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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Lord
SANDON censured Mr. Aglionby for introducing the rec,>nt abolition of slavery • and that that circum-
irrelevant topics into the debate. He was glad to learn stance required that we should give' them an equalization
that the missionaries at Sierra Leone had thrown no ob- of duties, or, what was the same, a small protecting duty
jection in the way of the migration of the free negroes of —say, of 8s a cwt,—for a limited period. He then pro-
that colony to the West Indies, where their brother mis- ceeded to examine the plan of Sir R. Peel as a financial
sionaries were praying for their arrival, as the best means scheme. On the sugar duties Sir R. Peel anticipated a
for providing both for their temporal and their spiritual loss of £1.300,000 to the revenue. Now, he was of °Pin-
welfare. I ion, that Sir R. Peel might preserve all his income on
r- Mr. PI.DMPTRE defended the proceedings of the Church sugar if he would only admit British sugar at 10s.. and fo-
on Missionary Society and of its lay secretary from the se- reign at 18a., or British sugar at 12s. and foreign at2os. ; for
vere censure which had been passed upon it by the hon. if he had a less duty, the consumer would have the belle-
member for Guildford. fit of it, and the consumption of it would thus be largely
a After a reply from Sir R. INGLIS, the motion was i increased. He contended that £1,300,000 was not the
cell agreed to. whole loss which the revenue would sustain by this plan,
,ding Sir JAMES GRAHAM then moved for leave to bring in and that, unless the consumption increased to the amount
eaten- a bill for the better regulation of medical practice through- assumed by Sir 8.. Peel, there would he a loss to the re-
was, whe- out the United Kingdom. As a proof of his opinion that venue to the amount of £1,800,000. As we were now
avily taxed, hasty legislation was inexpedient, he had laid on the ta- taking measures to have a large surplus, it might be as
West India ble, at the close of last session, a bill on thi4 subject, with well to consider whether the duties on cheese and butter,
"1;s and brandy, might not be reduced without

man was

ae recess

Jam um was tne estannshment of a Council any loss to ti. and- with greater benefit to the
d of Health, which would superintend medical and surgical consumer thin sugar. The consequence of Sir Robert
- education, and would constitute a board of easy and use- I Peel's plan was, that while it lost to the revenue Ils. a
- ful access to the government on sanitory questions of cwt. on sugar, it would leave the great part of that sum
e public importance, such as epidemics, fevers, &c. in the shape of a tax upon the consumer. In the Min-
t The second object was to abolish all monopolies, to secure mittee on the hill it might be discussed, whether they
y to all medical practitioners throughout the united king- would take away all protection from the West Indian in-
r doms a facility of practising throughout those kingdoms, terest by consenting to an equalization of the duties at
and to enact that there should be in the possession of all once, or by proceeding gradually in reducing it according
such practitioners an equality of attainments, equal attain- to the principles advocated and carried into execution by
Lord Granville and Mr. Huskisson. Into that question
he would not enter at present; but would bring his ob-
servations to a close by stating that the present plan

gets ; anc

he third

object was, that there should be a registration which
should give notoriety to the n

to
I I to t

examination, 1
the branch of the pro
He found in=uperable obj

part of t

profession

es of the parties whc

nsKea toe revenue, tor the _ a class which ,
but a small portion of the population of Great Britain
and the West Indies, to such a degree that there was no
chance of getting rid of the income-tax at the end of

the discrimination made bet

to an university education, and contended that exacnina- I very
- -

uwisuLu'im or the uouncit. Unconnected
with his present position as a minister of the crown, his
deliberate judgment was, that the safest plan was for ao-

Tema-lent to have the power of nominating the Council ;
but having brought forward last session a measure of
mixed nomination and election, he adhered to it at pre.
sent, leaving it open to future discussion. He reserved,
however, to the crown the power of nominating six mem.
hers of the Council, who must be practitioners and fef

lows. There was no power in the bill of last sear to rt
move from the registry persons who had misconducted
themselves. He had introduced into the bill a clause
which would give power to make that removal. He had
also given by his last bill power of licensing in medicine
and in surgery to the faculty of physicians and surgeons
in Glasgow. He had given that power under a misappre-
hension, and he therefore withdrew it from his present
. bill. These were the principal alterations which he had
t made in the last dhe nn."

..e o► session, and he now committed
his present bill to the candid consideration and examina-
tion of the profession.

Mr. WAKLEY had heard Sir J. Graham's exposition of
his bill with the greatest satisfaction, and now believed
that the alterations which he had introduced into it would
meet every objection which bad been urged against his
last bill. He hoped that Sir James would not propose
the second reading of the bill at an early period.
Sir J. GRAHAM had seen with great delight the spirit
in which his proposition had been met by Mr. Wakley.
It led him to hope that it would be met with the same
spirit by the members of the medical profession generally.
He promised not to propose the second reading of the
bill till after Easter.

Leave was then given to bring in the bill, as also ano-
ther bill, to enable her Majesty to grant new charters to
certain Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. At a later
hour, Sir James Graham brought in both these bills, and
had them read a first time. He fixed the second reading
for the 7th of next April.
A motion by Mr. BELLEW, for the production of any
correspondence between Lord Lucan and the Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland, relative tr• I f--- I resto-

_ ,o his thsmissal from anc.
ration to the naagis,racy, and also for a copy of the com-
mission appointing Lord Lucan lord-lieutenant of the
county Mayo, was agreed to, and the house adjourned.

weep free labour and shy

enonstrated. On these grounds he argued that it was the the necessity for a committee. Considering, therefore,
duty of parliament, by a distinct legislative enactment, the feeling that was abroad on this question, he was of
for which there was ample precedent, to remove these opinion that the appointment of a committee to inquire
difficulties, and to declare how much of the rubrics is re • into this subject would be followed by great practical ad-
ally hindine. vantage. For instance, he thought that it might teach
The Bishop of EXETER, although declining, as a shirt- those who were fond of the pride and vanity of battues,
tual lord, to enter into any defence of his conduct, pro- that they had been pursued recently to an unreasonable
ceeded to explain at very considerable length the motives extent ; and that they had been productive of much evil
upon which he bad acted, and attributed his orders for and mischief to the neighbourhood in which they were
the rigid observance of the rubric to the necessity of practised. Adverting to the case of cumulative penalties,
establishing uniformity in his diocese. He found a diver- which Mr. Bright had mentioned, he stated that he had
sity of practice, and bad prescribed a change only to advised her Majesty to remit them ; and mentioned that,
those who were acting in contravention of the liturgy. since that case had been brought under his notice, he had
He referred, with some acrimony, to the proceedings at made provision that every conviction for offences against
South Molton and at Exeter; and contended that the the Game Laws should be sent up to the Home-office dav statute of Henry VIII. conferred upon the crown no spi- by day as it occurred. The legality of those convictions
ritual power or jurisdiction, but only a temporal authority, was then reviewed. He had discovered errors in many of
, Iwhich had been usurped by the Pope, and was then right. them ; and there was not one such case in which he had
fully restored to the sovereign. He vindicated to the not, with the concurrence of the committing magistrate,
-es not he redee—, ' clergy the possession of all purely spiritual supremacy, advised her Majesty to remit the sentence. With respect
ae revenue, Rea • and denied therefore the right of the erolvn to impose to the nomination of the members of the proposed com-
upon them any change of the rubrics. He then pro- mittee, perhaps Mr. Bright would follow the usual course,
ceeded to analyze the petitions which Lord Fortescue had and communicate with him in private on the subject. He
presented, explaining his own conduct in reference to could assure him, that every facility which the Govern-
them, and commenting- unfavourably upon them as he meat could give would be readily offered him to carry out
went along ; and concluded by contesting the right of this inquiry in the fullest and most satisfactory manner.
parliament to interfere in a matter, jurisdiction upon The motion was agreed to.
which rested exclusively with the church, and conjuring
their lordships by the unhappy results of their ancestors' HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
experiment in 1641 not to constitute themselves a corn- The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of
. 1 mittee of religion. the Bail in Error Bill, the object of which was to enable
..6 Ins et- Lord BROUGHAM agreed in every point with the Bishop parties found guilty of misdemeanor, and proceeding sub-
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.... ale ore of Exeter, except in so far as the power of parliament was sequently by writ of error, to give bail to appear for
efit of e-' concerned. He held that power as paramount in every- judgment should their appeal be unsuccessful. The ob-
thing ; but he anxiously deprecated its interference in the ject of the b'.ll was, he said, so manifestly just, that it
controversy by which the church is divided. He thought would appear surprising such a state of the law as the
the wisest course was, whether what had fallen into present should exist for so long a period as it had done,
aree years. I desuetude were trifling or important, not to revive any were it not that people were so apt to go on in a beaten
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declared his usage which would occasion scandal and dissension. track until some case arose which placed the injustice of
readiness to meet the noble lord on the ground of his own The Bishop of EXETER made some further explanations, the law in a conspicuous point of view.
choice, and to answer the objections which he had urged and was followed by the Bishop of Norwich, who spoke Lord CAMPBELL said that this bill was verbatim the
against the imposition of discriminating duties on sugar. of the determination in his diocese to resist any approach same as he had introduced last year, and which had been
The great encouragement which the abolition of those du- of a Roman Catholic tendency. He rejoiced at the part so vehemently opposed by his noble and learned friend
ties would give to slavery and the slave-trade, and the the laity had taken, and denied that the clergy were who now brought it in.
scenes of desolation end horror which it would of neces- under any stringent vow to obey the rubric. There were Some amusing sparring ensued between the Lord Chan•
sity occasion, was a sufficient reason for making a dietinc- many forms that it enjoined which it would be impossible cellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell, which, how-
tion between sugar the produce of free and sugar the pro- to introduce. ever, terminated in the unanimous second reading of the
duce of slave labour. It was said that we made no such The Bishop of LONDON entered his solemn protest bill, and the house adjourned.
difference between tobacco and cotton the produce of free against this doctrine, and the subject dropped.
and tobacco and cotton the produce of slave labour;. but Lord BEAUMONT then, according to the notice he had HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
the reason was this, that the high price of sugar created giver,, after stating briefly the particulars of the expedi- Mr. E. B. ROCHE vainly endeavoured to be allowed to
an inducement to import fresh slave, into Brazil; and Cuba, tion of Italian refugees feom Corfu, inquired of Lord obtain from Mr. Roebuck some explanation of the language
whilst no such inducement was created when labour was Aberdeen if the Government had any reason to believe he had indulged in on a former evening, respecting the
too, was generally that that enterprise was prompted by foreign emissaries,
Irish members who had absented themselves from their
• e--- 4it had any knowledge that such a step was contempla. duties in the house.

-..a. euebee, en), measures nact been adopted to pre- The SPEAKER declared it to be irregular to refer to
labour sugar, government was only following up a princi- vent it ? what had taken place in former debates, and the bon.
pie frequently asserted by parliament, that we ought to Lord ABERDEEN, in reply, called the attention of their gentleman was compelled to desist.
put down slavery by,whamsoever it was conducted. Lord lordships to the political excitement which for the last On the motion for the house resolving itself into a
John Russell had called this system of duties illusory, two years had prevailed in Italy, and the conspiracies committee of ways and means,
o made it a n and had endeavoured to prove it to be so by stating that connected with it, which, for the most part, had their Mr. T. DUNcOMBE moved, that Colonel Maberly, the
hie of physiciat we had been obliged to admit into our market Venezuelan I origin, us it was believed, not in the lonian islands, but Post Office secretary, be ordered to attend the house,
-resent biL sugar, which was slave-labour sugar ; but surely the no- in London ; and explained that, under these circum. bringing with him the president's order-book and the in.
of the Apothecaries' Act as rendered it necessary that the ; ble lord had forgotten that Venezuela had abolished both stances, it was considered expedient that the letters of spector's order-book for the year 1842. The hon. mem-
examiners should he members of any specific guild in the 1 slavery and the slave trade so far back as the year 1822. Mr. Mazzini should be opened. He described the ex. ber said, he had first heard of the opening of his letters
city of London. He thought that on the first passing of ' He could not understand the reasons by which Lord John tr, me caution he had used in transmitting to the Austrian through Mr. Mazzini, and this information was subse.
his bill two of the examiners should be two apothecaries Russell Caine to the conclusion that the sort of prohibi- government the intelligence derived from the inspection quently confirmed by parties connected with the Post
of ten years' standing, and that hereafter they should be tion which we placed on foreign slave-labour sugar aggra- of those letters; and congratulated himself upon the fact Office, who had voluntarily communicated the fact. He
licentiates of ten years' standing under the act. There I rated the protection which we gave to colonial sugar, nor that not a single person had suffered in consequence of affirmed that his letters had been opened without a war-
was another alteration to which be attached great impor- follow the calculations by which he made out that the pro- the information thus supplied. With respect to the expe- rant ; and said, that if the house had one particle of in-
lance. He thought that on their first entrance into the i tection so given to it amounted to 14s. per cwt. Bat on dition from Corfu, he had never had reason to suspect dependent feeling, it would give him the opportunity of
medical profession there should be one examination coma 1 the question of protection to the West Indian interest, he that such an enterprise was contemplated, and he believed, proving his charge.
mon to all candidates. After having gone through that i was delighted to discover-that the noble lord was in the infact, that it was concerted and executed within the Mr. DISRAELI said the question resolved itself into one
`-.. thought that they should make choice of 1 same boat with himself ; for the noble lord had not dis. space of a single week. It was impossible, therefore, that of whether we were living under a popular government or
"'scion which they would pursue. I guised his opinion that some protection, though he said it he could have had any information to communicate ; and a government of • police. The hon. gentleman in the
'ions to this proposition on the i should be a moderate one, ought to be given to the West even Lord Seaton, who was on the spot, had been taken course of his observations gave utterance to several aspe-
•-jans attached importance , Indian interest on account of the recent abolition of sla- completely by surprise. He quoted a despatch from this rities against Sfr R. Peel, who, he said, had caught the
He conceived that if Lord John Russell's plan nobleman, describing the conduct of the Austrian, Nea- whigs bathing and walked off with their clothes. He had
...n. such an early age would be inconsistent with the should be adopted, and should be followed by a general politan, and Pontifical Consuls, when it was known that
outbid them in all their own principles, and had carried
ordinary studies of the university. lie had therefore cheapness of sugar, it would be followed very soon after- tse refugees had actually embarked, and their indignation his own party with him in doing so.
fixed the age at which physicians should pass their rota- wards by an excessive rise in its price. If there were to that a steamer was not instantly despatched to bring them Sir J. GRAHAM said the day had at length come, and
mination at 26. To surgery this. however, did not apply. be thrown into the English mai ket an immense mass of back, as conclusive against the imputation that the expe- he was glad of it, when the rebellion of the hon. member
An academical education formed no part of the course sugar produced by foreign slave-labour, it would cause a dition had been undertaken at the suggestion of agents in was open, and that it was now avowed that at whatever
required for the practice of surgical science. As far as total abandonment of the land dedicated to the growth of the employ of those governments; and, expressing his side of the house the hon. gentleman might sit he was '
his experience bad gone, there was no reason to expect sugar in some of our West Indian. islands, and a great di- regret that Lord Seaton should not have complied with hereafter to be considered as an opponent of the govern-
any objection from the College of Surgeons to the clause minution of the cultivation of it in others. If a vacuum their request, proceeded to argue that, from the absence ment. The motion before the house might be considered
that no one should qualify as a surgeon under 25 years of in the English market were thus created, it would cause a of any regular force to oppose the landing of the invaders, as a third appeal from the decision of the secret corn-
age, unless he had previously submitted to examination great rise in the price of the article, to the great loss of it was evident that the Neapolitans had no knowledge of mittee. In reply to the observation of Mr. Duncombe,
as a licentiate of surgery. No provision in his last bill the very class which the noble lord intended to benefit. or share in the transaction. Nor had the conduct of that that his letters had been opened without a warrant, he
was made for any examination of practitioners in mid- He also doubted of the effect of the noble lord's proposi- government since belied this belief, for it had remonstra. solemnly asserted that no letters whatever were opened
wifery. He had introduced a clause into the present bill don as a measure of permanent cheapness to the consu- ted strongly and bitterly against the remissness under without such authority issued from the Home-office, ac-
for the institution of such an examination, and for placing mer, whereas he had no hesitation in declaring that the favour of which the insurgents hid been able to leave cording to law. His being thus placed personally in col-
a distinguishing mark on the names of those who passed reduction of the duty proposed by Sir R. Peel would re- Corfu. His lordship, after explaining some further cir- lision with Mr. Duncombe was most painful to himi
that examination. A request had been made to him that duce the price of sugar to the consumer not less than lid. cuinstances connected with the persons concerned in the owing to their former intimacy, receded as it been
the clause relating to general practitioners in his last bill a lb. The noble lord, however, stated that that reduction expedition, concluded by feelingly and energetically de. by the. intimacy of their predepcessors, and the many
should be withdrawn from the present. He would not of duty would be a loss to the revenue, and endeavoured daring the utter groundlessness of the imputation that he joyous days and convivial nights they had passed loge-
enter into any observations upon that point until the pro- to captivate the country by stating, that in consequence had contributed in the slightest degree to the fate of those tiler; but knowing him as he thus did, he felt bound to
fession had had time to consider the alterations which he of it, there was no chance of getting rid of the income-tax unhappy men. declare that his official experience had made him ac-
had already proposed. He had intended to obliterate the at the end of three years. No one could speak with cer- Lord BEA UmoNT expressed his entire satisfaction at 9uainted with not the slightest circumstance inconsistent
Apothecaries' Company from the list of medical incorpo. tainty of any effects, commercial, financial, or political, this triumphant vindication ; and their lordships then with the hon. member's loyalty to his sovereign, or to his
rations; but he had now departed from that iutention, which might be produced at the end of three years to adjourned. duty as a member of that house. And al hough his own
He then referred to a request which had been made to come; but, from the experience which he had of the etas- duty compelled him to silence, yet he remembered their
him to withdraw the recent charter granted to the College ticity of this country, he thought that government had a 1 HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY. former friendship, which an angry expression had no
of Surgeons, and to institute a College of General Practi- right to calculate that their expectations on this subject Lord SANDON presented a petition from persons con- power to obliterate.
tioners distinct from the College of Surgeons. He was would not be disappointed. Events might defeat their nected with the sugar trade in Liverpool, comelaining of Lord SANDON said that some observations of a noble
most anxious to sustain the character of the general prat- arrangements; but it he might look back to the great re- the little time allowed for disposing of their stock on lord seemed to imply that there had been a diffeeence of
titioners ; but he doubted whet, er it would be for their ductions of duties which we had made on former occa- hand before the operation of the new duties. They also opinion among the committee themselves with regard to
own interest and honour to dissolve the connexion which sions, and might compare the income of the country at the prayed for a reduction of the duty on molasses. the discretion with which the power had been exercised.
existed at present between them and the College of Sur- times when the reductions were made with its income Mr. BRIGHT brought forward his motion for the The committee did not consider themselves charged by
geons. He was anxious that they should deliberate upon three years afterwards, he would convince the house that apVir.trner.t of a select committee to infinite into the the house with the investigation of the discretion with
the changes which he had proposed that evening, that they the sacrifice made in the first of the three years was always operation of the Game Laws. He proposed that motion, which that power had been exercised. (Emphatical cries
should reconsider the request which they had made to compensated by the great improvement visible in the re- because he had observed that a majority of the convic- of " hear, hear," from Lord Howick, Mr. Duncombe,
him, to have a separate incorporation for themselves, and venue in the last of them, when the taxes were judiciously tions of petty sessions were tor offences against the Game and other hon. members.) He (Lord Sandon) was
should discuss among themselves whether they ought not repealed. He proved this position by reference to several Laws. lie had seen that thousands of the poorer classes making no disclosure ;he was simply repeating what the
to remain content to belong to that institution, which had reductions of taxation which had taken place in the last were convicted for such offences ; that ferocious and vio- committee had stated on the subject of the disco.-tion
produced the best surgeons and possessed the best mu- twenty years. Was it inconsistent, then, with sound po- lent encounters between gamekeepers and poachers, exercised, whether in regard to what were commonly
------ in Europe. Aster stating 50111 C minor details or ,icy to suppose that what bad occurred formerly would sometimes ending in death, frequently took place; and called the criminal warrants, or the political warrants, of
. , ~.- —tete I.;c intentions with re- occur again, and that at the end of three years govern- that the last sentence of the law was passed on many in- the last 22 years; they did not think themselves called
ment might be able to leave it to the house to decide wile- dividuala in consequence of the preservation of game in upon to express any opinion on that point. They did not
ther it would continue the income-tax or not ? this country. Committees had been appointed to inquire conceive that was the issue thrown into their hands to
After one or two other members had spoken, into this subject by the House of Commons in 1816, try. They considered that the charge was a kind of di-
Sir R. PEEL was convinced that in their hearts the 1823, and by the House of Lords in 1828; and the last Initial one against a high officer; the question was, yvhe.
gentlemen opposite approved the plan proposed by the committee had recommended that the saleof game should ther he had misused his power for purposes which the
government, not because they saw that there would be a be legalized, in hope that the poacher might be driven out house could not approve. Upon that point, and that
red, small deficiency in the revenue if the income-tax were not of the market by such a measure. That recommendation point only, with regard to the whole 24 years, the corn-
six mem- passed, but because they thought that the present was a had been agreed to by the Legislature ; but the experi- mittee went into a full investigation, and satisfied them-
`-' good opportunity for making important relaxations in our I went had failed, as the poacher, being at no expense for selves that they were authorised in coming to the conclu-
commercial system. Lord John Russell had made an ex- I the breeding and watching of game, was enabled to hnder- sion they had submitted to the house—namely, that
cellent speech in favour of Mr. M. Gibson's motion for sell the landed proprietor, who had to incur that expense. whatever difference of opinion might arise as to the dis-
the abolition of protection on a former night, and yet had He should enter into no argument on this subject, nor cretion in each particular case, they bad no charge to
told the house, in the same breath, he would not vote for should he venture to propose a remedy for the state of make against the bona fide character of the exercise of
it, because be thought the West India interest was en- the law of which he complained. He thought, however, the power. The committee felt that they were impart-
titled to some protection. He was glad to have the no- that the House would be better prepared for legislation, if nelled to tag the question of the uprightness of certain
ble lord's authority in support of that opinion, although a select committee were appointed to inquire into the sub- high officers of state; and upon that, and that alone, they
he did not know how he himself would reconcile it with I ject. He also wished the committee to state in their re- gave their verdict.
his declaration that " protection was the bane of agricul- 1 port what damage was done to the productions of the so 1 Sir R. PEEL contended, that, as to the opening of let-
ture." Mr. Macaulay asked, how we could continue our by the ravages of game ; for if he could credit the letters , ters under wevant, it made no difference whether the
prohieition or, slave-grown sugar, when, in this very which he received from all parts of the country, and some I party
Par-
budget, we took all duty off slave-grown cotton? First of whose letters were opened Were a member of
of which he read to the House, that damage was not in- !lenient or the contrary. If they were to answer the
all, labour in a cotton-plantation was not unhealthy, considerable. When the labouring classes of England question of the hon. member for Finsbury, there might
whilst labour in a sugar-plantation was. But on that dis-
were suffering under an insuffic,ent supply of food, and be no end to the complaints of a similar nature to which
tinction he did not place much weight. Next, there was were provented by the landowners from going elsewhere they would thereby expose themselves. He claimed his
a wide distinction between the relation of the United to obtain a sufficient supply, they had a right to complain full share of the responsibility of the exercise which Sir
States towards us on the one side, and that of Brazil and , that the latter, for the purpose of their own amusement, J. Graham had made of his power, arid he was only ac-
Cuba on the other. The two latter had entered into p - I should keep a quantity of game, which prevented them hotted by a sense of duty in declining to establish a pre-
sitive engagements with us to discontinue the slave-trade ; I from having the benefit of the whole quantity of corn cedent by answering the question as to whether Mr.
and he would now proceed to show, that to grant permis- 1 which Might otherwise be raised in this country. An in- Duncornbe's letters had or bad not been opened. Ile
sion to Brazil and Cuba would be contrary to the dictates ! telligent farmer from Lincolnshire had told him that he must decline to reciprocate personalities with Mr. D'ls.
cla s
of humasocienity, and would inflict the greatest evil on that '
sof negro population of Africa—which considered that any injury which might be done to the raeli, and he would only express a hope that he felt easier
ty—the
i farmers by the repeal of the Corn Laws would be more now that he had rid himself of the bile which had been
had the strongest claim on the sympathies of England. than compensated by the benefit which they would derive accumulating for a week. The hon. member had one ad-
Into this part of his case the right hon. baronet entered from the total repeal of the Game Laws. Mr. Bright vantage over him, that of leisure to prepare an attack,
very successfully, carrying along with him the feelings also showed that the occupiers of allotments in the rural and he would not have referred to him on a former occa-
and, the cheers of the house. He showed that a strong districts were seriously injured by the incursions of hares I
sion but for the friendly professions with which he se-
I feeling was raising up in every country in Europe, that it and rabbits, which they durst not kill ; and he therefore
conded a hostile amendment. He had not the slightest
was absolutely necessary to put an immediate end to ala- called upon the hon. members for Dorsetshire and New- desire to fetter any hon. member's independence, for,
very, and to the horrors of the slave.trade on the coast of ark to assist him in seeking for means to prevent for the without resorting to any arts to conciliate supporters, he
Africa. II •' contended, that great credit was given to us future the damage which was thus inflicted on the toiling believed he understood what ought to be the relations
throughout the world for the magnificent sacrifices which and honest labourer. In the course of last session it was i which ought to subsist between a Minister and his usual
we had made in the cause, and ha advised the house not said that Sir James Graham had issued a circular to the , supporters. Proud as he was of the confidence he en-
to affect the moral influence which it had thus obtained, magistrates of England and Wales requesting them to I joyed, he was still ready to risk its forfeiture when acting
by assenting to the free importation of slave-grown sugar. mitigate the severity of the ordinary sentences under the I conscientiously for the benefit of the public.
If it gave any such assent, it would be said, as it had Game Laws. He was afraid that it had not been produc_ The house then divided, and Mr. Duricombe's motion
been said, as it had been said already by Mr. Calhoun, tive of good; for he saw that in Leicestershire three per- I was defeated by a majority of 188 to 113.
that our great experiment had failed, and that we were sons, one of whom was a boy of 11 years of age, had In reply to a question from Lord J. Russell,
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. trying to disguise its failure by reviving slavery in our co- since been subjected by cumulative penalties to imprison- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he saw no
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the resolution respecting lonies in the shape of apprenticed negroes. He warned ment with hard labour for ten months for going out on a i good reason for making any allowance of duty for sugars
the sugar duties of which he had given notice, and said them again and again, that if they allowed the sugars of Sunday with
a net in search of game; and that in Buck- 1 in the King's warehouse ; but in order to give the trade
that in Sir R. Peel's financial scheme two propositions Cuba and Brazil to be imported at the same rate of duty inghamshire a man who had a family of four children, one every opportunity of getting rid of their stocks on band,
were involved—first that it was desirable to renew the with our own colonial sugar, they would give greater of them an infant, and who had been out of work for ten he would propose to limit the commencement of the new
income-tax for a limited period, and, secondly, that the weight to Mr. Calhoun's accusations than they would ever days, had been sentenced by a magistrate, whose name of duties to the 14th of March.
use of the surplus to be obtained by the income-tax attain, in case the house persisted in its determination to Stone he considered to be a
fit emblem of his heart, to Mr. HOGG then moved the following resolution : " That
should be the relief of the country from certain taxes, admit free-labour sugar and free-labour sugar alone, into
and the improvement of its commerce. The House had the English market. six weeks' imprisonment for kneeling to untie a snare, it is the opinion of this house that there ought not to be
already consented to renew the income-tax, and had, Lord PALMERSTO
although the snare was not found, and the offence, sup- any discriminating duties between sugars, Muscovado
N admired many parts of the speech posing it to have been proved, was admitted to be his first and clayed, not bring refined, and that any such duty
therefore, agreed that, if the alterations proposed by Sir of Sir IL Peel; but could not refrain from calling the at- 1
R. Peel in our rates of duties should appear to be expedi. tection of the house to the fact that it gave no answer offence. He pointed out the demoralizing effects of the would interfere with the measure of equalisation between
1 existing Game Laws upon our rural population in con- sugars the produce of the East and West Indies." The
ant, it would adopt them as an experiment. The first whatever to the arguments brought forward so irresis- founding the notions of right and wrong in their minds; hon. gentleman contended at great length that sugars, if
article on which the duties were to be altered was sugar; tibly by Lord John Russell. He then recapitulated and
and showed from the 9th report of Captain Williams, the classified at all, should be classified not according to their and though it was not expressly stated, it appeared as if it enforced several of the arguments used by preceding'
inspector of prisone, that poachers could not be convinced colour, but according to their qualities. It was, however, '
were the view of the Government to place the taxes on speakers in the debate, insisting particularly upon the
by any arguments of the chaplains who visited them in impossible to establish discriminating duties fairly in any
sugar at present in a condition which was not lightly to shabby manner in which the present government bad gaol, that in following their occupation they were guilty other way ; and therefore it was that he asked the house
he altered. The first objection to the plan was, that it given up the right of search to the United States—a mea- of any offence against the moral law. He also went to do away with them altogether.
proposed to keep up a distinction, which was illusory and sure which deprived our cruisers of the best means which through the Parliamentary returns of the number of per- Mr. HUME hoped the government would give that con-
impracticable, between free labour and slave-grown sugar. they possessed for suppressing the slave-trade. Whether sons convicted under the Game Laws, and enumerated sideration which it really , deserved to the motion of the
It was illusory, because you already took tobacco, coffee, we compared this measure with the declaration and acts the various cases in which persons were killed in encoun- hon. gentleman, fully concurring, as he did, in everything
and cotton as freely from slave countries as from free of the government, or with the arguments which had ters between gamekeepers and poachers, and also t hose in he bad stated.
countries. It was impracticable, because, in consequence been advanced in support of it, there was no ground upon which poachers bad been sentenced to transportation and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted that
of your having treaties with some countries to import which the government could stand; and he was of oPi- even death. He dwelt with particular energy on the case there would always be difficulties in the application of
their commodities on the terms of the most favoured na. firm that, though the government might beat his noble of the murder of Lord Derby's gamekeeper at Knowsley, differential duties, but contended that colour was not the
tions, you bad already been compelled to admit sugar from friend on a division, the decision of the public when the for which one man was hung, and four others were sen- criterion adopted in the schedule on the table. The white
Venezuela, which was the produce of slave labour. He debate was read, and especially when the speech of Mr. tenced to death, and were now either its the Penitentiary clayed sugar of Java was taken as the standard below
had been informed that that sugar was not the produce of Macaulay was read, would be, that government had sacri-
or undergoing transportation for life in our penal colonies. which all sugars would pay the lower duty, and above
Venezuela, but of Porto Rico or Surinam, and if it were fired by this measure the interest of the consumer, not
so, a successful fraud had been committed on your re- from any real principle of humanity, but solely for the That case had created so much pain and anxiety in his I which they should be subjected to the higher duty. He
mind, that he could not rest till he had brought this sub- I believed this standard would operate fairly towards bon'
venue. If this had happened in the early part of this purpose of protecting the West India interest—aninterest
experiment, was it not likely that acute persons would which, instead of being benefitted, had been paralyzed by understand how any man" could place his amusement, Mr. HAWES contended that it was quite impracticable
ject under the attention of Parliament. He could not the East and West India sugars.
try still further evasions by sending their sugar to Ve- protection? and which would be most effectually bene. however innocent it might be, in competition with the to maintain such differential duties as the right hon. gen-
nezuela, whence they could import it to this country as fitted by leaving it to that fair competition, which pro. evils which it entailed upon the country. He did not tleman contemplated.
Venezuelan sugar? It was therefore impracticable to I moted and advanced every other interest. anticipate any opposition to his motion, unless it came Sir R. PEEL suggested that the best course would be
keep up this distinction ;it could not be carried into On a division, Lord J. Russell's motion was negatived from the hon. member for Glocester, who had published to allow the resolution to pass, and if they could not in
effect, and their regulations could not prevent the entry by a majority of 236 to 142.
of that slave sugar which they professed to exclude. He
__.,..........._. so curious a pamphlet on the benefit derived from the committee distinctly define what quality of sugar should
then proceeded to show, that another fault of the Game Laws, and on the advantages accruing from " pun- pay the higher and lower duty,
then it would be com p
e.
posed plan was, that it ranter aggravated than otherwise HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuussnAY. ches on the head." In the name of the law, which ought tent to the hon. member to propose his motion in terms
not to be a snare, but a protection to the poor, he called similar to the present.
the protection given to the coloniei. That protections was Lord FoRTEsCcE in presenting certain petitions from on the Government to grant him a committee, honestly After some conversation on the amendment was, with-
applied to both those colonies which required it and to I the diocese of Exeter, praying a revision of the rubric, and impartially chosen, to inquire into the operation of a drawn, arid the resolution was areed to roorma.
those which did not, and was now to be given to 250,000 went into a narrative of the events which have lately at. system which inflicted great
mischief, not on one class, gp f—
tons of sugar every year, for that was the amount to traded so much attention to that part of the kingdom, but many classes, not on one district, but on the univer-
which Sir It. Peel calculated the consumption would in- end described the universal irritation of feeling which the sal kingdom. LAW _INTELLIGENCE.
crease from its present amount of 207,000 tons, in con- commands of the bishop had produced among the people. Sir JAM us GRAHAM had no fault to find with the tone
appoint Sir J-
sequence of the raduations he now proposed. Now, he Their conviction was, that the observances enjoined had aor temper of any observation made by Mr. Bright in the Tile Queen has been pleased to • ~, Parke,
(Lord J. Russell) contended, that until that increased tendency to produce an approximation to the Church of course of his very long and able speech. He considered Knt., Sir E. H. Alderson. Knit., Sir I.lh,''• i3'er'u.,,,ge,
Supply of sugar came into the market, there would be a Rome; and so strong was this impression, that evert Mr. Bright to have laid sufficient grounds for the House Knt., the Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, F.. Vvy'n'stio " •
continual increase in the price of West India sugar; and where the practices objected to were of long standing, the entering into a full, fair, and dispassionate inquiry into Whateley. Esq., J. Greenwood, Esq., Sir rreathcote,
he showed, from a series of calculations, that nu foreign clergy had been compelled to abandon them. The bishop Bart., E. Denison, Esq., and T. G. B. Estcourt,. Esq.,
sugar could come into the market to.compete with West in making the orders which had provoked this contra- not to preclude any opinions, but to elicit truth, would be
P this subject. Such an investigation, if so conducted as
Commissioners for inquiring into the expediency of alter-
India sugar, until the Price of it bad reached 48s. per versv, had professed to be acting in the spirit and ac- very politic at this moment, inasmuch as no inquiry had ing the circuits of the Judges in England and Wales.
cwt. He therefore calculated the protection given to the cording to the letter of the rubrics; and attention being been instituted into the operation of these laws since 1823, MAGISTRATES D. CORONERS.—Mr. Wskley, the co-
West Indian colonies by this plan to be not less than 14a. thus directed to them, it had been discovered that the
a cwt, This was neither more nor less than a tax on the laxity in their administration bad not been confined to the increase in the number of convictions and commeitrat
except that by the House of Lords in 1828. Moreov
iruontehrefomr
ehtlriodpdolelissexr,wits saoliroewlyinagnnaocyceutbdy
ptahretimesagiinAirhateeirs
consumer. But it was said that it must be kept up on ac- the clergy, but that even by the bishops, as in the sere- ments for offences against the Game Laws had forced it- custody to attend before the coroner- It appears however
count of the present condition of the West Indies and of mony of confirmation, they were not strictly carried out. self on his attention during the last two years, and was 1 that the magistrates are perfectly justified in their conduct,
the abolition of slavery. There was some truth in that Much that they enjoined had, in fact, fallen in'o disuse; another reason why the operation of those laws should be for by the Habeas Corpus Act magistrates ere prohibited
observation; and the conviction that there was some but there was no power in the church to alter or amend reviewed, ale was glad to find that Mr. Bright was not i and the jailor is prohibited, under a heavy pena.ty, from
truth in it had prevented him from voting in favour of them ; the penalties for neglecting fully to execute them prepared to offer a remedy for the evils of which he emu- i removing a prisoner once committed from the prison to
Mr. M. Gibson's resolution on a former evening. He were extremely severe, and the evil of reviving tboSe parts plained. Neither was the Government prepared to sup. 1 which he was originally committed. The :prisoner can
thought the West Indies had a claim on us on account af i which had been obsolete had been already amply de- gest such a remedy ; for if it were, that would supersede • only be removed by Habeas Corpus.

7 to
10
13 to
15
16

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Mar. 4, 1815

IRELAND.

It is stated that the proportion of persons above the agE
of fifteen, unmarried, is greater in Ireland than any other
state which has furnished returns.
The Arabs melt their butter over a slow fire, which ex-
pels all the watery particles; it will then keep without
salt; and the Irish have adopted, with success, a similar
mode for exportation to the East Indies.
Captain Bagot, son of the Bishop of Oxford, is aP'
pointed Comptroller to the Lord Lieutenant of Irelant
in the place of Colonel Bowles, promoted to the Queen's
household.

Before the Irish Land Commission, Mr. O'Connell
explained his idea of " fixity of tenure " to be the grant-
ing of leases for thirty•one years. Not one of O'Coy-
nell's tenants at Cahirciveen has a lease of any descrip-
tion.

Mr. O'Connell formally announced, at the Conciliation
Hall, yesterday week, that her Majesty is now free to
visit Ireland when she chooses, and that she must not be
annoyed in any way if, in the course of the ensuing sea-
son, she make her long-promised tour to the west.
IRISH TRADE IMPROVED.—The directors of the Cork
Steam Ship Company, to meet the increased trade cre-
ated by their well-arranged steam ships, and to afford
every facility to the traders, have determined on building
four first-class iron schooners, of the very best descrip-
tion, provided with subsidiary power, on the principle of
the screw-propeller.—Cork Paper.

THE STEEL TRADE.—The following significant adver-
tisement appeared in a Dublin paper last week. Time
was when assurance companies refused to insure the !WS
of the clergy • the time has now come when the cutlers
expect to make fortunes by securing the lives of the land-
lords :—" Threatening Letters.—The nobility and gentry'
of Ireland are hereby informed that J. Lamprey, 29r
Westmorland-street, has, after much trouble and ex-
pense, succeeded in making a Ball Proof Coat of Mail,
which will be found useful to such gentlemen as may re..
quire them. An early inspection is requested, as J.
has orders for those he has completed."

•
OCCUPATION OF LAND IN IRELAND.—III the elabo-
rate Report of the Irish Land Commissioners, a table i 5
printed, showing the probable quantity of the improved
pasture and bog lands in the several counties of Ireland.
By the abstract it appears that the coarse pasture above,
800 feet over sea level was estimated. in the provinces of
L?inster, Ulster, Connaught, and Munster, at 2.037,732
acres ; the coarse pasture below 800 feet, including flog
bogs, &c., was, in the same provinces, 4,257,480; land
improvable for cultivation, 1,425,000 t improvable for
pasture 2,330,000; unimprovable, 2,535,000; making a
total of 6,290,000.

LIBERATION OF O'CONNELL—At the Clare assizes
on Wednesday, a man named Brown was indicted for
firing a stook of oats belonging to David Conway. The
prosecutor in the course of his evidence was examined es
follows :—Was not the night of the rejoicing for the libe-
rator, Mr. O'Connell, and the state martyrs, that your
stock of oats was set on fire? Indeed it was. Was not
every field in the neighbourhood a blaze that night
They were, and all the ditches and mountains, too.
(Laughter_) That was a great day for Dan, wasn't
for the country and repeal,—(Renewed
31 r‘arden, I suppose ?-""

le you wou

a stock of oats to be lit up in commemoration-'ouf
release from prison ?—lf it was asked freely, I wouldn:C
have hindered every stook in my acre and a-half to be to
gpraaan g 0 0 a
blaze that night. (Laughter.) Was there great shout-
ing and rejoicing all around you ?—Oh, indeed you don't
know but the half of it. (Laughter.) What was the
value of the stook consumed ?—About Is. 6d. Did you
deduct the price of it from the repeal rent ?—I did not,
indeed ; far be it from me, or one of my generation.
(Bursts of laughter.) The prisoner was liberated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S-TEIURSDAY

The limited amount of business transacted on the Ches.-
ter Cup gave Cataract a decided call of Mr. Jacques's
mare, thereby confirming the demonstrations made on
Monday last. Beyond this, and an improvement in Yheo-
man ac Knuck, it was destitute of interest. The Derby
betting was equally flat and unimportant, requiring from
us nothing more than a return of the average prices.

CHESTER CUP.
1 agst the Irish lot.
1 Mr. W. Scott's Cataract
1 Mr. Jaques's Semiseria (taken)
1 Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era
1 Obscurity (taken)
1 Mr. Bell's Winesour
1 Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence (taken)
1 Lord G. Bentinck's Pug
1 Mr. Davis's Yheoman ac Knuck
1 Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare

Mr. PlunarnAr's Alice Hawthorn (taken and
afterwards offered)
66 1 Mr. J. Day's Seaport
1000-15—Mr. J. Day's Portrait (taken)
1000-15 Mr. Standish's Susan (tak and aft'ds offered)
1000-15—Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free (tak and aft'ds off)
1000-10 Mr. Ongley's Mystery Oak and aft'ds off)
1000-10—Mr. Standish's Little Hampton (taken and
afterwards offered)
10—Mr. Irwin's Pash (taken and aft'ds offered)

THE DERBY.
11 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (taken)
15 1 Lord Stradbroke's Idas (taken)
15 1 Col. Peel's Cobweb colt (tak & aft'ds offered)
15 1 Col. Anson's Kedger
22 1 Lord Clie-teitield's Newsmonger
28 -- 1 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt
30 1 Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (all in)
33 1 Mr. St. Paul's Mentor (taken)
33 1 Mr. Mostvn's Pantasa (taken)
33 1 Mr. Irwin's Ciear-the-way (taken)
35 1 Mr. Gully's Old England
40 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale (taken)
500 even between Idas and the Cobweb colt

LATEST BETTING IN MANCHESTER.

FRIDAY EVENING.
The business done at the room to-day, with the excer.
tion of 40 to 1 in ponies each being taken about Fitz-Alley
and Clear-the-Way, and 300 to 9 about Mentor, for the
Derby, was entirely confined to the Chester Cup, and 11-
mited to the following outlay, viz. 12 to 1 to £5O agsC
Cataract, 130 to 10 agst Semiseria, 500 to 30 agst Wine'
sour, 5 to 1 in ponies agst The Era and Winesour, and al'
terwards 7to 1 to the same amount. Semiseria and Cie
tartlet were backed for 100 agst The Era and Winesuur•
Yesterday, 13 to 1 to £75 was laid agst Cataract, 13 to
to £25 agst Semiseria, 20 to 1 to about £l6O agst Wine;
s Jur, and 750 to 100 agst The Era and Obscurity, coupled'
The following were the closing prices to-day :

CHESTER CUP.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's tot (offered)
11 1 Cataract (12 to 1 taken)
12 to 1 -- Seinieria (13 to 1 taken)
15 1 The Er.i
15 1 Obs 'urity
1(i 1 -- Wine3our (taken)
18 1 Strathspey
20 1
25 1 St. Lawrence (offered)
28 1 Celeste

33 1 —iiWOf Kildare (offered)
33 1 Yheomun-ac-Knuck (40 to 1 taken)
35 1 Trueboy
40 1 Old Ireland (offered)
50 1 Sorella (offered)
50 1 Queen of Tyne (offered)
50 1 Alice Hawthorn (offered)
66 1 The Dean (offered)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
5 to 1 on the field (offered)

THE REVIVED LYTHAM CHAMPION
MEETING, (CONCLUDED.)

SATURDAY, Feb. 22.
,L 1
It seems that, in consequence of the frost, it was deesl".
advisable on the above morning to bring the meeting t°
termination by dividing all the stakes. Thus we find ij
The GREAT LYTHAM DERBY STAKES divide-d betvreea
Mr. Temple's Tom Tough, by Bustard, out of Holly, ee
Mr. Lamb's Lune, by Hector, out of Lilly.
T Mr.
he GREAT CLIFTON CUP divided between -
Dickenson's Dart, by Hector, out of Lilly, and IV`
Rodgett's Whiskey. by Rockett, out of Whiskey. '6
The TALBOT STAKES divided between Mr. Tb0a,,9,1„
Tip, by Ranter, &c. and Mr. Garnett's Zingaro, by
flyer, out of Zorillo.
The RIBBLE Cup, for 16 puppies, divided between
P. Taylor's Testy and Mr. Machell's Bashful, by San'"'
out of Lucy.
The FYLDE CUP (16 all-aged dogs), divided betvcr,
~fe
Mr. Lamb'a Legacy, Mr. Hodgson's Gipsy Queen, "'
Bake's Scut, and Mr. Peacock's Humpbrey's Clock. '0
The WESTBY STAKES divided between Mr. Robinson
Rocket and Mr. Hornby's Hector O'Halloran, &c. 15'c'

AINTREE STEEPLE CHASE.—OLD ROAN.—A zteerte
Chase of 3 sous. each, with 20 added, for horses that MOO
hunted with the Earl of Sefton's hounds, came 0ff,,,r0
Monday, just beyond the Old Roan, in Aintree. Tr,
was a large concourse of spectators, and but for the r„-0
te
ering state of the weather there would most likely P',/
been a much greater number. The return as folio:O •
Mr. Anger names Artist
..
Mr. Darber names Sankey
Mr. Bainbrigge names Lady Grey 3sill'
Three others started, but were not placed.
—Won ea 40
Foor RACING.—OD Wednesday, a match for
aside, between Maxfield (the " North Star"), of Shefo'oo
and the celebrated Barlow, of Lancashire, came °ff ear
Doncaster race-course. The distance was four "'nog
the men starting at the four-mile starting-post, ruMliev
twice round, and ending at the winning-pit. Thendl
ting, which was very spirited, was in favour of Mago4
.0.1
X6O to £4O. On the signal being given, Barlow ','ef
cif with the lead, which he kept for a short dist3io.cter
when Maxfield took it from him, but immediately n'
fter
wards dropped back to his former position. Soon d
ept
this Barlow had the race in his own hands, his opP°'iiog
beirw. dead beat by the time he lad reached the st°o4(
post the second time round, where he declined fur io'
contest, and Barlow cons( quently came in an easy tot)
ncr. The distance was accomphshed in rat her better 04
21 minutes, the first titne roui d. from the starting- I;04
to the winning chair, bein performed in 11 miuunfo'
the last round in 10 minutes and a few seconds.
sed•
field previous to starting stated that he was indisl oe,
Soon after this race, a match for .1:5 aside, once ronn 04°
course, came off between Redmail, of Doncaster. tter,
Strange, of Sheffield, whieh was won easily by t.!:C 13

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FuttEIGN AND COLONIAL,

AMERICAN PAPERS.
reachedßY the packetp Patrick Henry, Capt. Delano, whi, h
letters
th's port on Wednesday last, we have New York
lmetters and papers to the Bth February, which possess
0,1',e than usual interest.
!Iley announce the passing by the House of Represe?-
_atives at Washington on the 3rd of February, of a bill
for extending the auth'ori.y of the United States over the
for

A !IS IL lb Lcuiiiiically ruuLicu,
°lll to organize a territorial government in the Ore-
gon territory, and for other purposes." Mr. Quincy
ti.daals. Mr... Winthrop, and other influential members of
tie liepresent,tive Chamber, spoke wrainst the measuie,
34t it Passed by large majorities, the final division being
, to 54. On he 4th of February the bill was intro-
eacectinto the Senate, read twice, and ordered to be re-
ferred to a Special Committee. The rapid progress of the
rantre is represented as having excited much astonish-
,: t in the States, especially amongst the mercantile
"rautlity.
ahe bill introduced by Mr. Benton to provide for the
annexation of Texas to the United States, has not pro-
aehedel quite so swimmingly. It. was reported against
ti at unanimously by the Committee on Foreign 11,1a-
dpnes the Senate; upon which the promoter of it with-
(' ew it, and offered another bill, which was a copy of the
cnuerbut omitted vivious terms and conditions
siln.leb it vrould have been hound inconvenient to accede
a`uta This second measure was not expected to meet with
very different from that which preceded it.
Notwithstanding this temporary check, annexation
reuld seem to be all the rep. Petitions have been pre-
jawed to Congress, some praying for the annexation of
nada and New Brunswick, and one from Detroit pray-
ng that the annexation of Canada to the United Sates
tae be made the sole condition on which Texas shall be
tlinezed- It is, however. suggested that these proposi-
Ong have been made only to throw ridicule upon the
question of annexation generally.
The most gratifying portion of the news brought by the
pa tick Henry is the announcement that the state of
01,,nsYlvaniThe bill a has paid the interest on her debt due in
,orearY anthori.ing the payment passed both ranches of the State Le Rislature on the Ist of February,
the unanimous vote of each. The payment took place
°,„, the 3rd, and was sipalized by the firing of cannon.
1 prices of the stock subsequently rose considerably.
fa, he Commercial affairs of New York were in a satis-
-1"Y state, and an active spring trade was expected.
h,,Y°M Mexico we learn that General Santa Anna, after
leg receiver'. several repulses before Puebla, bad sub-
pitted himself to the new government, by which he had
sub-
beet supplanted.
of December,
to advices from Buenos Ayres to the middle
Decenaber'news
l'ad been received from Monte Video
th
efeat of the first division of Oribe's cavalry, corn-
laandedd by thuiga, which had been attacked bth
orriete,
Riveiraq, 1-d by that General in person. In por-
e
to results were anticipated.

prTaelve German writers have been ordered by the
en,,
-" government to leave Paris.
papers anno.ince the death of the Countess of
aftaertaburg, wifepai of the Landgrave of liesse-Homburg.
4 iong andpainful illness.
It
aPPears that a discovery of quicksilver has been
IttQade in
Snuth Australia, but whether in such quantity
11;t?l be profitable to work for a mine is at present pro-
" iittical.
thWe have intelligence from Lisbon to the 18th inst. On
bireh taight of the 17th the Queen was confined, and gave
nou to a Princess. The medical bulletin of the 18th an-
woinees that her Majesty and the Infanta are going on

for the Newfoundland dogs have been imported into Paris
elpe Purpo.e of watching the banks of the Seine, and
these
:nleed trainers are every day employed in teaching
, • e .1 _

iigtire—Knincent animals to draw from the water stuffed
they s_of tnen and children. The rapidity with which
°oncet°sB e of v..tir and recross the river, and come and go at the
. • trainers. is truly marvellous.

ve``‘HOE.—Adviceg from this island state that there is
sts,.safficient guano remaining for half the number of
to t'lll.B tioN there-250 sail at least. A few days previous
IN, a Vessel bringing this intelligence leaving, a large
fit"' guano (which had been incautiously undermined)
ttea'oand butted about 15 men, who were working under-
liti„*'!: They were principally located labourers, and un-
4.'Dlly
rive were altve when dug out.
lagezlAyALANcne.—A fatal event took place in the va-
lley Rodoret. in Piedmont, last month, bY which the
44 'Janie' Buffs (thee lergyman of that place) and his
fell q lost their lives. During the night an avalanche
nois;PTI residence. His parishioners, at the heavy
You nt the fall, hastened to the relief of their beloved
Ave ho
Pastor. Several hundred men were engaged for
snout nurti before a passage could be cleared through the
IN: and when they had obtained an entrance into the
OW.' a most distressing scene presented itself the
to—',Yolan

.e di -•• kugea 2
,;scor

uite dead

troche
javourite 'dog alone survived. This sad catas-
the p; ,nas occasioned a mournful sensation throughout
ieys.
'oLest
Lai t 414 ant vaIIIGRATION TO THE WEST INDlES.—lntelligence
at N:4ehed the city, of the arrival of the Roger Stewart
had jw, Amsterdam, with 348 African immigrants. She
on thett Sierra Leone w th 350, but there were two deaths
occur ftdrilP Pas,a.e. Two ! How many were wont to
lawitonti board of 'slasvers, while as yet the traffic was
I:.a..hiliLtla?w. many occur on board of them now that,

'lent 7".1 flesh is a contraband cargo, Irisie and conceal-
rant .ar'' indispensable ? This arrival of so many
ilitp c'r the best sort is a better argument for the feasi-
th °I a loan, than anything hammered out in the couple
beer;'e late discussions of that question. After having
totneiToften amu,ed with unfulfilled promises, there is
%,) Tig refreshing in the receipt, at length, of the news
te rnPOttant a performance.—Guiana Times.
utt
learti T
aNTERVENNT LA -
ed •,
Iron) • bep,, • TION
imatlver PLATA—We have

vid- mane as to the manner in which the proposed
un in the affairs of Buenos Ayres and Monte
Peel,°itill take place. On the 6th February Sir Robert
37 be recollected, spoke, in the House of Com-
. Eu4:4 combined operations by England and France,
literru".he expected, by Brazil," to Plata; end to the
gang „Pet'ean. of the naviiation of La ; and instruc-
ly,a! is known, given to Mr. Gore Ousley, otp.
"at aen?ointed Charge d'Affaires at Bu nos Ayres, in
Nirs, P. Previously to his departure from town in the
of last week At a Cabinet Council held subse-
tNoiveYd' MondaY, the 20th February, it was, however,
ierventi 9 her Majesty's Ministers that the proposed
rtied °.ll should be rr;ade so far as this counti y is con-
rhzii B,TgIY and without 'concert either with France or
it:"tits )„,`,11.05 leaving England free from the embarrass-
eboul 1t ''';leb Combined interference was not unlikely to
was likewise resolved that the intervention
u that.' a an entirely pacific and friendly character;
wh„ 58 a proof thereof to Rosas, Commodore Par-
ee came into collision with that chief when he broke
Ayreao blockade of Monte Video, should be
-11 p .• irota .
eire,n, Rio de Janeiro, Sc that he might not under
at errib—s.tBnces re enter La Plata. These resolutions
oni..odied in fresh instructions for Mr. Gore Ousley,
uenosla Overtook him as he was about to embark for
Y"'ttax.
UN Iv-

CRSITY c 5, CLERICAL NEWS

411;1 1c8B• 27.—The following degrees were con-
Rev a ; theay :—lllastera of Arts—E. N. Conant, St.
Th• Jame Rev. William Richards, New Inn Hall; the
44%4 iikl‘lurray Dixon, Sr. Edmund Hall; the Rev.
ttkii Wie"1"01) Green, exhibitioner of Lincoln
alh-G 4111 Poole Oriel. Bachelors of Arts—Sir
Graham
',it% ;:11)4o, Montgomery, Bart., Christchurch,
nGeog Drake, University ; Julian
ptits!it R._ ' George Goidon. Brasennse.

4elo';cl;rf OAKLEY.—The Rev. Mr. Oakley has
Dlae, lhop Vter denying that he has been suspended by
ftf„,' th Loodon. It seems that a change has taken
og"!' Of de 8.,
B.,shop's intentions, and he has resolved, in-
tile'e4n Ainal)7l'l'inst Mr. Oakley of his license, to pi ocecd
1,1440719. ihe eccle,iastical courts for a breach of
hay.e.elpal and
. Fellows of Brasenose College, Ox-
ttt;'e OrPeinted the Rev. James lionwell, M.A..
etite4PY, v. u'ldwall, to the incumbency of St. Phillip's
islipte.Broblcdse\n„t 1,11 the resignation of the Rev. J. Heath-
"' th, Senior Fellow and Bursur of Brase.
well had previously been appointedcurate
Jho'',Vrt of Liverpool by Rector Campbell.
9C ttu,_? 0xpn,,,,, T.

, belairs, ‘Vatisharefree-fr—OM" itilssPeYism are :—Merton,
__ St
be 'New i at", Pembroke, St. Mary Hall, Magd. Oen(
liraz 'New On Hall, Edmund Hall. Colleges without
tt4'loose tlt'll's t—Balliol, Exeter, Oriel, Magdalene,
te,jh'et /1/4., Alban Hall. Colleges mixed :—University,
h4.,"..../Few College, Lincoln, Corpus, Trinity, Wor-
lte ittvecord.
LleVCl'vt:f tit; INIR. WARD.—It now appears, to the perfect
Cry'rl/4% Nx•T!iller Tractarians, that their champion, the
La ee,lty.--hro"tt. is on the point of perpetrating matri-
'Ne ived _ , ror upon hoiror, it actually.appears tbat Is deive are
a"la read a letter from his fair friend, (whose
Ite a, ehQe b ,(4ltinted with,) while engaged in deliverlng
Ot,:c.4froiriore the University ! Poor Mr. Ward will,
~,,81ulett.er alii Ill'ive but a sorry martyr, and a sorry
.Pa-
orr.e hl(lued }),,11 e declared that he renounced no doctrine,
e,:iti '',..01u tii s tlle Pope •" This being the case, we pre-
Cr rtl'iqurell -aid, with that functionary, that the orders
evreed ,e stateare Not valid ; for otherwise, how could lie
it)til• °„Pot/e 13. f matrimony with that Article of the
V" l+av 11:us IV. before his eyes, which says, who-
- 4 Pa,4.1.!1 Will ,4t Priests may marry, let him be accursed !
TA g Atiot, s4;!e Puzzled, we think, to maintain himself
IT, latioD, .Bf.4:tory to himself or to his friends.
tor',4,3'l4roNhy:tlitlEiuoNsintLlTY.—ln the House of Lords,
't ''le 41
,k; I e "'"'shop of Exeter, in answer to an ad-
-1 1 teee 'rl Poet
ot. lep ht dis. escue, who presented petitions relative
toritee, my
to turbances in the diocese of Exeter, said,
ete4,lsioilstohojiet, it will riot be considered unjustifiab:
tticY eo tom a ," ale to defend myself upon every fit
if
14d t tidtict, Cilarze made in any place against any part
1 4/'ver:4'ee,rnd if it were possible, and if I were per•
~,,, cl,oi, t ero,iit_loy conduct before any body of men, and
t°'44l (1 l'4 ''/'' Eletto choose any body for such a purpose,
11041,•ed 4 Itikh .
.lne have the House of Lords.' It
eil.. qr. _ 4lyseirillvileke and a great honour to be allowed
e.d'e_lf t'ld or ,tln..this 'place, which is the sanctuary of
tiio:; I ae„..4,1( yousr"c.e ; but, my lords, I cannot permit
of r,' esp:' 4 e„i_.. lordships to hear my defence. My
th‘st-hri,tc of el;
r`i!tli.l lord • I am charged with the spi-
%it thept'hatid imiliocese.
I' am au officer of the church
thtisit Ih4'itc.4l/°llrn responsible for my conduct only to
As 0 reto,?t, h. I, therefore, feel it my duty .in
ceit4i to e agar
Perm me to say to your lordships
tiv, titer tIPOn a defence of my conduct on