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imperial Varltaintitt.

He did not know whether Sir John Tyrell was authorised days a cargo of eleven hundred bales of American, princi
to speak as the organ of that interest; but even if he were, pally dew-rotted, hemps has been shipped to Scotland,
he (Sir R. Peel) would not purchase back again the con- but this is the first entire cargo ever sent out. I t is itn-
HOUSE OF LORDS.--MONDAY. fidence which he was said to have forfeited by uttering the possible to predict what the export of this article will be.
Lord COTTENHAM moved the second reading of the slightest expression of repentance for the course which he but there is every prospect that it will, ere long, be cue of
Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. The noble and learned lord had pursued. When he contrasted the condition of Eng- grcat commerce. The growth of the article in this country
detailed, at some length, the proceedings that bad taken land in the winter of 1842 with its condition at the present is very great, and it is yearly increasing."
place in parliament during the last few years on the sub- moment, he never would admit that he had pursued any CANADA.—Advises have been received from Montreal
ject, and explained the provisions of his bill, which were other course than that which became him as a minister of to the 13th ult. The measures agreed upon by the Uni-
nearly similar to the measure brought forward by the the crown, and as the head of the great conservative party, ted States, to allow drawbacks on the duties upon goods
present government in 1813. He was not prepared to alter the existing corn-law. He passing through New York, destined for Canada, is ren-
The Bishop of LINCOLN would not oppose the bill, but had proposed it after due deliberation ; and nothing could dared nugatory by the decision of the Inspector General
thought the inconveniences of the present system some- be more mischievous to the country than to be always of , Customs in Canada, that full duties must be charged
what exaggerated. He was most anxious to support any tampering with such a subject. He believed that that law on all articles entering Canada that have passed through
measure by which the convenience of the public might had been beneficial so far as it had prevented any increase the United States, even though imported from England.
best be promoted. in the price of corn. The welfare of the proprietors of The Welland Canal was opened on the 10th ult. It is
The bill was read a second time, and their lordships land did not depend on the nominal price of the quarter stated that despatches were lately received by the
adjourned till Friday. of corn. if he could read to the house the accounts Governor General from the Colonial Office, stating, in
which he had received in 1842 of the distress, privation, 'reply, to the address of the House of Assembly, that her
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAY. and crime which prevailed at that time in the manufac- Majesty's Government had no intention of imposing a
The resolutions of Mr. WORTLEY, subjecting all rail- turing districts, he could convince the most decided ad- tax upon colonial built vessels. Sir Charles Metcalfe.
way bills to the provisions of any general measure which vocate of the anded interest that it was threatened with had contradicted the rumour, that he contemplated retir-
might be hereafter introduced, were adupted,,with some greater danger from the continuance of that distress, pri- ing from the Government. At Montreal, on the 12th,
amendments. vation, and crime, than it ever had incurred from any the banks drew on London at 103 erreal,
cent., sixty days;
Lord J. RUSSELL brought forward his resolutions on other cause. He knew that the decision of the house •
private bills, 9 to 10 per cent., ninetyP days.
the general condition of the labouring classes of the would be governed by higher motives than its hopes of
country. The subject, he admitted, was of vast extent pecuniary remuneration ; but if it were not, he should MEXlCo.—According to the most recent advices, the
and of the highest importance, and he admitted his ina- emphatically declare, that the state of things in 1842 committee of the Mexican Congress on the Texas
no
ques-
bility to deal with it; but as no other person had taken could not have continued long without affecting most
tion had reported that the law of the United States for
it up, he felt it his duty to bring the question forward, materially the interests of land. It was said the govern-
the annexation of Texas to the American Union in
He regretted being obliged, amidst conflicting views, to meat had lost the confidence of its supporters without respect impairs the ,rights which Mexico possesses and
,
bring the subject before the house in the way of general gaining that of its opponents. If that were so, it could
will maintain to that department. Furth
resolutions, embodying his own views as to the best means not last long ; but he once more repeated, he would not, United States having disregarded the princermorei that theples, on
of relieving the industry of the country from the tram- to regain the confidence which he had lost, utter one ex-
which are based treaties of amity, commerce, and naviga-
mels and burdens which oppressed it. Without improv- preasion of regret for having proposed the measures which tion, and more especially of boundary, Congress considers
ing the physical condition of the people, it was impossible had induced that loss of confidence. The principles on them violated by the United States. And, finally, that
to enlarge their mental, or raise their moral, character. which those measures were based
were sound, and to the unjust usurpation of which it is sought to make
After referring to the condition of the industrious classes, them government was prepared to adhere. They would Mexico the victim, makes it her duty to take up arms
more especially the agricultural population, whose wages carry them into execution with deliberate caution; but, in her defence to oppose such usurpation, and with the
averaged only 7s. or Bs. per week, the noble lord pro- for the protection of individuals, and for the promotion full and rightful determination to use all her resources
ceeded to trace the causes of their present condition, of the cause which he and Lord John Russell both had at
and power to prevent the annexation decreed by the
After referring to the rise and gradual extension of the heart, they would avoid that precipitate course which United States. It is evident that the government and
national debt, and the Bank Restriction Act of 1797, the these resolutions recommend, but which was unsanctioned
people of Mexico are decidedly indisposed to surrender
tendency of which he maintained was to degrade the Ia- either by prudence or by justice.
Texas, and the tone of .the public journals is exceedingly
bourer, he went on to describe the origin and operation After Lord J. Russell had replied, Mr. S. Crawford's
warlike.
of the modern system of restriction and monopoly—a amendment was negatived by a majority of 253 to 33, and I Buzeros Ayaes.---Fromßuenos Ayres and Monte Video
system which was supposed be some to be of such anti- Lord J. Russell's resolutions were negatived by a majority advices to the 22d March were received in Liverpool on
quits, as to be interwoven with the constitution of the of 182 to 104. Sunday. We learn that an attack was made on Cerro
country, and which had been termed protection to native
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Largo by Rivera, preceded y the burnin
industry. The tendency of this system was, in his opi- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. houses in the entrenchment. By the lightoff thefort flaymes
nion, to impair the efficiency of labour, and they bad The following railway bills were read a third time and the besieged were. enabled to direct a brisk fire against
now arrived at that period when they must maintain the passed :—The Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth ; the the parties outside, who returned it with grape and round
protection laws in their full power, or abandon them as Exeter and Crediton ; the Eastern Counties (Ely and shot. After two hours unavailing efforts to carry the
vicious and unsound. Abstractedly, parliament had no Whittlesea Deviation). town, the enterprise was relinquished. Rivera's supply
right to interfere with the choice of a man as to the The Soli itor-General brought up the report of the se- ;of ammunition, as well as his military stores generally,
cheapest or dearest market for his labour or produce; lect committee appointed to inquire into the proceedings i had excited a strong feeling at Buenos Ayres against the
but, in removing restrictive laws, it was manifestly unjust in the action of Howard v. Gossett. The repot t was read '
Brazils, whence the supply is supposed to have come. An
to apply free-trade principles to the humbler and opera- by the clerk at the table. It recommends that a writ of attempt had been made at Monte Video to reinstate Mar-
tive classes, and to leave monopoly in operation on all error to the House of Lords aeainst the judgment of the tinez and Lamaz in the war and police departments, but
articles in which individuals of great possessions and an- Court of Queen's Bench should be brought, but the corn- it was frustrated by military demonstration. Lavandera
cestral honours were concerned. The noble lord then mittee are of opinion that no means should he adopted to had succeeded Bauzo as Minister of War; and Cesar
referred to the origin of the corn laws and the fluctua- prevent the execution of- the verdict obtained by Mr. Diez had been appointed Chief of the Staff, in the place
Cons that bad taken place in the scale, and contended Howard in the Sheriff's Court. of . followamongst other vessels were
that the result of the system had been to create specula- After some discussion the report was ordered to be IcingCorreaßuenos
at BuenThe Ayres rag the latest date :—Chilmark,
tion and enhance the price to the consumers, without printed, and to be taken into consideration. Catherine, Aristocrat, William Pell!, Camilla, Content,
benefiting the revenue. Even at present the owners and
Fame,and Waterville, for Liverpool. Exchange was at
occupiers of land, with a protection of 46 per cent. on HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. 4 to 44-; Six per Cent. Stock 80. Several vessels,
the ordinary and common food of the country, were not amongst which we notice the British barque Sultana,
Lord RADNOR moved the second reading of the Post- from Liverpool, satisfied with their position. He maintained that the rom Liverpool, the British brig Palestine, from the
Office Offences Amendment Bill, the object of which was Coast of Africa, in ballast, and the brig Cestus, from
argument of the rate of wages being dependent on the
to regulate the practice of the Secretary of State in open-price of corn was entirely erroneous, and he felt satisfied •Hull, with a general cargo, having touched at Monte
ing certain letters. Nobody. knew what. the state. ofthe
that the corn laws could not be continued in their present Video were not allowed entry at Buenos Ayres. What
law really was, the committees had elicited no informs-
shape. The only suggestion he could make would be for tion • course would be adopted by the French and English autho-
on the subject. Lord Radnor spoke of the moral rities in thecasesot these ships (they having protested against
a fixed duty, but he did not think that corn should be
effects of the system, and denied that it was legal.
taxed at all. At present he should be in favour of a fixed the decree) does not appear. But the French schooner of
Lord STANLEY opposed the bill, and defended the cue- war Eclair, Lieut. Mosier, was immediately dispatched
duty of 45., 55., or 65., as being preferable to a vanishing
tom as a necessary engine of state policy.
scale, commencing at 10s. and abating annually until they The House divided, when there appeared for the second for orders to the French commodore, at Monte Video.
had arrived at total repeal. The noble lord then referred
to the existing poor law, and strongly urged the necessity reading, 9 ; against it, 53 ; majority, 46.
of a more equitable adjustment of the law of settlement,
and recommended a well-considered scheme of emigration
and a more general diffusion of education. While pious
men were in the present month meeting day after day to
send missionaries to China and the South Seas, there
were masses of their own population utterly ignorant of
the common elements of the Christian faith, and sug-
gested the voting a sum of £150,000 in the present par-
liament to place our national system of education on a
more extended and effective footing. The noble lord
concluded by moving the first of his series of resolutions.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved an amendment to the effect
that the present time of tranquillity afforded a favourable
opportunity for giving immediate attention to the claims
so repeatedly urged in the petitions of the people for an
extension of parliamentary suffrage.
Sir J. GRAHAM was ready to admit that Lord J. Rus-
sell had referred to the various matters comprised in his
comprehensive speech with fairness and good temper, but
he complained of the unspecific nature of the resolutions.
The great object of Mr. Huskisson had been the substi-
tution of protective for prohibitive legislation, and such
was the policy of the present government. He contended
that a fixed duty in corn would operat; injuriously, and
in times of scarcity could not be maintained ; while, un-
der the present system, prices were equable and the sup-
ply of corn steady and regular. Protection arid improve-
ment in agriculture had been coincident, and the increase
in the produce of the soil had been commensurate with
the increase of the population. By their recent measures
for the reduction of protective duties, the present govern-
ment had gone to the verge of throwing land out of culti
vation, and masses of the agricultural population cut of
employment. He admitted that there were great difficul-
ties in grappling with the question, as since the present 1
government had come into power the population had in-
creased
one million and a half. The right hon. baronet
then referred to various returns, for the purpose of show-
ing that the labouring classes, in amount of wages and
command over the necessaries of life, were in a very dif-
ferent position from what they were a few years since.
Admitting the influence of a good harvest, be thought the
government was entitled to some credit for the change.
The right hon. gentleman then referred to the improved
position of our commercial affairs, and the large amount
of capital invested in railway and other speculations. He
'disapproved of any government plan of r migration, inas-
much as voluntary emigration was at present going for-
ward fully equal to the wants of our colonies. He believed
the education of the people had been of late years mate-
rially improved, and that the means at present adopted
for the purpose were carried out in the most efficient
manner. After expressing the anxiety of the government
to do everything in their power to promote the physical
and moral welfare of the people, he concluded by meeting
the proposition of the noble lord by moving the previous
question.
The debate was adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
The following railway bills were read a third time and
passed :—The Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton ; the
Chester and Holyhead ; the Manchester and Leeds
(Burnley Branch) and Heywood and Oldham Branches
Extension ; the Huddersfield and Manchester; and the
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction.
Mr. WATSON was anxious to proceed with the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill, but he was entirely in the hands of
the house. (Go on.) As it appeared to be the wish of
the house, he begged to move that the bill be now read a
second time.
Sir J. GRAIIAM.—If it was the pleasure of the house
that the bill should I- e read a second time on the present
occasion, lie should not oppose it. But he was bound to
state that there were portions of the bill to which he had
decided objections. To the principle of it he was friendly.
He had not the slightest wish to impose penalties on Ro-
man Catholics on account of their creed. H 4, objection
to the present bill was that one of its clauses went to
repeal certain provisions of the Relief Act of 1829, with
reference to monastic orders.
The bill was then read a second time.
The debate on Lord J. Russell's resolutions as to the
state of the country was then resumed, and, alter speeches
from several members
Sir R. PEEL denied that there was any apathy in the
house to the distresses of the people, and admitted that,
if such apathy existed, a stronger proof could not be
givers of the incompetence of the house to discharge its
duty towards the country. But the absence of Lord
Ashley arid other members, upon which Lord Howick
had commented so severely, was not owing to apathy,
but to the deep and prevailing conviction of the house
that Lord John Rus-ell had not brought forward this
subject in a manner likely to lead to any practical result.
Ile was not going to discuss all the various measures
contained in Lord John Russell's resolutions, because
each of them, if justice were done, would require consi-
derable time for discussion. He should have thought
that those measures were sufficiently numerous; but
some gentlemen, following the course to which the noble
lord had invited them, thought otherwise, and proposed
to add to them the subject of the poor-laws and universal
suffrage. Independently, however, of the number of
measures contained in these resolutions, he objected to
any abstract resolution upon any one of them, without
knowing something of the substitute which Lord John
Russell intended to provide for the present law. After
making some observations on the noble lord's resolutions
upon colonization and education, and after justifying the
recent proceedings of government on both those subjects,
be called attention to the wide difference existing between
Lord John Russell and Lord Howick on the subject of
the resolution on the present corn-laws. Lord J. Russell
proposed a fixed duty of 45., 55., or 68. ; but Lord Howick
was against all duties whatsoever, and was for a perfectly
free importation of foreign corn, because he thought that
nothing else would tend so much to restore a healthy
condition to the labouring classes. He (Sir R. Peel) did
not wish to underrate the importance of this object, but
he must say that if the house should agree in these reso-
lutions, and should determine to communicate them in
an address to the crown, it would evidently imply distrust
in, and pass a censure upon, her Majesty's government.
It was for the house to decide whether the government
deserved such a censure. The government had relieved
industry from many of its burdens, and had made greater
efforts in three years to relieve the social condition of the
working classes than had ever been made within the same
time by any preceding administration. The improvement
of the country was admitted on all hands; but some gen-
tlemen asserted that it was not owing to the measures of
the government, but to the favourable seasons of the last
few years. He admitted that the seasons had been fa-
vourable; but he pointed to the tariff, and to the remis-
sion of duties which he and his colleagues had made, as a
proof that they had not been remiss in the discharge of
their duties. If the house were determined to enter upon
the discussion of the corn-laws, it had better do so when
the motion for their repeal was regularly brought before
it by its able and consistent advocate, Mr. Villiers, for a
partial discussion of them could be productive of no ad-
vantage. With regard to Lord John Russell's resolution
for the abolition of protective duties, he believed that his
object would be more successfully obtained by pursuing
the cautious and gradual course proposed by her Majesty's
government. In pursuing their cautious and gradual
course, the government, according to Sir John Tyrell,
bad forfeited the confidence of the agricultural interest,

SPAIN.—The Paris papers of Saturday contain the
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. letter of Don Carlos to his son, with his formal abdication
The York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington
of the rights of his crown in favour of the latter. The
documents are dated Bourges, 18th May. " From this
Branch) Bill ; the York arid Scarborough Railway Devia- day," says he, " I assume the title of Count de Molina,
lion Bill ; the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Bill ; the which it is my intention to bear hereafter." The Times
Bristol and Exeter Railway Branches Bill ; the Hull and also gives the reply of his Royal Highness Charles Louis
Selby Railway (Bridlington Branch) Bill; the Bradford, the Prince of tbe Asturias, expressing his obedience and
London, and Birmingham Railway Bill; the Dunstable submission, and declaring his determination to assume,
and London and Birmingham Railway Bill, were each henceforth, the title of Count of Monternolin. The
read a third time, and passed.
prince, under the date May 22, published a manifesto ad-
A long discussion took place as to whether the debate dress to the inhabitants of Spain, disclaiming any inten-
on the privilege question (Howard v. Gossett) should be Lion of casting amongst Spaniards a brand of bloodshed,
taken into consideration then or on Monday week ; but and setting forth the policy under which he would govern
ultimately the latter day was carried. if he had the privilege. " 1 cannot forget," says he,
Sir J. GRAHAM then moved the second reading of the " what I owe to my personal dignity, nor sacrifice the
New Colleges (Ireland) Bill.
dignity of my august family; but I assure you from this
Lord J. MANNERS rose to move the rejection of this moment, Spaniars, that it shall not depend on me if the
bill. He rested his opposition to it on the ground that it dissension I deplore be not for ever extinguished. There
made no proviion for the religious instruction of the
students to be brought together within the walls of these is no sacrifice compatible with my honour and my consci-
ence to which I am not disposed in order to put a conchs-
new colleges. if it passed in its present shape, it would sion to civil discord and to hasten the reconciliation of
be a curse, and not a boon to Ireland. He moved that it
the royal family. Under every circumstance I depend
be read a second time that day six months.
on your sense of right, u pon our love for th
Lord SANDON observed, that if it were to be supposed royal fa mily, andcorrect on the Assistance of Divine Providence.e satisfied with ever of he could not soil of ,
his assent to it ; but as he did not consider himself pledged
you
loyalty and amy countryff I wish only to be surrounded by
ection."
to support it in every particular because he voted for the CHEAP POSTAGE IN INDIA.—II is a positive fact, that
second reading of it, he would support it in the pre-
sent stage, in the hopes of making such alterations in the the natives of the north-west carry the spirit of economy
to
next as would render it more perfect. He did not consi-
se such a degree of intensity, that ten letters are often
der the bill as a system of "godless education ;" on the sent under one cover, which does not weigh more than
of
contrary, it was a bill on the right road of legislation for
the tenth
all the letters dispatched from a town during the day, is,
Sir J. GRAHAM defended himself against the charge of according to the last privilege, conveyed 100 miles for half
having propounded in this bill a gigantic scheme of an anna, or less than the tenth of a penny each. What is
"godless education." He was certain that no measure the penny postage to this?—Allen's Indian Mail.
which provided theological instruction for the students in JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.—The re-
these colleges by a State endowment, would be accepts- port lately presented by the engineer, Garella, to the
ble to the people of Ireland; and he thought that by es- minister of foreign affairs, contains precise information
tablisbing a Roman Catholic college in the south of Ire- relative to the Isthmus of Panama, which that engineer
land, a Presbyterian college in the north of Ireland, and had been charg-al to explore, relative to the cutting it
a Protestant college in Dublin, a fresh stimulus would be through. The chain of the Cordilleras sinks in the isth-
given to those unhappy religious disturbances which dis- taus for a distance of about 40 kilometres, so as to pre-
tracted Ireland too much at present. He then proceeded sent several rising grounds of scarcely 120 kilometres.
to vindicate the scheme which the Government bad de- Our canals habitually clear more considerable elevations.
vised for separating religious from scientific education in The Rio Chagres could aliment the canal, but a tunnel
these new institutions, and to show that no injury had would be required 5,350 metres in length, with a height
accrued to the students in similar institutions in Scot- of 30 metres above the water line, and 37 metres from the
land and Ireland from that separation. He had himself bottotn of the canal. Should the tunnel not be made, a
been educated at Christ Church, Oxford ; and the course cutting of 84 metres, with six locks, would be required.
which had been pursued whilst be was a member of that The cutting would be six kilometres. At the extremity
University had been most extraordinary. At that time of the canal next to Europe, the course of the river
students, on their admission, were not examined as to Chagres would be used, and the end would be in the Bay
what they knew, bat as to what they believed. They were of Lenion, near Chagres. On the other ocean it would
called upon to subscribe to certain articles of belief; but be impossible to come out at Panama. M. Garella found
for the two years and a half during which he was at 18 kilometres west of Panama, at Vaca de Monte, an an-
Christ Church, with the exception of a compulsory at- chorage of small extent, but safe, where it would
be easy
tsndance at chapel, he had never been called upon to at- to bring the southern extremity of the canal. The dis-
tend the lectures of any theological professor—he had tance between the two seas:would be 76 kilometres. The
never received any religious instruction whatsoever—he expense would be 130,000,000 f. and M. Garella calculates
had never heard a single sermon. He had already stated that with a toll of 10f. the ton, the canal would produce,
that he did not contemplate any alterations in this bill at all expenses deducted, an interest of five per cent. on the
variance with its principles; but there were one or two capital laid out.—Paris paper.
alterations in its details which he thought would improve
it, and which he would therefore briefly mention to the -
House. The first change which he had proposed to make
was with regard to the visitorial power of the Crown.
He had learned that the crown could not delegate its
visitorial power to any person but the Keeper of the
Great Seal, unless authority to delegate it were given by
statute. He therefore proposed to insert in the bill a
clause, giving the Crown a power of appointing visiters.
These visiters would have authority to inquire into any
abuse which might rise up in these institutions, and to
apply an effective remedy thereto. He had already said
that he could not recommend the House to make any en-
dowment for any theological professorship or for any re-
ligious attendance at these colleges. He thought, how-
ever, that there ought to be attached to each of these new
colleges a hall or halls in which religious instruction
might be given to young men by pastors of their own
religion ; and lie, therefore, should not be indisposed to
add to that clause of the bill which gave increased facili-
ties for making religious endowments a proviso which
would give faculties to the erection of such halls. He
then adverted to the memorial of the Roman Catholic
Bishops, which, he said, contained several demands, to
which it was impossible for him to give his assent.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS felt himself called upon to repeat,
because he had been taunted with having preferred, the
charge, that this bill was a gigantic scheme of godless
education. He had not, however, accused Sir James
Graham of considering it as such, nor of having intro-
duced it forthe sake of giving encouragement to infidelity,
and therefore be thought that Sir James Graham might
have spared the gentle reproof and the pointed appeal
which he had made to him upon that subject. He did
not think that Sir James Graham's defence of this mea-
sure on the ground that a similar scheme of instruction
had been successful in Scotland and Ireland would carry
conviction with it to the people of England. Sir James
was mistaken, if he wished the House to consider that
the state of things to which he had referred as prevailing
at Oxford in his time, prevailed there now. If it did pre-
vail then, it ought not to have prevailed, and certainly
was different from anything which prevailed during his
(Sit R. Inglis's) residence in Oxford. He declined to
enter upon a description of his own university career, but
wished that the new colleges in Ireland might enjoy such
advantages, both for classical and scientific knowledge,
and also for religious instruction, as the University of
Oxford. He agreed with Mr. O'Connell in thinking that
these new institutions would be deficient in that species
of education which was the only legitimate one for an
immortal being—education in the duties which every man
had to perform, and in the principles on which those duties
rested. He contended that theological instruction ought
to be made the basis of all other education ; and as that
was entirely overlooked in this bill, he must give it his
decided opposition.
The debate was adjourned.

IRELAND,

DIOCESE OF DOWN AND MAYNOOTH.—The petition
from the clergy of:the diocese of Down has been forwarded
to the House of Lords. It contains, exclusive of the
bishop, the signatures of no less than one hundred and
forty-seven of the clergy of that diocese. So much for
Sir Robert's assertion about the clergy.
BELFAST AGAINST MAYNOOTH.—The petition from
the town of Belfast against the Maynooth bill contained
12,901 signatures ; of these, were twenty-eight clergy of
the Established Church, twenty Presbyterian ministers,
three deputy-lieutenants, and two other magistrates. So
much for one town in Ireland.

THE IRISH COLLEGES.—Last week the Irish Romish
Bishops waited upon the Lord Lieutenant with their me-
morial against these colleges, when his Excellency said
the government would pay the utmost attention to sug-
gestions coming from such a quarter, and that no serious
obstacle was likely to arise on any point but one—the
vesting of appointments in trustees.
DOUBLE MURDER.—On the 14th ult., in daylight, at
the end of the town of Ballyconnell, Mr. Gallaher, under
agent to Colonel Enery, was shot on the middle of the
road, near his house. His lifeless remains being taken to
his habitation had such an effect on his unfortun ate wife
that she died on the following Sunday, leaving three or-
phans to lament this double murder.

THE SPLIT AMONGST THE REPEALERS.--This affair
came to a crisis on Monday, and as usual ended in the
trurnph of Ould Ireland as incarnated in the person of
Mr. O'Connell, and in the breaking down of the spirit of
the Nation. Mr. Davies wept and Mr. O'Connell shed
tears in abundance and forgave, and so Young Ireland
having promised to be a good boy, Ould Ireland shook
bands with him in a kind and parental fashion.

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THE IRISH COURT: LEVEE.—On Friday last, the an-
niversary of the liberation of the Irish agitators from pri-
son, the business of Dublin was completely at a stand-
still, and O'Connell sat in state in the throne-room of
the Rotunda to receive the addresses of the corporate bo-
dies, the nobility, and the gentry of his peculiar dominion.
At four o'clock, a.m., says the Dublin Mail," the country
people began to pour into town in great numbers ; and
from nine o'clock until twelve, the different trades, pre-
ceded by bands of music, for the most part seated in large
vans, drawn by six horses each, and accompanied by ban-
ners, great and small, with several pike- men—performing
the parts of riashals—marched from their several halls
and lodge-rooms to the general rendezvous at the Rich-
mond Bridewell. There the procession was formed and
proceeded with all the discipline of a perfect drill, through-
out the several streets laid down in the programme. What
the number assembled on the occasion was we have no
means of ascertaining ; but some idea may be formed from
this fact—that marching four abreast,and in much more ra-
pid time than th.it in use with regular soldiers, they took one
hour and seven minutes to pass this office. We are bound
in justice to say, that they were, for the most part, athle-
tic, fresh young men—perfectly respectable in their ap-
pearance, and well clad—presenting a very formidable
array as the raw materials of an efficient army, ready,
doubtless, to " be up and at us," whenever it suits the
purpose or the caprice the vanity or the hate—of Field
Marshall—Daniel O'Connell•--either to elevate himself
one step higher on " ambition's ladder," or to enact
another slaughter—for the love of God—similar to that
of St. Bartholomew." There were forty bands in the
procession, every one of which forms part of the staff of
a temperance society, Soon after twelve o'clock O'Con-
nell arrived at the rotunda, and was received with loud
cries of " Long life to your Irish Majesty." The mockery
of royal state then took place in the presentation of a
multitude of addresses.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting,
yesterday week, Mr. O'Connell said he came there to
denounce the New College Bill from end to end. He
spoke authoritatively in condemning this execrable bill.
They were all united on the point ; there was no dissen-
sion among them. He admitted the value of education.
The foulest part of the penal code was that it prevented
education ; but be saw no redeeming quality in the new

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

UNITED STATES, &.c

The steamship Hibernia arrived here on Saturday last,
having accomplished the passage from Boston in fo-urteen
days and a half, having been detained by the ice.
The tone of the American press is pacific and con3i-
liatory, and it is said that President Polk wishes Mr.
Calhoun to visit this country to treat " both on the
Oregon territory and a commercial treaty on the basis of
recipocity and equal duties."

The Albany Senate had passed the bill incorporating
a company for the purpose of establishing lines of steam-
boats between New York and Liverpool and New York
and Havre. The capital of the company is two million
dollars, and it is intended to build seven ships, of 2,000
tons burthen, to form two separate semi-monthly lines to
Liverpool and the Continent. It is expected that it will
require eighteen months to complete the ships for sea.
State securities had improved considerably. There was
a better feeling manifested for Pennsylvania funds. There
is still some question whether she will meet her interest in
full in August without the help of checks, which will be
issued to be held temporarily.
The Express, of the 15th ult., says

" Within a few

bill, except merely that it recognised the imp
education. He sought nothing for the Cat hol
would not concede to the Perorst tnts. He dia not un-
derstand mixed education. EC= 'Lion, if religious at all,
must he exclusive. A more at ocio is bill was never at-
temptel 1 would not bid at a 1 for it. A fouler at-
tempt at ',II:Ai:7 profligacy was never made. It was a bill
to bribe and corrupt. It was replete with horrors and
abominations. He pronounced his empliutical denuncia-
tion of it. It was altogether a graft from the French
system of Louis Philippe. He read the resolutions agreed
to by the Roman Catholic bishops at their synod held in
Dublin the previous week. He thanked the Catholic
bishops for the explicit manner in which they had con-
demned this abominable bill. Education, he insisted,
must be religious ; any other might corrupt, but could
not enlighten. He would go to London, if necessary, to
oppose the bill. He objected to every part of it except
the money part. As to Trinity College, he repeated his
opinion that the Protestants ought to have it to them-
selves. He wished the Catholics to have one also for
themselves. Under present circumstances, Trinity Col-
lege proved a sort of snare to many Catholics, who were
tempted to recant by the good things it had to offer. As
to Lord J. Russell, his political hardihood—not to say
impudence—was unmatched. He was himself the first
repealer; for it was his unjust partial Reform Bills which
had first greatly excited the repeal agitation. No living
statesman had done such injustice to Ireland as Lord
John Russell. They were all agreed about the bill. The
government refused to alter the bill ; this he knew ; but
they would all unite and rally—all Ireland together—to
defeat the atrocious measure.