having reference to the suppression of the slave trade and the early emancipation of negro apprentices. Speaking of the latter, he said: "The slave has shown by four years' blameless behaviour and devotion, unsurpassed by any English peasant, to the pursuits of peaceful industry, that he is as fit for his freedom as any lord whom I now address. I demand his rights. I demand his liberty without stint, in the name of justice and of law-in the name of reason-in the name of God, who has given You no right to work injustice. I demand that your brother be no longer trampled upon as your slave. I make my appeal to the Commons, who represent the free people of England; and I require at their hands the perfrmance of that condition for which they paid so enormous a price-that condition which all their constituents are in breathless anxiety to see fulfilled! I appeal to this House-the hereditary judges of the first tribunal in the world-to you I appeal for justice. Patrons of all the arts that humanize mankind, under your protection I place Humanity herself! To the merciful Sovereign of a free people I call aloud for mercy; to the hundreds of thousands in whose behalf half a million of her Christian sisters have cried aloud, that their cry may not have risen in vain. But first I turn my eye to the Throne of all justice, and devoutly humbling myself before Him who is of purer eyes than to behold any longer such vast iniquities, I implore that the curse over our heads of unjust oppression be averted from us-that your hearts may be turned to mercy-and that over all the earth His will may at length be done!"

20. Mr. Fielden, M. P. for Oldham, moves the repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act. Sir Robert Peel stated that, considering the experiment had lasted only four years, it was as satisfactory as any man could expect. Motion rejected.

21. Died at Paris, aged 80, Silvestre de Sacy, Oriental scholar.

- Burnes receives intimation from the Governor-General, that the proposals of Dost Mahomed regarding Peshawur could not be acceded to, and that it must be left to the Sikhs.

23.-Colonel Bunbury, Provisional Governor f St. Lucia, issues a proclamation substituting English for the French language used in the courts of justice, in retaliation, as he explained, for the advocates refusing to appear before his piges.

25.-At Notting-hill, a pedestrian named Eale performed the task of walking twenty es backward, and the same number forward, in eight hours.

26. The House of Commons discuss an alleged case of breach of privilege committed by O'Connell, in so far as he had stated at a meeting in the "Crown and Anchor" that foal perjury was committed by the Tory elec

tion committees. Lord Maidstone's motion, that the charge was a false and scandalous imputation on the honour and conduct of members, was carried against the Ministerial amendment of "the previous question" by a majority of 263 to 254. Next day the Speaker formally reprimanded Mr. O'Connell, when the latter reiterated his statement, and declared that he had nothing to retract.

26. In connexion with a motion made oy Lord Lyndhurst for papers relating to certain cases of cruelty alleged to have occurred in Milbank Penitentiary, Lord Melbourne took occasion to contrast the course which would have been followed in such a matter by the Duke of Wellington. He would have given notice. "The noble duke would rather have cut off his right hand than have taken such a course as that taken by the noble and learned lord. The noble duke is a man of honour and a gentleman; the noble duke is actuated and governed by the feelings of a gentleman and a man of honour, and I feel confident that he would not have acted in this manner."-Lord Lyndhurst wished for an explanation of Lord Melbourne's remarks: "The noble viscount says that he wishes the noble duke had been here, because the noble duke is a man of honour and a gentleman. That observation, which is true of the noble duke, was employed by the noble viscount in such a manner as to bear a different construction as applied to others. I wish to know in what sense the noble viscount applies those terms?"-Lord Melbourne: "I beg to state, that when I referred to the noble duke, I meant to say that, from the studied and scrupulous care which the noble duke takes in advertising those opposite to him of any observations which he intends to make in regard to them -I meant to say, knowing the scrupulous care of the noble duke in this particular, that he would not have acted as the noble and learned lord has done on this occasion. What followed-what the words were I used, and what the manner was I used, I do not recollect. But I distinctly state, that if I said anything in reference to the noble and learned lordanything to the effect that he had acted unlike a man of honour, or unbecoming a gentleman, I most fully retract those words."-Lord Lynd hurst: "I am perfectly satisfied."

Various outrages committed on females during the past week by a character known as "Spring-heeled Jack," or "The Ghost."

March 6.-Sir W. Molesworth introduces a vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, Secretary for the Colonies, but withdraws it after a discussion of two nights, in favour of an amendment, proposed by Lord Sandon, declaring that the present condition of Canada was owing to the ambiguous, dilatory, and irresolute course of her Majesty's Ministers. Division-for Ministers, 316; against, 287.

6. -Destructive fire in Paper-buildings, Temple, presumed to have arisen from a candle left burning in the chambers of Mr. Maule, M. P.; Nos. 12, 13, and 14, three houses comprising about eighty chambers, were destroyed. The Attorney-General was one of the greatest suf

ferers.

8. Decision of the Court of Session in the Auchterarder case. The Lords of the First Division, having considered the cases for the Earl of Kinnoul, Rev. Robert Young, and the Presbytery of Auchterarder, find that the Earl has legally and effectually exercised his right as patron, and that the Presbytery, in refusing to take trial of Mr. Young's qualifications, have acted to the hurt and prejudice of the pursuer and contrary to the provisions of the statute, libelled on. The case originated in the exercise of an interim Act of Assembly passed in 1834, enacting "That it shall be an instruction to Presbyteries that if, at the moderating in a call to a vacant pastoral charge, the major part of the male heads of families, members of the vacant congregation, and in full communion with the church, shall disapprove of the person in whose favour the call is proposed to be moderated in, such disapproval shall be judged sufficient ground for the Presbytery rejecting such person, and that he shall be rejected accordingly.' The Earl of Kinnoul presented Mr. Young to the parish of Auchterarder; but the majority of the male communicants rejected him by exercising this veto. As the Veto Act proceeded exclusively from the General Assembly, and was not ratified by Parliament, the Earl and Mr. Young brought this action in the Court of Session against the Presbytery. The court now decided that the Veto Act had no force in law; that Mr. Young had a right to the parish, and the Earl to the emoluments, until the Presbytery should induct him in due form.

14. Crowded meeting in Exeter Hall, presided over by Lord Brougham, to petition Parliament for the immediate abolition of negro apprenticeship.

15. Mr. Villiers moves that the House resolve itself into a committee to consider the Act relating to the importation of corn. In favour, 95; against, 300.

16.-Boiler explosion on board the Victoria, of Hull, when running an experimental trip from London to the Nore. Chief-engineer Allen, hearing the explosion when on deck, rushed into the engine-room and stopped the engines, but was so frightfully scalded that he died in a few hours. Three assistant-engineers were also killed.

17. A slight earthquake felt at Shrewsbury.

19.-Owen Swift kills Brighton Bill in a prize-fight at Barkway, Hertfordshire, this being his third victim. At the inquest a verdict of manslaughter was returned.

19. Mr. Poulett Thomson obtains leave to introduce a bill for the establishment of a sys tem of international copyright.

20.-Lord Palmerston informs our ambassadors at Paris and Vienna of certain outrages committed on members of the British Mission in Persia, and instructs them in no way to recognise the mission of Hoossein Khan, who had left Teheran, with the view, as was given out, of congratulating her Majesty on her accession, but in reality to obtain the recall of Mr. M'Neill from the post he presently held at the Persian Court.

21.-The Ameer Dost Mahomed makes a final and unsuccessful appeal to Lord Auckland to remedy the grievances of the Affglans, and to give them a little encouragement and power. Burnes soon after took his departure from the city.

24. Died at Chelsea, Thomas Attwood, musician, aged 72.

26.-Meeting at the Thatched House Tavern to organize measures for erecting a monument to the memory of Lord Nelson.

30. Sir George Strickland's motion for abolishing negro apprenticeship on 1st August of the present year, defeated by a majority of 269 to 205. Mr. Gladstone spoke with admitted ability on behalf of the planters.

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A supplement to the Gazette of this date contains a proclamation "declaring her Majesty's pleasure touching her royal coronation and the solemnity thereof." The coronation to take place on Tuesday the 26th June. Privy Council to sit at Whitehall on the 28th instant, and afterwards from time to time as occasion may require to hear and decide upon the claims of individuals "to do and perform divers services" on the day of coronation. The day was afterwards changed to the 28th, on the ground, as was alleged, that the date

first mentioned was the anniversary of the death of George IV.

4.-The Sirius screw-ship leaves Cork for New York, being the first vessel of this class which ever navigated the Atlantic. She arrived at her destination on the 23d, St. George's day. The Great Western left Bristol on the 8th, and arrived at New York also on the 23d.

6. Robert Miers, tried at the Central Criminal Court for setting fire to his house in Marylebone, with intent to defraud the Union Insurance Company, was, on the third day, found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life.

Mr. M'Neill, the British Minister at the Persian Court, arrives in the camp of Mahomed Shah, to remonstrate against the continuance of the siege of Herat as a violation of the treaty with Great Britain. He was admitted into the beleaguered city on the 21st, and endeavoured afterwards to negotiate a peace between the contending parties, but without effect. On the part of Persia, Mahomed Shah said: "Either the whole people of Herat shall make their submission, and acknowledge themselves my subjects, or I will take possession of the fortress by force of arms, and make them obedient and submissive."

9.- Came on in the New Court, before Mr. Baron Parke, the trial of Thomas Williams, 1 person of high position in Carnarvonshire, charged with forging the will of his late father-law, Mr. Panton of the same county. The specific object of the prosecution was to set ase a will in which a large sum of money was left to the prisoner's wife, by proving that the prisoner, who practised as a solicitor, procared the signature of the deceased to pencil writings, which were afterwards erased, and their place supplied with different instructions; also that the will was forged. The trial lasted an entire week, and to the great delight of a crowded court resulted in a verdict of Not Guilty.

-James Burke, a Catholic priest, and three brothers named Crean, convicted at Cork assizes for conspiracy in attempting to prove the murder of the father of the Creans, in 1834, against Wright, a tithe proctor, who was tried and acquitted on the charge.

11.-The Camden sails from Gravesend having on board the Rev. John Williams and a party of missionaries with their wives and flies, for the unexplored islands in the South Sea, where they desired to labour for the conversion of the natives.

18.-The poet Wordsworth writes from Rydal Mount, to Serjeant Talfourd, expressing the gratitude of English authors for the exertons he was making in Parliament to protect Beir rights against the claims put forth on behalf of printers and publishers in connexion

with the proposed alteration in the Copyright Act.

25.-The second reading of Mr. Talfourd's Copyright Bill carried in a small House by a majority of 5. This measure was withdrawn later in the session.

Under the auspices of the Religious Influence Society, Dr. Chalmers, of Edinburgh, enters upon a course of lectures on Spiritual Independence, at Hanover Square Rooms. The remarks of the Rev. Doctor on Church Establishments gave occasion to a violent attack by O'Connell, at a meeting of the Church Rate Abolition Society, held in the City of London Tavern.

26.-Shipwreck of the Margaret of Newry, transport, off Cape Clear. The vessel was caught in a snow-storm about midnight, and struck on a rock two miles from the shore. Of forty-one hands on board, only two were saved.

28. The estate of Worksop sold by the Duke of Norfolk to the Duke of Newcastle for 370,000l., the rental being set down at 10,000l. a year, and the wood at the gross value of 150,000!.

30. A Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the system of pensions and retirements in the army and navy.

May 1.-Mr. Hume's motion to stop the pension of 21,000l. per annum granted to the King of Hanover when Duke of Cumberland, on the ground of his inability to support the British Constitution, and the possibility there was of his using the money to the injury of his country, negatived by 97 to 62 votes.

Died in Bethlehem Hospital, Jonathan Martin, the incendiary who fired York Minster on the 2d February, 1829.

7.-Trial commenced at Paris of the individuals charged with being concerned in a plot against the life of the King of the French. The principal actor was one Hubert, a currier, who, when arrested in December, had concealed in his hat the plan of a machine resembling Fieschi's, but more scientifically constructed. A letter written in cypher was also traced to him, which, after much study, was deciphered, and detailed the plan of attack. "We intend to hire an apartment in the neighbourhood of the Chamber of Deputies, and a stable in the same house, where we will place the material necessary for the construction of the two machines, which will be put together the day before the opening of the session. When the King shall have reached within a certain distance we shall bring out the machines from under the gateway, and in three minutes I pledge myself to have foudroyé the King and the whole of his staff. In the meantime, two men stationed on the roof of the house will throw Congreve rockets on the Chamber of Deputies, which will be in a blaze

in less than five minutes." Hubert was sentenced to transportation for life, three others to five years' imprisonment, one to three years', and three acquitted.

8.-Riot in the churchyard of Tuam, caused by the Protestant curate attempting to read the English service over the grave of a person said to have died a Roman Catholic.

- Riot at Truro, caused by the churchwardens attaching goods belonging to four dissenters in the town who refused payment of church rates.

Hostile meeting at Wormwood Scrubbs between Mr. Rushout, M. P., and Mr. Peter Borthwick. After the second firing, friends present interfered, and the party left the ground. The quarrel originated in observations said to have been made by Mr. Rushout in connexion with Mr. Borthwick's ejection from his seat at Evesham by a Parliamentary Committee.

9.-Meeting, presided over by Earl Spencer, held in the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of forming an Agricultural Society, on the plan of the Highland Society of Scotland.

10. The contest for the bitterly-contested seat of Woodstock closed to-day, with a majority of 5 for the Marquis of Blandford over his younger brother, Lord John Churchill.

12. Public dinner given to Sir Robert Peel at Merchant Taylors' Hall, by 300 Conservative Members of the House of Commons. In the course of a lengthy exposition of his policy, Sir Robert said: "My object for some years past has been to lay the foundations of a great party, which, existing in the House of Commons, and deriving its strength from the popular will, should diminish the risk and deaden the shock of collisions between the two deliberative branches of the Legislature."

14.-Lord John Russell explains the Government scheme for settling the Irish Tithe Question. It was proposed to substitute a nominal rent-charge of 70/. for every 100%. of tithe composition; these rent-charges to be made over to the State at the rate of sixteen years' purchase on every 100/. of original tithe composition; the rent-charges to be collected by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and to be applied towards supporting the Irish police, charities, and schools. As a preliminary step to discussing the scheme, Sir T. Acland moved to rescind the resolutions of 7th and 8th April, 1835, providing "That any surplus revenue of the present Church Establishment in Ireland not required for the spiritual care of its members be applied to the moral and religious education of all classes of the people without distinction of religious persuasion, providing for the resumption of such surplus, or of any such part of it as may be required by an increase in the number of members of the Established Church." O'Connell made a speech, listened to with great impatience. "Shall Ireland,”

he asked, "be governed by a section? (Vehement shouts from the Opposition.) I thank you-(noise renewed)-for that shriek. Many a shout of insolent domination(noise)-despicable and contemptible as it (noise) have I heard against my country." (Uproar continued, during which Mr. O'Connell, with uplifted fist and great violence of manner, uttered several sentences which were inaudible in the gallery. The Speaker was at last obliged to interfere and call the House to order.) "Let them shout. It is a senseless yell. It is the spirit of the party that has placed you there. Ireland will hear your shrieks. (Continued uproar.) Yes; you may want us again. (Roars of laughter.) What would Waterloo have been if we had not been there? (Ministerial cheers, and Opposition laughter.) I ask not that question for your renowned Commander-in-chief, who is himself an Irishman, but for the hardy soldiery of Ireland, who fought the battle for him. ("Question and laughter from the Opposition.) I say again, that is the question. The question is, shall the people of Ireland be amalgamated with the people of England? Refuse to receive us into that amalgamation, and abide the consequences. (Cries of "Hear!" from the Opposition benches.) Sneer at me as you like, but recollect that I speak the voice of millions, who will hear again of the base insult offered to me this evening. (Cheers from the Irish Members, accompanied by an observation from Mr. Grattan, which was not heard in the gallery, but which caused a titter on the Opposition benches.) Why should the son of Grattan say- (Here the cheers and laughter drowned the remainder of the sentence.) The English people, too, are auditors of your taunt. tell us that you can command a majority: I say to you in reply, carry your bribery a little further, and you will really have a majority. ("Question! question !") More extensive bribery than you practised at the last election never yet was practised in this world; and the highest amongst you shrink from its investigation." ("Question! question !") The Government proposal was carried by 317 to 298 votes.

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he had gone in 1834, as Law Member of Council.

17.-The Queen's birthday celebrated by a Drawing-room of unusual splendour.

- Died at his hotel, in the Rue de Florentin, Paris, in his eighty-fourth year, Prince Talleyrand, statesman and diplomatist. His will forbade his autobiography to be published before 1868.

18.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer introduces the annual Budget. Last year extibited a deficiency of income amounting to 1.150,000, and an excess in expenditure of 645,000/., caused, as was explained, by extra expense in Canada and interest on West India ax He now proposed to raise 13,000,000/. Exchequer Bills for the service of the year 1338.

21. Reported robbery of 12,000l. in sovereigns, from the residence of T. Rogers, billbroker, Mile End, by thieves, who had apparently secreted themselves in the house. Rogers was afterwards apprehended, and committed on suspicion of attempting to defraud his creditors by reporting the robbery. He was, however, liberated on 26th July.

22.-Government defeated in a thin House by a majority of 3, on Sir Eardley Wilmot's alotion that negro apprenticeship should immediately cease. This vote was afterwards reversed.

24.- By a majority of 30 in a House of 196, Mr. Cresswell carries his motion for an Address to the Queen, praying that commissioners might be employed to examine the claims of persons fr losses on account of book-debts and goods ahore at Copenhagen in 1807, and to examine also the claims of persons who suffered losses through the seizure of ships and cargoes by the Denish Government in the same year.

- Launch, at Limehouse, of the steamShip British Queen, intended to carry goods 23d passengers between Liverpool and New York. She was considered the largest vessel m the world, being 275 feet in length, and 40 feet in breadth between the paddle-boxes; wanage, 1,860 tons.

26.-Eliza Grimwood found murdered in her bedroom, Wellington-terrace, Waterloo-road. She was wounded in several places, but the immediate cause of death was a wound in the neck, tending nearly from ear to ear, and severing te windpipe. Her left thumb was also cut, asf she had struggled with the murderer. The fortunate woman lived with a person named Hubbard, a bricklayer, separated from his wife, and had been in the habit of taking persons bune with her from the theatres. On the Friday night she was said to have met with a person in the Strand, who had the look of a foreigner, and dressed like a gentleman. At the inquest, the person able to speak to Eliza Grimwood's latest movements was a companion named Catherine Edwin, who was with her in the

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Strand when the foreigner came up. an Italian, but could speak English fluently, and had been acquainted with the deceased for months. He frequented the neighbourhood of the "Spread Eagle," Regent-circus, and wore a ring given him by deceased, bearing the words Semper fidelis." He also carried a claspknife, with which the wounds might have been inflicted. With this person she entered a cab, and drove home about midnight. He was not afterwards seen, and how or when he left the house was never ascertained. Hubbard slept in an apartment alone, and discovered the body (he said) when going out to work in the morning. He awoke a commercial traveller who slept in the house with another woman, and then alarmed the police. The deceased was about twenty-five years of age, of sober habits, and had saved a little money. At the inquest a verdict of wilful murder was returned against some person cr persons unknown. On the 11th June Hubbard was committed to Horsemonger-lane prison, in consequence of an anonymous letter purporting to come from the person who accompanied Eliza Grimwood home, but no evidence being forthcoming before the magistrate he was discharged, and afterwards went to America. On the 13th June the effects of the murdered woman were sold on the premises, and realized high prices.

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28.-Riotous proceedings commenced at Boughton, Kent, under the leadership of John Thom, alias Sir William Courtenay, a character who had formerly made himself conspicuous in the neighbourhood of Canterbury. He had been for some time confined in a lunatic asylum, but since his release had been living among the peasantry of Boughton, boasting of his birth, and the great possessions unjustly withheld from him. He also blasphemously styled himself the Saviour of the world. the character of a political reformer, and under pretence of relieving them from the terrors of the New Poor Law, he gathered a band of nearly 100 ignorant and discontented people, and drew them up near Bossenden farm on the evening of the 30th. On the following morning he deliberately shot a constable named Mears The county now became alarmed, and a party of military was sent from Canterbury to break up the gang. On seeing the soldiers advance, Courtenay again deliberately drew his pistol, and shot Lieut. Bennett, of the 45th regiment, who was riding in advance of his party, and fell dead upon the spot. The soldiers then immediately fired, when Courtenay and eight others fell dead, two were mortally wounded, and a number crippled for life. Before the engagement Courtenay administered the Sacrament in a wood, and addressed his followers as their Saviour. At the close of

his harangue several of the deluded victims knelt down at his feet and worshipped him. So earnest were they in their belief, that for some time after his death they actually expected him to rise from the dead as he had