HOUSE OF LORDS.

June 6. The Earl of Egmont moved the second reading of a Bill giving to Sir T. M. Wilson power to dispose of that portion of his estate which had been bequeathed to him by his father on HAMPSTEAD HEATH. The Bill was opposed by Lords Denman, Campbell, Brougham, Mansfield, and others, on the ground that it was clear, from the will of the late Sir T. M. Wilson, that he did not intend Hampstead Heath to be inclosed and built on, which would be the effect of this Bill; and, therefore, that to pass it would be to benefit an individual at the expense of the public.-Lord Cottenham and Lord Colchester supported the measure, as doing no more for Sir T. M. Wilson than their Lordships were continually called on to do for others. On a division the Bill was rejected by 31 to 20.

June 11. The Earl of Powis moved the second reading of a Bill to repeal the Act that united the SEES OF BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH. The whole of the clergy of North Wales have united in petitioning against the Act; the diocese to be formed by the junction of the two sees would embrace 3,000 square miles of mountainous country, and be larger than one bishop could properly overlook. The Duke of Wellington and the Archbishop of Canterbury supported the proposed union as necessary to the erection of the diocese of Manchester.-The Bishops of Bangor, St. David's, Exeter, and Salisbury spoke in favour of the repeal of the Act; and the Earl of Harrowby, one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, seeing that such strong opposition existed to the proposed union, would no longer object to that course. The House divided on the motion for the second reading:-Contents, 49; Non-contents, 37; Majority, 12.

June 13. Lord Monteagle moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the IMPORT DUTIES.-The Earl of Dalhousie opposed the motion, and it was negatived by 184 to 75.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. June 3. In Committee of Ways and Means, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

proposed a duty of 34s. a hundred weight on FOREIGN SUGARS not the produce of slave labour.-Lord J. Russell proposed an amendment to admit all Foreign sugars at that duty, whether free or slave-grown. The Committee divided-Ayes 128, Noes 197. The original question was then put and agreed to.

June 4. Lord Harry Vane moved a Committee of the whole House on the Export Duty on COAL, with a view to its immediate repeal-Ayes 74, Noes 110.— Mr. Lyall moved for a Select Committee on the COMMERCIAL MARINE of this country, which was agreed to.

June 6. The Attorney-General moved the second reading of the DISSENTERS' CHAPELS Bill, a measure intended to prevent aggressive litigation upon existing trustees, but which has been earnestly petitioned against both by churchmen and orthodox dissenters, as offering an unjust protection to the Unitarians. Sir R. H. Inglis moved that the second reading be deferred for six months. The Bill was strongly supported by Government, and the second reading carried by 307 to 117.

June 7. The Lord Advocate moved the order for Committee on the PARISHES (SCOTLAND) Bill, which is intended to facilitate the division of parishes and the creation of new parishes.-Mr. Fox Maule contended that the measure was unnecessary. In the last twelve months nearly 800,000 people had left that Scotch church whose parishes and places of worship this Bill proposed to increase; while 500 new places of worship had been erected for the reception of the seceding parishioners. He moved that it be committed that day six months. The House divided-Ayes 259, Noes 56. The Bill then went through Committee.

June 10. On the order for Committee on the SUGAR DUTIES Bill, Mr. Ewart moved an amendment, that "it is expedient that the Duties on Foreign and Colonial Sugars should be equalised." The main question was carried by 259 to 56.

June 12. A debate was resumed upon a motion of Mr. Ward, for a Committee of the whole House upon the present state of the TEMPORALITIES OF

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CHURCH OF IRELAND. On a division the motion was negatived by 274 to 179. June 13. On the order for the second reading of the BANK OF ENGLAND CHARTER Bill, Mr. Hawes moved as an amendment that "no sufficient evidence has been laid before this House to justify the proposed interference with Banks of Issue in the management of their circulation." The second reading was carried by 185 to 30.

June 14. In Committee on the SUGAR DUTIES Bill, Mr. Philip Miles moved an amendment in favour of the West Indian

interest. The Ministerial proposition was that the duty upon British sugar should be 24s. per cwt. and 34s. upon Foreign free-grown sugar. Mr. Miles proposed that the duty on British colonial sugar should be 208.; on Foreign sugars the produce of free labour, 30s.; on Foreign sugars the produce of slave labour, 638. This proposition was carried against Government by 241 to 221.

June 17. In Committee on the Sugar Duties, the proposed rate of duty on Colonial sugar was restored to 24s. by a majority of 255 to 233.

AMERICA.

A series of dreadful riots has occurred in Philadelphia, which continued several days, during three of which the mob held complete possession of the city. Sixteen lives were lost, and 20 persons dangerously wounded, besides many others not ascertained. They commenced with a disturbance at a public meeting of a new party lately sprung into existence in the United States, called "Native Americans ;" and they were caused by collision with the Roman Catholic Irish, who inhabited the houses in the vicinity of the place where the meeting was holden. The prejudices of the Irish settled in the United States have been flattered to a great degree by designing demagogues to secure their votes. Their old sympathies and attachments are appealed to, and the distinctive national character of their country_is_sedulously preserved to them. The Catholic Irishmen move as one man, and are sufficiently powerful to make terms for their suffrage. In many places they hold the balance of power, and are alternately caressed and cajoled by either party. The influence of this body has at length become so odious in its effects as to originate a "Native American" party for its counteraction. This party held an out-door meeting in Kensington, a suburb of Philadelphia, on Monday the 6th May, to discuss some local affairs, and before it was fairly organised a violent storm arose, which induced the assembly to adjourn to the Washington Market House, a building near at hand, which has been frequently used for public meetings. The third speaker had hardly commenced when he was interrupted by a loud noise, said to have been made by Irishmen, and then followed a general fight, in which the Irish were worsted and driven to their

houses. The excitement was raised to an intense degree in consequence of several shots being fired from the windows of the Hibernia Hose House, a building adjoining, which wounded many of the Americans. There appears to be some doubt as to which party fired the first shot; but the Irish were in the vicinity of their own houses, and fired from their windows. The "Native Americans" pursued them, and attacked them. Finally the Irishmen rallied and beat off the "Native Americans." The next morning placards were posted all over the city, calling a meeting of "Native Americans," to be held at three o'clock, p.m., in Independence-square. About noon, a party of men and boys, of the working class, passed through the streets, bearing a large American flag, and a banner, on which was inscribed, "This is the flag that was trampled by Irish Papists," referring to the act of the Irish Catholics at the American meeting of the previous day, which they had invaded and fired upon. The resolutions passed at the meeting were as calm and moderate as could be expected under the circumstances, but the people composing the meeting proceeded after it to the scene of the riot, and there fresh outrages ensued.

The conflict commenced about five o'clock. At about six the Native Americans set fire to the house at the corner of Cadwallader and Master streets, from which it is supposed the gun was fired that killed the man the day before. The fire spread with great rapidity to the Hibernia Hose House adjoining, and in a short time the whole row of buildings was in flames. The Irishmen still continued firing at intervals from their houses, even after they were set on fire, and as fast as they were driven out of one house

by the heat of the flames and the falling rafters, they took refuge in another. These scenes were repeated during the night and the succeeding day. Two Roman Catholic churches were burned to ashes, one the St. Michael's Church, in Kensington, and the St. Augustin's Church, in Philadelphia city. Above 50 houses were also consumed. The mob held unbroken sway until the evening of Thursday, when they ceased, it would seem, from mere physical fatigue. In one of the churches a valuable library was entirely destroyed. The military and police were singularly inefficient. No one dared to take the responsibility of ordering the strong measures necessary in such a crisis.

With regard to the origin of the riots, it must be borne in mind that the meeting at which the disturbance began was held in a strictly Catholic district, and thus the original provocation came from the Natives. On the other hand, the Irish seem to have had warning of the fact, and

The latest accounts received from Algiers leave no doubt that France is on the eve of a war with Morocco. While Marshal Bugeaud was busy carrying out his expedition against the Kabyles of Jurjura, it was all at once discovered that the old enemy of France, Abd-el-Kader, supported by the Emperor of Morocco, was preparing an expedition to invade the French territory in the neighbourhood of Oran, and has proclaimed a holy war against France. One of his sons, at the head of a considerable force (some say 10,000 men), has already joined the Emir Abd-el-Kader, both being prepared to make a joint invasion of the French territory.

VISITS OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND KING OF SAXONY.

His Majesty the King of Saxony, travelling under the assumed title of the Count de Hohenstein, and accompanied by M. de Minchewitz, his Prime Minister, and a limited suite, arrived at Dover May 28, from Ostend, and shortly after proceeded by the South Eastern Railway en route for Buckhurst Park, the seat of Earl Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain. The next day bis Majesty visited Knole Park, where he was entertained by Lord Amberst; Redleafe, the beautiful seat of Mr. W. Wells, a celebrated connoisseur in the fine arts; and Penshurst Place. On the 30th be visited Brighton, Arundel Castle, Chichester, and Portsmouth.

On the 1st of June, the Emperor of Russia, landed at Woolwich, where he was received by his Ambassador Baron Brunow,

who conducted him to Ashburnham House, the Rus ian Embassy, in Dover Street. On the following morning H. R. H. Prince Albert visited the Emperor, who attended Divine service at the chapel of the embassy in Welbeck Street; and on his return found the Earl of Hardwicke, Lieut.-Colonel B. Drummond, and Lieut. Colonel Wylde, who had received her Majesty's commands to attend upon the Emperor during his stay. At halt-past GENT. MAG. VOL. XXII.

one Prince Albert again came to conduct his Majesty to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen received the Emperor in the grand hall. The King of Saxony was also present. The Emperor afterwards visited the Queen Dowager and other members of the royal family, and the Duke of Wellington. In the evening he dined at Buckingham Palace.

On Monday June 3, the Emperor visited Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt, the jewellers, the Zoological Gardens, Lady Heytesbury (formerly ambassadress in Russia), the Countess of Pembroke, Sir Robert Peel, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, and the Marquess of Anglesey. The Duke of Devonshire lunched with his Imperial Majesty at Ashburn ham House. In the afternoon he proceeded by railway to Windsor, having been preceded by the Queen, Prince Albert, and the King of Saxony.

On Tuesday, June 4, both monarchs attended the races at Ascot.

On Wednesday, June 5, they witnessed a review in the Home Park, at which were present in command of their regiments General the Viscount Combermere, G. C.B. 1st Life Guards; General the Marquess of Anglesey, K.G. Royal Horse Guards; General the Right Hon. Sir George Murray, G. C.B. Royal

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Horse Artillery; Lieut.-Col. St. Quintin and the 17th Lancers, H. R. H. Prince George of Cambridge, their Colonel, being at present at the Ionian Islands; Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G. Grenadier Guards; Field-Marshal H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G. Coldstream Guards; Field-Marshal H. R. H. Prince Albert, Scotch Fusiliers; General Sir William Anson, Bart. K.C.B. 47th Foot. The royal party afterwards visited Virginia Water, and dined in the Waterloo Gallery. On Thursday, June 6th, (the cup day,) they again were present at Ascot races, as was the Queen on that day only. On Friday, June 7th, the Emperor returned to town, and honoured by his visits the Marquess of Londonderry, Sir James Graham, Viscountess Canning, (daughter of Lord Stewart de Rothesay, late ambassador in Russia,) and the Princess Radzivill; he dined at Buckingham Palace, and afterwards attended the Italian Opera. On Saturday, June 8th, the Emperor, with the King of Saxony and Prince Albert, visited the new Houses of Parliament and the United Service Club, and the Emperor held a levee at Buckingham Palace. In the afternoon the Duke of Devonshire gave a fête at his villa, at Chiswick, to his Imperial Majesty, at which the King of Saxony and H. R. H. Prince Albert, and nearly the whole of the nobility, were present. The Emperor and the Queen were at the Opera in the evening.

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On Sunday, after divine service, his Imperial Majesty paid farewell visits to Sir Robert Peel and several other distinguished personages, and then returned to Buckingham Palace to lunch. Queen took leave of her august guest in the Sculpture Gallery. At five o'clock his Majesty entered his carriage, accompanied by Prince Albert, for Woolwich. The Earl of Hardwicke had been ap pointed an extra captain of the Black Eagle steam yacht, to convey his Majesty to the Continent. At seven o'clock the vessel let go her moorings, and the Emperor landed at Rotterdam on Monday, after a passage of twenty-one hours. Previously to the Emperor's departure he made very munificent presents, not only to the Queen's household and his other attendants, but, among others, to the following objects:-To the Society for the Relief of Foreigners in Distress, 1000 guineas; to the Nelson Testimonial, 5007.; to the Wellington Testimonial in progress in Mr. Wyatt's studio, 5007.; to the Ascot Race-fund, 5007. annually; to the poor of St. George's parish, 200

guineas; towards the formation of a Hospital for distressed Germans, in London, 100 guineas.

The King of Saxony has remained in England during the month, and has visited most of our public institutions.

June 11. The first stone of a new Hospital for Consumption, to be erected at Brompton, was laid by Prince Albert. The charity was first projected by a private gentleman, Philip Rose, esq. of Brompton-a person of active benevolence, but of no great fortune. His labours, when his scheme became public, were attended with unexpected success. A beginning was made by administering relief to out-door patients; then a building was engaged to receive a certain number in-doors; and now arrangements are made for the erection of a building which shall afford accommodation for two hundred patients. Shortly before one o'clock Prince Albert arrived on horseback at the gate, where he was received by the committee, with the Duke of Norfolk at their head, by the Bishop of Worcester, and a long train of clergy, and by many noblemen and gentlemen. A procession was formed, and the Prince advanced towards the platform. The usual ceremonials followed, and the Prince proceeded to a fancy fair held for the benefit of the charity in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital, The proceeds of the day were large, 23001.; of which 12007. were taken in half-crowns at the fancy fair entrance. A tale written for the occasion by Mrs. S. C. Hall, entitled, "The Forlorn Hope," found a ready sale: of an impression of one thousand, seven hundred were sold on the first day.

IRISH STATE TRIALS.

On the 30th May, in the Court of Queen's Bench, at Dublin, Mr. Judge Burton passed sentence on Mr. O'Connell and his fellows, convicted of a conspiracy to procure the Repeal of the Union (see March, p. 306). Mr. O'Connell was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and a fine of two thousand pounds; and Messrs. John O'Connell, C. G. Duffy, T. M. Ray, Dr. Gray, Richard Barrett, and Thomas Steele, to nine months' imprisonment, and a fine of fifty pounds each. Mr. O'Connell is further to give sureties to keep the peace for seven years, himself in 50007. and two sureties in 25007. each: the others, for the same period, to give securities in 10007. each, and two sureties for 5001. Mr. O'Connell has been committed to the Richmond Penitentiary.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

April 22. Lord Aberdour to be Lieut.-Colonel of the Mid Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, vice the Earl of Morton.

May 23. Frederic Thesiger, esq. Her Majesty's Solicitor General, knighted.

May 30. George Tradescant Lay, esq. to be Consul at Amoy, in China; Rutherford Alcock, esq. to be Consul at Foo-chow-foo, in China; Charles Edward Keith Kortright, esq. to be Consul at Carthagena, in New Granada; and John William Perry Farren, esq. to be Consul in the Philippine Islands.

May 31. 70th Foot, Capt. J. Brown to be Major.-Rifle Brigade, Capt. R. Walpole to be Major.-Unattached, brevet Col. the Hon. C. Gore, from Major half-pay unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Major the Hon. J. St. Vincent Saumarez, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieut.Colonel; brevet Col. W. Campbell, from Capt. h. p. 23d Foot, to be Major.-Brevet, Major A. M. Tulloch, half-pay Unatt. Military Superintendent of Out Pensioners, to be Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.

June 6. Samuel Wm. Need, of Langwith Lodge, Notts. esq. in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle Wm. Welfitt, of Pelham, co. Lincoln, esq. to take the name of Welfitt only, and bear the arms of Welfitt in the first quarter.

June 7. Knighted by letters patent, William Cornwallis Harris, Esq. Major Bombay Engineers.-11th Light Dragoons, Capt. I. Jones to be Major; unattached brevet Lieut.-Col. J. R. Rotton, from 11th Dragoons, to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Crosse, from Major unattached to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Lieut.-Col. Sir F. Watson, from Captain Portuguese Service, to be Major.-Brevet, Capt. W. S. R. Brady, 36th Foot, to be Major in the Army; Capt. Henry Thomas Earl of Chichester, 87th Foot, to be Major in the Army.

June 12. Edward Goulburn, Serjeant-atLaw, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy in London.

June 18. Major-Gen. Richard Goddard Hare, C.B. in compliance with the wish of his cousin, the late Sir Thomas Clarges, Bart. to take the name of Clarges after Hare.-AnneEliza Bryan (formerly George), of Gloucester-pl. Middx. spinster, the reputed dau. of the late George Bryan, of Jenkinstown, co. Kilkenny, Capt. Grenadier Guards, to use the name of Bryan only.-William Lee, of Cadogan-place, Middx. and Nibley-house, co. Glouc. gent. in regard to the memory of his friend, John Jortin, of Charlotte-st. Bedford-square, of Woottonunder-Edge, and of Nibley-house, esq. having succeeded to the estates of that gentleman in the counties of Gloucester and Kent, and the city of London, to take the name of Jortin after Lee.

June 20. John Cunliffe-Lister, of Farfieldhall, in Addingham, co. York, second but now eldest surviving son and heir apparent of Ellis Cunliffe-Lister (formerly Cunliffe), of Manningham-hall, in Bradford, co York, esq. by Mary, dau. of William Ewbank, afterwards Kay, of Hull, esq. to take the name of Kay only.-William Beauchamp Kershaw, only son of William Kershaw, nephew by the sister of Joseph Hanson, of Strangeways-hall, co. Lanc. esq. to take the name of Hanson only, and bear the arms of Hanson.

June 25. Brevet, Captains Barton Fenison,

10th Foot; Henry Kean, 97th Foot; and the Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, 1st Life Guards, to be Majors in the Army.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Commander W. Kelly (c), to the Conway.Commander Sidney Ussher to the Wasp, 18, on the West India Station.-H. H. E. Allen to the Imaum receiving ship at Jamaica.-Lieutenant W. H. Aldham, of the Winchester, to the rank of Commander.

Members returned to serve in Parliament. Enniskillen.-Hon. Henry Arthur Cole. Kilmarnock, &c.-Hon. Edw. P. Bouverie. Lancashire (South).-William Entwistle, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. E. S. Bathurst, Kibworth Beauchamp R. Leicester,

Rev. J. R. P. Berkeley, St. Cleer V. Cornwall. Rev. J. E. Bradford, Wigford St. Mary V. Lincoln.

Rev. J. Byron, Keelby V. Linc.

Rev. H. B. W. Churton, Icklesham V. Sussex.
Rev. C. S. Clarke, Lindsell V. Essex.
Rev. F. A. Crow, Alcester R. Warwick.
Rev. D. C. Delafosse, Shere R. Surrey.
Rev. W. Duncombe, Crowle V. Linc.
Rev. J. Evans, Whixhall P.C. Salop.
Rev. R. Gee, Abbots Langley V. Herts.
Rev. J. M. Heath, Enfield V. Middlesex.
Rev. R. L. Hoopper, St. George, Brandon Hill
V. Bristol.

Rev. J. Jackson, Lidgate R. Suffolk.
Rev. J. Jarman, Laddock R. Cornwall.
Rev. E. G. Jarvis, Hackthorn V. Linc.
Rev. J. W. Johns, Crowan V. Cornwall.
Rev. T. A. Kershaw, Milton R. co. N'p'n.
Rev. S. N. Kingdon, Bridgerule V. Cornwall.
Rev. F. R. Larken, Burton R. by Lincoln.
Rev. G. Monnington, Bitteswell V. Leic.
Rev. W. Neville, St. James, West Bromwich
P.C. Stafford.

Rev. W. J. Parkes, Hilgay R. Norfolk.
Rev. J. D. Parmeter, Alderford-with-Attle-
bridge R. Norfolk.

Rev. H. Patterson, St. Jude's P.C. Chelsea.
Rev. E. R. Pemberton, Wandsworth V. Surrey.
Rev. F. Shelley, Beerferris R. Devon.
Rev. C. A. Steuart, Old Windsor V. Berks.
Rev. R. Stevens, Dunsford V. Devon.
Rev. Mr. Sorsby, Arksey V. co. York.
Rev. F. J. Taylor, West Ogwell R. Devon.
Rev. E. H. Thompson, Lyncham P.C. Wilts.
Rev. J. S. Townsend, Coleridge V. Devon.
Rev. T. N. Twopeny, Little Casterton R. Rut-
lands.

Rev. F. Vincent, Slinfold R. Sussex.
Rev. H. Woolcombe, Cheriton-Bishop R. Devon.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. J. J. Day to be Second Master of the Proprietary School, Blackheath.

Rev. T. Taylor to be Master of the Grammar School at Evesham.

Sir Thomas Fremantle, the new Secretary at War, has appointed Capt. Fremantle, R N. to be his private secretary. Mr. Young, who succeeded Sir Thomas Fremantle at the Treasury, has continued Mr. Edwin Crafer in the office of private secretary.