THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. urn m JO. 597. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1846. PRICE 5d. ASTONISHING OF HOLLOWAY' EFFICACY S P I L L S . The Testimony of a Clergyman vouching to Eleven Cases of Cures by these wonderful Pills. Extract of a Letter from the ttev. Geo. Prior, Curate of Mevagh, Letter Kenny, Carrigart, Ireland, 10th January, 1846. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I send you a crude list of some eleven cases:, all cured by the use of your Pills. I cannot exactly give you a professional name to the various complaints, but this I know, some of them baffled the skill of Derry and this County. In a previous letter this gentleman states as follows:— Within a short distance of my house resides a small farmer, who for more than twenty years has been in a bad state of health ; Mrs. Prior gave him a box of the Pills, which did him so much good that 1 heard him say, for twenty years past he never ate his food or enjoyed it so much as since taking vour Pills. ( Signed) GEORGE PRIOR. *„* The above reverend and pious gentleman purchased some pounds worth of the Pills for the benefit of his poor parishioners. Bad Digestion, with extreme Weakness and Debility— an Extraordinary Cure. Mr. T. GARDINER, of No. 9, Brown Street, Grosvenor Square, had heen in a very bad state of health for a long time, suffering much from a distended Stomach, very impaired Digestion, with constant pains in his Chest, was extremely nervous, and so greatly debilitated as scarcely able to walk one hundred yards : during the long period of his declining health he had the advice of four of the most eminent physicians, besides five surgeons of the greatest celebrity in London, from whose aid he derived no benefit whatever, at last he had recourse to Holloway's Pills, which he declares effected a perfect cure in a very short time, and that he is now as strong and vigorous as ever he was in his life. This being so extraordinary a case, may lead many persons almost to doubt this statement, it might therefore be necessary to say that Mr. Gardiner is a broker and well known. Cure of a Confirmed Asthma, accompanied with great Debility. Extract of a Letter from John Thompson, Esq., Proprietor of the Armagh Guardian, Armagh, 17th April, 184( 5. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR, There is at present living in this city a Serjeant, who had been for many years in the Army at Cabul, in the East Indies, from whence he returned in September last. On his way here, from the change of weather of a tropical to a moist climate, he caught a very violent cold, which produced a con- firmed case of Asthma. In December last he commenced taking your Pills, and by the use of two lis. boxes, with two 4s. 6d. pots of your Ointment well rubbed into his breast, he is, I am happy to say, not only quite cured of the Asthma, but is also become so strong and vigorous, that he informed me yesterday he could now run round the Mall, with any person in the city, and that he never got any medicine equal to your Pills and Ointment. ( Signed) J. THOMPSON. The Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomach Complaint. Extract of a Letter from His Lordship, dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, 2lst February, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR, Various circumstances prevented the possibility of my thanking you before this time for your politeness in sending me your Pills as you did. I now take this opportu- nity of sending you an order for the amount, and, at the same time, to add that your Pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my Liver and Stomach, which all the most eminent of the Faculty at home, and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect; nay! not even the waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad. I wish to have another Box and a Pot of the Ointment, in case any of my family should ever require either. Your most obliged and obedient Servant, ( Signed) ALDBOROUGH. The mighty powers of these extraordinary Pills will do wonders in any of the following Complaints :— Ague Female irregularities Retention of urine Asthmas Fevers of all kinds Sore Throats Bilious complaints Fits Scrofula or King's Blotches on the skin Gout Evil Bowel complaints Head- aclie Stone and Gravel Colics Indigestion Secondary symptoms Constipation of the Inflammation Tic- Douloureux Bowels Jaundice Tumours Consumption Liver complaints Ulcers Debility Lumbago Venereal Affections Dropsy Piles Worms of all kinds Dysentery Rheumatism Weakness, from Erysipelas whatever cause, & c. Sold at the establishment of Professor HOLLOWAY, 224 > Strand, near Temple- bar, London, and by most all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the civilized world, at the following prices :— Is. l. Jd., 2s. 9d., 4s; lid., lis., 22s , and 33s. each Box. There is a considerable saving by taking the larger sizes, N. B. Directions for the guidance of Patients in every Disorder are affixed to each Box. Messrs. R. & L. Perry & Co. may be consulted at ID, BER NERS STREET, OXFORD STREET, LONDON, daily, 100, DUKE STREET, LIVERPOOL, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ; and at No. 10, ST. JOHN STREET, DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. " THE SILENT FRIEND," ON HUMAN FRAILTY. Price 2s. til., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom, in a Sealed Envelope, from either of the above Establishments, on receipt of as. Cd. in Postage Stamps or Post Office Order. AMEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM, in both sexes; being an Enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigour has established her empire; with observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION; Local and Constitutional WEAKNESS, NERVOUS IRRITATION, CONSUMPTION and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE REPRO- DUCTIVE POWERS; WITII MEANS OF RESTORATION ; tile dis- tructive effects of Gonorrhoea., Gleet, Strictures, and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOURED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious influence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions on the head, face, and body ; with APPROVED MODE OP CURE for both sexes ; followed by Observations on the Obligations of MARRIAGE, and healthy perpetuity ; with direc- tions* for the removal of certain Disqualifications; the whole Eointed out to suffering humanity as a " SILENT FRIEND," to e consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of BYCR!' & L. PERRY & CO., CONSULTING SURGEONS, Published by the Authors, and soft! by Strange, 21, Paternoster Row ; Hannay & Co., ( B, Oxford- street; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall- street, London ; Newton, 16 and 19, Church- street, Rawl Church- street, Liverpool; Ingram, Market- street, Manchester; D. Camp- bell, 136, Argyle- street, Glasgow ; It. Lindsay, 11, Elms row, Edinburgh ; Powell. 10, Westmoreland- street, Dublin : Deiuhton, Worcester; Pennell, Kidderminster; Bromley, Kidderminster; and by all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in town and country. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The perspicuous style in which this book is written, and the valuable hints it conveys to those who are apprehensive of enter- ing tlie marriage state, cannot fail to recommend to it a careful perusal."— Era. " This work should be read by all who value health and wish to enjoy life, for the truisms therein contained defy all doubt."— Farmers' Journal. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is exclusively directed to the cure of such complaints as arise from a disorganization of the Generative System, whether constitutional or acquired, loss of sexual power, and debility arising from syphilis : and is calculated to afford decided relief to those who by early Indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers ot their system, and fallen into a state of chronic debility, by which the constitution is left in a deplorable state, and that nervous mentality kept up which places th « individual in a state of anxiety for the remainder of life. The consequences arising from this dangerous practice are not confined to its pure physical result, but branch to moral ones; leading the excited deviating mind into a fertile field of seductive error— into a gradual and total degradation of manhood— into a pernicious application of those inherent rights which nature wisely instituted tor the preservation of her species; bringing on premature decrepitude, and all the habitudes of old age. Constitutional weakness, sexual debility, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, total impotcncy and barrenness, are effectually removed by this invaluable medicine. Sold in Bottles, price lis. each, or the quantity of four in one Family Bottle for 33s., by which one lis. bottle is saved. THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, AN ANTI- SYPHILITIC REMEDY for searching out and purifying the diseased humours of the blood ; conveying its active principles throughout the body, even penetrating the minutest vessels, removing all corruptions and contaminations, and impurities from ihe vital stream,— eradicating the morbid virus ; and radically expelling it through the skin." Price lis. or four bottles in one for 33s , by which lis. is saved, also in £ 5 cases, wliich saves ill. 12s. VENEREAL CONTAMINATION, if not at first eradicated, will often remain secretly lurking in the system for years, and, although for a while undiscovered, at length break out upon the unhappy indi- vidual in its most dreadful forms ; or else, unseen, internally endanger the very vital organs of existence. To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of SECONDARY SYMPTOMS, eruptions of the skin, blotches on the head and face, ulcerations and enlargement of the throat tonsils, and threatened destruction of the nose, palate, & c., nodes on the shin bones, or any of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects of the indiscriminate use of mercury, or the evils of an imperfect cure, the CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE will be found to be attended with the most astonishing effects in checking the ravages of the disorder, removing all scorbutic com- plaints, and effectually re- establishing the health of the constitu- tion. To persons entering upon the responsibilities of matrimony, and who ever had the misfortune during their more youthful days' to be affected with any form of these diseases, a previous course of this medicine is highly essential and of the greatest importance, as more serious affections are visited upon an innocent wife and offspring, from a want of these simple precautions, than perhaps halt the world is aware of ; for, it must oe remembered, where tlie fountain is polluted, the streams that How from it cannot be pure. May be had of all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in Town and Country, and of whom may be had the " SILENT FRIEND." Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, to be addressed to the London Establishment, w/ iere all communications and orders are requested to be forwarded. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. ' Jd., 4s. lid., and lis. per Box. The most certain and effectual cure ever discovered for every stage and symptom of the Venereal Disease, in both sexes, includ- ing Gonorrlicea, Gleets, Secondary Symptoms, and Strictures. Messrs. It, & L. Perry & Co., Surgeons, mav be consulted as usual at No. 19, Berners- street, Oxford- street,' LONDON, daily, and one of the above fun at 106, Duke street. Liverpool; every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and at 10, St. John- street, Deans- gate, Manchester, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, punc tually from Eleven in the Morning until Eight in the Evening, and on Sundays from Eleven till One. Only one personal visit is required from a country patient, to enable Messrs. PERRY and Co., to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent and effectual cure, after all otiier means have proved ineffectual. N. B. Country Druggists, Booksellers, and Patent Medicine Venders can be supplied with Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, and Cordial Balm oi' Svriacum. with the usual allowance to the Trade, by most of the" principal Wholesale Patent Medicine houses in London, Agent for Worcester A. DEIGHTON, Journal Office Kidderminster... THOS. PENNELL, Bookseller Wher « may be had the " SILENT FRIEND On and after the First of June, THE DAILY NEWS, LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPER, AT Twopence Halfpenny. npHE Newspaper is the intellectual life of the Nineteenth Century. Not to speak of the moral and political JL safeguards which it affords, it places all, whatever their varieties of fortune, on a level as to information. By its means only the small capitalist is enabled to contend successfully against his wealthy rival for a knowledge of those changes which affect prices. Without the daily Newspaper, a family might be located as well in the back settlements of Canada as within ten miles of the great centre of European Civilization. Yet it is remarkable, that more than a century since, there were EIGHTEEN papers published in London, daily or three times a week— while now there are only FIFTEEN ! Of a fact so startling, what is the cause ?— PRICE ! That the public know the advantage of having a London Daily Paper is manifest, from the thousands who pay threepence for a paper the day after publication. What, then, are the causes which maintain the high price ? First, the amount of capital required to be invested in a Newspaper speculation. Next, the various talent and experience which must combine to produce the result. The number of the requirements have, in truth, occasioned something very like a monopoly— and monopoly always commands its own price. Thus, whilst capital and competition have been doing good service in all other things, nothing has been attempted, in the direction indicated, for the political and social wants of three great nations 5 and a Daily Paper still remains a costly luxury, in which only the wealthy can indulge. The experiment is now about to be tried of establishing a London Daily Newspaper, on the highest scale of completeness, WHICH SHALL LOOK FOR SUPPORT. NOT TO COMPARATIVELY FEW READERS AT A HIGH PRICE, BUT TO iMANY AT A LOW PRICE, therefore, after the First of June, THE DAILY NEWS WILL BE PUBLISHED, IN TIME FOR THE MORNING MAILS, AT TWOPENCE HALFPENNY. The Paper will be of the same size as all other journals were within seven years; it will be larger than many of the high- priced daily journals are now; and, in every particular of interest, it will contain as much information as the most successful amongst its contemporaries. But it will be expansive; and double sheets will be given whenever an important Debate, a pres- sure of News, or Advertisements require it. The marking features of the scheme are : 1st, THE DAILY NEWS will offer to the reader, in what it is hoped will be a more systematic form, all that he can find in the- most approved of its competitors. 2ndly. To the reader who pays Fivepence for his paper, the same thing is offered at half the price. It, then, only remains for the public to justify the experiment. Let him who would support it, subscribe AT ONCE. Where even the reduced price is beyond his means, let him AT ONCE join with a neighbour in subscription. Every News Agent will, it is hoped, supply the paper at Twopence Halfpenny, WHERE PAYMENT IS MADE IN ADVANCE : the same proportionate allowance as with other [ papers— something more than twenty- four per cent— being allowed to the trade. When credit is given, it is a matter of private arrangement, with which the Proprietors have nothing to do. As, however, in an undertaking so bold and so novel it is advisable to guard against possible inconvenience, the Proprietors of THE DAILY NEWS will undertake to get all persons supplied who shall forward a Post- office order payable to JOSEPH SMITH, DAILY NEWS OFFICE, Whitefriars, London. For THREE MONTHS, I 6S. 4d. IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES. BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. Used in the Royal Palaces in London ; Windsor Castle ; Pavi- lion, Brighton ; and Osborne House, Isle of Wight. G. & G. W. FOYLE & CO: S CELEBKIOUS AND INIMITABLE POLISHING POWDERS, PASTES, AND LIQUIDS. A MONGST the numerous and useful articles for X V domestic and other purposes manufactured by FOYLE and Co., who supply the trade only, the following h ving received an extraordinary demand in London during the past six months, encourages the Proprietors and Sole Manufacturers to continue their recommendation to Families and the Public. PATENT PALE ROUGE PLATE POWDER. This Powder, introduced by FOYLE and CO. three years since, is used or caused to be used by many Butlers; it will be found to possess advantages over the Jewellers' Rouge, being half the expense, the labour considerably lessened, and the pro- cess much cleaner. If the directions be strictly adhered to, the Patent Kougc will be found as clcan to use as common whiting. Sold in two- ounce and quarter- pound boxes, fid. and Is. each. " Whitehall Gardens. " Sir II. Harding will thank Messrs. Mortimer and Sons to procure two hundred shilling boxes of Foyle and Co.' s Patent Pale Rouge Plate Powder, which they will have the goodness to enclose with the two services of Plate ordered to India. Tuesday morning, June 4th, 1844. " To Messrs. Mortimer and Sons, Silversmiths, & c., Kins' William Street." PATENT PERUVIAN WHITE PLATE P O W 1) E R. This superlative Composition is warranted to be free from every ingredient injurious to plated goods ; it has stood the test of public opinion twenty- two years, and by its own merit alone, been introduced into, and is now used in the Royal Palaces in England and on the. Continent. The Powder is of so impalpable a nature as never to scratch or injure the most delicate article to which it may be applied, and is particularly recommended to Families who object to Rouge to clean Plate— Sold in two- ounce and quarter- pound boxes, ( id. and Is. each. " Manor House, Woolford near Glasgow, Aug. 10, 1845. " Gentlemen,— My butler tells me that you sent him, when in Loudon, several boxes of Foyle and Go's White Plate Pow- der. It seems the article is a good one to highly polish without wearing away the plate, also much used in families; I shall, therefore be obliged by your forwarding for inclosure to Messrs. Wilkinson and Co., saddlers, & c., Oxford- street, three dozen shilling boxes, the charge for which you will place to my account, " Yours, & c., " W. S. ARBUTUNOT, Lieut.- Geneial. " Messrs. Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly, London." N. B. Also will be found enclosed with each box, 183 copies of letters and orders for Plate Powder received from Noblemen's Families since June, 14, 1843, by Whiteman and Sams, Grocers to her Majesty, North Street, Brighton ; Folkard and Cobbett, Oilmen to her Majesty, East Street, Brighton ; Hewitt, Gro- cer to her Majesty, Peascod Street, Windsor; Delves and Yull, Grocers to the Duchess of Kent, Tunbridge Wells; and Kohler, Grocer to her Majesty, Stafford Row, Buckingham Palace, London. PATENT FURNITURE VARNISH & FRENCH- POLISH RENOVATOR. This unparalleled and economical chemical compound was produced after numerous experiments, and the manufacturers consider it impossible to excel if equal the composition in point of usefulness ; it restores to French- polished articles which have become dull their original brilliancy, and few applications on any kind of furniture previously rubbed with oil, will give it the appearance of having been French- polished. Dining tables, & c., after being polished with the composition, will only be slightly marked by the use of hot water plates, even if filled with boiling water and allowed to remain on a considerable time. A few drops of the compound rubbed lightly over the spots instantly restores the original lustre.— Price Is. per im- perial half- pint bottle. THE DIVISION OF SATURDAY MORNING. The following table shows the votes of such of the repre- sentatives of this and the adjoining counties as were present at the division on the third reading of the Corn Bill, 011 Saturday morning:— In the Majority for the third reading of the Bill. A'Court, Captain, Tamworth. Anson, Hon. Col. G., South Staffordshire. Barkly, Henry, Leominster. Benbow, John, Dudley. Berkeley, Hon. C. F., Chel- tenham. Berkeley, Capt., Gloucester. Berkeley, Hon. F. H., Bristol. Botfield, Beriah, Ludlow. Buckley, E., Newcastle, Staf- Camegie,' Hon. S. T., Stafford. Clive, Hon. R. H. Collins, W., Warwick. Copeland, Alderman. Cripps, William, Cirencester. Douglas, SirC. E., Warwick. Dugdale, W. Stratford, N. Warwickshire. Eastnor, Viscount, Reigate. Ellice, Rt. Hon. 10., Coventry. Estcourt, T. G., Oxford Univ. Godson, R., Kidderminster. Hill, Lord A. Til., Evesham. Langston, J, H., Oxford. Martin, John, Tewkesbury. Mostyn, Hon. E., LichUeld. Muntz, G. F., Birmingham. Paget, Lord A. II., Lichfield. Peel, Sir R., Bart., Tamworth. Phillpotts, John, Gloucester. Pulsford, Robert, Hereford. Ricardo, J. L., Walsall. Russell, J. D. W., N. Stuff. Scott, Robert, Walsall. Scrope, George P., Stroud. Somerset, Lord G., Mon- mouthshire. Stanton, William 11. Stroud. Tancred, H. W., Banbury. Thorueley, T., Wolverhampt. Tomline, G., Shrewsbury. Villiers, Visct., Cirencester. Villiers, Hon. C. P., Wolver- hampton. Wilde, Sir T., Worcester. Williams, W., Coventry. Winnington, Sir T. E. Bart., Bewdley. In the Minority, for the Mar- quis of Granby\ s amendment. Ackers, J., Ludlow. Adderley, C., N. Staffordsh. Arkwright, G., Leominster. Bailey, Joseph, Worcester. Bailey, J. jun., Herefordshire. Baskerville, T., Ilerefordsh. Borthwick, Peter, Evesham. Brooke, Lord, S. Warwicksh. Churchill, Lord, Woodstock. Clive. Visct., N. Shropshire. Codrington, Sir W., E. Glou- cestershire. Colquhoun, J. C., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Disraeli, Benj., Shrewsbury. Dowdeswell, W., Tewkesbury. Forester, Hon. G. C. W., Wenlock. Gaskell, James M., Wenlock. Gore, W. O., N. Shropshire. Hale, 11., W. Gloucestershire. Harcourt, G. G., Oxfordshire. Henley, J. W., Oxfordshire. Ingestre, Visct., S. Staffordsh. Ingiis, Sir R. Bart., Oxford. Knight, F., W. Worcestersh. Lygon, Hon. II. B., W. Wor- cestershire. Miles, P. W. S., Bristol. Morgan, O., Monmouthshire. Newport, Visct., S. Shropsh. Norreys, Lord, Oxfordshire. Pakington, J. S., Droitwich. Pigot, Sir R., Bridgnorth. Shirley, E., S. Warwickshire. Spooner, It., Birmingham. Taylor, J. A., E. Worceslersh. Worcester, Marquis of, E. Gloucestershire. Newdegate, C. N., N. War- wickshire. PATENT MAGIC POLISHING PASTE. This inestimable abstergent preparation is free from oil acids and every thing that corrodes or injures; it gives with the greatest facility a splendid polish to all kinds of brass, copper, nickel, and German silver, Britannia metal, pewter, tin, & c., and is strongly recommended to sportsmen for sponging out their guns, the barrels and nipples of which it protects from rust. The Magic Paste is patronised by the British army, to whom the annual average supply is two hundred and thirty- three thousand seven hundred and forty- eight quarter- pound boxes Sold in quarter- pound boxes, 3d., half- pound ditto, ( id., and one pound ditto, Is. each. PATENT MAGIC POLISHING LIQUID AND KITCHEN REQUISITE. This incomparable composition cannot fail to be appreciated by every family and all who give it a trial, as it supersedes the use of vitriol, oxalic- acid, and other deleterious compounds so generally employed to polish metals, & c. In the kitchen, and to the female domestic in particular, this compound will be invaluable ; it is perfectly uninjurious, and capable of instan- taneously cleaning without labour, brass, copper, and tin ware, bringing up a beautiful and permanent polish impossible to be obtained by the ordinary mixtures of vitriol, oil and rotten- stone, vinegar, & c. The trade will find the Magic Liquid one of the best inventions of the day for expeditiously and highly polishing guards to shop fronts, and all brass works exposed to the weather. The compound is easily applied, requiring only to be rubbed on with apiece of flannel, and afterwards finished with chamois leather. Sold in imperial quarter and half- pint bottles, price 6a. and Is. each. CAUTION— Every article manufactured by FOYLE and Co., has their name and full address on the label; their Plate Powder is under cover, and sealed; also their polishing liquids on the corks, which bear the names of G. and G. W. FOYLE and Co., 11, Cowper- street, City- road, London. Agents for Southampton.— Messrs. Randall & Son, Chemists to her Majesty, 146, High Street; Knight and Thompson, Brushmakers, 155, High Street; and Chaplen, Grocer, & c. 46, Above Bar. Extract from the Morning Post, May 20, 1843—" We re- commend every family, and more especially those resident in the country, to possess a store of the various popular polishing compounds manufactured by Foyle and Co. They will be found articles of real utility to every domestic, and their object cleanliness, and the saving of time, labour, and expense." Sold wholesale, and to the Trade only, by the Manufacturers ; also by Barclay and Sons, 95 Farringdon- street, Edwards, 67 St. Paul's Church yard, Taylor and Son, 11, Redcross- street, Borough, Gosnell and Co., 1( 50, Regent- street, Newbery and Son, 45, St. Paul's Church- yard, Batty and Co., 15 and 16, Pavement, Finsbury- square Sutton and Co., 10, Bow Church- yard, Hearon and Co., 95, Bishopsgate- street- within, Crosse and Blackwell, 21, Soho- square, Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford- street, Cabburn, 1, Iving's- cross, Gray's- inn- road, Snelling, 30, Fenchurch- street, Wingraveand Co., 80, St. Paul's Church- yard, Sanger, 150, Oxford- street, Lazenby and Son., 6, Edward- srreet, Portinan- sqiKire, Drews, Heyward. and Co., 2, Bush- lane, Cannon- street, London; J. and R. Raimes and Co., Edinburgh; Duncan, Flockbart, and Co., Edinburgh ; West, Cousens and Sons, Watkins, Webb, and Co., Dublin; Mitchell, Palmer, and Co., Guilleaume, Tailbouis and Co., Paris. Sold retail in Loudon and the suburbs by 2436 Agents; and by the principal Chemists, Grocers, Oilmen, and Brush- tnflkers, in most towns in Europe. The changes since the first division have been— Rich v. Colborne, deceased, Milton, Viscount, v. Childers, vacated, Lincoln, Earl of, v. Baird, vacated, Romilly v. Cochrane, unseated, all of whom voted for free trade. The 30 gentlemen who have not ventured to record their opinions, and of whom 16 are Irish members, are— Ashley, Hon. II. Dorchester. Barneby, J East Worcestershire. Barnard, Viscount Bandon Bridge. Berkeley, lion. G West Gloucestershire. Blake, Sir V Galway. Bodkin, J. J. ... Galway County. Callaghan, D Cork. French, F Roscommon. Grattan, H Meath. Hamilton, C. J. B Aylesbury. Hampden, Renn Marlow. Hardy John Bradford. Hepburn, Sir T Haddingtonshire. Hussey, A Salisbury. Kerr, D. S Downpatrick. Lindsay, II. II Sandwich. Listowell, Earl of St. Albans, Maher, N Tipperaiy. Nicholl, Dr Cardiff. O'Brien, Cornelius Clare. O'Brien, William Smith ... Limerick county. Roche, E., B Cork county. Sheil, Right Hon. Lalor ... Dungarvon. Standish, C Wigan. Stuart, W. V Waterford county. Talbot, C. R. M Glamorganshire. Tuite, H. M Westmeath. Wemyss, Captain Fifeshire. Westenra, Hon. J. C. ... Kings's county. White, II Longford county. Those in italics are Conservatives. Mr. Barneby is abroad. The following have contented themselves with voting in the minority on the first division:— Acton, Colonel. Hoskins, K. " I Attwood, Matthias. Howard, Hon. II. v Liberals. Brooke, Sir. A. Martin, T. B. J Bruce, C. L. A. Price, R. Bunbury, T. Pusey, P. Ffolliott, J. Vesey, Hon. T. Hayes, Sir E. Welby, G. E. Martin, G. Wyndham, Colonel C. The following appear to have deserted from the Protectionist camp, as their names, though appearing in the minority 011 the divisions of the 27th of February and 27th of March, are not to be found in the third division list of the 15th of May :— A eland, Sir T. D. Dupre, C. G. Baring, T. Hodgson, B. Bateson, T. Leslie, C. P. Bruges, W. L. Maclean, D. Castlereagh, Viscount. Sheridan, II. B. ( Liberal.) Colvile, C. Wynn, Sir W. W. Coote, Sir C. Empmai l^ arUamcnt. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MAY 15. A great number of petitions was presented against the Charitable Trusts Bill. Lord Beaumont presented numerous petitions, praying that protection might not be withdrawn from agriculture. RELIGIOUS OPINIONS RELIEF BILL The Bishop of Exeter moved that their Lordships should resolve themselves into a committee on the Religious Opinions Relief Bill that day three months. He did so because he would not, after his oath of supremacy to his Sovereign, become a party to a measure for giving supremacy to the Pope. The statute of Queen Eliza- beth positively interdicted foreign jurisdiction. Every subject of this realm was bound, when required so to do, to take the oath of supremacy. That oath asserted, in the most positive manner, that no foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or poten- tate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, or pre- eminence, in this realm. Was he to be told this condition was to be remitted by an Act of Parliament, and yet that the law furnishing a violation of this principle remained in statu quo. If we abandoned the oath of supremacy, we abandoned the constitution. He wished for nothing that was inconsistent with the free exercise of the Roman Catholic religion; but he did expect that the same restrictions which were imposed upon the Pope in other countries would still be imposed on him in this. The Irish Catholic Directory and Almanack claimed for the Pope the exercise of power in this country, and there could be 110 doubt that he had repeatedly attempted to exercise such power. His Lordship then referred to the allocution of which he had formerly spoken, and which declared certain acts of the Spanish Government to be null and void. His Lordship alluded also to a striking instance of interference on the part of the Pope, and called upon their Lordships not by the proposed bill to invite from him a repetition of thesame sort of interference, Their Lordships ought not to consent to surrender securities without being fully satisfied that an equivalent would be given for them, and without being informed of the precise nature of the proposed equivalent. The Lord Chancellor said that the Right Reverend Prelate had been misinformed if he supposed that every one was bound to take the oath of supremacy, without qualification, when ten- dered to him. An Act for the Relief of Roman Catholics was passed in 17111, in which there was a distinct clause relieving persons of that persuasion from the necessity of taking the oath as formerly prescribed. After the many laws which had been passed lor the relief of the Roman Catholics, no person of that religion ought to be debarred from moderately and temperately asserting the supremacy of the Pope. His Right Reverend Friend ought to have given notice of his motion, in order that the law Lords might have been in their place to reply to the new points he had urged against the Bill. Their Lordships had acceded to the second reading of a bill repealing thirty Acts, and ought not at the eleventh hour to rctrace their steps. Some of these Acts were to the last degree oppressive. Any Roman Catholic who maintained the ecclesiastical or spiritual authority of the Pope in Ireland was liable, for the first offence, to the forfeiture of his goods; for the second, to a praemunire ; and for a third, to be tried for high treason. The Bishop of St. David's entirely approved of the mea- sure. The Acts which it proposed to repeal were unjust and iniquitous, and involved gross violations of the liberty of the subject. There might be a justification for prohibiting the importation of Papal bulls, but nothing could justify the continuance of such Acts in the statute book. He did not think that there was any force or efficacy in a Papal bull, and was therefore not prepared to consider it as dangerous as it had been represented, lie would not be alarmed should a Papal bull be smuggled into this country and affixed to the gates of the City of London and Buckingham Palace. His Lordship in conclusion stated that he was prepared to carry the principle of the Bill even further than the Learned Lord by whom it had been brought forward. The Bishop of Oxford was prepared to vote for going into committee, but although he approved of some parts of the mea- sure, there were others which completely staggered him. The Bill would allow and recognise the power of the Bishop of Rome within this realm. If it were passed, their Lordships would be called upon to give up the national declarations which their ancestors had made ; and the right of the Pope to exer- cise spiritual power in this country would be recognized, with- out any corresponding safeguard. Lord Brougham said that the supremacy of the Pope might now be debated, if it were done respectfully towards the supre- macy of the Queen and constitution of the country. The words " spiritual and ecclesiastical" remained in the oath to be taken by persons who were not Roman Catholics ; whereas the oath prescribed for Roman Catholics did not include these words. He did not agree with the Right Reverend Prelates that the national and Legislative protest against the supremacy of the Pope would be withdrawn by the bill. The declaration of King, Lords, and Commons, against that supremacy would still continue in force ; a declaration confirmed by the common law. There were 7,000,000 of persons in the United Kingdom who owned the supremacy of the Pope in spiritual matters, and over them he exercised an influence. For this reason he thought the words which had been referred to might be struck out of the Protestant as well as Catholic oath with good effect. He did not attach much importance to Papal bulls, but with respect to oaths he had an amendment to offer to the effect that no bull should be allowed to be promulgated in this country under a penalty of 50/., unless it had received the imprimatur of the civil authorities. Lord Stanley gave the measure, both as to its principle and details, his cordial approval. He did not consider that the pro- posed bill would alter the position of her Majesty's Protestant subjects in the slightest degree. It did not legalise the juris- diction of the see of Rome in this country, but simply remitted special penalties for communications, otherwise innocent, because they came from Rome. The law, as it now stood, repudiated the power of excommunication on the part of a priest, and gave the subject a remedy against the party attempt- ing to exercise this tyrannical influence over him. The law denied that the Pope had any supremacy in this country, and was in no respect affected by the proposed bill. After a few words, by way of explanation, from Lord Brougham and the Lord Chancellor, the committee was agreed to. The Lord Chancellor proposed that their Lordships should first proceed with the clauses to which no opposition was likely to be made. This suggestion having been adopted, the House went into committee, and the unopposed clauses were verbally amended and agreed to ; after which their Lordships adjourned. MONDAY, MAY 18. Numerous petitions were presented against the Charitable Trusts Bill. CORN LAWS.— A message from the House of Commons brought up the bill for amending the laws relating to the im- portation of corn. The Duke of Wellington moved the first reading of this bill. The Duke of Richmond My Lords, it is not my intention to go into the whole question of the dangers which are likely to be produced from the proposed repeal of the Corn Laws; yet still I cannot permit this bill even to be read a first time in this House without entering my protest against it, and without making some few observations to your Lordships. My Lords, I conceive that Sir It. Peel was not authorised in proposing to the present House of Commons these great and extensive changes. I think that he was not justified in abandoning those principles of agricultural and British industry which he for so many years ably and eloquently advocated, and for the main- tenance of which a large majority of the representatives of the people in the year 1841, at a general election, were sent to the House of Commons. My Lords, 1 believe that it is quite impossible that this measure can be laid upon the table of this House without violated promises and broken pledges. My Lords, I for one am sorry to see, in the present day, the great distinction which some even make between public and private honour. There is one whose private life bears, and bears truly, the highest character, and whose word at Tamworth, I am sure, would be as good as his bond; but he does not hesitate, as Prime Minister of this country, to tell the House of Com- mons to withdraw from an agreement which was unwillingly acquicsced in in the year 1842, by the agricultural interest. He has not only done that, but he lias abandoned and thrown overboard all his former principles. He repudiates his pre- vious speeches, and he denies the truth and soundness of the arguments which through a long life he has supported. Sir Robert Peel, mv Lords, yielded to the clamour of his opponents. He joins with his enemies— he abandons his party— he leaves his friends— those friends who had placed too great reliance in his statements as Prime Minister. Putting aside all those evil dangers, which, I think, these rash changes will bring about— put them all on one side for the present, and I ask your Lord- ships whether, if such conduct is pursued by statesmen, and the leaders of parties, they can hope to retain that confidence which ought to exist in public men. Such conduct is destruc- tive of that confidence which is absolutely necessary for the weal of this country in trying times— and, my Lords, we know not how soon those trying times may come. ( Cheers.) And if there be no confidence on the part of the public in those public men, how, I should like to ask, can you secure a good Government, and prevent anarchy and confusion from being rife throughout all quarters of the land. My Lords, I dislike much to speak harshly of any man, and I will not impute un- worthy motives to any one; but, at the same time, I deeply regret the events which have occurred since November. My Lords, I think that Sir Robert Peel, in November, had but one honest, straightforward course to pursue. Instead of throwing up the office which he held under the Sove- reign—.( cheers) — the straightforward, honourable course he should have pursued was to have recommended his Sovereign to have dissolved the Parliament—( hear, hear) — and to have then gone and appealed to the people. Are the people to have no voice in these great changes ? He ought to have gone to the people on the hustings — on every hustings in every city, in every borough, and in every county of the empire; and to have asked them whether they, too, had changed their sentiments, from becoming panic- struck by the idea of some disease in the potatoes, and some supposed collection of money by the Anti- Corn Law League, lie should have gone to the country, and he should have asked them to have released him from his engagements, and to have relieved his servile followers from other engagements and from the promises which they gave to them on the accession of Sir Robert Peel to power. ( Hear.) My Lords, I think that we have a strong Parliamentary claim, if we like to make use of it, to ask your Lordships to delay the consideration of this Bill. ( Hear, hear.) Your Lord- ships cannot but remember that the Prime Minister, in explain- ing his new measures at the commencement of the Session, stated that this measure would be part of a great and compre- hensive plan. My Lords, if that be correct, we should be justified in asking that the whole of the measures which are included in that comprehensive plan should be on the table of the House before we should be called upon to give an opinion on any one of them. ( Hear, hear.) But, my Noble Friends, the Protectionist party in this House are willing to waive that objection, and we are not prepared to say that we will ask for more, we are not prepared to consider the motion which it is understood the Government intend to make this evening, that the consideration of the second reading of this Bill should be taken on this day se'nnight. My Lords, on behalf of my Noble Friends, on behalf of the industrious classes of this great country, we are willing to concede that; we are willing on their part to waive that objection which we might have taken ; we only ask, confiding in the greatness of our cause, a fair field and no favour. ( Cheers.) Then, we believe that with that fair field and no favour, we shall be able to convince your Lordships of the soundness of those arguments which have been so well and ably stated against this measure in another place, and which, in my opinion, have met with nothing worthy the name of contradic- tion, and shall also be able to induce your Lordships to do that which it is one of the most paramount duties of this House to do— namely, to prevent rash legislation taking place in conse- quence of clamour made by interested individuals out of doors, who, knowing the Prime Minister better than we did, well knew how to work upon his fears, though they never could persuade him his judgment was wrong till he had lost his head, ( a laugh,) by an ailment which, I am happy to say, is not a common one among the people of this country— cowardly political fear. ( Laughter.) Lord Brougham entirely agreed in the course proposed to be taken by the Noble Duke, but he disagreed with every other sentiment lie had uttered. He believed that his Noble Friend the Noble Duke on the cross benches was one of a Cabinet which did not appeal t » the country upon the Reform Bill, until the then existing Parliament had decided against it. The Marquis of Londonderry hoped that all personal impu- tations would be abjured on such an important question. The Noble Duke had frequently changed his position in that House. The Earl of Ripon was very happy to hear that personalities were to be kept apart from the discussion of the measure, partly on his own account ( loud cheers), and partly on the part of his Right Hon. Friend, who was more immediately responsible for the measure. He did not recognise any distinction between public and private honour. He felt himself responsible for the measure along with his noble colleagues ; and he, for one, would not defend it in public— if privately he could not do so with honour. He said they might threaten as they pleased, those threats had 110 terror for him, because he felt that the cause lie had to advocate was thrice armed injustice. On the motion of the Duke of Wellington, the bill was then read a first time, the Duke of Richmond alone saying non- content. It was ordered to be printed and read a second time on Monday next. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL Several petitions were pre- sented against the Charitable Trusts Bill; one by Lord Brougham, from a society of Odd Fellows called Ancient Foresters. He could not support their petition, and would only say that the petitioners deserved their name if they were opposed to a bill which was to prevent the mismanagement of their own funds. Lord Campbell said he had in his hand the return of the petitions for and against the Charitable Trusts Bill. There weie 258 petitions against the measure, for it 5 ; the number of petitioners against the bill 7U9i the number of petitioners for, 3 ( laughter). The Lord Chancellor moved the second reading of the bill. His Lordship entered at length into the details of the measure, and the advantages which would accrue to Charitable Trusts from its adoption, Stock was, he said, given to trustees for the benefit of a charity, but no more than four names were allowed, under the existing law, to be registered as owners of that stock. The trustees died and the property was all lost. Such cases were of frequent occurrence, and would be remedied by the proposed bill. There ought to be an independent tribunal, acting summarily in the administration of the trusts. When the bill was originally introduced to their Lordships the appointments were proposed to be vested in the Home Secre- tary. It was, however, suggested that they had better be left to the Lord Chancellor. He had thought it right to strike out the provision which directed that two of the offices should be filled by Masters in Chancery, as he could not compel Masters in Chancery to accept such offices. But he proposed that the Commissioners should be selected from that body, or from barristers of long standing. ' His Lordship then entered into a voluminous explanation of the provisions of the bill, after which he called upon their Lordships to permit it to be read a second time. Lord Cottenham said that the bill had been two years before the House. It had been before them in its present form since February, but the Noble Lord had not stated his inten- tions in regard to it. It was proposed to exclude from the operation of the bill all charities supported or assisted by voluntary contributions. He objected to the great increase of patronage it would create. Since 1841 the patronage of the Court of Chancery had been enormously augmented. His Lordship then referred to the vast increase which had taken place in the burthens of suitors by the concession of enormous retiring salaries to its officials. It had been stated that the number of charities which would be amenable to this bill was 40,000, and their income 1,500,000/. The land subject to these charities was 500,000 acres in extent. The schools claimed from them an income of 312,000/. for the education of 264,000 boys. Many of these charities would be impracticable in their operation under the new bill, whilst it appeared to him to be a gross infringement of the rights of property. The number of petitions which had been presented against it might also be looked upon as evidence of the feelings with which it was regarded out of doors. Of some of the objects proposed, he approved; and he then proceeded to offer several suggestions for its further improvement. He recommended that all ap- plications, in case of charitable trusts, to the courts of equity should be exempt from fees. Meanwhile he would move, that the bill be read that day six months. Lord Brougham, in a speech of considerable length, sup- ported the bill. Lord Eldon and Campbell opposed its second reading, and After a few words from the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Abinger, and Lord Wrottesley, their Lordships divided, when there appeared Contents 40 Non contents 41 Majority against the bill — 1 Their Lordships then adjourned. TUESDAY, MAY 19. IiOrd Warwick presented one hundred petitions from the southern division of Warwickshire against any alteration in the Corn Laws. These petitions had been most numerously ' signed, and were most carefully got up. There was not a single name attached to one of them that was fictitious. The petitioners prayed that if the duty was taken off' corn, it might also be taken off everything else. ( Hear, hear.) CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.— Messengers from the Com- mons brought up this bill. The Duke of Buccleuch moved the first readinng of the bill. The Duke of Richmond opposed the introduction of the measure, as adding insult to injury. Their Lordships were now invited to consider two bills withdrawing protection from the agricultural interest, when the remedial bill had not been read a second time in the other House of Parliament. The Government had promised free trade, but excepting against the agriculturists there was not a line 011 the subject in the bill before them. If they allowed corn to come from the United States into this country free of duty, to the prejudice of the Canadas, they should allow Canada to purchase cotton at the cheapest market. Even Mr. Greg, one of the leaders of the Anti- Corn- Law League, had admitted that before long American coarse cottons would effectually compete with our own cottons, even in Manchester. After a desultory discussion, in which the majority of those who spoke deprecated any premature discussion of the subject, the bill was read a first time; and on the suggestion of Lord Stanley, ordered to be read a second time 011 Thursday, the 28th instant. In answer to a question from Earl Grey, Lord Lyttelton stated that the Government proposed to found a colony in North Australia, to be settled partly by emancipated convicts. Some other bills were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MAY 15. The Stour Valley Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. Petitions in favour of and against certain Railway Bills were presented. Amongst them was one from the Right Hon. C. Shaw Lefevre, ( the Speaker,) the announcement of which caused considerable laughter. Several petitions were presented against the union of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. IMPRISONMENT OF MEMBERS— Mr. P. Butler gave notice that on Thursday next he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the right and authority of the House to enforce the attendance of Members 011 Committees, and how far the House was justified in inflicting the punish- ment of imprisonment in cases of Members refusing to attend Committees. LORD HAROINGE AND LORD GOUGH.— On the motion of Mr. Hogg, leave was given to bring in a Bill empowering the East India Company to grant an annuity of £ 5000 per year to Lord Hardinge, and £ 2000 per year to Lord Gough, during the term of their natural lives. The Bill was afterwards brought in and read a first time. CORN IMPORTATION BILL.— On the order of the day having been read for resuming the debate on the Corn Importa- tion Bill, Mr. Colquhoun rose and addressed the House at some length in opposition to the third reading of the Bill. He believed if the measure was carried it would hold out false hopes to many, and in the end be destructive to the agricultural interests of the country. Mr. C. " Wood maintained precisely the contrary doctrine, and contended that the passing of the Bill would be the greatest boon ever conferred 011 the community. Mr. Hudson insisted that the Bill would actually crush the British agriculturist, by the admission, at the lowest estimate, of two millions of quarters of corn annually. The Marquis of Worcester took the same view of the case, and opposed the third reading of the Bill. Mr. Lawson opposed the Bill, intimating that if agitation out of doors were to be the principle by which the legislation of the country was to be governed, he should not be surprised ere long to hear the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government proposing the repeal of the Union. Mr. V. Smith supported the Bill, though lie was astonished the Right Hon. Baronet had overlooked the advantage to the revenue of a low fixed duty on corn. Mr. D'israeli, at great length, contended that the prosperity of all classes of the community, tested by the consumption of tea, coffee, currants, and other imports, was almost invariably concurrent with, and might therefore be attributed to, the high price of corn, which gave to the people high wages, and enabled them to purchase more largely, not only of the necessaries but the luxuries of life. In reference to the change of opinion of Sir R. Peel, the Hon. Gentleman alluded to the Right Hon. Baronet's defence, when he said that he had in a former Session given intimation of the change in his sentiments upon the Corn Laws. It was true, said Air. D'israeli, that in the course of the last Session Lord Grey found him out, but he might, not- withstanding, congratulate himself on his complete success in having entirely deceived his party. He ( Mr. D'lsraeli) was not deceived ; for two years ago he had proclaimed that pro- tection was then in the same state as Protestantism in 1828. llis friends were angry with him for making that declaration ; but the result proved that what was then considered as a calumny turned out to be only a prophecy. The Right Hon. Baronet had been a trader 011 other people's intelligence. His life was, in fact, one great principle of appropriation— the political burglar of other men's ideas; and, after deserting his friends, acting as if they had deserted him. The Hon. Gentle- man proceeded to describe the Gentlemen 011 the Treasury benches as political pedlars, who had bought their party in the cheapest market, and sold it in the clearest, and contended that this betrayal of their friends would lead to the loss of all con- fidence in public men. On resuming his seat, the cheering was vehement and protracted. Lord J. Russell said he should have great difficulty in fol- lowing the Hon. Gentleman if his arguments were at all as powerful as the invective with which he assailed the Minister. The Noble Lord then proceeded, at considerable length, to argue in support of the Bill, and told the Protectionists that all the blame of the disruption of their party should not be cast upon Sir R. Peel, for when they were banded together to over- throw the former Government, they should then have laid down the principles upon which the new one was to be conducted. They did not do this, and he was not sorry to see that a party so discordant in its elements should be for ever disunited. Sir R. Peel said that on such an important question he should feel that he was offering an insult to the House, and an insult to the country, if lie condescended to bandy personalities with any Hon. Gentleman. In the course he had pursued he was prepared for many painful consequences, but the smallest of any of them lie would now declare to have been the continued venemous attacks of the lion. Member for Shrewsbury, who, although believing him to have been all his life a pilferer of other men's ideas, yet had given him his support, and offered to unite his fortunes with his, on his accession to office in 1841. The Right Hon. Baronet then repeated many of the arguments which he had previously used in the discussions on this mea- sure. Mr. D'israeli denied that he had ever been an applicant for place in 1841, as was insinuated by the Right Hon. Baronet, or at any other time, although he had been once communicated with, not at liis own desire, by a gentleman who he believed was sanctioned in his object by the Right Hon. Baronet. He also denied that he had ever asked for the Ministry to Madrid, or anything else for himself, either directly or indirectly, from the Government. Sir R. Peel said he had certainly received what he understood to be an intimation from the Hon. Gentleman that he was ready to give the proof of his confidence in the Government, which was implied from the acceptance of office. Lord G. Bentinek rose amid loud cries of " Chair, chair !" The Right Hon. Baronet had appealed to the cheapness of food during the last three years. ( Divide, divide.) He admitted that it had contributed to the contentment, the morality, and the comfort of the people,^ but at least it had not been occasioned by the importation of foreign corn. For the cheapness and abundance of food they were indebted to the bounty of Heaven, not to her Majesty's ministers. The abund- ance of money led to the establishment of railways, which had been a great cause of the increased employment given to the people during the last three years. These circumstances had led to the prosperity of the working classes, and not any im- portation of foreign corn. The Noble Lord then referred to the statement of Sir J. Graham, that this country could not be called exclusively an agricultural country, and proceeded to give some details as to the comparative number of persons engaged in manufactures and agriculture. Of the placemen there was but one in ten who did not change their opinions, though there were 240 other Members who did not change. There might be a victory, but it would not be recorded as the triumph of a sound political principle, but it would be the badge of the treachery of her Majesty's Ministers. ( Cheers.) Mr. C. P. Villiers supported the bill. The House then divided. The numbers were— For the third reading 327' Againstit * 229 Majority in favour of the third reading 98 The announcement of the numbers was received with loud cheering by the free traders. The Bill then passed. Mr. Yorke wished to address the House. The Speaker informed him that the question had been carried. Mr. Yorke said he objected to the title of the Bill. He did not wish to put the seal of legislation to the dishonesty of public men. ( Cheers.) What did the Bill profess to do ? ( Cries of " question.") To displace English capital, and place it in the hands of foreigners. ( Cheers.) The title of the Bill ought to be, " The Foreign Land Improvement Bill;" ( cheers;) or, " The Ministerial Mutability Consolidation Bill." ( Cheers and laughter.) TARIFF BILL.— Tn answer to Sir R. Peel, Lord G. Bentinck said, he would take the discussion on this Bill on the report. The Bill to be reported on Monday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter past four o'clock. MONDAY, MAY 18. Mr. G. Berkeley presented fifteen petitions in favour of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway. The Midland Railway ( Birmingham & Gloucester Branches) Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. The following bills were read a third time and passed :— The North Staffordshire Railway ( Churnet Valley Line) Bill, North Staffordshire Railway ( Harecastle to Sandbach) Bill, North Staffordshire Railway ( Pottery Line) Bill. In reply to a question from Mr. B. Denison, Sir R. Peel said that the report of the Gauge Commissioners had been referred to the Board of Trade; and when that Board should have made its report, which would be, he expected, very shortly, he would be ready not only to lay it upon the table, but also to state the opinions of the Government upon the subject. CUSTOMS DUTIES BIT. I— Sir R. Peel moved the order of the day for the reception of the report on the Customs Duties Bill; and on the motion that the amendments in committee be read a second time, Lord G. Bentinck stated at great length his objections to the measure, drawing attention to the fact that the greatest reduc- tions of duties were made in favour of those countries which, maintained the most hostile tariffs against England; while in favour of China there was no reduction, although the Chinese duties on English manufactures were very light, and the whole of the commerce between the countries was carried on by British shipping. The result of these measures would be to give all the benefit of them to foreigners, without receiving any corresponding advantage to this country ; and he should there- fore move, as an amendment, that the report be received a second time that day six months. M r. Lawson seconded the amendment. After a few observations from Mr. Alderman Humphery, The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied at considerable length to the arguments of Lord George Bentinck, and said it should be gratifying to this country that, notwithstanding the hostile tariffs to which the Noble Lord alluded, and the dis- advantage which it was said must accrue to this country from the adoption of the principles of free trade, yet the commerce, shipping, and seamen of this country were progressing in a greater ratio than those of any other country. Mr. Bankes contended that nearly the whole of the com- munity were decidedly opposed to the measures of the Govern- ment. 31 r. Ilawes said that the House of Commons was no proof of the argument of the Hon. Gentleman, for no one connected with the manufacturing interests had that night joined in the opposition to the measure of the Government then under con- sideration. Mr. Borthwick supported the amendment. After some further discussion, in which Mr. Plumptre, Dr. Bowring, Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. Henley, and 31 r. Hudson took part, Lord George Bentinck withdrew his amendment, the report was agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time 011 Tuesday. VISCOUNT HARDINCE'S ANNUITY BILL.— In Com- mittee on Lord Hardinge's Annuity Bill, Sic A. L. Hay moved that the pension should not be with- held during the lifetime of Lord Hardinge, because of the annuity of 5000/. awarded him by the East India Company. Sir R. Peel hoped that no division would take place in the passing of this bill, when he assured the House that he was acting strictly in accordance with precedent. Mr. Ilume thought the pension ought to commence imme- diately to Lord Hardinge himself, instead of giving pensions to two of his successors, of whom the country knew nothing. A discussion ensued, shared in by 31 r. Williams, Mr. Henley, and 3Ir. Curteis, who regretted that the Opposition side of the House should be so earnest in driving the 31inister of the Crown from the principle of economy upon which he was acting. If the House divided he would support the Government. A desultory conversation ensued, after which Sir A. L. Hay withdrew his motion, and the bill passed through Committee. The remaining business was then disposed of, and the House adjourned. TUESDAY, 31 AY 19. BROMSGROVE IMPROVEMENT AND SMALL TENEMENT BILL.— On the motion of General Lygon, this bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. 31 r. Fox 3Iaule obtained leave to introduce a bill to enable Christian congregations in Scotland to obtain sites for building places of worship, manses, and school- houses.— The bill was brought in and read a first time. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.— After some observations from 31 r. Stafford O'Brien, Sir G. Clerk, Sir R. Ingiis, Lord G. Clerk, Mr. Bright, and 31r. W. Miles, the Customs Duties Bill was read a third time and passed. The Railway Companies Dissolution Bill then passed through a Committee. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. Mr. Gisborne moved that the evidence taken last session before the committee on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver- hampton Railway Bill, and the Oxford aud Rugby Railway Bill, ( printed by order of the House,) and the reports of the same committee on such bills, be referred to the committee to whom the bills in Group No. 31 are referred.— Agreed to. DISTRESS IN IRELAND.— On the question that the orders of the day be now read, Mr. P. Scrope called the attention of the House to the great distress which existed in the town and neighbourhood of Mallow, in the county of Cork. Hundreds of individuals were in a state of starvation. He wished to call the attention of the Government to the subject. The Irish papers contained daily accounts of horrible distress. He wished to know if the Government intended to bring forward any compulsory bill for a tax on land. Sir J. Graham said his attention had been called to the distress which existed in the neighbourhood of Mallow, and it had had his full consideration. Her Majesty's Government,- when they received accounts of local distress in Ireland, took immediate steps to relieve it; but it was not their intention to bring forward any bill for the purpose ot imposing a tax on land. LACE FACTORIES BILL.— Mr. T. S. Duncombe moved the second reading of the Lace Factories Bill. The Honourable Member said this bill had nothing whatever to do with the ten hours' Factory Bill. The question for the House to decide was, whether there should or should not be any intervention on the part of the legislature as regarded the hours of labour in lace factories, relating to children between the ages of six and eight years. Many children from six to eight years were employed in lace factories, and most of them were kept at work nearly all the night. In fact in many instances they never saw a bed, but slept on the floor of the factories, but if they went home they were called up every two or three hours to attend their work. Under such circumstances it was impossible that the children could be brought up as they ought to be; their morals and edu- cation must be neglected. All the evidence which had been adduced on the subject clearly proved that the system now pursued in lace factories was most injurious to the health, and detrimental to the morals. He was decidedly of opinion that children under eight years of age ought not in any case to be employed during the hours of night. The Hon. Member then read a number of medical certificates showing the injurious effects of the hours of labour required of children in lace factories, and concluded by asking the House to consent to the second reading of the bill. If some of the clauses were objectionable, he should be ready and willing to amend them in committee. Sir James Graham said, he thought legislative interference on this subject would be attended with considerable danger. The subject was one attended with great difficulties, although it was not a new question, but had been often discussed, but no satisfactory decision arrived at. The Right Hon. Bart then entered into a variety of details relating to the manufacturing of lace, and stated that after all the consideration which he had given the subject, he should consider it his duty to oppose the second reading of the bill. The objections to the measure were very great. It would produce the worst of feelings between masters and men, and make neighbours spies upon the actions of each other. It was an irksome part of the duties of the office which he held to oppose measures which had the popular voice in their favour, but he felt called upon on the present occasion to move as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months. After some discussion the House divided— For the second reading 66 For the amendment 151 Majority against the second reading 85 ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL,— On the order of the day being read for going into committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, Sir It. H. Ingiis said, he understood that the further pro- ceedings on this bill were to have been postponed for s) me length of time. He did not think the Hon. and learned 3Iem- ber who had charge of the measure ought now to press it. The Attorney- General said he was labouring under the same impression, and that impression was confirmed by a conversa- tion he had had with the Hon. and learned Member for Cork a short time since in the lobby. 3Ir. Watson said as that appeared to be the understanding of some Members he would postpone the committee on the bill until this day three weeks. Committee postponed for three weeks. The committee on the Salmon Fisheries Bill was postponed until that day week. Viscount " Hardinge and Lord Gough's Annuity Bills were read a third time and passed. In answer to a question by Mr. R. Yorke, Sir K; Peel said, he intended to move that the House at its THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1846. rising on Friday, the 29th instant, do adjourn until the Thurs- day following ( 4th of June.) The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. THURSDAY, MAY 21. The following bills were read a third time and passed:— The North Staffordshire Railway ( Churnet Valley Line) Bill; the North Staffordshire Railway ( Harecastle to Sandbach) Bill; the North Staffordshire ( Pottery Line) Bill. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN— Mr. Shaw gave notice that as soon as the committee on the group, on which Mr. Smith O'Brien had been appointed a member, had concluded the business referred to them, which he expected would be accomplished by Monday next, he should then move that Mr. Smith O'Brien be dis- charged from the custody of the Serjeant- at- Arms. ( Hear.) The Speaker then read to the House a letter addressed to himself by Mr. S. O'Brien, dated that morning, from the prison of the House of Commons. The substance of it was, that the committee of selection had not been formally appointed this session— that, its order enjoining him to attend as a member of a certain committee, and his imprisonment for non- compliance with that order, were both informal and illegal, and that he was therefore entitled to his immediate discharge. On the motion of Mr. O'Connell, it was ordered that Mr. S. O'Brien's letter be printed and circulated with the votes. After a desultory discussion on a variety of subjects, Lord Ebrington was entering into a statement of the reasons • which induced him to move an address for the re- appointment of the Real Property Commission, when An Hon. Member moved that the House be counted. Not more than 27 members being present, the House stood adjourned. The House of Lords did not sit. THE OVERLAND MAIL. PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE. Advices by Extraordinary Express in anticipation of the Overland Mail reached London on Wednesday, and were published in a second edition of the Morning Herald of that day. The intelligence by this arrival is scanty but satisfactory. The dates are Calcutta, April 7 ; Madras, April 13 ; Bombay, April 15. ( From the Bombay Times of April 15.) The last fortnight has proved so perfectly barren of intel- ligence that it is next to impossible to make a summary. Nor do matters promise to mend for a long time to come. Peace and prosperity, wise rulers and a happy people, may be well enough in their way; they are the worst things in the world for the journalist! The Commander- in- Chief, like the Governor- General, has quitted the Punjaub : the British garri- son remains inactive at Lahore, where the people are conducting themselves with propriety ; but there seems a considerable amount of turbulence up and down throughout the country. The new cantonments were being arranged in the Jullunder Doab, and their garrisons assigned to them. The Bombay troops had begun to arrive at Roree about the first week of April, and were to be distributed in the manner formerly described. The people in the western India were beginning to suffer from scarcity, mainly brought about by the deficiencies of last season's rains. Cholera was spreading amongst the natives. India generally is quiet. Some failures of European houses connected with Bombay have occurred. The weather is unusually cool for the middle of April. Sir George Arthur, Governor of Bombay, is greatly improved in his health, and able to transact business and take his customary evening drive. THE PUNJAUB. We have so little news of any importance for dispatch by this mail that we must make much of the little we possess. In times more stirring the Punjaub tidings as they now stand would hardly have been thought worthy of a separate section. In the middle of March the city and citadel were occupied by one portion of the troops : head- quarters, under Sir J. Littler, were encamped immediately under the palace gates. The Seikh troops were turned out of the city so often as individuals of them were discovered, guards having been posted at the gates to exclude intruders. From 90 to 100 pieces of ordnance beyond what we expected were found in Lahore, and taken possession of by us. Runjeet Singh's artillery is said at one time to have consisted of from 700 to 800 pieces, of all calibres, and there are reported to be still in the Punjaub nearly as many guns as we have captured. The rumour does not seem very credible in either case. The consummate cunning of Ghoolab Singh now becomes apparent: he was all along acting a part so as to secure the best terms he could to himself. The Commander- in- Chief, who had attended the Governor- General as far as Umritser, having returned to camp, finally quitted Lahore about the 22nd— proceeding towards Nugger Ghaut under an escort of H. M. 9th Lancers, the 3rd Light Cavalry, and 1st European Infantry. The Seikhs in and around the capital were tranquil enough, but turmoils were said to have arisen near the Jhelum, and Ghoolab Singh seemed anxious to do anything rather than soothe and pacify his countrymen. The sulky soldiery were breathing curses against us not loud but deep, and vowing that as soon as our armies were with- drawn the Queen and her Government should suffer. Mean- while two Seikh corps are to be raised for British service, and these, we should imagine, would go a considerable way to absorb the balance of disbanded troops not taken into the Lahore army. The extreme fertility of a large portion of the Jullunder Doab seems the admiration of every one. The weather was beginning to feel warm in tents. Lieut. Hodgson, of the Engineers, had been detached to erect quarters for the troops to be stationed at Dukkun- i- Serai, 18 miles from Jul- lunder, and 30 from Phulloor. Here the 1st Regular and the 8th Irregular Cavalry, and the 3rd troop 1st brigade of Horse Artillery, were to be stationed. At Jullunder the main body of the " force was to remain, consisting of the 5th Cavalry, Swinley's troop of Horse Artillery, and four regiments of native infantry. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY 20. Yesterday Mr. Edward Augustus Freeman, B A., Proba- tioner Fellow of Trinity College, was admitted Actual Fellow of that Society. In a Convocation holden this day, the Rev. Horace Roberts, M. A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem. In a congregation holden at the same time, the following degrees were conferred :— Master of Arts— Rev. Cadwallader Coker Adams, Merton. Bachelors of Arts.— John Bridge and Charles Henry Cheval- lier, Trinity( j Thomas Hext Bushnell, Pembroke; Thomas Hill Bakewell, Magdalen Hall. This day Mr. Thomas Morgan Davies and Mr. Thomas Williams, Scholars of Jesus College, were elected Fellows of that Society. The Mathematical Examiners have given notice that the Examinations for Classes in Disciplinis Mathematicis et Phy- sicis will commence on the 8th day of Jane. DEATH OK THE REV. SPENCER LORD RODNEY.— We have to record the demise of this llev. Peer, who expired on Friday evening, at his residence in Harley Street, aged 61. The deceased was the third son of the second baron by the second daughter and co- heiress of the late Right Hon. Thomas Hanley. He was born in 1785, and succeeded his brother in 1843, but was never married. He was formerly a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and was patron of one living. The first Peer, it is almost unnecessary to add, was the celebrated Admiral who defeated the French naval com mander Compte de Grasse, in 1783. The late Lord is sncceeded in the title and estates, by his nephew, Robert Denham Rodney, son of the Hon. Captain Robert Denham, R. N., bv the youngest daughter and co heir Robert Dennett, Esq., of Lock Ashurst, Sussex. He was born in 1820, and was formerly in the Scots Fusilier Guards. CHARGE AGAINST A PRIEST OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.— At the Liverpool Police- court, on Monday, a well- dressed, grey- headed man, named Robert Swaine, but who had latterly assumed the name of Stafford Swaine ( the first being that of his mother,) was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having obtained various sums of money from different parties, ostensibly for the re- building of a new chapel and priory at ( we believe) a town in Ireland called Millory. A woman named Mary Parker and several other parties had been applied to by the prisoner for donations towards the object stated, which he obtained. It appeared that the prisoner was a suspended Roman Catholic priest. Dr. Kelly, of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic chapel, stated that he believed the prisoner had no authority whatever from his superior to collect money for such an object, and that a letter, found with others, upon him, purporting to be written by Dr. Sharpies, the Roman Catholic bishop, and authorising him to collect money, was not in the handwriting of that gentleman. Another Roman Catholic clergyman iu the court expressed a similar opinion. On the prisoner were found a book, with a heading or prospectus, as prefatory v* o the names of donors for the object stated, and holding out to subscribers certain religious advantages that would accrue to them after the lapse of a twelvemonth. This book contained the name9 of many respectable parties in Liverpool and neighbourhood, with sums appended as if subscribed, but a considerable number of these were fictitious, they not having been contributed, and those who had done so were, of course, imposed upon. Dr. Kelly stated that the prisoner, on being suspended, was required by his superior, in order to purge him of the offence he had committed, to do penance by a residence of twelve months at a priory in Rome, or some other part of the Continent; but he had not, it appeared, done so. The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, stated at some length that he had resided for twelve months at Mount Henry, and that, wishing to be reinstated as a priest, he had come to this town to solicit subscriptions, with a view to the rebuilding of the dilapidated chapel and priory of Millory. The magistrate, ( Mr. Rusliton,) committed the prisoner to gaol for three months under the Vagrancy Act. STBANUE DISCOVERY OF HOMAN BODIES.— For the last two or three days considerable curiosity has prevailed amongst the authorities of the Loudon and Birmingham Railway and the inhabitants of Camden- town, in consequence of the unexpected discovery of three human bodies, under the following mysterious circumstances :— It appears that about two years ago Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the railway car- riers^ received at their warehouse, in Liverpool, amongst other packages, a large square box or packing case, addressed to a Dr. Hunter, residing iu Loudon. The carriage was duly paid, aud the box in regular course brought up by one of the goods trains to town. After repeated search, however, the Dr. Hunter could not be found, and the package, after being advertised, was removed back to the depot belonging to Messrs. Chaplain and Home, at the goods' department of the Bir- mingham Railway, Camden town. At this place it has remained undisturbed until within the last few days, when, in consequence of some alterations about to take place in the building, it became necessary to remove the various packages. On couiing to the large box in question, the length of the date back attracted the attention of some of the workmen, who, by order of the manager of the goods' department, opened the box to ascertain its contents. On doing so a most unpleasant odour was emitted, and to the astonishment of all present, three dead bodies were presented to their view ; they consisted of those of a man and woman, and a child, and in each case the bodies are so shrivelled up, that the flesh appears to be a perfectly horny substance. The remains are supposed to be those of an Indian family. An anatomical examination of the bodies is being made preparatory to an inquest. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER.— The continued suspense as to the passing of the ministerial measures, keeps this market ill a very languid state; and, limited as the demand was last week, it is still more so now. Prices of yarn, however, continue perfectly firm. Indeed, some spiuuers are asking higher rates, on account of the advance in the price of cotton. Goods, though nominally unchanged tn price, are in some cases bought on rather lower terms,— Manchester Guardian, Tuesday, SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE PRO- TECTION SOCIETIES. Yesterday ( Thursday) a special general meeting of the various protection societies throughout the kingdom was held at Willis's Rooms, London, for the purpose of affording the tenant- farmers of Great Britain a further opportunity of expressing their opinion on the commercial policy of the Government, and of offering a practical refutation of the statements which have been so indus- triously circulated by their adversaries, that they have become converts or are reconciled to the free- trade measures of the Minister. The chair was taken by his Grace the Duke of Richmond, President of the Central Projection Society, at one o'clock, at which time the large room, capable of holding 2000 persons, as well as the passages and s'. airs leading to it, were crowded to excess by tenant- farmers and gentlemen interested in agricul- ture. It was stated that deputations were present from upwards of 200 country societies. The deputation from the Worcester- shire Protection Society consisted of P. V. Onslow, Esq., of Suckley, ( Chairman;) J. R. Cookes, Esq., Astley; — Bear- croft, Esq., F. Holland, Esq., Cropthorne; J. M. Gulch, Esq., H. Hudson., Esq., jun., Wick; Francis Woodward, Esq., Comberton; — Blaney, Esq., Evesham; and Mr. Lucy, of Pershore. Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen who surrounded the chairman were the Duke of Buckingham, Marquis of Salisbuy, Earl of Stradbroke, Earl of Egmont, Earl of Sheffield, Lord Beaumont, Earl Somers, Lord Sondes, Lord Rode. sdale, Lord Southampton, Viscount Camden, Viscount Strangford, Marquis of Worcester, M. P., Earl of March, M. P., Lord G. Bentinck, M. P., Lord Newport, M. P., Lord H. Lennox, M. P., Lord E. Hill, M. P., 31 r. Miles, M. P., Mr. T. Thornhill, M. P., Mr. Newdegate, 31. P., Sir J. Tyrell, M. P., Colonel Sibthorp, M. P., M. Bennett, M. P., Mr. P. Bennett, Mr. E. Yorke, M. P., Mr. L. W. Bucke, M. P., Mr. Fuller, M. P., Mr. Q. Dick, M. P., Mr. Lawson, M. P., SirC. Burrell, M. P., Mr. B. D'Israeli, M. P., Mr. E. S. Cayley, M. P., Mr. Wodehouse, M ~ " M , - . . Paul Joddrell, Bart., Sir Brook Brydges, Bart., and Hon. II. W. Wilson, with very many of the most influential farmers from every county, accompanied by deputations. The noble Chairman who was received with repeated bursts of applause, said,— Gentlemen, it will not be necessary for me to trespass at any length upon your attention, but 1 must in the first place express the deep gratification I feel at finding myself surrounded by so large, so respectable, and so numerous a body of the tenantry of this country, who have, at great per- sonal inconvenience to themselves, come from every county in England, honestly and straightforwardly to express their opinions upon the measures now before Parliament ( loud cheers). The Committee of the Central Society for Protection to Agriculture and Domestic Industry have felt it to be their duty to call on you to attend here to- day, in order that it may^ be ascertained whether the statements made in the House of Commons and elsewhere respecting you are correct or not. It has been said that the tenant- farmers do not at the present moment feel so hostile to the free- trade measures of the Govern- ment as they did some time since ( cries of" false, false;" and " we do, we do;" and loud cheers). I am satisfied that in the discussion which is about to take place, you will pursue that honourable, manly, and straightforward course which I have ever found the farmers of this empire to follow, whenever I had the satisfaction to meet them. I am happy to say those oppor- tunities have not been few, and I may add, that I desire more frequently to meet them ( hear, hear, and loud cheers). It has been said by one who, unfortunately for this country, is now at the head of affairs ( hear, hear), that the tenant- farmers of England are not excited on this subject ( loud cries of " that is not true"). The Duke of Buckingham entered the room at this stage of the proceedings, and on taking his seat beside the noble chair- man, was loudly and enthusiastically applauded. The Duke of Richmond continued. I well know that agita- tion is foreign to the disposition of the English farmers, and I am aware that they have never met to combine but when pressed to do so by the violence of the Anti- Corn- Law League, and by the assertion they made that the farmers were converts to free trade ( hear). Gentlemen, I am one of those who think we should not teach the people of this country the fatal lesson that to be quiet and unobtrusive is to be defenceless, and that the systems which have been tested by the experience of ages are to be overthrown by combinations and by clamour ( cheers). I will not intrude myself on you further than to ask that you will hear the respectable tenant- farmers who are about to address you, and afford the country an opportunity of seeing whether or not you have changed your opinions on the subject of the withdrawal of protection from British agriculture ( loud cheers). Mr. R. Baker, of VV'rittle, Essex, moved the first resolution :— " That, in consequence of reports circulated with respect to a change of opinion among the great body of tenant- farmers of this country on the subject of free trade, this meeting has been convened, and takes this opportunity of publicly refuting those unfounded assertibns, and of declaring that their opinions with respect to the necessity for protection to native industry, and to agriculture in particular, are not altered, but are, on the con- trary, strengthened and confirmed by the information elicited during the recent discussion in the House of Commons." It had been said, both in the House of Commons and elsewhere, that the tenant- farmers, from being passive spectators of passing events, were acquiescing in all that was going on in the Legis- tnre. It was to refute that calumny that they were then assem- bled together, and to place themselves above suspicion before; the face of the country. ( Cheers.) So far from the opinions of the tenant- farmers having been altered on this great and mo- mentous question by the debates in the House of Commons, the untiring efforts of the 240 Members who voted for protection had confirmed those opinions. ( Cheers.) His brother farmers were not at all dismayed at what was passing before them. ( Cheers.) They felt confident in their strength, and assisted as they were by that arm of the Legislature which had always stepped forward in the most trying moments ( cheers)— assisted by the Peers of the realm, in opposing that measure, he had no doubt ultimate success would crown their efforts. What did the carrying of this measure mean to the tenant- farmer ? It meant the confiscation of one- third of the whole of the capital invested for carrying out the cultivation of the soil. ( Hear.) It meant also confiscation of the returns from the land for every year the tenant- farmer might continue to occupy it. ( Cheers.) They had lived in times when they felt the distress inflicted upon them by a depression in the price of the articles which they pro- duced. He had only to remind them of the years 1822, 1836, and 1843, and of the depression which then existed. He asked them whether a very large portion of the agricultural commu- nity were not consigned to ruin; and, if a further depression took place, whether any possibility existed that the remainder of the tenant- farmers could subsist, and carry on the cultivation of the soil without utter ruin to themselves and families ? The tenant- farmers were quite aware of the consequences certain to result from the Ministerial measure, and that conviction on their part had produced the determination which he saw dis- played before him, and had brought men from every county in England to repudiate the charges made against them, and to support the opinion that free trade would prove ruinous, and that they were resolved to oppose it to the utmost. ( Cheers.) It was his firm conviction that if the House of Lords sanctioned the Corn Bill, a great portion of the land of England would be thrown out of cultivation, to the injury of the British agricul- tural labourers. He called upon those whom he had the honour of addressing to unite in soliciting the House of Peers to reject the measure, and he felt satisfied that their Lordships would never suffer themselves to be made instrumental in sanctioning a measure which could not fail to produce the worst consequences. But it had been asked, how was another administration to be formed if Sir Robert Peel's were broken up ? Why, it was proved by the debates in the House of Commons, that if necessary, ten administrations could be formed, all of them better and more capable of managing the public business than that which was now in power, ( loud cheers.) Considerable interruption was occasioned during Mr. Baker's speech by calls for an adjournment to Hyde Park, as a great number of persons were unable to obtain access to the room. The Chairman subsequently rose and said, as he thought it would be inconvenient for the meeting to adjourn, he had requested his Noble Friend the Duke of Buckingham to go down stairs and preside over those who were there awaiting the opportunity of recording their sentiments upon the subject under discussion. The Duke of Buckingham immediately retired from the platform, and proceeded to the spacious room underneath, where another meeting was held, the proceedings at which will be found below. Mr. Stephen Mills, of Wilts, seconded the resolution proposed by Mr. Baker. The farmers of England wanted nothing but fair play. . They did not wish to trespass on the comforts of any other portion of the community ; but they hoped and trusted in the rejection of the Com Bill by the Upper House of Parliament. He complained that the sliding- scale of 1842 had not had a fair trial, and that the Government had no sympathy with the farmers. If the measure now before the House of Lords were passed into a law he believed the British farmer would not get a higher price than from 32s. to 36s. a quarter for his wheat, and that, he need hardly tell them, would be a ruinous price to the cultivator. ( Loud cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. E. Ball, of Cambridgeshire, proposed the second reso- lution :— That this meeting begs to express its sincere hope that Members of the House of Lords will not allow themselves to be deluded by the unfounded representations with respect to any change of opinion on the part of the tenant- farmers in favour of the commercial policy proposed by her Majesty's Government." The Hon. Gentleman denied that there was any change of opinion on the part of the tenant- farmers in favour of the Government measures. He strongly condemned the course which had been taken by the Premier; but the agricultural interest in going to another election would have this advantage, that they now knew who were their enemies and who their friends. He highly complimented Lord G. Bentinck on the tact and ability lie had displayed as a debater, and remarked that since the days of Canning and Brougham in the House of Commons no man had equalled Mr. D'Israeli in all that constituted a perfect rhetorician. It had been asked " What would the House of Lords do ?" Now lie believed that this question of free- trade was not only a question of corn but one of coronets ( hear, hear),— that is was not simply whether protection should be continued to agriculture, but whether the House of Lords itself should have existence ( cheers). The Hon. Gentleman concluded amidst the cheers of his audience with some severe comments on the 112 Mem- bers of the House of Commons, who, having been elected as protectionists, had followed Sir R. Peel as free- traders. Mr. George Hilditch, Shropshire, seconded the resolution. He indignantly denied that the majority of the House of Com- mons, who had carried the measures of Government, repre- sented the opinions of the constituencies ; and called upon the tenant- farmers to reject every candidate for their suffrages at the next election who was not a protectionist. ( This sentiment was warmly applauded by the meeting.) The resolution was carried nem. dis. Mr. J. Ellmar, of Sussex, moved the third resolution—'' That this meeting expresses its firm conviction that, should the com- mercial measures proposed by her Majesty's Government un- happily pass into law, that will not result in contentment and a good understanding among the various classes of the country, but will pave the way, through popular discontent, to a suc- cession of changes, which will prove destructive to the best interests of the empire." Mr. Box, of Buckinghamshire, seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. T. Weale, of Surrey, proposed—" That the quantity of corn of native growth brought into consumption will be seriously lessened, owing to the decrease of capital employed in its pro- duction causing a coresponding diminution of demand for labour, whereby this country will be rendered dependent upon foreign supply, and great distress will be brought upon the labouring classes." If the Bill before Parliament were passed into a law he believed that Cobden and the League would not be satisfied. Their next object would be the Church ; then they would attack tithes and the House of Lords; and before long the Crown of England would tremble on the head of her Majesty herself. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. T. Umbers ( of Warwickshire) seconded the resolution, which was put from the chair and carried unanimously. Mr. J. J. Allnatt ( of Berks) moved the fifth resolution— " That the tenant- farmers of England look with implicit con- fidence to the deliberate wisdom of the House of Lords for that protection to the permanent interests of this country, which it is the province of their Lordships' H ouse to afford against ill- advised legislation." He bore testimony to the feeling of hatred engen- dered in the minds of the agriculturists towards those members who had violated all their former pledges by supporting the commercial policy of the Government. Mr. O'Connell had truly described them when he said, in Conciliation Hall, " Never mind about the hundred and twelve supporters of Peel, who were formerly Conservatives; those myrmidons will at any time walk from one side of the floor to the other at the beck of the Minister." ( Cheers.) Let this meeting declare what they would do with those myrmidons if they should dare to present themselves on the hustings at the next election. Let them turn out the " myrmidons." ( Tremendous cheering and waving of hats.) Sir James Graham said he had changed his opinions, and there was an end of it. No, no, there was not an end of it yet. ( Cheers.) The farmers of England were not to be so deluded ( cheers). They accused the leaders and " myrmidons" of the House of Commons of having betrayed the interests of their constituents, and passed a bill which, should it become law, would permenently destroy the energies of the agriculturists of England, and finally involve us in one common ruin ( hear). That was u the end of it" ( loud cheers). Mr. R. Healey, of Lincolnshire, seconded the resolution, which was adopted without a single dissentient. Mr. Gurney ( Devon) moved the sixth resolution—" That a large majority of the representatives of the British people in the House of Commons were returned for the express purpose of upholding the principle of protection to native industry, and that that majority has been converted into a majority by the defalcation of the Prime Minister, and some hundreds of his immediate political adherents. It becomes, therefore, the duty of this meeting to state their conviction that a minority both of the British people generally, as well as of the electors of the country, are still decidedly opposed to the policy of free trade, and respectfully but earnestly to entreat the peers of this realm in Parliament assembled to reject this Government measure now pending, not only on the ground of its special merits,{ but in order to furnish this country with the opportunity of expressing its opinion of the policy of late adopted by the Prime Minister through the medium of a general election," Mr. G. G. Day ( Huntingdonshire), seconded the resolution. The Chairman said they had been honoured by the presence of Lord George Bentinck ( cheers), Mr. Miles, Mr. Disraeli ( cheers), Mr. Stafford O'Brien, and many others of those who had proved themselves their stanchest friends ( cheers), and he suggested that a resolution of thanks to them should be passed by the meeting. ( Cheers.) Mr. C. J. Towers ( Essex) proposed a vote of thanks to Lord G. Bentinck and the 240 Members of the House of Commons who had so ably and nobly fought their battle. ( Cheers). Mr. F. Woodward ( Worcestershire) seconded the resolution, which was put and carried, Lord G. Bentinck came forward to address the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. When silence was restored, he proceeded to address the meeting. It would be vain for him to pretend that any abilities of his, entitled him to hold the proud position which he now occupied. (" Yes, yes." If he pos- sessed any merits at all, it was that in the hour of danger and difficulty ( cheers), when so many of those who were more closely bound to the agricultural interest than he wa<, had deserted the colours they had sworn to protect, he stood forward to rally the disheartened forces that had been betrayed by Sir Robert Peel and the base 112 who had co operated with him ( loud cheers), who had broken their faith with their constituents. ( Cheers.) If they applauded their conduct in the House of Commons— if they thought they had done their duty, it was for them now to fight the battle at the hustings. ( Cheers). For a moment they had been discomfited, but they were not defeated, if they would stand true to themselves. ( Cheers). In 1837 Sir Robert Peel had called upon them to fight the battle at the hustings; he called upon them to register register. ( Cheers.) They did register, and they returned, as they thought, a majority of 91 to maintain protection to British industry. The elements of power remained with him yet; and no matter what might happen to the bill in the House of Lords, three years could not elapse before her Majesty would again appeal to the people. ( Cheers.) If there should be craven hearts and traitors in the House of Lords, should mischief be done there, it was for them to right themselves. ( Cheers). They must look to the votes— they must scan every vote of all their representatives. It would be for them to reject the waverers— to watch who had stood true to the last, and to return those and no others. ( Cheers). They should follow the example so nobly set them by the Duke of Newcastle ( cheers), and forget every consideration but that of their country. ( Cheers.) They were as strong now to return a majority of 91 as they were in 1841 ; and if they approved of the conduct of their leaders in fighting the battle in the House of Commons, let them follow their example at the hustings. ( Cheers.) It would be a waste of time for him to endeavour to prove to them that the lowering of the price of produce was likely to add to their profits, ( a laugh,) but that was the doctrine which was attempted to be inculcated. ( Hear, hear.) It was now attempted to be said that by admitting the free air of compe- tition, the science of agriculture would be improved in this country. ( Hear, hear.) They defied the Whigs and her Majesty's Ministers, and they defied the League, their masters, ( laughter and cheers,) to show them the country in Europe and America, where, notwithstanding their inferior soils and their variable climatc, the science of agriculture had advanced any- thing like the extent it had been advanced in these islands. ( Cheers.) They defied thein to show that either in France or America, with theirjfertile soil and superior climates, they could grow more than one- half the quantity of wheat that the farmer of England made his land produce ( cheers;) and they defied them to show that they had not more than kept pace with the growing population of the country. ( Hear, hear.) They had defied them to show the country in which the prices had been so equable, and so little fluctuation as there had been in England since the law of 1842. ( Cheers.) But they were told the people of England demanded a change, but what proof had they that the people of England did demand a change. ( Hear.) The Queen of England appealed to her people in 1841 to know what where the wishes on the subject relating to agriculture, and by a majority of 90 the people of England spoke out their senti- ments. ( Cheers.) In the course of the last year an election had occurred, in Warwickshire, a county that contained within its limits Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick. What was the result ? Why, the result proved that the minds of the people of England were not so fickle as those of her Majesty's Ministers. ( Cheers.) But a subscription of a quarter million fund had been raised, and that frightened the Ministers. ( Cheers.) Who, he asked, was to be sacrificed by this measure ? Was it the landed aristocracy— the members of the Houses of Peers and Commons ? He had observed before, that in Ireland alone 338,000 farmers, holding farms of less extent than 15 acres a piece, were part and parcel of the sacrifice that was to be made at the shrine of political economy. ( Hear, hear. He asked, were all the farmers of England men of science and of capital, and if they were not were they to submit that they should be sacrificed? ( Hear, hear.) If those new- fangled doctrines were adopted, the tenantry of this country would be cleared off as they were cleared off in Ireland ; and would they allow the position of the farmers of England to be thus lowered? ( Hear, hear.) If they wished to have free- trade measures, let them have Mr. Cobden, whose copyright this measure was. ( Hear, hear.) He did not know why they should prefer Sir Robert Peel to Mr. Cobden, unless, indeed, they thought, that treachery had a charm. ( Cheers.) If they were to have free- trade measures, let them have Mr. Cobden as Minister. ( Hear, hear. They would then know what they had to fear. ( Hear, hear.) He trusted they would not remain quiet until they had driven their " candid friends" from those seats of government which they had disgraced. His belief was that the House of Lords would so mutilate and mangle the bill that the House of Commons would not receive it, and, therefore, that must decide the question. ( Cheers.) He rejoiced to see their meeting that day, for such a meeting, he believed, of the landed interest never before was known. Mr. D'lsraeli, having been loudly called upon, next addressed the meeting. We have only room for one or two passages of his speech. He said— I feel persuaded of that which you yourselves, I am sure, must have long since discovered to be a truth, that if before this time you had met in these numbers, and were animated by this spirit, I dare say the present Ministry of England would have been sound Protectionists. ( Loud cheers.) I don't think that any failure in any particular crop, would then have advanced the abstract doctrines of political economy to that point which they appear now to have reached. ( Cheers.) But, gentlemen, we all know what is now the issue in question. It is this— it is whether we should sub- stitute for national principles commercial principles. ( Hear, hear.) That is really the point at issue, and, if we follow it up, I don't see why our great Senate, of which you are so proud, and which has built up the glory of this country, should not be converted into a counting- house—( cheers and laughter),— and why, instead of having an hereditary soveriegn and an imme- morial throne, you should not have a chief clerk to manage you — ( cheers),— sitting against a high desk—( cheers and laughter),— mounted oil a high stool—( cheers and laughter),— and instead of holding a sceptre, with a pen behind his ear. ( Cheers and laughter.) After some further remarks the Hon. Member continued— Twelve years ago this question was not understood as it is now understood by the millions and masses of the country. ( Hear, hear.) It has been thoroughly sifted, profoundly investigated. It is no longer for a moment supposed to be the cause of the interests of the few. And if it be the cause of the interests of the few, I for one would not be its advocate. ( Cheers.) It is known to be a question whieh touches the labour of an ancient kingdom and a dense popula- tion— an ancient kingdom, with a dense population, in the possession of a gigantic money capital. That question is now pretty well understood by the people of this country ; and they know that their comforts, their social condition, and their political rights, which ultimately will depend upon their social condition ( for the man in any country whose condition is depressed by legislation will ultimately be deprived of his rights); they know that all these sources of happiness, and the consciousness of moral rectitude, that all of these will be affected if you change the agricultural policy and tamper with the territorial constitution of England. ( Oh.) Now, I will leave you, with the same advice which my Noble Friend has given you. We have met here for no idle work. ( Cheers.) We have met that we may become acquainted with each other — that we may send you to your different counties to circulate this news— that though your leaders in London may have to fight a difficult battle, they still. have this advantage— they are faithful to the cause. ( Loud and long continued cheering.) Mr. W. F. Hobbs, of Essex, proposed, and Mr. W. Bennett, of Bedfordshire, seconded a vote of thanks to the Duke of Richmond, for his conduct in the chair. The motion was carried by acclamation. The Noble Chairman, in acknowledging the compliment, assured the meeting that he had British blood enough in his veins to stand up in defence of the agricultural interest when- ever it was attacked—( Cheers)— and that he would serve under the standard of Lord Stanley with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction. ( Renewed cheers.) I proclaim him here, said the Noble Duke, among the assembled farmers of England, as the leader of the Protectionist party in the House of Lords. ( Vociferous cheering.) And moreover, I stand bail for the honesty of his conduct. ( Cheers.) The meeting separated, after giving " three groans for Peel and the Ministry." SECOND MEETING. Agreeably to a. suggestion of the Duke of Bichmond, all those who could not gain access to the ball- room adjourned to the sup- per room below stairs, which was nearly filled by tenant- farmers. The Duke of Buckingham, who was called to the chair; said he very much regretted that all those who took an interest in the important question under consideration could not be accom- modated above stairs, because they would lose the benefit of the valuable information which he knew would be afforded by the various gentlemen who would take part in the discussion going on upstairs. At the suggestion of his Noble Friend the Duke of Richmond he had come down, in order that those who could not fget into the other meeting should have an opportunity of giving expression to their sentiments. He held in his hand a duplicate copy of the resolutions which would be submitted for adoption. It was indispensably necessary that the most active, prompt, and direct opposition should be given to the further progress of the dangerous and destructive measure brought forward by her Majesty's Government, which he trusted might still be defeated. ( Cheers.) Resolutions in the same terms as those reported above were then moved, seconded, and unanimously agreed to ; after which thanks were voted to the Noble Chairman, and the meeting separated. WORCESTER NEW GAS BILL. C Continued from our last.) HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, MAY 18. This Committee met to- day, pursuant to adjournment from Thursday. A lapse of several days had been allowed at the request of the counsel engaged on either side in order that a compromise might be effected between the promoters of the Bill, and the Old Worcester Gas Company, its opponents, and that the necessary clauses might be introduced into the Bill in case an amicable arrangement were concluded. From the sub- joined report of the proceedings, it will be seen that the parties have not yet come to an agreement. The members of the committee in attendance were— fhe Marquis of Granby, ( chairman), Mr. Maitland, 31r. Gooch, Mr. Rashleigh, Air. Bailey, and Mr. Godson. Mr. Huddleston, on the part of the promoters of the Bill, said he had to claim the indulgence of the committee, and to beg an adjournment to some future day which would suit their convenience, in consequence of his not having received until yesterday, ( Sunday), the bill, which was very voluminous, and the new clauses which had been introduced. The late hour at which the bill in its amended form was prepared had not given both parties an opportunity of uniting to discuss the matter. It would, he was sure, be a great saving of the time of the committee if three days more were allowed. Mr. Godson.— It is your own bill; and are you not acquainted with it ? Mr. Huddleston.— It is the new clauses which we have not yet had time to consider. Mr. Maitland Is there any doubt that the compromise is going on. Mr. Boothby ( counsel for the Old Company) None at all. The application now made is only to save the time of the Committee. The clauses have been prepared, but there must be a lengthened discussion on them, and I am sure this would be much better in private than in Committee. Mr. Maitland said the parties could not expect another adjournment. The counsel replied that none would be asked for. The proceedings were then adjourned until this day ( Friday.) accal iiaiimapJEnteUignicc. The question of gauge was again raised on Monday in the House of Commons, on a question being put to Government by Mr. E. Denison asking whether the Government intended to make any proposal to the House founded on the report of the Gauge Commissioners. In reply, Sir Robert Peel stated that the report which had been made by the Gauge Com- missioners had been referred to the Board of Trade, with instructions to give a decision in reference to it as soon as was found practicable. From what fell from the Premier, there is reason to expect that the Board of Trade will report to the House in a few days. We continue our summary of the proceedings of the new railway companies, pursuant to the Government regulations. The following among other companies have held meetings since our last, and resolved to proceed with their bills :— Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick. Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester. Cheltenham and Oxford. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire. And the following has given notice of intention to meet for affirmation or winding up :— Staffordshire and Shropshire. WORCESTER, WARWICK, AND RUGBY.— Advertisements elsewhere announce that the. Standing Orders' Committee having decided that the standing orders ought not to be dis- pensed with in the case of the bill of the Company with which this undertaking is associated ( the Warwick and Worcester), a meeting for dissolution is to be called immediately after the passing of Lord Dalhousie's Act, there being no clause in the Company's Bill empowering it to dissolve itself. GLOUCESTER AND DEAN FOREST.— The committee which has been sitting on this bill ( in Group 31) concluded their labours on Friday last, but have reserved their decision on the preamble of the bill until the case of the South Wales line has been heard. SOUTH WA LES.—— This bill is now before the Commons Committee on Group 31. Mr. Brunei in his evidence given before the Committee on Wednesday, explained that the line was proposed to pass the Severn by a tunnel running under- neath its bed— a course which had received the sanction of the Admiralty. The length of the tunnel would be about 2750 yards, and that part of it under the water, at high tide, 700 yards. The gradient being I in 100 on both sides. With regard to the estimate of the line, including the tunnel, it would not be higher than that proposed last year, when the preamble of the bill had not been proved. The cost of the tunnel alone would be £ 190,000. With regard to the other parts of the line there were no engineering difficulties to encounter of any kind. CHELTENHAM AND OXFORD.— This bill is now in Com- mittee on Group 32. THE IRISH PEERS AND THE CORN- LAWS.— The Dublin correspondent of the Times says:—" It is stated here that, with the exception of the Earl of Baudon— an exception that has caused considerable surprise— every one of the Conserva- tive peers, including those who were regarded as ' doubtful,' will vote against the Ministerial measure in the House of Lords. Amongst the alleged waverers were the Earls of Erne, Clancarty, Ranfurley, and ( it was at one time thought) Roden, Lord Farnham, and one or two others." FRATRICIDE AND PARRICIDE.— A quarrel between two brothers named Kinsey took place on Saturday last, at Great Boughton, near Chester, which terminated fatally. After some angry words they fell to fighting, one being armed with a hook and the other with a pair of tongs. The latter was however worsted, being beaten in a most dreadful manner upon the head and face. He died the next morning. The brother is in custody— A man named Brown, living at War- rington, has been committed for trial charged with the man- slaughter of his father. A quarrel took place between the two, both being intoxicated, and the son kicked and ill- used his father so much that he died in about half an hour. SECOND EDITION Saturday Morning, May 23. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 206 ; 3 per Cent, lied., 95J ; 3 per Cent. Con., 9GJ ; New 3J per Cent., 97j ; Cons, for Accnt., 9tij5 ; Long Annuities, 10; India Stock, ; India Bonds, ; £ 100J Exclieq. Bills, 18. WORCESTER NEW GAS BILL. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY NIGHT. [ From our own Reporter. J This was the day appointed, at the request of the Counsel engaged in the above bill, for re- assembling to hear the result of the negotiations between the promoting and opposing parties, and the Committee accordingly met for that purpose at one o'clock in room No. 8. The Members of the Committee in attendance were the Marquis of Granby ( Chairman), Mr. Maitland, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Gooch, Mr. Bailey, and Mr. Godson. Mr. Huddleston said he was happy to congratulate the Com- mittee upon the circjmstance that the whole of the arrange- ments had been brought to a close, and that it was now only necessary to appoint an umpire. Mr. Godson There can be no difficulty in that. Mr. Huddleston— No; but the appointment of the umpire is left to the Committee. Mr. Maitland Can you not appoint some public officer. It seems to me desirable that some official person should be appointed. Mr. Bedford, on the part of the Old Gas Company, said it would be provided for in the Act, that in the event of the death or of the refusal of the umpire appointed to serve, the Lord Lieutenant of the county should choose an umpire. Mr. Huddleston— A gentleman has been suggested, in whom all parties agree— Mr. Wilson Patten. Mr. Godson enquired whether the parties would desire a professional person, a lawyer, an engineer, or what ? Mr. Bedford thought it would be better to have an unpro- fessional person. The clauses which had been introduced into the bill were then read. They gave the Company power to purchase the Old Works at a price to be agreed upon by arbitrators, and in case the latter could not agree, the whole to be settled by the umpire. After some discussion upon the umpire to be appointed, it was decided that John Wilson Patten, Esq., M. P., or such person as he should select, should be entrusted with these duties, and that in the event of the death or the refusal of either to serve, the choice should remain with the Lord Lieutenant. The Chairman enquired whether the position of the New Gas Works had been agreed upon, and was answered in the negative. The proceedings then terminated. The bill will be reported on Monday. PARLIAMENT, FRIDAY— In the House of Lords, a large num- ber of private bills were brought up and read a first time, and several petitions presented in favour and against the Government Corn Hill. Left sitting.— The llouse ol' Commons was occupied some time in receiving petitionson various subjects, and forwarding some railway and other hills. Mr. O'Couuell moved that the consideration of the letter of Mr. Smith O'Brien, presented to the House last night, be first considered, and that the minutes of the proceedings be read by the clerk at the table. The motion having been agreed to, Mr, O'Connell proceeded to address the House, and was left speaking. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.— The show of English wheat was small, and although offered at the decline noted on Monday, the millets acted so completely on the reserve, but little was sold. There was rather more inquiry for bonded wheat, chietly for exportation to Belgium, and the demand mostly for inferior qualities from the Mediterranean ; but the offers received were rather low, and but little business resulted. The oat trade remains in a dull, lifeless state, and only retail lots can be got off at the turn in favour of buyers. Bonded offering at low rates, and found purchasers to a fair extent. In other grain almost an absence of demand, and prices almost nominal. SM1THF1ELD, FRIDAY.— A limited supply, aud trade ruled dull. Beef, - is. Gd. to 4s.; Mutton, 3s. 2d. lo 4s. 4d.; Lamb, 5s. to Gs. ; Veal, 3s. lUd. to 5s. ; Pork, 3s. 8d. to 5s. INSOLVENT. John Wright, Oxford- street, chemist and druggist. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Algernon Sparke, Jewin- street, wine and spirit merchant. Joseph Davis, Cannon- street, City, gun and pistol manufacturer. William Sibson Alderton, Chancery- lane, steel pen manufacturer. Chauncey Itobbins and William Smith Martin, Birmingham, merchants. BANKRUPTS. Walter M'Dowall, Pemberton- row, Gougli- square, printer. John Edward Bacon, Upper Russeil- street, Bermondsey, leather factor. Robert Dallinger Markham, Edmonton, boarding- housekeeper. Alexander Beattie and Francis Macnagliten, Nicholas- lane, Lom- bard- street, merchants. William White, Morpeth- street, Bethnal- green, builder. John Berry, Church- street, Paddington, draper. Alexander Thorn, High Holborn, oilman. James Perry, Harlow, Essex, grocer and linendraper. Mary Armistead, Crawford- street, Marylebone, milliner. Richard Knight and Alfred Knight, jun., Budge- row, City, whole- sale stationers. Andrew Valentine Leiman and William Andrew, late of John- street, Tottenham- court- road, and afterwards of Fenchurch- street, wholesale mahogany merchants. Robert Howard Page, Great Yarmouth, innkeeperr Joseph Haynes, Aldermanbury, woollen warehouseman. Ann Robinson, Durham, lioendraper. Edmondson Cooban, Liverpool, common brewer. George Jones, Toxteth- paik, Lancashire, builder. Thomas llitt Harvey, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, cemen' and drain tile merchants. Peter Rhodes, Manchester, cotton- spinner. James Edwards, Digbeth, Birmingham, ironfouuder. William Taylor, Worcester, sharebroker. HIGH STREET, WORCESTER. VALUABLE BUSINESS PREMISES. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY W. H1GGS, ( By direction of the Mortgagee, under a Power of Sale), on Tuesday, the 9th of June, 1846, at the Hop Market Inn, Foregate, Worcester, at six o'clock in the evening, subject to conditions to be then produced ; ALL that MESSUAGE or DWELLING- HOUSE, No. 91, HIGH STREET, corner of Copenhagen Street, in the centre and most commanding part of the City of Worcester, and very nearly opposite the Market Hall. The Premises consist of a spacious Front Shop, 2 Sitting Rooms, 5 Bed Rooms, Ware Room, Kitchen, Scullery, Cellar, and small Yard. • The situation for any Retail Trade cannot be surpassed in the City ; there arc two distinct frontages to the Property, one to High Street, and the other to Copenhagen Street, but still commanding a full view of the High Street. Its proximity also to the Market and central position embrace all that can be wished, either for occupation or to the capitalist for investment, as it must at all times command a responsible occupant. The tenure is partly Freehold, and partly Leasehold under the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, renewable every fourteen years. For further particulars application may be made to Mr. Pattrick, Solicitor, 9, Foregate Street; or to the Auctioneer, 67, Broad Street, Worcester. WORCESTER GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. \ TOTICE is hereby given, that a MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the above COMPANY will be holden at the Office of the Company's Works, in the City of Worcester, on FRIDAY, the 19th day of JUNE, 1846, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. At which Meeting the Draft of a Bill now before Parliament, entituled " A Bill for better supplying with Gas the City of Worcester and the Suburbs thereof," whereby it is intended to take powers for the Sale and Transfer, by the said Worcester Gas Light and Coke Company, of their Works and Property to the Company proposed to be incorporated by the said Bill, and to Dissolve the existing Company, and distribute the Funds thereof, will be read and submitted to the resolution and deter- mination of such Meeting. Dated the 20th day of May, 1846. H. B. TYMBS, Chairman. 33, HIGH STREET, ( OPPOSITE THE TOWN IIALL,) WORCESTER. JOSEPH BENNETT BEGS to announce to his Friends, and the Public generally, his recent visit to the different Markets, from whence he has selected a well- assorted STOCK of GOODS, adapted to the present Season, to which he respectfully invites their attention. He particularly directs their notice to his BABY LINEN AND UNDER CLOTHING DEPARTMENT, which contains the greatest novelties of the day, as well as Articles of a more general and useful character, and which, for extent and variety, will be found exceeded by none, and equalled by few Houses out of the Metropolis. To attempt an enumeration of the various Goods supplied at his Establishment he considers would be superfluous; he will merely content himself with observing, that in all their varieties his Stock of HOSIERY, GLOVES, BRACES, SCARFS, STOCKS, CRAVATS, HANDKERCHIEFS, SHIRTS, SUMMER and other COATS, particularly that much ap- proved garment, the " PALETOT," CARPET BAGS, COAT CASES, & c. & c. & c., will be found complete. BEST LONDON and PARIS HATS, including that elegant and much- approved shape, the " Young England." Agent for BRA HAM'S newly- invented WATERPROOF GARMENTS, which, from their extreme lightness and economy, have gained them so large a share of public support; also for ROGERS'S PATENT FLANNEL, warranted not to shrink, and particularly adapted for summer wear. A large Stock of MACKINTOSH GOODS, at one- half their original Cost. FUNERALS conducted with care and economy. In conclusion, J. B. begs to tender his grateful acknowledg- ments to his Friends for the liberal support he has experienced at their hands for upwards of nineteen years. MAURICE DAVIS, OPTICIAN, 8, FOREGATE STREET, HAVING devoted considerable attention to the nature of the eye, its construction, and the effects of time and constitution upon that organ, is enabled at once to supply the full amount of aid that defective vision requires. The purity of the media which he employs, the care with which they are ground, the adjustment of the frame, all points essential to the maintenance of a healthy condition of sight, are attended to with rigid exactness. It is worthy the serious consideration of those who require artificial aid, that many destructive diseases of the sight are caused by an injudicious application of spectacles by men wholly ignorant of the con- struction of the delicate organ they undertake to treat; while if so much power and no more had been skillfully given as would compensate for nature's deficiency, high magnifying powers might have been avoided, and their baneful effects thus averted. The selection of glasses cannot be left wholly with the wearers, as they are apt to choose those which give brilliancy, size, apparent clearness, or other effects pleasing at the time, but in many instances highly deleterious; it therefore is of the first importance that the selection should be aided by the advice of a person duly qualified. BRAHAM'S PATENT PANTASCOPIC SPECTACLES. MR. DAVIS has a large Stock of the above attempts at improvement, which he can supply at half the usual price to those of his friends who may admire them. 8, Foregate Street, Worcester. WORCESTER REGATTA, JULY 9TH AND IOTII, 1846. rpHE following PRIZES will be CONTENDED FOR :- THE GRAND CHALLENGE CUP, value Eighty Guineas, for Eight- oared Boats. THE STEWARD'S CHALLENGE CUP, value Thirty Guineas; THE SEVERN CUP, value Twenty Guineas; THE DISTRICT CUP, value Fifteen Guineas; All for Four- oared Boats.' PAIR of SILVER CUPS, value Seven Guineas each, for Pair- oared Boats. PAIR of SILVER SCULLS, for Amateur Scullers. THE SUDELEY PURSE, for Pair- oared Boats; open to Workmen and Mechanics resident in Worcestershire. A PURSE, for Watermen Scullers. Further particulars and Rules may be obtained by appli- cation to THOMAS W. WALSH, Worcester, May 18th. Hon. Sec. %* Donations and Subscriptions will be thankfully received at either of the Worcester Banks, or by any Member of the Committee. PERUVIAN GUANO. H. & J. WEBB HAVING purchased the *' Glentcmners" PERU- VIAN GUANO, imported by Messrs. Wm. J. Myers and Co., Liverpool, will have much pleasure in forwarding any one the Analysis of the same by Dr. A. Ure, M. D., F. R. S., Professor of Chemistry, London. Dr. A. Ure, states in his Report— " This Guano surpasses in purity and richness of fertilizing ingredients any sample which [ have hitherto examined, and it is, I believe, the best which has ever been imported." City Wharf, Bath Road, Worcester, February 13th, 1846. P. S.— Linseed, Crushed ditto, African. Guano, Nitrate Soda, Gypsum, Sulphuric Acid, & c. & c. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause of PARKHURST versus PARKHURST, the Creditors of the REVEREND FLEET- WOOD PARKHURST, late of Ripple, near Tewkesbury, in the County of Worcester, Clerk, ( who died on the 29th day of Octobcr, 1844,) are forthwith to come in and prove their Debts before Sir William Horne, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, or in default thereof they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS, VLL Persons who stand indebted to the Estate of the late THOMAS PARDOE, of Severn Stoke, in the County of Worcester, Gentlemen, deceased, are requested to pay the amount of their respective Debts immediately to the undersigned Edward Corles; and all Persons who have any Claim upon the said Thomas Pardoe's Estate, are requested forthwith to send in their Accounts to the said EDWARD CORLES, Solicitor to the Execufor. Worcester, May 15th, 1846. WORCESTER COUNTY GAOL. PERSONS wishing to supply this Gaol with MEAT, COAL, and POTATOES, and the JUDGES' HOUSE with COAL, for the ensuing THREE MONTHS, must leave their Tenders at the Gaol, inclosed in a scaled cover, marked " Tender," and addressed " To the Visiting Magistrates," on or before Twelve o'Clock on Saturday, the 30th day of May instant. All Gaol Bills must be delivered, addressed to me, at my Office in the Gaol, on the said 30th May ( made up as nearly as possible to that date) or they will not be allowed at the next Sessions. By order of the Visiting Magistrates, B. L. STABLE, Governor. In consequence of the great difficulty which has been ex- perienced in getting the Accounts sent in, it has been deter- mined by the Visiting Justices, that persons neglecting to furnish their Bills after this Notice shall not be again employed to supply the Prison for Twelve Months. May 20th, 1846 INCOME WITHOUT RISK. THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COMPANY are now filling up their Lists of Agents for the present year. By the sale of these celebrated Teas, many Persons during the last twenty- nine years derived very considerable Incomes. It interferes with no business, is easily undertaken, and forms a genteel addition to any. Persons wishing such an appointment may apply to the Company, at their Warehouses, 2, Lawrence, Pountney Hill, London. Excellent HOUSEHOLD EURNITURE, including a ROSEWOOD DRAWING ROOM SUITE, of first, rate quality, with a singularly valuable CHESS TABLE ; noble GLASSES, and MAHOGANY DINING ROOM FURNITURE, with Pedestal Sideboards, Telescope, Dining, Card, Pembroke, Sofa, Work, and all other varieties of Tables; Chairs of all descriptions; Glazed Bookcases, Mahogany Sofas, Brussels and other Carpets, expensive Window Curtains, fine- toned PIANO- FORTE, BREAKFAST £ SITTING ROOM FURNITURE, BED and DRESSING ROOM FURNITURE, prin- cipally in Mahogany, and including Goose Feather Beds, Curled Horse- hair Mattresses, and corresponding Bedding ; Pier, Cheval, and other Glasses, Wardrobes, large and small, double and single Chests of Drawers, with every conceivable requisite; ORIENTAL and other costly CHINA, rich CutGLASS, a few genuine PAIN TINGS, fine specimens; a LIBRARY of BOOKS, composed of the principal Standard Works, superior Plated Goods, Kitchen and Brewing Requisites, capital Four- wheel PHAETON, useful PONY GIG and two Sets of Harness, various Implements, a Cart, Trucks, Wheelbarrows, Ladders, high and low Folding Steps, Garden Tools, a Rick of HA Y, to go off; a quantity of valuable Fancy Woods for Cabinet Makers and. Turners, Iron Hurdles, and an immense variety of Effects, at GREEN HILL COTTAGE, WYLD'S LANE, WORCESTER; TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HOBBS & SON, ON MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY, the 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th days of MAY, commencing at ten for eleven o'clock precisely each day, by direction of the Executors of JOHN MORTON, ESQ., deceased. Messrs. Hobbs can with the utmost confidence claim the par- ticular attention of the Public to this Furniture, Mr. Morton being eminently distinguished for Furniture of the very best possible quality and workmanship ; and this especially having been manufactured under his personal superintendence, ex- pressly for himself, is a sufficient guarantee of its excellence. Comment is superfluous. May be viewed on Friday only, with Catalogues, at 6d. each, which may be had on the Premises, and of Messrs. Hobbs, Foregate Street. N. B.— The Hay, Tools, Ladders, Flower Stands, Iron Roll, and Out Articles, Brewhouse and Laundry, will be sold the First Day. — Books, China, Glass, Plated Goods, Cellar, and Best Kitchen, the Second Day.— Sitting Room, Breakfast Room, Hall, Staircase, and seven Bed Rooms and Dressing Rooms the Third Day.— The Phaeton, Pony, Gig, Pictures, Drawing Room, Dining Parlour, two Bed Rooms, and Kitchen, the Last Day. Desirable RESIDENCE, MARBLE BATH, and other Conveniences, with large GARDEN, situate in SANSOME STREET, WORCESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HOBBS & SON, At the Hop Market Inn, on the 28th day of May, at five for six o'clock precisely; ASUBSTANTIAL Brick- built and Tiled HOUSE, consisting of an Entrance Passage leading to a paved Yard and Entrance Hall, a capital large Dining Room, small Breakfast Room, good Kitchen, Butler's Pantry, and Bath Room, with Pipes, & c., for hot and cold Water; a well- pro- portioned Drawing Room, Landing, and two best Bed Rooms, with Closets on First Floor ; three Bed Rooms and Dressing Rooms on Second Floor; detached Brewhouse, with Laundry, Office, and Rooms over; extensive arched Cellaring, lofty three- stall Stable, Saddle Room, and two small Yards ; also an excellent Garden behind. The whole is in the occupation of Mr. J. F. Corbett, Solicitor, and possession will be given on completion of the purchase. The House, & c., is held for 41 years under the Corporation of Worcester, at the yearly Rent of 10s.; and the Gardenia Freehold of Inheritance. For further particulars and to view the same apply to Mr. Corbett, on the Premises; to Messrs. Bedford and Pidcock, Solicitors; or Messrs. Hobbs, all of Worcester. BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY OFEICE, ANGEL STREET WORCESTER. GOODS DEPARTMENT. Increased facilities for the Conveyance of Goods between London and Worcester, via London and Birmingham and Bristol and Birmingham Railways. HPHE PUBLIC are respectfully informed, that A. arrangements have been made to insure a DELIVERY DAILY of GOODS to and from LONDON and WOR- CESTER, and that on and after JUNE 1st the Agency for the Receipt and Dispatch of Goods in London will be con- ducted by SlIIPTON and CO., ELEPHANT INN, FORE STREET, and in Worcester at the Office of the BRISTOL and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY, ANGEL STREET, where every information as to rates, & c., may be obtained. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER- HAMPTON RAILWAY. NOTICE is hereby given, that a MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of SHARES in the OXFORD, WORCESTER, and WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY COMPANY, and interested in Shares or Stock to be raised under the Bill hereafter mentioned, will be held at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, on Tuesday, the 26th day of May, 1846, at the Offices of the Company, No. 449, West Strand, London ; at which Meeting a Copy of a Bill now pending in Parliament, entitled " A Bill to authorise certain alterations in the Line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto," will be submitted for the consideration and approval of the persons present, personally or by proxy, at such Meeting. FRANCIS RUFFORD, Chairman. NOEL THOS. SMITH, Secretary. Dated 11th May, 1846. WORCESTER, WARWICK, & RUGBY RAILWAY. OFFICES, 5, GRESHAM STREET BANK. London, 20th May, 1846. THE SCRIP HOLDERS in this COMPANY are informed that the Standing Orders' Committee having decided that the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with in the case of the Bill of the Company with which the undertaking is associated, all Claims upon the Company will be immediately called in, a Balance Sheet prepared, and a General Meeting held at the earliest possible period after the passing of Lord Dalhousie's Act, there being no clause empowering the Company to Dissolve itself under the Subscribers' Deed. H. G. WARD, Chairman. By order, . JNO. HUGHES, Secretary. WORCESTER, WARWICK, & RUGBY RAILWAY. OFFICES, 5, GRESHAM STREET BANK. London, 20th May, 1846. ALL Persons having CLAIMS against this COM- PANY are requested to send in the same to the Secretary, on or before the 1st day of JUNE next, in order that they may be examined and, if found correct, discharged. JOHN HUGHES, Secretary. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND OXFORD AND BLETCIILEY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Parties who have sent in the Scrip of this Company for the purpose of being produced at the Meeting held on the 9th current, are informed that in consequence of the Forgeries of the Scrip of this Company having been discovered, the Committee of Management deem it their duty, for the satisfaction of their Shareholders and the protection of the public, to verify the Scrip which has been sent in before they return it to the parties sending it in. The Scrip, when examined and found correct, will be stamped and immediately returned to the parties send- ing it in, and the examination will be made with all possible dispatch. All parties holding the Scrip of this Company are recommended to send it in immediately for verification. HARRY VERNEY, Bart., Chairman of the Committee of Management. WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. Offices of fhe Company, 29, Great George Street, Westminster, May 11, 1846. The Bills of this Company were unanimously approved of at the Scripholders' Meeting held on the 9th current. WELLAND INCLOSURE. WHEREAS an application for the INCLOSURE of WELLAND COMMON and WELLAND ARABLE, OPEN, and COMMON FIELDS, in the Parish of Welland, in the County of Worcester, has been duly made to " The Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales," pursuant to the provisions of the Act of the 8th and 9th Vict., c. 118. And whereas the said Application has been referred by the said Commissioners to me, an Assistant Commissioner, duly appointed under the said Act. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that I shall hold a MEETING on the 13th day of JUNE next, at the hour of eleven in the forenoon, at the PARISH SCHOOL ROOM, in the said Parish of Welland, for the purpose of hearing any Objections which may be made to the proposed Inclosure, and any Information or Evidence which may be offered in relation thereto. Witness my hand this 20th day of May, 1846. J. J. RAWLINSON, Assistant Inclosure Commissioner BROADWAY AND MICKLETON TURNPIKE ROADS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the TRUSTEES of the Turnpike Road leading from the Worcester Turnpike Road, in the Village of Broadway, in the County of Worcester, to the Stratford- upon- Avon Turnpike Road, in the Village of Mickleton, in the County of Gloucester, will meet at the LYGON ARMS INN, in BROADWAY aforesaid, on THURSDAY, the 4th day of JUNE next, at twelve o'clock at noon, and LET BY AUCTION, to the best Bidder, the TOLLS arising from the BROADWAY and WILLERSEY GATES and HEMMER'S LANE GATE, for One Year, from the 22nd day of June next, and upon such conditions as shall be agreed upon by the Trustees then present. The present Rent of the Tolls is £ 158. Whoever shall happen to be the best Bidder must, at the time of taking the Tolls, pay two months' rent in advance, and give security, with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the Trustees, for payment of the remainder of the Rent monthly, so that two months' rent may at all times be paid in advance. By Order of the Trustees, J. R. GRIFFITHS, Clerk Canapden, May 1st, 1846. ( I THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1846. STOCKS.— At 2o'ct. FRI. SAT. MUX, TOES. WHD, THURS Bank Stock 205* 95f 205{ 206 205 205 3 per Cent. Red Ann. 9j » 95j; 95} 95} 95} 3 per Ceut Cons 96* 96$ 9 « i 9J » 96} 9 » t Cons, for Account.... 96| 96, t 96J 96J 96J 96} 3j per Cent. 1818 3 per Ceut. Red New 3J per Cent 97J 97ft 97} 97} 96} 3 per Cent. 1826 Bank Long Ann I'M 10} lOj 1( 1} 10} 10} India Stock 264 264 265i 266 264 India Bonds 30 r Excheq. Bills 20 P 20 l' 23 r 22 v 15 l' 15 l' ,1V -' V * FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1846. LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSEL ON THIS SCAPI'OLD. " I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing " to carry on their designs; and 1 am heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping hand to i:..'' WE have barely room to call the earnest attention of our agricultural readers to the highly important proceed- ings at the meeting of the Agricultural Protection Society, held yesterday in London, and reported in our columns this day. Some idea of the character of the meeting may be formed from the fact that UPWARDS OF FOUR THOUSAND LANDOWNERS AND TENANT- FARMERS were congregated for the purpose of protesting against the free- trade measures of our League- ridden Government. THE " comprehensive measure" of Sir Robert PEEL, which has won him the applause of the Anti- Corn- Law League, and is to remove from the Aristocracy of this great country all influence in its Government, has at length passed the mcst servile House of Commons we have ever known. The Times has ominously said " the beginning of the end has commenced," which saying our readers will recollect was a coiuage of that versatile and unprincipled tactician, TALLEYRAND, at the commence- ment of BUONAPARTE'S disasters in Russia. With an object differing very widely from that of our metropolitan contemporary we repeat that " the beginning of the end lias commenced ;" and we trust that that end, notwith- standing that it may raise the bile of the Times, will be the discomfiture of Sir Robert PEEL and his Swiss troops, many of whom are looking to the prostration of the Lords before the upstart insolence of the Anti- Coin- Law League WITH ITS QUARTER OF A MILLION FUND, as the final result of this Corn Law measure. The present result already shows that the Treasury drag- net has been ' extended more widely than usual; that it has not suffered one conscience to escape which could be seduced, nor any vote to be lost which could be purchased. It also shows that electors have an important duty to perform at the next election, which it will be disgraceful to neglect or tamper with, unless TIIEY TOO believe that political honesty is a delusion, and the main- tenance of a truly representative and responsible Govern- ment " a nonsensical humbug," and therefore not worth striving for. Constituents are generally patient; but when their representatives wantonly turn their coats and yet keep their places, constituents have just cause of complaint. To the disgrace of the House of Commons this has been done upon an extensive scale. The triumphs of Ministerial corruption have been so numerous that they forcibly remind us of that saying of BURLEIGH and MONTESQUIEU, that England can only be ruined by her Parliament. The remorseless waves of corruption have flowed freely within its walls, and if England is to be saved, those waves must be proudly and nobly stayed by the force of public virtue from without. The Times, from its more intimate acquaintance with the power and influence of corruption, may sneer at our simplicity when we say that an ' unprincipled House of Commons is in the power of the constituency, and that a constitutional remedy is at hand; but despite of the more flexible tactics of that weathercock journal we venture to express the hope that such a remedy will be vigorously applied Constitutionally we know nothing of Sir Robert PEEL'S " necessary system of Parliamentary Govern- ment," which he truly says was introduced by the famous> or rather infamous corruptionist Sir Robert WALPOLE, and which another Sir Robert has alarmingly illustrated ; but practically we know that such an incubus of Parlia- mentary profligacy exists; that so long as it does so England is degraded and disgraced; and unless it is removed her wretchedness will be completed. The time for removing it will be at the next election, when, as we believe the rottenness of the Members has not yet reached the electors, most, if not all, of the 111 renegades who now occupy— we had nearlj1- written disgrace— the Par- liamentary benches, will be taught the good old English lesson that " Honesty, even in politics, is always the best policy." With this we might have concluded ; but turning over some Anti- Corn- Law papers, we cannot resist the temptation of favouring our readers with a fact:— the Times in its ponderosity, and if it suited its views, might call it " a great fact." Be it remembered, then, by our agricultural readers more especially, that on the defeat of the MELBOURNE Ministry in 1841, the present Parlia nient was elected on Protectionist principles ; and Mr. BROOKES, a well- known Leaguer, and now another of Sir Robert's backbone friends, stated at an Anti- Corn- Lavv tea gathering—" The sliding scale is a perfect scheme of legalized plunder and robbery. We were prepared for Sir Robert PEEL'S declaration in favour of the infernal machine. He has given himself over to tlie bread taxers. HE IS FROM THIS MOMENT THE PLEDGED ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. Doivn with PEEL ! Down with his followers /" The cry is so much in unison with our own sentiments in this year of Grace, 1846, that we heartily repeat— Let our cry at the next election be " Down with PEEL ! Down with his followers.'" and the glory and the honour of England, and the happiness of her people, may yet be preserved. WE observe with much satisfaction that Mr. PLUMP- TRE, the indefatigable and trustworthy member for East Kent, has given notice of a motion for the repeal of the Maynooth grant of last Session; although such appears to be the determined character of the Popish policy of her Majesty's Government, and such the political subser- viency of the House of Commons, that we cannot confi- dently augur the success of the motion. The accommoda- ting policy of CHANCELLORS and EX- CHANCELLORS in declaring what is and what is not the law, appears likely to introduce a new rule of construction— namely, how far it will tend to promote Popery and give great dis- couragement to Protestantism— which will certainly be a dangerous novelty. Again, if attention is turned to the Right Reverend Bench, but little, if any, encouragement for Protestantism is to be found there. From that Right Reverend quarter no decisive steps are taken— no authoritative voice is heard for the purpose of staying the plague of Popery, which our miscalled Protestant rulers are evidently designing to let into our hitherto highly- favoured, but, we fear, too ungrateful land, and that, too, on the most favourable terms. Verily, these things are against 11s as Protestants. When we look at what is passing around us, the expression of the eloquent Robert HALL, that the battle of Waterloo, though a great victory, would be disastrous to this Protestant nation, assumes somewhat of a pro- phetical aspect ; nor does the recollection of the omission, the avowedly designed omission of the usual declaration in the speech announcing her MAJESTY'S intended marriage, that her intended husband was a Protestant, give any increased confidence in either a Whig or a Con- servative Government. To the great mass of the nation a secret and insidious influence behind the Government appears to be always at work; and a vehement suspicion is arising in the public mind, to use the words of a powerful writer in the Church of England Quarterly, that " The British Constitution in Church and State was, perhaps, never so perilled ; and that everything appears to augur some approaching convulsion of tremen- dous power and extent. Popery stalks boldly in broad daylight before us, towards the summit of her impious pretensions; making no secret of her ultimate designs, but proclaiming without the shadow of a mask, her anti- cipations of speedily consummating the subjugation of all England to her tyrannical priesthood." Protestants of England, will ye submit to this? THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.— It will be seen on reference to our Parliamentary summary, that the Government measure ( introduced by the Lord Chancellor), by which all the charitable trusts in the country were to be placed under the surveillance of a body of Permanent Commissioners, paid by a tax on the charities, and invested with most extraordinary powers, was defeated in the House of Lords on Monday by a majority of one; the numbers being for the second reading, 40; against it, 41. HER MAJESTY AND THE COURT.— The Court remains at Buckingham Palace, and we are happy to say that lhe Queen and the other members of the Royal Family continue to enjov their usual robust health. On Monday, her Majesty and Prince Albert paid a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Mariborough House, and in the evening honoured the French plays with their presence. The near approach of an interesting event may perhaps be inferred from the fact that the messengers of the Home Office have received directions to be in attendance night and day, so that the fact of the Queen's indisposition may be communicated without loss of time to the Cabinet Ministers. Prince Albert intends payiug a visit to Liverpool on the 30th and 31st July next, but her Majesty will not accompany his Royal Highness, Preparations are being made at Liverpool to give his Royal Iiighness a fitting reception. THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.— Sunday next ( the 24th) is her Majesty's birthday : its celebration is to be postponed to Tuesday, the 9th of June. We regret to learn that letters have been received from Naples from the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, con- veying the melancholy news of the death, in that capital, of Mr. John Talbot, nephew of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and heir presumptive to that ancient Earldom. The Noble Earl and Countess have had charge of their nephew since the death of his father, the Hon. George Henry Talbot, in lo39, and in the last autumn they left this country for Italy, for the benefit of Mr. Talbot's health, which had occasioned the most painful anxiety to the family. The deceased was only son of the late Hon. George Henry Talbot and Augusta, daughter of Sir Horace St. Paul, IJart., re- married to the Hon. Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M. P. He was in his 17th year. We hear that his remains are to be brought to England for interment. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury arc shortly expected at Mivart's Hotel, from Naples, on their way to Alton Towers, Staffordshire. Lord Forester arrived in town 011 Friday last, from Shropshire, where the Noble Lord has been on duty with the local yeomanry cavalry corps. The Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton gave a dinnerparty on Monday evening at his mansion in St. James's Place. Lord Foley gave a dinner party on Wednesday, in Giosvenor Square. The Hon. 11. H. Clive, on the same day, entertained a distinguished party at dinner in Lower Grosvenor Street. Mr. Bortliwick has postponed his motion for a select committee to inquire into the state and operation of tti*; laws which relate to the administration of relief to the poor in England and Wales. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting on Wednesday. There were present the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Winchester, Bangor, Chester, Chichester, Gloucester and Bristol, Hereford, Lincoln, Norwich, Ripon, Salisbury, and Worcester, the Eari of Besborough, and the Right Hon. H. Ilobhouse. The late John Prescott Clowes, Esq., of Hanbury Hall, near Droitwich, who died in the prime of life on the 22nd of March last, had not made a will, and, being a bachelor, his property goes to his father, the Rev. Thomas Clowes, who has administered to the personal estate, valued at 35,000J. We observe that Mr. F. C. F. Maiden, second son of Dr. Maiden, of this city, has obtained the first piize for physiology, in the junior class, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. We perceive by the Military Gazette of the 12th instant, that Mr. Arthur P. Smith, of Kempsey, is appointed Lieutenant in the corps of Royal Engineers. SERJIONS.— On Sunday last a sermon was preached in Hallow Church on behalf of the Incorporated Society for pro- moting the enlargement, building, and repairing of Churches and Chapels, and the sum of £ 3. 12s. was collected in aid of the funds.— Two sermons were preached 011 Sunday last, at the parish church, Stratford- on- Avon, by the Rev. C. Griffin, M. A., Chaplain to Viscount Kenmare. and recently appointed Chaplain to the Union Workhouse at Stratford, in aid of the funds of the Boy's National School, of that town. The sum of £ 25. 0s. ll| d. was collected at the close of the services.— On Sunday last two sermons were preached in St. Edmund' 3 Church, Dudley, by the the Rev. T. Bradshaw, A. M., and the Rev. J. A. Baxter, A. M., in behalf of the choir. The collections were liberal. FIIETIIERNE CHUKCH, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— We have much pleasure in stating that a new church is in course of erection in the above parish, the old one being much too small for the population, and also in a sad state of dilapidation. By the exertions of the esteemed Rector, the Rev. W. Darell, M. A., a considerable portion of the funds for this purpose has been raised, his own subscription " being 110/. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has kindly given 10/. The Dean of Worcester has also handsomely subscribed the sum of 10/. for the same object. At the City Sessions on Tuesday last the Rev. G. Hodson took the usual oaths 011 his preferment to the rectory of St. Andrew, iu this city. INFIRMARY.— We have great pleasure in announcing he following additional new subscribers to the Worcester Infirmary :— G. M. Forster, Esq., Broadwas Court £ 1 1 0 Mr. H. Rowe, architect, Worcester 1 1 0 Mrs. Sytnonds, the Eades, near llpton- on- Severn 110 Right Hon. Lord Sandys, Ombersley Court 2 2 0 M. G. Benson, Esq., Malvern 2 2 0 Mrs. Varden, Worcester 1 1 0 Ilyla Holden, Esq., solicitor, Worcester 1 1 0 Rev. H. L. Oswell, Stoulton 1 1 0 B. Sanders, Esq., The Cottage, Bromsgrove ... 3 3 0 TEWKESBURY.— Lord Sudeley recently presented a petition to the House of Peers, from the Guardians of the Tewkesbury poor, in favour of a bill now before the House of Commons, for making the proprietors of small tenements liable to the payment of poor- rates, instead of the occupiers. His Lordship also presented a petition from the officers of the said Union, praying for a superannuation allowance. Petitions to the same effect have likewise been presented by W. Dowdeswell, Esq., M. P. THE WEATHER has not been so auspicious as could be desired at this season, several intervals of cold rainy weather having happened. The barley has been successfully sown, but the wheats are still looking sickly, though we do not hear of any thine: like a general apprehension as to the success of the crop. We fear that there will be an extensive failure in apples, and that cider will reach a high price. Pears, too, appear to have suffered considerably from the frosts of March, especially after lhe snow, and on the night of the 20th, when the thermometer indicated 12 degress of frost. Notwithstanding that prospects are somewhat adverse, the rains have imparted a beautiful freshness and verdure to the earth, and we have 110 doubt that there will be sufficient proJuce both for man and beast. The bay harvest will doubtless be a very bountiful one, and at present the potato crop, as far as the planting has been completed, promises fairly. MEETING OF PROTECTIONIST PEERS.— On Saturday a numerous meeting of Protectionist Peers ( there were 49 present) was held in London, the Duke of Richmond in the chair. His Grace made an excellent speech, and was followed by Lord Stanley, who was received with an enthusiasm that was continued through the whole of his speech, in which the Noble Lord declared his earnest support of the principles of protection, and his lixed inten- tion by all the means in his power to oppose the bill that had just passed the Commons. Lord Beaumont, Lord Redesdale, Lord Colchester, and Lord Ashburton, severally addressed the meeting in similar terms, and the result was an unanimous resolution to lose no opportunity that might offer for securing the defeat of the scheme proposed by Sir Robert Peel. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.— The agreement of this society with the authorities of Northampton, for holding the meeting of 1847 in that town, was at the last meeting duly ratified by the council, and completed in duplicate with the terms of the charier. The following arrangements have also been made for the districts of the country meetings:— 1848: the Yorkshire district ( comprised of the county of York).— 1840 : the Eastern district ( comprised of the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridge).— 1850 : the Western district ( comprised of the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall). Tlie Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by by the Earl of Aylesford, assembled at Warwick on Wed- nesday week, for their annual permanent duty, and the review by Lieut.- Colonel the Earl of Cardigan took place 011 Tuesday last. CAUTION.— SPURIOUS COIN.— We would caution the public against a forged half- sovereign of the present reign, the execution of which is remarkable good. Some of them arc struck off in silver, and strongly gilt, and they defy detection, except by the weight and sound. THE ORANGE- PEEL NUISANCE.— We have so con- tinually and ineffectually reiterated our caution to droppers of orange- peel in the streets, that we deem it. necessary to suggest that the Watch Committee should direct the police to take cognizance of a nuisance calculated to produce such mischievous consequences. THE PRICE OF SUGAR.— The Gazette price of sugar, on the 11 tli of February, 1845, was 28s. 2d. per cwt., and the Gazette price 011 the 12th of May, 1846, was 37s. 2d. Thus, owing to the insufficiency of the supply, nearly the whole benefit of the last year's reduction of duty has been lost both to the public and the revenue, and has gone into the pockets of the sugar growers. The only method by which any part of it can be secured for the consumer is by opening the ports to increased supplies of foreign sugar.— Liverpool Times. To PRESERVE GROWING CROPS OF POTATOES FROM DISEASE.— The following appears in a London paper; we know not what efficacy there is in the plan described:— " Walk through your potatoes twice a week, and carefully pick off and carry away any of the leaves that haye a rust- like spot on them." NOVEL TURNIP DRILLING.— A plan is in practice at Bampton, of drilling turnips between peas, the rows of peas having been planted rather wider than is usual: we hear the plan is likely to become a general one, but a difficulty is experienced in using a horse with the drill on account of damaging the peas. This difficulty has been surmounted by our neighbour, Mr. Plummer, who has adopted another method— which is to attach two dogs to the drill, who have quite strength enough to perform the duty required, and they do not damage the peas. Such a method is seen to work well, and not to injure the dogs, as the draught of the drill is a very light one.— Banbury Guardian. Earl Jersey is causing portions of the hitherto uncul- tivated land on his estate at and around Middleton Stoney to be brought into tillage. PREACHING IN THE STREETS.— On Sunday morning last, a person named Haywood, of Stourport, was taken into custody by the police, for creating a disturbance by preaching in the public street. The professed object of his zeal was to procure the better observance of the Sabbath day, and he held forth with peculiar animation on the sinfulness of selling milk on that day. After remaining some time in the Statiou4iouse, bail was given for his appearance when called on. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.— On Sunday last as a man named Clevvson was drinking in a public- house in Dudley, he was suddenly taken ill, and was removed to his home, where he expired soon after his arrival. FOWL STEALING.— A few nights since a hen and six chickens were missed, supposed to be stolen, from an outhouse belonging to Mr. W. Woodward, of Bredon's Norton. DINNER TO LORD DUDLEY STUART.— On Saturday evening Lord Dudley Stuart, the indefatigable friend of Polish nationality and independence, was entertained at dinner, at Willis' Rooms, St. James', 011 the occasion of the presentation to him of a testimonial by the ladies of Poland. Yiscount Morpeth, M. P., presided After dinner the assembly was graced bv the presence of a large number of ladies, who were provided with raised seats at the lower end of the room, opposite the chair. After the usual loyal toasts, Count Ilenry Krasinski rose, and in the name of the ladies of Polaud, presented to Lord Dudley Stuart a splendid piece of tapestry, which was suspended on one side of the apart- ment. This testimonial, which measured about 27 feet by 19, was stated to be the work of the ladies of Poland, secretly executed in different parts of the kingdom. It bore an inscription in the Polish language—" The Sisters of the Exiles to their Protector." The arms of the kingdom of Poland occupied the centre of the tapestry, beneath which were the escocheons of the 27 ancient provinces of Poland and Lithuania. The Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry commenced on Saturday eight days' duty, under the com- mand of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, at Bristol. How TO PAY THE RENT.— The Repeal fund is dropping every week. A new dodge is terribly wanted. Co& ldn't Mr. Smith O'Brien be shown at a shilling a head?— Punch. CITY SESSIONS.— A full report of the proceedings of the sessions held in this city on Tuesday and Wednesday last, before C. J. Turner, Esq., ( in the absence of J. Buckle, Esq., Recorder, who is labouring under indisposition,) will be found in our fourth page. VISITATION.— The Archdeacon of Worcester holds his visitation in this city on Tuesday next. THE HANLEY TURNPIKE ROAD.— Another meeting of the Trustees of the Upton Turnpikes has been held, at which it lias been decided to suspend proceedings in the matter of the proposed alterations of the turnpike road leading from Upton to Ilanley Castle, pending the bill now before Parlia- ment for constructing a line of railway from Ashchurch to Malvern. UPTON POOR LAW UNION.— We notice that the Board of Guardians of this Union are advertising for a master and matron of the Union Workhouse, from which we infer that the resignation of Mr. Barnes, the late master, has been accepted by the Board, in conformity to tlri; wishes of the Poor Law Commissioners. UPTON BRIDGE.— A great deal has been said of late iu reference to the contemplated alteration in the bridge over the river Severn at Upton, by the Severn Com- missioners, and a considerable diversity of opinion prevails as to the nature of the interruption which would arise from the swing bridge proposed to be made by them. The majority of the town's- people at Upton are decidedly opposed thereto, and profess to be very indignant at this attempt 011 the part of the Commissioners to force a bridge of that description upon them, and they have not omitted any opportunity of displaying their opposition. A cor- respondent has furnished us with the following table, which contains an account of a week's traffic over and under the bridge on the days mentioned between the hours of 6 a. m. and dusk in the evening :— RIVER TRAFFIC. 1846. April 13th ... „ 14th... „ 15th ... „ 16th ... „ 17th ... „ 18th ... Barges Barges Boats Boats Total. up. down. up. down. 4 12 28 11 50 13 18 20 ' 20 71 10 8 22 8 48 5 10 10 8 33 4 10 9 5 28 7 7 11 23 48 ROAD TRAFFIC. 1846 Carriages. Cart & Wagons Horses. Cattle & Sheep. Footpas sengcis. Total. April 13th .. 37 62 67 15 626 807 „ 14th .. 45 64 72 5 602 788 „ 15th .. 51 85 66 116 544 862 „ 16th .. 39 83 103 — 828 1053 „ 17th .. 26 52 37 18 376 509 „ 18th .. 34 64 110 17 677 902 Our correspondent adduces these tables as proof that the amount of traffic over the bridge greatly exceeds that upon the river, and that if any inconvenience at all should arise from the suggested alteration it would be greatly felt by the Upton public. Now it certainly seems to us that the incon- venience which it is anticipated will result from the substi- tution of a swing bridge at Upton for the present bridge, is greatly overrated by the inhabitants of the town. We have already had a declaration from the engineer of the works to the effect that the interruption to the road traffic, consequent on the passing of vessels with masts through the bridge, would not exceed two or three minutes, and it should be borne in mind too that it will not be necessary that the swing bridge should be opened for one half of the vessels passing along the river. I11 the first place many of the barges passing down the river merely float down with the stream and have 110 tractive or propelling power applied to them, so that having 110 mast in use they would not require the opening of the swing bridge. Secondly, " boats" ( which it will be seen form the chief proportion of the river traffic) having low masts or no masts at all would not require the opening of the swing to allow them to pass, as it is presumed a side towing path would be provided. But even supposing that no such accommodation should be provided, and that one half the vessels passing Upton bridge ( they could not be more) would cause a temporary suspen- sion of the traffic on the road, surely the advantages to the people of Upton, in common with the whole public of the district above the bridge, are not to be put in comparison with the disadvantages of the trifling and temporary obstruction of the roadway. We would advise our Upton neighbours by all means to get a swing bridge, if they can, in place of the dangerous, unsightly, and wretchedly inconvenient structure which now encumbers the traffic of the bridge and road. We do not find the citizens of ancient Bristol rising up and proclaiming the swing bridges in that city a nuisance to the road traffic. In the very heart of that busy city there are some three or four bridges of this description across the Avon and cuttings in connection with that river, and over which the traffic in one day would amount to about a month's traffic over Upton bridge. BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT.— Re Mason, of Malvern. Saturday last was appointed for the first hearing of this bankrupt, described as of Great Malvern, lodging- house keeper, when he came up before Mr. Commissioner Daniell, the insolvent being supported by Mr. W. H. Reece, and opposed by Mr. J. Smith ( in the absence of Mr. Motteram). This matter had been previously before the court, and 011 Saturday the Learned Commissioner, in adverting to the points of opposi- tion, said that ( he " action for trespass" brought by the insolvent had been designated as malicious. He ( the Com- missioner) could not so designate it, and, under the circum- stances, should grant Mason his interim order. No observation followed upon this, and the insolvent was then declared to have passed. DUDLEY MARKET PLACE.— In order to carry out the contemplated improvements in this market place, the Street Commissioners resolved some lime ago to purchase a con- siderable quantity of property, the site of which was requisite for the plan determined upon. Amongst this were two houses belonging to Ralph Musslewhite, for which the Commissioners offered what they considered to be a fair sum. The offer was rejected, and the price fixed by the proprietor, £ 4,800, appearing to thein an exorbitant demand, they resolved not to give it. The matter will therefore be left to the decision of a jury, and notices to that effect have been served on the Commissioners. The case will be heard at the next Quarter Sessions for this county. NEW ISSUE OF SILVER COINAGE FROM THE MINT.— A correspondence lias recently taken place between the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., the Master of the Royal Mint, and the Rev. Mr. Adams, of Throcking, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, with respect to a more extensive circulation of small silver coin. The Rev. Gentleman in his first communication upon the subject, some two years since, submitted for the consideration of the authorities connected with the Mint a table or calculation, showing that a more extended circulation of fourpenny or threepenny pieces would obviate tlie necessity of any copper coinage, with the exception of halfpence, inasmuch as any fractional portion of a shilling could be paid with equal facility, and without incurring the disagreeable necessity of carrying a quantity of copper change. In reply to " this communication Mr. Adams received a letter from the Deputy Mint Master thanking him for the suggestions he had conveyed, but adding that just at that moment it would not be convenient to carry them into practical operation. Thus the matter stood until a few days ago, when Mr. Adams received another communication from James William Morrison, Esq., Deputy Mint Master, stating that the authorities of the Mint had re- considered his suggestions, and had determined to carry them out. The writer further added that a large quantity of threepenny pieces had lately been coined for general circulation, and that the public could be supplied with this most useful little coin upon application to the Mint. To prevent unnecessary trouble, however, it was determined that, for the present at least, no less than £ 25 worth should be given. After a little time, when three- penny and fourpenny pieces find their way into more general circulation, the Rev. Gentleman's suggestions will be found productive of much public convenience. DEATHS EY DROWNING.— Mr. Hughes, coroner, held an inquest on Saturday, on the body of a labouring man named Henry Lloyd, of Knightwick, which had been found in a brook near to Mr. Walker's, of that parish, in whose employ deceased worked as a farm servant. The deceased had threatened to drown himself, but the jury, in the absence of any positive evidence, returned an open verdict—" Found drowned."— Yesterday se'nnight, a child aged three years, named Allchurch, whose parents reside in Dog- lane, Bewdley, was drowned in a sluice running near to Dowles Church. It appears that the child, in company with several other children, had been out walking, and staying longer than was proper, the mother of the deceased set out after them; and while in the turr; pike- road about two hundred yards from Dowles Church, she heard a violent screaming among some children. She hastened to the spot, and on coming to the sluice was horrified to find her child drowning in the water. She by great exertion got it out, and laid it on the bank, while she hurried back to Bewdley for medical aid. Unfortunately, however, all means failed to save the child's life. An inquest was subsequently held upon the body before S. P. Souttiam, Esq,, coroner, and after hearing the evidence adduced, which proved the lamentable occurrence to have been purely accidental, a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury. BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.— A poor married woman of the name of Mason, residing near the Pound, Bromley, Middlesex, was on Monday evening last, safely deli vered of four sons, all alive and well. The interesting little strangers have since been christened by the Rev. Mr. Boyle, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It is gratifying to add that the mother and her four sons were up to yester- day going 011 well. RELIGIOUS VAGARIES.— It is rumoured that the Rev. Frederick Wilford Faber, M. A., late Fellow of University College, Oxloi'd, and rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire, is about to become the founder of a new order of religion, the special principle of which is to be submission to the will of God, as expressed in its motto " Voluntas Dei." The patrons are believed to be St. Thomas of Canterbury, and St. Wilford, and the brothers of the order will be instructed to exhibit Christian character principally in its aspect of cheerfulness, and will be employed in assisting parish priests in all the duties which may be properly intrusted to laymen. It is also stated that Mr. F. Wr. Faber is nephew to the celebrated Protestant controversialist, the Rev. George Stanley Faber, master of Sherburn Hospital, Durham; and that he has just returned from Italy, after an absence of some months.— Cambridge Advertiser. IN RE COLLINS OF KIDDERMINSTER.— In the London Court of Bankruptcy, 011 Tuesday last, this bankrupt, whose case has been alluded to in former, numbers of the Guardian, and who has been engaged iu 110 less than eight railway com- panies, as a director, manager, and provisional committeeman, and also secretary to Pilbiow's Atmospheric Railway Company, came up to pass his last examination. He owes to creditors without security £ 840, and to those holding security £ 3,664, and his property is about £ 700. His profits, from June, 1844, to February, ^ 846, amount to £ 2,576; trade aud personal expenses, £ 3,250; losses, £- 3,878; and liabilities, £ 3,941. It appears that he lias been engaged to a great extent in railway share transactions, and the formation of different companies, and concoction of certain schemes. He is liable to the extent of £ 55 on account of the British and American Steam Navigation Company; also to the amount of £ 1,500 to James Pilbrow; £ 41 on account of the Great Welsh Junction Railway Company. The bankrupt, it further appears, has had several bill transac- tions. Messrs. William and Thomas Devereux hold an accept- ance of a Mr. Briggs for £ 1,000 ; 16 " scrip" shares of £ 100 each, iu Pilbrow's Atmospheric ; Mortgage of Hawtord Lodge for £ 1,600, and the title deeds of a house in Cheltenham, as security for trade debt, which is something considerable. There are other creditors who hold acceptances, " scrip," & c., as security for their debts. The bankrupt's profits arise from the sale of shares in Pilbrow's Atmospheric, Shrewsbury and Wolverhamp- ton, London and York, and the London and Manchester Railway Companies; also for commission; and as Secretary to Pilbrow's Atmospheric Railway. Mr. Collins ( as was understood) is entitled to one- fourth share in Pilbrow's Foreign Railway, sold for £ 90,000, when 50 miles is down ; one- fourth share of the English patent; and a moiety of all his inventions. The bank- rupt was examined at great length by Mr. Cooke, as to certain transactions with Messrs. Devereux, but the examination involved no point of interest except to the parlies. He had more than 1,700 paid- up shares of £ 10 each in Pilbrow's Atmospheric Railway. He had also a share in the " Con- centrated Essence of Tea and Coffee" Company, which he assigned to Mr. Edwards upon his undertaking to pay the sum of £ 100 to the company, to whom the bankrupt was liable to that extent. No account of this transaction was in the balance sheet. Mr. Cooke, for the opposition, submitted to the Court that the accounts were unsatisfactory and that an adjournment must take place, and the case was ultimately adjourned. ACCIDENTS.— O11 Tuesday last, Geo. Passey, Blaithe- wood Common, near Tenbury, in cutting at a tree he was attempting to fell, with a large axe, nearly severed the toes from his left foot. The accident happened about eight o'clock in the morning, and it was not until one that any medical assistance was obtained, when the poor fellow was conveyed 011 horseback to Tenbury. Mr. Sweet, under whose care lie was placed, immediately dressed the wound, and we are glad to learn that he is going on favourably.— On Friday morning last an accident of a serious nature befel Sergeant Hill, of the Worcester County Police stationed at Tenbury. While in the act of cutting some bacon, liis feel slipping out of the chair on which he was standing, he fell with great violence, one of his eyes coming in contact with the top of the chair. It is feared lie will lose the sight of his eye we are happy to learn, however, that he is going on favourably under the care of Mr. Sweet. FIRE.— A somewhat serious fire occurred on Satur- day last, at Baughton, ( Hill Croome) and destroyed a barn con- taining a quantity of peas, a winnowing machine, an outhouse, and a portion of two cottages adjoining, and we are assured that had it not been for the prompt and efficient services of the Upton engine, it is doubtful where the ravages of the devouring element would have terminated. The fire originated owing to some live coals being dropped in the farm- yard, 011 some straw, which ignited and communicated to the outer buildings. CITY POLICE.— The cases brought for adjudication before the City Magistrates during the past week have been very uninteresting. On Saturday John Green was charged with stealing a pair of trowsers, the properly of Thomas Evans, of " Four- fett- Row," Blockhouse. The evidence not being conclusive he was discharged.— On Monday last the only case brought before the Court was one in which two Messrs. Davis were called upon to show cause why they did not comply with an order made upon them some three years ago for the maintenance of their lather. They pleaded inability, and the case as against one of them was discharged, that against the other being adjourned.— This morning ( Friday) the attention of the Bench was occupied for a long time in hearing evidence produced to shew cause why a young man named Adams, of Pershore, should not be adjudged the putative father of an illegitimate child, belonging to one Jane Dilworth. The date tixed upon by the complainant, as connected with the leading features of her case, was Whit- Monday, 011 which day she said she had seen Adams. Evidence was now produced to shew that on Whtt- Monday, the defendant was ill in bed, and that he had been ill for some time before that day and also since. The case of complainant was, after a patient hearing, decided as fully proved, and as there were some aggravating circumstances in the case, the Magistrates made an order on the defendant for the payment of 2s. 6d. per week from the date of the application, together with £ 1. Is. 6d. costs of application.— Thomas Brimmell was charged with stealing a tea- kettle, the property of Mr. Gunnell, Bath Road. He was fully committed for trial at the next sessions.— Thomas Coombs was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for deserting his wife and family and leaving them chargeable to his parish.—- John Mason was charged by Sarah Underwood with an assault, but for want of sufficient proof the case was dismissed. BROMSGROVE PETTY SESSIONS.— On Tuesday the Mr. William Heath, farmer, of Stoke Prior, charged his servant, Charles Mowbury, with absenting himself from his service on Thursday and Friday nights last, without his consent. Mowbury acknowledged the charge, and was fined 10s. includ- ing costs.— Wm. Andrews, servant to Mr. Joseph Russon, farmer, of the above mentioned place, was charged with diso- bedience and neglect of work, and fined 12s. 6d., including costs; he however preferred going to prison.— Richard Bolton charged Charles Adams, and David Borrel, of Headless Cross, with an assault. Fined ( is. 6d., including costs. DUDLEY PETTY SESSIONS.— On Monday last, before W. Bennitt and J. Roberts, Esqrs., Arthur Rogers, John Andrews, Isaac Bishton, and William Falkner, were charged with assaulting Edwin Burgess, a book- keeper, in the employ of Mr. Bishton, of Dudley- wood, 011 the 7th of May last. Rogers was fined 2s. 6d. and costs; the others were discharged.— Benjamin Hancocks was ordered to pay the sum of 10s. 6d., and costs, the amount of wages due to Francis Roberts, for work done as a collier, being three days, at 3s. 6d. per day.— John Allen charged Joseph Ratford and John Booth with assaulting him on Saturday night last, between twelve and one o'clock, in Hall Street. The defendants were fined in the sum of £] cacli, and iu default two months' imprisonment. Several prisoners were remanded on charges of felony. STOURPORT PETTY SESSIONS.— On Monday last, before Captain Winnington, the Rev. T. Baker, and T. S. Lea, Esq., Robert Hodnet, of Hartlebury, labourer, preferred a com- plaint against two men, named William Franks and James Sheward, of the same parish, labourers, for unlawfully assaulting and beating him on the 7th inst. From the complainant's statement it appeared that he had been, without any provocation, knocked down and kicked in several parts of the body by the defendants. The evidence of two witnesses, named Ann Hassam and James Stride, fully bore out complainant's statement. The Magistrates considered it a most wanton and unjustifiable assault, and fined the defendants £ 1, with 14s. 6d. expenses, to be paid immediately, or in default to be committed to prison for two months. KIDDERMINSTER HOLY THURSDAY FAIR-— There was a good supply of sheep and cattle at our fair to- day; and the attendance of buyers was likewise numerous. A good amount of business was transacted at prices ranging as follows :— Beef, 6( 1. per lb.; mutton, 6d. to 6| d.; and lamb 8d. per lb. WORCESTERSHIRE AQUATICS. Now that the fixture for the Worcester Regatta has been published, there has become more activity on the Severn, and the several clubs are beginning to compare their relative pros- pects. Several fours and pairs have commenced practice at Worcester, and we hear that a new four has been at work at Stourport, and that they are a likely crew. Our Wednesday contemporaries congratulate our fellow- citizens that " the grand object in establishing the Regatta is now being carried out, viz., the affording a healthy, innocent, and manly amuse- ment for the young mechanics and tradesmen of this city." They add, " Several clubs are formed or in process of forma- tion, and we have noticed one boat in particular, the crew of which bids fair to rival, at some future period, the efforts of their more practised competitors." Our contemporaries, how- ever, do not more distinctly point out the particular crew alluded to- It will be found on reference to the list of prizes to be rowed for at the Worcester Regatta this year, that they are nearly the same as last year. The Grand Challenge Cup value eighty guineas, for eight- oared boats, won last year by the Oxford Worcestershire Club or " Unity" as the boat was called, will, of course, be challenged by their antagonists of last year, if not by some other crew; the Stewards' Challenge Cup remains in the hands of the Secretary, not having been rowed for last year, in consequence of one of the boats being with- drawn at the last moment. For the Severn and District Cups — for four- oared boats, and won respectively by the Oxford Worcestershire and Nil Desperandum clubs— there will be to our knowledge, no lack of competitors. The prize for pair- oared boats for gentlemen amateurs ( which was won last year, by the " Ariel" pair beating four other pairs) consisted last year of two very handsome gold medals. In the place of medals, two silver cups, value seven guineas each, are to be substituted. We think this is a decided improvement, and doubt not that competitors will be numerous for these prizes as also for the silver sculls. There will be a purse for watermen scullers rowed for this year, and also a purse ( called the Sudeley Purse) for pair- oared boats, open to mechanics and workmen resident in Worcestershire. The regulations for the regatta will be very similar to those of last year, but as we have hinted before, the committee intend using every exertion to remedy the inconvenience and disappointment which occurred lastyear, in consequence of the rapid and swollen state of the Severn. Should this again occur it is intended to shorten the distance considerably, and it is also in debate to start the pair- oars and scullers' boats from the winning flag, so as to turn after going through the bridge, if it can be done with safety. With reference to the Hampstall boat races ( advertised in our last to come off'on the 17th proximo,) we hear that there is likely to be a good entry, and we understand that it is in con- templation to equip a couple of barges for the conveyance of spectators from this city. Should the weather proye fine, this must furnish a delightful trip. DISTRESSING SUICIDE. O11 Friday afternoon last considerable excitement was caused throughout tlie city by a report that a respectable young woman, named Mary Hall, niece to Mr. Jeremy, the landlord of the White Horse Inn, Silver Street, had hung herself to a nail iu her bedroom at that inn, where she had been living for the last three or four years in the capacity of barmaid. Various rumours were afloat as to the cause of lier committing self- destruction, but the whole of the facts will be found fully detailed in the evidence, which we have given at length. From the evidence it would seem that for some time, past the deceased has been subject to alternate fits of melancholy and hilarity, and betrayed evident symptoms that she was labouring under extraordinary mental excite- ment, but 110 intimation had ever been made by her which would have led to the conclusion that she contemplated destroying herself. No further facts appear upon the face of the evidence, that could possibly justify the reports which were prevalent, that neglect on the part of u suitor had been the moving cause to her lamentable death. The inquest was held at the White Horse Inn, 011 Saturday evening, at six o'clock, before J. B. Hyde, Esq., Citv Coroner, aud a jury composed of the following:— Mr. Thomas Simms, foreman. Mr. Charles Parsons, Edwin James, Daniel Harding, John Parsons, Benjamin Hickman, William Dark, Mr Thomas Askew, Richard Jordan, William Tunks, William Sheiswell, . Richard Lowe, George Batemau. Aftey they had been duly sworn, the Coroner addressed a few observations to them on the nature of the duty they were assembled to discharge, and cautioned them against enter- taining the too prevalent opinion that uo person would commit an act of self- destruction, if in the due exercise of their faculties. This was the principal point for their con- sideration, supposing they were satisfied that the deceased committed the act herself. He hoped they would carefully weigh the whole of the facts, as enquiries like the present were intended to operate as a check to similar actions, and nothing was so effectual for the purpose as the certain knowledge that the conduct of such parlies would be strictly inquired into. After viewing the body, the Jury returned to the room, and the first witness called was— Mr. J. Jeremy, jun., who deposed.— My father keeps this house ; ,- vnd the deceased was barmaid, and was " his niece. She was about ' J.' i years of age. She had lived here three or tour years. I saw her yesterday several times. The last time 1 saw her was in her bed room where she is now lying. Deceased hud the key oi the till in her possession, and my father sent l'or me to fetch it. It, was about four o'clock. Deceased always kept the key of the till. I knocked at her bed- room door, and she answered, and I opened the door. She was stood on a chair on the opposite side of the loom against the door, close to the bedside. 1 said " Mary, I want the key ol' the till." She then untied some keys from her dress and pitched them tome. I thought it was very strange to see her on the chair, and I said " Mary, why do you stand on the chair?" She made no answer, but looked at me in a very singular manner. I thought at tirst that she might be hanging up or taking down some dresses against the door. On seeing her look so singular I made an excuse that I should like to go into the next room, the way to which was through the door against which she was standing, and which opens this way. On returning 1 moved the chair into the middle of the loom, but she did not speak to me at all. I said to her, before she got off the chair, " Why, Mary, you look as though you were off your head," but she ouly mumbled. In about an hour after, I saw her again, she was then dead ou the bed in her room. There was a black mark round her throat. I also saw a kind of scratch, but 1 do not know w hether it was a cut or not, it was on the right side of the throat. I have seen her every day lately, and she appeared at times very absent. She never indicated to me that she w as unhappy, neither did I ever see hey do anything which would lead me to sus- pect she was not iu her right mind until I saw her yesterday in the bed- room, when I thought she seemed strange. By a Juror.— She did not say anything in my hearing yesterday that she had had words with any one, or that any one had offended her. Resumed.— She has no father nor mother, but lias been brought up by Mr. and Mrs. Farr. I saw her reading a book yesterday near the bar lire. She was in the habit of reading every day. [ The book was produced; it was entitled " Beauchampe, or the Kentucky Tragedy.— A Tale of Passion." There was a leaf turned down ; the part of the tale was a narration of how the hero and his wile com- mitted suicide to escape an ignominious public execution. It con- tained several passages descriptive of death as a sleep, and " acon- summation devoutly to be wished."] I believe there was an attach- ment between her and a Mr. Dennis, whom 1 have seen with her. He is in the room. I do not know that she had had any quarrel with him. I thought she was not quite right when 1 saw her iu the room ; but 1 do not know of anything before, any more than she seemed absent at times. I believe she had known him more than 12 months. 1 found a letter, which I now produce, in a drawer belong- ing to the deceased; this drawer she always kept locked up. It was in the sitting room. There were other papers there, but they were of no importance; I cannot tell whose hand- writing it is. I know Mary Hall's, but it is nothing like her's. I have seen Dennis' writing. Lit was read, and seemed to be the production of some fortune- teller, and prophesied her speedy marriage with a man " standing tol, and brown hair, and ot a geolos ( jealous) disposi- tion ;" it moreover predicted that she siiouid come into money by a relation, should have seven children, live to a good old age, and thrive and prosper. It also advised her to place uo confidence in woman.] Mr. William Jeremy, brother to last witness, deposed.— Yesterday afternoon, iu consequence of some one coming in for beer, f went to the deceased's bed- room to call her down, my lather having told me she was there. I tapped aitlie door twice, and called *' Mary," and not receiving any answer, I opened the door, and saw her hanging up with her back towards me, against the opposite door. I instantly ran into the room and caught hold of the scarf which was round her neck, and rippeU it away, nail and all. I cannot say whether her feet were on the floor, but I think not. There was a chair close to her, which she touched, if she was not on it. She was quite dead. I felt her pulse, but could not distinguish any pulsation, and I sent lor a doctor. The scarf now produced was tied in three knots as far as I recollect, and I believe it was tight, but 1 was much put about, and slackened it immediately. In about five minutes afterwards the doctor came. Deceased was dressed as usual. The last time I saw her alive was about half- past three. 1 never saw her the worse for drink, but I have seen her iu good spirits. She was asober girl; she never complained to ine of being unhappy. 1 have seen her at times low aud dull spirited. I have seen her appear singular aud low when there has been no one with her in the bar for some time. She has sometimes gone to sleep in the middle of the day, and looked very wild when she awoke. I believe the deceased was very comfortable iu her situation, and had had no quarrel with any one. Deceased had the sole management of the household affairs, and could pay what debts she liked. I have not known that she paid more money than she ought, or that my father had ever missed money. 1 never heard her say she should destroy herself. liy the Jury.— 1 have seeu her in a desponding way for about a fortnight past, one day dull and another merry. I do not know that the deceased has had any words with my father. Caroline Story examined.— 1 am chambermaid and waiter, and have been in my present situation about a year and a hull'. The conduct of the deceased within the last three or four months has been very strange to what it used to be. She seemed careless, thoughtless, and did not seem so comfortable as usual, and within the iast few days she has been worse. Her principal attention was to Mr. Dennis, to whom she was much attached. He was here on Wednesday night, they were not together, but they had been together on Monday night in the bar. 1 did not hear any angry word at all, then. Yesterday morning deceased saiu that she thought Dennis did not say much to her on Wednesday night, and could not tell the reason; but 1 did not think she seemed unhappy. She talked of being married to him. There was an old woman came here some time since to tell her fortune. 1 should think it was about ten months since. Deceased slept alone in the room where she now lies. Between four and five o'clock, in consequence of being called, I went into deceased's room, and saw her on the floor quite dead, and Mr. William Jeremy was there. 1 went for the doctor. Deceased had never said to me she would destroy herself, but she has said that she was not so happy for the last two or three months as she had been, but she did not say why. Deceased has always managed the till. I was much surprised to hear she had beeu hanging herself. By the Jury.— Deceased had spoken of being married to Dennis I have thought she had been drinking, and 1 thought so yesterday. 1 have seen her several times when i thought she had been intoxi- cated, and I thought so yesterday. It was some time since deceased talked about being married to Dennis. Mr. Robert Farr, of Birmingham, member of the Society ef Friends, having made affirmation, deposed— That deceased was his cousin, and said that he called yesterday to see her and Mi, Jeremy. Witness thought she seemed strange, but he would uflirrn most positively that deceased was quite sober. When witness left, deceased'shook him very fervently by the hand and said, " Good bye, God bless you," in such a tone of voice, as made a particular impression upon witness, as though it was a final parting. She had been with witness two years, and he had never seen her drunk. She appeared singular yesterday, and witness did not think she seemed happy. Witness had known her all his life, and considered her quite a " pattern girl," and was quite surprised to hear the evidence of last witness. Ou a previous visit about two months since, deceased had said to him that if he opened a house in Birmingham ( where he was going) she should like to live with him again, for she did not like being in a public- house. She was very comfortable in the house and was very fond of hei uncle, and was treated very kindly by him and all the family. Mr. James Dennis, printer, was examined, aud slated that he had been on terms of intimacy with deceased, whom he had known for about three years. He never had any quarrel or ill words with her. He had uever made any formal proposal of marriage, but she had doubtless concluded that such was his intention from the constancy of his visits, and his attentions were given with the most honourable motives. She had sometimes complained that her uncle was not so kind as he ought to have been, and she complained on last Sunday- week that he had been angry with her for going out; she had said that she would not put up with it long for she had a good home togo to, but she did not say where. Witness had seen her very frequently, and had never seen her tipsy, neither had he ever heard ot such a thing until that day. lie had for some time past noticed that one minute she would be laughing and jocular, while the next she would appear as if in a deep reverie. She had also complained of having the whole of the business of the house to attend to, and could get no recreation. Witness never had the slightest idea that she would destroy herself, Witness knew of no further circumstances. By the Jury.— Most certainly deceased had not been in such a comfortable state of mind of late as she had been before. Mr. William Slade, bootmaker, of High Street, stated that he knew the deceased very well, and considered her of a sensitive dis- position ; she would probably feel acutely any sharp expression 1' roui her uncle. About a fortnight since witness had gone into the bar to her, and on noticing that she appeared thoughtful, witness asked her what was the matter. She said " I shall do something, 1 slia'nt stop here long, for I am tired of it." After some joking about her being in love, deceased named a person, who is a farmer, who had made hei an offer and would take her whenever she had a mind, but she should not like to leave as long as her uncle was so ill. This was the last witness examined, and Mr. Hyde addressed a few observations to the. Jury on the nature of the evidence. He said no doubt could exist as to the act being that of deceased, and the question for them would be as to the state of mind in which she was at the time. ' J'hey had heard the evidence, and it appeared therefrom she was labouring under an extraordinary combination of cir- cumstances, and it would be for them to consider whether the circumstances were such us to cause a temporary inability on the part of deceased to govern her own actions. ' I he Jury after a few moments' consideration returned a verdict " That the deceased hung herself while in a stale of temporary insanity." ANOTHER LAMENTABLE SUICIDE. Another lamentable case of suicide occurred about ten o'clock on Wednesday morning last, at Kempsey, when a man dressed in dark clothes was seen to pull off his coat and hat, lay it on the bank of the Severn, and jump into the river. The act was witnessed by some bargemen near the spot, and they immediately searched the river, bul could not find the body. It was picked up yesterday morning by a boatman, anil it was then discovered to be a man of the name of Thos. Tree, who has for many years been residing in this city as a flyman, first in the employ of Mr. John Lippitt, and since then as coachman of the Malvern coach, run by Mr. Powell, late of the Punch Bowl Inn. He has latterly been in the service of Mr. Holmes, baker, of Broad Street, and no reason has been assigned for his committing the rash act; for although he was somewhat behind in his payments to Mr. Holmes, still no threat liad been used towards him in reference thereto. Deceased was always considered a very steady man, and by his untimely end lias deprived a wife and four children of their only means of support. The inquest was held before Mr. Hughes at the Hope and Anchor pubiic- liouse, Kempsey, this afternoon ( Friday), when the following were sworn of the Jury :— The Hon. Thomas Leslie, Foreman. Mr. W. Linton Mr. John Evans Rich. Cliff' — James Fowler — W. Stephens — Wm. Davis _ W. Jones — H. Hardy — Thos. Barber — W. Linton, jun. Win. Bennett — Jos. Howsliip The first witness called was— Isaac Webb, fisherman, of Worcester, who deposed— 1 heard on Wednesday last, when in Worcester, that a man had been drowned somewhere between the third mile- stone and Kempsey. It was a man named Hayes who told me. I got my boat and went to the place, and by means of a hooked pole, I found the body, after searching for about three- quarters of an hour. The body bore no marks of violence. I knew deceased when he was at Powell's, of the Punch Bowl, but I did not recognize him, nor did any one until the next morning. Mary Ann Rammell, the landlady of the Hope and Anchor, deposed that a hat was brought to her house on Wednesday morning, about 20 minutes before ten, by some men belonging to Madeley's boat. The men stated to her that they had seen a man who followed their vessel for some distance, and on one of them turning round he saw deceased pulling his coat off; he then stamped with his foot, ran down the bank, and Jumped into the water. Two or three of the men immediately ran back, but the deceased rose once and then sank ; the men had neither rope nor anything else which they could have thrown to him. The names of the men are not known. Sarah Tree, widow of the deceased, said,_ Mv husband got up at his usual hour, between 5 and 6 o'clock, on Wednesday morning last, and went out but did not say where he was going. He drove a fly for Mr. Holmes, baker, and I thought he was going on his business. He has been subject to fits of frenzy, when I have been afraid to go to bed at night, and have sat up. He has been much worse within the last three weeks. He bad an epileptic tit in September last, and has been much worse ever since. He has never threatened to destroy himself, but at times he has been so violent that I have been afraid he would do something either to himself or to the children, and I sat up two or three nights last week, he was in such a frenzied state of mind. He has been quiet at other times. At those times he seemed as if he did not know what he did. He is 36 years of age, and has left four children, the eldest of whom is but 10 years of age and the youngest one year and a few months. The Coroner observed, that from such evidence there appeared no doubt that deceased was subject to violent fits c, f aberration ot intellect, and if they were satisfied of that they would return a verdict in accordance. Verdict—" That the deceased drowned himself while in a state of temporary insanity. ^ porting, CRICKET. Herefordshire and Worcestershire.- We have received a com munication from the gentlemen of Herefordshire, with a challenge to play the County of Worcester the best of three games, to come off at Worcester and Ledbury ; and we are desired to state, if the challenge is accepted, that an intimation to that effect, addressed to the " Secretary of the Cricket Club, Ledbury," will receive immediate attention We feel confident that the challenge will be accepted, and we shall doubt- - Journal " eXt PUbiiCati° n be enabled t0 allnouuce the arrangements. Dudley— The gentlemen of this club have commenced practice We understand there is an accession of nine members, and another brilliant and successful season is anticipated. From the manner in which this club has hitherto been managed, we think it highly deserv- ing tlie continued and extended support of the gentry and inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, and are glad to understand that Lord W aid not only affords it his patronage but also very liberal and handsome pecuniary support. Cheltenham— A match between the Cheltenham and Gloucester, shire club and the Cheltenham College took place on Saturday, on the ground of the latter, which, after some very excellent play on both sides was won by the collegians, with five wickets to « - o down v I.,, r """" me r. ari oi Qlamloril struck a ™ , f r 7ei' a rUlldl! lg 111 the « ao1' the of which is 26 feet, and the distance from the wicket 240 ieet.- Cambrtdge Advertiser. TATTERS ALL'S- THCRSDAY. There was again a good deal of business got through in the wav of comparing. Betting however was flat, and bey ond^ h owing Im- provement in Sir Tatton Sykes, The Peri colt, and The Coi juwr" and a decline in Humdrum, was of little impoitance. We have again to return Sting a" nominal" favourite; 40 to 1 was laid agsthim on Wednesday night, and this afternoon until nearly six o'clock l e had not been mentioned at a price ; 12 to i was then taken to asuiall sum afterwards li to J, and lastly 20 to 1, and at 20 to 1 he was iuTeaU^ as bad a lavounte as if 40 to t had been betted. y THE DEUBY.- 4 to 1 agst Mr W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes- taken; M I\" f tfl1 L? rd. Maidstone's Tom Tullock- take 7 to 1 ; 10 to I agst ii0y~ taken, a" d Awards offered; 13? o 1 agst. Sir J Hawley s Humurum- taken, and aft. offered; 20 to 1 aest Lord u. Russell s Sting- nominal; 20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Peri colt - taken, and alt. offered ; 20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's I'vrrhus the F^ st - taken, and aft. offered ; 22 to 1 awl Mr. E. R. Clark's The Con i uror - taken ; 86 to 1 agst Air. Wall's The Crown Prince- taken a nU aft Si i^ V y^""' 3 The Premier— taken,' and afL to I Ut l a 0! ^ r ™ *- t » « Mn. and aft. offered ; 40 °, ^ , Loid U esterhelu's Ginger- taken; 50 to 1 agst, Mr. Drink- WJftf' : Mr" UaU1SaJ'S Malcolm— taken, n ' I1 aKSt Sir C- Monk's Vanish- taken ; 8 to 1 agst Mr. M^^^'-'^ eu; 10 tol agst Mr. Quin's Rerdita^ filly- Hmt- '• Ill, • 88 i'res, 0, l s Osprey— taken; 25 to I agst Mr. taken Lkraiae~ takt'"; M to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook- COMMITMENTS TO THE COUNTV GAOL.— By J. Green wq': Stokes charged with stealing pigeons, the property of Wm. J Hodgetts. Uy J. Roberts, Esq'hornets Smith, charged with stealing, from the person of Jemima Stone— liy J. Roberts lisq.: John l hompson and John Seymour, charged with burglarv on the premises of James Wilkiuson.- By II. J. Winnington James Mittner, charged with neglecting lo attend after a Fiat of iiaiik- ruptcy had been issued against him, at Birmingham.— By VV. B Best Esq. : Robert Callow, charged with obtaining money under false ore- tences rom John Bainton.- By J. Thomas, Esq. : Maria Sparrow r* h.* ir » » p< Wlfh « fti'. n. rohrtnf. « ~ ,1 . l' 1- r ~ - „ iuc utuunty ui d, vvneat^ ley.- By VV. Bennett and J. Roberts, Esqrs.: Edwin Cole, charged a>, , dk; y-~ iJyJ'T" Lawrence, Esq. : Thomal Hunt, chaiged with stealing two razors and a hone, at Beolev the property of Ann Swadkiss. '' SMITHFIELD, MAY 21.— Meadow Hay, £ 3 5s to Ss; clover ditto, £ 4 9s to £ b 15s; oat straw, £ 1 las to X1 Us • duirSUaW'US 10 £ l 163 per l0ad< 8ul'ljl>' ana t^ de BIRMINGHAM HAY MARKET, MAY 19.— Best hay, £ 3 los to £ i Os per ton; inferior ditto, £> 0s to £ i 10s ditto ; wheat straw, ± 2 7s Od to £ 2 12s Od ditto ; packingstraw, £ i to £ 25s ditto. CORN AVERAGES.— General average prices of British Com lor the week ended May 16, 184G, made up from the returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per imp. qr.— Price: Wheat, 5? s Od ; Dutv: 16s0d- barley 29s 4d, 9s Od ; oats, 24s Id, 5s lid; rye, 33s 5J, 9s Od ; beans, 35s Ud is 6d ; peas, 34s lid, 8s 6d. BIRTHS. May 13, at No. 1( 3, Lowndes Street, Belgrave Square London, the lady of Sir Thomas Edward Winnington Bart * M. P., of a daughter. ' May 15, at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester the wife of tne Rev. George C. Hodgkinson, of a daughter. ' May 18, in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, the Countess of Craven, of a daughter. May in, at Kynastone- house, Herefordshire, the wife of 1 homas Batson, Esq., of a son. May 19, at Hendon, the Countess of Kerry, of a son. MARRIAGES. May 7, at Powick Church, by the Rev. C. Spooner, Mr. John Rudge, ol Powick, to Miss Hannah Wedgburv, of Albert Cottage, St. John's. May 10, at Sibson, Leicestershire, John Hands, Esq of Upton, to Miss Chapman, only daughter of Samuel Chapman Esq., of Upton, and niece to W. Hemming, Esq., of Redditch the worthy Sheriti ot this county. May 12, at Henlcy- upon- Thumes, by the Rev. R Folev rector of North Chadbury, Francis P B. Pickthorn Esq to Esther, second daughter of the late Rev. T. P. Folev rector of Oldsvvinford, in this county. "' May, 12, at St. John's Church, Margate, the Rev R F Speticer. L. L. D., to Georgiana, youngest daughter of the'late Wilham Eagles Johnson, Esq., of Portway Hall, in the county or Startord, and Westbourne Grove, near Dudley. May, 14, at St. Michael's, Gloucester, by the Rev C Hard wicke, Mr. Joseph Wright, of Shipston- on- Stou'r, to Miss Mary Atkins, of Halford Bridge, Warwickshire. May 16, at St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, by the Rev F Close, Mr. Charles Archer, surveyor, of Tewkesbury, to Miss Sarah Neale, late of Lutterworth, Leicestershire. May, 17, at Hanley Castle Church, by the Rev. A. B Lech- mere, Mr. Thomas Sheffield, of St. James's, London to Jane ' eldest daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Pratt, of the Coach and florses Inn, Hanley. May 18, at the Superintendent Registrar's Office, Mr. Wm Holder, silk dyer, of Lowesmoor, to Sarah, only daughter of Mr. Robert Wood, currier, of Birmingham, late of this city. & May 19, at St. George's Hanover- square, by the Rev. C H Gaye, the Rev. Henry Mark Willis, of Little Dean, Glouces'terl shire, to Maria, youngest daughter of C. S. Gaye Esq Shetf'ord, Beds. May 19, at St. George's, Hanover- square, by the Rev. W. J. Hutching, M. A., officiating minister of Brunswick Chapel" John Hardwick, Esq., of Credenhill, Herefordshire, to Emma* daughter of the late Mr. Hardwick, of New Bond- street. ' May 19, at the parish church of Colwall, in Herefordshire, by the Rev. J. 11. Undorwood, Thomas Percival Hey wood, Esq., eldest son of Sir Benjamin Hey wood, Bart., of Claremont, Lancashire, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Hey wood, Esq., of Hope- end, Herefordshire. Lately, at St. Mary's Church, Birmingham, by the Rev. George Stringer Bull, M. A., Mr. Edward Scott, chymist, of Easy Row, in that town, to Anne Harrison, daughter of the late Mr. Jos. Charlwood, of Upton- on- Sevein, in this county. Lately, at Bristol, Mr. Wm. Hall, of Lechlade, to Harriet", only daughter of the late Mr. E. Cox, of Ledbury. DEATHS. April 28, at Naples, of consumption, in bis 17th year, John, only son of the late Hon. George Talbot, and nephew to the Earl of Shrewsbury. May 5, in Hereford, aged 46, Mr. Thomas Preece, formerly eaachman on the Ludlow snd Shrewsbury mail. May 7, aged 34, Mr. William Randle, of Sychampton, Onibersley. May 13, in his 67th year, Mr. William Whec- ler, of Cudleigh, iu this county. May 14, Mr. Thomas Richards, of Oldswinford, near Stourbridge, in the 73rd year of his age, much respected by all who knew him. May 14, suddenly, at his residence, in the Back- lane,. Ledbury, aged 60 years, Mr. John Wargent, boot and sJioe- niaker, a man greatly respected in life and regretted in death. May 15, at 12, Gloucester Place, New Road, London, after a short illness, most deeply lamented by her bereaved husband, and surviving children, Mary, the faithful and affectionate wife of Mr. D. C. Higgs, late and for many years editor of Berraw's. Worcester Journal, and only child of the late Mr. John Chaffey, of Sherborne, in the county of Dorset. May 15, at his son's house, at Powick, after a long illness* Thomas Greenway, aged 79. May 15, aged 85, Esther, relict of Mr. Smith, Atherstone- upon- Stour, much respected by her family and friends. May 15, at Torquay, Mary, the wife of the Venerable George Hodson, M. A., Archdeacon of Stafford, and car. ou of Lichfield, aged 58. May 16, at White Lady Aston, Mr. William Carr, carpenter and joiner, aged 34, leaving a wife and three children. May 17, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr. Frederick Cope, Oxford Place, Manchester, and eldest daughter of the late Mu Adams, of Woodson. May 18, after a lingering illness, Grace Newport, the beloved wife of Mr. Thomas Newport, chemist, St. John's, in this city, aged 58, much respected by her relations and friends. May 19, at Newland, near Malvern, Thomas Cresswell, Esq., formerly of Stratford- upon- Avon, in the 87th year of his age. May 20, aged 36, Mr. Thomas Tree, flyman," of this city. WORCESTER INFIRMARY, MAY 22. Physician aud Surgeon for the week, Dr. Hastings and Mr- Sheppard. For the ensuing week, Dr. Hastings aud Mr. PierpoiutT I u- Patients. I Out- Patients. Admitted, 16.— Discharged, 13. | Admitted 20.— Discharged, 12, In the house, 87. Acuident3.— Ann Kings, contused wound; Sarah Thompson,. \ needle in the hand ; Daviu Davis, coutusious ; G. 1' orlnian, scalded f leg; William l'iu, contused shoulder; William Milland, contused shoulder; EdwarU liroughton, wound of the leg; Thomas Clark^ dislocated shoulder. THE W O R C E S T E R S H I R E GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1846. SONGS AND CHORUS OF THE FLOWERS. From Poems of Leigh Hunt. ROSES. We are blushing Roses, Bending with our fulness, ' Midst our close- capp'd sister buds, Warming the green coolness. Whatsoe'er of beauty Yearns and yet reposes, Blush, and bosom, and sweet breath, Took a shape in roses. Hold one of us lightly, See from what a slender Stalk we bower in heavy blooms, And roundness rich and tender. Know you not our only Rival flower— the human Loveliest weight on lightest foot, Joy abundant— woman'! LILIES. We are lilies fair, The flower of virgin light; Nature held us iortli, and said, " Lo! my thoughts of white." Ever since then, angels Hold us in their hands; You may see them where they take In pictures their sweet stands. Like the garden's angels Also do we seem, And not the less for being erown'd With a golden dream. Could you see around us The euamour'd air, You would see it pale with bliss To hold a thing so lair. VIOLETS. We are violets blue, For our sweetness found. Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss — Such our breath and blueness is. * Io. the mild shape, Hidden by Jove's fears, Found us first i' the sward, when she For hunger stoop'd in tears. " VVhereso'er her lip she sets," Jove said, " Be breaths call'd violets." * Io or Ion signifies a violet. WORCESTER CITY SESSIONS. VARIETIES. FIRST TEA- DRINKING IN A DURHAM VILLAGE The fol- lowing well- authenticated account of the first pound of tea which reached the primitive neighbourhood of Cotherston, is given by a grand- daughter of the recipient, Mr. James Rai'ne, of London, who died at the age of 100 years, about 30 years ago. Mr. Raine, a comfortable farmer, had married a wife of equal respectability, from London ; and, as a wedding present the lady's friends sent them a pound of tea and a new tea- kettle from London— tea being only just then introduced in Cock- aigne— with a recipe for the use of the tea, viz. :—" That it be boiled with cream and sugar." The tea was thus duly poured into the new kettle, and a goodly portion of cream and sugar added, to the delight of a party of friends who had met to celebrate the wedding. After this process, the contents, leaves included, were poured into a large earthen bowl, and placed on the middle of a table, and the assembled guests each pro- vided with a spoon, set to work to sip this new beverage • which, on account of its novelty, we opine, more than its excel- lence, was duly consumed, tea leaves and all! A DOG IN WAITING.— A lady of high rank has a sort of colley or Scotch sheep- dog. When he is ordered to ring the bell, he does so ; but if he is told to ring the bell when the servant is in the room whose duty it is to attend, he refuses, and then the following occurrence takes place. His mistress says, " Rin<* the bell, dog." The dog looks at the servant and then barks his bow wow, once or twice. The order is repeated two or three times. At last the dog lays hold of the servant's coat in a significant manner, just as if he had said to him, " Don't you hear that I am to ring the bell for you? Come to my lady." His mistress always has her shoes warmed before she puts them on ; but during the late hot weather, her maid was putting them on without their having been previously placed before the fire. When the dog saw this he immediately interfered, expressing the greatest indignation at the maid's negligence. He took the shoes from her, carried them to the fire, and after they had been warmed as usual, he brought them back to his mistress with much apparent satisfaction evidently intending to say— if he could—" It is all right now." — Jesse's Anecdotes of Dogs. A " GENT" AND A GENTLEMAN At the Marylebone ( London) Police Office, on Monday, a respectable ' looking man, named James Dickenson, was charged by Brooks 1G9 S, who said, Please your Worship, at two o'clock yesterday morning I found this " gent." drunk in Park- road, and took him into custody."— Mr. Rawlinson: Who do you say you found drunk ?— Constable: This " gent." your worship Mr. Rawlinson : What do you mean by " gent." There is no such • word in our language. I hold a man who is called a " gent." to be the greatest blackguard there is Mr. Rawlinson ( to the prisoner): What do von say to this? I hope you are not a " gent."— Prisoner : I am not, sir, ai# l I trust that I know the distinction between a " gent." and a " gentleman."— Mr. Rawlinson : I dare say you do, sir, and I look upon the word " gent." as one of the most blackguard expressions that can be used— The prisoner was fined 5s., which he directly paid. SLEEPING RAINBOWS— In my various readings, I do not remember ever having met with any philosophical comments on a beautiful phemonenon which I witnessed, for the first time in my life, yesterday; it may be designated Gossamer Rain- bows sleeping on the grass. Doubtless, the phenomenon must be of not unfrequent occurrence; nevertheless I suspect that it has not often been so perfectly developed as on this occasion © f which I am writing; I asked five agricultural labourers, who were preparing to thatch my clover- ricks, and who have spent long lives, mostly in the fields, to notice it; and they all declared that they never before had seen any similar appear- ance. Opticians, astronomers, natural philosophers, and other scientific men, will have no difficulty in tracing the result to those principles which explain the phenomena of solar and lunar rainbows, stellar halos, penumbra, & c. ; but, as others, • who love to notice the curious and beautiful in nature will be' pleased to know when, and where to look for Rainbows'sleeping on the grass. I shall endeavour to mention those accessories which accompanied the splendid display in question, as guides for finding these transient beauties on" future occasions. On the morning of the 26th of September, after a brilliant and rather cold night, a fog ( not so dense but that an observer would predict that the sun would soon disperse it) rested over my sheep- common. At half- past nine a. m. one's shadow began to be distinctly perceptible, and, in half an hour more, " the whole landscape was brightened as with the smiles of young morning. On looking eastwards, the lawnlike common wal seen exquisitely reticulated by white threads, the night- work of busy spiders, presenting, in some measure, the appearance of a slight fall of snow, yet leaving the tints of green peeping through it. On turning round, and facing north of west, so as to look right along one's own shadow, by leaving the sun full on one's back, there were to be seen two beautifully dis- tinct rainbows, reflecting from the dew drops hanging' upon the gossamer- threads, hitched by the spider- artificers to every blade of grass. Of these rainbows, the right- hand one tended nearly north; the other, the left- hand one, nearly west. They both widened, and straightened, as the distance increased ; they curved as they grew nearer, and seemed to taper to a common point, and meet just behind one's heels. The pris- matic colours were arranged precisely as in the common rainbow ; the violet forming the inner margin of each, and the orange coloured the outer margin of both, right and left. My old sheep common seemed all at once converted, not exactly into fairy land, ( for Elfin- sprites where they perform their many mystic rites, revels, and gambols, by moonlight, leave not rainbows, sleeping at one's feet to betray, at every step, their nocturnal pranks to early wanderers), but rather, if one may be allowed a little of the Greek poetic imaginings, into light- refulgent Olympus itself; and I seemed to occupy the identical spot, where, of old, imperial Jove presided amidst the minor Gods in synod gathered round, and these Gossamer rainbows sleeping on the grass, seemed an iridescence, just, kindled by Mercury, in hurrying to and fro with mandates for the sons of men— From the " Mirror," for May By Edward King. CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FOOD.— At the last meeting of the Society of Arts, Mr. George Warriner, of the Australian Provision Company, read a very interesting paper on the concentrated animal food now imported in considerable quantities from Australia. Previously to the adoption of tho present modo of preserving the gelatinous portions, producible from the mutton of slaughtered sheep, the only commercial uses to which the majority of pasturage farmers could apply their Hocks, were in the shearing of their fleeces, the sale of their skins, and the boiling down of the meat for the sake of the tallow; so that all which would in this country be the most valuable in the way of food for man, became so much waste, or, at best, an occasional feast for pigs. Yet so extensive were some of these boiling establishments as to be capable of disposing at the rate of 1000 slieep per diem. The lecturer produced a variety of specimens of this new article of trade, and welcome adjunct to the culinary purposes of the kingdom. He terms it concentrated essence of meat, and informs his audience that it is imported from the principal manufactories at Sydney, New South Wales, properly secured in bulk, and is here reduced into smaller packages to suit individual consumption. Mr. Warriner, who at the George and Vulture, Lloyds, and other places where the most fastidious feeding is performed, favoured his hearers, by making them tasters too, with several specimens of soups and other results of the mysteries of the cuisine, made from the article ; remarking that one pound of tho extract is equal, in gastronomic effect, to 24 pounds of beef, and can be used in every domestic preparation, from simple mutton broth, to all the appliances of entrements, gravies, jellies, & c., and the comparative luxuries of mock turtle and mulligatawnie. For these domestic appliances of a cheap nutritive product, Mr. Warriner has obtained the gold medal of the Society of Arts. THE GENERAL POST- OFFICE.— An inquiry is now going on before Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post- office, assisted by Mr. W. Bokenhain, the superintending president of the Inland- office, and Mr. F. Kelly, the inspector of letter- carriers belonging to the general post, into the complaint of the letter- carriers recently brought before Parliament by Mr. Duncombe, and into the causes of some insubordination that has recently manifested itself amongst the subsorlers and letter- carriers. CHAPEL BCILT BV ONE MAN.— Every stone of the chapel for the Bath union workhouse, was laid by one man, John Plass, a mason, aged 78, who was residing in the house. The dimensions of the chapel are 67 feet in length, by 35 in width, and it is capable of accom- modating 455 persons in the body. At the west end is a gallery, which affords room for 250 children. In the west porch a stone is thus inscribed :—" To record the services of John Plass, inmate of the workhouse, who at the age of 78, working with zeal and industry, laid all the stones of this building " We are glad to hear that he lias been treated liberally by the guardians.— The Builder. A JUVENILE LAMBERT.— There is at present in the city of Glasgow, a boy nine years of age, standing 4 feet 65 inches. He measures round the chest 44$ inches; round the belt 46|; round the thigh 24; round the calf 16 § ; and turns the beam against 14 stone! His name is Kenneth M'Gaskill; is a native of the island of Soa, one of our western Archipelago, between Cana and Skve, in the direction of Spar Cave, and brought hither bv his father, who is in no affluent circumstances, for exhibition. Tho boy's sole language is the energetic language of Ossian. These Sessions were commenced on Tuesday morning, before Turner, Esq., Deputy Recorder, the Recorder, J. Buckle, Esq., being prevented attending from severe illness. The Deputy Recorder entered the Court at ten o'clock, on which the usual formal proceedings were taken, and the following were sworn of the Grand Jury :— Mr. George Chamberlain, Foreman. Mr. R. Bosley, „ E. Bourne, „ Thomas Burrows, „ W. F. Corbett, „ T. Cox, „ Edward Davis, „ Joseph Fisher, „ Thomas Fawkes, „ C. C. H. Griffiths, „ Joseph Hopkins, Mr. Richard Hambler, George Morgan, John Mason, William Miles, William Slade, John Summerfield, James Tobey, William Tunks, James John Williams, William Webb. The proclamation against vice, profaneness, and immorality having been read, The Deputy Recorder addressed the Grand Jury to the fol- lowing effect:— In consequence of indisposition, he said, the learned Recorder had availed himself of the power given to him in the Municipal Act of appointing him as his deputy for the present occasion, a duty which he had performed some five or six years ago, when the calendar was heavier than on the pre- sent occasion. On looking through the present calendar he found that the prisoners were for the most part charged with offences of a description very common in Courts of Quarter Sessions, and with the nature and peculiarities of which they ( the Grand Jury) must be well acquainted. There were, however, one or two offences to which, perhaps, as they were not of every day occurrence, it would be well for him to call their special attention. One of these was the first in the calendar, wherein Edward Fuller was charged with wilfully and contemptuously disturbing a congregation assembled for Divine worship. They would have to inquire whether the prisoner did ( as was alleged) willingly and contemptuously dis- turb the congregation, and if they found from the evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution that he had so disturbed the congregation, that was an offence in the eye of the law, and they would accordingly send him for trial in that court. There was also a prisoner named Gordon Henry Cripps, who was charged for that he, as agent to Messrs. Coleman, had falsely represented to them that he had received an order for a quarter cask of sherry wine, by means of which false pretence he had unlawfully obtained from the said Messrs. Coleman a cask of sherry wine, with intent to defraud them of the same. The prisoner was further charged with embezzling a sum of £ 2s. 6s. belonging to the Messrs. Coleman. With respect to these charges he was not prepared, in the absence of the indictments, to address them fully, but with regard to the allegation of false pretences, if they found that such pretences had been made they would form the gist of the offence. If they found that such pretences had been made they would find a bill against the prisoner. With regard to the charge of embezzlement he apprehended that the prisoner would be represented in the indictment as a clerk or servant of the prosecutor. Now, it had been laid down by the Judges, that it was not necessary in cases of this description that the prisoner should be shown to be a clerk or servant in the common acceptation of the term. For ! instance, it had been held that a traveller, whether travelling generally for many houses, or specifically for any one particular house, was sufficiently a clerk or servant for the purposes of the indictment. It was sufficient that he received money for his services. There was also in the calendar a charge against Sarah Langford, of having stolen a shawl belonging to Esther Morgan, the property having been lost some twelvemonths ago. In cases of this character, if a person was robbed of any article which was shortly afterwards found in the possession of another person, the law called upon the latter to show to a jury that she or he came honestly by the article; but as the time when the article was first missed became more distant, the presumption against the accused was less strong. With a few other remarks, the Learned Deputy Recorder dismissed the Grand Jury to the discharge of their duties. The following were then sworn of the Petty Jury :— Mr. Ormond Ansell, Foreman. Mr. George Hill, „ Charles Mence, „ Richard Matthews, „ George Mantle, „ Joseph Noke. Mr. William Adams, „ William Allen, „ William Billings, „ Charles Bedell, „ Charles Beck, „ John Downes, There were no cases of appeal brought before the Court. Thomas Williams, 22, boatman, was charged with having on the 3rd May instant, stolen a pig, at Claines, the property of Henry Perkins. Mr. Hill conducted the prosecution : the prisoner was undefended by Counsel. The evidence against the prisoner was very clear. On Sunday, the 3rd May, he was seen by an intelligent lad named Frederick Parkes, ( who was examined on the trial,) carrying a pig with its throat cut along Lowesmoor. He hid the pig amongst some blackpoles, where the boy pointed it out to another witness. The carcase of the pig was not produced 011 the trial, and the prisoner complained that it was not produced at his examination before the Magis- trates. Two of the witnesses declared that it was produced at the examination, but the prisoner persisted that it was not shewn, and called Mr. Sidebottom, police Magistrate, by whom he was committed, to confirm his statement. Mr. Sidebottom however said that the carcase of the pig was produced before him in a basket covered with a cloth, and that the cloth was removed. The prisoner was found guilty, and a former conviction having been proved against him, he was sentenced to seven years' transportation. John Phillips, 18, boatman, was charged with stealing three fowls, the property of John Tustin, of Lowesmoor. Mr. Hud- dleston prosecuted: the prisoner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence of a female named Mary Ann Garbett, late housekeeper to the prosecutor, that on the evening of the above- mentioned day she heard a disturbance amongst her master's fowls, which were kept in a paddock adjoining the house. She went out and found the prisoner in the paddock, and that three of her master's fowls had been killed and were thrown down near to where the prisoner was standing. She accused the prisoner of having been amongst the fowls, which he denied, and expressed his willingness to be searched. Policeman Bradford deposed that he went in search of the prisoner, but he was mis- sing from , Worcester until six weeks after the robbery. He produced portions of the carcases of the fowls, which were identified by the prosecutor's housekeeper. The prisoner called a witness to character, but he was not forthcoming. The Jury, in finding the prisoner guilty, recommended him to mercy on account of his youth. One month's imprisonment, the first and last week solitary. John Pritchard, 19, labourer, was charged with stealing from the person of William Tippin, 10s. and a knife, on the 30th of March last. Mr. Hooper appeared as Counsel for the prosecution. It appeared that on the above mentioned day the prosecutor went to the Britannia Inn, Dolday, where he was drinking with the prisoner. Prosecutor left the Britannia Inn in company with the prisoner and a woman, and proceeded to the house of a Mrs. Stiff', where he was very sick. While lying upon some chairs there, Mrs. Stiff saw the prisoner t^ e some- thing from the prosecutor's pocket, after which he said " All right; I've got all he's got." The prisoner then went away, and promised to returned again in half an hour, but did not. Afterwards Mrs. Stiff required the prisoner to return the prose- cutor his money, and he said he would. He then professed to proceed to Dolday for that purpose, but suddenly exclaiming " Here goes : no catchee, no havee," he " ran away and ne'er was heard of more," until apprehended by policeman Bateman, at his lodgings in Dolday. When informed by the policeman of the charge against him, the prosecutor's knife was found upon him : the money he said he had left at his father's. When before the Magistrates, the prisoner said that the prose- cutor gave him the money to keep for him, and that he spent part of it. Another statement was put in as having been made by the prisoner on his examination: it was an admission that he had put his hand in the prosecutor's pocket as stated by Mrs. Stiff. The Jury after a patient trial acquitted the prisoner. THE ROBBERY AT MR. ROWLANDS'S. Moses Motteram, 15, blacksmith, was charged with stealing on the 24th of February, seven £ 5 and one <£ 10 notes, and a quantity of gold, silver, and copper money, the property of Mr. W. Rowlands, of the parish of St. Clement, and William Henry Young, 17, bricklayer, was charged with receiving the same money, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Huddleston appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Beadon for the prisoner Young; the other prisoner was undefended by Counsel. The prosccutor, Mr. W. Rowlands, deposed that on the morning of tho robbery he had in a drawer in his counting- house the sum of £ 68. 2s. 6d. in two bags. It was safe at 10 a. m., and witness first missed it at about 10 p. m. There was £ 43 in bank notes. One of the notes composing this sum was of the Worcester Old Bank. During the morning the prisoner Motteram had been loading a cart with coals, and in the course of the evening, he came into the counting- house for a ticket. Mr. Davis, clerk to Mr. Rowlands, corroborated a portion of the prosecutor's evidence. Motteram came to Mr. Rowlands's yard on the day before the robbery for a load of coals, and was seen near to the passage leading to Mr. Rowlands's office. The prisoner Motteram was engaged for an hour and a half in load- ing his cart with coals, and during a portion of that time the witness was employed in loading a waggon of black poles. During that time he left the office- door unlocked wherein was the money now alleged to have been stolen. The witness next spoke to the amount of money in the office at this time. Amongst the money were several bank notes, but witness clid not know of what bank. Mr. Woodyatt, farmer, of Cradley, Herefordshire, deposed that on the day of the robbery he paid the last witness £ 20 in notes, viz., £ 10 in Worcester Old Bank notes, a £ 5 of Farley and Co.' s Bank, and a £ 5 Bank of England note. Thomas Caswell, tailor, of Alfrick, also proved paying a £ 5 note to Mr. Davis, Mr. Rowlands's, clerk, on the 24th of February, ft was the same note which he received from Mr. Lewis. Mr. Lewis in his turn was examined and deposed that the note was one of the Bewdley Bank. Another witness named Chamberlain, proved that he paid two £ 5 notes to the prosecutor on the 21st of February, one of which was of the Worcester Old Bank. Elisha Powell also proved paying a £ 5 note of the Worcester Old Bank to Mr. Davis, which note he had received of Mr. George Jones, of Borrow, who deposed that the note was one of the Gloucestershire Banking Company. Ann Price, assistant to Mr. Walter, pawnbroker, of this city, was next called, and deposed that on the evening of the 25th of February, Motteram purchased of her a jacket, waistcoat, pair of trousers, and handkerchief, for which he paid £ 1. Mary Ann Main deposed that about midnight, on the 25th of February, she saw a number of persons in Mealcheapen Street: the prisoners were . among them, and witness heard half- a- crown drop on the pavement. Witness's companion, a woman named Burroughs, told Motteram, on his taking hold of her clothes, that she did not allow boys like him to take such liberties. Policeman Grubb deposed that he also saw the two prisoners together on the night of the 25th of February. He had had Young in his custody for two days previously up to twelve o'clock, on the 25th. Mrs. Haywood, wife of Mr. Haywood, pawnbroker, of High Street, proved that on the 26th of February the prisoner Young purchased a watch at her husband's shop, for which he paid £ 1. He said the watch was for a friend who was outside the shop; that individual was the prisoner Motteram. Mr. Heritage, publican, of Kidderminster, was next called, and on elevating himself to the witness- box he saluted the presiding Judge and the Counsel with a profound obeisance. He deposed that the two prisoners came to his house by the Worcester van on the 26th of February, and drank there together. Motteram had in his possession a linen bag contain- ing gold and silver. Motteram also asked Young to change one of the notes which he had, but witness told him it was unnecessary to change as long as he had gold and silver. Motteram afterwards went to bed, and Young accompanied him to the bed- room. When there, Young said quietly to witness that Motteram had £ 16 when he left Worcester, and he there searched his ( Motteram's) trousers and took out all the money, consisting of several sovereigns,' some silver and copper, saying " there ain't much the matter," and pocketed the whole. He was then about to retreat, when Motteram asked him where he was going. He said " only into the next room to sleep," on which Motteram said " Then, I'll go along." Young, however, walked off' down stairs quickly, and was followed by Motteram, en chemise, who pursued him into the yard. Young, however, got away. Serjeant Lloyd, of the Kidderminster police, apprehended Young, and on searching him found six bank notes, £ 9. 10s. in gold, 7s. 6d. in silver, and 3^ d. in copper, all of which he handed over to Inspector Peters. Peters produced the notes ; one was a £ 10. note of the Worcester Old Bank, and two £ 5. notes of the same bank ; also a Bewdley £ 5. note, a £ 5. Gloucestershire Bank note, and a National Provincial Bank of England note, issued at Worcester, for £ 5. Young, when appre- hended, said his father was a plasterer, of Worcester, and that he was going to Dudley to pay some bills. Witness afterwards went to Worcester to make ( enquiries, and on his return to Kidderminster he took the prisoner Young before the Kidder- minster magistrates. When witness told Young that he was charged with robbing Mr. Rowlands's counting house; he replied—" I know nothing about it: the money was given to me by Moses Motteram. The money is not mine." Mr. W. Nott deposed, that the prisoner Motteram was in his service for about six weeks ; his wages were Is. per week, with bed and board. Jones, a turnkey of the city gaol, stated that while watching the prisoners on the treadwheel, a prisoner named Satterwaite threw a note to Motteram, which he picked up. The note was in Young's handwriting; and enjoined Motteram to stick to his original story, and to be true, and he ( Young) would help him. This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. Beadon addressed the Jury, submitting that there, was no case against Young, even if they should decide that Jtlotteram was guilty. The Deputy Recorder summed up, and the Jury found both prisoners guilty. A previous conviction against each of them having been proved, they were each sentenced to ten years' transportation. George Hunt, 23, and Henry Walters, 24, boatman, were charged with having on the 24th March last, stolen 16 lbs. weight of lead, the property of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The circumstances attending this case have already been published. The prisoners, it will be recollected, were employed in March last in assisting to pull down a portion of the buildings of the Old Deanery, in this city, and took the oppor- tunity of appropriating a portion of the old lead forming part of the materials. Both prisoners were found guilty, and a previous conviction against Hunt having been proved, he was sentenced to 7 years' transportation. VValters was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, the first and last week solitary. In the course of the day three bills against Gordon Henry Cripps, for misdemeanour, were returned by the Grand Jury. The above business having occupied the Court until after six o'clock, an adjournment took place until next day. WEDNESDAY. The Court met at nine o'clock this morning when three other bills were returned against Gordon Henry Cripps. There were six indictments in the whole against this prisoner, viz.: four for misdemeanour and two for felony ( embezzlement). In the case of Edward Fuller, 23, glover, charged with dis- turbing the congregation of St. Helen's church on the 25th January last, no prosecutor appearing the prisoner was dis- charged from custody. THE CASE OF ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. Gordon Ilenry Cripps was arraigned upon the charge of obtaining a cask of sherry on the 15th May, 1845, from Messrs. Coleman, under false pretences. This was the first indictment. He was next arraigned for fraudulently obtaining a gallon of cognac brandy. He was thirdly arraigned for frau- dulently obtaining two gallons of cognac from the said Messrs. Coleman. Fourthly, he was arraigned for obtaining two gallons of rum and two gallons of whiskey from Messrs. Coleman under false pretences. Fifthly he was airaigned for feloniously em- bezzling certain moneys the property of his masters, Messrs. Coleman. And sixthly he was arraigned for embezzling certain other moneys, the property of his masters, Messrs. Coleman. Each indictment contained numerous counts. The prisoner on being arraigned separately on each indictment pleaded " not guilty" in a firm voice. Mr. Huddleston appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Beadon for the defense. A fresh jury was sworn consisting of the following indivi- duals— Mr. Richard Allen, foreman, Mr. S. Teague, — Charles Beck, — John Downes, — Richard Mathews, — Henry Smith. Mr. C. Beadle, — John Noake, — George Palmer, — John Green, — Joseph Pardoe, — Thomas Trimnell, The prisoner was indicted first on the charge of obtaining a cask of sherry fiom Messrs. Frederick William Sherard Coleman and Henry Sherard Coleman, on the false pretence of having received an order for furnishing the same to Mr. Henry Mount- ford, confectioner, of this city. Mr. Huddleston rose and said it was no affectation in him to say that in the whole course of an active professional career he had nevei been retained in a case which excited in him such painful feelings, inasmuch as that the prisoner against whom he had now to conduct, on behalf of the Crown, a most serious charge, he had in early life been personally acquainted with. However, his private feelings must not be allowed to influence his feelings as an advocate, and he accordingly now proceeded in the discharge of his duty to lay before the Jury the facts of this case. In the year 1845, Mr. Frederick William Sherard Coleman, of 2, Crown Court, Old Broad Street, London, wine merchant, joined his capital in trade to that of his brother, 31 r. Henry Sherard Coleman, and from that period until the beginning of the present year the business was carricd on under the firm of " Coleman Brothers." These gentlemen had been on terms of intimacy with the prisoner in consequence of Mr. Cripps having been educated at the same school with them. The prisoner, it seems, having had some disagreement with his father went to London, where he entered into a clerkship with a wine merchant, and then the intimacy which had existed in their early life was renewed. This intimacy resulted in an agreement being entered into between Mr. Cripps and Messrs. Coleman, whereby the former became the Worcester agent of the latter in their business, and it was a stipulation made by Messrs. Coleman that Mr. Cripps should on no account seek to effect sales to any of his father's customers. On the effecting of this agreement the prisoner came down to Worcester and at once entered actively into the business of the agency. It was arranged that the prisoner should seek to obtain orders, and that lie' was to receive 10 per cent, on the amount of all orders, the customers being made debtors to Messrs. Coleman. After this arrangement came the period of railway fever, which had caused the deepest injury to all classes. During that fever, which involved so many in difficulties, Mr. llenry Coleman unfortunately allowed some gentlemen with high sounding titles, and who rejoiced in the expenditure of half the alphabet at the end of their names, to induce him to allow his name to be put before the public as a Director of some railway undertakings. The consequence was, that when the bubbles burst he found himself exposed ( as many honourable men had done with him) to the enormous liabilities consequent on his Directorship, and the result was that he felt it necessary in order that the whole burthen of these railway proceedings might not fall upon his shoulders, to go over to France for a short time, until a fair and equitable arrangement of these responsibilities could be made. Mr. Henry Coleman then having gone to France, Mr. Frederick Coleman thought proper that a dissolution of the partnership to that time existing between him and his brother should take place, and that the accounts of the partnership should be investigated; and then it was, for the first time, that this breach of confidence on the part of Mr. Cripps was discovered. He would now proceed to call the attention of the Jury to the first charge against the prisoner which was now before them, and first the should direct attention to a letter addressed by the prisoner to the prosecutors, ordering the cask of sherry. This letter was dated the 15th May, 1845 : it would be unnecessary for him to read more than that portion which related to the present charge, which ran as fol- lows :—" Yesterday I made two little sales as follows:— Mr. Mountford, Worcester, quarter cask sherry, gold at 17/." Then followed the second order which it would be unnecessary to read. The letter then went on—" You will send the above directed to me as usual, with invoice, allowing me 10 per cent. Let Mountford have the best you can for the money." He would next call attention to another letter dated the 26th May, in which the prisoner acknowledged the receipt of the goods ordered as above. This letter contained the following pas- sage:—" 31ountford's quarter cask is just to hand." These letters proved beyond doubt the ordering and receipt of the sherry on account of Mr. Mountford by the prisoner, and he should show them bye and bye that in fact Mr. Mountford had never ordered nor received any sherry of Cripps. This would establish the false pretences, and formed the ingredients of the present charge. The learned Counsel went on to say that he should be enabled to show that at about this time the prisoner asked Mr. Mountford for an order for some sherry, but that he ( Mountford) never gave him any order. This fact might be perhaps adduced as testimony in favour of the prisoner, but he looked upon it as a flimsy trick framed with the object of escaping from the consequences of his fraud. The learned counsel went on to state that in October last year, Mr. F. Coleman came to Worcester, and while walking along the High Street, with the prisoner, he observed the name of " Mountford" over a shop door. Hereupon he asked Cripps whether that was their customer, to which the latter replied in the affirmative, saying that " he was the man who had had the cask of sherry," and that " it was time it was paid for." When the accounts were wound up in the month of January in the present year, the prisoner came up to London and there produced his accounts. Amongst the list of sales effected by him was entered the cask of sherry, which still stood as unpaid against Mr. Mountford's account. Afterwards the accounts were thoroughly investigated, and the existence of fraud was dis- covered, upon which the present proceedings followed. The prisoner was apprehended and lodged in the city gaol, from which place he wrote two letters to Mr. Coleman. The first of these letters was dated " Saturday morning," and commenecd thus :—" Sir, I was thunderstruck to find that you had been in Worcester in my absence, and had obtained a warrant against me for embezzlement." The letter went on to say " the charge is as false as hell; my books shall prove it so." Further he added —" 1 write not in anger but in sorrow— not only on account of the ruin which you have brought upon my shoulders, but that your mind should be so abused. If you will send me an answer by Mr. Tustin, pledging your word of honour that all proceedings shall be stayed, 1 will render you a complete account of my agency. 1 tell you if I was the rogue you suppose me to be, that you cannot wind up your accounts in Worcestershire without me. The infamy you have attached to my character renders it of little consequence what I do, or where I go, and rather than be tapped on the shoulder I would take myself off'to Van Dieman's Land." The letter thus concluded—" I reiterate that the charge is false: give me an opportunity and I'll prove it so." Mr. Huddleston having commented upon this letter, pro- ceeded to address himself to the next. This letter commenced with expressions of sorrow for any hasty remarks which might have been contained in his first letter. It then proceeded to this effect " I must admit that appearances are so far against me as to justify the line of conduct which you have so far pursued, but 1 trust, however, when you consider the ruin and disgrace brought on my family, that you will withdraw any charge against me on my giving a full explanation of my accounts." The Learned Counsel having very fully and fairly stated the case as he proposed to prove it in evidence, called upon the Jury to exercise, as they were bound to do, an im- partial judgment, and to banish from their minds every remark which he had made which was not borne out by the evidence about to be adduced in the case. He then proceeded to call witnesses. Mr. Frederick William Sherard Coleman was first examined. He deposed that on the 1st March, 1845, he went into partner- ship with his brother. At that time the prisoner was employed as their agent at Worcester. It was his duty to effect sales, and to send up to London the names of the persons with whom he had effected sales. Witness had understood that there had been disagreements between the prisoner and his father, and wit- ness made a stipulation to the effect that the prisoner was not, under any consideration, to obtain orders from his father's customers. The course of business at his office was as follows :— On letters being received from the prisoner containing orders, the orders were entered into what was called the <; order book," and when a settlement took place they were transferred to what was called the " commission book," for the purpose of calculating the amount of commission clue to the prisoner. The letter produced, dated the 15th May, was received in London on the 16th, from the prisoner. It contained the follow- ing extract:—" Yesterday 1 made two little sales as follows— Mr. . Mountford, Worcester, quarter cask sherry, gold, at 17/.; — Knight, Esq., St. John's, two dozen claret, 36s.; one dozen chambray, 46s. You will send tie same directed to me, with invoice. Let Mountford have the best you can afford him for the money, allowing me 10 per cent." The order book was next produced and handed to the witness. The entries in that book were in the handwriting of his brother, who is in France. The letter produced, dated 26th 31 ay, was in the prisoner's handwriting. It contained the following:—" 31ountford's quarter cask is just to hand." In the month of October last, witness was in Worcester, and was walking along High Street with the prisoner, when witness, observing the name " Mount- ford" over a door in that street, asked if that was their customer. 3Ir. Cripps answered, " He is the man that had the quarter cask of sherry, and it is time it was paid for." In January last 31 r. Cripps came to London, and at that time an account was come to of the sales which had been effected. Witness continued— The book produced, called the " commission book," is in my handwriting: it was copied from the " order book" in the presence of the prisoner. I called over the sums in the order book, and the prisoner checked them in the commission book, marking the word " paid" against some of the names as I went on." Amongst those entries checked is one " 31r. 3Iountford, Worcester, quarter cask of sherry." The amount of the orders on that settlement was 79/. lis. The sum total of the sales, occupying 21 pages of the book, is 1517/- 16s. Id. The prisoner was allowed commission upon that sum. I examined the stock found in 3Ir. Cripps' vault after the prisoner was taken into custody. 1 did not find there the quarter cask of sherry had for 31 r. Mountford. The prisoner has never paid for that sherry. Cross- examined by Mr. Beadon— The stock in 3Ir. Cripps' vault was examined about two days after 31 r. Cripps was taken into custody. There was a quarter cask of sherry found in the vault: it was afterwards sold. I know it was not the quarter cask sent for Mr. 31ountford, because there was no mark to distinguish it, and he had sherry from us after Mr. 31ountford's, in a larger cask. I have been in the trade since 31arch, 1845. The cask in the cellar appeared to be a sherry quarter cask. There are several kinds of quarter casks, such as 31arsala, Tagus, Cape, and Spanish. The cask in the cellar was of the last named denomination. The cask sent down for Mr. 3Iountford was a Spanish cask. The wine put in Tagus casks is of an inferior character to that usually put in Spanish casks. A stock account of the contents of the vault was made by the excise, after the prisoner was taken into custody. At that time the quarter cask was in the vault. The witness proceeded to state the difference in gauge of the quarter casks of the several denomina- tions recited above. He then went on to depose as follows— I saw the cask sent for Mr. Mountford before it left my premises. It contained 32 gallons, which is not so much as the usual quantity contained in a Spanish casta; the cask might have been a Spanish cask " driven down." 1 am not as certain that it was a Spanish cask which was sent down for Mr. Mountford as I am that it was a Spanish cask found in Mr. Cripps' vault. I cannot swear that the cask sent down was not a Marsala cask. The letters produced dated 14th and 16th 31 ay, 1845, are in my brother's handwriting, as also two other letters of the 19th and 20th 3Iay following. Another letter produced dated lltli November, 1844, is also in my brother's handwriting. These letters were at his request handed over to Mr. Huddleston for his inspection. After perusing them the Learned Counsel for the prosecution begged permission of the Court for a brief suspension of the trial, while he consulted with his client on the subject of these letters, and the points involved in them. After a short consultation, the Court having been informed of the result, The Learned Deputy Recorder, addressing the Jury, said the proceedings had been temporarily suspended on the appli- cation of the Learned Counsei engaged in the case in conse- quence of an important point which had been raised. It had struck him, on the opening of the case, that it would be almost impossible whether the prisoner was innocent or guilty of the charge alleged against him— that this indictment could be carried on. The charge against the prisoner was that he had fraudulently obtained from the witness who had been examined and his partner a cask of sherry wine. Now in order to show that the wine was so fraudulently obtained it became necessary to prove from the evidence of the partners that they had never made any arrangement with the prisoner which could release him from the charge, and in the absence of Mr. Henry Coleman they had no means of knowing whether in fact any arrangement had been made between him and the prisoner. The witness who had been examined could only speak to his own acts, and could not answer for those of his absent brother. It seemed impossible that they ( the Jury) could come to the conclusion that the prisoner was guilty unless they had proof that there had been no cofnmunication on this part of their arrangements between the partner, 3Ir. Henry Coleman and the prisoner. They must at once acquit the prisoner, as the other partner in the firm could not be produced. 3Ir. Huddleston said he had been requested, by the gentle- man by whom he was instructed, to apply to the Court for a postponement of the remaining five cases until the next Sessions. Immediately on the brief being laid before him, he had in- quired whether 31r. Henry Coleman could not be produced, but he was given to understand that he could not. He certainly might perhaps be brought there at the next Sessions, but lie was of course bound to submit to any suggestion, made by the Court. The Deputy Recorder.— There is no blame to be attached to you or any other perton in the conduct of the case. The fact is that the prosecutor is absent by his own fault, and I think this is no justification for an adjournment of the case. 1 think the case altogether ought at once to be dismissed. Here some ill- bred and intemperate individuals made a show of approbation by thumping the floor of the Courts, upon which the Deputy Recorder desired that no marks of approval or disapprobation might be shown at the result of the trial: such exhibitions of feeling, he justly observed, were highly improper and very disrespectful in a Court of Justice. The Jury was then charged separately on the several indict- ments found against the prisoner, and having under the direc- tion of the Deputy Recorder, found a verdict of" Not Guilty" upon each of them, this trial closed with the discharge of the accused. During the trial Mr. Cripps appeared to be making copious notes of the proceedings, and occasionally communicated with his attorney. BILLS IGNORED— The Grand Jury ignored the bill pre- sented against William Dowling, charged with stealing a cotton gown, the property of William Randle. Sarah Langford, out 011 bail, on a charge of stealing a shawl, the property of Esther 3Iorgan, did not appear when called upon, and the usual proclamations having been made, her recognizances were ordered to be estreated. This was the whole of the business before the Session, and the Court broke up shortly after twelve o'clock. SUSPECTED POISONING OF SIX PERSONS.— A discovery has been made at North Walsham of a system of wholesale poisoning, by which six persons ara already known to have perished, and the bodies of others have been exhumed for the purpose of examination. 3Ir. John Ball, a respectable man, living at the village of Happisburgli, a few miles distant, his wife, and four grandchildren, having died within a very short period, and in a very sudden manner, suspicions were naturally excited. A communication was forwarded to Mr. Pringle, one of the coroners for the county, who issued his warrant for holding an inquest, and directed that two of the bodies should bo exhumed. This was done, and on their being subjected to a post mortem examination by three experienced medical gentlemen of the neighbourhood, they declared that each body contained as much arsenic as would poison the inhabitants of the whole parish. The coroner on learning the result of the medical gentlemen's operations, issued instructions to the parochial officers for the disinter- ment of the other bodies of Ball's family. This has been carried into effect, a tent being erected in the parish church- yard to cover the bodies. These are understood to have been examined by the surgeons, and the cause of death ascertained to have been by arsenic. Several witnesses have been examined by the coroner. The parties suspected are known to have purchased arsenic at different places about the time of the deaths of the deceased. During the last twelve weeks several relatives of Ball have died in a mysterious manner, and the exhumation of their bodies is determined upon, and the inquest is adjourned in order to give the medical gentle- men time to examine them. FATAL FIGHTS.— A fight took place on Sunday last, in a field near the 31arley tunnel on the South Devon Rail- way, between two " navies," when one of them fell a corpse on the spot, just as he received a blow from his antagonist.— A bootmaker at Bradford, named Gudgeon, has been com- mitted for trial on a charge of manslaughter. Tho prisoner had a pitched battle with a man named Beardsworth, and the latter received such injuries during the affray as to cause his death. A TEDIOUS INQUIRY.— An inquest on the body of a young woman that was found in a privy attached to Verulam Chapel, at Bromley, and which has been proceeding for three years, was brought to a conclusion on Thursday, the jury having then met for the sixteenth time, and returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons uuknown. CHILD CHOKED BY A PEA.— On Tuesday last, a little boy, scarcely two years old, living near Crumpsall, not far from 31anchester, had a few peas given to it by its mother to to play with, when it appears the little thing swallowed one, and immediately exhibited symptoms of choking. The child was immediately taken to a surgeon, who fearing that from its difficulty in breathing, it would die if something was not done, made an incision into the child's throat, and inserted a flexible tube for the purpose of enabling the little sufferer to breath, but all this was of little avail, for the child died in about an hour afterwards. Upon examining the region of the throat and wind pipe on the following morning, a pea was found firmly fixed in the larynx. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ASHTON- UNDER- LYNE.— On Saturday last a most disastrous fire took place at the cotton factory, known as the Black Ruck 31ill, situate about one mile from the town of Stalybridge, and two and a half miles from Ashton, which destroyed the whole of the machinery, and left the property a complete mass of ruins. The mill, which forms a sort of half square, is a stone building, four stories in height, and is, on the east side, nine windows in length, and on the south side fourteen windows long, the property of 11. Onsey, Esq., magistrate. It was rented by 3Ir. Randal Bower, cotton- spinner, of Heyrod. The fire was first dis- covered in the second story, 011 the south side, about three o'clock in the morning. We are informed that the mill is insured in the Phoenix Fire- office, for the sum of £ 2000, and that the machinery is insured in the same office to the amount of £ 2200. By this calamitous event upwards of 100 poor persons are thrown out of employment. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT THE BIRMINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL.— One night last week, a poor boatman, named William Walker, who had been for upwards of six months previously wasting away in tho General Hospital, from the effects of an incurable chronic disease, driven to desperation by protracted suffering, attempted to put an end to his exist- ence « bv cutting his throat with an old pocket- knife. The knife, however, was so extremely blunt, that it was with the greatest difficulty he could penetrate the skin ; and being overheard whie drawing the knife backwards and forwards across his throat, to exclaim that he could not get it in, an alarm was given, but before assistance could be procured, the unhappy man had so far succeeded in his dreadful purpose as to force the knife into his throat, and inflict an injury which precludes all hopes of his recovery. MAKKET PRICE OF MURDER IN IRELAND.— After a protracted investigation at the Ballickmoyler petty sessions, on Monday, 3Iichael Doyle, of the Rushes Colliery, was committed for conspiracy to shoot Murtha 3Iurray, who is driver to Sir C. II. Coote, Bart., 31. P., in that locality. It appeared that the man hired for the assassination had been provided with a pistol, and was to get £ 6 for the perpetration of the horrid crime. Doyle has been transmitted to Mary- borough gaol for trial. THE SELF- ACCUSED THIEF AND MURDERER. — At Hammersmith Police Court, on Monday, Henry Norman, a man who recently accused himself of having committed numerous atrocities too great for belief, was placed at the bar for examination, having been brought up from Liverpool, where he was apprehended. The offence of which he was first accused was the robbery of Mr. Hoof, builder, in whose service the prisoner was as clerk when he absconded, about three weeks since, with upwards of £ 50. After witnesses had been heard, Inspector Havill said he had to apply that the prisoner might be remanded, as he had reasons to believe that, if time were given, other charges of a most serious character would be brought forward against the prisoner. 31r. Clive asked the prisoner if he wished to say anything at that stage of the inquiry. The prisoner said he had nothing at present to say on the subject. 3Ir. Clive then said, suffi- cient evidence had been taken to warrant him in remanding the prisoner for a week. The prisoner was then removed. CAUTION TO COACHMEN AND GUARDS.— It does not appear to be generally known, that coachmen and guards convicted of not accounting to their employers for all monies received for fares or carriage of parcels, or luggage, are, for the first offence, liable to a penalty of £ 5, or three months' imprisonment. We understand that the coach proprietors in this part of the country have determined to enforce the above law.— Hereford Times. LARGE SALMON.— A salmon, the largest caught this season in the Tay, weighing 43J lbs., was taken at Blacklug station, near Orchard Nook, last week. This fishing is rented by Mr. Young, Watergate, who had £ 4. 7s. remitted to him from his agent in London for this fine fish, being 2s. per lb., or lOd. more than tho market price. The fishings on the Tay, in general, have a good deal improved during the last ten days.— Perthshire Courier. iilultum in ^ arfce. It was stated the other night in the House of Commons that, though Lord Denman's salary is £ 10,000 a year, he has never taken more than £ 8,000. A movement is now being made, at the suggestion of Lord Denman, to secure the proper payment to petit jurors, in civil cases, for their loss of time. Galignani's Messenger announces " on unquestionable authority," that her M'ajestv Queen Victoria will not visit Paris during the present year. The number of persons brought before the Manchester justices last, year, as " drunk and incapable," amounted to 2185, and of persons " drank and disorderly," 2003. A blacksmith, at Bristol, has been committed for trial for the manslaughter of his wife. There were 110 less than 22 bankrupts in Tuesday week's Gazette. The quantity of fish sent from Scarborough along the railway to York, has averaged 80 tons per week during the whole of the winter. I11 Nottinghamshire, last week, in one wheat stack, upwards of 240 rats and 1G0 mice were killed, and many, of course, escaped. In the years 1835- 39, there were 315 murders, and in the year 1840- 44, there were 347 ; being an increase of ten per cent.; while the increase of the population would account for but six per cent. Eighty of the water fowl kept in the ornamental water of St. James' Park have been killed by a pair of Egyptian geese, forming part of the collection. The quantity of salt sent from the United Kingdom to foreign countries in 1843, was 12,946,452 bushels; in 1844 13,413,884 bushels; in 1845, 14,319,482 bushels. The Times of Monday week contained 1,941 advertisements, the duty on which would be £ 145. lis. 6d. ; which added to £ 125, the stamp duty on 30,000 copies, gives £ 270. lis. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of one day to the revenue. The number of fires that have taken place in the metropolis and its suburbs since the commencement of the year, according to the records kept by the brigade authorities, amount to more than 300. The loss of life is not so great as formerly. The 16th meeting of the British Association will be held at Southampton, on the 18th September. Hollo way's Ointment and Pills— Blotches on the Skin— An extraordinary case.— A young woman, named Martha Kelly, residing with her friends at the corner of Silver- street, Stepney, had been from her youth covered with blotches, which much impaired her health. She was always in a low, nervous, and irritable state. The poor girl had been to almost every hospital and medical institution in London, without obtaining any relief; but, notwithstanding the failure of all the medical men who treated her case, she has been completely cured by the use alone of these wonderful medicines, which will cure any skin disease, of however long standing the case may be. Agricultural Entclltgcncc. THE NEW POTATO CROP. We extract the following from an article 011 this subject published in the last number of the Gardeners' Chronicle :— That the new potato crop will suffer greatly under various circum- stances is beyond a doubt. It is tooeertaiu that the small losses sus- tained in pits and forcing- houses are now to be experienced 011 a grand scale in our gardens and fields, unless indeed such assertions as those which Lord George Bentinck and Mr. Shaw have made iu one House of Parliament and as a Noble Duke is reported to be pre paring for the other, should root out the potato murrain as effectually as they have succeeded in destroying all confidence in the judgment of violent party- men. To the daily accumulating evidence of the unsoundness of the crop out of doors, we have to add the following striking instance :— " The enclosed 1 send you for your inspection, and 1 tear you will pronouuee that these leaves have been blighted by the ' murrain.' They were brought to me on Saturday from VV little, in this county ( Essex), from plants forced on a lieap'of stable dung ; but not much, as you will infer from their being but little in advance ol' the sets in the natural soil. I did not hear whether the tubers were yet of any size, or even formed. My informant stated that some plants, iu a more forward stage, had all assumed the worst appearances of last year. The leaves and stalks are quite black and cankered to the giound." si Such will of course l> e the condition of the potato crop in other cases, during the coming season. Happy the man whose fields are blighted now ; for they may plough them up and grow something else. We need not say that the evil once declared thus early is irremediable. But as it " may be most generally expected 111 July and August, when the potato haulm has nearly completed its growth, it is as well to state at once that mowing down the haulm the instant the disease appeared in a district had last year the effect of saving the crop. Tho quantity of potatoes was of course greatly diminished, but such as it was they were found to keep. ' 1 here is, however, this difficulty, that if the cutting down is delayed too long disease appears with its usual virulence, and that we know too little of the early symptoms to judge with certainty when to ply the sickle. Hence the conflicting assertions that are to be found upon this, as upon so many other points connected with the potato murrain. IMPROVED HAY AND STRAW CUTTING MACHINE.— We notice that a patent lias been granted to Mr. John Gillett, of the firm of Ward, Colbourne, and Gillett, Stratford- on- Avon and Shipston- on- Stour, agricultural implement makers, for " an improved machine or machines for cutting, and otherwise dividing hay, straw, turnips, and other vegetable substances." HOPS. WORCESTER, MAY 22.— The reports from our plantations are of a more favourable character than could have been expected, considering the prevalence of blight upon vegeta- tion generally: at present the attacks of the fly are not to any serious extent. At our market on Saturday we had about 160 pockets of hops weighed at the public scales, which realized a small advance upon the rates of the previous week. There were also some considerable transactions batween merchants and dealers; and upon the whole the market was lively, with a prospect of advancing rates. The duty is set at £ 18,000, and for the kingdom £ 170,000 is named. Present prices:— 1845, £ 4. 10s. to £ 7., choice, £ 7. 10s.; 1844, £ 0. to £ G. 6s., choice, £ 6. 15s.; old hops, £ 2. 5s. to £ 5., choice, £ 5. 12s. per cwt. BOROUGH, MAY 18.— An improved demand, and a fair amount of business doing. Choice qualities produced rather more money. New Pockets. Farnham 7 10 10 10 Kent East Kent Sussex . 9 10 0 0 ( i 10 7 0 New Bags. Kent Sussex Yearlings..... Old Hops £ s. 5 0 0 0 4 10 0 18 £ s. 7 15 0 0 5 15 5 0 Yearlings 4 12 KENT.— The Maidstone Journal savs, " Our hop- bine is quite purple with health and vigour, and has in some places grown two or three feet since our last report. The flea has injured it very little this year, but the fly and lice have in- creased to such ail extent as to warrant the apprehension of a blight. However, it is yet early 111 the season, and we hope to be able to report more favourably. The hops in the neigh- bourhood are also going on well. In some gardens the bines have reached half way up the poles, and are looking healthy." — The duty is mentioned at £ 175,000. QUICK GROWTH OF THE HOP.— A few days ago a hop planter at Easthoathly, Sussex, having cut a notch in one of of his poles, found that in less than 24 hours the bine had made a shoot of 4 inches. FAIR. STRATFORD- ON- AVON.— This fair was held on Thursday last. The number of beasts in the market was short, the demand good, prices firm, 5^ d. to fid. being readily given. The sheep trade was not so buoyant, barely realising fid. for fat wethers; the supply was good both in quantity and quality; stores fell 2s. to 3s. per head. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Worcestershire.— Bromsgrove. Tues. Gloucestershire.— Marshiield, Mon.; Newent, Wed.; Northleach, Wed. Shropshire.— Claveley, Mon.; Newport, Tues.; Llanymynech, Fri.; Medley Market, Fri. Warwickshire.— B randon, Mon. Staffonlihire.— Fazeley, Mon.; Lane End, Fri « f^ oi'ticulturc. OPERATIONS FOlt THE WEEK. CONSERVATOIRES, STOVE, Szc.— Conservatory •. Camellias making their wood should have constant shading ; the house should be kept very moist day and night, and the plants frequently syringed. Pay every attention at this period to plants of climbing habit, whether festooning from the roof, up pillars, or on trellises in pots. Let stopping, thinning, training, & c., proceed in a methodical way. KITCHEN GAIIDKN FORCING.— Pineries: if the weather proves very sunny, it will be advisable to shade fruiters in their first swell- ing, in order to dispense with the necessity of giving so much air; this will preserve a greater amount of atmospheric moisture in the house.— Fineries: Early houses now ripeningsliould have abundance of air. Let a few of the laterals which had been reserved, for fear of breaking the principal buds, be removed if they shade any of the principal leaves. Do not, however, remove them to throw sunlight on the fruit.— Late Vineries: These will be now in blossom in most places; keep up a lively circulation of air with a warmer atmos- phere, and cease syringing. Continue, however, to moisten the tan or floors as well as footpaths every evening; this facilitates the calyx, a necessary step to secure fecundation. Vines not possessing a lively and safe action at the root, have sometimes much difficulty in bursting this.— Melons'. Those now ridged out for autumnal crops should have a good depth of soil; light and superficial soils will lead to red spider. The soil should be a still' loam, filled in whendiyish in rough lumps, and trod somewhat firm. After this a slight casing of common sandy soil may be laid over the whole.— Cucumbers-. Stop, thin, and water freely; those for the ridge if hardened should now be planted out. See that the ball of earth is well soaked with water previous to planting.— Kidney Beam for transplanting, raised in hothouses, should now be transferred to a cool frame; after hardening for a week or so they may be trusted out of doors. KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD.— A little Endive for a first sowing may be got in. With regard to Peas, Beans, Spinach, Radishes, Cresses, Lettuces, Horn Carrots, & c., the advice given in former numbers will be serviceable now. A good sprinkling of the Cape Broccoli may now be sown; likewise Grange's impreg- nated Cauliflower, and Walcheren Broccoli; these will succeed the Cauliflowers sown iu February. Sow a row of Gherkins if not done. Those raised in heat in boxes should be hardened forthwith, pre- paratory to planting out. IT a slight amount of fermentation could be provided for them, after the manner of those on the ridge, by means of cut grass, or other refuse fermenting matter, it would tend to insure a crop. These things are not so easily managed in the northern parts of the kingdom as about the metropolis. FLOWER VIAKDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.— It is now high time to think of bedding out some of the mass flowers; at least, such as are least liable to injury by frost, and have undergone a proper hardening process/ Much may be done, as to display, by a judicious arrange- ment or combination of both colour and figure. As a general princi- ple, our best authorities seem to agree, that the various shades of orange and yellows will class well with the various purples and blues; whites are suitable with the blues, oranges, and reds. White, however, deranges the effect of the yellows, as also the violet shades ; whilst the various red or rose- coloured flowers are, as far as colour is concerned, capable of forming a bed by themselves. agricultural ano otfter fflarfccte. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, MAY 18. A moderate supply of English wheat, and after the best runs had been purchased by millers at about the currency of this day week, the market finished dull, and a clearance could not be effected with- out yielding to a reduction of Is. to 2s. per qr. In bonded few transactions were reported at former prices. Barley met a slow sale, and was cheaper. Malt steady, at our previous currency. A fair consumptive demand for beans and peas, which were the turn dearer. No improvement either in the price ol'or demand for oats; indeed the large supply of foreign has interfered with the disposal of Irish and English, lor which there was a inert! retail sale, and buyers generally succeeded in purchasing- at a further reduction of 6d. per quarter. Per qr. Ferqr. Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Suffolk Red - - 53 to 59 White - - - 57 03 Lincolnshire & York- shire lied - - 51 57 White - - - 55 59 Scotch - - - 47 51 White - - - 49 55 Irish ... 45 48 White - - - 46 50 Barley, Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffol k Malting - - - 29 31 Distilling - - 27 29 Chevalier - - 32 30 Grinding - - - 25 2f> Irish, Distilling- - 25 27 Grinding - - - 24 25 Rye, Distilling - - 34 3G ( Grinding - - - 32 34 Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 56 GO Brown - - - 52 04, Malt Kingston and Ware 62 Brown - - - 55 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Feed - 22 Pota, and Poland - 20 Scotch - - - 26 Devonshire and Welsh 21 Londonderry, Newry, and Clonmel ditto - 24 Limerick and Sligo - 24 Cork and Waterford - 22 - 24 - 20 - 21 - 32 - 34 - 40 - 42 Grey, Maple, & Hog - 32 Extra. - - _ 35 Black White- Galway Extra Beans, Tick - Harrow and Small Peas, Essex, Boilers Blue - 64 56 28 28 23 25 26 24 if P I WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. Tho arrivals of foreign wheat continue liberal, and the trade remains iu the same dull and inactive state as reported for some time past. The show of English was small, and although offered at the decline of Monday, a clearance could not be effected. Although the supplies of oats were short, holders were unable to obtain any improvement in price, and only able to sell in retail parcels at our previous currency. There was only a slender attend- ance ol' buyers at market to- day, and so little passing in other grain, prices can be quoted little better than nominal. SEED MARKET, . MAY 18. Linseed continues a slow inquiry, and previous rates were with difficulty supported. Archangel, 45s. to46s.; Odessa, 43s. to 45s. ; and l'etersburgh, 42s. to 43s. 6tl. per cwt. Other qualities may be purchased at from 39s. 6d. to 42s. per cwt. In clover seed, so little doing, that prices are almost nominal. Linseed cakes very dull, and somewhat lower. The best English selling at £ 10 to £ 10 5s per 1,000. In other articles, no sales to report. The following are the prices :— Rape seed English ( per last) £ 24 to £ 26 ; ditto new, £ 22 to £ 25; Foreign ditto, £ 25; ltapecake, English ( per ton) £ 5 15s to .£ 6 5s ; ditto foreign, £ 5 5s to £ 5 15s ; Linseed cake, English'per 1,000) £ 10 to £ 10 10s. IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the Weekendin" May 9.0 Wheat ..., 56s 8d I Oats 23s 9d I Beans .... 35s 8d Barley .... 29s 7d | Rye 33s 5d | Peas .... 34s 7d Aggregate Average of the Six tVeeks which regulates Duty. Wheat 56s Od I Oats 23s Id I Beans 35s Od Barley .... 30s Id j Rye . . 33s 7d | Peas .... 34s Id Duty on Foreign Corn. Wheat .... 16s 0d | Oats .... 5s Od I Beans .... 7s 6ri Barley .... 8s Od j Rye .... 9s 6d| Peas .... 8s 6d WOOL MARKETS. LONDON, MAY 18,— Since this day se'nnighl, the imports of wool into London have been 011 an extensive scale— viz., 2,380 bales from Adelaide ( N. S. W.); 615 ditto, from HobartTown; 440 ditto, from Sidney ; 926 ditto, from Swan River ; 59 ditto, from Antwerp ; 24 ditto, from Calcutta; and 200 ditto, from other quarters. In the private contract market, these is rather more demand for English wool, yet we can notice no actual alteration in the quotations, which rule as follows:— Down ewe and wether, Is OJd to Is Id per lb.; Hogget or teg, Is 2| dto Is 3d; Half- bred hogget, Is 2Jd to Is 3d; Lincoln hogget and wether, llfd. to Is 2d ; ditto flannel, Is 0{ d to Is 2d ; ditto blanket, 8d to'lOjd; Lamb wool, Is Oid to Is 2{ d. The public sales of foreign and Colonial wools commenced 011 Thursday, and will be continued during the whole of the present week. Although the attendance of buyers hitherto from the manu- facturing districts has not been large, the prices obtained have been nearly equal to those paid at the previous auctions. There is no disposition to buy in any of the provincial markets further than to meet immediate wants. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. MAY 18. Since this day se'nnight, the imports of foreign sto « k into London have amounted to 20 oxen from llambro'; 34 oxen, 41 cows, and 16 sheep from Harlingen ; 41 oxen from Prussia; and 35 cows, 136 sheep, 4 lambs, and 3 calves from Rotterdam ; while, at Hull, nearly 200 head of beasts and sheep have been received in good condition. To- day, there were on offer 37 beasts from Prussia, together witli 56 oxen and cows, and 80 sheep from Holland. A fair average time- of- year supply of beasts from our own grazing districts, the quality of which was unusually prime. Notwithstand- ing the unpropitious state of the weather, the beef trade was, on the whole, steady, at last week's quotations— the highest figure for the best Scots being 4s. per 8lbs. Still, however, a clearance was with difficulty effected. The numbers of sheep were again on the increase, and a very small portion of that description ol stock was beneath an average. As a very limited number was in the wool, it must be observed that our quotations refer solely to those shorn. Prime old Downs moved off at previous rates— or from 4s, to 4s. 4d. per 81bs.; but the value of all other breeds suffered a decline of 2d. per 81bs., and a clearance was not effected. From the Isle of Wight, 300 sheep and lambs were derived per railway. In lambs, a very limited amount of business was passing, at a depression oi' 4d. per bibs.— the prices ruling from 5s. to 63. per 8lbs. The veal trade was dull, at barely late rates. Pigs— the arrivals of which from Ireland were large— moved off slowly, at previous currencies. PRICES PER STONE O*' SI. BS. TO SINK THE OFFAI,. s d Inferior Beasts 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 10 3 6 3 10 3 2 3 6 3 10 0 Prime large Oxen Prime Scots, & c Inferior Sheep Second quality ditto Coarse- woolled ditto Prime Southdown out of wool SUPPLY AS PER CI. ERK'S STATEMENT, Beasts, 2,651 | Sheep and . Lambs, 25,590 | Calves, 98 | Pigs 310 Prime Southdown in wool Lamb 5 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 Prime small ditto .... 4 8 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 Large Hogs 3 8 Small Porkers 4 8 Qr. old store pigs, each lGs a 19s WORCESTER, MAY 22. At our market on Saturday prices were very firm, with few trans- actions effected, and they were of no extent. The prices in the afternoon were much higher than in the morning, farmers holdin" firm in consequence of the coming crop not lookimj very promising? The fate of the Ministerial measure in the House of Lords is anxiously looked for on all hands, and business will not be steady until the decision is made known. Little barley offering, and lower prices were not submitted to. Oats Gd. pel qr. cheaper, with a fair demand. Beans and peas realized quite as much money. s d s d s d s d Wheat, white . 6 10 2 Old Oats, Irish 0 0 0 0 New ditto ......... . 0 0 0 0 New Oats, Irish 0 0 0 0 Wheat, red . 6 6 7 0 Beans, old, English . 5 8 6 <> Foreign . 0 0 0 0 Ditto, Foreign ( J 0 0 0 Barley, grinding.... . 0 0 0 0 Ditto new, English . 4 10 5 Ditto" new Malting . 4 0 4 3 8 5 u 0 8 3 Boilers, white 5 0 5 6 Old Oats, English . New ditto . 0 0 0 0 Vetches 7 0 7 4 . 3 6 4 0 Rye, new . 0 0 0 4 INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total quan. Av. per qr. I Total quail. Av. per nr. Wheat 421(| 1 6 hu. £ 2 16 7 ( Rye . . . Oqr. Obu. X'O 0 0 Barley 140 2 1 6 5$ Beans , . 0 0 0 0 0 Oats. .0 0 0 0 0 I Peas . . 0 0 0 0 0 C O- U N TR Y MARKETS. EVESHAM, MAY 18.— The corn market at this place on Monday was badly supplied with wheat, and for what little was offered the price asked (^ ls.) precluded the possibility of any purchases being effected by the millers, it being too high to enable them to sustain the reduction in the price of flour. BIRMINGHAM, MAY 18.— During the present week the value of English wheat has been supported, both buyers and sellers having recovered from the effects of the panic prevailing at the early part of last week. Red wheat realised 20s, to 21s. 6d.; 22s. being asked for white. Fine malting barley not lower, other sorts not neglected. Oats were disposed of at a decline of 6d. per qr. Beans maintained former currency.— Averages : Wheat, 1,730 qrs. 4 bush., 59s. lid. ; barley, 318 qrs., 30s. 0Jd. GLOUCESTER, MAY 16.— Notwithstanding the depressed state of the London markets during the week, prices for English wheat have not receded, since this day week, more than 6d. to Is. per qr. with short supply. Foreign, however, must be quoted 2s. per qr. lower, with a somewhat increased demand. Oats lower, about Od. per qr. For barley there was very little inquiry. The value of Beans tending upwards.— Averages: Wheat, 52s. lid.; barley, 28s. 9d,; oats, 2Cs. Od.; beans, 33s. 3d. SHREWSBURY, MAY 16.— There was a small supply and a good demand, at the following rates.— Wheat, 5s 8d to 7s 8d; barley, 2s 9s to 4s ; Oat, 2s 8d to 3s. 6d. per imperial bush. HEREFORD, MAY 16.— Although there was but a small quantity of wheat, the millers were very reluctant buyers, and the small quantity which changed hands was at a decline in price of full 2s. to 3s. per qr. The top price for fine red did not exceed 54s. per qr. In beans, pease, and oats veiy little doing, at no alteration iu price.— Wheat, Gs 4d to Gs 8d ; barley, ( new) 3s 3d to 4s Od ; beans ( old) 0s Od ; ditto new, 4s to 4s 6d; pease ( new; 4s Od to 0s Od; oats, 2s 9d to 3s 6d. LIVERPOOL, MAY 19.— The depressed state of the trade, rpported on Tuesday last, has since continued, and, in the few sales effected, of free produce, during the past week, it has been necessary to submit to a further decline iu prices. In bond, the transactions are confined to a few small parcels of flour, at barely the rates obtain- able on last Tuesday. Upon a fair attendance of both town and couutry dealers at market this morning, only a very limited enquiry for any description of wheat was manifested; and although holders firmly demanded fully the rates of this day week, those quotations must be repeated nominally. An exceeding slow sale was expe- rienced for sack flour, at barely previous prices. For oats or oat- meal a very moderate demand was apparent, and upon both these articles a slight decline was submitted to. Beans and barley were each rather lower. finooimnt anD iSankrupt toegiatcr. FRIDAY, MAY 15. BANKRUPTS. William Bueknell Lemon, Croydon, ironmonger. Luke Whitby, Poultry, builder. Robert Smith, Sussex- street, Tottenham- court- road, cabinet maker. Thomas Showell, Ludgate- street, Ludgate- hill, tailor. William Erick, Hackney- road, bakei. George Sex, Stone Cutter- street, Farringdon- street, job master. William Aburrow, Liverpool, druggist.". Richard Mills and George Puckle, Southwark and Mark- lane, hop factors. Charles Murray Williams, Bristol, ironmonger. Philip Vaughan, Brecon, scrivener. Samuel Hill, Bolton- le- Moors, boiler maker. John Bridgwood, Forebridge, Staffordshire, butcher. T U E S D A Y, M A Y 19. INSOLVENT. William Darnhrough, Castle- terrace, Richmond, tailor. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Elliott, Bristol, coal merchant. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Whatley, William- street, Lisson grove, grocer. Henry Elkington, Maida- hill East, chemist. Robert Perry, Brighton, draper. Thomas William Green Stephens, Bampton, Oxfordshire, hackney master James Gordon, jun., East India Chambers, Leadenhall- street, ship and insurunae broker. James Joliu Ilance, Liverpool, broker. Thomas Hartley and Robt rt Ingham, Leeds, stock brokers. Thomas Walker, Leeds, tallow chandler. John Cjoke, Cheltenham, auctioneer. William Wonnacott, St. James's, Bath, grocer. George Daniel Fiench, Stroud, Gloucestershire, cabinet maker. ' Thomas Bothams, Nottingham, licensed victualler. John Russell, Kidderminster, coal dealer. John Fletcher Corbett, Worcester, scrivener. John Richmond Hayward, Manchester, bookseller. Samuel Dethick and Thomas Richard Kay, Newton- heath, near Manchester, common brewers. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, at the Office No. 5 Avenue, Cross, in the Parish of Saint Nicholas, in the Borough of Worcester, by FRANCIS PARSONS ENGLAND, Printer, residing ui. No 52, Moor Street, Tything of Whistones, in the Borough of Worcester. Saturday, May 23, 1846.