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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

Rooms, when

-Lord J. RussELL moved " That the house should resolve
itself into a committee of the whole house, to consider the
laws relating to the importation of forei_
noble lord contended that no class in the kingdom were sa-

ign grain

tisfied with the law
agriculturist. The i

of even that of the
Al cause was to be found in the depres-

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TUESDAY EVENINGnext, titre 20th inatant, a
GRAND CONCERT will take place at the above

fIERR STAUDIGL

will make h s appearance, and display his extraordinary
Vocal powers, in •• REVENGE," and several of his other ce-

lebrated Songs.
As Herr Staudigl is about leaving England for Vienna,•
this will be the only opportunity of hearing him this Season.
Tickets to be bad at the principal Musicsellers.
Body of the Room, ss. ; Gallery.2s. 6d.
Early application is requested, as only a limited number of
Tickets will be issued.
Amongst other Engagements, (which will be duly an-
nounced.) Mrs. ST. ALBIN will play a GRAND CONCERTO
OD the Piano-forte, Mr. SHRIVALL, &c. &c.
During the greater I

TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS

The largely increased and most respectable circulation
which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL
STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile
body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify-
ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable
claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion
of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to
bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in
the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of
the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of
the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester,
however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our
publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im-
portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its
Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu-
facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es-
tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased
and increasing interest.

Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to
receive an increased measure of support from the mer-
chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords
us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst
those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver-
tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability
to do justice to the interests committed to their care.

EA)r Libel 00l 'tanbat•b.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1843

We insert elsewhere some further announcements of
the." progress of repeal," and amongst them will be
found a few particulars of a " formidable demonstra-
tion" at Mallow, in county Cork, on Sunday last, at
which, according to the statement of the Cork Exa-
miner, upwards of four hundred thousand persons were
present. Such enormous assemblages of misguided
men are not the only alarming symptoms connected
with the repeal agitation, though these are sufficiently
dangerous ; and yet, if we are to credit the London
correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail," no step is
to be taken to repress the Irish agitation." Our,
readers are already aware, from a paragraph in our
last paper, that a cabinet council was held on Sunday
last, very unexpectedly, and this fatal determination
was then, according to the authority we have men-
tioned, resolved upon.
We will, however, give this extraordinary statement
in the language of our contemporary.

" LONDON, MONDAY.—No step is to be taken to repress
the Irish agitation. A "cabinet council was held yesterday
(Sunday), and after a very stormy debate the fatal decision
was resolved upon. Sir R. Peel's vapouring in the House
of Commons was, it is now manifest, properly characterised
-b Mr. O'Connell as a mere brulum fulmen. At the very
moment that her Majesty's ministers were sitting in delibe-
ration, the leaders of her Majesty's opposition were, by a
curious coincidence, also assembled in conclave at Lord John
Russell's residence. Ireland was there, too, the subject of
deliberation. Several assaults are to be made in the present
month on ministers ; and the result, it is anticipated, will be
further concessions to the Irish party 1"
" LONDON TUESDAY.—Ithe rumours to-day in the differ-
ent political clubs were more numerous than usual, and all
of a conciliatory tendency. The result of the councils held
lately by the ministers is said to be this—that a series of mo-
tions will be submitted to the House of Commons, which, it
is anticipated, will extort further concessions from the go-
vernment in favour of the so called liberal party in Ireland.
Some say that Sir Robert Peel is prepared to sacrifice what
remains of the established church, in the hope of propitiating
Mr. O'Connell and the priests. Others, that a federal union
is to be conceded, and the rumour to-day at Brook's and the
Reform Club is, that the Queen will be advised to hold a
parliament occasionally in College-green. Be these rumours
true or false, it is now agreed on all hands that the conser-
vative party in Ireland has nothing to hope from the govern-
ment."

We know not what truth there may be in these
rumours, or in any of the other statements of this gen-
tleman ; but we have had frequent occasion of noticing
his accuracy, and he has given many proofs of the
opportunities he possesses of arriving at important in-
formation. On the supposition that his correspondent
is correct, the Dublin Mail of Wednesday makes the
following remarks on his letter :

" It is not for want of knowledge of the true state of things
that ministers thus falter. They know what has gone for-
ward in public already—they know what is meditated for the
future. They know that the mayrnent of rents is even now
systematically withheld, and that the non-payment which is
now partial, will soon be ordered for universal practice.
They know that the assizes are approaching when the intimi-
dation of juries, and the corruption of witnesses will render
the administration of justice a farce—they know that so-
ciety is resolved to its barbarous elements, and become once
more a;chaos ; that the gentry are flying the country—that the
magistracy, Protestant and Roman Catholic, are on the point
of destruction—that capital has been withdrawn from busi-
ness—that except to the coffers of the Corn-Exchange, and
out of them again, the currency of money has entirely stopped
—that the hand of industry has been paralysed—that even
the agricultural pursuits of the peasant and the labourer are
abandoned, and that of all the works, public or private, going
on some weeks ago, there is hardly one in progress but the
new temporary Parliamentary House on Burgh Quay. These
are portentous signs of the times, and they are all known to mi-
nisters, or they ought to be. We will tell them something more.
We will let them into a secret, which, if they know not, they are
not only the more culpable, but perhaps the only persons in
the kingdom ignorant of the fact. The loyal and peaceable
inhabitants of this country—mark it, Sir Robert Peel—the
friends of the British connexion in this country are beginning
to ask one or two significant questions : First—Why arc they
thus abandoned ; and, secondly, when thus abandoned, are
there no reasons why, or no means by which, they could
provide for their own safety and interests ? We can assure
Sir Robert Peel, that many sober and honest men begin to
question whether such terms could not be made with the
repealers as would render a parliament in College-green—
with a House of Lords as it was constituted before the Union
not only a glorious thing for Ireland, but very safe .also for
all her inhabitants. They argue from the supposed enlight-
enment of the times for the safety of their religion, if not for
the toleration of their church ; and seeing the interest which
Roman Catholic landlords have in the permanence of their
titles, they infer that their properties might be made secure
enough."

We feel that we ought to be under no necessity of
apologising to our readers for the somewhat unusual
space which we have devoted in our present publica-
tion to the proceedings of our excellent Collegiate In-

stitution. Setling aside the fact that this institution
has, so far, proved its capability of conferring vast
benefits upon the young, whilst, by its valuable lec-
tures, it affords large sources of instruction and delight
to the adult, there is something in- an examination
such as that which has just taken place, which will not
permit us to resist the temptation of recording its
eventful results. There is a pleasure, even to men
wearied with the toil of literary exertion, in witnessing
the dawning scholarship of those, who may perhaps
be destined to fill higher and nobler paths in life than
their own—to win trophies and honours forbidden to
themselves. In the young candidates for scholarships
at such institutions, we may be gazing upon the poets,
the statesmen, the divines, of another age; 'and where
even the claim to the possession of eminent talent may
not exist, there is certain to be an amount of merits in
the candidates which, even in the columns of a thing
so ephemeral as a newspaper, some fond parents eye
may dwell wfth satisfaction, and the future man, as he
takes it occasionally from its sanctum, may gaze with
a pride which is sum ely not to be brought against him
as an unpardonable offence.

We have, therefore, given the results of this exam

nation, so honourable to many of the young aspirants,
and we may add, to their teachers as well, at fs much
length as we could afford ; and we shall on future oc-
cesions do so, in the conviction that even the humble
meed of fame within our power to afford may not be
without its uses, in inciting to new exertions and fresh
victories, in a field where the trophieb are inexhaustible.
And here we may, not unappropriately, record our
admiration of the manificent spirit in which some of
the Conservative gentlemen of our town, and one ex-
emplary nobleman—we refer to Messrs. Edmund
Molyneux and William Potter, who have founded scho-