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hold, there Was 8 law to which the Hon. Member could apply for a remedy. SUGAR DUTIES. In reply to an Hose Maxima who inquired when the Goa vensment proposed to bring on the sugar duties. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was about to rise to address the House on the subject, in order to state some circumstances in connexion with those duties, when the Hon.,Gentleman rose. On Thursday last, after a full con sideration of the subject s he stated to the House that it was his intention, In order that deliberate consideration might be given to thesubiect, to move that the sager duties should be renewed for one month only. He stated this to the House en Thurs day last, in order that if any Honourable Member had any propositien to make on the subject he might have an opportunity of doing so. In order that the House might be fully informed on the subject, he had to state that at seven o'clock last evening he received a notice from the Noble Lord, the Member for Lynn (Lord George Bentinck) that it was his intention to move, on the House re solving itself into a Committee on these duties, that " the House is of opinion that the renewal of the sugar duties for one month is calculated injuriously to affect the commercial inte rests of the country, and that it was the duty of Ler Majesty's Ministers to have brought forward their measures on the sub ject earlier in the session." He thought on a question of that importance, so much relating to commerce and affecting the , policy of Government, it would have been advisable to have given sufficient notice that it was intended to bring for- ward a question of that kind. At the same time, he did not mean to interpose between the discussion of such a question, always assuming, however, that the sugar duties were levied. He had spoken to the Noble Lord, and advised the bringing of it on after the discussion on the Coercion Bill to-night.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He argued that the introduction of this resolution would have the effect of inter fering with the first step on the Sugar Duties Bill, but the discussion on that Bill, if the first step were interrupted, could not be postponed till next d a y ; a n d if it were p os tponed till the following Friday, there would occur an interval when no sugar duties would be levied, which would be injuriou s in com mercial affairs. He hoped the Noble Lord would not pernstan his motion. If the Noble Lord wished the sugar duties should continue till the sth of August, or longer, there was nothing inconsistent with that in the Government motion ; for the effect of it was merely to continue the present duties till that time. At all events, the Noble Lord must see that it was a question on which both the Government and the House ought to have had sufficient notice. Lord G. BENTINCK could assure the Right Hon. Gen tleman that not one individual of the party with which be was connected would allow the proposed alteration in the sugar duty to take place on the 6th of July next. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would propose a Bill for the usual period of one year, the Hon. Gentlemen around him would support the Bal. They blamed her Majesty's Ministers for putting the revenue in peril by delaying to so late a period of the session so important a measure as the sugar Bill If it were carried, 40,000 tons of sugar would come in without paying any duty at all. For those reasons they would not be doing their duty to sit in silence without passing their censure on her Ma jesty's Ministers for their neglect. They were asked now to pass a sugar duties' Bill for a month. Why, it was more than probable that next week the present Right Hon. Minister would no longer be at the head of the Government. The ob ject of the friends around him was to let the public know what they intended to do. He thought that the great interests of the public would be best _attencleteto if the present Sugar Duties Bill was renewed for a year, and not for a month. The party by whom he was surrounded were not disposed to offer any captious opposition to the measure, but they wished to legislate for the best interests of the country. Mr. HUME saw no reason why the present Bel should be postponed for a twelvemonth. He did hoof. that whatever Government might be in power, they would be informed poe tively how the differential duties were to be arranged. Every means ought to be adopted to promote the outlay of capital in manufacturing sugar, as there certain y was a defiaieney for . supplying the lower classes. ' s Mr. MILNER GIBSON preferred the proposed new duty to the present duties. He had received a letter from a large firm who had purchased a thousand tons of sugar. -This sugar would have to remain in bond for a month, and he thought that it would be unfair to these parties if free labour sugar for the ensuing month was not to be admitted at the duty of 19s. 10d. The Noble Lord had censured the Government for delaying so long to bring on the Sug ar D u ti es Bill , h ut he would ask, why did he not adopt the advice of the Hon. Mem ber for Finsbury, and move an address to her Majesty, that the House had no confidence in the present elinistry.—( Hear, hear.) He felt saesfied that the Noble Lord would not main tain his character of being the poor man's friend, if he stood up so obstinately for the maintenance of a high duty on sugar. He really did not understand the principles on which the Noble Lord and his friends were acting. He called upon the Noble Lord not to interrupt the progress of public business by those paltry amendments. Let him come forward and boldly move an address to her Majesty of want of confidence in the Ministry.---(Cheers.) Mr. BAN KES did not thank the Hon. Member for his pro position.—(A laugh). He would tell him, however, that they (the protectionists) still preserved the good opinion of the British farmer. He concurred entirely in the statements of his Noble Friend as to the course which they intended to pursue on the present occasion. The Corn Bill was no excuse for them to - be told, when the revenue of the country was neg lected, that it bad prevented the attention to public business. Under the peculiar circumstances which were connected with the Bill, when one Government were going out, and another Government were coming in, a positive negative ought to be put to the further progress of the Bill, which was to come into operation only for a month. Mr. BERNAL wished to remind the House that they were playing with great interests-4 Hear)—and in interfering they should be careful not to inflict a material injury to promote a temporary benefit. He saw a great many practical and tech nical difficulties to proceeding with the Bill, as it must come into operation on the 6th of July. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that he had stated before that the motion of the Noble Lord might just as well, and as effectively, be made at a later period as at present. He did not wish to proceed with his motion in oppo sition to the wishes of the House,or to infringe in the smallest degree on the orders of the day. Lord JOHN RUS:eELL thought whatever case the Noble Lord might make out, he did not think that there were any parties in the House who would object to the continuance ofthe sugar duties fora month if they were now proceeded with. Under the prevent circumstances he thought the consideration of the measure should be proceeded with forthwith. Mr. BARCLAY hoped that the whole question might be fairly discussed by her Majesty'. Government. Mr. JAMES observed that the greatest injury which the We•t Indian interest suffered from was the uncertainty in which their affairs were always enveloped. Such a state of things was the greatest possible bane to the circuletion of ewe tal. The colonies ought not ice be made the bone of conten tion between rival politicians for the ussetting of a Govern ment, to the great detriment of numerous private individuals and families. Sir ROBERT INGLIS rose to ask the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, after the encouragement he had received, he should go on with his motion? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if there was to be no opposition, and it the House were prepared by common consent to wren with the motion; he should be very willing to move it. • • . Lord GEO AGE BENTINCK - said it was not his inten tion to interpose any motion of the kind of which he had given notice, but he should take some future opportunity of pressing on , of a similar nature. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The resolutions were moved and agreed to pro forma, and the report was ordered to he brought up to-morrow. ADJOURNED DEBATE. The House having resumed, the order of the day for the second reading of the Protection of Life (IrelanJ) Bill was proceeded with. Mr. S. CR AWFORD said that the people of Ireland wanted to see fair play. They opposed any Bill which should have for its object the harsh treatment of any portion of their countrymen. He was not one of those who would oppose measures for the repression of crime in Ireland, but he thought that the present measure was not calculated to effect its object. He was opposed to the tyrannical provisions in the Bill for Compelling persons to be in their houses at a certain hour, as it would be almost impossible for the people in the proclaimed districts to comply with the regulations. It would always ex pose innocent individuals to unjust accusations and announce, from the powers which were placed in the hands of the magi strate, and the facilities that would be afforded to the spy sys tem. Looking at the varied political and religious opinions of the magistracy of Ireland, was it safe or just to put an irre sponsible power in their hands? Would they place the power of transporting men, on an information, in the hands of English gentlemen ? No. Why, then, should they pro pose to invest Irish magistrates with such a power ? Again, this Bill would have no operation or effect upon many parties who really were a pest to Ireland, while it would inflict great injury upon large masses of peaceful industrious people.— (Hear, hear.) He was sure had there been no precedent for it Government never would have proposed such a measure as the Coercion Bill, but the House must bear in mind what the prin ciples of thine precedents were.--( Hear, hear.) The Bill of 18.31 certainly sanctioned domiciliary viets, but it was not so severe as the present Bill. Since that Bill was passed by a Liberal administration, the example in some way mitigated the sonduct of the present Government in bringing forward 'ales He must remind them, however, that it had been ' s 'e elle :tested . against as a measure, pernicious in its Ia was a titans . tatetional in its principles.—( Hear, hear. ) which bad to thing to live to see th e c h ange o f op i n i on It argued well = lx at . House with regard to Ireland. rising up in this eiresse s e e sympathy that was rapidly now entertained hopes of sister kingdom, and he the moral, - th e - 7 seeing. the day when - the social, , condition of the people . of ea s ar e * t t and physical would undergo an extensive ch ang e t oe tnative country ~ In his opinion, the great evi l under whin, —{Hear. ) and of her large lauded I ....laboured he for one * • let's for was the non-responsibility as an advocate :the condition of their tenan try, eese ee peer-law of Enge m ) * - led fee extending the well eteea ) But why, let him ask. Scotland to Ireland.—( Hear, should there be a poor-law for SZalhrrinclheahnedvenaonnye efoxrisltreedla.ndlet He saw no reason for this, nor did he believe would prove as effective, nay, he woul d go so far astosaym t o h r e e effective in Ireland than Scotland ; and he entreated Government to follow up the admirable measures they bad just passed, for giving work and employment to the industrious elespes.of Ireland, with a Bill for applying the poor-law to that While he said this much he was bound to mite an effective system of police must accompany anyleineeial measures for Ireland, but he -could not consent tepee the police force in Ireland SO much power and authority as this Bill would place in their hands.—( Hear, hear.) For . Lis own part, if he were asked what measures he would suggest ,nor the relief of Ireland, he would go back to the good old i ns eitutions of Alfred, and propose that all disturbed districts ghouls: be divided into so many divisions, suitable and con venient for the establishment of a police station; at each station there should be an efficient argil well organised body of police, selected from the people themselves, who should be empowered to act with rigour, but not with extreme harshness, if a plan like this were adopted the people would gradually be removed from the state of barbarism into which they bad been reduced by a long series of misrule to a state of comparative happiness and civilisation. Besides the police, he would establish ag icultural and to her schools in each parish, which - hail, be believed, been recom ..mended by the Poor-law Coramissinnelas. It was true there .existed a school in every parish now which was under the eoetrol of the Board of Education; but in his opinion a school for each parish was not s ifficient. There ought to -be Inassee—(Hear, hear.) He wattle call on the British Members of the House to act with regard to the present Bill on the great winciple which should be the rule ef Christian morality, "To -do to others as we would wish to be done by." He put it to the English Members, would the pass such a Bib for Englaed? They could have had, if esey d es i re d, a plea to 41stify it, when the riots were going on, but no such thing had eseat ever preposcd; sr, therefore, he would call on them to do ste Ireland as they would do to England, and not to pass the ~13H1. What Ireland required were beneficial and not coercive - , Ineasnres. It was riot his wish to take a part in this discussion, e&,*,4 there as a supporter of any party, but from a Asia& A' anions, and under all Governments, to support s high he tim.ght most beneficial to the country. -t he last Spring assizes in Ireland, speaking on magistrates and the grand juries appointed ion, for carrying the provisions of an Act benefit of the people, and who had re. jv, ~,,,trj't the colic ",,, ' !wig the airfpg. THE STN, LONDON, TrEsnAy MORNING, JUN P, lft4tl. k Mr. HALSEY said he opposed the Bill non a solemn : conviction that the state of crime in Ireland did not aff , rd to th'm a sucient ground for the introduet,on of such a mea sure. Did the state of crime in Ireland show on - ncrease over former years?—( Hear, hear.) There had, certainly, been atrocious crimes committed in Ireland, and there appeared a marked s,mpathy for the criminals. but this Bill was a most ' irritating as well as a most unconstitutional measore. And with regard to the intimidation of witnesses, it did not in any way provide against that evil. The Bill was not what it should be—an encouragement to the people of Ireland t o seek measures of conciliation with their superiors. He did not seek to put the question on personal grounds, but he did conceive that it was a fair ground of discussion to speak of the conduct of public men. He certainly found fault with the conduct of the promoters of this measure, as they had said that the success of the Corn Bill was dependent on the passing of this measure. He did not see what connexion there could be between a com mercial measure, which was to arrive at maturity in three years, and a temporary and unconstitutional measure.— (Hoar, h ear .) H e did not w i sh to j udge of the motives of her laje,ty's Ministers in bringing forward this measure. They might have been of opinion that it was necessary for the state of Ireland, but if they were of such an opinion, why did they not press it forward at once,? for under such circum s t ances delay wa s lit t l e s h or t o f a crime. Under these circumstances he should give the Bill his most strenuous opposition. Mr. V. STUART was not prepare' to deny. that crime existed to a friditful extent in Ireland, but he fully believed that this Bill was nct at all the one likely to suppress it. There was not one member of that Hous! who knew an thing of the state of mind of the people in Ire and, who did not kn W that thy had a great want of confidence in the laws; and was the present op ressive and unconstitutional measure the one which would restore that confidence? Were the laws in existence with regard to Ireland at all calculated to restore that confidence ? Did not tj e judges inform them that laws were made for the benefit of society ; and did their application bear out that fact ? He had seen the law prostituted to the worst purposes. He had seen whole fami ies driven out upon the roads, their cottages unroofed, and their cattle driven away. He had seen them working by the roadside in the hopes of obtaining redress, not from the middleman who had turned them out, but from that sup-rior landlord. These landlords were, no doubt, willing to redress the wrongs of their tenants, hut they had it not in their power, under the peculiar systems on which their estates were managed. There was in Ireland a most singular feeling with regard to being galled by unnecessary interference ; and the p - actice of offering money to obtain evidence was one of the most mischievous character. The man who was induced to come forward by such motives was not unnaturally regarded as a degra ded man. This Bill would not, in his opinion, answer the ends for which it was intended. It would produce a temporary lull, but its permanent effect would be to increase the evils for the abolition of which it was created. Let them not at tempt coercion, but give fair play to those laws calculated to inspire a confidence in the legislature on the part of the people. Mr. ROEBUCK said, he had well considered the effect of this measure now before the consideration of the House, and without referring to the recent vote he gave in that House, he would speak of the vote which he should give in accord ance with those principles which had always directed his political career. In accordance with all those principles which he had derived from a careful study of the business, the science, and the art of legislation and Government, he was inclined strongly to believe that ail tho:e modes of legis lation in all those sorts of Bills and Acts of the present description were mischievous ; because, in the first place, they were inefficacious. in a great measure for good. They were in as strong a measure ilfiitielous for evil. It he looked at the situation of the people of Ireland. and at their pale history, still stronger was his feeling that it was folly and injustice ; . .o carry such a measure. He wanted to know, before he made up his mind how he should vote upon that occasion, what it was that aci uated the protec icnist rirty, headed by the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, and the Whig party, led on by the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London, in ivfng their opposition to this mea sure. In the first place, then, the Noble Lord the Member tor Lynn, in his speech upon the first reading of the Bill— which, by the way, he supported—remarked that murders com mitted in Ireland would rest upon the heads of those who delayed the passing of that measure, and yet he was now opposing it himself,—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") What was it, then, that had induced the Noble Lord to change his course? Why, it was because—to take the Noble Lord's own sew iments—beeause he had no confidence in the Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Treasury. The Noble Lord op posed the second reading of the Bill, because the Rieht Hon. Baronet had done one great thing—because he had relieved free trade from the shackles of monopoly—because he had car ried the Corn-law Bill—because he had done that which the country desired.—(Hear, hear.) Well, thee, if the Noble Lord succeeded in hoisting the Right Hon. B arone t f rom (Ace, his opposition would be at an end, and he would no doubt be prepared to support the same measure if it were brought forward by a monopolist party.—( Hear, hear.) Well, but what was it, he wanted to know, that induced the Liberals to suept.rt it ? Before he could make up his mind as to the vote he should give, he must satisfy himself that it was dictated by no vindic tive or party spirit.—( Hear, hear.) Now, then, let him recall to the recollection of the House, that in 1832 a certain Bill, which literally was a disgrace to the statute-book, was brought in and passed by a Liberal ad w inistration. What was it that had worked so great a change in the opinion of the Noble Lord since that period.—( Hear, hear.) Again in the year 1832, a very rigorous measure of the sort, which contained th e well-known domiciliary visita tion clause was passed by an overwhelming majority, acting under the advice of the Noble Lord ; and in 1835, Lord Mor peth, who was then Secretary for Ireland,introduced another Coercion Bill for Ireland, though, as compared with the Bill of 1832, it was an exceedingly modified measure. Now. Lord Morpeth on introducing that Bill made some remarkable de clarations. The Noble Lord, for instance, admitted that crime was on the decrease in Ireland, but nevertheless the country was in such a state that it could not be governed with out the aid 01 a Coercion Bill, with far more stringent provi sions than were to be found in the Bill then. under discussion.—(Hear; hear.) The Hon. and Learned Member for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) one would have supposed, after listening to his speech against the present Bill, must have opposed the Bill of 1835. But what did Mr. O'Connell say, while the measure of 1835 was under discussion?—( Hear, hear. ) Why, the Hon. and Learned Gentlemanl after admitting that the measure was highly calculated to reduce the amount of agrarian outrage in Ireland, went on to say, " The present measure, if he rightly understood it, was to prevent parties being out at night without being able to give an account of themselves, or for unlawful purposes ; and, if so, he could only add that he was convinced its oper a ti on would produce the greatest benefits in Ireland. He only wished, in fact, that its provisions had gone a little further." Mr. Grattan, who was another member of the Irish party, on the same occasion, ob served, " That it was imposs.ble to lot things go on in Ireland with; ut something being done." True, the observation was rather ambiguous, but there was no mistaking the speech of the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork.—( Hear, hear.) He wanted to know what ac'u.ited the Noble and Learned Nl.mber for Cork, in his present opposition to a measure of a much more mettifiett character than the one of 1835.—( Hear, hear.) lie new came to the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, and before he could make up his mind as to the vote tic should give, he wanted to know what it %ves that had pro et.e.ed so ex ensive a change in his opinions neon the .object of C'oerc:onlslas.—(Hear, hear.) He knr,k Hier when the Neble Lord ret urne.l -to power, in 1 4 35, Lout Boshseeugh as to have been sent to Ireland upon the exp(essed ureter standing that the C..ercioa Bill should be preeeeoen with with teat --( Hear, hear, ) Lord J. Rti `E L— i hat is not true.—( Hear, bear. ) Mr. ROEBUCK continued. He must take the Nettle Lord's dental, but still ho gathered this fact, from the history 14 Coercion Bills, that this was the first time the Noble Lord ever opposed one. Now, ureter alt these circumstances, before he could make up his mind to oppose the Bill, he must be sati,tied those who oppose I it were crt,istent their opposition. From the extraordinary combination circumstances in the oppositton. he found the votes of G,n 71emon voting against the Bill who never voted in that way before. He found that the object of the one was to throw out the Administration, while the other was actuated partly by the same object, but principally with the view oi facilitating their return to office. He could not bait looking at bo:h their oppo=itions in a similar light; and he thought the opposition of the Noble Lord the Member for Lyndon was most. unfair. It was urged at an inopportune time, but with opportune ef fect—urged with the view of unseating the present Admi nistration, while there was not the remotest hope of a la , : ter coming in. —(Hear, hear.) But he could tell the Nnbie Lord that he was not in a position to govern this coun , ry, and if he succeeded in obtaining office, it would prove the de struction of the Liberal party.—( Hear, hear.) He believed, in fact, that it would produce a recu7rence of the events of 1410, 1811, and 1842, when the Whig party continued in power for no beneficial purpose—brought in measures , nly to he rejected—a party in fact with the minority for its support, and a Government losing credit wi' . .h every other nation and country. —( Hear hear.) Now before he could join the Noble Lord, he must have his assurance that he had abandoned Coercion Mils for ever.—( Hear, hear.) Let him declare his intention to apply wise and conciliatory measures to that unfortunate country, and he alight rely upon it he would then, in the event of his taking oTce, be able to govern with credit to himself and honour to the nation.—( Hear, hear. ) Lord J. MANNERS said his objection to the measure was one of principle, and if he asked himself how such men as Wind ham, and Swift, and ailingbrok # would have voted upon such a mea4ure, he could not fail to receive an answer that they would have voted against such a Whig proposition.—(Hear, hear. ) A case of paramount necessity had not been proved for its introduction, either by the statistical reformation placed before the House, or by the conduct of the Government in pressing the measure through the House. The clauses of the Bill did not reach the evil. The offences complained of were coin mitted for the most part during the day, and the provisions of the Act dial not give any protection during that period. It was therefore inapplicable even if there was a case of paramount necessity made out or proved to the House, and he would, therefore, vote against the Bill. Sir J. GRAHAM said, he did not ri a to address the , H use immediately after the Hon. Member for Ba h, as he considered that there might be some Member on th.. same side or the House, who would have wished to have spoken to the question. He aim tted at once, that the , resent was no a constitutional m'asure, an i he did not agree with the m xiin of the Hon. Membe-, that desperate diseases shouli have desperate remedies; for he considered, that they could nit, nor tight not, to pass such a measure as the eude p t a r . e itn s present , unless Hinoduisee, indictment could be a case shown of paramount necessity; and it would be on these 'rounds alone, that he would ask Orin. Members to vote with him in support of the Bib. A-.d, with reference to the charge of delay, he would observe, that the Honourable Member for Lambeth was the only one who had rthatei :i done lyo,t. justice to the Government upon the occasion ; for he had said that, reviewing the whole conduct of the Government, he did not consider that they could have introduced it at an , earlier period. He must say that the Noble Lord reproached t sen h n e rz ? c i e v 4 er ah n ri m emh e .. nt a with nTdh delay , aenii Bill . n. came i s e down circumstances na erm fromov ed the ea t t h L a t , hred so se m oin e ns w id h t he a ..e t Lon further toatnhodeb ~I°n. suPparted • 13 ,hee i rn .: ib should owirweens a t l ti l lio e n v ... ed t the Noble Lord the Member for Lon the measure which especially to decide likewise that importance, and that which, that but secondary. Now the state of q uestion o f primary importance . of fh a e t y motion.— (Hear, cons had thei Gioverirnent, having to Acr alteration in the corn-law s , and whichrivr discussing, it had tbouah impor w ta a n s t also, 'fprimary Ireland, the necessity was 'till destitution of the people made an mad a g l m te tio r t 7ion in the t orn.lawasnda e e sc n ch e nh r a we e rged against the Government in before i f them. th e, a;t he ThusP wouldr i mms seam, h . i m o h on the been laid before ' said,port a thatnce n o of delay that fi q acc i t eesial which t could : b n r was unwin d ' the repetition of it ; been made to show , that wi hut an attempt had . .iatever might be ee tthhee p ti r r e s g t r . e p ss oi o n f t. th rence to the whole of Ireland, crime the increase. the case in reference to certain partswoafslnreolanodn, yet,'in r d but whole of Ireland ; . certainly , though against the increase of crime in 1845, still, • there had not been an ts was not t t to prefer an on the increase. in The Bill v i z . ;--Tipperary, Roscommon, Clare, Ir w el a a s nd c n r o i t me a nd he knew there in certain; wasfo Leitrim,und ed on and d e L c i o m u e n r t i i c e k s: these counties with the been spreading. de would compve of Ireland was whole of Ireland. The population of the whole . 1 500 000 circumstances crime , unless checked, would spread,. and.ithadas 20.000,000 of one-sixth of the whole. The area of Ireland w The total of 8,400,000 ; the population of these five counties, ,‘ , , or aeres, and of the five counties, 3,500,000 acres. crime in the five counties for five months of the year 1845 was LOU, The return for these counties during the same months of 1845, gave 1,323. or an increase equal to 15 eel. eerie Of ineur!ee"ionary and agrarian crime for five months, the return gave 779 for 1845. and 933 for 1848, being an increase of 20 per cent. Taking these five counties, as compared with the whole of Ireland, the following was the return of specific crime : Homicides in those countries increased in 1846 at the rate of 33 ner cent as co :Tared with all Ireland ; firing at the person at 68 it r cent.; aggravated assaults at 48 per cent.; assault, with intent to injure life, at 38 per cent. ; demand and robbing of arms at 72 per cent. ; murderous intention in the use of arms at 80 per cent. ; administration of unlawful (wire at 39 per cent.. ; assaulting and taking dwelling hoe es at 79 isier cent. The total, in 1845, was 665; in 1846, 072; and for the whole of Ireland in 1846, 1,443; in those specified crimes showing an inc , ease of the proportion of 69 per cent. In opposing this Bill, it was observed by the Noble Lord the Member for Newark, that this Bill was inefficacious, or only efficacious as against crieee committed by night. The Lord the Member fer Durham ha , moved for a return of all the murdt rscemmitted in Ireland during the present year, and with all t he circumstances attending it, together with tl,e hour by day or by night. With respect to these returns, the facts he was about to state were well worthy of the attention of the House, as it was directly against the argument that the Bill would be ineffisiacious with reference to crime, and they were mostly com mitted by day. The returns showed that the numbers of mur ders committed between sunrise and sunset was 27, and 4's be tween sunset and sunrise, shooing a majority of one half, or nearly so. The attempts at murder be tween sunrise and sunset were only 13, while b•- tt.veen sunset and sunrise they numbered 45. It was necessary to state to the House something with reference to the comparisons drawn between the murders committed in England and those committed in Ireland. Between the years 1841 and 1845 the average number of murders committed in England was 110,- including infanticides, which made up a pro portion of more than half of them ; and during the same periods the number of homicides committed in Ireland was, exclusive of infanticides, ;28 ; being a proportion of one homicide to 64.000 of the population ; while in England, exclusive of in fanticide. the population was one to 100.000 The proportion of convictions in England was one to 32 3 %ths of the criminals, and in Ireland one to 8 He had received accounts of the most hide.als murders in Clare and other counties ; and it was very evident, from all accounts, that the number of crimes was not at all on the decrease, The number of homicides comi - nitted in Ireland during the last four years amounted to 446, and he had ascertained that most of the parties the offence was committed against belonged to the labouring classes. 261 of the number were labourers and servants, while others were night workers and baliffs. The same might he said with regard to attempts at murder. The number was 436, while of parties against whom the offence was com mitted 94 were farmers, and 39 were labourers, and the rest wood-rangers, stewards, and servants. —( Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Cockermouth had stated I that Government brought forward thi s measure no t from a conviction of its necessity, but to satisfy their partisans l in Ireland. So far, however, from this being so, he could , assure the House that even last summer, from the accounts he • received from disinterested parties, he had begun to he im pressed with the' conviction that some such measure as this would have to be pissed.—( Hear, hear.) He admitted that the position of land in Leland was originally the primary cause of all the' crime in Ireland ; but then they must bear in mind that although the immediate crimes themselves were connected with no religious or political cause's, they had become so exten sive as to shake the very foundation of society itself. This rendered it clear that something must be done to reduce the amount of crime in Ireland, and it was the knowledge of this feet which had induced the Government to bring torward this Bill.— ( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman said that the poor should receive retie. Why there were no lets than 14.000 able-bodied men receiving daily wages. in Ireland under the Public Works Act ; and rs to schools for agriculture, they hail been already established, and an Act for draining land hat re ceived the royal assent- He had, moreover, the satisfaction to stete that children to the amount of 400.000 were receiving education. The Secretary-at-War had al-0 laid a Bill upon the table of the H use for advancing a mil. lion of money to the landed proprietors for the purpose of encouraging them to drain and improve their estates, arid these were all the measures which had been recommonded by the Hon. Member. (The Night Hon. Baronet then read a document for the purpose of showing thet the people in Ireland were accustomed to conceal the criminal, and not to bring him to justice. ) The Noble Lord had said that he (Sir J. Graham) had not dealt fairly in changing his opinions en these great questions, without apologising for language which he had used in opt mita n. He would not be compelled to nefend particular expressions, but he wou d remind the Noble Lord of his having overthrown Sir Robert Peel's Government, in 1e35, in a measure for the appropriation of the property of the Irish Church ; and yet,: when in office, he had abandoned that measure in a way which he would not characteri-e. lie said there was this to be said for himself and his colleagues, that whatever change of opinions they had adopted, they had adopted them under circumstances of necessity, and had car ried those changes into effect, at a sacrifice to themselves, per haps, of their power. The Noble Lord opposite and those with him had changed their opinions as often as circumstances had made it appear necessary. The Bill before the House had been contrasted with that oi the same nature which was intro duced in 1835. 'f tie contrast had been well depicted by the Hon. Member for Bath. The present measure was very much less stringent than that introduced in 1835. Now he begged to draw their attention to the state of crime when that Bill was introduced. In 1835 the sotal amount of crimes was 10,225 ; in 1836 it had fallen to 8,167 ; and in 1837 when a motion was made for repeal of that coercive Act, crime had fallen to 6,775. In the year 1835, his Noble Friend thought that he was justified in passing a measure of a less stringent character, and one more calculated to enlist the feelings of the people on behalf of the Government. The Noble Lord said that though he trusted he was justified in thinking that the as. pest of affairs in Ireland was not so menacing as before, yet the state of crime had not been sufficiently reduced as to call upon the House to dispense with . the powers contain. d in the Act. This was the onion of the Secretary for Ireland. Mr. O'Connell said that the end for which such a measure should be introduced should be to punish, and not to prevent That was the object with which he had intro duced it to the Hou , e. He would observe that during the whole of Lord Melbourne's Government, from its first commencement to within nine months of its close, they possessed a measure ruorr stringent in many respects than the one he was then itatrodueing, and it received the concurrence of Mr. O'Connell During its existence crime fell very much, but when in 1840 it was at an end crime rose rapidly; and from being about 4,003,:it in the course of the four following years came up to B,COO. The first strong coercive measure was in troduced by Lord Grey, with Mr. Fox. The second was in troduced by Lord Melbourne, the Noble Lord tt e Member for the city of London being then Home Secretary ; and the state of crime then was not half so urgers , . there as it seas now. That measure had received the sanction of Lord Lansdowne, and Lord Melbourne had written a letter to the Repeal Association, sratieg his opinion that this m. asu-e had beer, tao long delayed. On the outset, he had admitted that the Bill was unconstitutional and harsh in its provaioes but such a measure was retie! , ed by the existing circumstances add he agreed that no one Member of Parliament should vote for such a mea-ure units- he believed in ite ne c e ss ity. —( H ear , fear.) qbe Hon. Gentlemen, the Memb er f or N ewcast l e• under- Lino, had, in the c ourse of the debate : asked aim a ques tion with regetd to the Bid, which, like others, was pureiv matter of d e etail, and he culd ans wer th at i n Committee. Gr•-- vi rnatero would be glad to make the clauses as much recur, saleable :see the views of Him. MentherF as they coot(' —( Heir. !tear.) Before he sot down, he must remelt' the House that for the lest five yes re they hal furtueately been (melded to go , vern Irelstad i hint having recourse to a measure of this sort ; but he mus.: at the same 'itne, remind the Hoc, that the time might come when sech an Act miehi b required, anti on his c en-cience he declared that Ministers were firmly convinced that that time hart already arrived, and ne matter what Atlminis. ration might he in office, Ireland voted not be geverned with ,ut the aid Of a measure like the one he new es's; d the House to read a second time ( Hear.) Mr. L SBOUCHERE would Lot detain the House for any length of time at that late hour, but he could not allow a single moment to pass wiihout answering the charge the Right Hon. Baronet hsil thsown out against him, with regard to the sugar duties.—( Hear, hear.) It was not the first time the Right Hon. Baronet had made tile same attack, and he really, till now, fancied that he had effectually silenced the Right Hon. 3aronet on that point. —(Hear, hear.) fhe Right Hon. Ba• ronet, too, utieht to be she last man to make a charge of iii consistency aghast him, for he was not aware that he had ever suddenly turned round and changed his opinions on particular points. Nor had he ever attempted to persuade the House that he attached considerable importance to principles and opinions which he hart long before abandoned as being im politic, unsound, and opposed to the best interests of the coun try —( Cheers.) low the Right Hon. Baronet had, for the second time, charged him with having, a few years back, while in office, argued in favour of the exclusion of slave grown sugar from the Briti 1 markets ; but he begged the House to remember that this was the construction the Right Hon. Baronet himself put upon his words, and not his own meening. What he did say was, that slavery having been so recently abolished, the colonies ought for a time to be protected against all foreign-grown sugar, but not against any particular class of sugars.—( Cheers. ) Now, with regard to the question of Ireland, the Right Hon. Baronet had taunted them with not being able to govern Ireland without having recourse to Co 'rcion Bills. But who e fault was this?—( Hear, hear. ) Why, it was the fault of the Right Honourable Baronet and his party, who were constantly raising the cry of "No Popery" against them.—(Hear.) But to make a compliment of the liberties of the reople would be the best method of making repeaters of all the country gentlemen in Ireland, and he, therefore, did hope that the Members would give their votes upon the measure according to their conscience. He was not pledged to support the Bill, because he voted for its first reading every person was aware that that was only a formal proceeding. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN moved the adjournment of the debate. The following Bills were adjourned until Monday next:— Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill ( Second reading) ; Eject. menti, Ireland, Bill (Second reading) ; Lea es, Ireland, (Second reading). The Joint Stock Banks (Scotland and Ireland) Bill, was pos'poned until Thursday next. The Coroner's (Ireland) Bill was adjourned till Wednesday next. Service of Heirs (Scotland) Bill, Crown Charters (Scotland) Bill, went through Committee. County Works Presentments (Ireland) Hi!' was read a third time and passed, . . Colonel PEEL moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Act to authorise and facilitate the completion of a survey of Great Britain, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Isle of Man. to 31st December, 1851 .—Agreed to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter-past One o'clock. George Clarke, a pedestrian, has succeeded in walk ', „ •,: mile in 1,000 successi ve h o urs, at Norwich. SinclDE OF S, 'St an ingaest was held at the Cathedral Hote l, . ' Mr. Payne, City coroner, on churchyard, beIoreBUTLER.-011 Sis of Mr. S . mmel Butler, aged twenty-three, view of the body the son of Mr. 'Butler, chemist, St. Paul', , -cLurchyard, who turdav evening poisoned himself with prussic acid. Mr. John Harding said that about eleven o'cif;ck that morning he was informed that the deceased, who was in his room, had been called, and that no admission could be obtained. Witness went to the room, and white he was there his father came up. The door was forced open, upon which the deceased was found lying on his bed, with a phial grasped in his hand. Was not aware of anything that was likely to disturb his mind. • Mr. Thomas Bu der, deceased's father, said that his unfortunate son had formed a strong attachment to a young lady, to whom he had propostd that he should be married. Deceased came to witness, a few days ago, who was at Brighton, to get his consent, when he advised a delay for a short time. On Mon day last, he (deceased) saw the father of the young lady, and stated to him what had been his (witness's) propositions, to which the father of the young lady expressed himself agree able. He wrote to the young lady, wishing her to see him that evening. Deceased received her answer on Friday, but which has been torn into very minute parts. That letter contained no syllable of an unpleasant nature. Witness is of opinion that the thought of the delay may have produced a temporary excitement. Deceased was of a placid disposition. Witness thought he was rather too young, and the lady was much under his y ears. Witness and the young lady's father were to have met a b out noon that day , and deceased was to have seen the young lady upon the sub j ect that evening .— Verdict, "Temporary insanity.", LA.W INTEL:LH - 3,1.1N cE. coui - T OF QUEE:VS BEA Cll. June 22 DONALDSON AND tortmits SMIT if. This was an action founded upon one which, was decided on Saturday, entitled Donaldson, &c., v. Bird, brought by the Westinins,er Commissioners of Sewers against a con tract,_ r for the imperfect cor,truction of a sewer P,rtugni piace, Pathiingtnn, when. A trial which lasted tlie whole day, a, verdict was given for thus piairtiff—eitun,ges 231/. 105..13. The verdict was accompanied with the inti mation that the jury were of opinion the whole, work had been executed to the satist,letion of the theii acting Corn missienert of Sewers. The plaintiff, having succeeded in that case, proceeded to-day against the contrae: - ors' surety. and several witnesses were examired on the ;Joint at issue. The case cloyed by a long and able address by 1-i for the, drtenilant, when the jury and titter en absence of about two boor,: tliey retarneit a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF 13,1AKRUP - i - C .Tune 22. (Before M:. G , nutlissiuner SnErifERD.) IN ILE HUMPHREY. . . _ This bankrupt, who hal carried on business as an hotel keener in the Haymarket, cane up for his certificate. The bankrupt having been strongly opposyd at his last examination. the Learned COMMISSIONER asked what the assignees intended to do on the present occasion? Mr. LEWIS. the solicitor to the assignees, said that as his Honour had considered the bankrupt was entitled on the accounts furnished to pass his last examination, they did not think it right they should press the opposition further, but leave the case• entirely in the hands of his Honour to deal with the whole case. The Learned ComxttasioNEß—Then I am to understand the assignees' are satisfied. Mr. LEWIS—They are quite satisfied the bankrupt has rendered all the assistance in his power to make up the ac coitus, but they we r e not kept properly. The Learned COMMISSIONER said that there could be no doubt that the opposition was founded on good grounds, as regards the accounts, which were not at first satisfactory, nor properly kept ; vet, as the assignees themselves did not oppose, he did not think it was a case in which he ought to ex-rcise his power to refuse the certificate. The bat krupt had answered, without reserve, all the questions put to him, and he had been very much illuNed by some ef his creditors, and under the several executions his property had been shamefully sold. He, theref,re, considered the bankrupt ought to have his •certificate, and he should grant it accordingly. IN RE J. AND C. HILL. INTEREST ON BOOR DEnTs.—Today was appointed for the choice of assignees of these bankrupts, who had carried on business as grocers at Reading. The choice of assignees passed without opposition, but in the cottre of the proofs a point of some importance arose, Messrs. Ridgway and Co., of King William-street, claiming ter a large sum and interest on an over-due acc.,unt. Mr. TURQUAND, the official assignee, coukl not allow the proor unless there was a F pedal agreement. Mr. Ilti)Gwar said it was the custom of the trade. Mr. LEwts, the solicitor to the fiat, said he must leave Mr. Ridgway to smport his own case, as he, Mr. Lewis, merely prepared the proof: After a brief conversation, Mr. IZIDGWAY saki he would not press his claim tbr interest, :IA the proof was talum ,hart the amount. ARCHES' CU 1: RT, June 20. (before Sir H. J. Fusee) TUE OFFICE OF TILE JUDGE intomoTED BY BARNES sti,B.E. ThiA is a cause of office. promoted by Mr. Barnes, the reeistrar of the dioeese of Exeter, against tee Rev. Jenit Soi.e. of Bridgetewe, hi the perish of Berry 1'o1!leroy, in th, county o f Devon, citing hen to answer to certein articles aeeiret hoe, touching hie soav e j ee dr e , and the refirmation of' his manners; bet, more especially, for haying puldiely read prayers. preached, and aemieietared the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper in an unconsecrated building. without any license or authority f. r so doing, and contrary to and in spite of the injunction or monition of the Lend Bishop of Exeter. Letters of request were presented in the usual way, a decree issued, and Mr. Shore in the first instance appeared under protest, but which was overruled, and the Court directed hint to appear absolutely. Articles were then brought in and admitted witheut. opposition. Witnieaee hayieie been examined upon diem, an :111,:gAt On %Va., as.-erted en behalf of Snore, and a debate on hs having taken place the Court rejected it. When the cause was about to be heard, the proceedings of ti)hi C urt - , were tied up by a rule for a prohibition, but that rule has afterwards diecharged. and the cause now cerne on for hearing. ADDAMS (with whin was Dr. i h appeared lift b-email of the promoter of the suit. All the articles, he said, except the seventh, were of a technical and formal nature, end their truth was admitted by Mr. Shore. That article was to the following effect :—" That, on Sunday, the 14th of April, 1844, and on Sunday, the 28'h of July, 1844, Mr. Shore took upon himself publicly to read prayers, preach, and, on the last-mentioned day, to administer the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and perform ecclesiastical duties and divine offices according to the rites and ceremo nies of the United Church of England_ and Ireland, in the unconsecrated chapel at Berry Pomeroy, without and license or authority for so doing, and contrary to and in spite of the injunction or monition of the Bishop of Exeter." Three witnesses had been examined ou that article, two of whom were clerks to Me. Barnes, and he sub mitted that their testimony clearly proved that Mr. Shore ministered in the chapel on the clays alleged. The third witness examined was the pew-opener, who declared his in ability to state who preached on those occa-ions. He (Dr. Addams) admitted that there was no proof that Mr. Shore had administered the sacrament on the day charged, but one of the witnesses deposed to the table being spread, which was a near approach to it. The only rear question in the case was, as to the penalty to be inflicted on Mr. Shore. The article concluded with a prayer, that the Rev. Gentleman • might be admonished not to be guilty of such offimces in the future, and that he be condemned in the costs of the proceed ings. The Court, however, would remember that in the course of the proceedings Mr. Slime had made an affidavit, in which he swore that he had on conscientious grounds se ceded from the Church of England, and that be was a Pro • testant Dissenter in holy orders. He (Dr. Addams) contended that Mr. Shore was willing to remain a minister of the Church of England as long as he could set his bishop at defiance; but within a short time after being served with the citeticn, Mr. Shore seceded from the Church. That being so, be prayed time Court not to admonish the rev. gentleman, but to pronounce a sentence of dl . rmsition. He apprehended that his Learned Friends who were opposed to him would raise no ob. jection to that prayer. It would be the most convenient mode of disposing of the en tire question. Dr. RometsoN submitted, .that, unless the rev gentleman were deposed, there would be nothing to preve.,t him taking a donative. The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE (with whom was Dr. Twiss) appeared on behalf of Mr. Shore. He submittal that the evidence was insufficient to convict Mr. Shore of the charges brought against him. It was stated that he had offended against the laws ecclesiastical, but it was not stated what. oarticular law or canon he had violated. Tao witnesses had been examined to prove that he had publicly read .wayers on the days referred to, and that on the first on .eeeen, though not nn the last, he had preached a sermon. \either of those pti bee however, were meinbere trf the rev. gentletean's congregation, who alma u the proper trains to be called to prove the truth of the el Ha don. It seemed that. in these days, when a cha!*g9 we-' brought .4 - aiiist a clergyman, the whole preeumptioe flee - was to be revers-d: Every other man Was to be pßstl, innocent eetil he were found but the Thome , ' a elereymen ehargee with en y deliequency, it we, said that he must 'et punished severely by his bishop. He was sure, however, . hat it' that Court justice would be done. He contended Otat reading the prayers was not an offence in a miuieter of the Chur..th eif England ; on the contrary, he wee boned by nbric to rovi them either privately or o,_-nly. l'he charges, against. Mr. Shore were all put conjunctively; it was admitted that, a part was nit proved, the whole therefore must fall to the grotuld. lie rested that statement upon the common and ordirerry proceedings with reference to indictments. His Learned Friend had suegested that the punishment should be increased, in consequeeee of the course which Mr. Share hail pursued. The prayer for a monition, however, had been made after. the rev. gentleman had avowed himself a seceder free: the Established Church. IL: was quite sure :hat the mr ek and mild Prelate, in whose diocese Mr. Shore had beet' minister:ng, would be surprised at the sentence which hail now been prayed. On the whole, Se submitted that Mr. Shure ought to be dismissed from the suit. Dr. TWISS argued that there was no proof that there was a congregation present at the time the rev. gentleman read the prayers in the chapel. As the chapel was not conse crated, it was, according to the 71st canon, equivalent to a private house, and consequently Mr. Shore had committed no eceesiastical offence. Dr. ADDAMS and Dr. ROBINSON having been heard in' reply, The Learned JUDGE said that it would be a waste of time to attempt to show that Mr. Shore was the gentleman who officiated on the days stated in the libel. The two witnesses examined had had ample opportunities of knowing Mre Shore. He trusted that he should be the last person in the world to debar an accosed party a fair opportunity of making his defence, but he was surprised to hear the Queen's Ad vocate argue that the reading of the prayers on the occasions charged was a compliance with the rubric. There was no occasion to specify any particular law which Mr. Shore had violated, it was sufficient, that the common law of the church had been transgressed. It was abundantly clear that Mr. Shore, as a minister in holy orders, did, after the revocation of his license, perform divine offices in the chapel of Berry Pomeroy; and the question was, whether it was an ecclsias tical offence or not. It could not be contended that reading the prayers under the circumstances stated was not contrary to the ecclesiastical law of the land, and the offence here was increased by the fact of the building having been taken away front the * Established Church of England. What was necessary to constitute a congregation had not been speci deafly defined ; but it was usually considered, according to ienguage used in the prayers, that when two or three were eseembled together it was sufficient to form a congregation. The pew-opener, who had been examined, proved that he had put the other witnesses in a seat; it was, therefore, evi dent there was a congregation on those occasions. It never was the intentiereof the 71st canon to regard unconsecrated chapels ae private houses; the term, as employed in that canon, reant a dwelling-house. It had been said that time charges in rids case having been lump , 4l together, if any ene of them died the whole fell to theground. 110 was of opinion that there was no authority on which such a position could be 'mitt ; lined ; on the contrary, cases had occurred over and over gain in which parties had been convicted of part of the charges brought against them. He eves satisfied that theft, was a sufliciency . proved ageing Mr. Shore to render him !table to ecclesiastical punishment; time only question was its deeree. He was not prepared to go beyond the sentence firit prayed, and to admonish him to refrain from publicly reading prayers or preaching in an unconsecrated chapel again. if Air. Shore were guilty of a repetition of his former eenduct, be would not only be amenable to the bishop, bat he would be liable to be punished for contempt of court. He heing a minister of the Church of England, he could not of his own authority secede from it. He was not a Dissemtt ntinistcr, but a minister in from that be e t i 1 ' .. 4. 1 t t l il time articles were fully e r e d a o I:n d e e l d i r e s,and a d, Judge) non p i r s e h t , i: a n n A ctd . Shore front efihnding i.t like limner in future, and con demned him in the costs of these proceedings. The admo nition was to extend to every parish in the diocese of Exeter or province of Canterbury. At a ,craved that ) o f n th n e tig d h a3 t ' Time Court granted the prayer. subsequent t a i d t t not t e go proctor oat fo fo r . rll.lslrd.aSyl..ll-e T. i r ' e e as b o i t l :ab b le ad be 11. ckse CENTRAL CIIIIOIINA C COTTR OLD Cu UR T. (adore the IlEconmat. and Alderman Gums.) Application WAS made on Saturday to the Court, by Ballantyno, on the part of falaand and Fabiag, w „. iu cu~aal.• Mr the ti)rgery of railway scrip, to have the t t A o s be t o p a o t s i t c : - . o on a e: p l e t a i t l e l u d t e o x tt the session. before the grand jury only so late as Friday ni,li t l ''und , the appli.• absence of the prosecutors, the Court wishe ditto ; but, in the be in,fntioned who, with Mr. Cl ar L H on and Mr. uddle astgollnciin;,: an in re d r k etained fore he prosectr.in, app , !ared Li:is mornjng to consent to the application for postponement. The RECORDER, after considerable hesitation ordered it to be placed Drat on the judge's for next session, Joseph Mortimer, whose atrocious case came on before the Recorder on Friday, when he was found guilty on two charges of bigamy and ore of larceny, and when he was sentenced by the Court on the charge of larceny to seven 1 years' transportation, sentence on the other indictments being reserved, was this morning placed at the bar to receive sentence on the charges of bigamy. The RECORDES said, he thought it right to inform the prisoner, before pronouncing sentence On the two cases of bigamy on which he had been convicted, and to give him clearly to understand that inquiry had been made by the Court, and information had been received front most respectable sources, and that according to that his case bore the worst possible aspect which any case could bear, and that it was clearly aggravated by his cruel and disgraceful conduct. The Recorder held in his hand a letter from Mr. George O'Malley Irwin, a gentleman of the Irish bar, who wished to have the prisoner transferred to Ireland to take his trial there if the charges should have failed here, on a further charge of bigamy, in the case of Miss Baker, the daughter of Andrew Thker, of Red Hill, near Boyle, in the county of Roscommon. With regard to his marriage, the Recorder thought it right to infirm the prisoner that a respectable surgeon in Liverpool had drawn the attention of the committing magistrate to the case of Miss Lovejoy by the following letter:— " Liverpool, 111, Dale-street, June, 1846. "Sir,—From the newspaper reports. I perceive that a man, or rather a monster in human Balm, of the name of A. Morti mer, has been brought before you, charged with bigamy, &c., and I am happy to find that he is committed for trial, where I trust his heartless villany will meet its deserts. "One of his unfortunate victims, Miss Lovejoy, was for several years a patient of mine, and a more confiding, kind, or amiable creature never existed. Before she took the un fortunate step'which, I have no hesitation in saying, con signed her to an untimely grave, she mentioned the circum stance to me. I advised her strongly against the union, until she knew something more of her future partner; but she, poor creature, too soon gave way, and became th e v i c ti m o f the scoundrel's machinations. She had not been married twenty-four hours before she bitterly repented the irrevo cable act. In a few days she again sent for me, as a con fidential friend.' As soon as she saw me she burst into tears, and said,' I am a murdered woman ; he has taken every thing I possess in the world from me, except the clothes in which I stand; and to-day (it was then afternoon) I have not been allowed anything to eat' rhe monster was in an adjoining room, and I went and remonstrated with him ; but he maintained a dogged silence. Callous as the fellow seemed, I think he will not forget that when I left the room I told him, ' that if that woman died, her blood would be on his head.' I once more saw her, viz., on the day before they left. England ; she called on me, she said, for the purpose of bidding me good-bye for ever.' She again mentioned to me his brutal treatment, the details of which were so atrociously revolting that I almost recoil when I think of them. I wished her, even at the ~eleventh hour, to reconsider her determination of accompany ing him, but she said, that ' although she believed she should never cross the Atlantic alive, yet that she had cast her lot with his, and it was her duty to submit.' I do solemnly declare that I could most conscien tiously have accepted her expressions of the conviction that she could not recover as her dying declaration;' those con victions were realised, ,and her husband's object effected. " I have the honour to remain, Sir, yours, very respectfully, (Signed) "FREDERICK CRIPPS." "Mr. Ald. Farebrother. This letter was accompanied by the following note : " Sir,—As a matter of public duty, I have taken the liberty of sending you the enclosed communication as it may tend to corroborate the testimony (which is already very strong) that Mortimer's brutal conduct to his wife accelerated her death; if it is of any service in forwarding the ends of justice, my object in addressing you will be accomplished. As the value of testimony depends upon the source whence it is derived, and as you know nothing of me, allow me to refer you to Mr. Alderman Sidney, with whom I have the pleasure of being acquainted, . " i am, Sir, yours truly, " F. CRIPPS. "Liverpool, June, 1846. " Mr. Alderman Farebrother." The Recorder proceeded to say that the law regarded bigamy in its ordinary forms with a determination to deter heartless vagabonds from committing it; but this case of kiss Lovejoy stood out alone, for within a day of her mar riage all that she possessed in the world was taken from her, except the clothes in which she stood; she was even disallowed anything to eat, and hardly had the prisoner got her body cast into the sea when he re turned to England, to repeat the cruelty on another. It had, moreover, been proved upon the trial that he had robbed his first wife of her property and deserted her ; his object, therefore, was evidently plunder, and that he pursued by means the most cruel and inhuman that ever had been & used. He thought that this was the worst case that had been recorded in the Court in which they were; all the mischiefs which attended false marriages had been more strongly brought out in this in stance than in any case he had ever known. The death of his victim, if it was not absolutely caused by what had occurred, was, in the opinion of a respectable surgeon, cer tainly accelerated by the treatment she had received. The poor unhappy woman before she embarked from England expressed her strong conviction that she would never reach the shores of America alive, and this was her conviction after she had been dispossessed of all that she had, and disallowed even the use of the necessaries of life. (The prisoner here interposed, and denied the truth of all that was vouched for by Mr. Cripps.) The RECORDER said that the prisoner would have the opportunity of an appeal, if he thought proper, to the Secretary of State ; as for himself, however, he would do his duty to the public and act in this matter up to the law—for nothing so heartless, nothing so cruel had ever reached his knowledge as that. which the prisoner had perpetrated on his victims, to their perpetual degrada tion. (Ti - .e prisoner here reiterated his charge that his victims were women of bad character.) The Recorder continued to say that, in addition to robbing them of their last shilling, antl wronging them by false pretences of mar riage, he now spared not their character, but despoiled them even of that. But were it true as he had said, and if he had picked them off the street, yet even such must and would be protected by the law. Tee COURT then sentenced him to transportation for seven years on each of the two indictments, the one period to com mence at the expiration of the other. He was sentenced to seven years' transportation on Friday, on the charge of larceny; but this sentence will commence and expire with the first of the two sentences pronounced to-day, making in all only fourteen years' transportation. Nillram lianfield was indicted for feloniously robbing and throwing Elizabeth Pullen upon a certain stone pavement, with intent to do her some bodily injury, dangerous to iife; with intent to murder her. The circumstances of this case will be in the recollections of our readers. The prisoner and the pro4ecutrix cohabited together, and on the day in que:gion it appeared that they were quarrelling, and the prisoner beat the prosecntrix in a most cruel manner; and he was heard to say he would throw her out of the window; and almost at the same instant the unfortunate woman was seen to fall from the window, and she was picked up in an insensible state and covered with blood. She was taken to the hospital, where she remained for some time in a most dangerous state ; and upon the ma gistrate taking her deposition, she, to the astonishment, of every one declared that she had thrown herself out of the window. The unfortunate woman was called as a witness, and she repeated this statement; but from the manner in which she gave her evidence, it appeared very evident that she was actuated by a desire to screen the prisoner from the conse quences of his brutality. The RECORDER inquired whether a surgeon was in at tendance to spoak to the nature of the injury received by the prosecutrix ?—The Police constable that Mr. Bur rell, the magistrate who committed the prisoner, considered the evidence of a surgeon was unnecessary. The RECORDER said he was very much surprised that the magistrate had given such an opinion. The prisoner was charged with inflicting a bodily injury dangerous to life, and they had no evidence of a surgeon to show the character of the injury. Directions were then given that the constables should go to the hospital and procure the attendance of thesurgeon ; and in a short time he entered, and seated that the gentleman who had attended upon the prosecutrix had gone out, and it was uncertain when he would return. In answer to further questions put by the RECORDER, the constable stated that the prosecutrix was found lying upon the ground perfectly insensible, covered with blood; and a portion of her hair and some blood was also found on a brick upon which she had fallen. He also.stated that she was three weeks in the hospital before she could be removed. The prisoner in his defence said that the woman threw herself out of the window, because he would not let her go out of the door. The RECORDER, in summing up, said that it would have been more satisfactory to have had the evidence of a surgeon; but still it would be a question for the jury, supposing they should consider the facts to be proved, whether they could entertain any reasonable doubt that the injury received was calculated to endanger the life of the prosecutrix. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The RECORDER told the prisoner he had been convicted of a capital offence, and judgment of death would be recorded against him. The sentence of death would not, however, be carried out, but, taking into consideration the brutal charac ter of the offence, he should teel it his duty to recommend that he be transported for the term of his natural life. POLIC INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY • SERVANT.— Wm Grocers, a young man of respectable connexions, was charged with embezzling various sums of money, received by him for and on account of his employer, Mr. George Malik son, of No. 60, Tottenham-Court-road, confectioner. The prisoner for the last three months bad been acting as agent and collector to the prosecutor, and it was his duty to pay over all moneys that came into his hands on his em ployer's account on the same day he received them. Vithin the last few days the prosecutor accidentally discovered that the prisoner had received different balances of accounts from the customers of which he had made no mention. He was in consequence apprehended at his lodgings in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Sunday morning last, by Sergeant Fowler, No. 111 of the E The prisoner was folly committed on two charges of em bezzlement, one of 2/., and the other for 10s. The prosecutor said there was another case against the prisoner. Mr. MALTBY sail it might be brought forward against him at the trial. The prisoner admitted having kept back the 21., but s3id he meant to make it good. The 10s. he had paid over to the prosecutor. Mr. Mallison denied 1113 having clone so. The prisoner's defalcations are said to a mount to 'between 30/. and 401. oEs —On -Friday a PINE APPLES AND Nirruirt, PoTAT • being the third for the pre sale of 1,000 of the former prey occasions. Al place i nMonument-yard. The prices which r d m is u e t as la e s, - ong sent season, took potatoes p from they realised wer l e s le c s a s s t k h s a , n ,f theo n n ew prevalent disease' with them were which did not appetharerteowbaesinafneeitmedpobr3Lttlitoen of orchida At the same tiTe . Rio ee°"B phiotp, for the first .time, from Janeiro, and through the introduction of which the luxuriant paints, as well as the fruits of the tropics, are likely to be added extensively to our rooms and gardens. ALA.amozo FlRE.—Shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday night, an alarming fire was discovered raging upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Piridgeway, a pianoforte manufacturer, Noel -street, Soho. The flames originated, from some cause at present unknown, in the first floor, in which a deal of work was deposited. The stock being of an easily ignitable character, the fire . progressed most fear fully, and very speedily the flames were to be perceived rushing out of the windows, both front and hack, with the greatest impetuosity. The adjoining premises were the warehouses of Mr. Aldous, a pawnbroker, and for some time the greatest excitement prevailed amongst the poor inhabi tants lest the flame: should extend to that hulPing a,id de stroy the pled•ies. The fire was , xtinguislied by half-past nine o'clock. The damage dune t..., trio stuck upon the pre mises must he considerable, for the flames passed completely round both floors. The same premises were destroyed-by a I fire twelve or eighte en mout h s s i nce; they as a coach factory. Were then used fused to do so. said that they had been guilty of a high misde meanour and were i•ubject to a prosecution. lie would, therefore, impress upon English Members the danger of elacing such a power in the hands of the magistrates of Ireland, who had themselves set the law at defiance. Mr. SEY VIER said, when he recollected that the Noble Lord (the Member for London) had proposed a Bill of a similar nature, and that the protection party had voted for is first reading, it appeared to him that the time had arrived when, by &strong muster of all parties, it was hoped to place her Ma jesty's Government in a minority, and the party who sat upon the Opposition benches, on those at present occupied by the Treasury. And taking all these facts into consideration, he did not think the Secretary-at-War, when he reproached the Noble Lord (Lord Bentinck ) for the inconsistency of the course which he had pursued. and when he excused the party led by the Noble Member for London, he had been quite fair in his observations, for he had not been equally just. The Noble Member for Lynn and his party had changed their votes with a view to defeat the Ministry, who, they think have not acted in a band fide manner on the qu stion of coercion. But s h e Member for London and his party had equally changed their such Mem bersgrea read rue Bill? for he h ad some t votes for the purpose of defeating th e Ministry to o uncondition. c ally. —(He,r, hear.) He would wis h fcr a moment con - which Hon. party divisions were to take side: what was the nature of placethem ? e o a r su t r o e on which had doubts as to that , al ways excluding the Hon. Member who had last ad dressed the House, and who had appeared to have given the subject deep attention. But the observations of some Hon. Members had induced him to believe that they had not read the Bill then before the House. It was-trot, as had been asserted, proposed to coerce the whole of Ireland— the Bill was only a temporary one, and it did not follow that any one country, or any one parish, should be coerced. When a necessity arose a district might be coerced, but not until then. Whatever might be the faults of the Government, and he for one would not justify them, he considered that they had acted in a just and generous spirit towards Ireland.—( Hear.) That was his opinion; and a similar one had been expressed by the Hon. Member for Cork on the occasion of the Maynooth Bill; and such having been the case he was prepared to ac cede to the powers proposed to be vested in the Government. As long as parts of Ireland remained in such a state as they were at present they would require a coercion Bill, and he was of opinion that no Government should he allowed to hold office which was not prepared to propose such a Bill in such a state of circumstances ;- and if they abused the powers vested in them, or the people of England and Scotland saw a desire to oppress Ireland, they would not permit them to remain in office, for they would know that if they permitted such a proceeding their turn would come next. The present state of things could not be allowed to continue with safety ; if the people were not protected, they would take the law into their own hands. They had heard a great deal about the liberties of Ireland, but he would like to know what; amount of liberty existed in Ireland. He would take any five charges from the list of the state of crime in Ireland, and he would read them to the House. One was a threatening notice to a steward not to collect his master's rents; another was a notice for a man not to pay a debt he owed to a certain man, but to his wife, from whom he bed separated ; another was to prevent a man from proposing for a widow for whom another had proposed.—(A laugh.) Hon. Members might laugh, but it was no laughing matter. They could thus see that a steward could not do justice to his master, nor could a man marry the wife of his choice. They were told that things were a better aspect, and that therefore coercion was unnecessary, - hut he was disinclined to doubt the statement, and they knew that former Coercion Bills had been successful. though they had never been put into operation. He would ask them how coud lauded proprietors be expt•eted to reside on their estates unless they were afforded protection ? He would support the Government upoi, the present occasion, and he • could not see the consistency of the course, that. having voted for protection, he should now he called on to vote against the Coercion Bill ; in other words to assist ir. bringing in a Government more favolrable to free-trade than the present. and which wauld be strongly urged t o t a k e o ff th e proposed three years of protection which had been afforded. The Hon. Member for Stockport wield, of course, be in the Government—( Hear, hear)—and he confessed he would not be sorry to see him there. He (Mr. Cobden) had already done them all the mischief in his power, and if they were to hare bad measures, why they would have the consolation of at least having good speeches.--( Hear, hear.) Nothing surprised him more than the strong party spirit which was evinced at the present moment by the party to which he had the honour to belong. When Hon. Members met in the streets, after the first observation of the heat of the weather, the next ques tion was " What will you do on the Coercion Bill ?" " Oh, I will take the straight course, and vote against the Bill." ( Hear, hear.) The straight course ! as if no other course was straight. Now, he would be almost inclined to call it the crooked course, but if his course was allowed to be straight in supporting the Bill, he would allow the contrary course to be straight also.—( Hear, hear.) But if his course was not called: straight, he would be obliged to quarrel—what he most wished to avoid. Again, if he met in a club-room, he would be told, " Oh, we count upon so many honest and true men to defeat the measure." Now, he was not so foolish as to take offence. but he felt his face getting rather hot—( Hear, hear) — when such language was used. He was attached to the principles of protection to British industry, but he also believed that the present Bill would be beneficial, and he would therefore vote for it. He would just instance in the Secretary-at-War, a man who never took a course but such as was perfectly consistent with honourable feeling; and he did so because he knew the Right Hon. Gentleman ; yet that gentleman, he ventured to say, would not stick at applying in debate those hard names which had been made use of by the Hon. Gentleman. The case of Fox had been introduced in exculpation, but he would answer that by a single line of the Latin poet— " Distat eloquentid vitas Let Hon. Gentlemen imitate Fox in his eloquence, and leave him alone in his use of hard names and hard words.—(Lond cries of " Hear, hear.") There was one sentiment used by the Learned Recorder for Dublin in which he con' d not concur. Tnat Hon. and Learned Gentlemtn had said in effect, that it would be wall if her Majesty's pre sent Ministers were •11 placed by the Noble Lord, became then they would have no more of those painful scenes, those hard words, and Le (Mr. Seymer) thought he added, vitupe ration ; but he (Mr. Seymer) ratte: expected that in op pisition these hard words, and hard nines would be reviv ed. At the same time, he felt it was the duty of every Mem.. r i i that House, to assuage, as far as possible, all to rsonalities, and the use of hard names. —( The Hon. Gentl n:an sat down, after stating that he would oppose the ameedment of the Right Hon. B ronet (Sir W. Somerville) opposite.) Mr. C. POWELL sad, he never hear 1 opinions expressed in Parliament, founded more upon ignorance of the condition of Ireland than those uttered by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. That Hen. Gentleman could not surely have heard the admirable speech which had beer, delivered on the 'subject by the Member for 'xfordshire. Thar Hen. Member had shown to demonstration, in his able speech, that the docu ment on which the Hon. Gentleman had rested, the Govern ment returns of crime in Ireland, was incorrect, and could not he relied upon. He had shown that out of the 2,000 cages. which was the gros-; amount stated, 805 were merely threaten ing notices, and SO2 of the.e notices, which were never followed by injurious aces—he (Mr. Powell) believed had been got up by the scouts of the police. Instances might be quceed from the annals of crime in England to parallel what had taken place in some parts of bellied ; but he would not detain the House.. He could not imagin a severer satire on her Majesty's Government than the present measure. That Government, the strongest that had existed, came &ern now, the ei.ghteenth time in the political hiseery of Ireland, fora coercive measure —a Bid giving them the command of physical force—a measure to annihilate the liberties 44 the eeople of Ireland. It might be Pail to him that the present measure did not apply to all Ireland ; but his reply was, that it did, if the Lord-Lieutenant chose. Her Ma jesty's present Government on this occasion, found Ireland in 1841 in a state !,f perfect tranquillity, the authorities in the country had the confidence of the people ; and the present Go vernment selected for the highest offices in the admieistration of the law, the most obnoxious indivi - luals in the comery—indi viduals who had for years been in the habit of reveing the people of Ireland. If there was an obnoxious person in the provincial localities - , they made him a magistrate; and if there was not such a man in the district, they set about hunting him up froua another quarter ; and having done so, that Govern ment came down to Parliament and asked for power to put down the disturbances which had been excited by these gross abuses. Her Majesty's Government had endeavoured to represent these disturbances as nen , political. But he thought that the great mass had withdrawn their confidence from the constituted authorities in the country, and was not that political ?—( Hear, hear, from Mr. Sheil.) The repeal agitation had been cc nstrued by an Hon. Gentleman opposite into high treas , a. He (Mr. Powell) though an advocate for the repeal of the union, enter tained the strongest wish for the British connexion ; and he further thought that, repealer as he was, the measures which he would support would tend more to cement that connexion than those which had been proposed I,y the Hon. Gentleman who had thought proper to characterise repeal as a dismember ment of the empire. Why, for 490 years that connexion had continued to exist at the same time that there was a separate Legislatme. As he had already said, the returns on which those fears were founded were incorrect, for nut of 2,000. the total sum, there were 805 mere threatening notices ; and from these 803, only three had been followed by overt acts. Now, as to these notices, he himself had received a paper, which he held in his hand, addressed to Mr. Powell, MP. Inside there were these words, " Look what comes, death to the Saxon."—( At least so we understood the Hon. Gentle man- to read, for be read with great difficulty.) Then followed a coffin and cross-bones, and these words, " Mr. Powelrs cur tout. Here is your fate, if you vote for the Coercion Bill." ( Laughter.) Now, he believed that many of these cases were got up as hoaxes, but many of them were excited by the secret service money of the Government, which, since their acces sion, had been freely distributed among the people of that country.—( Hear hear.) He knew it. Many lived by it, and it was called " doing business ;" and those persons were known as " Paddy M'Kerrs." He (Mr. Powell) was sure that the social order might be sufficiently maintained in Ireland by the ordinary means of law, if these were used by those who had secured the confidence of the people. That, however, the !a-sent Government had not acquired, and he thought never bren..l a n d he believed further, that their resignation would -beenaZ i n rte people of Ireland. Very different would have House, wh en b ed beg for Oxfet,UZt had if a sentime n t u tt ere d b y t h e H on . Mern prevaitee some t i me b e f ore i n t h at ves.lhse people of Ireland ?lion o a r s t t the second reading the evidence supplied ,: i . nther any honest man could, upon croachment upon n ee iil L i ze tlaiesty's Ministers, sanction en ; a nd . suldiers% Mr. COLLE rr said he of the measure on the same grott4telea) had uttered hie opinions on th a t ~,c , i 4:1 14 first , for since he anything to remove those reasons which he ' e h t r n not heart existed a certain set o f gave for so To tigg. There . robb er , assassin were sent out to apprand and maraud sin no c t e r s t ee li ne why achoytuhnitsthiees classsa in mo Ireland anns, nahiszair Naples Sicily, he di d be adopted h ad not been committed. which outrages hardly passed a day with • me which he could not in Ireland. For a period o f eight years there h u t assassins. And There had Arleen a with these roaming account for—a sympathy power to :oppress it? He why should not the police Lave the for crime. He s%mpathy cr ime knew that there was a price knew —and i t m i g ht seem strings to them—that the price was 2/, 10s• for crime when the man was not shot dead, and 61. when the man was killed . Would he for a trifling saving of heeee or 1. 0001. p er ann um , send 500 men loose un the ountry-5' e`-) me n a ccu,tomed ) to the use of "unpowd er , and weapons of every de scri p tion ? — (Hear.) No, he could not do it as a Briton, -or as an Englishman. Let them not be deceived by the temporary lull that had occurred, for he believed that if this Bill did not pass the second reading, there would be riot and exultation at the failure of a measure which would put a stop to the crimes of he.e marauding assassins. He believed that a temporary Coercion Bill would be of benefit to the eountry. He ha I always felt well disposed towards the Irish; and had done all' in his power for them, but still he thought that this Bill was neces sary. The keeping of people in their houses from sunset to sunrise was not the question. It was the question of whether there was to be any security for life and property in Ireland— ( Hear, hear)—and they were bound to give protection to people who were well disposed towards their fellow -countrymen, and who received nothing but injury in return. He received accounts of crime and outrage every Monday morning from Killalue; and his secretary had on four occasions been stopped, although he was returning with only half notes. Before he sat down, he would beg to say only one word. -He surprised to find it recorded that he had dissented from the present measure, but law felt bound to say that he would on this occasion give his cordial support to her Majesty's Minilterr. MARKET NEWS-(Y.ESTERDAY.) CORN.EXCHANG E. During last week the arrivals of English Wheat, Bar leis Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were on a very limited scale but those of Malt were moderate From either Ireland or Scot land, very little Grain of any description came to hand, but from abroad, large supplies or Wheat, Oats, and Flour were received, and chiefly landed in bond. Fresh up, the fee eeipts of Wheat of home produce were trifling, though of lull average quality The attendance of buyers, most of whom were unit , rally bare of stock, being good, and the stands scantily filled with samples, the best qualities of Wheat of home produce commanded a steady sale, at an advance, in the quotation, obtained on this day se'nnight, of Is per quarter, while the value of the mid dling and inferior kinds was well supported. At the Jose of busi ness a good clearance was effected. There was a good inquiry for Foreign Wheat under lock, for shipment to Belgium, at full curren cies. Fine qualities were in moderate request, and in some instances the turn dearer. Barley, the supply of which was small, moved off freely, and selected parcels were the turn dearer. Superfine White Malt moved off steadily, though the actual amount of business passing in ,t was not large. AU other kinds were some what neglected. From all quarters very few Oats, if we except the foreign importations, have come to band. That erticle was, therefore, in good request, at an improvement in value of from 6d to is per quarter. For Beans there was a firm demand, at a trifle mere moneY• White Peas were selling at Is. per quarter mere money, while the value of other kinds was well supported. There was rather more in quiry for Flour, but prices were not higher. The accounts from the provinces resin eti g the growing Wheats are very tavourable, but Spring Corn stands much ht need of moisture. CURRENCY PEE IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, DI alt—Chevalier •• • • 63s to 658 Red, New.... 44s to 58s Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, Old • • 63s 66s Lincohish., Feed. 25s 27s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .. 303 331 coin, Red..... 44s 50s Youghel and Cork, Ditto, White...... 49s 59s Black . Irish, Red. ...... .—s —s Cork, White .• • Ditto, White .. .. • . —s Scotch, Feed. • • Rye—Old .. New ••• • .. 318 33s Pigeons ...... 428 48$ Barley—Grinding..... 25s 274 Pease—Grey. •••• • • • • 31 $ 34$ Malting . ........ 29 e 1125 Maple Chevalier ••• • • • 338 34s Malt—Suffolk and Nor- B W o h il i e t rg e 3 3 38 9 7 : 41 : folk.• •• • • 55s 59s Flour—Town-made .•. 505 538 Brown Als 52s Suffolk ..... 39s 410 Kingston and Ware 62s 63s Stockte & Norfolk 41s 425 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat—Dantzie.. • 53s to stis Beans •••• • • • 30s to 311 Hambtu•gh .. 488 505 Pease.. .... Barley ............ 20s 24s Flour—American ..... 26s 271 Oats- —New ........... 24s 255 / Baltic ...•••••••• 27s 290 Feed ...... •. •• • • 19s 20s BOROUGH AND SPITAXXXELDS. For the time of year, the supply of old Potatoes on offer is geed! but of very inferior quality. The business transacted since our last has been very trifling, and it is with difficulty we can give accurate quotations. A few lots of York Reds have sold at from 100 s to 140$; York Regents, 305 to 60s; and Scotch Reds, 20s to 70s per ton. BOROUGH HOP 241C.A.43.3KET. The accounts which have reached us from the plantations in Kent and Sussex since our last, bebig of a more favourable character, the gee neral demand here is heavy, and must have a dewnw .rd tendency. The duty has advanced to 130,0001. The following quotations are almost nominal: - Sussex pockets, Si 5s to 61108; Weald of Kents, 5/ 101 to 61 15s; Middle and East Kent, 6/ 6s to 8/ 15s. SMITHFIELD. Since this day se'nnight the imports of foreign stock in the port of London have consisted of 350 Oxen and Cows, 700 Sheep, 200 Lambs, and 10 Calves fr,m Rotterdam ; 30 Oxen from Hamburgh , and 108 Sheep from Flushing. We had on offer about 230 foreign Beasts, 500 clit`o of Sheep, 100 ditto of Lambs, and 5 ditto of Calves, for the whole et which— though the quality was tolerably good—the demand was in a very sluggish state, and, in some instances, the quotations had a downward tendency, without effecting a clearance. Fresh up, the arrivals of Beasts from our grazing districts sere se - sonably good, but -considerably less than those received onthis day se'nnieht. Owing to the continued warm weather, and th e thin at tendance of buyers, the Beei trade was in a very depresse d state; at barely last Monday's reduced reduced currencies, the highest 'S for the best Scots not exceeding 3s 10d per 81bs. From Norfolk. Suf folk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,6 0 0 Scots, ho,nehreda and short horns ; Iron: the western and midland counties, 400 et' various breeds ; from other parts of England, 300 of various co breeds; and. from Scotland, 180 horned and polled Sta. The numbers of Sheep were vory large, and of prime quality. Sti however, the Mutton trade was tolerably firm at last week's quota-_ Bons. Lambs, the supply of which wes again extensive, moved off steadily, yet the highest price obtained for the best Down qualities was only 6s. per lebs. In Calves and Pigs very little businese was transacted at late rates. We regret to state that 35 Sheep were killed on the Eastern Counties Railway on Saturday last. The Sheep in question belonged to Mr. James Syder, of Fakenham, Norfolk. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. 0., to R. d s. d. e. d• Inferior Beasts ••• • 2 4 2 6 Second quality ditto 3 6 3 ~1 ! Second quality ditto. 2 8 3 0 C oarse - woo ll e dditte 310 4 ° Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 6 Southdtns n Wethers 4 2 4- Prime Scots •• • • • 3 8 310 Ditto out of the wool -- Large coarse Calves 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs Prime small ditto .. 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers • • Suckling Calves ..I8 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs • l6 0 19 nferior Sheep • • . 3 2 3 6 Lambs 5 0 6 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. I 33,820 208 280 NEWGATE AND LEADDNEIAL 36 . Since thi , day se'nnight the arrival of country-killed Meat up to our markets have been, coosidering the pre'. ailing warm weather, good, and of very superior quality. The supplies slaughtered in the metropolis have been seasonably extensive. Prime Mutton hasbeenof in steady request, at full rates of currency. In all other kinds Meat exceedingly little has been doing, and the quotations have bad a downward tendency. Several carcases of foreign Beasts and Sheep have appeared on sale. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to 1. d. deaf. inferior.. .• •• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, Inferior middling •• 2 6 2 8 middling.. 3 !CI 4 0 prime large •.2 10 3 2 prime... , 4 0 4 2 prime small •. 3 4 36 1 Pork, lar&e• ••• 3 4 4 0 Veal.• ••• • . • ...... 3 6 4 8 small ..•• •• 4 2 410 Lamb. 5s Od to 6s 2d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves 11.1 s• Scotland ••.•••. • • • • • • . .. 12 40 30 Yorkshire .• • ..... 20 100 60 Lincolnshire .. • • • • • • • • • 20 80 80 Norfolk •.•.••• • • . • • • ........... 18 60 90 Suffolk ••••• • . • • • • • 20 30 20 Cambridgeshire ••••• .. • • ....... 20 20 10 30 30 30 50 20 Wiltshire Other parts ........... ........ 30 40 50 80 Beasts. 2,704 Total .. • .... , 188 435 130 460 rrevlous week's arrival...... 225 500 120 800 Difference since our last .... 37 65 WOOL. _ 10 160 The imports of Wool into London during the past week have been unusually small, yet the supplies on offer are somewhat extensive. Privately, both foreign and colonial qualities are a dull sale, at barely stationary prices ; but for English clothing there is rather more de mand, at full rates of currency. TALLOW. There is a little depression in the foreign market, consequent upon the decline In town Tallow, which is selling freely at 39s nett cash. The very hot weather is no doubt the great cause for the falling off in the deliveries. Prices at St. Petersburgh for new Yellow Candia remain firm. EXECuTIONS IN NENAGH. The Tipperary Vindicator of Saturday contains the fol lowing account of the execution of Hayes, Rice, and Fogarty, whose case, on a motion for arrest of judgment, had been re- . cently before the Court of Queen's Bench : " NINAGN, FRIDAY.—At a very early hour the police, to the number of 150, were marched into Nenagh. Groups o. country people, principally old women and children, gathered about the place of execution. The convicts were greatly re• signed. Since their return from Dublin thei were constantly attended by the Rev. Mr. Power and the Rev. Mr. Bowles. They spent the entire of Thursday and the greater part of the night and yesterday morning in prayer. They assisted at mass yesterday morning in the prison chapel, and received communion, and remained in constant prayer till the fatal moment had arrived when the summons of the sheriff reached them. As twelve o'clock approached a deathlike stillness pervaded the entire town. I.ew stirred abroad except those who were present in front of the scaffold. The sub-sheriff Mr. Goinz, arrived about a quarterafier twelve o'clock. At one o'clock a body of the 72d Highlanders were drawn up in front of the prison. The streets were filled with the loud larnental tions of some female relatives of the prisoner Hayes, who were present, as three coffins passed up towards the gaol some mi nutes before the unfortunate men made their appearance in front of the scaffold. Thousands of persons. from the parish of Ballygibbon,Rapla,Ardcroney,&c., waited in the fields outside the town, in order to accompany the funeral procession of Rice and Hayes, whilst thousands from Dunarrow awaited the funeral of Fogarty, whose remains were conducted to that district. At ten minutes past two o'clock P.m. the un fortunate men made their appearance on the scaffold, accom panied by the clergymen above-named. Their faces were covered with white caps, and ropes were around their necks. The executioner, who, it is said, is the same that hanged Bryan Seery in Mullingar, made his appearance a few mt: notes before, for the purpose of adjusting the ropes, &c. thrill orindescribable horror pervaded the multitude, but no expressions were used by the people, who conducted themselves quietly. Those who attended to hear a declara tion from their lips were disappointed in their anticipations , as the unfortunate men did not utter a sylla!mle. They came out one after the other, Rice first, and Fogarty and H23 1 ' 5 afterwards. Rice exclaimed, 6, Lord have mercy on us," the Rev. Mr. Power h o ldi ng t h e cruc ifi x b e f ore hi m . After standing a few seconds on the scaffold, supported by the cler gymen, they withdrew, after affectionately bidding them fare well, and in a few seconds they were launched into eternity. Their struggles were very bricf, nor did they suffer The assembled multitude then withdrew, whilst the bodies remained suspended, a revolting spectacle in a Christian land; and it was after three o'clock. when they were cut down, and deposited in the coffins prepared for them;. and at half-past three the bodies were conveyed by thou sands to the residence of their respective friends, wher e they are to be waked this day (Saturday), and interred to morrow. t on Saturday this institution gave their fo u rth concer which were very' THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF A t um —The students morning, in the Hanover-square R l o s ms, a great variety of fully attended. The scheme comprised symphony, by Mr. Henry * and a 3 oung musician of compositions from the w o rk s o f the established masters, be sides three movements of a MS. Wylie, a member o f th e aca d e my, considerable ability and promise. Of the movements pe r , Bformaaetd tattractive ; the subject in movement of Beethoven's second ,_. l , w . .:ly and cleverly treated. A melodtot.. symphony, but it . recalledhe andante tlie was piano and horn di-played much ca pability duet of Beethoven ' s l'' i r icis on each instrument, Mr. Baly and in the perfo , r ,f i. the well-known trumpet player. Mr.: was the most Mr. E. Harper, o son I f Mr. Sainton, conferred high credit both an H. Hill, pupil and birn.elf by his excellent performance el an h i s precep to r; ~7yintio of De Beriot. A number of vocal c,omno adag'° 4.---•erto and solo, were sustained by Misses Ckieesmall• sitions.conc D'Ernst, Ransford, A. Romer, Sahib,. S' - .n, 0, " Stewart, Bridle, . „, r , and Duval , Messrs . Herbert, Wetterbee, and Weeks, with great credit to the method of vocal instruction exhibited i n the Academy. Mr. Luos conducted the orchestra, which was less remarkable for numbers than efficiency. Mr. Sainton was at his post as principal violin ) and Mr. Hill as pr i nc ipal tenor] On the 16th l us t BIRTHS. , at Matten, Lady Blackett, o a son. On the 16th inst., at the Laws, Forfershire, f the lady of Hems it J ames, Esq., of son. on the 16th inst., at Thetford, Mrs. Shelford Bidwell, of a sou , tn. On the 17th inst., in Spencer-street, Northanipton-square, Mr s ' Iticharci Mullen, of a son. On the 18th i ns t . , at Fortress-terrace, Kentish•tow n , M rs . SP -I- ding, of a eon. On the 18th inst., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde -park, Mrs. Edward Walker, of a son. On the 13th inst., at Shaftesbury-Crescent, Mrs. Charles Coote, of son. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Christ Church, Marylebonc, Mr. Niche Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, to Ann, eldest daughter of thee late Mr. It. N. Turk. On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. Richard Green. of Lewes, to Ellen, the adopted daughter of James Burt, Esq.. of Barns bury-road, Islington. DIED. On the 19th inst., at his sister's house, 28, Bloomsbury-201,3/e' William Blackburn, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, in his tlity-eighth year. eldest son of the late William Blackburn, Esq., of Southwark. On the 9th inst., at ntratford-lc-Bow, Middlesex, Itetlred-Corn mander James Ernerton, R.N., aged 70. On the 16th instin.,Upper Southwick-street, Mrs. Freeman. aged 71, On the 17th inst., Ellen, eldest daughter of Mr. James Ely, of Soho — square,. On the 17th Met., in Yerk-place, Pimlico, Sarah Julia, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Stirke, 12th Regimtut. On the 17th lost., HenritAta Marin Conyers, youngest daughter C. li. J. Conyers, 1; sq., of Copt Hall, Essex. London Printed and Published by 1'....a.TRD0 1? - 0t7bTo, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office. No. 112, Strand, in the Free-loci of the iiaToy, L tte COnnty of 211111dIens, TutWV. Ala . 3; 1646 v , a I A 2c, PIE;