He Ee Colowiatl PCv Aly, PAPERS BY DHE BRITANNIA, ‘.— (From C. Willmer’s AmericansNews Lelter, June 19.) The Ministers wete deféated in. the House of Commons, on Friday night, with reference to the sugar duties Bill, an amendment, proposed by Mr. Miles, the member for Bristol, having been carried by a majority of 20. The announcement was received by Sir Robert Peel with evident chagrin, but guage had been applied to the Irish People, (and he read pas sages from the Morning Herald» that called them savages,) and because Parliameiit, had passed the Arms Act, and he had pledged himself “that while he lived, no Englishmav should brand himself or his arms—— he soon recovered his serenity, and intimated tuat he should he prepared to state on Monday what course he should pur- aS day, Sunday and sue. Reports were very currept on Saturday, Sunday 2 Monday, tiat be bad determined to resign, and it was even | . = . asserted, that Sir Robert Peel had carried the resignation of the Cabinet to Her Majesty, who had accepted it, and “sent for” the Duke of Richmond... ‘This statement was, however, denied by the Morning Herald, the only London rane paper which gives the Government decided support. ; - Morning Chronicle stated that ministers had comes . retain their posts, but to abandon their proposed change of sugar duties for the present. “Their friends, however ge to have been seriously alarmed lest they should retire, and # very numerous meeting of the Conservative members of the House of Commons was held atthe Carlton Club House on Monday morning—more than 200 being preseut, when a resolution of entire confidence in Sir Robert Pee! $s govern- ment was proposed, carried unanimously, and forwarded fa the right hon. Baronet in Whitehall Gardens. Another cabinet council’ was held ‘at the foreign office, after which the Premier proceeded to Buckingham palace, staid to dine with Her Majesty, and ther Gaine down to the Commons and made a stateinent whichis é!sewhere reported. The Stan- dard says that the Ministers never once contemplated a re- signation, and‘as long as their party permit them to carry ol the government with honour, they will persevere, tortie completion of the restoration of Ireland to peace—the per- fect tranquilisation and security of ludia—the consolidation of the peace of Europe, of which we have lately had such flattering proofs in the visits of so many soverelgns, and of which we anticipate the most gratifying proof of all in the visitof Luis Philippe, the wise and the good—the work of restoring commerce and finance. ‘He intimated his orton tion to move, as an amelidment on Mr. Miles’ proposition, the restoration of the duty, on Colonial sugars, and shouid leave the colonial duties to, be discussed next year when the ficome and Property Tax Bill shall bave expired. Phe re- sult was that Mr. Miles’ proposition was negatived by 259 to 223—leaving a.m jority for ministers of 23. ; ‘The leading topic of our foreign news is the annonnce- ment that a collision has taken place between the French troops and the forces of the Emperor of Morocco. The French were completely victorious, putting a large body of Moorish cavalry to the rout, and capturing three standards, In Paris this affiir is regarded as the commencement of ac- tual hostilities, althoagh Marshal Soult, in the French Cham- bers, and Lord Aberdeen in the House of Lofds, have de- clared their conviction that war will not take place. The French Government, however, are strengthening their po- sition on the Moroceo frontier, and a squadron. of line-of- _ batile-ships and steamers has been equipped, under the com- mand of the Prince de Joinville, for the. purpose of cruisivg ; off the easteri coast of Morocco. The Moors are evidently collected in large numbers, and are animated by a hostile. spirit, which the efforts of diplomacy may find i difficult, if not impossible, to control. ‘The recent skirmish at Ouchida Was caused by the impetuosity of the native troops on first approaching the French camp; and a few days previously, the French garrison at Biskara, which the Duc d Aumale had left without suflicient protection, was treacherously mas- sacred. The movement is known to be the work of Abdel- Kader, who has so successfully inflamed the religious fana- | ticism of the Moors, that the Emperor is said to have been unable to resist the impulse given to his people by the old eremy of France, and was, therefore, compelled to proclaim the “holy war.” If this be confirmed, there are reasons to hope that the mediation of England, whieh Lord Aberdeen _ is understood to have offered, will be accepted, and thus avert a war which might seriously compromise the relations between this country and France. : After a great deal of agitation in the country, the Dissen-_ ters’ Chapels Bill passed a second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday the 6th current, by a majority of 807 to 117. The ministers and the leaders of the opposition again met in cordial agreement and firm alliance on the dis- cussion of the measur3, which it will be remembered gives quiet possession of property on a prescriptive enjoyment of twenty-five’ years possession, except in the case of chape!s which the donors founded for the preaching of dectrines dis- tinctly specified. Iris supposed that the Emperor of Russia. diving his week’s visit to England, distributed about £25,900 in. acts of libe- rality. ae ft is stated that Crockford, of gambling notoriety, has left £359,000 to his widow. He once kept a fishmonger’s shop near Pemple Bar, London. Sir James Graham has intimated that Wednesday next has been fixed for the reception of the deputation of the corporation of Dublin, with the address te her Majesty, res- pecting the sentence of Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers. 2 Mr. 'Phomas Campbell, author of the Pleasures of Hope, and other celebrated works, died on Saturday the 13th June, at Boulogne. The stoppage of the bank of T. Johnston &Co., bankers, at Romford, Essex, has been announced; Mr. Johnson was Lord Mayor of London in 1841. IRELAND. THE IMPRISONED REPEALERS, AND THE RE- ¢ PEAL AGITATION. The proceedings-in the Dublin Court of Qheen’s Bench, in the case of the Queen versus O’Connell and others, . have ‘closed with the despatch of the writ of error to London ; it was allowed last week, without opposition to the érown. The authorities of Richmond Penitentiary have put some » Testrictions upon the wholesale admission of visitors; they are no longer allowed to inscribe their names ina book for publication ; and deputations to present addresses to Mr. ‘O’Connell are not admitted. The Freeman’s Journal notifies, that those visitors| who wish to have their names published, have only-toleave a-card at the office of the newspaper for every one sent to Mr.O’Connell. _ Several. meetings have. been held about the coun- try. One of the most respectable was thatat Belfast, on Friday ; which comprised “ Liberals” of all shades.. Some ofthe speakers avowed political differences. with Mr. O’- Connell, but protested agaiast the prosecution as unjust. One of the most ludicrous meetings was that of the Dublin law-clerks, on Sunday: they address Mr. O’Connell as “ be- loved Sire,” and “ great beloved Sire ;” declare that “ with a nod” he could have “ uprooted the foundations of society ;” but they undertake -to obey his injunctions to peace, or to die for him if required. The Dublin Corporation met on Thursday week last, to consider an address to the Queen, on the subject of Mr. O’- Connell’s imprisonment; praying her “to vindicate the con- stitution, and protect the rights and liberties of her Majesty’s “subjects, which have been violated in his person.” An ad- dress in that spirit was proposed and advocated in several heated speeches. Alderman Butt opposed it; and, in some temperate strictures, he pointed out one inconsistency, of the Repealers—that while they professed hatred to England, they cried that if they had but bad Koglish judges and Eng- lish Jurors, they would have had better justice ! ‘supporter of the address was Mr. Fitapatrick, who was on the jury-panel, and was among the forty-eight drawn by ballot, but he was not on the jury: Mr. Butt bantered him ‘on the unbiassed verdict that be would have given! The address was carried, by 40 to 6, ; ‘The Repeal Association met on Monday. -In-taking the chair, Lord French stated that he had come upto town for the sole purpose of presenting the Liberator and his icllow-martyrs with two addresses from parishes in. his county, the inbabitants of which were boiling with indigna- tion at Mr, O’Connell’s unjust and unmerited conviction, anal had resolved, “ Come Weal, come wo,” that on their 4, One warm |}, He had locked up in achest, in an English county, the arms which his father had carried in 1782, and had trausmit- ted to him, accompanying them with a note in the following ternis: “ These ‘the arfns of Henry Grattan, placed here because aa English government -directed a brand to. be placed on them. Never! Henry. Grattan.” For these rea- sons atone, his intevtion—firm as if he had taken an oath— was, that he would never enter the House of Commons unless driven there bv the injunction of his constituents. Mr. M‘Nevin, a barrister, spoke ofthe Emperor of Russia; whom he described as brought over from Russia by the gaolers of O'Connell; for bis occupation of -ferter-forging and peopling Siberia, to effjoy a bear-hugging with Prince Albert ina bobby2Mi'Sinith O’Brien’ read an address from the. Completé Soffrage Union of, the people of England, signed “Joseph Starge,” and expressing indignation at the imprisonment of O'Connell. He mentioned a rumour that governinenit were about to issue a proclamation to forbid the meting of the Association: the committee were Vdeter- mined to try the legality of the proceeding 5 on the issue of the. proclamation the Association would meet 5 and he re- quested to-be chairman on that day. ‘The rent for the, week was £3,200. i A strange scene Was witnessed in Dublin on ‘Thursday. A number of deputations from, municipal, corporations went in a procession of. thirty. carriages, to present addresses to Mr. O'Connell. “At the prison-gaie they snecessively applied for admission, but were politely repulsed by — the: governor. They then returned to’ Mi. O’Convell’s private louse,-and adopted a formal, “declaration” oftheir seutiinents, Hie speakers were very. indignant. : A covernment reporter continues to take notes at the Re- peal meetings. eget e's ; = ee =steamers, aud several light vessels, to cruise off the eastern coast of Morocco, His Royal Highness will leave very soon for ‘Toulon, to assunie the command of the naval division which is to act under his orders.” “<9 i ... INDIA AND CHINA. : We have news from India and China, dated the Ist of May, and the 19th of March. The only fact worth noticing is the ‘marder of Sudjet Singh, who had come to Labore on. the in- vitation of his uncle, Heerah Singh, andat the request of the seditious troops. “This tragedy is thus described :—Rajah Heera Singh having invited his uncle, Rajah Sudjet Singh, ‘to Lahore, the invitation was declined when coming from the nephew, but when_repeated. from. the mouths of the_re- fractory troops, with a very different object in view, he has- iened to the capitalsand_arrived on, the.26th.of March, very slenderly attended, and in hopes of being received with open arms by those at» whose summons he had teft his mountain hold. The soldiers had.inthe aneantime -heen, bought over; It is said that the days upon which the traversers will “be suffered to receive visitors in future will be limited to. two each: weeke ; ; : 'Twenty:four boys» have been expelledifrom. the national school in Diblin, because they ‘insisted upon wearing the repeal buti6n during school tiotirs. The prohibition “was coufined to those hours werely, but the boys would not doff the national emblem even. during that short period... | Sir James Graham, in'reply to Mr. O’Brien’s letter of re- | monstrance, says that, by law, the ebforcentent of the disci~ | pline of the Richmond Penitentiary is vested in the Board of | superintendence, which, board is not under the immediate control of the Secretary of State, and thathe is not prepared ito interfere with the discretion of the board: dn. this occa- sion. : aes Subjoined ‘is the “declaration” of the seyeral provincial mayors, aldermen, and town-councillors assembled at the ‘house of Mr. O'Connell, ins Merrionsquare on Thursday last, after their ineffectual’ attempt to gain admission, in one large body, to the presence of the incarcerated conspirators, with a score and more of repeal addresses for presentation to. them. . The six, mayors. and seventy lesser civil “an. 'thorities, whose names and titles it bears, undoubtedly. cons | sider themselves very ill-tised personages. | “We, the undersigned mayors, and other members of the | municipal corporations of the undernamed cities and towns | of Ireland, have, in.compliance with the wishes of our con- | stituents and fellow:citizens, visited this: metropolis for the | purpose of paying onr tespects to Daniel O'Connell, and’ of ! conveying to him, by the presentation of the respective ad- dresses confided to our charge, the assurance how deey and enduring is their gratitude to their illustriets countryman,’ and how great is their indignation -at the personal insult re- ceived jin-his person. ; i iteag “ Though disappointed in the object of our mission, we think that a moment of such intense interest—a. crisis 80 important—which has brought together a large section of the popularly constituted authorities of this country, should not be perniitted to pass withouta solemn and deliberate declaration of our opinion on the ‘present aspect of vaffairs in freland. Bae * ath “ Having consulted together to ascertain how far the state of public feeling in our different localities corresponds with the sentiments in the addresses intrusied to us, and having reviewed the proceedings connected with the. state trials— commencing with the mysterious disappearance of Catholics from the panel, followed by the formation of a jury wholly exclusive tits character—this again succeeded by the novel application oftlie law of conspiracy, and the whole termina- ted by a sentence enforced in opposition to the opinion ofa distinguished ° member of the Court of Queecn’s bench, in favour of a new trial, ‘and ja defiance of the declaration of ewinent lawyers:and statesmen. in Ireland, that O’Connell had not had a fair one—having thus reviewed these proceed: ings, vitiating as they do,in the eyes of the world, the ver- dict obtained, and making ‘a martyr of Ireland’s first citizen, we pow put on record this solemnand conscientious decla- ration :— : ; “Phat the state-trials, and their result, have produced in the. great communities with which we are connected, and throughout the whole country, a strong apprehension that life, liberty, and property cannot he safe as longas an ad: ministration so hostile to the national sentiment, and so ob- nexious to the people, continues in power. “That ifanything could inereasesthe popular exaspera- tion it is this: that while, on the one hand, the most oppres- sive measures have been resorted to, under the forms of law —on the other, ministers bave been deluding the. Trish na- tion, by holding out, eveti in the Speech from, the ‘Throne, hopes of a just extension of its electoral rights, at the very time that they contemplated the introduction of the measure now before parliament, which, if it become law, will almost annihilate the miserable franchise we possess, “That an administration whichshas pledged itselfto main- tain in its full enormity the monster grievance of a church established in lreland, can never be countenaticed” by the Irish People. os : “That, notwithstanding much hollow professions, we see no attempt made to relieve the prevailing distress ; we ex- pect for the rack-rented tenantry no. alleviation. ,of their misery, nor for ourlabourers any general employment ; and all that can be looked for from: the boasted land, commission of thisi\anti-lrish administration is a tardy report, from which no practical benefit is-likely to arise. . } “Phat: white we thus Sichorstaty declare our opinion that the coftinuance in power of the present administration is irreconcileable with the well-being of Ireland, still-we are daily more thoroughly convinced: that the liberties, the fran- chise, and the social prosperity of the people, cannot be ef- fectually or ut all secured under any administration, without giving to the Irish nation a participation in its government by the establishment of its own parliament.” sd te SPAIN, AIS total From Spain we have accounts-of the arrival of Queen Isabella and ler mother at Barcelona, -and of the’ reception prepared for them by the citizens. The Prince di ‘Trapani was expected to arrive in a few days from Naples, and’ as Sir R. Peel has announced in Parliament that the project of no encouragement from our Governinent, there is little. doubt that the Neapolitan Prince will be a successful suitor. WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND MOROCCO | * Despatches have been received, showing that war has ac- tually Commenced between Morocco and France. Accor- ding to the report of General Lamoriciere ‘to’ Marshal Bu- geaud, the troops of the Emperor, or rather those of a chief who owes him allegiance, began the attack on the. 30th of May; the French troops, who bad. been on their guard for some Gays, watching the movements of the Arabs, immediately acted on the offensive, descended into a plain: near the supposed frontier: between Algiers and Kez,: and after some sharp fighting, pot the:enemy completely to rout, The French suffered very little loss, having only twenty-five ae! g ; 4 aie? i marrying the Queen to the son of Don Carlos has. met with, and the hill ebief, finding that he had heen ‘deceived, pre- pared to retire. He was followed on the 27th/by lis nephew, at the bead of the royal army, now 20,000 strong, and over- taken, with no more. than 500 followers in the house ofa. Fuqueer.. Tertns, were offered aud refused, and the gallant little band intimated their determmation to fight to the last. Having for some time defended themselves with their long land deadly matéeblocks, they at last, as the artillery opened ron them, sallied forth, resolved to cut their way through the troops or die in the, attempts The old Rajah Sudjet Singh, his minister, Rae Kesseeree Singh, and the Dewah Bheem Singh, were wmorigst the first who fell ; Dewan Govermull was taken prisoner. All the leaders having fallen, the fol- lowers were easily overcome. Sudjet Singh, brother of Diy- an Singh, who was murdered during the insurrection in which the Maharajuh and so many. others perished, was one of the right hand chiefs of the Old Lion of Lahore. He was said to havesbeen- engaged in tampering with our sepoys during the late mutiny, and £170,000 of treasure belonging to him is said to have heen discovered at Ferozepore, whither it had been brought forthe purposes.of subornation. - A British vessel carrying ovitm had been captured by the Chinese and delivered tp to the aiithorities of Hong Kong, and condemned to.a fine, ContTe3T BETWEEN THE Waites AND THE NATIVES OF Marree—-17 Warres Kitrep.—The Sidney. Herald of the 6th of January relates the following awful occurrence : rides 5 but she unexpectedly put into Neweastle on Monday last, having bad a serious affray with the nativ the istand of Marree, whom they incautiously allowed to ‘come on board, without regard to numbers. The natives attempted to carry the Brie by a rush, but they were even- ‘tually beaten off, after having killed 17 of the whites, One lofthe seamen states that the number killed on board the brig was. four Europeans and five Chinamen, and of the passengers and eight wood-cutters that had gone on shore, only one of the former and two of the latter got on board of | the brig. The others were killed and eaten, according to ithe account given by a friendly chief, who afterwards came on board, na whoni it was intended to form a-seitlement-on the New Massacre.—We learn from the New Bedford Mercury, (that an arrival at that port brings intelligence that the Bri- {tish frigate Cleopatra having got ashore on a reef on the | coast of Madagascar, one of her boats, with an officer and thirteen men, sent to carry out a stream anchor, was attacked | by the natives, and eight of them were killed, including the | Lieutenant, : Government!—The Mexican steamer Petrita,. Capt. Hinckley, arrived at New Orleans on the 10th June, seven de la Vega, bearer of despatches from the Mexican Govern- ment to Signor Almonte. ; The papers, all over Mexico, speak in’'terms of great in- dignation against the proposed annexation of ‘Texas. One of the editors says that the republic has the will and the means to resist a movement of the kind—has a great army already disciplined, and the great Santa Anna to take the command,—The following letter contains important intelli- gence :— : oh Vena Cruz, June 3d, 1844. Eds. Picayune—Dear Sirs:— At the last moment I write these few linés. Col. Thompson leftin the Poinset about two hours since, and by her [ wrote you the news; but as the Mexican Government has freighted the steamer Petrita, to carry over to your porta bearer of despatches, [ take advantage of her to write the latter having to touch at Galveston. In a few words,, Col. Thompson bas not been successful in his mission, the Mexican Government having repeated its former declaration, that if’ Texas is annexed, she, Mexico, declares war. Nothing further to add. In haste, yours truly. Z. The U.S. steamer Poinsett arrived at Mobile on the 11th June, eight days from Vera Craz.. The Poinsett arrived in ‘time only to place Colonel Thompson in the mail boat after she had started for Stockton. Fourteen thousand. troops had assembled and were quartered at Vera Cruz, and larger quantities of military stores were arviving there—An Eng- lish brig with ammunition, &c., had arrived from Tobasco. 4 erates ore eae emcee NEWFOUNDLAND. es St. John’s, N.F., June 11. The following purports to be a copy ofa despatch : from Lord Stanley to Sir John Harvey, upon the subject of some crimination and recrimination between: Sir John and the Chief Justice of this Colony, with which the public generally are as yet but very imperfectly acquainted. ; Dowsing-Srrerr, May 5, 1844. _Sin,— Lenumerate in the margin the various despatches and letters which I have received from yourself and the Chief Jus- tice of Newfoundland, on the subject.of the charges whieh have been preferred by that off cer against you. 2 The Chief Justice -has imputed to yourse Newfoundland, \a corrupt use of your powe your own pecuniary advantage. He bas charged Messrs. Crowd participation in those impnted offences, He has also” ariaiened though in ‘less serious terms, the conduct and motives of the four menibers of the Executive Council’ in preparing ahd presenting to you the memorial of the Q1stof March, 1843. Bi ¥ : When Mr. Bourne advanced such accusations, he must have an- ticipated that, if they should be substantiate by. proof, your pacalt from the government of Newfhundland would be ‘the Uenab- quence. ° He must as distinctly have foreseen that, if the charges should be disproved, his own removal from the Chief Justice- ship‘of that Colony was inevitable. It must have been evident from the commencement of this correspondence to the different pattios engaged in it, that their fartier €o-peration - the oe Service was impossible ; and that Her Majesty could not e advised to retain in her employment, either a Governor, guilty rs,° with a view to y & Robinson with a guilty : 3 PEMD RR ob « A few weeks since the Brigand leit New Zealand for the South Sea Islands, with. a nnmber of emigrants on board, es of | ARRIVAL OF A SPECIAL EXPRESS FROM THE Mexican) days from Vera Cruz, having_on board Senor J. Gonzales you, as she will no doubt reach your city before the Poinsett, If, as Governor of result of the eeimgen N these “ “Majesty's Goverpment, is to ednvince@mbem tWat you are’ inno. cent of the offénces withaybich you afe-charged by the Chier Justice, and that the other gentlemen, whem he would implicate in the same accusations, are also guiltless of them, ; Having submitted to the Queen his opinion, and having ~~. fore advised Her Majesty to revoke the Commission under which Mr. Bourne acts as Chief Justice of Newfoundland, Her Majesty has been pleased to approve. and adopt that advice, aa w. Bouine’s Commission will be revoked accordingly aS soan as hig successor shall’ be appointed. Inthe meantime it will not desirable that Mr. Bourne should continue to act in his judicial capacity. ltrust that. by accepting an immediate leave of aha sence, he will exenorate you from the otherwsie inev é of superseding bim from office until the appoiutment of his suc. cessor. 1 have, ko. | Hs,: t. af STANLEY _, June Since the publication of our last journal, Csi Rede and indeed the runiour has been confirnved—that His Honoy Chief Justice Bourne has obtained leave of absence, and that Mr. Attorhey General Simms has been invested.) Chief’s robes of office. pro tem.—Hugh A. Emerson, to be aeting Attorney Gepages and the Hon. Wm. B. » acting Solicitor General. 4 ir a Pe owe understand that the hon. James ‘Tobin | obtained, from Her Majesty’s Government, a orl i dockyard and grounds attached, at River head 3 and js the intention of the honorable gentleman to erect t ja patent slip,” which is much required by the ship \ this port. of Whe ss | . et el Ne regretto state that the flourishing Harbonr Grace. has again been the scene of a mostd ‘trons fire. ~At about 8 o’clock on Wednesday evening | the chimney and roof of a house occupie by -Mr. | tailor, (who is stated torhave just imported a targe quat \ofcloths from England), was observed to becon fires , alarm was instantly given, apd ‘two fire engives *were — promptly on the spot; but notwithstanding every ti rt, | Suppress the flames, the mercantile premises of I : Thorne, Hooper & Co. and Mr. Peter Brown, cang and were completely consumed, together with 206 | honses.: including the mercantile establishment of Marv Polev Morris, and two stores, shops, &c., belongin / Mr. Daniel Green, By the most unexampled and p. worthy exertions, the premises of Messrs. Punton & M i ’ ide part of the town to the ea (Signed) is? land the whole of the watersi . : | ward thereof, were saved. The honse of Mr. Charles ‘h son was pul'ed down, thereby preventing the fire | catching Mr. Jillard’s house, which was the means, u er Providence, of saving the nerth side of the street. Th principal sufferers, besides those already named, are Mi | Fox, Capt. Drysdale, Me. James L. Pendergast, Mr. Will | Mr. Martin Kelly, Mr. Foley, Mr. Shelley, Mr. Lahy, Mr, Stowe. Mrs. ‘Vapp, Mr. Moore (painter), Mr. Dixon, Cay Nt | John Green, Mrs. Churchill, Mrs. Devereaux, Mrs Kearney, i Mrs. Molloy, Mr. Edwafd Pynn, Miss Butler, and Sev others, whom our correspondent, from whom we have] these particulars, could not atthe nroment vame. topsail of one of the vessels lying in the harbour was at. time on Sre, but this was fortunately extingnished. house of Thomas Danson, Esq., the chief magistrate of district, was saved by great exertions. Great praise 1 to the Revds. Messrs. Dalton and Cummins, for the ext dinarv manner. in which they used their influence am the people, and in directing them what to do, Lieut, lespie, andthe detachment of the Royal Newfound, Companies, were on the spot sh rily after the fire broke ou and were highly usefol in guarding the property that had been saved, « Lieut. G’s. personal exertions were of greab service. At noon on the following day the fire was eome pletely sabdued, and the loss, although it has been val ly estimated, may be set down at about £25,000. Two very striking proofs of advancing civilisation ha been recently afforded in two places where we shou least have thought of looking for them—Sweder Turkey. In 18312 a royal ordinance was published by Bern porre, strictly prohibiting all communigation with ap of the surviving descendants of the unfortunate Gus vus Avotpnus. Prince Vasa, the living representati¥ of the discharged family, put forward a sort of prote against the recent accession of Oscar I; and was s: in the political circles to be secretly sustained ‘by that universal bugbear of European diplomacy— Russian in fluence. ‘Yet, in the face of this foolish protest, and power by which it was supposed to be upheld, the yo King has most wisely issued an ordinance, in which hg | voluntarily and unconditionally revokes the prohibit of his predecessor. He helieves that his throne is based upon.the hearts of his people; and that if it be not, prohibitions can make it secure. This is a piece of sound policy which would be equal to the intelligence 0 the age any where, and which is beyond it in Sweden, 7 The other instance is the abolition of torture in Tur- | key, asa means of procuring evidence or confessions of! guilt. This reyerend iniquity has been recently brought into disrepute by an accusation against an Englishman wrung from some wretched prisoner in. a moment of des= pair—perhaps under the hope of escaping further agon The Englishman ‘was found to be completely innocen of the crime imputed: to him, upon which Sir Srrat rorp Cannina very properly brought the whole affair under the immediate consideration of the Sublime Port The result was a notification fromthe Sultan ta all peos ple in authority, strictly forbidding the employment ol torture for the future. i These are hopeful auguries for mankind, with sor reasan and strong hearts in them, from which the haps piest consequences may be predicated. The Colontal We SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1844. 2 The Steamship Barrannra arrived at Halifax on the 1s inst. in 11 $ days from Liverpool. Extracts: from the paper brought by her will be found in’ previous columns. Th news is of considerable interest. ot HEteyes ‘Tae Leerstatrure or Nova Scrrra.—The Halifax p pers of this week publish a circular Jetter addressed: by the Provincial Secretary to each of tue members of the Legis- lature, in which the reason for calling a meeting of the As sembly on the 20th of this month is stated to.be, “for th purpose of considering the extent to which . the interests: Nova Scotia proper are involved ins the decision of the dicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case | shortly to be argued before them, relative to the legality‘uf the al nexation’ of the Island of Cape Breton to Nova Scotia 1820,”’ Mtg —__ One thing ‘seems certain, that the people’ of € Breton are much dissatisfied with the union, and: holding public meetings. for the purpese of _pro ; ing a repeal of it—and public. meetings, at least so says Editor of the Palladium, « were the only, means through w popular feeling songht-an expression.” - One. great eause® complaint with the Cape Bretonians is the inequality. in'th representation, involving; as it necessarily does, a or tionate distribution ‘of the revenue; to’ which is to be added the want of punctuality on the part of the Jndges in at ing the sittings of the Supreme ‘Court in that ante ; would appear that although thev r ti: Bip DGoe ab ¥ are allowed [0 sig? aoe ol © pian? Aq) : Ineo , Ww ea Hh