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tial person was on board, but if a sailing vessel arrived, after a three months' voyage, when all danger must have passed, she was subjected to a most tedious course of quarantine. He hoped he had now said enough to induce the House to grant copies of the correspondence he had moved for on tl e subject of the quarantine system, and he begged to thank the House for the patient hearing he had received. He trusted that what he had said would induce the Government to abate the present exclusive system, and that it might induce them to take advantage of the feeling at the present moment, and lead to the removal altogether of the nuisance of the quarantine laws. Mr. HUME would say but a very few words, for he thought that the time was now ari ived when this question should be Ulan up by the Government, not only because his HoTi. !'riend had three or four times brought forward this subject before the House, during which he had shown that the system itself was a had one, but also because he was aware that the impressions of people generally were declining upon this subject.—( Hear, hear.) They now felt less alarm respecting the communication of plague. Again, he was anxious that this matter should be taken up by the Government, because he believed it would greatly promote the cause of free trade.—( A laugh.) If Hon. Members knew how much com merce was impeded between different countries, and how dila tory and expensive the unloading of cargoes of vessels from infected countries was, they would agree with him that this was a legitimate reason for the removal of the quarantine laws. There was a third ground for their removal arising out of the large expenses which were occasioned. He believed that it cost the country 120,0001. per year to carry out these restric tive measures, and he trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet, Sir R. Peel, would find leisure to provide some means for ob viating both the expense and the inconvenience, and fully set the subject at rest. Sir G. CLERK was quite ready to produce the papers for which the Hon. Member had moved, and he thought a great advantage would arise from their publication, not only to this country, but also to the continental Governments of Europe. He was aware that the alarm existing on a communication of plague was much declining in this country, and it was desir able that other nations should also enjoy the benefit of the information which this correspondence contained. Not only did it comprise the reports of the Medical Board at Paris, and the communications from Egypt, but also the report of the Commissioners sent into Egypt by the Russian Government, with a view to make experiments to ascertain the contagious qualities of plague. It would appear indeed that the Egyptian authorities wished to have gone ►nuch further in these experi ments than they had done. The experiment which they had. made was this, that the garments of the persons who had died from plague were subjected to a process of fumigation, sod some of the persons who had been employed by the Russian commission fell victims to the disease, and the clothes when taken from them were exposed for forty-eight hours only to a heat not quite 120 Fahr. Now, the persons who wore these clothes after such experiments, were not affected with the plague, and under these circumstances, he did trust that such an experiment would have the effect of doing away with those prejudices which existed against these laws. Mr. MACKINNON said that the evidence which he had the means of collecting regarding this disease, was when the thermometer rose as high as eighty the plague was extin guished, and the black fever set in. He believed most con scientiously the Government quarantine laws were not only very expensive, but were also injurious to human life. He 'should second the motion of his Hon. Friend with great pleasure. - Captain FITZNIAURICE was of opinion that the commer cial interests suffered very much from the operation of the quarantine-laws in foreign ports. He thought, if foreign countries would in general assimulate their quarantine-laws, it would be better for vessels going to and from different places. Sir ROBERT INGLIS would ask his Hon. Friend who had seconded the motion whether he could rely upon the climate of so variable a nature as was the climate of England to regulate the operation of the quarantine-laws. He was quite willing to admit that the most commercial nation of Europe had no quarantine-laws. He still believed in the doctrine that certain diseases were eontagious, and he was strongly of opinion that regulations were necessary to prevent their spreading. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. CHRISTIE withdrew his motion with respect to sup- Vying clothes to new-born children in workhouses. REACH OF PRIVILEGE (BRIDPORT ELECTION). Mr. BAN KES called the attention of the House is what he considered was a breach of the privileges of the House. It was a question regarding the vote of an elector, and in that Was invol ve d th e r i ght of voting of every individual member 4 :: „ f the const i tuency. If he was right in his position, there as an H on . G entleman in that House who, he believed, had no right t o a seat in that House; and that Hon. Gentle man voted on the third reading of the important measure 'which h a d recently been passed ; and added one to the majo rity on that o ccasion. He was inclined to think that, Mr. Cochrane, the Member for Bridport, might have retained his seat ; but he acted on broad and honourable principles, and was unwilling to avail himself of any unfair advantage. If he recol lected aright, the oath that the Members of the Bridport co mmittee took wh en th ey met was, well and truly to try the mat ters contained in the petition. Had they done so ? When he heard the decision of the Committee, that the election merely turned on the misplacing of one vote, he felt that the subject had not been mentioned in the petition. It was an im portant matter that the subjects to be decided on by the Committee should be specially mentioned ,in the petition. The Hon. Gentleman then alluded to two cases of Members, where The petitions against their return were dismissed, be cam..e they did not specify precisely the chargea against the return. If the Committee were sworn to deal only with the matter of the petition, and they did not do so, where was the use of having a petition at all ? The elector, whose vote controlled the return of the Member, had no notice of the sitting of the Committee, and the first time that he became aware of the fact of a Committee having sat was when he saw the report of the meeting in the newspapers.—(Bear, hear.) He (Mr. Bankes) had received a letter, dated the 17th instant, from William Rockett, the voter alluded to, praying him to present a petition from him, praying to be allowed to make his statements, with respect to his vote at the last electio n , at the bar o f th e H ouse. H e (M r. B ankes) then wrote to the Nlayor of Bridpo r t i n re f erence to t hi s ques tion, and rec e i ve d f rom him a reply, to the effect that Rockett had voted for Mr. Cochrane distinctly, and he never men tioned Mr. Romilly's name. If there was a wrong the IL use bi .as obliged to provide a remedy, whic it did not devolve uon m to point out. He would persist h in the motion of which he had given notice.--( Hear, hear. ) The motion having been put, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had anticipated that the Hon. Member who had just sat down would, in making his motion, have restricted himself to the question, whether or not an injury had been done to Wm. Ro c k e tt, buti the Hon. Member had taken the opportunity of going into a discussion with regard to the conduct of the Committee who sat to in quire into the allegations of the petition presented against the return of Mr. Cochrane, and had made very serious charges against them. Now, in his opinion, the Hon. Member ought to have been more careful in addressing the House in support of his motion. Notwithstanding what had fallen from the Hon. Member, he (the Attorney-General) was certainly of opinion that with mgard to the question of scrutiny, as the law at pre sent stood, there was no necessity whatever that the petition should cor,tain any allegation as to any vote having been im propern; given or recorded for a candidate; and, moreover, that it had been introduced in the petition, it would not have had, the slightest effect. As the petition prayed for the seat on behalf of Mr. Romilly, and there being no necessity for the allegation alluded to, it was quite sufficient to give the Committee jurisdiction over the matter—it was a petition they were sworn to inquire into, and on which they were bound to decide. With regard to the improper closing of the poll, that complaint was not made in the petition, and the Commit tee had therefore no right to enter upon that question. The power of the Committee was defined and ascertained, and was given by the Legislature, who declared that their decision Should b e fi na l . He did, therefore, wonder how the Hon. Member for Dorsetshire, could bring forward his motion. He believed that the H- - n. Gentleman that at present occupied a seat in that flow.,e for the borough of Bridport, held that seat as fairly as any on. Member in th e H ouse . H e had, however, no eur:etion to the object of the motion, but he had to the form of it. They could not refuse an inquiry of the sort asked for. --(Hear, hear.) But he suggested that it would be much snore convenient to have that inquiry conducted before a Select Committee, rather than that Rockett should be examined at the bar of the House. The Hon. Member for Weymouth (Mr. Christie) had an amendment on the papers to that effect, and he hoped that the House would agree to it in preference to the motion of the Hon. Member for Dorsetshire --(Hear.) Mr. CHRISTIE said that he considered that whether the investigation had been pursued or not, Mr. Cochrane would leave lost his seat, for he believed the state of facts was this, that the decision should be taken on Rockett's vote, in order to avoid the disclosure of bribery and corruption, which other wise would have been made. Now, there had been three hundred and seventy-two votes objected to on account of bribery, an d th ere were six others also objected. disqualified. It wastod for having bribed, an d b e i ng therefore consequently disqua also an undoubted fact, that an agent of, t ha tif h the Governmentteywould l offe re d a comprom i se t o the petitioners discontinue their opposition Mr. Cochrand, in s Cochrane sholul4d2, granted neverrastied a t for Bridp or t aga i n . Th e Government had, Committee to inquire into the subjecto f compromises upon the allegation of the Member for Bath , that such were in the habit of taking place ; upon that precedent he petition of therefore, move the following amendment : Tht which cf William Rockett be referred to a Select Committee, should b e appo i n t e d, t o i nqu i r e into all the circumstances under which Joseph Welch gave :evidence be fore the Select Com mittee on the Bridport election petition that William Rockett voted for Mr. Romilly, and whether any compromise or ar rangement was entered into by the parties to the petition, their counsel, or agents, to prevent the disclosure ofbribery or treating ; and also, whether and to what extent bribery and treating were practised at the last election f or the borough of Bridport.—( Hear, hear.) Lord GEORGE BENTINCK considered that a grave charge was brought against the Members of the Committee. They were sworn to try one charge, and they investigated an other. He therefore considered his Hon. Friend below him . had done most wisely in bringing forward his motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that th: d Noble Lord was i mper f ect v i o l at i on o f th speech of the spirit upon which these institutions were founded, for 'it contained nothing more or less than an investigation r" the to grounds upon Legislatur e contem - "neir decisions— decis ions whichwh c h the th Committee h a d come e House, aft er . gr - the atin g .seated should be final and decisive. The venience of a similar inquiry in 1842, saw the incon for he eitycoolrsie.opursued, and the Noble Lord the Mem berintroduced a ea%e. The sth and 6tlllVCt C. 102, Bill to meet such and power was accordin•• was accordingly passed, slypetiven to the Election Committees to investigate such s, and to report the result to the House- If the Commitinteigehrteptiolreted that a further inquiry was 'necessary, the Speaker ~(in appoint another Committee n n eee t es i a f the Committee reported to examine the matter fuvillya.s that no further inquiry gettinry, th this did not deprive ern investigated. On parties having complaints fro the thgreae months after the the presentation of a, election, another body was distincteisance of Bill, who b.;.d the power to a pp o inted by that providedet the whole, circumstances. There was a Parliament to meet the case. The Legislature had o Act of efficient means to meet it, and there was that differenceb committees such as that asked for, and the tribunal appointed by the House, that the latter had the power to examine without being upon oath. lie hoped he had stated sufficient to convince his Hon. Friend the Member for Maynooth, that there was a tribunal at present existing well adapted to conduct the inquiry. His Hon. Friend said, however, that there was a list of voters containing 37 names, who were alleged to have been bribed at the Bridport election. Had his Hon. Friend as much experi ence in Election Committees as he (the Attorney-General) had, be would have known that nothing was more common than to *take such comprehensive charges of bribery at elections. The Great Dublin Election Committee, which sat for 90 days, Would bear out the accuracy of this observation. His Hon. Friend saw, however, that there must be something very sus picious, because the petitioner said that he was ready to go into the inquiry and to prove the allegations. Had he brought experience to his aid here also, he would have seen nothing un common in such allegation, for there was no Election Committee at which th e y were no t ma d e . Th ese were th e groun d s on ieui;ch his Hon. Friend asked for a Select Committee. He ied that they . were sufficient grounds. He said that there was a tribunt for such . investigation—a competent tiirinb_unajt and the mode f meeting the case proposed by the u. member was not one which ceuld serve his purpose. If• himself (the Attorney-General) was for a full investigation oft he e h. be d one circ u mstances, but he could not sse why that could not for such by the tribunal which had been specially constituted IlkOtioa. cues; and, on ese grounds, he would resist the Mr. GISBORNE thought it extremely inconvenient that the House should go into the question at all; but now that it had done so, he was very glad that the Committee was likely to be granted. He did so upon principle, for there were many analogous cases, and he considered that such a state of things was unsatisfactory. By bringing the question prominently be fore the House, it would lead to such amendments in the law relating to elections as would put an end to these abuses. He did not mean to go into the case of Mr. Rockett, as he did not know all the particulars connected with the Bridport election ; but he thought the Committee might Le granted. Sir R. INGLIS differed with the Hun. Member for Dorset on various grounds, but principally because the result of the decision of the Committee in this case, had the effect of adding one to that triumph which her Majesty's Government had lately achieved, and which was already too large.—( Great laughter.) When the House declared that certain minutes of an Election Committee should be laid before it, he could not see why they should be treated as mere waste paper..He of might be allowed to say, that there was a wide suspicionshte be a compromise of bribery.—( Hear.) He did not againstwish the con ducth of any Hon. Member in that House, bu un derstood to impute anything like a suspicio n had appeared that there were proceedings whicht he bore curious aspect, at the late Bridport election. .He considerere a thought very r l y t d the subject ought now to remain as it was. named e had ad Walsh hea , dwas Rockett called before the Committee, who Mr. WAKLEY said t h h e at st a ated that vote for Romilly, and accordingly the v o te w as str uc k off , a nd man t n t placed to the other side. He believed that no one would deny the legal and legitimate right of the present Hon. Member who sat in that House for Bridport, and, therefore, he could not suffer by the issue of an inquiry. But the House owed it to itself and to future legislation to set such matters at rest. The Hon. Gentleman the Attorney.. General had said that to allow such a Committee wonld be to do that which could not be done so well as by the preseri..• power, but he (Mr. Wakley) thought they would not discharge their duty to themselves, nor to the satisfaction of the public, unless they allowed this inquiry to take place. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that what his Hon. and Learned Friend said was, that Parliament had laid down certain rules for inquiry in such cases, and that such an Act of Parliament was the proper power to be applied. The complaint before the House was that one voter had been transferred from one poll on which he ought to have stood, to another. The question for the House to consider was whether there was not a regular course for judging of the matter, without a Committee of that House being appointed. He was of opinion that the inquiry, under the circumstances, was wholly uncalled for. Mr. ROMILLY said that when this election had concluded, he felt so totally indifferent to it, from the manner in which it had been conducted, hat he had not resolved to petition against the return of the successful candidate. If, however, the Com mittee were appointed, he would give every assistance in his power for the tidiest investigation.—(Hvr, hear.) It should be remembered that the Act of the Noble Lord (John Russell) made the expense of the inquiry fall upon the parties interested, and not upon the public; and that alone would be a sufficient cause to prevent anything like a wish to prosecute such an in quiry. Mr. AGLIONBY said he would only trouble the House with a few remarks upon the question before it, which he considered a very proper one. He did not think there was any other mode for making this in quiry more effectual than the present constitutional one, and that was the power conferred by 1. Victoria, by which he con sidered the public were sufficiently protected. But the Com mittee might have thought it was not incumbent on them to have pursued the inquiry further than they had done, and that therefore they did not deem it necessary to have made a special report. He (Mr. Aglionby) assumed that the Committee had had no evidence before them to the effect that any bribery had taken place, because no statement to the contrary had been made. But this House still had the power to grant this motion, and if a prima . facia case should' be made out, the public at large should bear the expense of it. However, the party petitioning, who must be a voter, could have no object, for he could not either seat or unseat a Member. He would concluded by saying he would vote for the Committee. Mr. C. WOOD said that there must have been some mis statements on the subject, and entered into a long statement of the nature of the duties of an Election Committee. The only object of the inquiry was to ascertain whether bribery had oxisted. The petition stated that they had sufficient reason to think that bribery r ad existed, and if any compromise were to be made in case of any subsequent objecti-n, the inquiry should be made as to that compromise, but not as to the bribery. If they were satisfied that the compromise took place for the pur pose of screening bribery; if it was established in their minds that bribery really did exist, any Committee, under those cir stances, might order an inquiry to be made, and enter into a fin ther scrutiny. If it was the opinion of the House that pro. ceedings should be instituted with regard to the bribery, it seemed to him to be useless to institute a second inquiry as to the compromise. Mr. B. ESCOTT said that the inconvenience which had arisen was, that in the desire to condemn the proceeding of the tribunal, the Noble Lord made accusations against it without any information with regard to the facts which he stated. Had the Noble Lord spoken from information, the House would have been primed with some of those long harangues with which it had been favoured during the last two months. How could those who were not present, and who did not know what evi dence was given before the Committee, or what admissions were made by counsel, who could only speak from the informa tion which they obtained from printed papers, venture to im pugn the proceedings which had taken place. In consequence of the attack which had been made, he wished to say one thing. It was quite clear that the present Hon. Member for Bridport was justly and fairly the Member for the town which he represented, and that Mr. Baillie Cochrane had no claim to that seat, as was insinuated in the speech of the Hon. Member for Dorset. When the counsel for the petition against the sitting Member threw up his brief, it was sufficient pound for any Committee to act upon. With respect to any future inquiry in that House, the vote of every Member would be to the fullest extent in favour of the present Member, and if they were to divide on the subject he should vote that, if any inquiry was made, it should be a full and searching one. When the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn made accusations against the conduct of Members of that House who were as honourable as the Noble Lord was, he wished he would recollect that, under the circumstances, it was the duty of the Committee, as he himself had said, to de cide on the evidence laid before them, and to do justice. They did decide on the evidence, and they did do justice to the Hon. Member for Bridport. Mr. BANKES said that his Right Hon. Friend the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, in the definition which he had given of the question of privilege then before the House, admitted at the time of his speech that the subject must be put to the House as a question of privilege. He would not deny ' that the Hon. Member now sitting for Bridport was de facto ! the real Member for the bo roug h, an d hi s sea t cou ld no t b e . taken from him, but he would say that the Hon. Member was : sitting there against the will of his constituents, and he put it ] to the House whether inquiry ought not to be made with a 4 view of finding a remedy for the evil. He (Mr. Bankes) had ' discharged his duty to the House, and had limited that duty , 1 within the bounds which he considered necessary. It was his wish that the House should be able to satisfy itself that this was a genuine petition, and the best mode of ascertaining that was by bringing it to the bar of the House. The Hon. Member for Weymouth had substituted an amendment to the ' ori g inal motion, to w hi c h h e was per f ect l y w il l i ng to agree. The Hon. Member had proposed that he (Mr. Bankes) should sit on the Committee, but he had already two Committees of great importance to attend to, besides a group of seven railway Bills, and that he thought quite sufficient to keep his time occupied. He would allow that a vote was polled upon one side that ought to have been given to the other, and therefore the prayer of the petition was " that the House would take the premises of that petition into consideration, and take such measures as should seem fit to the House. " His Friend the ; Solicitor-General had said that there need not be any specific allegation in the petition. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL—No. Mr. BANKES—Then he went the whole length of stating that there should be no allegation, and that the petition should merely state that the sitting Member ought not to be alto wed to take his seat. To proceed under the Bill of Lord John Russell would have been the most convenient mode in this case, bfeurthhiem(tAolra.vaßilanhkimess)ehlf of a measureadnotdones wo,rieh was not because it was m difficult in anotherthis petition as t i ewe was disposedrequired, andan d use.for a any y T further g iproceedings who would be th e petitioner It would not be easy to find a petitioner in a case which promised no result, and in which there was no object to be gained by the electors of th e b oroug h . If the obje c t was to di sfranchise the borough they would be the last people who would come forward as the petitioners. He apprehended that the passing of the statute did not pre clude them from adopting any other course which might appear e atWith desdesirableßussell i t t o w a t h s edmi ffi. lt e emsel ves h o y f i i t t w ; h a e n n d i t h w e 0 e d l i d d not see why th ey s h ou l d attempt to proceed be Sirrathße.r obstruction.PEEL nEEsaidthat the attention of the H ouse h a d been address to the House,emotionofhis aHon.n dwho Friend, 1 a(1 who had just eoncluded chaislled t stated a fact w hi c h ap peared to hi m to deserve the consideration of the House— namely, that when the voter before the C omm i ttee d ec l are d that his v o t e was g i ven to a candidate that he did not vote for, and that his character was ut in l i ' red by that i n f orma l vote , t h e Committee h a d declared that The consequence of that was, that a that vote was to be transf erre d t o the opposit e can did ate. h m y aj t o h r e i t y s t a o t f e t e e n l e a w was f dtehciisd country,ed in a v a o s u c f r of the other, and that t fa e r eed as his tid sea th i e w its r esen con cerned the de c i s i on could not be Member for B r id port (Mr. Romillin) es wa l s entitl a ed to his p seat as a statuteable right ; and no decision on the part of that House, no power or authority but an Act of Parliament could deprive him of a right to which he Was entitled by the law of the coun try, and the reverse of any decision would ' not be effected in that manner. The House o':.iiii to consider whether, on the allegation which has ' neon made, i an inquiry ought to be made into the affair:. If there was no mode of conducting the inquiry, ;nould vote for the original motion of his Hon. Friend that the party should be called on to appear at the bar of the House ; bat as that means had not been acceded to, he th,.ught that the inquiry should be conducted by means of a Select Committee, who should examine evidence, and thus render their investigation complete. If that Select Committee were instituted, the original object contemplated would be entirely answered. He thought they sould adhere to the Act of the Noble Lord, and not institute inquiries except under the gene ral provisions of that measure. There was a constant tendency in that House to interfere with those functions which, for a wise and beneficial purpose, were remitted to Select Commit tees. What was the use of the provision of the Noble Lord? Why, to defeat concealment of improper practices by compromise, and to defeat not only compromise, but to institute inquiries into bribery. That Act gave the Committee appointed the power of adjudicating, and the right report, setting forth whether there to make a special was any reasonable apprehension that an inquiry into bribery was necessary . coursetake what In makingthat special report, the House was left at liberty to it thought fit. If there had been suiteient ground in the pre= sent instance to support the charge of compromise against the C omm itt ee over w hi c h th e Right Honourable Gentle man presided, there was no doubt that charge would have been made. Evidence had been taken before that Committee ; and if the facts developed before them had rendered a special report necessary, the re wou ld h ave b een some groun d f or this inquiry into a compromise ; but as that had not been made, he could not advise th e H ouse to proceed. The Noble Lor d' s A ct did such th a t an inquiry in compromise or bribery not depend on a petition being presented within fourteen days after the election, for it provides, " That any case, where ene petition the House o p erson , who was entitled to vote, shall tiens of compromise ntot he grounds of any reasonable allega they could institutue an ti em, any time within three months, they should prove extensivnegannirt It was not necessary that had to do was simply to declare his bribery. All that he general bribery in the particular borough belief in extensive and voter, and to enter into his rcc of which he was a fide believed to the best of his kengmfances that such he bond he made this declaration, and entered"edge to be the case. If then a provision wa's made for the into . his recognisetnces, mittee of Inquiry, which Committee a ll ) an Election Committee. All this could had d ointment of a Com. , all the functions of be called into •by the petition of one s i ng l e voter a l leging his belief that existed. But did the A c t i mpose expense on the action e a t t bribery itin p No ; for if the Committee repor t e d that there wasreasoonaebrle ground for the allegation, they would order the expenses of the petitioner to be borne as in any other public matter. If they were dissatisfied with the law let them alter it, though he be lieved that as it stood it admitted extensive and searching in quiry. Great inconvenience had arisen from the old system of appointing Committees for every individual case, and the Noble Lord had therefore brought forward thii remedy. These were the provisions of the law, and he saw no reason to question the policy or the justice of it. If they thought tLe powers were not sufficient, it was competent for them to alter the law, but while it remained in force he did not feel disposed to in terfere in any individual case. Seeing how the inquiries had been conducted in former times by party decisions in the Com mittees of Parliament, and seeing the tendency that political excitement had to interfere with the decisions of such Com mittees, he for one would resist any further inquiry, except that sanctioned under the law of the Noble Lord, and such as would have the object of rescuing the character of an individual from the injury to which it has been subjected.—( Hear. ) Mr. HUME said it appeared that if ever the House was pre pared to act in any cases of compromise the present was the time. This was the first case of the kind brought before the House, and he hoped the Committee should be allowed to in quire into the fact as to whether such a compromise as that alle A g f e t d er d a id fe ta w ke wo p rd lac s o e. f explanation from Mr. WOOD in re ference to the sanction of the Committee that had sat on the case, Mr. CHRISTIE said he was willing to fall into the sug gestion of the Right Hon. Gentleman ( Sir R. Inglis), and he would, therefore, strike out the latter part of his motion. It would then stand a motion for a simple inquiry as to whether such a compromise really happened. Mr. DUNCOMBE said they ought to inquire into the real question of compromise, and not be led away from it by the Right Hon. Baronet. No one could read the evidence taken before the Committee without being persuaded that a compro mise did take place. The fact was, the Committee had been completely bamboozled. The Hon. Member tLen read at some length the evidence of witnesses. This was the evidence sent forth to the public, and could it be expected that it should satisfy the House ? He trusted the House would proceed with its inquiry into the alleged compromise which had taken place, so that justice might be rendered to all parties. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that it was due to the justice and character of the House that a Committee should be appointed to ascertain whether a system of extensive bribery had existed at Bridport; but he did not think that that Com mittee should prosecute its inquiry as to whether a compromise had been come to. A compromise was, in itself, no offence, and it wouid be only a waste of public time and money to ex tend the inquiry so far. He thought that this course—that he meant of extending their investigation into the matter of compromise—would only revive those party feelings and party prejudices which had in former times brought such disgraee upon the privileges of the House.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY thought that the election inquiries before Committees of the House. as at present conducted, were little better than a farce.—( Hear, hear.) There were two ques tions in this inquiry, the one of bribery and the other of a compromise ; but an inquiry under the Act of the Noble Lord the Member for London was, in fact, no inquiry at all. The electors of Bridport did not choose that their borough should be disfranchised, and as respected them, therefore, the inquiry into bribery would only be, as he had already stated, a solemn farce. Mr. BANKES then withdrew his amendment, and Mr. Christie's amendment was put as a substantive motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved, as an amendment, that all the words after " Romilly" be left out. _ _ Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when there appeared— For the motion 47 Against it 47 The SPEAKER gave his vote in favour of the amendment of the Attorney-General, which was consequently carried. The motion of Mr. Christie was about to be disposed of, when Mr. HUME moved that the debate be adjourned to Thurs day, as Mr. Christie and several other Hon. Members had left the House.—The motion was agreed to. RAILWAY COMPANIES DISSOLUTION BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. After a short discussion the whole of the clauses, with same few verbal amendments, were agreed to. The House having resumed, the CHAIRMAN reported ac cordingly, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Thursday next. VISCOUNT HARDINGE'S ANNUITY BILL. This Bill went through Committee. The reports on Viscount Hardinge's and Lord Gough's Annuity Bills were brought up and agreed to. The report on the Explosive Substances' Bill was brought up and agreed to.. _ On the motion of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the following clauses were introduced into the Bill: 1. To enable justices to grant warrants to search for explo dve and destructive substances in cases of sworn informations ,hat an offence under this Act is intended. 2. To enable constables without warrant to stop and search persons whom they shall find abroad at night, under circum stances of reasonable suspicion, that an offence under this Act is intended. The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time this day. The other orders of the day u ere then disposed of, and On the motion of Mr. CARDWELL, The House adjourned at Twelve o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MAY 19. The following Railway Bills were withdrawn : Ulversto ne, Furness, and Lancaster and Carlisle. Carlow Extension. Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth. The following Petition for a Railway was reported, and the Bill ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon. Members : Grand Junction (Huyton and other Branches)—l►tr. Patten and Viscount Sandon. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE, The following resolutions were reported from this Committee :- 1. That, in the case of the Harrogate Gas Bill Amendments on consideration of report, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be adopted by the House without the re-commitment of the Bill. 2. That, in the case of the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Termini and Brancher) petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to intro duce such additional provision, if the Committee on the Bill should think fit. 3. That, in the case of the Darwen Waterworks petition for addi tional provision, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 4. That, in the case of the Norfolk Railway Extension (Thetford to Reedhaw Branches—No. 2) petition for leavp to present a petition for a Bill, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed IN ith. Second resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the table. PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS. :From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MAY 19. BRIDPORT ELECTION. Motion made, and ' Question proposed, " That the petition of William Rockett be referred to a Select Committee, which shall be appointed, to Inquire into all the circumstances under which Joseph Welch gave evidence before the Select Committee on the Bridport Election petition that William Rockett voted for Mr. Romilly, and whether any compromise or arrangement was entered into by the parties to the petition, their counsel, or agents, to prevent the dis closure of bribery or treating; and also whether, and to what ex tent, bribery and treating were practised at the last election for the borough of Bridport :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " Romilly" to the end of the Question :—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The Douse divided :—Ayes, 47 ; Noes, 47 : —And the numbers being equal, Mr. Speaker said, That as the House had no bettor means of forming a judgment upon the question than the Election Committee, who had already declined to entertain it, and as it would still be open to any elector of the borough, under the provisions of the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 2, to present a petition to the House, praying that a Com mittee, having power to examine upon oath, might he appointed to investigate the subject of bribery and compromise, he therefore de clared himself with the Noes. AYES. Bankes, George Escott, Bickham Rich, Henry Barnard, Edward G. Gisborne, Thomas Scott, F. Bennet, P. Henley, J. W. Spooner, Richard Bentinck, Lord G. Hume, Joseph Stuart, Lord J. Bentinck, Lord H. Inglis, Sir It. Tancred, H.W.; Beresiord, Major Lambton, H. Thornely, T. Blackstone, W. S. Law, C. E. Tollemache, J. Borthwick, Peter Lawson, A. Trelawny, J. S. Bowring, Dr. Lowther, Hon. Ccl. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Brotherton, J. M`Carthy, Alex. 'Walley, T. Burrell, Sir C. Marsland, Henry Wawn, J T. Christopher, R. A. Morris, David Williams, W. Collett, John Napier, Sir C. Wodehouse, E. Curteis, H. B. Neeld, Joseph Duke, Sir James Powell, Caleb TELLERS. Duncombe, A. Protheroe, E. Aglionby, H. A. Elphinstone, H. Rashleigli, W. Christie, W. D. NOES. A'Court, Captain Fitzroy, Henry Mahon, Viscount Antrobus, Edmund Gladstone, J. N. O'Conor, Don Barkly, Henry Goulburn, Henry Palmerston, Vis. Baring, W. B. Graham, Sir J. Peel, Sir Robert Blackburne, J. I. Greene, Thomas Peel, Jonathan Bowles, Admiral Grimsditch, Thomas Russell, Lord J. Boyd, John Hamilton, Lord C. Somerset, Lord G. Bruce, Lord E. Harcourt, G. Stanton, W. H. Cardwell, Edward Hay, Sir A. Stuart, Henry Carnegie, Captain Herbert, Sidney Thesiger, Sir F. Chichester, Lord J. llinde, J. H. Trench, Sir F. Clay, Sir W. Hope, G. W. Vivian, J. E. Clerk Sir G. Hudson, George Wood, Charles Cockburn, Sir G. Hutt, William Corry, Henry Kelly, Sir Fitzroy rEttnits. CoartenaY, Viscount Labouchere, Henry Young, John Douglas, Sir C. Lygou, General Cripps, W. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. The Royal Mail Packet Company's steamer Thames, Cap thin Hest, arrived at Southampton yesterday evening at six o'clock, bringing mails of the following dates :—From San Jago de Cuba April 19, Jamaica 25, Jacmel 27, Puerto Rico 29, Demerara 19, Tobago 21, Trinidad 20, Barbadoes 27, Grenada 28, St. Vincent 28, St. Lucia 28, Martinique 29, Dominica 29, Guadeloupe 29, Antigua 30, Montserrat 30, Nevis 30, St. Kitt's 30, Tortola May 1, St. Thomas's May 1, six P.M. ; Fayal 13. The Thames brings seventy passengers, including his Ex cellency Sir henry Macleod, late Governor of Trinidad, and on freight 58 tierces of coffee, 126 barrels of ginger, and 283 packages of arrowroot. We have our usual files of papers by the Thames, but they are very barren of interest; some of them, however, give a more favourable account of the weather than we have learned from private sources ; indeed, almost at the time of the mails leaving the drought appeared to be breaking up. Coolies had arrived in several colonies, and had produced some effect in causing more regular labour; in Jamaica and Trinidad they were much prized, and working steadily, show ing great aptness, as were the Portuguese emigrants from Madeira at Demerara and St. Vincent. The colonial news papers have little interesting local news, if we except those of Trinidad, which are filled with regrets on losing their Governor, Sir Henry Macleod, who, it appears, had resigned his office in consequence of some misunderstanding with the Colonial Minister. His successor, Lord Harris, left Grenada on the 27th ult., and would arrive next day at Trinidad. General Richi, the new President of Hayti, was still in the northern part of the island, where all was quiet at the last dates. Pierrot, the late President, had retired to his planta tion; it is rumoured he will not be allowed to remain there (as a few partisans may still cherish the hope of his return to power), but be compelled to reside nearer Port-au-Prince, where all his movements can be better watched. In the sou few Rfeivrehib,sunGdorvedernmmeenn,t ; ch t i h efl e y ir o c b u j l e ti c v t a , to .i r t s, see h m ad s, risen ag tmeaspsialelargeiengthesevtoewranl o p f er A so u r x Cyes. is oafrespTeheteaybicliotmy,mewnhcoed fellby into but hands, General and jef f r a n ,at committedth the head all sorts o f six in three regiments, rdepreda tionse dif ferent had obtained signal advantages over oft thaw the banditti were m combats, when from oto been lad a d n decidedee been received u p o and d respecting fromis believeds the ta hostilities will take place until some that a suspension of A k D i no ll mn ed ai:niteh N aen o s t . h Dispatches had Government, in office, well of the present President of the Spanish port, ing t xt h i in n g ist m er o s r N e vh d o ec h is a i foreign Powers. b e r r m u a ; d n e and h d on. The aTd.hheeld intercourse foreigners clear t - h h o e u a g d h ed t steamer Tay left Grenada for Jamaica April 27 . the Ten of with d ve be is en de a t arrived at St. Thomas's May 1 ; the in the Gulf of the Spanish Main April 15 ; the Tweed wass By the most recent accounts the RoyalTreut left til Jamaica for Jamaica;Me H x e i r c o m ; the City of Glasgow left for Trinidad April . 27 be relieved by the Endymion. Majesty's ys Majesty's ships i m ship atiml Pique The Thames passed on the morning of the 18th two of her Majesty's steamers lying to in a gale from N.N.W. ; also passed the Royal Mail steam-ship Dee off Portland, at noon s w e a w i tei were e g a t 0 yesterday. The Thames had remarkably fine weather until nearing the Channel, when heavy N.W. and westerly gales were expe rienced, particularly on the night of the 16th and morning of the 17th. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Elizabeth Murphy, aged 73, and Joseph Ea,ddell, a waiter at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, were brought before the Lord Mayor under the remarkable circumstances detailed in the evidence below. Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullins, solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for protection against felony and fraud, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Phillips, of the office of solicitor to the Post-office, at tended to watch the case, which was stated to possess some peculiar features. The solicitor for the prosecution stated that on the 14th of October, 1843, an order of the Eastern Scottish Bank for the payment of 50/. to a Miss Lucy Thompson was enclosed in a letter and transmitted to London. The letter was received by the party to whom it was ad dressed, but the order was not in it, and payment was stopped at the banking-house of Barclay, Bevan,Tritton, and Co., where it was payabl e . Ou Thursday the ma l e prisoner presented the order at the counter of the bank ing -house, and an inquiry was made which led to t he apprehension of both prisoners. As from the nature of the investigation, and the necessity of sending to Scot land upon the subject, considerable delay must take place, a remand for a longer time than was usually applied for might be deemed expedient. Mr. Alfred W. Morris, clerk at Messrs. Barclay and Co.'s, said, about three o'clock on Monday, Elizabeth Murphy presented the order I produced for 501. of the Eastern Rank of Scotland upon our house. I referred to our remittance book, and found that the order was , stopped. I asked her whether her name was Lucy Thompson, the name entered by Mr. Macholm, of the bank of Scotland, upon the back of the order. She said, No. I asked her what her own name was, and she re plied, Elizabeth Murphy. I asked her from whom she brought the order ? She said, from Mr. Hamilton, of Dublin, that she had received it from him the night be fore, and that he was a lodger at N 0.56, Jerm)n-street. She gave her own address as 11, St. Ann's-court, War dour-street, Soho ; and she then was directed to go with me to the office of Messrs. Bush and Mullens, of St. Mildred's-court. I heard her repeat the same story to Mr. Bush ; and she added that she bad received the order from a servant in Jermyn-street, for whom she did some work. The LORD MAYOR ask e d w h et h er t h e f em ale prisoner wished to ask any question of the witness ? Elizabeth Murphy—My Lord, when I was asked the question I thought there was something wrong; and to save the gentleman (Baddle), and a large family of.small children, I told a lie about the business. But the truth is, this gentleman's wife came and asked me to get it changed, and I thought there was no harm in it. I told the falsehood because there was something wrong, but I did not know any harm myself at all. Mr. Morris, in being appealed to by the woman whe ther she had not asked him whether there was anything wrong, replied in the affirmative. Mr. Bush was then sworn. H e s a id, at a b out twenty minutes after three on Monday, the female prisoner was brought to me, accompanied by Mr. Morris and the principal clerk in his department of the house, and I asked her, upon learning the nature of the case, a few questions, and took notice of her answers in writing. She said her name was Elizabeth Murphy, that she was a widow, and that she lived at No. 11, St. Ann's court, for two years past, and was well known ; that she gained her living by nursing and needle-work; that she knew the house, 56, Jermyn-street, as a lodging house ; that the servant there, who was the only maid of all-work in the house, sometimes employed her ; that she was there the evening before, when the ser vant, whose name she thought was Mary, gave her the order, and told her she had received it froth a Mr. Hamilton, of Dublin, who was lodging in the house, and that she (the prisoner) was to go to the Bank and get change for it ; that she had been to the Bank Of England that evening, and was there directed to go to Barclay and Co., in Lombard-street, and th a t s h e knew nothing more of it. This statement was made in the presence of Mr. Morris, and he soon afterwards left us. The prisoner then expressed great anxiety to know if there was anything wrong. I told her there was, and that further inquiry must be made, as the order was payable to Miss Lucy Thompson, and she was certainly not that person. She then expressed some further anxiety about it, and said she had not told me the truth, but a false hood, and now she would tell me the whole truth. I said, I was sorry she had not told me the truth at first, as falsehood might possibly involve her in some trouble ; and I warned her not to conceal any of the true facts from me. I had previously thought well of her. She then made another statement to me. I did not hold out any inducement to her to make any statement, nor had I stated any previous accusation against her. I took down her second statement in writing. She said, she did not receive the order from Mary, or any one in Jermyn-street. That she had it from a waiter at the Burlington Hotel, named Baddell, whom she had known some eight or nine years past ; that he formerly lived as servant to Dr. Philpotts , the Bishop of Exeter, that he had been about twelve months at the hotel in Burlington-street ; that she received the order on the preceding evening from Baddell's wife, who lived in Newman's- mews,Castle-street,Berners-street, and took in washing, but that Baddell himself did not sleep there. The female prisoner also said that she did not see Bad dell at the time his wife gave the order to her ; that she had seen him on the Friday evening previous, but never saw the order till last (meaning Sunday) evening. That Baddell's wife told her to try to get it paid at the Bank, although she feared that it was too old, and that her husband had given it to her. I accordingly sent up an officer and my principal clerk to the Burlington Hotel to make some inquiries. I stopped the examination at that point, because it then became a question whether the husband or wife was the person to be accused. Mr. W. Base, clerk to Messrs. Bush and Mullins, said —I went, accompanied by the female prisoner and Wardle (policeman 25), t o th e B ur li n gton Hotel, in Cork-street, and ask e d f or M r. Morley, t h e pro p r i e t or , whom I saw, and i n co nsequence of what passed between us he sent for the prisoner Baddell, by the name of Lewis. I then showed Baddell the order in the presence of Mr. Morley, and Mr. Phillips, of the office of the solicitor to the Post-office, (Wardle being outside in a carriage with the female prisoner), and asked Baddell if he knew a person of the name of Murphy. He said, yes, he did. I then sheaved him the order, and said to him,:" Did you send this order by Mrs. Murphy?" He said, " I did, it's quite right ; I picked the order up in Oxford street, on Wednesday night, between eight and nine or between nine and ten, when I was out. It was wrapped up in a piece of paper." I then left the room and fetched the officer Wardle, and told Baddell there was something wrong about the order, and he must go with me to explain. Afterwards, at Bow-street station-house, Baddell sent for me, and then he made a statement which I took down in writing, in the presence of the policeman and the prisoner Eliza beth Murphy. The statement was as follows :—" In stead of that statement I made being true, I found it (the order) amongst some letter covers and waste paper at Mr. Morley's Hotel, on Wednesday last." He after wards said in my presence, when the charge was being taken down in the station-house, " I gave it to my wite yesterday." Baddell—My Lord, the last statement is quite correct. I made the first statement because I did not wish to get my fellow servants into trouble ; but I found the paper in the waste-paper drawer in the coffee-room, where there are scores of unclaimed and unopened letters. George Wardle (policeman 25), stated that he took both prisoners into custody, and was present when Bad dell made the statement at Bow-street to Mr. Base, which that gentleman related correctly. Baddell had made a similar statement to witness. Mr. Bush again called Mr. Morris, the first witness examined, who deposed that from information which he had received, as clerk to Messrs. Barclay and Co. (the house having received advice to the effect), he believed the order produced had been obtained by fraud, or feloniously stolen from a post-office letter, and that if time were given, further evidence would be brought forward. The LORD MAYOR—DO you know that the letter has been robbed ? Witness—l do. Mayor, Mr. Goodman,lnaconversat and Mr. Bush,ionwhichtookpla place upon betw theee ntheL subjectr of the evidence against the female prisoner, Mr. Bush observed, that if she was not involved in the criminality as to the fraudulent possession of the order, she had got herself into , serious difficulty by telling such falsehoods, as rendered - it impossible to call upon her as a witness, ' for she had utterly destroyed her own credibility. Davis, cabman, 6,047, was charged by Mr. Waghorn, of Cornhill. Mr. Waghorn stated that the defendant demanded eight shillings for driving from Cornhill to the South Western Railway and back. He had waited twenty minutes at the station, an d was paid 4s. 6d., and he de clared that he would stay all night at Mr. Waghorn's office if not paid that exorbitant demand. Witness ex postulated with him, but the defendant insisted that Mr. Waghorn was the person he carried, and not M r . W ag _ horn's clerk, who was t he actual fare. The d eman d was ag gravated by the insole nce of the defendant, in catching hold of Mr. Waghorn and pushing him. Mr. Waghorn's clerk proved that the defendant had been paid sixpence more than his fare, and that the man was tipsy. As Mr. Waghorn considered the night's lodging i n the station-house sufficient punishment for the defendant, The LORD MAYOR admonished the apparently peni tent cabman, and discharged him. WORSHIP-STREET. DANGEROUS ASSAULCS AC THE BALLOON EXHIBITION. John Collins, Samuel Humphries, and Martin Armstrong, were charged with throwing bricks and stones amongst the crowd in the neighbourhood of the Albert Saloon, at Hoxton, from which place Mr. C. Green ascended in his balloon on Monday evening. Inspector Pearse, of the N division, said, that great crowds assembled in the neighbourhood to witness the ascent of the balloon, and a number of people mounted upon the scaffold ing at the top of a new building adjacent. Amongst these were the prisoners and others, who began a disturbance by throwing water, and afterwards bricks and stones, at the crowd below, some of whom also pelted them. Several per sons were injured by the missiles thrown from the scaffold, and the inspector said he saw a female with her head bleed ing. A little boy, named Angles, however, was more seri ously hurt, for a brick struck him on the head, an d h e f e l l as if shot, and was carried in a state of insensibility to a neighbouring surgeon, who dressed the wound on his head. William Hughes, 13 years of age, now stated that he was walking up at the time, and saw the prisoner Collins throw the brick which struck him, and cut him on the head. Two witnesses corroborated his evidence, and proved that it was Collins who threw that brick. It was not aimed at the boy, but thrown at random into the crowd. The other two prisoners were also throwing, b u t it was not proved that they did any actual personal injury. The father of the boy Angles stated that he was brought home in the condition described, and was in a state of deli rium during part of the night. Mr. BROUGHTON, after commenting in severe terms upon the wanton and dangerous conduct of the prisoners, said he should not at present dispose finally of the assault from which the little boy was suffering, and he therefore remanded Col ' lips for a week. The other two prisoners he sentenced to pay 208. each, or be imprisoned one month. George Lewis was charged w ith th r owing a large stone from the street at one of the men on the scaffold.—He was fined ss. SOUTHWARK. A LEAP FROM WATERLOO-BRIDGE.--CharieS Smith, a tose ) i - ffum o Ilwn u evnd n saa g aptsyt eeeacmrrwiti Waterloo-bridge, oorniaEbb night,or ii f edndt rg r giael e enees s : p i,t3n e f ihd c togoo t f iaantibitisidllhnteeeaegrnritTvu, on the appearance, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged 'with making a very determined attempt upon his life, by throwing himself off the centre arch es out on duty in a boat on the river, on passing one o e nnh f t el ece td t t a ' e c h h . ,tn k i ee,tdmithaseaNwr:tacps while on oeihcrelirnee-ss ot, lciH a oie t saee t t e rd dnienr immediately aottention einamd w i eaassut draggingerci surgeon, l or e cna d on o erl n ,edehsy h ii tdmi e uni a ng r tg i hi n ea g hit nie a rns tp bmi ie\pt.dahyt the b o n o wl os w d : a ee upa n t le rsl v . a ' fasa e fsi a te s s h t et t e o raH a , ; eeke,tnel per fectly immediately men Feathers" i s ap i tbu. public-house, ol d euds fi e n d finding him in that condition, so some e he ,inthelittlehe the b usual llr r a e t m e Waterloo-road, d o oi remedies o f o a r d , p androdu producing neighbourhood, having resuscitation were adopted with success. It was, however, discovered that the defendant had received' such serious in juries in precipitating himself from such a height off the bridge, that it was deemed necessary to have him afterwards taken to Charing-cross Hospital, in which institution he re mained to the present time. The inspector added, that on finding the defendant was sufficiently recovered to be enabled to leave the hospital, he brought him up to this Court to be dealt with as the magistrate deemed expedient. Policeman 72 F stated that on the Sunday night in ques tion, while on duty on Waterloo-bridge, as he was walking from the north towards the south side, lie observed the de fendant approaching him from the latter direction. When the defendant got near him, he made a sudden spring upon the parapet, and then descended upon the abutment of the bridge, and although he (policeman) in a moment seized him by the hair, yet he disengaged himself from his grasp, and ejaculating the words "good bye," precipitated himself head foremost into the river. The policeman added that he heard the splash made by the defendant falling into the water; but although he looked over the parapet he could not distinguish him, owing to the darkness, and he concluded that he was drowned. He (the policeman) afterwards descended to the steps of the bridge on the Surrey side, and to his surprise the inspector and his man were in the act of removing the de fendant ashore from their boat. Mr. COTTINGHAM questioned the defendant as to his situa tion in life, and the cause of his having made such a deter mined attempt at suicide. In reply the young man stated that he was in the employ of Mr. Maudsley, a cutler, in Wych-street, Strand, and that on the Sunday in question he spent the evening with some friends at Walworth, and was induced to take more drink than he was accustomed to do. He had no recollection of the circumstances above described until subsequent to his removal to the hospital, and he could now assure the magis trate that he deeply regretted the attempt he had made upon his life. The defendant's mother, a respectable woman, attended, and stated that he was a young man of unexceptionable character, and that she was confident that had it not been for the liquor he was advised to take he never would have • ch serious injuries from precipitating himself off the bridge that she was afraid he would never re attemptedsusustcahinead rashsa unfor tunately act. She added that he had re cover the shock given to his constitution. Mr. Corrnautfam having addressed some useful advice to permitted him to be delivered up into the e th ar e e y n o f u h n i g m his parent.an' SPORTING INTELLIGENC E. TATTERSALL'S—YESTVIDAT. DERBY. 12 to 1 agst John Day's lot—taken 5 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes—taken and afterwards offered 7 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock Bto 1 agst Lord E Russell's Sting—t and aft offered 10 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum 10 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy 25 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Peri colt—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gurney's Cantley 40 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn s The Premier 40 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's The Conjuror 50 to 1 agst Mr. Wyatt's Nutleaf—taken 1000 to 10 agst Count Bathyany's Tragical. The attendance thin, and betting flat, without ' any effect upon the prices quoted on Monday. Mr. E. R. Clarke's c by Wizard of the North is named The Conjuror, not the Conqueror, as mistakenly mentioned in our last. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. ASCOT HEATH-1846. The Ascot Stakes of 25 Soya. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, on Monday next. Those marked *, having been entered without the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out by the time prescribed, unless specially ordered to be left in. First Class.-Wolfdog, 4 yrs, 9st-Lothario, 6 yrs, 9st- Mentor, 4 yrs, Bst 91b-Trueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 81b-Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 61b-Vitellius, 6 yrs, 'Bst 51b-*Morpeth, 5 yrs, Bst 41b-Antler, 5 yrs, Bst 41b-* Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs, Bst 31b -Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst 21b-Needful, 5 yrs, Bst 21b-Red Deer, 5 yrs, Bst 11b-Glossy, 6 yrs, Bst-Discord, aged, Bst-Misr's deal, aged, 7st 81b-Grim. Con. 4 yrs, ist 81b-The Pride of Kildare, 5 yrs, 7st 71b-Warp, 5 yrs, 7st 61b-Ruff. 4 yrs, 7st 51b-Mosque, aged, Tat 51b-2Egis, 4 yrs, Tat 51b-Javelin, 4 yrs, 7st 51b-Miss Burns, 6 yrs, 7st 41b-*Fuzbos, 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Gaiety, 5 yrs, 7st 21b-Colambus, 4 yrs, 7st- The Dart, 4 yrs, 7st-Clumsy, 4 yrs, 7st-Satyr, 5 yrs, 7st-Flahowlagh, 4 yrs, 7st-b g by Advocate, 4 yrs, 7st-Taglioni filly, 4 yrs, 6st 131b-Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs, 6st 121b-Keppel, 4 yrs, Est 101b-Brush, 5 yrs, 6st 91b- London, 4 yrs, 6st 91b-Hamdrum, 3 yrs, 6st 71b-The Witch, 4 yrs, Est 61b-•Arthur, 4 yrs, Est 61b-*Merryman, 4 yrs, 6st 51b-*Stream, 4 yrs, Est 21b-'Mowerina, 3 yrs, 6st-Astonishment, 3 yrs, sst 91b-Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, sst 91b-Sheraton, 3 yrs, sst 71b-Lord Harry, 3 yrs, sst 71b-Tugnet, 3 yrs, sst 61b-Headsman, 3 yrs, sst 21b- Alamode, 5 yrs, pays forfeit. Second Class.-Aristotle, aged, Bst 101b-Lightning, 5 yrs, Bst Mb- Queen of Tyne, a‘ed, Bst 81b-Pine Apple, 6 yrs, Bst 41b-Rowena, 5 yrs, Bst 41b-Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, Bst 21b Miss Elis, 4 yrs, Bst 21b-Ould Ireland, 4 yrs, Bst-Vol-au- Vent, 5 yrs, 7st 121b-Leopard, 4 yrs, 7st 10-*The Roper's Daughter, aged, 7st 91b-Subduer, 6 yrs, 7st 71b-Devil to Pay, 5 yrs, 7st 61b-Crocus, 6 yrs, 7st 61b-My Mary, 4 yrs, 7st slb-of-am-not-aware, aged, 7st 51b-Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs, 7st3lb-.Carissima, 4 yrs, 7st 21b-Rowland Hill 4 yrs, 7st- Flattery, 4 yrs, 7st-Queen Pomare, 4 yrs, 7st-Mongrel, 4 yrs, 6st 131b-*Stoker, 4 yrs, Est 131b-Gamecock, 6 yrs, Est 121b-Master Stepney, 4 yrs, 6st 111b-Best Bower, 5 yrs, 6st 81b-Languish filly, 4 yrs, Est 81b-Nareus, 4 yrs, 6st 81b -*Petit Morceau, 4yrs, Est 71b-The Wreck, 4 yrs, 6st'slb- Deodara, 4 yrs, Est 51b-Wild Roe, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Jenny Wren, 4 yrs, 6st 21b-Footstool, 3 yrs, 6st-Corcelius, 3 yrs, sst 121b-Buttress, 3 yrs, sst 111b-Lynceus, 3 yrs, sst 1 11b- Petitioner, 3 yrs, sst 71b-Thrapston, 3 yrs, sst 71b-*Polka, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Leaconfield, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Ohio, 3 yrs, sst 31b -Spur, 3 yrs, sst 31b-Farthing Candle, 3 yrs, sst 21b-Tit bit, 3 yrs, sst 21b-Muscatel, 3 yrs, sst-Camera Obscure, 3 yrs, sst-*Punch, 3 yrs, 4st 121b-Beaufront, 5 yrs, pay forfeit. Nominations for the Royal Hunt Cup. London, 4 yrs—Antler, 5 yrs—Petitioner, 3 yrs—False Re port, 5 yrs—Bourra Tomacha, aged—Red Robin, 4 yrs—The Cure, 5 yrs—Espoir, 5 yrs—Queen Pomare, 4 yrs—Regalia, 3 yrs—L'Hirondelle colt, 3 yrs—Revolution filly, 3 yrs— Sotades, 3 yrs— The Devil-to-Pay, 5 vrs—br g by Advocate, 4 yrs—b m by Monarch, 5 yrs—The Merry Monarch, 4 yrs— Grauniet, 4 yrs—Lightning, 5 yrs—Aristotle,' aged—Akbar, 5 yrs—Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs—Farthing Candle, 3 yrs—Saint Demetri.; 3 yrs—Cocoa Nut, 5 yrs—Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs— Beaumont, 5 yrs —Spithead, 3 yrs—Mendicant, 3 yrs—Polka, 3 yrs—Sir Francis, 4 yrs—Taglioni filly, 4 yrs—Young Eclipse, 4 yrs—Evenus, 6 yrs—Leaconfield, 3 yrs—Rowland Hill, 4 yrs—Peasant, 3 yrs—Javelin, 4 yrs—Snake, 3 yrs— Nell Cook, 3 yrs. The weights to be declared on Tuesday week. _ Nominations for the Great Western Railway Gift. Example, 5 yrs—Antler, 5 yrs—Petitioner, 3 yrs—The Mangler, 4 yrs—Curiosity, 3 yrs—Burgundy, 3 yrs— Remedy, 3 yrs—Ruff, 4 yrs—Chertsey, 4 yrs—Columbus, 4 yrs—L'Hirondelle colt, 3 yrs—Revolution filly, 3 yrs— Draco, 3 yrs—Sotadis colt, 3 yrs—b g by Advocate, 4 yrs— Titmouse, 4 yrs—Devil to Pay, 5 yrs—Master Stepney, 4 yrs—Mentor, 4 yrs—Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs—Lightning, 5 yrs —Aristotle, aged—lnheritress, 6 yr4—Rowena, 5 yrs—Akbar, 5 yrs—Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs—Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs— Pride of Kildare, 5 yrs—Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs—Flahowlagh, 4 yrs—Vol-au-vent, 5 yrs—St. Danetri, 3 yrs—Cocoa Nut, 5 yrs—Sister to Pergularia, 3 yrs—Beaumont, 5 yrs— The Little Vulgar Boy, 3 yrs—The Baron, 4 yrs—Polka, 3 yrs—Alarm, 4 yrs—Geraldine, 3 yrs—Taglioni filly, 4 yrs Young Eclipse,'4 yrs—Lynceus, 3 yrs—Sister to Flambeau, 3 yrs—Pine Apple, 6 yrs—Gwalior, 4 yrs—Rowland Hill, 4 yrs—Peasant, 3 yrs—Javelin, 4 vrs. NEWMARKET, SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1846. FRIDAY. Mr. Greville's Apricot, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Merton's Jumble Bst 11b. T.Y.C. 200. h ft. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1846.— MONDAY. Mr. Greville's Ferina, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Merton's Missed Stays, 7st 12b. T.Y.C. 200. 13 ft. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. GRAND CHALLENGE Cur.—The following yachts were entered last night with Captain Durrand, the Secretary of this Club, at the Piazza Coffee-house, to contend for the Grand Challenge Cup, appointed for the ath of June : Yachts. 'Tons. Owners. Belvidere .. Prima Donna... 25 ... Fleur de Marie 25 Vixen .. • Ino ... Secret The course in this race will be, as heretofore, from Green wich Hospital round a flag hung off Coalheuse Point, and return to Greenwich. The Cup is at present held by the Prima Donna. ROWING MATCH. The Ariel scratch four-oared match for silver medals, from Vauxhall to Putney, was rowed yesterday evening at half past six. The following were the crews : Light Blue—Gill, Teversham, and C. Cooper. Allen (stroke) ; Churchill (coxswain). Pink—Frisby, Williams, and Dodd. Rowland (stroke) ; P. Groves (coxswain). distanceat t t the Belgrave Dock, but off the Red-house Light Blue drew gradually ahead, and went through Battersea-bridge five or six lengths in advance. In crossing from Battersea Chu rc h e w h Red—H. Cooper, Dapl an , an d T. G roves . Plunkett crews keptindly (stroke) ; Yeo (co xswa i n ). The start was well effected by the Royal Academy Club, who e s k beautifully officia ted a t together, e u t m h e p r i , R r es . ed Fo , rso il t Pink byMoulton beating slightlyn some leading the boats were all filled, the wind blowing a perfect hur r i cane down the river. Light Blue, however, still mai n t a i ne d t h e lead, Th e an w d in c n a e m rs e winner r i o n w a edina b b o y au t t w if e u n i ty ou l t e t n e g r t b h u s Red by about the same distance. and Wyld for the Trident Club. PUGILISM. WARD AND KENDALL FOR 251. ASlDE.—These men, whose local fame in the fistic art has scarcely travelled beyond Greenwich and its adjoining hamlet of Deptford, met yesterday, after a steam trip, at the Lower Hope Point, some seven miles below Gravesend, on the ground where the American Giant, Charles Freeman, now deceased, brought his second battle with the Tipton Slasher to a final issue. After 54 rounds, of as game a contest as was ever witnessed, in which physical strength and unflinching courage were far more prominent than a scientific knowledge of the art pugilistic, Ward was declared the victor. The battle lasted 1 hour and 55 minutes. The conqueror was the heavier man, he weighing nearly 12 stone, while Kendall (who is a native of the " hardware village," though located at Dept ford), was barely 11 stone. The winner was seconded by T. Snow and John Hayes ; Kendall by Harry Broome and Barnash. The punishment, which was severe, pr was ett equally shared—Kendall losing through fatigue, and being evidently overmatched. GILL AND NORLEY.—The stakes, 500/, for this gallant contest were given up to Gill last n i g ht. A fresh match for f s r o i o ends aS o id f e G w ill as re and that therefore would be iu the highest deg ree it the next Quarter Sessions for Oxford, p y int rudent for lura to fl in plied d o t s h ed at on he the part boundof N e N o , r e l r e y t ; a p b p u e t ar t the the face ofthe majesty of the law. In his present position it would be viewed as an aggravation of his imputed offence. PEDESTRIANISM. DIXON AND RAWLINGS' RACE.—Fred. Dixon (of Pad dington) and R. Rawlings (of Kilburn) ran two miles, on Monday, at Ealing, for 10/. ; the fixture was Acton Bottom, but, as we anticipated, that ground was tabooed by the police. The parties therefore moved on to the first-named place.— The ground was from the Gth to the 7th milestone, and re turn. Rawlings, who gave his man 50 yards' start, soon lessened the interval between them to a considerable extent, and at the tarn fot the second mile looked very like a winner; but at this point he seemed to think he had been going too fast, for although Dixon's speed was by no means improved, he fell shockingly in the rise, and gave up, almost 100 yards behind, when some 200 to 300 yards from the winning scratch. Dixon ran the distance in a trifle over eleven minutes. A considerable number of bets were declared off before the race, on the whispers of " the men in the street," who seemed to think there was some " ready-made luck " intended in the affair. THE BRECKNOCK NOVICES' TWENTY-MILE MATCH. — This affair came off on Monday, at the Brecknock Arms, the Novice, backed by Mr. Beckett, doing 20 miles in 4 hours. It will be seen by the subjoined statement, that it was com pleted within eleven minutes and a half of the time, exclusive of a quarter of a mile which was walked in consequence of a fear that some dispute might arise as to the measure of the ground. The Novice did not appear distressed, and declared that he was open to attempt to walk another mile in ten minutes ; but a party who had previously offered the bet decline& We subjoin the time :—First mile, 10 3 4 minutes; second, 10 1 ,4 ; third, 11; fourth, 11 3 4 ; fifth, 10 3 / ; sixth, 11 1034 ; seventh, 11% ; eighth, 10 1 / 2 ; ninth, 101 ; tenth, % ; eleventh, 114 ; twelfth, 11 1 4 • thirteenth' 11 1 ,4 • fourteenth, 11 1 , ; fifteenth, 10 1 1 ixieenth,iteven teenth, 11 • eighteenth, 12 ; ninet4n ; th, s 13 ; twentieth, 4 1 A — Total, 228. This last • mile includes a quarter of a mile over, to avoid disputes. COURT CIRCULAR. The afternoon, Queen at Buckingham P a l a ce. held a Court and .Privy Council yesterday The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Ri g h ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, t h e Lord Privy Seal, the Commander-in-Chief, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the H ome Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor 01 the Ducy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stall to Prince Albert. _ _ _ The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. At the Court the Earl of Erroll had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the Ribband and Badge of the most ancient and noble Order of the Thistle, worn by his father the late Earl of Erroll. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Duke of Buc cleuch, the Earl Delawarr, and Sir Robert Peel. The Court was attended by the Marquis of London derry, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Vice-Chamberlain ; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting; and the Hon. Captain Hood, Groom in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchess( of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting attended on horseback. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accom panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice took an airing yesterday in the garden of the Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, the Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary Sackville West, the Earl of Liverpool, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Lady Catherine Buckley, and the Lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The band of the Roal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance at the Palace during dinner, nnder the direction of Mr. J. R. Tutton, and performed the follow ing pieces : Overture, " Crusaders"—Benedict. Waltzer, " Roseu Dorneu"—Strauss. Pot Pourri, (National)—Lanner. Finale, Ist Act " Eryanthe"—Weber. The Queen afterwards gave a concert. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance at the Palace. The fol lowing was the programme of the performance : Part I. Overture, (Faniska)—Cherubini. Romance, "Plaisir d'amour," Madame Anna Thillon— Martini. Cavatina, " Oh! mie Fideli," Mdlle. Rummel, (Beatrice di Tenda)—Bellini. Battle Prayer, " Vater ich rufe dich"—Hemmell. Adagio grazioso du Second Concerto de B. Romberg, et la Romanesca, air de Dense du commencement du Seizieme Siecle—Violoncello, Herr Kellermann. Part 11. Cantata, "Non tomer," Madame Anna Thillon, piano- forte obligato—Mozart. Arie, " Die drei Liebchen," Herr Pischek. Air, " Je suis smith enfin," Madame Anna Thillon (Le Domino Noir)—Auber. Duet, " Welch fuerig dug." Mdlle. Rummel and Herr Pischek (Das Nacntlager in Granada.)—Conradine Kreutzer. _ _ Mrs. Anderson presided at the pianoforte. The Countess of Gainsborough has succeeded the Viscountess Canning, as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lord Byron has succeeded the Marquis of Or monde as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty ; and the lion. Captain Hood has succeeded Sir Frederic Stovin, as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left town yesterday morning, for Cassioberry-park, Ilerts, the seat of the Earl of Essex. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl and Countess Howe, Hon. Mary Seymour, Hon. Char lotte Hudson, the Earl of Denbigh, and Capt. Somerset: Her Majesty, attended by her suite, returned to Marl borough House shortly before six o'clock, yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge House, and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. _ _ The Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday morning for the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. . Dispatches from the Governor of Sierra Leone were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co lonial-office for the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and Malta, and for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberry and Lady Georgina Douglas left Farrance's Hotel yesterday, for Leamington, Warwickshire. - MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. For the last two or three days considerable excitement has prevailed amongst the authorities of the London and Bir mingham Railway and parties resident in the immediate vicinity of the Camden-town station, in consequence of the discovery of three human bodies, under the following very mysterious circumstances. It appears that about two years ago Messrs. Chaplin and Home, the railway carriers, received at their warehouse in Liverpool a large square packing. case, addressed to a Dr. Hunter, residing in London. The. car riage was duly paid, and the box in regular course brought up to town. After repeated search, however, the owner could not be found, and the package, after being advertised, was removed back to the depot belonging to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, at the. goods department of the Birmingham Railway, Camden-town. At this place it has remained un disturbed until within the last few days, when, in conse quence of some alterations about to take place in the build ing, it became necessary to remove the various packages. On coming to the large box in question, the date attracted• the attention of some of the workmen, who, by order of the manager of the goods department, opened the box to ascer tain its contents. On doing so, a most unpleasant odour was emitted, and, to the astonishment of all present, three dead bodies were presented to their view: They consisted of those of a grown male and female and a child, and in each case the bodies are so shrivelled up that the flesh appears to be converted to a horny substance, owing, it is supp_osed, to the dryness of the place in which they have been deo sited for so long a period. Information having b een for warded to Liverpool, an investigation has taken place there, but nothing further has been ascertained than the mere entry of the package in the books on the date corresponding with that on the box. Information of the occurrence has been forwarded to Mr. Wakley, and circumstances have trans- Vred which have led that functionary to issue a warrant to . Erasmus Wilson, the anatomist, to make a minute ex amination of the remains, preparatory to holding an inquest upon the bodies. [The bodies in question arebelieved to have been brought from South America, and have been preserved by some pro cess apparently unknown in this country.—ED. Sun.] SERIOUS AFFRAY ON THE RIVER TYNE. Between 11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday night, a serious affray occurred at the mouth of the Tyne, between two crews of Italian seamen and a body of river police. It ap pears that three Neapolitan sailors, belonging to the barque St. Francesco, now in Shields Harbour, were on shore at North Shields, trafficking with a man named Field and two of his companions, and a misunderstanding arising, a fight took - place, in the midst of which one of the Neapolitans stabbed Field, immediately afterwards running away. Being joined by his countrymen, they jumped into their boat and rowed to their vessel, Field's companions removed him to a neighbouring surgery, when it was found that a very serious wound had been inflicted. In the mean time a report of the, occurrence reached a crew of the river police, who were rowing about the harbour, and they then proceeded on board the barque, to apprehend the parties. Two or three of the Neapolitans were identified, and just as they were being transferred to the police-boat, the whole crew suddenly mustered, and with loud cries assailed the police. The crew of another Italian brig, lying near, came to the rescue, and increased the serious affray. The Neapolitans armed themselves with handspikes and similar dangerous weapons, and the police, in self-de fence, drew their cutlasses. Wounds were inflicted on both sides. Eventually, the police, finding themselves unequally matched, prepared to retire from the struggle, not, however, before one of the officers had received an extensive wound on the head, and was knocked between the two vessels. The police being reinforced by , a body from the town, returned and captured twelve of the Neapolitans, who were brought before one of the resident magistrates on Monday morning, by whom they were remanded till Friday, when they will be transferred to the custody of the Newcastle authorities. Field remains in a precarious state. The wounded policeman is, however, not considered in danger. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A BAD LEG OF SEVERAL YEARS STANDING CORED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.-3.ir Tarpin Prowse, Richmond Cottage, Widcombe, Bath, has made , declaration to the following effect :—" That he had been suffering for more than five years with an ulcerated leg, covered with fourteen wounds, and that he had been a patient at the United Hospital at Bath for three or foer years, and that he had also used the sulphur bath every other day for six months, and all to no purpose, but that he is now perfecely cured after every other means had failed, and by the use of Holloway's O i n tment and Pills." Mr. King, c h emist, Bath. will vouch for the truth of this extraordinary ease. —Sold by all chemist' and at Professor Hollow ay's Establishment, 244-, Strand London. SALT MINE` IN ALGERIA. The French Govern- Dent is about to cause the salt mines In Algeria to be worked on it s ffra §96101, " - 7 WHOLESALE POISONING I NORFOLK. lad During the last week the inhabitants of Happisburgh, a village on the Norfolk coast, have been in a state of great excitement in consequence of the exhumation of a number of bodies believed to be poisoned, including those of a matt named Jonathan Balls, his wife, and four grandchildren, all of whom recently died under very suspicious circumstances. Information was not given to either of the county coroners after the first death, as the parish officers throughout the county had received a circular from the magistrates request ing them to make strict inquiries before the expense of an. inquest was incurred, there having been a deal of complaint at the magistrates' meetings as to the heavy expense of coroners' inquests. Mr. Pilgrim, the county coroner for the district, received information of the deaths, but was, at first, unwilling to institute an inquiry until a second and third ap plication had been made to him; and. rumours increasing of many persons having been poisoned, he found it necessary for him to issue his warrant for the exhumation of the bodies. They were placed in a tent at the back of the parish church, round which hundreds of people collected. Special con stables had to be sworn in to' prevent improper interference and to preserve order. On Monday last an inquest was held before Mr. Pilgrim and a very respectable jury, at the Hill-house, Happisburgh. The bodies were identified by the relatives, and the surgeons who attended, after making a post mortem examination, re moved the stomachs from the bodies, and stated that the ap pearances created great suspicion in their minds that the parties had been poisonet The Bev. Mr. Birch, Vicar of Happisburgh, and the parish officers, expressed the most anxious desire to have the matter thoroughly investigated, and offered to render any assist ance in their power. The jury having been sworn, The CORONER explained the nature of the inquiry to them. He begged they would dismiss from their minds any rumours they might have heard, and attend only to the evidence. The jury having returned from viewing the bodies, several witnesses were examined. Ann Pestle, a married woman, living at Happisbnrgh, de posed that she had identified the bodies of Jonathan Balls, her father, and of Elizabeth Pestle, her child. -Her father had died on the 20th, and her child on the 15th of April last, after violent vomiting and purging, but she did not think they had taken poison. On her return home from washing she found the child very sick, but unable to get anything up. The child di e d in a f ew h ours a ft er . H er f a ther also .was taken very ill a ft er returning from a walk and paztak• mg of a slight di nner. He also died ilia few hours after. adjourned Still she did not suspect that either of th em had been poisoned. She thought h er oldfrom e r a t g o e , aa a sore throat. The inquest wassath r died fm ein d allodwth t e im chil e f d ot fro th m e surgeons to analyze the stomachs r On Thursday:last, at 9 A.M., the jury re-assembled at the . Hill House, and the surgeons were examined. Mr. Clowes, a surgeon of Statham, deposed that on the 20th of April last he was called in to Mr. Balls, and found him vomiting and retching violently. Deceased complained of great pain in his bowels and about the stomach. He died soon after. Witness did not. suspect that he had taken. poison, but some improper food. Witness had examined the body and found it perfectly healthy, with the exception of the stomach. The appearances in that organ were quite suf ficient to account for death. He analyzed a portion of the stomach, and found that it contained a large quantity of arsenic, which was undoubtedly the cause of death. He also removed the stomach of the child, Elizabeth Pestle, and examined it chemically, and found a quantity of arsenic in it, quite sufficient to cause death. Mr. Hewitt, another surgeon, who assisted the last witness in examining the stomachs, confirmed his evidence. Mr. Firth, a Norwick surgeon, had also analyzed the con tents of the stomachs, and said they contained arsenic enough to poison the whole parish. Phoebe Ann Eliza Neave, a single woman, living in the parish, deposed that she had known the deceased Jonathan Balls, and that some years since she refused, at his request, to write a note to Mr. Saddler, chemist, of North Walsham, for some arsenic, which he said he wanted for the purpose of destroying rats. She had previously written a note to that effect for his daughter, Mrs. Pestle, for that purpose. Mr. Hewitt, the surgeon, here observed, he had reason to believe that all the parties who had recently died there came by their deaths in a similar way to those whose bodies had been raised and examined. The Rev. Mr. Birch exceedingly regretted such en occur. rence in his parish, and again hoped that the matter would be thoroughly investigated, and that no pains would be spared to find out the guilty parties. Several gentlennee present at the inquiry regretted that an inquest was not held immediately after the first death, as it might have operated. as a check, and been the means of saving several live They believed that an inquest had not been held in the first instance is consequence of the circular issued by the magis trates to the parish of f icers. It was considered necessary that the bodies of three other persons should be taken up and examined, and in order to allow time for this to be done the inqueet was further ad journed. Summonses were issued for the attendance of witnesses from Yarmouth and other places. HAPPISBUR(3 (NEAR NORTH WALSHAM), TUESDAY MORN.. ING.—The investigation concerning the recent murders by poisoning in this village was brought to a close last evening by Mr. Pilgrim, one of the Norfolk county coroners, at the Hasberough-hill House, and the disclosures which were made during the inquiry leave very little doubt that the acts of poisoning must have been going on for years, and it is im possible to conjecture how many unfortunate persons have fallen a sacrifice. In accordance with the adjournment, Mr. s kilgrim ' the Coroner, arrived from Norwich at nine o'clock, at the Has borough-hill House, to prosecute the inquiry. On the jury being called over they proceeded to view the bodies, which had been ordered to be exhumed at the previous inquiry. On reaching the churchyard a novel sight presented itself. The police were stationed at the gates to prevent the erowd pressing their way in. In the churchyard, by the side of the tower, was a temporary tent erected, under which the coffins, that had only that morning been exhumed, were deposited. The lids had not been opened until the jury's arrival, thereby rendering their duty of a most unpleasant character. With the exception of the infant; the bodies were not so decom posed as to prevent identity. At the conclusion of the pain ful ceremony they retired to the inquest-room, the Coroner directing the surgedn to make an immediate post mortem examination of the bodies. Evidence was then adduced at great length. It was shovra that all the deceased had died of poison by arsenic; and one witness swore that she saw old Balls put into his wife's teapot pinches of a white powder resembling flour. All the deceased had died in a short time, and had shown symptoms attendant upon metallic poison. Judging by the evidence, Balls must have wound up the tragedy by administering to himself a portion of the arsenic with which he destroyed the others. The three married daughters of the deceased were present at the deaths of their mother and father, but there did not appear to be any ground for suspicion that they partook of the terrible crime. The Coroner proceeded to sum up the evidence. Re thought the facts did not fix upon any party so as to warrant them in sending the ease to another tribunal. If any one was inculpated the finger of suspicion most certainly pointed to the deceased Jonathan Balls, and he was beyond the reach of the law. He recommended them to return such a verdict as would enable the officers to have the matter further in quired into should such circumstances arise as required it. It was a case of great suspicion. The jury then found, after half an hour's consultation, " that the deceased Jonathan Balls, Elizabeth Balls, Samuel Pestle, and Ann Elizabeth Pestle, died from the effects of poison, but how administered there was no evidence to show." EMILIA WYNDHAN.—Let no one (says the John Buil) who wishes to read a work of fiction with the stamp of genius upon it, hesitate in procuring Emilia Wyndham. The author's " Two Old Men's Tales," and " Mount Sorel," have won for him no mean reputation—a reputation which " Emilia Wyndham " will deservedly expand. This novel has the, peculiar merit of rivetting the attention, rousing the feelings, and creating an interest that never flags, with out having recourse to any of the ordinary devices by which novel writers attain these ends. It is a tale of domestic life; all the characters are characters of home ; and yet, from the trials which are prepared for the latter, and the moral virtues they are called upon to exercise in passing through them, the reader feels precisely that sort of deep interest which he would do if he were the intimate friend ni of the parties. Mr. Denby, Lisa, Colonel Levox, ltu Wyndham, her father, Jonny Wilcox, Mr..D . a n i 2 bY _r_ they, the faithful, plain-spoken Susan,Torm tliviefrigreoluoUr the memory long after the third volume T eac h ing The author has considerable humour, p m ir a o t l i i! , re a o n r d A fu d i d i isoofn,;igwobuirl! hAisiodftiyalonfuoreaal s at : on : oe ss pecneet!valldt t h at powerful, s adt t r a h e e f rapid,whole story, which graceful.whl'cb i s enforced by a s tyle 'THE THAvErs OF LADY RESTER STANHOPE, just pu blished, exceed, if possible, in i nterest, the " Memoirs" of this extraordinary personage, which created, last yea] s se great a sensation—for, independently of the valuableinfor mation the volumes contain respecting the countries visited. by her Ladyship, comprising Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and the Desert, with the curious characteristics pre served of the different races of the human family there to be met with, more particularly of the Bedouins, Druses, Jews, and Christians, the narrative abounds with remarkable inci dents of personal adventure in which her Ladyship was the heroine. In one place she is seen enduring the horrors of shipwreck or the fears of plague—in another, enjoying the dignity of Queen of Palmyra, conferred upon her by the most intractable of the Arab tribes, as she marched at their head through the burning Desert—further on, directing the Turkish authorities in making excavations for buried trap sure—elsewhere, equally honoured as a visitor to the harems of the most powerful of the nobles ; and always exhibiting to the astonished people extraordinary courage, wiedom, anal benevolence. There were present yesterday evening at her Majesty's Theatre, her Majesty the Queen Adelaide, attended by the Earl sad Countess Howe, the Marquis :and Marchioness of Ormond, the Miss Hudson, the Hon. Miss Seymour, and Captaits Somerset ; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accom panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and at. tended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, the Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Eh round 11111dt:clay ; - his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis! and Marchioness of Rorcester, and the Ladies B. and B. Somerset, h i s E xc ellency the Russian Ambassador andithe Baroness Brunnow, and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Marchioness of Sligo, the Marchioness of West• meatb, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Titehfleld ; his Ex.. cellency the Hanoverian Minister, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Countess of Kinnoul, the Viscount:Cantalupe, Viscount Duncannon, the Viscount Dupplill. Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Charles Wellesley, the Earl of Fat. mouth, the Earl of Munster, Lord and Lady Trimleston, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lady Macdonald, Lady Eldon, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Mary Hood, Lord Foley, the Hon. Captain Foley, and the Hon. Misses Foley, Lord Saltoun, Sir W. W. Wynn, Sir James Langbant, Sir Thomas Hare, Sir W. and Lady Houlston, Sir and Lady Dan l.! vile, Lady Clay, Sir John Guest, Lady Meux, Br,e. - - PEACE SOCIETY.—Last evening the members and friends of the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace held t h e i r annual general meeting at Finsbury Chapel, Moer. fields. The chair was taken by Charles Hindley, Esq., 31. P. The report of the committee of management, rend by the secretary. stated the pacific principles, which it was the object of the society to encourage, had made considerable progress during the p y Since the last anniversary the committee had distributed an imm number of tracts on the subject of the wars in India, and had ad. dressed letters to the ministers of religion, calling upon them to I cate the c,auseof the society. The Oregon question had occupied " ; close, the G overnments of great portion of the committee's attention, and, with a view to luring that long-disputed ami ca bl e subjec 3e t 4re4 t n o l.c,e a ans n bdy England and America had been pres tah e r n eb ted it e r x a p tili th di expenditure left memorial, pra t t h h e em yerr a Z a o lig un e tecl an to di 2 ff , during o( 5501. The report was adopted, and the usual resolutions passed. When the meeting separated. SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATII—A. public discussion upon the question of the abolition of capital punishment took place, on Tuesday evening, at the City of London Literary Institution, Aldersgate-street. The theatre of the institution was crowded. In the absence of the Rev. Dr. Mortimer, from domestic bereavement, the chair was taken by Mr. Wrightson. The discussion was opened by Mr. George Thompson, who addressed the meeting at considerable length. Mr. Iloalton read some in., terestiug statistical details, to show that where the punishment of death was most used the crime of murder was most prevalent. The meeting separated at a late hour. PEDESTRIANISM. —Yesterday the half-mile race for 101., between Ray and Anderton, was decided at Camberwill, an 4 won by the latter, who covered the distance in two miautas sitiAr voirtor. 4 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY_EVENING, MAY 20, 1846. U N I