creates: 
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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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little doubt that it was intended to act against Tunis. | 
Admiral Walker commanded one of the vessels. 
Iypra.—The overland mail has arrived with dates 
from Calcutta to June 7 ; Bombay, June 19 ; Alexandria, 
July 20. The dates from China are of the 16th of April. 
The news is not of much interest this month, except that 
relative to the state of the newly-acquired province of 
Scinde, That fertile district, which under a good govern- 
ment and properly cultivated will become a garden, is 
now nearly pacified by the measures adopted by Sir C. 
Napier. He has made terms with most of the Chiefs, and 
even Meer Shere Mahomed is stated to have offered to 
make his submission provided he could have his private 
property secured to him. There is no doubt that within 
a short time the complete pacification of the country will 
be effected. Sickness prevailed very much in the camp 
at Hyderabad. Several officers died. Sir C. Napier had 
an attack of fever, but had recovered. The ex-Ameers 
had been removed from Bombay to Sassoor, near Poonah. 
The most dangerous of them was a prisoner in the Castle 
of Surat, where he was well guarded. The news from 
Lahore is that the alarm caused by the rumoured sick- 
ness of Shere Singh had ceased. ‘That monarch was em- 
ployed in traversing the north-east part of his dominions, 
and in examining his fortresses. The sons and brother 
of Shah Soojah were dependents on the bounty of the Sikh 
Monarch. Dost Mahommed, who wasin very bad health, 
had reached Cabul, where he is said to have resumed 
the government, but the Affghan Chiefs are represented as 
very far from being united in their allegiance to him. 
In the interior of India tranquillity prevails. There 
were some disturbances at the capital of the late Scin- 
diah’s dominions, where the Minister appointed to govern 
during the minority of the child chosen to succeed him, 
was attacked and dispossessed of his power. The British 
had not interfered, but it was generally supposed that they 
would soon be obliged to send troops to protect the young 
Sovereign himself, Lord Ellenborough left Agra on the 
30th May for Cawnpore and Allahabad, en route for Cal- 
cutta. Rumour asserts that strict orders had arrived 
from home ordering him to join his council. Prior to his 
departure from Agra he named Mr. Clark Governor of 
the North-western Provinces. This gentleman was lat- 
terly Envoy at the Court of Lahore, which office has been 
abolished. The beginning of the monsoon was felt through 
India. The mercury fell very much. A gale came on 
and expended its fury in the Bay of Bengal. 
ships were lost on the Coromandel coast. A dreadful 
hurricane was felt at the Mauritius towards the end of 
April, and caused severe losses. In Bombay, the burning 
of teak-ships was resumed on the 6th June, when a fine 
ship, the Thomas Grenville, was consumed. The insur- 
ance-offices have declined granting heayy policies on 
native ships with Lascar crews. The heat in 
was felt very much in the commencement of June, but 
the monsoon had broken on the night of the 18th, and 
had cooled the atmosphere. The wing of the 78th High- 
landers had suffered from a sort of brain fever, which 
was attributed to their caps, and exposure to the sun, as 
well as to their careless mode of living in the tropics, 
Cuina.—The news from China is extremely scanty. 
Reports had been circulated of Sir H. Pottinger’s sick- 
ness, but they were regarded as exaggerations. He was 
said, according to the latest news of the beginning of May, 
to be waiting for the arrival of the new Imperial Commis- 
sioner, Ke-Ying, who was expected at Canton about the 
beginning of June. The death of Captain Farmer, of 
Her Majesty’s ship Driver, was mentioned. A letter 
from Hong Kong, dated March 7, states that business was 
well as for the properties belonging to purchasers. The 
ballot for priority of choice will be so arranged that any 
party purchasing two or more properties may, with 
respect to rural lots only, take them in a contiguous block 
under certain diti The pur ies to 
received, viz., 216,000/. will be disposed of as follows :— 
54,0007. to the Company as the price of the land at 10s. 
per acre; 30,0007. for surveys and other expenses of 
founding the settlement ; 81,0002. for emigration ; 26,0007. 
for roads, bridges, and other improvements ; 5,000/. as a 
church building fund ; 10,0002 as an endowment for 
ministers ; 10,0002. as a school-fund for building and 
masters. The Company undertakes to apply the pur- 
chase-mgnies, or so much thereof as shall be received in 
the proportions stated, or as nearly so as may be practi- 
cable to these several objects. The whole of the emigra- 
tion-fund, with the exception of 11,000/., will be expended 
in conveying from Scotland to the settlement of New 
Edinburgh, labouring persons eligible according to the 
regulations established by the Government. The 11,0007. 
will be reserved as a special fund, out of which, and to 
that extent only, allowances will be made to purchasers, 
towards the cost of cabin-passages for themselves, their 
families, and servants, to the settlement. ‘The amount of 
the allowance will, in no case, exceed 257, per cent. of the 
purchase-money paid by the colonists; and the fund 
being limited as above mentioned, preference will be 
given to the applicants for the allowance, in the order of 
their respective applications for the same, 
{Parliament. 
HOUSE OF LORDS. 
Monday.—Lord Camppxtt laid on the table a bill, the object of 
which was to prevent any proceedings being taken to eject from 
the Scotch Universities such professors or principals as had 
Seceded from the Established Church of Seotland on account of 
Such secession. The bill was read a first time. 
‘arl ForTEscur presented a petition from Lord Oranmore (an 
Irish Peer) praying that the revenues of the Established Church 
in Ireland might be appropriated to the religious wants of the 
Catholic, Presbyterian, and Protestant population, x 
tescue expressed his opinion that the Irish Church Establishment 
is a great grievance to the people of Ireland, and his conviction 
at, in accordance with the rules of justice and common sense, 
urch to the endowment 
of the Roman Catholic priesthood should be forthwith decreed. 
On the motion that the petition of Lord Oranmore be laid on the 
table, the Duke of Wst.INeTon rose, and in atone of voice 
much louder than usual, said:—*‘* My Lords, I shall not enter 
upon the question of the irregularity of presenting such a peti- 
tion, nor do I intend to enter into the discussion of the important 
question to which it relates. { wish only towarn your Lordships 
of one circumstance attending it. 
tim: 
Tuesday.—The Royal Assent was given by commission to the 
Woollen Manufactures Bill, the Bridges (Ireland) Bill, the Loan 
Societies Bill, the Infant Orphan Asylum Bill, and several pri. 
vate Bilis.—he Duke of WELLINGTON laid on the table the papers 
relative to the late transactions in Scinde.—The Pubtic Works 
most active to the north, 
New Zravanp.—The New Zealand Company has de- 
termined upon the formation of a new settlement upon 
its lands in New Zealand, to be called New Edinburgh, 
the site of which will be selected by the Company, subject 
to the approval of the Governor of the colony. It is in- 
tended that the site chosen shall be the best that may be 
available at the time of the selection being made, and’ the 
Company will select in this settlement such a quantity of 
land as to provide that 121,550 acres shall be of the 
Sreatest value in the neighbourhood with respect to fer- 
tility and accessibility. The land will be divided into 550 
Acres for the town, 20,000 for suburban lots, and 100,000 
for rural lots. The town-land will be divided into 2,200 
lots of a quarter of an acre each ; the suburban land into 
2,000 lots of 10 acres each; and the rural land into 2,000 
lots of 50 acres each. ‘There will be reserved, free of 
Charge, as a property for the future municipal corpora- 
tion of the town, 200 town-lots. 1 town lot, 1 suburban 
lot, and 1 rural lot will constitute a single property, and 
there will be reserved for the company 200 properties. The 
Temaining 1,800 properties are to be offered for sale at 
€ price of 1202. for each property. A deposit of 10 
Per cent. on each property to be paid previous to any 
8pplication being registered at the Company’s house, and 
the residue of the purchase-money ona day of which public 
Notice will be given. The priority of choice in selecting 
ee lands comprised in each property will be determined 
Y lot, for the Company’s and Corporation’s reserves, as 
ABER- 
DEEN, a bill for the better government of her Majesty’s subjects 
residing in China was read a third time. 
Friday.—The Afiidavits in Chancery (Scotland and Ireland) Bill 
passed through committee.—The Earl of Roprn gave notice to 
present a petition on Tuesday next, on the subject of illegal pro- 
cessions in Ireland, and to call attention to an Act of Parliament 
relating thereto.—The Excise Duties Bill, the Slave-trade 
(Austria, Portugal, Chili, and Mexican Kepublic) Bills, and the 
Stamp Bill, were read a second time. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
Monday.—The Sexceant-Ar-ARMs announced that he had 
Samuel Potts in custody.—Mr. Curisrorner moved, in con- 
formity with the resolution of the committee on the first Epworth 
petition, and in conformity with the precedent of the House, that 
Samuel Potts be committed to Newgate for a gross breach of 
privilege, in having forged certain signatures to a petition pre- 
sented to that House, The motion was agreed to.—In reply toa 
Sir J. GRawAM moved the second reading of the Church of 
Scotland Benefices Bill, sent down from the House of Lords. 
The Bill, he said, was introduced to remove the doubts which 
unhappily had arisen upon the question of right as between the 
Church-goers and the lay patrons. The Presbyterian religion had 
been first adopted by the lower and middle classes ; the gentry 
and the aristocracy had been later in their adhesion to it; and 
hence had arisen much dispute, Having first sketched the his- 
tory of the question down tothe Revolution, hecameto the act of 
1690, which he considered as establishing—1st, thatno right was 
given to disapprovers, except for reason assigned ; 2dly, that the 
Presbytery are to act judicially, and not ministerially ; 3dly, that 
their judicial discretion is to be exercised upon the identical 
reasons assigned by the C 
and upon them was founded the act now pres 
The letter which he had addressed to the Moderator in the begin- 
written after full consultation with the Lord Advocate and 
Solicitor-General of Scotland; and he now stated to the House 
the outline of that letter, with arunning commentary. The three 
general objections to the qualifications of a presentee were to his 
ife, his learning, and his doctrine; and beside these, tl 
other special objections, as to his fitness for the parti 
to which he was appointed; but much doubt had 
these special objections were a ground of legal exception to the 
presentee’s admission. The Government had anxiously considered 
the subject; disapproving the Veto Act, as one which, in trans- 
ferring the patronage from the Presbytery to the people, was 
really transferring it from a responsible to an irresponsible, from 
an educated to an illiterate, body. The General Assembly, in the 
present year, after resci v 
inding the Veto Act, had declared their 
opinion that it was desirable to remove al 
with as little delay as possible; and the 
passed, which were substantially the adoption of the present bill, 
had been officially transmitted to the Government. This adop- 
tion, he would venture to add, had the genera! sanction of 
Church of Scotland. After some general explanations of the 
state of the Scotch law respecting ordination and other ecclesias. 
tical points, he concluded, in reference to the objection respect 
ing the lateness of the measure, by expressing his persuasion 
that, consistently with the dignity of the Legislature, it would 
ave been impossible for Parliament to pass such an act, 
so long as the Church of Scotland should have continued contu- 
acious. ALLACE doubted whether the Queen could assent 
to this act consistently with her coronation oath; and moved 
that the bill be read as 
with the rights of patrons, and altered the internal government 
of the Church, by interfering with its judicatories; and in 
down by the Auchterarder 
e bill gave large 
and in endow- 
latitude as to “ ministerial gifts and capabilities 
ing the presbyteries with the power of deciding on the nature of 
the objections, it armed them with power to inquire into the 
particular characters and habits of the objectors; that is, it 
invested the church courts with inquisitorial powers over th 
people. 
the Establishment from it. 
The Soricrror-Generar differed from Mr. Rutherford, as to 
the propriety of introducing the bill before the secession. ‘The 
claims of the non-intrusionists were such as no government 
could sanction or satisfy, seeing they sought the total abrogation 
of patronage, and even taught that the church courts could set 
at defiance the acts of the imperial Legislature. 
Measure, whose 
majority, pronounced, he supposed, by way of compliment to 
Lord Aberdeen, and as a testimonial to the merits of his admin- 
articularly 
ing on the question before the House, and which he criticised 
with some verbal minuteness. he offer of the Government 
to legislate was Officially communicated to the last General 
Assembly, and accepted by that i 
i w 
from the earliest times, was the leading feature of the bill. He 
called on them, therefore, to confirm the prineiple, by c: 
the second reading, leaving details for future discussion. 
measure, he believed, was acceptable to the great body of the 
people of Scotland; and the secession would have been much 
larger, but for the prospect of its introduction.—After a few 
ords of explanation from Mr. CampBeELL, the House divided : 
For the second reading, 98; against it, 80: majority, 18. 
the Earl of Lincoin withdrew for this session the Metro- 
Politan Buildings Bill.—on the order of the day for going into 
The 
