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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1851. lected to the paid.; any more votes at that hour, the house resumed, and the thai man reported progress. The house went into committee on a resolution on the Merchant Seamen's Fund Deficiency, which was agreed to. The Unlawful Oahe (Ireland) Rill went through com mittee, and was reported to the house. The Turnpike Roads (Ireland) Bill ; the Private Lunatics' Asylum (Irebuul) Bsli ; and the Turnpike Acts Continu ance Bills severally passed through committee. The Woods and Forests Bill was considered, as amended. The Marriages (India) Bill passed through committee. The Ecclesiastical Residences (Ireland) Bill, as amended, was considered, as was also the Churches and Chapels (Ire land) Bill. On the motion of Mr. Srarroun it was agreed to pre sent an address fur copy of warrant under her Majesty's dim manual, authorising the commissioners for the Exhi bstion of 1851 to enter upon a piece of ground in Hyde Park, and to erect buildings thereupon for purposes of the Exhibition: and of deed of covenant from the Com missioners for the exhibition of 1851 to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, to observe and perform certain terms and conditions mentioned in the said warrant, and to reinstate and yield up the site granted for the purposes of snch Exhibition. On the motion of Lord StYKOVII, leave was given to bring in the following bills :—Bill to amend the art for resting the construction and the use of buildings in the metropolis and its neighbourhood. The house adjourned at 1 o'clock. aid and assistance in points of ecclesiastical detail, in doctrinal pursuits, the sovereign will give convo cation power to frame canons. But when the head of the church does not wish for, or require such assis tance in governing the subordinate ecclesiastical cor poration of the country, the church has no just ground of complaint against the sovereign for not resorting to what, in the opinion of the crown, is not necessary. That, we take it, is the true constitutional relation between the crown and convocation ; and the analogy of the Romiah church fully supports it : for in it councils do not as semble of their own mere motion, and cannot delibe rate except on subjects referred to them. The church being an inferior body, can have no parliament of its own; otherwise we might be subjected to the pre tensions, if not of conflicting allegiance, of divided authority. It is a mistake, therefore, to suppose that the sovereign of this country, in silencing convoca tion, acts unconstitutionally or arbitrarily ; on the contrary, to silence convocation when it is not de ' sirable it should speak, is to act in the best spirit of the British constitution, and on the only theory on which the church is, in this country, an endurable institution. perhaps, Is. Bd. a week for their children, would net reject ,Of rallneedens Mae, hear.) He had been mtimithal to such an opportunity. At the same time, he thought the ; hese the bras osniismasa say that these pens= would ass , evil might be greatly mitigated by the establibmsat of bo abmobsd by Om moms of oespeoymat, fur la theses. night schools, where boys_ above 12 years of sips adght l ,bs mad Irma =sa of the - malt of mud sad in attend ; ato o trilsortwishimum at man libraries la tbs. , tailisstral Ho soposand Hat las , tor one, schools, w their habit at smolil=lrzt; I, looks& Ida as slam viva say sumaat at Cbeistioa educe- (Hear, hear.) grant unprissil a 1 , tins, he abaravor seisms ams Hem this beads of any which was rpm Iso ths tarpon art tads.. somten. ' puma la they of the areummat sr ask ho Mt orated The school at Nether Hal bed w it a esaiimable ma; a 1 that las pseple of Ids would an omisest very able graft less pima over it ; the andsr soder train- to bays say system of salasalisa that Aug at pressed was ad large, but there was essay remiss to was not bawd upon rdillials- lawss ul a Au b ill ' . 11161111111111 'believe it would morsear. They could not do too musk lad expromod the bops that so of the groat ea bad either as menden of that house, or es individuals, to ins. Wham Miss given he meal bosses would beneeteethilm! prove the training and to honour the situation of the edissi. rootilstoiL lie dooms& sash a coarse to be most 'unfair and master. (Hear, Dear.) No class of men was mar maluot sa scowest of that circumstance which wall err ploys,' more usefully to the whole country ; and It stesagly asthma by the noble lord when he observed EMI was sometimes exceedingly painful to see what mall diadem Is this poor station of life were obliged is be tam I stipends were received by men qualified to tome oat 'Claud at so early an age that they could not receive sciences of various kinds, and to go through the palatal oduestio* of high qualit7. It was known that that oblige, work of education in its most important branches. (Hear, tire arose from the necessities of the parents; for when hear.) There were several votes with respect to the same imenwere only earning 7s. or 81. a week, eves the Rats or similar subjects. The second was for education in Ire- their children could earn was something tw'ee't the land. lie wished not to enter into any disputed (mem aggregate support of the whole family. Under time dr. tions, but would only state that the education given at the euntatances, it was certainly not te be expected that a very training school at Dublin was of a very superior character. high quality of education could le obtained by these poor 'Whenever he had been there, he had been much struck children ; but money was not grudged le give another with the quickness of the pupils, and the correctness of tion of the community as high MI isimenhan MI weld be memory which they exhibited. The small sums given to afforded, and the whole of this port oldie pasts = agricultural schools there were of very great use. That for the education of persons who would not be vote was proposed to be increased ; it exceeded by 14,0001. for teachers in poor and remote rural districts, beene they the same vote of 1349, and by %OWL that of last year. The could not afford to pay them. From t hat p art of use yea next was fur schools of design. The head school in London they would derive little benefit, sod he, therefore, tbeellbt had 460 pupils ; the branch schools connected with it con- it was unfair and unjust that the other part of the peat tamed no less than 3,000 pupils. A good deal of progress should be curtailed, which was the only amt s had been made, and there was now a great desire to obtain the rural districts were able to enjoy. (Hear, bmw.) the instructiou of this school. It was proposed that the If the house wished to increase education, they men weft, prises of the school of design should also be distributed to neglect the rural districts, and in the annual accounts they the schools in the couutry, and that they should be ought to show bow the actual sum expended during be, enabled to teach drawing in those schools. A sum of preceding year had been disbursed. Ile wished every . nearly the same amount was proposed f propos or the Uni- facility to be given to the education of every religious dee ' virility of London; and 15 as ,000 i. wed for the nomination. Museum of Economic Geology. This institution had been Mr. W. J. FOX explained—lie had not entertained say lately opened, and it was one of great practical use. (Hear, apprehensions with reference to masters who had boss hair.) All who had visited it must have been pleased with high' y trained in a moral and intellectual manner, but le what they had seen there of the productions of this country, feared that the menial wages paid to such men would eme and with the arrangement of the specimens; he believed it their tempers, and disappoint their hopes. lie had heard would prove highly useful. As to the results of our mining the noble lord's s t atement with the highest satisfaction, bull operations, he could nut but think that to bring science to he had not interpreted it as holding out any promise that a bear on them would prove highly beneficial. The next system of secular education would be established by goserfro vote was to aid in diffusing the means of interpreting mewl- ment in the country. (Hear, hear.) 1 form inacriptione—a matter of very great importance. The After a few worsts from Mr. Rice, parties engaged iu this weak were unable to go on with Mr. GLADSTONE expressed his general concurrence their publication and complete it without the aid of parlim in the views expressed by the hon. member for Oxford ment ;he had assured them that the house might be relied (Mr. Henley). Ile heartily rejoiced to know that the on to vote the moderate nine that was required fur so into - question of English education had ever been happily die resting an object. 'There was soother small sum for the cussed in that house in a spirit of calmness, and with an College of Surgeon.. The whole amount to be voted this intention of mitigating the difficulties which surrounded year in them estimates was 431,9201., and, including another the case. (Hear.) Ile would just allude to the unhappy _ stem, the total might be reckoned about 450,000/. Ile be- divisions which existed upon a certain point with the corn lieved there was no part of the votes which came before mince of council upon education. Looking at the matter To revive convocation, as Lord REDEADALE pro the house of greater utility to the public, and be was in a practical point of view, if it were true that one-seventh ~.„ would be the deadliest boon ever bestowed on sure the house would be disposed to concur in the votes or one-sixth of the school applications which hail been made now proposed. (Hear, hear.) It was gratifying to observe to the Committee of l'rivy Council were excluaed because the . c hurch of England . ; for it . would render the how much this vote had been increased within the l a st of their adherence to MS condition, then, although he position of the church incompatible with its subor- twenty years. The vote of 20,0001. in 1533 had now got up might regret that adherence, stilthe must equally regret tion to the state, on which its stability as an to hlO, years. and the whole estimate had increased in ucarly the adherence of the committee to their particular views. establishment or a corporation depends ; it would as great a proportion. (Hear.) At any rate he must express his sanguine hope that, render it injurious to the peace and tranquillity of Mr. W. J. FOX said the plan of training teachers was if there existed so serious a limitation to this necessary one marked by much wisdom. The object of the committee work arising out of a cause so slight, the wisdom and con- means of Ns uc Daly it can the country, by 1 h usefully appeared to be rather to improve the quality than increase dilatory temper of the government would discover the pursue its great ends; it would make it hurtful to the quantity of education—a most desirable object ; for the means for remedying and removing so serious an evil prior the interests of true religion, by substituting the quantity ot education in this country was out of all proper_ to the next session. (Hear, hear.) He would now take polemics of Christianity for the propagation of the Lon to the quality. It had been supposed that this system the liberty of referring to a particular rumour—a rumour great scheme of human redemption. And, in the might in progress of time become a substitute fur a national injurious to the character of the committee—which had system ; but as it was now evident that voluntary effort obt ained currenc y at the annual meeting of the National Presc nee of a change SO great in the position of a could not accomplish this, he thought some altcratiou would Society ; and he made it known there, in order that c hurch and in the repose of the country, it would be necessary in the distribution of the grant. lie would if there was no foundation for it, a contradiction become the duty of the state to abate, as an ecclesi suggest that the 55,0001. granted for school buildiags should might be given at once, or such an explanation as might astical nuisance, that great organisation, the founda be decreased. There was already school-room for more completely alter its character. It was said that in lions of which our forefathers dug for so deeply, and than twice the pupils who attended,—• result of the case of a particular school its founders proposed th . e structure of which they raised so comprehen the system of rivalry amongst the different sects. to provide by their deed that the schoolmaster and school- In 181'J there were ffil schools, in which stipends mistress should be communicants of the established church, efvely. were allotted to teachers, and they were nimble of and that, because such a proposal had been given, the Lord REDESDALE is not then a sagacious politician accommodating 133,000 pupils,but only 76,000 attended. founders were excluded from any participation in the or a good friend of the church; "he loves not wisely In the ten years from 1540 to 1850 there had been 2,606 grant (Hear.) lie believed the rumour must be sub- but too well," when he seeks to have all the raging schools assisted with building ground, at a cost of 454,4101. stantially groundless, but still it was deserving of ex and stormy winds of theological strife, of (edemas- The capacity of these imbecile was sufficient to the accom- Planation. .0 modatiou of 549,493, whilst the average attendance was Mr. SLANEY said that whilst he respected the views 'of tical theories, and of sacerdotal pretensions, that now loti,taiu children. That great overbuilding showed that, at the right hon. gentleman in respect to the matters in con- find comparative safety in the unlicensed freedom least in that department, the liberality of the committee troversy between the National Society and the Committee and irresponsible area of the universal sky, pent up should be checked, and means taken to till the schools. of Council, he entertained different ones himself on the in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey. (Hear, hear.) in his opinion there was also too much ex- point. The great difficulty in regard to education appeared As . with the roof of that venerable and glorious elusiveness in the bestowal of these educational votes. to him to be how to give the rural classes instruction. Ile There was growing up in Loudon a class of schools highly approved of the school system adopted by Mr. fabric, RO. with the church generally ; it would be called Petular—for the reason that they did not impart Dawes in the West of England. rent and burst and torn to - bits by the fury of the religious instruction of any kind, leaving that to the clergy Mr. CAREW suggested that the inspectors should be conflicting elements. "In quietness and in con of Use various persuasions—and the success of these schools permitted to recommend deserving pupils for situations in fidenco shall be her strength for ever." had been very remarkable. They were so popular that the dockyards, as a means of stimulating education. There is, however, a captivating sound about , they were self-supporting, and the description of education Lord J. RUSSELL said he wished to make a few remarks was far superior to that which was to be found in many in courquence of the observations of the hon. member the word convocation, irresistible to the young, of the schools under grant. Ile could not see why sue for Oxford. The hon. member for Oldham having and eager, and determined priesthood of England. schools should not receive further aid, with a view to raise expressed a hope that he had not given up all intention of All of its associations are apparently of freedom, of their standard of education still higher, as the noble lord a national system of education, ho (Lord J. Russell) re- the exercise of independent thought, of the unro lled admitted that quality in education was preferable to plied that he was far from giving up all hope of seeing such strained use of the limbs, as it were, of the great CO. quantity. (flesa, hear.) Another class of schools which a system carried out. But in what fell from him he said clesiastical institution, untrammelled by the mate.- was shut out from the grant—though by reason n othing which should lead the hon. member for Oxford • • e _i B thin of their own exclusiveness—was that class exclu- to the conclusion that he would adopt the peculiar system thous of etatutes or the decisions et royalty. R ut tam sively religious ; though Ito did not see why they Proposed by the hon. member for Oldham. (Hear, hear.) tie delusion with some ; an illusion with others. Mould not participate ES the liberality of the donation. B e stated on a former occasion that he objected to that Such an opinion, such a picture, such a phantasms, Again, there were the ragged schools, in which no objec- system, and he now repeated that he entirely differed from goria is not, and cannot be, a correct appreciation of 1 non of conscience prevailed, and to the inmates of which it. (Hear, hear.) His own opinion was that there in the state stood in SW) p a r e ntis. These schools should be were two essential requisitesion any plan for a natal the church of England. For it has no e lainis or pre the aided because they aimed at mitigating and eradicating system of education that might be proposed to the house. tensions, or rights like these ; it is, or it ought to be, a ' some of the worm evils in society. (Hear, hear.) In Lan- The first was, that instructive instruction should be as- modest, obedient, humble, and subordinate establish eashire and Cheshire the mechanic.' institutes had pro- perste from religious instruction—(hear, hear)—and the ment, aiming only at utility over and success with greased most rapidly, and the effect was quite visible in the other was, that no child should be compelled to attend to a individuals ; having no ambitious designs of rivalling educational statistics of the country. Tnese schools should religious instruction to which his parents objected. (Hear, also be waisted. Lastly, there were the schools of the Jews h ear .) the state in authorit d y of exercislit power over con- Both these conditions were necessary, in his • in London, where the children were taught not only En- opinion, to any system of national education, and the great science,. of deciding ogniaticauy a u con- Bah literature, but also to read their owe language ; yet they di ffi culty was to reconcile the two. (Hear, hear.) The hon. troversies, and of narrowing down all opinions into were not eligible to these donations, though they applied, but gentleman was followed by the right hon. gentleman the one compressed and formal shape. The theory and wererefuseeL Nowia Ms °pinkie there wmnot aproper reason member for the University of Oxford, who made some re- actual position of the church in England has always assigned fur refusing donations to any of these schools. He marks with regard to the national society and the been a corporation created by and inferior and sub hoped the present stele of thing, was merely provisional t committee of council. Now, the committee of edu and that it would finally result in an extended system of us- baton carried on all the correspondence with the ord' t the •and h tie ma cto state ; such are ie relations tonal education. (Hear, hear.) national society, with a view, if possible, of coming now existing between the protestant church of Lord J. RUSSELL beg to say that I look forward to to an agreement on all the points of difference between England and the English crown. As the lord mayor, the establishment of a system of national education— them. Now, with regard to one of these points, it was all aldermen, and burgesses of London, are by charter (cheers) —and I think what we are doing at present tends along insisted on by the committee of council that there in that direction. (Hear, hear.) should be lay members in the committee of management ; a corporation under the crown for municipal pur- Mr. ENYAItT thanked the noble lord for that assurance ; but it was conceded to the National Society that they should churchof England is ' poses, so t he and he trusted to see before long the education of the maims be members of the church of England. One point re- Prescription under the crown for ecclesiastical and placed in its proper position. Heretofore they had their maimed with regard to secular educution. The committee spiritual purposes; and the former might just as army and navy reports and estimates; but he trusted they of council were not prepared to concede that a secular cdu- reasonably and just as loyally claim the exercise of were now arrived at a period when educational reports and cation should be placed entirely at the disposal and under the coequal powers and authority with the crown in the estimates would take their proper position. (Hear, hear) direction of clerical persons only, and that where the clergy- Mr. W. MILES thought that Christianity and the Bible man differed from all the lay member', and an appeal to the c Ys as it • • the latter aim at ' d d t • 'this Mr. in epen en action in should be the foundation of any system of education that bishop was supported by him, that decision should not country generally. might be established. Mere mundane education was not govern the conduct of the school. (Hear, hear.) That From the earliest to the present times, the go sufficient, as the hon. member for Oldham supposed, was thought to be an unreasonable demand, and a condi- vcrnment of the church, whether Roman or pro to enable youth on entering t he world to contend lion that would be likely to lead to injurious consequences successfully against the evil principles of society. (Heat.) if adopted. He would not say what others might have felt . tortoni in 1 li' in this oe sne, country, the power of Ile lamented, as much as any man, that the children of the at that, but he would not deny that he himself entertained controlling decisions in ecclesiastical causes, of pro working classes could not be brought to attend school above a jealousy of the too great increase of clerical power, who- nouncing upon such causes through persons sueh as the age of 12 years. The poverty of tbo parents which ther in the established church or in the members it might think fit to employ, and of setting aside rendered the earnings of these poor children of, perhaps, of any other church—(cheers) —and for that reason, when it deemed proper the decision of its own asses as. or 4s. a-week, necessary to the support of the family, amongst others, he for one felt an objection could only he deplored.d advisers , has been to that course. Ile could not believe that the effect of that core an . n of England And this is not a prei Mr. HUME was sorr ythatthehmamemberkedinterfered decision of the committee of council was to alienate the the cross . ogit with the v ery harmonious discussion that bad Went:Judea. clergy of the Established church generally, or to deprive the tire that was seized on by the rude grasp of rai l( the hon. gentleman hail considered more, would sehciels in connexion with the National Society from the trary power, or has been wielded for tyrannical have addressed himself to the subject with more calomel benefit of the grant, for on looking to the proportion of the en ; as it is based on the widest views of human and coolness. What would he do in Hindostan with his gust applied fur, he found that the church of England, • notions of education ? (Oh.) Yes, education was carried and, as connected with it, the Natioaal Society, had nearle P° Ti he and lies been exercised for the best in on C he r there without the addition which the hon. gentleman 79 per cent. of the whole sum, that the British and Foreign Wrests of human society. For, without such required. Ile (Mr. IL) approved of the increase of expert- s c hools had had 9 per cent., the Wesleyan schools 11 per security for the obedience and subordination dilute in this vote provided it was properly applied, and he cent., and the Roman catholies less than 4 per cent. ahel of the ecclesiastical power, we should liars thought that during the last few mouths great improve- schools connected with the church of England had there- two rival and conflicting elements and principles and Inuits had taken place in the application of the money. fore by far the largest portion of the grant. (Meer, hear.) institutions Nothing had pleased him MOM than the emulation which l lt was proposed indeed at a meeting that the National ofgovernment; the unity ofthe state the system had produced. He had seen schools in which a Society should break off all connexion with the committee would be destroyed, the regality of the crown miraculous change, he might almost say, had takers ,of council; but that proposition was rejected by the good' would be limited , and the spirit of the laity would place. Great effect had been produced upon the pa- I setae of the meeting. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentle- be obnoxious to the control of the spirituality. It is rents. He had known a w heal of a village in which . man put a question with respect to a particular rule, which only by such a progression of an established church none of the parents of the children going to ' said that the muter* and mistresses should be members of from and i can be ke t in ts out of the state that an ecc lesiastical place in any esiastical este the school could read or write. But emulation had . the church of England. (Several Members—" Communi greatly extended, and was even reaching into poor villages ' mien.") The terms of union, as laid down in the fourth blishment pproper where them were no wealthy residents to advance money clause, was that the masters and mistresses should be country. Without it the alternative is the essential for education. A large number of villages in this country members of the church of England ; and the president of principles of popery, or the substitution of volun were without the means of procuring those schools to which the council said, in reply to the communication made to tm ,, s • m. these grants were made, but unless there was a school in him, that they had already the terms which the National •/ --' . . every Tatar, the population could not be brought up cm- Society laid down before them, and that it wes better to These principles are the sheet-anchor of the church ditably. la some places there were more schools than , keep to those terms which the National Society itself laid lof England. But they are exactly what Lord REDE4. were necessary, but he hoped that eventually all classes ; down. There was no objection to the particular term that DALE and his friends contest and deny. They claim would unite in that harmony which he remembered used I they should be "communicants," except that it was not i for the church a separate, an anterior, or an inde to exist. The govemmeat must determine that no Indivi- 'in the terms of union which the National Society itself 1 1HIS DAY. dual should be employed in the public service agreed to. ( Hear , hear.) li in terms) exist pendent (for they are s ppery . their unless ho could read and write. If that were Mr. HENLEY said that if that were the only cause, it , enee. They regard it as an institution which did OLD COURT. made a ru le, he believed it would excite a desire , was strange that the committee of council didnot follow ihe I exist, which would continue to exist, distinct from in the people to see their children educated, and it ought i National Society altogether. I the state, even if the connexion were terminated; , . 19 Ihroas vas RN:COMAS. to be a rule in every department, from the labourers in the I Mr. GLADSTONE expressed a hope, that if the ease .was indicted for feloniously dockyards. He hoped the noble lord would be able to , stood as he understood it from the esplanation of the noble ' thy hold it to have rights, pretensions, authority, set zirvii P t. labia , ti enn t ' nx dwelling- boars of Charles Wood, with unite all parties in an attempt to provide every man with , lord, the committee of council would reconsider their de- an chi over conscience and doctrines which the latent 7 . hi m. nt to injure n act of instruction that would be useful to him. Education was cision, and on this ground, that the noble lord had entirely state can only limit or interfere wee.. clothed lib h Mr. Gi rd Prosecuted ; Mr. T. Spicer was counsel for everywhere wanted. Juries, for example, were wanted ! misconceived the sense of the terms of union with the tyranny and they look on e re we ast e_prisoner. _ _ have b een . even in the villages, and he had seen in them with much ° National Society—(hear, hear)—the meaning of which was, l in sacerdotal functions immediate) y denved, through The facts of this ease have been recently given in sorrow instances of ten out of twelve jurymen not being that they would have nothing to do with the grant, nuked . and the police reports . It appeared that the rosecutor b •of ' pacv from what has 3 means gases) , able to read or write• the masters and mistresses were communicants of the Church , been null was a printer, residing at rents) e, and at the sir J. TYRELL asked the noble lord to e x plain upon of E ng l an d. (H ear , hear.)- Ti . these merely I termed the apostolate. .or arc 7 time of the occurrence the prisoner hail been in his sea sir what principle it was that so small a sum as 150,0001. was In reply to Mr. Mites, I speculative views, the beau ideal of a church vice about six weeks ; and a few days before, her master granted for the purposes of educatien in Great Britain, the Lord J. RUSSELL said that he was not present when , indulged in by Oxford dreamers, an iyuis pilaus poi- had complained of her permitting her brother to come into population of which was 20 million', and so large a e re he the committee of council had come to the decision in the I sued by weak women and silly men. They are to a the house while the family were absent, and had insisted 134,5604. was granted for education in Ireland, where the , particular case referred to, but at the next meeting of Privy i an ineren ,,i n ,. that she should not do so again, and the prisoner appeared , large portion, to, it is to be feared, population was only six millions and a half ; and when it Counci l he would inquire into the facts. (Hear.). very angry at what he said. The fi re in question took was known that not above half of that population availed The vote was then agreed to. I number of the clergy, great and living , truths; for place on the evening of the 29th June, and it appeared all their l r i on o f so offered. It would be worth On the vote of 134,360/. for national education in Ireland, ; the attainment of which here in practice that the prosecutor and his wife had gone out to the e ves o e the co aeration of the noble lord whether he could not Sir L. O'Botsx and Mr. PLVMPTHS complained that the j powers are exerted, all their faculties arc bent, all church, and a lodger had also gone out, and the house was apportion the grant to the number of persons who were to best clergymen in Ireland were passed over because the,' ' their zeal is roused and devoted; and in this cause left in the charge of the prisoner. Very soon after the pri receive education. were not supporters of the national system of education. they are bomb-groof against reason and logic. Of ware had been left, the house was discovered to be fire, on Mr. HENLEY said that the noble lord had that night, Mr. HAMILTON said he would bring that subject for- a . s _ ..,_ . a • • for and • person named Lloyd knocked at the door and no an for the first time, announced that he now hoped to esta - want as an independent question. this party, LO itaDgeDALE is a ninutu-pleee , it ewer being returned, he got in at the window, and on blish a system of national education. That had a ce- The vote was then agreed to. I convocation in a cry. Convocation is not, however, proceeding up stairs he found that the front attic was tainly followed upon a rather extraordinary state- The following votes were also agreed to : I all they want ;it Is only the shadow of what they on fire. He obtained some water, and succeeded in extin meat by the hon. member for Oldham ; because 15,0851. for the School of Design. aim at. guishing this fire, and it was soon afterwards discovered that hon. gentleman had said he felt great alp -2,0001. for the Salaries and Allowances of Certain Pro- that another portion of the house we, on fire ; but, by Convocation is a constitutional word, and conveys prehension' concerning the number of pupil teachers tessera in Cambridge and Oxford. the assisiance of the firemen and police, this was also ex who were likely to be turned out highly educated persons, 2,9'201. for the Lniversity of London. i an institutional idea ; but, like all such language and tinguished, but it appeared that property to the value of and who were not likely to be absorbed in the existing 7,610/. for Scotch Universities. thoughts, it may be very much misused and abused. 801. was destroyed. The eskience against the prisoner ! means of employment. The hon. gentleman said he looked 300/. for the Royal Irish Academy. being the only •r- In theory the church has a convocation; but in law Principally consisted of the fact of her ix forward with much apprehension at the prospect of such • 3001. for the Royal Hiberniao School. this convocation can speak only when the head of son in the house that she had given no alarm, and that she number of highly educated persons being without adequate 8,20 61 . for the Royal Dublin Society. t extinguishthe 6 d also rendered no asentance to re • an employment. Abet hearing that, and afterwards the state- 2,0001. for the Belfast Seminarts that church authorises it to speak under the broad statements of a suspicious character that were made by her Waal of the noble lord, that he was about to introduce says- 1,6201. for the Queen's University in Ireland. seal of England. It is an institution that may be re- to the polies constable on the night of the tire. tea of national education, the house ought to hear upon 1,7001. for the National Gallery. sorted to by I. l le sovereign ; but it is not, and never Mr. Spicer , on behalf of the prisoner, urged that the ovi what foundation of principle those persons thus turned 15,8231. for tho Geological Survey of Great Britain and was, ono that must be used by them in deuce at met made out a case of suspicion, and that the pon the country were to be guarded so as to be safe memben Ireland. matters and things ecclesiastical. It is a per- prisoner was entatled to an acquittal. of u society. For his own part he (Mr. lien- 2,421/. for the Magnetic Observatories abroad. The Recorder having summed up, the jury returned • ley) could not regard with alarm, provided a 10,01:101. for the National Gallery in Edinburgh. missive not an inevitable or compulsory council. i verdict of Guilty. proper religious foundatioa were laid, any amount Mr. W. WILLIAM and Mr. BitOrnaatex having oh- When ihe eovereign, as head of the church, wants its t She was sentenced to be transported for seven years. PAIRS—.On Lord bane's Spirit Bill, Mr. Baldock for, with Colonel Anson against. Mr. Peto paired with Mr. Alderman Thompson on Lord Naas's motion. Sir H. It. Davie paired in favour of Mr. H. Berkeley's motion for the Ballot, with Sir W. Codrington against; Mr. Alderman Humphery for, with Mr. H. Wynn against on Mr. Mr. Berkeley's motion fur the Ballot. For, to what end is it now sought to revive con- vocation ? No one can doubt that it is to narrow ' and restrict the comprehension of the church of England, to limit and confine its terms of com munion, to drive out of its pale all who will not bow the knee to the Baal of saeramentalism and sneer dotalism. But, such being the designs of the convo cationalists, with what decency can they ask the sove reign to assist them therein ? On Wednesday Queen VICTORIA assured her faithful Commons of her royal desire to increase the church accommodation of the country; three days after she is to be addressed to close the doors of the church on one-half its members at least. How can a church last thus driven from pillar to post ? Last year we had the Bishop of LONDON attempt ing to establish a Church Court. This year we have Lord REDESDALti endeavouring to bestow a voice on convocation. And all because the QUEEN, as head of the church, has sanctioned its great principle of comprehension, one of its chiefest glories. In deliver ing the opinion of the judicial committee on the Gorham case, Lord LANGDALE used these remark able words: This court, constituted for the purpose of advising her Majesty In matters which come within its competency, has no authority or jurisdiction to settle questions of faith, or to determine what ought in any particular to be the doctrine of the church of England ; its duty extends only to the con sideration of that which is by law established to be the doe that of the church of England upon the true and legal construction of her articles and formularies. It appears that opinions which we cannot, in any essential particular, dis tinguish from those entertained by Mr. Gorham, have been propounded and maintained without censure or reproach by many eminent and illustrious prelates and divines who have adorned the church from the tune when the articles were first established. The mere fact that such opinions have been pro pounded and maintained by persons so eminent and re spected, as well as by very many others, appears to us suffi ciently to prove th►t the liberty which was left by the ar ticles and formularies has been actually enjoyed and exercised by the members and ministers of the church of England. And that liberty it is which it is now attempted, by means of church courts, diocesan synods, and convocations, to overthrow and obliterate. Its over throw would bring down retributive justice on the church; for without such liberty it could not last twelve months in this country. gilt erpreoo. TO CORRESPONDINTS. Ilemfbfl Raba of "TM Express." malthatt. be seim emblaes 0 Quetta," fa pabMbed every Toads, sid Friday alibi, la Um, for pt bamf medium !numbed for " TM Ewan," Mass Evezias paper, meet be a lbb Ma, to, BOUTlWllt•litrit. by Two o'clock es tie My of mbliostim HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two Dav —Maniac lb. be Atteraitoe, lb. Ma. 71)-xibuow—Mora(. lb. Om .Aflefebs. 11. Mk LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 12. ON Wednesday last, a sullen and sottish brute, named WILLIAM BAILEY, was placed at the bar of the Worship-street Police-court, accused of an unmanly outrage upon a respectable-looking woman, who has the misfortune to be his wife, and to have borne him four children. On Tuesday morning, he had asked her for money to get drunk with, and receiving a refusal, had set his dog upon her, the creature biting her in the thigh. At twelve o'clock the human brute returned with a broker and assistant, to whom he proposed to sell his bedding. The wife snatched the pillows from him, and thereupon he deliberately proceeded to the ya rd, unchained the dog, and hounded it upon her. The animal flew at her neck, and fixed its fangs in her breast. The surgeon who dressed her wounds declares that in addition to the lacerations from the dog's teeth, there was a serious contu sion on the woman's bosom, apparently from a heavy blow. The magistrate, a ft er due utterance of horror and disgust, expre ssed his regret that he could only sentence the savage and cowardly miscreant to pay a fine of SL, or be imprisoned, in default of payment, for two months in the House of Correction! It is not often that we feel disposed to call in question the soundness of Mr. ARNOLD'S decisions, but in the present case we must dissent from his judgment. The Act 14 &13 Victoria, cap. 19, de- dares that if any person " shall unlawfully and mali ciously inflict upon any other person, either with or without any weapon or instrument, grievous bodily harm," the offender " shall be guilty of a misde meanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three years." It seems to us that Mr. BAILEY was exactly the corpus rile upon which the experiment of the new law would have most appropriately been tried; and that Mr. ARNOLD would have done well had he committed him for trial under it. It is a mere mockery of justice to inflict a fine of 51., with the alternative of two months' confine ment, upon a miscreant capable of such a savage outrage as we have described on the mother of his children. Drunk or sober, he is said to spend half his time in the company of the ferocious animal which he made the instrument of his cowardly and brutal vindictiveness. When first refused the money he asked for, the fellow swore he would sell his fur niture, and that " ho and his dog would drink the value between them." Two months seclusion from the converse of his kind can have little terror for a nature so bestialised; or, if it have, it will merely give hfm time to brood over his malice, till it matures lisle some purpose of greater atrocity. 1 We have read somewhere that it was customary in old times, in Russia, at marriage feasts, for the tither of the bride to put a cudgel in the hands of the new-made husband, and exhort him not to spare it whenever she displeased him. Could we believe 1 that the law of England really is as it was laid down by Mr. ARNOLD, we must come to the conclu sion that it favoured more what Petruchio calls "the awful rule and right supremacy" of husbands than wen the customs of Russia in its iadest state. At hest, we have nowhere rend of any tender Russian lama presenting a fierce mastiff to the husband of Ida child to hound upon her when she excited his ire. I LAW INTELLIGENCE THIS DAY. EQUITY COURT. BUM VICIZRAPICTLGOII ibIIONT Bit Ct. A CLUB ORDERED TO BE WOUND UP UNDER THE WINDING-UP ACT. RE ST. JAMES'S CLUB Ni PARTE DE BUTTS. Mr. Malin and Mr. Tonhnin supported a petition pre sented by Lieutenant-General Sir Augustus de Butts and 17 other members of the St. James's Club, including the Earl of Cardigan, praying that the club might be wound up under the Winding-up Act. According to the petition, as verified by the usual affidavit, the club was formed on the 13th of November, 1848, and a prospectus was issued, stati • that the persons eligible were: tat, Princes of the b 1... royal ; 2nd, Lords and de nutv-lieutenants of counties; 3rd, Officers on full and half-pay; 4th, Officers in the militia and y eomanry; sth, Officers in the East India Company's military' . service; and 6th, Retired officers; and that the cuisine, wines, and agr,:ntens would be established and re posed in the charge of the first artistes, on a most liberal scale, with at the same time a due regard to; economy. The club was after some time removed to, and held at, 53, St. James's-street, the house formerly used for Crockford's club. Tho petition also stated that the club not having been able to raise more than 9001. upon debentures, in pursuance of a resolution for that purpose, applied to Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., for a loan of .5,0001., which was obtained on the joint and several promissory notes of the committee ; and that this proceeding was brought under the notice of a special meeting of the club, called fur the purpose of pro viding for its liabilities; and that at such meeting resolu tions were passed that each member should pay down COL, or 101. per annum until that sum should be paid off. The club had been dissolved, and the proposed contributions not having been made, the present petition wSi presented, Mr. Bacon and Mr. Burden, for ono of the members of the club, opposed the petition, and contended that the as sociation was not ono wit, , fri the meaning of the Winding up Act, and that, if it was, still it was not expedient to make the order, as the members of the club could not be placed generally on the list of contributories, and it would be requi site to make every distinct liability the subject of a separate investigation, audio ascertain what members had personally contracted it or authorised any one else to contract it on their behalf, a reason which Lord Crenworth considered sufficient for declining to make a winding-up order in macs so circumstanced. They referred to "Ex parte James, re Narborough and Watlington Railway Company" (1 Simons. New Series, 110) ; Ilesley's case; "Fleming r. Ilector " (2 Meeson and Wilsby, 172); "Todd e. Emly" (7 Mecson and Washy, 427 ; and 8 ibid, 505). The Vice-Chancellor said that ho thought this was an' association within the meaning of the acts of 1848 and 1849, and within one or both of the 7th and Bth classes of casts mentioned in the former of these acts, and that therefore the order must be made. Much argument had been used reasonably enough on the subject of the liability or absence of liability of the members of the club to the debts incurred. Those would be arguments more proper to be addressed to the Master, upon whom the duty of ascertaining that liabi lity would devolve. It might be that none of the members would be liable. That was not a point for the Court now to decide. But his Honour was clearly of opinion that this was an association liable to be wound up under these acts of parliament. The order must therefore be made as sought by the petition. MONEY MARKET. THIS DAT. Two o'CLocK. The English stock market opened with a flatter appearance to-day, at a decline of 1, but more confi dence has since become apparent although business has been upon a quiet stale, and the purchases of the government broker are not carried on as usual, this not being a public transfer day •, prices have now returned to the improved range at which they left off yesterday. Some uneasiness was expressed at the chock which has been given to the im proved movement of the bullion, as shown in last night's Bank returns, notwithstanding the continued large imports, but the decrease is ex plained in a perfectly satisfactory manner by the payment of the public dividends to the bankers, the payment of government salaries, &c., and is usual at this period. Consols opened 96 to 97 cx div., and arc now quoted 97 to 1. The official report of business em braces: Three per Cent. Consols, 961, 97,1 96: ; ditto for account, 97, k ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 971; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 981, 99,1. The unfunded securities maintain their recent im provement. Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., mark 51s. prem.; ditto smaller sizes, 545. and 51s. India Bonds, large and small, 625. prem. The foreign stock market has been rather more active than of late, Mexican and Peruvian Deferred, amongst others, attracting some attention. Mexican Bonds are now rather better than they left off yesterday, being last marked 1 32,4. In Peruvian Deferred a considerable advance has taken place, and the price has been run up to 44. Brazilian Bonds are rather firmer than before the receipt of the advises by the Tay, while Buenos Ayres Bonds are flatter, the position of Itosas being considered decidedly critical. Sardinian Scrip is much more in favour to-day, and have been taken as high as ¢ ills. The follow ing is a list of to-day's bargains:—Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 89; ; ditto small, 891. Buenos Ayres Six per Cents., 551. Danish Five per Cents., 1031. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 391; ditto Four per Cents. Certificates, 921. Equador Bonds, 31. Mexican Bonds, for account, 16th inst., 321,1, Pe ruvian Deferred, 431, 44. Portuguese Five per Cent. Converted, 1841, 35. Itinisian I.ow-end-a-Half per Cents., 1001, ex div. Sardinian Scrip, I, Of, 0,1 die Spanish Active Five per Cents, 201 ; ditto for account, 201. ENGLISH FUNDP.—Tnie Der. Rank Stock, 214 15 Loon a onuilie4. 7 7 15 3 per CI. Reduced. I 7! lids Stoma,phut 3 Per et. Mewl.. 57 Ditto fiords.toe. to 63. 31 per Ct. Conouls.VB Eackequer 1.0v21.314. to 34a. Cocoas for Acct. FOREIGN FUNDS. 44 per CL ls W i an. PI 4 S per Ct. Meticen. 3:4 I C. C 7 L ieerTl i t l i m." 4f ertt.l ' lieZXl i ! ' 4 . l l l )' per Ct Buenos Arm, DST S per CL Portugu,-. &5 T az 6 per Ct. Cbiliest 1034 44 5 per CL 11214 3 par CL 44 per Ct. itippon, PM 4 01 ctly 3 per Ct. Noire. 74 7 5 per CL ".panign, active. 20 I 41 Per Ct. Dutch. 59) die 3 per /X. 354 4 per C.. Dutch, 014 35 Do. Fromm 54 6 Equador. 3i i 2f er lit . . l l 7 nner l ll. 3 32 4 I per Ct. Grenada, 1617 &Minim Scrip. 1 i . LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. I Poe Acoaant. PARIS, JILT 11. 14 " . I Moneg. 'opening Higbee 1 Lowest Cloning. per Cents. ,l - - 36 20 I 14 20 3d 21 24 10 55 25 per errata. per (Vats. ... a do. New Loan . per Onto. Exchange on London: at eight, 15; 90 day+, 24225. Spar Outs. 156 20 3 per aw1.. 4 per ants. 44 do. New Loan I 3par ants. Exchange on London :it might, 35 ; 90 Ja ye, 24 'll Dr, 5, 1440 5, 1642 — ... Roman Loan, 1451 73 De. 4; Do. 34 ....... . ... Treasury Bonds — .. Pisiblass I p.a. 11149 63 60 .. I Bank shares PADUA, JULY 11.—St. Germain, 438 75 ; Versailles (right but). NI OS; Ditto (lett bank), 233 75; Parts and Orleans, 60; lAdi NMI Ilawso, 1.31 50; Rouen and Havre, VA ; Marseilles Mill MIMI" 304; Strasbourg and SMIP, 133 50; Boulogne and Mawr" IN U; Orleans and Bordsanz, 196 23; Northern, 467 30; Pads and Stnasbarg 471 23; Tours and Nunn" 270 23; Borden= gad Dote, 32 50; Dieppe and FOCOMII, 303 73. RAILWAYS. --- THIS DAT. Two o'CLoeu. The share market to-day has again been depressed by numerous sales, and the prices of all the leading stocks have receded, including more especially East ern Counties, Lancashire and Yorkshires, Mid lands and South Easterns. London and North Westerns have also been worse, but are now rather better. A large share of these selling transactions is be lieved to be on Liverpool account, the regular course of tho market having of late been much interfered with by operations issuing from this quarter and from the Scotch deposit banks. The es tablishment of the telegraph system has enabled parties in the provinces to watch the Lon don market with almost as much ease as those in the metropolis, and trations of speculators at a dis tance are now reed by parties interested with much more attention than was formerly accorded to them. The following are this day's prices : ORDINART tIHARES• Aberdeen, NI ; Eastern Counties, 6; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 2S; Great Northern, 17} ; ditto A, Deferred, 6 1 ; Great Western, 821 A ; Lanca shire and Yorkshire, 491 l; ditto Fifths, 31; ditto West Riding Union, 41 ; Loudon and Blackwall, 61; London, Brighton, and S. Coast, 9.5} ; Lon. and North Western, 122 } 11 ; ditto Qrs., 24 ; London and South West., 84 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, ; Midland, 431 21 }; ditto 601. shares, 15 14i; Newmarket, 71 1; North Staffordshire, 8} ; Scottish Central, 151 ; samw.- bury and Birmingham, Class B, 61; Shrewsbury and Oswestry, ; South Eastern, 22} 1; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 11q ; ditto Estension, 131; ditto O. N. E. pur chase, 6; York and North Midland, 18} 1. - , LINZ& LEASE!) AT PLIED RENTALS. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 46i. PRZFERFNCE 8H AYES. Caledonian, 101., 68 ; Midland Consolidated Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent., 1:131 ; North British, 41. PI/1110N /MARES. Boulogne and Amiens, 10f 11; Great Indian Penin sula, 31 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 41; Tours and Nantes, 6t i ex div. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF THE PRODUCE MARKETS. MINCING-LANE, SATURDAY MORNING, In the Colonial Markets very little animation is observa ble, and the demand for most kinds of produce is limited, Importers of Sugar have submitted to lower rates, the trade have now the full benefit of the reduction of the duties I upon the good and fine sorts, while low qualities hare further declined fid. per cwt. For Coffee there is a good demand, principally from exporters, and colory so:ts of Plantation Ceylon have realized full rates, but for Native there is very little inquiry, and the chic? portion offered has been bought in at 38s. 6d. per cwt. Madras Rice has declined fully 3d. per cwt., and Saltpetre has been sold on rather easier terms. Pimento has been disposed of at a slight advance, and Black Pepper is in request at full rates. The Tea market has slightly improved as far as regards low Congone. TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAN. The market is steady, quotations ruling as follows: Town Tallow, Ms. 01. to Petersburg Y. C. on the spot, 375. 9d. to 385.; last three months, 395. 3d., and firm; January and March 395. 9d. to 40s. MARKET ATERAOES.—Town Tallow, Ms. ; fat by ditto, 2s. ; Yellow ltussian, 395. ; melted stuff, 28s. ; rough ditto, 18s.; Tallow graves, 95.; good dregs, GE. Dealers during the week have not been much disposed to operate it, ltussian on the spot; at the same time holders are firm, and require 375. 61. to 375. Od. for tine yellow candle. A decline, however, would be the result of forced sales. For delivery few transactions have taken place, and for last three months of the year there are sellers at als.: offers for several parcels have been refused rather under this rate. Home melted, sells more freely, hut at the mode . rate rates of 3.35. to 3Cis. nett cash. Other sorts of Tallow arc not much in demand, but holders remain firm, and offer • only moderate parcels for sale. Of all sorts of 'f allow stock . is about 10,000 casks more than last season ; consumption is , less, and rather higher rates prevail. An impression now exists that supplies will not be so large as last year Irons Sydney. Fat is not lower, but there is little doing, and supply is good. WOOL MARKET.-THIS DAY. There is very little doing by private contract. Buyers arc waiting to see how the public sales, which commence on the 17th inst., will go. Trade in the manufacturing counties is in a very healthy state, and there is every pros pect of its continuing so for some time to conic. This week's imports into London arc extensive, comprising 12., bales from Mogadore, 1,360 from Portland Bay, 400 from Port Beaufort, from St. Petersburg, 70 front the Cape, 29 from Oporto, 401) from Casa Bianca, 80 front llamburg, and 2,100 from Sydney. SMITHFIELD HAY MAHICET.—THIS DAY. Messrs. Cooper and Davis report the Frailly short, but equal to the demand, at the following quotations :—Prieto Meadow Hay, 755. to 80s.; inferior ditto, 504. to 70s. ; new, rios. to 705.; Itowen, fos. to 6.55.; Clover, old, 781. to 95 ; new, 601. to 806.; Straw, Vs. to 31s. COVENT-GARDEN.—THIS DAY. Trade is good, and the market is well supplied with all kinds of Fruit and Vegetables in season. Peachei and Nectarines continue to be sent in large quantities. English Pines and Hothouse (drapes are plentiful, and the former cheaper. Strawberries are now in good demand, and the supply is abundant. Cherries are furnished in large quantities, they arc excellent in quality. West In dian lines fetch front 2s. to do. each. Oranges and Lemons are sufficient fur the demand. Nuts remain nearly the same as quoted last week. Asparagus, Carrots, French Beans from the open ground, and Green Peas are received in quantity. New Potatoes may be obtained at hl. to 4d. per lb. Lettuces and other sal:tiling are sufficient for the demand. Mushrooms are a trifle dearer. Cut flowers con sist of Heaths, Pelargoniums ' Mignonette. Heliotropes, Stephanotis floribunda, Pinks, Moss and Provides Roses. VAULT& Pine.apples, per lb., es to Ts Almonds, per peek, Be Grapes, hothouse, p. lb., 2s to 5a I sweet, per lb., 26 to 3. Peaches per du?, let to 201 Lemons, per doz., Is to ts Neetannes, per des., 100 to 200 Ortur,:ee, per doz., Ala 24 Cherries, per lb., Gd to 2s per too, Co to les Melons, eta, is tots tkville, per WO, 7. toles Strawberries, per pottle, •dtols I p. dos., Isto3eesl Gooseberries, per hull store, Not., Bar., p. bush., eats to 22• Re to 4s Itrazil, p. hush., 12* to les Currants, per halt sieve, 3s to Cobs, tee lOU Lb, 50a to 35s V ELIE VAltl . . Cabbages per doe., GI to 1; --- Can'Mutters, per dol., Is 6.1 to 3s French kteansper hf.sicre, 3s to 5s Besns, per vivre, 2s to Is 64 Peas, per riere, 2s to 4$ Asprragur, per 100, Is to 4s Rhubarb, per bund., 24 to 6d rutstoce, per too, 9Or to 20us per cwt., Is to as per hush., Is 611 to 3s Turnips, per hunch, at to Cal Cucumbers, each, 3d to Is Radishes, per dos., .4 to 9d Turnip, per doz., ltd to Id Celery, per bundle, Gd to 2/1 Carrots, per bunch, 44 to Csl elpinacb, per sieve, Is 64 to 2s Ontons, per bunch, 24 to GI Leeks, per bunch, 3d to 4d Shallots, per bunch, 'ad to Id Garlic, per lb., 4d to ad .—....-. Artichokes, per doe., Is to 2s Lettuce, Cato., p. setae, 4.1 to nd (or, per I.4wre, 3.t to Is Small tes'sds, p. pun., 2d to Id Horse Hathoh, per 1011., I , Gtl to 64 Red Beet, per don., Is to is Mtabrootns, per pot, In to 2s Sorrel, per halt stele, tot to 94 Fennel, per bunch, 24 to 3d Savory, per brach, 24 to 3d Thyme, per bunch, 24 to .2d Purley, p. 4oz. bun, -s to 33 lusts, per bur., od to Is Mint. green, per bur ^t:. 44 to 64 Mail, green, per bunch, 64 to tat Marjarstn,du., per Watch, rd to 9,1 WaItICTOM. per aos. bussaus 6d to 9tl Corn Salad, p. hf. sieve, 14 to land Vegetuble Yarrows, per dos., Is. I to 2.. TitElttawicii ELEcTioN CommrrrEE..—Yesterday this committee appointed by the House of Commons to try and determine the allegations of the petition complaiiiiiig of an undue election and return of a member to serve in parliament for the borough of Harwich, met for the first time at half-past II in Committee-room No. 3. The mem bers were Mr. Deedes (chairman), Sir H. Willoughby, Mr. Arkwright, Mr. Fergus, and Mr. Kershaw. Mr. Serjeant Kingslake,Q.C., in opening the can for the petitioners, said the borough of Harwich was well known to he notorious in electioueering annals for the character of its contests and returns. Its representation became vacated in March last by the elevation of Sir John Cam Ilobhouse to the peerage, and Mr. Prinsep and Mr. Crawford became can didates. Mr. Prinsep was returned, but was subsequently unseated by a committee of the house upon a petition which alleged his want of sufficient qualification and the illegality of certain votes which gave him a majority of live over Mr. Crawford. A new writ was the consequence, and another election took place on the 7th and rich May, and on the close of the poll the number announced for Mr. Prinsep was 127, and for Mr. Crawford 133, showing by a majority of If the return of the sitting member. One of the allegations contained in the petition was that the poll was prematurely closed, thereby excluding several votes that were about to be given for Mr. Prinsep. At a few minutes before four o'clock on the day of polling the roof and framework of the hustings were suddenly demolished, thus putting an end to the polling, just at the moment when a voter named James Wood was in the act of recording his vote for Mr. Prinsep, the poll-clerk, owing to the demolition of the hustings, being only able to write " James W." The act in this re spect was imperative upon the returning officer. The petition also alleged that good votes for Mr. l'T ill sep were recorded as bad, and that bad votes were taken for Mr. Crawford as good. He should also have to call their attention to a serious alle gation, which set forth that Mr. Crawford, through his agents at Harwich, had been guilty of bribery and corrupt practices. In the list which was handed iu to the com mittee there were the name. of fifteen persons alleged to have been bribed, with the names of the parties bribing. On two of these the petitioners more particularly relies. The law of the matter, as laid down in the precedents of previous committees, was that, however guiltless indi vidually Mr. Crawford himself might be of these things, ho was answerable for the illegal acts of those to whom the interests of his election were confided. Ii a i scrutiny were gone into by the committee, there I would be found to be several " dead votes " polled for Mr. Crawford, and he further understood that a petition had been presented to the house by the hon. mem ber for Dorsctshire, imputing misconduct to certain govern ment officers at Harwich on the occasion of the last election. Mr. lt. J. Naylor, chief clerk in the office of clerk of the crown, was then called, and produced the writ, return, and poll books of the last election. An objection was then raised, but overruled by the committee, to tie effect that the fourteen days special notice required under the act to be given to the returning officer of the appointment of the committee hail not been given, and it was alleged that if this were the case the constitution of the present com mittee was invalid. Mr. F. Hart, the mayor and returning officer for Harwich, and Mr. Chapman, the town clerk, deposed to having received the notice, but could not specify the day or date. The question, however, was set at rest by calling Mr. Rose, one of the clerks of the House of Commons, who deposed to the notice having been forwarded to the authorities us the 11th June last. Mr. W. Bowler, brewer and land agent at Colchester , was then call ed a nd examined by Mr. Serjeant Kingslake.—Was at Harwich on the polling day, and went to the hustings with James Woods, the voter. While one of the clerks was in the act of taking down Wood's name the Mayor closed the poll. There were two or three men mounted on the top of the hustings at the time, with picks in hand, and they began pulling the hustings down. The Mayor jumped front inside the polling booth over the front of the bar reserved fur the voters, and got away. The men began to pull the hustings down at five minutes before four u clock. The committee then adjourned ill this day. THE TRUTH SEEN TIIROUGII A WINUOW.—In a shop in the City, the following inscription may be read in the window:—" lei on prend eargene de re , tranger;" mean ing, we suppose, that foreign money is received there. But the delicious truth that peeps through the badness of the translation is most amusing. From what we have heard of the extravagant prices demanded for trumpery little articles, and the stones that have reached us of the almost incredible impositions practised by our tradesmen upon the poor foreigners, we have not the slightest doubt that the Paryent de l'ilranger has been taken in more shops than one in the City, and taken, too, iu the greatest abundance. But the candour of the announcement deserves some praise, and hos only been exceeded in its touching naivete by an announce ment we remember seeing over a Gasihof _inV ien t na to tho following confidential effect :— / ,"* . ar , . ;: iteu n here." .G ...:,..s:..- .:: ...:.,.t 4 i., -....;,,,,,ek,„,-.F., . ‘ --;4: r t ..... • ... ( eit4 - Ili ''.. .. e. 7 '1 . .... .41 c i r • . -. 0.1.1-.,,..0 1 ff 'I