The Express. — London, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

Vie OrpreigS. July 5, 1849, July 5, 1830, From and to to after July 5, 1850. July 5, 1851. July 5, 1831. s. d. s. d. e. 4. Candy. brown or white double relined sager, 13 0 18 6 IS 0 ise per Cwt Other relined sugar, &C. 16 0 14 0 13 4 per cwt. White (slaved sugar, de 14 0 12 15 11 8 per cwt. Murcovado, de., per eat. 12 0 11 0 10 0 Molbswe per cwt. 4 6 4 2 3 9 On the question being put that the above resolution' be agreed to, Mr. MILLIE moved the following Beale of duties u an amendment : On broisnelared sugar, or sugar rendered by any pros equal In quality to bruit n-olayrd, and not equal in quality to wbite-cloyed, for Very cwt. : From and after the Sth July, 1848, to the Sth July, 1819, British, 13a. ; foreign, 20. From mud tiler the Sth July, 1849, to the Sth July, 1850, Bridal", LIN. • forewn, ion. Rom and after the sth July, 1830, to the Sth July, 1851, British, its. foreign, 18s. From out alter the sth July, 1811, to the Sth July, 1832, British, 10a.; toreigu, 17e. Front and after the sth July. 1832, to the Sth July, 1853, British, 30a. ; furriim, 17n. Flom and after the sth July, 1833, to the sth July, 1834, British, 10. ; foreign, I.s. The bon. member said that his amendment did not differ materislly from the proposition of the government, but the effect of it would be to extend the differ. ntial duty of 7s. for six years. He trusted that it would meet with no " rh i e m' CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the tropesition, considering that of the government the wiser arrameement. After a few words from Sir H. WILLOVOIIIIY, The amendment was negatived without a division. Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY wished to ascertain whether government admitted that Cuba auger was superior in sac chorine qualities to segar the produce of the colonies. The CHANCE '..LOR of the EXCHEQUER said that government had framed their scale of duties so as to meet the dill rencO alluded to by the hon. baronet. Mr. BOUVERIS moved " That prevision be made for the admission of such foreign sugar as shall be cleared out of the foreign ' West Indian, and American ports before': the Ist day of August next, and out of ports east of the Cape of Good Hope before the Ist day of Sep tember next, at the rates of duty imposed on such sugars rrnectieely by the Act 9 & 10 Vie , c. 63." He considered that the foreign shippers had acted in full confidence of the permanence of the late duties—a confidence which was fully justified by reemt declarations of the go vernment. So late as Fob. 3 the Chancellor of the Exche quer had declared that, in granting the planting committee, the government had no intro ion of altering the duty ; and a similar declaration hail been made by the First Lord of the Tet asury in May. In consiquence of those declarations medium' had seat out the is orders to Cuba and Manilla, and now romolained th,t government had broken faith with them. The fact was that, without his amendment, the in crease of the duties would come out of their pockets in stead co , being a charge on the consumer, and he considered it to be the duty of the house and the government to hold them harmless The CIIAVCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the amend uent ; m.,l stated, in reference to the declaration which had been made, that nothing would be more Mean venient than for government to make declarations before hand of their intention to raise duties; and referred to the changes which had been mode at various times in tho wine and other duties, , o show that in other cases merchants had sent out orders for goods, on the supposition that a certain duty would have to b., paid, while on the arrival of those rails in this country a higher rate of duty, in consequence of the chang,a in the meanwhile made, had to be paid The general supposition was, that when duties were raised the price of the article was raised in proportion, and the merchant suffered no loss. Mr. J 13. SMITE contended that those who, depending on the declarations of government that no increase of duty would be impowd, had sent out orders for sugar, would be most unfairly treated if they were called upon to pay the additional duty on the sugar so ordered. Mr. GLADSTONE had heard no statement from the government, which would justify him in voting against the motion of the hon.membeir for Kilmarnock. The discretion of parliament was perfectly free to make alterations in duties at its discretion, and as such alterations would sometimes place large sums in the pockets of the trader, so the trader must suhmit when such alterations might militate against the interests of particular traders, if on public grounds there was sufficient reason for the change. The case be'ore the house was not that the faith of parliament was pledged; it was not the act of 1816 that occasioned any doubt in his mind, but it was the declarations which had been made deliberately and distinctly by her Majesty's government. In February laat, not at the importunity of the parties who now complained, but on a motion proposed by the noble lord (G. Bentinck), the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared there was not the slightest intention of departing front the art of 1846, and added that he was anxious to make the declaration distinctly and explicitly, in order that there might be no uncertainty in the matter. True, parliament might have made an alteration despite of the government. But these polies knew it was not the practice of parliament to alter fiscal regulations of this kiad except at the suggestion of a government in whom they had confidence, and they had a right to confide in a declaration made by the financial minister of the mown, and repeated by the President of the Board of Trade and the Secretary fur the Colonies, ar.d lastly by the noble lord at the head of the government. The noble lord was asked, not by the parties who wete to suffer, but be those who aught to alter the law of 1846, and he then stated, so late as the 30th of May last, that amyl meat did not intend to propose any such alteration. Was it good pdicv, or consistent with public faith literally or rightly understood that such declarations should be considered as though they bad never taken place, and parties who h acted on the opinions of the minister of the crown should not he protected in haying so acted? There were no changes in the circumstances of the colonies in June which were not known in May, when that declaration was made ; and though he protested against the principle of all parties claiming corepeasation for loss consequent on chan. es is public policy when acting on their own risk, in this case, where the parties had not acted on their own risk, but on the solemn assurance of the government, he thought they were entitled to the justice they claimed; ar.d he had no fear that, its granting it, they would set a precedent which would be acted on in all cases of change of duty. While on his legs he would refer to a statement made by the noble lord as to what fell from him (Mr. Gladstone) on • former evening. The noble lord bad charged him with Plying that he had exeressed himself favourable to remedying the deficiency in the revenue he increased taxation. What he had said was that it was the duty of parliament and government to equalise the revenue and expenditure of the country, and he had added that the proposal of the noble lord at the commencement of the session for increased taxation, at an early period of the year, had been summarily dismissed by the house, not because parliament, on sufficient cause shown, would refuse to grant new taxes, but b.cause par Lament had no confidence in the estimates of the noble lord, and because they believed those estimates had been pre pared without a due regard to the principles of public eco nomy. (Hear, hear.) There were instances of extravag nice which might be referred to. (" Hear, hear," from Mr. Lebauchere.) The President of the Board of Trade cheered. If the right hon. gentleman wished it he was ready to name some of those instances, and at that moment —instances which, be thought, would make the right hon. gentleman repent his cheer. But as the cheer was not re peated he would not. This was, perhaps, a matter extra neous to that under discussion, and he would not further dwell upon it, but to apologise for any heat be had been be bayed into. (lieu, hear.) Mr. LABOUCIIERE conceived that the right hon gentleman had rather seized the present opportunity to attack the government than to advance reasons for departing from an ordinary course; and which, if pursued, would only establish a precedent full of evil and inconvenience. The right hon.gentleman's stack, however, was matzo. founded is reason,candour, or juqice. Although the government pro. posed an alteration of duties, the act of altering them was that of the House of Commons. The government, it was said, were pledged to the existing scale of duties and to the act of 1846. lie admitted that when that declaration was made it was the intention of the government to adhere to that not. They harlidnne so in spirit, and had most reluctantly come to the conclusion that it ought to be altered in detail. To the principle of the mea sure they still adhered, and for doing so were blamed by a party in that house, who complained not that they bad de parted from the bill of ISI6, but bad adhered too closely to it. After a short conversation the committee divide.'. For the amendment Against it 142-108 On the question that the chairman report the resolutions to the house, • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in the remlutions the sth July was printed an the day on which the duties would be reduced. He begged to state that he should move on the neat atage.that for the sth the 10th July should he übstituted, the latter being the day on which the diminution of duties would commence. The house then resumed; the resolution, were reported, and the report was ordered to be received to morrow (this der i at 12 o'clock. l'ho house adjourned at 2 o'clock. DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE, YESTERDAY. - The committee in the course of the scrutiny trench off four vets 0. Mr. Reynolds's majority 14 now reducid to 39. PRINTERS' ALM , linu:E.s.—Last nirAt the annual genatn. ulec.l ig ur ow ,40-...tnr.. to the l'rinters' Alms house Fund" was held in •he theatre of the Mechanics In. atitution, Southampton-buildinga, Chancery-lane. Richard Taylor, Esq., occupied the chair. From the report of the committee read to the nue' ins, it appeared that the ground for the erection of alnashous. , had been purchased at one of the most slluhrious spots in the vicinity of Loudnn sic., at Wood smen. Mr. Webb had hem appointrd archtect, and it was inter.ded that the fi rst st:no s hould he I t dd next spring, when, it was hoped, some gentleman eminent in literature would officiate. It had b , en determined that none should be admitted into the alm.cliouaes but such as were at least GO years of age, and had subscribed for three years, or paid their life slscription a year before the day of election. The total BUM received towards the erection of the institution had been lOn., while the expenditure of the year was only 1 24 64. 6tl , that sum being covered nearly by the interest of the a ncuut invest( dis the fu.ols. Mr. Thompson moved the aeh.ption of the ieport, and the motion having been duly seceded and carried, the committee, &c., elected, and some other business disposed of, a vote of thanks was pasted to the chairman and the meeting broke up. MAILS. The math for British North Americo, and the United Mato% toll be made up an the evening of the 14th July. The West India Math, excluding Bermuda, Nara, Mouths, Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cone, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and including those for Model's, Jame', psrWaeena, Santa Martha, Chagos', Panama, Weal Coast of South America, and Bt. Juan-do. Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th July. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, tibia, Madeira, Colts, and Gibraltar will be made upon the morning of the 17th Jot). The overland mails foe Othralter, Malta, Greece, the lonlan Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hoeg-Kong, and China, Pia routhornp. ton, will be made upon the morning of the 20th July. The overland tithed mails, eon MarthWas, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long-Kong, ac., will be made up on the evening of the 74th July. rite malls for New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st July. The mails for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made sip on the evening of the 31st July. The math for the Brasile. the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up un the evening of the 4th August NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-olfice, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447.009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number Matted to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Poll, ALL PUT TOORTHER. In addition to the above, lamed to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Eorenin Edition, THE EXPRESS 778.714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued tither to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. TO CORRESPONDENTS. T. s.—The two abllliego .eet by tbl. torreoposSeat ►aen been Comma.' to Mr. adenrocol, Dablio. HIGH WATER AT LOPI DWI 111111/01. ' l '... Da. — lsersias as WA. pull IP t Afromeas, 111 •Alo. paa4 IN T. Hernias, 10 =lrma Ng Abswash SI WW. p.m H. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 11. THE Times favoured the reading public yesterday morning with an article on the reform question, in which a is so difficult to discover any meaning that oue may be pardoned for suspecting it has none. The Times announces with great gravity th it "the insufficiency of the Reform Bill was a reasonable phenomenon." To the learned in the peculiar dialect of that journal we leave it to explain what is meant by calling " insufficiency" a " phenomenon," or what is "a reasonable phenomer.on." Again, we are sen tentiously told that the Reform Bid " did not indeed destroy, but it mate:idly changed the administration of public affairs as it had been handed down from the time of the gnat revolution." We confess our inabi lity to conjecture what is meant by " handing down the administration of public affairs," or how - • . " the administration of public affairs" could be destroyed. The whole article is full of similar euphuisms—parliament is represented as moved by " the subtle influences of private intelli gence," and "amenable to the instincts of property," and it is asserted that the combinations of the work ing classes are " independent of reason." Till a vocabulary of that new dialect of the English lan guage employed by this writer is published, we must despair of benefiting by his wisdom, and contett ourselves with puzzling out his meaning by a selec tion of the few sentences in which he has condescended to use the vulgar tongue. The Times then declares that the Reform Bill has neither performed the good, nor inflicted the evil, that was anticipated from it. " Its results are so far negative." Nevertheless, through its operation, "a class of members who raised the character of the house for wit, for eloquence, and genius--a class which was typified by BURKE., CANNING, and MACKINTOiII— has ceased to exist." The Rouse of Commons is "governed by an aristocracy," raised from the middle class, "the qualifications for admission into which are merely a certain amount of capacity and good fortune." This is not very flattering to the House of Commons, but the Reform Act is still more roughly handled. Its "great vice is its anomalous ness." "It does not carry out the purposes its authors had in view—of reconciling rights with duties, state contributions and public benefits with state privileges and political power. There are many men who pay high rents, and others who pay high rates, and others again a high tax, who are yet ex cluded from the prerogatives which the drunken free men of Liverpool and the venal voters of Horsham enjoy. A most respectable, a moat intelligent, a most conservative body of people, are thus debarred from a voice in the legislature to the great damage of the public interests This is wrong, foolish, and suicidal." We cannot accuse ourselves t f having been mealy mouthed in our descriptions of the existing electoral system, or the precious House of Commons for which we are indebted to it; and yet we do not remember ever to have crammed more unmitigated and un equivocal disparagement of ;both into one article than the Times has here done. An electoral system which is " wrong, foolish, and suicidal," and a legislature that is too imbecile to do either good or harm, and is unredeemed by talent of any kind, are surely ripe for refot m. But the object of the Times in lavishing all this abuse on our electoral system and House of Com mons is to jump at the conclusion that it is best to leave them as they are. " Without a Roform Bill in 1832 we should have had a rebellion or a revolution in 1818." And the Reform Bill of 1932 has, according to the political sage who penned this sentence, proved a delusion, making the legisla ture worse than it was before. If, then, we have not another !dorm bill in 1848, what are we likely to have before 1864 ? The reasonii.g (if reasoning it can be called) by which the Times arrives at the conclusion that no further reform is needed is as peculiar as the language in which the greater part of the article is couched. "We must protest against the ad mission of the principle that every man is entitled to a vote without any qualification whatsoever. Mr. COBDEN repudiates this. lie grounds his claim upon property. Others ground theirs upon educa tion." And although it is thus mad, to appear that the parties at present in the field to ask elec toral reform do riot claim a vote for every man "without any qualification whatsoever," the Times deems it a sufficient reason for rejecting their request that it would be dangerous to extend the franchise to those who have no qualification. "We think there are few practical persons who will not admit that, bating the existence of a sentimental grievance (which we by no means wish to disparage), parliament is as popular in its composition as it would be with a house hold suffrage on Mr. COBDEN'S plan, and far more likely to take care of the commerce and capital of the kingdom than it would be if subjected to the triennial caprices of multitudes who were amenable neither to the instincts of property nor the teachings of reflee tion—whosepower was based on numbers, and whose combination was independent of reason." The mea sure actually before the public is set aside in a paren thesis, and the argument directed against a measure not at present under consideration. The Times has said enough to show that an exten sive measure of reform is urgently necessary, and has said nothing to show that the measure brought for ward by Messrs. liustt: and COBDEN is inadequate to the emergency. The public complaint against the electoral system and the House of Commons, to which it has given birth, is not solely, nor even principally, that they are not sufficiently popular. rho public complain that neither the one nor the other have en sured to us the enjoyment of good government. The public "grievance' is rankly prosaic and practical, not " sentimental." And the remedy proposed by Mr. flew, and his coadjutors, is a practical not a s e ntimental proposal, calculated to remove those " anomalies" which the Times has placed in so pro ' mineut a point of view. The foundation of Mr. Bane's plan of reform—the essential and efficacious part of it to which the other provisions are in a (peat measure accessories—is the re-distribution of the efectoral districts upon a joint hisis of numbers st - 1 • ••:•. 1" - -•• • • I the extension or limitai'ori of tho franc! se —whatever is to be the period fur which legislators are to bold their delegated power—whatever is to be the mode of voting—the re-distribution of the electoral districts is required to render representation real. It is a prae:i cal rule-of-thumb adjustment of the number of repre sentatives to the number and property of the parties repiesente•d that is asked tor, no hair-splitting theoretical attempt to impart an imp.ssible mathe mit ical rxaetntas to this proportion. What would be said of a joint-stuek winpuny in which a majority of votes fur directors wire conferred on a small minority of shareholders owning about a fifth of the shares ? Yet this isa pretty exact picture of thiet constituency 1 which elects those political directors who decide what per centagu the whole (overt . ) , of tho nation ma to pay towards tho suplsu t of the stab, null upon %h O. kinds of property it is to press must heavily, and who •1 THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1848. enact laws to which every man must conform his actions. Buckinghamshire, with 170,000 inhabitants, returns eleven members to parliament, while Man cheater, with 240,000 inhabitants, returns only two. Middlesex and Doraetshire each return fourteen members, while the money annually collected for the poor in Middlesex is within 101. of the entire annual rental of Dorsetehire. The shares of a jointsdock company in which the votes in the election of directors were apportioned in , this anomalous manner would be uresaleable ; for the ' revenue of the company would be misappropriated for the advantage of the minority (in numbers and property) just as the national revenue is misappro priated. This is the " anomalousness" of our existing electoral system, which the Mlles truly characterises as " wrong, foolish, and suicidal." And this " ano • malousnesa" the re-distribution of the electoral dis tricts would remedy. It must not be imagined because we lay so much stress upon what we consider the characteristic and essential provision of Mr. HUME'S plan ot reform, that we undervalue the accessaries. The extension of the suffrage at least to every householder is required to prevent the wealthy classes shifting the burden of taxation off their own shoulders, and on to those of the poorer. Secret voting—the ballot being a mere mechanical means of ensuring seeresy—is ' necessary, to enable every voter to be guided by his unbiassed judgment and real likings. And more frequently . recurring elections are required, to keep members In mind of their responsibilities to their con stituents. We believe these necessaries to be indis pensable to the equitable and just working of our elec- 1 torsi system. Bu we believe more equal electoral districts than at present exist to be necessary to make any electoral system real—to prevent its becoming a mere sham. We believe that, in the existing small constituencies, the ballot could not ensure 'secretly of voting—that no mechanical device could. We believe that the enormous numbers of the existing large constituencies necessarily render their elections mere mob elections—the results of passion and contagious caprice instead of deliberate judgment—even with the present restricted franchise, and would keep them so under any mode of voting. In short, we retard every part of Mr. Heath's plan of reform as required to give complete efficacy to all the others. No one of its tour points co-ild be omitted without impairing its practi cal usefulness. We trust, therefore, that its supporters will not allow themselves to be diverted from urging its adop tion upon parliament and the public by vague pro mises that parts of it may be granted if the rest of it be not insisted upon. The Whig Ex«niiner promises vote by ballot it triennial parliaments, household suf frage, and equal electoral districts are thrown overboard. What would be the use of the ballot to the halt-dozen honest voters who in a small borough have the power of turning the balance between the two organised fac tions who dispute the representation? 'their votes would be as well known as it they were given viva race. The Peet Spectator sneers at the smallness of Mr. HUME'S reform ; but small though it may be it is better than a great plan in nubibuo. Mr. Humes plan is tangible and real: stick to it till a beter, equally real, supported with equal sincerity, and by at least equal numbers, is brought forward. 1 here is every encouragement to adhere to it in the division of Thursday last. When Mr. VILLIERS first divided the House of Commons in 1842, on his motion for total repeal of the corn-laws (after the league had been agitating the measure three years), he had only 92 votes for, and 385 against, him. After less than three months of agitation Mr. Heat: has for his reform motion 81 votes, and against 351. The first majority against Mr. Huts is less by 26 than the first majority against Mr. VIL LIERS was. Nor will it be necessary for Mr. Hume; and his coadjutors to gain a majority for their nea measure of reform, in order to ensure its being car ried. In 1811 the parliamentary advocates of corn law repeal divided 120 to 383 ; in 1845 they divided 124 to 256; and soon after the latter division Sir Itolieur PEEL took the matter in hand, and did their work for them. And this was the progress of corn law repeal against an inveterate opposition, continued to the last moment, whereas no party, either in or out of parliament, denies absolutely the necessity of electoral reform. NOTWITHSTANDING the high eotryl;ment paid to Mr. MACREADY last night, the British theatre and the British drama are, it n.ust be confeseed, in a bad way. The presence of royalty, and a house crowded to the ceiling, even though applauding to the echoes; that applaud again, won't compensate them for the neglect into which they have fallen. Covent Garden is in 'he hands of the I'hilistines • Old Drury in nobody's hands; the H•iymarket closed prematurely before Italian singing; the Lyceum closing ; and the Princess's every now and then shut for a night or two. The higher drama found as little patronage in far Marylehone as it did in nearer Wych-street; and the lower drama is almost as unat tractive over the bridges, where thousands live, but across which no one goes from this Cis-pontint side. Yet (notwithstanding " money never was so scarce") two Italian Operas are filled thrice a week ; a French play flaurishes in St. James's; concerts given by foreigners are profitably attended ; and the last opened place of counter-attraction, the new Roman catholic cathedral of St. George, is filled to excess li under the admirable management of Dr. WeotmaN and nil troupe of continental bishops. Great is the demand for foreign ark istes ; small the occupation for our domestic actors. We can't do without JENNY LIND, but we are driving Mr. MACREADY across the Atlantic. The opera season at Covent Garden b.- gins and ends with Madame Germ ; whilst Mr. CHAS. KEAN can only obtain a temporary engagement at the " little home in the Haymarket." Mille. AttioNt is the delight of all ears, whilst Mrs. BUTLER sometimes played to half-filled houses. Whilst foreign music and acting flourish our own languish. Our native players call for "protection?' which is scouted even by the house of Lo de; and Mr. WEBsTER, emboldened by want of success, ven tures to lecture a prince of the blood royal because the S:OVEREIGN has exercised that which is not denied the mintiest subject—the right of unrestricted liberty of amusement. What is the cause of this rise on the one side, of this decline on the other? Is it that our taste for the drama, for the intellectual, has bees des , troyed by our new-bor love for music—for the sen stud ? Is it the extinction of an old or the develop , ment of a new taste? Is it the extension of light reading, or the absorbing tendency of our serious pur suits? Is it that we eat our dinners later or go to bed earlier? Is it the effect of fashion, or the growth of piety ? Is it the excellence of the foreign amuse ments which we do support, and the inferiority of the native amusements which we will not maintain ? That the cause of the decline is to be found singly in any one of these reasons, or that the whole, taken together, will solve the whole difficulty, and satisfac torily account for the low condition of the British theatre with the noblest drama in the world, we are not going to assert. Everybody, it has been said, thinks he can edit a we and manage a play house ; and though we may be able to accomplish the former feat, we have no pretence to the achiev ment of the latter more dangerous experiment. So we shall not speak dogmatically, but rather sug- Restively on the subject of our theatres. 1 This great difference cannot, however, have I failed to strike the most indifferent and thoughtless person who has visited the houses to which foreigners have attracted large audiences, and the houses which British mimic talent has not rendered profitable ; it is that he finds excellence in the former, inferiority in the latter; and the conse qui nee is, that in spite of the enormous prices of ad mission, he repeats his visits to the one, and that, not withstanding the comparative cheapness of the other, he keeps away from it. Far be it from us to deny that in .nary of our playhouses are to be e: considerable but it ia in vain we seek for a play through out well performed—in vain we ask for an evening's amusement in which general excellence shall prevail ; we arc compelled to endure a host of bad actors that we may witness the performance of one or two players competent to enact the parts they Sustain ; we arc forced to sit through a piece in which dullness, ignorance, and awkwardness, are the cha racteristics of all save the principal people. Now, in the foreign houses, our tastes and our tempers are put to no such trial; there, at least, the excellence is general, and the defects or short comings exceptional ; there we have evidence that the performances are the result of training, of tuition, of careful study, and of the hi.rhest exertions; we feel that an enormous effort has been made to give U 3 satisfaction, and that though we pay highly for what we have, the com modity supplied us is first-rate. "It was by aim degrees, ° said Boars of Pox, "that he became the first orator of bia age." And as with the great whig so has it been with all great actors, and to Is it with the great singers who now nightly fill the largest houses in Europe. They have beers at school; they have been taught; they have profited by instruction; they have, at last, become masters of their art. Is this the case with any like a majority of our actors ? Rather, may not the very ' reverse be as a general rule predicated of them ? Does any of our theatres exhibit evidence of study, prepa ration, knowledge, or of a school ? Does any of them satiety the requisitions which an audience of educa tion, of cultivated taste, of intellectual training, must make —cannot help making--on actors? And if whilst they do not, their foreign rivals do give this satisfaction to the fullest extent, ought /hey to seek ter other reasons for the disrepute into which they have fallen? Other reasons there doubt less are ; but so long as our actors aro incompetent for the positim they have voluntarily assumed, tney cannot be surprised that in their persons insufficiency meets with its usual punShment. It is rarely, indeed, that in this country merit does not meet with its reward ; and in the theatrical line, merit where it exists, is, even in the depreciation of the profession generally, very highly rewarded. Our greatest actors have all, it is well understood, made fortunes ; and not one of our better performers, but obtains salaries such as their prede cessors, of much higher reputation, never dreamed ot. Let it not then be said there is no temptation for an actor to study, to train himself, to become "by slow degrees" distinguished in his business; for there is the very highest tempta tion money and fame. And just as it is with the higher so will it be with the lower class of perlorir.ers ; their improvement will just as surely ra ise them, as their present wretchedness is the foundation of what is called the " star system." The great want of the British stage is then a school : possessing that, it would again have good troops, crowihd houses, ample remuuerrion, full em ployment, and renewed reputation. Without a school it will gradually sink beneath even the rescue of " command " nights, or royal favour. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY, 11 A M. I am sorry to have to say that nothing can be ima gined worse than the situation of this capital at pre sent. We have many thousand exasperated fanatics swarming in every part of it, who imagitie murder and assassination a merit, mingled with whom are . . thousands of liberated convicts and other individuals of the worst and basest kind. Thole are now nearly 16,000 insurgent prisoners distributed through the prisons and "maisons d'arret" of the capi tal, but more especially in the detached forts with which Paris is surrounded, The environs of these de tached forts abound with insurgents lying in ambus cade, who omit no opportunity of firing upon all par ties who communicate with these prisons, and not a day or night passes that lives are not taken in this way.. Six national guards are now lying dead, aasassi nated at Romainville. Even the streets of the capital cannot be said to be safe, one cannot walk through them without feeling that one is at the mercy of the insurgent assassin. Meanwhile even the arbitrary power with which the executive is invested is insuffi cient to repress the audacious attempts of journals of socialism and the .Itedßepublic. The recent open attacks on every principle of order, and on the assembly itself, the result of universal suffrage, and the most barefaced apologies for the atrocities of the late in surrection, appear daily in the columns of La Reforme, Le People Constittood, and Le Represeidant du People. With all his firmness and energy Gen. Cavaignac is still a democratic Republican, and it is not without difficulty that his eyes can be opened to the disastrous coasequenees of the abuses of the press. An article appeared ou Saturday in the Repreeentant du Pruple, containing an outrageous attack on the Assembly. A meeting was held yesterday of the moderate party ; a deputation from which was sent to lay this article before the chief of the executive power, and to usk what measures were proposed to be taken in coa -1 sequence. The result has been that the RepreBentant it,, Prop& was ipprt seed by order of Gen. Cavaignac this morning. aioanwhile, howevrr, Prerffinn has nut forth in the columns of the IlLeforme the draft of a project of, decree which he says the assembly ought to be (red,. -ed to pass a decree conihmeating one-third of the revenge of all proprietors of every sort for three years in tavour of the state and the tenants, one half to go to the state and the other half to the tenants. it will be recollected that M. Prudhon is the author of a work whose text is that " Property is robbery." The ltepresentant du People, suppressed to-day, says that the late outrages of the insurgents was merely the result of a generous impatience to accom plish, at a single step, and without transition, all that wondrous distance that separates our egotistical society from unity. A large portion of the columns of tlet journals of this meriting is occupied with the project of M. Leon Faucher, to open a credit of 100 millions in favour of the national discount banks. Toe speech of M. Faucher, in support of his project, is marked with his usual ability and highly interesting. The project of decree which he proposed to submit to the assembly is as follows: To open for the minister of finnaceacredit of 100,000,0001 upon the extraordinary resources for 1848, for the contribu tion of the state to the catioaal banks. This sum is already placed to the charge of the state by the d,cree of March 7, which ordained that its contributive share, 40000,000 f., should be paid in Treasury Bonds, and by the decree of March 16, which opened a credit of 60,000,0001. for the discount banal, to be rsised by the 45 eentinus. Fifty-seven discount banks have been established, in virtue of the decree of March 7. The nominal capital of these banks amounted to 120,000,0001., and there has scarcely been actually paid in 30,000,0001. ; vie., 25,037,2d01. by the subscribers, and 7,375,0001. by the state. The Committee were nearly equally divided upon it-14 being adverse to the project, and 13 (including M. Leon Faucher's own vote) in favour of it. The Bien Public publisnes a letter, in which it is affirmed that the insurgents raised the cries in the Faubourg du Temple of " Lamartine a la lanterne !" The lifoniteur contradicts the report that typhus fever prevails in the prisons. The report I sent you on Saturday evening of a mine having been sprung on a military post, and the particulars, which I could not, as I stated, then ascer tain, turns out to have arisen from an accidental ex plosion at the Place de la Bastille. Many of the in mates were injured but none killed. General Bedeau has, it is now positively said, ac cepted the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, and will take possession of the ministry in a few days. M. Jules Bastide serves as minister ad irderim. Baron de Friddain, charge d'affaires from the go vernment of Sicily, and Dr. Furodri, his first secre tary of legation, have, upon the recommedation of the, minister of foreign affairs been accepted by the exe cutive power as authorised to keep up relagions tyfr civises between Sicily and the Republic. Notice has been given by the Bank of France that forged notes of lOilfr. each are in circulation. The plain stamp which is on all the genuine notes with the signatures of Garet, Ville, and de Croussz-Cretet are wanting. The Union says: " We are informed that an insur gent, depositary of a terrible secret, has written a letter to M. A. Thouret, representative of the people, to offer to reveal it to him, in exchange for his liberty, stating that on the secret Lepends the safety of tne republic. M. A. Thouret instantly remitted the letter to the president of the committee of inves tigation. . _ . The statement which we (Cons(ikti mnel) pub lished on the authority of the D4mocratie Pacifique, that M. Cabet hid demanded vessels from the go , Texas, has no sort of fotmdation. MONTE VIDEO.—Does from Mont:" Video to the 12th of May have been neeired in Lop rp )01. In eons tutrcial affuirs the only (act of intereet is tha, the govern - tder.t had imposed a transit duty of 4 per cent. ou all goods in deposit, and 6 percent. on transhipment, to take effect from the list of May. VENEZUEI.A.—PORVO CABELLO.—We have dates from this port to the 10th ult. Mara^aiba, the lad f _othold of the friends of the constitution, weA trlten posses• sim of by a division of General MonagaV army on the 30th of May. The castle yet remains in the hands of the opposi tion. If the information communisated by the so•called government party cut be relied on, it would stem to be ab solutely impossible for General Peer and other real friends of the constitution to succeed in their patriotic endeavours to reestablish it, at least fa the present. Business continued veq dull. SPAIN. THE cm i LL IST MOVEMENT. t. • Spanish frontiers state The latest dates from A ..t• that the Carlists had made gr , • . pro in their gresa in Navarre, the town of Estella having ponon, The city of Patna is only second s- 1 importance to importance favour. Pamploona. I; 'I 4 .' 11 In the Basque Provinces the movem er . - crippled by the death of General Alzaa, who was shot on the 3rd inst., as was stated in part of our impres sion yesterday. Letters from Granollers of the 29th also say that on that morning General Boiguez arrived in that town with a strong body of troops from Barcelona, and that he had taken the route to Canovas. it was thought that this movement was in combination with two columns commanded by Brigadier Marzano and Colonel Janch, who were following the bands of Ca brera, Marsal; and the others; for a short time after wards a brisk fusillade was heard toward. Taganern. We have heard that when Gen. Boiguez arrived the two other columns had already put to flight the in eargents, who dispersed when they found themselves in presence of an imposing force. Navarre has been declared in a state of siege. Gen. Elio has issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of Navarre, and the Bisque provinces, which is in substance the same as that of Cabrera. It is stated on the an hority of a prson who has good means of information, that Queen Christina and Narraez have not been strangers to the defalcations which ha e been discovered in the Bank by the flight of Fagoaga. Christina, it appears, persists in her intention of going to Seville, contrary to the de cided opinion of Narvaez. ENTRANCE OF A RUSSIAN FORCE INTO MOLDAVIA. The Lcmberg Polish Gasette of the 29th ult. con tains the following :—" A despatch has just been received from the consular agent at Jassy to the following effect " : JASSY, JUNE 26.—1 n Wallachia, Prince Bibeeco, in com pliance with the wishes of his people, has ac2epted the con atitution, and has formed a committee of eight members.' The Iturian general, Dichamel, who left Bucharest for Reunsieh Leona, by the Pruth, has returned to Jassy, and ban communicated to the Turkish commissioners that a Itus‘ian army of 25,000 men, cavalry and infantry, had entered the Moldavian territory, and might be expected that evening at Jassy. A portion of the army . had remained in Moldavia to pr,,tect the government of Prince Stourdza, and the greater part of the army was e,ntinuing its route to Wallachia. Even before the first intelligence of these evce.ta in Wallachia had been received here, the Turkish commis sioners had despatched a courier to Constantinople, to give orders to the Turkish troops no cuter the principalities of the Danube. Tae above intelligence is confirmed by all the Ber lin journal& - gin Court. The Queea and Prince Albert visited the Zoological Gardens is the Rernoepark yesterday morning. Her Majesty and his Royal itighntas were accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Rqyal, and the Prince's Alice, and were attended by Major-Gen. Wemyu and Cul. the Hon. C. B. Phipps. Prince Albert went yesterday, attended by Col. Bouverie, to Messrs. Dickinson's, in New Bond-street, to view Mr. Foley's marble group of Ino and the Infant Bacchus. The Queen went in state yesterday evening to Drury lane Theatre, to honour the pertormance of Mr. Maereadv with her presence. The royal cortege left Buck ingham Palace at live mi-jutes before sev,n o'clock, and con. sisted of nine carriages. A party of the Life Guards formed the ercort from the palace to the theatre. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, honoured Drury lane Theatre with her presence last evening. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness tie Speth, and Lord J. Murray. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, and attended by Baroness Bose and Mr. Edmund Mildmay, honoured the performance of Mr . Macmarly, at Drury lane Theatre, yesterday evening, with her presence. . . The Queen Dowager arrived in town yesterday from Buoy house, Bushy-park, and WA:W(4 Drury-lane Theatre in the evening. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Kt.esetwtk, lett town yesterday morning to attend the agricultural meeting at York. A deputation of distiller', headed by Mr. Thomas Browning, and including Messrs. Seeger, Bishop, John R. F. Burnett, William Nieaolson, and George !Cramer, had an interview yesterday with IF a Chan.nor of the Exchequer. A deputation of Iris's distillers, consisting of Mr. 0 Bee, Mr. J. J. Murp; Y, Mr. Hewitt, and Mr. Jame'on, had an interview with is Chancea,r of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his °Octal rectimee in Downing-street. A numerous deputation with the University memo rial, consisting or Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., AI 1;:, Sir D. Brewster, F.R.S., Mr. Lyell, Mr. E. H. Sunbury, M.P., Rev. Professor Henslow, Rev. Professor B. Powell, Mr. Senior, Mr. T. J. Phillips, Mr. M. Thoeketayt, Mr. E. James, Mr. Robartes, M.P., Mr. H. E. Adair, M.P., lion. J. L. King, M.P., Mr. E. C. Tufacll, Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. C. Forteecue, H.P. J. Hibbert, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Mr. Mast,n, M.A., Clare-ball, Cambridge, E. Beaten M.A., Trir.ity College, Cambridge, J. Eilioteon, Jesus College, Cambridge, and R. Langslow, Jesus College, Cambridge, had an interview with Lord J. Russell, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation from St. George's, Hanover-square, chnsiiting of the Earl of liarewood, Earl Delawarr, and Sir James Weir Hogg, Dart., accompanied by Mr. Chappell (vestry clerk) had en interview with Sir George Grey yester diy, at the Home-office. A deputation, consisting of Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. Pilkington, M.P., Mr. Rawson (Liverpool), Mr. Potter (Manchester), and Mr. Peel (Manchester), had an interview with the Hight lion. 11. Latiouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. _ _ _ A deputation from the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway C)mpanies, consisting of Capt. Bateson, H I'., Sir It. Fer,eutton, Capt. Jones, M.P., Dr. J. Boyd, M.P., Mr. J. Clay, M.P., :kir. J. G. Frith, chairman of the company, Mr. W. H. Thomas, Mr. T. Tyrrell, and Mr. F. H. Hemming, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office trona the governor 4 of the North American colonies and also from the Governor of Gibraastr. THE RECENT DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM. On Wednesday last we published in common with our contemporaries the report of an inquest on a gentleman named Badger, who died while having chloroform udafnis tered to him by Mr. Robinson, dentist. As the inquest was held on the previous Saturday, and the report did not reach us till Tuts*lay night, the unusual delay became a subject of inquiry ; and we ascertained that although the patient died on Thursday summonse. were only issued on Friday night for the jury to assemble the next Aar, too short an interval for tha reporters who make it their busines% to attend inquests to dibcovrr that such a court was to be held ; consequently no reporter was present during the inquiry. Afterwards, however, an occasional reporter, an whom we have alerajs had reason to place confidence, obtained such information from various parties who were present as enabled him to draw up the account which we printed on Wednesday. On the even ing of that day we received the following letter from the party most interested, Mr. R)hinson : Fir,—Permit me t use the favour of your suspending your opinion upon this impo. tent ease until the pets detailed in evidence have been properly reported in the Lanett, instead an relying upon the garbled report turnuhed by your quondam Correspondent, who has not Orly rurundood you with wrong evidence, but a wrong verdict of the fury, which was, •• That the &soured died from dtscase of the heart and dyer."-1 remain, &c., J. itounnaim.-7, (lower-street We hate suspended our judgment, and having carefully compared the report is the La icet of Sionrday last, we find that that of the gentleman whom Mr. Robinson designates " our quondam corresponch nt" is, considering the disadvan tages under which he collected the facts, surprisingly owreet. Jim version of the verdict was "That the dtcea,ed died under the influence of chloroform, acting on a diseased hesat and ellarged liver." As stated in the Lancet it stands thus: Th 4 R alter Samuel Badger died from the mortal etre .ta produced by the inhalation of chloroform upon 0 heart cated.ively dia= and greatly ob.trw.ned la it, action by a liver much enlarged Its natural Inge. . _ _ The "mortal eff..cts" re - neleil by the jury were, we find by the Lancet's report, sworn to by two of the in..dical wit. memo who opened and examined the body after death. Yet sir. Robinson, in his letter to us, presumes to deny that the word " Chloroform" was introdu ced into the verdict at all. This disposes of the case as between ourselves, the reporter, and Mr. Robinson, and which, it will at twee ue wen, re , gen.leinsn. Into the medical part of the question we do not enter, but injustice add, that the coroner's opinion, as ex pressed in his charge to the jury, was opposed to that of the medical witnesses, and as it turned out to the verdict. He believed that the patient did not die from the mortal effects of chloroform. This matter, however, raises anotLer question—tme of Public importanc•, inasmr.ch at the partiks to it are the public press and Mr. Wakby, a• coroner. It is well known that before that gcbtlemares election to the all,* oue of Li strongtst pronsis s was that he woull throw open icqucat court. t, the public fn every posrPile way. It has happened on the contrary that since be has filled the office no cocoa r has managed to (:elude reporters more frequently- Either Le hu chosen to hold his court in the residence of the deceased, and hu excluded reporters on the plea of the sacredness of the private hearth ; or, as in the present in. shined, the court has been summoned too nastily earn for the vigilance—and that can hardly be exceeded—of the occasional reporters who make it their bus mess to report that class of proceedings. It is also well known that Kr. W &ley is proprietor of the Lancet. and the conduct of Mr. Wakley, as coroner in tke chloroform caie, viewed by the light shed over it by Mr. Robinson's letter, admits a suspicion—whit we trust is only a suspicion—that he is anxious to secure 'he exciusive c apy right of the most interesting inquest reports to himself, se proprietor of the Lancet. her passes° to Wool young man named Ireland, inl- INTRFPIDITY.—On Saturday evening, as the wich, a young woman who had bail in an evident state of —reat mental ispronton suddenly jumped or/O)mM. T►e I e• rz/dietely epraii nverboard with a er in his hand, and at , acting-man the has • rd of his life succeeded in um , ' her. She was taken on shore, and after havh,g soma rastoratives administered to her, was taken into enstedy. Has name is Elie ibeth Rich huss, and she resided in tha service of Mr. Airington, of Glare Farm, Kentish Mira. t'ormf t: ,N0111:2: was on IRELAND. Durtrig, JrLy 9. It is said that the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, has forwarded to the several deaneries of the diocese a pastoral address, earnestly exhorting the clergy to avoid all con nection with the clubs, and to exercise their in fluence in preventing their flocks from joining such A letter from Cavan states that Mr. Justice Cramp ton, shortly after entering the court-house yesterday, fell down in a fit. Medical attendance was imme diately procured, and after some time his lordship slowly recovered. The last account mentions that no danger is to De apprehended. It is rumoured that a special commission will be issued for the trial of the five state prisoner, now in Newgate, and that the two chief justices will preside. If this rumour be correct, it would be necessary to seed down two eerjeants-at-law or Queen's counsel to take the places of thoire judges en circuit. We yesterday announced the arrest of Messrs. O'Dogherty and Williams, registered as proprietors of the Tribune newspaper, who were placed at the bar of the College-street police-office, and eventually committed for trial. The whole proceeding took place without exciting the smallest interest, or col lecting any crowd; three or tour friends of the parties and a few reporters of the press only being present. Denis Hoban, the printer of the Tribune, was also committed. - There are some penny publications, such as the Irish National Guard and the Pcnny United Irishman, which inculcate' in It lees polished form the doctrines of Young Ireland, and these also the police have, during yesterday and this day, seized wherever they have been brought under their notice. It is contoured that a warrant is out for the arrest of Mr. Nleagher, for his club address. He was yes tertlay in Dublin, and is reported to have sailed in the evening fur Liverpool. There is to be a general meeting to-day of the metropolitan clubs, with a view of takiig counsel as to what course should be adopted at tho present crisis, and to concert mearurea, in pursuance of Mr. Dufty's recommendation, to extend the orgauisatien of the bodies with all possible despatch. The Cork Constitution, adverting to the formation of these repeal clubs, says: Many people look with uneasiness on the " clubs " now covering the country, and certainly no better plan for schooling the disaffected could b • devised. Treason eon he taught, and the traitors can be disciplined; and their h. arts h,c , ened by declamations on the duty of " dying for one's country," and their passions, inflamed by demoniac denuaciatious of all who refuse to join them, they may be wrought up to the pitch of diicontent and exasperation which wiil tit them Inc working out the designs of the skulking scoundrels who are urging them to an insurrection in which, like their Parisian prototypes, the aforesaid skulkers will not imperil their persons by taking au active part. There never was a more deplorable delusion than that under which the penp'e 1 ibuur with respect to these boastful " leaders." Fellows who have failed at everything else (for they are mostly barristers to whom no one would give a brief, or an old doctor whose vision is seldom gladdened br a fee) are supposed capable of conducting a mesa ia which almost every roan of loyalty, of honesty, and of property will take the held against them In no other country could these pretenders obtain an audience to listen to them, and by no other government would they be permitted to drug the populace with sedition. Ft EU PARTICULARS OP MR. DCITT'II ARREST.—The public pave been taken by surprise to-day by the arrest of Mr. Duffy. The seizure was quite neexpected, and came On Mr. Duffy with a shock which is reported to have b en very visible on his countenance. The sale of the Nation, in eon etquence of the suppression of the Felon, was very exten sive yesterday. Mr. Duffy had remained to a let hoar in the office, calculating the profits of the day, and withdrew about seven o'clock in a covered ear. Some accounts state that he was arrested quite cLeso to the Nation office—others, and with more cer tainty, as he was entering tee gate leading to hie house in Rathinines. The carman who conveyed !dr. Duffy espied a familiar face walking up to the gateway and turning to Mr. Duffy, asked, " Did you ever ace a blirody detectise ?`" Whereupon Mr. Duty, with glass in eye, looked out, and het re he had time to withdraw was kindly asked by the owner of the white hat whether his name was Duffy. "Yes, Charles Wean Duffy." "The identical person I sought," was the reply, " and here is the warrant for your arrest." Two other Wile/xi immediately appeared, aid all returned to Dublin. It wee now about halt-past eight o'clock. Mr. Tyndal, the police magistrate, was sitting in Culleiremtreet office, awaiting their arrival. Mr. Duffy was soon informed of the offence with which he stood charged. He was asked whether he had read the warrant. Ile replied affirmatively, but could not understand the specific ollence. Mr. Williams then read the informwiun sworn by Sergeants Havikesley and Reilly of the Four articles in yesterday's Notion wet. described in the in termation u constituting each a felonious charge. lit "Easy Lessons in Military Tactic:, by a Veteran " 2nd. " Our Practiced Instructors." 3rd. " Mr. Meagher's Address to the Cubs." And 4th, a brief comment by the editor on Mr. Meagher's address. The magistrate then wheel whether Mr. Duffy desired to be further informed, end the latter seeking nothing more at the kends of Mr. Tyn del, he was forthwith committed to Newpte. There is a large number of paeans in the vicinity of the prison discuming the event. One I heard observe, in reply to a question whether they, meaning Mr. Martin and Mr. Duffy, might not yet coin. out—" By my sowl, they'll never come out, except in the black van that carried Mitchel." The confederate spirit is fearfully damped, at the probable fate of their great organiser and chief. There is sumo doubt whether the clubs will be suffered to meet to-morrow night. In reference to the seizure of property made at the Notion office, it might be relit° state that tic printing materials w ere not touched, the seizure bring strictly corbeled to the papers documents, correspondence, dm. Mond iu the office in D'Olier-atreet. The urinting-jffice in Abbey.stre et, about MO yards from D'Ulier-street, was not vi,ited by the police. Application was made by 101 attorney on behalf of Mr. Duffy for such parts of the seizure as did nut consist of written documents, but the applicatien was refused. Will the Nation be published any more is a question which is now asked very generally. If not by epecial commission, Meson. Duffy, Martin, and Reilly will be tried at the August commission, just one month herce. Chief Justice Biackburne, who doe, not go circuit, will probably be one of the High Commissionere. ASPER t OF THE PROPILIETORS OP THIS " THIPPNE."— Kevin hod O'Dokeerty and Richard Dalton Williams, re gistered proprietors of the Irish Tribune newspaper, were brought before Mr. Tyndal, at the College-street Police office, en a charge of felony, under the new act, for publieh ing certain arecles of a tree onable nature. Mr. Tyndal, informed them that informations had been sworn against them by John Hawke sby mad Martin Reilly, polieweoest abk a, charging them with felony, and then read the pars of the iiiffirmwion in which the articles are specified ; the first being an article in the publication of the 24th of June, enumencing with the words " Our harvest proven'," and terminating with the words " must perish." The second article charged in the information was helm the same publication, com mencing w nit the words " Fire and fire," and siding with the word " courage." The third article was from the pub lication of the lit of July, commencing wit's the words "Our war department," and ending with the words" We shall return to the subject ;" and the fourth article was from the same publication, cmnmeneism with the words, " Insurrection in Feria •" the tendeney thee" articles being, continued Mr. Tyndal, to depose and deprive our most gracious lady the quera from the siyle, Lemur, and royal name of the crown of thAt part of the united kingdom called Ireland. Gentlemen, haye you any thing ti say ? Mr. Williams : I have nothing to say. his is neither the time nor the place to make aey remarks. I wish merely to say that it is not easiest the qwen, hut &mimic the tyranny and humbug enacted io her name that lee have combated. Mr. O'Doherty : I beg to express my gratitude to yeur worship for comiug here thin day to hear our case. A committal was then made out, and the pri soners were conveyed to Newgate. PliOP INCIAL. I,Nctsuuts. !Fir - r.— .::.c out OF BARTON, IRLAX, AND BitiOINISON'iI BANIKRTPTCY.— The attention of Mr. commiss:oner Perry was es ' , Adv. at Liverpool, occupied fur awa rds of five hours is bearing moments relative to the adjudication of the Lord Chancel lor m *Lowing a fit in krup:cy to issua i.4.disat Mr. Herres Barrow liigginson. The ke , itioning creditor in the matter was Mr. Shand, the public tarter of the Royal Bank, and the debt sail to be owing, namely 113.0004, was in curred upon guarantees of indemnity to the Ros al Bank for moneys advanced by that establishoi.nt to the h use of Barton, Liam, and Ili.gioson.—:%lr. Deane, solicitor, ap peared on banal: of Mr. slid .P.cr citing from various acts of parliament and books or law, contended, at great length, that the precTrdirgs in the ease rendered the Hat a nullity.—Mr. Lowades, solicitor, addressed the cc Oct on the other side, read a e..py from a short-hand writer's notes of the remarks of the Lord Chancellor in adju dicating, and contended that the Bat ought to stand. — The learned commissioner said the arguments ad vanced by the gentlemen on the respective aides of the question should Lave his delib..rate con ' siderstion, and he should deter givieg judgment