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. annum on the rental, they should be levied on the whole FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. this ability at the late assizes, plentifully, over- the RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
imperial .19arlianunt union,
degree of impartiality which, however,manymay
jury, the bar, the witnesses, and the audience, with a
Lord STANLEY moved the omission of the clause alto-
under the application, leaves
• • • • smart
The Manchester and Southampton Railway Bill has
THE OVERLAND MAIL.
been thrown out on standing orders..
HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. gether, which he said was calculated to make the provident none of them reason to corn-
An extraordinary express in anticipation of the over-
The atmospheric system is to be abandoned on the
The Eneumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill was read a third landholders pay for the improvidence of their neighbours. plaia that they had more or less than their share. Thus
land mail has arrived, bringing papeis from Calcutta to
time and passed. Earl GREY said it would be unjust to the electoral divi- the 23d March, and from Bombay the 1 tof April.
The Earl of CLANCARTY gave notice that in committee sions not to pass the clause, for the towns were of greatoratory to be. " making a great sneech to show that pick- •
The only intelligence from the Punjaub is corrective of
the amalgamation with the Manchester and Leeds. The
The Preston and Wyre half=yearly meeting confirmed
on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, it was his intention to advantage to the landholders, and many of them would, what. has previously appeared in reference to, the state-of. ing a pocket is -a virtuous- action.-''' . One 4 of the witnesses,
move certain amendments relative to the administration notwithstanding, be broken down by the influx of the who presented the qnintescence of " a very. nice young Sikh affairs in general. No attempt on the life of Tej dividends for each half year prospectively until 1855 were
of out-door relief. tenants who might be driven out by those landlords who tin,/ him to
man," he covered with confusion, by reques a fully detailed.
Sing appears to have been anticited neither had the
The Marquis of WESTMEATH then rose to move the fol- were clearing their estates. . .
Hazarch people resisted the government' ofGoolab Singh. "drop his ultra-gentility of tone and raise his voice." The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway have
lowing resolution :—Thatthe existing laws of landlord and After some discussion, their lordships divided, and the One of
Goola.b Singh does not seem a worse or more unpopular
Hitchin Railway, for certain letters in the Cambridge In 7
.tenant in Ireland are not calculated to regulate equitably clause was rejected by a majority of 73 to 54.
ruler than the bulk of the chiefs around him. Since our question a witness, was politely permitted to do so "if 11,e,
dependent, insinuating that the sum of £960,000 had ut-
the duties, reciprocal obligations, and interests of the par- The discussion of other clauses, up to 19, occupied the connection with him began-we have had no fault whatever pleased, particularlyas it would form an agreeable variety.
ties in those relations in that country, and under actual remainder of the evening.
tofind with hassuggestion cleared his . . terly disappeared from the former company, in a manner
circumstances, require immediate revision and amendment; him. He at our
and that the imposition of increased burthens and new re- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. dungeons of state prisoners, restored lands unjustly es- • COURT AND. FASHION. not to be accounted for on right principles.
aponsibilities on land render such revision and amendment In reply to a question from. Captain HARRIS,
• cheated, and abolished suttee and female infanticide. No . A meeting was held in Glasgow, a few days since, for
•
urgent and indispensable. Lord J. RUSSELL said, it was not the intention of the
attempt to prevent the Durbar meeting on Sunday had The court remained in town until and on Tuesday the the purpose of petitioning parliament to compel railway
been made, or to restrain the movements of the Queen companies to aftbrd accommodation on Sundays;. but the
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE hoped their lordships Government to introduce any measure to prevent the ex- . Queen and Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, and other
Mother or her son. No commemoration of any of our royal and illustriouspersonages, friends of the Sabbath mustered so strong, that, though
honoured her Majesty's
would not agree to an abstract motion such as that of the portation of wheat from this country.
. victories•had occurred in the Sikh capital. Everywherethe meeting was prolonged until midnight, the chairman
-noble marquis, which condemned the existing system Mr. HUME asked if it was the intention of the noble . Theatre for the purpose of witnessing the debut of that
the untry was tranquil; trade and cultivation were compelled to adjourn it without any motion being passed.
without venturing to lay down a remedy for its defects. lord to proceed with the measure of granting loans of co incomparable songstress, Madlle. Jenny Lind, as Alice
everYwhere advancing as the public confidence increased ; in the opera of Robert le Diable. On Wednesday evening THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—When this line is
There was a bill in the other house of parliament which £600,000 to the Irish railways after what had occurred in and a stern system of inquiry into the state of the financesz open, the trains from London will experience an average
proposed to alter the law of landlord and tenant in Ire- the house of Lords on the previous evening. the queen gave a dinner at Buckingham Palace ; among
of the country had been entered on with a view to retrench- the guests were the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and acceleration of an hour and a half. The express train will
land, and if that bill should reach their lordships house Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention, without any . meat. We are sorry to say there is nothing cheering in run in five hours, arriving in Liverpool at ten instead of
Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince of Leiningen, Prince
there would be an opportunity of considering the subject reference to what had taken place elsewhere, to postpone the commercial intelligence from either of the Presider-
at two o'clock, and possibly, alter a short time, by one.
eleven, as at present. The London papers will he here
-practically. the Railways (Ireland) Bill until next Friday. , Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Wellington, &c.
ties. Instead of an improvement in the demand •for After dinner, the Queen and Prince Albert (who was di-
- The Marquis of WESTMEATH immediately withdrew his The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had been
;notion. waited upon by several deputations of merchants and manufactured goods, as was expected, there had been a rector for the evening), accompanied by their royal and
MAGNITUDE OF THE GREAT WESTERN COMPANY.—
bankers, it is expected, will open in June.
decided falling off in the sales, and also a decline in prices. illustrious guests attended the Concert of Ancient Music
bankers, in reference to the difficulties in the money mar- The money markets of Calcutta, as well as Bombay, were The whole amount of the called-up capital of the Great
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. ket, the general tenor of whose arguments would go to at the Hanover Square Rooms.
most unusually tight, a state of things for which we have Western Company is £5,751,150, and its present out-
againstMr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from Chester induce him to propose the repeal of the act of 1844. This, Prince Albert honoured Sir Robert Peel with a visit on
seen no good reason assigned, as they were yet free from standing debt amounts to £4,216,370. The company
Wednesday, to inspect the right honourable baronet's
.possesses a power of raising, by calls and new shares, a
the Health of Towns Bill. however, the government were resolved not to agree to ; the influence of the causes that are acting with such force collection of paintings, and view the new Indian staircase. Lord PALMERSTON said that he regretted to state that but they were, at the same time, desirous of affording on our home affairs. At Calcutta it appears that the banks A beautiful milk-white pony, which was introduced on further sum of X 3,958,850. By the bills of the present
wo information had been received by the Foreign Office every assistance to the Bank in meeting the emergency had raised the rate of discount on private paper to 12 per session, as far as an estimate can be made, a power will
with respect to the reported capture of Mr. Henry Billing that they.could legitimately offer; and although the an-.the stage, at Drury-lane Theatre, and which was much
cent., and on the government bills to 8 per cent. This is be conferred of raising an additional sum of more than
admired by the Prince of Wales and the Royal Family, Graham on the coast of Africa. nouncement might be premature, yet under existing cm- extravagantly high, even in India, although even these £11,000,000, or about twice the amount of the present
The Earl of LINCOLN wished to ask the noble lord at cumstances he felt it right to state that on the 18th of has been presented to the prince, by its owner.
rates have been thrown into the shade by the unparallelled paid-up capital.
the head of the administration when the Health of Towns May he should give the usual notice for the exchange of charges made on commercial paper in London within the ._. ____
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.—At a recent
Bill would be proceeded with ? exchequer faith, and would thenceforth allow on the new last few days. The only favourable portion of the intelli-
---- Lord J. RUSSELL said, in the absence of his noble. bills interest at the rate of 3d. per diem. He believed theUNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. half-yearly meeting of this company, a most satisfactory
gence is the declaration of the Treasury, that they will report was presented. It appears that during the five
friend, the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, severest portion of the pressure was already passed, for make advances on the hypothecation of .goods .to Europe months a portion of the line, about fifteen miles in length,
'who was making all possible inquiries on the subject, it the Bank of England had felt itself in a position that very to the extent of £1,255,000 within the financial year in- Mr. Robert Shorthouse, who took several prizes at our has been open; upwards of 62,000 passengers have travel-
would be impossible for him now to name a day when the day to make advances upon exchequer bills, and notwith- stead of £BOO,OOO, the amount applied during the past Collegiate Institution, has obtained the first junior Greek led upon it, more than 18,000 during the past month, and
bill would be proceeded with. standing the announcement to that effect, the whole de- one. - prize at Edinburgh University. ,though the mineral traffic is not yet developed, so satis-
Eiodninobrg UinnoiLelr.2cojsuosthcloslead4.was in the senior divi- that after deducting 40 per cent. from the expense of
In answer to questions by Mr. P. BORTHWICK, mand did not exceed £170,000. He was in hopes that
CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—The Indian pa- Mr. John Walker, of Birkenhead, at the session of factory have been the returns, that the chairman stated
Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government were of he would not have to call upon the bnkafnocfiannoyradied-rtoto- pers received by the present mail show that the question
opinion that in the present state of affairs in Spain,. the words the payment of the riext dividends,of a decrease of cotton cultivation, which is. ascribed to the working,. "there would remain sufficient, not only to pay
would thats The Hon. and 'Rev: Robertc John Eden,
of Battersea, has been appointed to the Bishopric of Sodor money they were allowed to borrow under their Act."
covenants of the Quadruple Treaty were not applzcable, keep up the balances in the exchequer he move prevailing system of excessive land taxation, is likely toM.A., Vicar the interest of the money borrowed, but also of all the
and he therefore trusted that no further explanation from on Monday next the house should resolve itself into be made the subject of serious investigation ; and it is
Lim on the subject would, for the present, be required. a committee for the purpose of passing a resolution em- stated that a committee has been nnnointed hw.th. .-._ and Man. • IPI-..., 11;......-.4-,...,, ~,,,. 4.1...,4- 41...... ...:1i 1.... ...-- -1-1- .1

Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government were of
opinion that in the present state of affairs in Spain, the
covenants of the Quadruple Treaty were not applicable,
and he therefore trusted that no further explanation from
Um on the subject would, for the present, be required.
Mr. FIELDEN moved the order of the day for the third
of the Factories Bill.

reading

a period of three y

from and after the day on which it

shall have become law."
The house divided, and the third reading of the bill wa:
harried by a majority of 151 to 88.
The bill was then passed amidst considerable cheering

Lord J. MANNERS brought the affairs of Greece under
the consideration of the house, and moved for a return of
all moneys paid by Great Britain on account of the inte-

rest of the Greek loan up to the Ist of January, 1847.
Lord PALMERSTON would not object to the production
of the papers, and regretted that the benevolent feelings
which had actuated the three powers in restoring the inde-

pendence of Gree(
Sir (

he intended e

GREY then moved for leave to bring in a bill to
amend the laws relating to the administration of the law
for the relief of the poor in England.

Mr. FERRAND announced his intention o.

decided opposit

offering

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
• Lord WHARNCLIFFE asked whether there had been
any-applications to the Bank of England by the Govern-
r advances from the former beyond the usual
required upon deficiency bills for the current pub-
:e, during the latter half of the . year 1846, and

went f

down to the present period ; and if
would be any objection to producing th

D, whether

correspondence

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he could-distinctly
state that beyond the mere formal correspondence which
at all times took place between the Government and the
ad passed between
I referred to by the noble lord. The
the last

Bank of England, no cor
them during the per

quarter

lal , com muni,

ions with the B.

that subject, but none of the communications had taken
the shape of a written correspondence. In the course of
these communications the Bank had been uniformly ap-
prised of the amount of the demands which the Govern-
ment would have on them—those amounts not exceeding
the amounts of ordinary years. With respect to the ex-
cess of the securities in the Bank, of which so much had
been said, he wished to observe that it had been an excess

ties much more than of securities belo

of privat
ing to the Government
- The Landed Property (Ireland) Bill went through
committee.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. M. GtnsoN stated, in
bill to

ready in a

legate, that

TUESDAY
to a ques

'nn frorr

aable joint-itock c

,s between partners, was.al-

state of preparation

nd it was the intention
g in such a bill. The heads

of the Government to bri

he measure ha

tlancellor

Qtl the motion of Mr. WATSON, a select committee was
appointed to inquire into and report to the House on the
taxation of suitors in the courts of law and equity, by the
collection of fees and the amount thereof, and the mode of

Fees in the cour

collection ; and the appropriation o
law and equity, and in all inferior courts, and in the courts
of special and general sessions in England and Wales.

HOUSE OF. COMMONS.

-WEDNESDAY

The house went into committee on the Drainage of
;.ands Bill. The bill was subsequently reported, and or-
dered to be received on Friday.

After some discussion the Registration of Voters Bil
was read a second time and ordered to be committed.
Sir •H. HALFORD then moved the second reading of th

Manufacture Bill, on w

hich a debate

vhieh was ultithately adjout:ned to the following day

Mr. WAKLEY then moved the order of the day for the
second reading of the Medical Registration and Medical

Law Amendment Bill

but after some conversation b

a committee for the purpose of passing a resolution em
powering him to offer a discount to those holders wt
might be disposed to pay promptly the instalments of
loan, which would fan '

liateliagreed to
On t'

tween Sir G. Grey, Mi. Hume, Sir J. Graham, and Mr.
Wakley, the second reading of the bill was postponed till

18th of June

Tuesdiy

e motion for the house resolving itself into com-
mittee on the Punishtrient of Vagrants (Ireland) Bill,

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
The house went into committee on the Irish Poi

Mr. P. SCROPE said that the -bill should not be 'pro-
ceeded with after what had occurred in the House of Lords
on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, or at all events that it
should be . made a temporary measure if the Poor Relief
Bill was to be received as a temporary experiment.

Lord J. RUSSELL thought it would be unwise to excite
needless jealousies between the two Houses of Parliament.,
and it would be a great impediment to legislation if each
house was to suffer its own proceedings wit}
one bill to b'- --,ed bu *her'

respect to

Jegoverned by what the otk.._
in reference to another. He admitted that the two mea-
sures were so far allied, that if the Poor Relief Bill was

D a duration o

ly unjust to exteni

the operation of the Vagrant

Bill, when

measure by the House of Lof:ds, he saw no objection what-
ever to entering upon the discussion of the details of the
one before them. Should it happen that the Poor Relief
could be limited in its duration, or that it should not
"ould be still in their power to decline passing

Lord MONTEAGLE moved an amendment, limiti

Bill sh

however, that from the information he was daffy receiving
he was more and more convinced that the Poor Relief
(Ireland) Bill, in the state in which it passed through
that house, was absolutely necessary. A circumstance
had been communicated to him on the best authority,
which he would state to the house, without, however, at
present disclosing the names of the parties to whom it
had reference. A poor woman, with six children, one of
several to whom compensation had been given for giVing

up their holdings, were found by the police, all ortheM
dead, having died of starvation, relief having been-applied
for by them after they had spent the sum they had re-
ceived, and refused by those on whose land they had for
so many years resided.

so the Poor

The bill passed through committee, as did
Relief Supervision (Ireland) Bill.
The Poor Removal (England and Scotland) Bill I

operation of certain clauses relating to out-door relief till
the Ist of August, 1848, and to the end of the then next
session.—lt will be reauily perceived that the intention of
the amendment was to give a temporary instead of a per-
manent character to those parts of the bill to which it ap-
plied, and it was opposed by the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Archbishop of Dublin, Earls they and Devon, and Lord
Shrewsbury ' • and supported by the Earls of Roden and
Fitzwilliam, Marquis of Westmeath, and Lords Stanley,
Brougham, and Abinger.

iseussion, but it was eventual

ly read a seconc

IRELAND

Father Matthew _ is_ likely to be appointed Roman

Catholic Bishop of Cork.
The Repeal proceedings, except as indicating, the pro-
tracted existence of the association, are wholly unworthy
of notice. The rent last week was announced at

precedent

The Rev. Francis Arthur, Roman Catholic priest of
Kinvara, county Galway, has addressed a letter to the

be made the subject of serious investigation ; and it is
stated that a committee has been appointed by-the go-
vernment to conduct the inquiry, The facts and. figures
brought forward by the writers are startling in the extreme,

cultivation. The question of Transit, however, we doubt
not, bears quite as deeply as that of taxation upon. the in-
trinsic points of this important subject.—Times.

. .
A division was afterwards made, and the Government
ivas placed in a minority, the numbers being for the
amendment 63, against it 50; majority 13.
On the 4th clause being read, which gave the appoint-
ment of relieving officers to hoards of guardians,
Lord STANLEY moved an amendment that the
ments shohld be vested in the Poor law Commis

appoint-

AMERICA

CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ AND ST. JEAN D'ULLOA

Wednesday evening at Liverpool; the Arcolo, Captain
liodlas, which reached the river on Thursday morning,
and the Yorkshire, which arrived on Friday night, have
received New York papers to the litlf ultimo. The news
is highly important.

d'Ulloa, were surrendered to the

the Americans at only 15 killed and 50 wounded. Onthe
22nd of March, the town was summoned,-and, in conse-
quence of the reply of the governor, at two o'clock that
day the bombardment commenced, and was continued at
intervals till the 26th, when overtures were made by Gen.

Freeman's Journal, in which he ascribes the peculiarly
Unfortunate state of that locality " to the want.of a resi-
dent Protestant clergyman."

ender of the 'town

By the death of Mir. Martin, late M.P. for the county
of Galway, his daughter is the richest heiress in Ireland.

on the ground that a much more efficient class of officers
would be secured thereby.

He had just concluded a loan which would pay all his in-
cumbrances, and leave him in possession of £lO,OOO a

Mr. Fitzpatrick, a young barrister, who took a leading
part in the discussions of the Repeal Association, and op-
posed the Young Ireland party, has just been appointed
by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Solicitor-
General at the Cape of Good Hope. The Nation calls

arid castle on the 29th of March.
The following is from the New York Herald :—On the
second day of the bombardment an offer was made to sur-
render the town, but General Scott would not accept the,

town without the castle, and two days more of bombard-
ment ensued, when the soldiers of the garrison, listening
to the entreaties of the suffering inhabitants, compelled
the general commanding to surrender both town and
castle. General Morales refusing to act in the premiSes,

resigned or retired, when General Landero succeeded to
the command, and signed the convention for the sur-
render.

this " the reward of treason."
Lord Cloncurry has written to Mr. W. S. O'Brien,
strongly recommending the -Young Irelanders and the

The bombardment of four days placed the town in
ruins, under which great numbers of non-combatants
(men, women, and children) were buried. The bombard-
ment i 3 represented to have been terrific, and to its
thunders succeeded the moans of the dying in every part

of the town for several days afterwards.

The amendment, however, was lost, but o-ly by a small
majority, 53 having voted for it, and 59 against it.

General Scott offered to the inhabitants, foreigners,
a., a safe retreat from the town prior to the commence-

frinds. His Lordship promises himself to join the asso-
ciation " when O'Brien and the talented confederates

rejoin it."
AIR. O'CONNELL'S HEALTH.—Letters received in Lon-
don convey very unfavourable intelligence respecting the
health of Mr. O'Connell. He remains at Avianon in

The approaching festival of Whitsuntide is likely to
witness a solemnity of no ordinary interest to English
Churchmen—the consecration—within the walls of the

such an exhausted state, from periodical attacks of
dysentery, that his medical attendants have recommended
an abandonment of the idea of proceeding on his journey

.ncies of the British crown

The anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel was celebrated yesterday week, by divine ser-
vice at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of 'Worcester
preaching the sermon : after which the bishops and other
friends of the society dined with the Lord Mayor.
Strange as it may appear, Sowerby Church, near Halifax,
although it has been erected SO years, was not consecrated
until the 27th ult. The reason of the

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-'

anent of operations

-THURSDAY

Sir WILLIAM VERNER brought under the notice of the
Louse the extensive importation and sale of fire-arms go-
ing on in Ireland. Such importation and sale were calcu-
lated to excite much alarm.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the state of Ireland was
most anxiously considered by the Government, and the
prevalence of the sale of arms bad not been overlooked ;
but they had not deemed it necessary to resort to any ex-
traordinary measures to secure the public peace, such as
an Arms Bill or Coercion Bill. The outrages now com-
mitted were rather the result of an insufficiency of food
'than any dissatisfaction arising out of agrarian differences
—the fact being that agrarian outrages had diminished in-
stead of increased within the last year. There was no po-
litical excitement at present, and the existing laws were
sufficient to preserve the. peace of Ireland.
• Mr. SHAW thought the state of Ireland most unsatis-
factory, and that the Government had acted indiscreetly
in giving up those powers which former Governments
Lad possessed. . .

iy has been some
difficulty in obtaining a valid title to the ground on which
it was built.
REFORMATION IN DUBLII.;
received six converts from R

Church on Sund

of the conver

for some weeks

* * * * *
"Except a few shots from the gun-boats, not a shot
was fired from the castle. The navy bore but little part

in the a

AWFUL CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERFECT SEPULTURE.
In the neighbourhood of Castle Island and Ballylongford

down a portion of the walls of the town and effecting a
breach. The army did little more than to bombard the
town. The skirmishing at the landing of our troops
tested the nerves of our untried troops, and Colonel Har-
ney, with some dragoons and a few pieces of light artil-
lery, carried a bridge fortified and defended by'some hun-
dreds of Mexicans, and thus ended the demonstration.
"Although the foreign consuls and their families did
not accede to the offer of General Scott, and leave the
town, yet, during the bombardment, they attempted to
reach the ships of their respective nations, *hen they
were arrested in their course and ordered back to the

system

from the imperfect covering thrown on the dead victims
of famine, troops of dogs prey from day to day on the
bodies. This is not all ; violent madness is the result,
which has led these rabid animals not only to attack one
another, but the cattle in the fields. The authorities and
the gentlemen of the county should at once look to this.

Tralee Chronicle..
DREADFUL MURDER.—On Saturday, a dreadful murder
was committed upon a man named Edmund Doogan, at
Doon, near Broadford. He was fired at from behind a
ditch by two men, and when he fell they fractured his
skull in several places, and cut his throat, nearly severing
the head from his body. The cause assigned for this

The following h from Vera Cruz, under date of the 29th
of March :—At ten o'clock, the whole Mexican army
marched out, and stacked their arms on the road .near the
cemetery. Our army then marched on each side of the
Mexican lines into the town. All the best of the inha-
bitants had left the city before the attack. On our en-
The city is very

;ering

purchased a revisionary lease of some land, the title to
which expired this day.—Clare Journal.
The accounts received from Ireland, particularly from

the western and southern counties, exhibit an alarming
increase of pestilence in several districts ; but it is worthy
of remark, that iu all cases where efficient sanatory ar-
rangements are adopted, a decided decrease in the viru-
lence of the malady has been the consequence. In some
parts of the northern province too, for instance, Ennis-
killen, Lurgan, and Belfast, fever is making fearful ravages.
In the last-named town, on Saturday, a public meeting
was held, to make arrangements for providing additional
hospital accommodation, and to raise a general subscrip-
tion.

handio

ke a deserte

much injured by the shot and shell. Nine thousand Mex.:
ican troop's were within twelve or fifteen miles of the city
on the night of the 28th, and were driven back by Col.
Harney, of the Dragoons. During the sixteen days that
intervened between the disembarkation of the troops and
the opening of negociations, there were five days of vio-
lent " northers," in which all landing of stores, &c., was
interrupted. By the terms of capitalation, the garrisons
were allowed to march out of the city with all the ho-
nours of war, and then to lay down their arms. They
were provided with four days' provisions. The Mexican
officers were allowed to preserve their arms and private
effects, and five days to retire to their respective homes.

All the materiel of war, and all public property found in
the city, the castle, and their depcndencies, to belong to the
United States. The sick and wounded Mexicans were to
be allowed to remain in the city, and no private property
or building was to be taken possession of by the American
forces.

•Th 3 Rev

Thomas Scott

A 'motion of a formal nature was agreed to.
Mr. BRIGHT moved for a select committee to inquire
into the progress of the cultivation of cotton in India.
Sir J. HonuousE made no opposition to the appoint-
ment of the committee.

On Tuesday the citizens of Dublin entertained at din-
ner Capt. Clarke, of the American ship Victor, arrived in
that port with provisions. The occasion was not lost by
the Young Irelanders, who introduced unceremoniously
their favourite political views. Mr. Meagher, in the

When they abjured th,

3ible

Lord G. BENTINCK quoted the opinion of Mr. Huskis-
;son, that if we gave due protection to the cotton culture
a our East Indian empire we should have not only suffi-
,eient for our own manufactures, but for the consumption
a the whole world. The noble lord also impressed upon
the house the important fact that every bale of cotton
brought from India would come in British vessels. He
-suggested that the committee, if appointed, should consi-
der the question of railway communication in India, and
'inquire whether, by restoring the duty on American cot-
ton, and by reducing the land tax-in India, we might not
'obtain cotton from a country that would take from us our
-manufactured articles in payment instead of the gold, aye,
the new sovereigns demanded by America.
At this period of the discussion the house was counted

Math in the month of July is fixed
-lass of persons from the error of

The whole amount of the called-up capital of the Great
Western Company is £5,751,150, and its present out-
standing debt amounts to £4,216,370. The company
possesses a power of raising, by calls and new shares, a
further sum of £3,958,850. By the bills of the present
session, as far as an estimate can be made, a power will
be conferred of raising an additional sum of more than
£11,000,000, or about twice the amount of the present
paid-up capital.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.
half-yearly meeting of this company, a most satisfactory
report was presented. It appears that during the five
months a portion of the line, about fifteen miles in length,
has been open ; upwards of 62,000 passengers have travel-
led upon it, more than 18,000 during the past month, and
though the mineral traffic is not yet developed, so satis-
factory have been the returns, that the chairman stated
that after deducting 40 per cent. from the expense of
working, "there would remain sufficient, not only to pay
the interest of the money borrowed, but also of all the
money they were allowed to borrow under their Act."
The Directors state that they will be enabled to open the
mineral branch at the close of the present month of May
—from Chirk to Shrewsbury, nineteen miles, in the
spring of 1848, and the remainder of the line in August of
the same year.

course of his
_speech, thus delivered himself—:

aria!

Five hundred houses are now to be let in Oxford.
The, tops of the mountains 'at Keswick were last week
completely capped with snow.
Typhus fever is raging to an unprecedented extent in
Dundee. The deaths in the Infirmary have amounted to
the extraordinary average of forty in a day.
BAD DEBTS.—Lord Ashburton stated in the House of
Lords the other day, that upwards of £24,000,000 are an-
nually lost to the trade of this kingdom from bad debts.
d last week, in the workhouse of the
near London. from th,-. pel'ont.

onton Union

• ---- ..-aacuLa ..11. poppy
which their nurses had given them to make them

Miss Martineau has arrived at Jerusalem. •
On Monday week, the Royal Court of Paris ordered
Suisse, the valet of the late Marquis of Hertford, to refund
77,710 francs of his pickings to the present Marquis.
ALLEGED CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.—The Moniteur
Beleze, of the 3d inst. states that a civil war had taken

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
The committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill was
'resumed.

Vile brig Exmouth, from Londonderry to Quebec, was
totc:l,y lost off the islaud of Islay, one of the Hebrides,
on Sunday week. Two hundred and forty lives were
lost.

MARRIAGE- OF MR. BRIGHT, M.P. Notice of the
marriage of the Hon. M.P. for Durham, to Miss Mar-
garet Elizabeth Leatham, of Heath, has been given to
the superintendent registrar of the Wakefield district.

first time in her career, In

Lord CLANCARTY asked if, as a consequence of the
/success of the amendment of Lord Monteagle on the pre-
vious evening, the medical relief to the able-bodied out-
.door poor was to be temporary or permanent?

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he could not
re
sume to answer the question. The noble lord mustpasl:
'his noble friend who had moved the amendment.
Lord MoNTEAGLE said that the portion of the bill re_
Latina to medical relief ought to be peinanent.
Earl GREY, in an animated tone, expressed his surprise
that a noble lord so acute as his noble friewl should have
moved an amendment which it now appeared. bad thrown
the whole bill into such confusion that he could not him-
self understand it. The public feeling, however, in fa-
•your of the bill was too strong, and would ultim-stelY
compel its adoption, however dexterous might be the IL's-
-preuvres by which some noble lords might endeavour to` ,
effect its defeat.
On the 11th clause, which provides that in all cases
where the rates should exceed 2s. 6d. in the pound per

place between two neighbouring
vince of Gokicn, in which 24,

A nian named Wilkinson has been committed to Lin-
coln gaol for trial, on a charge of attempting to poison the
family of his master, Mr. Dawson, of Burgh in the Marsh,
by putting arsenic into the tea-kettle.
The Rev. Dr. Alder has sailed for British North Ame-
rica, with a view to settle the differences which have ex-
isted for seven years between the British and Canadian
Wesleyan Societies.

PRICE OF A COMMISSION.—CoIoneI Persse, of th 3
lfith Lancers, who for fifty-two years served with such
distinction in the Peninsula, America, and India, retired
from the army last week, receiving eleven thousand
guineas by the sale of his commission.
The Chinese junk Keying is daily expected to arrive at
Woolwich, from Hong-Kong. She is the first Chinese
vessel ever brought to England, and is solely manned by
Chinese sailors, and is to bring valuable presents from the
Emperor to her Majesty and Prince Albert.

departments in the pro-
ils houses and 668 huts

were pillaged and burned to the ground, and 130,638 per-

BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—The wife of a labouring
man at Piddington, was delivered of a female child on the
25th ult. On the infant's right hand there are six fingers
and a thumb ; on the left hand five fingers and a thumb ;
on the right foot there are six toes.--Northamp. Herald.
The Iron Trade is still at the former prices for catgoes:of
bar-iron in Wales, nor has the state of the Money Market
yet been reported to have affected the business in that
quarter; but a considerable fall in pig-iron has taken
place in the Clyde, where the quotation is not now higher
than 68s. per ton.

Lord Ingestrie has written to Lord John Russell to say
that "he cannot concur in the conclusion arrived at by
the committee relative to Captain. Warner's, inventions
that the trial proved a failure." His lordship says that
many difficulties, none of which would occur in real ser-
vice, attended the operations before the committee.

The Queen of Portugal, it is said, had decided upon
making concessions in favour of the people, and
everything was settled. These conditions had been sig-
nified to Sada Bandeira, who was at Setubal, but he had
refused to listen to them, stating that he was under the
orders of tne Junta of Oporto, and referring the overtures
to his superiors there. The Queen had changed her Mi-
nistry, which was to be composed as follows :—Minister
Of Foreign Affairs, M. Bayard; Minister of JUstice, M.
Leitao ; Minister of the Interior, M. Proense • Minister
of Finance and Marine, M. Tojal ; Minister of War, Baron
Ponte Bares.

A steamer, plyinon the river Wye, narrowly escaped
destruction destruction on 'Wednesday week, near Chepstow. Some
miners employed on the works of the South Wales Rail-
way fired a blast while the steamer was passing, and a
shower of heavy stones fell on all sides of the ve3sel.

Fortunately, only one of the smaller stones fell on board,
and the steamer and her passengers escaped uninjured.

EFFECTS OF LIVING ON ONE KIND OF FOOD.—About
sixty men, labourers on the railways in the course of
formation in this county, arc at present lying in the Royal
Infirmary, suffering from scurvy, which has been induced,
we understand, by making coffee and buttered bread, of
the best quality, their sole article of diet.—Edinburgh
Advertiser.

." For the

Early and good news of the Greenland seal fishery has
arrived by an Aberdeen vessel, which has 9,000 seals for
her own share.' Five vessels are reported as having caught
31,000 seals. This will go far to make up for the loss of
whales, who appear to have left the Greenland coast al-
together, and retreated to the upper parts of,Davis'
Straits, whither they cannot be pursued, except at the
expense of a long voyage.

The Chinese Repository gives an account, which
could hardly be credited were there not positive proofs
of the dpnctitv of thn rumailntinn of 77 -4--

According to the above journal, published by the Anieri-

to a foreign power—(enthusiastic cheers.) Foreign power!
Sir. Why should I designate that country a ' foreign
power ?' which I hail from henceforth as our sister coun-
try—(loud and repeated cheers.) England, they sometimes
say, is our sister country—(loud hisses.) We deny the
relationship—we discard it—(loud cheers.) We claim
America as our sister, and, claiming her as such, we have
assembled here to-night."

can missionaries, a civil war, or rather feud, took place
between the two neighbouring departments of Chang
Chao and Tseven Chao, in the province of Gokien, in
which 24,515 houses and 668 huts were pillaged and
burnt to the ground, and 130,638 persons killed or
wounded. It appears that wars of this kind are of fre-
quent occurrence in the interior of this country, without
the government attempting or caring to interfere.

At a vestry meeting held at Bridgewater recently the
following resolution was passed :—" That the practice of
appropriating the pews to the wealthier classes has been
productive of great evit to the mass of the population ;
that the churchwardens, therefore, be directed to take
possession of all the pews in this church as scion as the
present possessors thereof die or leave the town, and that
the word free be painted upon the door of each pew as
soon as it falls into hand." _ _

KITTENS AND INFANTS.—A pretty child—a charming
little three-year-old--was, not long ago, presented with
the most tormented of pets, a nursery kitten, saved from
the noyade that awaited the birth of its brothers and sis-
ters. A short time afterwards the child's mamma added
two mnnbers to the family circle, in the shape of twins.
On being taken into the nursery to see them, she gazed on
them for some time, looking from one to the other
much curiosity. Then, patting one of their plump little
cheeks with her rosy finger, she said, " I think we will
keep this one, papa!" . _

THE INFANTICIDES AT CARMARTHEN.—A verdict of
wilful murder has been returned against Mary Hughes,
for the murder of her three children, as stated in our last.
The mother fled, but has since been apprehended. She
had wandered over the mountains to the neighbourhood
of Llandewybreli, about ten miles off. No doubt is enter-
tained of her being quite insane. It appears she must
have carried the children up herself one by one, as to go
un to the inft

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being no staircase there, and to come down aftei the bodies
were suspended, she must have been obliged to move one
of them to the side before she could get to tha ladder.
At a meeting, held in Glasgow on Friday, of influential
distillers, brewers, paper-makers, and others affected by
excise restrictions, they formed themselves into " The
National Association for the Reform of Excise Abuses,"
the object of which will be to secure the return of mem-
bers to parliament who will pledge themselves to use their
influence to obtain the removal of the abuses complained
of—to have the various excise regulations clearly embo-
died in an act of parliament, no part of which the Trea-
sury will have power to alter without at least a month's
previous notice—to obtain the removal of all frivolous and
vexatious restrictions, unnecessary for the due collection
of the revenue—and to procure the revision or repeal of
those excise duties which were impolitic in their nature,
or oppressive to the public.
NOVEL PROJECT.—A prospectus has been issued of a
new Joint Stock Company, to be called " The Silurian
Chemical Works," and to be established at Newport and
Cardiff, with a branch at each of those places, the object
of which is to purchase and work up refuse and other
small coal, to the extent of 2000 tons per day, or 600,000
tons per annum, into coke, tar, ammonical preparations,
and gas ; and to convey the latter product from Cardiff to
London, on a route via Gloucester, &c. ; and also to en-
able the directors of the Great Western and other railway
companies to light the whole of their roads and branches
with gas, so as to prevent, as far as possible, all the acci-
dents that may arise from want of light in the dark and
dreary seasons of winter. It is proposed that the gas
lamps on railways should be fixed at intervals not exceed-
ing forty-five yards, which would be about forty lamps per
mile. The cost of supplying the gas is stated at 30s. per
lamp, or £6O per mile.
A MAD SHEEP.—About two months ago, a little terrier
dog, at Cluny Castle, having been observed to be in a
rabid state, it was found necessary co kill him ; but this
was not done before he had done considerable damage,
though, we are glad to learn to none of the human species.
It appears he had gone into a park in which about forty
wethers were being fed upon turnips, killed one, and bit
other six—five of which were so severely injured, that
they were immediately destroyed. As the sixth had only
received a slight scratch on one Of the hinder legs, it was
allowed to take chance. In a very short time the wound
was completely healed np, and, to all appearance, the
animal was none the worse for it. A few days ago, how-
ever, the sheperd, on going into the park with some hay
for his flock, was surprised to observe the wether referred
to chasing the others most furiously, leaping on such as
he could overtake, and exhibiting all the symptoms of
rabidness. In the words of our informant, "he acted the
dog as well as could possibly be done by any other animal
not of the canine race." This the poor animal continued
to do for about two hours aftep i. was first observed, and
at last lay down from sheer exhaustion, foaming at the
mouth, and. even_ imitating the barking of a dog, It was
then destroyed.—Avitrjee,Adrvrtiser.

May 11, 1847.;

The Emperor of Russia has made his second public ap-
pearance in the money market. Finding his stock of
specie superflously large, he advertises himself as having
a few millions to invest in eligible securities at home and
abroad. In short, he is willing to afford to the populous
trading nations of West Europe the accommodation which
the Bank of England is compelled to withhold from mer-
cantile houses in the city. France has had her share, and
the bulk of the remainder will, of course, find its way to
us, either in cash, or by liquidation of the long scores be
will have against us for hemp and tallow.
NOVEL MODE OF QUELLING A RIOT.—A few days ago
there were upwards of 100 Irish navies on board the Kirk-
aldy ferry steamer during one of her afternoon trips to
Newhaven, and, about the time the fare was collecting,
conducted themselves in a very unruly manner, and re-
fused to pay their fare. On being remonstrated with by
the captain, they became still more refractory and riotous.
Captain Barker, finding that further remonstrance and
threatening of legal proceedings against them only made
matters worse, attached a flexible tube to the escape-valve
of the engine, scattered a quantity of steam amongst them,
and threatened to continue it if they would not give up
their disorderly conduct. This not being speedily com-
plied with, the captain, by the application of the tube,
gave them a copious cold shower bath, which soon had
the effect of reducing them to a state of subordination,
and they were allowed to land at Newhaven.—Edinburgh
paper.

MAINTENANCE OF A MOTHER.-At Guildhall police
cpurt on Saturday, Mr. Clark, printer and publisher in
Warwick-lane, appeared before Aldermen Musgrove and
Wood, to show cause why he refused to contribute to the
maintenance of his mother, now chargeable to the parish
of Horsmoden, in Kent. The defendant asked Mr. Joy,
the overseer, if his mother was not living with her second
husband, which Mr. Joy said was so, and that husband
and wife had three shillings per week out-door relief from
the parish, but lie only asked defendant to support his
mother.* Defendant said he had a wife and five children
to bring up, and he did not feel justified in taking on
himself such a burthen. He had added about half-a-
crown a week to her parochial allowance during the
winter, to make his•mother more comfortable. Mr.
Alderman Wood intimated his conviction that the second
marriage released the son from his liability to keep his
mother, and cast it on her husband ; and, in case of his
inability, then on the parish. Mr. Alderman Musgrove
concurred in that view, and the summons was dismissed.
ALLEGED CHILD MURDER IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
—On Wednesday last, a man, named L. Cosgrove, was
brought up at the Marylebone Police-station London,
charged with having occasioned the death of"'his female
child, aged three years. The prisoner had arrived the
night before by railway from Liverpool. When the train,
stopped at Euston-square, lie was found seated on same
luggage, with a dead child concealed under a cloak. He
told the policeman who apprehended him that he bad
started from Liverpool at seven in the morning, and that
when within seventeen miles from London he found that
the child was dead, and that it was a great bleising for
him that it was dead, as its mother had died a few days
before, in Liverpool, of fever. Ile asserted that he was
in great distress, and bad written to his sister in West-
minster, imploring that she would pay his expenses up to
London. She promised to do so, he said, and on Sunday
eVeninc, he brought the child away, a woman belonging to infirmary having told him that it would not live long.
On examination of the body of the child, there was found
a long mark round the left side of the neck, and on the
cap was a quantity of blood. The prisoner was subse-
quently conveyed to the station-house, when upwards of
£6 was found upon him. The prisoner was remanded to
await the result of a coroner's inquest, which has since
returned a verdict, to the effect, that the deceased died a •
natural death.

THE COUNTESS OF MORNINGTON.—The Earl of Mor-
nington appeared yesterday before Mr. Bingham, at Marl
borough-street police, to a summons, to -show cause why
lie neglected to maintain his wife, 'Helena, Countess of
Mornington, whereby- she had become chargeable to the
parish of St. George, HanoverlqUare. From the state-
ment of his lordship's professional adviser, it appeared
that only three week's ago, a sum of £BOO a year was of-
fered to Lady Mornington on security, which she de-
clined ; possibly because she conceived that by certain in-
struments now under investigation in a superior court,
she was entitled to more. The professional adviser of his
lordship also intimated that he was not permitted by Lord
Mornington to show that the party on whose behalf the
application was made, had been reduced to her present
paiition by her own misconduct and extravagance, and he
had only'to add, that his lordship was prepared to submit
to any order which the court under the circumstances
might think proper to make. Mr. Bingham said he could
only deal with thig case as the case of a pauper receiving
relief in the workhouse, and he could make no distinction
between this and any other in the workhouse. He had
no power to sanction more than ordinary assistance, and
if his fordsliip undertook to reimburse the parish' of St.
George for the outlay, it was all that he could require.
With this understanding the parties left the court. The
Countess has since written to say that, during the four-
teen years of separation from her husband, she has only
received £1,300, and that the'£Boo per year was offered
on merely the personal security of his lordship. - •
A MAN WITII Two WIVES.—AN EXTRAORDINARY
AFFAIR.—At the'Rochdale petty session's, on Wednesday
last, -John Stott, a farmer, from 40 to 50 years of agie, re-
siding at Castleton Moor, about three miles fromßocn
dale, summoned his father, 70 years of age, his son, ;
young man 20 years old, and two brothers, 30 yeaprpse ,
each,
on a charge of assault and wilful damage.
hen married 2ared3
by the evidence, that complainant has
years, and, on Sunday last, he took a young woman,
about 22 years of age, to reside with him as his wife, al-
though he had a wife in the house. In the evening the
defendants went to complainant's honse'tntalk with hira
on the absurdity of his havin., two wives in one house, in
consequence of which a regular row took place; fighting,
with pokers, axe, crow-bars, &c. During the row part of
the furniture was broken, and complainant's clothes were
torn off his back; the defendants received several wounds
on the bead, face, and other parts of their bodies. Both
wives were in the court • the younger gave evidence on
behalf of complainant, and the elder wife on behalf of the
defendants. The magistrates said it was a most disgrace:
ful affair, and they were sorry they had no charge against
the complainant and his new wife. The defendants were
discharged. When the case was over, complainant took
his young spouse through the streets, towards his owl
home. She is a smart looking woman, and took a husband
in a similar manner, from Heywood, near Bury, two years
; but after they had spent upwards of £3OO at Liver-
pool and London, she left him, and he has since diedr
leaving a wife, who now resides at Bury. •

THE CORN MARKETS.---Since our last monthly report
we have had an advance in our wheat market of 10s. t°
12s. per quarter, and such has been the continued de
mand and high rates paid, not only in the principal con-
sliming countries of France, Belgium, and Holland, but
in others from whence we were accustomed to obtain sup
plies, that the Baltic shipments which a short time agGh
were expected to come to this country, have, to a greab
extent, found a market on more advantageous terms else-
where, and the orders sent out on English account to the
Mediterranean, Danube, Black Sea, America, &c , have
in many cases been unexecuted in consequence of the
competition from other European markets. In addition
to these grounds for a rise in our markets, there has been
no inconsiderable drain upon the wheats grown in this
country, for the supply of the more immediate wants of
our continental neighbours. Under these circumstances,
even if the, stock of English wheat at the commencement
of the present year had been nearly sufficient to meet our
wants up to the period of as early an harvest as last see,;
son, we are, owing t) our subsequent exports, differfrOY
situated now, and the lateness of spring alone would jus-
tify, the apprehension that a very large importation w0e,!...",.

De neeaeu before the new crop can generally be brougli,b
to market. We think, therefore, there is fully sufficient
ground for the apprehension that the price of wheat foal
yet go considerably higher; indeed, we should not be at
all surprised to see it reach 110 s. to 120 s. per quarter, 85
there is little doubt but the scarcity will be greatly in'
creased, and the price consequently enhanced during the
continuance of the present absurd attempts to depress it
by means of the pressure on the money market, for there

are scarcely any stocks, and the course only greatly
checks further supplies.—Messrs.. Sturges Corn Circg'
lar, May 5, 1847.

JENNY LIND.—The hing-expected appearance of Jena
Lind took place on Tuesday night, a night that will be,
long memorable in the annals of the English musical
stage. She appeared in the part of Alice in the Italian
version of " Lobert la Diable.' We can do little more
than say that her performance far transcended the nic's
highly-raised expectations' and obtained, without ever
tion, the greatest triumph we ever witnessed in a theatre:
The house was crowded to overflowing, by an audience
eager to see and hear the renowned stranger, whose nal°
has been so long in every body's mouth. When she tat
sented herself as the country girl, attired in her humble;
pilgrim's weeds, a loud burst of welcome greeted lie;
from all parts of the house ; and she seemed almost 10
moment to gain every heart, even before she uttereae
sound, by the ingenuous modesty of her looks, and the
graceful simplicity of her mien. In the brief dialoOli
carried on with Robert, in recitative, her sweet musie7
O'
tones and fine elocution, were at once apparent. -.tr ot,
led to the romance, " Va, mi disse, (in the original, "M
dit elle,") which at once exhibited her excellent quali°:,
as a singer. These qualities must be perceived and fel' 0,
they cannot be described. Her voice is a perfect soprech
of the most enchanting purity and beauty ; soft, mel'°4,-
of great fulness and velume, and as delicate as the brea,`,o
ing of the ./Eolian harp, producing such " dying falls_.;'
Shakspeare's description has sometimes made us insagl,
Her manner, in the close of a pathetic strain, of prol°
till
ing an exquisite note, and attenuating it by figures!_itc..
there is scarcely anything between it and silence, is wrly
gether her own; and its effect was often absolutely ce
vishing. During her whole performance the audiello-
seemed spell-bound, passing from a state of breathlesBtbe
tention, when a pin might have been heard to fall
dead silence, to the most rapturous enthusiasm. Vva,
she began the song, " Quando laseiai la Normatiaibbie%
(" Quand je quittai la Normandie,") there was soul Tie,
so enchanting in her utterance of the very first pile
that the air was interrupted by a burst of uncontro°ll,'
delight from every part of the house. She is equal
great as an actress. Her face possesses strong and too 4
expression ; her every gesture is full of sentirne;tbel
,J 1 feeling • and her movements and attitudes, though
have all the appearance of being perfectly Bponta7Gre•
and unstudied, have the grace of the finest pieces 0.,",00'
than art. The Queen, Prince Albert, the Queen v the
ger, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of. Lening.e.,n.:
et-
the Prince of Saxe-Weimar, and a list of noluin),.t the
present tending half a column, are given as being
deb4t. The whole London press have run mad la
praise. The Times finishes a column of the most,ill the
exordium by stating that "On the fall of the cur 0
burst of applause showed that the expectations „jiltt
audience had been more than realized. Three And
times was Mademoiselle Lind called upon the soyfeuelings
it was a certain hearty one cheer more' sort
which we hive never seer* so strongly manifested.