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ration

to those ma
had

present government, be adverteu
predecessors. Sir M. O'Loghlin ,cen appointed by
the latter to the bench, in preference to Mr. Pennefather
and Mr. Blackburne, both by many years his seniors,
and both, to say the least, his equals in talent and busi-
ness. A similar preference bad been given to Mr.
Woulfe, who bad not a fourth, perhaps not a sixth, of the
business of Mr. Pennefather, Mr. Blackburne, or Mr.
Lefroy. So in the case of Judge Ball, so in the case of
Judge Richards. Now none of these were blameable ap-
pointment/
Lord I-I owi C R

but they wer

11 appointments of partisan

-pealed to the speeches of Ministers

missions of

Ll 3 existing evils, of which, however,
those speeches suggested no remedy. And yet no man
out of office had spoken without declaring the opinion
that some efficient remedy was requisite. The present
meetings in Ireland, and the agitation connected with
them, were subjects of the deepest alarm ; not because
the meetings themselves were immediately mischievous,
but because they excited and diffused bad feeling among a
whole people. You must conquer their affections if you
would have Ireland secure. He argued that repeal meant
separation, that separation mea

, and that war be-
fore separation was better than after it. Something was
necessary, and the government, who ought to be the lead-
ers, shrank from proposing it ; be would, therefore, sub
mit the results of his own reflection. The causes of evil
in Ireland were chiefly two—the distress of the people as
connected with the occupation of land ; and the circum-
stances arising from the relative positions of the Protes-

tants and Catholics. The distress was not only severe but
habitu?l, and it caturally disposed the sufferers to politi-
cal movement. The capabilities of the country, and the
TO ties of the people, were such as ought to produce
prosperity, and why was it not obtained? British capital
was not wanting for any enterprise that promised a return;

but the ri

3y that c

tal was not converted to the

Ireland was, the want of security. The tenant
was deterred from improvement by the uncertainty of
his holding ; and that uncertainty led to agrarian outrage.
Some arrangements for valuations between landlord and
tenant might be introduced by law ; but, moreover, some
means ought to be provided for employing industrious
persons in other labour than that of the land The best
thing that ministers could now do would be to consent to
a resolution for taking into consideration the whole state
of Ireland; that as soon as the prorogation should take
place they should digest and mature the measures neces-
sary for that country ; and, that, early in the winter,
Parliament should be re-assembled for the purpose of
deliberating upon them.
Mr. DALLY KNIGHT doubted whether, in the state in
which the late ministers had left the finances of the
country, the Chancellor of the Exchequer could find it
possible to produce the money for the purposes proposed
by the noble lord. He was quite sure that the English
people would never consent to the demolition of the Pro-
testant Church in Ireland, and that any such attempt not
only would cost a minister his place, but, if persisted in,
would cost a monarch his crown. But he admitted that
a provision ought to be made for the Roman Catholic
Clergy._

benefit

LOrd JOCELYN desired to have it remembered, that
the Protestant religion, though it was the faith but of the
minority in Ireland, was the faith of the majority in that
aggregate empire of which Ireland was a part. The state
of Ireland, agrarian and general, had been improving
when the present disturbance began: and it was painful
to see those benefits arrested in their progress by such a
cause.
The debate.was then adjourned.

HOUSE OF CONINIONS.-

TUESDAY

The adjournei debate on the motion of Mr. W. S
O'BRIEN was resumed by
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, who commented on the policy
pursued towards Ireland, and on the present position of
the conservatives with respect to that country.
After the House had been addressed by Mr. Smythe,
Mr. Hawes, Mr. Colquboun, Mr. S. Crawford, Mr.
Bateson, Mr. Ross, Mr. Milnes, and Mr. Roebuck,
Sir R. PEEL said he did not believe that the hon. gen-
tleman who had opened the debate had any idea of enter-
ing into a solemn inquiry into the state of Ireland, but
that his real object was, by carrying his motion, to de-
clare that the house had no confidence in the present mi-
nistry. It was quite impossible that Ireland could benefit
by the repeal of the union in a pecuniary point of view,
considering the establishments which she must then of
necessity maintain. At present Ireland paid no assessed
taxes, and in a recent crisis had escaped the property tax,
to which the rest of the kingdom was subjected. The
expense of the Post-office was also borne on this side of
the water, and he was surprised under such circumstances
that it could be supposed that Ireland was not benefitted
in a pecuniary point of view by the union. With respect
to the patronage of the Irish church, he read a letter to
the Lord-Lieutenant, leaving him at liberty to dispose of
church preferment in that country according to the result
of his inquiries, as to the professional merits of the parties,
and intimating that it was necessary for the benefit of the
Irish church that this principle should be acted upon, and
that he was willing to foregoe all parliamentary influence
rather than act upon any other principle. This letter
was written in 1841, at a time when he little thought he
should be ever called upon to read it in that house in self
defence. Upon the subject of education the right hon.
baronet defended the course pursued by the government,
and in reference to the distribution of government ap-
pointments he could assure the house that he never asked
a man's country or religion when considering his fitness
for office, in proof of which he referred to the appoint-
ment of the commissioners of metropolitan police, both
of whom were Irishmen. In the same way when he
selected three sculptors to erect statues in Greenwich
Hospital to three of our naval heroes, two out of the three
were Irishmen, a fact he was not aware of until afterwards,
when he saw an attack made upon him in a public journal
for extending undue favour to the people of Ireland. These
were distinctions which should not be entertained, and he
hoped they would never be revived. With respect to the
construction of railways, he had some doubt of the pro-
priety of taxing one part of the country for the benefit
of the other, unless there was a certainty that the
railway would become profitable, for otherwise it would
only give a stimulus for the moment followed by a
greater state of depression than that which it was
intended to remedy. In reply to an observation of Lord
Howick's, he said that the Roman Catholics now en-
joyed equal civil rights as the other subjects of the crown,
and that the oaths were so altered that the offensive por-
tions relating to transubstantiation were abolished. With
respect to the franchise, he would remind the house that
they had come into power as was said with a large ma-
jority, but that majority had not been applied to the pass-
ing of a registration bill or to any other measure which
could be said to be unjust to Ireland. He was called upon
by the honourable member for Bath to give a pledge to
abolish the Established Church of Ireland, and if he be-
lieved that public necessity required it he would not hesi-
tate to recommend that the law respecting that Church
should be modified, but he believed nothing of that sort,
and he was quite prepared to refuse any such pledge, even
if his refusal should lead to his loss of power. If they
proposed to make the Catholic and Protestant religion
equal in every respect they should not only take seven-
eighths of the ecclesiastical revenues, but they must give
up several of the edifices of the Established Church. (Se-
veral members on the opposition side—" Certainly.")
But that was not all, for in order to have perfect equality
they miust either have Catholic bishops in the House of
Lords o.r else exclude from thence the bishops of the Es-
tablishment. Thus they would perceive that the measure
uggested several hon. members was much more exten-
ive than th imagined. When Catholic emancipation
is concededf it was said that the concession would
• • of the Established Church, and
s would not forget the pledges to
it men who advocated their ,

enzthen the posit

the

could act upon those pledges,
erfere at all with any portion

pie of lr

but it -oat kUificient to adopt the necessary measures of.
Pr..e.Sttiota until they found moderation unavailing. The
right tem. baronet sat down amidst very general cheer-
ing,

'Lord J. RUSSELL said he had heard the speech of Sir
R. Peel with dissatisfaction, although he thought he was
right in not allowing himself to be hurried into coercive
measures by the advice of irresponsible parties. lie in-
sisted upon it that the people of Ireland had not the same
rights as the people of England, and he thought Sir J.
Graham and Sir R. Peel had quibbled with the question
as far as it related to the franchise. The right hnn_

baronet had taken credit to himself for not msinzAisma-
jority in order to carry Lord Stanley's Registration Bill,
and he used the remarkable words that he had not made
use of it to perpetrate injustice to Ireland. by which e-
nressions he affirmed that the bill was an act of inja,.

and implied that it had been only mooted for party
purposes while the late Government was in office. He
was of opinion that they ought not to abolish the Esta-
blished Church of Ireland, but he would say that they
ought to raise the Catholic bishops and clergy to a footing

follow out to all its covsequ?nces. He knew that there
would be difficulty in carrying such an arrangement into
effect, for the catholic clergy were opposed to connection

with the state

Mr. BLEWITT moved the adjournment of the debate.—
The motion was agreed to.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

The debate on the alleged Irish grievances was resumed
by Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, and after Lord BERNARD,
Sir H. W. BARROW and two or three other members had

Lord PALMERSTON said, what were the views of go-
vernment be defied any man to infer from their speeches.
They were no doubt distracted and paralysed by contrary
impulses—not only from their Mends out of doors, but
even in the cabinet itself. tie bad said a little v

that if ministers should resign their places, the coup gotry
would 'call upon them to return; but he had lately seen
ground to change that opinion, and he felt bound as a
gentleman and a man honour to say so, that he might not
mislead them into a resignation. He did not think that
repeal was a question which ministers would have to con-
sider . he rather thought that repeal was a cry conventionally
adopted by the people to express their grievances. The
only point upon which ministers had held out the chance
of a remedy was the law of landlord and tenant ; and
most happy should he be to co-operate with them on such
a subject. On the greatest evil of all, the relative position
of the Protestants and Roman Catholics, not the slightest
alleviation was intimated. The present amount of esta-
I l• • . . •

wisp went was capable of being considerably reduced ; and
as Lord Stanley had been the author of the Church
Temporalities Bill, there could be no objection by him,
or his colleague, Sir J. Graham, to the principle of re-
duction. In point of justice, perhaps, the Catholics could
not complain of the Protestant establishment; but, con-
sidering the state of their own church, could you expect
that they would not? He would say, therefore, suspend
those livings in which there is no duty to be performed.
But if you would not abate the Protestant church, put
that of the Catholics upon a level with it, authorize the
'on of glebe-houses, by voluntary gift, perhaps with
The

rrom the state. _ amount of the establish-
ment at Maynooth, too, was far below its proper line.
Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Prussia—each made provision
funds of the state for more than one denomina-
- He condemned the scanty allotment of
„ :nd the too high amount of the rnU-
icipal, franchise. Under all these difficuties, here was
a government unprepared with any remedy. They were
content, in office, as out of it, to obstruct. He hoped,
at all events, that nothing would be said from the treasury

from tt
Lion of clergy
the parliament

benches to strike the Irish people with despair, and that
before another session, measures would be matured for
satisfying the just expectations of that nation.
Lord STANLEY declined to adopt the suggestions of
Mr. Muntz and Mr. Ferrand, who had required the
government, not only to make declarations respecting
Ireland, but to point out remedies for all the evils in all
the British dominions. He had read this motion as
charging the government with insensibility to the grie-
vances of Ireland, and with indisposition to do her justice;
but the speech which had introduced it was a speech
upon the general state of Ireland, and against past, as
well as present, administrations; so that the precise drift
of the motion itself was not now very easy to be defined.
Some gentlemen called upon the government to exercise
the energy of Strafford, others forbade them to take any
strong measure at all. The government bad been charged
with intending nothing on the subj,:ct of parliamentary
franchise-; whereas, at an earlier period of this very ses-
sion, they had announced their intention to enlarge that
franchise, upon the basis of the new valuation contem-
plated in the Irish Poor Law Amendment Bill; but the
working of that valuation must be seen before such en-
largement of franchise could be prudently enacted.
Then, on the subject of the Irish Church, what was
desired? No five of the members opposite could agree;
but some had said boldly, " Abolish the intrusive church
of the minority ;" and Lord Palmerston had asked how
Lord Stanley could object to the principle of a farther
reduction in its revenues? Why, it was the very point
upon which he had resigned his seat in the whig cabinet.
He admitted that a high-minded man would abandon
office rather than sacrifice important principles ; but he did
not think it would become such a man to abandon his office
and his principle together. What the prospoal of equal-
izing the two religions meant, he did not understand. Did
it mean an equal, or did it mean a proportirnate division
of the Protestant revenues between the Protestant and
Catholic clergy ? And to what result
would
Izmir eq.._
thy leans Why, to place in the Clouse of Lords a Roman
Catholic prelacy, not nominated by the Crown of England
but by the Court of Rome; for Mr. Moore O'Ferrall
himself had declared in this debate that the Roman Cath
olic clergy would rot accept a stipend from the nation, um
the terms of permhting any interference with their civil
state. The law of landlord and tenant was a d!fficult
subject ; and he acknowledged that if the Irish landlords,
as a class, dealt with their tenants otherwise than the
landlords of England, a case was made out for the inter-
ference of the Legislature. To a Committee, however,
of mere inquiry into the law of landlord and tenant, the
Goverment would have made no objection. He should
be sorry to have it thought that either this or former gov-
ernments had neglected the welfare of Ireland. A com-
mittee, of which Mr. Spring Rice was chairman, had
recommended nineteen different measures ; eighteen of
them had since been actually passed into law; and if the
house would continue its confidence be would not despair
that, by forbearance from extreme measures, and a sted-
fast perseverance in a careful and vigilant policy, the
government would be able to conduct the country through
its dangers; but if, through the course taken by certain
gentlemen who sate on his own side of the house, and who
had some of them hinted, and some of them avowed,
their want of confidence, the government were to be addi-
tionally embarrassed and impeded, the question of confi-
dence or no confidence could not too soon be brought to
issue, in order that the Ministers, if distrusted by parlia-
ment, might at once make way for others more fit to direct
the councils of the country.
Mr. S. O'BitIEN having replied,
The house divided.
For the Committee 164
Against it
Majority against it -78
The house afterwards adjourned at half-past two o'clock,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--THURSDAY

- • •
The Arms (Ireland) Bill again became the subject of
discussion, on the motion for resuming the committee
and after a long speech from Lord CLEMENTS, ,
Mr. WALLACE moved that the committee should be
postponed for six months.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD seconded the motion, and said that,
from the moment his arms should be branded, he would
become a repealer until the Arms Act should be repealed.
In order to avoid being placed in that position, he should
avail himself of the forms of the house, in every possible
way, to oppose the passing of the act.
Mr. V. STUART opposed the amendment of Mr. Wal-
lace, though he thought it would be his duty to vote
against the bill altogether on the third reading.
The house then divided, and the amendment of Mr.
Wallace was defeated by a majority of 104 to 27.
The house soon after resolved itself into committee,
and the remainder of the evening was occupied in the dis-
cussion of the various clauses.

HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE brought the eternal sub-
ject of the dismissal of the Irish magistrates under the con-
sideration of their lordships by the following motion :
" That it appears by the papers before the house that the
Irish Government has dismissed several magistrates from
the commission of the peace on the ground that they had
intimated an intention to attend meetings to petition for a
repeal of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland,
after a declaration by her Majesty's ministers iu both
houses of Parliament that her Majesty was determined to
uphold the said union, although it was allowed that such
an intention of attending such meetings before such de-
claration was not a sufficient ground for dismissing ma-
gistrates from the commission of the peace, and that to
dismiss magistrates on such grounds is unconstitutional,
unjust, and inexpedient." The noble marquis contended
that the effect of the course pursued by the government
was altogether contrary to what had been anticipated, for
the result had been to raise those magistrates so dealt
with to the rank of heroes. Those repeal meetings were
not illegal, and it was even to be inferred from the Lord
Chancellor's own correspondence that he did not think
them so. The noble lord admitted that the repeal of the
union, even if it could be peaceably accomplished, which
it could not, would be most injurious to both countries.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that this motion was
obviously directed against the Government, and in defence
of that Government he must say that the acts complained
of were forced upon the Government, which would not
have done its duty if it had not carried them into execu-
tion. After what had passed in Parliament it was notori-
ous that the repeal of the union was disapproved of by
both houses; and, under such circumstances, the Lord
Chancellor of Ireland found Lord Ffrench, and other
magistrates, presiding over and attending at meetings, and
urging forward proceedings, the object of which was to
carry the repeal of the union by terror, force, and violence;
and this course was pursued by the very men who should be
employed to arrest the parties who might be guilty of
breaches of the peace, in following out the line laid down
for them. For his own part, he was not competent to de-
cide whether or not these meetings were illegal. They cer-

ae the a

necessary for the Government to be on:its guard. This
state of things was not the doing of the Government—all
that the Government had to do was to resist its conse-
quences, and to take care of the property of individuals,
and to be prepared for the worst that might happen. The
way to be prepared was by taking care not to have in the
service of Government a number of magistrates who had
themselves presided Over such meetings. As to sympathy
with those meetings, he did not know whether the sym-
pathisers were thousands more or thousands less ; but
this he knew, that he felt himself more secure in not
having to employ men who had themselves been instru-
mental in raising them to their present dangerous height,
and therefore he was of opinion that the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland had done perfectly right. He regretted to hear
that there were 2,000,000 of the people of Ireland in a state
of great poverty, but there was great poverty in England
also ; and, at all events, he was at a loss to conceive how
that poverty was to be relieved by the agitation which now
prevailed in that country.
The Earl of CLANCARTY regretted that government had
done nothing to check the agitation in Ireland except the
doubtful act of dismissing the magistrates. It would be
more economical if the government were to grant aids for
public works and the development of the resources of the
country, instead of sending over troops to do nothing.
They should not attempt, however, to tranquilize Ireland
by sacrificing the revenues of the Established Church and
depreciating the landlords, in order to flatter the Roman
Catholic priests by affecting to look upon them as conser-
vators of the public peace.
Earl FORTESCUE condemned the removal of so many
respectable men, in whom the people had intimate confi-
dence, from the magistracy.
The Earl of GLEN GALL regretted that the letters had
been written by the Lord Chancellor, but he approved of
the dismissal of the magistrates. He thought that the
office of Lord Lieutenant ought to be filled by an Irish-
man, for, hitherto it had been usually filled by an English-
men, who went over full of prejudice towards, while ig-
norant of everything relating to the country, and just as
tiey began to open their eyes to their enormous blunders
and errors they were recalled and replaced by another
Englishman, who had to run precisely the same career.
There appeared also to be a free trade in lord chancellors
for they were almost always imported from England until
lately, when the people of Ireland had to congratulate
themselves on the appearance amongst them of a Scotch
chancellor—(a laugh).
The Earl of WICKLOW did not regret the dismissal of
the magistrates, but he did regret the unconstitutional
mode in which it had taken place. The gruunds upon
which the Lord Chancellor of Ireland acted were utterly
untenable; but, although he believed them to be uncon-
stitutional, yet he would not support the motion, believ-
ing it to be a censure on the Government, and believing
the maintenance of the present Government in office to
be for the benefit of the nation.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that government had deter-
mined upon taking the line of forbearance, and though
some noble lords advised a different course time 'alone
could tell which was right. He must, however, say,
justice to the policy of the government, that they b^mod no
case upon which to come down to parliament to ask for
increased powers. It was not without much
of the measures recommended that they 'r-onsideration
and come to the
determination of not striking the fire., olow, the result of
which must be an effusion of b100'44 and much subsequent
suffering. They stood preparA, however, and if the oc-
casion arose would do their duty if other parties broke the
law. They would not, he repeated, be the first to strike a
blow, and this ,was in every way prudent. They were
charged with doing nothing by two noble lords whose
speeches would justify a vote either for or against the mo-
tion, bra there was a homely maxim, which was also for-
" They should not bark before they could bite."
They should be sure of success : they should be sure of
tieir.power to hold before they ventured on a policy so
decisive as that which had been suggested. Before he sat
down he felt bound to say that parliament and the country
were indebted to the Protestants of Ireland for the course
they had pursued in the present emergency. He believed
it was owing to their good sense and good conduct that the
whole of Ireland was not in a flame.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he could not have
supported any motion which asserted the legality of the
meetings for repeal of the union, but, as the motion be-
fore their lordships was confined to censuring the absurd
and unconstitutional proceeding which had been adopted
by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, he entirely approved
of it. The government, before taking such a step, should
have come to parliament with a deliberate message from
the crown, giving a distinct warning of the consequences
to all who should engage in the repeal agitation, instead
of proceeding, as the Irish Chancellor had done, upon a
mere conversation which had taken place in either house
of parliament. He was glad, however, that government
was determined to exhaust all the powers of the law be-
fore they applied for coercive measures. If they brought
down measures for the benefit of that unhappy country,
they would be entitled to the aid and support of men of
all parties.
Lord BROUGHAM could not support the motion. lie
said the financial portion of the agitation was well worthy
of attention, for it was difficult to know or surmise what
became of the enormous sums of money collected. It
might be all expended in advertisements, agency, &c., or
in paying off the debts of the "body," though debts it
had none; hut no account was given of the mode in which
these sums were expended, and little confidence could be
placed in magistrates who became parties to an agitation
of which this formed so suspicious a characteristic. The
noble lord expressed his sympathy for the present position
of the orangemen of Ireland, whose conduct had been
exemplary, refraining_ from all demonstrations, and re-
maining perfectly quiescent, while the whole country was
agitated by their antagonists. The noble and learned lord
then defended the course of forbearance adopted by the
Government, contending that to attempt to put down these
meetings by force would be dangerous and futile, and
wouldonly gratify those who wished for public disturbance.
Lord LYNDHURST addressed their lordships, contend-
ing that a conspiracy more dangerous than that which
prevailed in Ireland never took place in any country—a
conspiracy to destroy the Established Church, confiscate
its revenues, and, by the proposed fixity of tenure, to
transfer the whole landed property of the country from
the proprietor to thf occupier. The noble and learned
lord defended the course pursued by the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland, and said that, under similar circumstances, lie
would have pursued precisely a similar course.
Lord COTTENH AM expressed his surprise that the Lord
Chancellor should have denounced these meetings as il-
legal. If his propositions were correct high treason had
been committed, and if high treason bad been committed,
what were the government doing in allowing it to go
unpunished?

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE having replied, their
lordships divided, and negatived the resolutions by a
majority of 91 to 29.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

Mr. ARMSTRONG expressed his strong disapprobation
of the Irish Arms Bill.

Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN then moved as an amendment,
that all further proceeding with the Arms Bill shonld be
postponed until the other measures relating to Ireland
were taken into consideration.

A long discussion ensued. Finally, the amendment was
withdrawn.

The house then went into committee ; and there, with
reference to some difficulties suggested on a former night
respecting the vagueness of the word " arms,"
Lord ELIOT said, that throughout all the years during
which the legislature had been in the habit of renewing
these bills, no objection of this kind had ever been made
in parliament, nor had any such difficulty occurred in
practice. He proposed, however, in deference to the
feeling of the house, to introduce a declaration that fire-
arms only should be deemed to be within the meaning of
the word arms" as used in this bill.

This definition seemed to meeiwiiVgeneral approbation,
and the committee then resumed their examination of the
bill in its details.

FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

The New Zealand Company is, it would appear from
a correspondence betwen Mr. George Rennie and its sec-
retary, published in the Colonial Gazette, about to es-
tablish a fourth settlement in New Zealand, which is to
be called " New Edinburgh."
A JOINT-STOCK COFFEE-GROWING SOCIETY.---From
a report of the transaction of the Agricultural and Horti-
cultural Society of Calcutta, we learn that a joint-stock
company is about to be established at Chittagong, for the
cultivation of coffee. The plantation is said to be a
promising one—the plants are healthy and luxuriant, and
lately every bush was full of blossom.—Bombay Times,
May 6.

We learn from Boulogne-sur-Mer that a few days ago
a revenue cutter captured, off Cape Grines, a boat, with
three men on board, containing bales of cotton-thread,
tulles, and stockings, amounting in value to 10,000 f. Each
bale had straps, so as to make it portable as a knapsack.
The boat and its freight were brought into Boulogne, and
sold on condition of the goods being re-exported.—French
Paper.

M. Arago, at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences in
Paris last week, said a contract had been entered into by
Messrs. Baring and Co., of London, with the Republi.c
of New Granada, in virtue of which the Republic is to
cede to them the line required for the projected canal
through the Isthmus of Panama with 80,000 acres of
land on the two banks, and 400,000 acres in the interior
of the country.

MORALS IN CUBA.—The Havannah editors, after pub]
lishing the number of criminals arrested in that city du-
ring the year 1842, complain that their editorial brethren
in Old Spain and elsewhere insert extravagant stories about
the frequency of crime in the Havannah. Arrestations
in 1842 :—For murder, 49 ; stabbing, 238 ? robbery, 200 ;
rape, 16. If the Havanneros can brag about such a state-
ment as this, we do not know what they will not boast of.
Anti-Slavery Reporter.

_ .
THE CORMORANT STEAMER.-ThiE vessel sailed on
Wednesday from Plymouth with important despatches
from Government to the British Consul at Rio de Janeiro,
and to Commodore Purvis, the English naval commander
at Monte Nideo. She is also bearer of despatches to the
Right lion. Captain Lord George Paulet, of the Carys•
fort frigate, in the South Pacific, with the acknowledg-
ment of the free independence of Tainehainahar., 111 the
King of tke Sandwich Islands. She will first proceed to
Rio de Janeiro, then to Monte Video, and to Callao and
Valparaiso.

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REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The rent, as announced at the
weekly meeting on Tuesday, is 1,690 ss. 9d.

The twelfth of July passed off with the utmost quietude
in Ireland.

The Ulster 7imes of Saturday announces that Dr.
Coo e. of Belfast, has seceded from the jurisdiction of the
Irish General Assembly.

REPEAL.—DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—A correspondent
of the Limerick Chronicle states, that " Ten of the
students who shouted at the repeal exhibition, when
passing Trinity college, were fined half-a-guinea each by
the boad."

Edward Rogers, Esq., of Inesinacaint, in the province
of Ulster, and an influential character amongst the me-
thodists, granted permission to the Orangemen to hoist a
flag on the methodist chapel on the 12th of July, and it
accordingly floated there.
THE REPEAL BALLAD SINGERS.--THE POLICE.—
We are authorized to state that an able and experienced
attorney has kindly volunteered his services to defend any
of the repeal ballad singers whose liberties it may be at-
tempted to\ abridge in the exercise of a lawful calling.—
Kilkenny Journal.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—A meeting " extraordinary "
of this body was held on Saturday last, but from O'Con-
nell's long address we cannot gather that there was any
other object in the assembly being called together than to
afford the agitator an opportunity of expressing his opin-
ion on the recent Parliamentary dedate.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.--011 Wedesday last, a country-
man tried to get into our barracks, but was prevented by
the sentry, who told him he could not pass. The country
fellow, turning to a by stander, observed, " I know that
sodger, and I'll soon have a shot at him."—Tipperary
Constitution.

Samuel Gray, jun., was found guilty at the Monaghan
Assizes of subornation of perjury. Although there was
no evidence produced in his defence, the jury took two
hours to consider their verdict. The everlasting case of
Samuel Gray, sen., for firing at James Cunningham, was
to take place on Saturday.
The approaching cattle show at Beliast is likely to be a
splendid affair. The Duke of Le',nster, president of the
Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland,
at the principal dinner. The marquis of Downshire is to
preside at the first council is to fill the chair
marquisand Lord Charlemont a
Ad Lord Lurgan are named as
vice-presidents. ~inner previous to the show ;
THE CLONES 7 anclnx.—The Monaghen grand jury
have ignored the tills returned against Mr. S. Smith, the
Sub-inspector VT- ''''
Police, for the murder of M'Caffrey,
the unforty
Ante 'man who lost his life in an affray arising
of The repeal " demonstrations" held at Car-
rojuctkwof:,delYross some time since. There are three of the
pens who swore against the inspector already in custody
w../10 will be tried for perjury.

The other night, Mr. Sharman Crawford, presented a
petition from Rochdale, which he stated to be signed by
4,,564 voters of the Borough, against the Irish Arms Bill;
whereas, in fact there are but 900 voters in the whole of
the Borough ; and a few of them are conservatives, who
are not likely to have signed the document. The same
system of expansion seems to be adopted in England as
is resorted to in Ireland, in estimating the attendance of
repeal meetings.

On Thursday last a diabolical attempt was made to
murder Mr. Fayle, postmaster of Enniscorthy, on his
return from Carnew to that place. When Mr. Fayle was
discovered he was not dead but with great difficulty was
ensOled to state that on passing a plantation on the road
side a shot was fired at him but the slugs passed through
his hat. Three men then leaped out of the wood, and he
could not say what occurred after this. The fatal wound
is from a ball in the forehead.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday,
a fine interesting youth aged eleven years, son of Mr.
Twiname, was exercising his pony in the demesne at
Castlecor ; on its hearing the approach of another horse
it became alarmed and gallopped with such velocity that
his rider could not control him, when, on passing a tree,
the lad's head came in collision with a branch, and the
crown was extensively fractured and depressed on the
brain. Ile survived the shock nearly an hour, but expired
just as surgeons reached.—Cork Paper.
Another of the arch-agitator's monster meetings "came
off" on Sunday week, on the hill of Ballybricken, a few
miles from the city of Waterford, the number congregated
on the occasion being, according to the local repeal paper,
600,000, and, in the estimation of the Freeman, upwards
of 300,000. The display was very similar, in its general
features, to several of the preceding demonstrations. A
procession of the trades of Waterford, with appropriate
banners, and accompanied by no less than forty Temper
ance bands, led the way before Mr. O'Connell's carriage
from Kilmacthomas to the place of meeting, a distance of
five miles. The dinner took place afterwards in the Town-
hall. The Mayor of Waterford presided.
THE BISHOP OF CASHEL—The Right Rev. Dr. Daly,
Bishop of Cashel and Waterhouse, has addressed a pasto-
ral letter to Sir Benjamin Morris, severely censuring the
repeal Knight for his encouragement of Sabbath desecra-
ion by his p! esence at the late " monster" demonstra-
tion near that city :—" I have now lived many years and
visited many different places (says Dr. Daly), and I never
witnessed such a scene of Sabbath desecration as in this
city yesterday, a day on which the family devotions of se
rious people were to be disturbed—on which so few of the
population could have attended their places of worship—.
on which so many had their minds filled from morning till
evening with thoughts foreign to the objects of the Sub-
bath—'things below, and not things above.' I say nothing
of the especial object for which you called on the people
to desert the worship of God, and assemble in this city ;
with the political question I have nothing to do. What I
remonstrate with you for is, the wanton desecration of the
Sabbath, the presumptuous violation of a commandment
of our God."

JOSHUA JACOB AND HIS DISCIPLES.—On Thursday
morning the marshal of the Four Courts, Dublin, ap-
peared before Master Litton in consequence of a decree
served on Joshua Jacob, now in custody under a writ of
ne excat regno, requiring him to lodge in coart a sum of
upwards of £l,OOO, and the marshal stated that Joshua
wished to have his cause pleaded by sonic friend. The
tenets of his religion forbad him to employ counsel or
attorney, and he wished therefore to be heard by some
friend. Master Litton expressed his readiness to hear
what Joshua Jacob could urge in defence of his conduct.
The marshal then left the office, and soon afterwards re-
turned conducting in two females attired in white, and who
were to be the advocates for the imprisoned martyr. A
good deal of laughter arose at this circumstance, but after
a time Mrs. Ann Jacob, the sister-in-law of the prisoner,
held forth and contended that it was fur file honour of
religion the property of the minors had been diverted from
their hands, and it would now be appropriated to the pur-
poses of religion. The master condemned the whole
transaction as a most unjust and discreditable one—the
taking from children a large sum of money to which they
were entitled ; and the two advocates left the office, much
grieved to find that the master did not give credit to
Joshua for the goodness of his intentions.

TILE lassie " GRIEVANCES."—There seems to have
been at least one sensible man in the House of Commons
during the long debate on Mr. Smith O'Brien's motion,
if we may judge by the following letter from the honour-
able member for Westmeath, which appeared in the papers
of Thursday evening :
" I wish to explain how I came to vote in the majority
last night. I fell asleep some lime before the division
took place, and on my being awakened by some member,
as all the opposition members had already retired to their
lobby, and as I saw a large crowd going out of the door
leading to the old lobby, I thought the house had ad-
journed, and did not perceive my mistake until it was too
late to return.—l have, &c.,

" BENJAMIN CHAPMAN

`6 Reform Club, July 13."
It is true Mr. Chapman voted against his party, which
is the more to be regretted, as he had evidently made up
his mind not to be influenced by argument ; but then he
had the personal satisfaction of not hearing the debate.
Lulled by pleasant dreams "some time before the division
took place," he escaped the boring of Barron and Roche,
and the rest of his friends, and was only awakened to the
pleasing consciousness of the talk being ended in time to
record his vote (in true Irish fashion) on the wrong side.
It would have been a boon to the public had Mr. Chap_
man's " custom always of an afternoon" been more ex-
tensively followed.

IRELAND-THE DIVISION ON MR. SMITH
O'BRIEN'S MOTION.

The following is a digest of the division on Mr. Smith
O'Brien's motion, " That this house will resolve itself
into a committee for the purpose of taking into consider-
ation the causes of the discontent at present prevailing
in Ireland."—Ayes, 164 ; Noes, 243 ; majority against
the motion, 79. _

FOR THE MOTION.
ENGLAND.
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WALES. • 120
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Total for the motion
AGAINST THE MOTION.
ENGLAND.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

OXFORD, JULY 8

An election took place this morning for a Professor of
Divinity on the foundation of the Lady Margaret, mother
of King Henry VII., when the Rev. Godfrey Faussett,
D.D., late Fellow of Magdalen College, and now Canon
of Christ Church, was unanimously re-elected.
Ina congregation held the same day, the following de-
grees were conferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS.—Rev. William Cartwright, Brase-
nose College; Rev. Frederic Henry Tom pson , Queen's
College ; William Hombersley, Christ Church ; George
Webbe Dasent, Magdalen Hall.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Thomas Walters, Magdalen
Hall; Wm. Charles Denshire, Queen's College; Robert
Sparke Hutchings, Christ Church ; ('harles J. Phelips,
Christ Church ; John Coker, Fellow of New College.
NEW COLLEGE.—This day Mr. Mereweather, of Brase-
nose, was admitted a Scholar of this Society.
The Rev. John T. C. Fawcett, M.A., Student of Christ
Church, has been presented by the Very Rev. the Dean
and Chapter of that Society, to the Vicarage of Kiln,-ick,
Yorkshire; and also the Rev. Philip C. Kidd, 8.A.,
Chaplain of Christ Church, to the Vicarage of Skipton,
Yorkshire.