The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. SOUSE OF COMMONB.—WzDxrBDAT, Arm. 24. TIN SriAxsa took Ow &Aar shortly after 12 (Mock. PUBLIC BUSINESS. JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL. . _ _ 11r. M. 111 LNES, i moviog the sewed read*, of the Juvenile °faller' Bill, soil that this was a subject which had lose attracted public etteellee. In 1847 a committee of the Howse et Lords, eseriefert of the Lard Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, sad ether legal authorities made a report, is whisk they stated that the sootamination of • owl mioht ofm prom fatal, sad must be hurtful to boys who had been c^maitted for the Ant antes. The or gave a frightful picture of the offsets thus produced. In Liverpool several boys nadir twelve years of ere had been committed fltura times, sad the average was Mae times. The report proceeded to sossider the gustiest of punishment of iento& offenders, and the commit..e wow dimmed to recommend the adoption of reformatory mea sure. This portion of the report was the foundation of the bill which he had laid on the table. They recommended the inareesed liability of the parents of then children, and the establiiiiment of • reformatory asylum. la 1847 the magistrates of Warwickshire addressed to the government a most stringeat request on this subject, and implored govern meat to interfere, end establish some more economical and el lsieht system. The map lenity of Liverpool also presented • memorial to the Hoene office. Sian then (Tequia appli cable. had been made to goverment upon the subject, and yesterday a memorial was presented to the Home Secretary, mimed by 60 of the chaplains of the priutpal gaols of this cons try. The number imprisoned in 1848 was 8.148, as appeared from the reopen of the inspector of primes. The umber com mitted twice was 934; the numberoommitted three times 438; four times 673. lathe metropolitan prisons, the proportion of recommittals had averaged 51 per c:nt. Is Liverpool 2311 per cent had been in prison four times. Surprising as tale Wags might be, a little consideration would lead to the eon• elusion that they wen =use consequence of the way in which gout wane er were treated in this (vestry. Crime with these children Mame a protession, and took the chances of • profession. A carious instance of this woe fa the adoption of the words of these children. A piece *kr bited by thieves always went by the name of 'Mob, and the act of sashes *.ways west by the name of wore. Coe* dais, the stet. of the prisms to which these children mem committed, how esuld things be otherwise than t‘ey *ow were ? The hon. member thee suffer, dto the account give by Dr. Dodd, who had bees cutieed in Newest* ha 1722, end oho quoted **evidence of Capt. William's, the hugsseeseef prison, sad the SiStellitaill of Jeremy Bentham. He the** thatmhoelleg is prisons leader the present system weld work se good. The system of eduestio• at present was very imperfect. Oat of 3,781 aisle children who were con victed in 1343 there were only 747 who while is prison had loomed to write or reed, sad that badly ; and out of 235 females there were only 22 who weld rood or write. The present treatmeat of javelins offenders wee to itself bed ; and in the It. clause of this bill he proposed that no child over 14 years of age should receive corporal potash ment,and the jurisdiction in the eases of criminals uader the bi 1 wee vested in two marinates. On criminals over that a g e corporal punialusest had a degrading et et. The only change which he proposed to make with regard to summary cone ctiors was, that he proposed that offenders guilty for the first time of small [hero should not be tent to prison, but corporally punished at the nest police statics, and then discharged. As regarded female children who were found pH* of • petty theft an the first charge, he prop --sod that they should be reprimanded and diehard. The bill also astound classes which threw the responsibi lity of the child to a certain extent on the parent. It may be said that by introdadrg clauses to that sleet he was asking as Marred .n in law. but they had the authority of sommittee of the Howe of Lords, composed of the highest legal fitactimaries in the land, who recommended such • err tem. He proposed that when a child was convicted of theft the magistrates sL:uld have the power of summoning the parents, and if it was found that they had incited the child to the deed they should be considered guilty of • misde meanour, and he thought it would be advisable also to make the parents, in eases where they could not be proved to be s immediately connee.ed with the crime of the child, enter into recogninaces for its farms good behaviour. He read a statement made by the /menhir of the Reading Owl, show. ing how advaatmeous it would be to carry nth • proposition into praetix. This bill would also give to the magistrates the power of erecting industrial schools if they thought it *fernery where juves-ile offenders could be removed ; these sahoo's would prove highly beneficial in themselves, and would cause a neat saving to the country. The system had been tried in France to some eaten?, and was found to be highly successful. It wee partially tried in England at the Philaattiropie Institution, sad succeeded admirably. Emi gration of criminals was now tried as a means of getting rid of the bad portion of society is this country, but he thought from circumstances wbiclt had occurred lately, at the Cape of (Wad Hope, for instance, it won doubtful whether they could go on with that system. His bill would be found eoesistent with cutting penal enactment,, merely adding a clams pro. vidag for the industrial reformation of the children under certain circumstances.ls other clauses he gave power to . . the guardians to provide for the children when trearmsd by apprenticeship or colonisation, but only in eases when the teachers and other authorities had restos to think that their reformation was complete. Re proposed that in the districts schools should be provided, each capable of containing forty children, the expense in every case to be defrayed by the parish in which the offender was entitled t 3 a settlement. The annual expense of their prosecution and maintenance was also en enormous item in the national expenditure, so much so as to render the prospective expense under his bill a large comparative saving. Sir G. GREY could assure his hen, friend that he was not inclined to treat with iadiff,renee any practical plan for the reformation of juvenile offenders, but as his hon. friend had appealed to him to sive his opinion as to whether the plan proposed was deserving of that character, he must beg to oak attention to some of the provisions of his hon. friend's bill, after which he would leave it to the house to consider whether it was one calculated to meet the evil of which every one admitted the existence. The bill had four different objects in view. First, it cave a very wide extension to the summary jurisdiction of magistrates in the cue of offenders nada sixteen years of a. e, one provision giving a power 4 quiva:ent to transportation for fourteen years. Secondly, it adopted the principle of attaching criminal responsibility to the parents of young criminals, binding cum to keep their &Whom free from evil contact and example, and subjecting them, in default, to the summary jurisdiction of the magi* trate:. In this second par: was also comprised the principle of punkhing the parents of offenders under 16 mire of age. Ibe third principle of the bill went to the establishment of district or county tehools for the reception of juvenile offen ders who had been convicted the second time—not, be it observed, at quarter or petty sessions, but by anramary juris diction of the magistrates. The fourth involved the liability of the parish—not that one in which the culprit had happened to be sent to gall, but that to which he was found, on inquiry, to have originally belonged. Now, with regard to the first principle, that of summary jurisdiction , he must say that the bill, as it had beta reca nt altered by his hon. friend, was mere surplusage. If it did anything, it only superseded the act of the boo. hart the member for Droitwich, the 10th sad 11th Victoria; while, on the other band, it was totally silent as to the exercise of penal powers at guar ter ~,seas—providing. n o powers for enforcing the attend- sacs of +Basses, ao - fortiof onviction, no - arrangement for the payment of any . one neesesecy expense. (" Hear," and • laugh.) His hon. friend memod is attach ranch importance to the power he proposed ts give —but which wee already given by law—to magistrates to abstain from . committing to prison for the first Whom, by merely awarding some slight corporal punishment. The principle was already established by law,but the boa. member proposed • very wide extension. Coming to the see' red clause he found his hon. friend pro posing to give • very extensive jurisdiction over adults to the magistrates. In the first place it was provided that magistrates should have the power of punishing the father of • juvenile offender, no matter whether that offender' might be au illegitimate child. According to the bill the moiher of such a child, or the putative father, might be convicted for evil example, ill-treatamat, or neglect, and punished ea fcr a aulemeanor. (Hear, hear.) In the third clause this power was carried still further, bat his objection to the clause was of a different character. The panishmad extended to all adult piteous who should, by alma metigatiow, came any child under sixteen Now, elf are to commit a crime. (Hear, hear.) Now, is. objected to giving to any magistrates summary jurisdiction in eases of this nature. (Hear, hear.) He took the cue of • parent ins:irides • child to oontrolt murder. By this bill the offence was made a matter for summary jurisdiction, although the law made it a case for capital punishment. A magistrate might flee a man from 6s. to 31., and give him a month's imprisonmeat for what the cosmos law adjudged that he should suffer death. (Hear, hear.) He was reminded by his hos. friend that there was a pro vilion at the end of the clause, to the effect that nothing la the bill should override or nullify existing law; but it was well known that by the laws of England • men could sot be triAl twice for the use offices, so that by his hon. friead's bill the convicted instigator of a murder might get off for a ass of 6. and a month's imprissameat. " (Hear " sad lwarbter.) litrertier to other portions of the bill, nod mvertiag to this question of summary juriselle. ties_ he would refer the house to the 13th, 19th, and nail clauses, to show how far the pried* was can The 13th clauseh which • power to commit to the industrial schools w were only brought into ope ratios on the second ammieden. Here was a power given et sentencing for the woad communion of DOM trifling of hare, to tea weeks' correction and reformatios. But in the 19th clause it was provided that if after the expiration of Iwo years' detention ia Mae seltood, • child should have on palest or friend to give security for his good coodnet, the magistrates shoals' have a power widen he (Sir 0. Orel) looked upon as ems of the most extraordinary that was ever Minfided to jostler of the pease. If they were not minded With the puaishment of the child alter two years' detention, they were empowered to employ him as • soldier or sailor ia her Majesty's genic*. (Loud laughter.) How his hon. friend proposed to compel her Majesty he take Mine children into her ovals military service it sertabily was not fur him Mir 0. Gerry) to my. (Coatlassed laughter.) His hon. fri• red reminded Mat of the !mash code. He could not say what was the French sod* as regarded sole diets or sailors, but if such were its prinking. it would hardly be followed in this couitry. (Ilea bar.) Thea ia the 2l'ad clause It was prop wed that in tastes of the third conviction the issiiistrates should base power to commit these children to prisok(steasearily) for any ps riod act exceeding seven years. by this was tantameest to traesporta•ioe ! His hon. friend said that the word " truseportatioa" was am mention. d ; bet certainly • power was gives to two libidos macistretet tantmeouat to trans ported's fee saves years. (" Meer," and laughter.) His he- Baled he had now Beim trough the main provisions of the bill, namely these We se much extended the summary jury. distils, of thus magistrate', and alter the debates whisk had THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1850.. Mr. COCKBURN said be bed made eg Me Mei thlit wee hesituhes moot th r labs He fag wawa id ! d t bad las iron lhe geetiletime wht NO down es *the ha in eedi be tbe of jetties. Hs be amid it es bla Oar Of eur saalail = rds, sad that it was of the asset ewe ; end the only growl as whist; be bed made to rappert the mum MB eseellest he believed women number or seen is whisk Iliteey SOW le thimitwd whilst witnesses were elliosi to she eh es*. U all less weld be get to give dole semimegt "pea sub, tiles lie set It we mot to be abatis.; bee abed this. existed , es there did fa many oasis, a osesoisolooo Stalin 111 dill taking of it. then the parties, embedding Akan ought to he allowed to give their twin., yea elleibillea. He believed that scrotal religious setts Inked apes it se a iesdaisestel principle slat they 'heel& mitt take an eeld. Was the bone prepar ed to withdraw the plass* grained to Heckles sad Hsravtees / II they were, thee they would shut est the testimony of au whose 'videos, was aecessery hr the eresiehhation of jasttse. Kr. 0017LiIIIIN oboinvell k was no part of his armnost that the phew a ssj le withdrew& nroon Qookon mad Morevlono. COCK BURN had certainly understood the right hon. gentlemen to denominate the privilege an " eburdity." (Hoer, Mar.) The erne point as whisk he took hue Mend' we. this—that we could net compel sea who entered • wart of justice to take so oath, and that, es ewes ia which they refused to take the oath constantly area, society lost the benefit of their evidence. The utmost are and pr. caution, however, were nemerary to protect cuurts of justice from being impanel appeosa by persons cooties forward, and making a false d eelantloa, for he freely admitted that mute might make a Ulm decla• ration who would not make a declaration falsely it they were upon their oath. (" Hsu " sad chars frees the opposition.) He had seen person. kieslog their thumb end finger instead ' of kissing the book, end when they were made to hisl the book, then he had obserwd • total change in their de meanour. (Hew, beer.) He believed *bet the imerrate of the public required that the principle of this bill 'Mould be adopted ; and thersfuire he would give it his support. (Hear, hear.) Mr. NBWDEOATE opposed the bill. He thought the 'feet of the suggestions of the hot. member (Mr. Cockburn) would be to introduce two kinds of evidence into courts ofjustiee—evidetnes oa oath, end evidence not on oath. Sir R.N. BUXTON quoted the evidence of the clerk of the Central Criminal Court takes before the House of Lords committee to show that upon the credit of testimony given upon affirmation in that court no questim ever arose. He was certain that if the present discretion were continued to be left is the bends of the judges no inconvenience would arise from it ; but on the contrary the ends of justice would be promoted, whilst the conscientious scruples of individuals would be respected. The house then divided when there sopearsd For going into oommitte• es the bill 129 Avant it l4B-19 The anuounesment was received with loud chain by the I opponents of the IltelleUre. SMALL TENEMENTS RATING BILL. Several araeadaaeata sad some elms ware twougbt ap sad added to this bill. Dlr. W. PATTEN objected to the Clang* which only gm an abatement of the rates to owners to the extant of nine tenths. He had no objection to throw the rates upon the owners, but he thought if they paid 3-4ths it would be ample. Re moved therefore to substitute three-fourths for nine-tenths, which amendment was speed to. Mr. P. SCROPE moved that that put of the clause giving the parties power to compound for two-thirds of the rates, be altered to one-half. After a diactudon Mr. BAINTS suggested that the parties should be at liberty to compound at any amount not less than one-half, instead of two-thirds, in which lons the amendment was agreed to. Other clauses were added to the bill, and the bill was ordered to be reed a third time. HIGHWAYS BILL. Mr. C. LEWIS, in answer to a request to postpone this bill to • distant day, said he would oertaialy proceed with it on the Bth of May. COLLECTION OF FEES BY STAMPS (COURT OF CHANCERY) The home went into committee, and agreed to the resolu tion oa which the bill on this subjeMt is to be founded. FEES—COURT OF COMMON PLEAS (COMPEN SATION.) The report of the reeolutiou on this subject was brought up and agreed to. NEW WRIT. A new writ wee ordered for Lymington, in the room of the Hoe. C3l. Heppe!, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. .11e - e - hoWae adjourned a hw urinates before eh o'clock. .11Fites,,Orlirt00* I P,' ING MAILS. The ugh hp =North Allergia sad the- Gaited States we he ma, y to-raorrow evening. The waft Ifes Liebe., Spain, sad Gibraltar 'KU be made up ca W. The West India Mane, Inehidiag Beraaitia, Havaaaali, Sassaa, Honduras, New Orleans, sad Mizico, sad excluding shear foe Madeira, St. Juan-de-Nicisragua, New Gnash, Chill, sail Penh whU be atadeup on May 2. Tao mails for Maderia, the Braille, sad Buenos Ayres, will be wade up on the 4th of May. The mails rid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, yloa, ladle. Hong-Kong, he., will be made up on the @venlig of May 7. The mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Greta', the lonian Islands, egypt, Csyloa, India, and China, vim Southampton, will be made up on the moraine of May 20. HION WATIS AT LONDON WRIDOIL Tu.. Dav—lfendoe. IC EI IL /0-••••ol•—lifanWhe. IL el. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25. IN all the annals of financial blundering there his rarely been a parallel to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S new scale of Stamp Duties. "Sir CHARLES WOOD'S scale" will inevitably go down to posterity as a joke. No Irish Chancellor of the Ex chequer could have made a funnier blunder. It is recorded of the late Mr. MARTIN, of Galway, that in order to impress a city capital , st with the extent of his resources, he 'misted that his debts amounted to twice as much as the citizen's accumulations. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S new device for raising revenue is of a piece with Mr. MARTIN'S cal culation of his wealth. Sir CHARLES Woon has the singular merit of having, by a most ingenious artifice, proposed a tax that nobody need ever pay. If he has a majority to-morrow night he will deserve it, for ench a scheme must make him wonderfully po- pular. Sir CHARLES WOOD proposes to adopt the duty fixed by the House of Commons upon a Bond Stamp of the value of 501. That duty is le. or 2•. per cent. Upon all stamps, however, be tween .501. and 2001. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QVER ears that the necessities of the state re quire that he should impose &higher scale. He will there fore take these duties at the rate of 6s. per cent. Thus, upon a consideration of 1501. he imposes a stamp duty of Bs. Gd., for the purpose of raising reve rue. If a mac, therefore, wants to raise 501, he will have to pay Is.: if he wants to raise 1501., the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposes to make him pay Bs. 6d. But Sir CHARLES Woon has forgotten that there is nothing to prevent Tom JONES, who desires to raise 1501., giving three stamps, each of the value of 501., instead of one stamp of the value of 150/. The three stamps of 501. would cost him 3s. ; the one stamp of 1501. would cost him Bs. Gd. "We calculate" there can be very little doubt as to which description of stamp Tom JONES would be likely to prefer. A man at a beer-shop, who started on the principle of un derselling his neighbours, proposed to retail his ale at Id. a pint, making up his loss thereon by charging an additional price upon the gallon. Bat customers who brought their own cans requested to bo served with a gallon of ale, in pints, thereby paying Is. 4d. for what, taken in the larger form, would have cost nearly as much again. It is just such ano.her " ope ration "that is contemplated by the great national financial COCKER. Such a blunder as this shows at once the dilemma, the CHANCELLOR of the EECHEQUER has fallen into by abandoning the principle of an equable ad valorem scale. how he is to get out of such a difficulty, it is impossible to foresee. It would be impossible to irtro duce a clause compelling every man to use a stamp of a specific value : no clause could be drawn to meet the case. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER may rely upon the inconvenience, which the multiplication of stamps would necessarily occasion, or upon some idea that solicitors would charge more in tl.e shape of outs, if a bond was given in the form of three stamps instead of one. But the incon venience, whatever it may amount to, will be quite counterbalanced by the pecuniary saving; and as for the charges of attorneys, we are fast arriving at those halcyon days when every man will be his own attor ney, at least in cases of small transactions. At the present time anyone can obtain a printed form of bond upon stamped paper at the nearest law sta- Itioner's ; and if the transactions are to be multiplied under the new scale of stamp duties as the CHANCEL- Loa cf the EXCHEQUER expects they will be, it will be only in those which involve large considerations that the aid of a scrivener will be necessarily required. The fact we have above noticed shows uomisbake ably that the scale as it now stands for adoption by the house is simply impract'cable. We pointed out yesterday that it was exceedingly unjust, proposing, as it does, a rate which levies an additional per ceettage upon the small borrower, whilst it relieves the very rich one from the ad valorem duty. Be tween Sir CHARLES Wooli'S scale and the scale of which the minimum has already been fixed by parliament, there cannot 100 a moment's choice, provided the revenue is not affected by the greater diminution. Now, on this point we have the advan tage of the calculations of a correspondent practically acquainted with the detail' of the subject, and he Eroves very conclusive ly that the CHANCELL OR o f th e XCHEQUER has estimated his loss of 286,000/. upon conveyances, on data which will not bear a moment's scrutiny. It is on " conveyances.," remem ber, that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER esti mates his loss; upon the other stamps he admits that any diminution would be counterbalanced by the gains upon the larger items. To establish his cue what has the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER dons? He has estimated that t wo thirds of all the stamps issued, which are am/int/de to conveyances, are actually used for conveyances. This estimate he has followed throughout the scale, without reference to the amount of the stamp. He then takes seven items from the list, and he says, I shall lose as follows : Upon 10s. stamps £ 17,008 „ 11. „ 11.10 s. .7 „ 21. „ OP It a II DO 91 . The great items of loss are upon the stamps between 109. and 30s. Upon these he calculates that he shall have to sacrifice no less than 187,000!. of the total. But the fact is, that those stamps on which the CHAN caLLon of the EXCHEQUER assumes this lose, are stamps used for a vast variety of other purposes than for conveyances. A 10e. stamp is used as a stamp for receipts in full of all demands; as a stamp upon protests; as a stamp upon bills of exchange ; as a stamp upon appraisements of particular amounts— end above all, as a stamp upon memorials. The statement of " &rotator " kith the number of memo rials registered in Middlesex proves in the most con elusive manner that scarcely any of the 10s. stamps could possibly have been used u stamps upon con veyances. Indeed we all know that in practice scarcely such a thing exists as a conveyance of land of a value of lea than 201. And yet the CHANCELLOR has calculated that there are nearly 60,000 such con veyances annually, and has shaped his estimate of loss accordingly ! In the same way with the 11. stamp. This stamp is used for all the different purposes in the list following : Appraisements I Mortgages Apprentice Indentures I Money Bonds Annuity Bonds Powers of Attorney Duds of Bale Ws:rents of Attorney Lessee Protrusive Duties Is the shape of progressive &sties (or "followers") alone it is calculated that at least 150,000 of these 1/. stamps are used annually. Upon leases many thou land more must be used, because this IL stamp is the stamp almost universally employed for building leases and others where the rent is of a small amount. In the same way with the 30s. stamp. This stamp is the stamp applicable to counterparts of leases, and as every leu• has a counterpart, the number of these stamps must be reduced by so many as there arc leases annually executed in Ureat Britain. And yet the CiteNeaLLOß of the Excitecinxit has absolutely calculated the amount of his loss upon an estimate that no lean than two-thirds of all such stamps as these are stamp. used as ad ealurras stamps upon con veyances. The fallacy of the wools calculation is so transparent that we wonder the Stamp-office should nave fancied for a moment that any one amid be de ceived by it. At a very favourable calculation to the CRANCRI.I.OIt of the ExcitaguEtt, so far firm losing 260,000 i. upon conveyances, the utmost amount of his losa in the least favourable years could not possibly exceed 120,0001., and would probably be as low as 100,0001. The Stamp-office calculates that the ad valorem scale of duties upon bonds and mortgages, commencing at Is., would entail a loss of 150,0001. additionaL For our own parte, we do not believe that it would entail a loss a 60,0001., to may nothing of the rest. But grant that the loss will be 150,0001: add this to 120,0004 the loss upon conveyances, and the total would be just the amount which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER originally . proposed to give the pub lic in the shape of a remission of taxation. Sir Cumuss WOOD threatened us on Monday night, that if he could not carry his unjust and (u we have now shown) impracticable scale, he "should be obliged to abandon the bill alfogether." As it is at present shaped, we cannot say that we think the public would weep over its loss. There is nothing more ardently to be desired than an Equable ad valo rem duty upon stamps of all kiwis, commenc ing at the lowest practicable EESIe. This bill gives us nothing of the sort ; all it gives us is a most objectionable scale, commencing much too high. Rather than such a measure as this, which unsettles the text of the Stamp Acts without reforming them, we would prefer to take the 300,00 W. the Cuut eguka of the EXCHEQUER has to give us in almost any other form he may think right to offer it. Whether he applied it to remove the window duty, the adver tisement duty, the soap duty, or some other obnoxious excise duty, would matter very little. In either of these forms, or in many others, we might get the 300,0001.—noder this Stamp Unties Bill no one will ever receive a farthing of it. Tue feature of the Conference of the National Re form Association, now in session, which inspires with most hope of good results from its deliberaiions, is its reality. The association may be at present numerous or it may not; the public mind may be ready to come forward with enthusiasm to support the association, or it may not; but this is certain, that the members of the Conference really represent the sentiment& of the provincial as well is the metropolitan reformers ; that the political leaders of opinion in our provincial capitals are present =once Them. For example, Mr. HUME and C o l one l T HOMPSON will be allowed on all hands to represent fairly the old and stanch reformers of the metropolis. Messrs. KitasuAw, BRIGHT, and COBDEN are entitled to speak in behalf of the mighty mass of public opinion wnich was organised in the late Anti-Corn Law League. Messrs. LATTTMORE and TILLETT bring to the coun cils of the Conference the spirit and in'elligenen of the reformers of the agricultural districts. And when we turn to look to individuals more than to classes, every person acquainted with provircial politics will admit that no more reliable representative of Lei cester could be found than Mr. BIGGS, of Sheffield than Mr. SCHOFIELD. Tee Conference is composed of men who have re spectively earned the confidence of their fellow citizens; who are reco.rnined in their localities as leviers or organs of public opinion. Collectively taken it has a personal hold on a large potion of the electorate of the kingdom. The views and senti_ ments expressed in it may be confidently received as those which animate the great body of the industrial middle classes, at d which are sure to prevail in the first political movement to which any incidental circumstance may give cccasion. Scarcely less important is the spirit of mutual coa -1 ciliation observable in the members of Conference, and the firmness with which they adhere to the pro gramme adopted when the association was originally formed. The tone and temper of their discussions have been eminently satisfactory. As their energetic and indefatigable president remarked, they have met not to decide upon the nature or extent of the prrliamen tary reform they shall seek, that having been already determined. 'their "discussions and deliberations have reference to practical measures for carrying out a previously adopted, and gent rally accepted, scheme of representative improvement." A rather inc,..n siderate attempt to re-open the question of the exact measure of parliamentary reform they were to seek, has elicited a most unequivocal expression of the Con ference's agreement in pinion with their chairman. In the words of Mr. TirwarrEs, their object is "to give practical suggestions for the operations of the association;" or, as Mr. TILLEIT expressel him self, " to consider the best practical means of carrying out the principles which had been stated as the basis of the association." In this spirit two important resolutions were adopted by the Conference on the first day of its meeting, instructing and empowering the council to take measures for organising local cammietets and facilitating the enrolment of members; and for dis tributing tracts and sending lecturers to visi: various district.. An equ .11y important resolution was carried yesterday, to the effect that " the council be r quested to prepare a bill containing the plan of reform pro posed by the association, with a view to its intro duction in that shape into parliament." The resolutions we have alluded to appear to us to combine all that is required for an efficient combina tion of a parliamentary and out-of-doors agitation of the objects of the Conference. By embodying their plan of reform in a definite and tangible bill, the evasive pretexts under which professing reformers in parliament shrink from supporting it are exposed in all their hollowness. And with such • bill in their hands, the agents of the association's missionary ex ertions among the general public have their tuk in calculably simplified. The skit in which the Conference received and re sponded to the remarks addressed to them yesterday by Mr. CURIES convinces us that they will rot do the work slackly. It is indeed true, as that gentleman observed, that it is " only by long and arduous work " they can look to attain their objects. The whole polvical power in this country sprang from registration ; that was a subject to which they must pay the greatest attention. The only political, moral, and c4nstitu tional means by which they could edect any object in this country was by attention to the register. Every man, when he got home, must attend mos t earnest l y an d zealo usly to this subject ; must form associations for this purpose. It they did this, they would gain a great influence in parlia• ment. TM+ was an object which could not be effected by central efforts ; local efforts were the great means to be ap plied. But it was not only in the boroughs that they mug wort ; the greatest opposition to the cause of reform was to be found among the county members. • • • lle firmly believed that it was by actiqr upon the counties that the Anti-Cora-law League had succeeded in its efforts. lie bad always said, during that agitation, that let the m osly get South Lancashire, the West Riding, and East Surrey, and they would carry the repeal of the corn. laws. Well, they got them, and they carried the repeal. Let them, then, by means of the National Land Amociations, work upon the counties, and there could be no doubt that they would in like manner carry their citjects. The members of the Conference are no mere theo retical poachers of abstract principles of parliamen tary reform. The Conference embraces the members of parliament who supported Mr. Ilt - stE's motion and the representatives of the reformers among the consti tuencies. They meet to deliberate on the best way of rousing and organising the electors to support them. At present the old aristocratic parties are in a state of helpless disorganiaatios. They growl at each' other, but neither of them can muster strength to strike a decisive blow at its adversary. They aro both more afraid of the growing inde pendent middle class than of each other. In this their paralysed state, the National Reform As sociation presents to the people the nucleus of an or ganisation by means of which they may wrest from either, or from both united, the concession of their rights. Disgust at the imbecility evinced of late, alike by government and the legislature as at present constituted, and the pressure of taxation, and of ob scure, half obsolete, and vexatious laws, is in all parts of the country making daily new converts to the prin ciples of reform, and stimulating the zeal of old be lievers. At a more suspicious moment the Con ference could not lays taken the field. It it go on as it has begun, BUM'S is certain. EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THOMAS SIIEE- ' TON YON EMNIZZL 22222 AT IPSWICN.—TbiIi individual, who has recently been secretary to several building societies in Ipswich and its vicinity, was fully committed (Or trisl on Monday last, on three separate charges First, for o►taining money under false Pretences on lechalt of the East Anglian Building and Investment See,ety ; wood, for rata Wing money belonging to the Suffolk Improved Buildieg and Im provement Company ; the third charge bring for a similar offence against the same compon). The Ipswich E.rpress states: "Since these cases were heard, we understand that the prosecutors had originally intended to °online their pro ceedings to four cases--twn te, each society. Same threes, however, have reached t►e ears of the directors to the effect that it Smeeton be not &oat , 4 mildly " with, he •rtit endea vour to implicate some of the gentlemen who have been intimately connected with t►e eceiteties. Tha *Met of this has been to induce the prosecutors to carry the entire case still further against the prisoner, in order that the value of such threats may be tested, and the cherae:.er of the directors vindicated ill the epee of the public." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNERAY, 7 r h , M. Culler continues to wage a war of extermina tion against the Erenement, which he causes seized wherever the sergens-de-ville can hands on it. As the police cannot vent to invade private dwellings for this purpose, I:tenderises take refuge in the shops of liberal tradeti men, several of whom have offered to establi depids for the sale of the pereesuted evening ps i M. Girardin declares that the Prose having b e singled out for extinction, he will carry on a war resistacce against the authorities, in which he wi t' shrink from no sacrifice. He redacts the ahead, low subscription to six francs for three months, ar , offers to take weekly subecripticins at ten sole. A great dinner was given on Monday at the El\ All the ministers were present. General Chari l bier, Berryer, Mole, Tellers, and Lamartine, among the guests. The candidature of Leclerc was first proposed r meeting of the moderate press in the Rue Bei The earliest notice which tie public rt Nicer' of selection was a huge placard composed by the mittee of that Assembly, in which the trait of heroism before the barricade in the Hue de Ciery was put for ward u the main title of M. Leclerc to arpire to votes of the moderate party. In other II rivet s Leclerc was not a bit more fitted to he put up candidate at the election of the 28. h than hundt, of hie fellow -tradesmen. Now it has been proved clearly as it is possible to prove anythicg, that t is not one word cf truth in any of those cero c tures of the etory which hit the imaginations of Assembly of the moderate pre's. The seventeen' with which the eldest son was killed have dwil down to tao. The father played a much more oat and equally courageous par. in riendirte the rest the day in efforts to console the ben aved mother. " second son was far off in the quarter of the Invt, drawing up an inventory for the notary wima clef was. He was not conducted by his father to the it cadet', but reached his brotner's house I to in evening, and remained there with his family tint funeral. These Lets are attested in a public le by an indie idual who affirms that he had them has companion Camille Leclerc, the youth in I tion, and who is ready to give his nnme at .d edi Three days were spent in getting 25 sioa!ures a whole company cf national guards to a lett skilfully composed as not to deny poeitiv ly the above facts, while it c . tnvet s to the rev er's a far different impression. 'l've equivocal com tion of which the letter is capable, and the p signatures have rather damaged the iefereLce inert to be drawn. Thus all the tine leathers with w the candidature was dress( d up has been plucked and M. Leclerc stands revealed to the public I honest paperseller, who lost a con at the barrica4 June. Many of tae moderates are now opt their eyes rather late to the feet they would have acted mote sakly to cal for M. Fernand Foy, who had at least the el having obtained 120,000 votes at tee March 10, of bearing 9.4 iffaerious nem-, ai having been an hereditary peer of Frazee. i events, the brisk renunciation of his claims, alb had been proclaimed as the candidate of theElet Union, to set up another candidature, which it appears had no better motive then a romantic 1: 1 has completely diecru,ted a large party of his porters, who intenrcr.ll to give him their ewes. The moderate papers of this morning are I I with a letter from M. Ltcle'e, who states the motive for breaking silence is to repel the all which have been made upon his probity as a to man. Ile leaves his friends to set in the correct] m'urnful event which drew ou him the p attention. But he defies any one to fix the wain upon his private cheracu r. He has no pr lion to be a hero, but takes a legitimate pride in ' an honest man. It has been reported that tree socialists will forward Dupont de l'Eure. There is not the probability in this report, so the order of thi moved by Dupont de l'Eure en the 23:h of Niirei when Cavaignac was assetled, was a deed whicl socialists will never forgive. A Lotice, signed by the prefect of police, is r up all over Paris, giving warninz that V e cxi penalties against persons g an illegal e tity of powder in their coesession, or fabricating without the necessary license, will be strictij forced, according to the law at Mar, 1531, ar enacts that no person is allowed to hold in hi session any quantity, however small, of the po' used for artillery, and not more than two kilogi of common gunpowder, under pain of impristirit for a term cot exceeding two years. Another cl in the same act suSjects to a similar penalty, and not exceeding 1,000:r., soy one wit) manufacti belie, distributes, or holds in deposit arms withoni necessary license. Yesterday, in the Legislative Assembly, the sir 200,0005% was voted for the celebration of the r versary of May -1. The rest of the sittirg found complete in my letter of yesterday. In the Legislative .Assembly to-day the debat the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture wi seined. The discussion, which was languid tedious, turned on the Agronomic Institution of sallies. Alter hearing MM. Rude!, Massiii. Darblay, the Assembly rejected a total reduction posed by M. Itaudot. Atter a debate without the least interest, tile cl ter was adopted with the sum proposed by tr . .: c mittee. The Assembly teen adopted the chapter: tive to encouragements to agilculture. Tars i arnouttttng to 100,000:r., w as agreed to. The Asi bly aeljourned at six. The National and Press,' anaemice that the tary elections took place at Orleans yes - erday, that Eugune Sue obtained -1$ votes, and Leclerc . 4 votes. This rumour seems to have had some u ence on the funds. The table of imports and exports for the first q, ter of ISA is anything but satisfactory. There falling off of nearly a million upon the quarte compared with last year. In 1,4i9 the receipt customs duties amounted to somewhat more than millions. This year they are little more that Cottons, coffee, and colonial sugars make up the 41 the account. In navigation, freights under French flag have greatly fallen off. There is adi nut ion relatively to the month of March comp: with 1519 of .18,000 tons. Tne government has just submitted to the exams nation of the Council of State a bill on the teen , ment of the army. Borne. PAII Aran Y. 1 Pee limey. I Opening 11141 test. i Lowest.' t. Vet Acwunt 30 55 55 35 33 3 40 39 49 b 9 13 b' --- - Dper Cents. ....... 3.3 30 33 3 per Cent.. 0 13 39 5 do. New Lou " “ 44nper COMM.... ...on n to n ! t o n I 4 per Cents .. Kitt...ince in L00.i...i: et sight. .., '. j''' Aays..: 3 4 ' Lielsiita, 3, l%)' De. 3, 1342 1.k.). 4i Do. 3 „ Tre.e.iire Bonds ... 41 Piedmont 5 per Cents. 4:1 0 „ limik Miami 00;:aan —Carr ad (Mean, 717 30 ; Pan. And 11 0 11 ,0 . dt Rouen and /lam... 21530; Avignon and Mantedlea, 177 30; sun.. and Bale, 101 ; Orleans and Imam, 31$ 73 ; I trleano nod Bon J 00; Northern, 413: Lane and rantaboorg. ; Tour , . and /C 2:12 30; Vetaailles 0101 bunk;, 180 ; Ditto (kg bank), 140. taken plan ea the bill of the boa. means tee Dented& he wee Lordly iodised to think that the none i to the mend reeding nth, penmen bill. (I•l7osr i rillit regard to the establishment of indifirialr anode, •Ite was perfectly reedy to admit that. film •Plinialti WI/ to some rant good; but whatVt "had get to look to WAS whether the bill - son niece°. deal application of it as task* it a anal menses of legislation. Now, in'the first plus, if this pen. ciple ISM adopted, why limit it to nun industrial schools ? The greatest number of Juvenile offieders were committed in our large towns sad cities, while hie hen friend proposed to throw the whole reformatory esits en the county rates. (line, hoar.) It might be ezpet aad necessary, bat it was merely permissive, sad haul net think that in the preeent state of tZs e tt s e juatione weal& /wad very anxious to add to the of the leant, este. He quite agreed with hie hoe. Mead in his enleoism on the phi lanthropic institution of Belgian, but his admired= did not extend to making him wish to en a similar one in this country supported out of the county rate. There were already establishments in this country supported by print. I charity, of which government ()nationally availed then selves, peybag for the criminals seat, whenever the report of the prison inaptetor oa any particular cam Wand them to thick snob a 111WW0TO ex pedient. He must say that in his *aloe the proper way would be to lean this matter is the ends of government, at making it compulsory or general night discourage parents from bringing up their children morally, an the hope that on becoming juvenile offenders they might get • good education at the expense of the state. (Heir, hear.) But, independently of the objections he had stated, there was another reason why he would dimmed, the house from consenting to its seined reading, which was, that a committee was then sitting on prison discipline, of which the hon. menthir himself was a member, and he thought that the house ought to wait for its decision before it adopted say regulation on the subject. Ueda all the circumstances, he trusted that his non. friend would not pates the essead reading unless be was fully persuaded of the beneficial character nth* measure, and that it would be a practical improvement la the law. (Hear ) Sir G. STRICKLAND stored, as an amendment, that the bill be reed amend time that day six months. He had many objections to the bill, butte right hon. baronet who had jest at down India his weal completely exhausted the subject. I Mr. 8. CRAWFORD winced the amendment. Mr. MILNIIB explained tliat he had stated his object was to alter the first clause to adapt it to the circumstances of sonimary ecievictirn. Mr. BIMEON reopened the bill, the principle of which Rest meet the approbation of every roan who had gives his atteedmi to the subject of Juvenile criminals, whatever doubts there sight be se to the practicability of some of its clauses. Mr. HEADLAM mid with regard to the broad principles bivalved iu the bill, he hays theta his medial support. Sit J. PAKINOTON• was sot a party to the bill, and was awry to my he did not thiak it possible for the house to accept it la its present shape. He gave fall credit to the hos. gondolas& (Mr. Milan) for good intentions, but he behoved the 'airman wield be wholly inoperative for good. Col. THOMPSON had sees the reports of Mettray, and in no part of them did he see any reference to corporal panishment—(hoar, hear)—sad it wee to be regretted that as we were abolishing corporal pmaishmeat in the army sad navy we wore introduciag it into the civil service. Mr. TRELAWNY supported the bill, the principle of which he approved of, but not the details. Mr. RICE hoped his hoo. friend would withdraw jhe bill, which he feared never could be so altered in committee as to make it practicable. Mr. MILNES rase to repay, bat the Speaker decided that baying spoken sine. the amendment wan propoved, he had no right to a reply. The hon. gentleman then iati mated that it was his intention to withdraw the bill, but there being a call for a division, the original motion was pat and negatived, and the bill was ordered to be rend a second time that day six months. AFFIRMATION BILL. Mr. P. WOOD having preen t number of petitions from various ports of the country in favour of this bill, moved that the house go into committee upon it. The law as it now stood exonerated from the obligation of taking an oath not only Osaka's, Moravian', and the small sect called Separatists, of which, after a most careful search, he had not been able to discover a single member, but by a new an, pissed in 1838, all pt nons who ever had been Q ashen or Moravian' were exempt from the obligation. The declaration required to be mad, by a person who objected wassisatiously to the taking of an oath was to this effect : L. 8., having been one of the people called Qaaken, or • Mabee of the united brethren called Moravian., do object M lake the oath." And further than that, there was a mode of engin posionned out by which a door was opened to all =lisef- pliable conscience who were not, and never bad esunected with either of those religions setts to escape ken the obligation, for the form wee not merely that I, A. B. belagensor the people sailed Quakers or Moravian', but " I, ' • 3, being of the perenation of the people called Quakers," lks. He was bound to say there was a very large body of eon s/teatimes people, highly distinguished so far 111 character and psepsety were concerned, who felt themselves com pelled by a literal interireration of scripture, not to invoke the name of the deity in any matter whatsoever. The con sequence of that feeling had been most injurius, not only to themselves, but to the interests of justice. He rated the till =two grounds, upon either of which it could not be impugned—ant, on the right the public possessed to have the benefit of all parties who could bear testimony; and next, on the ground of the caressive persecutions to which Individuals had been subjected, simply owing to the con scientious religious objections they entertained to the taking of an oath. These objections had resulted in the imprison ment of one party for no fewer than four years and a half, and they had caused the imprisonment of others for periods of three and four months. He asked the house how they could refuse to extend to the members of the church of England and to the various dissenting com munities the same privileges which they had already granted to the Quakers, the Moravian and the Separatists? There was not • single instance on r ecord of any one having been prosecuted for perjury to whom the privilege had been com mitted; how, thin, could they refuse to extend it to th ose who happened not to belong to a particular sect ? (Hear.) He connected that it would be most absurd to argue that the extrusion of the privilege would operate iejurionaly to the cause at religion or the church. (lieu, hear.) He was in • position to show that great evils had resulted to the public from their inability to obtain evidence in courts of justice because oaths were imposed. He could show that the most absurd consequences had arisen by reason of that imposition, and that instanom had occurred in which the prosecutor had been sommitted to prison and the thief was acquitted. A ease of that kind had occurred at the Old Batley In the year 1832. In the same year a man was called to prove • charge of furi es. driving against a cabman. The man was committed for ina days for refusing to take the oath, and the furious. driving cabman was discharged —so that, in that case, the witness underwent vicariously, because of his conscientious scruples ' the punishment doe to the cab driver. (Hear, Mar.) If a man now refused to be sworn, the learned judge immediately asked him whether he was • Quaker, a Mora vian, or • Separatist, or if he ever had been a member of these sects ; and, if he answered in the negative, he was at ones seat to prison, because he belonged to the church of England or to some other unprivileged religious 'annually. A Miss Watson, for instance • lady of great respectability—had been committed to prison last year on the Western Circuit, because she could not conscientiously take an oath. The hon. mem. her having referred to ether cases, observed that the bill before the house was divided into ism distinct puts—the first had reference to the grievants. the parties laboured ands who entertained the conscientious objec tion, and the second provided that those who could not accept any office whatever at present which required the taking of an oath should regirer themselves, in order that it might thereby be known for some length of time that they enter" ained the objection. (Hear.) In the division which had taken place in that house on a former occasion on a bill somewhat similar to the present, 17 pro fessional gentlemen of the law voted, and 14 of them re corded their votes in favour of the measure. In another place the bill was advocated by the late Lord Chief Justice and supported by the present Lord Chief Justice of Eng land. He (Mr. Wood) did not propose by the present bill to make it incumbent on the judge to receive testimony in all cues ; on the contrary, he wished the judge still to exec ens that discretion he evinced occasionally now with respect to the rece ption of what might appear doubtful testimony. (Hear.) He wished to strengthen the instances he had alnady sited, of the evil effects of the law as it stood, by stating that as the celebrated 10th of April, when everybody was using his utmost efforts to secure the unladen" of spinal constables, and when he Wean' wee conducting one young man to the appointed place fee swearing in, that young man stopped and said, " I am most anxious to act as a special instable, but I cannot take au oath." (Hear, hear.) The bill was proposed to extend, not to the United Kingdom only, bat also to the colonies. Mr. OOULBUEN sail he had opposed the bill on the last omen= it was before the house, and that he had not heard anything at the present time to alter the opinion he had the. expressed. The speeds of the boa. gentleman who had just set down was beaded on one specific argument— sanely that as parliament lad pained • law to enable separatist., an insignificant sect, and Moravian*, to give name& testimony, the house ought to commit the absurdity of throwing open the gentian altogether. Now he (Mr. %Altura) maintained that the taking of an oath had the best effect—that a sense of religion, in such • case, operated on the minds of all men, however abandoned and Ignorant they might be, and made them adhere to truth, and that the obligation of being in the presence of a Se =e Beiag, who would punish them if they told • fake wandwes a stronger obligation than any mere animation possibly be. He believed there were many persons who had se great an aversion to appear at all on a trial as there were those who disliked the taking of an eeth ; gad if the penalty for not taking an oath was too greet, let the honourable gentleman limit it to the character of the offence. Ilia own experience, coupled with the experience of others ' coafirsod him in believing, that unless the taking of oaths were Insisted upon as at present, judges would not obtain that precise and accurate knowledge of the facts of a case which the imposition of an oath pro. doped. Every commissioner of taxes knew the effect pro duced by the administration of ea oath, and the difference which very often was found to prevail between the unworn atatemeat and the sworn testimony. He called upon the hone to rosolleoc that the bill, if curie!, would produce an uncertain sods of obtaining evidence of the tr o th of fut. is courts of justice—that it would enable jurymen to decide ayon the live. of their fellow, creatures without being subjected to any obligation, and that it would empower par ties to skim merely, and net to swear, allegiance to the Quinn. He moved a. an ameadmeat that the bill be eon mined that day six months. KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION COMMITTEE. This c3mmittee re-assembled yesterday at eleven o'clock. Mr. Serpent Kinglike said that is the inquiry had already lasted several days, he should not call any more witnesses, and it would devolve on Mr. Jamie to stun up the evidence. _ _ Mr. James, Q.C., said that a case bad been made out which, unless it was answered most completely on the part of the sitting member, would render it imperative on the com mittee to unseat him. He contended that the agency of the various members of Mr. Best's family, and of t'lose gentlemen who had taken an fictive part id securing his return was clearly eatablished, and (though the mode of conducting an election might be to a certain extent a matter of personal taste and feeling) if some of those gentlemen did not get into the witness-box to clear themselves from the imputa tion, cast upon them by the evidence produced in this ease, a stigma would remain on their characters for ever. With regard to the charges of bribery, he admitted most readily that the evidence—ample:dilly where the party who had sold his vote became himself the wit ness—should be subjected to the most severe scrutiny. But, if • case was produced, the circumstances of which could be contradicted by five or six different parties, and not one of those ponies was put into the boa, and if the tale of the witness was otherwise consistent but one conclusion could be come to on the subject. It was in evidence that the last diction was quieter, that there was lea bribery, or at all events less treating, than oa former occasions. There might have been less money spent, but the intentions of the legislature were as much con by the paltry mode of influencing the electors resorted to by Mr. Best, as by the more extensive, and, If he might use the term, more gentlemanlike, system of conuption carried on b his pred,eessor in the seat. Mr. 11, et had not only been indirectly connected with these proceedings, but was directly engaged in them and had countenanced them by his presence. He begged the committee to bear in mind that a sample only of the caste which might be prosluced had been brought berme them, for the inquiry had been already protracted to a great length; and he must be allowed to say, that if the evidence offered did not convince them, and they decided that the return was gosd, Kidderminster would be from the present time a close borough in the hands of Mr. Bost ; not from legitimate family influence, but by reason of the cor. rapt mesas he would be able to make use of with impunity. Ha called upon the committee to refer to the decisions of Ib4B, which did honour to the hon. members of the House Commons. Let them dismiss all personal feelings from their minds, end he did not doubt they would come to the con clusion that the corrupt and illegal meaner by which Mr. Best's return for the borough of Kidderminster had been unquestionable effected, had been clearly brought home to that gentleman, and that that return was consequently void. Mr. ALIOLLNDED. having been heard in reply at consi derable length, the committee adjourned, intimating that they would give their decision at two o'clock on Thursday (this day). ROYAL PALAClll.—Yesterday an interesting Par liamentary paper was printed in the shape of a return of the sums of money already voted for the different royal palaces for the last three years. and the amount due. In the year 1847-48 there was 43,3015 voted, and in that year 44,8111. 3s. 2d. was expended; in 1848-49, 45,0671. was voted, and 36,3311. 6e. 2d. expended ; whilst in 1849-60, 42,6951. wee voted, and 22,1721. 16s. 6d. expended. The amount due to the 10th of April inst. could cot be ewer tabled with accuracy, but the sums voted to the 31st of March lest were expected to be sufficient to complete the contemplated expenses to that period, and the total amount 'voted will, it was believed, fully cover the total expenditure. With respect to "Buckingham Palace enlargement and improvement," the sum of 60,0001. was voted, and as much as 62,0191. 9s. Id. expen ted in 1847-48 ; in 1845-49, 30.0002 was voted, and 35 8631. 18e, Ild. expended ; and in 1849.60, 14,2001. was voted, and 13,3441. 161. 9d. expended. Already 160,0001. has been voted for the enlargement and improvement of Buckingham Palace, and there will be • further sum of 40,0761. 12a. 11d. required for that purpose. Punuc SALARI3B.—On Taceday a parliamentary paper was printed, Monies the increase and diminution which had taken place within the year 1849 in all public offices or departments. The increase in the year in the cum b er of pcnose was 700, and the diminution 1,002. The total expense of the Marten wee 75,8781. lls. Id., sad the decrease 143,6631. 181. 4d., by : which a saving of 67,7751. 7s. 34. was effected in the year. ,The Marcus was principally in the poet-office. wham 638 pumas ware added. Dare was a damage of 643 in the customs, and 397 in the mei*. CLONING Or TIM SAVINGS BANK, LEWES, APRIL 24.—This town, this morning, was thrown into a state of considerable excitement by the publication of the following notice Lewes Savings Bank—Notice to bcpositon.— In coosepiene• of the continued illness of the actuary, Mr. Henry Bartlett and some unexplained recently-dncovored errors in the accounts, the bank will be closed until further notice, and the committee will take immediate steps to secure the non weal examination of the depositors' books, of which a large number have not yet been produced. F.tr the present they may be left with the treasurer, 0. Iloli- Ruiz, Esq., at the Lewes Old Bank. Lewes, April 23,1850" It sippers that at the late essminaboa of the accounts in the ledger, a large proportion of the depositors' pass-books were not brought in. [At the lot annual meeting it sp• peered, by the itatement submitted by the actuary, there were 2,125 ordinary depositors, whose accounts amounted to 46,8761. 18e. 101., 62 charitable societies deposit 3,0601. 25., and 3 frit nd societits, 4811. lls. Bd. ; ma ki ng a total of 50,4171. 1 2.. 13d J The great feature in this trans. action is the doubt which it throws on the trust worthier's of the late examinations made in every savings beak throughout the kineom. In every instance advertise ments were &sued of a similar character to that pat forth b the examiners in Lewes; and should it prove that there is any defalcation in this instance, the result must be a fresh , and more serious inquiry Una the accounts of thus tee_ portant national institutiOna. SPAIN. MADRID, Arau. The Gazette of to-day contains the hill for thi tiement of the debt, which the government drawn up to present to the Cortes, and whict been sent to the board. of directors of the nat. debt, as materials to be consulted when they dro% the now bill. Tide bill proposes a shameless ruptcy. The bill is accompanied by justitict documents, by means of which the governmer deavours to diminish the sum total by a &Me groupirg of figures. From these statements it sr appear that the deet amounts but to l2 o itts,tni:. reals, or 125,089,63 U sterling. Consequently Three per Cents., which amount to 3.000,000.0 0 , of reale are not included in the settlement. The per Cents. and Fives which in virtue of trt are due to France, England, and the United tsi and which amount to 350 millions reels and 11,1 lions interest, are not included. There are tuc but nine years' interestof the Found Five pert The immense debts of the Spanish emancipated co are not included, nor the capitals of the lay I' paters in the abolished tithes, and which 4th) millions, and which were to be elosiden titles of the Three per Cents. The iademntin damage done during the civil war, the army t!' bills, the treasury debt, and many otlmrs, am '•••••••• ov er ; it;IC P br 11 ' 0 Thine, to b e Lea Ity the ci suture in ` el Pi the Ihr" radee- w oo , ablish Paper. es I°' I been P rrtt war of P er le will c a t, Iready end 1 is, and later' debt v Logo. i s io; , We den° re every at the Fires This ;Prger. tf this ales e CO M . a 12 eroiarn m itt to the tit for- to the c. cts hose in till P as 4 ndrethl irg " t ho Ted as u c there whlcl c fee. deLtP , of the t h al n ban e OIL incited aw of lateral gent rest of r. 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