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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

Sir R. INGLIS, in moving for a copy of any communica-
tion from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Earl Grey on
the subject of the rank of Roman Catholic prelates in Ire-
land, adverted to by Lord Grey in his circular despatch to
the colonies, called the attention of the house to the irre-
gularity and error of the whole proceedings of both those
noble lords, and declared that it was an unwarranted as-
sumption of authority on the part of Lord Clarendon to
suggest, and a most unwarranted assumption on the part
of Lord Grey to give directions for, the recognition of a
right in the See of Rome, so long repudiated in this coun-
try, to place in her Majesty's dominions a class of indi-
viduals, with certain titles, whom her Majesty was called
upon to invest with precedence over other of her subjects.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, there was no official despatch of
the kind alluded to, and the return would therefore be
"nil." What Lord Clarendon had done was this—in the
Bequests Act there was so far an acknowledgment of Ro-
man Catholic prelates that they were called " Archbishops"
and " Bishops," and as an Archbishop was addressed as
" your Grace," and a Bishop as " your Lordship," Lord
Clarendon thought it fit that the Roman Catholic prelates
in Ireland should be so addressed, and in a private com-
munication to Lord Grey suggested that what was done in
Ireland might very properly be done in the Colonies, and
that the Roman Catholic prelates there would be much
gratified thereby.
Mr. GOLTLBURN thought it better that the old and or-
dinary practice should be adhered to ; and, after a few re-
marks from Mr. J. O'CONNELL and Mr. PLUMPTRE, the
motion was agreed to.
The motion of Sir NV. SOMERVILLE, for the nomination
of the members of the select committee upon the Irish
Poor-law, provoked a debate of some length respecting
the constitution of the committee and the qualifications
and pretensions of some of the members placed upon the
list, in which Mr. GRACE, Mr. FRENCH, Sir GEo. GREY,
Colonel DUNNE, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Mr. SADLEIR, Mr.
J. O'CONNELL, Mr. O'FLAHERTY, and other members
took a share.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE consented to adopt the suggestion
of Sir R. Peel and other members, to make hereafter an
addition to the number of the committee, in order not to
exclude members who would be useful in the inquiry.
On the name of Mr. Poulett Scrope being put, Mr.

GROGAN moved its omission ; upon which proposition the
house divided, when the name was retained by 119 votes
votes against 44.

HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the appointment
of a select committee to inquire into the operation of the
Irish Poor-law. He had originally recommended the
Irish Poor-law to their lordships as an experiment-full of
difficulty and danger, and he was not surprised that diffi-
culties had arisen in its administration, which difficulties
had been much increased by the famine which had pressed
so hardly on the country. It was now necessary to in-
quire into the operation of the law, with a view to meet
such defects as experience proved to them existed in the
law.

Lord STANLEY would abstain, in deference to the opi-
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wanting but for the Gov,-
Ailment to devise a legislative re-
medy. This the Gov,
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only for his side of
would give the r the house to suggest principles th:at
the employir ,Ariprietors of the soil a direct inte.:eat in
(hit of labour. The noble lord
Bested th• - ',,hen sug-
some d • .., Mopriety of borrowing from tie surplus of
otter .meets funds to supply the wan", of others, and
e ~ 4,enredies which he shortly rec.erred to. He con-
_armed the reference of the measure to a select commit-
tee without a rudder or compas. to guide them, and hoped
1 that at all events they would bring the inquiry to a speedy
termination—that they would seek the co-operation of the

landlords, or compel them to do their duty, and at the
same time enable them to do it.

After some observations from the Marquis of London-
derry, the Marquis of Ulanricarde, and Lord Monteagle,
the committee was agreed to.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY

Lord J. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the
Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Bill, which, after a
very long debate, was carried.

THE

COURT.

Her Majesty gave a grand banquet on Saturday, at
Buckingham Palace, in honour of the ninth anniversary
of her marriage.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

FRANCE

Five of the murderers of General Brea and Captain
Mangin have been sentenced to death by the Council of
War of Paris—namely, Daik, Vapreau, junior, Lohr,
Chapael, and Nouvrit. Three others were sentenced to
hard labour for life ; five to fifteen, ten, and five years, of
the same penalty ; nine to various years of imprisonment,
and three were acquitted. The five convicts are to die on
the spot on which the murder was committed.
In the National Assembly on Wednesday the house
divided on the second clause of M. Lanjuinais's proposi-
tion, when there appeared—For the clause, 470; against
it, 337 ; majority in favour of ministers, 133. A second
division took place on an amendment of M. Pascal Du-
prat, proposing to add the words, " to discuss the budget,"
when there appeared—For the proposition 445 ; against
it, 373'; majority in favour of discussing the budget, 72.
The Journal des Debats calculates that by the adoption
of the proposition of M. Lanjuinais the period of the
termination of the labours of the Assembly will be fixed
at from eighty to ninety days. The Legislative Assembly
will, consequently. meet towards the beginning of the
month of May. The Constitutionnel observes that the
voting of the budget will not add a day to the existence
of the National Assembly. The papers in general regard
the vote on M. Lanjuinais's proposition as a happy result
after so much anxiety.

King Charles Albert opened the Sardinian Parliament
on the Ist instant.
The command of the forces in India is to be offered to
Sir George Napier, who is now at Nice.
An American paper gives an account of the discovery of
a wonderful subterranean canal, connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans.
The National announces that, in consequence of distur-
bances at Florence, the Grand Duke has been compelled
to fly from this capital, and to take refuge at Sienna.
A late number of the Neu York Courier complains of
frozen types, and says that the " standing news" defied
distribution, but was as compact as adamant.
Cape of Good Hope papers, to the 17th of December,
are chiefly filled with news from England, Ireland, and
France. The colony was quiet and flourishing, but great
dissatisfaction was felt at the Militia Bill.
At Pillau, on the 24th ult., three gentlemen and four
sailors were out shooting in a boat, when unfor-
tunately the boat was upset in the surf, and all the par-
ties were drowned.
La Presse states that a telegraphic despatch has been
received at the Foreign.office, announcing the death of
the celebrated Carlist chief Cabrera, in consequence of
wounds received in a late engagement with the troops of
the Queen of Spain.
One of the American naners ninntinna n TiPta nagnfilty ;n
railway travelling. One night the water in the engine of
the afternoon train from Lawrence to Salem was frozen in
Middleton Woods ; and the passengers, about fourteen in
number, were obliged to occupy the cars all night.
Letters from Jamaica mention that Santa Anna is still
in that island. " What his movements are to be no one."
it is said, " can positively affirm. He gives out that he
is about to proceed to the Spanish Main, but some are
strongly of opinion that his real intention is to take the
field in Mexico."

The Panama railway is to bring the East Indies and
China 10,000 miles nearer to New York (exclusive of re-
ference to California); and the bill stipulates that iths of
the stock shall be at all times owned by citizens of the
United States, and that the principal office of the railway
company shall be in some seaport town of the union.
La Presse mentions that Sir Henry Ellis, appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary by the Queen of Great Britain
to the Congress of Brussels relative to the affairs of Italy,
received orders on Saturday to proceed immediately to
his post. M. de la Grenie, who has been appointed to
represent the French Republic at the same Congress, has
likewise received instructions to proceed to Brussels with-
out delay.

APPALLING MURDERS.—A letter has been received by
a respectable mercantile firm in the city, detailing a hor-
rible butchery already occasioned by Californian gold. A
ship called the Amelia sailed from San Francisco with
gold, to purchase a cargo of silks in China. In crossing
the Pacific Ocean three miscreants of the crew, during a
night watch, stole upon the mate, murdered, and threw
him overboard, after which they successively assassinated
the master, supercargo, and an English passenger named
Cooke, whose wife was on board. The murderers then
divided the Californian gold amongst themselves and the
remaining portion of the crew, who it would seem were
ignorant of the whole affair until called upon to receive
their share of the plunder. Soon afterwards the mur-
derers got drunk and fell asleep, when the rest of the
crew agreed to kill them, and restore the ship to her
owners. Accordingly the ship's carpenter chopped off the
heads of the three murderers with his axe, and their bo-
dies were thrown into the ocean. The ship was then
taken to Honohulu, one of the Sandwich Islands, and
given up to the British consul, being navigated thither
entirely by a couple of apprentice lads, who alone pos-
sessed sufficient skill for the purpose.
THE GOLDDN AGE.—This age has certainly again re-
visited the earth. It has come upon us, not in its
poetical, but its matter-of-fact sense. The first and the
richest fountain of modern times sprung up in California,
but the brilliant bubbles are becoming visible in sundry
other districts. The Californian establishment has found
a rival in old Egypt, and ventures to Cairo and the Somat
are likely to be as plentiful as those now in course to
Francisco and the San Sacramento. The Russian engi-
neers employed by Mehemet Ali have discovered gold near
Cassan, on the eastern side of the Somat, in infinitely
greater abundance than it is to be met with in the richest
of the Siberian mines. The yield in Siberia is not light,
but that in Egypt averages double. Nor is this all : the
banks of the Gamamil (eight hours from Cassan) have
been found even richer than those of the Somat, but in
durable yield it is expected that the banks of the Somat
will bear any run upon them to which they may be subject.
Loads of the glittering ore have likewise been discovered
in Borneo, and our new acquisition of Sarawak is already
exporting it in large quantities, which are likely to be
3('3lire'ClinZe"ell,"gifeguanigiA, (44cren"CiTe-riostile-siis
of the ancients) have long been worked by enterprising
individuals; but there appears to be enough of the pre-
cious metal in the former island to repay its "exploration"
by companies and costly machinery.
EXTRAORDINARY MURDER.—On Saturday evening a
murder, under the following extraordinary circumstances,
was committed in the Rue de Paradis, au Marais. AM.
Larbet, about 55 years of age, and a bachelor, lived alone
in a small apartment at No. 5, but occasionally received
the visit of a sempstress named Sophie Berri, who was to
(.ine with him on that day, but as she did not come at the
hour fixed he sat down to table alone. About half-past 7
Sophie arrived, and immediately after her an elderly wo-
man of the house, who had been on an errand for M.
Larbet. While this person was present he severely repri-
manded Sophie for keeping him so long waiting, and she
became so exasperated that she sprang upon him, threw
him down on a bed which was in the room, and stabbed
him at the back of the neck with the knife she had in her
hand. The neighbour interposed, and took the fury off
her victim. M. Larbet enjoined her not to say anything
about what had passed, and she declared she would not if
the two parties would promise that their quarrel should be
at an end. This promise was given by both, and she
went away. Scarcely, however, had five minutes elapsed
before the porter of the house, who happened to be on the
stairs, heard a renewed struggle in the room of M. Larbet,
and on entering found that the virago had again attacked
him, and had succeeded in strangling him, after having
again wounded him several times with the knife. The
Commissary of Police of the quarter was immediately
called in, and with him came medical aid ; but M. Larbet
was quite dead. He had received five wounds, but nei-
ther of them was mortal, and his death was caused by the
strangulation. Sophie Berri, who is a powerful woman,
whereas M. Larbet was feeble, was immediately after-
wards arrested, but she did not seem at all to comprehend
the enormity of the crime she had committed ; for, when
the officers of police took from her the key of her own
room, before conducting her to the Guard-house, she
said, " But you must give me back my key, or how shall
Ibe able to get in when I return home ?" On Friday,
however, when brought in presence of the dead body, she
was seized with fits which lasted for three or four hours,
and from which indeed she did not recover for some time
after she had been carried back to prison.—Galiynani.

IRELAND.

UNIVERSITY

The poor laws and the priests are still the exciting
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topics. The former please nobody, and nothing seems to English Clerr
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satisfy the latter. County meetings are being held every The mu
week, and the universal cry from all parts of the country an the
p•
is in condemnation of the present law. Whether the in- I
quiry, announced by government, into the working of
the system may lead to any beneficial result is more t'
can be foretold. Our faith in whiggery is not ver
guine ; they generally succeed in making co-'
confounded. Their policy towards Jr,

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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AND. CLERICAL NEWS.

A London has laid on the table another
Discipline Bill.
AGent donation of £4OO has just been received
031ftarnittee of the Additional Curates Fund, from
.ionymous contributor.

'Ctre Gazette contains an order in Council ordering that
£4OO a-year shall be allowed to the Bishop of Manches-
ter for a temporary residence till a permanent one shall
be provided for the See of Manchester.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.—The Rev. Joseph
Shaw, 8.D., who recently succeeded the Bishop of Ches-
ter in the Mastership of this College, has resigned that
office after three weeks' tenure. His successor will be
elected to-day. It is generally thought that the Rev.
James Cartmell, 8.D., Fellow and Tutor. will be elected.

The Rev. Sir Cecil A. Bisshopp, Bart., died at Malta,
on the 19th ult., in his 27th year, leaving a young wife far
advanced in pregnancy. The rev. baronet had been for
some time ill, but nothing could induce him to abandon
his duties, even when suffering under ill health, and to
such an extent was his enthusiasm carried, That he on one
occasion, recently, fainted in the pulpit, and was carried
away.

The Ecclesiastical Commission has authorised the ex-
pend.ture, on episcopal residences, of the following sums :
—Palace at Ripon, £13,689; purchase of land and house
for the Bishop of Gloucester, £11,000; alteration of a
house for him, £11,897 ; purchase of estate and house
for the Bishop of Lincoln, £39,406 ; alteration of a house
for him, .Z 13,302 ; purchase of estate and house for the
Bishop of Rochester, £25,557 ; alteration of residence of
the Bishop of Worcester, £7,000; alteration of residence
of the Bishop of Oxford, £6,469.
The congregation of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row,
are petitioning the Queen, praying her Majesty, with the
advice of the Privy Council, " to cause a revision to be
made of the Canon Law, so as to adapt it to the altered
circumstances of the nation, and an examination into
those points in the discipline, formularies, and service of
the Church, which, left defective or uncorrected at the
Reformation, have ever since given rise to grave objec-
tions, and have often weakened the attachment of the
friends of the Church, driven many from her communion,
and afforded topics of attack to her enemies.
DIVISION OF LARGER PARISHES.—On Tuesday, the
following clergymen had an interview with the Bishop of
Manchester, on the subject of sub-dividing large parishes,
and other matters connected with a reform in the church;
—The Rev. Robert Master, Incumbent of Burnley ; the
Rev. Mr. Birchall, the Rev. Mr. Thursby, and the Rev.
Mr. Henderson. -The gentlemen forming the deputation
met with a kind reception from the Right Rev. Prelate.
The interview lasted about two hours, and we may state

that his lordship is favourable to some change in our
ecclesiastical divisions, with a view of promoting the effi-
ciency and increasing the usefulness of the church .—About
the same time a deputation from the clergy at Stone,
Staffordshire, had an interview with their diocesan for the
purpose of presenting to him a memorial on the same
subject. They met with a most gracious reception, and
the bishop has undertaken to improve the bill proposed
to be introduced to the legislature for the carrying out of
the views of the memorialists. A very favourable letter
hae been received from the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and also one from Sir R. Peel.
WHAT THE SCOTCH FREE-CHURCH MEN THINK OF
MR. NOEL'S BOOK.—What we chiefly deplore, however,
is the effect which this unhappy ultraism and indecision
of tendency must have on the minds of his former bre-
thren. If not deterred from following his example by the
length of the leap he has taken, they must be all the more
content to linger with the abuses he has denounced, when
it is seen that, in Mr. Noel's opinion at least, there is no
intermediate ground, no sure footing, between an out-
rageous Erastianism, crushing under its iron heel every
fibre of life and freedom in the church, on the one hand,
and on the other, a nomadic unorganised dissenterism ;
no alternative between the establishment as it now stands,
with all its corruptions, and an ecclesiastical revolution
which would not only dissolve the union of church and
state, but dissolve the union of the church herself, and
explode her into ten thousand fragmentary churches, as
unlike as unallied to each other, and the prospective con-
stitution of which no men could fortel. The English
mind seems hitherto unable to devise a middle path be-
tween the purest despotism and the rankest radicalism in
ecclesiastical matters. We had hoped to find in Mr. Noel's
book a more moderate scheme of reform projected, which
would have reconciled the two extremes • but we are com-
pelled to say that we despair of him as a leader in any great
movement of reformation, when we see him thus merg-
ing himself in the confused ranks of existing dissent—
descending into the arena, single handed, as the champion
not of the church but of a chapel—and pleading with all
the ardour of a neophite, for a system of disunion and
disorganization, the utter impotence of which for any'
combined action, even its veteran supporters were be-
ginning to deplore.—North British Review.
THE NEW BISHOPRIC OF VICTORIA, HONG KONG.—
The new colonial Diocese of Victoria. of which the Rev.
George Smith, M.A., of Magdalene Hall, Oxford, is to
be the first Bishop, has received her Majesty's approval,
and the Bishop elect will be consecrated in the course of
a few weeks. The Bishop of Victoria will have jurisdic-
tion over the members of the Church of England in the
five free ports, and wherever else on the Continent of
China he may find an opening, The endowment of the
Bishopric of Victoria has been provided for entirely by
private subscription. Soon after the treaty with the Chi-
nese empire had been concluded, by which facilities for
intercourse with the people never enjoyed were conceded.
to European nations, the Bishop of London issued a pas-
toral letter inviting the Clergy of his Diocese to collect
the offerings of their congregations in Church for a fund
towards the endowment of a Bishopric in the Chinese
seas. The total sum at present available towards the
erection of the See may be stated at £lB,OOO, £6,000 of
which were collected in consequence of the Bishop of I
London's letter, £2,000 contributed by the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and
£lO,OOO by "A Brother and Sister," who have also
offered £2,000 towards the erection of a Missionary Col-
lege at Hong Kong, in connection with the Church. Of
this College the Bishop will be the warden, a plan which,
wherever practicable, has been adopted in the new Colo-
nial Sees. The warden's duty will consist in preparing a
body of students, native and European, to be trained for
missionary employment in China. As soon as possible
after the erection of the Bishopric of Victoria, measure,
will be taken for the formation of Dioceses in other
colonies.