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THE GARDENERS CHRON ICLE. 
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Royal mail steamer, Britannia, at Liverpool, we are 
receipt of American papers se the 16th ult. “ak ai 
Though intelligence from America has for some time been 
looked for with more than ordinary interest, the news thas 
racter. With re: spect to Mr. M‘Leod’s affair, it appears 
that he was stilla prisoner, with little hope of saagpe ng ex- 
empted from trial, his subjection to fon course of law 
havin, ng been irreversibly decreed : only, with the view of 
the frontier county of Sagar i to Albany, Pen it is said, 
ty 
no causes of any sort exist t 
prejudice. It is further one that thou 
structions do actually enjoin him, in the 
that refusal of Mr. M‘ a ted peruse bat aa 
ent of the ae ll fee my pomatisiniaially mposed 
t 
Mr. Fox’s in 
ent tof receiving | 
er recess he should present a petition on the subject of theatrical 
popanentles ons in the metropolis, with a view to the alteration of 
the law on the subject. 
The Earl of Rreon observed that some of the papers to which 
he referred on a former occasion, as cham to ene idate the 
condition of oe = orn presented t ‘the other 
erica 
H not suficlently Ree ey it 
oA bo mechs of whe financial state of the colony, tees 
ce at pape: sho be pi 
int should also 
fer the ai ce of Mr. prentn, as a witness in the inquiry 
respectin. va the B Poor-Law Commission in Ireland, that ewe =o 
was not present ; and his examination was therefore deferred till 
Thursday. 
In er t ition by the Duke ington, Viscount 
re ders stated this intestines to one or the scien: ‘should 
adjourn, for the ape ps: recess, from the 6th to the 22d of A ple 
rsday.— —The laration brought up from 
dem y 
no ee nanan will i ene y occasio “4 inasmuch 
as the declaration of the British Government, undertaking 
be pleaded and sustai ned in od’s trial, as constituting 
an infallible bar to his con Some ‘of the journals 
a express their belief that aa Attorney-General of 
ceived instructions to re- 
rt, and conjectare rate the object of this 
db the 
me and by au- 
thority of the President, on ia oon hing trial of the 
British prisoner. Fr se considerations, as well as 
from the alte: the an journa’ hich it is 
gratifying t e become of a much abd 
Thur: 
Commons an time. 
The Marquis of Neukaser laid on the table the report of the 
committee Pa trae to inquire into the Buildings og oye Bill 
be-oedin the Drainage Bill. The ugh f 
n ref to 
01 roposed that the thie 
throug! Seunier this day, and that they should 
be reported after the holiday: 
Lord ELLENBoROUGH said: he thought that a clause might be 
introduced to meet the case of all buildings commenced after the 
introduction of the bill.—Lord goat eed said there was 
PP 
ae Tt 4? c= | <1} iH 1 
Mr - pi lity, end 
i in his ac uittal $ and the prospect of a war with Great 
Be - il Sante at A ay to 9 
ave ac tually de dem: 
sidered by all 
si 
fr. Blair, one of own. 
pa 
Mr. King 
souri, wrote it, and delivered it in the Senate. 
dial Bhs 
g police of W 
ubicly info rmed of the intended violation of the laws, 
sent Mr. Clay a aces ; Mr. ine of a 
Mr. Clay 
ord ‘y. 
The House then proceeded to the examination of witnesses on 
the Clonmel Union.—The Population Bill having been brought 
pal tke Vom en See 
-—The Population se was read 
hitherto confined to the London on oe with respect to _Precau- 
tions against fire.—The Boro: 
mprovement Bill likewise went 
through co: 
The Duke of WELLINGTON moved for the record of the trial of 
Bartholomew Casey, at Dublin, on the re ptt 1839, that person 
haying been inted returning officer of the ‘Naas union. —The 
Marquis of Normawnsy promised to tee trd into the cause of some 
ot ited. 
cone a ee I 1 d 
mi i at 
nal 
movements of i het sudron, which 
im ni 
the most serious nature, 
Britain under the ey 
‘Sa pho had pet a to 
reconnoitre the several foreign ports on her way down to 
Jamaica. In accordance with such orders, ae! gaet in 
at Martinique, where, to the surprise of of 
vessel, oer reeived 16 French bea nda six 
of which were double-banked Pym at ai i 
ance ostensibly 
HOUSE OF COMMONS, 
Monday.—Sir T. as apolar moved for a new writ for the 
county of Antrim, in the room of the Hon. John O'Neill, now 
Earl O’Neill. 
On the motion of Mr. E. Tennent, the Copyright of Designs Bill 
was read a second time, and the gg ney fixed for Wednesday. 
w conversation, ori h Mr. PaAkincTon, took place 
Lord Sraniey having to press it, 
timated that he should take te sense of the Ho 
the House do eo into committee 
duce a clause repealing th 
fleet had left Fr: 
denfand satisfaction for an pai : obeaed to the real 
and aherwnens.t O joi n_the _ Squa off Bue nos Ayr res. 
T 
he Gazett ds, th 
“° unprepared for resistance, that in the event of hostili- 
ies, they must all have fallen an easy prey to such an un- 
ted force 
arliamen 
HOUSE OF LARPS: 
Monday.—The Linn ory pr : was 
and passed. The Turn a aes 
through com: 
read a third time 
aance (freland) Bill passed 
idual from punish- 
e pro ceedings, am and sought to promote a 
ser nat le compromise. Now, in point of fact, the hg 
not been namie eta for they were still going on, 
defendants wonld next term be 
Lord mighthave relied character to him 
imst such imputations. Such compromises, however, ought 
to be of rare occurrence, in son mign tincture the ev | 
cion that the prospect of compensation 
dence of the police. 
Mr. Hawney, Assistant Poor-Law Com in Ireland, 
Was then called to the and examined for some time, in pur- 
bar 
Suance of the investigation in which their pepe have Aviom A 
been engaged.—Mr. PuELAN was explain and 
some saeatee 
Tu Seen: a Royal assent Sa by pap ac 
ie was giv: 
— say Mica Bill, 1,3 ‘Shapine or rire Consolidated Fund Bill, | 
's Annuity Bill, the Composition (Ireland) Bill, 
: om tina ng Private bills. 
Lord Lyxpuurst gave notice that immediately after the Eas- 
OES re a SP eb Pea AS 
larly Decne ie he thought it very 
at- whet ie 
the coupling of these 
Innatic asylums, he con d ree daihaes tes iadeus 
bss sah Superinteotenee that which should manage the 
it ools. 
He particularly objected to the management of 
prsnaspade Sapper and wished to see the care of that class 
vided for by a separate enactment. 
epg ae said, the object of this enactment as to lunatics 
meet the evil of an inadequate treatment of their malady 
e yatnes where there might happen to be no medical man ac- 
it. jowever, no objecti the 
the Soest to 
. BuLuer regretted 
Lord G. SomEeRSET pin ey it, particu- 
dangerous to let the masters of 
poor persons should be deemed 
The. words ¢ * insane or”? 
struck out. 
Wl Weds tavleg jeemeee lke ee lo. tira « 
Panes, ee oe leat See ee eaeene oF ® 
only to i 
them from the 
i Bie fos ney Spree 
elsewhere. 
Mr. Hawes asserted that there was no 
lower va perme could not have 
He denied that their religious i in- 
aye 
was naetoctod in vert acuacttae ena Had that been the 
pesaae Neary ign would hi he e of the See 
Lemon ly ferred th = disci e of a school 
to the i idle Keay oe + creed one ee 
Lord Stan.ey, auptng Colonel Wood's distinction between 
pe i for cn higher and schools for the lower or tre desired 
notice also this Saari rence—that in the case of 
ts: He 
iritual instruction was that of 
d to that iaunlbenes he ree to nae 
deeming it only fit that the a of the State should be b: ‘ought 
up in the religion of the 
Mr. 
it rong be highly desirable that ef Per oan ~ p inthe 
rote the success 
of the eatenniabataels S takh-bach babing instar 
ertion: 
nevertheless, whether the State could t of taking an 
timate child -pte tei away from its mother, who might 
aced, and whose child might form her only con- 
mn. 
~ Lan LE protested agains’ attempt to force thareli- 
ion of the State upon the Shares my A Catholics and Dissenters 
hota already had the principles of their parents instilled int 
them.—After a few words from Sir R 
mittee divided, and the am: 
SrsTHore was proceeding to move for some returns of which he 
had given notice, when an Hon. Member moved that 
be counted, and there being only 18 members 
adjourned. 
Tuesday.—The election committee for Walsall reported in 
your of the ange member, Mr. Pe pammictama and that neither io 
nics agate Si e return, nor the opposition to it, was frivolous 
heen paca toa question from Sir R. Peer, the Czancettor of 
the ExcHEqver said that he would make his 
on the 30th 
id, res criminate individuals, or to give rise 
an ono’ i: i e hon. Member entered into'a 
detailed statement in support of his motion. The population of 
the island, he said, amounted to betw 75,000 and 80,000, of 
m about one-half were Catholics the other half Pro- 
ts. Owing to the nature of i 2 pur- 
were, 
ete te 
