The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

Prorabings in Varliamtnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY

Lord BROUGHAM. in moving for returns of thesalaries of the
judges and clerks in County Courts, attacked with much warmth
the present system of charging fees and levying taxes upon sui-
tors in courts of justice.—Upon the motion of the Earl of CAR-
MULE, the Church Building Amendment Bill was, after a short
discussion, read a second time.—Lord VONTEAOLE presented,
tied supported at some length, a petition on behalf of the land-
cfsners of Terry, praying for the sanction of Parliatrwrit to the
principle of levying rates by means of local assessment, for the
construction of railways in the south of Ireland. Earl REDES
DALE warned the house against giving too ready an assent to a
principle of this importance. Earl GRANVILLE and Earl
GREY maintained its justice, when applied, as in the present
sage, to works.of great public utility. After some remarks by
Lord BEAUMONT, Lord STANLEY, the Earl of WINCHESTER,
and many other noble lords, in support of its prayer, the peti-
tion was ordered to lie on the table.—Lord STANLEY presented
&petition, signed by 5000 of the inhabitants of British Guiana,
praying for the introduction into that colony or a more perfect
system of representative government. The noble lord pointed
cut the various defects of the present constitution, and urged
the propriety of conferring upon the colonies that free, full,
and direct system of representation which hdd always been
conferred as soon as possible on other British colonies. Earl
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nions of the majority of the respectable colonists, and con-
tended at considerable length that the condition cf the great

body of the people was not such as to render it safe or expedient
to give them at present so large a share of political power. lie
intimated, however, that he would recommend to the govern-
ment of the .colony the gradual extension of the franchise.
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JANaICA.--TbS cholera has nearly disappeared from
the island. The committee on Ways and Means have
published their report. The entire expenditure of the
colony amounts to 269,0001., including 10,6501. as a sink-
ing fund for the liquidation of a debt of 700,0001. Of the
first mentioned sum, 205,0001. may be considered as per-
manent expenditure, which no economy, however severe,
can reduce. This exceeds the total revenue of the island,
which is estimated at 189,0001. The deficiency of 79,0001.
the House of Assembly will be called upon to provide, if
an end is to be put to the present system of annually run-
ning deeper into debt. The proposition is to meet it by
additional taxation.
DENMARIC—The wars of the duchies have led to the
formation of a direct route of communication between
Copenhagen and London. So far out of evil has come
good. By a trip recently made, it has been proved that,
even in the present state of the roads, and with the exist-
ing defective arrangements for land carriage, the traveller
who leaves London on Saturday may arrive in Copenha-
gen early on Tuesday afternoon, while there is every
prospect of shortening the journey very considerably.
The Northern Steam-packet Company have now com-
met ced running first-class steamers every Saturday from
Lowestoft to Hjerthing, or Ballum, in Jutland ; and, on
the Ist. of May, a diligence will start from the former port
for Copenhagen. These vessels will convey post-office
letter bags. _ _

PORTUGA L—A second civil war has broken out in
P'rtugal against Count de Thomar. The Daily News
tells us that the Duke of Saldanha has about 5,000 men.
The Government troops were in pursuit of him by the
Queen's request. The Cortes have been prorogued to
the 2nd of June. The troops are now embarking at the
dock-yard to proceed, some to St. Übe's, and others up
the Tagus. The King Consort is to go at their head
against the insurgents. Unless the Queen dismisses Count
Thomar, a bloody civil war is inevitable. It is said,
however, that she is bent upon keeping him in power,
and that lie is equally determined to keep in himself. A
telegranliic despatch, dated Lisbon, the 14th instant, and
Madrid, the 16th instant, was received yesterday by the
French Government, and announces that the insurrection
in Portugal has made no progress; that Lisbon was tran-
quil; and that the. King had reached Santarem before
Marshal Saldanba.
The arrival of the Overland Mail announces the de-
struction by fire, of the ship Buckinghamshire, Captain
Macgregor, in the river Hoogliley, March 3d, on its pas-
sage from Calcutta to England. Two passengers, invalids,
perished. The Buckinghamshire, was formerly the pro-
perty of the East India Company, and was built at. Bom-
bay, about 36 years since, under the superintendence of
its first commander, Capt. Frederick Adams, H.E.J.CS.
The Daily News says " the splendid old Bombay ship
the Buckinghamshire has fallen a victim to incendiarism
in the Hooghlev : she was destroyed by fire on the night
govermnent the
hi_ of the 3d, a little below Diamond Harbour. She was

and for London with invalids of her majesty's service,
and a number of cabin passengers, besides a cargo valued
at upwards of £BO,OOO, both it and the vessel was fully
insured. Two invalids, and two of the crew were drowned.
She had thirty Bombay Lascars as part of her crew, who
have no doubt been her destroyers. Everything on board
was totally destroyed, and the passengers left with nothing
but the clothes on their backs." The ship was insured
to the I
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THE CAFFRE WAR.—The General Screw Steam Ship-
la Company's steam ship Propontis, Captain Glover,

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arrived at Plymouth on Thursday morning. She left the
Cape on the 7th of March, Sierra Leone the 24th of
March, and Cape de Verde on the 31st. Although she
brings intelligence of a successful attack made by Major-
general Somerset, at the head of 1,200 troops, and of the
capture of a large number of Caffres, yet the general tenor
of the information derived from her passengers is averse
to any expectation of a speedy termination of the war ;
and the skill and caution of the Caffres, coupled with their
natural cunning, appear in many recent instances to have
baffl .d the efforts of the regular forces. Sir Harry Smith
was at King William's Town, and has, in all, about 2,000
troops under his immediate command. There are only
seven artillerymen at Cape Town. Major Somerset's
attack was at Fort Armstrong, on the Kat River settle-

enemy was ejected with great slaughter. The colonists
at Cape Town call the war a government and not a colo-
nial war, and not. one meeting of the inhabitants has as
yet taken place, neither has anyother public demonitration
been made in approval of the movements of Sir Harry
Smith. .
CALIFORNIA

—A tragic illustration of Lynch law is
reported from Nevada city. A man in the beat of passion
shot his wife. He was taken, and was about to be tried
summarily, when before a word could be spoken, another
party brought in the body of the wife, just as she fell,

dark blood oozing from her breast

She was

gently laid on a large table near her husband. This
sight roused the people into frenzy. No one thought of
sin the trial. The prisoner was seized and
rds a little eminence overlooking the village,
where a noose of a lariat swung significantly from a tree.
Just at this moment a man of great influence with ere
people in that vicinity attempted to postpone their design
until a coroner's inquest should be held upon the body,
and a summary trial, but still a trial, had, given their ver-
dict. With much difficulty he succeeded. While the
trial was proceeding, the crowd outside, stung with the
delay, rushed in, secured the murderer, and marched him
to the gallows, bearing the body of his wife close behind
him. A small box, marked " For the Orphans." was
nailed to the tree, and many an ounce was poured into it
from the purses of tho.e who followed the father to his
death. The body of the murdered woman was lowered
into a wide pit, and, even while the wretched man gazed
upon it, and upon an empty but significant box by his

side, the cord suddenly tightened about his neck and he
swayed in the air. The mob sat on the hill-side and

sternly watched him. At the end of half an hour he was
cut down and laid in the arave by the side of his wife.
The coroner arrived in the evening and held au inquest
on the body : the verdicts were in the case of the woman,
" Murdered by Divine, her husband," and in the case
of the man, " Died according to the will of God and jus-
tice to men."—Another instance of Lynch law occurred
in New York. A Dr. Lennox, from Scotland, was shot
while sitting in his office. Next morning a man who had
often menaced his life was seized on suspicion, and ex-
amined before the proper authorities. During the ex-
amination several circumstances were discovered, which
left scarcely a doubt of his guilt. Just before the end of
the examination, a party of men, with blackened faces,
rushed in the room, and their leader, with a dexterous
whirl of the riata, lassoed the criminal across the room,
and in a moment dragged him outside. After an obstinate
fight the prisoner was retaken and put under a strong
guard. No one offered to arrest the lynchers.