The Express. — London, England, 1853-07-22 00:00:00

- - 'VBLIC WORKS ACTS AMENDMENT (IRELAND) BILL. Sir J. YOUNG moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which wee threefold. First, it would enable grand juin to borrow money from private parties for the con struction of roads and other public works under the same ustrietioes and provisions es were at present imposed by the Board of Works. The second part of the bill would truster to the counties, and make the property of counties liable fir, the maintenance of certain piers and harbours which bad been constructed by private parties. The tolls of these harbours sad bridges would amply pay the expense of watching and taking can of them. The last part of the bill would transfer to the counties shoat 1, 0 0 0 miles of roads which bad been constructed by mew ries upon public guarantees. Hitherto the Board of Public Works had kept them in repair, and made presentments for the espence to the different grand juries. Lord NAAS said it was quite a new power that war pro posed to be given to grand juries, and it was advisable that some additional security should be taken against its abuse. He would suggest that some public notice should be given, whenever it was intended to borrow under the provisions of the bill, and then every man in the county would have a full knowledge of what was going on. The bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Thursday next. The Consolidated Annuities Hill was paned through committee. The Dublin Tenementary Registration Bill was read a third time and passed. The Public Libraries (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Burials (oeyond the Metropolis) Bill was read a se cond time. DRAINAGE OF LANDS (IRELAND) ACT AMEND MENT BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bin, Col. DUNNE obj..cted to proceeding with it at that time of night. Ile bad marl amendments to propose. After some discussion, in the course of which Mr. Wu, tioN said the object of the h.ll was to enable the Trea sury to carry out the object of the hon. and gallant gentle moo, Mr. SULLIVAN moved the adjournment of the debits. Col. DUSNE then withdrew his opposition, saying he trusted the right hon. gentleman would make a full state ment on going into committee. eke ennosg. A tteeend Edition ;1 1 ' Nunn ftrith , Gazette," to yublialind every Tuesday and frilly niebt. in Um bt pent. Atertueoneenta Intended for The Ennio," Loncio2 Entwine paper, mow kg at tbe °flea, 10, Sonveritestraaa, by Two o'clock on the do of paldanntion. NIGH WATNR AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM Dor —illandan. fl.. 84n.....—.Af00rn00n. Bb. 3Uso. itmonnow—iliaerinr. Pr ..........Afternoon. 4k. 14m. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 22. THE North Derbyshire Election just over is in every respect a noticeable occurrence. The contest and its result were equally unexpected. It lay be tween two Liberals in an electoral division dear to Liberalism ; and of the two candidates it is difficult to say who is the preferable politician, both being well (nullified for legislative usefulness. As tho contest did not originate in, so neither was it decided by territorial arrogance or influence—it sprang from that good old sturdy feeling of independence which, intending and giving no offence to reasonable beings, is one of the oldest, as it is also one of the most valu able, characteristics of English society. Were counties generally like North Derbyshire, then, in deed, the English constitution would, in its opera tion, approach much nearer to political perfection than it can at present. In one respect, however, North Derbyshire is like other counties ; it has its Grand Seigneur, its great territorial Lord, its Norman. But—happy North Derbyshire and even happier Lord—he is unlike his Order generally; he is an exception to his clue ; he is an example to the Peerage he adorns. Were the Duke of DEVONSHIRE so inclined he could, with huge power and influence, have destroyed the independence of the division ; he could swamp the intelligence of the yeomen and the small manufac turers, numerous though they be in its cheerful dales and along its clear and rapid streams. By the votes of his tenantry, ho could render the leave and license of Chatsworth the first and an indispensable step of candidates; and in doing so he would only have trod in the well-beaten tracks of nearly all the other great Dukes and belted Earls, and half the petty squires, too, in their smaller way, of the kingdom. But the Duke of DEVONSHIRE has done nothing of the sort. What he prizes most around Chatsworth is just what Aristocracy elsewhere will not tolerate— independence, and its sure accompaniment, intelli gence. OAT wu described by POPE all - the best good Christian hi, Although he knows it not. And so we may say of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, " the beat good Liberal he, although he knows it not," for there is an agreeable unconsciousness about his Grace's perfect toleration. And the consequence of the Duke of DevoNsittite thus setting so good an example of large and dignified, yet unostentatious, Liberalism, and never thinking or inquiring or speak ing (much less interfering and directing) about votes, is, that politics in North Derbyshire have fair play, and for sixteen years the division has returned to the House of Commons two admirable Liberals one of them being Mr. W. EVANS. In referring to that gentleman, we speak of one whom the whole Liberal party, leaders as well as rank and file, Contents and Malcontents, Whigs and Radicals, regard with esteem and even affection. His was one of those old, steady, accustomed, and re spected faces whose absence will constitute a personal loss to tho House of Commons. His vote, too, how regular, dependable, and thoroughly liberal; and then his high moral worth, his social excellences, his use practical generosity—they reflected credit on his political friends and associates. But, on Mr. EVANS the House of Commons work at la s t began to , tell; nearly twenty sessions of late hours and ardnousl listening produced their effect ; they hastened and ripened old age. So, a month ago, Mr. EVANS re- 1 solved to retire, and, accepting the Chiltern Hundreds, on the ith of July, issued his farewell address to North Derbyshire. Side by side by this address, however, came one from his eon, Mr. T. W. EVANS, soliciting, in modest language, the seat vacated by his father ; professing the same principles, too ; but disclaiming all inten tion to thrust himself on the electors against their wish. Now great lords are succeeded by their sons ; in ducal families one generation of Toryism suc ceeds another in divisions territorially ruled ; and young squires often rest their pretensions on old squires who have sat for the county before them. The EVANSES, pore et fill, were therefore only following a system for which precedents were superabundant and overflowing, and following it, too, in a spirit in their cue void of all offence or arrogance. Still the system is not an agreeable one. We have a hereditary House of Legislation in the Lords; there is, consequently, no need of extending the hereditary principle into the Commons; and, excellent a mem ber as it is admitted Mr. T. W. EVANS would make, not even that consideration can reconcile people to a family arrangement, which they have no more to do with than to sign and seal. Nevertheless, Squirearchy, even in North Derby shire, seemed to rest content. All appeared smooth and clear; no opposition or objection showed itself ; a canvass was unnecessary; polling booths were un• thought of; and the momentous day was fixed. But the independence and spirit of the bolder and moro sensitive part of North Derbyshire were wounded. What the squires did not at first appre ciate, the yeomen, small freeholders, and little manu facturers, keenly felt; and they are a resolute race. They grumbled, and talked, and threatened, until at last (so the story runs) a country medical practi tioner, a publican, and a retired gamekeeper, took counsel together and vowed, much as they liked the EVANS family, and in spite of the obligations they owed to their old member, " they would not stand it;" and oppose, at Bakewell, Mr. T. W. EVANS they would. And in a true business like and very rational way they set to work. They never thought of a Tory, and would have nothing to do with Charlatans or Malcontents. They confined themselves to their own county; and find ing, in a country gentleman of character and position there, a politician who had been a Liberal and a Free Trader before Mr. T. W. EVANS was born,—Mr. THORNHILL was nominated as a candidate. It was soon apparent that this brave spirit had struck the popular key-note; and in favour of Mr. Molt: mu North Derbyshire sentiment— for the whole affair was a matter of feeling— was so completely roused, that at only two out of nine polling places had Mr. T. W. EVANS a majority. So far behind was he at the other seven, that a minority of NO on the first day's poll induced him, very gracefully and properly, to retire; and Mr. THORNHILL will to-morrow be declared member for North Derbyshire. With this North Derbyshire burst of independ ence (even though it may give pain to two excellent Liberals) popular opinion elsewhere will completely sympathise. There is true English " pluck" about it. It went on a right principle, and gallantly did its work. It was honest, and true, and unaffected, and inoffensive. The men who originated it relied on themselves and their singleness of purpose; and, having good motives and a good cause, they found a cheap and inexpensive support on all hands. Oh! that we had such brave apothecaries and publicans and ex-gamekeepers in every county ! And why should we not have? North Derbyshire has no mo nopoly of English spirit and love of independence, though it has some other advantages no doubt. But what are electoral and representative difficulties in counties but things to be overcome? And they cannot be overcome without a struggle. The Reform Bill of 1834 will, let us trust, do much. But without such courage and spirit as that of North Derbyshire, legislation will be comparatively lifeless. Those qua lities must be roused in counties. Thanks, therefore, to the honest men of Bakewell, Castleton, Buxton, and Chesterfield, for the example they have set ! A WOMAN TO DEATH. It will be seen by a report in another column that a miserable woman, named Baker, has been sentenced to tho gallows at Stafford. The jury before whom she wee tried joined in a recommendation that mercy should be shown to the convict, but the • judge " held out no hopes that it would have any effect in saving her life." We are unwilling to believe that the superior authorities, to whom the merciful wishes of the jury must be conveyed, can— after considering all the circumstances of the woman's wretched case—endorse the harsh view which Mr. Justice Crompton seems to entertain in this matter. TUE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN FAC- TOMBS DILL. This bill wu read a aearod time. STAMP DUTIES BILL. Thi4 bill was veceemaltted pro filmes. REMAINING OF STNA/TERS DURING DIVI- SIONS. Mr. MUNTZ moved, that in pursuance of the realm mendation of a committee, that when the Speaker or the chairman of a committee shall direct strangers to with draw, the order shall be understood to apply to strangers below the gallery and in the front gallery; that when the I order for strangers to retire be given, the clerks shall turn a two minute glass on the table, that the doors be not closed till such glass heron out, and that the Speaker be directed to carry the above resolution into effect. (Cries of " Three minutes.") Mr. S. HERBERT suggested that the matter be poet- paned till more members were present. Sir J. SHELLEY thought the time ought to be three minutes instead of two. After a short conversation, it was agreed that the debate should be adjourned until Thursday nest. CRIME AND OUTRAGE PREVENTION ACT (IRELAND). Sir J. YOI:NG moved for leave to bring in a bill to eon-1 linue the act 15 & 16 Vie., e. GG (the Crime and Outrage Prevention Act, Ireland), until the 31st day of August, 1854. )Ir. MAGUIRE objected, and The house divided, when the numbers were : Ayes Noes -32 Leave was therefore given to bring in the bill. PRACTICE OF THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER. - On the motion of the Arroxisax-Gx•auxi, leave was given to bring in a Bill for the amendment of the Procedure and Prattles in Crown Suits in the Court of Exchequer, and for the payment of costa in proceedings instituted en behalf of the Crown. TRUCK ACT. Upon the motion of Lord PALSIZRATOX, lest* wee given to bring in a bill to amend the Thick Act.' FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. 'Upon the motion of Mr. WlLsos, leave was given to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to Friendly Societies. CUSTOMS' DUTIES. Upon the motion of Mr. Witsos, leave was gives to bring in a bill to repeal certain laws relating to Customs' Duties. The home then adjourned at half-put 2 o'clock. MR. HENRY'S SENTENCE ON THE CABMAN Theme of Phillips, the cabman, sent to gaol on Tuesday last, to expiate the crime of not having five shillings in his pocket, was very properly brought before the House of Commons last night. It has been our business to advocate most strenuously the aboli tion of that ancient state of thing s which delivered the passenger, bound hand and foot, into the hand of the cab driver. It now seems to have fallen to us to vindicate the cause of the drivers, delivered over, without appeal, to the tender mercies of the magistrate. Mr. Henry's decision, in the eyes of reasonable people, had neither law nor equity, nor reason, nor mercy, to recom mend it. What, then, has Lord Palmerston to say when appealed to with regard to the sentence in question ? His first resource is to affirm that he knows nothing about the matter. The house is re quested to suspend its judtment. Why? Because reports are sometimes inaccurate. Pray what would become of reform if private enterprise did not undertake to give these reports ? The government knows nothing, or pretends to know nothing, of the escapades of the Adamses or the Henrys. Let a magistrate act as arbitrarily as he will, he may be sure that unless a newspaper brings his doings before the public, they will be unknown at head-quarters. Where then are we to look for the means of redress in cases of oppression, if not from the impulse given to public opinion by the means of newspaper reports ? Who would have known aught of the tale of " the magistrate, the pig, and the policeman," if it had not been for the Public Press? Ah ! says Lord Psl merston, in his answer to Mr. Bright, but there was a very material error committed in the report of the case of the "pig and the policeman." " In the report it was stated that Mr. Serjeant Adams sentenced a woman to so many leers of additional confine ment for calling a policeman a pig,' and it I had since been utterly denied that anything of the kind had taken place." No one doubts that it may have been denied, but who will receive without proof the mere denial as valid evidence against the well known accuracy of a newspaper report? Lord Pal merston, who committed himself to the special defence of the judte in the pig case, cannot get over the anecdote. "'Die pig and the policeman" is a bitter fact for him, which he seems unwilling to let alone. Nevertheless the House of Commons believed the report, as was shown by the rejection of the Ser jeant Adams salary job. Why should Lord Palmerston feel bound to make himself responsible for the faults of the London magistracy. There is no disposition on the part of , the respectable portion of the London Press to take any ill-natured advantage of the errors into which the magistrates of the metropolis at times almost necessarily fall. Many instances escape . reprobation which would aft red a fair mark for a spirit actuated by captious feeling. But they pass unstigmatised, although not unnoticed, because the Press is unwil ling to hamper the action of an honourable class of men who have no doubt trouble enough to fulfil their THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY duties with satisfaction to themselves and the public. ' There are cases, however, in which the silence of the Press—which is after all the only power competent to grapple with them—would be a crime. Such cues ate those of " the pig and the police man," and the cabman Phillips. In matters of this kind we cannot, if we would, be silent; and we would only add, by way of warning, that the govern. ment, if it would consult properly its true interest, ought to be foremost is aiding the legitimate efforts of the Press to put down the injustice which results either from imperfect laws or the injudicious ad ministration of the law. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. GERMANY. BERLIN, JULY 17. The Bavarian Envoy has announced that his go vernment proposes to open a great Industrial Exhi bition at Munich in 1854. AUSTRIA. A considerable displacement of troops is taking place throughout that portion of the military frontier which adjoins Bosnia and Servia. The Austrians are edging on towards Turkey. The pontoon trains have arrived in the Save, and Bosnia could be entered with little difficulty or delay. LOMBARDY. The mission of Count Rechberg in Lombardy is acknowledged to have completely failed, and the Austrian authorities are again executing the decreed confiscation with rigour. SERVIA. The Russian government, after procuring the dis missal of the Premier Garaschnin against the Prince's will, now demands the removal of all state employe , s who are known to entertain anti-Russian senti ments. TURKEY. (PRIVATE TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.) VIENNA. THCIISDAY, JOLT 21. . _ . We have received here ness from Constantinople down to July 11. A note of Reschid Pacha, Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, intended to facilitate negotia tions and lead to a favourable result, excited attention. Commerce at Constantinople was exceedingly well disposes RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The official Austrian Correspondence of the 20th contains tho following despatch : 46 CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 11. "A note of Reschid Pacha is considered to be calculated to bring the dispute with Russia to a close." It is probable that the note here spoken of embo. dies the plan of settlement which, as previous accounts have informed us, the ministers of the four powers have spent considerable pains in maturing. It follows, from the origin of the despatch, that the hope expressed in it is built upon the reasonableness of Rvichid Pacha's new proposals, rather than from anything which could be known of the disposition of the Czar. Concerning this latter, we find nume rous assertions, more or less positive, in the German press, all favouring the belief that the Czar will accept one or other of the conciliatory propositions which have been remitted to him from London, Paris, Vienna, and more lately from Constantinople, as the basis of negotiation; but these statements, when examined, resolve themselves into sanguine assump tions er ionturons speculations upon a fact which is as yet unknown. The statement of the Lloyd, which we yesterday published, and which as yet has neither been confirmed nor contradicted, did not go so far es to assert that the Czar had accepted either of the propositions of the other powers, but that he had accepted the mediation of Austria, on the basis of one or all of them. Oar Correspondent writes : CONSTANTINOPLE, JrLY 7. M. Bruck, the Austrian Internuncio at the Porte, lately communicated to Reschid Pacha the substance of a despatch in which Count Buol indicated the out lines of a scheme for adjusting the present strife be tween Turkey and Russia. It was at the same time intimated to the Porte that the Austrian cabinet had good reasons for believing that the proposals which it suggested were such as the Czar would be willing to accept. As the recommendations of Austria were not considered incapable of being reconc►led with the honour and sovereignty of the Sultan, they were re ceived with readiness and subjected to a closer exami nation. In this, as in every other emergency, Reschid Pacha consulted the representatives of the powers which have proved themselves the sinners friends of Turkey, and two formal meetings of the four minis ters, besides separate conferences, have been held,—ono of them at the hotel of M. Bruck, and the other at that of M. La mar. I understand that a note is preparing, and will be sent off to Vienna, where probably the Russo-Turkish affair will be dealt with in its new phase. Should this project be adopted by the Czar, we shall have seen the end of this vexatious contest. Should this not be the case, there seems no way of avoiding a fight. For the latter there never was a better time than the present. The Sultan has now 290,000 men under arm., a number sufficient to de feat the.troope of the Czar, which are being decimated by typhus fever and privations of all sorts. The affair at Smyrna is bad. Austria has obtained the recal of Ali Paella, guilty of having defended the rights and dignity of the Porte. According to the capitulations the Porte has no jurisdiction over strangers. If Martin Costa, the Hungarian, whom the Austrian consul carried off by means of his sbirri, I was 'protege of Turkey, then the consul was wrong to carry him off ; if he was an Austrian subject, then the Porte, according to the capitulations, was not responsible for his conduct ; if he is a protege of America, the minister of the United States may claim him. The entire corps diplomatique condemn. the Austrian consul. we read in the Slide : Wob;i1e;o it to be certain that both at London and Paris disnatiallaation is felt at the conduct of the two ambassadors at emtaliatiwarlo. We do not think either of the two go mum& wand as far as to threaten a recall, but, if our iallamosticin is wrest, displesanre has been expressed in very dlitinet terms. TM Feaselt government, in particular , is usdantood to ha l v a rrismed astonishment at the amber sides ase havbag • mots resolato um of the plenary pawls MOwlid sly WITS invested. FRANCE. PARIS, THVISDAY Enxixo. The Moniker of today contains a decree stating that the prohibition imposed by the ordinance of Feb. 8, 1826, will provisionally cease, as ...pasts flour and corn imported from the possessions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in Eumpe. There is a diversity of opinion - ith reg ard to the decree declaring that " the restr. Hong imposed on the introduction of corn and flou by Article 3 of the ordonnance of February 8, 1826, shall cease wo visionally to exist with respect to such articles when imported from the precisions of th, 'Tnited Kingdom of Great Britain in Europe." 'I. wording is vague and inaccurate. I have hes it doubted whether the " possessions " of Great Britain in Europe include Great Britain 'WM, but this is probably a refinement. It is pretty clear that i England has no corn to spare, but it s scarcely doubdul that corn purchased in other count, es may be re-exported from British possessions into Frame, under this decree. It is a strange sort of relief in times of apprehended scarcity, to saddle the French consumer with double freights, when the simple rn medy would be to throw open the ports without re striction. Some gay the object is to avoid payment of the duty upon the large purchases of Russian corn lately made through the English agents by the Minister at War, but if this were all one does not easily see the advantage of relieving one department of government from payments which would be re ceived by another. I understand a decree opening the ports to grain from England was issued during the dearth of 1847, but I have not had an opportu nity of seeing whether it was in the same terms as the present one. The tables of the average price of wheat which re- EVENING, JULY • 22, 1853. gulate the import and export duties are required by law to be published on the Ist of every month in the Bulletin des Lois. To-day, for the first time, they ap pear, several days beforehand, in the 31uniteur. The object of this premature publication, as stated by that journal, is to let commerce have the benefit of the, modern rapidity o f commun i cat i on w hi c h ena bl es th e returns to be made up e i g ht or t e n days before the end of the month. In future, the Moniteur will always publish the tables as soon as all the materials have arrived, but the sliding scale of duties will con tinue to be regulated by the legal publications on the Ist of each month. The immediate motive for this step on the part of the government is probably the desire to mitigate the uneasy feeling occasioned by the late rise in bread. The averages, whether as affecting the import duties, or the price of bread, come into operation but slowly. The present price of wheat for the month ending July 14 is lower than it was in June, and had it been lower still, the augmentation in the price of bread would have been just the same, because that was based upon the averages of last month. One of the government journals hints that a fortnight hence bread will be lower. The rise in corn during the last three weeks has, however, been exceedingly rapid, the general average having risen from 18f. 29c. to 21f. 53e. Even in 1847, although the rise was equally great, upon the whole it was not so rapid and general. The absurdity of the sliding scale is strikingly ahewn by the way it works in France at the present moment. At the end of June there was a sudden and considerable rise in corn. The natural effect of this would have been instantly to stimulate pu rc h ases i n th e nearest mar k ets, w hi c h would have at once checked the upward tendency. hut the sliding scale was all the while regulated by the comparatively low prices of the end of May and beginning of June, and consequently operated as a prohibition. It is not till the middle of August that the effect of the high price of corn in June will be felt in a diminution of the import duties. Such a system evidently paralyses the tendency of commerce to supply a void, and is curiously contrived to aggra vate a famine. The Fury, steam-corvette of the English navy, arrived at Marseilles on Monday from Malta, with despatches from Constantinople addressed to the Enjeish government. The marriage between Prince Napoleon and Mademoiselle Vesta, the eldest daughter of the Duke de Rianzares and Queen Christina, is now considered quite a settled thing. Visits are exchanged daily between Malmaison and St. Cloud, and Queen Chris tina dines constantly en ,famille with their majesties. The Princess Mathilde frequently drives to Malmai son on a morning. Narvaez is also there very often. It will not be forgotten that his disgrace coincided with the unsuccessful attempt of the Queen to obtain The title of Infants of Spun for the children of her second marriage. At the Bourse, to-day, there was but a limited amount of business transacted in government securi ties, and eventually a decline in prices took place, though not to any considerable extent. The 'three per Cent. for cash declined 16c., and for the account 6Z/c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for the ac count 10c.; whilst there was an advance of 16c. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash. In Bank of France shares there was an improvement of 2Sf. The final quotations were : For money : Three per Cents., 78f. 60c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 15e. For the end of the month : Three per Cents., 78f. 30e. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 90c. Bank Stock, 2,730 f. Northern, 880 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,135 f. 60c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 924 f. 75e. ; Paris and Lyons, 933 f. 60c.; Paris and Rouen, 1,120 f.; Lyons to the Medit., 777 f. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, THURSDAY. Intelligence which may be fully relied upon has been received in this city to the effect that the Em peror of Russia has expressed his willingness to re sume—but for the last time—negotiations respecting the Russo-Turkish question, those negotiations to be based on the Aoglo-terench propositions. It is added that he will consider himself fully justified in occupy • ing the Danubian Principalities, so long as the nego tiations are pending. There are grounds for believing that the evacuation of those Turkish dependencies has been called for by the British and French cabinets. A Russian courier, with despatches to the above effect, la expected tom ive to-night or early to-morrow in Brussels. A solemn Te Dewn was channted this afternoon in the church of Sainte Gndul, this day being the 22nd anniversary of Leopold's " inauguration" (there was no coronation) as King of the Belgians. His Majesty and his daughter were present at the Te Deena, but his two sons were absent, as they are suf fering from an attack of the measles. SWITZERLAND. The Bum? of Bile announces officially that the Austrian authorities are allowing certain citizens of the canton of Ticino to proceed to Lombardy, to look to the preservation of their property there. The Corriere Mercantile of Oence, of the 16th, also states that the imperial commissary of the district of St. Fedele (Lombardy) has invited the landed proprietors of the village of :Erbonne, who are all Ticinese, and live at Muggio, to return to their estates and perform the usual agricultural operations there. These permissions appear to be rather special con cessions, which it would have been barbarous to withhold, than indications of a definitive rapproche ment of Austria and Switzerland. Our letters state that the settlement of the difference between the empire and the confederation turns solely upon the decision which the Federal Council may give in the matter of the expelled Capuchins. Int COUri. THE QUEEN. OSBORNE, FIiIDAT, JuLT 22, 9 a.m. The Queen has passed a good night, and the marked abatement of every symptom this morning is such as to indicate her Majesty's approaching convalescence. JAMES CLARK, M.D. HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. OSBORNE, TILVIISDAY Arran,loos, JOLT 21. The Queen's progress continues to be favourable in every respect. JAUEB CLARK, M.D. 11E.NRT HOLLAND, M.D. Sir Henry Holland arrived yesterday from London, and remains with Sir James Clark in attendance on her Majesty. Tits noel ea ui dent left town yesterday afternoon for GeNgrue, Ida of Wight. Her Royal Highness was accent ' • -.led by hie Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, ..tul was Mteaded by: •IT Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper. Her . °al Highness went from her resi -1 dance, Clarence-house, b , iimates, to the Waterloo-bridge terminus, and left by the ..clock train of the London and South Western Railway. A deputation respecting the Nelson Memorial Fund, including Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, ' rt.; Mr. Hume, M.P.: and Mr. James Walker, had a► .terviow with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation from West Hackney, Stoke Newington, and Stamford-hill, upon the Sowers Commission Bill, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Wednesday, at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of the Rev. T. Davis Lamb, S.C.L., Rector of West Hackney; Messrs. John Symonds and Henry Law, Churchwardens of West Hackney ; Mr.: Thomas Andrew, Churchwarden of Stoke Newington; and Dr. C. Montague Miller, Mr. Patrick Johnson, and Mr. F. Burdett Roberts. The deputation was introduced by Sir William Clay, Bart. Lord Robert Grosvenor had yesterday an interview with the Berl of Aberdeen. ALLEGED MURDER AT A WATERING PLACE.— The neighbourhood of Walton Bay, a watering place, near Weston Super Mare, Somerset, was thrown into consider able alarm, in consequence of the dead body of a respect ably dressed man having been found out up upon the beach. Upon inquiry it turned out to be the body of a Mr. Joseph Smith, a retired furniture dealer of London, wh,) having been for some weeks on a visit to a Mr. Brett, an innkeeper of Bath, had a few days before, accompanied by Mr. Brett, come to Walton for the benefit of has health. On Monday morning Mr. Brett had occasion to go to Weston and left his friend alive, but on his return in tise afternoon found that his body had been discovered drowned. Marks of violence were found over the eye, and on other parts of the body ; the b reas t p oc k et o f hie coat, in which be had been in the habit of carrying his pocket book, was turned inside out; all his other pockets were empty,— this immediately raised a suspicion that he had been mur dered. An inquest was held yesterday; but no satisfactory evidence of the cause of death being presented, it was ad boned. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. THE COMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY. This committee met again yesterday, the mem bers present being Colonel pure (in the chair), Lord Sey mour, Lord Elcbo, Lord Graham, Sir 11. Inglis, and Mr. Baring Wall. Baron Klintz, who has the reputation of being ac quainted, as • connoisseur, with most of the collections of art and painting throughout Europe, was the first witness examined, and after giving the committee some interesting information with respect to the collections at Munich and St. Petersburg, stated that, in Lis opinion, our National Gallery, though young and not particularly prolific in I.oint of pictorial production, was nevertheless a repository of some of the finest works of the most eminent masters, and that, comparing the relative proportion of the pictures it contained with that of other collections of paintings, fewer pictures of tither an equivocal, o^ mediocre character were to be met with than in any other National, Gallery with which he was acquainted. Dr. H. Wellesley, curator of the U n i ve rsity Galleries, and principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, was of opinion that the recent "cleaning" of the pictures in the National Gallery, though it had deteriorated their appearance, had not damaged them. It was au injudicious step to clean them at all. These pictures were not injured by the cleaning process generally, except as regarded the varnish or glazing. lle alluded more particularly to the larger Claude,. Nu ttier the smaller Claude nor the Velasquez ever had, he thought, any glazing. It would be desirable to remove the National Gallery to a comparatively smokeless atmosphere out at Kensington. He objected to the " cleaning " pro cess altogether. It interfered with the beautiful effect con ferred by the toning of time, and the mellowing influences of maturity on the masterpieces of art. Directly a pic ture changed hands, the possessor thought it must, as a matter of course, be cleaned. This was a vulgar error. He objected to the present constitution of the trusteeship of the National Gallery, and expressed himself in favour of a general director in chief, well up in the knowledge of pic torial art, with plenary authority for the purpose of picture purchasing, as was the case in connexion with the galleries at Berlin and Paris. In default of this he would decidedly prefer that the national collection of pictures should tie under royal trusteeship, and that such collection, if uuder the direction of the sovereign, would have all the essentials to excellence that now formed the characteristics of indi vidual collections. It was on this principle that the un rivalled collections of Charles I. King of Bavaria, Louis IV., and of the Popes had been formed. Had there been a director in chief of the National Gallery or had it been royally constituted, the last picture of the " Tribute Money," by Titian (if indeed it were a Titian), would not have been purchased, nor the " Adoration of the Shepherds" bought for 2,0001. with the united appro bation of the trustees, and which was not in his (the wit ness's opinion) worth buying at all. The trustees of the National Gallery had purchased some of the best and some of the worst of pictures. He blamed the system in saying this, and not the trustees. Did not know of any instance in which parliament had been niggardly in allowing grants for the purthase of pictures, but sometimes it was an in convenient thing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The trustees might have selected better pictures and pictures more worthy of the nation with the money they hail already expended. The committee then adjourned. EASTERN UNION ReamAy.—Yesterday the committee on this hill, to whom it was sent back for reconsideration - - by the House of Commons, met for that purpc se, Mr. Cur rie in the chair. It appeared that the Eastern Union Com pony originally guaranteed 6 per cent. irredeemable to the holders of preference stock, the object of the bill being to relieve them of all arrears of interest due, and giVe 4 per cent. redeemable in lieu. The committee were engaged yesterday in ascertaining the number of assents and dissents on the part of the proprietors on the question which in volves capital to the extent of 300,000!. BLYTH AND TYNE RAILWAY.—The committee of the House of Lords, of which Lord Camoys is chairman, yester day approved of and passed this bill, for constructing branches in Northumberland. -------- -- ----------- CONTROVERTED ELECTlONS.—viscounts Jocelyn end Barrington hare been appointed by the general committee of elections to serve u chairmen of election committees, in stead of Mr. Lascellea and Mr. Walpole, who have resigned. ELEC ETON COMMITTEES. CLITHEROE. When the committee met, yesterday morning, William Charnley, the witness who had been examinrd on Wednesday, was called and cross-examined by Mr. Rodwell, counsel for the sitting member. The witness said he was never asked by Toiler, landlord of the Swan, to pry for anything he had. When he brought his " fighting men" from Blackburn to Clitheroe he took no further heed of them, except to send them off for voters when asked to do so by any of the committee. He knew nothing of what they did while they wire in the town ; it was no business of his. There was a good deal of rioting in the town during the night of the nomination day. Mr. James handed the witness two letters, and asked him if he knew the handwriting. He said he thought it was Mr. Baldwin's. They were read by the chairman, and were invitations to parties to attend a meeting of Mr. Aspinall's friends ; the object of ,putting them in being to prove Mr. Baldwin's agency. Joseph Cross, a shoemaker, of Clitheroe, said he was one of the working-men's committee for Mr. Aspinall at the election of 1832. He was employed by Mr. Watson and a person named Wade, foreman at Messrs. Dewhurst'e establishment. He was :employed to look after voters. He did his best to do so. Their committee met at dif ferent public-horses. He saw Mr. Robert Dewhunt at those meetings, at the Rou and Crown, also Mr. Archi bald Dewhurst . He (witness ) also saw them at the Swan. There were on one occasion, before the election, about forty of his (witness's) fellow-committeemen and him self at the Swan ; and Mr. Bailey came in, and he said, if they would be quiet, they should have some thing to drink, and Mr. Bailey did order refreshment for them. On the nomination day, he saw Francis Dewerden taking an,aetivc part for Mr. Aspicall. Mr. Bailey also gave him (witness) directions to keep one of the doors at the Swan clear of the mob, and to let no one in but voters;; and from the Swan they went to the poll. There was breakfast laid out for the voters in one of the rooms—bread, meat, tea, and coffee. He did not see any drink. He got his own breakfast in that room. There was drinking going on there all the day. lie knows what is meant by an open house. The Swan was an open house, to all intents and purposes, on the polling day. He himself got anything he wanted to drink by asking the witness Webby for it. He saw nobody refused anything to drink, and he um no one pay for it. He saw Welsby going towards the large room many times that day with jugs and glasses, but he himself never was in that room at all. Mr. Hartley Baldwin gave him directions to " look after" a voter named Robinson, whom he did watch for four or five days before the polling day, and gave him (according to Mr. Baldwin's directions) what drink he asked for at the Rom and Crown, and told the land lord to put it down to Mr. Aspinall. He has not been paid in full for his :services, but Wclsby gave him 6s. on the Saturday night after the election. The witness was exa mined at great length as to his having seen men (electors and non-electors) drinking at various times before the elec tion at different public-houses, and no one paid for anything. At ens of these houses a person named Southwark, steward to Mr. Aspinall, was present during the whole evening, and kept a check account in a book of the drink furnished to the men in the house. The witness enumerated some six or eight public-houses, which were regular open houses, and where any one could get drink for nothing, and all those houses were in Mr. Aspinall's interest, and several active members of his committee were present during the carous ing- At the conclusion of this witness's examination, the com mittee adjourned till 11 o'clock this morning. Teller, the landlord of the Swan Inn at Clitheroe, who was committed on Wednesday to the care of the Serjeant at Arms for prevaricating in his evidence, is still in duresse. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, JULY 21.—An lain Rev. H. M'Sorlly, to Tortoise. 11. Carter, to Intauns: LAUNCH OF THE CRESSY.—CHATHAM, JULY 21. To-day cur dockyard presented a very gay scene, in conse quence of the launch of the Cressy,Bo, screw steamship, which was witnessed by an extensive circle of naval and military officers, and numerous parties from London. The Creasy was designed in 1844. Within the last 12 months it was decided that she should be changed from a sailing to a screw steam ship, and her form of body, which is fine shaft, ren dered it an easy task to adapt her for a screw propeller without its being requisite to increase her length, which has been the cue with the greater number of ships built ex pressly for sailing, when it afterwards became desirable to convert them into strew steamships. Tho Cressy is 251 feet in length, her extreme breadth is 55 feet, and her bur den in tons (old measurement), 2,537. Her engines are of 400 horse power. At half-past 12 Miss Percy daughter of Vies - Admiral Percy, named the ship, divided 'her retaining cord, and the Cressy glided majestically into the Medway. PORTB3IOUTH, JULY 21.—The fleet at Spithead have exercised in shifting spars to-day. The Agamem. non, 91, screw steam ship, Captain Sit Thomas Maitland, was takes into dock to-day; she is to have an addition of 14 inches of false keel fitted to her aft. The Cyclops, steam sloop, sailed to-day for the eastward. The Plumper, 9, screw sloop, went out of harbour to-day to the measured mile at Stokes Bay, to try her engines ; she afterwards re turned into harbour. The Growler, f, steam sloop, was taken nut of the steam basin to-day. The commander-in chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, proceeded yes terday on an official visit to the Channel Islands, in the Dasher, steamer. The Firefly, steam-sloop, sailed yester day for Woolwich, to be paid off. The Desperate,screw steam-sloop, Captain Chambers, was taken out f dock yesterday. WILTSHIRE FAItM LAI present the labour market is in such a state in Wiltshire:that one of the principal duties is to bear charge. brought by the far mers against their servants, for leaving their employment without notice. The labourers agree at the commencement of the winter to work for a year at a low rite of wages, and as harvest draws near refuse to work without an advance. Several warrants have been recently issued for the appre hension of lime who have absconded. Sherburne Journal. IRELAND. Delmar, Jezr 21. The remarkable libel cue o f " Bitch v. the Pro prietors of the Freeman's Journal," at the Kildare assizes, terminated last evening, at the conclusion ut the third day, in a verdict for the defendants ou all the counts. The verdict has been received with satisfacticw by men of all parties, the plaintiff, and his late journal, the World, having, as might be expected. hem no great favourites with any. The weather has greatly improved within the last two days, and the reports on the state of the crops are without any exception favourable : the cases of blight observed in the potato crop being only of a coy partial character. The Limerick Chronicle says: Report from Castle's, south eastern district of this conr.ey, 'aye that crops of all descriptions are inn favourable lace. Oats and barley most luxuriant and promising. Whe..t, very little sown, and what there is generally spring so . s n and also promising. Tho potato crop act so general as in other parts of the county, and is up to the present reported tree from disease_ although farmers are anxiously looking out, and if symptoms appeared it would be quickly known. Turnips most promising. The fly, its deadly enemy, bag not appeared this year. There are not so much mangolds, carrots, and parsnips sowed as in former years when they proved such an excellent substitute for the potato. The backward state of the spring may bane c vetted this, as with farmers' experience of the excellence of these crop•, it can be accounted for in no other way. Hay harreat has com menced, and the crop considered shout ; this, with the late period in spring to which stall feeding had to be continued, will tend to make meadowing much in demand. Mr. O'Meagher's property, near Cahir, in tire county of Tipperary, sold last week in the hewn bered Estates Court, was purchased in trust for Lord Gough. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.—TtIVRSDAY. Owing to the meeting at Nottingham the room was very thinly attended, and only a limited amount of business wan transacted. On two or three horses, however, the invest ments were to some money. GOODWOOD STAKES. Hobby Horse was backed at 4 to 1 and 9 to 2 for upwards of 2bol. ; 7to 1 taken to 761. about Joe Make. ; and, at 10 and 9to I, about 1.10/. was laid out in favour of Vindeg. 12 to 1 would have been taken about Trifle—odds which were repeatedly offered against Haricot. tionsksh had a couple of friends present, and, at 2.5 to 1, their joint ven ture amounted to 60/. Muscovite was quite in tho shade. THE DERBY. At the commencement 13 to 1 was laid to 2?.it. against Autocrat ; at the close 12 to 1 was taken to nearly the same money. 2,000 to 100 and 2,250 to 125 wire talc( n about Dervish ; 1,000 to 30 offered against Andover, and 1,000 to 15 agst Reel colt. Closing prices : GOODWOOD STAKES. 4 to 1 apt Lord Derby's Hobby Horse (t) 6to 1 Mr. Parker's Joe Miller (t 7to 1) 9 to 1 Sir C. Moack's Viatica (t freely) 11 to 1 ?dr. T. Parr's Trifle (t 12 to 1) 12 to 1 Mr. l'Anson's Ilaricot (off) 25 to I Mr. Blackburne's Goorkah (t) BENTINCK MEMORIAL STAKES For Two-Year-Olds. 60 to 40 laid twice on Autocrat apt Dervish. (Eoth to ran.) - - - - . ST. LEGER. 12 to 1 apt Mr. Powney's Cineas (t to 500 DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Mr. IL E. Cooper's Autocrat (t) 18 to 1 Lord Derby's Dervish (t) 1000 to 30 Mr. Etwall's Andover (offered) 1000 to 15 Duke of Richmond's colt by Tan Tromp—Reel (offered). Notice.—The room will be open on Saturday next. Tun JOCKEY Cixu.—A general meeting of the Jockey Club will be held during the Goodwood race week. NOTTINGHAM RACES.—Tuunsaty. SCARBOROUGH 6TAKE6 of 40 boys, added to a sweep stakes of 5 sou each. Weight for age. Mares and geldii.gs allowed Sib. One mile and a half. (7 subs.) Mr. Copperthwaite's The Deformed,, 3 yes, Get 71.1) (Wells) 1 Mr. J. Dawson's Lady Vernon, 3 yrs, Get 7lb (Mimell) 2 Mr. T. Dawson's Lerrywbcut, 4 yrs, (Alacrott) Mr. Bell's Alfred the Great, 4 yn, Bst....(Basham) 4 Capt. Scott's Angelo, 3 yea, Gst 1016 (Carroll) 5 Betting 2 to 1 on The Deformed, 5 to 1 agst Leery wheut, 6 to 1 agst Alfred the Great. The favourite led throughout, and won easily by a length. Same distailee between second and third. Routs Boon StaiiisOf 10 sore each, with 50 lidded, for 2.yr olds ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Est 31b. Certain win ners extra. T.Y.C. (8 subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Brown Brandy, 9st (including 7lb extra) (J. Osborne) 1 Mr. Knowles's The Caliph Bst 71b (Basham)) 2 The following also ran :—Mory by 'Litman Platen . — Maria, c. by the Hero, dam by T..uchstone, Horatio, Do mino. SETRWOOD HANDICAP of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft if declared, &c. Gentlemen riders. Professionals, 7lb extra; certain winners eau... One mile and a qua rter. 14 subs., 7 of whom pay 5 stem each. Mr. T. Dawson's The Italian, 6 yrs, lOst 71b (Captain Little) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Pride, 3 yrs, Oat 31b (including 71b extra) Owner) 2 Mr. Saxon's Sirll 'deem 6 yrs, 10st 121 b (Mr. Elwes) 3 Mr. D. Lane's Agis, aged, list (Owner) 4 Mr. Condron's Smuggler Bill, aged, 10et (Captain Haworth) 5 Mt. C. Fenning's Thirklebyhi b), 5 yrs, lOst (Mr. Bevill) NOTTINOHAN HANDICAP of 20 SOTS. each, 10 ft, and only sif declared, &c., with 200 added. The owner of the second horse to receive 50 loss., and the third horse to save his stake. Certain winners extra. Two miles and a quarter. (63 subs., 39 of whom declared). Baron Rothschild's Hungcrford, 5 yrs, Set 71b (Charlton) 1 Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor, 5 yrs, 7st slb (o , borne) 2 Mr. Goodwin's Musician, 6 yrs, 7st 91b (G. Sharpe) 3 Mr. Chilton's Audubon, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (Carrol) 4 The following also ran :—lndian Warrior, Ethelwolf, Placid, Jacqueline, Contentment, and Florist. COUNTY MENBLILS' PLATE 01 50 son., added to a sweep stakes of 5 sou. each, ; for 3-yr•olds and upwards. 'lto winner to be sold for 3001.; allowances if to be sold for less. One mile and a quarter. (5 subs.) Mr. Gibbs's Nancy Martinson, 4 yrs (20/.), Gst 61b (Wells) 1 Mr. T. Dawson's Italian, 6 yrs (500, Sat Ilb (Aldcroft) 2 Capt. Little's bm by Counsellor out of Miss Lucy b), 5 yrs (500, 7st 91b (Crouch) 3 Mr. Knowles's The Pearl, 3 yrs, Sat llb (carried Sat 31b) (Oliver) 4 Mr. J. Osborne's Equal, 4 yrs (201.) Get Sib (Carrel) 6 (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CASTLE HANDICAP. Calor Humphrey G OODWOO: WEIGHTS for the I ).-LAST DAY. !IiESTERYIBLD CUP. Age. it. lb. Longbow Arioeto Hobble Noble Daniel O'Rourke 4 8 6 RnightoftheSbire 4 8' 4 Little Harry 4 8 2 Frantic Gossamer Pelion 3 7 13 Indian Warrior 4 7 12 Father Thames 4 7 11 Lambs.= 3 7 11 Bardolph Zephyr Rattle 3 7 6 Poodle 4 7 6 Pharos 3 7 5 Nabob 4 7 3 Gossip 3 7 2 Nutoooksr 3 7 2 Wzrowrs for the Nuns' st. lb. Wild Huntsman 8 9 Woodrow Bribery Ivan 8 6 Queen's Own 8 6 Vignette 8 5 Astolfo Jack F►ost 7 9 Reel colt 7 9 c by John o'Glaunt out of Valentina Student Clio 7 6 Royalist Village Lass Lady Audrey 7 4 Calliope Kenny-side Hens Naomi 7 4 Cable YORK AUGLJE WElt.itT. for the *izea Health 6 5 Bonnie Bairn 6 4 Jovial ST MEETING. DUNDAS SUM. " 0.,. Age -- et lb Sally Warfoot colt 4 8 7 Pharos 3 8 4 Muter Slender The General. by Vend.= 3 8 0 The Italian 6 8 0 The Friar Phantom 4 7 12 Faversham 3 7 12 Gossip 3 7 9 Antigone 5 7 9 Age at lb Lady in Waiting. 4 7 6 Catherine Parr 3 7 6 Corybaates 3 7 4 Ammonia Snowdon Dunhill 3 7 4 13everlae 3 7 3 Gavotte The Surveyor Wings of a Dove Captain Cornish Physalia 6lly 3 610 RESIMT OF THE OUTRAGE AT BARNET.—Yeeter day the victim of this horrible outrage, Rebecca Brogsden, [ died in the Barnet Union Workhouse, after haring suit, red the meet ezanmating agony. Age. st. lb. Seittus 3 7 2 Eulogist Hunca Muaca Snowdon Dunhill 3 6 12 Abdallab 6 6 11 Larnbay Lord Lieutenant 3 6 11 Greyleg Dagobert 3 6 9 The Friar King Pepin Beverlac 3 6 7 Jouvence Cornelius Golden Plover Cat's•paw Allington Phrygia The Dandy Nerve 3 6 9 AY Sr*;AM for 2-yrolds. at. lb. Joan of Arc Wiukfield Beauty Eparoulondas Cyrus The Uncleared Spicey 6 12 Barquine 6 12 Callihan Sister to Filing Margaretta 6 7 Vingt•un 6 7 The Brigadier Adelaide 6 7 Remorse 6 7 Lady Bird .... 6 6 _ _