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      ArFRATS with IlAHTEsrEKi . —Oq Saturday night last . tse Tillage of Mespham , mar Gravesead , was thrown inio & state of confusion and alarm by the EUddeu intrusion et a patty of Iriih reapers , who proceeded U > the house of Air George Biiss , a farmer , and applied for wark . On his telling them he had no employ for them , they demanded some beer . This he refused to give them , 3 Bd at the game time , In cjcsequecce of their abusive language , pushed one of them off ills premises . A wnfie ensued , in which Mr Blis * succeeded in overpowering his antagonist , and k- Iding him down until some of his servants came to his assistance , when the fellows called to their companions , a short distance off , who coming up to the spot , took the binders pff their reapinghooks , and assumed 8 Hch & determined and desperate

      attitnde , that Mr Bliss bscase alarmed , aad made a hasty retreat across the fields , in doing which tne of the assailants aimed a blow with his reapin » -hook , which fortunateiy struck against a wall , and thuB arrested the deadly weapsn ; they also hurled a brick and ether missiles at the farmer as he retreated , which fortunately missed him . The noiss eoon brought a number of neighbours to the spot , and at length fonr of the party were captured and conveyed to the lock-np house ; three other men and two vroraen kaving in the mean time effected their escape . On Monday the priseners , who gave their naaes Bartlett , Saundew , Panling , and Dorrett , were brought before the county magistrates at Rochester , and were severally ordered to be imprisosed in the county paul for two calendar months .

      Singtl&b Ames Fsou Bzx 3 . —Some days since i * je waggener of Mr Bonniface wai backing a waggon into the ledge at Horeemonden , when the horse bj « ome means ran it back into a quickset hedge , and npset three hives of bee 3 on the other tide . The bses immediately attacked the horse , which could fcot for some time be released from the shafts , and the animal ' s head was dreadfully stung and swelled up to a frightful size : the pain was ratense no denbt , a it rolled about after released from the Wa ?? on apparently in agony- Mr Bonniface § ent off

      for Mr Cleaver , the celebrated veterinary but « eoD , at Harden , whose soa went over and bled the saitnal copiously , sponging the parts with whiskey sad brandy ; and after a few days the swelling abated , thB horse began to feed a little , and is now * ikely to do well . The waggoner fortunately escaped bj shielding hia head with a sack , but some earpscters and bricklayers at work just by were obliged to ran into the field , and by that means they escaped the severe combat with tbs * 9 uaall bat iniete * s * & «« ilMts .

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      THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . To ^ a rls the c ' ose of lest week the greateet anxiety was man fasted throughout fchs capital from the rumours correct about tn insurrectional movement hurried , li not eauBed , by the threatened debate on the reports and documents inonlpatiag L ° dru Rollin , Caussldiere , an 3 Louis Blanc . It oppears that atlmpements were iormed on Thursday evening in the Rna Moaff jtart , in the Faubourg St Marceao , and that the populace were rbpsmd by charges of cavalry . A pistol was fired , in the Faubourg St Antoine , upon the Colonel of the 59 tb Regiment of the line , who was pateing , having at his side a BOldier of the Garde Mobile , who was wounded in the hand by the bill .

      TEE DICTATOKS ALABHED . At five o ' clock on Saturday all the avenues leading to the National Assembly were occupied with troop ? , and an imposing force of cavalry waB drann up on the quay aniJ on the Place da la Concorde . It ttbb reported tbat the mothers , slBtere , and wires of the insurgents of Jane , whs had BBBembled ia considerable numbers on the Place dn PanthcoB and Place Maubert , were ad . vancing towards the palace to present a petition in their favour to the Assembly . TMb report was unfounded . Paei ? , Sunday , 11 a . m . —There is but little to

      communicate this morHing . The troopB which were drawn up in order of battle , in the environs of the Assembly , when I closed my despatches yesterday , continued in their positions ustil half-past six , at which honr they begBn to return to their quarters . No popalar demonstration took place nor was there siay apparent cause for this military display . The principal business in the National Assembly on Saturday , wai the election of a President for the ensu . ing month , when M . Marrast was elected , by Gil votes , nut of a chamber of 70 S .

      VEKGEAKCBOr THB YICTiBIOUS BOURGEOISIE , A second t'iriBion of the insurgents dor med to transportation was sent off on Tuesday night , by the railroad to Havre , siartirjgfrom the station at Asnisres . It comprued 495 , taken from the different forts , chit fly those nearest tha Biation . They were bound two and two , and marched between a doable rank of Infantry , followed by detachments of cavalry ; and troops were stationed from distance to distance aioog the road . As thiB departure tad been previously announced , considerable crowds of the relations and friesd 8 of the prisoners , and of other persons brought by mere curiosity , aexembled

      at the forts , and fallowed the convoy to the station , but without the slightest breach of order . The prisoners seemed to be calm and resigned , and each of the three parties into which they were separated arrived at the station without the least impediment . The first left Asniores at hslf . pigt twelve , the second at one , and the third in another half hour . They were gnarded by the armed force all the way to Havre , and until they were fast on board the Ulloi . Amonpit them , says the J . UBK . iL du Hayee , U a man named Dacheux , seventy , six years of egs , who has two crosses and four medals far different sett of patriotism and humanity .

      The councils of war have commenced the trials of the insurgent ! sent before them . Several have been already sentenced to toe galleys / or life , Yicter Tertulat tried before a court-martial ob Saturday for having commended a barrier in the late insurreciion was sentenced te hard labour for life . Information having been obtained that M . Tiard of the Rue de la Poterie , a maker ef account books , had taken part ia the insurrection of June , not by fighting ia the streets or appearirg at the barricades , but by making cotton pswder and supplying the insurgents with it , bis residence was searched oa Wednesday , and in the garret of the house was found a large quantity of fulmiaating cotton with all the Ingredients and apparatus fer its manufacture , together with somo arms , pigs of lead , and a great quantity of musket balls . There were also a number of balls that had beea flattened and must have been gathered sp after the fighting . M . VUrd was taken to the Prefectura of Police .

      The REFBESE 5 TAHT DU P £ UN . E , KBVt the USOIT , ' ha ? been seized , on aceoint of an article published in its nnraber of yesterday . ' We presume that the article which caused the seizure is a letter , by an insurgent prisoner , charging the authorities with cruelties and injustice tow&rds the psrsons in custoiy . Mr J . B . Dillon , one ef the chiefs of the Irish insurrection , is laid to have arrived at Havre , MosDiT . —At an early hour to-day tha trcops were called out in considerable cumbers , and posted in large bodies In tfce neighbourhood of the National Assembly , and on the Boulevards , at the entry of the Faubourg St Denis and Faabearg St Martin . The workmen formed aUroupemer . tt , The Ilth regiment of the lina and a bat . tsry of artillery arrived in the coarse of the day freax V ncennes , and took up a poiition on the Place de la Baslilie .

      Tke question of interventioa in Italy came on in the Aiiimbly to-dsy , when General Cavalgnao delivered a speech in favour of peaceable mediation in cor jaEctioa with the English government .

      EESEWAL OF THB WAS AGAINST THE F&ES 3 . The Republican government of Franee vies with tbat of the defaact monarchy in its severity against the press . Tne REPBE 5 SRTA 5 T du Peuple , M . Proudlion ' s paper , hat been seized three successive days this week , on the ground that It has been exciting one class of e-c ! e ! f against another . The Peke Dd'jhene was seized yesterday . But th 9 most extraordinary part of this oampaign is announced ia the Lah ? ion . On Friday that journal appeared with a column ia

      b ' . ank , which it announced was caused by the printer refasiBg to accept tha responsibility ef publishing the article which had been prepared , Oa Saturday afternoon the Procereur of the R ; publio made a descent into the officei of the paper , and seized the manuscript of the unpv . b ' . i . lnd article . Yesterday this coup was followed ap by tha arrest of M . Boyer , the editor of the paper . Another editor , M . de TillemesBent , was , fortuaatel y for himself , absent wbea the police came to arrest him ; and the publisher , H . Hague , wis arrested , but set at liberty after his papers had been seized .

      According to the correspondent of the Uoknivq Chbomclz , the gOTeramen ; has sappressed Le Repbesen . taut du Pbuple , the journal of M . Proudhon ; Le Tb » ie Refublique , the journal of H . Thore ; Le Pebe Dc cbeke , and Ls Laotiok , On Sunday two hundred more insurgents were sent to Havre for transportation . The order for their departure was executed so rapidly that they had no time to make thtlr adlenz to their wives and families . Vessels in copper whioh had been bidly cleaned , having been employed in the prison of Clalrvauz , symptoms of poisoning displayed themselves oaoDg the prison .

      ere . This caused the prisoners to believe tbat It was intended to get rid of them by poison , and accordingly en Monday they attempted to revolt , but were pnt down . On Wtdncgday , however thty arose , made barricades with the tables and bads , and proceeded to break every , thing within their reach . In the fear that the garrison would nst be strong enough to crush the revolt , tha general rappel was beaten is all the communes near Ciairvaux , and ( a some boars more than six hundred men were under arms resdy to prevent any attempt at evasion . The insurrection was eventually suppressed , and the principal actors in it , sixty or eighty in number , were placed ia the dungeon ,

      FO 1 EIGH BEL 1 TI 0 KS . Aug . 23 . — General Liflot , Envoy Extraordinary of the French Republic to the Emppror of Russia , left Paris (« ays the Moniteux Da Son ) ot Sunday , for St Peters , burgh , accompanied by M . de Ferriere Tayer , as hU First Secretary . M . de Brignole-Sale waa yeBterday presen ' ed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to General Civslgnso , and remitted his letters of credence as Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Sardinia to the French Republic . The editors of the suspended journals have published a protest against the cntpenslon , In which tbey declare that tbey sre innocent of the intentios attributed to taem . A meeting of journalists has been convoked for Thursday .

      ITALY . Advices from Rome state that the populace were In a most exoited state . An address to the French Republic , demanding ; intervention , had been signed by the psopla . Tha Chamber approved of thiB addreBi , and sent it te the French Ambaieador , who replied that he would forward it to nig government . The Sardinian Ministry have unanimously protested against the armistice 8 greed to by King Cnarles Albert end Marshal RadetrUi , as altogether illegal ; and they farther declare that it muit not » eive as the baBls of negotiations for peace . Ssrious disturbances bad broken out at Rsvenss at the first intelligence of the- entrance of the Aus'rlans into the Legations . It is positively stated that duriBg the disorder the Neapelitan Consul and another persoB , named Gsraldi had bees killed .

      Bolegna was defended by 20 , 000 men . Fifty Austrian soldiers , a captain , & lieutenant , and two Hulans , had beea tiken prisoner * . The Austrians bad retired by the Ferraia road , much alarmed , ai it seemed , by the toctln which tolled ia every iteeple . It 1 « announced that Venice rrfuses to accept the armistice of Charlei Albert . The Natioral sayo , that it Is the duty of the French ffOverameBt to send a fleet to the Adriatic , to drfend Venice , In lieu of the Sardinian fleet which has been recalled .

      The Cohiemposakko of Rome brings us a report of the sitting of the Cnanber of Demies of that city of the Ilth , in which Mamiani proposed that in all the towns there should be opened bureaux for enrolment of volunteers and the receipt of patriotic g / ts , on which should be inscribed 'The country in danger ; ' aBd that all the bishops and cures should be written to by the Pope to exhort their flocks frem the altars to rise enmasif . The minister Galetti accepted this proposal , and stated that arrangemsnts were in progress to which the propojitien then made could be adapted .

      The Piidmoktesb Gazette of the 17 th states that General Garribaldl , having retired to Caatalatto , on the TIcine , with 1 , 800 men , suddenly left tbat place on the 14 th , taking three hostages with him . He proceeded to Arena , took up all the boat 3 ( steamers ineluded ) , and Inposed a coatrlbution of 7 , O 0 Of . ; then leaving , wW 1 tne inteu tion of continuing hostilities against the Anttrians , It i * ^ etilJ tDat at I < uinB he ordered iis iostages to be shot , and then best a body of < Q 0 Austrian ! , It U rumoured that Major Actln , of tf . 9 utiils ' rj , Trbo

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      commands at PiBchiers , and General Fedt-rM , eovernor of th 9 place , have refused to give up the forirfse , dcol » riag that they did not recognise in Salasco , or in the King , the ri ght of givin ? up part of the territory . Iti » b , Uo said that Admiral Albiniand thePiedmontesotro ^ at Venice refmo also to evacuate the town , unless authorised to do so by an crder of the ministry , Buppjrted by a law of the Chambers . On the lUh there was an attack upon Malghera , which lasted four hours , The Venetians defended them , selves bravel y , and after supporting a hailstorm of balls and shells , forced the Austrians to retire . On the 13 th inst . the Sardinian squadron , which had arrived with the Venetian flset , declared , that , having received no orders , it would remain in the service of Venice .

      The CoDBKira FRaKCAis quotes a letter frem Bergamo of the 14 th , stating thattho Austrians hadontered the town the day before , and that Gen . Durando , at the head of 5 . 590 Italians , and supported by forty-eight pkces of cannon , obeyed tba order of Charles Albert , evacuated the town without a blow , and retired into Switzerland . Pescbitra and Piacenza have been surrendered to the Austrians by the PiBdmontese troops .

      SPAIN . IMSDBEECTION IN CATALONIA , Letters from the north of Spain contain the important intelligence that an insurrection in the liberal sense has broken out In Catalonia . According to those advices , a corps of 400 insurgents , commanded by a chief called Molinn , appeared on the 7 th oa the plain of BardoKa , with the war cry of Liberty forever , and down with the government , ' On the Bnme day , Molins diearmed the carabineers of Menson and Badalona . two considerable towns at three hours' di « tanee from Barcelona , In the evening be went by Semboy to Villanova , The

      young men of Barcelona go out by parties of 100 to 150 to joia Molins . On the 9 th he had 760 men . At the same time another movement took placa in tfao ' Campo de Tarragona . ' Col . Bildevis has caused the wbe ' e of tha young men of Reus to rise , and must be at tb ' a moment sufficiently strong to demand reisforctments of tho authoritits of Tarragona . On the 10 th the two chiefs had received iato tbeir ranks a great number of soldiers belonging to tfee army . A great number of the troops in the garrison have joined theinsurgents . Universal apprehension is feit in Catalonia , Even FlgueiraB hai demanded reinforcements .

      HUNGARY . The Hungarian troops have defeated the Servian insurgents with great lose , and drives them from the towns of Szarea and NFuz ' ni , which they bad occupied . Pestb , August 13 . —The Hungarians have taken the strongly fortified position of the Servians , near Verlaez , by storm . According to Hungarian accounts , from 2000 to 3000 Servians , and about as man ; Hungarians , have been killed , Posen , AuguBt 17 . —The Cologne Gazette states that an insurrection broke out on the 13 th in Warsaw , in which some of the troops bave taken part . After five hoars' bombardment the city submitted . Details are wanting , but it appears that this insurrection ia connected with the conspiracy of StanUzewaki , recently discovered at St . Petersburgb , and which got wind in cenaequence of a betrayal . It wbb intended to Btrike the first blow at St . Petersburg !) .

      AccordlDg to intelligence , which , however , requires confirmation , a new Polish eo ? . spiraey has been discovered at K&Itsch , which was to have been carried out on the 15 th at KiltBcb , Posen , aad Galicia olmultaneeutly . From 501 : > 69 persons in the Grand Duchy ere SBid to be implicated . According to aaether report , a meeting of the PoleB was surprised b y Cossacks , and the individuate who composed it were arreattd and transported without trial . It is said that among the persons thus banished there are twelve belonging to the Duchj ofPo 9 tn . —La Pteeuntur , August 22 .

      UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . By the arrival of the steam ship Europa , we loam CongreBS has adjourned , The great qusBtlon reipeoting slavery in tho iibw territery nmains undecided , tha Hones of Representatives maintaining the principle of non-extension , and the Senate adhering to the toleration of the evil . The Irish . residents at New York continue to agitate the polioy of sending men and money to Ireland , The meetings held for the promotion of this mad project are large and enthusiastic , and the speeches very violent in their tone and manner . On the evening oftbe 7 th , a ' rnajs meeting' was held at the Vauzhall Gardens , New York , for the purpose of ratifying the terms of union

      agreed upoB by the various organisations , BDd of making an united effort on behalf cf Ireland . The chair was taken by Robert Emmett , whose appearance at the meeting was hailed with the most unbounded applause , Mr Emmett explained the objects of the mcetiag , and went into a brief history of the manner in which the union was braught about . He read the names of tho directory of the frienda of Ireland , and said there was something ominous in the name of the directory , a ? it was the name given to tbose whs conducted the rebellion of ' 98 , and he hoped no one would feel disgraced by such a cennezlon . An union of all was now necessary , for war mast now come ; and there must be the sinews of war . Yes , he declared for war—war to tbe knife .

      Mr O ' Flagherly , the attorney who conducted the defence of Mr Mitcbel , next addressed the meetiDg . Mr Michael O'Conner next occupied tho attsntion of the meeting by reading a long list of subscriptions which had been made . The amount is stated to be very large . Mr O'Connor stated that every one wh » subscribed was prepared te shoulder his musket and fight for Ireland . Mr Mitchel ' s brother has atteodsd a meeting at Baltimore , and maBS meetings were to be held last night at Albany , Troj , and Syracuse . Ei Governor Seward has consented to preside over a' moHstermeeting ' at Buffalo ; and meetings are to bs held at Utlca , Rochester Spring * fie'd , Hartford , and Newbsven . The Mexican revolution bad been completely put down . A decisive battle was fooght between the government forces , under General Buitamente , and the followers of Paredes . The former were victorious .

      The battle was fought at G uanajuato . Padre J&rrats , the notorious guerilla , was at the engagement , taken by the Mexican trbopa , and Immediately shot .

      INDIA . THE KEVOIT II * MOBITAH . Some short time since was published an account of the success obtained by Lieutenant Elwardes over tbe forces of the rebel Molraj . The present accounts prove this success to have bem a triumph . Lieut . Edwardes after crossing the Indus and Gucn ' ab , i fleeted a junction with the forces of the Rajah of Bhawulpoor . On June 18 the united forces came into collision with the army of the Molrsj , They awr . ited his attack , and sustained a sanguinary conflict of nine hours' duration . The rebel army were completely beaten , and loat nearly all their artillery , the British taking six guns out of ten .

      No less than 600 followers of tho insurgent Gooroo , Maharaj Singb , who took arms In the Puojaub , had our * rendered , and , by late aecountB , were prisoners at Shung . The property and arms of ( he fanatic Gjoroo had been secured , and be himself is reported to have been drowned .

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      DREADFUL C 3 LLIERY EXPLOSION . —FOURTEEN LIVES LOST . SjaHaM ( Ddbhah ) , Thursday , August 17 . —Aaother of those fatal coal pit explosions , which erihappily are of frequent occurrence in this part of the country , took place on Tuesday morons last , shortly after twelve o ' clock , at the Murton New Waining Colliery , near this harbour , by wVch fourteen lives have been sacrificed , and many otters seriously hurt . Tbe pit was the property of Messrs Braddlja and Co ,, and was considered to bo as well ventilated as any in the dlstriot . At the time of the deplorable catastrophe there were seventy-six men and boys at work in the back ihaft , and the miner * were working with caadles , the Davy lamps being only used In the broken or old workings of the pU . It is supposed to have been caused by what is called a blow or jet of hjdrogtH gas issuing from a fiBiure ia the coal and igniting at one of the gaudies where the unfortunate men were at work .

      The force of the concussion tore up the tram way , and knocked Sown several stoppings , doors , &c . Three of tbe miners , who were at work in another part ef the pit , felt the shock severely , and were nearly suffocated by the choke damp . They had almost given themselves up for iog * When one of the poor fellows , who had a better knowledge of the workings of the pit than the rest , direoted them to fol ' ow him by a circuitous route to the shaft . They et length obtained freBh air , and were thus providentially saved . As soon at practicable after the explosion , Mr Poster , the overman , with several colliers , descended the . haft and examined the workings . They there found ten men and four boys dead . Sis or tne bodies seemed to bave died from seffecation The others were completely scorched . By four o clock the whe o Of the bodies were brought up , and the scene amongst the aflVcted relatives bs they rep rised the remains was most harrowing . _ . .

      On Wednesday Mr T . C . Maynard , the oo . oner , opened an inquiry concerning the melancholy fate of the deceased snffarerp . The bodies were described as follows :-Edward Noble ' , overman , left * widow and one ch . ld ; Jamea Hall , hewer , wife and seven children ; William Hall , jun ., left a widow ; Thomas Stobbs , hewer widow and two children ; Joseph Jones , hewer , wife and oix children ; Ralp h Dawson , hewer , wife £ « »• *] £ , ' Wra Rappel , miner , widow and four chlldrtn ; " ° ™" LawsoVLiner , widow and eig ht children ; Them » Lawson iun . son of the above , uaaarried ; Rlehara Bomfieid Soer , unmarried ,- EWd Hadd . ek tajj Thomas Rumley , bo , ; Matthew Beacon , boy ; John ^ heTry lZ \ ng *» . though the *?*»* «* « viewing the bodies , and evidence being taken . M . J * £ srssssffiS whole facts .

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      "LrASl-Wehave aeen a head of oat ,, pnuSSomTfiBld on the estate of James BainJtoi , Esa Kames Castle , Isle of Bute , which contain * the KN > t lumber of 152 pickles . There are thousands of fltalks in fte name field equally prolific .

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      THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT . ( From JohnBuU . ) Roader ! Saint Paul ' s cost the country £ 736 , 752 2 i 3 ' . The Houses of Parliament will cost nearly , if not quite , two millions . Look at tho two sums , look at the two structures , and thon look at the diocussion on the Miscellaneous , Eiiamtea which took place In the House of Commons on Tuesday evening last . To hear Lord ilorpatfe . ono would thiok that England hardly knows what to do juat dow with her money , and that poor working people are actually Buffering from a pUthora of the good tilings of life . No one , we presume , 1 b indisposed toglvehon . genthineu all the accommodation and comfort they oan reasonably look for , or to provide the country with a building ^ ultahlo to her lower ard greatness ; but there it a limit to all things . 0 am . fort may degenerate into effeminate luxurlousneBs . A country ' s greatness need not be exhibited at tbe coat of

      h-: r subataBCO . Wo are certainly overdoing things In Westminister . If you need lo be Impressed with tbe fact , call upon Lotd Ashley , request his lordship to apcompuny you to a few Btreets with which ho is tolerablj well acquainted by this time , and which aro all within five mlnuW walk of the new palaces , and then Imme . dlately afterwards plunge into Jhe gaudy chamber of the House of Lords . If you do not agree with us that it is an dlstreBBingly painful to see the unhappy creatures who iofeat the sinks of Westminster , left to thtir nnpltled ignorance and vice , as It is palnVly ludicrous to behold Lords Brougham and Campbell transiting their bus ! - ness intUe midst © f the gorgeouB glmorackery by which they are surreunded , we have either mistaken tho correctness of our own impreBsions , or sadly miscalculated tbe common sense , the humanity , and wisdom , of this country .

      It is time to put an end to the extravagnnco of these new Palaces , so called , we suppose , to excaae the esu beranoe of ornament with which the building is encumbered , although St Jame . i ' 8 Is aoommon building enough and unfortunate Buckingham Pa'aoo is a more group of ugly London bouses , Mr Barry ' s first design wbb originally estimated to cost £ 500 . 000 ; but as this ineluded only tbree . fifths of the room n quired , another desigB wbb prepared sufficiently large to contain the requisite accommodation . The new plan wee submitted to the Offico of Works ; proper persons wore employed under the control tnd direction of the architect , to cstl . mate the ooBt find the office of Works pledged them , selves to parliament that £ 720 , 000 should cover tbe

      wbole expense of the construction . Upon this pledge , Parliament accepted the plan and voted its money , and now , after some years , it suddenly turns out that , with , out eny accessions to the building whatever , but In consequence of alterations in tho arrangtmenc , and of additions In the way of ornament , a sum of certainly not lesa than £ 1 , 300 , 000 more will bo necosiary to complete tbe undertaking . It Is to bad . Gentlemen wfeo have a large balance at their banker ' s , or whob » ing bankers , have a balance of otber peoples at their command , treat the whole matter with a very natural contempt of the vulgar item of expense , Mr Drummone * , for Instance , is quits shocked to think tbat Mr Barry will receive only £ 25 , 000 for his commission a sum which the hon , gonllemsn informs us will not pay for the architect ' s pencil ? , and insists that five per cent .

      at least upon the whole cost be voted os tbat gentleman ' s remuneration . On behalf ef tho working people of England , whether labourers in the field or at tbe loom , whether cleik 9 at tho desk , or literary men at their tables , we protest against the payment ef £ 100 , 000 to Mr Barry for his superintendence of these works . If by any possible means government can reduce tho sum already named as the certain cost of tbe palaces , it la bound to exercise economy as tho steward of tbo people . It iB madne'S to persist is a lavish expenditure of money in tbe face of tbe country ' s difficulties , with our revenues diminishing , our expenses Increasing , and distress preva . Lnt throughout the land , Bj oil means do what is nc . ceasary . The obeap and easty system is as discreditable

      to a government aa it ia to an individual , but wilful extravagance is times of difficulty is wholly Inexcusable , Tbere is a growing asnse on all sides of the noaeseity of economy in all our public dealings . We are not sure if a thororgbly good Chancellor of the Exchequer were to make his appearance , a roan equol to the hour , able te equalise Income and expenditure , and to maintain the dignity of the country at something like a reasonable figure , tbat the wbole government of tho kingdom would not by universal acclamation be deposited in his bonds . Without seeking to pay an undue compliment to Mr Joseph Hume , we asaert that the day of mere eloquent men has passed . The hour for men of business is already here ,

      We have no wish in this place to criticlgo minutely the expensive structure itself . We believe it to bo en acknowledged principle in architecture , confirmed by tho practice of all the great maitere of the art , that a perfect building should have—1 . Fitness ; 2 . Proportion ; 3 . Form and outline ; and lastly , dicoration subordinate to , and conformable with , the main design . It may bo doubted by some , whether tho newpalaces at Westminster fulfil all these conditions , We honcitly think tboj do not . There is no espresBion in the entire length of tbe disagreeably extended building , to denote its use . The balls for debate , the offices , the dwelling-house , the Speaker's abodo , are in do way distinguished from one another ; but look like row * of ordinary houses , with this simple difference , that the walh of ordinary houses are not covered with a superabundance of minute and continuous

      ornament , which a few years' exposure te a Lendon climato must utterly obscure . So much for fitness ! To the other three points similar objections might be found by cavillers , time at > d place fittlag . We aro , however , not sn muoh crltlolsers of Mr Barrj ' a style , as humble renaonatrants against tbe expenso to which he is subjecting us , We are , not vory ambitious in our tastes . We Bhould have been perfectly contented bad llr Barry given us a building quite as bumble as St Paul's , provided ho had kept the cost do * b to the low figure of tbat structure , ~ Oar oplrilen ic , that magnitude without proportion is vulgar , and that gaudy and useless finery is vicious . That opinion may be wrong . Thera cannot ba two opinions , however , upon tho question whether £ 736 . 752 2 a . 31 . ia a more convenient sum for an fill but insolvent nation to pay , tban £ 2 , 000 , 000 for Its House of Representatives ,

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      Public Flogging . —Tbe Surrey Gazbttb says : — It is now some years since the spectacle of a public flogging took place in Guildford .. which raay probably account . for the assemblage of nearly two hundred persons outside the House of Comorion gates on Saturdsy last , to witness that degrading punishment inflicted upon a young man , aged about ; nineteen , named Henry Joseph Killerby , who was Benfenced in August , 1847 , to twelve mentba' imprisonment and to be publicly whipped , for sending letters containing poison , and threatening the life of a young woman ac Southwark . He had previously received twelve

      months' confinement , in February , 1845 , for the like offence , but this net having deterred him from repeating his molesting propensity , the addition of corporal punishment was ordered . The prisonoron emerging from the gaol appeared to be in a weak state , and utterly ashamed of the castigation he bad to nnderge . Whilst the preparation of pinioning him to the hinder part of a prison van waa being made several ol the spectators , whOBe feelings overcame their curiosity , left the scene , whilst the majority stopped to the completion of the three dozen ( amidst the repeated appeals for mercy uttered by the sufferer at eaoh stroke of the lash .

      Si ? c f dBN Drowned . —Perth , AugnBt 19 . —A most molancholy occurrence took place this afternooB , near the bridee which is at present ib course of erection across the river by the Dundee and Perth Railway Company , by whioh six human beings have been prematurely hurried into eternity . To those who are unacquainted with the locality , it may be neoessaty to explain that , at the place where the bridge crosses the river , tho stream is divided by a large island , upon which exleasive operations forBawing the logs and constructing the arches of the bridge are carried on . This afternoon , at the dinner hour , thirteen of the carpenters and joiners employed there left the island in a boat for the purpose of going to their dinners , and when they were only about fifteen or twenty yards from the shore , the boat was carried violently against the pierBOf one of the woeden , arches by the force of

      the current , whioh was much swollen by late heavy rains , and the consequence was that it was imme * diately upaefc , and the who ' e of the men were plunged into the water . Seven of them were able to gain the shore , but , owing to the rapidity of the current at the Bow , the other six were carried away and all drowned . The river in so turbid and swollen at present that it would be vain to search f or the bodies , and the probability is that they will not bo recovered till they are got entangled in the sets at some of the salmon fishing stations down the . river . All the particulars as to who the unfortunate men i aro have not transpired , but ttvo of them are said to belong te Perth , and other two to Inverness . This is the most destructive accident that has occurred dnce tbe railway operations commenced in this quarter . —North British Mail .

      Extraordinary Accident . —On Friday week as two ladies were riding out in a jetired lap , at Mattisball Burgh , they observed a cow running towards them in a state of great exoitement , and apparently mad . On its approach , they discovered a child attached to its tail by the hair , which was wound round his body . They instantly gave the alarm at the nearest house , and assistance beiDg rendered , the cow was secured . The child was , however , found to be quite dead . The body was much bruised , and the head cut and battered in a dreadful manner . Great excitement was caused in the neighbourhood by the occurrence , as it appeared a matter of great improbability tbat the child oould have attached itself to

      the cow . The county coroner , Mr Pilgrim was sent far , and an inquest was held on tbo body on Saturday , when it appeared , from the evidence of a child five or Bix years old , who was near the spot at the time of the occurrence , that the deceased ( whose name was Thomas Ireson , aged 10 years , sob of a labourer residing in the parish ) had tied the cow s tail , which had a great length of bair , round his body , saying that he was going to have a swing , and the cow started off , dragging the deceased after . it . The evidence of the surgeon went to show , that the wound in the head had , most probably been caused during the progreas of . the animal , by its ceding in contaot with the ground ; and a verdict ef Accidental Death was returned ^ iVisrf ^ i Chronicle . '

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      MONDA Y , Acgcet 21 HOUSE OFLORDS .-Tne Stockin-Trade Exsmpticn BUI , and the Out-Ptnsiontra Bill , weroWeraily read a second time . * The Turnpike Acts Continunnce Bill , the Ste&m Navieation Bill , tho Poor-law Union Chwgeg Bill , and the Poor-law Union District Schools Bi . l , severally went through committee , Tbe Insolvent Debters Court Bill , the Money Oidfr Department ( Post-office ) Bill , and the Courts ef JujU . clary ( ScotlBnd ) Bill , were thon read a third time , and pasFed . The Corrupt Praotlces at Eie » tlons B 11 was then brought up from the Hoase of Commons , read a first time , and ordered to be read a second time on Tharsday next . Lord Redesbale suggested that the BUI should not be proved further during tbo present Beaaion , it bang now too late properly to condider it .

      Lord BEonoBAH thought the course lately pursued bj the House of Commons , of disfranchising boroughs , and suspending their representation , reprehensible , it being an innovation upon tho constitution of the realm , which it behoved their lordships ( o watoh most narrowly . A borough could only be disfranchised by an act In wblcb tbe Sovereign , the Lords , and the Commtng concurred , whereas the Commons alono had recently adopted tho course of virtually disfranchising boroughs . The Duke of Wellington concurred with Lard Itedes . dalo in thinking that so Important a raeaeure should not be pressed forward at go late a ptrlod . Tho subject then dropped , and their lordshlpa adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS , —The Speakeb topb tbe chair at twelve o ' clock . On the order ef the day for Committee of Supply beiDg read ,

      Cokditioh cp ibSIAnb Mr 9 . Cbawfobd wished to afk whether any statement was to be made by tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer retpectlDg the financial results of the Poor-law system in Ireland , and the means to be adopted by government to relieve the distress wh ' ch must ariao from tbe now aflcmainoa' failure of the potato orop . Lcrd J . RossEtLaid not think the Chancellor of the Exchequer would make a statement of the nature tbe honourable gentleman alluded to , but on taking Cjm . mittee of Wajs and Moans , he would touch on tbe subi ct to which the honourable gentleman referred .

      Vaxcodvee ' s Island , —A conversation took place , originated by Mr Home , respecting the grant of Tan . couvrr ' s I « li nd , which was ( he subject of debate on Friday eight . Tho chief feature of this conversation was a statement mn-. ety Lord John Russell , to the < ff < . ctthat be bad been informed by Earl Grey tbat it was bis In . tenilon to propose conditions to tbe grant to the Hudson ' s Bay Company , by which they would be bound to do all in their power to favour and promote tbe colonisaion of the island ; and that if the grant , as thus restricted , were ncrepted by the company , the pop era respeotlng it would then be laid before the Committee of Privy Council , who should decide whether the grant should be proceeded with or not ,

      Mr uladstuhe thought that any restrictions of the kind might possibly prevent the company from dotng any positive mischief , bat that they could , by no conditions whatever , infuse into it any aotual powers for tbe promotion of colonisation . What he chUfiy bated bis objection to the gran < upon woe , tbe ' fundamental unfJtnessoftbeHudBon ' a Bay Company for the worU of colonisation , ' The house went Into Committee of Supply , Several votes were taken In connexion with the Miscellaneous Estimates ; after which , tne house resumed , and tbe Chairman reported progress , ond asked leave to sit again . The Labouring Poor ( Ireland ) Bill was then read a third time , and passed . The Millbank Prison BUI was then read a second time . At half-past three o ' clock tbe Bitting was suspended till a quarter-past five o ' clock . At the latter hour the hoase re-ssiembled .

      Oa the motion that tho house resolve Itself into Com * mittee of Supply , National Education in Ibeland . — Mr Q . A . Ha . hilton J [ moved , as an amendment , 'That a humble address bo presented te her Mnjssty , praving that her Majesty will bo graciously phased to direct , that duci a modification of tho system of National Education in Ireland may be made , as may remove tbe conscientious objection ? which a very large proportion of tbe olergy and laity of tbe Established Church entertain to tbat BjBtom SB at present carried into operation ; or otherwise , tbat means may be taken to enable those of tbe Oltrgy and laity of the Established Church who entertain suoh conscientious objections to extend tbo

      blessings cf scriptural education in Ireland . ' Ia support of this motion , the honourable gentleman made a lengthened speech , the chief object of which was to show tbat the principles of toleration , which cUaTttcteilied the pyetem of education as carried out In England , were uot made applicable to the clergy and laity of tke Irish Church in connexion with the system or National Education in Ireland . He besought tke government lo ro . mode this anomaly , which placed the clergy of the Church of Ireland in u false position towards the govern , ment , and made such aa entertained conscientious objections to tbe present eystem of education appear to be acting in hostility to the government , when such wbs not their intention .

      Sir W , Somesville observed , tbat the roal question raised by the motion was , whether or not tbo mixed system of national education , now established for fifteen yrara in Ireland , should be departed from , and another system substituted in its stead . Considering what the existing system had done for Ireland , aud that the prc judioes pgainst it , which the Protestants had onee entertained , were fast wearing away , he hoped tho house would pause ere it adopted the suggestions of tbe hon . gentleman , ani tbat it would perseveringly adhere to the system now establishes ] in Ireland , That system coerced no conscience , and was as free on this score from objection as any system that eould be devised ; , for , whilst it coerced no conscience , it put the means of ocriptural education within reach of the children at tbe discretion of their parents . He did not think tbat on oVj ? ction to such a syBtem should receive the connttnanoe of tbo house , and concluded by exprming a hopa that it would negative ths amendment proposed .

      Captain Jones , Mr Gboqan , and Sir W . TEiNER , sup . ported themot ' on , Mr B . Osbo&he advocated the present system , aa the greatest boon whioh ths government had ever conferred on Ireland . He thought the opponents of the syBtem had resorted to the most unfnir means to cry it down , and cause it to be boliered that those schools sent forth nothing bat candidates for tho gaol and the gallows . The demand which was now made on behalf of tho Pro testant clergy , for a separate , instead of the mixed system now existing , was neither moro nor loss than the old cry for Protestant ascendancy In Ireland . He hoped that the hoaso would not now listen to the ' miserable trumpeting of a mero faction , ' but go en developing more and more the system of eduoation whioh it had established in Irelaad , and which it would do well to transplant to this country . ' ,

      MrN ^ FiEK made a long epeeoh in support of the amendment , concurring in all the statements put forth by hie honourable colleague , What was wanted was , not that the present system should ho abolUbed , but that it should be extended so as to be rendered coosiitont with itself . Lord J , Russell said , that the system of national eduoation in Ireland had been established as an experiment by Lord StaDley in 1 S 32 , and bad been extended by successive governments since . It now couDted 4 , 000 schools and 400 , 200 scholars ; and having arrived at that magnitude , and having conferred undoubted benefits on the Irish population , there were very good grounds for resisting a modification of the sjstorjj . The prlnoiple of the system was that of doing thogreatoJt practical good

      in the way of general education . This was the character of tbo national system . Mr Hamilton and Mr Napier bad talked maoh of the violation of conscience which it involved . But , as the noble lord proceeded to show , from briefly analysing the system , It was sot liable to the charge of coerc ' . Hg the conscience of . any one , He did not , therefore , see any good ground for the ebjeotien which the Pro ' estsnt clergy urged against It , Tbe proposal for a separ&te grant to the Ckoreh schools was a plausible one , and , if adopted , would seem to be iu conformity with the eystom established in England , But such a proposal could tot ba ctrried out without serions ' y interfering with the mixed system whioh he was desirous to maintain , and which he thought worthy of the continued support of the house .

      Mr IIlme followed with an emphatic eulogy upon the Irish Bjstem , whioh he contended should be transferred to England , tho educational system of which was seotarian to a degree . He rejoiced at tho determination evinced by the government to maintaia it , whilst he deeply regretted tbe course pursued in regard to It by tbe Irish Protestant clergy . Mr Reynolds addressed himself ohlifly to a refu t ation of Mr Napier ' s speech , the mildaesB of the tone of whioh was in direct contrast with the violence which character * lsed the speeches delivered by him claewhera on kindred subjects .

      Af . er a few words from Mr Newj > egats , tbe house < 51 vidod , and tho numbers were—For the amendment 15 AgainBt it 118 Majority against it — . 103 The houso then went Into Committee of Supply , nr . d the rcmuiader of the evening was oecupled In voting the miscellaneous estimates , TUESDAY ^ Augobt 22 , HOPSR OF IiORBS . —Afbican Slave Tba&s . — Lord Dinjian moved an aadi « D 3 to the crown , praying Her Majesty to give directions for tbe enforcement of

      all treaties with foreign powers for the extlnotion of the clove trade on the ooos * of Africa , and for the proseeution of all BritUh subjects , directly or indirectly , concorned in violating the laws against that crime , and that her Majesty woald be pleased to take into her serious consideration the ezpedienoy of concerting measures with her allies for deolaring slave trado plraoy , with a pualBhment less aovora than that now inoaired according te tbe law * of the natioo for that orime . The noble end learned lord having referred to the evldenoe of ono of the witnesses , taken before the comDaittea of the House of Commons , who suggested the withdrawal of the f quadroB from ths coast of Africa , as the beat mesas of

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      putting an end to tho slave trade , said , he should hr . vo as soon thought of taking the opinion ef Jack Shep . pard as to tbe beet means of puttirg an end to robbery nrd murder , as the opinion of this witness , Bdmitiinir , aa he did , that ho had been engoged in the slave trade , and who consequently in tbe eetlmotion of the law of this country wbb a pirate and a felon , on ^ auch a subject aa that of putting an end to this horrible truffle , In which he had b « en a participRtor . If the rquadrnn were to bo withdrawn aB unvested , and tae trade thrown open to all nations , csuld there be a doubt

      that tho euperior activity of Eng lishmep would lead to their engrcoBing the largest share of it ? He entreated their lordshipB and the public not to be led away by partial statements of the evidence which bad been re . oenty givon on the sntjeot , for attempts were being made to prejudice the public iclad by directing attention to portions of tbat evidence only , but to wait for a digest of the whola of it , confident ob he was that it would prove that this accursed traffic might be sup . pressed , fend that the tquadron on tba coasl of Aftloa had dore much to effect that desirable ol ject , ;

      The Marquis of Lakdsdowhe , on the ground that from the terms of the motion , and the circumstances to which feis noble fritnd bad adverted , i t might be la . ferred that there had been aremlssness on the part ol the government in carrying oat exittiBg treaties , and became the motion seemed to prejudge the repert of the committee of tbe House of Commons , felt it to bo his duty to move tbe previous question . He thought before their lordships pronounced an opinion they should bave an opportunity of considering tbe evidence , and then decide on the pollcv they would adopt , bat without

      abating one jet of tbeir determination to bring this info . mouB traffic to ultimate extirpation . After referring to Lord Palmenton ' a exertions to enforce existing treaties , and tlio steps taken witfe regard to English autjeots abroad engaged in this traffic , tbe noble marquis con * eluded by ezpreBping bis bope that the time would never o . me when any countenance should be given , directly or iodirrctly , to the statemort that it wao the intention of the goverBment to abandon their determination to put down a traffic whioh had been tbe curse of the word , and at one period a etlgma on the netional character of this coun'ry ,

      After Grme obcervatlons from Lerd Baohshau , ths previous question was agreed to without a division . On the question of the third reading ef the Parliamentary Elcotoro BUI , Lord Sbdebdalb moved that It be read a second tiros tbat day six months , when the original motion was ear * ried by a majority of three—tbe numbers thirty-one to ttrenty . elghf . On the motion of Lord Beaumont , the substitution of tbe 5 th of January for the Ilth October , when the bill is to come into operaticn , was aitreed to , and it passed . The other bills on the table were advanced a stegp , sad their lordehips Bdjoaraed . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —SooiB Bill . —At the early sitting tbe third rending of this bill waa moved .

      Lord G . Bentikck moved a clause , the object of which was to place the refiners cf sugar in England oa tbe same footing as those of Holland , Be ' gium , gnfl Hanover , and that they should be permittid , whether the sugar wbb British , colonial , or foreign , to enter it on pajing the highest rate of duty , After some discussion on this proposition , and on tho general question and present eteta of tbe trade in tha West ladles , the house divided , when the motion was negatived by a majority of thirty ; tho numbers—seventy to forty , Tne noble lord then proposed ttro amendments for the alteration of tie scale of duties , the first of which wax negatived by a majority of sixty-tbree , tho numbers —seventeen to eighty ; and the second by a majority of aiity . five , the numbers—siiteen to eighty- oae ; and the bill passed . The Unlawful Oaths ( Ireland ) Bill was then read a tblrd tim » and passed , as was also tho tbe Wolverhampton Curacy ( No . 2 ) Bill .

      Tbe Fever ( Ireland ) Bill , and the Millbank Priaoa Bill , went severally through committee . The Bankrupts' Release Bill was then read a eeccn 4 time ; after which , at half-past three , tbe sitting waa Buopendedtlll ha'f . pastfive . At the Utter hour the boose re-assembled . Lsrd O . Bentinck moved for returns , shuvlng , ia contiguous oolumnt , the importations of British possessions end of foreign sugars , as given respectively ie the monthly returns of the Board of Trade , a&d In those of the Customs , for tbe months of September , October , November , and Dioember of last vear . lie wished tho house to be in possession of those returns , as given by tho Board ef Trade and by tbe Customs , becaosa a discrepancy had appeared between them to tbe extent of nearly 10 , 000 ions In two months . It was but right that the public , particularly it at portion of it engaged in tho sugar trade , should know which of these returns was correct— it was obviously essential that they anoulfi know on which tbey were in futme to rely .

      Mr LABoncBEEB said , tbe discrepancies complained of were not miatakes , and the trade could not possibly ba misled by th * m . He explained how they occurred , aafl hoped the noble lord would not think it necessary to petsevere with bis motion . Lord O , Bentinck eai 3 , he was by no meanB B&tWfie 4 with tbe explanation given , end wuuld move for a com . mittee on the fentject nixt session . After considerable discussion the motion waa with * drawn , on the understanding that government sbou'd furniBh such information as would prevent either th » bOQBO or tbe trade / rcm falling into auj error oa tbo subject .

      CoBBENcr ard Cohmehciai Distress . —Mr Hebbiu then called tbe attention of the house to the report ! of the committees of cither House of Parliament on cam . rnercial distress , and moved that the house should , earl y in nest session , take the same into its serious conslderatios . The right hon . gentleman entered into a length , ened historical statement of the circumstances which lad to the Bank Charter Act cf 184-1 , and after allndisg to the ( ventB tbat followed , contended that it was clearly established that the act cf 1844 wbb a total failure , and the bouse oaf ht soon to decide whether it should be persevered in or otherwise . Three years' experience feafl shewn that tbe orj > cts sought to be attained by that act had not any one of them been secured . It bad only accomp'ished the predictions of its opponents , while it rn »

      tlroly disappointed tho eipeotations of its promoters ; and if an additional argument was required to prove its inefficiency , it weald be furnished by ths fact that during the last year the government were compelled to suspend its operation . Be then adverted to the reports presented to both bouses of parHaaseBt , and said that tbe Commons committee had , Indireot opposition to tbe preponderance of eyldeneo , reported in favour cf the act ; while &o Lords ' , who had bad very tevt additional witnesses bcfore thorn , had reported that the act required amend * ment . Under these circumstances bo hoped the governo ment would see necessity ( as it was too late te do so this ueaaion ) of taking tbii subject into its aerioua consider * , tlon , end would pledge itself to bring the autjwtt forwards as eaily aB possible in the aext session of pas * linmcnt .

      Mr D&UMM 3 ND thought tho governmet would be wrong to pledge itself to any act for next session , for he to . tlrely despaired of ever seeing the currenoy questioa permanently settled . Mr Newdeqate considered tho whole currency qaei . tlon a system that was rotten to the core , and ons tbat weuld be fraught with the most frightful obIoq raities te us should another famine ifflict us this year . The Chancillob of tbe Exchequer , while he ad . milted the importance of the subject , thought Mr How rle » motion would be most fruitless , if adopted . Tin best course the right hoe , gentleman c ? uld pursue wonlfl be to brirg forward liis motion next session ,, when the house would give it its earliastatteatlon , unless it sbeulS

      happen to be occupied with more momentous business The right hen . gentleman bad not stated one reason Trh y thiB liouBe should pledge itnolf now to the course ?! should adopt next session , nor bad he removed a single objection to such a course as be proposed , ; He woulfi not moot tbo proposal of Mr Horriesnitb a direct negm * tlve , bat would raovu the previous question ; and , having stated tbe courso ha intended to pursue , he proceeded to defend tho . committee of the House of Commons from the charge of having given a it port against the weight of evidenoe . He defended the geceral principles of tba act , and deprecated the coarse adopted by tbe opponents of the bill in putting tbe construction the ; bad done oa the relaxation that had been authorised by the govern * raont during the late distress .

      Mr S ? oo » Eft condemned , ( n the most unqualtfie manner , the acts ef 18-19 * sad 1811 , and defended his own views ou the subject , at the same time expressing his . self open to oooviotion . Sir B , Feel went at some length into the currency question , to enow the SaUaaifS oi Mr Spoonor ' s views , and could not see how anything osu' 4 be gained hy adopting tho motion btfore the bouse . He deprecated the idea of the government giving a pltdge to consider the subject next session , which be considered equivalent to giving a promissory note at sis raontbs . Attheproptr tlms for discussion he would bo most veiling to maintaia

      the propriety of adhering to tbe restrictive clauses of ( he act of 1814 , wbieb , in his opinion , prevented tho danger of a political panic , in addition to tba monetary pressure in April ] last . With rcBpeot to tha recommendation of tho Lord s' committee , he should be prepared , at a proper tlmo , to show that the most impoafcoc arraogemtnt tb&t could be- proposed , would ba to invest the Bank of England with a discretionary power to r ^ lax the restrictive clauses of that act . Tao proper course t © adopt would be for the government t&retuln in its or * a b&nia the power of relaxing those clauses , as it would be safer for all interests concerned .

      Mr Mpmiz sold , the sot of 1819 was Boi mperftct that it caused a great deal of fiaGtuation , nn < 3 that had that been a proper measure the bill of 1814 was a necissary part of it , ia order to carry it out fully . Although it wa » asserted that the distress was not aggravated b y tba restriction of tua * net , it was a singular fnoi . that the very day the relaxation was announced it relieved the distress , and the next day the whoh country felt the b *> neflt ef it . He believed tho day would some whets & » right hon , Baronet would co < ue down to the ' house and acknonledgo that ho had been mistaken ; and wh » n that day arrived , the country would bave causa to rejoicp .

      Mr Hohe thought that the Gammons' Committee baa oomo to a verdict a gainst the weight ofevideaeo , and approved of the Lords' Cjmmi ( tea report , which , was ia his opinion both fair and bontst . Experience was against the AoteflSU , and ha regretted tie peiUnioity with which Sir R . Pesl still Bdnwed Wit . ' Mr Hkbbies said be nu gati&fied with tbe tone «»

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      PT * TB iV GALWAT . A letter from Gaiway states that there te ' very little hope of savins : tbe com any more than ' . b . 9 pi Uto ?* , ' and that ' some o ! the resident gentlemen intend to sell < 3 in the b ? 2 t manner they can , and quit the country . The O : kk KF . rosTER says— A man named Cornelius Josepn O'Nu'i . who stated that he resided in Cove , was arrested in Midleton , on Saturday ever-ing on suspicion of bsing concerned in treasonable practices , and lodged in prison . He was , we believe , an oScer of a Confederate club in Core . '

      MORE ARUKST 3 . Several arrests of clubmen have beBn made at Donnybrook fair . They are parties whose names hare never been before the public . It Beems they could not debsr ^ themselves of the humours of this old haunt of jollity , and , losing their disguise with their discretion , fell inta the handi of the police . David Coughlan , cf Drowgan , Tipperery , having a commission nf colonel in the rebel force on him , ins been arrested . The con 3 tabie Haniver , who had the warrant for &e arrest of Mr S O'Brien at the Thurlea statien , and who was on tho platform woen Hulme laid haads on nim , has been promoted to afirst-class head oonstableship .

      In Clare and Tipperary tha work of eviction goes on rapidly . Not a local journal we open which does uot record some such . A sure indication of what we shall have to expect in the coming vTinter , whicii premises not to need that aggra-Tation . A dreadful fire ocenrred in Cork on Monday night , in the endeavour to extinguish which a man , named Short , loat his life . Three others were seriously injured . THELI 3 SRTTOFTHB StBJSCr . —ILLEGAL DEILLISO AND TRAI 5 I > G —A ' STATE PROiECVIlOS 1 '

      Ciots'e Peity Sessioxs , . Monday . —Air Wallace , solicitor , applied to sea a copy of written informations which had been sworn against three partie ? , one Earned Lynch , and tha others named Twomey , ^ hargine them wi ^ b illegal drilling and training . He aad been employed for the prisoners , and he wished to look at the informatiocs b 3 fore the bench proceeded further in tae case . The inforajatioas were then handed downi and are as fellows : —After the usual technical preaable . the party Bwe&ricg the iafoTmations , Jame 3 Cotter , ser-Tant , in the employment of Mr Gaggin , of Ballybswn , deposed te thistffect : 'On the evening of Thursday , the 3 rd inst ., I was driving a jaunting car with Mrs Gaggin sad Mrs Edwards , from Aehada to

      Ballybawn , in eaid oonnty , when I came to where a aan naraeJ Twomey , a turner , lives , near Billyrussell , ia eaid county , I met a party of fourteen or fifteen men drawn up on the side of the road , who were evidently being drilled . To the best of my belief a man named Patrick Lynch was at the head of the party . Among them I also reo ^ gnisEd two « ons of Tworaey , the farmer , in the line . I would know them if I saw them . They were drawn up in aouole line . I cid not observe any fire arms amongst tnem . I have no reaian to doubt that the said Patncs Lynch was tae person I saw . '—Th 9 magistrate aere consulted for some time , after which Mr Hanrang said that having no additional informations , -they would proceed no further iu thi 3 case . [ The had bean

      Tjiisonerg kept in prison for upwards of a forfcmght on } bis charge . ]—Mr Wallace : Do yon meanjtosenditto the sessions in this form 1— Mr Hanning : Oh no ; we consider we have no evidence at all —Mr Wallace did not come there to take this course . But there was a strong feeling amongst the people at the monstrous nature of the case , that they wished to bring a charge of perjury again 3 t the person who gwore those infsrmations . They should show that , though the government did offer large rewards for the apprehension of parties charged with certain offences , peaeesWe men were not to ba subjected to annoyances of this kind with impunity . —Mr Hannine : v 7 ay , as far as the mau was led—that is . don ' t mean to say led—but you see , the fact is , the man told his story when he thought it wonld ba made little o . Site master hearing the story very properly brought it before the magistrates , and then when tbe man w = s called on be swore those

      informations . As to wilful perjury , I certainly was not pi-spared to hear such a charge brought before me . ^ Ir Hiekjon : _ After what Mr Hanning has said , I thick the affair is settled , and as to tke peacaableness of the people of this district , it was never called iutoqiestoa . —Mr Wallace : Well , if you consider you haTe disposed of it , I have nothing * more to say on that point . Bat now , that case being disposed of , I a 3 k of you to take the informations « f twelve men , to who 3 a good character testimony can be barne by the rector of the pariih and the parish priest . I ask yen to take their informations , to Ehow that this party had sworn falsely . If a man swears that hs saw two men with others diil icgi and I can produce you ten credible parties who prove that this is not a fact , I thick I can sustain a charge of perjury against him . —Mr Hanning : Yon will rememter that we have already said we considered thera was sot sufik-iant infoiraafcion 3 to

      send the ca ; e to the sessions . —Mr Wallace : The public have no fsnlt to find with tbe bench- Bet the pablic have to complain that when a part / swears wbat is untrue—Mr IlaDning : Buc he might hive made a mistake . It was quite possible to commit a mistake a ; that boar , half past eight o ' clock in the evening . Bat I see no reason why he should be charged withparjury . —Mr Wallace : Bat his haviag sworn that he saw the parties actually drilling—ULr Hanaing : Taas was to the b ? st of his balief . —Mr Wallace : Ye 3 . Now , supposing that I was reading a newspaper to a . Dumber of m ; n standing about me , and if a party saw me so ergaged , and swore I was drillisg them , would not that ba a case of wilful perjury ?—Mr Hanning :

      But this is net actually the case . —Mr Wallace That will ba a matter for a pstty jury to decide . It will bs for as before a jury to show what were the faot 3 and what were the motives of the party ^ This is & mest peaosful neighbonrhcod . The per * sons charged here are quiet respectable men ; and have not the peiple cause to feel anxions it ' , in extraordinary times like the present , dangerous men were suffered ta make such , charges?—Mr Hanning : But tuis was not a voluntary case . The man acted a 3 he did at the request of his master . — Me Wallace : But that is not fer me to know . —Mr Hanning : But I know it . —Mr Wallace : And with great reEDect , neither i 3 it a matter foi the bench to know . —Mr Hanning : But we do know it , you see . — Mr Hioksaa : Well , you want t 9 swear informations for perjury . —Mr Gaggin : I wish to make one remark ; I never commissioned the man to do a 3 he did . I did Hot tell him ; o swear informations . —Mr

      Hannin ? : Then wao did ?—Mr G 3 g § in : It was Mr Edwards , and I realiy must gay that I think it a very hard thing to have kept those poor people in prism so long . —Mr Wallace : I think you may look on it now as voluntary evidence . I again ask yon to take inform&tiosg . —Mr Hanning : Wesee bo gronndB for it . —Mr Wallace : Then I shall apply at Cork for a bill of indictment—Mr HaDniag : I dare say yen can do bo . —Mr Wallace : I am happy to know that the public hare 69 much in their power . —Mr Earning ( to the prisoner ?) : You are discharged , and you see , my good fellows , the msn wfeo gwore the informations agains . yon did not do aivoluntari ' y—he was brought to do it . He could not help saying wbat he believed to ba the truth . I merely mention this to shew that be had no vindictive feeiiags azainst yon . —hie WalJsea : My clients sra well-esndueted religions men , who enter ' ain no bad feslins against any one . All parties then left the court —CorkReporter .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 26, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1485/page/7/