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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

In reply to a question from Mr. Gibson. ,
Sir R. PEEL said he bad seen a statement of the new
tariff which was to c,rne into operation in the Brazi!s in
November next, and had sent to t,hs Ft reign Office to as-
certain if any official communication upon the tri-ject had
been received. The answer was in the neeativc. There
was a con est ondence goieg on with the Dutch Govern-
ment' respecting certificates of origin with regard to sugars;
but he was not in a condition to lay that correspondence
on the table of the house.
In reply to a question from Mr. Liddell, the right hon.
baronet said it was his intention to introduce a bill on the
`subject of the law of settlement, hut he would not press it
through the house during the pi est nt session.
The Sudbury' 'Disfranchisement Bill was read a third
time and passed.
•' On the.mtition of Sir J. Graham the house resolved it-
self into committee on the Poor Law Amendment Bill,
the consideration of which occupied the remainder of the
evening.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY.
The House met at twelve o'clock fc r tie furtherance of
public business, now that the session is drawing towards
its ciose ; and its a,tention was, chiefly recopied by the
discussion of the clauses of the Poor Law Amendmert
Bill in committee. Some progress was made, and t vrn-
Nally the chairman obtained leave to sit again this day,,
at twelve o'clock.
After the house had resumed, some observations made'
by Mr. WODETIOUSE, conveying a personal attack on
Mr. WAKLEY while in committee, drew from that hon.
aentleman a con plaint of the uufairio as and injustice of
the attack upon his private 'character, and an explanation
of the c rcumstin.ces so often yuliiiclv aquthd to respect-
ing the unfortunate conflagration of Lis premises soon
after his first arrival in London.
Mr. Woodlouse admitted that he had alluded to the
occurrence referred to by the hon. member, said he was
perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and apologised for
what had fallen from him in the course of the discussion.
The house then adjourned.

FOREIGN AAD COLONIAL.

ANIERICA.

Since our last we have received New York papers to
the 30th ult.

Cong. ess adjourned on the appointed day, the 17th
ult., after having, upon the recommendation of the Com-
mittee on Foreig a Relations, rejected the Zoilverrin
Treaty of commerce. The grounds upon which the re-
commendation is made are, that a measure such as the
one in question, revising the great subjects of trade and
revenue, should originate with Congress, not with the
executive, whose duti' s appear to them to be, to fulfil
the wishes of the people, as expressed through the agency
of their representatives ; and that the cotters-ions made
by the United States are not repaid by those of the Ger-
man Unions. If, however, they say, Congress approves
of the 'arrangement, let them pass a law imposing the
duties contemplated in it. The Senate had also confirmed
several nominations, and, amongst others, the long-pend-
ing one of Mr. Cushing; as Minister to China.
Colonel Thompson, the special messenger to Mexico,
had returned to. Washington shortly after the close of the
session; but the reply of the Mexican Government, in
respect of annexation, had nrt been made known. We
may, however, judge pretty accurately cf its general tenor
by a perusal of the following :—On the 18. h ultimo a
messenger arrived with dispatches tr m Senor Bocanegra
to General Almonte, the Mexican Minister to the United
States; of which the Spanish journal published in New
Yo. k, the Noticioso de A 'Mos Mundos, gives the text.
Senor Bocanegra infarms the general, in the most empha-
tic terms, that Mexico wilt nev, r assent to the annexa-
tion; that the Goveinunerit anal the nation are immovably
determined to resist the prOj, a and reject all proposals
for its consummation, whether accompanied or not by
offers.of compensation ; arid General Almonte is author-
ised and instructed to contradict, in the most formal man-
ner, soy assertion or intimation of a different character,
which might be' dissemi ated by the partisans of Presi-
dent Tyler for the purpose of producing a change in the
hostile feeling with which the people of the United States
generally regard the measure. %%e learn, further, that
the Diario del Gobierno, (the Mexican Government paper)
of the 14th alt., contains an official notice in relation to
an extraordinary session of Co, gress, which had been
ordered to meet on the first of last month. The decree
of Senor de Bocarregra, Minister of Foreign Relations,
and which has been approved by Valencia Canalizo, the
acting President, sets forth, th.t the time of the Con-
gress will be occupied on the following important points :
" 1. In re'eeiving th'd oath nf=the President, so that he
can enter at once upon the duties of his office.
"2. In giving to the g,etrarnent the power to increase
the army, and furnish the necessary means for so doing.
" 3. In empowering the Governinet.t to procure ample
pecuniary means and everything else Slut may be deemed
necessary in order that Mex.i`co may-recover Texas, and
preserve the entire naviv•nat,dotinain:
"4. In taking into eensideratuin everything that the
Government may send to the Congress, to the end that
the Republic may be secured, and its independence and
honour preserved."
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Such is the substance of the measures which wino y
the attention of the extraordinary session of Congra7Of
'the Ist of June; thus marerially lessening, at least 'for
the present, the chance of a peace:lble and amicable set-
tlement of the difficulties existing between the two re-
publics of Texas and Mexico.
The Diario is filled, for the most part, with govern-
ment documents and articles upon the all-engrossing sub-
ject of the annexation of Texas to the United States..
The Mexican editors, one and all, say that Texas ala ays
was, and always shall be, part and parcel of the republic,
and that the p ople will contend to the death before an inch
of the territory will be relinquished. General Tonnell
had resigned his station as Minister of War and Marine.
A new minister would be appointed on the arrival at the
capital of SanraAnna, who nos on his way thither.

Various cnnfliciing opinions were prevalent as to the
probability of an extra session of Congress being called.
The Washington correspondent cf the New York Journal
of Commerce says, that the question was considered at a
special meeting of the executive, held on the 22J ult.
The Oregon question has been left in the same situat'on
that it was at the meeting of Congress, no legislative
measure in reference to it having been adopted. The is
as it should be. So long as friendly negotiations are
pendng, nothing calcu'ated to produce unkind feelings
should be done by any party.
The treaty between the United States and France, for
the mutual surrender of criminals, callers than polit'eal,
escaping from one country to the other, is now finally
ratified and completed.
Governor Polk has accepted the nomination of the
Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. It ap-
pears that the friends of the three candidates for the
Presidency are determined to sustain tt • respective.)
nominations; viz., Mr. Clay, anti-anneel•rtire'sPecMve.
Tyler, and dr. Po-lc, annexation. WhethexrathoeNnlvo'll drat'
remain in the field to the end is matter of doubt;‘ hut,
whether they do or do nut, the result will be the fame,:
Henry Clay will, undoubtedly, be the next'
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the United States. •
Philadelphia continues quiet. 10.1
President Tyler was married, at New York, on dm
ult., to a daughter of th elate lion. D. 0, riner,,o4 Rritt!,e
victims of the explosion on heard the :.team-ship Pitnee-1
ton. The bride is described as young and bumf fel, aud
twenty-four years of age. The President is upwards of
fifty.
Money continued abundant. The Exchange on Lurope
dull at 1C94 premium. In the Stock-market "fancies,"
had fallen, but stable and dividend-paying stocks had ex-
perienced improvement.
The New York American reports, that the yield of
wheat is likely to be immense.
Extensive conflagrations have occurred at Boston end
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the losses by which are
estimated at 100,000 dollars and £30,000.
The Canada parliament has been .further prorogued
until the 3rd of August, and then to meet for the
"despatch of business." Sir C. Metcalf made his public
entry into the seat of government, Montreal, on the
24th ult.
Information has been officially received, that, by a de-
cree of the Mexican government, dated 31st March, the
towns of Tatra, in New Mexico, and Paso del Norte and
Presidio del Norte. in Chihauhua, are declared open to
foreign trade. All articles which can be introduced into
the Mexican Republic may enterthose,places on payment
of the duties prescribed by the tariff and laws.
The Government paper of Havana, of June the 10th,
contains an official announcement, that, in consequence
of the late calamitous drought experienced in the island,
the Custom-house duties on various articles of food are
reduced to one-half of the previous rates.
Letters had been received in Jacmel, one the Ilth ult.,
from Aux Cayes, stating,
pointed one of his black that the new Prsident had ap-
generals governor of that town,
and that the new official had plundered the mulattoes and
put a number of them to death. President Gurrier had
chartered the Dutch brig Napoleon, put an ambassador
on board, and sent her to the city of St. Domingo, to
the Spanish, to induce them to acknowledge the Hay.
tian flag; but they refused, and wished the Presi-
dent to acknowledge their independence. Still later
accounts from Aux Cayes state, that affairs were some-
what settled, but it was thought that tranquillity would
not long continue as the rebel chief Acaua manifested con-
siderable reluctance to submit to the authority of General
Guerrier, who appears to act with considerable ene_rgy.
His cabinet consists of Mons. Hypolite,, Minister of War
of the Exterior; Mons. Paul, Minister of the Interior
and Agriculture ; Mons. H. Ferg. Minister of Public In-
struction and Justice, and. Religion ; Mons. Landin,
Minister of Finance and Commerce ; all coloured men,
well educated and influential, and popular with all parties.
On the 6th June the British barque Dominican,Captain
Salter, from London for Jamaica, was wrecked on the
Folic, a coral reef in the vicinity of Aux Cayes, about
twenty miles distant from the port, and was found to be
totally abandoned. It, is supposed the crew and passen-
gers took to the boats and steered for Jamaica.

SUMMARY JUSTICE.—At—
GAIdo, Texas, on the sth ult,
a man was taken, chalged with murder, and hung by the
people, without trial. He confessed that he had been
hired by some Texans to murderfive men I for 1,000 dollars.

The King of Prussia has accorded a renewed grant of
fifty thou-and thalers (X 7,500) for the cornph lion of the
(lonian Catholic cathedral of Cologne. His majesty has,
moreover, dedicated a sum of ten thousand thalers
(X 1,500) to the works on the north tower.
At the assizes for the Department of the Seine, E. P.
Cadot, a youth of 18, was charged with procuring the
murder of his father, a tick banker, by the promise of
100,000 frat.es to his assass'n. The temptations were his
father's wealth, and his father's mistress, the latter a
servant girl, to whom both were passionately attached !
The son was acquitted—the assassin convicted.
THE ITALIAN INSURGENTS.—The Gazette of the Two
of tie 25th ult. states that five more of the in-n'gents who landed in Calabria have been arrested, and th
all arc now in custody, but the panics of only a few of
them are given. A Leghorn letter states that the two
sons of Admiral Bandie'a are among' the insurgents who
have been arrested in Ca'abria.
It is stated inletters from Turin that the railway be-
tween that city and Genoa, two branches between
Venice and Milan, has received Royal sanction. It is to
be executed at the expense of Government, and the Coun-
cil of State have given directions that it shall he immedi-
ately marked out. .1; Industriol Calaisien alludes with
regret to the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of
the branch line from Hazebrouck to Arras, even on the
second application.
Monocco.—According to some of the Paris papers au-
thentic accounts have been received of the dismissal, by
the Emperor of Morocco, of the two general officers who
headed the Moorish troens• in their late attacks on the
French camp at Lalla Magronia. It is also said that
strong hopes are entertained of a speedy arrangement, as
the French government does not demand the eXpulsinn of
Abdel Kader from the Moorish territory, but his immedi-
ate removal from the Algerian neighbourhood.- and the
assit nation of a fixed residence for him under the respon-
sibility of the Emperor, in one of the towns of the most
distant frontier. •
QUICK TRAVELLING.—EXtrRet of a letter dated Co-
ltyrne, Monday evening, July B.—" The rapidity of tra-
velling between this place and London is now wonderful
in the extreme. I left the Tower yesterday at eleven
o'clock, and here 1 actually am on the second evening at
Cologne on the Rhine. There has, besides, been nothing
like ' hot haste' in the matter ; on the contrary every-
thing has been done quietly and comfortably. You are
aware that I embarked on board the steamer Antwerpen,
having been assured at the office in London that we should
arrive at, Antwerp on Monday morning in ample time for
the railway -.train for Cologne, and I certainly' VMS .not
misled. Vve landed before eight o'clock, and all of our
passengers who wished to do so. and they were certainly
almost the whole. including many persons of high rank,
got away by the train and reached Cologne with me alter
about 30 hours' travelling. Who would have believed
this even 10 years ago ?"

NEW ZEALAND CANNIBALISM. The Jou►nal des
Debals publishes the following from Akaroa, in New Zea-
land, dated January 28 :—" Probably, before my 1, Ver ar-
rives in France, you will have learned that the Mahouris,
a tribe of Zealanders, have killed thirty English of this
colony; but you, perhaps, wilt not know that the bodies
of these unfortunate men were eaten. This is but too
true. We had been out on a hunting party for a week,
when, one evening, we arrived among the friendly tribe of
Terauparaa, or Mahouris, and found them regaling on
human flesh. We all conceived that they were eating
some captives or slaves of their own nation. As I under-
stood the language I could not resist expressing my indig-
nation, and tl•reatened them with chastisement from the
crew of the corvette. The savages, alarmed, endeavoured
to arpease me by saying, • They are not men of Mahouri
that we are eating, but some Yes, yes,' for it is thus they
call the English. They then showed us the head of their
victims, and among them I recognised that of Captain
Wakefield, one of the distinguished inhabitants of Port
Nicholson, who had ent, rtaioed us at his own house
when we went to the town to procure provisions. I was
seized with horror at the sight. My companions blamed
tne for having risked irritating the cannibals, as we were
only five against two hundred. But they gave us con-
fidence by saying, ' 0 ! the Oui, oui, (for so they distin-
guish u.,,) are good penile, but the Yes, yes are very
wicked.' They then related that they had killed the Eng-
lish because they wished to establish themselves in a bay
which they had not purchased, and which the Mahouris
are unwilling to give up. We then retired, with our hearts
full of horror and disgust."

The Indian papers, brought by the last overland mail,
record a shocking instance of mortality in a " Cooly ship,"
employed to bring back from Mauritius a number of
Coolies whose time had expired. When she left Calcutta
to go to the Mauritius with 210 Coolies (the full number
permitted,) she only lost three of them, including a wo--
man, who died in child-birth. When she returned, she
brought 270 Coolies—nearly a third more than her per-
mitted number—and of these she lost 17. To the fact
that so much more than the proper number were carried,
do the local writers, who take the humane view of the
question, attribute the increase of mortality, and the
melancholy event gives them an opportunity of contrast-
ing the conduct of public authorities at the Mauritius
with that of the authorities at Calcutta, to the disad-
vantage of the former. At Calcutta, as we have seen,
no more than the right number could be shipped, and
there are at the same place a variety of regulations
concerning the supply of provisions for the voyage. 1
At the Mauritius, on the contrary, no such regula-
tions seems to exist, or, if they did exist, they are
completely inoperative, and ,the assertion is well borne
out that afrt r the engagement of the Coolies have expired
all concern for their welfare ceases. There appears to be
no necessity for providing medicine or medical attendance,
and all that the c-ip•ain is bound to furnish is a pound and
u half of lice tinily, two pounds of salt fish per week (which
is bound positively it jurious) and some salt and wood,
with accommodations for cooking. No regard is paid to
the number of COches put on board, and the owners may
cram their vessels as much as they think fit. Thus, while
every precaution is taken on the voyage from India to the
Mauritius through the humane exertions of the Bengal
authorities, the very reverse is the case on the voyage
back. The Government of India, is totally powerless in
this matter, and the local writers urgent), call for inter-
ference of the home government. IM two ships, it seems,
no less than 61 persons have perished.
EXECUTION BY THE GUILLOTINE.—On the Bth inst.,
Pierre Lescure, who was accused of the murder of his fa-
ther, but not brought to trial for want of sufficient evi-
dence, and who has since been condemned to death for
making away with his uncle, was executed at Rionn (Puy-
dc;-lime.) The circumstances attending the execution
were most horrifying. Being a man'of herculean ttrength,
he was bound in prison with an unusual weight of chains.
It required at least half an hour for the smiths to utirivet
them. Lescure was much weakened by his confinement,
and assistance was offered to him in walking to the
scaffold ; but he declined it and went forward, and
even ascended the ladder with a firm step. Fearing
resistance, the executioners of St. hleur and Moulins
were called in to aid the executiotser of Rim. When
Lescuie at peered on the 'platform, his tall and athletic
pet son t iwered above theM arid the priest who attended
him. Unfortunately he was not bound with sufficient force
to the swing-board, which was also too short for his length,
so tt.at his neck went beyond the groove, and the axe,
when loosened, fell on the wood of the frame, and only

w'cunckd its intended victim. Upon this, the execnt'oner

from Fleur gi t astride on the head of Les(ure, but
the convict struggled from the grasp, and breaking hia
bands, rose again, with his shoulders and breast covered
w.th his Wood, his faCe flushed, and his eyes haggard,
uttering Mies that s'ruck terror to the breast of every
spectator. Tre prie.st approached the. wretched man,
and,. presenting; to hint the image of Christ on the cross,
,rsueeeeded by his exhortations in prevailing on him to again
submit' to be bound. Again the axe fell, and again
Missed its mark, only enlaigingtl,e first wound. Lescure's
cries became st h more astounding. 'I he people shouted
rwith' indignation, and, pressing round the scaffold, were
'On the 'point of cveeo ruing tl.e Gendarmerie in attend-
'since; w bile 'the priest, whose s.urptce was covered with
Wood en,titraced and did alt in his Tower to console the
'mutilated man: The three executioners were for a time
paralysed tut a last one of 'them mustered resolution
ta fix the devoted head in a proper prndtion, and the axe,
already sireaming witb blood, fella third time, and com-
pleted its task. The thi.ee executioners are, it is raid, to.
be dLtnissed froM their offices.—Galignanz's Me.iienger.

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