emphatic. It enumerates the de-
mands of Russia, and then says olmaz (they cannot be.)
On the same evening the Ambassadors of England and
France called to take leave of his Excellency, their visit
being a formal leave-taking, and no more, as all oppor-
tunity for diplomatic skill had passed. At a late hour
the Sultan summoned all his Ministers into his presence,
and addressed them to the effect that he had done
all in his power to secure the good-will of the Rus-
sian Emperor, by granting every reasonable request ;
but now that a demand was made which infringed
upon the preregatives of the Crown, and which, more-
over, he had no right to cede, he was bound to
refuse. If, then, it pleased the Almighty God to MR. MONSELL TO LORD ABERDEEN.
inflict on the nations the scourge of war, he himself 25, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, Jnne 2.
was guiltless of it ; but he never should forget that he My Lord,—l was not present in the House of Commons
was the descendant of Othman, and bearing that in mind on Tuesday night, and only learned from the newspapers
he would be the first to risk his person at the head of his what had passed in the debate.
troops, in defence of the holy territory of Islam. The It appears that in the course of a discussion upon the
preparations for war on the part of the Sultan are going ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland, Lord John Russell,
on actively. Thirty thousand troops are on their way from who is the organ of the Government in the House of
Egypt—many, indeed. have arrived ; and troops and am- Commons, spoke of the Roman Catholic Church in a
munition are everywhere in movement. The redif militia manner which could not fail to be most. offensive to the
is being collected, and for the present two camps will be members of that communion. His Lordship described,
organised at Brussa and Shamla. Omer Pasha will be not individual members of the Roman Catholic Church,
named Seraskier. The Egyptian fleet and the Turkish but that church itself, "under the direction of its head,"
vessels, under the command of Ahmet Pacha, are ex- as hostile to free institutions and disloyal to civil govern-
pected to anchor before the Seraglio early next week. nients, and, therefore, the qualification which his Lord-
Several English and German officers have been engaged, ship added to his censure could not apply to any who,
and have already taken charge of their vessels. A foreign like myself, are in deep and thorough unity of sentiment
Legion is to be formed, and the Seraskier has received the and spirit with that church and its head.
offer of their services from a deputation of Italians and No other Minister expressed dissent from the opinions
Poles. It is believed that in Roumelia, the very part of his Lordship ; they have, therefore, gone forth as the
most threatened, the Turks will be able to oppose at opinions of the Government, and of a Government pub.
once 80,000 men under arms. The present Grand Vizier, licly professing such opinions I cannot with honour re-
being an Albanian, and exceedingly popular, will be able main a member.
through his influence to raise the whole of that warlike Of the votes given upon the question before the House
population. It was the general opinion at Constantinople Ido not complain ; but sentiments so thoroughly hostile
that Russia would use what force she has at hand to com- to the civil equality of the communion to which I belong
mence hostilities directly ; but the few who are better I cannot pass by.
informed doubted much whether that power would enter Acknowledging, therefore, as lam on many accounts
upon so dangerous a course, and questioned whether bound to do, the great and consistent liberality of your
Russia dare even move her troops into Turkey. It is not Lordship, and of many members of your Government,
the Turkish military only, but the whole nation, that will and the great personal kindness which 1 have received at
rise against the Muscovite. your hands and theirs, I beg respectfully to tender my
resignation of the office which your Lordship has hitherto
thought me worthy to fill.
I am, my Lord, your obliged and faithful servant,
WILLIAM MONSELL.

WEST AFRICA.—On Thursday the African Steam Com-
pany's mail ship, Forerunner, arrived off Plymouth. The
intelligence she brings chiefly concerns the dispute with
the King of Ashantee. When the Forerunner arrived at
Cape Coast Castle, on her outward voyage, the governor
and troops had left the fort to settle the dispute with this
king, and had encamped near Dungua, in the face of an
army of upwards of 20,000 men, the English, with their
allies, being 16,000. The disturbance was caused by two
chiefs, who were sworn to support the English, breaking
their fidelity, and accepting bribes to join the opposite
party. They were imprisoned in the English fort, but
afterwards let out on bail. They again attempted to cross
the River Prat, and join the King of Ashantee. Ensign
Brownhill, of the Gold Coast Corps, with a party of
thirty soldiers, succeeded in bringing them back. They
were secured in the cells of the castle, and afterwards
beheaded by order of a court-martial. Governor Ken-
nedy has succeeded at length in putting a stop to the sys-
tem of selling children out of Sierre Leone to the people
on the banks of the river. He also recovered about 70
of them from the chiefs, and is actively prosecuting his
benevolent object with every hope of success. One lady
passenger, Mrs. Paley, died on board the Forerunner, on
the 6th of May. She and her husband, a clergyman of
the Church of England, attached to the mission of Abo-
kuta, went out with the Bishop of Sierra Leone in De-
cember last. Mr. Paley died there on the Ist of April ;
Lis wife came on board very ill, at Lagos, and died five days
afterwards. Slaving bad again commenced on the African
coast, and one or two captures had followed. The Ferret
took one ship in the New Calabar River ; and the Linnet
bad captured two in the River Pongas.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANIBRIA

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Cambria, Capt. Long, which arrived in the Mersey
yesterday morning, we have advices from New York to
the 24th, and from Boston to the 25th tilt.

The Cambria brought 4'279,323 specie in freight, and
the following seventy-six passengers :—From Boston :
Mr. H. Howard and lady, Miss Dove, Mrs. Mlntosh,
two children and servant, Mr. G. D. Oxnard and lady,
Mr. J. P. Higginson, Mr. J. A. Higginson, Mr. N.
Snow. Mr. S. Puree, Mr. H. Russell, Mr.W. A. Conant,
Mr, W. Brumme, Mr. J. Stephenson, Mr. J. M`Master,
Mr. J. B. Kelley, Mr. S. E. Brown, Mr. J. Dove. Dr.'
P. B. F. Randall, Mr. J. T. Robinson, Mr. T. Banks,
jun.. Mr. R. Stephens, Mr. C. Lemme, Mrs. Wrigley,
Mr. C. H. Griffiths, Mr. T. D. Bennett, Mr.W. Houston,
Mr. A. Phillips and child, Mr. R. Hutton, Mr. Corbyn,
Mr. Jones and lady, Mr. Janfroid, Mr. H. E. Rawson, Mr.'
Ronsett, Mr. Stakelbv and servant, Mr. Crottes, Capt. A.
Delralle, Mr. H. E. Kenp, Mr. A. Rienhart and friend,
Mr. C. Shann, Mr. W. M. Smorfitt, Mr. J. M. Burns,
Mr. J. Stroud and son, Mr. A. J. Colby, Mr. T. Butress,
Mr. J. F. Kerr, Mr. J. Grier, jun., Mr. Hare, lady, four
children, and nurse; Mr. A. Beazley, Mr. P. Haynes, Mr.
F. Merchant, Mr. J. Brown, Mr. W. Robertson, Mr. C.
Martin, and Mr. J. B. Begger. Front Halifax: Mrs.
De Vries, Captain Hamilton, R. N., Mr. Buchanan, Mr.
Parky, Mrs. De Woolfe, Mr. Coltart, Commander Ry-
nasten, R.N., Mr. Macdonald, and Mr. Cotton.
The United States mail steam-ship Franklin, which left
Southampton on the 11th ult., arrived at New York at 7,
a.m., on the 24th.

MontLE, May 20.—Sales for the week 7,000 bales
Receipts for the week 1,000 bales. Exports 1,600 bales,
Stock 36,000 bales. Middling cotton closing at 9ic,
Freight to Liverpool, 7-16 d per lb.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29.—There has been moderate
activity in general business since our last weekly reference
to the market, but without much deviation from the
prices then ruling. The number of arrivals from sea
during the week has been twenty-eight, of which one was
from Boston, two from Valparaiso, two from China, one
from Australia, one from Sandwich Islands, one from
Liverpool, three from other foreign ports, and seventeen
from Oregon and domestic coast ports. There has been
a fair jobbing business done for the local and interior
trades. The money market was very tight.

THE IRISH MEMBERS OF THE MINISTRY.

The following is a copy of the correspondence which
has taken place between Mr. Monsell, on the part of
himself and his Romanist colleagues in the ministry, and
the Earl of Aberdeen, on the subject of Lord John Rus-
sell's speech on the motion for an Irish Church Revenue
Appropriation Bill :

To the Earl of Aberdeen

The Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Shannon, com-
mander, hence for Boston, arrived at Halifax on the 24th
ultimo.

LORD ABERDEEN TO MR. MONSELL

Downing.sreet, June 3, 1853.
My Dear Sir,—lt is with great concern that I have re-
ceived your letter, in which you tender your resignation,
in consequence of the proceedings which took place in
the Rouse of Commons on Tuesday last.
I have to inform you that while the vote on that occasion
had the sanction of the Government, the reasons for that
vote given by Lord John Russell, and the sentiments of
which you complain are not shared by me nor by any of my
colleagues. I wish this to be distinctly understood, as I might
be justly charged with a departure from those feelings
which, both in and out of office, I have held, and still
hold, with regard to the Roman Catholic body, and the
open avowal of which had appeared to several Roman
Catholic gentlemen to justify them in accepting office
under the Government.

Words spoken in the heat of debate are liable to be
misapprehended, and Lord John Russell desires me state
that he did not want to impute want of loyalty to the
Roman Catholics, and that he expressly said that political
and social equality ought to be maintained.
I have made a similar communication to Mr. Keogh
and Mr. Sadleir ; and, after the explanation, I confidently
trust that you will not persevere in an intention which
would be to me the cause of sincere regret.—l have the
honour to be, my dear Sir, very truly yours,
W. Monsen, Esq. ABERDEEN.

MR. MONSELL TO LORD ABERDEEN.

The Golden Gate left San Francisco for New York on
the 30th April, with 43'2,137,307 in gold dust.
Accounts from Washington of the 23rd ult. state that the
following diplomatic appointments had been made by the
President :—Minister to Great Britain, James Buchanan ;
Secretary of Legation, John Appleton ; to Spain, Pierre
Soule ; to Russia, Thos. 11. Seymour ; to Prussia, Peter
D. Vroom. The mission to Prance has not been deter-

25, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, June 4.
My Lord,—l beg to to acknowledge, with many thanks,
the receipt of your Lordship's letter.
That letter puts it beyond doubt that the basis upon
which I accepted office remains unshaken, and that the
sentiments of which I complained are not those of your
Lordship's Government.
It is, indeed, deeply to be lamented that a circumstance
should have occurred which required so imperatively the
reassertion by your Lordship of the principles which you
have so long professed ; and I cannot conceal from myself
that even the frank and generous consistency with which
your Lordship has met the occasion may prove insufficient
in some qaarters to allay apprehensions which have been
excited.

With me, however, it is otherwise. I have trusted, and
I do trust, that your Lordship, as a highminded states-
man, resolved to deal justly and liberally with a religious
communion which has long suffered from opposite treat-
ment; and henceforth, unless I shall learn from your own
lips, or from formal acts, that the policy of the Govern-
ment is changed, I shall accept every fresh difficulty
which attends its course as a fresh reason for offering to
your Lordship a continuance of the services, humble as
they are, which I am capable of rendering.
Under these circumstances, I can have no hesitation in
acceding to your Lordship's wishes, by withdrawing my
resignation.—l am. my Lord, your faithful and obliged
servant,
To the Earl of Aberdeen

W. MONSELL.

MR. COMMISSIONER PHILLIPS, while crossing the
Strand, London, on Tuesday, was knocked down by a
cab, but fortunately sustained no injur
y.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION AND SERIOUS ACCIDN
Wednesday, an explosion occurred in a hougEeiTns.G—roe
an
Queen-street, Westminster, which was attended
with
serious, if not fatal, injuries, to one of the Coldstream
guards and his wife. The house was let out in lodgings,
and Eliza Dye, the wife of one of the Coldstream guards,'
was engaged to cican the place. For the last day or two a
strong smell of gas has been experienced by the inmates,
but no one could tell whence it came, especially as no
gas was laid on in the building. On Wednesday after-
noon, Robert Dye, the husband of the woman, called to
see her, preparatory to his return to the barracks at
Kensington. Whilst there, the soldier and his wife went
into the coal cellar in front of the kitchen, and under the
pavement, when an explosion took place, which blew
the stone flags up in the street, set fire to both man and
woman, and forced them a considerable distance. Their
screams brought assistance, and several persons rushed
down stairs and rescued them, and having extinguished
the flames about their apparel, they were found to be so
fearfully
injured that they were at once removed to West-
minster Hospital. .It is at present impossible to tell
whether they can recover. An escape of gas from the
mains in the street having accumulated in the cellar btu
been found to have been al cause of the dimter.

mined on

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From New Zealand we have advices to the Gth of April.
The King delivered a speech on the opening of the Legis-
lature on the 6th. It was reported that Captain Cash, of
the whaler Columbus, had discovered coal on the northern
shores of the Ochotsk Sea, in lon. 156 E., which proved
to he of a superior quality.
CA LIFORN lA.—By the arrival of the steam-ships United
States and Falcon, at New Orleans, we have advices from
San Francisco to the 30th April. We find no mention of
the amount of gold brought by these steamers, but the
accounts from the mines appear to be of a very favourable
character. Two fires had occurred at sprz Francisco, but

they were fortunately extinguished before any damage m
importance was done. The banking-house of Page,
Bacon, and Co., had been robbed of £3,000. New dis-
coveries of gold near Negro-hill were reported. The
agricultural prospects were in a very flattering condition.
The grand jury of the District Court of San Francisco had
ignored the bill brought against Captain Sampson, of the
steamer Independence, for manslaughter ; but said if they
had the power they would bring bills against the owners
and agents of the Vanderbilt line, on account of miserable
outfit, unseaworthiness, and other acts, and the unjusti.
flable negligence which entailed the loss of 100 lives.
Three men were executed at Sacramento on the 28th
April, for murder. Their names were, Thompson, aged
25, a native of Southampton, and Stewart and Ackerman,
Americans. The two latter smoked cigars until they
mounted the scaffold.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MONEY MARKET, NEW YORK, May 24.—There were
moderate sales at the Stock-board, with little or no varia-
tion in price. The money market is becoming somewhat
easier every day. Loans on call 6 per cent. Foreign ex-
change is firm, with a moderate business doing. London,
1091 to 110; Paris. 5.124 to 5.13*; Amsterdam, 41 to
41+ ; Frankfort, 40i to 41 ; Bremen, 791 to 791-; Ham-
burg, 36+ to 30; Antwerp, 5.15 to 5.161.
COTTON.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular, of May
24.) Since my circular of the 18th inst., we have received
Liverpool dates to the 7th inst., per Africa. The cotton
market there was firmer, and, in some cases, 1-16 d. per
lb. higher than on the Atlantic's departure on the 4th
inst. This news was not equal to the expectations of
holders of cotton in this city, who had generally expected
an advance of kd. to +d., and as many had been holding
for some weeks past in anticipation of better prices, some
of them, under the disappointment, offered their stocks
rather freely on Friday and Saturday last, and submitted
to a reduction of lc. to ic. per lb. in middling and good
middling qualities, while on the lower grades a greater
decline must be taken in order to effect sales; this ap-
plies more particularly to upland cotton, as being in
greater abundance. Orleans and Mobile, of good staple
and clean, are scarce, and are not offered lower. Yester-
day the business was only to a moderate extent, and
without further change in price ; buyers do not show any
spirit,and holders are desirous of lessening their stock some-
what. The excess in receipts now amounts to 249,000 bales.
The increase in exports to Great Britain is 67,000; France
7,000; other foreign ports, 2,000. Total increase in ex-
ports, 76,000 bales. The decline in the excess of receipts
this week is greater than was expected, and now stands at
249,000 bales. Next week some further slight reduction
may occur. The total last year at Charleston and Sa-
vannah was 11,500 bales, and it may not be reached
during the present week. The excess in export to Great
Britain is down to 67,000 bales, as compared with last
year. The number of vessels at present loading for Great
Britain is 70; last year, 81 ; year before, 90. To France
the export exceeds that of last year to date, 7,000 bales.
BREADSTUFFS.—The tone of the flour market latterly
has been much depressed, and there is a disposition on
the part of the trade to meet the foreign demand, without,
however, leading to any extensive transactions. Prices
are 6+c. to 124 c. per barrel below the quotations of this
day week. Wheat, with the exception of prime Genesse,
which is wanted for milling, is rather easier to buy. In-
dian corn dull, at a small decline from last week's prices.
PaovistoNs.—Pork is dull. The market is well sup-
plied with beef, and prices are heavy. Lard sells freely,
at 93c. to 10c. for barrels.
FREIGHTS.—To Europe freights are dull. To Liver-
pool, for cotton, +d. to 9-32 d. per lb. ; flour, Is. 9d. to
2s. per barrel; grain, in bulk, sd. to 54d. per bushel. To
London, flour, Is. 9d. to 2s. per barrel. To Havre,
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I IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

NEW ORLEANS, May 21.—The receipts for the week
are 13,500 bales. Excess at this port 239,000 bales ;
excess at all the ports, by table of this date. 258,000
bales. Sales for the week 20,000 bales, closing firmly at
9ic. to 10c. for middling. Stock 169,000 bales. May 23.
There is a better feeling to-day, and middlings are selling
at 10c. to 10.1 c. per lb. The accounts per Africa are con-
strued as favourable.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, MAY 31.

THE OATH OF ABJURATION.—Lord LYNDHURST
moved the second reading of the Alteration of Oaths Bill,
the object of which he described as being simply to strike
out from the oaths taken as qualification for seats in par-
liament, or other offices, such portions as were inope-
rative and absurd. He proceeded to illustrate this pro-
position by examples drawn from the oaths of allegiance,
supremacy, and abjuration.—The Earl of DERBY had no
objection to the alteration of the oaths, but regarded
with considerable suspicion the use which might be made
of such a measure, if passed at so advanced a period of
the session, especially by the introduction of amendments.
After some discussion, the bill was read a second time.
The Aggravated Assaults Bill was reported, with
amendments.
The Burial-grounds Bill was read a second time.
The Sales of Bullion Bill went through committee.