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remaining clauses were agreed to without any materia

.discassion

The remainder of the questicns (Ireland) bill passed througi
Committee.

On the motion for going into committee on the factory bill,
Lord W. Manners announced that on bringing up the report,
be should move to substitute half-pastfive for six o'clock as the
'hour for closing work.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
The Duke of ARGYLL moved a series of resolutions with re-
--spect to the injustice with which Mr. H. Ryland, late a clerk
10 the Executive Council of Canada, had been treated, decla-
ring that his claims for compensation had been acknowledged
by successive Governors, and insisting that he was entitled to
compensathtt at the hands of the British legislature.
Earl GREY said that the question was purely a colonial one,
and moved the previous question as au amendment.
The Duke of ARGYLL having assented to withdraw two of
Op resolutions, at the suggestion of Lord Stanley and Lord
23roughaut.

Their lordships divided, and the remaining resolutions were
carried by a majority of 22 to 19—being a majority of 3 against
the government.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
On the motion for considering the Manchester rectory divi-
tion bill, as amended,

Mr. GOULBURN moved, as an amendment, that the salaries
'if the canons of Manchester should be .4750 per annum, in-
;stead of 4600, as proposed by the bill.
Mr. M. Ginsox said the subject had been carefully consi-
-tiered by the committee, who had decided upon the sum of
600. He should, therefore, oppose the amendment, the
effect of which would be to reduce the surplus from which it
Was intended to increase the salaries of the minor clergy.
The house divided, and the amendment of Mr. Goulburn
was negatived by a majority of 163 to 90.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that, on Tuesday next, he
would move that the house at its rising do adjourn until
Thursday, in order to admit of the celebration of her Majesty's
birthday on the Wednesday; and the noble lord also gave
.notice that, on Friday next, he should move that the house at
its rising should adjourn for the Whitsuntide holidays until
the Thursday following.
In reply to a question from Mr. FAGAN,
The CH ANCEI 1.0 R. of the EXCHEQUER said that he proposed
by the new savings banks bill to make government respon-
snide for all monies paid by depositors to the treasurer or Ws
clerk.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated the course he
meant to pursue with respect to the Stamp Duties Bill, stating
big reasons for originally submitting his scheme, and the de-
cision of the house, which rendered it necessary that he
should device a new one. He therefore proposed that the pre-
sent hill should be altogether discharged and a new one intro-
duced, establishing ao ad valorem duty of 1 per cent. on all
conveyances and transfers of property. He also should pro-
ose that mortgages and bond. should he subjected to a uni-
form duty of per cent up to .t 'so He proposed to leave
leases as they now stood, with the exception of leases with
Aries in Ireland, which should pay per cent. He should also
propose a stamp duty of ss. per cent. on settlements, or on
monies raised on lano, and a stamp duty 2s. 6d. on memorials,
instead of 10s. as at presere. He should likewise propose that
"followers," or what he might call progressive duties, should
be reduced to one uniform duty of -el as at present. He
would also give a power by which, in cases of doubt as to the
right stamp, the proper one might be affixed on payment of a
duty of 10s. These were the chief points of the new bill,
which he would move for leave to bring in on Monday next.
On the motion of the right honourable gentleman, the order
of the day for the committal of the stamp Duties Bill was then
discharged, and he gave notice for a committee of the whole
house upon the subject for Monday.
The third reading of the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland)
Bill was carried by a majority of 254 to 186

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

"RATING OF RAILWAYS.—DEPUTATION TO MR. LA-
I:WC/IEILE AND SIR G. GREY.—On Friday a numerous
and highly influential deputation waited upon Mr. La-
bouchere and Sir George Grey, at the Board of Trade, for
the purpose of laying before them the grievances under
which the railway companies labour with respect to local
and general taxation. The deputation was so numerous
that it was found necessary to receive it in the Privy
Council Chamber, where it was met by Mr. Labouchere.
and (on behalf of Sir George Grey, who was unable to
attend) Mr. G. C. Lewis, Mr. Baines, (chief poor-law
commissioner,) and Sir E. Ryan. Deputations of share.
]holders were in attendance from various towns. Those
from Liverpool were Mr. Bramley-Moore, Mr. James
Aikin, Mr. William Nicol, and Mr. J. Ewart. The di.
rectors present belonging to the London and North
Western were Mr. Lawrence, deputy-chairman ; the
Hon. Captain Carnegie, Mr. Cropper, Mr. Benson, Mr.
Boothby, Mr. Tootal, Mr. Booth, Mr. Stewart, Mr.
Watkin, and Mr. Swift. Mr. Labouchere expressed his
sense of the importance of the deputation, and regretted
that Sir George Grey was unable to be personally present
to meet it. Sir G. Grey had, however, desired him to
assure the deputation that his absence did not arise from
any indifference to the important interests which it repre-
sented, but in consequence of inevitable engagements
elsewhere. Mr. C. Russell (the chairman of the Great
Western Railway Company) then stated that the object
of the deputation was again to call the attention of go.
vernment to the grievances under which railway comps_
.Hies laboured as regarded the local taxation levied upon
them, and he entered fully into the details of the case.
Mr. Labouchere said, that if the railway companies could
make out a strong case of injustice, as they stated it was
in their power to do, it would be the duty of government
to inquire into the matter of complaint. He then ex.pressed his adherence to the principle of rating, but said
Ise should not be unwilling to consider and support any
further improvements in the machinery of the law which
might be found to be advantageous, though he had no
idea at present of any measure with that object. Mr.
Russell replied, that if government were not prepared to
initiate a measure of relief, surely they could not object,
with any show of reason, to allow the shareholders of rail-
ways to make out their case before parliament by the in-
troduction of a measure of their own ; and the deputation
wished to he informed whether a nromise to that effect
could be obtained. Lord Kinnairdhaving spoken strongly
of the anomalous position of the law of rating in Scotland,
Mr. Labouchere, in reply to Mr. Russell, stated that he
would consult oth(r members of the government, and at
the'earliest possible pentad give a distinct answer to the
question put to him by that gentleman. The deputation
Van withdrew.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
The first of Collins' line, the stupendous ocean steamer,
the Atlantic, Captain West. was telegraphed off Holyhead
at eleven o'clock on Friday morning, but owing to the
state of the tide, she was unable to enter the river until
eight o'clock in the evening. She has thus made the
passage in thirteen days, and would have accomplished
the voyage in twelve days but for two unexpected acci-
dents. At Sandy Hook her paddles were injured by
coming in contact with somes piles of wood ; and on the
sixth day out, the condensing valve broke, and she lay to
until her engine had been converted into a high- pressure

engine. In doing this, it was necessary to erect another
chimney. Taking these circumstances into ( onsideration,
the Atlantic may be considered to have realised all reason-
able expectations. She brings seven days' later news,
have sailed on the 27th ultimo, and 125 passenger.
. 2 2

The intelligence is not important. The Senate had
'jeered Colonel Benton's amendment, and determined
to refer the subject of admitting California, and forming
a territorial government for New Mexico, to a select
committee of thirteen

. no- steam-ship Ohio had arrived at New York, from
Aarges, with gold dust to the value of 120.000 dollars.
She does not bring any later news from California.
The British steam-ship New Granada, from the South
Pacific coast, had arrived at Panama with 65,000 dollars

old dust

We have Jamaica advices to the 19th ultimo. The
weather was not favourable for planting operestions, being
very dry. The Royal Mail steam-ship Medway arrived
at Mobile on the 19th ultimo, from Vera Cruz, with
500,000 dollars in gold dust.

had taken place in the city of Mexico, by which
y to the amount of half a million of dollars had

The Neth York Herald, referring to the Nicaragua
treaty, intimates that it lays the foundation of a complete

evolution in the commerce of the world, and also sows
he seeds of a naval struggle between the United States
nd England which will surpass anything of the kind
rhich has ever taken place in the history of the human
ace. It refrains, however, from publishing particulars

DREADFUL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.—ONE HUNDRED
PERSONS LOST. —Cincinnati, April 23.—The Ohio river
has again been the scene of a most. dreadful and heart-

rending catastrophe. This morning the steamboat Belle
of the West, while on her way down the Ohio,- one mile
below Warsaw, Ky., caught fire, and was almost wholly
consumed, together with every thing on board. All ef-
-4,, check the flames proved unavailing. She had on

board, when sh

t Cincinnati, a great number of erni

•
ire supposed to have been eitt
death. So sudden and over

the flames, that es,

e seemed utterly impossible

preserved t

juropith _..rd, and swimming ashore. The Belle et
the West was bound to St. Louis, and was insured at
Cincinnati for 8000 dollars. The total number of passen-
gers on board was about 400, among whom • were two
California companies, and thirty families, who were re-
moving to the west.

g overbi

M. Guy Lussac, the great naturalist, of Paris, died on
Friday.

and incendiarism are on the increase in the

uth at F
The Arc

bishop of Turin has been arreste

the citadel, for contumacy towards the civil power.
Se.veral gentlemen at New Orleans have presented 750
liars to Fat her Matthew.

The popularity of the Pope is fast waning, and Rome
's falling back into that lifeless apathy which prevailed for
'now hs before his arrival. He' is- constantly in public,
)ut is scarcely noticed.

SWITZERLAND.—The democratic government of the
Canton de Vaud has confiscated and sold the property of
the Roman Catholic endowments within the Canton, to
thc amount of 180.000 francs.

Prince Adalherr of Prussia has contracted a morganatic
or " left-banded" marriage with 111dlle. Therese Elssler,
the sister of the celebrated danseuse, with the consent of
the king and his family.
The navigation of the St. Lawrence has opened, and
vessels have arrived at Quebec at the unusually early
period of the 18th April, that date being the earliest
during the period of upwards of twenty years.
A German paper, the Abendpost, reports that at Lei
sic, on Thursday week,
..x per-

, .n Englishn. a successfu
ent in the art of flying with a machine of his am:

'rom the St. Thomas'
A RED (HOT) REPI

rice traverFed is stated to have been
s tower to the tower of the Schlosq.
The criminal Ayme, who
stress, and was the

sent some poisoned cakes to his th.
cause of the death of several persons in consequence, suf-
fered execution by the guillotine last week. At his death
h shouted " Vive la Republique democratique et sociale !"
" Mort aux Rois!"

The large possessions of General Earnest Kiss, judicially
murdered at Arad, on the 6th of October, have been con-
ferred by the usurping Austrian on Jt Ilachich, and to
Haynau have been given the estates of the murdered
Count Louis Bathyany. Ahab-like Haynau, hath not
only slain hut taken possession.
The steam-boat H. S. Smith was burned on the Chatta-
hoochee River, Alabama, on the 17th of March ; and
Gen. Irwin, another passenger, and two negroes were lost.
Gen. Irwin. who was a weafthy planter, leaped overboard
with a bag containing 8,000 dollars in gold, the proceeds
of his crop, and was drowned.
Two officers of the Spanish staff have been appointed to
proceed to the spot where the battle of Baylen was fought,
and to acquire all the information and data the 3 can re-
specting the affair, " for the use," says a Madrid paper,
" of the commission which is to refute the erroneous asser-
tions of M. Thiers respecting that glorious feat of arms."
A body of native police, composed of about 35 of the
aborigines, has been raised in the colony of Port Philip,
for the purpose of replacing the European mounted con-
stables. These men are said to have made more progress
towards civilization than any of the Australian blacks have
ever before done, and are described as making a somewhat
martial appearance, and being mostly excellent horsemen.
GREECE.—We learn from Greece of the 28th ultimo,
that the mission of Baron Gros bad en irely failed. The
negociations between that plenipotentiary and the English
minister (Mr. Wyse) were consequently at an end • and
Admiral Parker immediately ordered a renewal of the
blockade, with a threat to bombard the Piraeus. The
former was carried out with rigid effect for two days, when
the government of Greece submitted unconditionally to
the demands of England. Mr. Wyse then returned to
Athens, and the country was perfectly quiet.
The correspondent of the Globe announces the arrival
of Lola Montes in Paris accompanied by her husband, of
whose recovery the writer gives the following particulars :
" She had sent two persons to London charged to discover
him, and use every possible argument to get him to join
her, and on their failure even to obtain an interview with
Mr. Heald, she placed her interests in the hands of a
shrewd and able man named L------, who had on several
occasions been her homme d'affaires. This person not
only contrived to have an interview with Mr. Heald, but
also to induce him to return to the Countess, and make
reparation for the way he had left her in Spain, without
fr ends, and, at that time without pecuniary resources.
Mr. Heald kept his word, joined the Countess at Boulogne,
and, by means of an agent at Paris, took a lease, at a
rental of 16,000 f. a-year, of a beautiful house at Beaujon,
on the Champs Elyst eq. This house he has furnished at
an outlay of at least £3,000. and he has also paid several
old debts of the Countess. They have a large establish-
ment of servants ; but Mr. Heald is, they say, a man of
order, and takes care to live within his income. As to
that of Lola Montes, it is by no means so large as had
been supposed, Her settlement from Mr. Heald scarcely
exceeds one-fifth of the amount which has been stated in
the journals, and her pension from the King of Bavaria,
which was at first £l4O per month, has been reduced by
the King one-half, in consequence of her having married
without his consent!'
DiscaAcEwus. Sersm.—Another shameful fracas has
occurred in the New York Senate. between two of the
" Senators," Messrs. Benton and Foote. The scene is
thus described in the New York Herald:—" There was a
breaking of glass, a movement among the desks, a rising
of the crowd in the galleries, a sort of crashing in the
neighbourhood of Benton's seat, as if a table had been
turned over, and, looking down, we saw the Senator from
Mississippi passing rapidly outside the aisles, and several
Senators following, to the seat of the Senator from Mis-
souri, which is in the outside circle, some fifteen or
twenty feet off from Benton's desk. As Benton ap-
proached, Foote left his desk, and proceeded from the
outside to the interior of the Chamber, with one of his
hands in a very ominous position, till getting near the
centre aisle, he whipped out a pistol, which appeared to
be of the usual size of a duelling pistol, and pointed it at
Rpnton. S.nator. interfering cut on the approach of
Benton, and he passed rapidly round to his own seat, and
was approaching Foote in that direction, when a crowd
of Senators rushed between them. Benton had thrown
back his coat, as if he was in earnest, but the crowd of
Senators were in the way.—Mr. Benton : Get out of the
way, and let the assassin fire. (Very loud and angrily.
Cries of ' Order 1 order ! order !') Let the assassin
fire. (` Where is the Serjeant-at-arms ?')—The Vice-
President : The Senate will come to order. The Ser-
jeant-at-arms must enforce the order of the Senate.
Where is the Serjeant-at-Arms ?—Mr. Butler: Order,
gentlemen, for God's sake ! Senators will take their
seats.—Mr. Benton: Let the assassin fire! Let the
scoundrel use his weapon. I have no arms. I did not
come here to assassinate. (Order, order.)—Mr. Foote
delivered his pistol to Mr. Dickinson.—The Serjeant-at-
Arms, who had been keeping order at the doors, when
some sort of order was restored in the Senate, came
forward.—Mr. Dickinson : What is the question before
the Senate? (Very coolly.)—The Vice-President: It is
nn the amendment.—Mr. Benton (in a towering passion)

No, sir : you are not going to get off that way. There
must be something done. An assassin has drawn his pis-
tol in the Senate. I believe, sir, we cannot assassinate
or commit murder in this body. A scoundrel has threat-
ened a murder in the Senate. He has exhibited his pis-
tol, like an assassin. I carry no arms, sir. I have none
about me. But, sir, it was my wish to let the assassin
fire.—Mr. Foote: I only meant to defend myself.—Mr.
Benton : He is armed, like an assassin, and has threat-
ened to assassinate a man in the Senate. (Order, order.)
I carry no arms. (Order, order.)—Vice-Piesident : The
people will take their seats. The Senate will come to
order.—Mr. Foote attempted to speak ; but Mr. Ber.ton
interposed : T hope the Senate will take cognizance of
this. The assassin has brought a pistol into the Senate,
and has used it like a scoundrel.—Mr. Foote desired a
word :He was simply armed for self-defence. I appre.
headed that the Senator from Missouri would stab me or
shoot me. I thought that he was armed. I have never
attacked any man. I have acted on the defensive all my
life. And repeating these protestations, he declared be-
fore God that he thought the Senator was armed.--This
kind of altercation was carried on for some Lime longer,
but at leegth the matter dropped."