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61 PE RIA L PARLIAMENT. p k . HOUSE OF LORDS, August 28. AtuItOGATION OF PARLIAMENT. 414 it a Quarter-past Two o'clock the LORD CHAIi to entered the House, robed as one of the Lor d s taissioners, and, up on ta ki ng hi s sea t on the Wool stated stated that her M a j esty had been pleased to grant 141 , 111:14taisa i° 11 s, one giving her royal assent to several htld the other proroguing Parliament. B pe7 rd Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl to o L eer, the Earl of Minto, and Lord Campbell then t i o4 ; their seats below the throne as Lords Commis ql, and the Commons having been summoned by aMans Clifford, th e U s h er of the Black Rod, to foli Cooing 13ill • of the lious e the Royal Assent was given to the s s sis tad Fund (A ppropr i at i on) Bill . eZZIh,_„ Duies Bill 4 Debtst 13ill. • 117toefi°111 Diseases Bill. koti s h b a nd Salvage Bill. tee, 7,_'-,ossessions BilL ~titi,7„Jand Government Bill. 9eeti,""inds (Australia) Bill. INjants (Ireland.)Bill. pghens kitta s _ (Ireland) Bill. (Irela d) Bill. n , (Ireland) Bill. (Ireland--No 4) Bill. k -- ' 41 7 (Ire l a nd) all * i 4b rokers , . bkit: llsrigation Bill. Lltil % ,„ l „g a ?f Land s Bill . tlie?"): volt tnissioners' Bill. ?live Bills Bill. j l tl blie ° lt s toPlovine n t (Ireland) Bill. hilteal 3 T A b " r "s (Ireland--No. 5) Bill. ,fflits„-,.'roperty (Ireland) Bill. 1 4; ( ;: j s , a nstio Asylums (Ireland) Bill. h„Leufri. el)albrook Steam Coal and Swansea and 4 te e r , a r, Railway Bill. South limn Railway Amendment and Branches 4 6 ° ' 2) Bill. 14 , the royal assent had been given to the above The '44 0 , 1 . 0 11D CRANCELLOR then in a clear voice krt e f! aPeech from her Majesty (for which see another T he zur p aper , T he 11 . E and LEARNED LORD then, in her Majesty's e, en by her Majesty's command, declared the totebj'eat Prorogued to Wednesday, the 4th of N It k r ' ionltte-aYnot be amiss to state that during the present 0 hi the Ro yal Assent has been given to no less than ,See Qr ., B * ' , Pen, - 1. the p mini.t.rc were pre...°- ° °"i gn f the fair sex. Thus 6 14 eScho wa s graced by many o . 4 '4e i t session unparalleled in the extent of its ex 9aeli 4a d onl equalled in its importance by that rah sed the Y' Ret - irm Bill. 'ton t , Thehq " 1 -E OF COMMOIVS, August 2 8 . 'tee 0 c , E AltElt tuck the Chair at Twenty Minutes to lo c k . ki b d tetu rn POOR-LAWS. was presented from the Poor-law Commis hit re NEW WRIT FOR DERBY. b t -e writ for Derb in the place of J. Strutt,.Esq., qtinifm'aent limber, who has accepted the Chiltern Oti r e l w as moved for. 4 4 -",° Motion of M . CIIRISTIE, a return was or '43 i% t he number of days, in each of the years 1842, ttlti eis4 4 l . 4 L a :d 1845, on which , only one Poor.law Com kii4staissio"." attended at the office, the powers of the 111 , 0 ,i, ) ", not having been delegated to him ; ;(4tiejfyin ' 4 °Q by the Act 1 and 2 Vic., c. Commis -ler each day, the name of the C0n3,:0 attended alone on each day ; and wherever isetiCtssioner has so attended alone for two or . more as bee the length of the period during which he (111:Wers t.- a ft'lle in attendance, without a delegation of ti e Return of the number , of orders, in each tr4sth en 84 1 3 , 1 e years, . which bear date on eu/ one Coinissioner has attended at the V s hlii out a delegation of the powers of the erhB4-41. Return of the number of letters - Of the same years, which, having been 01;414 by direction of one Commissioner ettendi n the rwers, L alone without a delegation of h_ be dispatched previously to th:Y.hst,Al which the y are recorded in the " Minutes kmiseneti:nrecAtions of the Board upon Correspondence," tone r , 44e " by the signatures of more than one Com -I,S; tt ta ' l4 of the names and nature of the books from 1,1,14 e ie,Nforegoing returns shall be prepared. D ra y -.'"IINCOMBE presented a petition from Mr LsYin;. s r Proprietor of the Bellevue Lunatic Asylum, 11 001,; .°r an alteration of the law regulating lunatic Th MEMBER also presented a petition from 41 4 Batts, a private in the 71st company of o' r u thrn, lat e ° li re rii p t i v, a t i i ni ng of having suffered corporal e°l sta: n li a i ,nquiry ?•n that the House would to Y be a i n n d st l it r le l dLto the conduct of the officer of Le that company. ( -LI ONBY gave notice that, next session, he co tn e `°stil4-7sfor leav e to brine. in a Bill to facilitate the commons,[met° provide that all waste 4 -4 ° , 18 might be made into lots as freeholds, t fir Pli ' Pe r ,t to the ancient tenure of lands. b et ,' Prayi --- , Ltris presented a petition from Manches roeghs . 11 g for additional representatives for the ,_ In that district. t he POOR-LAWS. gie h . -uuR.TEINVICK wished to ask the Noble Lord at Ilk 4 0 0 d of herM w st i y t i r G eg o a e r e r t m o Governm ent oltutewstliTntl oft the tPNittivfsse, separatedlle had given notice of two motions on the 41 1 :" ee t, but had withdrawn them on the assurance that • al lbject would be taken into consideration next Von lint rd JOHN RUSSELL said that he would not then tiler l. ' to state what' mtasures her Majesty's Govern *()Ziwould propose with regard to the poor-law, but h . (_ , 144prisPromise the Hon. Gentleman that unless he did 11 , 11 4,Z some inquiry, or take some steps tending to necessity of such an inquiry, the motion of the 'ltilll;"'entleolan for a Select Committee of the whole would 11 , 4, be objected to. , P ROMOTIONS IN THE POLICE. ,N•c1,..:-ItOTHEROE wished to ask the Right Hon. vli et o the Secretary for the Home Depar!me t nt e , 11 „titli e tr ,,, t ,he impression which had been created in ' lll 3li, "' l nd in consequence of some statements in the 11PO4-o!)%pers that the promotion of the police depended sqtt E je numb er of convictions they had obtained, was ) ,Si r 4 Or not. h 5l. -. P GR EY bad received an assurance from the -° naraission ers that there was no such rule ‘Doe - b st ence, an d that the i r ru l es wer e founded -"tally different principles. b.blr, R , ANDOVER UNION. IseBhtl.l7 ARLEf wished to call the attention of the . 7 , „: -°ll . Baronett a letter which had appeared , in 7` of that g from a person named Tanker. th at . 4 t hat the morning called before the Committee oto ll 'use for the purpose of inquiring _O - e 1 1)13 1 11et of the Guardians of the . A d trtn i fiskon had received no protection since u I, fr 'et hi Right Honourable Baronet, who gsk p` ni self the head of the Poor-law Comm w i a s s sion. t c , k , iv e e - d wa s a man with a wife and three children, and th,-nan allowance of 3d. per week before the inquiry "'fore-t'liftiniittee, but having been called as a w to it ed s , t1, (1 h committee, his relief had since been stopped, 4 tt e - as left to starve. He (Mr. Wakley) thought lo bs . 'LL/I tiiB '1 " Protection ought to be afforded to those e3 * }I It n, 174 (I n 4°ll GE GREY said that h had had no time 7 N? t° I ° o k at the letter in question, but he . would 4,;11! attention to it at a future opportunity. H %.the-r°wever know if he had any power to interfere ,All el . a tter referred to. 7ee *her of the Black Rod here made his appear "ta,.,Bttrarnon the House to hear the Royal Assent 0 4 0 s everal Bills, and to hear her Majesty's most S everal upon the prorogation of Parliament. t Speaker's return he took his se a t at the table, tt Pttr it telt d he ted.r Majesty's speech, and the House then L o LLOYD'S SHIPPING. ADO. 28.—Wind N.E., light breeze, and fine Itrekt 'eer. in t i ku tv. 27.—Wind E. to E.N.E.—Arrd. from the - reol lsit l4 tailed, John Edward, Dell, Bombay ; Ruby, Stokoe, It 4i ( PFP Ski, her Majesty's ship Athol, eastward. _ !' Pi fi l lt ,RY READ, AUG. 25.—Cleopatra, ISPEchen, Gre r7trti,) ""an, New Orleans for Hamburgh. 40, If 'p t ON, Auo. 27.—Sld. Alacrity, Atkin, Quebec. gles, I GNMOUTH, AUG. 27.—James Anders, Bowker, St. iiity kr , 6 w Brunswick. t i t zt ral:Fra, AUG. 27.—Wind E.—Arrd. Industrious, Fraser, li t t ,7 l. ll e. Auo. 27.—Sid. Penn, Ball, Newfoundland. AUG. 26.—S1d. Robert Bruce, Young, Quebec ; 1 • 1 4lt ; ;;'s -"Elie, Mock, do. 4,. t h t t ,, ex, AuG. 20.—Arrd. Forth, Rushley, Greenland, 'ltat. ° fish, and sld. 21st for Hull ; 24th, Jane, Nicholson, g Izti v d , with one fish, 300 or 400 seals, 25 tuns. D I CK (SHETLAND), AUG. 14. Arrd. Venus, Itree, tj v is' traits, with 4,600 cod ; reports the Prince of Iz tli c‘.9,,ith eight fish, and the Traveller, of Peterhead, i t,W11,7,," . AUG.Af 26.—The Vancouve, Howard, from coheay abl•e'sv Brunswick, was in contact this morningooaside off e ad with the Union brig, of Dunkirk, and receiv ed Is t r ottv e damage; the latter lost half mast. 4 1, 4 katid re `RIELDs, AuG. 26 —The French Chassee Ma rie, tnderi e d' was recently fallen in with waterlogg ed and 0411 by'2 the Scotch sloop John, arrd. here. 11 , lair- 4, , AUG. 27.—Wind S.E. to S.W.—Arrd. Cham 041e'ordia_er' New Orleans; Oregon, Gliddon, New Orleans; d o e4 ts ; - ',?,.°rr, New Orleans ; Devonshire, Thompson, New t e -tt uornas P. Cope, Miereken, Philadelphia. Sld. 14 ; ffe, Daly, Calcutta; Matilda, Kemp, Sierra 4 fitter, 7 erdale,Be;erley, Rio Janeiro ; Catharine Boland , kolZ alea ; Lady Mary, Scott, Berbice ; Brewster, Lin- Yo r k .e,.; Niagara, Russell, New York; Waterloo, Alden, a g'Laura, Snow Bucksport ; Corsair, Daly, Hall- Arevett er 4l3 ,ll American,' Mills, Quebec; Queen Pomare, Pr d li gfleid: 4 ree ; Q. E. D., Starks, Montreal. Off port, A ichebucto. ht ealls uo . 26.—Arrd. Clytnene, Potts, Quebec ; Jeannie . v l;itsry, ,P,r..Quebee. Sld. Palmyra, Campbell, Bombay ~...Aoo2rYzhiteside, Jamaica; City of York, Quebec. , Auo. 26.—Arrd. Torrance, Roach, Quebec. Atv yrt T , Auo. 25.—Arrd. Viola, Wilkinson, Quebec. Sal 111, AuG E f . * am . 25.—Arrd. Dolphin, Sullivan, Quebec. - ate 27.—Sid. Hamilton, Reid, Boston, United ktUr .4,, A, ' G ' 26 .—S1d. Lena, Valparaiso. „ - - - 1 11 4 kert, 44 ;7 °- ` 4sll zw FAlL—This metropolitan fair will. n Fr iesanco with ancient custom, be proclaimed at Smith ' Loh - a: Y next, although the efforts of the Corporation for rui . - -; , 11 were unavailing in attempting to suppress this te n' sia n t , 4; _ cen e of and by their claiming a large rent In t _cire gof shows, booths, &c., it has now become a Vtve been of bygone fairs. Hardly any applications aoW n rnade for the ground, and this once notorious fair 64411411 Y 441412 1 i into oblivion. THE SITN r - 14014D0N1 SATTIRDA.Y MORNING, ATTGtST - 29, 14413-. ARIYIAGII, COLERAINE, AND PORiRUSH RAILWAY. A numerous and respectable meeting of sharehold ers of this Company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the propriety of an amalgamation with the Dublin and Belfast Junc tion Railway Company. In the absence of the Right Hon. George Dawson, the chairman, Mr. Fox was called to the chair. The SECRETARY having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said, that having heard the advertise ment they were aware that they were called together for the purpose of taking the sense of the shareholders on the proposed amalgamation. They, the directors, thought it would be desirable to effect that amalgama tion. Their line, as they were aware, went through some of the richest parts of the country in all the features that would enrich a railway proprietary. The railway would pass through Loughrea. The property here traversed belonged to the Irish Society, who were the best landlords in Ireland. The competing line started about the same time, and when such was the case it must be evident that it was a desirable project. The Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine line differed in one or two particulars from their line. They intended to connect Stewardstown and Portadown with the Ulster Railway, while the other company took a slightly different direction. ,The expense of a contest would have been very great, and, therefore, it was resolved by both parties to refer it to that eminent engineer Mr. Rastrick. The reference was before him for a consider able time, and it appeared desirable for both parties to abide by the award which he made, the particulars of which were contained in the report that would be sub mitted to them. In fact, it would be seen that they suf fered no disadvantage from the alterations suggested by Mr. Rastrick, and that the line of the competing Com pany was, in reality more their (the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush's) than their former rival's. It would be seen, from the report, that the other Company, having agreed to amalgamate, had placed on the board eight of their directors, and eight of their own. This joint board had all sat together, working harmoniously for the interests that were now identified. He did not think it was necessary to advert to any other topic in the report.—(Hear, hear.) The Chairman concluded by proposing a resolution to the effect that the proposed amalgamation should be agreed to. A long and desultory discussion here ensued as to whether a protest which had been handed to the Chair man should be read, and which not only dissented to the proposed amalgamation, but characterised the present meeting as illegal ! The CHAIRMAN said he thought they should confine themselves to the specific object for which the meeting had been convened. It was then put to the meeting whether the 'protest should be read, and the motion was negatived. Mr. MAXWELL and Mr. RICHARDSON addressed the meeting against the proposed amalgamation, which they denounced as wholly illegal. The Secretary then read the following report:— " The directors have convened this meeting of the shareholders in the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway Company, to lay before them the terms of the amalgamation which have been entered into by them on the part of this Company with the directors of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Company; and also to give a brief statement of the reasons which in duced them to form what they conceived to be a most desirable junction with what was once a powerful oppo sition company. " It will be remembered that the project for construct ing a line of railway from Armagh to Portrush origi nated in the latter part of the year 1844, when every endeavour was made to ascertain the statistics of the company, and the particular information necessary for so important an undertaking. In the spring of 1845 the company was established. The Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Company, with which, as before stated, an amalgamation has taken place, was formed about the same period. The object was nearly the same, being only characterised with some few distinctions as to the precise country that it should serve in the dbec tion of the line, not material to be noticed here. It was impossible to deny but that there were features in both schemes that were deserving of great public support ; and the two companies for a considerable time disputed the ground with each other without it appear ing very probable that either would recede, or that any particular advantage would result to the shareholders of either scheme. The directors, under these circum stances, felt that it was worse than useless to continue a fruitless opposition, and they considered themselves bound, upon every principle of justice to the share holders, to effect a cessation of hostilities if possible, provided they could ultimately obtain their object, which was to make the line of railway from Armagh to Portrush. They are happy to say that a correspond ing disposition was evinced on the part of the directors of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Railway. Overtures for a treaty were therefore made, and in the month of November last the deputations from each company met and arranged that, as the two lines were nearly identical, together with the branches, the selec tion of the line to go forward in Parliament should be left to Mr. Rastrick, suet that the solicitors of each company—Mr. Ogle and Mr. Sutton —should attend him, accompanied by the engineers, for that purpose. It is proper to remark here that the line projected by the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Company was intended to pass through the estates of the Mercers' Company, and ,that that powerful body were, therefore, disposed to support them in Parliament, and, on the other hand, to afford every practical op position to the proposed line of this compinj, which was not so well calculated to benefit their estates. After a number of successive meetings Mr. Rastrick, by consent of the parties, selected the Dublin and Belfast Junction line with certain modi fications, availing himself of those features in the A r magh, Coleraine, and Portrush line, which he cot sidered of great importance to the perfection of the scheme. The following is an extract from Mr. Ras trick's award : " Ist. That part of the main line of the Dublin, Bel fast, and Coleraine Junction from Portadown to Stewarts town to be entirely abandoned. 2d, The branch from Stewartstown to Armagh to be adopted as a portion of the main line. " s ‘ 3d. The branch from Dungannon, crossing the main line at Killyman, and going direct to Portadown, to be substituted instead of the line between Stewarts town and Portadown. 4th.; The branch from Castle Dawson, at Randals town, as laid down on the plan of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Railway to be the line adopted.'" "Upon this award being made an amalgamation of the two companies took place ; the substance of which was, that a joint board was to be farmed, consisting of eight members of each committee; that the funds of the two companies be placed at the disposal of the united board ; that the line to be so constructed should be called " The Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction ;" that the share holders should reciprocate equally in the benefits, and that the expences heretofore incurred, as well as the future, should be pail out of the joint funds, and, lastly, that the shareholders of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Extension Company should be admitted shareholders in the united company upon equal terms as the subscribers to the original scheme. It may be observed, that the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction shares, which were originally 501. shares, were reduced, under the provisions of the Act just obtained, to 251. shares, for the purpose of meeting the convenience of the shareholders in this Company, whose shares were only 25/., and that a shareholder in the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Company, and the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Extension Company, will t herefore be entitled for every share he holds in either of the above companies to have one in the Dublin, Bel fast, and Coleraine Junction Company. " The directors having made these arrangements, immediately announced by advertisement, for the infor mation of the shareholders, that the amalgamation had taken place, and they have only waited for the royal assent being given to the Bill before they called together the subscribers to submit the particulars of their proceedings, and, as they hope, to receive from them their sanction and approval. The directors, in conclusion, would only remind the shareholders that, by adopting these measures, they have saved a very considerable expenditure of money, and secured, by the co-operation of the two bodies, the safety of a Bill for car rying out the project. The object originally contem plated has been attained, the opposition which once ex isted converted into a friendly alliance, and the interests of the shareholders preserved and protected to the utmost." The CHAIRMAN then moved the adoption of the re port, which was seconded. An amendment was proposed and seconded, to the effect that the amalgamation should not take place, and that the money to which the shareholders were entitled should be refunded, and the Company dissolved. Mr. WILSON said he thought it would be consulting the best interests of the company if they proceeded with the proposed amalgamation. Several other shareholders expressed themselves to the same effect. Scrutineers having been appointed, Ten of the shareholders left the room, and, from the statement of the scrutineers, it appeared that the amend ment was negatived, and the original resolution carried; the numbers being For the amalgamation 7,595 Against it 670 Those holding scrip were permitted to vote, and there appeared to be the strongest desire on the part of the chairman to give all parties fair play. Captain Ileaviside was then moved to the chair, and the cordial thanks of the meeting voted to the Chair man and the other directors fur the zealous and efficient manner in which they had discharged their duties. The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compli ments. The meeting then separated. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Wednesday night last an affray of a serious nature took place between three game keepers in the employ of J. F. Featherstone, Esq., of Milton House, near Rayborough, and a party of poachers. It ap pears that information had been conveyed to the keepers, that two men belonging to the neighbourhood, well-known poachers, intended trying certain open lands, abounding with partridges, with a description of net generally used u pon such occasions, and the keepers were accordingly on the look-out. At a late hour, five men made their appear ance and commenced operations, but were speedily inter rupted by the keepers, when a fight took place. Neither party carried fire-arms, but a desperate struggle was main tained with stout sticks, during which, one of the keepers was struck down senseless by a blow on the head, and his compan i ons , finding the poachers too muchfor them, were obliged to retreat. The poa chers having decamped, the keepers returned to the spot where the affray took place, and carried off their wounded companion. On examination, the man's skull was found to be dangerously fractured. On the 1 following morning two of the gang, who had been recognised by the keepers, wen takeu into Cast9(lY. PROTESTS AGAINST THE SUGAR DUTIES ACT. LORD STANHOPE'S PROTEST. DISSENTIENT, 1. Because the importation into the Ignited Kingdom of sugar which is produced by the labotir of slaves tends to promote the slave trade, with all its Atrocities, and is quite inconsistent with the principle vii)on which this country has so long acted, and for wh hit has made, and still continues to make enormous sacrifices. _ _ . _ 2. Because there is no reason to apprehend a deficiency in the supply of sugar from other sources, as the quan tity which is produced in the East Indies and in other British possessions is rapidly increasing, which would also be the case with the British colonies in the West Indies if they received due protection and encouragement. 3. Because the proposed measure would be most un just to those colonies, and would be ruinous to their in terests, which have already been grievously injured by reducing the price of their produce without a cor responding reduction of the taxation to which it is sub ject, and by the want of sufficient labourers for their cultivation. 4. 13,-cause the consequences of the proposed measure might be very calamitous, and might occasion such dis tress and discontent as would ultimately lead to the separation of those very important colonies, which, when deprived of the protection that is justly due to them, might also lose their allegiance. STANHOPE. LOVELL and HOLLAND. GAGE. DENMAN, for the first reason. S. OXON, for the first reason. Aug. 10, 1846. LORD BEXLEY'S PROTEST. DISSENTIENT, 1. Because the theories by which this Bill is defended, if true, ought to have been long ago laid before the public, in order to their being fully and impartially con sidered ; whereas this Bill, which assumes their truth without adequate discussion, has been passed with such haste and in such a crisis of affairs as to preclude inquiry. 2. Because the slave trade carried on from the coasts of Africa has long been acknowledged by the Legisla ture of this country, and by the general consent of civilised nations, to be the greatest practical and moral evil now existing upon earth, and this country has, under this conviction, for many years attempted to sup press it at a great expenditure, not only of money, but of the lives of her people. 3. Because this trade is now almost wholly confined to the export of slaves from Africa to Brazil, and to the Spanish colonies in the West Indies, for the purpose of the cultivation of sugar; and on that account the con sumption of sugar produced in those countries has been subjected to heavy discriminating duties. 4. Because this Bill, by opening the British market to sugar the production of Brazil and the Spanish colonies on equal terms with that of countries in which no slave trade has been carried on for many years, and even with the colonies and dominions of Britain, must give a great and immediate encouragement to that unchristian and inhuman traffic. 5. Because to give any encouragement to such a traffic for the sake of any expected fiscal or commercial advantages would cover this country with indelible dis grace, as an infamous barter of our religious and moral duties for mere lucre. 6. Because this Bill inflicts a grievous injury on the British colonists by exposing their produce to the un restricted competition of foreign countries,:which con tinue to be supplied with the labour of African slaves. BEXLEY. S. OXON. for reasons 1,2, 3,4, and 5. DENMAN. Aug. 13, 1846. LORD ELLENBOROUGITS PROTEST. DISSENTIENT, 1. Because the Bill, by increasing the consumption of sugar the produce of Brazil and Cuba, will increase the demand for the slave labour by which that sugar is pro duced, and thus tend to stimulate the slave trade, through which that labour is supplied. 2. Because the Government of this country has been engaged for more than 30 years in endeavouring to in duce all foreign states to prohibit and prevent the slave trade ; and has recently concluded a treaty with France for the conjoint application of a large naval force to its suppression, while Parliament has passed enactments of an unusual and stringent character to facilitate the ac complishment of that object. 3. Because, to establish relations which tend, by en couraging the slave-trade, to counteract the measures so adopted for its suppression, is inconsistent with good faith towards France, our ally, and disparaging to the policy and to the reputation of this country. 4. Because the immediate reduction of the discrimi nating duties on British and foreign sugar, in the man ner proposed, and the gradual assimilation of those duties as it is to be effected by the Bill, are measures for which India and the colonies are in their present condition not sufficiently prepared, the West Indian colonies especially still suffering under the effect of the various conflicting enactments which Parliament—first, in its unscrupulous cupidity, and since in its late re pentent morality—has passed with respect to them, and India having been only recently enabled, by a tardy act of common justice, to compete on eqnal terms with the other sugar-producing dominions of the Crown. 5. Because the projected scheme for facilitating the in troduction of labourers from Africa into the West India colonies is not yet in detail before Parliament, although proposed as a means of enabling those colonies to meet on more favourable terms the foreign competition to be created by the Bill; and there is but too much reason to apprehend (the condition of Africa being considered) that this projected scheme of relief cannot be effectual without practically reviving the slave trade in British vessels, under the specious disguise of immigration. 6. Because the whole measure is of a nature to convey the impression that the people of this country are become tired of the honourable but costly character they had as sumed, of the moral instructors of nations; that they are now resolved to seek compensation for the charge they are bound by treaty to incur, in endeavouring to suppress the slave trade, from the increased revenue to be derived from regulaTions tending to its encourage ment; and that they no longer acknowledge the claim of India and the colonies to have their interests equally considered, although unrepresented in Parliament. ELLENBOROUGH, S. OXON, for the Ist, 2d, 3d, and 6th reasons. BEXLEY. BROUGHAM. Aug. 13, 1846. THE POST-OFFICE ORDER FORGERY. William Waldron, who stands charged with fraudu lently obtaining a Post-office order, by forged letters to the secretary of the General Post-office, who was appre hended a few days since at Berkhampstead, has been finally examined by the Mayor of Banbury. Mr. Phillips, from the solicitor's office, Post-office, at tended to conduct the prosecution, but said that, under the circumstances, the Postmaster-General did not press the charge, but left it with the magistrates to deal with it according to their judgment. The facts stated at the previous examination were, that so long back as January last a Post-office order was obtained by a Mr. Palmer,: of Gravesend, and en closed in a letter directed to a Mr. Davis, a theatrical performer, then at the Daventry Theatre; but it after wards appeared that he never received the letter, but that some other person had written from Banbury, re questing the Secretary of the General Post-office to allow the town of payment to be altered from Daventry to Banbury; the letters were written in the name of Davis, and the request was complied with. Mr. Peake, the officer of the establishment, however, traced the prisoner, and apprehended him. Palmer, clerk to Messrs. Matthews and Co., solicitors, at Gravesend, deposed that on the 17th of January last he obtained an order in favour of Davis, payable at Daventry, and never heard any more of it till May last, when he was surprised by Davis stating he had not re ceived it. Davis deposed that he was a performer in Jackerman's company, and that he lodged with the prisoner, who was also a performer. Prisoner knew that he had written for money. Witness left Daventry two days before the company, and came to London ; the company went on to Banbury. Witness never gave any sanction to prisoner to take the letters, receive the money, or to write to the Post-office authorities on the subject of haiing the order transferred, The handwriting of the letters he believed to be that of the prisoner. The postalistress at Banbury deposed that the pri soner, representing himself as Davis, took the order, and asked how he was to proceed in the matter to have it altered to Banbury, and she suggested the applica tion to the secretary. About a fortnight after, a Miss Capron, of Banbury, presented the order, and on her statement that Davis was ill she paid the amount. Miss Capron deposed that she presented the order at the request of the prisoner, who lodged with her father, and paid the money to him. The prisoner admitted that he had written the letters to the secretary, and intended to have made up the amount. The MAYOR said that, in order to protect the public. he had no other alternative than to commit the prisoner for trial at the next assizes, and bound over the post office constable to prosecute. Bail could not be accepted under the circumstances. SLAVE TRADE. --It appears from returns just laid before Parliament, that in the year 1845, there were 56 ships of war (of 886 guns, and 9,289 men) employed for the sup pression of the slave trade. Of these, 13 were steam vessels, and 28 sloops; and 27 ships with 282 guns, and 3,334 men were employed on the west coast of Africa sta tion. In the same year, 1845, the cost of the vessels on the west coast of Africa, was 291,5011. ; and of vessels not total 259 d mor exclusively used on the coa st, 414,95 U., making a total of and 93 in eathsthe; ves s sel e 706,4541. There we re 166 deaths on t h e west coast o f A em fr p ic lo a ye in d etihseewyheearre„ officers over, there were 271 officers and men inv a l ided -104 i n the vessels on the west coast of Africa. V ESSEL PICKED UP. —On Friday, making cers an a d ;of as the Waterloo, of London, was passing St. Abb's Head, she spied at a dis tance the hull of a vessel buffeted about by the wind and waves as if no perso n was on board. She made up to her, and on boarding found her to be the Alexandre, a fishing lugger, of Gravelines, apparently about 60 tons burthen. There was no person on board, and the masts were cut away as if voith a hatchet, the mainmast about two feet and the foremast about seven feet from the deck. Not a rope or block was to be found. The cabin companion was carried away and the hatches were broken up. No provisions were found except a cask of biscuit and a small quantity of potatoes. Not the least appearance of the men's chests or bedding were to be seen. She was laden with herring barrels, a few of them filled with salt, the rest em p t y . The vessel was brought up on Saturday by the Waterloo as tar as Brought Castle, and afterwards towed to the harbour by one of her boats, where she now lies, What has become of the crew remains as yet $ a mystery.—Dundee Advertiser. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL, YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. COWES, AUG. 27. PRINCE ALBERT'S CU?.—One of the members having protested against the cup being given to the Heroine, on the grounds that she started before the second gun was fired, and that she bad been foul, the Committee decided that neither the Heroine nor the Drift could claim the cup, and that it should be sailed for again. Both declared not to start again, and the Duke of Beaufort's yacht the Intrepid, of 55 tons, sailed alone and won the cup. His Grace does not intend to hold it, and it is said it will be again contested for on Monday next. Things do not seem to go on very pleasantly amongst the nauticals. Some troublesome folks will always, some how or other, introduce themselves into the best regu lated societies. Lord Cardigan's splendid yacht the Enchantress is on White's patent slip to be coppered. Lord Fitzhardinge gives an elegant silver cup to be sailed for by the yachts of this squadron on Saturday next. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI- _ TUTION. Those who are interested in the subject of lamps and improved gas burners would do well to attend one of Dr. John Ryan's excellent lectures at the above esta blishment, on the subject of artificial light. So clear and defined is the learned Doctor's method of handling the subject, that dull indeed must be the comprehension of that man who fails to become master of the theory of combustion and luminous flame. In these lectures Dr. Ryan is very careful in painting out the laws of combus tion, the nature of our hydrocarbons, and the, necessity for the presence of solid matter in flame in order that light may be produced. His experiments in proof of these positions were certainly most apt and successful, and, especially the separation of solid carbon from olefiant gas, elicited loud and continued applause. We could not help noticing, however, that the necessary exhalation of the mixed gases in the experiment caused the learned gentleman most acute pain. In fact we learnt, with great regret, that so enthusiastic is the Doctor, and so venturesome, that more than once he has had to be carried home after a lecture of this kind. In the other portions of the institution we find there are still frequent accessions of new and interesting objects. Among other useful and ingenious models is one of Mr. Charles Lewis's Phenedirective Shower-baths, certainly one of the most scientific applications we have yet seen, and one which will deserve the patronage of the medical profession. HIGHLAND COMPETITION, SPORTS, &c., AT FORT-WILLIAM. (Pimp the Inverness Courier.) The Highland Society of Landon lately advertised a series of prizes for various objects connected with the Highland dress, Gaelic songs, games, &c., in order to keep alive that Celtic enthusiasm still characteristic of a large portion of our countrymen. The competition was fixed to take place at Fort-William on Thursday last, and a great concourse of persons assembled on the occasion. Among those present were—Glenaladale, Ardshiel, Ballaehulish, Mr. Walker of Lochtreig, Mr. Cameron, yr. of Inveracord, Sheriff Fraser, Mr. 2Eneas Macdonnell, advocate, Mr. M‘lan (the well.known and able artist), Captain Stewart, RN., Colonels Ross, Cameron, Cochrane, and Campbell. Mr. Macgregor, banker, Mr. Macdonald, &c. Even Ewen Macphee, the well-known singular outlaw, left his solitary fastness at Glenquoich to be present at the animating scene, and appeared highly delighted with it. The number of spectators was estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000, and a considerable proportion of the men were arrayed in the Highland dress. The scene of action was the fine smooth beach near the Fort, and surrounded with mag nificent Highland scenery—with Loch-Eil, Ben-Nevis, &c.—a finer spot could not have been selected for such a display. A number of ladies and gentlemen were seated on the ramparts of the Fort, which commanded an excellent view of the whole. Fortunately, the weather was favourable. Nine prizes were announced to the best-dressed High landers who had for the longest time worn the kilt as an habitual garb, and to those who became bound hence forth to wear it habitually. The first of these prizes was awarded to a genuine mountaineer, Donald Mac donald, who never wore trousers but on one occasion, when, after two hours' trial, he felt so uncomfortable that he took them off, and carried them on his shoulder ! The other prizes were distributed after careful delibera tion, and a list of the whole will be found below. The competition for Highland dancing excited much interest; and Gillie Callum was admirably danced by two young men, Stewart and Mackenzie, between whom the judges found it difficult to decide. M. Mackinnon, the post master of Fort Augustus, obtained a prize for his dress of home-made Tartan, and also distinguished himself by his vigour and activity in dancing a reel into which he was forced by his friends. Throwing the hammer, putting the stone, and other sports, afforded much interest, and there were two excellent races on foot—a long and short one. They were run round the parade ground—the long race four times, and the short race once round. For the long race there started four Highlanders and a gentleman's ser vant; the latter was very soon distanced by his compe titors in the kilt. Swifter running we never witnessed. Before beginning the last round only two were on the field. One of these was known as Ceann Ruadh, and the other as Ceann Dubh, from the colour of their hair. Ceann Dubh ran fastest at first, Ceann Ruadh not seem at first to exert himself till about the middle of the last round, then putting forth his strength, he overtook and distanced his antagonist. This part pf the scene was most animating, and created all the excitement of a steeple chase. Prizes were offered to the two best-dressed Highland women in Highland fashion and home- made materials, and four competitors appeared. Their decent comfortable appearance and modest demeanor excited universal admiration and ,prizes were awarded to the whole four. If maidens competed annually for these prizes, the premium would form no bad recommenda tion by way of Locher; for taste, industry, and economy, are equally manifested by the competition! The exhi bition of games, &c., terminated about five o'clock, and during the whole day the interest in the proceedings was unabated: WRECK OF THE STEAMER LONDONDERRY. On Friday the non-arrival of the steamer Scotia, Cap tain Cumming, which should have arrived here from Campbelton at half-past eleven A.M., but did not make her appearance until about seven P.M., occasioned con siderable anxiety, such an irregularity never having before occurred. On nearing the harbour, her decks were observed to be literally packed with people, in every costume. These were soon discovered to be Irish men, bound for the harvest ; but how they came to be on board the Scotia could not be easily conjectured. On her arrival, however, we were informed by Captain Cumming, that they were part of the passengers of the steamer Londonderry, from Londonderry to Glas gow, which ran on some rocks opposite to Kiehl House, near the Mull of Kintyre, about half-past eleven on Thursday evening. After various endeavours to back the Londonderry off the rocks, the boats were got out, some of the passengers landed, and an express for assistance was dispatched to Mr. Watson, Lloyd's agent at Campbelton. He immediately engaged the Scotia. and at a little after four o'clock the steam was got up, and she proceeded to the wreck. The water in the boilers of the Londonderry having been let off, to lighten her, for many hours persevering attempts were made to tow her into deep water • but the tow ropes were broken , a nd the attem p t proved futile. Im mediately after high water, finding all efforts useless, the Scotia was put alongside the Londonderry, and be tween five and six hundred male and female passengers, who had been already thirteen hours on the wreck, were taken off. The Scotia then proceeded to Camphleton, to take up her own passengers, and arrived here shortly after seven o'clock in the evening. Captain Cumming stated that his Irish passengers were most orderly, obeying his instructions with alacrity and cheerfulness. The last train for Glasgow having departed a few minutes before the arrival of the steamer, the agent (Mr. T. Steele) proeeeded to the residence of Mr. Smythe, manager of the railway—at present residing in Ayr for the benefit of his health—and through him and Mr. Young a special train was obtained for the conveyance of the reapers to Glasgow, where they . would arrive shortly before ten o'clock. While the train was prepar ing—for which every description of carriage had to be pressed into service—the steps and the street in front of the depot presented a curious scene. The crowd em braced men and women of every description, arrayed in every variety of fashion, and armed with that potent in strument in peace, the reaping-hook. Hunger, too, was seen engaged in active war with kitchenless loaves, that the bakers' shops readily supplied for mites of money. About one hundred, who had got ashore in boats, were left in Kintyre. As the night and day were calm, no lives were lost. We learn from a private letter, that after being lightened of part of her goods, and the night tide proving a better one t han the da y tide, the London ierry was got off, and taken to Greenock.—Ayr Observer. TRADE WITH JAPAN. The attention of the Government having been lately called to the possibility of opening a trade with Japan under an old negl ected treat y of 1613, the following sug gestions, offered to Lords Aberdeen and Dalhousie last year by Mr. R. M. Martin, may be read with interest : " 1. An attempt to form a commercial communication with Japan, containing about 30,000,000 civilized inha bitants, whose Government, being aware of our successes in China, are now better disposed to enter into friendly negotiations with us. Before this feeling has passed away we ought to avail ourselves of its existence. " 2. The arrangement of commercial treaties with Siam, Cochin China, and the adjacent rich countries, containing an estimated population of 50,000,000, hitherto neglected. These countries abound in gold and silver, and are rich in valuable mercantile products. Their Go vernments have also heard of our successes in China, and would be disposed, under their present feelings, to ad mit us on fair commercial terms to their ports, which the Americans and French are now visiting. " 3. The establishment cf a trading station (not an expensive colony) on the peninsula of Corea, or on Quel parts Island, at the southern extremity of the peninsula of Corea. Corea belongs neither to China nor to Japan; it has a fine climate, good agriculture, timber, fruits, &c.; it has a population of about 20,000 ; 000, and we ought to establish a commercial intercourse with them. A trading post in this neighbourhood would soon pro duce commerce with all the large surrounding regions, including Mantchouria, Northern China, the Kurile islands, Japan, &e., and be an excellent station for our whaling ships, or for intercourse with the western coast America. " R. M. MARTIN." RACE HORSES FOR RUSSIA. —Yesterday the Victory steam -ship, for St. Petersburgh, left the St. Katherine Wharf with the celebrated horse Coronation and another, well known on the turf, which have been ,purchased for the Emperor of Russia at Tattersall's. THE REGIME OF 1794. Petition of Paul Thomas Lemaitre, presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Warburton on the 14th of August:— The humble petition of Paul Thomas Lemaitre— Showeth,—That your petitioner, now in the 70th year of his age, is one of those persons who, during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, towards the close of the last and the beginning of the present century, were arrested, and were confined in prison for long periods of time, on charges of traitorously conspiring against the King's person and Government; of which persons your petitioner is now nearly the sole survivor. That in the year 1794, your petitioner, then in his eighteenth year, became a member, and at a more ad vanced period of the same year, a delegate of the Lon don Corresponding Society; his function, as delegate, being to attend committees of the society, to take mi nutes of their proceedings, and to report such minutes to the division of the society to which he belonged. That, in the month of May, 1794, the papers of the said Society were seized, by order of the Privy Council, and were referred, with other papers, to Secret Com mittees of the two Houses of Parliament; that a statute was passed in the same month for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act ; that Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, and other active members of the said Society, or of other societies of a like nature, were arrested and committed to prison on a charge of high treason ; and that these persons, in the months of November and December following, were tried and acquitted of the crime laid to their charge. That, on the 27th of September, 1794, your petitioner was arrested, by warrant of the Privy Council, for alleged "treasonable practices ;" and that his books and papers were seized, and that he was treated with brutal insolence by the officers who arrested bim; and that, on the following and two subseqnent days, he was examined before the Privy Council, respecting the proceedings of the London Corresponding Society, and also respecting his cognizance of an alleged plot, for shooting through an air-gun a poisoned arrow at the king's person ; and that after such examination, without his knowing what had been deposed against him, or by whom any matter criminatory of him had been deposed, and without his being permitted to communicate with his friends, and receive professional assistance, he was committed to the prison of Coldbath-fields (of which he was the first inmate); and was there confined, and subjected to rigo rous treatment,* until the 9th of May, 1795, when he was released, on his giving bail in the amount of 501. to appear personally to answer any indictment which might be preferred against him in respect of the charges for - which he had been confined. That, some months after his liberation, your petitioner was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, and that he did attend at the time and place appointed in the summons, and made known his attendance to the Treasury solicitor, whom he then and there saw; and, after waiting until eight in the evening, was informed by the office-keeper that the council had broken up some hours before. _ That, on the 14th of January, 1796, the grand jury for the City of London, after examining the witnesses produced for the Gown, and particularly one Upton, hereafter to be mentioned, returned a true bill for high treason against one Crossfield, together with your peti tioner and two other persons named Smith and Higgins. That, on the day following the finding of the several bills, your petitioner, and also Smith and Higgins (who, like your petitioner, had been admitted to bail), sur rendered themselves in court, and were committed to Ne wgate. That, at the London sessions held on the 26th of January, 1796, Crossfield, your petitioner (who now for the first time met this his alleged co-conspirator), and the two other aforenamed parties, were arraigned on the indictment., and severally pleaded "Not Guilty ;" but, in consequence of the jurymen not having been summoned by the Crown solicitor in due time, the trial was post poned to the next ensuing session, held on the 11th of May, and your petitioner, and the three other persons arraigned, were sent back to prison. That, the charges in the indictment were substantially as follows: that is to say, that Crossfield, your petitioner, and the two other above-named parties, did conspire, with divers others unknown, to procure to be made a certain instrument intended to be used for discharging an arrow to be loaded with poison against the person of the King, and therewith to kill the King; and that the said parties did meet, consult, and deliberkte among themselves, and together with divers others unknown, how and when such putting to death of the King might be most readily and effectually accomplished; and that the said parties did employ and engage one Thomas Upton to assist in making the said instrument, and did deliver to him certain designs and certain wooden models, as instructions for making the said instrument, or parts thereof, and also a certain metal tube to be used in making the said instrument. That the said Crossfield was first triedt on the said indictment, and apart from your petitioner and the two other above-mentioned parties, and was acquitted of the crime laid to his charge ; and that a week after the giving of the said verdict your petitioner, Smith and lliggins, were pro forniii, put on their trial, in order to receive their acquittal, and were acquitted accordingly. That it appeared from the statement of Sir John Scott, Attorney-General, made in the course of th.‘ said trial of Crossfield, that, in August 1797, the sail Thomas Upton gave information to the Privy Council, wherein he charged himself, Crossfield, your petitioner, and the two other above-named parties, with having engaged in the traitorous conspiracy hereinbefore set forth. That, from the evidence given on the part of the Crown on the trial of Crossfield, it did appear that the said Crossfield and one Palmer, a witness for the Crown, had lent themselves to certain projects, in which the said Thomas Upton was the real and principal actor ; and that the said Thomas Upton, in company with the said Crossfield and Palmer, did apply to sundry workers in wood and metal to have certain models and parts of an air-gun made, which models, &c. were, about the mid die of September, 1794, in the possession of the said Thomas Upton ; and whatever was the nature of the projects in which the three said parties were together engaged and concerned, such projects were invented, framed, and organised by the said Thomas Upton, and were moulded by him into a conspiracy which he nefa riously imputed to others. That during the trial of Crossfield no trace of evidence, or hint, or allusion, fell from any witness, to connect or implicate your petitioner, Smith, or Higgins, directly or indirectly, in any the remotest degree whatever, with the peculiar transaction, whatever may have been its nature, in which Upton, Crossfield, and Palmer were together connected. That the said Upton, on whose information your pe titioner, Smith and Higgins were arrested and had been imprisoned, was not produced as a witness on the said trial of Crossfield ; and that the Attorney-General Sir John Scott, to account for his non-production on that occasion, alleged that the said Upton was dead, and was permitted to produce Upton's wife, in widow's attire, as evidence in support of that allegation ; that the counsel of your petitioner tendered two witnesses, to prove, as was the fact, that the said Upton was alive, and at his residence in London, on the morning of the trial ; but the court would not allow such evidence to be given, as being irrelevant to the issue, unless it could be shown that the said Upton was, by force or fraud, kept away ; and that one week after the trial of the said Crossfield, on the day whereupon your petitioner, and Smith, and Higgins, were put to the bar in order to be acquitted, the said Attorney-General repeated in court, that he was as satisfied as he could be of any such fact, that the said Upton was not in existence, but should it afterwards appear that the person who had come forward to induce a belief of his death hal practised an imposture on the court and the country, he (the Attorney-General) would bring that person to condign punishment. That, some months after the said trial, your petitioner meeting Upton in London, in Middle-row, llolhorn, en deavoured to arrest him, with the view of delivering him up to justice; but a riot ensuing, the said Upton made his escape, and that your petitioner immediately wrote and forwarded letters to Mr. Pitt, and to the Attorney- General, apprising them of the occurrence, and claiming of them, as an act of justice, that they should without delay cause the said Upton to be apprehended and pu nished according to his deserts. That it was given in evidence on the trial of Cross field that in August and September, 1794, and antece • dently to Upton's giving information to the Govern ment, your petitioner, Smith, and Higgins, without any concert with each other, endeavoured to effect the expul sion from the London Corresponding Society of the said Thomas Upton on the around of his disreputable charac ter, he having been indicted for firing his own premises, and also having been in custody on a charge of horse stealing • that in return for these endeavours so to ex pel him the said Upton transmitted to your petitioner an hostile challenge, and that the said Upton stated to several persons that he would be revenged on those who had traduced his character before the society. That the sole purpose for which your petitioner now recalls from oblivion these miserable contentions, is to remark how wholly inconceivable it is that your peti tioner, had he been disposed to engage in a dangerous conspiracy, should have chosen for an accomplice, at whose disposal he would have placed his life, a man be tween whom and himself there existed at the time the most bitter animosity; and these facts, and the vindic tive motives which had induced Upton falsely to ace cuse your petitioner, Smith, and Higgins, were proved on oath by the testimony of many witnesses, not only on Irossfield's trial in May, 1796, but also in September, 1794, before the Privy Council. That your petitioner, after his acquittal and libera tion, returned to his aforesaid cousin's establishment, to complete the period of his articles, by which articles your petitioner was bound to give his personal attend ance sixty hours per week for three years, at a salary, with liberty to enlarge or abridge the hours of business at his pleasure, on condition that the difference should be accounted for at the rate of 9s. per day, plus or minus, weekly, and that the balance due from your pe titioner in pursuance of this agreement, was claimed of him and enforced for the whole period of his imprison ment, and for all time lost in consequence of his said prosecution. That, in the year 1798, the year of the arrest of Arthur O'Connor, and of the breaking out of the Irish rebellion, there was held, on the 19th of .Agri . , a meeting of the cosetnittee of the London Correspouding Society, for the purpose, as your petitioner had previously been informed, of considering the propriety of making to the Government an offer of the services of the society as a volunteer corps, to resist the then apprehended French invasion; and being of opinion that the effect of the course proposed (which he knew to have originated with spies) would be to render the society ridiculous in public estimation, your petitioner, at the earnest solicita tion of a deputation of the society, attended the meeting, although not a member thereof, with the sole view of dissuading the committee from making the offer in question. * This treitineut was solitary confi n ement, 1,0 person being permitted to see him, unless by order of the Privy i Council, and even then n Its cell, a jailor bei n g present. . t See State Trials , ve l. p. 1. - - That the meeting referred to was interrupted by the entry of the Bow-street officers, and that the whole body* thereat present, including your petitioner, was arrested by themt, and was subsequently taken before the Privy Council ; that the Privy Council proposed to examine your petitioner, whereupon your petitioner, indignant at the recollection of his former treatment, refused to answer any questions put to him by their Lordships, stating as the ground for such refusal, that neither the line of conduct ho had pursued in 1794, in frankly answering questions, nor the voluntary sworn testimony of the most respectable friends, delivered before the, board, nor the evidence of the king's messengers, ex pressly deputed to inquire respecting his character and pursuits (entirely exculpatory of him as those inquiries were) had been of any avail for his protection ; but that he had been subjected by their Lordships to a long and rigorous imprisonment, and to a prosecution and trial, ruinous to him in paint of expense. That, should the conduct of your petitioner on this oc casion appear to your Honourable House injudicious, and ill-calculated to dispose the Privy Council to regard your petitioner with favour, he submits to their indulgent consideration, that he was then a mere youth in his twenty-second year, that he felt that he had been wronged by the Government, and felt the wrong the more because he was without redress, and that he was then face to face with Mr. Pitt, whom he believed to be the anthor of his past sufferings, and who menaced him with a repetition of them if he did not answer. That the Privy Council committed your petitioner to Newgate, in which prison he was detained under a war rant directing " close and solitary " confinement more than a year ; that his health being at last seriously im paired by the length and rigour of his confinement, and by the insalubrity of the prison, his medical attendants advised your petitioner that his life was in great danger, and this being certified to the Privy Council, though without his knowledge, he was removed to Reading gaol, in which prison he was detained until the month of March, 1801, during a further period of nearly two years. That, before his removal to Reading gaol, your peti- tiuner was informed by the gaoler of NeWgate;that pro vided your petitioner would agree to quit this country, and to remain in foreign parts during the continuance of the war, he would forthwith be released from prison, to which proposal of expatriation your petitioner peremp torily refused to accede, demanding to be either publicly tried or liberated unconditionally. That on the 15th day of December, 1800, a petition addressed to the House of Commons by your petitioner, protesting his innocence, and setting forth his sufferings and wrongs, and praying the House to inquire into his case, and to refuse, at the solicitation of ministers, to renew the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, was tendered to the House by Mr. Charles Grey, afterwards Earl Grey; and that the reception of the said petition was supported by Mr. Tierney, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Jekyll, Sir William Pulteney, and other members of the House, and was opposed by Mr. Pitt, Lord Hawkesbury, the Attorney and the Solicitor General, and other members and supporters of the then adminis tration, on the grounds that the said petition was dis respectful to the Privy Council, and a libel on the cha racter of Upton, above-mentioned, a man whom the At torney-General, in 1796, had stated in court to be no longer living; and your petitioner's said petition was not received by the House. That, in December, 1800, an Act was passed to re new and continue in force the Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act until six weeks after the commence ment of the next ensuing session of Parliament; and whereas the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced on the 22d of January, 1801, the Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act expired on the sth of March of the said last-mentioned year; and the Habeas Corpus Act was by law in force from the said fifth day of March, 1801, until the 19th of April in the same year, on which latter day another Suspension Act received the royal assent. That shortly before the arrival of the day, the sth of March aforesaid, when the said Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act would expire, your petitioner was conveyed from Reading Gaol to London in charge of a King's messenger, and on his arrival in London was taken before Mr. Justice Ford, who informed your pe titioner that, on his entering into his own recognizance in the sum of 1;000/. to appear personally when required, he would be forthwith liberated. That your petitioner, anxious, not only to be restored to liberty, but also to have his character cleared of all suspicion, declined to accept his release on the proffered terms; whereupon he was committed, in charge of a King's messenger, to the Parliament-street Hotel; and, while there, on his parole given to Mr. Ford, he was allowed to traverse the streets of London at his pleasure, and from the said hotel he addressed a memorial to the Duke of Portland, then Secretary of State, claiming to have either a public trial or an unconditional release; and that, in answer to this demand, a new warrant was issued, committing your pe titioner, on a pretended new charge of high treason, to Tothill-fields Bridewell, where he had the option of either associating with the vilest felons or bearding in the governor's house, at the charge of two guineas and a half a week. That shortly after the said sth of March, 1801, the day on which the Act for suspending the Habeas Act expired, your petitioner's solicitor applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus, to bring your petitioner before the said Court, in order to his dis charge ; and that the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court, Lord Kenyon, after taking a day to consider of the said application, refused to grant the writ, not as signing any legal ground for such refusal, but stating merely that he did so refuse on his own responsibility. That the new administration, formed on the retirement of Mr. Pitt from office, caused a Bill to bo introduced into Parliament for again suspending the Habeas Corpus Act ; and that your petitioner forwarded petitions to Parliament complaining of his illegal detention in prison, and remonstrating. against the new aggression upon his liberty intended by the said Bill ; but that the said pe titioners were unheeded, and the said Bill was rapidly hurried through Parliament. That on the morning following the renacting of the Suspension Act, on or about the 20th of April, 1801, Mr. Justice Ford called at the Bridewell of Tothill-fields, and again proposed to release your petitioner, on condition of his entering into his own recognizance for future ap pearance if called upon ; and to this proposal your pe titioner acceeded, from his inability to maintain for any longer period an unequal conflict with the Government, now that the Legislature had consented again to arm the Ministers with unconstitutional power. That on his release from prison in April, 1801, your petitioner directed his solicitor to commence actions against the Secretary of State, the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and the gaoler of the Bridewell, for illegally detaining your petitioner in prison from the sth of March to the 19th of April, 1801 ; but that your petitioner's intentions to bring such actions were frus trated, by notice being immediately entered to bring in a Bill of indemnity, and by the passing of an Act, on the 19th of June in the same year, for indemnifying all the parties who, since the Ist of January, 1793, had taken any part in apprehending, imprisoning, or detaining in custody, in Great Britairr, persons suspected of high treason or treasonable practices ; that against this Bill your petitioner again petitioned Parliament, but in vain ; and he was thus deprived of the means, and of all hope, of obtaining legal redress for his unlawful detention. That your petitioner, when first imprisoned in the year 1794, had just attained his 18th year ; that when liberated in 1801 from his last :imprisonment, he had nut attained his 26th year ; so that during the greater part of the first seven years of his early manhood (a pe riod of life which, to must men, is one of enjoyment and pleasurable existence), your petitioner was undergoing mental and bodily suffering within the walls of a prison ; that his little property was exhausted by the expenses of his vindication and defence ; and the vigour of his con-titution impaired by the disorder induced by his long imprisonment, added to which your petitioner had to deplore the loss of a mother who, owing to dis tress of mind and alarm occasioned by her son's arrest and detention, was brought prematurely to the grave. That your petitioner most solemnly avers thatihe was guiltless, as well in act as intent, of any treasonable con spiracy against the King's person or government, or of any offence that was ever made the matter of charge or imputation against him, or of which he was eversuspeated, on either of the two occasions when he was arrested and imprisoned, or on any occason whatever. That, on your petitioner's release from prison, Mr. Justice Ford expressed the strong interest which he felt in your petitioner's future prospects and arrange ments, and promised to bear testimony at any time to the exemplary conduc of your petitioner during the seven previous years of his life, and offered to contribute any reasonable amount of pecuniary aid towards esta blishing your petitioner in any respectable business ; which said offer of pecuniary assistance your petitioner respectfully declined. `That on the death of Mr. Pitt, in 1806, the Whig party being called to power, your petitioner made his appeal to Mr. Fox and the other leaders of that party for their favourable consideration, intimately acquainted as they were with his history and sufferings, and zeal ous as they had been in Parliament to proclaim his wrongs ; and the Hon. Thomas Brand placed the state ment of your petitioner in the hands of Mr. Charles Grey,t who fully admitted the claims of your petitioner on the justice of the country, and promised to obtain for your petitioner, after the close of the then session, some suitable appointment. But, before this promise could be performed, Mr. Fox was numbered among the dead, and the Whig administration was dissolved. That the meritorious conduct of your petitioner in the City of London on the day of the Spa-fields riot, is December, 1816, was acknowledged by the then Lord Mayor, the late Sir Thomas Wood, in his place in Parliament. That, in 1817, the Government having again prepared to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, your petitioner, in a petition to the House of Commons, presented by the lion. Thomas Brand, stated the sufferings and wrongs he had endured, and on the ground that such abuses were the inevitable consequences of the power of arbi trary imprisonment, entreated the House not to pass the Bill; and it appearing to the then Attorney-General, Sir Samuel Shepherd, incredible that such wrongs should have been inflicted on any subject of his Majesty, and be unredressed, Mr. Brand undertook to substantiate, in every material particular, the statements in the said petition having reference to your petitioner's case. That, in the debate on the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in the year 1817, the wrongs done to your petitioner were characterised by Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir Francis Burdett as grievous and oppressive be yond the reach of any ordinary compensation; and from Mr. Adam, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Mackintosh, who had been his counsel in 1795 and 1796, and from Earl Grey, Lord Holland, Lord Deere, and other public men high in station and character, your petitioner re ceived continued assurance of their conviction that he was innocent of crime, of their sympathy with him in • About thirty-six persons. fi Then First Lord of the Admiralty, and a member of the C4binet. his sufferings, and of their desire and intention. should it ever be in their power, to obtain for him redress. That at length, in 1826, on the appointment of Mr. Canning to be First Minister of the Crown, your re titioner, owing principally to the intercession in his favour of Sir James Mackintosh, formerly his counsel, received the promise of a consulship iii South America, and was ordered to prepare for embarkation within s month ; but scarcely was this promise given, when the sovere indisposition and premature decease of Mr. Can ning frustrated again all his hopes. That in 1830, Earl Grey being First Minister of the Crown, your petitioner addressed his Lordship on the subject of his claims, and received in return his Lord ship's personal assurance that the s arliest suitabl —ap pointment should be conferred upon him; and at length, on the 3 - Ist of August, 1832 (on the representatien of Earl Grey, supported by the strong recommtndations of the Lords Dacre and Holland), Lord Goderich. now Earl Ripon, then Secretary ir the Colonies, app-i"'e' l l your petitioner Assist :nt Pr.itector of Slaves,' in De merara, at a salary of 800/. per annum. That your p titioner has already solemnly averred his innocence of any crime whereof he wa: ever suspected, or wherewith he was ever charged ; but in case his own asseveration en a matter regarding his own character should appear of doubtful credit, he appeals, in proof of his innocence, to the unquestionable fact hereinbefore just stated, that he was appointed to the said office of trcst under the Crown ; which was conferred upon hitn by a minister high in station and character, responsible for the fit ch oke of those he migl,t recommend for pubic employment ; and (as your petitioner conceives and submits to your I lonourable House) he never could have been recommended, as he was, for that appointment, nag appointed as he was to that office, unless after full in quiry it had clearly appeared that he was innocent of the crimes imputed to him, and was a man whose cha racti r was without blemish. That your petitioner, accompanied by his family, em barked, on the 16th of February, 1833, with all his pro perty, bo.ks, plate, furniture, &c., on board the ship Isabella, for Demerara, that, on the 19th, the ship was overtaken in the channel by the memorable gale of that year, which drove it on the rocks under Beachy Head, from whence it was floated by the tide, and finally wrecked in Pevensey Bay; and after the sea had beat over the wreck for many hours, your petitioner, with his family, was rescued from destruction by the life boat, but all his papers and property of every description were lost; and owing to his long exposure to wet and cold, and to contusions and other injuries incident to the shipwreck, your petitioner was for some time deprived of the use of his lower limbs, and afterwards suffered severely from a disorder, to returns of which he is still subject, though in a moderate degree. That as soon as convalescent your petitioner reported himself to the Colonial-office as ready to proceed to Demerara; but by this time the question being agitated in Parliament, whether slavery in the British West Indies should not be totally abolished, your petitioner was from time to time directed to hold himself in readiness to proceed on duty, but tc delay actually proceeding until he should receive further orders. At length, the entire emancipation from slavery being re solved upon, your petitioner received notice, on the 2d of July, 1834, that the office of protector of slaves, to which he had been appointed, was abolished, and that his commission and pay would cease from the Ist of August, 1834, and that no provision had been made for giving compensation to the protectors, who would lose their offices; but your petitioner was assured that his case, owing to the extraordinary calamity by which he had been visited, would receive from his Majesty's Government the earliest and most favourable con sideration. That during this period your petitioner received on account of half-pay 2321. 14s. 3d., and, on the abolition of his office, a further sum of 246/. 7s. 1 od., closing, as he was informed, the account of what was due to him in respect of the said effiee. That your petitioner frequently saw the Lord Hol land, and was also in almost constant attendance at the Colonial-office, on the subject of new employ, which was invariably promised to him. That your petitioner having complained to Mr. Spring Rice, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to Mr. F. Baring, Secretary of the Treasury, that he had been thrown back niloal on the shore, in a state of utter destitution, and that his heavy medical and other expenses had absorbed all the pay he had received, and had left him in the greatest distress, he was told that his case should immediately receive at tention ; and three days after Mr. Baring informed him that, to meet his present exigencies, the charge for pas sage money and freight, amounting to 2201. 100 , would be returned to him, and that some more permanent pro vision should be made for him without delay. That, after considerable lapse of time, it being re presented by your petitioner to the Lord Holland, Mr. Baring, and others, that the kind intentions of his po litical patrons, in appointing him to the office of" Pro tector of Slaves," so far from being of any pecuniary benefit to him had proved his utter ruin, a further sum of 300/. was, by direction of Lord Melbourne, granted out of the Queen's Bounty to your petitioner, in the name of his wife, to meet his immediate exi gencies ; and this grant was accompanied with a re aommendation, that permanent service should be sought for him without delay. That your petitioner's petition and claims having been again laid before Ministers, your petitioner, on the sug gestion of Lord Holland, cr. pared a memorial to her Majesty, which the Marquis of Normanby undertook to present, and after a lapse of time your petitioner was sent for, and received the personal assur ance of the Noble Marquis, that he fully admitted the force and justice of the claim, and would consult with your petitioner's friends, the Lords Dacre and Holland, and others, on the best and readiest means of serving your petitioner; but not long afterwards the Whig Go vernment retired from power, and hope again fled. That on the resumption of the Colonial Department by Lord Stanley, your petitioner reminded his Lordship of the disastrous shipwreck, loases, and long suffering of your petitioner; but his Lordship did not hold out to your petitioner any hope of employ. That your peti tioner then addressed Sir Robert Peel, the First Lord of the Treasury, and receiving from him a similar answer, your petitioner then forwarded to her Majesty a memo rial, giving a detail of the hardships and suffering he had endured, and imploring relief from the destitution to which his disasters, and the long series of subsequent disappointments, had reduced him. That her Majesty was graciously pleased to send to your petitioner a gift from her private purse of 251., and 10 say that his memorial had been handed to the Minis ter, to whom your petitioner was referred. That your petitioner then applied to Sir Robert Peel, and was re ferred by him to the Colonial Department ; whereupon he wrote again, stating the circumstances of his case to Lord Stanley, and was referred by Lord Stanley to his Lordship's former answer. That, but for the heavy expenses attending your peti tioner's defence at law, his long captivity, the consequent loss of several years in the prime of his early manhood, and the injury done to his prospects in life by the preju dices excited against him, your petitioner would, proba bly, have risen to affluence, and would not have been, as he now is, at advanced age, poor and needy, and subject in consequence to the most distressing privations. That, important to ycur petitioner as has been his ap pointment to an office of trust under the Crown, in so far as it has cleared his character from the imputations falsely cast upon it, yet your petitioner submits that his wrongs, so far as they admit of the ordinary mode of estimation, remain to this day unredressed. By his ap pointment to office under the Crown, his innocence has been proclaimed ; but as the office was abolished almost as soon as conferred upon him, aisd was productive to him of loss rather than gain, for the severe and unme rited punishment with which he was visited, he has re., eeived no retribution. That your petitioner will not now moot the question, whether, during the period from 1794 to 1802 the dan ger in which the country was then placed was so great and imminent as to justify the Government in suspend ing the laws which are the safeguards of the personal liberty of the subject ; but, conceding that point for the sake of argument, it is on the following view of the case that he builds his claim for redress. That the only legitimate end for departing from the sacred principles of criminal procedure, is to provide . for the public security in times of great and . imminent danger; that all such departures necessarily . involve the risk of visiting with unmerited punishment some inno cent men; that the community, in the protection . it thus receives from danger, profits by the risk . it incurs of in flicting wrong; and that justice and policy require that whenever the innocence of a party unwarily so punished by the State is rendered manifest, the State should afford to the party injured full atonement and indem nification. That when the Logislature, to ward off danger, has armed the executive with extraordinary powers, it may possibly be requisite that for acts done in pursuance of such powers, but of unquestionable legality, the officers of the Government should be protected, and that in suds cases, perhaps indemnity bills may be required ; that such measures, however, so far from absolving the State from the duty of repairing the wrongs it has unwarily done to innocence suspected of guilt, on the contrary, imposes on it the sacred duty of proffering that r e d ress which it has prevented the injured from obtaining b e f ore justice. Your ordinary tribunals of Your petitioner, therefore, prays that your Honourable House will be pleased to take this petition into your serious consideration, and afford to your petitioner such redress as to your Honourable House may seem meet, PAUL THOMAS LEMAITRE. Hammersmith, Aug. 10,1846. 'n - - THE MOORS.—Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, on the 21st current, bagged on the hill of Monzie 191 brace of grouse, one black cock, one snipe, one duck, one rabbit, and 24 hares ;in all, 410 head of game—a number:greatly exceed ing anything yet recorded, The birds are considerably stronger than on the 12th, and, though very abundant, wore extremely shy, from the recent wet weather.—Edinburgh Witness. A STRANGE MIS:MM.—A few days ago, while a number of persons were engaged at harvest work in a field near Belford, the steward put off his waistcoat to assist is binding, and placed it on the top of some sheaves, following the reapers down the field in the usual course of their work till they were quite out of sight of the clothes. Two per sons, a mason and his wife, who were going to employment on the railway, as they were travelling along the road ad joining to the field observed one of the " navvies" go over the fence into the corn-field, strip off his own waistcoat, put on the one lying on the sheaves, and instantly run off at a quick pace. The two persons informed the reapers of what had taken place, and on coining to the spot where the waistcoat had been left, the steward found a ragged article lying in its place, and, being afraid to touch it with his hands. , took it up on the point of a sickle, and was dangling tb.t rags about to the amusement of his fellow-labourers, when., to his great surprise, three sovereigns fell out of one of the pockets, and this of course reconciled him to what he at first thought a worthless exchange, and checked the jeering and sport of his companions. 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